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( ) contents:        terence        juvenal        persius        horace        lucan        pliny the life of terence. publius terentius afer, a native of carthage, was a slave, at rome, of the senator terentius lucanus, who, struck by his abilities and handsome person, gave him not only a liberal education in his youth, but his freedom when he arrived at years of maturity. some say that he was a captive taken in war, but this, as fenestella [ ] informs us, could by no means have been the case, since both his birth and death took place in the interval between the termination of the second punic war and the commencement of the third [ ]; nor, even supposing that he had been taken prisoner by the numidian or getulian tribes, could he have fallen into the hands of a roman general, as there was no commercial intercourse between the italians and africans until after the fall of carthage [ ]. terence lived in great familiarity with many persons of high station, and especially with scipio africanus, and caius delius, whose favour he is even supposed to have purchased by the foulest means. but fenestella reverses the charge, contending that terence was older than either of them. cornelius nepos, however, ( ) informs us that they were all of nearly equal age; and porcias intimates a suspicion of this criminal commerce in the following passage:— "while terence plays the wanton with the great, and recommends himself to them by the meretricious ornaments of his person; while, with greedy ears, he drinks in the divine melody of africanus's voice; while he thinks of being a constant guest at the table of furius, and the handsome laelius; while he thinks that he is fondly loved by them, and often invited to albanum for his youthful beauty, he finds himself stripped of his property, and reduced to the lowest state of indigence. then, withdrawing from the world, he betook himself to greece, where he met his end, dying at strymphalos, a town in arcadia. what availed him the friendship of scipio, of laelius, or of furius, three of the most affluent nobles of that age? they did not even minister to his necessities so much as to provide him a hired house, to which his slave might return with the intelligence of his master's death." he wrote comedies, the earliest of which, the andria, having to be performed at the public spectacles given by the aediles [ ], he was commanded to read it first before caecilius [ ]. having been introduced while caecilius was at supper, and being meanly dressed, he is reported to have read the beginning of the play seated on a low stool near the great man's couch. but after reciting a few verses, he was invited to take his place at table, and, having supped with his host, went through the rest to his great delight. this play and five others were received by the public with similar applause, although volcatius, in his enumeration of them, says that "the hecyra [ ] must not be reckoned among these." the eunuch was even acted twice the same day [ ], and earned more money than any comedy, whoever was the writer, had ( ) ever done before, namely, eight thousand sesterces [ ]; besides which, a certain sum accrued to the author for the title. but varro prefers the opening of the adelphi [ ] to that of menander. it is very commonly reported that terence was assisted in his works by laelius and scipio [ ], with whom he lived in such great intimacy. he gave some currency to this report himself, nor did he ever attempt to defend himself against it, except in a light way; as in the prologue to the adelphi:     nam quod isti dicunt malevoli, homines nohiles     hunc adjutare, assidueque una scribere;     quod illi maledictun vehemens existimant,     eam laudem hic ducit maximam: cum illis placet,     qui vobis universis et populo placent;     quorum opera in bello, in otio, in negotio,     suo quisque tempore usus est sine superbia.                                 ————for this,     which malice tells that certain noble persons     assist the bard, and write in concert with him,     that which they deem a heavy slander, he     esteems his greatest praise: that he can please     those who in war, in peace, as counsellors,     have rendered you the dearest services,     and ever borne their faculties so meekly.                                           colman. he appears to have protested against this imputation with less earnestness, because the notion was far from being disagreeable to laelius and scipio. it therefore gained ground, and prevailed in after-times. quintus memmius, in his speech in his own defence, says "publius africanus, who borrowed from terence a character which he had acted in private, brought it on the stage in his name." nepos tells us he found in some book that c. laelius, when he was on some occasion at puteoli, on the calends [the first] of march, [ ] being requested by his wife to rise early, ( ) begged her not to suffer him to be disturbed, as he had gone to bed late, having been engaged in writing with more than usual success. on her asking him to tell her what he had been writing, he repeated the verses which are found in the heautontimoroumenos:     satis pol proterve me syri promessa—heauton. iv. iv. .     i'faith! the rogue syrus's impudent pretences— santra [ ] is of opinion that if terence required any assistance in his compositions [ ], he would not have had recourse to scipio and laelius, who were then very young men, but rather to sulpicius gallus [ ], an accomplished scholar, who had been the first to introduce his plays at the games given by the consuls; or to q. fabius labeo, or marcus popilius [ ], both men of consular rank, as well as poets. it was for this reason that, in alluding to the assistance he had received, he did not speak of his coadjutors as very young men, but as persons of whose services the people had full experience in peace, in war, and in the administration of affairs. after he had given his comedies to the world, at a time when he had not passed his thirty-fifth year, in order to avoid suspicion, as he found others publishing their works under his name, or else to make himself acquainted with the modes of life and habits of the greeks, for the purpose of exhibiting them in his plays, he withdrew from home, to which he never returned. volcatius gives this account of his death:     sed ut afer sei populo dedit comoedias,     iter hic in asiam fecit. navem cum semel     conscendit, visus nunquam est. sic vita vacat.     ( ) when afer had produced six plays for the entertainment of the         people,     he embarked for asia; but from the time he went on board ship     he was never seen again. thus he ended his life. q. consentius reports that he perished at sea on his voyage back from greece, and that one hundred and eight plays, of which he had made a version from menander [ ], were lost with him. others say that he died at stymphalos, in arcadia, or in leucadia, during the consulship of cn. cornelius dolabella and marcus fulvius nobilior [ ], worn out with a severe illness, and with grief and regret for the loss of his baggage, which he had sent forward in a ship that was wrecked, and contained the last new plays he had written. in person, terence is reported to have been rather short and slender, with a dark complexion. he had an only daughter, who was afterwards married to a roman knight; and he left also twenty acres of garden ground [ ], on the appian way, at the villa of mars. i, therefore, wonder the more how porcius could have written the verses,                           ————nihil publius     scipio profuit, nihil et laelius, nihil furius,     tres per idem tempus qui agitabant nobiles facillime.     eorum ille opera ne domum quidem habuit conductitiam     saltem ut esset, quo referret obitum domini servulus. [ ] afranius places him at the head of all the comic writers, declaring, in his compitalia,     terentio non similem dices quempiam.     terence's equal cannot soon be found. on the other hand, volcatius reckons him inferior not only ( ) to naevius, plautus, and caecilius, but also to licinius. cicero pays him this high compliment, in his limo—     tu quoque, qui solus lecto sermone, terenti,     conversum expressumque latina voce menandrum     in medio populi sedatis vocibus offers,     quidquid come loquens, ac omnia dulcia dicens. "you, only, terence, translated into latin, and clothed in choice language the plays of menander, and brought them before the public, who, in crowded audiences, hung upon hushed applause— grace marked each line, and every period charmed." so also caius caesar:     tu quoque tu in summis, o dimidiate menander,     poneris, et merito, puri sermonis amator,     lenibus atque utinam scriptis adjuncta foret vis     comica, ut aequato virtus polleret honore     cum graecis, neque in hoc despectus parte jaceres!     unum hoc maceror, et doleo tibi deesse, terenti. "you, too, who divide your honours with menander, will take your place among poets of the highest order, and justly too, such is the purity of your style. would only that to your graceful diction was added more comic force, that your works might equal in merit the greek masterpieces, and your inferiority in this particular should not expose you to censure. this is my only regret; in this, terence, i grieve to say you are wanting." the life of juvenal. d. junius juvenalis, who was either the son [ ] of a wealthy freedman, or brought up by him, it is not known which, declaimed till the middle of life [ ], more from the bent of his inclination, than from any desire to prepare himself either for the schools or the forum. but having composed a short satire [ ], which was clever enough, on paris [ ], the actor of pantomimes, ( ) and also on the poet of claudius nero, who was puffed up by having held some inferior military rank for six months only; he afterwards devoted himself with much zeal to that style of writing. for a while indeed, he had not the courage to read them even to a small circle of auditors, but it was not long before he recited his satires to crowded audiences, and with entire success; and this he did twice or thrice, inserting new lines among those which he had originally composed.     quod non dant proceres, dabit histrio, tu camerinos,     et bareas, tu nobilium magna atria curas.     praefectos pelopea facit, philomela tribunos.     behold an actor's patronage affords     a surer means of rising than a lord's!     and wilt thou still the camerino's [ ] court,     or to the halls of bareas resort,     when tribunes pelopea can create     and philomela praefects, who shall rule the state? [ ] at that time the player was in high favour at court, and many of those who fawned upon him were daily raised to posts of honour. juvenal therefore incurred the suspicion of having covertly satirized occurrences which were then passing, and, although eighty years old at that time [ ], he was immediately removed from the city, being sent into honourable banishment as praefect of a cohort, which was under orders to proceed to a station at the extreme frontier of egypt [ ]. that ( ) sort of punishment was selected, as it appeared severe enough for an offence which was venial, and a mere piece of drollery. however, he died very soon afterwards, worn down by grief, and weary of his life. the life of persius. aulus persius flaccus was born the day before the nones of december [ th dec.] [ ], in the consulship of fabius persicus and l. vitellius. he died on the eighth of the calends of december [ th nov.] [ ] in the consulship of rubrius marius and asinius gallus. though born at volterra, in etruria, he was a roman knight, allied both by blood and marriage to persons of the highest rank [ ]. he ended his days at an estate he had at the eighth milestone on the appian way. his father, flaccus, who died when he was barely six years old, left him under the care of guardians, and his mother, fulvia silenna, who afterwards married fusius, a roman knight, buried him also in a very few years. persius flaccus pursued his studies at volterra till he was twelve years old, and then continued them at rome, under remmius palaemon, the grammarian, and verginius flaccus, the rhetorician. arriving at the age of twenty-one, he formed a friendship with annaeus cornutus [ ], which lasted through life; and from him he learned the rudiments of philosophy. among his earliest friends were caesius bassus [ ], and calpurnius statura; the latter of whom died while persius himself was yet in his youth. servilius ( ) numanus [ ], he reverenced as a father. through cornutus he was introduced to annaeus, as well as to lucan, who was of his own age, and also a disciple of cornutus. at that time cornutus was a tragic writer; he belonged to the sect of the stoics, and left behind him some philosophical works. lucan was so delighted with the writings of persius flaccus, that he could scarcely refrain from giving loud tokens of applause while the author was reciting them, and declared that they had the true spirit of poetry. it was late before persius made the acquaintance of seneca, and then he was not much struck with his natural endowments. at the house of cornutus he enjoyed the society of two very learned and excellent men, who were then zealously devoting themselves to philosophical enquiries, namely, claudius agaternus, a physician from lacedaemon, and petronius aristocrates, of magnesia, men whom he held in the highest esteem, and with whom he vied in their studies, as they were of his own age, being younger than cornutus. during nearly the last ten years of his life he was much beloved by thraseas, so that he sometimes travelled abroad in his company; and his cousin arria was married to him. persius was remarkable for gentle manners, for a modesty amounting to bashfulness, a handsome form, and an attachment to his mother, sister, and aunt, which was most exemplary. he was frugal and chaste. he left his mother and sister twenty thousand sesterces, requesting his mother, in a written codicil, to present to cornutus, as some say, one hundred sesterces, or as others, twenty pounds of wrought silver [ ], besides about seven hundred books, which, indeed, included his whole library. cornutus, however, would only take the books, and gave up the legacy to the sisters, whom his brother had constituted his heirs. he wrote [ ] seldom, and not very fast; even the work we possess he left incomplete. some verses are wanting at the end of the book [ ], but cornutus thoughtlessly recited it, as if ( ) it was finished; and on caesius bassus requesting to be allowed to publish it, he delivered it to him for that purpose., in his younger days, persius had written a play, as well as an itinerary, with several copies of verses on thraseas' father-in-law, and arria's [ ] mother, who had made away with herself before her husband. but cornutus used his whole influence with the mother of persius to prevail upon her to destroy these compositions. as soon as his book of satires was published, all the world began to admire it, and were eager to buy it up. he died of a disease in the stomach, in the thirtieth year of his age [ ]. but no sooner had he left school and his masters, than he set to work with great vehemence to compose satires, from having read the tenth book of lucilius; and made the beginning of that book his model; presently launching his invectives all around with so little scruple, that he did not spare cotemporary poets and orators, and even lashed nero himself, who was then the reigning prince. the verse ran as follows:     auriculas asini mida rex habet;     king midas has an ass's ears; but cornutus altered it thus;     auriculas asini quis non hahet?     who has not an ass's ears? in order that it might not be supposed that it was meant to apply to nero. the life of horace. horatius flaccus was a native of venusium [ ], his father having been, by his own account [ ], a freedman and collector of taxes, but, as it is generally believed, a dealer in salted ( ) provisions; for some one with whom horace had a quarrel, jeered him, by saying; "how often have i seen your father wiping his nose with his fist?" in the battle of philippi, he served as a military tribune [ ], which post he filled at the instance of marcus brutus [ ], the general; and having obtained a pardon, on the overthrow of his party, he purchased the office of scribe to a quaestor. afterwards insinuating himself first, into the good graces of mecaenas, and then of augustus, he secured no small share in the regard of both. and first, how much mecaenas loved him may be seen by the epigram in which he says:     ni te visceribus meis, horati,     plus jam diligo, titium sodalem,     ginno tu videas strigosiorem. [ ] but it was more strongly exhibited by augustus, in a short sentence uttered in his last moments: "be as mindful of horatius flaccus as you are of me!" augustus offered to appoint him his secretary, signifying his wishes to mecaenas in a letter to the following effect: "hitherto i have been able to write my own epistles to friends; but now i am too much occupied, and in an infirm state of health. i wish, therefore, to deprive you of our horace: let him leave, therefore, your luxurious table and come to the palace, and he shall assist me in writing my letters." and upon his refusing to accept the office, he neither exhibited the smallest displeasure, nor ceased to heap upon him tokens of his regard. letters of his are extant, from which i will make some short extracts to establish this: "use your influence over me with the same freedom as you would do if we were living together as friends. in so doing you will be perfectly right, and guilty of no impropriety; for i could wish that our intercourse should be on that footing, if your health admitted of it." and again: "how i hold you in memory you may learn ( ) from our friend septimius [ ], for i happened to mention you when he was present. and if you are so proud as to scorn my friendship, that is no reason why i should lightly esteem yours, in return." besides this, among other drolleries, he often called him, "his most immaculate penis," and "his charming little man," and loaded him from time to time with proofs of his munificence. he admired his works so much, and was so convinced of their enduring fame, that he directed him to compose the secular poem, as well as that on the victory of his stepsons tiberius and drusus over the vindelici [ ]; and for this purpose urged him to add, after a long interval, a fourth book of odes to the former three. after reading his "sermones," in which he found no mention of himself, he complained in these terms: "you must know that i am very angry with you, because in most of your works of this description you do not choose to address yourself to me. are you afraid that, in times to come, your reputation will suffer; in case it should appear that you lived on terms of intimate friendship with me?" and he wrung from him the eulogy which begins with,     cum tot sustineas, et tanta negotia solus:     res italas armis tuteris, moribus ornes,     legibus emendes: in publica commoda peccem,     si longo sermone morer tua tempora, caesar.—epist. ii. i.     while you alone sustain the important weight     of rome's affairs, so various and so great;     while you the public weal with arms defend,     adorn with morals, and with laws amend;     shall not the tedious letter prove a crime,     that steals one moment of our caesar's time.—francis. in person, horace was short and fat, as he is described by himself in his satires [ ], and by augustus in the following letter: "dionysius has brought me your small volume, which, little as it is, not to blame you for that, i shall judge favourably. you seem to me, however, to be afraid lest your volumes should be bigger than yourself. but if you are short in stature, you are corpulent enough. you may, therefore, ( ) if you will, write in a quart, when the size of your volume is as large round as your paunch." it is reported that he was immoderately addicted to venery. [for he is said to have had obscene pictures so disposed in a bedchamber lined with mirrors, that, whichever way he looked, lascivious images might present themselves to his view.] [ ] he lived for the most part in the retirement of his farm [ ], on the confines of the sabine and tiburtine territories, and his house is shewn in the neighbourhood of a little wood not far from tibur. some elegies ascribed to him, and a prose epistle apparently written to commend himself to mecaenas, have been handed down to us; but i believe that neither of them are genuine works of his; for the elegies are commonplace, and the epistle is wanting in perspicuity, a fault which cannot be imputed to his style. he was born on the sixth of the ides of december [ th december], in the consulship of lucius cotta [ ] and lucius torquatus; and died on the fifth of the calends of december [ th november], in the consulship of caius marcius censorinus and caius asinius gallus [ ]; having completed his fifty-ninth year. he made a nuncupatory will, declaring augustus his heir, not being able, from the violence of his disorder, to sign one in due form. he was interred and lies buried on the skirts of the esquiline hill, near the tomb of mecaenas. [ ] ( ) m. annaeus lucanus, a native of corduba [ ], first tried the powers of his genius in an encomium on nero, at the quinquennial games. he afterwards recited his poem on the civil war carried on between pompey and caesar. his vanity was so immense, and he gave such liberty to his tongue, that in some preface, comparing his age and his first efforts with those of virgil, he had the assurance to say: "and what now remains for me is to deal with a gnat." in his early youth, after being long informed of the sort of life his father led in the country, in consequence of an unhappy marriage [ ], he was recalled from athens by nero, who admitted him into the circle of his friends, and even gave him the honour of the quaestorship; but he did not long remain in favour. smarting at this, and having publicly stated that nero had withdrawn, all of a sudden, without communicating with the senate, and without any other motive than his own recreation, after this he did not cease to assail the emperor both with foul words and with acts which are still notorious. so that on one occasion, when easing his bowels in the common privy, there being a louder explosion than usual, he gave vent to the nemistych of nero: "one would suppose it was thundering under ground," in the hearing of those who were sitting there for the same purpose, and who took to their heels in much consternation [ ]. in a poem also, which was in every one's hands, he severely lashed both the emperor and his most powerful adherents. at length, he became nearly the most active leader in piso's conspiracy [ ]; and while he dwelt without reserve in many quarters on the glory of those who dipped their hands in the ( ) blood of tyrants, he launched out into open threats of violence, and carried them so far as to boast that he would cast the emperor's head at the feet of his neighbours. when, however, the plot was discovered, he did not exhibit any firmness of mind. a confession was wrung from him without much difficulty; and, humbling himself to the most abject entreaties, he even named his innocent mother as one of the conspirators [ ]; hoping that his want of natural affection would give him favour in the eyes of a parricidal prince. having obtained permission to choose his mode of death [ ], he wrote notes to his father, containing corrections of some of his verses, and, having made a full meal, allowed a physician to open the veins in his arm [ ]. i have also heard it said that his poems were offered for sale, and commented upon, not only with care and diligence, but also in a trifling way. [ ] the life of pliny. [ ] plinius secundus, a native of new como [ ], having served in ( ) the wars with strict attention to his duties, in the rank of a knight, distinguished himself, also, by the great integrity with which he administered the high functions of procurator for a long period in the several provinces intrusted to his charge. but still he devoted so much attention to literary pursuits, that it would not have been an easy matter for a person who enjoyed entire leisure to have written more than he did. he comprised, in twenty volumes, an account of all the various wars carried on in successive periods with the german tribes. besides this, he wrote a natural history, which extended to seven books. he fell a victim to the calamitous event which occurred in campania. for, having the command of the fleet at misenum, when vesuvius was throwing up a fiery eruption, he put to sea with his gallies for the purpose of exploring the causes of the phenomenon close on the spot [ ]. but being prevented by contrary winds from sailing back, he was suffocated in the dense cloud of dust and ashes. some, however, think that he was killed by his slave, having implored him to put an end to his sufferings, when he was reduced to the last extremity by the fervent heat. [ ] the end of lives of the poets. footnotes: [ ] lucius fenestella, an historical writer, is mentioned by lactantius, seneca, and pliny, who says, that he died towards the close of the reign of tiberius. [ ] the second punic war ended a.u.c. , and the third began a.u.c. . terence was probably born about . [ ] carthage was laid in ruins a.u.c. or , six hundred and sixty seven years after its foundation. [ ] these entertainments were given by the aediles m. fulvius nobilior and m. acilius glabrio, a.u.c. . [ ] st. jerom also states that terence read the "andria" to caecilius who was a comic poet at rome; but it is clearly an anachronism, as he died two years before this period. it is proposed, therefore, to amend the text by substituting acilius, the aedile; a correction recommended by all the circumstances, and approved by pitiscus and ernesti. [ ] the "hecyra," the mother-in-law, is one of terence's plays. [ ] the "eunuch" was not brought out till five years after the andria, a.u.c. . [ ] about pounds sterling; the price paid for the two performances. what further right of authorship is meant by the words following, is not very clear. [ ] the "adelphi" was first acted a.u.c. . [ ] this report is mentioned by cicero (ad attic, vii. ), who applies it to the younger laelius. the scipio here mentioned is scipio africanus, who was at this time about twenty-one years of age. [ ] the calends of march was the festival of married women. see before, vespasian, c. xix. [ ] santra, who wrote biographies of celebrated characters, is mentioned as "a man of learning," by st. jerom, in his preface to the book on the ecclesiastical writers. [ ] the idea seems to have prevailed that terence, originally an african slave, could not have attained that purity of style in latin composition which is found in his plays, without some assistance. the style of phaedrus, however; who was a slave from thrace, and lived in the reign of tiberius, is equally pure, although no such suspicion attaches to his work. [ ] cicero (de clar. orat. c. ) gives sulpicius gallus a high character as a finished orator and elegant scholar. he was consul when the andria was first produced. [ ] labeo and popilius are also spoken of by cicero in high terms, ib. cc. and . q. fabius labeo was consul with m. claudius marcellus, a.u.c. and popilius with l. postumius albinus, a.u.c. . [ ] the story of terence's having converted into latin plays this large number of menander's greek comedies, is beyond all probability, considering the age at which he died, and other circumstances. indeed, menander never wrote so many as are here stated. [ ] they were consuls a.u.c. . terence was, therefore, thirty-four years old at the time of his death. [ ] hortulorum, in the plural number. this term, often found in roman authors, not inaptly describes the vast number of little inclosures, consisting of vineyards, orchards of fig-trees, peaches, etc., with patches of tillage, in which maize, legumes, melons, pumpkins, and other vegetables are cultivated for sale, still found on small properties, in the south of europe, particularly in the neighbourhood of towns. [ ] suetonius has quoted these lines in the earlier part of his life of terence. see before p. , where they are translated. [ ] juvenal was born at aquinum, a town of the volscians, as appears by an ancient ms., and is intimated by himself. sat. iii. . [ ] he must have been therefore nearly forty years old at this time, as he lived to be eighty. [ ] the seventh of juvenal's satires. [ ] this paris does not appear to have been the favourite of nero, who was put to death by that prince [see nero, c. liv.], but another person of the same name, who was patronised by the emperor domitian. the name of the poet joined with him is not known. salmatius thinks it was statius pompilius, who sold to paris, the actor, the play of agave; esurit, intactam paridi nisi vendat agaven.—juv. sat. vii. . [ ] sulpicius camerinus had been proconsul in africa; bareas soranus in asia. tacit. annal. xiii. ; xvi. . both of them are said to have been corrupt in their administration; and the satirist introduces their names as examples of the rich and noble, whose influence was less than that of favourite actors, or whose avarice prevented them from becoming the patrons of poets. [ ] the "pelopea," was a tragedy founded on the story of the daughter of thyestes; the "philomela," a tragedy on the fate of itys, whose remains were served to his father at a banquet by philomela and her sister progne. [ ] this was in the time of adrian. juvenal, who wrote first in the reigns of domitian and trajan, composed his last satire but one in the third year of adrian, a.u.c. . [ ] syene is meant, the frontier station of the imperial troops in that quarter of the world. [ ] a.u.c. , a.d. . [ ] a.u.c. , a.d. . [ ] persius was one of the few men of rank and affluence among the romans, who acquired distinction as writers; the greater part of them having been freedmen, as appears not only from these lives of the poets, but from our author's notices of the grammarians and rhetoricians. a caius persius is mentioned with distinction by livy in the second punic war, hist. xxvi. ; and another of the same name by cicero, de orat. ii. , and by pliny; but whether the poet was descended from either of them, we have no means of ascertaining. [ ] persius addressed his fifth satire to annaeus cornutus. he was a native of leptis, in africa, and lived at rome in the time of nero, by whom he was banished. [ ] caesius bassus, a lyric poet, flourished during the reigns of nero and galba. persius dedicated his sixth satire to him. [ ] "numanus." it should be servilius nonianus, who is mentioned by pliny, xxviii. , and xxxvii. . [ ] commentators are not agreed about these sums, the text varying both in the manuscripts and editions. [ ] see dr. thomson's remarks on persius, before, p. . [ ] there is no appearance of any want of finish in the sixth satire of persius, as it has come down to us; but it has been conjectured that it was followed by another, which was left imperfect. [ ] there were two arrias, mother and daughter, tacit. annal. xvi. . . [ ] persius died about nine days before he completed his twenty-ninth year. [ ] venusium stood on the confines of the apulian, lucanian, and samnite territories.     sequor hunc, lucanus an appulus anceps;     nam venusinus arat finem sub utrumque colonus.                                         hor sat. xi. . . [ ] sat. i. . . [ ] horace mentions his being in this battle, and does not scruple to admit that he made rather a precipitate retreat, "relicta non bene parmula."—ode xi. - . [ ] see ode xi. . . [ ] the editors of suetonius give different versions of this epigram. it seems to allude to some passing occurrence, and in its present form the sense is to this effect: "if i love you not, horace, to my very heart's core, may you see the priest of the college of titus leaner than his mule." [ ] probably the septimius to whom horace addressed the ode beginning septimi, gades aditure mecum.—ode xl. b. i. [ ] see augustus, c. xxi.; and horace, ode iv, . [ ] see epist. i. iv. xv. me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises. [ ] it is satisfactory to find that the best commentators consider the words between brackets as an interpolation in the work of suetonius. some, including bentley, reject the preceding sentence also. [ ] the works of horace abound with references to his sabine farm which must be familiar to many readers. some remains are still shewn, consisting of a ruined wall and a tesselated pavement in a vineyard, about eight miles from tivoli, which are supposed, with reason, to mark its site. at least, the features of the neighbouring country, as often sketched by the poet—and they are very beautiful—cannot be mistaken. [ ] aurelius cotta and l. manlius torquatus were consuls a.u.c. . the genial horace, in speaking of his old wine, agrees with suetonius in fixing the date of his own birth:     o nata mecum consule manlio     testa.—ode iii. . and again,     tu vina, torquato, move     consule pressa meo.—epod. xiii. . [ ] a.u.c. . so that horace was in his fifty-seventh, not his fifty-ninth year, at the time of his death. [ ] it may be concluded that horace died at rome, under the hospitable roof of his patron mecaenas, whose villa and gardens stood on the esquiline hill; which had formerly been the burial ground of the lower classes; but, as he tells us,     nunc licet esquiliis habitare salubribus, atque     aggere in aprico spatiare.—sat. i. . [ ] cordova. lucan was the son of annaeus mella, seneca's brother. [ ] this sentence is very obscure, and ernesti considers the text to be imperfect. [ ] they had good reason to know that, ridiculous as the tyrant made himself, it was not safe to incur even the suspicion of being parties to a jest upon him. [ ] see nero, c. xxxvi. [ ] st. jerom (chron. euseb.) places lucan's death in the tenth year of nero's reign, corresponding with a.u.c. . this opportunity is taken of correcting an error in the press, p. , respecting the date of nero's accession. it should be a.u.c. , a.d. . [ ] these circumstances are not mentioned by some other writers. see dr. thomson's account of lucan, before, p. , where it is said that he died with philosophical firmness. [ ] we find it stated ib. p. , that lucan expired while pronouncing some verses from his own pharsalia: for which we have the authority of tacitus, annal. xv. . . lucan, it appears, employed his last hours in revising his poems; on the contrary, virgil, we are told, when his death was imminent, renewed his directions that the aeneid should be committed to the flames. [ ] the text of the concluding sentence of lucan's life is corrupt, and neither of the modes proposed for correcting it make the sense intended very clear. [ ] although this brief memoir of pliny is inserted in all the editions of suetonius, it was unquestionably not written by him. the author, whoever he was, has confounded the two plinys, the uncle and nephew, into which error suetonius could not have fallen, as he lived on intimate terms with the younger pliny; nor can it be supposed that he would have composed the memoir of his illustrious friend in so cursory a manner. scaliger and other learned men consider that the life of pliny, attributed to suetonius, was composed more than four centuries after that historian's death. [ ] see julius, c. xxviii. caius plinius caecilius secundus (the younger pliny) was born at como, a.u.c. ; a.d. . his father's name was lucius caecilius, also of como, who married plinia, the sister of caius plinius secundus, supposed to have been a native of verona, the author of the natural history, and by this marriage the uncle of pliny the younger. it was the nephew who enjoyed the confidence of the emperors nerva and trajan, and was the author of the celebrated letters. [ ] the first eruption of mount vesuvius occurred a.u.c. , a.d. . see titus, c. viii. the younger pliny was with his uncle at misenum at the time, and has left an account of his disastrous enterprise in one of his letters, epist. vi. xvi. 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(c.  bc) from the farnese collection, now at the national archaeological museum, naples 	born	c.  bc athens 	died	c.  bc (aged approx ) cyprus 	occupation	statesman, lawmaker, poet solon (greek: Σόλων sólōn [só.lɔːn]; c.   – c.   bc)[ ] was an athenian statesman, lawmaker and poet. he is remembered particularly for his efforts to legislate against political, economic and moral decline in archaic athens.[ ] his reforms failed in the short term, yet he is often credited with having laid the foundations for athenian democracy.[ ][ ][ ] he wrote poetry for pleasure, as patriotic propaganda, and in defence of his constitutional reform. modern knowledge of solon is limited by the fact that his works only survive in fragments and appear to feature interpolations by later authors and by the general paucity of documentary and archaeological evidence covering athens in the early th century bc.[ ] ancient authors such as philo of alexandria[ ], herodotus, and plutarch are the main sources, but wrote about solon long after his death. fourth-century orators, such as aeschines, tended to attribute to solon all the laws of their own, much later times.[ ][ ] the english word solon (meaning "wise lawmaker") derives from his name. contents 	 life 	 historical setting 	 solon's reforms 	 . constitutional reform 	 . economic reform 	 . moral reform 	 . aftermath of solon's reforms 	 poetry 	 solon and athenian sexuality 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 . collections of solon's surviving verses 	 further reading 	 external links life[edit] solon was born in athens around bc.[ ] his family was distinguished in attica as they belonged to a noble or eupatrid clan, although they possessed only moderate wealth.[ ] solon's father was probably execestides. if so his lineage could be traced back to codrus, the last king of athens.[ ] according to diogenes laërtius, he had a brother named dropides who was an ancestor (six generations removed) of plato.[ ] according to plutarch, solon was related to the tyrant peisistratos, for their mothers were cousins.[ ] solon was eventually drawn into the unaristocratic pursuit of commerce.[ ] "solon demands to pledge respect for his laws", book illustration (augsburg ) when athens and megara were contesting the possession of salamis, solon was made leader of the athenian forces. after repeated disasters, solon was able to improve the morale of his troops through a poem he wrote about the island.[ ] supported by peisistratos, he defeated the megarians either by means of a cunning trick[ ] or more directly through heroic battle around bc.[ ][ ] the megarians, however, refused to give up their claim. the dispute was referred to the spartans, who eventually awarded possession of the island to athens on the strength of the case that solon put to them.[ ] according to diogenes laertius, in bc, solon was chosen archon, or chief magistrate.[ ][ ] as archon, solon discussed his intended reforms with some friends. knowing that he was about to cancel all debts, these friends took out loans and promptly bought some land. suspected of complicity, solon complied with his own law and released his own debtors, amounting to five talents (or according to some sources). his friends never repaid their debts.[ ] after he had finished his reforms, he travelled abroad for ten years, so that the athenians could not induce him to repeal any of his laws.[ ] his first stop was egypt. there, according to herodotus, he visited the pharaoh of egypt, amasis ii.[ ] according to plutarch, he spent some time and discussed philosophy with two egyptian priests, psenophis of heliopolis and sonchis of sais.[ ] a character in two of plato's dialogues, timaeus and critias, claims solon visited neith's temple at sais and received from the priests there an account of the history of atlantis. next, solon sailed to cyprus, where he oversaw the construction of a new capital for a local king, in gratitude for which the king named it soloi.[ ] croesus awaits fiery execution (attic red-figure amphora, – bc, louvre g ) solon's travels finally brought him to sardis, capital of lydia. according to herodotus and plutarch, he met with croesus and gave the lydian king advice, which croesus failed to appreciate until it was too late. croesus had considered himself to be the happiest man alive and solon had advised him, "count no man happy until he be dead." the reasoning was that at any minute, fortune might turn on even the happiest man and make his life miserable. it was only after he had lost his kingdom to the persian king cyrus, while awaiting execution, that croesus acknowledged the wisdom of solon's advice.[ ][ ] after his return to athens, solon became a staunch opponent of peisistratos. in protest, and as an example to others, solon stood outside his own home in full armour, urging all who passed to resist the machinations of the would-be tyrant. his efforts were in vain. solon died shortly after peisistratos usurped by force the autocratic power that athens had once freely bestowed upon him.[ ] solon died in cyprus at the age of [ ] and, in accordance with his will, his ashes were scattered around salamis, the island where he was born.[ ][ ] the travel writer pausanias listed solon among the seven sages whose aphorisms adorned apollo's temple in delphi.[ ] stobaeus in the florilegium relates a story about a symposium where solon's young nephew was singing a poem of sappho's: solon, upon hearing the song, asked the boy to teach him to sing it. when someone asked, "why should you waste your time on it?", solon replied, "ἵνα μαθὼν αὐτὸ ἀποθάνω", "so that i may learn it before i die."[ ] ammianus marcellinus, however, told a similar story about socrates and the poet stesichorus, quoting the philosopher's rapture in almost identical terms: "ut aliquid sciens amplius e vita discedam",[ ] meaning "in order to leave life knowing a little more". historical setting[edit] "solon, the wise lawgiver of athens", illustration by walter crane, from the story of greece, told to boys and girls, by mary macgregor ( s) during solon's time, many greek city-states had seen the emergence of tyrants, opportunistic noblemen who had taken power on behalf of sectional interests. in sicyon, cleisthenes had usurped power on behalf of an ionian minority. in megara, theagenes had come to power as an enemy of the local oligarchs. the son-in-law of theagenes, an athenian nobleman named cylon, made an unsuccessful attempt to seize power in athens in bc. solon was described by plutarch as having been temporarily awarded autocratic powers by athenian citizens on the grounds that he had the wisdom to sort out their differences for them in a peaceful and equitable manner.[ ] according to ancient sources,[ ][ ] he obtained these powers when he was elected eponymous archon ( / bc). some modern scholars believe these powers were in fact granted some years after solon had been archon, when he would have been a member of the areopagus and probably a more respected statesman by his peers.[ ][ ][ ] the social and political upheavals that characterized athens in solon's time have been variously interpreted by historians from ancient times to the present day. two contemporary historians have identified three distinct historical accounts of solon's athens, emphasizing quite different rivalries: economic and ideological rivalry, regional rivalry and rivalry between aristocratic clans.[ ][ ] these different accounts provide a convenient basis for an overview of the issues involved. 	economic and ideological rivalry is a common theme in ancient sources. this sort of account emerges from solon's poems (e.g. see below solon the reformer and poet), in which he casts himself in the role of a noble mediator between two intemperate and unruly factions. this same account is substantially taken up about three centuries later by the author of the aristotelian athenaion politeia but with an interesting variation: "...there was conflict between the nobles and the common people for an extended period. for the constitution they were under was oligarchic in every respect and especially in that the poor, along with their wives and children, were in slavery to the rich...all the land was in the hands of a few. and if men did not pay their rents, they themselves and their children were liable to be seized as slaves. the security for all loans was the debtor's person up to the time of solon. he was the first people's champion."[ ] here solon is presented as a partisan in a democratic cause whereas, judged from the viewpoint of his own poems, he was instead a mediator between rival factions. a still more significant variation in the ancient historical account appears in the writing of plutarch in the late st – early nd century ad: "athens was torn by recurrent conflict about the constitution. the city was divided into as many parties as there were geographical divisions in its territory. for the party of the people of the hills was most in favour of democracy, that of the people of the plain was most in favour of oligarchy, while the third group, the people of the coast, which preferred a mixed form of constitution somewhat between the other two, formed an obstruction and prevented the other groups from gaining control."[ ] 	regional rivalry is a theme commonly found among modern scholars.[ ][ ][ ][ ] "the new picture which emerged was one of strife between regional groups, united by local loyalties and led by wealthy landowners. their goal was control of the central government at athens and with it dominance over their rivals from other districts of attika."[ ] regional factionalism was inevitable in a relatively large territory such as athens possessed. in most greek city states, a farmer could conveniently reside in town and travel to and from his fields every day. according to thucydides, on the other hand, most athenians continued to live in rural settlements right up until the peloponnesian war.[ ] the effects of regionalism in a large territory could be seen in laconia, where sparta had gained control through intimidation and resettlement of some of its neighbours and enslavement of the rest. attika in solon's time seemed to be moving towards a similarly ugly solution with many citizens in danger of being reduced to the status of helots.[ ] 	rivalry between clans is a theme recently developed by some scholars, based on an appreciation of the political significance of kinship groupings.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] according to this account, bonds of kinship rather than local loyalties were the decisive influence on events in archaic athens. an athenian belonged not only to a phyle or tribe and one of its subdivisions, the phratry or brotherhood, but also to an extended family, clan or genos. it has been argued that these interconnecting units of kinship reinforced a hierarchic structure with aristocratic clans at the top.[ ][ ] thus rivalries between aristocratic clans could engage all levels of society irrespective of any regional ties. in that case, the struggle between rich and poor was the struggle between powerful aristocrats and the weaker affiliates of their rivals or perhaps even with their own rebellious affiliates. the historical account of solon's athens has evolved over many centuries into a set of contradictory stories or a complex story that might be interpreted in a variety of ways. as further evidence accumulates, and as historians continue to debate the issues, solon's motivations and the intentions behind his reforms will continue to attract speculation.[ ] solon's reforms[edit] solon, depicted with pupils in an islamic miniature solon's laws were inscribed on large wooden slabs or cylinders attached to a series of axles that stood upright in the prytaneion.[ ][ ] these axones appear to have operated on the same principle as a turntable, allowing both convenient storage and ease of access. originally the axones recorded laws enacted by draco in the late th century (traditionally bc). nothing of draco's codification has survived except for a law relating to homicide, yet there is consensus among scholars that it did not amount to anything like a constitution.[ ][ ] solon repealed all draco's laws except those relating to homicide.[ ] during his visit to athens, pausanias, the nd century ad geographer reported that the inscribed laws of solon were still displayed by the prytaneion.[ ] fragments of the axones were still visible in plutarch's time[ ] but today the only records we have of solon's laws are fragmentary quotes and comments in literary sources such as those written by plutarch himself. moreover, the language of his laws was archaic even by the standards of the fifth century and this caused interpretation problems for ancient commentators.[ ] modern scholars doubt the reliability of these sources and our knowledge of solon's legislation is therefore actually very limited in its details.[citation needed] generally, solon's reforms appear to have been constitutional, economic and moral in their scope. this distinction, though somewhat artificial, does at least provide a convenient framework within which to consider the laws that have been attributed to solon. some short-term consequences of his reforms are considered at the end of the section. constitutional reform[edit] main article: solonian constitution before solon's reforms, the athenian state was administered by nine archons appointed or elected annually by the areopagus on the basis of noble birth and wealth.[ ][ ] the areopagus comprised former archons and it therefore had, in addition to the power of appointment, extraordinary influence as a consultative body. the nine archons took the oath of office while ceremonially standing on a stone in the agora, declaring their readiness to dedicate a golden statue if they should ever be found to have violated the laws.[ ][ ] there was an assembly of athenian citizens (the ekklesia) but the lowest class (the thetes) was not admitted and its deliberative procedures were controlled by the nobles.[ ] there therefore seemed to be no means by which an archon could be called to account for breach of oath unless the areopagus favoured his prosecution. according to the constitution of the athenians, solon legislated for all citizens to be admitted into the ekklesia[ ] and for a court (the heliaia) to be formed from all the citizens.[ ] the heliaia appears to have been the ekklesia, or some representative portion of it, sitting as a jury.[ ][ ] by giving common people the power not only to elect officials but also to call them to account, solon appears to have established the foundations of a true republic. however some scholars have doubted whether solon actually included the thetes in the ekklesia, this being considered too bold a move for any aristocrat in the archaic period.[ ] ancient sources[ ][ ] credit solon with the creation of a council of four hundred, drawn from the four athenian tribes to serve as a steering committee for the enlarged ekklesia. however, many modern scholars have doubted this also.[ ][ ] there is consensus among scholars that solon lowered the requirements – those that existed in terms of financial and social qualifications – which applied to election to public office. the solonian constitution divided citizens into four political classes defined according to assessable property[ ][ ] a classification that might previously have served the state for military or taxation purposes only.[ ] the standard unit for this assessment was one medimnos (approximately gallons) of cereals and yet the kind of classification set out below might be considered too simplistic to be historically accurate.[ ] the areopagus, as viewed from the acropolis, is a monolith where athenian aristocrats decided important matters of state during solon's time. 	pentakosiomedimnoi 	valued at medimnoi or more of cereals annually. 	eligible to serve as strategoi (generals or military governors) 	hippeis 	valued at medimnoi or more annually. 	approximating to the medieval class of knights, they had enough wealth to equip themselves for the cavalry 	zeugitai 	valued at a medimnoi or more annually. 	approximating to the medieval class of yeoman, they had enough wealth to equip themselves for the infantry (hoplite) 	thetes 	valued up to medimnoi annually or less 	manual workers or sharecroppers, they served voluntarily in the role of personal servant, or as auxiliaries armed for instance with the sling or as rowers in the navy. according to the athenian constitution, only the pentakosiomedimnoi were eligible for election to high office as archons and therefore only they gained admission into the areopagus.[ ] a modern view affords the same privilege to the hippeis.[ ] the top three classes were eligible for a variety of lesser posts and only the thetes were excluded from all public office. depending on how we interpret the historical facts known to us, solon's constitutional reforms were either a radical anticipation of democratic government, or they merely provided a plutocratic flavour to a stubbornly aristocratic regime, or else the truth lies somewhere between these two extremes.[a] economic reform[edit] solon's economic reforms need to be understood in the context of the primitive, subsistence economy that prevailed both before and after his time. most athenians were still living in rural settlements right up to the peloponnesian war.[ ] opportunities for trade even within the athenian borders were limited. the typical farming family, even in classical times, barely produced enough to satisfy its own needs.[ ] opportunities for international trade were minimal. it has been estimated that, even in roman times, goods rose % in value for every miles they were carried over land, but only . % for the same distance were they carried by ship[ ] and yet there is no evidence that athens possessed any merchant ships until around bc.[ ] until then, the narrow warship doubled as a cargo vessel. athens, like other greek city states in the th century bc, was faced with increasing population pressures[ ] and by about bc it was able to feed itself only in 'good years'.[ ] solon's reforms can thus be seen to have taken place at a crucial period of economic transition, when a subsistence rural economy increasingly required the support of a nascent commercial sector. the specific economic reforms credited to solon are these: the croeseid, one of the earliest known coins. it was minted in the early th century bc in lydia. coins such as this might have made their way to athens in solon's time but it is unlikely that athens had its own coinage at this period. the earliest coinage of athens, c.  – bc 	fathers were encouraged to find trades for their sons; if they did not, there would be no legal requirement for sons to maintain their fathers in old age.[ ] 	foreign tradesmen were encouraged to settle in athens; those who did would be granted citizenship, provided they brought their families with them.[ ] 	cultivation of olives was encouraged; the export of all other fruits was prohibited.[ ] 	competitiveness of athenian commerce was promoted through revision of weights and measures, possibly based on successful standards already in use elsewhere, such as aegina or euboia[ ][ ] or, according to the ancient account but unsupported by modern scholarship, argos.[ ] it is generally assumed, on the authority of ancient commentators[ ][ ] that solon also reformed the athenian coinage. however, recent numismatic studies now lead to the conclusion that athens probably had no coinage until around bc, well after solon's reforms.[ ] nevertheless, there are now reasons to suggest[ ] that monetization had already begun before solon's reforms. by early sixth century the athenians were using silver in the form of a variety of bullion silver pieces for monetary payments.[ ] drachma and obol as a term of bullion value had already been adopted, although the corresponding standard weights were probably unstable.[ ] solon's economic reforms succeeded in stimulating foreign trade. athenian black-figure pottery was exported in increasing quantities and good quality throughout the aegean between bc and bc, a success story that coincided with a decline in trade in corinthian pottery.[ ] the ban on the export of grain might be understood as a relief measure for the benefit of the poor. however, the encouragement of olive production for export could actually have led to increased hardship for many athenians to the extent that it led to a reduction in the amount of land dedicated to grain. moreover, an olive produces no fruit for the first six years[ ] (but farmers' difficulty of lasting until payback may also give rise to a mercantilist argument in favour of supporting them through that, since the british case illustrates that 'one domestic policy that had a lasting impact was the conversion of "waste lands" to agricultural use. mercantilists felt that to maximize a nation's power all land and resources had to be used to their utmost...'). the real motives behind solon's economic reforms are therefore as questionable as his real motives for constitutional reform. were the poor being forced to serve the needs of a changing economy, was the economy being reformed to serve the needs of the poor, or were solon's policies the manifestation of a struggle taking place between poorer citizens and the aristocrats? moral reform[edit] in his poems, solon portrays athens as being under threat from the unrestrained greed and arrogance of its citizens.[ ] even the earth (gaia), the mighty mother of the gods, had been enslaved.[ ] the visible symbol of this perversion of the natural and social order was a boundary marker called a horos, a wooden or stone pillar indicating that a farmer was in debt or under contractual obligation to someone else, either a noble patron or a creditor.[ ] up until solon's time, land was the inalienable property of a family or clan[ ] and it could not be sold or mortgaged. this was no disadvantage to a clan with large landholdings since it could always rent out farms in a sharecropping system. a family struggling on a small farm however could not use the farm as security for a loan even if it owned the farm. instead the farmer would have to offer himself and his family as security, providing some form of slave labour in lieu of repayment. equally, a family might voluntarily pledge part of its farm income or labour to a powerful clan in return for its protection. farmers subject to these sorts of arrangements were loosely known as hektemoroi[ ] indicating that they either paid or kept a sixth of a farm's annual yield.[ ][ ][ ] in the event of 'bankruptcy', or failure to honour the contract stipulated by the horoi, farmers and their families could in fact be sold into slavery. this th century athenian black-figure urn, in the british museum, depicts the olive harvest. many farmers, enslaved for debt, would have worked on large estates for their creditors. solon's reform of these injustices was later known and celebrated among athenians as the seisachtheia (shaking off of burdens).[ ][ ] as with all his reforms, there is considerable scholarly debate about its real significance. many scholars are content to accept the account given by the ancient sources, interpreting it as a cancellation of debts, while others interpret it as the abolition of a type of feudal relationship, and some prefer to explore new possibilities for interpretation.[ ] the reforms included: 	annulment of all contracts symbolised by the horoi.[ ] 	prohibition on a debtor's person being used as security for a loan, i.e., debt slavery.[ ][ ] 	release of all athenians who had been enslaved.[ ] the removal of the horoi clearly provided immediate economic relief for the most oppressed group in attica, and it also brought an immediate end to the enslavement of athenians by their countrymen. some athenians had already been sold into slavery abroad and some had fled abroad to escape enslavement – solon proudly records in verse the return of this diaspora.[ ] it has been cynically observed, however, that few of these unfortunates were likely to have been recovered.[ ] it has been observed also that the seisachtheia not only removed slavery and accumulated debt but may also have removed the ordinary farmer's only means of obtaining further credit.[ ] the seisachtheia however was merely one set of reforms within a broader agenda of moral reformation. other reforms included: 	the abolition of extravagant dowries.[ ] 	legislation against abuses within the system of inheritance, specifically with relation to the epikleros (i.e. a female who had no brothers to inherit her father's property and who was traditionally required to marry her nearest paternal relative in order to produce an heir to her father's estate).[ ] 	entitlement of any citizen to take legal action on behalf of another.[ ][ ] 	the disenfranchisement of any citizen who might refuse to take up arms in times of civil strife, and war, a measure that was intended to counteract dangerous levels of political apathy.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] demosthenes claimed that the city's subsequent golden age included "personal modesty and frugality" among the athenian aristocracy.[ ] perhaps solon, by both personal example and legislated reform, established a precedent for this decorum.[citation needed] a heroic sense of civic duty later united athenians against the might of the persians.[citation needed] perhaps this public spirit was instilled in them by solon and his reforms.[citation needed] (see also solon and athenian sexuality below). aftermath of solon's reforms[edit] after completing his work of reform, solon surrendered his extraordinary authority and left the country. according to herodotus[ ] the country was bound by solon to maintain his reforms for years, whereas according to plutarch[ ] and the author of the athenian constitution[ ] (reputedly aristotle) the contracted period was instead years. a modern scholar[ ] considers the time-span given by herodotus to be historically accurate because it fits the years that solon was said to have been absent from the country.[ ] within years of solon's departure, the old social rifts re-appeared, but with some new complications. there were irregularities in the new governmental procedures, elected officials sometimes refused to stand down from their posts and occasionally important posts were left vacant. it has even been said that some people blamed solon for their troubles.[ ] eventually one of solon's relatives, peisistratos, ended the factionalism by force, thus instituting an unconstitutionally gained tyranny. in plutarch's account, solon accused athenians of stupidity and cowardice for allowing this to happen.[ ] poetry[edit] solon, depicted as a medieval scholar in the nuremberg chronicle solon's verses have come down to us in fragmentary quotations by ancient authors such as plutarch and demosthenes[ ] who used them to illustrate their own arguments. it is possible that some fragments have been wrongly attributed to him[ ] and some scholars have detected interpolations by later authors.[ ] he was also the first citizen of athens to reference the goddess athena (fr. . – ).[ ] the literary merit of solon's verse is generally considered unexceptional. solon's poetry can be said to appear 'self-righteous' and 'pompous' at times[ ] and he once composed an elegy with moral advice for a more gifted elegiac poet, mimnermus. most of the extant verses show him writing in the role of a political activist determined to assert personal authority and leadership and they have been described by the german classicist wilamowitz as a "versified harangue" (eine volksrede in versen).[ ] according to plutarch[ ] however, solon originally wrote poetry for amusement, discussing pleasure in a popular rather than philosophical way. solon's elegiac style is said to have been influenced by the example of tyrtaeus.[ ] he also wrote iambic and trochaic verses which, according to one modern scholar,[ ] are more lively and direct than his elegies and possibly paved the way for the iambics of athenian drama. solon's verses are mainly significant for historical rather than aesthetic reasons, as a personal record of his reforms and attitudes. however, poetry is not an ideal genre for communicating facts and very little detailed information can be derived from the surviving fragments.[ ] according to solon the poet, solon the reformer was a voice for political moderation in athens at a time when his fellow citizens were increasingly polarized by social and economic differences: 	 πολλοὶ γὰρ πλουτεῦσι κακοί, ἀγαθοὶ δὲ πένονται: ἀλλ' ἡμεῖς αὐτοῖς οὐ διαμειψόμεθα τῆς ἀρετῆς τὸν πλοῦτον: ἐπεὶ τὸ μὲν ἔμπεδον αἰεί, χρήματα δ' ἀνθρώπων ἄλλοτε ἄλλος ἔχει. 	 some wicked men are rich, some good are poor; we will not change our virtue for their store: virtue's a thing that none can take away, but money changes owners all the day.[ ] 	 	 here translated by the english poet john dryden, solon's words define a 'moral high ground' where differences between rich and poor can be reconciled or maybe just ignored. his poetry indicates that he attempted to use his extraordinary legislative powers to establish a peaceful settlement between the country's rival factions: 	 ἔστην δ' ἀμφιβαλὼν κρατερὸν σάκος ἀμφοτέροισι: νικᾶν δ' οὐκ εἴασ' οὐδετέρους ἀδίκως. 	 before them both i held my shield of might and let not either touch the other's right.[ ] 	 	 his attempts evidently were misunderstood: 	 χαῦνα μὲν τότ' ἐφράσαντο, νῦν δέ μοι χολούμενοι λοξὸν ὀφθαλμοῖς ὁρῶσι πάντες ὥστε δήϊον. 	 formerly they boasted of me vainly; with averted eyes now they look askance upon me; friends no more but enemies.[ ] 	 	 solon gave voice to athenian 'nationalism', particularly in the city state's struggle with megara, its neighbour and rival in the saronic gulf. plutarch professes admiration of solon's elegy urging athenians to recapture the island of salamis from megarian control.[ ] the same poem was said by diogenes laërtius to have stirred athenians more than any other verses that solon wrote: let us go to salamis to fight for the island we desire, and drive away our bitter shame![ ] one fragment describes assorted breads and cakes:[ ] they drink and some nibble honey and sesame cakes (itria), others their bread, other gouroi mixed with lentils. in that place, not one cake was unavailable of all those that the black earth bears for human beings, and all were present unstintingly. the place of abundance described in solon's fragment about cakes is unknown. some authors speculate that it may have been persia based on comments from herodotus that cake was the most significant part of a meal, one of the greek city states or even a literary allusion to 'paradise'. though athenaeus is not able to identify the gouros cake from solon's poem, he describes it as a plakous indicating it was a type of 'flat cake'. similar cakes are described by philoxenus of cythera.[ ] solon and athenian sexuality[edit] bust of solon in vatican museums as a regulator of athenian society, solon, according to some authors, also formalized its sexual mores. according to a surviving fragment from a work ("brothers") by the comic playwright philemon,[ ] solon established publicly funded brothels at athens in order to "democratize" the availability of sexual pleasure.[ ] while the veracity of this comic account is open to doubt, at least one modern author considers it significant that in classical athens, three hundred or so years after the death of solon, there existed a discourse that associated his reforms with an increased availability of heterosexual contacts.[ ] ancient authors also say that solon regulated pederastic relationships in athens; this has been presented as an adaptation of custom to the new structure of the polis.[ ][ ] according to various authors, ancient lawgivers (and therefore solon by implication) drew up a set of laws that were intended to promote and safeguard the institution of pederasty and to control abuses against freeborn boys. in particular, the orator aeschines cites laws excluding slaves from wrestling halls and forbidding them to enter pederastic relationships with the sons of citizens.[ ] accounts of solon's laws by th century orators like aeschines, however, are considered unreliable for a number of reasons;[ ][ ][ ] attic pleaders did not hesitate to attribute to him (solon) any law which suited their case, and later writers had no criterion by which to distinguish earlier from later works. nor can any complete and authentic collection of his statutes have survived for ancient scholars to consult.[ ] besides the alleged legislative aspect of solon's involvement with pederasty, there were also suggestions of personal involvement. ancient readers concluded, based on his own erotic poetry, that solon himself had a preference for boys.[ ] according to some ancient authors solon had taken the future tyrant peisistratos as his eromenos. aristotle, writing around bc, attempted to refute that belief, claiming that "those are manifestly talking nonsense who pretend that solon was the lover of peisistratos, for their ages do not admit of it," as solon was about thirty years older than peisistratos.[ ] nevertheless, the tradition persisted. four centuries later plutarch ignored aristotle's skepticism[ ] and recorded the following anecdote, supplemented with his own conjectures: and they say solon loved [peisistratos]; and that is the reason, i suppose, that when afterwards they differed about the government, their enmity never produced any hot and violent passion, they remembered their old kindnesses, and retained "still in its embers living the strong fire" of their love and dear affection.[ ] a century after plutarch, aelian also said that peisistratos had been solon's eromenos. despite its persistence, however, it is not known whether the account is historical or fabricated. it has been suggested that the tradition presenting a peaceful and happy coexistence between solon and peisistratos was cultivated during the latter's dominion, in order to legitimize his own rule, as well as that of his sons. whatever its source, later generations lent credence to the narrative.[ ] solon's presumed pederastic desire was thought in antiquity to have found expression also in his poetry, which is today represented only in a few surviving fragments.[ ][ ] the authenticity of all the poetic fragments attributed to solon is however uncertain – in particular, pederastic aphorisms ascribed by some ancient sources to solon have been ascribed by other sources to theognis instead.[ ] see also[edit] 	seven sages of greece notes[edit] 	^ "in all areas then it was the work of solon which was decisive in establishing the foundations for the development of a full democracy."—marylin b. arthur, 'the origins of the western attitude toward women', in: women in the ancient world: the arethusa papers, john patrick sullivan (ed.), state university of new york ( ), p. . "in making their own evaluation of solon, the ancient sources concentrated on what were perceived to be the democratic features of the constitution. but...solon was given his extraordinary commission by the nobles, who wanted him to eliminate the threat that the position of the nobles as a whole would be overthrown".— stanton g. r. athenian politics c. – bc: a sourcebook, routledge, london ( ), p. . references[edit] 	^ a b "solon", encyclopædia britannica, retrieved april 	^ a b aristotle politics b – a 	^ stanton, g. r. athenian politics c. – bc: a sourcebook, routledge, london ( ), p. . 	^ andrews, a. greek society (penguin ) 	^ a b e. harris, a new solution to the riddle of the seisachtheia, in the development of the polis in archaic greece, eds. l. mitchell and p. rhodes (routledge ) 	^ stanton g. r. athenian politics c. – bc: a sourcebook, routledge, london ( ), pp. – . 	^ philo judaeus alexandria "on the laws i and ii", loeb classical library ( ) 	^ a b v. ehrenberg, from solon to socrates: greek history and civilization, routledge ( ) 	^ a b plutarch solon s:lives (dryden translation)/solon# 	^ "solon" in magill, frank n. 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( ). food in the ancient world. blackwell. p.  . 	^ fr. 	^ rachel adams, david savran, the masculinity studies reader; blackwell, ; p. 	^ one hundred years of homosexuality: and other essays on greek love, p. 	^ bernard sergent, "paederasty and political life in archaic greek cities" in gay studies from the french culture; harrington park press, binghamton, ny ; pp. – 	^ eros and greek athletics by thomas francis scanlon, p. "so it is clear that solon was responsible for institutionalizing pederasty to some extent at athens in the early sixth century." 	^ aeschines, against timarchus , , [ ]; compare also plutarch, solon . . 	^ kevin robb, literacy and paideia in ancient greece, ox. uni. press, ; p. , 	^ p. j. rhodes, the reforms and laws of solon: an optimistic view, in 'solon of athens: new historical and philological approaches', eds. j. blok and a. lardinois (brill, leiden ) 	^ kevin robb, literacy and paideia in ancient greece, ox. uni. press ; p. 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"the rise of state action in the archaic age." in a companion to ancient greek government. edited by hans beck, – . chichester, uk: wiley-blackwell. 	lewis, john. . solon the thinker: political thought in archaic athens. london: duckworth. 	owens, ron. . solon of athens: poet, philosopher, soldier, statesman. brighton, uk: sussex academic. 	schubert, charlotte. . solon. tübingen, germany: francke. 	wallace, robert w. . "charismatic leaders." in a companion to archaic greece. edited by kurt raaflaub and hans van wees, – . malden, ma: wiley-blackwell. external links[edit] 	library resources about solon 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 by solon 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 		wikiquote has quotations related to: solon 		wikimedia commons has media related to solon. 	works about solon at perseus digital library 	plutarch, parallel lives, solon 	 laërtius, diogenes ( ). "the seven sages: solon" . lives of the eminent philosophers. : . translated by hicks, robert drew (two volume ed.). loeb classical library. 	poems of solon 	chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "solon" . encyclopædia britannica. 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(/eɪˈiːʃəs/; greek: Ἀέτιος Ἀμιδηνός; latin: aëtius amidenus; fl. mid- th century to mid- th century) was a byzantine greek physician and medical writer,[ ][ ] particularly distinguished by the extent of his erudition.[ ] his birth and death years are not known, but his writings appear to date from the end of the th century or the beginning of the th. aëtius was probably a christian.[ ] if so, he would be among the earliest recorded greek christian physicians.[ ] he is sometimes confused with aëtius of antioch, a famous arian who lived in the time of the emperor julian. contents 	 life 	 works 	 references 	 external links life[edit] aëtius was born a greek [ ][ ] and a native of amida (modern diyarbakır, turkey), a city of mesopotamia,[ ] and studied at alexandria, which was the most famous medical school of the age. though some writers[who?] place him in the th century, he mentions patriarch cyril of alexandria, who died in ,[ ] and petrus archiater, probably the physician of theodoric the great,[ ] whom he defines as a contemporary, so it appears that he wrote at the very end of the th century or the beginning of the th. he is in turn quoted by alexander of tralles,[ ] who lived probably in the middle of the th century. aëtius traveled and visited the copper mines of soli, cyprus, jericho, and the dead sea. in some manuscripts aëtius has the title of komēs opsikiou (κόμης ὀψικίου), latin comes obsequii, which means the chief officer in attendance on the emperor.[ ] works[edit] aëtius seems to be the first greek medical writer among the christians who gives any specimen of the spells and charms so much in vogue with the egyptians, such as that of saint blaise in removing a bone which sticks in the throat,[ ] and another in relation to a fistula.[ ] the division of aëtius' work sixteen books on medicine (Βιβλία Ἰατρικά Ἑκκαίδεκα) into four tetrabibli was not made by himself, but (as fabricius observes) was the invention of some modern translator, as his way of quoting his own work is according to the numerical series of the books. although his work does not contain much original matter, and is heavily indebted to galen and oribasius,[ ] it is nevertheless one of the most valuable medical remains of antiquity, as being a very judicious compilation from the writings of many authors, many from the alexandrian library, whose works have long since been lost.[ ] in the manuscript for book . , the word ἀκμή (acme) is written as ἀκνή, the origin of the modern word acne.[ ] aëtius is recorded as having developed a concoction for contraception consisting of aloe, wallflower seed, pepper, and saffron. he is also known to have developed an abortifacient mixture, whose contents are not known.[ ] references[edit] 	^ mercuriale, girolamo ( ). de arte gymnastica. l. s. olschki. p.  . aetius of amida ( st half, ' century), greek galenist doctor, author of a major encyclopedia of extracts. 	^ greenhill, william alexander ( ). "aetius". in smith, william (ed.). dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology. . boston, ma. p.  . 	^ dunglison, robley ( ). history of medicine from the earliest ages to the commencement of the th century. philadelphia: lindsay and blakiston. p.  . 	^ colón, a. r.; colón, p. a. (january ). nurturing children: a history of pediatrics. greenwood press. p.  . isbn  . retrieved october . 	^ meade, richard hardaway ( ). an introduction to the history of general surgery. saunders. p.  . oclc  . aetius of amida, who lived in the sixth century a.d. and was the first greek physician who was a christian, had a chapter on aneurysms in his book on surgery. 	^ plant, ian michael ( ). women writers of ancient greece and rome: an anthology. university of oklahoma press. p.  . isbn  . aetius: a greek from amida (in mesopotamia), who wrote on philosophy in the mid- sixth century ad in alexandria. 	^ kueny, kathryn m. ( ). conceiving identities: maternity in medieval muslim discourse and practice. suny press. p.  . isbn  . greek physician aetius of amida (ca. sixth c. ce) likewise recommended rubbing an ointment made from pome— granate to prevent conception 	^ photius, cod. 	^ tetrab. iii. serm. i. , p. 	^ tetrab. ii. serm. iii. , p. 	^ alexander of tralles, xii. , p. 	^ see du cange, gloss. med. et inf. latin. 	^ tetrab. ii. serm. iv. , p. 	^ tetrab. iv. serm. m. , p. 	^ withington, edward theodore ( ). medical history from the earliest times: a popular history of the healing art. scientific press. p.  . aetius medical. 	^ lawrence, j.j. ( ). "medical brief". the medical brief: a monthly journal of scientific medicine and surgery. boston: harvard university. : . retrieved - - . 	^ kudlien, franz ( ). "aetius of amida". dictionary of scientific biography. . new york: charles scribner's sons. pp.  – . isbn  - - - . 	^ riddle, john m. 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once let in, he plays about the heartstrings".<ref group="nb">translated from persius' own 'satires' . – : "omne vafer vitium ridenti flaccus amico / tangit et admissus circum praecordia ludit."</ref> his career coincided with rome's momentous change from a [[republic]] to an [[empire]]. an officer in the republican army defeated at the [[battle of philippi]] in bc, he was befriended by octavian's right-hand man in civil affairs, [[maecenas]], and became a spokesman for the new regime. for some commentators, his association with the regime was a delicate balance in which he maintained a strong measure of independence (he was "a master of the graceful sidestep")<ref name="referencea">j. michie, ''the odes of horace'', </ref> but for others he was, in [[john dryden]]'s phrase, "a well-mannered court slave".<ref>n. rudd, ''the satires of horace and persius'', </ref><ref group="nb">quoted by [[niall rudd|n. rudd]] from john dryden's ''discourse concerning the original and progress of satire'', excerpted from w.p.ker's edition of dryden's essays, oxford , vol. , pp. – </ref> ==life== [[file:horatii flacci sermonum.tif|thumb|''[[horatii flacci sermonum]]'' ( )]] horace can be regarded as the world's first autobiographer.<ref>r. barrow r., ''the romans'' pelican books, </ref> in his writings, he tells us far more about himself, his character, his development, and his way of life, than any other great poet of antiquity. some of the biographical material contained in his work can be supplemented from the short but valuable "life of horace" by [[suetonius]] (in his ''lives of the poets'').<ref>fraenkel, eduard. ''horace.'' oxford: , p. .<br /> for the life of horace by suetonius, see: ([http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/ /pg .html ''vita horati''])</ref> ===childhood=== he was born on december bc<ref group="nb">the year is given in ''odes'' . . ([[lucius manlius torquatus|"consule manlio"]]), the month in ''epistles'' . . , the day in suetonius' biography ''vita'' (r. nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', )</ref> in the [[samnites|samnite]] south of [[italy (roman empire)|italy]].<ref>''brill's companion to horace'', edited by hans-christian günther, brill, , p. , [https://books.google.com/books?id=n b yuwxfm c&pg=pa google book]</ref> his home town, [[venosa|venusia]], lay on a trade route in the border region between [[apulia]] and [[lucania]] ([[basilicata]]). various italic dialects were spoken in the area and this perhaps enriched his feeling for language. he could have been familiar with greek words even as a young boy and later he poked fun at the jargon of mixed greek and oscan spoken in neighbouring [[canusium]].<ref>''satires'' . . </ref> one of the works he probably studied in school was the ''odyssia'' of [[livius andronicus]], taught by teachers like the '[[orbilius]]' mentioned in one of his poems.<ref>''epistles'' . . ff.</ref> army veterans could have been settled there at the expense of local families uprooted by rome as punishment for their part in the [[social war ( – bc)]].<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref> such state-sponsored migration must have added still more linguistic variety to the area. according to a local tradition reported by horace,<ref>''satires'' . . </ref> a colony of romans or latins had been installed in venusia after the [[samnites]] had been driven out early in the third century. in that case, young horace could have felt himself to be a roman<ref>t. frank, ''catullus and horace'', – </ref><ref>a. campbell, ''horace: a new interpretation'', </ref> though there are also indications that he regarded himself as a samnite or [[sabellus]] by birth.<ref>''epistles'' . . </ref><ref>r. nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', </ref> italians in modern and ancient times have always been devoted to their home towns, even after success in the wider world, and horace was no different. images of his childhood setting and references to it are found throughout his poems.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref> horace's father was probably a venutian taken captive by romans in the social war, or possibly he was descended from a [[sabine]] captured in the [[samnite wars]]. either way, he was a slave for at least part of his life. he was evidently a man of strong abilities however and managed to gain his freedom and improve his social position. thus horace claimed to be the free-born son of a prosperous 'coactor'.<ref name="kiernan">v. kiernan, ''horace: poetics and politics'', </ref> the term 'coactor' could denote various roles, such as tax collector, but its use by horace<ref>''satires'' . . </ref> was explained by [[scholia]] as a reference to 'coactor argentareus' i.e. an auctioneer with some of the functions of a banker, paying the seller out of his own funds and later recovering the sum with interest from the buyer.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref> the father spent a small fortune on his son's education, eventually accompanying him to [[rome]] to oversee his schooling and moral development. the poet later paid tribute to him in a poem<ref name="satires . ">''satires'' . </ref> that one modern scholar considers the best memorial by any son to his father.<ref group="nb">"no son ever set a finer monument to his father than horace did in the sixth satire of book i...horace's description of his father is warm-hearted but free from sentimentality or exaggeration. we see before us one of the common people, a hard-working, open-minded, and thoroughly honest man of simple habits and strict convictions, representing some of the best qualities that at the end of the republic could still be found in the unsophisticated society of the italian ''municipia''"&nbsp;{{emdash}}&nbsp;e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref> the poem includes this passage: <blockquote> if my character is flawed by a few minor faults, but is otherwise decent and moral, if you can point out only a few scattered blemishes on an otherwise immaculate surface, if no one can accuse me of greed, or of prurience, or of profligacy, if i live a virtuous life, free of defilement (pardon, for a moment, my self-praise), and if i am to my friends a good friend, my father deserves all the credit... as it is now, he deserves from me unstinting gratitude and praise. i could never be ashamed of such a father, nor do i feel any need, as many people do, to apologize for being a freedman's son. ''[[satire]]s . . – '' </blockquote> he never mentioned his mother in his verses and he might not have known much about her. perhaps she also had been a slave.<ref name="kiernan"/> ===adulthood=== horace left rome, possibly after his father's death, and continued his formal education in athens, a great centre of learning in the ancient world, where he arrived at nineteen years of age, enrolling in [[platonic academy|the academy]]. founded by [[plato]], the academy was now dominated by [[epicureans]] and [[stoics]], whose theories and practises made a deep impression on the young man from venusia.<ref>v. kiernan, ''horace: poetics and politics'', </ref> meanwhile, he mixed and lounged about with the elite of roman youth, such as marcus, the idle son of [[cicero]], and the pompeius to whom he later addressed a poem.<ref>''odes'' . </ref> it was in athens too that he probably acquired deep familiarity with the ancient tradition of greek lyric poetry, at that time largely the preserve of grammarians and academic specialists (access to such material was easier in athens than in rome, where the public libraries had yet to be built by [[asinius pollio]] and augustus).<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref> rome's troubles following the assassination of [[julius caesar]] were soon to catch up with him. [[marcus junius brutus]] came to athens seeking support for the republican cause. brutus was fêted around town in grand receptions and he made a point of attending academic lectures, all the while recruiting supporters among the young men studying there, including horace.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref> an educated young roman could begin military service high in the ranks and horace was made [[tribunus militum]] (one of six senior officers of a typical legion), a post usually reserved for men of senatorial or equestrian rank and which seems to have inspired jealousy among his well-born confederates.<ref>''satires'' . . </ref><ref name="nisbet">r. nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', </ref> he learned the basics of military life while on the march, particularly in the wilds of northern greece, whose rugged scenery became a backdrop to some of his later poems.<ref>v. kiernan, ''horace'', </ref> it was there in bc that [[octavian]] (later [[augustus]]) and his associate [[mark antony]] crushed the republican forces at the [[battle of philippi]]. horace later recorded it as a day of embarrassment for himself, when he fled without his shield,<ref>''odes'' . . </ref> but allowance should be made for his self-deprecating humour. moreover, the incident allowed him to identify himself with some famous poets who had long ago abandoned their shields in battle, notably his heroes [[alcaeus of mytilene|alcaeus]] and [[archilochus]]. the comparison with the latter poet is uncanny: archilochus lost his shield in a part of thrace near philippi, and he was deeply involved in the greek colonization of [[thasos]], where horace's die-hard comrades finally surrendered.<ref name="nisbet"/> octavian offered an early amnesty to his opponents and horace quickly accepted it. on returning to italy, he was confronted with yet another loss: his father's estate in venusia was one of many throughout italy to be confiscated for the settlement of veterans ([[virgil]] lost his estate in the north about the same time). horace later claimed that he was reduced to poverty and this led him to try his hand at poetry.<ref>''epistles'' . . – </ref> in reality, there was no money to be had from versifying. at best, it offered future prospects through contacts with other poets and their patrons among the rich.<ref>v. kiernan, ''horace: poetics and politics''</ref> meanwhile, he obtained the sinecure of ''scriba quaestorius'', a civil service position at the ''aerarium'' or treasury, profitable enough to be purchased even by members of the ''ordo equester'' and not very demanding in its work-load, since tasks could be delegated to ''scribae'' or permanent clerks.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref> it was about this time that he began writing his ''satires'' and ''epodes''. ====poet==== [[file:fedor bronnikov .jpg|thumb|horace reads before maecenas, by [[fyodor bronnikov]]]] the ''epodes'' belong to [[iambic poetry]]. iambic poetry features insulting and obscene language;<ref>christopher brown, in ''a companion to the greek lyric poets'', d.e. gerber (ed), leiden , pages – </ref><ref>douglas e. gerber, ''greek iambic poetry'', loeb classical library ( ), introduction pages i–iv</ref> sometimes, it is referred to as ''blame poetry''.<ref>d. mankin, ''horace: epodes'', c.u.p., </ref> ''blame poetry'', or ''shame poetry'', is poetry written to blame and shame fellow citizens into a sense of their social obligations. horace modelled these poems on the poetry of [[archilochus]]. social bonds in rome had been decaying since the destruction of [[carthage]] a little more than a hundred years earlier, due to the vast wealth that could be gained by plunder and corruption.<ref>d. mankin, ''horace: epodes'', </ref> these social ills were magnified by rivalry between julius caesar, mark antony and confederates like [[sextus pompey]], all jockeying for a bigger share of the spoils. one modern scholar has counted a dozen civil wars in the hundred years leading up to bc, including the [[spartacus]] rebellion, eight years before horace's birth.<ref>r. conway, ''new studies of a great inheritance'', – </ref> as the heirs to hellenistic culture, horace and his fellow romans were not well prepared to deal with these problems: {{quotation|at bottom, all the problems that the times were stirring up were of a social nature, which the hellenistic thinkers were ill qualified to grapple with. some of them censured oppression of the poor by the rich, but they gave no practical lead, though they may have hoped to see well-meaning rulers doing so. philosophy was drifting into absorption in self, a quest for private contentedness, to be achieved by self-control and restraint, without much regard for the fate of a disintegrating community.|[[v. g. kiernan]]<ref>v. kiernan, ''horace: poetics and politics'', – </ref>}} horace's hellenistic background is clear in his satires, even though the genre was unique to latin literature. he brought to it a style and outlook suited to the social and ethical issues confronting rome but he changed its role from public, social engagement to private meditation.<ref>f. muecke, ''the satires'', – </ref> meanwhile, he was beginning to interest octavian's supporters, a gradual process described by him in one of his satires.<ref name="satires . "/> the way was opened for him by his friend, the poet virgil, who had gained admission into the privileged circle around maecenas, octavian's lieutenant, following the success of his ''[[eclogues]]''. an introduction soon followed and, after a discreet interval, horace too was accepted. he depicted the process as an honourable one, based on merit and mutual respect, eventually leading to true friendship, and there is reason to believe that his relationship was genuinely friendly, not just with maecenas but afterwards with augustus as well.<ref>r. lyne, ''augustan poetry and society'', </ref> on the other hand, the poet has been unsympathetically described by one scholar as "a sharp and rising young man, with an eye to the main chance."<ref>j. griffin, ''horace in the thirties'', </ref> there were advantages on both sides: horace gained encouragement and material support, the politicians gained a hold on a potential dissident.<ref name="referenceb">r. nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', </ref> his republican sympathies, and his role at philippi, may have caused him some pangs of remorse over his new status. however most romans considered the civil wars to be the result of ''contentio dignitatis'', or rivalry between the foremost families of the city, and he too seems to have accepted the principate as rome's last hope for much needed peace.<ref>d. mankin, ''horace: epodes'', </ref> in bc, horace accompanied maecenas on a journey to [[brundisium]], described in one of his poems<ref>''satires'' . </ref> as a series of amusing incidents and charming encounters with other friends along the way, such as virgil. in fact the journey was political in its motivation, with maecenas en route to negotiatie the [[treaty of tarentum]] with antony, a fact horace artfully keeps from the reader (political issues are largely avoided in the first book of satires).<ref name="referenceb"/> horace was probably also with maecenas on one of octavian's naval expeditions against the piratical sextus pompeius, which ended in a disastrous storm off [[palinurus]] in bc, briefly alluded to by horace in terms of near-drowning.<ref>''odes'' . . </ref><ref group="nb">''odes'' . . : "nec (me extinxit) sicula palinurus unda"; "nor did palinurus extinguish me with sicilian waters". maecenas' involvement is recorded by [[appian]] ''bell. civ.'' . but horace's ode is the only historical reference to his own presence there, depending however on interpretation. (r. nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', )</ref> there are also some indications in his verses that he was with maecenas at the [[battle of actium]] in bc, where octavian defeated his great rival, antony.<ref>''epodes'' and </ref><ref group="nb">the point is much disputed among scholars and hinges on how the text is interpreted. ''epodes'' for example may offer proof of horace's presence if 'ad hunc frementis' ('gnashing at this' man i.e. the traitrous roman ) is a misreading of 'at huc...verterent' (but hither...they fled) in lines describing the defection of the galatian cavalry, "ad hunc frementis verterunt bis mille equos / galli canentes caesarem" (r. nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', ).</ref> by then horace had already received from maecenas the famous gift of his [[horace's villa|sabine farm]], probably not long after the publication of the first book of ''satires''. the gift, which included income from five tenants, may have ended his career at the treasury, or at least allowed him to give it less time and energy.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', </ref> it signalled his identification with the octavian regime yet, in the second book of ''satires'' that soon followed, he continued the apolitical stance of the first book. by this time, he had attained the status of ''eques romanus'',<ref>''satires'' . . </ref> perhaps as a result of his work at the treasury.<ref>r. nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', </ref> ====knight==== ''odes'' – were the next focus for his artistic creativity. he adapted their forms and themes from greek lyric poetry of the seventh and sixth centuries bc. the fragmented nature of the [[greek world]] had enabled his literary heroes to express themselves freely and his semi-retirement from the treasury in rome to [[horace's villa|his own estate]] in the sabine hills perhaps empowered him to some extent also<ref>v. kiernan, ''horace: poetics and politics'', – </ref> yet even when his lyrics touched on public affairs they reinforced the importance of private life.<ref name="referencea"/> nevertheless, his work in the period – bc began to show his closeness to the regime and his sensitivity to its developing ideology. in ''odes'' . , for example, he eulogized octavian in hyperboles that echo hellenistic court poetry. the name ''augustus'', which octavian assumed in january bc, is first attested in ''odes'' . and . . in the period – bc, political allusions in the ''odes'' concentrated on foreign wars in britain ( . ), arabia ( . ) spain ( . ) and parthia ( . ). he greeted augustus on his return to rome in bc as a beloved ruler upon whose good health he depended for his own happiness ( . ).<ref>r. nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', </ref> the public reception of ''odes'' – disappointed him, however. he attributed the lack of success to jealousy among imperial courtiers and to his isolation from literary cliques.<ref>''epistles'' . . – </ref> perhaps it was disappointment that led him to put aside the genre in favour of verse letters. he addressed his first book of ''epistles'' to a variety of friends and acquaintances in an urbane style reflecting his new social status as a knight. in the opening poem, he professed a deeper interest in moral philosophy than poetry<ref>''epistles'' . . </ref> but, though the collection demonstrates a leaning towards stoic theory, it reveals no sustained thinking about ethics.<ref>v. kiernan, ''horace: poetics and politics'', , </ref> maecenas was still the dominant confidante but horace had now begun to assert his own independence, suavely declining constant invitations to attend his patron.<ref>''epistles'' . </ref> in the final poem of the first book of ''epistles'', he revealed himself to be forty-four years old in the consulship of lollius and lepidus i.e. bc, and "of small stature, fond of the sun, prematurely grey, quick-tempered but easily placated".<ref>''epistles'' . . – </ref><ref>r. nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', – </ref> according to suetonius, the second book of ''epistles'' was prompted by augustus, who desired a verse epistle to be addressed to himself. augustus was in fact a prolific letter-writer and he once asked horace to be his personal secretary. horace refused the secretarial role but complied with the emperor's request for a verse letter.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref> the letter to augustus may have been slow in coming, being published possibly as late as bc. it celebrated, among other things, the bc military victories of his stepsons, drusus and tiberius, yet it and the following letter<ref>''epistles'' . </ref> were largely devoted to literary theory and criticism. the literary theme was explored still further in ''ars poetica'', published separately but written in the form of an epistle and sometimes referred to as ''epistles'' . (possibly the last poem he ever wrote).<ref>r. ferri, ''the epistles'', </ref> he was also commissioned to write odes commemorating the victories of drusus and tiberius<ref>''odes'' . and . </ref> and one to be sung in a temple of apollo for the [[secular games]], a long-abandoned festival that augustus revived in accordance with his policy of recreating ancient customs (''carmen saeculare''). suetonius recorded some gossip about horace's sexual activities late in life, claiming that the walls of his bedchamber were covered with obscene pictures and mirrors, so that he saw erotica wherever he looked.<ref group="nb">suetonius signals that the report is based on rumours by employing the terms "traditur...dicitur" / "it is reported...it is said" (e. fraenkel, ''horace'', )</ref> the poet died at years of age, not long after his friend maecenas, near whose tomb he was laid to rest. both men bequeathed their property to augustus, an honour that the emperor expected of his friends.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', </ref> ==works== [[image:horatius - boek i ode xiv - cleveringaplaats , leiden.jpg|thumb|''odes'' . – [[wall poems in leiden|wall poem in leiden]] ]] the dating of horace's works isn't known precisely and scholars often debate the exact order in which they were first 'published'. there are persuasive arguments for the following chronology:<ref>r nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', – </ref> * ''[[satires (horace)|satires ]]'' (c. – bc) * ''[[satires (horace)|satires ]]'' (c. bc) * ''[[epodes (horace)|epodes]]'' ( bc) * ''[[odes (horace)|odes – ]]'' (c. bc)<ref group="nb">according to a recent theory, the three books of ''odes'' were issued separately, possibly in , and bc (see g. hutchinson ( ), ''classical quarterly'' : – )</ref> * ''[[epistles (horace)|epistles ]]'' (c. bc) * ''[[carmen saeculare]]'' ( bc) * ''[[epistles (horace)|epistles ]]'' (c. bc)<ref group="nb"> bc is the usual estimate but c. bc has good support too (see r. nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', – </ref> * ''[[odes (horace)|odes ]]'' (c. bc) * ''[[ars poetica (horace)|ars poetica]]'' (c. – bc)<ref group="nb">the date however is subject to much controversy with – bc another option (see for example r. syme, ''the augustan aristocracy'', – </ref> ===historical context=== horace composed in traditional [[meter (poetry)|metres]] borrowed from [[archaic greece]], employing [[hexameter]]s in his ''satires'' and ''epistles'', and [[iamb (poetry)|iambs]] in his ''epodes'', all of which were relatively easy to adapt into [[prosody (latin)|latin forms]]. his ''odes'' featured more complex measures, including [[alcaic verse|alcaics]] and [[sapphic stanza|sapphics]], which were sometimes a difficult fit for latin structure and [[syntax]]. despite these traditional metres, he presented himself as a partisan in the development of a new and sophisticated style. he was influenced in particular by [[hellenistic poetry|hellenistic]] aesthetics of brevity, elegance and polish, as modelled in the work of [[callimachus]].<ref>s. harrison, ''style and poetic texture'', </ref> {{quotation|as soon as horace, stirred by his own genius and encouraged by the example of virgil, varius, and perhaps some other poets of the same generation, had determined to make his fame as a poet, being by temperament a fighter, he wanted to fight against all kinds of prejudice, amateurish slovenliness, philistinism, reactionary tendencies, in short to fight for the new and noble type of poetry which he and his friends were endeavouring to bring about.|[[eduard fraenkel]]<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref>}} in modern literary theory, a distinction is often made between immediate personal experience (''urerlebnis'') and experience mediated by cultural vectors such as literature, philosophy and the visual arts (''bildungserlebnis'').<ref>{{cite book|last =gundolf|first =friedrich|title=goethe|date= |publisher=bondi|location=berlin, germany}}</ref> the distinction has little relevance for horace{{citation needed|date=august }} however since his personal and literary experiences are implicated in each other. ''satires'' . , for example, recounts in detail a real trip horace made with virgil and some of his other literary friends, and which parallels a satire by [[gaius lucilius|lucilius]], his predecessor.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref> unlike much hellenistic-inspired literature, however, his poetry was not composed for a small coterie of admirers and fellow poets, nor does it rely on abstruse allusions for many of its effects. though elitist in its literary standards, it was written for a wide audience, as a public form of art.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', </ref> ambivalence also characterizes his literary persona, since his presentation of himself as part of a small community of philosophically aware people, seeking true peace of mind while shunning vices like greed, was well adapted to augustus's plans to reform public morality, corrupted by greed—his personal plea for moderation was part of the emperor's grand message to the nation.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref> horace generally followed the examples of poets established as classics in different genres, such as [[archilochus]] in the ''epodes'', lucilius in the ''satires'' and [[alcaeus of mytilene|alcaeus]] in the ''odes'', later broadening his scope for the sake of variation and because his models weren't actually suited to the realities confronting him. archilochus and alcaeus were aristocratic greeks whose poetry had a social and religious function that was immediately intelligible to their audiences but which became a mere artifice or literary motif when transposed to rome. however, the artifice of the ''odes'' is also integral to their success, since they could now accommodate a wide range of emotional effects, and the blend of greek and roman elements adds a sense of detachment and universality.<ref>j. griffin, ''gods and religion'', </ref> horace proudly claimed to introduce into latin the spirit and iambic poetry of archilochus but (unlike archilochus) without persecuting anyone (''epistles'' . . – ). it was no idle boast. his ''epodes'' were modelled on the verses of the greek poet, as 'blame poetry', yet he avoided targeting real [[scapegoat]]s. whereas archilochus presented himself as a serious and vigorous opponent of wrong-doers, horace aimed for comic effects and adopted the persona of a weak and ineffectual critic of his times (as symbolized for example in his surrender to the witch canidia in the final epode).<ref>s. harrison, ''lyric and iambic'', </ref> he also claimed to be the first to introduce into latin the lyrical methods of alcaeus (''epistles'' . . – ) and he actually was the first latin poet to make consistent use of alcaic meters and themes: love, politics and the [[symposium]]. he imitated other greek lyric poets as well, employing a 'motto' technique, beginning each ode with some reference to a greek original and then diverging from it.<ref>s. harrison, ''lyric and iambic'', – </ref> the satirical poet lucilius was a senator's son who could castigate his peers with impunity. horace was a mere freedman's son who had to tread carefully.<ref name="e. fraenkel, horace, , ">e. fraenkel, ''horace'', , </ref> lucilius was a rugged patriot and a significant voice in roman self-awareness, endearing himself to his countrymen by his blunt frankness and explicit politics. his work expressed genuine freedom or [[libertas]]. his style included 'metrical vandalism' and looseness of structure. horace instead adopted an oblique and ironic style of satire, ridiculing stock characters and anonymous targets. his libertas was the private freedom of a philosophical outlook, not a political or social privilege.<ref>l. morgan, ''satire'', – </ref> his ''satires'' are relatively easy-going in their use of meter (relative to the tight lyric meters of the ''odes'')<ref>s. harrison, ''style and poetic texture'', </ref> but formal and highly controlled relative to the poems of lucilius, whom horace mocked for his sloppy standards (''satires'' . . – )<ref group="nb">"[lucilius]...resembles a man whose only concern is to force / something into the framework of six feet, and who gaily produces / two hundred lines before dinner and another two hundred after."{{spaced ndash}}''satire'' . . – (translated by [[niall rudd]], ''the satires of horace and persius'', penguin classics , p. )</ref> the ''epistles'' may be considered among horace's most innovative works. there was nothing like it in greek or roman literature. occasionally poems had had some resemblance to letters, including an elegiac poem from [[solon]] to [[mimnermus]] and some lyrical poems from [[pindar]] to [[hieron of syracuse]]. lucilius had composed a satire in the form of a letter, and some epistolary poems were composed by [[catullus]] and [[propertius]]. but nobody before horace had ever composed an entire collection of verse letters,<ref>r. ferri, ''the epistles'', pp. – </ref> let alone letters with a focus on philosophical problems. the sophisticated and flexible style that he had developed in his ''satires'' was adapted to the more serious needs of this new genre.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', p. </ref> such refinement of style was not unusual for horace. his craftsmanship as a wordsmith is apparent even in his earliest attempts at this or that kind of poetry, but his handling of each genre tended to improve over time as he adapted it to his own needs.<ref name="e. fraenkel, horace, , "/> thus for example it is generally agreed that his second book of ''satires'', where human folly is revealed through dialogue between characters, is superior to the first, where he propounds his ethics in monologues. nevertheless, the first book includes some of his most popular poems.<ref>v. kiernan, ''horace: poetics and politics'', </ref> ===themes=== horace developed a number of inter-related themes throughout his poetic career, including politics, love, philosophy and ethics, his own social role, as well as poetry itself. his ''epodes'' and ''satires'' are forms of 'blame poetry' and both have a natural affinity with the moralising and diatribes of [[cynicism (philosophy)|cynicism]]. this often takes the form of allusions to the work and philosophy of [[bion of borysthenes]] <ref group="nb">there is one reference to bion by name in ''epistles'' . . , and the clearest allusion to him is in ''satire'' . , which parallels bion fragments , , ''kindstrand''</ref> but it is as much a literary game as a philosophical alignment. by the time he composed his ''epistles'', he was a critic of [[cynicism (philosophy)|cynicism]] along with all impractical and "high-falutin" philosophy in general.<ref group="nb">''epistles'' . and . . – are critical of the extreme views of [[diogenes]] and also of social adaptations of cynic precepts, and yet ''epistle'' . could be either cynic or stoic in its orientation (j. moles, ''philosophy and ethics'', p. </ref><ref>j. moles, ''philosophy and ethics'', pp. – , </ref> the ''satires'' also include a strong element of [[epicureanism]], with frequent allusions to the epicurean poet [[lucretius]].<ref group="nb">''satires'' . . – , – , . . – , . . – , – , . . , – , . . – , . . – , , . . – </ref> so for example the epicurean sentiment ''[[carpe diem]]'' is the inspiration behind horace's repeated punning on his own name (''horatius ~ hora'') in ''satires'' . .<ref>k. j. reckford, ''some studies in horace's odes on love''</ref> the ''satires'' also feature some [[stoicism|stoic]], [[peripatetic school|peripatetic]] and [[platonic dialogues|platonic]] (''dialogues'') elements. in short, the ''satires'' present a medley of philosophical programs, dished up in no particular order—a style of argument typical of the [[satires (horace)|genre]].<ref>j. moles, ''philosophy and ethics'', p. </ref> the ''odes'' display a wide range of topics. over time, he becomes more confident about his political voice.<ref>santirocco "unity and design", lowrie "horace's narrative odes"</ref> although he is often thought of as an overly intellectual lover, he is ingenious in representing passion.<ref>ancona, "time and the erotic"</ref> the "odes" weave various philosophical strands together, with allusions and statements of doctrine present in about a third of the ''odes'' books – , ranging from the flippant ( . , . ) to the solemn ( . , . , . ). [[epicureanism]] is the dominant influence, characterizing about twice as many of these odes as stoicism. a group of odes combines these two influences in tense relationships, such as ''odes'' . , praising stoic virility and devotion to public duty while also advocating private pleasures among friends. while generally favouring the epicurean lifestyle, the lyric poet is as eclectic as the satiric poet, and in ''odes'' . even proposes aristotle's [[golden mean (philosophy)|golden mean]] as a remedy for rome's political troubles.<ref>j. moles, ''philosophy and ethics'', pp. – </ref> many of horace's poems also contain much reflection on genre, the lyric tradition, and the function of poetry.<ref>davis "polyhymnia" and lowrie "horace's narrative odes"</ref> ''odes'' , thought to be composed at the emperor's request, takes the themes of the first three books of "odes" to a new level. this book shows greater poetic confidence after the public performance of his "carmen saeculare" or "century hymn" at a public festival orchestrated by augustus. in it, horace addresses the emperor augustus directly with more confidence and proclaims his power to grant poetic immortality to those he praises. it is the least philosophical collection of his verses, excepting the twelfth ode, addressed to the dead virgil as if he were living. in that ode, the epic poet and the lyric poet are aligned with [[stoicism]] and [[epicureanism]] respectively, in a mood of bitter-sweet pathos.<ref>j. moles, ''philosophy and ethics'', p. </ref> the first poem of the ''epistles'' sets the philosophical tone for the rest of the collection: "so now i put aside both verses and all those other games: what is true and what befits is my care, this my question, this my whole concern." his poetic renunciation of poetry in favour of philosophy is intended to be ambiguous. ambiguity is the hallmark of the ''epistles''. it is uncertain if those being addressed by the self-mocking poet-philosopher are being honoured or criticized. though he emerges as an [[epicureanism|epicurean]], it is on the understanding that philosophical preferences, like political and social choices, are a matter of personal taste. thus he depicts the ups and downs of the philosophical life more realistically than do most philosophers.<ref>j. moles, ''philosophy and ethics'', pp. – </ref> ==reception== [[file:quinto orazio flacco.jpg|thumb|horace, portrayed by [[giacomo di chirico]]]] the reception of horace's work has varied from one epoch to another and varied markedly even in his own lifetime. ''odes'' – were not well received when first 'published' in rome, yet augustus later commissioned a ceremonial ode for the centennial games in bc and also encouraged the publication of ''odes'' , after which horace's reputation as rome's premier lyricist was assured. his odes were to become the best received of all his poems in ancient times, acquiring a classic status that discouraged imitation: no other poet produced a comparable body of lyrics in the four centuries that followed<ref>r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', </ref> (though that might also be attributed to social causes, particularly the parasitism that italy was sinking into).<ref>v. kiernan, ''horace: poetics and politics'', </ref> in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, ode-writing became highly fashionable in england and a large number of aspiring poets imitated horace both in english and in latin.<ref>d. money, ''the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'', , </ref> in a verse epistle to augustus (epistle . ), in bc, horace argued for classic status to be awarded to contemporary poets, including virgil and apparently himself.<ref>r. lyme, ''augustan poetry and society'', </ref> in the final poem of his third book of odes he claimed to have created for himself a monument more durable than bronze ("exegi monumentum aere perennius", ''[[carmina]]'' . . ). for one modern scholar, however, horace's personal qualities are more notable than the monumental quality of his achievement: {{quote|... when we hear his name we don't really think of a monument. we think rather of a voice which varies in tone and resonance but is always recognizable, and which by its unsentimental humanity evokes a very special blend of liking and respect.|[[niall rudd]]<ref>[[niall rudd]], ''the satires of horace and persius'', </ref>}} yet for men like [[wilfred owen]], scarred by experiences of world war i, his poetry stood for discredited values: {{poemquote| my friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old lie: dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.<ref group="nb">wilfred owen, ''[[dulce et decorum est]]'' ( ), echoes a line from ''carmina'' . . , "it is sweet and honourable to die for one's country", cited by stephen harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', .</ref> }} the same motto, ''[[dulce et decorum est pro patria mori]]'', had been adapted to the ethos of martyrdom in the lyrics of early christian poets like [[prudentius]].<ref>r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', – </ref> these preliminary comments touch on a small sample of developments in the reception of horace's work. more developments are covered epoch by epoch in the following sections. ===antiquity=== horace's influence can be observed in the work of his near contemporaries, [[ovid]] and [[propertius]]. ovid followed his example in creating a completely natural style of expression in hexameter verse, and propertius cheekily mimicked him in his third book of elegies.<ref group="nb">propertius published his third book of elegies within a year or two of horace's odes – and mimicked him, for example, in the opening lines, characterizing himself in terms borrowed from odes . . and . . – , as a priest of the muses and as an adaptor of greek forms of poetry (r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', )</ref> his ''epistles'' provided them both with a model for their own verse letters and it also shaped ovid's exile poetry.<ref group="nb">ovid for example probably borrowed from horace's ''epistle'' . the image of a poetry book as a slave boy eager to leave home, adapting it to the opening poems of ''tristia'' and (r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace''), and ''tristia'' may be understood as a counterpart to horace's ''epistles'' . , both being letters addressed to augustus on literary themes (a. barchiesi, ''speaking volumes'', – )</ref> his influence had a perverse aspect. as mentioned before, the brilliance of his ''odes'' may have discouraged imitation. conversely, they may have created a vogue for the lyrics of the archaic greek poet [[pindar]], due to the fact that horace had neglected that style of lyric (see [[pindar#influence and legacy|influence and legacy of pindar]]).<ref>r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, </ref> the iambic genre seems almost to have disappeared after publication of horace's ''epodes''. ovid's ''ibis'' was a rare attempt at the form but it was inspired mainly by [[callimachus]], and there are some iambic elements in [[martial]] but the main influence there was [[catullus]].<ref>r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', </ref> a revival of popular interest in the satires of lucilius may have been inspired by horace's criticism of his unpolished style. both horace and lucilius were considered good role-models by [[persius]], who critiqued his own satires as lacking both the acerbity of lucillius and the gentler touch of horace.<ref group="nb">the comment is in persius . – , yet that same satire has been found to have nearly reminiscences of horace; see d. hooley, ''the knotted thong'', </ref> [[juvenal]]'s caustic satire was influenced mainly by lucilius but horace by then was a school classic and juvenal could refer to him respectfully and in a round-about way as "''the venusine lamp''".<ref group="nb">the allusion to ''venusine'' comes via horace's ''sermones'' . . , while ''lamp'' signifies the lucubrations of a conscientious poet. according to quintilian ( ), however, many people in flavian rome preferred lucilius not only to horace but to all other latin poets (r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', )</ref> [[statius]] paid homage to horace by composing one poem in sapphic and one in alcaic meter (the verse forms most often associated with ''odes''), which he included in his collection of occasional poems, ''silvae''. ancient scholars wrote commentaries on the lyric meters of the ''odes'', including the scholarly poet [[caesius bassus]]. by a process called ''derivatio'', he varied established meters through the addition or omission of syllables, a technique borrowed by [[seneca the younger]] when adapting horatian meters to the stage.<ref>r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', – </ref> horace's poems continued to be school texts into late antiquity. works attributed to [[helenius acro]] and [[pomponius porphyrio]] are the remnants of a much larger body of horatian scholarship. porphyrio arranged the poems in non-chronological order, beginning with the ''odes'', because of their general popularity and their appeal to scholars (the ''odes'' were to retain this privileged position in the medieval manuscript tradition and thus in modern editions also). horace was often evoked by poets of the fourth century, such as [[ausonius]] and [[claudian]]. [[prudentius]] presented himself as a christian horace, adapting horatian meters to his own poetry and giving horatian motifs a christian tone.<ref group="nb">prudentius sometimes alludesto the ''odes'' in a negative context, as expressions of a secular life he is abandoning. thus for example ''male pertinax'', employed in prudentius's ''praefatio'' to describe a willful desire for victory, is lifted from ''odes'' . . , where it describes a girl's half-hearted resistance to seduction. elsewhere he borrows ''dux bone'' from ''odes'' . . and , where it refers to augustus, and applies it to christ (r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', </ref> on the other hand, [[st jerome]], modelled an uncompromising response to the pagan horace, observing: "''what harmony can there be between christ and the devil? what has horace to do with the psalter?''"<ref group="nb">st jerome, ''epistles'' . , incorporating a quote from '' 'corinthians'' . : ''qui consensus christo et belial? quid facit cum psalterio horatius?''(cited by k. friis-jensen, ''horace in the middle ages'', )</ref> by the early sixth century, horace and prudentius were both part of a classical heritage that was struggling to survive the disorder of the times. [[boethius]], the last major author of classical latin literature, could still take inspiration from horace, sometimes mediated by senecan tragedy.<ref name="tarrant">r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', </ref> it can be argued that horace's influence extended beyond poetry to dignify core themes and values of the early christian era, such as self-sufficiency, inner contentment and courage.<ref group="nb">''odes'' . . – was especially influential in promoting the value of heroic calm in the face of danger, describing a man who could bear even the collapse of the world without fear (''si fractus illabatur orbis,/impavidum ferient ruinae''). echoes are found in seneca's ''agamemnon'' – , prudentius's ''peristephanon'' . – and boethius's ''consolatio'' metrum .(r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', – )</ref> ===middle ages and renaissance=== [[file:horaz beim studium.jpg|thumb|horace in his studium: german print of the fifteenth century, summarizing the final [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber iv/carmen xv|ode . ]] (in praise of augustus).]] classical texts almost ceased being copied in the period between the mid sixth century and the [[carolingian renaissance|carolingian revival]]. horace's work probably survived in just two or three books imported into northern europe from italy. these became the ancestors of six extant manuscripts dated to the ninth century. two of those six manuscripts are french in origin, one was produced in [[alsace]], and the other three show irish influence but were probably written in continental monasteries ([[lombardy]] for example).<ref>r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', – </ref> by the last half of the ninth century, it was not uncommon for literate people to have direct experience of horace's poetry. his influence on the [[carolingian renaissance]] can be found in the poems of [[heiric of auxerre]]<ref group="nb">heiric, like prudentius, gave horatian motifs a christian context. thus the character lydia in ''odes'' . . , who would willingly die for her lover twice, becomes in heiric's ''life'' of st germaine of auxerre a saint ready to die twice for the lord's commandments (r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', – )</ref> and in some manuscripts marked with [[neumes]], mysterious notations that may have been an aid to the memorization and discussion of his lyric meters. ''ode'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber iv/carmen xi| . ]] is neumed with the melody of a hymn to john the baptist, ''[[ut queant laxis]]'', composed in [[sapphic stanza]]s. this hymn later became the basis of the [[solfege]] system (''do, re, mi...''){{emdash}}an association with western music quite appropriate for a lyric poet like horace, though the language of the hymn is mainly prudentian.<ref>r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', – </ref> lyons<ref>stuart lyons, horace's odes and the mystery of do-re-mi</ref> argues that the melody in question was linked with horace's ode well before guido d'arezzo fitted [[ut queant laxis]] to it. however, the melody is unlikely to be a survivor from classical times, although ovid<ref>tristia, . . – </ref> testifies to horace's use of the lyre while performing his odes. the german scholar, [[ludwig traube (palaeographer)|ludwig traube]], once dubbed the tenth and eleventh centuries ''the age of horace'' (''aetas horatiana''), and placed it between the ''aetas vergiliana'' of the eighth and ninth centuries, and the ''aetas ovidiana'' of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a distinction supposed to reflect the dominant classical latin influences of those times. such a distinction is over-schematized since horace was a substantial influence in the ninth century as well. traube had focused too much on horace's ''satires''.<ref>b. bischoff, ''living with the satirists'', – </ref> almost all of horace's work found favour in the medieval period. in fact medieval scholars were also guilty of over-schematism, associating horace's different genres with the different ages of man. a twelfth-century scholar encapsulated the theory: "...horace wrote four different kinds of poems on account of the four ages, the ''odes'' for boys, the ''ars poetica'' for young men, the ''satires'' for mature men, the ''epistles'' for old and complete men."<ref>k. friis-jensen,''horace in the middle ages'', </ref> it was even thought that horace had composed his works in the order in which they had been placed by ancient scholars.<ref group="nb">according to a medieval french commentary on the ''satires'': "...first he composed his lyrics, and in them, speaking to the young, as it were, he took as subject-matter love affairs and quarrels, banquets and drinking parties. next he wrote his ''epodes'', and in them composed invectives against men of a more advanced and more dishonourable age...he next wrote his book about the ''ars poetica'', and in that instructed men of his own profession to write well...later he added his book of ''satires'', in which he reproved those who had fallen a prey to various kinds of vices. finally, he finished his oeuvre with the ''epistles'', and in them, following the method of a good farmer, he sowed the virtues where he had rooted out the vices." (cited by k. friis-jensen, ''horace in the middle ages'', – )</ref> despite its naivety, the schematism involved an appreciation of horace's works as a collection, the ''ars poetica'', ''satires'' and ''epistles'' appearing to find favour as well as the ''odes''. the later middle ages however gave special significance to ''satires'' and ''epistles'', being considered horace's mature works. [[dante]] referred to horace as ''orazio satiro'', and he awarded him a privileged position in the first circle of hell, with [[homer]], ovid and [[lucan]].<ref>k. friis-jensen, ''horace in the middle ages'', , </ref> horace's popularity is revealed in the large number of quotes from all his works found in almost every genre of medieval literature, and also in the number of poets imitating him in [[prosody (latin)#two rhythms|quantitative latin meter]]. the most prolific imitator of his ''odes'' was the bavarian monk, [[metellus of tegernsee]], who dedicated his work to the patron saint of [[tegernsee abbey]], [[quirinus of tegernsee|st quirinus]], around the year . he imitated all horace's lyrical meters then followed these up with imitations of other meters used by prudentius and boethius, indicating that variety, as first modelled by horace, was considered a fundamental aspect of the lyric genre. the content of his poems however was restricted to simple piety.<ref>k. friis-jensen, ''horace in the middle ages'', – </ref> among the most successful imitators of ''satires'' and ''epistles'' was another germanic author, calling himself [[sextus amarcius]], around , who composed four books, the first two exemplifying vices, the second pair mainly virtues.<ref>k. friis-jensen, ''horace in the middle ages'', </ref> [[petrarch]] is a key figure in the imitation of horace in accentual meters. his verse letters in latin were modelled on the ''epistles'' and he wrote a letter to horace in the form of an ode. however he also borrowed from horace when composing his italian sonnets. one modern scholar has speculated that authors who imitated horace in accentual rhythms (including stressed latin and vernacular languages) may have considered their work a natural sequel to horace's metrical variety.<ref>k. friis-jensen, ''horace in the middle ages'', </ref> in france, horace and [[pindar]] were the poetic models for a group of vernacular authors called the [[pléiade]], including for example [[pierre de ronsard]] and [[joachim du bellay]]. [[montaigne]] made constant and inventive use of horatian quotes.<ref>michael mcgann, ''horace in the renaissance'', </ref> the vernacular languages were dominant in spain and portugal in the sixteenth century, where horace's influence is notable in the works of such authors as [[garcilaso de la vega (poet)|garcilaso de la vega]], [[juan boscán]], [[sá de miranda]], [[antonio ferreira]] and [[fray luis de león]], the last writing odes on the horatian theme ''beatus ille'' (''happy the man'').<ref>e. rivers, ''fray luis de león: the original poems''</ref> the sixteenth century in western europe was also an age of translations (except in germany, where horace wasn't translated into the vernacular until well into the seventeenth century). the first english translator was [[thomas drant]], who placed translations of [[jeremiah]] and horace side by side in ''medicinable morall'', . that was also the year that the scot [[george buchanan]] paraphrased the [[psalms]] in a horatian setting. [[ben jonson]] put horace on the stage in in ''[[poetaster (play)|poetaster]]'', along with other classical latin authors, giving them all their own verses to speak in translation. horace's part evinces the independent spirit, moral earnestness and critical insight that many readers look for in his poems.<ref>m. mcgann, ''horace in the renaissance'', – , – </ref> ===age of enlightenment=== during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, or the [[age of enlightenment]], neoclassical culture was pervasive. english literature in the middle of that period has been dubbed [[augustan literature|augustan]]. it is not always easy to distinguish horace's influence during those centuries (the mixing of influences is shown for example in one poet's pseudonym, ''horace juvenal'').<ref group="nb">'horace juvenal' was author of ''modern manners: a poem'', </ref> however a measure of his influence can be found in the diversity of the people interested in his works, both among readers and authors.<ref>d. money, ''the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'', , , </ref> new editions of his works were published almost yearly. there were three new editions in (two in [[leiden]], one in [[frankfurt]]) and again in ([[utrecht]], [[barcelona]], [[cambridge]]). cheap editions were plentiful and fine editions were also produced, including one whose entire text was engraved by [[john pine]] in [[copperplate engraving|copperplate]]. the poet [[james thomson (poet)|james thomson]] owned five editions of horace's work and the physician [[james douglas (physician)|james douglas]] had five hundred books with horace-related titles. horace was often commended in periodicals such as [[the spectator ( )|the spectator]], as a hallmark of good judgement, moderation and manliness, a focus for moralising.<ref group="nb">see for example ''spectator'' ''' ''', feb. ; ''' ''', nov. ; ''' ''', nov. </ref> his verses offered a fund of mottoes, such as ''[[simplex munditiis]]'' (elegance in simplicity), ''[[splendide mendax]]'' (nobly untruthful), ''[[sapere aude]]'' (dare to know), ''[[nunc est bibendum]]'' (now is the time to drink), ''[[carpe diem]]'' (seize the day, perhaps the only one still in common use today).<ref name="tarrant"/> these were quoted even in works as prosaic as [[edmund quincy ( - )|edmund quincy]]'s ''a treatise of hemp-husbandry'' ( ). the fictional hero [[the history of tom jones, a foundling|tom jones]] recited his verses with feeling.<ref>d. money, ''the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'', </ref> his works were also used to justify commonplace themes, such as patriotic obedience, as in james parry's english lines from an oxford university collection in :<ref>d. money, ''the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'', – </ref> {{poemquote| what friendly [[muse]] will teach my lays to emulate the roman fire? justly to sound a caeser's praise demands a bold horatian lyre. }} horatian-style lyrics were increasingly typical of oxford and cambridge verse collections for this period, most of them in latin but some like the previous ode in english. [[john milton]]'s [[lycidas]] first appeared in such a collection. it has few horatian echoes<ref group="nb">one echo of horace may be found in line : "''were it not better done as others use,/ to sport with amaryllis in the shade/or with the tangles of neaera's hair?''", which points to the neara in ''odes'' . . (douglas bush, ''milton: poetical works'', , note )</ref> yet milton's associations with horace were lifelong. he composed a controversial version of ''odes'' . , and [[paradise lost]] includes references to horace's 'roman' ''odes'' . – (book for example begins with echoes of ''odes'' . ).<ref>j. talbot, ''a horatian pun in paradise lost'', – </ref> yet horace's lyrics could offer inspiration to libertines as well as moralists, and neo-latin sometimes served as a kind of discrete veil for the risqué. thus for example [[benjamin loveling]] authored a catalogue of drury lane and covent garden prostitutes, in sapphic stanzas, and an encomium for a dying lady "of salacious memory".<ref>b. loveling, ''latin and english poems'', – , – </ref> some latin imitations of horace were politically subversive, such as a marriage ode by [[anthony alsop]] that included a rallying cry for the [[jacobitism|jacobite]] cause. on the other hand, [[andrew marvell]] took inspiration from horace's ''odes'' . to compose his english masterpiece [[horatian ode upon cromwell's return from ireland]], in which subtly nuanced reflections on the execution of [[charles i of england|charles i]] echo horace's ambiguous response to the death of [[cleopatra]] (marvell's ode was suppressed in spite of its subtlety and only began to be widely published in ). [[samuel johnson]] took particular pleasure in reading ''the odes''.<ref group="nb">cfr. [[james boswell]], "the life of [[samuel johnson]]" ''aetat.'' , where boswell remarked of johnson that horace's ''odes'' "were the compositions in which he took most delight."</ref> [[alexander pope]] wrote direct ''imitations'' of horace (published with the original latin alongside) and also echoed him in ''essays'' and [[the rape of the lock]]. he even emerged as "a quite horatian homer" in his translation of the ''[[iliad]]''.<ref>d. money, ''the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'', – </ref> horace appealed also to female poets, such as [[anna seward]] (''original sonnets on various subjects, and odes paraphrased from horace'', ) and [[elizabeth tollet]], who composed a latin ode in sapphic meter to celebrate her brother's return from overseas, with tea and coffee substituted for the wine of horace's [[symposium|sympotic]] settings: {{verse translation|lang=la | quos procax nobis numeros, jocosque musa dictaret? mihi dum tibique temperent baccis arabes, vel herbis pocula seres<ref>e. tollet, ''poems on several occasions'', </ref> | what verses and jokes might the bold muse dictate? while for you and me arabs flavour our cups with beans or chinese with leaves.<ref>translation adapted from d. money, ''the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'', </ref> }} horace's ''ars poetica'' is second only to aristotle's ''poetics'' in its influence on literary theory and criticism. milton recommended both works in his treatise ''of education''.<ref>a. gilbert, ''literary criticism: plato to dryden'', , </ref> horace's ''satires'' and ''epistles'' however also had a huge impact, influencing theorists and critics such as [[john dryden]].<ref>w. kupersmith, ''roman satirists in seventeenth century england'', – </ref> there was considerable debate over the value of different lyrical forms for contemporary poets, as represented on one hand by the kind of four-line stanzas made familiar by horace's sapphic and alcaic ''odes'' and, on the other, the loosely structured [[pindarics]] associated with the odes of [[pindar]]. translations occasionally involved scholars in the dilemmas of censorship. thus [[christopher smart]] entirely omitted ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber iv/carmen x| . ]] and re-numbered the remaining odes. he also removed the ending of ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber iv/carmen i| . ]]. [[thomas creech]] printed ''epodes'' [[:wikisource:la:epodi#viii| ]] and [[:wikisource:la:epodi#xii| ]] in the original latin but left out their english translations. [[philip francis (translator)|philip francis]] left out both the english and latin for those same two epodes, a gap in the numbering the only indication that something was amiss. french editions of horace were influential in england and these too were regularly [[bowdlerize]]d. most european nations had their own 'horaces': thus for example [[friedrich von hagedorn]] was called ''the german horace'' and [[maciej kazimierz sarbiewski]] ''the polish horace'' (the latter was much imitated by english poets such as [[henry vaughan]] and [[abraham cowley]]). pope [[urban viii]] wrote voluminously in horatian meters, including an ode on gout.<ref>d. money, ''the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'', – </ref> === th century on=== horace maintained a central role in the education of english-speaking elites right up until the s.<ref>s. harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', </ref> a pedantic emphasis on the formal aspects of language-learning at the expense of literary appreciation may have made him unpopular in some quarters<ref>v. kiernan, ''horace: poetics and politics'', x</ref> yet it also confirmed his influence{{emdash}}a tension in his reception that underlies [[lord byron|byron]]'s famous lines from ''[[childe harold's pilgrimage|childe harold]]'' (canto iv, ):<ref>s. harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', </ref> {{poemquote| then farewell, horace, whom i hated so not for thy faults, but mine; it is a curse to understand, not feel thy lyric flow, to comprehend, but never love thy verse. }} [[william wordsworth]]'s mature poetry, including the [[preface to the lyrical ballads|preface]] to ''[[lyrical ballads]]'', reveals horace's influence in its rejection of false ornament<ref>d. money, ''the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'', </ref> and he once expressed "a wish / to meet the shade of horace...".<ref group="nb">the quote, from ''memorials of a tour of italy'' ( ), contains allusions to ''odes'' . and . (s. harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', – )</ref> [[john keats]] echoed the opening of horace's ''epodes'' in the opening lines of ''[[ode to a nightingale]]''.<ref group="nb">"''my heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains / my sense...''" echoes epodes [[:wikisource:la:epodi#xiv| . – ]] (s. harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', )</ref> the roman poet was presented in the nineteenth century as an honorary english gentleman. [[william makepeace thackeray|william thackeray]] produced a version of ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber i/carmen xxxviii| . ]] in which horace's 'boy' became 'lucy', and [[gerard manley hopkins]] translated the boy innocently as 'child'. horace was translated by [[sir theodore martin]] (biographer of [[albert, prince consort|prince albert]]) but minus some ungentlemanly verses, such as the erotic ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber i/carmen xxv| . ]] and ''epodes'' and . [[edward bulwer-lytton]] produced a popular translation and [[william gladstone]] also wrote translations during his last days as prime minister.<ref>s. harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', – </ref> [[edward fitzgerald (poet)|edward fitzgerald]]'s ''[[rubaiyat of omar khayyam]]'', though formally derived from the persian ''[[ruba'i]]'', nevertheless shows a strong horatian influence, since, as one modern scholar has observed, "''...the quatrains inevitably recall the stanzas of the 'odes', as does the narrating first person of the world-weary, ageing [[epicurus|epicurean]] omar himself, mixing [[symposium|sympotic]] exhortation and 'carpe diem' with splendid moralising and 'memento mori' [[nihilism]].''"<ref group="nb">comment by s. harrison, editor and contributor to ''the cambridge companion to horace'' (s. harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', </ref> [[matthew arnold]] advised a friend in verse not to worry about politics, an echo of ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber ii/carmen xi| . ]], yet later became a critic of horace's inadequacies relative to greek poets, as role models of [[victorian age|victorian]] virtues, observing: "''if human life were complete without faith, without enthusiasm, without energy, horace...would be the perfect interpreter of human life.''"<ref>m. arnold, ''selected prose'', </ref> [[christina rossetti]] composed a sonnet depicting a woman willing her own death steadily, drawing on horace's depiction of 'glycera' in ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber i/carmen xix| . . – ]] and cleopatra in ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber i/carmen xxxvii| . ]].<ref group="nb">rossetti's sonnet, ''a study (a soul)'', dated , was not published in her own lifetime. some lines: ''she stands as pale as parian marble stands / like cleopatra when she turns at bay...'' (c. rossetti, ''complete poems'', </ref> [[a. e. housman]] considered ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber iv/carmen vii| . ]], in [[prosody (latin)#first archilochian|archilochian]] couplets, the most beautiful poem of antiquity<ref>w. flesch, ''companion to british poetry, th century'', </ref> and yet he generally shared horace's penchant for quatrains, being readily adapted to his own elegiac and melancholy strain.<ref>s. harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', </ref> the most famous poem of [[ernest dowson]] took its title and its heroine's name from a line of ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber iv/carmen i| . ]], ''non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno cynarae'', as well as its motif of nostalgia for a former flame. [[kipling]] wrote a famous [[parody]] of the ''odes'', satirising their stylistic idiosyncrasies and especially the extraordinary syntax, but he also used horace's roman patriotism as a focus for british imperialism, as in the story ''regulus'' in the school collection ''[[stalky & co.]]'', which he based on ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber iii/carmen v| . ]].<ref>s. medcalfe, ''kipling's horace'', – </ref> wilfred owen's famous poem, quoted above, incorporated horatian text to question patriotism while ignoring the rules of latin scansion. however, there were few other echoes of horace in the war period, possibly because war is not actually a major theme of horace's work.<ref>s. harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', </ref> [[file:michelin poster .jpg|thumb|[[bibendum]] (the symbol of the [[michelin]] tyre company) takes his name from the opening line of [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber i/carmen xxxvii|ode . ]], ''[[nunc est bibendum]]''.]] both [[w.h.auden]] and [[louis macneice]] began their careers as teachers of classics and both responded as poets to horace's influence. auden for example evoked the fragile world of the s in terms echoing ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber ii/carmen xi| . . – ]], where horace advises a friend not to let worries about frontier wars interfere with current pleasures. {{poemquote| and, gentle, do not care to know where poland draws her eastern bow, what violence is done; nor ask what doubtful act allows our freedom in this english house, our picnics in the sun.<ref group="nb">quoted from auden's poem ''out on the lawn i lie in bed'', , and cited by s. harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', </ref> }} the american poet, [[robert frost]], echoed horace's ''satires'' in the conversational and sententious idiom of some of his longer poems, such as ''the lesson for today'' ( ), and also in his gentle advocacy of life on the farm, as in ''hyla brook'' ( ), evoking horace's ''fons bandusiae'' in ''ode'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber iii/carmen xiii| . ]]. now at the start of the third millennium, poets are still absorbing and re-configuring the horatian influence, sometimes in translation (such as a english/american edition of the ''odes'' by thirty-six poets)<ref group="nb">edited by mcclatchy, reviewed by s. harrison, ''bryn mawr classical review'' . . </ref> and sometimes as inspiration for their own work (such as a collection of odes by a new zealand poet).<ref group="nb">i. wedde, ''the commonplace odes'', auckland , (cited by s. harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', )</ref> horace's ''epodes'' have largely been ignored in the modern era, excepting those with political associations of historical significance. the obscene qualities of some of the poems have repulsed even scholars<ref group="nb">'political' epodes are , , , ; notably obscene epodes are and . e. fraenkel is among the admirers repulsed by these two poems, for another view of which see for example dee lesser clayman, 'horace's epodes viii and xii: more than clever obscenity?', ''the classical world'' vol. , no. (september ), pp – {{jstor| }}</ref> yet more recently a better understanding of the nature of [[iambus (genre)|iambic poetry]] has led to a re-evaluation of the ''whole'' collection.<ref>d. mankin, ''horace: epodes'', – </ref><ref>r. mcneill, ''horace'', </ref> a re-appraisal of the ''epodes'' also appears in creative adaptations by recent poets (such as a collection of poems that relocates the ancient context to a s industrial town).<ref group="nb">m. almond, ''the works'' , washington, cited by s. harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', </ref> ==translations== * [[john dryden]] successfully adapted three of the ''odes'' (and one epode) into verse for readers of his own age. [[samuel johnson]] favored the versions of [[philip francis (translator)|philip francis]]. others favor unrhymed translations. * in james michie published a translation of the ''odes''—many of them fully rhymed—including a dozen of the poems in the original [[sapphic stanza|sapphic]] and [[alcaic]] metres. * more recent verse translations of the odes include those by david west (free verse), and colin sydenham (rhymed). * ''[[ars poetica (horace)|ars poetica]]'' was first translated into english by [[ben jonson]] and later by lord byron. * ''horace's odes and the mystery of do-re-mi'' stuart lyons (rhymed) aris & phillips {{isbn| - - - - }} == in popular culture == the oxford latin course textbooks use the life of horace to illustrate an average roman's life in the [[roman republic|late republic]] to [[roman empire|early empire]].<ref>{{cite book|title=oxford latin course part one.|last=balme, maurice|first=moorwood, james|publisher=oxford university press|year= |isbn= - }}</ref> ==see also== {{portal|literature|ancient rome|biography}} * [[carpe diem]] * [[horatia (gens)]] * [[list of ancient romans]] * [[otium]] * [[prosody (latin)]] * [[translation#western theory|translation]] ==notes== <references group="nb" /> ==citations== {{reflist| em}} ==references== * {{cite book | last=arnold | first=matthew | title=selected prose | publisher=penguin books | year= | isbn= - - - - | url=https://archive.org/details/selectedprose arno }} * {{cite book | last=barrow |first=r | title=the romans | publisher=penguin/pelican books | year= }} * {{cite book | last=barchiesi |first=a | title=speaking volumes: narrative and intertext in ovid and other latin poets | publisher=duckworth| year= }} * {{cite book | last=bischoff |first=b | title=classical influences on european culture ad – | publisher=cambridge university press | year= | chapter=living with the satirists}} * {{cite book | last=bush |first=douglas | title=milton: poetical works | publisher=oxford university press | year= }} * {{cite book | last=campbell |first=a | title=horace: a new interpretation | publisher=london | year= }} * {{cite book | last=conway |first=r | title=new studies of a great inheritance | publisher=london | year= }} * {{cite book | last=davis |first=gregson | title =polyhymnia. the rhetoric to horatian lyric discourse | publisher=university of california | year= }} * {{cite book | last=ferri |first=rolando | title=the cambridge companion to horace | publisher=cambridge university press | year= | chapter=the epistles|isbn= - - - - }} * {{cite book | last=flesch |first=william | title=the facts on file companion to british poetry, th century | publisher=infobase publishing | year= |isbn= - - - - }} * {{cite book | last=frank |first=tenney | title=catullus and horace | publisher=new york | year= }} * {{cite book | last=fraenkel |first=eduard | title=horace | publisher=oxford university press | year= }} * {{cite book | last=friis-jensen |first=karsten | title=the cambridge companion to horace | publisher=cambridge university press | year= | chapter=horace in the middle ages}} * {{cite book | last=griffin |first=jasper | title=horace | publisher=ann arbor | year= | chapter=horace in the thirties}} * {{cite book | last=griffin |first=jasper | title=the cambridge companion to horace | publisher=cambridge university press | year= | chapter=gods and religion}} * {{cite book | last=harrison |first=stephen | title=a companion to latin literature | publisher=blackwell publishing | year= | chapter=lyric and iambic}} * {{cite book | last=harrison |first=stephen | title=the cambridge companion to horace | publisher=cambridge university press | year= | chapter=introduction}} * {{cite book | last=harrison |first=stephen | title=the cambridge companion to horace | publisher=cambridge university press | year= | chapter=style and poetic texture}} * {{cite book | last=harrison |first=stephen | title=the cambridge companion to horace | publisher=cambridge university press | year= | chapter=the nineteenth and twentieth centuries}} * {{cite book | last=hooley |first=d | title=the knotted thong: structures of mimesis in persius | publisher=ann arbor | year= }} * {{cite book | last=hutchinson |first=g | title=classical quarterly | year= | chapter=the publication and individuality of horace's odes – }} * {{cite book | last=kiernan |first=victor | title=horace: poetics and politics| publisher=st martin's press | year= }} * {{cite book | last=kupersmith |first=w | title=roman satirists in seventeenth century england | publisher=lincoln, nebraska and london | year= }} * {{cite book | last=loveling |first=benjamin | title=latin and english poems, by a gentleman of trinity college, oxford | publisher=london | year= }} * {{cite book | last=lowrie |first=michèle | title =horace's narrative odes | publisher=oxford university press | year= }} * {{cite book | last=lyne |first=r | title=the oxford history of the classical world | publisher=oxford university press | year= | chapter=augustan poetry and society}} * {{cite book | last=mankin |first=david | title=horace: epodes| publisher=cambridge university press| year= }} * {{cite book | last=mcneill |first=randall | title=horace | publisher=oxford university press | year= |isbn= - - - - }} * {{cite book | last=michie |first=james | title=the odes of horace | publisher=penguin classics | year= | chapter=horace the man}} * {{cite book|last=moles|first=john|title=the cambridge companion to horace | publisher=cambridge university press | year= | chapter=philosophy and ethics}} * {{cite book | last=money |first=david | title=the cambridge companion to horace | publisher=cambridge university press | year= | chapter=the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries}} * {{cite book | last=morgan |first=llewelyn | title=a companion to latin literature | publisher=blackwell publishing | year= | chapter=satire}} * {{cite book | last=muecke |first=frances | title=the cambridge companion to horace | publisher=cambridge university press | year= | chapter=the satires}} * {{cite book | last=nisbet |first=robin | title=the cambridge companion to horace | publisher=cambridge university press | year= | chapter=horace: life and chronology}} * {{cite book|last=reckford|first=k. j.|title=horatius: the man and the hour|publisher=american journal of philology|volume= |pages= – |year= }} * {{cite book | last=rivers |first=elias | title=fray luis de león: the original poems| publisher=grant and cutler| year= }} * {{cite book | last=rossetti |first=christina | title=the complete poems | publisher=penguin books | year= }} * {{cite book | last=rudd |first=niall | title=the satires of horace and persius| publisher=penguin classics | year= }} * {{cite book | last=santirocco |first=matthew | title =unity and design in horace's odes | url=https://archive.org/details/unitydesigninhor sant | url-access=registration | publisher=university of north carolina | year= }} * {{cite book | last=syme |first=r | title=the augustan aristocracy | publisher=oxford university press | year= }} * {{cite book | last=talbot |first=j | title=notes and queries ( ) | publisher=oxford university press | year= | chapter=a horatian pun in paradise lost}} * {{cite book | last=tarrant |first=richard | title=the cambridge companion to horace | publisher=cambridge university press | year= | chapter=ancient receptions of horace}} * {{cite book | last=tollet |first=elizabeth | title=poems on several occasions | publisher=london | year= }} ==further reading== * {{cite book|last=davis|first=gregson|title=polyhymnia the rhetoric of horatian lyric discourse|year= |publisher=university of california press|location=berkeley|isbn= - - - }} * {{cite book|last=fraenkel|first=eduard|title=horace|year= |publisher=clarendon press|location=oxford}} * {{cite book|last=horace|title=the complete works of horace|year= |publisher=ungar|location=new york|isbn= - - - |others=charles e. passage, trans}} * {{cite book|last=johnson|first=w. r.|title=horace and the dialectic of freedom: readings in epistles |url=https://archive.org/details/horacedialectico john|url-access=registration|year= |publisher=cornell university press|location=ithaca|isbn= - - - }} * {{cite book|last=lyne|first=r.o.a.m.|title=horace: behind the public poetry|year= |publisher=yale univ. press|location=new haven|isbn= - - - }} * {{cite book | last = lyons | first = stuart | title = horace's odes and the mystery of do-re-mi | publisher = aris & phillips | year = }} * {{cite book | last = lyons | first = stuart | title = music in the odes of horace | publisher = aris & phillips | year = }} * {{cite book | last = michie | first = james | title = the odes of horace | publisher = rupert hart-davis | year = }} * {{cite book|last=newman|first=j.k.|title=augustus and the new poetry|year= |publisher=latomus, revue d’études latines|location=brussels}} * {{cite book|last=noyes|first=alfred|title=horace: a portrait|url=https://archive.org/details/horaceportrait noye|url-access=registration|year= |publisher=sheed and ward|location=new york}} * {{cite book|last=perret|first=jacques|title=horace|year= |publisher=new york university press|location=new york|others=bertha humez, trans}} * {{cite book|last=putnam|first=michael c.j.|title=artifices of eternity: horace's fourth book of odes|year= |publisher=cornell university press|location=ithaca, ny|isbn= - - - |url=https://archive.org/details/artificesofetern putn}} * {{cite book|last=reckford|first=kenneth j.|title=horace|year= |publisher=twayne|location=new york}} * {{cite book|editor-last=rudd|editor-first=niall|title=horace : a celebration&nbsp;– essays for the bimillennium|year= |publisher=univ. of michigan press|location=ann arbor|isbn= - - -x}} * {{cite book | last = sydenham | first = colin | title = horace: the odes | publisher = duckworth | year = }} *{{cite book | last = west | first = david | title = horace the complete odes and epodes | publisher = oxford university press | year = }} * 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", "denarius") all search options [view abbreviations] 		home 		collections/texts 		perseus catalog 		research 		grants 		open source 		about 		help 	 	 	 hide 	 refine this search 	 	 			 			search for a new term: 			 			 			 	 	 	 		your search returned author and title results. 		 		if you would like to search the content of all documents, please click here. 		 			q. horatius flaccus (horace), carmina (latin) (ed. paul shorey, gordon lang, paul shorey and gordon j. laing) 	q. horatius flaccus (horace), odes (english) (ed. john conington) 	q. horatius flaccus (horace), satyrarum libri (latin) (ed. c. smart) 	q. horatius flaccus (horace), the works of horace (english) (ed. c. smart, theodore alois buckley) 	q. horatius flaccus (horace), de arte poetica liber (latin) (ed. c. smart) 	q. horatius flaccus (horace), the art of poetry: to the pisos (english) (ed. c. smart, theodore alois buckley) 	q. horatius flaccus (horace), carmen saeculare (latin) (ed. paul shorey) 	q. horatius flaccus (horace), epodon (latin) (ed. friedrich vollmer) 	q. horatius flaccus (horace), epistles (latin) (ed. h. rushton fairclough) 	 ancient roman bathing - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	ancient roman bathing 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		custom of ancient roman society some remains of the baths of trajan bathing played a major part in ancient roman culture and society. it was one of the most common daily activities in roman culture and was practiced across a wide variety of social classes. though many contemporary cultures see bathing as a very private activity conducted in the home, bathing in rome was a communal activity. while the extremely wealthy could afford bathing facilities in their homes, most people bathed in the communal baths (thermae). in some ways, these resembled modern-day destination spas. the romans raised bathing to high art as they socialized in these communal baths. communal baths were also available in temples such as the imperial fora. courtship was conducted, as well as sealing business deals, as they built lavish baths on natural hot springs. such was the importance of baths to romans that a catalog of buildings in rome from ad documented baths of varying sizes in the city.[ ] although wealthy romans might set up a bath in their townhouses or in their country villas, heating a series of rooms or even a separate building especially for this purpose, and soldiers might have a bathhouse provided at their fort (as at chesters on hadrian's wall, or at bearsden fort), they still often frequented the numerous public bathhouses in the cities and towns throughout the empire. small bathhouses, called balneum (plural balnea), might be privately owned, while they were public in the sense that they were open to the populace for a fee. larger baths called thermae were owned by the state and often covered several city blocks. the largest of these, the baths of diocletian, could hold up to , bathers. fees for both types of baths were quite reasonable, within the budget of most free roman males. contents 	 greek influence 	 roman bathhouses 	 criticism and concerns 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading greek influence[edit] baths of caracalla, in some of the earliest descriptions of western bathing practices came from greece. the greeks began bathing regimens that formed the foundation for modern spa procedures. these aegean people utilized small bathtubs, washbasins, and foot baths for personal cleanliness. the earliest such findings are the baths in the palace complex at knossos, crete, and the luxurious alabaster bathtubs excavated in akrotiri, santorini; both date from the mid- nd millennium bc. they established public baths and showers within their gymnasium complexes for relaxation and personal hygiene. greek mythology specified that certain natural springs or tidal pools were blessed by the gods to cure disease. around these sacred pools, greeks established bathing facilities for those desiring to heal. supplicants left offerings to the gods for healing at these sites and bathed themselves in hopes of a cure. the spartans developed a primitive steam bath. at serangeum, an early greek balneum (bathhouse, loosely translated), bathing chambers were cut into the hillside into the rock above the chambers held bathers' clothing. one of the bathing chambers had a decorative mosaic floor depicting a driver and chariot pulled by four horses, a woman followed by two dogs, and a dolphin below. thus the early greeks used natural features, but expanded them and added their own amenities, such as decorations and shelves. during the later greek civilization, bathhouses were often built in conjunction with athletic fields. roman bathhouses[edit] the romans emulated many of the greeks' bathing practices and surpassed them in the size of their baths. as in greece, the roman bath became a focal center for social and recreational activity. with the expansion of the roman empire, the idea of the public bath spread to all parts of the mediterranean and into regions of europe and north africa. by constructing aqueducts, the romans had enough water not only for domestic, agricultural, and industrial uses but also for their leisurely pursuits. aqueducts provided water that was later heated for use in the baths. today, the extent of the roman bath is revealed at ruins and in archaeological excavations in europe, africa, and the middle east.[ ] these roman baths varied from simple to exceedingly elaborate structures, and they varied in size, arrangement, and decoration. most contained an apodyterium— a room just inside the entrance where the bather stored his clothes. next, the bather progressed into the tepidarium (warm room), then into the caldarium (hot room) for a steam, and finally into the frigidarium (cold room) with its tank of cold water. the caldarium, heated by a brazier underneath the hollow floor, contained cold-water basins which the bather could use for cooling. after taking this series of sweat and/or immersion baths, the bather returned to the cooler tepidarium for a massage with oils and final scraping with metal implements called strigils. some baths also contained a laconicum (a dry, resting room) where the bather completed the process by resting and sweating.[ ] the layout of roman baths contained other architectural features of note. because wealthy romans brought slaves to attend to their bathing needs, the bathhouse usually had three entrances: one for men, one for women, and one for slaves. the preference of symmetry in roman architecture usually meant a symmetrical facade, even though the women's area was usually smaller than the men's because of fewer numbers of patrons. usually, solid walls or placement on opposite sides of the building separated the men's and women's sections. roman bathhouses often contained a courtyard, or palaestra, which was an open-air garden used for exercise. in some cases, the builders made the palaestra an interior courtyard, and in other cases, the builders placed the palaestra in front of the bathhouse proper and incorporated it into the formal approach. sometimes the palestra held a swimming pool. most often a colonnade outlined the palaestra's edges.[ ] republican bathhouses often had separate bathing facilities for women and men, but by the st century ad mixed bathing was common and is a practice frequently referred to in martial and juvenal, as well as in pliny and quintilian. however, gender separation might have been restored by emperor hadrian[ ] but there is evidence it wasn't. to many roman moralists, baths illustrated how far the rome of their own day had fallen into decline and so became a negative image; cato the elder publicly attacked scipio africanus for his use of the bathhouses. roman bathhouses offered amenities in addition to the bathing ritual. ancillary spaces in the bathhouse proper housed food and perfume-selling booths, libraries, and reading rooms. stages accommodated theatrical and musical performances. adjacent stadia provided spaces for exercise and athletic competitions. inside the bathhouses proper, marble mosaics tiled the elegant floors. the stuccoed walls frequently sported frescoes of trees, birds, and other pastoral images. sky-blue paint, gold stars, and celestial imagery adorned interior domes. statuary and fountains decorated the interior and exterior.[ ] roman baths in bath, england the romans also constructed baths in their colonies, taking advantage of the natural hot springs occurring in europe to construct baths at aix and vichy in france, bath and buxton in england, aachen and wiesbaden in germany, baden in austria, and aquincum in hungary, among other locations. these baths became centers for recreational and social activities in roman communities. libraries, lecture halls, gymnasiums, and formal gardens became part of some bath complexes. in addition, the romans used the hot thermal waters to relieve their suffering from rheumatism, arthritis, and overindulgence in food and drink.[ ] thus the romans elevated bathing to fine art, and their bathhouses physically reflected these advancements. the roman bath, for instance, included a far more complex ritual than a simple immersion or sweating procedure. the various parts of the bathing ritual (undressing, bathing, sweating, receiving a massage and resting), required separated rooms which the romans built to accommodate those functions. the segregation of the sexes and the additions of diversions not directly related to bathing also had a direct impact on the shape and form of bathhouses. the elaborate roman bathing ritual and its resultant architecture served as precedents for later european and american bathing facilities. formal garden spaces and opulent architectural arrangement equal to those of the romans reappeared in europe by the end of the eighteenth century. major american spas followed suit a century later.[ ] criticism and concerns[edit] while the baths were enjoyed by almost every roman, there were those who criticized them. the water was not renewed often and the remains of oil, dirt or even excrement were kept warm, providing a milieu for bacteria.[ ] the emperor marcus aurelius complained about the dirtiness.[ ] celsus,[ ] while commending its therapeutic virtues, warns not to go with a fresh wound, because of the risk of gangrene. in fact, several tombstones from across the empire claim: 'baths, wine, and sex corrupt our bodies, but baths, wine, and sex make life worth living.' (“balnea vina venus / corrumpunt corpora / nostra se<t> vitam faciunt / balnea vina venus,” epitaph of tiberius claudius secundus, cil vi. , rome, st c.) [ ] the objections of the philosopher seneca were instead about the associated noise that interrupted his work when he resided above a bath.[ ] see also[edit] 	legacy of the roman empire 	turkish bath references[edit] 	^ boëthius, axel; ward-perkins, j. b. ( ). etruscan and roman architecture. harmondsworth: penguin. isbn  - - - . 	^ a b c d e f paige, john c; laura woulliere harrison ( ). out of the vapors: a social and architectural history of bathhouse row, hot springs national park (pdf). u.s. department of the interior. 	^ women in roman baths* roy bowen ward miami university, oxford, ohio 	^ invisible romans, chapter , robert c. knapp. 	^ such as bathing appears to thee,—oil, sweat, dirt, filthy water, all things disgusting,—so is every part of life and everything.. meditations, . , marcus aurelius. quoted in knapp. 	^ de medicina, v, , d, aulus cornelius celsus. de medicina 	^ brian k harvey ( ). daily life in ancient rome: a sourcebook. hackett publishing company. p.  . 	^ epistulae morales ad lucilium . , , seneca the younger. quoted in invisible romans, chapter , robert c. knapp. further reading[edit] 	thermemuseum (museum of the thermae) in heerlen 	the economy of prostitution in the roman world, thomas a.j. mcginn, ann arbor: 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(november ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) the colosseum in rome, italy; the classical orders are used, but purely for aesthetic effect. the castel sant'angelo and ponte sant'angelo in rome, italy aqueduct of segovia in spain; one of the best preserved roman aqueducts today. the maison carrée at nîmes in france, one of the best preserved roman temples. a mid-sized augustan provincial temple of the imperial cult. the alcántara bridge, spain, a masterpiece of ancient bridge building the baths of diocletian, rome the severan basilica in leptis magna the odeon of herodes atticus, a roman theatre in athens, greece ruin of forum of augustus in rome, italy ancient roman architecture adopted the external language of classical greek architecture for the purposes of the ancient romans, but was different from greek buildings, becoming a new architectural style. the two styles are often considered one body of classical architecture. roman architecture flourished in the roman republic and even more so under the empire, when the great majority of surviving buildings were constructed. it used new materials, particularly roman concrete, and newer technologies such as the arch and the dome to make buildings that were typically strong and well-engineered. large numbers remain in some form across the empire, sometimes complete and still in use to this day. roman architecture covers the period from the establishment of the roman republic in bc to about the th century ad, after which it becomes reclassified as late antique or byzantine architecture. almost no substantial examples survive from before about bc, and most of the major survivals are from the later empire, after about ad. roman architectural style continued to influence building in the former empire for many centuries, and the style used in western europe beginning about is called romanesque architecture to reflect this dependence on basic roman forms. the romans only began to achieve significant originality in architecture around the beginning of the imperial period, after they had combined aspects of their original etruscan architecture with others taken from greece, including most elements of the style we now call classical architecture. they moved from trabeated construction mostly based on columns and lintels to one based on massive walls, punctuated by arches, and later domes, both of which greatly developed under the romans. the classical orders now became largely decorative rather than structural, except in colonnades. stylistic developments included the tuscan and composite orders; the first being a shortened, simplified variant on the doric order and the composite being a tall order with the floral decoration of the corinthian and the scrolls of the ionic. the period from roughly bc to about ad saw most of the greatest achievements, before the crisis of the third century and later troubles reduced the wealth and organizing power of the central government. the romans produced massive public buildings and works of civil engineering, and were responsible for significant developments in housing and public hygiene, for example their public and private baths and latrines, under-floor heating in the form of the hypocaust, mica glazing (examples in ostia antica), and piped hot and cold water (examples in pompeii and ostia). contents 	 overview 	 . origins 	 . roman architectural revolution 	 . domes 	 influence on later architecture 	 materials 	 . stone 	 . roman brick 	 . roman concrete 	 city design 	 building types 	 . amphitheatre 	 . basilica 	 . circus 	 . forum 	 . horreum 	 . insula 	 . lighthouses 	 . thermae 	 . temples 	 . theatres 	 . villa 	 . watermills 	 decorative structures 	 . monoliths 	 . obelisks 	 . roman gardens 	 . triumphal arches 	 . victory columns 	 infrastructure 	 . roads 	 . aqueduct 	 . bridges 	 . canals 	 . cisterns 	 . dams 	 . defensive walls 	 architectural features 	 . mosaics 	 . hypocaust 	 . roman roofs 	 . spiral stairs 	 significant buildings and areas 	 . public buildings 	 . private architecture 	 . civil engineering 	 . military engineering 	 see also 	 references 	 . footnotes 	 . works cited 	 further reading 	 external links overview[edit] despite the technical developments of the romans, which took their buildings far away from the basic greek conception where columns were needed to support heavy beams and roofs, they were very reluctant to abandon the classical orders in formal public buildings, even though these had become essentially decorative.[citation needed] however, they did not feel entirely restricted by greek aesthetic concerns and treated the orders with considerable freedom.[citation needed] innovation started in the rd or nd century bc with the development of roman concrete as a readily available adjunct to, or substitute for, stone and brick. more daring buildings soon followed, with great pillars supporting broad arches and domes. the freedom of concrete also inspired the colonnade screen, a row of purely decorative columns in front of a load-bearing wall. in smaller-scale architecture, concrete's strength freed the floor plan from rectangular cells to a more free-flowing environment. factors such as wealth and high population densities in cities forced the ancient romans to discover new architectural solutions of their own. the use of vaults and arches, together with a sound knowledge of building materials, enabled them to achieve unprecedented successes in the construction of imposing infrastructure for public use. examples include the aqueducts of rome, the baths of diocletian and the baths of caracalla, the basilicas and colosseum. these were reproduced at a smaller scale in most important towns and cities in the empire. some surviving structures are almost complete, such as the town walls of lugo in hispania tarraconensis, now northern spain. the administrative structure and wealth of the empire made possible very large projects even in locations remote from the main centers,[ ] as did the use of slave labor, both skilled and unskilled. especially under the empire, architecture often served a political function, demonstrating the power of the roman state in general, and of specific individuals responsible for building. roman architecture perhaps reached its peak in the reign of hadrian, whose many achievements include rebuilding the pantheon in its current form and leaving his mark on the landscape of northern britain with hadrian's wall. origins[edit] while borrowing much from the preceding etruscan architecture, such as the use of hydraulics and the construction of arches, roman prestige architecture remained firmly under the spell of ancient greek architecture and the classical orders.[ ] this came initially from magna graecia, the greek colonies in southern italy, and indirectly from greek influence on the etruscans, but after the roman conquest of greece directly from the best classical and hellenistic examples in the greek world.[citation needed] the influence is evident in many ways; for example, in the introduction and use of the triclinium in roman villas as a place and manner of dining. roman builders employed greeks in many capacities, especially in the great boom in construction in the early empire.[citation needed] roman architectural revolution[edit] the roman pantheon the roman architectural revolution, also known as the concrete revolution,[ ][ ][ ] was the widespread use in roman architecture of the previously little-used architectural forms of the arch, vault, and dome. for the first time in history, their potential was fully exploited in the construction of a wide range of civil engineering structures, public buildings, and military facilities. these included amphitheatres, aqueducts, baths, bridges, circuses, dams, domes, harbours, temples, and theatres. a crucial factor in this development, which saw a trend toward monumental architecture, was the invention of roman concrete (opus caementicium), which led to the liberation of shapes from the dictates of the traditional materials of stone and brick.[ ] these enabled the building of the many aqueducts throughout the empire, such as the aqueduct of segovia, the pont du gard, and the eleven aqueducts of rome. the same concepts produced numerous bridges, some of which are still in daily use, for example the puente romano at mérida in spain, and the pont julien and the bridge at vaison-la-romaine, both in provence, france.[citation needed] the dome permitted construction of vaulted ceilings without crossbeams and made possible large covered public space such as public baths and basilicas, such as hadrian's pantheon, the baths of diocletian and the baths of caracalla, all in rome.[citation needed] the romans first adopted the arch from the etruscans and implemented it in their own building.[ ] the use of arches that spring directly from the tops of columns was a roman development, seen from the st century ad, that was very widely adopted in medieval western, byzantine and islamic architecture.[citation needed] domes[edit] main article: history of roman and byzantine domes further information: list of roman domes dome of the pantheon, inner view the romans were the first builders in the history of architecture to realize the potential of domes for the creation of large and well-defined interior spaces.[ ] domes were introduced in a number of roman building types such as temples, thermae, palaces, mausolea and later also churches. half-domes also became a favoured architectural element and were adopted as apses in christian sacred architecture. monumental domes began to appear in the st century bc in rome and the provinces around the mediterranean sea. along with vaults, they gradually replaced the traditional post and lintel construction which makes use of the column and architrave. the construction of domes was greatly facilitated by the invention of concrete, a process which has been termed the roman architectural revolution.[ ] their enormous dimensions remained unsurpassed until the introduction of structural steel frames in the late th century (see list of the world's largest domes).[ ][ ][ ] influence on later architecture[edit] 	 	this section does not cite any sources. please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (january ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) roman architecture supplied the basic vocabulary of pre-romanesque and romanesque architecture, and spread across christian europe well beyond the old frontiers of the empire, to ireland and scandinavia for example. in the east, byzantine architecture developed new styles of churches, but most other buildings remained very close to late roman forms. the same can be said in turn of islamic architecture, where roman forms long continued, especially in private buildings such as houses and the turkish bath, and civil engineering such as fortifications and bridges. palladian stowe house, by william kent in europe the italian renaissance saw a conscious revival of correct classical styles, initially purely based on roman examples. vitruvius was respectfully reinterpreted by a series of architectural writers, and the tuscan and composite orders formalized for the first time, to give five rather than three orders. after the flamboyance of baroque architecture, the neoclassical architecture of the th century revived purer versions of classical style, and for the first time added direct influence from the greek world. numerous local classical styles developed, such as palladian architecture, georgian architecture and regency architecture in the english-speaking world, federal architecture in the united states, and later stripped classicism and pwa moderne. roman influences may be found around us today, in banks, government buildings, great houses, and even small houses, perhaps in the form of a porch with doric columns and a pediment or in a fireplace or a mosaic shower floor derived from a roman original, often from pompeii or herculaneum. the mighty pillars, domes and arches of rome echo in the new world too, where in washington, d.c. stand the capitol building, the white house, the lincoln memorial, and other government buildings. all across the us the seats of regional government were normally built in the grand traditions of rome, with vast flights of stone steps sweeping up to towering pillared porticoes, with huge domes gilded or decorated inside with the same or similar themes that were popular in rome. in britain, a similar enthusiasm has seen the construction of thousands of neoclassical buildings over the last five centuries, both civic and domestic, and many of the grandest country houses and mansions are purely classical in style, an obvious example being buckingham palace. materials[edit] frigidarium of baths of diocletian, today santa maria degli angeli stone[edit] marble is not found especially close to rome, and was only rarely used there before augustus, who famously boasted that he had found rome made of brick and left it made of marble, though this was mainly as a facing for brick or concrete. the temple of hercules victor of the late nd century bc is the earliest surviving exception in rome. from augustus' reign the quarries at carrara were extensively developed for the capital, and other sources around the empire exploited,[ ] especially the prestigious greek marbles like parian. travertine limestone was found much closer, around tivoli, and was used from the end of the republic; the colosseum is mainly built of this stone, which has good load-bearing capacity, with a brick core.[ ] other more or less local stones were used around the empire.[ ] the romans were extremely fond of luxury imported coloured marbles with fancy veining, and the interiors of the most important buildings were very often faced with slabs of these, which have usually now been removed even where the building survives. imports from greece for this purpose began in the nd century bc.[ ] roman brick[edit] close-up view of the wall of the roman shore fort at burgh castle, norfolk, showing alternating courses of flint and brickwork. main article: roman brick the romans made fired clay bricks from about the beginning of the empire, replacing earlier sun-dried mud-brick. roman brick was almost invariably of a lesser height than modern brick, but was made in a variety of different shapes and sizes.[ ] shapes included square, rectangular, triangular and round, and the largest bricks found have measured over three feet in length.[ ] ancient roman bricks had a general size of ½ roman feet by roman foot, but common variations up to inches existed. other brick sizes in ancient rome included " x " x ", and " x " x ". ancient roman bricks found in france measured " x " x ". the constantine basilica in trier is constructed from roman bricks " square by ½" thick.[ ] there is often little obvious difference (particularly when only fragments survive) between roman bricks used for walls on the one hand, and tiles used for roofing or flooring on the other, so archaeologists sometimes prefer to employ the generic term ceramic building material (or cbm). the st. george rotunda ( th century) and remains of serdica, sofia, bulgaria the romans perfected brick-making during the first century of their empire and used it ubiquitously, in public and private construction alike. the romans took their brickmaking skills everywhere they went, introducing the craft to the local populations.[ ] the roman legions, which operated their own kilns, introduced bricks to many parts of the empire; bricks are often stamped with the mark of the legion that supervised their production. the use of bricks in southern and western germany, for example, can be traced back to traditions already described by the roman architect vitruvius. in the british isles, the introduction of roman brick by the ancient romans was followed by a – year gap in major brick production. roman concrete[edit] example of opus caementicium on a tomb on the ancient appian way in rome. the original covering has been removed. main article: roman concrete concrete quickly supplanted brick as the primary building material,[citation needed] and more daring buildings soon followed, with great pillars supporting broad arches and domes rather than dense lines of columns suspending flat architraves. the freedom of concrete also inspired the colonnade screen, a row of purely decorative columns in front of a load-bearing wall. in smaller-scale architecture, concrete's strength freed the floor plan from rectangular cells to a more free-flowing environment.[citation needed] most of these developments are described by vitruvius, writing in the first century bc in his work de architectura. although concrete had been used on a minor scale in mesopotamia, roman architects perfected roman concrete and used it in buildings where it could stand on its own and support a great deal of weight. the first use of concrete by the romans was in the town of cosa sometime after bc. ancient roman concrete was a mixture of lime mortar, aggregate, pozzolana, water, and stones, and was stronger than previously-used concretes. the ancient builders placed these ingredients in wooden frames where they hardened and bonded to a facing of stones or (more frequently) bricks. the aggregates used were often much larger than in modern concrete, amounting to rubble. when the framework was removed, the new wall was very strong, with a rough surface of bricks or stones. this surface could be smoothed and faced with an attractive stucco or thin panels of marble or other coloured stones called a "revetment". concrete construction proved to be more flexible and less costly than building solid stone buildings. the materials were readily available and not difficult to transport. the wooden frames could be used more than once, allowing builders to work quickly and efficiently. concrete is arguably the roman contribution most relevant to modern architecture. city design[edit] further information: centuriation, decumanus maximus, and cardo the temple of claudius to the south (left) of the colosseum (model of imperial rome at the museo della civiltà romana in rome) model of the st century philippopolis (plovdiv, bulgaria) in the roman period created by arch. matey mateev the ancient romans employed regular orthogonal structures on which they molded their colonies.[ ][ ][ ] they probably were inspired by greek and hellenic examples, as well as by regularly planned cities that were built by the etruscans in italy.[ ] (see marzabotto) the romans used a consolidated scheme for city planning, developed for military defense and civil convenience. the basic plan consisted of a central forum with city services, surrounded by a compact, rectilinear grid of streets, and wrapped in a wall for defense. to reduce travel times, two diagonal streets crossed the square grid, passing through the central square. a river usually flowed through the city, providing water, transport, and sewage disposal.[ ] hundreds of towns and cities were built by the romans throughout their empire. many european towns, such as turin, preserve the remains of these schemes, which show the very logical way the romans designed their cities. they would lay out the streets at right angles, in the form of a square grid. all roads were equal in width and length, except for two, which were slightly wider than the others. one of these ran east–west, the other, north–south, and they intersected in the middle to form the center of the grid. all roads were made of carefully fitted flag stones and filled in with smaller, hard-packed rocks and pebbles. bridges were constructed where needed. each square marked off by four roads was called an insula, the roman equivalent of a modern city block. each insula was yards (  m) square, with the land within it divided. as the city developed, each insula would eventually be filled with buildings of various shapes and sizes and crisscrossed with back roads and alleys. most insulae were given to the first settlers of a roman city, but each person had to pay to construct his own house. the city was surrounded by a wall to protect it from invaders and to mark the city limits. areas outside city limits were left open as farmland. at the end of each main road was a large gateway with watchtowers. a portcullis covered the opening when the city was under siege, and additional watchtowers were constructed along the city walls. an aqueduct was built outside the city walls. the development of greek and roman urbanization is relatively well-known, as there are relatively many written sources, and there has been much attention to the subject, since the romans and greeks are generally regarded as the main ancestors of modern western culture. it should not be forgotten, though, that the etruscans had many considerable towns and there were also other cultures with more or less urban settlements in europe, primarily of celtic origin.[ ] building types[edit] amphitheatre[edit] main article: roman amphitheatre further information: list of roman amphitheatres the amphitheatre was, with the triumphal arch and basilica, the only major new type of building developed by the romans.[ ] some of the most impressive secular buildings are the amphitheatres, over being known and many of which are well preserved, such as that at arles, as well as its progenitor, the colosseum in rome. they were used for gladiatorial contests, public displays, public meetings and bullfights, the tradition of which still survives in spain and portugal. their typical shape, functions and name distinguish them from roman theatres, which are more or less semicircular in shape; from the circuses (akin to hippodromes) whose much longer circuits were designed mainly for horse or chariot racing events; and from the smaller stadia, which were primarily designed for athletics and footraces.[ ] the amphitheatre of pompeii, built around bc and buried by the eruption of mount vesuvius ad, once hosted spectacles with gladiators the earliest roman amphitheatres date from the middle of the first century bc, but most were built under imperial rule, from the augustan period ( bc– ad) onwards.[ ] imperial amphitheatres were built throughout the roman empire; the largest could accommodate , – , spectators, and the most elaborate featured multi-storeyed, arcaded façades and were elaborately decorated with marble, stucco and statuary.[ ] after the end of gladiatorial games in the th century and of animal killings in the th, most amphitheatres fell into disrepair, and their materials were mined or recycled. some were razed, and others converted into fortifications. a few continued as convenient open meeting places; in some of these, churches were sited.[ ] architecturally, they are typically an example of the roman use of the classical orders to decorate large concrete walls pierced at intervals, where the columns have nothing to support. aesthetically, however, the formula is successful. basilica[edit] northern aisle of the basilica of maxentius in rome the aula palatina of trier, germany (then part of the roman province of gallia belgica), built during the reign of constantine i (r. – ad) the roman basilica was a large public building where business or legal matters could be transacted. they were normally where the magistrates held court, and used for other official ceremonies, having many of the functions of the modern town hall. the first basilicas had no religious function at all. as early as the time of augustus, a public basilica for transacting business had been part of any settlement that considered itself a city, used in the same way as the late medieval covered market houses of northern europe, where the meeting room, for lack of urban space, was set above the arcades, however. although their form was variable, basilicas often contained interior colonnades that divided the space, giving aisles or arcaded spaces on one or both sides, with an apse at one end (or less often at each end), where the magistrates sat, often on a slightly raised dais. the central aisle tended to be wide and was higher than the flanking aisles, so that light could penetrate through the clerestory windows. the oldest known basilica, the basilica porcia, was built in rome in  bc by cato the elder during the time he was censor. other early examples include the basilica at pompeii (late nd century bc). after christianity became the official religion, the basilica shape was found appropriate for the first large public churches, with the attraction of avoiding reminiscences of the greco-roman temple form. circus[edit] the roman circus was a large open-air venue used for public events in the ancient roman empire. the circuses were similar to the ancient greek hippodromes, although circuses served varying purposes and differed in design and construction. along with theatres and amphitheatres, circuses were one of the main entertainment sites of the time. circuses were venues for chariot races, horse races, and performances that commemorated important events of the empire were performed there. for events that involved re-enactments of naval battles, the circus was flooded with water. the performance space of the roman circus was normally, despite its name, an oblong rectangle of two linear sections of race track, separated by a median strip running along the length of about two thirds the track, joined at one end with a semicircular section and at the other end with an undivided section of track closed (in most cases) by a distinctive starting gate known as the carceres, thereby creating a circuit for the races. forum[edit] further information: roman forum and list of monuments of the roman forum the roman forum a forum was a central public open space in a roman municipium, or any civitas, primarily used as a marketplace, along with the buildings used for shops and the stoas used for open stalls. other large public buildings were often sited at the edges or close by. many forums were constructed at remote locations along a road by the magistrate responsible for the road, in which case the forum was the only settlement at the site and had its own name, such as forum popili or forum livi.[ ] during the years of the republic, augustus claimed he "found the city in brick and left it in marble".[ ] while chances are high that this was an exaggeration, there is something to be said for the influx of marble use in roman forum from bc onwards. during augustus reign, the forum was described to have been "a larger, freer space than was the forum of imperial times."[ ] the forum began to take on even more changes upon the arrival of julius casear who drew out extensive plans for the market hub. while casear's death came prematurely, the ideas himself, as well as augustus had in regards to the forum proved to be the most influential for years to come. according to walter dennison's the roman forum as cicero saw it, the author writes that "the diverting of public business to the larger and splendid imperial fora erected in the vicinity resulted in leaving the general design of the forum romanum".[ ] every city had at least one forum of varying size. in addition to its standard function as a marketplace, a forum was a gathering place of great social significance, and often the scene of diverse activities, including political discussions and debates, rendezvous, meetings, etc. much the best known example is the roman forum, the earliest of several in rome. in new roman towns the forum was usually located at, or just off, the intersection of the main north–south and east–west streets (the cardo and decumanus). all forums would have a temple of jupiter at the north end, and would also contain other temples, as well as the basilica; a public weights and measures table, so customers at the market could ensure they were not being sold short measures; and would often have the baths nearby. a panoramic view of the forum trajanum, with the trajan's column on the far left. horreum[edit] a horreum was a type of public warehouse used during the ancient roman period. although the latin term is often used to refer to granaries, roman horrea were used to store many other types of consumables; the giant horrea galbae in rome were used not only to store grain but also olive oil, wine, foodstuffs, clothing and even marble.[ ] by the end of the imperial period, the city of rome had nearly horrea to supply its demands.[ ] the biggest were enormous, even by modern standards; the horrea galbae contained rooms on the ground floor alone, covering an area of some , square feet ( ,  m ).[ ] the horrea epagathiana et epaphroditiana, a horreum in ostia (rome), italy, built c. – ad the first horrea were built in rome towards the end of the nd century bc,[ ] with the first known public horreum being constructed by the ill-fated tribune, gaius gracchus in bc.[ ] the word came to be applied to any place designated for the preservation of goods; thus it was often used refer to cellars (horrea subterranea), but it could also be applied to a place where artworks were stored,[ ] or even to a library.[ ] some public horrea functioned somewhat like banks, where valuables could be stored, but the most important class of horrea were those where foodstuffs such as grain and olive oil were stored and distributed by the state.[ ] the word itself is thought to have linguist roots tied to the word hordeum which in latin means 'barley'.[ ] in the johns hopkins university press, the classical weekly states that "pliny the elder does indeed make a distinction between the two words. he describes the horreum as a structure made of brick, the walls of which were not less than three feet thick; it had no windows or openings for ventilation".[ ] furthermore, the storehouses would also host oil and wine and also utilize large jars that could serve as cache's for large amounts of products. these storehouses were also used to house keep large sums of money and were used much like personal storage units today are. romans were "these horrea were divided and subdivided, so that one could hire only so much space as one wanted, a whole room (cella), a closet (armarium), or only a chest or strong box (arca, arcula, locus, loculus)."[ ] insula[edit] main article: insula (building) insula in ostia antica multi-story apartment blocks called insulae catered to a range of residential needs. the cheapest rooms were at the top owing to the inability to escape in the event of a fire and the lack of piped water. windows were mostly small, facing the street, with iron security bars. insulae were often dangerous, unhealthy, and prone to fires because of overcrowding and haphazard cooking arrangements.[citation needed] there are examples in the roman port town of ostia, that date back to the reign of trajan, but they seem to have been found only in rome and a few other places. elsewhere writers report them as something remarkable, but livy and vituvius refer to them in rome.[ ] external walls were in "opus reticulatum" and interiors in "opus incertum", which would then be plastered and sometimes painted. to lighten up the small dark rooms, tenants able to afford a degree of painted colourful murals on the walls. examples have been found of jungle scenes with wild animals and exotic plants. imitation windows (trompe-l'œil) were sometimes painted to make the rooms seem less confined. ancient rome had elaborate and luxurious houses owned by the elite. the average house, or in cities apartment, of a commoner or plebe did not contain many luxuries. the domus, or single-family residence, was only for the well-off in rome, with most having a layout of the closed unit, consisting of one or two rooms. between and a.d. rome had domus and , of insulae.[ ] insulae have been the subject of great debate for historians of roman culture, defining the various meanings of the word.[ ] insula was a word used to describe apartment buildings, or the apartments themselves,[ ] meaning apartment, or inhabitable room, demonstrating just how small apartments for plebes were. urban divisions were originally street blocks, and later began to divide into smaller divisions, the word insula referring to both blocks and smaller divisions. the insula contained cenacula, tabernae, storage rooms under the stairs, and lower floor shops. another type of housing unit for plebes was a cenaculum, an apartment, divided into three individual rooms: cubiculum, exedra, and medianum. common roman apartments were mainly masses of smaller and larger structures, many with narrow balconies that present mysteries as to their use, having no doors to access them, and they lacked the excessive decoration and display of wealth that aristocrats’ houses contained. luxury in houses was not common, as the life of the average person did not consist of being in their houses, as they instead would go to public baths, and engage in other communal activities. the tower of hercules, a roman lighthouse in spain lighthouses[edit] main article: roman lighthouse many lighthouses were built around the mediterranean and the coasts of the empire, including the tower of hercules at a coruña in northern spain, a structure which survives to this day. a smaller lighthouse at dover, england also exists as a ruin about half the height of the original. the light would have been provided by a fire at the top of the structure. thermae[edit] main article: thermae further information: list of roman public baths all roman cities had at least one thermae, a popular facility for public bathing, exercising and socializing. exercise might include wrestling and weight-lifting, as well as swimming. bathing was an important part of the roman day, where some hours might be spent, at a very low cost subsidized by the government. wealthier romans were often accompanied by one or more slaves, who performed any required tasks such as fetching refreshment, guarding valuables, providing towels, and at the end of the session, applying olive oil to their masters' bodies which was then scraped off with a strigil, a scraper made of wood or bone. romans did not wash with soap and water as we do now. roman bath-houses were also provided for private villas, town houses and forts. they were normally supplied with water from an adjacent river or stream, or by aqueduct. the design of thermae is discussed by vitruvius in de architectura. temples[edit] main article: roman temple further information: list of ancient roman temples "roman baroque" temple of bacchus at baalbek, lebanon roman temples were among the most important and richest buildings in roman culture, though only a few survive in any sort of complete state. their construction and maintenance was a major part of ancient roman religion, and all towns of any importance had at least one main temple, as well as smaller shrines. the main room (cella) housed the cult image of the deity to whom the temple was dedicated, and often a small altar for incense or libations. behind the cella was a room or rooms used by temple attendants for storage of equipment and offerings. some remains of many roman temples survive, above all in rome itself, but the relatively few near-complete examples were nearly all converted to christian churches (and sometimes subsequently to mosques), usually a considerable time after the initial triumph of christianity under constantine. the decline of roman religion was relatively slow, and the temples themselves were not appropriated by the government until a decree of the emperor honorius in . some of the oldest surviving temples include the temple of hercules victor (mid nd century bc) and temple of portunus ( – bc), both standing within the forum boarium. the temple of hercules victor, rome, built in the mid- nd century bc, most likely by lucius mummius achaicus, who won the achaean war. the form of the roman temple was mainly derived from the etruscan model, but using greek styles[citation needed]. roman temples emphasised the front of the building, which followed greek temple models and typically consisted of wide steps leading to a portico with columns, a pronaos, and usually a triangular pediment above, which was filled with statuary in the most grand examples; this was as often in terracotta as stone, and no examples have survived except as fragments. however, unlike the greek models, which generally gave equal treatment to all sides of the temple, which could be viewed and approached from all directions, the sides and rear of roman temples might be largely undecorated (as in the pantheon, rome and vic), inaccessible by steps (as in the maison carrée and vic), and even back on to other buildings. as in the maison carrée, columns at the side might be half-columns, emerging from ("engaged with" in architectural terminology) the wall.[ ] the platform on which the temple sat was typically raised higher in roman examples than greek, with up ten or twelve or more steps rather than the three typical in greek temples; the temple of claudius was raised twenty steps. these steps were normally only at the front, and typically not the whole width of that. the temple of portunus, god of grain storage, keys, livestock and ports.[ ] rome, built between and bc the greek classical orders in all their details were closely followed in the façades of temples, as in other prestigious buildings. however the idealized proportions between the different elements set out by the only significant roman writer on architecture to survive, vitruvius, and subsequent italian renaissance writers, do not reflect actual roman practice, which could be very variable, though always aiming at balance and harmony. following a hellenistic trend, the corinthian order and its variant the composite order were most common in surviving roman temples, but for small temples like that at alcántara, a simple tuscan order could be used.[ ] there was considerable local variation in style, as roman architects often tried to incorporate elements the population expected in its sacred architecture. this was especially the case in egypt and the near east, where different traditions of large stone temples were already millennia old. the romano-celtic temple was a simple style for small temples found in the western empire, and by far the most common type in roman britain. it often lacked any of the distinctive classical features, and may have had considerable continuity with pre-roman temples of the celtic religion. theatres[edit] roman theatre (mérida), spain roman theatres were built in all areas of the empire from spain, to the middle east. because of the romans' ability to influence local architecture, we see numerous theatres around the world with uniquely roman attributes.[ ] these buildings were semi-circular and possessed certain inherent architectural structures, with minor differences depending on the region in which they were constructed. the scaenae frons was a high back wall of the stage floor, supported by columns. the proscaenium was a wall that supported the front edge of the stage with ornately decorated niches off to the sides. the hellenistic influence is seen through the use of the proscaenium. the roman theatre also had a podium, which sometimes supported the columns of the scaenae frons. the scaenae was originally not part of the building itself, constructed only to provide sufficient background for the actors. eventually, it became a part of the edifice itself, made out of concrete. the theatre itself was divided into the stage (orchestra) and the seating section (auditorium). vomitoria or entrances and exits were made available to the audience.[ ] villa[edit] villa of the mysteries just outside pompeii, seen from above main article: roman villa see also: villa rustica, list of roman villas in england, and list of roman villas in belgium a roman villa was a country house built for the upper class, while a domus was a wealthy family's house in a town. the empire contained many kinds of villas, not all of them lavishly appointed with mosaic floors and frescoes. in the provinces, any country house with some decorative features in the roman style may be called a "villa" by modern scholars.[ ] some, like hadrian's villa at tivoli, were pleasure palaces such as those that were situated in the cool hills within easy reach of rome or, like the villa of the papyri at herculaneum, on picturesque sites overlooking the bay of naples. some villas were more like the country houses of england or poland, the visible seat of power of a local magnate, such as the famous palace rediscovered at fishbourne in sussex. suburban villas on the edge of cities were also known, such as the middle and late republican villas that encroached on the campus martius, at that time on the edge of rome, and which can be also seen outside the city walls of pompeii, including the villa of the mysteries, famous for its frescos. these early suburban villas, such as the one at rome's auditorium site[ ] or at grottarossa in rome, demonstrate the antiquity and heritage of the villa suburbana in central italy. it is possible that these early, suburban villas were also in fact the seats of power (maybe even palaces) of regional strongmen or heads of important families (gentes). a third type of villa provided the organizational center of the large farming estates called latifundia; such villas might be lacking in luxuries. by the th century, villa could simply mean an agricultural estate or holding: jerome translated the gospel of mark (xiv, ) chorion, describing the olive grove of gethsemane, with villa, without an inference that there were any dwellings there at all (catholic encyclopedia "gethsemane"). with the colossal diocletian's palace, built in the countryside but later turned into a fortified city, a form of residential castle emerges, that anticipates the middle ages. watermills[edit] further information: list of ancient watermills the initial invention of the watermill appears to have occurred in the hellenized eastern mediterranean in the wake of the conquests of alexander the great and the rise of hellenistic science and technology.[ ][ ][ ] in the subsequent roman era, the use of water-power was diversified and different types of watermills were introduced. these include all three variants of the vertical water wheel as well as the horizontal water wheel.[ ][ ] apart from its main use in grinding flour, water-power was also applied to pounding grain,[ ][ ][ ] crushing ore,[ ] sawing stones[ ] and possibly fulling and bellows for iron furnaces.[ ] decorative structures[edit] monoliths[edit] further information: list of ancient greek and roman monoliths the capital of trajan's column, rome in architecture, a monolith is a structure which has been excavated as a unit from a surrounding matrix or outcropping of rock.[ ] monoliths are found in all types of roman buildings. they were either: quarried without being moved; or quarried and moved; or quarried, moved and lifted clear off the ground into their position (e.g. architraves); or quarried, moved and erected in an upright position (e.g. columns). transporting was done by land or water (or a combination of both), in the later case often by special-built ships such as obelisk carriers.[ ] for lifting operations, ancient cranes were employed since c. bc,[ ] such as in the construction of trajan's column.[ ] obelisks[edit] further information: list of obelisks in rome an obelisk is a tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape at the top. these were originally called "tekhenu" by the builders, the ancient egyptians. the greeks who saw them used the greek 'obeliskos' to describe them, and this word passed into latin and then english.[ ] the romans commissioned obelisks in an ancient egyptian style. examples include: 	arles, france – the arles obelisk, in place de la république, a th-century obelisk of roman origin 	benevento, italy – three roman obelisks[ ][ ] 	munich – obelisk of titus sextius africanus, staatliches museum Ägyptischer kunst, kunstareal, st century ad, .  m 	rome – there are five ancient roman obelisks in rome. roman gardens[edit] gardens in conimbriga, portugal roman gardens were influenced by egyptian, persian, and greek gardening techniques[citation needed]. in ancient latium, a garden was part of every farm. according to cato the elder, every garden should be close to the house and should have flower beds and ornamental trees.[ ] horace wrote that during his time flower gardens became a national indulgence.[ ] gardens were not reserved for the extremely wealthy. excavations in pompeii show that gardens attaching to residences were scaled down to meet the space constraints of the home of the average roman. modified versions of roman garden designs were adopted in roman settlements in africa, gaul, and britannia. as town houses were replaced by tall insula (apartment buildings), these urban gardens were replaced by window boxes or roof gardens.[citation needed] triumphal arches[edit] further information: list of roman triumphal arches a triumphal arch is a monumental structure in the shape of an archway with one or more arched passageways, often designed to span a road. the origins of the roman triumphal arch are unclear. there were precursors to the triumphal arch within the roman world; in italy, the etruscans used elaborately decorated single bay arches as gates or portals to their cities. surviving examples of etruscan arches can still be seen at perugia and volterra.[ ] the two key elements of the triumphal arch – a round-topped arch and a square entablature – had long been in use as separate architectural elements in ancient greece. the arch of titus in rome, an early roman imperial triumphal arch with a single archway the innovation of the romans was to use these elements in a single free-standing structure. the columns became purely decorative elements on the outer face of arch, while the entablature, liberated from its role as a building support, became the frame for the civic and religious messages that the arch builders wished to convey.[ ] little is known about how the romans viewed triumphal arches. pliny the elder, writing in the first century ad, was the only ancient author to discuss them.[ ] he wrote that they were intended to "elevate above the ordinary world" an image of an honoured person usually depicted in the form of a statue with a quadriga.[ ] the first recorded roman triumphal arches were set up in the time of the roman republic.[ ] generals who were granted a triumph were termed triumphators and would erect fornices or honorific arches bearing statues to commemorate their victories.[ ] roman triumphal practices changed significantly at the start of the imperial period when the first roman emperor augustus decreed that only emperors would be granted triumphs. the triumphal arch changed from being a personal monument to being an essentially propagandistic one, serving to announce and promote the presence of the ruler and the laws of the state.[ ] arches were not necessarily built as entrances, but – unlike many modern triumphal arches – they were often erected across roads and were intended to be passed through, not round.[ ] the arch of augustus in rimini (ariminum), dedicated to augustus by the roman senate in bc, the oldest surviving roman triumphal arch most roman triumphal arches were built during the imperial period. by the fourth century ad there were such arches in rome, of which three have survived – the arch of titus (ad ), the arch of septimius severus ( – ) and the arch of constantine ( ). numerous arches were built elsewhere in the roman empire.[ ] the single arch was the most common, but many triple arches were also built, of which the triumphal arch of orange (c. ad ) is the earliest surviving example. from the nd century ad, many examples of the arcus quadrifrons – a square triumphal arch erected over a crossroads, with arched openings on all four sides – were built, especially in north africa. arch-building in rome and italy diminished after the time of trajan (ad – ) but remained widespread in the provinces during the nd and rd centuries ad; they were often erected to commemorate imperial visits.[ ] the ornamentation of an arch was intended to serve as a constant visual reminder of the triumph and triumphator. the façade was ornamented with marble columns, and the piers and attics with decorative cornices. sculpted panels depicted victories and achievements, the deeds of the triumphator, the captured weapons of the enemy or the triumphal procession itself. the spandrels usually depicted flying victories, while the attic was often inscribed with a dedicatory inscription naming and praising the triumphator. the piers and internal passageways were also decorated with reliefs and free-standing sculptures. the vault was ornamented with coffers. some triumphal arches were surmounted by a statue or a currus triumphalis, a group of statues depicting the emperor or general in a quadriga.[ ][ ] inscriptions on roman triumphal arches were works of art in themselves, with very finely cut, sometimes gilded letters. the form of each letter and the spacing between them was carefully designed for maximum clarity and simplicity, without any decorative flourishes, emphasizing the roman taste for restraint and order. this conception of what later became the art of typography remains of fundamental importance down to the present day.[ ] victory columns[edit] further information: list of roman victory columns infrastructure[edit] roads[edit] via appia antica roman roads were vital to the maintenance and development of the roman state, and were built from about bc through the expansion and consolidation of the roman republic and the roman empire.[ ] they provided efficient means for the overland movement of armies, officials and civilians, and the inland carriage of official communications and trade goods.[ ] at the peak of rome's development, no fewer than great military highways radiated from the capital, and the late empire's provinces were interconnected by great road links.[ ][ ] roman road builders aimed at a regulation width (see laws and standards above), but actual widths have been measured at between .  ft ( .  m) and more than  ft ( .  m). today, the concrete has worn from the spaces around the stones, giving the impression of a very bumpy road, but the original practice was to produce a surface that was no doubt much closer to being flat. aqueduct[edit] main article: roman aqueduct further information: list of aqueducts in the roman empire the pont du gard, near vers-pont-du-gard, france the romans constructed numerous aqueducts in order to bring water from distant sources into their cities and towns, supplying public baths, latrines, fountains and private households. waste water was removed by complex sewage systems and released into nearby bodies of water, keeping the towns clean and free from effluent. aqueducts also provided water for mining operations, milling, farms and gardens. aqueducts moved water through gravity alone, being constructed along a slight downward gradient within conduits of stone, brick or concrete. most were buried beneath the ground, and followed its contours; obstructing peaks were circumvented or, less often, tunnelled through. where valleys or lowlands intervened, the conduit was carried on bridgework, or its contents fed into high-pressure lead, ceramic or stone pipes and siphoned across. most aqueduct systems included sedimentation tanks, sluices and distribution tanks to regulate the supply at need. rome's first aqueduct supplied a water-fountain sited at the city's cattle market. by the third century ad, the city had eleven aqueducts, sustaining a population of over a million in a water-extravagant economy; most of the water supplied the city's many public baths. cities and municipalities throughout the roman empire emulated this model, and funded aqueducts as objects of public interest and civic pride, "an expensive yet necessary luxury to which all could, and did, aspire."[ ] most roman aqueducts proved reliable, and durable; some were maintained into the early modern era, and a few are still partly in use. methods of aqueduct surveying and construction are noted by vitruvius in his work de architectura ( st century bc). the general frontinus gives more detail in his official report on the problems, uses and abuses of imperial rome's public water supply. notable examples of aqueduct architecture include the supporting piers of the aqueduct of segovia, and the aqueduct-fed cisterns of constantinople. bridges[edit] main article: roman bridge further information: list of roman bridges roman bridges, built by ancient romans, were the first large and lasting bridges built.[ ] roman bridges were built with stone and had the arch as the basic structure (see arch bridge). most utilized concrete as well, which the romans were the first to use for bridges. puente romano over the guadiana river at mérida, spain roman arch bridges were usually semicircular, although a few were segmental (such as alconétar bridge). a segmental arch is an arch that is less than a semicircle.[ ] the advantages of the segmental arch bridge were that it allowed great amounts of flood water to pass under it, which would prevent the bridge from being swept away during floods and the bridge itself could be more lightweight. generally, roman bridges featured wedge-shaped primary arch stones (voussoirs) of the same in size and shape. the romans built both single spans and lengthy multiple arch aqueducts, such as the pont du gard and segovia aqueduct. their bridges featured from an early time onwards flood openings in the piers, e.g. in the pons fabricius in rome ( bc), one of the world's oldest major bridges still standing. roman engineers were the first and until the industrial revolution the only ones to construct bridges with concrete, which they called opus caementicium. the outside was usually covered with brick or ashlar, as in the alcántara bridge. the romans also introduced segmental arch bridges into bridge construction. the  m long limyra bridge in southwestern turkey features segmental arches with an average span-to-rise ratio of . : ,[ ] giving the bridge an unusually flat profile unsurpassed for more than a millennium. trajan's bridge over the danube featured open-spandrel segmental arches made of wood (standing on  m high concrete piers). this was to be the longest arch bridge for a thousand years both in terms of overall and individual span length, while the longest extant roman bridge is the  m long puente romano at mérida. canals[edit] further information: list of roman canals roman canals were typically multi-purpose structures, intended for irrigation, drainage, land reclamation, flood control and navigation where feasible. some navigational canals were recorded by ancient geographers and are still traceable by modern archaeology. channels which served the needs of urban water supply are covered at the list of aqueducts in the roman empire. cisterns[edit] further information: list of roman cisterns the basilica cistern in constantinople provided water for the imperial palace. freshwater reservoirs were commonly set up at the termini of aqueducts and their branch lines, supplying urban households, agricultural estates, imperial palaces, thermae or naval bases of the roman navy.[ ] dams[edit] further information: list of roman dams and reservoirs roman dam construction began in earnest in the early imperial period.[ ] for the most part, it concentrated on the semi-arid fringe of the empire, namely the provinces of north africa, the near east, and hispania.[ ][ ][ ] the relative abundance of spanish dams below is due partly to more intensive field work there; for italy only the subiaco dams, created by emperor nero ( – ad) for recreational purposes, are attested.[ ][ ] these dams are noteworthy, though, for their extraordinary height, which remained unsurpassed anywhere in the world until the late middle ages.[ ] the most frequent dam types were earth- or rock-filled embankment dams and masonry gravity dams.[ ] these served a wide array of purposes, such as irrigation, flood control, river diversion, soil-retention, or a combination of these functions.[ ] the impermeability of roman dams was increased by the introduction of waterproof hydraulic mortar and especially opus caementicium in the concrete revolution. these materials also allowed for bigger structures to be built,[ ] like the lake homs dam, possibly the largest water barrier today,[ ] and the sturdy harbaqa dam, both of which consist of a concrete core. roman builders were the first to realize the stabilizing effect of arches and buttresses, which they integrated into their dam designs. previously unknown dam types introduced by the romans include arch-gravity dams,[ ][ ] arch dams,;[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] buttress dams,[ ] and multiple-arch buttress dams.[ ][ ][ ][ ] defensive walls[edit] main article: ancient roman defensive walls roman walls of lugo, spain the romans generally fortified cities rather than fortresses, but there are some fortified camps such as the saxon shore forts like porchester castle in england. city walls were already significant in etruscan architecture, and in the struggle for control of italy under the early republic many more were built, using different techniques. these included tightly fitting massive irregular polygonal blocks, shaped to fit exactly in a way reminiscent of later inca work. the romans called a simple rampart wall an agger; at this date great height was not necessary. the servian wall around rome was an ambitious project of the early th century bc. the wall was up to  metres ( .  ft) in height in places, .  metres (  ft) wide at its base,  km (  mi) long,[ ] and is believed to have had main gates, though many of these are mentioned only from writings, with no other known remains. some of it had a fossa or ditch in front, and an agger behind, and it was enough to deter hannibal. later the aurelian wall replaced it, enclosing an expanded city, and using more sophisticated designs, with small forts at intervals. the romans walled major cities and towns in areas they saw as vulnerable, and parts of many walls remain incorporated in later defensive fortifications, as at córdoba ( nd century bc), chester (earth and wood in the s ad, stone from c. ), and york (from s ad). strategic walls across open country were far rarer, and hadrian's wall (from ) and the antonine wall (from , abandoned only years after completion) are the most significant examples, both on the pictish frontier of roman britain... architectural features[edit] mosaics[edit] main article: roman mosaic the centaur mosaic ( nd-century), found at hadrian's villa in tivoli, italy. altes museum, berlin on his return from campaigns in greece, the general sulla brought back what is probably the most well-known element of the early imperial period, the mosaic, a decoration made of colourful chips of stone inserted into cement. this tiling method took the empire by storm in the late first century and the second century and in the roman home joined the well known mural in decorating floors, walls, and grottoes with geometric and pictorial designs. there were two main techniques in greco-roman mosaic: opus vermiculatum used tiny tesserae, typically cubes of millimeters or less, and was produced in workshops in relatively small panels which were transported to the site glued to some temporary support. the tiny tesserae allowed very fine detail, and an approach to the illusionism of painting. often small panels called emblemata were inserted into walls or as the highlights of larger floor-mosaics in coarser work. the normal technique, however, was opus tessellatum, using larger tesserae, which were laid on site.[ ] there was a distinct native italian style using black on a white background, which was no doubt cheaper than fully coloured work.[ ] a specific genre of roman mosaic obtained the name asaroton (greek "unswept floor"). it represented an optical illusion of the leftovers from a feast on the floor of rich houses.[ ] hypocaust[edit] hypocaust in saint-rémy-de-provence, france a hypocaust was an ancient roman system of underfloor heating, used to heat houses with hot air. the roman architect vitruvius, writing about the end of the st century bc, attributes their invention to sergius orata. many remains of roman hypocausts have survived throughout europe, western asia, and northern africa. the hypocaust was an invention which improved the hygiene and living conditions of citizens, and was a forerunner of modern central heating. hypocausts were used for heating hot baths (thermae), houses and other buildings, whether public or private. the floor was raised above the ground by pillars, called pilae stacks, with a layer of tiles, then a layer of concrete, then another of tiles on top; and spaces were left inside the walls so that hot air and smoke from the furnace would pass through these enclosed areas and out of flues in the roof, thereby heating but not polluting the interior of the room. roman roofs[edit] further information: list of ancient greek and roman roofs in sicily truss roofs presumably appeared as early as bc.[ ] their potential was fully realized in the roman period, which saw trussed roofs over wide spanning the rectangular spaces of monumental public buildings such as temples, basilicas, and later churches. such spans were three times as wide as the widest prop-and-lintel roofs and only surpassed by the largest roman domes.[ ] the largest truss roof by span of ancient rome covered the aula regia (throne room) built for emperor domitian ( –  ad) on the palatine hill, rome. the timber truss roof had a width of .  m, slightly surpassing the postulated limit of  m for roman roof constructions. tie-beam trusses allowed for much larger spans than the older prop-and-lintel system and even concrete vaulting. nine out of the ten largest rectangular spaces in roman architecture were bridged this way, the only exception being the groin vaulted basilica of maxentius.[ ] spiral stairs[edit] further information: list of ancient spiral stairs the spiral stair is a type of stairway which, due to its complex helical structure, was introduced relatively late into architecture. although the oldest example dates back to the th century bc,[ ] it was only in the wake of the influential design of trajan's column that this space-saving new type permanently caught hold in roman architecture.[ ] apart from the triumphal columns in the imperial cities of rome and constantinople, other types of buildings such as temples, thermae, basilicas and tombs were also fitted with spiral stairways.[ ] their notable absence in the towers of the aurelian wall indicates that although used in medieval castles, they did not yet figure prominently in roman military engineering.[ ] by late antiquity, separate stair towers were constructed adjacent to the main buildings, as in the basilica of san vitale. the construction of spiral stairs passed on both to christian and islamic architecture. significant buildings and areas[edit] the baths of caracalla canopo at hadrian's villa, tivoli, italy verona arena at dawn public buildings[edit] 	baths of trajan – these were a massive thermae, a bathing and leisure complex, built in ancient rome starting from ad and dedicated during the kalends of july in . 	baths of diocletian – in ancient rome, these were the grandest of the public baths (thermae), built by successive emperors 	baths of caracalla 	colosseum 	trajan's column, in rome 	circus maximus, in rome 	curia hostilia (senate house), in rome 	domus aurea (former building) 	forum of augustus 	hadrian's villa 	pantheon 	tower of hercules 	tropaeum traiani 	verona arena, in verona 	rotunda church of st. george, serdika, sofia, bulgaria 	roman theatre, philippopolis, plovdiv, bulgaria 	roman stadium, philippopolis, plovdiv, bulgaria 	roman baths, odessos, varna, bulgaria 	roman city walls of diocletianopolis (thrace), hisarya, bulgaria 	roman tomb, primorsko, bulgaria [ ] private architecture[edit] 	alyscamps – a necropolis in arles, france, one of the most famous necropolises of the ancient world 	domus 	catacombs of rome 	roman villa 	pompeii and herculaneum hadrian's wall, built in ad in roman britain, in what is now northern england civil engineering[edit] 	roman engineering – romans are famous for their advanced engineering accomplishments, although some of their own inventions were improvements on older ideas, concepts and inventions. 	roman watermill military engineering[edit] 	antonine wall, in scotland 	hadrian's wall 	limes germanicus see also[edit] 	outline of ancient rome 	outline of architecture 	ancient greek architecture 	architecture of mesopotamia 	achaemenid architecture 	roman technology 	ancient rome portal 	italy 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collections - search home | repositories | free library of philadelphia, special collections collection id: | metadata type: tei | tei xml | data horace ms a ars poetica and epistulae title ars poetica and epistulae authors 	horace (https://viaf.org/viaf/ /) other related names 	hodossy, imre, former owner funders 	council on library and information resources call number horace ms a (philadelphia, united states, free library of philadelphia, horace collection) publisher free library of philadelphia language latin origin fourth quarter th century 	place 	 austria? hungary? summary this manuscript, the first of two volumes, contains the ars poetica and epistulae by horace. it was written in austria or hungary in the fourth quarter of the th century. notes 	probably once bound in with a larger manuscript, as seventeenth-century (?) folio numbering begins on fol. r with   	back flyleaves and are part of quire   watermark briquet no. (a balance) extent ii+ +iv; x mm bound to x mm foliation modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; earlier (seventeenth century?) foliation in ink, upper middle recto, begins on fol. with " " collation ( , + ), ( ), ( ) support paper binding modern binding, blue cloth with gold stamping over paper boards layout 	single column of twenty-four to twenty-nine lines (most pages twenty-seven to twenty-eight); lines begin with capitals; drypoint frame-ruled, no line ruling; written area: x mm decoration occasional manicules script 	gothic--cursiva provenance 	imre hodossy; purchased by maggs bros; ltd in for the free library at a munich auction   keywords 	 th century 	austria 	manicules 	literature -- poetry licenses 	 	text 	these images and the content of free library of philadelphia, horace ms a: ars poetica and epistulae are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. see the creative commons public domain mark page for usage details, 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university of pennsylvania libraries ancient rome and wine - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	ancient rome and wine 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 expansion of the roman empire ancient rome played a pivotal role in the history of wine. the earliest influences on the viticulture of the italian peninsula can be traced to ancient greeks and the etruscans. the rise of the roman empire saw both technological advances in and burgeoning awareness of winemaking, which spread to all parts of the empire. rome's influence has had a profound effect on the histories of today's major winemaking regions in france, germany, italy, portugal and spain. the roman belief that wine was a daily necessity made the drink "democratic" and ubiquitous; in various forms, it was available to slaves, peasants and aristocrats, men and women alike. to ensure the steady supply of wine to roman soldiers and colonists, viticulture and wine production spread to every part of the empire. the economic opportunities presented by trading in wine drew merchants to do business with tribes native to gaul and germania, bringing roman influences to these regions even before the arrival of the roman military.[ ] evidence of this trade and the far-reaching ancient wine economy is most often found through amphorae - ceramic jars used to transport wine.[ ] the works of roman writers—most notably cato, columella, horace, catullus, palladius, pliny, varro and virgil—have provided insight into the role played by wine in roman culture as well as contemporary understanding of winemaking and viticultural practices.[ ] many of the techniques and principles first developed in ancient roman times can be found in modern winemaking.[ ] ancient roman statue of dionysus (also known as bacchus), god of wine (c. ad, prado, madrid). contents 	 early history 	 . golden age 	 . pompeii 	 expansion of viticulture 	 . hispania 	 . gaul 	 . germania 	 . britannia 	 roman writings on wine 	 . marcus porcius cato the elder 	 . columella 	 . pliny the elder 	 . other writers 	 roman winemaking 	 wine styles 	 . grape varieties 	 wine in roman culture 	 . religion and festivals 	 . bacchic cult 	 . medical uses 	 see also 	 references 	 external links early history[edit] the ruins of carthage. when the city was destroyed, one of the few items that the romans saved was the agricultural works of mago. though wild grapevines have grown on the italian peninsula since prehistory, historians are unable to determine precisely when domestic viticulture and winemaking first occurred. it is possible that the mycenaean greeks had some influences through early settlements in southern italy, but the earliest recorded evidence of greek influence dates to bc. viticulture was widely entrenched in etruscan civilization, which was centered around the modern winemaking region of tuscany. because the ancient greeks saw wine as a staple of domestic life and a viable economic trade commodity, their settlements were encouraged to plant vineyards for local use and trade with the greek city-states. southern italy's abundance of indigenous vines provided an ideal opportunity for wine production, giving rise to the greek name for the region: oenotria ("land of vines").[ ] the southern greek colonies probably also brought their own wine pressing methods with them and influenced italian production methods.[ ] as rome grew from a collection of settlements to a kingdom and then to a republic, the culture of roman winemaking was increasingly influenced by the viticultural skills and techniques of the regions that were conquered and integrated into the roman empire, which once, was almost completely dry[definition needed].[ ] the greek settlements of southern italy were completely under roman control by bc. the etruscans, who had already established trade routes into gaul, were completely conquered by the st century bc. the punic wars with carthage had a particularly marked effect on roman viticulture. in addition to broadening the cultural horizons of the roman citizenry, carthaginians also introduced them to advanced viticultural techniques, in particular the work of mago. when the libraries of carthage were ransacked and burned, among the few carthaginian works to survive were the volumes of mago's agricultural treatise, which was subsequently translated into latin and greek in bc. although his work did not survive to the modern era, it has been extensively quoted in the influential writings of romans pliny, columella, varro and gargilius martialis.[ ] golden age[edit] for most of rome's winemaking history, greek wine was the most highly prized, with domestic roman wine commanding lower prices. the nd century bc saw the dawn of the "golden age" of roman winemaking and the development of grand cru vineyards (a type of early first growths in rome). the famous vintage of bc became known as the opimian vintage, named for consul lucius opimius. remarkable for its abundant harvest and the unusually high quality of wine produced, some of the vintage's best examples were being enjoyed over a century later. pliny the elder wrote extensively about the first growths of rome—most notably falernian, alban and caecuban wines. other first-growth vineyards included rhaeticum and hadrianum from atri of the adriatic,[ ] along the po in what are now the modern-day regions of lombardy and venice respectively; praetutium (not related to the modern italian city of teramo, historically known as praetutium) along the adriatic coast near the border of emilia-romagna and marche; and lunense in modern-day tuscany. around rome itself were the estates of alban, sabinum, tiburtinum, setinum and signinum. southward to naples were the estates of caecuban, falernian, caulinum, trebellicanum, massicum, gauranium, and surrentinum. in sicily was the first-growth estate of mamertinum.[ ] at this high point in the empire's history of wine, it was estimated that rome was consuming over million litres ( million us gallons) of wine annually, about a bottle of wine each day for every citizen.[ ] pompeii[edit] a fresco depicting mercury (god of commerce) and bacchus (god of wine) in pompeii, in a hot-food establishment (thermopolium) that served the city prior to its destruction. one of the most important wine centres of the roman world was the city of pompeii, located south of naples, in campania. the area was home to a vast expanse of vineyards, serving as an important trading city with roman provinces abroad and the principal source of wine for the city of rome. the pompeians themselves developed a widespread reputation for their wine-drinking capacity. the prevalent worship of bacchus, the god of wine, left depictions of the god on frescoes and archaeological fragments throughout the region. amphoras stamped with the emblems of pompeian merchants have been found across the modern-day remnants of the roman empire, including bordeaux, narbonne, toulouse and spain. evidence in the form of counterfeit stamps on amphoras of non-pompeian wine suggests that its popularity and notoriety may have given rise to early wine fraud.[ ] the ad eruption of mount vesuvius had a devastating effect on the roman wine industry. vineyards across the region and warehouses storing the recent ad vintage were decimated, resulting in a dramatic shortage of wine. the damage to the trading port hindered the flow of wine from rome's outlying provinces, aggravating its scarcity. available wine rose sharply in price, making it unaffordable to all but the most affluent. the wine famine caused panicking romans to hurriedly plant vineyards in the areas near rome, to such an extent that grain fields were uprooted in favor of grapevines. the subsequent wine surplus created by successful efforts to relieve the wine shortage caused a depression in price, hurting the commercial entrance of wine producers and traders. the uprooting of grain fields now contributed to a food shortage for the growing roman population. in ad, roman emperor domitian issued an edict that not only banned new vineyards in rome but ordered the uprooting of half of the vineyards in roman provinces. the 'foro boario' vineyard at pompeii, replanted as it was at the time of the eruption, with small wine press in structure at back. although there is evidence to suggest that this edict was largely ignored in the roman provinces, wine historians have debated the effect of the edict on the infant wine industries of spain and gaul. the intent of the edict was that fewer vineyards would result in only enough wine for domestic consumption, with sparse amount for trade. while vineyards were already established in these growing wine regions, the ignoring of trade considerations may have suppressed the spread of viticulture and winemaking in these areas. domitian's edict remained in effect for nearly two centuries until emperor probus repealed the measure in ad.[ ] the destruction, and preservation, of pompeii has provided unique insights into ancient wine making and viticulture in the roman world.[ ][ ] preserved vine roots reveal planting patterns and whole vineyards have been excavated within the city walls (e.g. at the foro boario). this complements evidence of pressing and production technologies that worked in tandem with this cultivation.[ ] some of these vineyards have now been replanted with ancient grape varieties and experimental archaeology used to recreate roman wine.[ ][ ] expansion of viticulture[edit] among the lasting legacies of the ancient roman empire were the viticultural foundations laid by the romans in lands that would become world-renowned wine regions. through trade, military campaigns and settlements, romans brought with them a taste for wine and the impetus to plant vines. trade was the first and farthest-reaching arm of their influence, and roman wine merchants were eager to trade with enemy and ally alike—from the carthaginians and peoples of southern spain to the celtic tribes in gaul and germanic tribes of the rhine and danube. during the gallic wars, when julius caesar brought his troops to cabyllona in bc, he found two roman wine merchants already established in business trading with the local tribes. in places like bordeaux, mainz, trier and colchester where roman garrisons were established, vineyards were planted to supply local need and limit the cost of long-distance trading. roman settlements were founded and populated by retired soldiers with knowledge of roman viticulture from their families and life before the military; vineyards were planted in their new homelands. while it is possible that the romans imported grapevines from italy and greece, there is sufficient evidence to suggest that they cultivated native vines that may be the ancestors of the grapes grown in those provinces today.[ ] the italian peninsula was known for its high-quality wines, outstanding examples of which included those of pompeii.[ ][ ] as the republic grew into empire beyond the peninsula, wine's trade and market economy echoed this growth. the wine trade in italy consisted of rome's sale of wine abroad to settlements and provinces around the mediterranean sea, yet by the end of the st century ad, its exports had competition from the provinces, themselves exporters to rome.[ ] the roman market economy encouraged the provinces’ exports, enhancing supply and demand.[ ] an elevated supply of wine meant lower prices for consumers. because of the supply-and-demand economy, citizens possessed an ample supply of coinage, suggesting the existence of a complex market economy surrounding the wine trade of the roman empire. adequate monetary supply meant that the citizenry put a great deal of thought into the market economy of wine.[ ] hispania[edit] roman amphorae recovered from catalonia. rome's defeat of carthage in the punic wars brought the southern and coastal territories of spain under its control, but the complete conquest of the iberian peninsula remained unaccomplished until the reign of caesar augustus. roman colonization led to the development of tarraconensis in the northern regions of spain (including what are now the modern winemaking regions of catalonia, the rioja, the ribera del duero, and galicia) and hispania baetica (which includes modern andalusia) montilla-moriles winemaking region of cordoba and the sherry winemaking region of cádiz. while the carthaginians and phoenicians were the first to introduce viticulture to spain, rome's influential wine technology and the development of road networks brought new economic opportunities to the region, elevating grapes from a private agricultural crop to an important component of a viable commercial enterprise. spanish wine was in bordeaux before the region produced its own. french historian roger dion has suggested that the balisca vine (common in spain's northern provinces, particularly rioja) was brought from rioja to plant the first roman vineyards of bordeaux.[ ] spanish wines were frequently traded in rome. the poet martial described a highly regarded wine known as ceretanum from ceret (modern-day jerez de la frontera). wine historian hugh johnson believes this wine was an early ancestor of sherry.[ ] spanish wines penetrated more extensively than italian wines into the roman empire, with amphoras from spain discovered in aquitaine, brittany, the loire valley, normandy, britain and the german frontier. the historian strabo noted in his work geographica that the vineyards of baetica were famous for their beauty. the roman agricultural writer columella was a native of cádiz and was duly influenced by the region's viticulture.[ ] gaul[edit] there is archaeological evidence to suggest that the celts first cultivated the grapevine in gaul. grape pips have been found throughout france, pre-dating the greeks and romans, with some examples found near lake geneva dated to , bc. the extent to which the celts and gallic tribes produced wine is not clearly known, but the arrival of the greeks near massalia in bc certainly introduced new types and styles of winemaking and viticulture. the limit of greek viticultural influence was planting in regions with mediterranean climates where olives and fig trees would also flourish. the romans looked for hillside terrain in regions near a river and an important town. their knowledge of the sciences included the tendency for cold air to flow down a hillside and to pool in frost pockets in the valley. as these are poor conditions under which to grow grapes, they were avoided in favor of sunny hillsides that could provide sufficient warmth to ripen grapes, even in northerly areas. when the romans seized massalia in bc, they pushed farther inland and westward. they founded the city of narbonne in bc (in the modern-day languedoc region) along the via domitia, the first roman road in gaul. the romans established lucrative trading relations with local tribes of gaul, despite their potential to produce wine of their own. the gallic tribes paid high prices for roman wine, with a single amphora worth the value of a slave.[ ] roman ruins in vienne. the first french wine to receive international acclaim was produced in this area near the modern côte-rôtie wine region. from the mediterranean coast, the romans pushed further up the rhone valley, to areas where olives and figs were unable to grow but where oak trees were still found. as a result of their experience in what is now northeastern italy, the romans knew that regions where quercus ilex were found had climates sufficiently warm enough to allow the full ripening of grapes. in the st century ad, pliny notes that the settlement of vienne (near what is now the côte-rôtie aoc) produced a resinated wine that fetched high prices in rome. wine historian hanneke wilson notes that this rhone wine was the first truly french wine to receive international acclaim.[ ] portion of bearded satyr, emptying a wine-skin, arretine ware, roman, augustan period b.c.–a.d. the first mention of roman interest in the bordeaux region was in strabo's report to augustus that there were no vines down the river tarn towards garonne into the region known as burdigala. the wine for this seaport was being supplied by the "high country" region of gaillac in the midi-pyrénées region. the midi had abundant indigenous vines that the romans cultivated, many of which are still being used to produce wine today, including—duras, fer, ondenc and len de l'el. the location of bordeaux on the gironde estuary made it an ideal seaport from which to transport wine along the atlantic coast and to the british isles. it wasn't long before bordeaux became self-sufficient enough with its own vineyards to export its own wine to roman soldiers stationed in britain. in the st century ad, pliny the elder mentions plantings in bordeaux, including the balisca grape (previously known in spain) under the synonym of biturica after the local bituriges tribe. ampelographers note that corruption of the name biturica is vidure, a french synonym of cabernet sauvignon, perhaps pointing to the ancestry of this vine with the cabernet family that includes cabernet sauvignon, cabernet franc, merlot and petit verdot.[ ] further up the rhone, along the saône tributary, the romans encountered the areas that would become the modern-day wine regions of beaujolais, the mâconnais, the côte chalonnaise and the côte d'or. rome's first allies among the tribes of gaul were the aedui, whom they supported by founding the city of augustodunum in what is now the burgundy wine region. while it is possible that vineyards were planted in the st century ad, shortly after the founding of augustodunum, the first definitive evidence of wine production comes from an account of the visit by emperor constantine to the city in ad. the founding of france's other great wine regions is not as clear. the romans' propensity for planting on hillsides has left archaeological evidence of gallo-roman vineyards in the chalk hillsides of sancerre. in the th century, the emperor julian had a vineyard near paris on the hill of montmartre, and a th-century villa in what is now Épernay shows the roman influence in the champagne region.[ ] germania[edit] the roman bridge of trier crosses the river mosel. the romans found that planting vines on the steep banks along the river provided enough warmth to ripen wine grapes. although wild v. vinifera vines have existed along the rhine since prehistory, the earliest evidence of viticulture dates back to the roman conquest and settlement of the western territories of germania. agricultural tools, such as pruning knives, have been found near roman garrison posts in trier and cologne, but the first definitive record of wine production dates to the ad work by ausonius titled mosella, wherein he described vibrant vineyards along the mosel. a native of bordeaux, ausonius compared the vineyards favorably to those of his homeland and seems to indicate that viticulture had long been present in this area. the reasons for planting rhineland were to cater to the growing demand of roman soldiers along the limes germanicus (german frontier) and the high costs associated with importing wine from rome, spain or bordeaux. the romans briefly considered building a canal that would link the saône and mosel rivers in order to facilitate waterway trading. the alternative was to drink what tacitus described as an inferior beer-like beverage.[ ] beer was apparently enjoyed by some roman legionaries. for instance, among the vindolanda tablets (from vindolanda in roman britain, dated c. - ad), the cavalry decurion masculus wrote a letter to prefect flavius cerialis inquiring about the exact instructions for his men for the following day. this included a polite request for beer to be sent to the garrison (which had entirely consumed its previous stock of beer).[ ] the steep hillsides along the rivers mosel and rhine provided an opportunity to extend the cultivation of grapes to a northerly location. a south-southwest-facing slope maximizes the amount of sunshine vines receive, with the degree of angle allowing the vines to receive the sun's rays perpendicularly rather than at the low or diffuse angle vineyards on flatter terrain receive. hillsides offered the added benefit of shielding vines from the cold northern winds, and the rivers' reflection offered additional warmth to aid in ripening the grapes. with the right type of grape (perhaps even an early ancestor of the german wine grape riesling), the romans found that wine could be produced in germania. from the rhine, german wine would make its way downriver to the north sea and to merchants in britain, where it began to develop a good reputation. despite military hostilities, the neighboring germanic tribes like the alamanni and franks were eager customers for german wine until a th-century edict forbade the sale of wine outside of roman settlements. wine historian hugh johnson believes this might have been an added incentive for the barbarian invasions and sacking of roman settlements such as trier—"an invitation to break down the door."[ ] britannia[edit] the silver serving tray depicting bacchus found in mildenhall. rome's influence on britain with respect to wine is not so much viticultural as it is cultural. throughout modern history, the british have played a key role in shaping the world of wine and defining global wine markets.[ ] though evidence of v. vinifera vines in the british isles dates back to the hoxnian stage when the climate was much warmer than it is today, british interest in wine production greatly increased following the roman conquest of britain in the st century ad. amphoras from italy indicate that wine was regularly transported to britain at great expense by sea, around the iberian peninsula. the development of wine-producing regions in bordeaux and germany made supplying the needs of roman colonists much easier at less cost. the presence of amphora production houses found in what is now brockley and middlesex indicates that the british probably had vineyards of their own as well.[ ] there is clear evidence that the roman cult of bacchus, the wine god, was practiced in britain: more than artifacts depicting his likeness have been found throughout britain. included in the mildenhall treasure collection is a silver dish engraved with bacchus having a drinking contest with hercules. in colchester, excavations have uncovered containers identifying over different types of wines from italy, spain, the rhine and bordeaux.[ ] roman writings on wine[edit] works of classical roman writers—most notably cato, columella, horace, palladius, pliny, varro and virgil—shed light on the role of wine in roman culture as well as contemporary winemaking and viticultural practices.[ ] some of these influential techniques can be found in modern winemaking. these include the consideration of climate and landscape in deciding which grape varieties to plant, the benefits of different trellising and vine-training systems, the effects of pruning and harvest yields on the quality of wine, as well as winemaking techniques such as sur lie aging after fermentation and the maintenance of sanitary practices throughout the winemaking process to avoid contamination, impurities and spoilage.[ ] marcus porcius cato the elder[edit] marcus porcius cato was a roman statesman raised in an agricultural family on a farm in reate northeast of rome. he wrote extensively on a variety of subject matters in de agri cultura (concerning the cultivation of the land), the oldest surviving work of latin prose. the author commented in detail on viticulture and winemaking, e.g. the management of a vineyard and calculations concerning the amount of labor a slave could perform before dropping dead.[ ] he believed that grapes produce the best wine when they receive the maximum amount of sunshine. to this extent, he recommended that vines be trained in trees as high as possible and then be severely pruned of all leaves once the grapes began to ripen.[ ] he also advised winemakers to wait until the grapes are fully ripe before the harvest to ensure high quality in the wine and thus maintain the reputation of the wine estate. cato was an early advocate for the importance of hygiene in winemaking, recommending, for example, that wine jars be wiped clean twice a day with a new broom every time; thoroughly sealing the jars after fermentation to prevent the wine from spoiling and turning into vinegar; and not filling the amphoras to the top to leave some head space, leading to a small amount of oxidation.[ ] cato's manual was fervently followed, becoming the standard textbook of roman winemaking for centuries.[ ] columella[edit] statue of columella in his native land of cádiz. columella was st-century ad writer whose -volume de re rustica is considered one of the most important works on roman agriculture. eleven volumes written in prose are augmented by volume , a book on gardens in hexameter verse. volumes and delve into the technical aspects of roman viticulture, including advice on which soil types yield the best wine, while volume concerns various aspects of winemaking.[ ] columella describes the boiling of grape must in a lead vessel to concentrate sugars and at the same time allow the lead to impart sweetness and desirable texture to the wine,[ ] a practice that may have contributed to lead poisoning. he presented precise details on how a well-run vineyard should operate, from the optimum breakfast for slaves to the yield of grapes from each jugerum of land and the pruning practices to ensure those yields. many modern elements of vine training and trellising are evident in columella's description of best practices. in his ideal vineyard, vines were planted two paces apart and fastened with willow withies to chestnut stakes about the height of a man. he also describes some of the wines of roman provinces, noting the potential of wines from spain and the bordeaux region. additionally, columella lauds the quality of wines made from the ancient grape varieties balisca and biturica, believed by ampelographers to be ancestral to the cabernet family.[ ] pliny the elder[edit] pliny the elder. pliny the elder was a st-century ad naturalist and author of the -volume roman encyclopedia naturalis historia (natural history), dedicated to the emperor titus. published after pliny's death near pompeii following the eruption of mount vesuvius, the work covers a vast array of topics, including serious discourse on viticulture and wine. book deals exclusively with the subject of wine itself, including a ranking of the "first growths" of rome. book includes a discussion of various viticultural techniques and an early formalization of the concept of terroir, in that unique places produce unique wine. in his rankings of the best roman wines, pliny concludes that the vineyard has more influence on the resulting quality of wine than the particular vine. the early sections of book deal with some of the purported medicinal properties of wine.[ ] pliny was a strong advocate for training vines up trees in a pergola, noting that the finest wines in campania all derived from this practice. due to the dangers in working on and pruning vines trained this way, however, he advised not using valuable slaves but rather vineyard workers hired with a stipulation in their contract to cover grave and funeral expenses. he described some contemporary varieties, recommending aminean and nomentan as the best. ampelographers believe that two white wine varieties mentioned, arcelaca and argitis, may be early ancestors to the modern grape riesling.[ ] pliny is also the source for one of the most famous latin quotations about wine: "in vino veritas," or "there's truth in wine," referring to the often confessional loquacity of the intoxicated.[ ] other writers[edit] marcus terentius varro, whom the rhetorician quintilian called "the most learned man among the romans,"[ ] wrote extensively on such topics as grammar, geography, religion, law and science, but only his agricultural treatise de re rustica (or rerum rusticarum libri) has survived in its entirety. while there is evidence that he borrowed some of this material from cato's work, varro credits the lost multi-volume work of mago the carthaginian, as well as the greek writers aristotle, theophrastus and xenophon. varro's treatise is written as a dialogue and divided into three parts, the first of which contains most of the discussion on wine and viticulture. he defines old wine as one removed from its vintage by at least a year; nonetheless, he notes that while some wines are best consumed young, especially fine wines such as falernian are meant to be consumed much older.[ ] virgil. the poetry of virgil recalls that of the greek poet hesiod in its focus on the morality and virtue of viticulture, particularly the austerity, integrity and hard work of roman farmers. the second book of the didactic poem georgics deals with viticultural matters.[ ] virgil advises leaving some grapes on the vine until late november when they become "stiff with frost." this early version of ice wine would have produced sweet wines without the acidity of wine made from grapes harvested earlier.[ ] virgil's contemporary horace wrote often of wine, though no single work is devoted entirely to the subject. he espoused an epicurean view of taking life's pleasures, including wine, in moderation. among the earliest recorded examples of deliberately choosing a wine for a specific occasion, horace's odes included serving a wine from the birth-year vintage at a celebration of an honored guest. he writes of serving simple wines for everyday occasions and saving celebrated wines such as caecuban for special events. horace answered the question posed by the alexandrian poet callimachus as to whether water or wine was the preferred drink of poetic inspiration by enthusiastically siding with cratinus and the wine drinkers.[ ] his affinity for wine was such that while contemplating his death, he expressed more dread at the thought of departing from his beloved wine cellar than his wife.[ ] palladius was the th-century writer of the -volume agricultural treatise opus agriculturae or de re rustica, the first volume of which was an introduction to basic farming principles. the volumes following were dedicated to each month of the calendar and the specific agricultural tasks to be performed in that month. while palladius deals with a variety of agricultural crops, he devotes more discussion to the practices of the vineyard than to any other. the last two volumes treat mostly veterinary medicine for farm animals but also include a detailed account of late-roman grafting practices. though borrowing heavily from cato, varro, pliny and columella, the work of palladius is one of the few roman agricultural accounts to still be widely used through the middle ages and into the early renaissance. his writings on viticulture were widely quoted by vincent of beauvais, albertus magnus and pietro crescenzi.[ ] roman winemaking[edit] see also: history of the wine press after fermentation, roman wine was stored in amphoras to be used for serving or further aging. the process of making wine in ancient rome began immediately after the harvest with treading the grapes (often by foot), in a manner similar to the french pigeage. the juice thus expressed was the most highly prized and kept separate from what would later come from pressing the grape.[ ][ ] this free-run juice was also believed to have the most beneficial medicinal properties.[ ] cato described the process of pressing as taking place in a special room that included an elevated concrete platform containing a shallow basin with raised curbs. the basin was shaped with gentle slopes that led to a runoff point. horizontally across the basin were long, wooden beams whose front parts were attached by rope to a windlass. the crushed grapes were placed between the beams, with pressure applied by winding down the windlass. the pressed juice ran down between the beams and collected in the basin. as the construction and use of a wine press was labor-intensive and expensive, its use was generally restricted to large estates, with smaller wineries relying on treading alone to obtain grape juice.[ ] if grape pressing was used, an estate would press the skins one to three times. since juice from later pressings would be coarser and more tannic, the third pressing normally made wine of low quality called lora. after pressing, the grape must was stored in large earthenware jars known as dolia. with a capacity of up to several thousand liters, these jars were often partially buried into the floors of a barn or warehouse. fermentation took place in the dolium, lasting from two weeks to a month before the wine was removed and put in amphoras for storage. small holes drilled into the top allowed the carbon dioxide gas to escape.[ ] to enhance flavor, white wine might age on its lees, and chalk or marble dust was sometimes added to reduce acidity.[ ] wines were often exposed to high temperatures and "baked," a process similar to that used to make modern madeira. to enhance a wine's sweetness, a portion of the wine must was boiled to concentrate the sugars in the process known as defrutum and then added to the rest of the fermenting batch. (columella's writings suggest that the romans believed boiling the must acted as a preservative as well.) lead was also sometimes used as a sweetening agent,[ ] but honey could also be added, as much as kilograms ( .  lb) recommended to sufficiently sweeten litres ( .  us gal) of wine to roman tastes. another technique was to withhold a portion of the sweeter, unfermented must and blend it with the finished wine, a method known today as süssreserve.[ ] wine styles[edit] the grape material from pomace (pictured) was used to make lora, a low-quality wine commonly drunk by roman slaves. as in much of the ancient world, sweet white wine was the most highly regarded style. wines were often very alcoholic[verification needed], with pliny noting that a cup of falernian would catch fire from a candle flame drawn too close. wine was often diluted with warm water, occasionally seawater.[ ] the ability to age was a desirable trait in roman wines, with mature examples from older vintages fetching higher prices than that from the current vintage, regardless of its overall quality. roman law codified the distinction between "old" and "new" as whether wine had aged for at least a year. falernian was particularly valued for its aging ability, said to need at least years to mature but being at its best between and years. the white wine from surrentine was said to need at least years. in the manner of greek wine, roman wine was often flavored with herbs and spices (similar to modern vermouth and mulled wine) and was sometimes stored in resin-coated containers, giving it a flavor similar to modern retsina.[ ] romans were particularly interested in the aroma of wine and experimented with various methods of enhancing a wine's bouquet. one technique that gained some usage in southern gaul was planting herbs such as lavender and thyme in the vineyards, believing that their flavors would pass through the ground and into the grapes. modern-day wines from the rhone are often characterized by using the aroma descriptors of lavender and thyme, presumably as a reflection of the grape varieties used and the terroir.[ ] another widespread practice was the storage of amphoras in a smoke chamber called a fumarium to add smokiness to a wine's flavor. passum, or wine made from dried grapes or raisins, was also particularly popular and was produced in the eastern mediterranean.[ ] it was widely used in ritual contexts and also found popularity in the kitchen and medicinal spheres.[ ] the term "wine" spanned a broad spectrum of wine-based beverages, the quality of which depended on the amount of pure grape juice used and how diluted the wine was when served. the finest wine was reserved for the upper classes of rome. below that was posca, a mixture of water and sour wine that had not yet turned into vinegar. less acidic than vinegar, it still retained some of the aromas and texture of wine and was the preferred wine for the rations of roman soldiers due to its low alcohol levels. posca's use as soldiers' rations was codified in the corpus juris civilis and amounted to around a liter per day. still lower in quality was lora (modern-day piquette), which was made by soaking in water for a day the pomace of grape skins already pressed twice, and then pressing a third time. cato and varro recommended lora for their slaves. both posca and lora were the most commonly available wine for the general roman populace and probably would have been for the most part red wines, since white wine grapes would have been reserved for the upper class.[ ] mosaic depicting the vintage (from cherchell, present-day algeria, roman africa) grape varieties[edit] the writings of virgil, pliny and columella offer the most detail about the grape varieties used in the production of wine in the roman empire, many of which have been lost to antiquity. while virgil's writings often do not distinguish between a wine's name and the grape variety, he made frequent mention of the aminean grape variety, which pliny and columella ranked as the best in the empire. pliny described five sub-varieties of the grape that produced similar but distinct wines, declaring it to be native to the italian peninsula. while he claimed that only democritus knew of every grape variety that existed, he endeavored to speak with authority on the grapes he believed were the only ones worthy of consideration. pliny described nomentan as the second-best wine-producing grape, followed by apian and its two sub-varieties, which were the preferred grape of etruria. the only other grapes worthy of his consideration were greek varieties, including the graecula grape used to make chian wine. he remarked that the eugenia had promise, but only if planted in the colli albani region. columella mentioned many of the same grapes but noted that the same grape produced varied wines in different regions and could even be known under different names, making it hard to track. he encouraged vine growers to experiment with different plantings to find the best for their areas.[ ] ampelographers debate these descriptions of grapes and their possible modern counterparts or descendants. the allobrogica grape that was used to produce the rhone wine of vienne may have been an early ancestor of the pinot family. alternative theories posit that it was more closely related to syrah or mondeuse noire—two grapes that produce vastly different wines. the link between these two is the mondeuse noire synonym of grosse syrah. the rhaetic grape that virgil praised is believed to be related to the modern refosco of northeastern italy.[ ] wine in roman culture[edit] marble table support adorned by dionysos, pan and a satyr; dionysos holds a rhyton (drinking vessel) in the shape of a panther, - ad early roman culture was sharply influenced by the ancient greeks. though early rome was very "dry" by greek standards, this view changed over the course of the empire.[ ] wine had religious, medicinal and social roles that set it apart from other roman cuisine. wine, like in greek culture was mixed with water, and both cultures held banquets, where wine was used to show off wealth and prestige.[ ] as rome entered its golden age of winemaking and the era of expansion, a "democratic" approach to wine started to emerge. wine was increasingly viewed as a necessity of everyday life rather than simply a luxury enjoyed by the elite. cato believed that even slaves should have a weekly ration of liters (over a gallon), nonetheless citing the dietary health of the slaves and the maintenance of their strength rather than personal enjoyment. should a slave become sick and unavailable to work, cato advised halving his rations to conserve wine for the workforce.[ ] the widespread planting of grapes ensued from the need to serve all classes of society, but was also given impetus by the changing roman diet. in the nd century bc, romans began to shift from meals consisting of moist porridge and gruel to those more bread-based; wine aided in eating the drier food.[ ] religion and festivals[edit] wine played a major role in ancient roman religion and roman funerary practices, and was the preferred libation for most deities. the invention of wine was usually credited to liber and his greek equivalents, bacchus (later romanised) and dionysus, who promoted the fertility of human and animal semen, and the "soft seed" of the vine. ordinary, everyday, mixed wines were under the protection of venus, but were considered profane (vinum spurcum), forbidden for use in official sacrifice to deities of the roman state. a sample of pure, undilute strong wine from the first pressing was offered to liber/bacchus, in gratitude for his assistance in its production. the remainder, known as temetum, was customarily reserved for roman men and roman gods, particularly jupiter, king of the gods. it was, however, also an essential element of the secretive, nocturnal and exclusively female bona dea festival, during which it was freely consumed but could only be referred to euphemistically, as "milk" or "honey".[ ][ ] the major public festivals concerning wine production were the two vinalia. at the vinalia prima ("first vinalia") of april, ordinary men and women sampled the previous year's vintage of ordinary wine in venus' name, while the roman elite offered a generous libation of wine to jupiter, in the hope of good weather for the next year's growth.[ ] the vinalia rustica of august, originally a rustic latin harvest festival, celebrated the grape harvest, and the growth and fertility of all garden crops; its patron deity may have been venus, or jupiter, or both.[ ] bacchic cult[edit] main article: bacchanalia see also: bacchus, liber, dionysia, and dionysian mysteries wine's use in the christian sacrament of the eucharist shares similarities with the pagan rites dedicated to bacchus. the bacchanalia were private roman mystery cults of bacchus, the greco-roman god of wine, freedom, intoxication and ecstasy. they were based on the greek dionysia and the dionysian mysteries, and probably arrived in rome c. bc from greek colonies in southern italy, and etruria, rome's northern neighbour. they were originally occasional, women-only affairs, but became increasingly popular and frequent, and were opened up to priests and initiates of both genders and all classes; they may have briefly supplanted an existing, public cult to liber.[ ] cult initiates employed music, dance and copious amounts of wine to achieve ecstatic religious possession. the roman senate perceived the cult as a threat to its own authority and roman morality, and suppressed it with extreme ferocity in . of some seven thousand initiates and their leaders, most were put to death. thereafter the bacchanalia continued in much diminished form, under the supervision of rome's religious authorities, and were probably absorbed into liber's cult.[ ][ ] despite the ban, illicit bacchanals persisted covertly for many years, particularly in southern italy, their likely place of origin.[ ] as rome assimilated more cultures, it encountered peoples from two religions that viewed wine in generally positive terms—judaism and christianity. grapes and wine make frequent literal and allegorical appearances in both the hebrew and christian bibles. in the torah, grapevines were among the first crops planted after the great flood, and in exploring canaan following the exodus from egypt, one of the positive reports about the land was that grapevines were abundant. the jews under roman rule accepted wine as part of their daily life, but regarded negatively the excesses that they associated with roman impurities.[ ] many of the jewish views on wine were adopted by the new christian sect that emerged in the st century ad. one of the first miracles performed by the sect's founder, jesus, was to have turned water into wine. in addition, the sacrament of the eucharist prominently involved wine. the romans drew some parallels between bacchus and christ. both figures possessed narratives strongly featuring the symbolism of life after death: bacchus in the yearly harvest and dormancy of the grape; and christ in the death and resurrection story. eucharist's act of drinking wine as a stand-in for consuming christ, either metaphysically or metaphorically, echoes the rites performed in festivals dedicated to bacchus.[ ] the influence and importance of wine in christianity was undeniable, and soon the church itself would take the mantle from ancient rome as the dominant influence in the world of wine for the centuries leading to the renaissance.[ ] medical uses[edit] see also: wine and health romans believed that wine had the power to both heal and harm. wine was a recommended cure for mental disorders such as depression, memory loss and grief, as well as bodily ailments, from bloating, constipation, diarrhea, gout, and halitosis to snakebites, tapeworms, urinary problems and vertigo. cato wrote extensively on the medical uses of wine, including a recipe for a laxative: wine made from grapevines treated with a mixture of ashes, manure and hellebore. he recommended that the flowers of certain plants, e.g. juniper and myrtle, be soaked in wine to help with snakebites and gout. he also believed that a mixture of old wine and juniper, boiled in a lead pot, could aid in urinary issues and that mixing wine with very acidic pomegranates could cure tapeworms.[ ] the nd-century ce greco-roman physician galen provided several details concerning wine's medicinal use in later roman times. in pergamon, galen was responsible for the diet and care of the gladiators, and used wine liberally in his practice, boasting that not a single gladiator died in his care. wine served as an antiseptic for wounds and an analgesic for surgery. when he became emperor marcus aurelius's physician, he developed pharmaceutical concoctions made from wine known as theriacs. superstitious beliefs concerning theriacs' "miraculous" ability to protect against poisons and cure everything from the plague to mouth sores lasted until the th century. in his work de antidotis, galen noted the trend in romans' tastes from thick, sweet wines to lighter, dry wines that were easier to digest.[ ] the romans were also aware of the negative health effects of drinking wine, particularly the tendency towards "madness" if consumed immoderately. lucretius warned that wine could provoke a fury in one's soul and lead to quarrels. seneca the elder believed that drinking wine magnified the physical and psychological defects of the drinker. drinking wine in excess was frowned upon and those who imbibed heavily were considered dangerous to society. the roman politician cicero frequently labeled his rivals drunkards and a danger to rome—most notably mark antony, who apparently once drank to such excess that he vomited in the senate.[ ] the ambivalent attitude of the romans is summarized in an epitaph: balnea vina 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(op ) rome, romeinse republiek 	nasionaliteit	romeinse republiek 	beroep	soldaat, scriba quaestorius, digter 	bekend vir	ode, satire, ars poetica quintus horatius flaccus ( desember v.c. — november v.c.) was 'n romeinse digter in die era van keiser augustus. lewe[wysig | wysig bron] horatius is gebore in venusia, 'n klein dorpie tussen apulia en lucania. horatius was die seun van 'n vrygestelde slaaf. sy pa het 'n plaas gehad in venusia, maar het later verhuis na rome waar hy 'n middelman was by 'n afslaer. horatius se vader het baie geld op horatius se opvoeding gespandeer waar horatius in rome sowel as athene gestudeer het. nadat julius caesar vermoor is, het horatius by die romeinse legioene aangesluit onder die generaalskap van brutus. hy het by die slag van philippi geveg en nadat augustus 'n amnestie uitgereik het, het horatius na rome teruggekeer. horatius word as een van die grootste romeinse digters beskou. werke en opsteldatums[wysig | wysig bron] 	sermonum liber primus of 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succession and family legacy were very important; therefore romans needed ways of passing down their fortune and name when unable to produce a male heir. adoption was one of the few ways to guarantee succession, so it became a norm to adopt young males into the homes of high ranking families. due to the roman inheritance laws (falcidia lex),[ ] women had very little rights or the ability to inherit fortunes. this made them less valuable for adoption. however, women were still adopted and it was more common for them to be wed to an influential family. contents 	 causes 	 practice 	 adoption of women 	 imperial succession 	 . the julio-claudian dynasty 	 . the adoptive emperors 	 see also 	 references 	 external links causes[edit] one of the benefits of a male heir was the ability to create ties among other high-ranking families through marriage. senators throughout rome had the responsibility of producing sons who could inherit their family’s title and estate. childbirth was very unpredictable during these times and there was no way of knowing gender before birth. this caused many children to be lost in the years directly after and it was hard for the senators to control the situation. with the cost of children being high and average families having very few children, this posed a challenge for the senators. without a male heir, their title and estate could be forfeited. this was the leading cause for adoption in ancient rome. it is important to note that adoption in ancient rome was used for a number of reasons and not exclusively by senators. the use by senators guaranteed them a son; this gave senators the freedom to produce children more freely knowing a male heir could always be adopted if unable to produce one naturally. this also created new benefits for female babies enabling them to be given away for adoption into higher ranked families. with the reduced risk of succession issues this created opportunities for males children to marry into other high-ranking families to create powerful ties among the upper class. in the case of the lower classes, raising a large family was quite challenging. due to the cost, this allowed them to put their children up for adoption. it would benefit both the families and the child. one famous example of this is when lucius aemilius put his own two sons up for adoption.[ ] practice[edit] in rome, the person in charge of adoption was the male head of the household called the paterfamilias. adoption would result in an adoption of power for the adopted child as the status of the adopting family was immediately transferred to the child. this was almost always an increase in power due to the high cost of adoption. publius clodius pulcher famously used this loophole for political power in his attempt to gain control over the plebs.[ ] during the roman republic, the same laws stood in place with only one difference; the requirement of the senate's approval. the actual adoption was often operated like a business contract between the two families. the adopted child took the family name as his own. along with this, the child kept his/her original name through the form of cognomen or essentially a nickname. the adopted child also maintained previous family connections and often leveraged this politically. due to the power disparity that normally existed between the families involved in adoption, a fee was often given to the lower family to help with replacing (in most cases) the first-born son. another case similar to adoption was the fostering of children; this effectively took place when a paterfamilias transferred his power to another man to be left in their care.[ ] former slaves who were freed by their masters could be allowed to adopt his children to legitimize them.[ ] adoption of women[edit] throughout roman history many adoptions took place but very few accounts of female adoption were recorded and preserved throughout history. with men holding the spotlight in history books and articles, it is possible that adoption of girls was more popular. however, because most of the famous adoptions were male children, female adoptions could have been wrongfully accounted. additionally, because the legal impacts of women in ancient rome were so minimal, it is possible that adoptions could have been more informal and therefore less accounted for in history. one of the most well known was livia augusta who gained this name after her adoption into the julian family. known mainly as the wife of augustus. livia played a key role during this time in the roman empire both as a political symbol and a role model for roman households. livia earned herself an honorable place among history as a great mother however some of the rumors related to potential heirs have survived throughout history.[ ] imperial succession[edit] many of rome’s famous emperors came to power through adoption, either because their predecessors had no natural sons or simply to ensure a smooth transition for the most capable candidate. the julio-claudian dynasty[edit] julio claudian family tree the first emperor, augustus, owed much of his success to having been adopted into the gens julia in the will of his great uncle, julius caesar. however, the office of emperor did not exist at that time; octavian inherited caesar's money, name and auctoritas but not the office of dictator. as augustus's central role in the principate solidified, it became increasingly important for him to designate an heir. he first adopted his daughter julia's three sons by marcus agrippa, renaming them gaius caesar, lucius caesar and marcus julius caesar agrippa postumus. after the former two died young and the latter was exiled, augustus adopted his stepson tiberius claudius nero on condition that he adopt his own nephew, germanicus (who was also augustus's great nephew by blood). tiberius succeeded augustus and on tiberius's death germanicus's son caligula became emperor. claudius adopted his stepson lucius domitius ahenobarbus, who changed his name to nero claudius caesar and succeeded claudius as the emperor nero. the adoptive emperors[edit] the nerva-antonine dynasty was also united by a series of adoptions. nerva adopted the popular military leader trajan. trajan in turn took hadrian as his protégé and, although the legitimacy is debatable, hadrian claimed to have been adopted and took the name caesar traianus hadrianus when he became emperor. hadrian adopted lucius ceionius commodus, who changed his name to lucius aelius caesar but predeceased hadrian. he then adopted titus aurelius fulvus boionius arrius antoninus, on condition that he adopt both the natural son of the late lucius aelius and a promising young nephew of his wife. they ruled as antoninus pius, lucius verus and marcus aurelius respectively. niccolò machiavelli described them as the five good emperors and attributed their success to having been chosen for the role: from the study of this history we may also learn how a good government is to be established; for while all the emperors who succeeded to the throne by birth, except titus, were bad, all were good who succeeded by adoption, as in the case of the five from nerva to marcus. but as soon as the empire fell once more to the heirs by birth, its ruin recommenced.[ ] this run of adoptive emperors came to an end when marcus aurelius named his biological son, commodus, as his heir. one reason why adoption never became the official method of designating a successor was because hereditary rule was against republican principles and the republic had never been abandoned in law, even though the emperors of the principate behaved as monarchs. the dominate of diocletian effectively replaced adoption with consortium imperii - designating an heir by appointing him partner in imperium. see also[edit] 	roman culture 	adrogation references[edit] 	^ a b weigel, richard d. 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wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 none none andrew marvell - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	andrew marvell 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		english metaphysical poet, satirist and politician 	andrew marvell 	andrew marvell (between c. and c. ) 	born	( - - ) march winestead, england 	died	 august ( - - ) (aged  ) london, england 	occupation	poet 	alma mater	trinity college, cambridge 	notable works	"to his coy mistress", "the garden", "an horatian ode" andrew marvell (/ˈmɑːrvəl, mɑːrˈvɛl/; march – august ) was an english metaphysical poet, satirist and politician who sat in the house of commons at various times between and . during the commonwealth period he was a colleague and friend of john milton. his poems range from the love-song "to his coy mistress", to evocations of an aristocratic country house and garden in "upon appleton house" and "the garden", the political address "an horatian ode upon cromwell's return from ireland", and the later personal and political satires "flecknoe" and "the character of holland". contents 	 early life 	 first poems and marvell's time at nun appleton 	 anglo-dutch war and employment as latin secretary 	 after the restoration 	 prose works 	 views 	 marvell's poetic style 	 in popular culture 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links early life[edit] attributed to sir godfrey kneller (who arrived in england in ), trinity college, cambridge andrew marvell marvell was born in winestead-in-holderness, east riding of yorkshire, near the city of kingston upon hull, the son of a church of england clergyman also named andrew marvell. the family moved to hull when his father was appointed lecturer at holy trinity church there, and marvell was educated at hull grammar school. a secondary school in the city, the andrew marvell business and enterprise college, is named after him.[ ] at the age of , marvell attended trinity college, cambridge and eventually received a ba degree.[ ] a portrait of marvell attributed to godfrey kneller hangs in trinity college's collection.[ ] afterwards, from the middle of onwards, marvell probably travelled in continental europe. he may well have served as a tutor for an aristocrat on the grand tour, but the facts are not clear on this point. while england was embroiled in the civil war, marvell seems to have remained on the continent until . in rome in he probably met the villiers brothers, lord francis and the nd duke of buckingham, as well as richard flecknoe, about whom he would later on write a satirical poem.[ ] it is not known exactly where his travels took him except that milton later reported that marvell had mastered four languages, including french, italian and spanish.[ ] first poems and marvell's time at nun appleton[edit] marvell's first poems, which were written in latin and greek and published when he was still at cambridge, lamented a visitation of the plague and celebrated the birth of a child to king charles i and queen henrietta maria. he only belatedly became sympathetic to the successive regimes during the interregnum after charles i's execution on january . his "horatian ode", a political poem dated to early , responds with lament to the regicide even as it praises oliver cromwell's return from ireland.[ ][ ][ ] circa – , marvell served as tutor to the daughter of the lord general thomas fairfax, who had recently relinquished command of the parliamentary army to cromwell. he lived during that time at nun appleton hall, near york, where he continued to write poetry. one poem, "upon appleton house, to my lord fairfax", uses a description of the estate as a way of exploring fairfax's and marvell's own situation in a time of war and political change.[ ] probably the best-known poem he wrote at this time is "to his coy mistress". anglo-dutch war and employment as latin secretary[edit] during the period of increasing tensions leading up to the first anglo-dutch war of , marvell wrote the satirical "character of holland," repeating the then-current stereotype of the dutch as "drunken and profane": "this indigested vomit of the sea,/ fell to the dutch by just propriety." he became a tutor to cromwell's ward, william dutton, in , and moved to live with his pupil at the house of john oxenbridge in eton. oxenbridge had made two trips to bermuda, and it is thought that this inspired marvell to write his poem bermudas. he also wrote several poems in praise of cromwell, who was by this time lord protector of england. in marvell and dutton travelled to france, to visit the protestant academy of saumur.[ ][ ] in , marvell joined milton, who by that time had lost his sight, in service as latin secretary to cromwell's council of state at a salary of £ a year, which represented financial security at that time. oliver cromwell died in . he was succeeded as lord protector by his son richard. in marvell was elected member of parliament for kingston upon hull in the third protectorate parliament.[ ] he was paid a rate of shillings, pence per day during sittings of parliament, a financial support derived from the contributions of his constituency.[ ] he was re-elected mp for hull in for the convention parliament. after the restoration[edit] a statue of andrew marvell, located in the marketplace, kingston upon hull, uk the monarchy was restored to charles ii in . marvell avoided punishment for his own co-operation with republicanism, and he helped convince the government of charles ii not to execute john milton for his antimonarchical writings and revolutionary activities.[ ] the closeness of the relationship between the two former colleagues is indicated by the fact that marvell contributed an eloquent prefatory poem, entitled "on mr. milton's paradise lost", to the second edition of milton's epic paradise lost. according to a biographer: "skilled in the arts of self-preservation, he was not a toady."[ ] in marvell was re-elected mp for hull in the cavalier parliament.[ ] he eventually came to write several long and bitterly satirical verses against the corruption of the court. although circulated in manuscript form, some finding anonymous publication in print, they were too politically sensitive and thus dangerous to be published under his name until well after his death. marvell took up opposition to the 'court party', and satirised them anonymously. in his longest verse satire, last instructions to a painter, written in , marvell responded to the political corruption that had contributed to english failures during the second anglo-dutch war. the poem did not find print publication until after the revolution of – . the poem instructs an imaginary painter how to picture the state without a proper navy to defend them, led by men without intelligence or courage, a corrupt and dissolute court, and dishonest officials. of another such satire, samuel pepys, himself a government official, commented in his diary, "here i met with a fourth advice to a painter upon the coming in of the dutch and the end of the war, that made my heart ake to read, it being too sharp and so true."[ ] from until his death in , marvell was serving as london agent for the hull trinity house, a shipmasters' guild.[citation needed] he went on two missions to the continent, one to the dutch republic and the other encompassing russia, sweden, and denmark.[citation needed] he spent some time living in a cottage on highgate hill in north london, where his time in the area is recorded by a bronze plaque that bears the following inscription: four feet below this spot is the stone step, formerly the entrance to the cottage in which lived andrew marvell, poet, wit, and satirist; colleague with john milton in the foreign or latin secretaryship during the commonwealth; and for about twenty years m.p. for hull. born at winestead, yorkshire, st march, , died in london, th august, , and buried in the church of st. giles-in-the-fields. this memorial is placed here by the london county council, december, .[ ] a floral sundial in the nearby lauderdale house bears an inscription quoting lines from his poem "the garden".[ ] he died suddenly in , while in attendance at a popular meeting of his old constituents at hull. his health had previously been remarkably good; and it was supposed by many that he was poisoned by some of his political or clerical enemies. marvell was buried in the church of st giles in the fields in central london. his monument, erected by his grateful constituency, bears the following inscription: near this place lyeth the body of andrew marvell, esq., a man so endowed by nature, so improved by education, study, and travel, so consummated by experience, that, joining the peculiar graces of wit and learning, with a singular penetration and strength of judgment; and exercising all these in the whole course of his life, with an unutterable steadiness in the ways of virtue, he became the ornament and example of his age, beloved by good men, feared by bad, admired by all, though imitated by few; and scarce paralleled by any. but a tombstone can neither contain his character, nor is marble necessary to transmit it to posterity; it is engraved in the minds of this generation, and will be always legible in his inimitable writings, nevertheless. he having served twenty years successfully in parliament, and that with such wisdom, dexterity, and courage, as becomes a true patriot, the town of kingston-upon-hull, from whence he was deputed to that assembly, lamenting in his death the public loss, have erected this monument of their grief and their gratitude, . prose works[edit] marvell also wrote anonymous prose satires criticizing the monarchy and roman catholicism, defending puritan dissenters, and denouncing censorship. the rehearsal transpros'd, an attack on samuel parker, was published in two parts in and . in , mr. smirke; or the divine in mode, a work critical of intolerance within the church of england, was published together with a "short historical essay, concerning general councils, creeds, and impositions, in matters of religion." marvell's pamphlet an account of the growth of popery and arbitrary government in england, published in late , alleged that: "there has now for diverse years, a design been carried on, to change the lawfull government of england into an absolute tyranny, and to convert the established protestant religion into down-right popery".[ ] john kenyon described it as "one of the most influential pamphlets of the decade"[ ] and g. m. trevelyan called it: "a fine pamphlet, which throws light on causes provocative of the formation of the whig party".[ ] a work published anonymously ("by a protestant") in defense of john howe against the attack of his fellow-dissenter, the severe calvinist thomas danson, is also probably by marvell. its full title is remarks upon a late disingenuous discourse, writ by one t.d. under the pretence de causa dei, and of answering mr. john howe's letter and postscript of god's prescience, &c., affirming, as the protestant doctrine, that god doth by efficacious influence universally move and determine men to all their actions, even to those that are most wicked. views[edit] although marvell became a parliamentarian and was opposed to episcopacy, he was not a puritan. later in life especially, he seems to have been a conforming anglican.[ ] marvell positively identifies himself as "a protestant" in pamphlets.[ ] he had flirted briefly with catholicism as a youth,[ ] and was described in his thirties (on the saumur visit) as "a notable english italo-machiavellian".[ ][ ] his strong biblical influence is clear in poems such as "the garden", the "coronet" and "the bermudas".[ ] vincent palmieri noted that marvell is sometimes known as the "british aristides" for his incorruptible integrity in life and poverty at death. many of his poems were not published until , three years after his death, from a collection owned by mary palmer, his housekeeper. after marvell's death she laid dubious claim to having been his wife, from the time of a secret marriage in .[ ] marvell's poetic style[edit] marvell is said to have adhered to the established stylized forms of his contemporary neoclassical tradition. these include the carpe diem lyric tradition which also forms the basis of his famous lyric "to his coy mistress". he adopted familiar forms and infused them with his unique conceits, analogies, reflections and preoccupations with larger questions about life and death[ ] t.s. eliot wrote of marvell's style that "it is more than a technical accomplishment, or the vocabulary and syntax of an epoch; it is, what we have designated tentatively as wit, a tough reasonableness beneath the slight lyric grace". he also identified marvell and the metaphysical school with the "dissociation of sensibility" that occurred in th-century english literature; eliot described this trend as "something which...happened to the mind of england...it is the difference between the intellectual poet and the reflective poet".[ ] poets increasingly developed a self-conscious relationship to tradition, which took the form of a new emphasis on craftsmanship of expression and an idiosyncratic freedom in allusions to classical and biblical sources. "to his coy mistress", marvell's most celebrated poem, combines an old poetic conceit (the persuasion of the speaker's lover by means of a carpe diem philosophy) with marvell's typically vibrant imagery and easy command of rhyming couplets. other works incorporate topical satire and religious themes. in popular culture[edit] his work is referenced in the british film the serpent's kiss and quoted in the british film a matter of life and death. it is also referenced in audrey niffenegger's the time traveler's wife and emily colin's the memory thief. several works of science fiction, fantasy, and mystery allude to "to his coy mistress". in , christopher peachment published "the green and the gold", a first-person fictional narrative following marvell's life. see also[edit] 	list of works by andrew marvell 	the marvell college 	andrew marvel ( ship) - ship built at kingston upon hull that made some voyages as a greenland whaler references[edit] 	^ "andrew marvell college". 	^ "marvell, andrew (mrvl a)". a cambridge alumni database. university of cambridge. 	^ "trinity college, university of cambridge". bbc your paintings. archived from the original on may . retrieved february . 	^ edward chaney, the grand tour and the great rebellion (geneva, ), pp. - . 	^ nicholas murray, andrew marvell ( ), pp. – . 	^ full title "an horatian ode upon cromwell's return from ireland". 	^ "online text". archived from the original on october . 	^ understanding poetry (brooks/penn warren): marvell's horatian ode 	^ marvell, andrew. "upon appleton house, to my lord fairfax". luminarium. retrieved august . 	^ andrew marvell: chronology of important dates 	^ nicholas murray, andrew marvell ( ), pp. – . 	^ a b history of parliament online – marvell, andrew 	^ john stuart mill, considerations on representative government, chapter x, last paragraph p. oxford world's classic edition, on liberty and other essays, , reed. 	^ andrew crozier's introduction to the works of andrew marvell, ware , p.vi 	^ nicholas murray, andrew marvell ( ), p. . 	^ september , the diary of samuel pepys, volume , p. 	^ andrew marvell's cottage : london remembers, aiming to capture all memorials in london 	^ poetry landmarks - individual landmark 	^ andrew marvell, an account of the growth of popery and arbitrary government in england (gregg international publishers limited, ), p. . 	^ john kenyon, the popish plot (phoenix, ), p. . 	^ g. m. trevelyan, england under the stuarts (routledge, ), p. . 	^ http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/ . /ref:odnb/ . . /odnb- -e- 	^ http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/ . /ref:odnb/ . . /odnb- -e- 	^ john dixon hunt andrew marvell: his life and writings (paul elek, ) pp.  – 	^ http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/old% site/lists/marvelldates.htm archived january at the wayback machine 	^ robert r. hay, an andrew marvell companion (routledge, ), p. . 	^ http://www.gradesaver.com/andrew-marvell-poems/study-guide/summary-bermudas 	^ nicholas murray, andrew marvell ( ), pp. – . 	^ moldenhauer, josheph j. ( ). "the voices of seduction in "to his coy mistress": a rhetorical analysis". texas studies in literature and language. : – – via jstor. 	^ t s. eliot."the metaphysical poets" and "andrew marvell". selected prose of t.s. eliot. ed. frank kermode. harcourt, . further reading[edit] 	a. b. chambers ( ). andrew marvell and edmund waller: seventeenth-century praise and restoration satire. university park, pa. 	warren l. chernaik ( ). the poet's time: politics and religion in the work of andrew marvell. cambridge university press. 	will davenport. the painter. harpercollins. isbn  - - -x. this novel about rembrandt features andrew marvell as a character. 	kenneth r. friedenreich (ed.) ( ). tercentenary essays in honor of andrew marvell. hamden, ct. 	nicholas mcdowell ( ). poetry and allegiance in the english civil wars: marvell and the cause of wit. oxford: oxford university press. 	nigel smith ( ). andrew marvell: the chameleon. new haven, ct. isbn  - - - - . external links[edit] 		wikiquote has quotations related to: andrew marvell 		wikisource has original works written by or about: andrew marvell 	works by marvell: 	works by andrew marvell at project gutenberg 	works by or about andrew marvell at internet archive 	works by andrew marvell at librivox (public domain audiobooks) 	poems: luminarium 	correspondence and prose works: in grosart's edition (via google books) 	biography: poetry foundation; 	 andrew marvell at project gutenberg by augustine birrell 	andrew marvell's grave 	portraits of andrew marvell at the national portrait gallery, london 	"archival material relating to andrew marvell". uk national archives. 	andrew marvell, sir thomas widdrington and appleton house (notes and queries ); 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(ve věku  let) Řím 	místo pohřbení	 Řím 	povolání	 básník, spisovatel a filozof 	národnost	 Římané 	významná díla	 ars poetica 	rodiče	 a 	 multimediální obsah na commons 	 galerie na commons 	 původní texty na wikizdrojích 	 citáty na wikicitátech 	 seznam děl v souborném katalogu Čr 	některá data mohou pocházet z datové položky. quintus horatius flaccus, často zvaný jen horatius ( . prosince př. n. l. venusia – . listopadu př. n. l. Řím) byl římský básník tzv. zlatého věku římské poezie.[ ] působil za vlády císaře octaviana augusta a patřil k družině básníků gaia cilnia maecenata. obsah 	 Život 	 dílo 	 . osudy horatiova díla 	 České překlady 	 odkazy 	 . reference 	 . literatura 	 . související články 	 . externí odkazy Život[editovat | editovat zdroj] horatius byl synem propuštěnce (zřejmě bývalého státního otroka) z venusie na jihu itálie (dnešní venosa). ačkoli byl jeho otec nízkého původu, byl natolik majetný, že byl schopen synovi zajistit nejlepší vzdělání, nejprve ve venusii, později v Římě. roku př. n. l. odešel horatius studovat filosofii do athén, jak bylo zvykem u mladíků z dobrých rodin, aby se ve studiu zdokonalil.[ ] jeho studentská kariéra byla ale narušena, když v roce př. n. l. vstoupil do brutovy republikánské armády, kde se stal vojenským tribunem. roku př. n. l. se účastnil bitvy u filipp, kde byl brutus poražen vojsky druhého triumvirátu. horatius se zachránil útěkem a později o sobě řekl, že v bitvě zanechal svůj štít, což bylo častým motivem u básníků řecké mélické poezie (např. u archilocha). po amnestii, jejíž podmínkou byla konfiskace majetku, se vrátil do itálie a byl nucen živit se jako písař. v této době vznikly jeho první básně. dostal se do kontaktu s básníky a literáty (spřátelil se například s vergiliem a variem) a roku př. n. l. se jejich prostřednictvím seznámil s gaiem cilniem maecenatem, který mu pomohl s vydáním prvních knih a později mu daroval statek. ten ho ekonomicky zajistil a mohl se tak věnovat už pouze psaní. maecenas ho představil také císaři augustovi, s nímž měl horatius dosti úzké vztahy, přestože se v mládí účastnil bojů proti němu. tyto vztahy byly založeny na upřímné oddanosti, ne však podlézavosti nebo osobních ambicích básníka. například když ho císař požádal, aby se stal jeho osobním tajemníkem, horatius nabídku zdvořile, ale rozhodně odmítl. celý život si zachoval relativní svobodu a nezávislost a oslava augusta v některých jeho básních neplynula z poddanosti, ale upřímného souhlasu s císařovou politikou. horatius zemřel necelé dva měsíce po maecenatovi a byl vedle něj pohřben na esquilinu. dílo[editovat | editovat zdroj] 	saturae (satiry, i. kniha př. n. l., ii. př. n. l.): knihy (o a skladbách) v daktylském hexametru. ačkoli zde horatius navázal na lucilia, jeho satiry nemají útočný charakter, jedná se spíše o moralizující kritiky soudobé společnosti a lidských vlastností (například cizoložství, lakomství, nenasytnosti, chamtivosti, obžerství). 	epodae (epódy nebo též jamby, př. n. l.): básnických skladeb, které sám horatius nazýval iambi s ohledem na metrum, jež v díle převažuje, a zároveň vzhledem k jejich útočnému tónu, který byl spojován s řeckou jambickou poezií. sbírka je charakteristická námětovou pestrostí, obsahuje básně útočné, erotické i občanské. 	carmina (Ódy, knihy, př. n. l., iv. kniha př. n. l.): přes básní různých námětů, délky a meter. horatius zde představuje množství řeckých lyrických meter do té doby v latinské poezie neužívaných, básně jsou seřazeny podle vzoru alexandrijské neoterické poezie a vyznačují se vysokou učeností a propracovaností. 	carmen saeculare (píseň stoletní, př. n. l.): báseň složená na augustův podnět ku příležitosti oslavy století. jedná se o hymnus pro dívek a hochů. je to prosba k bohům, aby zajistili Římu a augustově vládě prosperitu. 	epistulae (listy) ( př. n. l.): skladeb v hexametrech. každý list je adresován konkrétní osobě a neomezuje se na jeden námět a téma, podle vzoru neoterické poezie se snaží o námětovou pestrost.. 	de arte poetica (o umění básnickém, po roce př. n. l.): skladba (jinak také nazývána epistula ad pisones nebo jen ad pisones) podává základy teorií o poezii, především o tvorbě dramatické. zabývá se postupně uměním a jeho tvůrci. jedná se zřejmě o horativo nejznámější dílo. osudy horatiova díla[editovat | editovat zdroj] nedlouho po své smrti se horatius stal římským školním autorem. ve středověku byl dobře znám především jako básník moralizující, z jehož díla bylo možné čerpat mnohá ponaučení. Četly se především listy a satiry. na jeho proslulost a postavení ve školní tradici ukazuje i božská komedie, kde se horatius nachází mezi básníky v předpeklí. jako lyrik byl oslavován a imitován už od renesance (počínaje petrarcou) zejména u francouzských básníků. nepostradatelným vzorem klasicistní literatury byla skladba de arte poetica, na níž se odkazovalo v poetice a literatuře. největší oblibě se horatius těšil zřejmě v . století. vliv měl nepochybně také na českou poezii, v období národního obrození ho například jako jeden z antických vzorů použil antonín jaroslav puchmajer. České překlady[editovat | editovat zdroj] 	horatius, quintus flaccus. Ódy a epódy. překlad otakar jiráni. královské vinohrady: ludvík bradáč, .  s. dostupné online.  	horatius, quintus flaccus. satiry. [kniha i a ii]. překlad otakar jiráni. v praze: alois srdce, . s. 	horatius, quintus flaccus. listy. překlad otakar jiráni. v praze: alois srdce, . s. 	horatius, quintus flaccus. vavřín a réva: ódy, epódy, satiry, listy. překlad jindřich pokorný a rudolf mertlík. odeon, praha . s. odkazy[editovat | editovat zdroj] reference[editovat | editovat zdroj] 	↑ zlatý věk římské poezie. www.fhs.cuni.cz [online]. [cit. - - ]. dostupné online.  	↑ horace | roman poet. encyclopedia britannica [online]. [cit. - - ]. dostupné online. 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five passages are concerned ( - ; - ; - ; - ; - ), whose candidacy to exclusion will be first examined one by one, before being justified at the global level by the observation of the links which connect them (including - ), as well as by some numerical considerations. spuriousness of lines - : ordinis haec uirtus erit et uenus, aut ego fallor, vt iam nunc dicat iam nunc debentia dici, pleraque differat et praesens in tempus omittat, hoc amet, hoc spernat promissi carminis auctor. “charm and excellence in construction, if i’m right, is to say here and now, what’s to be said here and now, retaining, and omitting, much, for the present. moreover as the author of the promised work, liking this, rejecting that…” let’s pass over the clumsiness of haec erit ut, “will consist in the fact that”, the remoteness of dicat from its subject, the uselessness of tempus, a mere http://www.virgilmurder.org/images/pdf/sphengl.pdf, pp. ff. translation (here and after) by a. s. kline: http://tkline.pgcc.net/pitbr/latin/horacearspoetica.htm#_toc padding , the looseness of iam nunc… iam nunc, that should rather mean “sometimes… sometimes”, so that bentley put the comma after dicat, not after dici, with this poor result: “sometimes he would say what must be said, sometimes he would defer it for the most part”. but did we really need horace’s help to know that a writer cannot say at once all he has to say? however, this miserable truism is thrust at us with a lot of redundancies: uirtus… et uenus (instead of uenustas: a cheap effect) ; differat – praesens in tempus omittat, picked up again by hoc amet, hoc spernat : all prescriptions which, except their pretension, add nothing to the thought . finally, there is this bombastic promissi carminis auctor (literally: “the guarantor of a promised work”) whose emptiness becomes obvious as soon as one transposes the sentence at the second person. this promissi is even so inept that one could almost wonder whether the author doesn’t secretly intend it in the sense of ‘long’ (as about a beard), with a derisive intention possibly confirmed not only by the pleraque instead of multa (for is it not evident that, except what you have to say now, all the rest you will one would expect in praesens, or rather in futurum: cf. c. o. brink, horace on poetry. the ars poetica, cambridge, , ad loc.: “praesens in tempus : the opposite, in futurum or the like, may be implied”. p. grimal, essai sur l’art poétique d’horace, paris, sedes, , : “prétentieuse niaiserie… tautologie… platitude”. however his solution is scarcely satisfying: “il a voulu attirer notre attention… sur la nécessité de la confrontation minutieuse entre l’artiste et l’idée de son poème”. an effect sometimes praised however: “they make an effective and untranslatable pair”, judges for example niall rudd, horace epistles book ii and epistle to the pisones (ars poetica), cambridge, , ad loc., arguing that this pair joins a masculine quality to a feminine one (but what is the interest of such a figure about a scheme?). plessis-lejay, horace. Œuvres, paris, ( st ed. ), ad loc.: “spernat : synonyme hyperbolique de omittat”. the interpreters’ discomfort found expression in the initiative formerly taken by bentley (followed inter alios by c. o. brink) in transposing lines and . say later ?), but also and especially by the incidental clause aut ego fallor, “if i am not mistaken”, as though one could be mistaken while stating such a truism. admittedly, the reader who asks horace a regular treaty about poetry expects at this place (between inuentio and elocutio) a development about dispositio, and the interpolator would have filled this illusory lacuna by picking up the just preceding lucidus ordo, in spite of the fact that, as it happens, horace was pointing out that he did not want to dwell on dispositio (or plan), since it would offer itself spontaneously, in its whole clarity, lucidus, to the author who would have adequately chosen its subject: cui lecta potenter erit res / nec facundia deseret hunc, nec lucidus ordo. spuriousness of lines - : indoctus quid enim saperet liberque laborum rusticus urbano confusus, turpis honesto? “what taste could the illiterate show, freed from toil, where country mingled with city, noble with base ?” these two verses constitute a sort of parenthesis perfectly incongruous, and moreover omitted by a whole manuscript family. such a fierce onslaught on countrymen (indoctus, turpis) is not only shocking, to the point that f. villeneuve, for instance, shrinks from the real meaning of turpis, which is a synonymous of ‘shabby’, ‘wretched’, ‘dead loss’ , it is also inconceivable from a poet who always presented himself as a countryman and a nature-lover: see for example sat. , , epist. . , or this verse from epist. . . : rure ego f. villeneuve, les epîtres d’horace, paris, les belles lettres, . similarly, plessis- lejay, ad loc.: “turpis honesto : expriment des catégories sociales, non la moralité”. uiuentem, tu dicis in urbe beatum (“i call the country-dweller, you the townsman, blessed”), and this famous salutation to fuscus in epist. . . - : vrbis amatorem fuscum saluere iubemus / ruris amatores (“to fuscus the city- lover i the country-lover / send greetings”). in addition, this parenthesis is inconsistent with its context. horace indeed, going back to the origins of theatre at rome, has spoken in praise of its ancient spectators, which he depicts as “honest, innocent, modest” ( frugi, castus uerecundusque, ) until the urbs enormously expanded, so that public morality began to lessen, with the result that “tempo and melody possessed greater licence” on the scene : accessit numerisque modisque licentia maior. here take place the two verses in question, which are deeper than it may seem at first view, for, under the cover of blaming that licentia maior, they extol it on the contrary, terming rusticus the ancient roman public so praised by horace. admittedly, those spectators were agricolae (cf. epist. ii, , - : agricolae prisci,fortes paruoque beati, “the farmers of old, those tough men blessed with little”, a clear echo to our v. ), but rusticus is an insult, as if, for the interpolator, agricola meant ‘ignorant and shabby’ . spuriousness of lines - : non alius faceret meliora poemata; uerum nil tanti est. ergo fungar uice cotis, acutum reddere quae ferrum ualet exsors ipsa secandi; kline wrongly translates licentia by ‘freedom’. the qualifier rusticus is a typical insult on the lips of the townsman: cf. virg., ecl. ii, ; iii, . even p. grimal has fallen into the trap, when he speaks of those “rustici qui encombrent le théâtre aux jours de fête” (p. ). munus et officium, nil scribens ipse, docebo, vnde parentur opes, quid alat formatque poetam, quid deceat, quid non, quo uirtus, quo ferat error. “though no one would compose better poetry : it’s really not worth it. instead let me play the grindstone’s role, that sharpens steel, but itself does none of the cutting : writing nothing myself, i’ll teach the office and function, where to find resources, what feeds and forms the poet, what’s right, what’s not, where virtue and error lead.” at first sight, the thought is coherent, and could even pass for witty: horace declares that, if he indulged in madness (if he did not take purges for madness each spring, as he puts it, v. ), his poetry would outdo all his rivals’; but poetry is not worth this price, and therefore he will be satisfied with giving advices to others. so far so good . on reflection however, several questions are to be asked. first of all, does the author speak seriously, or is he merely joking ? nobody doubts, as it appears, that only the first sentence (“no one would compose better poems, but it’s not worth it”) is ironical, even though such a faceret : ‘would compose’, not ‘composes’ (pace kline). admittedly, the grindstone image is amusing enough, but it is a borrowing from isocrates : plut., life of the ten orators. if horace has renounced to poetry for reason’s sake, as he declares, how can he advise those who have made the opposite choice that “wisdom (sapere) is the source and fount of excellent writing” (v. )? c. o. brink duly notes the illogicality of ergo, (“crazy logic”), but does not reprove. position is untenable. indeed, since horace has always been a poet, and will remain a poet until his death , the irony should not affect poemata, but only meliora. in other words, it cannot be a question of renouncement of poetry, but only of a refusal to sacrifice reason for it. how is it possible then that this same horace presents himself as “writing nothing” (nil scribens ipse)? a statement so surprising that commentators try to minimize it, either by claiming, despite the immediate context, that it concerns only theatre , or by arbitrarily asserting that nil means “nothing worth it” . isn’t it more natural, and more conform to the text, to suppose that the man who is speaking here is not actually a poet, or that, if he writes verses, he prefers to conceal it ? no irony at all, thus, in these lines, only sarcasm and dissembling. somebody would have stolen horace’s pen in order to lecture him and his peers : hence the professorial tone of ll. - , puffed up with arrogance (munus et officium docebo), and badly indefinite: uirtus strangely opposed to error, in what sense ? and is the final enumeration announcing the diuisio of the ars’s last part ? on the date of publication of the fourth book of odes, cf. http://www.espace- horace.org/etud/maleuvre .htm. and even though this last collection would have been published as soon - or - , as often believed, that would not mean that horace had ceased to be a poet during the four last years of his life. so plessis-lejay, ad loc. “rien qui vaille”, p. grimal, . that’s typically the case of augustus, who ascribes to others his own production. as for horace, he may well pretend, as in epist. . . , to have renounced poetry, it’s not serious (uersus… pono = apparently “i stop writing verse”, but in reality “i am here serving new verse”), and he willingly admits it in . . - (= “i am lying when i say that”). about epist. ii, , - , cf. infra n. . “le jugement droit”, according to f. villeneuve; “le talent éclairé par la raison”, plessis- lejay. so p. grimal - . he aknowledges that “dès que l’on essaie de suivre, dans le développement, l’application de ce plan, on ne tarde pas à rencontrer mille difficultés”, but he spuriousness of lines - : interdum speciosa locis morataque recte fabula nullius ueneris, sine pondere et arte, valdius oblectat populum meliusque moratur quam uersus inopes rerum nugaeque canorae. “often a play with fine bits, good roles, though without beauty, substance or art, amuses the public more, and holds their attention better, than verses without content, melodious nonsense.” horace has just been urging poets to paint from life, by observing characters and customs, so that morata, , picking up morum, , seems at first to continue the thought, but it rapidly turns out that this verbal bridge is only a pretext for launching a vehement attack against conceptions firmly defended elsewhere by our poet. if indeed speciosa locis means “fine bits” , their recommendation glaringly contradicts the lines - , where they are imputes to commentators “la confusion que l’on pourrait, à bon droit, reprocher à horace” ( ). “des morceaux brillants, qui valent par eux-mêmes et sont souvent des hors-d’œuvre”: plessis-lejay, ad loc., quoting quint. . . : plerique contenti sunt locis speciosis modo… of course, interpreters try to elude this sense: “quand brillent les idées générales”, f. villeneuve ; c. o. brink remains in doubt; niall rudd proposes : “attractive in virtue of his moral observations”. condemned as ‘purple patches’ (purpureus… pannus) . moreover, when he praises the ancient roman playwrights, as he apparently does here , the author of this passage is purely forgetting what horace told augustus in epist. . ( - , - ), wondering that his contemporaries admire that defective theatre of old as though it were nearly perfect. on the contrary, our verse hammers out with a sort of rancour the idea that a play can very well charm an audience (ualdius oblectat) in spite of its defects, its imperfections, its mediocrity. no news for horace, of course, but the problem is that the present speaker openly rejoices at these undeserved successes whereas he disparages the most demanding and most authentic poetry, even daring to call it “melodious nonsense”. it does not come as a surprise that the expression in these four verses is at the same level as the thought itself : obscurity of speciosa locis ; unpleasant (quasi)repetition morata - moratur, in two very different meanings; inconsistency of sine pondere (from epist. . . ), synonymous of inopes rerum, although the two are set in opposition. spuriousness of lines - : si curet quis opem ferre et demittere funem, cf. also epist. . . - : inter quae uerbum emicuit si forte decorum, / si uersus paulo concinnior unus et alter, / iniuste totum ducit uenditque poema, “though maybe a lovely phrase glitters now and then [in livius andronicus], / or a couple of lines are a little more polished, / that unjustly carry, and sell, the whole poem.” plessis-lejay, ad loc.: “horace semble penser aux pièces du vieux théâtre latin, auxquelles il refuse l’élégance, la solidité… et l’habileté technique”. but theatre seems out of context here, so that the word fabula could well mean ‘tale’ (“may be ‘tale’ ”, c. o. brink), here as (probably) at v. . ‘‘qui scis an prudens huc se deiecerit atque seruari nolit?’’ dicam, siculique poetae narrabo interitum. deus inmortalis haberi dum cupit empedocles, ardentem frigidus aetnam insiluit. sit ius liceatque perire poetis; inuitum qui seruat, idem facit occidenti. nec semel hoc fecit, nec, si retractus erit, iam fiet homo et ponet famosae mortis amorem. “if anyone did choose to help, and let down a rope, i’d say: ‘who knows if he didn’t do that on purpose, and doesn’t want to be saved?’ and i’ll tell the tale of the sicilian poet’s death, how empedocles keen to be an immortal god, coolly leapt into burning etna. grant poets the power and right to kill themselves: who saves one, against his will, murders him. it’s not his first time, nor, if he’s rescued will he become human now, and stop craving fame in death.” this base and hateful attack against empedocles, emphasized by the unbearable antithesis ardentem frigidus , has always struck horace’s admirers with consternation . commentators are puzzled : gratuitous joke ? allusion to the belief that icy blood around the heart means stupidity ? reference to empedocles’ conception explaining old age and death by in the preceding lines, horace was mocking the poet so full of his own verses that he loses contact with reality, and eventually falls into a well, or a pit. as the author adds: “however much he cries: ‘help me, citizens!’ none will bother to pull him out.” if the joke stopped here, it would be in perfect taste : after all, this fool deserved a good lesson, and horace does not wish him death anyway, he merely wonders, at v. , why this man keeps at making verses, for the punishment of those he grips to force them to hear his recitations. however, with the addition of the nine lines under examination, the amusement turns rather nasty. the scatterbrained poet has become a suicidal person, or worse, a culprit it would be criminal to save. the example of empedocles is supposed to illustrate such a verdict, since, according to the speaker, the philosopher’s claim to divinity received its due retribution. the lines - stress the point by sarcastically recalling again empedocles’ high hopes (nec… iam / fiet homo), without worrying about the ambiguity of nec semel hoc fecit, which is seemingly still referring to the greek philosopher, although we should have returned to the self-satisfied poet, in order to land smoothly on v. . a landing the interpolator has tried however to prepare by linking up two additional nec to the initial nec of this last verse (nec satis apparet cur uersus factitet (“it’s not too clear why he keeps on making verses”), thus betraying himself on the contrary, for the two new negatives have no logic a diminution of the igneous element? f. villeneuve suggests without conviction: “s’est précipité de sang-froid dans l’etna brûlant”. in short, readers are struggling over the (impossible) task of saving horace… or rather his caricature. “que dirons-nous de la détestable antithèse qu'a fournie à horace la mort du grand poète empédocle ; de cet homme froid qui saute dans l'etna brûlant (v. )? rien, sinon que ce jeu de mots indigne d'horace va trop bien avec les mauvaises plaisanteries sur le métromane, qu'il veut absolument laisser dans le fossé ou dans le puits où il est tombé par mégarde”, alexis pierron: http://www.espace-horace.org/etud/pierron_ .htm relation with the third one ; lastly, let’s point out the disagreeable repetition facit, , fecit, , factitet, , as clumsy as, at the other end of the seam, the reiteration of non sit qui tollere curet, in : si curet quis opem ferre. what links these six passages (ll. - included): -some verbal connections : uirtus, – uirtus, ; uenus, – ueneris, ; meliora, – melius, ; nugae, – nugis… nugae, (cf. nil tanti est, )… besides, hoc amet, hoc spernat, announces quid deceat, quid non, , and docebo / vnde… quid… quid… quid non, quo… quo ferat error, - typically recalls the interpolated aen. . - : quae… -que docet… -que… et quo quemque modo fugiat feratque laborem . - the technique of insertion, either by means of verbal repetition (ordo/ordinis, - ; uitae morumque iubebo… morataque…, - ; qui tollere curet, / si curet quis…, - ), or with the help of a sudden fit of temper, as at and , or a sarcasm, as at . - a general propensity to paddings, redundancies, empty enumerations. - under the veil of a theorician and an adviser, a peremptory and dictatorial tone, which denotes a man used to be obeyed without a word. this line , unique example of a spondaic verse in the whole sermones d’horace (a mystery, according to c. o . brink : “its purpose here has not been explained”), was suppressed by ribbeck and mueller. cf. la lettre de pallas ( ), . it’s true that these lines - plagiarize - , but in - there is no trace of presumptuousness, and their content is very dense, whereas in - (as in aen. . - ) the burden of the syntactical armature seems to be directly proportional to the emptiness of the thought. - a dark coloration, made of sarcasm, inuidia (hatred and jealousy together), surly disposition, underlying menace. - a boundless pretension, a craving for absolute domination, inclusively over the greatest geniuses, either contemporaries or in history. everybody (i surmise) will have identified this sinister, and farcical, character with the emperor augustus, and it only remains to rapidly reexamine one by one each of his five interventions , in order to penetrate his thought and try to find out his secret and shameful intentions. verses - : the apparent platitude of the statement (“you must not say all at the same time”), and the abstruseness of the expression could well conceal a strong warning aimed at the dissident poets, and horace in the first place: “let him say from now on, yes, from now on, what it’s his duty to say (the politically correct), postponing the rest, or rather omitting it (praesens in tempus – instead of in futurum (cf. supra n. ) – fits in with the injunction made by the double iam nunc); let him make all his choices according to the ‘correct’ political line.” verses - : to horace, this son of an emancipated slave, who allows himself to criticize the brilliant roman civilization of the time, augustus retorts with an aristocratic haughtiness: “how can you say that, you, an ignorant, you, a country bumpkin, you, a dead loss ?” the abusive indoctus discredits horace as a literary critic, rusticus refers to his provincial origins, turpis (and perhaps even the sixth one has been examined elsewhere : see supra n. . liber laborum) to his father’s social status . as for confusus, let’s remember that augustus devoted his whole attention to avoiding the mixing of classes . verses - : the nil tanti est, (“it’s not worth it”) is a slap on the face of poets, and an insult to poetry. rising above this ‘miserable’ microcosm (mount parnassus!), augustus pretends to dictate it his own laws: munus, officium, formet, deceat, uirtus, error belong to the lexical field of ethics ; opes and alat could allude to the reward promised to obedient writers: “how poets can grow richer, what feeds them, what shapes them (according to my own criteria)”. verses - : nugaeque canorae (“melodious nonsense”), reiterates the insult aimed at high poetry with nil tanti est. some could feel reassured by recalling that catullus in the opening piece of his libellus termed nugae his own verses, but the word on his lips was profoundly ironic (“what you (cornelius) consider the phrase liber laborum is particularly perverse, for, even though the man aimed at is a free citizen (liber), this quality is scarcely conceded to him before it is taken back, and denied, by this unwonted genitive : “free… from his tasks”, i.e. idle, i.e. (by implication), lazy : fundamentally a slave, turpis, but a slave who twiddles his thumbs. that this is actually an attack ad hominem is verified by the echo to sat. . . - : placui tibi qui turpi secernis honestum / non patre praeclaro, sed uita et pectore puro, “and i think it’s fine / to have pleased you, who separate true from false, / not by a man’s father but by his pure life and heart.” for what else are doing our lines - than judging people after their social origins ? suet., aug. et . “we are probably not meant to distinguish between moral and literary values”, notes niall rudd, ad loc. unless literary values are only a smoke screen here… the wicked ambiguousness of opes and alat should be enough to confirm our suspicions. trifles”) . needless to precise that the first targets of these lines are horace, virgil and their friends, who had a high and uncompromising idea of poetry. verses - : the man who in horace’s ode . (as a speaker) backbites archytas and pythagoras , the man who sneaks in de rerum natura in order to insult heraclitus , we are not surprised to see him now making fun of the great empedocles. but of course, his real concern is not about history, but about current times, and there is some evidence that empedocles is little more here than a disguise to hide virgil. by the fact, such a phrase as siculique poetae should prompt the reader to the author of the bucolics, virgil, whose corydon proudly proclaims: mille meae siculis errant in montibus agnae (ecl. . ). it is well known that the bucolics are placed under the invocation of sicelides musae, “sicilian muses” (ecl. . ), and donatus, virgil’s biographer, informs us that the poet usually resided in campania or in sicilia . assuredly, virgil did not throw himself into a volcano, but only… into the lion’s mouth, when he had to appear for interview with the prince who was awaiting him at athens. however, the verdict sit ius liceatque perire poetis, under the guise of humour, resonates sinisterly (“let poets have the legal right to die”). by adding inuitum this is a flagrant case of ‘focalization’ : cf. catulle ou l’anti-césar, - . when horace assumes the word, as in epist. . . (nimirum sapere est abiectis utile nugis), it’s in order to mark his contempt of occasional verse in opposition to the authentic poetry, which obeys to reason (ars, : scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons). http://www.espace-horace.org/jym/odes_ /o_i_ .htm http://www.virgilmurder.org/images/pdf/lucr.pdf. horace himself naturally reveres democritus (cf. epist. . . ), who on the contrary is brought here (v. ) into disrepute by those “imitators, slavish herd” denounced in epist. . . , and by anti-ego (augustus) in epist. . : cf. j.-y. maleuvre, “iccius et pompeius, ou horace a-t-il vraiment jeté son bouclier à philippes? (odes i, , ii, et , epist. i, )”. suet.-donat, vita verg. - . qui seruat, idem facit occidenti (“to save somebody against his will amounts to killing him”), the author cynically justifies his crimes (in the same manner as damoetas in the third eclogue) : they are (those poets) suicidal and furious persons, who definitely want to die. “actually, i cannot be accused for having condemned those dissidents to death , since they condemned themselves, and it is if i had spared them that i would have killed them.” everybody will appreciate this logic. . numerical evidence without entering the thorny dispute about the scheme followed by horace in the ars poetica, let’s observe that the principle of a tripartite division meets with a large consensus , a distribution - , - , - perhaps winning most approval . but there is a problem : in the present, ‘orthodox’ state of the text, the second section is comparatively too short ( lines), while the third one is disproportionate ( lines) . admittedly, the stop at v. could very well be moved to v. , the sequence - making a transition, and the sententia of v. being altogether suitable to start a new section; but the imbalance would still remain: , , . on the contrary, after the ecl. . - , in relation with cat. : cf. violence et ironie…, - . for the secret presence of this death sentence at lines - (atrum… signum), cf. http://www.virgilmurder.org/images/pdf/sphinx.pdf, pp. - . “le plus souvent”, according to plessis-lejay . see for instance g. ramain, “horace, art poétique”, revue de philologie, ( ), , o. immisch, “horazens epistel über die dichtkunst”, philologus, suppl. xxiv, , ff., f. villeneuve , j. perret ; g. e. duckworth, structural patterns and proportions in vergil’s aeneid, ann arbor, , : poesis, poema, poeta. j. perret writes nevertheless: “trois parties très justement équilibrées: l’œuvre d’art ( - ) ; le poème dramatique ( - ); le poète ( - )”. suppression of the fraudulent lines ( - = lines; - = lines; - = lines ; - = lines; - = lines; - = lines), the total of ars poetica being so reduced to lines, one gets three blocks strictly equal, but for one line in the third section : ) à (= ) ) (= ) à (= ): lines ) (= ) à (= ): lines. regarding the missing line, we are free either to suppose that it never existed, or that it was suppressed by the imperial forger. conclusion to his detractors who accused him of plagiarism, virgil used to retort that it is more difficult to steal a verse from homer than to snatch his club from hercules’ hands. but it is not easy either to pretend to add a line to horace, all the more if you are not especially gifted.- jym the case of the lines and is discussed by c. o. brink ad loc.; the proposition of rejection of lines to , defended by j. schwartz, revue de philologie ( ), - , has not met approval from philologists. abraham cowley - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	abraham cowley 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 th-century english writer abraham cowley, portrait by peter lely abraham cowley (/ˈkuːli/;[ ]  – july ) was an english poet born in the city of london late in . he was one of the leading english poets of the th century, with printings of his works published between and .[ ] contents 	 early life and career 	 royalist in exile 	 return to england 	 references 	 sources 	 external links early life and career[edit] cowley's father, a wealthy citizen, who died shortly before his birth, was a stationer. his mother was wholly given to works of devotion, but it happened that there lay in her parlour a copy of the faerie queene. this became the favourite reading of her son, and he had read it twice before he was sent to school.[ ] as early as , that is, in his tenth year, he composed his tragicall history of piramus and thisbe, an epic romance written in a six-line stanza, a style of his own invention. it is not too much to say that this work is the most astonishing feat of imaginative precocity on record; it is marked by no great faults of immaturity, and possesses constructive merits of a very high order. two years later the child wrote another and still more ambitious poem, constantia and philetus, being sent about the same time to westminster school. here he displayed extraordinary mental precocity and versatility, and wrote in his thirteenth year the elegy on the death of dudley, lord carlton. these three poems of considerable size, and some smaller ones, were collected in , and published in a volume entitled poetical blossoms, dedicated to lambert osbaldeston, the head master of the school, and prefaced by many laudatory verses by schoolfellows.[ ] the author at once became famous, although he had not, even yet, completed his fifteenth year. his next composition was a pastoral comedy, entitled love's riddle, a marvellous production for a boy of sixteen, airy, correct and harmonious in language, and rapid in movement. the style is not without resemblance to that of randolph, whose earliest works, however, were at that time only just printed.[ ] in cowley went up to trinity college, cambridge,[ ] where he "betook himself with enthusiasm to the study of all kinds of learning, and early distinguished himself as a ripe scholar".[ ] portraits of cowley, attributed to william faithorne and stephen slaughter, are in trinity college's collection.[ ] it was about this time that he composed his scriptural epic on the history of king david, one book of which still exists in the latin original, the rest being superseded in favour of an english version in four books, called the davideis, which were published after his death. the epic deals with the adventures of king david from his boyhood to the smiting of amalek by saul, where it abruptly closes.[ ] abraham cowley in love's riddle and a latin comedy, the naufragium joculare, were printed, and in the passage of prince charles through cambridge gave occasion to the production of another dramatic work, the guardian, which was acted before the royal visitor with much success. during the civil war this play was privately performed at dublin, but it was not printed till . it is bright and amusing, in the style common to the "sons" of ben jonson, the university wits who wrote more for the closet than the public stage.[ ] royalist in exile[edit] the learned quiet of the young poet's life was broken up by the civil war; he warmly espoused the royalist side. he became a fellow of trinity college, cambridge, but was ejected by the parliamentarians in . he made his way to oxford, where he enjoyed the friendship of lord falkland, and was tossed, in the tumult of affairs, into the personal confidence of the royal family itself.[ ] after the battle of marston moor he followed the queen to paris, and the exile so commenced lasted twelve years. this period was spent almost entirely in the royal service, "bearing a share in the distresses of the royal family, or labouring in their affairs. to this purpose he performed several dangerous journeys into jersey, scotland, flanders, the netherlands, or wherever else the king's troubles required his attendance. but the chief testimony of his fidelity was the laborious service he underwent in maintaining the constant correspondence between the late king and the queen his wife. in that weighty trust he behaved himself with indefatigable integrity and unsuspected secrecy; for he ciphered and deciphered with his own hand the greatest part of all the letters that passed between their majesties, and managed a vast intelligence in many other parts, which for some years together took up all his days, and two or three nights every week."[ ] in spite of these labours he did not refrain from literary industry. during his exile he met with the works of pindar, and determined to reproduce their lofty lyric passion in english.[ ] however, cowley misunderstood pindar's metrical practice and therefore his reproduction of the pindaric ode form in english does not accurately reflect pindar's poetics. but despite this problem, cowley's use of iambic lines of irregular length, pattern, and rhyme scheme was very influential and is still known as english "pindarick" ode, or irregular ode. one of the most famous odes written after cowley in the pindaric tradition is wordsworth's "ode: intimations of immortality".[citation needed] during this same time, cowley occupied himself in writing a history of the civil war (which did not get published in full until ). in the preface to his poems, cowley mentioned that he had completed three books of an epic poem on the civil war, but had left it unfinished after the first battle of newbury when the royalist cause began to lose significant ground. in the preface cowley indicated that he had destroyed all copies of the poem, but this was not precisely the truth. in , twelve years after cowley's death, a shortened version of the first book of the poem, called a poem on the late civil war was published. it was assumed that the rest of the poem had indeed been destroyed or lost until the mid- th century when scholar allan pritchard discovered the first of two extant manuscript copies of the whole poem among the cowper family papers. thus, the three completed books of cowley's great (albeit unfinished) english epic, the civill warre (otherwise spelled "the civil war"), was finally published in full for the first time in .[ ] in a collection of his love verses, entitled the mistress, was published, and in the next year a volume of wretched satires, the four ages of england, was brought out under his name, with the composition of which he had nothing to do. in spite of the troubles of the times, so fatal to poetic fame, his reputation steadily increased, and when, on his return to england in , he published a volume of his collected poetical works, he found himself without a rival in public esteem. this volume included the later works already mentioned, the pindarique odes, the davideis, the mistress and some miscellanies. among the latter are to be found cowley's most vital pieces. this section of his works opens with the famous aspiration: 	"what shall i do to be for ever known, 	and make the coming age my own?" it contains elegies on wotton, vandyck, falkland, william hervey and crashaw, the last two being among cowley's finest poems, brilliant, sonorous and original; the amusing ballad of the chronicle, giving a fictitious catalogue of his supposed amours; various gnomic pieces; and some charming paraphrases from anacreon. the pindarique odes contain weighty lines and passages, buried in irregular and inharmonious masses of moral verbiage. not more than one or two are good throughout, but a full posy of beauties may easily be culled from them. the long cadences of the alexandrines with which most of the strophes close, continued to echo in english poetry from dryden down to gray, but the odes themselves, which were found to be obscure by the poet's contemporaries, immediately fell into disesteem.[ ] the mistress was the most popular poetic reading of the age, and is now the least read of all cowley's works. it was the last and most violent expression of the amatory affectation of the th century, an affectation which had been endurable in donne and other early writers because it had been the vehicle of sincere emotion, but was unendurable in cowley because in him it represented nothing but a perfunctory exercise, a mere exhibition of literary calisthenics. he appears to have been of a cold, or at least of a timid, disposition; in the face of these elaborately erotic volumes, we are told that to the end of his days he never summoned up courage to speak of love to a single woman in real life. the "leonora" of the chronicle is said to have been the only woman he ever loved, and she married the brother of his biographer, sprat.[ ] return to england[edit] soon after his return to england he was seized in mistake for another person, and only obtained his liberty on a bail of £ . in he revised and altered his play of the guardian, and prepared it for the press under the title of the cutter of coleman street, but it did not appear until . late in oliver cromwell died, and cowley took advantage of the confusion of affairs to escape to paris, where he remained until the restoration brought him back in charles's train. he published in verses upon several occasions, in which the complaint is included.[ ] he is also known for having provided the earliest reference to coca in english literature, in a poem called "a legend of coca" in his collection of poems six books of plants.[ ] abraham cowley's chertsey house cowley obtained permission to retire into the country; and through his friend, lord st albans, he obtained a property near chertsey, where, devoting himself to botany and books, he lived in comparative solitude until his death. he took a practical interest in experimental science, and he was one of those advocating the foundation of an academy for the protection of scientific enterprise. cowley's pamphlet on the advancement of experimental philosophy, , immediately preceded the foundation of the royal society; to which cowley, in march , at the suggestion of john evelyn, addressed an ode. he died in the porch house, in chertsey, in consequence of having caught a cold while superintending his farm-labourers in the meadows late on a summer evening. on august, cowley was buried in westminster abbey beside the ashes of chaucer and spenser, where in the duke of buckingham erected a monument to his memory. his poemata latina, including six books "plantarum", were printed in . the poetry of cowley rapidly fell into neglect.[ ] frontispice and titlepage to a edition of the collected works of abraham cowley the works of cowley were collected in , when thomas sprat brought out an edition in folio, to which he prefixed a life of the poet. there were many reprints of this collection, which formed the standard edition till , when it was superseded by alexander balloch grosart's privately printed edition in two volumes, for the chertsey worthies library. the essays have frequently been revived.[ ] a satire against separatists, printed in , has been variously attributed to cowley and to peter hausted.[citation needed] references[edit] 	^ alan hager (ed.), the age of milton: an encyclopedia of major th-century british and american authors, abc-clio, , p. . 	^ oxford dictionary of national biography "abraham cowley" 	^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n  one or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: gosse, edmund ( ). "cowley, abraham". in chisholm, hugh (ed.). encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. pp.  – . 	^ "cowley, abraham (cwly a)". a cambridge alumni database. university of cambridge. 	^ "trinity college, university of cambridge". bbc your paintings. archived from the original on may . retrieved february . 	^ ed. allan pritchard. abraham cowley, the civil war, toronto,(utpress: ) p. 	^ peru. history of coca, "the divine plant" of the incas; with an introductory account of the incas, and of the andean indians of to-day. w. golden mortimer, m.d. ed. j. h. vail & co, . abraham cowley's poem "a legend of coca" : in chapter i an introduction to the history of coca, pp. – . sources[edit] 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: cousin, john william ( ). a short biographical dictionary of english literature. london: j. m. dent & sons – via wikisource. external links[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to abraham cowley. 		wikisource has original works written by or about: abraham cowley 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Текст creative commons attribution/share-alike лицензияһы шарттары буйынса асыҡ, айырым осраҡтарҙа өҫтәмә шарттар ғәмәлдә булырға мөмкин. Тулы мәғлүмәт өсөн ҡарағыҙ: Ҡулланыу шарттары. 		Сер һаҡлау сәйәсәте 	Википедия тураһында 	Яуаплылыҡтан баш тартыу 	Мобиль нөсхә 	Яһаусылар 	Статистика 	cookie тураһында килешеү 		 	 	 a. e. housman - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	a. e. housman 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		british classical scholar and poet ( - ) "housman" redirects here. for other people with this surname, see housman (surname). 	a. e. housman 	photo portrait by e. o. hoppé, 	born	alfred edward housman ( - - ) march bromsgrove, worcestershire, england 	died	 april ( - - ) (aged  ) cambridge, england 	pen name	a. e. housman 	occupation	classicist and poet 	nationality	british 	alma mater	st john's college, oxford 	genre	lyric poetry 	notable works	a shropshire lad 	relatives	clemence housman, laurence housman alfred edward housman (/ˈhaʊsmən/; march – april ), usually known as a. e. housman, was an english classical scholar and poet. his cycle of poems, a shropshire lad wistfully evoke the dooms and disappointments of youth in the english countryside.[ ] their simplicity and distinctive imagery appealed strongly to edwardian taste, and to many early th-century english composers both before and after the first world war. through their song-settings, the poems became closely associated with that era, and with shropshire itself. housman was one of the foremost classicists of his age and has been ranked as one of the greatest scholars who ever lived.[ ][ ] he established his reputation publishing as a private scholar and, on the strength and quality of his work, was appointed professor of latin at university college london and then at the university of cambridge. his editions of juvenal, manilius and lucan are still considered authoritative. contents 	 life 	 poetry 	 . a shropshire lad 	 . later collections 	 . de amicitia (of friendship) 	 housman song settings 	 commemorations 	 works 	 . poetry collections 	 . classical scholarship 	 . published lectures 	 . prose collections 	 . collected letters 	 see also 	 footnotes 	 sources 	 further reading 	 external links 	 . works life[edit] valley house, housman's birthplace the site of the th-century fockbury house (later known as the clock house). home of housman from to home of housman from to and again from to . his younger brother laurence was born here in . the eldest of seven children, housman was born at valley house in fockbury, a hamlet on the outskirts of bromsgrove in worcestershire, to sarah jane (née williams, married june in woodchester, gloucester)[ ] and edward housman (whose family came from lancaster), and was baptised on april at christ church, in catshill.[ ][ ][ ] his mother died on his twelfth birthday, and his father, a country solicitor, remarried, to an elder cousin, lucy, in . two of his siblings became prominent writers, sister clemence housman and brother laurence housman. housman was educated at king edward's school in birmingham and later bromsgrove school, where he revealed his academic promise and won prizes for his poems.[ ][ ] in he won an open scholarship to st john's college, oxford, and went there to study classics.[ ] although introverted by nature, housman formed strong friendships with two roommates, moses john jackson ( – january ) and a. w. pollard. though housman obtained a first in classical moderations in , his dedication to textual analysis led him to neglect the ancient history and philosophy that formed part of the greats curriculum. accordingly, he failed his finals and had to return humiliated in michaelmas term to resit the exam and at least gain a lower-level pass degree.[ ][ ] though some attribute housman's unexpected performance in his exams directly to his unrequited feelings for jackson,[ ] most biographers adduce more obvious causes. housman was indifferent to philosophy and overconfident in his exceptional gifts, and he spent too much time with his friends. he may also have been distracted by news of his father's desperate illness.[ ][ ][ ] moses jackson ( – ) while attending oxford c. after oxford, jackson went to work as a clerk in the patent office in london and arranged a job there for housman too.[ ] the two shared a flat with jackson's brother adalbert until , when housman moved to lodgings of his own, probably after jackson responded to a declaration of love by telling housman that he could not reciprocate his feelings.[ ] two years later, jackson moved to india, placing more distance between himself and housman. when he returned briefly to england in , to marry, housman was not invited to the wedding and knew nothing about it until the couple had left the country. adalbert jackson died in and housman commemorated him in a poem published as "xlii – a.j.j." of more poems ( ). meanwhile, housman pursued his classical studies independently, and published scholarly articles on horace, propertius, ovid, aeschylus, euripides and sophocles.[ ] he also completed an edition of propertius, which however was rejected by both oxford university press and macmillan in , and was destroyed after his death. he gradually acquired such a high reputation that in he was offered and accepted the professorship of latin at university college london (ucl).[ ] when, during his tenure, an immensely rare coverdale bible of was discovered in the ucl library and presented to the library committee, housman (who had become an atheist while at oxford)[ ] remarked that it would be better to sell it to "buy some really useful books with the proceeds".[ ] although housman's early work and his responsibilities as a professor included both latin and greek, he began to specialise in latin poetry. when asked later why he had stopped writing about greek verse, he responded, "i found that i could not attain to excellence in both."[ ] in he took the kennedy professorship of latin at trinity college, cambridge, where he remained for the rest of his life. g. p. goold, classics professor at university college, wrote of housman's accomplishments: the legacy of housman's scholarship is a thing of permanent value; and that value consists less in obvious results, the establishment of general propositions about latin and the removal of scribal mistakes, than in the shining example he provides of a wonderful mind at work … he was and may remain the last great textual critic.[ ] between and housman published his critical edition of manilius's astronomicon in five volumes. he also edited works by juvenal ( ) and lucan ( ). many colleagues were unnerved by his scathing attacks on those he thought guilty of shoddy scholarship.[ ] in his paper "the application of thought to textual criticism" ( ) housman wrote: "a textual critic engaged upon his business is not at all like newton investigating the motion of the planets: he is much more like a dog hunting for fleas." he declared many of his contemporary scholars to be stupid, lazy, vain, or all three, saying: "knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders, and brains, not pudding, in your head."[ ][ ] housman's grave at st laurence's church in ludlow his younger colleague a. s. f. gow quoted examples of these attacks, noting that they "were often savage in the extreme".[ ] gow also related how housman intimidated students, sometimes reducing the women to tears. according to gow, housman could never remember the names of female students, maintaining that "had he burdened his memory by the distinction between miss jones and miss robinson, he might have forgotten that between the second and fourth declension". among the more notable students at his cambridge lectures was enoch powell,[ ] one of whose own classical emendations was later complimented by housman.[ ] housman's grave marker in his private life housman enjoyed country walks, gastronomy, air travel and making frequent visits to france, where he read "books which were banned in britain as pornographic".[ ] but he struck a. c. benson, a fellow don, as being "descended from a long line of maiden aunts".[ ] his feelings about his poetry were ambivalent and he certainly treated it as secondary to his scholarship. he did not speak in public about his poems until , when he gave a lecture "the name and nature of poetry", arguing there that poetry should appeal to emotions rather than to the intellect. housman died, aged , in cambridge. his ashes are buried just outside st laurence's church, ludlow, shropshire. a cherry tree was planted there in his memory (see a shropshire lad ii) and replaced by the housman society in with a new cherry tree nearby.[ ][ ] poetry[edit] a shropshire lad[edit] main article: a shropshire lad loveliest of trees, the cherry now is hung with bloom along the bough, and stands about the woodland ride wearing white for eastertide. now, of my threescore years and ten, twenty will not come again, and take from seventy springs a score, it only leaves me fifty more. and since to look at things in bloom fifty springs are little room, about the woodlands i will go to see the cherry hung with snow.[ ] —a shropshire lad: "loveliest of trees, the cherry now" during his years in london, housman completed a shropshire lad, a cycle of poems. after one publisher had turned it down, he helped subsidise its publication in . at first selling slowly, it rapidly became a lasting success. its appeal to english musicians had helped to make it widely known before world war i, when its themes struck a powerful chord with english readers. the book has been in print continuously since may .[ ] the poems are marked by pessimism and preoccupation with death, without religious consolation (housman had become an atheist while still an undergraduate). housman wrote many of them while living in highgate, london, before ever visiting shropshire, which he presented in an idealised pastoral light as his 'land of lost content'.[ ] housman himself acknowledged that "no doubt i have been unconsciously influenced by the greeks and latins, but [the] chief sources of which i am conscious are shakespeare's songs, the scottish border ballads, and heine."[ ] later collections[edit] housman began collecting a new set of poems after the first world war. his early work was an influence on many british poets who became famous by their writing about the war, and he himself wrote several poems as occasional verse to commemorate the war dead. this included his epitaph on an army of mercenaries, honouring the british expeditionary force, an elite but small force of professional soldiers sent to belgium at the start of the war. in the early s, when moses jackson was dying in canada, housman wanted to assemble his best unpublished poems so that jackson could read them before his death.[ ] these later poems, mostly written before , show a greater variety of subject and form than those in a shropshire lad but lack its consistency. he published his new collection as last poems ( ), feeling that his inspiration was exhausted and that he should not publish more in his lifetime. after housman's death in , his brother, laurence published further poems in more poems ( ), a. e .h.: some poems, some letters and a personal memoir by his brother ( ), and collected poems ( ). a. e. h. includes humorous verse such as a parody of longfellow's poem excelsior. housman also wrote a parodic fragment of a greek tragedy, in english, published posthumously with humorous poems under the title unkind to unicorns.[ ] john sparrow quoted a letter written late in housman's life that described the genesis of his poems: poetry was for him …'a morbid secretion', as the pearl is for the oyster. the desire, or the need, did not come upon him often, and it came usually when he was feeling ill or depressed; then whole lines and stanzas would present themselves to him without any effort, or any consciousness of composition on his part. sometimes they wanted a little alteration, sometimes none; sometimes the lines needed in order to make a complete poem would come later, spontaneously or with 'a little coaxing'; sometimes he had to sit down and finish the poem with his head. that... was a long and laborious process.[ ] sparrow himself adds, "how difficult it is to achieve a satisfactory analysis may be judged by considering the last poem in a shropshire lad. of its four stanzas, housman tells us that two were 'given' him ready made; one was coaxed forth from his subconsciousness an hour or two later; the remaining one took months of conscious composition. no one can tell for certain which was which."[ ] de amicitia (of friendship)[edit] in laurence housman also deposited an essay entitled "a. e. housman's 'de amicitia'" (there is a link to the text, below in this article, under "further reading") in the british library, with the proviso that it was not to be published for years. the essay discussed a. e. housman's homosexuality and his love for moses jackson.[ ] despite the conservative nature of the times and his own caution in public life, housman was quite open in his poetry, and especially in a shropshire lad, about his deeper sympathies. poem xxx of that sequence, for instance, speaks of how "fear contended with desire": "others, i am not the first, / have willed more mischief than they durst". in more poems, he buries his love for moses jackson in the very act of commemorating it, as his feelings of love are not reciprocated and must be carried unfulfilled to the grave:[ ] because i liked you better     than suits a man to say, it irked you, and i promised     to throw the thought away. to put the world between us     we parted, stiff and dry; "good-bye," said you, "forget me."     "i will, no fear," said i. if here, where clover whitens     the dead man's knoll, you pass, and no tall flower to meet you     starts in the trefoiled grass, halt by the headstone naming     the heart no longer stirred, and say the lad that loved you     was one that kept his word.[ ] his poem "oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?", written after the trial of oscar wilde, addressed more general attitudes towards homosexuals.[ ] in the poem the prisoner is suffering "for the colour of his hair", a natural quality that, in a coded reference to homosexuality, is reviled as "nameless and abominable" (recalling the legal phrase peccatum illud horribile, inter christianos non nominandum, "that horrible sin, not to be named amongst christians"). housman song settings[edit] housman's poetry, especially a shropshire lad, was set to music by many british, and in particular english, composers in the first half of the th century. the national, pastoral and traditional elements of his style resonated with similar trends in english music.[ ] in the cycle a shropshire lad was set by arthur somervell, who in had begun to develop the concept of the english song-cycle in his version of tennyson's "maud".[ ] stephen banfield believes it was acquaintance with somervell's cycle that led other composers to set housman: ralph vaughan williams is likely to have attended the first performance at the aeolian hall on february .[ ] his well-known cycle of six songs on wenlock edge, for string quartet, tenor and piano, was published in . between and george butterworth produced settings in two collections, six songs from a shropshire lad and bredon hill and other songs. he also wrote the orchestral tone poem a shropshire lad, first performed at leeds festival in .[ ] ivor gurney was another composer who made renowned settings of housman's poems. towards the end of world war i he was working on his cycle ludlow and teme, for voice and string quartet (published in ),[ ] and went on to compose the eight-song cycle the western playland in .[ ] one more who set housman songs at this period was john ireland in the song cycle, the land of lost content ( – ). even composers not directly associated with the 'pastoral' tradition, such as arnold bax, lennox berkeley and arthur bliss, were attracted to housman's poetry. a catalogue listed musical settings of housman's poems.[ ] as of , lieder net archive records settings of texts.[ ] commemorations[edit] the earliest commemoration of housman was in the chapel of trinity college in cambridge, where there is a memorial brass on the south wall.[ ] the latin inscription was composed by his colleague there, a. s. f. gow, who was also the author of a biographical and bibliographical sketch published immediately following his death.[ ] translated into english, the memorial reads: this inscription commemorates alfred edward housman, who was for twenty-five years kennedy professor of latin and fellow of the college. following in bentley's footsteps he corrected the transmitted text of the latin poets with so keen an intelligence and so ample a stock of learning, and chastised the sloth of editors so sharply and wittily, that he takes his place as the virtual second founder of textual studies. he was also a poet whose slim volumes of verse assured him of a secure place on the british helicon. he died on th april at the age of seventy-six.[ ] housman statue in bromsgrove from , university college london's academic common room was dedicated to his memory as the housman room.[ ] blue plaques followed later elsewhere, the first being on byron cottage in highgate in , recording the fact that a shropshire lad was written there. more followed on his worcestershire birthplace, his homes and school in bromsgrove.[ ] the latter were encouraged by the housman society, which was founded in the town in .[ ] another initiative was the statue in bromsgrove high street, showing the poet striding with walking stick in hand. the work of local sculptor kenneth potts, it was unveiled on march .[ ] the blue plaques in worcestershire were set up on the centenary of a shropshire lad in . in september of the same year a memorial window lozenge was dedicated at poets' corner in westminster abbey[ ] the following year saw the première of tom stoppard's play the invention of love, whose subject is the relationship between housman and moses jackson.[ ] as the th anniversary of his birth approached, london university inaugurated its housman lectures on classical subjects in , initially given every second year then annually after .[ ] the anniversary itself in saw the publication of a new edition of a shropshire lad, including pictures from across shropshire taken by local photographer gareth thomas.[ ] among other events, there were performances of vaughan williams' on wenlock edge and gurney's ludlow and teme at st laurence's church in ludlow.[ ] works[edit] poetry collections[edit] 	a shropshire lad ( ) 	last poems ( , henry holt & company) 	a shropshire lad: authorized edition ( , henry holt & company) 	more poems ( , barclays) 	collected poems ( , henry holt & company) 	collected poems ( ); the poems included in this volume but not the three above are known as additional poems. the penguin edition of includes an introduction by john sparrow. 	manuscript poems: eight hundred lines of hitherto un-collected verse from the author's notebooks, ed. tom burns haber ( ) 	unkind to unicorns: selected comic verse, ed. j. roy birch ( ; nd ed. ) 	the poems of a. e. housman, ed. archie burnett ( ) 	a shropshire lad and other poems ( , penguin classics) classical scholarship[edit] 	p. ovidi nasonis ibis ( . in j. p. postgate's "corpus poetarum latinorum") 	m. manilii astronomica ( – ; nd ed. ; vols.) 	d. iunii iuuenalis saturae: editorum in usum edidit ( ; nd ed. ) 	m. annaei lucani, belli ciuilis libri decem: editorum in usum edidit ( ; nd ed. ) 	the classical papers of a. e. housman, ed. j. diggle and f. r. d. goodyear ( ; vols.) 	"housman's latin inscriptions", william white, the classical journal ( ) – published lectures[edit] these lectures are listed by date of delivery, with date of first publication given separately if different. 	introductory lecture ( ) 	"swinburne" ( ; published ) 	cambridge inaugural lecture ( ; published as "the confines of criticism") 	"the application of thought to textual criticism" ( ; published ) 	"the name and nature of poetry" ( ) prose collections[edit] selected prose, edited by john carter, cambridge university press, collected letters[edit] 	the letters of a. e. housman, ed. henry maas ( ) 	the letters of a. e. housman, ed. archie burnett ( ) see also[edit] 	the invention of love footnotes[edit] 	^ "a e housman, the poetry archive". archived from the original on november . retrieved october . 	^ "a man who turned out to be not only the great english classical scholar of his time but also one of the few real and great scholars anywhere at any time". charles oscar brink, english classical scholarship: historical reflections on bentley, porson and housman, james clarke & co, oxford, oxford university press, new york, p. 	^ a b c "a. e. housman". poetry foundation. may . retrieved may . 	^ "england marriages, – for edward housman", baptism record via family search.org 	^ "england births and christenings, – for alfred edward housman", baptism record via family search.org 	^ christ church catshill 	^ a b c d e f g h i j profile at poets.org 	^ "housman's th birthday". bbc. retrieved january . 	^ p. g. naiditch ( ). a. e. housman at university college, london: the election of . isbn  . retrieved december . 	^ cunningham ( ) p. . 	^ norman page, macmillan, london ( ) a. e. housman: a critical biography pp. – 	^ richard perceval graves, a. e. housman: the scholar-poet charles scribners, new york ( ) pp. – . 	^ charles oscar brink, english classical scholarship p. 	^ summers ( ) p. 	^ blocksidge, martin. a. e. housman: a single life. n.p.: n.p., 	^ ricks, christopher ( ). a. e. housman. collected poems and selected prose. harmondsworth: penguin. p.  . 	^ gow (cambridge ) p. 	^ "the application of thought to textual criticism", ( ) housman 	^ gow (cambridge ) p. 	^ gow (cambridge ) p. 	^ the letters of a. e. housman, clarendon press , p. 	^ graves ( ) p. . 	^ critchley ( ). 	^ wilson, scott. resting places: the burial sites of more than , famous persons, d ed.: (kindle location ). mcfarland & company, inc., publishers. kindle edition 	^ housman, a. e. ( ). a shropshire lad. new york: john lane company. pp.  - . 	^ peter parker, housman country, london , chapter 	^ a. e. housman, a shropshire lad, xl 	^ richard stokes, the penguin book of english song, , p. li 	^ j. roy birch and norman page, ed. ( ). unkind to unicorns. cambridge: silent books. 	^ a b collected poems penguin, harmondsworth ( ), preface by john sparrow. 	^ summers ed. , . 	^ summers ( ) p . 	^ housman, a. e. ( ). more poems. new york: a. a. knopf. pp.  - . 	^ housman ( ) p . 	^ a b palmer, christopher. 'housman, a(lfred) e(dward)', in grove music online ( ) 	^ 'two song cycles by arthur somervell' in opera today, june 	^ banfield, stephen. sensibility and english song ( ), p - 	^ arthur eaglefield hull, a dictionary of modern music and musicians dent, london ( ), . 	^ kate kennedy, "ambivalent englishness: ivor gurney's song cycle ludlow and teme", first world war studies, volume , , – issue : literature and music of the first world war 	^ "the western playland". the liedernet archive. retrieved may . 	^ "authors starting with the letter h". the liedernet archive. retrieved may . 	^ "brasses h-k". trinity college chapel. retrieved may . 	^ a.e. housman: classical scholar, bloomsbury , n. hopkinson, "housman and j.p. postgate" 	^ in its original latin the plaque reads: hoc titvlo commemoratvr / alfred edward housman [sic] / per xxv annos lingvae latinae professor kennedianvs / et hvivs collegii socivs / qvi bentleii insistens vestigiis / textvm traditvm poetarvm latinorvm / tanto ingenii acvmine tantis doctrinae copiis / editorvm socordiam / tam acri cavillatione castigavit / vt horvm stvdiorvm paene reformator exstiterit / idem poeta / tenvi carminvm fascicvlo / sedem sibi tvtam in helicone nostro vindicavit / obiit prid.kal.mai./ a.s.mdccccxxxvi aetatis svae lxxvii 	^ "history of the ascr". ucl. archived from the original on february . retrieved july . 	^ "places, subjects, or plaques matching "a. e. housman"". open plaques. retrieved may . 	^ housman society newsletter , "early history of the society", pp. – archived october at the wayback machine 	^ "statue to a. e. housman". public monuments and sculpture association. archived from the original on september . retrieved may . 	^ "a. e. housman". westminster abbey. retrieved may . 	^ clapp, susannah ( october ). "susannah clapp on stoppard's the invention of love". the observer. issn  - . retrieved may . 	^ "housman lectures". ucl department of greek & latin. november . retrieved may . 	^ "a shropshire lad". merlin unwin books. retrieved may . 	^ "a. e. housman: th birth anniversary", shropshire life, april sources[edit] 	critchley, julian, 'homage to a lonely lad', weekend telegraph (uk), april . 	cunningham, valentine ed., the victorians: an anthology of poetry and poetics (oxford: blackwell, ) 	gow, a. s. f., a. e. housman: a sketch together with a list of his writings and indexes to his classical papers (cambridge ) 	graves, richard perceval, a.e. housman: the scholar-poet (oxford: oxford university press, ), p.  	housman, laurence, a. e .h.: some poems, some letters and a personal memoir by his brother (london: jonathan cape, ) 	page, norman, 'housman, alfred edward ( – )', oxford dictionary of national biography (oxford: oxford university press, ) 	palmer, christopher and stephen banfield, 'a. e. housman', the new grove dictionary of music and musicians (london: macmillan, ) 	richardson, donna, "the can of ail: a. e. housman's moral irony", victorian poetry, volume , number , summer ( – ) 	shaw, robin, "housman's places" (the housman society, ) 	summers, claude j. ed., the gay and lesbian literary heritage (new york: henry holt and co., ) further reading[edit] 	blocksidge, martin. a. e. housman : a single life (sussex academic press, ) isbn  - - - - 	brink, c. o. lutterworth.com, english classical scholarship: historical reflections on bentley, porson and housman, james clarke & co ( ), isbn  - - - - 	efrati, c. the road of danger, guilt, and shame: the lonely way of a. e. housman (associated university presse, ) isbn  - - - 	gardner, philip, ed. a. e. housman: the critical heritage, a collection of reviews and essays on housman's poetry (london: routledge ) 	holden, a. w. and birch, j. r. a. e housman – a reassessment (palgrave macmillan, london, ) 	housman, laurence. [ ], de amicitia with annotation by john carter. encounter (october , pp.  – ). 	parker, peter. housman country : into the heart of england (little, brown, ) isbn  - - - - external links[edit] 		wikiquote has quotations related to: a. e. housman 		wikisource has original works written by or about: alfred edward housman 		wikimedia commons has media related to alfred edward housman. 	portraits of a. e. housman at the national portrait gallery, london 	a. e. housman profile and poems at poets.org 	profile and poems at poetry foundation 	london review of books review of "the letters of a.e. housman" july 	bbc profile june 	"star man": an article in the tls by robert douglas fairhurst, june 	"lost horizon: the sad and savage wit of a. e. housman" new yorker article ( pages) by anthony lane february 	the housman society 	the papers of a. e. housman, bryn mawr college special collections 	recording of part of the shropshire lad centenary reading by the housman society 	catalogus philologorum classicorum 	newspaper clippings about a. e. housman in the th century press archives of the zbw works[edit] 	works by a. e. housman at project gutenberg 	works by or about a. e. housman at internet archive 	works by a. e. housman at librivox (public domain audiobooks) 	works by a. e. housman at open library 	a. e. housman at library of congress authorities, with catalogue records 	complete poems of a. e. housman 	academic offices 	preceded by john e. b. mayor 	 kennedy professor of latin cambridge university – 	succeeded by william blair anderson 	authority control 	 	bibsys: 	bne: xx 	bnf: cb c (data) 	cantic: a 	cinii: da 	gnd: 	isni: 	lccn: n 	lnb: 	mba: b - 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latin: aedīlis [ae̯ˈdiːlɪs], from aedes, "temple edifice") was an elected office of the roman republic. based in rome, the aediles were responsible for maintenance of public buildings (aedēs) and regulation of public festivals. they also had powers to enforce public order and duties to ensure the city of rome was well supplied and its civil infrastructure well maintained, akin to modern local government. there were two pairs of aediles: the first were the "plebeian aediles" (latin aediles plebis) and possession of this office was limited to plebeians; the other two were "curule aediles" (latin aediles curules), open to both plebeians and patricians, in alternating years. an aedilis curulis was classified as a magister curulis. the office of the aedilis was generally held by young men intending to follow the cursus honorum to high political office, traditionally after their quaestorship but before their praetorship. it was not a compulsory part of the cursus, and hence a former quaestor could be elected to the praetorship without having held the position of aedile. however, it was an advantageous position to hold because it demonstrated the aspiring politician's commitment to public service, as well as giving him the opportunity to hold public festivals and games, an excellent way to increase his name recognition and popularity. contents 	 history of the office 	 . plebeian aediles 	 . curule aediles 	 . differences between the two 	 election to the office 	 powers of the office 	 under the empire 	 shakespeare 	 see also 	 references 	 books history of the office[edit] plebeian aediles[edit] the plebeian aediles were created in the same year as the tribunes of the people ( bc). originally intended as assistants to the tribunes, they guarded the rights of the plebs with respect to their headquarters, the temple of ceres. subsequently, they assumed responsibility for maintenance of the city's buildings as a whole.[ ] their duties at first were simply ministerial. they were the assistants to the tribunes in whatever matters that the tribunes might entrust to them, although most matters with which they were entrusted were of minimal importance. around bc, they were given the authority to care for the decrees of the senate (latin: senatus consulta). when a senatus consultum was passed, it would be transcribed into a document, and deposited in the public treasury, the aerarium. they were given this power because the consuls, who had held this power before, arbitrarily suppressed and altered the documents.[ ] they also maintained the acts of the plebeian council (popular assembly), the "plebiscites". plebiscites, once passed, were also transcribed into a physical document for storage. while their powers grew over time, it is not always easy to distinguish the difference between their powers, and those of the censors. occasionally, if a censor was unable to carry out one of his tasks, an aedile would perform the task instead. curule aediles[edit] according to livy (vi. ), after the passing of the licinian rogations in bc, an extra day was added to the roman games; the plebeian aediles refused to bear the additional expense, whereupon the patricians offered to undertake it, on condition that they were admitted to the aedileship. the plebeians accepted the offer, and accordingly two curule aediles were appointed—at first from the patricians alone, then from patricians and plebeians in turn, lastly, from either—at the tribal assembly under the presidency of the consul.[ ] curule aediles, as formal magistrates, held certain honors that plebeian aediles (who were not technically magistrates), did not hold. besides having the right to sit on a curule chair (sella curulis) and to wear a toga praetexta, the curule aediles also held the power to issue edicts (jus edicendi). these edicts often pertained to matters such as the regulation of the public markets, or what we might call "economic regulation".[ ] livy suggests, perhaps incorrectly, that both curule as well as plebeian aediles were sacrosanct.[ ] although the curule aediles always ranked higher than the plebeian, their functions gradually approximated and became practically identical.[ ] within five days after the beginning of their terms, the four aediles (two plebeian, two curule) were required to determine, by lot or by agreement among themselves, what parts of the city each should hold jurisdiction over.[ ] differences between the two[edit] there was a distinction between the two sets of aediles when it came to public festivals. some festivals were plebeian in nature, and thus were under the superintendence of plebeian aediles.[ ] other festivals were supervised exclusively by the curule aediles,[ ] and it was often with these festivals that the aediles would spend lavishly. this was often done so as to secure the support of voters in future elections. because aediles were not reimbursed for any of their public expenditures, most individuals who sought the office were independently wealthy. since this office was a stepping stone to higher office and the senate, it helped to ensure that only wealthy individuals (mostly landowners) would win election to high office. these extravagant expenditures began shortly after the end of second punic war, and increased as the spoils returned from rome's new eastern conquests. even the decadence of the emperors rarely surpassed that of the aediles under the republic, as could have been seen during julius caesar's aedileship.[ ] election to the office[edit] plebeian aediles were elected by the plebeian council, usually while under the presidency of a plebeian tribune. curule aediles were elected by the tribal assembly, usually while under the presidency of a consul. since the plebeian aediles were elected by the plebeians, rather than by all of the people of rome (plebeians as well as members of the patrician aristocracy), they were not technically magistrates. before the passage of the lex annalis, individuals could run for the aedileship by the time they turned twenty-seven. after the passage of this law in bc, a higher age was set, probably thirty-five.[ ] by the st century bc, aediles were elected in july, and took office on the first day in january. powers of the office[edit] cicero (legg. iii. , ) divides these functions under three heads: ( ) care of the city: the repair and preservation of temples, sewers and aqueducts; street cleansing and paving; regulations regarding traffic, dangerous animals and dilapidated buildings; precautions against fire; superintendence of baths and taverns; enforcement of sumptuary laws; punishment of gamblers and usurers; the care of public morals generally, including the prevention of foreign superstitions and the registration of meretrices. they also punished those who had too large a share of the ager publicus, or kept too many cattle on the state pastures. ( ) care of provisions: investigation of the quality of the articles supplied and the correctness of weights and measures; the purchase of grain for disposal at a low price in case of necessity. ( ) care of the games: superintendence and organization of the public games, as well as of those given by themselves and private individuals (e.g. at funerals) at their own expense. ambitious persons often spent enormous sums in this manner to win the popular favor with a view to official advancement.[ ] under the empire[edit] in bc julius caesar added two plebeian aediles, called cereales, whose special duty was the care of the cereal (grain) supply. under augustus the office lost much of its importance, its judicial functions and the care of the games being transferred to the praetor, while its city responsibilities were limited by the appointment of a praefectus urbi.[ ] augustus took for himself its powers over various religious duties. by stripping it of its powers over temples, augustus effectively destroyed the office, by taking from it its original function. after this point, few people were willing to hold such a powerless office, and augustus was even known to compel individuals into holding the office. augustus accomplished this by randomly selecting former tribunes and quaestors for the office.[ ] future emperors would continue to dilute the power of the office by transferring its powers to newly created offices. however, the office did retain some powers over licentiousness and disorder, in particular over the baths and brothels, as well as the registration of prostitutes.[ ] in the rd century, it disappeared altogether.[ ] under the empire, roman colonies and cities often had officials with powers similar to those of the republican aediles, although their powers widely varied. it seems as though they were usually chosen annually.[ ] today in portugal the county mayor can still be referred to as edil (e.g. 'o edil de coimbra', meaning 'the mayor of coimbra'), a way of reference used also in romania for any mayors (ex. 'edil al bucureștiului', meaning 'mayor of bucharest'). in spain (and latin america) the members of municipal councils are called concejales or ediles. shakespeare[edit] in his play coriolanus, shakespeare references the aediles. however, they are minor characters, and their chief role is to serve as policemen.[ ] see also[edit] 	aetheling 	agoranomi 	constitution of the roman republic 	ethel references[edit] 	^ mccullough, 	^ a b liv. iii. 	^ a b c d e  one or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "aedile". encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. p.  . this cites: 	schubert, de romanorum aedilibus ( ) 	hoffmann, de aedilibus romanis ( ) 	göll, de aedilibus sub caesarum imperio ( ) 	labatut, les Édiles et les moeurs ( ) 	marquardt-mommsen, handbuch der römischen altertümer, ii. ( ) 	soltau, die ursprüngliche bedeutung und competenz der aediles plebis (bonn, ). 	^ cic. verr. v. 	^ tabula heracleensis, ed. alessio simmacho mazzocchi 	^ liv. xxxi. 	^ liv. xxxi. 	^ plut. caesar, 	^ livy, xl. 	^ dio cassius lv. 	^ tacitus annales, ii. 	^ de aedil. col, &c. otto. lips. 	^ shakespeare, william. the tragedies of william shakespeare. random house, inc. pp.  . isbn  - - - . books[edit] 	berry, joanne ( ). the complete pompeii. thames and hudson. isbn  - - - - . 	boatwright, mary t., daniel j. gargola, richard j.a. talbert ( ). a brief history of the romans. oxford university press. isbn  - - - - .cs maint: multiple names: authors list (link) 	brennan, brain ( ). herculaneum: a sourcebook. ancient history seminars. isbn  - - - - . 	 	v 	t 	e ancient rome topics 	 	outline 	timeline 	history	 	 	foundation 	kingdom 	overthrow 	republic 	empire	 	history 	pax romana 	principate 	dominate 	western empire 	fall 	historiography of the fall 	byzantine empire 	decline 	fall 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	cookie statement 		 	 	 horace - wikipedia 	 		 		 			 				 					 					open main menu 					 		 			 home 			 	 			 random 			 	 			 nearby 			 		 			 log in 			 		 			 settings 			 		 			 donate 			 		 			 about wikipedia 			 	 			 disclaimers 			 					 				 				 					 						 						 					 				 				 					 				 				 					search 					 				 			 		 		 			 			 			 			 			 				 					horace 					 				 				 		 				language 		 	 				watch 		 	 				edit 		 				 				 				 			 			 this article is about the roman poet. for the egyptian god, see horus. for other uses, see horace (disambiguation). quintus horatius flaccus ( december – november bc), known in the english-speaking world as horace (/ˈhɒrɪs/), was the leading roman lyric poet during the time of augustus (also known as octavian). the rhetorician quintilian regarded his odes as just about the only latin lyrics worth reading: "he can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."[nb ] 	horace 	horace, as imagined by anton von werner 	born	quintus horatius flaccus december bc venusia, italy, roman republic 	died	 november bc (age ) rome 	resting place	rome 	occupation	soldier, scriba quaestorius, poet, senator 	language	latin 	nationality	roman 	genre	lyric poetry 	notable works	odes "the art of poetry" horace also crafted elegant hexameter verses (satires and epistles) and caustic iambic poetry (epodes). the hexameters are amusing yet serious works, friendly in tone, leading the ancient satirist persius to comment: "as his friend laughs, horace slyly puts his finger on his every fault; once let in, he plays about the heartstrings".[nb ] his career coincided with rome's momentous change from a republic to an empire. an officer in the republican army defeated at the battle of philippi in bc, he was befriended by octavian's right-hand man in civil affairs, maecenas, and became a spokesman for the new regime. for some commentators, his association with the regime was a delicate balance in which he maintained a strong measure of independence (he was "a master of the graceful sidestep")[ ] but for others he was, in john dryden's phrase, "a well-mannered court slave".[ ][nb ] contents 	 life 	 . childhood 	 . adulthood 	 . . poet 	 . . knight 	 works 	 . historical context 	 . themes 	 reception 	 . antiquity 	 . middle ages and renaissance 	 . age of enlightenment 	 . th century on 	 translations 	 in popular culture 	 see also 	 notes 	 citations 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links lifeedit   horatii flacci sermonum ( ) horace can be regarded as the world's first autobiographer.[ ] in his writings, he tells us far more about himself, his character, his development, and his way of life, than any other great poet of antiquity. some of the biographical material contained in his work can be supplemented from the short but valuable "life of horace" by suetonius (in his lives of the poets).[ ] childhoodedit he was born on december bc[nb ] in the samnite south of italy.[ ] his home town, venusia, lay on a trade route in the border region between apulia and lucania (basilicata). various italic dialects were spoken in the area and this perhaps enriched his feeling for language. he could have been familiar with greek words even as a young boy and later he poked fun at the jargon of mixed greek and oscan spoken in neighbouring canusium.[ ] one of the works he probably studied in school was the odyssia of livius andronicus, taught by teachers like the 'orbilius' mentioned in one of his poems.[ ] army veterans could have been settled there at the expense of local families uprooted by rome as punishment for their part in the social war ( – bc).[ ] such state-sponsored migration must have added still more linguistic variety to the area. according to a local tradition reported by horace,[ ] a colony of romans or latins had been installed in venusia after the samnites had been driven out early in the third century. in that case, young horace could have felt himself to be a roman[ ][ ] though there are also indications that he regarded himself as a samnite or sabellus by birth.[ ][ ] italians in modern and ancient times have always been devoted to their home towns, even after success in the wider world, and horace was no different. images of his childhood setting and references to it are found throughout his poems.[ ] horace's father was probably a venutian taken captive by romans in the social war, or possibly he was descended from a sabine captured in the samnite wars. either way, he was a slave for at least part of his life. he was evidently a man of strong abilities however and managed to gain his freedom and improve his social position. thus horace claimed to be the free-born son of a prosperous 'coactor'.[ ] the term 'coactor' could denote various roles, such as tax collector, but its use by horace[ ] was explained by scholia as a reference to 'coactor argentareus' i.e. an auctioneer with some of the functions of a banker, paying the seller out of his own funds and later recovering the sum with interest from the buyer.[ ] the father spent a small fortune on his son's education, eventually accompanying him to rome to oversee his schooling and moral development. the poet later paid tribute to him in a poem[ ] that one modern scholar considers the best memorial by any son to his father.[nb ] the poem includes this passage: if my character is flawed by a few minor faults, but is otherwise decent and moral, if you can point out only a few scattered blemishes on an otherwise immaculate surface, if no one can accuse me of greed, or of prurience, or of profligacy, if i live a virtuous life, free of defilement (pardon, for a moment, my self-praise), and if i am to my friends a good friend, my father deserves all the credit... as it is now, he deserves from me unstinting gratitude and praise. i could never be ashamed of such a father, nor do i feel any need, as many people do, to apologize for being a freedman's son. satires . . – he never mentioned his mother in his verses and he might not have known much about her. perhaps she also had been a slave.[ ] adulthoodedit horace left rome, possibly after his father's death, and continued his formal education in athens, a great centre of learning in the ancient world, where he arrived at nineteen years of age, enrolling in the academy. founded by plato, the academy was now dominated by epicureans and stoics, whose theories and practises made a deep impression on the young man from venusia.[ ] meanwhile, he mixed and lounged about with the elite of roman youth, such as marcus, the idle son of cicero, and the pompeius to whom he later addressed a poem.[ ] it was in athens too that he probably acquired deep familiarity with the ancient tradition of greek lyric poetry, at that time largely the preserve of grammarians and academic specialists (access to such material was easier in athens than in rome, where the public libraries had yet to be built by asinius pollio and augustus).[ ] rome's troubles following the assassination of julius caesar were soon to catch up with him. marcus junius brutus came to athens seeking support for the republican cause. brutus was fêted around town in grand receptions and he made a point of attending academic lectures, all the while recruiting supporters among the young men studying there, including horace.[ ] an educated young roman could begin military service high in the ranks and horace was made tribunus militum (one of six senior officers of a typical legion), a post usually reserved for men of senatorial or equestrian rank and which seems to have inspired jealousy among his well-born confederates.[ ][ ] he learned the basics of military life while on the march, particularly in the wilds of northern greece, whose rugged scenery became a backdrop to some of his later poems.[ ] it was there in bc that octavian (later augustus) and his associate mark antony crushed the republican forces at the battle of philippi. horace later recorded it as a day of embarrassment for himself, when he fled without his shield,[ ] but allowance should be made for his self-deprecating humour. moreover, the incident allowed him to identify himself with some famous poets who had long ago abandoned their shields in battle, notably his heroes alcaeus and archilochus. the comparison with the latter poet is uncanny: archilochus lost his shield in a part of thrace near philippi, and he was deeply involved in the greek colonization of thasos, where horace's die-hard comrades finally surrendered.[ ] octavian offered an early amnesty to his opponents and horace quickly accepted it. on returning to italy, he was confronted with yet another loss: his father's estate in venusia was one of many throughout italy to be confiscated for the settlement of veterans (virgil lost his estate in the north about the same time). horace later claimed that he was reduced to poverty and this led him to try his hand at poetry.[ ] in reality, there was no money to be had from versifying. at best, it offered future prospects through contacts with other poets and their patrons among the rich.[ ] meanwhile, he obtained the sinecure of scriba quaestorius, a civil service position at the aerarium or treasury, profitable enough to be purchased even by members of the ordo equester and not very demanding in its work-load, since tasks could be delegated to scribae or permanent clerks.[ ] it was about this time that he began writing his satires and epodes. poetedit   horace reads before maecenas, by fyodor bronnikov the epodes belong to iambic poetry. iambic poetry features insulting and obscene language;[ ][ ] sometimes, it is referred to as blame poetry.[ ] blame poetry, or shame poetry, is poetry written to blame and shame fellow citizens into a sense of their social obligations. horace modelled these poems on the poetry of archilochus. social bonds in rome had been decaying since the destruction of carthage a little more than a hundred years earlier, due to the vast wealth that could be gained by plunder and corruption.[ ] these social ills were magnified by rivalry between julius caesar, mark antony and confederates like sextus pompey, all jockeying for a bigger share of the spoils. one modern scholar has counted a dozen civil wars in the hundred years leading up to bc, including the spartacus rebellion, eight years before horace's birth.[ ] as the heirs to hellenistic culture, horace and his fellow romans were not well prepared to deal with these problems: at bottom, all the problems that the times were stirring up were of a social nature, which the hellenistic thinkers were ill qualified to grapple with. some of them censured oppression of the poor by the rich, but they gave no practical lead, though they may have hoped to see well-meaning rulers doing so. philosophy was drifting into absorption in self, a quest for private contentedness, to be achieved by self-control and restraint, without much regard for the fate of a disintegrating community. — v. g. kiernan[ ] horace's hellenistic background is clear in his satires, even though the genre was unique to latin literature. he brought to it a style and outlook suited to the social and ethical issues confronting rome but he changed its role from public, social engagement to private meditation.[ ] meanwhile, he was beginning to interest octavian's supporters, a gradual process described by him in one of his satires.[ ] the way was opened for him by his friend, the poet virgil, who had gained admission into the privileged circle around maecenas, octavian's lieutenant, following the success of his eclogues. an introduction soon followed and, after a discreet interval, horace too was accepted. he depicted the process as an honourable one, based on merit and mutual respect, eventually leading to true friendship, and there is reason to believe that his relationship was genuinely friendly, not just with maecenas but afterwards with augustus as well.[ ] on the other hand, the poet has been unsympathetically described by one scholar as "a sharp and rising young man, with an eye to the main chance."[ ] there were advantages on both sides: horace gained encouragement and material support, the politicians gained a hold on a potential dissident.[ ] his republican sympathies, and his role at philippi, may have caused him some pangs of remorse over his new status. however most romans considered the civil wars to be the result of contentio dignitatis, or rivalry between the foremost families of the city, and he too seems to have accepted the principate as rome's last hope for much needed peace.[ ] in bc, horace accompanied maecenas on a journey to brundisium, described in one of his poems[ ] as a series of amusing incidents and charming encounters with other friends along the way, such as virgil. in fact the journey was political in its motivation, with maecenas en route to negotiatie the treaty of tarentum with antony, a fact horace artfully keeps from the reader (political issues are largely avoided in the first book of satires).[ ] horace was probably also with maecenas on one of octavian's naval expeditions against the piratical sextus pompeius, which ended in a disastrous storm off palinurus in bc, briefly alluded to by horace in terms of near-drowning.[ ][nb ] there are also some indications in his verses that he was with maecenas at the battle of actium in bc, where octavian defeated his great rival, antony.[ ][nb ] by then horace had already received from maecenas the famous gift of his sabine farm, probably not long after the publication of the first book of satires. the gift, which included income from five tenants, may have ended his career at the treasury, or at least allowed him to give it less time and energy.[ ] it signalled his identification with the octavian regime yet, in the second book of satires that soon followed, he continued the apolitical stance of the first book. by this time, he had attained the status of eques romanus,[ ] perhaps as a result of his work at the treasury.[ ] knightedit odes – were the next focus for his artistic creativity. he adapted their forms and themes from greek lyric poetry of the seventh and sixth centuries bc. the fragmented nature of the greek world had enabled his literary heroes to express themselves freely and his semi-retirement from the treasury in rome to his own estate in the sabine hills perhaps empowered him to some extent also[ ] yet even when his lyrics touched on public affairs they reinforced the importance of private life.[ ] nevertheless, his work in the period – bc began to show his closeness to the regime and his sensitivity to its developing ideology. in odes . , for example, he eulogized octavian in hyperboles that echo hellenistic court poetry. the name augustus, which octavian assumed in january bc, is first attested in odes . and . . in the period – bc, political allusions in the odes concentrated on foreign wars in britain ( . ), arabia ( . ) spain ( . ) and parthia ( . ). he greeted augustus on his return to rome in bc as a beloved ruler upon whose good health he depended for his own happiness ( . ).[ ] the public reception of odes – disappointed him, however. he attributed the lack of success to jealousy among imperial courtiers and to his isolation from literary cliques.[ ] perhaps it was disappointment that led him to put aside the genre in favour of verse letters. he addressed his first book of epistles to a variety of friends and acquaintances in an urbane style reflecting his new social status as a knight. in the opening poem, he professed a deeper interest in moral philosophy than poetry[ ] but, though the collection demonstrates a leaning towards stoic theory, it reveals no sustained thinking about ethics.[ ] maecenas was still the dominant confidante but horace had now begun to assert his own independence, suavely declining constant invitations to attend his patron.[ ] in the final poem of the first book of epistles, he revealed himself to be forty-four years old in the consulship of lollius and lepidus i.e. bc, and "of small stature, fond of the sun, prematurely grey, quick-tempered but easily placated".[ ][ ] according to suetonius, the second book of epistles was prompted by augustus, who desired a verse epistle to be addressed to himself. augustus was in fact a prolific letter-writer and he once asked horace to be his personal secretary. horace refused the secretarial role but complied with the emperor's request for a verse letter.[ ] the letter to augustus may have been slow in coming, being published possibly as late as bc. it celebrated, among other things, the bc military victories of his stepsons, drusus and tiberius, yet it and the following letter[ ] were largely devoted to literary theory and criticism. the literary theme was explored still further in ars poetica, published separately but written in the form of an epistle and sometimes referred to as epistles . (possibly the last poem he ever wrote).[ ] he was also commissioned to write odes commemorating the victories of drusus and tiberius[ ] and one to be sung in a temple of apollo for the secular games, a long-abandoned festival that augustus revived in accordance with his policy of recreating ancient customs (carmen saeculare). suetonius recorded some gossip about horace's sexual activities late in life, claiming that the walls of his bedchamber were covered with obscene pictures and mirrors, so that he saw erotica wherever he looked.[nb ] the poet died at years of age, not long after his friend maecenas, near whose tomb he was laid to rest. both men bequeathed their property to augustus, an honour that the emperor expected of his friends.[ ] worksedit   odes . – wall poem in leiden the dating of horace's works isn't known precisely and scholars often debate the exact order in which they were first 'published'. there are persuasive arguments for the following chronology:[ ] 	satires (c. – bc) 	satires (c. bc) 	epodes ( bc) 	odes – (c. bc)[nb ] 	epistles (c. bc) 	carmen saeculare ( bc) 	epistles (c. bc)[nb ] 	odes (c. bc) 	ars poetica (c. – bc)[nb ] historical contextedit horace composed in traditional metres borrowed from archaic greece, employing hexameters in his satires and epistles, and iambs in his epodes, all of which were relatively easy to adapt into latin forms. his odes featured more complex measures, including alcaics and sapphics, which were sometimes a difficult fit for latin structure and syntax. despite these traditional metres, he presented himself as a partisan in the development of a new and sophisticated style. he was influenced in particular by hellenistic aesthetics of brevity, elegance and polish, as modelled in the work of callimachus.[ ] as soon as horace, stirred by his own genius and encouraged by the example of virgil, varius, and perhaps some other poets of the same generation, had determined to make his fame as a poet, being by temperament a fighter, he wanted to fight against all kinds of prejudice, amateurish slovenliness, philistinism, reactionary tendencies, in short to fight for the new and noble type of poetry which he and his friends were endeavouring to bring about. — eduard fraenkel[ ] in modern literary theory, a distinction is often made between immediate personal experience (urerlebnis) and experience mediated by cultural vectors such as literature, philosophy and the visual arts (bildungserlebnis).[ ] the distinction has little relevance for horace[citation needed] however since his personal and literary experiences are implicated in each other. satires . , for example, recounts in detail a real trip horace made with virgil and some of his other literary friends, and which parallels a satire by lucilius, his predecessor.[ ] unlike much hellenistic-inspired literature, however, his poetry was not composed for a small coterie of admirers and fellow poets, nor does it rely on abstruse allusions for many of its effects. though elitist in its literary standards, it was written for a wide audience, as a public form of art.[ ] ambivalence also characterizes his literary persona, since his presentation of himself as part of a small community of philosophically aware people, seeking true peace of mind while shunning vices like greed, was well adapted to augustus's plans to reform public morality, corrupted by greed—his personal plea for moderation was part of the emperor's grand message to the nation.[ ] horace generally followed the examples of poets established as classics in different genres, such as archilochus in the epodes, lucilius in the satires and alcaeus in the odes, later broadening his scope for the sake of variation and because his models weren't actually suited to the realities confronting him. archilochus and alcaeus were aristocratic greeks whose poetry had a social and religious function that was immediately intelligible to their audiences but which became a mere artifice or literary motif when transposed to rome. however, the artifice of the odes is also integral to their success, since they could now accommodate a wide range of emotional effects, and the blend of greek and roman elements adds a sense of detachment and universality.[ ] horace proudly claimed to introduce into latin the spirit and iambic poetry of archilochus but (unlike archilochus) without persecuting anyone (epistles . . – ). it was no idle boast. his epodes were modelled on the verses of the greek poet, as 'blame poetry', yet he avoided targeting real scapegoats. whereas archilochus presented himself as a serious and vigorous opponent of wrong-doers, horace aimed for comic effects and adopted the persona of a weak and ineffectual critic of his times (as symbolized for example in his surrender to the witch canidia in the final epode).[ ] he also claimed to be the first to introduce into latin the lyrical methods of alcaeus (epistles . . – ) and he actually was the first latin poet to make consistent use of alcaic meters and themes: love, politics and the symposium. he imitated other greek lyric poets as well, employing a 'motto' technique, beginning each ode with some reference to a greek original and then diverging from it.[ ] the satirical poet lucilius was a senator's son who could castigate his peers with impunity. horace was a mere freedman's son who had to tread carefully.[ ] lucilius was a rugged patriot and a significant voice in roman self-awareness, endearing himself to his countrymen by his blunt frankness and explicit politics. his work expressed genuine freedom or libertas. his style included 'metrical vandalism' and looseness of structure. horace instead adopted an oblique and ironic style of satire, ridiculing stock characters and anonymous targets. his libertas was the private freedom of a philosophical outlook, not a political or social privilege.[ ] his satires are relatively easy-going in their use of meter (relative to the tight lyric meters of the odes)[ ] but formal and highly controlled relative to the poems of lucilius, whom horace mocked for his sloppy standards (satires . . – )[nb ] the epistles may be considered among horace's most innovative works. there was nothing like it in greek or roman literature. occasionally poems had had some resemblance to letters, including an elegiac poem from solon to mimnermus and some lyrical poems from pindar to hieron of syracuse. lucilius had composed a satire in the form of a letter, and some epistolary poems were composed by catullus and propertius. but nobody before horace had ever composed an entire collection of verse letters,[ ] let alone letters with a focus on philosophical problems. the sophisticated and flexible style that he had developed in his satires was adapted to the more serious needs of this new genre.[ ] such refinement of style was not unusual for horace. his craftsmanship as a wordsmith is apparent even in his earliest attempts at this or that kind of poetry, but his handling of each genre tended to improve over time as he adapted it to his own needs.[ ] thus for example it is generally agreed that his second book of satires, where human folly is revealed through dialogue between characters, is superior to the first, where he propounds his ethics in monologues. nevertheless, the first book includes some of his most popular poems.[ ] themesedit horace developed a number of inter-related themes throughout his poetic career, including politics, love, philosophy and ethics, his own social role, as well as poetry itself. his epodes and satires are forms of 'blame poetry' and both have a natural affinity with the moralising and diatribes of cynicism. this often takes the form of allusions to the work and philosophy of bion of borysthenes [nb ] but it is as much a literary game as a philosophical alignment. by the time he composed his epistles, he was a critic of cynicism along with all impractical and "high-falutin" philosophy in general.[nb ][ ] the satires also include a strong element of epicureanism, with frequent allusions to the epicurean poet lucretius.[nb ] so for example the epicurean sentiment carpe diem is the inspiration behind horace's repeated punning on his own name (horatius ~ hora) in satires . .[ ] the satires also feature some stoic, peripatetic and platonic (dialogues) elements. in short, the satires present a medley of philosophical programs, dished up in no particular order—a style of argument typical of the genre.[ ] the odes display a wide range of topics. over time, he becomes more confident about his political voice.[ ] although he is often thought of as an overly intellectual lover, he is ingenious in representing passion.[ ] the "odes" weave various philosophical strands together, with allusions and statements of doctrine present in about a third of the odes books – , ranging from the flippant ( . , . ) to the solemn ( . , . , . ). epicureanism is the dominant influence, characterizing about twice as many of these odes as stoicism. a group of odes combines these two influences in tense relationships, such as odes . , praising stoic virility and devotion to public duty while also advocating private pleasures among friends. while generally favouring the epicurean lifestyle, the lyric poet is as eclectic as the satiric poet, and in odes . even proposes aristotle's golden mean as a remedy for rome's political troubles.[ ] many of horace's poems also contain much reflection on genre, the lyric tradition, and the function of poetry.[ ] odes , thought to be composed at the emperor's request, takes the themes of the first three books of "odes" to a new level. this book shows greater poetic confidence after the public performance of his "carmen saeculare" or "century hymn" at a public festival orchestrated by augustus. in it, horace addresses the emperor augustus directly with more confidence and proclaims his power to grant poetic immortality to those he praises. it is the least philosophical collection of his verses, excepting the twelfth ode, addressed to the dead virgil as if he were living. in that ode, the epic poet and the lyric poet are aligned with stoicism and epicureanism respectively, in a mood of bitter-sweet pathos.[ ] the first poem of the epistles sets the philosophical tone for the rest of the collection: "so now i put aside both verses and all those other games: what is true and what befits is my care, this my question, this my whole concern." his poetic renunciation of poetry in favour of philosophy is intended to be ambiguous. ambiguity is the hallmark of the epistles. it is uncertain if those being addressed by the self-mocking poet-philosopher are being honoured or criticized. though he emerges as an epicurean, it is on the understanding that philosophical preferences, like political and social choices, are a matter of personal taste. thus he depicts the ups and downs of the philosophical life more realistically than do most philosophers.[ ] receptionedit   horace, portrayed by giacomo di chirico the reception of horace's work has varied from one epoch to another and varied markedly even in his own lifetime. odes – were not well received when first 'published' in rome, yet augustus later commissioned a ceremonial ode for the centennial games in bc and also encouraged the publication of odes , after which horace's reputation as rome's premier lyricist was assured. his odes were to become the best received of all his poems in ancient times, acquiring a classic status that discouraged imitation: no other poet produced a comparable body of lyrics in the four centuries that followed[ ] (though that might also be attributed to social causes, particularly the parasitism that italy was sinking into).[ ] in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, ode-writing became highly fashionable in england and a large number of aspiring poets imitated horace both in english and in latin.[ ] in a verse epistle to augustus (epistle . ), in bc, horace argued for classic status to be awarded to contemporary poets, including virgil and apparently himself.[ ] in the final poem of his third book of odes he claimed to have created for himself a monument more durable than bronze ("exegi monumentum aere perennius", carmina . . ). for one modern scholar, however, horace's personal qualities are more notable than the monumental quality of his achievement: ... when we hear his name we don't really think of a monument. we think rather of a voice which varies in tone and resonance but is always recognizable, and which by its unsentimental humanity evokes a very special blend of liking and respect. — niall rudd[ ] yet for men like wilfred owen, scarred by experiences of world war i, his poetry stood for discredited values: my friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old lie: dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.[nb ] the same motto, dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, had been adapted to the ethos of martyrdom in the lyrics of early christian poets like prudentius.[ ] these preliminary comments touch on a small sample of developments in the reception of horace's work. more developments are covered epoch by epoch in the following sections. antiquityedit horace's influence can be observed in the work of his near contemporaries, ovid and propertius. ovid followed his example in creating a completely natural style of expression in hexameter verse, and propertius cheekily mimicked him in his third book of elegies.[nb ] his epistles provided them both with a model for their own verse letters and it also shaped ovid's exile poetry.[nb ] his influence had a perverse aspect. as mentioned before, the brilliance of his odes may have discouraged imitation. conversely, they may have created a vogue for the lyrics of the archaic greek poet pindar, due to the fact that horace had neglected that style of lyric (see influence and legacy of pindar).[ ] the iambic genre seems almost to have disappeared after publication of horace's epodes. ovid's ibis was a rare attempt at the form but it was inspired mainly by callimachus, and there are some iambic elements in martial but the main influence there was catullus.[ ] a revival of popular interest in the satires of lucilius may have been inspired by horace's criticism of his unpolished style. both horace and lucilius were considered good role-models by persius, who critiqued his own satires as lacking both the acerbity of lucillius and the gentler touch of horace.[nb ] juvenal's caustic satire was influenced mainly by lucilius but horace by then was a school classic and juvenal could refer to him respectfully and in a round-about way as "the venusine lamp".[nb ] statius paid homage to horace by composing one poem in sapphic and one in alcaic meter (the verse forms most often associated with odes), which he included in his collection of occasional poems, silvae. ancient scholars wrote commentaries on the lyric meters of the odes, including the scholarly poet caesius bassus. by a process called derivatio, he varied established meters through the addition or omission of syllables, a technique borrowed by seneca the younger when adapting horatian meters to the stage.[ ] horace's poems continued to be school texts into late antiquity. works attributed to helenius acro and pomponius porphyrio are the remnants of a much larger body of horatian scholarship. porphyrio arranged the poems in non-chronological order, beginning with the odes, because of their general popularity and their appeal to scholars (the odes were to retain this privileged position in the medieval manuscript tradition and thus in modern editions also). horace was often evoked by poets of the fourth century, such as ausonius and claudian. prudentius presented himself as a christian horace, adapting horatian meters to his own poetry and giving horatian motifs a christian tone.[nb ] on the other hand, st jerome, modelled an uncompromising response to the pagan horace, observing: "what harmony can there be between christ and the devil? what has horace to do with the psalter?"[nb ] by the early sixth century, horace and prudentius were both part of a classical heritage that was struggling to survive the disorder of the times. boethius, the last major author of classical latin literature, could still take inspiration from horace, sometimes mediated by senecan tragedy.[ ] it can be argued that horace's influence extended beyond poetry to dignify core themes and values of the early christian era, such as self-sufficiency, inner contentment and courage.[nb ] middle ages and renaissanceedit   horace in his studium: german print of the fifteenth century, summarizing the final ode . (in praise of augustus). classical texts almost ceased being copied in the period between the mid sixth century and the carolingian revival. horace's work probably survived in just two or three books imported into northern europe from italy. these became the ancestors of six extant manuscripts dated to the ninth century. two of those six manuscripts are french in origin, one was produced in alsace, and the other three show irish influence but were probably written in continental monasteries (lombardy for example).[ ] by the last half of the ninth century, it was not uncommon for literate people to have direct experience of horace's poetry. his influence on the carolingian renaissance can be found in the poems of heiric of auxerre[nb ] and in some manuscripts marked with neumes, mysterious notations that may have been an aid to the memorization and discussion of his lyric meters. ode . is neumed with the melody of a hymn to john the baptist, ut queant laxis, composed in sapphic stanzas. this hymn later became the basis of the solfege system (do, re, mi...)—an association with western music quite appropriate for a lyric poet like horace, though the language of the hymn is mainly prudentian.[ ] lyons[ ] argues that the melody in question was linked with horace's ode well before guido d'arezzo fitted ut queant laxis to it. however, the melody is unlikely to be a survivor from classical times, although ovid[ ] testifies to horace's use of the lyre while performing his odes. the german scholar, ludwig traube, once dubbed the tenth and eleventh centuries the age of horace (aetas horatiana), and placed it between the aetas vergiliana of the eighth and ninth centuries, and the aetas ovidiana of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a distinction supposed to reflect the dominant classical latin influences of those times. such a distinction is over-schematized since horace was a substantial influence in the ninth century as well. traube had focused too much on horace's satires.[ ] almost all of horace's work found favour in the medieval period. in fact medieval scholars were also guilty of over-schematism, associating horace's different genres with the different ages of man. a twelfth-century scholar encapsulated the theory: "...horace wrote four different kinds of poems on account of the four ages, the odes for boys, the ars poetica for young men, the satires for mature men, the epistles for old and complete men."[ ] it was even thought that horace had composed his works in the order in which they had been placed by ancient scholars.[nb ] despite its naivety, the schematism involved an appreciation of horace's works as a collection, the ars poetica, satires and epistles appearing to find favour as well as the odes. the later middle ages however gave special significance to satires and epistles, being considered horace's mature works. dante referred to horace as orazio satiro, and he awarded him a privileged position in the first circle of hell, with homer, ovid and lucan.[ ] horace's popularity is revealed in the large number of quotes from all his works found in almost every genre of medieval literature, and also in the number of poets imitating him in quantitative latin meter. the most prolific imitator of his odes was the bavarian monk, metellus of tegernsee, who dedicated his work to the patron saint of tegernsee abbey, st quirinus, around the year . he imitated all horace's lyrical meters then followed these up with imitations of other meters used by prudentius and boethius, indicating that variety, as first modelled by horace, was considered a fundamental aspect of the lyric genre. the content of his poems however was restricted to simple piety.[ ] among the most successful imitators of satires and epistles was another germanic author, calling himself sextus amarcius, around , who composed four books, the first two exemplifying vices, the second pair mainly virtues.[ ] petrarch is a key figure in the imitation of horace in accentual meters. his verse letters in latin were modelled on the epistles and he wrote a letter to horace in the form of an ode. however he also borrowed from horace when composing his italian sonnets. one modern scholar has speculated that authors who imitated horace in accentual rhythms (including stressed latin and vernacular languages) may have considered their work a natural sequel to horace's metrical variety.[ ] in france, horace and pindar were the poetic models for a group of vernacular authors called the pléiade, including for example pierre de ronsard and joachim du bellay. montaigne made constant and inventive use of horatian quotes.[ ] the vernacular languages were dominant in spain and portugal in the sixteenth century, where horace's influence is notable in the works of such authors as garcilaso de la vega, juan boscán, sá de miranda, antonio ferreira and fray luis de león, the last writing odes on the horatian theme beatus ille (happy the man).[ ] the sixteenth century in western europe was also an age of translations (except in germany, where horace wasn't translated into the vernacular until well into the seventeenth century). the first english translator was thomas drant, who placed translations of jeremiah and horace side by side in medicinable morall, . that was also the year that the scot george buchanan paraphrased the psalms in a horatian setting. ben jonson put horace on the stage in in poetaster, along with other classical latin authors, giving them all their own verses to speak in translation. horace's part evinces the independent spirit, moral earnestness and critical insight that many readers look for in his poems.[ ] age of enlightenmentedit during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, or the age of enlightenment, neoclassical culture was pervasive. english literature in the middle of that period has been dubbed augustan. it is not always easy to distinguish horace's influence during those centuries (the mixing of influences is shown for example in one poet's pseudonym, horace juvenal).[nb ] however a measure of his influence can be found in the diversity of the people interested in his works, both among readers and authors.[ ] new editions of his works were published almost yearly. there were three new editions in (two in leiden, one in frankfurt) and again in (utrecht, barcelona, cambridge). cheap editions were plentiful and fine editions were also produced, including one whose entire text was engraved by john pine in copperplate. the poet james thomson owned five editions of horace's work and the physician james douglas had five hundred books with horace-related titles. horace was often commended in periodicals such as the spectator, as a hallmark of good judgement, moderation and manliness, a focus for moralising.[nb ] his verses offered a fund of mottoes, such as simplex munditiis (elegance in simplicity), splendide mendax (nobly untruthful), sapere aude (dare to know), nunc est bibendum (now is the time to drink), carpe diem (seize the day, perhaps the only one still in common use today).[ ] these were quoted even in works as prosaic as edmund quincy's a treatise of hemp-husbandry ( ). the fictional hero tom jones recited his verses with feeling.[ ] his works were also used to justify commonplace themes, such as patriotic obedience, as in james parry's english lines from an oxford university collection in :[ ] what friendly muse will teach my lays to emulate the roman fire? justly to sound a caeser's praise demands a bold horatian lyre. horatian-style lyrics were increasingly typical of oxford and cambridge verse collections for this period, most of them in latin but some like the previous ode in english. john milton's lycidas first appeared in such a collection. it has few horatian echoes[nb ] yet milton's associations with horace were lifelong. he composed a controversial version of odes . , and paradise lost includes references to horace's 'roman' odes . – (book for example begins with echoes of odes . ).[ ] yet horace's lyrics could offer inspiration to libertines as well as moralists, and neo-latin sometimes served as a kind of discrete veil for the risqué. thus for example benjamin loveling authored a catalogue of drury lane and covent garden prostitutes, in sapphic stanzas, and an encomium for a dying lady "of salacious memory".[ ] some latin imitations of horace were politically subversive, such as a marriage ode by anthony alsop that included a rallying cry for the jacobite cause. on the other hand, andrew marvell took inspiration from horace's odes . to compose his english masterpiece horatian ode upon cromwell's return from ireland, in which subtly nuanced reflections on the execution of charles i echo horace's ambiguous response to the death of cleopatra (marvell's ode was suppressed in spite of its subtlety and only began to be widely published in ). samuel johnson took particular pleasure in reading the odes.[nb ] alexander pope wrote direct imitations of horace (published with the original latin alongside) and also echoed him in essays and the rape of the lock. he even emerged as "a quite horatian homer" in his translation of the iliad.[ ] horace appealed also to female poets, such as anna seward (original sonnets on various subjects, and odes paraphrased from horace, ) and elizabeth tollet, who composed a latin ode in sapphic meter to celebrate her brother's return from overseas, with tea and coffee substituted for the wine of horace's sympotic settings: 	 quos procax nobis numeros, jocosque musa dictaret? mihi dum tibique temperent baccis arabes, vel herbis pocula seres[ ] 	 what verses and jokes might the bold muse dictate? while for you and me arabs flavour our cups with beans or chinese with leaves.[ ] 	 	 horace's ars poetica is second only to aristotle's poetics in its influence on literary theory and criticism. milton recommended both works in his treatise of education.[ ] horace's satires and epistles however also had a huge impact, influencing theorists and critics such as john dryden.[ ] there was considerable debate over the value of different lyrical forms for contemporary poets, as represented on one hand by the kind of four-line stanzas made familiar by horace's sapphic and alcaic odes and, on the other, the loosely structured pindarics associated with the odes of pindar. translations occasionally involved scholars in the dilemmas of censorship. thus christopher smart entirely omitted odes . and re-numbered the remaining odes. he also removed the ending of odes . . thomas creech printed epodes and in the original latin but left out their english translations. philip francis left out both the english and latin for those same two epodes, a gap in the numbering the only indication that something was amiss. french editions of horace were influential in england and these too were regularly bowdlerized. most european nations had their own 'horaces': thus for example friedrich von hagedorn was called the german horace and maciej kazimierz sarbiewski the polish horace (the latter was much imitated by english poets such as henry vaughan and abraham cowley). pope urban viii wrote voluminously in horatian meters, including an ode on gout.[ ] th century onedit horace maintained a central role in the education of english-speaking elites right up until the s.[ ] a pedantic emphasis on the formal aspects of language-learning at the expense of literary appreciation may have made him unpopular in some quarters[ ] yet it also confirmed his influence—a tension in his reception that underlies byron's famous lines from childe harold (canto iv, ):[ ] then farewell, horace, whom i hated so not for thy faults, but mine; it is a curse to understand, not feel thy lyric flow, to comprehend, but never love thy verse. william wordsworth's mature poetry, including the preface to lyrical ballads, reveals horace's influence in its rejection of false ornament[ ] and he once expressed "a wish / to meet the shade of horace...".[nb ] john keats echoed the opening of horace's epodes in the opening lines of ode to a nightingale.[nb ] the roman poet was presented in the nineteenth century as an honorary english gentleman. william thackeray produced a version of odes . in which horace's 'boy' became 'lucy', and gerard manley hopkins translated the boy innocently as 'child'. horace was translated by sir theodore martin (biographer of prince albert) but minus some ungentlemanly verses, such as the erotic odes . and epodes and . edward bulwer-lytton produced a popular translation and william gladstone also wrote translations during his last days as prime minister.[ ] edward fitzgerald's rubaiyat of omar khayyam, though formally derived from the persian ruba'i, nevertheless shows a strong horatian influence, since, as one modern scholar has observed, "...the quatrains inevitably recall the stanzas of the 'odes', as does the narrating first person of the world-weary, ageing epicurean omar himself, mixing sympotic exhortation and 'carpe diem' with splendid moralising and 'memento mori' nihilism."[nb ] matthew arnold advised a friend in verse not to worry about politics, an echo of odes . , yet later became a critic of horace's inadequacies relative to greek poets, as role models of victorian virtues, observing: "if human life were complete without faith, without enthusiasm, without energy, horace...would be the perfect interpreter of human life."[ ] christina rossetti composed a sonnet depicting a woman willing her own death steadily, drawing on horace's depiction of 'glycera' in odes . . – and cleopatra in odes . .[nb ] a. e. housman considered odes . , in archilochian couplets, the most beautiful poem of antiquity[ ] and yet he generally shared horace's penchant for quatrains, being readily adapted to his own elegiac and melancholy strain.[ ] the most famous poem of ernest dowson took its title and its heroine's name from a line of odes . , non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno cynarae, as well as its motif of nostalgia for a former flame. kipling wrote a famous parody of the odes, satirising their stylistic idiosyncrasies and especially the extraordinary syntax, but he also used horace's roman patriotism as a focus for british imperialism, as in the story regulus in the school collection stalky & co., which he based on odes . .[ ] wilfred owen's famous poem, quoted above, incorporated horatian text to question patriotism while ignoring the rules of latin scansion. however, there were few other echoes of horace in the war period, possibly because war is not actually a major theme of horace's work.[ ]   bibendum (the symbol of the michelin tyre company) takes his name from the opening line of ode . , nunc est bibendum. both w.h.auden and louis macneice began their careers as teachers of classics and both responded as poets to horace's influence. auden for example evoked the fragile world of the s in terms echoing odes . . – , where horace advises a friend not to let worries about frontier wars interfere with current pleasures. and, gentle, do not care to know where poland draws her eastern bow,      what violence is done; nor ask what doubtful act allows our freedom in this english house,      our picnics in the sun.[nb ] the american poet, robert frost, echoed horace's satires in the conversational and sententious idiom of some of his longer poems, such as the lesson for today ( ), and also in his gentle advocacy of life on the farm, as in hyla brook ( ), evoking horace's fons bandusiae in ode . . now at the start of the third millennium, poets are still absorbing and re-configuring the horatian influence, sometimes in translation (such as a english/american edition of the odes by thirty-six poets)[nb ] and sometimes as inspiration for their own work (such as a collection of odes by a new zealand poet).[nb ] horace's epodes have largely been ignored in the modern era, excepting those with political associations of historical significance. the obscene qualities of some of the poems have repulsed even scholars[nb ] yet more recently a better understanding of the nature of iambic poetry has led to a re-evaluation of the whole collection.[ ][ ] a re-appraisal of the epodes also appears in creative adaptations by recent poets (such as a collection of poems that relocates the ancient context to a s industrial town).[nb ] translationsedit 	john dryden successfully adapted three of the odes (and one epode) into verse for readers of his own age. samuel johnson favored the versions of philip francis. others favor unrhymed translations. 	in james michie published a translation of the odes—many of them fully rhymed—including a dozen of the poems in the original sapphic and alcaic metres. 	more recent verse translations of the odes include those by david west (free verse), and colin sydenham (rhymed). 	ars poetica was first translated into english by ben jonson and later by lord byron. 	horace's odes and the mystery of do-re-mi stuart lyons (rhymed) aris & phillips isbn  - - - - in popular cultureedit the oxford latin course textbooks use the life of horace to illustrate an average roman's life in the late republic to early empire.[ ] see alsoedit 	  literature portal 	  ancient rome portal 	  biography portal 	carpe diem 	horatia (gens) 	list of ancient romans 	otium 	prosody (latin) 	translation notesedit 	^ quintilian . . . the only other lyrical poet quintilian thought comparable with horace was the now obscure poet/metrical theorist, caesius bassus (r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, ) 	^ translated from persius' own 'satires' . – : "omne vafer vitium ridenti flaccus amico / tangit et admissus circum praecordia ludit." 	^ quoted by n. rudd from john dryden's discourse concerning the original and progress of satire, excerpted from w.p.ker's edition of dryden's essays, oxford , vol. , pp. – 	^ the year is given in odes . . ("consule manlio"), the month in epistles . . , the day in suetonius' biography vita (r. nisbet, horace: life and chronology, ) 	^ "no son ever set a finer monument to his father than horace did in the sixth satire of book i...horace's description of his father is warm-hearted but free from sentimentality or exaggeration. we see before us one of the common people, a hard-working, open-minded, and thoroughly honest man of simple habits and strict convictions, representing some of the best qualities that at the end of the republic could still be found in the unsophisticated society of the italian municipia" — e. fraenkel, horace, – 	^ odes . . : "nec (me extinxit) sicula palinurus unda"; "nor did palinurus extinguish me with sicilian waters". maecenas' involvement is recorded by appian bell. civ. . but horace's ode is the only historical reference to his own presence there, depending however on interpretation. (r. nisbet, horace: life and chronology, ) 	^ the point is much disputed among scholars and hinges on how the text is interpreted. epodes for example may offer proof of horace's presence if 'ad hunc frementis' ('gnashing at this' man i.e. the traitrous roman ) is a misreading of 'at huc...verterent' (but hither...they fled) in lines describing the defection of the galatian cavalry, "ad hunc frementis verterunt bis mille equos / galli canentes caesarem" (r. nisbet, horace: life and chronology, ). 	^ suetonius signals that the report is based on rumours by employing the terms "traditur...dicitur" / "it is reported...it is said" (e. fraenkel, horace, ) 	^ according to a recent theory, the three books of odes were issued separately, possibly in , and bc (see g. hutchinson ( ), classical quarterly : – ) 	^ bc is the usual estimate but c. bc has good support too (see r. nisbet, horace: life and chronology, – 	^ the date however is subject to much controversy with – bc another option (see for example r. syme, the augustan aristocracy, – 	^ "[lucilius]...resembles a man whose only concern is to force / something into the framework of six feet, and who gaily produces / two hundred lines before dinner and another two hundred after." – satire . . – (translated by niall rudd, the satires of horace and persius, penguin classics , p. ) 	^ there is one reference to bion by name in epistles . . , and the clearest allusion to him is in satire . , which parallels bion fragments , , kindstrand 	^ epistles . and . . – are critical of the extreme views of diogenes and also of social adaptations of cynic precepts, and yet epistle . could be either cynic or stoic in its orientation (j. moles, philosophy and ethics, p. 	^ satires . . – , – , . . – , . . – , – , . . , – , . . – , . . – , , . . – 	^ wilfred owen, dulce et decorum est ( ), echoes a line from carmina . . , "it is sweet and honourable to die for one's country", cited by stephen harrison, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, . 	^ propertius published his third book of elegies within a year or two of horace's odes – and mimicked him, for example, in the opening lines, characterizing himself in terms borrowed from odes . . and . . – , as a priest of the muses and as an adaptor of greek forms of poetry (r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, ) 	^ ovid for example probably borrowed from horace's epistle . the image of a poetry book as a slave boy eager to leave home, adapting it to the opening poems of tristia and (r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace), and tristia may be understood as a counterpart to horace's epistles . , both being letters addressed to augustus on literary themes (a. barchiesi, speaking volumes, – ) 	^ the comment is in persius . – , yet that same satire has been found to have nearly reminiscences of horace; see d. hooley, the knotted thong, 	^ the allusion to venusine comes via horace's sermones . . , while lamp signifies the lucubrations of a conscientious poet. according to quintilian ( ), however, many people in flavian rome preferred lucilius not only to horace but to all other latin poets (r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, ) 	^ prudentius sometimes alludesto the odes in a negative context, as expressions of a secular life he is abandoning. thus for example male pertinax, employed in prudentius's praefatio to describe a willful desire for victory, is lifted from odes . . , where it describes a girl's half-hearted resistance to seduction. elsewhere he borrows dux bone from odes . . and , where it refers to augustus, and applies it to christ (r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, 	^ st jerome, epistles . , incorporating a quote from 'corinthians . : qui consensus christo et belial? quid facit cum psalterio horatius?(cited by k. friis-jensen, horace in the middle ages, ) 	^ odes . . – was especially influential in promoting the value of heroic calm in the face of danger, describing a man who could bear even the collapse of the world without fear (si fractus illabatur orbis,/impavidum ferient ruinae). echoes are found in seneca's agamemnon – , prudentius's peristephanon . – and boethius's consolatio metrum .(r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, – ) 	^ heiric, like prudentius, gave horatian motifs a christian context. thus the character lydia in odes . . , who would willingly die for her lover twice, becomes in heiric's life of st germaine of auxerre a saint ready to die twice for the lord's commandments (r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, – ) 	^ according to a medieval french commentary on the satires: "...first he composed his lyrics, and in them, speaking to the young, as it were, he took as subject-matter love affairs and quarrels, banquets and drinking parties. next he wrote his epodes, and in them composed invectives against men of a more advanced and more dishonourable age...he next wrote his book about the ars poetica, and in that instructed men of his own profession to write well...later he added his book of satires, in which he reproved those who had fallen a prey to various kinds of vices. finally, he finished his oeuvre with the epistles, and in them, following the method of a good farmer, he sowed the virtues where he had rooted out the vices." (cited by k. friis-jensen, horace in the middle ages, – ) 	^ 'horace juvenal' was author of modern manners: a poem, 	^ see for example spectator , feb. ; , nov. ; , nov. 	^ one echo of horace may be found in line : "were it not better done as others use,/ to sport with amaryllis in the shade/or with the tangles of neaera's hair?", which points to the neara in odes . . (douglas bush, milton: poetical works, , note ) 	^ cfr. james boswell, "the life of samuel johnson" aetat. , where boswell remarked of johnson that horace's odes "were the compositions in which he took most delight." 	^ the quote, from memorials of a tour of italy ( ), contains allusions to odes . and . (s. harrison, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, – ) 	^ "my heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains / my sense..." echoes epodes . – (s. harrison, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ) 	^ comment by s. harrison, editor and contributor to the cambridge companion to horace (s. harrison, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, 	^ rossetti's sonnet, a study (a soul), dated , was not published in her own lifetime. some lines: she stands as pale as parian marble stands / like cleopatra when she turns at bay... (c. rossetti, complete poems, 	^ quoted from auden's poem out on the lawn i lie in bed, , and cited by s. harrison, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, 	^ edited by mcclatchy, reviewed by s. harrison, bryn mawr classical review . . 	^ i. wedde, the commonplace odes, auckland , (cited by s. harrison, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ) 	^ 'political' epodes are , , , ; notably obscene epodes are and . e. fraenkel is among the admirers repulsed by these two poems, for another view of which see for example dee lesser clayman, 'horace's epodes viii and xii: more than clever obscenity?', the classical world vol. , no. (september ), pp – jstor  	^ m. almond, the works , washington, cited by s. harrison, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, citationsedit 	^ a b j. michie, the odes of horace, 	^ n. rudd, the satires of horace and persius, 	^ r. barrow r., the romans pelican books, 	^ fraenkel, eduard. horace. oxford: , p. . for the life of horace by suetonius, see: (vita horati) 	^ brill's companion to horace, edited by hans-christian günther, brill, , p. , google book 	^ satires . . 	^ epistles . . ff. 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, – 	^ satires . . 	^ t. frank, catullus and horace, – 	^ a. campbell, horace: a new interpretation, 	^ epistles . . 	^ r. nisbet, horace: life and chronology, 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, – 	^ a b v. kiernan, horace: poetics and politics, 	^ satires . . 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, – 	^ a b satires . 	^ v. kiernan, horace: poetics and politics, 	^ odes . 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, – 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, – 	^ satires . . 	^ a b r. nisbet, horace: life and chronology, 	^ v. kiernan, horace, 	^ odes . . 	^ epistles . . – 	^ v. kiernan, horace: poetics and politics 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, – 	^ christopher brown, in a companion to the greek lyric poets, d.e. gerber (ed), leiden , pages – 	^ douglas e. gerber, greek iambic poetry, loeb classical library ( ), introduction pages i–iv 	^ d. mankin, horace: epodes, c.u.p., 	^ d. mankin, horace: epodes, 	^ r. conway, new studies of a great inheritance, – 	^ v. kiernan, horace: poetics and politics, – 	^ f. muecke, the satires, – 	^ r. lyne, augustan poetry and society, 	^ j. griffin, horace in the thirties, 	^ a b r. nisbet, horace: life and chronology, 	^ d. mankin, horace: epodes, 	^ satires . 	^ odes . . 	^ epodes and 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, 	^ satires . . 	^ r. nisbet, horace: life and chronology, 	^ v. kiernan, horace: poetics and politics, – 	^ r. nisbet, horace: life and chronology, 	^ epistles . . – 	^ epistles . . 	^ v. kiernan, horace: poetics and politics, , 	^ epistles . 	^ epistles . . – 	^ r. nisbet, horace: life and chronology, – 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, – 	^ epistles . 	^ r. ferri, the epistles, 	^ odes . and . 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, 	^ r nisbet, horace: life and chronology, – 	^ s. harrison, style and poetic texture, 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, – 	^ gundolf, friedrich ( ). goethe. berlin, germany: bondi. 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, – 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, – 	^ j. griffin, gods and religion, 	^ s. harrison, lyric and iambic, 	^ s. harrison, lyric and iambic, – 	^ a b e. fraenkel, horace, , 	^ l. morgan, satire, – 	^ s. harrison, style and poetic texture, 	^ r. ferri, the epistles, pp. – 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, p. 	^ v. kiernan, horace: poetics and politics, 	^ j. moles, philosophy and ethics, pp. – , 	^ k. j. reckford, some studies in horace's odes on love 	^ j. moles, philosophy and ethics, p. 	^ santirocco "unity and design", lowrie "horace's narrative odes" 	^ ancona, "time and the erotic" 	^ j. moles, philosophy and ethics, pp. – 	^ davis "polyhymnia" and lowrie "horace's narrative odes" 	^ j. moles, philosophy and ethics, p. 	^ j. moles, philosophy and ethics, pp. – 	^ r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, 	^ v. kiernan, horace: poetics and politics, 	^ d. money, the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, , 	^ r. lyme, augustan poetry and society, 	^ niall rudd, the satires of horace and persius, 	^ r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, – 	^ r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, 	^ r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, 	^ r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, – 	^ a b r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, 	^ r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, – 	^ r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, – 	^ stuart lyons, horace's odes and the mystery of do-re-mi 	^ tristia, . . – 	^ b. bischoff, living with the satirists, – 	^ k. friis-jensen,horace in the middle ages, 	^ k. friis-jensen, horace in the middle ages, , 	^ k. friis-jensen, horace in the middle ages, – 	^ k. friis-jensen, horace in the middle ages, 	^ k. 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( ). augustus and the new poetry. brussels: latomus, revue d’études latines. 	noyes, alfred ( ). horace: a portrait. new york: sheed and ward. 	perret, jacques ( ). horace. bertha humez, trans. new york: new york university press. 	putnam, michael c.j. ( ). artifices of eternity: horace's fourth book of odes. ithaca, ny: cornell university press. isbn  - - - . 	reckford, kenneth j. ( ). horace. new york: twayne. 	rudd, niall, ed. ( ). horace : a celebration – essays for the bimillennium. ann arbor: univ. of michigan press. isbn  - - -x. 	sydenham, colin ( ). horace: the odes. duckworth. 	west, david ( ). horace the complete odes and epodes. oxford university press. 	wilkinson, l.p. 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melting, its bitterness yielding to pleasing, breezy springtime;       slow winches drag dry vessels onto water. and in the stables no longer rejoices a herd, nor ploughman by fire.       fields aren’t gleaming white with morning hoarfrost. now cytherea is leading the choruses: venus under bright moons       and nymphs accompanied by seemly graces thump earth hard with rhythmical feet, as determined vulcan goes back       to work in bright hot forges of the cyclops. now it is fitting to garland your shimmering head with verdant myrtle       or flowers, which earth, as it thaws, produces. now in the shadowy groves it is fitting to sacrifice to faunus       an ewe, if called for, or a kid, if favored. colorless death kicks over the tables of beggars and the towers       of kings alike. o blessed sestius, how  life's brief span disallows us embarking on limitless endeavors!       now night's upon you pressing, now the fabled manes, and pluto's diaphanous house, where as soon as you have entered,       you neither will cast lots to see who drinks first nor be able to marvel at slender lycidas, who incites now       all youths, and whom soon virgins will be hot for. posted by tout coule at : comments email thisblogthis!share to twittershare to facebookshare to pinterest links to this post labels: archilochian, death, horace, latin, lyric, metrical translation, ode, poetry, renewal, spring . . horatii carmen . for professor raish o bandusian fount, clearer than crystal glass, meritorious of blossoms in sweet merlot, take this kid on the morrow whose head swells with an early horn that would meet, in a clash, goats but alas, revered, it will not; he will dye red hoary rivulets run with blood from the sprouted lineage of a playful flock. the unbearable slow hour of eternity does not know how to touch you, who are proffering swift, sweet cold to the vagrant herd and plow-beaten cow as well. your nobility i make, singing verse of the hollows growing up oaks set in the empty stones whence loquacious nymphs come trickling down in a dance to you. posted by tout coule at : comments email thisblogthis!share to twittershare to facebookshare to pinterest links to this post labels: asclepiadean, carmen . , horace, latin, lyric, metrical translation, ode, poetry home subscribe to: posts (atom) one time... hypnos sweet dreams, delightful one. you are free to go wherever. fancy takes you away. tonight   you don't belong to conscious meadows... archives 	 ▼  ( ) 	 ▼  september ( ) 	horatii carmen . 	you cannot trust him if you don't love him 	 ►  august ( ) 	 ►  ( ) 	 ►  january ( ) 	 ►  ( ) 	 ►  june ( ) 	 ►  ( ) 	 ►  june ( ) 	 ►  ( ) 	 ►  june ( ) 	 ►  may ( ) 	 ►  april ( ) 	 ►  march ( ) 	 ►  february ( ) 	 ►  january ( ) 	 ►  ( ) 	 ►  december ( ) 	 qu'il fait beau! merci arata i'm hit! 	 © - tout coule. picture window theme. powered by blogger. horaci - viquipèdia, l'enciclopèdia lliure 	 	 	 	 	horaci 	 		de viquipèdia 		 		 		 		 		salta a la navegació 		salta a la cerca 		 	 	per a altres significats sobre el nom "horaci", vegeu «gens horàcia». quint horaci flac	 retrat imaginari d'horaci per anton von werner. l'epístola als pisons o art poètica d'horaci és un dels textos cabdals sobre literatura de la tradició occidental. 	nom original	(la) q. horatius flaccus 	biografia 	naixement	 desembre ac venosa (itàlia) 	mort	 novembre ac ( anys) roma 	sepultura	roma 	 	 	 	 	 	dades personals 	nacionalitat	imperi romà 	grup ètnic	antics romans 	activitat 	ocupació	poeta líric i satíric 	període	república romana 	activitat	 ac - ac 	moviment	epicureisme 	tema	reflexió moral i estètica literària 	professors	cràtip de mitilene i arist 	influències	(llatines): gai valeri catul (gregues): arquíloc de paros; hiponacte d'efes; alceu 	influències en	autors de renaixement, generació del 	obra 	primeres obres	les sàtires 	obres destacables ars poetica o epístola als pisons 	família 	pares	valor desconegut  i valor desconegut 	 	 quint horaci flac (llatí: quintus horatius flaccus), conegut simplement com a horaci (venosa, a la regió de la basilicata (antiga lucània), a l'actual itàlia, de desembre del ac - roma, de novembre del ac), fou un poeta líric i satíric llatí. fill d'un esclau alliberat, va tenir l'oportunitat de seguir estudis a roma, i posteriorment a atenes, on es va traslladar per estudiar filosofia. una vegada allà, va ser acollit per brutus, l'assassí de cèsar, que li va donar un alt càrrec al seu exèrcit. no obstant això, en la batalla de filipos ( ac) es va evidenciar la seva falta d'aptitud per a l'art militar i va decidir tornar a roma. va començar a treballar com a escriba, càrrec que li deixava temps lliure per dedicar-se a escriure versos. en aquells dies va conèixer virgili, que el va introduir en el cercle de mecenes, en què a poc a poc va guanyar rellevància i va afermar l'amistat amb aquest, que el va presentar a august. va aconseguir també la protecció de l'emperador, que fins i tot li va oferir el càrrec de secretari personal seu, que va rebutjar per no adequar-se als principis de la seva moral epicúria. fou molt respectat en els alts cercles romans, tant literaris com polítics; es va mantenir sempre sota la protecció de mecenes, juntament amb qui està enterrat. la poesia horaciana, amb la seva varietat de temes nacionals i, sobretot, la seva perfecció formal, signe d'equilibri i serenitat, va ser identificada en el renaixement com la màxima i més excelsa expressió literària de les virtuts clàssiques. contingut 	 biografia 	 . cronologia 	 la crisi del paganisme 	 l'existencialisme d'horaci 	 influència en la literatura posterior 	 obres 	 . sàtires 	 . epodes 	 . carmina 	 . epístoles 	 . cant secular 	 . . antecedents 	 . . objectius del cant d'encàrrec d'august 	 . . edicions 	 . . transmissió manuscrita 	 . . traduccions al català i castellà 	 traductors 	 referències 	 bibliografia 	 . vida i obra d'horaci 	 . traduccions en català 	 . edicions bilingües 	 . edicions crítiques 	 vegeu també 	 enllaços externs 	 . en anglès 	 . en francès biografia[modifica] retrat d'horaci a la seva casa de venosa quint horaci flac (llatí: quintus horatius flaccus) va néixer el ac[ ] a venosa (llatí: venusa), una ciutat situada entre els límits de la lucània i l'apúlia;[ ] la ciutat era un pas de comerciants entre les dues regions i aquest fet, juntament amb el fet que diverses famílies romanes, normalment les famílies dels militars que van participar en la guerra civil del - ac, es van assentar en aquelles terres com a pagament, explica que horaci creixés en un entorn en el qual es va familiaritzar amb diversos dialectes llatins. era fill d'un llibert que va exercir com a coactor, és a dir, una mena de cobrador de subhastes[ ] i, tot i la seva modesta fortuna, va fer un esforç per poder-li donar una bona educació i el va acompanyar a roma perquè assistís a les classes del rètor orbilius, de qui no guarda pas gaires bons records pels seus mètodes.[ ] el ac es va traslladar a atenes, on entrà en contacte amb els corrents filosòfics de l'epicureisme i l'estoïcisme. allà va fer amistat amb marc valeri messal·la corví i luci calpurni bíbul.[ ] l'any ac, l'any de l'assassinat de juli cèsar, horaci encara era a atenes i va coincidir amb brutus i cassi, que havien viatjat fins allà per trobar suport a la seva causa. va ser nomenat tribunus militum, un dels sis oficials de les legions, cosa que va despertar enveges entre els seus companys nascuts en classes més benestants.[ ] el ac, en la batalla de filipos,[ ][ ] octavi i marc antoni van vèncer l'armada republicana de brutus. horaci descriu aquest dia com un dels més vergonyosos de la seva vida, ja que va lluitar contra octavi i és una manera de redimir-se;[ ] per altra banda, també és un recurs poètic freqüent en els poetes grecs que més el van influenciar: arquíloc de paros i hipònax d'efes;[ ] i, com ells, també va abandonar el seu escut. octavi august va oferir una amnistia per a aquells que van donar suport a la causa de brutus, i horaci la va acceptar, però, en tornar a itàlia, es va trobar que li havien confiscat tots els béns per pagar els soldats veterans que havien participat en la campanya contra brutus i cassi. per poder viure, es va veure obligat a treballar i es va llogar com a escriba quaestorius.[ ] també és en aquesta època que va començar a escriure poesia i freqüentar cercles literaris. el ac, va ser presentat a mecenes per part de virgili i luci vari rufus, però va tardar nou mesos a rebre la invitació formal per formar part del cercle de mecenes.[ ] amb ell, va establir una profunda amistat, que queda demostrada en les seves obres de tal manera que gairebé en tots els llibres dedica el primer poema al seu protector. mecenes també l'arribà a apreciar molt, fins al punt que li va regalar una finca al camp sabí l'any ac.[ ][ ][ ] va participar en el tractat de tàrent, un tractat que marcava una nova pau entre octavi august i marc antoni i l'allargament del triumvirat vigent fins al moment, tot i que es va trencar aviat, car marc antoni va buscar el suport de cleòpatra i es va enfrontar a octavi.[ ] el ac mor el seu amic virgili[ ] i, dos anys després, el ac, august li encomana la composició del cant secular, en commemoració dels jocs seculars celebrats per festejar l'entrada a una nova època de pau, una pau que va arribar amb la derrota de marc antoni. va morir el ac, dos mesos després de la mort de mecenes, a qui dedica la seva carmina [ ] que, a més a més, és una oda premonitòria de la seva pròpia mort. cronologia[modifica] 	any ac neix horaci, el mateix any que el que va ser el seu patró pol·lió. 	 . neix octavi. conjuració de catilina. 	 . constitució del primer triumvirat (juli cèsar, pompeu i cras). 	 . derrota de cras a carras pels parts. 	 . juli cèsar passa el rubicó. guerra civil entre juli cèsar i pompeu. 	 . victòria de juli cèsar a farsàlia. 	 . arriba horaci a atenes. 	 . assassinat de juli cèsar. 	 . guerra de mòdena. constitució del segon triumvirat (octavi, marc antoni i lèpid). proscripcions i mort de ciceró. naixement d'ovidi. 	 . victòria dels cesarians a filipos. horaci entre els derrotats. 	 . presentació d'horaci a mecenes. casa d'horaci a venosa 	 . viatge a bríndisi amb ocasió de la conferència de tàrent. 	 . derrota de sext pompeu pius en la batalla de nauloc. 	 . publicació del primer llibre de sàtires. 	 . mecenes regala una masia a horaci.[ ] 	 . victòria d'octavi en la batalla d'Àccium sobre marc antoni i cleòpatra. 	 . publicació del llibre ii de sàtires i el llibre dels epodes. 	 . mecenes cau molt malalt. a la seva recuperació, és rebut per gran part del poble romà amb una gran ovació al teatre de pompeu.[ ] 	 . victoria final en la batalla d'Àccium.[ ] 	 . triple triomf en la guerra de dalmàcia, la batalla d'Àccium i la guerra d'egipte.[ ] 	 . ludi actiati (jocs commemoratius per la victòria en la batalla d'Àccium). 	 . expedició als pobles bàrbars.[ ] 	 . final de la il·legalitat revolucionària. octavi rep el títol d'august. 	 . expedició a britannia.[ ] 	 . expedició a aràbia.[ ] 	 . guerres càntabres. viatge amb august a hispània.[ ] 	 . matrimoni marc marcel-júlia (filla d'august).[ ] 	 . mort de quintili varus.[ ] 	 . mort de marc marcel.[ ] 	 . licini murena conspira contra august, però és descobert i condemnat a mort.[ ] 	 . publicació dels tres primers llibres d'odes. el compositor benedictus ducis publicà cants fúnebres sobre aquestes, a tres i quatre veus el .[ ] 	 . publicació del primer llibre d'epístoles. 	 . viatge de virgili a grècia.[ ] 	 . moren virgili i tibul. 	 . celebració dels jocs seculars. cant secular. 	 . publicació del llibre ii de les epístoles. 	 . publicació del llibre iv de les odes. el compositor benedictus ducis publicà cants fúnebres sobre aquestes, a tres i quatre veus el .[ ] 	 ac. mor mecenàs. mor horaci. la crisi del paganisme[modifica] a partir del segle i ac, els romans van començar a perdre la fe en el sistema religiós del paganisme, aquelles creences ja no eren aptes per a proporcionar respostes adequades a les grans preguntes existencials del món romà. el paganisme es redueix cada vegada més a la pràctica d'un conjunt de rituals i litúrgies que no condueixen a un coneixement més profund del significat esotèric de les tradicions espirituals i religioses, sinó perquè estan relacionats amb els mos maiorum (el costum dels ancestres), la identitat cultural i, sobretot, amb el calendari romà. darrere de la façana de la religió pagana, no hi ha certeses, però sí que hi ha el buit deixat per la falta de resposta a les grans qüestions existencials, en una societat imperial cada vegada més cosmopolita. l'individu romà, o almenys tots els que gaudeixen d'una certa cultura, perceben aquest buit, l'angoixa, la inseguretat, la certesa de sentir-se privats, a causa de la desaparició d'un estat de valors ben definits com va passar en l'era republicana, i busquen les respostes en una altra part: la filosofia hel·lenística. aquest sentit espiritual d'inseguretat, que la major part de la classe literària del segle, des de catul a lucreci, horaci i fins a arribar a sèneca, està molt estès. per tant, és en relació amb la crisi del paganisme, la raó que es doni àmplia difusió, en el segle i ac, de l'epicureisme en els cercles intel·lectuals de roma. en aquest període, en els principals cercles epicuris romans com el de la ciutat de nàpols, és on probablement horaci va conèixer virgili i vari, que posteriorment va presentar-lo a mecenes. l'epicureisme volia resoldre qualsevol dubte i l'angoixa existencial de la mort, veient la cancel·lació definitiva de la percepció sensorial com el final d'alguns dels sofriments i preocupacions de la terra. la mort és, per tant, considerada com una zona tranquil·la però infeliç, l'alliberament de la vida, com succeeix en la mort del cos i de l'ànima (per ser ambdues substàncies materials). epicur va tenir una reacció optimista davant d'aquestes al·legacions. aquest sentiment es troba en altres intel·lectuals que es van sumar als romans abans de la filosofia de la buidor eterna de la mort. buit amb una sensació d'horror, també presents en el mateix lucreci que, mentre que la descripció s'estén al gairebé mític epicur, rerum inventor, no passa així amb el missatge alliberador d'aquesta filosofia. l'epicureisme no va ser capaç de curar, a la fi, el mal del segle dins la vida romana. no serà capaç d'omplir el buit deixat per la crisi no sols del sistema religiós, sinó també de la de les institucions republicanes, una crisi que acabaria destruint la seguretat de les bases culturals i socials de l'imperi romà. l'existencialisme d'horaci[modifica] horaci s'uneix a l'epicureisme parcialment, així com a la recerca de respostes sobre les grans qüestions de la vida, respostes que no troba mai: el poeta sembla que mai ha escapat de l'angoixa de la mort, que sempre la percep com a imminent. És interessant analitzar l'opinió que el poeta llatí va tenir del més enllà, ja que és, sens dubte, molt sincer: encara que vetllat per una certa seguretat, pròpia de l'aurea mediocritas de què horaci volia ser un exemple, en diverses ocasions brilla amb una vena de malenconia acompanyada de notes de fosc lirisme i elegància, que traeix el seu veritable estat interior. a vegades horaci apareix com el que probablement era realment: un home que va trobar refugi en la vida de la mort, però en realitat mai no va aconseguir curar-se completament la por a la mort, ja que preferia fugir en lloc de lluitar estoicament. la seva personalitat pot semblar, a primera vista, ambigua. aquesta ambigüitat es deriva de la diferència que a vegades es crea entre la imatge que horaci va voler donar de si mateix, i la veritable personalitat del poeta que traspassa de les línies no coincideix, com sosté ugo enrico paoli, "res [...] sembla tan difícil com entrar en l'ànima d'horaci. la representació del més enllà horacià, tanmateix amb una forta empremta de motlle epicureista, ve segellada de la millor manera en l'afirmació, no sense una nota de malenconia, expressada en l'oda del llibre iv: 	« 	pulvis et umbra sumus 	» influència en la literatura posterior[modifica] 	article principal: tòpics horacians carpe diem els temes i tòpics creats per horaci tindran un suport universal al llarg de la literatura posterior a la seva mort. essencialment a partir del renaixement, és difícil de trobar una sola composició no influïda pels tòpics o les formes horacianes. així, destaquen poetes com ronsard, petrarca o garcilaso, que escriuen envoltats per la dolçor i les reflexions horacianes. a espanya, podem trobar grans influències horacianes en josé cadalso o moratín i fins i tot altres autors que seguiran el camí preparat pel poeta romà. horaci també influí en poetes anglesos com john keats o john milton. més endavant, en la generació del , també trobarem influències horacianes en poetes com en el val·lisoletà jorge guillén. en vicent andrés estellés amb el seu poemari horacianes. no obstant això, amb el pas del temps, l'admiració a aquest gran poeta es convertirà en un apogeu dels seus tòpics en detriment del mateix autor. aquest serà engolit pels seus propis temes i pel desfasament de la cultura a finals del segle xx i començaments del xxi. el seu carpe diem (carpe diem quam minimum credula postero "aprofita el dia, no confiïs en el demà") de l'oda , acaba per convertir-se pràcticament en una dita universal en la qual la identitat de l'autor queda relegada gairebé a l'oblit. així, horaci, s'anirà oblidant i aquest oblit reforçarà la importància de la vulgarització dels seus tòpics. realment, l'escriptor llatí ha rebut poques crítiques que es fonamentin en el buit existencial de les seves reflexions o de les seves formes poètiques; no obstant això, és cert que va rebre crítiques del sector literari més suspicaç, per exemple els seus contemporanis quadrat i especialment d'hermògenes, l'adversari i detractor d'horaci, inicialment ben disposat envers aquest (l'anomena optimus cantor et modulator) i després enemistat per causes que, segons horaci, es devien a l'enveja: hermògenes s'oposava a les sàtires, però tampoc tenia talent per fer grans obres i es dedicava a l'ensenyament mentre horaci adquiria gran fama. sembla que quan horaci parla de pantolabus es refereix a aquest hermògenes. a mesura que avancen els segles, les crítiques a aquesta figura de la poesia universal acaben per apagar-se, deixant el camí lliure cap a la llista interminable d'adulacions que des del renaixement se li han prodigat. en el segle xxi, es fa gairebé impossible trobar una sola crítica a una figura tan rellevant com horaci, però d'aquesta mateixa manera és difícil trobar un càntic a la seva persona i a la seva tasca. l'única crítica coneguda fins ara amb certa rellevància és el "a tu, horaci", del ceutí hugo de lara lópez, obra en la qual s'ataca horaci per la seva presumpta doble moral (acusació que en l'antiguitat mai no se li va fer), i en la qual es dóna una importància desmesurada al fet de no respectar les seves verdaderes creences i per ofendre i condemnar, de manera metafòrica, el poble pla, que sempre va defugir. curiosament, l'objectiu de la crítica, estesa en dos sonets, fa referència al famós aurea mediocritas ('punt mitjà daurat') del poeta llatí, al·ludeix a l'intent d'assolir un punt desitjat mitjà entre els extrems o un estat ideal en el qual no afectin en excés ni les alegries ni les penes; està relacionat amb l'hedonisme epicureista, basat a conformar-se amb el que es té i no deixar-se portar per les emocions desproporcionades. És un dels tòpics que van fer gran horaci, per a la posteritat, al costat del carpe diem en el beatus ille. obres[modifica] la seva poesia es divideix en quatre gèneres que donen nom a les seves obres: 	sàtires, retrats irònics del seu temps, dividits en dos llibres i escrits en hexàmetres; 	epodes, disset poemes iàmbics de temàtica variada i influència hel·lenística; 	carmina (odes), també en hexàmetres; 	epístoles, la seva última obra, en la qual, coincidint amb una actitud vital i literària més calmada i més propícia a la reflexió moral que a la invectiva i la sàtira que van caracteritzar les seves obres primeres, va optar per la ficció epistolar sense abandonar l'escriptura en hexàmetres. entre les epístoles, es troba la cèlebre art poètica, que va marcar les pautes de l'estètica literària llatina. sàtires[modifica] saturae, les sàtires d'horaci, publicades entre el ac i el ac, s'agrupen en dos reculls, l'un de deu peces i l'altre de vuit (en hexàmetres). aquest gènere és típicament romà, creat per gai lucili al segle ii ac, i particularment propici a l'autoretrat: és sens dubte amb les sàtires que horaci s'hi descriu millor. es tracta de «xerrades» (sermons) en què es reivindica la llibertat d'expressió i la polèmica, sigui a propòsit de qüestions socials, ètiques, literàries, o fins polítiques. però allò que era permès a lucili sota la república no ho és, evidentment, en temps d'horaci sota un règim despòtic. epodes[modifica] interior de la casa d'horaci, venosa publicats en ac, els epodes són disset poemes, amb un total versos, dels quals quatre són probablement apòcrifs (i, - i xvi, - ). horaci no els anomenava epodes, sinó iàmbics, sent fidel a l'escola de gai valeri catul, cosa que es guarda prou bé de proclamar, ja que catul era maleït per cèsar i els seus seguidors. prefereix, de forma menys arriscada, reivindicar-se seguidor d'arquíloc, inventor del gènere a grècia -i que se n'havia servit com d'una arma temible contra els seus enemics, tant privats com públics. el to és el de la invectiva, l'estil és aspre i tens, i l'erotisme més cru pot acompanyar els accents més patriòtics. com el seu nom indica (almenys en un dels seus sentits), els epodes són escrits en dístics (un vers llarg + un vers curt) de tipus de versos iàmbics. carmina[modifica] carmina, publicades el ac per als tres primers llibres; el ac per al quart: encara que les dates tradicionalment més admeses oscil·len entre el i el ac, les odes d'horaci o carmina són quatre llibres que contenen , , i peces, respectivament, és a dir, un total de . versos, dels quals n'hi ha sis que sens dubte són apòcrifs (iv, , - i iv, , - ). horaci els comparava orgullosament a les piràmides d'egipte, i és en efecte l'obra mestra absoluta de la lírica romana. aquest monument reuneix tots els superlatius, combina totes les meravelles. d'entrada, constitueixen una proesa mètrica, amb la utilització de quatre tipus d'estrofes diferents, sis varietats de dístics, i tres espècies de versos utilitzats sols (kata stikhon). miracle d'equilibri espontani, en una harmoniosa arquitectura que es desplega segons proporcions numèriques tan complexes com impecables. prodigi de circulació també, d'interconnexions, de xarxes, de correspondències, combinacions i simetries diverses, del qual el conjunt constitueix una d'immensa i ultrasensible cambra de ressonància. quant a la increïble virtuositat verbal que tria i emplaça cada paraula amb el màxim d'energia possible, n'hi ha prou amb dir que va impressionar nietzsche en el grau més alt per allò que anomenava la seva «noblesa». però on horaci se supera, allà on es mereix el millor «llorer dèlfic» (odes, iii, ), és en el domini del contingut. en aparença, res més heteròclit que les odes, en què semblen interferir de manera aleatòria l'esfera privada i l'esfera pública, els amors i la política, el món grec i el món llatí, la mitologia més nuvolosa i l'actualitat més ardent, l'epicureisme empès fins al sibaritisme, i un estoïcisme esmolat fins a l'ascetisme i a un renunciament gairebé monacal avançat a l'època. i tanmateix, hi ha un director d'orquestra que domina tots aquests timbres i tots aquests instruments amb una batuta sobirana. subterrània també, ja que la partició en aquesta enlluernadora simfonia, composta en honor de la llibertat humana de cara a la tirania política, no es desxifra més que a condició d'accedir al segon nivell de l'escriptura, fonamentat principalment en el control secret de la situació d'enunciació. el primer llibre (carminum liber i) correspon a la joventut, de fantasia i d'inspiracions variades: composicions severes, èpiques o literàries es barregen amb unes altres de més joioses o d'invocació a venus. en el segon llibre (carminum liber ii) hi ha una pausa per a la meditació, s'esmorteix l'impuls líric. s'hi tracta allò que ell demana a la vida pròpia. s'hi exposa el concepte d'aurea mediocritas; també es parla dels anys que passen (anni labuntur) i de l'otium (l'oci). al tercer llibre (carminum liber iii) ens trobem amb un horaci ja madur. tanmateix, torna als vells temes. epístoles[modifica] l'estàtua d'horaci a venosa (publicades el ac o ac, més probablement que en la data més admesa ( ac), i probablement després del ac per al segon recull.) el primer recull de les epístoles conté peces (és a dir, . versos, dels quals set de la primera peça són probablement apòcrifs); i el segon recull consta de només dues peces, però molt llargues ( i versos). s'hi afegeix l'epístola als pisons, més coneguda sota el nom d'art poètica ( versos). són escrites en hexàmetres, com les sàtires i, com aquestes, són converses d'aspecte lliure. però sent les epístoles cartes fictícies adreçades a persones ben precises, el to hi és menys viu i l'estil més distès. sota aquesta tranquil·litzadora superfície, horaci persegueix amb perseverança el seu combat, un combat en el qual l'amplitud i les peripècies, així com en les odes, no es revelaran més que al lector atent en l'enunciació de la situació: s'ha tenir molt en compte no sols el destinatari (amic o enemic?), sinó també el locutor, que no és automàticament l'autor de l'escrit... la primera epístola del segon recull s'adreça així directament a august: o com agafar la cua del lleó sense que et mossegui. juli flor és el destinatari de la segona, en què horaci diposita el seu testament espiritual i la quinta essència de la seva saviesa. cant secular[modifica] antecedents[modifica] el cant secular està compost en un ritme eòlic: l'estrofa sàfica. té una estructura pindàrica. es tracta d'un cant per encàrrec, pràctica que ja trobem en els autors lírics grecs com ara el mateix píndar, que en els seus epinicis escrivia cants per encàrrec dedicats al vencedors dels jocs esportius. objectius del cant d'encàrrec d'august[modifica] l'any ac august va encarregar a horaci la composició del cant secular amb motiu de la celebració dels ludi tarentini, també anomenats jocs seculars, que es van dur a terme durant el mes de maig del mateix any. august va decidir que fos horaci qui compongués aquest cant pels elogis que el poeta havia fet a les intencions morals i religioses de l'emperador en el darrer llibre de les odes. tot i que horaci no estava gaire d'acord a exaltar la figura d'august, va acceptar l'encàrrec en honor del seu company virgili, el qual havia mort l'any ac. així, en el cant s'entreveu l'homenatge que fa a la figura de virgili tot incloent la llegenda de troia i eneas. l'objectiu del cant era principalment recuperar les antigues tradicions alhora que s'exaltava el principat d'august. d'aquesta manera, el missatge del cant era d'agraïment als déus per la pax augusta i una severa exhortació a fomentar la veneració i devoció cap als déus a més d'establir una relació fluida entre l'estat i els déus. en aquesta obra, queda ben reflectida la filosofia que trobem en l'obra d'horaci, així com podem entreveure la ideologia del principat d'august. el cant és un himne a apol·lo i diana, a més dels déus tutelars de roma. va ser compost amb la idea que fos cantat durant el tercer dia dels jocs per un cor de vint-i-set nois i el mateix nombre de noies, procedents de les millors famílies de roma, els quals havien de ser verges i tenir el dos progenitors vius. a l'hora d'entonar-lo, un dels cors es va situar al cim del mont palatí i l'altre al cim del mont capitoli. aquesta composició li va atorgar el títol de poeta llorejat. edicions[modifica] les edicions que tenim del text ens han arribat sempre compilades juntament amb les odes. actualment, trobem el cant secular en les edicions següents: 	bibliotheca scriptorum graecorum et romanorum teubneriana editat per fridericus klingner 	collection des universités de france editat per f. villeneuve. 	loeb classical library editat per c. e. bennett 	scriptorum classicorum bibliotheca oxoniensis editat per eduardus c. wickham per altra banda, actualment hi ha dues edicions en línia, corresponents a the latin library[ ] i perseus.[ ] transmissió manuscrita[modifica] tal com ja s'ha mencionat, la compilació del cant secular ha anat lligada a la de les odes. per aquest motiu, per a la transmissió manuscrita, vegeu les odes. traduccions al català i castellà[modifica] les traduccions del cant secular es troben normalment editades juntament amb els quatre llibres d'odes d'horaci. en català, tan sols està traduïda per l'editorial fundació bernat metge, a càrrec de josep vergès. en llengua castellana tenim dues edicions: 	gredos, traduïda per josé luis moralejo 	universitat autònoma nacional de mèxic, traduïda per rubén bonifaz nuño. traductors[modifica] 	josep vergés i fàbregas 	joan sardà i lloret 	joaquim garcia girona 	miguel parera cort 	aquilino iglesia alvariño 	josé luis moralejo referències[modifica] 	↑ carm. ii. 	↑ sat. ii. , 	↑ sat. i. , vv. - 	↑ ep. ii. , 	↑ ep. ii. 	↑ sat. i. , 	↑ ep. xiii, - 	↑ carm. ii. 	↑ carm. i. , 	↑ ep. vi, - ; viii; x; xi 	↑ ep. ii. , 	↑ sat. i. 	↑ carm. i. , 	↑ carm.ii. , , , 	↑ carm.iii. , - 	↑ carm. i, 	↑ , , carm.i. 	↑ odes i, , ; ii, , , , 	↑ oda i, 	↑ oda i, 	↑ odes i, ; ii, 	↑ oda ii, 	↑ , , oda i, 	↑ oda i, ; ii, 	↑ , , oda i, 	↑ oda i, , 	↑ oda ii, 	↑ , , enciclopèdia espasa volum núm. , a part, pàg. (isbn - - - ) 	↑ oda i, 	↑ «the latin library (horaci)» (en anglès). [consulta: maig ]. 	↑ «perseus collection (greek and roman materials)» (en anglès). 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the first two lines are divided into two parts by a caesura after the fifth syllable. the metrical pattern of an alcaic stanza would look like this: – – u – – : – u u – u – – – u – – : – u u – u – – – u – – – u – – – u u – u u – u – – (an "–" denotes a long syllable, "u" a short one, and ":" is the caesura.) horace frequently used the alcaic stanza in his odes, as can be seen from this example : – – u – – – u u – u – antehac nefas, depromere caecubum – – u – – : – u u – u– cellis avitis, dum capitolio – – u – – – u– – regina dementis ruinas – u u – u u– u – – funus et imperio parabat. (odes . , lines - ) an english translation, which suggests the metre, is : –– u – – : – u u – u – prior to this, 'twas | irreligious to waste – – u – – : – u u – u – old caecuban wine | whilst, for the capitol – –u – – – u – – mad ruination plots the queen, and – u u – u u – u – – even a funeral for the empire. imitations in other languages[edit] a famous example of english alcaics is tennyson's "milton": o mighty-mouth'd inventor of harmonies, o skill'd to sing of time or eternity,      god-gifted organ-voice of england,           milton, a name to resound for ages![ ] the alcaic stanza was adapted to use in english and french during the renaissance. it was very frequently used in italian poetry of the th century, especially by giosuè carducci. as in english, the meter is accentual rather than quantitative. poi che un sereno vapor d’ambrosia da la tua còppa diffuso avvolsemi,      o ebe con passo di dea           trasvolata sorridendo via; 		(giosuè carducci, "ideale", from: odi barbare) it was an historically important form in hungarian poetry.[ ] in polish poetry (in contrast to the sapphic stanza which was extremely popular since the th century) alcaics were used very rarely. even in translation horace's alcaic stanzas were usually turned into different forms. an example (perhaps the only) of an alcaic stanza in polish original literature is stanisław trembecki's ode to adam naruszewicz:[ ] o ty, kapłanie delijskiego świętny, przeszłego wiadom, przyszłości pojętny      wieńcz twe skronie, wieszczą bierz laskę,           Śnieżny ubiór i złotą przepaskę. trembecki's verse is syllabic ( / / / ). there is no accentual metrical pattern. german has also used alcaics with some success. they were introduced by klopstock, and used by hölderlin, by johann heinrich voss in his translations of horace, by august kopisch and other th century german poets.[ ] notes[edit] 	^ cuddon, john anthony ( ). a dictionary of literary terms and literary theory. wiley. p.  . isbn  . 	^ a b chisholm, hugh, ed. 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reading== * {{cite book|last=davis|first=gregson|title=polyhymnia the rhetoric of horatian lyric discourse|year= |publisher=university of california press|location=berkeley|isbn= - - - }} * {{cite book|last=fraenkel|first=eduard|title=horace|year= |publisher=clarendon press|location=oxford}} * {{cite book|last=horace|title=the complete works of horace|year= |publisher=ungar|location=new york|isbn= - - - |others=charles e. passage, trans}} * {{cite book|last=johnson|first=w. r.|title=horace and the dialectic of freedom: readings in epistles |url=https://archive.org/details/horacedialectico john|url-access=registration|year= |publisher=cornell university press|location=ithaca|isbn= - - - }} * {{cite book|last=lyne|first=r.o.a.m.|title=horace: behind the public poetry|year= |publisher=yale univ. press|location=new haven|isbn= - - - }} * {{cite book | last = lyons | first = stuart | title = horace's odes and the mystery of do-re-mi | publisher = aris & phillips | year = }} * {{cite book | last = lyons | first = stuart | title = music in the odes of horace | publisher = aris & phillips | year = }} * {{cite book | last = michie | first = james | title = the odes of horace | publisher = rupert hart-davis | year = }} * {{cite book|last=newman|first=j.k.|title=augustus and the new poetry|year= |publisher=latomus, revue d’études latines|location=brussels}} * {{cite book|last=noyes|first=alfred|title=horace: a portrait|url=https://archive.org/details/horaceportrait noye|url-access=registration|year= |publisher=sheed and ward|location=new york}} * {{cite book|last=perret|first=jacques|title=horace|year= |publisher=new york university press|location=new york|others=bertha humez, trans}} * {{cite book|last=putnam|first=michael c.j.|title=artifices of eternity: horace's fourth book of odes|year= |publisher=cornell university press|location=ithaca, ny|isbn= - - - |url=https://archive.org/details/artificesofetern putn}} * {{cite book|last=reckford|first=kenneth j.|title=horace|year= 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odes . . and . . – , as a priest of the muses and as an adaptor of greek forms of poetry (r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', )</ref> his ''epistles'' provided them both with a model for their own verse letters and it also shaped ovid's exile poetry.<ref group="nb">ovid for example probably borrowed from horace's ''epistle'' . the image of a poetry book as a slave boy eager to leave home, adapting it to the opening poems of ''tristia'' and (r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace''), and ''tristia'' may be understood as a counterpart to horace's ''epistles'' . , both being letters addressed to augustus on literary themes (a. barchiesi, ''speaking volumes'', – )</ref> his influence had a perverse aspect. as mentioned before, the brilliance of his ''odes'' may have discouraged imitation. conversely, they may have created a vogue for the lyrics of the archaic greek poet [[pindar]], due to the fact that horace had neglected that style of lyric (see [[pindar#influence and legacy|influence and legacy of pindar]]).<ref>r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, </ref> the iambic genre seems almost to have disappeared after publication of horace's ''epodes''. ovid's ''ibis'' was a rare attempt at the form but it was inspired mainly by [[callimachus]], and there are some iambic elements in [[martial]] but the main influence there was [[catullus]].<ref>r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', </ref> a revival of popular interest in the satires of lucilius may have been inspired by horace's criticism of his unpolished style. both horace and lucilius were considered good role-models by [[persius]], who critiqued his own satires as lacking both the acerbity of lucillius and the gentler touch of horace.<ref group="nb">the comment is in persius . – , yet that same satire has been found to have nearly reminiscences of horace; see d. hooley, ''the knotted thong'', </ref> [[juvenal]]'s caustic satire was influenced mainly by lucilius but horace by then was a school classic and juvenal could refer to him respectfully and in a round-about way as "''the venusine lamp''".<ref group="nb">the allusion to ''venusine'' comes via horace's ''sermones'' . . , while ''lamp'' signifies the lucubrations of a conscientious poet. according to quintilian ( ), however, many people in flavian rome preferred lucilius not only to horace but to all other latin poets (r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', )</ref> [[statius]] paid homage to horace by composing one poem in sapphic and one in alcaic meter (the verse forms most often associated with ''odes''), which he included in his collection of occasional poems, ''silvae''. ancient scholars wrote commentaries on the lyric meters of the ''odes'', including the scholarly poet [[caesius bassus]]. by a process called ''derivatio'', he varied established meters through the addition or omission of syllables, a technique borrowed by [[seneca the younger]] when adapting horatian meters to the stage.<ref>r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', – </ref> horace's poems continued to be school texts into late antiquity. works attributed to [[helenius acro]] and [[pomponius porphyrio]] are the remnants of a much larger body of horatian scholarship. porphyrio arranged the poems in non-chronological order, beginning with the ''odes'', because of their general popularity and their appeal to scholars (the ''odes'' were to retain this privileged position in the medieval manuscript tradition and thus in modern editions also). horace was often evoked by poets of the fourth century, such as [[ausonius]] and [[claudian]]. [[prudentius]] presented himself as a christian horace, adapting horatian meters to his own poetry and giving horatian motifs a christian tone.<ref group="nb">prudentius sometimes alludesto the ''odes'' in a negative context, as expressions of a secular life he is abandoning. thus for example ''male pertinax'', employed in prudentius's ''praefatio'' to describe a willful desire for victory, is lifted from ''odes'' . . , where it describes a girl's half-hearted resistance to seduction. elsewhere he borrows ''dux bone'' from ''odes'' . . and , where it refers to augustus, and applies it to christ (r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', </ref> on the other hand, [[st jerome]], modelled an uncompromising response to the pagan horace, observing: "''what harmony can there be between christ and the devil? what has horace to do with the psalter?''"<ref group="nb">st jerome, ''epistles'' . , incorporating a quote from '' 'corinthians'' . : ''qui consensus christo et belial? quid facit cum psalterio horatius?''(cited by k. friis-jensen, ''horace in the middle ages'', )</ref> by the early sixth century, horace and prudentius were both part of a classical heritage that was struggling to survive the disorder of the times. [[boethius]], the last major author of classical latin literature, could still take inspiration from horace, sometimes mediated by senecan tragedy.<ref name="tarrant">r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', </ref> it can be argued that horace's influence extended beyond poetry to dignify core themes and values of the early christian era, such as self-sufficiency, inner contentment and courage.<ref group="nb">''odes'' . . – was especially influential in promoting the value of heroic calm in the face of danger, describing a man who could bear even the collapse of the world without fear (''si fractus illabatur orbis,/impavidum ferient ruinae''). echoes are found in seneca's ''agamemnon'' – , prudentius's ''peristephanon'' . – and boethius's ''consolatio'' metrum .(r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', – )</ref> return to horace. retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/horace" 		 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			article 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	edit 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		search 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigation 	 	 			main page 	contents 	current events 	random article 	about wikipedia 	contact us 	donate 		 	 	 	 		contribute 	 	 			help 	learn to edit 	community portal 	recent changes 	upload file 		 	 	 		tools 	 	 			what links here 	related changes 	upload file 	special pages 	page information 	wikidata item 		 	 	 	 		languages 	 	 		 		 	 	 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 view source for horace - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	view source for horace 	 		 		← horace 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		you do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reasons: 	your ip address is in a range that has been blocked on all wikimedia foundation wikis. the block was made by jon kolbert (meta.wikimedia.org). the reason given is open proxy: webhost: contact stewards if you are affected . 	start of block: : , july 	expiry of block: : , january your current ip address is . . . and the blocked range is . . . / . please include all above details in any queries you make. if you believe you were blocked by mistake, you can find additional information and instructions in the no open proxies global policy. otherwise, to discuss the block please post a request for review on meta-wiki or send an email to the stewards otrs queue at stewards@wikimedia.org including all above details. 	 you are currently unable to edit wikipedia due to a block affecting your ip address. this does not affect your ability to read wikipedia pages. most people who see this message have done nothing wrong. some kinds of blocks restrict editing from specific service providers or telecom companies in response to recent abuse or vandalism, and affect other users who are unrelated to that abuse. see below if you do not believe you have done anything wrong. editing from . . . / has been blocked (disabled) by ‪sql‬ for the following reason(s): 	 the ip address that you are currently using has been blocked because it is believed to be a web host provider or colocation provider. to prevent abuse, web hosts and colocation providers may be blocked from editing wikipedia. 	you will not be able to edit wikipedia using a web host or colocation provider because it hides your ip address, much like a proxy or vpn. we recommend that you attempt to use another connection to edit. for example, if you use a proxy or vpn to connect to the internet, turn it off when editing wikipedia. if you edit using a mobile connection, try using a wi-fi connection, and vice versa. if you have a wikipedia account, please log in. if you do not have any other way to edit wikipedia, you will need to request an ip block exemption. if you are confident that you are not using a web host, you may appeal this block by adding the following text on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=caught by a colocation web host block but this host or ip is not a web host. my ip address is _______. place any further information here. ~~~~}}. you must fill in the blank with your ip address for this block to be investigated. your ip address can be determined here. alternatively, if you wish to keep your ip address private you can use the unblock ticket request system. there are several reasons you might be editing using the ip address of a web host or colocation provider (such as if you are using vpn software or a business network); 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([[lucius manlius torquatus|"consule manlio"]]), the month in ''epistles'' . . , the day in suetonius' biography ''vita'' (r. nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', )</ref> in the [[samnites|samnite]] south of [[italy (roman empire)|italy]].<ref>''brill's companion to horace'', edited by hans-christian günther, brill, , p. , [https://books.google.com/books?id=n b yuwxfm c&pg=pa google book]</ref> his home town, [[venosa|venusia]], lay on a trade route in the border region between [[apulia]] and [[lucania]] ([[basilicata]]). various italic dialects were spoken in the area and this perhaps enriched his feeling for language. he could have been familiar with greek words even as a young boy and later he poked fun at the jargon of mixed greek and oscan spoken in neighbouring [[canusium]].<ref>''satires'' . . </ref> one of the works he probably studied in school was the ''odyssia'' of [[livius andronicus]], taught by teachers like the '[[orbilius]]' mentioned in one of his poems.<ref>''epistles'' . . ff.</ref> army veterans could have been settled there at the expense of local families uprooted by rome as punishment for their part in the [[social war ( – bc)]].<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref> such state-sponsored migration must have added still more linguistic variety to the area. according to a local tradition reported by horace,<ref>''satires'' . . </ref> a colony of romans or latins had been installed in venusia after the [[samnites]] had been driven out early in the third century. in that case, young horace could have felt himself to be a roman<ref>t. frank, ''catullus and horace'', – </ref><ref>a. campbell, ''horace: a new interpretation'', </ref> though there are also indications that he regarded himself as a samnite or [[sabellus]] by birth.<ref>''epistles'' . . </ref><ref>r. nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', </ref> italians in modern and ancient times have always been devoted to their home towns, even after success in the wider world, and horace was no different. images of his childhood setting and references to it are found throughout his poems.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref> horace's father was probably a venutian taken captive by romans in the social war, or possibly he was descended from a [[sabine]] captured in the [[samnite wars]]. either way, he was a slave for at least part of his life. he was evidently a man of strong abilities however and managed to gain his freedom and improve his social position. thus horace claimed to be the free-born son of a prosperous 'coactor'.<ref name="kiernan">v. kiernan, ''horace: poetics and politics'', </ref> the term 'coactor' could denote various roles, such as tax collector, but its use by horace<ref>''satires'' . . </ref> was explained by [[scholia]] as a reference to 'coactor argentareus' i.e. an auctioneer with some of the functions of a banker, paying the seller out of his own funds and later recovering the sum with interest from the buyer.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref> the father spent a small fortune on his son's education, eventually accompanying him to [[rome]] to oversee his schooling and moral development. the poet later paid tribute to him in a poem<ref name="satires . ">''satires'' . </ref> that one modern scholar considers the best memorial by any son to his father.<ref group="nb">"no son ever set a finer monument to his father than horace did in the sixth satire of book i...horace's description of his father is warm-hearted but free from sentimentality or exaggeration. we see before us one of the common people, a hard-working, open-minded, and thoroughly honest man of simple habits and strict convictions, representing some of the best qualities that at the end of the republic could still be found in the unsophisticated society of the italian ''municipia''"&nbsp;{{emdash}}&nbsp;e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref> the poem includes this passage: <blockquote> if my character is flawed by a few minor faults, but is otherwise decent and moral, if you can point out only a few scattered blemishes on an otherwise immaculate surface, if no one can accuse me of greed, or of prurience, or of profligacy, if i live a virtuous life, free of defilement (pardon, for a moment, my self-praise), and if i am to my friends a good friend, my father deserves all the credit... as it is now, he deserves from me unstinting gratitude and praise. i could never be ashamed of such a father, nor do i feel any need, as many people do, to apologize for being a freedman's son. ''[[satire]]s . . – '' </blockquote> he never mentioned his mother in his verses and he might not have known much about her. perhaps she also had been a slave.<ref name="kiernan"/> return to horace. retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/horace" 		 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			article 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	edit 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		search 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigation 	 	 			main page 	contents 	current events 	random article 	about wikipedia 	contact us 	donate 		 	 	 	 		contribute 	 	 			help 	learn to edit 	community portal 	recent changes 	upload file 		 	 	 		tools 	 	 			what links here 	related changes 	upload file 	special pages 	page information 	wikidata item 		 	 	 	 		languages 	 	 		 		 	 	 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 Гарацый — Вікіпедыя 	 	 	 	 	Гарацый 	 		З пляцоўкі Вікіпедыя 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 			Гарацый 	лац.: q. horatius flaccus 	 Гарацый (Карціна Антона фон Вернера) 	Асабістыя звесткі 	Дата нараджэння	 снежня да н.э.[ ][ ][ ] 	Месца нараджэння	 	Веноза[d], правінцыя Патэнца[d], Базіліката, Італія[ ][ ] 	Дата смерці	 лістапада да н.э.[ ][ ] ( гадоў) 	Месца смерці	 	Рым, Рымская імперыя, Старажытны Рым 	Пахаванне	 	Рым 	Грамадзянства	 	Старажытны Рым 	Бацька	 невядома 	Маці	 невядома 	Прафесійная дзейнасць 	Род дзейнасці	 паэт, пісьменнік, філосаф 	Мова твораў	 лацінская мова 	 Творы ў Вікікрыніцах 	  Выявы на Вікісховішчы 	 Цытаты ў Вікіцытатніку Гарацый, Квінт Гарацый Флакк (лац.: quintus horatius flaccus; снежня да н.э., Венузія, сёння ў рэгіёне Базіліката, Італія — лістапада да н.э., Рым) — рымскі паэт «залатога стагоддзя» рымскай літаратуры. Яго творчасць прыпадае на эпоху грамадзянскіх войн канца рэспублікі і першыя дзесяцігоддзі новага рэжыма Актавіяна Аўгуста. Аўтар шматлікіх сатырычных і лірічных твораў, паэтычных пасланняў (у тым ліку "Навука паэзіі" або "Пасланне да Пізонаў"). Змест 	 Жыццё 	 Творчасць 	 Беларускія пераклады 	 Зноскі 	 Літаратура 	 Спасылкі Жыццё[правіць | правіць зыходнік] Гарацый нарадзіўся ў Венузіі ў сям'і вольнаадпушчаніка. Праз пэўны час бацька паэта перабраўся ў Рым, дзе працаваў пасярэднікам пры куплях. Дзякуючы гэтаму, ён змог даць сыну бліскучую адукацыю: той навучаўся спачатку ў Рыме, а пасля ў Афінах. Пасля гібелі Цэзара малады Гарацый далучыўся да войска Марка Юнія Брута, і ў якасці афіцэра ўдзельнічаў у бітве пры Філіпах; войска было разбітае, Брут учыніў самагубства, а Гарацый здолеў уратаваць жыццё ўцёкамі. Пасля абвяшчэння амністыі для ворагаў пераможнага Аўгуста Гарацый вярнуўся ў Італію. Ягоная маёмасць была канфіскаваная, аднак ён здолеў атрымаць чыноўніцкую пасаду, якая давала яму дастаткова сродкаў для жыцця і творчасці. Праз знаёмства з Вергіліем Гарацый увайшоў у кола сяброў Мецэната, які ўзяў на сябе клопат пра матэрыяльнае ўладкаванне паэта, падарыўшы таму маёнтак каля Тыбура. Паступова перайшоў на пазіцыі цэзарызму. Памёр Гарацый у Рыме ва ўзросце год. Творчасць[правіць | правіць зыходнік] «Эподы» Гарацыя — ямбічныя вершы разнастайнага зместу, лепшыя з якіх заклікалі да згоды і міру, і кнігі «Сатыр» («Гутарак») на філасофска-этычныя тэмы створаны паміж і да н.э. Грамадзянскім, філасофскім, велічальным (усхвалялі Мецэната і імператара Аўгуста), любоўным, сяброўскім і застольным одам Гарацыя («Песні», кн. — , да н.э., кн. , — да н.э.) уласцівы яскравая вобразнасць, тонкі гумар, вьгганчанасць мовы і кампазіцыі, рытмічнае багацце. Для твораў Гарацыя характэрны культ суладдзя, мудрай разважлівасці («залатой сярэдзіны») і прыгажосці. У «Пасланні да Пізонаў» («Навука паэзіі», увайшло ў «Пасланні», кн. — , — да н.э.) выклаў свае эстэтычныя прынцыпы, якія былі ўзяты за аснову тэарэтычнай праграмы еўрапейскага класіцызму. На беларускую мову яго творы перакладалі М. Багдановіч (ода «Помнік»), А. Жлутка, А. Ф. Брыль. Беларускія пераклады[правіць | правіць зыходнік] 	Да Мецэната; Да Ліцынія Мурэны; Да Леўканоі // «Тутэйшыя». Мн., ; Зноскі 	↑ , , http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/quinto-orazio-flacco_(enciclopedia-italiana)/ 	↑ , , , Любкер Ф. horatii // Реальный словарь классических древностей по Любкеру / под ред. Ф. Ф. Зелинский, А. И. Георгиевский, М. С. Куторга и др. — СПб.: Общество классической филологии и педагогики, . — С.  – .<a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/track:q "></a><a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/track:q "></a><a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/track:q "></a><a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/track:q "></a><a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/track:q "></a><a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/track:q "></a><a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/track:q "></a><a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/track:q "></a> 	↑ , , w. y. s., j. g. horace // encyclopædia britannica — — nyc: . — vol.  . — p.  – .<a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/track:q "></a><a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/track:q "></a><a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/track:q "></a><a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/track:q "></a><a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/track:q "></a> Літаратура[правіць | правіць зыходнік] 	Малюковіч С. Гарацый // БелЭн у т. Т. . Мн., . 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(november ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) see also: list of roman wars and battles this is a list of civil wars and organized civil disorder in ancient rome ( bc – ad ). contents 	 rd century bc 	 nd century bc 	 st century bc 	 st century 	 nd century 	 rd century 	 th century 	 th century 	 references 	 see also rd century bc[edit] 	 bc: falisci revolt – revolt suppressed[ ] nd century bc[edit] 	 – bc: first servile war in sicily - revolt suppressed[ ][ ] 	 bc: fregellae revolt - revolt suppressed[ ] 	 – bc: second servile war in sicily - revolt suppressed[ ] st century bc[edit] 	 – bc: social war, between rome and many of its fellow italian allies - roman victory. 	 – bc: sulla's first civil war ( – bc), between lucius cornelius sulla's supporters and gaius marius' forces – sullan victory. 	 – bc: sulla's second civil war between sulla and marius' supporters – sullan victory. 	 – bc: sertorian war between rome and the provinces of hispania under the leadership of quintus sertorius, a supporter of gaius marius – sullan victory. 	 bc: lepidus' rebellion against the sullan regime – sullan victory. 	 – bc: third servile war in italy – revolt suppressed. 	 – bc: catiline conspiracy between the senate and the dissatisfied followers of catiline – senatorial victory. 	 – bc: caesar's civil war between julius caesar and the optimates initially led by pompey the great (gnaeus pompeius magnus) – caesarian victory. 	 bc: revolt of the bellovaci in north-eastern gaul – revolt suppressed 	 bc: revolt of the allobroges in gaul – revolt suppressed 	 – bc: post-caesarian civil war between the senate's army (led first by cicero and then by octavian) and the army of antony, lepidus, and their colleagues – truce results in union of forces. 	 – bc: liberators' civil war between the second triumvirate and the liberators (brutus and cassius, caesar's assassins) – triumvirate victory. 	 – bc: sicilian revolt between the second triumvirate (particularly octavian and agrippa) and sextus pompey, the son of pompey – triumvirate victory. 	 – bc: perusine war between the forces of octavian against lucius antonius and fulvia (the younger brother and wife of mark antony) – octavian victory. 	 bc: revolt of aquitanian tribes – revolt suppressed by marcus vipsanius agrippa 	 – bc: final war of the roman republic between octavian and his friend and general agrippa against antony and cleopatra – octavian victory. 	 – bc: revolt of the morini and treveri in northern gaul with germanic support – revolt suppressed 	 bc: revolt in the nile delta and the thebaid – revolt suppressed by gaius cornelius gallus 	 – bc: revolt in gallia aquitania – revolt suppressed by marcus valerius messalla corvinus 	 bc: revolt of vologases, priest of dionysus, in thrace – revolt suppressed 	 – bc: revolt of southern mountain tribes in thrace – revolt suppressed by calpurnius piso 	 bc: revolt of jews in judea – revolt suppressed by publius quinctilius varus st century[edit] 	 – : revolt of the gaetuli in mauretania – revolt suppressed by cossus cornelius lentulus gaetulicus 	 : revolt of judas of galilee against roman taxation – revolt suppressed 	 – : bellum batonianum, a great rebellion in illyricum against rome – revolt suppressed by tiberius 	 : revolt by german leader arminius destroys three roman legions in the battle of the teutoburg forest, permanently ending roman efforts to conquer germanic territories east of the rhine. 	 : mutiny of the legions in germania and illyricum suppressed by germanicus and drusus julius caesar 	 – : tacfarinas' revolt in north africa – revolt suppressed by publius cornelius dolabella 	 : revolt of the treveri, aedui, andes (andecavi) and turoni under julius florus and julius sacrovir in gaul – revolt suppressed by gaius silius and gaius calpurnius aviola 	 : revolt of the coelaletae, odrysae and dii in thrace – revolt suppressed by p. vellaeus 	 : revolt in thrace – revolt suppressed by gaius poppaeus sabinus 	 : revolt of the frisii in the battle of baduhenna wood – rebel victory 	 : revolt of the cietae in cappadocia – revolt suppressed by marcus trebellius 	 : alexandrian riots 	 : alexandrian riots 	 – : revolt of aedemon and sabalus in mauretania – revolt suppressed by gaius suetonius paulinus and gnaeus hosidius geta 	 : failed usurpation of lucius arruntius camillus scribonianus in dalmatia 	 : the kingdom of thrace riots against the romans after the death of king rhoemetalces iii – revolt suppressed 	 – : jacob and simon uprising in the galilee – revolt suppressed 	 – : boudica's uprising in britain – revolt suppressed by gaius suetonius paulinus 	 – : first jewish–roman war – revolt suppressed 	 : revolt in gallia lugdunensis under gaius julius vindex – revolt suppressed by lucius verginius rufus' army 	 – : the year of the four emperors between various romans following the death of nero (ad ). after nero's suicide, the generals galba, otho, and vitellius take the throne within months of each other. general vespasian, who until that point was fighting the revolt in judaea, is victorious. he founds the flavian dynasty. 	 : revolt of anicetus in colchis – revolt suppressed by virdius geminus 	 – : revolt of the batavi, treveri and lingones in gaul – revolt suppressed 	 – : failed usurpation of terentius maximus, a pseudo-nero, in asia 	 : revolt of lucius antonius saturninus with two legions in germania superior – revolt suppressed nd century[edit] 	 – : kitos war in egypt, cyrenaica and cyprus – revolt suppressed 	 : revolt in mauretania – revolt suppressed by marcius turbo 	 : apis riots in alexandria 	 – : bar kokhba revolt in judea – revolt suppressed 	 : revolt in mauretania – revolt suppressed 	 : alexandrian riots 	 : revolt of the boukoloi in egypt – revolt suppressed by avidius cassius 	 : failed usurpation of avidius cassius in the eastern parts of the roman empire 	 : army mutiny in britain suppressed by pertinax 	 : two revolts in africa suppressed by pertinax 	 – : year of the five emperors and subsequent civil war between the generals septimius severus, pescennius niger and clodius albinus following the assassination of commodus (ad ) and the subsequent murders of pertinax and didius julianus (ad ). severus is victorious and founds the severan dynasty. rd century[edit] 	 : battle of antioch, fought between the emperor macrinus and his rival elagabalus and resulting in macrinus' downfall and his replacement by elagabalus. 	 : failed usurpations of verus and gellius maximus in syria. 	 : failed usurpation of seleucus, possibly in moesia 	 : failed usurpation of seius sallustius in rome 	 : failed usurpation of taurinius in syria. 	 – : crisis of the third century – at least claimants fought with each other to become emperor and emperors fought against usurpers, resulting in frequent civil war and breakaway gallic roman ( – ) and palmyrene empires ( – ). 	 : year of the six emperors between various generals against maximinus thrax and after his murder. after gordian i and gordian ii are defeated by a pro-maximinus army following an attempt to overthrow the emperor, maximinus is assassinated. pupienus, balbinus, and gordian iii replace him, but the former two are assassinated within months and only gordian iii survives. 	 : failed usurpation of sabinianus in mauretania 	 – : failed usurpations of jotapianus in syria and pacatianus in moesia. 	 : emperor philip the arab killed and overthrown by rebels at the battle of verona and replaced by decius. 	 : failed usurpation of licinianus in rome. 	 : failed usurpation of titus julius priscus in thrace. 	 : failed usurpation of cyriades in syria. 	 : usurpations of aemilianus and valerian: emperors trebonianus gallus and volusianus murdered by their soldiers and replaced by aemilianus. valerian raises the rhine legions in revolt, while aemilianus is killed by his own soldiers. 	 : failed usurpation of uranius in syria. 	 : failed usurpations of ingenuus and regalianus in pannonia. 	 – : failed usurpation of macrianus major, macrianus minor, quietus and balista in the east 	 – : the breakaway gallic roman empire 	 : failed usurpations of lucius piso and valens thessalonicus in achaea. 	 – : failed usurpation of mussius aemilianus and memor in egypt. 	 : failed usurpation of aureolus in the west. emperor gallienus murdered by his soldiers and claudius gothicus proclaimed emperor. 	 : usurpation of aurelian against quintillus. 	 – : the breakaway palmyrene empire. 	 : failed usurpations of felicissimus in rome and septimius in dalmatia. 	 : aurelian murdered by the praetorian guard and replaced by marcus claudius tacitus 	 : usurpation of probus against florianus. 	 : failed usurpation of julius saturninus in the east. 	 – : failed usurpation of proculus and bonosus in the west. 	 – : failed usurpation of sabinus julianus. 	 – : usurpation of diocletian against carinus 	 – : bagaudae uprising in gaul under aelianus and amandus – revolt suppressed 	 – : carausian 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revolt suppressed 	 : failed usurpation of claudius silvanus in gaul 	 : usurpation of julian the apostate 	 – : revolt of procopius, when the emperor valens defeated the usurpers procopius and marcellus. 	 : failed usurpation of theodorus in antioch 	 – : revolt of firmus in africa – revolt suppressed by count theodosius 	 – : usurpation of magnus maximus in the west and the killing of gratian by the general andragathius 	 : tax riots against emperor theodosius i in antioch. 	 – : civil war of – , when the eastern emperor theodosius i defeated the western emperor magnus maximus. 	 : revolt in thessalonica culminating in the massacre of thessalonica. 	 – : civil war of – , when the eastern emperor theodosius i defeated the usurper eugenius. 	 : gildonic revolt, when the comes gildo rebelled against the western emperor honorius. the revolt was subdued by flavius stilicho, the magister militum of the western roman empire. 	 – : revolt of tribigild and gainas in the eastern empire – 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( ). "allied disaffection and the revolt of fregellae ". antichthon. : – . doi: . /s . issn  - . 	^ flower, harriet i. 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harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', </ref> {{poemquote| then farewell, horace, whom i hated so not for thy faults, but mine; it is a curse to understand, not feel thy lyric flow, to comprehend, but never love thy verse. }} [[william wordsworth]]'s mature poetry, including the [[preface to the lyrical ballads|preface]] to ''[[lyrical ballads]]'', reveals horace's influence in its rejection of false ornament<ref>d. money, ''the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'', </ref> and he once expressed "a wish / to meet the shade of horace...".<ref group="nb">the quote, from ''memorials of a tour of italy'' ( ), contains allusions to ''odes'' . and . (s. harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', – )</ref> [[john keats]] echoed the opening of horace's ''epodes'' in the opening lines of ''[[ode to a nightingale]]''.<ref group="nb">"''my heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains / my sense...''" echoes epodes [[:wikisource:la:epodi#xiv| . – ]] (s. harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', )</ref> the roman poet was presented in the nineteenth century as an honorary english gentleman. [[william makepeace thackeray|william thackeray]] produced a version of ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber i/carmen xxxviii| . ]] in which horace's 'boy' became 'lucy', and [[gerard manley hopkins]] translated the boy innocently as 'child'. horace was translated by [[sir theodore martin]] (biographer of [[albert, prince consort|prince albert]]) but minus some ungentlemanly verses, such as the erotic ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber i/carmen xxv| . ]] and ''epodes'' and . [[edward bulwer-lytton]] produced a popular translation and [[william gladstone]] also wrote translations during his last days as prime minister.<ref>s. harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', – </ref> [[edward fitzgerald (poet)|edward fitzgerald]]'s ''[[rubaiyat of omar khayyam]]'', though formally derived from the persian ''[[ruba'i]]'', nevertheless shows a strong horatian influence, since, as one modern scholar has observed, "''...the quatrains inevitably recall the stanzas of the 'odes', as does the narrating first person of the world-weary, ageing [[epicurus|epicurean]] omar himself, mixing [[symposium|sympotic]] exhortation and 'carpe diem' with splendid moralising and 'memento mori' [[nihilism]].''"<ref group="nb">comment by s. harrison, editor and contributor to ''the cambridge companion to horace'' (s. harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', </ref> [[matthew arnold]] advised a friend in verse not to worry about politics, an echo of ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber ii/carmen xi| . ]], yet later became a critic of horace's inadequacies relative to greek poets, as role models of [[victorian age|victorian]] virtues, observing: "''if human life were complete without faith, without enthusiasm, without energy, horace...would be the perfect interpreter of human life.''"<ref>m. arnold, ''selected prose'', </ref> [[christina rossetti]] composed a sonnet depicting a woman willing her own death steadily, drawing on horace's depiction of 'glycera' in ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber i/carmen xix| . . – ]] and cleopatra in ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber i/carmen xxxvii| . ]].<ref group="nb">rossetti's sonnet, ''a study (a soul)'', dated , was not published in her own lifetime. some lines: ''she stands as pale as parian marble stands / like cleopatra when she turns at bay...'' (c. rossetti, ''complete poems'', </ref> [[a. e. housman]] considered ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber iv/carmen vii| . ]], in [[prosody (latin)#first archilochian|archilochian]] couplets, the most beautiful poem of antiquity<ref>w. flesch, ''companion to british poetry, th century'', </ref> and yet he generally shared horace's penchant for quatrains, being readily adapted to his own elegiac and melancholy strain.<ref>s. harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', </ref> the most famous poem of [[ernest dowson]] took its title and its heroine's name from a line of ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber iv/carmen i| . ]], ''non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno cynarae'', as well as its motif of nostalgia for a former flame. [[kipling]] wrote a famous [[parody]] of the ''odes'', satirising their stylistic idiosyncrasies and especially the extraordinary syntax, but he also used horace's roman patriotism as a focus for british imperialism, as in the story ''regulus'' in the school collection ''[[stalky & co.]]'', which he based on ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber iii/carmen v| . ]].<ref>s. medcalfe, ''kipling's horace'', – </ref> wilfred owen's famous poem, quoted above, incorporated horatian text to question patriotism while ignoring the rules of latin scansion. however, there were few other echoes of horace in the war period, possibly because war is not actually a major theme of horace's work.<ref>s. harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', </ref> [[file:michelin poster .jpg|thumb|[[bibendum]] (the symbol of the [[michelin]] tyre company) takes his name from the opening line of [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber i/carmen xxxvii|ode . ]], ''[[nunc est bibendum]]''.]] both [[w.h.auden]] and [[louis macneice]] began their careers as teachers of classics and both responded as poets to horace's influence. auden for example evoked the fragile world of the s in terms echoing ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber ii/carmen xi| . . – ]], where horace advises a friend not to let worries about frontier wars interfere with current pleasures. {{poemquote| and, gentle, do not care to know where poland draws her eastern bow, what violence is done; nor ask what doubtful act allows our freedom in this english house, our picnics in the sun.<ref group="nb">quoted from auden's poem ''out on the lawn i lie in bed'', , and cited by s. harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', </ref> }} the american poet, [[robert frost]], echoed horace's ''satires'' in the conversational and sententious idiom of some of his longer poems, such as ''the lesson for today'' ( ), and also in his gentle advocacy of life on the farm, as in ''hyla brook'' ( ), evoking horace's ''fons bandusiae'' in ''ode'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber iii/carmen xiii| . ]]. now at the start of the third millennium, poets are still absorbing and re-configuring the horatian influence, sometimes in translation (such as a english/american edition of the ''odes'' by thirty-six poets)<ref group="nb">edited by mcclatchy, reviewed by s. harrison, ''bryn mawr classical review'' . . </ref> and sometimes as inspiration for their own work (such as a collection of odes by a new zealand poet).<ref group="nb">i. wedde, ''the commonplace odes'', auckland , (cited by s. harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', )</ref> horace's ''epodes'' have largely been ignored in the modern era, excepting those with political associations of historical significance. the obscene qualities of some of the poems have repulsed even scholars<ref group="nb">'political' epodes are , , , ; notably obscene epodes are and . e. fraenkel is among the admirers repulsed by these two poems, for another view of which see for example dee lesser clayman, 'horace's epodes viii and xii: more than clever obscenity?', ''the classical world'' vol. , no. 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view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 horace - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	horace 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		the printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead. roman lyric poet this article is about the roman poet. for the egyptian god, see horus. for other uses, see horace (disambiguation). 	horace 	horace, as imagined by anton von werner 	born	quintus horatius flaccus december bc venusia, italy, roman republic 	died	 november bc (age ) rome 	resting place	rome 	occupation	soldier, scriba quaestorius, poet, senator 	language	latin 	nationality	roman 	genre	lyric poetry 	notable works	odes "the art of poetry" quintus horatius flaccus ( december – november bc), known in the english-speaking world as horace (/ˈhɒrɪs/), was the leading roman lyric poet during the time of augustus (also known as octavian). the rhetorician quintilian regarded his odes as just about the only latin lyrics worth reading: "he can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."[nb ] horace also crafted elegant hexameter verses (satires and epistles) and caustic iambic poetry (epodes). the hexameters are amusing yet serious works, friendly in tone, leading the ancient satirist persius to comment: "as his friend laughs, horace slyly puts his finger on his every fault; once let in, he plays about the heartstrings".[nb ] his career coincided with rome's momentous change from a republic to an empire. an officer in the republican army defeated at the battle of philippi in bc, he was befriended by octavian's right-hand man in civil affairs, maecenas, and became a spokesman for the new regime. for some commentators, his association with the regime was a delicate balance in which he maintained a strong measure of independence (he was "a master of the graceful sidestep")[ ] but for others he was, in john dryden's phrase, "a well-mannered court slave".[ ][nb ] contents 	 life 	 . childhood 	 . adulthood 	 . . poet 	 . . knight 	 works 	 . historical context 	 . themes 	 reception 	 . antiquity 	 . middle ages and renaissance 	 . age of enlightenment 	 . th century on 	 translations 	 in popular culture 	 see also 	 notes 	 citations 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links life horatii flacci sermonum ( ) horace can be regarded as the world's first autobiographer.[ ] in his writings, he tells us far more about himself, his character, his development, and his way of life, than any other great poet of antiquity. some of the biographical material contained in his work can be supplemented from the short but valuable "life of horace" by suetonius (in his lives of the poets).[ ] childhood he was born on december bc[nb ] in the samnite south of italy.[ ] his home town, venusia, lay on a trade route in the border region between apulia and lucania (basilicata). various italic dialects were spoken in the area and this perhaps enriched his feeling for language. he could have been familiar with greek words even as a young boy and later he poked fun at the jargon of mixed greek and oscan spoken in neighbouring canusium.[ ] one of the works he probably studied in school was the odyssia of livius andronicus, taught by teachers like the 'orbilius' mentioned in one of his poems.[ ] army veterans could have been settled there at the expense of local families uprooted by rome as punishment for their part in the social war ( – bc).[ ] such state-sponsored migration must have added still more linguistic variety to the area. according to a local tradition reported by horace,[ ] a colony of romans or latins had been installed in venusia after the samnites had been driven out early in the third century. in that case, young horace could have felt himself to be a roman[ ][ ] though there are also indications that he regarded himself as a samnite or sabellus by birth.[ ][ ] italians in modern and ancient times have always been devoted to their home towns, even after success in the wider world, and horace was no different. images of his childhood setting and references to it are found throughout his poems.[ ] horace's father was probably a venutian taken captive by romans in the social war, or possibly he was descended from a sabine captured in the samnite wars. either way, he was a slave for at least part of his life. he was evidently a man of strong abilities however and managed to gain his freedom and improve his social position. thus horace claimed to be the free-born son of a prosperous 'coactor'.[ ] the term 'coactor' could denote various roles, such as tax collector, but its use by horace[ ] was explained by scholia as a reference to 'coactor argentareus' i.e. an auctioneer with some of the functions of a banker, paying the seller out of his own funds and later recovering the sum with interest from the buyer.[ ] the father spent a small fortune on his son's education, eventually accompanying him to rome to oversee his schooling and moral development. the poet later paid tribute to him in a poem[ ] that one modern scholar considers the best memorial by any son to his father.[nb ] the poem includes this passage: if my character is flawed by a few minor faults, but is otherwise decent and moral, if you can point out only a few scattered blemishes on an otherwise immaculate surface, if no one can accuse me of greed, or of prurience, or of profligacy, if i live a virtuous life, free of defilement (pardon, for a moment, my self-praise), and if i am to my friends a good friend, my father deserves all the credit... as it is now, he deserves from me unstinting gratitude and praise. i could never be ashamed of such a father, nor do i feel any need, as many people do, to apologize for being a freedman's son. satires . . – he never mentioned his mother in his verses and he might not have known much about her. perhaps she also had been a slave.[ ] adulthood horace left rome, possibly after his father's death, and continued his formal education in athens, a great centre of learning in the ancient world, where he arrived at nineteen years of age, enrolling in the academy. founded by plato, the academy was now dominated by epicureans and stoics, whose theories and practises made a deep impression on the young man from venusia.[ ] meanwhile, he mixed and lounged about with the elite of roman youth, such as marcus, the idle son of cicero, and the pompeius to whom he later addressed a poem.[ ] it was in athens too that he probably acquired deep familiarity with the ancient tradition of greek lyric poetry, at that time largely the preserve of grammarians and academic specialists (access to such material was easier in athens than in rome, where the public libraries had yet to be built by asinius pollio and augustus).[ ] rome's troubles following the assassination of julius caesar were soon to catch up with him. marcus junius brutus came to athens seeking support for the republican cause. brutus was fêted around town in grand receptions and he made a point of attending academic lectures, all the while recruiting supporters among the young men studying there, including horace.[ ] an educated young roman could begin military service high in the ranks and horace was made tribunus militum (one of six senior officers of a typical legion), a post usually reserved for men of senatorial or equestrian rank and which seems to have inspired jealousy among his well-born confederates.[ ][ ] he learned the basics of military life while on the march, particularly in the wilds of northern greece, whose rugged scenery became a backdrop to some of his later poems.[ ] it was there in bc that octavian (later augustus) and his associate mark antony crushed the republican forces at the battle of philippi. horace later recorded it as a day of embarrassment for himself, when he fled without his shield,[ ] but allowance should be made for his self-deprecating humour. moreover, the incident allowed him to identify himself with some famous poets who had long ago abandoned their shields in battle, notably his heroes alcaeus and archilochus. the comparison with the latter poet is uncanny: archilochus lost his shield in a part of thrace near philippi, and he was deeply involved in the greek colonization of thasos, where horace's die-hard comrades finally surrendered.[ ] octavian offered an early amnesty to his opponents and horace quickly accepted it. on returning to italy, he was confronted with yet another loss: his father's estate in venusia was one of many throughout italy to be confiscated for the settlement of veterans (virgil lost his estate in the north about the same time). horace later claimed that he was reduced to poverty and this led him to try his hand at poetry.[ ] in reality, there was no money to be had from versifying. at best, it offered future prospects through contacts with other poets and their patrons among the rich.[ ] meanwhile, he obtained the sinecure of scriba quaestorius, a civil service position at the aerarium or treasury, profitable enough to be purchased even by members of the ordo equester and not very demanding in its work-load, since tasks could be delegated to scribae or permanent clerks.[ ] it was about this time that he began writing his satires and epodes. poet horace reads before maecenas, by fyodor bronnikov the epodes belong to iambic poetry. iambic poetry features insulting and obscene language;[ ][ ] sometimes, it is referred to as blame poetry.[ ] blame poetry, or shame poetry, is poetry written to blame and shame fellow citizens into a sense of their social obligations. horace modelled these poems on the poetry of archilochus. social bonds in rome had been decaying since the destruction of carthage a little more than a hundred years earlier, due to the vast wealth that could be gained by plunder and corruption.[ ] these social ills were magnified by rivalry between julius caesar, mark antony and confederates like sextus pompey, all jockeying for a bigger share of the spoils. one modern scholar has counted a dozen civil wars in the hundred years leading up to bc, including the spartacus rebellion, eight years before horace's birth.[ ] as the heirs to hellenistic culture, horace and his fellow romans were not well prepared to deal with these problems: at bottom, all the problems that the times were stirring up were of a social nature, which the hellenistic thinkers were ill qualified to grapple with. some of them censured oppression of the poor by the rich, but they gave no practical lead, though they may have hoped to see well-meaning rulers doing so. philosophy was drifting into absorption in self, a quest for private contentedness, to be achieved by self-control and restraint, without much regard for the fate of a disintegrating community. — v. g. kiernan[ ] horace's hellenistic background is clear in his satires, even though the genre was unique to latin literature. he brought to it a style and outlook suited to the social and ethical issues confronting rome but he changed its role from public, social engagement to private meditation.[ ] meanwhile, he was beginning to interest octavian's supporters, a gradual process described by him in one of his satires.[ ] the way was opened for him by his friend, the poet virgil, who had gained admission into the privileged circle around maecenas, octavian's lieutenant, following the success of his eclogues. an introduction soon followed and, after a discreet interval, horace too was accepted. he depicted the process as an honourable one, based on merit and mutual respect, eventually leading to true friendship, and there is reason to believe that his relationship was genuinely friendly, not just with maecenas but afterwards with augustus as well.[ ] on the other hand, the poet has been unsympathetically described by one scholar as "a sharp and rising young man, with an eye to the main chance."[ ] there were advantages on both sides: horace gained encouragement and material support, the politicians gained a hold on a potential dissident.[ ] his republican sympathies, and his role at philippi, may have caused him some pangs of remorse over his new status. however most romans considered the civil wars to be the result of contentio dignitatis, or rivalry between the foremost families of the city, and he too seems to have accepted the principate as rome's last hope for much needed peace.[ ] in bc, horace accompanied maecenas on a journey to brundisium, described in one of his poems[ ] as a series of amusing incidents and charming encounters with other friends along the way, such as virgil. in fact the journey was political in its motivation, with maecenas en route to negotiatie the treaty of tarentum with antony, a fact horace artfully keeps from the reader (political issues are largely avoided in the first book of satires).[ ] horace was probably also with maecenas on one of octavian's naval expeditions against the piratical sextus pompeius, which ended in a disastrous storm off palinurus in bc, briefly alluded to by horace in terms of near-drowning.[ ][nb ] there are also some indications in his verses that he was with maecenas at the battle of actium in bc, where octavian defeated his great rival, antony.[ ][nb ] by then horace had already received from maecenas the famous gift of his sabine farm, probably not long after the publication of the first book of satires. the gift, which included income from five tenants, may have ended his career at the treasury, or at least allowed him to give it less time and energy.[ ] it signalled his identification with the octavian regime yet, in the second book of satires that soon followed, he continued the apolitical stance of the first book. by this time, he had attained the status of eques romanus,[ ] perhaps as a result of his work at the treasury.[ ] knight odes – were the next focus for his artistic creativity. he adapted their forms and themes from greek lyric poetry of the seventh and sixth centuries bc. the fragmented nature of the greek world had enabled his literary heroes to express themselves freely and his semi-retirement from the treasury in rome to his own estate in the sabine hills perhaps empowered him to some extent also[ ] yet even when his lyrics touched on public affairs they reinforced the importance of private life.[ ] nevertheless, his work in the period – bc began to show his closeness to the regime and his sensitivity to its developing ideology. in odes . , for example, he eulogized octavian in hyperboles that echo hellenistic court poetry. the name augustus, which octavian assumed in january bc, is first attested in odes . and . . in the period – bc, political allusions in the odes concentrated on foreign wars in britain ( . ), arabia ( . ) spain ( . ) and parthia ( . ). he greeted augustus on his return to rome in bc as a beloved ruler upon whose good health he depended for his own happiness ( . ).[ ] the public reception of odes – disappointed him, however. he attributed the lack of success to jealousy among imperial courtiers and to his isolation from literary cliques.[ ] perhaps it was disappointment that led him to put aside the genre in favour of verse letters. he addressed his first book of epistles to a variety of friends and acquaintances in an urbane style reflecting his new social status as a knight. in the opening poem, he professed a deeper interest in moral philosophy than poetry[ ] but, though the collection demonstrates a leaning towards stoic theory, it reveals no sustained thinking about ethics.[ ] maecenas was still the dominant confidante but horace had now begun to assert his own independence, suavely declining constant invitations to attend his patron.[ ] in the final poem of the first book of epistles, he revealed himself to be forty-four years old in the consulship of lollius and lepidus i.e. bc, and "of small stature, fond of the sun, prematurely grey, quick-tempered but easily placated".[ ][ ] according to suetonius, the second book of epistles was prompted by augustus, who desired a verse epistle to be addressed to himself. augustus was in fact a prolific letter-writer and he once asked horace to be his personal secretary. horace refused the secretarial role but complied with the emperor's request for a verse letter.[ ] the letter to augustus may have been slow in coming, being published possibly as late as bc. it celebrated, among other things, the bc military victories of his stepsons, drusus and tiberius, yet it and the following letter[ ] were largely devoted to literary theory and criticism. the literary theme was explored still further in ars poetica, published separately but written in the form of an epistle and sometimes referred to as epistles . (possibly the last poem he ever wrote).[ ] he was also commissioned to write odes commemorating the victories of drusus and tiberius[ ] and one to be sung in a temple of apollo for the secular games, a long-abandoned festival that augustus revived in accordance with his policy of recreating ancient customs (carmen saeculare). suetonius recorded some gossip about horace's sexual activities late in life, claiming that the walls of his bedchamber were covered with obscene pictures and mirrors, so that he saw erotica wherever he looked.[nb ] the poet died at years of age, not long after his friend maecenas, near whose tomb he was laid to rest. both men bequeathed their property to augustus, an honour that the emperor expected of his friends.[ ] works odes . – wall poem in leiden the dating of horace's works isn't known precisely and scholars often debate the exact order in which they were first 'published'. there are persuasive arguments for the following chronology:[ ] 	satires (c. – bc) 	satires (c. bc) 	epodes ( bc) 	odes – (c. bc)[nb ] 	epistles (c. bc) 	carmen saeculare ( bc) 	epistles (c. bc)[nb ] 	odes (c. bc) 	ars poetica (c. – bc)[nb ] historical context horace composed in traditional metres borrowed from archaic greece, employing hexameters in his satires and epistles, and iambs in his epodes, all of which were relatively easy to adapt into latin forms. his odes featured more complex measures, including alcaics and sapphics, which were sometimes a difficult fit for latin structure and syntax. despite these traditional metres, he presented himself as a partisan in the development of a new and sophisticated style. he was influenced in particular by hellenistic aesthetics of brevity, elegance and polish, as modelled in the work of callimachus.[ ] as soon as horace, stirred by his own genius and encouraged by the example of virgil, varius, and perhaps some other poets of the same generation, had determined to make his fame as a poet, being by temperament a fighter, he wanted to fight against all kinds of prejudice, amateurish slovenliness, philistinism, reactionary tendencies, in short to fight for the new and noble type of poetry which he and his friends were endeavouring to bring about. — eduard fraenkel[ ] in modern literary theory, a distinction is often made between immediate personal experience (urerlebnis) and experience mediated by cultural vectors such as literature, philosophy and the visual arts (bildungserlebnis).[ ] the distinction has little relevance for horace[citation needed] however since his personal and literary experiences are implicated in each other. satires . , for example, recounts in detail a real trip horace made with virgil and some of his other literary friends, and which parallels a satire by lucilius, his predecessor.[ ] unlike much hellenistic-inspired literature, however, his poetry was not composed for a small coterie of admirers and fellow poets, nor does it rely on abstruse allusions for many of its effects. though elitist in its literary standards, it was written for a wide audience, as a public form of art.[ ] ambivalence also characterizes his literary persona, since his presentation of himself as part of a small community of philosophically aware people, seeking true peace of mind while shunning vices like greed, was well adapted to augustus's plans to reform public morality, corrupted by greed—his personal plea for moderation was part of the emperor's grand message to the nation.[ ] horace generally followed the examples of poets established as classics in different genres, such as archilochus in the epodes, lucilius in the satires and alcaeus in the odes, later broadening his scope for the sake of variation and because his models weren't actually suited to the realities confronting him. archilochus and alcaeus were aristocratic greeks whose poetry had a social and religious function that was immediately intelligible to their audiences but which became a mere artifice or literary motif when transposed to rome. however, the artifice of the odes is also integral to their success, since they could now accommodate a wide range of emotional effects, and the blend of greek and roman elements adds a sense of detachment and universality.[ ] horace proudly claimed to introduce into latin the spirit and iambic poetry of archilochus but (unlike archilochus) without persecuting anyone (epistles . . – ). it was no idle boast. his epodes were modelled on the verses of the greek poet, as 'blame poetry', yet he avoided targeting real scapegoats. whereas archilochus presented himself as a serious and vigorous opponent of wrong-doers, horace aimed for comic effects and adopted the persona of a weak and ineffectual critic of his times (as symbolized for example in his surrender to the witch canidia in the final epode).[ ] he also claimed to be the first to introduce into latin the lyrical methods of alcaeus (epistles . . – ) and he actually was the first latin poet to make consistent use of alcaic meters and themes: love, politics and the symposium. he imitated other greek lyric poets as well, employing a 'motto' technique, beginning each ode with some reference to a greek original and then diverging from it.[ ] the satirical poet lucilius was a senator's son who could castigate his peers with impunity. horace was a mere freedman's son who had to tread carefully.[ ] lucilius was a rugged patriot and a significant voice in roman self-awareness, endearing himself to his countrymen by his blunt frankness and explicit politics. his work expressed genuine freedom or libertas. his style included 'metrical vandalism' and looseness of structure. horace instead adopted an oblique and ironic style of satire, ridiculing stock characters and anonymous targets. his libertas was the private freedom of a philosophical outlook, not a political or social privilege.[ ] his satires are relatively easy-going in their use of meter (relative to the tight lyric meters of the odes)[ ] but formal and highly controlled relative to the poems of lucilius, whom horace mocked for his sloppy standards (satires . . – )[nb ] the epistles may be considered among horace's most innovative works. there was nothing like it in greek or roman literature. occasionally poems had had some resemblance to letters, including an elegiac poem from solon to mimnermus and some lyrical poems from pindar to hieron of syracuse. lucilius had composed a satire in the form of a letter, and some epistolary poems were composed by catullus and propertius. but nobody before horace had ever composed an entire collection of verse letters,[ ] let alone letters with a focus on philosophical problems. the sophisticated and flexible style that he had developed in his satires was adapted to the more serious needs of this new genre.[ ] such refinement of style was not unusual for horace. his craftsmanship as a wordsmith is apparent even in his earliest attempts at this or that kind of poetry, but his handling of each genre tended to improve over time as he adapted it to his own needs.[ ] thus for example it is generally agreed that his second book of satires, where human folly is revealed through dialogue between characters, is superior to the first, where he propounds his ethics in monologues. nevertheless, the first book includes some of his most popular poems.[ ] themes horace developed a number of inter-related themes throughout his poetic career, including politics, love, philosophy and ethics, his own social role, as well as poetry itself. his epodes and satires are forms of 'blame poetry' and both have a natural affinity with the moralising and diatribes of cynicism. this often takes the form of allusions to the work and philosophy of bion of borysthenes [nb ] but it is as much a literary game as a philosophical alignment. by the time he composed his epistles, he was a critic of cynicism along with all impractical and "high-falutin" philosophy in general.[nb ][ ] the satires also include a strong element of epicureanism, with frequent allusions to the epicurean poet lucretius.[nb ] so for example the epicurean sentiment carpe diem is the inspiration behind horace's repeated punning on his own name (horatius ~ hora) in satires . .[ ] the satires also feature some stoic, peripatetic and platonic (dialogues) elements. in short, the satires present a medley of philosophical programs, dished up in no particular order—a style of argument typical of the genre.[ ] the odes display a wide range of topics. over time, he becomes more confident about his political voice.[ ] although he is often thought of as an overly intellectual lover, he is ingenious in representing passion.[ ] the "odes" weave various philosophical strands together, with allusions and statements of doctrine present in about a third of the odes books – , ranging from the flippant ( . , . ) to the solemn ( . , . , . ). epicureanism is the dominant influence, characterizing about twice as many of these odes as stoicism. a group of odes combines these two influences in tense relationships, such as odes . , praising stoic virility and devotion to public duty while also advocating private pleasures among friends. while generally favouring the epicurean lifestyle, the lyric poet is as eclectic as the satiric poet, and in odes . even proposes aristotle's golden mean as a remedy for rome's political troubles.[ ] many of horace's poems also contain much reflection on genre, the lyric tradition, and the function of poetry.[ ] odes , thought to be composed at the emperor's request, takes the themes of the first three books of "odes" to a new level. this book shows greater poetic confidence after the public performance of his "carmen saeculare" or "century hymn" at a public festival orchestrated by augustus. in it, horace addresses the emperor augustus directly with more confidence and proclaims his power to grant poetic immortality to those he praises. it is the least philosophical collection of his verses, excepting the twelfth ode, addressed to the dead virgil as if he were living. in that ode, the epic poet and the lyric poet are aligned with stoicism and epicureanism respectively, in a mood of bitter-sweet pathos.[ ] the first poem of the epistles sets the philosophical tone for the rest of the collection: "so now i put aside both verses and all those other games: what is true and what befits is my care, this my question, this my whole concern." his poetic renunciation of poetry in favour of philosophy is intended to be ambiguous. ambiguity is the hallmark of the epistles. it is uncertain if those being addressed by the self-mocking poet-philosopher are being honoured or criticized. though he emerges as an epicurean, it is on the understanding that philosophical preferences, like political and social choices, are a matter of personal taste. thus he depicts the ups and downs of the philosophical life more realistically than do most philosophers.[ ] reception horace, portrayed by giacomo di chirico the reception of horace's work has varied from one epoch to another and varied markedly even in his own lifetime. odes – were not well received when first 'published' in rome, yet augustus later commissioned a ceremonial ode for the centennial games in bc and also encouraged the publication of odes , after which horace's reputation as rome's premier lyricist was assured. his odes were to become the best received of all his poems in ancient times, acquiring a classic status that discouraged imitation: no other poet produced a comparable body of lyrics in the four centuries that followed[ ] (though that might also be attributed to social causes, particularly the parasitism that italy was sinking into).[ ] in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, ode-writing became highly fashionable in england and a large number of aspiring poets imitated horace both in english and in latin.[ ] in a verse epistle to augustus (epistle . ), in bc, horace argued for classic status to be awarded to contemporary poets, including virgil and apparently himself.[ ] in the final poem of his third book of odes he claimed to have created for himself a monument more durable than bronze ("exegi monumentum aere perennius", carmina . . ). for one modern scholar, however, horace's personal qualities are more notable than the monumental quality of his achievement: ... when we hear his name we don't really think of a monument. we think rather of a voice which varies in tone and resonance but is always recognizable, and which by its unsentimental humanity evokes a very special blend of liking and respect. — niall rudd[ ] yet for men like wilfred owen, scarred by experiences of world war i, his poetry stood for discredited values: my friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old lie: dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.[nb ] the same motto, dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, had been adapted to the ethos of martyrdom in the lyrics of early christian poets like prudentius.[ ] these preliminary comments touch on a small sample of developments in the reception of horace's work. more developments are covered epoch by epoch in the following sections. antiquity horace's influence can be observed in the work of his near contemporaries, ovid and propertius. ovid followed his example in creating a completely natural style of expression in hexameter verse, and propertius cheekily mimicked him in his third book of elegies.[nb ] his epistles provided them both with a model for their own verse letters and it also shaped ovid's exile poetry.[nb ] his influence had a perverse aspect. as mentioned before, the brilliance of his odes may have discouraged imitation. conversely, they may have created a vogue for the lyrics of the archaic greek poet pindar, due to the fact that horace had neglected that style of lyric (see influence and legacy of pindar).[ ] the iambic genre seems almost to have disappeared after publication of horace's epodes. ovid's ibis was a rare attempt at the form but it was inspired mainly by callimachus, and there are some iambic elements in martial but the main influence there was catullus.[ ] a revival of popular interest in the satires of lucilius may have been inspired by horace's criticism of his unpolished style. both horace and lucilius were considered good role-models by persius, who critiqued his own satires as lacking both the acerbity of lucillius and the gentler touch of horace.[nb ] juvenal's caustic satire was influenced mainly by lucilius but horace by then was a school classic and juvenal could refer to him respectfully and in a round-about way as "the venusine lamp".[nb ] statius paid homage to horace by composing one poem in sapphic and one in alcaic meter (the verse forms most often associated with odes), which he included in his collection of occasional poems, silvae. ancient scholars wrote commentaries on the lyric meters of the odes, including the scholarly poet caesius bassus. by a process called derivatio, he varied established meters through the addition or omission of syllables, a technique borrowed by seneca the younger when adapting horatian meters to the stage.[ ] horace's poems continued to be school texts into late antiquity. works attributed to helenius acro and pomponius porphyrio are the remnants of a much larger body of horatian scholarship. porphyrio arranged the poems in non-chronological order, beginning with the odes, because of their general popularity and their appeal to scholars (the odes were to retain this privileged position in the medieval manuscript tradition and thus in modern editions also). horace was often evoked by poets of the fourth century, such as ausonius and claudian. prudentius presented himself as a christian horace, adapting horatian meters to his own poetry and giving horatian motifs a christian tone.[nb ] on the other hand, st jerome, modelled an uncompromising response to the pagan horace, observing: "what harmony can there be between christ and the devil? what has horace to do with the psalter?"[nb ] by the early sixth century, horace and prudentius were both part of a classical heritage that was struggling to survive the disorder of the times. boethius, the last major author of classical latin literature, could still take inspiration from horace, sometimes mediated by senecan tragedy.[ ] it can be argued that horace's influence extended beyond poetry to dignify core themes and values of the early christian era, such as self-sufficiency, inner contentment and courage.[nb ] middle ages and renaissance horace in his studium: german print of the fifteenth century, summarizing the final ode . (in praise of augustus). classical texts almost ceased being copied in the period between the mid sixth century and the carolingian revival. horace's work probably survived in just two or three books imported into northern europe from italy. these became the ancestors of six extant manuscripts dated to the ninth century. two of those six manuscripts are french in origin, one was produced in alsace, and the other three show irish influence but were probably written in continental monasteries (lombardy for example).[ ] by the last half of the ninth century, it was not uncommon for literate people to have direct experience of horace's poetry. his influence on the carolingian renaissance can be found in the poems of heiric of auxerre[nb ] and in some manuscripts marked with neumes, mysterious notations that may have been an aid to the memorization and discussion of his lyric meters. ode . is neumed with the melody of a hymn to john the baptist, ut queant laxis, composed in sapphic stanzas. this hymn later became the basis of the solfege system (do, re, mi...)—an association with western music quite appropriate for a lyric poet like horace, though the language of the hymn is mainly prudentian.[ ] lyons[ ] argues that the melody in question was linked with horace's ode well before guido d'arezzo fitted ut queant laxis to it. however, the melody is unlikely to be a survivor from classical times, although ovid[ ] testifies to horace's use of the lyre while performing his odes. the german scholar, ludwig traube, once dubbed the tenth and eleventh centuries the age of horace (aetas horatiana), and placed it between the aetas vergiliana of the eighth and ninth centuries, and the aetas ovidiana of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a distinction supposed to reflect the dominant classical latin influences of those times. such a distinction is over-schematized since horace was a substantial influence in the ninth century as well. traube had focused too much on horace's satires.[ ] almost all of horace's work found favour in the medieval period. in fact medieval scholars were also guilty of over-schematism, associating horace's different genres with the different ages of man. a twelfth-century scholar encapsulated the theory: "...horace wrote four different kinds of poems on account of the four ages, the odes for boys, the ars poetica for young men, the satires for mature men, the epistles for old and complete men."[ ] it was even thought that horace had composed his works in the order in which they had been placed by ancient scholars.[nb ] despite its naivety, the schematism involved an appreciation of horace's works as a collection, the ars poetica, satires and epistles appearing to find favour as well as the odes. the later middle ages however gave special significance to satires and epistles, being considered horace's mature works. dante referred to horace as orazio satiro, and he awarded him a privileged position in the first circle of hell, with homer, ovid and lucan.[ ] horace's popularity is revealed in the large number of quotes from all his works found in almost every genre of medieval literature, and also in the number of poets imitating him in quantitative latin meter. the most prolific imitator of his odes was the bavarian monk, metellus of tegernsee, who dedicated his work to the patron saint of tegernsee abbey, st quirinus, around the year . he imitated all horace's lyrical meters then followed these up with imitations of other meters used by prudentius and boethius, indicating that variety, as first modelled by horace, was considered a fundamental aspect of the lyric genre. the content of his poems however was restricted to simple piety.[ ] among the most successful imitators of satires and epistles was another germanic author, calling himself sextus amarcius, around , who composed four books, the first two exemplifying vices, the second pair mainly virtues.[ ] petrarch is a key figure in the imitation of horace in accentual meters. his verse letters in latin were modelled on the epistles and he wrote a letter to horace in the form of an ode. however he also borrowed from horace when composing his italian sonnets. one modern scholar has speculated that authors who imitated horace in accentual rhythms (including stressed latin and vernacular languages) may have considered their work a natural sequel to horace's metrical variety.[ ] in france, horace and pindar were the poetic models for a group of vernacular authors called the pléiade, including for example pierre de ronsard and joachim du bellay. montaigne made constant and inventive use of horatian quotes.[ ] the vernacular languages were dominant in spain and portugal in the sixteenth century, where horace's influence is notable in the works of such authors as garcilaso de la vega, juan boscán, sá de miranda, antonio ferreira and fray luis de león, the last writing odes on the horatian theme beatus ille (happy the man).[ ] the sixteenth century in western europe was also an age of translations (except in germany, where horace wasn't translated into the vernacular until well into the seventeenth century). the first english translator was thomas drant, who placed translations of jeremiah and horace side by side in medicinable morall, . that was also the year that the scot george buchanan paraphrased the psalms in a horatian setting. ben jonson put horace on the stage in in poetaster, along with other classical latin authors, giving them all their own verses to speak in translation. horace's part evinces the independent spirit, moral earnestness and critical insight that many readers look for in his poems.[ ] age of enlightenment during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, or the age of enlightenment, neoclassical culture was pervasive. english literature in the middle of that period has been dubbed augustan. it is not always easy to distinguish horace's influence during those centuries (the mixing of influences is shown for example in one poet's pseudonym, horace juvenal).[nb ] however a measure of his influence can be found in the diversity of the people interested in his works, both among readers and authors.[ ] new editions of his works were published almost yearly. there were three new editions in (two in leiden, one in frankfurt) and again in (utrecht, barcelona, cambridge). cheap editions were plentiful and fine editions were also produced, including one whose entire text was engraved by john pine in copperplate. the poet james thomson owned five editions of horace's work and the physician james douglas had five hundred books with horace-related titles. horace was often commended in periodicals such as the spectator, as a hallmark of good judgement, moderation and manliness, a focus for moralising.[nb ] his verses offered a fund of mottoes, such as simplex munditiis (elegance in simplicity), splendide mendax (nobly untruthful), sapere aude (dare to know), nunc est bibendum (now is the time to drink), carpe diem (seize the day, perhaps the only one still in common use today).[ ] these were quoted even in works as prosaic as edmund quincy's a treatise of hemp-husbandry ( ). the fictional hero tom jones recited his verses with feeling.[ ] his works were also used to justify commonplace themes, such as patriotic obedience, as in james parry's english lines from an oxford university collection in :[ ] what friendly muse will teach my lays to emulate the roman fire? justly to sound a caeser's praise demands a bold horatian lyre. horatian-style lyrics were increasingly typical of oxford and cambridge verse collections for this period, most of them in latin but some like the previous ode in english. john milton's lycidas first appeared in such a collection. it has few horatian echoes[nb ] yet milton's associations with horace were lifelong. he composed a controversial version of odes . , and paradise lost includes references to horace's 'roman' odes . – (book for example begins with echoes of odes . ).[ ] yet horace's lyrics could offer inspiration to libertines as well as moralists, and neo-latin sometimes served as a kind of discrete veil for the risqué. thus for example benjamin loveling authored a catalogue of drury lane and covent garden prostitutes, in sapphic stanzas, and an encomium for a dying lady "of salacious memory".[ ] some latin imitations of horace were politically subversive, such as a marriage ode by anthony alsop that included a rallying cry for the jacobite cause. on the other hand, andrew marvell took inspiration from horace's odes . to compose his english masterpiece horatian ode upon cromwell's return from ireland, in which subtly nuanced reflections on the execution of charles i echo horace's ambiguous response to the death of cleopatra (marvell's ode was suppressed in spite of its subtlety and only began to be widely published in ). samuel johnson took particular pleasure in reading the odes.[nb ] alexander pope wrote direct imitations of horace (published with the original latin alongside) and also echoed him in essays and the rape of the lock. he even emerged as "a quite horatian homer" in his translation of the iliad.[ ] horace appealed also to female poets, such as anna seward (original sonnets on various subjects, and odes paraphrased from horace, ) and elizabeth tollet, who composed a latin ode in sapphic meter to celebrate her brother's return from overseas, with tea and coffee substituted for the wine of horace's sympotic settings: 	 quos procax nobis numeros, jocosque musa dictaret? mihi dum tibique temperent baccis arabes, vel herbis pocula seres[ ] 	 what verses and jokes might the bold muse dictate? while for you and me arabs flavour our cups with beans or chinese with leaves.[ ] 	 	 horace's ars poetica is second only to aristotle's poetics in its influence on literary theory and criticism. milton recommended both works in his treatise of education.[ ] horace's satires and epistles however also had a huge impact, influencing theorists and critics such as john dryden.[ ] there was considerable debate over the value of different lyrical forms for contemporary poets, as represented on one hand by the kind of four-line stanzas made familiar by horace's sapphic and alcaic odes and, on the other, the loosely structured pindarics associated with the odes of pindar. translations occasionally involved scholars in the dilemmas of censorship. thus christopher smart entirely omitted odes . and re-numbered the remaining odes. he also removed the ending of odes . . thomas creech printed epodes and in the original latin but left out their english translations. philip francis left out both the english and latin for those same two epodes, a gap in the numbering the only indication that something was amiss. french editions of horace were influential in england and these too were regularly bowdlerized. most european nations had their own 'horaces': thus for example friedrich von hagedorn was called the german horace and maciej kazimierz sarbiewski the polish horace (the latter was much imitated by english poets such as henry vaughan and abraham cowley). pope urban viii wrote voluminously in horatian meters, including an ode on gout.[ ] th century on horace maintained a central role in the education of english-speaking elites right up until the s.[ ] a pedantic emphasis on the formal aspects of language-learning at the expense of literary appreciation may have made him unpopular in some quarters[ ] yet it also confirmed his influence—a tension in his reception that underlies byron's famous lines from childe harold (canto iv, ):[ ] then farewell, horace, whom i hated so not for thy faults, but mine; it is a curse to understand, not feel thy lyric flow, to comprehend, but never love thy verse. william wordsworth's mature poetry, including the preface to lyrical ballads, reveals horace's influence in its rejection of false ornament[ ] and he once expressed "a wish / to meet the shade of horace...".[nb ] john keats echoed the opening of horace's epodes in the opening lines of ode to a nightingale.[nb ] the roman poet was presented in the nineteenth century as an honorary english gentleman. william thackeray produced a version of odes . in which horace's 'boy' became 'lucy', and gerard manley hopkins translated the boy innocently as 'child'. horace was translated by sir theodore martin (biographer of prince albert) but minus some ungentlemanly verses, such as the erotic odes . and epodes and . edward bulwer-lytton produced a popular translation and william gladstone also wrote translations during his last days as prime minister.[ ] edward fitzgerald's rubaiyat of omar khayyam, though formally derived from the persian ruba'i, nevertheless shows a strong horatian influence, since, as one modern scholar has observed, "...the quatrains inevitably recall the stanzas of the 'odes', as does the narrating first person of the world-weary, ageing epicurean omar himself, mixing sympotic exhortation and 'carpe diem' with splendid moralising and 'memento mori' nihilism."[nb ] matthew arnold advised a friend in verse not to worry about politics, an echo of odes . , yet later became a critic of horace's inadequacies relative to greek poets, as role models of victorian virtues, observing: "if human life were complete without faith, without enthusiasm, without energy, horace...would be the perfect interpreter of human life."[ ] christina rossetti composed a sonnet depicting a woman willing her own death steadily, drawing on horace's depiction of 'glycera' in odes . . – and cleopatra in odes . .[nb ] a. e. housman considered odes . , in archilochian couplets, the most beautiful poem of antiquity[ ] and yet he generally shared horace's penchant for quatrains, being readily adapted to his own elegiac and melancholy strain.[ ] the most famous poem of ernest dowson took its title and its heroine's name from a line of odes . , non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno cynarae, as well as its motif of nostalgia for a former flame. kipling wrote a famous parody of the odes, satirising their stylistic idiosyncrasies and especially the extraordinary syntax, but he also used horace's roman patriotism as a focus for british imperialism, as in the story regulus in the school collection stalky & co., which he based on odes . .[ ] wilfred owen's famous poem, quoted above, incorporated horatian text to question patriotism while ignoring the rules of latin scansion. however, there were few other echoes of horace in the war period, possibly because war is not actually a major theme of horace's work.[ ] bibendum (the symbol of the michelin tyre company) takes his name from the opening line of ode . , nunc est bibendum. both w.h.auden and louis macneice began their careers as teachers of classics and both responded as poets to horace's influence. auden for example evoked the fragile world of the s in terms echoing odes . . – , where horace advises a friend not to let worries about frontier wars interfere with current pleasures. and, gentle, do not care to know where poland draws her eastern bow,      what violence is done; nor ask what doubtful act allows our freedom in this english house,      our picnics in the sun.[nb ] the american poet, robert frost, echoed horace's satires in the conversational and sententious idiom of some of his longer poems, such as the lesson for today ( ), and also in his gentle advocacy of life on the farm, as in hyla brook ( ), evoking horace's fons bandusiae in ode . . now at the start of the third millennium, poets are still absorbing and re-configuring the horatian influence, sometimes in translation (such as a english/american edition of the odes by thirty-six poets)[nb ] and sometimes as inspiration for their own work (such as a collection of odes by a new zealand poet).[nb ] horace's epodes have largely been ignored in the modern era, excepting those with political associations of historical significance. the obscene qualities of some of the poems have repulsed even scholars[nb ] yet more recently a better understanding of the nature of iambic poetry has led to a re-evaluation of the whole collection.[ ][ ] a re-appraisal of the epodes also appears in creative adaptations by recent poets (such as a collection of poems that relocates the ancient context to a s industrial town).[nb ] translations 	john dryden successfully adapted three of the odes (and one epode) into verse for readers of his own age. samuel johnson favored the versions of philip francis. others favor unrhymed translations. 	in james michie published a translation of the odes—many of them fully rhymed—including a dozen of the poems in the original sapphic and alcaic metres. 	more recent verse translations of the odes include those by david west (free verse), and colin sydenham (rhymed). 	ars poetica was first translated into english by ben jonson and later by lord byron. 	horace's odes and the mystery of do-re-mi stuart lyons (rhymed) aris & phillips isbn  - - - - in popular culture the oxford latin course textbooks use the life of horace to illustrate an average roman's life in the late republic to early empire.[ ] see also 	literature portal 	ancient rome portal 	biography portal 	carpe diem 	horatia (gens) 	list of ancient romans 	otium 	prosody (latin) 	translation notes 	^ quintilian . . . the only other lyrical poet quintilian thought comparable with horace was the now obscure poet/metrical theorist, caesius bassus (r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, ) 	^ translated from persius' own 'satires' . – : "omne vafer vitium ridenti flaccus amico / tangit et admissus circum praecordia ludit." 	^ quoted by n. rudd from john dryden's discourse concerning the original and progress of satire, excerpted from w.p.ker's edition of dryden's essays, oxford , vol. , pp. – 	^ the year is given in odes . . ("consule manlio"), the month in epistles . . , the day in suetonius' biography vita (r. nisbet, horace: life and chronology, ) 	^ "no son ever set a finer monument to his father than horace did in the sixth satire of book i...horace's description of his father is warm-hearted but free from sentimentality or exaggeration. we see before us one of the common people, a hard-working, open-minded, and thoroughly honest man of simple habits and strict convictions, representing some of the best qualities that at the end of the republic could still be found in the unsophisticated society of the italian municipia" — e. fraenkel, horace, – 	^ odes . . : "nec (me extinxit) sicula palinurus unda"; "nor did palinurus extinguish me with sicilian waters". maecenas' involvement is recorded by appian bell. civ. . but horace's ode is the only historical reference to his own presence there, depending however on interpretation. (r. nisbet, horace: life and chronology, ) 	^ the point is much disputed among scholars and hinges on how the text is interpreted. epodes for example may offer proof of horace's presence if 'ad hunc frementis' ('gnashing at this' man i.e. the traitrous roman ) is a misreading of 'at huc...verterent' (but hither...they fled) in lines describing the defection of the galatian cavalry, "ad hunc frementis verterunt bis mille equos / galli canentes caesarem" (r. nisbet, horace: life and chronology, ). 	^ suetonius signals that the report is based on rumours by employing the terms "traditur...dicitur" / "it is reported...it is said" (e. fraenkel, horace, ) 	^ according to a recent theory, the three books of odes were issued separately, possibly in , and bc (see g. hutchinson ( ), classical quarterly : – ) 	^ bc is the usual estimate but c. bc has good support too (see r. nisbet, horace: life and chronology, – 	^ the date however is subject to much controversy with – bc another option (see for example r. syme, the augustan aristocracy, – 	^ "[lucilius]...resembles a man whose only concern is to force / something into the framework of six feet, and who gaily produces / two hundred lines before dinner and another two hundred after." – satire . . – (translated by niall rudd, the satires of horace and persius, penguin classics , p. ) 	^ there is one reference to bion by name in epistles . . , and the clearest allusion to him is in satire . , which parallels bion fragments , , kindstrand 	^ epistles . and . . – are critical of the extreme views of diogenes and also of social adaptations of cynic precepts, and yet epistle . could be either cynic or stoic in its orientation (j. moles, philosophy and ethics, p. 	^ satires . . – , – , . . – , . . – , – , . . , – , . . – , . . – , , . . – 	^ wilfred owen, dulce et decorum est ( ), echoes a line from carmina . . , "it is sweet and honourable to die for one's country", cited by stephen harrison, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, . 	^ propertius published his third book of elegies within a year or two of horace's odes – and mimicked him, for example, in the opening lines, characterizing himself in terms borrowed from odes . . and . . – , as a priest of the muses and as an adaptor of greek forms of poetry (r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, ) 	^ ovid for example probably borrowed from horace's epistle . the image of a poetry book as a slave boy eager to leave home, adapting it to the opening poems of tristia and (r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace), and tristia may be understood as a counterpart to horace's epistles . , both being letters addressed to augustus on literary themes (a. barchiesi, speaking volumes, – ) 	^ the comment is in persius . – , yet that same satire has been found to have nearly reminiscences of horace; see d. hooley, the knotted thong, 	^ the allusion to venusine comes via horace's sermones . . , while lamp signifies the lucubrations of a conscientious poet. according to quintilian ( ), however, many people in flavian rome preferred lucilius not only to horace but to all other latin poets (r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, ) 	^ prudentius sometimes alludesto the odes in a negative context, as expressions of a secular life he is abandoning. thus for example male pertinax, employed in prudentius's praefatio to describe a willful desire for victory, is lifted from odes . . , where it describes a girl's half-hearted resistance to seduction. elsewhere he borrows dux bone from odes . . and , where it refers to augustus, and applies it to christ (r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, 	^ st jerome, epistles . , incorporating a quote from 'corinthians . : qui consensus christo et belial? quid facit cum psalterio horatius?(cited by k. friis-jensen, horace in the middle ages, ) 	^ odes . . – was especially influential in promoting the value of heroic calm in the face of danger, describing a man who could bear even the collapse of the world without fear (si fractus illabatur orbis,/impavidum ferient ruinae). echoes are found in seneca's agamemnon – , prudentius's peristephanon . – and boethius's consolatio metrum .(r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, – ) 	^ heiric, like prudentius, gave horatian motifs a christian context. thus the character lydia in odes . . , who would willingly die for her lover twice, becomes in heiric's life of st germaine of auxerre a saint ready to die twice for the lord's commandments (r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, – ) 	^ according to a medieval french commentary on the satires: "...first he composed his lyrics, and in them, speaking to the young, as it were, he took as subject-matter love affairs and quarrels, banquets and drinking parties. next he wrote his epodes, and in them composed invectives against men of a more advanced and more dishonourable age...he next wrote his book about the ars poetica, and in that instructed men of his own profession to write well...later he added his book of satires, in which he reproved those who had fallen a prey to various kinds of vices. finally, he finished his oeuvre with the epistles, and in them, following the method of a good farmer, he sowed the virtues where he had rooted out the vices." (cited by k. friis-jensen, horace in the middle ages, – ) 	^ 'horace juvenal' was author of modern manners: a poem, 	^ see for example spectator , feb. ; , nov. ; , nov. 	^ one echo of horace may be found in line : "were it not better done as others use,/ to sport with amaryllis in the shade/or with the tangles of neaera's hair?", which points to the neara in odes . . (douglas bush, milton: poetical works, , note ) 	^ cfr. james boswell, "the life of samuel johnson" aetat. , where boswell remarked of johnson that horace's odes "were the compositions in which he took most delight." 	^ the quote, from memorials of a tour of italy ( ), contains allusions to odes . and . (s. harrison, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, – ) 	^ "my heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains / my sense..." echoes epodes . – (s. harrison, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ) 	^ comment by s. harrison, editor and contributor to the cambridge companion to horace (s. harrison, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, 	^ rossetti's sonnet, a study (a soul), dated , was not published in her own lifetime. some lines: she stands as pale as parian marble stands / like cleopatra when she turns at bay... (c. rossetti, complete poems, 	^ quoted from auden's poem out on the lawn i lie in bed, , and cited by s. harrison, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, 	^ edited by mcclatchy, reviewed by s. harrison, bryn mawr classical review . . 	^ i. wedde, the commonplace odes, auckland , (cited by s. harrison, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ) 	^ 'political' epodes are , , , ; notably obscene epodes are and . e. fraenkel is among the admirers repulsed by these two poems, for another view of which see for example dee lesser clayman, 'horace's epodes viii and xii: more than clever obscenity?', the classical world vol. , no. 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Übersetzungen 	 literatur 	 weblinks 	 anmerkungen leben[bearbeiten | quelltext bearbeiten] Über das leben des dichters horaz ist relativ viel bekannt. dies liegt nicht in erster linie an sekundärer biographischer tradition, die mit beschreibungen in der vita suetons im zweiten jahrhundert einsetzte. hauptquelle für die biographie des dichters bilden vielmehr selbstaussagen. sie dienten horaz in zahlreichen kontexten als folien für seine philosophie und metapoetischen Überlegungen. diese selbstaussagen wurden zwar nicht in der absicht getätigt, horaz’ vita rekonstruieren zu helfen, verweisen jedoch auf zeitgenössische ereignisse und zustände, auf die der dichter bezug nimmt, und helfen so, ihn in einen kontext einzuordnen.[ ] einen dritten hinweis auf sein leben bietet seine literarische arbeitsweise, wozu die auswahl seiner motive und verarbeitung seiner stoffe gehört. horaz zeigt sich selbst agierend im alltagsgeschehen, welches leser der folgezeit auf ereignisse seiner zeit verweist, und bietet besonders in den satiren abbildung zeitgenössischer beziehungen und alltäglichkeiten, wozu ihm – nach eigenaussagen – programmatisch der satirendichter lucilius als vorbild diente.[ ] jugend[bearbeiten | quelltext bearbeiten] geboren wurde horaz am . dezember[ ] v. chr. in venusia, einer stadt an der grenze der italischen provinzen lukanien und apulien.[ ] sein vater – horaz bezeichnet ihn als freigelassenen (libertinus)[ ] – arbeitete als coactor exactionum (versteigerungsagent)[ ] und besaß ein kleines landgut,[ ] das er sich selbst erarbeitet hatte.[ ] ob die herkunft aus dem sklavenstand auf wahrheit beruht, wird unterschiedlich gesehen. gordon williams nahm an, es handle sich um allzu stilisierte darstellung, durch die horaz als aufsteiger aus niedrigem stand dargestellt werden sollte. der vater sei in wirklichkeit italischer herkunft gewesen und im bürgerkrieg mit sulla, wie viele samniten auch, in gefangenschaft geraten.[ ] in aktuelleren darstellungen mehren sich gegenstimmen, die williams' aussage zu relativieren versuchen.[ ] außerdem ist strittig, ob horaz' vater mit diesem gutbezahlten beruf zu wohlstand gelangt ist. horaz selbst verneint dies[ ] und stilisiert das leben seines vaters als pauper, besonders, nachdem ihm im zuge von landverteilungen nach dem römischen bürgerkrieg das gut seines vaters konfisziert wurde.[ ] allerdings meint paupertas nicht eigentliche armut (egestas), sondern genügsames und autarkes landleben nach den sitten römischer frühzeit. zudem muss er wenigstens so viel geld besessen haben, seinem sohn eine literarische und philosophische ausbildung finanzieren zu können. gordon williams begriff horaz' stilisierung als eine form des understatements, die kritikern des vaters zeigen sollte, dass dieser als sohn eines freigelassenen zu großen ehren gekommen war und sie ihn zu unrecht mit seinem stand verspottet haben.[ ] die mutter hat horaz in seinen gedichten nie erwähnt.[ ] der berg voltur (vulture) nahe dem dorf acerenza in horaz' heimat, den der dichter in der römerode , im stile des helikon besingt viele erzählungen, die in horaz' späterer dichtung auftauchen, waren beeinflusst von seinen jugenderfahrungen. neben reichhaltiger verwendung poetischer stilisierungen der natur, die häufig auf seine heimatprovinz bezug nehmen,[ ] liefert horaz gründe für moralvorstellungen und spätere betonung zurückgezogenen und genügsamen landlebens in der ofellusgeschichte. diesen ofellus beschreibt er in den satiren als unterweiser in jugendjahren, der ihm sitten und moralvorstellungen des landmanns wie einfachheit, sparsamkeit und naturbezogenheit mit dem verweis auf seine wurzeln näherbrachte. wie horaz selbst verlor dieser sein gut durch konfiskation.[ ] vermutlich von bis v. chr. schickte horaz' vater ihn zum literatur- und grammatikstudium nach rom.[ ] dort erhielt horaz eine ausbildung in der angesehenen rednerschule des grammatikers orbilius, den er jedoch als plagosus (schlagfreudig) und später sogar als saevus magister (wütenden lehrmeister) kennenlernte.[ ] neben diesen schlechten erfahrungen in rom und im dortigen unterricht, die sich in horaz’ starker aversion gegen die stadt bemerkbar machten, lernte er die archaischen vorbilder lateinischer und griechischer dichtung kennen, sowohl livius andronicus als auch die homerischen epen ilias und odyssee und ihre moralisierenden interpretationen.[ ] nach seinem studium in rom schickte ihn der vater nach athen, wo er griechische philosophie und literatur studierte.[ ] in athen beschäftigte sich horaz mit altgriechischer lyrik und versuchte sich in griechischen versen, wenn auch nicht mit dem ziel, dichtung zu schreiben.[ ] außerdem hörte er vorträge von epikureern, peripatetikern und stoikern. im jahre v. chr., nach der ermordung caesars, warb marcus iunius brutus in athen römische studenten als rekruten für die republikanische armee an, zu denen auch horaz gehörte.[ ] unter brutus' kommando machte er schnell karriere und stieg zum tribunus militum (militärtribun) einer legion auf.[ ] das jähe ende seiner militärzeit kam im herbst , als die armee des brutus in der schlacht bei philippi der caesarpartei octavians unterlag. in kurzer zeit verlor horaz als parteigänger von brutus und cassius das väterliche landgut nach den konfiskationen in venusia und musste nach seiner rückkehr nach rom sämtliche karrierehoffnungen aufgeben.[ ] er sah sich in die paupertas getrieben,[ ] wobei sich diese aussage bei ihm auf den verlust seiner ambitionen bezog, die er hinsichtlich einer zentralen rolle im öffentlichen leben hatte,[ ] und auf die erschütterung seiner Überzeugungen als freier bürger roms. die erfahrung des verlusts einer öffentlichen position in der römischen republik trieb ihn zu dem entschluss, sich der dichtkunst zuzuwenden. nach den altphilologen robin g. m. nisbet und margaret hubbard behandelte horaz diese hinwendung zur dichtung in der ode , , um sich in die nachfolge der griechischen dichtervorbilder alkaios und archilochos zu stellen.[ ] für diese ode hat er den vorwurf erhalten, er habe seine damalige beteiligung an der schlacht im nachhinein zynisch oder gleichmütig gesehen, unter anderem, weil er schrieb, dass er (anders als pompeius) seinen schild in der schlacht weggeworfen habe und nur noch merkur gefolgt sei.[ ] tatsächlich scheint er jedoch die schlacht als einschneidendes ereignis für seinen lebenswandel und seine politische virtus begriffen zu haben.[ ] mit seinem intellektuellen lebenswandel ging die stärkere zuwendung zum epikureismus einher.[ ] die vita suetons erwähnt, dass er nach in rom von der partei octavians rehabilitiert wurde,[ ] eventuell nach dem vertrag von brindisi v. chr.[ ] horaz selbst erkannte in der retrospektive augustus als universalen regenten auch für diejenigen an, die durch den bürgerkrieg in ihren idealen und erwartungen an die republik enttäuscht worden waren.[ ] im gegensatz zum verlust seiner ideellen ziele und politischen ambitionen war horaz' materielle situation keinesfalls pauper oder unglücklich. bereits in athen hatte er mit dem geld aus seiner ausbildung ein gutes leben geführt, kontakte zur oberschicht geknüpft und an festlichkeiten und gastmählern teilgenommen. im heer des brutus konnte er als militärtribun den stand eines eques beanspruchen, wenn er sich nicht schon während eines ersten romaufenthalts dort eingekauft hatte.[ ] in den satiren erweckte er den eindruck, dass er sich sogar in den stand eines prätors oder senators hätte einkaufen können, wenn er gewollt hätte.[ ] in rom hatte er gute beziehungen zu angesehenen rechtsbeiständen und prahlte unter anderem mit kontakten zu gaius trebatius testa und lucius manlius torquatus.[ ] selbst nach der niederlage von philippi schaffte es horaz, seine verdienste erfolgreich einzusetzen und zu organisieren.[ ] nach der rehabilitation durch octavian kaufte er sich in das amt eines quästurschreibers ein, eine hochbezahlte stellung, auf die er nach dem verlust der väterlichen güter vorerst sein vermögen stützte.[ ] dichter im maecenaskreis[bearbeiten | quelltext bearbeiten] die dichter vergil und varius, die zu dieser zeit in rom große erfolge feierten, wurden im jahr auf den jungen horaz aufmerksam und stellten ihn dem adligen gönner und kunstliebhaber maecenas vor.[ ] dieser wählte dichter auf grund ihres außergewöhnlichen talents aus, unterstützte sie finanziell und sorgte mit regelmäßigen rezitationen neuester werke und poetologischen diskussionen für den künstlerischen austausch im privaten kreis. horaz hatte sich bis dahin weder als besonderer dichter hervorgetan noch an irgendeiner strömung römischer dichtung besonderes interesse gefunden.[ ] er präsentierte sich dem gönner daher von der seite seines niedrigen standes und betonte seine einfachen verhältnisse und seine betroffenheit von den landenteignungen.[ ] maecenas ließ ihn neun monate auf eine antwort warten, bevor er horaz in seinen dichterkreis aufnahm.[ ] hans-christian günther vermutete, dass hinter horaz‘ schilderungen die stilisierung der maecenasfigur als verkörperung seiner früheren politischen ambitionen stand. horaz stellte sich wieder mit den wurzeln eines einfachen landmannes aus der provinz vor, und ihm zum gegenbild stand der politisch erfolgreiche und einflussreiche machtmensch maecenas, der tugendhaftes handeln und weise politische Überlegungen verkörperte. nur durch ihn gelang dem dichter der parallele aufstieg zu intellektueller größe und verdienst.[ ] charles françois jalabert (ca. ), der maecenaskreis mit dem rezitierenden vergil, horaz (mitte) und dem hörenden maecenas (rechts), sowie varius im hintergrund nach seiner aufnahme in den maecenaskreis begleitete horaz seinen gönner auf politischen und diplomatischen reisen, so v. chr. nach brindisi (zusammen mit vergil)[ ] und v. chr. im sizilienkrieg, wobei er bei einem schiffbruch am kap palinurus fast ums leben gekommen wäre.[ ] nach brachte horaz seine ersten gedichte heraus. dazu gehörte das erste satirenbuch, in dem hauptsächlich die privaten probleme des dichters anklingen, sich im kreis des maecenas zurechtzufinden.[ ] danach folgten erste adaptionen der altgriechischen versmaße in den iamben (epoden), deren herausgabe erst nach der schlacht bei actium v. chr. erfolgt sein kann.[ ] wie auch das zweite satirenbuch, das nach den iamben erschien, zeigten diese deutliche politische parteinahme für die seite octavians und vorbehalte gegen politisch-kulturelle gegner wie etwa kleopatra, die horaz später in den oden als fatale monstrum (todbringendes wunderzeichen) betitelte.[ ] sieben jahre nach den epoden legte horaz ein kernstück seiner poesie vor mit der geschlossenen herausgabe von drei odenbüchern, in denen er lyrische versmaße der äolischen dichter auf latein verarbeitete. in der zeit der neugeschaffenen pax augusta kamen horaz' politische stellungnahmen für den herrscher immer deutlicher zum ausdruck. trotz der üblichen motive augusteischer dichtung, wie der recusatio (zurückweisung eines wunsches auf herrscherlob mit dem verweis des dichters, dass er und seine dichtung dafür nicht gut genug seien)[ ] komponierte horaz vor v. chr. auch panegyrik auf augustus, wie das carmen , und , . bereits mitte der er jahre schenkte maecenas horaz ein landgut in den sabinerbergen am fuße des bergs lucretilis (gennaro) im heutigen tal von licenza.[ ] dieses sabinum, wie es horaz nannte, war mit fünf coloni, einem vilicus und acht sklaven zwar kein kleines, aber für die verhältnisse in der römischen oberschicht ein sparsames haus.[ ] das sabinum wurde für ihn schnell zum inbegriff einer rückzugsmöglichkeit in literarisches und philosophisches otium („muße“). im gegensatz dazu wuchs seine verachtung für die hektik und die gerüchte der stadt rom, deren gegenstand als bekannter in den höchsten kreisen er war. neben der lästigkeit weniger geschäfte in der stadt legte horaz in der bekannten fabel von der landmaus und der stadtmaus dar, wie sehr das leben des maecenas in rom den philosophischen ansichten des dichters entgegengesetzt war.[ ] später kamen weitere güter in horaz' besitz, wie eine villa in tivoli[ ] und eventuell ein gut in tarentum.[ ] die ruhe, zurückgezogenheit und genügsamkeit des sabinums besang horaz in der folge seiner gedichte immer wieder. ihnen widmete er große teile seiner satire , und dem tarentinum sowie teile seines briefes , . spätwerk und alter[bearbeiten | quelltext bearbeiten] als horaz etwa v. chr. seine oden fertiggestellt hatte, dachte er in seinem neuen werk, den versepisteln, ab v. chr. darüber nach, sich zur ruhe zu setzen und das innovative dichten von lyrik aufzugeben.[ ] der große erfolg seiner oden und horaz' gesicherter sozialer status bewogen ihn dazu, die notwendigkeit zu vermeiden, sich mit einer weiteren neuerung abermals in den mittelpunkt der aufmerksamkeit von kollegen und augusteischen eliten zu stellen. offenbar fanden sich neben den lesern, die horaz begehrte, viele neider und imitatoren.[ ] besonders das alter, das horaz für seine entscheidung anführt, hielt der philologe hans-christian günther für einen plausiblen grund, weil horaz durch sein bewegtes leben mit vielen wendungen und rückschlägen bereits in jungen jahren die fähigkeit zur reiferen reflexion erhalten hatte, die ihn geistig vorzeitig habe altern lassen.[ ] nichtsdestoweniger stellte der Übergang in horaz' dichterisches spätwerk und seine ankündigung, abstand von der innovativen dichtung zu nehmen, für die breite Öffentlichkeit der leser ironischerweise gerade etwas innovatives dar. das erste briefkorpus bestand nicht aus tatsächlichen oder fingierten korrespondenzen, sondern dichterischen und sogar poetologischen versepisteln, die nicht nur kunstvoll komponiert waren, sondern auch eine neue literarische gattung darstellten.[ ] ernst fries, blick in die sabinerberge östlich von licenza, Öl auf mahagoni, ab etwa v. chr. verlor der maecenaskreis für die dichter immer mehr an bedeutung. vergil starb v. chr.[ ] varius v. chr., und properz erwähnte maecenas in seinem vierten elegienbuch nicht einmal mehr. genauso widmete horaz dem gönner kein weiteres werk. ob mit diesem bedeutungsverlust ein politischer bedeutungsverlust des maecenas bei augustus einherging, ist in den letzten jahrzehnten in zweifel gezogen worden. der auslöser für diese vermutung war eine passage bei sueton, der behauptete, maecenas habe augustus’ politik gegenüber das interesse verloren. er habe seinem schwager murena verraten, dass gegen ihn die order vorliege, ihn zu beseitigen.[ ] diese passage sah der historiker ronald syme noch als plausibel an und schloss aus ihr, dass maecenas durch seinen verrat bei augustus in ungnade gefallen sei,[ ] williams dagegen analysierte sie in den er jahren kritisch und kam zu dem schluss, dass keine belege suetons behauptung stützen konnten, sondern augustus maecenas unumschränkt vertraute.[ ] mit der zeit ging das patronageverhältnis von maecenas, dem verwalter augusteischer kulturpolitik, auf augustus als dessen initiator über. der kaiser selbst nahm sich des dichters an, und seine wünsche als princeps hatten beachtung zu finden. damit änderten sich motive und rhetorik von horaz’ werken. eine einfache recusatio konnte politisch eine größere bedeutung haben, wenn sie direkt gegenüber dem kaiser geäußert würde, als gegenüber einem seiner offiziere.[ ] außerdem hielt augustus horaz politisch-pragmatisch für wichtig: er plante, ihn nach seiner rückkehr von den parthern zum privatsekretär für das entwerfen seiner briefe zu machen.[ ] weil er wusste, dass der dichter ein weiteres briefbuch plante, wies er ihn darauf hin, dass eine widmung dieser werke in seinem interesse liege. horaz widmete augustus folglich das zweite briefbuch und auch den so genannten pisonenbrief, die „ars poetica“. die einbindung seiner dichtung in die augusteische kulturpolitik ging schließlich so weit, dass augustus ihn v. chr. beauftragte, für einen chor aus jungen und mädchen ein festlied für die ludi saeculares zu schreiben.[ ] noch in seinem letzten oder vorletzten werk, dem vierten buch der oden, brüstete sich horaz mit der bedeutung, die er mit diesem carmen saeculare in der römischen gesellschaft erlangt hatte.[ ] er sah sich vom vulgären satirendichter, der in unteren poetischen genres und rängen begann, zu einem bedeutenden staatsdichter aufgestiegen.[ ] das letzte buch der oden kann als verschiedenfache widmung gegenüber bedeutenden personen der augusteischen familie angesehen werden. horaz schien es im einvernehmen mit dem princeps verfasst zu haben, angetrieben durch das carmen saeculare und eventuell bestrebt, seine enge beziehung zu augustus dichterisch festzuhalten.[ ] strittig bleibt bisher, wie sehr horaz in seinem spätwerk politisches sprachrohr für die ideen der herrschenden war. niall rudd stellte zum beispiel die frage, wie horaz’ lebenssituation als ehemals republikanisch gesinnter junggeselle und lebemann auf politische anklänge in seinen gedichten einfluss nehmen konnte, die auch die augusteischen ehegesetze zum thema hatten.[ ] sicherlich ist es schwierig, eine politische position des dichters horaz hinter politischen gedichten und panegyrik wie der ode , oder , zu suchen. dies wurde zumeist im kontext der eigenen zeit und politisch-nationalen Überzeugungen der betrachter getan.[ ] hans-christian günther warnte jedoch auch davor, horaz als unpolitischen hedonisten überzubetonen und ihn allein im kontext der modernen „spaßgesellschaft“ zu werten.[ ] zu einem erheblichen teil prägte horaz selbst das bild von sich, doch lassen sich über die jahre auch Änderungen in den sozialen und mentalen lebensumständen des dichters hinter dem werk erkennen. horaz sprach zum beispiel in den satiren den dank an seinen vater aus, der ein symbol seines schnellen sozialen aufstiegs war. er stellte sich bewusst als emporkömmling dar und betrachtete seinen jeweiligen sozialen status als ständigen ansporn und streben nach höherem. dies ist als selbstverteidigung vor dem hintergrund der ständigen angriffe von neidern und spöttern zu sehen.[ ] die stilisierung des vaters transformierte horaz’ vorstellungen von seinem dichter-ich in sein werk, während er selbst durch seine stellung in rom und seine dichtung großen finanziellen und persönlichen erfolg hatte. diese überkompensierte betonung einer niedrigen herkunft deutet auf die unsicherheit des dichters hin, der als ehemaliger octaviangegner von niedrigem stand plötzlich als außenseiter in die höchsten kreise der augusteischen kultur eintauchte.[ ] später beherrschte er ebenfalls die kunst, sich als etablierter dichter mit eigenen Überzeugungen den herrschern gegenüber bescheiden zu geben und die leichteren klänge von wein, liebe und tanz zu besingen, wie er es in der ode , von sich behauptete.[ ] die beziehung zu maecenas, auch wenn sie nun weniger wichtig für horaz war, blieb bis zu dessen tod freundschaftlich. in der ode , besingt horaz die iden des april, maecenas' geburtstag als außerordentliches jubelfest, das ihm wertvoller als sein eigener geburtstag gewesen sei.[ ] v. chr. starb maecenas und noch im selben jahr, am . november, auch horaz. beider gebeine wurden zum esquilin gebracht.[ ] wie sehr die freundschaft der beiden ungleichen männer auf gegenseitigkeit beruhte, zeigte maecenas in seinem epigramm:[ ] „ni te visceribus meis, horati, plus iam diligo, tu tuum sodalem ninnio videas strigosiorem“ „wenn ich dich nicht mehr liebe, horaz, als mein eigen fleisch und blut, könntest du deinen freund magerer sehen als ninnius.“ Über horaz' liebesleben ist wenig bekannt; autobiographische aussagen können hier nicht sicher von literarisch vorgeformten motiven getrennt werden. in den episteln sprach er vom mädchen cinara, die die einzig nachweisbare frau in seiner dichtung war und die er als junger mann in athen traf.[ ] ansonsten blieb horaz junggeselle. in den epoden , und sinniert er über sexuelle vorlieben und eine gewisse antipathie gegen alternde frauen. oftmals sah er sich selbst bereits in mittleren jahren als alter lüstling, und seine gedichte entbehren einer gewissen romantik, wenn er zum beispiel in der satire , schreibt, er sei in unzählige mädchen und jungen vernarrt gewesen.[ ] trotz zahlreicher gerüchte in der biographischen tradition und vermutungen in der forschung über eine mögliche bisexualität[ ] bleiben die motive der horazischen liebesdichtung eher unbestimmt, weder misogyn zwischen den extremen schwankend, wie in der liebeselegie, noch besonders sexistisch. Über sein aussehen hat horaz ausführlich selbst gesprochen. er beschrieb sich als dick, wohlgenährt und von glänzender, gepflegter haut.[ ] außerdem sei er von kurzer statur, frühzeitig ergraut und schnell zu erzürnen, genauso leicht jedoch wieder zu beruhigen gewesen.[ ] horaz' cognomen flaccus bedeutet so viel wie ‚schlappohr‘. werk[bearbeiten | quelltext bearbeiten] die künstlerische entwicklung des horaz kann in drei stufen unterteilt werden: 	das temperamentvolle und angriffslustige frühwerk, mit den satiren und epoden ( bis ca. v. chr.) 	die klassische reife, mit den oden i-iii und den episteln i (ca. v. chr. bis ende der er jahre) 	die abgeklärtheit des späten werkes, mit dem carmen saeculare, den oden iv und den episteln ii, darunter die ars poetica, ( bis oder v. chr.) besonders in den anfangsjahren des dichters überlagern sich die entstehungszeiten der einzelnen werke bis zur herausgabe vollständiger bücher. die darstellung von eduard fraenkel zum werk der epoden und satiren hat versucht, die satiren in der eigentlichen chronologischen reihenfolge zu analysieren. als ältestes gedicht gilt dort wie allgemein die satire , ,[ ] die fränkel mit der unselbständigen themenwahl begründete. die themenwahl der gedichte brachte ebenfalls den altphilologen eckard lefèvre zu der annahme, dass zeitgleich mit der satire , früh zu datierende epoden, unter anderem die gedichte , und , vorgelegen haben müssen, von denen horaz für seine aufnahme bei maecenas diejenigen mit brisanten politischen inhalten benutzte.[ ] auch im spätwerk des dichters überlappen sich immer wieder produktive phasen, wie der beginn des ersten epistelbuchs nach den oden oder die frage, ob sein letztes werk die ars poetica oder das vierte odenbuch war.[ ] zudem sollten die charakterisierungen als orientierung dienen. horaz sprach zwar in seinen oden selbst davon, dass sein frühwerk schneller und angriffslustiger war,[ ] doch bewahrte er sich auch im brief mit augustus eine vertrautheit, die sich im zynischen umgang miteinander äußerte, der an seine frühen werke für maecenas erinnert. in seinem brief fragte ihn der kaiser scherzhaft, ob es horaz’ späteres bild beeinträchtigen würde, wenn er zugäbe, den kaiser gekannt zu haben.[ ] außerdem nimmt er bezug zu seinem frühwerk, wenn er im vierten odenbuch die einfachheit seiner dichtung betont. gleich im ersten gedicht lässt er die frühere moralkritik der römeroden und den anspruch aus der . epode, ein vates zu sein, beiseite und wird zu den leichten lyrischen inhalten der ersten drei odenbücher zurückgedrängt.[ ] satiren[bearbeiten | quelltext bearbeiten] saturae, die zwei bücher der satiren bestehen aus zehn beziehungsweise acht teilweise recht umfangreichen einzelgedichten in hexametern. horaz selbst nannte sie sermones („gespräche“). er spricht darin mit maecenas, mit dem leser, mit sich selbst und führt die personen im dialog vor. ziel dieser nicht unbedingt harmlosen plaudereien ist, dem leser mit humor unangenehme wahrheiten zu sagen. vorbild war ihm der römische satiriker lucilius. horaz war stets um das wesentliche und straffheit bemüht. so lautete sein kunstprinzip: vielfalt in der beschränktheit. zentrales thema ist die rechte lebensgestaltung. die meisten gedichte geißeln laster, die sozialen unfrieden stiften oder zumindest die menschlichen beziehungen beeinträchtigen, wie zum beispiel habgier, ehebruch, aberglaube, schlemmerei, … im gegensatz zu lucilius, der hochgestellte zeitgenossen schonungslos anprangerte, musste sich horaz in dieser beziehung zurückhalten. seine ausfälle beschränkten sich auf verstorbene personen, einflusslose leute und stadtbekannte außenseiter. nicht selten stellte er stellvertretend für den normalbürger auch sich selbst und seine schwächen dar. epoden[bearbeiten | quelltext bearbeiten] gestaltungskriterien und inhalte[bearbeiten | quelltext bearbeiten] als epoden (griechisch ἐπῳδός „epodós“, nachgesang, refrain) werden die gedichte eines schmalen buches bezeichnet, das um etwa v. chr. von horaz herausgegeben wurde; epoden deshalb, weil sich bei den einzelnen versen der gedichte jeweils ein jambischer langvers (trimeter) mit einem refrainartigen kurzvers (dimeter) abwechselt. das versmaß entsprach mehr den regeln der griechischen lyrik und stellte damit eine metrische neuerung gegenüber dem sprechvers der römischen komödie, dem senar, dar. pionier in der anwendung war vor horaz der dichter catull. horaz nannte sein buch „iambi“, obwohl nur elf gedichte ausschließlich im jambischen und die übrigen sechs in kombinationen von jambischem und daktylischem versmaß, dem versfuß des hexameters, geschrieben sind. griechischer urheber der epodendichtung und vorbild des horaz war der ionier archilochos von paros. von ihm ist nicht mehr bekannt, als dass er während einer sonnenfinsternis des jahres v. chr. lebte[ ] und sein werk zwei bemerkenswerte kennzeichen aufwies. einmal galt er als pionier und meister jambischer strophenformen, andererseits verwendete er die form des verses für extrem angriffslustige, persönlich verletzende und teils hetzerische gedichte ohne rücksicht auf den stand der angegriffenen personen. im augusteischen rom war eine dichtung gleicher prägung nicht denkbar. horaz dichtete einerseits für seinen gönner maecenas sowie andererseits für einen unbekannten leserkreis. deshalb waren wie schon bei den „satiren“ auch hier vorsicht und rücksicht geboten. selten nannte er namen, und wenn, dann meist decknamen. so führt er in der wohl bekanntesten epode beatus ille den geldverleiher alfius vor, der ausführlich das idyllische landleben lobt, dann jedoch trotzdem bei seinen städtischen finanzgeschäften bleibt (ep. ). weiterhin verspottet er einen schmähsüchtigen dichter unter dem namen maevius, einen emporkömmling im militär (ep. ), zwei gealterte hetären, deren körperlicher verfall mit derb-obszönen vergleichen geschildert wird, die jedoch ohne namen bleiben (ep. und ), und eine hexe namens canidia (ep. und ep. ), die bereits in seinen satiren auftauchte und die fantasie nachfolgender generationen immer wieder anregte. dass horaz in den epoden keine konkreten namen nannte, heißt zwar, dass er die inhaltlichen gestaltungsmaßstäbe seines vorbilds archilochos änderte. es heißt jedoch nicht, dass keine konkreten persönlichkeiten hinter den angriffen gegen bestimmte typen gestanden haben. die identifikation des dichters maevius aus der zehnten epode mit dem mevius, dessen schlechte verse vergil in seiner dritten ekloge beklagt,[ ] ist von altphilologen häufig hervorgehoben worden. maevius’ bezeichnung als eindeutig sexuell konnotierter geiler bock (libidinosus caper),[ ] den horaz verdientermaßen opfern wollte, kann durchaus auf die schmähung des dichters bezug nehmen, denn bereits bei catull findet sich ein ähnlich gelagerter fall, wo mit der bezeichnung „bock“ die strafwürdigkeit einer bekannten person codiert wird.[ ] weiterhin versuchte der spätantike horazkommentator porphyrio personen der epoden zu identifizieren, wie den militärtribun der vierten epode mit menas, dem freigelassenen flottenführer des sextus pompeius. solche identifizierungen sind wenig klar und oft angezweifelt worden, zeigen jedoch, dass früh über einen wirkungskontext der epoden spekuliert wurde. dieser wirkungskontext schien zunächst von einem kleinen hörerkreis abzuhängen, der mit den gezielten, aber verdeckten angriffen etwas anzufangen wusste. der freiburger altphilologe eckard lefèvre sah einen wichtigen hinweis für die zielgerichtetheit der epoden in der häufigen pointiertheit. so lobt horaz in der zweiten epode über verse hinweg das sittsame landleben, und erst in den letzten zwei strophen löst er auf, dass ein wucherer dieses lob ausspricht, der sich im auge des landmannes unsittlich verhält. Ähnliches findet sich in der vierten epode, in der horaz seine verachtung für einen neureichen kundtut, von dem er erst in der letzten zeile berichtet, ihm obliege die verantwortung eines militärtribuns. derartig gezielte pointen wären kaum von einem gewöhnlichen spottdichter gesetzt worden.[ ] weiterentwicklung zu den oden[bearbeiten | quelltext bearbeiten] horaz nutzte die archilochische dichtung formal, trotzdem war auch hier seine bereitschaft nicht hoch, seine nachfolge in der iambendichtung in den vordergrund zu stellen. dies lässt sich am eröffnungsgedicht ibis liburnis ablesen, das von der sorge um horaz' schicksal nach der bevorstehenden schlacht bei actium geprägt ist (ep. ). Ähnlich gelagert ist das jubellied über den sieg bei actium (quando repostum, ep. ). beide gedichte entstanden vor dem politischen hintergrund des siegs der bürgerkriegspartei octavians, der jedoch nur als vorlage dient, um feiern und die freundschaft und den dank zum gönner maecenas auszudrücken. die zwei gedichte, die das römische volk zum adressaten haben (quo, quo scelesti und altera iam teritur, ep. und ), hatten hingegen noch das elend der bürgerkriege beklagt, aus dem nur noch eine auswanderung nach den inseln der seligen rettung gewähre. in den programmgedichten und treten kritik an zeitzuständen oder schmähungen von kriegertugenden nun völlig zurück. die direkte verbindung besteht bereits zum jubellied auf den tod der kleopatra im carmen des ersten odenbuchs (nunc est bibendum), das die züge eines alkäischen trinkliedes aufweist und wohl zur selben zeit wie die beiden epoden entstanden sein muss. motive der iamben werden nur noch am rande genannt, zum beispiel die aussage des dichters, nicht wie chremes werden zu wollen, der topos des geizhalses der plautinischen komödie.[ ] horaz war also spätestens seit v. chr. auf dem weg zur lyrik der oden. untypisch für griechische iamben war überdies die selbstironie des dichters in den invektiven. dies war horaz’ persönliche note für die iambendichtung, ebenso wie seine zustimmung und fürsprache für den freund vergil in der epode . der von ihm geschmähte neureiche in epode hatte als militärtribun keine andere politische laufbahn genommen als horaz selbst. die komische klage parentis siquis über bauchschmerzen, die dem dichter ein ländliches gericht mit zu viel knoblauch eingetragen habe (ep. ), ist gleichzeitig ein seitenhieb auf den schadenfrohen maecenas, der sich darüber lustig macht, dass horaz das gelobte einfache essen vom lande nicht bekommt. daneben existieren eine reihe von themen, die sich iambenuntypisch durch das buch ziehen und die entwicklung des dichters zur odendichtung erkennen lassen. mollis inertia, eine entschuldigung für eine pause im dichten, die horaz mit akutem liebeskummer erklärt (ep. ), der trost im wein (ep. ) und die liebe (ep. und ) sind themen, die der archilochischen dichtung bereits völlig entgegenstanden. teilweise setzte horaz diese antithetik von form und inhalt auch als komischen effekt ein, zum beispiel, wenn dem gelehrten leser der epode klar wird, dass das langgezogene loblied auf das landleben in einer gedichtform für beleidigungen und schmähungen steht. mit der entwicklung der epoden- hin zur odendichtung entwickelte horaz seine politisch-philosophischen einstellung als dichter zum staat. eduard fränkel wies darauf hin, dass es eine moderne geisteshaltung sei, dem dichter zu unterstellen, er hätte über die wiederbelebung griechischer kampflieder auf leben und gemeinwesen eine politische geisteshaltung transportiert. vielmehr entwickelte das dichten selbst die geisteshaltung des dichters. fränkel begriff daher horaz' frühe epode auf den bürgerkrieg als misslungenen anfang, weil sie im ton des freien griechischen dichters nicht für die politische situation des römischen dichters niedrigen standes taugten. horaz’ form der anrede passte nicht in die verfassungswirklichkeit römischer redner. der vorschlag aus dem iambenvorbild des archilochos, dass die sittlich guten des volkes auf eine insel auswandern sollten, war bei horaz lediglich eine literarische anspielung. dass er sich vor diesem hintergrund noch als vates gab,[ ] hielt fränkel für eine "kühne konzeption".[ ] neuere darstellungen neigen dazu, horaz’ ansprache an das römische volk in bezug auf das literarische umfeld genauer zu deuten. lefèvre schlussfolgerte entgegen fränkel, dass horaz nicht für einen großen politischen zuschauerkreis dichtete, und hob das provokative element der aussagen und die literarischen beziehungen zur vierten ekloge vergils hervor. horaz bezog seine berechtigung als vates durch den bezug auf vergil, der das goldene zeitalter nach den bürgerkriegen prophezeite. ganz im stile seiner dichtung war horaz’ sicht auf die zukunft jedoch keine idealisierte, sondern eine realistische, die den klaren bruch und die völlige abkapselung von der vergangenheit forderte, gleichwie dem auswandern auf eine insel.[ ] chronologie und aufbau[bearbeiten | quelltext bearbeiten] die pointierte form der epoden war ursprünglich für eine mündliche rede ausgelegt. dies lässt sich daran erkennen, dass manche epoden zwischen beschreibungen und sprechparts wechseln oder wie die epode in der dialogform stoff für einen volkstümlichen mimus bilden konnten. weiterer hinweis neben der form ist die verteidigung der freunde, die ebenfalls auf die wirkung in einem rezitationskontext schließen lässt. vor dem hintergrund einer langen mündlichen vorgeschichte der epoden lassen sich auch die abweichungen zwischen entstehungszeit bzw. datierung der einzelnen gedichte und ihrer zusammenstellung als buch erkennen. dahinter lief bereits die künstlerische weiterentwicklung des dichters zu den alkäischen oden und trinkliedern ab. es lässt sich daher eine grobe chronologie des epodenbuchs ausmachen. 	epoden und , beide ca. . v. chr. (die frühesten, politischen gedichte mit unterschiedlich gedeutetem bezug von ep. auf vergils vierte ekloge) 	epode (maeviusepode), um v. chr. (wegen des bezugs zu vergils dritter ekloge) 	epoden – sowie die und (erster invektivenzyklus, der vor den 'liebesepoden' zwischen und v. chr. entstanden sein muss, kleinere gedichte wie und könnten frühe Übungsformen des versmaßes darstellen)[ ] 	epoden und – über trinken, liebe und gesang, nach den invektiven (wobei nach fränkel die epode als letzte die schwierigkeiten darstellt, das buch fertigzustellen)[ ] 	epoden und als programmgedichte, ca. / v. chr. nach der schlacht bei actium der aufbau des epodenbuchs folgt nicht dieser chronologie. wie bei vielen gedichtsbüchern der augusteischen zeit stand eine architektur hinter der anordnung, die eine entwicklung markiert, wie sich unschwer am ersten wort der sammlung ibis (du wirst gehen) und dem letzten satz (ep. , ) plorem artis in te nil agentis exitus ? (soll ich etwa das ende meiner kunst beweinen [nur], weil die nichts an dir bewirkt?) zeigt. ein herausragendes organisationsprinzip für das buch ist die metrische anordnung der gedichte, wobei die ersten epoden der distichischen jambischen strophe folgen, die weiteren sechs die daktylische variation derselben darstellen, und ein gedicht in stichischen trimetern die sammlung beendet. der erste teil aus zehn gedichten hat vorbilder in der literatur, wie die eklogen vergils.[ ] neben der metrischen lässt sich eine paarische anordnung von inhaltlich ähnlichen epoden erkennen, so z. b. die epoden und , die mit widmung horaz’ beziehungen zu maecenas thematisieren. hans christian günther verwies auf ein literarisches vorbild in den iambi des hellenistischen dichters kallimachos.[ ] dieser schrieb gedichte, und ausgerechnet die . epode hat keinen inhaltlichen zwilling.[ ] horaz hätte mit der anordnung der restlichen gedichte sein möglichstes getan, die über jahre versprengten gedichte so in eine formal annehmbare gestalt zu bringen. eine weitere these ist die nach der einheit des gesamten epodenbuchs. so las porter von der ersten bis zur letzten epode ein diminuendo von einer überschwänglichen stimmung der ersten zu einer düsteren in der letzten epode.[ ] diese ansichten haben sich nicht durchgesetzt, und es gibt keine hinweise, dass es horaz’ intention war, eine das werk verbindende gesamtstimmung zu kreieren. die größte einheit der epoden bildet die erkenntnis, dass sich der dichter kontinuierlich zu den oden weiterentwickelte, wie dies der forscher stephen heyworth feststellte.[ ] in diesem zusammenhang ist noch der von kathryn gutzwiller herausgearbeitete begriff des "associative bridging" zu nennen, also des springens der motive von einem gedicht zum nächsten, sodass das buch seine motive wie eine girlande aufzieht und schließlich am ende generisch weiterzieht.[ ] oden[bearbeiten | quelltext bearbeiten] oden (carmina , ) in einem codex aus dem besitz von francesco petrarca. florenz, biblioteca medicea laurenziana, plut. . , fol. r ( . jahrhundert) horaz an septimius, zitat aus oden , auf einer gedenkplatte in tarent nach seinem erfolg mit den „satiren“ und „epoden“ widmete sich horaz der frühgriechischen lieddichtung, deren blütezeit etwa von bis v. chr. dauerte. während sich die griechischen lieddichter selbst sänger oder musendiener nannten, bürgerte sich später der begriff lyriker nach ihrem hauptinstrument, der siebensaitigen lyra, ein. horaz schrieb vier lyrikbücher, die „carmina“, die insgesamt gedichte enthalten. die ersten drei publizierte er in einem corpus um v. chr. und das vierte um v. chr. im gegensatz zu den nicht immer ganz ausgereiften „epoden“ stellen die „oden“ (odé, gesang) eine vollendete meisterleistung dar. datierung und produktive bedingungen[bearbeiten | quelltext bearbeiten] obwohl die ersten drei odenbücher als volumina (buchrollen) herausgegeben wurden,[ ] schrieb horaz seine gedichte nicht in der reihenfolge der komposition, die in den späteren ausgaben und heutigen texteditionen standard geworden sind. das werk entstand über lange zeit aus stücken, die der dichter nach und nach komponierte und die zunächst zur rezitation auf gastmählern gedient haben könnten. eine der ältesten möglichen datierbaren oden, das carmen , , liegt in der entstehungszeit noch vor der schlacht bei actium, etwa um v. chr.[ ] da der terminus post quem keiner ode auszumachen ist, die jünger als v. chr. wäre, kann eine veröffentlichung der bücher zu diesem zeitpunkt oder danach erfolgt sein. im carmen , richtet horaz die rede an lucius sestius quirinus, den konsul des jahres v. chr., von dem er unter anderem dessen leidenschaft zum würfelspiel und seine zuneigung zum knaben lycidas thematisiert.[ ] dass die oden nach v. chr. für eine herausgabe als ganzes von horaz noch einmal überarbeitet, teilweise chronologisch geordnet und neu zusammengestellt wurden, zeigen einzelne chronologische verläufe innerhalb des werkes und die beiden parallelen programmgedichte , und , , deren beider versmaß ein sich eingängig wiederholender, stichischer asclepiadeus minor ist, das heißt, dasselbe versmaß wird zeile für zeile wiederholt. themen[bearbeiten | quelltext bearbeiten] themen sind wie schon bei den griechen vor allem liebe und politik, aber auch freundschaft, alltäglichkeiten des lebens und fragen der philosophie. vorbild war unter anderem alkaios von lesbos, von dem er teilweise auch die strophenform übernahm. im großen unterschied zu seinen griechischen vorgängern war horaz nur dichter und nicht musiker. deshalb waren seine „oden“ nicht vertont. eine ausnahme bildete nur das v. chr. für die jahrhundertfeier, die den beginn einer friedensära einleiten sollte, verfasste „carmen saeculare“. wie auch schon die chorlyriker liebte es horaz, in einem gedicht die verschiedensten themen zusammenzufügen. oft verwendete er verhaltene, hintergründige aussagen. mittel dazu waren treffende bilder, aussparungen, offenlassungen und leise untertöne. viele seiner gedichte beginnen wuchtig und klingen leicht und heiter aus. beispiel: , . obwohl horaz kurze gedichte bevorzugte, sind auch zahlreiche längere gedichte erhalten. wichtig sind hier vor allem das „carmen saeculare“ und die sechs „römeroden“. letztere mahnten das römische volk an die alten mores maiorum: genügsamkeit, tapferkeit, treue, standhaftigkeit, gerechtigkeit und ehrfurcht. episteln[bearbeiten | quelltext bearbeiten] da die oden nicht den erhofften erfolg brachten, ließ horaz ab v. chr. von der lyrik ab und widmete sich dem ersten buch der epistulae („episteln“). horaz stellt in diesem buch, das aus briefgedichten in hexametern besteht, seine lebensphilosophie dar. diese lebensphilosophie geht nicht von abstrakten begriffen aus, sondern vom einzelnen menschen mit seinen fehlern, schwächen und eigenheiten. sie fordert nicht auf, über den eigenen schatten zu springen, wohl aber, sich in der eigenen art um ein rechtes maß zu bemühen, damit das zusammenleben der menschen erträglich bleibt. vorbild für die „epistulae“ waren ihm wahrscheinlich die briefe des attischen philosophen epikur. im zweiten buch der „epistulae“ ab v. chr. betätigte sich horaz als literaturkritiker. drei große briefgedichte widmete er am ende seiner schaffenszeit diesem thema. zwei davon bilden das zweite buch der „epistulae“. im ersten brief an augustus kritisiert der dichter die gedankenlose Überbewertung der altrömischen dichtung, vor allem des dramas, und weist auf den wert der neuen klassik, mit den werken von vergil und varius, hin. im zweiten brief (an florus) entsagt er scheinbar der dichtung zugunsten der philosophie, nur um in wahrheit auf die erdrückenden anforderungen an einen dichter hinzuweisen. im dritten und längsten literaturbrief (an die pisonen), der als gesondertes buch unter dem titel de arte poetica überliefert ist, will horaz als dichter rechenschaft ablegen und den geschmack verständiger leser bilden. er will dilettanten, nachahmern und modepoeten das handwerk erschweren, aber echte begabung auf ihrem harten weg ermuntern. horaz hat in seiner epistula ad pisones auch eine gliederung des dramas in fünf akte gefordert (ars poetica, v. ) (siehe regeldrama), die nützlichkeit des literarischen werkes mit dem aspekt der freude und der unterhaltung verknüpft (ars poetica, v. f.: „aut prodesse volunt aut delectare poetae“) und den mimesischarakter literarischer werke (ars poetica, v. ) betont. philosophie[bearbeiten | quelltext bearbeiten] horaz bezeichnete sich selbst als einen schüler epikurs (epicuri de grege porcum – „ein schweinchen aus der herde des epikur“).[ ] dabei hängt er der epikureischen lehre nicht auf orthodoxe weise an, sondern hat für sich einige grundprinzipien übernommen. lust ist das höchste gut und schmerz das größte Übel. dabei ist die wahre lust die ataraxia, der zustand vollkommener ruhe und ungestörtheit, das stille glück im garten (bzw. auf dem lande), das sich aus dem getriebe der welt heraushält. Λάθε βιώσας (lebe im verborgenen) war einer der leitsätze des kepos der epikureer. götter existieren, doch sie leben glückselig und abgesondert von der welt und üben keinen einfluss auf sie aus. trotzdem muss man das zitat aus epistel , , vers mitlesen, um horazens lebenshaltung zu verstehen: nullius addictus iurare in verba magistri („nicht verpflichtet, auf die worte eines meisters zu schwören“). er mag zwar in vielerlei hinsicht epikureer sein, aber er möchte sich trotzdem als freidenker verstehen. horaz urteilt also nicht immer als epikureer, sondern zum beispiel auch als anhänger der aristotelischen philosophie (aurea mediocritas, carminum liber ii , rectius vives, licini,…). wirkungsgeschichte[bearbeiten | quelltext bearbeiten] ausschnitt aus dem fresko der parnass von raffael, ca. – gemalt. die vorne stehende männliche figur wird als horaz gedeutet. horaz wurde bald schulautor, erhielt aber nicht die breitenwirkung wie vergil oder ovid. dennoch war er besonders für den gelehrtenkreis um karl den großen und später für die humanisten wichtig. von größter bedeutung war horaz aber für die französischen klassiker des . und . jahrhunderts. insbesondere versuchten dichter und kritiker wie nicolas boileau oder martin opitz, aus dem brief de arte poetica eine programmatische poetik zu (re)konstruieren, wie sie in dieser systematik von horaz kaum beabsichtigt war. textausgaben[bearbeiten | quelltext bearbeiten] editionen[bearbeiten | quelltext bearbeiten] 	quintus horatius flaccus: opera. hrsg. v. friedrich klingner, (=bt), dritte auflage (zuerst ), leipzig (und nachdrucke) (gewöhnlich zitierte standardausgabe, auf der viele spätere editionen aufbauen) 	quintus horatius flaccus: opera. hrsg. v. d. r. shackleton bailey, (=bt), vierte auflage (zuerst ), stuttgart (und nachdrucke) (konjekturfreudiger umgang mit dem überlieferten text). 	quintus horatius flaccus: opera. hrsg .v. s.(tefan = istván) borzsák. (=bt), leipzig (textkritisch behutsam und konservativ). 	friedemann weitz: "lectiones teubnerianae. textkritische ausgaben als problemanzeige (am beispiele horazens)" http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/volltexte/ / (Übersicht der unterschiedlichen lesungen der obigen drei ausgaben in der bibliotheca teubneriana; mit einem vortrag von hermann tränkle als anhang: "von keller-holder zu shackleton-bailey. prinzipien und probleme der horaz-edition"). 	quintus horatius flaccus: opera. hrsg. v. edward c.(harles) wickham, oxford ; zweite auflage. hg. von heathcote w.(illiam) garrod, oxford (und nachdrucke). Übersetzungen[bearbeiten | quelltext bearbeiten] deutsch 	christian morgenstern: horatius travestitus: ein studentenscherz, mit einem anhang: aus dem nachlass des horaz, piper verlag, münchen , ., vermehrte auflage.[ ] 	horaz: oden und epoden. hrsg. v. w. killy, ernst a. schmidt und übers. v. ch. f. k. herzlieb und j. p. uz, zürich/münchen , isbn - - - . 	horaz: sämtliche gedichte mit den holzschnitten der straßburger ausgabe von . lat./dt., hrsg. v. bernhard kytzler. reclam, stuttgart , isbn - - - . 	horaz: sämtliche werke. hrsg. v. hans färber, artemis & winkler (sammlung tusculum), münchen , zehnte auflage. (in versübersetzung) isbn - - - . 	christoph martin wieland: Übersetzung des horaz. hrsg. v. manfred fuhrmann, (= bibliothek deutscher klassiker, band ), dt. klassiker-verlag, frankfurt am main (einsprachig, briefe und satiren übers. mit einl. u. erkl., rezeptionsgeschichtlich relevant) isbn - - - . englisch 	horace: satires, epistles and ars poetica. hrsg. v. henry rushton fairclough (= loeb classical library, band ), cambridge, mass/ harvard university press u. a., cambridge (nd, ältere ausgabe, schwierig zu lesen) isbn - - - . 	horace: odes and epodes. hrsg. v. niall rudd, (= loeb classical library, band ), cambridge, mass. / harvard university press u. a., cambridge , isbn - - - . 	horace: epodes. engl./lat., hrsg. v. david mankin, cambridge univ. press, cambridge , isbn - - - . 	horace: the complete works of horace. hrsg. v. charles e. passage, ungar new york , isbn - - - . 	horatius flaccus: the works of horace, translated into verse. engl./lat., hrsg. v. karina williamson/christopher smart(= the poetical works of christopher smart, band ), oxford , isbn - - - . italienisch 	quinto orazio flacco: le opere band i. -ii. , hrsg. v. paolo fedeli/carlo carena (= antiquitas perennis), istituto poligrafico e zecca dello stato, rom – , isbn - - - . 	orazio: tutte le poesie ital./lat., hg. v. paolo fedeli/carlo carena, (= i millenni), einaudi, turin , isbn - - - - . 	quinto orazio flacco: le opere ital./lat., hrsg. v. mario ramous (= i libri della spiga), garzanti, mailand , isbn - - - . französisch 	horace: q. horati flacci opera avec un commentaire critique et explicatif des introd. et des tables. hrsg. v. frédéric plessis, paul lejay. hachette, paris (enth. satiren). literatur[bearbeiten | quelltext bearbeiten] Übersichtsdarstellung 	michael von albrecht: geschichte der römischen literatur von andronicus bis boethius und ihr fortwirken. band . ., verbesserte und erweiterte auflage. de gruyter, berlin , isbn - - - - , s. – einführungen und gesamtdarstellungen 	eduard fraenkel: horaz. . auflage. wissenschaftliche buchgesellschaft, darmstadt (klassische gesamtdarstellung der dichtung des horaz) 	niklas holzberg: horaz. dichter und werk. c. h. beck verlag, münchen , isbn - - - - . 	bernhard kytzler: horaz. eine einführung. reclam, stuttgart , , isbn - - - - (übersichtliche und gut verständliche einführung) 	eckard lefèvre: horaz. dichter im augusteischen rom. c. h. beck, münchen , isbn - - - . kommentare 	q. horatius flaccus: werke. band / , hg.v. und erkl. v. adolf kiessling/richard heinze, dublin/zürich , zwölfte auflage. 	lindsay c. watson: a commentary on horace’s epodes. oxford . 	robin g. m. nisbet, margaret hubbard: a commentary on horace. odes book i/ii. oxford / . 	robin g. m. nisbet, niall rudd: a commentary on horace. odes book iii. oxford . 	paolo fideli, irma ciccarelli: quintii horatii flacci carmina liber iv. florenz . 	karl numberger: horaz, lyrische gedichte, kommentar für lehrer der gymnasien und für studierende. . auflage. aschendorff, münster . untersuchungen zu einzelnen themen 	paul barié: horaz „carpe diem. pflücke den tag“. lebensweisheit in der lyrik des horaz (= reihe: exemplarische reihe literatur und philosophie. ). sonnenberg, annweiler , isbn - - - - 	hans oppermann (hrsg.): wege zu horaz. darmstadt . 	nina mindt: die meta-sympotischen oden und epoden des horaz (= vertumnus. berliner beiträge zur klassischen philologie und zu ihren nachbargebieten. band ). edition ruprecht, göttingen , isbn - - - - . 	michael c. j. putnam: artifices of eternity. horace’s fourth book of odes. cornell university press, ithaca/ london (glänzende ‚rehabilitation‘ des lange als zweitrangig betrachteten vierten odenbuches) rezeption 	gianluigi baldo: horaz (quintus horatius flaccus). carmina. in: christine walde (hrsg.): die rezeption der antiken literatur. kulturhistorisches werklexikon (= der neue pauly. supplemente. band ). metzler, stuttgart/weimar , isbn - - - - , sp.  – . 	tino licht: horazüberlieferung im frühmittelalter. in: ex praeteritis praesentia. heidelberg , s. – .. lexika 	dominicus bo: lexicon horatianum bände i und ii, olms, hildesheim und . 	enciclopedia oraziana. band i-iii, istituto della enciclopedia italiana, rom – . weblinks[bearbeiten | quelltext bearbeiten] wikisource: quintus horatius flaccus – quellen und volltexte (latein) wikisource: horaz – quellen und volltexte wikiquote: horaz – zitate commons: horaz – album mit bildern, videos und audiodateien 	literatur von und über horaz im katalog der deutschen nationalbibliothek 	werke von und über horaz in der deutschen digitalen bibliothek 	werke von horaz im projekt gutenberg-de 	das gesamtwerk des horaz im lateinischen originaltext, bibliotheca augustana 	das . buch der oden – mit kommentaren und hilfen 	briefe (epistolae) epoden (iambi) und oden (carmina) satiren (sermones) gemeinfreie hörbücher von horaz bei librivox 	kurzbiographie 	leben, werk, textauswahl, zitate, literatur auf gottwein.de 	horati opera, acronis et porphyrionis commentarii, varia lectio etc. (latine) 	carmina horatiana alle carmina des horaz auf lateinisch deklamiert von thomas bervoets. 	jutta duhm-heitzmann: . . v. chr. - todestag des dichters horaz wdr zeitzeichen vom . november . (podcast) anmerkungen[bearbeiten | quelltext bearbeiten] 	↑ eduard fraenkel: horace. oxford , s. – . 	↑ vgl. hor. serm. , , - . quot capitum vivunt, totidem studiorum milia: me pedibus delectat claudere verba lucili ritu, nostrum melioris utroque. ille velut fidis arcana sodalibus olim credebat libris neque, si male cesserat, usquam decurrens alio neque, si bene. quo fit ut omnis votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella vita senis. sequor hunc […] (wie viele tausend leben sind, so viele bestrebungen gibt es auch. mich freut es, in lucilischer art mit versfüßen die worte einzuschließen, eines mannes, besser als jeder von uns. jener vertraute einst seine geheimnisse seinen bücher wie guten freunden an. egal, ob dinge schlecht oder gut eingetreten waren, wendete er sich nicht auf anderes. daher kommt es, dass das leben der alten offen vor uns liegt, beschrieben wie ein wunschtäfelchen. diesem folge ich […]) 	↑ vgl. suet. vita hor. ; vgl. hor. epist. , , . 	↑ vgl. hor. serm. , , und epod. , . 	↑ hor. serm. , , .nunc ad me redeo libertino patre natum (nun komme ich zu mir zurück, dem sohn eines freigelassenen) 	↑ suet. vita hor. . nach sueton wurde auch angenommen, dass der vater ein salsamentarius (salzfischhändler) gewesen sei, weil jemand horaz in einer unterredung einst gesagt habe, er sehe ihn sich oft mit dem arm die nase schnäuzen 	↑ hor. serm. , , . 	↑ hor. serm. , , . 	↑ gordon williams: libertino patre natus: true or false? in: s. j. harrison (hrsg.): homage to horace. a bimillenary celebration. clarendon press, oxford , s. ff. 	↑ john kevin newman: horace as outsider, (= spudasmata ), georg olms, hildesheim/zürich/new york , s. ; edward courtney: the two books of satires. in: hans-christian günther (hrsg.): brill’s companion to horace, leiden und boston , s. ff. 	↑ hor. serm. , , . 	↑ vgl. hor. epist. , , – . 	↑ gordon williams: libertino patre natus: true or false? in: s. j. harrison (hrsg.): homage to horace. a bimillenary celebration. clarendon press, oxford , s. . 	↑ bernhard kytzler: horaz. eine einführung. reclam, stuttgart , s. . 	↑ zum beispiel hor. carm. , , – . 	↑ hor. serm. , , – / – . 	↑ hor. serm. , , . 	↑ hor. epist. , , / , , . 	↑ hans-christian günther: horace’s life and work. in: derselbe (hrsg.): brill’s companion to horace. leiden und boston , s. . 	↑ hor. epist. , , . 	↑ hor. serm. , , ff. 	↑ plut. brut. . 	↑ hor. serm. , , – . 	↑ hor. epist. , , – . 	↑ hor. epist. , , . 	↑ kenneth j. reckford: horace. (=world authors, band ). twayne publishers, new york , s. . 	↑ robin nisbet, margaret hubbard: a commentary on horace. band , oxford , s. – . 	↑ hor. carm. , , – . 	↑ hor. carm. , , . fracta virtus spielt auf die 'letzten worte' des sterbenden brutus an, die cassius dio , , später überlieferte. 	↑ hans-christian günther: horace’s life and work. in: derselbe (hrsg.): brill’s companion to horace. leiden und boston , s. ff. 	↑ suet. vita hor. 	↑ françois hinard: les proscriptions de la rome républicaine (= collection de l’École française, band ), rome , s. ff. 	↑ hor. carm. , , vgl. michèle lowrie: horace, odes . in: gregson davis (hrsg.): a companion to horace. john wiley & sons, chichester/malden , s. . 	↑ hor. serm. , , – . der sklave davus kritisiert hier den rollenwechsel des dichters, der durch verschiedene Äußerlichkeiten wie seinen ring, immer mehr zu einem richter der dama werde. die satire nimmt bezug auf die satire , , , wo horaz beschreibt, dass er schon zu seines vaters zeiten von ausgewählten männern als richter lernte. davus beschrieb also offenbar ein amt des horaz, das mit der zeit durch die einstellung des dichters korrumpiert wurde. 	↑ hor. serm. , , ff.; vgl. david armstrong: the biographical and social foundations of horace poetic voice. in: gregson davis (hrsg.): a companion to horace. john wiley & sons, chichester/malden , s. – . 	↑ hor. serm. , / , , epist. , , carm. , . 	↑ hans-christian günther: horace’s life and work. in: derselbe (hrsg.): brill’s companion to horace. leiden und boston , s. . 	↑ suet. vita hor. . […] victisque partibus venia impetrata scriptum quaestorium comparavit. 	↑ hor. serm. , , ff. 	↑ robin nisbet: collected papers in latin literature, oxford , s. ff. 	↑ hor. serm. , , ff., vgl. david armstrong: the biographical and social foundations of horace poetic voice. in: hans-christian günther (hrsg.): brill’s companion to horace. leiden und boston , s. . 	↑ hor. serm. , , . 	↑ hans-christian günther: horace’s life and work. in: derselbe (hrsg.): brill’s companion to horace. leiden und boston , s. . 	↑ hor. serm. , . 	↑ hor. carm. , , . 	↑ hans-christian günther: horace’s life and work. in: derselbe (hrsg.): brill’s companion to horace. leiden und boston , s. – . 	↑ hans-christian günther: horace’s life and work. in: derselbe (hrsg.): brill’s companion to horace. leiden und boston , s. . 	↑ hor. carm , , , vgl. auch epod. , . 	↑ hor. carm. , . horaz warnte mehrfach asinius pollio, der zu dieser zeit sein geschichtswerk über den bürgerkrieg herausgeben wollte, wieder zur tragödie und zu leichteren klängen zurückzukehren. 	↑ suet. vita hor. . 	↑ ernst a. schmidt: sabinum. horaz und sein landgut im licenzatal. (= heidelberger akademie der wissenschaften, schriften der philosophisch-historischen klasse , band ), heidelberg , s. ff. 	↑ hor. serm , , – . 	↑ hor. carm. , , ff. 	↑ r. o. a. m. lyne: 'horace. behind the public poetry', new haven , s. . 	↑ hor. epist. , , – . 	↑ hor. epist. , , – . o imitatores, servum pecus, ut mihi saepe bilem, saepe iocum vestri movere tumultus! (o imitatoren, sklavenvieh, wie euer zetern mir oft die galle, oft beißenden witz hervortrieb. 	↑ hans-christian günther: die Ästhetik der augusteischen dichtung: eine Ästhetik des verzichts. Überlegungen zum spätwerk des horaz. leiden/london , s. . 	↑ eduard fraenkel: horace. oxford , s. ff.; vgl. richard heinze: die augusteische kultur. wissenschaftliche buchgesellschaft, darmstadt (nd), s. – . heinze verwies auf die rückkehr zum lucilianischen dichtermotiv, (siehe anm. ) 	↑ vgl. suet. vit. verg. – . 	↑ vgl. suet. aug. , . 	↑ vgl. ronald syme, the roman revolution, oxford , s. . 	↑ vgl. gordon williams: did maecenas “fall from favor”? augustan literary patronage. in: kurt a. raaflaub, mark toher, g. w. bowersock (hrsg.): between republic and empire: interpretations of augustus and his principate. oxford , s. – . williams' behauptung des gegenseitigen vertrauensverhältnisses der beiden männer stützt eine passage bei seneca dem jüngeren, vgl. sen. de brev. , , . 	↑ vgl. gordon williams, did maecenas „fall from favor? augustan literary patronage“. in: kurt a. raaflaub, mark toher und g. w. bowersock (hrsg.): "between republic and empire. interpretations of augustus and his principate". oxford , s. . 	↑ suet. vita hor. – . 	↑ cil , , . 	↑ hor. carm. , . 	↑ kenneth j. reckford: horace. (= world authors, band ), twayne publishers, new york , s. . 	↑ eduard fraenkel: horace. oxford , s. ; hans-christian günther: horace’s life and work. in: derselbe (hrsg.): brill’s companion to horace. leiden und boston , s. . 	↑ hans-christian günther: horace’s life and work. in: derselbe (hrsg.): brill’s companion to horace. leiden und boston , s. . 	↑ siehe zum beispiel ulrich von wilamowitz-moellendorff: sappho und simonides. untersuchungen über griechische lyriker., berlin , s. „[…] der rechte vermittler zwischen uns und den griechen, denen gegenüber er am ende jene freiheit gewann, die auch wir behaupten wollen.“; vgl. ronald syme: the roman aristocracy, oxford , s. . 	↑ hans-christian günther: horace’s life and work. in: derselbe (hrsg.): brill’s companion to horace. leiden und boston , s. . 	↑ vgl. hans-christian günther: horace’s life and work. in: brill’s companion to horace. hrsg. v. hans-christian günther, leiden/boston , s. . 	↑ vgl. john kevin newman: horace as outsider. (= spudasmata ), , s. ff. 	↑ vgl. hor. carm. , , ff. 	↑ hor. carm. , , ff. 	↑ vgl. suet. vita hor. ff. 	↑ suet. vita hor. ff. 	↑ hor. epist. , , . 	↑ hor. serm. , , . mille puellarum, puerorum mille furores 	↑ saara lilja: homosexuality in republican and augustan rome (= commentationes humanarum litterarum, band ), helsinki , s. ff. 	↑ hor. epist. , , . 	↑ hor. epist. , , - . 	↑ vgl. eduard fraenkel, horace, oxford , s. . 	↑ a b eckard lefèvre, horaz, münchen , s. . 	↑ vgl. niall rudd, horace. epistles book ii and the epistle to the pisones, cambridge , s. ff. 	↑ vgl. hor. oden , , – . 	↑ vgl. suet. vita horatii, . 	↑ vgl. hor. oden , , – . 	↑ vgl. verg. ecl. , . 	↑ epoden , 	↑ vgl. s. j. harrison, two notes on horace, epodes ( , ), in: the classical quarterly, band ( ), nr. , s. ff. 	↑ eckard lefèvre, horaz, münchen , s. . 	↑ vgl. hor. epod , . 	↑ vgl. hor. epod. , . 	↑ vgl. eduard fraenkel: horace. oxford , s. . 	↑ eckard lefèvre, horaz, münchen , s. . 	↑ hans-christian günther: the book of iambi. in: derselbe (hrsg.): brill’s companion to horace, leiden und boston , s. . 	↑ vgl. eduard fraenkel: horace. oxford , s. . 	↑ vgl. lindsay watson, a commentary on horace's epodes, oxford , s. . 	↑ vgl. hans-christian günther, the two books of iambi, in: brill’s companion to horace, hrsg. v. hans-christian günther, leiden/boston , s. ., alternativ diskutieren nisbet/hubbard, a commentary on horace, band i, oxford , s. f. eine spätere datierung der ode. 	↑ david h. porter, "quo, quo scelesti ruitis": the downward momentum of horace's "epodes", in: illinois classical studies, band ( ), s. . 	↑ david h. porter, "quo, quo scelesti ruitis": the downward momentum of horace's "epodes", in: illinois classical studies, band ( ), s. . 	↑ stephen j. heyworth: horace's ibis: on the titles, unity and contents of the epodes, in: papers of the leeds international latin seminar, band ( ), s. . 	↑ kathryn j. gutzwiller, poetic garlands. hellenistic epigrams in context. berkeley: 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params ( ×);). the present address (url) is a permanent link to this version. revision as of : , december by monkbot (talk | contribs) (task (cosmetic): eval templates: del empty params ( ×);) (diff) ← previous revision | latest revision (diff) | newer revision → (diff) 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		roman lyric poet this article is about the roman poet. for the egyptian god, see horus. for other uses, see horace (disambiguation). 	horace 	horace, as imagined by anton von werner 	born	quintus horatius flaccus december bc venusia, italy, roman republic 	died	 november bc (age ) rome 	resting place	rome 	occupation	soldier, scriba quaestorius, poet, senator 	language	latin 	nationality	roman 	genre	lyric poetry 	notable works	odes "the art of poetry" quintus horatius flaccus ( december – november bc), known in the english-speaking world as horace (/ˈhɒrɪs/), was the leading roman lyric poet during the time of augustus (also known as octavian). the rhetorician quintilian regarded his odes as just about the only latin lyrics worth reading: "he can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."[nb ] horace also crafted elegant hexameter verses (satires and epistles) and caustic iambic poetry (epodes). the hexameters are amusing yet serious works, friendly in tone, leading the ancient satirist persius to comment: "as his friend laughs, horace slyly puts his finger on his every fault; once let in, he plays about the heartstrings".[nb ] his career coincided with rome's momentous change from a republic to an empire. an officer in the republican army defeated at the battle of philippi in bc, he was befriended by octavian's right-hand man in civil affairs, maecenas, and became a spokesman for the new regime. for some commentators, his association with the regime was a delicate balance in which he maintained a strong measure of independence (he was "a master of the graceful sidestep")[ ] but for others he was, in john dryden's phrase, "a well-mannered court slave".[ ][nb ] contents 	 life 	 . childhood 	 . adulthood 	 . . poet 	 . . knight 	 works 	 . historical context 	 . themes 	 reception 	 . antiquity 	 . middle ages and renaissance 	 . age of enlightenment 	 . th century on 	 translations 	 in popular culture 	 see also 	 notes 	 citations 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links life[edit] horatii flacci sermonum ( ) horace can be regarded as the world's first autobiographer.[ ] in his writings, he tells us far more about himself, his character, his development, and his way of life, than any other great poet of antiquity. some of the biographical material contained in his work can be supplemented from the short but valuable "life of horace" by suetonius (in his lives of the poets).[ ] childhood[edit] he was born on december bc[nb ] in the samnite south of italy.[ ] his home town, venusia, lay on a trade route in the border region between apulia and lucania (basilicata). various italic dialects were spoken in the area and this perhaps enriched his feeling for language. he could have been familiar with greek words even as a young boy and later he poked fun at the jargon of mixed greek and oscan spoken in neighbouring canusium.[ ] one of the works he probably studied in school was the odyssia of livius andronicus, taught by teachers like the 'orbilius' mentioned in one of his poems.[ ] army veterans could have been settled there at the expense of local families uprooted by rome as punishment for their part in the social war ( – bc).[ ] such state-sponsored migration must have added still more linguistic variety to the area. according to a local tradition reported by horace,[ ] a colony of romans or latins had been installed in venusia after the samnites had been driven out early in the third century. in that case, young horace could have felt himself to be a roman[ ][ ] though there are also indications that he regarded himself as a samnite or sabellus by birth.[ ][ ] italians in modern and ancient times have always been devoted to their home towns, even after success in the wider world, and horace was no different. images of his childhood setting and references to it are found throughout his poems.[ ] horace's father was probably a venutian taken captive by romans in the social war, or possibly he was descended from a sabine captured in the samnite wars. either way, he was a slave for at least part of his life. he was evidently a man of strong abilities however and managed to gain his freedom and improve his social position. thus horace claimed to be the free-born son of a prosperous 'coactor'.[ ] the term 'coactor' could denote various roles, such as tax collector, but its use by horace[ ] was explained by scholia as a reference to 'coactor argentareus' i.e. an auctioneer with some of the functions of a banker, paying the seller out of his own funds and later recovering the sum with interest from the buyer.[ ] the father spent a small fortune on his son's education, eventually accompanying him to rome to oversee his schooling and moral development. the poet later paid tribute to him in a poem[ ] that one modern scholar considers the best memorial by any son to his father.[nb ] the poem includes this passage: if my character is flawed by a few minor faults, but is otherwise decent and moral, if you can point out only a few scattered blemishes on an otherwise immaculate surface, if no one can accuse me of greed, or of prurience, or of profligacy, if i live a virtuous life, free of defilement (pardon, for a moment, my self-praise), and if i am to my friends a good friend, my father deserves all the credit... as it is now, he deserves from me unstinting gratitude and praise. i could never be ashamed of such a father, nor do i feel any need, as many people do, to apologize for being a freedman's son. satires . . – he never mentioned his mother in his verses and he might not have known much about her. perhaps she also had been a slave.[ ] adulthood[edit] horace left rome, possibly after his father's death, and continued his formal education in athens, a great centre of learning in the ancient world, where he arrived at nineteen years of age, enrolling in the academy. founded by plato, the academy was now dominated by epicureans and stoics, whose theories and practises made a deep impression on the young man from venusia.[ ] meanwhile, he mixed and lounged about with the elite of roman youth, such as marcus, the idle son of cicero, and the pompeius to whom he later addressed a poem.[ ] it was in athens too that he probably acquired deep familiarity with the ancient tradition of greek lyric poetry, at that time largely the preserve of grammarians and academic specialists (access to such material was easier in athens than in rome, where the public libraries had yet to be built by asinius pollio and augustus).[ ] rome's troubles following the assassination of julius caesar were soon to catch up with him. marcus junius brutus came to athens seeking support for the republican cause. brutus was fêted around town in grand receptions and he made a point of attending academic lectures, all the while recruiting supporters among the young men studying there, including horace.[ ] an educated young roman could begin military service high in the ranks and horace was made tribunus militum (one of six senior officers of a typical legion), a post usually reserved for men of senatorial or equestrian rank and which seems to have inspired jealousy among his well-born confederates.[ ][ ] he learned the basics of military life while on the march, particularly in the wilds of northern greece, whose rugged scenery became a backdrop to some of his later poems.[ ] it was there in bc that octavian (later augustus) and his associate mark antony crushed the republican forces at the battle of philippi. horace later recorded it as a day of embarrassment for himself, when he fled without his shield,[ ] but allowance should be made for his self-deprecating humour. moreover, the incident allowed him to identify himself with some famous poets who had long ago abandoned their shields in battle, notably his heroes alcaeus and archilochus. the comparison with the latter poet is uncanny: archilochus lost his shield in a part of thrace near philippi, and he was deeply involved in the greek colonization of thasos, where horace's die-hard comrades finally surrendered.[ ] octavian offered an early amnesty to his opponents and horace quickly accepted it. on returning to italy, he was confronted with yet another loss: his father's estate in venusia was one of many throughout italy to be confiscated for the settlement of veterans (virgil lost his estate in the north about the same time). horace later claimed that he was reduced to poverty and this led him to try his hand at poetry.[ ] in reality, there was no money to be had from versifying. at best, it offered future prospects through contacts with other poets and their patrons among the rich.[ ] meanwhile, he obtained the sinecure of scriba quaestorius, a civil service position at the aerarium or treasury, profitable enough to be purchased even by members of the ordo equester and not very demanding in its work-load, since tasks could be delegated to scribae or permanent clerks.[ ] it was about this time that he began writing his satires and epodes. poet[edit] horace reads before maecenas, by fyodor bronnikov the epodes belong to iambic poetry. iambic poetry features insulting and obscene language;[ ][ ] sometimes, it is referred to as blame poetry.[ ] blame poetry, or shame poetry, is poetry written to blame and shame fellow citizens into a sense of their social obligations. horace modelled these poems on the poetry of archilochus. social bonds in rome had been decaying since the destruction of carthage a little more than a hundred years earlier, due to the vast wealth that could be gained by plunder and corruption.[ ] these social ills were magnified by rivalry between julius caesar, mark antony and confederates like sextus pompey, all jockeying for a bigger share of the spoils. one modern scholar has counted a dozen civil wars in the hundred years leading up to bc, including the spartacus rebellion, eight years before horace's birth.[ ] as the heirs to hellenistic culture, horace and his fellow romans were not well prepared to deal with these problems: at bottom, all the problems that the times were stirring up were of a social nature, which the hellenistic thinkers were ill qualified to grapple with. some of them censured oppression of the poor by the rich, but they gave no practical lead, though they may have hoped to see well-meaning rulers doing so. philosophy was drifting into absorption in self, a quest for private contentedness, to be achieved by self-control and restraint, without much regard for the fate of a disintegrating community. — v. g. kiernan[ ] horace's hellenistic background is clear in his satires, even though the genre was unique to latin literature. he brought to it a style and outlook suited to the social and ethical issues confronting rome but he changed its role from public, social engagement to private meditation.[ ] meanwhile, he was beginning to interest octavian's supporters, a gradual process described by him in one of his satires.[ ] the way was opened for him by his friend, the poet virgil, who had gained admission into the privileged circle around maecenas, octavian's lieutenant, following the success of his eclogues. an introduction soon followed and, after a discreet interval, horace too was accepted. he depicted the process as an honourable one, based on merit and mutual respect, eventually leading to true friendship, and there is reason to believe that his relationship was genuinely friendly, not just with maecenas but afterwards with augustus as well.[ ] on the other hand, the poet has been unsympathetically described by one scholar as "a sharp and rising young man, with an eye to the main chance."[ ] there were advantages on both sides: horace gained encouragement and material support, the politicians gained a hold on a potential dissident.[ ] his republican sympathies, and his role at philippi, may have caused him some pangs of remorse over his new status. however most romans considered the civil wars to be the result of contentio dignitatis, or rivalry between the foremost families of the city, and he too seems to have accepted the principate as rome's last hope for much needed peace.[ ] in bc, horace accompanied maecenas on a journey to brundisium, described in one of his poems[ ] as a series of amusing incidents and charming encounters with other friends along the way, such as virgil. in fact the journey was political in its motivation, with maecenas en route to negotiatie the treaty of tarentum with antony, a fact horace artfully keeps from the reader (political issues are largely avoided in the first book of satires).[ ] horace was probably also with maecenas on one of octavian's naval expeditions against the piratical sextus pompeius, which ended in a disastrous storm off palinurus in bc, briefly alluded to by horace in terms of near-drowning.[ ][nb ] there are also some indications in his verses that he was with maecenas at the battle of actium in bc, where octavian defeated his great rival, antony.[ ][nb ] by then horace had already received from maecenas the famous gift of his sabine farm, probably not long after the publication of the first book of satires. the gift, which included income from five tenants, may have ended his career at the treasury, or at least allowed him to give it less time and energy.[ ] it signalled his identification with the octavian regime yet, in the second book of satires that soon followed, he continued the apolitical stance of the first book. by this time, he had attained the status of eques romanus,[ ] perhaps as a result of his work at the treasury.[ ] knight[edit] odes – were the next focus for his artistic creativity. he adapted their forms and themes from greek lyric poetry of the seventh and sixth centuries bc. the fragmented nature of the greek world had enabled his literary heroes to express themselves freely and his semi-retirement from the treasury in rome to his own estate in the sabine hills perhaps empowered him to some extent also[ ] yet even when his lyrics touched on public affairs they reinforced the importance of private life.[ ] nevertheless, his work in the period – bc began to show his closeness to the regime and his sensitivity to its developing ideology. in odes . , for example, he eulogized octavian in hyperboles that echo hellenistic court poetry. the name augustus, which octavian assumed in january bc, is first attested in odes . and . . in the period – bc, political allusions in the odes concentrated on foreign wars in britain ( . ), arabia ( . ) spain ( . ) and parthia ( . ). he greeted augustus on his return to rome in bc as a beloved ruler upon whose good health he depended for his own happiness ( . ).[ ] the public reception of odes – disappointed him, however. he attributed the lack of success to jealousy among imperial courtiers and to his isolation from literary cliques.[ ] perhaps it was disappointment that led him to put aside the genre in favour of verse letters. he addressed his first book of epistles to a variety of friends and acquaintances in an urbane style reflecting his new social status as a knight. in the opening poem, he professed a deeper interest in moral philosophy than poetry[ ] but, though the collection demonstrates a leaning towards stoic theory, it reveals no sustained thinking about ethics.[ ] maecenas was still the dominant confidante but horace had now begun to assert his own independence, suavely declining constant invitations to attend his patron.[ ] in the final poem of the first book of epistles, he revealed himself to be forty-four years old in the consulship of lollius and lepidus i.e. bc, and "of small stature, fond of the sun, prematurely grey, quick-tempered but easily placated".[ ][ ] according to suetonius, the second book of epistles was prompted by augustus, who desired a verse epistle to be addressed to himself. augustus was in fact a prolific letter-writer and he once asked horace to be his personal secretary. horace refused the secretarial role but complied with the emperor's request for a verse letter.[ ] the letter to augustus may have been slow in coming, being published possibly as late as bc. it celebrated, among other things, the bc military victories of his stepsons, drusus and tiberius, yet it and the following letter[ ] were largely devoted to literary theory and criticism. the literary theme was explored still further in ars poetica, published separately but written in the form of an epistle and sometimes referred to as epistles . (possibly the last poem he ever wrote).[ ] he was also commissioned to write odes commemorating the victories of drusus and tiberius[ ] and one to be sung in a temple of apollo for the secular games, a long-abandoned festival that augustus revived in accordance with his policy of recreating ancient customs (carmen saeculare). suetonius recorded some gossip about horace's sexual activities late in life, claiming that the walls of his bedchamber were covered with obscene pictures and mirrors, so that he saw erotica wherever he looked.[nb ] the poet died at years of age, not long after his friend maecenas, near whose tomb he was laid to rest. both men bequeathed their property to augustus, an honour that the emperor expected of his friends.[ ] works[edit] odes . – wall poem in leiden the dating of horace's works isn't known precisely and scholars often debate the exact order in which they were first 'published'. there are persuasive arguments for the following chronology:[ ] 	satires (c. – bc) 	satires (c. bc) 	epodes ( bc) 	odes – (c. bc)[nb ] 	epistles (c. bc) 	carmen saeculare ( bc) 	epistles (c. bc)[nb ] 	odes (c. bc) 	ars poetica (c. – bc)[nb ] historical context[edit] horace composed in traditional metres borrowed from archaic greece, employing hexameters in his satires and epistles, and iambs in his epodes, all of which were relatively easy to adapt into latin forms. his odes featured more complex measures, including alcaics and sapphics, which were sometimes a difficult fit for latin structure and syntax. despite these traditional metres, he presented himself as a partisan in the development of a new and sophisticated style. he was influenced in particular by hellenistic aesthetics of brevity, elegance and polish, as modelled in the work of callimachus.[ ] as soon as horace, stirred by his own genius and encouraged by the example of virgil, varius, and perhaps some other poets of the same generation, had determined to make his fame as a poet, being by temperament a fighter, he wanted to fight against all kinds of prejudice, amateurish slovenliness, philistinism, reactionary tendencies, in short to fight for the new and noble type of poetry which he and his friends were endeavouring to bring about. — eduard fraenkel[ ] in modern literary theory, a distinction is often made between immediate personal experience (urerlebnis) and experience mediated by cultural vectors such as literature, philosophy and the visual arts (bildungserlebnis).[ ] the distinction has little relevance for horace[citation needed] however since his personal and literary experiences are implicated in each other. satires . , for example, recounts in detail a real trip horace made with virgil and some of his other literary friends, and which parallels a satire by lucilius, his predecessor.[ ] unlike much hellenistic-inspired literature, however, his poetry was not composed for a small coterie of admirers and fellow poets, nor does it rely on abstruse allusions for many of its effects. though elitist in its literary standards, it was written for a wide audience, as a public form of art.[ ] ambivalence also characterizes his literary persona, since his presentation of himself as part of a small community of philosophically aware people, seeking true peace of mind while shunning vices like greed, was well adapted to augustus's plans to reform public morality, corrupted by greed—his personal plea for moderation was part of the emperor's grand message to the nation.[ ] horace generally followed the examples of poets established as classics in different genres, such as archilochus in the epodes, lucilius in the satires and alcaeus in the odes, later broadening his scope for the sake of variation and because his models weren't actually suited to the realities confronting him. archilochus and alcaeus were aristocratic greeks whose poetry had a social and religious function that was immediately intelligible to their audiences but which became a mere artifice or literary motif when transposed to rome. however, the artifice of the odes is also integral to their success, since they could now accommodate a wide range of emotional effects, and the blend of greek and roman elements adds a sense of detachment and universality.[ ] horace proudly claimed to introduce into latin the spirit and iambic poetry of archilochus but (unlike archilochus) without persecuting anyone (epistles . . – ). it was no idle boast. his epodes were modelled on the verses of the greek poet, as 'blame poetry', yet he avoided targeting real scapegoats. whereas archilochus presented himself as a serious and vigorous opponent of wrong-doers, horace aimed for comic effects and adopted the persona of a weak and ineffectual critic of his times (as symbolized for example in his surrender to the witch canidia in the final epode).[ ] he also claimed to be the first to introduce into latin the lyrical methods of alcaeus (epistles . . – ) and he actually was the first latin poet to make consistent use of alcaic meters and themes: love, politics and the symposium. he imitated other greek lyric poets as well, employing a 'motto' technique, beginning each ode with some reference to a greek original and then diverging from it.[ ] the satirical poet lucilius was a senator's son who could castigate his peers with impunity. horace was a mere freedman's son who had to tread carefully.[ ] lucilius was a rugged patriot and a significant voice in roman self-awareness, endearing himself to his countrymen by his blunt frankness and explicit politics. his work expressed genuine freedom or libertas. his style included 'metrical vandalism' and looseness of structure. horace instead adopted an oblique and ironic style of satire, ridiculing stock characters and anonymous targets. his libertas was the private freedom of a philosophical outlook, not a political or social privilege.[ ] his satires are relatively easy-going in their use of meter (relative to the tight lyric meters of the odes)[ ] but formal and highly controlled relative to the poems of lucilius, whom horace mocked for his sloppy standards (satires . . – )[nb ] the epistles may be considered among horace's most innovative works. there was nothing like it in greek or roman literature. occasionally poems had had some resemblance to letters, including an elegiac poem from solon to mimnermus and some lyrical poems from pindar to hieron of syracuse. lucilius had composed a satire in the form of a letter, and some epistolary poems were composed by catullus and propertius. but nobody before horace had ever composed an entire collection of verse letters,[ ] let alone letters with a focus on philosophical problems. the sophisticated and flexible style that he had developed in his satires was adapted to the more serious needs of this new genre.[ ] such refinement of style was not unusual for horace. his craftsmanship as a wordsmith is apparent even in his earliest attempts at this or that kind of poetry, but his handling of each genre tended to improve over time as he adapted it to his own needs.[ ] thus for example it is generally agreed that his second book of satires, where human folly is revealed through dialogue between characters, is superior to the first, where he propounds his ethics in monologues. nevertheless, the first book includes some of his most popular poems.[ ] themes[edit] horace developed a number of inter-related themes throughout his poetic career, including politics, love, philosophy and ethics, his own social role, as well as poetry itself. his epodes and satires are forms of 'blame poetry' and both have a natural affinity with the moralising and diatribes of cynicism. this often takes the form of allusions to the work and philosophy of bion of borysthenes [nb ] but it is as much a literary game as a philosophical alignment. by the time he composed his epistles, he was a critic of cynicism along with all impractical and "high-falutin" philosophy in general.[nb ][ ] the satires also include a strong element of epicureanism, with frequent allusions to the epicurean poet lucretius.[nb ] so for example the epicurean sentiment carpe diem is the inspiration behind horace's repeated punning on his own name (horatius ~ hora) in satires . .[ ] the satires also feature some stoic, peripatetic and platonic (dialogues) elements. in short, the satires present a medley of philosophical programs, dished up in no particular order—a style of argument typical of the genre.[ ] the odes display a wide range of topics. over time, he becomes more confident about his political voice.[ ] although he is often thought of as an overly intellectual lover, he is ingenious in representing passion.[ ] the "odes" weave various philosophical strands together, with allusions and statements of doctrine present in about a third of the odes books – , ranging from the flippant ( . , . ) to the solemn ( . , . , . ). epicureanism is the dominant influence, characterizing about twice as many of these odes as stoicism. a group of odes combines these two influences in tense relationships, such as odes . , praising stoic virility and devotion to public duty while also advocating private pleasures among friends. while generally favouring the epicurean lifestyle, the lyric poet is as eclectic as the satiric poet, and in odes . even proposes aristotle's golden mean as a remedy for rome's political troubles.[ ] many of horace's poems also contain much reflection on genre, the lyric tradition, and the function of poetry.[ ] odes , thought to be composed at the emperor's request, takes the themes of the first three books of "odes" to a new level. this book shows greater poetic confidence after the public performance of his "carmen saeculare" or "century hymn" at a public festival orchestrated by augustus. in it, horace addresses the emperor augustus directly with more confidence and proclaims his power to grant poetic immortality to those he praises. it is the least philosophical collection of his verses, excepting the twelfth ode, addressed to the dead virgil as if he were living. in that ode, the epic poet and the lyric poet are aligned with stoicism and epicureanism respectively, in a mood of bitter-sweet pathos.[ ] the first poem of the epistles sets the philosophical tone for the rest of the collection: "so now i put aside both verses and all those other games: what is true and what befits is my care, this my question, this my whole concern." his poetic renunciation of poetry in favour of philosophy is intended to be ambiguous. ambiguity is the hallmark of the epistles. it is uncertain if those being addressed by the self-mocking poet-philosopher are being honoured or criticized. though he emerges as an epicurean, it is on the understanding that philosophical preferences, like political and social choices, are a matter of personal taste. thus he depicts the ups and downs of the philosophical life more realistically than do most philosophers.[ ] reception[edit] horace, portrayed by giacomo di chirico the reception of horace's work has varied from one epoch to another and varied markedly even in his own lifetime. odes – were not well received when first 'published' in rome, yet augustus later commissioned a ceremonial ode for the centennial games in bc and also encouraged the publication of odes , after which horace's reputation as rome's premier lyricist was assured. his odes were to become the best received of all his poems in ancient times, acquiring a classic status that discouraged imitation: no other poet produced a comparable body of lyrics in the four centuries that followed[ ] (though that might also be attributed to social causes, particularly the parasitism that italy was sinking into).[ ] in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, ode-writing became highly fashionable in england and a large number of aspiring poets imitated horace both in english and in latin.[ ] in a verse epistle to augustus (epistle . ), in bc, horace argued for classic status to be awarded to contemporary poets, including virgil and apparently himself.[ ] in the final poem of his third book of odes he claimed to have created for himself a monument more durable than bronze ("exegi monumentum aere perennius", carmina . . ). for one modern scholar, however, horace's personal qualities are more notable than the monumental quality of his achievement: ... when we hear his name we don't really think of a monument. we think rather of a voice which varies in tone and resonance but is always recognizable, and which by its unsentimental humanity evokes a very special blend of liking and respect. — niall rudd[ ] yet for men like wilfred owen, scarred by experiences of world war i, his poetry stood for discredited values: my friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old lie: dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.[nb ] the same motto, dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, had been adapted to the ethos of martyrdom in the lyrics of early christian poets like prudentius.[ ] these preliminary comments touch on a small sample of developments in the reception of horace's work. more developments are covered epoch by epoch in the following sections. antiquity[edit] horace's influence can be observed in the work of his near contemporaries, ovid and propertius. ovid followed his example in creating a completely natural style of expression in hexameter verse, and propertius cheekily mimicked him in his third book of elegies.[nb ] his epistles provided them both with a model for their own verse letters and it also shaped ovid's exile poetry.[nb ] his influence had a perverse aspect. as mentioned before, the brilliance of his odes may have discouraged imitation. conversely, they may have created a vogue for the lyrics of the archaic greek poet pindar, due to the fact that horace had neglected that style of lyric (see influence and legacy of pindar).[ ] the iambic genre seems almost to have disappeared after publication of horace's epodes. ovid's ibis was a rare attempt at the form but it was inspired mainly by callimachus, and there are some iambic elements in martial but the main influence there was catullus.[ ] a revival of popular interest in the satires of lucilius may have been inspired by horace's criticism of his unpolished style. both horace and lucilius were considered good role-models by persius, who critiqued his own satires as lacking both the acerbity of lucillius and the gentler touch of horace.[nb ] juvenal's caustic satire was influenced mainly by lucilius but horace by then was a school classic and juvenal could refer to him respectfully and in a round-about way as "the venusine lamp".[nb ] statius paid homage to horace by composing one poem in sapphic and one in alcaic meter (the verse forms most often associated with odes), which he included in his collection of occasional poems, silvae. ancient scholars wrote commentaries on the lyric meters of the odes, including the scholarly poet caesius bassus. by a process called derivatio, he varied established meters through the addition or omission of syllables, a technique borrowed by seneca the younger when adapting horatian meters to the stage.[ ] horace's poems continued to be school texts into late antiquity. works attributed to helenius acro and pomponius porphyrio are the remnants of a much larger body of horatian scholarship. porphyrio arranged the poems in non-chronological order, beginning with the odes, because of their general popularity and their appeal to scholars (the odes were to retain this privileged position in the medieval manuscript tradition and thus in modern editions also). horace was often evoked by poets of the fourth century, such as ausonius and claudian. prudentius presented himself as a christian horace, adapting horatian meters to his own poetry and giving horatian motifs a christian tone.[nb ] on the other hand, st jerome, modelled an uncompromising response to the pagan horace, observing: "what harmony can there be between christ and the devil? what has horace to do with the psalter?"[nb ] by the early sixth century, horace and prudentius were both part of a classical heritage that was struggling to survive the disorder of the times. boethius, the last major author of classical latin literature, could still take inspiration from horace, sometimes mediated by senecan tragedy.[ ] it can be argued that horace's influence extended beyond poetry to dignify core themes and values of the early christian era, such as self-sufficiency, inner contentment and courage.[nb ] middle ages and renaissance[edit] horace in his studium: german print of the fifteenth century, summarizing the final ode . (in praise of augustus). classical texts almost ceased being copied in the period between the mid sixth century and the carolingian revival. horace's work probably survived in just two or three books imported into northern europe from italy. these became the ancestors of six extant manuscripts dated to the ninth century. two of those six manuscripts are french in origin, one was produced in alsace, and the other three show irish influence but were probably written in continental monasteries (lombardy for example).[ ] by the last half of the ninth century, it was not uncommon for literate people to have direct experience of horace's poetry. his influence on the carolingian renaissance can be found in the poems of heiric of auxerre[nb ] and in some manuscripts marked with neumes, mysterious notations that may have been an aid to the memorization and discussion of his lyric meters. ode . is neumed with the melody of a hymn to john the baptist, ut queant laxis, composed in sapphic stanzas. this hymn later became the basis of the solfege system (do, re, mi...)—an association with western music quite appropriate for a lyric poet like horace, though the language of the hymn is mainly prudentian.[ ] lyons[ ] argues that the melody in question was linked with horace's ode well before guido d'arezzo fitted ut queant laxis to it. however, the melody is unlikely to be a survivor from classical times, although ovid[ ] testifies to horace's use of the lyre while performing his odes. the german scholar, ludwig traube, once dubbed the tenth and eleventh centuries the age of horace (aetas horatiana), and placed it between the aetas vergiliana of the eighth and ninth centuries, and the aetas ovidiana of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a distinction supposed to reflect the dominant classical latin influences of those times. such a distinction is over-schematized since horace was a substantial influence in the ninth century as well. traube had focused too much on horace's satires.[ ] almost all of horace's work found favour in the medieval period. in fact medieval scholars were also guilty of over-schematism, associating horace's different genres with the different ages of man. a twelfth-century scholar encapsulated the theory: "...horace wrote four different kinds of poems on account of the four ages, the odes for boys, the ars poetica for young men, the satires for mature men, the epistles for old and complete men."[ ] it was even thought that horace had composed his works in the order in which they had been placed by ancient scholars.[nb ] despite its naivety, the schematism involved an appreciation of horace's works as a collection, the ars poetica, satires and epistles appearing to find favour as well as the odes. the later middle ages however gave special significance to satires and epistles, being considered horace's mature works. dante referred to horace as orazio satiro, and he awarded him a privileged position in the first circle of hell, with homer, ovid and lucan.[ ] horace's popularity is revealed in the large number of quotes from all his works found in almost every genre of medieval literature, and also in the number of poets imitating him in quantitative latin meter. the most prolific imitator of his odes was the bavarian monk, metellus of tegernsee, who dedicated his work to the patron saint of tegernsee abbey, st quirinus, around the year . he imitated all horace's lyrical meters then followed these up with imitations of other meters used by prudentius and boethius, indicating that variety, as first modelled by horace, was considered a fundamental aspect of the lyric genre. the content of his poems however was restricted to simple piety.[ ] among the most successful imitators of satires and epistles was another germanic author, calling himself sextus amarcius, around , who composed four books, the first two exemplifying vices, the second pair mainly virtues.[ ] petrarch is a key figure in the imitation of horace in accentual meters. his verse letters in latin were modelled on the epistles and he wrote a letter to horace in the form of an ode. however he also borrowed from horace when composing his italian sonnets. one modern scholar has speculated that authors who imitated horace in accentual rhythms (including stressed latin and vernacular languages) may have considered their work a natural sequel to horace's metrical variety.[ ] in france, horace and pindar were the poetic models for a group of vernacular authors called the pléiade, including for example pierre de ronsard and joachim du bellay. montaigne made constant and inventive use of horatian quotes.[ ] the vernacular languages were dominant in spain and portugal in the sixteenth century, where horace's influence is notable in the works of such authors as garcilaso de la vega, juan boscán, sá de miranda, antonio ferreira and fray luis de león, the last writing odes on the horatian theme beatus ille (happy the man).[ ] the sixteenth century in western europe was also an age of translations (except in germany, where horace wasn't translated into the vernacular until well into the seventeenth century). the first english translator was thomas drant, who placed translations of jeremiah and horace side by side in medicinable morall, . that was also the year that the scot george buchanan paraphrased the psalms in a horatian setting. ben jonson put horace on the stage in in poetaster, along with other classical latin authors, giving them all their own verses to speak in translation. horace's part evinces the independent spirit, moral earnestness and critical insight that many readers look for in his poems.[ ] age of enlightenment[edit] during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, or the age of enlightenment, neoclassical culture was pervasive. english literature in the middle of that period has been dubbed augustan. it is not always easy to distinguish horace's influence during those centuries (the mixing of influences is shown for example in one poet's pseudonym, horace juvenal).[nb ] however a measure of his influence can be found in the diversity of the people interested in his works, both among readers and authors.[ ] new editions of his works were published almost yearly. there were three new editions in (two in leiden, one in frankfurt) and again in (utrecht, barcelona, cambridge). cheap editions were plentiful and fine editions were also produced, including one whose entire text was engraved by john pine in copperplate. the poet james thomson owned five editions of horace's work and the physician james douglas had five hundred books with horace-related titles. horace was often commended in periodicals such as the spectator, as a hallmark of good judgement, moderation and manliness, a focus for moralising.[nb ] his verses offered a fund of mottoes, such as simplex munditiis (elegance in simplicity), splendide mendax (nobly untruthful), sapere aude (dare to know), nunc est bibendum (now is the time to drink), carpe diem (seize the day, perhaps the only one still in common use today).[ ] these were quoted even in works as prosaic as edmund quincy's a treatise of hemp-husbandry ( ). the fictional hero tom jones recited his verses with feeling.[ ] his works were also used to justify commonplace themes, such as patriotic obedience, as in james parry's english lines from an oxford university collection in :[ ] what friendly muse will teach my lays to emulate the roman fire? justly to sound a caeser's praise demands a bold horatian lyre. horatian-style lyrics were increasingly typical of oxford and cambridge verse collections for this period, most of them in latin but some like the previous ode in english. john milton's lycidas first appeared in such a collection. it has few horatian echoes[nb ] yet milton's associations with horace were lifelong. he composed a controversial version of odes . , and paradise lost includes references to horace's 'roman' odes . – (book for example begins with echoes of odes . ).[ ] yet horace's lyrics could offer inspiration to libertines as well as moralists, and neo-latin sometimes served as a kind of discrete veil for the risqué. thus for example benjamin loveling authored a catalogue of drury lane and covent garden prostitutes, in sapphic stanzas, and an encomium for a dying lady "of salacious memory".[ ] some latin imitations of horace were politically subversive, such as a marriage ode by anthony alsop that included a rallying cry for the jacobite cause. on the other hand, andrew marvell took inspiration from horace's odes . to compose his english masterpiece horatian ode upon cromwell's return from ireland, in which subtly nuanced reflections on the execution of charles i echo horace's ambiguous response to the death of cleopatra (marvell's ode was suppressed in spite of its subtlety and only began to be widely published in ). samuel johnson took particular pleasure in reading the odes.[nb ] alexander pope wrote direct imitations of horace (published with the original latin alongside) and also echoed him in essays and the rape of the lock. he even emerged as "a quite horatian homer" in his translation of the iliad.[ ] horace appealed also to female poets, such as anna seward (original sonnets on various subjects, and odes paraphrased from horace, ) and elizabeth tollet, who composed a latin ode in sapphic meter to celebrate her brother's return from overseas, with tea and coffee substituted for the wine of horace's sympotic settings: 	 quos procax nobis numeros, jocosque musa dictaret? mihi dum tibique temperent baccis arabes, vel herbis pocula seres[ ] 	 what verses and jokes might the bold muse dictate? while for you and me arabs flavour our cups with beans or chinese with leaves.[ ] 	 	 horace's ars poetica is second only to aristotle's poetics in its influence on literary theory and criticism. milton recommended both works in his treatise of education.[ ] horace's satires and epistles however also had a huge impact, influencing theorists and critics such as john dryden.[ ] there was considerable debate over the value of different lyrical forms for contemporary poets, as represented on one hand by the kind of four-line stanzas made familiar by horace's sapphic and alcaic odes and, on the other, the loosely structured pindarics associated with the odes of pindar. translations occasionally involved scholars in the dilemmas of censorship. thus christopher smart entirely omitted odes . and re-numbered the remaining odes. he also removed the ending of odes . . thomas creech printed epodes and in the original latin but left out their english translations. philip francis left out both the english and latin for those same two epodes, a gap in the numbering the only indication that something was amiss. french editions of horace were influential in england and these too were regularly bowdlerized. most european nations had their own 'horaces': thus for example friedrich von hagedorn was called the german horace and maciej kazimierz sarbiewski the polish horace (the latter was much imitated by english poets such as henry vaughan and abraham cowley). pope urban viii wrote voluminously in horatian meters, including an ode on gout.[ ] th century on[edit] horace maintained a central role in the education of english-speaking elites right up until the s.[ ] a pedantic emphasis on the formal aspects of language-learning at the expense of literary appreciation may have made him unpopular in some quarters[ ] yet it also confirmed his influence—a tension in his reception that underlies byron's famous lines from childe harold (canto iv, ):[ ] then farewell, horace, whom i hated so not for thy faults, but mine; it is a curse to understand, not feel thy lyric flow, to comprehend, but never love thy verse. william wordsworth's mature poetry, including the preface to lyrical ballads, reveals horace's influence in its rejection of false ornament[ ] and he once expressed "a wish / to meet the shade of horace...".[nb ] john keats echoed the opening of horace's epodes in the opening lines of ode to a nightingale.[nb ] the roman poet was presented in the nineteenth century as an honorary english gentleman. william thackeray produced a version of odes . in which horace's 'boy' became 'lucy', and gerard manley hopkins translated the boy innocently as 'child'. horace was translated by sir theodore martin (biographer of prince albert) but minus some ungentlemanly verses, such as the erotic odes . and epodes and . edward bulwer-lytton produced a popular translation and william gladstone also wrote translations during his last days as prime minister.[ ] edward fitzgerald's rubaiyat of omar khayyam, though formally derived from the persian ruba'i, nevertheless shows a strong horatian influence, since, as one modern scholar has observed, "...the quatrains inevitably recall the stanzas of the 'odes', as does the narrating first person of the world-weary, ageing epicurean omar himself, mixing sympotic exhortation and 'carpe diem' with splendid moralising and 'memento mori' nihilism."[nb ] matthew arnold advised a friend in verse not to worry about politics, an echo of odes . , yet later became a critic of horace's inadequacies relative to greek poets, as role models of victorian virtues, observing: "if human life were complete without faith, without enthusiasm, without energy, horace...would be the perfect interpreter of human life."[ ] christina rossetti composed a sonnet depicting a woman willing her own death steadily, drawing on horace's depiction of 'glycera' in odes . . – and cleopatra in odes . .[nb ] a. e. housman considered odes . , in archilochian couplets, the most beautiful poem of antiquity[ ] and yet he generally shared horace's penchant for quatrains, being readily adapted to his own elegiac and melancholy strain.[ ] the most famous poem of ernest dowson took its title and its heroine's name from a line of odes . , non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno cynarae, as well as its motif of nostalgia for a former flame. kipling wrote a famous parody of the odes, satirising their stylistic idiosyncrasies and especially the extraordinary syntax, but he also used horace's roman patriotism as a focus for british imperialism, as in the story regulus in the school collection stalky & co., which he based on odes . .[ ] wilfred owen's famous poem, quoted above, incorporated horatian text to question patriotism while ignoring the rules of latin scansion. however, there were few other echoes of horace in the war period, possibly because war is not actually a major theme of horace's work.[ ] bibendum (the symbol of the michelin tyre company) takes his name from the opening line of ode . , nunc est bibendum. both w.h.auden and louis macneice began their careers as teachers of classics and both responded as poets to horace's influence. auden for example evoked the fragile world of the s in terms echoing odes . . – , where horace advises a friend not to let worries about frontier wars interfere with current pleasures. and, gentle, do not care to know where poland draws her eastern bow,      what violence is done; nor ask what doubtful act allows our freedom in this english house,      our picnics in the sun.[nb ] the american poet, robert frost, echoed horace's satires in the conversational and sententious idiom of some of his longer poems, such as the lesson for today ( ), and also in his gentle advocacy of life on the farm, as in hyla brook ( ), evoking horace's fons bandusiae in ode . . now at the start of the third millennium, poets are still absorbing and re-configuring the horatian influence, sometimes in translation (such as a english/american edition of the odes by thirty-six poets)[nb ] and sometimes as inspiration for their own work (such as a collection of odes by a new zealand poet).[nb ] horace's epodes have largely been ignored in the modern era, excepting those with political associations of historical significance. the obscene qualities of some of the poems have repulsed even scholars[nb ] yet more recently a better understanding of the nature of iambic poetry has led to a re-evaluation of the whole collection.[ ][ ] a re-appraisal of the epodes also appears in creative adaptations by recent poets (such as a collection of poems that relocates the ancient context to a s industrial town).[nb ] translations[edit] 	john dryden successfully adapted three of the odes (and one epode) into verse for readers of his own age. samuel johnson favored the versions of philip francis. others favor unrhymed translations. 	in james michie published a translation of the odes—many of them fully rhymed—including a dozen of the poems in the original sapphic and alcaic metres. 	more recent verse translations of the odes include those by david west (free verse), and colin sydenham (rhymed). 	ars poetica was first translated into english by ben jonson and later by lord byron. 	horace's odes and the mystery of do-re-mi stuart lyons (rhymed) aris & phillips isbn  - - - - in popular culture[edit] the oxford latin course textbooks use the life of horace to illustrate an average roman's life in the late republic to early empire.[ ] see also[edit] 	literature portal 	ancient rome portal 	biography portal 	carpe diem 	horatia (gens) 	list of ancient romans 	otium 	prosody (latin) 	translation notes[edit] 	^ quintilian . . . the only other lyrical poet quintilian thought comparable with horace was the now obscure poet/metrical theorist, caesius bassus (r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, ) 	^ translated from persius' own 'satires' . – : "omne vafer vitium ridenti flaccus amico / tangit et admissus circum praecordia ludit." 	^ quoted by n. rudd from john dryden's discourse concerning the original and progress of satire, excerpted from w.p.ker's edition of dryden's essays, oxford , vol. , pp. – 	^ the year is given in odes . . ("consule manlio"), the month in epistles . . , the day in suetonius' biography vita (r. nisbet, horace: life and chronology, ) 	^ "no son ever set a finer monument to his father than horace did in the sixth satire of book i...horace's description of his father is warm-hearted but free from sentimentality or exaggeration. we see before us one of the common people, a hard-working, open-minded, and thoroughly honest man of simple habits and strict convictions, representing some of the best qualities that at the end of the republic could still be found in the unsophisticated society of the italian municipia" — e. fraenkel, horace, – 	^ odes . . : "nec (me extinxit) sicula palinurus unda"; "nor did palinurus extinguish me with sicilian waters". maecenas' involvement is recorded by appian bell. civ. . but horace's ode is the only historical reference to his own presence there, depending however on interpretation. (r. nisbet, horace: life and chronology, ) 	^ the point is much disputed among scholars and hinges on how the text is interpreted. epodes for example may offer proof of horace's presence if 'ad hunc frementis' ('gnashing at this' man i.e. the traitrous roman ) is a misreading of 'at huc...verterent' (but hither...they fled) in lines describing the defection of the galatian cavalry, "ad hunc frementis verterunt bis mille equos / galli canentes caesarem" (r. nisbet, horace: life and chronology, ). 	^ suetonius signals that the report is based on rumours by employing the terms "traditur...dicitur" / "it is reported...it is said" (e. fraenkel, horace, ) 	^ according to a recent theory, the three books of odes were issued separately, possibly in , and bc (see g. hutchinson ( ), classical quarterly : – ) 	^ bc is the usual estimate but c. bc has good support too (see r. nisbet, horace: life and chronology, – 	^ the date however is subject to much controversy with – bc another option (see for example r. syme, the augustan aristocracy, – 	^ "[lucilius]...resembles a man whose only concern is to force / something into the framework of six feet, and who gaily produces / two hundred lines before dinner and another two hundred after." – satire . . – (translated by niall rudd, the satires of horace and persius, penguin classics , p. ) 	^ there is one reference to bion by name in epistles . . , and the clearest allusion to him is in satire . , which parallels bion fragments , , kindstrand 	^ epistles . and . . – are critical of the extreme views of diogenes and also of social adaptations of cynic precepts, and yet epistle . could be either cynic or stoic in its orientation (j. moles, philosophy and ethics, p. 	^ satires . . – , – , . . – , . . – , – , . . , – , . . – , . . – , , . . – 	^ wilfred owen, dulce et decorum est ( ), echoes a line from carmina . . , "it is sweet and honourable to die for one's country", cited by stephen harrison, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, . 	^ propertius published his third book of elegies within a year or two of horace's odes – and mimicked him, for example, in the opening lines, characterizing himself in terms borrowed from odes . . and . . – , as a priest of the muses and as an adaptor of greek forms of poetry (r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, ) 	^ ovid for example probably borrowed from horace's epistle . the image of a poetry book as a slave boy eager to leave home, adapting it to the opening poems of tristia and (r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace), and tristia may be understood as a counterpart to horace's epistles . , both being letters addressed to augustus on literary themes (a. barchiesi, speaking volumes, – ) 	^ the comment is in persius . – , yet that same satire has been found to have nearly reminiscences of horace; see d. hooley, the knotted thong, 	^ the allusion to venusine comes via horace's sermones . . , while lamp signifies the lucubrations of a conscientious poet. according to quintilian ( ), however, many people in flavian rome preferred lucilius not only to horace but to all other latin poets (r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, ) 	^ prudentius sometimes alludesto the odes in a negative context, as expressions of a secular life he is abandoning. thus for example male pertinax, employed in prudentius's praefatio to describe a willful desire for victory, is lifted from odes . . , where it describes a girl's half-hearted resistance to seduction. elsewhere he borrows dux bone from odes . . and , where it refers to augustus, and applies it to christ (r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, 	^ st jerome, epistles . , incorporating a quote from 'corinthians . : qui consensus christo et belial? quid facit cum psalterio horatius?(cited by k. friis-jensen, horace in the middle ages, ) 	^ odes . . – was especially influential in promoting the value of heroic calm in the face of danger, describing a man who could bear even the collapse of the world without fear (si fractus illabatur orbis,/impavidum ferient ruinae). echoes are found in seneca's agamemnon – , prudentius's peristephanon . – and boethius's consolatio metrum .(r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, – ) 	^ heiric, like prudentius, gave horatian motifs a christian context. thus the character lydia in odes . . , who would willingly die for her lover twice, becomes in heiric's life of st germaine of auxerre a saint ready to die twice for the lord's commandments (r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, – ) 	^ according to a medieval french commentary on the satires: "...first he composed his lyrics, and in them, speaking to the young, as it were, he took as subject-matter love affairs and quarrels, banquets and drinking parties. next he wrote his epodes, and in them composed invectives against men of a more advanced and more dishonourable age...he next wrote his book about the ars poetica, and in that instructed men of his own profession to write well...later he added his book of satires, in which he reproved those who had fallen a prey to various kinds of vices. finally, he finished his oeuvre with the epistles, and in them, following the method of a good farmer, he sowed the virtues where he had rooted out the vices." (cited by k. friis-jensen, horace in the middle ages, – ) 	^ 'horace juvenal' was author of modern manners: a poem, 	^ see for example spectator , feb. ; , nov. ; , nov. 	^ one echo of horace may be found in line : "were it not better done as others use,/ to sport with amaryllis in the shade/or with the tangles of neaera's hair?", which points to the neara in odes . . (douglas bush, milton: poetical works, , note ) 	^ cfr. james boswell, "the life of samuel johnson" aetat. , where boswell remarked of johnson that horace's odes "were the compositions in which he took most delight." 	^ the quote, from memorials of a tour of italy ( ), contains allusions to odes . and . (s. harrison, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, – ) 	^ "my heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains / my sense..." echoes epodes . – (s. harrison, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ) 	^ comment by s. harrison, editor and contributor to the cambridge companion to horace (s. harrison, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, 	^ rossetti's sonnet, a study (a soul), dated , was not published in her own lifetime. some lines: she stands as pale as parian marble stands / like cleopatra when she turns at bay... (c. rossetti, complete poems, 	^ quoted from auden's poem out on the lawn i lie in bed, , and cited by s. harrison, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, 	^ edited by mcclatchy, reviewed by s. harrison, bryn mawr classical review . . 	^ i. wedde, the commonplace odes, auckland , (cited by s. harrison, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ) 	^ 'political' epodes are , , , ; notably obscene epodes are and . e. fraenkel is among the admirers repulsed by these two poems, for another view of which see for example dee lesser clayman, 'horace's epodes viii and xii: more than clever obscenity?', the classical world vol. , no. 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( ). augustus and the new poetry. brussels: latomus, revue d’études latines. 	noyes, alfred ( ). horace: a portrait. new york: sheed and ward. 	perret, jacques ( ). horace. bertha humez, trans. new york: new york university press. 	putnam, michael c.j. ( ). artifices of eternity: horace's fourth book of odes. ithaca, ny: cornell university press. isbn  - - - . 	reckford, kenneth j. ( ). horace. new york: twayne. 	rudd, niall, ed. ( ). horace : a celebration – essays for the bimillennium. ann arbor: univ. of michigan press. isbn  - - -x. 	sydenham, colin ( ). horace: the odes. duckworth. 	west, david ( ). horace the complete odes and epodes. oxford university press. 	wilkinson, l.p. 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eduard. ''horace.'' oxford: , p. .<br /> for the life of horace by suetonius, see: ([http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/ /pg .html ''vita horati''])</ref> ===childhood=== he was born on december bc<ref group="nb">the year is given in ''odes'' . . ([[lucius manlius torquatus|"consule manlio"]]), the month in ''epistles'' . . , the day in suetonius' biography ''vita'' (r. nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', )</ref> in the [[samnites|samnite]] south of [[italy (roman empire)|italy]].<ref>''brill's companion to horace'', edited by hans-christian günther, brill, , p. , [https://books.google.com/books?id=n b yuwxfm c&pg=pa google book]</ref> his home town, [[venosa|venusia]], lay on a trade route in the border region between [[apulia]] and [[lucania]] ([[basilicata]]). various italic dialects were spoken in the area and this perhaps enriched his feeling for language. he could have been familiar with greek words even as a young boy and later he poked fun at the jargon of mixed greek and oscan spoken in neighbouring [[canusium]].<ref>''satires'' . . </ref> one of the works he probably studied in school was the ''odyssia'' of [[livius andronicus]], taught by teachers like the '[[orbilius]]' mentioned in one of his poems.<ref>''epistles'' . . ff.</ref> army veterans could have been settled there at the expense of local families uprooted by rome as punishment for their part in the [[social war ( – bc)]].<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref> such state-sponsored migration must have added still more linguistic variety to the area. according to a local tradition reported by horace,<ref>''satires'' . . </ref> a colony of romans or latins had been installed in venusia after the [[samnites]] had been driven out early in the third century. in that case, young horace could have felt himself to be a roman<ref>t. frank, ''catullus and horace'', – </ref><ref>a. campbell, ''horace: a new interpretation'', </ref> though there are also indications that he regarded himself as a samnite or [[sabellus]] by birth.<ref>''epistles'' . . </ref><ref>r. nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', </ref> italians in modern and ancient times have always been devoted to their home towns, even after success in the wider world, and horace was no different. images of his childhood setting and references to it are found throughout his poems.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref> horace's father was probably a venutian taken captive by romans in the social war, or possibly he was descended from a [[sabine]] captured in the [[samnite wars]]. either way, he was a slave for at least part of his life. he was evidently a man of strong abilities however and managed to gain his freedom and improve his social position. thus horace claimed to be the free-born son of a prosperous 'coactor'.<ref name="kiernan">v. kiernan, ''horace: poetics and politics'', </ref> the term 'coactor' could denote various roles, such as tax collector, but its use by horace<ref>''satires'' . . </ref> was explained by [[scholia]] as a reference to 'coactor argentareus' i.e. an auctioneer with some of the functions of a banker, paying the seller out of his own funds and later recovering the sum with interest from the buyer.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref> the father spent a small fortune on his son's education, eventually accompanying him to [[rome]] to oversee his schooling and moral development. the poet later paid tribute to him in a poem<ref name="satires . ">''satires'' . </ref> that one modern scholar considers the best memorial by any son to his father.<ref group="nb">"no son ever set a finer monument to his father than horace did in the sixth satire of book i...horace's description of his father is warm-hearted but free from sentimentality or exaggeration. we see before us one of the common people, a hard-working, open-minded, and thoroughly honest man of simple habits and strict convictions, representing some of the best qualities that at the end of the republic could still be found in the unsophisticated society of the italian ''municipia''"&nbsp;{{emdash}}&nbsp;e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref> the poem includes this passage: <blockquote> if my character is flawed by a few minor faults, but is otherwise decent and moral, if you can point out only a few scattered blemishes on an otherwise immaculate surface, if no one can accuse me of greed, or of prurience, or of profligacy, if i live a virtuous life, free of defilement (pardon, for a moment, my self-praise), and if i am to my friends a good friend, my father deserves all the credit... as it is now, he deserves from me unstinting gratitude and praise. i could never be ashamed of such a father, nor do i feel any need, as many people do, to apologize for being a freedman's son. ''[[satire]]s . . – '' </blockquote> he never mentioned his mother in his verses and he might not have known much about her. perhaps she also had been a slave.<ref name="kiernan"/> ===adulthood=== horace left rome, possibly after his father's death, and continued his formal education in athens, a great centre of learning in the ancient world, where he arrived at nineteen years of age, enrolling in [[platonic academy|the academy]]. founded by [[plato]], the academy was now dominated by [[epicureans]] and [[stoics]], whose theories and practises made a deep impression on the young man from venusia.<ref>v. kiernan, ''horace: poetics and politics'', </ref> meanwhile, he mixed and lounged about with the elite of roman youth, such as marcus, the idle son of [[cicero]], and the pompeius to whom he later addressed a poem.<ref>''odes'' . </ref> it was in athens too that he probably acquired deep familiarity with the ancient tradition of greek lyric poetry, at that time largely the preserve of grammarians and academic specialists (access to such material was easier in athens than in rome, where the public libraries had yet to be built by [[asinius pollio]] and augustus).<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref> rome's troubles following the assassination of [[julius caesar]] were soon to catch up with him. [[marcus junius brutus]] came to athens seeking support for the republican cause. brutus was fêted around town in grand receptions and he made a point of attending academic lectures, all the while recruiting supporters among the young men studying there, including horace.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref> an educated young roman could begin military service high in the ranks and horace was made [[tribunus militum]] (one of six senior officers of a typical legion), a post usually reserved for men of senatorial or equestrian rank and which seems to have inspired jealousy among his well-born confederates.<ref>''satires'' . . </ref><ref name="nisbet">r. nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', </ref> he learned the basics of military life while on the march, particularly in the wilds of northern greece, whose rugged scenery became a backdrop to some of his later poems.<ref>v. kiernan, ''horace'', </ref> it was there in bc that [[octavian]] (later [[augustus]]) and his associate [[mark antony]] crushed the republican forces at the [[battle of philippi]]. horace later recorded it as a day of embarrassment for himself, when he fled without his shield,<ref>''odes'' . . </ref> but allowance should be made for his self-deprecating humour. moreover, the incident allowed him to identify himself with some famous poets who had long ago abandoned their shields in battle, notably his heroes [[alcaeus of mytilene|alcaeus]] and [[archilochus]]. the comparison with the latter poet is uncanny: archilochus lost his shield in a part of thrace near philippi, and he was deeply involved in the greek colonization of [[thasos]], where horace's die-hard comrades finally surrendered.<ref name="nisbet"/> octavian offered an early amnesty to his opponents and horace quickly accepted it. on returning to italy, he was confronted with yet another loss: his father's estate in venusia was one of many throughout italy to be confiscated for the settlement of veterans ([[virgil]] lost his estate in the north about the same time). horace later claimed that he was reduced to poverty and this led him to try his hand at poetry.<ref>''epistles'' . . – </ref> in reality, there was no money to be had from versifying. at best, it offered future prospects through contacts with other poets and their patrons among the rich.<ref>v. kiernan, ''horace: poetics and politics''</ref> meanwhile, he obtained the sinecure of ''scriba quaestorius'', a civil service position at the ''aerarium'' or treasury, profitable enough to be purchased even by members of the ''ordo equester'' and not very demanding in its work-load, since tasks could be delegated to ''scribae'' or permanent clerks.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref> it was about this time that he began writing his ''satires'' and ''epodes''. ====poet==== [[file:fedor bronnikov .jpg|thumb|horace reads before maecenas, by [[fyodor bronnikov]]]] the ''epodes'' belong to [[iambic poetry]]. iambic poetry features insulting and obscene language;<ref>christopher brown, in ''a companion to the greek lyric poets'', d.e. gerber (ed), leiden , pages – </ref><ref>douglas e. gerber, ''greek iambic poetry'', loeb classical library ( ), introduction pages i–iv</ref> sometimes, it is referred to as ''blame poetry''.<ref>d. mankin, ''horace: epodes'', c.u.p., </ref> ''blame poetry'', or ''shame poetry'', is poetry written to blame and shame fellow citizens into a sense of their social obligations. horace modelled these poems on the poetry of [[archilochus]]. social bonds in rome had been decaying since the destruction of [[carthage]] a little more than a hundred years earlier, due to the vast wealth that could be gained by plunder and corruption.<ref>d. mankin, ''horace: epodes'', </ref> these social ills were magnified by rivalry between julius caesar, mark antony and confederates like [[sextus pompey]], all jockeying for a bigger share of the spoils. one modern scholar has counted a dozen civil wars in the hundred years leading up to bc, including the [[spartacus]] rebellion, eight years before horace's birth.<ref>r. conway, ''new studies of a great inheritance'', – </ref> as the heirs to hellenistic culture, horace and his fellow romans were not well prepared to deal with these problems: {{quotation|at bottom, all the problems that the times were stirring up were of a social nature, which the hellenistic thinkers were ill qualified to grapple with. some of them censured oppression of the poor by the rich, but they gave no practical lead, though they may have hoped to see well-meaning rulers doing so. philosophy was drifting into absorption in self, a quest for private contentedness, to be achieved by self-control and restraint, without much regard for the fate of a disintegrating community.|[[v. g. kiernan]]<ref>v. kiernan, ''horace: poetics and politics'', – </ref>}} horace's hellenistic background is clear in his satires, even though the genre was unique to latin literature. he brought to it a style and outlook suited to the social and ethical issues confronting rome but he changed its role from public, social engagement to private meditation.<ref>f. muecke, ''the satires'', – </ref> meanwhile, he was beginning to interest octavian's supporters, a gradual process described by him in one of his satires.<ref name="satires . "/> the way was opened for him by his friend, the poet virgil, who had gained admission into the privileged circle around maecenas, octavian's lieutenant, following the success of his ''[[eclogues]]''. an introduction soon followed and, after a discreet interval, horace too was accepted. he depicted the process as an honourable one, based on merit and mutual respect, eventually leading to true friendship, and there is reason to believe that his relationship was genuinely friendly, not just with maecenas but afterwards with augustus as well.<ref>r. lyne, ''augustan poetry and society'', </ref> on the other hand, the poet has been unsympathetically described by one scholar as "a sharp and rising young man, with an eye to the main chance."<ref>j. griffin, ''horace in the thirties'', </ref> there were advantages on both sides: horace gained encouragement and material support, the politicians gained a hold on a potential dissident.<ref name="referenceb">r. nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', </ref> his republican sympathies, and his role at philippi, may have caused him some pangs of remorse over his new status. however most romans considered the civil wars to be the result of ''contentio dignitatis'', or rivalry between the foremost families of the city, and he too seems to have accepted the principate as rome's last hope for much needed peace.<ref>d. mankin, ''horace: epodes'', </ref> in bc, horace accompanied maecenas on a journey to [[brundisium]], described in one of his poems<ref>''satires'' . </ref> as a series of amusing incidents and charming encounters with other friends along the way, such as virgil. in fact the journey was political in its motivation, with maecenas en route to negotiatie the [[treaty of tarentum]] with antony, a fact horace artfully keeps from the reader (political issues are largely avoided in the first book of satires).<ref name="referenceb"/> horace was probably also with maecenas on one of octavian's naval expeditions against the piratical sextus pompeius, which ended in a disastrous storm off [[palinurus]] in bc, briefly alluded to by horace in terms of near-drowning.<ref>''odes'' . . </ref><ref group="nb">''odes'' . . : "nec (me extinxit) sicula palinurus unda"; "nor did palinurus extinguish me with sicilian waters". maecenas' involvement is recorded by [[appian]] ''bell. civ.'' . but horace's ode is the only historical reference to his own presence there, depending however on interpretation. (r. nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', )</ref> there are also some indications in his verses that he was with maecenas at the [[battle of actium]] in bc, where octavian defeated his great rival, antony.<ref>''epodes'' and </ref><ref group="nb">the point is much disputed among scholars and hinges on how the text is interpreted. ''epodes'' for example may offer proof of horace's presence if 'ad hunc frementis' ('gnashing at this' man i.e. the traitrous roman ) is a misreading of 'at huc...verterent' (but hither...they fled) in lines describing the defection of the galatian cavalry, "ad hunc frementis verterunt bis mille equos / galli canentes caesarem" (r. nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', ).</ref> by then horace had already received from maecenas the famous gift of his [[horace's villa|sabine farm]], probably not long after the publication of the first book of ''satires''. the gift, which included income from five tenants, may have ended his career at the treasury, or at least allowed him to give it less time and energy.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', </ref> it signalled his identification with the octavian regime yet, in the second book of ''satires'' that soon followed, he continued the apolitical stance of the first book. by this time, he had attained the status of ''eques romanus'',<ref>''satires'' . . </ref> perhaps as a result of his work at the treasury.<ref>r. nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', </ref> ====knight==== ''odes'' – were the next focus for his artistic creativity. he adapted their forms and themes from greek lyric poetry of the seventh and sixth centuries bc. the fragmented nature of the [[greek world]] had enabled his literary heroes to express themselves freely and his semi-retirement from the treasury in rome to [[horace's villa|his own estate]] in the sabine hills perhaps empowered him to some extent also<ref>v. kiernan, ''horace: poetics and politics'', – </ref> yet even when his lyrics touched on public affairs they reinforced the importance of private life.<ref name="referencea"/> nevertheless, his work in the period – bc began to show his closeness to the regime and his sensitivity to its developing ideology. in ''odes'' . , for example, he eulogized octavian in hyperboles that echo hellenistic court poetry. the name ''augustus'', which octavian assumed in january bc, is first attested in ''odes'' . and . . in the period – bc, political allusions in the ''odes'' concentrated on foreign wars in britain ( . ), arabia ( . ) spain ( . ) and parthia ( . ). he greeted augustus on his return to rome in bc as a beloved ruler upon whose good health he depended for his own happiness ( . ).<ref>r. nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', </ref> the public reception of ''odes'' – disappointed him, however. he attributed the lack of success to jealousy among imperial courtiers and to his isolation from literary cliques.<ref>''epistles'' . . – </ref> perhaps it was disappointment that led him to put aside the genre in favour of verse letters. he addressed his first book of ''epistles'' to a variety of friends and acquaintances in an urbane style reflecting his new social status as a knight. in the opening poem, he professed a deeper interest in moral philosophy than poetry<ref>''epistles'' . . </ref> but, though the collection demonstrates a leaning towards stoic theory, it reveals no sustained thinking about ethics.<ref>v. kiernan, ''horace: poetics and politics'', , </ref> maecenas was still the dominant confidante but horace had now begun to assert his own independence, suavely declining constant invitations to attend his patron.<ref>''epistles'' . </ref> in the final poem of the first book of ''epistles'', he revealed himself to be forty-four years old in the consulship of lollius and lepidus i.e. bc, and "of small stature, fond of the sun, prematurely grey, quick-tempered but easily placated".<ref>''epistles'' . . – </ref><ref>r. nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', – </ref> according to suetonius, the second book of ''epistles'' was prompted by augustus, who desired a verse epistle to be addressed to himself. augustus was in fact a prolific letter-writer and he once asked horace to be his personal secretary. horace refused the secretarial role but complied with the emperor's request for a verse letter.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref> the letter to augustus may have been slow in coming, being published possibly as late as bc. it celebrated, among other things, the bc military victories of his stepsons, drusus and tiberius, yet it and the following letter<ref>''epistles'' . </ref> were largely devoted to literary theory and criticism. the literary theme was explored still further in ''ars poetica'', published separately but written in the form of an epistle and sometimes referred to as ''epistles'' . (possibly the last poem he ever wrote).<ref>r. ferri, ''the epistles'', </ref> he was also commissioned to write odes commemorating the victories of drusus and tiberius<ref>''odes'' . and . </ref> and one to be sung in a temple of apollo for the [[secular games]], a long-abandoned festival that augustus revived in accordance with his policy of recreating ancient customs (''carmen saeculare''). suetonius recorded some gossip about horace's sexual activities late in life, claiming that the walls of his bedchamber were covered with obscene pictures and mirrors, so that he saw erotica wherever he looked.<ref group="nb">suetonius signals that the report is based on rumours by employing the terms "traditur...dicitur" / "it is reported...it is said" (e. fraenkel, ''horace'', )</ref> the poet died at years of age, not long after his friend maecenas, near whose tomb he was laid to rest. both men bequeathed their property to augustus, an honour that the emperor expected of his friends.<ref>e. 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studium.jpg|thumb|horace in his studium: german print of the fifteenth century, summarizing the final [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber iv/carmen xv|ode . ]] (in praise of augustus).]] classical texts almost ceased being copied in the period between the mid sixth century and the [[carolingian renaissance|carolingian revival]]. horace's work probably survived in just two or three books imported into northern europe from italy. these became the ancestors of six extant manuscripts dated to the ninth century. two of those six manuscripts are french in origin, one was produced in [[alsace]], and the other three show irish influence but were probably written in continental monasteries ([[lombardy]] for example).<ref>r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', – </ref> by the last half of the ninth century, it was not uncommon for literate people to have direct experience of horace's poetry. his influence on the [[carolingian renaissance]] can be found in the poems of [[heiric of auxerre]]<ref group="nb">heiric, like prudentius, gave horatian motifs a christian context. thus the character lydia in ''odes'' . . , who would willingly die for her lover twice, becomes in heiric's ''life'' of st germaine of auxerre a saint ready to die twice for the lord's commandments (r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', – )</ref> and in some manuscripts marked with [[neumes]], mysterious notations that may have been an aid to the memorization and discussion of his lyric meters. ''ode'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber iv/carmen xi| . ]] is neumed with the melody of a hymn to john the baptist, ''[[ut queant laxis]]'', composed in [[sapphic stanza]]s. this hymn later became the basis of the [[solfege]] system (''do, re, mi...''){{emdash}}an association with western music quite appropriate for a lyric poet like horace, though the language of the hymn is mainly prudentian.<ref>r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', – </ref> lyons<ref>stuart lyons, horace's odes and the mystery of do-re-mi</ref> argues that the melody in question was linked with horace's ode well before guido d'arezzo fitted [[ut queant laxis]] to it. however, the melody is unlikely to be a survivor from classical times, although ovid<ref>tristia, . . – </ref> testifies to horace's use of the lyre while performing his odes. the german scholar, [[ludwig traube (palaeographer)|ludwig traube]], once dubbed the tenth and eleventh centuries ''the age of horace'' (''aetas horatiana''), and placed it between the ''aetas vergiliana'' of the eighth and ninth centuries, and the ''aetas ovidiana'' of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a distinction supposed to reflect the dominant classical latin influences of those times. such a distinction is over-schematized since horace was a substantial influence in the ninth century as well. traube had focused too much on horace's ''satires''.<ref>b. bischoff, ''living with the satirists'', – </ref> almost all of horace's work found favour in the medieval period. in fact medieval scholars were also guilty of over-schematism, associating horace's different genres with the different ages of man. a twelfth-century scholar encapsulated the theory: "...horace wrote four different kinds of poems on account of the four ages, the ''odes'' for boys, the ''ars poetica'' for young men, the ''satires'' for mature men, the ''epistles'' for old and complete men."<ref>k. friis-jensen,''horace in the middle ages'', </ref> it was even thought that horace had composed his works in the order in which they had been placed by ancient scholars.<ref group="nb">according to a medieval french commentary on the ''satires'': "...first he composed his lyrics, and in them, speaking to the young, as it were, he took as subject-matter love affairs and quarrels, banquets and drinking parties. next he wrote his ''epodes'', and in them composed invectives against men of a more advanced and more dishonourable age...he next wrote his book about the ''ars poetica'', and in that instructed men of his own profession to write well...later he added his book of ''satires'', in which he reproved those who had fallen a prey to various kinds of vices. finally, he finished his oeuvre with the ''epistles'', and in them, following the method of a good farmer, he sowed the virtues where he had rooted out the vices." (cited by k. friis-jensen, ''horace in the middle ages'', – )</ref> despite its naivety, the schematism involved an appreciation of horace's works as a collection, the ''ars poetica'', ''satires'' and ''epistles'' appearing to find favour as well as the ''odes''. the later middle ages however gave special significance to ''satires'' and ''epistles'', being considered horace's mature works. [[dante]] referred to horace as ''orazio satiro'', and he awarded him a privileged position in the first circle of hell, with [[homer]], ovid and [[lucan]].<ref>k. friis-jensen, ''horace in the middle ages'', , </ref> horace's popularity is revealed in the large number of quotes from all his works found in almost every genre of medieval literature, and also in the number of poets imitating him in [[prosody (latin)#two rhythms|quantitative latin meter]]. the most prolific imitator of his ''odes'' was the bavarian monk, [[metellus of tegernsee]], who dedicated his work to the patron saint of [[tegernsee abbey]], [[quirinus of tegernsee|st quirinus]], around the year . he imitated all horace's lyrical meters then followed these up with imitations of other meters used by prudentius and boethius, indicating that variety, as first modelled by horace, was considered a fundamental aspect of the lyric genre. the content of his poems however was restricted to simple piety.<ref>k. friis-jensen, ''horace in the middle ages'', – </ref> among the most successful imitators of ''satires'' and ''epistles'' was another germanic author, calling himself [[sextus amarcius]], around , who composed four books, the first two exemplifying vices, the second pair mainly virtues.<ref>k. friis-jensen, ''horace in the middle ages'', </ref> [[petrarch]] is a key figure in the imitation of horace in accentual meters. his verse letters in latin were modelled on the ''epistles'' and he wrote a letter to horace in the form of an ode. however he also borrowed from horace when composing his italian sonnets. one modern scholar has speculated that authors who imitated horace in accentual rhythms (including stressed latin and vernacular languages) may have considered their work a natural sequel to horace's metrical variety.<ref>k. friis-jensen, ''horace in the middle ages'', </ref> in france, horace and [[pindar]] were the poetic models for a group of vernacular authors called the [[pléiade]], including for example [[pierre de ronsard]] and [[joachim du bellay]]. [[montaigne]] made constant and inventive use of horatian quotes.<ref>michael mcgann, ''horace in the renaissance'', </ref> the vernacular languages were dominant in spain and portugal in the sixteenth century, where horace's influence is notable in the works of such authors as [[garcilaso de la vega (poet)|garcilaso de la vega]], [[juan boscán]], [[sá de miranda]], [[antonio ferreira]] and [[fray luis de león]], the last writing odes on the horatian theme ''beatus ille'' (''happy the man'').<ref>e. rivers, ''fray luis de león: the original poems''</ref> the sixteenth century in western europe was also an age of translations (except in germany, where horace wasn't translated into the vernacular until well into the seventeenth century). the first english translator was [[thomas drant]], who placed translations of [[jeremiah]] and horace side by side in ''medicinable morall'', . that was also the year that the scot [[george buchanan]] paraphrased the [[psalms]] in a horatian setting. [[ben jonson]] put horace on the stage in in ''[[poetaster (play)|poetaster]]'', along with other classical latin authors, giving them all their own verses to speak in translation. horace's part evinces the independent spirit, moral earnestness and critical insight that many readers look for in his poems.<ref>m. mcgann, ''horace in the renaissance'', – , – </ref> return to horace. retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/horace" 		 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			article 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	edit 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		search 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigation 	 	 			main page 	contents 	current events 	random article 	about wikipedia 	contact us 	donate 		 	 	 	 		contribute 	 	 			help 	learn to edit 	community portal 	recent changes 	upload file 		 	 	 		tools 	 	 			what links here 	related changes 	upload file 	special pages 	page information 	wikidata item 		 	 	 	 		languages 	 	 		 		 	 	 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 Хораций – Уикипедия 	 	 	 	 	Хораций 	 		от Уикипедия, свободната енциклопедия 		 		 		 		 		Направо към навигацията 		Направо към търсенето 			 Хорацийq. horatius flaccus 	 древноримски писател 	 	 	 Роден	 декември г. пр.н.е. Венусия, дн.Италия 	 Починал	 ноември г. пр.н.е. ( г.) Рим, Италия 	 Погребан	 Рим, Италия 	 Семейство 	 Баща	 неизвестна 	 Майка	 неизвестна 	 Хораций в Общомедия Квинт Хораций Флак (на лат. quintus horatius flaccus) или Хораций е римски поет от Златния век на римската литература. Неговото творчество обхваща революционната епоха на Древен Рим – края на републиката и първото десетилетие на новия режим на Октавиан Август. Бащата на Хораций е бил земевладелец, освободен роб. Съумял да даде на сина си солидно образование в училищата в Рим, откъдето бъдещия поет тръгнал към Атина, за да се усъвършенства. Там Хораций попаднал сред средите на републикански настроени аристократични младежи. През г. пр.н.е. той взема участие в решителната битка при Филипи (в Македония) (между силите на Марк Антоний и Октавиан Август срещу тези на Марк Юний Брут и Касий) След поражението на републиканците и дадената амнистия за билите се на страната на загубилия, Хораций се връща в Италия, където разбира, че баща му е мъртъв, а имотите им са конфискувани. За да се издържа, става писар. Вергилий го въвежда в кръга на Меценат, който става негов приятел и покровител и го представя на Октавиан. От републиканец Хораций става поддръжник на монархията. На Хораций принадлежи репликата carpe diem (Наслаждавай се на момента). Изследвания[редактиране | редактиране на кода] 	Костова, Мария. Правото в поезията на Хораций. С., . 	Костова, Мария. Правният език и правните ситуации като стилистично средство в поезията на Хораций. – В: Езици и култури в диалог: Традиции, приемственост, новаторство. 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boek i ode xiv - cleveringaplaats , leiden.jpg|thumb|''odes'' . – [[wall poems in leiden|wall poem in leiden]] ]] the dating of horace's works isn't known precisely and scholars often debate the exact order in which they were first 'published'. there are persuasive arguments for the following chronology:<ref>r nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', – </ref> * ''[[satires (horace)|satires ]]'' (c. – bc) * ''[[satires (horace)|satires ]]'' (c. bc) * ''[[epodes (horace)|epodes]]'' ( bc) * ''[[odes (horace)|odes – ]]'' (c. bc)<ref group="nb">according to a recent theory, the three books of ''odes'' were issued separately, possibly in , and bc (see g. hutchinson ( ), ''classical quarterly'' : – )</ref> * ''[[epistles (horace)|epistles ]]'' (c. bc) * ''[[carmen saeculare]]'' ( bc) * ''[[epistles (horace)|epistles ]]'' (c. bc)<ref group="nb"> bc is the usual estimate but c. bc has good support too (see r. nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', – </ref> * ''[[odes (horace)|odes ]]'' (c. bc) * ''[[ars poetica (horace)|ars poetica]]'' (c. – bc)<ref group="nb">the date however is subject to much controversy with – bc another option (see for example r. syme, ''the augustan aristocracy'', – </ref> ===historical context=== horace composed in traditional [[meter (poetry)|metres]] borrowed from [[archaic greece]], employing [[hexameter]]s in his ''satires'' and ''epistles'', and [[iamb (poetry)|iambs]] in his ''epodes'', all of which were relatively easy to adapt into [[prosody (latin)|latin forms]]. his ''odes'' featured more complex measures, including [[alcaic verse|alcaics]] and [[sapphic stanza|sapphics]], which were sometimes a difficult fit for latin structure and [[syntax]]. despite these traditional metres, he presented himself as a partisan in the development of a new and sophisticated style. he was influenced in particular by [[hellenistic poetry|hellenistic]] aesthetics of brevity, elegance and polish, as modelled in the work of [[callimachus]].<ref>s. harrison, ''style and poetic texture'', </ref> {{quotation|as soon as horace, stirred by his own genius and encouraged by the example of virgil, varius, and perhaps some other poets of the same generation, had determined to make his fame as a poet, being by temperament a fighter, he wanted to fight against all kinds of prejudice, amateurish slovenliness, philistinism, reactionary tendencies, in short to fight for the new and noble type of poetry which he and his friends were endeavouring to bring about.|[[eduard fraenkel]]<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref>}} in modern literary theory, a distinction is often made between immediate personal experience (''urerlebnis'') and experience mediated by cultural vectors such as literature, philosophy and the visual arts (''bildungserlebnis'').<ref>{{cite book|last =gundolf|first =friedrich|title=goethe|date= |publisher=bondi|location=berlin, germany}}</ref> the distinction has little relevance for horace{{citation needed|date=august }} however since his personal and literary experiences are implicated in each other. ''satires'' . , for example, recounts in detail a real trip horace made with virgil and some of his other literary friends, and which parallels a satire by [[gaius lucilius|lucilius]], his predecessor.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref> unlike much hellenistic-inspired literature, however, his poetry was not composed for a small coterie of admirers and fellow poets, nor does it rely on abstruse allusions for many of its effects. though elitist in its literary standards, it was written for a wide audience, as a public form of art.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', </ref> ambivalence also characterizes his literary persona, since his presentation of himself as part of a small community of philosophically aware people, seeking true peace of mind while shunning vices like greed, was well adapted to augustus's plans to reform public morality, corrupted by greed—his personal plea for moderation was part of the emperor's grand message to the nation.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref> horace generally followed the examples of poets established as classics in different genres, such as [[archilochus]] in the ''epodes'', lucilius in the ''satires'' and [[alcaeus of mytilene|alcaeus]] in the ''odes'', later broadening his scope for the sake of variation and because his models weren't actually suited to the realities confronting him. archilochus and alcaeus were aristocratic greeks whose poetry had a social and religious function that was immediately intelligible to their audiences but which became a mere artifice or literary motif when transposed to rome. however, the artifice of the ''odes'' is also integral to their success, since they could now accommodate a wide range of emotional effects, and the blend of greek and roman elements adds a sense of detachment and universality.<ref>j. griffin, ''gods and religion'', </ref> horace proudly claimed to introduce into latin the spirit and iambic poetry of archilochus but (unlike archilochus) without persecuting anyone (''epistles'' . . – ). it was no idle boast. his ''epodes'' were modelled on the verses of the greek poet, as 'blame poetry', yet he avoided targeting real [[scapegoat]]s. whereas archilochus presented himself as a serious and vigorous opponent of wrong-doers, horace aimed for comic effects and adopted the persona of a weak and ineffectual critic of his times (as symbolized for example in his surrender to the witch canidia in the final epode).<ref>s. harrison, ''lyric and iambic'', </ref> he also claimed to be the first to introduce into latin the lyrical methods of alcaeus (''epistles'' . . – ) and he actually was the first latin poet to make consistent use of alcaic meters and themes: love, politics and the [[symposium]]. he imitated other greek lyric poets as well, employing a 'motto' technique, beginning each ode with some reference to a greek original and then diverging from it.<ref>s. harrison, ''lyric and iambic'', – </ref> the satirical poet lucilius was a senator's son who could castigate his peers with impunity. horace was a mere freedman's son who had to tread carefully.<ref name="e. fraenkel, horace, , ">e. fraenkel, ''horace'', , </ref> lucilius was a rugged patriot and a significant voice in roman self-awareness, endearing himself to his countrymen by his blunt frankness and explicit politics. his work expressed genuine freedom or [[libertas]]. his style included 'metrical vandalism' and looseness of structure. horace instead adopted an oblique and ironic style of satire, ridiculing stock characters and anonymous targets. his libertas was the private freedom of a philosophical outlook, not a political or social privilege.<ref>l. morgan, ''satire'', – </ref> his ''satires'' are relatively easy-going in their use of meter (relative to the tight lyric meters of the ''odes'')<ref>s. harrison, ''style and poetic texture'', </ref> but formal and highly controlled relative to the poems of lucilius, whom horace mocked for his sloppy standards (''satires'' . . – )<ref group="nb">"[lucilius]...resembles a man whose only concern is to force / something into the framework of six feet, and who gaily produces / two hundred lines before dinner and another two hundred after."{{spaced ndash}}''satire'' . . – (translated by [[niall rudd]], ''the satires of horace and persius'', penguin classics , p. )</ref> the ''epistles'' may be considered among horace's most innovative works. there was nothing like it in greek or roman literature. occasionally poems had had some resemblance to letters, including an elegiac poem from [[solon]] to [[mimnermus]] and some lyrical poems from [[pindar]] to [[hieron of syracuse]]. lucilius had composed a satire in the form of a letter, and some epistolary poems were composed by [[catullus]] and [[propertius]]. but nobody before horace had ever composed an entire collection of verse letters,<ref>r. ferri, ''the epistles'', pp. – </ref> let alone letters with a focus on philosophical problems. the sophisticated and flexible style that he had developed in his ''satires'' was adapted to the more serious needs of this new genre.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', p. </ref> such refinement of style was not unusual for horace. his craftsmanship as a wordsmith is apparent even in his earliest attempts at this or that kind of poetry, but his handling of each genre tended to improve over time as he adapted it to his own needs.<ref name="e. fraenkel, horace, , "/> thus for example it is generally agreed that his second book of ''satires'', where human folly is revealed through dialogue between characters, is superior to the first, where he propounds his ethics in monologues. nevertheless, the first book includes some of his most popular poems.<ref>v. kiernan, ''horace: poetics and politics'', </ref> ===themes=== horace developed a number of inter-related themes throughout his poetic career, including politics, love, philosophy and ethics, his own social role, as well as poetry itself. his ''epodes'' and ''satires'' are forms of 'blame poetry' and both have a natural affinity with the moralising and diatribes of [[cynicism (philosophy)|cynicism]]. this often takes the form of allusions to the work and philosophy of [[bion of borysthenes]] <ref group="nb">there is one reference to bion by name in ''epistles'' . . , and the clearest allusion to him is in ''satire'' . , which parallels bion fragments , , ''kindstrand''</ref> but it is as much a literary game as a philosophical alignment. by the time he composed his ''epistles'', he was a critic of [[cynicism (philosophy)|cynicism]] along with all impractical and "high-falutin" philosophy in general.<ref group="nb">''epistles'' . and . . – are critical of the extreme views of [[diogenes]] and also of social adaptations of cynic precepts, and yet ''epistle'' . could be either cynic or stoic in its orientation (j. moles, ''philosophy and ethics'', p. </ref><ref>j. moles, ''philosophy and ethics'', pp. – , </ref> the ''satires'' also include a strong element of [[epicureanism]], with frequent allusions to the epicurean poet [[lucretius]].<ref group="nb">''satires'' . . – , – , . . – , . . – , – , . . , – , . . – , . . – , , . . – </ref> so for example the epicurean sentiment ''[[carpe diem]]'' is the inspiration behind horace's repeated punning on his own name (''horatius ~ hora'') in ''satires'' . .<ref>k. j. reckford, ''some studies in horace's odes on love''</ref> the ''satires'' also feature some [[stoicism|stoic]], [[peripatetic school|peripatetic]] and [[platonic dialogues|platonic]] (''dialogues'') elements. in short, the ''satires'' present a medley of philosophical programs, dished up in no particular order—a style of argument typical of the [[satires (horace)|genre]].<ref>j. moles, ''philosophy and ethics'', p. </ref> the ''odes'' display a wide range of topics. over time, he becomes more confident about his political voice.<ref>santirocco "unity and design", lowrie "horace's narrative odes"</ref> although he is often thought of as an overly intellectual lover, he is ingenious in representing passion.<ref>ancona, "time and the erotic"</ref> the "odes" weave various philosophical strands together, with allusions and statements of doctrine present in about a third of the ''odes'' books – , ranging from the flippant ( . , . ) to the solemn ( . , . , . ). [[epicureanism]] is the dominant influence, characterizing about twice as many of these odes as stoicism. a group of odes combines these two influences in tense relationships, such as ''odes'' . , praising stoic virility and devotion to public duty while also advocating private pleasures among friends. while generally favouring the epicurean lifestyle, the lyric poet is as eclectic as the satiric poet, and in ''odes'' . even proposes aristotle's [[golden mean (philosophy)|golden mean]] as a remedy for rome's political troubles.<ref>j. moles, ''philosophy and ethics'', pp. – </ref> many of horace's poems also contain much reflection on genre, the lyric tradition, and the function of poetry.<ref>davis "polyhymnia" and lowrie "horace's narrative odes"</ref> ''odes'' , thought to be composed at the emperor's request, takes the themes of the first three books of "odes" to a new level. this book shows greater poetic confidence after the public performance of his "carmen saeculare" or "century hymn" at a public festival orchestrated by augustus. in it, horace addresses the emperor augustus directly with more confidence and proclaims his power to grant poetic immortality to those he praises. it is the least philosophical collection of his verses, excepting the twelfth ode, addressed to the dead virgil as if he were living. in that ode, the epic poet and the lyric poet are aligned with [[stoicism]] and [[epicureanism]] respectively, in a mood of bitter-sweet pathos.<ref>j. moles, ''philosophy and ethics'', p. </ref> the first poem of the ''epistles'' sets the philosophical tone for the rest of the collection: "so now i put aside both verses and all those other games: what is true and what befits is my care, this my question, this my whole concern." his poetic renunciation of poetry in favour of philosophy is intended to be ambiguous. ambiguity is the hallmark of the ''epistles''. it is uncertain if those being addressed by the self-mocking poet-philosopher are being honoured or criticized. though he emerges as an [[epicureanism|epicurean]], it is on the understanding that philosophical preferences, like political and social choices, are a matter of personal taste. thus he depicts the ups and downs of the philosophical life more realistically than do most philosophers.<ref>j. moles, ''philosophy and ethics'', pp. – </ref> return to horace. retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/horace" 		 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			article 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	edit 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		search 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigation 	 	 			main page 	contents 	current events 	random article 	about wikipedia 	contact us 	donate 		 	 	 	 		contribute 	 	 			help 	learn to edit 	community portal 	recent changes 	upload file 		 	 	 		tools 	 	 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horatiana] all ''carmina'' of horace in latin recited by thomas bervoets. * [http://www.poetseers.org/the_great_poets/the_classics/horace/ selected poems of horace] * [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/searchresults?q=horatius&redirect=true works by horace at perseus digital library] * [http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/horawillbio.shtml biography and chronology] * [http://www.intratext.com/catalogo/autori/aut .htm horace's works]: text, concordances and frequency list * [http://www.rhapsodes.fll.vt.edu/horace_ode_ .htm sorgll: horace, ''odes'' i. , read by robert sonkowsky] * [http://toutcoule.blogspot.com/search/label/horace translations of several odes in the original meters (with accompaniment).] * [http://www.thethepoetry.com/ / /some-notes-on-translations-of-horace/ a discussion and comparison of three different contemporary translations of horace's ''odes''] * [http://www.virgilmurder.org/images/pdf/arsengl.pdf some spurious lines in the ''ars poetica''?] * 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[[samuel johnson]] favored the versions of [[philip francis (translator)|philip francis]]. others favor unrhymed translations. * in james michie published a translation of the ''odes''—many of them fully rhymed—including a dozen of the poems in the original [[sapphic stanza|sapphic]] and [[alcaic]] metres. * more recent verse translations of the odes include those by david west (free verse), and colin sydenham (rhymed). * ''[[ars poetica (horace)|ars poetica]]'' was first translated into english by [[ben jonson]] and later by lord byron. * ''horace's odes and the mystery of do-re-mi'' stuart lyons (rhymed) aris & phillips {{isbn| - - - - }} return to horace. retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/horace" 		 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			article 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	edit 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 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email other editors and administrators. for information on how to proceed, first see the faq for blocked users and the guideline on block appeals. the guide to appealing blocks may also be helpful. other useful links: blocking policy · help:i have been blocked you can view and copy the source of this page: ===age of enlightenment=== during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, or the [[age of enlightenment]], neoclassical culture was pervasive. english literature in the middle of that period has been dubbed [[augustan literature|augustan]]. it is not always easy to distinguish horace's influence during those centuries (the mixing of influences is shown for example in one poet's pseudonym, ''horace juvenal'').<ref group="nb">'horace juvenal' was author of ''modern manners: a poem'', </ref> however a measure of his influence can be found in the diversity of the people interested in his works, both among readers and authors.<ref>d. money, ''the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'', , , </ref> new editions of his works were published almost yearly. there were three new editions in (two in [[leiden]], one in [[frankfurt]]) and again in ([[utrecht]], [[barcelona]], [[cambridge]]). cheap editions were plentiful and fine editions were also produced, including one whose entire text was engraved by [[john pine]] in [[copperplate engraving|copperplate]]. the poet [[james thomson (poet)|james thomson]] owned five editions of horace's work and the physician [[james douglas (physician)|james douglas]] had five hundred books with horace-related titles. horace was often commended in periodicals such as [[the spectator ( )|the spectator]], as a hallmark of good judgement, moderation and manliness, a focus for moralising.<ref group="nb">see for example ''spectator'' ''' ''', feb. ; ''' ''', nov. ; ''' ''', nov. </ref> his verses offered a fund of mottoes, such as ''[[simplex munditiis]]'' (elegance in simplicity), ''[[splendide mendax]]'' (nobly untruthful), ''[[sapere aude]]'' (dare to know), ''[[nunc est bibendum]]'' (now is the time to drink), ''[[carpe diem]]'' (seize the day, perhaps the only one still in common use today).<ref name="tarrant"/> these were quoted even in works as prosaic as [[edmund quincy ( - )|edmund quincy]]'s ''a treatise of hemp-husbandry'' ( ). the fictional hero [[the history of tom jones, a foundling|tom jones]] recited his verses with feeling.<ref>d. money, ''the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'', </ref> his works were also used to justify commonplace themes, such as patriotic obedience, as in james parry's english lines from an oxford university collection in :<ref>d. money, ''the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'', – </ref> {{poemquote| what friendly [[muse]] will teach my lays to emulate the roman fire? justly to sound a caeser's praise demands a bold horatian lyre. }} horatian-style lyrics were increasingly typical of oxford and cambridge verse collections for this period, most of them in latin but some like the previous ode in english. [[john milton]]'s [[lycidas]] first appeared in such a collection. it has few horatian echoes<ref group="nb">one echo of horace may be found in line : "''were it not better done as others use,/ to sport with amaryllis in the shade/or with the tangles of neaera's hair?''", which points to the neara in ''odes'' . . (douglas bush, ''milton: poetical works'', , note )</ref> yet milton's associations with horace were lifelong. he composed a controversial version of ''odes'' . , and [[paradise lost]] includes references to horace's 'roman' ''odes'' . – (book for example begins with echoes of ''odes'' . ).<ref>j. talbot, ''a horatian pun in paradise lost'', – </ref> yet horace's lyrics could offer inspiration to libertines as well as moralists, and neo-latin sometimes served as a kind of discrete veil for the risqué. thus for example [[benjamin loveling]] authored a catalogue of drury lane and covent garden prostitutes, in sapphic stanzas, and an encomium for a dying lady "of salacious memory".<ref>b. loveling, ''latin and english poems'', – , – </ref> some latin imitations of horace were politically subversive, such as a marriage ode by [[anthony alsop]] that included a rallying cry for the [[jacobitism|jacobite]] cause. on the other hand, [[andrew marvell]] took inspiration from horace's ''odes'' . to compose his english masterpiece [[horatian ode upon cromwell's return from ireland]], in which subtly nuanced reflections on the execution of [[charles i of england|charles i]] echo horace's ambiguous response to the death of [[cleopatra]] (marvell's ode was suppressed in spite of its subtlety and only began to be widely published in ). [[samuel johnson]] took particular pleasure in reading ''the odes''.<ref group="nb">cfr. [[james boswell]], "the life of [[samuel johnson]]" ''aetat.'' , where boswell remarked of johnson that horace's ''odes'' "were the compositions in which he took most delight."</ref> [[alexander pope]] wrote direct ''imitations'' of horace (published with the original latin alongside) and also echoed him in ''essays'' and [[the rape of the lock]]. he even emerged as "a quite horatian homer" in his translation of the ''[[iliad]]''.<ref>d. money, ''the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'', – </ref> horace appealed also to female poets, such as [[anna seward]] (''original sonnets on various subjects, and odes paraphrased from horace'', ) and [[elizabeth tollet]], who composed a latin ode in sapphic meter to celebrate her brother's return from overseas, with tea and coffee substituted for the wine of horace's [[symposium|sympotic]] settings: {{verse translation|lang=la | quos procax nobis numeros, jocosque musa dictaret? mihi dum tibique temperent baccis arabes, vel herbis pocula seres<ref>e. tollet, ''poems on several occasions'', </ref> | what verses and jokes might the bold muse dictate? while for you and me arabs flavour our cups with beans or chinese with leaves.<ref>translation adapted from d. money, ''the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'', </ref> }} horace's ''ars poetica'' is second only to aristotle's ''poetics'' in its influence on literary theory and criticism. milton recommended both works in his treatise ''of education''.<ref>a. gilbert, ''literary criticism: plato to dryden'', , </ref> horace's ''satires'' and ''epistles'' however also had a huge impact, influencing theorists and critics such as [[john dryden]].<ref>w. kupersmith, ''roman satirists in seventeenth century england'', – </ref> there was considerable debate over the value of different lyrical forms for contemporary poets, as represented on one hand by the kind of four-line stanzas made familiar by horace's sapphic and alcaic ''odes'' and, on the other, the loosely structured [[pindarics]] associated with the odes of [[pindar]]. translations occasionally involved scholars in the dilemmas of censorship. thus [[christopher smart]] entirely omitted ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber iv/carmen x| . ]] and re-numbered the remaining odes. he also removed the ending of ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber iv/carmen i| . ]]. [[thomas creech]] printed ''epodes'' [[:wikisource:la:epodi#viii| ]] and [[:wikisource:la:epodi#xii| ]] in the original latin but left out their english translations. [[philip francis (translator)|philip francis]] left out both the english and latin for those same two epodes, a gap in the numbering the only indication that something was amiss. french editions of horace were influential in england and these too were regularly [[bowdlerize]]d. most european nations had their own 'horaces': thus for example [[friedrich von hagedorn]] was called ''the german horace'' and [[maciej kazimierz sarbiewski]] ''the polish horace'' (the latter was much imitated by english poets such as [[henry vaughan]] and [[abraham cowley]]). pope [[urban viii]] wrote voluminously in horatian meters, including an ode on gout.<ref>d. money, ''the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'', – </ref> return to horace. retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/horace" 		 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			article 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	edit 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		search 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigation 	 	 			main page 	contents 	current events 	random article 	about wikipedia 	contact us 	donate 		 	 	 	 		contribute 	 	 			help 	learn to edit 	community portal 	recent changes 	upload file 		 	 	 		tools 	 	 			what links here 	related changes 	upload file 	special pages 	page information 	wikidata item 		 	 	 	 		languages 	 	 		 		 	 	 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 aelius donatus - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	aelius donatus 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 from nuremberg chronicle aelius donatus (english: /doʊˈneɪtəs/; fl. mid-fourth century ad) was a roman grammarian and teacher of rhetoric. st. jerome states in contra rufinum . that donatus was his tutor. contents 	 works 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links works[edit] he was the author of a number of professional works, of which several are extant: 	a partly incomplete commentary on the playwright terence is compiled from other commentaries, but probably not in its original form. 	his life of virgil is thought to be based on a lost vita by suetonius, together with the preface and introduction of his commentary on virgil's works. a greatly expanded version of servius' commentary exists, however, which is supplemented with frequent and extensive extracts from what is thought to be donatus' commentary on virgil. 	his ars grammatica, especially the section on the eight parts of speech, though possessing little claim to originality, and evidently based on the same authorities which were used by the grammarians charisius and diomedes, attained such popularity as a schoolbook that, in the middle ages, he became the eponym for a rudimentary treatise of any sort, called a donet. when books came to be printed in the th century, editions of the little book were multiplied to an enormous extent. it is also the only purely textual work to be printed in blockbook form (cut like a woodcut, not using movable type). it is in the form of an ars minor, which only treats of the parts of speech, and an ars major, which deals with grammar in general at greater length.[ ] donatus was a proponent of an early system of punctuation, consisting of dots placed in three successively higher positions to indicate successively longer pauses, roughly equivalent to the modern comma, colon, and full stop. this system remained current through the seventh century, when a more refined system due to isidore of seville gained prominence.[ ] donatus invented the system whereby a play is made up of three separate parts: protasis, epitasis, and catastrophe. aelius donatus should not be confused with tiberius claudius donatus, also the author of a commentary (interpretationes) on the aeneid, who lived about years later.[ ] references[edit] 	^ a b chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "donatus, aelius" . encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. p.  . 	^ m. b. parkes, pause and effect: punctuation in the west, , isbn  - - - . further reading[edit] 	daintree, david. . "the virgil commentary of aelius donatus: black hole or 'Éminence grise'?" greece & rome . : – . 	demetriou, chrysanthi. . "aelius donatus and his commentary on terence’s comedies." in the oxford handbook of greek and roman comedy. edited by michael fontaine and adele c. scafuro, – . oxford: oxford univ. press. 	dutsch, dorota m. . feminine discourse in roman comedy. oxford: oxford univ. press. 	farrell, joseph. . "ancient commentaries on theocritus’ idylls and virgil's eclogues." in classical commentaries: explorations in a scholarly genre. edited by christina f. kraus and christopher stray, – . oxford: oxford univ. press. 	ferri, rolando. . "an ancient grammarian's view of how the spoken language works: pragmalinguistic observations in donatus' commentum terentii." in the latin of the grammarians: reflections about language in the roman world. edited by rolando ferri and anna zago. turnhout: brepols publishers. 	kragelund, patrick. . "evidence for performances of republican comedy in fourth-century rome." classical quarterly . : – . 	maltby, robert. . "the role of etymologies in servius and donatus." in etymologia: studies in ancient etymology. proceedings of the cambridge conference on ancient etymology, - september . edited by christos nifadopoulos, – . münster, germany: nodus publikationen. 	mcgill, scott. . "the plagiarized virgil in donatus, servius, and the anthologia latina." harvard studies in classical philology : – . 	murgia, charles e. . "the truth about vergil's commentators." in romane memento: vergil in the fourth century. edited by roger rees, – . london: duckworth. 	stok, f. . 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[[marcus junius brutus]] came to athens seeking support for the republican cause. brutus was fêted around town in grand receptions and he made a point of attending academic lectures, all the while recruiting supporters among the young men studying there, including horace.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref> an educated young roman could begin military service high in the ranks and horace was made [[tribunus militum]] (one of six senior officers of a typical legion), a post usually reserved for men of senatorial or equestrian rank and which seems to have inspired jealousy among his well-born confederates.<ref>''satires'' . . </ref><ref name="nisbet">r. nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', </ref> he learned the basics of military life while on the march, particularly in the wilds of northern greece, whose rugged scenery became a backdrop to some of his later poems.<ref>v. kiernan, ''horace'', </ref> it was there in bc that [[octavian]] (later [[augustus]]) and his associate [[mark antony]] crushed the republican forces at the [[battle of philippi]]. horace later recorded it as a day of embarrassment for himself, when he fled without his shield,<ref>''odes'' . . </ref> but allowance should be made for his self-deprecating humour. moreover, the incident allowed him to identify himself with some famous poets who had long ago abandoned their shields in battle, notably his heroes [[alcaeus of mytilene|alcaeus]] and [[archilochus]]. the comparison with the latter poet is uncanny: archilochus lost his shield in a part of thrace near philippi, and he was deeply involved in the greek colonization of [[thasos]], where horace's die-hard comrades finally surrendered.<ref name="nisbet"/> octavian offered an early amnesty to his opponents and horace quickly accepted it. on returning to italy, he was confronted with yet another loss: his father's estate in venusia was one of many throughout italy to be confiscated for the settlement of veterans ([[virgil]] lost his estate in the north about the same time). horace later claimed that he was reduced to poverty and this led him to try his hand at poetry.<ref>''epistles'' . . – </ref> in reality, there was no money to be had from versifying. at best, it offered future prospects through contacts with other poets and their patrons among the rich.<ref>v. kiernan, ''horace: poetics and politics''</ref> meanwhile, he obtained the sinecure of ''scriba quaestorius'', a civil service position at the ''aerarium'' or treasury, profitable enough to be purchased even by members of the ''ordo equester'' and not very demanding in its work-load, since tasks could be delegated to ''scribae'' or permanent clerks.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref> it was about this time that he began writing his ''satires'' and ''epodes''. ====poet==== [[file:fedor bronnikov .jpg|thumb|horace reads before maecenas, by [[fyodor bronnikov]]]] the ''epodes'' belong to [[iambic poetry]]. iambic poetry features insulting and obscene language;<ref>christopher brown, in ''a companion to the greek lyric poets'', d.e. gerber (ed), leiden , pages – </ref><ref>douglas e. gerber, ''greek iambic poetry'', loeb classical library ( ), introduction pages i–iv</ref> sometimes, it is referred to as ''blame poetry''.<ref>d. mankin, ''horace: epodes'', c.u.p., </ref> ''blame poetry'', or ''shame poetry'', is poetry written to blame and shame fellow citizens into a sense of their social obligations. horace modelled these poems on the poetry of [[archilochus]]. social bonds in rome had been decaying since the destruction of [[carthage]] a little more than a hundred years earlier, due to the vast wealth that could be gained by plunder and corruption.<ref>d. mankin, ''horace: epodes'', </ref> these social ills were magnified by rivalry between julius caesar, mark antony and confederates like [[sextus pompey]], all jockeying for a bigger share of the spoils. one modern scholar has counted a dozen civil wars in the hundred years leading up to bc, including the [[spartacus]] rebellion, eight years before horace's birth.<ref>r. conway, ''new studies of a great inheritance'', – </ref> as the heirs to hellenistic culture, horace and his fellow romans were not well prepared to deal with these problems: {{quotation|at bottom, all the problems that the times were stirring up were of a social nature, which the hellenistic thinkers were ill qualified to grapple with. some of them censured oppression of the poor by the rich, but they gave no practical lead, though they may have hoped to see well-meaning rulers doing so. philosophy was drifting into absorption in self, a quest for private contentedness, to be achieved by self-control and restraint, without much regard for the fate of a disintegrating community.|[[v. g. kiernan]]<ref>v. kiernan, ''horace: poetics and politics'', – </ref>}} horace's hellenistic background is clear in his satires, even though the genre was unique to latin literature. he brought to it a style and outlook suited to the social and ethical issues confronting rome but he changed its role from public, social engagement to private meditation.<ref>f. muecke, ''the satires'', – </ref> meanwhile, he was beginning to interest octavian's supporters, a gradual process described by him in one of his satires.<ref name="satires . "/> the way was opened for him by his friend, the poet virgil, who had gained admission into the privileged circle around maecenas, octavian's lieutenant, following the success of his ''[[eclogues]]''. an introduction soon followed and, after a discreet interval, horace too was accepted. he depicted the process as an honourable one, based on merit and mutual respect, eventually leading to true friendship, and there is reason to believe that his relationship was genuinely friendly, not just with maecenas but afterwards with augustus as well.<ref>r. lyne, ''augustan poetry and society'', </ref> on the other hand, the poet has been unsympathetically described by one scholar as "a sharp and rising young man, with an eye to the main chance."<ref>j. griffin, ''horace in the thirties'', </ref> there were advantages on both sides: horace gained encouragement and material support, the politicians gained a hold on a potential dissident.<ref name="referenceb">r. nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', </ref> his republican sympathies, and his role at philippi, may have caused him some pangs of remorse over his new status. however most romans considered the civil wars to be the result of ''contentio dignitatis'', or rivalry between the foremost families of the city, and he too seems to have accepted the principate as rome's last hope for much needed peace.<ref>d. mankin, ''horace: epodes'', </ref> in bc, horace accompanied maecenas on a journey to [[brundisium]], described in one of his poems<ref>''satires'' . </ref> as a series of amusing incidents and charming encounters with other friends along the way, such as virgil. in fact the journey was political in its motivation, with maecenas en route to negotiatie the [[treaty of tarentum]] with antony, a fact horace artfully keeps from the reader (political issues are largely avoided in the first book of satires).<ref name="referenceb"/> horace was probably also with maecenas on one of octavian's naval expeditions against the piratical sextus pompeius, which ended in a disastrous storm off [[palinurus]] in bc, briefly alluded to by horace in terms of near-drowning.<ref>''odes'' . . </ref><ref group="nb">''odes'' . . : "nec (me extinxit) sicula palinurus unda"; "nor did palinurus extinguish me with sicilian waters". maecenas' involvement is recorded by [[appian]] ''bell. civ.'' . but horace's ode is the only historical reference to his own presence there, depending however on interpretation. (r. nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', )</ref> there are also some indications in his verses that he was with maecenas at the [[battle of actium]] in bc, where octavian defeated his great rival, antony.<ref>''epodes'' and </ref><ref group="nb">the point is much disputed among scholars and hinges on how the text is interpreted. ''epodes'' for example may offer proof of horace's presence if 'ad hunc frementis' ('gnashing at this' man i.e. the traitrous roman ) is a misreading of 'at huc...verterent' (but hither...they fled) in lines describing the defection of the galatian cavalry, "ad hunc frementis verterunt bis mille equos / galli canentes caesarem" (r. nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', ).</ref> by then horace had already received from maecenas the famous gift of his [[horace's villa|sabine farm]], probably not long after the publication of the first book of ''satires''. the gift, which included income from five tenants, may have ended his career at the treasury, or at least allowed him to give it less time and energy.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', </ref> it signalled his identification with the octavian regime yet, in the second book of ''satires'' that soon followed, he continued the apolitical stance of the first book. by this time, he had attained the status of ''eques romanus'',<ref>''satires'' . . </ref> perhaps as a result of his work at the treasury.<ref>r. nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', </ref> ====knight==== ''odes'' – were the next focus for his artistic creativity. he adapted their forms and themes from greek lyric poetry of the seventh and sixth centuries bc. the fragmented nature of the [[greek world]] had enabled his literary heroes to express themselves freely and his semi-retirement from the treasury in rome to [[horace's villa|his own estate]] in the sabine hills perhaps empowered him to some extent also<ref>v. kiernan, ''horace: poetics and politics'', – </ref> yet even when his lyrics touched on public affairs they reinforced the importance of private life.<ref name="referencea"/> nevertheless, his work in the period – bc began to show his closeness to the regime and his sensitivity to its developing ideology. in ''odes'' . , for example, he eulogized octavian in hyperboles that echo hellenistic court poetry. the name ''augustus'', which octavian assumed in january bc, is first attested in ''odes'' . and . . in the period – bc, political allusions in the ''odes'' concentrated on foreign wars in britain ( . ), arabia ( . ) spain ( . ) and parthia ( . ). he greeted augustus on his return to rome in bc as a beloved ruler upon whose good health he depended for his own happiness ( . ).<ref>r. nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', </ref> the public reception of ''odes'' – disappointed him, however. he attributed the lack of success to jealousy among imperial courtiers and to his isolation from literary cliques.<ref>''epistles'' . . – </ref> perhaps it was disappointment that led him to put aside the genre in favour of verse letters. he addressed his first book of ''epistles'' to a variety of friends and acquaintances in an urbane style reflecting his new social status as a knight. in the opening poem, he professed a deeper interest in moral philosophy than poetry<ref>''epistles'' . . </ref> but, though the collection demonstrates a leaning towards stoic theory, it reveals no sustained thinking about ethics.<ref>v. kiernan, ''horace: poetics and politics'', , </ref> maecenas was still the dominant confidante but horace had now begun to assert his own independence, suavely declining constant invitations to attend his patron.<ref>''epistles'' . </ref> in the final poem of the first book of ''epistles'', he revealed himself to be forty-four years old in the consulship of lollius and lepidus i.e. bc, and "of small stature, fond of the sun, prematurely grey, quick-tempered but easily placated".<ref>''epistles'' . . – </ref><ref>r. nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', – </ref> according to suetonius, the second book of ''epistles'' was prompted by augustus, who desired a verse epistle to be addressed to himself. augustus was in fact a prolific letter-writer and he once asked horace to be his personal secretary. horace refused the secretarial role but complied with the emperor's request for a verse letter.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref> the letter to augustus may have been slow in coming, being published possibly as late as bc. it celebrated, among other things, the bc military victories of his stepsons, drusus and tiberius, yet it and the following letter<ref>''epistles'' . </ref> were largely devoted to literary theory and criticism. the literary theme was explored still further in ''ars poetica'', published separately but written in the form of an epistle and sometimes referred to as ''epistles'' . (possibly the last poem he ever wrote).<ref>r. ferri, ''the epistles'', </ref> he was also commissioned to write odes commemorating the victories of drusus and tiberius<ref>''odes'' . and . </ref> and one to be sung in a temple of apollo for the [[secular games]], a long-abandoned festival that augustus revived in accordance with his policy of recreating ancient customs (''carmen saeculare''). suetonius recorded some gossip about horace's sexual activities late in life, claiming that the walls of his bedchamber were covered with obscene pictures and mirrors, so that he saw erotica wherever he looked.<ref group="nb">suetonius signals that the report is based on rumours by employing the terms "traditur...dicitur" / "it is reported...it is said" (e. fraenkel, ''horace'', )</ref> the poet died at years of age, not long after his friend maecenas, near whose tomb he was laid to rest. both men bequeathed their property to augustus, an honour that the emperor expected of his friends.<ref>e. 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[[meter (poetry)|metres]] borrowed from [[archaic greece]], employing [[hexameter]]s in his ''satires'' and ''epistles'', and [[iamb (poetry)|iambs]] in his ''epodes'', all of which were relatively easy to adapt into [[prosody (latin)|latin forms]]. his ''odes'' featured more complex measures, including [[alcaic verse|alcaics]] and [[sapphic stanza|sapphics]], which were sometimes a difficult fit for latin structure and [[syntax]]. despite these traditional metres, he presented himself as a partisan in the development of a new and sophisticated style. he was influenced in particular by [[hellenistic poetry|hellenistic]] aesthetics of brevity, elegance and polish, as modelled in the work of [[callimachus]].<ref>s. harrison, ''style and poetic texture'', </ref> {{quotation|as soon as horace, stirred by his own genius and encouraged by the example of virgil, varius, and perhaps some other poets of the same generation, had determined to make his fame as a poet, being by temperament a fighter, he wanted to fight against all kinds of prejudice, amateurish slovenliness, philistinism, reactionary tendencies, in short to fight for the new and noble type of poetry which he and his friends were endeavouring to bring about.|[[eduard fraenkel]]<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref>}} in modern literary theory, a distinction is often made between immediate personal experience (''urerlebnis'') and experience mediated by cultural vectors such as literature, philosophy and the visual arts (''bildungserlebnis'').<ref>{{cite book|last =gundolf|first =friedrich|title=goethe|date= |publisher=bondi|location=berlin, germany}}</ref> the distinction has little relevance for horace{{citation needed|date=august }} however since his personal and literary experiences are implicated in each other. ''satires'' . , for example, recounts in detail a real trip horace made with virgil and some of his other literary friends, and which parallels a satire by [[gaius lucilius|lucilius]], his predecessor.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref> unlike much hellenistic-inspired literature, however, his poetry was not composed for a small coterie of admirers and fellow poets, nor does it rely on abstruse allusions for many of its effects. though elitist in its literary standards, it was written for a wide audience, as a public form of art.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', </ref> ambivalence also characterizes his literary persona, since his presentation of himself as part of a small community of philosophically aware people, seeking true peace of mind while shunning vices like greed, was well adapted to augustus's plans to reform public morality, corrupted by greed—his personal plea for moderation was part of the emperor's grand message to the nation.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref> horace generally followed the examples of poets established as classics in different genres, such as [[archilochus]] in the ''epodes'', lucilius in the ''satires'' and [[alcaeus of mytilene|alcaeus]] in the ''odes'', later broadening his scope for the sake of variation and because his models weren't actually suited to the realities confronting him. archilochus and alcaeus were aristocratic greeks whose poetry had a social and religious function that was immediately intelligible to their audiences but which became a mere artifice or literary motif when transposed to rome. however, the artifice of the ''odes'' is also integral to their success, since they could now accommodate a wide range of emotional effects, and the blend of greek and roman elements adds a sense of detachment and universality.<ref>j. griffin, ''gods and religion'', </ref> horace proudly claimed to introduce into latin the spirit and iambic poetry of archilochus but (unlike archilochus) without persecuting anyone (''epistles'' . . – ). it was no idle boast. his ''epodes'' were modelled on the verses of the greek poet, as 'blame poetry', yet he avoided targeting real [[scapegoat]]s. whereas archilochus presented himself as a serious and vigorous opponent of wrong-doers, horace aimed for comic effects and adopted the persona of a weak and ineffectual critic of his times (as symbolized for example in his surrender to the witch canidia in the final epode).<ref>s. harrison, ''lyric and iambic'', </ref> he also claimed to be the first to introduce into latin the lyrical methods of alcaeus (''epistles'' . . – ) and he actually was the first latin poet to make consistent use of alcaic meters and themes: love, politics and the [[symposium]]. he imitated other greek lyric poets as well, employing a 'motto' technique, beginning each ode with some reference to a greek original and then diverging from it.<ref>s. harrison, ''lyric and iambic'', – </ref> the satirical poet lucilius was a senator's son who could castigate his peers with impunity. horace was a mere freedman's son who had to tread carefully.<ref name="e. fraenkel, horace, , ">e. fraenkel, ''horace'', , </ref> lucilius was a rugged patriot and a significant voice in roman self-awareness, endearing himself to his countrymen by his blunt frankness and explicit politics. his work expressed genuine freedom or [[libertas]]. his style included 'metrical vandalism' and looseness of structure. horace instead adopted an oblique and ironic style of satire, ridiculing stock characters and anonymous targets. his libertas was the private freedom of a philosophical outlook, not a political or social privilege.<ref>l. morgan, ''satire'', – </ref> his ''satires'' are relatively easy-going in their use of meter (relative to the tight lyric meters of the ''odes'')<ref>s. harrison, ''style and poetic texture'', </ref> but formal and highly controlled relative to the poems of lucilius, whom horace mocked for his sloppy standards (''satires'' . . – )<ref group="nb">"[lucilius]...resembles a man whose only concern is to force / something into the framework of six feet, and who gaily produces / two hundred lines before dinner and another two hundred after."{{spaced ndash}}''satire'' . . – (translated by [[niall rudd]], ''the satires of horace and persius'', penguin classics , p. )</ref> the ''epistles'' may be considered among horace's most innovative works. there was nothing like it in greek or roman literature. occasionally poems had had some resemblance to letters, including an elegiac poem from [[solon]] to [[mimnermus]] and some lyrical poems from [[pindar]] to [[hieron of syracuse]]. lucilius had composed a satire in the form of a letter, and some epistolary poems were composed by [[catullus]] and [[propertius]]. but nobody before horace had ever composed an entire collection of verse letters,<ref>r. ferri, ''the epistles'', pp. – </ref> let alone letters with a focus on philosophical problems. the sophisticated and flexible style that he had developed in his ''satires'' was adapted to the more serious needs of this new genre.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', p. </ref> such refinement of style was not unusual for horace. his craftsmanship as a wordsmith is apparent even in his earliest attempts at this or that kind of poetry, but his handling of each genre tended to improve over time as he adapted it to his own needs.<ref name="e. fraenkel, horace, , "/> thus for example it is generally agreed that his second book of ''satires'', where human folly is revealed through dialogue between characters, is superior to the first, where he propounds his ethics in monologues. nevertheless, the first book includes some of his most popular poems.<ref>v. kiernan, ''horace: poetics and politics'', </ref> return to horace. retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/horace" 		 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 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[[horace's villa|his own estate]] in the sabine hills perhaps empowered him to some extent also<ref>v. kiernan, ''horace: poetics and politics'', – </ref> yet even when his lyrics touched on public affairs they reinforced the importance of private life.<ref name="referencea"/> nevertheless, his work in the period – bc began to show his closeness to the regime and his sensitivity to its developing ideology. in ''odes'' . , for example, he eulogized octavian in hyperboles that echo hellenistic court poetry. the name ''augustus'', which octavian assumed in january bc, is first attested in ''odes'' . and . . in the period – bc, political allusions in the ''odes'' concentrated on foreign wars in britain ( . ), arabia ( . ) spain ( . ) and parthia ( . ). he greeted augustus on his return to rome in bc as a beloved ruler upon whose good health he depended for his own happiness ( . ).<ref>r. nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', </ref> the public reception of ''odes'' – disappointed him, however. he attributed the lack of success to jealousy among imperial courtiers and to his isolation from literary cliques.<ref>''epistles'' . . – </ref> perhaps it was disappointment that led him to put aside the genre in favour of verse letters. he addressed his first book of ''epistles'' to a variety of friends and acquaintances in an urbane style reflecting his new social status as a knight. in the opening poem, he professed a deeper interest in moral philosophy than poetry<ref>''epistles'' . . </ref> but, though the collection demonstrates a leaning towards stoic theory, it reveals no sustained thinking about ethics.<ref>v. kiernan, ''horace: poetics and politics'', , </ref> maecenas was still the dominant confidante but horace had now begun to assert his own independence, suavely declining constant invitations to attend his patron.<ref>''epistles'' . </ref> in the final poem of the first book of ''epistles'', he revealed himself to be forty-four years old in the consulship of lollius and lepidus i.e. bc, and "of small stature, fond of the sun, prematurely grey, quick-tempered but easily placated".<ref>''epistles'' . . – </ref><ref>r. nisbet, ''horace: life and chronology'', – </ref> according to suetonius, the second book of ''epistles'' was prompted by augustus, who desired a verse epistle to be addressed to himself. augustus was in fact a prolific letter-writer and he once asked horace to be his personal secretary. horace refused the secretarial role but complied with the emperor's request for a verse letter.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', – </ref> the letter to augustus may have been slow in coming, being published possibly as late as bc. it celebrated, among other things, the bc military victories of his stepsons, drusus and tiberius, yet it and the following letter<ref>''epistles'' . </ref> were largely devoted to literary theory and criticism. the literary theme was explored still further in ''ars poetica'', published separately but written in the form of an epistle and sometimes referred to as ''epistles'' . (possibly the last poem he ever wrote).<ref>r. ferri, ''the epistles'', </ref> he was also commissioned to write odes commemorating the victories of drusus and tiberius<ref>''odes'' . and . </ref> and one to be sung in a temple of apollo for the [[secular games]], a long-abandoned festival that augustus revived in accordance with his policy of recreating ancient customs (''carmen saeculare''). suetonius recorded some gossip about horace's sexual activities late in life, claiming that the walls of his bedchamber were covered with obscene pictures and mirrors, so that he saw erotica wherever he looked.<ref group="nb">suetonius signals that the report is based on rumours by employing the terms "traditur...dicitur" / "it is reported...it is said" (e. fraenkel, ''horace'', )</ref> the poet died at years of age, not long after his friend maecenas, near whose tomb he was laid to rest. both men bequeathed their property to augustus, an honour that the emperor expected of his friends.<ref>e. fraenkel, ''horace'', </ref> return to horace. retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/horace" 		 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			article 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	edit 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		search 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigation 	 	 			main page 	contents 	current events 	random article 	about wikipedia 	contact us 	donate 		 	 	 	 		contribute 	 	 			help 	learn to edit 	community portal 	recent changes 	upload file 		 	 	 		tools 	 	 			what links here 	related changes 	upload file 	special pages 	page information 	wikidata item 		 	 	 	 		languages 	 	 		 		 	 	 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 alexander pope - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	alexander pope 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		not to be confused with pope alexander. for other uses, see alexander pope (disambiguation). english poet 	alexander pope 	pope c. 	born	( - - ) may london, england 	died	 may ( - - ) (aged  ) twickenham, middlesex, england 	resting place	st mary's church, twickenham, middlesex, england 	occupation	poet, writer, translator 	notable works	the dunciad, the rape of the lock, an essay on criticism, his translation of homer 	 	signature	 alexander pope ( may – may ) is regarded as one of the greatest english poets, and the foremost poet of the early eighteenth century. he is best known for his satirical and discursive poetry, including the rape of the lock, the dunciad, and an essay on criticism, as well as for his translation of homer. after shakespeare, pope is the second-most quoted writer in the english language per the oxford dictionary of quotations,[ ] some of his verses having even become popular idioms in common parlance (e. g., damning with faint praise). he is considered a master of the heroic couplet. contents 	 spirit, skill and satire 	 life 	 . early life 	 . early career 	 poetry 	 . essay on criticism 	 . the rape of the lock 	 . the dunciad and moral essays 	 . an essay on man 	 . later life and works 	 translations and editions 	 . translation of the iliad 	 . translation of the odyssey 	 . edition of shakespeare's works 	 reception 	 works 	 . major works 	 . other works 	 . editions 	 see also 	 references 	 bibliography 	 external links spirit, skill and satire[edit] pope's poetic career testifies to his indomitable spirit in the face of disadvantages, of health and of circumstance. the poet and his family were catholics and thus fell subject to the test acts, prohibitive measures which severely hampered the prosperity of their co-religionists after the abdication of james ii; one of these banned them from living within ten miles of london, and another from attending public school or university. for this reason, except for a few spurious catholic schools, pope was largely self-educated. he was taught to read by his aunt and became a lover of books. he learned french, italian, latin, and greek by himself, and discovered homer at the age of six. as a child pope survived being once trampled by a cow, but when he was began struggling with tuberculosis of the spine (pott disease), along with fits of crippling headaches which troubled him throughout his life. in the year , pope showcased his precocious metrical skill with the publication of pastorals, his first major poems. they earned him instant fame. by the time he was he had written an essay on criticism, released in . a kind of poetic manifesto in the vein of horace's ars poetica, the essay was met with enthusiastic attention and won pope a wider circle of prominent friends, most notably joseph addison and richard steele, who had recently started collaborating on the influential the spectator. the critic john dennis, having located an ironic and veiled portrait of himself, was outraged by what he considered the impudence of the younger author. dennis hated pope for the rest of his life, and, save for a temporary reconciliation, dedicated his efforts to insulting him in print, to which pope retaliated in kind, making dennis the butt of much satire. the rape of the lock, perhaps the poet's most famous poem, appeared first in , followed by a revised and enlarged version in . when lord petre forcibly snipped off a lock from miss arabella fermor's head (the "belinda" of the poem), the incident gave rise to a high-society quarrel between the families. with the idea of allaying this, pope treated the subject in a playful and witty mock-heroic epic. the narrative poem brings into focus the onset of acquisitive individualism and conspicuous consumption, where purchased goods assume dominance over moral agency. a folio comprising a collection of his poems appeared in , together with two new ones written about the passion of love. these were verses to the memory of an unfortunate lady and the famous proto-romantic poem eloisa to abelard. though pope never married, about this time he became strongly attached to lady m. montagu, whom he indirectly referenced in the popular poem eloisa to abelard, and to martha blount, with whom his friendship continued throughout his life. in his career as a satirist, pope made his share of enemies as the critics, politicians, and certain other prominent figures felt the sting of his sharp-witted satires. some were so virulent, that pope even carried pistols at one point while walking his dog. after , pope composed relatively little. he toyed with the idea of writing a patriotic epic called brutus. he mainly revised and expanded his masterpiece the dunciad. book four appeared in , and a complete revision of the whole poem in the following year. in this version, he replaced lewis theobald with the poet laureate colley cibber, as "king of dunces". however, his real target in the poem is the whig politician robert walpole. by now pope's health was failing, and when told by his physician, on the morning of his death, that he was better, pope replied: "here am i, dying of a hundred good symptoms." life[edit] portrait of alexander pope. studio of godfrey kneller. oil on canvas, c. [ ] early life[edit] alexander pope was born in london on may , the year of the glorious revolution. his father (also alexander, – ) was a successful linen merchant in the strand. the poet's mother, edith ( – ), was the daughter of william turner, esquire, of york. both parents were catholics.[ ] edith's sister, christiana, was the wife of famous miniature painter samuel cooper. pope's education was affected by the recently enacted test acts, which upheld the status of the established church of england and banned catholics from teaching, attending a university, voting, and holding public office on penalty of perpetual imprisonment. pope was taught to read by his aunt and went to twyford school in about / .[ ] he then went on to two roman catholic schools in london.[ ] such schools, while illegal, were tolerated in some areas.[ ] a look-a-like of pope derived from a portrait by william hoare[ ] in , his family moved to a small estate at popeswood in binfield, berkshire, close to the royal windsor forest.[ ] this was due to strong anti-catholic sentiment and a statute preventing "papists" from living within miles (  km) of london or westminster.[ ] pope would later describe the countryside around the house in his poem windsor forest.[ ] pope's formal education ended at this time, and from then on, he mostly educated himself by reading the works of classical writers such as the satirists horace and juvenal, the epic poets homer and virgil, as well as english authors such as geoffrey chaucer, william shakespeare and john dryden.[ ] he studied many languages and read works by english, french, italian, latin, and greek poets. after five years of study, pope came into contact with figures from london literary society such as william congreve, samuel garth and william trumbull.[ ][ ] at binfield he made many important friends. one of them, john caryll (the future dedicatee of the rape of the lock), was twenty years older than the poet and had made many acquaintances in the london literary world. he introduced the young pope to the ageing playwright william wycherley and to william walsh, a minor poet, who helped pope revise his first major work, the pastorals. he also met the blount sisters, teresa and martha, both of whom remained lifelong friends.[ ] from the age of he suffered numerous health problems, including pott disease, a form of tuberculosis that affects the spine, which deformed his body and stunted his growth, leaving him with a severe hunchback. his tuberculosis infection caused other health problems including respiratory difficulties, high fevers, inflamed eyes and abdominal pain.[ ] he grew to a height of only .  m (  ft  in). pope was already removed from society as a catholic, and his poor health alienated him further. although he never married, he had many female friends to whom he wrote witty letters, including lady mary wortley montagu. it has been alleged that his lifelong friend martha blount was his lover.[ ][ ][ ][ ] his friend william cheselden said, according to joseph spence, "i could give a more particular account of mr. pope's health than perhaps any man. cibber's slander (of carnosity) is false. he had been gay [happy], but left that way of life upon his acquaintance with mrs. b."[ ] early career[edit] plaque above pope's grotto at twickenham in may , pope's pastorals was published in the sixth part of bookseller jacob tonson's poetical miscellanies. this earned pope instant fame and was followed by an essay on criticism, published in may , which was equally well received. pope's villa at twickenham, showing the grotto; from a watercolour produced soon after his death around , pope made friends with tory writers jonathan swift, thomas parnell and john arbuthnot, who together formed the satirical scriblerus club. its aim was to satirise ignorance and pedantry through the fictional scholar martinus scriblerus. he also made friends with whig writers joseph addison and richard steele. in march , windsor forest[ ] was published to great acclaim.[ ] during pope's friendship with joseph addison, he contributed to addison's play cato, as well as writing for the guardian and the spectator. around this time, he began the work of translating the iliad, which was a painstaking process – publication began in and did not end until .[ ] in the political situation worsened with the death of queen anne and the disputed succession between the hanoverians and the jacobites, leading to the jacobite rising of . though pope, as a catholic, might have been expected to have supported the jacobites because of his religious and political affiliations, according to maynard mack, "where pope himself stood on these matters can probably never be confidently known". these events led to an immediate downturn in the fortunes of the tories, and pope's friend henry st john, st viscount bolingbroke, fled to france. pope lived in his parents' house in mawson row, chiswick, between and ; the red brick building is now the mawson arms, commemorating him with a blue plaque.[ ] the money made from his translation of homer allowed pope to move in to a villa at twickenham, where he created his now famous grotto and gardens. the serendipitous discovery of a spring during the excavation of the subterranean retreat enabled it to be filled with the relaxing sound of trickling water, which would quietly echo around the chambers. pope was said to have remarked that: "were it to have nymphs as well – it would be complete in everything." although the house and gardens have long since been demolished, much of the grotto survives. it now lies beneath radnor house independent co-ed school and is occasionally opened to the public.[ ][ ] poetry[edit] mawson arms, chiswick lane, with blue plaque to pope essay on criticism[edit] main article: an essay on criticism an essay on criticism was first published anonymously on may . pope began writing the poem early in his career and took about three years to finish it. at the time the poem was published, the heroic couplet style in which it was written was a moderately new poetic form, and pope's work was an ambitious attempt to identify and refine his own positions as a poet and critic. the poem was said to be a response to an ongoing debate on the question of whether poetry should be natural, or written according to predetermined artificial rules inherited from the classical past.[ ] the 'essay' begins with a discussion of the standard rules that govern poetry by which a critic passes judgment. pope comments on the classical authors who dealt with such standards and the authority that he believed should be accredited to them. he discusses the laws to which a critic should adhere while critiquing poetry, and points out that critics serve an important function in aiding poets with their works, as opposed to the practice of attacking them.[ ] the final section of an essay on criticism discusses the moral qualities and virtues inherent in the ideal critic, who, pope claims, is also the ideal man. the rape of the lock[edit] pope's most famous poem is the rape of the lock, first published in , with a revised version published in . a mock-epic, it satirises a high-society quarrel between arabella fermor (the "belinda" of the poem) and lord petre, who had snipped a lock of hair from her head without her permission. the satirical style is tempered, however, by a genuine and almost voyeuristic interest in the "beau-monde" (fashionable world) of th-century english society.[ ] the revised, extended version of the poem brought more clearly into focus its true subject – the onset of acquisitive individualism and a society of conspicuous consumers. in the world of the poem, purchased artifacts displace human agency, and "trivial things" assume dominance.[ ] the dunciad and moral essays[edit] 	 	this section does not cite any sources. please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (may ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) alexander pope, painting attributed to english painter jonathan richardson, c. , museum of fine arts, boston though the dunciad was first published anonymously in dublin, its authorship was not in doubt. pope pilloried a host of other "hacks", "scribblers" and "dunces" in addition to theobald, and maynard mack has accordingly called its publication "in many ways the greatest act of folly in pope's life." though a masterpiece which would become "one of the most challenging and distinctive works in the history of english poetry", writes mack, "it bore bitter fruit. it brought the poet in his own time the hostility of its victims and their sympathizers, who pursued him implacably from then on with a few damaging truths and a host of slanders and lies."[ ] according to his half-sister magdalen rackett, some of pope's targets were so enraged by the dunciad that they threatened him. "my brother does not seem to know what fear is," she told joseph spence, explaining that pope loved to walk alone, so went accompanied by his great dane bounce, and for some time carried pistols in his pocket.[ ] together with john gay's the beggar's opera and jonathan swift's gulliver's travels, this first dunciad was part of a concerted propaganda assault against robert walpole's whig ministry and the financial revolution it stabilised. although he was a keen participant in the stock and money markets, pope never missed an opportunity to satirise the personal, social and political effects of the new scheme of things. from the rape of the lock onwards, these satirical themes are a constant in his work. in , pope published his "epistle to burlington," on the subject of architecture, the first of four poems which would later be grouped under the title moral essays ( – ). in the epistle, pope ridiculed the bad taste of the aristocrat "timon". pope's enemies claimed he was attacking the duke of chandos and his estate, cannons. though the charge was untrue, it did much damage to pope. an essay on man[edit] main article: an essay on man an essay on man is a philosophical poem, written in heroic couplets and published between and . pope intended this poem to be the centrepiece of a proposed system of ethics that was to be put forth in poetic form. it was a piece of work that pope intended to make into a larger work; however, he did not live to complete it.[ ] the poem is an attempt to "vindicate the ways of god to man", a variation on milton's attempt in paradise lost to "justify the ways of god to man" ( . ). it challenges as prideful an anthropocentric world-view. the poem is not solely christian, however; it makes an assumption that man has fallen and must seek his own salvation.[ ] alexander pope circa it consists of four epistles addressed to lord bolingbroke. pope presents an idea on his view of the universe: no matter how imperfect, complex, inscrutable and disturbing the universe appears to be, it functions in a rational fashion according to the natural laws. the natural laws consider the universe as a whole a perfect work of god. to humans, it appears to be evil and imperfect in many ways. pope ascribes this to our limited mindset and limited intellectual capacity. he gets the message across that humans must accept their position in the "great chain of being", at a middle stage between the angels and the beasts of the world. accomplish this and we potentially could lead happy and virtuous lives.[ ] the poem is an affirmative poem of faith: life seems to be chaotic and confusing to man when he is in the centre of it, but according to pope it is really divinely ordered. in pope's world, god exists and is what he centres the universe around in order to have an ordered structure. the limited intelligence of man can only take in tiny portions of this order and can experience only partial truths, hence man must rely on hope which then leads into faith. man must be aware of his existence in the universe and what he brings to it, in terms of riches, power, and fame. it is man's duty to strive to be good regardless of other situations: this is the message pope is trying to get across to the reader.[ ] later life and works[edit] the death of alexander pope from museus, a threnody by william mason. diana holds the dying pope, and john milton, edmund spenser, and geoffrey chaucer prepare to welcome him to heaven. the imitations of horace followed ( – ). these were written in the popular augustan form of the "imitation" of a classical poet, not so much a translation of his works as an updating with contemporary references. pope used the model of horace to satirise life under george ii, especially what he regarded as the widespread corruption tainting the country under walpole's influence and the poor quality of the court's artistic taste. pope also added a wholly original poem, epistle to doctor arbuthnot, as an introduction to the "imitations". it reviews his own literary career and includes the famous portraits of lord hervey ("sporus") and addison ("atticus"). in he wrote the universal prayer.[ ] among the younger poets whose work pope admired was joseph thurston.[ ] after , pope himself wrote little. he toyed with the idea of composing a patriotic epic in blank verse called brutus, but only the opening lines survive. his major work in these years was revising and expanding his masterpiece the dunciad. book four appeared in and a complete revision of the whole poem the following year. here pope replaced the "hero" lewis theobald with the poet laureate, colley cibber as "king of dunces". however, the real focus of the revised poem is walpole and his works. by now pope's health, which had never been good, was failing. when told by his physician, on the morning of his death, that he was better, pope replied: "here am i, dying of a hundred good symptoms."[ ][ ] he died in his villa surrounded by friends on may , about eleven o'clock at night. on the previous day, may , pope had called for a priest and received the last rites of the catholic church. he was buried in the nave of st mary's church, twickenham. translations and editions[edit] translation of the iliad[edit] pope had been fascinated by homer since childhood. in , he announced his plans to publish a translation of the iliad. the work would be available by subscription, with one volume appearing every year over the course of six years. pope secured a revolutionary deal with the publisher bernard lintot, which earned him two hundred guineas (£ ) a volume, a vast sum at the time. his translation of the iliad appeared between and . it was acclaimed by samuel johnson as "a performance which no age or nation could hope to equal" (although the classical scholar richard bentley wrote: "it is a pretty poem, mr. pope, but you must not call it homer.")[citation needed] translation of the odyssey[edit] frontispiece and title page of a edition of pope's odyssey encouraged by the success of the iliad, bernard lintot published pope's five-volume translation of homer's odyssey in and .[ ] for this work pope collaborated with william broome and elijah fenton: broome translated eight books ( , , , , , , , ), fenton four ( , , , ) and pope the remaining . broome provided the annotations.[ ] pope tried to conceal the extent of the collaboration, but the secret leaked out.[ ] it did some damage to pope's reputation for a time, but not to his profits.[ ] leslie stephen considered pope's portion of the odyssey inferior to his version of the iliad, given that pope had put more effort into the earlier work – to which, in any case, his style was better suited.[ ] edition of shakespeare's works[edit] in this period, pope was employed by publisher jacob tonson to produce an opulent new edition of shakespeare.[ ] when it appeared in , this edition silently regularised shakespeare's metre and rewrote his verse in a number of places. pope also removed about , lines of shakespearean material, arguing that some appealed to him more than others.[ ] in , lawyer, poet and pantomime-deviser lewis theobald published a scathing pamphlet called shakespeare restored, which catalogued the errors in pope's work and suggested a number of revisions to the text. this enraged pope, and thus, theobald was the main target of pope's poem the dunciad.[ ] the second edition of pope's shakespeare appeared in .[ ] aside from making some minor revisions to the preface, it seems that pope had little to do with it. most later th-century editors of shakespeare dismissed pope's creatively motivated approach to textual criticism. pope's preface continued to be highly rated. it was suggested that shakespeare's texts were thoroughly contaminated by actors' interpolations and they would influence editors for most of the th century. reception[edit] by the mid- th century, new fashions in poetry emerged. a decade after pope's death, joseph warton claimed that pope's style of poetry was not the most excellent form of the art. the romantic movement that rose to prominence in early th-century england was more ambivalent towards his work. though lord byron identified pope as one of his chief influences – believing his scathing satire of contemporary english literature english bards and scotch reviewers to be a continuance of pope's tradition) – william wordsworth found pope's style fundamentally too decadent to be a representation of the human condition.[ ] george gilfillan in his study of described pope's talent as "a rose peering into the summer air, fine, rather than powerful".[ ] in the th century, pope's reputation revived. pope's work was, of course, full of references to the people and places of his time, and these aided people's understanding of the past. the post-war period stressed the power of pope's poetry, recognising that pope's immersion in christian and biblical culture lent depth to his poetry. for example, maynard mack, a pope scholar of the later th century, argued that pope's moral vision demanded as much respect as his technical excellence. between and the definitive twickenham edition of pope's poems was published in ten volumes, including an index volume.[ ] works[edit] major works[edit] 	 : pastorals 	 : an essay on criticism[ ] 	 : messiah (from the book of isaiah, and later translated into latin by samuel johnson) 	 : the rape of the lock (enlarged in )[ ] 	 : windsor forest[ ][ ] 	 : the temple of fame: a vision[ ] 	 – : translation of the iliad[ ] 	 : eloisa to abelard[ ] 	 : three hours after marriage, with others 	 : elegy to the memory of an unfortunate lady[ ] 	 – : the works of shakespear, in six volumes 	 – : translation of the odyssey[ ] 	 : peri bathous, or the art of sinking in poetry 	 : the dunciad[ ] 	 – : essay on man[ ] 	 : the prologue to the satires (see the epistle to dr arbuthnot and who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?) other works[edit] 	 : ode on solitude 	 : ode for musick[ ] 	 : the court ballad[ ] 	 : an epistle to the right honourable richard earl of burlington[ ] 	 : the impertinent, or a visit to the court[ ] 	 : bounce to fop[ ] 	 : the first ode of the fourth book of horace[ ] 	 : the first epistle of the first book of horace[ ] editions[edit] 	the works of alexander pope vol vol v of v of see also[edit] 	characters and observations 	list of abolitionist forerunners 	pope's urn references[edit] 	^ the oxford dictionary of quotations ( th ed.). oxford university press. . 	^ portrait of alexander pope ( – ). historical portraits image library. retrieved january . 	^ a b c d e f g erskine-hill, howard ( ). 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"alexander pope 'universal prayer'". bcy.ca. full-text. also at the eighteenth-century poetry archive (ecpa). 	^ james sambrook ( ) "thurston, josephlocked ( – )", oxford dictionary of national biography. oxford university press. doi: . /ref:odnb/ 	^ ruffhead, owen ( ). the life of alexander pope; with a critical essay on his writings and genius. p.  . 	^ dyce, alexander ( ). the poetical works of alexander pope, with a life, by a. dyce. p. cxxxi. 	^ homer ( – ). the odyssey of homer. translated by alexander pope; william broome & elijah fenton ( st ed.). london: bernard lintot. 	^ fenton, elijah ( ). the poetical works of elijah fenton with the life of the author. printed for, and under the direction of, g. cawthorn, british library, strand. p.  . 	^ fraser, george ( ). alexander pope. routledge. p.  . isbn  . 	^ damrosch, leopold ( ). the imaginative world of alexander pope. university of california press. p.  . 	^ stephen, sir leslie ( ). alexander pope. harper & brothers. pp.  . 	^ a b c "preface to shakespeare, , alexander pope". shakespearebrasileiro. retrieved march . 	^ "lewis theobald" encyclopaedia britannica. 	^ george gilfillan ( ) "the genius and poetry of pope", the poetical works of alexander pope, vol. . 	^ a b c d e f g h i cox, michael, editor, the concise oxford chronology of english literature, oxford university press, , isbn  - - - 	^ alexander pope ( ) the temple of fame: a vision. london: printed for bernard lintott. print. 	^ pope, alexander. ode for musick.. eighteenth-century poetry archive (ecpa). 	^ pope, alexander. the court ballad. eighteenth-century poetry archive (ecpa). 	^ pope, alexander. epistle to richard earl of burlington. eighteenth-century poetry archive (ecpa). 	^ pope, alexander. the impertinent, or a visit to the court. a satyr.. eighteenth-century poetry archive (ecpa). 	^ pope, alexander. bounce to fop. eighteenth-century poetry archive (ecpa). 	^ pope, alexander. the first ode of the fourth book of horace.. eighteenth-century poetry archive (ecpa). 	^ pope, alexander. the first epistle of the first book of horace.. eighteenth-century poetry archive (ecpa). bibliography[edit] 	davis, herbert, ed. ( ). poetical works. oxford standard authors. london: oxford u.p. 	hans ostrom ( ) "pope's epilogue to the satires, 'dialogue i'." explicator, : , pp.  – . 	rogers, pat ( ). the cambridge companion to alexander pope. cambridge: cambridge university press. external links[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to alexander pope. 		wikiquote has quotations related to: alexander pope 		wikisource has original works written by or about: alexander pope 		wikisource has the text of the – dictionary of national biography's article about pope, alexander ( – ). 	alexander pope at the eighteenth-century poetry archive (ecpa) 	works by alexander pope at project gutenberg 	works by or about alexander pope at internet archive 	works by alexander pope at librivox (public domain audiobooks) 	john wilkes and alexander pope – uk parliament living heritage 	lennox, patrick joseph ( ). 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		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		roman historian 	ammianus marcellinus 	born	 greek-speaking east, possibly antioch 	died	 – (aged – ) rome 	allegiance	western roman empire 	service/branch	roman army 	other work	res gestae ammianus marcellinus (born c.  , died c.   – ) was a roman soldier and historian who wrote the penultimate major historical account surviving from antiquity (preceding procopius). his work, known as the res gestae, chronicled in latin the history of rome from the accession of the emperor nerva in to the death of valens at the battle of adrianople in , although only the sections covering the period to survive. contents 	 biography 	 work 	 reception 	 notes 	 references 	 sources 	 external links biography[edit] a bust of emperor constantius ii from syria. ammianus was born in the greek-speaking east,[ ] possibly in syria or phoenicia[a] in .[ ] his native language was most likely greek.[ ] the surviving books of his history cover the years to .[ ] ammianus served as an officer in the army of the emperors constantius ii and julian, he served in gaul (julian) and in the east (twice for constantius, once under julian). he professes to have been "a former soldier and a greek" (miles quondam et graecus),[ ] and his enrollment among the elite protectores domestici (household guards) shows that he was of middle class or higher birth. consensus is that ammianus probably came from a curial family, but it is also possible that he was the son of a comes orientis of the same family name. he entered the army at an early age, when constantius ii was emperor of the east, and was sent to serve under ursicinus, governor of nisibis in mesopotamia, and magister militum. ammianus campaigned in the east twice under ursicinus. the walls of amida, built by constantius ii before the siege of amida of . ammianus himself was present in the city until a day before its fall. he travelled with ursicinus to italy when ursicinus was called on by constantius to begin an expedition against claudius silvanus. silvanus had been forced by the allegedly false accusations of his enemies into proclaiming himself emperor in gaul. ursicinus had one of his men assassinate silvanus, restoring gaul to constantius. he then stayed in gaul to help install julian as caesar of gaul, spain and britain. ammianus probably met julian for the first time while serving on ursicinus' staff in gaul. in constantius sent ursicinus back to the east to help in the defence against a persian invasion led by king shapur ii himself. ammianus returned with his commander to the east and again served ursicinus as a staff officer. ursicinus, although he was the more experienced commander, was placed under the command of sabinianus, the magister peditum of the east. the two did not get along, resulting in a lack of cooperation between the limitanei (border regiments) of mesopotamia and osrhoene under ursicinus' command and the comitatus (field army) of sabinianus. while on a mission near nisibis, ammianus spotted a persian patrol which was about to try and capture ursicinus, he was able to warn his commander in time.[ ] in an attempt to locate the persian royal army ursicinus sent ammianus to jovinianus, the semi-independent governor of corduene, and a friend of ursicinus. ammianus successfully located the persian main body and reported his findings to ursicinus.[ ] after his mission in corduene amminianus accompanied his commander when the latter rode out from his headquarters at amida on a mission to make sure the bridges across the euphrates were demolished. they were attacked by the persian vanguard who had made a night march in an attempt to catch the romans at amida off guard. after a protracted cavalry battle the romans were scattered, ursicinus evaded capture and fled to melitene while ammianus barely made it back to amida with a wounded comrade.[ ] the persians started to besiege the city. when it fell ammianus barely escaped with his life.[ ] when ursicinus was dismissed from his military post by constantius, ammianus too seems to have retired from the military; however, reevaluation of his participation in julian's persian campaigns has led modern scholarship to suggest that he continued his service but did not for some reason include the period in his history. he accompanied julian, for whom he expresses enthusiastic admiration, in his campaigns against the alamanni and the sassanids. after julian's death, ammianus accompanied the retreat of the new emperor, jovian, as far as antioch. he was residing in antioch in when a certain theodorus was thought to have been identified the successor to the emperor valens by divination. speaking as an alleged eyewitness, marcellinus recounts how theodorus and several others were made to confess their deceit through the use of torture, and cruelly punished. portrait of julian on a bronze coin of antioch he eventually settled in rome and began the res gestae. the precise year of his death is unknown, but scholarly consensus places it somewhere between and at the latest.[ ][ ] modern scholarship generally describes ammianus as a pagan who was tolerant of christianity.[ ] marcellinus writes of christianity as being a pure and simple religion that demands only what is just and mild, and when he condemns the actions of christians, he does not do so on the basis of their christianity as such.[ ] his lifetime was marked by lengthy outbreaks of sectarian and dogmatic strife within the new state-backed faith, often with violent consequences (especially the arian controversy) and these conflicts sometimes appeared unworthy to him, though it was territory where he could not risk going very far in criticism, due to the growing and volatile political connections between the church and imperial power. he was not blind to the faults of christians or of pagans; he observed in his res gestae that "no wild beasts are so deadly to humans as most christians are to each other."[ ] and he condemns his hero julian for excessive attachment to (pagan) sacrifice, and for his edict effectively barring christians from teaching posts.[ ] work[edit] while living in rome in the s, ammianus wrote a latin history of the roman empire from the accession of nerva ( ) to the death of valens at the battle of adrianople ( ),[ ] in effect writing a continuation of the history of tacitus. he presumably completed the work before , as at . . he praises the serapeum in egypt as the glory of the empire; it was in that same year the emperor granted the temple grounds to a christian bishop, provoking pagans into barricading themselves in the temple, plundering its contents, and torturing christians, ultimately destroying the temple. the res gestae (rerum gestarum libri xxxi) was originally composed of thirty-one books, but the first thirteen have been lost.[ ][b] the surviving eighteen books cover the period from to .[ ] it constitutes the foundation of modern understanding of the history of the fourth century roman empire. it is lauded as a clear, comprehensive, and generally impartial account of events by a contemporary; like many ancient historians, however, ammianus was in fact not impartial, although he expresses an intention to be so, and had strong moral and religious prejudices. although criticised as lacking literary merit by his early biographers, he was in fact quite skilled in rhetoric, which significantly has brought the veracity of some of the res gestae into question. his work has suffered substantially from manuscript transmission. aside from the loss of the first thirteen books, the remaining eighteen are in many places corrupt and lacunose. the sole surviving manuscript from which almost every other is derived is a ninth-century carolingian text, vatican lat. (v), produced in fulda from an insular exemplar. the only independent textual source for ammianus lies in fragmenta marbugensia (m), another ninth-century frankish codex which was taken apart to provide covers for account-books during the fifteenth century. only six leaves of m survive; however, before this manuscript was dismantled the abbot of hersfeld lent the manuscript to sigismund gelenius, who used it in preparing the text of the second froben edition (g). the dates and relationship of v and m were long disputed until when r. p. robinson demonstrated persuasively that v was copied from m. as l. d. reynolds summarizes, "m is thus a fragment of the archetype; symptoms of an insular pre-archetype are evident."[ ] his handling from his earliest printers was little better. the editio princeps was printed in in rome by georg sachsel and bartholomaeus golsch, which broke off at the end of book . the next edition (bologna, ) suffered from its editor's conjectures upon the poor text of the edition; the edition was pirated for the first froben edition (basle, ). it was not until that the last five books of ammianus' history were put into print by silvanus otmar and edited by mariangelus accursius. the first modern edition was produced by c.u. clark (berlin, – ).[ ] the first english translations were by philemon holland in ,[ ] and later by c.d. yonge in .[ ] reception[edit] a copy of the res gestae from edward gibbon judged ammianus "an accurate and faithful guide, who composed the history of his own times without indulging the prejudices and passions which usually affect the mind of a contemporary."[ ] but he also condemned ammianus for lack of literary flair: "the coarse and undistinguishing pencil of ammianus has delineated his bloody figures with tedious and disgusting accuracy."[ ] austrian historian ernst stein praised ammianus as "the greatest literary genius that the world produced between tacitus and dante".[ ] according to kimberly kagan, his accounts of battles emphasize the experience of the soldiers but at the cost of ignoring the bigger picture. as a result, it is difficult for the reader to understand why the battles he describes had the outcome they did.[ ] ammianus' work contains a detailed description of the tsunami in alexandria which devastated the metropolis and the shores of the eastern mediterranean on july . his report describes accurately the characteristic sequence of earthquake, retreat of the sea and sudden giant wave.[ ] notes[edit] 	^ following earlier scholars, matthews suggested a hometown of antioch on the orontes based on the assumption that ammianus was the recipient of a letter from a pagan contemporary, libanius, to a certain marcellinus;[ ] however formara in argued that this letter must have referred in fact to a younger man and an orator newly arrived in rome, rather than ammianus, who had long been a resident in the city, and barnes solidified this stance in modern scholarship. however, many scholars remain convinced that ammianus was a native of antioch.[ ] 	^ historian t.d. barnes argues that the original was actually thirty-six books, which if correct would mean that eighteen books have been lost.[ ] references[edit] 	^ young , p.  . 	^ matthews , p.  . 	^ barnes , p.  - . 	^ a b barnes , p.  . 	^ norden , p.  . 	^ kagan , p.  . 	^ barnes , p.  . 	^ ammianus, res gestae, , – . 	^ ammianus, res gestae, , . – . . 	^ ammianus, res gestae, , , – . 	^ kagan , p.  - . 	^ kelly , p.  . 	^ barnes , p. ?. 	^ treadgold , p.  -. 	^ hunt , p.  , . 	^ hunt , p.  . 	^ hunt , p.  . 	^ kagan , p.  . 	^ frakes , p.  . 	^ fisher , p.  . 	^ a b reynolds , p.  ff. 	^ a b jenkins , p.  . 	^ gibbon , p. chapter . . 	^ gibbon , p. chapter . 	^ stein , p. ?. 	^ kagan , p.  - . 	^ kelly , p.  - . sources[edit] 	barnes, timothy d. 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plural: ducēs) is latin for "leader" (from the noun dux, ducis, "leader, general") and later for duke and its variant forms (doge, duce, etc.). during the roman republic, dux could refer to anyone who commanded troops including foreign leaders, but was not a formal military rank. in writing his commentaries on the gallic wars, julius caesar uses the term only for celtic generals, with one exception for a roman commander who held no official rank.[ ] contents 	 roman empire 	 . original usage 	 . change in usage 	 . the office under the dominate 	 later developments 	 post-roman uses 	 . education 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 . citations 	 . sources 	 external links roman empire[edit] 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (may ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) original usage[edit] until the rd century, dux was not a formal expression of rank within the roman military or administrative hierarchy.[ ] in the roman military, a dux would be a general in charge of two or more legions. while the title of dux could refer to a consul or imperator, it usually refers to the roman governor of the provinces. as the governor, the dux was both the highest civil official as well as the commander-in-chief of the legions garrisoned within the province. change in usage[edit] by the mid- rd century ad, it had acquired a more precise connotation defining the commander of an expeditionary force, usually made up of detachments (i.e. vexillationes) from one or more of the regular military formations. such appointments were made to deal with specific military situations when the threat to be countered seemed beyond the capabilities of the province-based military command structure that had characterised the roman army of the high empire.[ ] from the time of gallienus onwards for more than a century duces were invariably viri perfectissimi, i.e. members of the second class of the equestrian order.[ ] thus, they would have out-ranked the commanders of provincial legions, who were usually viri egregii - equestrians of the third class.[ ] duces differed from praesides who were the supreme civil as well as military authority within their provinces in that the function of the former was purely military. however, the military authority of a dux was not necessarily confined to a single province and they do not seem to have been subject to the authority of the governor of the province in which they happened to be operating. it was not until the end of the rd century that the term dux emerged as a regular military rank held by a senior officer of limitanei - i.e. frontier troops as opposed those attached to an imperial field-army (comitatenses) - with a defined geographic area of responsibility[note ] the office under the dominate[edit] during the time of the dominate, the powers of a dux were split from the role of the governor and were given to a new office called dux. the dux was now the highest military office within the province and commanded the legions, but the governor had to authorize the use of the dux's powers. but once authorized, the dux could act independently from the governor and handled all military matters. an example would be the dux per gallia belgica who was the dux of the province of gallia belgica. after diocletian's tetrarchy reform, the provinces were organized into dioceses each administered by a vicarius. as with the governors, the vicarius was assisted by a dux. this dux was superior to all other duces within the dioceses and when the vicarius called the legions of the dioceses into action, all of the legions were at the dux's command. an example would be the dux per gallia who was the dux of the dioceses of gaul. the office of dux was, in turn, made subject to the magister militum of his respective praetorian prefecture, and above him to the emperor. later developments[edit] 	 	this section does not cite any sources. please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (may ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) in the byzantine era of the roman empire, the position of dux survived (byzantine greek: "δούξ", doux, plural "δούκες", doukes) as a rank equivalent to a general (strategos). in the late th and early th centuries, a doux or katepano was in charge of large circumscriptions consisting of several smaller themata and of the professional regiments (tagmata) of the byzantine army (as opposed to the largely militia-like forces of most themata). in the komnenian period, the title of doux replaced altogether the strategos in designating the military official in charge of a thema. in the byzantine navy, doukes of the fleet appear in the s, and the office of megas doux ("grand duke") was created in the s as the commander-in-chief of the entire navy. the title also gave rise to a family name, the aristocratic doukas clan, which in the th– th centuries provided several byzantine emperors and generals, while later bearers of the name (maternally descended from the original family) founded the despotate of epirus in northwestern greece. post-roman uses[edit] see also: duke (lombard) 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (may ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) king arthur, in one of his earliest literary appearances, is described as dux bellorum ("dux of battles") among the kings of the romano-britons in their wars against the anglo-saxons. a chronicle from st martin's monastery in cologne states that the monastery had been pillaged by the saxons in , but that it was rebuilt by an "olgerus, dux daniæ" (who may have been the historical person around whom the myth of ogier the dane formed), with the help of charlemagne. dux is also the root of various high feudal noble titles of peerage rank, such as the english duke, the french duc, the spanish and portuguese duque, the venetian doge, the italian duca and duce, and the byzantine greek dukas or doukas (gr. δούκας) (see doukas). italian fascist dictator benito mussolini used the title of dux (and duce in italian) to represent his leadership. one fascist motto was "dvx mea lvx", latin for "[the] duce [is] my light" or "[the] leader [is] my light".[ ] in pre-revolutionary russia, the dux factory built bicycles, automobiles and aircraft in moscow.[citation needed] education[edit] 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (may ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) 	in scotland, south africa, australia and new zealand dux is a modern title given to the highest-ranking student in academic, arts or sporting achievement (dux litterarum, dux artium and dux ludorum respectively) in each graduating year.[ ] this can lead to scholarships at universities.[ ] the runner-up may be given the title proxime accessit (meaning "he/she came next") or semidux.[ ] 	in portuguese universities the dux is the most senior of students, usually in charge of overseeing the praxe (initiation rituals for the freshmen). see also[edit] 	valedictorian 	salutatorian notes[edit] 	^ the earliest attested dux with a defined regional responsibility seems to have been aur. firminianus, dux limit. prov. scyt ...[ ] – i.e. dux of the frontier troops of the province of scythia – in the s ad. references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ thomas wiedemann, “the fetiales: a reconsideration,” classical quarterly ( ), p. . the roman called dux is publius crassus, who was too young to hold a commission; see discussion of his rank. 	^ fergus millar, the roman near east, b.c.-a.d. (harvard university press, ), pg. online 	^ smith, prof. r.e. ( ). "dux; praepositus". zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik. . pp.  – . 	^ christol, m. ( ). "un duc dans une inscription de termessos (pisidie)". chiron. : – . ) 	^ nagy, prof. t. ( ). "commanders of legions in the age of gallienus". acta archeologica hungarica. xvii: – . 	^ j.b. campbell, cil iii = ils , "inscriptions to the magna mater in the provinces of moesia", the roman army, bc-ad : a sourcebook, books.google.com; accessed may . 	^ duce-mussolini, delcampe.it; accessed may . 	^ "albion park high school | dux of the school". www.albionpk-h.schools.nsw.edu.au. retrieved - - . 	^ "university of otago dux scholarship, scholarships database, university of otago, new zealand". www.otago.ac.nz. retrieved - - . 	^ "prizes & awards » lincoln high school". www.lincoln.school.nz. retrieved - - . sources[edit] 	realencyclopädie der classischen altertumswissenschaft (pauly–wissowa) external links[edit] 	 the dictionary definition of dux at wiktionary 	 	v 	t 	e ancient rome topics 	 	outline 	timeline 	history	 	 	foundation 	kingdom 	overthrow 	republic 	empire	 	history 	pax romana 	principate 	dominate 	western empire 	fall 	historiography of the fall 	byzantine empire 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wikipedia 			 	 			 disclaimers 			 					 				 				 					 						 						 					 				 				 					 				 				 					search 					 				 			 		 		 			 			 			 			 			 				 					horace 					 				 				 		 				language 		 	 				watch 		 	 				edit 		 				 				 				 			 			 this article is about the roman poet. for the egyptian god, see horus. for other uses, see horace (disambiguation). quintus horatius flaccus ( december – november bc), known in the english-speaking world as horace (/ˈhɒrɪs/), was the leading roman lyric poet during the time of augustus (also known as octavian). the rhetorician quintilian regarded his odes as just about the only latin lyrics worth reading: "he can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."[nb ] 	horace 	horace, as imagined by anton von werner 	born	quintus horatius flaccus december bc venusia, italy, roman republic 	died	 november bc (age ) rome 	resting place	rome 	occupation	soldier, scriba quaestorius, poet, senator 	language	latin 	nationality	roman 	genre	lyric poetry 	notable works	odes "the art of poetry" horace also crafted elegant hexameter verses (satires and epistles) and caustic iambic poetry (epodes). the hexameters are amusing yet serious works, friendly in tone, leading the ancient satirist persius to comment: "as his friend laughs, horace slyly puts his finger on his every fault; once let in, he plays about the heartstrings".[nb ] his career coincided with rome's momentous change from a republic to an empire. an officer in the republican army defeated at the battle of philippi in bc, he was befriended by octavian's right-hand man in civil affairs, maecenas, and became a spokesman for the new regime. for some commentators, his association with the regime was a delicate balance in which he maintained a strong measure of independence (he was "a master of the graceful sidestep")[ ] but for others he was, in john dryden's phrase, "a well-mannered court slave".[ ][nb ] contents 	 life 	 . childhood 	 . adulthood 	 . . poet 	 . . knight 	 works 	 . historical context 	 . themes 	 reception 	 . antiquity 	 . middle ages and renaissance 	 . age of enlightenment 	 . th century on 	 translations 	 in popular culture 	 see also 	 notes 	 citations 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links lifeedit   horatii flacci sermonum ( ) horace can be regarded as the world's first autobiographer.[ ] in his writings, he tells us far more about himself, his character, his development, and his way of life, than any other great poet of antiquity. some of the biographical material contained in his work can be supplemented from the short but valuable "life of horace" by suetonius (in his lives of the poets).[ ] childhoodedit he was born on december bc[nb ] in the samnite south of italy.[ ] his home town, venusia, lay on a trade route in the border region between apulia and lucania (basilicata). various italic dialects were spoken in the area and this perhaps enriched his feeling for language. he could have been familiar with greek words even as a young boy and later he poked fun at the jargon of mixed greek and oscan spoken in neighbouring canusium.[ ] one of the works he probably studied in school was the odyssia of livius andronicus, taught by teachers like the 'orbilius' mentioned in one of his poems.[ ] army veterans could have been settled there at the expense of local families uprooted by rome as punishment for their part in the social war ( – bc).[ ] such state-sponsored migration must have added still more linguistic variety to the area. according to a local tradition reported by horace,[ ] a colony of romans or latins had been installed in venusia after the samnites had been driven out early in the third century. in that case, young horace could have felt himself to be a roman[ ][ ] though there are also indications that he regarded himself as a samnite or sabellus by birth.[ ][ ] italians in modern and ancient times have always been devoted to their home towns, even after success in the wider world, and horace was no different. images of his childhood setting and references to it are found throughout his poems.[ ] horace's father was probably a venutian taken captive by romans in the social war, or possibly he was descended from a sabine captured in the samnite wars. either way, he was a slave for at least part of his life. he was evidently a man of strong abilities however and managed to gain his freedom and improve his social position. thus horace claimed to be the free-born son of a prosperous 'coactor'.[ ] the term 'coactor' could denote various roles, such as tax collector, but its use by horace[ ] was explained by scholia as a reference to 'coactor argentareus' i.e. an auctioneer with some of the functions of a banker, paying the seller out of his own funds and later recovering the sum with interest from the buyer.[ ] the father spent a small fortune on his son's education, eventually accompanying him to rome to oversee his schooling and moral development. the poet later paid tribute to him in a poem[ ] that one modern scholar considers the best memorial by any son to his father.[nb ] the poem includes this passage: if my character is flawed by a few minor faults, but is otherwise decent and moral, if you can point out only a few scattered blemishes on an otherwise immaculate surface, if no one can accuse me of greed, or of prurience, or of profligacy, if i live a virtuous life, free of defilement (pardon, for a moment, my self-praise), and if i am to my friends a good friend, my father deserves all the credit... as it is now, he deserves from me unstinting gratitude and praise. i could never be ashamed of such a father, nor do i feel any need, as many people do, to apologize for being a freedman's son. satires . . – he never mentioned his mother in his verses and he might not have known much about her. perhaps she also had been a slave.[ ] adulthoodedit horace left rome, possibly after his father's death, and continued his formal education in athens, a great centre of learning in the ancient world, where he arrived at nineteen years of age, enrolling in the academy. founded by plato, the academy was now dominated by epicureans and stoics, whose theories and practises made a deep impression on the young man from venusia.[ ] meanwhile, he mixed and lounged about with the elite of roman youth, such as marcus, the idle son of cicero, and the pompeius to whom he later addressed a poem.[ ] it was in athens too that he probably acquired deep familiarity with the ancient tradition of greek lyric poetry, at that time largely the preserve of grammarians and academic specialists (access to such material was easier in athens than in rome, where the public libraries had yet to be built by asinius pollio and augustus).[ ] rome's troubles following the assassination of julius caesar were soon to catch up with him. marcus junius brutus came to athens seeking support for the republican cause. brutus was fêted around town in grand receptions and he made a point of attending academic lectures, all the while recruiting supporters among the young men studying there, including horace.[ ] an educated young roman could begin military service high in the ranks and horace was made tribunus militum (one of six senior officers of a typical legion), a post usually reserved for men of senatorial or equestrian rank and which seems to have inspired jealousy among his well-born confederates.[ ][ ] he learned the basics of military life while on the march, particularly in the wilds of northern greece, whose rugged scenery became a backdrop to some of his later poems.[ ] it was there in bc that octavian (later augustus) and his associate mark antony crushed the republican forces at the battle of philippi. horace later recorded it as a day of embarrassment for himself, when he fled without his shield,[ ] but allowance should be made for his self-deprecating humour. moreover, the incident allowed him to identify himself with some famous poets who had long ago abandoned their shields in battle, notably his heroes alcaeus and archilochus. the comparison with the latter poet is uncanny: archilochus lost his shield in a part of thrace near philippi, and he was deeply involved in the greek colonization of thasos, where horace's die-hard comrades finally surrendered.[ ] octavian offered an early amnesty to his opponents and horace quickly accepted it. on returning to italy, he was confronted with yet another loss: his father's estate in venusia was one of many throughout italy to be confiscated for the settlement of veterans (virgil lost his estate in the north about the same time). horace later claimed that he was reduced to poverty and this led him to try his hand at poetry.[ ] in reality, there was no money to be had from versifying. at best, it offered future prospects through contacts with other poets and their patrons among the rich.[ ] meanwhile, he obtained the sinecure of scriba quaestorius, a civil service position at the aerarium or treasury, profitable enough to be purchased even by members of the ordo equester and not very demanding in its work-load, since tasks could be delegated to scribae or permanent clerks.[ ] it was about this time that he began writing his satires and epodes. poetedit   horace reads before maecenas, by fyodor bronnikov the epodes belong to iambic poetry. iambic poetry features insulting and obscene language;[ ][ ] sometimes, it is referred to as blame poetry.[ ] blame poetry, or shame poetry, is poetry written to blame and shame fellow citizens into a sense of their social obligations. horace modelled these poems on the poetry of archilochus. social bonds in rome had been decaying since the destruction of carthage a little more than a hundred years earlier, due to the vast wealth that could be gained by plunder and corruption.[ ] these social ills were magnified by rivalry between julius caesar, mark antony and confederates like sextus pompey, all jockeying for a bigger share of the spoils. one modern scholar has counted a dozen civil wars in the hundred years leading up to bc, including the spartacus rebellion, eight years before horace's birth.[ ] as the heirs to hellenistic culture, horace and his fellow romans were not well prepared to deal with these problems: at bottom, all the problems that the times were stirring up were of a social nature, which the hellenistic thinkers were ill qualified to grapple with. some of them censured oppression of the poor by the rich, but they gave no practical lead, though they may have hoped to see well-meaning rulers doing so. philosophy was drifting into absorption in self, a quest for private contentedness, to be achieved by self-control and restraint, without much regard for the fate of a disintegrating community. — v. g. kiernan[ ] horace's hellenistic background is clear in his satires, even though the genre was unique to latin literature. he brought to it a style and outlook suited to the social and ethical issues confronting rome but he changed its role from public, social engagement to private meditation.[ ] meanwhile, he was beginning to interest octavian's supporters, a gradual process described by him in one of his satires.[ ] the way was opened for him by his friend, the poet virgil, who had gained admission into the privileged circle around maecenas, octavian's lieutenant, following the success of his eclogues. an introduction soon followed and, after a discreet interval, horace too was accepted. he depicted the process as an honourable one, based on merit and mutual respect, eventually leading to true friendship, and there is reason to believe that his relationship was genuinely friendly, not just with maecenas but afterwards with augustus as well.[ ] on the other hand, the poet has been unsympathetically described by one scholar as "a sharp and rising young man, with an eye to the main chance."[ ] there were advantages on both sides: horace gained encouragement and material support, the politicians gained a hold on a potential dissident.[ ] his republican sympathies, and his role at philippi, may have caused him some pangs of remorse over his new status. however most romans considered the civil wars to be the result of contentio dignitatis, or rivalry between the foremost families of the city, and he too seems to have accepted the principate as rome's last hope for much needed peace.[ ] in bc, horace accompanied maecenas on a journey to brundisium, described in one of his poems[ ] as a series of amusing incidents and charming encounters with other friends along the way, such as virgil. in fact the journey was political in its motivation, with maecenas en route to negotiatie the treaty of tarentum with antony, a fact horace artfully keeps from the reader (political issues are largely avoided in the first book of satires).[ ] horace was probably also with maecenas on one of octavian's naval expeditions against the piratical sextus pompeius, which ended in a disastrous storm off palinurus in bc, briefly alluded to by horace in terms of near-drowning.[ ][nb ] there are also some indications in his verses that he was with maecenas at the battle of actium in bc, where octavian defeated his great rival, antony.[ ][nb ] by then horace had already received from maecenas the famous gift of his sabine farm, probably not long after the publication of the first book of satires. the gift, which included income from five tenants, may have ended his career at the treasury, or at least allowed him to give it less time and energy.[ ] it signalled his identification with the octavian regime yet, in the second book of satires that soon followed, he continued the apolitical stance of the first book. by this time, he had attained the status of eques romanus,[ ] perhaps as a result of his work at the treasury.[ ] knightedit odes – were the next focus for his artistic creativity. he adapted their forms and themes from greek lyric poetry of the seventh and sixth centuries bc. the fragmented nature of the greek world had enabled his literary heroes to express themselves freely and his semi-retirement from the treasury in rome to his own estate in the sabine hills perhaps empowered him to some extent also[ ] yet even when his lyrics touched on public affairs they reinforced the importance of private life.[ ] nevertheless, his work in the period – bc began to show his closeness to the regime and his sensitivity to its developing ideology. in odes . , for example, he eulogized octavian in hyperboles that echo hellenistic court poetry. the name augustus, which octavian assumed in january bc, is first attested in odes . and . . in the period – bc, political allusions in the odes concentrated on foreign wars in britain ( . ), arabia ( . ) spain ( . ) and parthia ( . ). he greeted augustus on his return to rome in bc as a beloved ruler upon whose good health he depended for his own happiness ( . ).[ ] the public reception of odes – disappointed him, however. he attributed the lack of success to jealousy among imperial courtiers and to his isolation from literary cliques.[ ] perhaps it was disappointment that led him to put aside the genre in favour of verse letters. he addressed his first book of epistles to a variety of friends and acquaintances in an urbane style reflecting his new social status as a knight. in the opening poem, he professed a deeper interest in moral philosophy than poetry[ ] but, though the collection demonstrates a leaning towards stoic theory, it reveals no sustained thinking about ethics.[ ] maecenas was still the dominant confidante but horace had now begun to assert his own independence, suavely declining constant invitations to attend his patron.[ ] in the final poem of the first book of epistles, he revealed himself to be forty-four years old in the consulship of lollius and lepidus i.e. bc, and "of small stature, fond of the sun, prematurely grey, quick-tempered but easily placated".[ ][ ] according to suetonius, the second book of epistles was prompted by augustus, who desired a verse epistle to be addressed to himself. augustus was in fact a prolific letter-writer and he once asked horace to be his personal secretary. horace refused the secretarial role but complied with the emperor's request for a verse letter.[ ] the letter to augustus may have been slow in coming, being published possibly as late as bc. it celebrated, among other things, the bc military victories of his stepsons, drusus and tiberius, yet it and the following letter[ ] were largely devoted to literary theory and criticism. the literary theme was explored still further in ars poetica, published separately but written in the form of an epistle and sometimes referred to as epistles . (possibly the last poem he ever wrote).[ ] he was also commissioned to write odes commemorating the victories of drusus and tiberius[ ] and one to be sung in a temple of apollo for the secular games, a long-abandoned festival that augustus revived in accordance with his policy of recreating ancient customs (carmen saeculare). suetonius recorded some gossip about horace's sexual activities late in life, claiming that the walls of his bedchamber were covered with obscene pictures and mirrors, so that he saw erotica wherever he looked.[nb ] the poet died at years of age, not long after his friend maecenas, near whose tomb he was laid to rest. both men bequeathed their property to augustus, an honour that the emperor expected of his friends.[ ] worksedit   odes . – wall poem in leiden the dating of horace's works isn't known precisely and scholars often debate the exact order in which they were first 'published'. there are persuasive arguments for the following chronology:[ ] 	satires (c. – bc) 	satires (c. bc) 	epodes ( bc) 	odes – (c. bc)[nb ] 	epistles (c. bc) 	carmen saeculare ( bc) 	epistles (c. bc)[nb ] 	odes (c. bc) 	ars poetica (c. – bc)[nb ] historical contextedit horace composed in traditional metres borrowed from archaic greece, employing hexameters in his satires and epistles, and iambs in his epodes, all of which were relatively easy to adapt into latin forms. his odes featured more complex measures, including alcaics and sapphics, which were sometimes a difficult fit for latin structure and syntax. despite these traditional metres, he presented himself as a partisan in the development of a new and sophisticated style. he was influenced in particular by hellenistic aesthetics of brevity, elegance and polish, as modelled in the work of callimachus.[ ] as soon as horace, stirred by his own genius and encouraged by the example of virgil, varius, and perhaps some other poets of the same generation, had determined to make his fame as a poet, being by temperament a fighter, he wanted to fight against all kinds of prejudice, amateurish slovenliness, philistinism, reactionary tendencies, in short to fight for the new and noble type of poetry which he and his friends were endeavouring to bring about. — eduard fraenkel[ ] in modern literary theory, a distinction is often made between immediate personal experience (urerlebnis) and experience mediated by cultural vectors such as literature, philosophy and the visual arts (bildungserlebnis).[ ] the distinction has little relevance for horace[citation needed] however since his personal and literary experiences are implicated in each other. satires . , for example, recounts in detail a real trip horace made with virgil and some of his other literary friends, and which parallels a satire by lucilius, his predecessor.[ ] unlike much hellenistic-inspired literature, however, his poetry was not composed for a small coterie of admirers and fellow poets, nor does it rely on abstruse allusions for many of its effects. though elitist in its literary standards, it was written for a wide audience, as a public form of art.[ ] ambivalence also characterizes his literary persona, since his presentation of himself as part of a small community of philosophically aware people, seeking true peace of mind while shunning vices like greed, was well adapted to augustus's plans to reform public morality, corrupted by greed—his personal plea for moderation was part of the emperor's grand message to the nation.[ ] horace generally followed the examples of poets established as classics in different genres, such as archilochus in the epodes, lucilius in the satires and alcaeus in the odes, later broadening his scope for the sake of variation and because his models weren't actually suited to the realities confronting him. archilochus and alcaeus were aristocratic greeks whose poetry had a social and religious function that was immediately intelligible to their audiences but which became a mere artifice or literary motif when transposed to rome. however, the artifice of the odes is also integral to their success, since they could now accommodate a wide range of emotional effects, and the blend of greek and roman elements adds a sense of detachment and universality.[ ] horace proudly claimed to introduce into latin the spirit and iambic poetry of archilochus but (unlike archilochus) without persecuting anyone (epistles . . – ). it was no idle boast. his epodes were modelled on the verses of the greek poet, as 'blame poetry', yet he avoided targeting real scapegoats. whereas archilochus presented himself as a serious and vigorous opponent of wrong-doers, horace aimed for comic effects and adopted the persona of a weak and ineffectual critic of his times (as symbolized for example in his surrender to the witch canidia in the final epode).[ ] he also claimed to be the first to introduce into latin the lyrical methods of alcaeus (epistles . . – ) and he actually was the first latin poet to make consistent use of alcaic meters and themes: love, politics and the symposium. he imitated other greek lyric poets as well, employing a 'motto' technique, beginning each ode with some reference to a greek original and then diverging from it.[ ] the satirical poet lucilius was a senator's son who could castigate his peers with impunity. horace was a mere freedman's son who had to tread carefully.[ ] lucilius was a rugged patriot and a significant voice in roman self-awareness, endearing himself to his countrymen by his blunt frankness and explicit politics. his work expressed genuine freedom or libertas. his style included 'metrical vandalism' and looseness of structure. horace instead adopted an oblique and ironic style of satire, ridiculing stock characters and anonymous targets. his libertas was the private freedom of a philosophical outlook, not a political or social privilege.[ ] his satires are relatively easy-going in their use of meter (relative to the tight lyric meters of the odes)[ ] but formal and highly controlled relative to the poems of lucilius, whom horace mocked for his sloppy standards (satires . . – )[nb ] the epistles may be considered among horace's most innovative works. there was nothing like it in greek or roman literature. occasionally poems had had some resemblance to letters, including an elegiac poem from solon to mimnermus and some lyrical poems from pindar to hieron of syracuse. lucilius had composed a satire in the form of a letter, and some epistolary poems were composed by catullus and propertius. but nobody before horace had ever composed an entire collection of verse letters,[ ] let alone letters with a focus on philosophical problems. the sophisticated and flexible style that he had developed in his satires was adapted to the more serious needs of this new genre.[ ] such refinement of style was not unusual for horace. his craftsmanship as a wordsmith is apparent even in his earliest attempts at this or that kind of poetry, but his handling of each genre tended to improve over time as he adapted it to his own needs.[ ] thus for example it is generally agreed that his second book of satires, where human folly is revealed through dialogue between characters, is superior to the first, where he propounds his ethics in monologues. nevertheless, the first book includes some of his most popular poems.[ ] themesedit horace developed a number of inter-related themes throughout his poetic career, including politics, love, philosophy and ethics, his own social role, as well as poetry itself. his epodes and satires are forms of 'blame poetry' and both have a natural affinity with the moralising and diatribes of cynicism. this often takes the form of allusions to the work and philosophy of bion of borysthenes [nb ] but it is as much a literary game as a philosophical alignment. by the time he composed his epistles, he was a critic of cynicism along with all impractical and "high-falutin" philosophy in general.[nb ][ ] the satires also include a strong element of epicureanism, with frequent allusions to the epicurean poet lucretius.[nb ] so for example the epicurean sentiment carpe diem is the inspiration behind horace's repeated punning on his own name (horatius ~ hora) in satires . .[ ] the satires also feature some stoic, peripatetic and platonic (dialogues) elements. in short, the satires present a medley of philosophical programs, dished up in no particular order—a style of argument typical of the genre.[ ] the odes display a wide range of topics. over time, he becomes more confident about his political voice.[ ] although he is often thought of as an overly intellectual lover, he is ingenious in representing passion.[ ] the "odes" weave various philosophical strands together, with allusions and statements of doctrine present in about a third of the odes books – , ranging from the flippant ( . , . ) to the solemn ( . , . , . ). epicureanism is the dominant influence, characterizing about twice as many of these odes as stoicism. a group of odes combines these two influences in tense relationships, such as odes . , praising stoic virility and devotion to public duty while also advocating private pleasures among friends. while generally favouring the epicurean lifestyle, the lyric poet is as eclectic as the satiric poet, and in odes . even proposes aristotle's golden mean as a remedy for rome's political troubles.[ ] many of horace's poems also contain much reflection on genre, the lyric tradition, and the function of poetry.[ ] odes , thought to be composed at the emperor's request, takes the themes of the first three books of "odes" to a new level. this book shows greater poetic confidence after the public performance of his "carmen saeculare" or "century hymn" at a public festival orchestrated by augustus. in it, horace addresses the emperor augustus directly with more confidence and proclaims his power to grant poetic immortality to those he praises. it is the least philosophical collection of his verses, excepting the twelfth ode, addressed to the dead virgil as if he were living. in that ode, the epic poet and the lyric poet are aligned with stoicism and epicureanism respectively, in a mood of bitter-sweet pathos.[ ] the first poem of the epistles sets the philosophical tone for the rest of the collection: "so now i put aside both verses and all those other games: what is true and what befits is my care, this my question, this my whole concern." his poetic renunciation of poetry in favour of philosophy is intended to be ambiguous. ambiguity is the hallmark of the epistles. it is uncertain if those being addressed by the self-mocking poet-philosopher are being honoured or criticized. though he emerges as an epicurean, it is on the understanding that philosophical preferences, like political and social choices, are a matter of personal taste. thus he depicts the ups and downs of the philosophical life more realistically than do most philosophers.[ ] receptionedit   horace, portrayed by giacomo di chirico the reception of horace's work has varied from one epoch to another and varied markedly even in his own lifetime. odes – were not well received when first 'published' in rome, yet augustus later commissioned a ceremonial ode for the centennial games in bc and also encouraged the publication of odes , after which horace's reputation as rome's premier lyricist was assured. his odes were to become the best received of all his poems in ancient times, acquiring a classic status that discouraged imitation: no other poet produced a comparable body of lyrics in the four centuries that followed[ ] (though that might also be attributed to social causes, particularly the parasitism that italy was sinking into).[ ] in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, ode-writing became highly fashionable in england and a large number of aspiring poets imitated horace both in english and in latin.[ ] in a verse epistle to augustus (epistle . ), in bc, horace argued for classic status to be awarded to contemporary poets, including virgil and apparently himself.[ ] in the final poem of his third book of odes he claimed to have created for himself a monument more durable than bronze ("exegi monumentum aere perennius", carmina . . ). for one modern scholar, however, horace's personal qualities are more notable than the monumental quality of his achievement: ... when we hear his name we don't really think of a monument. we think rather of a voice which varies in tone and resonance but is always recognizable, and which by its unsentimental humanity evokes a very special blend of liking and respect. — niall rudd[ ] yet for men like wilfred owen, scarred by experiences of world war i, his poetry stood for discredited values: my friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old lie: dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.[nb ] the same motto, dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, had been adapted to the ethos of martyrdom in the lyrics of early christian poets like prudentius.[ ] these preliminary comments touch on a small sample of developments in the reception of horace's work. more developments are covered epoch by epoch in the following sections. antiquityedit horace's influence can be observed in the work of his near contemporaries, ovid and propertius. ovid followed his example in creating a completely natural style of expression in hexameter verse, and propertius cheekily mimicked him in his third book of elegies.[nb ] his epistles provided them both with a model for their own verse letters and it also shaped ovid's exile poetry.[nb ] his influence had a perverse aspect. as mentioned before, the brilliance of his odes may have discouraged imitation. conversely, they may have created a vogue for the lyrics of the archaic greek poet pindar, due to the fact that horace had neglected that style of lyric (see influence and legacy of pindar).[ ] the iambic genre seems almost to have disappeared after publication of horace's epodes. ovid's ibis was a rare attempt at the form but it was inspired mainly by callimachus, and there are some iambic elements in martial but the main influence there was catullus.[ ] a revival of popular interest in the satires of lucilius may have been inspired by horace's criticism of his unpolished style. both horace and lucilius were considered good role-models by persius, who critiqued his own satires as lacking both the acerbity of lucillius and the gentler touch of horace.[nb ] juvenal's caustic satire was influenced mainly by lucilius but horace by then was a school classic and juvenal could refer to him respectfully and in a round-about way as "the venusine lamp".[nb ] statius paid homage to horace by composing one poem in sapphic and one in alcaic meter (the verse forms most often associated with odes), which he included in his collection of occasional poems, silvae. ancient scholars wrote commentaries on the lyric meters of the odes, including the scholarly poet caesius bassus. by a process called derivatio, he varied established meters through the addition or omission of syllables, a technique borrowed by seneca the younger when adapting horatian meters to the stage.[ ] horace's poems continued to be school texts into late antiquity. works attributed to helenius acro and pomponius porphyrio are the remnants of a much larger body of horatian scholarship. porphyrio arranged the poems in non-chronological order, beginning with the odes, because of their general popularity and their appeal to scholars (the odes were to retain this privileged position in the medieval manuscript tradition and thus in modern editions also). horace was often evoked by poets of the fourth century, such as ausonius and claudian. prudentius presented himself as a christian horace, adapting horatian meters to his own poetry and giving horatian motifs a christian tone.[nb ] on the other hand, st jerome, modelled an uncompromising response to the pagan horace, observing: "what harmony can there be between christ and the devil? what has horace to do with the psalter?"[nb ] by the early sixth century, horace and prudentius were both part of a classical heritage that was struggling to survive the disorder of the times. boethius, the last major author of classical latin literature, could still take inspiration from horace, sometimes mediated by senecan tragedy.[ ] it can be argued that horace's influence extended beyond poetry to dignify core themes and values of the early christian era, such as self-sufficiency, inner contentment and courage.[nb ] middle ages and renaissanceedit   horace in his studium: german print of the fifteenth century, summarizing the final ode . (in praise of augustus). classical texts almost ceased being copied in the period between the mid sixth century and the carolingian revival. horace's work probably survived in just two or three books imported into northern europe from italy. these became the ancestors of six extant manuscripts dated to the ninth century. two of those six manuscripts are french in origin, one was produced in alsace, and the other three show irish influence but were probably written in continental monasteries (lombardy for example).[ ] by the last half of the ninth century, it was not uncommon for literate people to have direct experience of horace's poetry. his influence on the carolingian renaissance can be found in the poems of heiric of auxerre[nb ] and in some manuscripts marked with neumes, mysterious notations that may have been an aid to the memorization and discussion of his lyric meters. ode . is neumed with the melody of a hymn to john the baptist, ut queant laxis, composed in sapphic stanzas. this hymn later became the basis of the solfege system (do, re, mi...)—an association with western music quite appropriate for a lyric poet like horace, though the language of the hymn is mainly prudentian.[ ] lyons[ ] argues that the melody in question was linked with horace's ode well before guido d'arezzo fitted ut queant laxis to it. however, the melody is unlikely to be a survivor from classical times, although ovid[ ] testifies to horace's use of the lyre while performing his odes. the german scholar, ludwig traube, once dubbed the tenth and eleventh centuries the age of horace (aetas horatiana), and placed it between the aetas vergiliana of the eighth and ninth centuries, and the aetas ovidiana of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a distinction supposed to reflect the dominant classical latin influences of those times. such a distinction is over-schematized since horace was a substantial influence in the ninth century as well. traube had focused too much on horace's satires.[ ] almost all of horace's work found favour in the medieval period. in fact medieval scholars were also guilty of over-schematism, associating horace's different genres with the different ages of man. a twelfth-century scholar encapsulated the theory: "...horace wrote four different kinds of poems on account of the four ages, the odes for boys, the ars poetica for young men, the satires for mature men, the epistles for old and complete men."[ ] it was even thought that horace had composed his works in the order in which they had been placed by ancient scholars.[nb ] despite its naivety, the schematism involved an appreciation of horace's works as a collection, the ars poetica, satires and epistles appearing to find favour as well as the odes. the later middle ages however gave special significance to satires and epistles, being considered horace's mature works. dante referred to horace as orazio satiro, and he awarded him a privileged position in the first circle of hell, with homer, ovid and lucan.[ ] horace's popularity is revealed in the large number of quotes from all his works found in almost every genre of medieval literature, and also in the number of poets imitating him in quantitative latin meter. the most prolific imitator of his odes was the bavarian monk, metellus of tegernsee, who dedicated his work to the patron saint of tegernsee abbey, st quirinus, around the year . he imitated all horace's lyrical meters then followed these up with imitations of other meters used by prudentius and boethius, indicating that variety, as first modelled by horace, was considered a fundamental aspect of the lyric genre. the content of his poems however was restricted to simple piety.[ ] among the most successful imitators of satires and epistles was another germanic author, calling himself sextus amarcius, around , who composed four books, the first two exemplifying vices, the second pair mainly virtues.[ ] petrarch is a key figure in the imitation of horace in accentual meters. his verse letters in latin were modelled on the epistles and he wrote a letter to horace in the form of an ode. however he also borrowed from horace when composing his italian sonnets. one modern scholar has speculated that authors who imitated horace in accentual rhythms (including stressed latin and vernacular languages) may have considered their work a natural sequel to horace's metrical variety.[ ] in france, horace and pindar were the poetic models for a group of vernacular authors called the pléiade, including for example pierre de ronsard and joachim du bellay. montaigne made constant and inventive use of horatian quotes.[ ] the vernacular languages were dominant in spain and portugal in the sixteenth century, where horace's influence is notable in the works of such authors as garcilaso de la vega, juan boscán, sá de miranda, antonio ferreira and fray luis de león, the last writing odes on the horatian theme beatus ille (happy the man).[ ] the sixteenth century in western europe was also an age of translations (except in germany, where horace wasn't translated into the vernacular until well into the seventeenth century). the first english translator was thomas drant, who placed translations of jeremiah and horace side by side in medicinable morall, . that was also the year that the scot george buchanan paraphrased the psalms in a horatian setting. ben jonson put horace on the stage in in poetaster, along with other classical latin authors, giving them all their own verses to speak in translation. horace's part evinces the independent spirit, moral earnestness and critical insight that many readers look for in his poems.[ ] age of enlightenmentedit during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, or the age of enlightenment, neoclassical culture was pervasive. english literature in the middle of that period has been dubbed augustan. it is not always easy to distinguish horace's influence during those centuries (the mixing of influences is shown for example in one poet's pseudonym, horace juvenal).[nb ] however a measure of his influence can be found in the diversity of the people interested in his works, both among readers and authors.[ ] new editions of his works were published almost yearly. there were three new editions in (two in leiden, one in frankfurt) and again in (utrecht, barcelona, cambridge). cheap editions were plentiful and fine editions were also produced, including one whose entire text was engraved by john pine in copperplate. the poet james thomson owned five editions of horace's work and the physician james douglas had five hundred books with horace-related titles. horace was often commended in periodicals such as the spectator, as a hallmark of good judgement, moderation and manliness, a focus for moralising.[nb ] his verses offered a fund of mottoes, such as simplex munditiis (elegance in simplicity), splendide mendax (nobly untruthful), sapere aude (dare to know), nunc est bibendum (now is the time to drink), carpe diem (seize the day, perhaps the only one still in common use today).[ ] these were quoted even in works as prosaic as edmund quincy's a treatise of hemp-husbandry ( ). the fictional hero tom jones recited his verses with feeling.[ ] his works were also used to justify commonplace themes, such as patriotic obedience, as in james parry's english lines from an oxford university collection in :[ ] what friendly muse will teach my lays to emulate the roman fire? justly to sound a caeser's praise demands a bold horatian lyre. horatian-style lyrics were increasingly typical of oxford and cambridge verse collections for this period, most of them in latin but some like the previous ode in english. john milton's lycidas first appeared in such a collection. it has few horatian echoes[nb ] yet milton's associations with horace were lifelong. he composed a controversial version of odes . , and paradise lost includes references to horace's 'roman' odes . – (book for example begins with echoes of odes . ).[ ] yet horace's lyrics could offer inspiration to libertines as well as moralists, and neo-latin sometimes served as a kind of discrete veil for the risqué. thus for example benjamin loveling authored a catalogue of drury lane and covent garden prostitutes, in sapphic stanzas, and an encomium for a dying lady "of salacious memory".[ ] some latin imitations of horace were politically subversive, such as a marriage ode by anthony alsop that included a rallying cry for the jacobite cause. on the other hand, andrew marvell took inspiration from horace's odes . to compose his english masterpiece horatian ode upon cromwell's return from ireland, in which subtly nuanced reflections on the execution of charles i echo horace's ambiguous response to the death of cleopatra (marvell's ode was suppressed in spite of its subtlety and only began to be widely published in ). samuel johnson took particular pleasure in reading the odes.[nb ] alexander pope wrote direct imitations of horace (published with the original latin alongside) and also echoed him in essays and the rape of the lock. he even emerged as "a quite horatian homer" in his translation of the iliad.[ ] horace appealed also to female poets, such as anna seward (original sonnets on various subjects, and odes paraphrased from horace, ) and elizabeth tollet, who composed a latin ode in sapphic meter to celebrate her brother's return from overseas, with tea and coffee substituted for the wine of horace's sympotic settings: 	 quos procax nobis numeros, jocosque musa dictaret? mihi dum tibique temperent baccis arabes, vel herbis pocula seres[ ] 	 what verses and jokes might the bold muse dictate? while for you and me arabs flavour our cups with beans or chinese with leaves.[ ] 	 	 horace's ars poetica is second only to aristotle's poetics in its influence on literary theory and criticism. milton recommended both works in his treatise of education.[ ] horace's satires and epistles however also had a huge impact, influencing theorists and critics such as john dryden.[ ] there was considerable debate over the value of different lyrical forms for contemporary poets, as represented on one hand by the kind of four-line stanzas made familiar by horace's sapphic and alcaic odes and, on the other, the loosely structured pindarics associated with the odes of pindar. translations occasionally involved scholars in the dilemmas of censorship. thus christopher smart entirely omitted odes . and re-numbered the remaining odes. he also removed the ending of odes . . thomas creech printed epodes and in the original latin but left out their english translations. philip francis left out both the english and latin for those same two epodes, a gap in the numbering the only indication that something was amiss. french editions of horace were influential in england and these too were regularly bowdlerized. most european nations had their own 'horaces': thus for example friedrich von hagedorn was called the german horace and maciej kazimierz sarbiewski the polish horace (the latter was much imitated by english poets such as henry vaughan and abraham cowley). pope urban viii wrote voluminously in horatian meters, including an ode on gout.[ ] th century onedit horace maintained a central role in the education of english-speaking elites right up until the s.[ ] a pedantic emphasis on the formal aspects of language-learning at the expense of literary appreciation may have made him unpopular in some quarters[ ] yet it also confirmed his influence—a tension in his reception that underlies byron's famous lines from childe harold (canto iv, ):[ ] then farewell, horace, whom i hated so not for thy faults, but mine; it is a curse to understand, not feel thy lyric flow, to comprehend, but never love thy verse. william wordsworth's mature poetry, including the preface to lyrical ballads, reveals horace's influence in its rejection of false ornament[ ] and he once expressed "a wish / to meet the shade of horace...".[nb ] john keats echoed the opening of horace's epodes in the opening lines of ode to a nightingale.[nb ] the roman poet was presented in the nineteenth century as an honorary english gentleman. william thackeray produced a version of odes . in which horace's 'boy' became 'lucy', and gerard manley hopkins translated the boy innocently as 'child'. horace was translated by sir theodore martin (biographer of prince albert) but minus some ungentlemanly verses, such as the erotic odes . and epodes and . edward bulwer-lytton produced a popular translation and william gladstone also wrote translations during his last days as prime minister.[ ] edward fitzgerald's rubaiyat of omar khayyam, though formally derived from the persian ruba'i, nevertheless shows a strong horatian influence, since, as one modern scholar has observed, "...the quatrains inevitably recall the stanzas of the 'odes', as does the narrating first person of the world-weary, ageing epicurean omar himself, mixing sympotic exhortation and 'carpe diem' with splendid moralising and 'memento mori' nihilism."[nb ] matthew arnold advised a friend in verse not to worry about politics, an echo of odes . , yet later became a critic of horace's inadequacies relative to greek poets, as role models of victorian virtues, observing: "if human life were complete without faith, without enthusiasm, without energy, horace...would be the perfect interpreter of human life."[ ] christina rossetti composed a sonnet depicting a woman willing her own death steadily, drawing on horace's depiction of 'glycera' in odes . . – and cleopatra in odes . .[nb ] a. e. housman considered odes . , in archilochian couplets, the most beautiful poem of antiquity[ ] and yet he generally shared horace's penchant for quatrains, being readily adapted to his own elegiac and melancholy strain.[ ] the most famous poem of ernest dowson took its title and its heroine's name from a line of odes . , non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno cynarae, as well as its motif of nostalgia for a former flame. kipling wrote a famous parody of the odes, satirising their stylistic idiosyncrasies and especially the extraordinary syntax, but he also used horace's roman patriotism as a focus for british imperialism, as in the story regulus in the school collection stalky & co., which he based on odes . .[ ] wilfred owen's famous poem, quoted above, incorporated horatian text to question patriotism while ignoring the rules of latin scansion. however, there were few other echoes of horace in the war period, possibly because war is not actually a major theme of horace's work.[ ]   bibendum (the symbol of the michelin tyre company) takes his name from the opening line of ode . , nunc est bibendum. both w.h.auden and louis macneice began their careers as teachers of classics and both responded as poets to horace's influence. auden for example evoked the fragile world of the s in terms echoing odes . . – , where horace advises a friend not to let worries about frontier wars interfere with current pleasures. and, gentle, do not care to know where poland draws her eastern bow,      what violence is done; nor ask what doubtful act allows our freedom in this english house,      our picnics in the sun.[nb ] the american poet, robert frost, echoed horace's satires in the conversational and sententious idiom of some of his longer poems, such as the lesson for today ( ), and also in his gentle advocacy of life on the farm, as in hyla brook ( ), evoking horace's fons bandusiae in ode . . now at the start of the third millennium, poets are still absorbing and re-configuring the horatian influence, sometimes in translation (such as a english/american edition of the odes by thirty-six poets)[nb ] and sometimes as inspiration for their own work (such as a collection of odes by a new zealand poet).[nb ] horace's epodes have largely been ignored in the modern era, excepting those with political associations of historical significance. the obscene qualities of some of the poems have repulsed even scholars[nb ] yet more recently a better understanding of the nature of iambic poetry has led to a re-evaluation of the whole collection.[ ][ ] a re-appraisal of the epodes also appears in creative adaptations by recent poets (such as a collection of poems that relocates the ancient context to a s industrial town).[nb ] translationsedit 	john dryden successfully adapted three of the odes (and one epode) into verse for readers of his own age. samuel johnson favored the versions of philip francis. others favor unrhymed translations. 	in james michie published a translation of the odes—many of them fully rhymed—including a dozen of the poems in the original sapphic and alcaic metres. 	more recent verse translations of the odes include those by david west (free verse), and colin sydenham (rhymed). 	ars poetica was first translated into english by ben jonson and later by lord byron. 	horace's odes and the mystery of do-re-mi stuart lyons (rhymed) aris & phillips isbn  - - - - in popular cultureedit the oxford latin course textbooks use the life of horace to illustrate an average roman's life in the late republic to early empire.[ ] see alsoedit 	  literature portal 	  ancient rome portal 	  biography portal 	carpe diem 	horatia (gens) 	list of ancient romans 	otium 	prosody (latin) 	translation notesedit 	^ quintilian . . . the only other lyrical poet quintilian thought comparable with horace was the now obscure poet/metrical theorist, caesius bassus (r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, ) 	^ translated from persius' own 'satires' . – : "omne vafer vitium ridenti flaccus amico / tangit et admissus circum praecordia ludit." 	^ quoted by n. rudd from john dryden's discourse concerning the original and progress of satire, excerpted from w.p.ker's edition of dryden's essays, oxford , vol. , pp. – 	^ the year is given in odes . . ("consule manlio"), the month in epistles . . , the day in suetonius' biography vita (r. nisbet, horace: life and chronology, ) 	^ "no son ever set a finer monument to his father than horace did in the sixth satire of book i...horace's description of his father is warm-hearted but free from sentimentality or exaggeration. we see before us one of the common people, a hard-working, open-minded, and thoroughly honest man of simple habits and strict convictions, representing some of the best qualities that at the end of the republic could still be found in the unsophisticated society of the italian municipia" — e. fraenkel, horace, – 	^ odes . . : "nec (me extinxit) sicula palinurus unda"; "nor did palinurus extinguish me with sicilian waters". maecenas' involvement is recorded by appian bell. civ. . but horace's ode is the only historical reference to his own presence there, depending however on interpretation. (r. nisbet, horace: life and chronology, ) 	^ the point is much disputed among scholars and hinges on how the text is interpreted. epodes for example may offer proof of horace's presence if 'ad hunc frementis' ('gnashing at this' man i.e. the traitrous roman ) is a misreading of 'at huc...verterent' (but hither...they fled) in lines describing the defection of the galatian cavalry, "ad hunc frementis verterunt bis mille equos / galli canentes caesarem" (r. nisbet, horace: life and chronology, ). 	^ suetonius signals that the report is based on rumours by employing the terms "traditur...dicitur" / "it is reported...it is said" (e. fraenkel, horace, ) 	^ according to a recent theory, the three books of odes were issued separately, possibly in , and bc (see g. hutchinson ( ), classical quarterly : – ) 	^ bc is the usual estimate but c. bc has good support too (see r. nisbet, horace: life and chronology, – 	^ the date however is subject to much controversy with – bc another option (see for example r. syme, the augustan aristocracy, – 	^ "[lucilius]...resembles a man whose only concern is to force / something into the framework of six feet, and who gaily produces / two hundred lines before dinner and another two hundred after." – satire . . – (translated by niall rudd, the satires of horace and persius, penguin classics , p. ) 	^ there is one reference to bion by name in epistles . . , and the clearest allusion to him is in satire . , which parallels bion fragments , , kindstrand 	^ epistles . and . . – are critical of the extreme views of diogenes and also of social adaptations of cynic precepts, and yet epistle . could be either cynic or stoic in its orientation (j. moles, philosophy and ethics, p. 	^ satires . . – , – , . . – , . . – , – , . . , – , . . – , . . – , , . . – 	^ wilfred owen, dulce et decorum est ( ), echoes a line from carmina . . , "it is sweet and honourable to die for one's country", cited by stephen harrison, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, . 	^ propertius published his third book of elegies within a year or two of horace's odes – and mimicked him, for example, in the opening lines, characterizing himself in terms borrowed from odes . . and . . – , as a priest of the muses and as an adaptor of greek forms of poetry (r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, ) 	^ ovid for example probably borrowed from horace's epistle . the image of a poetry book as a slave boy eager to leave home, adapting it to the opening poems of tristia and (r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace), and tristia may be understood as a counterpart to horace's epistles . , both being letters addressed to augustus on literary themes (a. barchiesi, speaking volumes, – ) 	^ the comment is in persius . – , yet that same satire has been found to have nearly reminiscences of horace; see d. hooley, the knotted thong, 	^ the allusion to venusine comes via horace's sermones . . , while lamp signifies the lucubrations of a conscientious poet. according to quintilian ( ), however, many people in flavian rome preferred lucilius not only to horace but to all other latin poets (r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, ) 	^ prudentius sometimes alludesto the odes in a negative context, as expressions of a secular life he is abandoning. thus for example male pertinax, employed in prudentius's praefatio to describe a willful desire for victory, is lifted from odes . . , where it describes a girl's half-hearted resistance to seduction. elsewhere he borrows dux bone from odes . . and , where it refers to augustus, and applies it to christ (r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, 	^ st jerome, epistles . , incorporating a quote from 'corinthians . : qui consensus christo et belial? quid facit cum psalterio horatius?(cited by k. friis-jensen, horace in the middle ages, ) 	^ odes . . – was especially influential in promoting the value of heroic calm in the face of danger, describing a man who could bear even the collapse of the world without fear (si fractus illabatur orbis,/impavidum ferient ruinae). echoes are found in seneca's agamemnon – , prudentius's peristephanon . – and boethius's consolatio metrum .(r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, – ) 	^ heiric, like prudentius, gave horatian motifs a christian context. thus the character lydia in odes . . , who would willingly die for her lover twice, becomes in heiric's life of st germaine of auxerre a saint ready to die twice for the lord's commandments (r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, – ) 	^ according to a medieval french commentary on the satires: "...first he composed his lyrics, and in them, speaking to the young, as it were, he took as subject-matter love affairs and quarrels, banquets and drinking parties. next he wrote his epodes, and in them composed invectives against men of a more advanced and more dishonourable age...he next wrote his book about the ars poetica, and in that instructed men of his own profession to write well...later he added his book of satires, in which he reproved those who had fallen a prey to various kinds of vices. finally, he finished his oeuvre with the epistles, and in them, following the method of a good farmer, he sowed the virtues where he had rooted out the vices." (cited by k. friis-jensen, horace in the middle ages, – ) 	^ 'horace juvenal' was author of modern manners: a poem, 	^ see for example spectator , feb. ; , nov. ; , nov. 	^ one echo of horace may be found in line : "were it not better done as others use,/ to sport with amaryllis in the shade/or with the tangles of neaera's hair?", which points to the neara in odes . . (douglas bush, milton: poetical works, , note ) 	^ cfr. james boswell, "the life of samuel johnson" aetat. , where boswell remarked of johnson that horace's odes "were the compositions in which he took most delight." 	^ the quote, from memorials of a tour of italy ( ), contains allusions to odes . and . (s. harrison, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, – ) 	^ "my heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains / my sense..." echoes epodes . – (s. harrison, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ) 	^ comment by s. harrison, editor and contributor to the cambridge companion to horace (s. harrison, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, 	^ rossetti's sonnet, a study (a soul), dated , was not published in her own lifetime. some lines: she stands as pale as parian marble stands / like cleopatra when she turns at bay... (c. rossetti, complete poems, 	^ quoted from auden's poem out on the lawn i lie in bed, , and cited by s. harrison, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, 	^ edited by mcclatchy, reviewed by s. harrison, bryn mawr classical review . . 	^ i. wedde, the commonplace odes, auckland , (cited by s. harrison, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ) 	^ 'political' epodes are , , , ; notably obscene epodes are and . e. fraenkel is among the admirers repulsed by these two poems, for another view of which see for example dee lesser clayman, 'horace's epodes viii and xii: more than clever obscenity?', the classical world vol. , no. (september ), pp – jstor  	^ m. almond, the works , washington, cited by s. harrison, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, citationsedit 	^ a b j. michie, the odes of horace, 	^ n. rudd, the satires of horace and persius, 	^ r. barrow r., the romans pelican books, 	^ fraenkel, eduard. horace. oxford: , p. . for the life of horace by suetonius, see: (vita horati) 	^ brill's companion to horace, edited by hans-christian günther, brill, , p. , google book 	^ satires . . 	^ epistles . . ff. 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, – 	^ satires . . 	^ t. frank, catullus and horace, – 	^ a. campbell, horace: a new interpretation, 	^ epistles . . 	^ r. nisbet, horace: life and chronology, 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, – 	^ a b v. kiernan, horace: poetics and politics, 	^ satires . . 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, – 	^ a b satires . 	^ v. kiernan, horace: poetics and politics, 	^ odes . 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, – 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, – 	^ satires . . 	^ a b r. nisbet, horace: life and chronology, 	^ v. kiernan, horace, 	^ odes . . 	^ epistles . . – 	^ v. kiernan, horace: poetics and politics 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, – 	^ christopher brown, in a companion to the greek lyric poets, d.e. gerber (ed), leiden , pages – 	^ douglas e. gerber, greek iambic poetry, loeb classical library ( ), introduction pages i–iv 	^ d. mankin, horace: epodes, c.u.p., 	^ d. mankin, horace: epodes, 	^ r. conway, new studies of a great inheritance, – 	^ v. kiernan, horace: poetics and politics, – 	^ f. muecke, the satires, – 	^ r. lyne, augustan poetry and society, 	^ j. griffin, horace in the thirties, 	^ a b r. nisbet, horace: life and chronology, 	^ d. mankin, horace: epodes, 	^ satires . 	^ odes . . 	^ epodes and 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, 	^ satires . . 	^ r. nisbet, horace: life and chronology, 	^ v. kiernan, horace: poetics and politics, – 	^ r. nisbet, horace: life and chronology, 	^ epistles . . – 	^ epistles . . 	^ v. kiernan, horace: poetics and politics, , 	^ epistles . 	^ epistles . . – 	^ r. nisbet, horace: 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	alexandria الإسكندرية (arabic) 	 	standard arabic:	al-ʾiskandariyya 	egyptian arabic:	eskenderiyya ⲁⲗⲉⲝⲁⲛⲇⲣⲓⲁ, ⲣⲁⲕⲟϯ (coptic) 	 	ⲁⲗⲉⲝⲁⲛⲇⲣⲓⲁ:	alexandria 	ⲣⲁⲕⲟϯ:	rakodī Αλεξάνδρεια (greek) 	 	Αλεξάνδρεια:	alexandria 	Ρακώτις:	rhakotis 	metropolis 	 clockwise from top: view of shatby district and suez canal street, skyline of the eastern district (sharq), stanley bridge, montaza palace, bibliotheca alexandrina and the statue of ptolemy ii philadelphus, planetarium science center (with corniche in the background). 	 flag emblem 	nicknames: mediterranean's bride, pearl of the mediterranean, aleks 	 alexandria location in egypt 	coordinates: ° ′n ° ′e /  . °n . °e / . ; . coordinates: ° ′n ° ′e /  . °n . °e / . ; . 	country	 egypt 	governorate	alexandria 	founded	 bc 	founded by	alexander the great 	government 	 • governor	elsherif[ ] 	area 	 • total	 ,  km ( ,  sq mi) 	elevation 	  m (  ft) 	population (october [ ]) 	 • total	 , , 	 • density	 , /km ( , /sq mi) 	demonym(s)	alexandrian, alexandrine (arabic: إسكندراني‎) 	time zone	utc+ (est) 	postal code	 	area code(s)	(+ ) 	website	alexandria.gov.eg 		 	 		 	r-ꜥ-qd(y)t (alexandria)[ ][ ] in hieroglyphs alexandria (/ˌælɪɡˈzændriə/ or /-ˈzɑːnd-/;[ ] arabic: الإسكندرية‎ al-ʾiskandariyya;[ ] egyptian arabic: اسكندرية‎ eskendereyya; coptic: ⲣⲁⲕⲟϯ rakodī;[ ] greek: Αλεξάνδρεια alexandria)[ ][ ] is the second-largest city in egypt and a major economic centre. with a population of , , , alexandria is the largest city on the mediterranean - also called the bride of the mediterranean by locals - the sixth-largest city in the arab world and the ninth-largest in africa. the city extends about  km (  mi) at the northern coast of egypt along the mediterranean sea. alexandria is a popular tourist destination, and also an important industrial centre because of its natural gas and oil pipelines from suez. alexandria was founded in c.  bc by alexander the great,[ ] king of macedon and leader of the greek league of corinth, during his conquest of the achaemenid empire. an egyptian village named rhacotis existed at the location and grew into the egyptian quarter of alexandria. alexandria grew rapidly to become an important centre of hellenistic civilization and remained the capital of ptolemaic egypt and roman and byzantine egypt for almost , years, until the muslim conquest of egypt in ad  , when a new capital was founded at fustat (later absorbed into cairo). hellenistic alexandria was best known for the lighthouse of alexandria (pharos), one of the seven wonders of the ancient world; its great library (the largest in the ancient world); and the necropolis, one of the seven wonders of the middle ages. alexandria was the intellectual and cultural centre of the ancient mediterranean world for much of the hellenistic age and late antiquity.[ ] it was at one time the largest city in the ancient world before being eventually overtaken by rome. the city was a major centre of early christianity and was the centre of the patriarchate of alexandria, which was one of the major centres of christianity in the eastern roman empire. in the modern world, the coptic orthodox church and the greek orthodox church of alexandria both lay claim to this ancient heritage. by the time of the arab conquest of egypt in ad, the city had already been largely plundered and lost its significance before re-emerging in the modern era.[ ] from the late th century, alexandria became a major centre of the international shipping industry and one of the most important trading centres in the world, both because it profited from the easy overland connection between the mediterranean sea and the red sea, and the lucrative trade in egyptian cotton. contents 	 history 	 . ancient era 	 . islamic era 	 . ibn battuta in alexandria 	 . timeline 	 ancient layout 	 geography 	 . climate 	 cityscape 	 . temple of taposiris magna 	 places of worship 	 . islam 	 . christianity 	 . judaism 	 education 	 . colleges and universities 	 . schools 	 . women 	 transport 	 . airports 	 . port 	 . highways 	 . rail 	 . trams 	 . metro 	 . taxis and minibuses 	 culture 	 . libraries 	 . museums 	 . theaters 	 architecture 	 sports 	 twin towns – sister cities 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links history[edit] main articles: history of alexandria and timeline of alexandria alexander the great plan of alexandria c.   bc ancient era[edit] recent radiocarbon dating of seashell fragments and lead contamination show human activity at the location during the period of the old kingdom ( th- st centuries bc) and again in the period - bc, followed by the absence of activity thereafter.[ ] from ancient sources it is known there existed a trading post at this location during the time of rameses the great for trade with crete, but it had long been lost by the time of alexander's arrival.[ ] a small egyptian fishing village named rhakotis (egyptian: rꜥ-qdy.t, 'that which is built up') existed since the th century bc in the vicinity and eventually grew into the egyptian quarter of the city.[ ] just east of alexandria (where abu qir bay is now), there was in ancient times marshland and several islands. as early as the th century bc, there existed important port cities of canopus and heracleion. the latter was recently rediscovered under water. alexandria was founded by alexander the great in april bc as Ἀλεξάνδρεια (alexandreia). passing through egypt, alexander wanted to build a large greek city on egypt's coast that would bear his name. he chose the site of alexandria, envisioning the building of a causeway to the nearby island of pharos that would generate two great natural harbours.[ ] alexandria was intended to supersede the older greek colony of naucratis as a hellenistic centre in egypt, and to be the link between greece and the rich nile valley. a few months after the foundation, alexander left egypt and never returned to the city during his life. after alexander's departure, his viceroy cleomenes continued the expansion. the architect dinocrates of rhodes designed the city, using a hippodamian grid plan. following alexander's death in bc, his general ptolemy lagides took possession of egypt and brought alexander's body to egypt with him.[ ] ptolemy at first ruled from the old egyptian capital of memphis. in / bc he had cleomenes executed. finally, in bc, ptolemy declared himself pharaoh as ptolemy i soter ("savior") and moved his capital to alexandria. although cleomenes was mainly in charge of overseeing alexandria's early development, the heptastadion and the mainland quarters seem to have been primarily ptolemaic work. inheriting the trade of ruined tyre and becoming the centre of the new commerce between europe and the arabian and indian east, the city grew in less than a generation to be larger than carthage. in a century, alexandria had become the largest city in the world and, for some centuries more, was second only to rome. it became egypt's main greek city, with greek people from diverse backgrounds.[ ] the lighthouse of alexandria on coins minted in alexandria in the second century ( : reverse of a coin of antoninus pius, and : reverse of a coin of commodus). alexandria was not only a centre of hellenism, but was also home to the largest urban jewish community in the world. the septuagint, a greek version of the tanakh, was produced there. the early ptolemies kept it in order and fostered the development of its museum into the leading hellenistic centre of learning (library of alexandria), but were careful to maintain the distinction of its population's three largest ethnicities: greek, jewish, and egyptian.[ ] by the time of augustus, the city walls encompassed an area of .  km , and the total population during the roman principate was around , – , , which would wax and wane in the course of the next four centuries under roman rule.[ ] according to philo of alexandria, in the year of the common era, disturbances erupted between jews and greek citizens of alexandria during a visit paid by the jewish king agrippa i to alexandria, principally over the respect paid by the jewish nation to the roman emperor, and which quickly escalated to open affronts and violence between the two ethnic groups and the desecration of alexandrian synagogues. the violence was quelled after caligula intervened and had the roman governor, flaccus, removed from the city.[ ] in ad , large parts of alexandria were destroyed during the kitos war, which gave hadrian and his architect, decriannus, an opportunity to rebuild it. in , the emperor caracalla visited the city and, because of some insulting satires that the inhabitants had directed at him, abruptly commanded his troops to put to death all youths capable of bearing arms. on july , alexandria was devastated by a tsunami ( crete earthquake),[ ] an event annually commemorated years later as a "day of horror".[ ] islamic era[edit] alexandria in the late th century, by luigi mayer entry of general bonaparte into alexandria, oil on canvas,  cm ×   cm (  in ×   in), c. , versailles the battle of abukir, by antoine-jean gros . alexandria: bombardment by british naval forces in , alexandria fell to the sassanid persians. although the byzantine emperor heraclius recovered it in , in the arabs under the general 'amr ibn al-'as invaded it during the muslim conquest of egypt, after a siege that lasted months. the first arab governor of egypt recorded to have visited alexandria was utba ibn abi sufyan, who strengthened the arab presence and built a governor's palace in the city in – .[ ][ ] after the battle of ridaniya in , the city was conquered by the ottoman turks and remained under ottoman rule until . alexandria lost much of its former importance to the egyptian port city of rosetta during the th to th centuries, and only regained its former prominence with the construction of the mahmoudiyah canal in . alexandria figured prominently in the military operations of napoleon's expedition to egypt in . french troops stormed the city on july , and it remained in their hands until the arrival of a british expedition in . the british won a considerable victory over the french at the battle of alexandria on march , following which they besieged the city, which fell to them on september . muhammad ali, the ottoman governor of egypt, began rebuilding and redevelopment around , and by , alexandria had returned to something akin to its former glory.[ ] egypt turned to europe in their effort to modernize the country. greeks, followed by other europeans and others, began moving to the city. in the early th century, the city became a home for novelists and poets.[ ] in july , the city came under bombardment from british naval forces and was occupied.[ ] in july , the city was a target of an israeli bombing campaign that later became known as the lavon affair. on october , alexandria's mansheya square was the site of a failed assassination attempt on gamal abdel nasser.[ ] europeans began leaving alexandria following the suez crisis that led to an outburst of arab nationalism. the nationalization of property by nasser, which reached its highest point in , drove out nearly all the rest.[ ] ibn battuta in alexandria[edit] map of the city in the s, by louis-françois cassas. in reference to alexandria, egypt, ibn battuta speaks of great saints that resided here. one of them being imam borhan oddin el aaraj. he was said to have the power of working miracles. he told ibn battuta that he should go find his three brothers, farid oddin, who lived in india, rokn oddin ibn zakarya, who lived in sindia, and borhan oddin, who lived in china. battuta then made it his purpose to find these people and give them his compliments. sheikh yakut was another great man. he was the disciple of sheikh abu abbas el mursi, who was the disciple of abu el hasan el shadali, who is known to be a servant of god. abu abbas was the author of the hizb el bahr and was famous for piety and miracles. abu abd allah el murshidi was a great interpreting saint that lived secluded in the minyat of ibn murshed. he lived alone but was visited daily by emirs, viziers, and crowds that wished to eat with him. the sultan of egypt (el malik el nasir) visited him, as well. ibn battuta left alexandria with the intent of visiting him.[ ] ibn battuta also visited the pharos lighthouse on occasions; in he found it to be partly in ruins and in it had deteriorated further, making entrance to the edifice impossible. [ ] timeline[edit] the most important battles and sieges of alexandria include: 	siege of alexandria ( bc), julius caesar's civil war 	battle of alexandria ( bc), final war of the roman republic 	siege of alexandria ( ), byzantine-persian wars 	siege of alexandria ( ), rashidun conquest of byzantine egypt 	alexandrian crusade ( ), a crusade led by peter de lusignan of cyprus which resulted in the defeat of the mamluks and the sack of the city. 	battle of alexandria ( ), napoleonic wars 	siege of alexandria ( ), napoleonic wars 	alexandria expedition ( ), napoleonic wars ancient layout[edit] greek alexandria was divided into three regions: macedonian army, shown on the alexander sarcophagus. 	brucheum 	brucheum is the royal or greek quarter and forms the most magnificent portion of the city. in roman times brucheum was enlarged by the addition of an official quarter, making four regions in all. the city was laid out as a grid of parallel streets, each of which had an attendant subterranean canal; 	the jewish quarter 	this quarter is the northeast portion of the city; 	rhakotis 	rhakotis is the old city that was absorbed into alexandria. it was occupied chiefly by egyptians. (from coptic rakotə "alexandria"). engraving by l f cassas of the canopic street in alexandria, egypt made in . two main streets, lined with colonnades and said to have been each about meters (  ft) wide, intersected in the centre of the city, close to the point where the sema (or soma) of alexander (his mausoleum) rose. this point is very near the present mosque of nebi daniel; and the line of the great east–west "canopic" street, only slightly diverged from that of the modern boulevard de rosette (now sharia fouad). traces of its pavement and canal have been found near the rosetta gate, but remnants of streets and canals were exposed in by german excavators outside the east fortifications, which lie well within the area of the ancient city. alexandria consisted originally of little more than the island of pharos, which was joined to the mainland by a , -metre-long ( ,  ft) mole and called the heptastadion ("seven stadia"—a stadium was a greek unit of length measuring approximately metres or feet). the end of this abutted on the land at the head of the present grand square, where the "moon gate" rose. all that now lies between that point and the modern "ras al-tin" quarter is built on the silt which gradually widened and obliterated this mole. the ras al-tin quarter represents all that is left of the island of pharos, the site of the actual lighthouse having been weathered away by the sea. on the east of the mole was the great harbour, now an open bay; on the west lay the port of eunostos, with its inner basin kibotos, now vastly enlarged to form the modern harbour. in strabo's time, (latter half of the st century bc) the principal buildings were as follows, enumerated as they were to be seen from a ship entering the great harbour. 	the royal palaces, filling the northeast angle of the town and occupying the promontory of lochias, which shut in the great harbour on the east. lochias (the modern pharillon) has almost entirely disappeared into the sea, together with the palaces, the "private port," and the island of antirrhodus. there has been a land subsidence here, as throughout the northeast coast of africa. 	the great theater, on the modern hospital hill near the ramleh station. this was used by julius caesar as a fortress, where he withstood a siege from the city mob after he took egypt after the battle of pharsalus[citation needed][clarification needed] 	the poseidon, or temple of the sea god, close to the theater 	the timonium built by marc antony 	the emporium (exchange) 	the apostases (magazines) 	the navalia (docks), lying west of the timonium, along the seafront as far as the mole 	behind the emporium rose the great caesareum, by which stood the two great obelisks, which become known as "cleopatra's needles," and were transported to new york city and london. this temple became, in time, the patriarchal church, though some ancient remains of the temple have been discovered. the actual caesareum, the parts not eroded by the waves, lies under the houses lining the new seawall. 	the gymnasium and the palaestra are both inland, near the boulevard de rosette in the eastern half of the town; sites unknown. 	the temple of saturn; alexandria west. 	the mausolea of alexander (soma) and the ptolemies in one ring-fence, near the point of intersection of the two main streets. 	the musaeum with its famous library and theater in the same region; site unknown. 	the serapeum of alexandria, the most famous of all alexandrian temples. strabo tells us that this stood in the west of the city; and recent discoveries go far as to place it near "pompey's pillar," which was an independent monument erected to commemorate diocletian's siege of the city. the names of a few other public buildings on the mainland are known, but there is little information as to their actual position. none, however, are as famous as the building that stood on the eastern point of pharos island. there, the great lighthouse, one of the seven wonders of the world, reputed to be metres ( feet) high, was situated. the first ptolemy began the project, and the second ptolemy (ptolemy ii philadelphus) completed it, at a total cost of  talents. it took  years to complete and served as a prototype for all later lighthouses in the world. the light was produced by a furnace at the top and the tower was built mostly with solid blocks of limestone. the pharos lighthouse was destroyed by an earthquake in the th century, making it the second longest surviving ancient wonder, after the great pyramid of giza. a temple of hephaestus also stood on pharos at the head of the mole. in the st century, the population of alexandria contained over , adult male citizens,[ ] according to a census dated from ce, in addition to a large number of freedmen, women, children and slaves. estimates of the total population range from , [ ] to , [ ] making it one of the largest cities ever built before the industrial revolution and the largest pre-industrial city that was not an imperial capital.[citation needed] geography[edit] skyline from qaitbay citadel satellite image of alexandria and other cities show its surrounding coastal plain lake mariout alexandria is located in the country of egypt, on the southern coast of the mediterranean. climate[edit] alexandria has a borderline hot desert climate (köppen climate classification: bwh),[ ] approaching a hot semi-arid climate (bsh). as the rest of egypt's northern coast, the prevailing north wind, blowing across the mediterranean, gives the city a less severe climate from the desert hinterland.[ ] rafah and alexandria[ ] are the wettest places in egypt; the other wettest places are rosetta, baltim, kafr el-dawwar, and mersa matruh. the city's climate is influenced by the mediterranean sea, moderating its temperatures, causing variable rainy winters and moderately hot and slightly prolonged summers that, at times, can be very humid; january and february are the coolest months, with daily maximum temperatures typically ranging from to  °c ( to  °f) and minimum temperatures that could reach  °c (  °f). temperature sometimes gets lower than and it sometimes rains snow. alexandria experiences violent storms, rain and sometimes sleet and hail during the cooler months; these events, combined with a poor drainage system, have been responsible for occasional flooding in the city in the past though they rarely occur anymore.[ ] july and august are the hottest and driest months of the year, with an average daily maximum temperature of  °c (  °f). the average annual rainfall is around  mm ( .  in) but has been as high as  mm ( .  in)[ ] port said, kosseir, baltim, damietta and alexandria have the least temperature variation in egypt. the highest recorded temperature was  °c (  °f) on may , and the coldest recorded temperature was  °c (  °f) on january .[ ] 	climate data for alexandria 	month 	jan 	feb 	mar 	apr 	may 	jun 	jul 	aug 	sep 	oct 	nov 	dec 	year 	record high °c (°f) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	average high °c (°f) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	daily mean °c (°f) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	average low °c (°f) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	record low °c (°f) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 ( ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	average rainfall mm (inches) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	average rainy days (≥ . mm) 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	average relative humidity (%) 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . 	mean monthly sunshine hours 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 , . 	source : world meteorological organization (un),[ ] hong kong observatory for sunshine and mean temperatures,[ ] climate charts for humidity[ ] 	source : voodoo skies[ ] and bing weather[ ] for record temperatures alexandria mean sea temperature[ ] 	jan 	feb 	mar 	apr 	may 	jun 	jul 	aug 	sep 	oct 	nov 	dec 	  °c (  °f) 	  °c (  °f) 	  °c (  °f) 	  °c (  °f) 	  °c (  °f) 	  °c (  °f) 	  °c (  °f) 	  °c (  °f) 	  °c (  °f) 	  °c (  °f) 	  °c (  °f) 	  °c (  °f) cityscape[edit] egypt – obelisk, alexandria. brooklyn museum archives, goodyear archival collection. roman amphitheater roman pompey's pillar due to the constant presence of war in alexandria in ancient times, very little of the ancient city has survived into the present day. much of the royal and civic quarters sank beneath the harbour and the rest has been built over in modern times. catacombs of kom el shoqafa "pompey's pillar", a roman triumphal column, is one of the best-known ancient monuments still standing in alexandria today. it is located on alexandria's ancient acropolis—a modest hill located adjacent to the city's arab cemetery—and was originally part of a temple colonnade. including its pedestal, it is  m (  ft) high; the shaft is of polished red granite, .  m ( .  ft) in diameter at the base, tapering to .  m ( .  ft) at the top. the shaft is feet (  m) high, and made out of a single piece of granite. its volume is cubic meters ( , cubic feet) and weight approximately tons.[ ] pompey's pillar may have been erected using the same methods that were used to erect the ancient obelisks. the romans had cranes but they were not strong enough to lift something this heavy. roger hopkins and mark lehrner conducted several obelisk erecting experiments including a successful attempt to erect a -ton obelisk in . this followed two experiments to erect smaller obelisks and two failed attempts to erect a -ton obelisk.[ ][ ] the structure was plundered and demolished in the th century when a bishop decreed that paganism must be eradicated. "pompey's pillar" is a misnomer, as it has nothing to do with pompey, having been erected in for diocletian, possibly in memory of the rebellion of domitius domitianus. beneath the acropolis itself are the subterranean remains of the serapeum, where the mysteries of the god serapis were enacted, and whose carved wall niches are believed to have provided overflow storage space for the ancient library. in more recent years, many ancient artifacts have been discovered from the surrounding sea, mostly pieces of old pottery. alexandria's catacombs, known as kom el shoqafa, are a short distance southwest of the pillar, consist of a multi-level labyrinth, reached via a large spiral staircase, and featuring dozens of chambers adorned with sculpted pillars, statues, and other syncretic romano-egyptian religious symbols, burial niches, and sarcophagi, as well as a large roman-style banquet room, where memorial meals were conducted by relatives of the deceased. the catacombs were long forgotten by the citizens until they were discovered by accident in .[ ] the most extensive ancient excavation currently being conducted in alexandria is known as kom el deka. it has revealed the ancient city's well-preserved theater, and the remains of its roman-era baths. persistent efforts have been made to explore the antiquities of alexandria. encouragement and help have been given by the local archaeological society, and by many individuals, notably greeks proud of a city which is one of the glories of their national history. excavations were performed in the city by greeks seeking the tomb of alexander the great without success. the past and present directors of the museum have been enabled from time to time to carry out systematic excavations whenever opportunity is offered; d. g. hogarth made tentative researches on behalf of the egypt exploration fund and the society for the promotion of hellenic studies in ; and a german expedition worked for two years ( – ). but two difficulties face the would-be excavator in alexandria: lack of space for excavation and the underwater location of some areas of interest. side view of the temple of taposiris magna. since the great and growing modern city stands immediately over the ancient one, it is almost impossible to find any considerable space in which to dig, except at enormous cost. cleopatra vii's royal quarters were inundated by earthquakes and tsunami, leading to gradual subsidence in the th century ad.[ ] this underwater section, containing many of the most interesting sections of the hellenistic city, including the palace quarter, was explored in and is still being extensively investigated by the french underwater archaeologist franck goddio and his team.[ ] it raised a noted head of caesarion. these are being opened up to tourists, to some controversy.[ ] the spaces that are most open are the low grounds to northeast and southwest, where it is practically impossible to get below the roman strata. the most important results were those achieved by dr. g. botti, late director of the museum, in the neighborhood of "pompey's pillar", where there is a good deal of open ground. here, substructures of a large building or group of buildings have been exposed, which are perhaps part of the serapeum. nearby, immense catacombs and columbaria have been opened which may have been appendages of the temple. these contain one very remarkable vault with curious painted reliefs, now artificially lit and open to visitors. the objects found in these researches are in the museum, the most notable being a great basalt bull, probably once an object of cult in the serapeum. other catacombs and tombs have been opened in kom el shoqafa (roman) and ras el tin (painted). the german excavation team found remains of a ptolemaic colonnade and streets in the north-east of the city, but little else. hogarth explored part of an immense brick structure under the mound of kom el deka, which may have been part of the paneum, the mausolea, or a roman fortress. the making of the new foreshore led to the dredging up of remains of the patriarchal church; and the foundations of modern buildings are seldom laid without some objects of antiquity being discovered. the wealth underground is doubtlessly immense; but despite all efforts, there is not much for antiquarians to see in alexandria outside the museum and the neighborhood of "pompey's pillar". temple of taposiris magna[edit] the temple was built in the ptolemy era and dedicated to osiris, which finished the construction of alexandria. it is located in abusir, the western suburb of alexandria in borg el arab city. only the outer wall and the pylons remain from the temple. there is evidence to prove that sacred animals were worshiped there. archaeologists found an animal necropolis near the temple. remains of a christian church show that the temple was used as a church in later centuries. also found in the same area are remains of public baths built by the emperor justinian, a seawall, quays and a bridge. near the beach side of the area, there are the remains of a tower built by ptolemy ii philadelphus. the tower was an exact scale replica of the destroyed alexandrine pharos lighthouse.[ ] places of worship[edit] among the places of worship, there are muslim mosques.[ ] coptic christian churches are most common churches .there are also other christian churches as: greek, latin and armenian . orthodox christian churches are most common but catholic, anglican and evangelical churches are present. also there is a jewish synagogue places of worship in alexandria el-mursi abul abbas mosque latin catholic church of saint catherine in mansheya eliyahu hanavi synagogue islam[edit] see also: list of mosques in alexandria the most famous mosque in alexandria is abu al-abbas al-mursi mosque in bahary. other notable mosques in the city include ali ibn abi talib mosque in somouha, bilal mosque, al-gamaa al-bahari in mandara, hatem mosque in somouha, hoda el-islam mosque in sidi bishr, al-mowasah mosque in hadara, sharq al-madina mosque in miami, al-shohadaa mosque in mostafa kamel, al qa'ed ibrahim mosque, yehia mosque in zizinia, sidi gaber mosque in sidi gaber, sidi b esher mosque, rokay el-islam mosque in elessway, elsadaka mosque in sidibesher qebly, elshatbi mosque and sultan mosque. alexandria is the base of the salafi movements in egypt. al-nour party, which is based in the city and overwhelmingly won most of the salafi votes in the – parliamentary election, supports the president abdel fattah el-sisi.[ ] christianity[edit] after rome and constantinople, alexandria was considered the third-most important seat of christianity in the world. the pope of alexandria was second only to the bishop of rome, the capital of the roman empire until . the church of alexandria had jurisdiction over most of the continent of africa. after the council of chalcedon in ad , the church of alexandria was split between the miaphysites and the melkites. the miaphysites went on to constitute what is known today as the coptic orthodox church of alexandria. the melkites went on to constitute what is known today as the greek orthodox church of alexandria. in the th century, catholic and protestant missionaries converted some of the adherents of the orthodox churches to their respective faiths. today, the patriarchal seat of the pope of the coptic orthodox church is saint mark cathedral . the most important coptic orthodox churches in alexandria include pope cyril i church in cleopatra, saint georges church in sporting, saint mark & pope peter i church in sidi bishr, saint mary church in assafra, saint mary church in gianaclis, saint mina church in fleming, saint mina church in mandara and saint takla haymanot's church in ibrahimeya. the most important eastern orthodox churches in alexandria are agioi anárgyroi church, church of the annunciation, saint anthony church, archangels gabriel & michael church, taxiarchon church, saint catherine church, cathedral of the dormition in mansheya, church of the dormition, prophet elijah church, saint george church, saint joseph church in fleming, saint joseph of arimathea church, saint mark & saint nektarios chapel in ramleh, saint nicholas church, saint paraskevi church, saint sava cathedral in ramleh, saint theodore chapel and the russian church of saint alexander nevsky in alexandria, which serves the russian speaking community in the city. the apostolic vicariate of alexandria in egypt-heliopolis-port said has jurisdiction over all latin church catholics in egypt. member churches include saint catherine church in mansheya and church of the jesuits in cleopatra. the city is also the nominal see of the melkite greek catholic titular patriarchate of alexandria (generally vested in its leading patriarch of antioch) and the actual cathedral see of its patriarchal territory of egypt, sudan and south sudan, which uses the byzantine rite, and the nominal see of the armenian catholic eparchy of alexandria (for all egypt and sudan, whose actual cathedral is in cairo), a suffragan of the armenian catholic patriarch of cilicia, using the armenian rite. the saint mark church in shatby, founded as part of collège saint marc, is multi-denominational and holds liturgies according to latin catholic, coptic catholic and coptic orthodox rites. in antiquity, alexandria was a major centre of the cosmopolitan religious movement called gnosticism (today mainly remembered as a christian heresy). judaism[edit] jewish girls during bat mitzva in alexandria see also: history of the jews in egypt alexandria's once-flourishing jewish community declined rapidly following the arab–israeli war, after which negative reactions towards zionism among egyptians led to jewish residents in the city, and elsewhere in egypt, being perceived as zionist collaborators. most jewish residents of egypt fled to the newly established israel, france, brazil and other countries in the s and s. the community once numbered , but is now estimated at below .[ ] the most important synagogue in alexandria is the eliyahu hanavi synagogue. education[edit] colleges and universities[edit] collège saint marc alexandria has a number of higher education institutions. alexandria university is a public university that follows the egyptian system of higher education. many of its faculties are internationally renowned, most notably its faculty of medicine & faculty of engineering. in addition, the egypt-japan university of science and technology in new borg el arab city is a research university set up in collaboration between the japanese and egyptian governments in . the arab academy for science, technology & maritime transport is a semi-private educational institution that offers courses for high school, undergraduate level, and postgraduate students. it is considered the most reputable university in egypt after the auc american university in cairo because of its worldwide recognition from board of engineers at uk & abet in us. université senghor is a private french university that focuses on the teaching of humanities, politics and international relations, which mainly recruits students from the african continent. other institutions of higher education in alexandria include alexandria institute of technology (ait) and pharos university in alexandria. schools[edit] lycée français d'alexandrie alexandria has a long history of foreign educational institutions. the first foreign schools date to the early th century, when french missionaries began establishing french charitable schools to educate the egyptians. today, the most important french schools in alexandria run by catholic missionaries include collège de la mère de dieu, collège notre dame de sion, collège saint marc, ecoles des soeurs franciscaines (four different schools), École girard, École saint gabriel, École saint-vincent de paul, École saint joseph, École sainte catherine, and institution sainte jeanne-antide. as a reaction to the establishment of french religious institutions, a secular (laic) mission established lycée el-horreya, which initially followed a french system of education, but is currently a public school run by the egyptian government. the only school in alexandria that completely follows the french educational system is lycée français d'alexandrie (École champollion). it is usually frequented by the children of french expatriates and diplomats in alexandria. the italian school is the istituto "don bosco". english schools in alexandria are becoming the most popular. english-language schools in the city include: riada american school, riada language school, alexandria language school, future language school, future international schools (future igcse, future american school and future german school), alexandria american school, british school of alexandria, egyptian american school, pioneers language school, egyptian english language school, princesses girls' school, sidi gaber language school, taymour english school, sacred heart girls' school, schutz american school, victoria college, el manar language school for girls (previously called scottish school for girls), kawmeya language school, el nasr boys' school (previously called british boys' school), and el nasr girls' college. there are only two german schools in alexandria which are deutsche schule der borromärinnen (dsb of saint charles borromé) and neue deutsche schule alexandria, which is run by frau sally hammam. the montessori educational system was first introduced in alexandria in at alexandria montessori. the most notable public schools in alexandria include el abbassia high school and gamal abdel nasser high school. women[edit] 		this section needs expansion. you can help by adding to it. (july ) circa the s, twice the percentage of women in alexandria knew how to read compared to the same percentage in cairo. as a result, specialist women's publications like al-fatāh by hind nawal, the country's first women's journal, appeared.[ ] transport[edit] airports[edit] borg el arab international airport the city's principal airport is currently borg el arab airport, which is located about  km (  mi) away from the city centre. from late , el nouzha airport (alexandria international airport) was to be closed to commercial operations for two years as it underwent expansion, with all airlines operating out of borg el arab airport from then onwards, where a brand new terminal was completed there in february .[ ] in , the government announced that alexandria international airport will shut down permanently for operational reasons. port[edit] main article: alexandria port alexandria port alexandria has four ports; namely the western port also known as(alexandria port), which is the main port of the country that handles about % of the country's exports and imports, dekhela port west of the western port, the eastern port which is a yachting harbour, and abu qir port at the northern east of the governorate. it is a commercial port for general cargo and phosphates. highways[edit] 	international coastal road (mersa matruh – alexandria – port said) 	cairo–alexandria desert road (alexandria – cairo –  km (  mi), – lanes) 	cairo-alexandria agriculture road (alexandria – cairo) 	mehwar el ta'meer – (alexandria – borg el arab) rail[edit] misr railway station alexandria's intracity commuter rail system extends from misr station (alexandria's primary intercity railway station) to abu qir, parallel to the tram line. the commuter line's locomotives operate on diesel, as opposed to the overhead-electric tram. alexandria plays host to two intercity railway stations: the aforementioned misr station (in the older manshia district in the western part of the city) and sidi gaber railway station (in the district of sidi gaber in the centre of the eastern expansion in which most alexandrines reside), both of which also serve the commuter rail line. intercity passenger service is operated by egyptian national railways. trams[edit] main article: trams in alexandria an alexandria tram an extensive tramway network was built in and is the oldest in africa. the network begins at the el raml district in the west and ends in the victoria district in the east. most of the vehicles are blue in colour. some smaller yellow-coloured vehicles have further routes beyond the two main endpoints. the tram routes have one of four numbers: , , , and . all four start at el raml, but only two ( and ) reach victoria. there are two converging and diverging points. the first starts at bolkly (isis) and ends at san stefano. the other begins at sporting and ends at mostafa kamel. route starts at san stefano and takes the inner route to bolkly. route starts at sidi gaber el sheikh in the outer route between sporting and mustafa kamel. route takes the inner route between san stefano and bolkly and the outer route between sporting and mustafa kamel. route takes the route opposite to route in both these areas. the tram fares used to be piastres ( . pounds), and piastres ( . pounds) for the middle car, but have been doubled sometime in . some trams (that date back the s) charge a pound. the tram is considered the cheapest method of public transport. a café operates in the second floor of the first car of tram (a women-only car) which costs l.e per person, also offering a wifi service. a luxury light blue tram car operates from san stefano to ras el tin, with free wifi and movies and songs played inside for l.e per ticket. stations: 	baccos – victoria (number ) 	al seyouf 	sidi beshr 	el saraya 	laurent louran 	tharwat 	san stefano 	gianaklis 	schutz 	safar 	abou shabana (baccos) 	al karnak (fleming) 	al wezara (the ministry) 	isis bolkly bulkley 	roushdy 	mohammed mahfouz 	mustafa kamil 	sidi gaber al-sheikh 	cleopatra hammamat (cleopatra baths) 	cleopatra el soghra 	el reyada el kobra (sporting el kobra) 	el reyada el soghra (sporting al soghra) 	al ibrahimiyya 	el moaskar (camp caesar) 	al gamaa (the university) 	al shatby 	el shobban el moslemin 	el shahid moustafa ziean 	hassan rasim (azarita) 	gamea' ibrahim (mosque of ibrahim) 	mahattet al ramleh (ramlh station) route serves: 	el nasr – victoria (number ) 	al seyouf 	sidi beshr 	el saraya 	louran 	tharwat 	san stefano 	kasr el safa (zizini al safa palace) 	al fonoun al gamella (the fine arts) 	ramsis (glym or gleem) 	el bostan (saba pasha) 	al hedaya (the guidance) 	isis bolkly 	roushdy 	mohammed mahfouz 	mustafa kamil 	sidi gaber el mahata (railway station) 	cleopatra (zananere) 	el reyada el kobra (sporting el kobra) 	el reyada el soghra (sporting al soghra) 	al ibrahimiyya 	el moaskar (camp chezar) 	al gamaa (the university) 	al shatby 	el shobban el moslemin 	el shahid moustafa ziean 	hassan rasim (azarita) 	gamea' ibrahim (mosque of ibrahim) 	mahattet al ramlh (ramlh station) metro[edit] construction of the alexandria metro is due to begin in at a cost of $ .  billion.[ ] taxis and minibuses[edit] see also: taxicabs by country § egypt taxis in alexandria sport a yellow-and-black livery and are widely available. while egyptian law requires all cabs to carry meters, these generally do not work and fares must be negotiated with the driver on either departure or arrival. play media share taxis in alexandria the minibus share taxi system, or mashrū' operates along well-known traffic arteries. the routes can be identified by both their endpoints and the route between them: 	corniche routes: 	el mandara – bahari 	el mandara – el mansheya 	asafra – bahari 	asafra – el mansheya 	el sa'aa – el mansheya 	abu qir routes: 	el mandara – el mahata (lit. "the station", i.e. misr railway station) 	abu qir – el mahata 	victoria – el mahata 	el mandara – victoria 	interior routes: 	cabo – bahari 	el mansheya – el awayid 	el mansheya – el maw'af el gedid (the new bus station) 	hadara – el mahata the route is generally written in arabic on the side of the vehicle, although some drivers change their route without changing the paint. some drivers also drive only a segment of a route rather than the whole path; such drivers generally stop at a point known as a major hub of the transportation system (for example, victoria) to allow riders to transfer to another car or to another mode of transport. fare is generally l.e. . to travel the whole route. shorter trips may have a lower fare, depending on the driver and the length of the trip. culture[edit] libraries[edit] the bibliotheca alexandrina the royal library of alexandria, in alexandria, egypt, was once the largest library in the world. it is generally thought to have been founded at the beginning of the rd century bc, during the reign of ptolemy ii of egypt. it was likely created after his father had built what would become the first part of the library complex, the temple of the muses—the museion, greek Μουσείον (from which the modern english word museum is derived). it has been reasonably established that the library, or parts of the collection, were destroyed by fire on a number of occasions (library fires were common and replacement of handwritten manuscripts was very difficult, expensive, and time-consuming). to this day the details of the destruction (or destructions) remain a lively source of controversy.[ ] the bibliotheca alexandrina was inaugurated in , near the site of the old library.[ ] museums[edit] the alexandria national museum graeco-roman museum royal jewelry museum 	the alexandria national museum was inaugurated december . it is located in a restored italian style palace in tariq el horreya street (formerly rue fouad), near the centre of the city. it contains about , artifacts that narrate the story of alexandria and egypt. most of these pieces came from other egyptian museums. the museum is housed in the old al-saad bassili pasha palace, who was one of the wealthiest wood merchants in alexandria. construction on the site was first undertaken in . 	cavafy museum 	the graeco-roman museum 	the museum of fine arts 	the royal jewelry museum theaters[edit] 	alexandria opera house, where classical music, arabic music, ballet, and opera are performed and bearm basha theatre in elshatby. architecture[edit] throughout alexandria, there is art that resembles some of the oldest architectural styles of the hellenic city, and its ancient decorations, especially in the bibliotheca alexandrina, is based on reviving the ancient library of alexandria. the kom el shoqafa catacombs are considered one of the seven wonders of the middle ages and date back to the nd century. the remnants of pompey's pillar still remain today. this single pillar represents the elaborate temple which once stood in alexandria. it remains at the site of the serapeum, alexandria's acropolis. the serapeum, which stood for ancient tradition, conflicted with the rise of christianity. it is a large tourist destination, today. the roman amphitheatre of alexandria is another popular destination. here, there remains a stage with around seven hundred to eight hundred seats. they also have numerous galleries of statues and details leftover form this time. alexandria's tourism office announced plans to reserve some beaches for tourists in july .[ ] 	 			 			 shalalat gardens 			 		 	 			 			 montaza garden 			 		 	 			 			 alexandria art centre 			 		 	 			 			 alexandria opera house 			 		 	 			 			 fawzia fahmy palace 			 		 	 			 			 alexander the great's statue 			 		 	 			 			 monument of the unknown navy soldier 			 		 	 			 			 montaza palace 			 		 sports[edit] alexandria stadium the main sport that interests alexandrians is football, as is the case in the rest of egypt and africa. alexandria stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in alexandria, egypt. it is currently used mostly for football matches, and was used for the african cup of nations. the stadium is the oldest stadium in egypt, being built in . the stadium holds , people. alexandria was one of three cities that participated in hosting the african cup of nations in january , which egypt won. sea sports such as surfing, jet-skiing and water polo are practiced on a lower scale. the skateboarding culture in egypt started in this city. the city is also home to the alexandria sporting club, which is especially known for its basketball team, which traditionally provides the country's national team with key players. the city hosted the afrobasket, the continent's most prestigious basketball tournament, on four occasions ( , , , ). alexandria has four stadiums: 	alexandria stadium 	borg el arab stadium 	el krom stadium 	harras el hodoud stadium other less popular sports like tennis and squash are usually played in private social and sports clubs, like: 	acacia country club 	alexandria sporting club – in "sporting" 	alexandria country club 	al ittihad alexandria club 	olympic club 	haras el hodoud sc club 	koroum club 	lagoon resort courts 	smouha sc – in "smouha" started in , cross egypt challenge is an international cross-country motorcycle and scooter rally conducted throughout the most difficult tracks and roads of egypt. alexandria is known as the yearly starting point of cross egypt challenge and a huge celebration is conducted the night before the rally starts after all the international participants arrive to the city. twin towns – sister cities[edit] the italian consulate in saad zaghloul square see also: list of twin towns and sister cities in egypt alexandria is twinned with: 	 almaty, kazakhstan[citation needed] 	 baltimore, united states[ ] 	 bratislava, slovakia[ ] 	 catania, italy[ ] 	 cleveland, united states[ ] 	 constanța, romania[ ] 	 durban, south africa[ ] 	 incheon, south korea[ ] 	 kazanlak, bulgaria[ ] 	 limassol, cyprus[ ] 	 odessa, ukraine[ ] 	 paphos, cyprus[ ] 	 port louis, mauritius[ ] 	 saint petersburg, russia[ ] 	 shanghai, china[ ] 	 thessaloniki, greece[ ] see also[edit] 	baucalis 	cultural tourism in egypt 	list of cities and towns in egypt 	list of cities founded by alexander the great 	of alexandria references[edit] 	^ "alexandria governor". archived from the original on february . 	^ "الجهاز المركزي للتعبئة العامة والإحصاء". www.capmas.gov.eg. archived from the original on october . retrieved october . 	^ erman, adolf, and hermann grapow, eds. – . wörterbuch der aegyptischen sprache im auftrage der deutschen akademien. vols. leipzig: j. c. hinrichs'schen buchhandlungen. 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(pelican history of art, yale university press, ) 	philip mansel, levant: splendour and catastrophe on the mediterranean, london, john murray, november , hardback, pages, isbn  - - - - , new haven, yale university press, may , hardback, pages, isbn  - - - - 	don nardo, a travel guide to ancient alexandria, lucent books. ( ) 	v. w. von hagen, the roads that led to rome ( ) external links[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to: alexandria (category) 		wikivoyage has a travel guide for alexandria. 	"alexandria". egyptian government, ministry of state for administrative development. . 	"greek community of alexandria". . 	details on the archaïc port with a pdf of gaston jondet's report, 	map of alexandria, ca. , eran laor cartographic collection, the national library of israel. 	preceded by sebennytos 	 capital of egypt bc – ad 	succeeded by fustat 		v 	t 	e list of cities and towns in egypt 	cairo governorate	cairo 	giza governorate	giza, th of october city, sheikh zayed city, el hawamdeya, el badrashein, el saff, atfih, el ayyat, bawiti, manshiyat al qanater, awsim, kerdasa, abu el namras 	qalyubia governorate	benha, qalyub, shubra el kheima, el qanater el khayreya, khanka, kafr shukr, toukh, qaha, obour city, khusus, shibin el qanater 	alexandria governorate	alexandria, borg el arab, new borg el arab 	beheira governorate	damanhur, kafr el dawwar, rosetta, edku, abu el matamir, abu hummus, el delengat, el mahmoudiyah, el rahmaniya, itay el barud, hosh issa, shubrakhit, koum hamada, badr, wadi el natrun, new nubariya 	matrouh governorate	mersa matruh, el hamam, el alamein, el dabaa, el negaila, sidi barrani, sallum, siwa oasis 	damietta governorate	damietta, new damietta, ras el bar, faraskur, kafr saad, el zarqa, assarw, arrawda, kafr el battikh, ezbet el borg, mit abu ghaleb 	dakahlia governorate	mansoura, talkha, mit ghamr, dekernes, aga, minyat an-nasr, el senbellawein, el kurdi, bani ebaid, el manzala, temay el amdeed, el gammalia, sherbin, el matareya, belqas, mit salsil, gamasa, mahallat damana, nabaruh 	kafr el sheikh governorate	kafr el sheikh, desouk, fuwwah, metoubes, baltim, el hamool, biyala, el reyad, sidi salem, qallin, sidi ghazi, borg el burulus 	gharbia governorate	tanta, el mahalla el kubra, kafr az-zayyat, zefta, as-santa, qutur, basyoun, sebennytos 	monufia governorate	shibin el kom, sadat (city), menouf, sirs al-layyan, ashmoun, el bagour, quesna, birket el sab, tala, shuhada 	sharqia governorate	zagazig, th of ramadan (city), minya el qamh, bilbeis, mashtool el souk, al-qinayat, abu hammad, el qurein, hihya, abu kebir, faqous, el salheya el gedida, el ibrahimiya, diyarb negm, kafr saqr, awlad saqr, el husseiniya, tanis, minshat abu omar 	port said governorate	port said, port fuad 	ismailia governorate	ismailia, fayed, el qantara, tell el kebir, abu suwir, kassassin 	suez governorate	suez 	north sinai governorate	arish, sheikh zuweid, rafah, bir al-abd, el hasana, nekhel 	south sinai governorate	el tor, sharm el sheikh, dahab, nuweiba, taba, saint catherine, abou redis, abu zenima, ras sedr 	beni suef governorate	beni suef, new beni suef, al wasta, nasser, heracleopolis magna, biba, sumusta, el fashn 	faiyum governorate	faiyum, new faiyum, tamiya, sinnuris, itsa, ibsheway, yousef el seddik 	minya governorate	minya, new minya, el idwa, maghagha, beni mazar, matai, samalut, al madinah al fikriyyah, mallawi, dir mawas 	asyut governorate	asyut, new asyut, dairut, dayrut al-sharif, manfalut, el quseyya, abnub, abu tig, el ghanayem, sahel selim, el badari, sidfa 	new valley governorate	el kharga, baris, mut, farafra, balat 	red sea governorate	hurghada, ras ghareb, safaga, el qoseir, marsa alam, shalateen, halayeb 	sohag governorate	sohag, new sohag, akhmim, new akhmim, el balyana, el maragha, ptolemais hermiou, dar el salam, girga, west juhayna, saqultah, tima, tahta 	qena governorate	qena, new qena, abu tesht, nag hammadi, dishna, el waqf, qift, naqada, qus, farshut 	luxor governorate	luxor, new luxor, new thebes, zainiya, bayadiya, kurna, armant, el-tod, esna 	aswan governorate	aswan, new aswan, daraw, kom ombo, nasr al-nuba, kalabsha, edfu, radisia, busylia, sebaiya, abu simbel 	capital cities are in bold font. 	 	v 	t 	e neighborhoods in alexandria 	 	amreya 	anfoushi 	asafra 	azarita 	bahary 	bakos 	bolkly 	camp shezar 	cleopatra 	el atareen 	el gomrok 	el ibrahimiya 	el labban 	el maamora 	el mandara 	el mansheya 	el max 	el qabary 	el saraya 	el soyof 	dekhela 	downtown 	fleming 	gianaclis 	glim 	hadara 	kafr abdu 	karmoz 	kom el deka 	louran 	mahatet el raml 	miami 	moharam 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the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 alcaeus of mytilene - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	alcaeus of mytilene 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		greek lyric poet alcaeus and sappho, attic red-figure calathus, c.  bc, staatliche antikensammlungen (inv. ) alcaeus of mytilene (/ælˈsiːəs/; ancient greek: Ἀλκαῖος ὁ Μυτιληναῖος, alkaios ho mutilēnaios; c.  / – c.  bc)[ ][ ] was a lyric poet from the greek island of lesbos who is credited with inventing the alcaic stanza. he was included in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of hellenistic alexandria. he was a contemporary and an alleged lover of sappho, with whom he may have exchanged poems. he was born into the aristocratic governing class of mytilene, the main city of lesbos, where he was involved in political disputes and feuds. contents 	 biography 	 poetry 	 . poetic genres 	 . a drinking poem (fr. ) 	 . a hymn (fr. ) 	 tributes from other poets 	 . horace 	 . ovid 	 scholars, fragments and sources 	 references 	 sources 	 external links biography[edit] alcaeus "a probably authentic lesbian coin has been preserved, bearing upon the obverse ... a profile head of alcaeus, and upon the reverse ...a profile head of pittacus. this coin is said to have belonged to fulvius ursinus. it passed through various hands and collections into the royal museum at paris, and was engraved by the chevalier visconti." — j. easby-smith[ ] pittacus the broad outlines of the poet's life are well known.[ ][ ][ ] he was born into the aristocratic, warrior class that dominated mytilene, the strongest city-state on the island of lesbos and, by the end of the seventh century bc, the most influential of all the north aegean greek cities, with a strong navy and colonies securing its trade-routes in the hellespont. the city had long been ruled by kings born to the penthilid clan but, during the poet's life, the penthilids were a spent force and rival aristocrats and their factions contended with each other for supreme power. alcaeus and his older brothers were passionately involved in the struggle but experienced little success. their political adventures can be understood in terms of three tyrants who came and went in succession: 	melanchrus – he was overthrown sometime between  bc and  bc by a faction that, in addition to the brothers of alcaeus, included pittacus (later renowned as one of the seven sages of greece); alcaeus at that time was too young to be actively involved; 	myrsilus – it is not known when he came to power but some verses by alcaeus (frag. ) indicate that the poet, his brothers and pittacus made plans to overthrow him and that pittacus subsequently betrayed them; alcaeus and his brothers fled into exile where the poet later wrote a drinking song in celebration of the news of the tyrant's death (frag. ); 	pittacus – the dominant political figure of his time, he was voted supreme power by the political assembly of mytilene and appears to have governed well ( -  bc), even allowing alcaeus and his faction to return home in peace. sometime before  bc, mytilene fought athens for control of sigeion and alcaeus was old enough to participate in the fighting. according to the historian herodotus,[ ] the poet threw away his shield to make good his escape from the victorious athenians then celebrated the occasion in a poem that he later sent to his friend, melanippus. it is thought that alcaeus travelled widely during his years in exile, including at least one visit to egypt. his older brother, antimenidas, appears to have served as a mercenary in the army of nebuchadnezzar ii and probably took part in the conquest of askelon. alcaeus wrote verses in celebration of antimenides' return, including mention of his valour in slaying the larger opponent (frag. ), and he proudly describes the military hardware that adorned their family home (frag. ). "alcaeus was in some respects not unlike a royalist soldier of the age of the stuarts. he had the high spirit and reckless gaiety, the love of country bound up with belief in a caste, the licence tempered by generosity and sometimes by tenderness, of a cavalier who has seen good and evil days." — richard claverhouse jebb[ ] sappho and alcaeus by lawrence alma-tadema. the walters art museum. alcaeus was a contemporary and a countryman of sappho and, since both poets composed for the entertainment of mytilenean friends, they had many opportunities to associate with each other on a quite regular basis, such as at the kallisteia, an annual festival celebrating the island's federation under mytilene, held at the 'messon' (referred to as temenos in frs. and ), where sappho performed publicly with female choirs. alcaeus' reference to sappho in terms more typical of a divinity, as holy/pure, honey-smiling sappho (fr. ), may owe its inspiration to her performances at the festival.[ ] the lesbian or aeolic school of poetry "reached in the songs of sappho and alcaeus that high point of brilliancy to which it never after-wards approached"[ ] and it was assumed by later greek critics and during the early centuries of the christian era that the two poets were in fact lovers, a theme which became a favourite subject in art (as in the urn pictured above). poetry[edit] the poetic works of alcaeus were collected into ten books, with elaborate commentaries, by the alexandrian scholars aristophanes of byzantium and aristarchus of samothrace sometime in the rd century bc, and yet his verses today exist only in fragmentary form, varying in size from mere phrases, such as wine, window into a man (fr. ) to entire groups of verses and stanzas, such as those quoted below (fr. ). alexandrian scholars numbered him in their canonic nine (one lyric poet per muse). among these, pindar was held by many ancient critics to be pre-eminent,[ ] but some gave precedence to alcaeus instead.[ ] the canonic nine are traditionally divided into two groups, with alcaeus, sappho and anacreon, being 'monodists' or 'solo-singers', with the following characteristics:[ ] 	they composed and performed personally for friends and associates on topics of immediate interest to them; 	they wrote in their native dialects (alcaeus and sappho in aeolic dialect, anacreon in ionic); 	they preferred quite short, metrically simple stanzas or 'strophes' which they re-used in many poems — hence the 'alcaic' and 'sapphic' stanzas, named after the two poets who perfected them or possibly invented them. the other six of the canonic nine composed verses for public occasions, performed by choruses and professional singers and typically featuring complex metrical arrangements that were never reproduced in other verses. however, this division into two groups is considered by some modern scholars to be too simplistic and often it is practically impossible to know whether a lyric composition was sung or recited, or whether or not it was accompanied by musical instruments and dance. even the private reflections of alcaeus, ostensibly sung at dinner parties, still retain a public function.[ ] critics often seek to understand alcaeus in comparison with sappho: if we compare the two, we find that alcaeus is versatile, sappho narrow in her range; that his verse is less polished and less melodious than hers; and that the emotions which he chooses to display are less intense. — david campbell[ ] the aeolian song is suddenly revealed, as a mature work of art, in the spirited stanzas of alcaeus. it is raised to a supreme excellence by his younger contemporary, sappho, whose melody is unsurpassed, perhaps unequalled, among all the relics of greek verse. — richard jebb[ ] in the variety of his subjects, in the exquisite rhythm of his meters, and in the faultless perfection of his style, all of which appear even in mutilated fragments, he excels all the poets, even his more intense, more delicate and more truly inspired contemporary sappho. — james easby-smith[ ] the roman poet, horace, also compared the two, describing alcaeus as "more full-throatedly singing"[ ] — see horace's tribute below. alcaeus himself seems to underscore the difference between his own 'down-to-earth' style and sappho's more 'celestial' qualities when he describes her almost as a goddess (as cited above), and yet it has been argued that both poets were concerned with a balance between the divine and the profane, each emphasising different elements in that balance.[ ] dionysius of halicarnassus exhorts us to "observe in alcaeus the sublimity, brevity and sweetness coupled with stern power, his splendid figures, and his clearness which was unimpaired by the dialect; and above all mark his manner of expressing his sentiments on public affairs,"[ ] while quintilian, after commending alcaeus for his excellence "in that part of his works where he inveighs against tyrants and contributes to good morals; in his language he is concise, exalted, careful and often like an orator;" goes on to add: "but he descended into wantonness and amours, though better fitted for higher things."[ ] poetic genres[edit] the works of alcaeus are conventionally grouped according to five genres. 	political songs: alcaeus often composed on a political theme, covering the power struggles on lesbos with the passion and vigour of a partisan, cursing his opponents,[ ] rejoicing in their deaths,[ ] delivering blood-curdling homilies on the consequences of political inaction[ ] and exhorting his comrades to heroic defiance, as in one of his 'ship of state' allegories.[ ] commenting on alcaeus as a political poet, the scholar dionysius of halicarnassus once observed that "...if you removed the meter you would find political rhetoric."[ ] 	drinking songs: according to the grammarian athenaeus, alcaeus made every occasion an excuse for drinking and he has provided posterity several quotes in proof of it.[ ] alcaeus exhorts his friends to drink in celebration of a tyrant's death,[ ] to drink away their sorrows,[ ] to drink because life is short[ ] and along the lines in vino veritas,[ ] to drink through winter storms[ ] and to drink through the heat of summer.[ ] the latter poem in fact paraphrases verses from hesiod,[ ] re-casting them in asclepiad meter and aeolian dialect. 	hymns: alcaeus sang about the gods in the spirit of the homeric hymns, to entertain his companions rather than to glorify the gods and in the same meters that he used for his 'secular' lyrics.[ ] there are for example fragments in 'sapphic' meter praising the dioscuri,[ ] hermes[ ] and the river hebrus[ ] (a river significant in lesbian mythology since it was down its waters that the head of orpheus was believed to have floated singing, eventually crossing the sea to lesbos and ending up in a temple of apollo, as a symbol of lesbian supremacy in song).[ ] according to porphyrion, the hymn to hermes was imitated by horace in one of his own 'sapphic' odes (c. . : mercuri, facunde nepos atlantis).[ ] 	love songs: almost all alcaeus' amorous verses, mentioned with disapproval by quintilian above, have vanished without trace. there is a brief reference to his love poetry in a passage by cicero.[ ] horace, who often wrote in imitation of alcaeus, sketches in verse one of the lesbian poet's favourite subjects — lycus of the black hair and eyes (c. . . - : nigris oculis nigroque/crine decorum). it is possible that alcaeus wrote amorously about sappho, as indicated in an earlier quote.[ ] 	miscellaneous: alcaeus wrote on such a wide variety of subjects and themes that contradictions in his character emerge. the grammarian athenaeus quoted some verses about perfumed ointments to prove just how unwarlike alcaeus could be[ ] and he quoted his description of the armour adorning the walls of his house[ ] as proof that he could be unusually warlike for a lyric poet.[ ] other examples of his readiness for both warlike and unwarlike subjects are lyrics celebrating his brother's heroic exploits as a babylonian mercenary[ ] and lyrics sung in a rare meter (sapphic ionic in minore) in the voice of a distressed girl,[ ] "wretched me, who share in all ills!" — possibly imitated by horace in an ode in the same meter (c. . : miserarum est neque amori dare ludum neque dulci).[ ] he also wrote sapphic stanzas on homeric themes but in un-homeric style, comparing helen of troy unfavourably with thetis, the mother of akhilles.[ ] a drinking poem (fr. )[edit] the following verses demonstrate some key characteristics of the alcaic style (square brackets indicate uncertainties in the ancient text): 	 πώνωμεν· τί τὰ λύχν' ὀμμένομεν; δάκτυλος ἀμέρα· κὰδ δ'ἄερρε κυλίχναις μεγάλαις [αιτα]ποικίλαισ· οἶνον γὰρ Σεμέλας καὶ Δίος υἶος λαθικάδεον ἀνθρώποισιν ἔδωκ'. ἔγχεε κέρναις ἔνα καὶ δύο πλήαις κὰκ κεφάλας, [ἀ] δ' ἀτέρα τὰν ἀτέραν κύλιξ ὠθήτω...[ ] 	 let's drink! why are we waiting for the lamps? only an inch of daylight left. lift down the large cups, my friends, the painted ones; for wine was given to men by the son of semele and zeus to help them forget their troubles. mix one part of water to two of wine, pour it in up to the brim, and let one cup push the other along...[ ] 	 	 the greek meter here is relatively simple, comprising the greater asclepiad, adroitly used to convey, for example, the rhythm of jostling cups (ἀ δ' ἀτέρα τὰν ἀτέραν). the language of the poem is typically direct and concise and comprises short sentences — the first line is in fact a model of condensed meaning, comprising an exhortation ("let's drink!), a rhetorical question ("why are we waiting for the lamps?") and a justifying statement (only an inch of daylight left.)[ ] the meaning is clear and uncomplicated, the subject is drawn from personal experience, and there is an absence of poetic ornament, such as simile or metaphor. like many of his poems (e.g., frs. , , , , ), it begins with a verb (in this case "let's drink!") and it includes a proverbial expression ("only an inch of daylight left") though it is possible that he coined it himself.[ ] a hymn (fr. )[edit] alcaeus rarely used metaphor or simile and yet he had a fondness for the allegory of the storm-tossed ship of state. the following fragment of a hymn to castor and polydeuces (the dioscuri) is possibly another example of this though some scholars interpret it instead as a prayer for a safe voyage.[ ] hither now to me from your isle of pelops, you powerful children of zeus and leda, showing youselves kindly by nature, castor and polydeuces! travelling abroad on swift-footed horses, over the wide earth, over all the ocean, how easily you bring deliverance from death's gelid rigor, landing on tall ships with a sudden, great bound, a far-away light up the forestays running, bringing radiance to a ship in trouble, sailed in the darkness! the poem was written in sapphic stanzas, a verse form popularly associated with his compatriot, sappho, but in which he too excelled, here paraphrased in english to suggest the same rhythms. there were probably another three stanzas in the original poem but only nine letters of them remain.[ ] the 'far-away light' (Πήλοθεν λάμπροι) is a reference to st. elmo's fire, an electrical discharge supposed by ancient greek mariners to be an epiphany of the dioscuri, but the meaning of the line was obscured by gaps in the papyrus until reconstructed by a modern scholar—such reconstructions are typical of the extant poetry (see scholars, fragments and sources below). this poem doesn't begin with a verb but with an adverb (Δευτέ) but still communicates a sense of action. he probably performed his verses at drinking parties for friends and political allies—men for whom loyalty was essential, particularly in such troubled times.[ ] tributes from other poets[edit] horace[edit] the roman poet horace modelled his own lyrical compositions on those of alcaeus, rendering the lesbian poet's verse-forms, including 'alcaic' and 'sapphic' stanzas, into concise latin — an achievement he celebrates in his third book of odes.[ ] in his second book, in an ode composed in alcaic stanzas on the subject of an almost fatal accident he had on his farm, he imagines meeting alcaeus and sappho in hades: 	 quam paene furvae regna proserpinae et iudicantem vidimus aeacum sedesque descriptas piorum et aeoliis fidibus querentem sappho puellis de popularibus et te sonantem plenius aureo, alcaee, plectro dura navis, dura fugae mala, dura belli! [ ] 	 how close the realm of dusky proserpine yawned at that instant! i half glimpsed the dire judge of the dead, the blest in their divine seclusion, sappho on the aeolian lyre, mourning the cold girls of her native isle, and you, alcaeus, more full-throatedly singing with your gold quill of ships, exile and war, hardship on land, hardship at sea.[ ] 	 	 ovid[edit] ovid compared alcaeus to sappho in letters of the heroines, where sappho is imagined to speak as follows: 	 nec plus alcaeus consors patriaeque lyraeque laudis habet, quamvis grandius ille sonet. 	 nor does alcaeus, my fellow-countryman and fellow-poet, receive more praise, although he resounds more grandly.[ ] 	 	 scholars, fragments and sources[edit] a nd century ad papyrus of alcaeus, one of the many such fragments that have contributed to our greatly improved knowledge of alcaeus' poetry during the th century (p.berol. inv. = fr. l.–p.). the story of alcaeus is partly the story of the scholars who rescued his work from oblivion.[ ][ ] his verses have not come down to us through a manuscript tradition — generations of scribes copying an author's collected works, such as delivered intact into the modern age four entire books of pindar's odes — but haphazardly, in quotes from ancient scholars and commentators whose own works have chanced to survive, and in the tattered remnants of papyri uncovered from an ancient rubbish pile at oxyrhynchus and other locations in egypt: sources that modern scholars have studied and correlated exhaustively, adding little by little to the world's store of poetic fragments. ancient scholars quoted alcaeus in support of various arguments. thus for example heraclitus 'the allegorist'[ ] quoted fr. and part of fr. , about ships in a storm, in his study on homer's use of allegory.[ ] the hymn to hermes, fr (b), was quoted by hephaestion (grammarian)[ ] and both he and libanius, the rhetorician, quoted the first two lines of fr. ,[ ] celebrating the return from babylon of alcaeus' brother. the rest of fr. was paraphrased in prose by the historian/geographer strabo.[ ] many fragments were supplied in quotes by athenaeus, principally on the subject of wine-drinking, but fr. , "wine, window into a man", was quoted much later by the byzantine grammarian, john tzetzes.[ ] the first 'modern' publication of alcaeus' verses appeared in a greek and latin edition of fragments collected from the canonic nine lyrical poets by michael neander, published at basle in . this was followed by another edition of the nine poets, collected by henricus stephanus and published in paris in . fulvius ursinus compiled a fuller collection of alcaic fragments, including a commentary, which was published at antwerp in . the first separate edition of alcaeus was by christian david jani and it was published at halle in . the next separate edition was by august matthiae, leipzig . some of the fragments quoted by ancient scholars were able to be integrated by scholars in the nineteenth century. thus for example two separate quotes by athenaeus[ ] were united by theodor bergk to form fr. . three separate sources were combined to form fr. , as mentioned above, including a prose paraphrase from strabo that first needed to be restored to its original meter, a synthesis achieved by the united efforts of otto hoffmann, karl otfried müller[ ] and franz heinrich ludolf ahrens. the discovery of the oxyrhynchus papyri towards the end of the nineteenth century dramatically increased the scope of scholarly research. in fact, eight important fragments have now been compiled from papyri — frs. , a, , , , , and most recently s . these fragments typically feature lacunae or gaps that scholars fill with 'educated guesses', including for example a "brilliant supplement" by maurice bowra in fr. , a hymn to the dioscuri that includes a description of st. elmo's fire in the ship's rigging.[ ] working with only eight letters (πρό...τρ...ντες; tr. pró...tr...ntes), bowra conjured up a phrase that develops the meaning and the euphony of the poem (πρότον' ὀντρέχοντες; tr. próton' ontréchontes), describing luminescence "running along the forestays". references[edit] 	^ carey, c. 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europe during the th and th centuries.[ ] the enlightenment emerged out of a european intellectual and scholarly movement known as renaissance humanism and was also preceded by the scientific revolution and the work of francis bacon, among others. some date the beginning of the enlightenment to rené descartes' philosophy of cogito, ergo sum ("i think, therefore i am"), while others cite the publication of isaac newton's principia mathematica ( ) as the culmination of the scientific revolution and the beginning of the enlightenment. french historians traditionally date its beginning with the death of louis xiv of france in until the outbreak of the french revolution. most end it with the beginning of the th century. philosophers and scientists of the period widely circulated their ideas through meetings at scientific academies, masonic lodges, literary salons, coffeehouses and in printed books, journals, and pamphlets. the ideas of the enlightenment undermined the authority of the monarchy and the catholic church and paved the way for the political revolutions of the th and th centuries. a variety of th-century movements, including liberalism and neoclassicism, trace their intellectual heritage to the enlightenment.[ ] the enlightenment included a range of ideas centered on the sovereignty of reason and the evidence of the senses as the primary sources of knowledge and advanced ideals such as liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government and separation of church and state.[ ][ ] in france, the central doctrines of the enlightenment philosophers were individual liberty and religious tolerance, in opposition to an absolute monarchy and the fixed dogmas of the church. the enlightenment was marked by an emphasis on the scientific method and reductionism, along with increased questioning of religious orthodoxy—an attitude captured by immanuel kant's essay answering the question: what is enlightenment, where the phrase sapere aude (dare to know) can be found.[ ] contents 	 significant people and publications 	 philosophy 	 science 	 sociology, economics and law 	 politics 	 . theories of government 	 . enlightened absolutism 	 . french revolution 	 religion 	 . separation of church and state 	 national variations 	 . great britain 	 . . england 	 . . scotland 	 . . anglo-american colonies 	 . german states 	 . italy 	 . spain and spanish america 	 . portugal 	 . russia 	 . poland 	 historiography 	 . definition 	 . time span 	 . modern study 	 society and culture 	 . social and cultural implications in the arts 	 dissemination of ideas 	 . the republic of letters 	 . the book industry 	 . natural history 	 . scientific and literary journals 	 . encyclopedias and dictionaries 	 . popularization of science 	 . schools and universities 	 . learned academies 	 . salons 	 . coffeehouses 	 . debating societies 	 . masonic lodges 	 . art 	 important intellectuals 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 . citations 	 . sources 	 further reading 	 . reference and surveys 	 . specialty studies 	 . primary sources 	 external links significant people and publications the most famous work by nicholas de condorcet, esquisse d'un tableau historique des progres de l'esprit humain, .[ ] with the publication of this book, the development of the age of enlightenment is considered generally ended.[ ] the age of enlightenment was preceded by and closely associated with the scientific revolution.[ ] earlier philosophers whose work influenced the enlightenment included francis bacon and rené descartes.[ ] some of the major figures of the enlightenment included cesare beccaria, denis diderot, david hume, immanuel kant, gottfried wilhelm leibniz, john locke, montesquieu, jean-jacques rousseau, adam smith, hugo grotius, baruch spinoza, and voltaire.[ ] one particularly influential enlightenment publication was the encyclopédie (encyclopedia). published between and in thirty-five volumes, it was compiled by denis diderot, jean le rond d'alembert, and a team of other intellectuals. the encyclopédie helped in spreading the ideas of the enlightenment across europe and beyond.[ ] other landmark publications of the enlightenment included voltaire's letters on the english ( ) and dictionnaire philosophique (philosophical dictionary; ); hume's a treatise of human nature ( ); montesquieu's the spirit of the laws ( ); rousseau's discourse on inequality ( ) and the social contract ( ); adam smith's the theory of moral sentiments ( ) and the wealth of nations ( ); and kant's critique of pure reason ( ). enlightenment thought was deeply influential in the political realm. european rulers such as catherine ii of russia, joseph ii of austria and frederick ii of prussia tried to apply enlightenment thought on religious and political tolerance, which became known as enlightened absolutism.[ ] many of the main political and intellectual figures behind the american revolution associated themselves closely with the enlightenment: benjamin franklin visited europe repeatedly and contributed actively to the scientific and political debates there and brought the newest ideas back to philadelphia; thomas jefferson closely followed european ideas and later incorporated some of the ideals of the enlightenment into the declaration of independence; and james madison incorporated these ideals into the united states constitution during its framing in .[ ] the ideas of the enlightenment also played a major role in inspiring the french revolution, which began in . philosophy rené descartes' rationalist philosophy laid the foundation for enlightenment thinking. his attempt to construct the sciences on a secure metaphysical foundation was not as successful as his method of doubt applied in philosophic areas leading to a dualistic doctrine of mind and matter. his skepticism was refined by john locke's essay concerning human understanding ( ) and david hume's writings in the s. his dualism was challenged by spinoza's uncompromising assertion of the unity of matter in his tractatus ( ) and ethics ( ). according to jonathan israel, these laid down two distinct lines of enlightenment thought: first, the moderate variety, following descartes, locke and christian wolff, which sought accommodation between reform and the traditional systems of power and faith, and second, the radical enlightenment, inspired by the philosophy of spinoza, advocating democracy, individual liberty, freedom of expression and eradication of religious authority.[ ][ ] the moderate variety tended to be deistic, whereas the radical tendency separated the basis of morality entirely from theology. both lines of thought were eventually opposed by a conservative counter-enlightenment, which sought a return to faith.[ ] german philosopher immanuel kant in the mid- th century, paris became the center of philosophic and scientific activity challenging traditional doctrines and dogmas. the philosophical movement was led by voltaire and jean-jacques rousseau, who argued for a society based upon reason as in ancient greece[ ] rather than faith and catholic doctrine, for a new civil order based on natural law, and for science based on experiments and observation. the political philosopher montesquieu introduced the idea of a separation of powers in a government, a concept which was enthusiastically adopted by the authors of the united states constitution. while the philosophes of the french enlightenment were not revolutionaries and many were members of the nobility, their ideas played an important part in undermining the legitimacy of the old regime and shaping the french revolution.[ ] francis hutcheson, a moral philosopher, described the utilitarian and consequentialist principle that virtue is that which provides, in his words, "the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers". much of what is incorporated in the scientific method (the nature of knowledge, evidence, experience and causation) and some modern attitudes towards the relationship between science and religion were developed by his protégés david hume and adam smith.[ ] hume became a major figure in the skeptical philosophical and empiricist traditions of philosophy. immanuel kant ( – ) tried to reconcile rationalism and religious belief, individual freedom and political authority, as well as map out a view of the public sphere through private and public reason.[ ] kant's work continued to shape german thought and indeed all of european philosophy, well into the th century.[ ] mary wollstonecraft was one of england's earliest feminist philosophers.[ ] she argued for a society based on reason and that women as well as men should be treated as rational beings. she is best known for her work a vindication of the rights of woman ( ).[ ] science main article: science in the age of enlightenment science played an important role in enlightenment discourse and thought. many enlightenment writers and thinkers had backgrounds in the sciences and associated scientific advancement with the overthrow of religion and traditional authority in favour of the development of free speech and thought. scientific progress during the enlightenment included the discovery of carbon dioxide (fixed air) by the chemist joseph black, the argument for deep time by the geologist james hutton and the invention of the condensing steam engine by james watt.[ ] the experiments of lavoisier were used to create the first modern chemical plants in paris and the experiments of the montgolfier brothers enabled them to launch the first manned flight in a hot-air balloon on november from the château de la muette, near the bois de boulogne.[ ] the wide-ranging contributions to mathematics of leonhard euler ( – ) included major results in analysis, number theory, topology, combinatorics, graph theory, algebra, and geometry (among other fields). in applied mathematics, he made fundamental contributions to mechanics, hydraulics, acoustics, optics, and astronomy. he was based in the imperial academy of sciences in st. petersburg ( – ), then in berlin at the royal prussian academy of sciences and belles lettres ( – ), and finally back in st. petersburg at the imperial academy ( – ).[ ] broadly speaking, enlightenment science greatly valued empiricism and rational thought and was embedded with the enlightenment ideal of advancement and progress. the study of science, under the heading of natural philosophy, was divided into physics and a conglomerate grouping of chemistry and natural history, which included anatomy, biology, geology, mineralogy and zoology.[ ] as with most enlightenment views, the benefits of science were not seen universally: rousseau criticized the sciences for distancing man from nature and not operating to make people happier.[ ] science during the enlightenment was dominated by scientific societies and academies, which had largely replaced universities as centres of scientific research and development. societies and academies were also the backbone of the maturation of the scientific profession. another important development was the popularization of science among an increasingly literate population. philosophes introduced the public to many scientific theories, most notably through the encyclopédie and the popularization of newtonianism by voltaire and Émilie du châtelet. some historians have marked the th century as a drab period in the history of science.[ ] however, the century saw significant advancements in the practice of medicine, mathematics and physics; the development of biological taxonomy; a new understanding of magnetism and electricity; and the maturation of chemistry as a discipline, which established the foundations of modern chemistry. scientific academies and societies grew out of the scientific revolution as the creators of scientific knowledge in contrast to the scholasticism of the university.[ ] during the enlightenment, some societies created or retained links to universities, but contemporary sources distinguished universities from scientific societies by claiming that the university's utility was in the transmission of knowledge while societies functioned to create knowledge.[ ] as the role of universities in institutionalized science began to diminish, learned societies became the cornerstone of organized science. official scientific societies were chartered by the state in order to provide technical expertise.[ ] most societies were granted permission to oversee their own publications, control the election of new members and the administration of the society.[ ] after , a tremendous number of official academies and societies were founded in europe and by there were over seventy official scientific societies. in reference to this growth, bernard de fontenelle coined the term "the age of academies" to describe the th century.[ ] the influence of science also began appearing more commonly in poetry and literature during the enlightenment. some poetry became infused with scientific metaphor and imagery, while other poems were written directly about scientific topics. sir richard blackmore committed the newtonian system to verse in creation, a philosophical poem in seven books ( ). after newton's death in , poems were composed in his honour for decades.[ ] james thomson ( – ) penned his "poem to the memory of newton", which mourned the loss of newton, but also praised his science and legacy.[ ] sociology, economics and law cesare beccaria, father of classical criminal theory ( – ) hume and other scottish enlightenment thinkers developed a "science of man",[ ] which was expressed historically in works by authors including james burnett, adam ferguson, john millar and william robertson, all of whom merged a scientific study of how humans behaved in ancient and primitive cultures with a strong awareness of the determining forces of modernity. modern sociology largely originated from this movement[ ] and hume's philosophical concepts that directly influenced james madison (and thus the u.s. constitution) and as popularised by dugald stewart, would be the basis of classical liberalism.[ ] in , adam smith published the wealth of nations, often considered the first work on modern economics as it had an immediate impact on british economic policy that continues into the st century.[ ] it was immediately preceded and influenced by anne-robert-jacques turgot, baron de laune drafts of reflections on the formation and distribution of wealth (paris, ). smith acknowledged indebtedness and possibly was the original english translator.[ ] cesare beccaria, a jurist, criminologist, philosopher and politician and one of the great enlightenment writers, became famous for his masterpiece of crimes and punishments ( ), later translated into languages,[ ] which condemned torture and the death penalty and was a founding work in the field of penology and the classical school of criminology by promoting criminal justice. another prominent intellectual was francesco mario pagano, who wrote important studies such as saggi politici (political essays, ), one of the major works of the enlightenment in naples; and considerazioni sul processo criminale (considerations on the criminal trial, ), which established him as an international authority on criminal law.[ ] politics the enlightenment has long been hailed as the foundation of modern western political and intellectual culture.[ ] the enlightenment brought political modernization to the west, in terms of introducing democratic values and institutions and the creation of modern, liberal democracies. this thesis has been widely accepted by anglophone scholars and has been reinforced by the large-scale studies by robert darnton, roy porter and most recently by jonathan israel.[ ][ ] theories of government john locke, one of the most influential enlightenment thinkers,[ ] based his governance philosophy in social contract theory, a subject that permeated enlightenment political thought. the english philosopher thomas hobbes ushered in this new debate with his work leviathan in . hobbes also developed some of the fundamentals of european liberal thought: the right of the individual; the natural equality of all men; the artificial character of the political order (which led to the later distinction between civil society and the state); the view that all legitimate political power must be "representative" and based on the consent of the people; and a liberal interpretation of law which leaves people free to do whatever the law does not explicitly forbid.[ ] like other enlightenment philosophers, rousseau was critical of the atlantic slave trade[ ] both locke and rousseau developed social contract theories in two treatises of government and discourse on inequality, respectively. while quite different works, locke, hobbes and rousseau agreed that a social contract, in which the government's authority lies in the consent of the governed,[ ] is necessary for man to live in civil society. locke defines the state of nature as a condition in which humans are rational and follow natural law, in which all men are born equal and with the right to life, liberty and property. however, when one citizen breaks the law of nature both the transgressor and the victim enter into a state of war, from which it is virtually impossible to break free. therefore, locke said that individuals enter into civil society to protect their natural rights via an "unbiased judge" or common authority, such as courts, to appeal to. contrastingly, rousseau's conception relies on the supposition that "civil man" is corrupted, while "natural man" has no want he cannot fulfill himself. natural man is only taken out of the state of nature when the inequality associated with private property is established.[ ] rousseau said that people join into civil society via the social contract to achieve unity while preserving individual freedom. this is embodied in the sovereignty of the general will, the moral and collective legislative body constituted by citizens. locke is known for his statement that individuals have a right to "life, liberty and property" and his belief that the natural right to property is derived from labor. tutored by locke, anthony ashley-cooper, rd earl of shaftesbury wrote in : "there is a mighty light which spreads its self over the world especially in those two free nations of england and holland; on whom the affairs of europe now turn".[ ] locke's theory of natural rights has influenced many political documents, including the united states declaration of independence and the french national constituent assembly's declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen. the philosophes argued that the establishment of a contractual basis of rights would lead to the market mechanism and capitalism, the scientific method, religious tolerance and the organization of states into self-governing republics through democratic means. in this view, the tendency of the philosophes in particular to apply rationality to every problem is considered the essential change.[ ] although much of enlightenment political thought was dominated by social contract theorists, both david hume and adam ferguson criticized this camp. hume's essay of the original contract argues that governments derived from consent are rarely seen and civil government is grounded in a ruler's habitual authority and force. it is precisely because of the ruler's authority over-and-against the subject, that the subject tacitly consents and hume says that the subjects would "never imagine that their consent made him sovereign", rather the authority did so.[ ] similarly, ferguson did not believe citizens built the state, rather polities grew out of social development. in his an essay on the history of civil society, ferguson uses the four stages of progress, a theory that was very popular in scotland at the time, to explain how humans advance from a hunting and gathering society to a commercial and civil society without "signing" a social contract. both rousseau's and locke's social contract theories rest on the presupposition of natural rights, which are not a result of law or custom, but are things that all men have in pre-political societies and are therefore universal and inalienable. the most famous natural right formulation comes from john locke in his second treatise, when he introduces the state of nature. for locke, the law of nature is grounded on mutual security or the idea that one cannot infringe on another's natural rights, as every man is equal and has the same inalienable rights. these natural rights include perfect equality and freedom, as well as the right to preserve life and property. locke also argued against slavery on the basis that enslaving oneself goes against the law of nature because one cannot surrender one's own rights: one's freedom is absolute and no-one can take it away. additionally, locke argues that one person cannot enslave another because it is morally reprehensible, although he introduces a caveat by saying that enslavement of a lawful captive in time of war would not go against one's natural rights. as a spill-over of the enlightenment, nonsecular beliefs expressed first by quakers and then by protestant evangelicals in britain and the united states emerged. to these groups, slavery became "repugnant to our religion" and a "crime in the sight of god."[ ] these ideas added to those expressed by enlightenment thinkers, leading many in britain to believe that slavery was "not only morally wrong and economically inefficient, but also politically unwise."[ ] as these notions gained more adherents, britain was forced to end its participation in the slave trade. enlightened absolutism main article: enlightened absolutism the marquis of pombal, as the head of the government of portugal, implemented sweeping socio-economic reforms (abolished slavery, significantly weakened the inquisition, created the basis for secular public schools and restructured the tax system) the leaders of the enlightenment were not especially democratic, as they more often look to absolute monarchs as the key to imposing reforms designed by the intellectuals. voltaire despised democracy and said the absolute monarch must be enlightened and must act as dictated by reason and justice – in other words, be a "philosopher-king".[ ] denmark's minister johann struensee, a social reformer, was publicly executed in in several nations, rulers welcomed leaders of the enlightenment at court and asked them to help design laws and programs to reform the system, typically to build stronger states. these rulers are called "enlightened despots" by historians.[ ] they included frederick the great of prussia, catherine the great of russia, leopold ii of tuscany and joseph ii of austria. joseph was over-enthusiastic, announcing many reforms that had little support so that revolts broke out and his regime became a comedy of errors and nearly all his programs were reversed.[ ] senior ministers pombal in portugal and johann friedrich struensee in denmark also governed according to enlightenment ideals. in poland, the model constitution of expressed enlightenment ideals, but was in effect for only one year before the nation was partitioned among its neighbors. more enduring were the cultural achievements, which created a nationalist spirit in poland.[ ] frederick the great, the king of prussia from to , saw himself as a leader of the enlightenment and patronized philosophers and scientists at his court in berlin. voltaire, who had been imprisoned and maltreated by the french government, was eager to accept frederick's invitation to live at his palace. frederick explained: "my principal occupation is to combat ignorance and prejudice ... to enlighten minds, cultivate morality, and to make people as happy as it suits human nature, and as the means at my disposal permit".[ ] french revolution the enlightenment has been frequently linked to the french revolution of . one view of the political changes that occurred during the enlightenment is that the "consent of the governed" philosophy as delineated by locke in two treatises of government ( ) represented a paradigm shift from the old governance paradigm under feudalism known as the "divine right of kings". in this view, the revolutions of the late s and early s were caused by the fact that this governance paradigm shift often could not be resolved peacefully and therefore violent revolution was the result. clearly a governance philosophy where the king was never wrong was in direct conflict with one whereby citizens by natural law had to consent to the acts and rulings of their government. alexis de tocqueville proposed the french revolution as the inevitable result of the radical opposition created in the th century between the monarchy and the men of letters of the enlightenment. these men of letters constituted a sort of "substitute aristocracy that was both all-powerful and without real power". this illusory power came from the rise of "public opinion", born when absolutist centralization removed the nobility and the bourgeoisie from the political sphere. the "literary politics" that resulted promoted a discourse of equality and was hence in fundamental opposition to the monarchical regime.[ ] de tocqueville "clearly designates  ... the cultural effects of transformation in the forms of the exercise of power".[ ] religion the french philosopher voltaire argued for religious tolerance, saying that "it does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that christians should tolerate each other. i, however, am going further: i say that we should regard all men as our brothers. what? the turk my brother? the chinaman my brother? the jew? the siam? yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same god?"[ ] enlightenment era religious commentary was a response to the preceding century of religious conflict in europe, especially the thirty years' war.[ ] theologians of the enlightenment wanted to reform their faith to its generally non-confrontational roots and to limit the capacity for religious controversy to spill over into politics and warfare while still maintaining a true faith in god. for moderate christians, this meant a return to simple scripture. john locke abandoned the corpus of theological commentary in favor of an "unprejudiced examination" of the word of god alone. he determined the essence of christianity to be a belief in christ the redeemer and recommended avoiding more detailed debate.[ ] in the jefferson bible, thomas jefferson went further and dropped any passages dealing with miracles, visitations of angels and the resurrection of jesus after his death, as he tried to extract the practical christian moral code of the new testament.[ ] enlightenment scholars sought to curtail the political power of organized religion and thereby prevent another age of intolerant religious war.[ ] spinoza determined to remove politics from contemporary and historical theology (e.g., disregarding judaic law).[ ] moses mendelssohn advised affording no political weight to any organized religion, but instead recommended that each person follow what they found most convincing.[ ] they believed a good religion based in instinctive morals and a belief in god should not theoretically need force to maintain order in its believers, and both mendelssohn and spinoza judged religion on its moral fruits, not the logic of its theology.[ ] a number of novel ideas about religion developed with the enlightenment, including deism and talk of atheism. according to thomas paine, deism is the simple belief in god the creator, with no reference to the bible or any other miraculous source. instead, the deist relies solely on personal reason to guide his creed,[ ] which was eminently agreeable to many thinkers of the time.[ ] atheism was much discussed, but there were few proponents. wilson and reill note: "in fact, very few enlightened intellectuals, even when they were vocal critics of christianity, were true atheists. rather, they were critics of orthodox belief, wedded rather to skepticism, deism, vitalism, or perhaps pantheism".[ ] some followed pierre bayle and argued that atheists could indeed be moral men.[ ] many others like voltaire held that without belief in a god who punishes evil, the moral order of society was undermined. that is, since atheists gave themselves to no supreme authority and no law and had no fear of eternal consequences, they were far more likely to disrupt society.[ ] bayle ( – ) observed that, in his day, "prudent persons will always maintain an appearance of [religion]," and he believed that even atheists could hold concepts of honor and go beyond their own self-interest to create and interact in society.[ ] locke said that if there were no god and no divine law, the result would be moral anarchy: every individual "could have no law but his own will, no end but himself. he would be a god to himself, and the satisfaction of his own will the sole measure and end of all his actions."[ ] separation of church and state main articles: separation of church and state and separation of church and state in the united states the "radical enlightenment"[ ][ ] promoted the concept of separating church and state,[ ] an idea that is often credited to english philosopher john locke ( – ).[ ] according to his principle of the social contract, locke said that the government lacked authority in the realm of individual conscience, as this was something rational people could not cede to the government for it or others to control. for locke, this created a natural right in the liberty of conscience, which he said must therefore remain protected from any government authority. these views on religious tolerance and the importance of individual conscience, along with the social contract, became particularly influential in the american colonies and the drafting of the united states constitution.[ ] thomas jefferson called for a "wall of separation between church and state" at the federal level. he previously had supported successful efforts to disestablish the church of england in virginia[ ] and authored the virginia statute for religious freedom.[ ] jefferson's political ideals were greatly influenced by the writings of john locke, francis bacon, and isaac newton,[ ] whom he considered the three greatest men that ever lived.[ ] national variations europe at the beginning of the war of the spanish succession, the enlightenment took hold in most european countries, often with a specific local emphasis. for example, in france it became associated with anti-government and anti-church radicalism, while in germany it reached deep into the middle classes, where it expressed a spiritualistic and nationalistic tone without threatening governments or established churches.[ ] government responses varied widely. in france, the government was hostile, and the philosophes fought against its censorship, sometimes being imprisoned or hounded into exile. the british government, for the most part, ignored the enlightenment's leaders in england and scotland, although it did give isaac newton a knighthood and a very lucrative government office. a common theme among most countries which derived enlightenment ideas from europe was the intentional non-inclusion of enlightenment philosophies pertaining to slavery. originally during the french revolution, a revolution deeply inspired by enlightenment philosophy, "france's revolutionary government had denounced slavery, but the property-holding 'revolutionaries' then remembered their bank accounts."[ ] slavery often showed the limitations of the enlightenment as it pertained to european countries since many european countries held colonies supported by slavery. for instance, during the haitian revolution england and the united states supported france "rather than giving aid to saint-domingue's anti-colonial struggle."[ ] great britain england further information: georgian era § english enlightenment the very existence of an english enlightenment has been hotly debated by scholars. the majority of textbooks on british history make little or no mention of an english enlightenment. some surveys of the entire enlightenment include england and others ignore it, although they do include coverage of such major intellectuals as joseph addison, edward gibbon, john locke, isaac newton, alexander pope, joshua reynolds and jonathan swift.[ ] roy porter argues that the reasons for this neglect were the assumptions that the movement was primarily french-inspired, that it was largely a-religious or anti-clerical, and that it stood in outspoken defiance to the established order.[ ] porter admits that, after the s, england could claim thinkers to equal diderot, voltaire or rousseau. however, its leading intellectuals such as edward gibbon,[ ] edmund burke and samuel johnson were all quite conservative and supportive of the standing order. porter says the reason was that enlightenment had come early to england and had succeeded so that the culture had accepted political liberalism, philosophical empiricism, and religious toleration of the sort that intellectuals on the continent had to fight for against powerful odds. furthermore, england rejected the collectivism of the continent and emphasized the improvement of individuals as the main goal of enlightenment.[ ] one leader of the scottish enlightenment was adam smith, the father of modern economic science scotland further information: scottish enlightenment in the scottish enlightenment, scotland's major cities created an intellectual infrastructure of mutually supporting institutions such as universities, reading societies, libraries, periodicals, museums and masonic lodges.[ ] the scottish network was "predominantly liberal calvinist, newtonian, and 'design' oriented in character which played a major role in the further development of the transatlantic enlightenment".[ ] in france, voltaire said that "we look to scotland for all our ideas of civilization".[ ] the focus of the scottish enlightenment ranged from intellectual and economic matters to the specifically scientific as in the work of william cullen, physician and chemist; james anderson, an agronomist; joseph black, physicist and chemist; and james hutton, the first modern geologist.[ ][ ] anglo-american colonies further information: american enlightenment john trumbull's declaration of independence imagines the drafting committee presenting its work to the congress several americans, especially benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson, played a major role in bringing enlightenment ideas to the new world and in influencing british and french thinkers.[ ] franklin was influential for his political activism and for his advances in physics.[ ][ ] the cultural exchange during the age of enlightenment ran in both directions across the atlantic. thinkers such as paine, locke and rousseau all take native american cultural practices as examples of natural freedom.[ ] the americans closely followed english and scottish political ideas, as well as some french thinkers such as montesquieu.[ ] as deists, they were influenced by ideas of john toland ( – ) and matthew tindal ( – ). during the enlightenment there was a great emphasis upon liberty, republicanism and religious tolerance. there was no respect for monarchy or inherited political power. deists reconciled science and religion by rejecting prophecies, miracles and biblical theology. leading deists included thomas paine in the age of reason and by thomas jefferson in his short jefferson bible – from which all supernatural aspects were removed.[ ] german states further information: history of germany § enlightenment, and hymnody of continental europe § rationalism prussia took the lead among the german states in sponsoring the political reforms that enlightenment thinkers urged absolute rulers to adopt. there were important movements as well in the smaller states of bavaria, saxony, hanover and the palatinate. in each case, enlightenment values became accepted and led to significant political and administrative reforms that laid the groundwork for the creation of modern states.[ ] the princes of saxony, for example, carried out an impressive series of fundamental fiscal, administrative, judicial, educational, cultural and general economic reforms. the reforms were aided by the country's strong urban structure and influential commercial groups and modernized pre- saxony along the lines of classic enlightenment principles.[ ][ ] weimar's courtyard of the muses by theobald von oer, a tribute to the enlightenment and the weimar classicism depicting german poets schiller, wieland, herder and goethe before , the german upper classes looked to france for intellectual, cultural and architectural leadership, as french was the language of high society. by the mid- th century, the aufklärung (the enlightenment) had transformed german high culture in music, philosophy, science and literature. christian wolff ( – ) was the pioneer as a writer who expounded the enlightenment to german readers and legitimized german as a philosophic language.[ ] johann gottfried von herder ( – ) broke new ground in philosophy and poetry, as a leader of the sturm und drang movement of proto-romanticism. weimar classicism (weimarer klassik) was a cultural and literary movement based in weimar that sought to establish a new humanism by synthesizing romantic, classical and enlightenment ideas. the movement (from until ) involved herder as well as polymath johann wolfgang von goethe ( – ) and friedrich schiller ( – ), a poet and historian. herder argued that every folk had its own particular identity, which was expressed in its language and culture. this legitimized the promotion of german language and culture and helped shape the development of german nationalism. schiller's plays expressed the restless spirit of his generation, depicting the hero's struggle against social pressures and the force of destiny.[ ] german music, sponsored by the upper classes, came of age under composers johann sebastian bach ( – ), joseph haydn ( – ) and wolfgang amadeus mozart ( – ).[ ] in remote königsberg, philosopher immanuel kant ( – ) tried to reconcile rationalism and religious belief, individual freedom and political authority. kant's work contained basic tensions that would continue to shape german thought – and indeed all of european philosophy – well into the th century.[ ] the german enlightenment won the support of princes, aristocrats and the middle classes and it permanently reshaped the culture.[ ] however, there was a conservatism among the elites that warned against going too far.[ ] in the s, lutheran ministers johann heinrich schulz and karl wilhelm brumbey got in trouble with their preaching as they were attacked and ridiculed by immanuel kant, wilhelm abraham teller and others. in , prussia issued an "edict on religion" that forbade preaching any sermon that undermined popular belief in the holy trinity and the bible. the goal was to avoid skepticism, deism and theological disputes that might impinge on domestic tranquility. men who doubted the value of enlightenment favoured the measure, but so too did many supporters. german universities had created a closed elite that could debate controversial issues among themselves, but spreading them to the public was seen as too risky. this intellectual elite was favoured by the state, but that might be reversed if the process of the enlightenment proved politically or socially destabilizing.[ ] italy the enlightenment played a distinctive, if small, role in the history of italy.[ ][ ] although most of italy was controlled by conservative habsburgs or the pope, tuscany had some opportunities for reform. leopold ii of tuscany abolished the death penalty in tuscany and reduced censorship. from naples, antonio genovesi ( – ) influenced a generation of southern italian intellectuals and university students. his textbook "diceosina, o sia della filosofia del giusto e dell'onesto" ( ) was a controversial attempt to mediate between the history of moral philosophy on the one hand and the specific problems encountered by th-century commercial society on the other. it contained the greater part of genovesi's political, philosophical and economic thought – guidebook for neapolitan economic and social development.[ ] science flourished as alessandro volta and luigi galvani made break-through discoveries in electricity. pietro verri was a leading economist in lombardy. historian joseph schumpeter states he was "the most important pre-smithian authority on cheapness-and-plenty".[ ] the most influential scholar on the italian enlightenment has been franco venturi.[ ][ ] italy also produced some of the enlightenment's greatest legal theorists, including cesare beccaria, giambattista vico and francesco mario pagano. beccaria in particular is now considered one of the fathers of classical criminal theory as well as modern penology.[ ] beccaria is famous for his masterpiece on crimes and punishments ( ), a treatise (later translated into languages) that served as one of the earliest prominent condemnations of torture and the death penalty and thus a landmark work in anti-death penalty philosophy.[ ] spain and spanish america main articles: enlightenment in spain and spanish american enlightenment spanish constitution of when charles ii the last spanish hapsburg monarch died in , it touched out a major european conflict about succession and the fate of spain and the spanish empire. the war of the spanish succession ( - ) brought bourbon prince philip, duke of anjou to the throne of spain as philip v. under the treaty of utrecht, the french and the spanish bourbons could not unite, with philip renouncing any rights to the french throne. the political restriction did not impede strong french influence of the age of enlightenment on spain, the spanish monarchs, the spanish empire.[ ][ ] philip did not come into effective power until and began implementing administrative reforms to try to stop the decline of the spanish empire. under charles iii, the crown began to implement serious structural changes, generally known as the bourbon reforms. the crown curtailed the power of the catholic church and the clergy, established a standing military in spanish america, established new viceroyalties and reorganized administrative districts into intendancies. freer trade was promoted under comercio libre in which regions could trade with companies sailing from any other spanish port, rather than the restrictive mercantile system limiting trade. the crown sent out scientific expeditions to assert spanish sovereignty over territories it claimed but did not control, but also importantly to discover the economic potential of its far-flung empire. botanical expeditions sought plants that could be of use to the empire.[ ] one of the best acts by charles iv, a monarch not notable for his good judgment, was to give prussian scientist, baron alexander von humboldt, free rein to travel and gather information about the spanish empire during his five-year, self-funded expedition. crown officials were to aid humboldt in any way they could, so that he was able to get access to expert information. given that spain’s empire was closed to foreigners, humboldt's unfettered access is quite remarkable. his observations of new spain, published as the political essay on the kingdom of new spain remains an important scientific and historical text.[ ] when napoleon invaded spain in , ferdinand vii abdicated and napoleon placed his brother joseph bonaparte on the throne. to add legitimacy to this move, the bayonne constitution was promulgated, which included representation from spain's overseas components, but most spaniards rejected the whole napoleonic project. a war of national resistance erupted. the cortes de cádiz (parliament) was convened to rule spain in the absence of the legitimate monarch, ferdinand. it created a new governing document, the constitution of , which laid out three branches of government: executive, legislative, and judicial, put limits on the king by creating a constitutional monarchy, defined citizens as those in the spanish empire without african ancestry, established universal manhood suffrage, and established public education starting with primary school through university as well as freedom of expression. the constitution was in effect from until , when napoleon was defeated and ferdinand was restored to the throne of spain. upon his return, ferdinand repudiated the constitution and reestablished absolutist rule.[ ] the french invasion of spain sparked a crisis of legitimacy of rule in spanish america, with many regions establishing juntas to rule in the name of ferdinand vii. most of spanish america fought for independence, leaving only cuba and puerto rico, as well as the philippines as overseas components of the spanish empire. all of newly independent and sovereign nations became republics by , with written constitutions. mexico's brief post-independence monarchy was overthrown and replaced by a federal republic under the constitution of , inspired by both the u.s. and spanish constitutions. portugal main article: history of portugal ( – ) the enlightenment in portugal (iluminismo) was marked by the rule of the prime minister marquis of pombal under king joseph i of portugal from to . following the lisbon earthquake which destroyed great part of lisbon, the marquis of pombal implemented important economic policies to regulate commercial activity (in particular with brazil and england), and to standardise quality throughout the country (for example by introducing the first integrated industries in portugal). his reconstruction of lisbon's riverside district in straight and perpendicular streets, methodically organized to facilitate commerce and exchange (for example by assigning to each street a different product or service), can be seen as a direct application of the enlightenment ideas to governance and urbanism. his urbanistic ideas, also being the first large-scale example of earthquake engineering, became collectively known as pombaline style, and were implemented throughout the kingdom during his stay in office. his governance was as enlightened as ruthless, see for example the távora affair. in literature, the first enlightenment ideas in portugal can be traced back to the diplomat, philosopher, and writer antónio vieira ( - )[citation needed], who spent a considerable amount of his life in colonial brazil denouncing discriminations against new christians and the indigenous peoples in brazil. his works remain today as one of the best pieces of portuguese literature[citation needed]. during the th century, enlightened literary movements such as the arcádia lusitana (lasting from until , then replaced by the nova arcádia in until ) surfaced in the academic medium, in particular involving former students of the university of coimbra. a distinct member of this group was the poet manuel maria barbosa du bocage. the ideas of the enlightenment also influenced various economists and anti-colonial intellectuals throughout the portuguese empire, such as josé de azeredo coutinho, josé da silva lisboa, cláudio manoel da costa, and tomás de antônio gonzaga. as with the napoleonic invasion of spain, his invasion of portugal had consequences for the portuguese monarchy. with the aid of the british navy, the portuguese royal family was evacuated to brazil, its most important colony. even though napoleon had been defeated, the royal court remained in brazil. the liberal revolution of forced the return of the royal family to portugal. the terms by which the restored king was to rule was a constitutional monarchy under the constitution of portugal. brazil declared its independence of portugal in , and became a monarchy. russia in russia, the government began to actively encourage the proliferation of arts and sciences in the mid- th century. this era produced the first russian university, library, theatre, public museum and independent press. like other enlightened despots, catherine the great played a key role in fostering the arts, sciences and education. she used her own interpretation of enlightenment ideals, assisted by notable international experts such as voltaire (by correspondence) and in residence world class scientists such as leonhard euler and peter simon pallas. the national enlightenment differed from its western european counterpart in that it promoted further modernization of all aspects of russian life and was concerned with attacking the institution of serfdom in russia. the russian enlightenment centered on the individual instead of societal enlightenment and encouraged the living of an enlightened life.[ ][ ] a powerful element was prosveshchenie which combined religious piety, erudition and commitment to the spread of learning. however, it lacked the skeptical and critical spirit of the western european enlightenment.[ ] poland constitution of may, , europe's first modern constitution main article: enlightenment in poland enlightenment ideas (oświecenie) emerged late in poland, as the polish middle class was weaker and szlachta (nobility) culture (sarmatism) together with the polish–lithuanian commonwealth political system (golden liberty) were in deep crisis. the political system was built on republicanism, but was unable to defend itself against powerful neighbors russia, prussia and austria as they repeatedly sliced off regions until nothing was left of independent poland. the period of polish enlightenment began in the s– s and especially in theatre and the arts peaked in the reign of king stanisław august poniatowski (second half of the th century). warsaw was a main centre after , with an expansion of schools and educational institutions and the arts patronage held at the royal castle.[ ] leaders promoted tolerance and more education. they included king stanislaw ii poniatowski and reformers piotr switkowski, antoni poplawski, josef niemcewicz and jósef pawlinkowski, as well as baudouin de cortenay, a polonized dramatist. opponents included florian jaroszewicz, gracjan piotrowski, karol wyrwicz and wojciech skarszewski.[ ] the movement went into decline with the third partition of poland ( ) – a national tragedy inspiring a short period of sentimental writing – and ended in , replaced by romanticism.[ ] historiography the enlightenment has always been contested territory. according to keith thomas, its supporters "hail it as the source of everything that is progressive about the modern world. for them, it stands for freedom of thought, rational inquiry, critical thinking, religious tolerance, political liberty, scientific achievement, the pursuit of happiness, and hope for the future."[ ] thomas adds that its detractors accuse it of shallow rationalism, naïve optimism, unrealistic universalism and moral darkness. from the start, conservative and clerical defenders of traditional religion attacked materialism and skepticism as evil forces that encouraged immorality. by , they pointed to the terror during the french revolution as confirmation of their predictions. as the enlightenment was ending, romantic philosophers argued that excessive dependence on reason was a mistake perpetuated by the enlightenment because it disregarded the bonds of history, myth, faith, and tradition that were necessary to hold society together.[ ] definition the term "enlightenment" emerged in english in the later part of the th century,[ ] with particular reference to french philosophy, as the equivalent of the french term lumières (used first by dubos in and already well established by ). from immanuel kant's essay "beantwortung der frage: was ist aufklärung?" ("answering the question: what is enlightenment?"), the german term became aufklärung (aufklären = to illuminate; sich aufklären = to clear up). however, scholars have never agreed on a definition of the enlightenment, or on its chronological or geographical extent. terms like les lumières (french), illuminismo (italian), ilustración (spanish) and aufklärung (german) referred to partly overlapping movements. not until the late nineteenth century did english scholars agree they were talking about "the enlightenment".[ ][ ] if there is something you know, communicate it. if there is something you don't know, search for it.— an engraving from the edition of the encyclopédie; truth, in the top center, is surrounded by light and unveiled by the figures to the right, philosophy and reason enlightenment historiography began in the period itself, from what enlightenment figures said about their work. a dominant element was the intellectual angle they took. d'alembert's preliminary discourse of l'encyclopédie provides a history of the enlightenment which comprises a chronological list of developments in the realm of knowledge – of which the encyclopédie forms the pinnacle.[ ] in , jewish philosopher moses mendelssohn referred to enlightenment as a process by which man was educated in the use of reason.[ ] immanuel kant called enlightenment "man's release from his self-incurred tutelage", tutelage being "man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another".[ ] "for kant, enlightenment was mankind's final coming of age, the emancipation of the human consciousness from an immature state of ignorance".[ ] the german scholar ernst cassirer called the enlightenment "a part and a special phase of that whole intellectual development through which modern philosophic thought gained its characteristic self-confidence and self-consciousness".[ ] according to historian roy porter, the liberation of the human mind from a dogmatic state of ignorance, is the epitome of what the age of enlightenment was trying to capture.[ ] bertrand russell saw the enlightenment as a phase in a progressive development which began in antiquity and that reason and challenges to the established order were constant ideals throughout that time.[ ] russell said that the enlightenment was ultimately born out of the protestant reaction against the catholic counter-reformation and that philosophical views such as affinity for democracy against monarchy originated among th-century protestants to justify their desire to break away from the catholic church. although many of these philosophical ideals were picked up by catholics, russell argues that by the th century the enlightenment was the principal manifestation of the schism that began with martin luther.[ ] jonathan israel rejects the attempts of postmodern and marxian historians to understand the revolutionary ideas of the period purely as by-products of social and economic transformations.[ ] he instead focuses on the history of ideas in the period from to the end of the th century and claims that it was the ideas themselves that caused the change that eventually led to the revolutions of the latter half of the th century and the early th century.[ ] israel argues that until the s western civilization "was based on a largely shared core of faith, tradition and authority".[ ] time span there is little consensus on the precise beginning of the age of enlightenment, though several historians and philosophers argue that it was marked by descartes' philosophy of cogito, ergo sum ("i think, therefore i am"), which shifted the epistemological basis from external authority to internal certainty.[ ][ ][ ] in france, many cited the publication of isaac newton's principia mathematica ( ),[ ] which built upon the work of earlier scientists and formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation.[ ] the middle of the th century ( ) or the beginning of the th century ( ) are often used as epochs.[citation needed] french historians usually place the siècle des lumières ("century of enlightenments") between and : from the beginning of the reign of louis xv until the french revolution.[ ] most scholars use the last years of the century, often choosing the french revolution of or the beginning of the napoleonic wars ( – ) as a convenient point in time with which to date the end of the enlightenment.[ ] modern study in the book dialectic of enlightenment, frankfurt school philosophers max horkheimer and theodor w. adorno argued: enlightenment, understood in the widest sense as the advance of thought, has always aimed at liberating human beings from fear and installing them as masters. yet the wholly enlightened earth radiates under the sign of disaster triumphant.[ ] extending horkheimer and adorno's argument, intellectual historian jason josephson-storm has argued that any idea of the age of enlightenment as a clearly defined period that is separate from the earlier renaissance and later romanticism or counter-enlightenment constitutes a myth. josephson-storm points out that there are vastly different and mutually contradictory periodizations of the enlightenment depending on nation, field of study, and school of thought; that the term and category of "enlightenment" referring to the scientific revolution was actually applied after the fact; that the enlightenment did not see an increase in disenchantment or the dominance of the mechanistic worldview; and that a blur in the early modern ideas of the humanities and natural sciences makes it hard to circumscribe a scientific revolution.[ ] josephson-storm defends his categorization of the enlightenment as "myth" by noting the regulative role ideas of a period of enlightenment and disenchantment play in modern western culture, such that belief in magic, spiritualism, and even religion appears somewhat taboo in intellectual strata.[ ] in the s, study of the enlightenment expanded to include the ways enlightenment ideas spread to european colonies and how they interacted with indigenous cultures and how the enlightenment took place in formerly unstudied areas such as italy, greece, the balkans, poland, hungary and russia.[ ] intellectuals such as robert darnton and jürgen habermas have focused on the social conditions of the enlightenment. habermas described the creation of the "bourgeois public sphere" in th-century europe, containing the new venues and modes of communication allowing for rational exchange. habermas said that the public sphere was bourgeois, egalitarian, rational and independent from the state, making it the ideal venue for intellectuals to critically examine contemporary politics and society, away from the interference of established authority. while the public sphere is generally an integral component of the social study of the enlightenment, other historians[note ] have questioned whether the public sphere had these characteristics. society and culture a medal minted during the reign of joseph ii, holy roman emperor, commemorating his grant of religious liberty to jews and protestants in hungary—another important reform of joseph ii was the abolition of serfdom in contrast to the intellectual historiographical approach of the enlightenment, which examines the various currents or discourses of intellectual thought within the european context during the th and th centuries, the cultural (or social) approach examines the changes that occurred in european society and culture. this approach studies the process of changing sociabilities and cultural practices during the enlightenment. one of the primary elements of the culture of the enlightenment was the rise of the public sphere, a "realm of communication marked by new arenas of debate, more open and accessible forms of urban public space and sociability, and an explosion of print culture", in the late th century and th century.[ ] elements of the public sphere included that it was egalitarian, that it discussed the domain of "common concern," and that argument was founded on reason.[ ] habermas uses the term "common concern" to describe those areas of political/social knowledge and discussion that were previously the exclusive territory of the state and religious authorities, now open to critical examination by the public sphere. the values of this bourgeois public sphere included holding reason to be supreme, considering everything to be open to criticism (the public sphere is critical), and the opposition of secrecy of all sorts.[ ] german explorer alexander von humboldt showed his disgust for slavery and often criticized the colonial policies—he always acted out of a deeply humanistic conviction, borne by the ideas of the enlightenment.[ ] the creation of the public sphere has been associated with two long-term historical trends: the rise of the modern nation state and the rise of capitalism. the modern nation state, in its consolidation of public power, created by counterpoint a private realm of society independent of the state, which allowed for the public sphere. capitalism also increased society's autonomy and self-awareness, as well as an increasing need for the exchange of information. as the nascent public sphere expanded, it embraced a large variety of institutions and the most commonly cited were coffee houses and cafés, salons and the literary public sphere, figuratively localized in the republic of letters.[ ] in france, the creation of the public sphere was helped by the aristocracy's move from the king's palace at versailles to paris in about , since their rich spending stimulated the trade in luxuries and artistic creations, especially fine paintings.[ ] the context for the rise of the public sphere was the economic and social change commonly associated with the industrial revolution: "economic expansion, increasing urbanization, rising population and improving communications in comparison to the stagnation of the previous century".[ ] rising efficiency in production techniques and communication lowered the prices of consumer goods and increased the amount and variety of goods available to consumers (including the literature essential to the public sphere). meanwhile, the colonial experience (most european states had colonial empires in the th century) began to expose european society to extremely heterogeneous cultures, leading to the breaking down of "barriers between cultural systems, religious divides, gender differences and geographical areas".[ ] the word "public" implies the highest level of inclusivity – the public sphere by definition should be open to all. however, this sphere was only public to relative degrees. enlightenment thinkers frequently contrasted their conception of the "public" with that of the people: condorcet contrasted "opinion" with populace, marmontel "the opinion of men of letters" with "the opinion of the multitude" and d'alembert the "truly enlightened public" with "the blind and noisy multitude".[ ] additionally, most institutions of the public sphere excluded both women and the lower classes.[ ] cross-class influences occurred through noble and lower class participation in areas such as the coffeehouses and the masonic lodges. social and cultural implications in the arts because of the focus on reason over superstition, the enlightenment cultivated the arts.[ ] emphasis on learning, art and music became more widespread, especially with the growing middle class. areas of study such as literature, philosophy, science, and the fine arts increasingly explored subject matter to which the general public, in addition to the previously more segregated professionals and patrons, could relate.[ ] george frideric handel as musicians depended more and more on public support, public concerts became increasingly popular and helped supplement performers' and composers' incomes. the concerts also helped them to reach a wider audience. handel, for example, epitomized this with his highly public musical activities in london. he gained considerable fame there with performances of his operas and oratorios. the music of haydn and mozart, with their viennese classical styles, are usually regarded as being the most in line with the enlightenment ideals.[ ] the desire to explore, record and systematize knowledge had a meaningful impact on music publications. jean-jacques rousseau's dictionnaire de musique (published in geneva and in paris) was a leading text in the late th century.[ ] this widely available dictionary gave short definitions of words like genius and taste and was clearly influenced by the enlightenment movement. another text influenced by enlightenment values was charles burney's a general history of music: from the earliest ages to the present period ( ), which was a historical survey and an attempt to rationalize elements in music systematically over time.[ ] recently, musicologists have shown renewed interest in the ideas and consequences of the enlightenment. for example, rose rosengard subotnik's deconstructive variations (subtitled music and reason in western society) compares mozart's die zauberflöte ( ) using the enlightenment and romantic perspectives and concludes that the work is "an ideal musical representation of the enlightenment".[ ] as the economy and the middle class expanded, there was an increasing number of amateur musicians. one manifestation of this involved women, who became more involved with music on a social level. women were already engaged in professional roles as singers and increased their presence in the amateur performers' scene, especially with keyboard music.[ ] music publishers begin to print music that amateurs could understand and play. the majority of the works that were published were for keyboard, voice and keyboard and chamber ensemble.[ ] after these initial genres were popularized, from the mid-century on, amateur groups sang choral music, which then became a new trend for publishers to capitalize on. the increasing study of the fine arts, as well as access to amateur-friendly published works, led to more people becoming interested in reading and discussing music. music magazines, reviews and critical works which suited amateurs as well as connoisseurs began to surface.[ ] dissemination of ideas the philosophes spent a great deal of energy disseminating their ideas among educated men and women in cosmopolitan cities. they used many venues, some of them quite new. french philosopher pierre bayle the republic of letters main article: republic of letters the term "republic of letters" was coined in by pierre bayle in his journal nouvelles de la republique des lettres. towards the end of the th century, the editor of histoire de la république des lettres en france, a literary survey, described the republic of letters as being: in the midst of all the governments that decide the fate of men; in the bosom of so many states, the majority of them despotic ... there exists a certain realm which holds sway only over the mind ... that we honour with the name republic, because it preserves a measure of independence, and because it is almost its essence to be free. it is the realm of talent and of thought.[ ] the republic of letters was the sum of a number of enlightenment ideals: an egalitarian realm governed by knowledge that could act across political boundaries and rival state power.[ ] it was a forum that supported "free public examination of questions regarding religion or legislation".[ ] immanuel kant considered written communication essential to his conception of the public sphere; once everyone was a part of the "reading public", then society could be said to be enlightened.[ ] the people who participated in the republic of letters, such as diderot and voltaire, are frequently known today as important enlightenment figures. indeed, the men who wrote diderot's encyclopédie arguably formed a microcosm of the larger "republic".[ ] front page of the gentleman's magazine, january many women played an essential part in the french enlightenment, due to the role they played as salonnières in parisian salons, as the contrast to the male philosophes. the salon was the principal social institution of the republic[ ] and "became the civil working spaces of the project of enlightenment". women, as salonnières, were "the legitimate governors of [the] potentially unruly discourse" that took place within.[ ] while women were marginalized in the public culture of the old regime, the french revolution destroyed the old cultural and economic restraints of patronage and corporatism (guilds), opening french society to female participation, particularly in the literary sphere.[ ] in france, the established men of letters (gens de lettres) had fused with the elites (les grands) of french society by the mid- th century. this led to the creation of an oppositional literary sphere, grub street, the domain of a "multitude of versifiers and would-be authors".[ ] these men came to london to become authors, only to discover that the literary market simply could not support large numbers of writers, who in any case were very poorly remunerated by the publishing-bookselling guilds.[ ] the writers of grub street, the grub street hacks, were left feeling bitter about the relative success of the men of letters[ ] and found an outlet for their literature which was typified by the libelle. written mostly in the form of pamphlets, the libelles "slandered the court, the church, the aristocracy, the academies, the salons, everything elevated and respectable, including the monarchy itself".[ ] le gazetier cuirassé by charles théveneau de morande was a prototype of the genre. it was grub street literature that was most read by the public during the enlightenment.[ ] according to darnton, more importantly the grub street hacks inherited the "revolutionary spirit" once displayed by the philosophes and paved the way for the french revolution by desacralizing figures of political, moral and religious authority in france.[ ] the book industry estc data – by decade given with a regional differentiation the increased consumption of reading materials of all sorts was one of the key features of the "social" enlightenment. developments in the industrial revolution allowed consumer goods to be produced in greater quantities at lower prices, encouraging the spread of books, pamphlets, newspapers and journals – "media of the transmission of ideas and attitudes". commercial development likewise increased the demand for information, along with rising populations and increased urbanisation.[ ] however, demand for reading material extended outside of the realm of the commercial and outside the realm of the upper and middle classes, as evidenced by the bibliothèque bleue. literacy rates are difficult to gauge, but in france the rates doubled over the course of the th century.[ ] reflecting the decreasing influence of religion, the number of books about science and art published in paris doubled from to , while the number of books about religion dropped to just one-tenth of the total.[ ] reading underwent serious changes in the th century. in particular, rolf engelsing has argued for the existence of a reading revolution. until , reading was done intensively: people tended to own a small number of books and read them repeatedly, often to small audience. after , people began to read "extensively", finding as many books as they could, increasingly reading them alone.[ ] this is supported by increasing literacy rates, particularly among women.[ ] the vast majority of the reading public could not afford to own a private library and while most of the state-run "universal libraries" set up in the th and th centuries were open to the public, they were not the only sources of reading material. on one end of the spectrum was the bibliothèque bleue, a collection of cheaply produced books published in troyes, france. intended for a largely rural and semi-literate audience these books included almanacs, retellings of medieval romances and condensed versions of popular novels, among other things. while some historians have argued against the enlightenment's penetration into the lower classes, the bibliothèque bleue represents at least a desire to participate in enlightenment sociability.[ ] moving up the classes, a variety of institutions offered readers access to material without needing to buy anything. libraries that lent out their material for a small price started to appear and occasionally bookstores would offer a small lending library to their patrons. coffee houses commonly offered books, journals and sometimes even popular novels to their customers. the tatler and the spectator, two influential periodicals sold from to , were closely associated with coffee house culture in london, being both read and produced in various establishments in the city.[ ] this is an example of the triple or even quadruple function of the coffee house: reading material was often obtained, read, discussed and even produced on the premises.[ ] denis diderot is best known as the editor of the encyclopédie it is extremely difficult to determine what people actually read during the enlightenment. for example, examining the catalogs of private libraries gives an image skewed in favor of the classes wealthy enough to afford libraries and also ignores censored works unlikely to be publicly acknowledged. for this reason, a study of publishing would be much more fruitful for discerning reading habits.[ ] across continental europe, but in france especially, booksellers and publishers had to negotiate censorship laws of varying strictness. for example, the encyclopédie narrowly escaped seizure and had to be saved by malesherbes, the man in charge of the french censor. indeed, many publishing companies were conveniently located outside france so as to avoid overzealous french censors. they would smuggle their merchandise across the border, where it would then be transported to clandestine booksellers or small-time peddlers.[ ] the records of clandestine booksellers may give a better representation of what literate frenchmen might have truly read, since their clandestine nature provided a less restrictive product choice.[ ] in one case, political books were the most popular category, primarily libels and pamphlets. readers were more interested in sensationalist stories about criminals and political corruption than they were in political theory itself. the second most popular category, "general works" (those books "that did not have a dominant motif and that contained something to offend almost everyone in authority"), demonstrated a high demand for generally low-brow subversive literature. however, these works never became part of literary canon and are largely forgotten today as a result.[ ] a healthy, legal publishing industry existed throughout europe, although established publishers and book sellers occasionally ran afoul of the law. for example, the encyclopédie condemned not only by the king, but also by clement xii, nevertheless found its way into print with the help of the aforementioned malesherbes and creative use of french censorship law.[ ] however, many works were sold without running into any legal trouble at all. borrowing records from libraries in england, germany, and north america indicate that more than  percent of books borrowed were novels. less than  percent of the books were of a religious nature, indicating the general trend of declining religiosity.[ ] natural history georges buffon is best remembered for his histoire naturelle, a volume encyclopedia describing everything known about the natural world main article: natural history a genre that greatly rose in importance was that of scientific literature. natural history in particular became increasingly popular among the upper classes. works of natural history include rené-antoine ferchault de réaumur's histoire naturelle des insectes and jacques gautier d'agoty's la myologie complète, ou description de tous les muscles du corps humain ( ). outside ancien régime france, natural history was an important part of medicine and industry, encompassing the fields of botany, zoology, meteorology, hydrology and mineralogy. students in enlightenment universities and academies were taught these subjects to prepare them for careers as diverse as medicine and theology. as shown by matthew daniel eddy, natural history in this context was a very middle class pursuit and operated as a fertile trading zone for the interdisciplinary exchange of diverse scientific ideas.[ ] the target audience of natural history was french polite society, evidenced more by the specific discourse of the genre than by the generally high prices of its works. naturalists catered to polite society's desire for erudition – many texts had an explicit instructive purpose. however, natural history was often a political affair. as emma spary writes, the classifications used by naturalists "slipped between the natural world and the social ... to establish not only the expertise of the naturalists over the natural, but also the dominance of the natural over the social".[ ] the idea of taste (le goût) was a social indicator: to truly be able to categorize nature, one had to have the proper taste, an ability of discretion shared by all members of polite society. in this way natural history spread many of the scientific developments of the time, but also provided a new source of legitimacy for the dominant class.[ ] from this basis, naturalists could then develop their own social ideals based on their scientific works.[ ] scientific and literary journals journal des sçavans was the earliest academic journal published in europe the first scientific and literary journals were established during the enlightenment. the first journal, the parisian journal des sçavans, appeared in . however, it was not until that periodicals began to be more widely produced. french and latin were the dominant languages of publication, but there was also a steady demand for material in german and dutch. there was generally low demand for english publications on the continent, which was echoed by england's similar lack of desire for french works. languages commanding less of an international market—such as danish, spanish and portuguese—found journal success more difficult and more often than not a more international language was used instead. french slowly took over latin's status as the lingua franca of learned circles. this in turn gave precedence to the publishing industry in holland, where the vast majority of these french language periodicals were produced.[ ] jonathan israel called the journals the most influential cultural innovation of european intellectual culture.[ ] they shifted the attention of the "cultivated public" away from established authorities to novelty and innovation and instead promoted the "enlightened" ideals of toleration and intellectual objectivity. being a source of knowledge derived from science and reason, they were an implicit critique of existing notions of universal truth monopolized by monarchies, parliaments and religious authorities. they also advanced christian enlightenment that upheld "the legitimacy of god-ordained authority"—the bible—in which there had to be agreement between the biblical and natural theories.[ ] encyclopedias and dictionaries first page of the encyclopedie, published between and although the existence of dictionaries and encyclopedias spanned into ancient times, the texts changed from simply defining words in a long running list to far more detailed discussions of those words in th-century encyclopedic dictionaries.[ ] the works were part of an enlightenment movement to systematize knowledge and provide education to a wider audience than the elite. as the th century progressed, the content of encyclopedias also changed according to readers' tastes. volumes tended to focus more strongly on secular affairs, particularly science and technology, rather than matters of theology. along with secular matters, readers also favoured an alphabetical ordering scheme over cumbersome works arranged along thematic lines.[ ] commenting on alphabetization, the historian charles porset has said that "as the zero degree of taxonomy, alphabetical order authorizes all reading strategies; in this respect it could be considered an emblem of the enlightenment". for porset, the avoidance of thematic and hierarchical systems thus allows free interpretation of the works and becomes an example of egalitarianism.[ ] encyclopedias and dictionaries also became more popular during the age of enlightenment as the number of educated consumers who could afford such texts began to multiply.[ ] in the later half of the th century, the number of dictionaries and encyclopedias published by decade increased from between and to approximately in the decade proceeding the french revolution ( – ).[ ] along with growth in numbers, dictionaries and encyclopedias also grew in length, often having multiple print runs that sometimes included in supplemented editions.[ ] the first technical dictionary was drafted by john harris and entitled lexicon technicum: or, an universal english dictionary of arts and sciences. harris' book avoided theological and biographical entries and instead it concentrated on science and technology. published in , the lexicon technicum was the first book to be written in english that took a methodical approach to describing mathematics and commercial arithmetic along with the physical sciences and navigation. other technical dictionaries followed harris' model, including ephraim chambers' cyclopaedia ( ), which included five editions and was a substantially larger work than harris'. the folio edition of the work even included foldout engravings. the cyclopaedia emphasized newtonian theories, lockean philosophy and contained thorough examinations of technologies, such as engraving, brewing and dyeing. "figurative system of human knowledge", the structure that the encyclopédie organised knowledge into—it had three main branches: memory, reason and imagination in germany, practical reference works intended for the uneducated majority became popular in the th century. the marperger curieuses natur-, kunst-, berg-, gewerkund handlungs-lexicon ( ) explained terms that usefully described the trades and scientific and commercial education. jablonksi allgemeines lexicon ( ) was better known than the handlungs-lexicon and underscored technical subjects rather than scientific theory. for example, over five columns of text were dedicated to wine while geometry and logic were allocated only twenty-two and seventeen lines, respectively. the first edition of the encyclopædia britannica ( ) was modelled along the same lines as the german lexicons.[ ] however, the prime example of reference works that systematized scientific knowledge in the age of enlightenment were universal encyclopedias rather than technical dictionaries. it was the goal of universal encyclopedias to record all human knowledge in a comprehensive reference work.[ ] the most well-known of these works is denis diderot and jean le rond d'alembert's encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. the work, which began publication in , was composed of thirty-five volumes and over separate entries. a great number of the entries were dedicated to describing the sciences and crafts in detail and provided intellectuals across europe with a high-quality survey of human knowledge. in d'alembert's preliminary discourse to the encyclopedia of diderot, the work's goal to record the extent of human knowledge in the arts and sciences is outlined: as an encyclopédie, it is to set forth as well as possible the order and connection of the parts of human knowledge. as a reasoned dictionary of the sciences, arts, and trades, it is to contain the general principles that form the basis of each science and each art, liberal or mechanical, and the most essential facts that make up the body and substance of each.[ ] the massive work was arranged according to a "tree of knowledge". the tree reflected the marked division between the arts and sciences, which was largely a result of the rise of empiricism. both areas of knowledge were united by philosophy, or the trunk of the tree of knowledge. the enlightenment's desacrilization of religion was pronounced in the tree's design, particularly where theology accounted for a peripheral branch, with black magic as a close neighbour.[ ] as the encyclopédie gained popularity, it was published in quarto and octavo editions after . the quarto and octavo editions were much less expensive than previous editions, making the encyclopédie more accessible to the non-elite. robert darnton estimates that there were approximately copies of the encyclopédie in circulation throughout france and europe before the french revolution.[ ] the extensive, yet affordable encyclopedia came to represent the transmission of enlightenment and scientific education to an expanding audience.[ ] popularization of science one of the most important developments that the enlightenment era brought to the discipline of science was its popularization. an increasingly literate population seeking knowledge and education in both the arts and the sciences drove the expansion of print culture and the dissemination of scientific learning. the new literate population was due to a high rise in the availability of food. this enabled many people to rise out of poverty, and instead of paying more for food, they had money for education.[ ] popularization was generally part of an overarching enlightenment ideal that endeavoured "to make information available to the greatest number of people".[ ] as public interest in natural philosophy grew during the th century, public lecture courses and the publication of popular texts opened up new roads to money and fame for amateurs and scientists who remained on the periphery of universities and academies.[ ] more formal works included explanations of scientific theories for individuals lacking the educational background to comprehend the original scientific text. sir isaac newton's celebrated philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica was published in latin and remained inaccessible to readers without education in the classics until enlightenment writers began to translate and analyze the text in the vernacular. a portrait of bernard de fontenelle the first significant work that expressed scientific theory and knowledge expressly for the laity, in the vernacular and with the entertainment of readers in mind, was bernard de fontenelle's conversations on the plurality of worlds ( ). the book was produced specifically for women with an interest in scientific writing and inspired a variety of similar works.[ ] these popular works were written in a discursive style, which was laid out much more clearly for the reader than the complicated articles, treatises and books published by the academies and scientists. charles leadbetter's astronomy ( ) was advertised as "a work entirely new" that would include "short and easie [sic] rules and astronomical tables".[ ] the first french introduction to newtonianism and the principia was eléments de la philosophie de newton, published by voltaire in .[ ] Émilie du châtelet's translation of the principia, published after her death in , also helped to spread newton's theories beyond scientific academies and the university.[ ] writing for a growing female audience, francesco algarotti published il newtonianism per le dame, which was a tremendously popular work and was translated from italian into english by elizabeth carter. a similar introduction to newtonianism for women was produced by henry pemberton. his a view of sir isaac newton's philosophy was published by subscription. extant records of subscribers show that women from a wide range of social standings purchased the book, indicating the growing number of scientifically inclined female readers among the middling class.[ ] during the enlightenment, women also began producing popular scientific works themselves. sarah trimmer wrote a successful natural history textbook for children titled the easy introduction to the knowledge of nature ( ), which was published for many years after in eleven editions.[ ] schools and universities main article: education in the age of enlightenment most work on the enlightenment emphasizes the ideals discussed by intellectuals, rather than the actual state of education at the time. leading educational theorists like england's john locke and switzerland's jean jacques rousseau both emphasized the importance of shaping young minds early. by the late enlightenment, there was a rising demand for a more universal approach to education, particularly after the american and french revolutions. the predominant educational psychology from the s onward, especially in northern european countries was associationism, the notion that the mind associates or dissociates ideas through repeated routines. in addition to being conducive to enlightenment ideologies of liberty, self-determination and personal responsibility, it offered a practical theory of the mind that allowed teachers to transform longstanding forms of print and manuscript culture into effective graphic tools of learning for the lower and middle orders of society.[ ] children were taught to memorize facts through oral and graphic methods that originated during the renaissance.[ ] many of the leading universities associated with enlightenment progressive principles were located in northern europe, with the most renowned being the universities of leiden, göttingen, halle, montpellier, uppsala and edinburgh. these universities, especially edinburgh, produced professors whose ideas had a significant impact on britain's north american colonies and later the american republic. within the natural sciences, edinburgh's medical school also led the way in chemistry, anatomy and pharmacology.[ ] in other parts of europe, the universities and schools of france and most of europe were bastions of traditionalism and were not hospitable to the enlightenment. in france, the major exception was the medical university at montpellier.[ ] learned academies louis xiv visiting the académie des sciences in : "it is widely accepted that 'modern science' arose in the europe of the th century, introducing a new understanding of the natural world" — peter barrett[ ] the history of academies in france during the enlightenment begins with the academy of science, founded in in paris. it was closely tied to the french state, acting as an extension of a government seriously lacking in scientists. it helped promote and organize new disciplines and it trained new scientists. it also contributed to the enhancement of scientists' social status, considering them to be the "most useful of all citizens". academies demonstrate the rising interest in science along with its increasing secularization, as evidenced by the small number of clerics who were members ( percent).[ ] the presence of the french academies in the public sphere cannot be attributed to their membership, as although the majority of their members were bourgeois, the exclusive institution was only open to elite parisian scholars. they perceived themselves as "interpreters of the sciences for the people". for example, it was with this in mind that academicians took it upon themselves to disprove the popular pseudo-science of mesmerism.[ ] the strongest contribution of the french academies to the public sphere comes from the concours académiques (roughly translated as "academic contests") they sponsored throughout france. these academic contests were perhaps the most public of any institution during the enlightenment.[ ] the practice of contests dated back to the middle ages and was revived in the mid- th century. the subject matter had previously been generally religious and/or monarchical, featuring essays, poetry and painting. however, by roughly this subject matter had radically expanded and diversified, including "royal propaganda, philosophical battles, and critical ruminations on the social and political institutions of the old regime". topics of public controversy were also discussed such as the theories of newton and descartes, the slave trade, women's education and justice in france.[ ] antoine lavoisier conducting an experiment related to combustion generated by amplified sun light more importantly, the contests were open to all and the enforced anonymity of each submission guaranteed that neither gender nor social rank would determine the judging. indeed, although the "vast majority" of participants belonged to the wealthier strata of society ("the liberal arts, the clergy, the judiciary and the medical profession"), there were some cases of the popular classes submitting essays and even winning.[ ] similarly, a significant number of women participated—and won—the competitions. of a total of , prize competitions offered in france, women won —perhaps a small number by modern standards, but very significant in an age in which most women did not have any academic training. indeed, the majority of the winning entries were for poetry competitions, a genre commonly stressed in women's education.[ ] in england, the royal society of london also played a significant role in the public sphere and the spread of enlightenment ideas. it was founded by a group of independent scientists and given a royal charter in .[ ] the society played a large role in spreading robert boyle's experimental philosophy around europe and acted as a clearinghouse for intellectual correspondence and exchange.[ ] boyle was "a founder of the experimental world in which scientists now live and operate" and his method based knowledge on experimentation, which had to be witnessed to provide proper empirical legitimacy. this is where the royal society came into play: witnessing had to be a "collective act" and the royal society's assembly rooms were ideal locations for relatively public demonstrations.[ ] however, not just any witness was considered to be credible: "oxford professors were accounted more reliable witnesses than oxfordshire peasants". two factors were taken into account: a witness's knowledge in the area and a witness's "moral constitution". in other words, only civil society were considered for boyle's public.[ ] salons main article: historiography of the salon salons were places where philosophes were reunited and discussed old, actual or new ideas. this led to salons being the birthplace of intellectual and enlightened ideas. coffeehouses main articles: coffeehouse and english coffeehouses in the th and th centuries coffeehouses were especially important to the spread of knowledge during the enlightenment because they created a unique environment in which people from many different walks of life gathered and shared ideas. they were frequently criticized by nobles who feared the possibility of an environment in which class and its accompanying titles and privileges were disregarded. such an environment was especially intimidating to monarchs who derived much of their power from the disparity between classes of people. if classes were to join together under the influence of enlightenment thinking, they might recognize the all-encompassing oppression and abuses of their monarchs and because of their size might be able to carry out successful revolts. monarchs also resented the idea of their subjects convening as one to discuss political matters, especially those concerning foreign affairs—rulers thought political affairs to be their business only, a result of their supposed divine right to rule.[ ] coffeehouses represent a turning point in history during which people discovered that they could have enjoyable social lives within their communities. coffeeshops became homes away from home for many who sought, for the first time, to engage in discourse with their neighbors and discuss intriguing and thought-provoking matters, especially those regarding philosophy to politics. coffeehouses were essential to the enlightenment, for they were centers of free-thinking and self-discovery. although many coffeehouse patrons were scholars, a great deal were not. coffeehouses attracted a diverse set of people, including not only the educated wealthy but also members of the bourgeoisie and the lower class. while it may seem positive that patrons, being doctors, lawyers, merchants, etc. represented almost all classes, the coffeeshop environment sparked fear in those who sought to preserve class distinction. one of the most popular critiques of the coffeehouse claimed that it "allowed promiscuous association among people from different rungs of the social ladder, from the artisan to the aristocrat" and was therefore compared to noah's ark, receiving all types of animals, clean or unclean.[ ] this unique culture served as a catalyst for journalism when joseph addison and richard steele recognized its potential as an audience. together, steele and addison published the spectator ( ), a daily publication which aimed, through fictional narrator mr. spectator, both to entertain and to provoke discussion regarding serious philosophical matters. the first english coffeehouse opened in oxford in . brian cowan said that oxford coffeehouses developed into "penny universities", offering a locus of learning that was less formal than structured institutions. these penny universities occupied a significant position in oxford academic life, as they were frequented by those consequently referred to as the virtuosi, who conducted their research on some of the resulting premises. according to cowan, "the coffeehouse was a place for like-minded scholars to congregate, to read, as well as learn from and to debate with each other, but was emphatically not a university institution, and the discourse there was of a far different order than any university tutorial".[ ] the café procope was established in paris in and by the s there were around cafés in the city. the café procope in particular became a center of enlightenment, welcoming such celebrities as voltaire and rousseau. the café procope was where diderot and d'alembert decided to create the encyclopédie.[ ] the cafés were one of the various "nerve centers" for bruits publics, public noise or rumour. these bruits were allegedly a much better source of information than were the actual newspapers available at the time.[ ] debating societies main article: london debating societies the debating societies are an example of the public sphere during the enlightenment.[ ] their origins include: 	clubs of fifty or more men who, at the beginning of the th century, met in pubs to discuss religious issues and affairs of state. 	mooting clubs, set up by law students to practice rhetoric. 	spouting clubs, established to help actors train for theatrical roles. 	john henley's oratory, which mixed outrageous sermons with even more absurd questions, like "whether scotland be anywhere in the world?".[ ] an example of a french salon in the late s, popular debating societies began to move into more "genteel" rooms, a change which helped establish a new standard of sociability.[ ] the backdrop to these developments was "an explosion of interest in the theory and practice of public elocution". the debating societies were commercial enterprises that responded to this demand, sometimes very successfully. some societies welcomed from to , spectators a night.[ ] the debating societies discussed an extremely wide range of topics. before the enlightenment, most intellectual debates revolved around "confessional" – that is, catholic, lutheran, reformed (calvinist) or anglican issues and the main aim of these debates was to establish which bloc of faith ought to have the "monopoly of truth and a god-given title to authority".[ ] after this date, everything thus previously rooted in tradition was questioned and often replaced by new concepts in the light of philosophical reason. after the second half of the th century and during the th century, a "general process of rationalization and secularization set in" and confessional disputes were reduced to a secondary status in favor of the "escalating contest between faith and incredulity".[ ] in addition to debates on religion, societies discussed issues such as politics and the role of women. however, it is important to note that the critical subject matter of these debates did not necessarily translate into opposition to the government. in other words, the results of the debate quite frequently upheld the status quo.[ ] from a historical standpoint, one of the most important features of the debating society was their openness to the public, as women attended and even participated in almost every debating society, which were likewise open to all classes providing they could pay the entrance fee. once inside, spectators were able to participate in a largely egalitarian form of sociability that helped spread enlightenment ideas.[ ] masonic lodges masonic initiation ceremony historians have long debated the extent to which the secret network of freemasonry was a main factor in the enlightenment. the leaders of the enlightenment included freemasons such as diderot, montesquieu, voltaire, lessing, pope,[ ] horace walpole, sir robert walpole, mozart, goethe, frederick the great, benjamin franklin[ ] and george washington.[ ] norman davies said that freemasonry was a powerful force on behalf of liberalism in europe from about to the twentieth century. it expanded rapidly during the age of enlightenment, reaching practically every country in europe. it was especially attractive to powerful aristocrats and politicians as well as intellectuals, artists and political activists.[ ] during the age of enlightenment, freemasons comprised an international network of like-minded men, often meeting in secret in ritualistic programs at their lodges. they promoted the ideals of the enlightenment and helped diffuse these values across britain and france and other places. freemasonry as a systematic creed with its own myths, values and set of rituals originated in scotland around and spread first to england and then across the continent in the eighteenth century. they fostered new codes of conduct—including a communal understanding of liberty and equality inherited from guild sociability—"liberty, fraternity and equality".[ ] scottish soldiers and jacobite scots brought to the continent ideals of fraternity which reflected not the local system of scottish customs but the institutions and ideals originating in the english revolution against royal absolutism.[ ] freemasonry was particularly prevalent in france—by , there were perhaps as many as , french masons, making freemasonry the most popular of all enlightenment associations.[ ] the freemasons displayed a passion for secrecy and created new degrees and ceremonies. similar societies, partially imitating freemasonry, emerged in france, germany, sweden and russia. one example was the illuminati founded in bavaria in , which was copied after the freemasons, but was never part of the movement. the illuminati was an overtly political group, which most masonic lodges decidedly were not.[ ] masonic lodges created a private model for public affairs. they "reconstituted the polity and established a constitutional form of self-government, complete with constitutions and laws, elections and representatives". in other words, the micro-society set up within the lodges constituted a normative model for society as a whole. this was especially true on the continent: when the first lodges began to appear in the s, their embodiment of british values was often seen as threatening by state authorities. for example, the parisian lodge that met in the mid s was composed of english jacobite exiles.[ ] furthermore, freemasons all across europe explicitly linked themselves to the enlightenment as a whole. for example, in french lodges the line "as the means to be enlightened i search for the enlightened" was a part of their initiation rites. british lodges assigned themselves the duty to "initiate the unenlightened". this did not necessarily link lodges to the irreligious, but neither did this exclude them from the occasional heresy. in fact, many lodges praised the grand architect, the masonic terminology for the deistic divine being who created a scientifically ordered universe.[ ] german historian reinhart koselleck claimed: "on the continent there were two social structures that left a decisive imprint on the age of enlightenment: the republic of letters and the masonic lodges".[ ] scottish professor thomas munck argues that "although the masons did promote international and cross-social contacts which were essentially non-religious and broadly in agreement with enlightened values, they can hardly be described as a major radical or reformist network in their own right".[ ] many of the masons values seemed to greatly appeal to enlightenment values and thinkers. diderot discusses the link between freemason ideals and the enlightenment in d'alembert's dream, exploring masonry as a way of spreading enlightenment beliefs.[ ] historian margaret jacob stresses the importance of the masons in indirectly inspiring enlightened political thought.[ ] on the negative side, daniel roche contests claims that masonry promoted egalitarianism and he argues that the lodges only attracted men of similar social backgrounds.[ ] the presence of noble women in the french "lodges of adoption" that formed in the s was largely due to the close ties shared between these lodges and aristocratic society.[ ] the major opponent of freemasonry was the roman catholic church so that in countries with a large catholic element, such as france, italy, spain and mexico, much of the ferocity of the political battles involve the confrontation between what davies calls the reactionary church and enlightened freemasonry.[ ][ ] even in france, masons did not act as a group.[ ] american historians, while noting that benjamin franklin and george washington were indeed active masons, have downplayed the importance of freemasonry in causing the american revolution because the masonic order was non-political and included both patriots and their enemy the loyalists.[ ] art the art produced during the enlightenment focused on a search for morality that was absent from the art in previous eras. at the same time, the classical art of greece and rome became interesting to people again, since archaeological teams discovered pompeii and herculaneum.[ ] people did take inspiration from it and revived the classical art into neo-classical art. this can be especially seen in early american art, where, throughout their art and architecture, they used arches, goddesses, and other classical architectural designs. important intellectuals for a more comprehensive list, see list of intellectuals of the enlightenment. see also 	 lisbon earthquake 	atlantic revolutions 	chapbook 	early modern philosophy 	education in the age of enlightenment 	european and american voyages of scientific exploration 	midlands enlightenment 	regional enlightenments: 	american enlightenment 	haskalah, jewish enlightenment 	modern greek enlightenment 	polish enlightenment 	russian enlightenment 	scottish enlightenment 	spanish enlightenment 	whig history notes 	^ back row, left to right: jean-baptiste-louis gresset, pierre de marivaux, jean-françois marmontel, joseph-marie vien, antoine léonard thomas, charles marie de la condamine, guillaume thomas françois raynal, jean-jacques rousseau, jean-philippe rameau, la clairon, charles-jean-françois hénault, Étienne françois, duc de choiseul, a bust of voltaire, charles-augustin de ferriol d'argental, jean françois de saint-lambert, edmé bouchardon, jacques-germain soufflot, jean-baptiste bourguignon d'anville, anne claude de caylus, fortunato felice, françois quesnay, denis diderot, anne-robert-jacques turgot, baron de laune, chrétien guillaume de lamoignon de malesherbes, armand de vignerot du plessis, pierre louis maupertuis, jean-jacques dortous de mairan, henri françois d'aguesseau, alexis clairaut. front row, right to left: montesquieu, sophie d'houdetot, claude joseph vernet, bernard le bouyer de fontenelle, marie-thérèse rodet geoffrin, louis françois, prince of conti, duchesse d'anville, philippe jules françois mancini, françois-joachim de pierre de bernis, claude prosper jolyot de crébillon, alexis piron, charles pinot duclos, claude-adrien helvétius, charles-andré van loo, jean le rond d'alembert, lekain at the desk reading aloud, jeanne julie Éléonore de lespinasse, anne-marie du boccage, rené antoine ferchault de réaumur, 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role, as well as poetry itself. his ''epodes'' and ''satires'' are forms of 'blame poetry' and both have a natural affinity with the moralising and diatribes of [[cynicism (philosophy)|cynicism]]. this often takes the form of allusions to the work and philosophy of [[bion of borysthenes]] <ref group="nb">there is one reference to bion by name in ''epistles'' . . , and the clearest allusion to him is in ''satire'' . , which parallels bion fragments , , ''kindstrand''</ref> but it is as much a literary game as a philosophical alignment. by the time he composed his ''epistles'', he was a critic of [[cynicism (philosophy)|cynicism]] along with all impractical and "high-falutin" philosophy in general.<ref group="nb">''epistles'' . and . . – are critical of the extreme views of [[diogenes]] and also of social adaptations of cynic precepts, and yet ''epistle'' . could be either cynic or stoic in its orientation (j. moles, ''philosophy and ethics'', p. </ref><ref>j. moles, ''philosophy and ethics'', pp. – , </ref> the ''satires'' also include a strong element of [[epicureanism]], with frequent allusions to the epicurean poet [[lucretius]].<ref group="nb">''satires'' . . – , – , . . – , . . – , – , . . , – , . . – , . . – , , . . – </ref> so for example the epicurean sentiment ''[[carpe diem]]'' is the inspiration behind horace's repeated punning on his own name (''horatius ~ hora'') in ''satires'' . .<ref>k. j. reckford, ''some studies in horace's odes on love''</ref> the ''satires'' also feature some [[stoicism|stoic]], [[peripatetic school|peripatetic]] and [[platonic dialogues|platonic]] (''dialogues'') elements. in short, the ''satires'' present a medley of philosophical programs, dished up in no particular order—a style of argument typical of the [[satires (horace)|genre]].<ref>j. moles, ''philosophy and ethics'', p. </ref> the ''odes'' display a wide range of topics. over time, he becomes more confident about his political voice.<ref>santirocco "unity and design", lowrie "horace's narrative odes"</ref> although he is often thought of as an overly intellectual lover, he is ingenious in representing passion.<ref>ancona, "time and the erotic"</ref> the "odes" weave various philosophical strands together, with allusions and statements of doctrine present in about a third of the ''odes'' books – , ranging from the flippant ( . , . ) to the solemn ( . , . , . ). [[epicureanism]] is the dominant influence, characterizing about twice as many of these odes as stoicism. a group of odes combines these two influences in tense relationships, such as ''odes'' . , praising stoic virility and devotion to public duty while also advocating private pleasures among friends. while generally favouring the epicurean lifestyle, the lyric poet is as eclectic as the satiric poet, and in ''odes'' . even proposes aristotle's [[golden mean (philosophy)|golden mean]] as a remedy for rome's political troubles.<ref>j. moles, ''philosophy and ethics'', pp. – </ref> many of horace's poems also contain much reflection on genre, the lyric tradition, and the function of poetry.<ref>davis "polyhymnia" and lowrie "horace's narrative odes"</ref> ''odes'' , thought to be composed at the emperor's request, takes the themes of the first three books of "odes" to a new level. this book shows greater poetic confidence after the public performance of his "carmen saeculare" or "century hymn" at a public festival orchestrated by augustus. in it, horace addresses the emperor augustus directly with more confidence and proclaims his power to grant poetic immortality to those he praises. it is the least philosophical collection of his verses, excepting the twelfth ode, addressed to the dead virgil as if he were living. in that ode, the epic poet and the lyric poet are aligned with [[stoicism]] and [[epicureanism]] respectively, in a mood of bitter-sweet pathos.<ref>j. moles, ''philosophy and ethics'', p. </ref> the first poem of the ''epistles'' sets the philosophical tone for the rest of the collection: "so now i put aside both verses and all those other games: what is true and what befits is my care, this my question, this my whole concern." his poetic renunciation of poetry in favour of philosophy is intended to be ambiguous. ambiguity is the hallmark of the ''epistles''. it is uncertain if those being addressed by the self-mocking poet-philosopher are being honoured or criticized. though he emerges as an [[epicureanism|epicurean]], it is on the understanding that philosophical preferences, like political and social choices, are a matter of personal taste. thus he depicts the ups and downs of the philosophical life more realistically than do most philosophers.<ref>j. moles, ''philosophy and ethics'', pp. – </ref> return to horace. retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/horace" 		 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			article 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	edit 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		search 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigation 	 	 			main page 	contents 	current events 	random article 	about wikipedia 	contact us 	donate 		 	 	 	 		contribute 	 	 			help 	learn to edit 	community portal 	recent changes 	upload file 		 	 	 		tools 	 	 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gotha 	helena, princess christian of schleswig-holstein 	princess louise, duchess of argyll 	prince arthur, duke of connaught and strathearn 	prince leopold, duke of albany 	beatrice, princess henry of battenberg 		full name 	english: francis albert augustus charles emmanuel german: franz albert august karl emanuel 	house	 	saxe-coburg-saalfeld (until ) 	saxe-coburg and gotha (from ) 	father	ernest i, duke of saxe-coburg and gotha 	mother	princess louise of saxe-gotha-altenburg prince albert of saxe-coburg and gotha (francis albert augustus charles emmanuel;[ ] august – december ) was the husband of queen victoria of the united kingdom of great britain and ireland. albert was born in the saxon duchy of saxe-coburg-saalfeld to a family connected to many of europe's ruling monarchs. at the age of twenty, he married his cousin, victoria; they had nine children. initially he felt constrained by his role of prince consort, which did not afford him power or responsibilities. he gradually developed a reputation for supporting public causes, such as educational reform and the abolition of slavery worldwide, and was entrusted with running the queen's household, office and estates. he was heavily involved with the organisation of the great exhibition of , which was a resounding success. victoria came to depend more and more on albert's support and guidance. he aided the development of britain's constitutional monarchy by persuading his wife to be less partisan in her dealings with parliament—although he actively disagreed with the interventionist foreign policy pursued during lord palmerston's tenure as foreign secretary. albert died at the relatively young age of . victoria was so devastated at the loss of her husband that she entered into a deep state of mourning and wore black for the rest of her life. on her death in , their eldest son succeeded as edward vii, the first british monarch of the house of saxe-coburg and gotha, named after the ducal house to which albert belonged. contents 	 early life 	 marriage 	 consort of the queen 	 reformer and innovator 	 family and public life ( – ) 	 illness and death 	 legacy 	 titles, styles, honours and arms 	 . titles and styles 	 . british honours 	 . . military appointments 	 . foreign honours 	 . arms 	 issue 	 ancestry 	 see also 	 references 	 sources 	 further reading 	 external links early life[edit] albert (left) with his elder brother ernest and mother louise, shortly before her exile from court albert was born at schloss rosenau, near coburg, germany, the second son of ernest iii, duke of saxe-coburg-saalfeld, and his first wife, louise of saxe-gotha-altenburg.[ ] albert's future wife, victoria, was born earlier in the same year with the assistance of the same midwife, charlotte von siebold.[ ] albert was baptised into the lutheran evangelical church on september in the marble hall at schloss rosenau with water taken from the local river, the itz.[ ] his godparents were his paternal grandmother, the dowager duchess of saxe-coburg-saalfeld; his maternal grandfather, the duke of saxe-gotha-altenburg; the emperor of austria; the duke of teschen; and emanuel, count of mensdorff-pouilly.[ ] in , albert's great-uncle, frederick iv, duke of saxe-gotha-altenburg, died. his death led to a realignment of the saxon duchies the following year and albert's father became the first reigning duke of saxe-coburg and gotha.[ ] albert and his elder brother, ernest, spent their youth in a close companionship marred by their parents' turbulent marriage and eventual separation and divorce.[ ] after their mother was exiled from court in , she married her lover, alexander von hanstein, count of pölzig and beiersdorf. she presumably never saw her children again, and died of cancer at the age of in .[ ] the following year, their father married his niece, his sons' cousin princess marie of württemberg; their marriage was not close, however, and marie had little—if any—impact on her stepchildren's lives.[ ] the brothers were educated privately at home by christoph florschütz and later studied in brussels, where adolphe quetelet was one of their tutors.[ ] like many other german princes, albert attended the university of bonn, where he studied law, political economy, philosophy and the history of art. he played music and excelled at sport, especially fencing and riding.[ ] his tutors at bonn included the philosopher fichte and the poet schlegel.[ ] marriage[edit] main article: wedding of queen victoria and prince albert of saxe-coburg and gotha portrait by john partridge, the idea of marriage between albert and his cousin, victoria, was first documented in an letter from his paternal grandmother, the dowager duchess of saxe-coburg-saalfeld, who said that he was "the pendant to the pretty cousin".[ ] by , this idea had also arisen in the mind of their ambitious uncle leopold, who had been king of the belgians since .[ ] at this time, victoria was the heir presumptive to the british throne. her father, prince edward, duke of kent and strathearn, the fourth son of king george iii, had died when she was a baby, and her elderly uncle, king william iv, had no legitimate children. her mother, the duchess of kent, was the sister of both albert's father—the duke of saxe-coburg and gotha—and king leopold. leopold arranged for his sister, victoria's mother, to invite the duke of saxe-coburg and gotha and his two sons to visit her in may , with the purpose of meeting victoria. william iv, however, disapproved of any match with the coburgs, and instead favoured the suit of prince alexander, second son of the prince of orange. victoria was well aware of the various matrimonial plans and critically appraised a parade of eligible princes.[ ] she wrote, "[albert] is extremely handsome; his hair is about the same colour as mine; his eyes are large and blue, and he has a beautiful nose and a very sweet mouth with fine teeth; but the charm of his countenance is his expression, which is most delightful."[ ] alexander, on the other hand, she described as "very plain".[ ] victoria wrote to her uncle leopold to thank him "for the prospect of great happiness you have contributed to give me, in the person of dear albert ... he possesses every quality that could be desired to render me perfectly happy."[ ] although the parties did not undertake a formal engagement, both the family and their retainers widely assumed that the match would take place.[ ] victoria came to the throne aged eighteen on june . her letters of the time show interest in albert's education for the role he would have to play, although she resisted attempts to rush her into marriage.[ ] in the winter of – , the prince visited italy, accompanied by the coburg family's confidential adviser, baron stockmar.[ ] armorial bookplate of prince albert albert returned to the united kingdom with ernest in october to visit the queen, with the objective of settling the marriage.[ ] albert and victoria felt mutual affection and the queen proposed to him on october .[ ] victoria's intention to marry was declared formally to the privy council on november,[ ] and the couple married on february at the chapel royal, st james's palace.[ ] just before the marriage, albert was naturalised by act of parliament,[ ] and granted the style of royal highness by an order in council.[ ] initially albert was not popular with the british public; he was perceived to be from an impoverished and undistinguished minor state, barely larger than a small english county.[ ] the british prime minister, lord melbourne, advised the queen against granting her husband the title of "king consort"; parliament also objected to albert being created a peer—partly because of anti-german sentiment and a desire to exclude albert from any political role.[ ] albert's religious views provided a small amount of controversy when the marriage was debated in parliament: although as a member of the lutheran evangelical church albert was a protestant, the non-episcopal nature of his church was considered worrisome.[ ] of greater concern, however, was that some of albert's family were roman catholic.[ ] melbourne led a minority government and the opposition took advantage of the marriage to weaken his position further. they opposed the ennoblement of albert and granted him a smaller annuity than previous consorts,[ ] £ , instead of the usual £ , .[ ] albert claimed that he had no need of a british peerage, writing: "it would almost be a step downwards, for as a duke of saxony, i feel myself much higher than a duke of york or kent."[ ] for the next seventeen years, albert was formally titled "hrh prince albert" until, on june , victoria formally granted him the title prince consort.[ ] consort of the queen[edit] portrait by winterhalter, the position in which the prince was placed by his marriage, while one of distinction, also offered considerable difficulties; in albert's own words, "i am very happy and contented; but the difficulty in filling my place with the proper dignity is that i am only the husband, not the master in the house."[ ] the queen's household was run by her former governess,[ ] baroness lehzen. albert referred to her as the "house dragon", and manoeuvred to dislodge the baroness from her position.[ ] within two months of the marriage, victoria was pregnant. albert started to take on public roles; he became president of the society for the extinction of slavery (which was still legal in many parts of the world beyond the british empire); and helped victoria privately with her government paperwork.[ ] in june , while on a public carriage ride, albert and the pregnant victoria were shot at by edward oxford, who was later judged insane. neither albert nor victoria was hurt and albert was praised in the newspapers for his courage and coolness during the attack.[ ] albert was gaining public support as well as political influence, which showed itself practically when, in august, parliament passed the regency act to designate him regent in the event of victoria's death before their child reached the age of majority.[ ] their first child, victoria, named after her mother, was born in november. eight other children would follow over the next seventeen years. all nine children survived to adulthood, which was remarkable for the era and which biographer hermione hobhouse credited to albert's "enlightened influence" on the healthy running of the nursery.[ ] in early , he successfully removed the nursery from lehzen's pervasive control, and in september , lehzen left britain permanently—much to albert's relief.[ ] after the general election, melbourne was replaced as prime minister by sir robert peel, who appointed albert as chairman of the royal commission in charge of redecorating the new palace of westminster. the palace had burned down seven years before, and was being rebuilt. as a patron and purchaser of pictures and sculpture, the commission was set up to promote the fine arts in britain. the commission's work was slow, and the architect, charles barry, took many decisions out of the commissioners' hands by decorating rooms with ornate furnishings that were treated as part of the architecture.[ ] albert was more successful as a private patron and collector. among his notable purchases were early german and italian paintings—such as lucas cranach the elder's apollo and diana and fra angelico's st peter martyr—and contemporary pieces from franz xaver winterhalter and edwin landseer.[ ] ludwig gruner, of dresden, assisted albert in buying pictures of the highest quality.[ ] albert and victoria were shot at again on both and may , but were unhurt. the culprit, john francis, was detained and condemned to death,[ ] although he was later reprieved.[ ] some of their early unpopularity came about because of their stiffness and adherence to protocol in public, though in private the couple were more easy-going.[ ] in early , victoria and albert were apart for the first time since their marriage when he returned to coburg on the death of his father.[ ] osborne house, isle of wight, uk by , albert had managed to modernise the royal finances and, through various economies, had sufficient capital to purchase osborne house on the isle of wight as a private residence for their growing family.[ ] over the next few years a house modelled in the style of an italianate villa was built to the designs of albert and thomas cubitt.[ ] albert laid out the grounds, and improved the estate and farm.[ ] albert managed and improved the other royal estates; his model farm at windsor was admired by his biographers,[ ] and under his stewardship the revenues of the duchy of cornwall—the hereditary property of the prince of wales—steadily increased.[ ] unlike many landowners who approved of child labour and opposed peel's repeal of the corn laws, albert supported moves to raise working ages and free up trade.[ ] in , albert was rebuked by lord george bentinck when he attended the debate on the corn laws in the house of commons to give tacit support to peel.[ ] during peel's premiership, albert's authority behind, or beside, the throne became more apparent. he had access to all the queen's papers, was drafting her correspondence[ ] and was present when she met her ministers, or even saw them alone in her absence.[ ] the clerk of the privy council, charles greville, wrote of him: "he is king to all intents and purposes."[ ] reformer and innovator[edit] early daguerreotype with hand-colouring, in , albert was elected chancellor of the university of cambridge after a close contest with the earl of powis.[ ] albert used his position as chancellor to campaign successfully for reformed and more modern university curricula, expanding the subjects taught beyond the traditional mathematics and classics to include modern history and the natural sciences.[ ] that summer, victoria and albert spent a rainy holiday in the west of scotland at loch laggan, but heard from their doctor, sir james clark, that clark's son had enjoyed dry, sunny days farther east at balmoral castle. the tenant of balmoral, sir robert gordon, died suddenly in early october, and albert began negotiations to take over the lease from the owner, the earl fife.[ ] in may the following year, albert leased balmoral, which he had never visited, and in september he, his wife and the older children went there for the first time.[ ] they came to relish the privacy it afforded.[ ] revolutions spread throughout europe in as the result of a widespread economic crisis. throughout the year, victoria and albert complained about foreign secretary palmerston's independent foreign policy, which they believed destabilised foreign european powers further.[ ] albert was concerned for many of his royal relatives, a number of whom were deposed. he and victoria, who gave birth to their daughter louise during that year, spent some time away from london in the relative safety of osborne. although there were sporadic demonstrations in england, no effective revolutionary action took place, and albert even gained public acclaim when he expressed paternalistic, yet well-meaning and philanthropic, views.[ ] in a speech to the society for the improvement of the condition of the labouring classes, of which he was president, he expressed his "sympathy and interest for that class of our community who have most of the toil and fewest of the enjoyments of this world".[ ] it was the "duty of those who, under the blessings of divine providence, enjoy station, wealth, and education" to assist those less fortunate than themselves.[ ] the great exhibition of was housed in the crystal palace in hyde park, london. a man of progressive and relatively liberal ideas, albert not only led reforms in university education, welfare, the royal finances and slavery, he had a special interest in applying science and art to the manufacturing industry.[ ] the great exhibition of arose from the annual exhibitions of the society of arts, of which albert was president from , and owed most of its success to his efforts to promote it.[ ][ ] albert served as president of the royal commission for the exhibition of , and had to fight for every stage of the project.[ ] in the house of lords, lord brougham fulminated against the proposal to hold the exhibition in hyde park.[ ] opponents of the exhibition prophesied that foreign rogues and revolutionists would overrun england, subvert the morals of the people, and destroy their faith.[ ] albert thought such talk absurd and quietly persevered, trusting always that british manufacturing would benefit from exposure to the best products of foreign countries.[ ] the queen opened the exhibition in a specially designed and built glass building known as the crystal palace on may . it proved a colossal success.[ ] a surplus of £ , was used to purchase land in south kensington on which to establish educational and cultural institutions—including the natural history museum, science museum, imperial college london and what would later be named the royal albert hall and the victoria and albert museum.[ ] the area was referred to as "albertopolis" by sceptics.[ ] family and public life ( – )[edit] queen victoria and prince albert, in , john camden neild, an eccentric miser, left victoria an unexpected legacy, which albert used to obtain the freehold of balmoral. as usual, he embarked on an extensive programme of improvements.[ ] the same year, he was appointed to several of the offices left vacant by the death of the duke of wellington, including the mastership of trinity house and the colonelcy of the grenadier guards.[ ] with wellington's passing, albert was able to propose and campaign for modernisation of the army, which was long overdue.[ ] thinking that the military was unready for war, and that christian rule was preferable to islamic rule, albert counselled a diplomatic solution to conflict between the russian and ottoman empires. palmerston was more bellicose, and favoured a policy that would prevent further russian expansion.[ ] palmerston was manoeuvred out of the cabinet in december , but at about the same time a russian fleet attacked the ottoman fleet at anchor at sinop. the london press depicted the attack as a criminal massacre, and palmerston's popularity surged as albert's fell.[ ] within two weeks, palmerston was re-appointed as a minister. as public outrage at the russian action continued, false rumours circulated that albert had been arrested for treason and was being held prisoner in the tower of london.[ ] by march , britain and russia were embroiled in the crimean war. albert devised a master-plan for winning the war by laying siege to sevastopol while starving russia economically, which became the allied strategy after the tsar decided to fight a purely defensive war.[ ] early british optimism soon faded as the press reported that british troops were ill-equipped and mismanaged by aged generals using out-of-date tactics and strategy. the conflict dragged on as the russians were as poorly prepared as their opponents. the prime minister, lord aberdeen, resigned and palmerston succeeded him.[ ] a negotiated settlement eventually put an end to the war with the treaty of paris. during the war, albert arranged the marriage of his fourteen-year-old daughter, victoria, to prince frederick william of prussia, though albert delayed the marriage until victoria was seventeen. albert hoped that his daughter and son-in-law would be a liberalising influence in the enlarging but very conservative prussian state.[ ] prince albert, queen victoria and their nine children, . left to right: alice, arthur, albert (prince consort), albert edward (prince of wales), leopold, louise, queen victoria with beatrice, alfred, victoria and helena[ ] albert promoted many public educational institutions. chiefly at meetings in connection with these he spoke of the need for better schooling.[ ] a collection of his speeches was published in . recognised as a supporter of education and technological progress, he was invited to speak at scientific meetings, such as the memorable address he delivered as president of the british association for the advancement of science when it met at aberdeen in .[ ] his espousal of science met with clerical opposition; he and palmerston unsuccessfully recommended a knighthood for charles darwin, after the publication of on the origin of species, which was opposed by the bishop of oxford.[ ] albert continued to devote himself to the education of his family and the management of the royal household.[ ] his children's governess, lady lyttelton, thought him unusually kind and patient, and described him joining in family games with enthusiasm.[ ] he felt keenly the departure of his eldest daughter for prussia when she married her fiancé at the beginning of ,[ ] and was disappointed that his eldest son, the prince of wales, did not respond well to the intense educational programme that albert had designed for him.[ ] at the age of seven, the prince of wales was expected to take six hours of instruction, including an hour of german and an hour of french every day.[ ] when the prince of wales failed at his lessons, albert caned him.[ ] corporal punishment was common at the time, and was not thought unduly harsh.[ ] albert's biographer roger fulford wrote that the relationships between the family members were "friendly, affectionate and normal ... there is no evidence either in the royal archives or in the printed authorities to justify the belief that the relations between the prince and his eldest son were other than deeply affectionate."[ ] philip magnus wrote in his biography of albert's eldest son that albert "tried to treat his children as equals; and they were able to penetrate his stiffness and reserve because they realised instinctively not only that he loved them but that he enjoyed and needed their company."[ ] illness and death[edit] portrait by winterhalter, in august , albert fell seriously ill with stomach cramps.[ ] his steadily worsening medical condition led to a sense of despair. he lost the will to live, says biographer robert rhodes james.[ ] he had an accidental brush with death during a trip to coburg in october , when he was driving alone in a carriage drawn by four horses that suddenly bolted. as the horses continued to gallop toward a wagon waiting at a railway crossing, albert jumped for his life from the carriage. one of the horses was killed in the collision, and albert was badly shaken, though his only physical injuries were cuts and bruises. he confided in his brother and eldest daughter that he had sensed his time had come.[ ] victoria's mother and albert's aunt, the duchess of kent, died in march , and victoria was grief-stricken. albert took on most of the queen's duties despite continuing to suffer with chronic stomach trouble.[ ] the last public event he presided over was the opening of the royal horticultural gardens on june .[ ] in august, victoria and albert visited the curragh camp, ireland, where the prince of wales was attending army manoeuvres. at the curragh, the prince of wales was introduced, by his fellow officers, to nellie clifden, an irish actress.[ ] by november, victoria and albert had returned to windsor, and the prince of wales had returned to cambridge, where he was a student. two of albert's young cousins, brothers king pedro v of portugal and prince ferdinand, died of typhoid fever within five days of each other in early november.[ ] on top of this news, albert was informed that gossip was spreading in gentlemen's clubs and the foreign press that the prince of wales was still involved with nellie clifden.[ ] albert and victoria were horrified by their son's indiscretion, and feared blackmail, scandal or pregnancy.[ ] although albert was ill and at a low ebb, he travelled to cambridge to see the prince of wales on november[ ] to discuss his son's indiscreet affair.[ ] in his final weeks albert suffered from pains in his back and legs.[ ] also in november , the trent affair—the forcible removal of confederate envoys from a british ship by union forces during the american civil war—threatened war between the united states and britain. the british government prepared an ultimatum and readied a military response. albert was gravely ill but intervened to defuse the crisis.[ ] in a few hours, he revised the british demands in a manner that allowed the lincoln administration to surrender the confederate commissioners who had been seized from the trent and to issue a public apology to london without losing face. the key idea, based on a suggestion from the times, was to give washington the opportunity to deny it had officially authorised the seizure and thereby apologise for the captain's mistake.[ ] on december, one of albert's doctors, william jenner, diagnosed him with typhoid fever. albert died at :  p.m. on december in the blue room at windsor castle, in the presence of the queen and five of their nine children.[ ] the contemporary diagnosis was typhoid fever, but modern writers have pointed out that albert's ongoing stomach pain, leaving him ill for at least two years before his death, may indicate that a chronic disease, such as crohn's disease,[ ] kidney failure, or abdominal cancer, was the cause of death.[ ] legacy[edit] further information: royal eponyms in canada the albert memorial in hyde park, london royal albert hall, london the queen's grief was overwhelming, and the tepid feelings the public had felt previously for albert were replaced by sympathy.[ ] the widowed victoria never recovered from albert's death; she entered into a deep state of mourning and wore black for the rest of her life. albert's rooms in all his houses were kept as they had been, even with hot water brought in the morning and linen and towels changed daily.[ ] such practices were not uncommon in the houses of the very rich.[ ] victoria withdrew from public life and her seclusion eroded some of albert's work in attempting to re-model the monarchy as a national institution setting a moral, if not political, example.[ ] albert is credited with introducing the principle that the british royal family should remain above politics.[ ] before his marriage to victoria, she supported the whigs; for example, early in her reign victoria managed to thwart the formation of a tory government by sir robert peel by refusing to accept substitutions which peel wanted to make among her ladies-in-waiting.[ ] albert's body was temporarily entombed in st george's chapel, windsor castle.[ ] a year after his death his remains were deposited at frogmore mausoleum, which remained incomplete until .[ ] the sarcophagus, in which both he and the queen were eventually laid, was carved from the largest block of granite that had ever been quarried in britain.[ ] despite albert's request that no effigies of him should be raised, many public monuments were erected all over the country and across the british empire.[ ] the most notable are the royal albert hall and the albert memorial in london. the plethora of memorials erected to albert became so great that charles dickens told a friend that he sought an "inaccessible cave" to escape from them.[ ] places and objects named after albert range from lake albert in africa to the city of prince albert, saskatchewan, to the albert medal presented by the royal society of arts. four regiments of the british army were named after him: th (prince albert's own) hussars; prince albert's light infantry; prince albert's own leicestershire regiment of yeomanry cavalry; and the prince consort's own rifle brigade. he and queen victoria showed a keen interest in the establishment and development of aldershot in hampshire as a garrison town in the s. they had a wooden royal pavilion built there in which they would often stay when attending military reviews.[ ] albert established and endowed the prince consort's library at aldershot, which still exists today.[ ] biographies published after his death were typically heavy on eulogy. theodore martin's five-volume magnum opus was authorised and supervised by queen victoria, and her influence shows in its pages. nevertheless, it is an accurate and exhaustive account.[ ] lytton strachey's queen victoria ( ) was more critical, but it was discredited in part by mid-twentieth-century biographers such as hector bolitho and roger fulford, who (unlike strachey) had access to victoria's journal and letters.[ ] popular myths about prince albert—such as the claim that he introduced christmas trees to britain—are dismissed by scholars.[ ] recent biographers such as stanley weintraub portray albert as a figure in a tragic romance who died too soon and was mourned by his lover for a lifetime.[ ] in the movie the young victoria, albert, played by rupert friend, is made into an heroic character; in the fictionalised depiction of the shooting, he is struck by a bullet—something that did not happen in real life.[ ][ ] titles, styles, honours and arms[edit] titles and styles[edit] albert robed as a knight grand cross of the bath, in the united kingdom, albert was styled "his serene highness prince albert of saxe-coburg and gotha" in the months before his marriage.[ ] he was granted the style of royal highness on february ,[ ] and given the title of prince consort on june .[ ] british honours[edit] 	kg: royal knight of the garter, december [ ] 	gcb: knight grand cross of the bath (military), march ;[ ] great master, may [ ] 	gcmg: knight grand cross of st michael and st george, january [ ] 	kt: knight of the thistle, january [ ] 	kp: extra and principal knight of st. patrick, january [ ] 	ksi: extra knight of the star of india, june [ ] military appointments[edit] 	field marshal of the british army, february [ ] 	colonel-in-chief of the th (prince albert's own) hussars, april – [ ] 	colonel of the scots fusilier guards, april – [ ] 	captain-general and colonel of the honourable artillery company, [ ] 	constable and governor of windsor castle, [ ] 	colonel-in-chief of the th (the king's royal rifle corps) regiment of foot, august – [ ] 	colonel of the st grenadier guards, august [ ] 	colonel-in-chief of the rifle brigade, september [ ] foreign honours[edit] 	 ernestine duchies: grand cross of the saxe-ernestine house order, february [ ] 	 portugal:[ ] 	grand cross of the military order of christ, april 	grand cross of the sash of the two orders (aviz and st. james), september 	grand cross of the tower and sword, november 	 belgium: grand cordon of the order of leopold, november – wedding gift[ ] 	 saxony: knight of the rue crown, [ ] 	 saxe-weimar-eisenach: grand cross of the white falcon, january [ ] 	 spain: knight of the golden fleece, april [ ] 	 prussia:[ ] 	knight of the black eagle, january 	grand cross of the red eagle, january 	 sardinia: knight of the annunciation, december [ ] 	 netherlands: grand cross of the netherlands lion, [ ] 	 denmark: knight of the elephant, january [ ] 	 russia:[ ] 	knight of st. andrew, july 	knight of st. alexander nevsky, july 	knight of the white eagle, july 	knight of st. anna, st class, july 	 france: grand cross of the legion of honour, september [ ] 	 austria: grand cross of st. stephen, [ ] 	 württemberg: grand cross of the württemberg crown, [ ] 	 baden:[ ] 	knight of the house order of fidelity, 	grand cross of the zähringer lion, 	 bavaria: knight of st. hubert, [ ] 	 two sicilies: grand cross of st. ferdinand and merit, [ ] 	 hanover:[ ] 	knight of st. george, 	grand cross of the royal guelphic order, 	 sovereign military order of malta: bailiff grand cross of honour and devotion[ ] 	 sweden-norway: knight of the seraphim, february [ ] 	 ottoman empire: order of the medjidie, st class in diamonds, [ ] arms[edit] coat of arms of prince albert of saxe-coburg and gotha as granted in upon his marriage to queen victoria in , prince albert received a personal grant of arms, being the royal coat of arms of the united kingdom differenced by a white three-point label with a red cross in the centre, quartered with his ancestral arms of saxony.[ ][ ] they are blazoned: "quarterly, st and th, the royal arms, with overall a label of three points argent charged on the centre with cross gules; nd and rd, barry of ten or and sable, a crown of rue in bend vert".[ ] the arms are unusual, being described by s. t. aveling as a "singular example of quartering differenced arms, [which] is not in accordance with the rules of heraldry, and is in itself an heraldic contradiction."[ ] prior to his marriage albert used the arms of his father undifferenced, in accordance with german custom. albert's garter stall plate displays his arms surmounted by a royal crown with six crests for the house of saxe-coburg and gotha; these are from left to right: . "a bull's head caboshed gules armed and ringed argent, crowned or, the rim chequy gules and argent" for mark. . "out of a coronet or, two buffalo horns argent, attached to the outer edge of five branches fesswise each with three linden leaves vert" for thuringia. . "out of a coronet or, a pyramidal chapeau charged with the arms of saxony ensigned by a plume of peacock feathers proper out of a coronet also or" for saxony. . "a bearded man in profile couped below the shoulders clothed paly argent and gules, the pointed coronet similarly paly terminating in a plume of three peacock feathers" for meissen. . "a demi griffin displayed or, winged sable, collared and langued gules" for jülich. . "out of a coronet or, a panache of peacock feathers proper" for berg.[ ] the supporters were the crowned lion of england and the unicorn of scotland (as in the royal arms) charged on the shoulder with a label as in the arms. albert's personal motto is the german treu und fest (loyal and sure).[ ] this motto was also used by prince albert's own or the th hussars. issue[edit] see also: grandchildren of victoria and albert 	name 	birth 	death 	notes[ ] 	victoria, princess royal 	 november 	 august 	married , crown prince frederick, later frederick iii, german emperor; had issue 	edward vii of the united kingdom 	 november 	 may 	married , princess alexandra of denmark; had issue 	princess alice 	 april 	 december 	married , prince louis, later ludwig iv, grand duke of hesse and by rhine; had issue 	alfred, duke of saxe-coburg and gotha 	 august 	 july 	married , grand duchess marie alexandrovna of russia; had issue 	princess helena 	 may 	 june 	married , prince christian of schleswig-holstein; had issue 	princess louise 	 march 	 december 	married , john campbell, marquess of lorne, later th duke of argyll; no issue 	prince arthur, duke of connaught and strathearn 	 may 	 january 	married , princess louise margaret of prussia; had issue 	prince leopold, duke of albany 	 april 	 march 	married , princess helena of waldeck and pyrmont; had issue 	princess beatrice 	 april 	 october 	married , prince henry of battenberg; had issue prince albert's grandchildren included four reigning monarchs: king george v of the united kingdom; wilhelm ii, german emperor; ernest louis, grand duke of hesse; and charles edward, duke of saxe-coburg and gotha, and five consorts of monarchs: queens maud of norway, sophia of greece, victoria eugenie of spain, marie of romania, and empress alexandra of russia. albert's many descendants include royalty and nobility throughout europe. victoria and albert's family in by franz xaver winterhalter left to right: prince alfred (unbreeched at two years); the prince of wales; the queen; prince albert; and princesses alice, helena and victoria ancestry[edit] 	ancestors of albert, prince consort 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . ernest frederick, duke of saxe-coburg-saalfeld[ ] 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . francis, duke of saxe-coburg-saalfeld[ ]	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . sophia antonia of brunswick-wolfenbüttel[ ] 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . ernest i, duke of saxe-coburg and gotha[ ]	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . henry xxiv, count reuss of ebersdorf[ ] 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . countess augusta caroline reuss of ebersdorf[ ]	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . countess karoline ernestine of erbach-schönberg[ ] 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . prince albert of saxe-coburg and gotha	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . ernest ii, duke of saxe-gotha-altenburg[ ] 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . augustus, duke of saxe-gotha-altenburg[ ]	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . princess charlotte of saxe-meiningen[ ] 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . princess louise of saxe-gotha-altenburg[ ]	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . frederick francis i, grand duke of mecklenburg-schwerin[ ] 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . duchess louise charlotte of mecklenburg-schwerin[ ]	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . princess louise of saxe-gotha-altenburg[ ] 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 see also[edit] 	john brown 	list of coupled cousins 	royal albert memorial museum references[edit] 	^ a b c d "no. ". the london gazette. february . p.  . 	^ hobhouse , p.  ; weintraub , p.  ; weir , p.  . 	^ weintraub , p.  . 	^ weintraub , p.  . 	^ ames , p.  ; hobhouse , p.  . 	^ e.g. montgomery-massingberd , pp.  – . 	^ weintraub , pp.  – . 	^ hobhouse , p.  ; weintraub , pp.  – . 	^ weintraub , pp.  – . 	^ hobhouse , p.  . 	^ weintraub , pp.  – . 	^ ames , p.  ; weintraub , pp.  – . 	^ hobhouse , pp.  . 	^ hobhouse , pp.  – ; weintraub , pp.  – . 	^ weintraub , pp.  – . 	^ a b victoria quoted in weintraub , p.  . 	^ weintraub , p.  . 	^ weintraub , pp.  , , , . 	^ weintraub , p.  . 	^ hobhouse , pp.  – ; weintraub , p.  . 	^ fulford , p.  ; weintraub , pp.  – . 	^ fulford , pp.  – ; hobhouse , p.  ; weintraub , pp.  – . 	^ fulford , p.  ; hobhouse , p.  ; weintraub , p.  . 	^ fulford , p.  ; hobhouse , p.  . 	^ a b "no. ". the london gazette. february . p.  . 	^ fulford , p.  . 	^ weintraub , p.  . 	^ abecasis-phillips . 	^ murphy , pp.  – . 	^ weintraub , pp.  – , . 	^ fulford , p.  ; hobhouse , pp.  – . 	^ quoted in jagow , p.  . 	^ a b "no. ". the london gazette. june . p.  . 	^ albert to william von lowenstein, may , quoted in hobhouse , p.  . 	^ or more properly "lady attendant". 	^ fulford , pp.  – . 	^ weintraub , pp.  – . 	^ weintraub , pp.  – . 	^ weintraub , p.  . 	^ hobhouse , p.  . 	^ fulford , pp.  – . 	^ ames , pp.  – ; fulford , pp.  – ; hobhouse , pp.  – . 	^ ames , pp.  – , – ; hobhouse , pp.  – . the national gallery, london, received paintings in presented by queen victoria at the prince consort's wish. see external links for works in the royal collection. 	^ cust , pp.  – . 	^ old bailey proceedings online, trial of john francis. 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( th ed.). cambridge university press. pp.  – . 	prince consort albert, england and europe, virtual exhibition of bavarikon 	prince albert ( – ), bbc history 	uk parliamentary archives, oaths of prince albert, duke of saxe, prince of saxe coburg and gotha 	albert, prince consort house of saxe-coburg and gotha cadet branch of the house of wettin born: august  died: december 	british royalty 	vacanttitle last held by adelaide of saxe-meiningen as queen consort 	 consort of the british monarch (created "prince consort" ) – 	vacanttitle next held by alexandra of denmark as queen consort 	military offices 	preceded by philip philpot 	 colonel of the th (prince albert's own) hussars – 	succeeded by sir arthur benjamin clifton 	preceded by the earl ludlow 	 colonel of the scots fusilier guards – 	succeeded by the duke of cambridge 	preceded by the duke of wellington 	 colonel of the grenadier guards – 	 colonel-in-chief of the rifle brigade – 	succeeded by the lord seaton 	court offices 	preceded by the marquess of hertford 	 lord warden of the stannaries – 	succeeded by the duke of newcastle 	academic offices 	preceded by the duke of northumberland 	 chancellor of the university of cambridge – 	succeeded by the duke of devonshire 	honorary titles 	preceded by the duke of sussex 	 great master of the order of the bath – acting – 	vacanttitle next held by the prince of wales 		v 	t 	e chancellors of the university of cambridge 	 	richard of wetheringsett 	hugh de hotton 	reginald gerninghall 	stephen hepworth 	william de ludham 	richard de gedney 	richard dryfield 	john de asgarby 	john hooke 	roger de fulbourn 	andrew de gisleham 	thomas sheringham 	stephen hepworth 	ralph de leicester 	henry de boyton 	john de bradenham 	thomas de sheringham 	stephen hepworth 	stephen haslingfield 	stephen de segrace 	stephen haslingfield 	richard de ashton 	roger northburgh 	richard de badew 	thomas de foxton 	robert de winwick 	robert de winwick 	john de langley 	robert de mildenhall 	henry de herwarden 	richard harling 	robert de claydon 	thomas de northwood 	thomas de northwood 	john de crakhall 	thomas de grantchester 	william de lymbergh 	richard harling 	anthony of grantchester 	william tynkell 	thomas sutton 	richard de wetherset 	michael de haynton 	michael de causton 	william de gotham 	thomas de stewkley 	john de donwich 	adam de lakenheath 	john de donwich 	william de gotham 	richard scrope 	eudo zouche 	john cavendish 	guy zouche 	john de bromyard 	john of neketon 	john de burgh 	thomas hetherset 	john de burgh 	william colvile 	richard dereham 	william colvile 	john de neketon 	william colvile 	guy zouche 	richard billingford 	richard dereham 	richard billingford 	stephen le scrope 	john de rickingale 	thomas of cobham 	robert fitzhugh 	william wymbell 	marmaduke lumley 	john holeroke 	william lascells 	richard billingford 	richard cawdray 	john langton 	nicholas kenton 	john langton 	robert ascogh 	nicholas close 	william percy 	lawrence booth 	william wilflete 	robert woodlark 	richard scroope 	robert woodlark 	john booth 	william wilflete 	john harrison 	william wilflete 	edward story 	thomas rotherham (or scot) 	edward story 	thomas rotherham 	john boynton 	thomas rotherham 	thomas cosyn 	john blythe 	george fitzhugh 	thomas rotherham 	richard fox 	george fitzhugh 	thomas ruthall (or rowthall) 	john fisher 	thomas cromwell 	stephen gardiner 	edward seymour 	the duke of northumberland 	stephen gardiner 	reginald pole 	the lord burghley 	the earl of essex 	the earl of salisbury 	the earl of northampton 	the earl of suffolk 	the duke of buckingham 	the earl of holland 	the earl of manchester 	oliver st john 	the duke of manchester 	the duke of buckingham 	the duke of monmouth 	the duke of albemarle 	the duke of somerset 	thomas pelham-holles, st duke of newcastle 	the duke of grafton 	hrh the duke of gloucester and edinburgh 	the marquess camden 	the duke of northumberland 	hrh the prince consort 	the duke of devonshire 	the duke of devonshire 	the lord rayleigh 	the earl of balfour 	the earl baldwin of bewdley 	jan smuts 	the lord tedder 	the lord adrian 	hrh the duke of edinburgh 	david sainsbury 	 	v 	t 	e british consorts 	 	george of denmark ( – ) 	caroline of ansbach ( – ) 	charlotte of mecklenburg-strelitz ( – ) 	caroline of brunswick ( – ) 	adelaide of saxe-meiningen ( – ) 	albert of saxe-coburg and gotha ( – ) 	alexandra of denmark ( – ) 	mary of teck ( – ) 	elizabeth bowes-lyon ( – ) 	philip mountbatten ( –present) 	 	v 	t 	e princes of saxe-coburg-saalfeld 	the generations are numbered from the union of saxe-coburg and saxe-saalfeld in 	 st generation	 	christian ernst ii* 	francis josias* 	 nd generation	 	ernest frederick 	prince josias 	 rd generation	 	francis 	 th generation	 	ernest iii 	prince ferdinand** 	leopold i of belgium** 	 th generation	 	ernest ii, duke of saxe-coburg and gotha** 	albert, prince consort of the united kingdom** 	ferdinand ii of portugal** 	prince august** 	prince leopold** 	* prince of saxe-saalfeld until ** became prince of saxe-coburg and gotha in 	 	v 	t 	e princes of saxe-coburg and gotha 	forefather	duke francis i* 	 st generation	 	duke ernest i* 	prince ferdinand* 	king leopold i of the belgians* 	 nd generation	 	ducal	 	duke ernest ii* 	albert, prince consort of the united kingdom* 	koháry	 	king ferdinand ii of portugal and the algarves* 	prince august* 	prince leopold* 	belgium	 	crown prince louis philippe 	king leopold ii 	prince philippe 	 rd generation	 	united kingdom	 	king edward vii 	duke alfred i 	prince arthur 	prince leopold 	portugal	 	king pedro v 	king luís i 	infante joão 	infante fernando 	infante augusto 	koháry	 	prince philipp 	prince ludwig august 	tsar ferdinand i of the bulgarians 	belgium	 	prince leopold 	prince baudouin 	king albert i 	 th generation	 	united kingdom	 	prince albert victor 	king george v 	hereditary prince alfred 	prince arthur 	duke charles edward i 	portugal	 	king carlos i 	infante afonso 	koháry	 	prince leopold clement 	prince pedro augusto 	prince august leopold 	prince joseph ferdinand 	prince ludwig gaston 	bulgaria	 	tsar boris iii 	prince kiril 	belgium	 	king leopold iii 	prince charles 	 th generation	 	united kingdom	 	king edward viii 	king george vi 	prince henry 	prince george 	prince john 	prince alastair 	ducal	 	hereditary prince johann leopold 	prince hubertus 	prince friedrich josias 	portugal	 	prince luís filipe 	king manuel ii 	koháry	 	prince rainer 	prince philipp 	bulgaria	 	tsar simeon ii 	belgium	 	king baudouin i 	king albert ii 	prince alexandre 	 th generation	 	ducal	 	prince andreas 	koháry	 	prince johannes heinrich 	bulgaria	 	prince kardam 	prince kyril 	belgium	 	king philippe i 	prince laurent 	 th generation	 	bulgaria	 	prince boris 	belgium	 	prince gabriel 	prince emmanuel 	*titled as princes of saxe-coburg-saalfeld before february 	 	v 	t 	e british princes 	the generations indicate descent from george i, who formalised the use of the titles prince and princess for members of the british royal family. 	 st generation	 	king george ii 	 nd generation	 	frederick, prince of wales 	prince george william 	prince william, duke of cumberland 	 rd generation	 	king george iii 	prince edward, duke of york and albany 	prince william henry, duke of gloucester and edinburgh 	prince henry, duke of cumberland and strathearn 	prince frederick 	 th generation	 	king george iv 	prince frederick, duke of york and albany 	king william iv 	prince edward, duke of kent and strathearn 	king ernest augustus of hanover 	prince augustus frederick, duke of sussex 	prince adolphus, duke of cambridge 	prince octavius 	prince alfred 	prince william frederick, duke of gloucester and edinburgh 	 th generation	 	prince albert 	king george v of hanover 	prince george, duke of cambridge 	 th generation	 	king edward vii 	prince alfred, duke of saxe-coburg and gotha 	prince arthur, duke of connaught and strathearn 	prince leopold, duke of albany 	prince ernest augustus 	 th generation	 	prince albert victor, duke of clarence and avondale 	king george v 	prince alexander john of wales 	alfred, hereditary prince of saxe-coburg and gotha 	prince arthur of connaught 	prince charles edward, duke of albany and of saxe-coburg and gotha 	prince george william of hanover 	prince christian of hanover 	prince ernest augustus, duke of brunswick 	 th generation	 	king edward viii 	king george vi 	prince henry, duke of gloucester 	prince george, duke of kent 	prince john 	alastair, nd duke of connaught and strathearn 	johann leopold, hereditary prince of saxe-coburg and gotha 	prince hubertus of saxe-coburg and gotha 	prince ernest augustus of hanover 	prince george william of hanover 	 th generation	 	prince philip, duke of edinburgh 	prince william of gloucester 	prince richard, duke of gloucester 	prince edward, duke of kent 	prince michael of kent 	 th generation	 	charles, prince of wales 	prince andrew, duke of 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considered an ethnic group or a nationality. the roman empire expanded to become one of the largest empires in the ancient world, still ruled from the city, with an estimated to  million inhabitants (roughly % of the world's population at the time) and covering  million square kilometres ( .  million square miles) at its height in ad .[ ][ ] in its many centuries of existence, the roman state evolved from an elective monarchy to a democratic classical republic and then to an increasingly autocratic semi-elective military dictatorship during the empire. through conquest, cultural, and linguistic assimilation, at its height it controlled the north african coast, egypt, southern europe, and most of western europe, the balkans, crimea and much of the middle east, including anatolia, levant and parts of mesopotamia and arabia. it is often grouped into classical antiquity together with ancient greece, and their similar cultures and societies are known as the greco-roman world. ancient roman civilisation has contributed to modern language, religion, society, technology, law, politics, government, warfare, art, literature, architecture and engineering. rome professionalised and expanded its military and created a system of government called res publica, the inspiration for modern republics such as the united states and france.[ ][ ][ ] it achieved impressive technological and architectural feats, such as the construction of an extensive system of aqueducts and roads, as well as the construction of large monuments, palaces, and public facilities. the punic wars with carthage were decisive in establishing rome as a world power. in this series of wars, rome gained control of the strategic islands of corsica, sardinia, and sicily; took hispania (modern spain and portugal); and destroyed the city of carthage in bc, giving rome supremacy in the mediterranean. by the end of the republic ( bc), rome had conquered the lands around the mediterranean and beyond: its domain extended from the atlantic to arabia and from the mouth of the rhine to north africa. the roman empire emerged with the end of the republic and the dictatorship of augustus. seven-hundred and twenty-one years of roman–persian wars started in  bc with the first struggle against parthia. it would become the longest conflict in human history, and have major lasting effects and consequences for both empires. under trajan, the empire reached its territorial peak. it stretched from the entire mediterranean basin to the beaches of the north sea in the north, to the shores of the red and caspian seas in the east. republican mores and traditions started to decline during the imperial period, with civil wars becoming a prelude common to the rise of a new emperor.[ ][ ][ ] splinter states, such as the palmyrene empire, would temporarily divide the empire during the crisis of the rd century before some stability was restored in the tetrarchy phase of imperial rule. plagued by internal instability and attacked by various migrating peoples, the western part of the empire broke up into independent barbarian kingdoms in the th century.[a] the eastern part of the empire remained a power through the middle ages until its fall in ad.[b] contents 	 founding myth 	 kingdom 	 republic 	 . punic wars 	 late republic 	 . marius and sulla 	 . caesar and the first triumvirate 	 . octavian and the second triumvirate 	 empire – the principate 	 . julio-claudian dynasty 	 . . augustus 	 . . from tiberius to nero 	 . flavian dynasty 	 . . vespasian 	 . . titus and domitian 	 . nerva–antonine dynasty 	 . . trajan 	 . . from hadrian to commodus 	 . severan dynasty 	 . . septimius severus 	 . . from caracalla to alexander severus 	 . crisis of the third century 	 empire – the tetrarchy 	 . diocletian 	 . constantine and christianity 	 fall of the western roman empire 	 society 	 . law 	 . class structure 	 . education 	 . government 	 . military 	 . economy 	 . family 	 culture 	 . language 	 . religion 	 . ethics and morality 	 . art, music and literature 	 . cuisine 	 . games and recreation 	 technology 	 legacy 	 genetics 	 historiography 	 . in roman times 	 . in modern times 	 see also 	 references 	 . sources 	 further reading 	 external links founding myth main article: founding of rome according to the founding myth of rome, the city was founded on april  bc on the banks of the river tiber in central italy, by the twin brothers romulus and remus, who descended from the trojan prince aeneas,[ ] and who were grandsons of the latin king numitor of alba longa. king numitor was deposed by his brother, amulius, while numitor's daughter, rhea silvia, gave birth to the twins.[ ][ ] since rhea silvia had been raped and impregnated by mars, the roman god of war, the twins were considered half-divine. according to legend, rome was founded in  bc by romulus and remus, who were raised by a she-wolf the new king, amulius, feared romulus and remus would take back the throne, so he ordered them to be drowned.[ ] a she-wolf (or a shepherd's wife in some accounts) saved and raised them, and when they were old enough, they returned the throne of alba longa to numitor.[ ][ ] the twins then founded their own city, but romulus killed remus in a quarrel over the location of the roman kingdom, though some sources state the quarrel was about who was going to rule or give his name to the city.[ ] romulus became the source of the city's name.[ ] in order to attract people to the city, rome became a sanctuary for the indigent, exiled, and unwanted. this caused a problem, in that rome came to have a large male population but was bereft of women. romulus visited neighboring towns and tribes and attempted to secure marriage rights, but as rome was so full of undesirables he was refused. legend says that the latins invited the sabines to a festival and stole their unmarried maidens, leading to the integration of the latins with the sabines.[ ] another legend, recorded by greek historian dionysius of halicarnassus, says that prince aeneas led a group of trojans on a sea voyage to found a new troy, since the original was destroyed at the end of the trojan war. after a long time in rough seas, they landed on the banks of the tiber river. not long after they landed, the men wanted to take to the sea again, but the women who were traveling with them did not want to leave. one woman, named roma, suggested that the women burn the ships out at sea to prevent their leaving. at first, the men were angry with roma, but they soon realized that they were in the ideal place to settle. they named the settlement after the woman who torched their ships.[ ] the roman poet virgil recounted this legend in his classical epic poem the aeneid, where the trojan prince aeneas is destined by the gods to found a new troy. in the epic, the women also refuse to go back to the sea, but they were not left on the tiber. after reaching italy, aeneas, who wanted to marry lavinia, was forced to wage war with her former suitor, turnus. according to the poem, the alban kings were descended from aeneas, and thus romulus, the founder of rome, was his descendant. kingdom main article: roman kingdom etruscan painting; dancer and musicians, tomb of the leopards, in tarquinia, italy the city of rome grew from settlements around a ford on the river tiber, a crossroads of traffic and trade.[ ] according to archaeological evidence, the village of rome was probably founded some time in the th century bc, though it may go back as far as the th century bc, by members of the latin tribe of italy, on the top of the palatine hill.[ ][ ] the etruscans, who had previously settled to the north in etruria, seem to have established political control in the region by the late th century bc, forming an aristocratic and monarchical elite. the etruscans apparently lost power by the late th century bc, and at this point, the original latin and sabine tribes reinvented their government by creating a republic, with much greater restraints on the ability of rulers to exercise power.[ ] roman tradition and archaeological evidence point to a complex within the forum romanum as the seat of power for the king and the beginnings of the religious center there as well. numa pompilius the second king of rome, succeeding romulus, began rome's building projects with his royal palace the regia and the complex of the vestal virgins. republic main article: roman republic this bust from the capitoline museums is traditionally identified as a portrait of lucius junius brutus, roman bronze sculpture, th to late rd centuries bc according to tradition and later writers such as livy, the roman republic was established around  bc,[ ] when the last of the seven kings of rome, tarquin the proud, was deposed by lucius junius brutus and a system based on annually elected magistrates and various representative assemblies was established.[ ] a constitution set a series of checks and balances, and a separation of powers. the most important magistrates were the two consuls, who together exercised executive authority such as imperium, or military command.[ ] the consuls had to work with the senate, which was initially an advisory council of the ranking nobility, or patricians, but grew in size and power.[ ] other magistrates of the republic include tribunes, quaestors, aediles, praetors and censors.[ ] the magistracies were originally restricted to patricians, but were later opened to common people, or plebeians.[ ] republican voting assemblies included the comitia centuriata (centuriate assembly), which voted on matters of war and peace and elected men to the most important offices, and the comitia tributa (tribal assembly), which elected less important offices.[ ] italy (as defined by today's borders) in bc. in the th century bc, rome had come under attack by the gauls, who now extended their power in the italian peninsula beyond the po valley and through etruria. on july  bc, a gallic army under the leadership of tribal chieftain brennus, met the romans on the banks of the allia river ten miles north of rome. brennus defeated the romans, and the gauls marched to rome. most romans had fled the city, but some barricaded themselves upon the capitoline hill for a last stand. the gauls looted and burned the city, then laid siege to the capitoline hill. the siege lasted seven months. the gauls then agreed to give the romans peace in exchange for , pounds (  kg) of gold.[ ] according to later legend, the roman supervising the weighing noticed that the gauls were using false scales. the romans then took up arms and defeated the gauls. their victorious general camillus remarked "with iron, not with gold, rome buys her freedom."[ ] the romans gradually subdued the other peoples on the italian peninsula, including the etruscans.[ ] the last threat to roman hegemony in italy came when tarentum, a major greek colony, enlisted the aid of pyrrhus of epirus in  bc, but this effort failed as well.[ ][ ] the romans secured their conquests by founding roman colonies in strategic areas, thereby establishing stable control over the region of italy they had conquered.[ ] punic wars main article: punic wars see also: roman conquest of the iberian peninsula 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (september ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) rome and carthage possession changes during the punic wars   carthaginian possessions   roman possessions one of the most famous roman sieges was that of the celtiberian stronghold of numantia in present north-central spain by scipio aemilianus in bc[ ] roman bronze bust of scipio africanus the elder from the naples national archaeological museum (inv. no. ), dated mid st century bc[ ] excavated from the villa of the papyri at herculaneum by karl jakob weber, – [ ] in the rd century bc rome faced a new and formidable opponent: carthage. carthage was a rich, flourishing phoenician city-state that intended to dominate the mediterranean area. the two cities were allies in the times of pyrrhus, who was a menace to both, but with rome's hegemony in mainland italy and the carthaginian thalassocracy, these cities became the two major powers in the western mediterranean and their contention over the mediterranean led to conflict. the first punic war began in  bc, when the city of messana asked for carthage's help in their conflicts with hiero ii of syracuse. after the carthaginian intercession, messana asked rome to expel the carthaginians. rome entered this war because syracuse and messana were too close to the newly conquered greek cities of southern italy and carthage was now able to make an offensive through roman territory; along with this, rome could extend its domain over sicily.[ ] although the romans had experience in land battles, defeating this new enemy required naval battles. carthage was a maritime power, and the roman lack of ships and naval experience made the path to the victory a long and difficult one for the roman republic. despite this, after more than years of war, rome defeated carthage and a peace treaty was signed. among the reasons for the second punic war[ ] was the subsequent war reparations carthage acquiesced to at the end of the first punic war.[ ] the second punic war is famous for its brilliant generals: on the punic side hannibal and hasdrubal; on the roman, marcus claudius marcellus, quintus fabius maximus verrucosus and publius cornelius scipio. rome fought this war simultaneously with the first macedonian war. the war began with the audacious invasion of hispania by hannibal, the carthaginian general who had led operations on sicily in the first punic war. hannibal, son of hamilcar barca, rapidly marched through hispania to the italian alps, causing panic among rome's italian allies. the best way found to defeat hannibal's purpose of causing the italians to abandon rome was to delay the carthaginians with a guerrilla war of attrition, a strategy propounded by quintus fabius maximus, who would be nicknamed cunctator ("delayer" in latin), and whose strategy would be forever after known as fabian. due to this, hannibal's goal was unachieved: he could not bring enough italian cities to revolt against rome and replenish his diminishing army, and he thus lacked the machines and manpower to besiege rome. still, hannibal's invasion lasted over years, ravaging italy. finally, when the romans perceived the depletion of hannibal's supplies, they sent scipio, who had defeated hannibal's brother hasdrubal in modern-day spain, to invade the unprotected carthaginian hinterland and force hannibal to return to defend carthage itself. the result was the ending of the second punic war by the famously decisive battle of zama in october  bc, which gave to scipio his agnomen africanus. at great cost, rome had made significant gains: the conquest of hispania by scipio, and of syracuse, the last greek realm in sicily, by marcellus. more than a half century after these events, carthage was humiliated and rome was no more concerned about the african menace. the republic's focus now was only to the hellenistic kingdoms of greece and revolts in hispania. however, carthage, after having paid the war indemnity, felt that its commitments and submission to rome had ceased, a vision not shared by the roman senate. when in  bc numidia invaded carthage, carthage asked for roman intercession. ambassadors were sent to carthage, among them was marcus porcius cato, who after seeing that carthage could make a comeback and regain its importance, ended all his speeches, no matter what the subject was, by saying: "ceterum censeo carthaginem esse delendam" ("furthermore, i think that carthage must be destroyed"). as carthage fought with numidia without roman consent, the third punic war began when rome declared war against carthage in  bc. carthage resisted well at the first strike, with the participation of all the inhabitants of the city. however, carthage could not withstand the attack of scipio aemilianus, who entirely destroyed the city and its walls, enslaved and sold all the citizens and gained control of that region, which became the province of africa. thus ended the punic war period. all these wars resulted in rome's first overseas conquests (sicily, hispania and africa) and the rise of rome as a significant imperial power and began the end of democracy. [ ][ ] late republic after defeating the macedonian and seleucid empires in the nd century bc, the romans became the dominant people of the mediterranean sea.[ ][ ] the conquest of the hellenistic kingdoms brought the roman and greek cultures in closer contact and the roman elite, once rural, became a luxurious and cosmopolitan one. at this time rome was a consolidated empire—in the military view—and had no major enemies. gaius marius, a roman general and politician who dramatically reformed the roman military foreign dominance led to internal strife. senators became rich at the provinces' expense; soldiers, who were mostly small-scale farmers, were away from home longer and could not maintain their land; and the increased reliance on foreign slaves and the growth of latifundia reduced the availability of paid work.[ ][ ] income from war booty, mercantilism in the new provinces, and tax farming created new economic opportunities for the wealthy, forming a new class of merchants, called the equestrians.[ ] the lex claudia forbade members of the senate from engaging in commerce, so while the equestrians could theoretically join the senate, they were severely restricted in political power.[ ][ ] the senate squabbled perpetually, repeatedly blocked important land reforms and refused to give the equestrian class a larger say in the government. violent gangs of the urban unemployed, controlled by rival senators, intimidated the electorate through violence. the situation came to a head in the late nd century bc under the gracchi brothers, a pair of tribunes who attempted to pass land reform legislation that would redistribute the major patrician landholdings among the plebeians. both brothers were killed and the senate passed reforms reversing the gracchi brother's actions.[ ] this led to the growing divide of the plebeian groups (populares) and equestrian classes (optimates). marius and sulla gaius marius, a novus homo, who started his political career with the help of the powerful metelli family soon become a leader of the republic, holding the first of his seven consulships (an unprecedented number) in  bc by arguing that his former patron quintus caecilius metellus numidicus was not able to defeat and capture the numidian king jugurtha. marius then started his military reform: in his recruitment to fight jugurtha, he levied the very poor (an innovation), and many landless men entered the army; this was the seed of securing loyalty of the army to the general in command. lucius cornelius sulla was born into a poor family that used to be a patrician family. he had a good education but became poor when his father died and left none of his will. sulla joined the theater and found many friends there, prior to becoming a general in the jugurthine war.[ ] at this time, marius began his quarrel with sulla: marius, who wanted to capture jugurtha, asked bocchus, son-in-law of jugurtha, to hand him over. as marius failed, sulla, a general of marius at that time, in a dangerous enterprise, went himself to bocchus and convinced bocchus to hand jugurtha over to him. this was very provocative to marius, since many of his enemies were encouraging sulla to oppose marius. despite this, marius was elected for five consecutive consulships from to  bc, as rome needed a military leader to defeat the cimbri and the teutones, who were threatening rome. lucius cornelius sulla after marius's retirement, rome had a brief peace, during which the italian socii ("allies" in latin) requested roman citizenship and voting rights. the reformist marcus livius drusus supported their legal process but was assassinated, and the socii revolted against the romans in the social war. at one point both consuls were killed; marius was appointed to command the army together with lucius julius caesar and sulla.[ ] by the end of the social war, marius and sulla were the premier military men in rome and their partisans were in conflict, both sides jostling for power. in  bc, sulla was elected for his first consulship and his first assignment was to defeat mithridates vi of pontus, whose intentions were to conquer the eastern part of the roman territories. however, marius's partisans managed his installation to the military command, defying sulla and the senate, and this caused sulla's wrath. to consolidate his own power, sulla conducted a surprising and illegal action: he marched to rome with his legions, killing all those who showed support to marius's cause and impaling their heads in the roman forum. in the following year,  bc, marius, who had fled at sulla's march, returned to rome while sulla was campaigning in greece. he seized power along with the consul lucius cornelius cinna and killed the other consul, gnaeus octavius, achieving his seventh consulship. in an attempt to raise sulla's anger, marius and cinna revenged their partisans by conducting a massacre.[ ][ ] marius died in  bc, due to age and poor health, just a few months after seizing power. cinna exercised absolute power until his death in  bc. sulla after returning from his eastern campaigns, had a free path to reestablish his own power. in  bc he made his second march in rome and began a time of terror: thousands of nobles, knights and senators were executed. sulla also held two dictatorships and one more consulship, which began the crisis and decline of roman republic.[ ] caesar and the first triumvirate 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (september ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) landing of the romans in kent, bc: caesar with ships and two legions made an opposed landing, probably near deal. after pressing a little way inland against fierce opposition and losing ships in a storm, he retired back across the english channel to gaul from what was a reconnaissance in force, only to return the following year for a more serious invasion. in the mid- st century bc, roman politics were restless. political divisions in rome became identified with two groupings, populares (who hoped for the support of the people) and optimates (the "best", who wanted to maintain exclusive aristocratic control). sulla overthrew all populist leaders and his constitutional reforms removed powers (such as those of the tribune of the plebs) that had supported populist approaches. meanwhile, social and economic stresses continued to build; rome had become a metropolis with a super-rich aristocracy, debt-ridden aspirants, and a large proletariat often of impoverished farmers. the latter groups supported the catilinarian conspiracy—a resounding failure, since the consul marcus tullius cicero quickly arrested and executed the main leaders of the conspiracy. onto this turbulent scene emerged gaius julius caesar, from an aristocratic family of limited wealth. his aunt julia was marius' wife,[ ] and caesar identified with the populares. to achieve power, caesar reconciled the two most powerful men in rome: marcus licinius crassus, who had financed much of his earlier career, and crassus' rival, gnaeus pompeius magnus (anglicized as pompey), to whom he married his daughter. he formed them into a new informal alliance including himself, the first triumvirate ("three men"). this satisfied the interests of all three: crassus, the richest man in rome, became richer and ultimately achieved high military command; pompey exerted more influence in the senate; and caesar obtained the consulship and military command in gaul.[ ] so long as they could agree, the three were in effect the rulers of rome. in  bc, caesar's daughter, pompey's wife, died in childbirth, unraveling one link in the alliance. in  bc, crassus invaded parthia and was killed in the battle of carrhae. the triumvirate disintegrated at crassus' death. crassus had acted as mediator between caesar and pompey, and, without him, the two generals manoeuvred against each other for power. caesar conquered gaul, obtaining immense wealth, respect in rome and the loyalty of battle-hardened legions. he also became a clear menace to pompey and was loathed by many optimates. confident that caesar could be stopped by legal means, pompey's party tried to strip caesar of his legions, a prelude to caesar's trial, impoverishment, and exile. to avoid this fate, caesar crossed the rubicon river and invaded rome in  bc. pompey and his party fled from italy, pursued by caesar. the battle of pharsalus was a brilliant victory for caesar and in this and other campaigns he destroyed all of the optimates' leaders: metellus scipio, cato the younger, and pompey's son, gnaeus pompeius. pompey was murdered in egypt in  bc. caesar was now pre-eminent over rome, attracting the bitter enmity of many aristocrats. he was granted many offices and honours. in just five years, he held four consulships, two ordinary dictatorships, and two special dictatorships: one for ten years and another for perpetuity. he was murdered in  bc, on the ides of march by the liberatores.[ ] octavian and the second triumvirate the battle of actium, by laureys a castro, painted , national maritime museum, london caesar's assassination caused political and social turmoil in rome; without the dictator's leadership, the city was ruled by his friend and colleague, marcus antonius. soon afterward, octavius, whom caesar adopted through his will, arrived in rome. octavian (historians regard octavius as octavian due to the roman naming conventions) tried to align himself with the caesarian faction. in  bc, along with antony and marcus aemilius lepidus, caesar's best friend,[ ] he legally established the second triumvirate. this alliance would last for five years. upon its formation, – senators were executed, and their property was confiscated, due to their supposed support for the liberatores.[ ] in  bc, the senate deified caesar as divus iulius; octavian thus became divi filius,[ ] the son of the deified. in the same year, octavian and antony defeated both caesar's assassins and the leaders of the liberatores, marcus junius brutus and gaius cassius longinus, in the battle of philippi. the second triumvirate was marked by the proscriptions of many senators and equites: after a revolt led by antony's brother lucius antonius, more than senators and equites involved were executed on the anniversary of the ides of march, although lucius was spared.[ ] the triumvirate proscribed several important men, including cicero, whom antony hated;[ ] quintus tullius cicero, the younger brother of the orator; and lucius julius caesar, cousin and friend of the acclaimed general, for his support of cicero. however, lucius was pardoned, perhaps because his sister julia had intervened for him.[ ] the triumvirate divided the empire among the triumvirs: lepidus was given charge of africa, antony, the eastern provinces, and octavian remained in italia and controlled hispania and gaul. the second triumvirate expired in  bc but was renewed for five more years. however, the relationship between octavian and antony had deteriorated, and lepidus was forced to retire in  bc after betraying octavian in sicily. by the end of the triumvirate, antony was living in ptolemaic egypt, an independent and rich kingdom ruled by antony's lover, cleopatra vii. antony's affair with cleopatra was seen as an act of treason, since she was queen of another country. additionally, antony adopted a lifestyle considered too extravagant and hellenistic for a roman statesman.[ ] following antony's donations of alexandria, which gave to cleopatra the title of "queen of kings", and to antony's and cleopatra's children the regal titles to the newly conquered eastern territories, war between octavian and antony broke out. octavian annihilated egyptian forces in the battle of actium in  bc. antony and cleopatra committed suicide. now egypt was conquered by the roman empire, and for the romans, a new era had begun. empire – the principate main article: roman empire in  bc and at the age of , octavian was the sole roman leader. in that year, he took the name augustus. that event is usually taken by historians as the beginning of roman empire—although rome was an "imperial" state since  bc, when carthage was razed by scipio aemilianus and greece was conquered by lucius mummius. officially, the government was republican, but augustus assumed absolute powers.[ ][ ] his reform of the government brought about a two-century period colloquially referred to by romans as the pax romana. julio-claudian dynasty the julio-claudian dynasty was established by augustus. the emperors of this dynasty were: augustus, tiberius, caligula, claudius and nero. the dynasty is so-called due to the gens julia, family of augustus, and the gens claudia, family of tiberius. the julio-claudians started the destruction of republican values, but on the other hand, they boosted rome's status as the central power in the world.[ ] while caligula and nero are usually remembered as dysfunctional emperors in popular culture, augustus and claudius are remembered as emperors who were successful in politics and the military. this dynasty instituted imperial tradition in rome[ ] and frustrated any attempt to reestablish a republic.[ ] augustus the augustus of prima porta, st century ad, depicting augustus, the first roman emperor augustus gathered almost all the republican powers under his official title, princeps: he had powers of consul, princeps senatus, aedile, censor and tribune—including tribunician sacrosanctity.[ ] this was the base of an emperor's power. augustus also styled himself as imperator gaius julius caesar divi filius, "commander gaius julius caesar, son of the deified one". with this title he not only boasted his familial link to deified julius caesar, but the use of imperator signified a permanent link to the roman tradition of victory. he also diminished the senatorial class influence in politics by boosting the equestrian class. the senators lost their right to rule certain provinces, like egypt; since the governor of that province was directly nominated by the emperor. the creation of the praetorian guard and his reforms in the military, creating a standing army with a fixed size of legions, ensured his total control over the army.[ ] compared with the second triumvirate's epoch, augustus' reign as princeps was very peaceful. this peace and richness (that was granted by the agrarian province of egypt)[ ] led the people and the nobles of rome to support augustus increasing his strength in political affairs.[ ] in military activity, augustus was absent at battles. his generals were responsible for the field command; gaining such commanders as marcus vipsanius agrippa, nero claudius drusus and germanicus much respect from the populace and the legions. augustus intended to extend the roman empire to the whole known world, and in his reign, rome conquered cantabria, aquitania, raetia, dalmatia, illyricum and pannonia.[ ] under augustus's reign, roman literature grew steadily in what is known as the golden age of latin literature. poets like virgil, horace, ovid and rufus developed a rich literature, and were close friends of augustus. along with maecenas, he stimulated patriotic poems, as virgil's epic aeneid and also historiographical works, like those of livy. the works of this literary age lasted through roman times, and are classics. augustus also continued the shifts on the calendar promoted by caesar, and the month of august is named after him.[ ] augustus brought a peaceful and thriving era to rome, known as pax augusta or pax romana. augustus died in  ad, but the empire's glory continued after his era. from tiberius to nero extent of the roman empire under augustus. the yellow legend represents the extent of the republic in  bc, the shades of green represent gradually conquered territories under the reign of augustus, and pink areas on the map represent client states; areas under roman control shown here were subject to change even during augustus' reign, especially in germania. the julio-claudians continued to rule rome after augustus' death and remained in power until the death of nero in  ad.[ ] augustus' favorites for succeeding him were already dead in his senescence: his nephew marcellus died in  bc, his friend and military commander agrippa in  bc and his grandson gaius caesar in  ad. influenced by his wife, livia drusilla, augustus appointed her son from another marriage, tiberius, as his heir.[ ] the senate agreed with the succession, and granted to tiberius the same titles and honors once granted to augustus: the title of princeps and pater patriae, and the civic crown. however, tiberius was not an enthusiast of political affairs: after agreement with the senate, he retired to capri in  ad,[ ] and left control of the city of rome in the hands of the praetorian prefect sejanus (until  ad) and macro (from to  ad). tiberius was regarded as an evil and melancholic man, who may have ordered the murder of his relatives, the popular general germanicus in  ad,[ ] and his own son drusus julius caesar in  ad.[ ] tiberius died (or was killed)[ ] in  ad. the male line of the julio-claudians was limited to tiberius' nephew claudius, his grandson tiberius gemellus and his grand-nephew caligula. as gemellus was still a child, caligula was chosen to rule the empire. he was a popular leader in the first half of his reign, but became a crude and insane tyrant in his years controlling government.[ ][ ] suetonius states that he committed incest with his sisters, killed some men just for amusement and nominated a horse for a consulship.[ ] the praetorian guard murdered caligula four years after the death of tiberius,[ ] and, with belated support from the senators, proclaimed his uncle claudius as the new emperor.[ ] claudius was not as authoritarian as tiberius and caligula. claudius conquered lycia and thrace; his most important deed was the beginning of the conquest of britannia.[ ] claudius was poisoned by his wife, agrippina the younger in  ad.[ ] his heir was nero, son of agrippina and her former husband, since claudius' son britannicus had not reached manhood upon his father's death. nero sent his general, suetonius paulinus, to invade modern-day wales, where he encountered stiff resistance. the celts in modern-day wales were independent, tough and resistant to tax collectors and fought paulinus, as he battled his way across from east to west. it took him a long time to reach the north west coast and in ad he finally crossed the menai strait to the sacred island of mona (modern-day anglesey), the last stronghold of the druids.[ ] his soldiers attacked the island and massacred the druids, men, women and children,[ ] destroyed the shrine and the sacred groves and threw many of the sacred standing stones into the sea. while paulinus and his troops were massacring druids in mona, the tribes of modern-day east anglia staged a revolt led by queen boadicea of the iceni.[ ] the rebels sacked and burned camulodunum, londinium and verulamium (modern-day colchester, london and st albans respectively) before they were crushed by paulinus.[ ] boadicea, like cleopatra before her, committed suicide to avoid the disgrace of being paraded in triumph in rome.[ ] the fault of nero in this rebellion is debatable but there was certainly an impact (both positive and negative) upon the prestige of his regime.[citation needed] nero is widely known as the first persecutor of christians and for the great fire of rome, rumoured to have been started by the emperor himself.[ ][ ] in ad he murdered his mother and in ad, his wife claudia octavia. never very stable, he allowed his advisers to run the government while he slid into debauchery, excess, and madness. he was married three times, and had numerous affairs with both men and women, and, according to some rumors, even his mother. a conspiracy against nero in ad under calpurnius piso failed, but in ad the armies under julius vindex in gaul and servius sulpicius galba in modern-day spain revolted. deserted by the praetorian guards and condemned to death by the senate, nero killed himself.[ ] flavian dynasty bust of vespasian, founder of the flavian dynasty the flavians were the second dynasty to rule rome.[ ] by  ad, year of nero's death, there was no chance of return to the old and traditional roman republic, thus a new emperor had to rise. after the turmoil in the year of the four emperors, titus flavius vespasianus (anglicized as vespasian) took control of the empire and established a new dynasty. under the flavians, rome continued its expansion, and the state remained secure.[ ][ ] the most significant military campaign undertaken during the flavian period, was the siege and destruction of jerusalem in by titus. the destruction of the city was the culmination of the roman campaign in judea following the jewish uprising of . the second temple was completely demolished, after which titus's soldiers proclaimed him imperator in honor of the victory. jerusalem was sacked and much of the population killed or dispersed. josephus claims that , , people were killed during the siege, of which a majority were jewish.[ ] , were captured and enslaved, including simon bar giora and john of giscala. many fled to areas around the mediterranean. titus reportedly refused to accept a wreath of victory, as there is "no merit in vanquishing people forsaken by their own god". vespasian vespasian was a general under claudius and nero. he fought as a commander in the first jewish-roman war along with his son titus. following the turmoil of the year of the four emperors, in  ad, four emperors were enthroned: galba, otho, vitellius, and, lastly, vespasian, who crushed vitellius' forces and became emperor.[ ] he reconstructed many buildings which were uncompleted, like a statue of apollo and the temple of divus claudius ("the deified claudius"), both initiated by nero. buildings once destroyed by the great fire of rome were rebuilt, and he revitalized the capitol. vespasian also started the construction of the flavian amphitheater, more commonly known as the colosseum.[ ] the historians josephus and pliny the elder wrote their works during vespasian's reign. vespasian was josephus' sponsor and pliny dedicated his naturalis historia to titus, son of vespasian. vespasian sent legions to defend the eastern frontier in cappadocia, extended the occupation in britannia (modern-day england, wales and southern scotland) and reformed the tax system. he died in  ad. titus and domitian titus had a short-lived rule; he was emperor from to  ad. he finished the flavian amphitheater, which was constructed with war spoils from the first jewish-roman war, and promoted games celebrating the victory over the jews that lasted for a hundred days. these games included gladiatorial combats, chariot races and a sensational mock naval battle on the flooded grounds of the colosseum.[ ][ ] titus died of fever in  ad, and was succeeded by his brother domitian. as emperor, domitian assumed totalitarian characteristics,[ ] thought he could be a new augustus, and tried to make a personal cult of himself. domitian ruled for fifteen years, and his reign was marked by his attempts to compare himself to the gods. he constructed at least two temples in honour of jupiter, the supreme deity in roman religion. he also liked to be called "dominus et deus" ("master and god").[ ] nerva–antonine dynasty the roman empire reached its greatest extent under trajan in ad  the nerva–antonine dynasty from ad to ad was the rule of the emperors nerva, trajan, hadrian, antoninus pius, marcus aurelius, lucius verus, and commodus. during their rule, rome reached its territorial and economical apogee.[ ] this was a time of peace for rome. the criteria for choosing an emperor were the qualities of the candidate and no longer ties of kinship; additionally, there were no civil wars or military defeats in this period. following domitian's murder, the senate rapidly appointed nerva to hold imperial dignity. this was the first time that senators chose the emperor since octavian was honored with the titles of princeps and augustus. nerva had a noble ancestry, and he had served as an advisor to nero and the flavians. his rule restored many of the liberties once assumed by domitian[ ] and started the last golden era of rome. trajan the justice of trajan (fragment) by eugène delacroix nerva died in  ad and his successor and heir was the general trajan. trajan was born in a non-patrician family from hispania baetica (modern-day andalusia) and his preeminence emerged in the army, under domitian. he is the second of the five good emperors, the first being nerva. trajan was greeted by the people of rome with enthusiasm, which he justified by governing well and without the bloodiness that had marked domitian's reign. he freed many people who had been unjustly imprisoned by domitian and returned private property that domitian had confiscated; a process begun by nerva before his death.[ ] trajan conquered dacia (roughly modern-day romania and moldova), and defeated the king decebalus, who had defeated domitian's forces. in the first dacian war ( – ), the defeated dacia became a client kingdom; in the second dacian war ( – ), trajan completely devastated the enemy's resistance and annexed dacia to the empire. trajan also annexed the client state of nabatea to form the province of arabia petraea, which included the lands of southern syria and northwestern arabia.[ ] he erected many buildings that survive to this day, such as trajan's forum, trajan's market and trajan's column. his main architect was apollodorus of damascus; apollodorus made the project of the forum and of the column, and also reformed the pantheon. trajan's triumphal arches in ancona and beneventum are other constructions projected by him. in the second dacian war, apollodorus made a great bridge over the danube for trajan.[ ] trajan's final war was against parthia. when parthia appointed a king for armenia who was unacceptable to rome (parthia and rome shared dominance over armenia), he declared war. he probably wanted to be the first roman leader to conquer parthia, and repeat the glory of alexander the great, conqueror of asia, whom trajan next followed in the clash of greek-romans and the persian cultures.[ ] in he marched to armenia and deposed the local king. in trajan turned south into the core of parthian hegemony, took the northern mesopotamian cities of nisibis and batnae, organized a province of mesopotamia ( ), and issued coins announcing that armenia and mesopotamia was under the authority of the roman people.[ ] in that same year, he captured seleucia and the parthian capital ctesiphon (near modern baghdad).[ ] after defeating a parthian revolt and a jewish revolt, he withdrew due to health issues. in , his illness grew and he died of edema. he nominated hadrian as his heir. under trajan's leadership the roman empire reached the peak of its territorial expansion;[ ] rome's dominion now spanned .  million square kilometres ( .  million square miles).[ ] from hadrian to commodus map showing the location of hadrian's wall and the antonine wall in scotland and northern england many romans emigrated to hispania (modern-day spain and portugal) and stayed for generations, in some cases intermarrying with iberians; one of these families produced the emperor hadrian.[ ] hadrian withdrew all the troops stationed in parthia, armenia and mesopotamia (modern-day iraq), abandoning trajan's conquests. hadrian's army crushed a revolt in mauretania and the bar kokhba revolt in judea. this was the last large-scale jewish revolt against the romans, and was suppressed with massive repercussions in judea. hundreds of thousands of jews were killed. hadrian renamed the province of judea "provincia syria palaestina," after one of judea's most hated enemies.[ ] he constructed fortifications and walls, like the celebrated hadrian's wall which separated roman britannia and the tribes of modern-day scotland. hadrian promoted culture, especially the greek. he also forbade torture and humanized the laws. his many building projects included aqueducts, baths, libraries and theaters; additionally, he travelled nearly every province in the empire to check the military and infrastructural conditions.[ ] following hadrian's death in ad, his successor antoninus pius built temples, theaters, and mausoleums, promoted the arts and sciences, and bestowed honours and financial rewards upon the teachers of rhetoric and philosophy. on becoming emperor, antoninus made few initial changes, leaving intact as far as possible the arrangements instituted by his predecessor. antoninus expanded roman britannia by invading what is now southern scotland and building the antonine wall.[ ] he also continued hadrian's policy of humanizing the laws. he died in  ad. the pantheon, rome, built during the reign of hadrian, which still contains the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world marcus aurelius, known as the philosopher, was the last of the five good emperors. he was a stoic philosopher and wrote the meditations. he defeated barbarian tribes in the marcomannic wars as well as the parthian empire.[ ] his co-emperor, lucius verus died in  ad, probably victim of the antonine plague, a pandemic that killed nearly five million people through the empire in –  ad.[ ] from nerva to marcus aurelius, the empire achieved an unprecedented status. the powerful influence of laws and manners had gradually cemented the union of the provinces. all the citizens enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth. the image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence. the roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved on the emperors all the executive powers of government.[clarification needed] the five good emperors' rule is considered the golden era of the empire.[ ] commodus, son of marcus aurelius, became emperor after his father's death. he is not counted as one of the five good emperors. firstly, this was due to his direct kinship with the latter emperor; in addition, he was militarily passive compared to his predecessors, who had frequently led their armies in person. commodus usually participated in gladiatorial combats, which were frequently brutal and rough. he killed many citizens, and cassius dio identifies his reign as the beginning of roman decadence: "(rome has transformed) from a kingdom of gold to one of iron and rust."[ ] severan dynasty commodus was killed by a conspiracy involving quintus aemilius laetus and his wife marcia in late  ad. the following year is known as the year of the five emperors, during which helvius pertinax, didius julianus, pescennius niger, clodius albinus and septimius severus held the imperial dignity. pertinax, a member of the senate who had been one of marcus aurelius's right hand men, was the choice of laetus, and he ruled vigorously and judiciously. laetus soon became jealous and instigated pertinax's murder by the praetorian guard, who then auctioned the empire to the highest bidder, didius julianus, for , sesterces per man.[ ] the people of rome were appalled and appealed to the frontier legions to save them. the legions of three frontier provinces—britannia, pannonia superior, and syria—resented being excluded from the "donative" and replied by declaring their individual generals to be emperor. lucius septimius severus geta, the pannonian commander, bribed the opposing forces, pardoned the praetorian guards and installed himself as emperor. he and his successors governed with the legions' support. the changes on coinage and military expenditures were the root of the financial crisis that marked the crisis of the third century. septimius severus the severan tondo, c. , severus, julia domna, caracalla and geta, whose face is erased severus was enthroned after invading rome and having didius julianus killed. his two other rivals, pescennius niger and clodius albinus, were both were hailed by other factions as imperator. severus quickly subdued niger in byzantium and promised to albinus the title of caesar (which meant he would be a co-emperor).[ ] however, severus betrayed albinus by blaming him for a plot against his life. severus marched to gaul and defeated albinus. for these acts, machiavelli said that severus was "a ferocious lion and a clever fox"[ ] severus attempted to revive totalitarianism and, addressing the roman people and senate, praised the severity and cruelty of marius and sulla, which worried the senators.[ ] when parthia invaded roman territory, severus waged war against that country and seized the cities of nisibis, babylon and seleucia. reaching ctesiphon, the parthian capital, he ordered plundering and his army slew and captured many people. notwithstanding this military success, severus failed in invading hatra, a rich arabian city. severus killed his legate, who was gaining respect from the legions; and his soldiers fell victim to famine. after this disastrous campaign, he withdrew.[ ] severus also intended to vanquish the whole of britannia. to achieve this, he waged war against the caledonians. after many casualties in the army due to the terrain and the barbarians' ambushes, severus himself went to the field. however, he became ill and died in  ad, at the age of . from caracalla to alexander severus bust of caracalla from the pergamon museum, berlin upon the death of severus, his sons caracalla and geta were made emperors. during their youth, their squabbles had divided rome. in that same year caracalla had his brother, a youth, assassinated in his mother's arms, and may have murdered , of geta's followers. like his father, caracalla was warlike. he continued severus' policy and gained respect from the legions. a cruel man, caracalla was pursued by the guilt of his brother's murder. he ordered the death of people of his own circle, like his tutor, cilo, and a friend of his father, papinian. knowing that the citizens of alexandria disliked him and were denigrating his character, caracalla served a banquet for its notable citizens, after which his soldiers killed all the guests. from the security of the temple of sarapis, he then directed an indiscriminate slaughter of alexandria's people.[ ][ ] in , he issued the edict of caracalla, giving full roman citizenship to all free men living in the empire, and at the same time raised the inheritance tax, levied only on roman citizens, to ten percent. a report that a soothsayer had predicted that the praetorian prefect macrinus and his son were to rule over the empire was dutifully sent to caracalla. but the report fell into the hands of macrinus, who felt he must act or die. macrinus conspired to have caracalla assassinated by one of his soldiers during a pilgrimage to the temple of the moon in carrhae, in  ad. the incompetent macrinus assumed power, but soon removed himself from rome to the east and antioch. his brief reign ended in , when the youngster bassianus, high priest of the temple of the sun at emesa, and supposedly illegitimate son of caracalla, was declared emperor by the disaffected soldiers of macrinus. bribes gained bassianus support from the legionaries and they fought against macrinus and his praetorian guards. he adopted the name of antoninus but history has named him after his sun god elagabalus, represented on earth in the form of a large black stone. an incompetent and lascivious ruler,[ ] elagabalus offended all but his favourites. cassius dio, herodian and the historia augusta give many accounts of his notorious extravagance. elagabalus adopted his cousin alexander severus, as caesar, but subsequently grew jealous and attempted to assassinate him. however, the praetorian guard preferred alexander, murdered elagabalus, dragged his mutilated corpse through the streets of rome, and threw it into the tiber. alexander severus then succeeded him. alexander waged war against many foes, including the revitalized persia and also the germanic peoples, who invaded gaul. his losses generated dissatisfaction among his soldiers, and some of them murdered him during his germanic campaign in  ad.[ ] crisis of the third century main article: crisis of the third century the roman empire suffered internal schisms, forming the palmyrene empire and the gallic empire a disastrous scenario emerged after the death of alexander severus: the roman state was plagued by civil wars, external invasions, political chaos, pandemics and economic depression.[ ][ ] the old roman values had fallen, and mithraism and christianity had begun to spread through the populace. emperors were no longer men linked with nobility; they usually were born in lower-classes of distant parts of the empire. these men rose to prominence through military ranks, and became emperors through civil wars. there were emperors in a -year period, a signal of political instability. maximinus thrax was the first ruler of that time, governing for just three years. others ruled just for a few months, like gordian i, gordian ii, balbinus and hostilian. the population and the frontiers were abandoned, since the emperors were mostly concerned with defeating rivals and establishing their power. the economy also suffered during that epoch. the massive military expenditures from the severi caused a devaluation of roman coins. hyperinflation came at this time as well. the plague of cyprian broke out in and killed a huge portion of the population.[ ] in  ad, the provinces of syria palaestina, asia minor and egypt separated from the rest of the roman state to form the palmyrene empire, ruled by queen zenobia and centered on palmyra. in that same year the gallic empire was created by postumus, retaining britannia and gaul.[ ] these countries separated from rome after the capture of emperor valerian by the sassanids of persia, the first roman ruler to be captured by his enemies; it was a humiliating fact for the romans.[ ] the crisis began to recede during the reigns of claudius gothicus ( – ), who defeated the gothic invaders, and aurelian ( – ), who reconquered both the gallic and palmyrene empires.[ ][ ] the crisis was overcome during the reign of diocletian. empire – the tetrarchy main article: roman empire diocletian a roman follis depicting the profile of diocletian in  ad, diocletian was hailed as imperator by the eastern army. diocletian healed the empire from the crisis, by political and economic shifts. a new form of government was established: the tetrarchy. the empire was divided among four emperors, two in the west and two in the east. the first tetrarchs were diocletian (in the east), maximian (in the west), and two junior emperors, galerius (in the east) and flavius constantius (in the west). to adjust the economy, diocletian made several tax reforms.[ ] diocletian expelled the persians who plundered syria and conquered some barbarian tribes with maximian. he adopted many behaviors of eastern monarchs, like wearing pearls and golden sandals and robes. anyone in the presence of the emperor had now to prostrate himself—a common act in the east, but never practiced in rome before.[ ] diocletian did not use a disguised form of republic, as the other emperors since augustus had done.[ ] between and , half a dozen new capitals had been established by the members of the tetrarchy, officially or not: antioch, nicomedia, thessalonike, sirmium, milan, and trier.[ ] diocletian was also responsible for a significant christian persecution. in he and galerius started the persecution and ordered the destruction of all the christian churches and scripts and forbade christian worship.[ ] diocletian abdicated in  ad together with maximian, thus, he was the first roman emperor to resign. his reign ended the traditional form of imperial rule, the principate (from princeps) and started the tetrarchy. the aula palatina of trier, germany (then part of the roman province of gallia belgica), a christian basilica built during the reign of constantine i (r. – ad) constantine and christianity constantine assumed the empire as a tetrarch in . he conducted many wars against the other tetrarchs. firstly he defeated maxentius in . in , he issued the edict of milan, which granted liberty for christians to profess their religion.[ ] constantine was converted to christianity, enforcing the christian faith. he began the christianization of the empire and of europe—a process concluded by the catholic church in the middle ages. he was defeated by the franks and the alamanni during – . in he defeated another tetrarch, licinius, and controlled all the empire, as it was before diocletian. to celebrate his victories and christianity's relevance, he rebuilt byzantium and renamed it nova roma ("new rome"); but the city soon gained the informal name of constantinople ("city of constantine").[ ][ ] the reign of julian, who under the influence of his adviser mardonius attempted to restore classical roman and hellenistic religion, only briefly interrupted the succession of christian emperors. constantinople served as a new capital for the empire. in fact, rome had lost its central importance since the crisis of the third century—mediolanum was the western capital from to , until the reign of honorius, when ravenna was made capital, in the th century.[ ] constantine's administrative and monetary reforms, that reunited the empire under one emperor, and rebuilt the city of byzantium changed the high period of the ancient world. fall of the western roman empire main article: fall of the western roman empire in the late th and th centuries the western empire entered a critical stage which terminated with the fall of the western roman empire.[ ] under the last emperors of the constantinian dynasty and the valentinianic dynasty, rome lost decisive battles against the sasanian empire and germanic barbarians: in , emperor julian the apostate was killed in the battle of samarra, against the persians and the battle of adrianople cost the life of emperor valens ( – ); the victorious goths were never expelled from the empire nor assimilated.[ ] the next emperor, theodosius i ( – ), gave even more force to the christian faith, and after his death, the empire was divided into the eastern roman empire, ruled by arcadius and the western roman empire, commanded by honorius, both of which were theodosius' sons.[citation needed] ending invasions on roman empire between ad – . visigoths entering athens. the sack of rome by the barbarians in by joseph-noël sylvestre. the situation became more critical in , after the death of stilicho, a general who tried to reunite the empire and repel barbarian invasion in the early years of the th century. the professional field army collapsed. in , the theodosian dynasty saw the visigoths sack rome.[ ] during the th century, the western empire experienced a significant reduction of its territory. the vandals conquered north africa, the visigoths claimed the southern part of gaul, gallaecia was taken by the suebi, britannia was abandoned by the central government, and the empire suffered further from the invasions of attila, chief of the huns.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] general orestes refused to meet the demands of the barbarian "allies" who now formed the army, and tried to expel them from italy. unhappy with this, their chieftain odoacer defeated and killed orestes, invaded ravenna and dethroned romulus augustus, son of orestes. this event of , usually marks the end of classical antiquity and beginning of the middle ages.[ ][ ] the roman noble and former emperor julius nepos continued to rule as emperor from dalmatia even after the deposition of romulus augustus until his death in . some historians consider him to be the last emperor of the western empire instead of romulus augustus.[ ] after some years of independence and nearly years as a great power, the rule of rome in the west ended.[ ] various reasons for rome's fall have been proposed ever since, including loss of republicanism, moral decay, military tyranny, class war, slavery, economic stagnation, environmental change, disease, the decline of the roman race, as well as the inevitable ebb and flow that all civilizations experience. at the time many pagans argued that christianity and the decline of traditional roman religion were responsible; some rationalist thinkers of the modern era attribute the fall to a change from a martial to a more pacifist religion that lessened the number of available soldiers; while christians such as augustine of hippo argued that the sinful nature of roman society itself was to blame.[ ] the eastern empire had a different fate. it survived for almost years after the fall of its western counterpart and became the most stable christian realm during the middle ages. during the th century, justinian reconquered the italian peninsula from the ostrogoths, north africa from the vandals, and southern hispania from the visigoths. but within a few years of justinian's death, byzantine possessions in italy were greatly reduced by the lombards who settled in the peninsula.[ ] in the east, partially due to the weakening effect of the plague of justinian, the byzantines were threatened by the rise of islam. its followers rapidly brought about the conquest of the levant, the conquest of armenia and the conquest of egypt during the arab–byzantine wars, and soon presented a direct threat to constantinople.[ ][ ] in the following century, the arabs also captured southern italy and sicily.[ ] on the west, slavic populations were also able to penetrate deep into the balkans. the byzantines, however, managed to stop further islamic expansion into their lands during the th century and, beginning in the th century, reclaimed parts of the conquered lands.[ ][ ] in  ad, the eastern empire was at its height: basil ii reconquered bulgaria and armenia, and culture and trade flourished.[ ] however, soon after, this expansion was abruptly stopped in with the byzantine defeat in the battle of manzikert. the aftermath of this battle sent the empire into a protracted period of decline. two decades of internal strife and turkic invasions ultimately led emperor alexios i komnenos to send a call for help to the western european kingdoms in .[ ] the west responded with the crusades, eventually resulting in the sack of constantinople by participants of the fourth crusade. the conquest of constantinople in fragmented what remained of the empire into successor states; the ultimate victor was the empire of nicaea.[ ] after the recapture of constantinople by imperial forces, the empire was little more than a greek state confined to the aegean coast. the byzantine empire collapsed when mehmed the conqueror conquered constantinople on may,  .[ ] society the roman forum, the political, economic, cultural, and religious center of the city during the republic and later empire 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (september ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) the imperial city of rome was the largest urban center in the empire, with a population variously estimated from , to close to one million.[ ][ ][ ] the public spaces in rome resounded with such a din of hooves and clatter of iron chariot wheels that julius caesar had once proposed a ban on chariot traffic during the day. historical estimates show that around percent of the population under jurisdiction of ancient rome ( – %, depending on the standards used, in roman italy)[ ] lived in innumerable urban centers, with population of , and more and several military settlements, a very high rate of urbanization by pre-industrial standards. most of those centers had a forum, temples, and other buildings similar to rome's. average life expectancy was about .[ ][timeframe?] law main article: roman law the roots of the legal principles and practices of the ancient romans may be traced to the law of the twelve tables promulgated in  bc and to the codification of law issued by order of emperor justinian i around  ad (see corpus juris civilis). roman law as preserved in justinian's codes continued into the byzantine empire, and formed the basis of similar codifications in continental western europe. roman law continued, in a broader sense, to be applied throughout most of europe until the end of the th century. the major divisions of the law of ancient rome, as contained within the justinian and theodosian law codes, consisted of ius civile, ius gentium, and ius naturale. the ius civile ("citizen law") was the body of common laws that applied to roman citizens.[ ] the praetores urbani (sg. praetor urbanus) were the people who had jurisdiction over cases involving citizens. the ius gentium ("law of nations") was the body of common laws that applied to foreigners, and their dealings with roman citizens.[ ] the praetores peregrini (sg. praetor peregrinus) were the people who had jurisdiction over cases involving citizens and foreigners. ius naturale encompassed natural law, the body of laws that were considered common to all beings. class structure main articles: social class in ancient rome and status in roman legal system the patrician torlonia bust of cato the elder, st century bc the orator, c. bc, an etrusco-roman bronze statue depicting aule metele (latin: aulus metellus), an etruscan man wearing a roman toga while engaged in rhetoric; the statue features an inscription in the etruscan language roman society is largely viewed as hierarchical, with slaves (servi) at the bottom, freedmen (liberti) above them, and free-born citizens (cives) at the top. free citizens were also divided by class. the broadest, and earliest, division was between the patricians, who could trace their ancestry to one of the patriarchs at the founding of the city, and the plebeians, who could not. this became less important in the later republic, as some plebeian families became wealthy and entered politics, and some patrician families fell economically. anyone, patrician or plebeian, who could count a consul as his ancestor was a noble (nobilis); a man who was the first of his family to hold the consulship, such as marius or cicero, was known as a novus homo ("new man") and ennobled his descendants. patrician ancestry, however, still conferred considerable prestige, and many religious offices remained restricted to patricians. a class division originally based on military service became more important. membership of these classes was determined periodically by the censors, according to property. the wealthiest were the senatorial class, who dominated politics and command of the army. next came the equestrians (equites, sometimes translated "knights"), originally those who could afford a warhorse, and who formed a powerful mercantile class. several further classes, originally based on the military equipment their members could afford, followed, with the proletarii, citizens who had no property at all, at the bottom. before the reforms of marius they were ineligible for military service and are often described as being just above freed slaves in wealth and prestige. voting power in the republic depended on class. citizens were enrolled in voting "tribes", but the tribes of the richer classes had fewer members than the poorer ones, all the proletarii being enrolled in a single tribe. voting was done in class order, from top down, and stopped as soon as most of the tribes had been reached, so the poorer classes were often unable to cast their votes. women shared some basic rights with their male counterparts, but were not fully regarded as citizens and were thus not allowed to vote or take part in politics. at the same time the limited rights of women were gradually expanded (due to emancipation) and women reached freedom from paterfamilias, gained property rights and even had more juridical rights than their husbands, but still no voting rights, and were absent from politics.[ ] allied foreign cities were often given the latin right, an intermediary level between full citizens and foreigners (peregrini), which gave their citizens rights under roman law and allowed their leading magistrates to become full roman citizens. while there were varying degrees of latin rights, the main division was between those cum suffragio ("with vote"; enrolled in a roman tribe and able to take part in the comitia tributa) and sine suffragio ("without vote"; could not take part in roman politics). most of rome's italian allies were given full citizenship after the social war of –  bc, and full roman citizenship was extended to all free-born men in the empire by caracalla in . education main article: roman school in the early republic, there were no public schools, so boys were taught to read and write by their parents, or by educated slaves, called paedagogi, usually of greek origin.[ ][ ][ ] the primary aim of education during this period was to train young men in agriculture, warfare, roman traditions, and public affairs.[ ] young boys learned much about civic life by accompanying their fathers to religious and political functions, including the senate for the sons of nobles.[ ] the sons of nobles were apprenticed to a prominent political figure at the age of , and campaigned with the army from the age of (this system was still in use among some noble families into the imperial era).[ ] educational practices were modified after the conquest of the hellenistic kingdoms in the rd century bc and the resulting greek influence, although roman educational practices were still much different from greek ones.[ ][ ] if their parents could afford it, boys and some girls at the age of were sent to a private school outside the home called a ludus, where a teacher (called a litterator or a magister ludi, and often of greek origin) taught them basic reading, writing, arithmetic, and sometimes greek, until the age of .[ ][ ][ ] beginning at age , students went to secondary schools, where the teacher (now called a grammaticus) taught them about greek and roman literature.[ ][ ] at the age of , some students went on to rhetoric school (where the teacher, usually greek, was called a rhetor).[ ][ ] education at this level prepared students for legal careers, and required that the students memorize the laws of rome.[ ] pupils went to school every day, except religious festivals and market days. there were also summer holidays. government main articles: roman constitution and history of the roman constitution further information: history of citizenship § roman conceptions of citizenship 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (september ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) initially, rome was ruled by kings, who were elected from each of rome's major tribes in turn.[ ] the exact nature of the king's power is uncertain. he may have held near-absolute power, or may also have merely been the chief executive of the senate and the people. at least in military matters, the king's authority (imperium) was likely absolute. he was also the head of the state religion. in addition to the authority of the king, there were three administrative assemblies: the senate, which acted as an advisory body for the king; the comitia curiata, which could endorse and ratify laws suggested by the king; and the comitia calata, which was an assembly of the priestly college that could assemble the people to bear witness to certain acts, hear proclamations, and declare the feast and holiday schedule for the next month. representation of a sitting of the roman senate: cicero attacks catilina, from a th-century fresco the class struggles of the roman republic resulted in an unusual mixture of democracy and oligarchy. the word republic comes from the latin res publica, which literally translates to "public business". roman laws traditionally could only be passed by a vote of the popular assembly (comitia tributa). likewise, candidates for public positions had to run for election by the people. however, the roman senate represented an oligarchic institution, which acted as an advisory body. in the republic, the senate held actual authority (auctoritas), but no real legislative power; it was technically only an advisory council. however, as the senators were individually very influential, it was difficult to accomplish anything against the collective will of the senate. new senators were chosen from among the most accomplished patricians by censors (censura), who could also remove a senator from his office if he was found "morally corrupt"; a charge that could include bribery or, as under cato the elder, embracing one's wife in public. later, under the reforms of the dictator sulla, quaestors were made automatic members of the senate, though most of his reforms did not survive. the republic had no fixed bureaucracy, and collected taxes through the practice of tax farming. government positions such as quaestor, aedile, or praefect were funded by the office-holder. to prevent any citizen from gaining too much power, new magistrates were elected annually and had to share power with a colleague. for example, under normal conditions, the highest authority was held by two consuls. in an emergency, a temporary dictator could be appointed. throughout the republic, the administrative system was revised several times to comply with new demands. in the end, it proved inefficient for controlling the ever-expanding dominion of rome, contributing to the establishment of the roman empire. in the early empire, the pretense of a republican form of government was maintained. the roman emperor was portrayed as only a princeps, or "first citizen", and the senate gained legislative power and all legal authority previously held by the popular assemblies. however, the rule of the emperors became increasingly autocratic, and the senate was reduced to an advisory body appointed by the emperor. the empire did not inherit a set bureaucracy from the republic, since the republic did not have any permanent governmental structures apart from the senate. the emperor appointed assistants and advisers, but the state lacked many institutions, such as a centrally planned budget. some historians have cited this as a significant reason for the decline of the roman empire. military main articles: military history of ancient rome, military of ancient rome, structural history of the roman military, roman army, and roman navy 	 	part of a series on the 	military of ancient rome bc – ad 	 structural history 	 army 	 	unit types and ranks 	decorations and punishments 	legions 	auxilia 	generals 	 navy 	 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influenced by greek civilization, a citizen militia that practiced hoplite tactics. it was small (the population of free men of military age was then about , ) and organized in five classes (in parallel to the comitia centuriata, the body of citizens organized politically), with three providing hoplites and two providing light infantry. the early roman army was tactically limited and its stance during this period was essentially defensive.[ ][ ][ ] by the rd century bc, the romans abandoned the hoplite formation in favor of a more flexible system in which smaller groups of (or sometimes ) men called maniples could maneuver more independently on the battlefield. thirty maniples arranged in three lines with supporting troops constituted a legion, totalling between , and , men.[ ][ ] the early republican legion consisted of five sections, each of which was equipped differently and had different places in formation: the three lines of manipular heavy infantry (hastati, principes and triarii), a force of light infantry (velites), and the cavalry (equites). with the new organization came a new orientation toward the offensive and a much more aggressive posture toward adjoining city-states.[ ][ ] at nominal full strength, an early republican legion included , to , men: , to , heavy infantry, several hundred light infantry, and several hundred cavalrymen.[ ][ ][ ] legions were often significantly understrength from recruitment failures or following periods of active service due to accidents, battle casualties, disease and desertion. during the civil war, pompey's legions in the east were at full strength because they were recently recruited, while caesar's legions were often well below nominal strength after long active service in gaul. this pattern also held true for auxiliary forces.[ ][ ] until the late republican period, the typical legionary was a property-owning citizen farmer from a rural area (an adsiduus) who served for particular (often annual) campaigns,[ ] and who supplied his own equipment and, in the case of equites, his own mount. harris suggests that down to  bc, the average rural farmer (who survived) might participate in six or seven campaigns. freedmen and slaves (wherever resident) and urban citizens did not serve except in rare emergencies.[ ] after  bc, economic conditions in rural areas deteriorated as manpower needs increased, so that the property qualifications for service were gradually reduced. beginning with gaius marius in  bc, citizens without property and some urban-dwelling citizens (proletarii) were enlisted and provided with equipment, although most legionaries continued to come from rural areas. terms of service became continuous and long—up to twenty years if emergencies required although six- or seven-year terms were more typical.[ ] beginning in the rd century bc, legionaries were paid stipendium (amounts are disputed but caesar famously "doubled" payments to his troops to denarii a year), could anticipate booty and donatives (distributions of plunder by commanders) from successful campaigns and, beginning at the time of marius, often were granted allotments of land upon retirement.[ ][ ] cavalry and light infantry attached to a legion (the auxilia) were often recruited in the areas where the legion served. caesar formed a legion, the fifth alaudae, from non-citizens in transalpine gaul to serve in his campaigns in gaul.[ ] by the time of caesar augustus, the ideal of the citizen-soldier had been abandoned and the legions had become fully professional. legionaries received sesterces a year and could expect , sesterces on retirement.[ ] at the end of the civil war, augustus reorganized roman military forces, discharging soldiers and disbanding legions. he retained legions, distributed through the provinces of the empire.[ ] during the principate, the tactical organization of the army continued to evolve. the auxilia remained independent cohorts, and legionary troops often operated as groups of cohorts rather than as full legions. a new versatile type of unit—the cohortes equitatae—combined cavalry and legionaries in a single formation. they could be stationed at garrisons or outposts and could fight on their own as balanced small forces or combine with other similar units as a larger legion-sized force. this increase in organizational flexibility helped ensure the long-term success of roman military forces.[ ] the emperor gallienus ( –  ad) began a reorganization that created the last military structure of the late empire. withdrawing some legionaries from the fixed bases on the border, gallienus created mobile forces (the comitatenses or field armies) and stationed them behind and at some distance from the borders as a strategic reserve. the border troops (limitanei) stationed at fixed bases continued to be the first line of defense. the basic unit of the field army was the "regiment", legiones or auxilia for infantry and vexellationes for cavalry. evidence suggests that nominal strengths may have been , men for infantry regiments and for cavalry, although many records show lower actual troop levels ( and ).[ ] many infantry and cavalry regiments operated in pairs under the command of a comes. in addition to roman troops, the field armies included regiments of "barbarians" recruited from allied tribes and known as foederati. by  ad, foederati regiments had become permanently established units of the roman army, paid and equipped by the empire, led by a roman tribune and used just as roman units were used. in addition to the foederati, the empire also used groups of barbarians to fight along with the legions as "allies" without integration into the field armies. under the command of the senior roman general present, they were led at lower levels by their own officers.[ ] military leadership evolved over the course of the history of rome. under the monarchy, the hoplite armies were led by the kings of rome. during the early and middle roman republic, military forces were under the command of one of the two elected consuls for the year. during the later republic, members of the roman senatorial elite, as part of the normal sequence of elected public offices known as the cursus honorum, would have served first as quaestor (often posted as deputies to field commanders), then as praetor.[ ][ ] julius caesar's most talented, effective and reliable subordinate in gaul, titus labienus, was recommended to him by pompey.[ ] altar of domitius ahenobarbus, c. bc; the altar shows two roman infantrymen equipped with long scuta and a cavalryman with his horse. all are shown wearing chain mail armour. following the end of a term as praetor or consul, a senator might be appointed by the senate as a propraetor or proconsul (depending on the highest office held before) to govern a foreign province. more junior officers (down to but not including the level of centurion) were selected by their commanders from their own clientelae or those recommended by political allies among the senatorial elite.[ ] under augustus, whose most important political priority was to place the military under a permanent and unitary command, the emperor was the legal commander of each legion but exercised that command through a legatus (legate) he appointed from the senatorial elite. in a province with a single legion, the legate commanded the legion (legatus legionis) and also served as provincial governor, while in a province with more than one legion, each legion was commanded by a legate and the legates were commanded by the provincial governor (also a legate but of higher rank).[ ] during the later stages of the imperial period (beginning perhaps with diocletian), the augustan model was abandoned. provincial governors were stripped of military authority, and command of the armies in a group of provinces was given to generals (duces) appointed by the emperor. these were no longer members of the roman elite but men who came up through the ranks and had seen much practical soldiering. with increasing frequency, these men attempted (sometimes successfully) to usurp the positions of the emperors who had appointed them. decreased resources, increasing political chaos and civil war eventually left the western empire vulnerable to attack and takeover by neighboring barbarian peoples.[ ] less is known about the roman navy than the roman army. prior to the middle of the rd century bc, officials known as duumviri navales commanded a fleet of twenty ships used mainly to control piracy. this fleet was given up in  ad and replaced by allied forces. the first punic war required that rome build large fleets, and it did so largely with the assistance of and financing from allies. this reliance on allies continued to the end of the roman republic. the quinquereme was the main warship on both sides of the punic wars and remained the mainstay of roman naval forces until replaced by the time of caesar augustus by lighter and more maneuverable vessels.[ ] as compared with a trireme, the quinquereme permitted the use of a mix of experienced and inexperienced crewmen (an advantage for a primarily land-based power), and its lesser maneuverability permitted the romans to adopt and perfect boarding tactics using a troop of about marines in lieu of the ram. ships were commanded by a navarch, a rank equal to a centurion, who was usually not a citizen. potter suggests that because the fleet was dominated by non-romans, the navy was considered non-roman and allowed to atrophy in times of peace.[ ] information suggests that by the time of the late empire (  ad), the roman navy comprised several fleets including warships and merchant vessels for transportation and supply. warships were oared sailing galleys with three to five banks of oarsmen. fleet bases included such ports as ravenna, arles, aquilea, misenum and the mouth of the somme river in the west and alexandria and rhodes in the east. flotillas of small river craft (classes) were part of the limitanei (border troops) during this period, based at fortified river harbors along the rhine and the danube. that prominent generals commanded both armies and fleets suggests that naval forces were treated as auxiliaries to the army and not as an independent service. the details of command structure and fleet strengths during this period are not well known, although fleets were commanded by prefects.[ ] economy main articles: roman agriculture, roman commerce, roman finance, and roman currency night view of trajan's market, built by apollodorus of damascus ancient rome commanded a vast area of land, with tremendous natural and human resources. as such, rome's economy remained focused on farming and trade. agricultural free trade changed the italian landscape, and by the st century bc, vast grape and olive estates had supplanted the yeoman farmers, who were unable to match the imported grain price. the annexation of egypt, sicily and tunisia in north africa provided a continuous supply of grains. in turn, olive oil and wine were italy's main exports. two-tier crop rotation was practiced, but farm productivity was low, around ton per hectare. industrial and manufacturing activities were smaller. the largest such activities were the mining and quarrying of stones, which provided basic construction materials for the buildings of that period. in manufacturing, production was on a relatively small scale, and generally consisted of workshops and small factories that employed at most dozens of workers. however, some brick factories employed hundreds of workers. the economy of the early republic was largely based on smallholding and paid labor. however, foreign wars and conquests made slaves increasingly cheap and plentiful, and by the late republic, the economy was largely dependent on slave labor for both skilled and unskilled work. slaves are estimated to have constituted around % of the roman empire's population at this time and % in the city of rome. only in the roman empire, when the conquests stopped and the prices of slaves increased, did hired labor become more economical than slave ownership. although barter was used in ancient rome, and often used in tax collection, rome had a very developed coinage system, with brass, bronze, and precious metal coins in circulation throughout the empire and beyond—some have even been discovered in india. before the rd century bc, copper was traded by weight, measured in unmarked lumps, across central italy. the original copper coins (as) had a face value of one roman pound of copper, but weighed less. thus, roman money's utility as a unit of exchange consistently exceeded its intrinsic value as metal. after nero began debasing the silver denarius, its legal value was an estimated one-third greater than its intrinsic value. horses were expensive and other pack animals were slower. mass trade on the roman roads connected military posts, where roman markets were centered.[ ] these roads were designed for wheels.[ ] as a result, there was transport of commodities between roman regions, but increased with the rise of roman maritime trade in the nd century bc. during that period, a trading vessel took less than a month to complete a trip from gades to alexandria via ostia, spanning the entire length of the mediterranean.[ ] transport by sea was around times cheaper than by land, so the volume for such trips was much larger. some economists consider the roman empire a market economy, similar in its degree of capitalistic practices to th century netherlands and th century england.[ ] family a gold glass portrait of a family from roman egypt. the greek inscription on the medallion may indicate either the name of the artist or the pater familias who is absent in the portrait.[ ] the basic units of roman society were households and families.[ ] households included the head (usually the father) of the household, pater familias (father of the family), his wife, children, and other relatives. in the upper classes, slaves and servants were also part of the household.[ ] the power of the head of the household was supreme (patria potestas, "father's power") over those living with him: he could force marriage (usually for money) and divorce, sell his children into slavery, claim his dependents' property as his own, and even had the right to punish or kill family members (though this last right apparently ceased to be exercised after the st century bc).[ ] patria potestas even extended over adult sons with their own households: a man was not considered a paterfamilias, nor could he truly hold property, while his own father lived.[ ][ ] during the early period of rome's history, a daughter, when she married, fell under the control (manus) of the paterfamilias of her husband's household, although by the late republic this fell out of fashion, as a woman could choose to continue recognizing her father's family as her true family.[ ] however, as romans reckoned descent through the male line, any children she had belonged to her husband's family.[ ] little affection was shown for the children of rome. the mother or an elderly relative often raised both boys and girls. unwanted children were often sold as slaves.[ ] children might have waited on tables for the family, but they could not have participated in the conversation. in noble families a greek nurse usually taught the children latin and greek. their father taught the boys how to swim and ride, although he sometimes hired a slave to teach them instead. at seven, a boy began his education. having no school building, classes were held on a rooftop (if dark, the boy had to carry a lantern to school). wax-covered boards were used as paper, papyrus, and parchment were too expensive—or he could just write in the sand. a loaf of bread to be eaten was also carried.[ ] groups of related households formed a family (gens). families were based on blood ties or adoption, but were also political and economic alliances. especially during the roman republic, some powerful families, or gentes maiores, came to dominate political life. in ancient rome, marriage was often regarded more as a financial and political alliance than as a romantic association, especially in the upper classes (see marriage in ancient rome). fathers usually began seeking husbands for their daughters when these reached an age between twelve and fourteen. the husband was usually older than the bride. while upper-class girls married very young, there is evidence that lower-class women often married in their late teens or early s. culture main article: culture of ancient rome the seven hills of rome life in ancient rome revolved around the city of rome, located on seven hills. the city had a vast number of monumental structures like the colosseum, the forum of trajan and the pantheon. it had theatres, gymnasiums, marketplaces, functional sewers, bath complexes complete with libraries and shops, and fountains with fresh drinking water supplied by hundreds of miles of aqueducts. throughout the territory under the control of ancient rome, residential architecture ranged from modest houses to country villas. in the capital city of rome, there were imperial residences on the elegant palatine hill, from which the word palace derives. the low plebeian and middle equestrian classes lived in the city center, packed into apartments, or insulae, which were almost like modern ghettos. these areas, often built by upper class property owners to rent, were often centred upon collegia or taberna. these people, provided with a free supply of grain, and entertained by gladiatorial games, were enrolled as clients of patrons among the upper class patricians, whose assistance they sought and whose interests they upheld. language main article: latin roman fresco of a blond maiden reading a text, pompeian fourth style ( – ad), pompeii, italy the native language of the romans was latin, an italic language the grammar of which relies little on word order, conveying meaning through a system of affixes attached to word stems.[ ] its alphabet was based on the etruscan alphabet, which was in turn based on the greek alphabet.[ ] although surviving latin literature consists almost entirely of classical latin, an artificial and highly stylized and polished literary language from the st century bc, the spoken language of the roman empire was vulgar latin, which significantly differed from classical latin in grammar and vocabulary, and eventually in pronunciation.[ ] speakers of latin could understand both until the th century when spoken latin began to diverge so much that 'classical' or 'good latin' had to be learned as a second language[ ] while latin remained the main written language of the roman empire, greek came to be the language spoken by the well-educated elite, as most of the literature studied by romans was written in greek. in the eastern half of the roman empire, which later became the byzantine empire, latin was never able to replace greek, and after the death of justinian, greek became the official language of the byzantine government.[ ] the expansion of the roman empire spread latin throughout europe, and vulgar latin evolved into dialects in different locations, gradually shifting into many distinct romance languages. religion main articles: religion in ancient rome, roman mythology, and roman temple further information: constantine the great and christianity and state church of the roman empire punishment of ixion: in the center is mercury holding the caduceus and on the right juno sits on her throne. behind her iris stands and gestures. on the left is vulcan (blond figure) standing behind the wheel, manning it, with ixion already tied to it. nephele sits at mercury's feet; a roman fresco from the eastern wall of the triclinium in the house of the vettii, pompeii, fourth style ( – ad). archaic roman religion, at least concerning the gods, was made up not of written narratives, but rather of complex interrelations between gods and humans.[ ] unlike in greek mythology, the gods were not personified, but were vaguely defined sacred spirits called numina. romans also believed that every person, place or thing had its own genius, or divine soul. during the roman republic, roman religion was organized under a strict system of priestly offices, which were held by men of senatorial rank. the college of pontifices was uppermost body in this hierarchy, and its chief priest, the pontifex maximus, was the head of the state religion. flamens took care of the cults of various gods, while augurs were trusted with taking the auspices. the sacred king took on the religious responsibilities of the deposed kings. in the roman empire, emperors were deified,[ ][ ] and the formalized imperial cult became increasingly prominent. as contact with the greeks increased, the old roman gods became increasingly associated with greek gods.[ ] thus, jupiter was perceived to be the same deity as zeus, mars became associated with ares, and neptune with poseidon. the roman gods also assumed the attributes and mythologies of these greek gods. under the empire, the romans absorbed the mythologies of their conquered subjects, often leading to situations in which the temples and priests of traditional italian deities existed side by side with those of foreign gods.[ ] beginning with emperor nero in the st century ad, roman official policy towards christianity was negative, and at some points, simply being a christian could be punishable by death. under emperor diocletian, the persecution of christians reached its peak. however, it became an officially supported religion in the roman state under diocletian's successor, constantine i, with the signing of the edict of milan in , and quickly became dominant. all religions except christianity were prohibited in  ad by an edict of emperor theodosius i.[ ] ethics and morality like many ancient cultures, concepts of ethics and morality, while sharing some commonalities with modern society, differed greatly in several important ways. because ancient civilizations like rome were under constant threat of attack from marauding tribes, their culture was necessarily militaristic with martial skills being a prized attribute.[ ] whereas modern societies consider compassion a virtue, roman society considered compassion a vice, a moral defect. indeed, one of the primary purposes of the gladiatorial games was to inoculate roman citizens from this weakness.[ ][ ][ ] romans instead prized virtues such as courage and conviction (virtus), a sense of duty to one's people, moderation and avoiding excess (moderatio), forgiveness and understanding (clementia), fairness (severitas), and loyalty (pietas).[ ] contrary to popular descriptions, roman society had well-established and restrictive norms related to sexuality, though as with many societies, the lion's share of the responsibilities fell on women. women were generally expected to be monogamous having only a single husband during their life (univira), though this was much less regarded by the elite, especially under the empire. women were expected to be modest in public avoiding any provocative appearance and to demonstrate absolute fidelity to their husbands (pudicitia). indeed, wearing a veil was a common expectation to preserve modesty. sex outside of marriage was generally frowned upon for men and women and indeed was made illegal during the imperial period.[ ] nevertheless, prostitution was seen entirely differently and indeed was an accepted and regulated practice.[ ] art, music and literature main articles: roman art, latin literature, music of ancient rome, roman sculpture, and theatre of ancient rome woman playing a kithara, from the villa boscoreale, – bc frescoes from the villa of the mysteries in pompeii, italy, roman artwork dated to the mid- st century bc roman painting styles show greek influences, and surviving examples are primarily frescoes used to adorn the walls and ceilings of country villas, though roman literature includes mentions of paintings on wood, ivory, and other materials.[ ][ ] several examples of roman painting have been found at pompeii, and from these art historians divide the history of roman painting into four periods. the first style of roman painting was practiced from the early nd century bc to the early- or mid- st century bc. it was mainly composed of imitations of marble and masonry, though sometimes including depictions of mythological characters. the second style of roman painting began during the early st century bc, and attempted to depict realistically three-dimensional architectural features and landscapes. the third style occurred during the reign of augustus (  bc –  ad), and rejected the realism of the second style in favor of simple ornamentation. a small architectural scene, landscape, or abstract design was placed in the center with a monochrome background. the fourth style, which began in the st century ad, depicted scenes from mythology, while retaining architectural details and abstract patterns. portrait sculpture during the period[which?] utilized youthful and classical proportions, evolving later into a mixture of realism and idealism. during the antonine and severan periods, ornate hair and bearding, with deep cutting and drilling, became popular. advancements were also made in relief sculptures, usually depicting roman victories. latin literature was, from its start, influenced heavily by greek authors. some of the earliest extant works are of historical epics telling the early military history of rome. as the republic expanded, authors began to produce poetry, comedy, history, and tragedy. roman music was largely based on greek music, and played an important part in many aspects of roman life.[ ] in the roman military, musical instruments such as the tuba (a long trumpet) or the cornu (similar to a french horn) were used to give various commands, while the bucina (possibly a trumpet or horn) and the lituus (probably an elongated j-shaped instrument), were used in ceremonial capacities.[ ] music was used in the amphitheaters between fights and in the odea, and in these settings is known to have featured the cornu and the hydraulis (a type of water organ).[ ] most religious rituals featured musical performances, with tibiae (double pipes) at sacrifices, cymbals and tambourines at orgiastic cults, and rattles and hymns across the spectrum.[ ] some music historians believe that music was used at almost all public ceremonies.[ ] music historians are not certain if roman musicians made a significant contribution to the theory or practice of music.[ ] the graffiti, brothels, paintings, and sculptures found in pompeii and herculaneum suggest that the romans had a sex-saturated culture.[ ] cuisine main article: ancient roman cuisine ancient roman cuisine changed over the long duration of this ancient civilization. dietary habits were affected by the influence of greek culture, the political changes from kingdom to republic to empire, and empire's enormous expansion, which exposed romans to many new, provincial culinary habits and cooking techniques. in the beginning the differences between social classes were relatively small, but disparities evolved with the empire's growth. men and women drank wine with their meals, a tradition that has been carried through to the present day.[ ] games and recreation 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (september ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) choregos and theater actors, from the house of the tragic poet, pompeii, italy. naples national archeological museum the "bikini girls" mosaic, showing women playing sports, from the villa romana del casale, roman province of sicilia (sicily), th century ad the youth of rome had several forms of athletic play and exercise, such as jumping, wrestling, boxing, and racing.[ ] in the countryside, pastimes for the wealthy also included fishing and hunting.[ ] the romans also had several forms of ball playing, including one resembling handball.[ ] dice games, board games, and gamble games were popular pastimes.[ ] women did not take part in these activities. for the wealthy, dinner parties presented an opportunity for entertainment, sometimes featuring music, dancing, and poetry readings.[ ] plebeians sometimes enjoyed similar parties through clubs or associations, but for most romans, recreational dining usually meant patronizing taverns.[ ] children entertained themselves with toys and such games as leapfrog.[ ][ ] public games were sponsored by leading romans who wished to advertise their generosity and court popular approval; in the imperial era, this usually meant the emperor. several venues were developed specifically for public games. the colisseum was built in the imperial era to host, among other events, gladiatorial combats. these combats had begun as funeral games around the th century bc, and became popular spectator events in the late republic and empire. gladiators had an exotic and inventive variety of arms and armour. they sometimes fought to the death, but more often to an adjudicated victory, dependent on a referee's decision. the outcome was usually in keeping with the mood of the watching crowd. shows of exotic animals were popular in their own right; but sometimes animals were pitted against human beings, either armed professionals or unarmed criminals who had been condemned to a spectacular and theatrical public death in the arena. some of these encounters were based on episodes from roman or greek mythology. chariot racing was extremely popular among all classes. in rome, these races were usually held at the circus maximus, which had been purpose-built for chariot and horse-racing and, as rome's largest public place, was also used for festivals and animal shows.[ ] it could seat around , people;[ ] the charioteers raced in teams, identified by their colours. the track was divided lengthwise by a barrier that contained obelisks, temples, statues and lap-counters. the best seats were at the track-side, close to the action; they were reserved for senators. behind them sat the equites (knights), and behind the knights were the plebs (commoners) and non-citizens. the donor of the games sat on a high platform in the stands alongside images of the gods, visible to all. large sums were bet on the outcomes of races. some romans offered prayers and sacrifices on behalf of their favourites, or laid curses on the opposing teams, and some aficionados were members of extremely, even violently partisan circus factions. technology main article: roman technology 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (september ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) pont du gard in france is a roman aqueduct built in c.  bc. it is a world heritage site. ancient rome boasted impressive technological feats, using many advancements that were lost in the middle ages and not rivaled again until the th and th centuries. an example of this is insulated glazing, which was not invented again until the s. many practical roman innovations were adopted from earlier greek designs. advancements were often divided and based on craft. artisans guarded technologies as trade secrets.[ ] roman civil engineering and military engineering constituted a large part of rome's technological superiority and legacy, and contributed to the construction of hundreds of roads, bridges, aqueducts, baths, theaters and arenas. many monuments, such as the colosseum, pont du gard, and pantheon, remain as testaments to roman engineering and culture. the romans were renowned for their architecture, which is grouped with greek traditions into "classical architecture". although there were many differences from greek architecture, rome borrowed heavily from greece in adhering to strict, formulaic building designs and proportions. aside from two new orders of columns, composite and tuscan, and from the dome, which was derived from the etruscan arch, rome had relatively few architectural innovations until the end of the republic. the appian way (via appia), a road connecting the city of rome to the southern parts of italy, remains usable even today in the st century bc, romans started to use concrete widely. concrete was invented in the late rd century bc. it was a powerful cement derived from pozzolana, and soon supplanted marble as the chief roman building material and allowed many daring architectural forms.[ ] also in the st century bc, vitruvius wrote de architectura, possibly the first complete treatise on architecture in history. in the late st century bc, rome also began to use glassblowing soon after its invention in syria about  bc. mosaics took the empire by storm after samples were retrieved during lucius cornelius sulla's campaigns in greece. the romans also largely built using timber, causing a rapid decline of the woodlands surrounding rome and in much of the apennine mountains due to the demand for wood for construction, shipbuilding and fire. the first evidence of long-distance wood trading come from the discovery of wood planks, felled between a.d. and , coming from the jura mountains in northeastern france and ending up more than , miles away, in the foundations of a lavish portico that was part of a vast wealthy patrician villa, in central rome. it is suggested that timber, around meters long, came up to rome via the tiber river via ships traveling across the mediterranean sea from the confluence of the saône and rhône rivers in what is now the city of lyon in present-day france.[ ] with solid foundations and good drainage,[ ] roman roads were known for their durability and many segments of the roman road system were still in use a thousand years after the fall of rome. the construction of a vast and efficient travel network throughout the empire dramatically increased rome's power and influence. they allowed roman legions to be deployed rapidly, with predictable marching times between key points of the empire, no matter the season.[ ] these highways also had enormous economic significance, solidifying rome's role as a trading crossroads—the origin of the saying "all roads lead to rome". the roman government maintained a system of way stations, known as the cursus publicus, that provided refreshments to couriers at regular intervals along the roads and established a system of horse relays allowing a dispatch to travel up to  km (  mi) a day. the romans constructed numerous aqueducts to supply water to cities and industrial sites and to aid in their agriculture. by the third century, the city of rome was supplied by aqueducts with a combined length of  km (  mi). most aqueducts were constructed below the surface, with only small portions above ground supported by arches.[ ][ ] sometimes, where valleys deeper than  m ( ,  ft) had to be crossed, inverted siphons were used to convey water across a valley.[ ] the romans also made major advancements in sanitation. romans were particularly famous for their public baths, called thermae, which were used for both hygienic and social purposes. many roman houses came to have flush toilets and indoor plumbing, and a complex sewer system, the cloaca maxima, was used to drain the local marshes and carry waste into the tiber river. some historians have speculated that lead pipes in the sewer and plumbing systems led to widespread lead poisoning, which contributed to the decline in birth rate and general decay of roman society leading up to the fall of rome. however, lead content would have been minimized because the flow of water from aqueducts could not be shut off; it ran continuously through public and private outlets into the drains, and only a few taps were in use.[ ] other authors have raised similar objections to this theory, also pointing out that roman water pipes were thickly coated with deposits that would have prevented lead from leaching into the water.[ ] legacy main articles: legacy of the roman empire and classics 	external video 	 	 ancient rome[ ] ( : ), smarthistory at khan academy ancient rome is the progenitor of western civilization.[ ][ ][ ] the customs, religion, law, technology, architecture, political system, military, literature, languages, alphabet, government and many factors and aspects of western civilization are all inherited from roman advancements. the rediscovery of roman culture revitalized western civilization, playing a role in the renaissance and the age of enlightenment.[ ][ ] genetics see also: latins (italic tribe) § genetic studies a genetic study published in science in november examined the genetic history of rome from the mesolithic up to modern times.[ ] the mesolithic inhabitants of rome were determined to be western hunter gatherers (whgs), who were almost entirely replaced by early european farmers (eefs) around , bc coming from anatolia and the fertile crescent.[ ] however, the authors observe that the eef farmers studied carry a small amount of another component that is found at high levels in neolithic iranian farmers and caucasus hunter-gatherers (chg),[ ] suggesting different or additional population contributions from near eastern farmers during the neolithic transition, according to the authors. between , bc and bc, the eef/whg descended population of rome was overwhelmed by peoples with steppe ancestry largely tracing their origin to the pontic-caspian steppe.[ ] the iron age latin founding population of rome which subsequently emerged overwhelmingly carried the paternal haplogroup r-m ,[ ] and were of about % steppe ancestry.[ ] however, two out of six individuals from latin burials were found to be a mixture of local iron age ancestry and a near eastern population. in addition, one out of four individuals from etruscan burials, a female, was found to be a mixture of local iron age ancestry and a north african population. overall, the genetic differentiation between the latins, etruscans and the preceding proto-villanovan population of italy was found to be insignificant.[ ] examined individuals from rome during the time of the roman empire ( bce – ce) bore almost no genetic resemblance to rome's founding populations, and were instead shifted towards the eastern mediterranean and middle east.[ ] the imperial population of rome was found to have been extremely diverse, with barely any of the examined individuals being of primarily european ancestry.[ ] it was suggested that the observed genetic replacement of rome's founding populations was a result of heavy migration of merchants and slaves from the populous urban centres of the middle east.[ ] during late antiquity, rome's population was drastically reduced as a result of political instability, epidemics and economic changes. repeated invasions of barbarians brought european ancestry back into rome, resulting in the loss of genetic link to the eastern mediterranean and middle east.[ ] by the middle ages, the people of rome again genetically resembled european populations.[ ] historiography main article: roman historiography 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (september ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) although there has been a diversity of works on ancient roman history, many of them are lost. as a result of this loss, there are gaps in roman history, which are filled by unreliable works, such as the historia augusta and other books from obscure authors. however, there remains a number of reliable accounts of roman history. in roman times the first historians used their works for the lauding of roman culture and customs. by the end of republic, some historians distorted their histories to flatter their patrons—especially at the time of marius's and sulla's clash.[ ] caesar wrote his own histories to make a complete account of his military campaigns in gaul and during the civil war. in the empire, the biographies of famous men and early emperors flourished, examples being the twelve caesars of suetonius, and plutarch's parallel lives. other major works of imperial times were that of livy and tacitus. 	polybius – the histories 	sallust – bellum catilinae and bellum jugurthinum 	julius caesar – de bello gallico and de bello civili 	livy – ab urbe condita 	dionysius of halicarnassus – roman antiquities 	pliny the elder – naturalis historia 	josephus – the jewish war 	suetonius – the twelve caesars (de vita caesarum) 	tacitus – annales and histories 	plutarch – parallel lives (a series of biographies of famous roman and greek men) 	cassius dio – historia romana 	herodian – history of the roman empire since marcus aurelius 	ammianus marcellinus – res gestae in modern times 	part of a series on the 	history of italy 	 	 early 	prehistoric italy 	etruscan civilization ( th– th c. bc) 	magna graecia ( th– rd c. bc) 	 ancient rome 	kingdom ( bc– bc) 	republic ( bc– bc) 	empire ( bc– ad) 	roman italy 	western empire ( ad– ad) 	praetorian prefecture of italy 	 post-roman kingdoms 	 odoacer's	 - 	 ostrogothic	 - 	 vandal	 - 	 lombard (independence)	 - 	 lombard (under the frankish rule)	 - 	 frankish (as part of the carolingian empire)	 - 	 germanic (as part of the holy roman empire)	 - 	 medieval 	italy in the middle ages 	byzantine reconquest of italy ( th– th c.) 	islam and normans in southern italy 	maritime republics and italian city-states 	guelphs and ghibellines 	 early modern 	italian renaissance ( th– th c.) 	italian wars ( – ) 	catholic revival ( - ) 	foreign dominations 	napoleonic italy ( – ) 		republic 	kingdom 	risorgimento ( – ) 	young italy 	thousand 	 modern 	monarchy ( – ) 	colonial empire ( – ) 	italy in world war i ( – ) 	fascism ( – ) 	italy in world war ii ( – ) 	fascist italian social republic, partisans and civil war ( – ) 	republic ( –present) 	years of lead ( s– s) 	maxi trial ( – ) 	mani pulite ( – ) 	great recession ( – ) 	european migrant crisis ( –present) 	coronavirus pandemic ( –present) 	 by topic 	list of historic states 	citizenship 	currency 	economy 	fashion 	genetic 	military 	music 	postage 	railway 	 timeline  italy portal 	 	v 	t 	e interest in studying, and even idealizing, ancient rome became prevalent during the italian renaissance, and continues until the present day. charles montesquieu wrote a work reflections on the causes of the grandeur and declension of the romans. the first major work was the history of the decline and fall of the roman empire by edward gibbon, which encompassed the roman civilization from the end of the nd century to the fall of the byzantine empire in .[ ] like montesquieu, gibbon paid tribute to the virtue of roman citizens. barthold georg niebuhr was a founder of the examination of ancient roman history and wrote the roman history, tracing the period until the first punic war. niebuhr tried to determine the way the roman tradition evolved. according to him, romans, like other people, had an historical ethos preserved mainly in the noble families. during the napoleonic period a work titled the history of romans by victor duruy appeared. it highlighted the caesarean period popular at the time. history of rome, roman constitutional law and corpus inscriptionum latinarum, all by theodor mommsen,[ ] became very important milestones. later the work greatness and decline of rome by guglielmo ferrero was published. the russian work Очерки по истории римского землевладения, преимущественно в эпоху Империи (the outlines on roman landownership history, mainly during the empire) by ivan grevs contained information on the economy of pomponius atticus, one of the largest landowners at the end of the republic. 	edward gibbon ( – ) – the history of the decline and fall of the roman empire 	john bagnall bury ( – ) – history of the later roman empire 	michael grant ( – ) – the roman world[ ] 	barbara levick (born ) – claudius[ ] 	barthold georg niebuhr ( – ) 	michael rostovtzeff ( – ) 	howard hayes scullard ( – ) – the history of the roman world[ ] 	ronald syme ( – ) – the roman revolution[ ] 	adrian goldsworthy (born ) – caesar: the life of a colossus and how rome fell[ ] see also 	civilizations portal 	 ancient rome portal 	ancient roman architecture 	daqin, the chinese name for the roman empire, see sino-roman relations 	outline of classical studies 	outline of ancient rome 	constitution of the roman republic 	history of rome 	timeline of roman history 	legacy of the roman empire 	regions in greco-roman antiquity 	roman agriculture 	list of ancient romans 	list of roman emperors 	roman culture 	list of roman civil wars and revolts references footnotes 	^ this splintering is a landmark historians use to divide the ancient period of universal history from the pre-medieval "dark ages" of europe. 	^ although the citizens of the empire made no distinction, the empire is most commonly referred to as the "byzantine empire" by modern historians to differentiate between the state in antiquity and the state during the middle ages.[ ] citations 	^ "ancient rome | facts, maps, & history". encyclopædia britannica. retrieved september . 	^ there are several different estimates for the population of the roman empire. 	scheidel ( , p. ) estimates . 	goldsmith ( , p. ) estimates . 	beloch ( , p. ) estimates . 	maddison ( , pp. , ) estimates . 	roman empire population estimates (while mentioning several other estimates between and ). 	mclynn, frank ( ). marcus aurelius: warrior, philosopher, emperor. random house. p.  . isbn  . 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and the guideline on block appeals. the guide to appealing blocks may also be helpful. other useful links: blocking policy · help:i have been blocked you can view and copy the source of this page: ==reception== [[file:quinto orazio flacco.jpg|thumb|horace, portrayed by [[giacomo di chirico]]]] the reception of horace's work has varied from one epoch to another and varied markedly even in his own lifetime. ''odes'' – were not well received when first 'published' in rome, yet augustus later commissioned a ceremonial ode for the centennial games in bc and also encouraged the publication of ''odes'' , after which horace's reputation as rome's premier lyricist was assured. his odes were to become the best received of all his poems in ancient times, acquiring a classic status that discouraged imitation: no other poet produced a comparable body of lyrics in the four centuries that followed<ref>r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', </ref> (though that might also be attributed to social causes, particularly the parasitism that italy was sinking into).<ref>v. kiernan, ''horace: poetics and politics'', </ref> in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, ode-writing became highly fashionable in england and a large number of aspiring poets imitated horace both in english and in latin.<ref>d. money, ''the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'', , </ref> in a verse epistle to augustus (epistle . ), in bc, horace argued for classic status to be awarded to contemporary poets, including virgil and apparently himself.<ref>r. lyme, ''augustan poetry and society'', </ref> in the final poem of his third book of odes he claimed to have created for himself a monument more durable than bronze ("exegi monumentum aere perennius", ''[[carmina]]'' . . ). for one modern scholar, however, horace's personal qualities are more notable than the monumental quality of his achievement: {{quote|... when we hear his name we don't really think of a monument. we think rather of a voice which varies in tone and resonance but is always recognizable, and which by its unsentimental humanity evokes a very special blend of liking and respect.|[[niall rudd]]<ref>[[niall rudd]], ''the satires of horace and persius'', </ref>}} yet for men like [[wilfred owen]], scarred by experiences of world war i, his poetry stood for discredited values: {{poemquote| my friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old lie: dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.<ref group="nb">wilfred owen, ''[[dulce et decorum est]]'' ( ), echoes a line from ''carmina'' . . , "it is sweet and honourable to die for one's country", cited by stephen harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', .</ref> }} the same motto, ''[[dulce et decorum est pro patria mori]]'', had been adapted to the ethos of martyrdom in the lyrics of early christian poets like [[prudentius]].<ref>r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', – </ref> these preliminary comments touch on a small sample of developments in the reception of horace's work. more developments are covered epoch by epoch in the following sections. ===antiquity=== horace's influence can be observed in the work of his near contemporaries, [[ovid]] and [[propertius]]. ovid followed his example in creating a completely natural style of expression in hexameter verse, and propertius cheekily mimicked him in his third book of elegies.<ref group="nb">propertius published his third book of elegies within a year or two of horace's odes – and mimicked him, for example, in the opening lines, characterizing himself in terms borrowed from odes . . and . . – , as a priest of the muses and as an adaptor of greek forms of poetry (r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', )</ref> his ''epistles'' provided them both with a model for their own verse letters and it also shaped ovid's exile poetry.<ref group="nb">ovid for example probably borrowed from horace's ''epistle'' . the image of a poetry book as a slave boy eager to leave home, adapting it to the opening poems of ''tristia'' and (r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace''), and ''tristia'' may be understood as a counterpart to horace's ''epistles'' . , both being letters addressed to augustus on literary themes (a. barchiesi, ''speaking volumes'', – )</ref> his influence had a perverse aspect. as mentioned before, the brilliance of his ''odes'' may have discouraged imitation. conversely, they may have created a vogue for the lyrics of the archaic greek poet [[pindar]], due to the fact that horace had neglected that style of lyric (see [[pindar#influence and legacy|influence and legacy of pindar]]).<ref>r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, </ref> the iambic genre seems almost to have disappeared after publication of horace's ''epodes''. ovid's ''ibis'' was a rare attempt at the form but it was inspired mainly by [[callimachus]], and there are some iambic elements in [[martial]] but the main influence there was [[catullus]].<ref>r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', </ref> a revival of popular interest in the satires of lucilius may have been inspired by horace's criticism of his unpolished style. both horace and lucilius were considered good role-models by [[persius]], who critiqued his own satires as lacking both the acerbity of lucillius and the gentler touch of horace.<ref group="nb">the comment is in persius . – , yet that same satire has been found to have nearly reminiscences of horace; see d. hooley, ''the knotted thong'', </ref> [[juvenal]]'s caustic satire was influenced mainly by lucilius but horace by then was a school classic and juvenal could refer to him respectfully and in a round-about way as "''the venusine lamp''".<ref group="nb">the allusion to ''venusine'' comes via horace's ''sermones'' . . , while ''lamp'' signifies the lucubrations of a conscientious poet. according to quintilian ( ), however, many people in flavian rome preferred lucilius not only to horace but to all other latin poets (r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', )</ref> [[statius]] paid homage to horace by composing one poem in sapphic and one in alcaic meter (the verse forms most often associated with ''odes''), which he included in his collection of occasional poems, ''silvae''. ancient scholars wrote commentaries on the lyric meters of the ''odes'', including the scholarly poet [[caesius bassus]]. by a process called ''derivatio'', he varied established meters through the addition or omission of syllables, a technique borrowed by [[seneca the younger]] when adapting horatian meters to the stage.<ref>r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', – </ref> horace's poems continued to be school texts into late antiquity. works attributed to [[helenius acro]] and [[pomponius porphyrio]] are the remnants of a much larger body of horatian scholarship. porphyrio arranged the poems in non-chronological order, beginning with the ''odes'', because of their general popularity and their appeal to scholars (the ''odes'' were to retain this privileged position in the medieval manuscript tradition and thus in modern editions also). horace was often evoked by poets of the fourth century, such as [[ausonius]] and [[claudian]]. [[prudentius]] presented himself as a christian horace, adapting horatian meters to his own poetry and giving horatian motifs a christian tone.<ref group="nb">prudentius sometimes alludesto the ''odes'' in a negative context, as expressions of a secular life he is abandoning. thus for example ''male pertinax'', employed in prudentius's ''praefatio'' to describe a willful desire for victory, is lifted from ''odes'' . . , where it describes a girl's half-hearted resistance to seduction. elsewhere he borrows ''dux bone'' from ''odes'' . . and , where it refers to augustus, and applies it to christ (r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', </ref> on the other hand, [[st jerome]], modelled an uncompromising response to the pagan horace, observing: "''what harmony can there be between christ and the devil? what has horace to do with the psalter?''"<ref group="nb">st jerome, ''epistles'' . , incorporating a quote from '' 'corinthians'' . : ''qui consensus christo et belial? quid facit cum psalterio horatius?''(cited by k. friis-jensen, ''horace in the middle ages'', )</ref> by the early sixth century, horace and prudentius were both part of a classical heritage that was struggling to survive the disorder of the times. [[boethius]], the last major author of classical latin literature, could still take inspiration from horace, sometimes mediated by senecan tragedy.<ref name="tarrant">r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', </ref> it can be argued that horace's influence extended beyond poetry to dignify core themes and values of the early christian era, such as self-sufficiency, inner contentment and courage.<ref group="nb">''odes'' . . – was especially influential in promoting the value of heroic calm in the face of danger, describing a man who could bear even the collapse of the world without fear (''si fractus illabatur orbis,/impavidum ferient ruinae''). echoes are found in seneca's ''agamemnon'' – , prudentius's ''peristephanon'' . – and boethius's ''consolatio'' metrum .(r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', – )</ref> ===middle ages and renaissance=== [[file:horaz beim studium.jpg|thumb|horace in his studium: german print of the fifteenth century, summarizing the final [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber iv/carmen xv|ode . ]] (in praise of augustus).]] classical texts almost ceased being copied in the period between the mid sixth century and the [[carolingian renaissance|carolingian revival]]. horace's work probably survived in just two or three books imported into northern europe from italy. these became the ancestors of six extant manuscripts dated to the ninth century. two of those six manuscripts are french in origin, one was produced in [[alsace]], and the other three show irish influence but were probably written in continental monasteries ([[lombardy]] for example).<ref>r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', – </ref> by the last half of the ninth century, it was not uncommon for literate people to have direct experience of horace's poetry. his influence on the [[carolingian renaissance]] can be found in the poems of [[heiric of auxerre]]<ref group="nb">heiric, like prudentius, gave horatian motifs a christian context. thus the character lydia in ''odes'' . . , who would willingly die for her lover twice, becomes in heiric's ''life'' of st germaine of auxerre a saint ready to die twice for the lord's commandments (r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', – )</ref> and in some manuscripts marked with [[neumes]], mysterious notations that may have been an aid to the memorization and discussion of his lyric meters. ''ode'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber iv/carmen xi| . ]] is neumed with the melody of a hymn to john the baptist, ''[[ut queant laxis]]'', composed in [[sapphic stanza]]s. this hymn later became the basis of the [[solfege]] system (''do, re, mi...''){{emdash}}an association with western music quite appropriate for a lyric poet like horace, though the language of the hymn is mainly prudentian.<ref>r. tarrant, ''ancient receptions of horace'', – </ref> lyons<ref>stuart lyons, horace's odes and the mystery of do-re-mi</ref> argues that the melody in question was linked with horace's ode well before guido d'arezzo fitted [[ut queant laxis]] to it. however, the melody is unlikely to be a survivor from classical times, although ovid<ref>tristia, . . – </ref> testifies to horace's use of the lyre while performing his odes. the german scholar, [[ludwig traube (palaeographer)|ludwig traube]], once dubbed the tenth and eleventh centuries ''the age of horace'' (''aetas horatiana''), and placed it between the ''aetas vergiliana'' of the eighth and ninth centuries, and the ''aetas ovidiana'' of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a distinction supposed to reflect the dominant classical latin influences of those times. such a distinction is over-schematized since horace was a substantial influence in the ninth century as well. traube had focused too much on horace's ''satires''.<ref>b. bischoff, ''living with the satirists'', – </ref> almost all of horace's work found favour in the medieval period. in fact medieval scholars were also guilty of over-schematism, associating horace's different genres with the different ages of man. a twelfth-century scholar encapsulated the theory: "...horace wrote four different kinds of poems on account of the four ages, the ''odes'' for boys, the ''ars poetica'' for young men, the ''satires'' for mature men, the ''epistles'' for old and complete men."<ref>k. friis-jensen,''horace in the middle ages'', </ref> it was even thought that horace had composed his works in the order in which they had been placed by ancient scholars.<ref group="nb">according to a medieval french commentary on the ''satires'': "...first he composed his lyrics, and in them, speaking to the young, as it were, he took as subject-matter love affairs and quarrels, banquets and drinking parties. next he wrote his ''epodes'', and in them composed invectives against men of a more advanced and more dishonourable age...he next wrote his book about the ''ars poetica'', and in that instructed men of his own profession to write well...later he added his book of ''satires'', in which he reproved those who had fallen a prey to various kinds of vices. finally, he finished his oeuvre with the ''epistles'', and in them, following the method of a good farmer, he sowed the virtues where he had rooted out the vices." (cited by k. friis-jensen, ''horace in the middle ages'', – )</ref> despite its naivety, the schematism involved an appreciation of horace's works as a collection, the ''ars poetica'', ''satires'' and ''epistles'' appearing to find favour as well as the ''odes''. the later middle ages however gave special significance to ''satires'' and ''epistles'', being considered horace's mature works. [[dante]] referred to horace as ''orazio satiro'', and he awarded him a privileged position in the first circle of hell, with [[homer]], ovid and [[lucan]].<ref>k. friis-jensen, ''horace in the middle ages'', , </ref> horace's popularity is revealed in the large number of quotes from all his works found in almost every genre of medieval literature, and also in the number of poets imitating him in [[prosody (latin)#two rhythms|quantitative latin meter]]. the most prolific imitator of his ''odes'' was the bavarian monk, [[metellus of tegernsee]], who dedicated his work to the patron saint of [[tegernsee abbey]], [[quirinus of tegernsee|st quirinus]], around the year . he imitated all horace's lyrical meters then followed these up with imitations of other meters used by prudentius and boethius, indicating that variety, as first modelled by horace, was considered a fundamental aspect of the lyric genre. the content of his poems however was restricted to simple piety.<ref>k. friis-jensen, ''horace in the middle ages'', – </ref> among the most successful imitators of ''satires'' and ''epistles'' was another germanic author, calling himself [[sextus amarcius]], around , who composed four books, the first two exemplifying vices, the second pair mainly virtues.<ref>k. friis-jensen, ''horace in the middle ages'', </ref> [[petrarch]] is a key figure in the imitation of horace in accentual meters. his verse letters in latin were modelled on the ''epistles'' and he wrote a letter to horace in the form of an ode. however he also borrowed from horace when composing his italian sonnets. one modern scholar has speculated that authors who imitated horace in accentual rhythms (including stressed latin and vernacular languages) may have considered their work a natural sequel to horace's metrical variety.<ref>k. friis-jensen, ''horace in the middle ages'', </ref> in france, horace and [[pindar]] were the poetic models for a group of vernacular authors called the [[pléiade]], including for example [[pierre de ronsard]] and [[joachim du bellay]]. [[montaigne]] made constant and inventive use of horatian quotes.<ref>michael mcgann, ''horace in the renaissance'', </ref> the vernacular languages were dominant in spain and portugal in the sixteenth century, where horace's influence is notable in the works of such authors as [[garcilaso de la vega (poet)|garcilaso de la vega]], [[juan boscán]], [[sá de miranda]], [[antonio ferreira]] and [[fray luis de león]], the last writing odes on the horatian theme ''beatus ille'' (''happy the man'').<ref>e. rivers, ''fray luis de león: the original poems''</ref> the sixteenth century in western europe was also an age of translations (except in germany, where horace wasn't translated into the vernacular until well into the seventeenth century). the first english translator was [[thomas drant]], who placed translations of [[jeremiah]] and horace side by side in ''medicinable morall'', . that was also the year that the scot [[george buchanan]] paraphrased the [[psalms]] in a horatian setting. [[ben jonson]] put horace on the stage in in ''[[poetaster (play)|poetaster]]'', along with other classical latin authors, giving them all their own verses to speak in translation. horace's part evinces the independent spirit, moral earnestness and critical insight that many readers look for in his poems.<ref>m. mcgann, ''horace in the renaissance'', – , – </ref> ===age of enlightenment=== during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, or the [[age of enlightenment]], neoclassical culture was pervasive. english literature in the middle of that period has been dubbed [[augustan literature|augustan]]. it is not always easy to distinguish horace's influence during those centuries (the mixing of influences is shown for example in one poet's pseudonym, ''horace juvenal'').<ref group="nb">'horace juvenal' was author of ''modern manners: a poem'', </ref> however a measure of his influence can be found in the diversity of the people interested in his works, both among readers and authors.<ref>d. money, ''the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'', , , </ref> new editions of his works were published almost yearly. there were three new editions in (two in [[leiden]], one in [[frankfurt]]) and again in ([[utrecht]], [[barcelona]], [[cambridge]]). cheap editions were plentiful and fine editions were also produced, including one whose entire text was engraved by [[john pine]] in [[copperplate engraving|copperplate]]. the poet [[james thomson (poet)|james thomson]] owned five editions of horace's work and the physician [[james douglas (physician)|james douglas]] had five hundred books with horace-related titles. horace was often commended in periodicals such as [[the spectator ( )|the spectator]], as a hallmark of good judgement, moderation and manliness, a focus for moralising.<ref group="nb">see for example ''spectator'' ''' ''', feb. ; ''' ''', nov. ; ''' ''', nov. </ref> his verses offered a fund of mottoes, such as ''[[simplex munditiis]]'' (elegance in simplicity), ''[[splendide mendax]]'' (nobly untruthful), ''[[sapere aude]]'' (dare to know), ''[[nunc est bibendum]]'' (now is the time to drink), ''[[carpe diem]]'' (seize the day, perhaps the only one still in common use today).<ref name="tarrant"/> these were quoted even in works as prosaic as [[edmund quincy ( - )|edmund quincy]]'s ''a treatise of hemp-husbandry'' ( ). the fictional hero [[the history of tom jones, a foundling|tom jones]] recited his verses with feeling.<ref>d. money, ''the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'', </ref> his works were also used to justify commonplace themes, such as patriotic obedience, as in james parry's english lines from an oxford university collection in :<ref>d. money, ''the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'', – </ref> {{poemquote| what friendly [[muse]] will teach my lays to emulate the roman fire? justly to sound a caeser's praise demands a bold horatian lyre. }} horatian-style lyrics were increasingly typical of oxford and cambridge verse collections for this period, most of them in latin but some like the previous ode in english. [[john milton]]'s [[lycidas]] first appeared in such a collection. it has few horatian echoes<ref group="nb">one echo of horace may be found in line : "''were it not better done as others use,/ to sport with amaryllis in the shade/or with the tangles of neaera's hair?''", which points to the neara in ''odes'' . . (douglas bush, ''milton: poetical works'', , note )</ref> yet milton's associations with horace were lifelong. he composed a controversial version of ''odes'' . , and [[paradise lost]] includes references to horace's 'roman' ''odes'' . – (book for example begins with echoes of ''odes'' . ).<ref>j. talbot, ''a horatian pun in paradise lost'', – </ref> yet horace's lyrics could offer inspiration to libertines as well as moralists, and neo-latin sometimes served as a kind of discrete veil for the risqué. thus for example [[benjamin loveling]] authored a catalogue of drury lane and covent garden prostitutes, in sapphic stanzas, and an encomium for a dying lady "of salacious memory".<ref>b. loveling, ''latin and english poems'', – , – </ref> some latin imitations of horace were politically subversive, such as a marriage ode by [[anthony alsop]] that included a rallying cry for the [[jacobitism|jacobite]] cause. on the other hand, [[andrew marvell]] took inspiration from horace's ''odes'' . to compose his english masterpiece [[horatian ode upon cromwell's return from ireland]], in which subtly nuanced reflections on the execution of [[charles i of england|charles i]] echo horace's ambiguous response to the death of [[cleopatra]] (marvell's ode was suppressed in spite of its subtlety and only began to be widely published in ). [[samuel johnson]] took particular pleasure in reading ''the odes''.<ref group="nb">cfr. [[james boswell]], "the life of [[samuel johnson]]" ''aetat.'' , where boswell remarked of johnson that horace's ''odes'' "were the compositions in which he took most delight."</ref> [[alexander pope]] wrote direct ''imitations'' of horace (published with the original latin alongside) and also echoed him in ''essays'' and [[the rape of the lock]]. he even emerged as "a quite horatian homer" in his translation of the ''[[iliad]]''.<ref>d. money, ''the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'', – </ref> horace appealed also to female poets, such as [[anna seward]] (''original sonnets on various subjects, and odes paraphrased from horace'', ) and [[elizabeth tollet]], who composed a latin ode in sapphic meter to celebrate her brother's return from overseas, with tea and coffee substituted for the wine of horace's [[symposium|sympotic]] settings: {{verse translation|lang=la | quos procax nobis numeros, jocosque musa dictaret? mihi dum tibique temperent baccis arabes, vel herbis pocula seres<ref>e. tollet, ''poems on several occasions'', </ref> | what verses and jokes might the bold muse dictate? while for you and me arabs flavour our cups with beans or chinese with leaves.<ref>translation adapted from d. money, ''the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'', </ref> }} horace's ''ars poetica'' is second only to aristotle's ''poetics'' in its influence on literary theory and criticism. milton recommended both works in his treatise ''of education''.<ref>a. gilbert, ''literary criticism: plato to dryden'', , </ref> horace's ''satires'' and ''epistles'' however also had a huge impact, influencing theorists and critics such as [[john dryden]].<ref>w. kupersmith, ''roman satirists in seventeenth century england'', – </ref> there was considerable debate over the value of different lyrical forms for contemporary poets, as represented on one hand by the kind of four-line stanzas made familiar by horace's sapphic and alcaic ''odes'' and, on the other, the loosely structured [[pindarics]] associated with the odes of [[pindar]]. translations occasionally involved scholars in the dilemmas of censorship. thus [[christopher smart]] entirely omitted ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber iv/carmen x| . ]] and re-numbered the remaining odes. he also removed the ending of ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber iv/carmen i| . ]]. [[thomas creech]] printed ''epodes'' [[:wikisource:la:epodi#viii| ]] and [[:wikisource:la:epodi#xii| ]] in the original latin but left out their english translations. [[philip francis (translator)|philip francis]] left out both the english and latin for those same two epodes, a gap in the numbering the only indication that something was amiss. french editions of horace were influential in england and these too were regularly [[bowdlerize]]d. most european nations had their own 'horaces': thus for example [[friedrich von hagedorn]] was called ''the german horace'' and [[maciej kazimierz sarbiewski]] ''the polish horace'' (the latter was much imitated by english poets such as [[henry vaughan]] and [[abraham cowley]]). pope [[urban viii]] wrote voluminously in horatian meters, including an ode on gout.<ref>d. money, ''the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'', – </ref> === th century on=== horace maintained a central role in the education of english-speaking elites right up until the s.<ref>s. harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', </ref> a pedantic emphasis on the formal aspects of language-learning at the expense of literary appreciation may have made him unpopular in some quarters<ref>v. kiernan, ''horace: poetics and politics'', x</ref> yet it also confirmed his influence{{emdash}}a tension in his reception that underlies [[lord byron|byron]]'s famous lines from ''[[childe harold's pilgrimage|childe harold]]'' (canto iv, ):<ref>s. harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', </ref> {{poemquote| then farewell, horace, whom i hated so not for thy faults, but mine; it is a curse to understand, not feel thy lyric flow, to comprehend, but never love thy verse. }} [[william wordsworth]]'s mature poetry, including the [[preface to the lyrical ballads|preface]] to ''[[lyrical ballads]]'', reveals horace's influence in its rejection of false ornament<ref>d. money, ''the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'', </ref> and he once expressed "a wish / to meet the shade of horace...".<ref group="nb">the quote, from ''memorials of a tour of italy'' ( ), contains allusions to ''odes'' . and . (s. harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', – )</ref> [[john keats]] echoed the opening of horace's ''epodes'' in the opening lines of ''[[ode to a nightingale]]''.<ref group="nb">"''my heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains / my sense...''" echoes epodes [[:wikisource:la:epodi#xiv| . – ]] (s. harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', )</ref> the roman poet was presented in the nineteenth century as an honorary english gentleman. [[william makepeace thackeray|william thackeray]] produced a version of ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber i/carmen xxxviii| . ]] in which horace's 'boy' became 'lucy', and [[gerard manley hopkins]] translated the boy innocently as 'child'. horace was translated by [[sir theodore martin]] (biographer of [[albert, prince consort|prince albert]]) but minus some ungentlemanly verses, such as the erotic ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber i/carmen xxv| . ]] and ''epodes'' and . [[edward bulwer-lytton]] produced a popular translation and [[william gladstone]] also wrote translations during his last days as prime minister.<ref>s. harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', – </ref> [[edward fitzgerald (poet)|edward fitzgerald]]'s ''[[rubaiyat of omar khayyam]]'', though formally derived from the persian ''[[ruba'i]]'', nevertheless shows a strong horatian influence, since, as one modern scholar has observed, "''...the quatrains inevitably recall the stanzas of the 'odes', as does the narrating first person of the world-weary, ageing [[epicurus|epicurean]] omar himself, mixing [[symposium|sympotic]] exhortation and 'carpe diem' with splendid moralising and 'memento mori' [[nihilism]].''"<ref group="nb">comment by s. harrison, editor and contributor to ''the cambridge companion to horace'' (s. harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', </ref> [[matthew arnold]] advised a friend in verse not to worry about politics, an echo of ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber ii/carmen xi| . ]], yet later became a critic of horace's inadequacies relative to greek poets, as role models of [[victorian age|victorian]] virtues, observing: "''if human life were complete without faith, without enthusiasm, without energy, horace...would be the perfect interpreter of human life.''"<ref>m. arnold, ''selected prose'', </ref> [[christina rossetti]] composed a sonnet depicting a woman willing her own death steadily, drawing on horace's depiction of 'glycera' in ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber i/carmen xix| . . – ]] and cleopatra in ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber i/carmen xxxvii| . ]].<ref group="nb">rossetti's sonnet, ''a study (a soul)'', dated , was not published in her own lifetime. some lines: ''she stands as pale as parian marble stands / like cleopatra when she turns at bay...'' (c. rossetti, ''complete poems'', </ref> [[a. e. housman]] considered ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber iv/carmen vii| . ]], in [[prosody (latin)#first archilochian|archilochian]] couplets, the most beautiful poem of antiquity<ref>w. flesch, ''companion to british poetry, th century'', </ref> and yet he generally shared horace's penchant for quatrains, being readily adapted to his own elegiac and melancholy strain.<ref>s. harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', </ref> the most famous poem of [[ernest dowson]] took its title and its heroine's name from a line of ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber iv/carmen i| . ]], ''non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno cynarae'', as well as its motif of nostalgia for a former flame. [[kipling]] wrote a famous [[parody]] of the ''odes'', satirising their stylistic idiosyncrasies and especially the extraordinary syntax, but he also used horace's roman patriotism as a focus for british imperialism, as in the story ''regulus'' in the school collection ''[[stalky & co.]]'', which he based on ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber iii/carmen v| . ]].<ref>s. medcalfe, ''kipling's horace'', – </ref> wilfred owen's famous poem, quoted above, incorporated horatian text to question patriotism while ignoring the rules of latin scansion. however, there were few other echoes of horace in the war period, possibly because war is not actually a major theme of horace's work.<ref>s. harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', </ref> [[file:michelin poster .jpg|thumb|[[bibendum]] (the symbol of the [[michelin]] tyre company) takes his name from the opening line of [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber i/carmen xxxvii|ode . ]], ''[[nunc est bibendum]]''.]] both [[w.h.auden]] and [[louis macneice]] began their careers as teachers of classics and both responded as poets to horace's influence. auden for example evoked the fragile world of the s in terms echoing ''odes'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber ii/carmen xi| . . – ]], where horace advises a friend not to let worries about frontier wars interfere with current pleasures. {{poemquote| and, gentle, do not care to know where poland draws her eastern bow, what violence is done; nor ask what doubtful act allows our freedom in this english house, our picnics in the sun.<ref group="nb">quoted from auden's poem ''out on the lawn i lie in bed'', , and cited by s. harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', </ref> }} the american poet, [[robert frost]], echoed horace's ''satires'' in the conversational and sententious idiom of some of his longer poems, such as ''the lesson for today'' ( ), and also in his gentle advocacy of life on the farm, as in ''hyla brook'' ( ), evoking horace's ''fons bandusiae'' in ''ode'' [[:wikisource:la:carmina (horatius)/liber iii/carmen xiii| . ]]. now at the start of the third millennium, poets are still absorbing and re-configuring the horatian influence, sometimes in translation (such as a english/american edition of the ''odes'' by thirty-six poets)<ref group="nb">edited by mcclatchy, reviewed by s. harrison, ''bryn mawr classical review'' . . </ref> and sometimes as inspiration for their own work (such as a collection of odes by a new zealand poet).<ref group="nb">i. wedde, ''the commonplace odes'', auckland , (cited by s. harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', )</ref> horace's ''epodes'' have largely been ignored in the modern era, excepting those with political associations of historical significance. the obscene qualities of some of the poems have repulsed even scholars<ref group="nb">'political' epodes are , , , ; notably obscene epodes are and . e. fraenkel is among the admirers repulsed by these two poems, for another view of which see for example dee lesser clayman, 'horace's epodes viii and xii: more than clever obscenity?', ''the classical world'' vol. , no. (september ), pp – {{jstor| }}</ref> yet more recently a better understanding of the nature of [[iambus (genre)|iambic poetry]] has led to a re-evaluation of the ''whole'' collection.<ref>d. mankin, ''horace: epodes'', – </ref><ref>r. mcneill, ''horace'', </ref> a re-appraisal of the ''epodes'' also appears in creative adaptations by recent poets (such as a collection of poems that relocates the ancient context to a s industrial town).<ref group="nb">m. almond, ''the works'' , washington, cited by s. harrison, ''the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'', </ref> return to horace. retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/horace" 		 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			article 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	edit 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		search 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigation 	 	 			main page 	contents 	current events 	random article 	about wikipedia 	contact us 	donate 		 	 	 	 		contribute 	 	 			help 	learn to edit 	community portal 	recent changes 	upload file 		 	 	 		tools 	 	 			what links here 	related changes 	upload file 	special pages 	page information 	wikidata item 		 	 	 	 		languages 	 	 		 		 	 	 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 horas - wicipedia 	 	 	 	 	horas 	 		oddi ar wicipedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 			horas 	 	ganwyd	 rhagfyr cc  venosa  	bu farw	 rhufain  	dinasyddiaeth	 rhufain hynafol  	galwedigaeth	 bardd, ysgrifennwr, athronydd  	adnabyddus am	 ars poetica  	tad	 unknown  	mam	 unknown  bardd yn yr iaith lladin oedd quintus horatius flaccus neu horas, hefyd horace ( rhagfyr, cc - tachwedd cc). gyda cicero, ofydd ac eraill, roedd yn un o lenorion mawr yr oes awgwstaidd. cynnwys 	 ei waith 	 llyfryddiaeth 	 . gwaith horas 	 . cyfieithiadau ac astudiaethau 	 cyfeiriadau ei waith[golygu | golygu cod y dudalen] un o'i gerddi enwocaf yw ei gerdd ar fyrhoedledd dyn, sy'n dechrau gyda'r bennill adnabyddus, 	eheu fugaces, postume, postume, 	labuntur anni nec pietas moram 	rugis et instanti senectae 	afferet indominataeque morti. 	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yderligere betingelser kan være gældende. se brugsbetingelserne for flere oplysninger. 		fortrolighedspolitik 	om wikipedia 	forbehold 	mobilvisning 	udviklere 	statistik 	brug af cookies 		 	 	 ancient roman cuisine - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	ancient roman cuisine 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 a mosaic depicting a banquet during a hunting trip from the late roman villa romana del casale in sicily ancient roman cuisine changed greatly over the duration of the civilization's existence. dietary habits were affected by the political changes from kingdom to republic to empire, and the empire's enormous expansion, which exposed romans to many new provincial culinary habits and cooking methods. in the beginning, dietary differences between roman social classes were not great, but disparities developed with the empire's growth. contents 	 archaeology 	 meals 	 foods and ingredients 	 cooking 	 alcoholic drinks 	 desserts 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links archaeology[edit] most organic foods decay under ordinary conditions, but ashes and animal bones offer some archaeological details about the ancient roman diet. phytoliths have been found at a cemetery in tarragona, spain. imported figs were among the charred foods preserved when boudica and her army burned down a roman shop in colchester. chickpeas and bowls of fruit are known from herculaneum, preserved since vesuvius destroyed the town in ad. remains of small fish bones, sea urchin spines and mineralized plants have survived in the city's sewers; among the plants archaeologists have identified dill, coriander, flax, lentil, cabbage, opium poppy and various other nuts, fruits and legumes, as well as a diverse variety of fish and shellfish. at pompeii, grapes, bread and pastry were burned and buried in peristyle courtyard gardens as offerings to household lares.[ ] meals[edit] further information: food and dining in the roman empire traditionally, a breakfast called ientaculum[ ] was served at dawn. at mid-day to early afternoon, romans ate cena,[ ] the main meal of the day, and at nightfall a light supper called vesperna.[ ] with the increased importation of foreign foods, the cena grew larger in size and included a wider range of foods. thus, it gradually shifted to the evening, while the vesperna[ ] was abandoned completely over the course of the years. the mid-day meal prandium became a light meal to hold one over until cena.[ ] among the lower classes of the roman society, these changes were less pronounced as the traditional routines corresponded closely to the daily rhythms of manual labour. roman spoons with duck or swan handles however, among the upper classes, who normally did not engage in manual labour, it became customary to schedule all business obligations in the morning. after the prandium, the last responsibilities would be discharged, and a visit would be made to the baths. around  p.m.,[ ] the cena would begin. this meal could last until late in the night, especially if guests were invited, and would often be followed by comissatio, a round of alcoholic beverages (usually wine.) in the period of the kings and the early republic, but also in later periods (for the working classes), the cena essentially consisted of a kind of porridge, the puls.[ ] the simplest kind would be made from emmer, water, salt and fat. a more sophisticated variation was made with olive oil, and consumed with an accompaniment of assorted vegetables when available. the wealthy commonly ate their puls with eggs, cheese, and honey and it was also occasionally served with meat or fish. over the course of the republican period, the cena developed into two courses: the main course and a dessert with fruit and seafood (e.g. molluscs, shrimp). by the end of the republic, it was usual for the meal to be served in three parts: an appetiser (gustatio), main course (primae mensae), and dessert (secundae mensae). the roman legions' staple ration of food was wheat. in the th century, most legionaries ate as well as anyone in rome. they were supplied with rations of bread and vegetables along with meats such as beef, mutton, or pork. rations also depended on where the legions were stationed or were campaigning. mutton was popular in northern gaul and britannica, but pork was the main meat ration of the legions.[ ] foods and ingredients[edit] a carbonised loaf of ancient roman bread from pompeii. bread was a staple food in the roman world. from bc, a ration of unmilled wheat (as much as  kg), known as the frumentatio, was distributed to as many as , people every month by the roman state.[ ] there was originally a charge for this but from bc this charge was abolished by the plebeian tribune publius clodius pulcher. individuals had to be citizens and domiciled in rome to receive the frumentatio.[ ] originally flat, round loaves made of emmer (a cereal grain closely related to wheat) with a bit of salt were eaten; among the upper classes, eggs, cheese, and honey, along with milk and fruit were also consumed. in the imperial period, around ad, bread made of wheat was introduced; with time, more and more wheaten foods began to replace emmer loaves. there were many kinds of bread of differing quality. typically white bread was baked for the elite, with darker bread baked for the middle class, and the darkest bread for the poor peasants.[ ] the bread was sometimes dipped in wine and eaten with olives, cheese, and grapes. at the time of the destruction of pompeii in ad , there were at least bakeries in that city.[ ] roman chefs made sweet buns flavored with blackcurrants and cheese cakes made with flour, honey, eggs, ricotta-like cheese and poppy seed. sweet wine cakes were made with honey, reduced red wine and cinnamon. fruit tarts were popular with the upper class, but the lower classes couldn't afford to personally make them or purchase them from markets and vendors. the ancient roman diet included many items that are staples of modern italian cooking. pliny the elder discussed more than varieties of olive, kinds of pear, figs (native and imported from africa and the eastern provinces), and a wide variety of vegetables.[a][ ] some of these vegetables are no longer present in the modern world, while others have undergone significant changes. carrots of different colours were consumed, but not in orange.[ ] many kinds of vegetables were cultivated and consumed.[ ] these included celery, garlic, some flower bulbs, cabbage and other brassicas (such as kale and broccoli), lettuce, endive, onion, leek, asparagus, radishes, turnips, parsnips, carrots, beets, green peas, chard, french beans[citation needed], cardoons, olives, and cucumber.[ ] some vegetables were illustrated in reliefs.[ ] the potato, tomato and chili pepper from the new world were not available in ancient roman times, nor was maize (the modern source of polenta).[ ] however, some foods considered characteristic of modern italian cuisine were not used.[ ] in particular, spinach and eggplant (aubergine) were introduced later from the arab world, and tomatoes and capsicum peppers only appeared in europe following the discovery of the new world and the columbian exchange.[ ] the romans knew of rice, but it was very rarely available to them. there were also few citrus fruits.[ ] lemons were known in italy from the second century ad but were not widely cultivated.[ ] butcher's meat was an uncommon luxury. the most popular meat was pork, especially sausages.[ ] beef was uncommon in ancient rome, being more common in ancient greece – it is not mentioned by juvenal or horace.[ ] seafood, game, and poultry, including ducks and geese, were more usual. for instance, on his triumph, caesar gave a public feast to , humiliores (poorer people) which featured all three of these foods, but no butcher's meat.[ ] john e. stambaugh writes that meat "was scarce except at sacrifices and the dinner parties of the rich".[ ] cows were prized for their milk; bulls as plough and draft animals. the beef was tough and unappetizing. veal was eaten sometimes. apicius gives only four recipes for beef but the same recipes call for lamb or pork as options. there is only one recipe for beef stew and another for veal scallopini.[ ] fish was more common than meat.[ ] aquaculture was sophisticated, with large-scale industries devoted to oyster farming.[ ] the romans also engaged in snail farming and oak grub farming.[ ] some fish were greatly esteemed and fetched high prices, such as mullet raised in the fishery at cosa, and "elaborate means were invented to assure its freshness".[ ] dormice were eaten and considered a delicacy.[ ] it was a status symbol among wealthy romans, and some even had dormice weighed in front of dinner guests.[ ] a sumptuary law enacted under marcus aemilius scaurus forbade the eating of dormice, but failed to stop the practice.[ ] a still life with fruit basket and vases (pompeii, c. ad ) the thermopolium (eatery) of pompeii, italy, st century ad. fruit was eaten fresh when in season, and dried or preserved over winter. popular fruit included apples, pears, figs, grapes, quinces, citron, strawberries, blackberries, elderberries, currants, damson plums, dates, melons, rose hips and pomegranates.[ ] less common fruits were the more exotic azeroles and medlars. cherries and apricots, both introduced in the st century bc, were popular. peaches were introduced in the st century ad from persia. oranges and lemons were known but used more for medicinal purposes than in cookery.[ ] although known to the ancient romans, lemons were not cultivated in italy until the principate.[ ][ ] at least cultivars of pear were grown in rome, along with three types of apples. cato described pear culture methods similar to modern techniques.[ ] there are recipes for pear and peach creams and milk puddings flavored with honey, pepper and a little garum. while the precursors of brussels sprouts, artichokes, peas, rutabaga, and possibly cauliflower probably existed in roman times, the modern cultivated forms we think of were not developed until the late middle ages and early renaissance times. cabbage was eaten both raw (sometimes dipped in vinegar) and cooked.[ ] cato greatly esteemed cabbage, believing it to be good for the digestion, and also believed that if a sick person ate a great deal of cabbage and bathed in his urine, he would recover.[ ] legumes were limited to dried peas, fava beans (broad beans), chickpeas, lentils, and lupines. the romans knew several varieties of chickpea, such as venus, ram, and punic. they were either cooked down into a broth or roasted as a snack. the roman cookbook apicius gives several recipes for chickpeas.[ ] the ancient romans ate walnuts, almonds, pistachios, chestnuts, hazelnuts (filberts), pine nuts, and sesame seeds, which they sometimes pulverized to thicken spiced, sweet wine sauces for roast meat and fowl to serve on the side or over the meat as a glaze. nuts were also used in savoury pesto-like sauces for cold cuts. nuts were used in pastries, tarts and puddings sweetened with honey. the roman colonies provided many foods to rome; the city received ham from belgium, oysters from brittany, garum from mauritania, wild game from tunisia, silphium (laser) from cyrenaica, flowers from egypt, lettuce from cappadocia, and fish from pontus.[ ] a re-creation of moretum, a herb and cheese spread eaten with bread cheese was eaten and its manufacture was well-established by the roman empire period.[ ] it was part of the standard rations for roman soldiers and was popular among civilians as well. the emperor diocletian ( – ce) fixed maximum prices for cheese.[ ] the manufacture of cheese and its quality and culinary uses are mentioned by a number of roman authors: pliny the elder described cheese's dietary and medicinal uses in book of historia naturalis, and varro in de agricultura described the roman cheesemaking season (spring and summer) and compared soft, new cheeses with drier, aged cheeses. the most extensive description of roman cheese-making comes from columella, from his treatise on roman agriculture, de re rustica.[ ] juscellum was a broth with grated bread, eggs, sage and saffron, described in apicius, a roman recipe book of the late th or early th century.[ ] garum was the distinctive fish sauce of ancient rome.[ ] it was used as a seasoning, in place of salt; as a table condiment; and as a sauce. there were four major fish sauce types: garum, liquamen, muria, and allec.[ ] it was made in different qualities, from fish such as tuna, mullet, and sea bass.[ ] it could be flavoured, for example mixed with wine, or diluted with water (hydrogarum), a form popular among roman soldiers, although the emperor elagabalus asserted that he was the first to serve it at public banquets in rome.[ ] the most costly garum was garum sociorum, made from mackerel (scomber) at the new carthage fisheries in spain, and widely traded.[ ] pliny wrote in his natural history that two congii ( litres) of this sauce cost , sesterces.[ ] one thousand sesterces in the early empire was equal to g of gold. cooking[edit] a boy holding a platter of fruits and what may be a bucket of crabs, in a kitchen with fish and squid, on the june panel from a mosaic depicting the months ( rd century)[ ] one of many modes of cooking in ancient rome was the focus, a hearth that was placed in front of the lararium, the household altar which contained small sculptures of the household deity (the lares, or guardian ancestor-spirits, and the penates, who were believed to protect the floor, the larder).[ ] in homes where the lararium was built into the wall, the focus was sometimes built of raised brick into four sides, constructed against a baseboard on which a fire was lit. more common was a focus that was rectangular and portable, consisting simply of a moveable hearth with stone or bronze feet.[ ] after the development of separate kitchens, the focus began to be used only for religious offerings and for warmth, rather than for cooking.[ ] portable stoves and ovens were used by the romans, and some had water pots and grills laid onto them. at pompeii, most houses had separate kitchens, most fairly small, but a few large; the villa of the mysteries covers a nine-by-twelve meter area.[ ] a number of kitchens at pompeii had no roofs, resembling courtyards more than ordinary rooms; this allowed smoke to ventilate.[ ] kitchens that did have roofs must have been extremely smokey, since the only ventilation would come from high windows or holes in the ceiling; while the romans built chimneys for their bakeries and smithies, they were unknown in private dwellings until about the th century a.d, well after the collapse of roman civilization.[ ][ ] many roman kitchens had an oven (furnus or fornax), and some (such as the kitchen of the villa of the mysteries) had two.[ ] a square or dome-shaped construction of brick or stone, these ovens had a flat floor, often of granite and sometimes lava, which were filled with dry twigs and then lit.[ ] on the walls of kitchens were hooks and chains for hanging cooking equipment, including various pots and pans, knives, meat forks, sieves, graters, spits, tongs, cheese-slicers, nutcrackers, jugs for measuring, and pâté moulds.[ ] alcoholic drinks[edit] see also: ancient rome and wine roman fresco with a banquet scene from the casa dei casti amanti, pompeii in ancient rome, wine was normally mixed with water immediately before drinking, since the fermentation was not controlled and the alcohol grade was high. wine was sometimes adjusted and "improved" by its makers: instructions survive for making white wine from red and vice versa, as well as for rescuing wine that is turning to vinegar.[ ] those instructions as well as detailed descriptions of roman viticulture date back to bc in the first known text written in latin prose.[ ] wine was also variously flavored. for example, there was passum, a strong and sweet raisin wine, for which the earliest known recipe is of carthaginian origin; mulsum, a freshly made mixture of wine and honey (called a pyment today); and conditum, a mixture of wine, honey and spices made in advance and matured. one specific recipe, conditum paradoxum, is for a mixture of wine, honey, pepper, laurel, dates, mastic, and saffron, cooked and stored for later use. another recipe called for the addition of seawater, pitch and rosin to the wine. a greek traveler reported that the beverage was apparently an acquired taste.[ ] sour wine mixed with water and herbs (posca) was a popular drink for the lower classes and a staple part of the roman soldier's ration.[ ] beer (cerevisia) was known but considered vulgar, and was associated with barbarians.[ ][ ] desserts[edit] while lacking necessary ingredients commonly used in the modern era for sweets such as refined sugar or properly churned butter, ancient rome had an abundance of desserts to serve after they had completed their meals served with wine.[ ] the most renowned were large platters of various fruits picked fresh; some of the more exotic fruits that were not able to grow in rome were even shipped in from distant continents for the wealthy. due to the lack of a sweetener such as sugar there was always a desire for the sweetest fruits that were available. sprias were a type of sweet pastry that were readily available during this time that were always spent with a thin cake-like crust while sometimes containing fruit in them. enkythoi is another common type of roman pastry that was softer and like a modern sponge cake. see also[edit] 	food portal 	history portal 	ancient greek cuisine 	byzantine cuisine, eastern roman empire 	italian cuisine 	list of ancient dishes 	spice use in antiquity notes[edit] 	^ jacques andré listed cultivated and wild vegetables in ancient rome.[ ] references[edit] 	^ wilkins, john. a companion to food in the ancient world. wiley blackwell. pp.  – . 	^ a b c artman, john:"ancient rome- independent learning unit", page , good apple, . 	^ a b artman, john::"ancient rome- independent learning unit", page , good apple, . 	^ guy, john:"roman life", page , ticktock publishing ltd, . 	^ greg woolf ( ). ancient civilizations: the illustrated guide to belief, mythology, and art. barnes & noble. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ giacosa, ilaria gozzini ( ). a taste of ancient rome. chicago: university of chicago. 	^ a b garnsey, peter ( ). scheidel, walter (ed.). cities, peasants and food in classical antiquity: essays in social and economic history. cambridge university press. pp.  – . doi: . /cbo . isbn  . 	^ feldman, charles ( - - ). 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divorce) 	scribonia ( – bc; divorce) 	livia ( bc–ad ; his death) 	issue		julia the elder 	gaius caesar (adopted) 	lucius caesar (adopted) 	agrippa postumus (adopted) 	tiberius (adopted) 		regnal name 	imperator caesar divi filius augustus 	dynasty	julio-claudian 	father		gaius octavius 	julius caesar (adoptive) 	mother	atia balba caesonia bust of augustus wearing the civic crown, at glyptothek, munich caesar augustus ( september bc – august ad ) was the first roman emperor, reigning from  bc until his death in ad  .[nb ] his status as the founder of the roman principate (the first phase of the roman empire) has consolidated an enduring legacy as one of the most effective and controversial leaders in human history.[ ][ ] the reign of augustus initiated an era of relative peace known as the pax romana. the roman world was largely free from large-scale conflict for more than two centuries, despite continuous wars of imperial expansion on the empire's frontiers and the year-long civil war known as the "year of the four emperors" over the imperial succession. augustus was born gaius octavius into an old and wealthy equestrian branch of the plebeian gens octavia. his maternal great-uncle julius caesar was assassinated in bc, and octavius was named in caesar's will as his adopted son and heir. afterwards, octavius took the name gaius julius caesar and was called octavianus. he, mark antony, and marcus lepidus formed the second triumvirate to defeat the assassins of caesar. following their victory at the battle of philippi ( bc), the triumvirate divided the roman republic among themselves and ruled as de facto dictators. the triumvirate was eventually torn apart by the competing ambitions of its members; lepidus was exiled in bc, and antony was defeated by octavian at the battle of actium in bc. after the demise of the second triumvirate, augustus restored the outward façade of the free republic, with governmental power vested in the roman senate, the executive magistrates, and the legislative assemblies. in reality, however, he retained his autocratic power—with the senate granting him lifetime powers of supreme military command, tribune, and censor. augustus rejected monarchical titles, and instead called himself princeps civitatis ("first citizen"). augustus dramatically enlarged the empire, annexing egypt, dalmatia, pannonia, noricum, and raetia, expanding possessions in africa, and completing the conquest of hispania, but suffered a major setback in germania. beyond the frontiers, he secured the empire with a buffer region of client states and made peace with the parthian empire through diplomacy. he reformed the roman system of taxation, developed networks of roads with an official courier system, established a standing army, established the praetorian guard, created official police and fire-fighting services for rome, and rebuilt much of the city during his reign. augustus died in ad at the age of , probably from natural causes. however, there were unconfirmed rumors that his wife livia poisoned him. he was succeeded as emperor by his adopted son tiberius (also stepson and former son-in-law). contents 	 name 	 early life 	 rise to power 	 . heir to caesar 	 . growing tensions 	 . first conflict with antony 	 . second triumvirate 	 . . proscriptions 	 . . battle of philippi and division of territory 	 . . rebellion and marriage alliances 	 . . war with pompeius 	 . . war with antony and cleopatra 	 sole ruler of rome 	 . first settlement 	 . change to augustus 	 . second settlement 	 . primary reasons for the second settlement 	 . additional powers 	 . conspiracy 	 . stability and staying power 	 war and expansion 	 death and succession 	 legacy 	 . revenue reforms 	 . month of august 	 . building projects 	 physical appearance and official images 	 see also 	 references 	 . notes 	 . citations 	 . works cited 	 further reading 	 external links 	 . primary sources 	 . secondary source material name as a consequence of roman customs, society, and personal preference, augustus (/ɔːˈɡʌstəs/)(aw-gust-əs) was known by many names throughout his life: 	gaius octavius (/ɒkˈteɪviəs/ ok-tay-vee-əs, latin: [ˈɡaː.jʊs ɔkˈtaː.wi.us]): he received his birth name, after his biological father, in bc. "gaius" was his praenomen, while "octavius" was his nomen. he did not yet receive a cognomen at birth since his father appears to have lacked or eschewed one, which would normally be inherited. 	gaius octavius thurinus: he was given the cognomen "thurinus" in bc, when he was a few years old.[ ][ ] later, after he had taken the name of caesar, his rival mark antony referred to him as "thurinus" in order to belittle him. in response, he merely said he was surprised that "using his old name was thought to be an insult".[ ][ ] 	gaius julius caesar: after he was adopted by julius caesar, he adopted caesar's name in accordance with roman naming conventions.[ ] while he dropped all references to the gens octavia, people colloquially added the epithet octavianus (latin: [ɔktaːwɪˈaːnʊs]) to his legal name, either to differentiate him from his adoptive father or to highlight his more modest origins. modern english language historians refer to him using the anglicized form "octavian" (/ɒkˈteɪviən/ ok-tay-vee-ən) to the period between bc and bc, rather than "gaius julius caesar", as he was officially called, mainly to avoid possible confusion with julius caesar.[ ] 	gaius julius caesar divi filius: two years after his adoption, he founded the temple of caesar additionally adding the title divi filius ("son of the divine") to his name in attempt to strengthen his political ties to caesar's former soldiers, following the deification of caesar.[ ] 	imperator caesar divi filius: from bc, octavian opted to use imperator, the title by which troops hailed their leader after military success. his name is roughly translated as "commander caesar, son of the divine". 	imperator caesar divi filius augustus (latin: [ɪmpɛˈraːtɔr ˈkae̯sar ˈdiːwiː ˈfiːlɪ.ʊs au̯ˈɡʊstʊs]): following his bc defeat of mark antony and cleopatra, partly on his own insistence, on january bc the roman senate granted him the additional name "augustus".[ ][ ] historians use this name to refer to him from bc until his death in ad .[ ] early life main article: early life of augustus while his paternal family was from the volscian town of velletri, approximately kilometres (  mi) to the south-east of rome, augustus was born in the city of rome on september  bc.[ ] he was born at ox head, a small property on the palatine hill, very close to the roman forum. he was given the name gaius octavius thurinus, his cognomen possibly commemorating his father's victory at thurii over a rebellious band of slaves which occurred a few years after his birth.[ ][ ] suetonius wrote: "there are many indications that the octavian family was in days of old a distinguished one at velitrae; for not only was a street in the most frequented part of town long ago called octavian, but an altar was shown there besides, consecrated by an octavius. this man was leader in a war with a neighbouring town ..." [ ] due to the crowded nature of rome at the time, octavius was taken to his father's home village at velletri to be raised. octavius mentions his father's equestrian family only briefly in his memoirs. his paternal great-grandfather gaius octavius was a military tribune in sicily during the second punic war. his grandfather had served in several local political offices. his father, also named gaius octavius, had been governor of macedonia. his mother, atia, was the niece of julius caesar.[ ][ ] a denarius from bc, showing julius caesar on the obverse and the goddess venus on the reverse of the coin. caption: caesar imp. m. / l. aemilivs bvca in  bc, when he was four years old, his father died.[ ] his mother married a former governor of syria, lucius marcius philippus.[ ] philippus claimed descent from alexander the great, and was elected consul in  bc. philippus never had much of an interest in young octavius. because of this, octavius was raised by his grandmother, julia, the sister of julius caesar. julia died in or  bc, and octavius delivered the funeral oration for his grandmother.[ ][ ] from this point, his mother and stepfather took a more active role in raising him. he donned the toga virilis four years later,[ ] and was elected to the college of pontiffs in  bc.[ ][ ] the following year he was put in charge of the greek games that were staged in honor of the temple of venus genetrix, built by julius caesar.[ ] according to nicolaus of damascus, octavius wished to join caesar's staff for his campaign in africa, but gave way when his mother protested.[ ] in  bc, she consented for him to join caesar in hispania, where he planned to fight the forces of pompey, caesar's late enemy, but octavius fell ill and was unable to travel. when he had recovered, he sailed to the front, but was shipwrecked; after coming ashore with a handful of companions, he crossed hostile territory to caesar's camp, which impressed his great-uncle considerably.[ ] velleius paterculus reports that after that time, caesar allowed the young man to share his carriage.[ ] when back in rome, caesar deposited a new will with the vestal virgins, naming octavius as the prime beneficiary.[ ] rise to power heir to caesar the death of caesar, by jean-léon gérôme ( ). on march  bc, octavius's adoptive father julius caesar was assassinated by a conspiracy led by marcus junius brutus and gaius cassius longinus. walters art museum, baltimore. octavius was studying and undergoing military training in apollonia, illyria, when julius caesar was killed on the ides of march ( march)  bc. he rejected the advice of some army officers to take refuge with the troops in macedonia and sailed to italy to ascertain whether he had any potential political fortunes or security.[ ] caesar had no living legitimate children under roman law,[nb ] and so had adopted octavius, his grand-nephew, making him his primary heir.[ ] mark antony later charged that octavian had earned his adoption by caesar through sexual favours, though suetonius describes antony's accusation as political slander.[ ] this form of slander was popular during this time in the roman republic to demean and discredit political opponents by accusing them of having an inappropriate sexual affair.[ ][ ] after landing at lupiae near brundisium, octavius learned the contents of caesar's will, and only then did he decide to become caesar's political heir as well as heir to two-thirds of his estate.[ ][ ][ ] upon his adoption, octavius assumed his great-uncle's name gaius julius caesar. roman citizens adopted into a new family usually retained their old nomen in cognomen form (e.g., octavianus for one who had been an octavius, aemilianus for one who had been an aemilius, etc.). however, though some of his contemporaries did,[ ] there is no evidence that octavius ever himself officially used the name octavianus, as it would have made his modest origins too obvious.[ ][ ][ ] historians usually refer to the new caesar as octavian during the time between his adoption and his assumption of the name augustus in  bc in order to avoid confusing the dead dictator with his heir.[ ] octavian could not rely on his limited funds to make a successful entry into the upper echelons of the roman political hierarchy.[ ] after a warm welcome by caesar's soldiers at brundisium,[ ] octavian demanded a portion of the funds that were allotted by caesar for the intended war against the parthian empire in the middle east.[ ] this amounted to  million sesterces stored at brundisium, the staging ground in italy for military operations in the east.[ ] a later senatorial investigation into the disappearance of the public funds took no action against octavian, since he subsequently used that money to raise troops against the senate's arch enemy mark antony.[ ] octavian made another bold move in  bc when, without official permission, he appropriated the annual tribute that had been sent from rome's near eastern province to italy.[ ][ ] octavian began to bolster his personal forces with caesar's veteran legionaries and with troops designated for the parthian war, gathering support by emphasizing his status as heir to caesar.[ ][ ] on his march to rome through italy, octavian's presence and newly acquired funds attracted many, winning over caesar's former veterans stationed in campania.[ ] by june, he had gathered an army of , loyal veterans, paying each a salary of denarii.[ ][ ][ ] growing tensions a reconstructed statue of augustus as a younger octavian, dated ca. bc arriving in rome on may  bc, octavian found consul mark antony, caesar's former colleague, in an uneasy truce with the dictator's assassins. they had been granted a general amnesty on march, yet antony had succeeded in driving most of them out of rome with an inflammatory eulogy at caesar's funeral, mounting public opinion against the assassins.[ ] mark antony was amassing political support, but octavian still had opportunity to rival him as the leading member of the faction supporting caesar. mark antony had lost the support of many romans and supporters of caesar when he initially opposed the motion to elevate caesar to divine status.[ ] octavian failed to persuade antony to relinquish caesar's money to him. during the summer, he managed to win support from caesarian sympathizers and also made common with the optimates, the former enemies of caesar, who saw him as the lesser evil and hoped to manipulate him.[ ] in september, the leading optimate orator marcus tullius cicero began to attack antony in a series of speeches portraying him as a threat to the republican order.[ ][ ] first conflict with antony bust of augustus in musei capitolini, rome with opinion in rome turning against him and his year of consular power nearing its end, antony attempted to pass laws that would assign him the province of cisalpine gaul.[ ][ ] octavian meanwhile built up a private army in italy by recruiting caesarian veterans and, on november, he won over two of antony's legions with the enticing offer of monetary gain.[ ][ ][ ] in the face of octavian's large and capable force, antony saw the danger of staying in rome and, to the relief of the senate, he left rome for cisalpine gaul, which was to be handed to him on january.[ ] however, the province had earlier been assigned to decimus junius brutus albinus, one of caesar's assassins, who now refused to yield to antony. antony besieged him at mutina[ ] and rejected the resolutions passed by the senate to stop the fighting. the senate had no army to enforce their resolutions. this provided an opportunity for octavian, who already was known to have armed forces.[ ] cicero also defended octavian against antony's taunts about octavian's lack of noble lineage and aping of julius caesar's name, stating "we have no more brilliant example of traditional piety among our youth."[ ] at the urging of cicero, the senate inducted octavian as senator on january  bc, yet he also was given the power to vote alongside the former consuls.[ ][ ] in addition, octavian was granted propraetor imperium (commanding power) which legalized his command of troops, sending him to relieve the siege along with hirtius and pansa (the consuls for  bc).[ ][ ] in april  bc, antony's forces were defeated at the battles of forum gallorum and mutina, forcing antony to retreat to transalpine gaul. both consuls were killed, however, leaving octavian in sole command of their armies.[ ][ ] the senate heaped many more rewards on decimus brutus than on octavian for defeating antony, then attempted to give command of the consular legions to decimus brutus.[ ] in response, octavian stayed in the po valley and refused to aid any further offensive against antony.[ ] in july, an embassy of centurions sent by octavian entered rome and demanded the consulship left vacant by hirtius and pansa[ ] and also that the decree should be rescinded which declared antony a public enemy.[ ] when this was refused, he marched on the city with eight legions.[ ] he encountered no military opposition in rome, and on august  bc was elected consul with his relative quintus pedius as co-consul.[ ][ ] meanwhile, antony formed an alliance with marcus aemilius lepidus, another leading caesarian.[ ] second triumvirate proscriptions roman aureus bearing the portraits of mark antony (left) and octavian (right), issued in  bc to celebrate the establishment of the second triumvirate by octavian, antony and marcus lepidus in  bc. both sides bear the inscription "iii vir r p c", meaning "one of three men for the regulation of the republic". caption: m. ant. imp. avg. iii vir rpc m. barbat. q. p. / caesar imp. pont. iii vir prc. the m. barbatius pollio was a moneyer[ ] in a meeting near bologna in october  bc, octavian, antony, and lepidus formed the second triumvirate.[ ] this explicit arrogation of special powers lasting five years was then legalised by law passed by the plebs, unlike the unofficial first triumvirate formed by pompey, julius caesar, and marcus licinius crassus.[ ][ ] the triumvirs then set in motion proscriptions, in which between and senators[nb ] and , equites were branded as outlaws and deprived of their property and, for those who failed to escape, their lives.[ ] this decree issued by the triumvirate was motivated in part by a need to raise money to pay the salaries of their troops for the upcoming conflict against caesar's assassins, marcus junius brutus and gaius cassius longinus.[ ] rewards for their arrest gave incentive for romans to capture those proscribed, while the assets and properties of those arrested were seized by the triumvirs.[ ] contemporary roman historians provide conflicting reports as to which triumvir was most responsible for the proscriptions and killing. however, the sources agree that enacting the proscriptions was a means by all three factions to eliminate political enemies.[ ] marcus velleius paterculus asserted that octavian tried to avoid proscribing officials whereas lepidus and antony were to blame for initiating them. cassius dio defended octavian as trying to spare as many as possible, whereas antony and lepidus, being older and involved in politics longer, had many more enemies to deal with.[ ] this claim was rejected by appian, who maintained that octavian shared an equal interest with lepidus and antony in eradicating his enemies.[ ] suetonius said that octavian was reluctant to proscribe officials, but did pursue his enemies with more vigor than the other triumvirs.[ ] plutarch described the proscriptions as a ruthless and cutthroat swapping of friends and family among antony, lepidus, and octavian. for example, octavian allowed the proscription of his ally cicero, antony the proscription of his maternal uncle lucius julius caesar (the consul of bc), and lepidus his brother paullus.[ ] a denarius minted c.  bc. obverse: caesar avgvstvs; reverse: comet of eight rays with tail upward; divvs ivliv[s] (divine julius). battle of philippi and division of territory further information: liberators' civil war on january  bc, the senate posthumously recognized julius caesar as a divinity of the roman state, divus iulius. octavian was able to further his cause by emphasizing the fact that he was divi filius, "son of the divine".[ ] antony and octavian then sent legions by sea to face the armies of brutus and cassius, who had built their base of power in greece.[ ] after two battles at philippi in macedonia in october , the caesarian army was victorious and brutus and cassius committed suicide. mark antony later used the examples of these battles as a means to belittle octavian, as both battles were decisively won with the use of antony's forces. in addition to claiming responsibility for both victories, antony also branded octavian as a coward for handing over his direct military control to marcus vipsanius agrippa instead.[ ] after philippi, a new territorial arrangement was made among the members of the second triumvirate. gaul and the province of hispania were placed in the hands of octavian. antony traveled east to egypt where he allied himself with queen cleopatra vii, the former lover of julius caesar and mother of caesar's infant son caesarion. lepidus was left with the province of africa, stymied by antony, who conceded hispania to octavian instead.[ ] octavian was left to decide where in italy to settle the tens of thousands of veterans of the macedonian campaign, whom the triumvirs had promised to discharge. the tens of thousands who had fought on the republican side with brutus and cassius could easily ally with a political opponent of octavian if not appeased, and they also required land.[ ] there was no more government-controlled land to allot as settlements for their soldiers, so octavian had to choose one of two options: alienating many roman citizens by confiscating their land, or alienating many roman soldiers who could mount a considerable opposition against him in the roman heartland. octavian chose the former.[ ] there were as many as eighteen roman towns affected by the new settlements, with entire populations driven out or at least given partial evictions.[ ] rebellion and marriage alliances there was widespread dissatisfaction with octavian over these settlements of his soldiers, and this encouraged many to rally at the side of lucius antonius, who was brother of mark antony and supported by a majority in the senate. meanwhile, octavian asked for a divorce from claudia, the daughter of fulvia (mark antony's wife) and her first husband publius clodius pulcher. he returned claudia to her mother, claiming that their marriage had never been consummated. fulvia decided to take action. together with lucius antonius, she raised an army in italy to fight for antony's rights against octavian. lucius and fulvia took a political and martial gamble in opposing octavian, however, since the roman army still depended on the triumvirs for their salaries. lucius and his allies ended up in a defensive siege at perusia (modern perugia), where octavian forced them into surrender in early  bc.[ ] fresco paintings inside the house of augustus, his residence during his reign as emperor. lucius and his army were spared, due to his kinship with antony, the strongman of the east, while fulvia was exiled to sicyon.[ ] octavian showed no mercy, however, for the mass of allies loyal to lucius; on march, the anniversary of julius caesar's assassination, he had roman senators and equestrians executed for allying with lucius.[ ] perusia also was pillaged and burned as a warning for others.[ ] this bloody event sullied octavian's reputation and was criticized by many, such as augustan poet sextus propertius.[ ] sextus pompeius, the son of pompey and still a renegade general following julius caesar's victory over his father, had established himself in sicily and sardinia as part of an agreement reached with the second triumvirate in  bc.[ ] both antony and octavian were vying for an alliance with pompeius. octavian succeeded in a temporary alliance in  bc when he married scribonia, a sister or daughter of pompeius's father-in-law lucius scribonius libo. scribonia gave birth to octavian's only natural child, julia, the same day that he divorced her to marry livia drusilla, little more than a year after their marriage.[ ] while in egypt, antony had been engaged in an affair with cleopatra and had fathered twin children with her.[nb ] aware of his deteriorating relationship with octavian, antony left cleopatra; he sailed to italy in  bc with a large force to oppose octavian, laying siege to brundisium. this new conflict proved untenable for both octavian and antony, however. their centurions, who had become important figures politically, refused to fight due to their caesarian cause, while the legions under their command followed suit. meanwhile, in sicyon, antony's wife fulvia died of a sudden illness while antony was en route to meet her. fulvia's death and the mutiny of their centurions allowed the two remaining triumvirs to effect a reconciliation.[ ][ ] a roman marble portrait bust of mark antony, made during the flavian dynasty ( – ad), vatican museums in the autumn of , octavian and antony approved the treaty of brundisium, by which lepidus would remain in africa, antony in the east, octavian in the west. the italian peninsula was left open to all for the recruitment of soldiers, but in reality, this provision was useless for antony in the east. to further cement relations of alliance with mark antony, octavian gave his sister, octavia minor, in marriage to antony in late  bc.[ ] war with pompeius further information: sicilian revolt a denarius of sextus pompeius, minted for his victory over octavian's fleet. obverse: the place where he defeated octavian, pharus of messina decorated with a statue of neptune; before that galley adorned with aquila, sceptre & trident; mag. pivs imp. iter. reverse, the monster scylla, her torso of dogs and fish tails, wielding a rudder as a club. caption: praef[ectus] clas[sis] et orae marit[imae] ex s. c. sextus pompeius threatened octavian in italy by denying shipments of grain through the mediterranean sea to the peninsula. pompeius's own son was put in charge as naval commander in the effort to cause widespread famine in italy.[ ] pompeius's control over the sea prompted him to take on the name neptuni filius, "son of neptune".[ ] a temporary peace agreement was reached in  bc with the treaty of misenum; the blockade on italy was lifted once octavian granted pompeius sardinia, corsica, sicily, and the peloponnese, and ensured him a future position as consul for  bc.[ ][ ] the territorial agreement between the triumvirate and sextus pompeius began to crumble once octavian divorced scribonia and married livia on january  bc.[ ] one of pompeius's naval commanders betrayed him and handed over corsica and sardinia to octavian. octavian lacked the resources to confront pompeius alone, however, so an agreement was reached with the second triumvirate's extension for another five-year period beginning in  bc.[ ][ ] in supporting octavian, antony expected to gain support for his own campaign against the parthian empire, desiring to avenge rome's defeat at carrhae in  bc.[ ] in an agreement reached at tarentum, antony provided ships for octavian to use against pompeius, while octavian was to send , legionaries to antony for use against parthia. octavian sent only a tenth of those promised, however, which antony viewed as an intentional provocation.[ ] octavian and lepidus launched a joint operation against sextus in sicily in  bc.[ ] despite setbacks for octavian, the naval fleet of sextus pompeius was almost entirely destroyed on september by general agrippa at the naval battle of naulochus. sextus fled to the east with his remaining forces, where he was captured and executed in miletus by one of antony's generals the following year. as lepidus and octavian accepted the surrender of pompeius's troops, lepidus attempted to claim sicily for himself, ordering octavian to leave. lepidus's troops deserted him, however, and defected to octavian since they were weary of fighting and were enticed by octavian's promises of money.[ ] lepidus surrendered to octavian and was permitted to retain the office of pontifex maximus (head of the college of priests), but was ejected from the triumvirate, his public career at an end, and effectively was exiled to a villa at cape circei in italy.[ ][ ] the roman dominions were now divided between octavian in the west and antony in the east. octavian ensured rome's citizens of their rights to property in order to maintain peace and stability in his portion of the empire. this time, he settled his discharged soldiers outside of italy, while also returning , slaves to their former roman owners—slaves who had fled to join pompeius's army and navy.[ ] octavian had the senate grant him, his wife, and his sister tribunal immunity, or sacrosanctitas, in order to ensure his own safety and that of livia and octavia once he returned to rome.[ ] war with antony and cleopatra main article: final war of the roman republic further information: early life of cleopatra, reign of cleopatra, and death of cleopatra anthony and cleopatra, by lawrence alma-tadema the battle of actium, by laureys a castro, painted , national maritime museum, london. meanwhile, antony's campaign turned disastrous against parthia, tarnishing his image as a leader, and the mere , legionaries sent by octavian to antony were hardly enough to replenish his forces.[ ] on the other hand, cleopatra could restore his army to full strength; he already was engaged in a romantic affair with her, so he decided to send octavia back to rome.[ ] octavian used this to spread propaganda implying that antony was becoming less than roman because he rejected a legitimate roman spouse for an "oriental paramour".[ ] in  bc, octavian used a political ploy to make himself look less autocratic and antony more the villain by proclaiming that the civil wars were coming to an end, and that he would step down as triumvir—if only antony would do the same. antony refused.[ ] roman troops captured the kingdom of armenia in  bc, and antony made his son alexander helios the ruler of armenia. he also awarded the title "queen of kings" to cleopatra, acts that octavian used to convince the roman senate that antony had ambitions to diminish the preeminence of rome.[ ] octavian became consul once again on january  bc, and he opened the following session in the senate with a vehement attack on antony's grants of titles and territories to his relatives and to his queen.[ ] the breach between antony and octavian prompted a large portion of the senators, as well as both of that year's consuls, to leave rome and defect to antony. however, octavian received two key deserters from antony in the autumn of  bc: munatius plancus and marcus titius.[ ] these defectors gave octavian the information that he needed to confirm with the senate all the accusations that he made against antony.[ ] octavian forcibly entered the temple of the vestal virgins and seized antony's secret will, which he promptly publicized. the will would have given away roman-conquered territories as kingdoms for his sons to rule, and designated alexandria as the site for a tomb for him and his queen.[ ][ ] in late  bc, the senate officially revoked antony's powers as consul and declared war on cleopatra's regime in egypt.[ ][ ] this mid- st-century-bc roman wall painting in pompeii, italy, showing venus holding a cupid is most likely a depiction of cleopatra vii of ptolemaic egypt as venus genetrix, with her son caesarion as the cupid, similar in appearance to the now lost statue of cleopatra erected by julius caesar in the temple of venus genetrix (within the forum of caesar). the owner of the house of marcus fabius rufus at pompeii walled off the room with this painting, most likely in immediate reaction to the execution of caesarion on orders of augustus in bc, when artistic depictions of caesarion would have been considered a sensitive issue for the ruling regime.[ ][ ] in early  bc, antony and cleopatra were temporarily stationed in greece when octavian gained a preliminary victory: the navy successfully ferried troops across the adriatic sea under the command of agrippa. agrippa cut off antony and cleopatra's main force from their supply routes at sea, while octavian landed on the mainland opposite the island of corcyra (modern corfu) and marched south. trapped on land and sea, deserters of antony's army fled to octavian's side daily while octavian's forces were comfortable enough to make preparations.[ ] antony's fleet sailed through the bay of actium on the western coast of greece in a desperate attempt to break free of the naval blockade. it was there that antony's fleet faced the much larger fleet of smaller, more maneuverable ships under commanders agrippa and gaius sosius in the battle of actium on september  bc.[ ] antony and his remaining forces were spared only due to a last-ditch effort by cleopatra's fleet that had been waiting nearby.[ ] aureus of octavian, circa  bc, british museum. octavian pursued them and defeated their forces in alexandria on august  bc—after which antony and cleopatra committed suicide. antony fell on his own sword and was taken by his soldiers back to alexandria where he died in cleopatra's arms. cleopatra died soon after, reputedly by the venomous bite of an asp or by poison.[ ] octavian had exploited his position as caesar's heir to further his own political career, and he was well aware of the dangers in allowing another person to do the same. he therefore followed the advice of arius didymus that "two caesars are one too many", ordering caesarion, julius caesar's son by cleopatra, killed, while sparing cleopatra's children by antony, with the exception of antony's older son.[ ][ ] octavian had previously shown little mercy to surrendered enemies and acted in ways that had proven unpopular with the roman people, yet he was given credit for pardoning many of his opponents after the battle of actium.[ ] sole ruler of rome main article: constitutional reforms of augustus further information: elections in the roman republic after actium and the defeat of antony and cleopatra, octavian was in a position to rule the entire republic under an unofficial principate[ ]—but he had to achieve this through incremental power gains. he did so by courting the senate and the people while upholding the republican traditions of rome, appearing that he was not aspiring to dictatorship or monarchy.[ ][ ] marching into rome, octavian and marcus agrippa were elected as consuls by the senate.[ ] years of civil war had left rome in a state of near lawlessness, but the republic was not prepared to accept the control of octavian as a despot. at the same time, octavian could not simply give up his authority without risking further civil wars among the roman generals and, even if he desired no position of authority whatsoever, his position demanded that he look to the well-being of the city of rome and the roman provinces. octavian's aims from this point forward were to return rome to a state of stability, traditional legality, and civility by lifting the overt political pressure imposed on the courts of law and ensuring free elections—in name at least.[ ] first settlement main articles: constitution of the roman empire and history of the constitution of the roman empire in bc, octavian made a show of returning full power to the roman senate and relinquishing his control of the roman provinces and their armies. under his consulship, however, the senate had little power in initiating legislation by introducing bills for senatorial debate. octavian was no longer in direct control of the provinces and their armies, but he retained the loyalty of active duty soldiers and veterans alike. the careers of many clients and adherents depended on his patronage, as his financial power was unrivaled in the roman republic.[ ] historian werner eck states: the sum of his power derived first of all from various powers of office delegated to him by the senate and people, secondly from his immense private fortune, and thirdly from numerous patron-client relationships he established with individuals and groups throughout the empire. all of them taken together formed the basis of his auctoritas, which he himself emphasized as the foundation of his political actions.[ ] to a large extent, the public were aware of the vast financial resources that octavian commanded. he failed to encourage enough senators to finance the building and maintenance of networks of roads in italy in bc, but he undertook direct responsibility for them. this was publicized on the roman currency issued in bc, after he donated vast amounts of money to the aerarium saturni, the public treasury.[ ] octavian as a magistrate. the statue's marble head was made c. –  bc, the body sculpted in the nd century ad (louvre, paris). according to h. h. scullard, however, octavian's power was based on the exercise of "a predominant military power and ... the ultimate sanction of his authority was force, however much the fact was disguised."[ ] the senate proposed to octavian, the victor of rome's civil wars, that he once again assume command of the provinces. the senate's proposal was a ratification of octavian's extra-constitutional power. through the senate, octavian was able to continue the appearance of a still-functional constitution. feigning reluctance, he accepted a ten-year responsibility of overseeing provinces that were considered chaotic.[ ][ ] the provinces ceded to augustus for that ten-year period comprised much of the conquered roman world, including all of hispania and gaul, syria, cilicia, cyprus, and egypt.[ ][ ] moreover, command of these provinces provided octavian with control over the majority of rome's legions.[ ][ ] while octavian acted as consul in rome, he dispatched senators to the provinces under his command as his representatives to manage provincial affairs and ensure that his orders were carried out. the provinces not under octavian's control were overseen by governors chosen by the roman senate.[ ] octavian became the most powerful political figure in the city of rome and in most of its provinces, but he did not have a monopoly on political and martial power.[ ] the senate still controlled north africa, an important regional producer of grain, as well as illyria and macedonia, two strategic regions with several legions.[ ] however, the senate had control of only five or six legions distributed among three senatorial proconsuls, compared to the twenty legions under the control of octavian, and their control of these regions did not amount to any political or military challenge to octavian.[ ][ ] the senate's control over some of the roman provinces helped maintain a republican façade for the autocratic principate. also, octavian's control of entire provinces followed republican-era precedents for the objective of securing peace and creating stability, in which such prominent romans as pompey had been granted similar military powers in times of crisis and instability.[ ] change to augustus on january  bc the senate gave octavian the new titles of augustus and princeps.[ ] augustus is from the latin word augere (meaning to increase) and can be translated as "the illustrious one". it was a title of religious authority rather than political authority. his new title of augustus was also more favorable than romulus, the previous one which he styled for himself in reference to the story of the legendary founder of rome, which symbolized a second founding of rome.[ ] the title of romulus was associated too strongly with notions of monarchy and kingship, an image that octavian tried to avoid.[ ] the title princeps senatus originally meant the member of the senate with the highest precedence,[ ] but in the case of augustus, it became an almost regnal title for a leader who was first in charge.[ ] augustus also styled himself as imperator caesar divi filius, "commander caesar son of the deified one". with this title, he boasted his familial link to deified julius caesar, and the use of imperator signified a permanent link to the roman tradition of victory. he transformed caesar, a cognomen for one branch of the julian family, into a new family line that began with him.[ ] the arch of augustus in rimini (ariminum), dedicated to augustus by the roman senate in bc, the oldest surviving roman triumphal arch augustus was granted the right to hang the corona civica above his door, the "civic crown" made from oak, and to have laurels drape his doorposts.[ ] however, he renounced flaunting insignia of power such as holding a scepter, wearing a diadem, or wearing the golden crown and purple toga of his predecessor julius caesar.[ ] if he refused to symbolize his power by donning and bearing these items on his person, the senate nonetheless awarded him with a golden shield displayed in the meeting hall of the curia, bearing the inscription virtus, pietas, clementia, iustitia—"valor, piety, clemency, and justice."[ ][ ] second settlement portraits of augustus show the emperor with idealized features by  bc, some of the un-republican implications were becoming apparent concerning the settlement of  bc. augustus's retention of an annual consulate drew attention to his de facto dominance over the roman political system, and cut in half the opportunities for others to achieve what was still nominally the preeminent position in the roman state.[ ] further, he was causing political problems by desiring to have his nephew marcus claudius marcellus follow in his footsteps and eventually assume the principate in his turn,[nb ] alienating his three greatest supporters – agrippa, maecenas, and livia.[ ] he appointed noted republican calpurnius piso (who had fought against julius caesar and supported cassius and brutus[ ]) as co-consul in  bc, after his choice aulus terentius varro murena died unexpectedly.[ ] in the late spring augustus suffered a severe illness, and on his supposed deathbed made arrangements that would ensure the continuation of the principate in some form,[ ] while allaying senators' suspicions of his anti-republicanism. augustus prepared to hand down his signet ring to his favored general agrippa. however, augustus handed over to his co-consul piso all of his official documents, an account of public finances, and authority over listed troops in the provinces while augustus's supposedly favored nephew marcellus came away empty-handed.[ ][ ] this was a surprise to many who believed augustus would have named an heir to his position as an unofficial emperor.[ ] augustus bestowed only properties and possessions to his designated heirs, as an obvious system of institutionalized imperial inheritance would have provoked resistance and hostility among the republican-minded romans fearful of monarchy.[ ] with regards to the principate, it was obvious to augustus that marcellus was not ready to take on his position;[ ] nonetheless, by giving his signet ring to agrippa, augustus intended to signal to the legions that agrippa was to be his successor, and that constitutional procedure notwithstanding, they should continue to obey agrippa.[ ] the blacas cameo showing augustus wearing a gorgoneion on a three layered sardonyx cameo, ad – soon after his bout of illness subsided, augustus gave up his consulship. the only other times augustus would serve as consul would be in the years and  bc,[ ][ ] both times to introduce his grandsons into public life.[ ] this was a clever ploy by augustus; ceasing to serve as one of two annually elected consuls allowed aspiring senators a better chance to attain the consular position, while allowing augustus to exercise wider patronage within the senatorial class.[ ] although augustus had resigned as consul, he desired to retain his consular imperium not just in his provinces but throughout the empire. this desire, as well as the marcus primus affair, led to a second compromise between him and the senate known as the second settlement.[ ] primary reasons for the second settlement the primary reasons for the second settlement were as follows. first, after augustus relinquished the annual consulship, he was no longer in an official position to rule the state, yet his dominant position remained unchanged over his roman, 'imperial' provinces where he was still a proconsul.[ ][ ] when he annually held the office of consul, he had the power to intervene with the affairs of the other provincial proconsuls appointed by the senate throughout the empire, when he deemed necessary.[ ] a second problem later arose showing the need for the second settlement in what became known as the "marcus primus affair".[ ] in late or early  bc, charges were brought against marcus primus, the former proconsul (governor) of macedonia, for waging a war without prior approval of the senate on the odrysian kingdom of thrace, whose king was a roman ally.[ ] he was defended by lucius lucinius varro murena, who told the trial that his client had received specific instructions from augustus, ordering him to attack the client state.[ ] later, primus testified that the orders came from the recently deceased marcellus.[ ] such orders, had they been given, would have been considered a breach of the senate's prerogative under the constitutional settlement of bc and its aftermath—i.e., before augustus was granted imperium proconsulare maius—as macedonia was a senatorial province under the senate's jurisdiction, not an imperial province under the authority of augustus. such an action would have ripped away the veneer of republican restoration as promoted by augustus, and exposed his fraud of merely being the first citizen, a first among equals.[ ] even worse, the involvement of marcellus provided some measure of proof that augustus's policy was to have the youth take his place as princeps, instituting a form of monarchy – accusations that had already played out.[ ] augustus as jove, holding a scepter and orb (first half of st century ad) the situation was so serious that augustus himself appeared at the trial, even though he had not been called as a witness. under oath, augustus declared that he gave no such order.[ ] murena disbelieved augustus's testimony and resented his attempt to subvert the trial by using his auctoritas. he rudely demanded to know why augustus had turned up to a trial to which he had not been called; augustus replied that he came in the public interest.[ ] although primus was found guilty, some jurors voted to acquit, meaning that not everybody believed augustus's testimony, an insult to the 'august one'.[ ] the second constitutional settlement was completed in part to allay confusion and formalize augustus's legal authority to intervene in senatorial provinces. the senate granted augustus a form of general imperium proconsulare, or proconsular imperium (power) that applied throughout the empire, not solely to his provinces. moreover, the senate augmented augustus's proconsular imperium into imperium proconsulare maius, or proconsular imperium applicable throughout the empire that was more (maius) or greater than that held by the other proconsuls. this in effect gave augustus constitutional power superior to all other proconsuls in the empire.[ ] augustus stayed in rome during the renewal process and provided veterans with lavish donations to gain their support, thereby ensuring that his status of proconsular imperium maius was renewed in  bc.[ ] additional powers during the second settlement, augustus was also granted the power of a tribune (tribunicia potestas) for life, though not the official title of tribune.[ ] for some years, augustus had been awarded tribunicia sacrosanctitas, the immunity given to a tribune of the plebs. now he decided to assume the full powers of the magistracy, renewed annually, in perpetuity. legally, it was closed to patricians, a status that augustus had acquired some years earlier when adopted by julius caesar.[ ] this power allowed him to convene the senate and people at will and lay business before them, to veto the actions of either the assembly or the senate, to preside over elections, and to speak first at any meeting.[ ][ ] also included in augustus's tribunician authority were powers usually reserved for the roman censor; these included the right to supervise public morals and scrutinize laws to ensure that they were in the public interest, as well as the ability to hold a census and determine the membership of the senate.[ ] with the powers of a censor, augustus appealed to virtues of roman patriotism by banning all attire but the classic toga while entering the forum.[ ] there was no precedent within the roman system for combining the powers of the tribune and the censor into a single position, nor was augustus ever elected to the office of censor.[ ] julius caesar had been granted similar powers, wherein he was charged with supervising the morals of the state. however, this position did not extend to the censor's ability to hold a census and determine the senate's roster. the office of the tribunus plebis began to lose its prestige due to augustus's amassing of tribunal powers, so he revived its importance by making it a mandatory appointment for any plebeian desiring the praetorship.[ ] head of augustus as pontifex maximus, roman artwork of the late augustan period, last decade of the st century bc augustus was granted sole imperium within the city of rome itself, in addition to being granted proconsular imperium maius and tribunician authority for life. traditionally, proconsuls (roman province governors) lost their proconsular "imperium" when they crossed the pomerium – the sacred boundary of rome – and entered the city. in these situations, augustus would have power as part of his tribunician authority but his constitutional imperium within the pomerium would be less than that of a serving consul. that would mean that, when he was in the city, he might not be the constitutional magistrate with the most authority. thanks to his prestige or auctoritas, his wishes would usually be obeyed, but there might be some difficulty. to fill this power vacuum, the senate voted that augustus's imperium proconsulare maius (superior proconsular power) should not lapse when he was inside the city walls. all armed forces in the city had formerly been under the control of the urban praetors and consuls, but this situation now placed them under the sole authority of augustus.[ ] in addition, the credit was given to augustus for each subsequent roman military victory after this time, because the majority of rome's armies were stationed in imperial provinces commanded by augustus through the legatus who were deputies of the princeps in the provinces. moreover, if a battle was fought in a senatorial province, augustus's proconsular imperium maius allowed him to take command of (or credit for) any major military victory. this meant that augustus was the only individual able to receive a triumph, a tradition that began with romulus, rome's first king and first triumphant general. lucius cornelius balbus was the last man outside augustus's family to receive this award, in  bc.[ ] tiberius, augustus's eldest stepson by livia, was the only other general to receive a triumph—for victories in germania in  bc.[ ] conspiracy a colossal statue of augustus from the augusteum of herculaneum, seated and wearing a laurel wreath. many of the political subtleties of the second settlement seem to have evaded the comprehension of the plebeian class, who were augustus's greatest supporters and clientele. this caused them to insist upon augustus's participation in imperial affairs from time to time. augustus failed to stand for election as consul in  bc, and fears arose once again that he was being forced from power by the aristocratic senate. in , , and  bc, the people rioted in response, and only allowed a single consul to be elected for each of those years, ostensibly to leave the other position open for augustus.[ ] likewise, there was a food shortage in rome in  bc which sparked panic, while many urban plebs called for augustus to take on dictatorial powers to personally oversee the crisis. after a theatrical display of refusal before the senate, augustus finally accepted authority over rome's grain supply "by virtue of his proconsular imperium", and ended the crisis almost immediately.[ ] it was not until ad that a food crisis of this sort prompted augustus to establish a praefectus annonae, a permanent prefect who was in charge of procuring food supplies for rome.[ ] there were some who were concerned by the expansion of powers granted to augustus by the second settlement, and this came to a head with the apparent conspiracy of fannius caepio.[ ] some time prior to september bc, a certain castricius provided augustus with information about a conspiracy led by fannius caepio.[ ] murena, the outspoken consul who defended primus in the marcus primus affair, was named among the conspirators. the conspirators were tried in absentia with tiberius acting as prosecutor; the jury found them guilty, but it was not a unanimous verdict.[ ] all the accused were sentenced to death for treason and executed as soon as they were captured—without ever giving testimony in their defence.[ ] augustus ensured that the facade of republican government continued with an effective cover-up of the events.[ ] in  bc, the senate granted augustus a form of 'general consular imperium', which was probably 'imperium consulare maius', like the proconsular powers that he received in bc. like his tribune authority, the consular powers were another instance of gaining power from offices that he did not actually hold.[ ] in addition, augustus was allowed to wear the consul's insignia in public and before the senate,[ ] as well as to sit in the symbolic chair between the two consuls and hold the fasces, an emblem of consular authority.[ ] this seems to have assuaged the populace; regardless of whether or not augustus was a consul, the importance was that he both appeared as one before the people and could exercise consular power if necessary. on march  bc, after the death of lepidus, he additionally took up the position of pontifex maximus, the high priest of the college of the pontiffs, the most important position in roman religion.[ ][ ] on february  bc, augustus was also given the title pater patriae, or "father of the country".[ ][ ] stability and staying power a final reason for the second settlement was to give the principate constitutional stability and staying power in case something happened to princeps augustus. his illness of early bc and the caepio conspiracy showed that the regime's existence hung by the thin thread of the life of one man, augustus himself, who suffered from several severe and dangerous illnesses throughout his life.[ ] if he were to die from natural causes or fall victim to assassination, rome could be subjected to another round of civil war. the memories of pharsalus, the ides of march, the proscriptions, philippi, and actium, barely twenty-five years distant, were still vivid in the minds of many citizens. proconsular imperium was conferred upon agrippa for five years, similar to augustus's power, in order to accomplish this constitutional stability. the exact nature of the grant is uncertain but it probably covered augustus's imperial provinces, east and west, perhaps lacking authority over the provinces of the senate. that came later, as did the jealously guarded tribunicia potestas.[ ] augustus's accumulation of powers was now complete. in fact, he dated his 'reign' from the completion of the second settlement, july bc.[ ] war and expansion main article: wars of augustus further information: roman–persian relations the victorious advance of hermann, depiction of the ad battle of the teutoburg forest, by peter janssen, augustus chose imperator ("victorious commander") to be his first name, since he wanted to make an emphatically clear connection between himself and the notion of victory, and consequently became known as imperator caesar divi filius augustus. by the year , augustus boasted occasions where his troops proclaimed "imperator" as his title after a successful battle. almost the entire fourth chapter in his publicly released memoirs of achievements known as the res gestae was devoted to his military victories and honors.[ ] augustus also promoted the ideal of a superior roman civilization with a task of ruling the world (to the extent to which the romans knew it), a sentiment embodied in words that the contemporary poet virgil attributes to a legendary ancestor of augustus: tu regere imperio populos, romane, memento—"roman, remember by your strength to rule the earth's peoples!"[ ] the impulse for expansionism was apparently prominent among all classes at rome, and it is accorded divine sanction by virgil's jupiter in book of the aeneid, where jupiter promises rome imperium sine fine, "sovereignty without end".[ ] by the end of his reign, the armies of augustus had conquered northern hispania (modern spain and portugal) and the alpine regions of raetia and noricum (modern switzerland, bavaria, austria, slovenia), illyricum and pannonia (modern albania, croatia, hungary, serbia, etc.), and had extended the borders of the africa province to the east and south. judea was added to the province of syria when augustus deposed herod archelaus, successor to client king herod the great ( –  bc). syria (like egypt after antony) was governed by a high prefect of the equestrian class rather than by a proconsul or legate of augustus.[ ] bust of tiberius, a successful military commander under augustus before he was designated as his heir and successor again, no military effort was needed in  bc when galatia (modern turkey) was converted to a roman province shortly after amyntas of galatia was killed by an avenging widow of a slain prince from homonada.[ ] the rebellious tribes of asturias and cantabria in modern-day spain were finally quelled in  bc, and the territory fell under the provinces of hispania and lusitania. this region proved to be a major asset in funding augustus's future military campaigns, as it was rich in mineral deposits that could be fostered in roman mining projects, especially the very rich gold deposits at las medulas.[ ] muziris in the chera kingdom of southern india, as shown in the tabula peutingeriana, with depiction of a "temple of augustus" ("templum augusti"), an illustration of indo-roman relations in the period conquering the peoples of the alps in  bc was another important victory for rome, since it provided a large territorial buffer between the roman citizens of italy and rome's enemies in germania to the north.[ ] horace dedicated an ode to the victory, while the monumental trophy of augustus near monaco was built to honor the occasion.[ ] the capture of the alpine region also served the next offensive in  bc, when tiberius began the offensive against the pannonian tribes of illyricum, and his brother nero claudius drusus moved against the germanic tribes of the eastern rhineland. both campaigns were successful, as drusus's forces reached the elbe river by  bc—though he died shortly after by falling off his horse.[ ] it was recorded that the pious tiberius walked in front of his brother's body all the way back to rome.[ ] a parthian returning an aquila, relief in the heroic cuirass of the augustus of prima porta statue to protect rome's eastern territories from the parthian empire, augustus relied on the client states of the east to act as territorial buffers and areas that could raise their own troops for defense. to ensure security of the empire's eastern flank, augustus stationed a roman army in syria, while his skilled stepson tiberius negotiated with the parthians as rome's diplomat to the east.[ ] tiberius was responsible for restoring tigranes v to the throne of the kingdom of armenia.[ ] yet arguably his greatest diplomatic achievement was negotiating with phraates iv of parthia ( –  bc) in  bc for the return of the battle standards lost by crassus in the battle of carrhae, a symbolic victory and great boost of morale for rome.[ ][ ][ ] werner eck claims that this was a great disappointment for romans seeking to avenge crassus's defeat by military means.[ ] however, maria brosius explains that augustus used the return of the standards as propaganda symbolizing the submission of parthia to rome. the event was celebrated in art such as the breastplate design on the statue augustus of prima porta and in monuments such as the temple of mars ultor ('mars the avenger') built to house the standards.[ ] parthia had always posed a threat to rome in the east, but the real battlefront was along the rhine and danube rivers.[ ] before the final fight with antony, octavian's campaigns against the tribes in dalmatia were the first step in expanding roman dominions to the danube.[ ] victory in battle was not always a permanent success, as newly conquered territories were constantly retaken by rome's enemies in germania.[ ] a prime example of roman loss in battle was the battle of teutoburg forest in ad , where three entire legions led by publius quinctilius varus were destroyed by arminius, leader of the cherusci, an apparent roman ally.[ ] augustus retaliated by dispatching tiberius and drusus to the rhineland to pacify it, which had some success although the battle of ad brought the end to roman expansion into germany.[ ] roman general germanicus took advantage of a cherusci civil war between arminius and segestes; they defeated arminius, who fled that battle of idistaviso in ad but was killed later in due to treachery.[ ] death and succession augustus in a late th-century copper engraving by giovanni battista cavalieri. from the book romanorum imperatorum effigies ( ), preserved in the municipal library of trento (italy) the illness of augustus in  bc brought the problem of succession to the forefront of political issues and the public. to ensure stability, he needed to designate an heir to his unique position in roman society and government. this was to be achieved in small, undramatic, and incremental ways that did not stir senatorial fears of monarchy. if someone was to succeed to augustus's unofficial position of power, he would have to earn it through his own publicly proven merits.[ ] some augustan historians argue that indications pointed toward his sister's son marcellus, who had been quickly married to augustus's daughter julia the elder.[ ] other historians dispute this due to augustus's will being read aloud to the senate while he was seriously ill in  bc,[ ] instead indicating a preference for marcus agrippa, who was augustus's second in charge and arguably the only one of his associates who could have controlled the legions and held the empire together.[ ] after the death of marcellus in  bc, augustus married his daughter to agrippa. this union produced five children, three sons and two daughters: gaius caesar, lucius caesar, vipsania julia, agrippina the elder, and postumus agrippa, so named because he was born after marcus agrippa died. shortly after the second settlement, agrippa was granted a five-year term of administering the eastern half of the empire with the imperium of a proconsul and the same tribunicia potestas granted to augustus (although not trumping augustus's authority), his seat of governance stationed at samos in the eastern aegean.[ ][ ] this granting of power showed augustus's favor for agrippa, but it was also a measure to please members of his caesarian party by allowing one of their members to share a considerable amount of power with him.[ ] the mausoleum of augustus augustus's intent became apparent to make gaius and lucius caesar his heirs when he adopted them as his own children.[ ] he took the consulship in and  bc so that he could personally usher them into their political careers,[ ] and they were nominated for the consulships of ad and .[ ] augustus also showed favor to his stepsons, livia's children from her first marriage nero claudius drusus germanicus (henceforth referred to as drusus) and tiberius claudius (henceforth tiberius), granting them military commands and public office, though seeming to favor drusus. after agrippa died in  bc, tiberius was ordered to divorce his own wife vipsania agrippina and marry agrippa's widow, augustus's daughter julia—as soon as a period of mourning for agrippa had ended.[ ] drusus's marriage to augustus's niece antonia was considered an unbreakable affair, whereas vipsania was "only" the daughter of the late agrippa from his first marriage.[ ] tiberius shared in augustus's tribune powers as of  bc, but shortly thereafter went into retirement, reportedly wanting no further role in politics while he exiled himself to rhodes.[ ][ ] no specific reason is known for his departure, though it could have been a combination of reasons, including a failing marriage with julia,[ ][ ] as well as a sense of envy and exclusion over augustus's apparent favouring of his young grandchildren-turned-sons gaius and lucius. (gaius and lucius joined the college of priests at an early age, were presented to spectators in a more favorable light, and were introduced to the army in gaul.)[ ][ ] after the early deaths of both lucius and gaius in ad and respectively, and the earlier death of his brother drusus (  bc), tiberius was recalled to rome in june ad , where he was adopted by augustus on the condition that he, in turn, adopt his nephew germanicus.[ ] this continued the tradition of presenting at least two generations of heirs.[ ] in that year, tiberius was also granted the powers of a tribune and proconsul, emissaries from foreign kings had to pay their respects to him, and by ad was awarded with his second triumph and equal level of imperium with that of augustus.[ ] the deified augustus hovers over tiberius and other julio-claudians in the great cameo of france the only other possible claimant as heir was postumus agrippa, who had been exiled by augustus in ad , his banishment made permanent by senatorial decree, and augustus officially disowned him. he certainly fell out of augustus's favor as an heir; the historian erich s. gruen notes various contemporary sources that state postumus agrippa was a "vulgar young man, brutal and brutish, and of depraved character".[ ] on august ad , augustus died while visiting nola where his father had died. both tacitus and cassius dio wrote that livia was rumored to have brought about augustus's death by poisoning fresh figs.[ ][ ] this element features in many modern works of historical fiction pertaining to augustus's life, but some historians view it as likely to have been a salacious fabrication made by those who had favoured postumus as heir, or other of tiberius's political enemies. livia had long been the target of similar rumors of poisoning on the behalf of her son, most or all of which are unlikely to have been true.[ ] alternatively, it is possible that livia did supply a poisoned fig (she did cultivate a variety of fig named for her that augustus is said to have enjoyed), but did so as a means of assisted suicide rather than murder. augustus's health had been in decline in the months immediately before his death, and he had made significant preparations for a smooth transition in power, having at last reluctantly settled on tiberius as his choice of heir.[ ] it is likely that augustus was not expected to return alive from nola, but it seems that his health improved once there; it has therefore been speculated that augustus and livia conspired to end his life at the anticipated time, having committed all political process to accepting tiberius, in order to not endanger that transition.[ ] augustus's famous last words were, "have i played the part well? then applaud as i exit" ("acta est fabula, plaudite")—referring to the play-acting and regal authority that he had put on as emperor. publicly, though, his last words were, "behold, i found rome of clay, and leave her to you of marble" ("marmoream se relinquere, quam latericiam accepisset"). an enormous funerary procession of mourners traveled with augustus's body from nola to rome, and on the day of his burial all public and private businesses closed for the day.[ ] tiberius and his son drusus delivered the eulogy while standing atop two rostra. augustus's body was coffin-bound and cremated on a pyre close to his mausoleum. it was proclaimed that augustus joined the company of the gods as a member of the roman pantheon.[ ] historian d. c. a. shotter states that augustus's policy of favoring the julian family line over the claudian might have afforded tiberius sufficient cause to show open disdain for augustus after the latter's death; instead, tiberius was always quick to rebuke those who criticized augustus.[ ] shotter suggests that augustus's deification obliged tiberius to suppress any open resentment that he might have harbored, coupled with tiberius's "extremely conservative" attitude towards religion.[ ] also, historian r. shaw-smith points to letters of augustus to tiberius which display affection towards tiberius and high regard for his military merits.[ ] shotter states that tiberius focused his anger and criticism on gaius asinius gallus (for marrying vipsania after augustus forced tiberius to divorce her), as well as toward the two young caesars, gaius and lucius—instead of augustus, the real architect of his divorce and imperial demotion.[ ] legacy further information: cultural depictions of augustus the virgin mary and child, the prophetess sibyl tivoli bottom left and the emperor augustus in the bottom right, from the très riches heures du duc de berry. the likeness of augustus is that of the byzantine emperor manuel ii palaiologos[ ] the augustus cameo at the center of the medieval cross of lothair augustus's reign laid the foundations of a regime that lasted, in one form or another, for nearly fifteen hundred years through the ultimate decline of the western roman empire and until the fall of constantinople in . both his adoptive surname, caesar, and his title augustus became the permanent titles of the rulers of the roman empire for fourteen centuries after his death, in use both at old rome and at new rome. in many languages, caesar became the word for emperor, as in the german kaiser and in the bulgarian and subsequently russian tsar (sometimes csar or czar). the cult of divus augustus continued until the state religion of the empire was changed to christianity in by theodosius i. consequently, there are many excellent statues and busts of the first emperor. he had composed an account of his achievements, the res gestae divi augusti, to be inscribed in bronze in front of his mausoleum.[ ] copies of the text were inscribed throughout the empire upon his death.[ ] the inscriptions in latin featured translations in greek beside it, and were inscribed on many public edifices, such as the temple in ankara dubbed the monumentum ancyranum, called the "queen of inscriptions" by historian theodor mommsen.[ ] the res gestae is the only work to have survived from antiquity, though augustus is also known to have composed poems entitled sicily, epiphanus, and ajax, an autobiography of books, a philosophical treatise, and a written rebuttal to brutus's eulogy of cato.[ ] historians are able to analyze excerpts of letters penned by augustus, preserved in other works, to others for additional facts or clues about his personal life.[ ][ ] many consider augustus to be rome's greatest emperor; his policies certainly extended the empire's life span and initiated the celebrated pax romana or pax augusta. the roman senate wished subsequent emperors to "be more fortunate than augustus and better than trajan". augustus was intelligent, decisive, and a shrewd politician, but he was not perhaps as charismatic as julius caesar and was influenced on occasion by livia (sometimes for the worse). nevertheless, his legacy proved more enduring. the city of rome was utterly transformed under augustus, with rome's first institutionalized police force, fire fighting force, and the establishment of the municipal prefect as a permanent office. the police force was divided into cohorts of men each, while the units of firemen ranged from to , men each, with units assigned to divided city sectors.[ ] a praefectus vigilum, or "prefect of the watch" was put in charge of the vigiles, rome's fire brigade and police.[ ] with rome's civil wars at an end, augustus was also able to create a standing army for the roman empire, fixed at a size of legions of about , soldiers.[ ] this was supported by numerous auxiliary units of non-citizen soldiers each, often recruited from recently conquered areas.[ ] with his finances securing the maintenance of roads throughout italy, augustus also installed an official courier system of relay stations overseen by a military officer known as the praefectus vehiculorum.[ ] besides the advent of swifter communication among italian polities, his extensive building of roads throughout italy also allowed rome's armies to march swiftly and at an unprecedented pace across the country.[ ] in the year augustus established the aerarium militare, donating  million sesterces to the new military treasury that provided for both active and retired soldiers.[ ] one of the most enduring institutions of augustus was the establishment of the praetorian guard in  bc, originally a personal bodyguard unit on the battlefield that evolved into an imperial guard as well as an important political force in rome.[ ] they had the power to intimidate the senate, install new emperors, and depose ones they disliked; the last emperor they served was maxentius, as it was constantine i who disbanded them in the early th century and destroyed their barracks, the castra praetoria.[ ] augustus in an egyptian-style depiction, a stone carving of the kalabsha temple in nubia although the most powerful individual in the roman empire, augustus wished to embody the spirit of republican virtue and norms. he also wanted to relate to and connect with the concerns of the plebs and lay people. he achieved this through various means of generosity and a cutting back of lavish excess. in the year  bc, augustus gave sesterces (equal to / of a roman pound of gold) each to , citizens, , sesterces each to , veterans in the colonies, and spent  million sesterces in purchasing land for his soldiers to settle upon.[ ] he also restored different temples to display his care for the roman pantheon of deities.[ ] in  bc, he melted down silver statues erected in his likeness and in honor of him, an attempt of his to appear frugal and modest.[ ] coin of kushan ruler kujula kadphises, in the style of roman emperor augustus. british museum. ae dichalkon, chach, c. first half of st. century, weight: . gm., diam: mm. caption: obcerse in greek kozoΛa kaΔaΦeΣ xopanoy zaooy; reverse in kharoshti. the longevity of augustus's reign and its legacy to the roman world should not be overlooked as a key factor in its success. as tacitus wrote, the younger generations alive in ad had never known any form of government other than the principate.[ ] had augustus died earlier (in  bc, for instance), matters might have turned out differently. the attrition of the civil wars on the old republican oligarchy and the longevity of augustus, therefore, must be seen as major contributing factors in the transformation of the roman state into a de facto monarchy in these years. augustus's own experience, his patience, his tact, and his political acumen also played their parts. he directed the future of the empire down many lasting paths, from the existence of a standing professional army stationed at or near the frontiers, to the dynastic principle so often employed in the imperial succession, to the embellishment of the capital at the emperor's expense. augustus's ultimate legacy was the peace and prosperity the empire enjoyed for the next two centuries under the system he initiated. his memory was enshrined in the political ethos of the imperial age as a paradigm of the good emperor. every emperor of rome adopted his name, caesar augustus, which gradually lost its character as a name and eventually became a title.[ ] the augustan era poets virgil and horace praised augustus as a defender of rome, an upholder of moral justice, and an individual who bore the brunt of responsibility in maintaining the empire.[ ] however, for his rule of rome and establishing the principate, augustus has also been subjected to criticism throughout the ages. the contemporary roman jurist marcus antistius labeo (d. ad / ), fond of the days of pre-augustan republican liberty in which he had been born, openly criticized the augustan regime. in the beginning of his annals, the roman historian tacitus (c. –c. ) wrote that augustus had cunningly subverted republican rome into a position of slavery. he continued to say that, with augustus's death and swearing of loyalty to tiberius, the people of rome simply traded one slaveholder for another.[ ] tacitus, however, records two contradictory but common views of augustus: intelligent people praised or criticized him in varying ways. one opinion was as follows. filial duty and a national emergency, in which there was no place for law-abiding conduct, had driven him to civil war—and this can neither be initiated nor maintained by decent methods. he had made many concessions to anthony and to lepidus for the sake of vengeance on his father's murderers. when lepidus grew old and lazy, and anthony's self-indulgence got the better of him, the only possible cure for the distracted country had been government by one man. however, augustus had put the state in order not by making himself king or dictator, but by creating the principate. the empire's frontiers were on the ocean, or distant rivers. armies, provinces, fleets, the whole system was interrelated. roman citizens were protected by the law. provincials were decently treated. rome itself had been lavishly beautified. force had been sparingly used—merely to preserve peace for the majority.[ ] fragment of a bronze equestrian statue of augustus, st century ad, national archaeological museum of athens virgil reading the aeneid to augustus and octavia, by jean-joseph taillasson, according to the second opposing opinion: filial duty and national crisis had been merely pretexts. in actual fact, the motive of octavian, the future augustus, was lust for power ... there had certainly been peace, but it was a blood-stained peace of disasters and assassinations.[ ] in a biography on augustus, anthony everitt asserts that through the centuries, judgments on augustus's reign have oscillated between these two extremes but stresses that: opposites do not have to be mutually exclusive, and we are not obliged to choose one or the other. the story of his career shows that augustus was indeed ruthless, cruel, and ambitious for himself. this was only in part a personal trait, for upper-class romans were educated to compete with one another and to excel. however, he combined an overriding concern for his personal interests with a deep-seated patriotism, based on a nostalgia of rome's antique virtues. in his capacity as princeps, selfishness and selflessness coexisted in his mind. while fighting for dominance, he paid little attention to legality or to the normal civilities of political life. he was devious, untrustworthy, and bloodthirsty. but once he had established his authority, he governed efficiently and justly, generally allowed freedom of speech, and promoted the rule of law. he was immensely hardworking and tried as hard as any democratic parliamentarian to treat his senatorial colleagues with respect and sensitivity. he suffered from no delusions of grandeur.[ ] tacitus was of the belief that nerva (r. – ) successfully "mingled two formerly alien ideas, principate and liberty".[ ] the rd-century historian cassius dio acknowledged augustus as a benign, moderate ruler, yet like most other historians after the death of augustus, dio viewed augustus as an autocrat.[ ] the poet marcus annaeus lucanus (ad – ) was of the opinion that caesar's victory over pompey and the fall of cato the younger ( bc–  bc) marked the end of traditional liberty in rome; historian chester g. starr, jr. writes of his avoidance of criticizing augustus, "perhaps augustus was too sacred a figure to accuse directly."[ ] the anglo-irish writer jonathan swift ( – ), in his discourse on the contests and dissentions in athens and rome, criticized augustus for installing tyranny over rome, and likened what he believed great britain's virtuous constitutional monarchy to rome's moral republic of the nd century bc. in his criticism of augustus, the admiral and historian thomas gordon ( – ) compared augustus to the puritanical tyrant oliver cromwell ( – ).[ ] thomas gordon and the french political philosopher montesquieu ( – ) both remarked that augustus was a coward in battle.[ ] in his memoirs of the court of augustus, the scottish scholar thomas blackwell ( – ) deemed augustus a machiavellian ruler, "a bloodthirsty vindicative usurper", "wicked and worthless", "a mean spirit", and a "tyrant".[ ] revenue reforms coin of augustus found at the pudukottai hoard, from an ancient tamil country, pandyan kingdom of present-day tamil nadu in india, a testimony to indo-roman trade. british museum. caption: avgvstvs divi f[ilivs]. augustus's public revenue reforms had a great impact on the subsequent success of the empire. augustus brought a far greater portion of the empire's expanded land base under consistent, direct taxation from rome, instead of exacting varying, intermittent, and somewhat arbitrary tributes from each local province as augustus's predecessors had done. this reform greatly increased rome's net revenue from its territorial acquisitions, stabilized its flow, and regularized the financial relationship between rome and the provinces, rather than provoking fresh resentments with each new arbitrary exaction of tribute.[ ] the measures of taxation in the reign of augustus were determined by population census, with fixed quotas for each province. citizens of rome and italy paid indirect taxes, while direct taxes were exacted from the provinces. indirect taxes included a % tax on the price of slaves, a % tax on goods sold at auction, and a % tax on the inheritance of estates valued at over , sesterces by persons other than the next of kin.[ ] st century coin of the himyarite kingdom, southern coast of the arabian peninsula. this is also an imitation of a coin of augustus. an equally important reform was the abolition of private tax farming, which was replaced by salaried civil service tax collectors. private contractors who collected taxes for the state were the norm in the republican era. some of them were powerful enough to influence the number of votes for men running for offices in rome. these tax farmers called publicans were infamous for their depredations, great private wealth, and the right to tax local areas.[ ] the use of egypt's immense land rents to finance the empire's operations resulted from augustus's conquest of egypt and the shift to a roman form of government.[ ] as it was effectively considered augustus's private property rather than a province of the empire, it became part of each succeeding emperor's patrimonium.[ ] instead of a legate or proconsul, augustus installed a prefect from the equestrian class to administer egypt and maintain its lucrative seaports; this position became the highest political achievement for any equestrian besides becoming prefect of the praetorian guard.[ ] the highly productive agricultural land of egypt yielded enormous revenues that were available to augustus and his successors to pay for public works and military expeditions.[ ] during his reign the circus games resulted in the killing of , elephants.[ ] month of august the month of august (latin: augustus) is named after augustus; until his time it was called sextilis (named so because it had been the sixth month of the original roman calendar and the latin word for six is sex). commonly repeated lore has it that august has days because augustus wanted his month to match the length of julius caesar's july, but this is an invention of the th century scholar johannes de sacrobosco. sextilis in fact had days before it was renamed, and it was not chosen for its length (see julian calendar). according to a senatus consultum quoted by macrobius, sextilis was renamed to honor augustus because several of the most significant events in his rise to power, culminating in the fall of alexandria, fell in that month.[ ] building projects main page: category:augustan building projects further information: vitruvius and de architectura close up on the sculpted detail of the ara pacis (altar of peace),  bc to bc on his deathbed, augustus boasted "i found a rome of bricks; i leave to you one of marble." although there is some truth in the literal meaning of this, cassius dio asserts that it was a metaphor for the empire's strength.[ ] marble could be found in buildings of rome before augustus, but it was not extensively used as a building material until the reign of augustus.[ ] although this did not apply to the subura slums, which were still as rickety and fire-prone as ever, he did leave a mark on the monumental topography of the centre and of the campus martius, with the ara pacis (altar of peace) and monumental sundial, whose central gnomon was an obelisk taken from egypt.[ ] the relief sculptures decorating the ara pacis visually augmented the written record of augustus's triumphs in the res gestae. its reliefs depicted the imperial pageants of the praetorians, the vestals, and the citizenry of rome.[ ] he also built the temple of caesar, the baths of agrippa, and the forum of augustus with its temple of mars ultor.[ ] other projects were either encouraged by him, such as the theatre of balbus, and agrippa's construction of the pantheon, or funded by him in the name of others, often relations (e.g. portico of octavia, theatre of marcellus). even his mausoleum of augustus was built before his death to house members of his family.[ ] to celebrate his victory at the battle of actium, the arch of augustus was built in  bc near the entrance of the temple of castor and pollux, and widened in  bc to include a triple-arch design.[ ] the temple of augustus and livia in vienne, late st century bc after the death of agrippa in  bc, a solution had to be found in maintaining rome's water supply system. this came about because it was overseen by agrippa when he served as aedile, and was even funded by him afterwards when he was a private citizen paying at his own expense. in that year, augustus arranged a system where the senate designated three of its members as prime commissioners in charge of the water supply and to ensure that rome's aqueducts did not fall into disrepair.[ ] in the late augustan era, the commission of five senators called the curatores locorum publicorum iudicandorum (translated as "supervisors of public property") was put in charge of maintaining public buildings and temples of the state cult.[ ] augustus created the senatorial group of the curatores viarum (translated as "supervisors for roads") for the upkeep of roads; this senatorial commission worked with local officials and contractors to organize regular repairs.[ ] the corinthian order of architectural style originating from ancient greece was the dominant architectural style in the age of augustus and the imperial phase of rome. suetonius once commented that rome was unworthy of its status as an imperial capital, yet augustus and agrippa set out to dismantle this sentiment by transforming the appearance of rome upon the classical greek model.[ ] physical appearance and official images the meroë head of augustus, bronze roman portraiture bust from meroë, kingdom of kush (nubia, modern sudan), – bc his biographer suetonius, writing about a century after augustus's death, described his appearance as: "... unusually handsome and exceedingly graceful at all periods of his life, though he cared nothing for personal adornment. he was so far from being particular about the dressing of his hair, that he would have several barbers working in a hurry at the same time, and as for his beard he now had it clipped and now shaved, while at the very same time he would either be reading or writing something ... he had clear, bright eyes ... his teeth were wide apart, small, and ill-kept; his hair was slightly curly and inclined to golden; his eyebrows met. his ears were of moderate size, and his nose projected a little at the top and then bent ever so slightly inward. his complexion was between dark and fair. he was short of stature, although julius marathus, his freedman and keeper of his records, says that he was five feet and nine inches (just under ft. in., or . meters, in modern height measurements), but this was concealed by the fine proportion and symmetry of his figure, and was noticeable only by comparison with some taller person standing beside him...",[ ] adding that "his shoes [were] somewhat high-soled, to make him look taller than he really was".[ ] scientific analysis of traces of paint found in his official statues show that he most likely had light brown hair and eyes (his hair and eyes were depicted as the same color).[ ] his official images were very tightly controlled and idealized, drawing from a tradition of hellenistic royal portraiture rather than the tradition of realism in roman portraiture. he first appeared on coins at the age of , and from about bc "the explosion in the number of augustan portraits attests a concerted propaganda campaign aimed at dominating all aspects of civil, religious, economic and military life with augustus's person."[ ] the early images did indeed depict a young man, but although there were gradual changes his images remained youthful until he died in his seventies, by which time they had "a distanced air of ageless majesty".[ ] among the best known of many surviving portraits are the augustus of prima porta, the image on the ara pacis, and the via labicana augustus, which shows him as a priest. several cameo portraits include the blacas cameo and gemma augustea. see also 	augustan literature (ancient rome) 	augustan poetry 	bierzo edict 	caesar's comet 	gaius maecenas 	gaius octavian (rome character) 	indo-roman trade and relations 	julio-claudian family tree 	list of biblical figures identified in extra-biblical sources 	temple of augustus references notes 	^ the dates of his rule are contemporary dates; augustus lived under two calendars, the roman republican until bc, and the julian after bc. due to departures from julius caesar's intentions, augustus finished restoring the julian calendar in march ad , and the 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( ). augustus caesar. lancaster pamphlets. london: routledge. 	southern, pat. augustus (roman imperial biographies). new york: routledge, (hardcover, isbn  - - - - ); (paperback, isbn  - - - - ). 	zanker, paul. the power of images in the age of augustus (thomas spencer jerome lectures). ann arbor, mi: university of michigan press, (hardcover, isbn  - - - - ); (paperback, isbn  - - - - ). external links augustusat wikipedia's sister projects 	definitions from wiktionary 	media from wikimedia commons 	news from wikinews 	quotations from wikiquote 	texts from wikisource primary sources 	works by and about augustus at perseus digital library 	cassius dio's roman history: books – , english translation 	gallery of the ancient art: august 	life of augustus by nicolaus of damascus, english translation 	suetonius's biography of augustus, latin text with english translation 	the res gestae divi augusti (the deeds of augustus, his own account: complete latin and greek texts with facing english translation) 	the via iulia augusta: road built by the romans; constructed on the orders of augustus between the – b.c. 	library resources about augustus 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries secondary source material 	augustan legionaries – augustus's legions and legionaries 	augustus – short biography at the bbc 	brown, f. the achievements of augustus caesar, clio history journal, . 	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	basiliscus 	marcus 	anastasius i dicorus 	justin i 	justinian the great 	justin ii 	tiberius ii constantine 	maurice with son theodosius as co-emperor 	phocas 	heraclius 	constantine iii 	heraklonas 	constans ii 	constantine iv with brothers heraclius and tiberius and then justinian ii as co-emperors 	justinian ii (first reign) 	leontios 	tiberius iii 	justinian ii (second reign) with son tiberius as co-emperor 	philippikos 	anastasios ii 	theodosius iii 	leo iii the isaurian 	constantine v 	artabasdos 	leo iv the khazar 	constantine vi 	irene 	nikephoros i 	staurakios 	michael i rangabe with son theophylact as co-emperor 	leo v the armenian with symbatios-constantine as junior emperor 	michael ii the amorian 	theophilos 	michael iii 	basil i the macedonian 	leo vi the wise 	alexander 	constantine vii porphyrogennetos 	romanos i lekapenos with sons christopher, stephen and constantine as junior co-emperors 	romanos ii 	nikephoros ii phokas 	john i tzimiskes 	basil ii 	constantine viii 	zoë (first reign) and romanos iii argyros 	zoë (first reign) and michael iv the paphlagonian 	michael v kalaphates 	zoë (second reign) with theodora 	zoë (second reign) and constantine ix monomachos 	constantine ix monomachos (sole emperor) 	theodora 	michael vi bringas 	isaac i komnenos 	constantine x doukas 	romanos iv diogenes 	michael vii doukas with brothers andronikos and konstantios and son constantine 	nikephoros iii botaneiates 	alexios i komnenos 	john ii komnenos with alexios komnenos as co-emperor 	manuel i komnenos 	alexios ii komnenos 	andronikos i komnenos with john komnenos as co-emperor 	isaac ii angelos 	alexios iii angelos 	alexios iv angelos 	nicholas kanabos (chosen by the senate) 	alexios v doukas 	empire of nicaea – 	 	constantine laskaris 	theodore i laskaris 	john iii doukas vatatzes 	theodore ii laskaris 	john iv laskaris 	byzantine empire – 	 	michael viii palaiologos 	andronikos ii palaiologos with michael ix palaiologos as co-emperor 	andronikos iii palaiologos 	john v palaiologos 	john vi kantakouzenos with john v palaiologos and matthew kantakouzenos as co-emperors 	john v palaiologos 	andronikos iv palaiologos 	john vii palaiologos 	andronikos v palaiologos 	manuel ii palaiologos 	john viii palaiologos 	constantine xi palaiologos 	italics indicates a junior co-emperor, while underlining indicates a usurper. 	 	v 	t 	e ancient roman religion and mythology 	deities (dii consentes)	 	 	agenoria 	angerona 	anna perenna 	apollo 	bellona 	bona dea 	carmenta 	castor and pollux 	ceres 	cloacina 	cupid 	dea dia 	diana 	dies 	dīs pater 	egeria 	fauna 	faunus 	flora 	genius 	hercules 	janus 	juno 	jupiter 	lares 	liber 	libertas 	mars 	mercury 	minerva 	neptune 	orcus 	penates 	pluto 	pomona 	priapus 	proserpina 	quirinus 	saturn 	silvanus 	sol 	venus 	veritas 	vesta 	vulcan 	abstract deities	 	abundantia 	aequitas 	aeternitas 	africa 	annona 	averruncus 	concordia 	feronia 	fides 	fortuna 	fontus 	laverna 	pietas 	roma 	salus 	securitas 	spes 	tranquillitas 	victoria 	terra 	 	legendary figures	 	aeneas 	rhea silvia 	romulus and remus 	numa pompilius 	tullus hostilius 	servius tullius 	ancus marcius 	lucius tarquinius priscus 	lucius tarquinius superbus 	texts	 	virgil 	aeneid 	ovid 	metamorphoses 	fasti 	propertius 	apuleius 	the golden ass 	varro 	concepts and practices	 	religion in ancient rome 	festivals 	interpretatio graeca 	imperial cult 	pomerium 	temples 	philosophy	 	cynicism 	epicureanism 	neoplatonism 	peripateticism 	pythagoreanism 	stoicism 	see also	 	glossary 	greek mythology 	myth and ritual 	roman polytheism (list) 	classical mythology 	conversion to christianity 	decline of greco-roman polytheism 	 	v 	t 	e ancient roman wars 	wars of the roman republic	 	roman–etruscan wars 	roman-aequian wars 	roman–latin wars 	roman–hernician wars 	roman-volscian wars 	samnite wars 	pyrrhic war 	punic wars (first, second, third) 	illyrian wars (first, second, third) 	macedonian wars (first, second, third, 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bc: p. cornelius scipio barbatus 	 bc: ti. coruncanius 	 bc: l. caecilius metellus 	 bc: l. cornelius lentulus caudinus 	 bc: m. cornelius cethegus 	 bc: p. licinius crassus dives 	 bc: m. aemilius lepidus 	 bc: p. cornelius scipio nasica corculum 	 bc: p. cornelius scipio nasica serapio 	 bc: p. licinius crassus dives mucianus 	 bc: p. mucius scaevola 	 bc: l. caecilius metellus delmaticus 	 bc: cn. domitius ahenobarbus 	 bc: q. mucius scaevola 	 bc: q. caecilius metellus pius 	 bc: c. julius caesar 	 bc: m. aemilius lepidus 	 bc: imp. caesar augustus 	 bc - ad : held by the emperors. 	 	v 	t 	e ancient greek and roman wars 	ancient greece	 	trojan war 	first messenian war 	second messenian war 	lelantine war 	greek–punic wars (sicilian wars) 	greco-persian wars 	aeginetan war 	wars of the delian league 	samian war 	peloponnesian war 	corinthian war 	first / second / third sacred war 	social war ( – bc) 	expansion of macedonia 	wars of alexander the great 	wars of the diadochi 	lamian 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to this day its famous guidebooks are widely used by travellers. bibendum was depicted visually as a lord of industry, a master of all he surveyed, and a patriotic exponent of the french spirit. in the s, bibendum urged frenchmen to adopt america's superior factory system, but to patriotically avoid using the "inferior" products of those factories. as automobiles became available to the middle classes, michelin advertising likewise shifted downscale, and its restaurant and hotel guides likewise covered a broader range of price categories.[ ] contents 	 development 	 in popular culture 	 references 	 external links development[edit] a poster by "o'galop" of bibendum, the michelin man, produced in . while attending the universal and colonial exposition in lyon in , Édouard and andré michelin noticed a stack of tyres that suggested to Édouard the figure of a man without arms. four years later, andré met french cartoonist marius rossillon, popularly known as o'galop, who showed him a rejected image he had created for a munich brewery[citation needed] — a large, regal figure holding a huge glass of beer and quoting horace's phrase nunc est bibendum ("now is the time for drinking").[ ]. andré immediately suggested replacing the man with a figure made from tyres. thus o'galop transformed the earlier image into michelin's symbol. today, bibendum is one of the world's most recognised trademarks, representing michelin in over countries.[citation needed] the poster showed him offering the toast nunc est bibendum to his scrawny competitors with a glass full of road hazards, with the title and the tag c'est à dire : À votre santé. le pneu michelin boit l'obstacle ("that is to say: here's to your health. the michelin tyre drinks up obstacles").[ ] the character's glass is filled with nails and broken glass.[ ] the implication is that michelin tyres will easily take on road hazards. the company used this basic poster format for fifteen years, adding its latest products to the table in front of the figure. it is unclear when the word "bibendum" came to be the name of the character himself. at the latest, it was in , when michelin commissioned curnonsky to write a newspaper column signed "bibendum". in , michelin ran a contest for "naming the michelin tire man" in the united states.[ ] from onwards, tyres became black in colour because carbon was added as a preservative and a strengthener to the basic rubber material. before then, they were a gray-white or light and translucent-beige colour. bibendum's appearance also changed, becoming black[citation needed]. though michelin briefly featured him that way in several print ads, it quickly changed back his appearance, citing printing and aesthetic issues for the change, and not racial concerns as commonly believed.[ ] the name of the plump tyre-man has entered the language to describe someone obese or wearing comically bulky clothing (e.g. "how can i wrap up warmly without looking like the michelin man?").[ ] bibendum's shape has changed over the years. o'galop's logo was based on bicycle tyres, wore pince-nez glasses with lanyard, and smoked a cigar. by the s, bibendum was being shown running, and in , his th anniversary, a slimmed-down version became the company's new logo. he had long since given up the cigar and pince-nez. the slimming of the logo reflected lower-profile, smaller tyres of modern cars. bib even had a similar-looking puppy as a companion when the duo were cgi animated for recent american television advertisements. a history of the emblem was written by olivier darmon and published in : le grand siècle de bibendum; 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(february ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) bibendum is one of several advertising characters featured in this advertisement from the "bibendum chair" was designed by eileen gray in . cayce pollard, the main character of william gibson's novel pattern recognition, has a strong aversion to corporate brands and logos. the sight of bibendum in particular gives her panic attacks. bibendum made a brief guest appearance in the asterix series, as the chariot-wheel dealer in certain translations, including the english one, of asterix in switzerland. (the original french version used the gaulish warrior mascot of french service-station company antar.) michelin sued the performance artist momus for releasing a song about the trademarked michelin man. french reggae band tryo sang about bibendum on their album grain de sable. 'monsieur bibendum, il est vraiment énorme / monsieur bibendum, le bonheur en personne' ('mr bibendum, he is truly enormous, mr bibendum; happiness personified'). in the animated, academy award-winning satire logorama, a series of bibendums play police detectives, a sheriff, and a squad of swat personnel who all work together to try to bring down a psychotic, ultraviolent criminal played by ronald mcdonald. in season episode of family guy, "stand by meg", the michelin man was "murdered" by chris griffin on behalf of "mr. firestone". he later shows up at the griffin house with the police, pointing to chris as "the one who popped me". in the french dubbed version of ghostbusters the giant stay puft marshmallow man is named "bibendum chamallow" ("chamallow" was originally a confectionery marketed in france under this name, which vaguely resembles the american marshmallow). lego released the stay puft bibendum chamallow minifigure in its edition of the fun pack set. references[edit] 	^ "l'aimable mons. bibendum or quelques precisions sur le guide michelin". the motor. nbr : page . august . 	^ "michelin corporate - bibendum, the michelin man, the living tyre". archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - . 	^ stephen l. harp, marketing michelin. advertising and cultural identity in twentieth-century france (johns hopkins university press, ) 	^ horace, odes, book , poem . 	^ cross, mary ( ). a century of american icons: products and slogans from the th-century consumer culture. greenwood press. pp.  – . isbn  - . retrieved september . 	^ dotz, warren; morton, jim ( ). what a character! th century american advertising icons. chronicle books. p.  . isbn  - - - . 	^ advertisement, saturday evening post : (march , ), p. 	^ "michelin man: the inside story - september , ". 	^ brodkin, jon ( - - ). "kenny has a big pair of gloves to fill on ireland's twin mission". the guardian. london. retrieved - - . 	^ also in english and german: one hundred years of michelin man; translated from the french by bernard besserglik; paris: hoëbeke, ; michelin man: years of bibendum; london: conran octopus, .--bibendum: ein jahrhundert geschichte; aus dem französischen von herta luise ott. external links[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to bibendum. 	bibimage.com, unofficial site dedicated to bibendum. 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		  (redirected from bnf (identifier)) 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		national library of france "bnf" and "gallica" redirect here. for the compound abbreviated as "bnf", see benzyl fluoride. for other uses, see gallica (disambiguation). coordinates: ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; . national library of france	bibliothèque nationale de france 	 	 	established	 ;  years ago ( )[ ] 	location	paris, france 	collection 	items collected	books, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, patents, databases, maps, stamps, prints, drawings and manuscripts 	size	 m items m books and publications[ ] 	access and use 	access requirements	open to anyone with a need to use the collections and services 	other information 	budget	€ million[ ] 	director	laurence engel 	staff	 , 	website	www.bnf.fr 	map 	 the bibliothèque nationale de france (french: [biblijɔtɛk nɑsjɔnal də fʁɑ̃s], "national library of france"; bnf) is the national library of france, located in paris. it is the national repository of all that is published in france and also holds extensive historical collections. contents 	 history 	 new buildings 	 mission 	 manuscript collection 	 digital library 	 list of directors 	 . – 	 . –present 	 films about the library 	 famous patrons 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links history[edit] the national library of france traces its origin to the royal library founded at the louvre palace by charles v in . charles had received a collection of manuscripts from his predecessor, john ii, and transferred them to the louvre from the palais de la cité. the first librarian of record was claude mallet, the king's valet de chambre, who made a sort of catalogue, inventoire des livres du roy nostre seigneur estans au chastel du louvre. jean blanchet made another list in and jean de bégue one in and another in . charles v was a patron of learning and encouraged the making and collection of books. it is known that he employed nicholas oresme, raoul de presle and others to transcribe ancient texts. at the death of charles vi, this first collection was unilaterally bought by the english regent of france, the duke of bedford, who transferred it to england in . it was apparently dispersed at his death in .[ ][ ] charles vii did little to repair the loss of these books, but the invention of printing resulted in the starting of another collection in the louvre inherited by louis xi in . charles viii seized a part of the collection of the kings of aragon.[ ] louis xii, who had inherited the library at blois, incorporated the latter into the bibliothèque du roi and further enriched it with the gruthuyse collection and with plunder from milan. francis i transferred the collection in to fontainebleau and merged it with his private library. during his reign, fine bindings became the craze and many of the books added by him and henry ii are masterpieces of the binder's art.[ ] under librarianship of amyot, the collection was transferred to paris during which process many treasures were lost. henry iv again moved it to the collège de clermont and in it was housed in the rue de la harpe. the appointment of jacques auguste de thou as librarian initiated a period of development that made it the largest and richest collection of books in the world. he was succeeded by his son who was replaced, when executed for treason, by jérôme bignon, the first of a line of librarians of the same name. under de thou, the library was enriched by the collections of queen catherine de medici. the library grew rapidly during the reigns of louis xiii and louis xiv, due in great part to the interest of the minister of finance, colbert, an indefatigable collectors of books.[ ] the quarters in the rue de la harpe becoming inadequate, the library was again moved, in , to a more spacious house in rue vivienne. the minister louvois took quite as much interest in the library as colbert and during his administration a magnificent building to be erected in the place vendôme was planned. the death of louvois, however, prevented the realization of this plan. louvois employed mabillon, thévenot and others to procure books from every source. in , a catalogue in eight volumes was compiled.[ ] the library opened to the public in , under the administration of abbé louvois, minister louvois's son. abbé louvois was succeeded by jean-paul bignon, who instituted a complete reform of the library's system. catalogues were made which appeared from to in volumes. the collections increased steadily by purchase and gift to the outbreak of the french revolution, at which time it was in grave danger of partial or total destruction, but owing to the activities of antoine-augustin renouard and joseph van praet it suffered no injury.[ ] the library's collections swelled to over , volumes during the radical phase of the french revolution when the private libraries of aristocrats and clergy were seized. after the establishment of the french first republic in september , "the assembly declared the bibliotheque du roi to be national property and the institution was renamed the bibliothèque nationale. after four centuries of control by the crown, this great library now became the property of the french people."[ ] reading room, richelieu site a new administrative organization was established. napoleon took great interest in the library and among other things issued an order that all books in provincial libraries not possessed by the bibliothèque nationale should be forwarded to it, subject to replacement by exchanges of equal value from the duplicate collections, making it possible, as napoleon said, to find a copy of any book in france in the national library. napoleon furthermore increased the collections by spoil from his conquests. a considerable number of these books were restored after his downfall. during the period from to , the library was virtually under the control of joseph van praet. at his death it contained more than , printed books and some , manuscripts.[ ] following a series of regime changes in france, it became the imperial national library and in was moved to newly constructed buildings on the rue de richelieu designed by henri labrouste. upon labrouste's death in the library was further expanded, including the grand staircase and the oval room, by academic architect jean-louis pascal. in , the library was still the largest repository of books in the world, although it has since been surpassed by other libraries for that title.[ ] by , the library's collection had grown to , , volumes and , manuscripts.[ ] m. henri lemaître, a vice-president of the french library association and formerly librarian of the bibliothèque nationale ... outlined the story of french libraries and librarians during the german occupation, a record of destruction and racial discrimination. during – , more than two million books were lost through the ravages of war, many of them forming the irreplaceable local collections in which france abounded. many thousands of books, including complete libraries, were seized by the germans. yet french librarians stood firm against all threats, and continued to serve their readers to the best of their abilities. in their private lives and in their professional occupations they were in the van of the struggle against the nazis, and many suffered imprisonment and death for their devotion. despite nazi opposition they maintained a supply of books to french prisoners of war. they continued to supply books on various proscribed lists to trustworthy readers; and when liberation came, they were ready with their plans for rehabilitation with the creation of new book centres for the french people on lines of the english county library system.[ ] new buildings[edit] view of the bibliothèque nationale de france, françois-mitterrand site on july , president françois mitterrand announced "the construction and the expansion of one of the largest and most modern libraries in the world, intended to cover all fields of knowledge, and designed to be accessible to all, using the most modern data transfer technologies, which could be consulted from a distance, and which would collaborate with other european libraries". book and media logistics inside the whole library was planned with an automated .  km ( .  mi) telelift system. only with this high level of automation, the library can comply with all demands fully in time. due to initial trade union opposition, a wireless network was fully installed only in august . in july , the services of the architectural firm of dominique perrault were retained. the design was recognized with the european union prize for contemporary architecture in . the construction was carried out by bouygues.[ ] construction of the library ran into huge cost overruns and technical difficulties related to its high-rise design, so much so that it was referred to as the "tgb" or "très grande bibliothèque" (i.e. "very large library", a sarcastic allusion to france's successful high-speed rail system, the tgv).[ ] after the move of the major collections from the rue de richelieu, the national library of france was inaugurated on december .[ ] as of [update], the bnf contained roughly  million books at its four parisian sites (tolbiac, i.e. bibliothèque françois-mitterrand, and richelieu, arsenal and opéra) as well as printed documents, manuscripts, prints, photographs, maps and plans, scores, coins, medals, sound documents, video and multimedia documents, scenery elements..."[ ] the library retains the use of the rue de richelieu complex for some of its collections. plan of the bibliothèque françois-mitterrand 	___ 	located near the métro station: bibliothèque françois mitterrand. mission[edit] the national library of france is a public establishment under the supervision of the ministry of culture. its mission is to constitute collections, especially the copies of works published in france that must, by law, be deposited there, conserve them, and make them available to the public. it produces a reference catalogue, cooperates with other national and international establishments, and participates in research programs. manuscript collection[edit] the manuscripts department houses the largest collection of medieval and modern manuscripts worldwide. the collection includes medieval chansons de geste and chivalric romances, eastern literature, eastern and western religions, ancient history, scientific history, and literary manuscripts by pascal, diderot, apollinaire, proust, colette, sartre, etc. the collection is organised: 	according to language (ancient greek, latin, french and other european languages, arabic, coptic, ethiopian, hebrew, persian, turkish, near- and middle-eastern languages, chinese, japanese, tibetan, sanskrit, indian languages, vietnamese, etc.) 	the library holds about , ancient greek manuscripts, which are divided into three fonds: ancien fonds grec, fonds coislin, and fonds du supplément grec. 	according to content: learned and bibliophilic, collections of learned materials, library archives, genealogical collections, french provinces, masonic collection, etc. digital library[edit] gallica is the digital library for online users of the bibliothèque nationale de france and its partners. it was established in october . today it has more than million digitized materials of various types: books, magazines, newspapers, photographs, cartoons, drawings, prints, posters, maps, manuscripts, antique coins, scores, theater costumes and sets, audio and video materials. all library materials are freely available. on february , , a digitized copy of scenes from bohemian life by henri murger ( ) became gallica's millionth document. and in february , the five millionth document was a copy of the manuscript "record of an unsuccessful trip to the west indies" stored in the bibliothèque inguimbertine. as of  january  [update], gallica had made available on the web about: 	 million documents 	 , books 	 , maps 	 , manuscripts 	 , , images 	 , , newspapers and magazines 	 , sheets of music 	 , audio recordings 	 , objects 	 , video recordings most of gallica's collections have been converted into text format using optical character recognition (ocr-processing), which allows full-text search in the library materials. each document has a digital identifier, the so-called ark (archival resource key) of the national library of france and is accompanied by a bibliographic description. list of directors[edit] – [edit] 	 – : gilles mallet [fr] (fr) 	 – : guillaume budé 	 – : pierre duchâtel [fr] 	 – : pierre de montdoré [fr] 	 – : jacques amyot 	 – : jacques-auguste de thou 	 – : françois auguste de thou 	 – : jérôme bignon 	 – : jérôme ii bignon [fr] 	 – : jean gosselin [fr] 	 – : isaac casaubon 	 – : nicolas rigault 	 – : pierre dupuy 	 – : jacques dupuy [fr] 	 – : nicolas colbert [fr]; pierre de carcavi ( - ) 	 – : louis colbert [fr]; melchisédech thévenot ( - ) 	 – : camille le tellier de louvois; nicolas clément [fr] ( - ) 	 – : jean-paul bignon 	 – : jérôme bignon de blanzy [fr] 	 – : armand-jérôme bignon 	 – : jérôme-frédéric bignon [fr]; grégoire desaunays [fr] (from to ) 	 – : jean-charles-pierre le noir (démission) 	 – : louis le fèvre d'ormesson de noyseau [fr] –present[edit] 	 – : jean-louis carra [fr] and sébastien-roch nicolas de chamfort (fr) 	 : jean-baptiste cœuilhe [fr] (interim) 	 – : jean baptiste lefebvre de villebrune 	 – : andré barthélemy de courcay [fr] 	 – : jean-augustin capperonnier [fr] 	 – : adrien-jacques joly [fr] 	 – : aubin-louis millin de grandmaison 	 – : jean-augustin capperonnier 	 – : pascal-françois-joseph gossellin [fr] 	 – : bon-joseph dacier 	 – : joseph van praet 	 : joseph van praet 	 : jean-pierre abel-rémusat 	 – : jean-antoine letronne 	 – : edmé françois jomard 	 : charles dunoyer 	 – : antoine jean letronne 	 – : joseph naudet 	 – : jules-antoine taschereau [fr]; the paris commune appointed Élie reclus ( april to may ) 	 – : léopold delisle 	 – : henry marcel 	 – : théophile homolle 	 – : pierre-rené roland-marcel [fr] 	 – : julien cain 	 – : bernard faÿ 	 – : jean laran [fr] (interim) 	 – : julien cain 	 – : Étienne dennery 	 – : georges le rider 	 – : alain gourdon [fr] 	 – : andré miquel 	 – : emmanuel le roy ladurie 	 – : dominique jamet [fr] 	 – : jean favier 	 – : jean-pierre angremy 	 – : jean-noël jeanneney 	 – : bruno racine 	 –present: laurence engel [fr] films about the library[edit] alain resnais directed toute la mémoire du monde, a short film about the library and its collections. famous patrons[edit] raoul rigault, leader during the paris commune, is known for habitually occupying the library and reading endless copies of the newspaper le père duchesne.[ ] see also[edit] 	arcade (blinkenlights) 	bibliothèque de l'arsenal 	bibliothèque-musée de l'opéra national de paris 	books in france 	cabinet des médailles 	dossiers secrets d'henri lobineau 	les enfers, a department within the bibliothèque nationale 	legal deposit 	national electronic library references[edit] 	^ jack a. clarke. "french libraries in transition, – ." the library quarterly, vol. , no. (oct., ) 	^ a b "la bnf en chiffres". archived from the original on - - . 	^ a b priebe, paul m. ( ). "from bibliothèque du roi to bibliothèque nationale: the creation of a state library, – ". the journal of library history. ( ): – . jstor  . 	^ a b c d e f g this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: rines, george edwin, ed. ( ). "national library of france" . encyclopedia americana. 	^ konstantinos staikos ( ), history of the library in western civilization: from petrarch to michelangelo, new castle, de: oak knoll press, isbn  - - - - 	^ dunton, larkin ( ). the world and its people. silver, burdett. p.  . 	^ "university and research libraries". nature. ( ): . october . doi: . / a . 	^ bouygues website: bibliothèque nationale de france archived november , , at the wayback machine 	^ fitchett, joseph ( march ). "new paris library: visionary or outdated?". the new york times. retrieved april . 	^ ramsay, raylene l. ( ). french women in politics: writing power, paternal legitimization, and maternal legacies. berghahn books. p.  . isbn  - - - - . retrieved may . 	^ "welcome to the bnf". bnf (bibliothèque nationale de france). archived from the original on january . retrieved january . 	^ horne, alistair ( ). the fall of paris: the siege and the commune - . st. martin's press, new york. pp.  – . further reading[edit] 	bibliothèque nationale (france), département de la phonothèque nationale et de l'audiovisuel. the national [sound] record[ings] and audiovisual department of the national library [of france]. [paris]: bibliothèque nationale, [ ]. p. 	david h. stam, ed. ( ). international dictionary of library histories. fitzroy dearborn. isbn  - - - . 	riding, alan. 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augustine "established anew the ancient faith".[a] in his youth he was drawn to the major persian religion, manichaeism, and later to neoplatonism. after his conversion to christianity and baptism in , augustine developed his own approach to philosophy and theology, accommodating a variety of methods and perspectives.[ ] believing the grace of christ was indispensable to human freedom, he helped formulate the doctrine of original sin and made significant contributions to the development of just war theory. when the western roman empire began to disintegrate, augustine imagined the church as a spiritual city of god, distinct from the material earthly city.[ ] his thoughts profoundly influenced the medieval worldview. the segment of the church that adhered to the concept of the trinity as defined by the council of nicaea and the council of constantinople[ ] closely identified with augustine's on the trinity. augustine is recognized as a saint in the catholic church, the eastern orthodox church, and the anglican communion. he is also a preeminent catholic doctor of the church and the patron of the augustinians. his memorial is celebrated on august, the day of his death. augustine is the patron saint of brewers, printers, theologians, and a number of cities and dioceses.[ ] many protestants, especially calvinists and lutherans, consider him one of the theological fathers of the protestant reformation due to his teachings on salvation and divine grace.[ ][ ][ ] protestant reformers generally, and martin luther in particular, held augustine in preeminence among early church fathers. luther was, from to , a member of the order of the augustinian eremites. in the east, his teachings are more disputed and were notably attacked by john romanides.[ ] but other theologians and figures of the eastern orthodox church have shown significant approbation of his writings, chiefly georges florovsky.[ ] the most controversial doctrine associated with him, the filioque,[ ] was rejected by the orthodox church.[ ] other disputed teachings include his views on original sin, the doctrine of grace, and predestination.[ ] nevertheless, though considered to be mistaken on some points, he is still considered a saint and has influenced some eastern church fathers, most notably gregory palamas.[ ] in the orthodox church his feast day is celebrated on june.[ ][ ] historian diarmaid macculloch has written: "augustine's impact on western christian thought can hardly be overstated; only his beloved example paul of tarsus, has been more influential, and westerners have generally seen paul through augustine's eyes."[ ] contents 	 life 	 . background 	 . childhood and education 	 . move to carthage, rome, milan 	 . conversion to christianity and priesthood 	 death and sainthood 	 . relics 	 views and thought 	 . theology 	 . . christian anthropology 	 . . creation 	 . . ecclesiology 	 . . eschatology 	 . . mariology 	 . . natural knowledge and biblical interpretation 	 . . original sin 	 . . predestination 	 . . sacramental theology 	 . philosophy 	 . . astrology 	 . . epistemology 	 . . just war 	 . . free will 	 . sociology, morals and ethics 	 . . slavery 	 . . jews 	 . . sexuality 	 . . pedagogy 	 . . coercion 	 . . . the context 	 . . . the theology 	 works 	 influence 	 . in philosophy 	 . in theology 	 . oratorio, music 	 . in popular art 	 see also 	 references 	 . notes 	 . citations 	 . cited sources 	 . further reading 	 external links 	 . general 	 . bibliography 	 . works by augustine 	 . biography and criticism life[edit] background[edit] augustine of hippo (/ɔːˈɡʌstɪn/,[ ] /əˈɡʌstɪn/,[ ] or /ˈɔːɡʌstɪn/;[ ] latin: aurelius augustinus hipponensis;[b] november – august ), also known as saint augustine or saint austin,[ ] is known by various cognomens throughout the many denominations of the christian world, including blessed augustine and the doctor of grace[ ] (latin: doctor gratiae). hippo regius, where augustine was the bishop, was in modern-day annaba, algeria.[ ][ ] childhood and education[edit] the saint augustine taken to school by saint monica. by niccolò di pietro – augustine was born in in the municipium of thagaste (now souk ahras, algeria) in the roman province of numidia.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] his mother, monica or monnica,[c] was a devout christian; his father patricius was a pagan who converted to christianity on his deathbed.[ ] he had a brother named navigius and a sister whose name is lost but is conventionally remembered as perpetua.[ ] scholars generally agree augustine and his family were berbers, an ethnic group indigenous to north africa,[ ][ ][ ] but were heavily romanized, speaking only latin at home as a matter of pride and dignity.[ ] in his writings, augustine leaves some information as to the consciousness of his african heritage. for example, he refers to apuleius as "the most notorious of us africans,"[ ][ ] to ponticianus as "a country man of ours, insofar as being african,"[ ][ ] and to faustus of mileve as "an african gentleman".[ ][ ] it is important to note that in augustine's time, 'africa' was a roman term for the territories surrounding carthage. it did not refer to sub-saharan africa, or the continent as a whole. augustine's family name, aurelius, suggests his father's ancestors were freedmen of the gens aurelia given full roman citizenship by the edict of caracalla in . augustine's family had been roman, from a legal standpoint, for at least a century when he was born.[ ] it is assumed his mother, monica, was of berber origin, on the basis of her name,[ ][ ] but as his family were honestiores, an upper class of citizens known as honorable men, augustine's first language was likely latin.[ ] at the age of , augustine was sent to school at madaurus (now m'daourouch), a small numidian city about miles (  km) south of thagaste. there he became familiar with latin literature, as well as pagan beliefs and practices.[ ] his first insight into the nature of sin occurred when he and a number of friends stole fruit they did not want from a neighborhood garden. he tells this story in his autobiography, the confessions. he remembers he stole the fruit, not because he was hungry, but because "it was not permitted."[ ] his very nature, he says, was flawed. 'it was foul, and i loved it. i loved my own error—not that for which i erred, but the error itself."[ ] from this incident he concluded the human person is naturally inclined to sin, and in need of the grace of christ. at the age of , through the generosity of his fellow citizen romanianus,[ ] augustine went to carthage to continue his education in rhetoric, though it was above the financial means of his family.[ ] in spite of the good warnings of his mother, as a youth augustine lived a hedonistic lifestyle for a time, associating with young men who boasted of their sexual exploits. the need to gain their acceptance forced inexperienced boys like augustine to seek or make up stories about sexual experiences.[ ] it was while he was a student in carthage that he read cicero's dialogue hortensius (now lost), which he described as leaving a lasting impression, enkindling in his heart the love of wisdom and a great thirst for truth. it started his interest in philosophy.[ ] although raised catholic, augustine became a manichaean, much to his mother's chagrin.[ ] at about the age of , augustine began a relationship with a young woman in carthage. though his mother wanted him to marry a person of his class, the woman remained his lover[ ] for over fifteen years[ ] and gave birth to his son adeodatus ( – ), which means "gift from god",[ ] who was viewed as extremely intelligent by his contemporaries. in , augustine ended his relationship with his lover in order to prepare to marry a ten-year-old heiress. (he had to wait for two years because the legal age of marriage for women was twelve.) by the time he was able to marry her, however, he had decided to become a catholic priest and the marriage did not happen.[ ][ ] augustine was from the beginning a brilliant student, with an eager intellectual curiosity, but he never mastered greek[ ] – he tells us his first greek teacher was a brutal man who constantly beat his students, and augustine rebelled and refused to study. by the time he realized he needed to know greek, it was too late; and although he acquired a smattering of the language, he was never eloquent with it. however, his mastery of latin was another matter. he became an expert both in the eloquent use of the language and in the use of clever arguments to make his points. move to carthage, rome, milan[edit] the earliest known portrait of saint augustine in a th-century fresco, lateran, rome augustine taught grammar at thagaste during and . the following year he moved to carthage to conduct a school of rhetoric and remained there for the next nine years.[ ] disturbed by unruly students in carthage, he moved to establish a school in rome, where he believed the best and brightest rhetoricians practiced, in . however, augustine was disappointed with the apathetic reception. it was the custom for students to pay their fees to the professor on the last day of the term, and many students attended faithfully all term, and then did not pay. manichaean friends introduced him to the prefect of the city of rome, symmachus, who had been asked by the imperial court at milan[ ] to provide a rhetoric professor. augustine won the job and headed north to take his position in milan in late . thirty years old, he had won the most visible academic position in the latin world at a time when such posts gave ready access to political careers. although augustine spent ten years as a manichaean, he was never an initiate or "elect", but an "auditor", the lowest level in this religion's hierarchy.[ ][ ] while still at carthage a disappointing meeting with the manichaean bishop, faustus of mileve, a key exponent of manichaean theology, started augustine's scepticism of manichaeanism.[ ] in rome, he reportedly turned away from manichaeanism, embracing the scepticism of the new academy movement. because of his education, augustine had great rhetorical prowess and was very knowledgeable of the philosophies behind many faiths.[ ] at milan, his mother's religiosity, augustine's own studies in neoplatonism, and his friend simplicianus all urged him towards catholicism.[ ] not coincidentally, this was shortly after the roman emperor theodosius i had issued a decree of death for all manichaean monks in and shortly before he declared christianity to be the only legitimate religion for the roman empire in .[ ] initially augustine was not strongly influenced by christianity and its ideologies, but after coming in contact with ambrose of milan, augustine reevaluated himself and was forever changed. saint augustine and his mother, saint monica ( ) by ary scheffer augustine arrived in milan and visited ambrose, having heard of his reputation as an orator. like augustine, ambrose was a master of rhetoric, but older and more experienced.[ ] soon, their relationship grew, as augustine wrote, "and i began to love him, of course, not at the first as a teacher of the truth, for i had entirely despaired of finding that in thy church—but as a friendly man."[ ] eventually, augustine says he was spiritually led into catholicism.[ ] augustine was very much influenced by ambrose, even more than by his own mother and others he admired. in his confessions, augustine states, "that man of god received me as a father would, and welcomed my coming as a good bishop should."[ ] ambrose adopted augustine as a spiritual son after the death of augustine's father.[ ] augustine's mother had followed him to milan and arranged a respectable marriage for him. although augustine acquiesced, he had to dismiss his concubine and grieved for having forsaken his lover. he wrote, "my mistress being torn from my side as an impediment to my marriage, my heart, which clave to her, was racked, and wounded, and bleeding." augustine confessed he had not been a lover of wedlock so much as a slave of lust, so he procured another concubine since he had to wait two years until his fiancée came of age. however, his emotional wound was not healed.[ ] it was during this period that he uttered his famously insincere prayer, "grant me chastity and continence, but not yet."[ ] there is evidence augustine may have considered this former relationship to be equivalent to marriage.[ ] in his confessions, he admitted the experience eventually produced a decreased sensitivity to pain. augustine eventually broke off his engagement to his eleven-year-old fiancée, but never renewed his relationship with either of his concubines. alypius of thagaste steered augustine away from marriage, saying they could not live a life together in the love of wisdom if he married. augustine looked back years later on the life at cassiciacum, a villa outside of milan where he gathered with his followers, and described it as christianae vitae otium – the leisure of christian life.[ ] conversion to christianity and priesthood[edit] the conversion of st. augustine by fra angelico in late august of ,[d] at the age of , having heard of ponticianus's and his friends' first reading of the life of anthony of the desert, augustine converted to christianity. as augustine later told it, his conversion was prompted by hearing a child's voice say "take up and read" (latin: tolle, lege). resorting to the sortes sanctorum, he opened a book of st. paul's writings (codex apostoli, . . ) at random and read romans : – : not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying, but put on the lord jesus christ, and make no provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof.[ ] he later wrote an account of his conversion in his confessions (latin: confessiones), which has since become a classic of christian theology and a key text in the history of autobiography. this work is an outpouring of thanksgiving and penitence. although it is written as an account of his life, the confessions also talks about the nature of time, causality, free will, and other important philosophical topics.[ ] the following is taken from that work: belatedly i loved thee, o beauty so ancient and so new, belatedly i loved thee. for see, thou wast within and i was without, and i sought thee out there. unlovely, i rushed heedlessly among the lovely things thou hast made. thou wast with me, but i was not with thee. these things kept me far from thee; even though they were not at all unless they were in thee. thou didst call and cry aloud, and didst force open my deafness. thou didst gleam and shine, and didst chase away my blindness. thou didst breathe fragrant odors and i drew in my breath; and now i pant for thee. i tasted, and now i hunger and thirst. thou didst touch me, and i burned for thy peace.[ ] the vision of st. augustine by ascanio luciano ambrose baptized augustine and his son adeodatus, in milan on easter vigil, – april .[ ] a year later, in , augustine completed his apology on the holiness of the catholic church.[ ] that year, also, adeodatus and augustine returned home to africa.[ ] augustine's mother monica died at ostia, italy, as they prepared to embark for africa.[ ] upon their arrival, they began a life of aristocratic leisure at augustine's family's property.[ ] soon after, adeodatus, too, died.[ ] augustine then sold his patrimony and gave the money to the poor. he only kept the family house, which he converted into a monastic foundation for himself and a group of friends.[ ] in augustine was ordained a priest in hippo regius (now annaba), in algeria. he became a famous preacher (more than preserved sermons are believed to be authentic), and was noted for combating the manichaean religion, to which he had formerly adhered.[ ] in , he was made coadjutor bishop of hippo and became full bishop shortly thereafter,[ ] hence the name "augustine of hippo"; and he gave his property to the church of thagaste.[ ] he remained in that position until his death in . he wrote his autobiographical confessions in – . his work the city of god was written to console his fellow christians shortly after the visigoths had sacked rome in . augustine worked tirelessly to convince the people of hippo to convert to christianity. though he had left his monastery, he continued to lead a monastic life in the episcopal residence. much of augustine's later life was recorded by his friend possidius, bishop of calama (present-day guelma, algeria), in his sancti augustini vita. possidius admired augustine as a man of powerful intellect and a stirring orator who took every opportunity to defend christianity against its detractors. possidius also described augustine's personal traits in detail, drawing a portrait of a man who ate sparingly, worked tirelessly, despised gossip, shunned the temptations of the flesh, and exercised prudence in the financial stewardship of his see.[ ] death and sainthood[edit] shortly before augustine's death, the vandals, a germanic tribe that had converted to arianism, invaded roman africa. the vandals besieged hippo in the spring of , when augustine entered his final illness. according to possidius, one of the few miracles attributed to augustine, the healing of an ill man, took place during the siege.[ ] according to possidius, augustine spent his final days in prayer and repentance, requesting the penitential psalms of david be hung on his walls so he could read them. he directed the library of the church in hippo and all the books therein should be carefully preserved. he died on august .[ ] shortly after his death, the vandals lifted the siege of hippo, but they returned soon after and burned the city. they destroyed all but augustine's cathedral and library, which they left untouched.[ ] augustine was canonized by popular acclaim, and later recognized as a doctor of the church in by pope boniface viii.[ ] his feast day is august, the day on which he died. he is considered the patron saint of brewers, printers, theologians, and a number of cities and dioceses. he is invoked against sore eyes.[ ] relics[edit] augustine's arm bones, saint augustin basilica, annaba, algeria according to bede's true martyrology, augustine's body was later translated or moved to cagliari, sardinia, by the catholic bishops expelled from north africa by huneric. around , his remains were transported again by peter, bishop of pavia and uncle of the lombard king liutprand, to the church of san pietro in ciel d'oro in pavia, in order to save them from frequent coastal raids by saracens. in january , pope john xxii issued the papal bull veneranda santorum patrum, in which he appointed the augustinians guardians of the tomb of augustine (called arca), which was remade in and elaborately carved with bas-reliefs of scenes from augustine's life. in october , some workmen in the church of san pietro in ciel d'oro in pavia discovered a marble box containing human bones (including part of a skull). a dispute arose between the augustinian hermits (order of saint augustine) and the regular canons (canons regular of saint augustine) as to whether these were the bones of augustine. the hermits did not believe so; the canons affirmed they were. eventually pope benedict xiii ( – ) directed the bishop of pavia, monsignor pertusati, to make a determination. the bishop declared that, in his opinion, the bones were those of saint augustine.[ ] the augustinians were expelled from pavia in , taking refuge in milan with the relics of augustine, and the disassembled arca, which were removed to the cathedral there. san pietro fell into disrepair, but was finally rebuilt in the s, under the urging of agostino gaetano riboldi, and reconsecrated in when the relics of augustine and the shrine were once again reinstalled.[ ][ ] in , a portion of augustine's right arm (cubitus) was secured from pavia and returned to annaba.[ ] it now rests in the saint augustin basilica within a glass tube inserted into the arm of a life-size marble statue of the saint. views and thought[edit] 	part of a series on 	christianity 	 	 	jesus 	christ 	nativity 	crucifixion 	resurrection 	 	bible 	foundations 	old testament 	new testament 	gospel 	canon 	books of the bible 	church 	creed 	new covenant 	 theology 	god 	trinity 	father 	son 	holy spirit 	apologetics 	baptism 	christology 	history of theology 	mission 	salvation 	 	history 	tradition 	apostles 	peter 	paul 	mary 	early christianity 	church fathers 	constantine 	councils 	augustine 	east–west schism 	crusades 	aquinas 	reformation 	luther 	 	denominations 	groups 	 western 	 	roman catholic 	protestant 	adventist 	anabaptist 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exhorted respect for the body on the grounds it belonged to the very nature of the human person.[ ] augustine's favourite figure to describe body-soul unity is marriage: caro tua, coniunx tua – your body is your wife.[ ][ ][ ] initially, the two elements were in perfect harmony. after the fall of humanity they are now experiencing dramatic combat between one another. they are two categorically different things. the body is a three-dimensional object composed of the four elements, whereas the soul has no spatial dimensions.[ ] soul is a kind of substance, participating in reason, fit for ruling the body.[ ] augustine was not preoccupied, as plato and descartes were, in detailed efforts to explain the metaphysics of the soul-body union. it sufficed for him to admit they are metaphysically distinct: to be a human is to be a composite of soul and body, with the soul superior to the body. the latter statement is grounded in his hierarchical classification of things into those that merely exist, those that exist and live, and those that exist, live, and have intelligence or reason.[ ][ ] like other church fathers such as athenagoras,[ ] tertullian,[ ] clement of alexandria and basil of caesarea,[ ] augustine "vigorously condemned the practice of induced abortion", and although he disapproved of an abortion during any stage of pregnancy, he made a distinction between early and later abortions.[ ] he acknowledged the distinction between "formed" and "unformed" fetuses mentioned in the septuagint translation of exodus : – , which incorrectly translates the word "harm" (from the original hebrew text) as "form" in the koine greek of the septuagint. his view was based on the aristotelian distinction "between the fetus before and after its supposed 'vivification'". therefore, he did not classify as murder the abortion of an "unformed" fetus since he thought it could not be known with certainty the fetus had received a soul.[ ][ ] augustine held that "the timing of the infusion of the soul was a mystery known to god alone".[ ] however, he considered procreation as one of the goods of marriage; abortion figured as a means, along with drugs that cause sterility, of frustrating this good. it lay along a continuum that included infanticide as an instance of 'lustful cruelty' or 'cruel lust.' augustine called the use of means to avoid the birth of a child an 'evil work:’ a reference to either abortion or contraception or both."[ ] creation[edit] see also: allegorical interpretations of genesis in city of god, augustine rejected both the contemporary ideas of ages (such as those of certain greeks and egyptians) that differed from the church's sacred writings.[ ] in the literal interpretation of genesis augustine argued god had created everything in the universe simultaneously and not over a period of six days. he argued the six-day structure of creation presented in the book of genesis represents a logical framework, rather than the passage of time in a physical way – it would bear a spiritual, rather than physical, meaning, which is no less literal. one reason for this interpretation is the passage in sirach  : , creavit omnia simul ("he created all things at once"), which augustine took as proof the days of genesis  had to be taken non-literalistically.[ ] as an additional support for describing the six days of creation as a heuristic device, augustine thought the actual event of creation would be incomprehensible by humans and therefore needed to be translated.[ ] augustine also does not envision original sin as causing structural changes in the universe, and even suggests the bodies of adam and eve were already created mortal before the fall.[ ][ ][ ] ecclesiology[edit] see also: ecclesiology st. augustine by carlo crivelli augustine developed his doctrine of the church principally in reaction to the donatist sect. he taught there is one church, but within this church there are two realities, namely, the visible aspect (the institutional hierarchy, the catholic sacraments, and the laity) and the invisible (the souls of those in the church, who are either dead, sinful members or elect predestined for heaven). the former is the institutional body established by christ on earth which proclaims salvation and administers the sacraments, while the latter is the invisible body of the elect, made up of genuine believers from all ages, and who are known only to god. the church, which is visible and societal, will be made up of "wheat" and "tares", that is, good and wicked people (as per mat. : ), until the end of time. this concept countered the donatist claim that only those in a state of grace were the "true" or "pure" church on earth, and that priests and bishops who were not in a state of grace had no authority or ability to confect the sacraments.[ ] augustine's ecclesiology was more fully developed in city of god. there he conceives of the church as a heavenly city or kingdom, ruled by love, which will ultimately triumph over all earthly empires which are self-indulgent and ruled by pride. augustine followed cyprian in teaching that bishops and priests of the church are the successors of the apostles,[ ] and their authority in the church is god-given. eschatology[edit] augustine originally believed in premillennialism, namely that christ would establish a literal , -year kingdom prior to the general resurrection, but later rejected the belief, viewing it as carnal. he was the first theologian to expound a systematic doctrine of amillennialism, although some theologians and christian historians believe his position was closer to that of modern postmillennialists. the catholic church during the medieval period built its system of eschatology on augustinian amillennialism, where christ rules the earth spiritually through his triumphant church.[ ] during the reformation theologians such as john calvin accepted amillennialism. augustine taught that the eternal fate of the soul is determined at death,[ ][ ] and that purgatorial fires of the intermediate state purify only those who died in communion with the church. his teaching provided fuel for later theology.[ ] mariology[edit] although augustine did not develop an independent mariology, his statements on mary surpass in number and depth those of other early writers. even before the council of ephesus, he defended the ever-virgin mary as the mother of god, believing her to be "full of grace" (following earlier latin writers such as jerome) on account of her sexual integrity and innocence.[ ] likewise, he affirmed that the virgin mary "conceived as virgin, gave birth as virgin and stayed virgin forever".[ ] natural knowledge and biblical interpretation[edit] augustine took the view that, if a literal interpretation contradicts science and humans' god-given reason, the biblical text should be interpreted metaphorically. while each passage of scripture has a literal sense, this "literal sense" does not always mean the scriptures are mere history; at times they are rather an extended metaphor.[ ] original sin[edit] see also: original sin painting of saint augustine by tomás giner, year , tempera on panel diocesan museum of zaragoza, aragon, spain. augustine taught that the sin of adam and eve was either an act of foolishness (insipientia) followed by pride and disobedience to god or that pride came first.[e] the first couple disobeyed god, who had told them not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (gen : ).[ ] the tree was a symbol of the order of creation.[ ] self-centeredness made adam and eve eat of it, thus failing to acknowledge and respect the world as it was created by god, with its hierarchy of beings and values.[f] they would not have fallen into pride and lack of wisdom if satan hadn't sown into their senses "the root of evil" (radix mali).[ ] their nature was wounded by concupiscence or libido, which affected human intelligence and will, as well as affections and desires, including sexual desire.[g] in terms of metaphysics, concupiscence is not a being but bad quality, the privation of good or a wound.[ ] augustine's understanding of the consequences of original sin and the necessity of redeeming grace was developed in the struggle against pelagius and his pelagian disciples, caelestius and julian of eclanum,[ ] who had been inspired by rufinus of syria, a disciple of theodore of mopsuestia.[ ][ ] they refused to agree original sin wounded human will and mind, insisting human nature was given the power to act, to speak, and to think when god created it. human nature cannot lose its moral capacity for doing good, but a person is free to act or not act in a righteous way. pelagius gave an example of eyes: they have capacity for seeing, but a person can make either good or bad use of it.[ ][ ] like jovinian, pelagians insisted human affections and desires were not touched by the fall either. immorality, e.g. fornication, is exclusively a matter of will, i.e. a person does not use natural desires in a proper way. in opposition, augustine pointed out the apparent disobedience of the flesh to the spirit, and explained it as one of the results of original sin, punishment of adam and eve's disobedience to god.[ ] augustine had served as a "hearer" for the manichaeans for about nine years,[ ] who taught that the original sin was carnal knowledge.[ ] but his struggle to understand the cause of evil in the world started before that, at the age of nineteen.[ ] by malum (evil) he understood most of all concupiscence, which he interpreted as a vice dominating people and causing in men and women moral disorder. agostino trapè insists augustine's personal experience cannot be credited for his doctrine about concupiscence. he considers augustine's marital experience to be quite normal, and even exemplary, aside from the absence of christian wedding rites.[ ] as j. brachtendorf showed, augustine used ciceronian stoic concept of passions, to interpret paul's doctrine of universal sin and redemption.[ ] st. augustine by peter paul rubens the view that not only human soul but also senses were influenced by the fall of adam and eve was prevalent in augustine's time among the fathers of the church.[ ][ ][ ] it is clear the reason for augustine's distancing from the affairs of the flesh was different from that of plotinus, a neoplatonist[h] who taught that only through disdain for fleshly desire could one reach the ultimate state of mankind.[ ] augustine taught the redemption, i.e. transformation and purification, of the body in the resurrection.[ ] some authors perceive augustine's doctrine as directed against human sexuality and attribute his insistence on continence and devotion to god as coming from augustine's need to reject his own highly sensual nature as described in the confessions.[i] augustine taught that human sexuality has been wounded, together with the whole of human nature, and requires redemption of christ. that healing is a process realized in conjugal acts. the virtue of continence is achieved thanks to the grace of the sacrament of christian marriage, which becomes therefore a remedium concupiscentiae – remedy of concupiscence.[ ][ ] the redemption of human sexuality will be, however, fully accomplished only in the resurrection of the body.[ ] the sin of adam is inherited by all human beings. already in his pre-pelagian writings, augustine taught that original sin is transmitted to his descendants by concupiscence,[ ] which he regarded as the passion of both, soul and body,[j] making humanity a massa damnata (mass of perdition, condemned crowd) and much enfeebling, though not destroying, the freedom of the will.[ ] although earlier christian authors taught the elements of physical death, moral weakness, and a sin propensity within original sin, augustine was the first to add the concept of inherited guilt (reatus) from adam whereby an infant was eternally damned at birth.[ ] although augustine's anti-pelagian defense of original sin was confirmed at numerous councils, i.e. carthage ( ), ephesus ( ), orange ( ), trent ( ) and by popes, i.e. pope innocent i ( – ) and pope zosimus ( – ), his inherited guilt eternally damning infants was omitted by these councils and popes.[ ] anselm of canterbury established in his cur deus homo the definition that was followed by the great th-century schoolmen, namely that original sin is the "privation of the righteousness which every man ought to possess", thus separating it from concupiscence, with which some of augustine's disciples had defined it[ ][ ] as later did luther and calvin.[ ] in , pope pius v condemned the identification of original sin with concupiscence.[ ] predestination[edit] see also: predestination augustine taught that god orders all things while preserving human freedom.[ ] prior to , he believed predestination was based on god's foreknowledge of whether individuals would believe in christ, that god's grace was "a reward for human assent".[ ] later, in response to pelagius, augustine said that the sin of pride consists in assuming "we are the ones who choose god or that god chooses us (in his foreknowledge) because of something worthy in us", and argued that god's grace causes individual act of faith.[ ] scholars are divided over whether augustine's teaching implies double predestination, or the belief god chooses some people for damnation as well as some for salvation. catholic scholars tend to deny he held such a view while some protestants and secular scholars have held that augustine did believe in double predestination.[ ] about , augustine became the first christian to understand predestination as a divine unilateral pre-determination of individuals' eternal destinies independently of human choice, although his prior manichaean sect did teach this concept.[ ][ ][ ][ ] some protestant theologians, such as justo l. gonzález[ ] and bengt hägglund,[ ] interpret augustine's teaching that grace is irresistible, results in conversion, and leads to perseverance. in on rebuke and grace (de correptione et gratia), augustine wrote: "and what is written, that he wills all men to be saved, while yet all men are not saved, may be understood in many ways, some of which i have mentioned in other writings of mine; but here i will say one thing: he wills all men to be saved, is so said that all the predestinated may be understood by it, because every kind of men is among them."[ ] speaking of the twins jacob and esau, augustine wrote in his book on the gift of perseverance, "[i]t ought to be a most certain fact that the former is of the predestinated, the latter is not."[ ] sacramental theology[edit] st. augustine in his study by vittore carpaccio, also in reaction against the donatists, augustine developed a distinction between the "regularity" and "validity" of the sacraments. regular sacraments are performed by clergy of the catholic church, while sacraments performed by schismatics are considered irregular. nevertheless, the validity of the sacraments do not depend upon the holiness of the priests who perform them (ex opere operato); therefore, irregular sacraments are still accepted as valid provided they are done in the name of christ and in the manner prescribed by the church. on this point augustine departs from the earlier teaching of cyprian, who taught that converts from schismatic movements must be re-baptised.[ ] augustine taught that sacraments administered outside the catholic church, though true sacraments, avail nothing. however, he also stated that baptism, while it does not confer any grace when done outside the church, does confer grace as soon as one is received into the catholic church.[ ] augustine upheld the early christian understanding of the real presence of christ in the eucharist, saying that christ's statement, "this is my body" referred to the bread he carried in his hands,[ ][ ] and that christians must have faith the bread and wine are in fact the body and blood of christ, despite what they see with their eyes.[ ] for instance he stated that "he [jesus] walked here in the same flesh, and gave us the same flesh to be eaten unto salvation. but no one eats that flesh unless first he adores it; and thus it is discovered how such a footstool of the lord's feet is adored; and not only do we not sin by adoring, we do sin by not adoring."[ ] nevertheless, in some of his writings, augustine expressed a symbolic view of the eucharist.[ ] for example, in his work on christian doctrine, augustine referred to the eucharist as a "figure" and a "sign."[ ] against the pelagians, augustine strongly stressed the importance of infant baptism. about the question whether baptism is an absolute necessity for salvation, however, augustine appears to have refined his beliefs during his lifetime, causing some confusion among later theologians about his position. he said in one of his sermons that only the baptized are saved.[ ] this belief was shared by many early christians. however, a passage from his city of god, concerning the apocalypse, may indicate augustine did believe in an exception for children born to christian parents.[ ] philosophy[edit] saint augustine in the nuremberg chronicle astrology[edit] augustine's contemporaries often believed astrology to be an exact and genuine science. its practitioners were regarded as true men of learning and called mathemathici. astrology played a prominent part in manichaean doctrine, and augustine himself was attracted by their books in his youth, being particularly fascinated by those who claimed to foretell the future. later, as a bishop, he warned that one should avoid astrologers who combine science and horoscopes. (augustine's term "mathematici", meaning "astrologers", is sometimes mistranslated as "mathematicians".) according to augustine, they were not genuine students of hipparchus or eratosthenes but "common swindlers".[ ][ ][ ][ ] epistemology[edit] epistemological concerns shaped augustine's intellectual development. his early dialogues [contra academicos ( ) and de magistro ( )], both written shortly after his conversion to christianity, reflect his engagement with sceptical arguments and show the development of his doctrine of divine illumination. the doctrine of illumination claims god plays an active and regular part in human perception (as opposed to god designing the human mind to be reliable consistently, as in, for example, descartes' idea of clear and distinct perceptions) and understanding by illuminating the mind so human beings can recognize intelligible realities god presents. according to augustine, illumination is obtainable to all rational minds and is different from other forms of sense perception. it is meant to be an explanation of the conditions required for the mind to have a connection with intelligible entities.[ ] augustine also posed the problem of other minds throughout different works, most famously perhaps in on the trinity (viii. . ), and developed what has come to be a standard solution: the argument from analogy to other minds.[ ] in contrast to plato and other earlier philosophers, augustine recognized the centrality of testimony to human knowledge and argued that what others tell us can provide knowledge even if we don't have independent reasons to believe their testimonial reports.[ ] just war[edit] see also: just war theory augustine asserted christians should be pacifists as a personal, philosophical stance.[ ] however, peacefulness in the face of a grave wrong that could only be stopped by violence would be a sin. defence of one's self or others could be a necessity, especially when authorized by a legitimate authority. while not breaking down the conditions necessary for war to be just, augustine coined the phrase in his work the city of god.[ ] in essence, the pursuit of peace must include the option of fighting for its long-term preservation.[ ] such a war could not be pre-emptive, but defensive, to restore peace.[ ] thomas aquinas, centuries later, used the authority of augustine's arguments in an attempt to define the conditions under which a war could be just.[ ][ ] free will[edit] included in augustine's earlier theodicy is the claim god created humans and angels as rational beings possessing free will. free will was not intended for sin, meaning it is not equally predisposed to both good and evil. a will defiled by sin is not considered as "free" as it once was because it is bound by material things, which could be lost or be difficult to part with, resulting in unhappiness. sin impairs free will, while grace restores it. only a will that was once free can be subjected to sin's corruption.[ ] after , augustine changed his theology, teaching that humanity had no free will to believe in christ but only a free will to sin: "i in fact strove on behalf of the free choice of the human 'will,’ but god's grace conquered" (retract. . ).[ ] the early christians opposed the deterministic views (e.g., fate) of stoics, gnostics, and manichaeans prevalent in the first four centuries.[ ] christians championed the concept of a relational god who interacts with humans rather than a stoic or gnostic god who unilaterally foreordained every event (yet stoics still claimed to teach free will).[ ] patristics scholar ken wilson argues that every early christian author with extant writings who wrote on the topic prior to augustine of hippo ( ) advanced human free choice rather than a deterministic god.[ ] according to wilson, augustine taught traditional free choice until , when he reverted to his earlier manichaean and stoic deterministic training when battling the pelagians.[ ] only a few christians accepted augustine's view of free will until the protestant reformation when both luther and calvin embraced augustine's deterministic teachings wholeheartedly.[ ][ ] the catholic church considers augustine's teaching to be consistent with free will.[ ] he often said that anyone can be saved if they wish.[ ] while god knows who will and won't be saved, with no possibility for the latter to be saved in their lives, this knowledge represents god's perfect knowledge of how humans will freely choose their destinies.[ ] sociology, morals and ethics[edit] slavery[edit] augustine led many clergy under his authority at hippo to free their slaves "as an act of piety".[ ] he boldly wrote a letter urging the emperor to set up a new law against slave traders and was very much concerned about the sale of children. christian emperors of his time for years had permitted sale of children, not because they approved of the practice, but as a way of preventing infanticide when parents were unable to care for a child. augustine noted that the tenant farmers in particular were driven to hire out or to sell their children as a means of survival.[ ] in his book, the city of god, he presents the development of slavery as a product of sin and as contrary to god's divine plan. he wrote that god "did not intend that this rational creature, who was made in his image, should have dominion over anything but the irrational creation – not man over man, but man over the beasts". thus he wrote that righteous men in primitive times were made shepherds of cattle, not kings over men. "the condition of slavery is the result of sin", he declared.[ ] in the city of god, augustine wrote he felt the existence of slavery was a punishment for the existence of sin, even if an individual enslaved person committed no sin meriting punishment. he wrote: "slavery is, however, penal, and is appointed by that law which enjoins the preservation of the natural order and forbids its disturbance."[ ] augustine believed slavery did more harm to the slave owner than the enslaved person himself: "the lowly position does as much good to the servant as the proud position does harm to the master."[ ] augustine proposes as a solution to sin a type of cognitive reimagining of one's situation, where slaves "may themselves make their slavery in some sort free, by serving not in crafty fear, but in faithful love," until the end of the world eradicated slavery for good: "until all unrighteousness pass away, and all principality and every human power be brought to nothing, and god be all in all."[ ] jews[edit] against certain christian movements, some of which rejected the use of hebrew scripture, augustine countered that god had chosen the jews as a special people,[ ] and he considered the scattering of jewish people by the roman empire to be a fulfillment of prophecy.[ ] he rejected homicidal attitudes, quoting part of the same prophecy, namely "slay them not, lest they should at last forget thy law" (psalm : ). augustine, who believed jewish people would be converted to christianity at "the end of time", argued god had allowed them to survive their dispersion as a warning to christians; as such, he argued, they should be permitted to dwell in christian lands.[ ] the sentiment sometimes attributed to augustine that christians should let the jews "survive but not thrive" (it is repeated by author james carroll in his book constantine's sword, for example)[ ] is apocryphal and is not found in any of his writings.[ ] sexuality[edit] for augustine, the evil of sexual immorality was not in the sexual act itself, but in the emotions that typically accompany it. in on christian doctrine augustine contrasts love, which is enjoyment on account of god, and lust, which is not on account of god.[ ] augustine claims that, following the fall, sexual lust (concupiscentia) has become necessary for copulation (as required to stimulate male erection), sexual lust is an evil result of the fall, and therefore, evil must inevitably accompany sexual intercourse (on marriage and concupiscence . , see footnote[ ]). therefore, following the fall, even marital sex carried out merely to procreate inevitably perpetuates evil (on marriage and concupiscence . ; a treatise against two letters of the pelagians . ). for augustine, proper love exercises a denial of selfish pleasure and the subjugation of corporeal desire to god. the only way to avoid evil caused by sexual intercourse is to take the "better" way (confessions . ) and abstain from marriage (on marriage and concupiscence . ). sex within marriage is not, however, for augustine a sin, although necessarily producing the evil of sexual lust. based on the same logic, augustine also declared the pious virgins raped during the sack of rome to be innocent because they did not intend to sin nor enjoy the act.[ ][ ] before the fall, augustine believed sex was a passionless affair, "just like many a laborious work accomplished by the compliant operation of our other limbs, without any lascivious heat",[ ] that the seed "might be sown without any shameful lust, the genital members simply obeying the inclination of the will".[ ] after the fall, by contrast, the penis cannot be controlled by mere will, subject instead to both unwanted impotence and involuntary erections: "sometimes the urge arises unwanted; sometimes, on the other hand, it forsakes the eager lover, and desire grows cold in the body while burning in the mind... it arouses the mind, but it does not follow through what it has begun and arouse the body also" (city of god . ). augustine censured those who try to prevent the creation of offspring when engaging in sexual relations, saying that though they may be nominally married they are not really, but are using that designation as a cloak for turpitude. when they allow their unwanted children to die of exposure, they unmask their sin. sometimes they use drugs to produce sterility, or other means to try to destroy the fetus before they are born. their marriage is not wedlock but debauchery.[ ] augustine believed adam and eve had both already chosen in their hearts to disobey god's command not to eat of the tree of knowledge before eve took the fruit, ate it, and gave it to adam.[ ][ ] accordingly, augustine did not believe adam was any less guilty of sin.[ ][ ] augustine praises women and their role in society and in the church. in his tractates on the gospel of john, augustine, commenting on the samaritan woman from [john : – ], uses the woman as a figure of the church in agreement with the new testament teaching that the church is the bride of christ. "husbands, love your wives, as christ loved the church and gave himself up for her."[eph : ] pedagogy[edit] saint augustine in his study by sandro botticelli, , uffizi gallery augustine is considered an influential figure in the history of education. a work early in augustine's writings is de magistro (on the teacher), which contains insights about education. his ideas changed as he found better directions or better ways of expressing his ideas. in the last years of his life augustine wrote his retractationes (retractations), reviewing his writings and improving specific texts. henry chadwick believes an accurate translation of "retractationes" may be "reconsiderations". reconsiderations can be seen as an overarching theme of the way augustine learned. augustine's understanding of the search for understanding, meaning, and truth as a restless journey leaves room for doubt, development, and change.[ ] augustine was a strong advocate of critical thinking skills. because written works were limited during this time, spoken communication of knowledge was very important. his emphasis on the importance of community as a means of learning distinguishes his pedagogy from some others. augustine believed dialectic is the best means for learning and that this method should serve as a model for learning encounters between teachers and students. augustine's dialogue writings model the need for lively interactive dialogue among learners.[ ] he recommended adapting educational practices to fit the students' educational backgrounds: 	the student who has been well-educated by knowledgeable teachers; 	the student who has had no education; and 	the student who has had a poor education, but believes himself to be well-educated. if a student has been well educated in a wide variety of subjects, the teacher must be careful not to repeat what they have already learned, but to challenge the student with material they do not yet know thoroughly. with the student who has had no education, the teacher must be patient, willing to repeat things until the student understands, and sympathetic. perhaps the most difficult student, however, is the one with an inferior education who believes he understands something when he does not. augustine stressed the importance of showing this type of student the difference between "having words and having understanding" and of helping the student to remain humble with his acquisition of knowledge. under the influence of bede, alcuin, and rabanus maurus, de catechizandis rudibus came to exercise an important role in the education of clergy at the monastic schools, especially from the eighth century onwards.[ ] augustine believed students should be given an opportunity to apply learned theories to practical experience. yet another of augustine's major contributions to education is his study on the styles of teaching. he claimed there are two basic styles a teacher uses when speaking to the students. the mixed style includes complex and sometimes showy language to help students see the beautiful artistry of the subject they are studying. the grand style is not quite as elegant as the mixed style, but is exciting and heartfelt, with the purpose of igniting the same passion in the students' hearts. augustine balanced his teaching philosophy with the traditional bible-based practice of strict discipline. coercion[edit] augustine of hippo had to deal with issues of violence and coercion throughout his entire career due largely to the donatist-catholic conflict. he is one of very few authors in antiquity who ever truly theoretically examined the ideas of religious freedom and coercion.[ ]: however, it is his teaching on coercion that has most "embarrassed his modern defenders and vexed his modern detractors,"[ ]: making him appear "to generations of religious liberals as le prince et patriarche de persecuteurs."[ ]: russell says augustine's theory of coercion "was not crafted from dogma, but in response to a unique historical situation" and is therefore context dependent, while others see it as inconsistent with his other teachings.[ ]: the context[edit] during the great persecution, "when roman soldiers came calling, some of the [catholic] officials handed over the sacred books, vessels, and other church goods rather than risk legal penalties" over a few objects.[ ]:ix maureen tilley[ ] says this was a problem by , that became a schism by , because many of the north african christians had a long established tradition of a "physicalist approach to religion."[ ]:xv the sacred scriptures were not simply books to them, but were the word of god in physical form, therefore they saw handing over the bible, and handing over a person to be martyred, as "two sides of the same coin."[ ]:ix those who cooperated with the authorities became known as traditores. the term originally meant one who hands over a physical object, but it came to mean "traitor."[ ]:ix according to tilley, after the persecution ended, those who had apostatized wanted to return to their positions in the church.[ ]:xiv the north african christians, (the rigorists who became known as donatists), refused to accept them.[ ]:ix, x catholics were more tolerant and wanted to wipe the slate clean.[ ]:xiv, for the next years, both parties existed, often directly alongside each other, with a double line of bishops for the same cities.[ ]:xv competition for the loyalty of the people included multiple new churches and violence.[k]: no one is exactly sure when the circumcellions and the donatists allied, but for decades, they fomented protests and street violence, accosted travelers and attacked random catholics without warning, often doing serious and unprovoked bodily harm such as beating people with clubs, cutting off their hands and feet, and gouging out eyes.[ ]: , , , , augustine became coadjutor bishop of hippo in , and since he believed that conversion must be voluntary, his appeals to the donatists were verbal. for several years, he used popular propaganda, debate, personal appeal, general councils, appeals to the emperor and political pressure to bring the donatists back into union with the catholics, but all attempts failed.[ ]: , the harsh realities augustine faced can be found in his letter written to bishop novatus around . donatists had attacked, cut out the tongue and cut off the hands of a bishop rogatus who had recently converted to catholicism. an unnamed count of africa had sent his agent with rogatus, and he too had been attacked; the count was "inclined to pursue the matter."[ ]: russell says augustine demonstrates a "hands on" involvement with the details of his bishopric, but at one point in the letter, he confesses he does not know what to do. "all the issues that plague him are there: stubborn donatists, circumcellion violence, the vacillating role of secular officials, the imperative to persuade, and his own trepidations."[ ]: , the empire responded to the civil unrest with law and its enforcement, and thereafter, augustine changed his mind on using verbal arguments alone. instead, he came to support the state's use of coercion.[ ]: – augustine did not believe the empire's enforcement would "make the donatists more virtuous" but he did believe it would make them "less vicious."[ ]: the theology[edit] the primary 'proof text' of what augustine thought concerning coercion is from letter , written in , as a reply to the bishop vincentius, of cartenna (mauretania, north africa). this letter shows that both practical and biblical reasons led augustine to defend the legitimacy of coercion. he confesses that he changed his mind because of "the ineffectiveness of dialogue and the proven efficacy of laws."[ ]: he had been worried about false conversions if force was used, but "now," he says, "it seems imperial persecution is working." many donatists had converted.[ ]: "fear had made them reflect, and made them docile."[ ]: augustine continued to assert that coercion could not directly convert someone, but concluded it could make a person ready to be reasoned with.[ ]: – according to mar marcos, augustine made use of several biblical examples to legitimize coercion, but the primary analogy in letter and in letter , is the parable of the great feast in luke . - and its statement compel them to come in.[ ]: russell says, augustine uses the latin term cogo, instead of the compello of the vulgate, since to augustine, cogo meant to "gather together" or "collect" and was not simply "compel by physical force."[ ]: in , robert markus[ ] argued that, for augustine, a degree of external pressure being brought for the purpose of reform was compatible with the exercise of free will.[ ] russell asserts that confessions is crucial to understanding augustine's thought on coercion; using peter brown's explanation of augustine's view of salvation, he explains that augustine's past, his own sufferings and "conversion through god's pressures," along with his biblical hermeneutics, is what led him to see the value in suffering for discerning truth.[ ]: – according to russell, augustine saw coercion as one among many conversion strategies for forming "a pathway to the inner person."[ ]: in augustine's view, there is such a thing as just and unjust persecution. augustine explains that when the purpose of persecution is to lovingly correct and instruct, then it becomes discipline and is just.[ ]: he said the church would discipline its people out of a loving desire to heal them, and that, "once compelled to come in, heretics would gradually give their voluntary assent to the truth of christian orthodoxy."[ ]: frederick h. russell[ ] describes this as "a pastoral strategy in which the church did the persecuting with the dutiful assistance of roman authorities,"[ ]: adding that it is "a precariously balanced blend of external discipline and inward nurturance."[ ]: augustine placed limits on the use of coercion, recommending fines, imprisonment, banishment, and moderate floggings, preferring beatings with rods which was a common practice in the ecclesial courts.[ ]: he opposed severity, maiming, and the execution of heretics.[ ]: while these limits were mostly ignored by roman authorities, michael lamb says that in doing this, "augustine appropriates republican principles from his roman predecessors..." and maintains his commitment to liberty, legitimate authority, and the rule of law as a constraint on arbitrary power. he continues to advocate holding authority accountable to prevent domination, but affirms the state's right to act.[ ] h. a. deane,[ ] on the other hand, says there is a fundamental inconsistency between augustine's political thought and "his final position of approval of the use of political and legal weapons to punish religious dissidence" and others have seconded this view.[l] brown asserts that augustine's thinking on coercion is more of an attitude than a doctrine, since it is "not in a state of rest," but is instead marked by "a painful and protracted attempt to embrace and resolve tensions."[ ]: according to russell it is possible to see how augustine himself had evolved from his earlier confessions to this teaching on coercion and the latter's strong patriarchal nature: "intellectually, the burden has shifted imperceptibly from discovering the truth to disseminating the truth."[ ]: the bishops had become the church's elite with their own rationale for acting as "stewards of the truth." russell points out that augustine's views are limited to time and place and his own community, but later, others took what he said and applied it outside those parameters in ways augustine never imagined or intended.[ ]: works[edit] main article: augustine of hippo bibliography saint augustine painting by antonio rodríguez augustine was one of the most prolific latin authors in terms of surviving works, and the list of his works consists of more than one hundred separate titles.[ ] they include apologetic works against the heresies of the arians, donatists, manichaeans and pelagians; texts on christian doctrine, notably de doctrina christiana (on christian doctrine); exegetical works such as commentaries on genesis, the psalms and paul's letter to the romans; many sermons and letters; and the retractationes, a review of his earlier works which he wrote near the end of his life. apart from those, augustine is probably best known for his confessions, which is a personal account of his earlier life, and for de civitate dei (the city of god, consisting of books), which he wrote to restore the confidence of his fellow christians, which was badly shaken by the sack of rome by the visigoths in . his on the trinity, in which he developed what has become known as the 'psychological analogy' of the trinity, is also considered to be among his masterpieces, and arguably of more doctrinal importance than the confessions or the city of god.[ ] he also wrote on free choice of the will (de libero arbitrio), addressing why god gives humans free will that can be used for evil. influence[edit] saint augustine disputing with the heretics painting by vergós group in both his philosophical and theological reasoning, augustine was greatly influenced by stoicism, platonism and neoplatonism, particularly by the work of plotinus, author of the enneads, probably through the mediation of porphyry and victorinus (as pierre hadot has argued). some neoplatonic concepts are still visible in augustine's early writings.[ ] his early and influential writing on the human will, a central topic in ethics, would become a focus for later philosophers such as schopenhauer, kierkegaard, and nietzsche. he was also influenced by the works of virgil (known for his teaching on language), and cicero (known for his teaching on argument).[ ] in philosophy[edit] philosopher bertrand russell was impressed by augustine's meditation on the nature of time in the confessions, comparing it favourably to kant's version of the view that time is subjective.[ ] catholic theologians generally subscribe to augustine's belief that god exists outside of time in the "eternal present"; that time only exists within the created universe because only in space is time discernible through motion and change. his meditations on the nature of time are closely linked to his consideration of the human ability of memory. frances yates in her study the art of memory argues that a brief passage of the confessions, . . , in which augustine writes of walking up a flight of stairs and entering the vast fields of memory[ ] clearly indicates that the ancient romans were aware of how to use explicit spatial and architectural metaphors as a mnemonic technique for organizing large amounts of information. augustine's philosophical method, especially demonstrated in his confessions, had continuing influence on continental philosophy throughout the th century. his descriptive approach to intentionality, memory, and language as these phenomena are experienced within consciousness and time anticipated and inspired the insights of modern phenomenology and hermeneutics.[ ] edmund husserl writes: "the analysis of time-consciousness is an age-old crux of descriptive psychology and theory of knowledge. the first thinker to be deeply sensitive to the immense difficulties to be found here was augustine, who laboured almost to despair over this problem."[ ] martin heidegger refers to augustine's descriptive philosophy at several junctures in his influential work being and time.[m] hannah arendt began her philosophical writing with a dissertation on augustine's concept of love, der liebesbegriff bei augustin ( ): "the young arendt attempted to show that the philosophical basis for vita socialis in augustine can be understood as residing in neighbourly love, grounded in his understanding of the common origin of humanity."[ ] jean bethke elshtain in augustine and the limits of politics tried to associate augustine with arendt in their concept of evil: "augustine did not see evil as glamorously demonic but rather as absence of good, something which paradoxically is really nothing. arendt ... envisioned even the extreme evil which produced the holocaust as merely banal [in eichmann in jerusalem]."[ ] augustine's philosophical legacy continues to influence contemporary critical theory through the contributions and inheritors of these th-century figures. seen from a historical perspective, there are three main perspectives on the political thought of augustine: first, political augustinianism; second, augustinian political theology; and third, augustinian political theory.[ ] in theology[edit] 	part of a series on 	scholasticism 	 	 scholastic schools 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that of augustine in that his conception leaves to the reason, will, and passions of fallen man their natural powers even after the fall, without "supernatural gifts".[ ] while in his pre-pelagian writings augustine taught that adam's guilt as transmitted to his descendants much enfeebles, though does not destroy, the freedom of their will, protestant reformers martin luther and john calvin affirmed that original sin completely destroyed liberty (see total depravity).[ ] according to leo ruickbie, augustine's arguments against magic, differentiating it from miracle, were crucial in the early church's fight against paganism and became a central thesis in the later denunciation of witches and witchcraft. according to professor deepak lal, augustine's vision of the heavenly city has influenced the secular projects and traditions of the enlightenment, marxism, freudianism and eco-fundamentalism.[ ] post-marxist philosophers antonio negri and michael hardt rely heavily on augustine's thought, particularly the city of god, in their book of political philosophy empire. augustine has influenced many modern-day theologians and authors such as john piper. hannah arendt, an influential th-century political theorist, wrote her doctoral dissertation in philosophy on augustine, and continued to rely on his thought throughout her career. ludwig wittgenstein extensively quotes augustine in philosophical investigations for his approach to language, both admiringly, and as a sparring partner to develop his own ideas, including an extensive opening passage from the confessions.[citation needed] contemporary linguists have argued that augustine has significantly influenced the thought of ferdinand de saussure, who did not 'invent' the modern discipline of semiotics, but rather built upon aristotelian and neoplatonic knowledge from the middle ages, via an augustinian connection: "as for the constitution of saussurian semiotic theory, the importance of the augustinian thought contribution (correlated to the stoic one) has also been recognized. saussure did not do anything but reform an ancient theory in europe, according to the modern conceptual exigencies."[ ] in his autobiographical book milestones, pope benedict xvi claims augustine as one of the deepest influences in his thought. oratorio, music[edit] marc-antoine charpeentier, motet "pour st augustin mourant", h. , for voices and contino ( ), and "pour st augustin", h. , for voices and continuo ( s). the consecration of saint augustine by jaume huguet much of augustine's conversion is dramatized in the oratorio la conversione di sant'agostino ( ) composed by johann adolph hasse. the libretto for this oratorio, written by duchess maria antonia of bavaria, draws upon the influence of metastasio (the finished libretto having been edited by him) and is based on an earlier five-act play idea perfectae conversionis dive augustinus written by the jesuit priest franz neumayr.[ ] in the libretto augustine's mother monica is presented as a prominent character that is worried that augustine might not convert to christianity. as dr. andrea palent[ ] says: maria antonia walpurgis revised the five-part jesuit drama into a two-part oratorio liberty in which she limits the subject to the conversion of augustine and his submission to the will of god. to this was added the figure of the mother, monica, so as to let the transformation appear by experience rather than the dramatic artifice of deus ex machina. throughout the oratorio augustine shows his willingness to turn to god, but the burden of the act of conversion weighs heavily on him. this is displayed by hasse through extended recitative passages. in popular art[edit] augustine has been the subject of songs by bob dylan and the chairman dances.[ ] in his poem "confessional", frank bidart compares the relationship between augustine and his mother, saint monica, to the relationship between the poem's speaker and his mother.[ ] see also[edit] 	cogito, ergo sum 	rule of saint augustine references[edit] notes[edit] 	^ jerome wrote to augustine in : "you are known throughout the world; catholics honour and esteem you as the one who has established anew the ancient faith" (conditor antiquae rursum fidei). cf. epistola ;teselle , p.  	^ the nomen aurelius is virtually meaningless, signifying little more than roman citizenship.[ ] 	^ "[t]he names monnica and nonnica are found on tombstones in the libyan language—as such monnica is the only berber name commonly used in english."brett & fentress , p.  	^ brown , p.  places augustine's garden conversion at the end of august, . 	^ he explained to julian of eclanum that it was a most subtle job to discern what came first: sed si disputatione subtilissima et elimatissima opus est, ut sciamus utrum primos homines insipientia superbos, an insipientes superbia fecerit. (contra julianum, v, . ; pl , ) 	^ augustine explained it in this way: "why therefore is it enjoined upon mind, that it should know itself? i suppose, in order that, it may consider itself, and live according to its own nature; that is, seek to be regulated according to its own nature, viz., under him to whom it ought to be subject, and above those things to which it is to be preferred; under him by whom it ought to be ruled, above those things which it ought to rule. for it does many things through vicious desire, as though in forgetfulness of itself. for it sees some things intrinsically excellent, in that more excellent nature which is god: and whereas it ought to remain steadfast that it may enjoy them, it is turned away from him, by wishing to appropriate those things to itself, and not to be like to him by his gift, but to be what he is by its own, and it begins to move and slip gradually down into less and less, which it thinks to be more and more." ("on the trinity" (de trinitate), : ; ccl , [ – ]) 	^ in one of augustine's late works, retractationes, he made a significant remark indicating the way he understood difference between spiritual, moral libido and the sexual desire: "libido is not good and righteous use of the libido" ("libido non-est bonus et rectus usus libidinis"). see the whole passage: dixi etiam quodam loco: «quod enim est cibus ad salutem hominis, hoc est concubitus ad salutem generis, et utrumque non-est sine delectatione carnali, quae tamen modificata et temperantia refrenante in usum naturalem redacta, libido esse non-potest». quod ideo dictum est, quoniam "libido non-est bonus et rectus usus libidinis". sicut enim malum est male uti bonis, ita bonum bene uti malis. de qua re alias, maxime contra novos haereticos pelagianos, diligentius disputavi. cf. de bono coniugali, . ; pl , ; de nuptiis et concupiscentia, ii, . ; pl , ; contra iulianum, iii, . ; pl , ; ibid., v, . ; pl , . see also idem ( ). le mariage chrétien dans l'oeuvre de saint augustin. une théologie baptismale de la vie conjugale. paris: Études augustiniennes. p.  . 	^ although augustine praises him in the confessions, . ., it is widely acknowledged that augustine's attitude towards that pagan philosophy was very much of a christian apostle, as clarke , p.  writes: towards neoplatonism there was throughout his life a decidedly ambivalent attitude; one must expect both agreement and sharp dissent, derivation but also repudiation. in the matter which concerns us here, the agreement with neoplatonism (and with the platonic tradition in general) centers on two related notions: immutability as primary characteristic of divinity, and likeness to divinity as the primary vocation of the soul. the disagreement chiefly concerned, as we have said, two related and central christian dogmas: the incarnation of the son of god and the resurrection of the flesh. cf. É. schmitt's chapter : l'idéologie hellénique et la conception augustinienne de réalités charnelles in: idem ( ). le mariage chrétien dans l'oeuvre de saint augustin. une théologie baptismale de la vie conjugale. paris: Études augustiniennes. pp.  – . o'meara, j.j. ( ). the young augustine: the growth of st. augustine's mind up to his conversion. london. pp.  – and f. madec, g. le "platonisme" des pères. p.  . in idem ( ). petites Études augustiniennes. «antiquité» . paris: collection d'Études augustiniennes. pp.  – . thomas aq. sth i q a ; augustine of hippo, city of god (de civitate dei), viii, ; ccl , [ – ]. 	^ "it is, of course, always easier to oppose and denounce than to understand."[ ] 	^ in or he commented: moreover, if unbelief is fornication, and idolatry unbelief, and covetousness idolatry, it is not to be doubted that covetousness also is fornication. who, then, in that case can rightly separate any unlawful lust whatever from the category of fornication, if covetousness is fornication? and from this we perceive, that because of unlawful lusts, not only those of which one is guilty in acts of uncleanness with another's husband or wife, but any unlawful lusts whatever, which cause the soul making a bad use of the body to wander from the law of god, and to be ruinously and basely corrupted, a man may, without crime, put away his wife, and a wife her husband, because the lord makes the cause of fornication an exception; which fornication, in accordance with the above considerations, we are compelled to understand as being general and universal. ("on the sermon on the mount", de sermone domini in monte, : : ; ccl , ). 	^ french archaeology has shown the north african landscape of this time period became "covered with a white robe of churches" with catholics and donatists building multiple churches with granaries to feed the poor as they competed for the loyalty of the people.[ ] 	^ see: c. kirwan, augustine (london, ), pp. – ; and j. m. rist. augustine: ancient thought baptized (canbridge, ), pp. – . 	^ for example, martin heidegger's articulations of how "being-in-the-world" is described through thinking about seeing: "the remarkable priority of 'seeing' was noticed particularly by augustine, in connection with his interpretation of concupiscentia." heidegger then quotes theconfessions: "seeing belongs properly to the eyes. but we even use this word 'seeing' for the other senses when we devote them to cognizing... we not only say, 'see how that shines', ... 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"what is augustinian "sapientia"?". dionysius. xii: – . 	gilson, etienne ( ). the christian philosophy of st. augustine. l.e.m. lynch, trans. new york: random house. 	green, bradley g. colin gunton and the failure of augustine: the theology of colin gunton in the light of augustine, james clarke and co. ( ), isbn  - 	kolbet, paul r. ( ). augustine and the cure of souls: revising a classical ideal. notre dame, indiana: university of notre dame press. isbn  - . 	lawless, george p. ( ). augustine of hippo and his monastic rule. oxford: clarendon press. 	lemoine, fannie; kleinhenz, christopher, eds. 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"platonism in the renaissance". in wiener, philip (ed.). dictionary of the history of ideas. . new york: scribner. pp.  – (vol. ). isbn  - - - - . (...) saint augustine asserted that neo-platonism possessed all spiritual truths except that of the incarnation. 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( ). s. agostino: introduzione alla dottrina della grazia. collana di studi agostiniani . i – natura e grazia. rome: città nuova. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	von heyking, john ( ). augustine and politics as longing in the world. columbia: university of missouri press. isbn  - - - - . 	woo, b. hoon ( ). "augustine's hermeneutics and homiletics in de doctrina christiana". journal of christian philosophy. : – . 	zumkeller o.s.a., adolar ( ). augustine's ideal of the religious life. new york: fordham university press. isbn  - - - - . 	zumkeller o.s.a., adolar ( ). augustine's rule. villanova: augustinian press. isbn  - - - - . external links[edit] 		wikisource has original works written by or about: augustine of hippo 		wikiquote has quotations related to: augustine of hippo 		wikimedia commons has media related to augustinus. 	library resources about augustine of hippo 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 by augustine of hippo 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries general[edit] 	"complete works of saint augustine (in english)" from augustinus.it 	"complete works of saint augustine (in french)" from abbey saint benoît de port-valais 	"complete works of saint augustine (in spanish)" from mercaba, catholic leaders' website 	"works by saint augustine" from ccel.org 	works by augustine at perseus digital library 	mendelson, michael. 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you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 auxilia - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	auxilia 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		non-citizen troops in the imperial roman army roman auxiliary infantry crossing a river, probably the danube, on a pontoon bridge during the emperor trajan's dacian wars (ad – ). they can be distinguished by the oval shield (clipeus) they were equipped with, in contrast to the rectangular scutum carried by legionaries. panel from trajan's column, rome 	 	part of a series on the 	military of ancient rome bc – ad 	 structural history 	 army 	 	unit types and ranks 	decorations and punishments 	legions 	auxilia 	generals 	 navy 	 	fleets 	admirals 	 campaign history 	wars and battles 	 technological history 	 military engineering 	 	castra 	siege engines 	triumphal arches 	roads 	 political history   	 strategy and tactics 	 	infantry tactics 	 frontiers and fortifications 	 	limes 	limes britannicus 	antonine wall 	hadrian's wall 	saxon shore 	limes germanicus 	alb limes 	lauter valley limes 	lower germanic limes 	main limes 	neckar-odenwald limes 	upper germanic-rhaetian limes 	wetterau limes 	danube–iller–rhine limes 	norican limes 	claustra alpium iuliarum 	pannonian limes 	limes alutanus 	limes moesiae 	trajan's wall 	anastasian wall 	limes sarmatiae 	limes arabicus 	limes tripolitanus 	limes mauretaniae 	  ancient rome portal •  war portal 		v 	t 	e the auxilia (latin: [au̯kˈsɪlia], lit. "auxiliaries") were introduced as non-citizen troops attached to the citizen legions by augustus after his reorganisation of the imperial roman army from  bc.[ ] by the nd century, the auxilia contained the same number of infantry as the legions and, in addition, provided almost all of the roman army's cavalry (especially light cavalry and archers) and more specialised troops. the auxilia thus represented three-fifths of rome's regular land forces at that time. like their legionary counterparts, auxiliary recruits were mostly volunteers, not conscripts. the auxilia were mainly recruited from the peregrini, free provincial subjects who did not hold roman citizenship and constituted the vast majority of the population in the st and nd centuries (c. % in the early st century). in contrast to the legions, which only admitted roman citizens, members of the auxilia could be recruited from territories outside of roman control. reliance on the various contingents of non-italic troops, especially cavalry, increased when the roman republic employed them in increasing numbers to support its legions after  bc. the julio-claudian period (  bc–  ad) saw the transformation of the auxilia from motley levies to a standing corps with standardised structure, equipment and conditions of service. by the end of the period, there were no significant differences between legionaries and auxiliaries in terms of training, and thus, combat capability. auxiliary regiments were often stationed in provinces other than that in which they were originally raised, for reasons of security and to foster the process of romanisation in the provinces. the regimental names of many auxiliary units persisted into the th century, but by then the units in question were different in size, structure, and quality from their predecessors. contents 	 historical development 	 . background: roman republic (to bc) 	 . foundation of the auxilia under augustus ( bc– ad) 	 . illyrian revolt ( –  ad) 	 . later julio-claudians ( –  ad) 	 . revolt of the batavi ( –  ad) 	 . flavian era ( –  ad) 	 . later principate ( – ) 	 . th century 	 unit types and structure 	 . regular unit types 	 . . cohortes 	 . . alae 	 . . cohortes equitatae 	 . . auxiliary specialised units 	 . . . heavily-armoured lancers 	 . . . light cavalry 	 . . . camel troops 	 . . . archers 	 . . . slingers 	 . . . scouts/numeri 	 irregular allied forces 	 recruitment, ranks and pay 	 . rankers (caligati) 	 . junior officers (principales) 	 . senior officers 	 . commanders 	 names, titles and decorations 	 . regimental names 	 . titles 	 . decorations 	 deployment in the nd century 	 see also 	 citations 	 references 	 . ancient 	 . modern 	 external links historical development[edit] background: roman republic (to bc)[edit] etruscan funerary urn crowned with the sculpture of a woman and a front-panel relief showing two warriors fighting, polychrome terracotta, c. bc the mainstay of the roman republic's war machine was the manipular legion, a heavy infantry unit suitable for close-quarter engagements on more or less any terrain, which was probably adopted sometime during the samnite wars ( –  bc).[ ] despite its formidable strength, the legion had a number of deficiencies, especially a lack of cavalry. around  bc, a legion of , infantry had a cavalry arm of only horse (just % of the total force).[ ] this was because the class of citizens who could afford to pay for their own horse and equipment – the equestrian order, the second rank in roman society, after the senatorial order – was relatively small. in addition, the legion lacked missile forces such as slingers and archers.[ ] until  bc, the bulk of a roman army's cavalry was provided by rome's regular italian allies (socii), commonly known as the "latin" allies, which made up the roman military confederation. this was rome's defence system until the social war of –  bc. the italian forces were organised into alae (literally: "wings", because they were generally posted on the flanks of the roman line of battle). an allied ala, commanded by roman praefecti sociorum, was similar or slightly larger in infantry size ( – , men) to a legion, but contained a more substantial cavalry contingent: horse, three times the legionary contingent. since a pre-social war consular army always contained an equal number of legions and alae, % of its cavalry was provided by the latin allies. the overall cavalry element, c. % of the total force ( , out of a normal consular army of approximately , total effectives), was greater than in most peninsular italian forces, but well below the overall % cavalry component that was typical of the principate army ( , cavalry out of , total effectives in the early nd century).[ ][ ] the roman/latin cavalry was sufficient while rome was in conflict with other states in the mountainous italian peninsula, which also disposed of limited cavalry resources. but, as rome was confronted by external enemies that deployed far more powerful cavalry elements, such as the gauls and the carthaginians, the roman deficiency in cavalry numbers could be a serious liability, which in the second punic war ( –  bc) resulted in crushing defeats. hannibal's major victories at the trebia and at cannae, were owed to his spanish and gallic heavy cavalry, which far outnumbered the roman and latin levies, and to his numidians, light, fast cavalry which the romans wholly lacked.[ ] the decisive roman victory at zama in  bc, which ended the war, owed much to the numidian cavalry provided by king massinissa, which outnumbered the roman/latin cavalry fielded by to .[ ] from then, roman armies were always accompanied by large numbers of non-italian cavalry: numidian light cavalry and, later, gallic heavy cavalry. for example, caesar relied heavily on gallic and german cavalry for his conquest of gaul ( –  bc).[ ] as the role of native cavalry grew, that of roman/latin cavalry diminished. in the early st century bc, roman cavalry was phased out altogether. after the social war, the socii were all granted roman citizenship, the latin alae abolished, and the socii recruited into the legions.[ ] furthermore, roman equestrians were no longer required to perform cavalry service after this time.[ ] the late republican legion was thus probably bereft of cavalry (a tiny cavalry force of men was probably added back to the legion under augustus).[ ] slingers from the cast of trajan's column in the victoria and albert museum, london, nd century ad by the outbreak of the second punic war, the romans were remedying the legions' other deficiencies by using non-italian specialised troops. livy reports hiero of syracuse offering to supply rome with archers and slingers in  bc.[ ] from  bc onwards, specialist troops were hired as mercenaries on a regular basis: sagittarii (archers) from crete, and funditores (slingers) from the balearic isles almost always accompanied roman legions in campaigns all over the mediterranean.[ ] the other main sources of non-italian troops in the late republic were subject provincials, allied cities and rome's amici (satellite kings). during the late republic, non-italian units were led by their own native chiefs, and their internal organisation was left to their own commanders. the units varied widely in dress, equipment, and weapons. they were normally raised for specific campaigns and often disbanded soon afterwards, in a similar manner to the earlier socii militia legions.[ ] foundation of the auxilia under augustus ( bc– ad)[edit] it appears that not all indigenous units were disbanded at the end of the civil war period (  bc). some of the more experienced units were kept in existence to complement the legions, and became the core of the standing auxiliary forces that developed in the julio-claudian period.[ ] during the early part of augustus' rule (  bc onwards), the corps of regular auxilia was created. it was clearly inspired by the latin forces of the pre-social war republic, as a corps of non-citizen troops parallel to the legions. but there were fundamental differences, the same as between republican and augustan legions. the latin forces of the republic were made up of part-time conscripts in units that would be raised and disbanded for and after particular campaigns. the augustan auxilia were mainly volunteer professionals serving in permanent units.[ ] the unit structure of the auxilia also differed from the latin alae, which were like legions with a larger cavalry arm. however, augustus organised the auxilia into regiments the size of cohorts (a tenth the size of legions), due to the much greater flexibility of the smaller unit size. further, the regiments were of three types: ala (cavalry), cohors (peditata) (infantry) and cohors equitata (mixed cavalry/infantry).[ ] the evidence for the size of the augustus' new units is not clearcut, with our most precise evidence dating to the nd century, by which time the unit strengths may have changed. cohortes were likely modelled on legionary cohorts i.e. six centuriae of about men each (total about men).[ ] alae were divided into turmae (squadrons) of (or ) men, each under a decurio (literally: "leader of ten").[ ] this title derives from the old roman cavalry of the pre-social war republic, in which each turma was under the command of three decuriones.[ ] cohortes equitatae were infantry cohortes with a cavalry contingent of four turmae attached.[ ] auxiliary regiments were now led by a praefectus (prefect), who could be either a native nobleman, who would probably be granted roman citizenship for the purpose (e.g. the famous german war leader arminius gained roman citizenship probably by serving as an auxiliary prefect before turning against rome); or a roman, either of knightly rank, or a senior centurion.[ ] at the start of augustus' sole rule (  bc), the original core auxiliary units in the west were composed of warlike tribesmen from the gallic provinces (especially gallia belgica, which then included the regions later separated to form the provinces germania inferior and germania superior), and from the balkan provinces (dalmatia and illyricum). by  bc, the cantabrian and asturian wars were concluded, leading to the annexation of northern hispania and lusitania. judging by the names of attested auxiliary regiments, these parts of the iberian peninsula soon became a major source of recruits. then the danubian regions were annexed: raetia (annexed  bc), noricum (  bc), pannonia (  bc) and moesia (  ad), becoming, with illyricum, the principate's most important source of auxiliary recruits for its entire duration. in the east, where the syrians already provided the bulk of the roman army's archers, augustus annexed galatia (  bc) and judaea: the former, a region in central anatolia with a celtic-speaking people, became an important source of recruits. in n. africa, egypt, cyrene, and numidia (  bc) were added to the empire. numidia (modern day eastern algeria) was home to the numidians/moors, the ancestors of today's berber people. their light cavalry (equites maurorum) was highly prized and had alternately fought and assisted the romans for well over two centuries: they now started to be recruited into the regular auxilia. even more mauri units were formed after the annexation of mauretania (nw algeria, morocco), the rest of the berber homeland, in  ad by emperor claudius (ruled – ).[ ] recruitment was thus heavy throughout the augustan period, with a steady increase in the number of units formed. by ad , the roman historian tacitus records that there were roughly the same numbers of auxiliaries in service as there were legionaries.[ ] since at this time there were legions of c. , men each, the auxilia thus amounted to c. , men, implying c. auxiliary regiments.[ ] illyrian revolt ( –  ad)[edit] main article: great illyrian revolt during the early julio-claudian period, many auxiliary regiments raised in frontier provinces were stationed in or near their home provinces, except during periods of major crises such as the cantabrian wars, when they were deployed temporarily in theatre. this carried the obvious risk if their own tribe or ethnic group rebelled against rome (or attacked the roman frontier from outside the empire), auxiliary troops could be tempted to make common cause with them. the romans would then be faced by an enemy that included units fully equipped and trained by themselves, thus losing their usual tactical advantages over tribal foes.[ ] the german leader arminius is the classic example at an individual level: after several years of serving in rome's forces as prefect of an auxiliary unit, he used the military training and experience he had gained to lead a confederacy of german tribes against rome, culminating in the destruction of three roman legions in the teutoberg forest in  ad, and the abandonment of augustus' strategy of annexing germany as far as the elbe river. (this strategy was never revived by later emperors).[ ] at a collective level, the risk was even greater, as the hugely dangerous illyrian revolt proved. the central illyrian tribes were tough and spartan shepherds of the bosnian mountains and excellent soldier-material. their territory formed part of the strategic province of illyricum, recently expanded to include the territory of the pannonii, celticised illyrian tribes based on the west bank of the danube who were subjugated by rome in –  bc (the bellum pannonicum). by the start of the common era, they were an important recruitment base for the auxilia.[ ] but discontent was festering among the illyrian tribes, largely due to what they saw as the rapacity of roman tax officials.[ ] in ad , several regiments of dalmatae, a warlike illyrian tribe, were ordered to report to a designated location to prepare to join augustus' stepson and senior military commander tiberius in a war against the germans. instead, they mutinied at the assembly point, and defeated a roman force sent against them.[ ] the dalmatae were soon joined by the breuci, another illyrian tribe that supplied several auxiliary regiments. they gave battle to a second roman force from moesia. they lost, but inflicted heavy casualties.[ ] the rebels were now joined by a large number of other illyrian tribes. the dalmatae attacked the port of salona and overran the adriatic coast, defeating a roman force and exposing the roman heartland of italy to the fear of a rebel invasion.[ ] augustus ordered tiberius to break off operations in germany and move his main army to illyricum.[ ] when it became clear that even tiberius' forces were insufficient, augustus was obliged to raise a second task force under tiberius' nephew germanicus, resorting to the compulsory purchase and emancipation of thousands of slaves to find enough troops, for the first time since the aftermath of the battle of cannae over two centuries earlier.[ ] the romans had now deployed no less than legions and an equivalent number of auxilia.[ ] this amounts to a total of c. , men, including at least auxiliary cohorts composed, exceptionally, of roman citizens. these were men whose status or background was regarded by augustus as unsuitable for recruitment into the legions: either natural-born citizens of the lowest category, including vagrants and convicted criminals, or the freed slaves (roman law accorded citizenship to the freed slaves of roman citizens). these special units were accorded the title civium romanorum ("of roman citizens"), or c.r. for short. after the illyrian revolt, these cohorts remained in being and recruited non-citizens like other auxiliary units, but retained their prestigious c.r. title.[ ][ ] in addition, the regular forces were assisted by a large number of allied troops from neighbouring thrace deployed by their king rhoemetalces i, a roman amicus (puppet king).[ ] the romans faced further reverses on the battlefield and a savage guerrilla war in the bosnian mountains.[ ] it took them three years of hard fighting to quell the revolt, which was described by the roman historian suetonius, writing in c. ad , as the most difficult conflict faced by rome since the punic wars over two centuries earlier.[ ] tiberius finally succeeded in quelling the revolt in  ad. this was apparently lucky timing for the romans: that same year arminius destroyed varus' three legions in germany. the roman high command had no doubt that arminius would have formed a grand alliance with the illyrians.[ ] despite the gravity of this rebellion, the illyrians went on, alongside their neighbours the thracians, to become the backbone of the roman army. by the nd century, with roughly half the roman army deployed on the danube frontier, the auxilia and legions alike were dominated by illyrian recruits. in the rd century, illyrians largely replaced italians in the senior officer echelons of praefecti of auxiliary regiments and tribuni militum of legions. finally, from ad to , virtually all emperors, including diocletian and constantine the great were romanised illyrians from the provinces of dalmatia, moesia superior and pannonia. these were members of a military aristocracy, outstanding soldiers who saved the empire from collapse in the turbulent late rd century.[ ] later julio-claudians ( –  ad)[edit] the cavalry witcham gravel helmet from cambridgeshire (england), st century ad significant development of the auxilia appears to have taken place during the rule of the emperor claudius ( –  ad). a minimum term of service of years was established, at the end of which the retiring auxiliary soldier, and all his children, were awarded roman citizenship.[ ] this is deduced from the fact that the first known roman military diplomas date from the time of claudius. this was a folding bronze tablet engraved with the details of the soldier's service record, which he could use to prove his citizenship.[ ] claudius also decreed that prefects of auxiliary regiments must all be of equestrian rank, thus excluding centurions from such commands.[ ] the fact that auxiliary commanders were now all of the same social rank as most tribuni militum, (military tribunes, a legion's senior staff officers, all of whom only one, the tribunus laticlavius, was of the higher senatorial rank), probably indicates that auxilia now enjoyed greater prestige. indigenous chiefs continued to command some auxiliary regiments, and were probably granted equestrian rank for the purpose. it is also likely that auxiliary pay was standardised at this time, but we only have estimates for the julio-claudian period.[ ] auxiliary uniform, armour, weapons and equipment were probably standardised by the end of the julio-claudian period. auxiliary equipment was broadly similar to that of the legions (see section . below for possible differences in armour). by  ad, there was little difference between most auxiliary infantry and their legionary counterparts in equipment, training and fighting capability. the main difference was that auxilia contained combat cavalry, both heavy and light, and other specialized units that legions lacked.[ ] claudius annexed to the empire three regions that became important sources of auxiliary recruits: britannia (  ad), and the former client kingdoms of mauretania ( ) and thracia ( ). the latter became as important as illyria as a source of auxiliary recruits, especially cavalry and archers. britain in mid- nd century contained the largest number of auxiliary regiments in any single province: about out of about ( %).[ ] by the rule of nero ( – ), auxiliary numbers may have reached, by one estimate, about , men, implying about regiments.[ ] revolt of the batavi ( –  ad)[edit] main article: revolt of the batavi rhine frontier of the roman empire,  ad, showing the location of the batavi in the rhine delta region. roman territory is shaded dark. their homeland was called the insula batavorum by the romans and corresponded roughly with modern gelderland province, neth. their chief town was noviomagus (nijmegen, neth.), a strategic prominence in an otherwise flat and waterlogged land that became the site of a roman legionary fortress (housing the legion x gemina) after the batavi revolt ended in ad. the name is of celtic origin, meaning "new market", suggesting that the germanic batavi either displaced or subjugated an indigenous gallic tribe the batavi, a germanic tribe, inhabited the region today known as gelderland (netherlands), in the rhine river delta, then known as the insula batavorum ("island of the batavi", because surrounded by branches of the rhine), part of the roman province of germania inferior.[ ] they were a warlike people, skilled horsemen, boatmen and swimmers. in return for the unusual privilege of exemption from tributum (direct taxes on land and heads normally exacted from peregrini), they supplied a disproportionate number of recruits to the julio-claudian auxilia: one ala and eight cohortes.[ ] they also provided most of augustus' elite personal bodyguard unit (the germani corpore custodes), which continued in service until  ad. the batavi auxilia amounted to about , men, implying that during the entire julio-claudian period, over % of all batavi males reaching military age ( years) may have enlisted in the auxilia.[ ] thus the batavi, although just . % of the total population of the empire of c. million in  ad,[ ] supplied about % of the total auxilia i.e. times their proportionate share. they were regarded by the romans as the very best (fortissimi, validissimi) of their auxiliary, and indeed all, their forces.[ ] in roman service, both their cavalry and infantry had perfected a technique for swimming across rivers wearing full armour and weapons.[ ][ ] julius civilis (literally: "julius the citizen", clearly a latin name adopted on gaining roman citizenship, not his native one) was a hereditary prince of the batavi and the prefect of a batavi cohort. a veteran of years' service, he had distinguished himself by service in britain, where he and the eight batavi cohorts had played a crucial role in both the roman invasion in  ad and the subsequent subjugation of southern britain.[ ] by , however, civilis, the batavi regiments and the batavi people had become utterly disaffected with rome. after the batavi regiments were withdrawn from britain to italy in , civilis and his brother (also a prefect) were arrested by the governor of germania inferior on a fabricated accusation of sedition. the governor ordered his brother's execution, while civilis, who as a roman citizen had the right to appeal to the emperor, was sent to rome in chains for judgement by nero.[ ] he was released by nero's overthrower and successor, galba, but the latter also disbanded the imperial bodyguard unit for their loyalty to nero. this alienated several hundred crack batavi troops, and indeed the whole batavi nation who regarded it as a grave insult.[ ] at the same time, relations collapsed between the batavi cohorts and the legion to which they had been attached since the invasion of britain years earlier (xiv gemina). their mutual hatred erupted in open fighting on at least two occasions.[ ] at this juncture, the roman empire was convulsed by its first major civil war since the battle of actium exactly a century earlier: the year of the four emperors ( – ad). the governor of germania inferior, ordered to raise more troops, outraged the batavi by attempting to conscript more batavi than the maximum stipulated in their treaty. the brutality and corruption of the roman recruiting-centurions (including incidents of sexual assault on batavi young men) brought already deep discontent in the batavi homeland to the boil.[ ] civilis now led his people in open revolt. initially, he claimed he was supporting the bid for power of vespasian, the general in command of the legions in syria, whom civilis had probably befriended when both were involved in the roman invasion of britain years earlier (vespasian was then commander of the legion ii augusta).[ ] but the uprising soon became a bid for independence.[ ] civilis exploited the fact that some legions were absent from the rhine area due to the civil war, and the rest under-strength. in addition, the roman commanders and their rank-and-file soldiers were divided by loyalty to rival emperors.[ ] civilis quickly won the support of the batavi's neighbours and kinsmen, the cananefates, who in turn won over the frisii. first the rebel allies captured two roman forts in their territory, and a cohort of tungri defected to civilis.[ ] then two legions sent against civilis were defeated when their companion batavi ala defected to his side.[ ] the classis germanica (rhine flotilla), largely manned by batavi, was seized by civilis.[ ] most importantly, the batavi cohorts stationed at mainz with xiv gemina mutinied and joined him, defeating at bonn a roman force that attempted to block their return to their homeland.[ ] by now, civilis commanded at least regiments ( , men) of roman-trained and equipped auxiliary troops, as well as a much larger number of tribal levies. a number of german tribes from beyond the rhine joined his cause.[ ] several other german and gallic units sent against him deserted, as the revolt spread to the rest of gallia belgica, including the tungri, lingones and treviri tribes.[ ] he was able to destroy the two remaining legions in germania inferior, (v alaudae and xv primigenia).[ ] by this stage, rome's entire position on the rhine and even in gaul was imperiled. their civil war over, the romans mustered a huge task force of eight legions (five dispatched from italy, two from spain and one from britain) to deal with civilis.[ ] its commander petillius cerialis had to fight two difficult battles, at trier and xanten, before he could overrun the batavi's homeland.[ ] tacitus' surviving narrative breaks off as he describes a meeting on an island in the rhine delta between civilis and cerialis to discuss peace terms.[ ] we do not know the outcome of this meeting or civilis' ultimate fate. but, in view of his former friendship with vespasian, who had already offered him a pardon, and the fact that the romans still needed the batavi levies, it is likely that the terms were lenient by roman standards.[ ] petilius cerialis took a number of reconstituted batavi units with him to britain, and the batavi regiments continued to serve with special distinction in britain and elsewhere for the rest of the st century and beyond.[ ] even as late as , units with the batavi name, although long since composed of recruits from all over the empire, were still classified as elite palatini, e.g. the equites batavi seniores (cavalry) and auxilium batavi seniores (infantry).[ ] flavian era ( –  ad)[edit] tombstone of the flavian-era eques alaris (ala cavalryman) titus flavius bassus, son of mucala. a dansala, (i.e. member of the thracian dentheletae tribe), he belonged to the ala noricorum (originally raised from the taurisci tribe of noricum). he died at age after years' service, not having advanced beyond the lowest rank. bassus' adopted roman names, titus flavius, indicate that he had gained roman citizenship, doubtless by serving the required years in the auxilia. the names adopted would normally be those of the emperor ruling at the time of the citizenship award. in this case, they could refer to any of the emperors of the flavian dynasty (ruled – ), vespasian and his two sons, titus and domitian, all of whom carried the same names. the arrangement of the scene, a rider spearing a man (the motif of the thracian hero), indicates that bassus was a thracian, as does his father's name. date: late st century. römisch-germanisches museum, cologne, germany the revolt of the batavi appears to have led to a significant change in the roman government's policy on deployment of auxilia. the revolt proved that in times of civil strife, when legions were far from their bases campaigning for rival claimants to the imperial throne, it was dangerous to leave provinces exclusively in the hands of auxiliary regiments recruited from the indigenous nation. during the julio-claudian period, auxiliary regiments had often been deployed away from their original home province.[ ] but in the flavian period ( – ), this appears to have become standard policy.[ ] thus in ad , five reconstituted batavi regiments (one ala and four cohortes) were transferred to britain under petillius cerialis, who had suppressed the civilis revolt and then embarked on the governorship of the island.[ ] the great majority of regiments probably founded in the st century were stationed away from their province of origin in the second e.g. of british regiments recorded in the mid- nd century, none were stationed in britain.[ ] furthermore, it appears that in the flavian era native noblemen were no longer permitted to command auxiliary units from their own tribe.[ ] after a prolonged period in a foreign province a regiment would become assimilated, since the majority of its new recruits would be drawn from the province in which it was stationed, or neighbouring provinces.[ ] those same "british" units, mostly based on the danube frontier, would by c. , after almost a century away from their home island, be largely composed of illyrian, thracian and dacian recruits. however, there is evidence that a few regiments at least continued to draw some recruits from their original home provinces in the nd century e.g. batavi units stationed in britain.[ ] the flavian period also saw the first formation of large, double-size units, both infantry and cavalry, of a nominal strength of , men (cohors/ala milliaria), though they were actually mostly smaller ( for an ala milliaria and for a cohors milliaria).[ ] these were the mirror image of the double-strength first cohorts of legions also introduced at this time. such units remained a minority of the auxilia: in the mid- nd century, they constituted % of units, containing % of total manpower.[ ] later principate ( – )[edit] roman cavalry spatha, a longer sword (median blade length:  mm [ .  in]), designed to give the rider a longer reach than the gladius[ ] in  ad, emperor trajan finally defeated the dacian kingdom of decebalus and annexed it as the roman province of dacia traiana. by the mid- nd century, there were auxiliary regiments stationed there, about % of the total auxilia. in britain, there were . together, these two provinces contained about a quarter of the total auxiliary regiments.[ ] there is considerable scholarly dispute about the precise size of the auxilia during the imperial era, even during the corp's best-documented period, the rule of trajan's successor, hadrian ( – ). this is evident if one compares calculations by spaul ( ) and holder ( ): estimates of roman auxilia numbers (units attested in the mid- nd century) 	author	no. alae	no. cohortes	total no. units	total cavalry	total infantry	total effectives 	j. spaul ( )[ ] 	 	 	 	 , 	 , 	 , 	p. a. holder ( )[ ] 	 	 	 	 , 	 , 	 , note: manpower figures exclude officers (centurions and decurions), which would have numbered about , men overall. in addition, holder believes that a further cohortes, which are attested under trajan, immediately before hadrian's rule, but not during or after it, probably continued in existence, giving a total of units and , effectives. the discrepancy between the two scholars is due to: (i) interpretation of units with the same name and number, but attested in different provinces in the same period. spaul tends to take a more cautious approach and to assume such are the same unit moving base frequently, while holder tends to regard them as separate units which acquired the same number due to duplicated (or even triplicated) seriation. (ii) assumptions about how many cohortes were equitatae. spaul accepts only those cohortes specifically attested as equitatae i.e., about % of recorded units. holder estimates that at least % of cohortes contained cavalry contingents by the early nd century[ ] even according to the more conservative estimate, the auxilia were by this time significantly larger than the legions, which contained c. , effectives ( legions of , men each) at this time, of which just , were cavalry. (for a detailed breakdown, see section : auxilia deployment in the nd century, below). during the second half of the nd century, the roman army underwent considerable further expansion, with the addition of five new legions ( , men) to a principate peak of .[ ] a matching number of auxilia (i.e. c. regiments, although only the names of around – have survived in the epigraphic record) were probably added, possibly reaching a peak of c. regiments and around , effectives by the end of septimius severus's rule (  ad).[ ] the likely growth of the roman auxilia may be summarised as follows: estimated size of roman army –  ad 	army corps	tiberius  ad	hadrian c.  ad	s. severus  ad	 rd-century crisis c.  ad	diocletian – 	legions 	 , [ ] 	 , [ ] 	 , [ ] 	 	 	auxilia 	 , [ ][failed verification] 	 , [ ] 	 , [ ] 	 	 	praetorian guard 	~~ , [ ] 	~~ , [ ] 	~ , [ ] 	 	total roman army 	 , [ ] 	 , [ ] 	 , [ ] 	 , ?[ ] 	 , [ ] note: regular land forces only. excludes citizen-militias, barbarian foederati, and roman navy effectives during the nd century, some units with the new names numerus ("group") and vexillatio ("detachment") appear in the diploma record.[ ] their size is uncertain, but was likely smaller than the regular alae and cohortes, as originally they were probably detachments from the latter, acquiring independent status after long-term separation. as these units are mentioned in diplomas, they were presumably part of the regular auxiliary organisation.[ ] but numeri was also a generic term used for barbarian units outside the regular auxilia. (see section . irregular units, below). in , the constitutio antoniniana (antonine decree) of emperor caracalla granted roman citizenship to all the free inhabitants of the empire – the peregrini – thus abolishing their second-class status.[ ] but there is no evidence that the citizens-only rule for legions was also abolished at this time. the legions simply gained a much wider recruitment base, as they were now able to recruit any male free resident of the empire. auxiliary units were now recruited mainly from roman citizens, but probably continued to recruit non-citizen barbari from outside the empire's borders.[ ] however, the citizens-only rule for legions appears to have been dropped some time during the rd century, as by the th-century romans and barbarians are found serving together in all units.[ ] in the mid to late rd century, the army was afflicted by a combination of military disasters and of pestilence, the so-called crisis of the third century. in – , gaul, the alpine regions and italy, the balkans and the east were simultaneously overrun by alamanni, sarmatians, goths and persians respectively.[ ] at the same time, the roman army was struggling with the effects of a devastating pandemic, probably of smallpox: the plague of cyprian, which began in and was still raging in , when it claimed the life of emperor claudius ii gothicus. the evidence for an earlier pandemic, the antonine plague (also smallpox) indicates a mortality of – % in the empire as a whole.[ ] the armies would likely have suffered deaths at the top end of the range, due to their close concentration of individuals and frequent movements across the empire.[ ] this probably led to a steep decline in military numbers, which only recovered at the end of the century under diocletian (r. – ).[ ] the recruitment shortfall caused by the crisis seems to have led to recruitment of barbarians to the auxilia on a much greater scale than previously. by the th century, it has been estimated that some % of regular army recruits were barbarian-born. in the elite palatini regiments, anywhere between a third and a half of recruits may have been barbarian.[ ] this is likely a much greater proportion of foreigners than joined the auxilia in the st and nd centuries.[ ] in the rd century, a small number of regular auxiliary units appear in the record that, for the first time, bear the names of barbarian tribes from outside the empire e.g. the ala i sarmatarum attested in rd-century britain.[ ] this was probably an offshoot of the , surrendered sarmatian horsemen posted on hadrian's wall by emperor marcus aurelius in c. .[ ] this unit may be an early example of a novel process whereby irregular units of barbari (foederati) were transformed into regular auxilia. this process intensified in the th century: the notitia dignitatum, a key document on the late roman army, lists a large number of regular units with barbarian names.[ ] th century[edit] roman cavalry from a mosaic of the villa romana del casale, sicily, th century ad in the th century, the roman army underwent a radical restructuring. in the rule of diocletian ( – ), the traditional principate formations of legiones, alae and cohortes appear to have been broken up into smaller units, many of which bore a variety of new names.[ ] under constantine i (r. – ) it appears that military units were classified into three grades based on strategic role and to some extent quality: palatini, elite units normally part of the exercitus praesentales (imperial escort armies); comitatenses, higher-grade interception forces based in frontier provinces; and limitanei, lower-grade border troops.[ ] (see late roman army). the old principate auxilia regiments provided the basis for units at all three grades. the notitia dignitatum lists about alae and cohortes that retained their nd-century names, mostly limitanei.[ ] but traces of other auxilia regiments can be found in the praesentales and comitatenses armies. for example, many of the new-style auxilia palatina infantry regiments, considered among the best units in the army, were probably formed from old-style auxiliary cohortes, which they appear to closely resemble.[ ] the late th-century writer on military affairs vegetius complains of contemporary young men joining the "auxilia" in preference to the "legions" to avoid the latter's tougher training and duties.[ ] but it is unclear what types of units he was referring to. it is possible that those older terms were still popularly used (misleadingly) to mean limitanei and comitatenses respectively. in any event, his quote in no way describes accurately the principate auxilia, many of which were of very high quality.[ ] unit types and structure[edit] regular unit types[edit] the following table sets out the official, or establishment, strength of auxiliary units in the nd century. the real strength of a unit would fluctuate continually, but would likely have been somewhat less than the establishment most of the time. roman auxiliary regiments: type, structure and strength[ ] 	unit type	service	unit commander	sub-unit commander	no of sub-units	sub-unit strength	unit strength 	ala quingenaria 	cavalry 	praefectus 	decurio 	 turmae 	 ( ) 	 ( ) 	ala milliaria 	cavalry 	praefectus 	decurio 	 turmae 	 ( ) 	 ( ) 	cohors quingenaria 	infantry 	praefectus* 	centurio 	 centuriae 	 	 	cohors milliaria 	infantry 	tribunus militum** 	centurio 	 centuriae 	 	 	cohors equitata quingenaria 	infantry plus cavalry contingent 	praefectus 	centurio (inf) decurio (cav) 	 centuriae turmae 	 . 	 ( inf/ cav) 	cohors equitata milliaria 	infantry plus cavalry contingent 	tribunus militum** 	centurio (inf) decurio (cav) 	 centuriae turmae 	 	 , ( inf/ cav) * tribunus militum in original c.r. cohortes[ ] ** praefectus in batavi and tungri cohortes milliariae[ ] note: opinion is divided about the size of an ala turma, between and men. was the size of a turma in the republican cavalry and in the cohors equitata of the principate auxilia. against this is a statement by arrian that an ala was strong.[ ] this would make an ala turma men strong. cohortes[edit] these all-infantry units were modelled on the cohorts of the legions, with the same officers and sub-units. they were typically considered to be more of a light infantry than proper legionaries. some auxiliaries may however have been equipped with the lorica segmentata, the most sophisticated legionary body-armour, although scholars dispute this.[ ][ ] there is no evidence that auxiliary infantry fought in a looser order than legionaries.[ ] it appears that in a set-piece battle-line, auxiliary infantry would normally be stationed on the flanks, with legionary infantry holding the centre e.g. as in the battle of watling street (ad ), the final defeat of the rebel britons under queen boudicca.[ ] this was a tradition inherited from the republic, when the precursors of auxiliary cohortes, the latin alae, occupied the same position in the line.[ ] the flanks of the line required equal, if not greater, skill to hold as the centre. alae[edit] during the principate period of the roman empire ( bc – ad ), the all-mounted alae ("wings") contained the elite cavalry of the army.[ ] they were specially trained in elaborate manoeuvres, such as those displayed to the emperor hadrian during a documented inspection in numidia. they were best-suited for large-scale operations and battle, during which they acted as the primary cavalry escort for the legions, which had almost no cavalry of their own. roman alares were normally armoured, with mail or scale body armour, a cavalry version of the infantry helmet (with more protective features, such as completely covered ears) and oval shield or hexagonal. their weapons could be a lance, javelins, or bow and arrow but all roman horseman had a sword called a (spatha) and the ubiquitous pugio. the elite status of an alaris is shown by the fact that he received % more pay than his counterpart in an auxiliary cohort or a legionary infantryman. the favored sources of recruitment for the cavalry of the auxilia were gauls, germans, iberians and thracians. all of these peoples had long-established skills and experience of fighting from horseback – in contrast to the romans themselves. the alae were better paid and mounted than the more numerous horsemen of the cohortes equitatae[ ] (see below). cohortes equitatae[edit] these were cohortes with a cavalry contingent attached. there is evidence that their numbers expanded with the passage of time. only about % of attested cohortes are specifically attested as equitatae in inscriptions, which is probably the original augustan proportion. a study of units stationed in syria in the mid- nd century found that many units that did not carry the equitata title did in fact contain cavalrymen e.g. by discovery of a tombstone of a cavalryman attached to the cohort. this implies that by that time, at least % of cohortes were probably equitatae.[ ] the addition of cavalry to a cohort obviously enabled it to carry out a wider range of independent operations. a cohors equitata was in effect a self-contained mini-army.[ ] the traditional view of equites cohortales (the cavalry arm of cohortes equitatae), as expounded by g.l. cheesman, was that they were just a mounted infantry with poor-quality horses. they would use their mounts simply to reach the battlefield and then would dismount to fight.[ ] this view is today discredited. although it is clear that equites cohortales did not match equites alares (ala cavalrymen) in quality (hence their lower pay), the evidence is that they fought as cavalry in the same way as the alares and often alongside them. their armour and weapons were the same as for the alares.[ ] nevertheless, non-combat roles of the equites cohortales differed significantly from the alares. non-combat roles such as despatch-riders (dispositi) were generally filled by cohort cavalry. auxiliary specialised units[edit] routed sarmatian cataphracts (right) flee for their lives from roman alares (auxiliary cavalrymen), during the dacian wars (ad – ). note full-body scalar armour, also armoured caparison for horses (including eye-guards). the sarmatians' lances (as well as the romans') have disappeared due to stone erosion, but a sword is still visible, as is a bow carried by one man. it was apparently in the period following this conflict (perhaps as a result of the lessons learnt from it) that the romans first established their own regular units of cataphracts, and deployed them in the danubian region. they were most likely equipped as the sarmatians. panel from trajan's column, rome roman archers (top left) in action. note conical helmets, indicating syrian unit, and recurved bows. trajan's column, rome roman slingers (funditores) in action in the dacian wars. detail from trajan's column, rome in the republican period, the standard trio of specialised auxilia were balearic slingers, cretan archers and numidian light cavalry. these functions, plus some new ones, continued in the nd-century auxilia. heavily-armoured lancers[edit] equites cataphractarii, or simply cataphractarii for short, were the heavily armoured cavalry of the roman army. based on sarmatian and parthian models, they were also known as contarii and clibanarii, although it is unclear whether these terms were interchangeable or whether they denoted variations in equipment or role. together with new units of light mounted archers, the cataphractarii were designed to counter parthian (and, in pannonia, sarmatian) battle tactics. parthian armies consisted largely of cavalry. their standard tactic was to use light mounted archers to weaken and break up the roman infantry line, and then to rout it with a charge by the cataphractarii concentrated on the weakest point.[ ] the only special heavy cavalry units to appear in the nd-century record are: ala i ulpia contariorum and ala i gallorum et pannoniorum cataphractaria stationed in pannonia and moesia inferior respectively in the nd century.[ ] light cavalry[edit] from the second punic war until the rd century ad, the bulk of rome's light cavalry (apart from mounted archers from syria) was provided by the inhabitants of the maghrebi provinces of africa and mauretania caesariensis, the numidae or mauri (from whom derives the english term "moors"), who were the ancestors of the berber people of modern algeria and morocco. they were known as the equites maurorum or numidarum ("moorish or numidian cavalry"). on trajan's column, mauri horsemen, depicted with long hair in dreadlocks, are shown riding their small but resilient horses bare-back and unbridled, with a simple braided rope round their mount's neck for control. they wear no body or head armour, carrying only a small, round leather shield. their weaponry cannot be discerned due to stone erosion, but is known from livy to have consisted of several short javelins.[ ][ ] exceptionally fast and maneuverable, numidian cavalry would harass the enemy by hit-and-run attacks, riding up and loosing volleys of javelins, then scattering faster than any opposing cavalry could pursue. they were superbly suited to scouting, harassment, ambush and pursuit.[ ] it is unclear what proportion of the numidian cavalry were regular auxilia units as opposed to irregular foederati units.[ ] in the rd century, new formations of light cavalry appear, apparently recruited from the danubian provinces: the equites dalmatae ("dalmatian cavalry"). little is known about these, but they were prominent in the th century, with several units listed in the notitia dignitatum. camel troops[edit] a unit of dromedarii ("camel-mounted troops") is attested from the nd century, the ala i ulpia dromedariorum milliaria in syria.[ ] archers[edit] a substantial number of auxiliary regiments ( , or about in in the nd century) were denoted sagittariorum, or archer-units (from sagittarii lit. "arrow-men", from sagitta = "arrow"). these units (of which were double-strength) had a total official strength of , men. all three types of auxiliary regiment (ala, cohors and cohors equitata) could be denoted sagittariorum. although these units evidently specialised in archery, it is uncertain from the available evidence whether all sagittariorum personnel were archers, or simply a higher proportion than in ordinary units. at the same time, ordinary regiments probably also possessed some archers, otherwise their capacity for independent operations would have been unduly constrained. bas-reliefs appear to show personnel in ordinary units employing bows.[ ] from about bc onwards, the archers of the roman army of the mid-republic were virtually all mercenaries from the island of crete, which boasted a long specialist tradition. during the late republic ( – bc) and the augustan period, crete was gradually eclipsed by men from other, much more populous, regions subjugated by the romans with strong archery traditions. these included thrace, anatolia and, above all, syria. of the sagittarii units attested in the mid- nd century, have syrian names, thracian, from anatolia, from crete and the remaining of other or uncertain origin.[ ] three distinct types of archers are shown on trajan's column: (a) with scalar cuirass, conical steel helmet and cloak; (b) without armour, with cloth conical cap and long tunic; or (c) equipped in the same way as general auxiliary foot-soldiers (apart from carrying bows instead of javelins). the first type were probably syrian or anatolian units; the third type probably thracian.[ ] the standard bow used by roman auxilia was the recurved composite bow, a sophisticated, compact and powerful weapon.[ ] slingers[edit] balearic slinger from about bc onwards, the republican army's slingers were exclusively mercenaries from the balearic islands, which had nurtured a strong indigenous tradition of slinging from prehistoric times. as a result, in classical latin, baleares (literally "inhabitants of the balearic islands") became an alternative word for "slingers" (funditores, from funda = "sling"). because of this, it is uncertain whether the most of the imperial army's slingers continued to be drawn from the balearics themselves, or, like archers, derived mainly from other regions. independent slinger units are not attested in the epigraphic record of the principate.[ ] however, slingers are portrayed on trajan's column. they are shown unarmoured, wearing a short tunic. they carry a cloth bag, slung in front, to hold their shot (glandes).[ ] scouts/numeri[edit] exploratores ('reconnaissance troops', from explorare = "to scout"). two examples include numeri exploratorum attested to in the rd century in britain: habitanco and bremenio (both names of forts).[ ] it is possible, however, that more than such units served in britain.[ ] the literal translation of numeri is 'numbers' and it was often used in the context of a generic title for any unit that was not of a standard size or structure. from the nd century onward they served as frontier guards, often supplied by the sarmatians and the germans.[ ] little else is known about such units. irregular allied forces[edit] throughout the principate period, there is evidence of ethnic units of barbari outside the normal auxilia organisation fighting alongside roman troops. to an extent, these units were simply a continuation of the old client-king levies of the late republic: ad hoc bodies of troops supplied by rome's puppet petty-kings on the imperial borders for particular campaigns. some clearly remained in roman service beyond the campaigns, keeping their own native leadership, attire and equipment and structure. these units were known to the romans as socii ("allies"), symmachiarii (from symmachoi, greek for "allies") or foederati ("treaty troops" from foedus, "treaty"). one estimate puts the number of foederati in the time of trajan at about , , divided into about numeri (units) of about men each. the purpose of employing foederati units was to use their specialist fighting skills.[ ] many of these would have been troops of numidian cavalry (see light cavalry above). the foederati make their first official appearance on trajan's column, where they are portrayed in a standardised manner, with long hair and beards, barefoot, stripped to the waist, wearing long trousers held up by wide belts and wielding clubs. in reality, several different tribes supported the romans in the dacian wars. their attire and weapons would have varied widely. the column stereotypes them with the appearance of a single tribe, probably the most outlandish-looking, to differentiate them clearly from the regular auxilia.[ ] judging by the frequency of their appearance in the column's battle scenes, the foederati were important contributors to the roman operations in dacia. another example of foederati are the , captured sarmatian cavalrymen sent by emperor marcus aurelius (r. – ) to garrison a fort on hadrian's wall after their defeat in the marcomannic wars.[ ] recruitment, ranks and pay[edit] the evidence for auxiliary ranks and pay is scant: even less exists than the patchy evidence for their legionary counterparts. there seems to be some consensus, however, that the auxiliary was paid one third of what a legionary received: sesterces a year ( after the reign of the emperor commodus). both auxiliaries and seamen received the viaticum of sesterces, although the various sources differ as to whether auxiliaries and sailors received the retirement bonus[ ] known as the honesta missio, or honorable discharge.[ ][ ] the available data may be broken down and summarised as follows: auxilia ranks and pay (mid- st century)[ ] 	pay scale (as multiple of basic)	cohors infantry rank (in ascending order)	amount (denarii)	xxx	ala rank (in ascending order)	amount (denarii) 	 (caligati = "rankers") 	pedes (infantryman) 	 	 	gregalis (ala cavalryman) 	 	 . (sesquiplicarii = "one-and-half-pay men") 	tesserarius (corporal) 	 	 	sesquiplicarius (corporal) 	 	 (duplicarii = "double-pay men") 	signifer (centuria standard-bearer) optio (centurion's deputy) vexillarius (cohort standard-bearer) 	 	 	signifer (turma standard-bearer) curator? (decurion's deputy) vexillarius (ala standard-bearer) 	 	over 	centurio (centurion = centuria commander) centurio princeps (chief centurion) beneficiarius? (deputy cohort commander) 	 + 	 	decurio (decurion = turma commander) decurio princeps (chief decurion) beneficiarius? (deputy ala commander) 	 , + 	 	praefectus or tribunus (cohort commander) 	 , 	 	praefectus or tribunus (ala commander) 	 , rankers (caligati)[edit] tombstone of marius son of ructicnus. the inscription states that he was a miles (ranker) of the alpine infantry regiment cohors i montanorum, who died in his th year of service (i.e. in the final year of the minimum term for an auxiliary and just before qualifying for roman citizenship). his heir, who erected the stone, is named montanus, the same ethnic name as the regiment's, meaning a native of the eastern alps, most likely the origin of the deceased. note (top corners) the alpine edelweiss flowers, called stella alpina ("alpine star") in latin. these were either a regimental symbol, or a national symbol of the montani. the crescent moon-and-star motif between the flowers may be either a regimental emblem or a religious symbol. date: st century, probably ante . from carinthia, austria at the bottom end of the rank pyramid, rankers were known as caligati (lit: "sandal men" from the caligae or hob-nailed sandals worn by soldiers). depending on the type of regiment they belonged to, they held the official ranks of pedes (foot soldier in a cohors), eques (cavalryman in a cohors equitata) and gregalis (ala cavalryman).[ ] during the principate, recruitment into the legions was restricted to roman citizens only. this rule, which derived from the pre-social war republican army, was strictly enforced. the few exceptions recorded, such as during emergencies and for the illegitimate sons of legionaries, do not warrant the suggestion that the rule was routinely ignored.[ ] in the st century, the vast majority of auxiliary common soldiers were recruited from the roman peregrine (second-class citizens). in the julio-claudian era, conscription of peregrini seems to have been practiced alongside voluntary recruitment, probably in the form of a fixed proportion of men reaching military age in each tribe being drafted.[ ] from the flavian era onwards, the auxilia were an all-volunteer force.[ ] although recruits as young as are recorded, the majority of recruits ( %) were from the – age group.[ ] when it was first raised, an auxiliary regiment would have been recruited from the native tribe or people whose name it bore. in the early julio-claudian period, it seems that efforts were made to preserve the ethnic integrity of units, even when the regiment was posted in a faraway province. but in the later part of the period, recruitment in the region where the regiment was posted increased and became predominant from the flavian era onwards.[ ] the regiment would thus lose its original ethnic identity.[ ] the unit's name would thus become a mere curiosity devoid of meaning, although some of its members might inherit foreign names from their veteran ancestors. this view has to be qualified, however, as evidence from military diplomas and other inscriptions shows that some units continued to recruit in their original home areas e.g. batavi units stationed in britain, where some units had an international membership.[ ] it also appears that the danubian provinces (raetia, pannonia, moesia, dacia) remained key recruiting grounds for units stationed all over the empire.[ ][ ] it appears that roman citizens were also regularly recruited to the auxilia. most likely, the majority of citizen recruits to auxiliary regiments were the sons of auxiliary veterans who were enfranchised on their fathers' discharge.[ ] many such may have preferred to join their fathers' old regiments, which were a kind of extended family to them, rather than join a much larger, unfamiliar legion. there are also instances of legionaries transferring to the auxilia (to a higher rank).[ ] the incidence of citizens in the auxilia would thus have grown steadily over time until, after the grant of citizenship to all peregrini in , auxiliary regiments became predominantly, if not exclusively, citizen units. less clearcut is the question of whether the regular auxilia recruited barbari (barbarians, as the romans called people living outside the empire's borders). although there is little evidence of it before the rd century, the consensus is that auxilia recruited barbarians throughout their history.[ ][ ] in the rd century, a few auxilia units of clearly barbarian origin start to appear in the record e.g. ala i sarmatarum, cuneus frisiorum and numerus hnaufridi in britain.[ ][ ] there existed a hierarchy of pay between types of auxiliary, with cavalry higher paid than infantry. one recent estimate is that in the time of augustus, the annual pay structure was: eques alaris (gregalis) denarii, eques cohortalis , and cohors infantryman .[ ] the same differentials (of about % between grades) seem to have existed at the time of domitian (r. – ).[ ] however, goldsworthy points out that the common assumption that rates of pay were universal across provinces and units is unproven. pay may have varied according to the origin of the unit.[ ] the remuneration of an auxiliary pedes cohortalis may be compared to a legionary's as follows: remuneration of roman common foot soldiers (about ad )[ ] 	remuneration item 	legionary pedes: amount (denarii) (annualised) 	xxx 	auxiliary pedes amount (denarii) (annualised) 	stipendium (gross salary) 	 	 	 	 	less: food deduction 	 	 	 	less: equipment etc. deductions 	 	 	 	 	net disposable pay 	 	 	 	 	plus: donativa (bonuses) (average: denarii every years) 	 	 	none proven 	 	total disposable income 	 	 	 	 	praemia (discharge bonus: , denarii) 	 	 	none proven gross salary was subject to deductions for food, clothing, boots and hay (probably for the company mules). it is unclear whether the cost of armour and weapons was also deducted, or borne by the army. deductions left the soldier with a net salary of denarii. this sum was sufficient, on the basis of the food deduction, to amply feed an adult for a year. in  ad domitian increased basic legionary pay by % (from to denarii): a similar increase was presumably accorded to auxiliaries, boosting their net income to denarii, i.e. more than two food allowances.[ ] it was entirely disposable, as the soldier was exempt from the poll tax (capitatio), did not pay rent (he was housed in fort barracks) and his food, clothing and equipment were already deducted. it should be borne in mind that most recruits came from peasant families living at subsistence level. to such persons, any disposable income would appear attractive.[ ] it could be spent on leisure activities, sent to relatives or simply saved for retirement. there is no evidence that auxiliaries received the substantial cash bonuses (donativum) handed to legionaries on the accession of a new emperor and other occasions.[ ] although irregular, these payments (each worth denarii to a common legionary) averaged once every . years in the early st century and every three years later. duncan-jones has suggested that donativa may have been paid to auxiliaries also from the time of hadrian onwards, on the grounds that the total amount of donative to the military increased sharply at that time.[ ] a very valuable benefit paid to legionaries was the discharge bonus (praemia) paid on completion of the full years' service. at , denarii, this was equivalent to ten years' gross salary for a common legionary after the pay increase of  ad. it would enable him to purchase a substantial plot of land. again, there is no indication that auxiliaries were paid a discharge bonus. for auxiliaries, the discharge bonus was the grant of roman citizenship, which carried important tax exemptions. however, duncan-jones argues that the fact that service in the auxilia was competitive with the legions (deduced from the many roman citizens that joined the auxilia) that a discharge bonus may have been paid.[ ] junior officers (principales)[edit] below centurion/decurion rank, junior officers in the roman army were known as principales. an auxiliary cohort's ranks appear the same as in a legionary centuria. these were, in ascending order: tesserarius ("officer of the watch"), signifer (standard-bearer for the centuria), optio (centurion's deputy) and vexillarius (standard-bearer for the whole regiment, from vexillum). in the turmae of cohortes equitatae (and of alae?), the decurion's second-in-command was probably known as a curator, responsible for horses and caparison.[ ] as in the legions, the principales, together with some regimental specialists, were classified in two pay-scales: sesquiplicarii ("one-and-a-half-pay men") and duplicarii ("double-pay men").[ ] these ranks are probably most closely resembled by the modern ranks of corporal and sergeant respectively. besides combat effectives, regiments also contained specialists, the most senior of whom were sesquiplicarii or duplicarii, the rest common soldiers with the status of milities immunes ("exempt soldiers" i.e. exempt from normal duties). ranking specialists included the medicus (regimental doctor), veterinarius (veterinary doctor, in charge of the care of horses, pack animals and livestock), custos armorum (keeper of the armoury), and the cornicularius (clerk in charge of all the regiment's records and paperwork).[ ] senior officers[edit] tombstone of titus calidius severus, a roman cavalryman. the career summary in the inscription shows that severus joined the auxiliary regiment cohors i alpinorum, rising from eques (common cavalryman) through optio to decurion. he then switched to a legion (presumably after gaining roman citizenship after of his years of service) and became a centurion in legio xv apollinaris (it appears that legion cavalrymen used infantry ranks). he died at age , probably a few years after his discharge. note the portrayal of his chain-mail armour, centurion's transverse-crested helmet and his horse, led by his equerry, probably a slave. this soldier's long career shows that many auxiliaries served longer than the minimum years, and sometimes joined legions. erected by his brother, quintus. dates from ante , when xv apollinaris was transferred from carnuntum (austria) to the east the limited evidence on auxiliary centuriones and decuriones is that such officers could be directly commissioned as well as promoted from the ranks. many appear to have come from provincial aristocracies.[ ] those rising from the ranks could be promotions from the legions as well as from the regiment's own ranks. in the julio-claudian period auxiliary centuriones and decuriones were a roughly equal split between citizens and peregrini, though later citizens became predominant due to the spread of citizenship among military families.[ ] because centuriones and decuriones often rose from the ranks, they have often been compared to warrant officers such as sergeants-major in modern armies. however, centurions' social role was much wider than a modern warrant-officer. in addition to their military duties, centurions performed a wide range of administrative tasks, which was necessary in the absence of an adequate bureaucracy to support provincial governors. they were also relatively wealthy, due to their high salaries (see table above).[ ] however, most of the surviving evidence concerns legionary centurions and it is uncertain whether their auxiliary counterparts shared their high status and non-military role.[ ] there is little evidence about the pay-scales of auxiliary centuriones and decuriones, but these are also believed to have amounted to several times that of a miles.[ ] unlike a legatus legionis (who had an officer staff of tribuni militum and one praefectus castrorum), an auxiliary praefectus does not appear to have enjoyed the support of purely staff officers. the possible exception is an attested beneficiarius ("deputy"), who may have been the praefectus' second-in-command, if this title was a regular rank and not simply an ad hoc appointment for a specific task. also attached to the praefectus were the regiment's vexillarius (standard-bearer for the whole unit) and cornucen (horn-blower).[ ] commanders[edit] from a survey by devijver of persons whose origin can be determined, it appears that during the st century, the large majority ( %) of auxiliary prefects were of italian origin. the italian proportion dropped steadily, to % in the nd century, and % in the rd century.[ ] from the time of emperor claudius (r. – ) only roman knights were eligible to hold command of an auxiliary regiment. this status could be obtained either by birth (i.e. if the person was the son of a hereditary roman knight; or by attaining the property qualification ( , denarii, the equivalent of years' gross salary for an auxiliary alaris); or by military promotion: the latter were the chief centurions of legions (centurio primus pilus) who would normally be elevated to equestrian rank by the emperor after completing their single-year term as primuspilus.[ ] equestrians by birth would normally begin their military careers at c. years of age. an axillary had to do years of service before joining the army. commands were held in a set sequence, each held for – years: prefect of an auxiliary cohors, tribunus militum in a legion and finally prefect of an auxiliary ala. in hadrian's time, a fourth command was added, for exceptionally able officers, of prefect of an ala milliaria. like officers senatorial rank, hereditary equestrians held civilian posts before and after their decade of military service, whereas non-hereditary officers tended to remain in the army, commanding various units in various provinces. by the rd century, most auxiliary prefects had exclusively military careers.[ ][ ] the pay of a praefectus of an auxiliary regiment in the early nd century has been estimated at over times that of a miles (common soldier).[ ] (this compares to a full colonel in the british army, who is currently paid about five times a private's salary).[ ] the reason for the huge gap between the top and the bottom of the pyramid is that roman society was far more hierarchical than a modern one. a praefectus was not just a senior officer. he was also a roman citizen (which most of his men were not) and, as a member of the equestrian order, an aristocrat. the social gulf between the praefectus and a peregrinus soldier was thus immense, and the pay differential reflected that fact. names, titles and decorations[edit] regimental names[edit] the nomenclature of the great majority of regiments followed a standard configuration: unit type, followed by serial number, followed by name of the peregrini tribe (or nation) from whom the regiment was originally raised, in the genitive plural case e.g. cohors iii batavorum (" rd cohort of batavi"); cohors i brittonum (" st cohort of britons"). some regiments combine the names of two peregrini tribes, most likely after the merger of two previously separate regiments e.g. ala i pannoniorum et gallorum (" st wing of pannonii and gauls"). a minority of regiments are named after an individual, mostly after the first prefect of the regiment, e.g. ala sulpicia (presumably named after a prefect whose middle (gens) name was sulpicius). the latter is also an example of a regiment that did not have a serial number.[ ] titles[edit] regiments were often rewarded for meritorious service by the grant of an honorific title. the most sought-after was the prestigious c.r. (civium romanorum = "of roman citizens") title. in the latter case, all the regiment's members at the time, but not their successors, would be granted roman citizenship. but the regiment would retain the c.r. title in perpetuity. another common title was the gens name of the emperor making the award (or founding the regiment) e.g. ulpia: the gens name of trajan (marcus ulpius traianus r. – ). other titles were similar to those given to the legions e.g. pia fidelis (p.f. = "dutiful and loyal").[ ] decorations[edit] the roman army awarded a variety of individual decorations (dona) for valour to its legionaries. hasta pura was a miniature spear; phalerae were large medal-like bronze or silver discs worn on the cuirass; armillae were bracelets worn on the wrist; and torques were worn round the neck, or on the cuirass. the highest awards were the coronae ("crowns"), of which the most prestigious was the corona civica, a crown made of oak-leaves awarded for saving the life of a roman citizen in battle. the most valuable award was the corona muralis, a crown made of gold awarded to the first man to scale an enemy rampart. this was awarded rarely, as such a man hardly ever survived.[ ] there is no evidence that auxiliary common soldiers received individual decorations, although auxiliary officers did. instead, the whole regiment was honoured by a title reflecting the type of award e.g. torquata (awarded a torque) or armillata (awarded bracelets). some regiments would, in the course of time, accumulate a long list of titles and decorations e.g. cohors i brittonum ulpia torquata pia fidelis c.r..[ ] deployment in the nd century[edit] imperial auxilia: summary of known deployments c.  ad[ ] 	province	approx. modern equivalent	alae (no. mill.)	cohortes (no. mill.)	total aux. units	auxiliary infantry	auxiliary cavalry*	total auxilia 	britannia 	england/wales 	 ( ) 	 ( ) 	 	 , 	 , 	 , 	rhine frontier 	germania inferior 	s neth/nw rhineland 	 	 	 	 , 	 , 	 , 	germania superior 	pfalz/alsace 	 	 ( ) 	 	 , 	 , 	 , 	danube frontier 	raetia/noricum 	s ger/switz/austria 	 ( ) 	 ( ) 	 	 , 	 , 	 , 	pannonia (inf + sup) 	w hungary/slovenia/croatia 	 ( ) 	 ( ) 	 	 , 	 , 	 , 	moesia superior 	serbia 	 	 	 	 , 	 , 	 , 	moesia inferior 	n bulgaria/coastal rom 	 	 	 	 , 	 , 	 , 	dacia (inf/sup/poroliss) 	romania 	 ( ) 	 ( ) 	 	 , 	 , 	 , 	eastern frontier 	cappadocia 	central/east turkey 	 	 ( ) 	 	 , 	 , 	 , 	syria (inc judaea/arabia) 	syria/leb/palest/jordan/israel 	 ( ) 	 ( ) 	 	 , 	 , 	 , 	north africa 	aegyptus 	egypt 	 	 	 	 , 	 , 	 , 	mauretania (inc africa) 	tunisia/algeria/morocco 	 ( ) 	 ( ) 	 	 , 	 , 	 , 	internal provinces 	 	 	 	 	 , 	 , 	 , 	total empire 	 	 ( ) 	 ( ) 	 	 , 	 , 	 , roman empire during hadrian's reign (ad ) notes: ( ) table excludes about , officers (centurions and above). ( ) auxiliary cavalry nos. assumes % of cohortes were equitatae analysis 	the table shows the importance of auxiliary troops in the nd century, when they outnumbered legionaries by . to . 	the table shows that legions did not have a standard complement of auxiliary regiments[ ] and that there was no fixed ratio of auxiliary regiments to legions in each province. the ratio varied from six regiments per legion in cappadocia to per legion in mauretania. 	overall, cavalry represented about % (including the small contingents of legionary cavalry) of the total army effectives. but there were variations: in mauretania the cavalry proportion was %. 	the figures show the massive deployments in britannia and dacia. together, these two provinces account for % of the total auxilia corps. see also[edit] 	ancient rome portal 	war portal 	imperial roman army 	list of roman auxiliary regiments 	roman auxiliaries in britain 	structural history of the roman military citations[edit] 	^ campbell, duncan b. ( ). roman auxiliary forts bc-ad . oxford: osprey publishing. isbn  - - - - 	^ goldsworthy ( ) 	^ goldsworthy ( ) 	^ goldsworthy ( ) 	^ a b c d holder ( ) 	^ a b hassall ( ) 	^ goldsworthy ( ) – 	^ goldsworthy ( ) – 	^ a b c goldsworthy ( ) 	^ goldsworthy ( ) 	^ keppie ( ) 	^ keppie ( ) 	^ livy ab urbe condita xxii. 	^ g.l. cheesman, the auxilia of the roman imperial army (oxford, ), – . 	^ keppie ( ) 	^ keppie ( ) 	^ a b c d e goldsworthy ( ) 	^ holder ( ) 	^ goldsworthy ( ) 	^ goldsworthy ( ) 	^ holder ( ) 	^ keppie ( ) 	^ holder ( ) – 	^ tacitus annales iv. 	^ goldsworthy ( ) 	^ a b c d keppie ( ) 	^ goldsworthy ( ) 	^ holder ( ) 	^ dio lv. . 	^ dio lv. . 	^ dio lv. . 	^ dio lv. . 	^ dio lv. . 	^ dio lv. . 	^ a b suetonius iii. 	^ goldsworthy ( ) 	^ dio lv. . 	^ dio lv. . 	^ suetonius iii. 	^ goldsworthy ( ) – 	^ a b c d e keppie ( ) 	^ http://www.romanlegions.info archived - - at the wayback machine military diplomas online introduction 	^ keppie ( ) 	^ a b tacitus historiae iv. 	^ tacitus historiae iv. 	^ birley ( ) 	^ scheidel ( ) 	^ tacitus germania . and historiae ii. 	^ dio cassius lxix. . 	^ tacitus historiae iv. 	^ tacitus annales iv. 	^ tacitus historiae iv. 	^ tacitus historiae ii. 	^ tacitus historiae i. , ii. 	^ tacitus historiae iv. 	^ tacitus historiae iv. 	^ tacitus historiae iv. 	^ tacitus historiae iv. , 	^ tacitus historiae iv. – 	^ tacitus historiae iv. 	^ tacitus historiae iv. 	^ tacitus historiae iv. , 	^ tacitus historiae iv. , , 	^ tacitus historiae 	^ tacitus historiae iv. 	^ tacitus historiae v 	^ tacitus historiae v. 	^ birley ( ) 	^ tacitus agricola – 	^ notitia dignitatum titles iv and v 	^ mattingly ( ) 	^ roxan ( ); holder ( ) 	^ keppie ( ) 	^ a b mattingly ( ) – 	^ a b hassall ( ) – 	^ goldsworthy ( ) 	^ spaul ( ) 	^ a b holder ( ), p.  	^ goldsworthy ( ) (map): legiones ii and iii italica under marcus aurelius (r. – ) and i, ii and iii parthica under septimius severus (r. – ) 	^ legions of , men each 	^ legions of , each (double-strength st cohorts introduced under domitian (r. – ) 	^ goldsworthy ( ) (map): legions of , each 	^ tacitus annales iv. 	^ holder ( ) 	^ j. c. spaul ala ( ) – and cohors ( ) – identify alae and – cohortes raised in the late nd/early rd centuries 	^ goldsworthy ( ) : cohorts of men each plus german bodyguards 	^ a b rankov ( ) 	^ implied by tacitus annales 	^ hassall ( ) estimates , 	^ macmullen how big was the roman army? 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antiquarianism, and other subjects, preserving fragments of the works of many authors who might otherwise be unknown today. contents 	 name 	 life 	 writings 	 editions 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 . translations 	 . studies 	 external links name[edit] medieval manuscripts of the noctes atticae commonly gave the author's name in the form of "agellius", which is used by priscian; lactantius, servius and saint augustine had "a. gellius" instead. scholars from the renaissance onwards hotly debated which one of the two transmitted names is correct (the other one being presumably a corruption) before settling on the latter of the two in modern times.[ ] life[edit] the only source for the life of aulus gellius is the details recorded in his writings.[ ] internal evidence points to gellius having been born between ad and .[ ] he was of good family and connections, possibly of african origin,[ ] but he was probably born and certainly brought up in rome. he attended the pythian games in the year ,[ ] and resided for a considerable period in athens.[ ] gellius studied rhetoric under titus castricius and sulpicius apollinaris; philosophy under calvisius taurus and peregrinus proteus; and enjoyed also the friendship and instruction of favorinus, herodes atticus, and fronto.[ ] he returned to rome, where he held a judicial office.[ ] he was appointed by the praetor to act as an umpire in civil causes, and much of the time which he would gladly have devoted to literary pursuits was consequently occupied by judicial duties.[ ] writings[edit] his only known work, the attic nights (latin: noctes atticae), takes its name from having been begun during the long nights of a winter which he spent in attica. he afterwards continued it in rome. it is compiled out of an adversaria, or commonplace book, in which he had jotted down everything of unusual interest that he heard in conversation or read in books, and it comprises notes on grammar, geometry, philosophy, history and many other subjects.[ ] one story is the fable of androcles, which is often included in compilations of aesop's fables, but was not originally from that source. internal evidence led leofranc holford-strevens to date its publication in or after ad .[ ] the work, deliberately devoid of sequence or arrangement, is divided into twenty books. all have survived except the eighth, of which only the index survives. the attic nights are valuable for the insight they afford into the nature of the society and pursuits of those times, and for its many excerpts from works of lost ancient authors.[ ] the attic nights found many readers in antiquity. writers who used this compilation include apuleius, lactantius, nonius marcellus, ammianus marcellinus, the anonymous author of the historia augusta, servius, and augustine; but most notable is how gellius' work was mined by macrobius, "who, without mentioning his name, quotes gellius verbatim throughout the saturnalia, and is thus of the highest value for the text".[ ] editions[edit] the editio princeps was published at rome in by giovanni andrea bussi, bishop-designate of aleria.[ ] the earliest critical edition was by ludovicus carrio in , published by henricus stephanus; however, the projected commentary fell victim to personal quarrels. better known is the critical edition of johann friedrich gronovius ; although he devoted his entire life to work on gellius, he died in before his work could be completed. his son jakob published most of his comments on gellius in , and brought out a revised text with all of his father's comments and other materials at leyden in ; this later work became known as the "gronoviana". according to leofranc holford-strevens, the "gronoviana" remained the standard text of gellius for over a hundred years, until the edition of martin hertz (berlin, – ; there is also a smaller edition by the same author, berlin, ), revised by c. hosius, , with bibliography. a volume of selections, with notes and vocabulary, was published by nall (london, ). there is an english translation by w. beloe (london, ), and a french translation ( ).[ ][ ] a more recent english translation is by john carew rolfe ( ) for the loeb classical library. more recently, peter k. marshall's edition (oxford u. press, , (reissued with corrections) seems widespread both in print and digital (open access) formats.[ ] see also[edit] 	ex pede herculem 	gellia gens notes[edit] 	^ rené marache ( ). "introduction". aulu-gelle, les nuits attiques. livres i–iv. paris: les belles lettres. p. vii. 	^ a b c d ramsay, william ( ), "a. gellius", in smith, william (ed.), dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology, , boston, p.  	^ a b c leofranc holford-strevens, "towards a chronology of aulus gellius", latomus, ( ), pp. - 	^ leofranc holford-strevens ( ), aulus gellius: an antonine scholar and his achievement, pages – 	^ a b c d  one or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "gellius, aulus". encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. p.  . 	^ p. k. marshall, "aulus gellius" in texts and transmission: a survey of the latin classics (oxford: clarendon press, ), p. 	^ unless otherwise indicated, this section is based on leofranc holford-strevens, aulus gellius (chapel hill: university of north carolina, ), pp. - 	^ gilman, d. c.; peck, h. t.; colby, f. m., eds. ( ). "gellius, aulus" . new international encyclopedia ( st ed.). new york: dodd, mead. 	^ marshall, peter k. ( ). a. gellii noctes atticae. oxford: oxford university press. isbn  - - - . references[edit] 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: wm ramsay ( ). "a.gellius". in smith, william (ed.). dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology. . p.  . further reading[edit] translations[edit] 	george herbert nall, ed. ( ). stories from aulus gellius. elementary classics. london: macmillan. 	john carew rolfe ( ), the attic nights of aulus gellius. loeb classical library. volumes. isbn  , isbn  , isbn  studies[edit] 	anderson, graham. ( ). "aulus gellius: a miscellanist and his world," in aufstieg und niedergang der römischen welt, vol. ii. . . berlin and new york: walter de gruyter. 	beall, s. ( ). "translation in aulus gellius." the classical quarterly, ( ), – . 	ceaicovschi, k. ( ). "cato the elder in aulus gellius." illinois classical studies, ( - ), – . 	lakmann, marie-luise. ( ). der platoniker tauros in der darstellung des aulus gellius. leiden, the netherlands, and new york: brill. 	garcea, alessandro. ( ). "paradoxes in aulus gellius." argumentation : – . 	gunderson, eric. ( ). nox philologiae: aulus gellius and the fantasy of the roman library. madison: univ. of wisconsin press. 	holford-strevens, leofranc. ( ). aulus gellius: an antonine scholar and his achievement. oxford: oxford univ. press. 	holford-strevens, leofranc. ( ). "fact and fiction in aulus gellius." liverpool classical monthly : – . 	holford-strevens, leofranc, and amiel vardi, eds. ( ). the worlds of aulus gellius. oxford: oxford univ. press. 	howley, joseph a. ( ). "why read the jurists ?: aulus gellius on reading across disciplines." in new frontiers: law and society in the roman world. edited by paul j. du plessis. edinburgh: edinburgh university press. 	howley, joseph a. ( ). aulus gellius and roman reading culture. text, presence, and imperial knowledge in the noctes atticae. cambridge: cambridge university press. 	johnson, william a. ( ). "aulus gellius: the life of the litteratus" in readers and reading culture in the high roman empire: a study of elite communities. classical culture and society. oxford; new york: oxford university press. 	ker, james ( ). "nocturnal writers in imperial rome: the culture of lucubratio." classical philology, ( ), – . 	keulen, wytse. ( ). "gellius the satirist: roman cultural authority in attic nights." mnemosyne supplements . leiden, the netherlands, and boston: brill. 	mcginn, thomas a.j. ( ). "communication and the capability problem in roman law: aulus gellius as iudex and the jurists on child-custody." rida , – . 	russell, brigette. ( ). 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"of the great law schools of rome, constantinople, and berytus", the law school of berytus stood "pre-eminent".[ ] the code of justinian (one part of the corpus juris civilis, the codification of roman law ordered early in the th century ad by justinian i and fully written in latin) was mostly created in this school. contents 	 history 	 . early history 	 . roman colonia 	 . . the law school of berytus 	 . early byzantine rule 	 recent discoveries 	 notable people 	 see also 	 notes 	 bibliography history[edit] early history[edit] in bc the phoenician village called "biruta" was destroyed by diodotus tryphon in his contest with antiochus vii sidetes for the throne of the macedonian seleucid monarchy. later it was rebuilt on a more conventional hellenistic plan—the exact date is unclear but prosperous berytian merchants were recorded in delos by – bce[ ]—under the name of laodicea in phoenicia (greek: Λαοδίκεια ἡ ἐν Φοινίκῃ) or laodicea in canaan in honor of a seleucid laodice. the city was conquered by the romans of pompey in bc and renamed "berytus", as a reference to the name of the old original phoenician port-village. the city was assimilated into the roman empire, veteran soldiers were sent there, and large building projects were undertaken.[ ][ ][ ] roman colonia[edit] roman columns of basilica near the forum of berytus in bc, during the reign of herod the great, berytus became an important roman colonia. the city was named colonia iulia augusta felix berytus in honor of julia, the only daughter of augustus (according to theodore mommsen, "res gestae divi augusti", ii, ). furthermore, the veterans of two roman legions were established in the city of berytus by emperor augustus: the fifth macedonian and the third gallic.[ ] consequently, the city quickly became fully romanized. large public buildings and monuments were erected and berytus enjoyed full status as a part of the empire.[ ] ...(berytus) was made a roman colony about b.c. herod the great, agrippa i and ii, and queen berenice built exedras, porticos, temples, a forum, a theater, amphitheater, and baths here. in the d c. a.d. the city became the seat of a famous school of law and continued to flourish until the earthquake of a.d. ravaged the city....its streets, laid out on a grid plan, are spaced at roughly the same intervals as those of damascus and laodicea. the new roman city spread farther s and w (of the port), with its forum near the (actual) place de l'etoile. on its n side was a civic basilica m long with a corinthian portico of polychrome materials..., dating from the st c. a.d. some large baths have been uncovered on the e slope of the (actual) colline du sérail, and the hippodrome lay on the nw side of the same hill. some villas in a s suburb facing the sea had mosaic floors (now in the beirut museum).some km upstream on the beirut river are the ruined arches of an aqueduct.[ ] berytus was considered the most roman city in the eastern provinces of the roman empire.[ ] it was one of four roman colonies in the syria-phoenicia region and the only one with full ius italicum (meaning: exemption from imperial taxation). its territory under claudius reached the bekaa valley and included heliopolis: it was the only area mostly latin-speaking in the syria-phoenicia region, because settled by roman colonists who even promoted agriculture in the fertile lands around actual yammoune. from the st century bc the bekaa valley served as a source of grain for the roman provinces of the levant and even for the same rome (today the valley makes up to percent of lebanon's arable land):roman colonists created there even a "country district" called pagus augustus.[ ] agrippa greatly favoured the city of berytus, and adorned it with a splendid theatre and amphitheatre, beside baths and porticoes, inaugurating them with games and spectacles of every kind, including shows of gladiators. but now only minor ruins remains, in front of the catholic cathedral of beirut. indeed, four large bath complexes as well as numerous private baths increased the city's water consumption: the romans constructed an aqueduct fed by the beirut river whose main source was located  km from the city. the aqueduct crossed the river at qanater zbaydeh and the water finally reached the place of actual riad al solh square; there, at the foot of the serail hill, it was stored in large cisterns. an intricate network of lead or clay pipes and channels distributed the water to the various pools of the roman baths. roman berytus was a city of nearly , inhabitants during trajan times and had a huge forum and necropolis[ ] the hippodrome of roman berytus was the largest known in the levant,[ ] while literary sources indicate there was even a theater.[ ] scholars like linda hall pinpoint that the hippodrome was still working in the fifth century.[ ] roman coin minted in berytus[ ] berytus had a monumental "roman gate" with huge walls (recently discovered[ ]) and was a trade center of silk and wine production, well connected by efficient roman roads to heliopolis and caesarea. according to kevin butcher,[ ] the latin character of berytus remained dominant until the fifth century: the city was a center for the study of latin literature and -after septimius severus- of roman law. under nero the son of a roman colonist, marcus valerius probus (born in berytus around ad), was known in all the empire as a latin grammarian and literature master philologist. roman emperors promoted the development of high-level culture in the fully romanized city (even in greek language as with hermippus of berytus). the law school of berytus[edit] the berytian law school was widely known in the roman empire;:[ ] it was famous the latin motto berytus nutrix legum ("beirut, mother of laws"). indeed, two of rome's most famous jurists, papinian and ulpian, both natives of phoenicia, taught there under the severan emperors. when justinian assembled his pandects in the sixth century, a large part of the "corpus of laws" -all in latin- was derived from these two jurists, and in ad justinian recognized the school as one of the three official law schools of the empire. the flag of beirut features an open book with the motto "berytus nutrix legum" (beirut, mother of laws) on one side and its arabic translation "بيروت أم الشرائع" on the other. the law school of beirut supplied the roman empire, especially its eastern provinces, with lawyers and magistrates for three centuries until the school's destruction in a powerful earthquake. after the beirut earthquake[ ] the students were transferred to sidon.[ ] since the third century, the city had an important law college. it was here that the great codification of roman law, which was to be propagated by emperors like theodosius ii and justinian, was prepared.[ ] early byzantine rule[edit] under the eastern roman empire, some intellectual and economic activities in berytus continued to flourish for more than a century, even if the latin language started to be replaced by the greek language and become hellenised again. however, in the sixth century a series of earthquakes demolished most of the temples of heliopolis (actual baalbek) and destroyed the city of berytus, leveling its famous law school and killing nearly , inhabitants. furthermore, the ecumenical christian councils of the fifth and sixth centuries ad were unsuccessful in settling religious disagreements within the surviving community. berytus became a "christian see" at an early date, and was a suffragan of tyre in "phoenicia prima", a province of the "patriarchate of antioch". in antiquity its most famous bishop was eusebius, afterwards bishop of nicomedia, the courtier-prelate and strong supporter of arianism in the fourth century....in ad berytus obtained from theodosius ii the title of metropolis, with jurisdiction over six sees taken from tyre; but in ad the "council of chalcedon" restored these to tyre, leaving, however, to berytus its rank of metropolis (mansi, vii, – ). thus, from ad berytus was an exempt metropolis depending directly on the patriarch of antioch.[ ] this turbulent byzantine period weakened the alredy hellenised (and fully christian) population and made it easy prey to the newly converted muslim arabs of the arabian peninsula.[ ][ ] eastern roman berytus -reduced to the size of a village- fell to the arabs in ad.[ ] roman ruins in the "roman baths garden" general view of the "roman baths garden" recent discoveries[edit] recently at the garden of forgiveness the two main streets of roman berytus, the cardo and decumanus maximus, were discovered in the beirut central district. their shaded colonnades became busy markets on festival days. at other times, these streets would have been frequented by law school students and citizens passing to the forum or visiting temples and churches. in were discovered the "roman baths" gardens, that is a landscaped public space that lies on the eastern slope of the serail hill. it consists of a garden and a set of uncovered ruins of the ancient roman baths of berytus (hence the name of the place). these ruins underwent a thorough cleaning and further excavation in – . designed by the british landscaping firm gillepsies, the garden's layout is dominated with low-slung glass walls and lookout platforms that can be turned into concert venues, thus giving a st-century touch without harming the area's historical fabric.[ ] at the turn of the th century was identified the area were existed the famous school of roman law at berytus. archaeological excavations in the area between the saint george greek orthodox cathedral and saint george cathedral of the maronites unearthed a funerary stele etched with an epitaph to a man named patricius, "whose career was consecrated for the study of law".[ ] the epitaph was identified as being dedicated to the famous th-century law school professor.[ ] in , archaeological diggings underneath the saint george greek orthodox cathedral in beirut central district's nejmeh square identified structural elements of the anastasis cathedral, but they were restricted to an area of square metres ( ,  sq ft) and failed to unearth the interred school.[ ] in the th century, zacharias rhetor reported that the school stood next to the "temple of god", the description of which permitted its identification with the byzantine anastasis cathedral.[ ] notable people[edit] 	hermippus of berytus (fl. nd century ad) 	marcus valerius probus (c. / – ad) 	vindonius anatolius see also[edit] 	cisterns of the roman baths, beirut 	phoenicia under roman rule 	roman baths, beirut 	roman "lex schola" of berytus notes[edit] 	^ worcester, joseph e. ( ) an elementary dictionary of the english language, boston: swan, brewer & tileston, page 	^ theodore mommsen."the provinces of the roman empire" chapter: phoenicia 	^ scott, samuel parsons ( ). the civil law, including the twelve tables: the institutes of gaius, the rules of ulpian, the opinions of paulus, the enactments of justinian, and the constitutions of leo. isbn  . 	^ paturel , p.  . 	^ about beirut and downtown beirut, downtownbeirut.com. 	^ beirut travel information, lonely planet 	^ czech excavations in beirut, martyrs' square, institute for classical archaeology, archived july , , at the wayback machine 	^ hall , p.  . 	^ about beirut and downtown beirut, downtownbeirut.com. retrieved november , . 	^ princeton e.: berytus 	^ morgan, james f. the prodigal empire: the fall of the western roman empire, page 	^ a b c butcher , p.  . 	^ "data with map of roman berytus (in spanish)". archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - . 	^ "roman wall removed from beirut hippodrome site". beirut report. october , . 	^ hall , p.  . 	^ "cng: the coin shop. phoenicia, berytus. claudius. ad - . Æ mm ( . g, h). legionary issue". www.cngcoins.com. 	^ "possible roman gate and road found in beirut dig". beirut report. may , . 	^ beirut archived - - at archive.today, britannica.com 	^ archive, full text. "history of phoenicia" – via www.fulltextarchive.com. 	^ history of berytus archived - - at the wayback machine 	^ "livius: berytus". 	^ catholic e.:berytus ([ ]) 	^ ostrogorsky, george ( ). "the byzantine empire in the world of the seventh century" (pdf). dumbarton oaks papers. : . doi: . / . jstor  . s cid  . 	^ wells, herbert george ( ). 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statement 		 	 	 biblioteca nacional de españa - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	biblioteca nacional de españa 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		  (redirected from bne (identifier)) 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		public library in madrid, spain 	 	this article needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. find sources: "biblioteca nacional de españa" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · jstor (december ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) national library of spain	biblioteca nacional de españa 	 	 	country	spain 	established	 (  years ago) ( ) 	reference to legal mandate	royal decree / on october 	location	madrid 	collection 	items collected	books, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, patents, databases, maps, stamps, prints, drawings and manuscripts 	size	 , , items, including , , books and other printed materials, , manuscripts, , newspapers and serials, , , graphic materials, , music scores, etc. 	legal deposit	yes, by decree on december 	access and use 	access requirements	access to reproductions and post- materials is open to biblioteca nacional library card holders. access to pre- materials is only allowed with a researcher card.[ ] materials in exceptional circumstances are subject to special restrictions.[ ] 	members	 , readers in . the web users in the same year were , , . 	other information 	budget	€ , , 	director	ana santos aramburo (since ) 	staff	 (including external employees) 	website	http://www.bne.es/ 	map 	 	national library of spain 	native name spanish: biblioteca nacional de españa 	 	location	madrid, spain 	 	 spanish property of cultural interest 	official name	biblioteca nacional de españa 	type	non-movable 	criteria	monument 	designated	 	reference no.	ri- - 	 	 	 location of national library of spain in spain the biblioteca nacional de españa (national library of spain) is a major public library, the largest in spain, and one of the largest in the world. it is located in madrid, on the paseo de recoletos. contents 	 history 	 the library today 	 see also 	 references 	 external links history[edit] the library was founded by king philip v in as the palace public library (biblioteca pública de palacio). the royal letters patent that he granted, the predecessor of the current legal deposit requirement, made it mandatory for printers to submit a copy of every book printed in spain to the library. in , the library's status as crown property was revoked and ownership was transferred to the ministry of governance (ministerio de la gobernación). at the same time, it was renamed the biblioteca nacional. during the th century, confiscations, purchases and donations enabled the biblioteca nacional to acquire the majority of the antique and valuable books that it currently holds. in the building was used to host the historical american exposition.[ ] on march , the biblioteca nacional opened to the public in the same building in which it is currently housed and included a vast reading room on the main floor designed to hold readers. in the reading room was reorganised, providing it with a major collection of reference works, and the general reading room was created to cater for students, workers and general readers. during the spanish civil war close to , volumes were collected by the confiscation committee (junta de incautación) and stored in the biblioteca nacional to safeguard works of art and books held until then in religious establishments, palaces and private houses. during the th century numerous modifications were made to the building to adapt its rooms and repositories to its constantly expanding collections, to the growing volume of material received following the modification to the legal deposit requirement in , and to the numerous works purchased by the library. among this building work, some of the most noteworthy changes were the alterations made in to triple the capacity of the library's repositories, and those started in and completed in , which led to the creation of the new building in alcalá de henares and complete remodelling of the building on paseo de recoletos, madrid. in , when spain's main bibliographic institutions - the national newspaper library (hemeroteca nacional), the spanish bibliographic institute (instituto bibliográfico hispánico) and the centre for documentary and bibliographic treasures (centro del tesoro documental y bibliográfico) - were incorporated into the biblioteca nacional, the library was established as the state repository of spain's cultural memory (centro estatal depositario de la memoria cultural española), making all of spain's bibliographic output on any media available to the spanish library system and national and international researchers and cultural and educational institutions. in it was made an autonomous entity attached to the ministry of culture (ministerio de cultura). the madrid premises are shared with the national archaeological museum. the library today[edit] the biblioteca nacional is spain's highest library institution and is head of the spanish library system. as the country's national library, it is the centre responsible for identifying, preserving, conserving, and disseminating information about spain's documentary heritage, and it aspires to be an essential point of reference for research into spanish culture. in accordance with its articles of association, passed by royal decree / (r.d. / ) of october , its principal functions are to: 	compile, catalogue, and conserve bibliographic archives produced in any language of the spanish state, or any other language, for the purposes of research, culture, and information. 	promote research through the study, loan, and reproduction of its bibliographic archive. 	disseminate information on spain's bibliographic output based on the entries received through the legal deposit requirement. the library's collection consists of more than , , items, including , , books and other printed materials, , , graphic materials, , sound recordings, , music scores, more than , microforms, , maps, , newspapers and serials, , audiovisuals, , electronic documents, and , manuscripts. the current director of the biblioteca nacional is ana santos aramburo, appointed in . former directors include her predecessors glòria pérez-salmerón ( – ) and milagros del corral ( - ) as well as historian juan pablo fusi ( – ) and author rosa regàs ( – ). given its role as the legal deposit for the whole of spain, since it has kept most of the overflowing collection at a secondary site in alcalá de henares, near madrid. the biblioteca nacional provides access to its collections through the following library services: 	guidance and general information on the institution and other libraries. 	bibliographic information about its collection and those held by other libraries or library systems. 	access to its automated catalogue, which currently contains close to , , bibliographic records encompassing all of its collections. 	archive consultation in the library's reading rooms. 	interlibrary loans. 	archive reproduction. 	 			 			 stairs and main entrance with monuments to san isidoro, alonso berruguete, alfonso x el sabio by josé alcoverro 			 		 	 			 			 statue of hispania by agustí querol above the library 			 		 	 			 			 a page from the manuscript of the lay of the cid 			 		 	 			 			 statue of marcelino menéndez y pelayo in the lobby of the b.n.e. 			 		 	 			 			 building of the national library of spain in alcalá de henares 			 		 see also[edit] 	biblioteca digital hispánica [es], digital library launched in by the biblioteca nacional de españa 	list of libraries in spain references[edit] 	^ "carnés de la biblioteca". www.bne.es (in spanish). march . retrieved february . 	^ "carné de investigador. biblioteca nacional de españa". www.bne.es (in spanish). december . 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. ; - . 	branches	n/a 	collection 	size	 , , registries[ ] 	access and use 	population served	 , , members of the public 	other information 	director	Ángel cabeza monteira 	website	[ ] 	map 	 the national library of chile (spanish: biblioteca nacional de chile) is the national library of chile. it is located on the avenida libertador general bernardo o'higgins in santiago, in a building completed in , though its history reaches to the early nineteenth century before it was relocated to its current home. contents 	 history 	 location 	 collections 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links history[edit] the aurora de chile, chile's first newspaper, is kept at the biblioteca nacional. the biblioteca nacional is, together with the instituto nacional and a small number of institutions, one of the first institutions created by the newly formed republic of chile in the patria vieja period. in the newspaper el monitor araucano, a proclama de fundación ("proclamation of foundation") of the biblioteca nacional was published on august , . with this vision, a call was made to all the citizens to submit their books for the formation of one great public library. as with other republican institutions, the library was closed after the disaster of rancagua, in which the national troops were defeated by the army of the realistas. with the victorious battle of chacabuco, it was reopened and supported by the government, and started to receive important collections. the supreme director of chile, bernardo o'higgins, named professor manuel de salas as the first director of the biblioteca nacional. in friar camilo henríquez (director of the aurora de chile newspaper) was named as the second head librarian. since its creation, the library had been a dependency of the universidad de san felipe and its successor, the universidad de chile, until it gained autonomy in . in , upon its th anniversary, the biblioteca nacional acquired the monasterio de santa clara, located on the alameda de las delicias on present-day cerro santa lucía. at the creation in , the library was made into a dependency of the dirección de bibliotecas, archivos y museos. location[edit] chilean hallroom (sección chilena) of the biblioteca nacional de chile since , biblioteca nacional has been situated in the centre of santiago, chile. it was formerly located in the square where now stands the teatro municipal de santiago (municipal theater of santiago). construction of the present building began in . it was commissioned as one of the commemorative public works in honour of the first centenary of the independence of chile. the building boasts an imposing façade of columns and arches, of very pronounced french neoclassical influence. the library shares its building with the archivo nacional de chile (the national archive). adjoining the building is the santa lucía metro station, and to the east is cerro santa lucía. the interior, spread out over two main levels and a basement, has 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[ ] very high · th of 	nuts region	itf 	website	www.regione.basilicata.it basilicata (uk: /bəˌsɪlɪˈkɑːtə/,[ ] us: /-ˌzɪl-/,[ ] italian: [baziliˈkaːta]), also known by its ancient name lucania (/luːˈkeɪniə/, also us: /luːˈkɑːnjə/,[ ][ ] italian: [luˈkaːnja]), is an administrative region in southern italy, bordering on campania to the west, apulia to the north and east, and calabria to the south. it has two coastlines: a -km stretch on the tyrrhenian sea between campania and calabria, and a longer coastline along the gulf of taranto between calabria and apulia. the region can be thought of as the "instep" of italy, with calabria functioning as the "toe" and apulia the "heel". the region covers about ,  km ( ,  sq mi). in the population was slightly under , . the regional capital is potenza. the region is divided into two provinces: potenza and matera.[ ][ ] its inhabitants are generally known as lucanians, although this ethnonym should properly refer to ancient lucania's populations. contents 	 etymology 	 geography 	 history 	 . prehistory 	 . ancient history 	 . middle ages 	 . modern and contemporary ages 	 demographics 	 government and politics 	 administrative divisions 	 economy 	 tourism 	 . archeological sites 	 . religious buildings 	 . castles 	 . other sights 	 culture 	 . music 	 . cinema 	 . cuisine 	 references 	 external links etymology[edit] the name probably derives from "basilikos" (greek: βασιλικός), which refers to the basileus, the byzantine emperor, who ruled the region for years, from / to / and from to . others argue that the name may refer to the basilica of acerenza, which held judicial power in the middle ages. during the greek and roman ages, basilicata was known as lucania. this was possibly derived from "leukos" (greek: λευκός), meaning "white", from "lykos" (greek: λύκος), meaning "wolf", or from latin "lūcus", meaning "sacred wood". geography[edit] dolomiti lucane and pietrapertosa basilicata covers an extensive part of the southern apennine mountains, between the ofanto river in the north and the pollino massif in the south. it is bordered on the east by a large part of the bradano river depression, which is traversed by numerous streams and declines to the southeastern coastal plains on the ionian sea. the region also has a short coastline to the southwest on the tyrrhenian sea side of the peninsula. basilicata is the most mountainous region in the south of italy, with % of its area of ,  km ( ,  sq mi) covered by mountains. of the remaining area, % is hilly, and % is made up of plains. notable mountains and ranges include the pollino massif, the dolomiti lucane, monte vulture, monte alpi, monte carmine, monti li foj and toppa pizzuta. badlands in aliano geological features of the region include the volcanic formations of monte vulture, and the seismic faults in the melfi and potenza areas in the north, and around pollino in the south. much of the region was devastated in the basilicata earthquake. more recently, the irpinia earthquake destroyed many towns in the northwest of the region. the mountainous terrain combined with weak rock and soil types makes landslides prevalent. the lithological structure of the substratum and its chaotic tectonic deformation predispose the slope to landslides, and this problem is compounded by the lack of forested land. in common with many another mediterranean region, basilicata was once rich in forests, but they were largely felled and made barren during the time of roman rule. the variable climate is influenced by three coastlines (adriatic, ionian and tyrrhenian) and the complexity of the region's physical features. in general, the climate is continental in the mountains and mediterranean along the coasts. history[edit] prehistory[edit] the first traces of human presence in basilicata date to the late paleolithic, with findings of homo erectus. late cenozoic fossils, found at venosa and other locations, include elephants, rhinoceros and species now extinct such as a saber-toothed cat of the genus machairodus. examples of rock art from the mesolithic have been discovered near filiano. from the fifth millennium, people stopped living in caves and built settlements of huts up to the rivers leading to the interior (tolve, tricarico, aliano, melfi, metaponto). in this period, anatomically modern humans lived by cultivating cereals and animal husbandry (bovinae and caprinae). chalcolithic sites include the grottoes of latronico and the funerary findings of the cervaro grotto near lagonegro. the first known stable market center of the apennine culture on the sea, consisting of huts on the promontory of capo la timpa [it], near to maratea, dates to the bronze age. the first indigenous iron age communities lived in large villages in plateaus located at the borders of the plains and the rivers, in places fitting their breeding and agricultural activities. such settlements include that of anglona, located between the fertile valleys of agri and sinni, of siris and, on the coast of the ionian sea, of incoronata-san teodoro. the first presence of greek colonists, coming from the greek islands and anatolia, date from the late eighth century bc. there are virtually no traces of survival of the th– th century bc archaeological sites of the settlements (aside from a necropolis at castelluccio on the coast of the tyrrhenian sea): this was perhaps caused by the increasing presence of greek colonies, which changed the balance of the trades. ancient history[edit] the ancient region of lucania in ancient historical times the region was originally known as lucania, named for the lucani, an oscan-speaking population from central italy. their name might be derived from greek leukos meaning "white", lykos ("gray wolf"), or latin lucus ("sacred grove"). or more probably lucania, as much as the lucius forename (praenomen) derives from the latin word lux (gen. lucis), meaning "light" (<pie *leuk- "brightness", latin verb lucere "to shine"), and is a cognate of name lucas. another etymology proposed is a derivation from etruscan lauchum (or lauchme) meaning "king", which however was transferred into latin as lucumo.[ ] starting from the late eighth century bc, the greeks established a settlement first at siris, founded by fugitives from colophon. then with the foundation of metaponto from achaean colonists, they started the conquest of the whole ionian coast. there were also indigenous oenotrian foundations on the coast, which exploited the nearby presence of greek settlements, such as velia and pyxous, for their maritime trades. the first contacts between the lucanians and the romans date from the latter half of the fourth century bc. after the conquest of taranto in , roman rule was extended to the whole region: the appian way reached brindisi and the colonies of potentia (modern potenza) and grumentum were founded. middle ages[edit] pope nicholas ii investing robert guiscard as duke in melfi after the fall of the western roman empire in , basilicata fell to germanic rule, which ended in the mid- th century when the byzantines reconquered it from the ostrogoths between and during the apocalyptic byzantine-gothic war under the leadership of byzantine generals belisarius and narses. the region, deeply christianized since as early as the th century, became part of the lombard duchy of benevento founded by the invading lombards between and . in the following centuries, saracen raids led part of the population to move from the plain and coastal settlements to more protected centers located on hills. the towns of tricarico and tursi were under muslim rule for a short period: later the "saracen" population would be expelled.[ ] the region was conquered once more for byzantium from the saracens and the lombards in the late th century, with the campaigns of nikephoros phokas the elder and his successors, and became part of the theme of longobardia. in the theme of lucania was established, with the capital at tursikon (tursi). in the xi century, basilicata, together with the rest of much of southern italy, was conquered by the normans. melfi became the first capital of the county of apulia (later county of apulia and calabria) in , where robert guiscard was named "duke" by pope nicholas ii. venosa also gained importance under the norman dominion, chosen by robert guiscard as the hauteville family's burial (and he himself will be later buried there too).[ ] inherited by the hohenstaufen, frederick ii reorganized the administrative structure of his predecessors and the justiciarate of basilicata, whose borders coincided almost entirely with the actual region, was created. in melfi, the emperor promulgated the liber augustalis (commonly known as constitutions of melfi), code of laws for the kingdom of sicily. the swabians were ousted in the th century by the capetian house of anjou. since then, basilicata began to lose importance and was marked by an irreversible socio-political decline. modern and contemporary ages[edit] band of brigands from basilicata, c. in , basilicata was the seat of plotters against king ferdinand i of naples, the so-called conspiracy of the barons, which included the sanseverino of tricarico, the caracciolo of melfi, the gesualdo of caggiano, the orsini del balzo [it] of altamura and venosa and other anti-aragonese families. later, charles v stripped most of the barons of their lands, replacing them with the carafa, revertera, pignatelli and colonna among others. after the formation of the neapolitan republic ( ), basilicata also rebelled, but the revolt was suppressed. in a new province was created in basilicata with its capital in matera. the region came under the dominion of the house of bourbon in . basilicata autonomously declared its annexation to the kingdom of italy on august , with the potenza insurrection. it was during this period that the state confiscated and sold off vast tracts of basilicata's territory formerly owned by the catholic church. as the new owners were a handful of wealthy aristocratic families, the average citizen did not see any immediate economic and social improvements after unification, and poverty continued unabated. this gave rise to the phenomenon of brigandage, which actually turned into a civil war in the form of a guerrilla fighting, whereby the bourbon in exile and the church encouraged the peasants to rise up against the kingdom of italy. this strong opposition movement continued for many years. the revolt in basilicata was led by carmine crocco was the most important chief in the region and the most impressive band leader in southern italy.[ ] it was only really after world war ii that things slowly began to improve thanks to land reform. in , the inhabitants of the sassi di matera were rehoused by the state, but many of basilicata's population had emigrated or were in the process of emigrating, which led to a demographic crisis from which it is still recovering. demographics[edit] historical population	year	pop.	±% 	 	 , 	—     	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	− . % 	 	 , 	− . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	− . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	− . % 	 (estimate) 	 , 	− . % 	 	 , 	− . % 	source: istat, although basilicata has never had a large population, there have nevertheless been quite considerable fluctuations in the demographic pattern of the region. in , there were , inhabitants but by the population had decreased by % to , , mainly as a result of emigration overseas. there was a slow increase in the population until world war ii, after which there was a resurgence of emigration to other countries in europe, which continued until and the start of another period of steady increase until ( , inhabitants). however, in recent years the population has decreased as a result of a new wave of migration, both towards northern italy and to other countries in europe, and a reduction in the birth rate.[ ] the population density is very low compared to that of italy as a whole: . inhabitants per km² compared to . nationwide in . there is not a great difference between the population densities of the provinces of matera and potenza.[ ] government and politics[edit] main article: politics of basilicata administrative divisions[edit] basilicata is divided into two provinces: 	province 	area (km ) 	population 	density (inh./km ) 	province of matera 	 , 	 , 	 . 	province of potenza 	 , 	 , 	 . economy[edit] fiat plant in melfi cultivation consists mainly of sowables (especially wheat), which represent % of the total land. potatoes and maize are produced in the mountain areas. olives and vine production is relatively small with about , hectares ( , acres) under cultivation.[ ] the terrain is mountainous and hilly with poor transportation routes that hinders harvesting. most oils are sold unbranded and only % is exported. the main olive cultivars are ogliarola del vulture, ogliarola del bradano, majatica di ferrandina and farasana with only ogliarola del vulture having the protected designation of origin (pdo).[ ] other varieties are the arnasca, ascolana, augellina, cellina, frantoio, leccino, majatica, nostrale, ogliarola (ogliarola barese), palmarola or fasolina, rapolese di lavello, and sargano (sargano di fermo and sargano di san benedetto).[ ] among industrial activities, the manufacturing sector contributes to the gross value added of the secondary sector with % of the total, while the building sector contributes %. within the services sector, the main activities in terms of gross value added are business activities, distributive trade, education and public administration. in the last few years, new productive sectors have developed: manufacturing, automotive, and especially oil extraction. in , eni employed people in this area (of whom over % were from basilicata), and about , were employed in activities directly generated by eni's operations, distributed in companies of which over % were from basilicata.[ ] the region produced about ,  bbl/d ( ,  m /d), meeting percent of italy's domestic oil demand.[ ] the gross domestic product (gdp) of the region was . billion euros in , accounting for . % of italy's economic output. gdp per capita adjusted for purchasing power was , euros or % of the eu average in the same year. the gdp per employee was % of the eu average.[ ] tourism[edit] difficult accessibility and lack of extended promotion make basilicata one of the most remote and least visited regions of italy. however, tourism is slowly growing since the early 's. matera, once dubbed "national disgrace" by prime minister alcide de gasperi who urged to take strict development measures due to its extreme poverty,[ ] is now basilicata's main attraction and has gained fame worldwide for its historical center, the sassi, designated in as a unesco world heritage site.[ ] in , matera was designated as the european capital of culture.[ ] seaside tourism is mainly concentrated in maratea, nicknamed "the pearl of tyrrhenian sea",[ ] but also the ionian coast (policoro, pisticci, bernalda, nova siri) is fairly developed. naturalistic attractions include pollino, that hosts the largest national park in italy,[ ] dolomiti lucane and vulture. the new york times ranked basilicata third in its list of " places to go in ", describing it as "italy’s best-kept secret".[ ] 	 			 			 sassi di matera 			 		 	 			 			 maratea 			 		 	 			 			 pollino 			 		 archeological sites[edit] tavole palatine, metaponto basilicata has a variety of archeological sites containing traces of prehistoric, greek, roman and jewish heritage: 	civita, tricarico 	grumentum 	heraclea 	metapontum 	jewish catacombs of venosa 	notarchirico 	petre de la mola 	serra di vaglio 	venusia religious buildings[edit] abbey of santissima trinità acerenza cathedral among the religious buildings, the most relevant are: 	abbey of santissima trinità, venosa 	acerenza cathedral 	irsina cathedral 	matera cathedral 	melfi cathedral 	pierno abbey, san fele 	potenza cathedral 	rapolla cathedral 	san michele abbey, monticchio 	san pietro caveoso church, matera 	sanctuary of anglona, tursi 	tricarico cathedral 	venosa cathedral castles[edit] melfi castle the best preserved castles of the region are: 	bernalda castle 	lagopesole castle 	laurenzana castle 	malconsiglio castle, miglionico 	melfi castle 	muro lucano castle 	tramontano castle 	venosa castle other sights[edit] castelmezzano craco basilicata has many small and pictoresque villages, seven of them have been selected by the the most beautiful villages in italy association.[ ] however, they have to face depopulation problems, while others (craco, campomaggiore) were abandoned due to natural disasters. some of the most historical and distinctive villages are: 	accettura 	acerenza 	aliano 	campomaggiore 	castelmezzano 	craco 	guardia perticara 	pietrapertosa 	rivello 	rotondella 	satriano di lucania 	valsinni 	viggianello culture[edit] music[edit] main article: music of basilicata i viggianesi, by filippo palizzi, although basilicata hosted classical composers such as carlo gesualdo and egidio romualdo duni, the region is primarily identified in popular music, which reflects the humble living conditions of its inhabitants. the arpa viggianese (commonly known as arpicedda) is a typical harp from viggiano of average size, with a thin and light structure that make it easier to carry; it was the distinctive instrument of street musicians from the val d'agri area in the past centuries, who wandered around the world and many of whom were admitted to symphony orchestras. today, viggiano is remembered as the "city of harp and music".[ ] other traditional instruments are cupa cupa, zampogna and ciaramella. during the emigration wave of the late th century, some composers gained recognition in north america: leonardo de lorenzo, flautist of several american philharmonic orchestras and professor at the eastman school of music, regarded as one of the most eminent flute pedagogues of the s; carlo curti, who helped to popularize the mandolin in the united states and mexico, and founder of the orquestra típica mexicana, considered the "predecessor of the mariachi bands."[ ] comedy duo lyons and yosco became popular for their million-selling ragtime piece "spaghetti rag".[ ] modern pop artists such as mango and arisa achieved great success in the italian music scene. since the mid s, basilicata hosts the agglutination metal festival, one of the most long-lived heavy metal events in europe.[ ][ ] cinema[edit] since the post–world war ii era, basilicata has become a set for many national and international film productions. matera is the most coveted film location, especially for biblical-themed movies, being often compared with the ancient jerusalem.[ ] other locations include the ghost town of craco, melfi and maratea. the region hosted, among the others, the filming of the gospel according to st. matthew ( ), christ stopped at eboli ( ), i'm not scared ( ), the passion of the christ ( ), the omen ( ), quantum of solace ( ), wonder woman ( ), no time to die ( ). some film directors are from basilicata, most notably robert g. vignola, a prominent figure of the silent era, pasquale festa campanile, associated with the commedia all'italiana genre, and ruggero deodato, known for his horror films such as the controversial cannibal holocaust. cuisine[edit] peperone crusco, a staple of the cuisine of basilicata the local cuisine is mostly based on pork and sheep meat, legumes, cereals, vegetables and tubers. it is commonly referred to as "cucina povera" (peasant food), deeply anchored in peasant traditions. bread crumb is considered a poor-man’s cheese substitute, sprinkled over pasta dishes and used as a seasoning for meat and vegetables. horseradish is often used as a spice and condiment, which is referred to as "poor man’s truffle".[ ] the peperone crusco (pat) is a specialty of the regional cuisine, sometimes labeled as "the red gold of basilicata".[ ] it is the dried form of the peperone di senise (pgi), one of the most popular italian pepper varieties.[ ] traditional recipes include pasta dishes like pasta con i peperoni cruschi and tumacë me tulë, and main courses such as rafanata, acquasale and pastizz. basilicata is best-known for the lucanica di picerno (pgi) pork sausage that derives from lucanica, an ancient recipe originated before the roman empire.[ ] pane di matera (pgi) is a type of bread recognizable for its intense flavour and conical shape, as well as long preservation.[ ] other principal products are cheeses like pecorino di filiano (pdo), canestrato di moliterno (pgi), padraccio (pat) and treccia dura (pat); vegetables like melanzana rossa di rotonda (pdo); and legumes like fagiolo di sarconi (pgi) and fagiolo bianco di rotonda (pdo). the region is also known for its naturally sparkling mineral water that springs from the streams 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		jump to search 		a form of censorship of artistic or other media works the family shakespeare, thomas bowdler's famous reworked edition of william shakespeare's plays. expurgation, also known as bowdlerization, is a form of censorship which involves purging anything deemed noxious or offensive from an artistic work, or other type of writing of media. the term bowdlerization is a pejorative term for the practice, particularly the expurgation of lewd material from books. the term derives from thomas bowdler's edition of william shakespeare's plays, which he reworked in order to make them more suitable for women and children.[ ] he similarly edited edward gibbon's decline and fall of the roman empire. a fig-leaf edition is such a bowdlerized text, deriving from the practice of covering the genitals of nudes in classical and renaissance statues and paintings with fig leaves. contents 	 examples 	 . fahrenheit 	 . religious 	 . sexual 	 . racial 	 . cursing 	 . political 	 . other 	 see also 	 references examples[edit] fahrenheit [edit] main article: fahrenheit § expurgation a student edition of the novel fahrenheit was expurgated to remove a variety of content. this was ironic given the subject matter of the novel involves burning books. this continued for a dozen years before it was brought to author ray bradbury's attention and he convinced the publisher to reinstate the material. religious[edit] 	in , pope clement iv ordered the jews of aragon to submit their books to dominican censors for expurgation.[ ] sexual[edit] 	"the crabfish" (known also as "the sea crabb"), an english folk song dating back to the mid- s about a man who places a crab into a chamber pot, unbeknownst to his wife, who later uses the pot without looking, and is attacked by the crab.[ ] over the years, sanitized versions of the song were released in which a lobster or crab grabs the wife by the nose[ ] instead of by the genitals[ ] or that imply the location of the wounds by censoring the rhyming word in the second couplet. for instance, "children, children, bring the looking glass / come and see the crayfish that bit your mother's a-face" (arse).[ ] 	the harvard press edition of montaigne's essays (translated by george b. ives) was published without the essays pertaining to sex.[ ] 	a boston-area ban on upton sinclair's novel oil! – owing to a short motel sex scene – prompted the author to assemble a -copy fig-leaf edition with the nine offending pages blacked out as a publicity stunt.[ ][ ] 	in a jazz song "flat foot floogie (with a floy floy)" peaked at number two on us charts. the original lyrics were sung with the word "floozie", meaning a sexually promiscuous woman, or a prostitute, but record company vocalion objected. hence the word was substituted with the almost similar sounding title word "floogie" in the second recording. the "floy floy" in the title was a slang term for a venereal disease, but that was not widely known at the time. in the lyrics it is sung repeatedly "floy-doy", which was widely thought as a nonsense refrain. since the lyrics were regarded as nonsense the song failed to catch the attention of censors. 	in , an american publisher bowdlerized the george ergerton translation of knut hamsun's hunger. racial[edit] 	recent editions of many works—including mark twain's huckleberry finn[ ] and joseph conrad's nigger of the narcissus—have found various replacements ("slave", "indian", "soldier boy", "n-word", "children") for the word nigger. an example of bowdlerization can be plainly seen in huck finn, in which twain used racial slurs in natural speech to highlight what he saw as racism and prejudice endemic to the antebellum south. 	agatha christie’s ten little niggers was dramatised by the bbc under the name and then there were none. it was subsequently re-released under this title in the united states, and the short poem which is intrinsic to the plot was changed from ten little niggers to ten little indians. 	the american version of the counting rhyme "eeny, meeny, miny, moe", which originally contained the word "nigger",[ ] is now taught with a replacement word, such as "tiger". cursing[edit] 	many internet message boards and forums use automatic wordfiltering to block offensive words and phrases from being published or automatically amend them to more innocuous substitutes such as asterisks or nonsense. this often catches innocent words also: see scunthorpe problem. users frequently self-bowdlerize their own writing by using slight misspellings or variants, such as 'fcuk' or 'pron'. 	the song "fuck you" by cee lo green, which made the top- in thirteen countries, was also broadcast as "forget you", with a matching music video, where the changed lyrics cannot be lip-read, as insisted by the record company.[ ] political[edit] 	chinese internet filters—the great firewall—also work to block politically-sensitive terms and characters from being published on most public sites or loaded by domestic isps. other[edit] 	the video game south park: the fractured but whole was originally going to have the name the butthole of time. however, marketers would not promote anything with a vulgarity in its title, so "butthole" was replaced with the homophone "but whole". see also[edit] 	ad usum delphini 	comstockery, after anthony comstock 	censorship 	minced oath 	tobacco bowdlerization references[edit] 	^ "censorship" (pdf). 	^ popper, william ( ). the censorship of hebrew books. knickerbocker press. pp.  – . 	^ a b frederick j. furnivall, ed. ( ). bishop percy's folio manuscript: loose and humorous songs. london. p.  . 	^ "the crabfish". 	^ "crayfish". 	^ bussacco, michael c. ( ). heritage press sandglass companion book: – . tribute books (archibald, penn.). p.  . isbn  . retrieved september , . 	^ curtis, jack (february , ). "blood from oil". boston globe. retrieved september , . 	^ sinclair, mary craig ( ). southern belle. new york: crown publishers. p.  . isbn  . retrieved september , . 	^ tomasky, michael (january , ). "the new huck finn". the guardian. retrieved september , . 	^ i. opie and p. opie, the oxford dictionary of nursery rhymes (oxford: oxford university press, , nd edn., ), pp. - . 	^ smith, caspar llewellyn ( - - ). 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the plowman imitated the infantryman, the shepherd the cavalryman, the rustic harvester of his own crops the barbarian enemy". in fact they shared several similar characteristics with the germanic heruli people. mamertinus also called them "two-shaped monsters" (monstrorum biformium), emphasising that while they were technically imperial farmers and citizens, they were also marauding rogues who had become foes to the empire. recurrences[edit] the phenomenon recurred in the mid-fourth century in the reign of constantius, in conjunction with an invasion of the alemanni. although imperial control was re-established by the frankish general silvanus, his subsequent betrayal by court rivals forced him into rebellion and his work was undone. in around ad the historian aurelius victor[ ] is the sole writer to note the attacks of bagaudae in the peripheries of the larger towns and walled cities. in the fifth century bagaudae are noted initially in the loire valley and brittany, circa ad - ,[ ] fighting various armies sent against them by the last seriously effective western roman general, flavius aëtius. aetius used federates such as the alans under their king goar to try and suppress a bacaudic revolt in armorica. st germanus got mercy for the bagaudae but they later revolted again under a leader called tibatto. they are also mentioned around the same time in the province of macedonia, the only time they emerge in the eastern empire, which may be connected with economic hardships under arcadius. by the middle of the fifth century they are mentioned in control of parts of central gaul and the ebro valley. in hispania, the king of the suevi, rechiar (died ad ), took up as allies the local bagaudae in ravaging the remaining roman municipia, a unique alliance between germanic ruler and rebel peasant.[ ] that the depredations of the ruling classes were mostly responsible for the uprising of the bagaudae was not lost on the fifth-century writer of historicised polemic salvian; setting himself in the treatise de gubernatione dei the task of proving god's constant guidance, he declares in book iii that the misery of the roman world is all due to the neglect of god's commandments and the terrible sins of every class of society. it is not merely that slaves and servants are thieves and runaways, wine-bibbers and gluttons – the rich are much worse (iv. ); it is their harshness and greed that drive the poor to join the bagaudae and flee for shelter to the barbarian invaders (v. and ). reputation[edit] the reputation of the bagaudae has varied with the uses made of them in historicised narratives of the late roman empire and the middle ages. there has been some speculation that theirs was a christian revolt, but the sparsity of information in the texts gives that little substance although there may well have been many christians among them. in general, they seem to have been equal parts of brigands and insurgents. in the second half of the th century, interest in the bagaudae revived, resonating with contemporary social unrest. the french historian jean trithemié was famous for a nationalist view of the "bagaudae" by arguing that they were an expression of national identity among the gallic peasants, who sought to overthrow oppressive roman rule and realize the eternal "french" values of liberty, equality and brotherhood.[ ] e. a. thompson's assessment in past and present ( ) approached the phenomenon of these rural malcontents in terms of marxist class warfare. see also[edit] 	popular revolt in late medieval europe 	jacquerie 	list of peasant revolts notes[edit] 	^ j. f. drinkwater, reviewing léon, los bagaudas, in the classical review, : . 	^ delamarre, xaviee, dictionnaire de la langue gauloise, nd ed., editions errance, , pp. - . 	^ nixon,in praise of later roman emperors: the panegyrici latini ( ) 	^ m.-cl. l'huillier, "notes sur la disparition des sanctuaires païens" in marguerite garrido-hory, antonio gonzalèz, histoire, espaces et marges de l'antiquité: hommages à monique clavel-lévêque, (series histoire et politique ) : . 	^ e.m. wightman, gallia belgica (london: batsford) . 	^ tyrant in the greek and latin sense simply means a wielder of unauthorised power, without the connotations that it has since accrued. 	^ aurelius victor, de caesaribus . , noted by l'huillier : . 	^ l'huillier : . 	^ thompson, romans and barbarians, f. isidore of seville, writing of rechiar, believed that it was not bagaudae with whom rechiar allied, but rather the visigoths. theodore mommsen follows him, but there is no reason to accept isidore over hydatius and every reason not to, when considering that isidore neglects to mention the bagaudae at all in his historia. 	^ jean trithemié, les bagaudes et les origines de la nation française (paris), . references[edit] 	thompson, e. a. romans and barbarians: the decline of the western empire. (madison: university of wisconsin press) . 	trithemié, jean. les bagaudes et les origines de la nation française. vols. (paris: les séries historiques, ecole anormale supérieure), . further reading[edit] 	léon, j.c.s. les sources de l'histoire des bagaudes (paris) . 	léon, j.c.s., los bagaudas: rebeldes, demonios, mártires. revueltas campesinas en galia e hispania durante el bajo imperio (university of jaén) . 		v 	t 	e ancient rome topics 	 	outline 	timeline 	history	 	 	foundation 	kingdom 	overthrow 	republic 	empire	 	history 	pax romana 	principate 	dominate 	western empire 	fall 	historiography of the fall 	byzantine empire 	decline 	fall 	constitution	 	history 	kingdom 	republic 	empire 	late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	curiate 	centuriate 	tribal 	plebeian 	executive magistrates 	spqr 	law	 	twelve tables 	mos maiorum 	citizenship 	auctoritas 	imperium 	status 	litigation 	government	 	curia 	forum 	cursus honorum 	collegiality 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	prefect 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 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. manufacturing sector 	 . fashion 	 government and administrative divisions 	 . districts 	 education 	 culture 	 . entertainment and performing arts 	 . media 	 . sports 	 . squatter's movement 	 transport 	 . airports 	 . seaport 	 . national and international rail 	 . metro and regional rail 	 . tram 	 . funicular and cable car 	 . bus 	 . taxi 	 . roads and highways 	 main sights 	 . world heritage sites 	 . historic buildings and monuments 	 . museums 	 . parks 	 . beaches 	 . other sights 	 international relations 	 . twin towns – sister cities 	 . partnership and friendship 	 notable people 	 see also 	 notes and references 	 . notes 	 . citations 	 . gerenal references 	 external links names the name barcelona comes from the ancient iberian baŕkeno, attested in an ancient coin inscription found on the right side of the coin in iberian script as ,[ ] in ancient greek sources as Βαρκινών, barkinṓn;[ ][ ] and in latin as barcino,[ ] barcilonum[ ] and barcenona.[ ][ ][ ] some older sources suggest that the city may have been named after the carthaginian general hamilcar barca, who was supposed to have founded the city in the rd century bc,[ ] but there is no evidence that barcelona was ever a carthaginian settlement, or that its name in antiquity, barcino, had any connection with the barcid family of hamilcar.[ ] during the middle ages, the city was variously known as barchinona, barçalona, barchelonaa, and barchenona. internationally, barcelona's name is wrongly abbreviated to 'barça'. however, this name refers only to fc barcelona, the football club. the common abbreviated form used by locals is barna. another common abbreviation is 'bcn', which is also the iata airport code of the barcelona-el prat airport. the city is also referred to as the ciutat comtal in catalan, and ciudad condal in spanish (i.e. comital city or city of counts), owing to its past as the seat of the count of barcelona.[ ] history main articles: history of barcelona and timeline of barcelona a marble plaque in the museu d'història de la ciutat de barcelona, dated from around – ad and dedicated to the roman colony of barcino pre-history the origin of the earliest settlement at the site of present-day barcelona is unclear. the ruins of an early settlement have been found, including different tombs and dwellings dating to earlier than bc.[ ][ ] the founding of barcelona is the subject of two different legends. the first attributes the founding of the city to the mythological hercules. the second legend attributes the foundation of the city directly to the historical carthaginian general, hamilcar barca, father of hannibal, who supposedly named the city barcino after his family in the rd century bc,[ ] but there is no historical or linguistic evidence that this is true.[ ] roman barcelona in about  bc, the romans redrew the town as a castrum (roman military camp) centred on the "mons taber", a little hill near the contemporary city hall (plaça de sant jaume). under the romans, it was a colony with the surname of faventia,[ ] or, in full, colonia faventia julia augusta pia barcino[ ] or colonia julia augusta faventia paterna barcino. pomponius mela[ ] mentions it among the small towns of the district, probably as it was eclipsed by its neighbour tarraco (modern tarragona), but it may be gathered from later writers that it gradually grew in wealth and consequence, favoured as it was with a beautiful situation and an excellent harbour.[ ] it enjoyed immunity from imperial burdens.[ ] the city minted its own coins; some from the era of galba survive. the mare de déu de la mercè statue on the basílica de la mercè important roman vestiges are displayed in plaça del rei underground, as a part of the barcelona city history museum (muhba); the typically roman grid plan is still visible today in the layout of the historical centre, the barri gòtic (gothic quarter). some remaining fragments of the roman walls have been incorporated into the cathedral.[ ] the cathedral, known very formally by the long name of catedral basílica metropolitana de barcelona, is also sometimes called la seu, which simply means cathedral (and see, among other things) in catalan.[ ][ ] it is said to have been founded in . medieval barcelona the city was conquered by the visigoths in the early th century, becoming for a few years the capital of all hispania. after being conquered by the arabs in the early th century, it was conquered in by charlemagne's son louis, who made barcelona the seat of the carolingian "hispanic march" (marca hispanica), a buffer zone ruled by the count of barcelona. the counts of barcelona became increasingly independent and expanded their territory to include all of catalonia, although on july , barcelona was sacked by the army of almanzor.[ ] the sack was so traumatic that most of barcelona's population was either killed or enslaved.[ ] in , aragon and the county of barcelona merged in dynastic union[ ][ ] by the marriage of ramon berenguer iv and petronilla of aragon, their titles finally borne by only one person when their son alfonso ii of aragon ascended to the throne in . his territories were later to be known as the crown of aragon, which conquered many overseas possessions and ruled the western mediterranean sea with outlying territories in naples and sicily and as far as athens in the th century. barcelona was the leading slave trade centre of the crown of aragon up until the th century, when it was eclipsed by valencia.[ ] it initially fed from eastern and balkan slave stock later drawing from a maghribian and, ultimately, subsaharan pool of slaves.[ ] the forging of a dynastic link between the crowns of aragon and castile marked the beginning of barcelona's decline.[why?] the bank of barcelona (taula de canvi), probably the oldest public bank in europe, was established by the city magistrates in . it originated from necessities of the state, as did the bank of venice ( ) and the bank of genoa ( ).[ ] barcelona in barcelona under the spanish monarchy the marriage of ferdinand ii of aragon and isabella i of castile in united the two royal lines. madrid became the centre of political power whilst the colonisation of the americas reduced the financial importance (at least in relative terms) of mediterranean trade. barcelona was a centre of catalan separatism, including the catalan revolt ( – ) against philip iv of spain. the great plague of – halved the city's population.[ ] the fortress at montjuïc, the most southerly point from which measurements were made when calculating the meridional definition of the metre in the th century, a fortress was built at montjuïc that overlooked the harbour. in , this fortress was used by the french astronomer pierre françois andré méchain for observations relating to a survey stretching to dunkirk that provided the official basis of the measurement of a metre.[ ] the definitive metre bar, manufactured from platinum, was presented to the french legislative assembly on june . much of barcelona was negatively affected by the napoleonic wars, but the start of industrialisation saw the fortunes of the province improve. the spanish civil war and the franco period barcelona was the capital of the republic of spain from november until january , spanish civil war.[ ][ ] in that time, both barcelona and madrid were still under the rule of the republic. in the image azaña and negrín on the city outskirts. during the spanish civil war, the city, and catalonia in general, were resolutely republican. many enterprises and public services were collectivised by the cnt and ugt unions. as the power of the republican government and the generalitat diminished, much of the city was under the effective control of anarchist groups. the anarchists lost control of the city to their own allies, the communists and official government troops, after the street fighting of the barcelona may days. the fall of the city on january , caused a mass exodus of civilians who fled to the french border. the resistance of barcelona to franco's coup d'état was to have lasting effects after the defeat of the republican government. the autonomous institutions of catalonia were abolished,[ ] and the use of the catalan language in public life was suppressed. barcelona remained the second largest city in spain, at the heart of a region which was relatively industrialised and prosperous, despite the devastation of the civil war. the result was a large-scale immigration from poorer regions of spain (particularly andalusia, murcia and galicia), which in turn led to rapid urbanisation. late twentieth century in , barcelona hosted the summer olympics. the after-effects of this are credited with driving major changes in what had, up until then, been a largely industrial city. as part of the preparation for the games, industrial buildings along the sea-front were demolished and kilometres ( miles) of beach were created. new construction increased the road capacity of the city by %, the sewage handling capacity by % and the amount of new green areas and beaches by %. between and , the number of hotel rooms in the city doubled. perhaps more importantly, the outside perception of the city was changed making, by , barcelona the th most popular city destination in the world and the th amongst european cities.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] recent history main articles: history of barcelona and timeline of barcelona supporters of catalan independence in october the death of franco in brought on a period of democratisation throughout spain. pressure for change was particularly strong in barcelona, which considered that it had been punished during nearly forty years of francoism for its support of the republican government.[ ] massive, but peaceful, demonstrations on september assembled over a million people in the streets of barcelona to call for the restoration of catalan autonomy. it was granted less than a month later.[ ] the development of barcelona was promoted by two events in : spanish accession to the european community, and particularly barcelona's designation as host city of the summer olympics.[ ][ ] the process of urban regeneration has been rapid, and accompanied by a greatly increased international reputation of the city as a tourist destination. the increased cost of housing has led to a slight decline (− . %) in the population over the last two decades of the th century as many families move out into the suburbs. this decline has been reversed since , as a new wave of immigration (particularly from latin america and from morocco) has gathered pace.[ ] in , an eta car bombing at hipercor killed people. on august , a van was driven into pedestrians on la rambla in the city, killing and injuring at least , one of whom later died. other attacks took place elsewhere in catalonia. the prime minister of spain, mariano rajoy, called the attack in barcelona a jihadist attack. amaq news agency attributed indirect responsibility for the attack to the islamic state of iraq and the levant (isil).[ ][ ][ ] geography a panoramic view of barcelona location barcelona as seen by the european space agency's copernicus sentinel- mission barcelona is located on the northeast coast of the iberian peninsula, facing the mediterranean sea, on a plain approximately  km (  mi) wide limited by the mountain range of collserola, the llobregat river to the southwest and the besòs river to the north.[ ] this plain covers an area of  km (  sq mi),[ ] of which  km ( .  sq mi)[ ] are occupied by the city itself. it is kilometres ( miles) south of the pyrenees and the catalan border with france. tibidabo,  m ( ,  ft) high, offers striking views over the city[ ] and is topped by the .  m ( .  ft) torre de collserola, a telecommunications tower that is visible from most of the city. barcelona is peppered with small hills, most of them urbanised, that gave their name to the neighbourhoods built upon them, such as carmel ( metres or feet), putget ( metres or feet) and rovira ( metres or feet). the escarpment of montjuïc ( metres or feet), situated to the southeast, overlooks the harbour and is topped by montjuïc castle, a fortress built in the – th centuries to control the city as a replacement for the ciutadella. today, the fortress is a museum and montjuïc is home to several sporting and cultural venues, as well as barcelona's biggest park and gardens. the city borders on the municipalities of santa coloma de gramenet and sant adrià de besòs to the north; the mediterranean sea to the east; el prat de llobregat and l'hospitalet de llobregat to the south; and sant feliu de llobregat, sant just desvern, esplugues de llobregat, sant cugat del vallès, and montcada i reixac to the west. the municipality includes two small sparsely-inhabited exclaves to the north-west. climate main article: climate of barcelona according to the köppen climate classification, barcelona has a hot summer mediterranean climate (csa), with mild winters and warm to hot summers,[ ] while the rainiest seasons are autumn and spring. the rainfall pattern is characterised by a short ( months) dry season in summer, as well as less winter rainfall than in a typical mediterranean climate. this subtype, labelled as "portuguese" by the french geographer george viers after the climate classification of emmanuel de martonne[ ] and found in the nw mediterranean area (e.g. marseille), can be seen as transitional to the humid subtropical climate (cfa) found in inland areas such as the po valley (e.g. milan), whose rainfall is greater in summer, a feature of continental climates. its average annual temperature is .  °c ( .  °f) during the day and .  °c ( .  °f) at night. the average annual temperature of the sea is about  °c (  °f). in the coldest month, january, the temperature typically ranges from to  °c ( to  °f) during the day, to  °c ( to  °f) at night and the average sea temperature is  °c (  °f).[ ] in the warmest month, august, the typical temperature ranges from to  °c ( to  °f) during the day, about  °c (  °f) at night and the average sea temperature is  °c (  °f).[ ] generally, the summer or "holiday" season lasts about six months, from may to october. two months – april and november – are transitional; sometimes the temperature exceeds  °c (  °f), with an average temperature of –  °c ( –  °f) during the day and –  °c ( –  °f) at night. december, january and february are the coldest months, with average temperatures around  °c (  °f) during the day and  °c (  °f) at night. large fluctuations in temperature are rare, particularly in the summer months. because of the proximity to the warm sea plus the urban heat island, frosts are very rare in the city of barcelona. snow is also very infrequent. barcelona averages rainy days per year (≥  mm), and annual average relative humidity is %, ranging from % in july to % in october. rainfall totals are highest in late summer and autumn (september–november) and lowest in early and mid-summer (june–august), with a secondary winter minimum (february–march). sunshine duration is ,  hours per year, from (average .  hours of sunshine a day) in december to (average  hours of sunshine a day) in july.[ ] 	climate data for barcelona can bruixa – barcelona ( – ) 	month 	jan 	feb 	mar 	apr 	may 	jun 	jul 	aug 	sep 	oct 	nov 	dec 	year 	average high °c (°f) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	daily mean °c (°f) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	average low °c (°f) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	average precipitation mm (inches) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	average precipitation days (≥  mm) 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	mean monthly sunshine hours 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 , 	source: servei meteorològic de catalunya – agencia estatal de meteorología (sunshine hours)[ ] demographics demographic evolution, – , according to the spanish instituto nacional de estadística according to barcelona's city council, barcelona's population as of  january  [update] was , ,  people,[ ] on a land area of .  km (  sq mi). it is the main component of an administrative area of greater barcelona, with a population of , , in an area of square kilometres ( square miles) (density , inhabitants/km ). the population of the urban area was , , .[ ] it is the central nucleus of the barcelona metropolitan area, which relies on a population of , , .[ ] spanish is the most spoken language in barcelona (according to the linguistic census held by the government of catalonia in ) and it is understood almost universally. catalan is also very commonly spoken in the city: it is understood by % of the population, while . % can speak it, % can read it, and % can write it.[ ] knowledge of catalan has increased significantly in recent decades thanks to a language immersion educational system. in , barcelona had a population of , people,[ ] which grew steadily but slowly until , when it started absorbing a high number of people from other less-industrialised parts of spain. barcelona's population peaked in with , , people, and fell throughout the s and s as more people sought a higher quality of life in outlying cities in the barcelona metropolitan area. after bottoming out in with , , people, the city's population began to rise again as younger people started to return, causing a great increase in housing prices.[ ] population density view over the passeig de gràcia avenue note: this text is entirely based on the municipal statistical database provided by the city council. barcelona is one of the most densely populated cities in europe. for the year the city council calculated the population to , , living in the .  km sized municipality, giving the city an average population density of , inhabitants per square kilometre with eixample being the most populated district. in the case of barcelona though, the land distribution is extremely uneven. half of the municipality or .  km , all of it located on the municipal edge is made up of the ten least densely populated neighbourhoods containing less than % of the city's population, the uninhabited zona franca industrial area and montjuïc forest park. leaving the remaining % or slightly below .  million inhabitants living on the remaining square kilometres ( square miles) at an average density close to , inhabitants per square kilometre. of the neighbourhoods in the city, had a population density above , inhabitants per square kilometre with a combined population of , , inhabitants living on .  km at an average density of , inhabitants per square km. the most densely populated neighbourhoods accounted for . % of the city population occupying only . % of the municipality, or in other words, , people living at an average density of , inhabitants per square kilometre. the city's highest density is found at and around the neighbourhood of la sagrada família where four of the city's most densely populated neighbourhoods are located side by side, all with a population density above , inhabitants per square kilometre. age structure in almost a third ( . percent) were children (aged younger than years), in this age group constituted only . ; those aged between and years in were percent; those aged between and years a . percent. in contrast, in the aged between and years formed the . % of all barcelonans; while in the aged and older were just the . percent, in reached a . .[ ][ ] migration 	largest groups of foreign residents in barcelona[ ] 	nationality	population ( ) 	italy	 , 	china	 , 	pakistan	 , 	france	 , 	morocco	 , 	colombia	 , 	honduras	 , 	peru	 , 	venezuela	 , 	philippines	 , in about % of the inhabitants of the city were born in catalonia and . % coming from the rest of the country. in addition to that, . % of the population was born outside of spain, a proportion which has more than doubled since and more than quintupled since when it was . % respectively . %.[ ] the most important region of origin of migrants is europe, with many coming from italy ( , ) or france ( , ).[ ] moreover, many migrants come from latin american nations such as bolivia, ecuador or colombia. since the s, and similar to other migrants, many latin americans have settled in northern parts of the city.[ ] there exists a relatively large pakistani community in barcelona with up to twenty thousand nationals. the community consists of significantly more men than women. many of the pakistanis are living in ciutat vella. first pakistani migrants came in the s, with increasing numbers in the s.[ ] other significant migrant groups come from asia as from china and the philippines.[ ] there is a japanese community clustered in bonanova, les tres torres, pedralbes, and other northern neighbourhoods, and a japanese international school serves that community.[ ] religion main article: religion in barcelona most of the inhabitants state they are roman catholic (  churches).[ ] in a survey conducted by infocatólica, . % of barcelona residents of all ages identified themselves as catholic.[ ] this was the first time that more than half of respondents did not identify themselves as catholic christians.[ ] the numbers reflect a broader trend in spain whereby the numbers of self-identified catholics have declined.[ ] in , a survey by centro de investigaciones sociológicas showed that . % of residents in barcelona identified themselves as catholic ( . % practising catholics, . % non-practising catholics).[ ] the province has the largest muslim community in spain, , people in barcelona province are of muslim religion.[ ] a considerable number of muslims live in barcelona due to immigration (  locations, mostly professed by moroccans in spain).[ ] in , , out of .  million people in the province of barcelona identified themselves as muslim,[ ] which makes . % of total population. the city also has the largest jewish community in spain, with an estimated , jews living in the city.[ ] there are also a number of other groups, including evangelical (  locations, mostly professed by roma), jehovah's witnesses (  kingdom halls), buddhists (  locations),[ ] and eastern orthodox.[ ] economy general information a portion of the @barcelona business and innovation district the barcelona metropolitan area comprises over % of the people of catalonia, one of the richer regions in europe and the fourth richest region per capita in spain, with a gdp per capita amounting to € , ( % more than the eu average). the greater barcelona metropolitan area had a gdp amounting to $  billion (equivalent to $ , in per capita terms, % more than the eu average), making it the th most economically powerful city by gross gdp in the european union, and th in the world in .[ ] barcelona city had a very high gdp of € , per head in , according to eurostat.[ ] furthermore, barcelona was europe's fourth best business city and fastest improving european city, with growth improved by % per year as of [update].[ ] barcelona was the th most "livable city" in the world in according to lifestyle magazine monocle.[ ] similarly, according to innovation analysts thinknow, barcelona occupies th place in the world on innovation cities™ global index.[ ] at the same time it is according to the global wealth and lifestyle report one of the most affordable cities in the world for a luxury lifestyle.[ ] barcelona has a long-standing mercantile tradition. less well known is that the city industrialised early, taking off in , when catalonia's already sophisticated textile industry began to use steam power. it became the first and most important industrial city in the mediterranean basin. since then, manufacturing has played a large role in its history. borsa de barcelona (barcelona stock exchange) is the main stock exchange in the northeastern part of the iberian peninsula. barcelona was recognised as the southern european city of the future for / , based on its economic potential,[ ] by fdi magazine in their bi-annual rankings.[ ] trade fair and exhibitions the world trade center barcelona the palau de congressos de barcelona drawing upon its tradition of creative art and craftsmanship, barcelona is known for its award-winning industrial design. it also has several congress halls, notably fira de barcelona – the second largest trade fair and exhibition centre in europe, that host a quickly growing number of national and international events each year (at present above ). the total exhibition floor space of fira de barcelona venues is ,  m (  ha), not counting gran via centre on the plaza de europa. however, the eurozone crisis and deep cuts in business travel affected the council's positioning of the city as a convention centre. an important business centre, the world trade center barcelona, is located in barcelona's port vell harbour. the city is known for hosting well as world-class conferences and expositions, including the exposición universal de barcelona, the barcelona international exposition (expo ), the universal forum of cultures and the world urban forum.[ ] tourism part of the beach promenade and the beach of la barceloneta towards port olimpic barcelona was the th-most-visited city in the world by international visitors and the fifth most visited city in europe after london, paris, istanbul and rome, with .  million international visitors in .[ ] by , both prague and milan had more international visitors.[ ] with its rambles, barcelona is ranked the most popular city to visit in spain.[ ] barcelona as internationally renowned a tourist destination, with numerous recreational areas, one of the best beaches in the world,[ ][ ] mild and warm climate, historical monuments, including eight unesco world heritage sites, hotels as of march  [update][ ] including five star hotels,[ ] and developed tourist infrastructure. due to its large influx of tourists each year, barcelona, like many other tourism capitals, has to deal with pickpockets, with wallets and passports being commonly stolen items. for this reason, most travel guides recommend that visitors take precautions to ensure their possessions' safety, especially inside the metro premises. despite its moderate pickpocket rate, barcelona is considered one of the safest cities in terms of health security and personal safety,[ ] mainly because of a sophisticated policing strategy that has dropped crime by % in just over three years and has led it to be considered the th safest city in the world by business insider.[ ] while tourism produces economic benefits, according to one report[citation needed], the city is "overrun [by] hordes of tourists". in early , over , protesters warned that tourism is destabilizing the city. slogans included "tourists go home", "barcelona is not for sale" and "we will not be driven out". by then, number of visitors had increased from .  million in to million in a city with a population of .  million, increasing the cost of rental housing for residents and overcrowding the public places. while tourists spent an estimated €  billion in , they are viewed by some as a threat to barcelona's identity.[ ] a may article in england's the telegraph newspaper included barcelona among the eight places that hate tourists the most and included a comment from mayor ada colau, "we don't want the city to become a cheap souvenir shop [like venice]". to moderate the problem, the city has stopped issuing licenses for new hotels and holiday apartments; it also fined airbnb with a € , . the mayor has suggested an additional tourist tax and setting a limit on the number of visitors.[ ] one industry insider, justin francis, founder of the responsible travel agency, stated that steps must be taken to limit the number of visitors that are causing an "overtourism crisis" in several major european cities. "ultimately, residents must be prioritised over tourists for housing, infrastructure and access to services because they have a long-term stake in the city's success.", he said.[ ] "managing tourism more responsibly can help", francis later told a journalist, "but some destinations may just have too many tourists, and barcelona may be a case of that".[ ] manufacturing sector industry generates % of the total gross domestic product (gdp) of the region,[ ] with the energy, chemical and metallurgy industries accounting for % of industrial production.[ ] the barcelona metropolitan area had % of the total number of industrial establishments in catalonia as of .[ ] barcelona has long been an important european automobile manufacturing centre. formerly there were automobile factories of afa, abadal, actividades industriales, alvarez, america, artés de arcos, balandrás, baradat-esteve, biscúter, j. castro, clúa, david, delfín, díaz y grilló, ebro trucks, edis [ca], elizalde, automóviles españa, eucort, fenix, fábrica hispano, auto academia garriga, fábrica española de automóviles hebe, hispano-suiza, huracán motors, talleres hereter, junior sl, kapi, la cuadra, m.a., automóviles matas, motores y motos, nacional custals, national pescara, nacional rg, nacional rubi, nacional sitjes, automóviles nike, orix, otro ford, partia, pegaso, ptv, ricart, ricart-españa, industrias salvador, siata española, stevenson, romagosa y compañía, garaje storm, talleres hereter, trimak, automóviles victoria, manufacturas mecánicas aleu.[ ][ ] today, the headquarters and a large factory of seat (the largest spanish automobile manufacturer) are in one of its suburbs. there is also a nissan factory in the logistics and industrial area of the city.[ ] the factory of derbi, a large manufacturer of motorcycles, scooters and mopeds, also lies near the city.[ ] as in other modern cities, the manufacturing sector has long since been overtaken by the services sector, though it remains very important. the region's leading industries are textiles, chemical, pharmaceutical, motor, electronic, printing, logistics, publishing, in telecommunications industry and culture the notable mobile world congress, and information technology services. fashion the brandery fashion show of main article: fashion in barcelona the traditional importance of textiles is reflected in barcelona's drive to become a major fashion centre. there have been many attempts to launch barcelona as a fashion capital, notably gaudi home.[citation needed] beginning in the summer of , the city hosted the bread & butter urban fashion fair until , when its organisers announced that it would be returning to berlin. this was a hard blow for the city as the fair brought €  m to the city in just three days.[ ][ ] since , the brandery, an urban fashion show, has been held in barcelona twice a year until . according to the global language monitor's annual ranking of the world's top fifty fashion capitals barcelona was named as the seventh most important fashion capital of the world right after milano and before berlin in .[ ] government and administrative divisions see also: municipal elections in barcelona and list of mayors of barcelona palau de la generalitat de catalunya as the capital of the autonomous community of catalonia, barcelona is the seat of the catalan government, known as the generalitat de catalunya; of particular note are the executive branch, the parliament, and the high court of justice of catalonia. the city is also the capital of the province of barcelona and the barcelonès comarca (district). barcelona is governed by a city council formed by city councillors, elected for a four-year term by universal suffrage. as one of the two biggest cities in spain, barcelona is subject to a special law articulated through the carta municipal (municipal law). a first version of this law was passed in and amended later, but the current version was approved in march .[ ] according to this law, barcelona's city council is organised in two levels: a political one, with elected city councillors, and one executive, which administrates the programs and executes the decisions taken on the political level.[ ] this law also gives the local government a special relationship with the central government and it also gives the mayor wider prerogatives by the means of municipal executive commissions.[ ] it expands the powers of the city council in areas like telecommunications, city traffic, road safety and public safety. it also gives a special economic regime to the city's treasury and it gives the council a veto in matters that will be decided by the central government, but that will need a favourable report from the council.[ ] the city hall of barcelona the comissió de govern (government commission) is the executive branch, formed by councillors, led by the mayor, with lieutenant-mayors and city councillors, each in charge of an area of government, and non-elected councillors.[ ] the plenary, formed by the city councillors, has advisory, planning, regulatory, and fiscal executive functions.[ ] the six commissions del consell municipal (city council commissions) have executive and controlling functions in the field of their jurisdiction. they are composed by a number of councillors proportional to the number of councillors each political party has in the plenary.[ ] the city council has jurisdiction in the fields of city planning, transportation, municipal taxes, public highways security through the guàrdia urbana (the municipal police), city maintenance, gardens, parks and environment, facilities (like schools, nurseries, sports centres, libraries, and so on), culture, sports, youth and social welfare. some of these competencies are not exclusive, but shared with the generalitat de catalunya or the central spanish government. in some fields with shared responsibility (such as public health, education or social services), there is a shared agency or consortium between the city and the generalitat to plan and manage services.[ ] the saló de cent, in the city hall of barcelona the executive branch is led by a chief municipal executive officer which answers to the mayor. it is made up of departments which are legally part of the city council and by separate legal entities of two types: autonomous public departments and public enterprises.[ ] the seat of the city council is on the plaça de sant jaume, opposite the seat of generalitat de catalunya. since the coming of the spanish democracy, barcelona had been governed by the psc, first with an absolute majority and later in coalition with erc and icv. after the may election, the erc did not renew the coalition agreement and the psc governed in a minority coalition with icv as the junior partner. after years, on may , ciu gained a plurality of seats at the municipal election, gaining seats to the psc's . the pp hold seats, icv and erc . districts districts of barcelona main article: districts of barcelona since , the city has been divided into  administrative districts (districtes in catalan, distritos in spanish): 	ciutat vella 	eixample 	sants-montjuïc 	les corts 	sarrià-sant gervasi 	gràcia 	horta-guinardó 	nou barris 	sant andreu 	sant martí the districts are based mostly on historical divisions, and several are former towns annexed by the city of barcelona in the th and th centuries that still maintain their own distinct character. each district has its own council led by a city councillor. the composition of each district council depends on the number of votes each political party had in that district, so a district can be led by a councillor from a different party than the executive council. education main article: education in spain main hall of the university of barcelona barcelona has a well-developed higher education system of public universities. most prominent among these is the university of barcelona (established in ), a world-renowned research and teaching institution with campuses around the city. it is one of the degree-awarding bodies of the institut barcelona d'estudis internacionals (ibei), a prestigious interuniversity postgraduate institution for international affairs located in the center of the city. barcelona is also home to the polytechnic university of catalonia, and the newer pompeu fabra university, and, in the private sector the eada business school founded in , became the first barcelona institution to run manager training programmes for the business community. iese business school, as well as the largest private educational institution, the ramon llull university, which encompasses schools and institutes such as the esade business school. the autonomous university of barcelona, another public university, is located in bellaterra, a town in the metropolitan area. toulouse business school and the open university of catalonia (a private internet-centred open university) are also based in barcelona. the marenostrum supercomputer, hosted at the barcelona supercomputing center the city has a network of public schools, from nurseries to high schools, under the responsibility of a consortium led by city council (though the curriculum is the responsibility of the generalitat de catalunya). there are also many private schools, some of them roman catholic. most such schools receive a public subsidy on a per-student basis, are subject to inspection by the public authorities, and are required to follow the same curricular guidelines as public schools, though they charge tuition. known as escoles concertades, they are distinct from schools whose funding is entirely private (escoles privades). the language of instruction at public schools and escoles concertades is catalan, as stipulated by the catalan education act. spanish may be used as a language of instruction by teachers of spanish literature or language, and foreign languages by teachers of those languages. an experimental partial immersion programme adopted by some schools allows for the teaching of a foreign language (english, generally) across the curriculum, though this is limited to a maximum of % of the school day. no public school or escola concertada in barcelona may offer % or full immersion programmes in a foreign language, nor does any public school or escola concertada offer international baccalaureate programmes. culture main article: culture of barcelona barcelona's cultural roots go back years. since the arrival of democracy, the catalan language (very much repressed during the dictatorship of franco) has been promoted, both by recovering works from the past and by stimulating the creation of new works. barcelona is designated as a world-class city by the globalization and world cities study group and network.[ ] it has also been part of the unesco creative cities network as a city of literature since .[ ] entertainment and performing arts main article: list of theatres and concert halls in barcelona the liceu opera house barcelona has many venues for live music and theatre, including the world-renowned gran teatre del liceu opera house, the teatre nacional de catalunya, the teatre lliure and the palau de la música catalana concert hall. barcelona also is home to the barcelona symphony and catalonia national orchestra (orquestra simfònica de barcelona i nacional de catalunya, usually known as obc), the largest symphonic orchestra in catalonia. in , the obc inaugurated its new venue in the brand-new auditorium (l'auditori). it performs around concerts per season and its current director is eiji oue.[ ] it is home to the barcelona guitar orchestra, directed by sergi vicente. the major thoroughfare of la rambla is home to mime artists and street performers. yearly, two major pop music festivals take place in the city, the sónar festival and the primavera sound festival. the city also has a thriving alternative music scene, with groups such as the pinker tones receiving international attention.[ ] media el periódico de catalunya, la vanguardia and ara are barcelona's three major daily newspapers (the first two with catalan and spanish editions, ara only in catalan) while sport and el mundo deportivo (both in spanish) are the city's two major sports daily newspapers, published by the same companies. the city is also served by a number of smaller publications such as ara and el punt avui (in catalan), by nationwide newspapers with special barcelona editions like el pais (in spanish, with an online version in catalan) and el mundo (in spanish), and by several free newspapers like minutos and què (all bilingual). barcelona's oldest and main online newspaper vilaweb is also the oldest one in europe (with catalan and english editions). several major fm stations include catalunya ràdio, rac , rac and cadena ser. barcelona also has a local tv stations, btv, owned by city council. the headquarters of televisió de catalunya, catalonia's public network, are located in sant joan despí, in barcelona's metropolitan area. sports main article: sport in barcelona estadi olímpic de montjuïc (barcelona olympic stadium) built for the summer olympics named people's olympiad, main stadium of summer olympics barcelona has a long sporting tradition and hosted the highly successful summer olympics as well as several matches during the fifa world cup (at the two stadiums). it has hosted about sports events of international significance.[citation needed] the camp nou, the largest stadium in europe fc barcelona is a sports club best known worldwide for its football team, one of the largest and the second richest in the world.[ ] it has national trophies (while finishing times as runners-up) and continental prizes (with being runners-up times), including five uefa champions league trophies out of eight finals and three fifa club world cup wins out of four finals. it is the only male football team in the world to win six trophies in a calendar year (in ). fc barcelona also has professional teams in other sports like fc barcelona regal (basketball), fc barcelona handbol (handball), fc barcelona hoquei (roller hockey), fc barcelona ice hockey (ice hockey), fc barcelona futsal (futsal) and fc barcelona rugby (rugby union), all at one point winners of the highest national and/or european competitions. the club's museum is the second most visited in catalonia. the matches against cross-town rivals rcd espanyol are of particular interest, but there are other barcelonan football clubs in lower categories, like ce europa and ue sant andreu. fc barcelona's basketball team has a noted rivalry in the liga acb with nearby joventut badalona. palau sant jordi (st. george's sporting arena) and montjuïc communications tower barcelona has three uefa elite stadiums: fc barcelona's camp nou, the largest stadium in europe with a capacity of , ; the publicly owned estadi olímpic lluís companys, with a capacity of , ; used for the olympics; and estadi cornellà-el prat, with a capacity of , . furthermore, the city has several smaller stadiums such as mini estadi (also owned by fc barcelona) with a capacity of , , camp municipal narcís sala with a capacity of , and nou sardenya with a capacity of , . the city has a further three multifunctional venues for sports and concerts: the palau sant jordi with a capacity of , to , (depending on use), the palau blaugrana with a capacity of , , and the palau dels esports de barcelona with a capacity of , . barcelona was the host city for the world aquatics championships, which were held at the palau san jordi.[ ] circuit de catalunya/circuit de barcelona, race track of formula and motogp on the suburb of barcelona several road running competitions are organised year-round in barcelona: the barcelona marathon every march with over , participants in , the cursa de bombers in april, the cursa de el corte inglés in may (with about , participants each year), the cursa de la mercè, the cursa jean bouin, the milla sagrada família and the san silvestre. there's also the ultratrail collserola which passes kilometres ( miles) through the collserola forest. the open seat godó, a -year-old atp world tour series tennis tournament, is held annually in the facilities of the real club de tenis barcelona. each christmas, a swimming race across the port is organised.[citation needed] near barcelona, in montmeló, the , capacity circuit de barcelona-catalunya racetrack hosts the formula one spanish grand prix, the catalan motorcycle grand prix, the spanish gt championship and races in the gp series. skateboarding and cycling are also very popular in barcelona; in and around the city there are dozens of kilometers of bicycle paths.[citation needed] top sport clubs in barcelona: 	club 	league 	sport 	venue 	established 	capacity 	fc barcelona 	primera división 	football 	camp nou 	 	 , 	rcd espanyol[ ] 	primera división 	football 	estadi cornellà-el prat 	 	 , 	ce europa 	tercera división 	football 	nou sardenya 	 	 , 	fc barcelona bàsquet 	primera división 	basketball 	palau blaugrana 	 	 , 	fc barcelona handbol 	primera división 	handball 	palau blaugrana 	 	 , 	fc barcelona ice hockey 	primera división 	ice hockey 	palau de gel 	 	 , 	fc barcelona hoquei 	primera división 	roller hockey 	palau blaugrana 	 	 , 	fc barcelona futsal 	primera división 	futsal 	palau blaugrana 	 	 , 	fc barcelona rugby 	primera división 	rugby union 	cdmvdht 	 	no data 	barcelona dragons 	world league 	american football 	estadi olímpic lluís companys 	 (withheld) 	 , 	barcelona búfals 	primera división 	american football 	camp municipal narcís sala 	 	 , squatter's movement barcelona is also home to numerous social centres and illegal squats that effectively form a shadow society mainly made up of the unemployed, immigrants, dropouts, anarchists, anti-authoritarians and autonomists.[ ] peter gelderloos estimates that there around squatted buildings and social centres across the city with thousands of inhabitants, making it one of the largest squatter movements in the world. he notes that they pirate electricity, internet and water allowing them to live on less than one euro a day. he argues that these squats embrace an anarcho-communist and anti-work philosophy, often freely fixing up new houses, cleaning, patching roofs, installing windows, toilets, showers, lights and kitchens. in the wake of austerity, the squats have provided a number of social services to the surrounding residents, including bicycle repair workshops, carpentry workshops, self-defense classes, free libraries, community gardens, free meals, computer labs, language classes, theatre groups, free medical care and legal support services.[ ] the squats help elderly residents avoid eviction and organise various protests throughout barcelona. notable squats include can vies and can masdeu. police have repeatedly tried to shut down the squatters movement with waves of evictions and raids, but the movement is still going strong. transport main article: transport in barcelona airports barcelona–el prat airport as seen from the air barcelona is served by barcelona-el prat airport, about  km (  mi) from the centre of barcelona. it is the second-largest airport in spain, and the largest on the mediterranean coast, which handled more than .  million passengers in , showing an annual upward trend.[ ] it is a main hub for vueling airlines and ryanair, and also a focus for iberia and air europa. the airport mainly serves domestic and european destinations, although some airlines offer destinations in latin america, asia and the united states. the airport is connected to the city by highway, metro (airport t and airport t stations), commuter train (barcelona airport railway station) and scheduled bus service. a new terminal (t ) has been built, and entered service on june . some low-cost airlines, also use girona-costa brava airport, about  km (  mi) to the north, reus airport,  km (  mi) to the south, or lleida-alguaire airport, about  km (  mi) to the west, of the city. sabadell airport is a smaller airport in the nearby town of sabadell, devoted to pilot training, aerotaxi and private flights. seaport the port of barcelona the port of barcelona has a -year-old history and a great contemporary commercial importance. it is europe's ninth largest container port, with a trade volume of .  million teu's in .[ ] the port is managed by the port authority of barcelona. its  km (  sq mi) are divided into three zones: port vell (the old port), the commercial port and the logistics port (barcelona free port). the port is undergoing an enlargement that will double its size thanks to diverting the mouth of the llobregat river kilometres ( mile) to the south.[ ] port vell in winter the barcelona harbour is the leading european cruiser port and a most important mediterranean turnaround base.[ ] in , ,  million of pleasure cruises passengers used services of the port of barcelona.[ ] the port vell area also houses the maremagnum (a commercial mall), a multiplex cinema, the imax port vell and one of europe's largest aquariums – aquarium barcelona, containing , fish and sharks contained in basins filled with million litres of sea water. the maremagnum, being situated within the confines of the port, is the only commercial mall in the city that can open on sundays and public holidays. national and international rail the main railway station estació de sants barcelona is a major hub for renfe, the spanish state railway network. the city's main inter-city rail station is barcelona sants railway station, whilst estació de frança terminus serves a secondary role handling suburban, regional and medium distance services. freight services operate to local industries and to the port of barcelona. renfe's ave high-speed rail system, which is designed for speeds of  km/h (  mph), was extended from madrid to barcelona in in the form of the madrid–barcelona high-speed rail line. a shared renfe-sncf high-speed rail connecting barcelona and france (paris, marseilles and toulouse, through perpignan–barcelona high-speed rail line) was launched in . both these lines serve barcelona sants terminal station.[ ][ ] metro and regional rail barcelona metro barcelona is served by an extensive local public transport network that includes a metro system, a bus network, a regional railway system, trams, funiculars, rack railways, a gondola lift and aerial cable cars. these networks and lines are run by a number of different operators but they are integrated into a coordinated fare system, administered by the autoritat del transport metropolità (atm). the system is divided into fare zones ( to ) and various integrated travel cards are available.[ ] the barcelona metro network comprises twelve lines, identified by an "l" followed by the line number as well as by individual colours. the metro largely runs underground; eight metro lines are operated on dedicated track by the transports metropolitans de barcelona (tmb), whilst four lines are operated by the ferrocarrils de la generalitat de catalunya (fgc) and some of them share tracks with renfe commuter lines. in addition to the city metro, several regional rail lines operated by renfe's rodalies de catalunya run across the city, providing connections to outlying towns in the surrounding region. tram barcelona tram the city's two modern tram systems, trambaix and trambesòs, are operated by trammet.[ ] a heritage tram line, the tramvia blau, also operates between the metro line and the funicular del tibidabo.[ ] funicular and cable car barcelona's metro and rail system is supplemented by several aerial cable cars, funiculars and rack railways that provide connections to mountain-top stations. fgc operates the funicular de tibidabo up the hill of tibidabo and the funicular de vallvidrera (fgc), while tmb runs the funicular de montjuïc up montjuïc. the city has two aerial cable cars: the montjuïc cable car, which serves montjuïc castle, and the port vell aerial tramway that runs via torre jaume i and torre sant sebastià over the port. bus buses in barcelona are a major form of public transport, with extensive local, interurban and night bus networks. most local services are operated by the tmb, although some other services are operated by a number of private companies, albeit still within the atm fare structure. a separate private bus line, known as aerobús, links the airport with the city centre, with its own fare structure. the estació del nord (northern station), a former railway station which was renovated for the olympic games, now serves as the terminus for long-distance and regional bus services. taxi two typical barcelona taxis barcelona has a metered taxi fleet governed by the institut metropolità del taxi (metropolitan taxi institute), composed of more than , cars. most of the licences are in the hands of self-employed drivers. with their black and yellow livery, barcelona's taxis are easily spotted, and can be caught from one of many taxi ranks, hailed on street, called by telephone or via app.[ ][ ] on march ,[ ] barcelona's city council started the bicing service, a bicycle service understood as a public transport. once the user has their user card, they can take a bicycle from any of the more than stations spread around the city and use it anywhere the urban area of the city, and then leave it at another station.[ ] the service has been a success, with , subscribed users in three months.[ ] roads and highways b- motorway in barcelona barcelona lies on three international routes, including european route e that follows the mediterranean coast, european route e to madrid and lisbon, and european route e to paris. it is also served by a comprehensive network of motorways and highways throughout the metropolitan area, including a- , a- /ap- , c- , c- , c- , c- , c- , c- . the city is circled by three half ring roads or bypasses, ronda de dalt (b- ) (on the mountain side), ronda del litoral (b- ) (along the coast) and ronda del mig (separated into two parts: travessera de dalt in the north and the gran via de carles iii), two partially covered[ ] fast highways with several exits that bypass the city. the city's main arteries include diagonal avenue, which crosses it diagonally, meridiana avenue which leads to glòries and connects with diagonal avenue and gran via de les corts catalanes, which crosses the city from east to west, passing through its centre. the famous boulevard of la rambla, whilst no longer an important vehicular route, remains an important pedestrian route. main sights sagrada família church, designed by gaudí the barri gòtic (catalan for "gothic quarter") is the centre of the old city of barcelona. many of the buildings date from medieval times, some from as far back as the roman settlement of barcelona. catalan modernista architecture (related to the movement known as art nouveau in the rest of europe) developed between and and left an important legacy in barcelona. several of these buildings are world heritage sites. especially remarkable is the work of architect antoni gaudí, which can be seen throughout the city. his best-known work is the immense but still unfinished church of the sagrada família, which has been under construction since and is still financed by private donations. as of [update], completion is planned for .[ ] barcelona was also home to mies van der rohe's barcelona pavilion. designed in for the international exposition for germany, it was an iconic building that came to symbolise modern architecture as the embodiment of van der rohe's aphorisms "less is more" and "god is in the details."[ ] the barcelona pavilion was intended as a temporary structure and was torn down in less than a year after it was constructed. a modern re-creation by spanish architects now stands in barcelona, however, constructed in . barcelona won the riba royal gold medal for its architecture,[ ] the first (and as of [update], only) time that the winner has been a city rather than an individual architect. plaça reial world heritage sites barcelona is the home of many points of interest declared world heritage sites by unesco:[ ] 	 				 	name 	park güell	palau güell	casa milà	casa vicens 	code, year 	 – , 	 – , 	 – , 	 – , 	coordinates 	 ° ′ . ″n ° ′ . ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (park güell)	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (palau güell)	 ° ′ . ″n ° ′ . ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (casa milà)	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (casa vicens) 	 				 	name 	sagrada família	casa batlló	palau de la música catalana	hospital de sant pau 	code, year 	 – , 	 – , 	 – , 	 – , 	coordinates 	 ° ′ . ″n ° ′ . ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (temple expiatori de la sagrada familia)	 ° ′ . ″n ° ′ . ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; . 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; . 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; . historic buildings and monuments further information: list of modernista buildings in barcelona see also: category:buildings and structures in barcelona. barcelona cathedral 	minor basilica of sagrada família, the symbol of barcelona. 	palau de la música catalana and hospital de sant pau, designed by lluís domènech i montaner, included in the unesco heritage list in . 	works by antoni gaudí, including park güell, palau güell, casa milà (la pedrera), casa vicens, sagrada família (nativity façade and crypt), casa batlló, crypt in church of colònia güell. the first three works were inscribed as a world heritage site in . the other four were added as extensions to the site in . 	the cathedral of the holy cross and st. eulalia (gothic) 	gothic basilica of santa maria del mar 	gothic basilica of santa maria del pi 	romanesque church of sant pau del camp 	palau reial major, medieval residence of the sovereign counts of barcelona, later kings of aragon 	the royal shipyard (gothic) 	monastery of pedralbes (gothic) 	the columbus monument 	the arc de triomf, a triumphal arch built for entrance to barcelona universal exposition. 	expiatory church of the sacred heart of jesus on the summit of tibidabo. 	the historic building of the university of barcelona museums main article: list of museums in barcelona the national museum of art of catalonia stands out for its collection of romanesque painting, considered one of the most complete in europe.[citation needed] barcelona has a great number of museums, which cover different areas and eras. the national museum of art of catalonia possesses a well-known collection of romanesque art, while the barcelona museum of contemporary art focuses on post- catalan and spanish art. the fundació joan miró, picasso museum, and fundació antoni tàpies hold important collections of these world-renowned artists, as well as the can framis museum, focused on post- catalan art owned by fundació vila casas. several museums cover the fields of history and archaeology, like the barcelona city history museum (muhba), the museum of the history of catalonia, the archeology museum of catalonia, the maritime museum of barcelona, the music museum of barcelona and the privately owned egyptian museum. the erotic museum of barcelona is among the most peculiar ones, while cosmocaixa is a science museum that received the european museum of the year award in .[citation needed] the museum of natural sciences of barcelona was founded in under the name of "museo martorell de arqueología y ciencias naturales"[ ][ ] (spanish for "martorell museum of archaeology and natural sciences"). in the museum of natural sciences ended up with a merge of five institutions: the museum of natural sciences of barcelona (the main site, at the forum building), the martorell museum (the historical seat of the museum, opened to the public from to as a geology museum), the laboratori de natura, at the castle of the three dragons (from to : the zoology museum), the historical botanical garden of barcelona, founded , and the botanical garden of barcelona, founded . those two gardens are a part of the botanical institute of barcelona too. the fc barcelona museum has been the most visited museum in the city of barcelona, with , , visitors in .[citation needed] parks parc de la ciutadella north of la barceloneta barcelona contains sixty municipal parks, twelve of which are historic, five of which are thematic (botanical), forty-five of which are urban, and six of which are forest.[ ] they range from vest-pocket parks to large recreation areas. the urban parks alone cover % of the city ( .  ha or , . acres).[ ] the total park surface grows about  ha ( acres) per year,[ ] with a proportion of . square metres (  sq ft) of park area per inhabitant.[ ] of barcelona's parks, montjuïc is the largest, with  ha located on the mountain of the same name.[ ] it is followed by parc de la ciutadella (which occupies the site of the old military citadel and which houses the parliament building, the barcelona zoo, and several museums);  ha or . acres including the zoo), the guinardó park (  ha or . acres), park güell (designed by antoni gaudí; .  ha or . acres), oreneta castle park (also .  ha or . acres), diagonal mar park ( .  ha or . acres, inaugurated in ), nou barris central park ( .  ha or . acres), can dragó sports park and poblenou park (both .  ha or . acres), the labyrinth park ( .  ha or . acres), named after the garden maze it contains.[ ] there are also several smaller parks, for example, the parc de les aigües (  ha or . acres). a part of the collserola park is also within the city limits. portaventura world, one of the largest resort in europe, with , , visitors per year, is located one hour's drive from barcelona.[ ][ ] also, within the city lies tibidabo amusement park, a smaller amusement park in plaza del tibidabo, with the muntanya russa amusement ride. beaches beaches of barcelona barcelona beach was listed as number one in a list of the top ten city beaches in the world according to national geographic[ ] and discovery channel.[ ] barcelona contains seven beaches, totalling . kilometres (   ⁄ miles) of coastline. sant sebastià, barceloneta and somorrostro beaches, both ,  m ( ,  ft) in length,[ ] are the largest, oldest and the most-frequented beaches in barcelona. the olympic harbour separates them from the other city beaches: nova icària, bogatell, mar bella, nova mar bella and llevant. these beaches (ranging from to  m ( , to ,  ft) were opened as a result of the city restructuring to host the summer olympics, when a great number of industrial buildings were demolished. at present, the beach sand is artificially replenished given that storms regularly remove large quantities of material. the universal forum of cultures left the city a large concrete bathing zone on the eastmost part of the city's coastline. most recently, llevant is the first beach to allow dogs access during summer season. other sights 	 			 			 santa maria del mar church 			 		 	 			 			 santa maria del pi church 			 		 	 			 			 the roman and medieval walls 			 		 	 			 			 can framis museum 			 		 	 			 			 fabra observatory 			 		 	 			 			 the arc de triomf 			 		 	 			 			 castell dels tres dragons 			 		 	 			 			 hotel arts (left) and torre mapfre (right) 			 		 	 			 			 torre agbar 			 		 	 			 			 the torre de collserola on tibidabo 			 		 	 			 			 sagrat cor on tibidabo 			 		 	 			 			 the view from gaudí's park güell 			 		 	 			 			 port vell aerial tramway 			 		 	 			 			 statue of christopher columbus 			 		 	 			 			 w barcelona (hotel vela) 			 		 	 			 			 colón building 			 		 	 			 			 magic fountain of montjuïc 			 		 	 			 			 the venetian towers in plaça d'espanya 			 		 	 			 			 plaça de catalunya 			 		 	 			 			 la rambla 			 		 	 			 			 gothic quarter 			 		 	 			 			 barcelona's old customs building at port vell 			 		 	 			 			 la illa de la discòrdia 			 		 international relations twin towns – sister cities see also: list of twin towns and sister cities in spain barcelona is twinned with:[ ] 	 antwerp, belgium ( ) 	 athens, greece ( ) 	 boston, united states ( ) 	 busan, south korea ( ) 	 cologne, germany ( ) 	 dublin, ireland ( ) 	 gaza city, palestine ( ) 	 havana, cuba ( ) 	 istanbul, turkey ( ) 	 kobe, japan ( ) 	 monterrey, mexico ( ) 	 montevideo, uruguay ( ) 	 montpellier, france ( ) 	 rio de janeiro, brazil ( ) 	 saint petersburg, russia ( ) 	 san francisco, united states ( ) 	 são paulo, brazil ( ) 	 sarajevo, bosnia and herzegovina ( ) 	 shanghai, china ( ) 	 tel aviv, israel ( ) 	 tunis, tunisia ( ) 	 valparaíso, chile ( ) partnership and friendship barcelona also cooperates with:[ ] 	 amman, jordan 	 guangzhou, china 	 isfahan, iran 	 kyoto, japan 	 lampedusa, italy 	 lesbos, greece 	 maputo, mozambique 	 new york city, united states 	 ningbo, china 	 paris, france 	 rosario, argentina 	 saïda, algeria 	 seoul, south korea 	 tétouan, morocco 	 turin, italy notable people further information: category:people from barcelona see also 	 spain portal 	 european union portal 	outline of barcelona 	architecture of barcelona 	list of markets in barcelona 	list of tallest buildings in barcelona 	plans for winter olympics held in barcelona 	public art in barcelona 	mobile world congress 	opencities notes and references notes citations 	^ "ajuntament de barcelona". generalitat of catalonia. archived from the original on january . retrieved november . 	^ "el municipi en xifres: barcelona". statistical institute of catalonia. archived from the original on november . retrieved november . 	^ a b c d demographia: world urban areas archived may at the wayback machine – demographia, april 	^ a b population on january by broad age group, sex and metropolitan regions archived august at 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la peira 	vallbona 	verdum 	vilapicina i la torre llobeta 	sant andreu	 	baró de viver 	bon pastor 	el congrés i els indians 	navas 	sant andreu de palomar 	la sagrera 	trinitat vella 	sant martí	 	el besòs i el maresme 	el clot 	el camp de l'arpa del clot 	diagonal mar i el front marítim del poblenou 	el parc i la llacuna del poblenou 	el poblenou 	provençals del poblenou 	sant martí de provençals 	la verneda i la pau 	la vila olímpica del poblenou 	 	v 	t 	e barcelona landmarks 	beaches	 	barceloneta 	sant sebastià 	somorrostro 	buildings and structures	 	ancient synagogue 	arc de triomf 	arenas de barcelona 	avinguda diagonal 	barcelona cathedral 	barcelona pavilion 	barcelona royal shipyard 	basilica of our lady of mercy 	basilica of saint joseph oriol 	basilica of saints justus and pastor 	basilica of the immaculate conception 	bellesguard 	casa amatller 	casa batlló 	casa bonaventura ferrer 	casa bonet 	casa calvet 	casa de les punxes 	casa lleó morera 	casa martí 	casa milà 	casa vicens 	castle of the three dragons 	columbus monument 	diagonal zero zero 	dona i ocell 	els quatre gats 	estació de frança 	fabra observatory 	font de canaletes 	forum building 	fossar de les moreres 	habitat sky 	hospital de sant pau 	hotel arts 	jonqueres monastery 	la boqueria 	la monumental 	magic fountain of montjuïc 	mercat del born 	monastery of pedralbes 	montjuïc castle 	montjuïc communications tower 	national library of catalonia 	old hospital de la santa creu 	palau de la generalitat de catalunya 	palau del parlament de catalunya 	palau güell 	palau nacional 	palau reial de pedralbes 	palau reial major 	palau robert 	poble espanyol 	port olímpic 	port vell 	sagrada família 	santa maria del mar 	santa maria del pi 	temple expiatori del sagrat cor 	torre de collserola 	torre glòries 	venetian towers 	virreina palace 	world trade center barcelona 	museums	 	archaeology museum of catalonia 	barcelona museum of contemporary art 	caixaforum barcelona 	can framis museum 	centre d'art santa mònica 	centre de cultura contemporània de barcelona 	cosmocaixa barcelona 	fc barcelona museum 	fundació antoni tàpies 	fundació joan miró 	gabinet de les arts gràfiques 	gaudí house museum 	jardí botànic de barcelona 	maritime museum 	museu barbier-mueller d'art precolombí 	museu de la música 	museu de les arts decoratives 	museu frederic marès 	museu nacional d'art de catalunya 	museu picasso 	museu tèxtil i d'indumentària 	museu de la xocolata 	museum of the history of barcelona 	museum of the history of catalonia 	olympic and sports museum joan antoni samaranch 	perfume museum 	vil·la joana 	performing arts	 	l'auditori 	coliseum 	gran teatre del liceu 	palau de la música catalana 	teatre grec 	teatre lliure 	teatre nacional de catalunya 	teatre principal 	parks and gardens	 	catalunya en miniatura 	mossèn costa i llobera gardens 	oreneta park 	parc de la ciutadella 	parc de la creueta del coll 	park güell 	parc joan miró 	parc del laberint d'horta 	streets and squares	 	avinguda diagonal 	avinguda meridiana 	gran via de les corts catalanes 	la rambla 	passeig de gràcia 	plaça d'espanya 	plaça d'ildefons cerdà 	plaça de catalunya 	plaça de francesc macià 	plaça del rei 	plaça reial 	plaça sant jaume 	rambla de catalunya 	sports venues	 	anella olímpica 	camp de les corts 	camp municipal narcís sala 	camp nou 	estadi olímpic lluís companys 	mini estadi 	palau blaugrana 	palau dels esports 	palau sant jordi 	sarrià stadium 	zoos	 	aquarium barcelona 	barcelona zoo 	 	v 	t 	e transport in barcelona 	road	 	motorways	 	a- 	a- 	ap- 	ap- 	b- 	b- 	b- 	b- 	c- 	c- 	c- 	c- 	c- 	c- 	ring roads	 	b- (ronda litoral) 	b- (ronda dalt) 	b- 	b- 	public transport	 	companies	 	atm 	fgc 	renfe 	tmb 	trammet 	networks	 	buses 	metro 	rodalies 	tramways 	trambaix 	trambesòs 	stations	 	bus	 	nord 	sagrera (under construction) 	sants 	train (adif)	 	frança 	sagrera (under construction) 	sants 	airport	 	barcelona–el prat airport 	sabadell airport (domestic flights) 	seaport	 	port of barcelona 	leisure	 	bicing 	bus (tourist) 	montjuïc cable car 	montjuïc funicular 	port vell aerial tramway 	tibidabo funicular 	vallvidrera funicular 	 	 category 	 	v 	t 	e municipalities of barcelonès 	 	badalona 	barcelona 	l'hospitalet de llobregat 	sant adrià de besòs 	santa coloma de gramenet 	 	v 	t 	e municipalities in the province of barcelona 	 , , +	 	barcelona 	 	 , +	 	l'hospitalet de llobregat 	 , +	 	badalona 	sabadell 	terrassa 	 , +	 	mataró 	santa coloma de gramenet 	 , +	 	cornellà de llobregat 	manresa 	sant boi de llobregat 	sant cugat del vallès 	 , +	 	castelldefels 	cerdanyola del vallès 	granollers 	mollet del vallès 	el prat de llobregat 	rubí 	viladecans 	vilanova i la geltrú 	 , +	 	barberà del vallès 	esplugues de llobregat 	gavà 	igualada 	martorell 	molins de rei 	montcada i reixac 	pineda de mar 	premià de mar 	ripollet 	sant adrià de besòs 	sant andreu de la barca 	sant feliu de llobregat 	sant joan despí 	sant pere de ribes 	sant vicenç dels horts 	santa perpètua de mogoda 	sitges 	vic 	vilafranca del penedès 	under , 	 	abrera 	aguilar de segarra 	aiguafreda 	alella 	alpens 	l'ametlla del vallès 	arenys de mar 	arenys de munt 	argençola 	argentona 	artés 	avià 	avinyó 	avinyonet del penedès 	badia del vallès 	bagà 	balenyà 	balsareny 	begues 	bellprat 	berga 	bigues i riells 	borredà 	el bruc 	el brull 	les cabanyes 	cabrera de mar 	cabrera d'anoia 	cabrils 	calaf 	calders 	caldes de montbui 	caldes d'estrac 	calella 	calonge de segarra 	calldetenes 	callús 	campins 	canet de mar 	canovelles 	cànoves i samalús 	canyelles 	capellades 	capolat 	cardedeu 	cardona 	carme 	casserres 	castell de l'areny 	castellar de n'hug 	castellar del riu 	castellar del vallès 	castellbell i el vilar 	castellbisbal 	castellcir 	castellet i la gornal 	castellfollit de riubregós 	castellfollit del boix 	castellgalí 	castellnou de bages 	castellolí 	castellterçol 	castellví de la marca 	castellví de rosanes 	centelles 	cercs 	cervelló 	collbató 	collsuspina 	copons 	corbera de llobregat 	cubelles 	dosrius 	esparreguera 	l'espunyola 	l'esquirol 	estany 	figaró-montmany 	fígols 	fogars de la selva 	fogars de montclús 	folgueroles 	fonollosa 	font-rubí 	les franqueses del vallès 	gaià 	gallifa 	la garriga 	gelida 	gironella 	gisclareny 	la granada 	granera 	gualba 	guardiola de berguedà 	gurb 	els hostalets de pierola 	jorba 	la llacuna 	la llagosta 	lliçà d'amunt 	lliçà de vall 	llinars del vallès 	lluçà 	malgrat de mar 	malla 	manlleu 	marganell 	martorelles 	les masies de roda 	les masies de voltregà 	el masnou 	masquefa 	matadepera 	mediona 	moià 	monistrol de calders 	monistrol de montserrat 	montclar 	montesquiu 	montgat 	montmajor 	montmaneu 	montmeló 	montornès del vallès 	montseny 	muntanyola 	mura 	navarcles 	navàs 	la nou de berguedà 	Òdena 	olèrdola 	olesa de bonesvalls 	olesa de montserrat 	olivella 	olost 	olvan 	orís 	oristà 	orpí 	Òrrius 	pacs del penedès 	palafolls 	palau-solità i plegamans 	la palma de cervelló 	pallejà 	el papiol 	parets del vallès 	perafita 	piera 	el pla del penedès 	la pobla de claramunt 	la pobla de lillet 	polinyà 	el pont de vilomara i rocafort 	pontons 	prats de lluçanès 	els prats de rei 	premià de dalt 	puigdàlber 	puig-reig 	pujalt 	la quar 	rajadell 	rellinars 	la roca del vallès 	roda de ter 	rubió 	rupit i pruit 	sagàs 	saldes 	sallent 	sant agustí de lluçanès 	sant andreu de llavaneres 	sant antoni de vilamajor 	sant bartomeu del grau 	sant boi de lluçanès 	sant cebrià de vallalta 	sant celoni 	sant climent de llobregat 	sant cugat sesgarrigues 	sant esteve de palautordera 	sant esteve sesrovires 	sant feliu de codines 	sant feliu sasserra 	sant fost de campsentelles 	sant fruitós de bages 	sant hipòlit de voltregà 	sant iscle de vallalta 	sant jaume de frontanyà 	sant joan de vilatorrada 	sant julià de cerdanyola 	sant julià de vilatorta 	sant just desvern 	sant llorenç d'hortons 	sant llorenç savall 	sant martí d'albars 	sant martí de centelles 	sant martí de tous 	sant martí sarroca 	sant martí sesgueioles 	sant mateu de bages 	sant pere de riudebitlles 	sant pere de torelló 	sant pere de vilamajor 	sant pere sallavinera 	sant pol de mar 	sant quintí de mediona 	sant quirze de besora 	sant quirze del vallès 	sant quirze safaja 	sant sadurní d'anoia 	sant sadurní d'osormort 	sant salvador de guardiola 	sant vicenç de castellet 	sant vicenç de montalt 	sant vicenç de torelló 	santa cecília de voltregà 	santa coloma de cervelló 	santa eugènia de berga 	santa eulàlia de riuprimer 	santa eulàlia de ronçana 	santa fe del penedès 	santa margarida de montbui 	santa margarida i els monjos 	santa maria de besora 	santa maria de martorelles 	santa maria de merlès 	santa maria de miralles 	santa maria de palautordera 	santa maria d'oló 	santa susanna 	santpedor 	sentmenat 	seva 	sobremunt 	sora 	subirats 	súria 	tagamanent 	talamanca 	taradell 	tavèrnoles 	tavertet 	teià 	tiana 	tona 	tordera 	torelló 	la torre de claramunt 	torrelavit 	torrelles de foix 	torrelles de llobregat 	ullastrell 	vacarisses 	vallbona d'anoia 	vallcebre 	vallgorguina 	vallirana 	vallromanes 	veciana 	vilada 	viladecavalls 	vilalba sasserra 	vilanova de sau 	vilanova del camí 	vilanova del vallès 	vilassar de dalt 	vilassar de mar 	vilobí del penedès 	viver i serrateix 	 	v 	t 	e cities in spain by population 	 , , +	 	madrid 	barcelona 	 , - , 	 	valencia 	seville 	zaragoza 	málaga 	 , - , 	 	murcia 	palma 	las palmas de gran canaria 	bilbao 	alicante 	cordoba 	valladolid 	vigo 	gijón 	l'hospitalet de llobregat 	a coruña 	vitoria-gasteiz 	granada 	elche 	oviedo 	badalona 	cartagena 	terrassa 	jerez de la frontera 	sabadell 	santa cruz de tenerife 	móstoles 	alcalá de henares 	 , - , 	 	pamplona 	fuenlabrada 	almería 	leganés 	san sebastián 	burgos 	santander 	castellón de la plana 	getafe 	albacete 	alcorcón 	logroño 	san cristóbal de la laguna 	badajoz 	salamanca 	huelva 	lleida 	marbella 	tarragona 	león 	cádiz 	lleida 	dos hermanas 	tarragona 	torrejón de ardoz 	parla 	mataró 	algeciras 	santa coloma de gramenet 	alcobendas 	jaén 	ourense 	reus 	barakaldo 	girona 	 	complete list 	 	v 	t 	e capitals of provinces of spain 	 	a coruña 	albacete 	alicante 	almería 	Ávila 	badajoz 	barcelona 	bilbao 	burgos 	cáceres 	cádiz 	castellón de la plana 	ciudad real 	córdoba 	cuenca 	donostia-san sebastián 	girona 	granada 	guadalajara 	huelva 	huesca 	jaén 	logroño 	las palmas 	león 	lleida 	lugo 	madrid 	málaga 	murcia 	ourense 	oviedo 	palencia 	palma 	pamplona 	pontevedra 	salamanca 	santander 	santa cruz 	segovia 	seville 	soria 	tarragona 	teruel 	toledo 	valencia 	valladolid 	vitoria-gasteiz 	zamora 	zaragoza 	 	 	v 	t 	e capitals of autonomous communities of spain 	 	seville 	andalusia 	zaragoza 	aragon 	oviedo 	asturias 	palma 	balearic islands 	vitoria-gasteiz 	basque country 	santa cruz & las palmas 	canary islands 	santander 	cantabria 	toledo 	castilla–la mancha 	valladolid 	de facto, castile and león 	barcelona 	catalonia 	mérida 	extremadura 	santiago de compostela 	galicia 	logroño 	la rioja 	madrid 	community of madrid 	murcia 	region of murcia 	pamplona 	navarre 	valencia 	valencian community 	ceuta 	melilla 	 	 autonomous cities 	 	v 	t 	e summer olympic games host cities 	 	 : athens 	 : paris 	 : st. louis 	 : london 	 : stockholm 	 : none[c ] 	 : antwerp 	 : paris 	 : amsterdam 	 : los angeles 	 : berlin 	 : none[c ] 	 : none[c ] 	 : london 	 : helsinki 	 : melbourne 	 : rome 	 : tokyo 	 : mexico city 	 : munich 	 : montreal 	 : moscow 	 : los angeles 	 : seoul 	 : barcelona 	 : atlanta 	 : sydney 	 : athens 	 : beijing 	 : london 	 : rio de janeiro 	 : tokyo[c ] 	 : paris 	 : los angeles 	[c ] cancelled due to world war i; [c ] cancelled due to world war ii; [c ] postponed to due to the covid- pandemic 	 	v 	t 	e summer paralympic games host cities 		 	 : rome 	 : tokyo 	 : tel aviv 	 : heidelberg 	 : toronto 	 	 : arnhem 	 : new york city / stoke mandeville 	 : seoul 	 : barcelona / madrid 	 : atlanta 	 	 : sydney 	 : athens 	 : beijing 	 : london 	 	 : rio de janeiro 	 : tokyo 	 : paris 	 : los angeles 	 	v 	t 	e mediterranean games 	 	alexandria 	barcelona 	beirut 	naples 	tunis 	İzmir 	algiers 	split 	casablanca 	latakia 	athens 	languedoc-roussillon 	bari 	tunis 	almería 	pescara 	mersin 	tarragona 	oran 	taranto 	 	v 	t 	e capitals of european states and territories 	capitals of dependent territories and states whose sovereignty is disputed shown in italics. 	sovereign states	 	amsterdam, netherlands 	andorra la vella, andorra 	ankara, turkey 	athens, greece 	baku, azerbaijan 	belgrade, serbia 	berlin, germany 	bern, switzerland 	bratislava, slovakia 	brussels, belgium 	bucharest, romania 	budapest, hungary 	chișinău, moldova 	copenhagen, denmark 	dublin, ireland 	helsinki, finland 	kyiv, ukraine 	lisbon, portugal 	ljubljana, slovenia 	london, united kingdom 	luxembourg, luxembourg 	madrid, spain 	minsk, belarus 	monaco 	moscow, russia 	nicosia, cyprus 	nur-sultan, kazakhstan 	oslo, norway 	paris, france 	podgorica, montenegro 	prague, czech republic 	reykjavík, iceland 	riga, latvia 	rome, italy 	san marino, san marino 	sarajevo, bosnia and herzegovina 	skopje, north macedonia 	sofia, bulgaria 	stockholm, sweden 	tallinn, estonia 	tbilisi, georgia 	tirana, albania 	vaduz, liechtenstein 	valletta, malta 	vatican city 	vienna, austria 	vilnius, lithuania 	warsaw, poland 	yerevan, armenia 	zagreb, croatia 	states with limited recognition	 	north nicosia, northern cyprus 	pristina, kosovo 	stepanakert, republic of artsakh 	sukhumi, abkhazia 	tiraspol, transnistria 	tskhinvali, south ossetia 	dependencies	 	united kingdom	 	constituent countries	 	cardiff, wales 	belfast, northern ireland 	edinburgh, scotland 	crown dependencies	 	douglas, isle of man 	episkopi cantonment, akrotiri and dhekelia 	gibraltar, gibraltar 	saint helier, jersey 	saint peter port, guernsey 	other	 	longyearbyen, svalbard (norway) 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wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 ben jonson - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	ben jonson 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		for other people with the same name, see ben johnson (disambiguation). th-century english playwright, poet, and actor 	ben jonson 	ben jonson (c. ), by abraham blyenberch; oil on canvas painting at the national portrait gallery, london 	born	c. june westminster, london, england 	died	c. august (aged ) london,[ ] england 	occupation	playwright, poet 	nationality	english 	 	signature	 benjamin jonson (c. june – c. august [ ]) was an english playwright and poet. johnson's artistry exerted a lasting influence upon english poetry and stage comedy. he popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satirical plays every man in his humour[ ] ( ), volpone, or the fox (c. ), the alchemist ( ) and bartholomew fair ( ) and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry. "he is generally regarded as the second most important english dramatist, after william shakespeare, during the reign of james i."[ ] jonson was a classically educated, well-read and cultured man of the english renaissance with an appetite for controversy (personal and political, artistic and intellectual) whose cultural influence was of unparalleled breadth upon the playwrights and the poets of the jacobean era ( – ) and of the caroline era ( – ).[ ][ ] contents 	 early life 	 career 	 royal patronage 	 religion 	 decline and death 	 his work 	 . drama 	 . poetry 	 relationship with shakespeare 	 reception and influence 	 . drama 	 . poetry 	 jonson's works 	 . plays 	 . masques 	 . other works 	 notes 	 citations 	 references 	 further reading 	 . biographies of ben jonson 	 external links early life[edit] westminster school master william camden cultivated the artistic genius of ben jonson. the scottish poet william drummond of hawthornden was friend and confidant to jonson. in midlife, jonson claimed that his paternal grandfather, who 'served king henry and was a gentleman',[ ] was a member of the extended johnston family of annandale in the dumfries and galloway, a genealogy that is attested by the three spindles (rhombi) in the jonson family coat of arms: one spindle is a diamond-shaped heraldic device used by the johnston family. jonson's father lost his property, was imprisoned, and suffered forfeiture under queen mary; having become a clergyman upon his release, he died a month before his son's birth.[ ] jonson's mother married a master bricklayer two years later.[ ][ ] jonson attended school in st martin's lane.[ ] later, a family friend paid for his studies at westminster school, where the antiquarian, historian, topographer and officer of arms, william camden ( – ) was one of his masters. in the event, the pupil and the master became friends, and the intellectual influence of camden's broad-ranging scholarship upon jonson's art and literary style remained notable, until camden's death in . on leaving westminster school, jonson was to have attended the university of cambridge, to continue his book learning but did not, because of his unwilled apprenticeship to his bricklayer stepfather.[ ][ ] according to the churchman and historian thomas fuller ( – ), jonson at this time built a garden wall in lincoln's inn. after having been an apprentice bricklayer, ben jonson went to the netherlands and volunteered to soldier with the english regiments of francis vere ( – ) in flanders. the hawthornden manuscripts ( ), of the conversations between ben jonson and the poet william drummond of hawthornden[ ] ( – ), report that, when in flanders, jonson engaged, fought and killed an enemy soldier in single combat, and took for trophies the weapons of the vanquished soldier.[ ] after his military activity on the continent, jonson returned to england and worked as an actor and as a playwright. as an actor, jonson was the protagonist “hieronimo” (geronimo) in the play the spanish tragedy (ca. ), by thomas kyd ( – ), the first revenge tragedy in english literature. moreover, by , he was a working playwright employed by philip henslowe, the leading producer for the english public theatre; by the next year, the production of every man in his humour ( ) had established jonson's reputation as a dramatist.[ ][ ] regarding his marriage jonson described his wife to william drummond as "a shrew, yet honest". the identity of jonson's wife has always been obscure, yet she sometimes is identified as "ann lewis", the woman who married a benjamin jonson in , at the church of st magnus-the-martyr, near london bridge.[ ] concerning the family of anne lewis and ben jonson, the st. martin's church registers indicate that mary jonson, their eldest daughter, died in november , at six months of age. then a decade later, in , benjamin jonson, their eldest son, died of bubonic plague when he was seven years old; to lament and honour the dead boy, benjamin jonson père wrote the elegiac on my first sonne ( ). moreover, years later, a second son, also named benjamin jonson, died in . in that period, ann lewis and ben jonson lived separate lives for five years; their matrimonial arrangement cast ann lewis as the housewife jonson, and ben jonson as the artist who enjoyed the residential hospitality of his patrons, sir robert townshend and lord aubigny, esme stuart, rd duke of lennox.[ ] career[edit] by summer , jonson had a fixed engagement in the admiral's men, then performing under philip henslowe's management at the rose.[ ] john aubrey reports, on uncertain authority, that jonson was not successful as an actor; whatever his skills as an actor, he was evidently more valuable to the company as a writer.[ ] by this time jonson had begun to write original plays for the admiral's men; in he was mentioned by francis meres in his palladis tamia as one of "the best for tragedy."[ ] none of his early tragedies survive, however. an undated comedy, the case is altered, may be his earliest surviving play.[ ] in a play which he co-wrote with thomas nashe, the isle of dogs, was suppressed after causing great offence. arrest warrants for jonson and nashe were issued by queen elizabeth i's so-called interrogator, richard topcliffe. jonson was jailed in marshalsea prison and charged with "leude and mutynous behaviour", while nashe managed to escape to great yarmouth. two of the actors, gabriel spenser and robert shaw, were also imprisoned. a year later, jonson was again briefly imprisoned, this time in newgate prison, for killing gabriel spenser in a duel on september in hogsden fields[ ] (today part of hoxton). tried on a charge of manslaughter, jonson pleaded guilty but was released by benefit of clergy,[ ] a legal ploy through which he gained leniency by reciting a brief bible verse (the neck-verse), forfeiting his 'goods and chattels' and being branded on his left thumb.[ ] while in jail jonson converted to catholicism, possibly through the influence of fellow-prisoner father thomas wright, a jesuit priest.[ ] in jonson produced his first great success, every man in his humour, capitalising on the vogue for humorous plays which george chapman had begun with an humorous day's mirth. william shakespeare was among the first actors to be cast. jonson followed this in with every man out of his humour, a pedantic attempt to imitate aristophanes. it is not known whether this was a success on stage, but when published it proved popular and went through several editions.[citation needed] jonson's other work for the theatre in the last years of elizabeth i's reign was marked by fighting and controversy. cynthia's revels was produced by the children of the chapel royal at blackfriars theatre in . it satirised both john marston, who jonson believed had accused him of lustfulness in histriomastix, and thomas dekker. jonson attacked the two poets again in poetaster ( ). dekker responded with satiromastix, subtitled "the untrussing of the humorous poet".[ ] the final scene of this play, whilst certainly not to be taken at face value as a portrait of jonson, offers a caricature that is recognisable from drummond's report – boasting about himself and condemning other poets, criticising performances of his plays and calling attention to himself in any available way.[citation needed] this "war of the theatres" appears to have ended with reconciliation on all sides. jonson collaborated with dekker on a pageant welcoming james i to england in although drummond reports that jonson called dekker a rogue. marston dedicated the malcontent to jonson and the two collaborated with chapman on eastward ho, a play whose anti-scottish sentiment briefly landed both jonson and chapman in jail.[ ] royal patronage[edit] at the beginning of the english reign of james vi and i in jonson joined other poets and playwrights in welcoming the new king. jonson quickly adapted himself to the additional demand for masques and entertainments introduced with the new reign and fostered by both the king and his consort[ ] anne of denmark. in addition to his popularity on the public stage and in the royal hall, he enjoyed the patronage of aristocrats such as elizabeth sidney (daughter of sir philip sidney) and lady mary wroth. this connection with the sidney family provided the impetus for one of jonson's most famous lyrics, the country house poem to penshurst. in february john manningham reported that jonson was living on robert townsend, son of sir roger townshend, and "scorns the world."[ ] perhaps this explains why his trouble with english authorities continued. that same year he was questioned by the privy council about sejanus, a politically themed play about corruption in the roman empire. he was again in trouble for topical allusions in a play, now lost, in which he took part. shortly after his release from a brief spell of imprisonment imposed to mark the authorities' displeasure at the work, in the second week of october , he was present at a supper party attended by most of the gunpowder plot conspirators. after the plot's discovery he appears to have avoided further imprisonment; he volunteered what he knew of the affair to the investigator robert cecil and the privy council. father thomas wright, who heard fawkes's confession, was known to jonson from prison in and cecil may have directed him to bring the priest before the council, as a witness.[ ] title page of the workes of beniamin ionson ( ), the first folio publication that included stage plays at the same time, jonson pursued a more prestigious career, writing masques for james's court. the satyr ( ) and the masque of blackness ( ) are two of about two dozen masques which jonson wrote for james or for queen anne, some of them performed at apethorpe palace when the king was in residence. the masque of blackness was praised by algernon charles swinburne as the consummate example of this now-extinct genre, which mingled speech, dancing and spectacle. on many of these projects he collaborated, not always peacefully, with designer inigo jones. for example, jones designed the scenery for jonson's masque oberon, the faery prince performed at whitehall on january in which prince henry, eldest son of james i, appeared in the title role. perhaps partly as a result of this new career, jonson gave up writing plays for the public theatres for a decade. he later told drummond that he had made less than two hundred pounds on all his plays together. in jonson received a yearly pension of marks (about £ ), leading some to identify him as england's first poet laureate. this sign of royal favour may have encouraged him to publish the first volume of the folio collected edition of his works that year.[ ] other volumes followed in – and . (see: ben jonson folios) on july jonson set out from bishopsgate in london to walk to edinburgh, arriving in scotland's capital on september. for the most part he followed the great north road, and was treated to lavish and enthusiastic welcomes in both towns and country houses.[ ] on his arrival he lodged initially with john stuart, a cousin of king james, in leith, and was made an honorary burgess of edinburgh at a dinner laid on by the city on september.[ ] he stayed in scotland until late january , and the best-remembered hospitality he enjoyed was that of the scottish poet, william drummond of hawthornden,[ ] sited on the river esk. drummond undertook to record as much of jonson's conversation as he could in his diary, and thus recorded aspects of jonson's personality that would otherwise have been less clearly seen. jonson delivers his opinions, in drummond's terse reporting, in an expansive and even magisterial mood. drummond noted he was "a great lover and praiser of himself, a contemner and scorner of others".[ ] on returning to england, he was awarded an honorary master of arts degree from oxford university. the period between and may be viewed as jonson's heyday. by he had produced all the plays on which his present reputation as a dramatist is based, including the tragedy catiline (acted and printed ), which achieved limited success[ ] and the comedies volpone (acted and printed in ), epicoene, or the silent woman ( ), the alchemist ( ), bartholomew fair ( ) and the devil is an ass ( ).[ ] the alchemist and volpone were immediately successful. of epicoene, jonson told drummond of a satirical verse which reported that the play's subtitle was appropriate, since its audience had refused to applaud the play (i.e., remained silent). yet epicoene, along with bartholomew fair and (to a lesser extent) the devil is an ass have in modern times achieved a certain degree of recognition. while his life during this period was apparently more settled than it had been in the s, his financial security was still not assured. religion[edit] jonson recounted that his father had been a prosperous protestant landowner until the reign of "bloody mary" and had suffered imprisonment and the forfeiture of his wealth during that monarch's attempt to restore england to catholicism. on elizabeth's accession he was freed and was able to travel to london to become a clergyman.[ ][ ] (all that is known of jonson's father, who died a month before his son was born, comes from the poet's own narrative.) jonson's elementary education was in a small church school attached to st martin-in-the-fields parish, and at the age of about seven he secured a place at westminster school, then part of westminster abbey. notwithstanding this emphatically protestant grounding, jonson maintained an interest in catholic doctrine throughout his adult life and, at a particularly perilous time while a religious war with spain was widely expected and persecution of catholics was intensifying, he converted to the faith.[ ][ ] this took place in october , while jonson was on remand in newgate gaol charged with manslaughter. jonson's biographer ian donaldson is among those who suggest that the conversion was instigated by father thomas wright, a jesuit priest who had resigned from the order over his acceptance of queen elizabeth's right to rule in england.[ ][ ] wright, although placed under house arrest on the orders of lord burghley, was permitted to minister to the inmates of london prisons.[ ] it may have been that jonson, fearing that his trial would go against him, was seeking the unequivocal absolution that catholicism could offer if he were sentenced to death.[ ] alternatively, he could have been looking to personal advantage from accepting conversion since father wright's protector, the earl of essex, was among those who might hope to rise to influence after the succession of a new monarch.[ ] jonson's conversion came at a weighty time in affairs of state; the royal succession, from the childless elizabeth, had not been settled and essex's catholic allies were hopeful that a sympathetic ruler might attain the throne. conviction, and certainly not expedience alone, sustained jonson's faith during the troublesome twelve years he remained a catholic. his stance received attention beyond the low-level intolerance to which most followers of that faith were exposed. the first draft of his play sejanus was banned for "popery", and did not re-appear until some offending passages were cut.[ ] in january he (with anne, his wife) appeared before the consistory court in london to answer a charge of recusancy, with jonson alone additionally accused of allowing his fame as a catholic to "seduce" citizens to the cause.[ ] this was a serious matter (the gunpowder plot was still fresh in mind) but he explained that his failure to take communion was only because he had not found sound theological endorsement for the practice, and by paying a fine of thirteen shillings ( pence) he escaped the more serious penalties at the authorities' disposal. his habit was to slip outside during the sacrament, a common routine at the time—indeed it was one followed by the royal consort, queen anne, herself—to show political loyalty while not offending the conscience.[ ] leading church figures, including john overall, dean of st paul's, were tasked with winning jonson back to protestantism, but these overtures were resisted.[ ] in may henry iv of france was assassinated, purportedly in the name of the pope; he had been a catholic monarch respected in england for tolerance towards protestants, and his murder seems to have been the immediate cause of jonson's decision to rejoin the church of england.[ ][ ] he did this in flamboyant style, pointedly drinking a full chalice of communion wine at the eucharist to demonstrate his renunciation of the catholic rite, in which the priest alone drinks the wine.[ ][ ] the exact date of the ceremony is unknown.[ ] however, his interest in catholic belief and practice remained with him until his death.[ ] decline and death[edit] jonson's productivity began to decline in the s, but he remained well known. in that time, rose to the prominence the sons of ben or the "tribe of ben" - those younger poets such as robert herrick, richard lovelace, and sir john suckling who took their bearing in verse from jonson. however, a series of setbacks drained his strength and damaged his reputation. he resumed writing regular plays in the s, but these are not considered among his best. they are of significant interest, however, for their portrayal of charles i's england. the staple of news, for example, offers a remarkable look at the earliest stage of english journalism. the lukewarm reception given that play was, however, nothing compared to the dismal failure of the new inn; the cold reception given this play prompted jonson to write a poem condemning his audience (an ode to himself), which in turn prompted thomas carew, one of the "tribe of ben," to respond in a poem that asks jonson to recognise his own decline.[ ] the principal factor in jonson's partial eclipse was, however, the death of james and the accession of king charles i in . jonson felt neglected by the new court. a decisive quarrel with jones harmed his career as a writer of court masques, although he continued to entertain the court on an irregular basis. for his part, charles displayed a certain degree of care for the great poet of his father's day: he increased jonson's annual pension to £ and included a tierce of wine and beer. despite the strokes that he suffered in the s, jonson continued to write. at his death in he seems to have been working on another play, the sad shepherd. though only two acts are extant, this represents a remarkable new direction for jonson: a move into pastoral drama. during the early s he also conducted a correspondence with james howell, who warned him about disfavour at court in the wake of his dispute with jones. jonson died on or around august , and his funeral was held the next day. it was attended by 'all or the greatest part of the nobility then in town'.[ ] he is buried in the north aisle of the nave in westminster abbey, with the inscription "o rare ben johnson [sic]" set in the slab over his grave.[ ][ ] john aubrey, in a more meticulous record than usual, notes that a passer-by, john young of great milton, oxfordshire, saw the bare grave marker and on impulse paid a workman eighteen pence to make the inscription. another theory suggests that the tribute came from william davenant, jonson's successor as poet laureate (and card-playing companion of young), as the same phrase appears on davenant's nearby gravestone, but essayist leigh hunt contends that davenant's wording represented no more than young's coinage, cheaply re-used.[ ][ ] the fact that jonson was buried in an upright position was an indication of his reduced circumstances at the time of his death,[ ] although it has also been written that he asked for a grave exactly  inches square from the monarch and received an upright grave to fit in the requested space.[ ][ ] it has been claimed that the inscription could be read "orare ben jonson" (pray for ben jonson), possibly in an allusion to jonson's acceptance of catholic doctrine during his lifetime (although he had returned to the church of england) but the carving shows a distinct space between "o" and "rare".[ ][ ][ ] a monument to jonson was erected in about by the earl of oxford and is in the eastern aisle of westminster abbey's poets' corner. it includes a portrait medallion and the same inscription as on the gravestone. it seems jonson was to have had a monument erected by subscription soon after his death but the english civil war intervened.[ ] his work[edit] 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (august ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) drama[edit] apart from two tragedies, sejanus and catiline, that largely failed to impress renaissance audiences, jonson's work for the public theatres was in comedy. these plays vary in some respects. the minor early plays, particularly those written for boy players, present somewhat looser plots and less-developed characters than those written later, for adult companies. already in the plays which were his salvos in the poet's war, he displays the keen eye for absurdity and hypocrisy that marks his best-known plays; in these early efforts, however, plot mostly takes second place to variety of incident and comic set-pieces. they are, also, notably ill-tempered. thomas davies called poetaster "a contemptible mixture of the serio-comic, where the names of augustus caesar, maecenas, virgil, horace, ovid and tibullus, are all sacrificed upon the altar of private resentment". another early comedy in a different vein, the case is altered, is markedly similar to shakespeare's romantic comedies in its foreign setting, emphasis on genial wit and love-plot. henslowe's diary indicates that jonson had a hand in numerous other plays, including many in genres such as english history with which he is not otherwise associated. the comedies of his middle career, from eastward hoe to the devil is an ass are for the most part city comedy, with a london setting, themes of trickery and money, and a distinct moral ambiguity, despite jonson's professed aim in the prologue to volpone to "mix profit with your pleasure". his late plays or "dotages", particularly the magnetic lady and the sad shepherd [wikidata], exhibit signs of an accommodation with the romantic tendencies of elizabethan comedy. within this general progression, however, jonson's comic style remained constant and easily recognisable. he announces his programme in the prologue to the folio version of every man in his humour: he promises to represent "deeds, and language, such as men do use". he planned to write comedies that revived the classical premises of elizabethan dramatic theory—or rather, since all but the loosest english comedies could claim some descent from plautus and terence, he intended to apply those premises with rigour.[ ] this commitment entailed negations: after the case is altered, jonson eschewed distant locations, noble characters, romantic plots and other staples of elizabethan comedy, focusing instead on the satiric and realistic inheritance of new comedy. he set his plays in contemporary settings, peopled them with recognisable types, and set them to actions that, if not strictly realistic, involved everyday motives such as greed and jealousy. in accordance with the temper of his age, he was often so broad in his characterisation that many of his most famous scenes border on the farcical (as william congreve, for example, judged epicoene). he was more diligent in adhering to the classical unities than many of his peers—although as margaret cavendish noted, the unity of action in the major comedies was rather compromised by jonson's abundance of incident. to this classical model jonson applied the two features of his style which save his classical imitations from mere pedantry: the vividness with which he depicted the lives of his characters, and the intricacy of his plots. coleridge, for instance, claimed that the alchemist had one of the three most perfect plots in literature. poetry[edit] "epitaph for cecilia bulstrode" manuscript, jonson's poetry, like his drama, is informed by his classical learning. some of his better-known poems are close translations of greek or roman models; all display the careful attention to form and style that often came naturally to those trained in classics in the humanist manner. jonson largely avoided the debates about rhyme and meter that had consumed elizabethan classicists such as thomas campion and gabriel harvey. accepting both rhyme and stress, jonson used them to mimic the classical qualities of simplicity, restraint and precision. "epigrams" (published in the folio) is an entry in a genre that was popular among late-elizabethan and jacobean audiences, although jonson was perhaps the only poet of his time to work in its full classical range. the epigrams explore various attitudes, most from the satiric stock of the day: complaints against women, courtiers and spies abound. the condemnatory poems are short and anonymous; jonson’s epigrams of praise, including a famous poem to camden and lines to lucy harington, are longer and are mostly addressed to specific individuals. although it is included among the epigrams, "on my first sonne" is neither satirical nor very short; the poem, intensely personal and deeply felt, typifies a genre that would come to be called "lyric poetry." it is possible that the spelling of 'son' as 'sonne' is meant to allude to the sonnet form, with which it shares some features. a few other so-called epigrams share this quality. jonson's poems of "the forest" also appeared in the first folio. most of the fifteen poems are addressed to jonson's aristocratic supporters, but the most famous are his country-house poem “to penshurst” and the poem “to celia” ("come, my celia, let us prove") that appears also in volpone. underwood, published in the expanded folio of , is a larger and more heterogeneous group of poems. it contains a celebration of charis, jonson's most extended effort at love poetry; various religious pieces; encomiastic poems including the poem to shakespeare and a sonnet on mary wroth; the execration against vulcan and others. the volume also contains three elegies which have often been ascribed to donne (one of them appeared in donne's posthumous collected poems). relationship with shakespeare[edit] a th-century engraving illustrating thomas fuller's story of shakespeare and jonson debating at the "mermaid tavern". there are many legends about jonson's rivalry with shakespeare, some of which may be true.[citation needed] william drummond reports that during their conversation, jonson scoffed at two apparent absurdities in shakespeare's plays: a nonsensical line in julius caesar and the setting of the winter's tale on the non-existent seacoast of bohemia. drummond also reported jonson as saying that shakespeare "wanted art" (i.e., lacked skill). whether drummond is viewed as accurate or not, the comments fit well with jonson's well-known theories about literature.[citation needed] in "de shakespeare nostrat" in timber, which was published posthumously and reflects his lifetime of practical experience, jonson offers a fuller and more conciliatory comment. he recalls being told by certain actors that shakespeare never blotted (i.e., crossed out) a line when he wrote. his own claimed response was "would he had blotted a thousand!"[a] however, jonson explains, "he was, indeed, honest and of an open and free nature, had an excellent phantasy, brave notions and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped".[ ] jonson concludes that "there was ever more in him to be praised than to be pardoned." when shakespeare died, he said, "he was not of an age, but for all time."[ ] thomas fuller relates stories of jonson and shakespeare engaging in debates in the mermaid tavern; fuller imagines conversations in which shakespeare would run rings around the more learned but more ponderous jonson. that the two men knew each other personally is beyond doubt, not only because of the tone of jonson's references to him but because shakespeare's company produced a number of jonson's plays, at least two of which (every man in his humour and sejanus his fall) shakespeare certainly acted in. however, it is now impossible to tell how much personal communication they had, and tales of their friendship cannot be substantiated.[citation needed] jonson's most influential and revealing commentary on shakespeare is the second of the two poems that he contributed to the prefatory verse that opens shakespeare's first folio. this poem, "to the memory of my beloved the author, mr. william shakespeare and what he hath left us", did a good deal to create the traditional view of shakespeare as a poet who, despite "small latine, and lesse greeke",[ ] had a natural genius. the poem has traditionally been thought to exemplify the contrast which jonson perceived between himself, the disciplined and erudite classicist, scornful of ignorance and sceptical of the masses, and shakespeare, represented in the poem as a kind of natural wonder whose genius was not subject to any rules except those of the audiences for which he wrote. but the poem itself qualifies this view: 	yet must i not give nature all: thy art, 	my gentle shakespeare, must enjoy a part. some view this elegy as a conventional exercise, but others see it as a heartfelt tribute to the "sweet swan of avon", the "soul of the age!" it has been argued that jonson helped to edit the first folio, and he may have been inspired to write this poem by reading his fellow playwright's works, a number of which had been previously either unpublished or available in less satisfactory versions, in a relatively complete form.[citation needed] reception and influence[edit] jonson was a towering literary figure, and his influence was enormous for he has been described as 'one of the most vigorous minds that ever added to the strength of english literature'.[ ] before the english civil war, the "tribe of ben" touted his importance, and during the restoration jonson's satirical comedies and his theory and practice of "humour characters" (which are often misunderstood; see william congreve's letters for clarification) was extremely influential, providing the blueprint for many restoration comedies. john aubrey wrote of jonson in brief lives. by jonson's status began to decline. in the romantic era, jonson suffered the fate of being unfairly compared and contrasted to shakespeare, as the taste for jonson's type of satirical comedy decreased. jonson was at times greatly appreciated by the romantics, but overall he was denigrated for not writing in a shakespearean vein. in , after more than two decades of research, cambridge university press published the first new edition of jonson's complete works for years.[ ] drama[edit] as g. e. bentley notes in shakespeare and jonson: their reputations in the seventeenth century compared, jonson's reputation was in some respects equal to shakespeare's in the th century. after the english theatres were reopened on the restoration of charles ii, jonson's work, along with shakespeare's and fletcher's, formed the initial core of the restoration repertory. it was not until after that shakespeare's plays (ordinarily in heavily revised forms) were more frequently performed than those of his renaissance contemporaries. many critics since the th century have ranked jonson below only shakespeare among english renaissance dramatists. critical judgment has tended to emphasise the very qualities that jonson himself lauds in his prefaces, in timber, and in his scattered prefaces and dedications: the realism and propriety of his language, the bite of his satire, and the care with which he plotted his comedies. for some critics, the temptation to contrast jonson (representing art or craft) with shakespeare (representing nature, or untutored genius) has seemed natural; jonson himself may be said to have initiated this interpretation in the second folio, and samuel butler drew the same comparison in his commonplace book later in the century. at the restoration, this sensed difference became a kind of critical dogma. charles de saint-Évremond placed jonson's comedies above all else in english drama, and charles gildon called jonson the father of english comedy. john dryden offered a more common assessment in the "essay of dramatic poesie," in which his avatar neander compares shakespeare to homer and jonson to virgil: the former represented profound creativity, the latter polished artifice. but "artifice" was in the th century almost synonymous with "art"; jonson, for instance, used "artificer" as a synonym for "artist" (discoveries, ). for lewis theobald, too, jonson "ow[ed] all his excellence to his art,” in contrast to shakespeare, the natural genius. nicholas rowe, to whom may be traced the legend that jonson owed the production of every man in his humour to shakespeare's intercession, likewise attributed jonson's excellence to learning, which did not raise him quite to the level of genius. a consensus formed: jonson was the first english poet to understand classical precepts with any accuracy, and he was the first to apply those precepts successfully to contemporary life. but there were also more negative spins on jonson's learned art; for instance, in the s, edward young casually remarked on the way in which jonson's learning worked, like samson's strength, to his own detriment. earlier, aphra behn, writing in defence of female playwrights, had pointed to jonson as a writer whose learning did not make him popular; unsurprisingly, she compares him unfavourably to shakespeare. particularly in the tragedies, with their lengthy speeches abstracted from sallust and cicero, augustan critics saw a writer whose learning had swamped his aesthetic judgment. in this period, alexander pope is exceptional in that he noted the tendency to exaggeration in these competing critical portraits: "it is ever the nature of parties to be in extremes; and nothing is so probable, as that because ben johnson had much the most learning, it was said on the one hand that shakespear had none at all; and because shakespear had much the most wit and fancy, it was retorted on the other, that johnson wanted both."[ ] for the most part, the th century consensus remained committed to the division that pope doubted; as late as the s, sarah fielding could put a brief recapitulation of this analysis in the mouth of a "man of sense" encountered by david simple. though his stature declined during the th century, jonson was still read and commented on throughout the century, generally in the kind of comparative and dismissive terms just described. heinrich wilhelm von gerstenberg translated parts of peter whalley's edition into german in . shortly before the romantic revolution, edward capell offered an almost unqualified rejection of jonson as a dramatic poet, who (he writes) "has very poor pretensions to the high place he holds among the english bards, as there is no original manner to distinguish him and the tedious sameness visible in his plots indicates a defect of genius."[ ] the disastrous failures of productions of volpone and epicoene in the early s no doubt bolstered a widespread sense that jonson had at last grown too antiquated for the contemporary public; if he still attracted enthusiasts such as earl camden and william gifford, he all but disappeared from the stage in the last quarter of the century. the romantic revolution in criticism brought about an overall decline in the critical estimation of jonson. hazlitt refers dismissively to jonson's "laborious caution." coleridge, while more respectful, describes jonson as psychologically superficial: “he was a very accurately observing man; but he cared only to observe what was open to, and likely to impress, the senses.” coleridge placed jonson second only to shakespeare; other romantic critics were less approving. the early th century was the great age for recovering renaissance drama. jonson, whose reputation had survived, appears to have been less interesting to some readers than writers such as thomas middleton or john heywood, who were in some senses "discoveries" of the th century. moreover, the emphasis which the romantic writers placed on imagination, and their concomitant tendency to distrust studied art, lowered jonson's status, if it also sharpened their awareness of the difference traditionally noted between jonson and shakespeare. this trend was by no means universal, however; william gifford, jonson's first editor of the th century, did a great deal to defend jonson's reputation during this period of general decline. in the next era, swinburne, who was more interested in jonson than most victorians, wrote, "the flowers of his growing have every quality but one which belongs to the rarest and finest among flowers: they have colour, form, variety, fertility, vigour: the one thing they want is fragrance” – by “fragrance,” swinburne means spontaneity. in the th century, jonson's body of work has been subject to a more varied set of analyses, broadly consistent with the interests and programmes of modern literary criticism. in an essay printed in the sacred wood, t. s. eliot attempted to repudiate the charge that jonson was an arid classicist by analysing the role of imagination in his dialogue. eliot was appreciative of jonson's overall conception and his "surface", a view consonant with the modernist reaction against romantic criticism, which tended to denigrate playwrights who did not concentrate on representations of psychological depth. around mid-century, a number of critics and scholars followed eliot's lead, producing detailed studies of jonson's verbal style. at the same time, study of elizabethan themes and conventions, such as those by e. e. stoll and m. c. bradbrook, provided a more vivid sense of how jonson's work was shaped by the expectations of his time. the proliferation of new critical perspectives after mid-century touched on jonson inconsistently. jonas barish was the leading figure among critics who appreciated jonson's artistry. on the other hand, jonson received less attention from the new critics than did some other playwrights and his work was not of programmatic interest to psychoanalytic critics. but jonson's career eventually made him a focal point for the revived sociopolitical criticism. jonson's works, particularly his masques and pageants, offer significant information regarding the relations of literary production and political power, as do his contacts with and poems for aristocratic patrons; moreover, his career at the centre of london's emerging literary world has been seen as exemplifying the development of a fully commodified literary culture. in this respect he is seen as a transitional figure, an author whose skills and ambition led him to a leading role both in the declining culture of patronage and in the rising culture of mass media. poetry[edit] jonson has been called 'the first poet laureate'.[ ] if jonson's reputation as a playwright has traditionally been linked to shakespeare, his reputation as a poet has, since the early th century, been linked to that of john donne. in this comparison, jonson represents the cavalier strain of poetry, emphasising grace and clarity of expression; donne, by contrast, epitomised the metaphysical school of poetry, with its reliance on strained, baroque metaphors and often vague phrasing. since the critics who made this comparison (herbert grierson for example), were to varying extents rediscovering donne, this comparison often worked to the detriment of jonson's reputation. in his time jonson was at least as influential as donne. in , historian edmund bolton named him the best and most polished english poet. that this judgment was widely shared is indicated by the admitted influence he had on younger poets. the grounds for describing jonson as the "father" of cavalier poets are clear: many of the cavalier poets described themselves as his "sons" or his "tribe". for some of this tribe, the connection was as much social as poetic; herrick described meetings at "the sun, the dog, the triple tunne".[ ] all of them, including those like herrick whose accomplishments in verse are generally regarded as superior to jonson's, took inspiration from jonson's revival of classical forms and themes, his subtle melodies, and his disciplined use of wit. in these respects jonson may be regarded as among the most important figures in the prehistory of english neoclassicism. the best of jonson's lyrics have remained current since his time; periodically, they experience a brief vogue, as after the publication of peter whalley's edition of . jonson's poetry continues to interest scholars for the light which it sheds on english literary history, such as politics, systems of patronage and intellectual attitudes. for the general reader, jonson's reputation rests on a few lyrics that, though brief, are surpassed for grace and precision by very few renaissance poems: "on my first sonne"; "to celia"; "to penshurst"; and the epitaph on salomon pavy, a boy player abducted from his parents who acted in jonson's plays. jonson's works[edit] plays[edit] 	a tale of a tub, comedy (c. revised performed ; printed ) 	the isle of dogs, comedy ( , with thomas nashe; lost) 	the case is altered, comedy (c. – ; printed ), possibly with henry porter and anthony munday 	every man in his humour, comedy (performed ; printed ) 	every man out of his humour, comedy ( performed ; printed ) 	cynthia's revels (performed ; printed ) 	the poetaster, comedy (performed ; printed ) 	sejanus his fall, tragedy (performed ; printed ) 	eastward ho, comedy (performed and printed ), a collaboration with john marston and george chapman 	volpone, comedy (c. – ; printed ) 	epicoene, or the silent woman, comedy (performed ; printed ) 	the alchemist, comedy (performed ; printed ) 	catiline his conspiracy, tragedy (performed and printed ) 	bartholomew fair, comedy (performed october ; printed ) 	the devil is an ass, comedy (performed ; printed ) 	the staple of news, comedy (completed by feb. ; printed ) 	the new inn, or the light heart, comedy (licensed january ; printed ) 	the magnetic lady, or humours reconciled , comedy (licensed october ; printed ) 	the sad shepherd, pastoral (c. , printed ), unfinished 	mortimer his fall, history (printed ), a fragment masques[edit] 	the coronation triumph, or the king's entertainment (performed march ; printed ); with thomas dekker 	a private entertainment of the king and queen on may-day (the penates) ( may ; printed ) 	the entertainment of the queen and prince henry at althorp (the satyr) ( june ; printed ) 	the masque of blackness ( january ; printed ) 	hymenaei ( january ; printed ) 	the entertainment of the kings of great britain and denmark (the hours) ( july ; printed ) 	the masque of beauty ( january ; printed ) 	the masque of queens ( february ; printed ) 	the hue and cry after cupid, or the masque at lord haddington's marriage ( february ; printed c. ) 	the entertainment at britain's burse ( april ; lost, rediscovered )[ ] 	the speeches at prince henry's barriers, or the lady of the lake ( january ; printed ) 	oberon, the faery prince ( january ; printed ) 	love freed from ignorance and folly ( february ; printed ) 	love restored ( january ; printed ) 	a challenge at tilt, at a marriage ( december / january ; printed ) 	the irish masque at court ( december ; printed ) 	mercury vindicated from the alchemists ( january ; printed ) 	the golden age restored ( january ; printed ) 	christmas, his masque (christmas ; printed ) 	the vision of delight ( january ; printed ) 	lovers made men, or the masque of lethe, or the masque at lord hay's ( february ; printed ) 	pleasure reconciled to virtue ( january ; printed ) the masque was a failure; jonson revised it by placing the anti-masque first, turning it into: 	for the honour of wales ( february ; printed ) 	news from the new world discovered in the moon ( january : printed ) 	the entertainment at blackfriars, or the newcastle entertainment (may ?; ms) 	pan's anniversary, or the shepherd's holy-day ( june ?; printed ) 	the gypsies metamorphosed ( and august ; printed ) 	the masque of augurs ( january ; printed ) 	time vindicated to himself and to his honours ( january ; printed ) 	neptune's triumph for the return of albion ( january ; printed ) 	the masque of owls at kenilworth ( august ; printed ) 	the fortunate isles and their union ( january ; printed ) 	love's triumph through callipolis ( january ; printed ) 	chloridia: rites to chloris and her nymphs ( february ; printed ) 	the king's entertainment at welbeck in nottinghamshire ( may ; printed ) 	love's welcome at bolsover ( july ; printed ) other works[edit] 	epigrams ( ) 	the forest ( ), including to penshurst 	on my first sonne ( ), elegy 	a discourse of love ( ) 	barclay's argenis, translated by jonson ( ) 	the execration against vulcan ( ) 	horace's art of poetry, translated by jonson ( ), with a commendatory verse by edward herbert 	underwood ( ) 	english grammar ( ) 	timber, or discoveries made upon men and matter, as they have flowed out of his daily readings, or had their reflux to his peculiar notion of the times, a commonplace book 	to celia (drink to me only with thine eyes), poem it is in jonson's timber, or discoveries... that he famously quipped on the manner in which language became a measure of the speaker or writer: language most shows a man: speak, that i may see thee. it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. no glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech. nay, it is likened to a man; and as we consider feature and composition in a man, so words in language; in the greatness, aptness, sound structure, and harmony of it. — ben jonson, (posthumous)[ ] as with other english renaissance dramatists, a portion of ben jonson's literary output has not survived. in addition to the isle of dogs ( ), the records suggest these lost plays as wholly or partially jonson's work: richard crookback ( ); hot anger soon cold ( ), with porter and henry chettle; page of plymouth ( ), with dekker; and robert ii, king of scots ( ), with chettle and dekker. several of jonson's masques and entertainments also are not extant: the entertainment at merchant taylors ( ); the entertainment at salisbury house for james i ( ); and the may lord ( – ). finally, there are questionable or borderline attributions. jonson may have had a hand in rollo, duke of normandy, or the bloody brother, a play in the canon of john fletcher and his collaborators. the comedy the widow was printed in as the work of thomas middleton, fletcher and jonson, though scholars have been intensely sceptical about jonson's presence in the play. a few attributions of anonymous plays, such as the london prodigal, have been ventured by individual researchers, but have met with cool responses.[ ] notes[edit] 	^ jonson's claim is interesting, since early printings of shakespeare's work suggest that he tended to start a scene before giving up and trying again. his failure to cross the original attempts out left his printers unsure what needed to be deleted, though also allowed an insight into his creative process.[ ] citations[edit] 	bednarz, james p. ( ), shakespeare and the poets' war, new york: columbia university press, isbn  - - - - . 	bentley, g. e. ( ), shakespeare and jonson: their reputations in the seventeenth century compared, chicago: university of chicago press, isbn  - - - - . 	bush, douglas ( ), english literature in the earlier seventeenth century, – , oxford history of english literature, oxford: clarendon press . 	butler, martin (summer ). "jonson's folio and the politics of patronage". criticism. wayne state university press. ( ): – . 	chute, marchette. ben jonson of westminster. new york: e.p. dutton, 	doran, madeline. endeavors of art. madison, wis.: university of wisconsin press, 	donaldson, ian ( ). ben jonson: a life. oxford: oxford university press. pp.  – . isbn  . retrieved march . 	eccles, mark. "jonson's marriage." review of english studies ( ) 	eliot, t.s. "ben jonson." the sacred wood. london: methuen, 	jonson, ben. discoveries , ed. g. b. harrison. new york: barnes & noble, 	jonson, ben, david m. bevington, martin butler, and ian donaldson. . the cambridge edition of the works of ben jonson. cambridge: cambridge university press. 	knights, l. c. drama and society in the age of jonson. london: chatto and windus, 	logan, terence p., and denzell s. smith. the new intellectuals: a survey and bibliography of recent studies in english renaissance drama. lincoln, nebraska, university of nebraska press, 	maclean, hugh, editor. ben jonson and the cavalier poets. new york: norton press, 	ceri sullivan, the rhetoric of credit. merchants in early modern writing (madison/london: associated university press, ) 	teague, frances. "ben jonson and the gunpowder plot." ben jonson journal ( ). pp.  – 	thorndike, ashley. "ben jonson." the cambridge history of english and american literature. new york: putnam, – references[edit] 	^ ben jonson - bibliotheca alexandrina 	^ bland, mark ( ). "ben jonson and the legacies of the past". huntington library quarterly. ( ): – . doi: . /hlq. . . . . jstor  . /hlq. . . . . 	^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p ward, adolphus william ( ). "jonson, ben" . in chisholm, hugh (ed.). encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. pp.  – . 	^ ben jonson at the encyclopædia britannica 	^ a b "ben jonson", grolier encyclopedia of knowledge, volume , p. . 	^ evans, robert c ( ). "jonson's critical heritage". in harp, richard; stewart, stanley (eds.). the cambridge companion to ben jonson. cambridge, england: cambridge university press. pp.  – . isbn  - - - . 	^ donaldson, ian ( ). "jonson, benjamin [ben] ( – ), poet and playwright | oxford dictionary of national biography". oxford dictionary of national biography (online ed.). oxford university press. doi: . /ref:odnb/ . (subscription or uk public library membership required.) 	^ donaldson, ian ( ). "jonson, benjamin [ben] ( – ), poet and playwright | oxford dictionary of national biography". oxford dictionary of national biography (online ed.). oxford university press. doi: . /ref:odnb/ . (subscription or uk public library membership required.) 	^ a b robert chambers, book of days 	^ "ben jonson", encyclopædia britannica, th edition, pp. 	^ a b drummond, william ( ). heads of a conversation betwixt the famous poet ben johnson and william drummond of hawthornden, january . 	^ "ben jonson", encyclopædia britannica, th edition, p. 	^ "thomas kyd", grolier encyclopedia of knowledge, volume , p. . 	^ a b "ben jonson", encyclopædia britannica, th edition, p. . 	^ bowers, fredson t. (july ). "ben jonson the actor". studies in philology. ( ): – . jstor  . 	^ miola, robert s. ( ). "the case is altered, introduction". the cambridge edition of the works of ben jonson. cambridge, uk: cambridge university press. 	^ a b c d donaldson, ian ( ). "benjamin jonson ( – )". oxford dictionary of national biography. oxford dictionary of national biography (online ed.). oxford, england: oxford university press. doi: . /ref:odnb/ . (subscription or uk public library membership required.) 	^ gossett, suzanne ( ). "marston, collaboration, and "eastward ho!"". renaissance drama. new series. : – . doi: . /rd. . . jstor  . s cid  . 	^ a b donaldson , p.  	^ a b loxley, james; groundwater, anna; sanders, julie ( december ). ben jonson's walk to scotland: an annotated edition of the 'foot voyage'. loxley, james, –, groundwater, anna, sanders, julie, –. cambridge, united kingdom. pp.  , . isbn  . oclc  . 	^ donaldson ( : ) 	^ riggs ( : ) 	^ donaldson ( : ) 	^ a b riggs ( : – ) 	^ a b donaldson ( : – ) 	^ harp; stewart ( : xiv) 	^ donaldson ( : ) 	^ donaldson ( : ) 	^ maxwell, julie ( ). "religion". in sanders, julie (ed.). ben jonson in context. cambridge, england: cambridge university press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ donaldson ( : – ) 	^ walker, anita; dickerman, edmund ( ). "mind of an assassin: ravaillac and the murder of henri iv of france". canadian journal of history. saskatoon, saskatchewan. 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"his epitaph, and ben jonson's". life of sir william davenant, with specimens of his poetry. the companion. xiv. p.  . oclc  . 	^ adams, j. q. the jonson allusion book. new haven: yale university press, . pp. – 	^ dunton, larkin ( ). the world and its people. silver, burdett. p.  . 	^ donaldson ( : ) 	^ stubbs, john ( february ). reprobates. london: viking penguin. p.  . isbn  - - - - . …a plea for the passerby's prayers (the latin imperative orare)… 	^ fletcher, angus ( ). "structure of an epitaph". time, space, and motion in the age of shakespeare. cambridge, ma: harvard university press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . at first sight the words seem clear enough…but some…have believed that the words intended to say, in latin, "pray for ben jonson"… 	^ "ben jonson". archived from the original on august . retrieved - - . 	^ doran, ff 	^ honigmann, e. a. j. ( february ). "shakespeare's deletions and false starts". the review of english studies. ( ): – . doi: . /res/hgi . 	^ "gutenberg.org". archived from the original on january . retrieved august . 	^ pogue, kate emery ( ). shakespeare's friends. london: praeger. p.  . isbn  . retrieved september . praised than to be pardoned age but for all time. 	^ w.t. baldwin 's william shakspere's smalle latine and lesse greeke, 	^ morley, henry, introduction to discoveries made upon men and matter and some poems kindle ebook asin b tot fq 	^ hadfield, andrew ( july ). "why should william shakespeare have the last word over ben jonson?". telegraph.co.uk. 	^ alexander pope, ed. works of shakespeare (london, ), p. 	^ quoted in craig, d. h., ed. jonson: the critical heritage (london: routledge, ). p. 	^ schmidt, michael, lives of the poets, weidenfeld & nicolson isbn  	^ scott, alison v. (september ). "marketing luxury at the new exchange: jonson's entertainment at britain's burse and the rhetoric of wonder". early modern literary studies. ( ): . – . retrieved september . 	^ jonson, b., "discoveries and some poems," cassell & company, . 	^ logan and smith, pp. – further reading[edit] 	library resources about ben jonson 	 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 by ben jonson 	 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries biographies of ben jonson[edit] 	ben jonson: his life and work by rosalind miles (routledge, london ) 	ben jonson: his craft and art by rosalind miles (routledge, london ) 	ben jonson: a literary life by w. david kay (macmillan, basingstoke ) 	ben jonson: a life by david riggs ( ) 	ben jonson: a life by ian donaldson ( ) external links[edit] 		wikiquote has quotations related to: ben jonson 		wikisource has original works written by or about: ben jonson 		wikimedia commons has media related to ben jonson. 	works by ben jonson at project gutenberg 	works by or about ben jonson at internet archive 	works by ben jonson at librivox (public domain audiobooks) 	the cambridge 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[ ] rome, kingdom of odoacer 	died	 (aged about ) pavia, ostrogothic kingdom 	notable work 	the consolation of philosophy 	 	era	medieval philosophy 	region	western philosophy 	school	neoplatonism 	main interests 	problem of universals, theology, music 	notable ideas 	the wheel of fortune 	 influences 	plato, aristotle, cicero, seneca, plotinus, porphyry, saint augustine, proclus 	 influenced 	all medieval philosophy (notably johannes scotus eriugena, peter abelard, anselm of canterbury,[ ] saint albert the great, saint thomas aquinas, dante alighieri) 	 	blessed severinus boethius 	 	born	rome, kingdom of odoacer 	died	pavia, ostrogothic kingdom 	venerated in	roman catholic diocese of pavia 	major shrine	san pietro in ciel d'oro, pavia, italy 	feast	 october (orthodox tradition) 	influences	augustine of hippo 	influenced	thomas aquinas 	part of a series on 	neoplatonism 	reconstructed bust believed to represent plotinus 	 concepts 	theory of forms 	form of the good 	demiurge 	henosis 	microcosm and macrocosm 	nous 	arche 	logos 	hypostasis 	 works 	enneads 	de mysteriis aegyptiorum 	liber de causis 	the city of god 	the consolation of philosophy 	de coelesti hierarchia 	de divisione naturae 	 people 	plato 	ammonius saccas 	plotinus (disciples) 	origen 	porphyry 	iamblichus 	julian the apostate 	sallustius 	hypatia 	plutarch of athens 	macrobius 	augustine of hippo 	syrianus 	proclus 	pseudo-dionysius 	damascius 	simplicius of cilicia 	boethius 	maximus the confessor 	johannes scotus eriugena 	al-farabi 	brethren of purity 	solomon ibn gabirol 	isaac the blind 	thierry of chartres 	gemistus pletho 	marsilio ficino 	giovanni pico della mirandola 	giordano bruno 	cambridge platonists 	thomas taylor 	roman ingarden 	edward n. zalta 	 related topics 	platonism (in the renaissance) 	platonic academy 	middle platonism 	kabbalah 	spirituality 	isma'ilism 	druze 	allegorical interpretations of plato 	plato's unwritten doctrines 	neoplatonism and christianity / gnosticism 	  philosophy portal 		v 	t 	e anicius manlius severinus boëthius,[a] commonly called boethius[b] (/boʊˈiːθiəs/; also boetius /-ʃəs/; c. – ad), was a roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher of the early th century. he was born about a year after odoacer deposed the last western roman emperor and declared himself king of italy. boethius entered public service under ostrogothic king theodoric the great, who later imprisoned and executed him in on charges of conspiracy to overthrow him.[ ] while jailed, boethius composed his consolation of philosophy, a philosophical treatise on fortune, death, and other issues, which became one of the most popular and influential works of the middle ages. as the author of numerous handbooks and translator of plato and aristotle, he became the main intermediary between classical antiquity and following centuries. contents 	 early life and rise to power 	 fall and death 	 works 	 . de consolatione philosophiae 	 . de topicis differentiis 	 . de arithmetica 	 . de institutione musica 	 . opuscula sacra 	 history of reception 	 veneration 	 in popular culture 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 . works available online 	 . bibliography 	 external links 	 . works 	 . on boethius' life and works 	 . on boethius' logic and philosophy early life and rise to power[edit] boethius was born in rome to a patrician family around ,[ ] but his exact birth date is unknown.[ ] his family, the anicii, included emperors petronius maximus and olybrius and many consuls.[ ] his grandfather, a senator by the same name, was appointed as praetorian prefect of italy. he died in , during the palace plot against magister militum flavius aetius.[ ] boethius' father, manlius boethius, who was appointed consul in , died while boethius was young. another patrician, quintus aurelius memmius symmachus, adopted and raised boethius, instilling in him a love for literature and philosophy.[ ] both memmius symmachus and boethius were fluent in greek, an increasingly rare skill at the time in the western empire; for this reason, some scholars believe that boethius was educated in the east. according to john moorhead, the traditional view is that boethius studied in athens, based on cassiodorus' rhetoric describing boethius' learning in one of his letters, though this does appear to be a misreading of the text for boethius' simple facility with the works of greek philosophers.[ ] pierre courcelle has argued that boethius studied at alexandria with the neoplatonist philosopher ammonius hermiae. however, moorhead observes that the evidence supporting boethius having studied in alexandria "is not as strong as it may appear", and adds that boethius may have been able to acquire his formidable learning without travelling.[ ] on account of his erudition, boethius entered the service of theodoric the great at a young age and was already a senator by the age of .[ ] his earliest documented acts on behalf of the ostrogothic ruler were to investigate allegations that the paymaster of theodoric's bodyguards had debased the coins of their pay; to produce a waterclock for theodoric to give to king gundobad of the burgunds; and to recruit a lyre-player to perform for clovis, king of the franks.[ ] boethius married his foster-father's daughter, rusticiana; their children included two boys, symmachus and boethius. during theodoric's reign, boethius held many important offices, including the consulship in the year , but boethius confesses in his the consolation of philosophy that his greatest achievement was to have both his sons made co-consuls for the same year ( ),[ ] one representing the east and the other the west, and finding himself sitting "between the two consuls and as if it were a military triumph [letting his] largesse fulfill the wildest expectations of the people packed in their seats around [him]".[ ] in , the same year his two sons were appointed joint consuls, boethius accepted the appointment to the position of magister officiorum, the head of all the government and court services.[ ] fall and death[edit] boethius imprisoned, from a manuscript of the consolation. in boethius was working to revitalize the relationship between the roman see and the constantinopolitan see; though still both a part of the same church, disagreements had begun to emerge between them. this may have set in place a course of events that would lead to loss of royal favour.[ ] five hundred years later, this continuing disagreement led to the east–west schism in , in which communion between the catholic church and eastern orthodox church was broken. in boethius fell from power. after a period of imprisonment in pavia for what was deemed a treasonable offence, he was executed in .[ ][ ] the primary sources are in general agreement over the facts of what happened. at a meeting of the royal council in verona, the referendarius cyprianus accused the ex-consul caecina decius faustus albinus of treasonous correspondence with justin i. boethius leapt to his defense, crying, "the charge of cyprianus is false, but if albinus did that, so also have i and the whole senate with one accord done it; it is false, my lord king."[ ] cyprianus then also accused boethius of the same crime and produced three men who claimed they had witnessed the crime. boethius and basilius were arrested. first the pair were detained in the baptistery of a church, then boethius was exiled to the ager calventianus, a distant country estate, where he was put to death. not long afterwards theodoric had boethius' father-in-law symmachus put to death, according to procopius, on the grounds that he and boethius together were planning a revolution, and confiscated their property.[ ] "the basic facts in the case are not in dispute," writes jeffrey richards. "what is disputed about this sequence of events is the interpretation that should be put on them."[ ] boethius claims his crime was seeking "the safety of the senate". he describes the three witnesses against him as dishonorable: basilius had been dismissed from royal service for his debts, while venantius opilio and gaudentius had been exiled for fraud.[ ] however, other sources depict these men in a far more positive light. for example, cassiodorus describes cyprianus and opilio as "utterly scrupulous, just and loyal" and mentions they are brothers and grandsons of the consul opilio.[ ] theodoric was feeling threatened by international events. the acacian schism had been resolved, and the nicene christian aristocrats of his kingdom were seeking to renew their ties with constantinople. the catholic hilderic had become king of the vandals and had put theodoric's sister amalafrida to death,[ ] and arians in the east were being persecuted.[ ] then there was the matter that with his previous ties to theodahad, boethius apparently found himself on the wrong side in the succession dispute following the untimely death of eutharic, theodoric's announced heir. the method of boethius' execution varies in the sources. perhaps he was killed with an axe or a sword, or possibly he was clubbed to death, or possibly hanged.[ ] according to another version a rope was attached round his head and tightened till his eyes bulged out; then his skull was cracked. in any case, his remains were entombed in the church of san pietro in ciel d'oro in pavia, also the resting place of augustine of hippo. in dante's the divine comedy, paradise, canto x, lines – , the spirit of boethius is pointed out by saint thomas aquinas: now if thy mental eye conducted be from light to light, as i resound their frame, the eighth well worth attention thou wilt see. the soul who pointed out the world's dark ways, to all who listen, its deceits unfolding. beneath in cieldauro lies the frame whence it was driven; -from woe and exile, to this fair abode of peace and bliss it came. past historians have had a hard time accepting a sincere christian who was also a serious hellenist.[ ] arnaldo momigliano argues that "many people have turned to christianity for consolation. boethius turned to paganism. his christianity collapsed—it collapsed so thoroughly that perhaps he did not even notice its disappearance." however, this view does not reflect the majority of current scholarship on the matter.[ ] the community that he was part of valued both classical and christian culture.[ ] works[edit] narius manilas boethius, the father of anicius manlius severinus boethius. dates of composition[ ] 	mathematical works 	de arithmetica (on arithmetic, c. ) adapted translation of the introductionis arithmeticae by nicomachus of gerasa (c. – c. ). 	de musica (on music, c. ), based on a lost work by nicomachus of gerasa and on ptolemy's harmonica. 	possibly a treatise on geometry, extant only in fragments.[ ] 	logical works 	a) translations 	porphyry's isagoge 	in categorias aristotelis: aristotle's categories 	de interpretatione vel periermenias: aristotle's de interpretatione 	interpretatio priorum analyticorum (two versions): aristotle's prior analytics 	interpretatio topicorum aristotelis: aristotle's topics 	interpretatio elenchorum sophisticorum aristotelis: aristotle's sophistical refutations 	b) commentaries 	in isagogen porphyrii commenta (two commentaries, the first based on a translation by marius victorinus, (c. – ); the second based on boethius' own translation ( – ). 	in categorias aristotelis (c. – ) 	in librum aristotelis de interpretatione commentaria minora (not before ) 	in librum aristotelis de interpretatione commentaria majora (c. – ) 	in aristotelis analytica priora (c. – ) 	commentaria in topica ciceronis (incomplete: the end the sixth book and the seventh are missing) 	original treatises 	de divisione ( – ?) 	de syllogismo cathegorico ( – ) 	introductio ad syllogismos cathegoricos (c. ) 	de hypotheticis syllogismis ( – ) 	de topicis differentiis (c. – ) 	opuscula sacra (theological treatises) 	de trinitate (c. – ) 	utrum pater et filius et spiritus sanctus de divinitate substantialiter praedicentur (whether father and son and holy spirit are substantially predicated of the divinity) 	quomodo substantiae in eo quod sint bonae sint cum non sint substantialia bona [also known as de hebdomadibus] (how substances are good in that they exist, when they are not substantially good) 	de fide catholica 	contra eutychen et nestorium (against eutyches and nestorius) 	de consolatione philosophiae ( – ). de consolatione philosophiae[edit] lady philosophy and boethius from the consolation, (ghent, ) boethius's best known work is the consolation of philosophy (de consolatione philosophiae), which he wrote most likely while in exile under house arrest or in prison while awaiting his execution.[ ] this work represented an imaginary dialogue between himself and philosophy, with philosophy personified as a woman.[ ] the book argues that despite the apparent inequality of the world, there is, in platonic fashion, a higher power and everything else is secondary to that divine providence.[ ] several manuscripts survived and these were widely edited, translated and printed throughout the late th century and later in europe.[ ] beyond consolation of philosophy, his lifelong project was a deliberate attempt to preserve ancient classical knowledge, particularly philosophy. boethius intended to translate all the works of aristotle and plato from the original greek into latin.[ ][ ][ ] de topicis differentiis[edit] his completed translations of aristotle's works on logic were the only significant portions of aristotle available in latin christendom from the sixth century until the th century. however, some of his translations (such as his treatment of the topoi in the topics) were mixed with his own commentary, which reflected both aristotelian and platonic concepts.[ ] unfortunately, the commentaries themselves have been lost.[ ] in addition to his commentary on the topics, boethius composed two treatises on topical argumentation, in ciceronis topica and de topicis differentiis. the first work has six books, and is largely a response to cicero's topica.[ ] the first book of in ciceronis topica begins with a dedication to patricius. it includes distinctions and assertions important to boethius's overall philosophy, such as his view of the role of philosophy as "establish[ing] our judgment concerning the governing of life",[ ] and definitions of logic from plato, aristotle and cicero. he breaks logic into three parts: that which defines, that which divides, and that which deduces.[ ] he asserts that there are three types of arguments: those of necessity, of ready believability, and sophistry.[ ] he follows aristotle in defining one sort of topic as the maximal proposition, a proposition which is somehow shown to be universal or readily believable.[ ] the other sort of topic, the differentiae, are "topics that contain and include the maximal propositions"; means of categorizing the topics which boethius credits to cicero.[ ] book ii covers two kinds of topics: those from related things and those from extrinsic topics. book iii discusses the relationship among things studied through topics, topics themselves, and the nature of definition. book iv analyzes partition, designation and relationships between things (such as pairing, numbering, genus, and species, etc.). after a review of his terms, boethius spends book v discussing stoic logic and aristotelian causation. book vi relates the nature of the topic to causes. in topicis differentiis has four books; book i discusses the nature of rhetorical and dialectical topics together, boethius's overall purpose being "to show what the topics are, what their differentiae are, and which are suited for what syllogisms."[ ] he distinguishes between argument (that which constitutes belief) and argumentation (that which demonstrates belief). propositions are divided into three parts: those that are universal, those that are particular, and those that are somewhere in between.[ ] these distinctions, and others, are applicable to both types of topical argument, rhetorical and dialectical. books ii and iii are primarily focused on topics of dialectic (syllogisms), while book iv concentrates on the unit of the rhetorical topic, the enthymeme. topical argumentation is at the core of boethius's conception of dialectic, which "have categorical rather than conditional conclusions, and he conceives of the discovery of an argument as the discovery of a middle term capable of linking the two terms of the desired conclusion."[ ] not only are these texts of paramount importance to the study of boethius, they are also crucial to the history of topical lore. it is largely due to boethius that the topics of aristotle and cicero were revived, and the boethian tradition of topical argumentation spans its influence throughout the middle ages and into the early renaissance: "in the works of ockham, buridan, albert of saxony, and the pseudo-scotus, for instance, many of the rules of consequence bear a strong resemblance to or are simply identical with certain boethian topics ... boethius's influence, direct and indirect, on this tradition is enormous."[ ] it was also in de topicis differentiis that boethius made a unique contribution to the discourse on dialectic and rhetoric. topical argumentation for boethius is dependent upon a new category for the topics discussed by aristotle and cicero, and "[u]nlike aristotle, boethius recognizes two different types of topics. first, he says, a topic is a maximal proposition (maxima propositio), or principle; but there is a second kind of topic, which he calls the differentia of a maximal proposition ..."[ ] maximal propositions are "propositions [that are] known per se, and no proof can be found for these."[ ] this is the basis for the idea that demonstration (or the construction of arguments) is dependent ultimately upon ideas or proofs that are known so well and are so fundamental to human understanding of logic that no other proofs come before it. they must hold true in and of themselves. according to stump, "the role of maximal propositions in argumentation is to ensure the truth of a conclusion by ensuring the truth of its premises either directly or indirectly."[ ] these propositions would be used in constructing arguments through the differentia, which is the second part of boethius' theory. this is "the genus of the intermediate in the argument."[ ] so maximal propositions allow room for an argument to be founded in some sense of logic while differentia are critical for the demonstration and construction of arguments. boethius' definition of "differentiae" is that they are "the topics of arguments ... the topics which are the differentiae of [maximal] propositions are more universal than those propositions, just as rationality is more universal than man."[ ] this is the second part of boethius' unique contribution to the field of rhetoric. differentia operate under maximal propositions to "be of use in finding maximal propositions as well as intermediate terms," or the premises that follow maximal propositions.[ ] though boethius is drawing from aristotle's topics, differentiae are not the same as topics in some ways. boethius arranges differentiae through statements, instead of generalized groups as aristotle does. stump articulates the difference. they are "expressed as words or phrases whose expansion into appropriate propositions is neither intended nor readily conceivable", unlike aristotle's clearly defined four groups of topics. aristotle had hundreds of topics organized into those four groups, whereas boethius has twenty-eight "topics" that are "highly ordered among themselves."[ ] this distinction is necessary to understand boethius as separate from past rhetorical theories. maximal propositions and differentiae belong not only to rhetoric, but also to dialectic. boethius defines dialectic through an analysis of "thesis" and hypothetical propositions. he claims that "[t]here are two kinds of questions. one is that called, 'thesis' by the [greek] dialecticians. this is the kind of question which asks about and discusses things stripped of relation to other circumstances; it is the sort of question dialecticians most frequently dispute about—for example, 'is pleasure the greatest good?' [or] 'should one marry?'."[ ] dialectic has "dialectical topics" as well as "dialectical-rhetorical topics", all of which are still discussed in de topicis differentiis.[ ] dialectic, especially in book i, comprises a major component of boethius' discussion on topics. boethius planned to completely translate plato's dialogues, but there is no known surviving translation, if it was actually ever begun.[ ] de arithmetica[edit] boethius chose to pass on the great greco-roman culture to future generations by writing manuals on music, astronomy, geometry and arithmetic.[ ] several of boethius' writings, which were hugely influential during the middle ages, drew on the thinking of porphyry and iamblichus.[ ] boethius wrote a commentary on the isagoge by porphyry,[ ] which highlighted the existence of the problem of universals: whether these concepts are subsistent entities which would exist whether anyone thought of them, or whether they only exist as ideas. this topic concerning the ontological nature of universal ideas was one of the most vocal controversies in medieval philosophy. besides these advanced philosophical works, boethius is also reported to have translated important greek texts on the topics of the quadrivium [ ] his loose translation of nicomachus's treatise on arithmetic (de institutione arithmetica libri duo) and his textbook on music (de institutione musica libri quinque, unfinished) contributed to medieval education.[ ] de arithmetica begins with modular arithmetic, such as even and odd, evenly even, evenly odd, and oddly even. he then turns to unpredicted complexity by categorizing numbers and parts of numbers.[ ] his translations of euclid on geometry and ptolemy on astronomy,[ ] if they were completed, no longer survive. boethius made latin translations of aristotle's de interpretatione and categories with commentaries.[ ] in his article the ancient classics in the mediaeval libraries, james stuart beddie cites boethius as the reason aristotle's works were popular in the middle ages, as boethius preserved many of the philosopher's works.[ ] de institutione musica[edit] boethius' de institutione musica was one of the first musical works to be printed in venice between the years of and . it was written toward the beginning of the sixth century and helped medieval authors during the ninth century understand greek music.[ ] like his greek predecessors, boethius believed that arithmetic and music were intertwined, and helped to mutually reinforce the understanding of each, and together exemplified the fundamental principles of order and harmony in the understanding of the universe as it was known during his time.[ ] in "de musica", boethius introduced the threefold classification of music:[ ] 	musica mundana – music of the spheres/world; this "music" was not actually audible and was to be understood rather than heard 	musica humana – harmony of human body and spiritual harmony 	musica instrumentalis – instrumental music boethius, arithmetica geometrica musica ( first printed edition, from hans adler collection) in de musica i. , boethius describes 'musica instrumentis' as music produced by something under tension (e.g., strings), by wind (e.g., aulos), by water, or by percussion (e.g., cymbals). boethius himself doesn't use the term 'instrumentalis', which was used by adalbold ii of utrecht ( – ) in his epistola cum tractatu.[full citation needed] the term is much more common in the th century and later.[citation needed] it is also in these later texts that musica instrumentalis is firmly associated with audible music in general, including vocal music. scholars have traditionally assumed that boethius also made this connection, possibly under the header of wind instruments ("administratur ... aut spiritu ut tibiis"[c] [ ]), but boethius himself never writes about "instrumentalis" as separate from "instrumentis" explicitly in his very brief description. in one of his works within de institutione musica, boethius said that "music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it even if we so desired."[ ] during the middle ages, boethius was connected to several texts that were used to teach liberal arts. although he did not address the subject of trivium, he did write many treatises explaining the principles of rhetoric, grammar, and logic. during the middle ages, his works of these disciplines were commonly used when studying the three elementary arts.[ ] the historian r. w. southern called boethius "the schoolmaster of medieval europe."[ ] an german translation of "de musica" was the magnum opus of oscar paul.[ ] opuscula sacra[edit] boethius also wrote christian theological treatises, which supported catholicism and condemned arianism and other heterodox forms of christianity.[ ] five theological works are known:[ ] 	de trinitate – "the trinity", where he defends the council of chalcedon trinitarian position, that god is in three persons who have no differences in nature. he argues against the arian view of the nature of god, which put him at odds with the faith of the arian king of italy. 	utrum pater et filius et spiritus sanctus de divinitate substantialiter praedicentur – "whether father, son and holy spirit are substantially predicated of the divinity," a short work where he uses reason and aristotelian epistemology to argue that the catholic views of the nature of god are correct.[ ] 	quomodo substantiae 	de fide catholica – "on the catholic faith" 	contra eutychen et nestorium – "against eutyches and nestorius," from around , which dates it as the earliest of his theological works. eutyches and nestorius were contemporaries from the early to mid- th century who held divergent christological theologies. boethius argues for a middle ground in conformity with roman catholic faith. his theological works played an important part during the middle ages in philosophical thought, including the fields of logic, ontology, and metaphysics.[ ] history of reception[edit] 	part of a series on 	scholasticism 	 	 scholastic schools 	thomism 	scotism 	occamism 	 major scholastic works 	summa theologica 	cur deus homo 	summa grammatica 	summa logicae 	opus oxoniense 	libri quattuor sententiarum 	 precursors 	augustine of hippo 	boethius 	pope gregory i 	alcuin of york 	john scotus eriugena 	 people 	thomas aquinas ("doctor angelicus") 	duns scotus ("doctor subtilis") 	william of ockham ("doctor invincibilis") 	francisco suárez ("doctor eximius") 	averroes ("the commentator") 	albertus magnus ("doctor universalis") 	peter lombard ("the master") 	bonaventure ("doctor seraphicus") 	anselm of canterbury ("doctor marianus") 	peter abelard ("doctor scholasticus") 	 related 	philosophy 	aristotelianism 	dominican order 	franciscan order 	catholic theology 	islamic philosophy 	empiricism 	neoplatonism 	neo-thomism 	problem of universals 	 	 philosophy portal 	 catholicism portal 	 	v 	t 	e lorenzo valla described boethius as the last of the romans and the first of the scholastic philosophers.[ ] despite the use of his mathematical texts in the early universities, it is his final work, the consolation of philosophy, that assured his legacy in the middle ages and beyond. this work is cast as a dialogue between boethius himself, at first bitter and despairing over his imprisonment, and the spirit of philosophy, depicted as a woman of wisdom and compassion. "alternately composed in prose and verse,[ ] the consolation teaches acceptance of hardship in a spirit of philosophical detachment from misfortune".[ ] parts of the work are reminiscent of the socratic method of plato's dialogues, as the spirit of philosophy questions boethius and challenges his emotional reactions to adversity. the work was translated into old english by king alfred, although alfred's authorship of this old english translation has recently been questioned,[citation needed] and into later english by chaucer and queen elizabeth.[ ] many manuscripts survive and it was extensively edited, translated and printed throughout europe from the th century onwards.[ ] many commentaries on it were compiled, and it has been one of the most influential books in european culture. no complete bibliography has ever been assembled, but it would run into thousands of items.[ ][failed verification] "the boethian wheel" is a model for boethius' belief that history is a wheel,[ ] a metaphor that boethius uses frequently in the consolation; it remained very popular throughout the middle ages, and is still often seen today. as the wheel turns, those who have power and wealth will turn to dust; men may rise from poverty and hunger to greatness, while those who are great may fall with the turn of the wheel. it was represented in the middle ages in many relics of art depicting the rise and fall of man. descriptions of "the boethian wheel" can be found in the literature of the middle ages from the romance of the rose to chaucer.[ ] de topicis differentiis was the basis for one of the first works of logic in a western european vernacular, a selection of excerpts translated into old french by john of antioch in .[ ] veneration[edit] the tomb of boethius in san pietro in ciel d'oro, pavia. boethius is recognized as a martyr for the catholic faith by the roman martyrology, though to watkins "his status as martyr is dubious".[ ] his cult is held in pavia, where boethius's status as a saint was confirmed in , and in the church of santa maria in portico in rome. his feast day is october.[ ][ ][ ] in the current martyrologium romanum, his feast is still restricted to that diocese.[ ] pope benedict xvi explained the relevance of boethius to modern day christians by linking his teachings to an understanding of providence.[ ] he is also venerated in the eastern orthodox church.[ ] in popular culture[edit] in the novel a confederacy of dunces by john kennedy toole, boethius is the favorite philosopher of main character ignatius j. reilly. "the boethian wheel" is a theme throughout the book, which won the pulitzer prize for fiction in .[ ] peter glassgold translated boethius's poems on the consolation of philosophy "out of the original latin into a diverse historical englishings diligently collaged," (sun and moon press, ).[ ] c.s. lewis references boethius in chapter of the screwtape letters. [ ] boethius also appears in the film " hour party people" where he is played by christopher eccleston. as tony wilson passes by, boethius (disguised as a beggar) says, "it's my belief that history is a wheel. "inconstancy is my very essence" -says the wheel- "rise up on my spokes if you like, but don't complain when you are cast back down into the depths. good times pass away, but then so do the bad. mutability is our tragedy, but it is also our hope. the worst of times, like the best, are always passing away." see also[edit] 	de fide catolica notes[edit] 	^ the name anicius demonstrated his connection with a noble family of the lower empire, while manlius claims lineage from the manlii torquati of the republic. the name severinus was given to him in honour of severinus of noricum.[ ] 	^ in english, the o and e in boethius are pronounced separately: /boʊˈiːθiəs/. it is hence traditionally written with a diæresis, viz. "boëthius", a spelling which has been disappearing due to the limitations of typewriters. 	^ "haec vero administratur aut intentione ut nervis, aut spiritu ut tibiis, vel his, quae ad aquam moventur, aut percussione quadam, ut in his, quae in concava quaedam aerea feriuntur, atque inde diversi efficiuntur soni." translated: "this, however, is operated by the motion of a string, or the wind of a pipe, or to those, which are moved by the water, or the beat of time, as in the following, which is striking a kind of brass hollow, and in the other are made of a corresponding sound." references[edit] 	^ anicius manlius severinus boethius stanford encyclopedia of philosophy 	^ a.d. smith, anselm's other argument, harvard university press, , p. . 	^ a b c hodgkin, thomas ( ), italy and her invaders, london: adamant media corporation. 	^ a b "boethius", the online library of liberty, retrieved october . 	^ a b noel harold kaylor; philip edward phillips ( ), a companion to boethius in the middle ages, brill, pp.  –, isbn  - - - - , retrieved january 	^ heather, p. j. 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(june ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) 	battle of philippi 	part of liberators' civil war 	 location of philippi 		date	 and october bc 	location	philippi, macedonia (modern greece) 	result	 decisive second triumvirate victory; end of the liberators' civil war 	territorial changes	 eastern provinces of roman republic given to mark antony, parthia end their support for the liberators 	belligerents 	 second triumvirate supported by ptolemaic egypt (sent ships but too late to aid in the fighting)[ ][ ]	 liberators supported by: parthian empire (cavalry force)[ ] 	commanders and leaders 	 mark antony octavian	 brutus  cassius  allienus (unknown) serapion (retreats to tyre) 	strength 	 , – , [ ] , – , infantry in legions[ ] , cavalry[ ]	 , – , [ ] , – , infantry in legions[ ] , cavalry[ ] 	casualties and losses 	 , killed ( october)	 , killed ( october) surrender of entire army ( october) movements of armies in the battle of philippi the battle of philippi was the final battle in the wars of the second triumvirate between the forces of mark antony and octavian (of the second triumvirate) and the leaders of julius caesar's assassination, brutus and cassius in bc, at philippi in macedonia. the second triumvirate declared the civil war ostensibly to avenge julius caesar's assassination in bc, but the underlying cause was a long-brewing conflict between the so-called optimates and the so-called populares. the battle, involving up to , men in one of the largest of the roman civil wars, consisted of two engagements in the plain west of the ancient city of philippi. the first occurred in the first week of october; brutus faced octavian, and antony's forces fought those of cassius. the roman armies fought poorly, with low discipline, nonexistent tactical co-ordination and amateurish lack of command experience evident in abundance with neither side able to exploit opportunities as they developed.[ ][ ] at first, brutus pushed back octavian and entered his legions' camp. however, to the south, cassius was defeated by antony and committed suicide after hearing a false report that brutus had also failed. brutus rallied cassius's remaining troops, and both sides ordered their army to retreat to their camps with their spoils. the battle was essentially a draw but for cassius's suicide. a second encounter, on october, finished off brutus's forces after a hard-fought battle. he committed suicide in turn, leaving the triumvirate in control of the roman republic. contents 	 prelude 	 forces 	 . antony and octavian 	 . the liberators 	 first battle 	 second battle 	 aftermath 	 quotes 	 popular culture 	 citations 	 see also 	 references 	 . primary sources 	 external links prelude[edit] after the assassination of caesar, the two main conspirators, brutus and cassius, also known as the liberators and leaders of the republicans had left italy. they took control of all the eastern provinces from greece to syria and of the allied eastern kingdoms. in rome the three main caesarian leaders (antony, octavian and lepidus), who controlled almost all the roman army in the west, had crushed the opposition of the senate and established the second triumvirate. one of their first tasks was to destroy the liberators' forces, not only to get full control of the roman world, but also to avenge caesar's death. the triumvirs decided that lepidus would remain in italy, while the two main partners of the triumvirate, antony and octavian, moved to northern greece with their best troops, a total of legions. they were able to ferry their army across the adriatic and sent out a scouting force of eight legions, commanded by norbanus and saxa, along the via egnatia, with the aim of searching for the liberators' army. norbanus and saxa passed the town of philippi in eastern macedonia and took a strong defensive position at a narrow mountain pass. antony was following, while octavian was delayed at dyrrachium because of his ill-health (which would accompany him throughout the philippi campaign). although antony and octavian had been able to cross the sea with their main force, further communications with italy were made difficult by the arrival of the republican admiral gnaeus domitius ahenobarbus, with a large fleet of ships. the liberators did not wish to engage in a decisive battle, but rather to attain a good defensive position and then use their naval superiority to block the triumvirs' communications with their supply base in italy. they had spent the previous months plundering greek cities to swell their war-chest. they gathered in thrace with the roman legions from the eastern provinces and levies from allies. with their superior forces they were able to outflank norbanus and saxa, who had to abandon their defensive position and retreat west of philippi. this meant that brutus and cassius could position their forces to hold the high ground along both sides of the via egnatia, about . kilometres ( .  mi) west of the city of philippi. the southern position was anchored on a supposedly impassable marsh, while on the north on impassable hills. they had time to fortify their position with a rampart and ditch. brutus positioned his camp to the north while cassius was on the south of the via egnatia. antony arrived and positioned his army south of the via egnatia, while octavian put his legions north of the road. forces[edit] antony and octavian[edit] the triumvirs' army present for the battle included nineteen legions.[ ] the sources specify the name of only one legion, iv legion, but other legions present included the iii, vi, vii, viii, x equestris, xii, xxvi, xxviii, xxix, and xxx, since their veterans participated in the land settlements after the battle. appian reports that the triumvirs' legions were almost at full complement.[ ] furthermore, they had a large allied cavalry force of , horsemen.[ ] the liberators[edit] the liberators' army had seventeen legions; eight with brutus and nine with cassius, while two other legions were with the fleet. only two of the legions were at full strength, but the army was reinforced by levies from the eastern allied kingdoms. appian reports that the army mustered a total of about , foot-soldiers. allied cavalry totaled , horsemen, including , bowmen mounted in the eastern fashion.[ ] this army included the old caesarean legions present in the east, probably including xxvii, xxxvi, xxxvii, xxxi and xxxiii legions; so most of these legionaries were caesarean veterans. however, at least the xxxvi legion consisted of old pompeian veterans, enrolled in caesar's army after the battle of pharsalus. the loyalty of the soldiers who were supposed to fight against caesar's heir was a delicate issue for the liberators. it is important to emphasize that the name "octavian" was never used by contemporaries: he was simply known as gaius iulius caesar. cassius tried to reinforce the soldiers' loyalty both with strong speeches ("let it give no one any concern that he has been one of caesar's soldiers. we were not his soldiers then, but our country's") and with a gift of , denarii for each legionary and , for each centurion.[dubious – discuss] although ancient sources do not report the total numbers of men of the two armies, it seems that they had a similar strength. adrian goldsworthy suggests that at full strength the triumvir legions may have amounted to , men and the liberators' legions to , .[ ] most likely each side had only , – , legionaries.[ ] as the campaign lasted for months, it is unlikely that either side could have sustained the logistics to keep so many men, horses and baggage animals fed if both sides had had , or so troops.[ ] first battle[edit] antony offered battle several times, but the liberators were not lured into leaving their defensive position.[ ] antony tried to secretly outflank the liberators' position through the marshes in the south.[ ] with great effort he was able to cut a passage through the marshes, throwing up a causeway over them.[ ] this manoeuvre was finally noticed by cassius, who countered by moving part of his army south into the marshes and constructing a transverse wall in a bid to cut off antony's outstretched right wing.[ ] this brought about a general battle on october bc. first battle of philippi antony ordered a charge against cassius, aiming at the fortifications between cassius's camp and the marshes.[ ] at the same time, brutus's soldiers, provoked by the triumvirs' army, rushed against octavian's army, without waiting for the order of attack, which was to be given with the watchword "liberty".[ ] this surprise assault had complete success: octavian's troops were put to flight and pursued up to their camp, which was captured by brutus's men, led by marcus valerius messalla corvinus.[ ] three of octavian's legions had their standards taken, a clear sign of a rout.[ ] octavian was not found in his tent: his couch was pierced and cut to pieces.[ ] most ancient historians say that he had been warned in a dream to beware of that day, as he wrote in his memoirs. pliny bluntly reports that octavian went into hiding in the marsh.[ ] brutus and his companions after the battle of philippi however, on the other side of the via egnatia, antony was able to storm cassius' fortifications, demolishing the palisade and filling up the ditch.[ ] then he easily took cassius's camp, which was defended by only a few men.[ ] it seems that part of cassius's army had advanced south: when these men tried to come back they were easily repulsed by antony.[ ] apparently the battle had ended in a draw. cassius had lost , men, while octavian had about , casualties. the battlefield was very large and clouds of dust made it impossible to make a clear assessment of the outcome of the battle, so both wings were ignorant of each other's fate. cassius moved to the top of a hill, but could not see what was happening on brutus's side. believing that he had suffered a crushing defeat he ordered his freedman pindarus to kill him.[ ] brutus mourned over cassius's body, calling him "the last of the romans". he avoided a public funeral, fearing its negative effects on the army morale. other sources credit the avarice of brutus' troops as the factor that undid their definitive victory on october  . premature looting and gathering of treasure by brutus's advancing forces allowed octavian's troops to re-form their line. in octavian's future reign as emperor, a common battle cry became "complete the battle once begun!" second battle[edit] on the same day as the first battle, the republican fleet was able to intercept and destroy the triumvirs' reinforcements of two legions and other troops and supplies led by gnaeus domitius calvinus. the strategic position of antony and octavian became perilous, since the already depleted regions of macedonia and thessaly were unable to supply their army for long, while brutus could easily receive supplies from the sea. the triumvirs had to send a legion south to achaia to collect more supplies. the morale of the troops was boosted by the promise of a further , denarii for each soldier and , for each centurion. on the other side, the liberators' army was left without its best strategic mind. brutus had less military experience than cassius and, even worse, he could not command the same respect from his allies and his soldiers, although after the battle he offered another gift of , denarii for each soldier. in the next three weeks, antony was able to slowly advance his forces south of brutus's army, fortifying a hill close to cassius's former camp, which had been left unguarded by brutus. second battle of philippi to avoid being outflanked brutus was compelled to extend his line to the south and then the east, parallel to the via egnatia, building several fortified posts. while still holding the high ground he wanted to keep to the original plan of avoiding an open engagement and waiting for his naval superiority to wear out the enemy. the traditional understanding is that brutus, against his better judgment, subsequently abandoned this strategy because his officers and soldiers were tired of the delaying tactics and demanded he offer another open battle. brutus and his officers may have feared that their soldiers would desert to the enemy if they appeared to have lost the initiative. plutarch also reports that brutus had not received news of domitius calvinus' defeat in the ionian sea. when some of the eastern allies and mercenaries started deserting, brutus was forced to attack on the afternoon of october  . as he said, "i seem to carry on war like pompey the great, not so much commanding as commanded." however, the reality is that brutus had no option but to fight, because his entire position was now in danger of being isolated and rendered untenable. if the triumvirs were allowed to continue stretching their lines unimpeded to the east they would ultimately cut off his supply route to neapolis and pin him against the mountains. if that happened, the tables would be turned; brutus would either be starved into submission or be forced to retreat by taking his entire army via the hazardous northern trail that had brought him to philippi. the battle which ensued resulted in close combat between two armies of well-trained veterans. ranged weapons such as arrows or javelins were largely ignored; instead, the soldiers packed into solid ranks and fought face-to-face with their swords, and the slaughter was terrible. according to cassius dio, the two sides had little need for missile weapons, "for they did not resort to the usual manoeuvres and tactics of battles" but immediately advanced to close combat, "seeking to break each other's ranks". in the account of plutarch, brutus had the better of the fight at the western end of his line and pressed hard on the triumvirs' left wing, which gave way and retreated, being harassed by the republican cavalry, which sought to exploit the advantage when it saw the enemy in disorder. but the eastern flank of brutus's line had inferior numbers because it had been extended to avoid being outflanked. this meant brutus's legions had been drawn out too thin in the center, and were so weak here they could not withstand the triumvirs' initial charge. having broken through, the triumvirs swung to their left to take brutus in his flank and rear. appian speaks of the triumvirs' legions having "pushed back the enemy's line as though they were turning round a very heavy machine."[ ] brutus's legions were driven back step-by-step, slowly at first, but as their ranks crumbled under the pressure they began to give ground more rapidly.[ ] the second and third reserve lines in the rear failed to keep pace with the retreat and all three lines became entangled. octavian's soldiers were able to capture the gates of brutus's camp before the routing army could reach this defensive position. brutus's army could not reform, which made the triumvirs' victory complete. brutus was able to retreat into the nearby hills with the equivalent of only four legions.[ ] seeing that surrender and capture were inevitable, brutus committed suicide.[ ] the total casualties for the second battle of philippi were not reported, but the close quarters fighting likely resulted in heavy losses for both sides. aftermath[edit] plutarch reports that antony covered brutus's body with a purple garment as a sign of respect.[ ] although they had not been close friends, he remembered that brutus had stipulated, as a condition for his joining the plot to assassinate caesar, that the life of antony be spared. many other young roman aristocrats lost their lives in the battle or committed suicide after the defeat, including the son of great orator hortensius, and marcus porcius cato, the son of cato the younger, and marcus livius drusus claudianus, the father of livia, who became octavian's wife.[ ] some of the nobles who were able to escape negotiated their surrender to antony and entered his service. among them were lucius calpurnius bibulus and marcus valerius messalla corvinus. apparently the nobles did not want to deal with the young and merciless octavian. the remains of the liberators' army were rounded up, and roughly , men were enrolled into the triumvirs' army.[ ] old veterans were discharged back to italy, but some of the veterans remained in the town of philippi, which became a roman colony, colonia victrix philippensium. antony remained in the east, while octavian returned to italy, with the difficult task of finding enough land on which to settle a large number of veterans. although sextus pompey was controlling sicily and domitius ahenobarbus still commanded the republican fleet, the republican resistance had been definitively crushed at philippi.[ ] the battle of philippi marked the highest point of antony's career: at that time he was the most famous roman general and the senior partner of the second triumvirate.[ ] quotes[edit] plutarch famously reported that brutus experienced a vision of a ghost a few months before the battle. one night he saw a huge and shadowy form appearing in front of him; when he calmly asked, "what and whence art thou?" it answered "thy evil spirit, brutus: i shall see thee at philippi." he again met the ghost the night before the battle. this episode is one of the most famous in shakespeare's play julius caesar. plutarch also reports the last words of brutus, quoted by a greek tragedy "o wretched virtue, thou wert but a name, and yet i worshipped thee as real indeed; but now, it seems, thou were but fortune's slave." augustus's own version of the battle of philippi was: "i sent into exile the murderers of my father, punishing their crimes with lawful tribunals, and afterwards, when they made war upon the republic, i twice defeated them in battle." qui parentem meum [interfecer]un[t eo]s in exilium expuli iudiciis legitimis ultus eorum [fa]cin[us, e]t postea bellum inferentis rei publicae vici b[is a]cie. res gestae . popular culture[edit] the battle figures in shakespeare's julius caesar (background of the story in acts and ), in which the two battles are merged into a single day's events. after cassius' death brutus says "tis three o'clock, and, romans, yet ere night / we shall try fortune in a second fight." otherwise the information is mostly accurate. a fictionalised account of the battle is depicted in the sixth episode of the second season of the hbo television series rome. there is but a single battle and both cassius and brutus fall in battle instead of being suicides, though brutus's death is a lone, suicidal attack on the triumvirate's' advancing forces. citations[edit] 	^ roller ( ), p.  . sfnp error: no target: citerefroller (help) 	^ burstein ( ), pp.  – . sfnp error: no target: citerefburstein (help) 	^ bivar, h.d.h ( ). william bayne fisher; ilya gershevitch; ehsan yarshater; r. n. frye; j. a. boyle; peter jackson; laurence lockhart; peter avery; gavin hambly; charles melville (eds.). the cambridge history of iran. cambridge university press. p.  . isbn  - - -x. 	^ a b c d e f g h i j k l goldsworthy , p.  . 	^ a b c d e f goldsworthy , p.  . 	^ a b c d e f g h i j goldsworthy , p.  . 	^ goldsworthy , p.  . 	^ a b c d goldsworthy , p.  . 	^ a b c d e goldsworthy , p.  . see also[edit] 	pompeian–parthian invasion of bc references[edit] 	goldsworthy, adrian ( ). antony and cleopatra. london: weidenfeld & nicolson. isbn  .cs maint: ref=harv (link) 	thomas harbottle, dictionary of battles. new york 	ronald syme. the roman revolution. oxford 	lawrence keppie. the making of the roman army. new york 	sheppard, si ( ). philippi bc: the death of the roman republic. oxford: osprey publishing (published - - ). isbn  - - - - .cs maint: ref=harv (link) primary sources[edit] 	appian: roman civil wars 	plutarch: the life of brutus 	suetonius: the life of augustus 	velleius paterculus: roman history 	augustus: 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(october ) click [show] for important translation instructions. 	 	machine translation like deepl or google translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the english wikipedia. 	do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. if possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. 	you must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. a model attribution edit summary content in this edit is translated from the existing german wikipedia article at [[:de:]]; see its history for attribution. 	you should also add the template {{translated page}} to the talk page. 	for more guidance, see wikipedia:translation. 	anton von werner 	self portrait, 	born	( - - ) may frankfurt (oder), brandenburg, kingdom of prussia 	died	 january ( - - ) (aged  ) berlin, german empire 	nationality	german 	known for	history painting anton alexander von werner ( may  – january ) was a german painter known for his history paintings of notable political and military events in the kingdom of prussia.[ ] one of the most famous painters of his time, he is regarded a main protagonist of the wilhelmine period. contents 	 biography 	 works 	 works 	 proteges and students 	 references 	 external links biography[edit] werner was born in frankfurt (oder) in the prussian province of brandenburg, the son of a carpenter. his family originally came from east prussia and was ennobled (von) in . he began an apprenticeship as a decorative painter in and from onwards studied painting at the prussian academy of arts in berlin. one year later, he pursued his studies at the academy of fine arts in karlsruhe, where he studied with johann wilhelm schirmer, ludwig des coudres, adolf schroedter, and karl friedrich lessing. in karlsruhe, werner met with artists like eduard devrient, johannes brahms and clara schumann, paul heyse, and the norwegian painter hans gude. the author joseph victor von scheffel, who became a close friend, introduced him to grand duke frederick i of baden, and werner illustrated several printed editions of scheffel's works. werner visited paris in and again from march to july , preparing the international exposition of . he was strongly influenced by the history paintings of jean-auguste-dominique ingres, eugène delacroix, ernest meissonier, and léon cogniet whom he also met personally. having obtained a travelling scholarship upon the exhibition of his early works at the international exposition, he moved to italy in and stayed with anselm feuerbach in rome until november . on his return to baden, he received several state commissions.[ ] the proclamation of the german empire ( rd version; ) upon the outbreak of the franco-prussian war, werner was sent with the staff of the rd corps d'armée under the command of prince frederick william of prussia in october . in january , he was summoned to the prussian headquarters in versailles[ ][ ] and commissioned to immortalize the proclamation of the german empire at the hall of mirrors. this painting marked werner's final breakthrough, he became acquainted with numerous german federal princes he portrayed, met with chancellor otto von bismarck and field marshal helmuth von moltke, as well as with emperor wilhelm i. afterwards he returned to berlin, now the german capital, and married malwine schroedter, daughter of his tutor adolf schroedter in august .[ ] in berlin, werner designed a large velarium stretching over the unter den linden boulevard at the triumphant arrival of the victorious german troops. he received further public commissions to create the mural decorations in the portico of the victory column, whereby he used his velarium as a cartoon for an innovative stained glass mosaic. he continued to commemorate the franco-prussian war in several commissioned paintings. in werner was appointed professor at the berlin academy.[ ] his career reached its peak when he became, in , director of the academy. after , while in william ii's court, werner tutored the emperor to become a painter.[ ] in , he succeeded hugo von tschudi in directing the nationalgalerie in berlin.[ ] he died in berlin in and was interred at the alter zwölf-apostel-kirchhof in the schöneberg neighborhood of berlin. works[edit] crown prince frederick wilhelm contemplating the corpse of french general abel douay, ) im etappenquartier vor paris (a billet outside paris; ) unveiling of the richard wagner monument in the tiergarten ( ) werner's more important works include the capitulation of sedan, proclamation of the german empire at versailles, moltke before paris, moltke at versailles, the meeting of bismarck and napoleon iii, christ and the tribute money, william i visiting the tombs, the congress of berlin, and some decorations executed in mosaic for the berlin victory column. werner's work is chiefly interesting for the historic value of his pictures of the events of the franco-prussian war.[ ] werner was good friends with norwegian painter hans gude whom he met at the karlsruhe school, and whom he would later work with at the berlin academy.[ ] gude wrote of werner in , even then [werner] manifested a versatile and rich talent, besides incredible assiduity and capacity for work; he was one of the best on our side. he was also tireless in inventing all sorts of high jinks to amuse us on the sunday afternoons when the entire group assembled. — hans gude[ ] works[edit] martin luther at worms ( ) 	 kinderkopf im profil (child's head in profile) 	 kauernder jüngling (crouching boy) 	 allegorie auf die entstehung der deutschen einheit (eine vorstudie zum mosaik an der siegessäule in berlin) 	 husar und älterer offizier (hussar and an older officer) 	 die proklamation des deutschen kaiserreiches (the proclamation of the german empire). destroyed in world war ii; another version was painted in 	 taufe in meinem hause (baptism in my house) 	 wilhelm i of prussia at the sarcophagus of his mother queen louise in the charlottenburg mausoleum (july , ) 	 sedan panorama 	 kaiserin gigi 	 frederick iii contemplating the corpse of french general abel douay 	 man with newspaper", oil on wood, private collection 	 im etappenquartier vor paris proteges and students[edit] one of his students at the prussian academy of arts was emil fuchs;[ ] another was august von brandis. references[edit] 	^ a b fulbrook, mary and john breuilly ( ) german history since "oxford university press us". p. isbn  - - - . 	^ a b c d  one or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "werner, anton alexander von". encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. p.  . this work in turn cites: 	kunst für alle, vol. i 	knackfuss, künstler-monographieen, no. 	^ biographie:anton von werner, - , "german historical museum" accessed on may , . 	^ dr. joachim reinhardt, anton von werner "dr. joachim reinhardt" accessed on may , . 	^ malyon, john. art / / day "estate of bernard safran". accessed on may , . 	^ a b haverkamp, frode. hans fredrik gude: from national romanticism to realism in landscape (in norwegian). trans. joan fuglesang. 	^ quoted on tate website: ronald alley, catalogue of the tate gallery's collection of modern art other than works by british artists, tate gallery and sotheby parke-bernet, london , pp. - external links[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to anton von werner. 	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	other countries 		v 	t 	e caesar (latin: [ˈkae̯.sar]english pl. caesars; latin pl. caesares; in greek: Καῖσᾰρ kaîsar) is a title of imperial character. it derives from the cognomen of julius caesar, the roman dictator. the change from being a familial name to a title adopted by the roman emperors can be dated to about / ad, the so-called "year of the four emperors".[dubious – discuss] contents 	 etymology 	 sole roman emperor 	 dynastic title 	 late empire 	 . crisis of the third century 	 . tetrarchy 	 . after the tetrarchy 	 byzantine empire 	 ottoman empire 	 legacy 	 . title (and name) 	 . historiography 	 list of holders 	 see also 	 references 	 bibliography etymology[edit] the meaning of the term is unknown and there are several theories. julius himself, however, endorsed a meaning where it came from a punic word meaning elephant. sole roman emperor[edit] for political and personal reasons, octavian chose to emphasize his relationship with julius caesar by styling himself simply "imperator caesar" (whereto the roman senate added the honorific augustus, "majestic" or "venerable", in bc), without any of the other elements of his full name. his successor as emperor, his stepson tiberius, also bore the name as a matter of course; born tiberius claudius nero, he was adopted by caesar augustus on june ad, as "tiberius julius caesar". the precedent was set: the emperor designated his successor by adopting him and giving him the name "caesar". the fourth emperor, claudius, was the first to assume the name "caesar" upon accession, without having been adopted by the previous emperor; however, he was at least a member by blood of the julio-claudian dynasty, being the maternal great-nephew of augustus on his mother's side, the nephew of tiberius, and the uncle of caligula. claudius in turn adopted his stepson and grand-nephew lucius domitius ahenobarbus, giving him the name "caesar" in the traditional way; his stepson would rule as the emperor nero. the first emperor to assume the position and the name simultaneously without any real claim to either was the usurper servius sulpicius galba, who took the imperial throne under the name "servius galba imperator caesar" following the death of the last of the julio-claudians, nero, in ad. galba helped solidify "caesar" as the title of the designated heir by giving it to his own adopted heir, lucius calpurnius piso frugi licinianus. galba's reign did not last long and he was soon deposed by marcus otho. otho did not at first use the title "caesar" and occasionally used the title "nero" as emperor, but later adopted the title "caesar" as well. otho was then defeated by aulus vitellius, who acceded with the name "aulus vitellius germanicus imperator augustus". vitellius did not adopt the cognomen "caesar" as part of his name and may have intended to replace it with "germanicus" (he bestowed the name "germanicus" upon his own son that year). nevertheless, caesar had become such an integral part of the imperial dignity that its place was immediately restored by titus flavius vespasianus ("vespasian"), whose defeat of vitellius in ad put an end to the period of instability and began the flavian dynasty. vespasian's son, titus flavius vespasianus became "titus flavius caesar vespasianus". dynastic title[edit] by this point the status of "caesar" had been regularised into that of a title given to the emperor-designate (occasionally also with the honorific title princeps iuventutis, "prince of youth") and retained by him upon accession to the throne (e.g., marcus ulpius traianus became marcus cocceius nerva's designated heir as caesar nerva traianus in october and acceded on january as "imperator caesar nerva traianus augustus"). after some variation among the earliest emperors, the style of the emperor-designate on coins was usually nobilissimus caesar "most noble caesar" (abbreviated to nob caes, n caes etc.), though caesar (caes) on its own was also used. late empire[edit] crisis of the third century[edit] the popularity of using the title caesar to designate heirs-apparent increased throughout the third century. many of the soldier emperors during the crisis of the third century attempted to strengthen their legitimacy by naming heirs, including maximinus thrax, philip the arab, decius, trebonianus gallus and gallienus. some of these were promoted to the rank of augustus within their father's lifetime, for example philippus ii. the same title would also be used in the gallic empire, which operated autonomously from the rest of the roman empire from to , with the final gallic emperor tetricus i appointing his heir tetricus ii caesar and his consular colleague for . despite the best efforts of these emperors, however, the granting of this title does not seem to have made succession in this chaotic period any more stable. almost all caesars would be killed before or alongside their fathers, or at best outlive them for a matter of months, as in the case of hostilian. the sole caesar to successfully obtain the rank of augustus and rule for some time in his own right was gordian iii, and even he was heavily controlled by his court. tetrarchy[edit] on march , diocletian established the tetrarchy, a system of rule by two senior emperors and two junior sub-emperors. the two coequal senior emperors were styled identically to previous emperors, as imperator caesar nn. pius felix invictus augustus (elagabalus had introduced the use of pius felix, "the pious and blessed", while maximinus thrax introduced the use of invictus, "the unconquered") and were called the augusti, while the two junior sub-emperors were styled identically to previous emperors-designate, as nobilissimus caesar. likewise, the junior sub-emperors retained the title "caesar" upon accession to the senior position. the tetrarchy was quickly abandoned as a system (though the four quarters of the empire survived as praetorian prefectures) in favour of two equal, territorial emperors, and the previous system of emperors and emperors-designate was restored, both in the latin-speaking west and the greek-speaking east. after the tetrarchy[edit] the title of caesar remained in use throughout the constantinian period, with both constantine i and his co-emperor and rival licinius utilising it to mark their heirs. in the case of constantine, this meant that by the time he died, he had four caesars: constantius ii, constantine ii, constans and his nephew dalmatius, with his eldest son crispus having been executed in mysterious circumstances earlier in his reign. in the event, constantine would be succeeded only by his three sons, with dalmatius dying in the summer of in similarly murky circumstances. constantius ii himself would nominate as caesars his two cousins constantius gallus and julian in succession in the s, although he first executed gallus and then found himself at war with julian before his own death. after julian's revolt of , the title caesar fell out of imperial fashion for some time, with emperors preferring simply to elevate their sons directly to the post of augustus, as with gratian. it would be revived only nearly three quarters of a century later when theodosius ii used it to mark his nephew valentinian iii before successfully installing him upon the western throne vacated by the boy's other uncle honorius. thereafter it would receive limited use in the eastern roman empire, for example, in the designation of the future leo ii in the final months of his grandfather's life. byzantine empire[edit] the roman emperor constantine the great, mosaic in hagia sophia, constantinople caesar or kaisar (Καῖσαρ) was a senior court title in the byzantine empire. originally, as in the late roman empire, it was used for a subordinate co-emperor or the heir apparent, and was first among the "awarded" dignities. from the reign of theodosius i, however, most emperors chose to solidify the succession of their intended heirs by raising them to co-emperors. hence the title was more frequently awarded to second- and third-born sons, or to close and influential relatives of the emperor: thus for example alexios mosele was the son-in-law of theophilos (ruled – ), bardas was the uncle and chief minister of michael iii (r. – ), while nikephoros ii (r. – ) awarded the title to his father, bardas phokas.[ ][ ] an exceptional case was the conferment of the dignity and its insignia to the bulgarian khan tervel by justinian ii (r. – , – ) who had helped him regain his throne in .[ ] the title was awarded to the brother of empress maria of alania, george ii of georgia in . the office enjoyed extensive privileges, great prestige and power. when alexios i komnenos created the title of sebastokrator, kaisar became third in importance, and fourth after manuel i komnenos created the title of despot, which it remained until the end of the empire. the feminine form was kaisarissa. it remained an office of great importance, usually awarded to imperial relations, as well as a few high-ranking and distinguished officials, and only rarely awarded to foreigners. according to the klētorologion of , the byzantine caesar's insignia were a crown without a cross, and the ceremony of a caesar's creation (in this case dating to constantine v), is included in de ceremoniis i. .[ ] the title remained the highest in the imperial hierarchy until the introduction of the sebastokratōr (a composite derived from sebastos and autokrator, the greek equivalents of augustus and imperator) by alexios i komnenos (r. – ) and later of despotēs by manuel i komnenos (r. – ). the title remained in existence through the last centuries of the empire. in the palaiologan period, it was held by prominent nobles like alexios strategopoulos, but from the th century, it was mostly awarded to rulers of the balkans such as the princes of vlachia, serbia and thessaly.[ ] seal of the caesar michael angelos in the late byzantine hierarchy, as recorded in the mid- th century book of offices of pseudo-kodinos, the rank continued to come after the sebastokratōr. pseudo-kodinos further records that the caesar was equal in precedence to the panhypersebastos, another creation of alexios i, but that emperor michael viii palaiologos (r. – ) had raised his nephew michael tarchaneiotes to the rank of protovestiarios and decreed that to come after the caesar; while under andronikos ii palaiologos (r. – ) the megas domestikos was raised to the same eminence, when it was awarded to the future emperor john vi kantakouzenos (r. – ).[ ] according to pseudo-kodinos, the caesar's insignia under the palaiologoi were a skiadion hat in red and gold, decorated with gold-wire embroideries, with a veil bearing the wearer's name and pendants identical to those of the despotēs and the sebastokratōr. he wore a red tunic (rouchon) similar to the emperor's (without certain decorations), and his shoes and stockings were blue, as were the accouterments of his horse; these were all identical to those of the sebastokratōr, but without the embroidered eagles of the latter. pseudo-kodinos writes that the particular forms of another form of hat, the domed skaranikon, and of the mantle, the tamparion, for the caesar were not known.[ ] ottoman empire[edit] mehmed ii and ecumenical patriarch of constantinople gennadios. "caesar" is the title officially used by the sasanid persian to refer to the roman and byzantine emperors.[ ][ ] in the middle east, the persians and the arabs continued to refer to the roman and byzantine emperors as "caesar" (in persian: قیصر روم‎ qaysar-i rum, "caesar of the romans", from middle persian kēsar). thus, following the conquest of constantinople in , the victorious ottoman sultan mehmed ii became the first of the rulers of the ottoman empire to assume the title (in ottoman turkish: قیصر روم‎ kaysar-i rûm). after the fall of constantinople, having conquered the byzantine empire, mehmed took the title kaysar-i rûm, claiming succession to the roman imperium.[ ] his claim was that, by possession of the city, he was emperor, a new dynast by conquest, as had been done previously by the likes of heraclius and leo iii.[ ] contemporary scholar george of trebizond wrote "the seat of the roman empire is constantinople ... and he who is and remains emperor of the romans is also the emperor of the whole world".[ ] gennadius ii, a staunch antagonist of the west because of the sack of constantinople committed by the western catholics and theological controversies between the two churches, had been enthroned the ecumenical patriarch of constantinople-new rome with all the ceremonial elements and ethnarch (or milletbashi) status by the sultan himself in . in turn, gennadius ii formally recognized mehmed as successor to the throne.[ ] mehmed also had a blood lineage to the byzantine imperial family; his predecessor, sultan orhan i had married a byzantine princess, and mehmed may have claimed descent from john tzelepes komnenos.[ ] ottoman sultans were not the only rulers to claim such a title, as there was the holy roman empire in western europe, whose emperor, frederick iii, traced his titular lineage from charlemagne who obtained the title of roman emperor when he was crowned by pope leo iii in , although he was never recognized as such by the byzantine empire. in diplomatic writings between the ottomans and austrians, the ottoman bureaucracy was angered by their use of the caesar title when the ottomans saw themself as the true successors of rome. when war broke out and peace negotiations were done, the austrians (holy roman empire) agreed to give up the use of the caesar title according to the treaty of konstantiniyye (though they would continue to use it and the roman imperial title until the collapse of the holy roman empire in ). the russians who also claimed as the third rome were sanctioned by the ottomans by giving orders to the crimean khanate to raid russia numerous times.[ ] the ottomans would lose their political superiority to holy roman empire in the treaty of sitvatorok in and to the russians in the treaty of küçük kaynarca in . legacy[edit] title (and name)[edit] 	 	this section has multiple issues. please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. 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(may ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) (learn how and when to remove this template message) the history of "caesar" as an imperial title is reflected by the following monarchic titles, usually reserved for "emperor" and "empress" in many languages (note that the name caesar, pronounced /siːzər/ in english, was pronounced [kaisar] in classical latin): afro-asiatic languages: 	arabic: qays'r قصر;قيصر qas'r 	hebrew: kesár‎ קיסר (male) and kesarít קיסרית (female); albanian: 	albanian: Çezar and qesarinë; armenian: 	armenian: կայսր kaysr, and armenian: կայսրություն kaysrutiun meaning empire; greek: 	modern greek: greek: Καίσαρας (kaisaras), the archaic form greek: Καίσαρ is rarely used today; austronesian languages: 	bahasa indonesia: kaisar; baltic languages: 	latvian: Ķeizars and Ķeizariene; germanic languages: 	danish: kejser and kejserinde; 	dutch: keizer and keizerin; 	german: kaiser and kaiserin; 	icelandic: keisari and keisaraynja; 	faroese: keisari and keisarinna; 	norwegian: keiser and keiserinne (bokmål) / keisar and keisarinne (nynorsk); 	swedish: kejsare and kejsarinna 	old english: cāsere indo-iranian languages: 	persian: ghaysar‎ قيصر 	urdu: qaysar قيصر used in the title "kaiser-i-hind" ("emperor of india") during the british raj kartvelian languages 	georgian: კეისარი (keisari) romance languages 	italian, cesare, used as a first name. 	romanian, cezar as a common noun in certain contexts; cezar, used as a first name. 	spanish, portuguese and french, césar: commonly used as first or second name. slavic languages: 	belarusian: Цар, царыца (transliterated as tsar, tsarytsa) 	bulgarian: Цар, царица (transliterated as tsar, tsaritsa); 	czech: císař, císařovna; 	macedonian: Цар, царица (transliterated as tsar, tsarica) 	polish: cesarz, cesarzowa; 	russian: Царь, Царица, (transliterated as tsar, tsaritsa); however in the russian empire (also reflected in some of its other languages), which aimed to be the "third rome" as successor to the byzantine empire, it was abandoned (not in the foreign language renderings though) as imperial style—in favor of imperator and autocrator—and used as a lower, royal style as within the empire in chief of some of its parts, e.g. georgia and siberia 	in the united states and, more recently, britain, the title "czar" (an archaic transliteration of the russian title) is a slang term for certain high-level civil servants, such as the "drug czar" for the director of the office of national drug control policy and "terrorism czar" for a presidential advisor on terrorism policy. more specifically, a czar refers to a sub-cabinet-level advisor within the executive branch of the u.s. government. 	serbo-croatian: car, carica (цар, царица) 	slovak: cisár, cisárovná; 	slovene: cesar, cesarica or car, carica; 	ukrainian: Цісар, цісарева (tsisar, tsisareva), also ukrainian: цар/царь, царина (archaic transliteration: czar and czarina), tsar, tsaryna (modern transliteration) turkic languages: 	turkish: kayser (historical), sezar (modern). kayser-i-rûm "caesar of [constantinople, the second] rome", one of many subsidiary titles proclaiming the ottoman sultan (main imperial title padishah) as (muslim) successor to "rum" as the turks called the (christian) roman empire (as byzantium had continued to call itself), continuing to use the name for part of formerly byzantine territory (compare the seljuk rum-sultanate) uralic languages: 	estonian: keiser and keisrinna; 	finnish: keisari and keisarinna or keisaritar; 	hungarian: császár and császárnő; in various romance and other languages, the imperial title was based on the latin imperator (a military mandate or a victory title), but caesar or a derivation is still used for both the name and the minor ranks (still perceived as latin).[citation needed] there have been other cases of a noun proper being turned into a title, such as charlemagne's latin name, including the epithet, carolus (magnus), becoming slavonic titles rendered as king: kralj (serbo-croatian), král (czech) and król (polish), etc.[citation needed] however certain languages, especially romance languages, also commonly use a "modernized" word (e.g., césar in french) for the name, both referring to the roman cognomen and modern use as a first name, and even to render the title caesar, sometimes again extended to the derived imperial titles above.[citation needed] yoruba language: 	yoruba: késárì translation of the name caesar first recorded in the first book translated to yoruba, the bible. the caesar in the bible refers to emperor augustus, who was referred to as caesar. it was not used as a title for kings as it did not reach the language till the late th century and was not widely known till the th century. the main title for king was "kábíyèsi", meaning one who cannot be questioned (ká-bí-yò-èsi). historiography[edit] oswald spengler used the term, caesarism, in his book, the decline of the west. list of holders[edit] this list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. 	titus (proclaimed caesar, ad) (augustus june – september ) 	domitian (proclaimed caesar, ad) (augustus september – september ) 	antoninus pius (proclaimed caesar, february ) (augustus july – march ) 	marcus aurelius (proclaimed caesar, december ) (augustus march – march ) 	lucius verus (proclaimed caesar, october ) (augustus march – january/february ) 	commodus (proclaimed caesar, october ) (augustus november – december ) 	caracalla (proclaimed caesar, / ) (augustus february – april ) 	geta (proclaimed caesar, january ) (augustus february – february ) 	diadumenian (proclaimed caesar, april ) (augustus may – june ) 	gordian iii (proclaimed caesar, april ) (augustus early august – late january/early february ) 	volusianus (proclaimed caesar, june? ) (augustus late june/early august – late july/early august ) 	maximian (proclaimed caesar, july ) (augustus april – may ; end /early – november ) 	constantius i (proclaimed caesar, march ) (augustus may – july ) 	galerius (proclaimed caesar, march ) (augustus may – early may ) 	valerius severus (proclaimed caesar, may ) (augustus july – april ) 	maximinus daia (proclaimed caesar, may ) (augustus may – summer ) 	maxentius (proclaimed caesar, october ) (augustus apr? – october ) 	constantine the great (proclaimed caesar, july ) (augustus july – may ) 	crispus (proclaimed caesar, march ) 	licinius ii (proclaimed caesar, march ) 	constantine ii (proclaimed caesar, march ) (augustus sep. – early april ) 	constans (proclaimed caesar, december ) (augustus sep. – january ) 	constantius ii (proclaimed caesar, november ) (augustus sep. – november ) 	constantius gallus 	julian (proclaimed caesar, november ) (augustus november – / june ) 	valentinian iii (proclaimed caesar, october ) (augustus october – march ) 	majorian (proclaimed caesar, april ) (augustus december – august ) 	procopius anthemius (proclaimed caesar, march ) (augustus april – july ) 	leo ii (proclaimed caesar, october ) (augustus january – november ) 	byzantine 	tervel, khan of the bulgars, named in by justinian ii (r. – , – ). 	theophobos, named by theophilos (r. – ).[ ] 	alexios mosele, named by theophilos (r. – ). 	bardas, named by his nephew michael iii (r. – ). 	bardas phokas, named by his son nikephoros ii (r. – ). 	john doukas, named in by his brother constantine x doukas. 	nikephoros bryennios, named by his father-in-law alexios i komnenos 	isaac komnenos, named by his father alexios i komnenos (according to ioannes zonaras) 	george ii of georgia, brother of empress maria of alania, in . 	john rogerios dalassenos, named by john ii komnenos. 	alexios strategopoulos, named by michael viii palaiologos (r. – ). 	roger de flor, leader of the catalan grand company, named in by andronikos ii palaiologos. 	hrelja, likely named by john vi kantakouzenos. 	serbian 	grgur golubić, named in by stefan dušan. 	vojihna, named in by stefan dušan. 	preljub, named in – by stefan dušan. 	uglješa vlatković, named by uroš v. 	nikola radonja, named by uroš v. 	novak, named by uroš v. see also[edit] 	augustus (honorific) 	caesaropapism 	khosrow (word) references[edit] 	^ bury , p.  . sfn error: no target: citerefbury (help) 	^ a b c odb, "caesar" (a. kazhdan), p. . 	^ bury , pp.  , . sfn error: no target: citerefbury (help) 	^ verpeaux , pp.  – . sfn error: multiple targets ( ×): citerefverpeaux (help) 	^ verpeaux , pp.  – . sfn error: multiple targets ( ×): citerefverpeaux (help) 	^ middle persian: 𐭪𐭩𐭮𐭫𐭩‎ kysly (inscriptional pahlavi), kysl (book pahlavi), transcribed as kēsar 	^ hurbanič, martin ( ). the avar siege of constantinople in : history and legend. springer. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ michalis n. michael; matthias kappler; eftihios gavriel ( ). archivum ottomanicum. mouton. p.  . 	^ christine isom-verhaaren; kent f. schull ( april ). living in the ottoman realm: empire and identity, th to th centuries. indiana university press. pp.  –. isbn  - - - - . 	^ roger crowley ( ). constantinople: the last great siege, . faber & faber. pp.  –. isbn  - - - - . 	^ "gennadios ii scholarios". encyclopaedia britannica. retrieved july . 	^ norwich, john julius ( ). byzantium:the decline and fall. new york: alfred a. knopf. pp.  – . isbn  - - - . 	^ halil, inançik ( ). kırım hanlığı tarihi Üzerine araştırmalar - : seçme eserleri - xi. isbn  - . 	^ juan signes codoñer ( march ). the emperor theophilos and the east, – : court and frontier in byzantium during the last phase of iconoclasm. routledge. pp.  –. isbn  - - - - . bibliography[edit] 	pauly-wissowa – realencyclopädie der classischen altertumswissenschaft 	bury, j. b. ( ). the imperial administrative system of the ninth century - with a revised text of the kletorologion of philotheos. london: oxford university press. oclc  . 	kazhdan, alexander, ed. ( ). the oxford dictionary of byzantium. oxford and new york: oxford university press. isbn  - - - . 	verpeaux, jean, ed. ( ). pseudo-kodinos, traité des offices (in french). centre national de la recherche scientifique. 	ferjančić, božidar ( ). "Севастократори и кесари у Српском царству" [sebastocrators and caesares in the serbian empire]. Зборник Филозофског факултета. belgrade: – . 	kazhdan, alexander, ed. ( ). the oxford dictionary of byzantium. oxford and new york: oxford university press. isbn  - - - . 	verpeaux, jean, ed. 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wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	anna seward 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 	anna seward 	seward by tilly kettle, 	born	 december [ ] eyam, derbyshire 	died	 march ( - - ) (aged  ) lichfield, staffordshire 	resting place	lichfield cathedral 	nationality	english 	occupation	writer, botanist 	notable work 	louisa ( ) 	parent(s)	 	thomas seward ( – march ) 	elizabeth hunter (d. july ) (m. october )[ ] 	relatives	sarah ("sally") (sister) (b.  march –d.  )[ ] anna seward, engraving anna seward[ ] ( december [ ][notes ] – march ) was an th– th-century english romantic poet, often called the swan of lichfield. contents 	 life 	 . family life 	 . anecdotes 	 . education and career 	 . relationships 	 work 	 . poetry 	 . correspondence and biography 	 . science 	 selected works 	 legacy 	 archives 	 notes 	 references 	 bibliography 	 . historical sources 	 . literary surveys 	 . anna seward 	 . botany 	 . sexuality 	 . works by seward 	 . reference materials 	 further reading 	 external links life[edit] family life[edit] bishop's palace seward was the elder of two surviving daughters of thomas seward ( – ), a prebendary of lichfield and salisbury and author, and his wife elizabeth.[ ][ ] elizabeth seward later had three further children (john, jane and elizabeth), who all died in infancy, and two stillbirths.[ ] anna seward mourned their loss in her poem eyam ( ).[ ] born in at eyam, a small mining village in the peak district of derbyshire, where her father was the rector,[ ] she and her sister sarah, some months younger, passed nearly all their life in that relatively small area of the peak district of derbyshire and in lichfield, a cathedral city in the adjacent county of staffordshire.[ ][ ] in , anna's father was appointed a canon-residentiary at lichfield cathedral. the family moved there, where her father educated her at home. in they moved into the bishop's palace in cathedral close. when a family friend, mrs edward sneyd, died in ,[ ] the sewards took in one of her daughters, honora sneyd, who became an adopted foster sister to anna.[ ] honora was nine years younger. anna seward described in her poem the anniversary ( ) how she and her sister first met honora, on returning from a walk.[ ] sarah (known as sally) died suddenly of typhus at the age of in .[ ] sarah was said to have an admirable character, though less talented than her sister.[ ] anna consoled herself with affection for honora sneyd, as she describes in visions, written a few days after her sister's death, where she expresses a hope that honora ("this transplanted flower") would replace her sister (referred to as alinda) in her and her parents affections.[ ][notes ] anna seward cared for her father in the last ten years of his life, after he had suffered a stroke. when he died in , he left her financially independent with an income of £ per annum. she spent the rest of her life at the bishop's palace until she died in .[ ] anecdotes[edit] as a long-term friend of the levett family of lichfield, seward noted in her memoirs of the life of dr. darwin (erasmus) that three of the town's foremost citizens were thrown from their carriages and injured their knees in the same year. "no such misfortune," seward wrote, "was previously remembered in that city, nor has it recurred through all the years which since elapsed."[notes ] education and career[edit] anna, a precocious, sensitive redhead, showed a bent for learning from early childhood. canon seward held progressive views on female education, having authored the female right to literature ( ).[ ] encouraged by her father, she was said to be able to recite works of milton by the age of three.[ ] her gift for writing was clear at the age of seven, when the family moved to lichfield. the family home in the bishop's palace became the centre of a literary circle that included erasmus darwin, samuel johnson and james boswell, in which anna was encouraged to join, as she later relates.[notes ][ ][ ] canon seward's (if not his wife's) attitudes to educating girls was progressive for the time, but not excessively so. he was a poet himself, yet tried to curb anna's passion for poetry, although she chose the composition of it for her own studies.[ ] among the subjects he taught were theology and numeracy, how to read and appreciate poetry, and how to write and recite it, although these deviated from the conventional drawing room accomplishments of the time. the omissions were also notable, including languages and science, although they could pursue then alone if they felt inclined.[ ] however, anna was not unskilled in the domestic sphere.[ ] among the many literary figures she conversed with was sir walter scott, who later published her poetry posthumously. her circle included writers such as thomas day, francis noel clarke mundy, sir brooke boothby and willie newton (the peak minstrel).[ ] she came to be seen as heading a coterie of regional poets, influenced by writers such as thomas whalley, william hayley, robert southey, helen maria williams, hannah more and the ladies of llangollen.[ ][ ] she was also involved in the lunar society in nearby birmingham, which would sometimes meet at their home.[ ] both darwin and day belonged to it. seward corresponded with other members such as josiah wedgwood and richard lovell edgeworth.[ ] between and , seward was a guest and participant at the much-mocked salon held by anna miller at batheaston, near bath. however, it was here that seward's talent was recognised. her work was published in the yearbook of poems from the gatherings, a debt that seward acknowledged in "poem to the memory of lady miller" ( ).[ ] relationships[edit] seward remained resolutely single throughout her life, despite many offers and friendships. she was outspoken about the institution of marriage,[ ][ ] not unlike her heroine in louisa,[ ] a position that would later be echoed in the novels of her step-niece, maria edgeworth. she shunned both marriage and sexual love as inferior to the equality and virtue of aristotelian friendship. however she had friends of both genders, although only seeking romantic relationships with women.[ ] in lillian faderman suggested that her orientation was lesbian,[ ] but there is little known evidence of the erotic or sexual in her relationships, though the term relates more to th than to th-century concepts of identity. since seward remains within the lesbian poetic canon,[ ] but teresa barnard argues against this, based more on examination of her correspondence than her poetry,[ ] while more recently barrett has argued for it, based on other sources.[ ] much of the literature on seward's relationships focuses on her childhood friend honora sneyd, the sonnets revealing her passion for her when they were together and her despair when sneyd married richard edgeworth. compared to the correspondence, her sonnets display more intense emotion, such as sonnet ("honora, shou'd that cruel time arrive") describing her feelings of betrayal. when the edgeworths returned to ireland, despair turned to rage, as in sonnet ("ingratitude, how deadly is thy smart").[ ] work[edit] anna seward: bottom row, nd from left; writers:twenty portraits. engraving by j.w. cook, . wellcome v poetry[edit] seward began to write poetry at an early age with encouragement from her father, a published poet, but against the wishes of her mother. when anna was , her father revised his position, fearing she might become a "learned lady".[ ][ ] later she received encouragement from dr erasmus darwin, who set up a practice in lichfield in ,[ ] although their relations were complex with frequent conflicts.[ ] her verses, which date from at least ,[ ] include elegies and sonnets, and a poetical novel, louisa ( ), of which five editions were published. however, she did not publish her first poem until , at the age of . seward's writings, which include many letters, have been called "commonplace". horace walpole said she had "no imagination, no novelty",[ ] although she was praised by mary scott,[ ] who had written admiringly of her father's attitude to female education.[ ] several poems, particularly lichfield ones, concerned her friend and adopted sister honora sneyd, in a tradition described as "female friendship poetry".[ ] seward struck a middle path in a period when women had to tread carefully. her work could also be arch and teasing, as in her poem portrait of miss levett, on a lichfield beauty later married to rev. richard levett.[ ] she contributed to boswell's life of samuel johnson ( ), but was less than happy with the way boswell treated her material.[ ] her work circulated widely.[ ] authorship has been a continuing problem with assessing her work.[ ] she was known to suggest others had used her work as their own: "a charge of plagiarism must rest somewhere."[ ] correspondence and biography[edit] seward was a prodigious correspondent. a vast six volumes of her letters appeared after her death ( )[ ] revealing a broad knowledge of english literature and casting light on midland literary culture in her day.[ ] early in life ( – ) she used an imaginary friend, emma, to express her thoughts, writing letters to her.[ ] she was seen to varying degrees as an authority on english literature by contemporaries such as walter scott, samuel johnson and robert southey.[ ] she also wrote a biography: memoirs of the life of dr. darwin ( ).[ ] science[edit] keenly interested in botany, she associated closely with the lichfield botanical society (despite the name, composed of only three men: erasmus darwin, sir brooke boothby and john jackson) and published anonymously in the society's name.[ ] encouraged by darwin she rejected the conservative backlash to the revelations of carl linnaeus's sexual system of plant classification. this was seen as unfitting for ladies, whose modesty had to be protected.[ ] "i had heard it was not fit for the female eye. it can only be unfit for the perusal of such females as still believe the legend of their nursery that children are dug out of a parsley-bed; who have never been at church, or looked into a bible, – and are totally ignorant that in the present state of the world, two sexes are necessary to the production of animals."[ ][notes ] this attitude, still prevalent through most of the th century, was typified by writers such as the rev. richard polwhele, in his poem the unsex'd females ( ), although she escaped his personal criticism, being considered to have the proper attitude. selected works[edit] main article: bibliography of anna seward selected works include;[ ][ ] 	the visions, an elegy ( )[ ] 	the anniversary ( )[ ] 	lichfield, an elegy (may )[ ] 	poem to the memory of lady miller ( ) 	eyam. (august )[ ] 	louisa, a poetical novel in four epistles ( ) 	memoirs of the life of dr. darwin ( ) 	original sonnets on various subjects: and odes paraphrased from horace ( ) 	sonnet . to honora sneyd. [honora, shou'd that cruel time arrive] 	sonnet [ingratitude, how deadly is thy smart] legacy[edit] after seward's death, sir walter scott edited her poetical works in three volumes (edinburgh, ).[ ] to these he prefixed a memoir of the author and extracts from her correspondence. scott's editing shows considerable censorship[ ] and he declined to edit the bulk of her letters, which later appeared in six volumes from archibald constable as letters of anna seward – ( ).[ ][ ] her reputation barely outlived her, but interest has revived in the st century, after some dismissive views among early th-century critics.[ ] later, feminist scholars in particular have seen seward as a valuable observer of gendered relationships in late th-century society, playing a transitional role in its principles and emerging romanticism. her engagement with the political, cultural and literary issues of the time likewise reflects the responses of society to such issues.[ ][ ] kairoff sees her as "one of the — in a literal sense — ultimate eighteenth-century poets".[ ] there is a plaque to anna seward (spelled "ann") in lichfield cathedral. there is a plaque to anna seward (spelt "ann") in lichfield cathedral. the epitaph was written by her friend walter scott.[notes ] seward appears as a character in the novel the ladies by doris grumbach ( ).[ ] archives[edit] a collection of letters relating to seward can be found in the cadbury research library, university of birmingham.[ ] notes[edit] 	^ often wrongly given as . 	^ scott chose to open his collection of seward's poetry with this poem. 	^ the three victims dr erasmus darwin, lichfield town clerk theophilus levett, and anna seward herself.(seward ) 	^ "and being canon of this cathedral, his daughter necessarily converses on terms of equality with the proudest inhabitants of our little city." (scott , letter february . vol. i p. lxxiii) 	^ seward defends erasmus darwin against attacks on his temple of nature ( ) as indecent. 	^ see extracts from seward's will in the lady's monthly museum (lady's monthly , miss seward's will wednesday april pp. – ) references[edit] 	^ a b c barnard , p.  . 	^ a b bancroft . 	^ williams , anne seward pp.  – . 	^ a b williams , anne seward pp. – . 	^ a b c d e roberts . 	^ scott , eyam, vol. iii p. . 	^ a b c d roberts . 	^ edgeworth & edgeworth a, p.  . 	^ a b scott , the anniversary, vol. i p. . 	^ macdonald & mcwhir , anna seward – pp.  – . 	^ a b edgeworth & edgeworth a, p.  . 	^ a b scott , the visions, vol. i p. . 	^ a b dodsley , seward, t. the female right to literature volume , pp. – . 	^ a b c d e f g h i barnard . 	^ rowton, frederic ( ). the female poets of great britain, chronologically arranged: with copious selections and critical remarks. london: longman, brown, green, and longmans. p.  . retrieved october . 	^ barnard , p. . 	^ barnard , p.  . 	^ a b c d e f delucia . 	^ schofield . 	^ bowerbank . 	^ barnard , p.  . 	^ a b c d barrett . 	^ faderman . 	^ moore et al. , anna seward pp. – . 	^ a b chisholm . 	^ radcliffe , mary scott, "verses addressed to miss seward, on the publication of her monody on major andre" gentleman's magazine (june ) . 	^ scott , p.  . 	^ a b scott . 	^ foster , lisa moore: the swan of lichfield pp. – . 	^ constable , letter to mrs. jackson august vol. p.  . 	^ a b constable . 	^ barnard , . 'my dear emma': the juvenile letters, – pp. – . 	^ seward . 	^ george . 	^ shteir , p. . 	^ constable , letter to dr. lister, june . vi. . 	^ moore . 	^ scott , lichfield, an elegy may , vol. i p. . 	^ scott , eyam, vol. iii, p. . 	^ barnard . 	^ clarke . 	^ kairoff , preface p. ix–xi. 	^ kairoff , p. . 	^ grumbach . 	^ "uob calmview : overview". calmview.bham.ac.uk. retrieved december . bibliography[edit] 	bowerbank, sylvia ( ). speaking for nature: women and ecologies of early modern england. baltimore: johns hopkins university press. isbn  .cs maint: ref=harv (link) 	foster, thomas a., ed. ( ). histories of same-sex sexuality in early america. new york: new york univ. press. isbn  .cs maint: ref=harv (link) 	gottlieb, evan; shields, juliet, eds. 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largest city 	constantinopled ( – , – ) 	common languages	 	late latin, koine greek 	medieval greek ( – ) 	religion 	 	eastern christianity (tolerated after the edicts of serdica ( ) and milan ( ); state religion after ) 	eastern orthodoxy (following the schism of ) 	notable emperors	  	 	•  – 	constantine i 	•  – 	arcadius 	•  – 	theodosius ii 	•  – 	justinian i 	•  – 	heraclius 	•  – 	leo iii 	•  – 	irene 	•  – 	basil i 	•  – 	basil ii 	•  – 	constantine ix 	•  – 	alexius i 	•  – 	michael viii 	•  – 	constantine xi 	 	historical era	late antiquity to late middle ages 	 	• first division of the roman empire (diarchy) 	 april 	• founding of constantinople 	 may 	• final east–west division after the death of theodosius i 	 january 	• fall of rome; deposition of romulus augustulus by odoacer 	 september 	• assassination of julius nepos; nominal end of the western roman empire 	 april 	• fourth crusade; establishment of the latin empire by catholic crusaders 	 april 	• reconquest of constantinople by michael viii palaiologos 	 july 	• fall of constantinople 	 may 	• fall of trebizond 	 august 	 	population 	 	•  	 , , e 	•  	 , , 	•  	 , , 	•  	 , , 	•  	 , , 	 	currency	solidus, denarius and hyperpyron 	 	 preceded by	succeeded by 	 	 	roman empire 	 	ottoman empire 	 		^ Βασιλεία Ῥωμαίων may be transliterated in latin as basileia rhōmaiōn (literally meaning monarchy of the romans, but commonly rendered empire of the romans). 	^ roman empire 	^ between and there was an interregnum when the empire was divided into the empire of nicaea, the empire of trebizond and the despotate of epirus, which were all contenders for rule of the empire. the empire of nicaea is considered the legitimate continuation of the byzantine empire because it managed to retake constantinople. 	^ constantinople became the capital of the (united) empire in . theodosius i was the last emperor to rule over both the eastern and western roman empire. he died in ad, dividing the empire in western and eastern halves. 	^ see population of the byzantine empire for more detailed figures taken provided by mcevedy and jones, atlas of world population history, , as well as angeliki e. laiou, the economic history of byzantium, . 	part of a series on the 	history of the byzantine empire 	 	 preceding 	 	roman empire 	dominate 	 early period ( – ) 	 	constantinian–valentinianic era (constantinian dynasty – valentinianic dynasty) 	theodosian era 	leonid era 	justinian era 	heraclian era 	twenty years' anarchy 	 middle period ( – ) 	 	isaurian era 	nikephorian era 	amorian era 	macedonian era 	doukid era 	komnenian era 	angelid era 	 late period ( – ) 	 	fourth crusade and latin rule 	latin empire 	principality of achaea 	others 	byzantine successor states 	nicaea 	epirus/thessalonica 	trebizond 	theodoro 	palaiologan era 	despotate of the morea 	decline of the byzantine empire 	fall of constantinople 	 timeline 	 by topic 	 	art 	government 	economy 	army 	navy 	  byzantine empire portal 		v 	t 	e the byzantine empire, also referred to as the eastern roman empire, or byzantium, was the continuation of the roman empire in its eastern provinces during late antiquity and the middle ages, when its capital city was constantinople (modern istanbul, formerly byzantium). it survived the fragmentation and fall of the western roman empire in the th century ad and continued to exist for an additional thousand years until it fell to the ottoman empire in .[ ] during most of its existence, the empire was the most powerful economic, cultural, and military force in europe. "byzantine empire" is a term created after the end of the realm; its citizens continued to refer to their empire simply as the roman empire (medieval greek: Βασιλεία Ῥωμαίων, romanized: basileía rhōmaíōn)[ ] or romania (medieval greek: Ῥωμανία), and to themselves as romans (medieval greek: Ῥωμαῖοι, romanized: rhōmaîoi). several signal events from the th to th centuries mark the period of transition during which the roman empire's greek east and latin west diverged. constantine i (r.  – ) reorganised the empire, made constantinople the new capital and legalised christianity. under theodosius i (r.  – ), christianity became the state religion and other religious practices were proscribed. in the reign of heraclius (r.  – ), the empire's military and administration were restructured and adopted greek for official use in place of latin.[ ] although the roman state continued and its traditions were maintained, modern historians distinguish byzantium from ancient rome insofar as it was centred on constantinople, oriented towards greek rather than latin culture and characterised by eastern orthodox christianity.[ ] the borders of the empire fluctuated through several cycles of decline and recovery. during the reign of justinian i (r.  – ), the empire reached its greatest extent, after reconquering much of the historically roman western mediterranean coast, including north africa, italy and rome, which it held for two more centuries. the byzantine–sasanian war of – exhausted the empire's resources, and during the early muslim conquests of the th century, it lost its richest provinces, egypt and syria, to the rashidun caliphate.[ ] during the macedonian dynasty ( th– th centuries), the empire expanded again and experienced the two-century long macedonian renaissance, which came to an end with the loss of much of asia minor to the seljuk turks after the battle of manzikert in . this battle opened the way for the turks to settle in anatolia. the empire recovered during the komnenian restoration, and by the th century constantinople was the largest and wealthiest city in europe.[ ] the byzantine empire was delivered a mortal blow during the fourth crusade, when constantinople was sacked in and the territories that the empire formerly governed were divided into competing byzantine greek and latin realms. despite the eventual recovery of constantinople in , the byzantine empire remained only one of several small rival states in the area for the final two centuries of its existence. its remaining territories were progressively annexed by the ottomans in the byzantine–ottoman wars over the th and th centuries. the fall of constantinople to the ottoman empire in ended the byzantine empire.[ ] the last of the imperial byzantine successor states, the empire of trebizond, would be conquered by the ottomans eight years later in the siege.[ ] contents 	 nomenclature 	 history 	 . early history 	 . christianization and partition of the empire 	 . loss of the western roman empire 	 . justinian dynasty 	 . shrinking borders 	 . . early heraclian dynasty 	 . . first arab siege of constantinople ( – ) and the theme system 	 . . late heraclian dynasty 	 . . second arab siege of constantinople ( – ) and the isaurian dynasty 	 . . religious dispute over iconoclasm 	 . macedonian dynasty and resurgence ( – ) 	 . . wars against the abbasids 	 . . wars against the bulgarian empire 	 . . relations with the kievan rus' 	 . . campaigns in the caucasus 	 . . apex 	 . . split between orthodoxy and catholicism ( ) 	 . crisis and fragmentation 	 . komnenian dynasty and the crusades 	 . . alexios i and the first crusade 	 . . john ii, manuel i and the second crusade 	 . . th-century renaissance 	 . decline and disintegration 	 . . angelid dynasty 	 . . fourth crusade 	 . . crusader sack of constantinople ( ) 	 . fall 	 . . empire in exile 	 . . reconquest of constantinople 	 . . rise of the ottomans and fall of constantinople 	 . political aftermath 	 government and bureaucracy 	 . diplomacy 	 science, medicine and law 	 culture 	 . religion 	 . arts 	 . . art and literature 	 . . music 	 . cuisine 	 . flags and insignia 	 . language 	 . recreation 	 economy 	 legacy 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 . citations 	 . sources 	 . . primary sources 	 . . secondary sources 	 further reading 	 external links 	 . byzantine studies, resources and bibliography nomenclature[edit] see also: names of the greeks the first use of the term "byzantine" to label the later years of the roman empire was in , years after the empire's collapse, when the german historian hieronymus wolf published his work corpus historiæ byzantinæ, a collection of historical sources. the term comes from "byzantium", the name of the city to which constantine moved his capital, leaving rome, and rebuilt under the new name of constantinople. the older name of the city would rarely be used from this point onward except in historical or poetic contexts. the publication in of the byzantine du louvre (corpus scriptorum historiae byzantinae), and in of du cange's historia byzantina further popularised the use of "byzantine" among french authors, such as montesquieu.[ ] however, it was not until the mid- th century that the term came into general use in the western world.[ ] the byzantine empire was known to its inhabitants as the "roman empire" or the "empire of the romans" (latin: imperium romanum, imperium romanorum; medieval greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, Ἀρχὴ τῶν Ῥωμαίων, romanized: basileia tōn rhōmaiōn, archē tōn rhōmaiōn), romania (latin: romania; medieval greek: Ῥωμανία, romanized: rhōmania),[note ] the roman republic (latin: res publica romana; medieval greek: Πολιτεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, romanized: politeia tōn rhōmaiōn), or in greek "rhōmais" medieval greek: Ῥωμαΐς).[ ] the inhabitants called themselves romaioi and even as late as the th century greeks typically referred to modern greek as romaiika "romaic".[ ] after when the byzantine empire was mostly confined to its purely greek provinces the term 'hellenes' was increasingly used instead.[ ] while the byzantine empire had a multi-ethnic character during most of its history[ ] and preserved romano-hellenistic traditions,[ ] it became identified by its western and northern contemporaries with its increasingly predominant greek element.[ ] western medieval sources also referred to the empire as the "empire of the greeks" (latin: imperium graecorum) and to its emperor as imperator graecorum (emperor of the greeks);[ ] these terms were used to distinguish it from the holy roman empire that claimed the prestige of the classical roman empire in the west.[ ] no such distinction existed in the islamic and slavic worlds, where the empire was more straightforwardly seen as the continuation of the roman empire. in the islamic world, the roman empire was known primarily as rûm.[ ] the name millet-i rûm, or "roman nation," was used by the ottomans until the th century to refer to the former subjects of the byzantine empire, that is, the orthodox christian community within ottoman realms. history[edit] main article: history of the byzantine empire early history[edit] constantine the great was the first roman emperor to convert to christianity and moved the seat of the empire to byzantium, renamed constantinople in his honor. the roman army succeeded in conquering many territories covering the mediterranean region and coastal regions in southwestern europe and north africa. these territories were home to many different cultural groups, both urban populations, and rural populations. generally speaking, the eastern mediterranean provinces were more urbanized than the western, having previously been united under the macedonian empire and hellenised by the influence of greek culture.[ ] the west also suffered more heavily from the instability of the rd century ad. this distinction between the established hellenised east and the younger latinised west persisted and became increasingly important in later centuries, leading to a gradual estrangement of the two worlds.[ ] an early instance of the partition of the empire into east and west occurred in when emperor diocletian created a new administrative system (the tetrarchy), to guarantee security in all endangered regions of his empire. he associated himself with a co-emperor (augustus), and each co-emperor then adopted a young colleague given the title of caesar, to share in their rule and eventually to succeed the senior partner. each tetrarch was in charge of a part of the empire. the tetrarchy collapsed, however, in and a few years later constantine i reunited the two administrative divisions of the empire as sole augustus.[ ] christianization and partition of the empire[edit] see also: byzantium under the constantinian and valentinian dynasties restored section of the walls of constantinople after the death of theodosius i in , the empire was again divided. the west disintegrated in the late s while the east ended with the fall of constantinople in .   the western roman empire   the eastern roman/byzantine empire in , constantine moved the seat of the empire to constantinople, which he founded as a second rome on the site of byzantium, a city strategically located on the trade routes between europe and asia and between the mediterranean and the black sea. constantine introduced important changes to the empire's military, monetary, civil and religious institutions. in regards to his economic policies he has been accused by certain scholars of "reckless fiscality", but the gold solidus he introduced became a stable currency that transformed the economy and promoted development.[ ] under constantine, christianity did not become the exclusive religion of the state but enjoyed imperial preference since he supported it with generous privileges. constantine established the principle that emperors could not settle questions of doctrine on their own but should summon instead general ecclesiastical councils for that purpose. his convening of both the synod of arles and the first council of nicaea indicated his interest in the unity of the church, and showcased his claim to be its head.[ ] the rise of christianity was briefly interrupted on the accession of the emperor julian in , who made a determined effort to restore polytheism throughout the empire and was thus dubbed "julian the apostate" by the church.[ ] however, this was reversed when julian was killed in battle in .[ ] theodosius i ( – ) was the last emperor to rule both the eastern and western halves of the empire. in and he issued a series of edicts essentially banning pagan religion. pagan festivals and sacrifices were banned, as was access to all pagan temples and places of worship.[ ] the last olympic games are believed to have been held in .[ ] in , theodosius i bequeathed the imperial office jointly to his sons: arcadius in the east and honorius in the west, once again dividing imperial administration. in the th century the eastern part of the empire was largely spared the difficulties faced by the west – due in part to a more established urban culture and greater financial resources, which allowed it to placate invaders with tribute and pay foreign mercenaries. this success allowed theodosius ii to focus on the codification of roman law and further fortification of the walls of constantinople, which left the city impervious to most attacks until .[ ] large portions of the theodosian walls are preserved to the present day. to fend off the huns, theodosius had to pay an enormous annual tribute to attila. his successor, marcian, refused to continue to pay the tribute, but attila had already diverted his attention to the western roman empire. after attila's death in , the hun empire collapsed, and many of the remaining huns were often hired as mercenaries by constantinople.[ ] loss of the western roman empire[edit] after the fall of attila, the eastern empire enjoyed a period of peace, while the western empire continued to deteriorate due to the expanding migration and invasions of the "barbarians", most prominently the germanic nations. the west's end is usually dated when the east germanic roman foederati general odoacer deposed the western emperor romulus augustulus, a year after the latter usurped the position from julius nepos.[ ] in with the death of julius nepos, eastern emperor zeno became sole claimant to emperor of the empire. odoacer, now ruler of italy, was nominally zeno's subordinate but acted with complete autonomy, eventually providing support to a rebellion against the emperor.[ ] zeno negotiated with the invading ostrogoths, who had settled in moesia, convincing the gothic king theodoric to depart for italy as magister militum per italiam ("commander in chief for italy") with the aim of deposing odoacer. by urging theodoric to conquer italy, zeno rid the eastern empire of an unruly subordinate (odoacer) and moved another (theodoric) further from the heart of the empire. after odoacer's defeat in , theodoric ruled italy de facto, although he was never recognised by the eastern emperors as "king" (rex).[ ] in , anastasius i, an aged civil officer of roman origin, became emperor, but it was not until that the forces of the new emperor effectively took the measure of isaurian resistance.[ ] anastasius revealed himself as an energetic reformer and an able administrator. he introduced a new coinage system of the copper follis, the coin used in most everyday transactions.[ ] he also reformed the tax system and permanently abolished the chrysargyron tax. the state treasury contained the enormous sum of ,  lb ( ,  kg) of gold when anastasius died in .[ ] justinian dynasty[edit] see also: byzantine empire under the justinian dynasty emperor justinian (left) and (presumed) general belisarius (right) (mosaic from basilica of san vitale, th century) empress theodora and attendants (mosaic from basilica of san vitale, th century) hagia sophia built in ad , during the reign of justinian the byzantine empire in c. during the reign of maurice. half of the italian peninsula and most of southern hispania were lost, but the eastern borders expanded gaining land from the persians. the justinian dynasty was founded by justin i, who though illiterate, rose through the ranks of the military to become emperor in .[ ] he was succeeded by his nephew justinian i in , who may already have exerted effective control during justin's reign.[ ] one of the most important figures of late antiquity and possibly the last roman emperor to speak latin as a first language,[ ] justinian's rule constitutes a distinct epoch, marked by the ambitious but only partly realised renovatio imperii, or "restoration of the empire".[ ] his wife theodora was particularly influential.[ ] in , justinian appointed a ten-man commission chaired by john the cappadocian to revise roman law and create a new codification of laws and jurists' extracts, known as the "corpus juris civilis", or the justinian code. in , the corpus was updated and, along with the enactments promulgated by justinian after , formed the system of law used for most of the rest of the byzantine era.[ ] the corpus forms the basis of civil law of many modern states.[ ] in , attempting to secure his eastern frontier, justinian signed a peace treaty with khosrau i of persia, agreeing to pay a large annual tribute to the sassanids. in the same year, he survived a revolt in constantinople (the nika riots), which solidified his power but ended with the deaths of a reported , to , rioters on his orders.[ ] the western conquests began in , as justinian sent his general belisarius to reclaim the former province of africa from the vandals, who had been in control since with their capital at carthage.[ ] their success came with surprising ease, but it was not until that the major local tribes were subdued.[ ] in , a small byzantine expedition to sicily met with easy success, but the goths soon stiffened their resistance, and victory did not come until , when belisarius captured ravenna, after successful sieges of naples and rome.[ ] in – , theodahad sent pope agapetus i to constantinople to request the removal of byzantine forces from sicily, dalmatia, and italy. although agapetus failed in his mission to sign a peace with justinian, he succeeded in having the monophysite patriarch anthimus i of constantinople denounced, despite empress theodora's support and protection.[ ] the ostrogoths captured rome in . belisarius, who had been sent back to italy in , was eventually recalled to constantinople in .[ ] the arrival of the armenian eunuch narses in italy (late ) with an army of , men marked another shift in gothic fortunes. totila was defeated at the battle of taginae and his successor, teia, was defeated at the battle of mons lactarius (october ). despite continuing resistance from a few gothic garrisons and two subsequent invasions by the franks and alemanni, the war for the italian peninsula was at an end.[ ] in , athanagild, a noble from visigothic hispania, sought justinian's help in a rebellion against the king, and the emperor dispatched a force under liberius, a successful military commander. the empire held on to a small slice of the iberian peninsula coast until the reign of heraclius.[ ] in the east, the roman–persian wars continued until when the envoys of justinian and khosrau agreed on a -year peace.[ ] by the mid- s, justinian had won victories in most theatres of operation, with the notable exception of the balkans, which were subjected to repeated incursions from the slavs and the gepids. tribes of serbs and croats were later resettled in the northwestern balkans, during the reign of heraclius.[ ] justinian called belisarius out of retirement and defeated the new hunnish threat. the strengthening of the danube fleet caused the kutrigur huns to withdraw and they agreed to a treaty that allowed safe passage back across the danube.[ ] although polytheism had been suppressed by the state since at least the time of constantine in the th century, traditional greco-roman culture was still influential in the eastern empire in the th century.[ ] hellenistic philosophy began to be gradually amalgamated into newer christian philosophy. philosophers such as john philoponus drew on neoplatonic ideas in addition to christian thought and empiricism. because of active paganism of its professors justinian closed down the neoplatonic academy in . other schools continued in constantinople, antioch and alexandria, which were the centers of justinian's empire.[ ] hymns written by romanos the melodist marked the development of the divine liturgy, while the architects isidore of miletus and anthemius of tralles worked to complete the new church of the holy wisdom, hagia sophia, which was designed to replace an older church destroyed during the nika revolt. completed in , the hagia sophia stands today as one of the major monuments of byzantine architectural history.[ ] during the th and th centuries, the empire was struck by a series of epidemics, which greatly devastated the population and contributed to a significant economic decline and a weakening of the empire.[ ] after justinian died in , his successor, justin ii, refused to pay the large tribute to the persians. meanwhile, the germanic lombards invaded italy; by the end of the century, only a third of italy was in byzantine hands. justin's successor, tiberius ii, choosing between his enemies, awarded subsidies to the avars while taking military action against the persians. although tiberius' general, maurice, led an effective campaign on the eastern frontier, subsidies failed to restrain the avars. they captured the balkan fortress of sirmium in , while the slavs began to make inroads across the danube.[ ] maurice, who meanwhile succeeded tiberius, intervened in a persian civil war, placed the legitimate khosrau ii back on the throne, and married his daughter to him. maurice's treaty with his new brother-in-law enlarged the territories of the empire to the east and allowed the energetic emperor to focus on the balkans. by , a series of successful byzantine campaigns had pushed the avars and slavs back across the danube.[ ] however, maurice's refusal to ransom several thousand captives taken by the avars, and his order to the troops to winter in the danube, caused his popularity to plummet. a revolt broke out under an officer named phocas, who marched the troops back to constantinople; maurice and his family were murdered while trying to escape.[ ] shrinking borders[edit] early heraclian dynasty[edit] further information: byzantine empire under the heraclian dynasty battle between heraclius and the persians. fresco by piero della francesca, c. by (pictured) the empire had lost all its southern provinces, except the exarchate of africa, to the rashidun caliphate. at the same time the slavs invaded and settled in the balkans. after maurice's murder by phocas, khosrau used the pretext to reconquer the roman province of mesopotamia.[ ] phocas, an unpopular ruler invariably described in byzantine sources as a "tyrant", was the target of a number of senate-led plots. he was eventually deposed in by heraclius, who sailed to constantinople from carthage with an icon affixed to the prow of his ship.[ ] following the accession of heraclius, the sassanid advance pushed deep into the levant, occupying damascus and jerusalem and removing the true cross to ctesiphon.[ ] the counter-attack launched by heraclius took on the character of a holy war, and an acheiropoietos image of christ was carried as a military standard[ ] (similarly, when constantinople was saved from a combined avar–sassanid–slavic siege in , the victory was attributed to the icons of the virgin that were led in procession by patriarch sergius about the walls of the city).[ ] in this very siege of constantinople of the year , amidst the climactic byzantine–sasanian war of – , the combined avar, sassanid, and slavic forces unsuccessfully besieged the byzantine capital between june and july. after this, the sassanid army was forced to withdraw to anatolia. the loss came just after news had reached them of yet another byzantine victory, where heraclius's brother theodore scored well against the persian general shahin.[ ] following this, heraclius led an invasion into sassanid mesopotamia once again. the main sassanid force was destroyed at nineveh in , and in heraclius restored the true cross to jerusalem in a majestic ceremony,[ ] as he marched into the sassanid capital of ctesiphon, where anarchy and civil war reigned as a result of the enduring war. eventually, the persians were obliged to withdraw all armed forces and return sassanid-ruled egypt, the levant and whatever imperial territories of mesopotamia and armenia were in roman hands at the time of an earlier peace treaty in c. . the war had exhausted both the byzantines and sassanids, however, and left them extremely vulnerable to the muslim forces that emerged in the following years.[ ] the byzantines suffered a crushing defeat by the arabs at the battle of yarmouk in , while ctesiphon fell in .[ ] first arab siege of constantinople ( – ) and the theme system[edit] greek fire was first used by the byzantine navy during the byzantine–arab wars (from the madrid skylitzes, biblioteca nacional de españa, madrid). the arabs, now firmly in control of syria and the levant, sent frequent raiding parties deep into asia minor, and in – laid siege to constantinople itself. the arab fleet was finally repulsed through the use of greek fire, and a thirty-years' truce was signed between the empire and the umayyad caliphate.[ ] however, the anatolian raids continued unabated, and accelerated the demise of classical urban culture, with the inhabitants of many cities either refortifying much smaller areas within the old city walls, or relocating entirely to nearby fortresses.[ ] constantinople itself dropped substantially in size, from , inhabitants to just , – , , and, like other urban centres, it was partly ruralised. the city also lost the free grain shipments in , after egypt fell first to the persians and then to the arabs, and public wheat distribution ceased.[ ] the void left by the disappearance of the old semi-autonomous civic institutions was filled by the system called theme, which entailed dividing asia minor into "provinces" occupied by distinct armies that assumed civil authority and answered directly to the imperial administration. this system may have had its roots in certain ad hoc measures taken by heraclius, but over the course of the th century it developed into an entirely new system of imperial governance.[ ] the massive cultural and institutional restructuring of the empire consequent on the loss of territory in the th century has been said to have caused a decisive break in east mediterranean romanness and that the byzantine state is subsequently best understood as another successor state rather than a real continuation of the roman empire.[ ] late heraclian dynasty[edit] see also: twenty years' anarchy constantine iv and his retinue, mosaic in basilica of sant'apollinare in classe. constantine iv defeated the first arab siege of constantinople. the withdrawal of large numbers of troops from the balkans to combat the persians and then the arabs in the east opened the door for the gradual southward expansion of slavic peoples into the peninsula, and, as in asia minor, many cities shrank to small fortified settlements.[ ] in the s, the bulgars were pushed south of the danube by the arrival of the khazars. in , byzantine forces sent to disperse these new settlements were defeated.[ ] in , constantine iv signed a treaty with the bulgar khan asparukh, and the new bulgarian state assumed sovereignty over a number of slavic tribes that had previously, at least in name, recognised byzantine rule.[ ] in – , the final heraclian emperor, justinian ii, led an expedition against the slavs and bulgarians, and made significant gains, although the fact that he had to fight his way from thrace to macedonia demonstrates the degree to which byzantine power in the north balkans had declined.[ ] justinian ii attempted to break the power of the urban aristocracy through severe taxation and the appointment of "outsiders" to administrative posts. he was driven from power in , and took shelter first with the khazars and then with the bulgarians. in , he returned to constantinople with the armies of the bulgarian khan tervel, retook the throne, and instituted a reign of terror against his enemies. with his final overthrow in , supported once more by the urban aristocracy, the heraclian dynasty came to an end.[ ] second arab siege of constantinople ( – ) and the isaurian dynasty[edit] further information: byzantine empire under the isaurian dynasty the byzantine empire at the accession of leo iii, c.  . striped indicates areas raided by the umayyads. gold solidus of leo iii (left), and his son and heir, constantine v (right) in the umayyad caliphate launched the siege of constantinople ( – ) which lasted for one year. however, the combination of leo iii the isaurian's military genius, the byzantines' use of greek fire, a cold winter in – , and byzantine diplomacy with the khan tervel of bulgaria resulted in a byzantine victory. after leo iii turned back the muslim assault in , he addressed himself to the task of reorganising and consolidating the themes in asia minor. in a major byzantine victory took place at the battle of akroinon where the byzantines destroyed the umayyad army once again. leo iii the isaurian's son and successor, constantine v, won noteworthy victories in northern syria and also thoroughly undermined bulgarian strength.[ ] in , profiting by the unstable conditions in the umayyad caliphate, which was falling apart under marwan ii, constantine v invaded syria and captured germanikeia and the battle of keramaia resulted in a major byzantine naval victory over the umayyad fleet. coupled with military defeats on other fronts of the caliphate and internal instability, umayyad expansion came to an end. religious dispute over iconoclasm[edit] main article: byzantine iconoclasm a simple cross: an example of iconoclast art in the hagia irene church in istanbul. the th and early th centuries were also dominated by controversy and religious division over iconoclasm, which was the main political issue in the empire for over a century. icons (here meaning all forms of religious imagery) were banned by leo and constantine from around , leading to revolts by iconodules (supporters of icons) throughout the empire. after the efforts of empress irene, the second council of nicaea met in and affirmed that icons could be venerated but not worshipped. irene is said to have endeavoured to negotiate a marriage between herself and charlemagne, but, according to theophanes the confessor, the scheme was frustrated by aetios, one of her favourites.[ ] in the early th century, leo v reintroduced the policy of iconoclasm, but in empress theodora restored the veneration of icons with the help of patriarch methodios.[ ] iconoclasm played a part in the further alienation of east from west, which worsened during the so-called photian schism, when pope nicholas i challenged the elevation of photios to the patriarchate.[ ] macedonian dynasty and resurgence ( – )[edit] see also: byzantine empire under the macedonian dynasty the byzantine empire, c. the accession of basil i to the throne in marks the beginning of the macedonian dynasty, which would rule for the next two and a half centuries. this dynasty included some of the most able emperors in byzantium's history, and the period is one of revival and resurgence. the empire moved from defending against external enemies to reconquest of territories formerly lost.[ ] in addition to a reassertion of byzantine military power and political authority, the period under the macedonian dynasty is characterised by a cultural revival in spheres such as philosophy and the arts. there was a conscious effort to restore the brilliance of the period before the slavic and subsequent arab invasions, and the macedonian era has been dubbed the "golden age" of byzantium.[ ] although the empire was significantly smaller than during the reign of justinian, it had regained significant strength, as the remaining territories were less geographically dispersed and more politically, economically, and culturally integrated. wars against the abbasids[edit] main article: arab–byzantine wars the general leo phokas defeats the hamdanid emirate of aleppo at andrassos in , from the madrid skylitzes taking advantage of the empire's weakness after the revolt of thomas the slav in the early s, the arabs re-emerged and captured crete. they also successfully attacked sicily, but in general petronas gained a decisive victory against umar al-aqta, the emir of melitene (malatya). under the leadership of emperor krum, the bulgarian threat also re-emerged, but in – krum's son, omurtag, signed a peace treaty with leo v.[ ] in the s abbasid caliphate started military excursions culminating with a victory in the sack of amorium. the byzantines then counter-attacked and sacked damietta in egypt. later the abbasid caliphate responded by sending their troops into anatolia again, sacking and marauding until they were eventually annihilated by the byzantines in . in the early years of basil i's reign, arab raids on the coasts of dalmatia were successfully repelled, and the region once again came under secure byzantine control. this enabled byzantine missionaries to penetrate to the interior and convert the serbs and the principalities of modern-day herzegovina and montenegro to christianity.[ ] by contrast, the byzantine position in southern italy was gradually consolidated so that by bari was once again under byzantine rule,[ ] and most of southern italy would remain in the empire for the next years.[ ] on the more important eastern front, the empire rebuilt its defences and went on the offensive. the paulicians were defeated and their capital of tephrike (divrigi) taken, while the offensive against the abbasid caliphate began with the recapture of samosata.[ ] th century military successes were coupled with a major cultural revival, the so-called macedonian renaissance. miniature from the paris psalter, an example of hellenistic-influenced art. under basil's son and successor, leo vi the wise, the gains in the east against the now-weak abbasid caliphate continued. however, sicily was lost to the arabs in , and in thessaloniki, the empire's second city, was sacked by an arab fleet. the naval weakness of the empire was rectified. despite this revenge the byzantines were still unable to strike a decisive blow against the muslims, who inflicted a crushing defeat on the imperial forces when they attempted to regain crete in .[ ] the death of the bulgarian tsar simeon i in severely weakened the bulgarians, allowing the byzantines to concentrate on the eastern front.[ ] melitene was permanently recaptured in , and in the famous general john kourkouas continued the offensive in mesopotamia with some noteworthy victories, culminating in the reconquest of edessa. kourkouas was especially celebrated for returning to constantinople the venerated mandylion, a relic purportedly imprinted with a portrait of christ.[ ] the soldier-emperors nikephoros ii phokas (r.  – ) and john i tzimiskes ( – ) expanded the empire well into syria, defeating the emirs of north-west iraq. the great city of aleppo was taken by nikephoros in and the arabs were decisively expelled from crete in . the recapture of crete put an end to arab raids in the aegean allowing mainland greece to flourish once again. cyprus was permanently retaken in and the successes of nikephoros culminated in with the recapture of antioch, which he incorporated as a province of the empire.[ ] his successor john tzimiskes recaptured damascus, beirut, acre, sidon, caesarea, and tiberias, putting byzantine armies within striking distance of jerusalem, although the muslim power centres in iraq and egypt were left untouched.[ ] after much campaigning in the north, the last arab threat to byzantium, the rich province of sicily, was targeted in by basil ii, who died before the expedition could be completed. nevertheless, by that time the empire stretched from the straits of messina to the euphrates and from the danube to syria.[ ] wars against the bulgarian empire[edit] further information: byzantine–bulgarian wars emperor basil ii (r.  – ) the extent of the empire under basil ii the traditional struggle with the see of rome continued through the macedonian period, spurred by the question of religious supremacy over the newly christianised state of bulgaria.[ ] ending eighty years of peace between the two states, the powerful bulgarian tsar simeon i invaded in but was pushed back by the byzantines, who used their fleet to sail up the black sea to attack the bulgarian rear, enlisting the support of the hungarians.[ ] the byzantines were defeated at the battle of boulgarophygon in , however, and agreed to pay annual subsidies to the bulgarians.[ ] leo the wise died in , and hostilities soon resumed as simeon marched to constantinople at the head of a large army.[ ] although the walls of the city were impregnable, the byzantine administration was in disarray and simeon was invited into the city, where he was granted the crown of basileus (emperor) of bulgaria and had the young emperor constantine vii marry one of his daughters. when a revolt in constantinople halted his dynastic project, he again invaded thrace and conquered adrianople.[ ] the empire now faced the problem of a powerful christian state within a few days' marching distance from constantinople,[ ] as well as having to fight on two fronts.[ ] a great imperial expedition under leo phocas and romanos i lekapenos ended with another crushing byzantine defeat at the battle of achelous in , and the following year the bulgarians were free to ravage northern greece. adrianople was plundered again in , and a bulgarian army laid siege to constantinople in . simeon died suddenly in , however, and bulgarian power collapsed with him. bulgaria and byzantium entered a long period of peaceful relations, and the empire was now free to concentrate on the eastern front against the muslims.[ ] in , bulgaria was overrun by the rus' under sviatoslav i of kiev, but three years later, john i tzimiskes defeated the rus' and re-incorporated eastern bulgaria into the byzantine empire.[ ] bulgarian resistance revived under the rule of the cometopuli dynasty, but the new emperor basil ii (r.  – ) made the submission of the bulgarians his primary goal.[ ] basil's first expedition against bulgaria, however, resulted in a defeat at the gates of trajan. for the next few years, the emperor would be preoccupied with internal revolts in anatolia, while the bulgarians expanded their realm in the balkans. the war dragged on for nearly twenty years. the byzantine victories of spercheios and skopje decisively weakened the bulgarian army, and in annual campaigns, basil methodically reduced the bulgarian strongholds.[ ] at the battle of kleidion in the bulgarians were annihilated: their army was captured, and it is said that out of every men were blinded, with the hundredth man left with one eye so he could lead his compatriots home. when tsar samuil saw the broken remains of his once formidable army, he died of shock. by , the last bulgarian strongholds had surrendered, and the country became part of the empire.[ ] this victory restored the danube frontier, which had not been held since the days of the emperor heraclius.[ ] relations with the kievan rus'[edit] rus' under the walls of constantinople ( ) varangian guardsmen, an illumination from the skylitzis chronicle between and , the empire developed a mixed relationship with the new state of the kievan rus', which had emerged to the north across the black sea.[ ] this relationship would have long-lasting repercussions in the history of the east slavs, and the empire quickly became the main trading and cultural partner for kiev. the rus' launched their first attack against constantinople in , pillaging the suburbs of the city. in , they appeared on the asian shore of the bosphorus, but this time they were crushed, an indication of the improvements in the byzantine military position after , when only diplomacy had been able to push back the invaders. basil ii could not ignore the emerging power of the rus', and, following the example of his predecessors, he used religion as a means for the achievement of political purposes.[ ] rus'–byzantine relations became closer following the marriage of anna porphyrogeneta to vladimir the great in , and the subsequent christianisation of the rus'.[ ] byzantine priests, architects, and artists were invited to work on numerous cathedrals and churches around rus', expanding byzantine cultural influence even further, while numerous rus' served in the byzantine army as mercenaries, most notably as the famous varangian guard.[ ] even after the christianisation of the rus', however, relations were not always friendly. the most serious conflict between the two powers was the war of – in bulgaria, but several rus' raiding expeditions against the byzantine cities of the black sea coast and constantinople itself are also recorded. although most were repulsed, they were often followed by treaties that were generally favourable to the rus', such as the one concluded at the end of the war of , during which the rus' gave an indication of their ambitions to compete with the byzantines as an independent power.[ ] campaigns in the caucasus[edit] main article: byzantine–georgian wars between and , following years of tensions, basil ii led a series of victorious campaigns against the kingdom of georgia, resulting in the annexation of several georgian provinces to the empire. basil's successors also annexed bagratid armenia in . importantly, both georgia and armenia were significantly weakened by the byzantine administration's policy of heavy taxation and abolishing of the levy. the weakening of georgia and armenia would play a significant role in the byzantine defeat at manzikert in .[ ] apex[edit] constantinople was the largest and wealthiest city in europe throughout late antiquity and most of the middle ages until the fourth crusade in . basil ii is considered among the most capable byzantine emperors and his reign as the apex of the empire in the middle ages. by , the date of basil ii's death, the byzantine empire stretched from armenia in the east to calabria in southern italy in the west.[ ] many successes had been achieved, ranging from the conquest of bulgaria to the annexation of parts of georgia and armenia, and the reconquest of crete, cyprus, and the important city of antioch. these were not temporary tactical gains but long-term reconquests.[ ] leo vi achieved the complete codification of byzantine law in greek. this monumental work of volumes became the foundation of all subsequent byzantine law and is still studied today.[ ] leo also reformed the administration of the empire, redrawing the borders of the administrative subdivisions (the themata, or "themes") and tidying up the system of ranks and privileges, as well as regulating the behaviour of the various trade guilds in constantinople. leo's reform did much to reduce the previous fragmentation of the empire, which henceforth had one center of power, constantinople.[ ] however, the increasing military success of the empire greatly enriched and empowered the provincial nobility with respect to the peasantry, who were essentially reduced to a state of serfdom.[ ] under the macedonian emperors, the city of constantinople flourished, becoming the largest and wealthiest city in europe, with a population of approximately , in the th and th centuries.[ ] during this period, the byzantine empire employed a strong civil service staffed by competent aristocrats that oversaw the collection of taxes, domestic administration, and foreign policy. the macedonian emperors also increased the empire's wealth by fostering trade with western europe, particularly through the sale of silk and metalwork.[ ] split between orthodoxy and catholicism ( )[edit] further information: east–west schism mural of saints cyril and methodius, th century, troyan monastery, bulgaria the macedonian period also included events of momentous religious significance. the conversion of the bulgarians, serbs and rus' to orthodox christianity drew the religious map of europe which still resonates today. cyril and methodius, two byzantine greek brothers from thessaloniki, contributed significantly to the christianization of the slavs and in the process devised the glagolitic alphabet, ancestor to the cyrillic script.[ ] in , relations between the eastern and western traditions of the chalcedonian christian church reached a terminal crisis, known as the east–west schism. although there was a formal declaration of institutional separation, on july, when three papal legates entered the hagia sophia during divine liturgy on a saturday afternoon and placed a bull of excommunication on the altar,[ ] the so-called great schism was actually the culmination of centuries of gradual separation.[ ] crisis and fragmentation[edit] the byzantine empire soon fell into a period of difficulties, caused to a large extent by the undermining of the theme system and the neglect of the military. nikephoros ii, john tzimiskes, and basil ii shifted the emphasis of the military divisions (τάγματα, tagmata) from a reactive, defence-oriented citizen army into an army of professional career soldiers, increasingly dependent on foreign mercenaries. mercenaries were expensive, however, and as the threat of invasion receded in the th century, so did the need for maintaining large garrisons and expensive fortifications.[ ] basil ii left a burgeoning treasury upon his death, but he neglected to plan for his succession. none of his immediate successors had any particular military or political talent and the imperial administration increasingly fell into the hands of the civil service. incompetent efforts to revive the byzantine economy resulted in severe inflation and a debased gold currency. the army was now seen as both an unnecessary expense and a political threat. a number of standing local units were demobilised, further augmenting the army's dependence on mercenaries, who could be retained and dismissed on an as-needed basis.[ ] the seizure of edessa ( ) by the byzantines under george maniakes and the counterattack by the seljuk turks at the same time, byzantium was faced with new enemies. its provinces in southern italy were threatened by the normans, who arrived in italy at the beginning of the th century. during a period of strife between constantinople and rome culminating in the east-west schism of , the normans began to advance, slowly but steadily, into byzantine italy.[ ] reggio, the capital of the tagma of calabria, was captured in by robert guiscard, followed by otranto in . bari, the main byzantine stronghold in apulia, was besieged in august and fell in april .[ ] about , constantine ix disbanded what the historian john skylitzes calls the "iberian army", which consisted of , men and it was turned into a contemporary drungary of the watch. two other knowledgeable contemporaries, the former officials michael attaleiates and kekaumenos, agree with skylitzes that by demobilising these soldiers constantine did catastrophic harm to the empire's eastern defences. the emergency lent weight to the military aristocracy in anatolia, who in secured the election of one of their own, romanos diogenes, as emperor. in the summer of , romanos undertook a massive eastern campaign to draw the seljuks into a general engagement with the byzantine army. at the battle of manzikert, romanos suffered a surprise defeat by sultan alp arslan, and he was captured. alp arslan treated him with respect and imposed no harsh terms on the byzantines.[ ] in constantinople, however, a coup put in power michael doukas, who soon faced the opposition of nikephoros bryennios and nikephoros botaneiates. by , the seljuks had expanded their rule over virtually the entire anatolian plateau from armenia in the east to bithynia in the west, and they had founded their capital at nicaea, just kilometres ( miles) from constantinople.[ ] komnenian dynasty and the crusades[edit] see also: byzantine empire under the komnenos dynasty and komnenian restoration alexios i, founder of the komnenos dynasty during the komnenian, or comnenian, period from about to about , the five emperors of the komnenos dynasty (alexios i, john ii, manuel i, alexios ii, and andronikos i) presided over a sustained, though ultimately incomplete, restoration of the military, territorial, economic, and political position of the byzantine empire.[ ] although the seljuk turks occupied the heartland of the empire in anatolia, most byzantine military efforts during this period were directed against western powers, particularly the normans.[ ] the empire under the komnenoi played a key role in the history of the crusades in the holy land, which alexios i had helped bring about, while also exerting enormous cultural and political influence in europe, the near east, and the lands around the mediterranean sea under john and manuel. contact between byzantium and the "latin" west, including the crusader states, increased significantly during the komnenian period. venetian and other italian traders became resident in large numbers in constantinople and the empire (there were an estimated , latins in constantinople alone, out of a population of three to four hundred thousand), and their presence together with the numerous latin mercenaries who were employed by manuel helped to spread byzantine technology, art, literature and culture throughout the latin west, while also leading to a flow of western ideas and customs into the empire.[ ] in terms of prosperity and cultural life, the komnenian period was one of the peaks in byzantine history,[ ] and constantinople remained the leading city of the christian world in size, wealth, and culture.[ ] there was a renewed interest in classical greek philosophy, as well as an increase in literary output in vernacular greek.[ ] byzantine art and literature held a pre-eminent place in europe, and the cultural impact of byzantine art on the west during this period was enormous and of long lasting significance.[ ] alexios i and the first crusade[edit] further information: alexios i komnenos see also: first crusade the chora church, dating from the komnenian period, has some of the finest byzantine frescoes and mosaics. after manzikert, a partial recovery (referred to as the komnenian restoration) was made possible by the komnenian dynasty.[ ] the komnenoi attained power again under alexios i in . from the outset of his reign, alexios faced a formidable attack by the normans under robert guiscard and his son bohemund of taranto, who captured dyrrhachium and corfu, and laid siege to larissa in thessaly. robert guiscard's death in temporarily eased the norman problem. the following year, the seljuq sultan died, and the sultanate was split by internal rivalries. by his own efforts, alexios defeated the pechenegs; they were caught by surprise and annihilated at the battle of levounion on april .[ ] the byzantine empire and the seljuk sultanate of rûm before the first crusade ( – ) having achieved stability in the west, alexios could turn his attention to the severe economic difficulties and the disintegration of the empire's traditional defences.[ ] however, he still did not have enough manpower to recover the lost territories in asia minor and to advance against the seljuks. at the council of piacenza in , envoys from alexios spoke to pope urban ii about the suffering of the christians of the east, and underscored that without help from the west they would continue to suffer under muslim rule.[ ] urban saw alexios's request as a dual opportunity to cement western europe and reunite the eastern orthodox church with the roman catholic church under his rule.[ ] on november , pope urban ii called together the council of clermont, and urged all those present to take up arms under the sign of the cross and launch an armed pilgrimage to recover jerusalem and the east from the muslims. the response in western europe was overwhelming.[ ] alexios had anticipated help in the form of mercenary forces from the west, but he was totally unprepared for the immense and undisciplined force that soon arrived in byzantine territory. it was no comfort to alexios to learn that four of the eight leaders of the main body of the crusade were normans, among them bohemund. since the crusade had to pass through constantinople, however, the emperor had some control over it. he required its leaders to swear to restore to the empire any towns or territories they might reconquer from the turks on their way to the holy land. in return, he gave them guides and a military escort.[ ] alexios was able to recover a number of important cities and islands, and in fact much of western asia minor. the crusaders agreed to become alexios' vassals under the treaty of devol in , which marked the end of the norman threat during alexios' reign.[ ] john ii, manuel i and the second crusade[edit] main articles: john ii komnenos and manuel i komnenos a mosaic from the hagia sophia of constantinople (modern istanbul), depicting mary and jesus, flanked by john ii komnenos (left) and his wife irene of hungary (right), th century byzantine empire in orange, c. , at the end of the komnenian period alexios's son john ii komnenos succeeded him in and ruled until . john was a pious and dedicated emperor who was determined to undo the damage to the empire suffered at the battle of manzikert, half a century earlier.[ ] famed for his piety and his remarkably mild and just reign, john was an exceptional example of a moral ruler at a time when cruelty was the norm.[ ] for this reason, he has been called the byzantine marcus aurelius. during his twenty-five-year reign, john made alliances with the holy roman empire in the west and decisively defeated the pechenegs at the battle of beroia.[ ] he thwarted hungarian and serbian threats during the s, and in he allied himself with the german emperor lothair iii against the norman king roger ii of sicily.[ ] in the later part of his reign, john focused his activities on the east, personally leading numerous campaigns against the turks in asia minor. his campaigns fundamentally altered the balance of power in the east, forcing the turks onto the defensive, while restoring many towns, fortresses, and cities across the peninsula to the byzantines. he defeated the danishmend emirate of melitene and reconquered all of cilicia, while forcing raymond of poitiers, prince of antioch, to recognise byzantine suzerainty. in an effort to demonstrate the emperor's role as the leader of the christian world, john marched into the holy land at the head of the combined forces of the empire and the crusader states; yet despite his great vigour pressing the campaign, his hopes were disappointed by the treachery of his crusader allies.[ ] in , john returned to press his claims to antioch, but he died in the spring of following a hunting accident. john's chosen heir was his fourth son, manuel i komnenos, who campaigned aggressively against his neighbours both in the west and in the east. in palestine, manuel allied with the crusader kingdom of jerusalem and sent a large fleet to participate in a combined invasion of fatimid egypt. manuel reinforced his position as overlord of the crusader states, with his hegemony over antioch and jerusalem secured by agreement with raynald, prince of antioch, and amalric, king of jerusalem.[ ] in an effort to restore byzantine control over the ports of southern italy, he sent an expedition to italy in , but disputes within the coalition led to the eventual failure of the campaign. despite this military setback, manuel's armies successfully invaded the southern parts of the kingdom of hungary in , defeating the hungarians at the battle of sirmium. by , nearly the whole of the eastern adriatic coast lay in manuel's hands.[ ] manuel made several alliances with the pope and western christian kingdoms, and he successfully handled the passage of the second crusade through his empire.[ ] in the east, however, manuel suffered a major defeat in at the battle of myriokephalon, against the turks. yet the losses were quickly recovered, and in the following year manuel's forces inflicted a defeat upon a force of "picked turks".[ ] the byzantine commander john vatatzes, who destroyed the turkish invaders at the battle of hyelion and leimocheir, not only brought troops from the capital but also was able to gather an army along the way, a sign that the byzantine army remained strong and that the defensive program of western asia minor was still successful.[ ] th-century renaissance[edit] further information: byzantine civilisation in the th century see also: komnenian byzantine army the lamentation of christ ( ), a fresco from the church of saint panteleimon in nerezi, north macedonia, considered a superb example of th-century komnenian art john and manuel pursued active military policies, and both deployed considerable resources on sieges and on city defences; aggressive fortification policies were at the heart of their imperial military policies.[ ] despite the defeat at myriokephalon, the policies of alexios, john and manuel resulted in vast territorial gains, increased frontier stability in asia minor, and secured the stabilisation of the empire's european frontiers. from c. to c. , the komnenian army assured the empire's security, enabling byzantine civilisation to flourish.[ ] this allowed the western provinces to achieve an economic revival that continued until the close of the century. it has been argued that byzantium under the komnenian rule was more prosperous than at any time since the persian invasions of the th century. during the th century, population levels rose and extensive tracts of new agricultural land were brought into production. archaeological evidence from both europe and asia minor shows a considerable increase in the size of urban settlements, together with a notable upsurge in new towns. trade was also flourishing; the venetians, the genoese and others opened up the ports of the aegean to commerce, shipping goods from the crusader kingdoms of outremer and fatimid egypt to the west and trading with the empire via constantinople.[ ] in artistic terms, there was a revival in mosaic, and regional schools of architecture began producing many distinctive styles that drew on a range of cultural influences.[ ] during the th century, the byzantines provided their model of early humanism as a renaissance of interest in classical authors. in eustathius of thessalonica, byzantine humanism found its most characteristic expression.[ ] in philosophy, there was resurgence of classical learning not seen since the th century, characterised by a significant increase in the publication of commentaries on classical works.[ ] in addition, the first transmission of classical greek knowledge to the west occurred during the komnenian period.[ ] decline and disintegration[edit] main article: decline of the byzantine empire angelid dynasty[edit] main article: byzantine empire under the angelos dynasty byzantium in the late angeloi period manuel's death on september left his -year-old son alexios ii komnenos on the throne. alexios was highly incompetent in the office, and with his mother maria of antioch's frankish background, made his regency unpopular.[ ] eventually, andronikos i komnenos, a grandson of alexios i, launched a revolt against his younger relative and managed to overthrow him in a violent coup d'état.[ ] utilizing his good looks and his immense popularity with the army, he marched on to constantinople in august and incited a massacre of the latins.[ ] after eliminating his potential rivals, he had himself crowned as co-emperor in september . he eliminated alexios ii, and took his -year-old wife agnes of france for himself.[ ] andronikos began his reign well; in particular, the measures he took to reform the government of the empire have been praised by historians. according to george ostrogorsky, andronikos was determined to root out corruption: under his rule, the sale of offices ceased; selection was based on merit, rather than favouritism; officials were paid an adequate salary so as to reduce the temptation of bribery. in the provinces, andronikos's reforms produced a speedy and marked improvement.[ ] the aristocrats were infuriated against him, and to make matters worse, andronikos seems to have become increasingly unbalanced; executions and violence became increasingly common, and his reign turned into a reign of terror.[ ] andronikos seemed almost to seek the extermination of the aristocracy as a whole. the struggle against the aristocracy turned into wholesale slaughter, while the emperor resorted to ever more ruthless measures to shore up his regime.[ ] despite his military background, andronikos failed to deal with isaac komnenos, béla iii of hungary (r.  – ) who reincorporated croatian territories into hungary, and stephen nemanja of serbia (r.  – ) who declared his independence from the byzantine empire. yet, none of these troubles would compare to william ii of sicily's (r.  – ) invasion force of ships and , men, arriving in .[ ] andronikos mobilised a small fleet of ships to defend the capital, but other than that he was indifferent to the populace. he was finally overthrown when isaac angelos, surviving an imperial assassination attempt, seized power with the aid of the people and had andronikos killed.[ ] the reign of isaac ii, and more so that of his brother alexios iii, saw the collapse of what remained of the centralised machinery of byzantine government and defence. although the normans were driven out of greece, in the vlachs and bulgars began a rebellion that led to the formation of the second bulgarian empire. the internal policy of the angeloi was characterised by the squandering of the public treasure and fiscal maladministration. imperial authority was severely weakened, and the growing power vacuum at the center of the empire encouraged fragmentation. there is evidence that some komnenian heirs had set up a semi-independent state in trebizond before .[ ] according to alexander vasiliev, "the dynasty of the angeloi, greek in its origin, ... accelerated the ruin of the empire, already weakened without and disunited within."[ ] fourth crusade[edit] further information: fourth crusade the entry of the crusaders into constantinople, by eugène delacroix ( ) in , pope innocent iii broached the subject of a new crusade through legates and encyclical letters.[ ] the stated intent of the crusade was to conquer egypt, now the centre of muslim power in the levant. the crusader army that arrived at venice in the summer of and hired the venetian fleet to transport them to egypt. as payment to the venetians, they captured the (christian) port of zara in dalmatia (vassal city of venice, which had rebelled and placed itself under hungary's protection in ).[ ] shortly afterwards, alexios angelos, son of the deposed and blinded emperor isaac ii angelos, made contacts with the crusaders. alexios offered to reunite the byzantine church with rome, pay the crusaders , silver marks, join the crusade, and provide all the supplies they needed to reach egypt.[ ] crusader sack of constantinople ( )[edit] further information: siege of constantinople ( ) and siege of constantinople ( ) the partition of the empire following the fourth crusade, c. the crusaders arrived at constantinople in the summer of and quickly attacked, starting a major fire that damaged large parts of the city, and briefly seized control. alexios iii fled from the capital and alexios angelos was elevated to the throne as alexios iv along with his blind father isaac. alexios iv and isaac ii were unable to keep their promises and were deposed by alexios v. the crusaders again took the city on april and constantinople was subjected to pillage and massacre by the rank and file for three days. many priceless icons, relics and other objects later turned up in western europe, a large number in venice. according to choniates, a prostitute was even set up on the patriarchal throne.[ ] when order had been restored, the crusaders and the venetians proceeded to implement their agreement; baldwin of flanders was elected emperor of a new latin empire and the venetian thomas morosini was chosen as patriarch. the lands divided up among the leaders included most of the former byzantine possessions, though resistance would continue through the byzantine remnants of nicaea, trebizond, and epirus.[ ] although venice was more interested in commerce than conquering territory, it took key areas of constantinople and the doge took the title of "lord of a quarter and half a quarter of the roman empire".[ ] fall[edit] empire in exile[edit] further information: frankokratia after the sack of constantinople in by latin crusaders, two byzantine successor states were established: the empire of nicaea, and the despotate of epirus. a third, the empire of trebizond, was created after alexios komnenos, commanding the georgian expedition in chaldia[ ] a few weeks before the sack of constantinople, found himself de facto emperor, and established himself in trebizond. of the three successor states, epirus and nicaea stood the best chance of reclaiming constantinople. the nicaean empire struggled to survive the next few decades, however, and by the mid- th century it had lost much of southern anatolia.[ ] the weakening of the sultanate of rûm following the mongol invasion in – allowed many beyliks and ghazis to set up their own principalities in anatolia, weakening the byzantine hold on asia minor.[ ] in time, one of the beys, osman i, created an empire that would eventually conquer constantinople. however, the mongol invasion also gave nicaea a temporary respite from seljuk attacks, allowing it to concentrate on the latin empire to its north. reconquest of constantinople[edit] main article: byzantine empire under the palaiologos dynasty the byzantine empire, c.  the empire of nicaea, founded by the laskarid dynasty, managed to effect the recapture of constantinople from the latins in and defeat epirus. this led to a short-lived revival of byzantine fortunes under michael viii palaiologos but the war-ravaged empire was ill-equipped to deal with the enemies that surrounded it. to maintain his campaigns against the latins, michael pulled troops from asia minor and levied crippling taxes on the peasantry, causing much resentment.[ ] massive construction projects were completed in constantinople to repair the damage of the fourth crusade but none of these initiatives was of any comfort to the farmers in asia minor suffering raids from muslim ghazis.[ ] rather than holding on to his possessions in asia minor, michael chose to expand the empire, gaining only short-term success. to avoid another sacking of the capital by the latins, he forced the church to submit to rome, again a temporary solution for which the peasantry hated michael and constantinople.[ ] the efforts of andronikos ii and later his grandson andronikos iii marked byzantium's last genuine attempts in restoring the glory of the empire. however, the use of mercenaries by andronikos ii would often backfire, with the catalan company ravaging the countryside and increasing resentment towards constantinople.[ ] rise of the ottomans and fall of constantinople[edit] main articles: byzantine–ottoman wars and fall of constantinople the siege of constantinople in , depicted in a th-century french miniature the situation became worse for byzantium during the civil wars after andronikos iii died. a six-year-long civil war devastated the empire, allowing the serbian ruler stefan dušan (r.  – ) to overrun most of the empire's remaining territory and establish a serbian empire. in , an earthquake at gallipoli devastated the fort, allowing the ottomans (who were hired as mercenaries during the civil war by john vi kantakouzenos) to establish themselves in europe.[ ] by the time the byzantine civil wars had ended, the ottomans had defeated the serbians and subjugated them as vassals. following the battle of kosovo, much of the balkans became dominated by the ottomans.[ ] the byzantine emperors appealed to the west for help, but the pope would only consider sending aid in return for a reunion of the eastern orthodox church with the see of rome. church unity was considered, and occasionally accomplished by imperial decree, but the orthodox citizenry and clergy intensely resented the authority of rome and the latin rite.[ ] some western troops arrived to bolster the christian defence of constantinople, but most western rulers, distracted by their own affairs, did nothing as the ottomans picked apart the remaining byzantine territories.[ ] constantinople by this stage was underpopulated and dilapidated. the population of the city had collapsed so severely that it was now little more than a cluster of villages separated by fields. on april , sultan mehmed's army of , men and large numbers of irregulars laid siege to the city.[ ] despite a desperate last-ditch defence of the city by the massively outnumbered christian forces (c. , men, , of whom were foreign),[ ] constantinople finally fell to the ottomans after a two-month siege on may . the last byzantine emperor, constantine xi palaiologos, was last seen casting off his imperial regalia and throwing himself into hand-to-hand combat after the walls of the city were taken.[ ] political aftermath[edit] the eastern mediterranean just before the fall of constantinople flag of the late empire under the palaiologoi, sporting the tetragrammic cross symbol of the palaiologos dynasty by the time of the fall of constantinople, the only remaining territory of the byzantine empire was the despotate of the morea (peloponnese), which was ruled by brothers of the last emperor, thomas palaiologos and demetrios palaiologos. the despotate continued on as an independent state by paying an annual tribute to the ottomans. incompetent rule, failure to pay the annual tribute and a revolt against the ottomans finally led to mehmed ii's invasion of morea in may .[ ] a few holdouts remained for a time. the island of monemvasia refused to surrender and it was first ruled for a short time by an aragonese corsair. when the population drove him out they obtained the consent of thomas to place themselves under the pope's protection before the end of . the mani peninsula, on the morea's south end, resisted under a loose coalition of the local clans and then that area came under venice's rule. the last holdout was salmeniko, in the morea's northwest. graitzas palaiologos was the military commander there, stationed at salmeniko castle. while the town eventually surrendered, graitzas and his garrison and some town residents held out in the castle until july , when they escaped and reached venetian territory.[ ] the empire of trebizond, which had split away from the byzantine empire just weeks before constantinople was taken by the crusaders in , became the last remnant and last de facto successor state to the byzantine empire. efforts by the emperor david to recruit european powers for an anti-ottoman crusade provoked war between the ottomans and trebizond in the summer of . after a month-long siege, david surrendered the city of trebizond on august . the empire of trebizond's crimean principality, the principality of theodoro (part of the perateia), lasted another years, falling to the ottomans in december . a nephew of the last emperor, constantine xi, andreas palaiologos claimed to have inherited the title of byzantine emperor. he lived in the morea until its fall in , then escaped to rome where he lived under the protection of the papal states for the remainder of his life. since the office of emperor had never been technically hereditary, andreas' claim would have been without merit under byzantine law. however, the empire had vanished, and western states generally followed the roman-church-sanctioned principles of hereditary sovereignty. seeking a life in the west, andreas styled himself imperator constantinopolitanus ("emperor of constantinople"), and sold his succession rights to both charles viii of france and the catholic monarchs. constantine xi died without producing an heir, and had constantinople not fallen he might have been succeeded by the sons of his deceased elder brother, who were taken into the palace service of mehmed ii after the fall of constantinople. the oldest boy, renamed has murad, became a personal favourite of mehmed and served as beylerbey (governor-general) of the balkans. the younger son, renamed mesih pasha, became admiral of the ottoman fleet and sancak beg (governor) of the province of gallipoli. he eventually served twice as grand vizier under mehmed's son, bayezid ii.[ ] mehmed ii and his successors continued to consider themselves heirs to the roman empire until the demise of the ottoman empire in the early th century following world war . they considered that they had simply shifted its religious basis as constantine had done before, and they continued to refer to their conquered eastern roman inhabitants (orthodox christians) as rûm. meanwhile, the danubian principalities (whose rulers also considered themselves the heirs of the eastern roman emperors[ ]) harboured orthodox refugees, including some byzantine nobles. at his death, the role of the emperor as a patron of eastern orthodoxy was claimed by ivan iii, grand duke of muscovy. he had married andreas' sister, sophia palaiologina, whose grandson, ivan iv, would become the first tsar of russia (tsar, or czar, meaning caesar, is a term traditionally applied by slavs to the byzantine emperors). their successors supported the idea that moscow was the proper heir to rome and constantinople. the idea of the russian empire as the successive third rome was kept alive until its demise with the russian revolution.[ ] government and bureaucracy[edit] main article: byzantine bureaucracy the themes, c. the themes, c. in the byzantine state, the emperor was the sole and absolute ruler, and his power was regarded as having divine origin.[ ] the senate had ceased to have real political and legislative authority but remained as an honorary council with titular members. by the end of the th century, a civil administration focused on the court was formed as part of a large-scale consolidation of power in the capital (the rise to pre-eminence of the position of sakellarios is related to this change).[ ] the most important administrative reform, which probably started in the mid- th century, was the creation of themes, where civil and military administration was exercised by one person, the strategos.[ ] despite the occasionally derogatory use of the terms "byzantine" and "byzantinism", the byzantine bureaucracy had a distinct ability for reconstituting itself in accordance with the empire's situation. the elaborate system of titulature and precedence gave the court prestige and influence. officials were arranged in strict order around the emperor, and depended upon the imperial will for their ranks. there were also actual administrative jobs, but authority could be vested in individuals rather than offices.[ ] in the th and th centuries, civil service constituted the clearest path to aristocratic status, but, starting in the th century, the civil aristocracy was rivalled by an aristocracy of nobility. according to some studies of byzantine government, th-century politics were dominated by competition between the civil and the military aristocracy. during this period, alexios i undertook important administrative reforms, including the creation of new courtly dignities and offices.[ ] diplomacy[edit] main article: byzantine diplomacy the embassy of john the grammarian in , between the emperor theophilos and the abbasid caliph al-ma'mun after the fall of rome, the key challenge to the empire was to maintain a set of relations between itself and its neighbours. when these nations set about forging formal political institutions, they often modelled themselves on constantinople. byzantine diplomacy soon managed to draw its neighbours into a network of international and inter-state relations.[ ] this network revolved around treaty making, and included the welcoming of the new ruler into the family of kings, and the assimilation of byzantine social attitudes, values and institutions.[ ] whereas classical writers are fond of making ethical and legal distinctions between peace and war, byzantines regarded diplomacy as a form of war by other means. for example, a bulgarian threat could be countered by providing money to the kievan rus'.[ ] italian sketch of emperor john viii during his visit in ferrara and florence in diplomacy in the era was understood to have an intelligence-gathering function on top of its pure political function. the bureau of barbarians in constantinople handled matters of protocol and record keeping for any issues related to the "barbarians", and thus had, perhaps, a basic intelligence function itself.[ ] john b. bury believed that the office exercised supervision over all foreigners visiting constantinople, and that they were under the supervision of the logothetes tou dromou.[ ] while on the surface a protocol office – its main duty was to ensure foreign envoys were properly cared for and received sufficient state funds for their maintenance, and it kept all the official translators – it probably had a security function as well.[ ] byzantines availed themselves of a number of diplomatic practices. for example, embassies to the capital would often stay on for years. a member of other royal houses would routinely be requested to stay on in constantinople, not only as a potential hostage, but also as a useful pawn in case political conditions where he came from changed. another key practice was to overwhelm visitors by sumptuous displays.[ ] according to dimitri obolensky, the preservation of the ancient civilisation in europe was due to the skill and resourcefulness of byzantine diplomacy, which remains one of byzantium's lasting contributions to the history of europe.[ ] science, medicine and law[edit] see also: byzantine science, byzantine medicine, byzantine law, and list of byzantine inventions interior of the hagia sophia, the patriarchal basilica in constantinople designed ce by isidore of miletus, the first compiler of archimedes' various works. the influence of archimedes' principles of solid geometry is evident. the writings of classical antiquity were cultivated and extended in byzantium. therefore, byzantine science was in every period closely connected with ancient philosophy, and metaphysics.[ ] in the field of engineering isidore of miletus, the greek mathematician and architect of the hagia sophia, produced the first compilation of archimedes' works c. , and it is through this manuscript tradition, kept alive by the school of mathematics and engineering founded c. during the "byzantine renaissance" by leo the mathematician, that such works are known today (see archimedes palimpsest).[ ] pendentive architecture, a specific spherical form in the upper corners to support a dome, is a byzantine invention. although the first experimentation was made in the s, it was in the th century in the byzantine empire that its potential was fully achieved.[ ] a mechanical sundial device consisting of complex gears made by the byzantines has been excavated which indicates that the antikythera mechanism, a sort of analogue device used in astronomy and invented around the late second century bc, continued to be (re)active in the byzantine period.[ ][ ][ ] j. r. partington writes that constantinople was full of inventors and craftsmen. the "philosopher" leo of thessalonika made for the emperor theophilos ( – ) a golden tree, the branches of which carried artificial birds which flapped their wings and sang, a model lion which moved and roared, and a bejewelled clockwork lady who walked. these mechanical toys continued the tradition represented in the treatise of heron of alexandria (c. a.d. ), which was well-known to the byzantines.[ ] such mechanical devices reached a high level of sophistication and were made in order to impress visitors.[ ] the frontispiece of the vienna dioscurides, which shows a set of seven famous physicians leo the mathematician has also been credited with the system of beacons, a sort of optical telegraph, stretching across anatolia from cilicia to constantinople, which gave advance warning of enemy raids, and which was used as diplomatic communication as well. the byzantines knew and used the concept of hydraulics: in the s the diplomat liutprand of cremona, when visiting the byzantine emperor, explained that he saw the emperor sitting on a hydraulic throne and that it was "made in such a cunning manner that at one moment it was down on the ground, while at another it rose higher and was seen to be up in the air".[ ] john philoponus, an alexandrian philologist, aristotelian commentator and christian theologian, author of a considerable number of philosophical treatises and theological works, was the first who questioned aristotle's teaching of physics, despite its flaws. unlike aristotle, who based his physics on verbal argument, philoponus relied on observation. in his commentaries on aristotle, philoponus wrote: but this is completely erroneous, and our view may be corroborated by actual observation more effectively than by any sort of verbal argument. for if you let fall from the same height two weights of which one is many times as heavy as the other, you will see that the ratio of the times required for the motion does not depend on the ratio of the weights, but that the difference in time is a very small one. and so, if the difference in the weights is not considerable, that is, of one is, let us say, double the other, there will be no difference, or else an imperceptible difference, in time, though the difference in weight is by no means negligible, with one body weighing twice as much as the other.[ ] bas-relief plaque of tribonian in the chamber of the house of representatives in the united states capitol many refugee byzantine scholars fled to north italy in the s. here john argyropoulos ( – ), born in constantinople and who ended his days in north italy. john philoponus' criticism of aristotelian principles of physics was an inspiration for galileo galilei's refutation of aristotelian physics during the scientific revolution many centuries later, as galileo cited philoponus substantially in his works.[ ][ ] the ship mill is a byzantine invention, designed to mill grains using hydraulic power. the technology eventually spread to the rest of europe and was in use until c. .[ ][ ] in , the codex theodosianus, named after theodosius ii, codified byzantine law. it went into force not just in the eastern roman/byzantine empire, but also in the western roman empire. it not only summarised the laws, but also gave direction on interpretation. under the reign of justinian i it was tribonian, a notable jurist, who supervised the revision of the legal code known today as corpus juris civilis. in the field of law, justinian i's reforms had a clear effect on the evolution of jurisprudence, with his corpus juris civilis becoming the basis for revived roman law in the western world, while leo iii's ecloga influenced the formation of legal institutions in the slavic world.[ ] in the th century, leo vi the wise achieved the complete codification of the whole of byzantine law in greek with the basilika, which became the foundation of all subsequent byzantine law with an influence extending through to modern balkan legal codes.[ ] the byzantines pioneered the concept of the hospital as an institution offering medical care and possibility of a cure for the patients, as a reflection of the ideals of christian charity, rather than merely a place to die.[ ] ceramic grenades that were filled with greek fire, surrounded by caltrops, th– th century, national historical museum, athens, greece although the concept of uroscopy was known to galen, he did not see the importance of using it to diagnose disease. it was byzantine physicians, such as theophilus protospatharius, who realised the diagnostic potential of uroscopy in a time when no microscope or stethoscope existed. that practice eventually spread to the rest of europe.[ ] in medicine the works of byzantine doctors, such as the vienna dioscorides ( th century), and works of paul of aegina ( th century) and nicholas myrepsos (late th century), continued to be used as the authoritative texts by europeans through the renaissance. the latter one invented the aurea alexandrina which was a kind of opiate or antidote. the first known example of separating conjoined twins happened in the byzantine empire in the th century when a pair of conjoined twins from armenia came to constantinople. many years later one of them died, so the surgeons in constantinople decided to remove the body of the dead one. the result was partly successful, as the surviving twin lived three days before dying, a result so impressive that it was mentioned a century and half later by historians. the next case of separating conjoined twins would not occur until in germany.[ ][ ] greek fire, an incendiary weapon which could even burn on water is also attributed to the byzantines. it played a crucial role in the empire's victory over the umayyad caliphate during the siege of constantinople ( – ).[ ] the discovery is attributed to callinicus of heliopolis from syria who fled during the arab conquest of syria. however, it has also been argued that no single person invented greek fire, but rather, that it was "invented by the chemists in constantinople who had inherited the discoveries of the alexandrian chemical school...".[ ] the first example of a grenade also appeared in byzantine empire, consisting of ceramic jars holding glass and nails, and filled with the explosive component of greek fire. it was used on battlefields.[ ][ ][ ] the first examples of hand-held flamethrower also occurred in the byzantine empire in the th century, where infantry units were equipped with hand pumps and swivel tubes used to project the flame.[ ] the counterweight trebuchet was invented in the byzantine empire during the reign of alexios i komnenos ( – ) under the komnenian restoration when the byzantines used this new-developed siege weaponry to devastate citadels and fortifications. this siege artillery marked the apogee of siege weaponry prior to the use of the cannon. from the byzantines the armies of europe and asia eventually learned and adopted this siege weaponry.[ ] in the final century of the empire, astronomy and other mathematical sciences were taught in trebizond; medicine attracted the interest of almost all scholars.[ ] the fall of constantinople in fuelled the era later commonly known as the "italian renaissance". during this period, refugee byzantine scholars were principally responsible for carrying, in person and in writing, ancient greek grammatical, literary studies, mathematical, and astronomical knowledge to early renaissance italy.[ ] they also brought with them classical learning and texts on botany, medicine and zoology, as well as the works of dioscorides and john philoponus' criticism of aristotelian physics.[ ] culture[edit] religion[edit] main articles: state church of the roman empire and ecumenical patriarchate of constantinople as a symbol and expression of the universal prestige of the patriarchate of constantinople, justinian built the church of the holy wisdom of god, hagia sophia, which was completed in the short period of four and a half years ( – ). mosaic of jesus in pammakaristos church, istanbul triumphal arch mosaics of jesus christ and the apostles. in basilica of san vitale in ravenna, italy. the byzantine empire was a theocracy, said to be ruled by god working through the emperor. jennifer fretland vanvoorst argues, "the byzantine empire became a theocracy in the sense that christian values and ideals were the foundation of the empire's political ideals and heavily entwined with its political goals."[ ] steven runciman says in his book on the byzantine theocracy ( ): the constitution of the byzantine empire was based on the conviction that it was the earthly copy of the kingdom of heaven. just as god ruled in heaven, so the emperor, made in his image, should rule on earth and carry out his commandments ... it saw itself as a universal empire. ideally, it should embrace all the peoples of the earth who, ideally, should all be members of the one true christian church, its own orthodox church. just as man was made in god's image, so man's kingdom on earth was made in the image of the kingdom of heaven.[ ] the survival of the empire in the east assured an active role of the emperor in the affairs of the church. the byzantine state inherited from pagan times the administrative, and financial routine of administering religious affairs, and this routine was applied to the christian church. following the pattern set by eusebius of caesarea, the byzantines viewed the emperor as a representative or messenger of christ, responsible particularly for the propagation of christianity among pagans, and for the "externals" of the religion, such as administration and finances. as cyril mango points out, the byzantine political thinking can be summarised in the motto "one god, one empire, one religion".[ ] the imperial role in the affairs of the church never developed into a fixed, legally defined system.[ ] additionally, due to the decline of rome and internal dissension in the other eastern patriarchates, the church of constantinople became, between the th and th centuries, the richest and most influential center of christendom.[ ] even when the empire was reduced to only a shadow of its former self, the church continued to exercise significant influence both inside and outside of the imperial frontiers. as george ostrogorsky points out: the patriarchate of constantinople remained the center of the orthodox world, with subordinate metropolitan sees and archbishoprics in the territory of asia minor and the balkans, now lost to byzantium, as well as in caucasus, russia and lithuania. the church remained the most stable element in the byzantine empire.[ ] byzantine monasticism especially came to be an "ever-present feature" of the empire, with monasteries becoming "powerful landowners and a voice to be listened to in imperial politics".[ ] the official state christian doctrine was determined by the first seven ecumenical councils, and it was then the emperor's duty to impose it on his subjects. an imperial decree of , which was later incorporated into the codex justinianeus, orders the population of the empire "to assume the name of catholic christians", and regards all those who will not abide by the law as "mad and foolish persons"; as followers of "heretical dogmas".[ ] despite imperial decrees and the stringent stance of the state church itself, which came to be known as the eastern orthodox church or eastern christianity, the latter never represented all christians in byzantium. mango believes that, in the early stages of the empire, the "mad and foolish persons", those labelled "heretics" by the state church, were the majority of the population.[ ] besides the pagans, who existed until the end of the th century, and the jews, there were many followers – sometimes even emperors – of various christian doctrines, such as nestorianism, monophysitism, arianism, and paulicianism, whose teachings were in some opposition to the main theological doctrine, as determined by the ecumenical councils.[ ] another division among christians occurred, when leo iii ordered the destruction of icons throughout the empire. this led to a significant religious crisis, which ended in the mid- th century with the restoration of icons. during the same period, a new wave of pagans emerged in the balkans, originating mainly from slavic people. these were gradually christianised, and by byzantium's late stages, eastern orthodoxy represented most christians and, in general, most people in what remained of the empire.[ ] jews were a significant minority in the byzantine state throughout its history, and, according to roman law, they constituted a legally recognised religious group. in the early byzantine period they were generally tolerated, but then periods of tensions and persecutions ensued. in any case, after the arab conquests, the majority of jews found themselves outside the empire; those left inside the byzantine borders apparently lived in relative peace from the th century onwards.[ ] arts[edit] art and literature[edit] main articles: byzantine art and byzantine literature see also: byzantine dress miniatures of the th-century rabula gospel display the more abstract and symbolic nature of byzantine art. surviving byzantine art is mostly religious and with exceptions at certain periods is highly conventionalised, following traditional models that translate carefully controlled church theology into artistic terms. painting in fresco, illuminated manuscripts and on wood panel and, especially in earlier periods, mosaic were the main media, and figurative sculpture very rare except for small carved ivories. manuscript painting preserved to the end some of the classical realist tradition that was missing in larger works.[ ] byzantine art was highly prestigious and sought-after in western europe, where it maintained a continuous influence on medieval art until near the end of the period. this was especially so in italy, where byzantine styles persisted in modified form through the th century, and became formative influences on italian renaissance art. but few incoming influences affected byzantine style. with the expansion of the eastern orthodox church, byzantine forms and styles spread throughout the orthodox world and beyond.[ ] influences from byzantine architecture, particularly in religious buildings, can be found in diverse regions from egypt and arabia to russia and romania. in byzantine literature, three different cultural elements are recognised: the greek, the christian, and the oriental. byzantine literature is often classified in five groups: historians and annalists, encyclopaedists (patriarch photios, michael psellus, and michael choniates are regarded as the greatest encyclopaedists of byzantium) and essayists, and writers of secular poetry. the only genuine heroic epic of the byzantines is the digenis acritas. the remaining two groups include the new literary species: ecclesiastical and theological literature, and popular poetry.[ ] of the approximately two to three thousand volumes of byzantine literature that survive, only consist of secular poetry, history, science and pseudo-science.[ ] while the most flourishing period of the secular literature of byzantium runs from the th to the th century, its religious literature (sermons, liturgical books and poetry, theology, devotional treatises, etc.) developed much earlier with romanos the melodist being its most prominent representative.[ ] music[edit] main article: byzantine music see also: list of byzantine composers late th century ad "mosaic of the musicians" with organ, aulos, and lyre from a byzantine villa in maryamin, syria[ ] the ecclesiastical forms of byzantine music, composed to greek texts as ceremonial, festival, or church music,[ ] are, today, the most well-known forms. ecclesiastical chants were a fundamental part of this genre. greek and foreign historians agree that the ecclesiastical tones and in general the whole system of byzantine music is closely related to the ancient greek system.[ ] it remains the oldest genre of extant music, of which the manner of performance and (with increasing accuracy from the th century onwards) the names of the composers, and sometimes the particulars of each musical work's circumstances, are known. earliest known depiction of a bowed lyra, from a byzantine ivory casket ( – ad) (museo nazionale, florence) the th century persian geographer ibn khordadbeh (d. ); in his lexicographical discussion of instruments cited the lyra (lūrā) as the typical instrument of the byzantines along with the urghun (organ), shilyani (probably a type of harp or lyre) and the salandj (probably a bagpipe).[ ] the first of these, the early bowed stringed instrument known as the byzantine lyra, would come to be called the lira da braccio,[ ] in venice, where it is considered by many to have been the predecessor of the contemporary violin, which later flourished there.[ ] the bowed "lyra" is still played in former byzantine regions, where it is known as the politiki lyra (lit. 'lyra of the city', i.e. constantinople) in greece, the calabrian lira in southern italy, and the lijerica in dalmatia. the second instrument, the organ, originated in the hellenistic world (see hydraulis) and was used in the hippodrome during races.[ ][ ] a pipe organ with "great leaden pipes" was sent by the emperor constantine v to pepin the short, king of the franks in . pepin's son charlemagne requested a similar organ for his chapel in aachen in , beginning its establishment in western church music.[ ] the aulos was a double reeded woodwind like the modern oboe or armenian duduk. other forms include the plagiaulos (πλαγίαυλος, from πλάγιος "sideways"), which resembled the flute,[ ] and the askaulos (ἀσκός askos – wine-skin), a bagpipe.[ ] bagpipes, also known as dankiyo (from ancient greek: angion (Τὸ ἀγγεῖον) "the container"), had been played even in roman times and continued to be played throughout the empire's former realms through to the present. (see balkan gaida, greek tsampouna, pontic tulum, cretan askomandoura, armenian parkapzuk, and romanian cimpoi.) the modern descendant of the aulos is the greek zourna. other instruments used in byzantine music were kanonaki, oud, laouto, santouri, tambouras, seistron (defi tambourine), toubeleki and daouli. some claim that lavta may have been invented by the byzantines before the arrival of the turks. cuisine[edit] main article: byzantine cuisine byzantine culture was initially the same as late greco-roman, but over the following millennium of the empire's existence it slowly changed into something more similar to modern balkan and anatolian culture. the cuisine still relied heavily on the greco-roman fish-sauce condiment garos, but it also contained foods still familiar today, such as the cured meat pastirma (known as "paston" in byzantine greek),[ ][ ][ ] baklava (known as koptoplakous κοπτοπλακοῦς),[ ] tiropita (known as plakountas tetyromenous or tyritas plakountas),[ ] and the famed medieval sweet wines (commandaria and the eponymous rumney wine). retsina, wine flavoured with pine resin, was also drunk, as it still is in greece today, producing similar reactions from unfamiliar visitors; "to add to our calamity the greek wine, on account of being mixed with pitch, resin, and plaster was to us undrinkable," complained liutprand of cremona, who was the ambassador sent to constantinople in by the german holy roman emperor otto i.[ ] the garos fish sauce condiment was also not much appreciated by the unaccustomed; liutprand of cremona described being served food covered in an "exceedingly bad fish liquor."[ ] the byzantines also used a soy sauce like condiment, murri, a fermented barley sauce, which, like soy sauce, provided umami flavouring to their dishes.[ ][ ] flags and insignia[edit] main article: byzantine flags and insignia the double-headed eagle, a common imperial symbol for most of its history, the byzantine empire did not know or use heraldry in the west european sense. various emblems (greek: σημεία, sēmeia; sing. σημείον, sēmeion) were used in official occasions and for military purposes, such as banners or shields displaying various motifs such as the cross or the labarum. the use of the cross, and of images of christ, the virgin mary and various saints is also attested on seals of officials, but these were personal rather than family emblems.[ ] 	double-headed eagle 	tetragrammic cross language[edit] further information: medieval greek left: the mudil psalter, the oldest complete psalter in the coptic language (coptic museum, egypt, coptic cairo) right: the joshua roll, a th-century illuminated greek manuscript possibly made in constantinople (vatican library, rome) distribution of greek dialects in anatolia in the late byzantine empire through to . demotic in yellow. pontic in orange. cappadocian in green. (green dots indicate cappadocian greek speaking villages in .[ ]) apart from the imperial court, administration and military, the primary language used in the eastern roman provinces even before the decline of the western empire was greek, having been spoken in the region for centuries before latin.[ ] following rome's conquest of the east its 'pax romana', inclusionist political practices and development of public infrastructure, facilitated the further spreading and entrenchment of greek language in the east. indeed, early on in the life of the roman empire, greek had become the common language of the church, the language of scholarship and the arts, and to a large degree the lingua franca for trade between provinces and with other nations.[ ] greek for a time became diglossic with the spoken language, known as koine (eventually evolving into demotic greek), used alongside an older written form (attic greek) until koine won out as the spoken and written standard.[ ] the emperor diocletian (r.  – ) sought to renew the authority of latin, making it the official language of the roman administration also in the east, and the greek expression ἡ κρατοῦσα διάλεκτος (hē kratousa dialektos) attests to the status of latin as "the language of power."[ ] in the early th century, greek gained equal status with latin as official language in the east and emperors gradually began to legislate in greek rather than latin starting with the reign of leo i the thracian in the s.[ ] the last eastern emperor to stress the importance of latin was justinian i (r.  – ), whose corpus juris civilis was written almost entirely in latin. he may also have been the last native latin-speaking emperor.[ ] the use of latin as the language of administration persisted until adoption of greek as the sole official language by heraclius in the th century. scholarly latin would rapidly fall into disuse among the educated classes although the language would continue to be at least a ceremonial part of the empire's culture for some time.[ ] additionally, latin remained a minority language in the empire, mainly on the italian peninsula and along the dalmatian coast, eventually developing into various romance languages like dalmatian.[ ] many other languages existed in the multi-ethnic empire, and some of these were given limited official status in their provinces at various times.[ ] notably, by the beginning of the middle ages, syriac had become more widely used by the educated classes in the far eastern provinces.[ ] similarly coptic, armenian, and georgian became significant among the educated in their provinces.[ ] later foreign contacts made old church slavic, middle persian, and arabic important in the empire and its sphere of influence.[ ] there was a revival of latin studies in the th century for the same reason and by the th century knowledge of latin was no longer unusual at constantinople.[ ] there was widespread use of the armenian and various slavic languages, which became more pronounced in the border regions of the empire.[ ] aside from these languages, since constantinople was a prime trading center in the mediterranean region and beyond, virtually every known language of the middle ages was spoken in the empire at some time, even chinese.[ ] as the empire entered its final decline, the empire's citizens became more culturally homogeneous and the greek language became integral to their identity and religion.[ ] recreation[edit] a game of τάβλι (tabula) played by byzantine emperor zeno in and recorded by agathias in c. because of a very unlucky dice throw for zeno (red), as he threw , and and was forced to leave eight pieces alone.[ ] byzantines were avid players of tavli (byzantine greek: τάβλη), a game known in english as backgammon, which is still popular in former byzantine realms, and still known by the name tavli in greece.[ ] byzantine nobles were devoted to horsemanship, particularly tzykanion, now known as polo. the game came from sassanid persia in the early period and a tzykanisterion (stadium for playing the game) was built by theodosius ii (r.  – ) inside the great palace of constantinople. emperor basil i (r.  – ) excelled at it; emperor alexander (r.  – ) died from exhaustion while playing, emperor alexios i komnenos (r.  – ) was injured while playing with tatikios, and john i of trebizond (r.  – ) died from a fatal injury during a game.[ ][ ] aside from constantinople and trebizond, other byzantine cities also featured tzykanisteria, most notably sparta, ephesus, and athens, an indication of a thriving urban aristocracy.[ ] the game was introduced to the west by crusaders, who developed a taste for it particularly during the pro-western reign of emperor manuel i komnenos. economy[edit] further information: byzantine economy and byzantine silk further information: sino-roman relations gold coin of justinian i ( – ce) excavated in india probably in the south, an example of indo-roman trade during the period the byzantine economy was among the most advanced in europe and the mediterranean for many centuries. europe, in particular, could not match byzantine economic strength until late in the middle ages. constantinople operated as a prime hub in a trading network that at various times extended across nearly all of eurasia and north africa, in particular as the primary western terminus of the famous silk road. until the first half of the th century and in sharp contrast with the decaying west, the byzantine economy was flourishing and resilient.[ ] the plague of justinian and the arab conquests would represent a substantial reversal of fortunes contributing to a period of stagnation and decline. isaurian reforms and constantine v's repopulation, public works and tax measures marked the beginning of a revival that continued until , despite territorial contraction.[ ] from the th century until the end of the th, the byzantine empire projected an image of luxury and travellers were impressed by the wealth accumulated in the capital.[ ] the fourth crusade resulted in the disruption of byzantine manufacturing and the commercial dominance of the western europeans in the eastern mediterranean, events that amounted to an economic catastrophe for the empire.[ ] the palaiologoi tried to revive the economy, but the late byzantine state would not gain full control of either the foreign or domestic economic forces. gradually, constantinople also lost its influence on the modalities of trade and the price mechanisms, and its control over the outflow of precious metals and, according to some scholars, even over the minting of coins.[ ] one of the economic foundations of byzantium was trade, fostered by the maritime character of the empire. textiles must have been by far the most important item of export; silks were certainly imported into egypt, and appeared also in bulgaria, and the west.[ ] the state strictly controlled both the internal and the international trade, and retained the monopoly of issuing coinage, maintaining a durable and flexible monetary system adaptable to trade needs.[ ] the government attempted to exercise formal control over interest rates, and set the parameters for the activity of the guilds and corporations, in which it had a special interest. the emperor and his officials intervened at times of crisis to ensure the provisioning of the capital, and to keep down the price of cereals. finally, the government often collected part of the surplus through taxation, and put it back into circulation, through redistribution in the form of salaries to state officials, or in the form of investment in public works.[ ] legacy[edit] see also: third rome and greek scholars in the renaissance christ pantocrator fresco in hagia sophia, circa 	byzantine culture 	 	 	aristocracy and bureaucracy 	army 	art 	architecture 	calendar 	cities 	coinage 	cuisine 	dance 	diplomacy 	dress 	economy 	gardens 	law 	literature 	medicine 	music 	navy 	people 	science 	 	v 	t 	e byzantium has been often identified with absolutism, orthodox spirituality, orientalism and exoticism, while the terms "byzantine" and "byzantinism" have been used as bywords for decadence, complex bureaucracy, and repression. both eastern and western european authors have often perceived byzantium as a body of religious, political, and philosophical ideas contrary to those of the west. even in th-century greece, the focus was mainly on the classical past, while byzantine tradition had been associated with negative connotations.[ ] this traditional approach towards byzantium has been partially or wholly disputed and revised by modern studies, which focus on the positive aspects of byzantine culture and legacy. averil cameron regards as undeniable the byzantine contribution to the formation of medieval europe, and both cameron and obolensky recognise the major role of byzantium in shaping orthodoxy, which in turn occupies a central position in the history and societies of greece, romania, bulgaria, russia, georgia, serbia and other countries.[ ] the byzantines also preserved and copied classical manuscripts, and they are thus regarded as transmitters of classical knowledge, as important contributors to modern european civilisation, and as precursors of both renaissance humanism and slavic-orthodox culture.[ ] as the only stable long-term state in europe during the middle ages, byzantium isolated western europe from newly emerging forces to the east. constantly under attack, it distanced western europe from persians, arabs, seljuk turks, and for a time, the ottomans. from a different perspective, since the th century, the evolution and constant reshaping of the byzantine state were directly related to the respective progress of islam.[ ] following the conquest of constantinople by the ottoman turks in , sultan mehmed ii took the title "kaysar-i rûm" (the ottoman turkish equivalent of caesar of rome), since he was determined to make the ottoman empire the heir of the eastern roman empire.[ ] see also[edit] 	ancient rome portal 	byzantine empire portal 	christianity portal 	greece portal 	middle ages portal 	byzantine army 	byzantine philosophy 	byzantine rite 	index of byzantine empire-related articles 	family trees of the byzantine imperial dynasties 	byzantine empire under the palaiologos dynasty 	list of byzantine emperors 	list of byzantine inventions 	list of byzantine revolts and civil wars 	list of byzantine wars 	despotate of the morea 	list of roman dynasties 	succession of the roman empire 	legacy of the roman empire notes[edit] 	^ "romania" was a popular name of the empire used mainly unofficially, which meant "land of the romans".[ ] after , it occasionally appears in official byzantine documents as well. in , the leaders of the fourth crusade gave the name romania to their newly founded latin empire.[ ] the term does not refer to modern romania. references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ "byzantine empire". encyclopædia britannica. 	^ kazhdan & epstein , p.  . 	^ ostrogorsky , pp.  – , ; 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remove this template message) see also: roman military frontiers and fortifications the roman empire at its greatest extent, in ad (vassals in pink). the borders of the roman empire, which fluctuated throughout the empire's history, were realised as a combination of military roads and linked forts, natural frontiers (most notably the rhine and danube rivers) and man-made fortifications which separated the lands of the empire from the countries beyond. contents 	 the limes 	 the northern borders 	 the pannonian limes 	 the eastern borders 	 the southern borders 	 see also 	 references 	 bibliography 	 further reading the limes[edit] main article: limes (roman empire) the word limes is sometimes used by modern scholars to denote the frontier of the roman empire but was not used by the romans as such. after the third century it was an administrative term, indicating a military district, commanded by a dux limitis.[ ] the limes that protected the empire from german raids. the latin noun limes had a number of different meanings: a path or balk marking off the boundaries of fields; a boundary line or marker; any road or path; any channel, such as a stream channel; or any distinction or difference between two things. in britannia the empire built two walls one behind the other; for mauretania there was a single wall with forts on both sides of it. in other places, such as syria and arabia petraea, there was no continuous wall; instead there was a net of border settlements and forts occupied by the roman army. in dacia, the limes between the black sea and the danube were a mix of the latter and the wall defenses: the limes moesiae was the conjunction of two, and sometimes three, lines of vallum, with a great camp and many minor camps spread through the fortifications.[citation needed] location of hadrian's wall and the antonine wall in scotland and northern england. the northern borders[edit] 	 	this section does not cite any sources. please help improve this section by 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(august ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) in continental europe, the borders were generally well defined, usually following the courses of major rivers such as the rhine and the danube. nevertheless, those were not always the final border lines; the province of dacia, modern romania, was completely on the far side of the danube, and the province of germania magna, which must not be confused with germania inferior and germania superior, was the land between the rhine, the danube and the elbe (although this province was lost three years after its creation as a result of the battle of teutoburg forest). in great britain both hadrian and antoninus pius built defences to protect the province of britannia from the caledonians. hadrian's wall, constructed in held a garrison of , soldiers, while the antonine wall, constructed between and , was abandoned by and briefly reoccupied in , under the reign of septimius severus. the pannonian limes[edit] main article: pannonian limes the eastern borders[edit] main article: roman–persian wars the eastern borders changed many times, as the roman empire was facing two major powers, the parthian empire and the sasanian empire. the parthians were a group of iranian peoples ruling most of greater iran that is in modern-day iran, western iraq, armenia and the caucasus.[ ] the sasanians succeeded the parthians in – and were recognised as one of the leading world powers alongside its neighbouring arch-rival the roman (byzantine) empire for a period of more than years. the southern borders[edit] limes africanus under septimius severus (the frontier of roman africa (dark tan) in the late nd century ad: septimius severus expanded the limes tripolitanus dramatically (medium tan), even briefly holding a military presence (light tan) in the garamantian capital garama in ) at the greatest extent of the empire, the southern border lay along the deserts of arabia in the middle east and the sahara in north africa, which represented a natural barrier against expansion. the empire controlled the mediterranean shores and the mountain ranges further inland. the romans attempted twice to occupy the siwa oasis and finally used siwa as a place of banishment. however romans controlled the nile many kilometres into africa up to syena, berenice, hyerasykaminos and even qasr ibrim, (the southernmost of all), near the modern border between egypt and sudan, then meroe, lying very near the tropic.[citation needed] the period in which each aforementioned town represented the final frontier of rome is uncertain. in africa romans controlled the area north of the sahara, from the atlantic ocean to egypt, with many sections of limes (limes tripolitanus, limes numidiae, etc.).[ ] in the south of mauritania tingitana romans made a limes in the third century, just north of the area of actual casablanca near sala and stretching to volubilis. septimius severus expanded the "limes tripolitanus" dramatically, even briefly holding a military presence in the garamantian capital garama in ad. much of the initial campaigning success was achieved by quintus anicius faustus, the legate of legio iii augusta. following his african conquests, the roman empire may have reached its greatest extent during the reign of septimius severus,[ ][ ] under whom the empire encompassed an area of  million square kilometres (  million square miles).[ ] see also[edit] 	roman empire 	antonine wall 	hadrian's wall 	roman military frontiers and fortifications 	hannibal references[edit] 	^ benjamin isaac, "the meaning of 'limes' and 'limitanei' in ancient sources", journal of roman studies, ( ), pp. – 	^ benjamin isaac, the limits of empire: the roman army in the east (oxford university press, revised ed. ) 	^ map of roman africa 	^ a b david l. kennedy, derrick riley ( ), rome's desert frontiers, page , routledge 	^ r.j. van der spek, lukas de blois ( ), an introduction to the ancient world, page , routledge bibliography[edit] 	de agostini ( ). atlante storico de agostini. novara: istituto geografico de agostini. isbn  - - - . 	camer, augusto and renato fabietti. corso di storia antica e medievale (seconda edizione). isbn  - - - . 	grant, michael ( ). atlas of classical history ( th edition). new york: oxford univ. press. isbn  - - - . 	scarre, chris ( ). the penguin historical atlas of ancient rome. london: penguin. isbn  - - - . further reading[edit] 	library resources about borders of the roman empire 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	breeze, david j. . the frontiers of imperial rome. barnsley, uk: pen & sword. 	cordovana, orietta dora. . "historical ecosystems. roman frontier and economic hinterlands in north africa." historia . : - . 	dyson, stephen. . the creation of the roman frontier. princeton, nj: princeton univ. press. 	gambash, gil. . rome and provincial resistance. london: routledge. 	heckster, olivier, and ted kaizer, eds. . frontiers in the roman world: proceedings of the ninth workshop of the international network impact of empire. leiden, the netherlands: brill. 	hingley, richard. . hadrian’s wall: a life. oxford: oxford univ. press. 	isaac, benjamin. . the limits of empire: the roman army in the east. rev. ed. oxford: oxford univ. press. 	keppie, lawrence. . the antiquarian rediscovery of the antonine wall. edinburgh: society of antiquaries of scotland. 	sterk, andrea. . "mission from below: captive women and conversion on the east roman frontier." church history . : - . 	zietsman, j.c. . 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"bologne" and "bolognese" redirect here. for other uses, see bologne (disambiguation) and bolognese (disambiguation). not to be confused with boulogne (disambiguation). comune in italy 	bologna bologna  (italian) 	comune 	comune di bologna 	clockwise from top: panorama of bologna and the surrounding hills, san petronio basilica, university of bologna, fountain of neptune, sanctuary of the madonna di san luca, unipol tower and the two towers 	 flag coat of arms 	 bologna show map of emilia-romagna bologna show map of italy bologna show map of europe 	coordinates: ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; . coordinates: ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; . 	country	 italy 	region	emilia-romagna 	metro	bologna (bo) 	government 	 • body	bologna city council 	 • mayor	virginio merola (pd) 	area[ ] 	 • comune	 .  km ( .  sq mi) 	elevation 	  m (  ft) 	population ( december )[ ] 	 • comune	 , 	 • density	 , /km ( , /sq mi) 	 • metro[ ] 	 , , 	demonym(s)	bolognese 	area code(s)	 	website	[ ] bologna (/bəˈloʊnjə/, uk also /bəˈlɒnjə/, italian: [boˈloɲɲa] (listen); emilian (bolognese dialect): bulåggna [buˈlʌɲːa]; latin: bonōnia) is the capital and largest city of the emilia-romagna region in northern italy. it is the seventh most populous city in italy with about , inhabitants and different nationalities.[ ] its metropolitan area is home to more than , , people.[ ] originally etruscan, the city has been one of the most important urban centres for centuries, first under the etruscans (who called it felsina), then under the celts as bona, later under the romans (bonōnia), then again in the middle ages, as a free municipality and signoria, when it was among the largest european cities by population. famous for its towers, churches and lengthy porticoes, bologna has a well-preserved historical centre, thanks to a careful restoration and conservation policy which began at the end of the s.[ ] home to the oldest university in the world,[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] the university of bologna, established in ad , the city has a large student population that gives it a cosmopolitan character. in it was declared european capital of culture[ ] and in , a unesco "city of music" and became part of the creative cities network.[ ] bologna is an important agricultural, industrial, financial and transport hub, where many large mechanical, electronic and food companies have their headquarters as well as one of the largest permanent trade fairs in europe. according to the most recent data gathered by the european regional economic growth index (e-regi) of , bologna is the first italian city and the th european city in terms of its economic growth rate.[ ] as a consequence, bologna is also one of the wealthiest cities in italy, often ranking as one of the top cities in terms of quality of life in the country: in it ranked st out of italian provinces.[ ] contents 	 history 	 . antiquity and middle ages 	 . early modern 	 . modern history 	 . . world war ii 	 . . cold war period 	 . . recent history 	 geography 	 . territory 	 . climate 	 government 	 . municipal government 	 . provincial and regional government 	 cityscape 	 economy 	 transport 	 . bologna public transportation statistics 	 demographics 	 education 	 culture 	 . university 	 . entertainment and performing arts 	 . cuisine 	 sport 	 people 	 international relations 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 . guide books 	 . older guides 	 external links history[edit] see also: timeline of bologna antiquity and middle ages[edit] the iconic due torri porta maggiore, one of the twelve medieval city gates of bologna depiction of a th-century fight between the guelf and ghibelline factions in bologna, from the croniche of giovanni sercambi of lucca traces of human habitation in the area of bologna go back to the rd millennium bce, with significant settlements from about the th century bce (villanova culture). the influence of etruscan civilization reached the area in the th to th centuries, and the etruscan city of felsina was founded at the site of bologna by the end of the th century. by the th century bce, the site was occupied by the gaulish boii, and it became a roman colony and municipium with the name of bonōnia in bce.[ ] after the fall of the roman empire, bologna, then a frontier outpost of the byzantine exarchate of ravenna, was repeatedly sacked by the goths; it is in this period that legendary bishop petronius, according to ancient chronicles, rebuilt the ruined town and founded the basilica of saint stephen.[ ] petronius is still revered as patron saint of bologna. in – , the city was sacked and captured by the lombards under king liutprand, becoming part of that kingdom. these germanic conquerors built an important new quarter, called "addizione longobarda" (italian meaning "longobard addition") near the complex of st. stephen.[ ] in the last quarter of the th century, charlemagne, at the request of pope adrian i, invaded the lombard kingdom, causing its eventual demise. occupied by frankish troops in on behalf of the papacy, bologna remained under imperial authority and prospered as a frontier mark of the carolingian empire.[ ] bologna was the center of a revived study of law, including the scholar irnerius[ ] (c – after ) and his famous students, the four doctors of bologna. after the death of matilda of tuscany in , bologna obtained substantial concessions from emperor henry v. however, when frederick barbarossa subsequently attempted to strike down the deal, bologna joined the lombard league, which then defeated the imperial armies at the battle of legnano and established an effective autonomy at the peace of constance in . subsequently, the town began to expand rapidly and became one of the main commercial trade centres of northern italy thanks to a system of canals that allowed barges and ships to come and go.[ ] believed to have been established in , the university of bologna is widely considered the world's oldest university in continuous operation.[ ][ ] the university originated as a centre for the study of medieval roman law under major glossators, including irnerius. it numbered dante, boccaccio and petrarch among its students.[ ] the medical school was especially renowned.[ ] by , bologna was a thriving commercial and artisanal centre of about , people.[ ] during a campaign to support the imperial cities of modena and cremona against bologna, frederick ii's son, king enzo of sardinia, was defeated and captured on may at the battle of fossalta. though the emperor demanded his release, enzo was thenceforth kept a knightly prisoner in bologna, in a palace that came to be named palazzo re enzo after him. every attempt to escape or to rescue him failed, and he died after more than years in captivity.[ ] after the death of his half-brothers conrad iv in , frederick of antioch in and manfred in , as well as the execution his nephew conradin in , he was the last of the hohenstaufen heirs. during the late s, bologna was affected by political instability when the most prominent families incessantly fought for the control of the town. the free commune was severely weakened by decades of infighting, allowing the pope to impose the rule of his envoy cardinal bertrand du pouget in . du pouget was eventually ousted by a popular rebellion and bologna became a signoria under taddeo pepoli in .[ ] by the arrival of the black death in , bologna had , to , inhabitants, reduced to just , to , after the plague.[ ] in , bologna was conquered by archbishop giovanni visconti, the new lord of milan. however, following a rebellion by the town's governor, a renegade member of the visconti family, bologna was recuperated to the papacy in by cardinal gil Álvarez carrillo de albornoz after a long negotiation involving a huge indemnity paid to bernabò visconti, giovanni's heir, who died in .[ ] in , bologna again revolted against papal rule and joined florence in the unsuccessful war of the eight saints. however, extreme infighting inside the holy see after the western schism prevented the papacy from restoring its domination over bologna, so it remained relatively independent for some decades as an oligarchic republic. in , giovanni i bentivoglio took power in a coup with the support of milan, but the milanese, having turned his back on them and allied with florence, marched on bologna and had giovanni killed the following year. in , hannibal i bentivoglio, giovanni's nephew, recovered bologna from the milanese, only to be assassinated in a conspiracy plotted by pope eugene iv three years later. but the signoria of the bentivoglio family was then firmly established, and the power passed to his cousin sante bentivoglio, who ruled until , followed by giovanni ii. giovanni ii managed to resist the expansionist designs of cesare borgia for some time, but on october , pope julius ii issued a bull deposing and excommunicating bentivoglio and placing the city under interdict. when the papal troops, along with a contingent sent by louis xii of france, marched against bologna, bentivoglio and his family fled. julius ii entered the city triumphantly on november. early modern[edit] bologna in the period of papal rule over bologna ( – ) has been generally evaluated by historians as one of severe decline. however, this was not evident in the s, which were marked by some major developments in bologna. in , emperor charles v was crowned in bologna, the last of the holy roman emperors to be crowned by the pope. in , the piazza del nettuno and the palazzo dei banchi were built, along with the archiginnasio, the main building of the university. the period of papal rule saw also the construction of many churches and other religious establishments, and the restoration of older ones. at this time, bologna had ninety-six convents, more than any other italian city. painters working in bologna during this period established the bolognese school which includes annibale carracci, domenichino, guercino and others of european fame.[ ] engraving of the city of bologna from leandro alberti's history of bologna, , showing the two surviving towers and several others it was only towards the end of the th century that severe signs of decline began to manifest. a series of plagues in the late th to early th century reduced the population of the city from some , in the mid- th century to about , by . during the italian plague of – alone bologna lost up to a third of its population.[ ] in the mid- th century, population stabilized at roughly , , slowly increasing to some , by the mid- th century. the economy of bologna started to show signs of severe decline as the global centres of trade shifted towards the atlantic. the traditional silk industry was in a critical state.[ ] the university was losing students, who once came from all over europe, because of the illiberal attitudes of the church towards culture (especially after the trial of galileo).[ ] bologna continued to suffer a progressive deindustrialisation also in the th century.[ ] in the mid- s pope benedict xiv, a bolognese, tried to reverse the decline of the city with a series of reforms intended to stimulate the economy and promote the arts. however, these reforms achieved only mixed results. the pope's efforts to stimulate the decaying textile industry had little success, while he was more successful in reforming the tax system, liberalising trade[ ] and relaxing the oppressive system of censorship.[ ] the economic and demographic decline of bologna became even more noticeable starting from the second half of the th century. in the city had , inhabitants, ranking as the second largest in the papal states; however this figure had remained unchanged for decades. the economy was stagnant because of papal policies that distorted trade with heavy custom duties and sold concessions of monopolies to single manufacturers thus lowering competition, depressing productivity and incentivising corruption.[ ] modern history[edit] piazza del nettuno in , looking towards piazza maggiore napoleon entered bologna on june . napoleon briefly reinstated the ancient mode of government, giving power to the senate, which however had to swear fealty to the short lived cispadane republic, created as a client state of the french empire at the congress of reggio ( december – january ) but succeeded by the cisalpine republic on july , later by the italian republic and finally the kingdom of italy. after the fall of napoleon, the congress of vienna of restored bologna to the papal states. papal rule was contested in the uprisings of . the insurrected provinces planned to unite as the province italiane unite with bologna as capital. pope gregory xvi asked for austrian help against the rebels. metternich warned french king louis philippe i against intervention in italian affairs, and in the spring of , austrian forces marched across the italian peninsula, defeating the rebellion by april.[ ] by the mid s, unemployment levels were very high and traditional industries continued to languish or disappear; bologna became a city of economic disparity with the top percent of the population living off rent, another percent exercising professions or commerce and percent working in low-paid, often insecure manual jobs. the papal census of reported , permanent beggars and another , (out of a total population of , ) who lived in poverty.[ ] in the revolutions of the austrian garrisons which controlled the city on behalf of the pope were temporarily expelled, but eventually came back and crushed the revolutionaries. papal rule finally ended in the aftermath of second war of italian independence, when the french and pidemontese troops expelled the austrians from italian lands, on and march , bologna voted to join the new kingdom of italy. in the last decades of the th century, bologna once again thrived economically and socially. in naples was linked to rome by railway, and the following year bologna to florence.[ ] bolognese moderate agrarian elites, that supported liberal insurgencies against the papacy and were admirers of the british political system and of free trade, envisioned a unified national state that would open a bigger market for the massive agricultural production of the emilian plains.[ ] indeed, bologna gave italy one of its first prime ministers, marco minghetti. after world war i, bologna was heavily involved in the biennio rosso socialist uprisings. as a consequence, the traditionally moderate elites of the city turned their back on the progressive faction and gave their support to the rising fascist movement of benito mussolini.[ ] dino grandi, a high-ranking fascist party official and ministry of foreign affairs, remembered for being an anglophile, was from bologna. during the interwar years, bologna developed into an important manufacturing centre for food processing, agricultural machinery and metalworking. the fascist regime poured in massive investments, for example with the setting up of a giant tobacco manufacturing plant in .[ ] world war ii[edit] sappers of the indian railway maintenance company repair some of the extensive damage to the railyards in . bologna suffered extensive damage during world war ii. the strategic importance of the city as an industrial and railway hub connecting northern and central italy made it a target for the allied forces. on july , a massive aerial bombardment destroyed a significant part of the historic city centre and killed about people. the main railway station and adjoining areas were severely hit, and % of the buildings in the centre were listed as having been destroyed or severely damaged. the city was heavily bombed again on september. the raids, which this time were not confined to the city centre, left , people dead and , injured.[ ][ ] by the end of the war, % of all buildings in bologna had been destroyed or damaged.[ ][ ] after the armistice of , the city became a key centre of the italian resistance movement. on november , a pitched battle around porta lame, waged by partisans of the th brigade of the gruppi d'azione patriottica against fascist and nazi occupation forces, did not succeed in triggering a general uprising, despite being one of the largest resistance-led urban conflicts in the european theatre.[ ] resistance forces entered bologna on the morning of april . by this time, the germans had already largely left the city in the face of the allied advance, spearheaded by polish forces advancing from the east during the battle of bologna which had been fought since april. first to arrive in the centre was the th infantry regiment of the friuli combat group under general arturo scattini, who entered the centre from porta maggiore to the south. since the soldiers were dressed in british outfits, they were initially thought to be part of the allied forces; when the local inhabitants heard the soldiers were speaking italian, they poured out onto the streets to celebrate.[citation needed] cold war period[edit] aftermath of the terrorist bombing in the post-war years, bologna became a thriving industrial centre as well as a political stronghold of the italian communist party. between and , the city was helmed by an uninterrupted succession of mayors from the pci and its successors, the democratic party of the left and democrats of the left, the first of whom was giuseppe dozza. at the end of the s the city authorities, worried by massive gentrification and suburbanisation, asked japanese starchitect kenzo tange to sketch a master plan for a new town north of bologna; however, the project that came out in was evaluated as too ambitious and expensive.[ ] eventually the city council, in spite of vetoing tange's master plan, decided to keep his project for a new exhibition centre and business district.[ ] at the end of the construction of a tower block and several diverse buildings and structures started.[ ] in the headquarters of the regional government of emilia-romagna moved in the new district.[ ] in , bologna was the scene of rioting linked to the movement of , a spontaneous political movement of the time. the police shooting of a far-left activist, francesco lorusso, sparked two days of street clashes. on august , at the height of the "years of lead", a terrorist bomb was set off in the central railway station of bologna killing people and wounding , an event which is known in italy as the bologna massacre. in , members of the neo-fascist group nuclei armati rivoluzionari were convicted for carrying out the attack, while licio gelli—grand master of the underground freemason lodge propaganda due (p )—was convicted for hampering the investigation, together with three agents of the secret military intelligence service sismi (including francesco pazienza and pietro musumeci). commemorations take place in bologna on august each year, culminating in a concert in the main square. recent history[edit] in , the long tradition of left-wing mayors was interrupted by the victory of independent centre-right candidate giorgio guazzaloca. however, bologna reverted to form in when sergio cofferati, a former trade union leader, unseated guazzaloca. the next centre-left mayor, flavio delbono, elected in june , resigned in january after being involved in a corruption scandal. after a -month period in which the city was administered under anna maria cancellieri (as a state-appointed prefect), virginio merola was elected as mayor, leading a left-wing coalition comprising the democratic party, left ecology freedom and italy of values.[ ] geography[edit] territory[edit] aerial photograph of bologna (from east to west). bologna is situated on the edge of the po plain at the foot of the apennine mountains, at the meeting of the reno and savena river valleys. as bologna's two main watercourses flow directly to the sea, the town lies outside of the drainage basin of the river po. the province of bologna stretches from the western edge of the po plain on the border with ferrara to the tuscan-emilian apennines. the centre of the town is metres (  ft) above sea level (while elevation within the municipality ranges from metres (  ft) in the suburb of corticella to metres (  ft) in sabbiuno and the colle della guardia). the province of bologna stretches from the po plain into the apennines; the highest point in the province is the peak of corno alle scale (in lizzano in belvedere) at , metres ( ,  ft) above sea level. climate[edit] bologna has a mid-latitude, four-season humid subtropical climate (köppen climate classification: cfa). annual precipitation oscillates between around  mm (  in) and  mm (  in),[ ] with the majority generally falling in spring and autumn. the last major snow event was in november .[ ] 	climate data for bologna ( – , extremes –present) 	month 	jan 	feb 	mar 	apr 	may 	jun 	jul 	aug 	sep 	oct 	nov 	dec 	year 	record high °c (°f) 	 . 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( . ) 	average precipitation days (≥ . mm) 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	average relative humidity (%) 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	mean monthly sunshine hours 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 , . 	source: servizio meteorologico (sun and humidity – )[ ][ ][ ] government[edit] see also: list of mayors of bologna 	bologna city council consiglio comunale di bologna 	 	leadership 	mayor 	virginio merola, pd since may 	structure 	seats	 	 	political groups 	 list 	 majority ( ) 	  pd ( ) 	   cca ( ) opposition ( ) 	   ln ( ) 	   m s ( ) 	   fi ( ) 	   ib ( ) 	   cc ( ) 	elections 	voting system 	party-list proportional representation 	last election 	 – june 	meeting place 	palazzo d'accursio, bologna 	website 	official website municipal government[edit] virginio merola, mayor of bologna since the legislative body of the municipality is the city council (consiglio comunale), which is composed by councillors elected every five years with a corrected proportional system (granting the majority to the list or alliance of lists which receives more votes), contextually to the mayoral elections. the executive body is the city committee (giunta comunale), composed by assessors, that is nominated and presided over by a directly elected mayor. the current mayor of bologna is virginio merola (pd), elected on may with the . % of the votes.[ ] on june merola was re-elected in a second-round ballot with . % of votes.[ ] the municipality of bologna is subdivided into six administrative boroughs (quartieri), down from the former nine before the administrative reform. each borough is governed by a council (consiglio) and a president, elected contextually to the city mayor. the urban organization is governed by the italian constitution (art. ). the boroughs have the power to advise the mayor with nonbinding opinions on a large spectrum of topics (environment, construction, public health, local markets) and exercise the functions delegated to them by the city council; in addition they are supplied with an autonomous founding in order to finance local activities. provincial and regional government[edit] fiera district, seat of the regional government of emilia-romagna bologna is the capital of the eponymous metropolitan city and of emilia-romagna, one of the twenty regions of italy. while the province of bologna has a population of , , ,[ ] making it the twelfth most populated province of italy, emilia-romagna ranks as the sixth most populated region of italy, with about .  million inhabitants, more than % of the national total. the seat of the regional government is fiera district, a tower complex designed by japanese architect kenzo tange in . according to the last governmental dispositions concerning administrative reorganisation, the urban area of bologna is one of the metropolitan municipalities (città metropolitane), new administrative bodies fully operative since january .[ ] the new metro municipalities, giving large urban areas the administrative powers of a province, are conceived for improving the performance of local administrations and to slash local spending by better co-ordinating the municipalities in providing basic services (including transport, school and social programs) and environment protection.[ ] in this policy framework, the mayor of bologna is designated to exercise the functions of metropolitan mayor (sindaco metropolitano), presiding over a metropolitan council formed by mayors of municipalities within the metro municipality. the metropolitan city of bologna is headed by the metropolitan mayor (sindaco metropolitano) and by the metropolitan council (consiglio metropolitano). since june virginio merola, as mayor of the capital city, has been the mayor of the metropolitan city. cityscape[edit] further information: category:buildings and structures in bologna panoramic view of central bologna piazza maggiore, with san petronio basilica, palazzo dei banchi and palazzo del podestà the colorful open-air market of via pescherie vecchie sanctuary of the madonna di san luca the icon of the madonna di san luca until the late th century, when a large-scale urban renewal project was undertaken, bologna was one of the few remaining large walled cities in europe; to this day and despite having suffered considerable bombing damage in , bologna's hectares ( acres) historic centre is europe's second largest,[ ] containing an immense wealth of important medieval, renaissance, and baroque artistic monuments. bologna developed along the via emilia as an etruscan and later roman colony; the via emilia still runs straight through the city under the changing names of strada maggiore, rizzoli, ugo bassi, and san felice. due to its roman heritage, the central streets of bologna, today largely pedestrianized, follow the grid pattern of the roman settlement. the original roman ramparts were supplanted by a high medieval system of fortifications, remains of which are still visible, and finally by a third and final set of ramparts built in the th century, of which numerous sections survive. no more than twenty medieval defensive towers remain out of up to that were built in the th and th centuries before the arrival of unified civic government. the most famous of the towers of bologna are the central "due torri" (asinelli and garisenda), whose iconic leaning forms provide a popular symbol of the town.[ ] the cityscape is further enriched by its elegant and extensive porticoes, for which the city is famous. in total, there are some kilometres ( miles) of porticoes in the city's historical centre[ ] (over  km (  mi) in the city proper), which make it possible to walk for long distances sheltered from the elements. the portico di san luca is possibly the world's longest.[ ] it connects porta saragozza (one of the twelve gates of the ancient walls built in the middle ages, which circled a .  km ( .  mi) part of the city) with the sanctuary of the madonna di san luca, a church begun in on the site of an th-century edifice which had already been enlarged in the th century, prominently located on a hill ( metres ( feet)) overlooking the town, which is one of bologna's main landmarks. the windy vault arcades, almost four kilometres ( ,  m or ,  ft) long, effectively links san luca, as the church is commonly called, to the city centre. its porticos provide shelter for the traditional procession which every year since has carried a byzantine icon of the madonna with child attributed to luke the evangelist down to the bologna cathedral during the feast of the ascension.[ ] san petronio basilica, built between and (but still unfinished), is the tenth-largest church in the world by volume, metres long and metres wide, while the vault reaches metres inside and metres in the facade. with its volume of ,  m , it is the largest (gothic or otherwise) church built of bricks of the world.[ ] the basilica of saint stephen and its sanctuary are among the oldest structures in bologna, having been built starting from the th century, according to the tradition on the site of an ancient temple dedicated to egyptian goddess isis. the basilica of saint dominic is an example of romanic architecture from the th century, enriched by the monumental tombs of great bolognese glossators rolandino de'passeggeri and egidio foscherari. basilicas of st francis, santa maria dei servi and san giacomo maggiore are other magnificent examples of th-century architecture, the latter also featuring renaissance artworks such as the bentivoglio altarpiece by lorenzo costa. finally, the church of san michele in bosco is a th-century religious complex located on a hill not far from the city's historical cente. view from the top of the basilica di san petronio: the dome of santuario di santa maria della vita dominates the foreground; the asinelli (higher) and garisenda towers ("due torri") are seen on the right. economy[edit] unipol tower, at  m, is the city's tallest building. in terms of total gdp, the metropolitan city of bologna generated a value of about €  billion ($ .  billion) in , equivalent to € , ($ , ) per capita, the third highest figure among italian provinces (after milan and bolzano/bozen).[ ] the economy of bologna is characterized by a flourishing industrial sector, traditionally centered on the transformation of agricultural and zootechnical products (eridania, granarolo, segafredo zanetti, conserve italia), machinery (coesia, ima, sacmi), construction equipment (maccaferri); energy (hera group), automotive (ducati, lamborghini), footwear, textile, engineering, chemical, printing and publishing (il mulino, monrif group, zanichelli). in particular, bologna is considered the centre of the so-called "packaging valley", an area well known for its high concentration of firms specialised in the manufacturing of automatic packaging machines (coesia, ima).[ ] furthermore, bologna is well known for its dense network of cooperatives, a feature that dates back to the social struggles of farmers and workers in the s and that today produces up to a third of its gdp[ ] and occupies thousand people in the emilia-romagna region.[ ] transport[edit] a trolleybus of the urban trolleybus network managed by tper, photographed in via saffi bologna is home to the guglielmo marconi international airport, the seventh busiest italian airport for passenger traffic (  million passengers handled in ). bologna centrale railway station is one of italy's most important train hubs thanks to the city's strategic location as a crossroad between north–south and east–west routes. it serves  million passengers annually.[ ] the city hosts several minor railway stations (see list of railway stations in bologna). in addition, bologna san donato classification yard, with railway tracks, is the largest freight hub in italy by size and traffic.[ ] the city is also served by a large network of public bus lines, including trolleybus lines, operated since by trasporto passeggeri emilia-romagna (tper). a large commuter rail service is currently under development (see bologna metropolitan railway service), and a four line tram network is also planned (see trams in bologna).[ ] bologna public transportation statistics[edit] the average amount of time people spend commuting with public transit in bologna, for example to and from work, on a weekday is min. % of public transit riders ride for more than hours every day. the average amount of time people wait at a stop or station for public transit is min, while % of riders wait for over minutes on average every day. the average distance people usually ride in a single trip with public transit is .  km, while % travel for over  km in a single direction.[ ] demographics[edit] at the end of , the city proper had a population of , (while  million live in the greater bologna area), located in the province of bologna, emilia romagna, of whom . % were male and . % were female. minors (children ages and younger) totalled . percent of the population compared to pensioners who number . percent. this compares with the italian average of . percent (minors) and . percent (pensioners). the average age of bologna resident is compared to the italian average of . in the five years between and , the population of bologna grew by . percent, while italy as a whole grew by . percent.[ ] the current birth rate of bologna is . births per , inhabitants compared to the italian average of . births. as of [update], . % of the population was italian. the largest immigrant group came from other european countries (mostly romanians and albanians): . %, east asia (mostly filipino): . %, and south asia (mostly from bangladesh): . %.[ ] education[edit] the university of bologna is the world's oldest institution of higher learning, founded in ad . the university of bologna, conventionally said to have been founded in by glossators irnerius and pepo,[ ] is the oldest university in europe. it was an important centre of european intellectual life during the middle ages, attracting scholars from italy and throughout europe.[ ] the studium, as it was originally known, began as a loosely organized teaching system with each master collecting fees from students on an individual basis. the location of the early university was thus spread throughout the city, with various colleges being founded to support students of a specific nationality. anatomical theatre of the archiginnasio, dating from in the napoleonic era, the headquarters of the university were moved to their present location on via zamboni, in the north-eastern sector of the city centre. today, the university's schools, departments, and libraries are spread across the city and include four subsidiary campuses in nearby cesena, forlì, ravenna, and rimini. noteworthy students present at the university in centuries past included dante, petrarch, thomas becket, pope nicholas v, erasmus of rotterdam, peter martyr vermigli, and copernicus. laura bassi, appointed in , became the first woman to officially teach at a university in europe. in more recent history, luigi galvani, the discoverer of bioelectromagnetics, and guglielmo marconi, the pioneer of radio technology, also worked at the university. the university of bologna remains one of the most respected and dynamic post-secondary educational institutions in italy. to this day, bologna is still very much a university town, with over , enrolled students in . this community includes a great number of erasmus, socrates, and overseas students.[ ] the university's botanical garden, the orto botanico dell'università di bologna, was established in ; it is the fourth oldest in europe. johns hopkins university maintains its bologna center in the city, which hosts one of the overseas campuses of the school of advanced international studies (sais). sais bologna was founded in as the first campus of a us post-graduate school to open in europe.[ ] it was inspired by marshall plan efforts to build a cultural bridge between america and europe.[ ] today, the bologna center also hosts the associazione italo-americana "luciano finelli", which supports cross-cultural awareness and exchange between italy and the united states.[ ] dickinson college, indiana university, brown university, and the university of california also have campuses or antennas in the city. in addition, bologna hosts a music school, conservatorio giovanni battista martini, established in , and an art school, accademia di belle arti di bologna, founded in . both institutions were born as part of the reforms introduced by napoleon bonaparte. culture[edit] the international museum and library of music displays ancient musical instruments and unique musical scores from the th to the th centuries. over the centuries, bologna has acquired many nicknames: "the fat" (la grassa) refers to its cuisine, in which the most famous specialities are prepared using rich meats (especially pork), egg pasta and dairy products, such as butter and parmesan. another nickname that has been given to the city is "the red" (la rossa), which was originally used as a reference to the colour of the buildings in the city centre, has later become connected with the communist ideology supported by the majority of the population, in particular after world war ii: until the election of a centre-right mayor in , the city was renowned as a bastion of the italian communist party.[ ] the centre-left regained power again in the mayoral elections, with the election of sergio cofferati. it was one of the first european cities to experiment with the concept of free public transport.[ ] bologna has also two other nicknames: the first one, "the towered" (la turrita) refers to the high number of medieval towers that can be found in the city, even if today only towers are still standing. the second one, "the learned" (la dotta) is a reference to its university. university[edit] bologna university was founded in and it is considered the oldest university of the western world. according to the qs university rankings, bologna university is the th italian university and the th in the world. the high number of students coming from all over italy and the world (in bologna there are several campuses of foreign universities such as johns hopkins university, dickinson college, indiana university, brown university, university of california and more) considerably affects the everyday life: if on one hand it contributes to liven up the city centre (an area in which the average age of the residents is very high), and it also helps to promote cultural initiatives, on the other hand it creates public order and garbage problems which are related to the lively nightlife of the university district. entertainment and performing arts[edit] façade of "arena del sole" theatre the city of bologna became a unesco city of music on may . according to unesco, "as the first italian city to be appointed to the network, bologna has demonstrated a rich musical tradition that is continuing to evolve as a vibrant factor of contemporary life and creation. it has also shown a strong commitment to promoting music as an important vehicle for inclusion in the fight against racism and in an effort to encourage economic and social development. fostering a wide range of genres from classical to electronic, jazz, folk and opera, bologna offers its citizens a musical vitality that deeply infiltrates the city's professional, academic, social and cultural facets."[ ] the theatre was a popular form of entertainment in bologna until the th century. the first public theater was the teatro alla scala, active since in palazzo del podestà. an important figure of italian bolognese theatre was alfredo testoni, the playwright, author of the cardinal lambertini, which has had great theatrical success since , repeated on screen by the bolognese actor gino cervi. in , the city of bologna initiated the project "bologna dei teatri" (bologna of the theatres), an association of the major theatrical facilities in the city. this is a circuit of theatres which offer diverse theatrical opportunities, ranging from bolognese dialect to contemporary dance, but with a communications strategy and promoting unity. specifically, the shows on the bill in various theatres participating in the project are advertised weekly through a single poster. bologna's opera house is the teatro comunale di bologna. the orchestra mozart, whose music director was claudio abbado until his death in , was created in . bologna hosts a number of international music, art, dance and film festivals, including angelica[ ] bologna and contemporanea (festivals on contemporary music),[ ] bolognafestival (international classical music festival),[ ] bologna jazz festival,[ ] biografilm festival (a film festival devote to biographic movies),[ ] bilbolbul (a comics festival),[ ] danza urbana (a street contemporary dance festival)[ ] f.i.s.co(festival on contemporary art, now merged in live arts week) future film festival (animation and special effects),[ ]il cinema ritrovato(film festival about rare and forgotten movies),[ ] live arts week, gender bender (festival on gender identity, sexual orientation and body representation),[ ] homework festival (electronic music festival),[ ] human rights film festival,[ ] some prefer cake (lesbian film festival),[ ] zecchino d'oro (a children's song contest). cuisine[edit] tagliatelle al ragù bolognese, as served in bologna bologna is renowned for its culinary tradition. it has baptised the famous bolognese sauce, a meat-based pasta sauce that in italy is called ragù and is substantially different from the variety found worldwide; moreover, in bologna the sauce is used only as a dressing for tagliatelle, serving it with spaghetti being considered odd.[ ] situated in the fertile po river valley, the rich local cuisine depends heavily on meats and cheeses. as in all of emilia-romagna, the production of cured pork meats such as prosciutto, mortadella and salumi is an important part of the local food industry.[ ] well-regarded nearby vineyards include pignoletto dei colli bolognesi, lambrusco di modena and sangiovese di romagna.[ ] tagliatelle with ragù, lasagne, tortellini served in broth, and mortadella, the original bologna sausage, are among the local specialties.[ ] traditional bolognese desserts are often linked to holidays, such as fave dei morti ("cookies of the dead"), multi-coloured almond paste cookies made for all saints' day, jam-filled raviole cookies that are served on saint joseph's day, and carnival sweets known as sfrappole, a light and delicate fried pastry topped with powder sugar, certosino or panspeziale ("carthusian" o "apothecary-cake"), a spicy cake served on christmas. torta di riso, a custard-like cake made of almonds, rice and amaretto, is made throughout the year,[ ] as the zuppa inglese. in , an article in la repubblica also named bologna the most vegan-friendly city in italy, noting that the city had vegan and vegetarian restaurants [ ] sport[edit] the , -capacity stadio renato dall'ara is the home of bologna fc . a sporting nickname for bologna is basket city in reference to the successes of the town's two rival historic basketball clubs, virtus and fortitudo, though the clubs are now often referred to by the names of their current sponsors.[ ] of the two, the former won italian basketball championships and two euroleagues making them one of the most influential european basketball clubs; the latter won two league titles between and . the rivalry is temporarily dormant since fortitudo left the country's professional ranks when, following the – season, the club was relegated from the top-level lega a to legadue, before being relegated further to the nominally amateur serie a dilettanti for financial reasons; in the – season, fortitudo will play in the legadue. the italian basketball league, which operates both lega a and legadue, has its headquarters in bologna. football also has a strong tradition in bologna. the city's main club, bologna f.c. , have won seven italian league championships (the latest in – ), which make them the sixth most successful team in the history of the league; in their heyday in the s bologna fc were called "lo squadrone che tremare il mondo fa" (italian for "the team that shakes the world"). the club play at the , -capacity stadio renato dall'ara, which has hosted the italian national team in both football and rugby union, as well as the san marino national football team. it was also a venue at the fifa world cup. rugby union is also present in the city: rugby bologna is not only one of the oldest italian rugby union clubs but also the first ever club affiliated to the italian rugby union federation.[ ] and, to date ( ) is italy's oldest rugby union club still in operation. the club took part to the top tier of the italian championship for the first years of their history never winning the title but getting to the runner-up place several times; they returned in top division (serie a then super ), in the late s and faced serious financial problems which led them to the relegation and almost to disappearance.[citation needed] gianni falchi stadium is a baseball stadium located in bologna.[ ][ ][ ] it is home to the home games of fortitudo baseball bologna, in the italian baseball league.[ ][ ] people[edit] main category: people from bologna pope benedict xiv, born in bologna in 	luca carboni (singer-songwriter, born ) 	ulisse aldrovandi (naturalist, – ) 	antonio alessandrini (anatomist and parasitologist, – ) 	maria gaetana agnesi (mathematician and humanitarian, – ) 	amico aspertini (painter, c. – ) 	pupi avati (director, born ) 	riccardo bacchelli (writer, – ) 	adriano banchieri (composer, – ) 	agostino barelli (architect, – ) 	antonio basoli (painter and scene designer, – ) 	laura bassi (scientist, first female appointed to university chair in europe, – ) 	ugo bassi (italian nationalist hero, executed for role in uprisings, – ) 	pier francesco battistelli (painter of quadratura, th-century) 	stefano benni (writer, born ) 	benedict xiv (prospero lambertini, pope – ) 	giovanni ii bentivoglio ( – ) 	giordano berti (writer, born ) 	amedeo biavati (footballer, – , credited with the invention of the stepover, world champion , played only for bologna fc) 	cristina d'avena (actress and singer, born ) 	francesco ricci bitti, italian sports administrator 	simone bolelli (professional tennis player, born ) 	giacomo bolognini (painter, – ) 	rafael bombelli (mathematician, – ) 	rossano brazzi (actor, – ) 	floriano buroni (engraver, th-century) 	raffaella carrà (singer, born ) 	annibale carracci (painter, – ) 	lodovico carracci (painter, – ) 	agostino carracci (painter, – ) 	corrado casalini (footballer, born ) 	chiara caselli (actress, born ) 	pier ferdinando casini (politician, born ) 	pietro cataldi (mathematician, – ) 	pierluigi collina (football referee, born ) 	carlo colombara (operatic bass, born ) 	giovanni paolo colonna (composer, – ) 	alessandro cortini (musician, born ) 	cesare cremonini (songwriter, ) 	giuseppe maria crespi (painter, – ) 	donato creti (painter, – ) 	giulio cesare croce (cantastorie and writer, – ) 	scipione del ferro (mathematician, solved the cubic equation, – ) 	francesco francia (francesco raibolini, painter, c. – ) 	lucio dalla (singer-songwriter, – ) 	domenichino (domenico zampieri, painter, – ) 	elena duglioli (roman catholic aristocrat, – ) 	sara errani (tennis player, born ) 	gianfranco fini (politician, born ) 	aristotile fioravanti (architect, c. –c. ) 	carlo fornasini ( – ), micropalaeontologist who studied foraminifera 	galeazzo frudua (luthier and beatles expert, birthdate unknown) 	luigi galvani (scientist, discoverer of bioelectricity, – ) 	alessandro gamberini, (footballer, born ) 	serena grandi (actress, born ) 	gregory xiii (ugo boncompagni, pope – , instituted the gregorian calendar) 	gregory xv (alessandro ludovisi, pope – ) 	il guercino (giovanni barbieri, painter, – ) 	irnerius (jurist, c. –at least ) 	blessed imelda lambertini (dominican novice, eucharistic mystic, and child saint, c. – ) 	claudio lolli (singer-songwriter, – ) 	lucius ii (gherardo caccianemici dell'orso, pope – ) 	marcello malpighi (physiologist, anatomist and histologist, – ) 	guglielmo marconi (engineer, pioneer of wireless telegraphy, nobel prize for physics, – ) 	giovanni battista martini (musical theorist, – ) 	giuseppe mezzofanti (cardinal, linguist and hyperpolyglot, – ) 	marco minghetti (economist and statesman, – ) 	giorgio morandi (painter, – ) 	gianni morandi (singer, born ) 	ludovico morbioli (catholic layman, declared blessed, – ) 	edgardo mortara (catholic priest that was the subject of the mortara case during the risorgimento, – ) 	gianluca pagliuca (footballer, born ) 	pier paolo pasolini (writer, poet, director, – ) 	umberto puppini ( - ), mathematician 	roberto regazzi (luthier, born ) 	guido reni (painter, – ) 	ottorino respighi (composer, – ) 	augusto righi (physicist, authority on electromagnetism, – ) 	carlo ruini (equine anatomist, – ) 	angelo schiavio (footballer, – , scored the winning goal in extra time in the for bologna) 	elisabetta sirani (painter, – ) 	alberto tomba (skier, born ) 	ondina valla (first italian woman olympic gold medalist, – ) 	mariele ventre (teacher and educator, founder of piccolo coro dell' antoniano choir, – ) 	christian vieri (footballer, born ) 	lelio dalla volpe ( september – october ), printer 	vitale da bologna (painter, fl. , d. ) 	anteo zamboni (anarchist who at the age of attempted to assassinate benito mussolini, – ) 	alex zanardi (racing driver, born ) 	marco aurelio zani de ferranti (writer, musician, and composer, – ) 	alessandro carloni (director, animator, artist who worked on films like kung fu panda and the croods, born ) 	saint catherine of bologna (caterina de' vigri) ( – ) poor claire nun, writer, mystic, artist in addition to the natives of the city listed above, the following have made bologna their home: 	giosuè carducci (poet and academic, nobel prize for literature, born near lucca, tuscany, – ) 	carlo felice cillario (italian conductor of international renown, founder of the bologna chamber orchestra in ( february – december ) 	umberto eco (writer and academic, born in alessandria, piedmont, – ) 	enzio of sardinia (born c. , king of sardinia and illegitimate son of emperor frederick ii, was imprisoned in palazzo re enzo from until his death in ) 	vasco errani (politician, born ) 	william girometti (painter, born in milan, – ) 	alfonso lombardi (sculptor, born in ferrara, c. – ) 	niccolò dell'arca (sculptor, born in bari, c. / – march ) 	juan ignacio molina (naturalist, born in chile, – ) 	giovanni pascoli (poet and academic, born in san mauro di romagna, – ) 	st. petronius (san petronio, bishop of bologna and patron saint of the city, birthplace unknown, died c. ad) 	romano prodi (economist, politician, born in scandiano, reggio emilia, ) 	gioachino rossini (opera composer, born in pesaro, – ) 	giuseppe torelli (composer, born in verona, – ) 	wu ming (collective of writers, active since ) 	farinelli (carlo broschi, castrato opera singer, – ) international relations[edit] see also: list of twin towns and sister cities in italy bologna is twinned with:[ ] 	 coventry, england, uk, since 	 kharkiv, ukraine, since 	 leipzig, germany, since 	 la plata, argentina, since 	 portland, united states, since 	 saint-louis, senegal, since 	 st. louis, united states, since 	 san carlos, nicaragua, since 	 thessaloniki, greece, since 	 toulouse, france, since 	 tuzla, bosnia and herzegovina, since 	 valencia, spain, since 	 zagreb, croatia, since 	 prijepolje, serbia, since see also[edit] 	bologna declaration 	bologna metropolitan area 	bologna process 	bolognese bell ringing art 	list of tallest buildings in bologna 	opera pia dei 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wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	apulia 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		region of italy for other uses, see apulia (disambiguation) and puglia (disambiguation). 	 	this article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in italian. (january ) click [show] for important translation instructions. 	view a machine-translated version of the italian article. 	machine translation like deepl or google translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the english wikipedia. 	do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. if possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. 	you must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. a model attribution edit summary content in this edit is translated from the existing italian wikipedia article at [[:it:puglia]]; see its history for attribution. 	you should also add the template {{translated|it|puglia}} to the talk page. 	for more guidance, see wikipedia:translation. region of italy 	apulia puglia  (italian) púgghie / puie / puje  (neapolitan) puia  (sicilian) Ἀπουλία  (greek) poulye  (arpitan) 	region of italy 	 flag coat of arms 	 	coordinates: ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; . coordinates: ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; . 	country	italy 	capital	bari 	government 	 • president	michele emiliano (pd) 	area 	 • total	 ,  km ( ,  sq mi) 	population ( december ) 	 • total	 , , 	 • density	 /km ( /sq mi) 	demonym(s)	english: apulian italian: pugliese 	time zone	utc+ (cet) 	 • summer (dst)	utc+ (cest) 	iso code	it- 	gdp (nominal)	€ . billion ( )[ ] 	gdp per capita	€ , ( )[ ] 	hdi ( )	 . [ ] very high · th of 	nuts region	itf 	website	www.regione.puglia.it apulia (/əˈpuːliə/ ə-poo-lee-ə; italian: puglia [ˈpuʎʎa]; neapolitan: pùglia [ˈpuʝːə];[a] albanian: pulia; ancient greek: Ἀπουλία, romanized: apoulía) is a region of italy, located in the southern peninsular section of the country, bordering the adriatic sea to the east, the ionian sea to the southeast, and the strait of otranto and gulf of taranto to the south. the region comprises , square kilometers ( ,  sq mi), and its population is about four million. it is bordered by the other italian regions of molise to the north, campania to the west, and basilicata to the southwest. its capital city is bari. contents 	 geography 	 history 	 economy 	 . unemployment 	 . olive cultivars 	 . . xylella fastidiosa disease 	 transport 	 demographics 	 government and politics 	 culture 	 . cuisine 	 . . sagre food festivals 	 . language 	 . lgbt culture 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links geography[edit] torre sant'andrea, salento apulia's coastline is longer than that of any other mainland italian region. in the north, the gargano promontory extends out into the adriatic like a 'sperone' ("spur"), while in the south, the salento peninsula forms the 'tacco' ("heel") of italy's boot.[ ] the highest peak in the region is mount cornacchia [it] ( , meters above sea level) within the daunian mountains, in the north along the apennines. it is home to two national parks, the alta murgia national park and gargano national park.[ ] outside national parks in the north and west, most of apulia and particularly salento is geographically flat with only moderate hills. the climate is typically mediterranean with hot, dry and sunny summers and mild, rainy winters. snowfall, especially on the coast is rare but has occurred as recently as january (following on from snow in march and january ). apulia is among the hottest and driest regions of italy in summer with temperatures sometimes reaching up to and above  °c in lecce and foggia. the coastal areas, particularly on the adriatic and in the southern salento region are frequently exposed to winds of varying strengths and directions, strongly affecting local temperatures and conditions, sometimes within the same day. the northerly bora wind from the adriatic can lower temperatures, humidity and moderate summer heat while the southerly sirocco wind from north africa can raise temperatures, humidity and occasionally drop red dust from the sahara. on some days in spring and autumn, it can be warm enough to swim in gallipoli and porto cesareo on the ionian coast while at the same time, cool winds warrant jackets and sweaters in monopoli and otranto on the adriatic coast. landscape of the murge plateau history[edit] castel del monte, built by the holy roman emperor frederick ii between and in andria the medieval town of ostuni apulia is one of the richest archaeological regions in italy. it was first colonized by mycenaean greeks.[ ] there were three main iapygian tribes that inhabited apulia during the first millennium bc – the daunians in the north, the peucetians in the centre, as well as the messapians in the south.[ ][ ] some parts of the regions were conquered by the muslim saracens, and the emirate of bari was established for a brief period of time by muhammad abul abbas of sicily. a number of castles were built in the area by holy roman emperor frederick ii, including castel del monte,[ ] sometimes called the "crown of apulia".[ ] apulia was an autonomous duchy until when its duke became king of sicily. after , when the kingdom lost the island of sicily itself, apulia remained part of the remnant kingdom of naples (confusingly known also as the kingdom of sicily), and remained so until the unification of italy in . this kingdom was independent under the house of anjou from to , then was part of aragon until , after which it was again independent under a cadet branch of the house of trastámara until . as a result of the french–spanish war of – , naples again came under the rule of aragon and the spanish empire from to . when barbary pirates of north africa sacked vieste in , they took an estimated , slaves.[ ] the coast of apulia was occupied at times by the turks and at other times by the venetians.[ ] in the region became part of the kingdom of italy.[ ] economy[edit] the region's contribution to italy's gross value added was around . % in , while its population was % of the total. the per capita gdp is low compared to the national average and represents about . % of the eu average.[ ] the share of gross value added by the agricultural and services sectors was above the national average in . the region has industries specialising in particular areas, including food processing and vehicles in foggia; footwear and textiles in the barletta area, and wood and furniture in the murge area to the west.[ ] between and the economy of apulia expanded more than that of the rest of southern italy.[ ] such growth, over several decades, is a severe challenge to the hydrogeological system.[ ] apulia's thriving economy is articulated into numerous sectors boasting several leading companies: aerospace (sitael, blackshape, leonardo s.p.a.); agriculture (casillo group, g.c. partecipazioni), automotive (getrag, a subsidiary of magna international); food and beverage (de carlo, divella, quarta caffé); furniture (natuzzi); ict (exprivia); mechanics (isotta fraschini motori, mermec); publishing (laterza, edizioni dedalo), tourism (nicolaus tour), logistics (gts rail). unemployment[edit] the unemployment rate stood at . % in and was higher than the national average.[ ] 	year 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	unemployment rate (in %) 	 . % 	 . % 	 . % 	 . % 	 . % 	 . % 	 . % 	 . % 	 . % 	 . % 	 . % 	 . % 	 % olive cultivars[edit] there are an estimated to million olive trees in apulia, and the region accounts for % of italy's olive oil production. there are four specific protected designation of origin (pdo) covering the whole region.[ ] olive varieties include: baresane, biancolilla, brandofino (castiglione), buscionetto (biancolilla), carolea, cellina di nardò, cerasuola (ogliara), cerignola (bella di cerignola), cima di bitonto, cima di mola, coratina,[ ] also grown in corning, ca., a gold medal new york international olive oil competition (nyiooc) winner,[ ] frantoio, garganica, la minuta, leccino, moresca, nocellara etnea, nocellara messinese, ogliarola, ogliarola barese, ogliara messinese, ottobratica, peranzana that is produced as "certified ultra-premium extra virgin olive oil",[ ] rotondella, santagatese, saracena, tonda iblea, and verdello (subspecies of san benedetto).[ ][ ] xylella fastidiosa disease[edit] since the years - , the olive oil industry in apulia is under threat from the pathogen xylella fastidiosa, a disease which inhibits the uptake of water and nutrients by the trees. the epicenter of the epidemic in the region is its south-eastern part. transport[edit] the region has a good network of roads, but the railway network is less comprehensive, particularly in the south.[ ] the region is crossed northwest to southeast by the a highway (bologna–taranto), which connects the region capital, bari, to taranto, the second most populous city in the region. the a also connects foggia and points further north along the adriatic coast to pescara, ancona, rimini and eventually, bologna. the only other highway in the region is the a (napoli–canosa), which crosses the italian peninsula east–west and links the region with napoli. there are two international airports, karol wojtyla airport in bari (iata: bri) and brindisi airport (iata: bds), which serves as the principal logistical hub for the united nations global service center headquartered in brindisi. with the approval of a redevelopment project in , the grottaglie airfield (iata: tar) will host a spaceport for the italian space agency and virgin galactic. demographics[edit] historical population	year	pop.	±% 	 	 , , 	—     	 	 , , 	+ . % 	 	 , , 	+ . % 	 	 , , 	+ . % 	 	 , , 	+ . % 	 	 , , 	+ . % 	 	 , , 	+ . % 	 	 , , 	+ . % 	 	 , , 	+ . % 	 	 , , 	+ . % 	 	 , , 	+ . % 	 	 , , 	+ . % 	 	 , , 	+ . % 	 	 , , 	− . % 	 	 , , 	+ . % 	 	 , , 	− . % 	source: istat emigration from the region's depressed areas to northern italy and the rest of europe was very intense in the years between and . subsequently, the trend declined, as economic conditions improved, to the point where there was net immigration in the years between and . since the stagnation in employment has led to a new inversion of the trend, caused by a decrease in immigration.[ ] government and politics[edit] main article: politics of apulia since june , former judge and mayor of bari, michele emiliano of the democratic party has served as president of the apulian region.[ ][ ] culture[edit] cuisine[edit] main article: apulian cuisine cuisine plays an important role throughout apulia. the key locally produced ingredients used there include olive oil, artichokes, tomatoes, aubergine, asparagus, and mushrooms.[ ] in summer it is very common to use also the carosello, a variety of muskmelon which is often consumed in an immature state. several pdo and pgi products are made in apulia; among can be found some types of cheese like the canestrato pugliese pdo and burrata di andria pgi, of olive oil like the collina di brindisi pdo, dauno pdo, terra d'otranto pdo, terre tarentine pdo and terra di bari pdo, some fruits and vegetables like the arancia del gargano pgi, carciofo brindisino pgi, cipolla bianca di margherita pgi, clementine del golfo di taranto pgi, la bella della daunia pdo, limone femminello del gargano pgi, patata novella di galatina pgi and uva di puglia pgi. moreover, also a type of bread, pane di altamura pdo and a legume called lenticchia di altamura pgi are present in the list. sagre food festivals[edit] apulia’s sagre festivals show off regional specialities and local culture. while not unique to apulia - sagre food festivals are one of italy’s best kept food secrets[ ] - food is an integral part of the region’s identity and these are intensely social occasions where you can feast side by side with locals.[ ] language[edit] as with the other regions of italy, the national language (since ) is italian. however, because of its long and varied history, other historical languages have been used in this region for centuries. in isolated pockets of the southern part of salento, a dialect of greek called griko is still spoken by a few thousand people.[ ] in addition, rare dialects of the franco-provençal language called faetar and the closely related cellese are spoken by a dwindling number of individuals in the mountain villages of faeto and celle di san vito, in the province of foggia.[ ] the arbëreshë dialect of the albanian language has been spoken by a small community since refugees settled there in the th century.[ ] lgbt culture[edit] apulia is known for its tolerance and openness. for many years it has been a major holiday destination for the italian gay population.[ ] long, hot summers, a diverse coastline of sandy beaches punctuated with rocky shelves and coves, surrounded by warm, azure seas and a vibrant nightlife means apulia now draws an international gay crowd over the summer months.[ ] a gay scene has developed around the southern salento town of gallipoli and the nearby lidos at baia verde, with visitors also being drawn by the secluded naturist beaches around the region, most famously at torre guaceto and at d’ayala beach campomarino. both have dedicated gay sections. the region has three annual pride parades, including salento pride. see also[edit] 	daunian mountains 	gargano 	iapygians 	messapians 	sacra corona unita 	salento 	tavoliere delle puglie 	terra d'otranto 	trullo notes[edit] 	^ also: neapolitan: 	barese: púgghie [ˈpuɟːə] 	foggiano: puie 	tarantino: puje [ˈpuːjə] sicilian: 	salentino: puia [ˈpuːja] francoprovençal: poulye [ˈpujə, ˈpuʎə]. references[edit] 	^ "regional gross domestic product by nuts regions - million". eurostat. archived from the original on november . retrieved september . 	^ "regional gdp per capita ranged from % to % of the eu average in " (press release). ec.europa.eu. retrieved september . 	^ "sub-national hdi - area database - global data lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. archived from the original on september . retrieved september . 	^ "introducing puglia". lonely planet. archived from the original on july . retrieved july . 	^ "holiday guide to puglia, southern italy: the best towns, restaurants and hotels". the guardian. guardian media group. july . archived from the original on november . retrieved november . 	^ elizabeth a. fisher, the mycenaeans and apulia. an examination of aegean bronze age contacts with apulia in eastern magna grecia, astrom, 	^ lombardo, m. 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wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	anthony alsop 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 anthony alsop was born about and died in winchester on june . he was a clergyman and neo-latin poet who sided with the tory party at the end of the stuart era. his poetry was admired at the time but was eventually forgotten until a recent interest in such work brought him to notice again. contents 	 life 	 poetry 	 references 	 external links life[edit] alsop was born at darley dale in derbyshire and educated at westminster school. going on to christ church, oxford, in , he took the degrees of bachelor of arts in and master of arts in . while there he gained a reputation for his elegant latin verse, some of it produced for public university occasions, some for private circulation, and some jacobite in spirit. his speciality was the witty verse epistle, most often using the sapphic stanza. in alsop edited a selection of aesop’s fables in latin verse, fabularum aesopicarum delectus.[ ] it contains fables in latin, with the original greek of the first , the hebrew of the next , the arabic of the next , whilst the other are in latin only. two of his satirical epistles on oxford figures were printed in broadsheet form in , the year in which he gained the degree of bachelor of divinity and through patronage was made a prebendary at winchester cathedral, with the rectory of brightwell in berkshire. after alsop married in , he was sued for breach of promise by his mistress and, having lost the case, had to flee abroad for a while. he died in an accident at his home in with the reputation of an agreeable and witty companion, a learned preacher and a fine lyric poet, although his loose manner of living and sometimes bawdy verse had kept him confined to a small circle of admirers. poetry[edit] alsop left many latin odes in manuscript which were published in by his stepson francis bernard as antonii alsopi, aedis christi olim alumni, odarum libri duo. in the introduction it is claimed that the author was "esteemed inferior only to his master horace," a judgment that alexander pope seems to second in his line in the dunciad, "[let] alsop never but like horace joke" (iv. ). in addition alsop published some slight poems in english in magazines, of which four addresses to "chlorinda" appeared in robert dodsley’s collection of poems in six volumes ( ).[ ] the humorous nature of his latin writing can be gained from some of the personal epistles he wrote. that written to the aristocratic archdeacon henry bridges in contains the satirical advice to trim his high church religious views to those of the new hanoverian establishment: 		be wise at last, and learn those skills 	by which to be accounted great and good. 	let the pattern of worship be everywhere free, 	unconfined by law; 		let each have his own faith and mind, 	under no leader or guidance, for who can 	bear the imperious yoke of the clergy, 	or priestly control?"[ ] another to the lawyer joseph taylor begins with a horatian invitation to supper but then playfully adapts the latin to the contemporary situation of enjoying smuggled goods: "i have a little bottle of wine (vasculum bacchi), brought by a friendly ship, without the knowledge of the customs officer (clam quaestore)."[ ] another poem warns him of the tedious and expensive process of bribing his way into parliament, when "you must furrow your way through a great ocean of liquor, many clouds of smoke must pour out and a perpetual flow of ale."[ ] the two books of alsop's odes was not reprinted and he was forgotten until a biographical and critical study of him, with a modern edition of the latin and english poems, was published in .[ ] references[edit] 	^ google books 	^ vol. , pp. - 	^ lines - 	^ lines - 	^ the oxford handbook of neo-latin ( ), pp. - 	^ d. k. money, the english horace: anthony alsop and the tradition of british latin verse, oxford university . biographical details are chiefly taken from two sources. 	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	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 	 	other countries 		v 	t 	e the king of rome (latin: rex romae) was the chief magistrate of the roman kingdom.[ ] according to legend, the first king of rome was romulus, who founded the city in bc upon the palatine hill. seven legendary kings are said to have ruled rome until bc, when the last king was overthrown. these kings ruled for an average of years. the kings after romulus were not known to be dynasts and no reference is made to the hereditary principle until after the fifth king tarquinius priscus. consequently, some have assumed that the tarquins and their attempt to institute a hereditary monarchy over this conjectured earlier elective monarchy resulted in the formation of the republic. contents 	 overview 	 . chief executive 	 . chief judge 	 . chief legislator 	 election 	 kings of rome ( – bc) 	 during the republic 	 see also 	 references 	 external links overview[edit] early rome was not self-governing, and was ruled by the king (rex). the king possessed absolute power over the people. the senate was a weak oligarchy, capable of exercising only minor administrative powers, so that rome was ruled by its king who was in effect an absolute monarch. the senate's main function was to carry out and administer the wishes of the king. after romulus, rome's first legendary king, roman kings were elected by the people of rome, sitting as a curiate assembly, who voted on the candidate that had been nominated by a chosen member of the senate called an interrex. candidates for the throne could be chosen from any source. for example, one such candidate, lucius tarquinius priscus, was originally a citizen and migrant from a neighboring etruscan city-state. the people of rome, sitting as the curiate assembly, could then either accept or reject the nominated candidate-king. the insignia of the king was twelve lictors wielding the fasces, a throne of a curule chair, the purple toga picta, red shoes, and a white diadem around the head. only the king could wear a purple toga.[citation needed] the supreme power of the state was vested in the rex, whose position gave the following powers: chief executive[edit] beyond his religious authority, the king was invested with the supreme military, executive, and judicial authority through the use of imperium. the imperium of the king was held for life and protected him from ever being brought to trial for his actions. as the sole holder of imperium in rome at the time, the king possessed ultimate executive power and unchecked military authority as the commander-in-chief of all rome's legions. his executive power and his sole imperium allowed him to issue decrees with the force of law. also, the laws that kept citizens safe from the misuse of magistrates holding imperium did not exist during the time of the kings. the king was also empowered to appoint or nominate all officeholders. the king would appoint a tribunus celerum to serve both as the tribune of ramnes tribe in rome and also as the commander of the king's personal bodyguard, the celeres. the king was required to appoint the tribune upon entering office, and the tribune left office upon the king's death. the tribune was second in rank to the king and also possessed the power to convene the curiate assembly and lay legislation before it. another officer appointed by the king was the praefectus urbi, who acted as the warden of the city. when the king was absent from the city, the prefect held all of the king's powers, even to the point of being bestowed with imperium while inside the city. the king was the sole person empowered to appoint patricians to the senate. chief judge[edit] the king's imperium granted him both military powers as well as qualified him to pronounce legal judgment in all cases as the chief justice of rome. although he could assign pontiffs to act as minor judges in some cases, he had supreme authority in all cases brought before him, both civil and criminal. this made the king supreme in times of both war and peace. while some writers believed there was no appeal from the king's decisions, others believed that a proposal for appeal could be brought before the king by any patrician during a meeting of the curiate assembly. to assist the king, a council advised the king during all trials, but this council had no power to control the king's decisions. also, two criminal detectives (quaestores parridici) were appointed by him as well as a two-man criminal court (duumviri perduellionis) which oversaw for cases of treason. chief legislator[edit] under the kings, the senate and curiate assembly had very little power and authority; they were not independent bodies in that they possessed the right to meet together and discuss questions of state. they could only be called together by the king and could only discuss the matters the king laid before them. while the curiate assembly did have the power to pass laws that had been submitted by the king, the senate was effectively an honorable council. it could advise the king on his action but, by no means, could prevent him from acting. the only thing that the king could not do without the approval of the senate and curiate assembly was to declare war against a foreign nation. these issues effectively allowed the king to more or less rule by decree with the exception of the above-mentioned affairs. election[edit] whenever a roman king died, rome entered a period of interregnum. supreme power in the state would be devolved to the senate, which had the task of finding a new king. the senate would assemble and appoint one of its own members as the interrex to serve for a period of five days with the sole purpose of nominating the next king of rome. after the five-day period, the interrex would appoint (with the senate's consent) another senator for another five-day term. this process would continue until the election of a new king. once the interrex found a suitable nominee for the kingship, he would bring the nominee before the senate and the senate would examine him.[citation needed] if the senate confirmed the nomination, the interrex would convene the curiate assembly and preside as its chairman during the election of the king. once a candidate was proposed to the curiate assembly, the people of rome could either accept or reject the king-elect. if accepted, the king-elect did not immediately take office: two additional acts had to take place before he was invested with the full regal authority and power. first, it was necessary to obtain the divine will of the gods respecting his appointment by means of the auspices, since the king would serve as high priest of rome. an augur performed this ceremony by conducting the king-elect to the citadel where he was placed on a stone seat as the people waited below. if the king-elect was found worthy of the kingship, the augur announced that the gods had given favourable tokens, thus confirming the king-elect’s priestly character. second the imperium had to be conferred upon the king. the curiate assembly's vote only determined who was to be king, but that act did not bestow the powers of the king upon him. accordingly, the king himself proposed to the curiate assembly a bill granting him imperium, and the curiate assembly, by voting in favour of the law, would grant it. in theory, the people of rome elected their leader, but the senate had most of the control over the process. kings of rome ( – bc)[edit] since rome's records were destroyed in bc when the city was sacked, it is impossible to know for certain how many kings actually ruled the city, or if any of the deeds attributed to the individual kings, by later writers, are accurate.[citation needed] titus tatius, king of the sabines, was also joint king of rome with romulus for five years, until his death. however he is not traditionally counted among the seven kings of rome. 	portrait 	name 	lifespan 	reign began 	reign ended 	succession 		romulus romvlvs rex	c. – bc (aged )	 bc	 bc	proclaimed himself king after murdering his brother, remus. 		numa pompilius nvma pompilivs rex	 – bc (aged )	 bc	 bc	elected king by the curiate assembly, after the death of romulus. brother in law of romulus.[ ] 		tullus hostilius tvllvs hostilivs rex	? – bc	 bc	 bc	elected king by the curiate assembly, after the death of numa pompilius. 		ancus marcius ancvs marcivs rex	c. – bc	 bc	 bc	son in law of tullus hostilius,[ ] grandson of numa pompilius; five years old at the time of his grandfather's death,[ ] he was elected king by the curiate assembly after the death of tullus hostilius. 		lucius tarquinius priscus lvcivs tarqvinivs priscvs rex	? – bc	 bc	 bc	after the death of ancus marcius, he became regent due to marcius' sons being too young, but was soon elected king by the curiate assembly. he was the first etruscan king, and was originally known as lucumo. 		servius tullius servivs tvllivs rex	? – bc	 bc	 bc	son in law of lucius tarquinius priscus.[ ] he seized the kingship after ancus' sons had tarquinius priscus assassinated under the guise that he was merely filling in while the king was recovering. 		lucius tarquinius superbus lvcivs tarqvinivs svperbvs rex	? – bc	 bc	 bc	son or grandson of lucius tarquinius priscus; seized the kingship after the assassination of servius tullius which he and his wife (daughter of tullius) helped orchestrate. during the republic[edit] family relations main article: roman republic the overthrow of the roman monarchy of tarquinius superbus led to a limited separation of the powers mentioned above. the actual title of king was retained for the rex sacrorum, who formally remained rome's first priest. he was forbidden any political or military career, except for a seat in the senate. however, the roman desire to prevent the kingship from becoming important went so far that, even in the area of religion, the king of sacrifices was formally, in all but protocol, subordinated to the first of the pontiffs, the pontifex maximus (whose position in origin, rather than with the name of priest, is better described as "minister of religion"), to the extent that at some point in history, the regia or royal palace at the forum romanum, originally inhabited by the king of sacrifices,[ ] was ceded to the pontifex maximus.[ ] significantly enough, one of his major public appearances was at the festival of regifugium, where he impersonated the king being thrown out of the city. further, the consuls retained religious roles which were considered so important that the office of interrex was retained for the opening prayer of "electional" assemblies in the event that both consuls died in office, and the ritual of driving a nail into the temple of jupiter sometimes even induced a dictatorship.[clarification needed] the rex sacrorum was not elected publicly, but chosen by the pontifical college. the king of sacrifices retained some religious rites only he could perform, and acted as quasi-flamen to janus. the position seems to have continued in existence until the official adoption of the christian religion. to qualify for the office, patrician ancestry was necessary; however it was once performed by a member of a family otherwise known as plebeian, the marcii, earning for himself and his descendants the cognomen rex. as has been mentioned, the administrative functions in religion, including at some point the housing in the ancient royal court, were ceded to the supreme pontiff. in the late republic, the previous role of the king in choosing new senators and dismissing people from the senate was ceded to the censors. however, the role of choosing senators became rather limited as all magistrates down to the rank of quaestor eventually gained admission to the senate after the office's expiration. the modern concept of a head of state, insofar as the republican times excepting the dictatorships are concerned, can hardly be translated to roman conceptions[clarification needed], but most other powers—the imperium—were ceded to the consuls (the etymology suggests that these were originally the king's chief counsellors) and to the praetors ("leaders")[ ] after the creation of that office (about , according to livy); thereby at least roughly separating the judiciary from the executive. according to tradition (which is disputed by historians for the first decades), the consulate was always entrusted to two persons to prevent autocracy. in case of emergencies, the power to appoint a dictator for a six-month term was introduced. later, proconsuls and propraetors could be given an imperium by appointment of the senate. whoever used the imperium to victoriously lead an army could acquire the title of imperator, which later became chief title of the emperors, who were formally included in the system as proconsuls over most (and the strategically most important) parts of the empire, chief senators, and popular tribunes without the title. the republican idea that all promagisterial imperium ends upon entering the city was not observed in the emperors' case. at the same time, the legislation was practically passed from the curiate assembly to the centuriate assembly (and tribal assembly), with the exception of the formality, more or less, of a lex curiata de imperio, which ratified the elections of the previous centuriate assembly. the consuls did, however, retain the power to rule by ordinance. see also[edit] 	roman emperor 	pompilia gens 	hostilia gens 	marcia gens 	tullia gens 	tarquinia gens references[edit] 	^ outline of roman history william c. morey, ph.d., d.c.l. new york, cincinnati, chicago: american book company ( ) 	^ romulus had a wife, hersilia, whose sister, tatia, married numa. they were both the daughters of titus tatius, king of the sabines 	^ married his daughter, hostilia 	^ plutach's parallel lives vol. p. 	^ livy, ab urbe condita, . . 	^ gary forsythe, a critical history of early rome: from prehistory to the first punic war (university of california press, ), p. online. 	^ it is well known that caesar inhabited it. 	^ before the formal establishment of the office of praetor below the consulate, this was at least another generic name, and quite possibly another title, of the consuls, cf. the names "praetorium" for the military leader's tent etc. external links[edit] 	roman empire.net: the kings 	historywiz.com: the etruscan kings 	 	v 	t 	e kings of rome 	 	romulus ( – bc) 	numa pompilius ( – bc) 	tullus hostilius ( – bc) 	ancus marcius ( – bc) 	lucius tarquinius priscus ( – bc) 	servius tullius ( – bc) 	lucius tarquinius superbus ( – bc/ bc) 	 	v 	t 	e list of historic states of italy 	etruscan civilization	 	lega dei popoli 	etruscan dodecapolis 	ancient rome	 	roman kingdom ( bc– bc) 	roman republic ( bc– bc) 	italy ( th/ rd century bc– ad) 	sicilia ( bc– ad) 	corsica and sardinia ( bc– ad) 	roman empire ( bc– 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(d. ad ) was a roman lyric poet who lived in the reign of nero.[ ] he was the intimate friend of persius, who dedicated his sixth satire to him, and whose works he edited (schol. on persius, vi. i). he had a great reputation as a poet; quintilian (instit. x. i. ) goes so far as to say that with the exception of horace, he was the only lyric poet worth reading. he is also identified with the author of a treatise de metris of which considerable fragments, probably of an abbreviated edition, are extant (ed. keil, ).[ ] the work was probably originally in verse, and afterwards recast or epitomized in prose form to be used as an instruction book. an account of some of the metres of horace (in keil, grammatici latini, vi. ), bearing the title ars caesii bassi de metris is not by him but chiefly borrowed by its unknown author, from the treatise mentioned above. he is said to have lost his life in the eruption of vesuvius in ad and to have been the husband of rectina. references[edit] 	^ epic 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	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 antioch - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	antioch 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		ancient city in turkey for other places with the same name, see antioch (disambiguation). this article is about the historical city. for the modern city, see antakya. antioch on the orontes	Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου (in ancient greek) 	map of antioch in roman and early byzantine times 	 shown within turkey 	alternative name	syrian antioch 	location	antakya, hatay province, turkey 	coordinates	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; . coordinates: ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; . 	type	settlement 	area	  km ( .  sq mi) 	history 	builder	seleucus i nicator 	founded	  bc 	periods	hellenistic to medieval 	cultures	greek, roman, armenian, arab, turkish 	events	first crusade 	site notes 	excavation dates	 – 	condition	mostly buried antioch on the orontes (/ˈænti.ɒk/; ancient greek: Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου, antiókheia hē epì oróntou; also syrian antioch)[note ] was an ancient greek city[ ] on the eastern side of the orontes river. its ruins lie near the current city of antakya, turkey, to which the ancient city lends its name. antioch was founded near the end of the fourth century bc by seleucus i nicator, one of alexander the great's generals. the city's geographical, military, and economic location benefited its occupants, particularly such features as the spice trade, the silk road, and the royal road. it eventually rivaled alexandria as the chief city of the near east. the city was the capital of the seleucid empire until bc, when the romans took control, making it the seat of the governor of the province of syria. from the early fourth century, the city was the seat of the count of the orient, head of the regional administration of sixteen provinces.[citation needed] it was also the main center of hellenistic judaism at the end of the second temple period. antioch was one of the most important cities in the eastern mediterranean half of the roman empire. it covered almost , acres ( .  km ) within the walls of which one quarter was mountain, leaving acres ( .  km ) about one-fifth the area of rome within the aurelian walls. antioch was called "the cradle of christianity" as a result of its longevity and the pivotal role that it played in the emergence of both hellenistic judaism and early christianity.[ ] the christian new testament asserts that the name "christian" first emerged in antioch.[ ] it was one of the four cities of seleucis of syria, and its residents were known as antiochenes. the city may have had up to , people during augustan times,[ ] but it declined to relative insignificance during the middle ages because of warfare, repeated earthquakes, and a change in trade routes, which no longer passed through antioch from the far east following the mongol invasions and conquests. contents 	 geography 	 history 	 . prehistory 	 . foundation by seleucus i 	 . hellenistic age 	 . roman period 	 . . age of julian and valens 	 . . christianity 	 . . theodosius and after 	 . . arab conquest and byzantine reconquest 	 . crusader era 	 . . second crusade 	 . . after the second crusade 	 . . third crusade 	 . . battles for sovereignty 	 . . fifth crusade and afterwards 	 . . fall of antioch 	 archaeology 	 notable people 	 see also 	 references and sources 	 . notes 	 . references 	 . sources 	 external links geography[edit] two routes from the mediterranean sea, lying through the orontes river gorge and the belen pass, converge in the plain of the antioch lake, now called lake amik, and are met there by 	the road from the amanian gate (baghche pass) and western kingdom of commagene, which descends the valley of the karasu to the afrin river 	the roads from eastern commagene and the euphratean crossings at samosata (now samsat) and apamea zeugma (birejik), which descend the valleys of the afrin and the queiq, and 	the road from the euphratean ford at thapsacus, which skirts the fringe of the syrian steppe. a single route proceeds south in the orontes valley.[ ] history[edit] king Šuppiluliuma of patina/unqi, ca. bce in hatay archaeology museum an artifact from the middle and late bronze age, – bc in hatay archaeology museum prehistory[edit] the settlement called meroe pre-dated antioch. a shrine of the semitic goddess anat, called by herodotus the "persian artemis", was located here. this site was included in the eastern suburbs of antioch. there was a village on the spur of mount silpius named io, or iopolis. this name was always adduced as evidence by antiochenes (e.g. libanius) anxious to affiliate themselves to the attic ionians—an eagerness which is illustrated by the athenian types used on the city's coins. io may have been a small early colony of trading greeks (javan). john malalas also mentions an archaic village, bottia, in the plain by the river.[ ] foundation by seleucus i[edit] alexander the great is said to have camped on the site of antioch and dedicated an altar to zeus bottiaeus; it lay in the northwest of the future city.[ ] this account is found only in the writings of libanius, a fourth-century orator from antioch,[ ] and may be legend intended to enhance antioch's status. but the story is not unlikely in itself.[ ] after alexander's death in  bc, his generals, the diadochi, divided up the territory he had conquered. after the battle of ipsus in bc, seleucus i nicator won the territory of syria, and he proceeded to found four "sister cities" in northwestern syria, one of which was antioch, a city named in honor of his father antiochus;[ ] according to the suda, it might be named after his son antiochus.[ ] he is reputed to have built sixteen antiochs.[ ] seleucus founded antioch on a site chosen through ritual means. an eagle, the bird of zeus, had been given a piece of sacrificial meat and the city was founded on the site to which the eagle carried the offering. seleucus did this on the nd day of the month of artemísios in the twelfth year of his reign, equivalent to may bc.[ ] antioch soon rose above seleucia pieria to become the syrian capital. mosaic of eros standing on the wings of two psyches and whipping them on in hatay archaeology museum dionysus mosaic in hatay archaeology museum hellenistic age[edit] the original city of seleucus was laid out in imitation of the grid plan of alexandria by the architect xenarius. libanius describes the first building and arrangement of this city (i. p.  . ). the citadel was on mount silpius and the city lay mainly on the low ground to the north, fringing the river. two great colonnaded streets intersected in the centre. shortly afterwards a second quarter was laid out, probably on the east and by antiochus i soter, which, from an expression of strabo, appears to have been the native, as contrasted with the greek, town. it was enclosed by a wall of its own.[ ] in the orontes, north of the city, lay a large island, and on this seleucus ii callinicus began a third walled "city", which was finished by antiochus iii the great. a fourth and last quarter was added by antiochus iv epiphanes ( –  bc); thenceforth antioch was known as tetrapolis. from west to east the whole was about kilometres ( miles) in diameter and a little less from north to south. this area included many large gardens.[ ] the new city was populated by a mix of local settlers that athenians brought from the nearby city of antigonia, macedonians, and jews (who were given full status from the beginning). the total free population of antioch at its foundation has been estimated at between , and , , not including slaves and native settlers.[ ] during the late hellenistic period and early roman period, antioch's population reached its peak of over , inhabitants (estimates generally are , – , ) and was the third largest city in the empire after rome and alexandria. in the second half of the th century libanius gives the figure , and john chrysostom, , (without children and slaves counted).[ ] about kilometres ( miles) west and beyond the suburb heraclea lay the paradise of daphne, a park of woods and waters, in the midst of which rose a great temple to the pythian apollo, also founded by seleucus i and enriched with a cult-statue of the god, as musagetes, by bryaxis. a companion sanctuary of hecate was constructed underground by diocletian. the beauty and the lax morals of daphne were celebrated all over the western world; and indeed antioch as a whole shared in both these titles to fame.[ ] antioch became the capital and court-city of the western seleucid empire under antiochus i, its counterpart in the east being seleucia; but its paramount importance dates from the battle of ancyra (  bc), which shifted the seleucid centre of gravity from anatolia, and led indirectly to the rise of pergamon.[ ] the seleucids reigned from antioch. we know little of it in the hellenistic period, apart from syria, all our information coming from authors of the late roman time. among its great greek buildings we hear only of the theatre, of which substructures still remain on the flank of silpius, and of the royal palace, probably situated on the island. it enjoyed a reputation for being "a populous city, full of most erudite men and rich in the most liberal studies",[ ] but the only names of distinction in these pursuits during the seleucid period that have come down to us are apollophanes, the stoic, and one phoebus, a writer on dreams. the nicknames which they gave to their later kings were aramaic; and, except apollo and daphne, the great divinities of north syria seem to have remained essentially native, such as the "persian artemis" of meroe and atargatis of hierapolis bambyce.[ ] the epithet "golden" suggests that the external appearance of antioch was impressive, but the city needed constant restoration owing to the seismic disturbances to which the district has always been subjected. the first great earthquake in recorded history was related by the native chronicler john malalas. it occurred in  bc and did immense damage.[ ][ ] local politics were turbulent. in the many dissensions of the seleucid house the population took sides, and frequently rose in rebellion, for example against alexander balas in  bc, and demetrius ii nicator in  bc. the latter, enlisting a body of jews, punished his capital with fire and sword. in the last struggles of the seleucid house, antioch turned against its feeble rulers, invited tigranes the great to occupy the city in  bc, tried to unseat antiochus xiii asiaticus in  bc, and petitioned rome against his restoration in the following year. antioch's wish prevailed, and it passed with syria to the roman republic in  bc, but remained a civitas libera.[ ] roman period[edit] ancient roman road located in syria which connected antioch and chalcis. this argenteus was struck in the antioch mint, under constantius chlorus. rare domitian tetradrachm struck in the antioch mint. only known examples. note the realist portrait, typical of the antioch mint. a greek rider seizes a mounted amazonian warrior (armed with a double-headed axe) by her phrygian cap; roman mosaic emblema (marble and limestone), nd half of the th century ad; from daphne, a suburb of antioch-on-the-orontes (now antakya in turkey) the roman emperors favored the city from the first moments, seeing it as a more suitable capital for the eastern part of the empire than alexandria could be, because of the isolated position of egypt. to a certain extent they tried to make it an eastern rome. julius caesar visited it in  bc, and confirmed its freedom. a great temple to jupiter capitolinus rose on silpius, probably at the insistence of octavian, whose cause the city had espoused. a forum of roman type was laid out. tiberius built two long colonnades on the south towards silpius.[ ] agrippa and tiberius enlarged the theatre, and trajan finished their work. antoninus pius paved the great east to west artery with granite. a circus, other colonnades and great numbers of baths were built, and new aqueducts to supply them bore the names of caesars, the finest being the work of hadrian. the roman client, king herod (most likely the great builder herod the great), erected a long stoa on the east, and agrippa (c. –  bc) encouraged the growth of a new suburb south of this.[ ] one of the most famous urban additions to antioch, done by the romans probably under augustus when the city had more than half a million inhabitants, was the circus of antioch: it was a roman hippodrome. used for chariot racing, it was modelled on the circus maximus in rome and other circus buildings throughout the empire. measuring more than metres ( , feet) in length and metres ( feet) of width,[ ] the circus could house up to , spectators. zarmanochegas (zarmarus) a monk of the sramana tradition of india, according to strabo and dio cassius, met nicholas of damascus in antioch around  ad as part of a mission to augustus.[ ][ ] at antioch germanicus died in  ad, and his body was burnt in the forum.[ ] an earthquake that shook antioch in ad caused the emperor caligula to send two senators to report on the condition of the city. another quake followed in the next reign.[ ] titus set up the cherubim, captured from the jewish temple, over one of the gates.[ ] in ad, during trajan's travel there during his war against parthia, the whole site was convulsed by a huge earthquake. the landscape altered, and the emperor himself was forced to take shelter in the circus for several days.[ ] he and his successor restored the city, but the population was reduced to less than , inhabitants and many sections of the city were abandoned. commodus (r. – ad) had olympic games celebrated at antioch.[ ] the antioch chalice, first half of th century, metropolitan museum of art. in ad, the town was suddenly raided by the persians under shapur i, and many of the people were slain in the theatre.[ ] it was recaptured by the roman emperor valerian the following year. age of julian and valens[edit] when the emperor julian visited in on a detour to persia, he had high hopes for antioch, regarding it as a rival to the imperial capital of constantinople. antioch had a mixed pagan and christian population, which ammianus marcellinus implies lived quite harmoniously together. however julian's visit began ominously as it coincided with a lament for adonis, the doomed lover of aphrodite. thus, ammianus wrote, the emperor and his soldiers entered the city not to the sound of cheers but to wailing and screaming. after being advised that the bones of rd-century martyred bishop babylas were suppressing the oracle of apollo at daphne,[ ] he made a public-relations mistake in ordering the removal of the bones from the vicinity of the temple. the result was a massive christian procession. shortly after that, when the temple was destroyed by fire, julian suspected the christians and ordered stricter investigations than usual. he also shut up the chief christian church of the city, before the investigations proved that the fire was the result of an accident.[ ][ ] julian found much else about which to criticize the antiochene; julian had wanted the empire's cities to be more self-managing, as they had been some  years before. however antioch's city councilmen showed themselves unwilling to shore up antioch's food shortage with their own resources, so dependent were they on the emperor. ammianus wrote that the councilmen shirked their duties by bribing unwitting men in the marketplace to do the job for them. the city's impiety to the old religion was clear to julian when he attended the city's annual feast of apollo. to his surprise and dismay the only antiochene present was an old priest clutching a goose. the antiochenes in turn hated julian for worsening the food shortage with the burden of his billeted troops, wrote ammianus. the soldiers were often to be found gorged on sacrificial meat, making a drunken nuisance of themselves on the streets while antioch's hungry citizens looked on in disgust. the christian antiochenes and julian's pagan gallic soldiers also never quite saw eye to eye. even julian's piety was distasteful to the antiochenes even to those who kept the old religion. julian's brand of paganism was very much unique to himself, with little support outside the most educated neoplatonist circles. the irony of julian's enthusiasm for large scale animal sacrifice could not have escaped the hungry antiochenes. julian gained no admiration for his personal involvement in the sacrifices, only the nickname axeman, wrote ammianus. the emperor's high-handed, severe methods and his rigid administration prompted antiochene lampoons about, among other things, julian's unfashionably pointed beard.[ ] julian's successor, valens, who endowed antioch with a new forum, including a statue of valentinian on a central column, reopened the great church of constantine, which stood until the persian sack in , by chosroes.[ ] christianity[edit] antioch was a chief center of early christianity during roman times.[ ] the city had a large population of jewish origin in a quarter called the kerateion, and so attracted the earliest missionaries.[ ] evangelized, among others, by peter himself, according to the tradition upon which the patriarch of antioch[citation needed] still rests its claim for primacy,[ ] and certainly later[ ] by barnabas and paul during paul's first missionary journey. its converts were the first to be called christians.[ ] this is not to be confused with antioch in pisidia, to which the early missionaries later travelled.[ ] surrounding the city were a number of greek, syrian, armenian, and latin monasteries.[ ] a bronze coin from antioch depicting the emperor julian. note the pointed beard. the christian population was estimated by chrysostom at about , people at the time of theodosius i. between and ad, ten assemblies of the church were held at antioch and it became the seat of one of the five original patriarchates,[ ] along with constantinople, jerusalem, alexandria, and rome (see pentarchy). the maronite catholic church's patriarch is called the patriarch of antioch and all the east. he currently resides in bkerke - lebanon. the maronites continue the antiochene liturgical tradition and the use of the syrian-aramaic (syro-aramaic or western aramaic) language in their liturgies.[ ][circular reference] one of the canonical eastern orthodox churches is still called the greek orthodox church of antioch, although it moved its headquarters from antioch to damascus, syria, several centuries ago (see list of patriarchs of antioch), and its prime bishop retains the title "patriarch of antioch", somewhat analogous to the manner in which several popes, heads of the roman catholic church remained "bishop of rome" even while residing in avignon, france in the th century. syriac orthodox patriarchate of antioch and all the east, is an oriental orthodox church with autocephalous patriarchate founded by saint peter and saint paul in the st century, according to its tradition. the syriac orthodox church is part of oriental orthodoxy, a distinct communion of churches claiming to continue the patristic and apostolic christology before the schism following the council of chalcedon in . theodosius and after[edit] in ad, there was a great sedition caused by a new tax levied by order of theodosius i, and the city was punished by the loss of its metropolitan status.[ ] he divided the roman empire, and since then antioch was under constantinople's rule. the peutinger map showing antioch, alexandria and seleucia in the th century. antioch and its port, seleucia pieria, were severely damaged by the great earthquake of . seleucia pieria, which was already fighting a losing battle against continual silting, never recovered.[ ] justinian i renamed antioch theopolis ("city of god") and restored many of its public buildings, but the destructive work was completed by the persian king, khosrau i, twelve years later, who deported the population to a newly built city in persian mesopotamia, weh antiok khosrow. antioch lost as many as , people. justinian i made an effort to revive it, and procopius describes his repairing of the walls; but its glory was past.[ ] during the byzantine–sassanid war of – the emperor heraclius confronted the invading persian army of khosrow ii outside antioch in . the byzantines were defeated by forces under the generals shahrbaraz and shahin vahmanzadegan at the battle of antioch, after which the city fell to the sassanians, together with much of syria and eastern anatolia. antioch gave its name to a certain school of christian thought, distinguished by literal interpretation of the scriptures and insistence on the human limitations of jesus. diodorus of tarsus and theodore of mopsuestia were the leaders of this school. the principal local saint was simeon stylites, who lived an extremely ascetic life atop a pillar for  years some kilometres ( miles) east of antioch. his body was brought to the city and buried in a building erected under the emperor leo.[ ] arab conquest and byzantine reconquest[edit] byzantine recapture of antioch in the ramparts of antioch climbing mons silpius during the crusades (lower left on the map, above left) in , during the reign of the byzantine emperor heraclius, antioch was conquered by the rashidun caliphate during the battle of the iron bridge. the city became known in arabic as (arabic: أنطاكيّة‎, romanized: anṭākīyyah). since the umayyad dynasty was unable to penetrate the anatolian plateau, antioch found itself on the frontline of the conflicts between two hostile empires during the next  years, so that the city went into a precipitous decline. in , the city was recovered for the byzantine emperor nikephoros ii phokas by michael bourtzes and the stratopedarches peter. it soon became the seat of a doux, the civil governor of the homonymous theme, but also the seat of the somewhat more important domestic of the schools of the orient, the supreme military commander of the imperial forces on the eastern frontier. sometimes both offices were held by the same person, usually military officers such as nikephoros ouranos, or philaretos brachamios, who managed to retain the integrity of the eastern borderline after the seljuk conquest of anatolia. as the empire disintegrated rapidly before the komnenian restoration, dux of antioch & domestic of the schools of the east philaretos brachamios held the city until the seljuk turks captured it from him in . the sultanate of rum held it only fourteen years before the crusaders arrived. crusader era[edit] main article: principality of antioch see also: timeline of the principality of antioch the capture of antioch by bohemund of taranto in june . the crusaders' siege of antioch conquered the city in . at this time, the bulk of far eastern trade traveled through egypt, but in the second half of the th century nur ed-din and later saladin brought order to muslim syria, opening up long-distance trade routes, including to antioch and on to its new port, st symeon, which had replaced seleucia pieria. however, the mongol conquests of the th century altered the main trade routes from the far east, as they encouraged merchants to take the overland route through mongol territory to the black sea, reducing the prosperity of antioch.[ ] in , tancred became the regent of antioch after his uncle and predecessor bohemond i of antioch was taken prisoner for three years ( – ) by gazi gümüshtigin of the danishmends at the battle of melitene. tancred expanded the territory of antioch by conquering byzantine cilicia, tarsus, and adana in and founding the principality, byzantine latakia, in . in bohemond enraged by an earlier defeat when he, allianced with edessa, attacked aleppo, and baldwin of bourcq and joscelin of courtenay (bourcq's most powerful vassal) were briefly captured, as well as the byzantines recapturing of cilicia and the harbor and lower town of lattakieh, he renamed tancred as the regent of antioch and sailed for europe with the intent of gaining support for an attack against the greeks.[ ][ ] from to , bohemond led a 'crusade' against byzantium, with the latins crossing the adriatic in october and laying siege to the city of durrës (in modern albania), which is often regarded as the western gate of the greek empire. bohemond was outwitted by alexius, who deployed his forces to cut the invaders' supply lines whilst avoiding direct confrontation. the latins were weakened by hunger and proved unable to break the defenses of durrës. bohemond capitulated in september and was forced to accede to a peace accord, the treaty of devol. the terms of this agreement stipulated that bohemond was to hold antioch for the remainder of his life as the emperor's subject and the greek patriarch was to be restored to power in the city. however tancred refused to honor the treaty of devol in which bohemond swore an oath, and it is not until that it truly became a vassal state of the byzantine empire.[ ][ ] six months after the treaty of devol bohemond died, and tancred remained regent of antioch until his death during a typhoid epidemic in . after the death of tancred, the principality passed to roger of salerno, who helped rebuild antioch after an earthquake destroyed its foundations in . with the defeat of roger's crusading army and his death at the battle of ager sanguinis in the role of regent was assumed by baldwin ii of jerusalem, lasting until , with the exception from to when he was briefly captured by the artuqids and held captive alongside joscelin of courtenay. in bohemond ii arrived from apulia in order to gain regency over antioch. in february bohemond was lured into an ambush by leo i, prince of armenia who allied with the danishmend gazi gümüshtigin, and was killed in the subsequent battle, his head was then embalmed, placed in a silver box, and sent as a gift to the abbasid caliph in baghdad.[ ][ ] antioch was again ruled by a regency, firstly being baldwin ii, after his daughter and bohemond ii's wife, alice of antioch attempted to block baldwin from entering antioch, but failed when antiochene nobles such as fulk of jerusalem (alice's brother-in-law) opened up the gates for representatives of baldwin ii. alice was then expelled from antioch. with the death of balwin in , alice briefly took control of antioch and allied herself with pons of tripoli and joscelin ii of edessa in an attempt to prevent fulk, king of jerusalem from marching north in , however this attempt failed and fulk and pons fought a brief battle before peace was made and alice was exiled again. in the king chose raymond of poitiers as a groom for constance of antioch, daughter of bohemund ii of antioch and alice, princess of jerusalem.[ ] the marriage took place in between the -year-old raymond and the -year-old constance. immediately after assuming control, raymond was involved in conflicts with the byzantine emperor john ii comnenus who had come south to recover cilicia from leo of armenia, and to reassert his rights over antioch. the engagement lasted until when emperor john ii arrived with an army before the walls of antioch. although the basileus did not enter the city, his banner was raised atop the citadel and raymond was compelled to do homage. raymond agreed with the emperor that if he was capable of capturing aleppo, shaizar, and homs, he would exchange antioch for them.[ ] john went on to attack aleppo with the aid of antioch and edessa, and failed to capture it, with the franks withdrawing their support when he moved on to capture shaizar. john returned to antioch ahead of his army and entered antioch, only to be forced to leave when joscelin ii, count of edessa rallied the citizens to oust him. in john then returned but raymond refused to submit and john was forced to return to cilicia again due to the coming winter, to plan an attack the following season. however the emperor died on april , .[ ] second crusade[edit] the following year after the death of john ii comnenus, imad ad-din zengi lay siege to edessa, the crusader capital, and with the death of imad ad-din zengi in , he was succeeded by his son, nur ad-din zangi. zangi attacked antioch in both and and succeeded during the second venture in occupying most of the territory east of the orontes including artah, kafar latha, basarfut, and balat, but failing to capture antioch itself. with the second crusades army previously nearly entirely defeated by the turks and by sickness, louis vii of france arrived in antioch on march , after being delayed by storms. louis was welcomed by the uncle of his spouse eleanor of aquitaine, raymond of poitiers. louis refused to help antioch defend against the turks and to lead an expedition against aleppo, and instead decided to finish his pilgrimage to jerusalem rather than focus on the military aspect of the crusades. with louis quickly leaving antioch again and the crusades returning home in ,[ ] nur ad-din launched an offensive against the territories which were dominated by the castle of harim, situated on the eastern bank of the orontes, after which nur besieged the castle of inag. raymond of poitiers quickly came to the aid of the citadel, where he was defeated and killed at the battle of inab, raymond's head was then cut off and sent to nur, who sent it to the caliph in baghdad. however, nur ad-din did not attack antioch itself and was content with capturing all of antiochene territory that lay east of the orontes.[ ][ ] after the second crusade[edit] with raymond dead and bohemond iii only five years of age, the principality came under the control of raymond's widow constance of antioch, however real control lay with aimery of limoges. in baldwin iii of jerusalem came of age, but from he had proposed three different but respectable suitors for constance's hand in marriage, all of whom she rejected. in however, she chose raynald of châtillon and married him in secret without consulting her first cousin and liege lord, baldwin iii, and neither baldwin nor aimery of limoges approved of her choice.[ ] in raynald claimed that the byzantine emperor manuel i comnenus had reneged on his promises to pay raynald a sum of money, and vowed to attack the island of cyprus in revenge. however aimery refused to finance raynald's expedition, so in turn raynald had the patriarch seized, beaten, stripped naked, covered in honey, and had him left in the burning sun on top of the citadel to be attacked by insects. when the patriarch was released, he collapsed in exhaustion and agreed to finance raynald's expedition.[ ] in the meantime, raynald had allied himself with the armenian prince, thoros ii. in raynald's forces attacked cyprus, ravaging the island over a three-week period, with rapine, killing, and plundering its citizens. after which, manuel i comnenus raised an army and began their march towards syria, as a result raynald threw himself to the mercy of the emperor who insisted on the installation of a greek patriarch and the surrender of the citadel in antioch. the following spring, manuel made a triumphant entry into the city and established himself as the unquestioned suzerain of antioch. in raynald was captured by muslims during a plundering raid against the syrian and armenian peasants of the neighborhood of marash. he was held captive for sixteen years, and as the stepfather of the empress maria, he was ransomed by manuel for , gold dinars in (about  kg of gold, worth approximately £  million or us$  million as of october  [update]). with raynald disposed of for a long time, the patriarch aimery became the new regent, chosen by baldwin iii. to further consolidate his own claim over antioch, manuel chose maria of antioch as his bride, daughter of constance of antioch and raymond of poitiers. but the government of antioch remained in crisis up until , when constance asked the armenian kingdom of cilicia to help maintain her rule, as a result the citizens of antioch exiled her and installed her son bohemond iii and now brother-in-law to the emperor, as regent.[ ] one year later, nur ad-din zangi captured bohemond iii when he defeated a joint antiochene-tripolitan army. bohemond iii was soon released, however harem, syria which raynald had recaptured in , was lost again and the frontier of antioch was permanently placed west of the orontes. byzantine influence remained in antioch and in , bohemond iii married a niece of the emperor, maria of antioch, and installed a greek patriarch in the city, athanasius ii, patriarch of antioch, who remained in his position until he died in an earthquake five years later.[ ][ ] third crusade[edit] on october , , pope gregory viii issued the papal bull audita tremendi, his call for the third crusade.[ ] frederick i barbarossa, richard i of england, and philip ii of france answered the summons. with richard and philip deciding to take a sea route, frederick lacked the necessary ships and took a land route where he pushed on through anatolia, defeating the turks in the battle of iconium, however upon reaching christian territory in lesser armenia (armenian kingdom of cilicia) the emperor drowned in the river saleph. the emperor was buried at antioch and the germans became an insignificant contingent during the crusade. throughout the third crusade antioch remained neutral, however with the end of the third crusade ( ), they were included in the treaty of ramla between richard and saladin.[ ][ ][ ][ ] battles for sovereignty[edit] with no heir after the death of raymond iii, count of tripoli in the battle of hattin he left his godson, raymond iv, count of tripoli, the eldest son of bohemond iii. however bohemond installed his younger, the future prince bohemond iv of antioch, as count of tripoli. shortly after the end of the third crusade, raymond iv, count of tripoli married alice of armenia, the niece of leo ii, or leo i, king of armenia, and a vassal to antioch. alice bore raymond iv a son in , raymond-roupen, after which raymond iv died in the coming months. in leo ii tricked bohemond iii making him believe that the new born prince had been captured by the roupenians. leo made a failed attempt at capturing antioch believing the city would be weakened with the absence of bohemond. henry ii, count of champagne nephew to both richard i and philip ii, travelled to lesser armenia and managed to persuade leo that in exchange for antioch, renouncing its overlordship to lesser armenia and to release bohemond, who in died. with the death of bohemond iii there followed a -year struggle for power of antioch, between tripoli and lesser armenia. according to the rules of primogeniture leo's great nephew raymond-roupen was the rightful heir of antioch, and leo's position was supported by the pope. however, on the other hand, the city commune of antioch supported bohemond iv of antioch, on the grounds that he was the closest blood relative to the last ruling prince, bohemond iii. in bohemond iv installed a greek patriarch in antioch, despite the east-west schism, under the help of aleppo, bohemond iv drove leo out of antioch.[ ][ ] fifth crusade and afterwards[edit] see also: armeno-mongol relations in pope innocent iii's papal bull quia maior called for all of christendom to lead a new (fifth) crusade. this strengthened the support of sultan al-adil i (العادل), an ayyubid-egyptian general who supported raymond-roupen's claims in antioch. in leo installed raymond-roupen as prince of antioch, and ending all military aspect of the struggle between tripoli and lesser armenia, but the citizens again revolted against raymond-roupen in c. and bohemond of tripoli was recognised as the fourth prince of that name. bohemond iv and his son bohemond v remained neutral in the struggles of the guelphs and ghibellines to the south which arose when frederich ii married isabella ii, and in bohemond iv died. from onwards antioch declined and appeared rarely in records for  years, and in the altercations of the past between antioch and armenia were laid to rest when bohemond vi of antioch married the then ‑year‑old sibylla of armenia, and bohemond vi became a vassal of the armenian kingdom. effectively, the armenian kings ruled antioch while the prince of antioch resided in tripoli. the armenians drew up a treaty with the mongols, who were now ravaging muslim lands, and under protection they extended their territory into the lands of the seljuq dynasty in the north and the aleppo territory to the south. antioch was part of this armeno-mongol alliance. bohemond vi managed to retake lattakieh and reestablished the land bridge between antioch and tripoli, while the mongols insisted he install the greek patriarch there rather than a latin one, due to the mongols attempting to strengthen ties with the byzantine empire. this earned bohemond the enmity of the latins of acre, and bohemond was excommunicated by the patriarch of jerusalem, pope urban iv,[ ] which was later suspended.[ ][ ] fall of antioch[edit] see also: siege of antioch ( ) in the mongols captured the syrian city of damascus, and eventually in , aleppo. the mamluk sultan saif ad-din qutuz looked to ally with the franks, who declined. in september , the mamluks defeated the mongols at the battle of ain jalut, shortly after qutuz was assassinated at al-salihiyya, and according to various sources his successor baibars was involved in his murder.[ ][ ] (baibars "came to power with [the] regicide [of qutuz] on his conscience" according to tschanz.) despite this, baibars was named sultan, and in sacked nazareth, threatened antioch with invasion, and appeared before the walls of acre. in january baibars launched an offensive against the latins, starting with acre, the capital of the remnant of the kingdom of jerusalem, but was unable to take it, but defeated the crusaders in many other battles in arsuf, athlith, haifa, etc. and in baibars besieged antioch, capturing the city on may . baibars promised to spare the lives of the inhabitants, but broke his promise and razed the city, killing or enslaving nearly the entire population upon their surrender.[ ] antioch's ruler, prince bohemond vi was then left with no territories except the county of tripoli. without any southern fortifications and with antioch isolated it could not withstand the onslaught of resurgent muslim forces, and with the fall of the city, the remainder of northern syria eventually capitulated, ending the latin presence in syria.[ ] the mamluk armies killed or enslaved every christian in antioch.[ ] in it still had a considerable population, but by there were only about inhabited houses within its walls, mostly occupied by turcomans.[ ] archaeology[edit] the týkhē (fortune) of antioch, galleria dei candelabri, the vatican museums. few traces of the once great roman city are visible today aside from the massive fortification walls that snake up the mountains to the east of the modern city, several aqueducts, and the church of st peter (st peter's cave church, cave-church of st. peter), said to be a meeting place of an early christian community.[ ] the majority of the roman city lies buried beneath deep sediments from the orontes river, or has been obscured by recent construction. between and , archaeological excavations of antioch were undertaken under the direction of the "committee for the excavation of antioch and its vicinity", which was made up of representatives from the louvre museum, the baltimore museum of art, the worcester art museum, princeton university, wellesley college, and later ( ) also the fogg art museum at harvard university and its affiliate dumbarton oaks. the excavation team failed to find the major buildings they hoped to unearth, including constantine's great octagonal church or the imperial palace. however, a great accomplishment of the expedition was the discovery of high-quality roman mosaics from villas and baths in antioch, daphne and seleucia pieria. the principal excavations of mosaics at antioch led by princeton university in march recovered nearly mosaics. many of these mosaics were originally displayed as floor mosaics in private homes during the nd through th centuries ad, while others were displayed in baths and other public buildings. the majority of the antioch mosaics are from the fourth and fifth centuries, antioch's golden age, though others from earlier times have survived as well .[ ] the mosaics depict a variety of images including animals, plants, and mythological beings, as well as scenes from the daily lives of people living in the area at the time. each mosaic is bordered by intricate designs and contains bold, vibrant colors.[ ] one mosaic includes a border that depicts a walk from antioch to daphne, showing many ancient buildings along the way. the mosaics are now displayed in the hatay archaeology museum in antakya. a collection of mosaics on both secular and sacred subjects which were once in churches, private homes, and other public spaces now hang in the princeton university art museum[ ] and museums of other sponsoring institutions. a statue in the vatican and a number of figurines and statuettes perpetuate the type of its great patron goddess and civic symbol, the tyche (fortune) of antioch – a majestic seated figure, crowned with the ramparts of antioch's walls and holding wheat stalks in her right hand, with the river orontes as a youth swimming under her feet. according to william robertson smith the tyche of antioch was originally a young virgin sacrificed at the time of the founding of the city to ensure its continued prosperity and good fortune.[citation needed] the northern edge of antakya has been growing rapidly over recent years, and this construction has begun to expose large portions of the ancient city, which are frequently bulldozed and rarely protected by the local museum. in april , archaeologists discovered a greek mosaic showing a skeleton lying down with a wine pitcher and loaf of bread alongside a text that reads: "be cheerful, enjoy your life", it is reportedly from the rd century bc. described as the "reckless skeleton" or "skeleton mosaic", the mosaic is once thought to have belonged in the dining room of an upper-class home.[ ][ ] notable people[edit] 	saint barnabas 	saint domnius, bishop of salona and patron saint of split 	george of antioch 	ignatius of antioch, patriarch of antioch 	john malalas, a greek chronicler 	john chrysostom ( – ) patriarch of constantinople 	libanius, th century ad, pagan sophist and confidant of emperor julian 	saint luke, st century ad, christian evangelist and author of the gospel of st. luke and acts of the apostles 	severus of antioch 	aulus licinius archias, greek poet 	tiberius claudius pompeianus, roman politician and general 	saint maron, patriarch of the maronite church see also[edit] 	antiochene rite 	holy hand grenade of antioch from monty python 	list of greek place names 	the martyr of antioch 	theophilus of antioch references and sources[edit] notes[edit] 	^ koinē greek: Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου; or Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Δάφνῃ "antioch on daphne"; orἈντιόχεια ἡ Μεγάλη "antioch the great"}}; latin: antiochia ad orontem; armenian: Անտիոք antiokʽ; syriac: ܐܢܛܝܘܟܝܐ‎ anṭiokya; hebrew: אנטיוכיה‎, anṭiyokhya; arabic: انطاكية‎, anṭākiya; persian: انطاکیه‎; turkish: antakya. references[edit] 	^ sacks, david; oswyn murray ( ). lisa r. brody (ed.). encyclopedia of the ancient greek world (facts on file library of world history). facts on file inc. p.  . isbn  - . 	^ "the mixture of roman, greek, and jewish elements admirably adapted antioch for the great part it played in the early history of christianity. the city was the cradle of the church." — "antioch," encyclopaedia biblica, vol. i, p. 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	apollonis 	apollonos hieron 	appia 	appolena 	aragokome 	araukome 	arilla 	aroma 	aspaneus 	astragon 	astyra near adramyttium 	astyra near pergamon 	astyria 	atarneus 	atarneus sub pitanem 	attea 	attuda 	aulae 	aurelia neapolis 	aureliopolis in lydia 	aurokra 	bageis 	bargasa 	bargasa in northern caria 	bargylia 	beudos 	beycesultan 	birgena 	blaundus 	bonitai 	boukolion 	boutheia 	briula 	bruzus 	bybassus 	cadi 	callipolis 	caloe 	canae 	carene 	carmylessus 	carura 	caryanda 	castabus 	casystes 	cedreae 	celaenae 	ceramus 	chalcetor 	choria 	chrysaoris 	chytrium 	cidramus 	cindye 	cisthene 	clannuda 	claros 	colophon 	colossae 	conium 	coryphas 	cybeleia 	cyllandus 	cyme 	daldis 	dareioukome 	dideiphyta 	didyma 	digda 	dioclea 	dionysiopolis 	dios hieron in ionia 	dios hieron in lydia 	dioskome 	docimium 	doroukome 	eibos 	eiokome 	elaea 	embatum 	emoddi 	ephesus 	erines 	erythrae 	erythras 	etsyena 	eukarpia 	euhippe 	eumeneia 	euromus 	euthenae 	euxine 	gambrium 	gerga 	gergitha 	gerriadai 	glauke 	gryneium 	halicarnassus 	halisarna 	harpasa 	helos 	heraclea at latmus 	heraclea in aeolis 	heraclea in lydia 	heraclea salbace 	hermocapelia 	hierapolis 	hierapolis of the phyrgian pentapolis 	hierocaesarea 	homadena 	hydai 	hydas 	hydissus 	hygassos 	hyllarima 	hypaepa 	hypokremnos 	hyrcanis 	iasos 	iaza 	idyma 	ioniapolis 	ioudda 	ipsus 	isinda in ionia 	iskome 	kadyie 	kaira 	kalabantia 	kasara 	kasossos 	kaualena 	kaunos 	kilaraza 	kildara 	klazomenai 	kleimaka 	kleros politike 	knidos 	koddinou petra 	koraia 	korakoe 	koresa 	kouara 	kyllene 	kymnissa 	kys 	labraunda 	lagina 	lalandos 	lamyana 	lankena 	laodicea on the lycus 	larisa in caria 	larisa in ionia 	larisa in lydia 	larissa phrikonis 	larymna 	lasnedda 	latmus 	lebedus 	leimon 	leucae 	leucophrys 	limantepe 	lobolda 	lunda 	lydae 	lyrna 	lysimachia 	madnasa 	maeandropolis 	magnesia ad sipylum 	magnesia on the maeander 	maiboza 	maionia in lydia 	malene 	marathesium 	mastaura 	meiros 	meiros megale 	melampagos 	meloukome 	metropolis in lydia 	metropolis in southern phrygia 	miletus 	mylasa 	mobolla 	mokolda 	mossyna 	mostene 	motella 	myloukome 	myndus 	myrina 	myus 	nais 	nasos 	naulochon 	naulochus 	naxia 	neapolis 	neonteichos 	nisyra 	notion 	nymphaeum 	nysa on the maeander 	odon 	oenoanda 	olaeis 	olymos 	oroanna 	orthoisa 	ortygia 	otrus 	palaemyndus 	panasion 	panormus near miletus 	panormus near halicarnassus 	parsada 	parthenium 	passala 	passanda 	pedasa 	pepuza 	pergamon 	perperene 	philadelphia in lydia 	phocaea 	phoenix in caria 	physcus 	phyteia 	pidasa 	pinara 	pisilis 	pisye 	pitane 	pladasa 	plarasa 	polichna in ionia 	polichne in ionia 	polybotus 	pordoselene 	priene 	prymnessus 	pteleum 	pydnae 	pygela 	pyrnus 	pyrrha 	saouenda 	sardis 	satala in lydia 	sebaste in phrygia 	sebastopolis in caria 	setae 	side in caria 	sidussa 	silandus 	sillyos 	skolopoeis 	smyrna 	soa 	spore 	stadia 	stectorium 	stratonicea in lydia 	stratonicea in caria 	strobilos 	syangela 	symbra 	synaus 	syneta 	synnada 	syrna 	tabae 	tabala 	tateikome 	taza 	teichiussa 	telandrus 	temenothyra 	temnos 	tempsis 	tendeba 	teos 	termera 	teuthrania 	thasthara 	theangela 	thebe hypoplakia 	thebes 	thera 	thyaira 	thyatira 	thymbrara 	thyssanus 	tisna 	tlos in caria 	tomara 	traianopolis 	trapezopolis 	trarium 	triopium 	tripolis on the meander 	troketta 	tyanollos 	tymion 	tymnos 	ula 	uranium 	zemmeana 	zingotos kome 	black sea	 	abonoteichos 	aegialus 	aiginetes 	alaca höyük 	amasia 	amastris 	ancon 	anticinolis 	argyria 	armene 	bonita 	boon 	cabira 	cales 	callistratia 	carambis 	carissa 	carussa 	cerasus 	chadisia 	cinolis 	cizari 	colonia in armenia 	colussa 	comana in the pontus 	coralla 	cordyle 	cratia 	crenides 	cromen 	cromna 	cyptasia 	cytorus 	dia 	diacopa 	elaeus 	endeira 	erythini 	euchaita 	eusene 	gadilon 	garius 	garzoubanthon 	gaziura 	gozalena 	hadrianopolis in paphlagonia 	hattusa 	heraclea pontica 	heracleium 	hermonassa 	hieron oros 	hüseyindede tepe 	hyssus 	ibora 	ischopolis 	karza 	kelesa 	kimista 	laodicea pontica 	libiopolis 	lillium 	metroon 	mokata 	naustathmus 	nerik 	nicopolis 	ophis 	oxinas 	patara 	pharnacia 	phazemon 	philocaleia 	pida 	pimolisa 	polemonium 	pompeiopolis 	potami 	prusias ad hypium 	pteria in paphlagonia 	salatiwara 	samuha 	sandaraca 	sapinuwa 	satala 	saurania 	sebastopolis in pontus 	stephane 	syderos 	themiscyra 	thymena 	timolaeum 	tium 	tripolis 	virasia 	yazılıkaya 	zagorus 	zaliche 	zephyrium in paphlagonia 	ziporea 	central anatolia	 	abouadeineita 	alişar hüyük 	amblada 	anadynata 	andabalis 	anisa 	anniaca 	ano kotradis 	antoniopolis 	anzoulada 	aquae saravenae 	aralla 	arasaxa 	archalla 	ardistama 	ariaramneia 	ariarathia 	armaxa 	artiknos 	aspenzinsos 	astra 	atenia 	balbissa 	balgatia 	barate 	bathys rhyax 	binbirkilise 	blucium 	borissos 	campae 	camuliana 	candara 	carus vicus 	Çatalhöyük 	cimiata 	ciscissus 	cinna 	claneus 	comitanassus 	congustus 	corna 	corniaspa 	coropassus 	cotenna 	cybistra 	cyzistra 	dadastana 	dasmenda 	derbe 	diocaesarea 	doara 	dometiopolis 	dorylaeum 	ecdaumava 	ecobriga 	ergobrotis 	euaissa 	eudocia (cappadocia) 	eudocia (phrygia) 	eulepa 	faustinopolis 	germa 	gorbeus 	gordium 	hadrianopolis in phrygia 	heraclea cybistra 	herpha 	hieropotamon 	homana 	hyde 	ilistra 	irenopolis 	juliopolis 	kaman-kalehöyük 	kanotala 	karbala 	keissia 	kerkenes 	kilistra 	kindyria 	kobara 	kodylessos 	korama 	koron 	kültepe (kanesh) 	lageina 	lamatorma 	laodicea combusta 	laroumada 	lauzadus 	limnae 	lystra 	malandasa 	malus in galatia 	malus in phrygia 	meloë 	metropolis in northern phrygia 	midaeium 	mistea 	mnizus 	mokissos 	mourisa 	moutalaske 	musbanda 	myrika 	nakoleia 	nazianzus 	nitazi 	nora 	nyssa 	ochras 	olosada 	orcistus 	papirion 	parnassus 	pedachtoë 	pedaia 	peium 	perta 	pessinus 	pharax 	phlara 	pillitokome 	pissia 	pithoi 	pontanena 	posala 	pteria 	purushanda 	pyrgoi 	sadagolthina 	salamboreia 	salarama 	sasima 	savatra 	sbida 	sedasa 	senzousa 	sereana 	sibora 	sidamaria 	skandos 	soanda 	soandos 	sora 	takourtha 	tavium 	thebasa 	thouththourbia 	tiberiopolis 	trocmades 	tyana 	tynna 	tyriaeum 	vasada 	zeita 	zenopolis 	zizima 	eastern anatolia	 	altıntepe 	ani 	arsamosata 	cafer höyük 	dadima 	melid 	sugunia 	tushpa 	marmara	 	abydos 	achaiion 	achilleion 	ad statuas 	adrasteia 	aegospotami 	agora 	aianteion in thrace 	aianteion in the troad 	ainos 	alexandria troas 	alopeconnesus 	ammoi 	amycus 	anaplous 	apamea myrlea 	aphrodisias 	apollonia on the rhyndacus 	aprus 	apsoda 	arbeila 	argiza 	argyria 	argyronion 	argyropolis 	arisba 	artace 	artaiouteichos 	artanes 	assos 	astacus 	astyra in troad 	aureliane 	aureliopolis 	baradendromia 	basilica therma 	basilinopolis 	bathonea 	beodizo 	bergule 	birytis 	bitenas 	bithynium 	blachernae 	bolos 	boradion 	brunca 	burtudizon 	bythias 	byzantium 	byzapena 	caenophrurium 	callum 	calpe 	canopus 	cardia 	cebrene 	cenon gallicanon 	chalcaea 	chalcedon 	charax 	charmidea 	chelae on the black sea 	chelae on the asian coast of the bosphorus 	chelae on the european coast of the bosphorus 	choiragria 	chryse 	chrysopolis 	cius 	clitae 	cobrys 	cocylium 	colla 	cremaste 	crenides 	cressa 	crithote 	cypasis 	cypsela 	cyzicus 	dadokome 	dacibyza 	damalis 	daphne mainomene 	daphnus 	dardanus 	dascylium 	dascylium in bithynia 	dekaton in bithynia 	dekaton in thrace 	delkos 	delphin 	deris 	desa 	didymateiche 	diolkides 	drabus 	drizipara/drusipara 	eirakla 	elaea in bithynia 	elaeus 	elekosmioi 	embolos 	ergasteria 	eribolum 	gargara 	gentinos 	gergis 	germa 	germanicopolis 	hadriani ad olympum 	hadriania 	hadrianotherae 	hamaxitus 	harpagion 	hebdomon 	helenopolis/drepanum 	heracleium 	hieria 	hierion 	iasonion 	ide 	ilieon kome 	kabia 	kalamos 	kalasyrta 	kale peuke 	kalos agros 	kampos 	kassa 	katapaspanas 	kepos 	kizoura 	koila 	kolonai 	kosilaos 	koubaita 	kyparodes 	kypra 	lamponeia 	lampsacus 	larisa in troad 	lasthenes 	leptoia 	liada 	libum 	libyssa 	limnae in bithynia 	limnae in thrace 	linus 	lupadium 	lygos 	lysimachia 	madytus 	mantineion 	marpessos 	miletopolis 	mocasura 	mochadion 	modra 	morzapena 	mossynea 	moukaporis 	myrileion 	narco 	nassete 	nausikleia 	nausimachion 	neandreia 	neapolis on the bosphorus 	neapolis on the thracian chersonese 	neonteichos 	nerola 	nicomedia 	oka 	ontoraita 	ophryneion 	orestias 	orni 	ostreodes 	pactya 	paeon 	paesus 	palodes 	panion 	pantichium 	parabolos 	parium 	paulines 	pegae in mysia 	pegae in thrace 	pege 	pentephyle 	percote 	pericharaxis 	perinthus 	petrozetoi 	pharmakia 	phidalia petra 	phiela 	philia 	phosphorus 	pionia 	pitheci portus 	placia 	ploketta 	poemanenum 	poleatikon 	polymedium 	potamoi 	potamonion 	praenetus 	pratomysia 	prepa 	priapus 	prindea 	proconnesus 	proochthoi 	prusa 	psarela 	psyllium 	pyrrhias cyon 	pytheion 	rhebas 	rhegion 	rhesion 	rhoiteion 	rouphinianai 	salmydessus 	sangarus 	scamandria 	scamandrus 	scepsis 	scylace 	scylla 	selymbria 	semystra 	serrion teichos 	sestos 	sigeion 	sirkanos 	smintheion 	soka 	strobilos 	sykai 	syllanta 	tarpodizo 	tarsus in bithynia 	tattaios 	tenba 	terbos 	tesderamoska 	tetrakomia 	tipaso 	tragasai 	thynias 	traron 	tricomia in bithynia 	troy (hisarlik) 	tyrodiza 	tzurulum 	urisio 	utsurgae 	zeleia 	mediterranean	 	acalissus 	acarassus 	adada 	adrasus 	aegae 	agrae 	alalakh 	amelas 	anabura in pisidia 	anazarbus 	anchiale 	andeda 	andriaca 	anemurium 	antigonia 	antioch on the orontes 	antioch of pisidia 	antiochia lamotis 	antioch on the cragus 	antioch on the pyramis 	antiphellus 	aperlae 	aphrodisias of cilicia 	apollonia in lycia 	arabissus 	araxa 	ariassus 	arima 	arnabanda 	arneae 	arsada 	arsinoe 	artanada 	arycanda 	aspendos 	augai 	augusta 	aulae 	aunesis 	bab al-hawa border crossing 	balbura 	baris 	bindaios 	bubon 	cabassus 	cadrema 	cadyanda 	callimache 	calynda 	carallia 	carmylessus 	casae 	castabala 	ceretapa 	cestrus 	charadrus 	choma 	cibyra mikra 	claudiopolis 	colybrassus 	comama 	comana in cappadocia 	comba 	conana 	coracesium 	corycium antrum 	corycus (kızkalesi) 	corydala 	cremna 	cretopolis 	crya 	cyaneae 	cyrrhus 	daedala 	dalisandus in isauria 	dalisandus in pamphylia 	damasei 	dias 	diocaesarea 	domuztepe 	elaiussa sebaste 	elbessos 	emirzeli 	epiphania 	erymna 	etenna 	eudocia (lycia) 	eudocias (pamphylia) 	flaviopolis 	gagae 	gözlükule 	hacilar 	hadrianopolis in pisidia 	halae 	hamaxia 	hippucome 	holmi 	hyia 	idebessos 	idyros 	iotape 	irenopolis 	isaura nea 	isaura palaea 	isba 	isinda in lycia 	isinda in pisidia 	issus 	istlada 	juliosebaste 	kalanthia 	kalelibelen 	kandyba 	kanytelis 	karakabaklı 	karatepe 	karkabo 	kastellon 	keraia 	kibyra 	kiphisos 	kirkota 	kitanaura 	kodroula 	kolbasa 	korasion 	korma 	kynosarion 	laertes 	lagbe 	lamos 	lebessus 	legeita 	limnae in pamphylia 	limnae in pisidia 	limyra 	lissa 	lycae 	lyrbe 	lysinia 	magarsa 	magastara 	magydus 	mallus 	malus in pisidia 	mampsoukrenai 	mamure castle 	manava 	mandane 	marciana 	marmara (mnara) 	mastaura 	meloë 	melanippe 	meriana 	mezgitkale 	moatra 	mopsucrene 	mopsuestia 	morka 	moron hydor 	moumoustra 	mylae 	mylios 	myra 	myriandus 	nagidos 	nauloi 	neapolis in pisidia 	nephelis 	nisa 	octapolis 	olba 	olbasa 	olbia 	olympus 	Öküzlü 	onobara 	orokenda 	otanada 	ouerbe 	padyandus 	panemotichus 	panhormus 	pargais 	parlais 	patara 	pednelissus 	perga 	perminounda 	phaselis 	phellus 	philadelphia in cilicia 	philaea 	phoenicus 	phoenix in lycia 	pisarissos 	pisurgia 	placoma 	platanus 	podalia 	pogla 	prostanna 	pseudokorasion 	ptolemais 	rhodiapolis 	rhoscopus 	rhosus 	rygmanoi 	sabandus 	sagalassos 	sandalium 	saraganda 	sebeda 	seleucia in pamphylia 	seleucia pieria 	seleucia sidera 	selge 	selinus 	seroiata 	serraepolis 	sia 	sibidounda 	sibyla 	side 	siderus 	sidyma 	sillyon 	simena 	sinda 	siricae 	soli 	solyma 	sozopolis 	sura 	syca 	syedra 	takina 	tapureli 	tardequeia 	tarsus 	teimiussa 	tell tayinat 	telmessos 	telmessos (caria) 	tenedos 	termessos 	tetrapyrgia in cappadocia 	tetrapyrgia in pamphylia 	titiopolis 	tityassus 	tlos 	toriaeum 	tragalassus 	trebendae 	trebenna 	trysa 	tyberissus 	tyinda 	tymandus 	tynada 	typallia 	xanthos 	yanıkhan 	yumuktepe 	zephyrium on the calycadnus 	southeastern anatolia	 	amida 	antioch in the taurus 	antioch in mesopotamia (constantia) 	apamea on the euphrates 	carcathiocerta 	carchemish 	Çayönü 	dabanas 	dara 	doliche 	edessa 	göbekli tepe 	hallan Çemi tepesi 	harran 	khashshum 	kussara 	nevalı Çori 	nicopolis in cilicia 	nisibis 	sakçagözü 	sam'al 	samosata 	sareisa 	seleucia at the zeugma 	sitai 	sultantepe 	tille 	tushhan 	urima 	urshu 	zeugma 	 	v 	t 	e people and things in the quran 	 	characters 	non-humans	 	allāh ("the god") 	names of allah found in the quran, such as karīm (generous) 	animals	 	related	 	the baqarah (cow) of israelites 	the dhiʾb (wolf) that jacob feared could attack joseph 	the fīl (elephant) of the abyssinians 	Ḥimār (domesticated donkey) 	the hud-hud (hoopoe) of solomon 	the kalb (dog) of the sleepers of the cave 	the namlah (female ant) of solomon 	the nūn (fish or whale) of jonah 	the nāqat (she-camel) of saleh 	non-related	 	ʿankabūt (female spider) 	dābbat al-arḍ (beast of the earth) 	Ḥimār (wild ass) 	naḥl (honey bee) 	qaswarah ("lion", "beast of prey" or "hunter") 	malāʾikah (angels)	 	angels of hell 	mālik 	zabāniyah 	bearers of the throne 	harut and marut 	kirāman kātibīn (honourable scribes) 	raqib 	atid 	munkar and nakir 	riḍwan 	archangels	 	jibrīl (gabriel, chief) 	ar-rūḥ ("the spirit") 	ar-rūḥ al-amīn ("the trustworthy spirit") 	ar-rūḥ al-qudus ("the holy spirit") 	angel of the trumpet (isrāfīl or raphael) 	malakul-mawt (angel of death, azrael) 	mīkāil (michael) 	jinn (genies)	 	jann 	ʿifrīt 	qarīn 	shayāṭīn (demons or devils)	 	iblīs ash-shayṭān (the (chief) devil) 	mārid ("rebellious one") 	others	 	ghilmān or wildān 	Ḥūr 	prophets	 	mentioned	 	Ādam (adam) 	al-yasaʿ (elisha) 	ayyūb (job) 	dāwūd (david) 	dhūl-kifl (ezekiel?) 	hārūn (aaron) 	hūd (eber?) 	idrīs (enoch?) 	ilyās (elijah) 	ʿimrān (joachim the father of maryam) 	isḥāq (isaac) 	ismāʿīl (ishmael) 	dhabih ullah 	lūṭ (lot) 	Ṣāliḥ 	shuʿayb (jethro, reuel or hobab?) 	sulaymān ibn dāwūd (solomon son of david) 	ʿuzair (ezra?) 	yaḥyā ibn zakariyyā (john the baptist the son of zechariah) 	yaʿqūb (jacob) 	isrāʾīl (israel) 	yūnus (jonah) 	dhūn-nūn ("he of the fish (or whale)" or "owner of the fish (or whale)") 	Ṣāḥib al-Ḥūt ("companion of the whale") 	yūsuf ibn ya‘qūb (joseph son of jacob) 	zakariyyā (zechariah) 	ulul-ʿazm ("those of the perseverance and strong will")	 	muḥammad 	aḥmad 	other names and titles of muhammad 	ʿĪsā (jesus) 	al-masīḥ (the messiah) 	ibn maryam (son of mary) 	mūsā kalīmullāh (moses he who spoke to god) 	ibrāhīm khalīlullāh (abraham friend of god) 	nūḥ (noah) 	debatable ones	 	dhūl-qarnain 	luqmān 	maryam (mary) 	Ṭālūt (saul or gideon?) 	implied	 	irmiyā (jeremiah) 	Ṣamūʾīl (samuel) 	yūshaʿ ibn nūn (joshua, companion and successor of moses) 	people of prophets	 	good ones	 	adam's immediate relatives 	martyred son 	wife 	believer of ya-sin 	family of noah 	father lamech 	mother shamkhah bint anush or betenos 	luqman's son 	people of aaron and moses 	egyptians 	believer (hizbil or hizqil ibn sabura) 	imraʾat firʿawn (Āsiyá bint muzāḥim the wife of pharaoh, who adopted moses) 	magicians of the pharaoh 	wise, pious man 	moses' wife 	moses' sister-in-law 	mother 	sister 	people of abraham 	mother abiona or amtelai the daughter of karnebo 	ishmael's mother 	isaac's mother 	people of jesus 	disciples (including peter) 	mary's mother 	zechariah's wife 	people of joseph 	brothers (including binyāmin (benjamin) and simeon) 	egyptians 	ʿazīz (potiphar, qatafir or qittin) 	malik (king ar-rayyān ibn al-walīd)) 	wife of ʿazīz (zulaykhah) 	mother 	people of solomon 	mother 	queen of sheba 	vizier 	zayd (muhammad's adopted son) 	evil ones	 	Āzar (possibly terah) 	firʿawn (pharaoh of moses' time) 	hāmān 	jālūt (goliath) 	qārūn (korah, cousin of moses) 	as-sāmirī 	abū lahab 	slayers of saleh's she-camel (qaddar ibn salif and musda' ibn dahr) 	implied or not specified	 	abraha 	abu bakr 	bal'am/balaam 	barṣīṣā 	caleb or kaleb the companion of joshua 	luqman's son 	nebuchadnezzar ii 	nimrod 	rahmah the wife of ayyub 	shaddad 	groups	 	mentioned	 	aṣḥāb al-jannah 	people of paradise 	people of the burnt garden 	aṣḥāb as-sabt (companions of the sabbath) 	christian apostles 	Ḥawāriyyūn (disciples of jesus) 	companions of noah's ark 	aṣḥāb al-kahf war-raqīm (companions of the cave and al-raqaim? 	companions of the elephant 	people of al-ukhdūd 	people of a township in surah ya-sin 	people of yathrib or medina 	qawm lūṭ (people of sodom and gomorrah) 	nation of noah 	tribes, ethnicities or families	 	aʿrāb (arabs or bedouins) 	ʿĀd (people of hud) 	companions of the rass 	qawm tubbaʿ (people of tubba) 	people of sabaʾ or sheba 	quraysh 	thamūd (people of saleh) 	aṣḥāb al-Ḥijr ("companions of the stoneland") 	‘ajam 	ar-rūm (literally "the romans") 	banī isrāʾīl (children of israel) 	muʾtafikāt (the overthrown cities of sodom and gomorrah) 	people of ibrahim 	people of ilyas 	people of nuh 	people of shuaib 	ahl madyan people of madyan) 	aṣḥāb al-aykah ("companions of the wood") 	qawm yūnus (people of jonah) 	ya'juj and ma'juj/gog and magog 	ahl al-bayt ("people of the household") 	household of abraham 	brothers of yūsuf 	lot's daughters 	progeny of imran 	household of moses 	household of muhammad ibn abdullah ibn abdul-muttalib ibn hashim 	daughters of muhammad 	muhammad's wives 	household of salih 	people of fir'aun 	current ummah of islam (ummah of muhammad) 	aṣḥāb muḥammad (companions of muhammad) 	anṣār (muslims of medina who helped muhammad and his meccan followers, literally 'helpers') 	muhajirun (emigrants from mecca to medina) 	people of mecca 	wife of abu lahab 	children of ayyub 	sons of adam 	wife of nuh 	wife of lut 	yaʾjūj wa maʾjūj (gog and magog) 	son of nuh 	implicitly mentioned	 	amalek 	ahl as-suffa (people of the verandah) 	banu nadir 	banu qaynuqa 	banu qurayza 	iranian people 	umayyad dynasty 	aus and khazraj 	people of quba 	religious groups	 	ahl al-dhimmah 	kāfirūn 	disbelievers 	majūs zoroastrians 	munāfiqūn (hypocrites) 	muslims 	believers 	ahl al-kitāb (people of the book) 	naṣārā (christian(s) or people of the injil) 	ruhban (christian monks) 	qissis (christian priest) 	yahūd (jews) 	ahbār (jewish scholars) 	rabbani/rabbi 	sabians 	polytheists 	meccan polytheists at the time of muhammad 	mesopotamian polytheists at the time of abraham and lot 	locations	 	mentioned	 	al-arḍ al-muqaddasah ("the holy land") 	'blessed' land 	in the arabian peninsula (excluding madyan) 	al-aḥqāf ("the sandy plains," or "the wind-curved sand-hills") 	iram dhāt al-ʿimād (iram of the pillars) 	al-madīnah (formerly yathrib) 	ʿarafāt and [al-Ḥarām] 	al-Ḥijr (hegra) 	badr 	Ḥunayn 	makkah (mecca) 	bakkah 	Ḥaraman Āminan ("sanctuary (which is) secure") 	kaʿbah (kaaba) 	maqām ibrāhīm (station of abraham) 	safa and marwa 	sabaʾ (sheba) 	ʿarim sabaʾ (dam of sheba) 	rass 	al-jannah (paradise, literally "the garden") 	jahannam (hell) 	in mesopotamia: 	al-jūdiyy 	munzalanm-mubārakan ("place-of-landing blessed") 	bābil (babylon) 	qaryat yūnus ("township of jonah," that is nineveh) 	door of hittah 	madyan (midian) 	majmaʿ al-baḥrayn 	miṣr (mainland egypt) 	salsabīl (a river in paradise) 	sinai region or tīh desert 	al-wād al-muqaddas Ṭuwan (the holy valley of tuwa) 	al-wādil-ayman (the valley on the 'righthand' side of the valley of tuwa and mount sinai) 	al-buqʿah al-mubārakah ("the blessed place") 	mount sinai or mount tabor 	religious locations	 	bayʿa (church) 	miḥrāb 	monastery 	masjid (mosque, literally "place of prostration") 	al-mashʿar al-Ḥarām ("the sacred grove") 	al-masjid al-aqṣā (al-aqsa mosque, literally "the farthest place-of-prostration") 	al-masjid al-Ḥarām (the sacred mosque of mecca) 	masjid al-dirar 	a mosque in the area of medina, possibly: 	masjid qubāʾ (quba mosque) 	the prophet's mosque 	salat (synagogue) 	implied	 	antioch 	antakya 	arabia 	al-Ḥijāz (literally "the barrier") 	black stone (al-Ḥajar al-aswad) & al-hijr of isma'il 	cave of hira 	ghār ath-thawr (cave of the bull) 	hudaybiyyah 	ta'if 	ayla 	barrier of dhul-qarnayn 	bayt al-muqaddas & 'ariha 	bilād ar-rāfidayn (mesopotamia) 	canaan 	cave of seven sleepers 	dār an-nadwa 	jordan river 	nile river 	palestine river 	paradise of shaddad 	plant matter	 	baṣal (onion) 	fūm (garlic or wheat) 	shaṭʾ (shoot) 	sūq (plant stem) 	zarʿ (seed) 	fruits	 	ʿadas (lentil) 	baql (herb) 	Ḥabb dhul-ʿaṣf (corn of the husk) 	qith-thāʾ (cucumber) 	rummān (pomegranate) 	tīn (fig) 	ukul khamṭ (bitter fruit or food of sheba) 	zaytūn (olive) 	in paradise 	forbidden fruit of adam 	bushes, trees or plants	 	plants of sheba 	athl (tamarisk) 	sidr (lote-tree) 	līnah (tender palm tree) 	nakhl (date palm) 	rayḥān (scented plant) 	sidrat al-muntahā 	zaqqūm 	holy books	 	al-injīl (the gospel of jesus) 	al-qurʾān (the book of muhammad) 	Ṣuḥuf-i ibrāhīm (scroll(s) of abraham) 	at-tawrāt (the torah) 	Ṣuḥuf-i-mūsā (scroll(s) of moses) 	tablets of stone 	az-zabūr (the psalms of david) 	umm al-kitāb ("mother of the book(s)") 	objects of people or beings	 	heavenly food of christian apostles 	noah's ark 	staff of musa 	tābūt as-sakīnah (casket of shekhinah) 	throne of bilqis 	trumpet of israfil 	mentioned idols (cult images)	 	'ansāb 	jibt and Ṭāghūt (false god) 	of israelites	 	baʿal 	the ʿijl (golden calf statue) of israelites 	of noah's people	 	nasr 	suwāʿ 	wadd 	yaghūth 	yaʿūq 	of quraysh	 	al-lāt 	al-ʿuzzā 	manāt 	celestial bodies	maṣābīḥ (literally 'lamps'): 	al-qamar (the moon) 	kawākib (planets) 	al-arḍ (the earth) 	nujūm (stars) 	ash-shams (the sun) 	liquids	 	māʾ (water or fluid) 	nahr (river) 	yamm (river or sea) 	sharāb (drink) 	events, incidents, occasions or times	 	incident of ifk 	laylat al-qadr 	event of mubahala 	sayl al-ʿarim (flood of the great dam of ma'rib in sheba) 	the farewell pilgrimage 	treaty of hudaybiyyah 	battles or military expeditions	 	battle of al-aḥzāb ("the confederates") 	battle of badr 	battle of hunayn 	battle of khaybar 	battle of uhud 	expedition of tabuk 	conquest of mecca 	days	 	al-jumuʿah (the friday) 	as-sabt (the sabbath or saturday) 	days of battles 	days of hajj 	doomsday 	months of the islamic calendar	 months: 	four holy months 	ash-shahr al-Ḥarām (the sacred or forbidden month) 	ramaḍān 	pilgrimages	 	al-Ḥajj (literally "the pilgrimage", the greater pilgrimage) 	al-ʿumrah (the lesser pilgrimage) 	 	times for prayer or remembrance	times for duʿāʾ ('invocation'), Ṣalāh and dhikr ('remembrance', including taḥmīd ('praising'), takbīr and tasbīḥ): 	al-ʿashiyy (the afternoon or the night) 	al-ghuduww ("the mornings") 	al-bukrah ("the morning") 	aṣ-Ṣabāḥ ("the morning") 	al-layl ("the night") 	al-ʿishāʾ ("the late-night") 	aẓ-Ẓuhr ("the noon") 	dulūk ash-shams ("decline of the sun") 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	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 name and title authority file of catalonia - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	name and title authority file of catalonia 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		  (redirected from cantic (identifier)) 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		the name and title authority file of catalonia (cantic) is an authority union catalogue within the union catalogue of universities of catalonia (ccuc), that it is led by the biblioteca de catalunya. its goals are to standardize the access points in bibliographic catalogues, to improve communication among catalogues and mainly, to make easier the information research and retrieval. cantic gives a special treatment to name and title authorities related with catalan culture. these authorities receive a complete authority work and provide, eventually, access to the enciclopèdia catalana. contents 	 definition and aims 	 history and evolution 	 participants 	 maintenance and updating 	 references 	 external links definition and aims[edit] cantic has the aim[ ] to be the catalogue of authority records created cooperatively by catalan libraries. these records have to be generated from the authority control of name, name-title and title access points of catalan bibliographic records. this guarantees the standardization and uniqueness of access points of catalogues, which makes it easier the exchange and a more efficient communication of bibliographic records and, in the end, enables users to carry out assisted, precise and exhaustive searches. cantic is a national service that allows to standardize and give consistency to the catalogues of the catalan library system; it is the tool that facilitates the creation of the future unique catalogue of catalonia (cuc), devised in the frame of the agreement of the catalan government of july , for the improvement and modernization of catalan library system.[ ] history and evolution[edit] at a meeting held on september , the advisory commission of cataloguing, the advisory body of the biblioteca de catalunya in terms of cataloguing, talked about the need of creating a list of authorities in catalonia. it was decided to establish a subcommittee to study the technical feasibility of the project and to prepare the requirements and functionality of the list of name and title authorities, taking into account the real needs of the catalan library system. the subcommittee met for the first time on march and finished the job in october . in the report prepared by them[ ] are presented: 	the definition and aims of the list. 	it provides an overview of the state of art in and out catalonia, and ascertains that the current situation of the authority control of the catalan library system does not satisfy the existent needs neither avoids the duplication of tasks, efforts and costs. following the model of other international experiences, it is stated that a unique authority list in catalonia, prepared cooperatively, is a feasible project that favours the exchange of bibliographic records and the information research and retrieval. 	they give the bases for the creation of the catalan name and title authority list, and comment in brief the cooperative model of a subject authority list, since its operation and organization differ substantially of the name and title list. 	they specify the requirements and functionalities of the software of catalan name and title authority list. the name and title authority file of catalonia was created following the catalan library system act, llei / “la biblioteca de catalunya supervisa, valida i unifica en un sol llistat el catàleg d’autoritats"[ ] participants[edit] the participants are the biblioteca de catalunya, the casa Àsia, the centre de lectura (reus), the consorci de bibliothèques de les universitats de catalunya, the il•lustre col•legi d'advocats de barcelona, the museu d'art contemporani de barcelona, the museu nacional d'art de catalunya, the universitat autònoma de barcelona, the universitat de barcelona, the universitat de girona, the universitat de lleida, the universitat de vic, the universitat jaume i, the universitat oberta de catalunya, the universitat politècnica de catalunya, the universitat pompeu fabra and the universitat rovira i virgili. maintenance and updating[edit] the authority records of cantic are created following the international cataloguing principles[ ] and the specifications of the biblioteca de catalunya, which were approved by the ccuc.[ ] records are encoded with marc .[ ] there is also a cantic guide with the procedure for elaborating the authority records by the entities involved.[ ] the bibliographic standardization service is responsible for providing training and support to all participants while ensuring the quality of authority records. the constant introduction of new authority records turns cantic into a living organism in a permanent process of transformation and change. updating the content of the database is done monthly and is available on the website of the biblioteca de catalunya. references[edit] 	^ ferran, imma. «el catàleg d'autoritats de noms i títols de catalunya (cÀntic) ». bid : textos universitaris de biblioteconomia i documentació, núm. (juny ) [consulta: gener ]. 	^ acord per a la millora i modernització del sistema bibliotecari de catalunya en el període - , aprovat pel govern de la generalitat de catalunya el de juliol de .<"archived copy" (pdf). archived from the original (pdf) on - - . retrieved - - .cs maint: archived copy as title (link)>. 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citizenship who flourished during the reigns of emperors of rome trajan, hadrian, and antoninus pius. he was born c. in alexandria. after holding the chief offices in the province of aegyptus (egypt), he went to rome c. , where he practised as an advocate, pleading cases before the emperors (probably as advocatus fisci, an important official of the imperial treasury).[ ] it was in at the earliest that he was appointed to the office of procurator, probably in egypt, on the recommendation of his friend marcus cornelius fronto, a well-known litterateur. because the position of procurator was open only to members of the equestrian order (the "knightly" class), his possession of this office tells us about appian's family background. his principal surviving work (Ρωμαϊκά romaiká, known in latin as historia romana and in english as roman history) was written in greek in books, before . this work more closely resembles a series of monographs than a connected history. it gives an account of various peoples and countries from the earliest times down to their incorporation into the roman empire, and survives in complete books and considerable fragments.[ ] the work is very valuable, especially for the period of the civil wars.[ ] the civil wars, books – of the roman history, concern mainly the end of the roman republic and take a conflict-based view and approach to history. despite the lack of cited sources for his works, these books of the roman history are the only extant comprehensive description of these momentous decades of roman history. the other extant work of appian is his ”the foreign wars”, which includes an ethnographic style history recounting the various military conflicts against a foreign enemy in roman history, until the time of appian. contents 	 life 	 works 	 . appian's roman history and the civil wars 	 . the foreign wars 	 . sources 	 editions 	 references 	 . citations 	 . bibliography 	 external links life[edit] little is known of the life of appian of alexandria. he wrote an autobiography that has been almost completely lost.[ ] information about appian is distilled from his own writings and a letter[which?] by his friend cornelius fronto.[ ] however, it is certain that appian was born around the year ad in alexandria, the capital of roman egypt. since his parents were roman citizens capable of paying for their son's education, it can be inferred that appian belonged to the wealthy upper classes. it is believed that appian moved to rome in , where he became a barrister. in the introduction to his roman history, he boasts "that he pleaded cases in rome before the emperors." the emperors he claims to have addressed must have been either hadrian or marcus aurelius and definitely antoninus pius, for appian remained in egypt at least until the end of the reign of trajan ( ). in the letter of cornelius fronto, it is revealed that a request on behalf of appian to receive the rank of procurator occurred during the co-regency of marcus aurelius and his brother lucius verus between and . although appian won this office, it is unclear whether it was a real job or an honorific title. the only other certain biographical datum is that appian's roman history appeared sometime before . this is one of the few primary historical sources for the period. works[edit] appian: historia romana. printed in venice by erhard ratdolt appian's roman history and the civil wars[edit] appian began writing his history around the middle of the second century ad. only sections from half of the original books survive today of a much larger history known as the roman history. the section of this history known as the civil wars is composed of books – of the original of the roman history. this history narrates the history of the romans from the time of the gracchan tribunates. going on to narrate the civil wars of marius and sulla and those of caesar and pompey. the history breaks off in the time of the second triumvirate. these five books stand out because they are one of the few comprehensive histories available on the transition of the roman state from republic to empire and the ensuing civil and military strife. besides appian, this period is also covered by a handful of ancient authors with varying degrees of detail and viewpoints. the commentaries of julius caesar record his personal, mainly military, observations of the gallic wars and subsequent civil wars. plutarch's roman biographies sketch the lives of the major leaders of the late republican period. these biographies record events plutarch thought interesting and give only a perfunctory explanation of historic events. the roman author velleius' history examines roman history from the city’s foundation until ad . this history becomes more detailed in the late republic / early empire period, while earlier history is condensed. the epitome of roman history by florus, also covers roman history from mythical times until the th century ad in an extremely condensed format. the history of diodorus of sicily also covers roman history until the gallic wars, but this history becomes fragmentary after around bc. the foreign wars[edit] another work of appian's history which still survives mostly extant is called the foreign wars. this history describes the wars the romans fought against other cultures throughout their history. the mostly extant work narrates the wars in spain, the punic wars in both italy and africa, the wars against the seleucid empire, and the mithridatic wars. several small fragments also survive, describing the wars against the samnites, illyrians, macedonians, numidians, and the gauls. especially notable is this work's ethnographic structure. appian most likely used this structure to facilitate his readers' orientation through the sequence of events, which are united only by their relationship to rome. for example, the chapter on spain recounts roman history in spain chronologically with the romans' first intervention in spain during the war with hannibal. the book goes on to describe the roman conquest of several regions of spain, followed by their wars with spanish tribes and the numantine war. the chapter on spain concludes with the war against sertorius in roughly bc. likewise, the chapter on the hannibalic wars only recounts the battles that took place on the italian peninsula during the second punic war, while the chapters on the punic war recount all the action that occurred in northern africa during the first and second punic war. sources[edit] one might expect that a historical work covering nine centuries and countless different peoples would involve a multitude of testimonials[clarification needed] from different periods. however, appian's sources remain uncertain, as he only mentions the source of his information under special circumstances. he may have relied primarily on one author for each book, whom he did not follow uncritically, since appian also used additional sources for precision and correction.[citation needed] at our present state of knowledge questions regarding appian's sources cannot be resolved.[citation needed] editions[edit] 	appiani alexandrini historia publio candido interprete ac praeterea anonymi compendium historiae ab excessu constantini usque ad ioannem xxiii (in latin). world digital library. retrieved - - . 	editio princeps, 	schweighäuser, 	bekker, 	ludwig mendelssohn, – , appiani historia romana, bibliotheca teubneriana 	paul goukowsky, –, appien. histoire romaine (greek text, french translation, notes), collection budé. 	carsana, chiara (ed.). commento storico al libro ii delle guerre civili di appiano (parte i). pisa: edizioni ets, . pp. (pubblicazioni della facoltà di lettere e filosofia dell'università di pavia, ). 	english translations 	w. b., (black letter) – possibly william barker – used by shakespeare 	j. d[avies], 	horace white, (bohn's classical library); 	book i edited by james leigh strachan-davidson, . 	books xiii–xvii (civil wars), trans. john carter, penguin, harmondsworth, references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ a b white, horace ( ). "introduction". appian's roman history. cambridge, massachusetts: the loeb classical library. pp. vii–xii. isbn  - - - . 	^  one or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "appian". encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. pp.  – . 	^ appian proem. 	^ michael petrus josephus van den hout, a commentary on the letters of m. cornelius fronto, volume of mnemosyne (brill, ) bibliography[edit] 	william smith (ed.) 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"big book, big evil" (μέγα βιβλίον μέγα κακόν, mega biblion, mega kakon) is another saying attributed to him,[ ] often thought to be attacking long, old-fashioned poetry. callimachus also wrote poems in praise of his royal patrons (such as ptolemy ii philadelphus),[ ] and a wide variety of other poetic styles, as well as prose and criticism. due to callimachus' strong stance against the epic, he and his younger student apollonius of rhodes, who favored epic and wrote the argonautica, had a long and bitter feud, trading barbed comments, insults, and personal attacks for over thirty years. it is now known, through a papyrus fragment from oxyrhynchus listing the earliest chief librarians of the library of alexandria [ ] that ptolemy ii never offered the post to callimachus, but passed him over for apollonius. some classicists, including peter green, speculate that this contributed to the poets' long feud. according to the current scholarly consensus, however, the evidence for this putative feud is lacking, and it is likely to be specious; according to alan cameron, "there is no genuinely ancient evidence at all."[ ] moreover, without knowing the precise nature of the role, it is impossible to conclude what should be inferred from callimachus' failure to become chief librarian. though callimachus was an opponent of "big books", the suda puts his number of works at (a possibly exaggerated) , suggesting that he found large quantities of small works more acceptable. of these, only six hymns, sixty-four epigrams, and some fragments are extant; a considerable fragment of the hecale, one of callimachus' few longer poems treating epic material, has also been discovered in the rainer papyri. his aetia (Αἴτια, "causes"),[ ] another rare longer work surviving only in tattered papyrus fragments and quotations in later authors, was a collection of elegiac poems in four books, dealing with the foundation of cities, obscure religious ceremonies, unique local traditions apparently chosen for their oddity,[ ] and other customs, throughout the hellenic world.[ ] in the first three books at least, the formula appears to ask a question of the muse, of the form, "why, on paros, do worshippers of the charites use neither flutes nor crowns?"[ ] "why, at argos is a month named for 'lambs'?"[ ] "why, at leucas, does the image of artemis have a mortar on its head?"[ ] a series of questions can be reconstituted from the fragments.[ ] one passage of the aetia, the so-called coma berenices, has been reconstructed from papyrus remains and the celebrated latin adaptation of catullus (catullus ). the extant hymns are extremely learned, and written in a style that some have criticised as labored and artificial. the fourth hymn appears to have been heavily influenced by pyrrhonist philosophy.[ ]the epigrams are more widely respected, and several have been incorporated into the greek anthology.[ ] according to quintilian ( . . ) he was the chief of the elegiac poets; his elegies were highly esteemed by the romans (see neoterics), and imitated by ovid, catullus, and especially sextus propertius.[ ] many modern classicists hold callimachus in high regard for his major influence on latin poetry. archaeological remains attest to this thematic and stylistic interaction as well. an erotic epigram attributed to callimachus was found painted onto the interior wall of the auditorium of maecenas, a triclinium preserved on the esquiline hill in rome.[ ] gaius maecenas was a prominent patron of the arts who funded and entertained the most prominent elegiac writers of his time; it follows naturally than much activity intrinsic to latin poetry took place in this callimachus-inscribed room. this epigram's subject matter, an apology to a male lover for misbehavior caused by wine and lust, reinforces the tradition-breaking emotional individualism and witty experimentation valued by latin elegiacs.[ ] callimachus' most famous prose work is the pinakes (lists), a bibliographical survey of authors of the works held in the library of alexandria. the pinakes was one of the first known documents that lists, identifies, and categorizes a library's holdings. by consulting the pinakes, a library patron could find out if the library contained a work by a particular author, how it was categorized, and where it might be found. it is important to note that callimachus did not seem to have any models for his pinakes, and invented this system on his own.[ ] critical editions (ancient greek texts)[edit] 	pfeiffer, r. callimachus, vol. i: fragmenta (oxford, ). isbn  - - - - . 	pfeiffer, r. callimachus, vol. ii: hymni et epigrammata (oxford, ). isbn  - - - - . 	lloyd-jones, h. et al. supplementum hellenisticum, (berlin, ). isbn  - - - - . commentaries[edit] 	bing, peter. callimachus’ hymn to delos – : introduction and commentary (dissertation, u. michigan, ). 	bulloch, a. w. callimachus: the fifth hymn (cup, ). isbn  - - - - . 	harder, m.a. callimachus: aetia (oup, ). isbn  - - - - . 	hollis, a.s. callimachus: hecale (oup, ); nd ed. . isbn  - - - - . 	hopkinson, neil. callimachus: hymn to demeter (cup, ). isbn  - - - - . 	hopkinson, neil. a hellenistic anthology (cup, ). isbn  - - - - . 	kerkhecker, arnd. callimachus' book of iambi (oup, ). isbn  - - - - . 	massimilla, g. aitia. libri primo e secondo (pisa: giardini editori, ). isbn  - - - - . 	massimilla, g. aitia. libro terzo e quarto (pisa: f. serra, ). isbn  - - - - . 	mckay, k. j. erysichthon: a callimachean comedy (brill, ). isbn  - - - - . 	mckay, k. j. the poet at play: kallimachus, the bath of pallas (brill, ). 	mclennan, g. r. callimachus: hymn to zeus (edizioni dell'ateneo & bizzarri, ). 	stephens, susan a. callimachus: the hymns. edited with introduction, translation and commentary oxford: oxford university press ( ). isbn  	williams, frederick. callimachus: hymn to apollo (oup, ). isbn  - - - - . translations[edit] 	lombardo, s. & rayor, d.j. callimachus: hymns, epigrams, select fragments (johns hopkins ). isbn  - - - - 	mair, a.w. & mair, g.r. callimachus: hymns and epigrams. lycophron and aratus, loeb classical library no. , nd rev. ed. (cambridge, ma: ) isbn  - - - - . 	nisetich, frank. the poems of callimachus (oxford ). isbn  - - - - 	stephens, susan a. callimachus: the hymns. edited with introduction, translation and commentary oxford: oxford university press ( ). isbn  	trypanis, c.a. et al. callimachus: aetia, iambi, hecale and other fragments. musaeus: hero and leander, loeb classical library no. (cambridge, ma: ) isbn  - - - - . 	william johnson cory 's well-known "heraclitus" is a poetic translation of callimachus's elegy for his friend heraclitus of halicarnassus (not the pre-socratic philosopher.) criticism and history[edit] 	acosta-hughes, b. polyeideia: the iambi of callimachus and the archaic iambic tradition (u. california, ). isbn  - - - - . 	bing, p. the well-read muse: present and past in callimachus and the hellenistic poets, nd ed. (university of michigan press, ). isbn  - - - - . 	blum, r. kallimachos. the alexandrian library and the origins of bibliography, trans. h.h. wellisch (u. wisconsin, ). isbn  - - - - . 	cameron, a. callimachus and his critics (princeton, ). isbn  - - - - . 	de romilly, j. a short history of greek literature, trans. l. doherty. (university of chicago press, ). isbn  - - - - . 	fantuzzi, m. & hunter, r. tradition and innovation in hellenistic poetry (cup, ). isbn  - - - - . 	ferguson, john ( ). callimachus. boston: twayne publishers. 	green, peter. alexander to actium: the historical evolution of the hellenistic age (u. california, ) isbn  - - - - , chapters ('the critic as poet: callimachus, aratus of soli, lycophron') and ('armchair epic: apollonius rhodius and the voyage of argo'). 	harder, m. a.; regtuit, r. f.; wakker, g. c., eds. ( ). hellenistica groningana. vol. : callimachus. groningen: egbert forsten. 	hunter, r. the shadow of callimachus (cup, ). isbn  - - - - . 	hutchinson, g. o. ( ). hellenistic poetry. new york: clarendon press. isbn  - - - - . 	selden, d. "alibis," classical antiquity ( ), – . 	smith, william ( ). "callimachus". dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology. . taylor and walton. see also[edit] 	the neoterics, or the new poets notes[edit] 	^ hopkinson : gives the birth year as "c. "; mair : offers: "the most probable date on the whole for the birth of callimachus is circ. b.c. we learn from vit. arat. i. that callimachus, both in his epigrams and also ἐν τοῖς πρὸς Πραξιφάνην, referred to aratus as older than himself. but as they were fellow-students at athens the difference of age is not likely to have been considerable: we may put the birth of aratus in , that of callimachus in ." 	^ hopkinson : 	^ hutchinson : . 	^ hopkinson : . 	^ epigram gow-page. 	^ see fr. pfeiffer. 	^ see, e.g., hymn to zeus vv. - , hymn to delos vv. ff. 	^ p.oxy. . 	^ cameron ( ), p. 	^ the greek word αἴτιον, aition means "cause" and here refers to a story type popular in greek myth and history. the founding myth is a common example of an aition. the plural of αἴτιον, αἴτια (aitia), is most often rendered via the latinized transliteration aetia when referring to this poem. 	^ noel robertson, "callimachus' tale of sicyon ('sh' )" phoenix . / (spring : – ), p. 	^ a b c  one or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "callimachus". encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. p.  . 	^ aetia , frag. . 	^ aetia , frags. – a. 	^ aetia , frags. b–e. 	^ robertson : f, note . 	^ dee clayman, timon of phlius isbn  pp - 	^ acosta-hughes, benjamin ( ). henriksen, christer (ed.). a companion to ancient epigram. john wiley & sons. p.  . 	^ wyler, stéphanie ( ). "an augustan trend towards dionysos: around the 'auditorium of maecenas'". in bernabe, alberto; herrero dejáuregui, miguel; san cristóbal, ana; martín hernández, raquel (eds.). redefining dionysos. 	^ blum , p. , cited in phillips, heather a. (august ). 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ancient greek: Περὶ ζῴων ἰδιότητος, perì zṓōn idiótētos; usually cited, though, by its latin title: de natura animalium) is a curious collection,[ ] in seventeen books, of brief stories of natural history, sometimes selected with an eye to conveying allegorical moral lessons, sometimes because they are just so astonishing: 	"the beaver is an amphibious creature: by day it lives hidden in rivers, but at night it roams the land, feeding itself with anything that it can find. now it understands the reason why hunters come after it with such eagerness and impetuosity, and it puts down its head and with its teeth cuts off its testicles and throws them in their path, as a prudent man who, falling into the hands of robbers, sacrifices all that he is carrying, to save his life, and forfeits his possessions by way of ransom. if however it has already saved its life by self-castration and is again pursued, then it stands up and reveals that it offers no ground for their eager pursuit, and releases the hunters from all further exertions, for they esteem its flesh less. often however beavers with testicles intact, after escaping as far away as possible, have drawn in the coveted part, and with great skill and ingenuity tricked their pursuers, pretending that they no longer possessed what they were keeping in concealment." the loeb classical library introduction characterizes the book as 	"an appealing collection of facts and fables about the animal kingdom that invites the reader to ponder contrasts between human and animal behavior." aelian's anecdotes on animals rarely depend on direct observation: they are almost entirely taken from written sources, often pliny the elder, but also other authors and works now lost, to whom he is thus a valuable witness.[ ] he is more attentive to marine life than might be expected,[according to whom?] though, and this seems to reflect first-hand personal interest; he often quotes "fishermen". at times he strikes the modern reader as thoroughly credulous, but at others he specifically states that he is merely reporting what is told by others, and even that he does not believe them. aelian's work is one of the sources of medieval natural history and of the bestiaries of the middle ages.[ ] the portions of the text that are still extant are badly mangled and garbled and replete with later interpolations.[ ] conrad gessner (or gesner), the swiss scientist and natural historian of the renaissance, made a latin translation of aelian's work, to give it a wider european audience. an english translation by a. f. scholfield has been published in the loeb classical library, vols. ( - ). varia historia[edit] title page of varia historia, from the edition by tanaquil faber various history (Ποικίλη ἱστορία, poikílē historía)—for the most part preserved only in an abridged form[ ]—is aelian's other well-known work, a miscellany of anecdotes and biographical sketches, lists, pithy maxims, and descriptions of natural wonders and strange local customs, in  books, with many surprises for the cultural historian and the mythographer, anecdotes about the famous greek philosophers, poets, historians, and playwrights and myths instructively retold. the emphasis is on various moralizing tales about heroes and rulers, athletes and wise men; reports about food and drink, different styles in dress or lovers, local habits in giving gifts or entertainments, or in religious beliefs and death customs; and comments on greek painting. aelian gives an account of fly fishing, using lures of red wool and feathers, of lacquerwork, serpent worship — essentially the various history is a classical "magazine" in the original senses of that word. he is not perfectly trustworthy in details, and his agenda was heavily influenced by stoic opinions,[ ] perhaps so that his readers will not feel guilty, but jane ellen harrison found survivals of archaic rites mentioned by aelian very illuminating in her prolegomena to the study of greek religion ( , ). the first printing was in . the standard modern text is mervin r. dilts's, of . two english translations of the various history, by fleming ( ) and stanley ( ) made aelian's miscellany available to english readers, but after no english translation appeared, until three english translations appeared almost simultaneously: james g. devoto, claudius aelianus: Ποικίλης Ἱστορίας (varia historia) chicago, ; diane ostrom johnson, an english translation of claudius aelianus' "varia historia", ; and n. g. wilson, aelian: historical miscellany in the loeb classical library. other works[edit] considerable fragments of two other works, on providence and divine manifestations, are preserved in the early medieval encyclopedia, the suda. twenty "letters from a farmer" after the manner of alciphron are also attributed to him.[ ] the letters are invented compositions to a fictitious correspondent, which are a device for vignettes of agricultural and rural life, set in attica, though mellifluous aelian once boasted that he had never been outside italy, never been aboard a ship (which is at variance, though, with his own statement, de natura animalium xi. , that he had seen the bull serapis with his own eyes). thus conclusions about actual agriculture in the letters are as likely to evoke latium as attica. the fragments have been edited in by d. domingo-foraste, but are not available in english. the letters are available in the loeb classical library, translated by allen rogers benner and francis h. fobes ( ). see also[edit] 	historiae animalium by gessner references[edit] 	^ Η φυσιογνωμία ενός λαού θεμελιών. Μύθοι για την Ελιά. retrieved june , , from http://www.etwinning.gr/projects/elia/muthoi.htm 	^ a b c d  this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "aelian". encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. p.  . this cites: 	editio princeps of complete works by gesner, ; hercher, - . 	english translation of the various history only by fleming, , and stanley, 	translation of the letters by quillard (french), 	^ the third volume of the loeb classical library translation gives a gazetteer of authors cited by aelian. 	^ cohen, simona ( ). animals as disguised symbols in renaissance art. brill. pp.  – . isbn  - - - - . 	^ "aelian's text, riddled as it is with corrupt passages and packed with interpretations,provides ample scope for reckless emendation", d. e. eichholz observed, reviewing sholfield's loeb library translation in the classical review : , and praising the translator for restraint in this direction. 	^ zeyl, donald ( ). encyclopedia of classical philosophy. routledge. isbn  . retrieved november . further reading[edit] 	aelian, on animals. volumes. translated by a. f. scholfield. - . loeb classical library. isbn  - - - - , isbn  - - - - , and isbn  - - - - 	aelian, historical miscellany. translated by nigel g. wilson. . loeb classical library. isbn  - - - - 	alciphron, aelian, and philostratus, the letters. translated by a. r. benner, f. h. fobes. . loeb classical library. isbn  - - - - 	aelian, on the nature of animals. translated by gregory mcnamee. . trinity university press. isbn  - - - - 	ailianos, vermischte forschung. greek and german by kai brodersen. . sammlung tusculum. de gruyter berlin & boston isbn  - - - - 	ailianos, tierleben. greek and german by kai brodersen. . sammlung tusculum. de gruyter berlin & boston , isbn isbn  - - - - 	claudius aelianus, vom wesen der tiere - de natura animalium. german and commentary by paul-gerhard veh, philipp stahlhut. . bibliothek der griechischen literaur. anton hiersemann verlag stuttgart , isbn isbn  - - - - external links[edit] 		wikisource has original works written by or about: claudius aelianus 	works by or about claudius aelianus at internet archive 	works by claudius aelianus at librivox (public domain audiobooks) 	Ποικίλη ἱστορία – bibliotheca augustana 	raw greek ocr of hercher's teubner edition of aelian's works at the lace repository of mount allison university: vol. i, vol. 	various history at james eason's site (excerpts in english translation) 	english translation of aelian's fragments at attalus.org 	some quotes from aelian's natural history (english) 	aelian from the fly-fisherman's point-of-view 	the evidence for aelian's katêgoria tou gunnidos regarding aelian's presumed invective against elagabalus aelian's characteristics of animals[edit] greek with english translation[edit] 	aelian on the characteristics of animals, books i-v (greek with english translation by a.f. scholfield, ) 	aelian on the characteristics of animals, books vi-xi (greek with english translation by a.f. scholfield, ) 	aelian on the characteristics of animals, books xii-xvii (greek with english translation by a.f. scholfield, ) 	html version of scholfield's english 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search 		latin-language novelist, rhetorician, and platonist philosopher not to be confused with lucius appuleius saturninus, a roman demagogue, or others with the name apuleius or appuleius. 	apuleius 	late antique ceiling painting of apuleius, c. 	born	c.  ad madaurus, numidia 	died	c. (aged  – ) ad 	occupation	novelist, writer, public speaker 	notable works	the golden ass apuleius (/ˌæpjʊˈliːəs/; also called lucius apuleius madaurensis; c. – c. ad[ ]) was a latin-language prose writer, platonist philosopher and rhetorician.[ ] he was a numidian who lived under the roman empire[ ] and was from madauros (now m'daourouch, algeria). he studied platonism in athens, travelled to italy, asia minor, and egypt, and was an initiate in several cults or mysteries. the most famous incident in his life was when he was accused of using magic to gain the attentions (and fortune) of a wealthy widow. he declaimed and then distributed a witty tour de force in his own defense before the proconsul and a court of magistrates convened in sabratha, near ancient tripoli, libya. this is known as the apologia. his most famous work is his bawdy picaresque novel, the metamorphoses, otherwise known as the golden ass. it is the only latin novel that has survived in its entirety. being an immensely sophisticated narrative that opens up various perspectives onto a rich cultural and social life, metamorphoses was underappreciated until recent decades.[ ] it relates the ludicrous adventures of one lucius, who experiments with magic and is accidentally turned into a donkey. lucius goes through various adventures before he is turned back into a human being by the goddess isis.[ ] contents 	 life 	 works 	 . the golden ass 	 . the apologia 	 . other works 	 . spurious works 	 apuleian sphere 	 notes 	 references 	 external links life[edit] imagined portrait of apuleius on a medallion of the th century. apuleii opera omnia ( ) apuleius was born in madauros, a colonia in numidia on the north african coast bordering gaetulia, and he described himself as "half-numidian half-gaetulian."[ ] madaurus was the same colonia where augustine of hippo later received part of his early education, and, though located well away from the romanized coast, is today the site of some pristine roman ruins. as to his first name, no praenomen is given in any ancient source;[ ] late-medieval manuscripts began the tradition of calling him lucius from the name of the hero of his novel.[ ] details regarding his life come mostly from his defense speech (apology) and his work florida (apuleius), which consists of snippets taken from some of his best speeches. his father was a provincial magistrate (duumvir)[ ] who bequeathed at his death the sum of nearly two million sesterces to his two sons.[ ] apuleius studied with a master at carthage (where he later settled) and later at athens, where he studied platonist philosophy among other subjects. he subsequently went to rome[ ] to study latin rhetoric and, most likely, to speak in the law courts for a time before returning to his native north africa. he also travelled extensively in asia minor and egypt, studying philosophy and religion, burning up his inheritance while doing so. apuleius was an initiate in several greco-roman mysteries, including the dionysian mysteries.[ ] he was a priest of asclepius[ ] and, according to augustine,[ ] sacerdos provinciae africae (i.e., priest of the province of carthage). not long after his return home he set out upon a new journey to alexandria.[ ] on his way there he was taken ill at the town of oea (modern-day tripoli) and was hospitably received into the house of sicinius pontianus, with whom he had been friends when he had studied in athens.[ ] the mother of pontianus, pudentilla, was a very rich widow. with her son's consent – indeed encouragement – apuleius agreed to marry her.[ ] meanwhile, pontianus himself married the daughter of one herennius rufinus; he, indignant that pudentilla's wealth should pass out of the family, instigated his son-in-law, together with a younger brother, sicinius pudens, a mere boy, and their paternal uncle, sicinius aemilianus, to join him in impeaching apuleius upon the charge that he had gained the affections of pudentilla by charms and magic spells.[ ] the case was heard at sabratha, near tripoli, c.   ad, before claudius maximus, proconsul of africa.[ ] the accusation itself seems to have been ridiculous, and the spirited and triumphant defence spoken by apuleius is still extant. this is known as the apologia (a discourse on magic).[ ] apuleius accused an extravagant personal enemy of turning his house into a brothel and prostituting his own wife.[ ] of his subsequent career we know little. judging from the many works of which he was author, he must have devoted himself diligently to literature. he occasionally gave speeches in public to great reception; he had the charge of exhibiting gladiatorial shows and wild beast events in the province, and statues were erected in his honor by the senate of carthage and of other senates.[ ] the date, place and circumstances of apuleius' death are not known.[ ][ ] there is no record of his activities after , a fact which has led some people to believe that he must have died about then (say in ), although other scholars feel that he may still have been alive in or even .[ ] works[edit] frontispiece from the bohn's classical library edition of the works of apuleius: a portrait of apuleius flanked by pamphile changing into an owl and the golden ass the golden ass[edit] main article: the golden ass the golden ass (asinus aureus) or metamorphoses is the only latin novel that has survived in its entirety. it is an imaginative, irreverent, and amusing work that relates the ludicrous adventures of one lucius, who introduces himself as related to the famous philosophers plutarch and sextus of chaeronea. lucius experiments with magic and is accidentally turned into an ass. in this guise he hears and sees many unusual things, until escaping from his predicament in a rather unexpected way. within this frame story are found many digressions, the longest among them being the well-known tale of cupid and psyche. this story is a rare instance of a fairy tale preserved in an ancient literary text.[ ] the metamorphoses ends with the (once again human) hero, lucius, eager to be initiated into the mystery cult of isis; he abstains from forbidden foods, bathes, and purifies himself. he is introduced to the navigium isidis. then the secrets of the cult's books are explained to him, and further secrets are revealed before he goes through the process of initiation, which involves a trial by the elements in a journey to the underworld. lucius is then asked to seek initiation into the cult of osiris in rome, and eventually is initiated into the pastophoroi – a group of priests that serves isis and osiris.[ ] the apologia[edit] apologia (apulei platonici pro se de magia) is the version of the defense presented in sabratha, in – , before the proconsul claudius maximus, by apuleius accused of the crime of magic. between the traditional exordium and peroratio, the argumentation is divided into three sections: 	refutation of the accusations leveled against his private life. he demonstrates that by marrying pudentilla he had no interested motive and that he carries it away, intellectually and morally, on his opponents. 	attempt to prove that his so-called "magical operations" were in fact indispensable scientific experiments for an imitator of aristotle and hippocrates, or the religious acts of a roman platonist. 	a recount of the events that have occurred in oea since his arrival and pulverize the arguments against him. the main interest of the apology is historical, as he offers substantial information about its author, magic and life in africa in the second century.[ ] other works[edit] his other works are: 	florida. a compilation of twenty-three extracts from his various speeches and lectures. 	de platone et dogmate eius (on plato and his doctrine). an outline in two books of plato's physics and ethics, preceded by a life of plato 	de deo socratis (on the god of socrates). a work on the existence and nature of daemons, the intermediaries between gods and humans. this treatise was attacked by augustine of hippo. it contains a passage comparing gods and kings which is the first recorded occurrence of the proverb "familiarity breeds contempt":[ ]parit enim conversatio contemptum, raritas conciliat admirationem (familiarity breeds contempt, rarity brings admiration) 	on the universe. this latin translation of pseudo-aristotle's work de mundo is probably by apuleius. apuleius wrote many other works which have not survived. he wrote works of poetry and fiction, as well as technical treatises on politics, dendrology, agriculture, medicine, natural history, astronomy, music, and arithmetic, and he translated plato's phaedo.[ ] spurious works[edit] the extant works wrongly attributed to apuleius are:[ ] 	peri hermeneias (on interpretation). a brief latin version of a guide to aristotelian logic. 	asclepius. a latin paraphrase of a lost greek dialogue (the perfect discourse) featuring asclepius and hermes trismegistus. apuleian sphere[edit] the apuleian sphere described in petosiris to nechepso, also known as "columcille's circle" or "petosiris' circle",[ ] is a magical prognosticating device for predicting the survival of a patient.[ ] notes[edit] 	^ "lucius apuleius". encyclopædia britannica. 	^ a b "apuleius, apology". george town university. 	^ "berbers: ... the best known of them were the roman author apuleius, the roman emperor septimius severus, and st. augustine", encyclopedia americana, scholastic library publishing, , v. , p. 	^ a b c roman, l., & roman, m. ( ). encyclopedia of greek and roman mythology., p. , at google books 	^ a b apuleius, apology, 	^ p. g. walsh, ( ) the golden ass, page xi. oxford university press. 	^ julia haig gaisser, ( ), the fortunes of apuleius and the golden ass: a study in transmission and reception, page . princeton university press. 	^ apuleius, apology, 	^ apuleius, florida, . 	^ as he proudly claims in his apologia. (winter, thomas nelson ( ) apology as prosecution: the trial of apuleius) 	^ apuleius, florida . and . 	^ augustine, epistle . . 	^ a b apuleius, apology, . 	^ apuleius, apology, 	^ apuleius, apology, , , , etc 	^ apuleius, apology, , , 	^ apuleius, apology, – ; rebecca flemming ( ), "quae corpore quaestum facit: the sexual economy of female prostitution in the roman empire," journal of roman studies , p.  . 	^ apuleius, apology, , ; florida, iii. n. ; augustine, ep. v. 	^ gollnick, james ( ). the religious dreamworld of apuleius' metamorphoses: recovering a forgotten hermeneutic. wilfrid laurier univ. press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ apuleius ( ). the golden ass, or, the metamorphoses. barnes & noble publishing. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ londey, david george; johanson, carmen j. ( ). the logic of apuleius: including a complete latin text and english translation of the peri hermeneias of apuleius of madaura. brill publishers. p.  . isbn  - - - . 	^ iles johnson, sarah, mysteries, in ancient religions pp. – , the belknap press of harvard university ( ), isbn  - - - - 	^ cèbe, jean-pierre ( ). "apulée". encyclopédie berbère. | antilopes – arzuges. aix-en-provence: edisud. pp.  – . 	^ s. j. harrison ( ), apuleius, oxford university press, p.  , isbn  - - - - 	^ p. g. walsh, ( ) the golden ass, pages xiv–xv. oxford university press. 	^ mark p. o. morford, ( ), the roman philosophers, page . routledge. 	^ kalesmaki, joel. "types of greek numerology". archived from the original on may . retrieved june . 	^ rust, martha dana ( ). "art of beekeeping meets the arts of grammar: a gloss of "columcille's circle"". philological quarterly. . references[edit] 	luca graverini, literature and identity in the golden ass of apuleius (columbus: ohio state university press, ; original ed. in italian, pisa: pacini, ). isbn  - . 	claudio moreschini, apuleius and the metamorphoses of platonism (turnhout: brepols publishers, ) (nutrix. studies in late antique, medieval and renaissance thought ), isbn  - - - - 	carl c. schlam, the metamorphoses of apuleius: on making an ass of oneself (chapel hill-london, ). 	gerald sandy, the greek world of apuleius: apuleius and the second sophistic (leiden, brill, ). 	finkelpearl, ellen d. metamorphosis of language in apuleius: a study of allusion in the novel (ann arbor: the university of michigan press, ). 	o. pecere, a. stramaglia, studi apuleiani. note di aggiornamento di l. graverini (cassino: edizioni dell' università degli studi di cassino, ). 	lucia pasetti, plauto in apuleio (bologna: patron editore, ). 	frangoulidis, stavros. witches, isis and narrative: approaches to magic in apuleius' metamorphoses (berlin; new york: walter de gruyter, ) (trends in classics – supplementary volumes, ). 	apuleius : rhetorical works. translated and annotated stephen harrison, john hilton, and vincent hunink. edited stephen harrison. 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.  km ( .  sq mi) 	elevation 	  m (  ft) 	population (mid-  est. -) 	 • total	 , (ranked th) 	 • ethnicity ( )[ ] 	 % white british . % white irish % white other . % black british . % mixed race % british asian & chinese . % other 	demonym(s)	cantabrigian 	time zone	utc+ (greenwich mean time) 	 • summer (dst)	utc+ (bst) 	postcode	cb  – cb 	area code(s)	 	ons code	 ub (ons) e (gss) 	os grid reference	tl 	website	www.cambridge.gov.uk cambridge (/ˈkeɪmbrɪdʒ/[ ] kaym-brij) is a university city and the county town of cambridgeshire, england, on the river cam approximately miles (  km) north of london. at the united kingdom census , the population of the cambridge built-up area (which is larger than the remit of cambridge city council) was , including , students.[ ] cambridge became an important trading centre during the roman and viking ages, and there is archaeological evidence of settlement in the area as early as the bronze age. the first town charters were granted in the th century, although modern city status was not officially conferred until . the university of cambridge was founded in .[ ] the buildings of the university include king's college chapel, cavendish laboratory, and the cambridge university library, one of the largest legal deposit libraries in the world. the city's skyline is dominated by several college buildings, along with the spire of the our lady and the english martyrs church, and the chimney of addenbrooke's hospital. anglia ruskin university, which evolved from the cambridge school of art and the cambridgeshire college of arts and technology, also has its main campus in the city. cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology silicon fen with industries such as software and bioscience and many start-up companies born out of the university. over per cent of the workforce have a higher education qualification, more than twice the national average. the cambridge biomedical campus, one of the largest biomedical research clusters in the world, is soon to house premises of astrazeneca, a hotel, and the relocated royal papworth hospital.[ ] the first game of association football took place at parker's piece. the strawberry fair music and arts festival and midsummer fair are held on midsummer common, and the annual cambridge beer festival takes place on jesus green. the city is adjacent to the m and a roads. cambridge station is less than an hour from london king's cross railway station. contents 	 history 	 . prehistory 	 . roman 	 . medieval 	 . early modern 	 . early-industrial era 	 . th and st centuries 	 governance 	 . local government 	 . westminster 	 geography and environment 	 . climate 	 . ecology 	 . green belt 	 demography 	 . historical population 	 economy 	 transport 	 . rail 	 education 	 sport 	 . football 	 . cricket 	 . rugby 	 . watersports 	 . greyhound racing 	 . other sports 	 . varsity sports 	 culture 	 . theatre 	 . museums 	 . music 	 . . popular music 	 . . classical music 	 . contemporary art 	 . festivals and events 	 . literature and film 	 public services 	 religion 	 twinned cities 	 panoramic gallery 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links history[edit] see also: timeline of cambridge prehistory[edit] see also: prehistoric britain and british iron age settlements have existed around the cambridge area since prehistoric times. the earliest clear evidence of occupation is the remains of a , -year-old farmstead discovered at the site of fitzwilliam college.[ ] archaeological evidence of occupation through the iron age is a settlement on castle hill from the st century bc, perhaps relating to wider cultural changes occurring in southeastern britain linked to the arrival of the belgae.[ ] roman[edit] main article: duroliponte the principal roman site is a small fort (castrum) duroliponte on castle hill, just northwest of the city centre around the location of the earlier british village. the fort was bounded on two sides by the lines formed by the present mount pleasant, continuing across huntingdon road into clare street. the eastern side followed magrath avenue, with the southern side running near to chesterton lane and kettle's yard before turning northwest at honey hill.[ ] it was constructed around ad  and converted to civilian use around years later. evidence of more widespread roman settlement has been discovered including numerous farmsteads[ ] and a village in the cambridge district of newnham.[ ] medieval[edit] trinity street, pictured in . trinity college is on the left, with st john's college in the background. following the roman withdrawal from britain around , the location may have been abandoned by the britons, although the site is usually identified as cair grauth[ ] listed among the cities of britain by the history of the britons.[ ][ ] evidence exists that the invading anglo-saxons had begun occupying the area by the end of the century.[ ] their settlement – also on and around castle hill – became known as grantebrycge.[ ] ("granta-bridge"). (by middle english, the settlement's name had changed to "cambridge", and the lower stretches of the granta changed their name to match.[ ]) anglo-saxon grave goods have been found in the area. during this period, cambridge benefited from good trade links across the hard-to-travel fenlands. by the th century, the town was less significant and described by bede as a "little ruined city" containing the burial site of etheldreda.[ ] cambridge was on the border between the east and middle anglian kingdoms and the settlement slowly expanded on both sides of the river.[ ] st bene't's church, the oldest standing building in cambridgeshire, situated next to corpus christi college[ ] peterhouse was the first college to be founded in the university of cambridge. the president's lodge, queens' college. the arrival of the vikings was recorded in the anglo-saxon chronicle in . viking rule, the danelaw, had been imposed by [ ] their vigorous trading habits caused the town to grow rapidly. during this period the centre of the town shifted from castle hill on the left bank of the river to the area now known as the quayside on the right bank.[ ] after the viking period, the saxons enjoyed a return to power, building churches such as st bene't's church, wharves, merchant houses and a mint, which produced coins with the town's name abbreviated to "grant".[ ] in , two years after his conquest of england, william of normandy built a castle on castle hill.[ ] like the rest of the newly conquered kingdom, cambridge fell under the control of the king and his deputies. the first town charter was granted by henry i between and . it gave cambridge monopoly of waterborne traffic and hithe tolls and recognised the borough court.[ ] the distinctive round church dates from this period.[ ] in , cambridge university was founded by oxford students fleeing from hostility.[ ][ ] the oldest existing college, peterhouse, was founded in .[ ] in cambridge was affected by the black death. few records survive but of scholars at king's hall died.[ ] the town north of the river was severely affected being almost wiped out.[ ] following further depopulation after a second national epidemic in , a letter from the bishop of ely suggested that two parishes in cambridge be merged as there were not enough people to fill even one church.[ ] with more than a third of english clergy dying in the black death, four new colleges were established at the university over the following years to train new clergymen, namely gonville hall, trinity hall, corpus christi and clare.[ ] in a revised town charter effects a "diminution of the liberties that the community had enjoyed", due to cambridge's participation in the peasants' revolt. the charter transfers supervision of baking and brewing, weights and measures, and forestalling and regrating, from the town to the university.[ ] king's college chapel, was begun in by king henry vi.[ ] the chapel was built in phases by a succession of kings of england from to , its history intertwined with the wars of the roses, and completed during the reign of king henry viii.[ ] the building would become synonymous with cambridge, and currently is used in the logo for the city council.[ ] early modern[edit] cambridge in following repeated outbreaks of pestilence throughout the th century,[ ] sanitation and fresh water were brought to cambridge by the construction of hobson's conduit in the early s. water was brought from nine wells, at the foot of the gog magog hills, into the centre of the town.[ ] cambridge played a significant role in the early part of the english civil war as it was the headquarters of the eastern counties association, an organisation administering a regional east anglian army, which became the mainstay of the parliamentarian military effort before the formation of the new model army.[ ] in control of the town was given by parliament to oliver cromwell, who had been educated at sidney sussex college.[ ] the town's castle was fortified and garrisoned with troops and some bridges were destroyed to aid its defence. although royalist forces came within miles (  km) of the town in , the defences were never used and the garrison was stood down the following year.[ ] early-industrial era[edit] in the th century, in common with many other english towns, cambridge expanded rapidly, due in part to increased life expectancy and improved agricultural production leading to increased trade in town markets.[ ] the inclosure acts of and enabled the town to expand over surrounding open fields and in and again in its boundaries were extended to include chesterton, cherry hinton, and trumpington.[ ] the railway came to cambridge in after initial resistance, with the opening of the great eastern railway's london to norwich line. the station was outside the town centre following pressure from the university to restrict travel by undergraduates.[ ] with the arrival of the railway and associated employment came development of areas around the station, such as romsey town.[ ] the rail link to london stimulated heavier industries, such as the production of brick, cement and malt.[ ] th and st centuries[edit] from the s to the s, the size of the city was increased by several large council estates.[ ] the biggest impact has been on the area north of the river, which are now the estates of east chesterton, king's hedges, and arbury where archbishop rowan williams lived and worked as an assistant priest in the early s.[ ] during the second world war, cambridge was an important centre for defence of the east coast. the town became a military centre, with an r.a.f. training centre and the regional headquarters for norfolk, suffolk, essex, cambridgeshire, huntingdonshire, hertfordshire, and bedfordshire established during the conflict.[ ] the town itself escaped relatively lightly from german bombing raids, which were mainly targeted at the railway. people were killed and no historic buildings were damaged. in , a secret meeting of military leaders held in trinity college laid the foundation for the allied invasion of europe.[ ] during the war cambridge served as an evacuation centre for over , people from london, as well as for parts of the university of london.[ ] cambridge was granted its city charter in in recognition of its history, administrative importance and economic success.[ ] cambridge does not have a cathedral, traditionally a prerequisite for city status, instead falling within the church of england diocese of ely. in cambridge's first shopping arcade, bradwell's court, opened on drummer street, though this was demolished in .[ ] other shopping arcades followed at lion yard, which housed a relocated central library for the city, and the grafton centre which replaced victorian housing stock which had fallen into disrepair in the kite area of the city. this latter project was controversial at the time.[ ] the city gained its second university in when anglia polytechnic became anglia polytechnic university. renamed anglia ruskin university in , the institution has its origins in the cambridge school of art opened in by john ruskin. the open university also has a presence in the city, with an office operating on hills road.[ ] governance[edit] local government[edit] map showing the electoral boundaries of the city, with postcode districts superimposed. see also: cambridge local elections cambridge is a non-metropolitan district served by cambridge city council. cambridge local authority district covers most of the city's urban area but some extends outside this into south cambridgeshire district. cambridge is one of five districts within the county of cambridgeshire, and is bordered on all sides by the mainly rural south cambridgeshire district. the city council's headquarters are in the guildhall, a large building in the market square. cambridge was granted a royal charter by king john in , which permitted the appointment of a mayor,[ ] although the first recorded mayor, harvey fitzeustace, served in .[ ] city councillors now elect a mayor annually. for electoral purposes the city is divided into wards: abbey, arbury, castle, cherry hinton, coleridge, east chesterton, king's hedges, market, newnham, petersfield, queen edith's, romsey, trumpington, and west chesterton. the political composition of the city council is currently: labour councillors, liberal democrat, independent and one conservative.[ ] each of the wards also elects councillors to cambridgeshire county council. responsible for services including school education, social care and highways, since the county council has been controlled by the conservative party.[ ] westminster[edit] see also: cambridge (uk parliament constituency) the parliamentary constituency of cambridge covers most of the city; daniel zeichner (labour) has represented the seat since the general election. the seat was generally held by the conservatives until it was won by labour in , then taken by the liberal democrats in and , before returning to labour in . a southern area of the city, queen edith's ward,[ ] falls within in the south cambridgeshire constituency, whose mp is anthony browne (conservative), first elected in . the university of cambridge formerly had two seats in the house of commons; sir isaac newton was one of the most notable mps. the cambridge university constituency was abolished under legislation, and ceased at the dissolution of parliament for the general election, along with the other university constituencies. geography and environment[edit] 	places adjacent to cambridge 		girton	histon and impington milton	fen ditton 	coton	 cambridge 	teversham 	grantchester	great shelford	fulbourn aerial view of cambridge city centre cambridge is situated about miles (  km) north-by-east of london and miles ( kilometres) east of birmingham. the city is located in an area of level and relatively low-lying terrain just south of the fens, which varies between and metres ( and  ft) above sea level.[ ] the town was thus historically surrounded by low lying wetlands that have been drained as the town has expanded.[ ] the underlying geology of cambridge consists of gault clay and chalk marl, known locally as cambridge greensand,[ ] partly overlaid by terrace gravel.[ ] a layer of phosphatic nodules (coprolites) under the marl were mined in the th century for fertiliser. it became a major industry in the county, and its profits yielded buildings such as the corn exchange, fulbourn hospital and st. john's chapel until the quarries act and competition from america ended production.[ ] the river cam flows through the city from the village of grantchester, to the southwest. it is bordered by water meadows within the city such as sheep's green as well as residential development.[ ] like most cities, modern-day cambridge has many suburbs and areas of high-density housing. the city centre of cambridge is mostly commercial, historic buildings, and large green areas such as jesus green, parker's piece and midsummer common. many of the roads in the centre are pedestrianised. the rear of old court, clare college, taken from the backs. population growth has seen new housing developments in the st century, with estates such as the cb [ ] and accordia schemes near the station,[ ] and developments such as great kneighton, formally known as clay farm,[ ] and trumpington meadows[ ] currently under construction in the south of the city. other major developments currently being constructed in the city are darwin green (formerly niab), and university-led developments at west cambridge and north west cambridge, (eddington). the entire city centre, as well as parts of chesterton, petersfield, west cambridge, newnham, and abbey, are covered by an air quality management area, implemented to counter high levels of nitrogen dioxide in the atmosphere.[ ] climate[edit] the city has an oceanic climate. (köppen: cfb).[ ] cambridge currently has two official weather observing stations, the national institute of agricultural botany (niab), about mile (  km) north of the city boundary near histon, and the cambridge university botanic garden, about mile south of the city centre. in addition, the digital technology group of the university's department of computer science and technology[ ] maintains a weather station on the west cambridge site, displaying current weather conditions online via web browsers or an app, and also an archive dating back to .[ ] the city, like most of the uk, has a maritime climate highly influenced by the gulf stream. located in the driest region of britain,[ ][ ] cambridge's rainfall averages around  mm ( .  in) per year, around half the national average,[ ] the driest recent year was in with .  mm ( .  in)[ ] of rain at the botanic garden and .  mm ( .  in) at the niab site.[ ] this is just below the semi-arid precipitation threshold for the area, which is mm of annual precipitation.[ ] conversely, was the wettest year on record, with .  mm ( .  in) reported.[ ] snowfall accumulations are usually small, in part because of cambridge's low elevation, and low precipitation tendency during transitional snow events. owing to its low lying, inland, and easterly position within the british isles, summer temperatures tend to be somewhat higher than areas further west, and often rival or even exceed those recorded in the london area. july for example recorded the highest official mean monthly maximum (i.e. averaged over the entire month) of any month at any location in the uk since records began; .  °c ( .  °f), at both the niab[ ] and botanic garden[ ] observing stations. cambridge also often records the annual highest national temperature in any given year – .  °c ( .  °f) in july at niab[ ] and .  °c ( .  °f) in august at the botanic garden[ ] are two recent examples. other years include , , , , , and .[ ] the absolute maximum stands at .  °c ( .  °f) recorded on july at cambridge university botanic garden,[ ] which is also the national all time temperature record. typically the temperature will reach .  °c ( .  °f) or higher on over days of the year over the – period,[ ] with the annual warmest day averaging .  °c ( .  °f)[ ] over the same period. the absolute minimum temperature recorded at the botanic garden site was − .  °c ( .  °f), recorded in february ,[ ] although a minimum of − .  °c ( .  °f) was recorded at the now defunct observatory site in december .[ ] more recently the temperature fell to − .  °c ( .  °f) on february ,[ ] − .  °c ( .  °f) on january [ ] and − .  °c ( .  °f)[ ] on december . the average frequency of air frosts ranges from . days at the niab site,[ ] to . days at the botanic garden[ ] per year over the – period. typically the coldest night of the year at the botanic garden will fall to − .  °c ( .  °f).[ ] such minimum temperatures and frost averages are typical for inland areas across much of southern and central england. sunshine averages around , hours a year or around % of possible, a level typical of most locations in inland central england. 	climate data for cambridge university botanic garden[a], elevation:  m (  ft), – normals, extremes –present 	month 	jan 	feb 	mar 	apr 	may 	jun 	jul 	aug 	sep 	oct 	nov 	dec 	year 	record high °c (°f) 	 . 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( . ) 	average precipitation days (≥ . mm) 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	source: knmi[ ] 	climate data for cambridge niab[b], elevation:  m (  ft), – normals 	month 	jan 	feb 	mar 	apr 	may 	jun 	jul 	aug 	sep 	oct 	nov 	dec 	year 	average high °c (°f) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	daily mean °c (°f) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	average low °c (°f) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	average precipitation mm (inches) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	average precipitation days (≥ . mm) 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	mean monthly sunshine hours 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 , . 	source: met office[ ] ecology[edit] the city contains three sites of special scientific interest (sssis), at cherry hinton east pit, cherry hinton west pit, and travellers pit,[ ] and ten local nature reserves (lnrs): sheep's green and coe fen, coldham's common, stourbridge common, nine wells, byron's pool, west pit, paradise, barnwell west, barnwell east, and logan's meadow.[ ] green belt[edit] further information: cambridge green belt cambridge is completely enclosed by green belt as a part of a wider environmental and planning policy first defined in and formalised in .[ ][ ] while some small tracts of green belt exist on the fringes of the city's boundary, much of the protection is in the surrounding south cambridgeshire[ ] and nearby east cambridgeshire[ ] districts, helping to maintain local green space, prevent further urban sprawl and unplanned expansion of the city, as well as protecting smaller outlying villages from further convergence with each other as well as the city.[ ] demography[edit] at the census, the population of the cambridge contiguous built-up area (urban area) was , ,[ ] while that of the city council area was , .[ ] in the census held during university term, . % of cambridge residents identified themselves as white, compared with a national average of . %.[ ] within the university, % of undergraduates and % of post-graduates identify as white (including overseas students).[ ] cambridge has a much higher than average proportion of people in the highest paid professional, managerial or administrative jobs ( . % vs. . %)[ ] and a much lower than average proportion of manual workers ( . % vs. . %).[ ] in addition, . % have a higher-level qualification (e.g. degree, higher national diploma, master's or phd), much higher than the national average proportion ( . %).[ ] centre for cities identified cambridge as the uk's most unequal city in and . residents' income was the least evenly distributed of british cities measured, with its top % earners accounting for % of its total income and the bottom % for only %, and a gini coefficient of . in .[ ][ ] historical population[edit] 	year	population 	 	year	population 	 	 , 	   	 	 , 	   	⋮ 	 	 , 	   	 	 , 	   	 	 , 	   	 	 , 	   	 	 , 	   	 	 , 	   	 	 , 	   	 	 , 	   	 	 , 	   	 	 , 	   	 	 , 	   	 	 , 	   	 	 , 	   	 	 , 	   	 	 , 	   	 	 , 	   	 	 , 	   	 	 , 	   	 	 , 	   local census [ ] census: regional district – [ ] civil parish – [ ] district – [ ] economy[edit] the town's river link to the surrounding agricultural land, and good road connections to london in the south meant cambridge has historically served as an important regional trading post. king henry i granted cambridge a monopoly on river trade, privileging this area of the economy of cambridge[ ] the town market provided for trade in a wide variety of goods and annual trading fairs such as stourbridge fair and midsummer fair were visited by merchants from across the country. the river was described in an account of as being "often so full of [merchant boats] that the navigation thereof is stopped for some time".[ ] for example, firkins of butter were brought up the river every monday from the agricultural lands to the north east, particularity norfolk, to be unloaded in the town for road transportation to london.[ ] changing patterns of retail distribution and the advent of the railways led to a decline in cambridge's importance as a market town.[ ] cambridge market viewed from the tower of st. mary the great today cambridge has a diverse economy with strength in sectors such as research & development, software consultancy, high value engineering, creative industries, pharmaceuticals and tourism.[ ] described as one of the "most beautiful cities in the world" by forbes in ,[ ] with the view from the backs being selected as one of the greatest in england by national trust chair simon jenkins, tourism generates over £  million for the city's economy.[ ] cambridge and its surrounds are sometimes referred to as silicon fen, an allusion to silicon valley, because of the density of high-tech businesses and technology incubators that have developed on science parks around the city. many of these parks and buildings are owned or leased by university colleges, and the companies often have been spun out of the university.[ ] cambridge science park, which is the largest commercial r&d centre in europe, is owned by trinity college;[ ][ ] st john's is the landlord of st john's innovation centre.[ ] technology companies include abcam, csr, arm limited, camsemi, jagex and sinclair.[ ] microsoft has located its microsoft research uk offices in west cambridge, separate from the main microsoft uk campus in reading, and also has an office on station road. cambridge was also the home of pye ltd, founded in by w. g. pye, who worked in the cavendish laboratory; it began by supplying the university and later specialised in wireless telegraphy equipment, radios, televisions and also defence equipment.[ ] pye ltd evolved into several other companies including tetra radio equipment manufacturer sepura. another major business is marshall aerospace located on the eastern edge of the city. the cambridge network keeps businesses in touch with each other. the software company autonomy corporation is located at the business park on cowley road. transport[edit] main article: transport in cambridge a guided bus on the cambridgeshire guided busway because of its rapid growth in the th century, cambridge has a congested road network.[ ] the m motorway from east london terminates to the north-west of the city where it joins the a , a major freight route which connects the port of felixstowe on the east coast with the midlands. the a connects the city with the a at st neots: the route continues westwards towards oxford (as the a ) via bedford and milton keynes. the a connects the city to king's lynn to the north via ely, and is the historic route south to the city of london. as a university town lying on fairly flat ground and with traffic congestion, cambridge has the highest level of cycle use in the uk.[ ] according to the census, % of residents travelled to work by bicycle. furthermore, a survey in found that % of residents travel by bike at least once a week.[ ] cambridge has five park and ride sites, all of which operate seven days a week and are aimed at encouraging motorists to park near the city's edge.[ ] since , the cambridgeshire guided busway has carried bus services into the centre of cambridge from st ives, huntingdon, and other towns and villages along the routes, operated by stagecoach in the fens and whippet.[ ] the a service continues on to the railway station and addenbrookes, before terminating at a new park and ride in trumpington. since it has also linked to cambridge north railway station. although cambridge has its own airport, cambridge city airport, it has no scheduled services and is used mainly by charter and training flights as well fbo services.[ ] london stansted airport, about miles (  km) south via the m or direct rail, offers a broad range of international destinations. rail[edit] cambridge railway station. cambridge railway station was opened in , initially linking to bishopsgate station in london, via bishops stortford.[ ] further lines opened throughout the th century, including the cambridge and st ives branch line, the stour valley railway, the cambridge to mildenhall railway, and the varsity line to oxford. another station was opened in cherry hinton though, at the time, this was a separate village to cambridge. several of these lines were closed during the s. today, cambridge station has direct rail links to london with termini at london king's cross (via the cambridge line and the east coast main line), liverpool street (on the west anglia main line), and st pancras (on the thameslink line). commuter trains to king's cross run every half-hour during peak hours, with a journey time of minutes.[ ] trains also run to king's lynn and ely (via the fen line), norwich (via the breckland line), leicester, birmingham, peterborough, stevenage, ipswich, stansted airport, brighton and gatwick airport railway stations. a second railway station, cambridge north, opened on may , having originally planned to open in march .[ ][ ][ ] a third railway station, cambridge south, near addenbrooke's hospital has been proposed.[ ] it is expected to open in .[ ] in february , consultations opened for a commuter light railway known as the cambridge autonomous metro. it will connect the historic city centre and the existing busway route with the mainline railway stations, cambridge science park, and haverhill.[ ] education[edit] anglia ruskin university evolved from the nineteenth century cambridge school of art, opened by educationist and art figure john ruskin in see also: list of schools in cambridgeshire cambridge's two universities,[ ] the collegiate university of cambridge and the local campus of anglia ruskin university, serve around , students, by some estimates.[ ] cambridge university estimated its / student population at , ,[ ] and anglia ruskin reports , students across its two campuses (one of which is outside cambridge, in chelmsford) for the same period.[ ] aru now ( ) has additional campuses in london and perborough. state provision in the further education sector includes hills road sixth form college, long road sixth form college, and cambridge regional college. both state and independent schools serve cambridge pupils from nursery to secondary school age. state schools are administered by cambridgeshire county council, which maintains schools in total,[ ] of them in cambridge city.[ ] netherhall school, chesterton community college, the parkside federation (comprising parkside community college and coleridge community college), north cambridge academy and the christian inter-denominational st bede's school provide comprehensive secondary education.[ ] many other pupils from the cambridge area attend village colleges, an educational institution unique to cambridgeshire, which serve as secondary schools during the day and adult education centres outside of school hours.[ ] independent schools in the city include the perse school, stephen perse foundation, sancton wood school, st mary's school, heritage school and the leys school.[ ] the city has one university technical college, cambridge academy for science and technology, which opened in september . sport[edit] football[edit] parker's piece cambridge played a unique role in the invention of modern football: the game's first set of rules were drawn up by members of the university in . the cambridge rules were first played on parker's piece and had a 'defining influence on the football association rules' which again were first played on parker's piece.[ ] the city is home to cambridge united fc, who play at the abbey stadium. formed in , as abbey united, they were elected to the football league in and reached the football league second division in , although a serious decline in them in the mid s saw them drop back down to the football league fourth division and almost go out of business. success returned to the club in the early s when they won two successive promotions and reached the fa cup quarter finals in both of those seasons, and in they came close to becoming the first english team to win three successive football league promotions which would have taken them into the newly created fa premier league. but they were beaten in the playoffs and another decline set in, which was completed in when they were relegated from the football league and for the second time in years narrowly avoided going out of business. after nine years of non-league football they returned to the football league in by winning the conference national playoffs. cambridge city fc of the southern football league premier division now play in the adjoining village of histon. formed in cambridge in as cambridge town, the club were southern premier league champions in – , the highest they have finished in the english football pyramid. after a legal dispute with their landlords,[ ] the club left their home ground in cambridge in order to groundshare with fellow southern league premier club histon fc in - and intend to construct a new ground outside the city, in sawston. cricket[edit] as well as being the home of the cambridge rules in football, parker's piece was used for first-class cricket matches from to .[ ] the university of cambridge's cricket ground, fenner's, is located in the city and is one of the home grounds for minor counties team cambridgeshire ccc.[ ] there are seven amateur cricket clubs within the city: cambridge granta, camden, cambridge st giles, new chesterton institute, fen ditton, romsey town and cherry hinton.[ ] rugby[edit] the city is represented in both codes of rugby football. rugby union club cambridge r.u.f.c. were founded in ,[ ] and play in national league [ ] at their home ground, grantchester road, in the southwest corner of the city. cambridge lions represent the city in rugby league, and are members of east rugby league.[ ] watersports[edit] bumps race on the river cam the river cam running through the city centre is used for boating. the university and its colleges are well known for rowing and the cambridgeshire rowing association, formed in , organises competitive rowing on the river outside of the university.[ ] rowing clubs based in the city include city of cambridge rc, cambridge ' rc, cantabrigian rc and rob roy bc. shallower parts of the cam are used for recreational punting, a type of boating in which the craft is propelled by pushing against the river bed with a quant pole. cambridge swimming club, cambridge dive team, and city of cambridge water polo club are all based at parkside swimming pool.[ ] greyhound racing[edit] 	 	this section contains information of unclear or questionable importance or relevance to the article's subject matter. please help improve this section by clarifying or removing indiscriminate details. if importance cannot be established, the section is likely to be moved to another article, pseudo-redirected, or removed. find sources: "cambridge" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · jstor (learn how and when to remove this template message) there are three known former venues for greyhound racing in cambridge. the most significant venue was the racing held around the city ground which was licensed by the sports governing body the national greyhound racing club (ngrc) and took place from to . the other two venues were independent tracks and known as a flapping tracks, the nickname given to non-ngrc tracks.[ ] they were at coldham road, which was opened by the cambridge and district greyhound racing club on april , and cowper lane which also opened in .[ ] other sports[edit] cambridge is home to two real tennis courts (out of just in the world) at cambridge university real tennis club.[ ] british american football league club cambridgeshire cats play at coldham's common. cambridge royals are members of the british baseball federation's triple-a south division.[ ] cambridge has two cycling clubs: team cambridge[ ] and cambridge cycling club.[ ] cambridge & coleridge athletic club[ ] is the city's track and field club, based at the university of cambridge's wilberforce road track. cambridge handball club compete in the men's england handball national super league, and the women's england handball national super league. there are three field hockey clubs; cambridge city hockey club, cambridge south hockey club and cambridge nomads. the city is also represented in polo by cambridge polo club, based in barton, just outside the city. the romsey town rollerbillies play roller derby in cambridge.[ ] speedway racing was formerly staged at a greyhound stadium in coldhams lane.[ ] varsity sports[edit] cambridge is also known for the sporting events between the university of cambridge and the university of oxford, especially the rugby union varsity match and the boat race, though many of these do not take place within cambridge. culture[edit] theatre[edit] cambridge corn exchange cambridge's main traditional theatre is the arts theatre, a venue with seats in the town centre.[ ] the theatre often has touring shows, as well as those by local companies. the largest venue in the city to regular hold theatrical performances is the cambridge corn exchange with a capacity of , standing or , seated. housed within the city's th century former corn exchange building the venue was used for a variety of additional functions throughout the th century including tea parties, motor shows, sports matches and a music venue with temporary stage.[ ] the city council renovated the building in the s, turning it into a full-time arts venue, hosting theatre, dance and music performances.[ ] the newest theatre venue in cambridge is the -seat j , part of cambridge junction in cambridge leisure park. the venue was opened in and hosts theatre, dance, live music and comedy[ ] the adc theatre is managed by the university of cambridge, and typically has shows a week during term time. it hosts the cambridge university footlights dramatic club which has produced many notable figures in british comedy. the mumford theatre is part of anglia ruskin university, and hosts shows by both student and non-student groups. there are also a number of venues within the colleges. museums[edit] within the city there are several notable museums, some run by the university of cambridge museums consortium and others independent of it. the fitzwilliam museum is the city's largest, and is the lead museum of the university of cambridge museums. founded in from the bequeathment and collections of richard, viscount fitzwilliam, the museum was originally located in the building of the perse grammar school in free school lane.[ ] after a brief housing in the university of cambridge library, it moved to its current, purpose-built building on trumpington street in .[ ] the museum has five departments: antiquities; applied arts; coins and medals; manuscripts and printed books; and paintings, drawings and prints. other members of the university of cambridge museums are the museum of archaeology and anthropology, the polar museum, the sedgwick museum of earth sciences, museum of classical archaeology, the whipple museum of the history of science, and the university museum of zoology. the museum of cambridge, formerly known as the cambridge & county folk museum, is a social history museum located in a former pub on castle street.[ ] the centre for computing history, a museum dedicated to the story of the information age, moved to cambridge from haverhill in .[ ] housed in a former sewage pumping station, the cambridge museum of technology has a collection of large exhibits related to the city's industrial heritage. music[edit] popular music[edit] pink floyd are the most notable band with roots in cambridge. the band's former songwriter, guitarist and vocalist syd barrett was born and lived in the city, and he and another founding member, roger waters, went to school together at cambridgeshire high school for boys. david gilmour, the guitarist who replaced barrett, was also a cambridge resident and attended the nearby perse school. bands that were formed in cambridge include clean bandit, henry cow, the movies, katrina and the waves, the soft boys,[ ] ezio[ ] the broken family band,[ ] uncle acid & the deadbeats,[ ] and the pop-classical group king's singers, who were formed at the university.[ ] solo artist boo hewerdine[ ] is from cambridge, as are drum and bass artists (and brothers) nu:tone and logistics. singers matthew bellamy,[ ] of the rock band muse, tom robinson,[ ] and olivia newton-john[ ] were born in the city. mercury prize winners alt-j are based in cambridge.[ ] live music venues hosting popular music in the city include the cambridge corn exchange, cambridge junction and the portland arms. classical music[edit] started in , the annual cambridge music festival takes place each november.[ ] the cambridge summer music festival takes place in july.[ ] contemporary art[edit] cambridge contains the kettle's yard gallery and the artist run organisations aid and abet, cambridge art salon, and changing spaces.[ ] wysing arts centre, one of the leading research centres for the visual arts in europe, is associated with the city, though is located several miles west of cambridge.[ ] anglia ruskin university operates the publicly accessible ruskin gallery within the cambridge school of art.[ ] festivals and events[edit] strawberry fair several fairs and festivals take place in cambridge, mostly during the british summer. midsummer fair dates back to , when it was granted a charter by king john.[ ] today it exists primarily as an annual funfair with the vestige of a market attached and is held over several days around or close to midsummers day. on the first saturday in june midsummer common is the site for strawberry fair, a free music and children's fair, with various market stalls. for one week in may, on jesus green, the annual cambridge beer festival has been held since .[ ] cambridge folk festival is held annually in the grounds of cherry hinton hall. the festival has been organised by the city council since its inception in . the cambridge summer music festival is an annual festival of classical music, held in the university's colleges and chapels.[ ] the cambridge shakespeare festival is an eight-week season of open-air performances of the works of william shakespeare, held in the gardens of various colleges of the university.[ ] started in , the cambridge film festival was held annually in july, moving to september in to avoid a clash with the rescheduled edinburgh film festival.[ ] the cambridge science festival, typically held annually in march, is the united kingdom's largest free science festival.[ ] between and the cambridge poetry festival was held biannually.[ ] other festivals include the annual mill road winter fair, held the first saturday of december,[ ] the e-luminate festival, which has taken place every november since ,[ ] and the big weekend, is a city outdoor event organised by the city council every july.[ ] three cambridge free festivals held in , , and that featured artists including david bowie, king crimson, roy harper, spontaneous combustion, ufo and others are believed by the festival organiser to have been the first free multiple-day rock music festivals held in the uk.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] literature and film[edit] see also: university of cambridge in popular culture the city has been the setting for all or part of several novels, including douglas adams' dirk gently's holistic detective agency, rose macaulay's they were defeated,[ ] kate atkinson's case histories,[ ] rebecca stott's ghostwalk[ ] and robert harris' enigma,[ ][ ] while susanna gregory wrote a series of novels set in th century cambridge.[ ] gwen raverat, the granddaughter of charles darwin, talked about her late victorian cambridge childhood in her memoir period piece and the night climbers of cambridge is a book written by noel symington under the pseudonym "whipplesnaith" about nocturnal climbing on the colleges and town buildings of cambridge in the s.[ ] fictionalised versions of cambridge appear in philippa pearce's tom's midnight garden and minnow on the say, the city renamed as castleford, and as the home of tom sharpe's fictional college in porterhouse blue.[ ] itv tv series granchester was partly filmed in cambridge.[ ] public services[edit] addenbrooke's hospital cambridge is served by cambridge university hospitals nhs foundation trust, with several smaller medical centres in the city and a teaching hospital at addenbrooke's. located on the cambridge biomedical campus, addenbrooke's is one of the largest hospitals in the united kingdom and is a designated regional trauma centre. the east of england ambulance service covers the city and has an ambulance station on hills road.[ ] the smaller brookfields hospital stands on mill road.[ ] cambridgeshire constabulary provides the city's policing; the main police station is at parkside,[ ] adjacent to the city's fire station, operated by cambridgeshire fire and rescue service.[ ] cambridge water company supplies water services to the city,[ ] while anglian water provides sewerage services.[ ] for the supply of electricity, cambridge is part of the east of england region, for which the distribution network operator is uk power networks.[ ] the city has no power stations, though a five-metre wind turbine, part of a cambridge regional college development, can be seen in king's hedges.[ ] the cambridge electric supply company had provided the city with electricity since the early twentieth century from cambridge power station. upon nationalisation of the electricity industry in ownership passed to the british electricity authority and later to the central electricity generating board. electricity connections to the national grid rendered the small . megawatt (mw) coal fired power station redundant. it closed in and was subsequently demolished; in its final year of operation it delivered mwh of electricity to the city.[ ] following the public libraries act the city's first public library, located on jesus lane, was opened in .[ ] it was moved to the guildhall in ,[ ] and is now located in the grand arcade shopping centre. the library was reopened in september ,[ ] after having been closed for refurbishment for months, more than twice as long as was forecast when the library closed for redevelopment in january .[ ][ ] as of the city contains six public libraries, run by the county council.[ ] the cambridge city cemetery is located to the north of newmarket road. religion[edit] great st mary's church marks the centre of cambridge, while the senate house on the left is the centre of the university. gonville and caius college is in the background. cambridge has a number of churches, some of which form a significant part of the city's architectural landscape. like the rest of cambridgeshire it is part of the anglican diocese of ely.[ ] a cambridge-based family and youth christian charity, romsey mill, had its centre re-dedicated in by the archbishop of york, and is quoted as an example of best practice in a study[ ] into social inclusion by the east of england regional assembly. great st mary's church has the status of "university church".[ ] many of the university colleges contain chapels that hold services according to the rites and ceremonies of the church of england, while the chapel of st edmund's college is roman catholic.[ ] the city also has a number of theological colleges training clergy for ordination into a number of denominations, with affiliations to both the university of cambridge and anglia ruskin university. cambridge is in the roman catholic diocese of east anglia and is served by the large gothic revival our lady and the english martyrs church at the junction of hills road and lensfield road, st laurence's on milton road, st vincent de paul church on ditton lane and by the church of st philip howard, in cherry hinton road.[ ] there is a russian orthodox church under the diocese of sourozh who worship at the chapel of westcott house,[ ] the greek orthodox church holds services at the purpose-built st athanasios church under the archdiocese of thyateira and great britain,[ ] while the romanian orthodox church share st giles' with the church of england.[ ] st botolph's church, next to corpus christi college. wesley methodist church castle street methodist church there are two methodist churches in the city. wesley methodist church was built in , and is located next to christ's pieces. the castle street methodist church is the oldest of the two, having been built in , and was formerly a primitive methodist church. there are three quaker meetings in cambridge, located on jesus lane, hartington grove, and a meeting called "oast house" that meets in pembroke college.[ ] an orthodox synagogue and jewish student centre is located on thompson's lane, operated jointly by the cambridge traditional jewish congregation and the cambridge university jewish society, which is affiliated to the union of jewish students.[ ][ ] the beth shalom reform synagogue which previously met at a local school,[ ] opened a purpose-built synagogue in .[ ] there is also a student-led egalitarian minyan which holds services on friday evenings. cambridge central mosque atrium, looking out towards mill road cambridge central mosque is the main place of worship for cambridge's community of around , muslims.[ ][ ] opened in , it is described as europe's first eco-friendly mosque[ ] and is the first purpose-built mosque within the city. the abu bakr jamia islamic centre on mawson road and the omar faruque mosque and cultural centre in kings hedges are additional places of muslim worship.[ ][ ][ ] cambridge buddhist centre which belongs to triratna buddhist community was opened in the former barnwell theatre on newmarket road in .[ ] there are also several local buddhist meditation groups from various buddhist traditions like samatha trust and buddha mettā society that are available for anyone to explore buddhism and buddhist meditation practices.[ ] a hindu shrine was opened in at the bharat bhavan indian cultural centre off mill road.[ ][ ] twinned cities[edit] cambridge is twinned with two cities. like cambridge, both have universities and are also similar in population; heidelberg, germany since ,[ ] and szeged, hungary since .[ ] panoramic gallery[edit] king's parade, seen from outside st. mary the great 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additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 carolingian renaissance - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	carolingian renaissance 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 carolingian minuscule, one of the products of the carolingian renaissance. the carolingian renaissance was the first of three medieval renaissances, a period of cultural activity in the carolingian empire. it occurred from the late th century to the th century, which took inspiration from the christian roman empire of the fourth century. during this period, there was an increase of literature, writing, the arts, architecture, jurisprudence, liturgical reforms, and scriptural studies. the carolingian renaissance occurred mostly during the reigns of carolingian rulers charlemagne and louis the pious. it was supported by the scholars of the carolingian court, notably alcuin of york.[ ] charlemagne's admonitio generalis ( ) and epistola de litteris colendis served as manifestos. the effects of this cultural revival were mostly limited to a small group of court literati. according to john contreni, "it had a spectacular effect on education and culture in francia, a debatable effect on artistic endeavors, and an unmeasurable effect on what mattered most to the carolingians, the moral regeneration of society".[ ][ ] the secular and ecclesiastical leaders of the carolingian renaissance made efforts to write better latin, to copy and preserve patristic and classical texts, and to develop a more legible, classicizing script, with clearly distinct capital and minuscule letters. (this was the carolingian minuscule that renaissance humanists took to be roman and employed as humanist minuscule, from which has developed early modern italic script.) they also applied rational ideas to social issues for the first time in centuries, providing a common language and writing style that enabled communication throughout most of europe. contents 	 background 	 import 	 scholarly efforts 	 carolingian art 	 carolingian architecture 	 carolingian currency 	 gallery 	 notes 	 references 	 . citations 	 . bibliography 	 external links background[edit] lorsch abbey gatehouse, c. , an example of the carolingian architectural style - a first, albeit isolated classical movement in architecture as pierre riché points out, the expression "carolingian renaissance" does not imply that western europe was barbaric or obscurantist before the carolingian era.[ ] the centuries following the collapse of the roman empire in the west did not see an abrupt disappearance of the ancient schools, from which emerged martianus capella, cassiodorus and boethius, essential icons of the roman cultural heritage in the middle ages, thanks to which the disciplines of liberal arts were preserved.[ ] the th century saw the "isidorian renaissance" in the visigothic kingdom of hispania[ ] in which sciences flourished[ ][ ][ ] and the integration of christian and pre-christian thought occurred,[ ] while the spread of irish monastic schools (scriptoria) over europe laid the groundwork for the carolingian renaissance.[ ][ ] there were numerous factors in this cultural expansion, the most obvious of which was that charlemagne's uniting of most of western europe brought about peace and stability, which set the stage for prosperity. this period marked an economic revival in western europe, following the collapse of the western roman empire. local economies in the west had degenerated into largely subsistence agriculture by the early seventh century, with towns functioning merely as places of gift-exchange for the elite.[ ] by the late seventh century, developed urban settlements had emerged, populated mostly by craftsmen, merchants and boaters and boasting street grids, artisanal production as well as regional and long-distance trade.[ ] a prime example of this type of emporium was dorestad.[ ] the development of the carolingian economy was fueled by the efficient organization and exploitation of labor on large estates, producing a surplus of primarily grain, wine and salt.[ ][ ] in turn, inter-regional trade in these commodities facilitated the expansion of towns.[ ][ ] archaeological data shows the continuation of this upward trend in the early eighth century.[ ] the zenith of the early carolingian economy was reached from to , coinciding with the largest surpluses of the period, large-scale building of churches as well as overpopulation and three famines that showed the limits of the system.[ ] after a period of disruption from to , caused by civil wars and viking raids, economic development resumed in the s, with the emporiums disappearing completely and being replaced by fortified commercial towns.[ ] one of the major causes of the sudden economic growth was the slave trade. following the rise of the arab empires, the arab elites created a major demand for slaves with european slaves particularly prized. as a result of charlemagne's wars of conquest in eastern europe, a steady supply of captured slavs, avars, saxons and danes reached mostly jewish merchants in western europe, who then exported the slaves via ampurias, girona and the pyrenees passes to muslim spain and other parts of the arab world.[ ] the market for slaves was so lucrative that it almost immediately transformed the long-distance trade of the european economies.[ ][ ] the slave trade enabled the west to re-engage with the muslim and eastern roman empires so that other industries, such as textiles, were able to grow in europe as well.[ ] import[edit] kenneth clark was of the view that by means of the carolingian renaissance, western civilization survived by the skin of its teeth.[ ] however, the use of the term renaissance to describe this period is contested, notably by lynn thorndike,[ ] due to the majority of changes brought about by this period being confined almost entirely to the clergy, and due to the period lacking the wide-ranging social movements of the later italian renaissance.[ ] instead of being a rebirth of new cultural movements, the period was more an attempt to recreate the previous culture of the roman empire.[ ] the carolingian renaissance in retrospect also has some of the character of a false dawn, in that its cultural gains were largely dissipated within a couple of generations, a perception voiced by walahfrid strabo (died ), in his introduction to einhard's life of charlemagne,[n ] summing up the generation of renewal: charlemagne was able to offer the cultureless and, i might say, almost completely unenlightened territory of the realm which god had entrusted to him, a new enthusiasm for all human knowledge. in its earlier state of barbarousness, his kingdom had been hardly touched at all by any such zeal, but now it opened its eyes to god's illumination. in our own time the thirst for knowledge is disappearing again: the light of wisdom is less and less sought after and is now becoming rare again in most men's minds.[ ] scholarly efforts[edit] see also: carolingian minuscule and medieval latin a lack of latin literacy in eighth-century western europe caused problems for the carolingian rulers by severely limiting the number of people capable of serving as court scribes in societies where latin was valued. of even greater concern to some rulers was the fact that not all parish priests possessed the skill to read the vulgate bible. an additional problem was that the vulgar latin of the later western roman empire had begun to diverge into the regional dialects, the precursors to today's romance languages, that were becoming mutually unintelligible and preventing scholars from one part of europe being able to communicate with persons from another part of europe. alcuin (pictured centre), was one of the leading scholars of the carolingian renaissance. to address these problems, charlemagne ordered the creation of schools in a capitulary known as the charter of modern thought, issued in .[ ] a major part of his program of reform was to attract many of the leading scholars of the christendom of his day to his court. among the first called to court were italians: peter of pisa, who from to about instructed charlemagne in latin, and from to paulinus of aquileia, whom charlemagne nominated as patriarch of aquileia in . the lombard paul the deacon was brought to court in and remained until , when charles nominated him abbot of montecassino. theodulf of orléans was a spanish goth who served at court from to when nominated as bishop of orléans. theodulf had been in friendly competition over the standardization of the vulgate with the chief among the charlemagne's scholars, alcuin of york. alcuin was a northumbrian monk and deacon who served as head of the palace school from to , except for the years to when he returned to england. after , he continued his scholarly work as abbot of st. martin's monastery in tours.[ ] among those to follow alcuin across the channel to the frankish court was joseph scottus, an irishman who left some original biblical commentary and acrostic experiments. after this first generation of non-frankish scholars, their frankish pupils, such as angilbert, would make their own mark. the later courts of louis the pious and charles the bald had similar groups of scholars. the irish monk dicuil attended the former court, and the more famous irishman john scotus eriugena attended the latter. one of the primary efforts was the creation of a standardized curriculum for use at the recently created schools. alcuin led this effort and was responsible for the writing of textbooks, creation of word lists, and establishing the trivium and quadrivium as the basis for education.[ ] another contribution from this period was the development of carolingian minuscule, a "book-hand" first used at the monasteries of corbie and tours that introduced the use of lower-case letters. a standardized version of latin was also developed that allowed for the coining of new words while retaining the grammatical rules of classical latin. this medieval latin became a common language of scholarship and allowed administrators and travellers to make themselves understood in various regions of europe.[ ] carolingian workshops produced over , manuscripts in the th century, of which some to survive.[ ] the carolingians produced the earliest surviving copies of the works of cicero, horace, martial, statius, lucretius, terence, julius caesar, boethius and martianus capella.[ ] no copies of the texts of these authors were made in the latin west in the th and th centuries.[ ] carolingian art[edit] main article: carolingian art carolingian art spans the roughly hundred-year period from about – . although brief, it was an influential period. northern europe embraced classical mediterranean roman art forms for the first time, setting the stage for the rise of romanesque art and eventually gothic art in the west. illuminated manuscripts, metalwork, small-scale sculpture, mosaics, and frescos survive from the period. carolingian architecture[edit] main article: carolingian architecture instrumental music a musician playing a cithara that is thought to have evolved from the greek lyre, from the th century charles the bald bible. player with cithara that appears lute-like, from the th century utrecht psalter. a cithara (word used by the early th century stuttgart psalter) being held as a citole would three centuries later. documents created during the carolingian renaissance show growth of instrumental music with new instruments. the images may document earlier european cythara (lute types) or else a "revival of the roman kithara."[ ] carolingian architecture is the style of north european architecture promoted by charlemagne. the period of architecture spans the late eighth and ninth centuries until the reign of otto i in , and was a conscious attempt to create a roman renaissance, emulating roman, early christian and byzantine architecture, with its own innovation, resulting in having a unique character. its architecture was the most salient carolingian art to a society that never saw an illuminated manuscript and rarely handled one of the new coins. "the little more than eight decades between to alone saw the construction of new cathedrals, monasteries, and royal residences", john contreni calculates.[ ] carolingian currency[edit] see also: denier, solidus, livre, and english currency around ad  , charlemagne's father pepin the short reformed france's currency.[ ] a variety of local systems was standardized, with minor mints being closed, royal control over the rest strengthened,[ ] and purity increased.[ ] in place of the gold roman and byzantine solidus then common, he established a system based on a new . -fine silver penny (latin: denarius; french: denier) weighing / of a pound (librum, libra, or lira; livre).[ ] (the carolingian pound seems to have been about .  grams,[ ][ ] making each penny about  grams.) as the debased solidus was then roughly equivalent to of these pennies, the shilling (solidus; sol) was established at that value, making it / of the silver pound.[ ] this was later adjusted to and / , respectively. during the carolingian period, however, neither shillings or pounds were minted, being instead used as notional units of account.[ ] (for instance, a "shilling" or "solidus" of grain was a measure equivalent to the amount of grain that pennies could purchase.)[ ] despite the purity and quality of the new pennies, however, they were repeatedly rejected by traders throughout the carolingian period in favor of the gold coins used elsewhere, a situation that led to repeated legislation against such refusal to accept the king's currency.[ ] the carolingian system was imported to england by offa of mercia and other kings, where it formed the basis of english currency until the late th century.[ ] gallery[edit] 	 			 			 aachen gospels (c. ), an example of carolingian illumination. 			 		 	 			 			 a copy of the plan of saint gall 			 		 notes[edit] 	^ einhard's use of the roman historian suetonius as a model for the new genre of biography is itself a marker for the carolingian renaissance.[ ] references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ trompf ( ). 	^ contreni ( ), p.  . 	^ nelson ( ). 	^ pierre riché, les carolingiens. une famille qui fit l'europe, paris, hachette, coll. « pluriel », p. 	^ michel lemoine, article arts libéraux in claude gauvard (dir.), dictionnaire du moyen Âge, paris, puf, coll. « quadrige », p. 	^ sur le sujet, voir jacques fontaine, isidore de séville et la culture classique dans l'espagne wisigothique, paris, 	^ fernández-morera, darío ( ). the myth of the andalusian paradise. muslims, christians and jews under islamic rule in medieval spain. isi books. p.  . isbn  . 	^ fear, a. t. 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in the moment of our talking, envious time has ebb'd away. seize the present; trust tomorrow e'en as little as you may.[ ] in ancient literature[edit] perhaps the first written expression of the concept is the advice given by siduri to gilgamesh, telling him to forgo his mourning and embrace life, although some scholars see it as simply urging gilgamesh to abandon his mourning, "reversing the liminal rituals of mourning and returning to the normal and normative behaviors of mesopotamian society."[ ][ ] meaning[edit] in horace, the phrase is part of the longer carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero, which is often translated as "seize the day, put very little trust in tomorrow (the future)". the ode says that the future is unforeseen and that one should not leave to chance future happenings, but rather one should do all one can today to make one's own future better. this phrase is usually understood against horace's epicurean background.[ ] it has been argued that the meaning of carpe diem as used by horace is not to ignore the future, but rather not to trust that everything is going to fall into place for you and taking action for the future today.[ ] related expressions[edit] other latin[edit] gather ye rosebuds while ye may, by john william waterhouse an german postcard, quoting "gaudeamus igitur" collige, virgo, rosas ("gather, girl, the roses") appears at the end of the poem "de rosis nascentibus"[ ] ("of growing roses", also called idyllium de rosis) attributed to ausonius or virgil. it encourages youth to enjoy life before it is too late; compare "gather ye rosebuds while ye may" from robert herrick's poem "to the virgins, to make much of time". "de brevitate vitae" ("on the shortness of life"), often referred to as "gaudeamus igitur", (let us rejoice) is a popular academic commercium song, on taking joy in student life, with the knowledge that one will someday die. it is medieval latin, dating to . related but distinct is the expression memento mori (remember that you are mortal) which carries some of the same connotation as carpe diem. for horace, mindfulness of our own mortality is key in making us realize the importance of the moment. "remember that you are mortal, so seize the day." over time the phrase memento mori also came to be associated with penitence, as suggested in many vanitas paintings. today many listeners will take the two phrases as representing almost opposite approaches, with carpe diem urging us to savour life and memento mori urging us to resist its allure. this is not the original sense of the memento mori phrase as used by horace. contemporary mentions[edit] in modern english, the expression "yolo", meaning "you only live once", expresses a similar sentiment.[ ][ ] in the american film dead poets society, the english teacher john keating, played by robin williams, famously says: "carpe diem. seize the day, boys. make your lives extraordinary." later, this line was voted as the th greatest movie quote by the american film institute.[ ] in the korean drama series chicago typewriter, the club "carpe diem" is owned by shin yool and is the scene of revolutionary activities of the joseon youth liberation alliance spearheaded by seo hwi-young.[ ] social philosopher roman krznaric suggested in his book carpe diem regained ( ) that carpe diem is the answer to consumer cultures schedules, timed work days, consumer culture and planning out our actions over the course of weeks and the weekends, instead of "just do it", with thought experiments for seizing the day rather than placing into calendars.[ ][ ] references[edit] 	^ quintus horatius flaccus, carmina, liber i, carmen xi (in latin) 	^ lewis, charlton t. ( ). "carpō". an elementary latin dictionary. new york, cincinnati, and chicago: american book company. 	^ how “carpe diem” got lost in translation by chi luu jstor daily august 	^ translation by john conington, 	^ ackerman, susan ( ). when heroes love: the ambiguity of eros in the stories of gilgamesh and david. columbia university press. pp.  – . isbn  - . 	^ perdue, leo g. ( ). scribes, sages, and seers: the sage in the eastern mediterranean world: the sage in the mediterranean world. vandenhoeck & ruprecht. p.  . isbn  - . 	^ harrison, stephen ( ). the cambridge companion to horace. cambridge university press. pp.  , . isbn  - - - - . 	^ jacks, lorra (february , ). "the most frequently misused proverbs". cracked.com. retrieved - - . 	^ "de rosis nascentibus" archived - - at the wayback machine in a collection of the works of virgil under the note hoc carmen scripsit poeta ignotus (this poem was written by an unknown poet); bibleotheca augustana [de], augsburg university of applied sciences 	^ "carpe diem! how the philosophy of 'seize the day' was hijacked". inews. - - . retrieved - - . 	^ "yolo | definition of yolo in english by oxford dictionaries". oxford dictionaries | english. retrieved - - . 	^ american film institute. "afi's years... movie quotes". afi.com. retrieved - - . 	^ the caffeinated kat. "tv review: chicago typewriter (spoilers!)". the kat cafe. retrieved june . 	^ macdonald, fiona. 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	odes 	 orthodox tewahedo 	 	 enoch 	jubilees 	 , , and meqabyan 	paralipomena of baruch 	broader canon 	 bible portal 		v 	t 	e the book of psalms (/sɑːmz/ or /sɔː(l)mz/ saw(l)mz; hebrew: תְּהִלִּים‎, tehillim, "praises"), commonly referred to simply as psalms, the psalter or "the psalms", is the first book of the ketuvim ("writings"), the third section of the hebrew bible, and thus a book of the christian old testament.[ ] the title is derived from the greek translation, ψαλμοί, psalmoi, meaning "instrumental music" and, by extension, "the words accompanying the music".[ ] the book is an anthology of individual psalms, with in the jewish and western christian tradition and more in the eastern christian churches.[ ][ ] many are linked to the name of david. in fact, of the psalms, david is named as the author of . david is specifically noted as the author of psalms in the titles of the psalms but his authorship is not accepted by some highly critical modern scholars.[ ] contents 	 structure 	 . benedictions 	 . superscriptions 	 . numbering 	 . additional psalms 	 primary types 	 . hymns 	 . communal laments 	 . royal psalms 	 . individual laments 	 . individual thanksgiving psalms 	 composition 	 . origins 	 . poetic characteristics 	 . editorial agenda 	 the ancient music of the psalms 	 themes and execution 	 later interpretation and influence 	 . overview 	 . commentaries 	 . use in jewish ritual 	 . in christian worship 	 . eastern orthodox christianity 	 . oriental christianity 	 . roman catholic usage 	 . protestant usage 	 . anglican usage 	 . psalms in the rastafari movement 	 psalms set to music 	 . multiple psalms as a single composition 	 . individual psalm settings 	 . bach 	 . psalm verses 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 bibliography 	 external links 	 . translations 	 . commentary and others structure[edit] for the orthodox christian division into twenty kathismata, see below. an baxter process illustration of psalm , from the religious tract society's magazine the sunday at home benedictions[edit] the book of psalms is divided into five sections, each closing with a doxology (i.e., a benediction)—these divisions were probably introduced by the final editors to imitate the five-fold division of the torah:[ ] 	book (psalms – ) 	book (psalms – ) 	book (psalms – ) 	book (psalms – ) 	book (psalms – ) superscriptions[edit] many psalms ( of the ) have individual superscriptions (titles), ranging from lengthy comments to a single word. over a third appear to be musical directions, addressed to the "leader" or "choirmaster", including such statements as "with stringed instruments" and "according to lilies". others appear to be references to types of musical composition, such as "a psalm" and "song", or directions regarding the occasion for using the psalm ("on the dedication of the temple", "for the memorial offering", etc.). many carry the names of individuals, the most common ( psalms— if including the two psalms attributed by the new testament to david) being of david, and thirteen of these relate explicitly to incidents in the king's life.[ ] others named include asaph ( ), the sons of korah ( ), solomon ( ), moses ( ), ethan the ezrahite ( ), and heman the ezrahite ( ). the septuagint, the peshitta (the syriac vulgate), and the latin vulgate each associate several psalms (such as and ) with haggai and zechariah. the septuagint also attributes several psalms (like and ) to ezekiel and jeremiah. numbering[edit] 	hebrew numbering (masoretic) 	greek numbering (septuagint or vulgate) 	 – 	 – 	 – 	 	 – 	 – 	 – 	 	 	 – 	 – 	 – 	 	 – 	 – 	 – psalms are usually identified by a sequence number, often preceded by the abbreviation "ps." numbering of the psalms differs—mostly by one, see table—between the hebrew (masoretic) and greek (septuagint) manuscripts. protestant translations (lutheran, anglican, calvinist) use the hebrew numbering, but other christian traditions vary: 	roman catholic official liturgical texts, such as the roman missal, use the greek numbering[ ] 	modern roman catholic translations often use the hebrew numbering (noting the greek number) 	eastern orthodox and eastern catholic translations use the greek numbering (noting the hebrew number) for the remainder of this article, the hebrew numbering is used, unless otherwise noted. the variance between masorah and septuagint texts in this numeration is likely enough due to a gradual neglect of the original poetic form of the psalms; such neglect was occasioned by liturgical uses and carelessness of copyists. it is generally admitted that pss. and were originally a single acrostic poem; they have been wrongly separated by massorah, rightly united by the septuagint and vulgate.[ ] pss. and are shown by identity of subject (yearning for the house of yahweh), of metrical structure and of refrain (cf. heb. ps. : , ; : ), to be three strophes of one and the same poem. the hebrew text is correct in counting as one ps. and ps. . later liturgical usage would seem to have split up these and several other psalms. zenner combines into what he deems were the original choral odes: pss. , , , ; + ; + ; , , ; + ; + ; + ; , , .[ ] a choral ode would seem to have been the original form of pss. and . the two strophes and the epode are ps. ; the two antistrophes are ps. .[ ] it is noteworthy that, on the breaking up of the original ode, each portion crept twice into the psalter: ps. = , ps. = : – . other such duplicated portions of psalms are ps. : – = ps. : – ; ps. : – = ps. : – ; ps. : – = ps. : – . this loss of the original form of some of the psalms is allowed by the biblical commission ( may ) to have been due to liturgical practices, neglect by copyists, or other causes. verse numbers were first printed in .[ ][ ] different traditions exist whether to include the original heading into the counting or not. this leads to inconsistent numbering in psalms, with an offset of , sometimes even verses.[ ] additional psalms[edit] the septuagint, present in eastern orthodox churches, includes a psalm ; a hebrew version of this was found in the psalms scroll of the dead sea scrolls. some versions of the peshitta (the bible used in syriac churches in the middle east) include psalms – . there are also the psalms of solomon, which are a further psalms of jewish origin, likely originally written in hebrew, but surviving only in greek and syriac translation. these and other indications suggest that the current western christian and jewish collection of psalms were selected from a wider set. primary types[edit] hermann gunkel's pioneering form-critical work on the psalms sought to provide a new and meaningful context in which to interpret individual psalms—not by looking at their literary context within the psalter (which he did not see as significant), but by bringing together psalms of the same genre (gattung) from throughout the psalter. gunkel divided the psalms into five primary types: hymns[edit] hymns, songs of praise for god's work in creation or history. they typically open with a call to praise, describe the motivation for praise, and conclude with a repetition of the call. two sub-categories are "enthronement psalms", celebrating the enthronement of yahweh as king, and zion psalms, glorifying mount zion, god's dwelling-place in jerusalem.[ ] gunkel also described a special subset of "eschatological hymns" which includes themes of future restoration (psalm ) or of judgment (psalm ).[ ] communal laments[edit] david is depicted giving a psalm to pray for deliverance in this woodcut by julius schnorr von karolsfeld communal laments, in which the nation laments some communal disaster.[ ] both communal and individual laments typically but not always include the following elements: 	address to god, 	description of suffering, 	cursing of the party responsible for suffering, 	protestation of innocence or admission of guilt, 	petition for divine assistance, 	faith in god's receipt of prayer, 	anticipation of divine response, and 	a song of thanksgiving.[ ][ ] in general, the individual and communal subtypes can be distinguished by the use of the singular "i" or the plural "we". however, the "i" could also be characterising an individual's personal experience that was reflective of the entire community.[ ] royal psalms[edit] david is depicted giving a penitential psalm in this woodcut by julius schnorr von karolsfeld royal psalms, dealing with such matters as the king's coronation, marriage and battles.[ ] none of them mentions any specific king by name, and their origin and use remain obscure;[ ] several psalms, especially ps. – , concern the kingship of god, and might relate to an annual ceremony in which yahweh would be ritually reinstated as king.[ ] individual laments[edit] individual laments over the fate of the particular individual who utters them. by far the most common type of psalm, they typically open with an invocation of god, followed by the lament itself and pleas for help, and often ending with an expression of confidence.[ ] individual thanksgiving psalms[edit] individual thanksgiving psalms, the opposite of individual laments, in which the psalmist thanks god for deliverance from personal distress.[ ] in addition to these five major genres, gunkel also recognised a number of minor psalm-types, including: 	communal thanksgiving psalms, in which the whole nation thanks god for deliverance; 	wisdom psalms, reflecting the old testament wisdom literature; 	pilgrimage psalms, sung by pilgrims on their way to jerusalem; 	entrance and prophetic liturgies; and 	a group of mixed psalms which could not be assigned to any category.[ ] composition[edit] scroll of the psalms origins[edit] the composition of the psalms spans at least five centuries, from psalm to others clearly from the post-exilic period (not earlier than the fifth century b.c.) the majority originated in the southern kingdom of judah and were associated with the temple in jerusalem, where they probably functioned as libretto during the temple worship. exactly how they did this is unclear, although there are indications in some of them: "bind the festal procession with branches, up to the horns of the altar," suggests a connection with sacrifices, and "let my prayer be counted as incense" suggests a connection with the offering of incense.[ ] according to jewish tradition, the book of psalms was composed by ten elders, along with david who was one of its principal contributors. those explicitly named are the first man (adam), melchizedek, abraham, moses, heman, jeduthun, asaph, and the three sons of korah.[ ][ ] the book, however, is largely attributed unto david on account of his being the arch poet (the largest composer of the psalms), and who is called elsewhere "the sweet psalmist of israel."[ ] the final redaction of the book was made, according to abraham ibn ezra, by the men of the great assembly.[ ] saadia gaon ( – ), dissenting, wrote that "even though one may think that there is in it of what... [had been] sung by someone other than david, such as asaph and jeduthun, and ethan and moses the man of god, among others, upon consideration of the subject, one should know that the matter is not as it has been portrayed, rather, there is naught that does not belong to david."[ ] according to saadia, david compiled the majority of the psalms to be sung specifically by different people: psalm (a prayer of moses), written by david for the descendants of moses who were contemporaries with david; psalm (to jeduthun, a psalm of david), written by david for the sons of jeduthun; psalms , – (a psalm of asaph), written by david for the sons of asaph mentioned in chronicles : ; psalms , , et al. (the sons of korah), written by david for the sons of korah; psalm (the sons of korah, heman the ezrahite), written by david for one of the descendants of korah, heman the ezrahite, mentioned in chronicles : ; psalm (ethan the ezrahite), written by david for one of the levites, namely, ethan b. kishi b. abdi b. malluch, mentioned in chronicles : , and so with all the rest.[ ] where psalms and speak of being "for solomon," saadia explains that david wrote them as a vision in what he saw concerning his son, solomon.[ ] poetic characteristics[edit] the biblical poetry of psalms uses parallelism as its primary poetic device. parallelism is a kind of symmetry, in which an idea is developed by the use of restatement, synonym, amplification, grammatical repetition, or opposition.[ ][ ] synonymous parallelism involves two lines expressing essentially the same idea. an example of synonymous parallelism: 	"the lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall i fear? the lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall i be afraid?" (psalm : ). two lines expressing opposites is known as antithetic parallelism. an example of antithetic parallelism: 	"and he led them in a cloud by day/ and all the night by a fiery light" (psalm : ). two clauses expressing the idea of amplifying the first claim is known as expansive parallelism. an example of expansive parallelism: 	"my mouth is filled with your praise/ all the day with your lauding" (psalm : ). editorial agenda[edit] psalm in the th-century utrecht psalter, where the illustration of the text is often literal. many scholars believe the individual psalms were redacted into a single collection in second-temple times.[ ] it had long been recognized that the collection bore the imprint of an underlying message or metanarrative, but that this message remained concealed, as augustine of hippo said, "the sequence of the psalms seems to me to contain the secret of a mighty mystery, but its meaning has not been revealed to me." (enarr. on ps. . ) others pointed out the presence of concatenation, that is, adjacent psalms sharing similar words and themes. in time, this approach developed into recognizing overarching themes shared by whole groups of psalms.[ ] in , gerald h. wilson's the editing of the hebrew psalter proposed – by parallel with other ancient eastern hymn collections – that psalms at the beginning and end (or "seams") of the five books of psalms have thematic significance, corresponding in particular with the placement of the royal psalms. he pointed out that there was a progression of ideas, from adversity, through the crux of the collection in the apparent failure of the covenant in psalm , leading to a concert of praise at the end. he concluded that the collection was redacted to be a retrospective of the failure of the davidic covenant, exhorting israel to trust in god alone in a non-messianic future.[ ] walter brueggemann suggested that the underlying editorial purpose was oriented rather towards wisdom or sapiential concerns, addressing the issues of how to live the life of faith. psalm calls the reader to a life of obedience; psalm (brueggemann's crux psalm) faces the crisis when divine faithfulness is in doubt; psalm represents faith's triumph, when god is praised not for his rewards, but for his being.[ ] in , david. c. mitchell's the message of the psalter took a quite different line. building on the work of wilson and others,[ ] mitchell proposed that the psalter embodies an eschatological timetable like that of zechariah – .[ ] this programme includes the gathering of exiled israel by a bridegroom-king; his establishment of a kingdom; his violent death; israel scattered in the wilderness, regathered and again imperilled, then rescued by a king from the heavens, who establishes his kingdom from zion, brings peace and prosperity to the earth and receives the homage of the nations. these three views—wilson's non-messianic retrospective of the davidic covenant, brueggemann's sapiential instruction, and mitchell's eschatologico-messianic programme—all have their followers, although the sapiential agenda has been somewhat eclipsed by the other two. shortly before his untimely death in , wilson modified his position to allow for the existence of messianic prophecy within the psalms' redactional agenda.[ ] mitchell's position remains largely unchanged, although he now sees the issue as identifying when the historical beginning of the psalms turns to eschatology.[ ] the ancient music of the psalms[edit] the psalms were written not merely as poems, but as songs for singing. according to bible exegete saadia gaon ( – ) who served in the geonate of babylonian jewry, the psalms were originally sung in the temple precincts by the levites, based on what was prescribed for each psalm (lineage of the singers, designated time and place, instruments used, manner of execution, etc.), but are permitted to be randomly read by anyone at any time and in any place.[ ] more than a third of the psalms are addressed to the director of music. some psalms exhort the worshipper to sing (e.g. pss. : - ; : - ; : - ; : ; : ; ). some headings denote the musical instruments on which the psalm should be played (pss. , , , , ). some refer to the levites who sang one of eight melodies, one of which was known simply as "the eighth" (hebrew: sheminit) (pss. , ).[ ] and others preserve the name for ancient eastern modes, like ayelet ha-shachar (hind of the dawn; ps. ); shoshanim / shushan (lilies / lily; pss. ; ), said to be describing a certain melody;[ ] or ʻalmuth / ʻalamoth (mute;[ ] pss. , ), which, according to saadia gaon, is "a silent melody, nearly inaudible."[ ] despite the frequently heard view that their ancient music is lost, the means to reconstruct it are still extant. fragments of temple psalmody are preserved in ancient church and synagogue chant, particularly in the tonus peregrinus melody to psalm .[ ] cantillation signs, to record the melody sung, were in use since ancient times; evidence of them can be found in the manuscripts of the oldest extant copies of psalms in the dead sea scrolls and are even more extensive in the masoretic text, which dates to the early middle ages and whose tiberian scribes claimed to be basing their work on temple-period signs. (see moshe ben asher's 'song of the vine' colophon to the codex cairensis).[ ] several attempts have been made to decode the masoretic cantillation, but the most successful is that of suzanne haïk-vantoura ( – ) in the last quarter of the th century.[ ] although some have dismissed haïk-vantoura's system, mitchell has repeatedly defended it, showing that, when applied to the masoretic cantillation of psalm , it produces a melody recognizable as the tonus peregrinus of church and synagogue.[ ] mitchell includes musical transcriptions of the temple psalmody of psalms – in his commentary on the songs of ascents. regardless of academic research, sephardic jews have retained a tradition in the masoretic cantillation.[ ] themes and execution[edit] most individual psalms involve the praise of god for his power and beneficence, for his creation of the world, and for his past acts of deliverance for israel. they envision a world in which everyone and everything will praise god, and god in turn will hear their prayers and respond. sometimes god "hides his face" and refuses to respond, questioning (for the psalmist) the relationship between god and prayer which is the underlying assumption of the book of psalms.[ ] some psalms are called "maskil" (maschil), meaning "enlightened" or "wise", because they impart wisdom. most notable of these is psalm which is sometimes called the "maskil of david"; others include psalm and psalm .[ ] a special grouping and division in the book of psalms are fifteen psalms (psalms – ) known in the construct case, shir ha-ma'aloth (= "a song of ascents", or "a song of degrees"), and one as shir la-ma'aloth (psalm ). according to saadia gaon, these songs differed from the other psalms in that they were to be sung by the levites in a "loud melody" (judeo-arabic: בלחן מרתפע‎).[ ] every psalm designated for asaph (e.g. psalms , – ) was sung by his descendants while making use of cymbals, in accordance with chronicles : .[ ] every psalm wherein is found the introductory phrase "upon mahalath" (e.g. psalms and ) was sung by the levites by using large percussion instruments having wide and closed bezels on both sides and beaten with two wooden sticks.[ ] later interpretation and influence[edit] david playing the harp by jan de bray, hebrew text of psalm : - a jewish man reads psalm at the western wall. overview[edit] individual psalms were originally hymns, to be used on various occasions and at various sacred sites; later, some were anthologised, and might have been understood within the various anthologies (e.g., ps. as one of the psalms of ascent); finally, individual psalms might be understood within the psalter as a whole, either narrating the life of david or providing instruction like the torah. in later jewish and christian tradition, the psalms have come to be used as prayers, either individual or communal, as traditional expressions of religious feeling.[ ] commentaries[edit] many authors have commented on the psalms, including: 	hilary of poitiers[ ] 	augustine of hippo[ ] 	saadia gaon[ ] 	thomas aquinas[ ] 	john calvin[ ] 	emmanuel (pseudonym), jewish commentary on the psalms.[ ] use in jewish ritual[edit] some of the titles given to the psalms have descriptions which suggest their use in worship: 	some bear the hebrew description shir (שיר; greek: ᾠδή, ōdḗ, 'song'). thirteen have this description. it means the flow of speech, as it were, in a straight line or in a regular strain. this description includes secular as well as sacred song. 	fifty-eight psalms bear the description mizmor (מזמור; ψαλμός), a lyric ode, or a song set to music; a sacred song accompanied with a musical instrument. 	psalm alone has the designation tehillah (תהלה; ὕμνος), meaning a song of praise; a song the prominent thought of which is the praise of god. 	thirteen psalms are described as maskil ('wise'): , , , , – , , , , , and . psalm : , although not in the above list, has the description ashrei maskil. 	six psalms ( , – ) have the title michtam (מכתם, 'gold').[ ] rashi suggests that michtam refers to an item that a person carries with him at all times, hence, these psalms contain concepts or ideas that are pertinent at every stage and setting throughout life, deemed vital as part of day-to-day spiritual awareness.[ ] 	psalm (along with habakkuk chapter )[ ] bears the title shigayon (שיגיון). there are three interpretations:[ ] (a) according to rashi and others, this term stems from the root shegaga, meaning "mistake"—david committed some sin and is singing in the form of a prayer to redeem himself from it; (b) shigayon was a type of musical instrument; (c) ibn ezra considers the word to mean "longing", as for example in the verse in proverbs : [ ] tishge tamid. psalms are used throughout traditional jewish worship. many complete psalms and verses from psalms appear in the morning services (shacharit). the pesukei dezimra component incorporates psalms , and – . psalm (commonly referred to as "ashrei", which is really the first word of two verses appended to the beginning of the psalm), is read three times every day: once in shacharit as part of pesukei dezimrah, as mentioned, once, along with psalm , as part of the morning's concluding prayers, and once at the start of the afternoon service. on festival days and sabbaths, instead of concluding the morning service, it precedes the mussaf service. psalms – , , , and , along with some later readings, comprise the introduction (kabbalat shabbat) to the friday night service. traditionally, a different "psalm for the day"—shir shel yom—is read after the morning service each day of the week (starting sunday, psalms: , , , , , , ). this is described in the mishnah (the initial codification of the jewish oral tradition) in the tractate tamid. according to the talmud, these daily psalms were originally recited on that day of the week by the levites in the temple in jerusalem. from rosh chodesh elul until hoshanah rabbah, psalm is recited twice daily following the morning and evening services. there is a minhag (custom) to recite psalm each morning of chanukkah after shacharit: some recite this in place of the regular "psalm for the day", others recite this additionally. when a jew dies, a watch is kept over the body and tehillim (psalms) are recited constantly by sun or candlelight, until the burial service. historically, this watch would be carried out by the immediate family, usually in shifts, but in contemporary practice this service is provided by an employee of the funeral home or chevra kadisha. many jews complete the book of psalms on a weekly or monthly basis. each week, some also say a psalm connected to that week's events or the torah portion read during that week. in addition, many jews (notably lubavitch, and other chasidim) read the entire book of psalms prior to the morning service, on the sabbath preceding the calculated appearance of the new moon. the reading of psalms is viewed in jewish tradition as a vehicle for gaining god's favor. they are thus often specially recited in times of trouble, such as poverty, disease, or physical danger; in many synagogues, psalms are recited after services for the security of the state of israel. sefer ha-chinuch[ ] states that this practice is designed not to achieve favor, as such, but rather to inculcate belief in divine providence into one's consciousness, consistently with maimonides' general view on providence. (relatedly, the hebrew verb for prayer, hitpalal התפלל, is in fact the reflexive form of palal פלל, to judge. thus, "to pray" conveys the notion of "judging oneself": ultimately, the purpose of prayer—tefilah תפלה—is to transform ourselves.)[ ] in christian worship[edit] st. florian's psalter, th or th century, polish translation children singing and playing music, illustration of psalm (laudate dominum) david is depicted as a psalmist in this woodcut by julius schnorr von karolsfeld new testament references show that the earliest christians used the psalms in worship, and the psalms have remained an important part of worship in most christian churches. the eastern orthodox, catholic, presbyterian, lutheran and anglican churches have always made systematic use of the psalms, with a cycle for the recitation of all or most of them over the course of one or more weeks. in the early centuries of the church, it was expected that any candidate for bishop would be able to recite the entire psalter from memory, something they often learned automatically[ ] during their time as monks. paul the apostle quotes psalms (specifically psalms and , which are nearly identical) as the basis for his theory of original sin, and includes the scripture in the epistle to the romans, chapter . several conservative protestant denominations sing only the psalms (some churches also sing the small number of hymns found elsewhere in the bible) in worship, and do not accept the use of any non-biblical hymns; examples are the reformed presbyterian church of north america, the presbyterian reformed church (north america) and the free church of scotland (continuing). 	psalm is of particular importance during the season of lent as a psalm of continued faith during severe testing. 	psalm , the lord is my shepherd, offers an immediately appealing message of comfort and is widely chosen for church funeral services, either as a reading or in one of several popular hymn settings; 	psalm , have mercy on me o god, called the miserere from the first word in its latin version, in both divine liturgy and hours, in the sacrament of repentance or confession, and in other settings; 	psalm is found in the book of common prayer as a funeral recitation. 	psalm , by the rivers of babylon, there we sat down and wept, the eastern orthodox church uses this hymn during the weeks preceding great lent. new translations and settings of the psalms continue to be produced. an individually printed volume of psalms for use in christian religious rituals is called a psalter. furthermore, psalms often serve as the inspiration for much of modern or contemporary christian worship music in a variety of styles. some songs are entirely based on a particular psalm or psalms, and many quote directly from the book of psalms (and other parts of the bible).[ ] eastern orthodox christianity[edit] see also: kathisma orthodox christians and greek-catholics (eastern catholics who follow the byzantine rite) have long made the psalms an integral part of their corporate and private prayers. the official version of the psalter used by the orthodox church is the septuagint. to facilitate its reading, the psalms are divided into kathismata (greek: καθίσματα; slavonic: каѳисмы, kafismy; lit. "sittings") and each kathisma (greek: κάθισμα; slavonic: каѳисма, kafisma) is further subdivided into three stases (greek: στάσεις, staseis lit. "standings", sing. στάσις, stasis), so-called because the faithful stand at the end of each stasis for the glory to the father .... at vespers and matins, different kathismata are read at different times of the liturgical year and on different days of the week, according to the church's calendar, so that all psalms ( kathismata) are read in the course of a week. during great lent, the number of kathismata is increased so that the entire psalter is read twice a week. in the twentieth century, some lay christians have adopted a continuous reading of the psalms on weekdays, praying the whole book in four weeks. aside from kathisma readings, psalms occupy a prominent place in every other orthodox service including the services of the hours and the divine liturgy. in particular, the penitential psalm is very widely used. fragments of psalms and individual verses are used as prokimena (introductions to scriptural readings) and stichera. the bulk of vespers would still be composed of psalms even if the kathisma were to be disregarded; psalm , "the psalm of the law", is the centerpiece of matins on saturdays, some sundays, and the funeral service. the entire book of psalms is traditionally read out loud or chanted at the side of the deceased during the time leading up to the funeral, mirroring jewish tradition. oriental christianity[edit] several branches of oriental orthodox and those eastern catholics who follow one of the oriental rites will chant the entire psalter during the course of a day during the daily office. this practice continues to be a requirement of monastics in the oriental churches. roman catholic usage[edit] see also: responsorial psalmody the psalms have always been an important part of catholic liturgy. the liturgy of the hours is centered on chanting or recitation of the psalms, using fixed melodic formulas known as psalm tones. early catholics employed the psalms widely in their individual prayers also; however, as knowledge of latin (the language of the roman rite) became uncommon, this practice ceased among the unlearned. however, until the end of the middle ages, it was not unknown for the laity to join in the singing of the little office of our lady, which was a shortened version of the liturgy of the hours providing a fixed daily cycle of twenty-five psalms to be recited, and nine other psalms divided across matins. the work of bishop richard challoner in providing devotional materials in english meant that many of the psalms were familiar to english-speaking catholics from the eighteenth century onwards. challoner translated the entirety of the little office into english, as well as sunday vespers and daily compline. he also provided other individual psalms such as / for prayer in his devotional books. bishop challoner is also noted for revising the douay–rheims bible, and the translations he used in his devotional books are taken from this work. until the second vatican council the psalms were either recited on a one-week or, less commonly (as in the case of ambrosian rite), two-week cycle. different one-week schemata were employed: most secular clergy followed the roman distribution, while monastic houses almost universally followed that of st benedict, with only a few congregations (such as the benedictines of st maur[citation needed]) following individualistic arrangements. the breviary introduced in distributed the psalms over a four-week cycle. monastic usage varies widely. some use the four-week cycle of the secular clergy, many retain a one-week cycle, either following st benedict's scheme or another of their own devising, while others opt for some other arrangement. official approval was also given to other arrangements[notes ] by which the complete psalter is recited in a one-week or two-week cycle. these arrangements are used principally by catholic contemplative religious orders, such as that of the trappists.[notes ] the general instruction of the liturgy of the hours, sanctions three modes of singing/recitation for the psalms: 	directly (all sing or recite the entire psalm); 	antiphonally (two choirs or sections of the congregation sing or recite alternate verses or strophes); and 	responsorially (the cantor or choir sings or recites the verses while the congregation sings or recites a given response after each verse). of these three the antiphonal mode is the most widely followed.[citation needed] over the centuries, the use of complete psalms in the liturgy declined. after the second vatican council (which also permitted the use of vernacular languages in the liturgy), longer psalm texts were reintroduced into the mass, during the readings. the revision of the roman missal after the second vatican council reintroduced the singing or recitation of a more substantial section of a psalm, in some cases an entire psalm, after the first reading from scripture. this psalm, called the responsorial psalm, is usually sung or recited responsorially, although the general instruction of the roman missal, permits direct recitation. protestant usage[edit] a singing and dancing david leads the ark of the covenant, c. . psalm in a form of the sternhold and hopkins version widespread in anglican usage before the english civil war ( printing). it was from this version that the armies sang before going into battle. following the protestant reformation, versified translations of many of the psalms were set as hymns. these were particularly popular in the calvinist tradition, where in the past they were typically sung to the exclusion of hymns. john calvin himself made some french translations of the psalms for church usage, but the completed genevan psalter eventually used in church services consisted exclusively of translations by clément marot and théodore de bèze, on melodies by a number of composers, including louis bourgeois and a certain maistre pierre. martin luther's ein feste burg ist unser gott is based on psalm . among famous hymn settings of the psalter were the scottish psalter and the paraphrases by isaac watts. the first book printed in north america was a collection of psalm settings, the bay psalm book ( ). by the th century, they were mostly replaced by hymns in church services. however, the psalms are popular for private devotion among many protestants and still used in many churches for traditional worship.[ ] there exists in some circles a custom of reading one psalm and one chapter of proverbs a day, corresponding to the day of the month. metrical psalms are still very popular among many reformed churches. anglican usage[edit] anglican chant is a method of singing prose versions of the psalms. in the early th century, when the king james bible was introduced, the metrical arrangements by thomas sternhold and john hopkins were also popular and were provided with printed tunes. this version and the new version of the psalms of david by tate and brady produced in the late seventeenth century (see article on metrical psalter) remained the normal congregational way of singing psalms in the church of england until well into the nineteenth century. in great britain, the th-century coverdale psalter still lies at the heart of daily worship in cathedrals and many parish churches. the new common worship service book has a companion psalter in modern english. the version of the psalter in the american book of common prayer prior to the edition is the coverdale psalter. the psalter in the american book of common prayer of is a new translation, with some attempt to keep the rhythms of the coverdale psalter. psalms in the rastafari movement[edit] the psalms are one of the most popular parts of the bible among followers of the rastafari movement.[ ] rasta singer prince far i released an atmospheric spoken version of the psalms, psalms for i, set to a roots reggae backdrop from the aggrovators. psalms set to music[edit] verse from psalm at the grand canyon, arizona. multiple psalms as a single composition[edit] psalms have often been set as part of a larger work. the psalms feature large in settings of vespers, including those by claudio monteverdi, antonio vivaldi, and wolfgang amadeus mozart, who wrote such settings as part of their responsibilities as church musicians. psalms are inserted in requiem compositions, such as psalm in a german requiem of johannes brahms and psalms and in john rutter's requiem. 	psalmi davidis poenitentiales ( , , , , , , ) by orlande de lassus— 	melodie na psałterz polski by mikołaj gomółka—c. 	psalmen davids ( ), symphoniae sacrae i ( ) and becker psalter ( ) by heinrich schütz 	chandos anthems by george frideric handel— – 	zwei englisch psalmen ( ), sieben psalmen nach lobwasser ( ), elijah ( ), and drei psalmen ( ) by felix mendelssohn 	eighteen liturgical psalms by louis lewandowski— 	biblické písně by antonín dvořák— 	le roi david by arthur honegger— 	symphony of psalms ( , , ) by igor stravinsky— 	chichester psalms by leonard bernstein— 	tehillim by steve reich— 	four psalms ( , , , ) by john harbison— individual psalm settings[edit] there are many settings of individual psalms, which are generally mentioned in the article devoted to the particular psalm. they include: 	psalms , and by loys bourgeois (c. – ) 	psalm and levavi oculos meos (psalm ) by orlando di lasso ( – ) 	psalms and by marc-antoine charpentier ( – ) 	beatus vir (psalm ), dixit dominus (psalm ) by antonio vivaldi ( – ) 	psalm in convertendo dominus by jean-philippe rameau ( – ). 	psalm by jan dismas zelenka 	psalm (in utrecht te deum and jubilate) and others by george frideric handel ( – ) 	psalm by william billings ( – ) 	psalm by samuel wesley ( – ) 	psalm by franz schubert ( – ) 	psalms , , , , , , and by felix mendelssohn ( – ) 	psalms , , , , and by franz liszt ( – ) 	psalm by césar franck ( – ) 	psalms , , , and by anton bruckner ( – ) 	psalm by johannes brahms ( – ) 	psalm by camille saint-saëns ( – ) 	psalm by ralph vaughan williams ( – ) 	psalm by gustav holst ( – ) 	psalms , , , , , , , , and by charles ives ( – ) 	psalms and by zoltán kodály ( – ) 	psalm in convertendo dominus, psalm super flumina babylonis and others by jules van nuffel ( – ) 	psalm by darius milhaud ( – ) 	psalm , and by lili boulanger ( – ) 	psalm and psalm by howard hanson ( – ) 	psalms , and by roger sessions ( – ) 	psalm by henry cowell ( – ) 	psalm by roy harris ( – ) 	two motets (including psalm ) by gerald finzi ( – ) 	psalm and by eric zeisl ( – ) 	psalm by alan hovhaness ( – ) 	psalm by hugo weisgall ( – ) 	psalm ( , op. ) by benjamin britten ( – ) 	psalm by george rochberg ( – ) 	i was glad (psalm ) by daniel pinkham ( – ) 	a psalm ( ) and a proverb by ned rorem (b. ) 	a psalm of david (psalm ) by robert starer ( – ) 	psalms , , and by samuel adler (b. ) 	psalm by kamilló lendvay (b. ) 	psalm by yehudi wyner (b. ) 	psalm by alexander goehr (b. ) 	psalms , by william mathias ( – ) 	psalm by john corigliano (b. ) 	psalms – , , , , , , , , , , and by mark alburger (b. ) 	i was glad (psalm ) by howard goodall (b. ) 	house of god, forever (psalm ) by jon foreman (b. ) 	psalm by barlowgirl 	psalm and psalm by u 	psalm by underoath 	psalm : – by matisyahu 	psalm (shadow of deth) by megadeth[ ] 	the hope (psalm ) by frederik magle 	psalm by dan nichols 	" rd psalm" by debbie friedman bach[edit] johann sebastian bach used lines from psalms in several of his cantatas, often in the opening chorus: 	psalm : , in die himmel erzählen die ehre gottes, bwv 	psalm : in die elenden sollen essen, bwv 	psalm : in bringet dem herrn ehre seines namens, bwv 	psalm : in es ist nichts gesundes an meinem leibe, bwv 	psalm : in wer dank opfert, der preiset mich, bwv 	psalm : in wir danken dir, gott, wir danken dir, bwv 	psalm : in lobe den herrn, meine seele, bwv a 	psalm : – in es wartet alles auf dich, bwv 	psalm in aus der tiefen rufe ich, herr, zu dir, bwv 	psalm : in singet dem herrn ein neues lied, bwv 	psalm : , in singet dem herrn ein neues lied, bwv bach treated complete psalms in german paraphrasing as chorale cantatas: 	psalm in 		wo gott der herr nicht bei uns hält, bwv ( ) 	wär gott nicht mit uns diese zeit, bwv ( ) psalm verses[edit] carl nielsen set in tre motetter three verses from different psalms as motets for unaccompanied chorus, first performed in . see also[edit] 	bible portal 	psalm 's use in benefit of clergy 	exclusive psalmody 	history of music in the biblical period 	penitential psalms 	psalm (ives) 	psalm of communal lament 	selah 	they have pierced my hands and my feet 	zabur 	genevan psalter 	pesher 	roizl fishels notes[edit] 	^ see "short" breviaries in the th and early st century america archived january at the wayback machine for an in-progress study 	^ see for example the divine office schedule at new melleray abbey references[edit] 	^ mazor , p.  . 	^ murphy , p.  . 	^ a b kselman , p.  . 	^ a b berlin & brettler , p.  . 	^ bullock , p.  . 	^ hayes , pp.  – . 	^ for example "psalmus " in vigilia paschalis in nocte sancta, 	^ clifford , p.  . 	^ zenner . 	^ zenner, j.k., and wiesmann, h., die psalmen nach dem urtext, munster, , 	^ a cyclopedia of biblical literature,... illustrated by numerous engravings. mark h. newman. . 	^ "erste versnummerierungen (verszählungen in gedruckten bibelausgaben des . jahrhunderts". www.wlb-stuttgart.de. retrieved july . 	^ "psalm in languages :: bibleserver". www.bibleserver.com. retrieved july . 	^ day , pp.  – . 	^ bray , p.  . 	^ a b c d day , p.  . 	^ coogan, m. a brief introduction to the old testament: the hebrew bible in its context. (oxford university press: oxford ) p. 	^ murphy , p.  . 	^ bray , p.  . 	^ berlin & brettler , p.  , note to ps. . 	^ kselman , p.  . 	^ day , p.  . 	^ babylonian talmud (baba bathra b– a) 	^ simon , pp.  – . 	^ samuel : 	^ simon , p.  . 	^ saadia , p.  . sfn error: no target: citerefsaadia (help) 	^ a b saadia , pp.  - . sfn error: no target: citerefsaadia (help) 	^ coogan, m. a brief introduction to the old testament: the hebrew bible in its context. (oxford university press: oxford ). p. ; 	^ kugel, james l. the idea of biblical poetry. (baltimore: johns hopkins university press ) 	^ haley, kevin j. ( october ). ""in the midst of the congregation i will praise you" (ps : b): the reinterpretation of the psalms of the individual in judaism and christianity | semantic scholar". undefined. 	^ c. westermann, the living psalms (trans. j.r. porter; edinburgh: t. & t. clark, ; m.e. tate, psalms – (waco, tx: word, ). 	^ g.h. wilson, the editing of the hebrew psalter (chico, ca: scholars press, ). 	^ w. brueggemann, 'bounded by obedience and praise: the psalms as canon', jsot : – . 	^ b.s. childs, introduction to the old testament as scripture (philadelphia: fortress, ) – ; j.l. mays, '"in a vision": the portrayal of the messiah in the psalms', ex auditu : – ; j. forbes, studies on the book of psalms (edinburgh: t. & t. clark, ). 	^ d.c. mitchell, the message of the psalter: an eschatological programme in the book of psalms, jsot supplement (sheffield: sheffield academic press, ). 	^ g.h. wilson, 'king, messiah, and the reign of god: revisiting the royal psalms and the shape of the psalter' in p.w. flint and p.d. miller (eds.), the book of psalms: composition and reception (leiden: brill, ). 	^ he has expanded his views on some subjects; see '"god will redeem my soul from sheol": the psalms of the sons of korah', jsot ( ) – ; 'lord, remember david: g.h. wilson and the message of the psalter', vetus testamentum ( ) – ; the songs of ascents (campbell: newton mearns, ) – ; – . 	^ saadia , p.  . sfn error: no target: citerefsaadia (help) 	^ saadia , pp.  , . sfn error: no target: citerefsaadia (help) 	^ saadia , pp.  - , . sfn error: no target: citerefsaadia (help) 	^ according to saadia, the word is derived from the hebrew root אלם‎, signifying a "mute," or person who cannot speak. although the word עלמות‎ as spelt in the psalm is with the hebrew character ʻayin ( ע‎), and the hebrew word for "mute" is spelt with the hebrew character aleph ( א‎), the two letters are interchangeable. 	^ saadia , pp.  , . sfn error: no target: citerefsaadia (help) 	^ werner, the sacred bridge (new york: columba university press, ) , . 	^ for discussion on the origins and antiquity of the masoretic cantillation, see d.c. mitchell, the songs of ascents (campbell: newton mearns ): - . 	^ s. haïk-vantoura, la musique de la bible révélée (robert dumas: paris, ); les psaumes dans leurs melodies antiques (paris: fondation roi david, ). 	^ d.c. mitchell, the songs of ascents: psalms to in the worship of jerusalem's temples (campbell: newton mearns ); 'resinging the temple psalmody', jsot ( ) – ; 'how can we sing the lord's song?' in s. gillingham (ed.), jewish and christian approaches to the psalms (oxford university press, ) – . 	^ "tehillim". www.sephardichazzanut.com. retrieved may . 	^ berlin & brettler , p.  . 	^ mckenzie, steven l. ( ). king david: a biography. new york: oxford university press. p.  – . isbn  . 	^ a b saadia , p.  . sfn error: no target: citerefsaadia (help) 	^ saadia , pp.  - (note ). sfn error: no target: citerefsaadia (help) 	^ kselman , pp.  – . 	^ comments on the psalms of hilary of poitiers, fourth century , paris, editions du cerf , , collection christian sources no. 	^ discourse on the psalms, of st. augustine, the fourth century , vols., collection "christian wisdom", editions du cerf 	^ saadia gaon ( ). qafih, yosef (ed.). psalms, with a translation and commentary made by rabbi saadia gaon (in hebrew). jerusalem - new york: american academy for jewish studies. oclc  . 	^ commentary on the psalms (up to psalm ) st. thomas aquinas, , editions du cerf, 	^ comment psalms of john calvin, 	^ emmanuel, commentaire juif des psaumes, editions payot, 	^ dlc ( august ). 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aquilee / aquilea;[ ] venetian: aquiłeja / aquiłegia; german: aglar / agley / aquileja; slovene: oglej) is an ancient roman city in italy, at the head of the adriatic at the edge of the lagoons, about kilometres (  mi) from the sea, on the river natiso (modern natisone), the course of which has changed somewhat since roman times. today, the city is small (about , inhabitants), but it was large and prominent in classical antiquity as one of the world's largest cities with a population of , in the nd century ad.[ ][ ] and is one of the main archaeological sites of northern italy. in late antiquity the city was the first city in the italian peninsula to be sacked by attila the hun. contents 	 history 	 . classical antiquity 	 . . roman republic 	 . . roman empire 	 . late antiquity 	 . middle ages 	 main sights 	 . cathedral 	 . ancient roman remains 	 . others 	 notable people 	 twin towns – sister cities 	 see also 	 references 	 sources 	 external links history[edit] classical antiquity[edit] a view of the archaeological area of aquileia. roman republic[edit] aquileia was founded as a colony by the romans in /  bc along the natiso river, on land south of the julian alps but about kilometres (  mi) north of the lagoons. the colony served as a strategic frontier fortress at the north-east corner of transpadane italy (on the far side of the po river) and was intended to protect the veneti, faithful allies of rome during the invasion of hannibal in the second punic war and during the illyrian wars. the colony would serve as a citadel to check the advance into cisalpine gaul of other warlike peoples, such as the hostile carni to the northeast in what is now carnia and histri tribes to the southeast in what is now istria. in fact, the site chosen for aquileia was about  km from where an estimated , celtic taurisci nomads had attempted to settle in  bc. however, since the th century bc, the site, on the river and at the head of the adriatic, had also been of commercial importance as the end of the baltic amber (sucinum) trade. it is, therefore, theoretically not unlikely that aquileia had been a gallic oppidum even before the coming of the romans. however, few celtic artefacts have been discovered from bc to the roman arrival.[ ] the colony was established with latin rights by the triumvirate of publius cornelius scipio nasica, caius flaminius, and lucius manlius acidinus, two of whom were of consular and one of praetorian rank. each of the men had first hand knowledge of cisalpine gaul. nasica had conquered the boii in . flaminius had overseen the construction of the road named after him from bononia (bologna) to arretium (arezzo). acidinus had conquered the taurisci in .[ ][ ] the triumvirate led , families to settle the area[citation needed] meaning aquileia probably had a population of , soon after its founding.[vague] meanwhile, based on the evidence of names chiselled on stone, the majority of colonizing families came from picenum, samnium, and campania, which also explains why the colony was latin and not roman. among these colonists, pedites received iugera of land each, centuriones received iugera each, and equites received iugera each. either at the founding or not long afterwards, colonists from the nearby veneti supplemented these families.[ ] roads soon connected aquileia with the roman colony of bologna probably in bc. in bc, it was connected with genua by the via postumia, which stretched across the padanian plain from aquileia through or near to opitergium, tarvisium, vicetia, verona, bedriacum, and the three roman colonies of cremona, placentia, and dertona. the construction of the via popilia from the roman colony of ariminium to ad portum near altinum in bc improved communications still further. in the st century ad, the via gemina would link aquileia with emona to the east of the julian alps, and by or ad the via flavia would link aquileia to pula. meanwhile, in  bc, , more latin colonists with their families, led by the triumvirate of titus annius lucius, publius decius subulo, and marcus cornelius cethegus, settled in the town as a reinforcement to the garrison.[ ] the discovery of the gold fields near the modern klagenfurt in  bc[ ] brought the growing colony into further notice, and it soon became a place of importance, not only owing to its strategic military position, but as a centre of commerce, especially in agricultural products and viticulture. it also had, in later times at least, considerable brickfields. in  bc, the original latin colony became a municipium and its citizens were ascribed to the roman tribe velina. the customs boundary of italy was close by in cicero's day. julius caesar visited the city on a number of occasions and pitched winter camp nearby in – bc. roman empire[edit] although the iapydes plundered aquileia during the augustan period, subsequent increased settlement and no lack of profitable work meant the city was able to develop its resources. jewish artisans established a flourishing trade in glass-work. metal from noricum was forged and exported. the ancient venetic trade in amber from the baltic continued. wine, especially its famous pucinum was exported. olive oil was imported from proconsular africa. by sea, the port of aquae gradatae (modern grado, friuli-venezia giulia) was developed. on land, aquileia was the starting-point of several important roads leading outside italy to the north-eastern portion of the empire — the road (via julia augusta) by iulium carnicum (zuglio) to veldidena (mod. wilten, near innsbruck), from which branched off the road into noricum, leading by virunum (klagenfurt) to laurieum (lorch) on the danube, the road leading via emona into pannonia and to sirmium (sremska mitrovica), the road to tarsatica (near fiume, now rijeka) and siscia (sisak), and the road to tergeste (trieste) and the istrian coast. augustus was the first of a number of emperors to visit aquileia, notably during the pannonian wars in –  bc. it was the birthplace of tiberius' son by julia, in the latter year. the roman poet martial praised aquileia as his hoped for haven and resting place in his old age.[ ] in terms of religion, the populace adopted the roman pantheon, although the celtic sun-god, belenus, had a large following. jews practised their ancestral religion and it was perhaps some of these jews who became the first christians. meanwhile, soldiers brought the martial cult of mithras. the ancient inland port of aquileia in the war against the marcomanni in , the town was hard pressed; its fortifications had fallen into disrepair during the long peace. nevertheless, when in marcus aurelius made aquileia the principal fortress of the empire against the barbarians of the north and east, it rose to the pinnacle of its greatness and soon had a population of , . septimius severus visited in . in , when the town took the side of the senate against the emperor maximinus thrax, the fortifications were hastily restored, and proved of sufficient strength to resist for several months, until maximinus himself was assassinated. late antiquity[edit] an imperial palace was constructed in aquileia, in which the emperors after the time of diocletian frequently resided. roman emperor flavius victor on this as struck in aquileia mint. during the th century, aquileia maintained its importance. constantine sojourned there on numerous occasions. it became a naval station and the seat of the corrector venetiarum et histriae; a mint was established, of which the coins were very numerous, and the bishop obtained the rank of metropolitan archbishop. a council held in the city in was only the first of a series of councils of aquileia that have been convened over the centuries. however, the city played a part in the struggles between the rulers of the th century. in , the emperor constantine ii was killed nearby while invading the territory of his younger brother constans. aquileia in a woodcut from hartmann schedel's nuremberg chronicle at the end of the th century, ausonius enumerated aquileia as the ninth among the great cities of the world, placing rome, constantinople, carthage, antioch, alexandria, trier, mediolanum, and capua before it. however, such prominence made it a target and alaric and the visigoths besieged it in , during which time some of its residents fled to the nearby lagoons. alaric again attacked it in . attila attacked the city in . during this invasion, on july , attila and his huns so utterly destroyed the city that it was afterwards hard to recognize its original site. the fall of aquileia was the first of attila's incursions into roman territory; followed by cities like mediolanum and ticinum.[ ] the roman inhabitants, together with those of smaller towns in the neighbourhood, fled en masse to the lagoons, and so laid the foundations of the cities of venice and nearby grado. yet aquileia would rise again, though much diminished, and continue to exist until the lombards invaded in ; the lombards destroyed it a second time in . meanwhile, the patriarch fled to the island town of grado, which was under the protection of the byzantines. when the patriarch residing in grado reconciled with rome in , those continuing in the schism of the three chapters, rejecting the second council of constantinople, elected a patriarch at aquileia. thus, the diocese was essentially divided into two parts, with the mainland patriarchate of aquileia under the protection of the lombards, and the insular patriarchate of aquileia seated in grado being protected by the exarchate of ravenna and later the doges of venice, with the collusion of the lombards. the line of the patriarchs elected in aquileia would continue in schism until ce. however, although they kept the title of patriarch of aquileia, they moved their residence first to cormons and later to cividale. middle ages[edit] main article: patriarchate of aquileia (state) the lombard dukes of friuli ruled aquileia and the surrounding mainland territory from cividale. in , charlemagne conquered the lombard duchy and made it into a frankish one with eric of friuli as duke. in , charlemagne named the priest and master of grammar at the palace school of paulinus ii, the new patriarch of aquileia. the patriarchate, despite being divided with a northern portion assigned to the pastoral care of the newly created archbishopric of salzburg, would remain one of the largest dioceses. although paulinus resided mainly at cividale, his successor maxentius considered rebuilding aquileia. however, the project never came to fruition. while maxentius was patriarch, the pope approved the synod of mantua, which affirmed the precedence of the mainland patriarch of aquileia over the patriarch of grado. however, material conditions were soon to worsen for aquileia. the ruins of aquileia were continually pillaged for building material. and with the collapse of the carolingians in the th century, the inhabitants would suffer under the raids of the magyars. by the th century, the patriarch of aquileia had grown strong enough to assert temporal sovereignty over friuli and aquileia. the holy roman emperor gave the region to the patriarch as a feudal possession. however, the patriarch's temporal authority was constantly disputed and assailed by the territorial nobility. in and patriarch poppo of aquileia, who rebuilt the cathedral of aquileia, entered and sacked neighbouring grado, and, though the pope reconfirmed the patriarch of the latter in his dignities, the town never fully recovered, though it continued to be the seat of the patriarchate until its formal transference to venice in . in the th century the patriarchal state reached its largest extension, stretching from the piave river to the julian alps and northern istria. the seat of the patriarchate of aquileia had been transferred to udine in , but returned to aquiliea in when venice annexed the territory of udine. in , the defeated patriarch ludovico trevisan acquiesced in the loss of his ancient temporal estate in return for an annual salary of , ducats allowed him from the venetian treasury. henceforth only venetians were allowed to hold the title of patriarch of aquileia. the patriarchal state was incorporated in the republic of venice with the name of patria del friuli, ruled by a provveditore generale or a luogotenente living in udine. the patriarchal diocese was only finally officially suppressed in , and the sees of udine and gorizia established from its territory. interior of the cathedral, with the mosaic pavement. ancient mosaic in the cathedral. the archaeological walk. main sights[edit] cathedral[edit] the aquileia cathedral is a flat-roofed basilica erected by patriarch poppo in on the site of an earlier church, and rebuilt about in the gothic style by patriarch marquard of randeck. the façade, in romanesque-gothic style, is connected by a portico to the so-called church of the pagans, and the remains of the th-century baptistery. the interior has a nave and two aisles, with a noteworthy mosaic pavement from the th century. the wooden ceiling is from , while the fresco decoration belongs to various ages: from the th century in the st. peter's chapel of the apse area; from the th century in the apse itself; from the th century in the so-called "crypt of the frescoes", under the presbytery, with a cycle depicting the origins of christianity in aquileia and the history of st. hermagoras, first bishop of the city. next to the th-century romanesque chapel of the holy sepulchre, at the beginning of the left aisle, flooring of different ages can be seen: the lowest is from a roman villa of the age of augustus; the middle one has a typical cocciopesto pavement; the upper one, bearing blackening from attila's fire, has geometrical decorations. externally, behind the th-century campanile and the apse, is the cemetery of the fallen, where ten unnamed soldiers of world war i are buried. saint hermagoras is also buried there. ancient roman remains[edit] today, aquileia is a town smaller than the colony first founded by rome. over the centuries, sieges, earthquakes, floods, and pillaging of the ancient buildings for materials means that no edifices of the roman period remain above ground. the site of aquileia, believed to be the largest roman city yet to be excavated, is inscribed on the unesco world heritage list. excavations, however, have revealed some of the layout of the roman town such as a segment of a street, the north-west angle of the town walls, the river port, and the former locations of baths, of an amphitheatre, of a circus, of a cemetery, of the via sacra, of the forum, and of a market. the national archaeological museum contains over , inscriptions, statues and other antiquities, mosaics, as well as glasses of local production and a numismatics collection. others[edit] in the monastero fraction is a th-century christian basilica, later a benedictine monastery, which today houses the palaeo-christian museum. notable people[edit] saint chrysogonus was martyred here in the beginning of the th century. twin towns – sister cities[edit] aquileia is twinned with the following settlements:[ ] 	 piran, slovenia 	 maria saal, austria see also[edit] 	schism of the three chapters 	aquileian rite 	councils of aquileia 	list of aquileia bishops and patriarchs 	acaste bresciani references[edit] 	^ "superficie di comuni province e regioni italiane al ottobre ". istat. retrieved march . 	^ "popolazione residente al ° gennaio ". istat. retrieved march . 	^ "aquileia". collins english dictionary. harpercollins. retrieved april , . 	^ "aquileia". the american heritage dictionary of the english language ( th ed.). boston: houghton mifflin harcourt. retrieved april , . 	^ bilingual name of aquileja – oglej in: gemeindelexikon, der im reichsrate vertretenen königreiche und länder. herausgegeben von der k.k. statistischen zentralkommission. 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		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		roman consul and historian 	lucius cassius dio 	native name	Δίων Κάσσιος 	born	c.  ad nicaea, bithynia 	died	c.  ad (aged approx. ) bithynia 	occupation	historian, senator, proconsul, consul 	nationality	roman 	subject	history 	notable works	history of rome 	relatives	cassius apronianus (father), cassius dio (grandchild or great-grandchild) lucius cassius dio (/ˈkæʃəs ˈdaɪoʊ/; c.   – c.  ad)[note ] or dio cassius (ancient greek: Δίων Κάσσιος)[note ] was a roman statesman and historian of greek and roman origin. he published volumes of the history on ancient rome, beginning with the arrival of aeneas in italy. the volumes documented the subsequent founding of rome ( bc), the formation of the republic ( bc), and the creation of the empire ( bc), up until ad. written in ancient greek over years, dio's work covers approximately , years of history. many of his books have survived intact, or as fragments, providing modern scholars with a detailed perspective on roman history. contents 	 biography 	 roman history 	 literary style 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links biography[edit] lucius cassius dio was the son of cassius apronianus, a roman senator and member of the gens cassia, who was born and raised at nicaea in bithynia. byzantine tradition maintains that dio's mother was the daughter or sister of the greek orator and philosopher, dio chrysostom; however, this relationship has been disputed. lucius is often identified as dio's praenomen, but a macedonian inscription, published in , reveals the abbreviation, "cl.", presumably claudius.[note ] although dio was a roman citizen, he wrote in greek. dio always maintained a love for his hometown of nicaea, calling it "his home", as opposed to his description of his villa in italy ("my residence in italy").[citation needed] for the greater part of his life, dio was a member of the public service. he was a senator[ ] under commodus and governor of smyrna following the death of septimius severus; he became a suffect consul in approximately the year . dio was also proconsul in africa and pannonia. severus alexander held dio in the highest esteem and reappointed him to the position of consul, even though his caustic nature irritated the praetorian guards, who demanded his life. following his second consulship, while in his later years, dio returned to his native country, where he eventually died. dio was either the grandfather or great-grandfather of cassius dio, consul in .[ ] roman history[edit] dio published a roman history (Ῥωμαϊκὴ Ἱστορία, historia romana), in books, after twenty-two years of research and labour. the books cover a period of approximately , years, beginning with the tales from roman mythology of the arrival of the legendary aeneas in italy (c. bc) and the founding of rome by his descendant romulus ( bc); as well as the historic events of the republican and imperial eras through ad. the work is one of only three written roman sources that document the british revolt of ad – led by boudica and the subsequent defeat of boudica. until the first century bc, dio provides only a summary of events; after that period, his accounts become more detailed. from the time of commodus (ruled ad – ), dio is very circumspect in his conveyance of the events that he witnessed. the version of dio's work that survives today is quite composite since his history does not survive in its entirety: the first books have been partially reconstructed based on fragments from other works as well as the epitome of zonaras who used dio's roman history as a main source. scholarship on this part of dio's work is scarce but the importance of the early republic and regal period to dio's overall work has recently been underlined.[ ] books through are sparsely covered by fragments. the books that follow, books through , are nearly all complete; they cover the period from bc to bc, or from the eastern campaign of pompey and the death of mithridates to the death of marcus vipsanius agrippa. book contains a considerable gap, while books through (which cover the period from ad through ) are complete and contain events from the defeat of varus in germany to the death of claudius. of the subsequent books in the series, there remain only fragments and the meager abridgement of john xiphilinus, a monk from the th century. the abridgment of xiphilinus, as now extant, commences with book and continues to the end of book : it is a very indifferent performance[citation needed] and was made by order of the emperor michael vii doukas. the last book covers the period from to (the first half of the reign of alexander severus). dio's work has often been deprecated as unreliable and lacking any overall political aim.[ ][ ] recently, however, this roman historian has received a thorough reevaluation and his complexity and sophisticated political and historical interpretations have been highlighted.[ ][ ][ ] the fragments of the first books, as they have been collected, consist of four kinds: 	fragmenta valesiana: fragments that were dispersed throughout various writers, scholiasts, grammarians, and lexicographers, and were collected by henri valois. 	fragmenta peiresciana: large extracts, found in the section entitled "of virtues and vices", contained in the collection, or portative library, compiled by order of constantine vii porphyrogenitus. the manuscript of this belonged to nicolas-claude fabri de peiresc. 	the fragments of the first books, preserved in the second section of the same work by constantine, entitled “of embassies.” these are known under the name of fragmenta ursiniana, as the manuscript in which they are contained was found in sicily by fulvio orsini. 	excerpta vaticana by angelo mai: contains fragments of books to and to . additionally, fragments of an unknown continuator of dio (anonymus post dionem), generally identified with the th-century historian peter the patrician, are included; these date from the time of constantine. other fragments from dio that are primarily associated with the first books were found by mai in two vatican mss.; these contain a collection that was compiled by maximus planudes. the annals of joannes zonaras also contain numerous extracts from dio. literary style[edit] dio attempted to emulate thucydides in his writing style. dio's style, where there appears to be no corruption of the text, is generally clear though full of latinisms. dio's writing was underpinned by a set of personal circumstances whereby he was able to observe significant events of the empire in the first person, or had direct contact with the key figures who were involved. see also[edit] 	tacitus 	severan dynasty 	herodian 	roman historiography notes[edit] 	^ according to some scholars, such as millar (millar, f., a study of cassius dio, oxford , p. ), he was born later, in / ad[ ] 	^ alain gowing, who has edited cassius dio, argues that the evidence for cocceianus is insufficient, and the ascription is a byzantine confusion with dio chrysostom, whom pliny shows to be named cocceianus; he provides the previously unattested praenomen of claudius. 	^ also known as dion kassios kokkeianos (ancient greek: Δίων Κάσσιος Κοκκηϊανός),[ ] cassius lucius dio or cassius claudius dio;[ ] alleged to have the cognomen (nickname) cocceianus[ ][note ] 	^ gowing, who adopts it; claudius, however, is usually a nomen. references[edit] 	^ millar, fergus ( ). study of cassius dio. oxford university press. p.  . isbn  - - - . 	^ prof. cary's introduction at lacuscurtius 	^ gowing, alain (january ), "dio's name", classical philology, ( ): – , doi: . / , jstor  	^ dio's name: l'année épigraphique , = Κλ΄ Κάσσιος Δίων. roman military diplomas, roxan, = l. cassius dio. 	^ carter, john ( ). the reign of augustus. london: penguin books. pp.  . isbn  . 	^ martindale, j. r.; jones, a. h. m, the prosopography of the later roman empire, vol. i ad - , cambridge university press ( ), pg. 	^ a b burden-strevens, c. and lindholmer, m. o. ( ). cassius dio's forgotten history of early rome. brill. doi: . / . isbn  .cs maint: multiple names: authors list (link) 	^ millar, fergus ( ). a study of cassius dio. oxford: oxford university press. 	^ lintott, a. ( ). "cassius dio and the history of the late roman republic". aufstieg und niedergang der römischen welt. ( ): – . 	^ lange, carsten hjort herausgeber madsen, jesper majbom herausgeber ( ). cassius dio greek intellectual and roman politician. brill. isbn  . oclc  .cs maint: multiple names: authors list (link) 	^ valérie fromentin, estelle bertrand, michèle coltelloni-trannoy, michel molin, gianpaolo urso (eds.) ( ). cassius dion: nouvelles lectures. bordeaux: ausonius.cs maint: multiple names: authors list (link) cs maint: extra text: authors list (link) further reading[edit] 	aalders, g. j. d. . "cassius dio and the greek world." mnemosyne : – . 	baltussen, han. . "matricide revisited: dramatic and rhetorical allusion in tacitus, suetonius and cassius dio." antichthon : – . 	burden-strevens, c. and lindholmer, m. o. (eds.). cassius dio's forgotten history of early rome: the roman history. leiden: brill. 	eisman, m. m. . "dio and josephus: parallel analyses." latomus : – . 	fromentin, v., bertrand, e. coltelloni-trannoy, m., molin, m and urso, g. (eds.) . cassius dion: nouvelles lectures. bordeaux: ausonius. 	gleason, maud. . "identity theft: doubles and masquerades in cassius dio's contemporary history." classical antiquity . : – . 	gowing, alain m. . "dio’s name." classical philology : – . 	kordos, jozef. . "thucydidean elements in cassius dio." acta antiqua academiae scientiarum hungaricae . - : - . 	lange, c. h. and madsen, j. m. (eds.). cassius dio: greek intellectual and roman politician. leiden: brill. 	mallan, c. t. . "cassius dio on julia domna: a study of the political and ethical functions of biographical representation in dio's roman history." mnemosyne . - : – . 	mcdougall, iain. . "dio and his sources for caesar’s campaigns in gaul." latomus : – . 	millar, f. g. b. . a study of cassius dio. oxford: oxford univ. press. 	murison, c. l. . rebellion and reconstruction: galba to domitian: an historical commentary on cassius dio’s roman history. books – (a.d. – ). atlanta: scholars press. 	reinhold, meyer. . from republic to principate. an historical commentary on cassius dio's roman history books - ( - b.c.). atlanta: scholars press. 	swan, p.m. . the augustan succession. an historical commentary on cassius dio's roman history books - ( b.c.-a.d. ). oxford: oxford university press. external links[edit] 	library resources about cassius dio 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 by cassius dio 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 media related to cassius dio at wikimedia commons 	"cassius dio" . encyclopædia britannica. 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"impiety was the companion of credulity, [and] avarice the metropolis of vice." 	"good slaves are really free, and bad freemen really slaves." one saying is preserved by cicero:[ ] 	"it is useless to tear our hair when we are in grief, since sorrow is not cured by baldness." another is cited by plutarch:[ ] 	"though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest." notes[edit] 	^ strabo i. . 	^ diogenes laërtius, iv. – 	^ diogenes laërtius, iv. 	^ a b diogenes laërtius, iv. 	^ a b diogenes laërtius, iv. 	^ a b diogenes laërtius, iv. 	^ diogenes laërtius, iv. , 	^ diogenes laërtius, iv. , 	^ eduard zeller, outlines of the history of greek philosophy, th edition, page 	^ luis e. navia, ( ), classical cynicism: a critical study, pages – . greenwood 	^ a b c donald dudley, ( ) a history of cynicism, pages – 	^ diogenes laërtius, iv. : "in his familiar talk he would often vehemently assail belief in the gods, a taste which he had derived from theodorus." see also iv. . 	^ horace, epistles, ii. . 	^ cicero, tusculan disputations, iii. , "in quo facetum illud bionis, perinde stultissimum regem in luctu capillum sibi evellere quasi calvitio maeror levaretur." 	^ plutarch, moralia, xii. references[edit] 	 laërtius, diogenes ( ). 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	 	fleets 	admirals 	 campaign history 	wars and battles 	 technological history 	 military engineering 	 	castra 	siege engines 	triumphal arches 	roads 	 political history   	 strategy and tactics 	 	infantry tactics 	 frontiers and fortifications 	 	limes 	limes britannicus 	antonine wall 	hadrian's wall 	saxon shore 	limes germanicus 	alb limes 	lauter valley limes 	lower germanic limes 	main limes 	neckar-odenwald limes 	upper germanic-rhaetian limes 	wetterau limes 	danube–iller–rhine limes 	norican limes 	claustra alpium iuliarum 	pannonian limes 	limes alutanus 	limes moesiae 	trajan's wall 	anastasian wall 	limes sarmatiae 	limes arabicus 	limes tripolitanus 	limes mauretaniae 	  ancient rome portal •  war portal 		v 	t 	e in the roman republic and the roman empire, the latin word castrum[ ] (plural castra) was a building, or plot of land, used as a fortified military camp. in english, the terms 'roman fort', 'roman camp' and 'roman fortress' are commonly used for castrum. however, scholastic convention tends toward the use of the words 'fort', 'camp', 'marching camp' and 'fortress' as a translation of castrum.[ ] castrum was the term used for different sizes of camps including a large legionary fortress, smaller forts for cohorts or auxiliaries, temporary encampments, and "marching" forts. the diminutive form castellum was used for fortlets,[ ] typically occupied by a detachment of a cohort or a centuria. for a list of known castra see list of castra. contents 	 etymology 	 linguistic development of the military castra 	 description 	 plan of forts 	 . sources and origins 	 . layout 	 . wall and ditch 	 . interval 	 . streets, gates and central plaza 	 . canteen 	 . major buildings 	 . barracks 	 . sanitation 	 . territory 	 . modifications in practice 	 . quadrangular camps in later times 	 camp life 	 . ordinary life 	 . duties 	 see also 	 references 	 . primary sources 	 . secondary sources 	 external links 	 . general 	 . forts and fortifications 	 . camp life etymology[edit] castrum appears in oscan and umbrian, two other italic languages, suggesting an origin at least as old as proto-italic language. julius pokorny [ ] traces a probable derivation from *k̂es-, schneiden (“cut”) in *k̂es-tro-m, schneidewerkzeug (“cutting tool”). these italic reflexes based on *kastrom include oscan castrous (genitive case) and umbrian castruo, kastruvuf (accusative case). they have the same meaning, says pokorny, as latin fundus, an estate, or tract of land. this is not any land, but is a prepared or cultivated tract, such as a farm enclosed by a fence or a wooden or stone wall of some kind. cornelius nepos uses latin castrum in that sense: when alcibiades deserts to the persians, pharnabazus gives him an estate (castrum) worth talents in tax revenues.[ ] this is a change of meaning from the reflexes in other languages, which still mean some sort of knife, axe, or spear. pokorny explains it as ’lager’ als ‘abgeschnittenes stück land’, “a lager, as a cut-off piece of land.” if this is the civilian interpretation, the military version must be “military reservation,” a piece of land cut off from the common land around it and modified for military use. all castra must be defended by works, often no more than a stockade, for which the soldiers carried stakes, and a ditch. the castra could be prepared under attack within a hollow square or behind a battle line. considering that the earliest military shelters were tents made of hide or cloth, and all but the most permanent bases housed the men in tents placed in quadrangles and separated by numbered streets, one castrum may well have acquired the connotation of tent.[ ] linguistic development of the military castra[edit] the commonest latin syntagmata (here phrases) for the term castra are: 	castra stativa 	permanent camp/fortresses 	castra aestiva 	summer camp/fortresses 	castra hiberna 	winter camp/fortresses 	castra navalia / castra nautica 	navy camp/fortresses in latin the term castrum is much more frequently used as a proper name for geographical locations: e.g., castrum album, castrum inui, castrum novum, castrum truentinum, castrum vergium. the plural was also used as a place name, as castra cornelia, and from this comes the welsh place name prefix caer- and english suffixes -caster and -chester; e.g., winchester, lancaster. castrorum filius, "son of the camps," was one of the names used by the emperor caligula and then also by other emperors. castro, also derived from castrum, is a common spanish family name as well as toponym in italy, the balkans and spain and other hispanophone countries, either by itself or in various compounds such as the world heritage site of gjirokastër (earlier argurokastro). the terms stratopedon (army camp) and phrourion (fortification) were used by greek language authors to translate castrum and castellum, respectively. description[edit] basic ideal plan of a roman castrum. ( ) principia; ( ) via praetoria; ( ) via principalis; ( ) porta principalis dextra; ( ) porta praetoria (main gate); ( ) porta principalis sinistra; ( ) porta decumana (back gate). a castrum was designed to house and protect the soldiers, their equipment and supplies when they were not fighting or marching. the most detailed description that survives about roman military camps is de munitionibus castrorum, a manuscript of pages that dates most probably from the late st to early nd century ad.[ ] regulations required a major unit in the field to retire to a properly constructed camp every day. "… as soon as they have marched into an enemy's land, they do not begin to fight until they have walled their camp about; nor is the fence they raise rashly made, or uneven; nor do they all abide ill it, nor do those that are in it take their places at random; but if it happens that the ground is uneven, it is first levelled: their camp is also four-square by measure, and carpenters are ready, in great numbers, with their tools, to erect their buildings for them."[ ] to this end a marching column ported the equipment needed to build and stock the camp in a baggage train of wagons and on the backs of the soldiers. camps were the responsibility of engineering units to which specialists of many types belonged, officered by architecti, "chief engineers", who requisitioned manual labor from the soldiers at large as required. they could throw up a camp under enemy attack in as little as a few hours. judging from the names, they probably used a repertory of camp plans, selecting the one appropriate to the length of time a legion would spend in it: tertia castra, quarta castra, etc. (a camp of three days, four days, etc.).[ ] more permanent camps were castra stativa (standing camps). the least permanent of these were castra aestiva or aestivalia, "summer camps", in which the soldiers were housed sub pellibus or sub tentoriis, "under tents".[ ] summer was the campaign season. for the winter the soldiers retired to castra hiberna containing barracks and other buildings of more solid materials, with timber construction gradually being replaced by stone.[ ] the camp allowed the romans to keep a rested and supplied army in the field. neither the celtic nor germanic armies had this capability: they found it necessary to disperse after only a few days. the largest castra were legionary fortresses built as bases for one or more whole legions.[ ][ ] from the time of augustus more permanent castra with wooden or stone buildings and walls were introduced as the distant and hard-won boundaries of the expanding empire required permanent garrisons to control local and external threats from war-like tribes. previously, legions were raised for specific military campaigns and subsequently disbanded, requiring only temporary castra. from then on many castra of various sizes were established many of which became permanent settlements. plan of forts[edit] plan of a typical roman fort. reconstructed gateway of a castrum stativum at arbeia (south shields). note the battlements, the roman arches, the turres. reconstruction of the specula or vigilarium (germanic burgus), "watchtower", a type of castrum, at rainau-buch, germany. an ancient watchtower would have been surrounded by wall and ditch.[ ] sources and origins[edit] from the most ancient times roman camps were constructed according to a certain ideal pattern, formally described in two main sources, the de munitionibus castrorum and the works of polybius.[ ] p. fl. vegetius renatus has a small section on entrenched camps as well. the terminology varies but the basic plan is the same.[ ] the hypothesis of an etruscan origin is a viable alternative.[ ] layout[edit] the reconstructed porta praetoria of castrum pfünz, germany, near the rhaetian limes. late roman fort in jordan late roman quadriburgium in hungary the ideal enforced a linear plan for a camp or fort: a square for camps to contain one legion or smaller unit, a rectangle for two legions, each legion being placed back-to-back with headquarters next to each other. laying it out was a geometric exercise conducted by experienced officers called metatores, who used graduated measuring rods called decempedae (" -footers") and gromatici who used a groma, a sighting device consisting of a vertical staff with horizontal cross pieces and vertical plumb-lines. ideally the process started in the centre of the planned camp at the site of the headquarters tent or building (principia). streets and other features were marked with coloured pennants or rods. the street plans of various present-day cities still retain traces of a roman camp, for example marsala in sicily, the ancient lilybaeum, where the name of the main street, the cassaro, perpetuates the name "castrum". wall and ditch[edit] castrum at masada. note the classical "playing-card" layout. the castrum's special structure also defended from attacks. the base (munimentum, "fortification") was placed entirely within the vallum ("wall"), which could be constructed under the protection of the legion in battle formation if necessary. the vallum was quadrangular aligned on the cardinal points of the compass. the construction crews dug a trench (fossa), throwing the excavated material inward, to be formed into the rampart (agger). on top of this a palisade of stakes (sudes or valli) was erected. the soldiers had to carry these stakes on the march.[ ] over the course of time, the palisade might be replaced by a fine brick or stone wall, and the ditch serve also as a moat. a legion-sized camp always placed towers at intervals along the wall with positions between for the division artillery. interval[edit] around the inside periphery of the vallum was a clear space, the intervallum, which served to catch enemy missiles, as an access route to the vallum and as a storage space for cattle (capita) and plunder (praeda). legionaries were quartered in a peripheral zone inside the intervallum, which they could rapidly cross to take up position on the vallum. inside of the legionary quarters was a peripheral road, the via sagularis, probably a type of "service road", as the sagum, a kind of cloak, was the garment of soldiers. streets, gates and central plaza[edit] reconstructed east gate of a castrum stativum, a more permanent base, at welzheim, germany. porta called savoia, susa, piedmont, - bc. every camp included "main street", which ran through the camp in a north-south direction and was very wide. the names of streets in many cities formerly occupied by the romans suggest that the street was called cardo or cardus maximus. this name applies more to cities than it does to ancient camps.[ ] typically "main street" was the via principalis. the central portion was used as a parade ground and headquarters area. the "headquarters" building was called the praetorium because it housed the praetor or base commander ("first officer"), and his staff. in the camp of a full legion he held the rank of consul or proconsul but officers of lesser ranks might command. on one side of the praetorium was the quaestorium, the building of the quaestor (supply officer). on the other side was the forum, a small duplicate of an urban forum, where public business could be conducted. along the via principalis were the homes or tents of the several tribunes in front of the barracks of the units they commanded. the via principalis went through the vallum in the porta principalis dextra ("right principal gate") and porta principalis sinistra ("left, etc."), which were gates fortified with turres ("towers"). which was on the north and which on the south depends on whether the praetorium faced east or west, which remains unknown. the central region of the via principalis with the buildings for the command staff was called the principia (plural of principium). it was actually a square, as across this at right angles to the via principalis was the via praetoria, so called because the praetorium interrupted it. the via principalis and the via praetoria offered another division of the camp into four quarters. porta decumana at weißenburg, bavaria, germany across the central plaza (principia) to the east or west was the main gate, the porta praetoria. marching through it and down "headquarters street" a unit ended up in formation in front of the headquarters. the standards of the legion were located on display there, very much like the flag of modern camps. on the other side of the praetorium the via praetoria continued to the wall, where it went through the porta decumana. in theory this was the back gate. supplies were supposed to come in through it and so it was also called, descriptively, the porta quaestoria. the term decumana, "of the th", came from the arranging of manipuli or turmae from the first to the th, such that the th was near the intervallum on that side. the via praetoria on that side might take the name via decumana or the entire via praetoria be replaced with decumanus maximus.[ ] canteen[edit] in peaceful times the camp set up a marketplace with the natives in the area. they were allowed into the camp as far as the units numbered (half-way to the praetorium). there another street crossed the camp at right angles to the via decumana, called the via quintana, " th street". if the camp needed more gates, one or two of the porta quintana were built, presumably named dextra and sinistra. if the gates were not built, the porta decumana also became the porta quintana. at " th street" a public market was allowed.[citation needed] major buildings[edit] model of the legionary fortress of deva (chester) plus adjoining amphitheatre in britannia (reconstruction). not much remains of these horrea (granaries) at arbeia, but the longitudinal supports for the floor can be seen. the via quintana and the via principalis divided the camp into three districts: the latera praetorii, the praetentura and the retentura. in the latera ("sides") were the arae (sacrificial altars), the auguratorium (for auspices), the tribunal, where courts martial and arbitrations were conducted (it had a raised platform), the guardhouse, the quarters of various kinds of staff and the storehouses for grain (horrea) or meat (carnarea). sometimes the horrea were located near the barracks and the meat was stored on the hoof. analysis of sewage from latrines indicates the legionary diet was mainly grain. also located in the latera was the armamentarium, a long shed containing any heavy weapons and artillery not on the wall. roman artillery piece (onager) the praetentura ("stretching to the front") contained the scamnum legatorum, the quarters of officers who were below general but higher than company commanders (legati).[ ] near the principia were the valetudinarium (hospital), veterinarium (for horses), fabrica ("workshop", metals and wood), and further to the front the quarters of special forces. these included classici ("marines", as most european camps were on rivers and contained a river naval command), equites ("cavalry"), exploratores ("scouts"), and vexillarii (carriers of vexillae, the official pennants of the legion and its units). troops who did not fit elsewhere also were there. the part of the retentura ("stretching to the rear") closest to the principia contained the quaestorium. by the late empire it had developed also into a safekeep for plunder and a prison for hostages and high-ranking enemy captives. near the quaestorium were the quarters of the headquarters guard (statores), who amounted to two centuries (companies). if the imperator was present they served as his bodyguard. barracks[edit] a sanitary channel at potaissa, dacia (modern romania). it is placed cross-slope with a slight decline and then exits down-slope. further from the quaestorium were the tents of the nationes ("natives"), who were auxiliaries of foreign troops, and the legionaries themselves in double rows of tents or barracks (strigae). one striga was as long as required and  m wide. in it were two hemistrigia of facing tents centered in its  m strip. arms could be stacked before the tents and baggage carts kept there as well. space on the other side of the tent was for passage. in the northern places like britain, where it got cold in the winter, they would make wood or stone barracks. the romans would also put a fireplace in the barracks. they had about three bunk beds in it. they had a small room beside it where they put their armour; it was as big as the tents. they would also make these barracks if the fort they had was going to stay there for good.[ ] a tent was by . metres ( .  m for the aisle), ten men per tent. ideally a company took tents, arranged in a line of companies, with the th near the porta decumana. of the c. . square metres of bunk space each man received . , or about . by .  m, which was only practical if they slept with heads to the aisle. the single tent with its men was called contubernium, also used for "squad". a squad during some periods was men or fewer. the centurion, or company commander, had a double-sized tent for his quarters, which served also as official company area. other than there, the men had to find other places to be. to avoid mutiny, it became extremely important for the officers to keep them busy. a covered portico might protect the walkway along the tents. if barracks had been constructed, one company was housed in one barracks building, with the arms at one end and the common area at the other. the company area was used for cooking and recreation, such as gaming. the army provisioned the men and had their bread (panis militaris) baked in outdoor ovens, but the men were responsible for cooking and serving themselves. they could buy meals or supplementary foods at the canteen. the officers were allowed servants. sanitation[edit] for sanitary facilities, a camp had both public and private latrines. a public latrine consisted of a bank of seats situated over a channel of running water. one of the major considerations for selecting the site of a camp was the presence of running water, which the engineers diverted into the sanitary channels. drinking water came from wells; however, the larger and more permanent bases featured the aqueduct, a structure running a stream captured from high ground (sometimes miles away) into the camp. the praetorium had its own latrine, and probably the quarters of the high-ranking officers. in or near the intervallum, where they could easily be accessed, were the latrines of the soldiers. a public bathhouse for the soldiers, also containing a latrine, was located near or on the via principalis. territory[edit] reconstructed barracks of a castra hiberna, or "winter camp", at arbeia (south shields). each doorway provides entry to a large room, the sleeping quarters of one contubernium, or "squad" of about men. the influence of a base extended far beyond its walls. the total land required for the maintenance of a permanent base was called its territoria. in it were located all the resources of nature and the terrain required by the base: pastures, woodlots, water sources, stone quarries, mines, exercise fields and attached villages. the central castra might also support various fortified adjuncts to the main base, which were not in themselves self-sustaining (as was the base). in this category were speculae, "watchtowers", castella, "small camps", and naval bases. all the major bases near rivers featured some sort of fortified naval installation, one side of which was formed by the river or lake. the other sides were formed by a polygonal wall and ditch constructed in the usual way, with gates and watchtowers. the main internal features were the boat sheds and the docks. when not in use, the boats were drawn up into the sheds for maintenance and protection. since the camp was placed to best advantage on a hill or slope near the river, the naval base was usually outside its walls. the classici and the optiones of the naval installation relied on the camp for its permanent defense. naval personnel generally enjoyed better quarters and facilities. many were civilians working for the military. modifications in practice[edit] this ideal was always modified to suit the terrain and the circumstances. each camp discovered by archaeology has its own specific layout and architectural features, which makes sense from a military point of view. if, for example, the camp was built on an outcrop, it followed the lines of the outcrop. the terrain for which it was best suited and for which it was probably designed in distant prehistoric times was the rolling plain. the camp was best placed on the summit and along the side of a low hill, with spring water running in rivulets through the camp (aquatio) and pastureland to provide grazing (pabulatio) for the animals. in case of attack, arrows, javelins and sling missiles could be fired down at an enemy tiring himself to come up. for defence troops could be formed in an acies, or "battle-line", outside the gates, where they could be easily resupplied and replenished, as well as being supported by archery from the palisade. the streets, gates and buildings present depended on the requirements and resources of the camp. the gates might vary from two to six and not be centred on the sides. not all the streets and buildings might be present. quadrangular camps in later times[edit] many settlements in europe originated as roman military camps and still show traces of their original pattern (e.g. castres in france, barcelona in spain).[ ] the pattern was also used by spanish colonizers in america following strict rules by the spanish monarchy for founding new cities in the new world. many of the towns of england still retain forms of the word castra in their names, usually as the suffixes "-caster", "-cester" or "-chester" – lancaster, tadcaster, worcester, gloucester, mancetter, uttoxeter, colchester, chester, manchester and ribchester for example. castle has the same derivation, from the diminutive castellum or "little fort", but does not usually indicate a former roman camp. whitley castle however is an exception, referring to the roman fort of epiacum in northumberland. camp life[edit] activities conducted in a castra can be divided into ordinary and "the duty" or "the watch". ordinary activity was performed during regular working hours. the duty was associated with operating the installation as a military facility. for example, none of the soldiers were required to man the walls all the time, but round-the clock duty always required a portion of the soldiers to be on duty at any time. duty time was divided into vigilia, the eight watches into which the -hour day was divided so they stood guard for hours that day.[ ] the romans used signals on brass instruments to mark time. these were mainly the buccina or bucina, the cornu and the tuba. as they did not possess valves for regulating the pitch, the range of these instruments was somewhat limited. nevertheless, the musicians (aenatores, "brassmen") managed to define enough signals for issuing commands. the instrument used to mark the passage of a watch was the buccina, from which the trumpet derives. it was sounded by a buccinator. ordinary life[edit] the pillars supported a raised floor to keep food dry and free from vermin in the northern granary at housesteads roman fort (vercovicium) on hadrian's wall. ordinary camp life began with a buccina call at daybreak, the first watch of the day. the soldiers arose at this time and shortly after collected in the company area for breakfast and assembly. the centurions were up before them and off to the principia where they and the equites were required to assemble. the regimental commanders, the tribunes, were already converging on the praetorium. there the general staff was busily at work planning the day. at a staff meeting the tribunes received the password and the orders of the day. they brought those back to the centuriones, who returned to their company areas to instruct the men. for soldiers, the main item of the agenda was a vigorous training session lasting about a watch long. recruits received two, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.[ ] planning and supervision of training were under a general staff officer, who might manage training at several camps. according to vegetius, the men might take a kilometres (  mi) hike or a – kilometres ( . – .  mi) jog under full pack, or swim a river. marching drill was always in order. each soldier was taught the use of every weapon and also was taught to ride. seamanship was taught at naval bases. soldiers were generalists in the military and construction arts. they practiced archery, spear-throwing and above all swordsmanship against posts (pali) fixed in the ground.[ ] training was taken very seriously and was democratic. ordinary soldiers would see all the officers training with them including the praetor, or the emperor, if he was in camp. swordsmanship lessons and use of the shooting range probably took place on the campus, a "field" outside the castra, from which english camp derives. its surface could be lightly paved. winter curtailed outdoor training. the general might in that case have sheds constructed, which served as field houses for training. there is archaeological evidence in one case of an indoor equestrian ring. apart from the training, each soldier had a regular job on the base, of which there were a large variety from the various kinds of clerks to the craftsmen. soldiers changed jobs frequently. the commander's policy was to have all the soldiers skilled in all the arts and crafts so that they could be as interchangeable as possible. even then the goal was not entirely achievable. the gap was bridged by the specialists, the optiones or "chosen men", of which there were many different kinds. for example, a skilled artisan might be chosen to superintend a workshop. an aureus of the late republic the supply administration was run as a business using money as the medium of exchange.[ ] the aureus was the preferred coin of the late republic and early empire; in the late empire the solidus came into use. the larger bases, such as moguntiacum, minted their own coins. as does any business, the base quaestorium required careful record keeping, performed mainly by the optiones. a chance cache of tablets from vindolanda in britain gives us a glimpse of some supply transactions. they record, among other things, the purchase of consumables and raw supplies, the storage and repair of clothing and other items, and the sale of items, including foodstuffs, to achieve an income. vindolanda traded vigorously with the surrounding natives.[ ] another feature of the camp was the military hospital (valetudinarium, later hospitium). augustus instituted the first permanent medical corps in the roman army. its physicians, the medici ordinarii,[ ] had to be qualified physicians. they were allowed medical students, practitioners and whatever orderlies they needed; i.e., the military hospitals were medical schools and places of residency as well.[ ] further information on on hospitals and physicians in the military: medical community of ancient rome officers were allowed to marry and to reside with their families on base. the army did not extend the same privileges to the men, who were not allowed to marry.[ ] however, they often kept common law families off base in communities nearby. the communities might be native, as the tribesmen tended to build around a permanent base for purposes of trade, but also the base sponsored villages (vici) of dependents and businessmen. dependants were not allowed to follow an army on the march into hostile territory. military service was for about years. at the end of that time, the veteran was given a certificate of honorable discharge (honesta missio). some of these have survived engraved on stone. typically they certify that the veteran, his wife (one per veteran) and children or his sweetheart were now roman citizens, which is a good indication that troops, which were used chiefly on the frontier, were from peoples elsewhere on the frontier who wished to earn roman citizenship. however, under antoninus pius, citizenship was no longer granted to the children of rank-and-file veterans, the privilege becoming restricted only to officers.[ ] veterans often went into business in the communities near a base.[ ] they became permanent members of the community and would stay on after the troops were withdrawn, as in the notable case of saint patrick's family. duties[edit] the remains of the southern granary at housesteads roman fort on hadrian's wall. conducted in parallel with the ordinary activities was "the duty", the official chores required by the camp under strict military discipline. the legate was ultimately responsible for them as he was for the entire camp, but he delegated the duty to a tribune chosen as officer of the day. the line tribunes were commanders of cohortes and were approximately the equivalent of colonels. the tribunes were divided into units of two, with each unit being responsible for filling the position of officer of the day for two months. the two men of a unit decided among themselves who would take what day. they could alternate days or each take a month. one filled in for the other in case of illness. on his day, the tribune effectively commanded the camp and was even respected as such by the legate. the equivalent concept of the duties performed in modern camps is roughly the detail. the responsibilities (curae) of the many kinds of detail were distributed to the men by all the methods considered fair and democratic: lot, rotation and negotiation. certain kinds of cura were assigned certain classes or types of troops; for example, wall sentries were chosen only from velites. soldiers could be temporarily or permanently exempted: the immunes. for example, a triarius was immunis from the curae of the hastati. the duty year was divided into time slices, typically one or two months, which were apportioned to units, typically maniples or centuries. they were always allowed to negotiate who took the duty and when. the most common kind of cura were the posts of the sentinels, called the excubiae by day and the vigilae at night. wall posts were praesidia, gate posts, custodiae, advance positions before the gates, stationes. in addition were special guards and details. one post was typically filled by four men, one sentinel and the others at ease until a situation arose or it was their turn to be sentinel. some of the details were: 	guarding, cleaning and maintaining the principia. 	guarding and maintaining the quarters of each tribune. 	tending the horses of each cavalry turma. 	guarding the praetorium.[ ] see also[edit] 	ancient rome portal 	war portal 	fortification 	list of topics related to ancient rome 	military history of ancient rome 	roman legion references[edit] 	^ a nd declension neuter noun. according to lewis & short, dictionary item linked in external links, general, either the singular or plural was used, castra with a possible meaning of 'tents'. 	^ campbell , p.  harvnb error: multiple targets ( ×): citerefcampbell (help). included is a discussion about the typologies of roman fortifications. 	^ see vegetius, epitoma rei militaris, . . in clark's translation, . is "rules for encamping an army," last paragraph. "small fort" is castellum, which vegetius explains is the diminutive of castra. he conceives of them as fortified outposts to be manned by cavalry protecting a supply route; i.e., a base from which to conduct patrols. 	^ pokorny, julius ( ). indogermanisches etymologisches wörterbuch (in german). . bern: francke. p.  . 	^ nepos, cornelius. "alcibiades . ". latin library. 	^ lewis & short under external links, general, as well as many uncited latin dictionaries, make this suggestion. 	^ campbell, duncan b. ( ). "a camp in search of a campaign: the reality of hyginus' roman army". ancient warfare. ( ): – . retrieved april . 	^ flavius josephus: the jewish war. iii. . , trans. william whiston. 	^ ramsay's classic article, linked under external links, general, below, covers types of camps and camps in general. this wikipedia article is heavily indebted but not exclusively to it. 	^ see rebecca h. jones roman camps in britain, amberley press, stroud. 	^ see w.s. hanson building the forts and frontiers, in w.s. hanson (ed) the army and frontiers of rome. papers offered to david breeze on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday and his retirement from historic scotland, jra supplementary series , portsmouth, rhode island, - . 	^ roman legionary fortresses bc- ad, d.b.campbell, osprey. 	^ m. c. bishop, handbook to roman legionary fortresses, pen & sword, hbk pp isbn  	^ see hanson and friel ( ) under external links, forts and fortifications, below. 	^ book vi section the roman military system pages - in thayer's loeb's polybius under primary sources below.. 	^ an extensive lexicon at the romans in britain site, linked under external links, general, below, matches military terms of all periods of ancient rome to english equivalents. 	^ bell ( ) linked in external links, general, favors the view that the greeks either influenced the romans directly in the choice of the quadrangular plan or influenced the etruscans, who influenced the romans. the greek theory certainly does not exclude an indo-european origin. 	^ smith ( ) under external links, forts and fortifications. the sudes were not just simple stakes. three or four branches were left on for interlocking. 	^ cardo is the hinge line of a door and therefore is any main axis. in surveying it was the line drawn across (at ° using a groma) the east-west decumanus, which was the first line drawn based on the position of the sun at sunrise. the via principalis would certainly be a cardo. 	^ decumana (feminine of decumanus) derives most likely from decima manus, "tenth part" or "tenfold". as tenfold, it meant "immense." as tenth part, it also meant "across", such as a cross-path or cross-boundary. in surveying it was the first line drawn, after noting the position of the sun at sunrise in order to know exactly where east was; the cardo was then drawn across it at right angles. this was necessary, because the ancient romans did not have the compass to determine the position of the magnetic north. the connection between tenth and across remains obscure. the presence of numbered streets makes it less likely that the via decumana was "cross street" than that it was " th street." 	^ the term legatus had other meanings in other contexts, such as governor or ambassador. 	^ sims, lesley: "roman soldier's handbook", page - . usborne publishing ltd, . 	^ spain was especially heavily colonized by veterans, who romanized the language and the architecture. refer to miranda ( ) under external links, camp life, below. 	^ roby under secondary sources below. 	^ a b vegetius book i, linked in primary sources below. 	^ verboven, pages - , under external links, camp life. the author states estimates of coinage passing hands at various locations. a soldier received pay less deductions for expenses. he could borrow from or invest with the first bankers, the argentarii or negotiatores nummularii, whose business was to supply the legion with money for a percentage. 	^ a link to the vindolanda tablets database with introductions, descriptions and bibliography is given under primary sources below. 	^ see the tombstone of anicius ingenuus, a medicus ordinarius, under primary sources below. 	^ scheidel page under external links, camp life. 	^ scheidel pages - under external links, camp life. 	^ duncan b. campbell, "women in roman forts: residents, visitors or barred from entry?", ancient warfare, vol. iv ( ), issue , pp. - , cf. p. 	^ verboven describes the process. a veteran with a certain skill continued it as a contractor for the army. for example, a gladiarius or maker of swords, became a negotiator gladiarius, a supplier of swords. there were a large number of such names: the negotiatores vestiarii for clothing, frumentarii for grain, salsari leguminari for the salted vegetable concession, and so on. 	^ forman, joan: "the romans", page . macdonald educational. primary sources[edit] 	josephus. the war of the jews . translated by william whiston – via wikisource. 	population of vindolanda ( ad). "(the tablets)" (shtml). vindolanda tablets online: the roman army: activities. centre for the study of ancient documents, academic computing development team at oxford university. 	pseudo-hyginus. "de munitionibus castrorum". the latin library. ad fontes academy. (latin text.) 	polybius. "the histories (english translation) book vi". the loeb classical library, volume iii section vi. web publication on bill thayer's polybius site. 	roman government ( ad). "(military diploma)". military diploma of discharge and roman citizenship. metz, george w. legion xxiv website. 	unknown inscriber ( rd century ad). "(the tombstone)". tombstone of anicius ingenuus, museum of antiquities website. newcastle university. archived from the original on - - . 	vegetius. "flavius vegetius renatus epitoma rei militaris book i". armamentarium. archived from the original on - - . selections, latin and english juxtaposed by paragraph. translator unknown. 	publius flavius vegetius renatus ( ). "the military institutions of the romans (de re militari)". digital attic . . clarke, lieutenant john (translator); unknown editor. brevik, mads. books i-iii only. the unknown editor altered the translation "to conform to modern usage" and abbreviated the text. access is by subtitle. search only within subsection. secondary sources[edit] 	bishop, m.c. ( ). handbook to roman legionary fortresses. barnsley: pen and sword. isbn  - - - - . 	campbell, duncan b. ( ). roman auxiliary forts bc-ad . oxford: osprey publishing. isbn  - - - - . 	johnson, anne ( ). roman forts of the st and nd centuries ad in britain and the german provinces. london: adam & charles black. isbn  - - - . 	hanel, norbert ( ). "military camps, canabae and vici: the archaeological evidence". in erdkamp, paul (ed.). the companion to the roman army. oxford: blackwell. pp.  – . isbn  - - - - . 	keppie, lawrence ( ). the making of the roman army from republic to empire. new york: barnes and noble books. isbn  - - - . 	roby, henry john ( ). a grammar of the latin language from plautus to suetonius: second edition. london: macmillan. p.  . external links[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to castra. below are a number of links to sites reporting or summarizing current research or thinking. many are reprints of articles made available to the public at no charge. the historical researcher will find their bibliographies of great interest. general[edit] 	"fortress study group". study group devoted to the knowledge of forts and fortifications of all times and greek and roman ones: with a journal fort and a newsletter casemate. fortress study group. 	"army picture index". illustrated history of the roman empire. roman-empire.net. archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - . 	bell, anders ( ). "castra et urbs romana: an examination of the common features of roman settlements in italy and the empire and a system to aid in the discovery of their origins". cac undergraduate essay contest for - . classical association of canada. archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - . 	lewis, charlton t.; short, charles. "castrum/castra". a latin dictionary. the perseus digital library. 	ramsay, william ( ). "castra". william smith a dictionary of greek and roman antiquities. john murray, republished on bill thayer's lacuscurtius site. 	"the roman military in britain". roman-britain.org. archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - . links to a glossary. 	the romans in britain, glossary of military terms. note that both latin and greek terms with the same meaning are included. forts and fortifications[edit] 	"antonine wall fort: bearsden, new kilpatrick, strathclyde". roman-britain.org. archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - . 	hanson, w.s.; friel, j.g.p. ( ). "westerton: a roman watchtower on the gask frontier" (pdf). proceedings of the society of antiquaries of scotland. : – . 	"iron-age hillfort, roman stores depot brandon camp, leintwardine herefordshire". roman-britain.org. archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - . 	lendering, jona. "haltern". livius articles on ancient history. livius.org. 	"nidum: roman auxiliary fort: neath, west glamorgan". roman-britain.org. archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - . 	"pinnata castra: roman legionary fortress & marching camps: inchtuthill, tayside". roman-britain.org. [permanent dead link] 	"roman fortress". time trail. exeter city council. archived from the original on - - . 	smith, william ( ). "vallum". a dictionary of greek and roman antiquities. london: john murray. p.  . . article republished on bill thayer's lacuscurtius site, which has the advantage of linking to ancient texts cited by smith. 	tribus. "the roman camp in bonn". eduvinet services. 	"the roman camp sostra". bulgariancastles.com. archived from the original on - - . camp life[edit] 	campbell, duncan b. ( ). "women in roman forts: residents, visitors or barred from entry?". ancient warfare. iv ( ): – . 	miranda, frank ( ). "castra et coloniae: the role of the roman army in the romanization and urbanization of spain" (pdf). quaestio: the ucla undergraduate history journal. phi alpha theta: history honors society, ucla theta upsilon chapter, ucla department of history. archived from the original (pdf) on - - . 	scheidel, walter (november ). "marriage, families and survival in the roman imperial army: demographic aspects" (pdf). princeton/stanford working papers in classics. princeton university. 	verboven, koenraad ( ). "good for business. the roman army and the emergence of a 'business class' in the northwestern provinces of the roman empire ( st century bce - rd century ce)" (pdf). in lukas, de blois; elio, lo cascio (eds.). the impact of the roman army ( bc - ad ). economic, social, political, religious and cultural aspects. leiden & boston: brill. pp.  – . isbn  - - - - . 	 	v 	t 	e fortifications 	ancient	 	abatis 	agger 	broch 	burgus 	castellum 	castra 	castros 	circular rampart 	city gate 	crannog 	ditch 	defensive wall 	dun 	faussebraye 	gatehouse 	gord 	hillfort 	limes 	oppidum 	palisade 	pincer gate 	promontory fort 	rampart 	ringfort (rath) 	refuge castle 	schwedenschanze 	stockade 	sudis 	trou de loup 	vallum 	wagon fort (laager) 	vitrified fort 	post-classical	 	advanced work 	albarrana tower 	alcazaba 	alcázar 	arrowslit 	barbican 	bartizan 	bastion 	battery tower 	battlement 	bawn 	bent entrance 	bergfried 	bretèche 	bridge castle 	bridge tower 	butter-churn tower 	caer 	caltrop 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organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 ars poetica (horace) - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	ars poetica (horace) 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 the art of poetry "ars poetica", or "the art of poetry", is a poem written by horace c. bc,[ ] in which he advises poets on the art of writing poetry and drama. the ars poetica has "exercised a great influence in later ages on european literature, notably on french drama"[ ] and has inspired poets and authors since it was written.[ ] although it has been well-known since the middle ages, it has been used in literary criticism since the renaissance.[ ] contents 	 background 	 summary 	 literary phrases 	 key concepts 	 see also 	 references 	 external links background[edit] the poem was written in hexameter verse as an epistle (or letter) to lucius calpurnius piso (the roman senator and consul) and his two sons, and is sometimes referred to as the epistula ad pisones, or "epistle to the pisos". the first mention of its name as the "ars poetica" was c. by the classical literary critic quintilian in his institutio oratoria,[ ] and since then it has been known by that name. the translations of the original epistle are typically in the form of prose.[ ] "written, like horace's other epistles of this period, in a loose conversational frame, ars poetica consists of lines containing nearly maxims for young poets."[ ] but ars poetica is not a systematic treatise of theory, and it wasn't intended to be. it is an inviting and lively poetic letter, composed for friends who appreciate poetic literature.[ ] horace approaches poetry from a practical standpoint—as a craft, or ars—rather than the theoretical approach of his predecessors, aristotle and the philosopher plato. he also holds the poet in high regard, as opposed, for instance, to plato, who distrusts mimesis and who has philosopher socrates say in book of the republic that he would banish poets from the ideal state.[ ] summary[edit] the following is a brief outline of the main subjects of the work: (a) a poem demands unity, to be secured by harmony and proportion, as well as a wise choice of subject and good diction. meter and style must be appropriate to theme and to character. a good model will always be found in homer (ll, – ). (b) dramatic poetry calls for special care – as to character drawing, propriety of representation, length of a play, number of actors, use of the chorus and its music, special features for the satyric type, verse-forms, and employment of greek models (ll. – ). (c) a poet's qualifications include common sense, knowledge of character, adherence to high ideals, combination of the dulce with the utile, intellectual superiority, appreciation of the noble history and lofty mission of poetry, and above all a willingness to listen to and profit by impartial criticism (ll. – ).[ ] (for a more detailed summary of horace's ars poetica, see the article on horace's epistles – epistle ii. ). literary phrases[edit] "many of...[the] apt phrases [of the ars poetica]...have passed into common literary parlance."[ ] four quotations in particular are associated with the work: 	"in medias res (l. )", or "into the middle of things". this describes a narrative technique of starting the story from its middle point. according to horace, this entices the audience into the plot by making everyone curious about the characters' previous paths and their future destinies. the technique appeared frequently in ancient epics, and remains popular in modern narratives. 	"ab ovo (l. )", or "from the beginning". as homer did not initiate his epics about the trojan war from the conception (thus, the egg – "ovo" in latin) of helen, poets and other story tellers should do something likewise: in other words, starting a story from its commencement will bore and fatigue audiences that may not be interested in a plot that is tediously inclusive. for another explanation of this mention of an egg, see leda (mythology). 	"quandoque bonus dormitat homerus (l. )" or "sometimes even good homer nods off". today this expression is used to indicate that . even the most skilled poet can make continuity errors and . long works, usually epics (such as the iliad or the odyssey), may have their faults without that detracting significantly from their general quality. in context, however, horace even censures homer for such lapses. it reads "et idem | indignor quandoque bonus dormitat homerus"; (i even castigate the good homer for the same [fault of technical errors] whenever he nods off). 	"ut pictura poesis (l. )", or "as is painting so is poetry", by which horace meant that poetry, in its widest sense meaning "imaginative texts", merits the same careful interpretation that was in his day reserved for painting. 	(the latter two phrases occur one after the other near the end of the poem). key concepts[edit] the work is also known for its discussion of the principle of decorum (the use of appropriate vocabulary and diction in each style of writing) (l. – ), and for horace's criticisms of purple prose (purpureus pannus, l. – ), a term coined by him to mean the use of flowery language.[ ] this principle is considered a core component of horatian poetics as it principally aimed to achieve verisimilitude in artistic representation, guiding everything from the choice of genre to diction, dramatic characterization, meter, poetic invention, and the intended effect.[ ] some cited that decorum enforces subordination such as of parts to whole, woman to man, desire to reason, and individual to state.[ ] in line , horace warns against deus ex machina, the practice of resolving a convoluted plot by having an olympian god appear and set things right. horace writes "nec deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus": "that a god not intervene, unless a knot show up that be worthy of such an untangler".[ ] perhaps it can even be said that the quotability of horace's ars poetica is what has given it a distinguished place in literary criticism: the norton anthology of theory and criticism says: it would be impossible to overestimate the importance of horace's ars poetica (art of poetry) for the subsequent history of literary criticism. since its composition in the first century bce, this epigrammatic and sometimes enigmatic critical poem has exerted an almost continual influence over poets and literary critics alike – perhaps because its dicta, phrased in verse form, are so eminently quotable. horace's injunction that poetry should both "instruct and delight" has been repeated so often that it has come to be known as the horatian platitude.[ ] the horatian platitude is usually given as "instruct and delight", but sometimes as "instruct or delight". the first reading implies that all literature must be instructive. a related ambiguity is that "instruct" might be better translated as "help", "advise", or "warn". horace repeats this maxim in different wordings: "aut prodesse uolunt aut delectare poetae aut simul et iucunda et idonea dicere uitae" (the poet wishes to benefit or please, or to be pleasant and helpful at the same time), "miscuit utile dulci" (a mix of useful and sweet), and "delectando pariterque monendo" (delighting and advising). the ars poetica was first translated into english in by thomas drant.[ ] a translation by ben jonson was published posthumously in . see also[edit] 	epistles of horace references[edit] 	^ the dating of the poem is uncertain. different sources give various dates ranging from – bc. the date bc is given by the oxford companion to classical literature, p. . 	^ howatson, m.c. the oxford companion to classical literature, rd ed. oxford university press, , p. . 	^ for a discussion of the ars poetica and related poems, see: poets.org – http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmmid/ 	^ norton, glyn ( ). the cambridge history of literary criticism: volume , the renaissance. cambridge, uk: cambridge university press. p.  . isbn  . 	^ institutio oratoria . (also known as institutes of oratory in its dedication to trypho). see: horace: epistles book ii and epistle to the pisones (ars poetica), ed. by niall rudd. cambridge university press, , p. . 	^ "ars poetica by horace". poetry foundation. poetry foundation. - - . retrieved - - .cs maint: others (link) 	^ article on ars poetica. encyclopædia britannica academic edition, . 	^ horace. rudd, niall, editor. horace: epistles book ii and ars poetica. cambridge greek and latin classics. cambridge university press. (january , ). isbn  - page . 	^ the norton anthology of theory and criticism, ed. by vincent b. leitch et al. new york: w.w. norton & co., , p. and p. . 	^ this summary is taken from: horace: satires; epistles and ars poetica, translated and edited by h.r. fairclough. harvard: loeb classical library, , p. . 	^ howatson, p. . 	^ the norton anthology of theory and criticism, p. . 	^ prasad, leela ( ). poetics of conduct: oral narrative and moral being in a south indian town. new york: columbia university press. p.  . isbn  - - - . 	^ lowrie, michele ( ). horace: odes and epodes. oxford: oxford university press. p.  . isbn  . 	^ ars poetica, line archived february , , at the wayback machine 	^ the norton anthology of theory and criticism, p. . 	^ see the article on thomas drant by fred schurink in the encyclopedia of english renaissance literature, vol. . blackwell publishing, , pp. – . external links[edit] 		latin wikisource has original text related to this article: ars poetica 	latin text of poem at the latin library 	text at perseus. 	 the art of poetry: an epistle to the pisos by horace at project gutenberg (english translation) 		v 	t 	e works by horace 	poetry	 	satires 	epodes 	odes 	epistles 	carmen saeculare 	ars poetica 	collections	 	satires . 	quote	 	ut pictura poesis 	related	 	spring of bandusium 	authority control 	 	viaf: 	 worldcat identities (via viaf): retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ars_poetica_(horace)&oldid= " 		categories: 	 poems 	 poems 	literature about poetry 	literary concepts 	poetry by horace 	 st-century bc latin books hidden categories: 	cs maint: others 	webarchive template wayback links 	articles with project gutenberg links 	wikipedia articles with viaf identifiers 	wikipedia articles with worldcat-viaf identifiers 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			article 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	edit 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		search 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigation 	 	 			main page 	contents 	current events 	random article 	about wikipedia 	contact us 	donate 		 	 	 	 		contribute 	 	 			help 	learn to edit 	community portal 	recent changes 	upload file 		 	 	 		tools 	 	 			what links here 	related changes 	upload file 	special pages 	permanent link 	page information 	cite this page 	wikidata item 		 	 	 		print/export 	 	 			download as pdf 	printable version 		 	 	 		in other projects 	 	 			wikimedia commons 		 	 	 	 		languages 	 	 			বাংলা 	català 	español 	hrvatski 	italiano 	עברית 	latina 	nederlands 	日本語 	polski 	srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски 	svenska 	中文 		edit links 	 		 this page was last edited on july , at :  (utc). 	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 asconius pedianus - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	asconius pedianus 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 st century ad roman writer and historian 	 	this article includes a list of general references, but it remains largely unverified because it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (january ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) quintus asconius pedianus (c. bc – c. ad ) was a roman historian. in his later years he lived in rome, and there he died, after having been blind for twelve years, at the age of eighty-five. during the reigns of claudius and nero he compiled for his sons, from various sources—e.g. the gazette (aetablica)–shorthand reports or skeletons (commentarii) of cicero's unpublished speeches, tiro's life of cicero, speeches and letters of cicero's contemporaries, various historical writers, e.g. varro, atticus, antias, tuditanus and fenestella (a contemporary of livy whom he often criticizes) -- historical commentaries on cicero's speeches, of which only five, viz, in pisonem, pro scauro, pro milone, pro cornelio and in toga candida, in a very mutilated edition, are preserved,[ ] under the modern title q. asconii pediani orationvm ciceronis qvinqve enarratio. in a note upon the speech pro scauro, he speaks of longus caecina (died ad ) as still living, while his words imply that claudius (died ad ) was not alive. this statement, therefore, must have been written between ad and . these valuable notes, written in good latin, relate chiefly to historical and antiquarian matters.[ ] a commentary, of superior latinity and mainly of a grammatical character, on cicero's verrine orations, was transmitted alongside the commentaries of asconius but is regarded as a th or th century work.[citation needed] both works were found by poggio in a manuscript at st gallen in . this manuscript is lost, but three transcripts were made by poggio, zomini (sozomenus) of pistoia and bartolommeo da montepulciano. that of poggio is now at madrid (matritensis x. ), and that of zomini is in the forteguerri library at pistoia (no. ). a copy of bartolommeo's transcript exists in florence (laur. ). the later manuscripts are derived from poggio's copy.[ ] other works attributed to asconius were: 	a life of sallust 	a defence of virgil against his detractors 	a treatise (perhaps a symposium in imitation of plato) on health and long life.[ ] editions[edit] 	kiessling and scholl ( ) 	albert curtis clark (oxford, ), contains a previously unpublished collation of poggio's manuscript. 	asconius online on attalus.org references[edit] 	^ a b c d  one or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. 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encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		ancient greek lyric poet 	for the hummingbird, see archilochus (genus). portrait of a bearded man (poet archilochos?). roman copy c. nd century bce of the greek original of  century bce. coin from ancient thasos showing satyr and nymph, dated to late th century bce. archilochus was involved in the parian colonization of thasos about two centuries before the coin was minted. his poetry includes vivid accounts of life as a warrior, seafarer and lover. archilochus (/ɑːrˈkɪləkəs/; greek: Ἀρχίλοχος arkhilokhos; c. –  bce)[a] was a greek lyric poet from the island of paros in the archaic period. he is celebrated for his versatile and innovative use of poetic meters, and is the earliest known greek author to compose almost entirely on the theme of his own emotions and experiences.[ ][ ] alexandrian scholars included him in their canonic list of iambic poets, along with semonides and hipponax,[ ] yet ancient commentators also numbered him with tyrtaeus and callinus as the possible inventor of the elegy.[ ] modern critics often characterize him simply as a lyric poet.[ ] although his work now only survives in fragments, he was revered by the ancient greeks as one of their most brilliant authors, able to be mentioned in the same breath as homer and hesiod,[ ] yet he was also censured by them as the archetypal poet of blame[ ] – his invectives were even said to have driven his former fiancée and her father to suicide. he presented himself as a man of few illusions either in war or in love, such as in the following elegy, where discretion is seen to be the better part of valour: 	 Ἀσπίδι μὲν Σαΐων τις ἀγάλλεται, ἥν παρὰ θάμνῳ ἔντος ἀμώμητον κάλλιπον οὐκ ἐθέλων· αὐτὸν δ' ἔκ μ' ἐσάωσα· τί μοι μέλει ἀσπὶς ἐκείνη; Ἐρρέτω· ἐξαῦτις κτήσομαι οὐ κακίω.[ ] 	 one of the saians (thracian tribe) now delights in the shield i discarded unwillingly near a bush, for it was perfectly good, but at least i got myself safely out. why should i care for that shield? let it go. some other time i'll find another no worse.[citation needed] 	 	 archilochus was much imitated even up to roman times and three other distinguished poets later claimed to have thrown away their shields – alcaeus, anacreon and horace.[ ] contents 	 biography 	 . the historical sources 	 . scholarship and the biographical tradition 	 . . the poet's character 	 poetry 	 . style 	 recent discoveries 	 quotes 	 notes 	 references 	 . bibliography 	 external links biography[edit] the historical sources[edit] a considerable amount of information about the life of archilochus has come down to the modern age via his surviving work, the testimony of other authors and inscriptions on monuments,[ ] yet it all needs to be viewed with caution – the biographical tradition is generally unreliable and the fragmentary nature of the poems doesn't really support inferences about his personal history.[ ] the vivid language and intimate details of the poems often look autobiographical[ ][ ] yet it is known, on the authority of aristotle, that archilochus sometimes role-played. the philosopher quoted two fragments as examples of an author speaking in somebody else's voice: in one, an unnamed father commenting on a recent eclipse of the sun and, in the other, a carpenter named charon, expressing his indifference to the wealth of gyges, the king of lydia.[ ] there is nothing in those two fragments to suggest that archilochus is speaking in those roles (we rely entirely on aristotle for the context) and possibly many of his other verses involved role-playing too. it has even been suggested by one modern scholar that imaginary characters and situations might have been a feature of the poetic tradition within which archilochus composed, known by the ancients as iambus.[ ] the two poems quoted by aristotle help to date the poet's life (assuming of course that charon and the unnamed father are speaking about events that archilochus had experienced himself). gyges reigned –  bce and the date of the eclipse must have been either april  bce or june  bce (another date, march  bce, is generally considered too early).[ ] these dates are consistent with other evidence of the poet's chronology and reported history, such as the discovery at thasos of a cenotaph, dated around the end of the seventh century and dedicated to a friend named in several fragments: glaucus, son of leptines.[ ] the chronology for archilochus is complex but modern scholars generally settle for c. –c. bce.[ ] whether or not their lives had been virtuous, authors of genius were revered by their fellow greeks. thus a sanctuary to archilochus (the archilocheion) was established on his home island paros sometime in the third century bce, where his admirers offered him sacrifices, as well as to gods such as apollo, dionysus, and the muses.[ ] inscriptions found on orthostats from the sanctuary include quoted verses and historical records. in one, we are told that his father telesicles once sent archilochus to fetch a cow from the fields, but that the boy chanced to meet a group of women who soon vanished with the animal and left him a lyre in its place – they were the muses and they had thus earmarked him as their protégé. according to the same inscription, the omen was later confirmed by the oracle at delphi. not all the inscriptions are as fanciful as that. some are records by a local historian of the time, set out in chronological order according to custom, under the names of archons. unfortunately, these are very fragmentary.[ ] snippets of biographical information are provided by ancient authors as diverse as tatian, proclus, clement of alexandria, cicero, aelian, plutarch, galen, dio chrysostom, aelius aristides and several anonymous authors in the palatine anthology. see and other poets below for the testimony of some famous poets. scholarship and the biographical tradition[edit] according to tradition, archilochus was born to a notable family on paros. his grandfather (or great-grandfather), tellis, helped establish the cult of demeter on thasos near the end of the eighth century, a mission that was famously depicted in a painting at delphi by the thasian polygnotus.[ ] the painting, later described by pausanias, showed tellis in hades, sharing charon's boat with the priestess of demeter.[b] the poet's father, telesicles, also distinguished himself in the history of thasos, as the founder of a parian colony there. the names 'tellis' and 'telesicles' can have religious connotations and some modern scholars infer that the poet was born into a priestly family devoted to demeter. inscriptions in the archilocheion identify archilochus as a key figure in the parian cult of dionysus[ ] there is no evidence to back isolated reports that his mother was a slave, named enipo, that he left paros to escape poverty, or that he became a mercenary soldier – the slave background is probably inferred from a misreading of his verses; archaeology indicates that life on paros, which he associated with "figs and seafaring", was quite prosperous; and though he frequently refers to the rough life of a soldier, warfare was a function of the aristocracy in the archaic period and there is no indication that he fought for pay.[ ][c] "look glaucus! already waves are disturbing the deep sea and a cloud stands straight round about the heights of gyrae,[d] a sign of storm; from the unexpected comes fear." the trochaic verse was quoted by the homeric scholar heraclitus, who said that archilochus used the image to describe war with the thracians.[ ] the life of archilochus was marked by conflicts. the ancient tradition identified a parian, lycambes, and his daughters as the main target of his anger. the father is said to have betrothed his daughter, neobule, to archilochus, but reneged on the agreement, and the poet retaliated with such eloquent abuse that lycambes, neobule and one or both of his other daughters committed suicide.[ ][ ] the story later became a popular theme for alexandrian versifiers, who played upon its poignancy at the expense of archilochus.[e] some modern scholars believe that lycambes and his daughters were not actually the poet's contemporaries but fictional characters in a traditional entertainment.[ ] according to another view, lycambes as an oath-breaker had marked himself out as a menace to society and the poet's invective was not just personal revenge but a social obligation consistent with the practice of 'iambos'.[ ] the inscriptions in the archilocheion imply that the poet had a controversial role in the introduction of the cult of dionysus to paros. it records that his songs were condemned by the parians as "too iambic" (the issue may have concerned phallic worship) but they were the ones who ended up being punished by the gods for impiety, possibly with impotence. the oracle of apollo then instructed them to atone for their error and rid themselves of their suffering by honouring the poet, which led to the shrine being dedicated to him.[ ][ ] his hero cult lasted on paros over years.[ ] his combative spirit also expressed itself in warfare. he joined the parian colony on thasos and battled the indigenous thracians, expressing himself in his poems as a cynical, hard-bitten soldier fighting for a country he doesn't love ("thasos, thrice miserable city") on behalf of a people he scorns[f] yet he values his closest comrades and their stalwart, unglamorous commander.[g] later he returned to paros and joined the fight against the neighbouring island of naxos. a naxian warrior named calondas won notoriety as the man that killed him. the naxian's fate interested later authors such as plutarch and dio chrysostom, since it had been a fair fight yet he was punished for it by the gods: he had gone to the temple of apollo at delphi to consult the oracle and was rebuked with the memorable words: "you killed the servant of the muses; depart from the temple."[ ] the poet's character[edit] 	 	 	 Εἰμὶ δ' ἐγὼ θεράπων μὲν Ἐνυαλίοιο ἄνακτος, καὶ Μουσέων ἐρατὸν δῶρον ἐπιστάμενος. 	 i am the servant of lord enyalios [ares, god of war], and skilled in the lovely gift of the muses.[ ] this couplet testifies to a social revolution: homer's poetry was a powerful influence on later poets and yet in homer's day it had been unthinkable for a poet to be a warrior.[ ] archilochus deliberately broke the traditional mould even while adapting himself to it. "perhaps there is a special relevance to his times in the particular gestures he elects to make: the abandonment of grandly heroic attitudes in favour of a new unsentimental honesty, an iconoclastic and flippant tone of voice coupled with deep awareness of traditional truths."[ ] ancient authors and scholars often reacted to his poetry and to the biographical tradition angrily, condemning "fault-finding archilochus" for "fattening himself on harsh words of hatred" (see pindar's comment below) and for "the unseemly and lewd utterances directed towards women", whereby he made "a spectacle of himself"[ ] he was considered "... a noble poet in other respects if one were to take away his foul mouth and slanderous speech and wash them away like a stain" (suda).[ ] according to valerius maximus, the spartans banished the works of archilochus from their state for the sake of their children "... lest it harm their morals more than it benefited their talents."[ ] yet some ancient scholars interpreted his motives more sympathetically: "for of the two poets who for all time deserve to be compared with no other, namely homer and archilochus, homer praised nearly everything ... but archilochus went to the opposite extreme, to censure; seeing, i suppose, that men are in greater need of this, and first of all he censures himself ...", thus winning for himself "... the highest commendation from heaven." – dio chrysostom[ ] poetry[edit] the earliest meter in extant greek poetry was the epic hexameter of homer. homer did not create the epic hexameter, however, and there is evidence that other meters also predate his work.[ ] thus, though ancient scholars credited archilochus with the invention of elegy and iambic poetry, he probably built on a "flourishing tradition of popular song" that pre-dated homer. his innovations however seem to have turned a popular tradition into an important literary medium.[ ] his merits as a poet were neatly summarized by the rhetorician quintilian: "we find in him the greatest force of expression, sententious statements that are not only vigorous but also terse and vibrant, and a great abundance of vitality and energy, to the extent that in the view of some his inferiority to anyone results from a defect of subject matter rather than poetic genius. – quintilian[ ] "a kingfisher flapped its wings on a protruding rock" – archilochus fr. [ ] the poet, "a frank celebrant of sex",[ ] found various ways to describe sexual relations, including allusions. here the rock is a phallic symbol and the kingfisher represents a female partner.[ ] most ancient commentators focused on his lampoons and on the virulence of his invective[ ] as in the comments below, yet the extant verses (most of which come from egyptian papyri[ ]) indicate a very wide range of poetic interests. alexandrian scholars collected the works of the other two major iambographers, semonides and hipponax, in just two books each, which were cited by number, whereas archilochus was edited and cited not by book number but rather by poetic terms such as 'elegy', 'trimeters', 'tetrameters' and 'epodes'.[ ] moreover, even those terms fail to indicate his versatility: "... not all his iambic and trochaic poetry was invective. in his elegiacs we find neat epigrams, consolatory poems and a detailed prediction of battle; his trochaics include a cry for help in war, an address to his troubled soul and lines on the ideal commander; in his iambics we find an enchanting description of a girl and charon the carpenter's rejection of tyranny."[ ] one convenient way to classify the poems is to divide them between elegy and iambus (ἵαμβος) – elegy aimed at some degree of decorum, since it employed the stately hexameter of epic, whereas the term 'iambus', as used by alexandrian scholars, denoted any informal kind of verse meant to entertain (it may have included the iambic meter but was not confined to it). hence the accusation that he was "too iambic" (see biography) referred not to his choice of meter but his subject matter and tone (for an example of his iambic verse see strasbourg papyrus). elegy was accompanied by the aulos or pipe, whereas the performance of iambus varied, from recitation or chant in iambic trimeter and trochaic tetrameter, to singing of epodes accompanied by some musical instrument (which one isn't known).[ ] archilochus was not included in the canonic list of nine lyric poets compiled by hellenistic scholars – his range exceeded their narrow criteria for lyric ('lyric' meant verse accompanied by the lyre). he did in fact compose some lyrics but only the tiniest fragments of these survive today. however they include one of the most famous of all lyric utterances, a hymn to heracles with which victors were hailed at the olympic games, featuring a resounding refrain Τήνελλα καλλίνικε in which the first word imitates the sound of the lyre.[ ]{{efn|Τήνελλα καλλίνικε, χαῖρ' ἄναξ Ἡράκλεες, αὐτός τε καὶ Ἰόλαος, αἰχμητὰ δύο. Τήνελλα καλλίνικε χαῖρ' ἄναξ Ἡράκλεες. style[edit] like other archaic greek poets, archilochus relied heavily on homer's example for his choice of language, particularly when using the same meter, dactylic hexameter (as for example in elegy), but even in other meters the debt is apparent – in the verse below, for example, his address to his embattled soul or spirit, θυμέ, has homeric echoes.[ ] the meter below is trochaic tetrameter catalectic (four pairs of trochees with the final syllable omitted), a form later favoured by athenian dramatists because of its running character, expressing aggression and emotional intensity.[ ] the comic poet aristophanes employed it for the arrival on stage of an enraged chorus in the knights, but archilochus uses it here to communicate the need for emotional moderation. his use of the meter isn't intentionally ironic, however, since he didn't share the tidy functionalism of later theorists, for whom different meters and verse-forms were endowed with distinctive characters suited to different tasks – his use of meter is "neutral in respect of ethos".[ ] the following verse is indicative too of the fragmentary nature of archilochus's extant work: lines and are probably corrupted and modern scholars have tried to emend them in various ways, none satisfactory, though the general meaning is clear.[ ] 	 	 	 θυμέ, θύμ᾽ ἀμηχάνοισι κήδεσιν κυκώμενε, ἄνα δέ, δυσμενέων δ᾽ ἀλέξευ προσβαλὼν ἐναντίον στέρνον, ἐν δοκοῖσιν ἐχθρῶν πλησίον κατασταθείς ἀσφαλέως· καὶ μήτε νικῶν ἀμφαδὴν ἀγάλλεο μηδὲ νικηθεὶς ἐν οἴκωι καταπεσὼν ὀδύρεο. ἀλλὰ χαρτοῖσίν τε χαῖρε καὶ κακοῖσιν ἀσχάλα μὴ λίην· γίνωσκε δ᾽ οἷος ῥυσμὸς ἀνθρώπους ἔχει.[ ] 	 my soul, my soul, all disturbed by sorrows inconsolable, bear up, hold out, meet front-on the many foes that rush on you now from this side and now that, enduring all such strife up close, never wavering; and should you win, don't openly exult, nor, defeated, throw yourself lamenting in a heap at home, but delight in things that are delightful and, in hard times, grieve not too much – appreciate the rhythm that controls men's lives. recent discoveries[edit] a small papyrus scrap first published in which is derived from the same ancient manuscript of archilochus that yielded the most recent discovery (p.oxy. vi , nd century ce). thirty previously unknown lines by archilochus, in the elegiac meter, describing events leading up to the trojan war, in which achaeans battled telephus king of mysia, have recently been identified among the oxyrhynchus papyri and published in the oxyrhynchus papyri, volume lxix (graeco-roman memoirs ).[ ] a discovery of a fragment of writing by archilochus contained a citation of a proverb that was important to the proper interpretation of a letter in the akkadian language from the emperor of the old assyrian empire, shamshi-adad i, with the same proverb: "the bitch by her acting too hastily brought forth the blind."[ ] quotes[edit] 	"keep some measure in the joy you take in luck, and the degree you give way to sorrow." (fragment , tr. richmond lattimore)[ ] 	"Πόλλ᾽ οἶδ᾽ ἀλώπηξ, ἀλλ' ἐχῖνος ἕν μέγα." (the fox knows many things; the hedgehog one big thing.)[ ][h] notes[edit] 	^ while these have been the generally accepted dates since felix jacoby ( ),[ ] some scholars disagree; for instance, robin lane fox ( )[ ] dates him c. –  bce. 	^ "tellis appears to be in his late teens, cleoboea as still a girl and she has on her knees a chest of the sort that they are accustomed to make for demeter. with regard to tellis i heard only that he was the grandfather of archilochus and they say that cleoboea was the first to introduce the rites of demeter to thasos from paros." – pausanias . . [ ] 	^ the name 'enipo' has connotations of abuse (enipai), which is curiously apt for the mother of a famous iambographer.[ ] 	^ the heights of gyrae is a promontoty on tenos, or a mythological allusion to the rocks on which the lesser ajax met his death.[ ] 	^ elegies include the following by a certain dioscorides, in which the victims are imagined to speak from the grave: "we here, the daughters of lycambes who gained a hateful reputation, swear by the reverence in which this tomb of the dead is held that we did not shame our virginity or our parents or paros, pre-eminent among holy islands, but archilochus spewed forth frightful reproach and a hateful report against our family. we swear by the gods and spirits that we did not set eyes on archilochus either in the streets or in hera's great precinct. if we had been lustful and wicked, he would have not wanted to beget legitimate children from us." – palatine anthology . [ ] 	^ "the [dregs] of all the greeks have come together in thasos".[ ] 	^ "i have no liking for a general who is tall, walks with a swaggering gait, takes pride in his curls, and is partly shaven. let mine be one who is short, has a bent look about the shins, stands firmly on his feet, and is full of courage." – fragment [ ] 	^ see isaiah berlin's the hedgehog and the fox references[edit] 	^ jacoby, felix ( ). "the date of archilochus". classical quarterly. : – . 	^ fox, r.l. 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connections 	 lasting impact 	 criticism 	 works 	 references 	 sources 	 external links biography[edit] cassiodorus was born at scylletium, near catanzaro in calabria, italy. his ancestry included some of the most prominent ministers of the state extending back several generations.[ ] his great-grandfather held a command in the defense of the coasts of southern italy from vandal sea-raiders in the middle of the fifth century; his grandfather appears in a roman embassy to attila the hun, and his father served as count of the sacred largesses and count of the private estates to odovacer[ ] before transferring his allegiance to theoderic. under the latter, cassiodorus' father (who bore the same name), rose to an even higher position, achieving the office of praetorian prefect, which held, under the gothic kings, the same influence that it had previously in the court of rome. cassiodorus began his career under the auspices of his father, about in his twentieth year, when the latter made him his consiliarius upon his own appointment to the praetorian prefecture. in the judicial capacity of the prefect, he held absolute right of appeal over any magistrate in the empire (or gothic kingdom, later) and the consiliarius served as a sort of legal advisor in cases of greater complexity. evidently, therefore, cassiodorus had received some education in the law.[ ] during his working life he worked as quaestor sacri palatii c. – , as a consul in , then as magister officiorum under theoderic, and later under the regency for theoderic's young successor, athalaric. cassiodorus kept copious records and letterbooks concerning public affairs. at the gothic court his literary skill, which seems mannered and rhetorical to modern readers, was so esteemed that when in ravenna he was often entrusted with drafting significant public documents. his culminating appointment was as praetorian prefect for italy, effectively the prime ministership of the ostrogothic civil government[ ] and a high honor to finish any career. cassiodorus also collaborated with pope agapetus i in establishing a library of greek and latin texts which were intended to support a christian school in rome. james o'donnell notes: [i]t is almost indisputable that he accepted advancement in as the immediate successor of boethius, who was then falling from grace after less than a year as magister officiorum, and who was sent to prison and later executed. in addition, boethius' father-in-law (and step-father) symmachus, by this time a distinguished elder statesman, followed boethius to the block within a year. all this was a result of the worsening split between the ancient senatorial aristocracy centered in rome and the adherents of gothic rule at ravenna. but to read cassiodorus' variae one would never suspect such goings-on.[ ] there is no mention in cassiodorus' selection of official correspondence of the death of boethius. athalaric died in early , and the remainder of cassiodorus' public career was dominated by the byzantine reconquest and dynastic intrigue among the ostrogoths. his last letters were drafted in the name of vitiges. around – , he left italy for constantinople, from where his successor was appointed, where he remained for almost two decades, concentrating on religious questions. he notably met junillus, the quaestor of justinian i there. his constantinopolitan journey contributed to the improvement of his religious knowledge. cassiodorus spent his career trying to bridge the th-century cultural divides: between east and west, greek culture and latin, roman and goth, and between an orthodox people and their arian rulers. he speaks fondly in his institutiones of dionysius exiguus, the calculator of the anno domini era. in his retirement, he founded the monastery of vivarium[ ] on his family estates on the shores of the ionian sea, and his writings turned to religion. monastery at vivarium[edit] vivarium from the bamberg manuscript of the institutiones patr. , fol. v cassiodorus' vivarium "monastery school"[ ] was composed of two main buildings: a coenobitic monastery and a retreat, for those who desired a more solitary life. both were located on the site of the modern santa maria de vetere near squillace. the twin structure of vivarium was to permit coenobitic monks and hermits to coexist. the vivarium appears not to have been governed by a strict monastic rule, such as that of the benedictine order. rather cassiodorus' work institutiones was written to guide the monks' studies. to this end, the institutiones focus largely on texts assumed to have been available in vivarium's library. the institutiones seem to have been composed over a lengthy period of time, from the s into the s, with redactions up to the time of cassiodorus' death. cassiodorus composed the institutiones as a guide for introductory learning of both "divine" and "secular" writings, in place of his formerly planned christian school in rome: i was moved by divine love to devise for you, with god's help, these introductory books to take the place of a teacher. through them i believe that both the textual sequence of holy scripture and also a compact account of secular letters may, with god's grace, be revealed.[ ] the first section of the institutiones deals with christian texts, and was intended to be used in combination with the expositio psalmorum. the order of subjects in the second book of the institutiones reflected what would become the trivium and quadrivium of medieval liberal arts: grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy. while he encouraged study of secular subjects, cassiodorus clearly considered them useful primarily as aids to the study of divinity, much in the same manner as st. augustine. cassiodorus' institutiones thus attempted to provide what cassiodorus saw as a well-rounded education necessary for a learned christian, all in uno corpore, as cassiodorus put it.[ ] the library at vivarium was still active c. , when the monks brought the relics of saint agathius from constantinople, dedicating to him a spring-fed fountain shrine that still exists.[ ] however, its books were later dispersed, the codex grandior of the bible being purchased by the anglo-saxon ceolfrith when he was in italy in – , and taken by him to wearmouth jarrow, where it served as the source for the copying of the codex amiatinus, which was then brought back to italy by the now aged ceolfrith.[ ] despite the demise of the vivarium, cassiodorus' work in compiling classical sources and presenting a sort of bibliography of resources would prove extremely influential in late antique western europe.[ ] educational philosophy[edit] cassiodorus devoted much of his life to supporting education within the christian community at large. when his proposed theological university in rome was denied, he was forced to re-examine his entire approach to how material was learned and interpreted.[ ] his variae show that, like augustine of hippo, cassiodorus viewed reading as a transformative act for the reader. it is with this in mind that he designed and mandated the course of studies at the vivarium, which demanded an intense regimen of reading and meditation. by assigning a specific order of texts to be read, cassiodorus hoped to create the discipline necessary within the reader to become a successful monk. the first work in this succession of texts would be the psalms, with which the untrained reader would need to begin because of its appeal to emotion and temporal goods.[ ] by examining the rate at which copies of his psalmic commentaries were issued, it is fair to assess that, as the first work in his series, cassiodorus's educational agenda had been implemented to some degree of success.[ ] beyond demanding the pursuit of discipline among his students, cassiodorus encouraged the study of the liberal arts. he believed these arts were part of the content of the bible, and some mastery of them—especially grammar and rhetoric—necessary for a complete understanding of it.[ ] these arts were divided into trivium (which included rhetoric, idioms, vocabulary and etymology) and quadrivium: arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. classical connections[edit] cassiodorus is rivalled only by boethius in his drive to preserve and explore classical literature during the th century ad.[ ][ ] he found the writings of the greeks and romans valuable for their expression of higher truths where other arts failed.[ ] though he saw these texts as vastly inferior to the perfect word of scripture, the truths presented in them played to cassiodorus' educational principles. thus he is unafraid to cite cicero alongside sacred text, and acknowledge the classical ideal of good being part of the practice of rhetoric.[ ] his love for classical thought also influenced his administration of vivarium. cassiodorus connected deeply with christian neoplatonism, which saw beauty as concomitant with the good. this inspired him to adjust his educational program to support the aesthetic enhancement of manuscripts within the monastery, something which had been practiced before, but not in the universality that he suggests.[ ] classical learning would by no means replace the role of scripture within the monastery; it was intended to augment the education already under way. it is also worth noting that all greek and roman works were heavily screened to ensure only proper exposure to text, fitting with the rest of the structured learning.[ ] lasting impact[edit] cassiodorus' legacy is quietly profound. before the founding of vivarium, the copying of manuscripts had been a task reserved for either inexperienced or physically infirm devotees, and was performed at the whim of literate monks. through the influence of cassiodorus, the monastic system adopted a more vigorous, widespread, and regular approach to reproducing documents within the monastery.[ ] this approach to the development of the monastic lifestyle was perpetuated especially through german religious institutions.[ ] this change in daily life also became associated with a higher purpose: the process was not merely associated with disciplinary habit, but also with the preservation of history.[ ] during cassiodorus' lifetime, theological study was on the decline and classical writings were disappearing. even as the victorious ostrogoth armies remained in the countryside, they continued to pillage and destroy christian relics in italy.[ ] cassiodorus' programme helped ensure that both classical and christian literature were preserved through the middle ages. despite his contributions to monastic order, literature, and education, cassiodorus' labors were not well acknowledged. after his death he was only partially recognized by historians of the age, including bede, as an obscure supporter of the church. in their descriptions of cassiodorus, medieval scholars have been documented to change his name, profession, place of residence, and even his religion.[ ] some chapters from his works have been copied into other texts, suggesting that he may have been read, but not generally known.[ ] criticism[edit] the works not assigned as a part of cassiodorus' educational program must be examined critically. because he had been working under the newly dominant power of the ostrogoths, the writer demonstrably alters the narrative of history for the sake of protecting himself. the same could easily be said about his ideas, which were presented as non-threatening in their approach to peaceful meditation and its institutional isolationism.[ ] works[edit] 	laudes (very fragmentary published panegyrics on public occasions) 	chronica (ending at ), uniting all world history in one sequence of rulers, a union of goth and roman antecedents, flattering goth sensibilities as the sequence neared the date of composition 	gothic history ( – ), a lengthy and multi-volume work, survives only in jordanes' abridgment getica, which must be considered a separate work and is the only surviving ancient work about the goths' early history 	variae epistolae ( ), theoderic's state papers. editio princeps by m. accurius ( ). english translations by thomas hodgkin the letters of cassiodorus ( ); s.j.b. barnish cassiodorus: variae (liverpool: university press, ) isbn  - - - 	expositio psalmorum (exposition of the psalms) 	de anima ("on the soul") ( ) 	institutiones divinarum et saecularium litterarum ( – ) 	de artibus ac disciplinis liberalium litterarum ("on the liberal arts") 	codex grandior (a version of the bible) 	de orthographia (c. ), a compilation of the works of eight grammarians to act as a guide to proper spelling. it is the last known work by cassiodorus, completed when he was years old.[ ][ ] references[edit] 	^ o'donnell, james j. ( ). "chronology". cassiodorus. 	^ a b c frassetto , p.  . 	^ thomas hodgkin, letters of cassiodorus, (oxford, ), introduction 	^ cf., e.g., f. denis de sainte-marthe: la vie de cassiodore, chancelier et premier ministre de theoderic le grand. paris (online, in french) 	^ "cassiodorus: chapter , backgrounds and some dates". faculty.georgetown.edu. retrieved - - . 	^ jean leclerq, the love of learning and the desire for god, nd revised edition (new york: fordham, fordham university press, ) . 	^ institutions, trans. james w. halporn and mark vessey, cassiodorus: institutions of divine and secular learning and on the soul, tth (liverpool: liverpool university press, )i. , . 	^ halporn and vessey, cassiodorus: institutions, . 	^ select abstracts 	^ maria makepeace, http://www.florin.ms/pandect.html 	^ halporn and vessey, cassiodorus: institutions, . 	^ wand, jwc. a history of the early church. methuen & co. ltd. (norwich: ) 	^ a b c d e astell, ann w. ( ). "cassiodorus's "commentary on the psalms" as an "ars rhetorica"". rhetorica. xvii (winter, ): – . doi: . /rh. . . . . 	^ a b c jones, leslie w. ( ). "the influence of cassiodorus on medieval culture". speculum. xx (october, ): – . doi: . / . jstor  . 	^ general audience of pope benedict xvi, boethius and cassiodorus. internet. available from "general audience of pope benedict xvi, march ". archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - . ; accessed june , . 	^ "cassiodorus' institutes and christian book selection". the journal of library history. i (april, ): – . 	^ a b "the value and influence of cassiodorus's ecclesiastical history". the harvard theological review. xli (january, ): – . 	^ a b rand, e. k. ( ). "the new cassiodorus by ek rand". speculum. xiii (october, ): – . doi: . / . jstor  . 	^ pergoli campanelli, alessandro ( ). cassiodoro alle origini dell'idea di restauro. milano: jaca book. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ "cassiodorus as patricius and ex patricio". historia: zeitschrift für alte geschichte. xli ( ): – . 	^ o'donnell, james j. ( ). "cassiodorus – chapter : old age and afterlives". retrieved - - . 	^ "cassiodorus | historian, statesman, and monk". encyclopædia britannica. retrieved - - . sources[edit] 	barnish, s.j. roman responses to an unstable world: cassiodorus' variae in context in: vivarium in context – (centre leonard boyle: vicenza ). isbn  - - - - 	cassiodorus, flavius magnus aurelius ( ). "institutiones divinarum et saecularium litterarum". bamberg, staatsbibliothek, msc.patr. , fol. v– v. southern italy. retrieved september . 	cassiodorus, flavius magnus aurelius ( ). "gesta theodorici". leiden, universiteitsbibliotheek, ms. vul. . fulda. archived from the original on october . retrieved september . 	frassetto, michael ( ). encyclopedia of barbarian europe: society in transformation. santa barbara, ca: abc-clio. isbn  - - - - . 	gračanin, hrvoje ( ). "late antique dalmatia and pannonia in cassiodorus' variae". povijesni prilozi. : – . 	gračanin, hrvoje ( ). "late antique dalmatia and pannonia in cassiodorus' variae (addenda)". povijesni prilozi. : – . 	o'donnell, james j. ( ). cassiodorus university of california press, berkeley, ca. 	o'donnell, james j. 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brindisino: brìnnisi; latin: brundisium; ancient greek: Βρεντέσιον, romanized: brentésion; messapic: brunda) is a city in the region of apulia in southern italy, the capital of the province of brindisi, on the coast of the adriatic sea. historically, the city has played an important role in trade and culture, due to its strategic position on the italian peninsula and its natural port on the adriatic sea. the city remains a major port for trade with greece and the middle east. its industries include agriculture, chemical works, and the generation of electricity. the city of brindisi was the provisional government seat of the kingdom of italy from september to february . contents 	 geography 	 . territory 	 . climate 	 history 	 . ancient times 	 . middle ages and modern times 	 etymology 	 . heraldry 	 main sights 	 . natural areas 	 demography 	 . migration 	 . ethnic groups 	 . languages and dialects 	 . religion 	 culture 	 . traditions and folklore 	 . education 	 . . libraries 	 . . university 	 . . museums 	 . music and theatre 	 brindisini 	 media 	 . radio 	 . print 	 . television 	 cuisine 	 . beverages, spirits, liquors 	 . cheese 	 . vegetable products, processed or unprocessed 	 . pasta, pastry and confectionery 	 . wine 	 . events 	 human geography 	 . roman period 	 . middle ages 	 . modern era 	 . contemporary era 	 economy 	 . agriculture 	 . industry 	 . . chemical 	 . . energy production 	 . . aviation 	 . tourism 	 infrastructure and transport 	 . roads 	 . railways 	 . seaport 	 . international airport 	 . public transport 	 government 	 . consulates 	 sports 	 . soccer 	 . basketball 	 . other clubs 	 . sports venues 	 international relations 	 . twin towns – sister cities 	 see also 	 references 	 bibliography 	 external links geography[edit] 	 	this section does not cite any sources. please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (july ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) brindisi is situated on a natural harbour, that penetrates deeply into the adriatic coast of apulia. within the arms of the outer harbour islands are pedagne, a tiny archipelago, currently not open and in use for military purposes (united nations group schools used it during the intervention in bosnia). the entire municipality is part of the brindisi plain, characterised by high agricultural uses of its land. it is located in the northeastern part of the salento plains, about kilometres (  mi) from the itria valley, and the low murge. not far from the city is the natural marine reserve of the world wide fund for nature of torre guaceto. the ionian sea is about kilometres (  mi) away. territory[edit] the territory of brindisi is characterised by a wide flat area from which emerge sub deposits of limestone and sand of marine origin, which in turn have a deeper level clay of the pleistocene era, and an even later mesozoic carbonate composed of limestone and soils. the development of agriculture, has caused an increase in the use of water resources resulting in an increase of indiscriminate use.[ ] climate[edit] brindisi experiences a mediterranean climate (köppen: csa). summers are hot and dry with abundant sunshine. summer heat indexes can be regularly over  °c (  °f) and occasionally as high as  °c during july and august. winters are mild with moderate rainfall. brindisi and the mostly topographically flat salento peninsula is subject to light winds during the majority of the year. the two main winds in salento are the bora and the sirocco. the northerly bora wind from the adriatic sea is cooling, moderating summer heat and increasing winter wind chill. the southerly sirocco wind from the sahara, brings higher temperatures and humidity to salento. during spring and autumn, sirocco winds can bring thunderstorms, occasionally dropping red sand from the sahara in the region. snow is rare in brindisi but occurred during the january cold spell which brought snow and ice to much of southern italy. 	climate data for brindisi 	month 	jan 	feb 	mar 	apr 	may 	jun 	jul 	aug 	sep 	oct 	nov 	dec 	year 	record high °c (°f) 	 . 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( . ) 	average precipitation days (≥ mm) 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	average relative humidity (%) 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	mean monthly sunshine hours 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 , . 	source : servizio meteorologico ( – data)[ ] 	source : servizio meteorologico ( – data on humidity and sunshine)[ ] history[edit] see also: timeline of brindisi ancient times[edit] th century map of brindisi by piri reis there are several traditions concerning its founders; one of them claims that it was founded by the legendary hero diomedes. the geographer strabo says that it was colonized from knossos in crete.[ ] brindisi was originally a messapian settlement predating the roman expansion. the latin name brundisium, through the greek brentesion, is a corruption of the messapian brention meaning "deer's head" and probably referring to the shape of the natural harbour. in bc ( bc, according to other sources) it was conquered by the romans and became a latin colony.[ ] in the promontory of the punta lands, which is located in the outer harbor have been identified as a bronze age village ( th century bc) where a group of huts, protected by an embankment of stones, yielded fragments of mycenaean pottery. herodotus spoke of the mycenaean origin for these populations. the necropolis of tor pisana (south of the old town of brindisi) returned corinthian jars in the first half of the th century bc. the brindisi messapia certainly entertained strong business relationships with the opposite side of the adriatic and the greek populations of the aegean sea. after the punic wars it became a major center of roman naval power and maritime trade. in the social war it received roman citizenship, and was made a free port by sulla. it suffered, however, from a siege conducted by caesar in bc, part of caesar's civil war (bell. civ. i.) and was again attacked in and bc. the poet pacuvius was born here about bc, and here the famous poet virgil died in bc. under the romans, brundisium – a large city in its day with some , inhabitants – was an active port, the chief point of embarkation for greece and the east, via dyrrachium or corcyra. it was connected with rome by the via appia and the via traiana. the termination of the via appia, at the water's edge, was formerly flanked by two fine pillars. only one remains, the second having been misappropriated and removed to the neighbouring town of lecce. middle ages and modern times[edit] church of s. giovanni al sepolcro. later brindisi was conquered by ostrogoths, and reconquered by the byzantine empire in the th century ad. in it was destroyed by the lombards led by romuald i of benevento, but such a fine natural harbor meant that the city was soon rebuilt. in the th century, a saracen settlement existed in the neighborhood of the city, which had been stormed in by pirates. in , it was conquered by the normans and became part of the principality of taranto and the duchy of apulia, and was the first rule of the counts of conversano and then, after the baronial revolt of , city-owned by the will of roger ii of sicily, the city recovered some of the splendor of the past during the period of the crusades, when it regained the episcopal see, saw the construction of the new cathedral and a castle with an important new arsenal, became a privileged port for the holy land. it was in the cathedral of brindisi that the wedding of norman prince roger iii of sicily took place, son of king tancred of sicily. emperor frederick ii, the heir to the crown of jerusalem and isabella of brienne ( november )[ ] started from the port of brindisi in for the sixth crusade[ ] frederick ii erected a castle, with huge round towers, to guard the inner harbour; it later became a convict prison.[ ] like other pugliese ports, brindisi for a short while was ruled by venice, but was soon reconquered by spain. a plague devastated brindisi in ; it was plundered in and ; and an earthquake struck the city in .[ ] brindisi fell to austrian rule in – , and afterwards to the bourbons. between september and february the city functioned as the temporary government seat of italy, and hosted king victor emmanuel iii, pietro badoglio and a part of the italian armed forces command in september after the armistice with italy. in the st century, brindisi serves as the home base of the san marco regiment, a marine brigade originally known as the la marina regiment. it was renamed san marco after its noted defense of venice at the start of world war i.[ ] on may , a bomb, made of three gas cylinders, detonated in front of a vocational school in brindisi, killing a -year-old female student.[ ][ ] etymology[edit] the name comes through the latin brundisium through the greek brentesion and messapi brention meaning "head of deer" related with albanian bri, brî - pl. brirë, brinë ("horn"; "antler") [< late proto-albanian *brina < earlier *brena ].[ ][ ] the city's name appears, therefore, to refer to the shape of the port which recalls the shape of the head of the animal. heraldry[edit] 	 	this section does not cite any sources. please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (july ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) the emblem of the city of brindisi relates to certain unique characteristics of the ancient city of brindisi, some of them still visible today. the head of deer derives from the messapic name of the city brention, a name inspired by the shape of the port city, which is reminiscent of the antlers of a stag. this shape is still clearly visible in satellite photos, which show the two racks, to the east and west, into which the port is divided. the emblem also contains the so-called "terminal pillar" of the appian way. main sights[edit] bell tower of the church of san benedetto. church of santa maria del casale. 	the castello svevo or castello grande ("hohenstaufen castle" or "large castle"), built by emperor frederick ii. it has a trapezoid plan with massive square towers. under the crown of aragon four towers were added to the original th-century structure. after centuries of being abandoned, in joachim murat turned it into a prison; after it was used by the italian navy. during world war ii it was briefly the residence of king victor emmanuel iii. 	the aragonese castle, best known as forte a mare ("sea fort"). it was built by king ferdinand i of naples in on the s. andrea island facing the port. it is divided into two sections: the "red castle" (from the color of its bricks) and the more recent fort. 	two ancient roman pillars, symbols of brindisi. they were once thought to mark the ending points of the appian way, instead they were used as a port reference for the antique mariners. only one of the two, standing at . metres ( .  ft), is still visible. the other crumbled in , and the ruins was given to lecce to hold the statue of saint oronzo (lecce's patron), because saint oronzo was reputed to have cured the plague in brindisi. 	the duomo (cathedral), built in romanesque style in the th– th centuries. what is visible today is the th-century reconstruction, after the original was destroyed by an earthquake on february . parts of the original mosaic pavement can be seen in the interior. 	church of santa maria del casale (late th century), in gothic-romanesque style. the façade has a geometrical pattern of gray and yellow stones, with an entrance cusp-covered portico. the interior has early- th-century frescoes including, in the counter-façade, a last judgement in four sections, by rinaldo da taranto. they are in late-byzantine style. 	church of san benedetto, in romanesque style. perhaps built before the th century as part of a benedictine nunnery, it has a massive bell tower with triple-mullioned windows and lombard bands. a side portal is decorated with th-century motifs, while the interior has a nave covered by cross vaults, while the aisles, separated by columns with romanesque capitals, have half-barrel vaults. the cloister ( th century) has decorated capitals. 	portico of the templars ( th century). despite the name, it was in reality the loggia of the bishop's palace. it is now the entrance to the museo ribezzo. 	the fontana grande (grand fountain), built by the romans on the appian way. it was restored in by tancred of lecce. 	piazza della vittoria (victory square). it has a th-century fountain. 	church of santa maria degli angeli ( ). 	church of the sacred heart. 	church of san giovanni al sepolcro, with circular plan, dating from the th century. 	church of the santissima trinità (or santa lucia, th century). it has a late th-century crypt. 	the monument to italian sailors natural areas[edit] within the territory of the town of brindisi environmental protected areas are located, some newly established: 	the regional natural park of punta della contessa salt: wetland of hectares ( acres) between capo di torre cavallo and punta della contessa 	the regional nature reserve forest cerano: a protected natural area that falls within the territory of brindisi and san pietro vernotico; 	the regional nature reserve bosco of santa teresa and lucci: it is a protected natural area composed of two forests whose name it bears. with the eu directive / eec, was included in the list of sites of community importance (sci) ; 	the marine nature reserve guaceto tower: falling mostly in the municipality of carovigno, are managed by a consortium which includes the municipalities of brindisi, carovigno and the wwf. 	 brindisi harbour demography[edit] migration[edit] brindisi has been the subject of extensive emigration during the th century, as well as all cities in the south. emigration focused mainly on the lower strata of society who abandoned the countryside. emigration can be traced in two great waves. the first, which was at its peak in the years immediately before and after the first world war, was almost exclusively to the americas (and mostly to the united states, argentina, and brazil). the second wave of migrants from apulia headed instead for northern europe after the second world war. attracted by the industrial development of some northern areas of the country, many apulian migrants also settled in the piedmont and lombardy regions of northern italy, and particularly in milan. since the s, when the large petrochemical companies were joined by mechanical, naval, and aviation corporations, brindisi was able to create employment opportunities for technicians and workers. the city experienced a small regional immigration, attracting families from neighboring provinces and regions. another important chapter in the demography of the town was definitely the exodus of people from albania in – , which lasted almost a decade and led to the port of brindisi receiving waves of albanian immigrants.[ ] ethnic groups[edit] the largest non-italian ethnic community is albanian. the number of those who decided to stay in the city, however, is negligible in light of the number of immigrants who migrated. brindisi remains the first step towards western europe for displaced people from the balkans.[ ] the large number of americans is largely due to a u.s. air force station, between brindisi and san vito dei normanni that operated throughout the second half of the th century. although the base is no longer operational, many soldiers have decided to stay.[ ] the british presence is the result of a recent phenomenon of families from northern europe, especially english and irish, settling in the region. many such settlers are pensioners, buying villas in the brindisi countryside. this phenomenon is relatively recent in apulia, known as "salentoshire", a playful neologism along the lines of "chiantishire" on the consolidation of british tourism in tuscany.[ ] languages and dialects[edit] the brindisi dialect is a variant of salentino and, although there are minor differences between the various municipalities, the root remains unchanged. it is spoken not only in brindisi, but in some towns of the province of taranto. the brindisi also affects some dialects north of lecce in the south[ ] religion[edit] brindisi, along with ostuni, is home of the archdiocese of brindisi-ostuni (archidioecesis brundusina-ostunensis in latin), home of the catholic church suffragan of archdiocese of lecce and part of the ecclesiastical region of apulia.[ ] the diocese was erected in the th century, its first bishop was st. leucio of alexandria. in the th century following the destruction of the city by the saracens, the bishops established their residence in oria. it was in this century that established the diocese of ostuni, first joined the diocese of conversano-monopoli and likely heir to the ancient diocese of egnatia. on september , by decree of the congregation for bishops, the archdiocese of brindisi and ostuni diocese were united in the archdiocese of brindisi-ostuni plena. the new diocese was recognized civilly october , by decree of the ministry of interior. brindisi contains an eastern orthodox church parish, st. nicholas of myra byzantine rite. the rite of the greek presence in brindisi has long been established since the rule of the byzantine empire with a strong spread of the basilian monks.[ ] the jews were a small but industrious community from ad until the second half of the th century. the new albanian migration has led to the recurrence of some islamic religious presence. culture[edit] traditions and folklore[edit] significant in brindisi is the cult of tarantismo that combines pagan and christian tradition. in the past it was believed that women who showed forms of hysteria were infected by the bite of a lycosa tarantula. the only known remedy was to dance continuously for days, so that the poison did not cause greater effect. through music and dance was created a real exorcism in musical character. each time a tarantato exhibited symptoms associated with taranto, the tambourine, fiddle, mandolin, guitar and accordion players went in the house of the tarantato and began to do to play the pinch music with frenetic rhythms. the brindisi pinch, as opposed to lecce, is devoid of christian references[ ] and a therapeutic repertoire and musical detail.[ ] education[edit] libraries[edit] seminary of brindisi library the provincial library is a public library located in commenda avenue. it has over , books and an extensive newspaper archive and participates in the national library service. inside a modern auditorium, a media office and the secretariats of the university offices of bari and lecce operate. the archbishop annibale de leo library is a prestigious public library housed in the seminary of brindisi, in piazza duomo. founded in by archbishop of brindisi annibale de leo, with an endowment of about , volumes, today it has over , volumes, incunable, over th-century manuscripts. these include some rare works, and various manuscript collections.[ ] university[edit] the university of salento brindisi has social sciences, politics and geography faculty with courses in sociology, social services and political science. the university of bari has courses in business administration, management and consulting, economics, maritime and logistics, information technology, design, nursing and physiotherapy. museums[edit] the "f. ribezzo" provincial archaeological museum is located in piazza duomo and has many large rooms, providing visitors with six sections: epigraphy, sculpture, the antiquarium, prehistoric, coins, medieval, modern and bronzes of punta del serrone. the giovanni tarantini diocesan museum is newly established and is housed in the palazzo del seminario. it has a collection of paintings, statues, ornaments and vestments from the churches of the diocese. particularly important is the silver embossed ark that has the remains of st theodore of amasea and a th-century pitcher, in which one can recognize the wedding at cana. the ethnic salento agrilandia museum of civilization offers tourists the chance to see many statues in wood and stone. it also features agriculture and interesting tools with the rural culture.[ ] music and theatre[edit] music and theater in brindisi have never featured significantly in the cultural life of the city. having never hosted theatrical and musical training institutes, the city supports amateur companies. over the past decade the city has developed and consolidated non-amateur theater companies, some dealing with theater for research and actor training. these companies have developed several socio-cultural projects for the promotion of the theater for people with disabilities. the same group of companies has produced six shows.[ ] the most important musician from brindisi is stefano miceli, an italian classical pianist and conductor, globally known for his concerts at carnegie hall in new york city, berlin philharmonie, gewandhaus in leipzig, forbidden city concert hall in beijing and at the great hall in melbourne. also a steinway artist, he was given a silver medal by the president of italy napolitano and has been a visiting and distinguished professor at boston university, tanglewood institute, the university of new mexico and at many other academical music schools around the world. brindisini[edit] flavia pennetta 	marcus pacuvius (brundisium, . . b.c. – tarentum, . b.c.) roman artist, poet and dramatist, nephew of quintus ennius. 	margaritus of brindisi (also margarito; italian margaritone or greek megareites or margaritoni [Μαργαριτώνη]: c. – ), called the new neptune, was the last great ammiratus ammiratorum (grand admiral) of sicily. first count of malta, prince of taranto and duke of durazzo. 	st. lawrence of brindisi: (born giulio cesare russo, brindisi, july – santa maria de belém (lisbon), july ) was a priest of the italian order of friars minor capuchin. proclaimed a saint by pope leo xiii in , in was ranked among the doctors of the church. 	giustino durano (brindisi – bologna ), actor 	oscar nuccio (brindisi - ), historian of economics 	eugenio barba (brindisi, ), director 	franco testini (brindisi, october ) also known as venerable shi yanfan is the first western buddhist monk ever to be ordained at the renowned songshan shaolin temple of china. he is currently the appointed cultural ambassador for the songshan shaolin temple. 	antonio benarrivo (brindisi, august ) is a former soccer player who held the role of defender. 	stefano miceli (brindisi, april ) pianist and conductor 	flavia pennetta (brindisi, february ) is a tennis player, reached th place in world rankings after winning the us open.[ ] 	cosimo aldo cannone (brindisi, march ) is a driver of powerboating, time world champion, in and . 	antimo iunco (brindisi, june ) is a player for torino and has the role of attacker. 	daniele vantaggiato (brindisi, october ) is a soccer player for calcio padova and has the role of attacker . 	gianluca di giulio (brindisi, february ), footballer media[edit] radio[edit] radio station, ciccioricciobrindisi, is heard throughout apulia, basilicata, parts of molise, campania and calabria. radio dara that started in a workshop, founded in , now broadcasts across the province.[ ] print[edit] as for the press, the la gazzetta del mezzogiorno publishes the brindisi journal. the nuovo quotidiano di puglia, salento's newspaper, also covers brindisi. senzacolonne, which was founded in , is the only one with a central editorial office in brindisi.[ ] "the nautilus" national scientific magazine based in brindisi, reports on the sea, ports, transport and recreational boating. other newspapers that have their headquarters in the city are brindisisera and "brindisi news". television[edit] brindisi is home to the television stations teleradio agricoltura informazione and puglia tv, which began broadcasts in january in brindisi. cuisine[edit] brindisi's cuisine is simple with basic ingredients used, starting with flour or unrefined barley, which is less expensive than wheat. vegetables, snails, and bluefish figure prominently into its cuisine. among the recipes worth mentioning in particular are "pettole"(fried yeast dough, sweet or savory to taste stuffed maybe with cod or anchovy, with cauliflower or broccoli), "patani tajedda rice and mussels" (rice, potatoes and mussels), soup, fish, mashed potatoes with fava beans, broad beans and mussels, and "racana mussels".[ ] beverages, spirits, liquors[edit] almond milk: made by infusing water with the finely chopped almonds and then squeezing the same to expel the "milk". the region of apulia has entered the milk of almonds in its list of traditional italian food products . limoncello: a liquor made from the peel of fresh lemons and enriched with water, sugar and alcohol.[ ] cheese[edit] cacioricotta cheese brindisi cheeses are mostly from sheep, due to the significant ranching of sheep and goats. in the summer they produce ricotta, which can be eaten fresh or matured for a few months so that it has a stronger flavor. typical of the winter season are the pecorino, ricotta and strong ricotta (or cottage cheese). it is used to flavor spaghetti sauce or spread on bruschetta.[ ] fresh popular cheeses are burrata, junket, manteca cheese, mozzarella or fior di latte. vegetable products, processed or unprocessed[edit] vegetables are the true protagonist of the traditional diet of salento. depending on season, are the tops of turnips, various types of cabbage, the beet greens from the thistle, peppers, eggplant and zucchini (all served sun-dried or in olive oil), and artichokes. there are also wild vegetables used in traditional cooking such as chicory, dandelion (or zangune), wild asparagus, the wild mustard, the thistle, the lampascioni also called pampasciuni or pampasciuli, and capers.[ ] frequent, in the brindisi kitchen, is the use of green or white tomatoes: mainly used for tomato sauce but they are also consumed in olive oil, after a process of natural drying. significant is also the consumption of green and black olives, crushed or in brine. finally, legumes such as beans, peas and vicia faba, eaten fresh or dried in the spring and during the winter season. among the dishes prepared with fruit are quince, baked figs and dried figs (prepared with a filling of almonds), jam with orange and lemon, and fig jam.[ ] pasta, pastry and confectionery[edit] taralli pasta and bread is made with unrefined flour, and thus takes on a dark colour. durum wheat is mixed with traditional meal. special local dishes include lasagna with vegetables, cavatelli, orecchiette (stacchioddi in brindisi dialect) and ravioli stuffed with ricotta. in breadmaking, local custom favours the use of durum wheat, bread flour and barley bread. for bread made with yeast (called criscituni) and cooked on an oven stone, brindisi bakers use bundles of olive branches to give the bread a particular scent. one type of traditional bread is made with olives (called puccia). it is made with a much more refined wheat flour than for ordinary bread, to which are added black olives. also important are frisella, a sort of dehydrated hard bread which can be stored for a long time, and tarallini, also easily stored for long periods. the pucce and uliate cakes are also typical. among local desserts the central place is occupied by almond paste, obtained by grinding shelled almonds and sugar. another specialty is cartellate, a pastry, particularly prepared around christmas, made of a thin strip of a dough made of flour, olive oil, and white wine that is wrapped upon itself, intentionally leaving cavities and openings, to form a sort of "rose" shape; the dough is then deep-fried, dried, and soaked in either lukewarm vincotto or honey.[ ] wine[edit] in the area of brindisi are produced aleatico di puglia doc, ostuni doc, brindisi rosso doc, rosato brindisi doc and puglia igt.[ ] some grape varieties grown in brindisi include: 	malvasia nera di brindisi, 	negroamaro; 	ottavianello; 	sangiovese; 	susumaniello. the brindisi doc produces both red and rose wines from grapes limited to a harvest yield of tonnes/ha and must produce a wine with a minimum % alcohol level. the wines are usually blends made predominantly from negaroamaro and malvasia nera but sangiovese is allowed to compose up to % of the blend with montepulciano allowed to compose up to another % (or % if sangiovese is not included). if it is to be a reserva, the wine is aged a minimum of years before release and must attain a minimum alcohol level of . %.[ ] events[edit] 	the day of corpus christi. 	the procession to the beach of san lorenzo and san teodoro, on the first saturday of september . 	the feast of san teodoro: feast with candles, food stands, music, fireworks, in the first week of september. human geography[edit] roman period[edit] roman pillar signaling the end of the appian way from an urban point of view [ ] [ ], the city's earliest signs of human settlement are on the promontory of punta terre, a coastal area outside the port. as a roman colony ( bc ), the city experienced a major urban expansion that ensued economic and social development. according to pliny the elder, brindisi was one of the most important italian cities. middle ages[edit] during the middle ages, brindisi suffered a sharp decline, after it was devastated by the goths in the th century; procopius describes it as a small city without defensive walls. the town shrank to a smaller area, probably around the san leucio temple, outside the old town. the port was abandoned for several centuries. the rebirth came with the byzantine domination ( th century ) and especially with the normans and the swabians ( th and th century), when it became a prime port for the crusades. the city was divided into three districts or "pittachi": santo stefano (in the vicinity of the columns), eufemia (in santa teresa) and san toma (in the area of saint lucia). under the aragonese and the spanish kings, the main efforts were directed mainly around the ramparts (walls, castle and sea fort to provide relief from mostly the greeks, albanians and slavs.[ ] modern era[edit] only through the reopening of the pigott channel ( ), the city experienced a new impetus and reopened traffic with the east mainly due to the establishment of the suez canal at the end of the th century.[ ] contemporary era[edit] demographic development in the th century led to the modern city overlying the ancient one, at the cost of the demolition of the neighbourhoods around san pietro degli schiavoni, teatro verdi, and the clock tower. today urban planning demands that settlements of significant architectural impact are built outside the city centre. the city has now expanded beyond the walls of the historic centre to form the new suburbs of commando, capuchins, sant'angelo ( – ) and st. clare, st. elias, and bozzano ( – ).[ ] economy[edit] agriculture is still prominent in brindisi the development of industry led to radical changes in the brindisi economy and consequent development along the coast. taking advantage of the location of the port, brindisi is also a major seaport for greece and turkey. agriculture[edit] brindisi agriculture includes horticulture, viticulture, fruit and olives. the area that marked the territory for centuries is based on the culture of almonds, olives, tobacco, artichokes, and grain. livestock consists of cattle, goats and sheep. industry[edit] industry in brindisi is mainly identified with the chemical and aerospace industry. chemical[edit] the chemical industry, in its various forms (food processing, energy, and pharmaceutical) is highly developed in the territory of brindisi. the federchimica association recognizes brindisi as an industrial chemical center. the various establishments of eni, located as polimeri europa, snam and enipower are placed in the petrochemical complex of brindisi, on the outskirts of the city, overlooking the adriatic sea. energy production[edit] brindisi is a leader in the production of electricity in italy.[ ] enel federico ii is a power plant on sections divided by polycombustible thermoelectric power of mw each, came into service between and . edipower brindisi, located in costa morena, in the industrial area of brindisi. central enipower brindisi is a combined cycle power plant enipower, once completed, with an installed capacity of , megawatts, will be the most powerful among those of the eni company. regasification terminal at brindisi, the construction of a regasification terminal by the company's "brindisi lng spa. will heat the area of porto exterior, called capobianco. the authorization process is currently in the process of completion of the national environmental impact assessment, initiated by the company in january . photovoltaic system, the largest in europe photovoltaic park (with power of mwp ), which should start operating in , at the former petrochemical site. the industry group responsible for the construction will be joined by the university of apulia. aviation[edit] the alenia aeronautica plants (specialized in the modification of aircraft from passenger configuration to cargo) are located in brindisi. avio (center for military engines) and agusta (production of helicopter metal structures) are also located there. tourism[edit] byzantine fresco in santa maria del casale the city preserves important archaeological finds and coastline, particularly the north coast, where there are many large sand dunes and beaches. inland agritourism, displays wine (wine appia) or olive oil (collina di brindisi oil). brindisi tourism, however, remains heavily dependent on the italian tourists ( %, compared with % of foreign demand) and is very seasonal. infrastructure and transport[edit] roads[edit] the main roads are represented by 	bari-lecce expressway, connecting with brindisi, lecce, with bari and the a . 	adriatica ss is the brindisi bypass connecting the city to san vito dei normanni and lecce * brindisi-taranto brindisi with taranto. railways[edit] rail transport is provided through brindisi railway station, an important apulian railway junction and an intersecting point between the adriatic railway and the taranto–brindisi railway. the station is managed by centostazioni, and links brindisi with all destinations served by the adriatic and ionian coastal railways. brindisi marittima railway station closed in . seaport[edit] the port of brindisi has always been at the center of trade with greece. it is one of the most important commercial and industrial seaports on the adriatic sea. the trade is mostly in coal, fuel oil, natural gas, and chemicals. the port consists of three parts: 	the outer harbour: the limits of which are in the southern mainland, east of the pedagne islands and west of the island from the pier in costa 	the port is formed by the average area of sea that is before the pigott channel, access to the inner harbor, the basin to the north as the strait of apulia. 	the inner harbor is formed by two long wings that touch the heart of brindisi both the north and east, they are the "bosom of the west" and "within the east." international airport[edit] brindisi airport brindisi is home to papola-casale airport located kilometres ( miles) outside the city's center. the airport of brindisi has daily connections with major italian and european cities. the airport serves the entire province of brindisi and partly that of taranto. in , a total of , , passengers passed through. it has two runways, one northwest to southeast that is , metres ( ,  ft) long, and the other northeast to southwest that is , metres ( ,  ft) long. their characteristics allow the landing of large transport aircraft such as the antonov an- and boeing . this airport was originally established as a military airbase in the s. as of it has officially changed its legal status into civilian airport, still maintaining the military facilities attached to it. these are identified as "military airport orazio pierozzi", named in memory of an italian airman of the first world war. the strategic position of the airport in the mediterranean region, along with its natural potential for multi-modal (the port is a few kilometers away) operations, have made it a base of crucial importance for both national defense and nato. for the same strategic reasons, in the airport was chosen as the main worldwide logistics base by the united nations to support its peacekeeping and peace enforcement operations around the globe, which was since then hosted in pisa military airport "san giusto". in , also the united nations humanitarian supply depot moved from pisa to brindisi. it has since then been managed by the world food programme and officially known as the united nations humanitarian response depot (unhrd). on behalf of governments, other un agencies and ngos, from unhrd brindisi humanitarian aid is directed to the most remote and devastated regions around the world. public transport[edit] the public transport company of brindisi provides public transport in the city, and is the link with the other municipalities in the province. moreover, the company provides transport service by sea into inland waters of the port of brindisi. brindisi is also a major ferry port, with routes to greece and elsewhere.[ ] government[edit] see also: list of mayors of brindisi consulates[edit] brindisi is home to the following consulates: 	denmark 	france 	honorary consulate of greece 	netherlands sports[edit] soccer[edit] football brindisi has played in six championship series. their football strip colours recall those of the province, white and blue. the club plays in the stadium named after the president of the historical association on the adriatic shore, commander franco fanuzzi stadium. asd appia brindisi plays in the regional championship of the "first category". basketball[edit] the main basketball team in the city and in the wider region of apulia is new basket brindisi, which has played for basketball championships in the top of a championships in league . their colours are the same as that of all sports associations in the city, white and blue. the club plays their home games in the sports hall "elio pentassuglia". other clubs[edit] 	nafta rugby brindisi (c ) 	aces amateur volleyball (series b female). sports venues[edit] 	franco fanuzzi stadium: municipal stadium 	palapentassuglia: sports hall 	palamelfi: sports hall 	brindisi tennis club 	st. elias sports centre: rugby, sports hall, tennis court international relations[edit] 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. 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to navigation 		jump to search 		for other uses, see iliad (disambiguation). epic poem attributed to homer 	trojan war 	achilles tending the wounded patroclus (attic red-figure kylix, c. bc) 	 the war 	 setting: troy (modern hisarlik, turkey) period: bronze age traditional dating: c. – bc modern dating: c. – bc outcome: greek victory, destruction of troy see also: historicity of the iliad 	 literary sources 	 	iliad 	epic cycle 	aeneid, book 	iphigenia in aulis 	philoctetes 	ajax 	the trojan women 	posthomerica see also: trojan war in popular culture 	 episodes 	 	judgement of paris 	seduction of helen 	trojan horse 	sack of troy 	the returns 	wanderings of odysseus 	aeneas and the founding of rome 	 greeks and allies 	 	agamemnon 	achilles 	helen 	menelaus 	nestor 	odysseus 	ajax 	diomedes 	patroclus 	thersites 	achaeans 	myrmidons see also: catalogue of ships 	 trojans and allies 	 	priam 	hecuba 	hector 	paris 	cassandra 	andromache 	aeneas 	memnon 	troilus 	penthesilea and the amazons 	sarpedon see also: trojan battle order 	 participant gods 	 caused the war: 	eris on the greek side: 	athena 	hephaestus 	hera 	hermes 	thetis 	poseidon on the trojan side: 	aphrodite 	apollo 	ares 	artemis 	leto 	scamander 	zeus 	 related topics 	 	homeric question 	archaeology of troy 	mycenae 	mycenaean warfare 		v 	t 	e the iliad (/ˈɪliəd/;[ ] ancient greek: Ἰλιάς, iliás, attic greek pronunciation: [iː.li.ás]; sometimes referred to as the song of ilion or song of ilium) is an ancient greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to homer. set during the trojan war, the ten-year siege of the city of troy (ilium) by a coalition of mycenean greek states (achaeans), it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between king agamemnon and the warrior achilles. although the story covers only a few weeks in the final year of the war, the iliad mentions or alludes to many of the greek legends about the siege; the earlier events, such as the gathering of warriors for the siege, the cause of the war, and related concerns tend to appear near the beginning. then the epic narrative takes up events prophesied for the future, such as achilles' imminent death and the fall of troy, although the narrative ends before these events take place. however, as these events are prefigured and alluded to more and more vividly, when it reaches an end the poem has told a more or less complete tale of the trojan war. the iliad is paired with something of a sequel, the odyssey, also attributed to homer. along with the odyssey, the iliad is among the oldest extant works of western literature, and its written version is usually dated to around the th century bc.[ ] in the modern vulgate (the standard accepted version), the iliad contains , lines; it is written in homeric greek, a literary amalgam of ionic greek and other dialects. contents 	 synopsis 	 major characters 	 . achaeans 	 . . achilles and patroclus 	 . trojans 	 . gods 	 . . divine intervention 	 themes 	 . fate 	 . kleos 	 . nostos 	 . pride 	 . timē 	 . hybris (hubris) 	 . menis 	 date and textual history 	 . as oral tradition 	 . today 	 depiction of warfare 	 . depiction of infantry combat 	 . modern reconstructions of armor, weapons and styles 	 . influence on classical greek warfare 	 influence on arts and pop culture 	 . th-century arts 	 . contemporary popular culture 	 english translations 	 manuscripts 	 see also 	 references 	 . notes 	 . citations 	 . bibliography 	 further reading 	 external links synopsis[edit] the first verses of the iliad 	note: book numbers are in parentheses and come before the synopsis of the book. ( ) after an invocation to the muses, the story launches in medias res towards the end of the trojan war between the trojans and the besieging achaeans. chryses, a trojan priest of apollo, offers the achaeans wealth for the return of his daughter chryseis, held captive by agamemnon, the achaean leader from. although most of the achaean army is in favour of the offer, agamemnon refuses. chryses prays for apollo's help, and apollo causes a plague to afflict the achaean army. after nine days of plague, achilles, the leader of the myrmidon contingent, calls an assembly to deal with the problem. under pressure, agamemnon agrees to return chryseis to her father, but decides to take achilles' captive, briseis, as compensation. achilles furiously declares that he and his men will no longer fight for agamemnon and will go home. odysseus takes a ship and returns chryseis to her father, whereupon apollo ends the plague. in the meantime, agamemnon's messengers take briseis away. achilles becomes very upset, sits by the seashore, and prays to his mother, thetis.[ ] achilles asks his mother to ask zeus to bring the achaeans to the breaking point by the trojans, so agamemnon will realize how much the achaeans need achilles. thetis does so, and zeus agrees. ( ) zeus sends a dream to agamemnon, urging him to attack troy. agamemnon heeds the dream but first decides to test the achaean army's morale, by telling them to go home. the plan backfires, and only the intervention of odysseus, inspired by athena, stops a rout. odysseus confronts and beats thersites, a common soldier who voices discontent about fighting agamemnon's war. after a meal, the achaeans deploy in companies upon the trojan plain. the poet takes the opportunity to describe the provenance of each achaean contingent. when news of the achaean deployment reaches king priam, the trojans respond in a sortie upon the plain. in a list similar to that for the achaeans, the poet describes the trojans and their allies. ( ) the armies approach each other, but before they meet, paris offers to end the war by fighting a duel with menelaus, urged by his brother and head of the trojan army, hector. the initial cause of the entire war is alluded to here, when helen is said to be "embroidering the struggles between trojans and achaeans, that ares had made them fight for her sake." this allusion is then made definitive at the paragraph's close, when helen is told that paris and "menelaus are going to fight about yourself, and you are to be the wife of him who is the victor." both sides swear a truce and promise to abide by the outcome of the duel. paris is beaten, but aphrodite rescues him and leads him to bed with helen before menelaus can kill him. ( ) pressured by hera's hatred of troy, zeus arranges for the trojan pandaros to break the truce by wounding menelaus with an arrow. agamemnon rouses the achaeans, and battle is joined. ( ) in the fighting, diomedes kills many trojans, including pandaros, and defeats aeneas, whom aphrodite rescues, but diomedes attacks and wounds the goddess. apollo faces diomedes and warns him against warring with gods. many heroes and commanders join in, including hector, and the gods supporting each side try to influence the battle. emboldened by athena, diomedes wounds ares and puts him out of action. ( ) hector rallies the trojans and prevents a rout; the achaean diomedes and the trojan glaukos find common ground and exchange unequal gifts. hector enters the city, urges prayers and sacrifices, incites paris to battle, bids his wife andromache and son astyanax farewell on the city walls, and rejoins the battle. ( ) hector duels with ajax, but nightfall interrupts the fight, and both sides retire. the achaeans agree to burn their dead, and build a wall to protect their ships and camp, while the trojans quarrel about returning helen. paris offers to return the treasure he took and give further wealth as compensation, but not helen, and the offer is refused. a day's truce is agreed for burning the dead, during which the achaeans also build their wall and a trench. ( ) the next morning, zeus prohibits the gods from interfering, and fighting begins anew. the trojans prevail and force the achaeans back to their wall, while hera and athena are forbidden to help. night falls before the trojans can assail the achaean wall. they camp in the field to attack at first light, and their watchfires light the plain like stars. iliad, book viii, lines – , greek manuscript, late th, early th centuries ad. ( ) meanwhile, the achaeans are desperate. agamemnon admits his error, and sends an embassy composed of odysseus, ajax, phoenix, and two heralds to offer briseis and extensive gifts to achilles, who has been camped next to his ships throughout, if only he will return to the fighting. achilles and his companion patroclus receive the embassy well, but achilles angrily refuses agamemnon's offer and declares that he would only return to battle if the trojans reached his ships and threatened them with fire. the embassy returns empty-handed. ( ) later that night, odysseus and diomedes venture out to the trojan lines, kill the trojan dolon, and wreak havoc in the camps of some thracian allies of troy's. ( ) in the morning, the fighting is fierce, and agamemnon, diomedes, and odysseus are all wounded. achilles sends patroclus from his camp to inquire about the achaean casualties, and while there patroclus is moved to pity by a speech of nestor's. ( ) the trojans attack the achaean wall on foot. hector, ignoring an omen, leads the terrible fighting. the achaeans are overwhelmed and routed, the wall's gate is broken, and hector charges in. ( ) many fall on both sides. the trojan seer polydamas urges hector to fall back and warns him about achilles, but is ignored. ( ) hera seduces zeus and lures him to sleep, allowing poseidon to help the greeks, and the trojans are driven back onto the plain. ( ) zeus awakes and is enraged by poseidon's intervention. against the mounting discontent of the achaean-supporting gods, zeus sends apollo to aid the trojans, who once again breach the wall, and the battle reaches the ships. ( ) patroclus cannot stand to watch any longer and begs achilles to be allowed to defend the ships. achilles relents and lends patroclus his armor, but sends him off with a stern admonition not to pursue the trojans, lest he take achilles' glory. patroclus leads the myrmidons into battle and arrives as the trojans set fire to the first ships. the trojans are routed by the sudden onslaught, and patroclus begins his assault by killing zeus's son sarpedon, a leading ally of the trojans. patroclus, ignoring achilles' command, pursues and reaches the gates of troy, where apollo himself stops him. patroclus is set upon by apollo and euphorbos, and is finally killed by hector. ( ) hector takes achilles' armor from the fallen patroclus, but fighting develops around patroclus' body. ( ) achilles is mad with grief when he hears of patroclus' death and vows to take vengeance on hector; his mother thetis grieves, too, knowing that achilles is fated to die young if he kills hector. achilles is urged to help retrieve patroclus' body but has no armour. bathed in a brilliant radiance by athena, achilles stands next to the achaean wall and roars in rage. the trojans are dismayed by his appearance, and the achaeans manage to bear patroclus' body away. polydamas urges hector again to withdraw into the city; again hector refuses, and the trojans camp on the plain at nightfall. patroclus is mourned. meanwhile, at thetis' request, hephaestus fashions a new set of armor for achilles, including a magnificently wrought shield. ( ) in the morning, agamemnon gives achilles all the promised gifts, including briseis, but achilles is indifferent to them. achilles fasts while the achaeans take their meal, straps on his new armor, and takes up his great spear. his horse xanthos prophesies to achilles his death. achilles drives his chariot into battle. ( ) zeus lifts the ban on the gods' interference, and the gods freely help both sides. achilles, burning with rage and grief, slays many. ( ) driving the trojans before him, achilles cuts off half their number in the river skamandros and proceeds to slaughter them, filling the river with the dead. the river, angry at the killing, confronts achilles but is beaten back by hephaestus' firestorm. the gods fight among themselves. the great gates of the city are opened to receive the fleeing trojans, and apollo leads achilles away from the city by pretending to be a trojan. ( ) when apollo reveals himself to achilles, the trojans have retreated into the city, all except for hector, who, having twice ignored the counsels of polydamas, feels the shame of the rout and resolves to face achilles, despite the pleas of his parents, priam and hecuba. when achilles approaches, hector's will fails him, and he is chased around the city by achilles. finally, athena tricks him into stopping, and he turns to face his opponent. after a brief duel, achilles stabs hector through the neck. before dying, hector reminds achilles that he, too, is fated to die in the war. achilles takes hector's body and dishonours it by dragging it behind his chariot. ( ) the ghost of patroclus comes to achilles in a dream, urging him to carry out his burial rites and to arrange for their bones to be entombed together. the achaeans hold a day of funeral games, and achilles gives out the prizes. ( ) dismayed by achilles' continued abuse of hector's body, zeus decides that it must be returned to priam. led by hermes, priam takes a wagon out of troy, across the plains, and into the achaean camp unnoticed. he clasps achilles by the knees and begs for his son's body. achilles is moved to tears, and the two lament their losses in the war. after a meal, priam carries hector's body back into troy. hector is buried, and the city mourns. major characters[edit] main article: list of characters in the iliad see also: category: deities in the iliad hypnos and thanatos carrying the body of sarpedon from the battlefield of troy; detail from an attic white-ground lekythos, c. bc. the many characters of the iliad are catalogued; the latter half of book ii, the "catalogue of ships", lists commanders and cohorts; battle scenes feature quickly slain minor characters. achaeans[edit] 	the achaeans (Ἀχαιοί), danaans (Δαναοί) or argives (Ἀργεĩοι) 	agamemnon – king of mycenae, leader of the achaeans. 	menelaus – king of sparta, husband of helen and brother of agamemnon. 	achilles – leader of the myrmidons and king of phthia.[ ], son of peleus and divine thetis, the foremost warrior. 	odysseus – king of ithaca, greek commander, the smartest warrior. 	nestor – king of pylos and trusted advisor to agamemnon, the wisest warrior. 	ajax the great – king of salamis, son of telamon. 	diomedes – king of argos, son of tydeus . 	ajax the lesser – commander of the locrians, son of oileus. 	idomeneus – commander of the cretans 	patroclus – achilles' closest companion. 	neoptolemus – leader of the myrmidons after achilles death, killer of priam. achilles and patroclus[edit] main article: achilles and patroclus much debate has surrounded the nature of the relationship of achilles and patroclus, as to whether it can be described as a homoerotic one or not. some classical and hellenistic athenian scholars perceived it as pederastic,[i] while others perceived it as a platonic warrior-bond.[ ] achilles lamenting the death of patroclus ( ) by the russian history painter nikolai ge (belarusian national arts museum, minsk) trojans[edit] 	the trojan men 	dardanos – first king of troy, and he originally named the city dardania.[ ] 	hector – prince of troy, son of king priam, and the foremost trojan warrior. 	aeneas – son of anchises and aphrodite. 	deiphobus – brother of hector and paris. 	paris – prince of troy, son of king priam, and helen's lover/abductor. 	priam – the aged king of troy. 	polydamas – a prudent commander whose advice is ignored; he is hector's foil. 	agenor – son of antenor, a trojan warrior who attempts to fight achilles (book xxi). 	sarpedon, son of zeus – killed by patroclus. was friend of glaucus and co-leader of the lycians (fought for the trojans). 	glaucus, son of hippolochus – friend of sarpedon and co-leader of the lycians (fought for the trojans). 	euphorbus – first trojan warrior to wound patroclus. 	dolon – a spy upon the greek camp (book x). 	antenor – king priam's advisor, who argues for returning helen to end the war. 	polydorus – son of priam and laothoe. 	pandarus – famous archer and son of lycaon. 	the trojan women 	hecuba (Ἑκάβη, hekábe) – priam's wife; mother of hector, cassandra, paris, and others. 	helen (Ἑλένη) – daughter of zeus; menelaus's wife; espoused first to paris, then to deiphobus; her being taken by paris back to troy precipitated the war. 	andromache – princess of troy, hector's wife, mother of astyanax. 	cassandra – priam's daughter. 	briseis – a trojan woman captured by achilles from a previous siege, over whom achilles's quarrel with agamemnon began. gods[edit] in the literary trojan war of the iliad, the olympian gods, goddesses, and minor deities fight among themselves and participate in human warfare, often by interfering with humans to counter other gods. unlike their portrayals in greek religion, homer's portrayal of gods suited his narrative purpose. the gods in traditional thought of fourth-century athenians were not spoken of in terms familiar to us from homer.[ ] the classical-era historian herodotus says that homer and hesiod, his contemporary, were the first writers to name and describe the gods' appearance and character.[ ] mary lefkowitz ( )[ ] discusses the relevance of divine action in the iliad, attempting to answer the question of whether or not divine intervention is a discrete occurrence (for its own sake), or if such godly behaviors are mere human character metaphors. the intellectual interest of classic-era authors, such as thucydides and plato, was limited to their utility as "a way of talking about human life rather than a description or a truth", because, if the gods remain religious figures, rather than human metaphors, their "existence"—without the foundation of either dogma or a bible of faiths—then allowed greek culture the intellectual breadth and freedom to conjure gods fitting any religious function they required as a people.[ ][ ] the religion had no founder and was not the creation of an inspired teacher which were popular origins of existing religions in the world.[ ] the individuals were free to believe what they wanted, as the greek religion was created out of a consensus of the people. these beliefs coincide to the thoughts about the gods in polytheistic greek religion. adkins and pollard ( / ), agree with this by saying, “the early greeks personalized every aspect of their world, natural and cultural, and their experiences in it. the earth, the sea, the mountains, the rivers, custom-law (themis), and one’s share in society and its goods were all seen in personal as well as naturalistic terms.”[ ] as a result of this thinking, each god or goddess in polytheistic greek religion is attributed to an aspect of the human world. for example, poseidon is the god of the sea, aphrodite is the goddess of beauty, ares is the god of war, and so on and so forth for many other gods. this is how greek culture was defined as many athenians felt the presence of their gods through divine intervention in significant events in their lives. oftentimes they found these events to be mysterious and inexplicable.[ ] psychologist julian jaynes ( )[ ] uses the iliad as a major piece of evidence for his theory of the bicameral mind, which posits that until about the time described in the iliad, humans had a far different mentality from present day humans. he says that humans during that time were lacking what we today call consciousness. he suggests that humans heard and obeyed commands from what they identified as gods, until the change in human mentality that incorporated the motivating force into the conscious self. he points out that almost every action in the iliad is directed, caused, or influenced by a god, and that earlier translations show an astonishing lack of words suggesting thought, planning, or introspection. those that do appear, he argues, are misinterpretations made by translators imposing a modern mentality on the characters.[ ] divine intervention[edit] some scholars believe that the gods may have intervened in the mortal world because of quarrels they may have had among each other. homer interprets the world at this time by using the passion and emotion of the gods to be determining factors of what happens on the human level.[ ] an example of one of these relationships in the iliad occurs between athena, hera, and aphrodite. in the final book of the poem homer writes, “he offended athena and hera—both goddesses.”[ ] athena and hera are envious of aphrodite because of a beauty pageant on mount olympus in which paris chose aphrodite to be the most beautiful goddess over both hera and athena. wolfgang kullmann further goes on to say, “hera’s and athena’s disappointment over the victory of aphrodite in the judgement of paris determines the whole conduct of both goddesses in the iliad and is the cause of their hatred for paris, the judge, and his town troy.”[ ] hera and athena then continue to support the achaean forces throughout the poem because paris is part of the trojans, while aphrodite aids paris and the trojans. the emotions between the goddesses often translate to actions they take in the mortal world. for example, in book of the iliad, paris challenges any of the achaeans to a single combat and menelaus steps forward. menelaus was dominating the battle and was on the verge of killing paris. “now he’d have hauled him off and won undying glory but aphrodite, zeus’s daughter was quick to the mark, snapped the rawhide strap.”[ ] aphrodite intervened out of her own self-interest to save paris from the wrath of menelaus because paris had helped her to win the beauty pageant. the partisanship of aphrodite towards paris induces constant intervention by all of the gods, especially to give motivational speeches to their respective proteges, while often appearing in the shape of a human being they are familiar with.[ ] this connection of emotions to actions is just one example out of many that occur throughout the poem.[citation needed] 	the major deities: 	zeus (neutral) 	hera (achaeans) 	artemis (trojans) 	apollo (trojans) 	hades (neutral) 	aphrodite (trojans) 	ares (achaeans, then trojans) 	athena (achaeans) 	hermes (neutral/achaeans) 	poseidon (achaeans) 	hephaestus (achaeans) 	the minor deities: 	eris (trojans) 	iris (neutral) 	thetis (achaeans) 	leto (trojans) 	proteus (achaeans) 	scamander (trojans) 	phobos (trojans) 	deimos (trojans) 	hypnos (achaeans) themes[edit] fate[edit] fate (κήρ, kēr, 'fated death') propels most of the events of the iliad. once set, gods and men abide it, neither truly able nor willing to contest it. how fate is set is unknown, but it is told by the fates and by zeus through sending omens to seers such as calchas. men and their gods continually speak of heroic acceptance and cowardly avoidance of one's slated fate.[ ] fate does not determine every action, incident, and occurrence, but it does determine the outcome of life—before killing him, hector calls patroclus a fool for cowardly avoidance of his fate, by attempting his defeat;[citation needed] patroclus retorts: [ ] no, deadly destiny, with the son of leto, has killed me, and of men it was euphorbos; you are only my third slayer. and put away in your heart this other thing that i tell you. you yourself are not one who shall live long, but now already death and powerful destiny are standing beside you, to go down under the hands of aiakos' great son, achilleus.[ ] here, patroclus alludes to fated death by hector's hand, and hector's fated death by achilles's hand. each accepts the outcome of his life, yet, no-one knows if the gods can alter fate. the first instance of this doubt occurs in book xvi. seeing patroclus about to kill sarpedon, his mortal son, zeus says: ah me, that it is destined that the dearest of men, sarpedon, must go down under the hands of menoitios' son patroclus.[ ] about his dilemma, hera asks zeus: majesty, son of kronos, what sort of thing have you spoken? do you wish to bring back a man who is mortal, one long since doomed by his destiny, from ill-sounding death and release him? do it, then; but not all the rest of us gods shall approve you.[ ] in deciding between losing a son or abiding fate, zeus, king of the gods, allows it. this motif recurs when he considers sparing hector, whom he loves and respects. this time, it is athene who challenges him: father of the shining bolt, dark misted, what is this you said? do you wish to bring back a man who is mortal, one long since doomed by his destiny, from ill-sounding death and release him? do it, then; but not all the rest of us gods shall approve you.[ ] again, zeus appears capable of altering fate, but does not, deciding instead to abide set outcomes; similarly, fate spares aeneas, after apollo convinces the over-matched trojan to fight achilles. poseidon cautiously speaks: but come, let us ourselves get him away from death, for fear the son of kronos may be angered if now achilleus kills this man. it is destined that he shall be the survivor, that the generation of dardanos shall not die…[ ] divinely aided, aeneas escapes the wrath of achilles and survives the trojan war. whether or not the gods can alter fate, they do abide it, despite its countering their human allegiances; thus, the mysterious origin of fate is a power beyond the gods. fate implies the primeval, tripartite division of the world that zeus, poseidon, and hades effected in deposing their father, cronus, for its dominion. zeus took the air and the sky, poseidon the waters, and hades the underworld, the land of the dead—yet they share dominion of the earth. despite the earthly powers of the olympic gods, only the three fates set the destiny of man. kleos[edit] kleos (κλέος, "glory, fame") is the concept of glory earned in heroic battle.[ ] yet, achilles must choose only one of the two rewards, either nostos or kleos.[ ] in book ix (ix. – ), he poignantly tells agamemnon's envoys—odysseus, phoenix, ajax—begging his reinstatement to battle about having to choose between two fates (διχθαδίας κήρας, . ).[ ] the passage reads: 	 μήτηρ γάρ τέ μέ φησι θεὰ Θέτις ἀργυρόπεζα ( ) διχθαδίας κῆρας φερέμεν θανάτοιο τέλος δέ. εἰ μέν κ’ αὖθι μένων Τρώων πόλιν ἀμφιμάχωμαι, ὤλετο μέν μοι νόστος, ἀτὰρ κλέος ἄφθιτον ἔσται εἰ δέ κεν οἴκαδ’ ἵκωμι φίλην ἐς πατρίδα γαῖαν, ὤλετό μοι κλέος ἐσθλόν, ἐπὶ δηρὸν δέ μοι αἰὼν ( ) ἔσσεται, οὐδέ κέ μ’ ὦκα τέλος θανάτοιο κιχείη.[ ] 	 for my mother thetis the goddess of silver feet tells me i carry two sorts of destiny toward the day of my death. either, if i stay here and fight beside the city of the trojans, my return home is gone, but my glory shall be everlasting; but if i return home to the beloved land of my fathers, the excellence of my glory is gone, but there will be a long life left for me, and my end in death will not come to me quickly.[ ] 	 	—translated by richmond lattimore in forgoing his nostos, he will earn the greater reward of kleos aphthiton (κλέος ἄφθιτον, "fame imperishable").[ ] in the poem, aphthiton (ἄφθιτον, "imperishable") occurs five other times,[ ] each occurrence denotes an object: agamemnon's sceptre, the wheel of hebe's chariot, the house of poseidon, the throne of zeus, the house of hephaestus. translator lattimore renders kleos aphthiton as forever immortal and as forever imperishable—connoting achilles's mortality by underscoring his greater reward in returning to battle troy. kleos is often given visible representation by the prizes won in battle. when agamemnon takes briseis from achilles, he takes away a portion of the kleos he had earned. achilles' shield, crafted by hephaestus and given to him by his mother thetis, bears an image of stars in the centre. the stars conjure profound images of the place of a single man, no matter how heroic, in the perspective of the entire cosmos. nostos[edit] nostos (νόστος, "homecoming") occurs seven times in the poem,[ ] making it a minor theme in the iliad itself. yet the concept of homecoming is much explored in other ancient greek literature, especially in the post-war homeward fortunes experienced by the atreidae (agamemnon and menelaus), and odysseus (see the odyssey). pride[edit] pride drives the plot of the iliad. the achaeans gather on the plain of troy to wrest helen from the trojans. though the majority of the trojans would gladly return helen to the achaeans, they defer to the pride of their prince, alexandros, also known as paris. within this frame, homer's work begins. at the start of the iliad, agamemnon's pride sets forth a chain of events that leads him to take from achilles, briseis, the girl that he had originally given achilles in return for his martial prowess. due to this slight, achilles refuses to fight and asks his mother, thetis, to make sure that zeus causes the achaeans to suffer on the battlefield until agamemnon comes to realize the kharm he has done to achilles. achilles’ pride allows him to beg thetis for the deaths of his achaean friends. when in book his friends urge him to return, offering him loot and his girl, briseis, he refuses, stuck in his vengeful pride. achilles remains stuc until the very end, when his anger at himself for patroclus’ death overcomes his pride at agamemnon's slight and he returns to kill hector. he overcomes his pride again when he keeps his anger in check and returns hector to priam at epic's close. from epic start to epic finish, pride drives the plot.[ii][ ] timē[edit] akin to kleos is timē (τιμή, "respect, honor"), the concept denoting the respectability an honorable man accrues with accomplishment (cultural, political, martial), per his station in life. in book i, the achaean troubles begin with king agamemnon's dishonorable, unkingly behavior—first, by threatening the priest chryses ( . ), then, by aggravating them in disrespecting achilles, by confiscating briseis from him ( . ). the warrior's consequent rancor against the dishonorable king ruins the achaean military cause. hybris (hubris)[edit] hybris (Ὕβρις) plays a part similar to timê. the epic takes as its thesis the anger of achilles and the destruction it brings. anger disturbs the distance between human beings and the gods. uncontrolled anger destroys orderly social relationships and upsets the balance of correct actions necessary to keep the gods away from human beings. (footnote thompson). despite the epic's focus on achilles’ rage, hybris plays a prominent role also, serving as both kindling and fuel for many destructive events. agamemnon refuses to ransom chriseis up out of hybris and harms achilles’ pride when he demands briseis. hubris forces paris to fight against menelaus. agamemnon spurs the achaean to fight, by calling into question odysseus, diomedes, and nestor's pride, asking why they were cowering and waiting for help when they should be the ones leading the charge. while the events of the iliad focus on the achilles’ rage and the destruction it brings on, hybris fuels and stokes them both.[ ] menis[edit] the wrath of achilles ( ), by michel drolling. the poem's initial word, μῆνιν (mēnin; acc. μῆνις, mēnis, "wrath," "rage," "fury"), establishes the iliad's principal theme: the "wrath of achilles".[ ] his personal rage and wounded soldier's pride propel the story: the achaeans' faltering in battle, the slayings of patroclus and hector, and the fall of troy. in book i, the wrath of achilles first emerges in the achilles-convoked meeting, between the greek kings and the seer calchas. king agamemnon dishonours chryses, the trojan priest of apollo, by refusing with a threat the restitution of his daughter, chryseis—despite the proffered ransom of "gifts beyond count."[ ] the insulted priest prays his god's help, and a nine-day rain of divine plague arrows falls upon the achaeans. moreover, in that meeting, achilles accuses agamemnon of being "greediest for gain of all men."[ ] to that, agamemnon replies: but here is my threat to you. even as phoibos apollo is taking away my chryseis. i shall convey her back in my own ship, with my own followers; but i shall take the fair-cheeked briseis, your prize, i myself going to your shelter, that you may learn well how much greater i am than you, and another man may shrink back from likening himself to me and contending against me.[ ] after that, only athena stays achilles's wrath. he vows to never again obey orders from agamemnon. furious, achilles cries to his mother, thetis, who persuades zeus's divine intervention—favouring the trojans—until achilles's rights are restored. meanwhile, hector leads the trojans to almost pushing the achaeans back to the sea (book xii). later, agamemnon contemplates defeat and retreat to greece (book xiv). again, the wrath of achilles turns the war's tide in seeking vengeance when hector kills patroclus. aggrieved, achilles tears his hair and dirties his face. thetis comforts her mourning son, who tells her: so it was here that the lord of men agamemnon angered me. still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, and for all our sorrow beat down by force the anger deeply within us. now i shall go, to overtake that killer of a dear life, hektor; then i will accept my own death, at whatever time zeus wishes to bring it about, and the other immortals.[ ] accepting the prospect of death as fair price for avenging patroclus, he returns to battle, dooming hector and troy, thrice chasing him 'round the trojan walls, before slaying him, then dragging the corpse behind his chariot, back to camp. achilles slays hector, by peter paul rubens ( – ). date and textual history[edit] further information: homeric question and historicity of the iliad the poem dates to the archaic period of classical antiquity. scholarly consensus mostly places it in the th century bc, although some favour a th-century date.[citation needed] in any case, the terminus ante quem for the dating of the iliad is bc, as evidenced by reflection in art and literature.[ ] herodotus, having consulted the oracle at dodona, placed homer and hesiod at approximately years before his own time, which would place them at c.  bc.[ ] the historical backdrop of the poem is the time of the late bronze age collapse, in the early th century bc. homer is thus separated from his subject matter by about years, the period known as the greek dark ages. intense scholarly debate has surrounded the question of which portions of the poem preserve genuine traditions from the mycenaean period. the catalogue of ships in particular has the striking feature that its geography does not portray greece in the iron age, the time of homer, but as it was before the dorian invasion. the title Ἰλιάς (ilias; gen. Ἰλιάδος, iliados) is an ellipsis of ἡ ποίησις Ἰλιάς, he poíesis iliás, meaning "the trojan poem". Ἰλιάς, 'of troy', is the specifically feminine adjective form from Ἴλιον, 'troy'. the masculine adjective form would be Ἰλιακός or Ἴλιος.[ ] it is used by herodotus.[ ] venetus a, copied in the th century ad, is the oldest fully extant manuscript of the iliad.[ ] the first edition of the "iliad", editio princeps, edited by demetrius chalcondyles and published by bernardus nerlius, and demetrius damilas in florence in / .[ ] as oral tradition[edit] in antiquity, the greeks applied the iliad and the odyssey as the bases of pedagogy. literature was central to the educational-cultural function of the itinerant rhapsode, who composed consistent epic poems from memory and improvisation, and disseminated them, via song and chant, in his travels and at the panathenaic festival of athletics, music, poetics, and sacrifice, celebrating athena's birthday.[ ] originally, classical scholars treated the iliad and the odyssey as written poetry, and homer as a writer. yet, by the s, milman parry ( – ) had launched a movement claiming otherwise. his investigation of the oral homeric style—"stock epithets" and "reiteration" (words, phrases, stanzas)—established that these formulae were artifacts of oral tradition easily applied to a hexametric line. a two-word stock epithet (e.g. "resourceful odysseus") reiteration may complement a character name by filling a half-line, thus, freeing the poet to compose a half-line of "original" formulaic text to complete his meaning.[ ] in yugoslavia, parry and his assistant, albert lord ( – ), studied the oral-formulaic composition of serbian oral poetry, yielding the parry/lord thesis that established oral tradition studies, later developed by eric havelock, marshall mcluhan, walter ong, and gregory nagy. in the singer of tales ( ), lord presents likenesses between the tragedies of the achaean patroclus, in the iliad, and of the sumerian enkidu, in the epic of gilgamesh, and claims to refute, with "careful analysis of the repetition of thematic patterns", that the patroclus storyline upsets homer's established compositional formulae of "wrath, bride-stealing, and rescue"; thus, stock-phrase reiteration does not restrict his originality in fitting story to rhyme.[ ] likewise, james armstrong ( )[ ] reports that the poem's formulae yield richer meaning because the "arming motif" diction—describing achilles, agamemnon, paris, and patroclus—serves to "heighten the importance of…an impressive moment," thus, "[reiteration] creates an atmosphere of smoothness," wherein, homer distinguishes patroclus from achilles, and foreshadows the former's death with positive and negative turns of phrase.[ ][ ] in the iliad, occasional syntactic inconsistency may be an oral tradition effect—for example, aphrodite is "laughter-loving", despite being painfully wounded by diomedes (book v, ); and the divine representations may mix mycenaean and greek dark age (c. – bc) mythologies, parallelling the hereditary basileis nobles (lower social rank rulers) with minor deities, such as scamander, et al.[ ] today[edit] in modern greece children are educated by iliad and odyssey at school, as specific mandatory lessons. through these, they learn mythology, history, ancient customs and ethics of their homeland and they analyze the poetry of homer.[citation needed] depiction of warfare[edit] depiction of infantry combat[edit] despite mycenae and troy being maritime powers, the iliad features no sea battles.[ ] so, the trojan shipwright (of the ship that transported helen to troy), phereclus, fights afoot, as an infantryman.[ ] the battle dress and armour of hero and soldier are well-described. they enter battle in chariots, launching javelins into the enemy formations, then dismount—for hand-to-hand combat with yet more javelin throwing, rock throwing, and if necessary hand to hand sword and a shoulder-borne hoplon (shield) fighting.[ ] ajax the greater, son of telamon, sports a large, rectangular shield (σάκος, sakos) with which he protects himself and teucer, his brother: ninth came teucer, stretching his curved bow. he stood beneath the shield of ajax, son of telamon. as ajax cautiously pulled his shield aside, teucer would peer out quickly, shoot off an arrow, hit someone in the crowd, dropping that soldier right where he stood, ending his life—then he'd duck back, crouching down by ajax, like a child beside its mother. ajax would then conceal him with his shining shield.[ ] ajax's cumbersome shield is more suitable for defence than for offence, while his cousin, achilles, sports a large, rounded, octagonal shield that he successfully deploys along with his spear against the trojans: just as a man constructs a wall for some high house, using well-fitted stones to keep out forceful winds, that's how close their helmets and bossed shields lined up, shield pressing against shield, helmet against helmet man against man. on the bright ridges of the helmets, horsehair plumes touched when warriors moved their heads. that's how close they were to one another.[ ] in describing infantry combat, homer names the phalanx formation,[ ] but most scholars do not believe the historical trojan war was so fought.[ ] in the bronze age, the chariot was the main battle transport-weapon (e.g. the battle of kadesh). the available evidence, from the dendra armour and the pylos palace paintings, indicate the mycenaeans used two-man chariots, with a long-spear-armed principal rider, unlike the three-man hittite chariots with short-spear-armed riders, and unlike the arrow-armed egyptian and assyrian two-man chariots. nestor spearheads his troops with chariots; he advises them: in your eagerness to engage the trojans, don't any of you charge ahead of others, trusting in your strength and horsemanship. and don't lag behind. that will hurt our charge. any man whose chariot confronts an enemy's should thrust with his spear at him from there. that's the most effective tactic, the way men wiped out city strongholds long ago — their chests full of that style and spirit.[ ] although homer's depictions are graphic, it can be seen in the very end that victory in war is a far more somber occasion, where all that is lost becomes apparent. on the other hand, the funeral games are lively, for the dead man's life is celebrated. this overall depiction of war runs contrary to many other[citation needed] ancient greek depictions, where war is an aspiration for greater glory. modern reconstructions of armor, weapons and styles[edit] few modern (archeologically, historically and homerically accurate) reconstructions of arms, armor and motifs as described by homer exist. some historical reconstructions have been done by salimbeti et al. [ ] influence on classical greek warfare[edit] while the homeric poems (particularly, the iliad) were not necessarily revered scripture of the ancient greeks, they were most certainly seen as guides that were important to the intellectual understanding of any educated greek citizen. this is evidenced by the fact that in the late fifth century bc, "it was the sign of a man of standing to be able to recite the iliad and odyssey by heart."[ ]: moreover, it can be argued that the warfare shown in the iliad, and the way in which it was depicted, had a profound and very traceable effect on greek warfare in general. in particular, the effect of epic literature can be broken down into three categories: tactics, ideology, and the mindset of commanders. in order to discern these effects, it is necessary to take a look at a few examples from each of these categories. much of the detailed fighting in the iliad is done by the heroes in an orderly, one-on-one fashion. much like the odyssey, there is even a set ritual which must be observed in each of these conflicts. for example, a major hero may encounter a lesser hero from the opposing side, in which case the minor hero is introduced, threats may be exchanged, and then the minor hero is slain. the victor often strips the body of its armor and military accoutrements.[ ]: – here is an example of this ritual and this type of one-on-one combat in the iliad: there telamonian ajax struck down the son of anthemion, simoeisios in his stripling's beauty, whom once his mother descending from ida bore beside the banks of simoeis when she had followed her father and mother to tend the sheepflocks. therefore they called him simoeisios; but he could not render again the care of his dear parents; he was short-lived, beaten down beneath the spear of high-hearted ajax, who struck him as he first came forward beside the nipple of the right breast, and the bronze spearhead drove clean through the shoulder.[ ] the biggest issue in reconciling the connection between the epic fighting of the iliad and later greek warfare is the phalanx, or hoplite, warfare seen in greek history well after homer's iliad. while there are discussions of soldiers arrayed in semblances of the phalanx throughout the iliad, the focus of the poem on the heroic fighting, as mentioned above, would seem to contradict the tactics of the phalanx. however, the phalanx did have its heroic aspects. the masculine one-on-one fighting of epic is manifested in phalanx fighting on the emphasis of holding one's position in formation. this replaces the singular heroic competition found in the iliad.[ ]: one example of this is the spartan tale of picked men fighting against picked argives. in this battle of champions, only two men are left standing for the argives and one for the spartans. othryades, the remaining spartan, goes back to stand in his formation with mortal wounds while the remaining two argives go back to argos to report their victory. thus, the spartans claimed this as a victory, as their last man displayed the ultimate feat of bravery by maintaining his position in the phalanx.[ ] in terms of the ideology of commanders in later greek history, the iliad has an interesting effect. the iliad expresses a definite disdain for tactical trickery, when hector says, before he challenges the great ajax: i know how to storm my way into the struggle of flying horses; i know how to tread the measures on the grim floor of the war god. yet great as you are i would not strike you by stealth, watching for my chance, but openly, so, if perhaps i might hit you.[ ] however, despite examples of disdain for this tactical trickery, there is reason to believe that the iliad, as well as later greek warfare, endorsed tactical genius on the part of their commanders. for example, there are multiple passages in the iliad with commanders such as agamemnon or nestor discussing the arraying of troops so as to gain an advantage. indeed, the trojan war is won by a notorious example of achaean guile in the trojan horse. this is even later referred to by homer in the odyssey. the connection, in this case, between guileful tactics of the achaeans and thetrojans in the iliad and those of the later greeks is not a difficult one to find. spartan commanders, often seen as the pinnacle of greek military prowess, were known for their tactical trickery, and, for them, this was a feat to be desired in a commander. indeed, this type of leadership was the standard advice of greek tactical writers.[ ]: ultimately, while homeric (or epic) fighting is certainly not completely replicated in later greek warfare, many of its ideals, tactics, and instruction are.[ ] hans van wees argues that the period that the descriptions of warfare relate can be pinned down fairly specifically—to the first half of the th century bc.[ ] influence on arts and pop culture[edit] main article: trojan war in popular culture the iliad was a standard work of great importance already in classical greece and remained so throughout the hellenistic and byzantine periods. subjects from the trojan war were a favourite among ancient greek dramatists. aeschylus' trilogy, the oresteia, comprising agamemnon, the libation bearers, and the eumenides, follows the story of agamemnon after his return from the war. homer also came to be of great influence in european culture with the resurgence of interest in greek antiquity during the renaissance, and it remains the first and most influential work of the western canon. in its full form the text made its return to italy and western europe beginning in the th century, primarily through translations into latin and the vernacular languages. prior to this reintroduction, however, a shortened latin version of the poem, known as the ilias latina, was very widely studied and read as a basic school text. the west tended to view homer as unreliable as they believed they possessed much more down to earth and realistic eyewitness accounts of the trojan war written by dares and dictys cretensis, who were supposedly present at the events. these late antique forged accounts formed the basis of several eminently popular medieval chivalric romances, most notably those of benoît de sainte-maure and guido delle colonne. these in turn spawned many others in various european languages, such as the first printed english book, the recuyell of the historyes of troye. other accounts read in the middle ages were antique latin retellings such as the excidium troiae and works in the vernaculars such as the icelandic troy saga. even without homer, the trojan war story had remained central to western european medieval literary culture and its sense of identity. most nations and several royal houses traced their origins to heroes at the trojan war. britain was supposedly settled by the trojan brutus, for instance.[citation needed] william shakespeare used the plot of the iliad as source material for his play troilus and cressida, but focused on a medieval legend, the love story of troilus, son of king priam of troy, and cressida, daughter of the trojan soothsayer calchas. the play, often considered to be a comedy, reverses traditional views on events of the trojan war and depicts achilles as a coward, ajax as a dull, unthinking mercenary, etc. william theed the elder made an impressive bronze statue of thetis as she brought achilles his new armor forged by hephaesthus. it has been on display in the metropolitan museum of art in new york city since . robert browning's poem development discusses his childhood introduction to the matter of the iliad and his delight in the epic, as well as contemporary debates about its authorship. according to suleyman al-boustani, a th-century poet who made the first arabic translation of the iliad to arabic, the epic may have been widely circulated in syriac and pahlavi translations during the early middle ages. al-boustani credits theophilus of edessa with the syriac translation, which was supposedly (along with the greek original) widely read or heard by the scholars of baghdad in the prime of the abbasid caliphate, although those scholars never took the effort to translate it to the official language of the empire; arabic. the iliad was also the first full epic poem to be translated to arabic from a foreign language, upon the publication of al-boustani's complete work in .[ ] th-century arts[edit] 	simone weil wrote the essay "the iliad or the poem of force" in , shortly after the commencement of world war ii. the essay describes how the iliad demonstrates the way force, exercised to the extreme in war, reduces both victim and aggressor to the level of the slave and the unthinking automaton.[ ] 	the broadway musical the golden apple, by librettist john treville latouche and composer jerome moross, was freely adapted from the iliad and the odyssey, re-setting the action to america's washington state in the years after the spanish–american war, with events inspired by the iliad in act one and events inspired by the odyssey in act two. 	christopher logue's poem war music, an "account", not a translation, of the iliad, was begun in as a commission for radio. he continued working on it until his death in . described by tom holland as "one of the most remarkable works of post-war literature", it has been an influence on kae tempest and alice oswald, who says that it "unleashes a forgotten kind of theatrical energy into the world."[ ] 	christa wolf's novel cassandra ( ) is a critical engagement with the iliad. wolf's narrator is cassandra, whose thoughts we hear at the moment just before her murder by clytemnestra in sparta. wolf's narrator presents a feminist's view of the war, and of war in general. cassandra's story is accompanied by four essays which wolf delivered as the frankfurter poetik-vorlesungen. the essays present wolf's concerns as a writer and rewriter of this canonical story and show the genesis of the novel through wolf's own readings and in a trip she took to greece. 	david melnick's men in aida (cf. μῆνιν ἄειδε) ( ) is a postmodern homophonic translation of book one into a farcical bathhouse scenario, preserving the sounds but not the meaning of the original. 	marion zimmer bradley's novel the firebrand retells the story from the point of view of kassandra, a princess of troy and a prophetess who is cursed by apollo. contemporary popular culture[edit] 	eric shanower's image comics series age of bronze, which began in , retells the legend of the trojan war.[ ][ ][ ] 	dan simmons' epic science fiction adaptation/tribute ilium was released in , receiving a locus award for best science fiction novel of .[citation needed] 	troy ( ), a loose film adaptation of the iliad, received mixed reviews but was a commercial success, particularly in international sales. it grossed $  million in the united states and $  million worldwide, making it the th top-grossing movie of all time.[ ] 	madeline miller's debut novel the song of achilles[ ] tells the story of achilles' and patroclus' life together as children, lovers, and soldiers. the novel, which won the women's prize for fiction, draws on the iliad as well as the works of other classical authors such as statius, ovid, and virgil.[ ] 	alice oswald's sixth collection, memorial ( ),[ ] is based on but departs from the narrative form of the iliad to focus on, and so commemorate, the individually-named characters whose deaths are mentioned in that poem.[ ][ ][ ] later in october , memorial was shortlisted for the t. s. eliot prize,[ ] but in december , oswald withdrew the book from the shortlist,[ ][ ] citing concerns about the ethics of the prize's sponsors.[ ] 	the rage of achilles, by american author and yale writers' conference founder terence hawkins, recounts the iliad as a novel in modern, sometimes graphic language. informed by julian jaynes' theory of the bicameral mind and the historicity of the trojan war, it depicts its characters as real men to whom the gods appear only as hallucinations or command voices during the sudden and painful transition to truly modern consciousness.[citation needed] english translations[edit] wenceslas hollar's engraved title page of a edition of the iliad, translated by john ogilby. further information: english translations of homer sampling of translations and editions of iliad in english george chapman published his translation of the iliad, in installments, beginning in , published in "fourteeners", a long-line ballad metre that "has room for all of homer's figures of speech and plenty of new ones, as well as explanations in parentheses. at its best, as in achilles' rejection of the embassy in iliad nine; it has great rhetorical power."[ ]: it quickly established itself as a classic in english poetry. in the preface to his own translation, pope praises "the daring fiery spirit" of chapman's rendering, which is "something like what one might imagine homer, himself, would have writ before he arrived at years of discretion." john keats praised chapman in the sonnet on first looking into chapman's homer ( ). john ogilby's mid-seventeenth-century translation is among the early annotated editions; alexander pope's translation, in heroic couplet, is "the classic translation that was built on all the preceding versions,"[ ]: and, like chapman's, it is a major poetic work in its own right. william cowper's miltonic, blank verse edition is highly regarded for its greater fidelity to the greek than either the chapman or the pope versions: "i have omitted nothing; i have invented nothing," cowper says in prefacing his translation. in the lectures on translating homer ( ), matthew arnold addresses the matters of translation and interpretation in rendering the iliad to english; commenting upon the versions contemporarily available in , he identifies the four essential poetic qualities of homer to which the translator must do justice: [i] that he is eminently rapid; [ii] that he is eminently plain and direct, both in the evolution of his thought and in the expression of it, that is, both in his syntax and in his words; [iii] that he is eminently plain and direct in the substance of his thought, that is, in his matter and ideas; and, finally, [iv] that he is eminently noble. after a discussion of the metres employed by previous translators, arnold argues for a poetical dialect hexameter translation of the iliad, like the original. "laborious as this meter was, there were at least half a dozen attempts to translate the entire iliad or odyssey in hexameters; the last in . perhaps the most fluent of them was by j. henry dart [ ] in response to arnold."[ ]: in , the american poet william cullen bryant published a blank verse version, that van wyck brooks describes as "simple, faithful." an translation by samuel butler was published by longmans. butler had read classics at cambridge university, graduating during .[ ] since , there have been several english translations. richmond lattimore's version ( ) is "a free six-beat" line-for-line rendering that explicitly eschews "poetical dialect" for "the plain english of today." it is literal, unlike older verse renderings. robert fitzgerald's version (oxford world's classics, ) strives to situate the iliad in the musical forms of english poetry. his forceful version is freer, with shorter lines that increase the sense of swiftness and energy. robert fagles (penguin classics, ) and stanley lombardo ( ) are bolder than lattimore in adding dramatic significance to homer's conventional and formulaic language. rodney merrill's translation (university of michigan press, ) not only renders the work in english verse like the dactylic hexameter of the original, but also conveys the oral-formulaic nature of the epic song, to which that musical meter gives full value. barry b. powell's translation (oxford university press, ) renders the homeric greek with a simplicity and dignity reminiscent of the original. caroline alexander published the first full-length english translation by a woman in .[ ] manuscripts[edit] there are more than manuscripts of homer.[ ][ ] some of the most notable manuscripts include: 	rom. bibl. nat. gr. + matriti. bibl. nat. from – ad 	venetus a = venetus marc. from the th century 	venetus b = venetus marc. from the th century 	ambrosian iliad 	papyrus oxyrhynchus 	papyrus oxyrhynchus 	codex nitriensis (palimpsest) see also[edit] 	 ancient greece portal 	 religion portal 	mask of agamemnon 	parallels between virgil's aeneid and homer's iliad and odyssey 	heinrich schliemann references[edit] notes[edit] 	^ aeschylus does portray it so in fragment a. 	^ frobish ( : ) writes that the war "starts with his pride and immaturity, yet is finished with his skill and bravery on the battlefield.” citations[edit] 	^ "iliad". random house webster's unabridged dictionary. 	^ vidal-naquet, pierre. le monde d'homère (the world of homer), perrin ( ), p. 	^ homer. the iliad. new york: norton books. p.  . 	^ lattimore, richmond ( ). the iliad of homer. chicago: university of chicago press. book , line , p. . isbn  - - - - . 	^ hornblower, s. and a. spawforth ( ). the oxford companion to classical civilization. pp. , , . 	^ homer, iliad ( : , : ) 	^ a b mikalson, jon ( ). honor thy gods: popular religion in greek tragedy. chapel hill: university of north carolina press. 	^ homer's iliad, classical technology center. 	^ a b lefkowitz, mary ( ). greek gods, human lives: what we can learn from myths. new haven, conn: yale university press. 	^ taplin, oliver ( ). 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( ). multitextuality in the homeric iliad: the witness of the ptolemaic papyr. washington, d.c.: center for hellenic studies. isbn  - - - - . bibliography[edit] 	budimir, milan ( ). on the iliad and its poet. 	herodotus ( ) [first published ]. burn, a. r.; de sélincourt, aubrey (eds.). the histories. london: penguin books. isbn  - - - . 	lattimore, richmond, trans. ( ), the iliad by homer, chicago: university of chicago press 	mueller, martin ( ). the iliad. london: allen & unwin. isbn  - - - . 	nagy, gregory ( ). the best of the achaeans. baltimore: the johns hopkins university press. isbn  - - - . 	powell, barry b. 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press, . isbn  - - - 	kirk, g.s., the iliad: a commentary: volume ii, books – , cambridge university press, . isbn  - - - 	murray, a.t.; wyatt, william f., homer: the iliad, books i–xii, loeb classical library, harvard university press, , isbn  - - - - 	richardson, nicholas; kirk, g.s., the iliad: a commentary: volume vi, books – , cambridge university press, . isbn  - - - 	west, martin l., studies in the text and transmission of the iliad, münchen : k.g. saur, . isbn  - - - external links[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to iliad. 		wikisource has original text related to this article: the iliad 		greek wikisource has original text related to this article: Ἰλιάς 	library resources about iliad 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	d. b. monro, homer: iliad, books i–xii, with an introduction, a brief homeric grammar, and notes ( rd ed., ) 	d. b. monro, homer: iliad, books xiii–xxiv, with notes ( th ed., ) 	d. b. monro, a grammar of the 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philosopher arrian of nicomedia (/ˈæriən/; greek: Ἀρριανός arrianos; latin: lucius flavius arrianus;[ ] c.  /  – c. after / ad)[ ][ ] was a greek historian, public servant, military commander and philosopher of the roman period.[ ] the anabasis of alexander by arrian is considered the best source on the campaigns of alexander the great. however, more recently, even though modern scholars have generally preferred arrian to other extant primary sources, this attitude towards arrian is beginning to change in the light of studies into arrian's method.[ ][ ] contents 	 arrian's life 	 works 	 . periplus of the euxine sea 	 . discourses of epictetus and enchiridion of epictetus 	 . homiliai epiktetou 	 . anabasis of alexander 	 . ta met' alexandron 	 . parthica 	 . bithyniaca 	 . nicomediensis scripta minora 	 . indica 	 . techne taktike 	 . kynēgetikos 	 . ektaxis kata alanon 	 . biographical series 	 sources, transmission, translations and publications 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links arrian's life[edit] arrian was born in nicomedia (present-day İzmit), the provincial capital of bithynia. dio called him flavius arrianus nicomediansis. in respect of his birth date, sources provide similar dates for his birth; within a few years prior to , , and – ad. the line of reasoning for dates belonging to - ad is from the fact of arrian being made a consul around ad, and the usual age for this, during this period, being forty-two years of age. (ref. p.  , & syme , same page). his family was from the greek provincial aristocracy, and his full name, l. flavius arrianus, indicates that he was a roman citizen, suggesting that the citizenship went back several generations, probably to the time of the roman conquest some years before.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] sometime during the nd century ad ( to ad) while in epirus, probably nicopolis, arrian attended lectures of epictetus of nicopolis, and proceeded within a time to fall into his pupillage, a fact attested to by lucian. all that is known about the life of epictetus is due to arrian, in that arrian left an encheiridion (handbook) of epictetus' philosophy. after epirus he went to athens, and while there he became known as the young xenophon as a consequence of the similarity of his relation to epictetus as xenophon had to socrates.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] for a period, some time about ad, he was a friend of the emperor hadrian, who appointed him to the senate. he was appointed to the position consul suffectus around ad, and then, in ad (although howatson shows ), he was made prefect or legate (governor) of cappadocia by hadrian, a service he continued for six years. when he retired, arrian went to live in athens, where he became archon sometime during or (ej chinnock shows, he retired to nicomedia and was appointed priest to demeter and persephone while there). he died in the reign of marcus aurelius.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] arrian referred to himself as the second xenophon, on account of his reputation and the esteem in which he was held. lucian stated him to be:[ ][ ] a roman of the first rank with a life-long attachment to learning — quote of lucian in p. e. easterling, b. m. w. knox, p. this quality is identified as paideia (παιδεία) which is the quality considered to be of one who is known as an educated and learned personage, i.e., one who is highly esteemed and important.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] works[edit] alexandri anabasis, there are eight extant works (cf. syvänne, footnote of p.  ). the indica and the anabasis are the only works completely intact. his entire remaining oeuvre is known as fgrh to designate those collected fragments which exist.[ ][ ][ ][ ] periplus of the euxine sea[edit] main article: periplus of the euxine sea this work is the earliest extant work that is dated with any confidence. it is a writing addressed to the emperor hadrian.[ ][ ][ ] discourses of epictetus and enchiridion of epictetus[edit] main articles: discourses of epictetus and enchiridion of epictetus arrian was a pupil of epictetus around ad, and, according to his own account, he was moved to publish his notes of epictetus' lectures, which are known as discourses of epictetus, by their unauthorized dissemination.[ ][ ] according to george long, arrian noted from epictetus' lectures for his private use and some time later made of these, the discourses. photius states that arrian produced two books the dissertations and the discourses. the discourses are also known as diatribai and are apparently a verbatim recording of epictetus' lectures.[ ][ ][ ] the enchiridion is a short compendium of all epictetus' philosophical principles. it is also known as a handbook, and a mehl considers the enchiridion to have been a vade mecum for arrian. the enchiridion is apparently a summary of the discourses.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] jb stockdale considered that arrian wrote eight books of which four were lost by the middle ages and the remaining ones became the discourses. in a comparison of the contents of the enchiridion with the discourses, it is apparent that the former contains material not present within the latter, suggesting an original lost source for the enchiridion.[ ][ ][ ] homiliai epiktetou[edit] friendly conversations with epictetus (homiliai epiktetou) is a book work mentioned by photius in his bibliotheca, of which only fragments remain.[ ][ ] anabasis of alexander[edit] main article: the anabasis of alexander the anabasis of alexander comprises seven books.[ ] arrian used xenophon's account of the march of cyrus as the basis for this work.[ ] ta met' alexandron[edit] history of the diadochi or events after alexander is a work originally of ten books; a commentary on this work was written by photius (fw walbank, p.  ).[ ][ ][ ][ ] three extant fragments are the vatican palimpsest (of the th century ad), psi . (oxyrhynchus), and the gothenburg palimpsest (of the th century also), these possibly stemming originally from photius.[ ][ ][ ] the writing is about the successors of alexander the great, circa – or . parthica[edit] a lost work of seventeen books, fragments of parthica were maintained by the suda and stephen of byzantium. the work survives only in adaptations made later by photius and syncellus. translated, the title is history of the parthians. arrian's aim in the work was to set forth events of the parthian war of trajan. the writing mentioned that the parthians trace their origins to artaxerxes ii.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] bithyniaca[edit] a work of eight books, bibliotheca (via photius) states it is the fourth to have been written by arrian.[ ][ ] nicomediensis scripta minora[edit] a work translated a nicodemian script (minor).[ ][ ] indica[edit] main article: indica (arrian) indica is a work on a variety of things pertaining to india, and the voyage of nearchus in the persian gulf. the first part of indica was based largely on the work of the same name of megasthenes, the second part based on a journal written by nearchus.[ ][ ][ ][ ] techne taktike[edit] written / ad (in the th year of hadrian[ ]), techne taktike is a treatise on roman cavalry and military tactics, and includes information on the nature, arms and discipline of the phalanx. the hippika gymnasia is a particular concern of arrian in the treatise.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] another translation of the title is ars tactica, which, in greek, is Τέχνη τακτική.[ ][ ] this work has generally been considered in large part a panegyric to hadrian, written for the occasion of his vicenallia, although some scholars have argued that its second half may have had practical use.[ ][ ] kynēgetikos[edit] cynegeticus (Κυνηγετικός), translated as the hunting man,[ ] is a work about hunting dogs, canes venatici, the celtic grey-hound.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] the work is based on an earlier exposition made by xenophon, whom arrian thought to be the authority on the subject of hunting.[ ][ ] ektaxis kata alanon[edit] ektaxis kata alanon (Ἔκταξις κατὰ Ἀλανῶν) is a work of a now fragmentary nature; the title is translated as deployment against the alani or the order of battle against the alans or referred to simply as alanica. it is thought not have been written as a presentation of facts but for literary reasons. pertaining to the relevant historical facts, though, while governor of cappadocia, arrian repelled an invasion of the alani sometime during ad, a struggle in which arrian's two legions were victorious.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] within the work, arrian explicitly identified the particular means of pursuing warfare as being based on greek methods.[ ][ ][ ] ektaxis kata alanon is also translated as acies contra alanos. the work was known for a time as a history of the alani (alanike via photius[ ]). a fragment describing a plan of battle against the alani was found in milan around the th century which was thought at that time to belong to the history.[ ] biographical series[edit] there were also a number of monographs or biographies, including of dion of syracuse, timoleon of corinth, and tilliborus, a brigand or robber of asia minor, which are now lost.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] sources, transmission, translations and publications[edit] everything known of his life derives from the th century writing of photius in his bibliotheca, and from those few references which exist within arrian's own writings. the knowledge of his consulship, is derived at the least from literature produced by suidas. arnobius (c. rd century ad[ ]) mentions arrian. arrian was also known of by aulus gellius. pliny the younger addressed seven of his epistles to him. simplicius made a copy of the encheridion, which was transmitted under the name of the monastic father nilus during the th century, and as a result found in every monastery library.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] nicholas blancard made translations of arrian in and .[ ] the voyage of nearchus and periplus of the erythrean sea were translated from the greek by the then dean of westminster, william vincent, and published in . vincent published a commentary in on the voyage of nearchus. the work was also translated into french by m. billecocq, under the auspices of the government (cf. p.  ).[ ] references[edit] 	^ "arrian". www.britannica.com. retrieved - - . arrian born c. ad , nicomedia, bithynia [now İzmit, tur.] died c. ad , athens? [greece]. 	^ stadter's suggestion that his official name was lucius flavius arrianus xenophon (stadter, philip ( ). "flavius arrianus: the new xenophon". greek, roman and byzantine studies. retrieved april , . ) is disproven by epigraphic evidence: bowie, e. l. “greeks and their past in the second sophistic.” past & present, ( ): n. . 	^ a b c fw walbank (november ). f. w. walbank (ed.). the cambridge ancient history. cambridge university press, sep . isbn  - - -x. retrieved - - . 	^ a b c "arrian". www.britannica.com. retrieved - - . arrian (born c. ad , nicomedia, bithynia [now İzmit, tur.] died c. , athens? [greece]) greek historian and philosopher who was one of the most distinguished authors of the nd-century roman empire. wolfgang haase; hildegard temporini ( ). aufstieg und niedergang der römischen welt: geschichte und kultur roms im spiegel der neueren forschung, volume ;volume . walter de gruyter. p.  . isbn  - - - . arrian was of greek stock, from the provincial aristocracy of bithynia. his full name, l. flavius arrianus, demonstrates that he was a roman citizen and suggests that the citizenship went back several generations, probably to the triumphal period. arrian’s home city was the bithynian capital, nicomedia, where he held the priesthood of demeter and kore, its patron deities. arrian; sélincourt, aubrey de ( ). the campaigns of alexander. penguin classics. p.  . isbn  - - - . flavius arrianus xenophon, to give him his full name, was a greek, born at nicomedia, the capital of the roman province of bithynia, probably a few years before a.d. . grant, michael ( ). readings in the classical historians. scribner's. p.  . isbn  - - - . arrian: greek historian arrian was an approximate contemporary of appian, born about ad . like him a greek, he came from nicomedia (İzmit) in bithynia (north-western asia-minor) where his family was prominent. 	^ heckel, waldemar ( ). the history of alexander. penguin. pp.  & . 	^ bosworth, a.b. 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( ), pp.  – . 	e. l. wheeler, flavius arrianus: a political and military biography, duke university, .nn 	cartledge, paul; romm, james s.; strassler, robert b.; pamela mensch ( ). the landmark arrian: the campaigns of alexander. new york: pantheon. isbn  - - - - . 	yardley, j. & heckel, w. ( ) the history of alexander, penguin, london, pp.  & . 	brodersen, k. 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encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 representation of a sitting of the roman senate: cicero attacks catiline, from a th-century fresco 	ancient rome 	 	this article is part of a series on the politics and government of ancient rome 	 periods 	 	roman kingdom – bc 	roman republic – bc 	roman empire bc – ad 	principate bc – ad 	dominate ad – 	western ad – 	eastern ad – 	timeline 	 roman constitution 	 	constitution of the kingdom 	constitution of the republic 	constitution of the empire 	constitution of the late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	executive magistrates 	 precedent and law 	 	roman law 	ius 	imperium 	mos maiorum 	collegiality 	auctoritas 	roman citizenship 	cursus honorum 	senatus consultum 	senatus consultum ultimum 	 assemblies 	 	centuriate 	curiate 	plebeian 	tribal 	 ordinary magistrates 	 	consul 	praetor 	quaestor 	promagistrate 	aedile 	tribune 	censor 	governor 	 extraordinary magistrates 	 	corrector 	dictator 	magister equitum 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julio-claudians had immense influence on society, the masses, and the political apparatus. their auctoritas was exercised less overtly than their male counterparts due to roman societal norms, but they were powerful nonetheless. contents 	 etymology and origin 	 political meaning in ancient rome 	 . auctoritas principis 	 middle ages 	 hannah arendt 	 see also 	 references and sources etymology and origin[edit] according to french linguist emile benveniste, auctor (which also gives us english "author") is derived from latin augeō ("to augment", "to enlarge", "to enrich"). the auctor is "is qui auget", the one who augments the act or the juridical situation of another.[ ] arguably[citation needed], benveniste defended that latin "auctoritas" was based on a divine conception of power and not on the individual that happened to the position of authority. auctor in the sense of "author", comes from auctor as founder or, one might say, "planter-cultivator"[citation needed]. similarly, auctoritas refers to rightful ownership, based on one's having "produced" or homesteaded the article of property in question - more in the sense of "sponsored" or "acquired" than "manufactured". this auctoritas would, for example, persist through an usucapio of ill-gotten or abandoned property. political meaning in ancient rome[edit] politically, the roman senate's authority (auctoritas patrum) was connected to auctoritas, not to be confused with potestas or imperium, which were held by the magistrates or the people[citation needed]. in this context, auctoritas could be defined as the juridical[citation needed] power to authorize some other act. the th-century classicist theodor mommsen describes the "force" of auctoritas as "more than advice and less than command, an advice which one may not ignore." cicero says of power and authority, "cum potestas in populo auctoritas in senatu sit." ("while power resides in the people, authority rests with the senate.")[ ] in the private domain, those under tutelage (guardianship), such as women and minors, were similarly obliged to seek the sanction of their tutors ("protectors") for certain actions. thus, auctoritas characterizes the auctor: the pater familias authorizes – that is, validates and legitimates – his son's wedding in prostate. in this way, auctoritas might function as a kind of "passive counsel", much as, for example, a scholarly authority. traditional imperial roman exception to declare any legalistic concept and rule of law null and overrule prior decision making, in some military and political circumstances overrule fundamental body of law within a constitution, whether it is or isn't codified. imperial prerogative is to protect the state from harm and its peoples. during the overruling of roman constitution body of fundamental laws and rule of law, a dictator may be chosen by the senate in imperial rome.[citation needed] auctoritas principis[edit] after the fall of the republic, during the days of the roman empire, the emperor had the title of princeps ("first citizen" of rome) and held the auctoritas principis – the supreme moral authority – in conjunction with the imperium and potestas – the military, judiciary and administrative powers. that is to say, there is a non-committal to a separation of powers, some civil rights, constitutionalism, codified constitutional state and legalist concept of law. middle ages[edit] the notion of auctoritas was often invoked by the papacy during the middle ages, in order to secure the temporal power of the pope. innocent iii most famously invoked auctoritas in order to depose kings and emperors and to try to establish a papal theocracy. hannah arendt[edit] hannah arendt considered auctoritas a reference to founding acts as the source of political authority in ancient rome. she took foundation to include (as augeō suggests), the continuous conservation and increase of principles handed down from "the beginning" (see also pietas). according to arendt, this source of authority was rediscovered in the course of the th-century american revolution (see "united states of america" under founding fathers), as an alternative to an intervening western tradition of absolutism, claiming absolute authority, as from god (see divine right of kings), and later from nature, reason, history, and even, as in the french revolution, revolution itself (see la terreur). arendt views a crisis of authority as common to both the american and french revolutions, and the response to that crisis a key factor in the relative success of the former and failure of the latter.[ ] arendt further considered the sense of auctor and auctoritas in various latin idioms, and the fact that auctor was used in contradistinction to – and (at least by pliny) held in higher esteem than – artifices, the artisans to whom it might fall to "merely" build up or implement the author-founder's vision and design.[ ] see also[edit] 	history portal 	philosophy portal 	authoritarianism – form of social organization characterized by submission to authority 	authority – the power to command 	athenian law 	constitution of the roman republic – the norms, customs, and written laws, which guided the government of the roman republic 	discipline – action or inaction that is regulated to be in accordance with a particular system of governance 	dignitas – ancient roman virtue 	gravitas – an ancient roman virtue 	hierarchy – system of elements that are subordinated to each other 	mana – life force energy, power, effectiveness, and prestige in pacific island culture 	mund (law) – germanic legal relationship 	nobility – official privileged social class 	pietas – an ancient roman virtue 	piety 	potestas – a latin word meaning power or faculty 	roman law – legal system of ancient rome (c. bc – ad ) references and sources[edit] 	references 	^ "what does auctoritas mean?". definitions.net. retrieved september . 	^ j. b. greenough disputes this etymology of auctor - but not the sense of foundation and augmentation - in "latin etymologies", harvard studies in classical philology, vol. , . 	^ de leg. . 	^ hannah arendt, on revolution, chapter , section . 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you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 odes (horace) - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	odes (horace) 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		  (redirected from carmina) 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		"carmina" redirects here. for other uses, see carmina (disambiguation). the odes (latin: carmina) are a collection in four books of latin lyric poems by horace. the horatian ode format and style has been emulated since by other poets. books to were published in bc. a fourth book, consisting of poems, was published in bc. the odes were developed as a conscious imitation of the short lyric poetry of greek originals – pindar, sappho and alcaeus are some of horace's models. his genius lay in applying these older forms to the social life of rome in the age of augustus. the odes cover a range of subjects – love, friendship, wine, religion, morality, patriotism; poems of eulogy addressed to augustus and his relations; and verses written on a miscellany of subjects and incidents, including the uncertainty of life, the cultivation of tranquility and contentment, and the observance of moderation or the "golden mean."[ ] the odes have been considered traditionally by english-speaking scholars as purely literary works. recent evidence by a horatian scholar suggests they may have been intended as performance art, a latin re-interpretation of greek lyric song.[ ] the roman writer petronius, writing less than a century after horace's death, remarked on the curiosa felicitas (studied spontaneity) of the odes (satyricon ). the english poet alfred lord tennyson declared that the odes provided "jewels five-words long, that on the stretched forefinger of all time / sparkle for ever" (the princess, part ii, l. ). contents 	 book 	 book 	 book 	 book 	 see also 	 references 	 external links book [edit] book consists of poems.[ ][ ] the phrase nunc est bibendum, "now is the time to drink!", is the opening of i. . i. , maecenas atavis edite regibus... – dedication of the first three books of the odes to maecenas (horace's patron) – every man is governed by his ruling passion: the olympian charioteer, the politician, the trader, the husbandman, the merchant, the man of pleasure, the soldier, and the hunter. to win the title of a lyric poet is all that horace desires. i. , iam satis terris nivis atque dirae... – to augustus, the deliverer and hope of the state – the subject of this ode is the overflowing of the tiber, which recalls to the poet the flood of deucalion. he imagines that the disaster is caused by the wrath of ilia (the wife of tiber), the civil wars, and the assassination of julius caesar. augustus, as mercury in human shape, is invoked to save the empire. i. , sic te diva potens cypri.. – to virgil, setting out for greece – the ode begins with a prayer for the safe voyage of virgil to athens, which suggests the daring of the earliest mariners and the boldness of men in overcoming difficulties set by nature. i. , solvitur acris hiems... – a hymn to springtime – the changing season warns us of the shortness of life. horace urges his friend sestius – vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam (the brief sum of life forbids us cling to far-off hope). i. , quis multa gracilis te puer in rosa... – to the flirt pyrrha, who is as faithless as the winds or seas, and whose fancy no lover can hold onto. i. , scriberis vario fortis et hostium victor... – horace pleads his inability to worthily sing the praises of m. vipsanius agrippa, the distinguished roman commander. i. , laudabunt alii claram rhodon aut mytilenen... – fairest of spots, o plancus, is tibur – there, or wherever you may be, drown your cares in wine. i. , lydia, dic, per omnis te deos oro... – to lydia, who has transformed sybaris from a hardy athlete into a doting lover. i. , vides ut alta stet nive candidum... – winter without bids us make merry within – (with borrowing from an original by alcaeus) – to thaliarchus. the snow is deep and the frost is keen – pile high the hearth and bring out old wine – leave all else to the gods. i. , mercuri, facunde nepos atlantis... – hymn to mercury – mercury is addressed as the god of eloquence and the promoter of the civilization of man; as the messenger of the gods and the inventor of the lyre; skilled in craft and cunning; and the conductor of souls to the underworld. i. , tu ne quaesieris... – carpe diem! – the poet seeks to dissuade leuconoe from giving heed to the false arts of astrologers and diviners. it is vain to inquire into the future – let us enjoy the present, for this is all we can command. it closes with the famous line: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero (seize the day, trusting tomorrow as little as possible). i. , quem virum aut heroa lyra... – the praises of augustus – the poet praises augustus by associating him with gods and heroes, and distinguished romans of earlier days. i. , cum tu, lydia... – jealousy – addressed to lydia – the poet contrasts the misery of jealousy with the happiness secured by constancy in love. i. , o navis, referent in mare te novi fluctus... – the ship of state – horace refers to a period during which the roman state was tossed and nearly wrecked by perpetual storms. he exhorts it to beware of fresh perils and keep safely in harbor. i. , pastor cum traheret... – the prophecy of nereus – as paris hurries from sparta to troy with helen, nereus stills the winds and prophesies – ilium's doom is inevitable. i. , o matre pulchra filia pulchrior... – an apology – the poet has offended some lady by the intemperate utterances of his verse; he now seeks forgiveness for the fault. he describes the sad effects of unbridled anger, and urges her to restrain hers. i. , velox amoenum saepe lucretilem... – an invitation to tyndaris to enjoy the delights of the country – horace invites tyndaris to his sabine farm, and describes the air of tranquility and security there, blessed as it is with favoring protection of faunus and the rural deities. i. , nullam, vare, sacra vite prius seueris arborem... – the praise of wine, and the ill effects of intemperance. i. , mater saeua cupidinum... – the poet's love for glycera i. , vile potabis modicis sabinum cantharis... – an invitation to maecenas – you will drink poor sabine wine in modest bowls when you visit the poet. i. , dianam tenerae dicite virgines... – hymn in praise of latona and her children, diana and apollo i. , integer vitae scelerisque purus... – upright of life and free from wickedness – addressed to aristius fuscus – begins as a solemn praise of honest living and ends in a mock-heroic song of love for sweetly laughing "lalage" (cf. ii. . , propertius iv. . ). i. , vitas hinnuleo me similis, chloë... – fear me not, chloe, and do not shun me. i. , quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus... – to virgil – a lament for the death of quinctilius i. , parcius iunctas quatiunt fenestras... – lydia, thy charms are past – horace taunts lydia with her approaching old age and her lack of admirers. i. , musis amicus tristitiam et metus tradam... – in praise of aelius lamia – the poet bids the muses to inspire him to sing the praises of aelius lamia, a man distinguished for his exploits in war. i. , natis in usum laetitiae scyphis... – let moderation reign – at a wine party, horace endeavors to restrain his quarrelsome companions – he asks the brother of megilla of opus to confide the object of his affections. i. , te maris et terrae numeroque... – death, the doom of all – dialogue, between a sailor and the spirit of the philosopher archytas, on death, the universal fate, and the duty of giving to the dead the rites of burial. i. , icci, beatis nunc arabum invides... – the scholar turned adventurer – a remonstrance addressed to iccius on his intention of giving up philosophy and of joining the expedition to arabia felix. i. , o venus regina cnidi paphique... – a prayer to venus – venus is invoked to abandon for a while her beloved cyprus, and to honor with her presence the temple prepared for her at the home of glycera. i. , quid dedicatum poscit apollinem vates?... – prayer to apollo on the consecration of his temple. i. , poscimur. si quid vacui sub umbra... – invocation to the lyre – the poet addresses his lyre, and blends with the address the praises of the greek poet alcaeus. i. , albi, ne doleas plus nimio memor... – the faithless glycera – a consolation to the contemporary poet tibullus over a lost love. i. , parcus deorum cultor et infrequens... – the poet's conversion from error – after hearing thunder in a cloudless sky, horace renounces his former error and declares his belief in jupiter, fortuna, and the superintending providence of the gods. i. , o diva, gratum quae regis antium... – hymn to fortuna – the poet invokes fortune as an all-powerful goddess. he implores her to preserve augustus in his distant expeditions, and to save the state from ruinous civil wars. i. , et ture et fidibus iuvat – an ode of congratulation to plotius numida, on his safe return from spain, where he had been serving under augustus in a war against the cantabrians. i. , nunc est bibendum... – now is the time to drink! – an ode of joy for augustus's victory at actium, the capture of alexandria, and the death of cleopatra. the tone of triumph over the fallen queen is tempered by a tribute of admiration to her lofty pride and resolute courage. i. , persicos odi, puer, apparatus... – away with oriental luxury! – horace directs his attendant to make the simplest preparations for his entertainment. book [edit] book consists of poems. ii. , motum ex metello consule civicum... – to asinius pollio, the writer of tragedy, who is now composing a history of the civil wars. a lament for the carnage caused by the conflicts of the romans with their fellow-citizens. ii. , nullus argento color est avaris... – the wise use of money – to sallustius crispus (nephew of the historian sallust). the love of gain grows by self-indulgence. the moderate man is the genuine king. ii. , aequam memento rebus in arduis... – the wisdom of moderation, the certainty of death – to quintus dellius. let us enjoy our life while we may, for death will soon strip us all alike of our possessions. ii. , ne sit ancillae tibi amor pudori... – to xanthias phoceus – horace encourages his friend on his love for phyllis, his slave. ii. , nondum subacta ferre iugum valet... – not yet! – to a friend on his love for lalage – the maid his friend loves is not yet marriageable and still too young to return his passion – soon it will be otherwise. ii. , septimi, gadis aditure mecum et... – fairest of all is tibur – yet tarentum, too, is fair – to horace's friend, the roman knight septimius, who would go with him to the ends of the earth. the poet prays that tibur may be the resting-place of his old age; or, if that may not be, he will choose the country which lies around tarentum. ii. , o saepe mecum tempus in ultimum... – a joyful return – an ode of congratulation to pompeius varus, once the poet's comrade in the army of brutus, on his restoration to civil rights. ii. , ulla si iuris tibi peierati... – the baleful charms of barine – on barine's utter faithlessness, which heaven will not punish – indeed, her beauty and fascination are ever-increasing. ii. , non semper imbres nubibus hispidos... – a truce to sorrow, valgius! – to c. valgius rufus on the death of his son mystes. since all troubles have their natural end, do not mourn overmuch. rather let us celebrate the latest victories of augustus. ii. , rectius vives, licini, neque altum... – the golden mean – to l. licinius murena. the moderate life is the perfect life. ii. , quid bellicosus cantaber et scythes... – enjoy life wisely! – horace in a half-playful tone advises his friend quinctius hirpinus to enjoy life wisely, and not to fret. ii. , nolis longa ferae bella numantiae... – the charms of licymnia – horace pleads the unfitness of his lyric poetry to record the wars of the romans or the battles of mythology. he advises maecenas to write in prose the history of caesar's campaigns, while he himself will sing the praises of licymnia (some commentators say that licymnia was another name for terentia, the wife of maecenas). ii. , ille et nefasto te posuit die... – a narrow escape – this ode owes its origin to horace's narrow escape from sudden death by the falling of a tree on his sabine estate. (this same event is also alluded to in odes, ii. line and iii. line .) after expressing his indignation against the person who planted the tree, he passes to a general reflection on the uncertainty of life and the realms of dark proserpine. ii. , eheu fugaces, postume... – death inevitable – addressed to postumus, a rich but avaricious friend. nothing can stay the advance of decay and death, the common doom of all on earth. men pile up wealth, only for another to waste it. ii. , iam pauca aratro iugera regiae... – against luxury – horace describes the extravagant luxury prevalent among the rich, and praises the simplicity and frugality of the old romans. ii. , otium divos rogat in patenti... – contentment with our lot the only true happiness – all men long for repose, which riches cannot buy. contentment, not wealth, makes genuine happiness. ii. , cur me querellis exanimas tuis?... – to maecenas on his recovery from illness – horace says that the same day must of necessity bring death to them both – their horoscopes are wonderfully alike and they have both been saved from extreme peril. ii. , non ebur neque aureum... – the vanity of riches – the poet, content with his own moderate fortune, inveighs against the blindness of avarice – for the same end awaits all men. ii. , bacchum in remotis carmina rupibus... – hymn to bacchus – the poet celebrates bacchus as all-powerful, all-conquering, and lord of creation; whom the earth, the sea and all nature obey; to whom men are subject, and the giants and the monsters of orcus are all brought low. ii. , non usitata nec tenui ferar... – the poet prophesies his own immortality – transformed into a swan, the poet will soar away from the abodes of men, nor will he need the empty honors of a tomb. book [edit] "justum et tenacem propositi virum" – "a man just and steadfast in purpose", from horace's odes, iii. , on the gravestone of elliot charles bovill, chief justice of the straits settlements, in fort canning green, singapore the ancient editor porphyrion read the first six odes of this book as a single sequence, one unified by a common moral purpose and addressed to all patriotic citizens of rome. these six "roman odes", as they have since been called (by ht plüss in ), share a common meter and take as a common theme the glorification of roman virtues and the attendant glory of rome under augustus. ode iii. contains the famous line "dulce et decorum est pro patria mori," (it is sweet and honorable to die for one's country). ode iii. caelo tonantem credidimus jovem makes explicit identification of augustus as a new jove destined to restore in modern rome the valor of past roman heroes like marcus atilius regulus, whose story occupies the second half of the poem. book consists of poems. iii. , odi profanum vulgus et arceo... – on happiness – philosophy is a mystery which the uninitiated crowd cannot understand. the worthlessness of riches and rank. the praise of contentment. care cannot be banished by change of scene. iii. , angustam amice pauperiem pati... – on virtue – horace extols the virtue of endurance and valor in fighting for one's country, of integrity in politics, and of religious honor. iii. , iustum et tenacem propositi virum... – on integrity and perseverance – the merit of integrity and resolution: the examples of pollux, hercules and romulus. juno's speech to the gods on the destiny of rome. iii. , descende caelo et dic age tibia... – on wise counsel and clemency – the muses have guarded and given counsel to horace since his youth. they also do so to augustus, and prompt him to clemency and kindness. the evils of violence and arrogance, on the other hand, are exemplified by the titans and giants, and others. iii. , caelo tonantem credidimus iovem... – to augustus – on virtue and fortitude – augustus will be recognized as a god on earth for his subjugation of the britons and parthians. the disgraceful actions of the troops of crassus (who married parthians after being taken prisoner) are contrasted by the noble example of regulus (who was released from carthage to negotiate a peace, but dissuaded the senate, and then returned to carthage to be tortured to death). iii. , delicta maiorum inmeritus lues... – piety & chastity – return to the old morals! – horace condemns the prevailing domestic immorality and contempt of the institutions of religion, and earnestly urges a speedy return to the simpler and purer manners of ancient times. iii. , quid fles, asterie, quem tibi candidi... – constancy, asterie! – horace consoles asterie on the absence of her lover gyges, and warns her not to be unfaithful to her own vows. iii. , martis caelebs quid agam kalendis... – a happy anniversary – horace invites maecenas to celebrate with him the festival of the calends of march (the feast of the matrons), which was also the anniversary of his narrow escape from sudden death by a falling tree. iii. , donec gratus eram tibi... – the reconciliation of two lovers – often referred to as an "amoebaean" ode (from the greek αμείβω – to exchange), it describes, in graceful dialogue, a quarrel between two lovers and their reconciliation. iii. , extremum tanain si biberes, lyce... – a lover's complaint – horace warns lyce that he cannot put up with her unkindness forever. iii. , mercuri, – nam te docilis magistro... – take warning, lyde, from the danaids! – to mercury – horace begs the god to teach him such melody as will overcome the unkindness of lyde. the ode concludes with the tale of the daughters of danaus, and their doom in the underworld. iii. , miserarum est neque amori dare ludum... – unhappy neobule – joyless is the life of neobule, ever under the watchful eye of a strict guardian. only thoughts of handsome hebrus take her mind off her troubles. iii. , o fons bandusiae splendidior vitro... – o, fountain of bandusia! – tomorrow a sacrifice will be offered to the fountain of bandusia, whose refreshing coolness is offered to the flocks and herds, and which is now immortalized in verse. iii. , herculis ritu modo dictus, o plebs... – the return of augustus – horace proclaims a festal day on the return of augustus from spain (c. bc), where he had reduced to subjection the fierce cantabri. iii. , uxor pauperis ibyci... – chloris, act your age! – horace taunts chloris with her attempts to appear young, and with her frivolous life, while she is really an old woman. iii. , inclusam danaen turris aenea... – contentment is genuine wealth – gold is all-powerful, but its possession brings care and restlessness. true contentment is to be satisfied with little, as horace is with his sabine farm. iii. , aeli vetusto nobilis ab lamo... – prepare for storms tomorrow – to aelius lamia – the crow foretells a stormy day tomorrow – gather some firewood while you may, and spend the day in festivity. iii. , faune, nympharum fugientum amator... – hymn to faunus – horace asks faunus to bless his flocks and fields, for when faunus is near, the whole countryside is glad. iii. , quantum distet ab inacho... – invitation to a banquet – horace invites telephus to give up for a time his historical researches, and join him at a banquet in honor of murena. iii. , non vides quanto moveas periclo... – the rivals – horace humorously describes a contest between pyrrhus and some maiden for the exclusive regards of nearchus. iii. , o nata mecum consule manlio... – to a wine-jar – horace, preparing to entertain his friend the orator m. valerius messala corvinus, sings of the manifold virtues of wine. iii. , montium custos nemorumque virgo – to diana – horace dedicates a pine tree to diana, and vows to the goddess a yearly sacrifice. iii. , caelo supinas si tuleris manus – humble sacrifices devoutly offered – horace assures the rustic phidyle that the favor of the gods is gained not by costly offerings, but simple sacrifices such as salted meal offered with true feeling. iii. , intactis opulentior... – the curse of mammon – boundless riches cannot banish fear or avert death. a simple life like that of the scythians is the healthiest and best. stringent laws are needed to curb the present luxury and licentiousness. iii. , quo me, bacche, rapis tui... – to bacchus in honor of augustus – horace fancies himself carried along by bacchus amid woods and wilds to celebrate, in some distant cave, the praises of augustus. iii. , vixi puellis nuper idoneus... – love's triumphs are ended – scorned by the haughty chloe, the poet, like a discharged soldier, abandons the arms of love. but he begs of venus, as a last request, that his slighted love may not go unavenged. iii. , impios parrae recinentis omen... – galatea, beware! – addressed to galatea, whom the poet seeks to dissuade from the voyage she intended to make during the stormy season of the year. he bids her to beware, lest the mild aspect of the deceitful skies lead her astray – for it was through lack of caution that europa was carried away across the sea. iii. , festo quid potius die... – in neptune's honor – an invitation to lyde to visit the poet on the festival of neptune, and join him in wine and song. iii. , tyrrhena regum progenies, tibi... – invitation to maecenas – horace invites maecenas to leave the smoke and wealth and bustle of rome, and come to visit him on his sabine farm. he bids him to remember that we must live wisely and well in the present, as the future is uncertain. iii. , exegi monumentum aere perennius... – the poet's immortal fame – in this closing poem, horace confidently predicts his enduring fame as the first and greatest of the lyric poets of rome. he asserts: exegi monumentum aere perennius (i have raised a monument more permanent than bronze). book [edit] horace published a fourth book of odes in bc consisting of poems. horace acknowledged the gap in time with the first words of the opening poem of the collection: intermissa, venus, diu / rursus bella moves (venus, you return to battles long interrupted). iv. , intermissa, venus, diu... – venus, forbear! – horace complains that in advancing age he is vexed with new desires by the cruel goddess of love: he pines for ligurinus. he bids her to turn to a more youthful and worthy subject, his friend paulus maximus. iv. , pindarum quisquis studet aemulari... – not for me to sing of augustus! – horace was asked by iulus antonius (the son of marc antony and stepson of augustus' sister octavia) to sing of augustus' victories in a pindaric ode. horace declines, alleging lack of talent, and requests iulus to compose the poem himself. iv. , quem tu, melpomene, semel... – to melpomene, muse of lyric poetry – to the muse melpomene horace ascribes his poetic inspiration and the honors which he enjoys as the lyric poet of rome. iv. , qualem ministrum fulminis alitem... – in praise of drusus, the younger stepson of augustus – (a companion to ode iv. , which praises tiberius). this ode praises drusus, the younger son of the empress livia, on his victory over the raeti and vindelici. drusus is compared to a young eagle and lion. his stepfather augustus is also praised as having trained him to greatness. iv. , divis orte bonis, optume romulae... – augustus, return! – horace begs augustus to return to rome, and describes the peace and good order of the principate under his reign. iv. , dive, quem proles niobea magnae... – invocation to apollo – in the year bc, augustus commissioned horace to write the carmen saeculare, a hymn to be sung at the saecular festival. this ode is an invocation to apollo, begging help and inspiration for this important task. iv. , diffugere nives, redeunt iam... – the lesson of spring's return – an ode on the same springtime theme as i. – addressed to his friend torquatus. though the earth renews itself, and the waning moon waxes afresh, yet death is the ending of human life. let us then make the best of our days while they last. iv. , donarem pateras grataque commodus... – in praise of poetry – this ode was written to c. marcius censorinus and probably sent as a saturnalian gift. horace would give bronze vases, or tripods, or gems of grecian art, but he does not have these. what he has to give instead is the immortality of a poem. iv. , ne forte credas interitura quae... – in praise of lollius – as in iv. , horace promises immortality through his verses, this time to lollius, a man of wisdom and integrity. iv. , o crudelis adhuc et veneris... – beauty is fleeting – an ode to a beautiful boy, ligurinus, and the inevitability of old age. iv. , est mihi nonum superantis annum... – a joyous birthday – an invitation to phyllis to celebrate the birthday of maecenas at horace's sabine farm. iv. , iam veris comites... – the delights of spring – addressed to virgil (although not necessarily the poet). the breezes and birds have returned – an invitation to a feast of spring – the poet agrees to supply the wine, if virgil will bring a box of perfumes. iv. , audivere, lyce, di mea vota... – retribution – horace taunts lyce, now growing old, on her desperate attempts to seem young and fascinating. iv. , quae cura patrum quaeve quiritium... – in praise of tiberius, the elder stepson of augustus – (a companion to ode iv. , which praises drusus.) horace honors the courage and exploits of tiberius, the elder son of the empress livia, on his victories over the tribes of the raetian alps. he then praises augustus, whom he extols as the glory of the war, the defense of roman and italy, and as the undisputed ruler of the world. iv. , phoebus volentem proelia me loqui... – the praises of augustus – horace records in song the victories of augustus – peace, good order, the establishment of public morals, the extended glory of the roman name abroad, and security and happiness at home. see also[edit] 	prosody (latin) references[edit] 	^ for a discussion of the classification of horace's odes, see the works of horace rendered into english prose by james lonsdale, m.a. and samuel lee, m.a. london: macmillan and co., , p. and horace: the complete works by charles e. bennett and john carew rolfe. boston: allyn & bacon, , pp. xvii-xxii. 	^ lyons, stuart ( ). music in the odes of horace. aris & phillips. isbn  - - - - . 	^ all latin text courtesy of thelatinlibrary.com 	^ summaries are taken from: 	the works of horace rendered into english prose by james lonsdale, m.a. and samuel lee, m.a. london: macmillan and co., ; 	horace: the complete works by charles e. bennett and john carew rolfe. boston: allyn & bacon, ; 	the works of horace, with explanatory notes by charles anthon, ll.d. london: tegg & son, ; 	the works of horace with english notes by j.l. lincoln. new york: d. appleton & co, . external links[edit] 		latin wikisource has original text related to this article: odes (horace) 	odes in english at the perseus project 	works of horace in latin at the latin library 	 odes public domain audiobook at librivox 	carmina horatiana all carmina of horace recited in latin by thomas bervoets (mp ). 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(march ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) the distrest poet, william hogarth's portrait of a grub street poet starving to death and trying to write a new poem to get money. the "hack" (hired) writer was a response to the newly increased demand for reading matter in the augustan period. augustan literature (sometimes referred to misleadingly as georgian literature) is a style of british literature produced during the reigns of queen anne, king george i, and george ii in the first half of the th century and ending in the s, with the deaths of alexander pope and jonathan swift, in and , respectively. it was a literary epoch that featured the rapid development of the novel, an explosion in satire, the mutation of drama from political satire into melodrama and an evolution toward poetry of personal exploration. in philosophy, it was an age increasingly dominated by empiricism, while in the writings of political economy, it marked the evolution of mercantilism as a formal philosophy, the development of capitalism and the triumph of trade. the chronological boundary points of the era are generally vague, largely since the label's origin in contemporary th-century criticism has made it a shorthand designation for a somewhat nebulous age of satire. samuel johnson, whose famous a dictionary of the english language was published in , is also "to some extent" associated with the augustan period.[ ] the new augustan period exhibited exceptionally bold political writings in all genres, with the satires of the age marked by an arch, ironic pose, full of nuance and a superficial air of dignified calm that hid sharp criticisms beneath. while the period is generally known for its adoption of highly regulated and stylised literary forms, some of the concerns of writers of this period, with the emotions, folk and a self-conscious model of authorship, foreshadowed the preoccupations of the later romantic era. in general, philosophy, politics and literature underwent a turn away from older courtly concerns towards something closer to a modern sensibility. contents 	 historical context 	 . political and religious context 	 . history and literature 	 prose 	 . essays and journalism 	 . dictionaries and lexicons 	 . philosophy and religious writing 	 . . after 	 . the novel 	 . . after : sentimental novel 	 . satire 	 poetry 	 . precursors of romanticism 	 drama 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 . general history 	 . literary criticism 	 . anthologies historical context[edit] alexander pope, who had been imitating horace, wrote an epistle to augustus that was in fact addressed to george ii of great britain and seemingly endorsed the notion of his age being like that of augustus, when poetry became more mannered, political and satirical than in the era of julius caesar.[ ] later, voltaire and oliver goldsmith (in his history of literature in ) used the term "augustan" to refer to the literature of the s and the s.[ ] outside poetry, however, the augustan era is generally known by other names. partially because of the rise of empiricism and partially because of the self-conscious naming of the age in terms of ancient rome, two rather imprecise labels have been affixed to the age. one is that it is the age of neoclassicism; the other is that it is the age of reason. while neoclassical criticism from france was imported to english letters, the english had abandoned their strictures in all but name by the s. critics disagree over the applicability of the concept of "the enlightenment" to the literary history of this period. donald greene argued forcefully that the age should rather be known as "the age of exuberance", and t. h. white made a case for "the age of scandal". more recently, roy porter put forward the notion of a distinctively "english enlightenment" to characterise the intellectual climate of the period.[ ] an auctioneer sells books from the estate of a condemned doctor, about , in moorfields. the books contain pornography, medicine, and classics. the print satirises "new men" wanting to collect libraries without collecting learning. one of the most critical elements of the th century was the increasing availability of printed material, both for readers and authors. books fell in price dramatically and used books were sold at bartholomew fair and other fairs. additionally, a brisk trade in chapbooks and broadsheets carried london trends and information out to the farthest reaches of the kingdom. that was furthered with the establishment of periodicals, including the gentleman's magazine and the london magazine. people in york aware of the happenings of parliament and the court, but people in london were also more aware than before of the happenings of york. furthermore, before copyright, pirate editions were commonplace, especially in areas without frequent contact with london. pirate editions thereby encouraged booksellers to increase their shipments to outlying centres like dublin, which further increased awareness across the whole realm. that was compounded by the end of the press restriction act in , which allowed for provincial printing presses to be established, creating a printing structure that was no longer under government control (clair – ). all types of literature were spread quickly in all directions. newspapers began and even multiplied. furthermore, the newspapers were immediately compromised, as the political factions created their own newspapers, planted stories and bribed journalists. leading clerics had their sermon collections printed, which were top selling books. since dissenting, establishment and independent divines were in print, the constant movement of these works helped defuse any region's religious homogeneity and fostered emergent latitudinarianism. periodicals were exceedingly popular, and the art of essay writing was at nearly its apex. furthermore, the happenings of the royal society were published regularly, and they were digested and explained or celebrated in more popular presses. the latest books of scholarship had "keys", "indexes" and "digests" made of them that could popularise, summarise and explain them to a wide audience. the cross-index, now commonplace, was a novelty in the th century, and several persons created indexes for older books of learning to allow anyone to find what an author had to say about a given topic at a moment's notice. books of etiquette, of correspondence and of moral instruction and hygiene multiplied. economics began as a serious discipline but did so in the form of numerous "projects" for solving england, ireland and scotland's ills. sermon collections, dissertations on religious controversy, and prophecies, both new and old and explained, cropped up in endless variety. in short, readers in the th century were overwhelmed by competing voices. truth and falsehood sat side by side on the shelves, and anyone could be a published author, just as anyone could quickly pretend to be a scholar by using indexes and digests (clair , – ). the positive side of the explosion in information was that the th century was markedly more generally educated than the centuries before. education was less confined to the upper classes than it had been in prior centuries so contributions to science, philosophy, economics, and literature came from all parts of the kingdom. it was the first time that literacy and a library were all that stood between a person and education. it was an age of "enlightenment" in the sense that the insistence and drive for reasonable explanations of nature and mankind was a rage. it was an "age of reason" in that it was an age that accepted clear, rational methods as superior to tradition. however, there was a dark side to such literacy as well, which authors of the th century felt at every turn, which was that nonsense and insanity were also getting more adherents than ever before. charlatans and mountebanks were fooling more, just as sages were educating more, and alluring and lurid apocalypses vied with sober philosophy on the shelves. as with the worldwide web in the st century, the democratisation of publishing meant that older systems for determining value and uniformity of view were both in shambles. thus, it was increasingly difficult to trust books in the th century, as books were increasingly easy to make and buy. political and religious context[edit] queen anne the restoration period ended with the exclusion crisis and the glorious revolution, where parliament set up a new rule for succession to the british throne that would always prefer protestantism over consanguinity. that had brought william iii and mary ii to the throne instead of james ii, and that was codified in the act of settlement . james had fled to france from where his son, james francis edward stuart, launched an attempt to retake the throne in . another attempt was launched by the latter's son charles edward stuart in . the attempted invasions are often referred to as "the " and "the ". when william died, anne stuart came to the throne. anne's reign saw two wars and great triumphs by john churchill, the duke of marlborough. marlborough's wife, sarah churchill, was anne's best friend, and many supposed that she secretly controlled the queen in every respect. with the belief that true power rested in the hands of the leading ministers, the two factions of politics stepped up their opposition to each other, and whig and tory were at each other's throats. that weakness at the throne would lead quickly to the expansion of the powers of the party leader in parliament and the establishment in all but name of the prime minister office in the form of robert walpole. when anne died without surviving issue, george i, elector of hanover, came to the throne. george i spoke poor english, and his isolation from the english people was instrumental in keeping his power relatively irrelevant. his son, george ii, on the other hand, spoke some english and some more french, and his rule was the first full hanoverian rule in england. by then, the powers of parliament had silently expanded, and his power was perhaps only equal to that of parliament. london's population exploded spectacularly. during the restoration, it had grown from around , to , in (old bailey) (millwall history). by , it had reached , . not all of the residents were prosperous, as the enclosure acts had destroyed lower-class farming in the countryside, and rural areas experienced painful poverty. communities of the country poor were forced to migrate or suffer (see thompson, whigs) so young people from the country often moved to london with hopes of achieving success, which swelled the ranks of the urban poor and cheap labour for city employers. it also meant an increase in numbers of criminals, prostitutes and beggars. the fears of property crime, rape and starvation found in augustan literature should be kept in the context of london's growth and the depopulation of the countryside. william hogarth's gin lane is not entirely caricature, as in , over a fourth of all houses in st giles were gin shops, all unlicensed. partially because of the population pressures, property crime became a business both for the criminals and those who fed off of the criminals. major crime lords like jonathan wild invented new schemes for stealing, and newspapers were eager to report crime. biographies of the daring criminals became popular, which spawned fictional biographies of fictional criminals. cautionary tales of country women abused by sophisticated rakes (such as anne bond) and libertines in the city were popular fare, and they prompted fictional accounts of exemplary women abused (or narrowly escaping abuse). increased population also meant that urban discontent was never particularly difficult to find for political opportunists, and london suffered a number of riots, most of them against supposed roman catholic provocateurs. when highly potent, inexpensive distilled spirits were introduced, matters worsened and authors and artists protested the innovation of gin (see, e.g. william hogarth's gin lane). from , the government encouraged distilling as a source of revenue and trade goods, and there were no licenses required for the manufacturing or selling of gin. there were documented instances of women drowning their infants to sell the child's clothes for gin, and the facilities created both the fodder for riots and the conditions against which riots would occur (loughrey and treadwell, ). dissenters (protestants not conforming to the church of england) recruited and preached to the poor of the city, and various offshoots of the puritan and "independent" (baptist) movements increased their numbers substantially. one theme of the ministers was the danger of the roman catholic church, which they frequently saw as the whore of babylon. while anne tended to favor the high church faction, particularly towards the close of her reign, the court of george i was more closely allied with low church and latitudinarian elements and was warmer to nonconformists. the convocation was effectively disbanded by george i, who was struggling with the house of lords, and george ii was pleased to keep it in abeyance. additionally, both georges were concerned with james francis edward stuart and charles edward stuart, who had considerable support in scotland and ireland, and many were suspected of being closet jacobites. walpole inflated fears of stuart sympathisers from any group that did not support him. history and literature[edit] the literature of the th century, particularly the early th century, which is what "augustan" most commonly indicates, is explicitly political in ways that few others are. because the professional author was still not distinguishable from the hack-writer, those who wrote poetry, novels, and plays were frequently either politically active or politically funded. at the same time, an aesthetic of artistic detachment from the everyday world had yet to develop, and the aristocratic ideal of an author so noble as to be above political concerns was largely archaic and irrelevant. the period may be an "age of scandal", as authors dealt specifically with the crimes and the vices of their world. satire, in prose, drama and poetry, was the genre that attracted the most energetic and voluminous writing. the satires that were produced during the augustan period were occasionally gentle and nonspecific, commentaries on the comically flawed human condition, but they were at least as frequently specific critiques of specific policies, actions and persons. even the works studiously nontopical were, in fact, transparently political statements in the th century. consequently, readers of th-century literature now need to understand the history of the period more than most readers of other literature do. the authors were writing for an informed audience and only secondarily for posterity. even the authors, who criticised writing that lived for only a day (like jonathan swift and alexander pope, in the dedication to prince posterity of a tale of a tub and the dunciad, among other pieces) were criticising specific authors, who are unknown to those without historical knowledge of the period. poetry of all forms was in constant dialogue, and each author was responding and commenting upon the others. novels were written against other novels (like the battles between samuel richardson and henry fielding, who, along with eliza haywood, wrote a novel satirising richardson's pamela, and between laurence sterne and tobias smollett). plays were written to make fun of plays or to counter the success of plays (like the reaction against and for cato and, later, fielding's the author's farce). therefore, history and literature are linked in a way rarely seen at other times. on one hand, the metropolitan and political writing can seem like coterie or salon work, but on the other hand, it was the literature of people deeply committed to sorting out a new type of government, new technologies and newly-vexatious challenges to philosophical and religious certainty. prose[edit] main article: augustan prose an engraved ticket for francis woods's circulating library in london from some time after mid-century. the essay, satire, and dialogue (in philosophy and religion) thrived in the age, and the english novel was truly begun as a serious art form. literacy in the early th century passed into the working classes, as well as the middle and upper classes (thompson, class). furthermore, literacy was not confined to men, though rates of female literacy are very difficult to establish. for those who were literate, circulating libraries in england began in the augustan period. libraries were open to all, but they were mainly associated with female patronage and novel reading. essays and journalism[edit] english essayists were aware of continental models, but they developed their form independently from that tradition, and periodical literature grew between and . periodicals were inexpensive to produce, quick to read, and a viable way of influencing public opinion, and consequently there were many broadsheet periodicals headed by a single author and staffed by hirelings (so-called "grub street" authors). one periodical outsold and dominated all others, however, and that was the spectator, written by joseph addison and richard steele (with occasional contributions from their friends). the spectator developed a number of pseudonymous characters, including "mr. spectator," roger de coverley, and "isaac bickerstaff", and both addison and steele created fictions to surround their narrators. the dispassionate view of the world (the pose of a spectator, rather than participant) was essential for the development of the english essay, as it set out a ground wherein addison and steele could comment and meditate upon manners and events. samuel johnson's command of words and his practical wisdom gained a following as he published more than essays offering insights into the follies of human nature and moral perseverance. rather than being philosophers like montesquieu, the english essayist could be an honest observer and his reader's peer. after the success of the spectator, more political periodicals of comment appeared. however, the political factions and coalitions of politicians very quickly realized the power of this type of press, and they began funding newspapers to spread rumors. the tory ministry of robert harley ( – ) reportedly spent over , pounds sterling on creating and bribing the press (butt); this figure is known because their successors publicized it, but they (the walpole government) were suspected of spending even more. politicians wrote papers, wrote into papers, and supported papers, and it was well known that some of the periodicals, like mist's journal, were party mouthpieces. dictionaries and lexicons[edit] the th century was a time of enlightenment progression occurring in all intellectual fields. however, the english language was deteriorating into a tangled mess. a group of london booksellers commissioned well-known essayist samuel johnson to compile a set of rules governing the english language. after nine years and the help of six assistants the first edition of a dictionary of the english language was published in . johnson's great knowledge of letters, words and literature brought uniqueness to his dictionary. each word defined in detail, with descriptions of their various uses and numerous literary quotes as illustrations. this was the first dictionary of its kind, containing , words and nearly , quotes packed together with johnson's personal touch. a warm reception greeted johnson's dictionary as it was the first dictionary that could be read with pleasure. the definitions full of wit and depth of thought supported by passages from beloved poets and philosophers, which a reader could be content spending an evening poring over its pages. johnson's choice of structure and format has certainly shaped future english dictionaries and lexicons and the role they play in language development. philosophy and religious writing[edit] a woodcut of daniel defoe the augustan period showed less literature of controversy than the restoration. there were puritan authors, however, and one of the names usually associated with the novel is perhaps the most prominent in puritan writing: daniel defoe. after the coronation of anne, dissenter hopes of reversing the restoration were at an ebb, and dissenter literature moved from the offensive to the defensive, from revolutionary to conservative. defoe's infamous volley in the struggle between high and low church came in the form of the shortest way with the dissenters; or, proposals for the establishment of the church. the work is satirical, attacking all of the worries of establishment figures over the challenges of dissenters. it is, in other words, defensive. later still, the most majestic work of the era, and the one most quoted and read, was william law's a serious call to a devout and holy life ( ). the meditations of robert boyle remained popular as well. both law and boyle called for revivalism, and they set the stage for the later development of methodism and george whitefield's sermon style. however, their works aimed at the individual, rather than the community. the age of revolutionary divines and militant evangelists in literature was over for a considerable time. also in contrast to the restoration, when philosophy in england was fully dominated by john locke, the th century had a vigorous competition among followers of locke. bishop berkeley extended locke's emphasis on perception to argue that perception entirely solves the cartesian problem of subjective and objective knowledge by saying "to be is to be perceived." only, berkeley argued, those things that are perceived by a consciousness are real. for berkeley, the persistence of matter rests in the fact that god perceives those things that humans are not, that a living and continually aware, attentive, and involved god is the only rational explanation for the existence of objective matter. in essence, then, berkeley's skepticism leads to faith. david hume, on the other hand, took empiricist skepticism to its extremes, and he was the most radically empiricist philosopher of the period. he attacked surmise and unexamined premises wherever he found them, and his skepticism pointed out metaphysics in areas that other empiricists had assumed were material. hume doggedly refused to enter into questions of his personal faith in the divine, but he assaulted the logic and assumptions of theodicy and cosmogeny, and he concentrated on the provable and empirical in a way that would lead to utilitarianism and naturalism later. in social and political philosophy, economics underlies much of the debate. bernard de mandeville's the fable of the bees ( ) became a centre-point of controversy regarding trade, morality, and social ethics. mandeville argued that wastefulness, lust, pride, and all the other "private" vices were good for the society at large, for each led the individual to employ others, to spend freely, and to free capital to flow through the economy. mandeville's work is full of paradox and is meant, at least partially, to problematize what he saw as the naive philosophy of human progress and inherent virtue. however, mandeville's arguments, initially an attack on graft of the war of the spanish succession, would be quoted often by economists who wished to strip morality away from questions of trade. after [edit] adam smith is remembered by lay persons as the father of capitalism, but his theory of moral sentiments of also attempted to strike out a new ground for moral action. his emphasis on "sentiment" was in keeping with the era, as he emphasized the need for "sympathy" between individuals as the basis of fit action. these ideas, and the psychology of david hartley, were influential on the sentimental novel and even the nascent methodist movement. if sympathetic sentiment communicated morality, would it not be possible to induce morality by providing sympathetic circumstances? smith's greatest work was an inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations in . what it held in common with de mandeville, hume, and locke was that it began by analytically examining the history of material exchange, without reflection on morality. instead of deducing from the ideal or moral to the real, it examined the real and tried to formulate inductive rules. the novel[edit] the ground for the novel had been laid by journalism, drama and satire. long prose satires like swift's gulliver's travels ( ) had a central character who goes through adventures and may (or may not) learn lessons. however, the most important single satirical source for the writing of novels came from cervantes's don quixote ( , ). in general, one can see these three axes, drama, journalism and satire, as blending in and giving rise to three different types of novel. daniel defoe's robinson crusoe ( ) was the first major novel of the new century and was published in more editions than any other works besides gulliver's travels (mullan ). defoe worked as a journalist during and after its composition, and therefore he encountered the memoirs of alexander selkirk, who had been stranded in south america on an island for some years. defoe took aspects of the actual life and, from that, generated a fictional life, satisfying an essentially journalistic market with his fiction (hunter – ). in the s, defoe interviewed famed criminals and produced accounts of their lives. in particular, he investigated jack sheppard and jonathan wild and wrote true accounts of the former's escapes (and fate) and the latter's life. from his reportage on the prostitutes and criminals, defoe may have become familiar with the real-life mary mollineaux, who may have been the model for moll in moll flanders ( ). in the same year, defoe produced a journal of the plague year ( ), which summoned up the horrors and tribulations of for a journalistic market for memoirs, and an attempted tale of a working-class male rise in colonel jack ( ). his last novel returned to the theme of fallen women in roxana ( ). thematically, defoe's works are consistently puritan. they all involve a fall, a degradation of the spirit, a conversion, and an ecstatic elevation. this religious structure necessarily involved a bildungsroman, for each character had to learn a lesson about him or herself and emerge the wiser. after : sentimental novel[edit] a plate from the deluxe edition of richardson's pamela; or, virtue rewarded showing mr. b intercepting pamela's first letter home to her mother the sentimental novel, or "novel of sentiment", developed after , and among the most famous examples in english are samuel richardson's pamela, or virtue rewarded ( ), oliver goldsmith's vicar of wakefield ( ), laurence sterne's tristram shandy ( – ), sentimental journey ( ), henry brooke's the fool of quality ( – ), henry mackenzie's the man of feeling ( ) and maria edgeworth's castle rackrent ( ). continental examples are jean-jacques rousseau's novel julie, or the new heloise, his autobiography the confessions ( – ) and goethe's novel the sorrows of young werther ( ).[ ] although there were novels in the interim, samuel richardson's pamela; or, virtue rewarded ( ) is the next landmark development in the english novel. richardson's generic models were quite distinct from those of defoe. instead of working from the journalistic biography, richardson had in mind the books of improvement that were popular at the time. pamela andrews enters the employ of a "mr. b". as a dutiful girl, she writes to her mother constantly, and as a christian girl, she is always on guard for her "virtue" (i.e. her virginity), for mr. b lusts after her. the novel ends with her marriage to her employer and her rising to the position of lady. pamela, like its author, presents a dissenter's and a whig's view of the rise of the classes. the work drew a nearly instantaneous set of satires, of which henry fielding's shamela, or an apology for the life of miss shamela andrews ( ) is the most memorable. fielding continued to bait richardson with joseph andrews ( ), the tale of shamela's brother, joseph, who goes through his life trying to protect his own virginity, thus reversing the sexual predation of richardson and satirizing the idea of sleeping one's way to rank. however, joseph andrews is not a parody of richardson, for fielding proposed his belief in "good nature", which is a quality of inherent virtue that is independent of class and which can always prevail. joseph's friend parson adams, although not a fool, is a naïf and possessing good nature. his own basic good nature blinds him to the wickedness of the world, and the incidents on the road (for most of the novel is a travel story) allow fielding to satirize conditions for the clergy, rural poverty (and squires), and the viciousness of businessmen. in through , samuel richardson published clarissa in serial form. unlike pamela, it is not a tale of virtue rewarded. instead, it is a highly tragic and affecting account of a young girl whose parents try to force her into an uncongenial marriage, thus pushing her into the arms of a scheming rake named lovelace. in the end, clarissa dies by her own will. the novel is a masterpiece of psychological realism and emotional effect, and when richardson was drawing to a close in the serial publication, even henry fielding wrote to him, begging him not to kill clarissa. as with pamela, richardson emphasized the individual over the social and the personal over the class. even as fielding was reading and enjoying clarissa, he was also writing a counter to its messages. his tom jones of offers up the other side of the argument from clarissa. tom jones agrees substantially in the power of the individual to be more or less than his or her birth would indicate, but it again emphasizes the place of the individual in society and the social ramifications of individual choices. fielding answers richardson by featuring a similar plot device (whether a girl can choose her own mate) but showing how family and village can complicate and expedite matches and felicity. a portrait of tobias smollett two other novelists should be mentioned, for they, like fielding and richardson, were in dialogue through their works. laurence sterne's and tobias smollett's works offered up oppositional views of the self in society and the method of the novel. the clergyman laurence sterne consciously set out to imitate jonathan swift with his tristram shandy ( – ). tristram seeks to write his autobiography, but like swift's narrator in a tale of a tub, he worries that nothing in his life can be understood without understanding its context. for example, he tells the reader that at the very moment he was conceived, his mother was saying, "did you wind the clock?". to clarify how he knows this, he explains that his father took care of winding the clock and "other family business" on one day a month. to explain why the clock had to be wound then, he has to explain his father. in other words, the biography moves backward rather than forward in time, only to then jump forward years, hit another knot, and move backward again. it is a novel of exceptional energy, of multi-layered digressions, of multiple satires, and of frequent parodies. journalist, translator and historian tobias smollett, on the other hand, wrote more seemingly traditional novels. he concentrated on the picaresque novel, where a low-born character would go through a practically endless series of adventures. sterne thought that smollett's novels always paid undue attention to the basest and most common elements of life, that they emphasized the dirt. although this is a superficial complaint, it points to an important difference between the two as authors. sterne came to the novel from a satirical background, while smollett approached it from journalism. in the th century, novelists would have plots much nearer to smollett's than either fielding's or sterne's or richardson's, and his sprawling, linear development of action would prove most successful. in the midst of this development of the novel, other trends were also taking place. women were writing novels and moving away from the old romance plots that had dominated before the restoration. there were utopian novels, like sarah scott's millennium hall ( ), autobiographical women's novels like frances burney's works, female adaptations of older, male motifs, such as charlotte lennox's the female quixote ( ) and many others. these novels do not generally follow a strict line of development or influence. satire[edit] an illustration from jonathan swift's a tale of a tub showing the three "stages" of human life: the pulpit, the theatre, and the gallows the augustan era is considered a high point of british satiric writing, and its masterpieces were swift's gulliver's travels and a modest proposal, pope's dunciads, horatian imitations, and moral essays, samuel johnson's the vanity of human wishes and london, henry fielding's shamela and jonathan wild, and john gay's the beggar's opera. there were several thousand other satirical works written during the period, which have until recently been, by widespread consensus, ignored. the central group of "scriblerians"—pope, swift, gay, and their colleague john arbuthnot—are considered to have had common satiric aims. until recently, these writers formed a "school" of satire. after swift and pope died, the emergent "age of sensibility" discouraged the often cruel and abrasive tenor of the augustans, and satire was rendered gentler and more diffuse.[ ] many scholars of the era argue that a single name overshadows all others in th-century prose satire: jonathan swift.[ ] swift wrote poetry as well as prose, and his satires range over all topics. critically, swift's satire marked the development of prose parody away from simple satire or burlesque. a burlesque or lampoon in prose would imitate a despised author and quickly move to reductio ad absurdum by having the victim say things coarse or idiotic. on the other hand, other satires would argue against a habit, practice, or policy by making fun of its reach or composition or methods. what swift did was to combine parody, with its imitation of form and style of another, and satire in prose. swift's works would pretend to speak in the voice of an opponent and imitate the style of the opponent and have the parodic work itself be the satire. swift's first major satire was a tale of a tub ( – ), which introduced an ancients/moderns division that would serve as a distinction between the old and new conception of value. the "moderns" sought trade, empirical science, the individual's reason above the society's, while the "ancients" believed in inherent and immanent value of birth, and the society over the individual's determinations of the good. in swift's satire, the moderns come out looking insane and proud of their insanity, and dismissive of the value of history. in swift's most significant satire, gulliver's travels ( ), autobiography, allegory, and philosophy mix together in the travels. thematically, gulliver's travels is a critique of human vanity, of pride. book one, the journey to liliput, begins with the world as it is. book two shows that the idealized nation of brobdingnag with a philosopher king is no home for a contemporary englishman. book four depicts the land of the houyhnhnms, a society of horses ruled by pure reason, where humanity itself is portrayed as a group of "yahoos" covered in filth and dominated by base desires. it shows that, indeed, the very desire for reason may be undesirable, and humans must struggle to be neither yahoos nor houyhnhnms, for book three shows what happens when reason is unleashed without any consideration of morality or utility (i.e. madness, ruin, and starvation). there were other satirists who worked in a less virulent way, who took a bemused pose and only made lighthearted fun. tom brown, ned ward, and tom d'urfey were all satirists in prose and poetry whose works appeared in the early part of the augustan age. tom brown's most famous work in this vein was amusements serious and comical, calculated for the meridian of london ( ). ned ward's most memorable work was the london spy ( – ). the london spy, before the spectator, took up the position of an observer and uncomprehendingly reporting back. tom d'urfey's wit and mirth: or pills to purge melancholy ( ) was another satire that attempted to offer entertainment, rather than a specific bit of political action, in the form of coarse and catchy songs. particularly after swift's success, parodic satire had an attraction for authors throughout the th century. a variety of factors created a rise in political writing and political satire, and robert walpole's success and domination of house of commons was a very effective proximal cause for polarized literature and thereby the rise of parodic satire. the parodic satire takes apart the cases and plans of policy without necessarily contrasting a normative or positive set of values. therefore, it was an ideal method of attack for ironists and conservatives—those who would not be able to enunciate a set of values to change toward but could condemn present changes as ill-considered. satire was present in all genres during the augustan period. perhaps primarily, satire was a part of political and religious debate. every significant politician and political act had satires to attack it. few of these were parodic satires, but parodic satires, too, emerged in political and religious debate. so omnipresent and powerful was satire in the augustan age that more than one literary history has referred to it as the "age of satire" in literature.[citation needed] poetry[edit] main article: augustan poetry in the augustan era, poets wrote in direct counterpoint and direct expansion of one another, with each poet writing satire when in opposition. there was a great struggle over the nature and role of the pastoral in the early part of the century, reflecting two simultaneous movements: the invention of the subjective self as a worthy topic, with the emergence of a priority on individual psychology, against the insistence on all acts of art being performance and public gesture designed for the benefit of society at large. the development seemingly agreed upon by both sides was a gradual adaptation of all forms of poetry from their older uses. odes would cease to be encomium, ballads cease to be narratives, elegies cease to be sincere memorials, satires no longer be specific entertainments, parodies no longer be performance pieces without sting, song no longer be pointed, and the lyric would become a celebration of the individual rather than a lover's complaint. these developments can be seen as extensions of protestantism, as max weber argued, for they represent a gradual increase in the implications of martin luther's doctrine of the priesthood of all believers, or they can be seen as a growth of the power and assertiveness of the bourgeoisie and an echo of the displacement of the worker from the home in growing industrialization, as marxists such as e.p. thompson have argued. it can be argued that the development of the subjective individual against the social individual was a natural reaction to trade over other methods of economic production. whatever the prime cause, a largely conservative set of voices argued for a social person and largely emergent voices argued for the individual person. alexander pope, the single poet who most influenced the augustan age. the entire augustan age's poetry was dominated by alexander pope. his lines were repeated often enough to lend quite a few clichés and proverbs to modern english usage. pope had few poetic rivals, but he had many personal enemies and political, philosophical, or religious opponents, and pope himself was quarrelsome in print. pope and his enemies (often called "the dunces" because of pope's successful satirizing of them in the dunciad) fought over central matters of the proper subject matter for poetry and the proper pose of the poetic voice. there was a great struggle over the nature and role of the pastoral in the early part of the century. after pope published his pastorals of the four seasons in , an evaluation in the guardian praised ambrose philips's pastorals above pope's, and pope replied with a mock praise of philips's pastorals that heaped scorn on them. pope quoted philips's worst lines, mocked his execution, and delighted in pointing out his empty lines. pope later explained that any depictions of shepherds and their mistresses in the pastoral must not be updated shepherds, that they must be icons of the golden age: "we are not to describe our shepherds as shepherds at this day really are, but as they may be conceived then to have been, when the best of men followed the employment" (gordon). philips's pastorals were not particularly awful poems, but they did reflect his desire to "update" the pastoral. in , philips would update poetry again by writing a series of odes dedicated to "all ages and characters, from walpole, the steerer of the realm, to miss pulteney in the nursery." henry carey was one of the best at satirizing these poems, and his namby pamby became a hugely successful obliteration of philips and philips's endeavor. what is notable about philips against pope, however, is the fact that both poets were adapting the pastoral and the ode, both altering it. pope's insistence upon a golden age pastoral no less than philips's desire to update it meant making a political statement. while it is easy to see in ambrose philips an effort at modernist triumph, it is no less the case that pope's artificially restricted pastoral was a statement of what the ideal should be. portrait of john gay from samuel johnson's lives of the english poets, the edition. gay's gentle satire was a contrast with the harsher pope and swift. pope's friend john gay also adapted the pastoral. gay, working at pope's suggestion, wrote a parody of the updated pastoral in the shepherd's week. he also imitated the satires of juvenal with his trivia. in , his the beggar's opera was an enormous success, running for an unheard-of eighty performances. all of these works have in common a gesture of compassion. in trivia, gay writes as if commiserating with those who live in london and are menaced by falling masonry and bedpan slops, and the shepherd's week features great detail of the follies of everyday life and eccentric character. even the beggar's opera, which is a satire of robert walpole, portrays its characters with compassion: the villains have pathetic songs in their own right and are acting out of exigency rather than boundless evil. throughout the augustan era the "updating" of classical poets was a commonplace. these were not translations, but rather they were imitations of classical models, and the imitation allowed poets to veil their responsibility for the comments they made. alexander pope would manage to refer to the king himself in unflattering tones by "imitating" horace in his epistle to augustus. similarly, samuel johnson wrote a poem that falls into the augustan period in his "imitation of juvenal" entitled london. the imitation was inherently conservative, since it argued that all that was good was to be found in the old classical education, but these imitations were used for progressive purposes, as the poets who used them were often doing so to complain of the political situation. in satire, pope achieved two of the greatest poetic satires of all time in the augustan period. the rape of the lock ( and ) was a gentle mock-heroic. pope applies virgil's heroic and epic structure to the story of a young woman (arabella fermor) having a lock of hair snipped by an amorous baron (lord petre). the structure of the comparison forces pope to invent mythological forces to overlook the struggle, and so he creates an epic battle, complete with a mythology of sylphs and metempsychosis, over a game of ombre, leading to a fiendish appropriation of the lock of hair. finally, a deux ex machina appears and the lock of hair experiences an apotheosis. to some degree, pope was adapting jonathan swift's habit, in a tale of a tub, of pretending that metaphors were literal truths, and he was inventing a mythos to go with the everyday. the poem was an enormous public success. one of the scabrous satirical prints directed against pope after his dunciad of a decade after the gentle, laughing satire of the rape of the lock, pope wrote his masterpiece of invective and specific opprobrium in the dunciad. the story is that of the goddess dulness choosing a new avatar. she settles upon one of pope's personal enemies, lewis theobald, and the poem describes the coronation and heroic games undertaken by all of the dunces of great britain in celebration of theobald's ascension. when pope's enemies responded to the dunciad with attacks, pope produced the dunciad variorum, with a "learned" commentary upon the original dunciad. in , he added a fourth book and changed the hero from lewis theobald to colley cibber. in the fourth book of the new dunciad, pope expressed the view that, in the battle between light and dark (enlightenment and the dark ages), night and dulness were fated to win, that all things of value were soon going to be subsumed under the curtain of unknowing. john gay and alexander pope belong on one side of a line separating the celebrants of the individual and the celebrants of the social. pope wrote the rape of the lock, he said, to settle a disagreement between two great families, to laugh them into peace. even the dunciad, which seems to be a serial killing of everyone on pope's enemies list, sets up these figures as expressions of dangerous and antisocial forces in letters. theobald and cibber are marked by vanity and pride, by having no care for morality. the hireling pens pope attacks mercilessly in the heroic games section of the dunciad are all embodiments of avarice and lies. similarly, gay writes of political society, of social dangers, and of follies that must be addressed to protect the greater whole. gay's individuals are microcosms of the society at large. on the other side of this line were people who agreed with the politics of gay and pope (and swift), but not in approach. they include, early in the augustan age, james thomson and edward young. precursors of romanticism[edit] in the year two poems were published describing landscape from a personal point of view and taking their feeling and moral lessons from direct observation. one was john dyer's "grongar hill", the other was james thomson's "winter", soon to be followed by all the seasons ( – ). both are unlike pope's notion of the golden age pastoral as exemplified in his "windsor forest". mythology is at a minimum and there is no celebration of britain or the crown. where the octosyllabic couplets of dyer's poem celebrate the natural beauty of a mountain view and are quietly meditative, the declamatory blank verse of thomson's winter meditation is melancholy and soon to establish that emotion as proper for poetic expression. one notable successor in that line was edward yonge's night thoughts ( – ). it was, even more than "winter", a poem of deep solitude, melancholy and despair. in these poems, there are the stirrings of the lyric as the romantics would see it: the celebration of the private individual's idiosyncratic, yet paradigmatic, responses to the visions of the world. a portrait of thomas gray with the churchyard in the background these hints at the solitary poet were carried into a new realm with thomas gray, whose elegy written in a country church-yard ( ) set off a new craze for poetry of melancholy reflection. it was written in the "country", and not in or as opposed to london, and the poem sets up the solitary observer in a privileged position. it is only by being solitary that the poet can speak of a truth that is wholly individually realized. after gray, a group often referred to as the churchyard poets began imitating his pose and almost as often his style. alternative models were adopted by oliver goldsmith (the deserted village), thomas warton, and even thomas percy (the hermit of warkworth), who, also conservative by and large and classicist (gray himself was a professor of greek), took up the new poetry of solitude and loss. when the romantics emerged at the end of the th century, they were not assuming a radically new invention of the subjective self themselves, but merely formalizing what had gone before. similarly, the later th century saw a ballad revival, with thomas percy's reliques of ancient english poetry. the relics were not always very ancient, as many of the ballads dated from only the th century (e.g. the bagford ballads or the dragon of wantley in the percy folio), and so what began as an antiquarian movement soon became a folk movement. when this folk-inspired impulse combined with the solitary and individualistic impulse of the churchyard poets, romanticism was nearly inevitable. drama[edit] main article: augustan drama the augustan era is difficult to define chronologically in prose and poetry, but it is very easy to date its end in drama. the augustan era's drama ended definitively in , with the licensing act. prior to , however, the english stage was changing rapidly from the restoration comedy and restoration drama, and their noble subjects, to the quickly developing melodrama (munns – ).[discuss] george lillo and richard steele wrote the trend-setting plays of the early augustan period. lillo's plays consciously turned from heroes and kings and toward shopkeepers and apprentices. they emphasized drama on a household scale, rather than a national scale, and the hamartia and agon in his tragedies are the common flaws of yielding to temptation and the commission of christian sin. the plots are resolved with christian forgiveness and repentance. steele's the conscious lovers ( ) hinges upon his young hero avoiding fighting a duel. the plays set up a new set of values for the stage. instead of amusing the audience or inspiring the audience, they sought to instruct the audience and to ennoble it. also, the plays were popular precisely because they seemed to reflect the audience's own lives and concerns (legouis – , – ). joseph addison also wrote a play, entitled cato, in , which concerned the roman statesman cato the younger. the year of its première was important, with queen anne in serious illness at the time, and both the tory ministry of the day and the whig opposition (already being led by robert walpole) were concerned about the succession. both groups were contacting the old pretender about bringing the young pretender over. londoners sensed the anxiety, as anne had no heirs, and all of the natural successors in the stuart family were roman catholic or unavailable. therefore, the figure of cato was a transparent symbol of roman integrity, and the whigs saw in him a champion of whig values, and the tories saw in him an embodiment of tory sentiments or, like the tory examiner, tried to claim that cato was above political "faction". both sides cheered the play, but addison was himself clearly a whig (bloom and bloom , ). john home's play douglas ( ) would have a similar fate to cato in the next generation, after the licensing act. a print by william hogarth entitled a just view of the british stage from depicting the managers of drury lane (robert wilks, colley cibber and barton booth) rehearsing a play consisting of nothing but special effects, and they used the scripts for macbeth, hamlet, julius caesar and the way of the world for toilet paper. the battle of effects was a common subject of satire for the literary wits, including pope in the dunciad. as during the restoration, economics drove the stage in the augustan period. under charles ii court patronage meant economic success and so the restoration stage featured plays that would suit the monarch and/or court. the drama that celebrated kings and told the history of britain's monarchs was fit fare for the crown and courtiers. charles ii was a philanderer and so restoration comedy featured a highly sexualized set of plays. however, after the reign of william and mary, the court and the crown stopped taking a great interest in the playhouse. theatres had to get their money from the audience of city dwellers, and plays that reflected city anxieties and celebrated the lives of citizens drew and were staged (munns – ). thus, there were quite a few plays that were not literary that were staged more often than the literary plays. john rich and colley cibber duelled over special theatrical effects. they put on plays that were actually just spectacles, and the text of the play was almost an afterthought. dragons, whirlwinds, thunder, ocean waves and even actual elephants were on stage. battles, explosions and horses were put on the boards. rich specialized in pantomime and was famous as the character "lun" in harlequin presentations. the plays put on in this manner are not generally preserved or studied, but their monopoly on the theatres infuriated established literary authors. additionally, opera made its way to england during this period. inasmuch as opera combined singing with acting, it was a mixed genre, which violated all the strictures of neoclassicism. also, high melodies would cover the singers' expressions of grief or joy, thus breaking "decorum". to add insult to injury, the casts and celebrated stars were foreigners, and, as with farinelli, castrati. the satirists saw in opera the non plus ultra of invidiousness. as pope put it in dunciad b: 	"joy to chaos! let division reign: 	chromatic tortures soon shall drive them [the muses] hence, 	break all their nerves, and fritter all their sense: 	one trill shall harmonize joy, grief, and rage, 	wake the dull church, and lull the ranting stage; 	to the same notes thy sons shall hum, or snore, 	and all thy yawning daughters cry, encore." (iv – ) frontispiece to fielding's tom thumb, a play satirising plays (and robert walpole) john gay parodied the opera with his satirical beggar's opera ( ) and offered up a parody of robert walpole's actions during the south sea bubble. superficially, the play is about a man named macheath who keeps being imprisoned by a thief named peachum and who escapes prison over and over again because the daughter of the jailor, lucy lockitt, is in love with him. that is an obvious parallel with the case of jonathan wild (peachum) and jack sheppard (macheath). however, it was also the tale of robert walpole (peachum) and the south sea directors (macheath). the play was a hit, and its songs were printed up and sold. however, when gay wrote a sequel called polly, walpole had the play suppressed before performance (winn – ). playwrights were therefore in straits. on the one hand, the playhouses were doing without plays by turning out hack-written pantomimes. on the other hand, when a satirical play appeared, the whig ministry would suppress it. the antagonism was picked up by henry fielding, who was not afraid to fight walpole. his tom thumb ( ) was a satire on all of the tragedies written before him, with quotations from all the worst plays patched together for absurdity, and the plot concerned the eponymous tiny man attempting to run things. it was, in other words, an attack on robert walpole and the way that he was referred to as "the great man". here, the great man is made obviously deficient by being a midget. walpole responded, and fielding's revision of the play was in print only. it was written by "scribblerus secundus". its title page announced it was the tragedy of tragedies, which functioned as a clearly swiftian parodic satire. anti-walpolean sentiment also showed in increasingly political plays. a particular play of unknown authorship entitled a vision of the golden rump was cited when parliament passed the licensing act of . the licensing act required all plays to go to a censor before staging, and only the plays passed by the censor were allowed to be performed. the first play to be banned by the new act was gustavus vasa by henry brooke. samuel johnson wrote a swiftian parodic satire of the licensers entitled a complete vindication of the licensers of the english stage. the satire was, of course, not a vindication at all, but rather a reductio ad absurdum of the position for censorship. had the licensers not exercised their authority in a partisan manner, the act might not have chilled the stage so dramatically, but the public was well aware of the bannings and censorship and so any play that passed the licensers was regarded with suspicion by the public. therefore, the playhouses had little choice but to present old plays and pantomime and other plays that had no conceivable political content. in other words, william shakespeare's reputation grew enormously, as his plays saw a quadrupling of performances, and sentimental comedy and melodrama were the only choices. very late in the th century oliver goldsmith attempted to resist the tide of sentimental comedy with she stoops to conquer ( ), and richard brinsley sheridan would mount several satirical plays after robert walpole's death. see also[edit] 	augustan drama 	augustan poetry 	augustan prose 	jonathan wild 	the mint 	novel 	restoration literature 	restoration drama 	restoration spectacular 	romantic poetry references[edit] 	"proceedings of the old bailey". retrieved july , . 	edward yonge on bibliomania.com. retrieved july , . 	bloom, edward and bloom, lillian (editors). 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"'hudibras' and hudibrastic verse", on bartleby.com. retrieved july , . 	watt, ian. the rise of the novel: studies in defoe, richardson and fielding. los angeles: u california press, . 	weber, max. the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism, german original – , english ed. . retrieved july , . 	weinbrot, howard augustus caesar in 'augustan' england. 	white, t. h. the age of scandal. penguin books, . 	winn, james "theatrical culture : theatre and music" in the cambridge companion to english literature – ed. steven zwicker. cambridge: cambridge university press, . 	^ j. a. cuddon,a dictionary of literary terms, london: penguin, , p. . 	^ thornton ) 	^ newman and brown 	^ porter 	^ j. a. cuddon, the penguin dictionary of literary terms and literary theory, th edition (london: penguin books, ), p. ; m. h. abrams, a glossary of literary terms, th edition (fort worth: harcourt brace, ), p. . 	^ jack, ian r.j., augustan satire: intention and idiom in english poetry, – , claredon press, , pages. 	^ damrosch, leo. jonathan swift: his life and his world. yale university press, . pages. further reading[edit] general history[edit] 	rogers, pat the augustan vision (london: methuen, ) isbn  (pbk.) an overview of the literary milieu, major authors, and literary forms. literary criticism[edit] 	battestin, martin c. the providence of wit: aspects of form in augustan literature and the arts (oxford: oxford university press, ) isbn  . offers a reading of works by pope, gay, fielding, goldsmith, swift, and sterne. 	mckeon, michael, the origins of the english novel (london: century hutchinson, ) isbn  . a critical response to watt's 'triple-rise' theory of the novel's eighteenth century origins. 	nokes, david raillery and rage: a study of eighteenth-century satire (brighton: harvester, ) isbn  . a detailed exploration of one of the period's most important literary forms. 	watt, ian the rise of the novel: studies of defoe, richardson, and fielding (london: pimlico, ) isbn  . a major scholarly work, examining the socio-economic conditions that gave rise to the augustan novel form. anthologies[edit] 	price, martin (ed.) the oxford anthology of english literature: restoration and eighteenth century (london: oxford university press, ) isbn  - - - (pbk.) , pages of restoration and augustan literature. major works like pope's an essay on criticism and swift's a tale of a tub are merely excerpted. annotated with a bibliography. 	greenblatt, stephen; lipking, lawrence and james noggle (eds.) the norton anthology of english literature, volume c: the restoration and the eighteenth century (new york: w. w. norton and co., ) isbn  (pbk.) offers a more comprehensive selection than the oxford anthology, and likewise annotated with a bibliography. 	preceded by restoration literature 	 augustan literature – 	succeeded by romanticism 		v 	t 	e english literature 	historical	 	old english 	middle english 	early english jewish 	elizabethan 	restoration 	augustan 	romanticism 	victorian 	twentieth century 	regional	 	american 	african american 	american sign language 	arab american 	asian american 	catholic 	chicago 	franco american 	hawaii 	jewish american 	latino 	new england 	new york 	native american 	southern 	bangladeshi 	british 	scottish 	welsh 	canadian 	caribbean 	filipino 	indian 	irish 	oceanic 	australian 	new zealand 	pakistani 	south african 	related topics	 	anglo-norman literature 	celtic literature 	english drama 	english poetry 	english studies 	european literature 	jèrriais literature 	postcolonial literature 	women's writing in english retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=augustan_literature&oldid= " 		categories: 	early modern english literature hidden categories: 	articles that may contain original research from march 	all articles that may contain original research 	all articles with unsourced statements 	articles with unsourced statements from november 	pages using div col with small parameter 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			article 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	edit 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		search 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigation 	 	 			main page 	contents 	current events 	random article 	about wikipedia 	contact us 	donate 		 	 	 	 		contribute 	 	 			help 	learn to edit 	community portal 	recent changes 	upload file 		 	 	 		tools 	 	 			what links here 	related changes 	upload file 	special pages 	permanent link 	page information 	cite this page 	wikidata item 		 	 	 		print/export 	 	 			download as pdf 	printable version 		 	 	 	 		languages 	 	 			العربية 	català 	español 	日本語 	occitan 		edit links 	 		 this page was last edited on august , at :  (utc). 	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; 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/ɔːˈɡʌstəs/ aw-gust-əs,[ ] classical latin: [au̯ˈɡʊstʊs]; "majestic", "the increaser" or "venerable") was an ancient roman title given as both name and title to gaius octavius (often referred to simply as augustus), rome's first emperor. on his death, it became an official title of his successor, and was so used by roman emperors thereafter. the feminine form augusta was used for roman empresses and other females of the imperial family. the masculine and feminine forms originated in the time of the roman republic, in connection with things considered divine or sacred in traditional roman religion. their use as titles for major and minor roman deities of the empire associated the imperial system and imperial family with traditional roman virtues and the divine will, and may be considered a feature of the roman imperial cult. in rome's greek-speaking provinces, "augustus" was translated as sebastos (σεβαστός, "venerable"), or hellenised as augoustos (αὔγουστος). after the fall of the roman empire, augustus was sometimes used as a name for men of aristocratic birth, especially in the lands of the holy roman empire. it remains a given name for males. contents 	 title in ancient rome 	 . earliest usage 	 . imperial honorific 	 . feminine equivalent 	 other uses 	 . holy roman empire 	 . brian boru 	 see also 	 references title in ancient rome[edit] earliest usage[edit] some thirty years before its first association with caesar's heir, augustus was an obscure honorific with religious associations. one early context ( bc), associates it with provincial lares (roman household gods).[ ] in latin poetry and prose, it signifies the "elevation" or "augmentation" of what is already sacred or religious.[ ] some roman sources connected it to augury, and rome was said to have been founded with the "august augury" of romulus.[ ] a coin of the late rd century emperor probus, marked with abbreviated titles and honorifics: imp·c·probus·invic·p·f· aug imperial honorific[edit] see also: sebastos the first true roman emperor known as "augustus" (and first counted as a roman emperor) was gaius julius caesar octavianus (octavian). he was the adopted son and heir of julius caesar, who had been murdered for his seeming aspiration to divine monarchy, then subsequently and officially deified. octavian studiously avoided any association with caesar's claims, other than acknowledging his position and duties as divi filius, "son of the deified one". nevertheless, his position was unique and extraordinary. he had ended rome's prolonged and bloody civil war with his victory at actium, and established a lasting peace. he was self-evidently favoured by the gods. as princeps senatus ("first man or head of the senate") he presided at senatorial meetings. he was pontifex maximus, chief priest of roman state religion. he held consular imperium, with authority equal to the official chief executive, he was supreme commander of all roman legions, and held tribunicia potestas ("tribunician power"). as a tribune, his person was inviolable (sacrosanctitas) and he had the right to veto any act or proposal by any magistrate within rome. he was officially renamed augustus by the roman senate on january , bc – or perhaps the senate ratified his own careful choice; "romulus" had been considered, and rejected.[ ][ ] this name was deemed too blatant as it would make octavius the second founder of rome.[ ] so his official renaming in a form vaguely associated with a traditionally republican religiosity, but unprecedented as a cognomen, may have served to show that he owed his position to the approval of rome and its gods, and possibly his own unique, elevated, "godlike" nature and talents.[citation needed] his full and official title was imperator caesar divi filius augustus. augustus' religious reforms extended or affirmed augusti as a near ubiquitous title or honour for various minor local deities, including the lares augusti of local communities, and obscure provincial deities such as the north african marazgu augustus. this extension of an imperial honorific to major and minor deities of rome and her provinces is considered a ground-level feature of imperial cult, which continued until the official replacement of rome's traditional religions by christianity. the religious ambiguity of the title allowed for this kind of deification throughout the empire as subjects - beginning from asia and bithynia - adopted the worship of the genius or soul of augustus, establishing a ruler-cult.[ ] the title or name of augustus was adopted by his successors, who held the name during their own lifetimes by virtue of their status, offices and powers. this included the christian emperors. most emperors also used imperator but others could and did bear the same title and functions. "caesar" was used as a title, but was also the name of a clan within the julian line.[citation needed] the first emperor bequeathed the title augustus to his adopted heir and successor tiberius in his will.[ ] from then on, though it conferred no specific legal powers, augustus was a titular element of the imperial name.[ ] subsequently, the title was bestowed by the roman senate.[ ] until the reign of marcus aurelius (r.  – ), the title was unique to its bearer; in marcus aurelius elevated lucius verus (r.  – ) to augustus and both bore the title at the same time.[ ] the date of an emperor's investiture with the title augustus was celebrated as the dies imperii and commemorated annually.[ ] from the rd century, new emperors were often acclaimed as augusti by the army.[ ] a late byzantine example of augustus in imperial titulature: in this miniature from ca. , manuel ii palaiologos is titled "basileus and autokrator of the romans", but also "aei augoustos" ("always augustus"), after the late antique formula "semper augustus". the tetrarchy instituted by diocletian shared power between two augusti and two emperors titled caesares.[ ] nevertheless, as augustus senior diocletian retained legislative power.[ ] diocletian and his eventual successor after the civil wars of the tetrarchy, constantine the great both used the title semper augustus ('ever august'), which indicates a formalisation of the name in the late rd and early th century.[ ] from the reign of constantine onwards, the greek: σεβαστός, translit. sebastós was abandoned as the translation of the latin: augustus in favour of the homophone greek: αὔγουστος, translit. aúgoustos.[ ] beginning with valentinian the great and his brother valens, whom he raised to augustus pari iure, 'augustus without reserve' in , the concurrent augusti of the eastern and western provinces were of equal standing.[ ] the last roman emperor to rule in the west, romulus augustus became known as augustulus ("little augustus"), due to the unimportance of his reign.[citation needed] after the victory over the sasanian empire in the byzantine–sasanian war of – , the th century final phase of the roman–persian wars, the emperor heraclius introduced the greek: βασιλεύς, translit. basileús, lit. "king" and the title aúgoustos fell out of favour.[ ] until heraclius's reforms, royal titles had been eschewed in rome since the legendary overthrow of the roman monarchy's last king tarquinius superbus by lucius junius brutus in the late th century bc.[ ] the imperial titles of imperator, caesar, and augustus were respectively rendered in greek as autokratōr, kaisar, and augoustos (or sebastos[ ]). the greek titles were used in the byzantine empire until its extinction in , although sebastos lost its imperial exclusivity and autokratōr along with basileus became the exclusive title of the byzantine emperor. feminine equivalent[edit] further information: list of augustae augusta was the female equivalent of augustus, and had similar origins as an obscure descriptor with vaguely religious overtones. it was bestowed on some women of the imperial dynasties, as an indicator of worldly power and influence and a status near to divinity. there was no qualification with higher prestige. the title or honorific was shared by state goddesses associated with the imperial regime's generosity and provision, such as ceres, bona dea, juno, minerva, and ops, and by local or minor goddesses around the empire. other personifications perceived as essentially female and given the title augusta include pax (peace) and victoria (victory). the first woman to receive the honorific augusta was livia drusilla, by the last will of her husband augustus. from his death ( ad) she was known as julia augusta, until her own death in ad . other uses[edit] holy roman empire[edit] charlemagne used the title serenissimus augustus as a prefix to his titles. the style assumed by otto i was imperator augustus. the relative simplicity of the style and absence of any mention of rome was in deference to byzantium (although he would briefly use the title imperator augustus romanorum ac francorum (emperor-augustus of the romans and franks) in ), which would soon reach the medieval apex of its power. by the th century, the standard style of the emperor was dei gratia romanorum imperator semper augustus (by the grace of god, emperor of the romans, ever augustus). the formula of semper augustus ("ever exalted") when translated into german in the late period of the holy roman empire was not rendered literally, but as allzeit mehrer des reiches ("ever increaser of the realm"), from the transitive verbal meaning of augere "to augment, increase". brian boru[edit] the irish high king brian boru (c. – ) was described in the annals of ulster as ardrí gaidhel erenn & gall & bretan, august iartair tuaiscirt eorpa uile ("high king of the gaels of ireland, the norsemen and the britons, augustus of the whole of north-west europe"), the only irish king to receive that distinction.[ ][ ] see also[edit] 	archons 	auctoritas 	basileus 	caesar (title) 	imperium 	list of augustae references[edit] 	^ wells, john c. ( ). longman pronunciation dictionary. harlow, england: longman. isbn  - - - . entry "augustus" 	^ hornum, michael b., nemesis, the roman state and the games, brill, , p. footnote , citing epigraphic evidence from the roman province of cisalpine gaul. 	^ it appears as such in works of cicero, before its use by octavian, later known as augustus. see entry at lewis and short's latin dictionary, online at perseus.org. 	^ haverfield, f j, "the name augustus", journal of roman studies, ( ), pp. ‑ , citing ennius, annales, m. ( v.) "augusto augurio postquam incluta condita romast". available from penelope.uchicago.edu 	^ cassius dio|roman history][ ], . . 	^ haverfield, f j, "the name augustus", journal of roman studies, ( ), pp. ‑ , available from penelope.uchicago.edu octavian was also an augur. haverfield surmises that the choice of "augustus" as the name might also have meant to overshadow the legend "aug" on coins issued by his defeated enemy pompey' – where "aug" signifies pompey's status as an augur, defeated with the help of augustus' superior augury. 	^ wacher, john ( ). the roman world, volume ii. london: routledge. p.  . isbn  . 	^ ferguson, john ( ). the religions of the roman empire. ithaca, ny: cornell university press. p.  . isbn  . 	^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m strothmann, meret (bochum) ( - - ). 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their friendship proved mutually beneficial.[ ] gratian liked and respected his tutor, and when he himself became emperor in he began bestowing on ausonius and his family the highest civil honors. that year ausonius was made praetorian prefect of gaul, campaigned against the alemanni and received as part of his booty a slave-girl, bissula (to whom he addressed a poem), while his father, though nearly ninety years old, was given the rank of prefect of illyricum. in ausonius's son, hesperius, was made proconsul of africa. in ausonius was awarded the consulate, the highest roman honor.[ ] in the army of britain, led by magnus maximus, revolted against gratian and assassinated him at lyons; and when emperor valentinian ii was driven out of italy, ausonius retired to his estates near burdigala (now bordeaux) in gaul.[ ] when magnus maximus was overthrown by emperor theodosius i in , ausonius did not leave his country estates. they were, he says, his nidus senectutis, the "nest of his old age", and there he spent the rest of his days, composing poetry and writing to many eminent contemporaries, several of whom had been his pupils. his estates supposedly included the land now owned by château ausone, which takes its name from him. ausonius appears to have been a late and perhaps not very enthusiastic convert to christianity.[ ] he died about .[ ] his grandson, paulinus of pella, was also a poet; his works attest to the devastation which ausonius's gaul would face soon after his death. list of his works[edit] 	epigramata de diversis rebus. about epigrams on various topics. 	ephemeris. a description of the occupations of the day from morning till evening, in various meters, composed before . only the beginning and end are preserved. 	parentalia. poems of various lengths, mostly in elegiac meter, on deceased relations, composed after his consulate, when he had already been a widower for years. 	commemoratio professorum burdigalensium or professores. a continuation of the parentalia, dealing with the famous teachers of his native bordeaux whom he had known. 	epitaphia. epitaphs of heroes from the trojan war, translated from greek 	caesares. on the emperors described by suetonius. 	ordo urbium nobilium. pieces, dealing with towns (rome to bordeaux), in hexameters, and composed after the downfall of maximus in . 	ludus vii sapientium.[ ] a kind of puppet play in which the seven wise men appear successively and have their say. 	the so-called idyllia. pieces are grouped under this arbitrary title, the most famous of which is the mosella.[ ] it also includes: 	griphus ternarii numeri 	de aetatibus hesiodon 	monosticha de aerumnis herculis 	de ambiguitate eligendae vitae sculpture of ausonius in bordeaux by bertrand piéchaud [fr] 	de viro bono 	est et non 	de rosis nascentibus (dubious) 	versus paschales 	epicedion in patrem 	technopaegnion 	cento nuptialis, composed of lines and half-lines of vergil. 	bissula 	protrepticus 	genethliacon 	eglogarum liber. a collection of all kinds of astronomical and astrological versifications in epic and elegiac meter. 	epistolarum liber. verse letters in various meters. 	ad gratianum gratiarum actio pro consulatu. prose speech of thanks to the emperor gratian on the occasion of attaining the consulship, delivered at treves in . 	periochae homeri iliadis et odyssiae. a prose summary of homer's iliad and odyssey, attributed to but probably not written by ausonius. 	praefatiunculae. prefaces by the poet to various collections of his poems, including a response to the emperor theodosius i's request for his poems. some characteristics of his works[edit] although admired by his contemporaries, the writings of ausonius have not since been ranked among latin literature's finest. his style is easy and fluent, and his mosella is appreciated for its evocation of the life and country along the river moselle; but he is considered derivative and unoriginal. edward gibbon pronounced in his decline and fall of the roman empire that "the poetical fame of ausonius condemns the taste of his age." [ ] however, his works have several points of interest; for example: . his references to winemaking, frequently cited by historians as early evidence of large-scale viticulture in the now-famous wine country around his native bordeaux. . his contribution to the carpe diem topic (if the following poem is indeed his): 	 collige, virgo, rosas, dum flos novus et nova pubes et memor esto aevum sic properare tuum. 	 gather, girl, roses while the flower is fresh and fresh is youth, remembering that your own time is hurrying on. 	—epigrammata: «rosae» : 	 . his somewhat unique cento nuptialis,[ ] in which he fulfils an imperial commission to compose an epithalamium using the "love is war" trope[ ] by writing it in the form of a cento (in other words, a mashup) lifting lines from vergil: 	 itque reditque viam totiens | uteroque recusso transadigit costas | et pectine pulsat eburno. iamque fere spatio extremo fessique sub ipsam finem adventabant: | tum creber anhelitus artus aridaque ora quatit, sudor fluit undique rivis, labitur exsanguis, | destillat ab inguine virus. 	 back and forth he plies his path and, the cavity reverberating, thrusts between the bones, and strikes with ivory quill. and now, their journey covered, wearily they neared their very goal: then rapid breathing shakes his limbs and parched mouth, his sweat in rivers flows; down he slumps bloodless; the fluid drips from his groin. 	 	 saw mill[edit] scheme of a water-driven roman sawmill at hierapolis, asia minor. the rd century mill is the earliest known machine to incorporate a crank and connecting rod mechanism.[ ] his writings are also remarkable for mentioning, in passing, the working of a water mill sawing marble on a tributary of the moselle: ....renowned is celbis for glorious fish, and that other, as he turns his mill-stones in furious revolutions and drives the shrieking saws through smooth blocks of marble, hears from either bank a ceaseless din... modern reconstruction of sutter's mill, a water-powered th century californian sawmill. the excerpt sheds new light on the development of roman technology in using water power for different applications. it is one of the rare references in roman literature to water mills used to cut stone, but is a logical consequence of the application of water power to mechanical sawing of stone (and presumably wood also). earlier references to the widespread use of mills occur in vitruvius in his de architectura of circa bc, and the naturalis historia of pliny the elder published in ad. such applications of mills were to multiply again after the fall of the empire through the middle ages into the modern era. the mills at barbegal in southern france are famous for their application of water power to grinding grain to make flour and were built in the st century ad. they consisted of mills in a parallel sequence on a hill near arles. the construction of a saw mill is even simpler than a flour or grinding mill, since no gearing is needed, and the rotary saw blade can be driven direct from the water wheel axle, as the example of sutter's mill in california shows. however, a different mechanism is shown by the sawmill at hieropolis involving a frame saw operated through a crank and connecting rod. see also[edit] 	ausones, ausonia 	château ausone 	french wine 	list of wine personalities 	roman aqueducts 	roman engineering 	roman technology 	tiberianus 	watermills notes[edit] 	^ harvard magazine, harvard alumni association, university of michigan, p. 	^ a b the cambridge history of classical literature, edward john kenney, cambridge university press, p. 	^ trout, dennis e., paulinus of nola: life, letters, and poems, university of california press, , p. isbn  	^ a b c d chisholm . 	^ "ausonius: septem sapientum sententiae". thelatinlibrary.com. 	^ "ausonius mosella". dickinson.edu. 	^ note to chapter xxvii 	^ translated as a nuptial cento by h.g. evelyn-white for loeb classical library 	^ see, for example, the discussion in ausonius and proba on “love is war” and brutalizing men’s sexuality (retrieved, july, ). 	^ ritti, grewe & kessener , p.  references[edit] 	ritti, tullia; grewe, klaus; kessener, paul ( ), "a relief of a water-powered stone saw mill on a sarcophagus at hierapolis and its implications", journal of roman archaeology, : – , doi: . /s 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "ausonius, decimus magnus". encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. pp.  – . 	baynes, t. s., ed. ( – ). "decimus magnus ausonius" . encyclopædia britannica ( th ed.). new york: charles scribner's sons. further reading[edit] 	booth, alan d. . "the academic career of ausonius." phoenix : – . 	brown, peter. . in through the eye of a needle: wealth, the fall of rome, and the making of christianity in the west, - ad princeton: princeton university press, – . 	della corte, francesco. . “bissula.” romanobarbarica : – . 	dill, samuel. . "the society of aquitaine in the time of ausonius." in roman society in the last century of the western empire. london: macmillan, - . 	green, r. p. h. . "ausonius’ fasti and caesares revisited." classical quarterly : – . 	kay, n. m. . ausonius: epigrams. london: duckworth. 	knight, gillian r. . "friendship and erotics in the late antique verse-epistle: ausonius to paulinus revisited." rheinisches museum : – . 	shanzer, danuta. . "the date and literary context of ausonius's mosella: valentinian i's alemannic campaigns and an unnamed office-holder." historia . : - . 	sivan, hagith. . ausonius of bordeaux: genesis of a gallic aristocracy. london and new york: routledge. 	sivan, hagith. . "the dedicatory presentation in late antiquity: the example of ausonius." illinois classical studies . : - . 	sowers, brian p. . "amicitia and late antique nugae: reading ausonius' reading community." american journal of philology. . : - . 	taylor, rabun. . 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		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 st-century bc and ad roman politician, historian and writer for the st-century consul, see gaius asinius pollio (consul ). gaius asinius pollio ( bc – ad )[ ] was a roman soldier, politician, orator, poet, playwright, literary critic and historian, whose lost contemporary history provided much of the material used by the historians appian and plutarch. pollio was most famously a patron of virgil and a friend of horace and had poems dedicated to him by both men.[ ] contents 	 early life 	 political career 	 time in hispania 	 role in civil war 	 later life 	 personal life 	 legacy 	 see also 	 references 	 sources early life[edit] asinius pollio was born in teate marrucinorum, the modern current chieti in abruzzi, central italy. according to an inscription his father was called gnaeus asinius pollio.[ ] he had a brother called asinius marrucinus, whom catullus calls out for his tasteless practical joke,[ ] whose name suggests a family origin among the marrucini. he may therefore have been the grandson of herius asinius, a plebeian and a general of the marrucini who fought on the italian side in the social war.[ ] pollio moved in the literary circle of catullus, and entered public life in bc by supporting lentulus spinther. in he unsuccessfully impeached gaius cato, a distant relative of the more famous cato the younger. gaius porcius cato had acted as the tool of the triumvirs pompey, crassus and caesar in his tribunate in . political career[edit] despite his initial support of lentulus spinther, in the civil war between caesar and pompey, pollio sided with caesar. he was present when caesar deliberated whether to cross the rubicon and begin the war.[ ] after pompey and the senate fled to greece, caesar sent pollio to sicily to relieve cato of his command.[ ] he and gaius scribonius curio were sent to africa to fight the province's governor, the pompeian publius attius varus. curio defeated varus at utica, despite his opponents' poisoning of the water supply. curio marched to face pompey's ally king juba of numidia, but was defeated and killed, along with all his men, on the bagradas river. pollio managed to retreat to utica with a small force.[ ] he was present as caesar's legate at the battle of pharsalus in , and recorded pompeian casualties at , .[ ] in pollio was probably tribune, and resisted the efforts of another tribune, publius cornelius dolabella, to cancel all debts. the following year he returned to africa, this time with caesar himself, in pursuit of cato and metellus scipio.[ ] time in hispania[edit] when caesar was assassinated in , pollio was leading his forces in hispania against sextus pompeius, and distinguishing himself early in the campaign.[ ] he had accepted the commission reluctantly because of a personal enmity with another of caesar's allies. marcus aemilius lepidus was appointed the new governor of the province,[ ] but pollio, while remaining loyal to caesar's supporters, held out against him, announcing at corduba that he would not hand over his province to anyone who did not have a commission from the senate.[ ] a few months later his quaestor, lucius cornelius balbus, absconded from gades with the money intended to pay the soldiers, and fled to mauretania.[ ] pollio was then so severely defeated by pompeius that he had to escape the battlefield in disguise.[ ] role in civil war[edit] pollio vacillated between mark antony and octavian as civil war between them brewed,[ ] but ultimately threw in his lot with antony.[ ] antony, lepidus, and octavian soon joined forces in the second triumvirate. in their series of bloody proscriptions, pollio's father-in-law, lucius quintius, was one of the first to be marked for murder. he fled by sea, but committed suicide by throwing himself overboard.[ ] in the division of the provinces, gaul fell to antony, who entrusted pollio with the administration of gallia transpadana (the part of cisalpine gaul between the po and the alps).[ ] in superintending the distribution of the mantuan territory amongst the veterans, he used his influence to save from confiscation the property of the poet virgil. in pollio helped to arrange the peace of brundisium by which octavian and antony were for a time reconciled. in the same year pollio entered upon his consulship, which had been promised him in by the second triumvirate. virgil addressed the famous fourth eclogue to him, though there is uncertainty regarding whether virgil composed the poem in anticipation of pollio's consulship or to celebrate his part in the treaty of brundisium. virgil, like other romans, hoped that peace was at hand and looked forward to a golden age under pollio's consulship. however, pollio did not complete his consular year. he and his co-consul were removed from office by antony and octavian in the final months of the year. the following year pollio conducted a successful campaign against the parthini, an illyrian people who adhered to marcus junius brutus,[ ] and celebrated a triumph on october. virgil's eighth eclogue was addressed to pollio while he was engaged in this campaign. in octavian asked him to take part in the battle of actium against antony, but pollio, remembering the kindness that antony had shown him, remained neutral.[ ] later life[edit] from the spoils of the war pollio constructed the first public library at rome, in the atrium libertatis, also erected by him,[ ] which he adorned with statues of the most celebrated heroes. the library had greek and latin wings, and reportedly its establishment posthumously fulfilled one of caesar's ambitions. there was a magnificent art collection attached to this library.[ ] pollio loved hellenistic art at its most imaginative, even including the rather extravagant group known as the farnese bull. like the library, the art gallery was open to the public. after his military and political successes, pollio appears to have retired into private life as a patron of literary figures and a writer. he was known as a severe literary critic, fond of an archaic style and purity. in retirement, pollio organized literary readings where he encouraged authors to read their own work, and he was the first roman author to recite his own works. one of the most dramatic such readings brought the poet virgil to the attention of the imperial family, when virgil read from his work-in-progress the aeneid, and flattered the imperial family by his portrayal of aeneas, whom the julii caesares believed to be their direct patrilineal ancestor. as a result, virgil was praised by augustus himself.[ ] pollio may have died in his villa at tusculum. he was apparently a staunch republican, and thus held himself somewhat aloof from augustus. personal life[edit] married to quinctia, daughter of lucius quinctius, who was executed in , pollio is also notable as the father of gaius asinius gallus saloninus, the second husband of vipsania agrippina, daughter of marcus vipsanius agrippa, augustus's partner, second-in-command and second son-in-law. gallus and vipsania had several sons together, two of whom were full consuls and a third was consul suffectus. legacy[edit] pollio's contemporary history, though itself lost, provided much of the material for the historians appian and plutarch. as such, he significantly influenced posterity's perception of his time — a key moment in roman history. according to the poet horace (odes . . – ), he dated the start of the civil wars to the consulship of quintus metellus celer in bc. johan rudolph thorbecke, a dutch statesman of the th century, wrote a thesis about pollio at the university of leiden. pollio makes a cameo appearance in robert graves's novel i, claudius, where he discusses the ethics of writing history with young claudius and titus livius. see also[edit] 	pollio references[edit] 	^ jerome (chronicon ) says he died in ad in the seventieth year of his life, which would place the year of his birth at bc. 	^ 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rome supporting mark antony ptolemaic egypt 	commanders and leaders 	 octavian marcus agrippa lucius arruntius marcus lurius	 mark antony gaius sosius lucius gellius poplicola cleopatra 	strength 	 galleys [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] , archers , infantry on ships	 larger galleys [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] – transports , infantry on ships , archers 	casualties and losses 	 about , killed	 over , killed ships sunk or captured 	 location within greece the battle of actium was a naval battle in the last war of the roman republic, fought between the fleet of octavian and the combined forces of mark antony and queen cleopatra of egypt. it took place on september bc in the ionian sea near the promontory of actium in greece. octavian's victory enabled him to consolidate his power over rome and its dominions. he adopted the title of princeps ("first citizen") and in bc was awarded the title of augustus ("revered") by the roman senate. this became the name by which he was known in later times. as augustus, he retained the trappings of a restored republican leader, but historians generally view his consolidation of power and the adoption of these honorifics as the end of the roman republic and the beginning of the roman empire.[ ] contents 	 prelude 	 battle 	 . order of battle 	 . combat 	 . alternative theories 	 aftermath 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links prelude[edit] further information: early life of cleopatra and reign of cleopatra a roman bust of the consul and triumvir mark antony, vatican museums a reconstructed statue of augustus as a younger octavian, dated c. bc the alliance among octavian, mark antony and marcus lepidus, commonly known as the second triumvirate, was renewed for a five-year term in bc. but the triumvirate broke down when octavian saw caesarion, the professed son of julius caesar[ ] and queen cleopatra vii of egypt, as a major threat to his power.[ ] this occurred when mark antony, the other most influential member of the triumvirate, abandoned his wife, octavian's sister octavia minor. afterward he moved to egypt to start a long-term romance with cleopatra, becoming caesarion's de facto stepfather. octavian and the majority of the roman senate saw antony as leading a separatist movement that threatened to break the roman republic's unity.[citation needed] ballistae on a roman ship octavian's prestige and, more importantly, his legions' loyalty had been boosted by julius caesar's legacy of bc, by which he was officially adopted as caesar's only son and the sole legitimate heir of his enormous wealth. antony had been the most important and most successful senior officer in caesar's army (magister equitum) and, thanks to his military record, claimed a substantial share of the political support of caesar's soldiers and veterans. both octavian and antony had fought against their common enemies in the liberators' civil war that followed the assassination of caesar. after years of loyal cooperation with octavian, antony started to act independently, eventually arousing his rival's suspicion that he was vying to become sole master of rome. when he left octavia minor and moved to alexandria to become cleopatra's official partner, many roman politicians suspected that he was trying to become the unchecked ruler of egypt and other eastern kingdoms while still maintaining his command over the many roman legions in the east.[citation needed] as a personal challenge to octavian's prestige, antony tried to get caesarion accepted as a true heir of caesar, even though the legacy did not mention him. antony and cleopatra formally elevated caesarion, then , to power in bc, giving him the title "king of the kings" (donations of alexandria).[ ][ ] such an entitlement was seen as a threat to roman republican traditions.[citation needed] it was widely believed that antony had once offered caesarion a diadem.[citation needed] thereafter, octavian started a propaganda war, denouncing antony as an enemy of rome and asserting that he intended to establish a monarchy over the roman empire on caesarion's behalf, circumventing the roman senate.[citation needed] it was also said that antony intended to move the imperial capital to alexandria.[ ][ ] as the second triumvirate formally expired on the last day of bc, antony wrote to the senate that he did not wish to be reappointed. he hoped that it might regard him as its champion against the ambition of octavian, whom he presumed would not be willing to abandon his position in a similar manner.[citation needed] the causes of mutual dissatisfaction between the two had been accumulating. antony complained that octavian had exceeded his powers in deposing lepidus, in taking over the countries held by sextus pompeius and in enlisting soldiers for himself without sending half to him. octavian complained that antony had no authority to be in egypt; that his execution of sextus pompeius was illegal; that his treachery to the king of armenia disgraced the roman name; that he had not sent half the proceeds of the spoils to rome according to his agreement; and that his connection with cleopatra and acknowledgment of caesarion as a legitimate son of caesar were a degradation of his office and a menace to himself.[ ] in bc, one-third of the senate and both consuls, gnaeus domitius ahenobarbus and gaius sosius, allied with antony. the consuls had determined to conceal the extent of antony's demands. ahenobarbus seems to have wished to keep quiet, but on january sosius made an elaborate speech in favor of antony, and would have proposed the confirmation of his act had it not been vetoed by a tribune. octavian was not present, but at the next meeting made a reply that provoked both consuls to leave rome to join antony; antony, when he heard of it, after publicly divorcing octavia, went at once to ephesus with cleopatra, where a vast fleet was gathered from all parts of the east, of which cleopatra furnished a large proportion.[ ] after staying with his allies at samos, antony moved to athens. his land forces, which had been in armenia, came down to the coast of asia and embarked under publius canidius crassus.[ ] octavian kept up his strategic preparations. military operations began in bc, when his general agrippa captured methone, a greek town allied to antony. but by the publication of antony's will, which lucius munatius plancus had put into octavian's hands, and by carefully letting it be known in rome what preparations were going on at samos and how antony was effectively acting as the agent of cleopatra, octavian produced such a violent outburst of feeling that he easily obtained antony's deposition from the consulship of bc, for which antony had been designated. in addition to the deposition, octavian procured a proclamation of war against cleopatra. this was well understood to mean against antony, though he was not named.[ ] in issuing a war declaration, the senate deprived antony of any legal authority. battle[edit] antony meant to anticipate an attack by a descent upon italy toward the end of bc, and went as far as corcyra. finding the sea guarded by a squadron of octavian's ships, he retired to winter at patrae while his fleet for the most part lay in the ambracian gulf and his land forces encamped near the promontory of actium, while the opposite side of the narrow strait into the ambracian gulf was protected by a tower and troops.[ ] after octavian's proposals for a conference with antony were scornfully rejected, both sides prepared for the struggle the next year. the early months passed without any notable events, other than some successful forays by agrippa along the coasts of greece, primarily designed to divert antony's attention. in august, troops landed near antony's camp on the north side of the strait. still, antony could not be tempted out. it took some months for his full strength to arrive from the various places in which his allies or his ships had wintered. during these months agrippa continued his attacks upon greek towns along the coast, while octavian's forces engaged in various successful cavalry skirmishes, so that antony abandoned the strait's north side between the ambracian gulf and the ionian sea and confined his soldiers to the southern camp. cleopatra now advised that garrisons be put into strong towns and that the main fleet return to alexandria. the large contingent furnished by egypt gave her advice as much weight as her personal influence over antony, and it appears that this movement was agreed to.[ ] octavian learned of this and debated how to prevent it. at first of a mind to let antony sail and then attack him, he was prevailed upon by agrippa to give battle.[ ] on september he addressed his fleet, preparing them for battle. the next day was wet and the sea was rough. when the trumpet signal for the start rang out, antony's fleet began issuing from the straits and the ships moved into line and remained quiet. octavian, after a short hesitation, ordered his vessels to steer to the right and pass the enemy's ships. for fear of being surrounded, antony was forced to give the word to attack.[ ] order of battle[edit] order of battle. the two fleets met outside the gulf of actium (today preveza) on the morning of september. antony's fleet numbered ,[ ] of which were large war galleys with towers full of armed men. he led them through the straits towards the open sea. octavian had about warships.[ ] his fleet was waiting beyond the straits, led by the experienced admiral agrippa, commanding from the left wing of the fleet, lucius arruntius the centre[ ] and marcus lurius the right.[ ] titus statilius taurus[ ] commanded octavian's armies, and observed the battle from shore to the north of the straits. antony and lucius gellius poplicola commanded the antonian fleet's right wing, while marcus octavius and marcus insteius commanded the centre,[ ] with cleopatra's squadron behind them. sosius launched the initial attack from the fleet's left wing while antony's chief lieutenant publius canidius crassus commanded the triumvir's land forces.[ ] pelling notes that the two former consuls on antony's side commanding the wings indicates that it was there that the major action was expected to take place. octavius and insteius, commanding antony's center, were lower-profile figures.[ ] combat[edit] 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (february ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) it is estimated that antony had around ships,[ ] to octavian's . what antony lacked in quantity was made up for in quality: his ships were mainly the standard roman warship, quinqueremes with smaller quadriremes, heavier and wider than octavian's, making them ideal weapon platforms.[ ] antony's personal flagship, like his admirals', was a "ten". an "eight" war galley had around heavy marines, archers and at least six ballista catapults. larger than octavian's ships, antony's war galleys were very difficult to board in close combat and his troops were able to rain missiles onto smaller and lower ships. the galleys' bows were armoured with bronze plates and square-cut timbers, making a successful ramming attack with similar equipment difficult. the only way to disable such a ship was to smash its oars, rendering it immobile and isolated from the rest of its fleet. antony's ships' main weakness was lack of maneuverability; such a ship, once isolated from its fleet, could be swamped with boarding attacks. also, many of his ships were undermanned with rowing crews; there had been a severe malaria outbreak while they were waiting for octavian's fleet to arrive.[ ] octavian's fleet was largely made up of smaller "liburnian" vessels.[ ] his ships, though smaller, were still manageable in the heavy surf and could outmanoeuvre antony's ships, get in close, attack the above-deck crew with arrows and ballista-launched stones, and retreat.[ ] moreover, his crews were better-trained, professional, well-fed and rested. a medium ballista could penetrate the sides of most warships at close range and had an effective range of around yards. most ballistas were aimed at the marines on the ships' fighting decks. before the battle one of antony's generals, quintus dellius, defected to octavian, bringing with him antony's battle plans.[ ] shortly after midday, antony was forced to extend his line from the protection of the shore and finally engage the enemy. seeing this, octavian's fleet put to sea. antony had hoped to use his biggest ships to drive back agrippa's wing on the north end of his line, but octavian's entire fleet, aware of this strategy, stayed out of range. by about noon the fleets were in formation but octavian refused to be drawn out, so antony was forced to attack. the battle raged all afternoon without decisive result. cleopatra's fleet, in the rear, retreated to the open sea without engaging. a breeze sprang up in the right direction and the egyptian ships were soon out of sight.[ ] lange argues that antony would have had victory within reach were it not for cleopatra's retreat.[ ] antony had not observed the signal, and believing that it was mere panic and all was lost, followed the flying squadron. the contagion spread fast; everywhere sails unfurled and towers and other heavy fighting gear went by the board. some fought on, and only long after nightfall, when many a ship was blazing from the firebrands thrown upon them, was the work done.[ ] making the best of the situation, antony burned the ships he could no longer man while clustering the remainder tightly together. with many oarsmen dead or unfit to serve, the powerful, head-on ramming tactic for which the octaries had been designed was now impossible. antony transferred to a smaller vessel with his flag and managed to escape, taking a few ships with him as an escort to help break through octavian's lines. those left behind were captured or sunk. j. m. carter gives a differing account of the battle. he postulates that antony knew he was surrounded and had nowhere to run. to turn this to his advantage, he gathered his ships around him in a quasi-horseshoe formation, staying close to the shore for safety. then, should octavian's ships approach his, the sea would push them into the shore. antony foresaw that he would not be able to defeat octavian's forces, so he and cleopatra stayed in the rear of the formation. eventually antony sent the ships on the northern part of the formation to attack. he had them move out to the north, spreading out octavian's ships, which until this point were tightly arranged. he sent sosius to spread the remaining ships to the south. this left a hole in the middle of octavian's formation. antony seized the opportunity and, with cleopatra on her ship and him on a different ship, sped through the gap and escaped, abandoning his entire force. with the end of the battle, octavian exerted himself to save the crews of the burning vessels and spent the whole night on board. the next day, as much of the land army had not escaped to their own lands, submitted, or were followed in their retreat to macedonia and forced to surrender, antony's camp was occupied, bringing an end to the war.[ ] alternative theories[edit] scientists researching the "dead water" phenomenon are investigating whether the egyptian fleet may have been trapped in dead water, which can reduce a ship to "traveling at perhaps as little as % of its normal speed."[ ][ ] aftermath[edit] further information: death of cleopatra a (restructured) roman statue of cleopatra wearing a diadem and 'melon' hairstyle similar to coinage portraits, marble, found near the tomba di nerone, rome along the via cassia, museo pio-clementino[ ][ ][ ] the battle had extensive political consequences. under cover of darkness some legions and , cavalry fled before antony was able to engage octavian in a land battle. thus, after antony lost his fleet, his army, which had been equal to octavian's, deserted. though he had not laid down his imperium, antony was a fugitive and a rebel without that shadow of a legal position the presence of the consuls and senators had given him in the previous year. some of the victorious fleet went in pursuit of him, but octavian visited greece and asia and spent the winter at samos, though he had to briefly visit brundisium to settle a mutiny and arrange for assignations of land.[ ] at samos octavian received a message from cleopatra with the present of a gold crown and throne, offering to abdicate in favor of her sons. she was allowed to believe that she would be well treated, for octavian was anxious to secure her for his triumph. antony, who had found himself generally deserted, after vainly attempting to secure the army stationed near paraetonium under pinarius and sending his eldest son antyllus with money to octavian and an offer to live at athens as a private citizen, found himself in the spring attacked on two sides. cornelius gallus was advancing from paraetonium and octavian landed at pelusium, with the connivance, it was believed, of cleopatra. antony was defeated by gallus and, returning to egypt, advanced on pelusium. despite a victory at alexandria on july bc, more of antony's men deserted, leaving him with insufficient forces to fight octavian. a slight success over octavian's tired soldiers encouraged him to make a general attack, in which he was decisively beaten. failing to escape by ship, he stabbed himself in the stomach upon mistakenly believing false rumours propagated by cleopatra claiming that she had committed suicide.[ ][ ] he did not die at once, and when he found out that cleopatra was still alive, he insisted on being taken to the mausoleum where she was hiding, and died in her arms. she was soon brought to the palace and vainly attempted to move octavian to pity.[ ] cleopatra killed herself on august bc. most accounts say she put an end to her life by the bite of an asp conveyed to her in a basket of figs.[ ] octavian had caesarion killed later that month, finally securing his legacy as caesar's only 'son'. octavian's victory at actium gave him sole, uncontested control of "mare nostrum" ("our sea", i.e., the roman mediterranean) and he became "augustus caesar" and the "first citizen" of rome. the victory, consolidating his power over every roman institution, marked rome's transition from republic to empire. egypt's surrender after cleopatra's death marked the demise of both the hellenistic period and the ptolemaic kingdom,[ ] turning it into a roman province. see also[edit] 	antony and cleopatra 	nicopolis notes[edit] 	^ a b tarn, w. w. ( ). "the battle of actium". journal of roman studies. ( ): – . doi: . / . jstor  . 	^ a b bowman, craig ( may ). " , men, ships: excavation reveals size of antony & cleopatra's fleet". war history online. retrieved october . 	^ a b keys, david ( march ). "secrets of horrific battle with cleopatra that gave birth to roman empire revealed by ancient monument". the independent. retrieved october . 	^ a b lendering, jona ( october ). "actium ( bce)". livius.org. retrieved october . 	^ a b whipps, heather (march , ). "how the battle of actium changed the world". live science. retrieved october . 	^ a b kellum, barbara (september ). "representations and re-presentations of the battle of actium". oxford scholarship online. retrieved october . doi: . /acprof:oso/ . . 	^ a b migiro, geoffrey ( december ). "what was the battle of actium?". worldatlas. retrieved october . 	^ davis, paul k. ( ). decisive battles: from ancient times to the present. new york: oxford university press. p.  . isbn  - . oclc  . 	^ roller, duane w. ( ). cleopatra: a biography. us: oxford university press. pp.  – . 	^ fowler, paul; grocock, christopher; melville, james ( ). ocr ancient history gcse component  : rome. london: bloomsbury publishing. p.  . isbn  - - - - . oclc  . 	^ david & david , p.  . 	^ kebric , p.  . 	^ potter , p.  . 	^ scullard , p.  . 	^ a b shuckburgh , pp.  – . 	^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m shuckburgh , pp.  – . 	^ dio cassius : [ ] 	^ shuckburgh , p.  . 	^ a b plutarch, antony, – ; 	^ a b c velleius paterculus, history of rome, ii. . 	^ pelling , p.  . 	^ shuckburgh , pp.  – , says . 	^ plutarch, the life of antony, 	^ dio cassius : [ ] 	^ dio, roman history . 	^ cassius dio, roman history . . – 	^ lange, carsten (december ). "the battle of actium: a reconsideration". classical quarterly. new series, ( ): – . doi: . /s . jstor  . retrieved november . 	^ cnrs ( july ). 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( ). a biographical dictionary of ancient egypt. routledge. isbn  - . 	everitt, anthony ( ), augustus: the life of rome's first emperor, new york: random house, isbn  - - - 	kebric, robert b. ( ). roman people. mcgraw-hill. isbn  - . 	pelling, c.b.r., ed. ( ). plutarch: life of antony. cambridge university press. isbn  - - - . 	potter, d.s. ( ). rome in the ancient world: from romulus to justinian. thames & hudson. isbn  - . 	scullard, h. h. ( ). from the gracchi to nero: a history of rome bc to ad . routledge. isbn  - . 	shuckburgh, evelyn shirley ( ). a history of rome to the battle of actium. new york: macmillan and company. this article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. further reading[edit] 	military heritage published a feature about the battle of actium (joseph m. horodyski, august , volume , no. , pp.  – , ), issn  - . 	califf, david j. 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	cursus honorum 	senatus consultum 	senatus consultum ultimum 	 assemblies 	 	centuriate 	curiate 	plebeian 	tribal 	 ordinary magistrates 	 	consul 	praetor 	quaestor 	promagistrate 	aedile 	tribune 	censor 	governor 	 extraordinary magistrates 	 	corrector 	dictator 	magister equitum 	consular tribune 	rex 	triumviri 	decemviri 	 titles and honours 	 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	praeses 	praefectus 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 	 	other countries 		v 	t 	e the centuriate assembly (latin: comitia centuriata) of the roman republic was one of the three voting assemblies in the roman constitution. it was named the centuriate assembly as it originally divided roman citizens into groups of one hundred men by classes. the centuries initially reflected military status, but were later based on the wealth of their members. the centuries gathered into the centuriate assembly for legislative, electoral, and judicial purposes. the majority of votes in any century decided how that century voted. each century received one vote, regardless of how many electors each century held. once a majority of centuries voted in the same way on a given measure, the voting ended, and the matter was decided.[ ] only the centuriate assembly could declare war or elect the highest-ranking roman magistrates: consuls, praetors and censors.[ ] the centuriate assembly could also pass a law that granted constitutional command authority, or "imperium", to consuls and praetors (the lex de imperio or "law on imperium"), and censorial powers to censors (the lex de potestate censoria or "law on censorial powers").[ ] in addition, the centuriate assembly served as the highest court of appeal in certain judicial cases (in particular, cases involving perduellio), and ratified the results of a census.[ ] since the romans used a form of direct democracy, citizens, and not elected representatives, voted before each assembly. as such, the citizen-electors had no power, other than the power to cast a vote. each assembly was presided over by a single roman magistrate, and as such, it was the presiding magistrate who made all decisions on matters of procedure and legality. ultimately, the presiding magistrate's power over the assembly was nearly absolute.[citation needed] the only check on that power came in the form of vetoes handed down by other magistrates. any decision made by a presiding magistrate could be vetoed by a tribune of the plebs, or by a higher-ranked magistrate (for example, a consul could veto a praetor). contents 	 assembly procedure 	 presiding magistrate and elections 	 servian organization ( - bc) 	 reorganization ( bc- bc) 	 see also 	 references 	 notes 	 further reading 	 . primary sources 	 . secondary source material assembly procedure[edit] in the roman system of direct democracy, two primary types of assembly were used to vote on legislative, electoral, and judicial matters. the first was the committee (comitia, literally "going together" or "meeting place").[ ] the centuriate assembly was a committee. committees were assemblies of all citizens,[ ] and were used for official purposes, such as for the enactment of laws. acts of a committee applied to all of the members of that committee. the second type of assembly was the council (concilium), which was a forum where specific groups of citizens met for official purposes.[ ] in contrast, the convention (conventio, literally "coming together") was an unofficial forum for communication. conventions were simply forums where romans met for specific unofficial purposes, such as, for example, to hear a political speech.[ ] private citizens who did not hold political office could only speak before a convention, and not before a committee or a council.[ ] conventions were simply meetings, and no legal or legislative decisions could be made in one. voters always assembled first into conventions to hear debates and conduct other business before voting, and then into committees or councils to actually vote.[ ] a notice always had to be given several days before the assembly was to actually vote. for elections, at least three market-days (often more than seventeen actual days) had to pass between the announcement of the election, and the actual election. during this time period (the trinundinum), the candidates interacted with the electorate, and no legislation could be proposed or voted upon. in bc, a law was passed (the lex caecilia didia) which required a similar three market-day interval to pass between the proposal of a law and the vote on that law.[ ] during criminal trials, the assembly's presiding magistrate had to give a notice (diem dicere) to the accused person on the first day of the investigation (anquisito). at the end of each day, the magistrate had to give another notice to the accused person (diem prodicere), which informed him of the status of the investigation. after the investigation was complete, a three market-day interval had to elapse before a final vote could be taken with respect to conviction or acquittal.[ ] only one assembly could operate at any given point in time, and any session already underway could be dissolved if a magistrate "called away" (avocare) the electors.[ ] in addition to the presiding magistrate, several additional magistrates were often present to act as assistants. they were available to help resolve procedural disputes, and to provide a mechanism through which electors could appeal decisions of the presiding magistrate.[ ] there were also religious officials (known as augurs) either in attendance or on-call, who would be available to help interpret any signs from the gods (omens), since the romans believed that their gods let their approval or disapproval with proposed actions be known.[ ] in addition, a preliminary search for omens (auspices) was conducted by the presiding magistrate the night before any meeting.[ ] on several known occasions, presiding magistrates used the claim of unfavorable omens as an excuse to suspend a session that was not going the way they wanted. in , the presiding magistrate, tiberius sempronius gracchus, even cancelled the elections of the consuls publius cornelius scipio nasica corculum and gaius marcius figulus because he found he had not conducted the auspices correctly; the consuls were forced to abdicate and new elections were organised.[ ][ ] on the day of the vote, the electors first assembled into their conventions for debate and campaigning.[ ] in the conventions, the electors were not sorted into their respective centuries. speeches from private citizens were only heard if the issue to be voted upon was a legislative or judicial matter, and even then, only if the citizen received permission from the presiding magistrate.[ ] if the purpose of the ultimate vote was for an election, no speeches from private citizens were heard, and instead, the candidates for office used the convention to campaign.[ ] during the convention, the bill to be voted upon was read to the assembly by an officer known as a "herald". a tribune of the plebs could use his veto against pending legislation up until this point, but not after.[ ] the electors were then told to break up the convention ("depart to your separate groups", or discedite, quirites), and assemble into their formal century. the electors assembled behind a fenced off area[ ] and voted by placing a pebble or written ballot into an appropriate jar.[ ] the baskets (cistae) that held the votes were watched by specific officers (the custodes), who then counted the ballots, and reported the results to the presiding magistrate. the majority of votes in any century decided how that century voted.[ ] if the process was not complete by nightfall, the electors were dismissed without having reached a decision, and the process had to begin again the next day.[ ] chart showing the checks and balances of the constitution of the roman republic presiding magistrate and elections[edit] the presiding magistrate sat on a special chair (the "curule chair"), wore a purple-bordered toga, and was accompanied by bodyguards called lictors. each lictor carried the symbol of state power, the fasces, which was a bundle of white birch rods, tied together with a red leather ribbon into a cylinder, and with a blade on the side, projecting from the bundle. while the voters in this assembly wore white undecorated togas and were unarmed, they were still soldiers, and as such they could not meet inside of the physical boundary of the city of rome (the pomerium). because of this, as well as the large size of the assembly (as many as centuries), the assembly often met on the field of mars (latin: campus martius), which was a large field located right outside of the city wall.[ ] the president of the centuriate assembly was usually a consul (although sometimes a praetor). only consuls (the highest-ranking of all roman magistrates) could preside over the centuriate assembly during elections because the higher-ranking consuls were always elected together with the lower-ranking praetors. consuls and praetors were usually elected in july, and took office in january. two consuls, and at least six praetors, were elected each year for an annual term that began in january and ended in december. in contrast, two censors were elected every five years on average. once every five years, after the new consuls for the year took office, they presided over the centuriate assembly as it elected the two censors. servian organization ( - bc)[edit] see also: servian constitution the centuriate assembly was supposedly founded by the legendary roman king servius tullius, less than a century before the founding of the roman republic in bc. as such, the original design of the centuriate assembly was known as the "servian organization". under this organization, the assembly was supposedly designed to mirror the roman army during the time of the roman kingdom, with a division such that the citizen-soldiers had the responsibility of electing the consuls and praetors, and therefore, their leaders. the roman army was based on units called centuries, which were comparable to companies in a modern army. while centuries in the roman army always consisted of about one hundred soldiers, centuries in the centuriate assembly usually did not. this was because the property qualifications for membership in a voting century did not change over time, as property qualifications for membership in a military century did. soldiers in the roman army were classified on the basis of the amount of property that they owned, and as such, soldiers with more property outranked soldiers with less property. since the wealthy soldiers were divided into more centuries in the early roman army, with a greater military burden, the wealthy soldiers were also divided into more centuries in the centuriate assembly. thus, the wealthy soldiers, who were fewer in number and had more to lose, had a greater overall influence. the centuries in the assembly under the servian organization were each divided into one of three different grades: the officer class (the cavalry or equites), the enlisted class (infantry or pedites) and the miscellaneous class (mostly unarmed adjuncts).[ ] the officer class was grouped into eighteen centuries, six of which (the sex suffragia) were composed exclusively of patricians.[ ] the enlisted class was grouped into centuries. most enlisted individuals (those aged seventeen to forty-six) were grouped into eighty-five centuries of "junior soldiers" (iuniores or "young men"). the relatively limited number of enlisted soldiers who were aged forty-six to sixty were grouped into eighty-five centuries of "senior soldiers" (seniores or "old men").[ ] the result of this arrangement was that the votes of the older soldiers carried more weight than did the votes of the numerically greater younger soldiers. according to cicero, the consul of bc, this design was intentional so that the decisions of the assembly were more in line with the will of the more experienced soldiers who arguably had more to lose. the centuries of enlisted soldiers were divided into five classes, each with a separate property requirement: the first class consisted of soldiers with heavy armor, the lower classes had successively less armor, and the soldiers of the fifth class had nothing more than slings and stones. each of the five property classes were divided equally between centuries of younger soldiers and centuries of older soldiers. the first class of enlisted soldiers consisted of eighty centuries, classes two through four consisted of twenty centuries each, and class five consisted of thirty centuries.[ ] the unarmed soldiers were divided into the final five centuries: four of these centuries were composed of artisans and musicians (such as trumpeters and horn blowers), while the fifth century (the proletarii) consisted of people with little or no property.[ ] during a vote, all of the centuries of one class had to vote before the centuries of the next lower class could vote. the seven classes voted by order of seniority: first the officer class, then the first enlisted class, then the second enlisted class, then the third enlisted class, then the fourth enlisted class, then the fifth enlisted class, and then finally the unarmed centuries. when a measure received a majority of the vote, the voting ended, and as such, many lower ranking centuries rarely if ever had a chance to actually vote. reorganization ( bc- bc)[edit] under the servian organization, the assembly was so aristocratic that the officer class and the first class of enlisted soldiers controlled enough centuries for an outright majority. in bc, this assembly was reorganized by the censors marcus fabius buteo and gaius aurelius cotta, in order to give more weight to the lower ranking centuries, and thus make the assembly less aristocratic.[ ] under the old system, there were a total of centuries, while under the new system, there were a total of centuries. under the new system, the thirty-five tribes were each divided into ten centuries:[ ] five of older soldiers, and five of younger soldiers. of each of these five centuries, one was assigned to one of the five property classes. therefore, each tribe had two centuries (one of older soldiers and one of younger soldiers) allocated to each of the five property classes. in addition, the property requirements for each of the five classes were probably raised. in total, this resulted in centuries of enlisted soldiers. the same eighteen centuries of officers, and the same five centuries of unarmed soldiers, were also included in the redesign.[ ] now, majorities usually could not be reached until the third class of enlisted centuries had begun voting. sulla, who attempted to change the power of the assemblies since the lowest ranking century in the centuriate assembly, the fifth unarmed century (the proletarii), was always the last century to vote, it never had any real influence on elections, and as such, it was so poorly regarded that it was all but ignored during the census. in bc, in response to high unemployment and a severe manpower shortage in the army, the general and consul gaius marius reformed the organization of the army, and allowed individuals with no property to enlist. as a consequence of these reforms, this fifth unarmed century came to encompass almost the entire roman army.[ ] this mass disenfranchisement of most of the soldiers in the army played an important role in the chaos that led to the fall of the roman republic in bc. during his dictatorship from bc until bc, lucius cornelius sulla restored the old servian organization to this assembly. this reform was one in a slate of constitutional reforms enacted by sulla as a consequence of the recent civil war between his supporters and those of the former consul gaius marius. his reforms were intended to reassert aristocratic control over the constitution, and thus prevent the emergence of another marius. sulla died in bc, and in bc, the consuls pompey magnus and marcus licinius crassus repealed sulla's constitutional reforms, including his restoration of the servian organization to this assembly. they restored the less aristocratic organization (from bc by the censors marcus fabius buteo and gaius aurelius cotta). the organization of the centuriate assembly was not changed again until its powers were all transferred to the roman senate by the first roman emperor, augustus, after the fall of the roman republic in bc. see also[edit] ‹ the template below (columns) is being considered for deletion. see templates for discussion to help reach a consensus. › 	 	roman kingdom 	roman republic 	roman empire 	roman law 	plebeian council 	centuria 		 	curia 	roman consul 	praetor 	roman censor 	quaestor 	aedile 		 	roman dictator 	master of the horse 	roman senate 	cursus honorum 	byzantine senate 	pontifex maximus 		 	princeps senatus 	interrex 	promagistrate 	acta senatus references[edit] 	abbott, frank frost ( ). a history and description of roman political institutions. elibron classics (isbn  - - - ). 	byrd, robert ( ). the senate of the roman republic. u.s. government printing office, senate document - . 	cicero, marcus tullius ( ). the political works of marcus tullius cicero: comprising his treatise on the commonwealth; and his treatise on the laws. translated from the original, with dissertations and notes in two volumes. by francis barham, esq. london: edmund spettigue. vol. . 	lintott, andrew ( ). the constitution of the roman republic. oxford university press ( isbn  - - - ). 	polybius ( ). the general history of polybius: translated from the greek. by james hampton. oxford: printed by w. baxter. fifth edition, vol . 	taylor, lily ross ( ). roman voting assemblies: from the hannibalic war to the dictatorship of caesar. the university of michigan press ( isbn  - - -x). notes[edit] 	^ a b taylor, 	^ a b abbott, 	^ taylor, , 	^ a b lintott, 	^ a b abbott, 	^ abbott, 	^ a b c taylor, 	^ a b lintott, 	^ lintott, - 	^ a b taylor, 	^ taylor, 	^ plutarch, marcellus, . 	^ broughton, vol. i, pp. , . 	^ lintott, 	^ taylor, 	^ lintott, 	^ lintott, - 	^ lintott, 	^ a b c taylor, 	^ a b taylor, 	^ taylor, 	^ abbott, 	^ a b abbott, 	^ abbott, further reading[edit] 	ihne, wilhelm. researches into the history of the roman constitution. william pickering. . 	johnston, harold whetstone. orations and letters of cicero: with historical introduction, an outline of the roman constitution, notes, vocabulary and index. scott, foresman and company. . 	mommsen, theodor. roman constitutional law. - 	tighe, ambrose. the development of the roman constitution. d. apple & co. . 	von fritz, kurt. the theory of the mixed constitution in antiquity. columbia university press, new york. . 	the histories by polybius 	cambridge ancient history, volumes – . 	a. cameron, the later roman empire, (fontana press, ). 	m. crawford, the roman republic, (fontana press, ). 	e. s. gruen, "the last generation of the roman republic" (u california press, ) 	f. millar, the emperor in the roman world, (duckworth, , ). 	a. lintott, "the constitution of the roman republic" (oxford university press, ) 	t. robert s. broughton, the magistrates of the roman republic, american philological association, – . primary sources[edit] 	cicero's de re publica, book two 	rome at the end of the punic wars: an analysis of the roman government; by polybius secondary source material[edit] 	considerations on the causes of the greatness of the romans and their decline, by montesquieu 	the roman constitution to the time of cicero 	what a terrorist incident in ancient rome can teach us 	 	v 	t 	e roman constitution 	ancient rome	 	history 	constitution 	senate 	assemblies 	curiate 	century 	tribal 	plebeian 	magistrates 	roman kingdom	 	history 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metrodorus, david hume, philodemus, gassendi 	 epicurus (ancient greek: Ἐπίκουρος, romanized: epíkouros;[a] – bc) was an ancient greek philosopher and sage who founded epicureanism, a highly influential school of philosophy. he was born on the greek island of samos to athenian parents. influenced by democritus, aristippus, pyrrho,[ ] and possibly the cynics, he turned against the platonism of his day and established his own school, known as "the garden", in athens. epicurus and his followers were known for eating simple meals and discussing a wide range of philosophical subjects. he openly allowed women to join the school as a matter of policy. epicurus is said to have originally written over works on various subjects, but the vast majority of these writings have been lost. only three letters written by him—the letters to menoeceus, pythocles, and herodotus—and two collections of quotes—the principal doctrines and the vatican sayings—have survived intact, along with a few fragments of his other writings. most knowledge of his teachings comes from later authors, particularly the biographer diogenes laërtius, the epicurean roman poet lucretius and the epicurean philosopher philodemus, and with hostile but largely accurate accounts by the pyrrhonist philosopher sextus empiricus, and the academic skeptic and statesman cicero. for epicurus, the purpose of philosophy was to help people attain a happy, tranquil life characterized by ataraxia (peace and freedom from fear) and aponia (the absence of pain). he advocated that people were best able to pursue philosophy by living a self-sufficient life surrounded by friends. he taught that the root of all human neurosis is death denial and the tendency for human beings to assume that death will be horrific and painful, which he claimed causes unnecessary anxiety, selfish self-protective behaviors, and hypocrisy. according to epicurus, death is the end of both the body and the soul and therefore should not be feared. epicurus taught that although the gods exist, they have no involvement in human affairs. he taught that people should behave ethically not because the gods punish or reward people for their actions, but because amoral behavior will burden them with guilt and prevent them from attaining ataraxia. like aristotle, epicurus was an empiricist, meaning he believed that the senses are the only reliable source of knowledge about the world. he derived much of his physics and cosmology from the earlier philosopher democritus (c. –c. bc). like democritus, epicurus taught that the universe is infinite and eternal and that all matter is made up of extremely tiny, invisible particles known as atoms. all occurrences in the natural world are ultimately the result of atoms moving and interacting in empty space. epicurus deviated from democritus by proposing the idea of atomic "swerve", which holds that atoms may deviate from their expected course, thus permitting humans to possess free will in an otherwise deterministic universe. though popular, epicurean teachings were controversial from the beginning. epicureanism reached the height of its popularity during the late years of the roman republic. it died out in late antiquity, subject to hostility from early christianity. throughout the middle ages epicurus was popularly, though inaccurately, remembered as a patron of drunkards, whoremongers, and gluttons. his teachings gradually became more widely known in the fifteenth century with the rediscovery of important texts, but his ideas did not become acceptable until the seventeenth century, when the french catholic priest pierre gassendi revived a modified version of them, which was promoted by other writers, including walter charleton and robert boyle. his influence grew considerably during and after the enlightenment, profoundly impacting the ideas of major thinkers, including john locke, thomas jefferson, jeremy bentham, and karl marx. contents 	 life 	 . upbringing and influences 	 . teaching career 	 . death 	 teachings 	 . epistemology 	 . ethics 	 . physics 	 . theology 	 . epicurean paradox 	 . politics 	 works 	 legacy 	 . ancient epicureanism 	 . middle ages 	 . renaissance 	 . revival 	 . enlightenment and after 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 . bibliography 	 further reading 	 external links life[edit] upbringing and influences[edit] athens mytilene samos colophon lampsacus map of greece showing locations associated with epicurus epicurus was born in the athenian settlement on the aegean island of samos in february  bc.[ ][ ][ ] his parents, neocles and chaerestrate, were both athenian-born, and his father was an athenian citizen.[ ] epicurus grew up during the final years of the greek classical period.[ ] plato had died seven years before epicurus was born and epicurus was seven years old when alexander the great crossed the hellespont into persia.[ ] as a child, epicurus would have received a typical ancient greek education.[ ] as such, according to norman wentworth dewitt, "it is inconceivable that he would have escaped the platonic training in geometry, dialectic, and rhetoric."[ ] epicurus is known to have studied under the instruction of a samian platonist named pamphilus, probably for about four years.[ ] his letter of menoeceus and surviving fragments of his other writings strongly suggest that he had extensive training in rhetoric.[ ][ ] after the death of alexander the great, perdiccas expelled the athenian settlers on samos to colophon, on the coast of what is now turkey.[ ][ ] after the completion of his military service, epicurus joined his family there. he studied under nausiphanes, who followed the teachings of democritus,[ ][ ] and later those of pyrrho,[ ][ ] whose way of life epicurus greatly admired.[ ] allocation of key positions and satrapies following the partition of babylon in bc after the death of alexander the great. epicurus came of age at a time when greek intellectual horizons were vastly expanding due to the rise of the hellenistic kingdoms across the near east.[ ] epicurus's teachings were heavily influenced by those of earlier philosophers, particularly democritus. nonetheless, epicurus differed from his predecessors on several key points of determinism and vehemently denied having been influenced by any previous philosophers, whom he denounced as "confused". instead, he insisted that he had been "self-taught".[ ][ ][ ] according to dewitt, epicurus's teachings also show influences from the contemporary philosophical school of cynicism.[ ] the cynic philosopher diogenes of sinope was still alive when epicurus would have been in athens for his required military training and it is possible they may have met.[ ] diogenes's pupil crates of thebes (c. – c. bc) was a close contemporary of epicurus.[ ] epicurus agreed with the cynics' quest for honesty, but rejected their "insolence and vulgarity", instead teaching that honesty must be coupled with courtesy and kindness.[ ] epicurus shared this view with his contemporary, the comic playwright menander.[ ] epicurus's letter to menoeceus, possibly an early work of his, is written in an eloquent style similar to that of the athenian rhetorician isocrates ( – bc),[ ] but, for his later works, he seems to have adopted the bald, intellectual style of the mathematician euclid.[ ] epicurus's epistemology also bears an unacknowledged debt to the later writings of aristotle ( – bc), who rejected the platonic idea of hypostatic reason and instead relied on nature and empirical evidence for knowledge about the universe.[ ] during epicurus's formative years, greek knowledge about the rest of the world was rapidly expanding due to the hellenization of the near east and the rise of hellenistic kingdoms.[ ] epicurus's philosophy was consequently more universal in its outlook than those of his predecessors, since it took cognizance of non-greek peoples as well as greeks.[ ] he may have had access to the now-lost writings of the historian and ethnographer megasthenes, who wrote during the reign of seleucus i nicator (ruled – bc).[ ] teaching career[edit] marble sculpture depicting epicurus enthroned during epicurus's lifetime, platonism was the dominant philosophy in higher education.[ ] epicurus's opposition to platonism formed a large part of his thought.[ ][ ] over half of the forty principal doctrines of epicureanism are flat contradictions of platonism.[ ] in around bc, epicurus, when he was around thirty years old, began teaching in mytilene.[ ][ ] around this time, zeno of citium, the founder of stoicism, arrived in athens, at the age of about twenty-one, but zeno did not begin teaching what would become stoicism for another twenty years.[ ] although later texts, such as the writings of the first-century bc roman orator cicero, portray epicureanism and stoicism as rivals,[ ] this rivalry seems to have only emerged after epicurus's death.[ ][ ] epicurus's teachings caused strife in mytilene and he was forced to leave. he then founded a school in lampsacus before returning to athens in c. bc, where he remained until his death.[ ] there he founded the garden (κῆπος), a school named for the garden he owned that served as the school's meeting place, about halfway between the locations of two other schools of philosophy, the stoa and the academy.[ ][ ] the garden was more than just a school;[ ] it was "a community of like-minded and aspiring practitioners of a particular way of life."[ ] the primary members were hermarchus, the financier idomeneus, leonteus and his wife themista, the satirist colotes, the mathematician polyaenus of lampsacus, and metrodorus of lampsacus, the most famous popularizer of epicureanism. his school was the first of the ancient greek philosophical schools to admit women as a rule rather than an exception,[citation needed] and the biography of epicurus by diogenes laërtius lists female students such as leontion and nikidion.[ ] an inscription on the gate to the garden is recorded by seneca the younger in epistle xxi of epistulae morales ad lucilium: "stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure."[ ] according to diskin clay, epicurus himself established a custom of celebrating his birthday annually with common meals, befitting his stature as heros ktistes ("founding hero") of the garden. he ordained in his will annual memorial feasts for himself on the same date ( th of gamelion month).[ ] epicurean communities continued this tradition,[ ] referring to epicurus as their "saviour" (soter) and celebrating him as hero. the hero cult of epicurus may have operated as a garden variety civic religion.[ ] however, clear evidence of an epicurean hero cult, as well as the cult itself, seems buried by the weight of posthumous philosophical interpretation.[ ] epicurus never married and had no known children. he was most likely a vegetarian.[ ][ ] death[edit] diogenes laërtius records that, according to epicurus's successor hermarchus, epicurus died a slow and painful death in  bc at the age of seventy-two from a stone blockage of his urinary tract.[ ][ ] despite being in immense pain, epicurus is said to have remained cheerful and to have continued to teach until the very end.[ ] possible insights into epicurus's death may be offered by the extremely brief epistle to idomeneus, included by diogenes laërtius in book x of his lives and opinions of eminent philosophers.[ ] the authenticity of this letter is uncertain and it may be a later pro-epicurean forgery intended to paint an admirable portrait of the philosopher to counter the large number of forged epistles in epicurus's name portraying him unfavorably.[ ] i have written this letter to you on a happy day to me, which is also the last day of my life. for i have been attacked by a painful inability to urinate, and also dysentery, so violent that nothing can be added to the violence of my sufferings. but the cheerfulness of my mind, which comes from the recollection of all my philosophical contemplation, counterbalances all these afflictions. and i beg you to take care of the children of metrodorus, in a manner worthy of the devotion shown by the young man to me, and to philosophy.[ ] if authentic, this letter would support the tradition that epicurus was able to remain joyful to the end, even in the midst of his suffering.[ ] it would also indicate that he maintained an especial concern for the wellbeing of children.[ ] teachings[edit] main article: epicureanism illustration from of a small bronze bust of epicurus from herculaneum. three epicurus bronze busts were recovered from the villa of the papyri, as well as text fragments.[ ] epistemology[edit] epicurus and his followers had a well-developed epistemology, which developed as a result of their rivalry with other philosophical schools.[ ][ ] epicurus wrote a treatise entitled Κανών, or rule, in which he explained his methods of investigation and theory of knowledge.[ ] this book, however, has not survived,[ ] nor does any other text that fully and clearly explains epicurean epistemology, leaving only mentions of this epistemology by several authors to reconstruct it.[ ][ ] epicurus was an ardent empiricist;[ ][ ][ ] believing that the senses are the only reliable sources of information about the world.[ ][ ][ ] he rejected the platonic idea of "reason" as a reliable source of knowledge about the world apart from the senses[ ] and was bitterly opposed to the pyrrhonists and academic skeptics, who not only questioned the ability of the senses to provide accurate knowledge about the world, but also whether it is even possible to know anything about the world at all.[ ] epicurus maintained that the senses never deceive humans, but that the senses can be misinterpreted.[ ][ ] epicurus held that the purpose of all knowledge is to aid humans in attaining ataraxia.[ ][ ] he taught that knowledge is learned through experiences rather than innate[ ] and that the acceptance of the fundamental truth of the things a person perceives is essential to a person's moral and spiritual health.[ ][ ] in the letter to pythocles, he states, "if a person fights the clear evidence of his senses he will never be able to share in genuine tranquility."[ ] epicurus regarded gut feelings as the ultimate authority on matters of morality and held that whether a person feels an action is right or wrong is a far more cogent guide to whether that act really is right or wrong than abstracts maxims, strict codified rules of ethics, or even reason itself.[ ] epicurus permitted that any and every statement that is not directly contrary to human perception has the possibility to be true.[ ] nonetheless, anything contrary to a person's experience can be ruled out as false.[ ] epicureans often used analogies to everyday experience to support their argument of so-called "imperceptibles", which included anything that a human being cannot perceive, such as the motion of atoms.[ ] in line with this principle of non-contradiction, the epicureans believed that events in the natural world may have multiple causes that are all equally possible and probable.[ ] lucretius writes in on the nature of things, as translated by william ellery leonard: there be, besides, some thing of which 'tis not enough one only cause to state—but rather several, whereof one will be the true: lo, if thou shouldst espy lying afar some fellow's lifeless corse, 'twere meet to name all causes of a death, that cause of his death might thereby be named: for prove thou mayst he perished not by steel, by cold, nor even by poison nor disease, yet somewhat of this sort hath come to him we know—and thus we have to say the same in divers cases.[ ] epicurus strongly favored naturalistic explanations over theological ones.[ ] in his letter to pythocles, he offers four different possible natural explanations for thunder, six different possible natural explanations for lightning, three for snow, three for comets, two for rainbows, two for earthquakes, and so on.[ ] although all of these explanations are now known to be false, they were an important step in the history of science, because epicurus was trying to explain natural phenomena using natural explanations, rather than resorting to inventing elaborate stories about gods and mythic heroes.[ ] ethics[edit] marble relief from the first or second century showing the mythical transgressor ixion being tortured on a spinning fiery wheel in tartarus. epicurus taught that stories of such punishment in the afterlife are ridiculous superstitions and that believing in them prevents people from attaining ataraxia.[ ][ ] epicurus was a hedonist, meaning he taught that what is pleasurable is morally good and what is painful is morally evil.[ ][ ][ ][ ] he idiosyncratically defined "pleasure" as the absence of suffering[ ][ ] and taught that all humans should seek to attain the state of ataraxia, meaning "untroubledness", a state in which the person is completely free from all pain or suffering.[ ][ ][ ] he argued that most of the suffering which human beings experience is caused by the irrational fears of death, divine retribution, and punishment in the afterlife.[ ][ ] in his letter to menoeceus, epicurus explains that people seek wealth and power on account of these fears, believing that having more money, prestige, or political clout will save them from death.[ ][ ] he, however, maintains that death is the end of existence, that the terrifying stories of punishment in the afterlife are ridiculous superstitions, and that death is therefore nothing to be feared.[ ][ ][ ] he writes in his letter to menoeceus: "accustom thyself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply sentience, and death is the privation of all sentience;... death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not."[ ] from this doctrine arose the epicurean epitaph: non fui, fui, non-sum, non-curo ("i was not; i was; i am not; i do not care"), which is inscribed on the gravestones of his followers and seen on many ancient gravestones of the roman empire. this quotation is often used today at humanist funerals.[ ] the tetrapharmakos presents a summary of the key points of epicurean ethics:[ ] don't fear god don't worry about death what is good is easy to get what is terrible is easy to endure although epicurus has been commonly misunderstood as an advocate of the rampant pursuit of pleasure, he, in fact, maintained that a person can only be happy and free from suffering by living wisely, soberly, and morally.[ ][ ][ ] he strongly disapproved of raw, excessive sensuality and warned that a person must take into account whether the consequences of his actions will result in suffering,[ ][ ][ ][ ] writing, "the pleasant life is produced not by a string of drinking bouts and revelries, nor by the enjoyment of boys and women, nor by fish and the other items on an expensive menu, but by sober reasoning."[ ] he also wrote that a single good piece of cheese could be equally pleasing as an entire feast.[ ][ ] furthermore, epicurus taught that "it is not possible to live pleasurably without living sensibly and nobly and justly", because a person who engages in acts of dishonesty or injustice will be "loaded with troubles" on account of his own guilty conscience and will live in constant fear that his wrongdoings will be discovered by others.[ ][ ][ ] a person who is kind and just to others, however, will have no fear and will be more likely to attain ataraxia.[ ][ ] epicurus distinguished between two different types of pleasure: "moving" pleasures (κατὰ κίνησιν ἡδοναί) and "static" pleasures (καταστηματικαὶ ἡδοναί).[ ][ ] "moving" pleasures occur when one is in the process of satisfying a desire and involve an active titillation of the senses.[ ] after one's desires have been satisfied (e.g. when one is full after eating), the pleasure quickly goes away and the suffering of wanting to fulfill the desire again returns.[ ][ ] for epicurus, static pleasures are the best pleasures because moving pleasures are always bound up with pain.[ ][ ] epicurus had a low opinion of sex and marriage, regarding both as having dubious value.[ ] instead, he maintained that platonic friendships are essential to living a happy life.[ ] one of the principle doctrines states, "of the things wisdom acquires for the blessedness of life as a whole, far the greatest is the possession of friendship."[ ][ ] he also taught that philosophy is itself a pleasure to engage in.[ ] one of the quotes from epicurus recorded in the vatican sayings declares, "in other pursuits, the hard-won fruit comes at the end. but in philosophy, delight keeps pace with knowledge. it is not after the lesson that enjoyment comes: learning and enjoyment happen at the same time."[ ][ ] epicurus distinguishes between three types of desires: natural and necessary, natural but unnecessary, and vain and empty. natural and necessary desires include the desires for food and shelter. these are easy to satisfy, difficult to eliminate, bring pleasure when satisfied, and are naturally limited. going beyond these limits produces unnecessary desires, such as the desire for luxury foods. although food is necessary, luxury food is not necessary. correspondingly, epicurus advocates a life of hedonistic moderation by reducing desire, thus eliminating the unhappiness caused by unfulfilled desires. vain desires include desires for power, wealth, and fame. these are difficult to satisfy because no matter how much one gets, one can always want more. these desires are inculcated by society and by false beliefs about what we need. they are not natural and are to be shunned.[ ] epicurus' teachings were introduced into medical philosophy and practice by the epicurean doctor asclepiades of bithynia, who was the first physician who introduced greek medicine in rome. asclepiades introduced the friendly, sympathetic, pleasing and painless treatment of patients. he advocated humane treatment of mental disorders, had insane persons freed from confinement and treated them with natural therapy, such as diet and massages. his teachings are surprisingly modern; therefore asclepiades is considered to be a pioneer physician in psychotherapy, physical therapy and molecular medicine.[ ] physics[edit] epicurus writes in his letter to herodotus that "nothing ever arises from the nonexistent", indicating that all events therefore have causes, regardless of whether those causes are known or unknown.[ ] similarly, he also writes that nothing ever passes away into nothingness, because, "if an object that passes from our view were completely annihilated, everything in the world would have perished, since that into which things were dissipated would be nonexistent."[ ] he therefore states: "the totality of things was always just as it is at present and will always remain the same because there is nothing into which it can change, inasmuch as there is nothing outside the totality that could intrude and effect change."[ ] like democritus before him, epicurus taught that all matter is entirely made of extremely tiny particles called "atoms" (greek: ἄτομος; atomos, meaning "indivisible").[ ] for epicurus and his followers, the existence of atoms was a matter of empirical observation;[ ] epicurus's devoted follower, the roman poet lucretius, cites the gradual wearing down of rings from being worn, statues from being kissed, stones from being dripped on by water, and roads from being walked on in on the nature of things as evidence for the existence of atoms as tiny, imperceptible particles.[ ] also like democritus, epicurus was a materialist who taught that the only things that exist are atoms and void.[ ][ ] void occurs in any place where there are no atoms.[ ] epicurus and his followers believed that atoms and void are both infinite and that the universe is therefore boundless.[ ] in on the nature of things, lucretius argues this point using the example of a man throwing a javelin at the theoretical boundary of a finite universe.[ ] he states that the javelin must either go past the edge of the universe, in which case it is not really a boundary, or it must be blocked by something and prevented from continuing its path, but, if that happens, then the object blocking it must be outside the confines of the universe.[ ] as a result of this belief that the universe and the number of atoms in it are infinite, epicurus and the epicureans believed that there must also be infinitely many worlds within the universe.[ ] epicurus taught that the motion of atoms is constant, eternal, and without beginning or end.[ ] he held that there are two kinds of motion: the motion of atoms and the motion of visible objects.[ ] both kinds of motion are real and not illusory.[ ] democritus had described atoms as not only eternally moving, but also eternally flying through space, colliding, coalescing, and separating from each other as necessary.[ ] in a rare departure from democritus's physics, epicurus posited the idea of atomic "swerve" (παρέγκλισις parénklisis; latin: clinamen), one of his best-known original ideas.[ ][b] according to this idea, atoms, as they are travelling through space, may deviate slightly from the course they would ordinarily be expected to follow.[ ] epicurus's reason for introducing this doctrine was because he wanted to preserve the concepts of free will and ethical responsibility while still maintaining the deterministic physical model of atomism.[ ] lucretius describes it, saying, "it is this slight deviation of primal bodies, at indeterminate times and places, which keeps the mind as such from experiencing an inner compulsion in doing everything it does and from being forced to endure and suffer like a captive in chains."[ ] epicurus was first to assert human freedom as a result of the fundamental indeterminism in the motion of atoms. this has led some philosophers to think that, for epicurus, free will was caused directly by chance. in his on the nature of things, lucretius appears to suggest this in the best-known passage on epicurus' position.[ ] in his letter to menoeceus, however, epicurus follows aristotle and clearly identifies three possible causes: "some things happen of necessity, others by chance, others through our own agency." aristotle said some things "depend on us" (eph'hemin). epicurus agreed, and said it is to these last things that praise and blame naturally attach. for epicurus, the "swerve" of the atoms simply defeated determinism to leave room for autonomous agency.[ ] theology[edit] first-century ad roman fresco from pompeii, showing the mythical human sacrifice of iphigenia, daughter of agamemnon. epicurus's devoted follower, the roman poet lucretius, cited this myth as an example of the evils of popular religion, in contrast to the more wholesome theology advocated by epicurus.[ ] in his letter to menoeceus, a summary of his own moral and theological teachings, the first piece of advice epicurus himself gives to his student is: "first, believe that a god is an indestructible and blessed animal, in accordance with the general conception of god commonly held, and do not ascribe to god anything foreign to his indestructibility or repugnant to his blessedness."[ ] epicurus maintained that he and his followers knew that the gods exist because "our knowledge of them is a matter of clear and distinct perception", meaning that people can empirically sense their presences.[ ] he did not mean that people can see the gods as physical objects, but rather that they can see visions of the gods sent from the remote regions of interstellar space in which they actually reside.[ ] according to george k. strodach, epicurus could have easily dispensed of the gods entirely without greatly altering his materialist worldview,[ ] but the gods still play one important function in epicurus's theology as the paragons of moral virtue to be emulated and admired.[ ] epicurus rejected the conventional greek view of the gods as anthropomorphic beings who walked the earth like ordinary people, fathered illegitimate offspring with mortals, and pursued personal feuds.[ ] instead, he taught that the gods are morally perfect, but detached and immobile beings who live in the remote regions of interstellar space.[ ] in line with these teachings, epicurus adamantly rejected the idea that deities were involved in human affairs in any way.[ ][ ] epicurus maintained that the gods are so utterly perfect and removed from the world that they are incapable of listening to prayers or supplications or doing virtually anything aside from contemplating their own perfections.[ ] in his letter to herodotus, he specifically denies that the gods have any control over natural phenomena, arguing that this would contradict their fundamental nature, which is perfect, because any kind of worldly involvement would tarnish their perfection.[ ] he further warned that believing that the gods control natural phenomena would only mislead people into believing the superstitious view that the gods punish humans for wrongdoing, which only instills fear and prevents people from attaining ataraxia.[ ] epicurus himself criticizes popular religion in both his letter to menoeceus and his letter to herodotus, but in a restrained and moderate tone.[ ] later epicureans mainly followed the same ideas as epicurus, believing in the existence of the gods, but emphatically rejecting the idea of divine providence.[ ] their criticisms of popular religion, however, are often less gentle than those of epicurus himself.[ ] the letter to pythocles, written by a later epicurean, is dismissive and contemptuous towards popular religion[ ] and epicurus's devoted follower, the roman poet lucretius (c. bc – c. bc), passionately assailed popular religion in his philosophical poem on the nature of things.[ ] in this poem, lucretius declares that popular religious practices not only do not instill virtue, but rather result in "misdeeds both wicked and ungodly", citing the mythical sacrifice of iphigenia as an example.[ ] lucretius argues that divine creation and providence are illogical, not because the gods do not exist, but rather because these notions are incompatible with the epicurean principles of the gods' indestructibility and blessedness.[ ][ ] the later pyrrhonist philosopher sextus empiricus (c. – c. ad) rejected the teachings of the epicureans specifically because he regarded them as theological "dogmaticists".[ ] epicurean paradox[edit] the most famous version of the problem of evil is attributed to epicurus by david hume (pictured), who was relying on an attribution of it to him by the christian apologist lactantius. the trilemma does not occur in any of epicurus's extant writings, however. if epicurus did write some version of it, it would have been an argument against divine providence, not the existence of deities.[ ] see also: problem of evil § epicurus, and trilemma § epicurus' trilemma the epicurean paradox or riddle of epicurus or epicurus' trilemma is a version of the problem of evil. lactantius attributes this trilemma to epicurus in de ira dei, , - : god, he says, either wishes to take away evils, and is unable; or he is able, and is unwilling; or he is neither willing nor able, or he is both willing and able. if he is willing and is unable, he is feeble, which is not in accordance with the character of god; if he is able and unwilling, he is envious, which is equally at variance with god; if he is neither willing nor able, he is both envious and feeble, and therefore not god; if he is both willing and able, which alone is suitable to god, from what source then are evils? or why does he not remove them? in dialogues concerning natural religion ( ), david hume also attributes the argument to epicurus: epicurus’s old questions are yet unanswered. is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? then is he impotent. is he able, but not willing? then is he malevolent. is he both able and willing? whence then is evil? no extant writings of epicurus contain this argument.[ ] however, the vast majority of epicurus's writings have been lost and it is possible that some form of this argument may have been found in his lost treatise on the gods, which diogenes laërtius describes as one of his greatest works.[ ] if epicurus really did make some form of this argument, it would not have been an argument against the existence of deities, but rather an argument against divine providence.[ ] epicurus's extant writings demonstrate that he did believe in the existence of deities.[ ] furthermore, religion was such an integral part of daily life in greece during the early hellenistic period that it is doubtful anyone during that period could have been an atheist in the modern sense of the word.[ ] instead, the greek word ἄθεος (átheos), meaning "without a god", was used as a term of abuse, not as an attempt to describe a person's beliefs.[ ] politics[edit] epicurus promoted an innovative theory of justice as a social contract. justice, epicurus said, is an agreement neither to harm nor be harmed, and we need to have such a contract in order to enjoy fully the benefits of living together in a well-ordered society. laws and punishments are needed to keep misguided fools in line who would otherwise break the contract. but the wise person sees the usefulness of justice, and because of his limited desires, he has no need to engage in the conduct prohibited by the laws in any case. laws that are useful for promoting happiness are just, but those that are not useful are not just. (principal doctrines – ) epicurus discouraged participation in politics, as doing so leads to perturbation and status seeking. he instead advocated not drawing attention to oneself. this principle is epitomised by the phrase lathe biōsas (λάθε βιώσας), meaning "live in obscurity", "get through life without drawing attention to yourself", i.e., live without pursuing glory or wealth or power, but anonymously, enjoying little things like food, the company of friends, etc. plutarch elaborated on this theme in his essay is the saying "live in obscurity" right? (Εἰ καλῶς εἴρηται τὸ λάθε βιώσας, an recte dictum sit latenter esse vivendum) c; cf. flavius philostratus, vita apollonii . . .[ ] works[edit] epicurus, nuremberg chronicle epicurus was an extremely prolific writer.[ ][ ][ ][ ] according to diogenes laërtius, he wrote around treatises on a variety of subjects.[ ][ ] more original writings of epicurus have survived to the present day than of any other hellenistic greek philosopher.[ ] nonetheless, the vast majority of everything he wrote has now been lost[ ][ ][ ] and most of what is known about epicurus's teachings come from the writings of his later followers, particularly the roman poet lucretius.[ ] the only surviving complete works by epicurus are three relatively lengthy letters, which are quoted in their entirety in book x of diogenes laërtius's lives and opinions of eminent philosophers, and two groups of quotes: the principal doctrines (Κύριαι Δόξαι), which are likewise preserved through quotation by diogenes laërtius, and the vatican sayings, preserved in a manuscript from the vatican library that was first discovered in .[ ] in the letter to herodotus and the letter to pythocles, epicurus summarizes his philosophy on nature and, in the letter to menoeceus, he summarizes his moral teachings.[ ] numerous fragments of epicurus's lost thirty-seven volume treatise on nature have been found among the charred papyrus fragments at the villa of the papyri at herculaneum.[ ][ ] scholars first began attempting to unravel and decipher these scrolls in , but the efforts are painstaking and are still ongoing.[ ] according to diogenes laertius ( . - ), the major works of epicurus include: 	on nature, in books 	on atoms and the void 	on love 	abridgment of the arguments employed against the natural philosophers 	against the megarians 	problems 	fundamental propositions (kyriai doxai) 	on choice and avoidance 	on the chief good 	on the criterion (the canon) 	chaeridemus, 	on the gods 	on piety 	hegesianax 	four essays on lives 	essay on just dealing 	neocles 	essay addressed to themista 	the banquet (symposium) 	eurylochus 	essay addressed to metrodorus 	essay on seeing 	essay on the angle in an atom 	essay on touch 	essay on fate 	opinions on the passions 	treatise addressed to timocrates 	prognostics 	exhortations 	on images 	on perceptions 	aristobulus 	essay on music (i.e., on music, poetry, and dance) 	on justice and the other virtues 	on gifts and gratitude 	polymedes 	timocrates (three books) 	metrodorus (five books) 	antidorus (two books) 	opinions about diseases and death, addressed to mithras 	callistolas 	essay on kingly power 	anaximenes 	letters legacy[edit] ancient epicureanism[edit] bust of epicurus leaning against his disciple metrodorus in the louvre museum epicureanism was extremely popular from the very beginning.[ ][ ][ ] diogenes laërtius records that the number of epicureans throughout the world exceeded the populations of entire cities.[ ] nonetheless, epicurus was not universally admired and, within his own lifetime, he was vilified as an ignorant buffoon and egoistic sybarite.[ ][ ] he remained the most simultaneously admired and despised philosopher in the mediterranean for the next nearly five centuries.[ ] epicureanism rapidly spread beyond the greek mainland all across the mediterranean world.[ ] by the first century bc, it had established a strong foothold in italy.[ ] the roman orator cicero ( – bc), who deplored epicurean ethics, lamented, "the epicureans have taken italy by storm."[ ] the overwhelming majority of surviving greek and roman sources are vehemently negative towards epicureanism[ ] and, according to pamela gordon, they routinely depict epicurus himself as "monstrous or laughable".[ ] many romans in particular took a negative view of epicureanism, seeing its advocacy of the pursuit of voluptas ("pleasure") as contrary to the roman ideal of virtus ("manly virtue").[ ] the romans therefore often stereotyped epicurus and his followers as weak and effeminate.[ ] prominent critics of his philosophy include prominent authors such as the roman stoic seneca the younger (c. bc – ad ) and the greek middle platonist plutarch (c. – c. ), who both derided these stereotypes as immoral and disreputable.[ ] gordon characterizes anti-epicurean rhetoric as so "heavy-handed" and misrepresentative of epicurus's actual teachings that they sometimes come across as "comical".[ ] in his de vita beata, seneca states that the "sect of epicurus... has a bad reputation, and yet it does not deserve it." and compares it to "a man in a dress: your chastity remains, your virility is unimpaired, your body has not submitted sexually, but in your hand is a tympanum."[ ] epicureanism was a notoriously conservative philosophical school;[ ][ ][ ] although epicurus's later followers did expand on his philosophy, they dogmatically retained what he himself had originally taught without modifying it.[ ][ ][ ] epicureans and admirers of epicureanism revered epicurus himself as a great teacher of ethics, a savior, and even a god.[ ] his image was worn on finger rings, portraits of him were displayed in living rooms, and wealthy followers venerated likenesses of him in marble sculpture.[ ] his admirers revered his sayings as divine oracles, carried around copies of his writings, and cherished copies of his letters like the letters of an apostle.[ ] on the twentieth day of every month, admirers of his teachings would perform a solemn ritual to honor his memory.[ ] at the same time, opponents of his teachings denounced him with vehemence and persistence.[ ] however, in the first and second centuries ad, epicureanism gradually began to decline as it failed to compete with stoicism, which had an ethical system more in line with traditional roman values.[ ] epicureanism also suffered decay in the wake of christianity, which was also rapidly expanding throughout the roman empire.[ ] of all the greek philosophical schools, epicureanism was the one most at odds with the new christian teachings, since epicureans believed that the soul was mortal, denied the existence of an afterlife, denied that the divine had any active role in human life, and advocated pleasure as the foremost goal of human existence.[ ] as such, christian writers such as justin martyr (c. –c. ad), athenagoras of athens (c. –c. ), tertullian (c. –c. ), and clement of alexandria (c. –c. ), arnobius (died c. ), and lactantius all singled it out for the most vitriolic criticism.[ ] in spite of this, dewitt argues that epicureanism and christianity share much common language, calling epicureanism "the first missionary philosophy" and "the first world philosophy".[ ] both epicureanism and christianity placed strong emphasis on the importance of love and forgiveness[ ] and early christian portrayals of jesus are often similar to epicurean portrayals of epicurus.[ ] dewitt argues that epicureanism, in many ways, helped pave the way for the spread of christianity by "helping to bridge the gap between greek intellectualism and a religious way of life" and "shunt[ing] the emphasis from the political to the social virtues and offer[ing] what may be called a religion of humanity."[ ] middle ages[edit] dante alighieri meets epicurus in his inferno in the sixth circle of hell, where he and his followers are imprisoned in flaming coffins for having believed that the soul dies with the body,[ ] shown here in an illustration by gustave doré. by the early fifth century ad, epicureanism was virtually extinct.[ ] the christian church father augustine of hippo ( – ad) declared, "its ashes are so cold that not a single spark can be struck from them."[ ] while the ideas of plato and aristotle could easily be adapted to suit a christian worldview, the ideas of epicurus were not nearly as easily amenable.[ ] as such, while plato and aristotle enjoyed a privileged place in christian philosophy throughout the middle ages, epicurus was not held in such esteem.[ ] information about epicurus's teachings was available, through lucretius's on the nature of things, quotations of it found in medieval latin grammars and florilegia, and encyclopedias, such as isidore of seville's etymologiae (seventh century) and hrabanus maurus's de universo (ninth century),[ ] but there is little evidence that these teachings were systematically studied or comprehended.[ ] during the middle ages, epicurus was remembered by the educated as a philosopher,[ ] but he frequently appeared in popular culture as a gatekeeper to the garden of delights, the "proprietor of the kitchen, the tavern, and the brothel."[ ] he appears in this guise in martianus capella's marriage of mercury and philology (fifth century), john of salisbury's policraticus ( ), john gower's mirour de l'omme, and geoffrey chaucer's canterbury tales.[ ] epicurus and his followers appear in dante alighieri's inferno in the sixth circle of hell, where they are imprisoned in flaming coffins for having believed that the soul dies with the body.[ ] renaissance[edit] epicurus is shown among other famous philosophers in the italian renaissance painter raphael's school of athens ( – ).[ ] epicurus's genuine busts were unknown prior to , so early modern artists who wanted to depict him were forced to make up their own iconographies.[ ] in , a manuscript-hunter named poggio bracciolini discovered a copy of lucretius's on the nature of things in a monastery near lake constance.[ ] the discovery of this manuscript was met with immense excitement, because scholars were eager to analyze and study the teachings of classical philosophers and this previously-forgotten text contained the most comprehensive account of epicurus's teachings known in latin.[ ] the first scholarly dissertation on epicurus, de voluptate (on pleasure) by the italian humanist and catholic priest lorenzo valla was published in .[ ] valla made no mention of lucretius or his poem.[ ] instead, he presented the treatise as a discussion on the nature of the highest good between an epicurean, a stoic, and a christian.[ ] valla's dialogue ultimately rejects epicureanism,[ ] but, by presenting an epicurean as a member of the dispute, valla lent epicureanism credibility as a philosophy that deserved to be taken seriously.[ ] none of the quattrocento humanists ever clearly endorsed epicureanism,[ ] but scholars such as francesco zabarella ( – ), francesco filelfo ( – ), cristoforo landino ( – ), and leonardo bruni (c. – ) did give epicureanism a fairer analysis than it had traditionally received and provided a less overtly hostile assessment of epicurus himself.[ ] nonetheless, "epicureanism" remained a pejorative, synonymous with extreme egoistic pleasure-seeking, rather than a name of a philosophical school.[ ] this reputation discouraged orthodox christian scholars from taking what others might regard as an inappropriately keen interest in epicurean teachings.[ ] epicureanism did not take hold in italy, france, or england until the seventeenth century.[ ] even the liberal religious skeptics who might have been expected to take an interest in epicureanism evidently did not;[ ] Étienne dolet ( – ) only mentions epicurus once in all his writings and françois rabelais (between and – ) never mentions him at all.[ ] michel de montaigne ( – ) is the exception to this trend, quoting a full lines of lucretius's on the nature of things in his essays.[ ] his interest in lucretius, however, seems to have been primarily literary and he is ambiguous about his feelings on lucretius's epicurean worldview.[ ] during the protestant reformation, the label "epicurean" was bandied back and forth as an insult between protestants and catholics.[ ] revival[edit] the french priest and philosopher pierre gassendi is responsible for reviving epicureanism in modernity as an alternative to aristotelianism.[ ] in the seventeenth century, the french catholic priest and scholar pierre gassendi ( – ) sought to dislodge aristotelianism from its position of the highest dogma by presenting epicureanism as a better and more rational alternative.[ ] in , gassendi published his book de vita et moribus epicuri (the life and morals of epicurus), a passionate defense of epicureanism.[ ] in , he published a commentary on diogenes laërtius's life of epicurus.[ ] he left syntagma philosophicum (philosophical compendium), a synthesis of epicurean doctrines, unfinished at the time of his death in .[ ] it was finally published in , after undergoing revision by his editors.[ ] gassendi modified epicurus's teachings to make them palatable for a christian audience.[ ] for instance, he argued that atoms were not eternal, uncreated, and infinite in number, instead contending that an extremely large but finite number of atoms were created by god at creation.[ ] as a result of gassendi's modifications, his books were never censored by the catholic church.[ ] they came to exert profound influence on later writings about epicurus.[ ] gassendi's version of epicurus's teachings became popular among some members of english scientific circles.[ ] for these scholars, however, epicurean atomism was merely a starting point for their own idiosyncratic adaptations of it.[ ] to orthodox thinkers, epicureanism was still regarded as immoral and heretical.[ ] for instance, lucy hutchinson ( – ), the first translator of lucretius's on the nature of things into english, railed against epicurus as "a lunatic dog" who formulated "ridiculous, impious, execrable doctrines".[ ] epicurus's teachings were made respectable in england by the natural philosopher walter charleton ( – ), whose first epicurean work, the darkness of atheism dispelled by the light of nature ( ), advanced epicureanism as a "new" atomism.[ ] his next work physiologia epicuro-gassendo-charletoniana, or a fabrick of science natural, upon a hypothesis of atoms, founded by epicurus, repaired by petrus gassendus, and augmented by walter charleton ( ) emphasized this idea.[ ] these works, together with charleton's epicurus's morals ( ), provided the english public with readily available descriptions of epicurus's philosophy and assured orthodox christians that epicureanism was no threat to their beliefs.[ ] the royal society, chartered in , advanced epicurean atomism.[ ] one of the most prolific defenders of atomism was the chemist robert boyle ( – ), who argued for it in publications such as the origins of forms and qualities ( ), experiments, notes, etc. about the mechanical origin and production of divers particular qualities ( ), and of the excellency and grounds of the mechanical hypothesis ( ).[ ] by the end of the seventeenth century, epicurean atomism was widely accepted by members of the english scientific community as the best model for explaining the physical world,[ ] but it had been modified so greatly that epicurus was no longer seen as its original parent.[ ] enlightenment and after[edit] the anglican bishop joseph butler's anti-epicurean polemics in his fifteen sermons preached at the rolls chapel ( ) and analogy of religion ( ) set the tune for what most orthodox christians believed about epicureanism for the remainder of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.[ ] nonetheless, there are a few indications from this time period of epicurus's improving reputation.[ ] epicureanism was beginning to lose its associations with indiscriminate and insatiable gluttony, which had been characteristic of its reputation ever since antiquity.[ ] instead, the word "epicure" began to refer to a person with extremely refined taste in food.[ ][ ] examples of this usage include "epicurean cooks / sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite" from william shakespeare's antony and cleopatra (act ii. scene i; c. )[ ] and "such an epicure was potiphar—to please his tooth and pamper his flesh with delicacies" from william whately's prototypes ( ).[ ] around the same time, the epicurean injunction to "live in obscurity" was beginning to gain popularity as well.[ ] in , sir william temple ( – ) abandoned a promising career as a diplomat and instead retired to his garden, devoting himself to writing essays on epicurus's moral teachings.[ ] that same year, john dryden translated the celebrated lines from book ii of lucretius's on the nature of things: "'tis pleasant, safely to behold from shore / the rowling ship, and hear the tempest roar."[ ] meanwhile, john locke ( – ) adapted gassendi's modified version of epicurus's epistemology, which became highly influential on english empiricism.[ ] many thinkers with sympathies towards the enlightenment endorsed epicureanism as an admirable moral philosophy.[ ] thomas jefferson ( – ), one of the founding fathers of the united states, declared in , "i too am an epicurean. i consider the genuine (not imputed) doctrines of epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which greece and rome have left us."[ ] the german philosopher karl marx ( – ), whose ideas are basis of marxism, was profoundly influenced as a young man by the teachings of epicurus[ ] and his doctoral thesis was a hegelian dialectical analysis of the differences between the natural philosophies of democritus and epicurus.[ ] marx viewed democritus as a rationalist skeptic, whose epistemology was inherently contradictory, but saw epicurus as a dogmatic empiricist, whose worldview is internally consistent and practically applicable.[ ] the british poet alfred, lord tennyson ( – ) praised "the sober majesties / of settled, sweet, epicurean life" in his poem "lucretius".[ ] epicurus's ethical teachings also had an indirect impact on the philosophy of utilitarianism in england during the nineteenth century.[ ] academic interest in epicurus and other hellenistic philosophers increased over the course of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, with an unprecedented number of monographs, articles, abstracts, and conference papers being published on the subject.[ ] the texts from the library of philodemus of gadara in the villa of the papyri in herculaneum, first discovered between and , are being deciphered, translated, and published by scholars part of the philodemus translation project, funded by the united states national endowment for the humanities, and part of the centro per lo studio dei papiri ercolanesi in naples.[ ] epicurus's popular appeal among non-scholars is difficult to gauge,[ ] but it seems to be relatively comparable to the appeal of more traditionally popular ancient greek philosophical subjects such as stoicism, aristotle, and plato.[ ] see also[edit] 	eikas 	epikoros 	philosophy of happiness 	separation of church and state notes[edit] 	^ /ˌɛpɪˈkjʊərəs/;[ ] ancient greek: Ἐπίκουρος, epíkouros, "ally, comrade" 	^ the only fragment in greek about this central notion is from the oenoanda inscription (fr. in smith's edition). the best known reference is in lucretius's on the nature of 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(eds.), epistolary narratives in ancient greek literature, mnemosyne: supplements: monographs on greek and latin language and literature, , leiden, the netherlands: koninklijke brill, isbn  - - - - 	jones, howard ( ), "epicurus and epicureanism", in grafton, anthony; most, glenn w.; settis, salvatore (eds.), the classical tradition, cambridge, massachusetts and london, england: the belknap press of harvard university press, pp.  – , isbn  - - - - 	hickson, michael w. ( ), "a brief history of problems of evil", in mcbrayer, justin p.; howard-snyder, daniel (eds.), the blackwell companion to the problem of evil, hoboken, new jersey: wiley-blackwell, pp.  – , isbn  - - - - 	kenny, anthony ( ), ancient philosophy, a new history of western philosophy, , oxford, england: oxford university press, pp.  – , isbn  - - - - 	long, a. a. ( ), "epicurus", a companion to philosophers, malden, massachusetts and oxford, england: wiley publishers, ltd., pp.  – , isbn  - - - - 	rosenbaum, stephen e. ( ), "chapter : how to be dead and not care: a defense of epicurus", in benatar, david (ed.), life, death & meaning: key philosophical readings on the big questions, lanham, maryland, boulder, colorado, new york city, new york, toronto, canada, and oxford, england: rowman & littlefield publishers, inc., isbn  - - - - 	schafer, paul m. ( ), "the young marx on epicurus: dialectical atomism and human freedom", in gordon, dane l.; suits, david b. (eds.), epicurus: his continuing influence and contemporary relevance, rochester, new york: rochester institute of technology, cary graphic arts press, pp.  – , isbn  - - - - 	strodach, george k. ( ), "introduction", the art of happiness, new york city, new york: penguin classics, isbn  - - - - 	wasson, donald l. ( september ), "epicurus", ancient history encyclopedia further reading[edit] 	texts 	epicurus ( ). inwood, brad; gerson, lloyd p. (eds.). the epicurus reader. selected writings and testimonia. indianapolis: hackett. isbn  - - - - . 	epicurus ( ). the essential epicurus : letters, principal doctrines, vatican sayings, and fragments. translated by o'connor, eugene. buffalo, n.y.: prometheus books. isbn  - - - - . 	epicurus ( ). letters, principal doctrines, and vatican sayings. translated by geer, russel m. indianapolis: bobbs-merrill. 	laërtius, diogenes ( ). caponigri, a. robert (ed.). lives of the philosophers. chicago: henry regnery co. 	lucretius carus, titus ( ). on the nature of the universe. translated by latham, r. e. london: penguin books. isbn  - - - - . 	körte, alfred ( ). epicureanism : two collections of fragments and studies (in greek). new york: garland. isbn  - - - - . 	oates, whitney j. 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scrolls unearthed at the villa of the papyri at herculaneum are epicurean texts. at least some are thought to have belonged to the epicurean philosopher philodemus. epicurus was an atomic materialist, following in the steps of democritus. his materialism led him to a general attack on superstition and divine intervention. following the cyrenaic philosopher aristippus, epicurus believed that the greatest good was to seek modest, sustainable pleasure in the form of a state of ataraxia (tranquility and freedom from fear) and aponia (the absence of bodily pain) through knowledge of the workings of the world and limiting desires. correspondingly, epicurus and his followers shunned politics because it could lead to frustrations and ambitions which can directly conflict with the epicurean pursuit for peace of mind and virtues.[ ] although epicureanism is a form of hedonism insofar as it declares pleasure to be its sole intrinsic goal, the concept that the absence of pain and fear constitutes the greatest pleasure, and its advocacy of a simple life, make it very different from "hedonism" as colloquially understood. epicureanism flourished in the late hellenistic era and during the roman era, and many epicurean communities were established, such as those in antiochia, alexandria, rhodes, and herculaneum. by the late rd century ce epicureanism all but died out, being opposed by other philosophies (mainly neoplatonism) that were now in the ascendant. interest in epicureanism was resurrected in the age of enlightenment and continues in the modern era. contents 	 history 	 philosophy 	 ethics 	 politics 	 religion 	 epicurean physics 	 epistemology 	 tetrapharmakos 	 notable epicureans 	 modern usage and misconceptions 	 criticism 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links history[edit] in mytilene, the capital of the island lesbos, and then in lampsacus, epicurus taught and gained followers. in athens, epicurus bought a property for his school called "garden", later the name of epicurus' school.[ ] its members included hermarchus, idomeneus, colotes, polyaenus, and metrodorus. epicurus emphasized friendship as an important ingredient of happiness, and the school seems to have been a moderately ascetic community which rejected the political limelight of athenian philosophy. they were fairly cosmopolitan by athenian standards, including women and slaves. community activities held some importance, particularly the observance of eikas, a monthly social gathering. some members were also vegetarians as, from slender evidence, epicurus did not eat meat, although no prohibition against eating meat was made.[ ][ ] the school's popularity grew and it became, along with stoicism, platonism, peripateticism, and pyrrhonism, one of the dominant schools of hellenistic philosophy, lasting strongly through the later roman empire.[ ] another major source of information is the roman politician and philosopher cicero, although he was highly critical, denouncing the epicureans as unbridled hedonists, devoid of a sense of virtue and duty, and guilty of withdrawing from public life. another ancient source is diogenes of oenoanda, who composed a large inscription at oenoanda in lycia. deciphered carbonized scrolls obtained from the library at the villa of the papyri in herculaneum contain a large number of works by philodemus, a late hellenistic epicurean, and epicurus himself, attesting to the school's enduring popularity. diogenes reports slanderous stories, circulated by epicurus' opponents.[ ] with growing dominance of neoplatonism and peripateticism, and later, christianity, epicureanism declined. by the late third century ce, there was little trace of its existence.[ ] the early christian writer lactantius criticizes epicurus at several points throughout his divine institutes. in dante alighieri's divine comedy, the epicureans are depicted as heretics suffering in the sixth circle of hell. in fact, epicurus appears to represent the ultimate heresy.[ ] the word for a heretic in the talmudic literature is "apiqoros" (אפיקורוס‎).[citation needed] in the th century, the french franciscan priest, scientist and philosopher pierre gassendi wrote two books forcefully reviving epicureanism. shortly thereafter, and clearly influenced by gassendi, walter charleton published several works on epicureanism in english. attacks by christians continued, most forcefully by the cambridge platonists.[citation needed] in the early modern period, scientists adopted atomist theories, while materialist philosophers embraced epicurus' hedonist ethics and restated his objections to natural teleology.[citation needed] philosophy[edit] 	part of a series on 	hedonism 	 thinkers 	ajita kesakambali 	jeremy bentham 	julien offray de la mettrie 	aristippus 	epicurus 	fred feldman 	theodorus the atheist 	michel onfray 	aristippus the younger 	hermarchus 	lucretius 	pierre gassendi 	metrodorus of lampsacus 	david pearce 	zeno of sidon 	yang zhu 	torbjörn tännsjö 	esperanza guisán 	 schools of hedonism 	cārvāka 	cyrenaics 	epicureanism 	christian hedonism 	utilitarianism 	yangism 	 key concepts 	aponia 	ataraxia 	eudaimonia 	happiness 	hedone 	pain 	pleasure 	sensation 	suffering 	tetrapharmakos 	libertine 	 related articles 	paradox of hedonism 	hedonic treadmill 		v 	t 	e epicureanism argued that pleasure was the chief good in life.[ ] hence, epicurus advocated living in such a way as to derive the greatest amount of pleasure possible during one's lifetime, yet doing so moderately in order to avoid the suffering incurred by overindulgence in such pleasure.[ ] emphasis was placed on pleasures of the mind rather than on physical pleasures.[ ] unnecessary and, especially, artificially produced desires were to be suppressed.[ ] since the political life could give rise to desires that could disturb virtue and one's peace of mind, such as a lust for power or a desire for fame, participation in politics was discouraged.[ ][ ] further, epicurus sought to eliminate the fear of the gods and of death, seeing those two fears as chief causes of strife in life.[ ] epicurus actively recommended against passionate love, and believed it best to avoid marriage altogether. he viewed recreational sex as a natural, but not necessary desire that should be generally avoided.[ ] the epicurean understanding of justice was inherently self-interested. justice was deemed good because it was seen as mutually beneficial.[ ] individuals would not act unjustly even if the act was initially unnoticed because of possibly being caught and punished.[ ] both punishment and fear of punishment would cause a person disturbance and prevent them from being happy.[ ] epicurus laid great emphasis on developing friendships as the basis of a satisfying life. of all the things which wisdom has contrived which contribute to a blessed life, none is more important, more fruitful, than friendship — quoted by cicero[ ] while the pursuit of pleasure formed the focal point of the philosophy, this was largely directed to the "static pleasures" of minimizing pain, anxiety and suffering. in fact, epicurus referred to life as a "bitter gift". when we say ... that pleasure is the end and aim, we do not mean the pleasures of the prodigal or the pleasures of sensuality, as we are understood to do by some through ignorance, prejudice or wilful misrepresentation. by pleasure we mean the absence of pain in the body and of trouble in the soul. it is not by an unbroken succession of drinking bouts and of revelry, not by sexual lust, nor the enjoyment of fish and other delicacies of a luxurious table, which produce a pleasant life; it is sober reasoning, searching out the grounds of every choice and avoidance, and banishing those beliefs through which the greatest tumults take possession of the soul. — epicurus, "letter to menoeceus"[ ] epicureanism rejects immortality. it believes in the soul, but suggests that the soul is mortal and material, just like the body.[ ] epicurus rejected any possibility of an afterlife, while still contending that one need not fear death: "death is nothing to us; for that which is dissolved, is without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us."[ ] from this doctrine arose the epicurean epitaph: non fui, fui, non sum, non curo ("i was not; i have been; i am not; i do not mind."), which is inscribed on the gravestones of his followers and seen on many ancient gravestones of the roman empire. this quotation is often used today at humanist funerals.[ ] ethics[edit] epicureanism bases its ethics on a hedonistic set of values. in the most basic sense, epicureans see pleasure as the purpose of life.[ ] as evidence for this, epicureans say that nature seems to command us to avoid pain, and they point out that all animals try to avoid pain as much as possible.[ ] epicureans had a very specific understanding of what the greatest pleasure was, and the focus of their ethics was on the avoidance of pain rather than seeking out pleasure.[ ] epicureanism divided pleasure into two broad categories: pleasures of the body and pleasures of the mind.[ ] 	pleasures of the body: these pleasures involve sensations of the body, such as the act of eating delicious food or of being in a state of comfort free from pain, and exist only in the present.[ ] one can only experience pleasures of the body in the moment, meaning they only exist as a person is experiencing them.[ ] 	pleasures of the mind: these pleasures involve mental processes and states; feelings of joy, the lack of fear, and pleasant memories are all examples of pleasures of the mind.[ ] these pleasures of the mind do not only exist in the present, but also in the past and future, since memory of a past pleasant experience or the expectation of some potentially pleasing future can both be pleasurable experiences.[ ] because of this, the pleasures of the mind are considered to be greater than those of the body.[ ] the epicureans further divided each of these types of pleasures into two categories: kinetic pleasure and katastematic pleasure.[ ] 	kinetic pleasure: kinetic pleasure describes the physical or mental pleasures that involve action or change.[ ] eating delicious food, as well as fulfilling desires and removing pain, which is itself considered a pleasurable act, are all examples of kinetic pleasure in the physical sense.[ ][ ] according to epicurus, feelings of joy would be an example of mental kinetic pleasure.[ ] 	katastematic pleasure: katastematic pleasure describes the pleasure one feels while in a state without pain.[ ] like kinetic pleasures, katastematic pleasures can also be physical, such as the state of not being thirsty, or mental, such as freedom from a state of fear.[ ][ ] complete physical katastematic pleasure is called aponia, and complete mental katastematic pleasure is called ataraxia.[ ] from this understanding, epicureans concluded that the greatest pleasure a person could reach was the complete removal of all pain, both physical and mental.[ ] the ultimate goal then of epicurean ethics was to reach a state of aponia and ataraxia.[ ] in order to do this an epicurean had to control their desires, because desire itself was seen as painful.[ ] not only will controlling one's desires bring about aponia, as one will rarely suffer from not being physically satisfied, but controlling one's desires will also help to bring about ataraxia because one will not be anxious about becoming discomforted since one would have so few desires anyway.[ ] epicurus distinguishes three kinds of desires: the natural and necessary, the natural but not necessary, and those that are neither natural nor necessary.[ ] 	natural and necessary: these desires are limited desires that are innately present in all humans; it is part of human nature to have them.[ ] they are necessary for one of three reasons: necessary for happiness, necessary for freedom from bodily discomfort, and necessary for life.[ ] clothing would belong to the first two categories, while something like food would belong to the third.[ ] 	natural but not necessary: these desires are innate to humans, but they do not need to be fulfilled for their happiness or their survival.[ ] wanting to eat delicious food when one is hungry is an example of a natural but not necessary desire.[ ] the main problem with these desires is that they fail to substantially increase a person's happiness, and at the same time require effort to obtain and are desired by people due to false beliefs that they are actually necessary.[ ] it is for this reason that they should be avoided.[ ] 	not natural nor necessary: these desires are neither innate to humans nor required for happiness or health; indeed, they are also limitless and can never be fulfilled.[ ] desires of wealth or fame would fall under this category, and such desires are to be avoided because they will ultimately only bring about discomfort.[ ] if one follows only natural and necessary desires, then, according to epicurus, one would be able to reach aponia and ataraxia and thereby the highest form of happiness.[ ] epicurus was also an early thinker to develop the notion of justice as a social contract. he defined justice as an agreement made by people not to harm each other.[ ] the point of living in a society with laws and punishments is to be protected from harm so that one is free to pursue happiness.[ ] because of this, laws that do not contribute to promoting human happiness are not just.[ ] he gave his own unique version of the ethic of reciprocity, which differs from other formulations by emphasizing minimizing harm and maximizing happiness for oneself and others: "it is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life."[ ] 	("justly" meaning to prevent a "person from harming or being harmed by another")[ ] epicureanism incorporated a relatively full account of the social contract theory, and in part attempts to address issues with the society described in plato's republic.[ ] the social contract theory established by epicureanism is based on mutual agreement, not divine decree.[ ] politics[edit] epicurean ideas on politics disagree with other philosophical traditions, namely the stoic, platonist and aristotelian traditions.[ ] to epicureans all our social relations are a matter of how we perceive each other, of customs and traditions. no one is inherently of higher value or meant to dominate another.[ ] that is because there is no metaphysical basis for the superiority of one kind of person, all people are made of the same atomic material and are thus naturally equal.[ ] epicureans also discourage political participation and other involvement in politics.[ ] however epicureans are not apolitical, it is possible that some political association could be seen as beneficial by some epicureans.[ ] some political associations could lead to certain benefits to the individual that would help to maximize pleasure and avoid physical or mental distress.[ ] the avoidance or freedom from hardship and fear is ideal to the epicureans.[ ] while this avoidance or freedom could conceivably be achieved through political means it was insisted by epicurus that involvement in politics would not release one from fear and he advised against a life of politics.[ ] epicurus also discouraged contributing to political society by starting a family, as the benefits of a wife and children are outweighed by the trouble brought about by having a family.[ ] instead epicurus encouraged a formation of a community of friends outside the traditional political state. this community of virtuous friends would focus on internal affairs and justice.[ ] however, epicureanism is adaptable to circumstance as is the epicurean approach to politics.[ ] the same approaches will not always work in protection from pain and fear. in some situations it will be more beneficial to have a family and in other situations it will be more beneficial to participate in politics. it is ultimately up to the epicurean to analyse their circumstance and take whatever action befits the situation.[ ] religion[edit] epicureanism does not deny the existence of the gods; rather it denies their involvement in the world. according to epicureanism, the gods do not interfere with human lives or the rest of the universe in any way[ ]-thus, it shuns the idea that frightening weather events are divine retribution.[ ] one of the fears the epicurean ought to be freed from is fear relating to the actions of the gods.[ ] the manner in which the epicurean gods exist is still disputed. some scholars say that epicureanism believes that the gods exist outside the mind as material objects (the realist position), while others assert that the gods only exist in our minds as ideals (the idealist position).[ ][ ][ ] the realist position holds that epicureans understand the gods as existing as physical and immortal beings made of atoms that reside somewhere in reality.[ ][ ] however, the gods are completely separate from the rest of reality; they are uninterested in it, play no role in it, and remain completely undisturbed by it.[ ] instead, the gods live in what is called the metakosmia, or the space between worlds.[ ] contrarily, the idealist position holds that epicurus did not actually conceive of the gods as existing in reality. rather, epicurus is said to have viewed the gods as just idealized forms of the best human life,[ ][ ] and it is thought that the gods were emblematic of the life one should aspire towards.[ ] the debate between these two positions was revived by a. a. long and david sedley in their book, the hellenistic philosophers, in which the two argued in favour of the idealist position.[ ][ ] while a scholarly consensus has yet to be reached, the realist position remains the prevailing viewpoint at this time.[ ][ ] epicureanism also offered arguments against the existence of the gods in the manner proposed by other belief systems. the riddle of epicurus, or problem of evil, is a famous argument against the existence of an all-powerful and providential god or gods. as recorded by lactantius: god either wants to eliminate bad things and cannot, or can but does not want to, or neither wishes to nor can, or both wants to and can. if he wants to and cannot, then he is weak – and this does not apply to god. if he can but does not want to, then he is spiteful – which is equally foreign to god's nature. if he neither wants to nor can, he is both weak and spiteful, and so not a god. if he wants to and can, which is the only thing fitting for a god, where then do bad things come from? or why does he not eliminate them? — lactantius, de ira deorum[ ] this type of trilemma argument (god is omnipotent, god is good, but evil exists) was one favoured by the ancient greek skeptics, and this argument may have been wrongly attributed to epicurus by lactantius, who, from his christian perspective, regarded epicurus as an atheist.[ ] according to reinhold f. glei, it is settled that the argument of theodicy is from an academical source which is not only not epicurean, but even anti-epicurean.[ ] the earliest extant version of this trilemma appears in the writings of the pyrrhonist philosopher sextus empiricus.[ ] parallels may be drawn to jainism and buddhism, which similarly emphasize a lack of divine interference and aspects of its atomism. epicureanism also resembles buddhism in its temperateness, including the belief that great excess leads to great dissatisfaction.[ ][ ][ ] some modern epicureans have argued that epicureanism is a type of religious identity, arguing that it fulfils ninian smart's "seven dimensions of religion", and that the epicurean practices of feasting on the twentieth and declaring an oath to follow epicurus, insistence on doctrinal adherence, and the sacredness of epicurean friendship, make epicureanism more similar to some non-theistic religions than to other philosophies.[ ] epicurean physics[edit] epicurean physics held that the entire universe consisted of two things: matter and void.[ ] matter is made up of atoms, which are tiny bodies that have only the unchanging qualities of shape, size, and weight.[ ][ ] atoms were felt to be unchanging because the epicureans believed that the world was ordered and that changes had to have specific and consistent sources, e.g. a plant species only grows from a seed of the same species.[ ][ ] epicurus holds that there must be an infinite supply of atoms, although only a finite number of types of atoms, as well as an infinite amount of void.[ ] epicurus explains this position in his letter to herodotus: moreover, the sum of things is unlimited both by reason of the multitude of the atoms and the extent of the void. for if the void were infinite and bodies finite, the bodies would not have stayed anywhere but would have been dispersed in their course through the infinite void, not having any supports or counterchecks to send them back on their upward rebound. again, if the void were finite, the infinity of bodies would not have anywhere to be.[ ] because of the infinite supply of atoms, there are an infinite amount of worlds, or cosmoi.[ ] some of these worlds could be vastly different than our own, some quite similar, and all of the worlds were separated from each other by vast areas of void (metakosmia).[ ] epicureanism states that atoms are unable to be broken down into any smaller parts, and epicureans offered multiple arguments to support this position.[ ] epicureans argue that because void is necessary for matter to move, anything which consists of both void and matter can be broken down, while if something contains no void then it has no way to break apart because no part of the substance could be broken down into a smaller subsection of the substance.[ ] they also argued that in order for the universe to persist, what it is ultimately made up of must not be able to be changed or else the universe would be essentially destroyed.[ ][ ] atoms are constantly moving in one of four different ways.[ ] atoms can simply collide with each other and then bounce off of each other.[ ] when joined with each other and forming a larger object, atoms can vibrate as they collide into each other while still maintaining the overall shape of the larger object.[ ] when not prevented by other atoms, all atoms move at the same speed naturally downwards in relation to the rest world.[ ][ ] this downwards motion is natural for atoms; however, as their fourth means of motion, atoms can at times randomly swerve out of their usual downwards path.[ ] this swerving motion is what allowed for the creation of the universe, since as more and more atoms swerved and collided with each other, objects were able to take shape as the atoms joined together. without the swerve, the atoms would never have interacted with each other, and simply continued to move downwards at the same speed.[ ][ ] epicurus also felt that the swerve was what accounted for humanity's free will.[ ] if it were not for the swerve, humans would be subject to a never-ending chain of cause and effect.[ ] this was a point which epicureans often used to criticize democritus' atomic theory.[ ] epicureans believed that senses also relied on atoms. every object was continually emitting particles from itself that would then interact with the observer.[ ] all sensations, such as sight, smell, or sound, relied on these particles.[ ] while the atoms that were emitted did not have the qualities that the senses were perceiving, the manner in which they were emitted caused the observer to experience those sensations, e.g. red particles were not themselves red but were emitted in a manner that caused the viewer to experience the color red.[ ] the atoms are not perceived individually, but rather as a continuous sensation because of how quickly they move.[ ] epistemology[edit] epicurean philosophy employs an empirical epistemology.[ ] the epicureans believed that all sense perceptions were true,[ ][ ] and that errors arise in how we judge those perceptions.[ ] when we form judgments about things (hupolepsis), they can be verified and corrected through further sensory information.[ ][ ][ ][ ] for example, if someone sees a tower from far away that appears to be round, and upon approaching the tower they see that it is actually square, they would come to realize that their original judgement was wrong and correct their wrong opinion.[ ] epicurus is said to have proposed three criteria of truth: sensations (aisthêsis), preconceptions (prolepsis), and feelings (pathê).[ ] a fourth criterion called "presentational applications of the mind" (phantastikai epibolai tês dianoias) was said to have been added by later epicureans.[ ][ ] these criteria formed the method through which epicureans thought we gained knowledge.[ ] since epicureans thought that sensations could not deceive, sensations are the first and main criterion of truth for epicureans.[ ] even in cases where sensory input seems to mislead, the input itself is true and the error arises from our judgments about the input. for example, when one places a straight oar in the water, it appears bent. the epicurean would argue that image of the oar, that is the atoms travelling from the oar to the observer's eyes, have been shifted and thus really do arrive at the observer's eyes in the shape of a bent oar.[ ] the observer makes the error in assuming that the image he or she receives correctly represents the oar and has not been distorted in some way.[ ] in order to not make erroneous judgments about perceivable things and instead verify one's judgment, epicureans believed that one needed to obtain "clear vision" (enargeia) of the perceivable thing by closer examination.[ ] this acted as a justification for one's judgements about the thing being perceived.[ ] enargeia is characterized as sensation of an object that has been unchanged by judgments or opinions and is a clear and direct perception of that object.[ ] an individual's preconceptions are his or her concepts of what things are, e.g. what someone's idea of a horse is, and these concepts are formed in a person's mind through sensory input over time.[ ] when the word that relates to the preconception is used, these preconceptions are summoned up by the mind into the person's thoughts.[ ] it is through our preconceptions that we are able to make judgments about the things that we perceive.[ ] preconceptions were also used by epicureans to avoid the paradox proposed by plato in the meno regarding learning.[ ] plato argues that learning requires us to already have knowledge of what we are learning, or else we would be unable to recognize when we had successfully learned the information.[ ] preconceptions, epicureans argue, provide individuals with that pre-knowledge required for learning.[ ] our feelings or emotions (pathê) are how we perceive pleasure and pain.[ ] they are analogous to sensations in that they are a means of perception, but they perceive our internal state as opposed to external things.[ ] according to diogenes laertius, feelings are how we determine our actions. if something is pleasurable, we pursue that thing, and if something is painful, we avoid that thing.[ ] the idea of "presentational applications of the mind" is an explanation for how we can discuss and inquire about things we cannot directly perceive.[ ] we receive impressions of such things directly in our minds, instead of perceiving them through other senses.[ ] the concept of "presentational applications of the mind" may have been introduced to explain how we learn about things that we cannot directly perceive, such as the gods.[ ][ ] tetrapharmakos[edit] main article: tetrapharmakos part of herculaneum papyrus (p.herc. ), col. . contains epicurean tetrapharmakos from philodemus' adversus sophistas. tetrapharmakos, or "the four-part cure", is philodemus of gadara's basic guideline as to how to live the happiest possible life, based on the first four of epicurus' principal doctrines. this poetic doctrine was handed down by an anonymous epicurean who summed up epicurus' philosophy on happiness in four simple lines: don't fear god, don't worry about death; what is good is easy to get, and what is terrible is easy to endure. — philodemus, herculaneum papyrus, , . – notable epicureans[edit] de rerum natura manuscript, copied by an augustinian friar for pope sixtus iv, c. , after the discovery of an early manuscript in by the humanist and papal secretary poggio bracciolini one of the earliest roman writers espousing epicureanism was amafinius. other adherents to the teachings of epicurus included the poet horace, whose famous statement carpe diem ("seize the day") illustrates the philosophy, as well as lucretius, who wrote the poem de rerum natura about the tenets of the philosophy. the poet virgil was another prominent epicurean (see lucretius for further details). the epicurean philosopher philodemus of gadara, until the th century only known as a poet of minor importance, rose to prominence as most of his work along with other epicurean material was discovered in the villa of the papyri. in the second century ce, comedian lucian of samosata and wealthy promoter of philosophy diogenes of oenoanda were prominent epicureans. julius caesar leaned considerably toward epicureanism, which led to his plea against the death sentence during the trial against catiline, during the catiline conspiracy where he spoke out against the stoic cato.[ ] his father-in-law, lucius calpurnius piso caesoninus was also an adept of the school. in modern times thomas jefferson referred to himself as an epicurean: if i had time i would add to my little book the greek, latin and french texts, in columns side by side. and i wish i could subjoin a translation of gassendi's syntagma of the doctrines of epicurus, which, notwithstanding the calumnies of the stoics and caricatures of cicero, is the most rational system remaining of the philosophy of the ancients, as frugal of vicious indulgence, and fruitful of virtue as the hyperbolical extravagances of his rival sects.[ ] other modern-day epicureans were gassendi, walter charleton, françois bernier, saint-evremond, ninon de l'enclos, denis diderot, frances wright and jeremy bentham. christopher hitchens referred to himself as an epicurean.[ ] in france, where perfumer/restaurateur gérald ghislain refers to himself as an epicurean,[ ] michel onfray is developing a post-modern approach to epicureanism.[ ] in his recent book titled the swerve, stephen greenblatt identified himself as strongly sympathetic to epicureanism and lucretius. humanistic judaism as a denomination also claims the epicurean label. modern usage and misconceptions[edit] in modern popular usage, an epicurean is a connoisseur of the arts of life and the refinements of sensual pleasures; epicureanism implies a love or knowledgeable enjoyment especially of good food and drink. because epicureanism posits that pleasure is the ultimate good (telos), it has been commonly misunderstood since ancient times as a doctrine that advocates the partaking in fleeting pleasures such as sexual excess and decadent food. this is not the case. epicurus regarded ataraxia (tranquility, freedom from fear) and aponia (absence of pain) as the height of happiness. he also considered prudence an important virtue and perceived excess and overindulgence to be contrary to the attainment of ataraxia and aponia.[ ] epicurus preferred "the good", and "even wisdom and culture", to the "pleasure of the stomach".[ ] while twentieth-century commentary has generally sought to diminish this and related quotations, the consistency of the lower-case epicureanism of meals with epicurean materialism overall has more recently been explained.[ ] while epicurus sought moderation at meals, he was also not averse to moderation in moderation, that is, to occasional luxury. called "the garden" for being based in what would have been a kitchen garden, his community also became known for its feasts of the twentieth (of the greek month). criticism[edit] francis bacon wrote an apothegm related to epicureanism: there was an epicurean vaunted, that divers of other sects of philosophers did after turn epicureans, but there was never any epicurean that turned to any other sect. whereupon a philosopher that was of another sect, said; the reason was plain, for that cocks may be made capons, but capons could never be made cocks.[ ] this echoed what the academic skeptic philosopher arcesilaus had said when asked "why it was that pupils from all the other schools went over to epicurus, but converts were never made from the epicureans?" to which he responded: "because men may become eunuchs, but a eunuch never becomes a man."[ ] see also[edit] 	philosophy portal 	charvaka, a hedonic indian school 	cyrenaics, a sensual hedonist greek school of philosophy founded in the th century bce 	dehellenization 	epicurea 	epicurean paradox 	epikoros 	hedonic treadmill 	list of english translations of de rerum natura 	philosophy of happiness 	separation of church and state 	zeno of sidon references[edit] 	^ -, wilson, catherine ( ). epicureanism : a very short introduction (first ed.). oxford, united kingdom. isbn  . oclc  .cs maint: numeric names: authors list (link) 	^ a b david konstan. 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(march ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) censorinus was a roman grammarian and miscellaneous writer from the rd century ad. he was the author of a lost work de accentibus and of an extant treatise de die natali, written in , and dedicated to his patron quintus caerellius as a birthday gift. the contents are of a varied character: the natural history of man, the influence of the stars and genii, music, religious rites, astronomy, the doctrines of the greek philosophers, and antiquarian subjects. the second part deals with chronological and mathematical questions, and has been of great service in determining the principal epochs of ancient history. the whole is full of curious and interesting information. the style is clear and concise, although somewhat rhetorical, and the latinity – for the period – good. the chief authorities used were varro and suetonius. some scholars, indeed, hold that the entire work is practically an adaptation of the lost pratum of suetonius. the fragments of a work de naturali institutione, dealing with astronomy, geometry, music, and versification, and usually printed with the de die natali of censorinus, are not by him. part of the original manuscript, containing the end of the genuine work, and the title and name of the author of the fragment are lost. a bright crater in the sea of tranquility on the moon has been named after him. references[edit] 	good edition with commentary by heinrich lindenbrog ( ) 	critical editions by 	otto jahn ( ) 	friedrich hultsch ( ) 	ivan cholodniak ( ) 	kai brodersen ( ) 	english translation of the de die natali (the first eleven chapters being omitted) with notes by william maude (new york, ) 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "censorinus". encyclopædia britannica ( th ed.). cambridge university press. 	new english translation of the de die natali by holt n. parker (trans.): censorinus. the birthday book. chicago: the university of chicago press, . pp. xiv, . isbn  - - - 	new german translation by kai brodersen (trans.): censorinus. das geburtstagsbuch. darmstadt: primus, . pp. . isbn  - - - - 	new critical edition with german translation by kai brodersen: censorinus. 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it has not survived but is partially known through quotations and allusions in later authors. it is not certain whether the work was annalistic, recounting events year by year, although citation of his work by other historians implies that it was.[ ] he used the records of his own and other important roman families as sources and drew on the writings of the greek historians diocles of peparethus, who allegedly wrote an early history of rome, and timaeus, who had written about rome in his history of the western greeks. his history began with the arrival of the legendary trojan refugee aeneas in latium. he dated the founding of rome to be in the "first year of the eighth olympiad" or bc.[ ] his work ended with his own recollections of the second punic war, although it is unclear whether he survived long enough to record it entirely. his account was highly partisan towards rome, blaming the war on carthage and particularly on the barca family of hamilcar and hannibal. legacy[edit] fabius was used as a source by gellius and quadrigarius,[ ] plutarch,[ ] polybius, livy, and dionysius of halicarnassus. despite his use of fabius's history, polybius complained about the quality of his work, saying that fabius had been biased towards the romans and inconsistent.[ ] cicero references a latin translation of fabius's work. an anonymous account of the roman history of fabius pictor was published in ,[ ] claiming that a manuscript in the "carthaginian language" had been discovered in the ruins of herculaneum near pompeii. in fact, it was a political satire on english religion and politics at the time.[ ] references[edit] 	^ frier, bruce w., libri annales pontificum maximorum university of michigan press, nd edition , p. 	^ a b frier, bruce w. ( ), libri annales pontificum maximorum: the origins of the annalistic tradition, papers & monographs of the american academy in rome, no. xxvii, rome: american academy, p.  . 	^ dionysius of halicarnassus, roman antiquities, i. . 	^ plut., parallel lives: the life of romulus. 	^ polybius, . – 	^ some account of the roman history of fabius pictor from a manuscript lately discover'd in herculaneum, the underground city near naples, in a letter from an english gentleman residing at naples to his friend at london, london: m. cooper, . 	^ moormann, eric m. ( ), pompeii's ashes: the reception of the cities buried by vesuvius in literature, music, and drama, berlin: walter de gruyter, pp.  - . further reading[edit] 	du rieu, willem nikolaas. disputatio de gente fabia; accedunt fabiorum pictorum et serviliani fragmenta. lugduni batavorum: van der hoek, . 	cornell, t. j. 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february st george's chapel, windsor castle, england 	spouse	henrietta maria of france ​ ​ (m.  )​ 	issue detail	 	charles james, duke of cornwall 	charles ii 	mary, princess of orange 	james ii & vii 	elizabeth 	anne 	catherine 	henry, duke of gloucester 	henrietta, duchess of orléans 	house	stuart 	father	james vi of scotland and i of england 	mother	anne of denmark 	religion	anglican charles i ( november  – january )[a] was king of england, scotland, and ireland from march until his execution in . he was born into the house of stuart as the second son of king james vi of scotland, but after his father inherited the english throne in (as james i), he moved to england, where he spent much of the rest of his life. he became heir apparent to the three kingdoms of england, scotland, and ireland in on the death of his elder brother henry frederick, prince of wales. an unsuccessful and unpopular attempt to marry him to the spanish habsburg princess maria anna culminated in an eight-month visit to spain in that demonstrated the futility of the marriage negotiations. two years later he married the bourbon princess henrietta maria of france. after his succession in , charles quarrelled with the parliament of england, which sought to curb his royal prerogative. charles believed in the divine right of kings, and was determined to govern according to his own conscience. many of his subjects opposed his policies, in particular the levying of taxes without parliamentary consent, and perceived his actions as those of a tyrannical absolute monarch. his religious policies, coupled with his marriage to a roman catholic, generated antipathy and mistrust from reformed religious groups such as the english puritans and scottish covenanters, who thought his views were too catholic. he supported high church anglican ecclesiastics such as richard montagu and william laud, and failed to aid continental protestant forces successfully during the thirty years' war. his attempts to force the church of scotland to adopt high anglican practices led to the bishops' wars, strengthened the position of the english and scottish parliaments, and helped precipitate his own downfall. from , charles fought the armies of the english and scottish parliaments in the english civil war. after his defeat in , he surrendered to a scottish force that eventually handed him over to the english parliament. charles refused to accept his captors' demands for a constitutional monarchy, and temporarily escaped captivity in november . re-imprisoned on the isle of wight, charles forged an alliance with scotland, but by the end of oliver cromwell's new model army had consolidated its control over england. charles was tried, convicted, and executed for high treason in january . the monarchy was abolished and the commonwealth of england was established as a republic. the monarchy would be restored to charles's son, charles ii, in . contents 	 early life 	 heir apparent 	 early reign 	 personal rule 	 . parliament prorogued 	 . finances 	 religious conflicts 	 . bishops' wars 	 long parliament 	 . tensions escalate 	 . irish rebellion 	 . five members 	 english civil war 	 . captivity 	 trial 	 execution 	 legacy 	 . art 	 . assessments 	 titles, styles, honours and arms 	 . titles and styles 	 . honours 	 . arms 	 issue 	 ancestry 	 notes 	 references 	 . citations 	 . sources 	 further reading 	 . historiography 	 external links early life engraving by simon de passe of charles and his parents, king james and queen anne, c. the second son of king james vi of scotland and anne of denmark, charles was born in dunfermline palace, fife, on november .[ ] at a protestant ceremony in the chapel royal of holyrood palace in edinburgh on december , he was baptised by david lindsay, bishop of ross, and created duke of albany, the traditional title of the second son of the king of scotland, with the subsidiary titles of marquess of ormond, earl of ross and lord ardmannoch.[ ] james vi was the first cousin twice removed of queen elizabeth i of england, and when she died childless in march , he became king of england as james i. charles was a weak and sickly infant, and while his parents and older siblings left for england in april and early june that year, due to his fragile health,[ ] he remained in scotland with his father's friend lord fyvie, appointed as his guardian.[ ] by , when charles was three-and-a-half, he was able to walk the length of the great hall at dunfermline palace without assistance, and it was decided that he was strong enough to make the journey to england to be reunited with his family. in mid-july , charles left dunfermline for england where he was to spend most of the rest of his life.[ ] in england, charles was placed under the charge of elizabeth, lady carey, the wife of courtier sir robert carey, who put him in boots made of spanish leather and brass to help strengthen his weak ankles.[ ] his speech development was also slow, and he retained a stammer for the rest of his life.[ ] portrait by robert peake, c. in january , charles was created duke of york, as is customary in the case of the english sovereign's second son, and made a knight of the bath.[ ] thomas murray, a presbyterian scot, was appointed as a tutor.[ ] charles learnt the usual subjects of classics, languages, mathematics and religion.[ ] in , he was made a knight of the garter.[ ] eventually, charles apparently conquered his physical infirmity,[ ] which might have been caused by rickets.[ ] he became an adept horseman and marksman, and took up fencing.[ ] even so, his public profile remained low in contrast to that of his physically stronger and taller[b] elder brother, henry frederick, prince of wales, whom charles adored and attempted to emulate.[ ] however, in early november , henry died at the age of of what is suspected to have been typhoid (or possibly porphyria).[ ] charles, who turned two weeks later, became heir apparent. as the eldest surviving son of the sovereign, charles automatically gained several titles (including duke of cornwall and duke of rothesay). four years later, in november , he was created prince of wales and earl of chester.[ ] heir apparent in , charles's sister elizabeth married frederick v, elector palatine, and moved to heidelberg.[ ] in , the habsburg archduke ferdinand of austria, a catholic, was elected king of bohemia. the following year, the bohemians rebelled, defenestrating the catholic governors. in august , the bohemian diet chose as their monarch frederick v, who was leader of the protestant union, while ferdinand was elected holy roman emperor in the imperial election. frederick's acceptance of the bohemian crown in defiance of the emperor marked the beginning of the turmoil that would develop into the thirty years' war. the conflict, originally confined to bohemia, spiralled into a wider european war, which the english parliament and public quickly grew to see as a polarised continental struggle between catholics and protestants.[ ] in , charles's brother-in-law, frederick v, was defeated at the battle of white mountain near prague and his hereditary lands in the electoral palatinate were invaded by a habsburg force from the spanish netherlands.[ ] james, however, had been seeking marriage between the new prince of wales and ferdinand's niece, habsburg princess maria anna of spain, and began to see the spanish match as a possible diplomatic means of achieving peace in europe.[ ] unfortunately for james, negotiation with spain proved generally unpopular, both with the public and with james's court.[ ] the english parliament was actively hostile towards spain and catholicism, and thus, when called by james in , the members hoped for an enforcement of recusancy laws, a naval campaign against spain, and a protestant marriage for the prince of wales.[ ] james's lord chancellor, francis bacon, was impeached before the house of lords for corruption.[ ] the impeachment was the first since without the king's official sanction in the form of a bill of attainder. the incident set an important precedent as the process of impeachment would later be used against charles and his supporters: the duke of buckingham, archbishop william laud, and the earl of strafford. james insisted that the house of commons be concerned exclusively with domestic affairs, while the members protested that they had the privilege of free speech within the commons' walls, demanding war with spain and a protestant princess of wales.[ ] charles, like his father, considered the discussion of his marriage in the commons impertinent and an infringement of his father's royal prerogative.[ ] in january , james dissolved parliament, angry at what he perceived as the members' impudence and intransigence.[ ] portrait of charles as prince of wales after daniel mytens, c. charles and buckingham, james's favourite and a man who had great influence over the prince,[ ] travelled incognito to spain in february to try to reach agreement on the long-pending spanish match.[ ] in the end, however, the trip was an embarrassing failure.[ ] the infanta thought charles to be little more than an infidel, and the spanish at first demanded that he convert to roman catholicism as a condition of the match.[ ] the spanish insisted on toleration of catholics in england and the repeal of the penal laws, which charles knew would never be agreed by parliament, and that the infanta remain in spain for a year after any wedding to ensure that england complied with all the terms of the treaty.[ ] a personal quarrel erupted between buckingham and the count of olivares, the spanish chief minister, and so charles conducted the ultimately futile negotiations personally.[ ] when charles returned to london in october, without a bride and to a rapturous and relieved public welcome,[ ] he and buckingham pushed a reluctant king james to declare war on spain.[ ] with the encouragement of his protestant advisers, james summoned the english parliament in so that he could request subsidies for a war. charles and buckingham supported the impeachment of the lord treasurer, lionel cranfield, st earl of middlesex, who opposed war on grounds of cost and who quickly fell in much the same manner as bacon had.[ ] james told buckingham he was a fool, and presciently warned his son charles that he would live to regret the revival of impeachment as a parliamentary tool.[ ] an under-funded makeshift army under ernst von mansfeld set off to recover the palatinate, but it was so poorly provisioned that it never advanced beyond the dutch coast.[ ] by , an increasingly ill james was finding it difficult to control parliament. by the time of his death in march , charles and the duke of buckingham had already assumed de facto control of the kingdom.[ ] early reign with the failure of the spanish match, charles and buckingham turned their attention to france.[ ] on may charles was married by proxy to the fifteen-year-old french princess henrietta maria in front of the doors of notre dame de paris.[ ] charles had seen henrietta maria in paris while en route to spain.[ ] the married couple met in person on june in canterbury. charles delayed the opening of his first parliament until after the marriage was consummated, to forestall any opposition.[ ] many members of the commons were opposed to the king's marriage to a roman catholic, fearing that charles would lift restrictions on catholic recusants and undermine the official establishment of the reformed church of england. although he told parliament that he would not relax religious restrictions, he promised to do exactly that in a secret marriage treaty with his brother-in-law louis xiii of france.[ ] moreover, the treaty loaned to the french seven english naval ships that would be used to suppress the protestant huguenots at la rochelle in september .[ ] charles was crowned on february at westminster abbey, but without his wife at his side because she refused to participate in a protestant religious ceremony.[ ] distrust of charles's religious policies increased with his support of a controversial anti-calvinist ecclesiastic, richard montagu, who was in disrepute among the puritans.[ ] in his pamphlet a new gag for an old goose ( ), a reply to the catholic pamphlet a new gag for the new gospel, montagu argued against calvinist predestination, the doctrine that salvation and damnation were preordained by god. anti-calvinists—known as arminians—believed that human beings could influence their own fate through the exercise of free will.[ ] arminian divines had been one of the few sources of support for charles's proposed spanish marriage.[ ] with the support of king james, montagu produced another pamphlet, entitled appello caesarem, in shortly after the old king's death and charles's accession. to protect montagu from the stricture of puritan members of parliament, charles made the cleric one of his royal chaplains, increasing many puritans' suspicions that charles favoured arminianism as a clandestine attempt to aid the resurgence of catholicism.[ ] rather than direct involvement in the european land war, the english parliament preferred a relatively inexpensive naval attack on spanish colonies in the new world, hoping for the capture of the spanish treasure fleets. parliament voted to grant a subsidy of £ , , which was an insufficient sum for charles's war plans.[ ] moreover, the house of commons limited its authorisation for royal collection of tonnage and poundage (two varieties of customs duties) to a period of one year, although previous sovereigns since henry vi had been granted the right for life.[ ] in this manner, parliament could delay approval of the rates until after a full-scale review of customs revenue.[ ] the bill made no progress in the house of lords past its first reading.[ ] although no parliamentary act for the levy of tonnage and poundage was obtained, charles continued to collect the duties.[ ] portrait by gerrit van honthorst, a poorly conceived and executed naval expedition against spain under the leadership of buckingham went badly, and the house of commons began proceedings for the impeachment of the duke.[ ] in may , charles nominated buckingham as chancellor of cambridge university in a show of support,[ ] and had two members who had spoken against buckingham—dudley digges and sir john eliot—arrested at the door of the house. the commons was outraged by the imprisonment of two of their members, and after about a week in custody, both were released.[ ] on june , the commons launched a direct protestation attacking buckingham, stating, "we protest before your majesty and the whole world that until this great person be removed from intermeddling with the great affairs of state, we are out of hope of any good success; and do fear that any money we shall or can give will, through his misemployment, be turned rather to the hurt and prejudice of this your kingdom than otherwise, as by lamentable experience we have found those large supplies formerly and lately given."[ ] despite parliament's protests, however, charles refused to dismiss his friend, dismissing parliament instead.[ ] meanwhile, domestic quarrels between charles and henrietta maria were souring the early years of their marriage. disputes over her jointure, appointments to her household, and the practice of her religion culminated in the king expelling the vast majority of her french attendants in august .[ ] despite charles's agreement to provide the french with english ships as a condition of marrying henrietta maria, in he launched an attack on the french coast to defend the huguenots at la rochelle.[ ] the action, led by buckingham, was ultimately unsuccessful. buckingham's failure to protect the huguenots—and his retreat from saint-martin-de-ré—spurred louis xiii's siege of la rochelle and furthered the english parliament's and people's detestation of the duke.[ ] charles provoked further unrest by trying to raise money for the war through a "forced loan": a tax levied without parliamentary consent. in november , the test case in the king's bench, the "five knights' case", found that the king had a prerogative right to imprison without trial those who refused to pay the forced loan.[ ] summoned again in march , on may parliament adopted a petition of right, calling upon the king to acknowledge that he could not levy taxes without parliament's consent, not impose martial law on civilians, not imprison them without due process, and not quarter troops in their homes.[ ] charles assented to the petition on june,[ ] but by the end of the month he had prorogued parliament and re-asserted his right to collect customs duties without authorisation from parliament.[ ] on august , buckingham was assassinated.[ ] charles was deeply distressed. according to edward hyde, st earl of clarendon, he "threw himself upon his bed, lamenting with much passion and with abundance of tears".[ ] he remained grieving in his room for two days.[ ] in contrast, the public rejoiced at buckingham's death, which accentuated the gulf between the court and the nation, and between the crown and the commons.[ ] although the death of buckingham effectively ended the war with spain and eliminated his leadership as an issue, it did not end the conflicts between charles and parliament.[ ] it did, however, coincide with an improvement in charles's relationship with his wife, and by november their old quarrels were at an end.[ ] perhaps charles's emotional ties were transferred from buckingham to henrietta maria.[ ] she became pregnant for the first time, and the bond between them grew stronger.[ ] together, they embodied an image of virtue and family life, and their court became a model of formality and morality.[ ] personal rule further information: caroline era parliament prorogued rubens depicted charles as a victorious and chivalrous saint george in an english landscape, – .[c] in january , charles opened the second session of the english parliament, which had been prorogued in june , with a moderate speech on the tonnage and poundage issue.[ ] members of the house of commons began to voice opposition to charles's policies in light of the case of john rolle, a member of parliament whose goods had been confiscated for failing to pay tonnage and poundage.[ ] many mps viewed the imposition of the tax as a breach of the petition of right. when charles ordered a parliamentary adjournment on march,[ ] members held the speaker, sir john finch, down in his chair so that the ending of the session could be delayed long enough for resolutions against catholicism, arminianism and tonnage and poundage to be read out and acclaimed by the chamber.[ ] the provocation was too much for charles, who dissolved parliament and had nine parliamentary leaders, including sir john eliot, imprisoned over the matter,[ ] thereby turning the men into martyrs,[ ] and giving popular cause to their protest.[ ] personal rule necessitated peace. without the means in the foreseeable future to raise funds from parliament for a european war, or the help of buckingham, charles made peace with france and spain.[ ] the following eleven years, during which charles ruled england without a parliament, are referred to as the personal rule or the "eleven years' tyranny".[ ] ruling without parliament was not exceptional, and was supported by precedent.[d] only parliament, however, could legally raise taxes, and without it charles's capacity to acquire funds for his treasury was limited to his customary rights and prerogatives.[ ] finances sixpence of charles i, inscribed: carolus d(ei) g(ratia) mag(nae) brit(anniae) fr(anciae) et hib(erniae) rex ("charles, by the grace of god, king of great britain, of france and of ireland") farthing of charles i, showing a crown over two sceptres in saltire on the obverse. the two sceptres represent the two kingdoms of england and scotland.[ ] a large fiscal deficit had arisen in the reigns of elizabeth i and james i.[ ] notwithstanding buckingham's short-lived campaigns against both spain and france, there was little financial capacity for charles to wage wars overseas. throughout his reign charles was obliged to rely primarily on volunteer forces for defence and on diplomatic efforts to support his sister, elizabeth, and his foreign policy objective for the restoration of the palatinate.[ ] england was still the least taxed country in europe, with no official excise and no regular direct taxation.[ ] to raise revenue without reconvening parliament, charles resurrected an all-but-forgotten law called the "distraint of knighthood", in abeyance for over a century, which required any man who earned £ or more from land each year to present himself at the king's coronation to be knighted. relying on this old statute, charles fined individuals who had failed to attend his coronation in .[ ][e] the chief tax imposed by charles was a feudal levy known as ship money,[ ] which proved even more unpopular, and lucrative, than tonnage and poundage before it. previously, collection of ship money had been authorised only during wars, and only on coastal regions. charles, however, argued that there was no legal bar to collecting the tax for defence during peacetime and throughout the whole of the kingdom. ship money, paid directly to the treasury of the navy, provided between £ , to £ , annually between and , after which yields declined.[ ] opposition to ship money steadily grew, but the common law judges of england declared that the tax was within the king's prerogative, though some of them had reservations.[ ] the prosecution of john hampden for non-payment in – provided a platform for popular protest, and the judges found against hampden only by the narrow margin of – .[ ] the king also derived money through the granting of monopolies, despite a statute forbidding such action, which, though inefficient, raised an estimated £ , a year in the late s.[ ][f] one such monopoly was for soap, pejoratively referred to as "popish soap" because some of its backers were catholics.[ ] charles also raised funds from the scottish nobility, at the price of considerable acrimony, by the act of revocation ( ), whereby all gifts of royal or church land made to the nobility since were revoked, with continued ownership being subject to an annual rent.[ ] in addition, the boundaries of the royal forests in england were restored to their ancient limits as part of a scheme to maximise income by exploiting the land and fining land users within the reasserted boundaries for encroachment.[ ] the focus of the programme was disafforestation and sale of forest lands for conversion to pasture and arable farming, or in the case of the forest of dean, development for the iron industry. disafforestation frequently caused riots and disturbances including those known as the western rising.[ ] against the background of this unrest, charles faced bankruptcy in mid- . the city of london, preoccupied with its own grievances, refused to make any loans to the king, as did foreign powers. in this extremity, in july charles seized silver bullion worth £ , held in trust at the mint in the tower of london, promising its later return at % interest to its owners.[ ] in august, after the east india company refused to grant a loan,[ ] lord cottington seized the company's stock of pepper and spices and sold it for £ , (far below its market value), promising to refund the money with interest later.[ ] religious conflicts charles i with m. de st antoine by anthony van dyck, throughout charles's reign, the english reformation was constantly in the forefront of political debate. arminian theology emphasised clerical authority and the individual's ability to reject or accept salvation, which opponents viewed as heretical and a potential vehicle for the reintroduction of roman catholicism. puritan reformers thought charles was too sympathetic to the teachings of arminianism, which they considered irreligious, and opposed his desire to move the church of england in a more traditional and sacramental direction.[ ] in addition, his protestant subjects followed the european war closely[ ] and grew increasingly dismayed by charles's diplomacy with spain and his failure to support the protestant cause abroad effectively.[ ] in , charles appointed william laud archbishop of canterbury.[ ] they initiated a series of reforms to promote religious uniformity by restricting non-conformist preachers, insisting the liturgy be celebrated as prescribed by the book of common prayer, organising the internal architecture of english churches to emphasise the sacrament of the altar, and re-issuing king james's declaration of sports, which permitted secular activities on the sabbath.[ ] the feoffees for impropriations, an organisation that bought benefices and advowsons so that puritans could be appointed to them, was dissolved.[ ] laud prosecuted those who opposed his reforms in the court of high commission and the star chamber, the two most powerful courts in the land.[ ] the courts became feared for their censorship of opposing religious views and unpopular among the propertied classes for inflicting degrading punishments on gentlemen.[ ] for example, in william prynne, henry burton and john bastwick were pilloried, whipped and mutilated by cropping and imprisoned indefinitely for publishing anti-episcopal pamphlets.[ ] charles i in three positions by van dyck, – when charles attempted to impose his religious policies in scotland he faced numerous difficulties. although born in scotland, charles had become estranged from his northern kingdom; his first visit since early childhood was for his scottish coronation in .[ ] to the dismay of the scots, who had removed many traditional rituals from their liturgical practice, charles insisted that the coronation be conducted using the anglican rite.[ ] in , the king ordered the use of a new prayer book in scotland that was almost identical to the english book of common prayer, without consulting either the scottish parliament or the kirk.[ ] although it had been written, under charles's direction, by scottish bishops, many scots resisted it, seeing the new prayer book as a vehicle for introducing anglicanism to scotland.[ ] on july, riots erupted in edinburgh upon the first sunday of the prayer book's usage, and unrest spread throughout the kirk. the public began to mobilise around a reaffirmation of the national covenant, whose signatories pledged to uphold the reformed religion of scotland and reject any innovations that were not authorised by kirk and parliament.[ ] when the general assembly of the church of scotland met in november , it condemned the new prayer book, abolished episcopal church government by bishops, and adopted presbyterian government by elders and deacons.[ ] bishops' wars main article: bishops' wars charles perceived the unrest in scotland as a rebellion against his authority, precipitating the first bishops' war in .[ ] charles did not seek subsidies from the english parliament to wage war, but instead raised an army without parliamentary aid and marched to berwick-upon-tweed, on the border of scotland.[ ] charles's army did not engage the covenanters as the king feared the defeat of his forces, whom he believed to be significantly outnumbered by the scots.[ ] in the treaty of berwick, charles regained custody of his scottish fortresses and secured the dissolution of the covenanters' interim government, albeit at the decisive concession that both the scottish parliament and general assembly of the scottish church were called.[ ] the military failure in the first bishops' war caused a financial and diplomatic crisis for charles that deepened when his efforts to raise funds from spain, while simultaneously continuing his support for his palatine relatives, led to the public humiliation of the battle of the downs, where the dutch destroyed a spanish bullion fleet off the coast of kent in sight of the impotent english navy.[ ] charles continued peace negotiations with the scots in a bid to gain time before launching a new military campaign. because of his financial weakness, he was forced to call parliament into session in an attempt to raise funds for such a venture.[ ] both english and irish parliaments were summoned in the early months of .[ ] in march , the irish parliament duly voted in a subsidy of £ , with the promise to raise an army , strong by the end of may.[ ] in the english general election in march, however, court candidates fared badly,[ ] and charles's dealings with the english parliament in april quickly reached stalemate.[ ] the earls of northumberland and strafford attempted to broker a compromise whereby the king would agree to forfeit ship money in exchange for £ , (although the cost of the coming war was estimated at around £  million).[ ] nevertheless, this alone was insufficient to produce consensus in the commons.[ ] the parliamentarians' calls for further reforms were ignored by charles, who still retained the support of the house of lords. despite the protests of northumberland,[ ] the short parliament (as it came to be known) was dissolved in may , less than a month after it assembled.[ ] the earl of strafford (left) and william laud (right): two of charles's most influential advisors during the personal rule[ ] by this stage strafford, lord deputy of ireland since ,[ ] had emerged as charles's right-hand man and together with laud, pursued a policy of "thorough" that aimed to make central royal authority more efficient and effective at the expense of local or anti-government interests.[ ] although originally a critic of the king, strafford defected to royal service in (due in part to buckingham's persuasion),[ ] and had since emerged, alongside laud, as the most influential of charles's ministers.[ ] bolstered by the failure of the english short parliament, the scottish parliament declared itself capable of governing without the king's consent, and in august the covenanter army moved into the english county of northumberland.[ ] following the illness of the earl of northumberland, who was the king's commander-in-chief, charles and strafford went north to command the english forces, despite strafford being ill himself with a combination of gout and dysentery.[ ] the scottish soldiery, many of whom were veterans of the thirty years' war,[ ] had far greater morale and training compared to their english counterparts. they met virtually no resistance until reaching newcastle upon tyne, where they defeated the english forces at the battle of newburn and occupied the city, as well as the neighbouring county of durham.[ ] as demands for a parliament grew,[ ] charles took the unusual step of summoning a great council of peers. by the time it met, on september at york, charles had resolved to follow the almost universal advice to call a parliament. after informing the peers that a parliament would convene in november, he asked them to consider how he could acquire funds to maintain his army against the scots in the meantime. they recommended making peace.[ ] a cessation of arms, although not a final settlement, was negotiated in the humiliating treaty of ripon, signed in october .[ ] the treaty stated that the scots would continue to occupy northumberland and durham and be paid £ per day until peace was restored and the english parliament recalled, which would be required to raise sufficient funds to pay the scottish forces.[ ] consequently, charles summoned what later became known as the long parliament. once again, charles's supporters fared badly at the polls. of the members of the commons returned in november, over were opposed to the king.[ ] long parliament main article: long parliament see also: wars of the three kingdoms tensions escalate the long parliament proved just as difficult for charles as had the short parliament. it assembled on november and quickly began proceedings to impeach the king's leading counsellors of high treason.[ ] strafford was taken into custody on november; laud was impeached on december; john finch, now lord keeper of the great seal, was impeached the following day, and he consequently fled to the hague with charles's permission on december.[ ] to prevent the king from dissolving it at will, parliament passed the triennial act, which required parliament to be summoned at least once every three years, and permitted the lord keeper and peers to summon parliament if the king failed to do so.[ ] the act was coupled with a subsidy bill, and so to secure the latter, charles grudgingly granted royal assent in february .[ ] strafford had become the principal target of the parliamentarians, particularly john pym, and he went on trial for high treason on march .[ ] however, the key allegation by sir henry vane that strafford had threatened to use the irish army to subdue england was not corroborated and on april pym's case collapsed.[ ] pym and his allies immediately launched a bill of attainder, which simply declared strafford guilty and pronounced the sentence of death.[ ] 		wikisource has original text related to this article: speech against the attainder of strafford charles assured strafford that "upon the word of a king you shall not suffer in life, honour or fortune",[ ] and the attainder could not succeed if charles withheld assent.[ ] furthermore, many members and most peers were opposed to the attainder, not wishing, in the words of one, to "commit murder with the sword of justice".[ ] however, increased tensions and an attempted coup by royalist army officers in support of strafford and in which charles was involved began to sway the issue.[ ] the commons passed the bill on april by a large margin ( in favour, opposed, and abstained), and the lords acquiesced (by votes to , with absent) in may.[ ] on may, parliament's protestation attacked the "wicked counsels" of charles's "arbitrary and tyrannical government". while those who signed the petition undertook to defend the king's "person, honour and estate", they also swore to preserve "the true reformed religion", parliament, and the "rights and liberties of the subjects".[ ] charles, fearing for the safety of his family in the face of unrest, assented reluctantly to strafford's attainder on may after consulting his judges and bishops.[ ] strafford was beheaded three days later.[ ] additionally in early may, charles assented to an unprecedented act that forbade the dissolution of the english parliament without its consent.[ ] in the following months, ship money, fines in distraint of knighthood and excise without parliamentary consent were declared unlawful, and the courts of star chamber and high commission were abolished.[ ] all remaining forms of taxation were legalised and regulated by the tonnage and poundage act.[ ] the house of commons also launched bills attacking bishops and episcopacy, but these failed in the lords.[ ] charles had made important concessions in england, and temporarily improved his position in scotland by securing the favour of the scots on a visit from august to november during which he conceded to the official establishment of presbyterianism.[ ] however, following an attempted royalist coup in scotland, known as "the incident", charles's credibility was significantly undermined.[ ] irish rebellion main article: irish rebellion of portrait by van dyck, c. in ireland, the population was split into three main socio-political groups: the gaelic irish, who were catholic; the old english, who were descended from medieval normans and were also predominantly catholic; and the new english, who were protestant settlers from england and scotland aligned with the english parliament and the covenanters. strafford's administration had improved the irish economy and boosted tax revenue, but had done so by heavy-handedly imposing order.[ ] he had trained up a large catholic army in support of the king and had weakened the authority of the irish parliament,[ ] while continuing to confiscate land from catholics for protestant settlement at the same time as promoting a laudian anglicanism that was anathema to presbyterians.[ ] as a result, all three groups had become disaffected.[ ] strafford's impeachment provided a new departure for irish politics whereby all sides joined together to present evidence against him.[ ] in a similar manner to the english parliament, the old english members of the irish parliament argued that while opposed to strafford they remained loyal to charles. they argued that the king had been led astray by malign counsellors,[ ] and that, moreover, a viceroy such as strafford could emerge as a despotic figure instead of ensuring that the king was directly involved in governance.[ ] strafford's fall from power weakened charles's influence in ireland.[ ] the dissolution of the irish army was unsuccessfully demanded three times by the english commons during strafford's imprisonment,[ ] until charles was eventually forced through lack of money to disband the army at the end of strafford's trial.[ ] disputes concerning the transfer of land ownership from native catholic to settler protestant,[ ] particularly in relation to the plantation of ulster,[ ] coupled with resentment at moves to ensure the irish parliament was subordinate to the parliament of england,[ ] sowed the seeds of rebellion. when armed conflict arose between the gaelic irish and new english, in late october , the old english sided with the gaelic irish while simultaneously professing their loyalty to the king.[ ] in november , the house of commons passed the grand remonstrance, a long list of grievances against actions by charles's ministers committed since the beginning of his reign (that were asserted to be part of a grand catholic conspiracy of which the king was an unwitting member),[ ] but it was in many ways a step too far by pym and passed by only votes – to .[ ] furthermore, the remonstrance had very little support in the house of lords, which the remonstrance attacked.[ ] the tension was heightened by news of the irish rebellion, coupled with inaccurate rumours of charles's complicity.[ ] throughout november, a series of alarmist pamphlets published stories of atrocities in ireland,[ ] which included massacres of new english settlers by the native irish who could not be controlled by the old english lords.[ ] rumours of "papist" conspiracies circulated in england,[ ] and english anti-catholic opinion was strengthened, damaging charles's reputation and authority.[ ] the english parliament distrusted charles's motivations when he called for funds to put down the irish rebellion; many members of the commons suspected that forces raised by charles might later be used against parliament itself.[ ] pym's militia bill was intended to wrest control of the army from the king, but it did not have the support of the lords, let alone charles.[ ] instead, the commons passed the bill as an ordinance, which they claimed did not require royal assent.[ ] the militia ordinance appears to have prompted more members of the lords to support the king.[ ] in an attempt to strengthen his position, charles generated great antipathy in london, which was already fast falling into lawlessness, when he placed the tower of london under the command of colonel thomas lunsford, an infamous, albeit efficient, career officer.[ ] when rumours reached charles that parliament intended to impeach his wife for supposedly conspiring with the irish rebels, the king decided to take drastic action.[ ] five members queen henrietta maria by van dyck, charles suspected, probably correctly, that some members of the english parliament had colluded with the invading scots.[ ] on january , charles directed parliament to give up five members of the commons – pym, john hampden, denzil holles, william strode and sir arthur haselrig – and one peer – lord mandeville – on the grounds of high treason.[ ] when parliament refused, it was possibly henrietta maria who persuaded charles to arrest the five members by force, which charles intended to carry out personally.[ ] however, news of the warrant reached parliament ahead of him, and the wanted men slipped away by boat shortly before charles entered the house of commons with an armed guard on january.[ ] having displaced the speaker, william lenthall, from his chair, the king asked him where the mps had fled. lenthall, on his knees,[ ] famously replied, "may it please your majesty, i have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place but as the house is pleased to direct me, whose servant i am here."[ ] charles abjectly declared "all my birds have flown", and was forced to retire, empty-handed.[ ] the botched arrest attempt was politically disastrous for charles.[ ] no english sovereign had ever entered the house of commons, and his unprecedented invasion of the chamber to arrest its members was considered a grave breach of parliamentary privilege.[ ] in one stroke charles destroyed his supporters' efforts to portray him as a defence against innovation and disorder.[ ] parliament quickly seized london, and charles fled the capital for hampton court palace on january,[ ] moving two days later to windsor castle.[ ] after sending his wife and eldest daughter to safety abroad in february, he travelled northwards, hoping to seize the military arsenal at hull.[ ] to his dismay, he was rebuffed by the town's parliamentary governor, sir john hotham, who refused him entry in april, and charles was forced to withdraw.[ ] english civil war main article: english civil war a nineteenth-century painting depicting charles (centre in blue sash) before the battle of edgehill, in mid- , both sides began to arm. charles raised an army using the medieval method of commission of array, and parliament called for volunteers for its militia.[ ] the negotiations proved futile, and charles raised the royal standard in nottingham on august .[ ] by then, charles's forces controlled roughly the midlands, wales, the west country and northern england. he set up his court at oxford. parliament controlled london, the south-east and east anglia, as well as the english navy.[ ] after a few skirmishes, the opposing forces met in earnest at edgehill, on october . charles's nephew prince rupert of the rhine disagreed with the battle strategy of the royalist commander lord lindsey, and charles sided with rupert. lindsey resigned, leaving charles to assume overall command assisted by lord forth.[ ] rupert's cavalry successfully charged through the parliamentary ranks, but instead of swiftly returning to the field, rode off to plunder the parliamentary baggage train.[ ] lindsey, acting as a colonel, was wounded and bled to death without medical attention. the battle ended inconclusively as the daylight faded.[ ] in his own words, the experience of battle had left charles "exceedingly and deeply grieved".[ ] he regrouped at oxford, turning down rupert's suggestion of an immediate attack on london. after a week, he set out for the capital on november, capturing brentford on the way while simultaneously continuing to negotiate with civic and parliamentary delegations. at turnham green on the outskirts of london, the royalist army met resistance from the city militia, and faced with a numerically superior force, charles ordered a retreat.[ ] he overwintered in oxford, strengthening the city's defences and preparing for the next season's campaign. peace talks between the two sides collapsed in april.[ ] charles depicted by wenceslaus hollar on horseback in front of his troops, the war continued indecisively over the next couple of years, and henrietta maria returned to britain for months from february .[ ] after rupert captured bristol in july , charles visited the port city and laid siege to gloucester, further up the river severn. his plan to undermine the city walls failed due to heavy rain, and on the approach of a parliamentary relief force, charles lifted the siege and withdrew to sudeley castle.[ ] the parliamentary army turned back towards london, and charles set off in pursuit. the two armies met at newbury, berkshire, on september. just as at edgehill, the battle stalemated at nightfall, and the armies disengaged.[ ] in january , charles summoned a parliament at oxford, which was attended by about peers and members of the commons; all told, the oxford parliament, which sat until march , was supported by the majority of peers and about a third of the commons.[ ] charles became disillusioned by the assembly's ineffectiveness, calling it a "mongrel" in private letters to his wife.[ ] in , charles remained in the southern half of england while rupert rode north to relieve newark and york, which were under threat from parliamentary and scottish covenanter armies. charles was victorious at the battle of cropredy bridge in late june, but the royalists in the north were defeated at the battle of marston moor just a few days later.[ ] the king continued his campaign in the south, encircling and disarming the parliamentary army of the earl of essex.[ ] returning northwards to his base at oxford, he fought at newbury for a second time before the winter closed in; the battle ended indecisively.[ ] attempts to negotiate a settlement over the winter, while both sides re-armed and re-organised, were again unsuccessful.[ ] at the battle of naseby on june , rupert's horsemen again mounted a successful charge against the flank of parliament's new model army, but charles's troops elsewhere on the field were pushed back by the opposing forces. charles, attempting to rally his men, rode forward but as he did so, lord carnwath seized his bridle and pulled him back, fearing for the king's safety. carnwath's action was misinterpreted by the royalist soldiers as a signal to move back, leading to a collapse of their position.[ ] the military balance tipped decisively in favour of parliament.[ ] there followed a series of defeats for the royalists,[ ] and then the siege of oxford, from which charles escaped (disguised as a servant) in april .[ ] he put himself into the hands of the scottish presbyterian army besieging newark, and was taken northwards to newcastle upon tyne.[ ] after nine months of negotiations, the scots finally arrived at an agreement with the english parliament: in exchange for £ , , and the promise of more money in the future,[g] the scots withdrew from newcastle and delivered charles to the parliamentary commissioners in january .[ ] captivity charles at carisbrooke castle, as painted by eugène lami in parliament held charles under house arrest at holdenby house in northamptonshire until cornet george joyce took him by threat of force from holdenby on june in the name of the new model army.[ ] by this time, mutual suspicion had developed between parliament, which favoured army disbandment and presbyterianism, and the new model army, which was primarily officered by congregationalist independents, who sought a greater political role.[ ] charles was eager to exploit the widening divisions, and apparently viewed joyce's actions as an opportunity rather than a threat.[ ] he was taken first to newmarket, at his own suggestion,[ ] and then transferred to oatlands and subsequently hampton court, while more ultimately fruitless negotiations took place.[ ] by november, he determined that it would be in his best interests to escape – perhaps to france, southern england or to berwick-upon-tweed, near the scottish border.[ ] he fled hampton court on november, and from the shores of southampton water made contact with colonel robert hammond, parliamentary governor of the isle of wight, whom he apparently believed to be sympathetic.[ ] hammond, however, confined charles in carisbrooke castle and informed parliament that charles was in his custody.[ ] from carisbrooke, charles continued to try to bargain with the various parties. in direct contrast to his previous conflict with the scottish kirk, on december he signed a secret treaty with the scots. under the agreement, called the "engagement", the scots undertook to invade england on charles's behalf and restore him to the throne on condition that presbyterianism be established in england for three years.[ ] the royalists rose in may , igniting the second civil war, and as agreed with charles, the scots invaded england. uprisings in kent, essex, and cumberland, and a rebellion in south wales, were put down by the new model army, and with the defeat of the scots at the battle of preston in august , the royalists lost any chance of winning the war.[ ] charles's only recourse was to return to negotiations,[ ] which were held at newport on the isle of wight.[ ] on december , parliament voted by to to continue negotiating with the king,[ ] but oliver cromwell and the army opposed any further talks with someone they viewed as a bloody tyrant and were already taking action to consolidate their power.[ ] hammond was replaced as governor of the isle of wight on november, and placed in the custody of the army the following day.[ ] in pride's purge on and december, the members of parliament out of sympathy with the military were arrested or excluded by colonel thomas pride,[ ] while others stayed away voluntarily.[ ] the remaining members formed the rump parliament. it was effectively a military coup.[ ] trial main article: high court of justice for the trial of charles i charles at his trial, by edward bower, . he let his beard and hair grow long because parliament had dismissed his barber, and he refused to let anyone else near him with a razor.[ ] charles was moved to hurst castle at the end of , and thereafter to windsor castle.[ ] in january , the rump house of commons indicted him on a charge of treason, which was rejected by the house of lords.[ ] the idea of trying a king was a novel one.[ ] the chief justices of the three common law courts of england – henry rolle, oliver st john and john wilde – all opposed the indictment as unlawful.[ ] the rump commons declared itself capable of legislating alone, passed a bill creating a separate court for charles's trial, and declared the bill an act without the need for royal assent.[ ] the high court of justice established by the act consisted of commissioners, but many either refused to serve or chose to stay away.[ ] only (all firm parliamentarians) attended charles's trial on charges of high treason and "other high crimes" that began on january in westminster hall.[ ] john bradshaw acted as president of the court, and the prosecution was led by the solicitor general, john cook.[ ] charles (in the dock with his back to the viewer) facing the high court of justice, [ ] charles was accused of treason against england by using his power to pursue his personal interest rather than the good of the country.[ ] the charge stated that he, "for accomplishment of such his designs, and for the protecting of himself and his adherents in his and their wicked practices, to the same ends hath traitorously and maliciously levied war against the present parliament, and the people therein represented", and that the "wicked designs, wars, and evil practices of him, the said charles stuart, have been, and are carried on for the advancement and upholding of a personal interest of will, power, and pretended prerogative to himself and his family, against the public interest, common right, liberty, justice, and peace of the people of this nation."[ ] presaging the modern concept of command responsibility,[ ] the indictment held him "guilty of all the treasons, murders, rapines, burnings, spoils, desolations, damages and mischiefs to this nation, acted and committed in the said wars, or occasioned thereby."[ ] an estimated , people, or % of the population, died during the war.[ ] over the first three days of the trial, whenever charles was asked to plead, he refused,[ ] stating his objection with the words: "i would know by what power i am called hither, by what lawful authority...?"[ ] he claimed that no court had jurisdiction over a monarch,[ ] that his own authority to rule had been given to him by god and by the traditional laws of england, and that the power wielded by those trying him was only that of force of arms. charles insisted that the trial was illegal, explaining that, no earthly power can justly call me (who am your king) in question as a delinquent ... this day's proceeding cannot be warranted by god's laws; for, on the contrary, the authority of obedience unto kings is clearly warranted, and strictly commanded in both the old and new testament ... for the law of this land, i am no less confident, that no learned lawyer will affirm that an impeachment can lie against the king, they all going in his name: and one of their maxims is, that the king can do no wrong ... the higher house is totally excluded; and for the house of commons, it is too well known that the major part of them are detained or deterred from sitting ... the arms i took up were only to defend the fundamental laws of this kingdom against those who have supposed my power hath totally changed the ancient government.[ ] the court, by contrast, challenged the doctrine of sovereign immunity and proposed that "the king of england was not a person, but an office whose every occupant was entrusted with a limited power to govern 'by and according to the laws of the land and not otherwise'."[ ] 		wikisource has original text related to this article: death warrant of king charles i at the end of the third day, charles was removed from the court,[ ] which then heard over witnesses against the king in his absence over the next two days, and on january condemned him to death. the following day, the king was brought before a public session of the commission, declared guilty, and sentenced.[ ] fifty-nine of the commissioners signed charles's death warrant.[ ] execution main article: execution of charles i contemporary german print of charles i's beheading outside the banqueting house, whitehall charles's beheading was scheduled for tuesday, january . two of his children remained in england under the control of the parliamentarians: elizabeth and henry. they were permitted to visit him on january, and he bade them a tearful farewell.[ ] the following morning, he called for two shirts to prevent the cold weather causing any noticeable shivers that the crowd could have mistaken for fear:[ ][ ] "the season is so sharp as probably may make me shake, which some observers may imagine proceeds from fear. i would have no such imputation."[ ] he walked under guard from st james's palace, where he had been confined, to the palace of whitehall, where an execution scaffold had been erected in front of the banqueting house.[ ] charles was separated from spectators by large ranks of soldiers, and his last speech reached only those with him on the scaffold.[ ] he blamed his fate on his failure to prevent the execution of his loyal servant strafford: "an unjust sentence that i suffered to take effect, is punished now by an unjust sentence on me."[ ] he declared that he had desired the liberty and freedom of the people as much as any, "but i must tell you that their liberty and freedom consists in having government ... it is not their having a share in the government; that is nothing appertaining unto them. a subject and a sovereign are clean different things."[ ] he continued, "i shall go from a corruptible to an incorruptible crown, where no disturbance can be."[ ] at about :  p.m.,[ ] charles put his head on the block after saying a prayer and signalled the executioner when he was ready by stretching out his hands; he was then beheaded with one clean stroke.[ ] according to observer philip henry, a moan "as i never heard before and desire i may never hear again" rose from the assembled crowd,[ ] some of whom then dipped their handkerchiefs in the king's blood as a memento.[ ] cromwell was said to have visited charles's coffin, sighing "cruel necessity!" as he did so.[ ] the story was depicted by delaroche in the nineteenth century. another of delaroche's paintings, charles i insulted by cromwell's soldiers, is an allegory for later events in france and the mocking of christ.[ ] the executioner was masked and disguised, and there is debate over his identity. the commissioners approached richard brandon, the common hangman of london, but he refused, at least at first, despite being offered £ . it is possible he relented and undertook the commission after being threatened with death, but there are others who have been named as potential candidates, including george joyce, william hulet and hugh peters.[ ] the clean strike, confirmed by an examination of the king's body at windsor in ,[ ][h] suggests that the execution was carried out by an experienced headsman.[ ] it was common practice for the severed head of a traitor to be held up and exhibited to the crowd with the words "behold the head of a traitor!"[ ] although charles's head was exhibited,[ ] the words were not used, possibly because the executioner did not want his voice recognised.[ ] on the day after the execution, the king's head was sewn back onto his body, which was then embalmed and placed in a lead coffin.[ ] the commission refused to allow charles's burial at westminster abbey, so his body was conveyed to windsor on the night of february.[ ] he was buried in private on february in the henry viii vault in the chapel's quire, alongside the coffins of henry viii and henry's third wife, jane seymour, in st george's chapel, windsor castle.[ ] the king's son, charles ii, later planned for an elaborate royal mausoleum to be erected in hyde park, london, but it was never built.[ ] legacy see also: english interregnum and cultural depictions of charles i of england ten days after charles's execution, on the day of his interment, a memoir purporting to be written by the king appeared for sale.[ ] this book, the eikon basilike (greek for the "royal portrait"), contained an apologia for royal policies, and it proved an effective piece of royalist propaganda. john milton wrote a parliamentary rejoinder, the eikonoklastes ("the iconoclast"), but the response made little headway against the pathos of the royalist book.[ ] anglicans and royalists fashioned an image of martyrdom,[ ] and in the convocations of canterbury and york of king charles the martyr was added to the church of england's liturgical calendar.[ ] high church anglicans held special services on the anniversary of his death. churches, such as those at falmouth and tunbridge wells, and anglican devotional societies such as the society of king charles the martyr, were founded in his honour.[ ] with the monarchy overthrown, england became a republic or "commonwealth". the house of lords was abolished by the rump commons, and executive power was assumed by a council of state.[ ] all significant military opposition in britain and ireland was extinguished by the forces of oliver cromwell in the third english civil war and the cromwellian conquest of ireland.[ ] cromwell forcibly disbanded the rump parliament in ,[ ] thereby establishing the protectorate with himself as lord protector.[ ] upon his death in , he was briefly succeeded by his ineffective son, richard.[ ] parliament was reinstated, and the monarchy was restored to charles i's eldest son, charles ii, in .[ ] art main article: caroline era partly inspired by his visit to the spanish court in ,[ ] charles became a passionate and knowledgeable art collector, amassing one of the finest art collections ever assembled.[ ] in spain, he sat for a sketch by velázquez, and acquired works by titian and correggio, among others.[ ] in england, his commissions included the ceiling of the banqueting house, whitehall, by rubens and paintings by other artists from the low countries such as van honthorst, mytens, and van dyck.[ ] his close associates, including the duke of buckingham and the earl of arundel, shared his interest and have been dubbed the whitehall group.[ ] in and , charles purchased the entire collection of the duke of mantua, which included work by titian, correggio, raphael, caravaggio, del sarto and mantegna.[ ] his collection grew further to encompass bernini, bruegel, da vinci, holbein, hollar, tintoretto and veronese, and self-portraits by both dürer and rembrandt.[ ] by charles's death, there were an estimated , paintings,[ ] most of which were sold and dispersed by parliament.[ ] assessments in the words of john philipps kenyon, "charles stuart is a man of contradictions and controversy".[ ] revered by high tories who considered him a saintly martyr,[ ] he was condemned by whig historians, such as samuel rawson gardiner, who thought him duplicitous and delusional.[ ] in recent decades, most historians have criticised him,[ ] the main exception being kevin sharpe who offered a more sympathetic view of charles that has not been widely adopted.[ ] while sharpe argued that the king was a dynamic man of conscience, professor barry coward thought charles "was the most incompetent monarch of england since henry vi",[ ] a view shared by ronald hutton, who called him "the worst king we have had since the middle ages".[ ] archbishop william laud, who was beheaded by parliament during the war, described charles as "a mild and gracious prince who knew not how to be, or how to be made, great."[ ] charles was more sober and refined than his father,[ ] but he was intransigent. he deliberately pursued unpopular policies that ultimately brought ruin on himself.[ ] both charles and james were advocates of the divine right of kings, but while james's ambitions concerning absolute prerogative were tempered by compromise and consensus with his subjects, charles believed that he had no need to compromise or even to explain his actions.[ ] he thought he was answerable only to god. "princes are not bound to give account of their actions," he wrote, "but to god alone".[ ] titles, styles, honours and arms charles, as painted by sir anthony van dyck between and titles and styles 	 december  – march : duke of albany, marquess of ormonde, earl of ross and lord ardmannoch[ ] 	 january  – march : duke of york[ ] 	 november  – march : duke of cornwall and rothesay[ ] 	 november  – march : prince of wales and earl of chester[ ] 	 march  – january : his majesty the king the official style of charles i as king in england was "charles, by the grace of god, king of england, scotland, france and ireland, defender of the faith, etc."[ ] the style "of france" was only nominal, and was used by every english monarch from edward iii to george iii, regardless of the amount of french territory actually controlled.[ ] the authors of his death warrant referred to him as "charles stuart, king of england".[ ] honours 	kb: knight of the bath, january [ ] 	kg: knight of the garter, april [ ] arms as duke of york, charles bore the royal arms of the kingdom differenced by a label argent of three points, each bearing three torteaux gules.[ ] as the prince of wales, he bore the royal arms differenced by a plain label argent of three points.[ ] as king, charles bore the royal arms undifferenced: quarterly, i and iv grandquarterly, azure three fleurs-de-lis or (for france) and gules three lions passant guardant in pale or (for england); ii or a lion rampant within a tressure flory-counter-flory gules (for scotland); iii azure a harp or stringed argent (for ireland). in scotland, the scottish arms were placed in the first and fourth quarters with the english and french arms in the second quarter.[ ] 	 	 	 	 	coat of arms as duke of york from to 	coat of arms as heir apparent and prince of wales used from to 	coat of arms of charles i used (outside scotland) from to 	coat of arms of charles i used in scotland from to issue charles i's five eldest children, . left to right: mary, james, charles, elizabeth and anne. see also: descendants of charles i of england charles had nine children, two of whom eventually succeeded as king, and two of whom died at or shortly after birth.[ ] 	name	birth	death	notes 	charles james, duke of cornwall and rothesay	 may 	 may 	born and died the same day. buried as "charles, prince of wales".[ ] 	charles ii	 may 	 february 	married catherine of braganza ( – ) in . no legitimate liveborn issue. 	mary, princess royal	 november 	 december 	married william ii, prince of orange ( – ) in . she had one child: william iii. 	james ii & vii	 october 	 september 	married ( ) anne hyde ( – ) in . had issue including mary ii and anne, queen of great britain; married ( ) mary of modena ( – ) in . had issue. 	elizabeth	 december 	 september 	no issue. 	anne	 march 	 november 	died young. 	catherine	 june 	 june 	born and died the same day. 	henry, duke of gloucester	 july 	 september 	no issue. 	henrietta	 june 	 june 	married philip, duke of orléans ( – ) in . had issue. ancestry 	ancestors of charles i of england[ ] 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . matthew stewart, earl of lennox 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . henry stuart, lord darnley	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . margaret douglas[i] 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . james i of england (vi of scotland)	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . james v of scotland[i] 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . mary, queen of scots	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . mary of guise 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . charles i of england	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . christian iii of denmark[j] 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . frederick ii of denmark	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . dorothea of saxe-lauenburg 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . anne of denmark	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . ulrich iii, duke of mecklenburg 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . sophia of mecklenburg	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . elizabeth of denmark[j] 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 notes 	^ all dates in this article are given in the julian calendar, which was used in great britain throughout charles's lifetime. however, years are assumed to start on january rather than march, which was the english new year until . 	^ charles grew to a peak height of  feet  inches (  cm).[ ] 	^ rubens, who acted as the spanish representative during peace negotiations in london, painted landscape with saint george and the dragon in – .[ ] the landscape is modelled on the thames valley, and the central figures of saint george (england's patron saint) and a maiden resemble the king and queen.[ ] the dragon of war lies slain under charles's foot.[ ] 	^ for example, james i ruled without parliament between and .[ ] 	^ for comparison, a typical farm labourer could earn d a day, or about £ a year.[ ] 	^ the statute forbade grants of monopolies to individuals but charles circumvented the restriction by granting monopolies to companies.[ ] 	^ the scots were promised £ , in instalments.[ ] 	^ in , part of charles's beard, a piece of neck bone, and a tooth were taken as relics. they were placed back in the tomb in .[ ][ ] 	^ a b james v and margaret douglas were both children of margaret tudor, the daughter of henry vii of england: james v by james iv of scotland, margaret by archibald douglas, earl of angus.[ ] 	^ a b christian iii and elizabeth were both children of frederick i of denmark: christian by anne of brandenburg, elizabeth by sophia of pomerania.[ ] references citations 	^ cust , p.  ; 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foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 christina rossetti - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	christina rossetti 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 english poet 	christina rossetti 	 	born	christina georgina rossetti ( - - ) december london, england 	died	 december ( - - ) (aged  ) london, england 	occupation	poet 	language	english 	nationality	british 	literary movement	pre-raphaelite 	parents		gabriele rossetti 	frances polidori 	relatives		dante gabriel rossetti (brother) 	maria francesca rossetti (sister) 	william michael rossetti (brother) 	gaetano polidori (maternal grandfather) 	john william polidori (maternal uncle) christina georgina rossetti ( december – december ) was an english poet who wrote romantic, devotional, and children's poems. "goblin market" and "remember" remain famous. she also wrote the words of two christmas carols well known in the uk: "in the bleak midwinter", later set by gustav holst and by harold darke, and "love came down at christmas", also set by darke and by other composers. she was a sister of the artist and poet dante gabriel rossetti and features in several of his paintings. contents 	 early life and education 	 career 	 later life 	 recognition 	 ancestry 	 publications 	 . poetry collections 	 . fiction 	 . non-fiction 	 references 	 . citations 	 . sources 	 external links early life and education[edit] christina rossetti was born in charlotte street (now hallam street), london, to gabriele rossetti, a poet and a political exile from vasto, abruzzo, since and frances polidori, the sister of lord byron's friend and physician, john william polidori.[ ] she had two brothers and a sister: dante gabriel became an influential artist and poet, and william michael and maria both became writers.[ ] christina, the youngest, was a lively child. she dictated her first story to her mother before she had learned to write.[ ][ ] rossetti was educated at home by her mother and father, who had her study religious works, classics, fairy tales and novels. rossetti delighted in the works of keats, scott, ann radcliffe and matthew lewis.[ ] the influence of the work of dante alighieri, petrarch and other italian writers filled the home and deeply impacted rossetti's later writing. their home was open to visiting italian scholars, artists and revolutionaries.[ ] the family homes in bloomsbury at and later charlotte street were within easy reach of madam tussauds, london zoo and the newly opened regent's park, which she visited regularly; in contrast to her parents, rossetti was very much a london child, and, it seems, a happy one.[ ][ ] christina rossetti, by her brother dante gabriel rossetti in the s, her family faced severe financial difficulties due to the deterioration of her father's physical and mental health. in , he was diagnosed with persistent bronchitis, possibly tuberculosis, and faced losing his sight. he gave up his teaching post at king's college and though he lived another years, he suffered from depression and was never physically well again. rossetti's mother began teaching to keep the family out of poverty and maria became a live-in governess, a prospect that christina rossetti dreaded. at this time her brother william was working for the excise office and gabriel was at art school, leaving christina's life at home to become one of increasing isolation.[ ] when she was , rossetti suffered a nervous breakdown and left school. bouts of depression and related illness followed. during this period she, her mother and her sister became absorbed in the anglo-catholic movement that developed in the church of england. religious devotion came to play a major role in rossetti's life. in her late teens, rossetti became engaged to the painter james collinson, the first of three suitors. he was, like her brothers dante and william, one of the founding members of the avant-garde artistic group, the pre-raphaelite brotherhood (founded ).[ ] the engagement was broken in when he reverted to catholicism. in , when the rossetti family was in continuing financial difficulties, christina helped her mother keep a school in fromefield, frome, but it was not a success. (a plaque commemorates the house.)[ ] in the pair returned to london, where christina's father died.[ ] later she became involved with the linguist charles cayley, but declined to marry him, also for religious reasons.[ ] the third offer came from the painter john brett, whom she likewise refused.[ ] rossetti sat for several of dante gabriel rossetti's most famous paintings. in , she was the model for the virgin mary in his first completed oil painting, the girlhood of mary virgin, and the first work to be inscribed with the initials "prb", later revealed to signify the pre-raphaelite brotherhood.[ ] the following year she modelled for his depiction of the annunciation, ecce ancilla domini. a line from her poem "who shall deliver me?" inspired the famous painting by fernand khnopff called i lock my door upon myself. in she became seriously ill again, suffering from depression and sometime around had a major religious crisis.[ ] career[edit] illustration for the cover of christina rossetti's goblin market and other poems ( ), by her brother dante gabriel rossetti rossetti began writing down and dating her poems from , most of which imitated her favoured poets. in she began experimenting with verse forms such as sonnets, hymns and ballads, while drawing narratives from the bible, folk tales and the lives of saints. her early pieces often feature meditations on death and loss, in the romantic tradition.[ ] she published her first two poems ("death's chill between", "heart's chill between") in the athenaeum in , when she was .[ ][ ] under the pseudonym "ellen alleyne" she contributed to the literary magazine, the germ, published by the pre-raphaelites from january to april and edited by her brother william.[ ] this marked the beginning of her public career.[ ] rossetti's more critical reflections on the artistic movement begun by her brother find expression in her poem "in the artist's studio". here she reflects on seeing multiple paintings of the same model. for rossetti, the artist's idealised vision of the model's character begins to overwhelm his work, until "every canvas means/the one same meaning."[ ] dinah roe, in her introduction to the penguin classics collection of pre-raphaelite poetry, argues that this critique of her brother and similar male artists is not so much about "the objectification of women" as about "the male artist's self-worship".[ ] rossetti's most famous collection, goblin market and other poems, appeared in , when she was . it received widespread critical praise, establishing her as the foremost female poet of the time. hopkins, swinburne and tennyson lauded her,[ ] and with the death of elizabeth barrett browning in she was hailed as her natural successor.[ ] the title poem is one of rossetti's best known. although it is ostensibly about two sisters' misadventures with goblins, critics have interpreted the piece in a variety of ways, seeing it as an allegory about temptation and salvation, a commentary on victorian gender roles and female agency, and a work about erotic desire and social redemption. rossetti was a volunteer worker from to at the st mary magdalene house of charity in highgate, a refuge for former prostitutes, and it is suggested that goblin market may have been inspired by the "fallen women" she came to know.[ ] there are parallels with coleridge's the rime of the ancient mariner in both poems' religious themes of temptation, sin and redemption by vicarious suffering.[ ] swinburne in dedicated a century of roundels to rossetti, as she adopted his roundel form in a number of poems, for instance in wife to husband.[ ] she was ambivalent about women's suffrage, but many scholars have found feminist themes in her poetry.[ ] she opposed slavery (in the american south), cruelty to animals (in the prevalent practice of animal experimentation), and the exploitation of girls in under-age prostitution.[ ] rossetti maintained a large circle of friends and correspondents, and continued to write and publish for the rest of her life, focusing mainly on devotional writing and children's poetry. in , she wrote the face of the deep, a book of devotional prose, and oversaw production of a new and enlarged edition of sing-song in .[ ] later life[edit] song when i am dead, my dearest,   sing no sad songs for me; plant thou no roses at my head,   nor shady cypress tree: be the green grass above me   with showers and dewdrops wet: and if thou wilt, remember,   and if thou wilt, forget. i shall not see the shadows,   i shall not feel the rain; i shall not hear the nightingale   sing on as if in pain: and dreaming through the twilight   that doth not rise nor set, haply i may remember,   and haply may forget. [ ] in the later decades of her life, rossetti suffered from graves' disease, diagnosed in , suffering a near-fatal attack in the early s.[ ][ ] in , she developed breast cancer and though the tumour was removed, there was a recurrence in september .[ ] she died in bloomsbury on december and was buried in highgate cemetery.[ ][ ] the place where she died, in torrington square, is marked with a stone tablet.[ ] recognition[edit] 	christina rossetti 	feast	 april[ ][ ] although rossetti's popularity in her lifetime did not approach that of the contemporaneous elizabeth barrett browning, her standing remained strong after her death. her popularity faded in the early th century in the wake of modernism, although scholars began to explore freudian themes in her work, such as religious and sexual repression, reaching for personal, biographical interpretations of her poetry.[ ] in the s academics began to study her work again, looking beyond the lyrical romantic sweetness to her mastery of prosody and versification. feminists held her as symbol of constrained female genius, placed as a leader of th-century poets.[ ][ ] her writings strongly influenced the work of such writers as ford madox ford, virginia woolf, gerard manley hopkins, elizabeth jennings, and philip larkin. the critic basil de selincourt stated that she was "all but our greatest woman poet... incomparably our greatest craftswoman... probably in the first twelve of the masters of english verse."[ ][ ] the year stood at its equinox, and bluff the north was blowing. a bleat of lambs came from the flocks, green hardy things were growing. i met a maid with shining locks, where milky kine were lowing. she wore a kerchief on her neck, her bare arm showed its dimple. her apron spread without a speck, her air was frank and simple. from "the milking-maid" poem by christina georgina rossetti[ ] rossetti's christmas poem "in the bleak midwinter" became widely known in the english-speaking world after her death, when it was set as a christmas carol, first by gustav holst and later by harold darke.[ ] her poem "love came down at christmas" ( ) has also been widely arranged as a carol.[ ] rossetti is honoured with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the anglican church on april.[ ][ ][ ] up-hill is an allegorical poem.she compares humanlife with a painful journey. in , john ireland set eight of her poems from sing-song: a nursery rhyme book to music in his song cycle mother and child. the title of j. k. rowling's novel the cuckoo's calling is based on a line in rossetti's poem a dirge.[ ] the poem "song" was an inspiration for bear mccreary to write his musical composition when i am dead, published in .[ ] two of rossetti's poems, "where sunless rivers weep" and "weeping willow" were set to music by barbara arens in her all beautiful & splendid things: + piano songs on poems by women ( , editions musica ferrum). in , as one of the many millennium projects across the country, a poetry stone was placed in what used to be the grounds of north hill house in frome. on one side is an excerpt from her poem, "what good shall my life do me": "love lights the sun: love through the dark/lights the moon's evanescent arc:/same love lights up the glow-worms spark." she wrote of her brief stay in frome, which had "an abundance of green slopes and gentle declivities: no boldness or grandeur but plenty of peaceful beauty."[ ] in , rossetti was the subject of radio 's programme in our time.[ ][ ] ancestry[edit] 	ancestors of christina rossetti 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . giuseppe rossetti	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . nicola rossetti	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . teresa bosco[ ]	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . gabriele rossetti	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . donato pietro di cola 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . giacinto pietrocola	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . nella di santo buono[ ] 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . domenico pietrocola	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . lucrezia de rosa[ ]	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . pietro pietrocola	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . maria francesca pietrocola	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . domenica miscione[ ]	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . christina rossetti	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . agostino ansano polidori	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . gaetano polidori	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . teresa cosci[ ]	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . frances polidori	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . john pierce	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . anna maria pierce	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . mary pierce	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 the rossetti family by lewis carroll (charles lutwidge dodgson) publications[edit] poetry collections[edit] 	verses. london: private, .[ ] 	goblin market and other poems. london: macmillan, [ ] 	 author's revised edition 	the prince's progress and other poems. london: macmillan, [ ] 	goblin market, the prince's progress, and other poems. london: macmillan, 	sing-song: a nursery rhyme book ( , )[ ] 	a pageant and other poems ( ) 	verses. london: society for promoting christian knowledge, [ ] 	new poems. london: macmillan, [ ] 	the rossetti birthday book. london: private, [ ] 	the poetical works of christina georgina rossetti. edited by william michael rossetti. london: macmillan, 	the complete poems of christina rossetti. edited by rebecca w. crump. a complete and comprehensive collection, with publication annotation, in three volumes. baton rouge: louisiana state university press, – fiction[edit] 	commonplace and other stories. london: ellis, [ ] 	speaking likenesses. london: macmillan, .[ ] non-fiction[edit] 	called to be saints. london: society for promoting christian knowledge, 	"dante, an english classic". churchman's shilling magazine and family treasury ( ): – 	"dante: the poet illustrated out of the poem". the century (february ): – . 	the face of the deep. london: society for promoting christian knowledge, 	seek and find: a double series of short studies of the benedicite. london: society for promoting christian knowledge, 	time flies: a reading diary. london: society for promoting christian knowledge, references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ a b c d e profile at poets.org 	^ "author profile: christina rossetti," literary worlds, byu.edu, web, may . 	^ a b c d e f g h i lindsay duguid: "rossetti, christina georgina ( – )". oxford dictionary of national biography, oxford: oup, . retrieved october . 	^ a b c packer, lona mosk ( ) christina rossetti university of california press, pp. – . 	^ packer, lona mosk ( ) christina rossetti university of california press, p. . 	^ a b packer, lona mosk ( ) christina rossetti university of california press, p. . 	^ "plaques". june . retrieved june . 	^ "christina rossetti | english poet". encyclopedia britannica. retrieved june . 	^ tate gallery 	^ "christina rossetti ( – )," enotes.com, web, may . 	^ jan marsh, christina rossetti and the pre–raphaelite brotherhood archived may at the wayback machine 	^ a b c the cambridge companion to english poets ( ), claude rawson, cambridge university press, pp. – . 	^ roe, dinah ( ). the pre-raphaelites: from rossetti to ruskin. penguin classics. p.  . 	^ roe, dinah ( ). the pre-raphaelites: from rossetti to ruskin. penguin classics. p. xxvii. 	^ lona mosk packer, ( ), christina rossetti, university of california press, p. . 	^ constance w. hassett, ( ), christina rossetti: the patience of style, university of virginia press, p. . 	^ christina rossetti, the complete poems, penguin books, london, isbn  . 	^ pieter liebregts and wim tigges, eds. ( ) beauty and the beast: christina rossetti. rodopi press, p. . 	^ hoxie neale fairchild ( ), religious trends in english poetry, vol. , columbia university press. 	^ a b antony h. harrison ( ), the letters of christina rossetti volume , – , university of virginia press, isbn  - - -x. 	^ the norton anthology of poetry (revised shorter edition), isbn  - - - . 	^ "christina rossetti ( – ) – find a grave..." www.findagrave.com. retrieved december . 	^ wilson, scott. resting places: the burial sites of more than , famous persons, rd ed.: (kindle locations - ). mcfarland & company, inc., publishers. kindle edition. 	^ "christina rossetti: london remembers". londonremembers.com. retrieved november . 	^ a b exciting holiness: collects and readings for the festivals and lesser festivals of the calendars of the church of england, the church of ireland, the scottish episcopal church and the church in wales. ( ) brother tristam, hymns ancient and modern ltd, p. isbn  	^ a b churchofengland.org, holy days calendar 	^ tls, december . 	^ a gallery of english and american women famous in song ( ), j.m. stoddart & company, p. . 	^ bbc article bleak midwinter named best carol thursday, november 	^ hymns and carols of christmas 	^ "the baptismal ecclesiology of holy women, holy men: developments in the theology of sainthood in the episcopal church" ( ) dan joslyn-siemiatkoski p. . 	^ retrieved june . 	^ retrieved june . 	^ "poetry on the millennium green". discover frome. september . retrieved august . 	^ bbc radio , in our time, december , christina rossetti 	^ retrieved july . 	^ "rossetti family tree". retrieved june . 	^ a b c "pietrocola family of vasto". retrieved june . 	^ manfredi, marco. "polidori, gaetano" (in italian). treccani. retrieved june . 	^ a b c d e f g h "christina rossetti bibliography – uk first edition books," bookseller world, web, may . 	^ sing-song online edition sources[edit] 	kathleen jones, christina rossetti: learning not to be first 	david clifford and laurence roussillon, outsiders looking in: the rossettis then and now. london: anthem, 	antony harrison, christina rossetti in context. chapel hill, n.c.: university of north carolina press, 	kathleen jones, learning not to be first: a biography of christina rossetti. oxford: oxford university press, 	jan marsh, introduction, christina rossetti, poems and prose. london: everyman, . xvii–xxxiii 	jan marsh, christina rossetti: a writer's life. new york: viking, 	maura ives, christina rossetti: a descriptive bibliography. new castle, d.e.: oak knoll, external links[edit] christina rossettiat wikipedia's sister projects 	media from wikimedia commons 	quotations from wikiquote 	texts from wikisource 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january bc arpinum, italy, roman republic 	died	 december bc (aged ) formia, italy, roman republic 	cause of death	beheaded by order of the second triumvirate 	occupation	statesman, lawyer, writer, orator 	office		consul of rome ( bc) 	governor of cilicia ( – bc) 	political party	optimates 	spouse(s)		terentia ( – bc) 	publilia ( – bc) 	children	tullia and cicero minor 	relatives	quintus tullius cicero (brother) 	writing career 	subjects	politics, law, philosophy, rhetoric 	literary movement		golden age latin 	eclectic philosophy 	notable works		orations: 	in verrem 	in catilinam i–iv 	philosophy: 	academica 	de oratore 	de re publica 	de natura deorum 	de officiis 	tusculanae quaestiones 	de divinatione 	de fato 	 	 philosophy career 	 	era	hellenistic philosophy 	region	western philosophy 	school	academic skepticism[ ] classical republicanism 	main interests 	ethics, epistemology, theology 	notable ideas 	summum bonum 	 influences 	socrates, plato, philo of larissa, panaetius 	 influenced 	virtually all of subsequent western philosophy 	 	 	 	part of a series on 	ancient rome and the fall of the republic 	 people 	mark antony 	augustus 	brutus 	cato 	cicero 	cleopatra 	clodius pulcher 	crassus 	lepidus 	pompey 	sextus pompey events 	first triumvirate 	caesar's civil war 	assassination of caesar 	second triumvirate 	liberators' civil war 	sicilian revolt 	final war of the roman republic places 	caesareum 	comitium 	curia julia 	curia hostilia 	rostra 	theatre of pompey 		v 	t 	e marcus tullius cicero (/ˈsɪsəroʊ/ siss-ə-roh; latin: [ˈmaːrkʊs ˈtʊlːijʊs ˈkɪkɛroː]; january  – december  bc) was a roman statesman, lawyer, scholar and academic skeptic[ ] who played an important role in the politics of the late roman republic and upheld optimate principles during the crisis that led to the establishment of the roman empire.[ ] his extensive writings include treatises on rhetoric, philosophy and politics, and he is considered one of rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.[ ][ ] he came from a wealthy municipal family of the roman equestrian order, and served as consul in  bc. his influence on the latin language was immense: he wrote more than three-quarters of surviving latin literature from the period of his adult life, and it has been said that subsequent prose was either a reaction against or a return to his style, not only in latin but in european languages up to the th century.[ ][ ][ ] cicero introduced into latin the arguments of the chief schools of hellenistic philosophy and created a latin philosophical vocabulary with neologisms such as evidentia,[ ] humanitas, qualitas, quantitas, and essentia,[ ] distinguishing himself as a translator and philosopher. though he was an accomplished orator and successful lawyer, cicero believed his political career was his most important achievement. it was during his consulship that the second catilinarian conspiracy attempted to overthrow the government through an attack on the city by outside forces, and cicero suppressed the revolt by summarily and controversially executing five conspirators. during the chaotic latter half of the st century bc marked by civil wars and the dictatorship of gaius julius caesar, cicero championed a return to the traditional republican government. following julius caesar's death, cicero became an enemy of mark antony in the ensuing power struggle, attacking him in a series of speeches. he was proscribed as an enemy of the state by the second triumvirate and consequently executed by soldiers operating on their behalf in  bc after having been intercepted during an attempted flight from the italian peninsula. his severed hands and head were then, as a final revenge of mark antony, displayed on the rostra. petrarch's rediscovery of cicero's letters is often credited for initiating the th-century renaissance in public affairs, humanism, and classical roman culture.[ ] according to polish historian tadeusz zieliński, "the renaissance was above all things a revival of cicero, and only after him and through him of the rest of classical antiquity."[ ] the peak of cicero's authority and prestige came during the th-century enlightenment,[ ] and his impact on leading enlightenment thinkers and political theorists such as john locke, david hume, montesquieu and edmund burke was substantial.[ ] his works rank among the most influential in european culture, and today still constitute one of the most important bodies of primary material for the writing and revision of roman history, especially the last days of the roman republic.[ ] contents 	 personal life 	 . early life 	 . family 	 public career 	 . early legal activity 	 . early political career 	 . consul 	 . exile and return 	 . governorship of cilicia 	 . julius caesar's civil war 	 . opposition to mark antony and death 	 legacy 	 works 	 in archaeology 	 notable fictional portrayals 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 . citations 	 . sources 	 further reading 	 external links 	 . works by cicero 	 . biographies and descriptions of cicero's time personal life[edit] main article: personal life of cicero early life[edit] marcus tullius cicero was born on january bc[ ] in arpinum, a hill town kilometers (  mi) southeast of rome. he belonged to the tribus cornelia.[ ] his father was a well-to-do member of the equestrian order and possessed good connections in rome. however, being a semi-invalid, he could not enter public life and studied extensively to compensate. although little is known about cicero's mother, helvia, it was common for the wives of important roman citizens to be responsible for the management of the household. cicero's brother quintus wrote in a letter that she was a thrifty housewife.[ ] cicero's cognomen, or personal surname, comes from the latin for chickpea, cicer. plutarch explains that the name was originally given to one of cicero's ancestors who had a cleft in the tip of his nose resembling a chickpea. however, it is more likely that cicero's ancestors prospered through the cultivation and sale of chickpeas.[ ] romans often chose down-to-earth personal surnames. the famous family names of fabius, lentulus, and piso come from the latin names of beans, lentils, and peas, respectively. plutarch writes that cicero was urged to change this deprecatory name when he entered politics, but refused, saying that he would make cicero more glorious than scaurus ("swollen-ankled") and catulus ("puppy").[ ] the young cicero reading by vincenzo foppa (fresco, ), now at the wallace collection during this period in roman history, "cultured" meant being able to speak both latin and greek. cicero was therefore educated in the teachings of the ancient greek philosophers, poets and historians; as he obtained much of his understanding of the theory and practice of rhetoric from the greek poet archias[ ] and from the greek rhetorician apollonius.[ ] cicero used his knowledge of greek to translate many of the theoretical concepts of greek philosophy into latin, thus translating greek philosophical works for a larger audience. it was precisely his broad education that tied him to the traditional roman elite.[ ] cicero's interest in philosophy figured heavily in his later career and led to him providing a comprehensive account of greek philosophy for a roman audience,[ ] including creating a philosophical vocabulary in latin.[ ] in bc, philo of larissa, the head of the platonic academy that was founded by plato in athens about years earlier, arrived in rome. cicero, "inspired by an extraordinary zeal for philosophy",[ ] sat enthusiastically at his feet and absorbed carneades' academic skeptic philosophy.[ ] cicero said of plato's dialogues, that if zeus were to speak, he would use their language.[ ] according to plutarch, cicero was an extremely talented student, whose learning attracted attention from all over rome,[ ] affording him the opportunity to study roman law under quintus mucius scaevola.[ ] cicero's fellow students were gaius marius minor, servius sulpicius rufus (who became a famous lawyer, one of the few whom cicero considered superior to himself in legal matters), and titus pomponius. the latter two became cicero's friends for life, and pomponius (who later received the nickname "atticus", and whose sister married cicero's brother) would become, in cicero's own words, "as a second brother", with both maintaining a lifelong correspondence.[ ] in bc, cicero left for greece, asia minor and rhodes. this was perhaps to avoid the potential wrath of sulla, as plutarch claims,[ ][ ] though cicero himself says it was to hone his skills and improve his physical fitness.[ ] in athens he studied philosophy with antiochus of ascalon, the 'old academic' and initiator of middle platonism.[ ] in asia minor, he met the leading orators of the region and continued to study with them. cicero then journeyed to rhodes to meet his former teacher, apollonius molon, who had previously taught him in rome. molon helped cicero hone the excesses in his style, as well as train his body and lungs for the demands of public speaking.[ ] charting a middle path between the competing attic and asiatic styles, cicero would ultimately become considered second only to demosthenes among history's orators.[ ] family[edit] marcus tullius cicero cicero married terentia probably at the age of , in bc. according to the upper class mores of the day it was a marriage of convenience, but lasted harmoniously for nearly years. terentia's family was wealthy, probably the plebeian noble house of terenti varrones, thus meeting the needs of cicero's political ambitions in both economic and social terms. she had a half-sister named fabia, who as a child had become a vestal virgin, a great honour. terentia was a strong willed woman and (citing plutarch) "she took more interest in her husband's political career than she allowed him to take in household affairs."[ ] in the s bc, cicero's letters to terentia became shorter and colder. he complained to his friends that terentia had betrayed him but did not specify in which sense. perhaps the marriage simply could not outlast the strain of the political upheaval in rome, cicero's involvement in it, and various other disputes between the two. the divorce appears to have taken place in bc or shortly before.[ ] in or bc,[ ] cicero married a young girl, publilia, who had been his ward. it is thought that cicero needed her money, particularly after having to repay the dowry of terentia, who came from a wealthy family.[ ] this marriage did not last long. although his marriage to terentia was one of convenience, it is commonly known that cicero held great love for his daughter tullia.[ ] when she suddenly became ill in february bc and died after having seemingly recovered from giving birth to a son in january, cicero was stunned. "i have lost the one thing that bound me to life" he wrote to atticus.[ ] atticus told him to come for a visit during the first weeks of his bereavement, so that he could comfort him when his pain was at its greatest. in atticus's large library, cicero read everything that the greek philosophers had written about overcoming grief, "but my sorrow defeats all consolation."[ ] caesar and brutus as well as servius sulpicius rufus sent him letters of condolence.[ ][ ] cicero hoped that his son marcus would become a philosopher like him, but marcus himself wished for a military career. he joined the army of pompey in bc and after pompey's defeat at pharsalus bc, he was pardoned by caesar. cicero sent him to athens to study as a disciple of the peripatetic philosopher kratippos in bc, but he used this absence from "his father's vigilant eye" to "eat, drink and be merry."[ ] after cicero's death he joined the army of the liberatores but was later pardoned by augustus. augustus's bad conscience for not having objected to cicero's being put on the proscription list during the second triumvirate led him to aid considerably marcus minor's career. he became an augur, and was nominated consul in bc together with augustus. as such, he was responsible for revoking the honors of mark antony, who was responsible for the proscription, and could in this way take revenge. later he was appointed proconsul of syria and the province of asia.[ ] public career[edit] main article: political career of cicero early legal activity[edit] cicero wanted to pursue a public career in politics along the steps of the cursus honorum. in – bc, he served both pompeius strabo and lucius cornelius sulla as they campaigned in the social war, though he had no taste for military life, being an intellectual first and foremost. cicero started his career as a lawyer around – bc. the first extant speech is a private case from bc (the pro quinctio), delivered when cicero was aged , though he refers throughout to previous defenses he had already undertaken.[ ] his first major public case, of which a written record is still extant, was his bc defense of sextus roscius on the charge of patricide.[ ] taking this case was a courageous move for cicero; patricide was considered an appalling crime, and the people whom cicero accused of the murder, the most notorious being chrysogonus, were favorites of sulla. at this time it would have been easy for sulla to have the unknown cicero murdered. cicero's defense was an indirect challenge to the dictator sulla, and on the strength of his case, roscius was acquitted.[ ] soon after, cicero again challenged sulla, by criticising his disenfranchisement of italian towns in a lost speech on behalf of a woman from arretium.[ ] cicero's case in the pro roscio amerino was divided into three parts. the first part detailed exactly the charge brought by ericius. cicero explained how a rustic son of a farmer, who lives off the pleasures of his own land, would not have gained anything from committing patricide because he would have eventually inherited his father's land anyway. the second part concerned the boldness and greed of two of the accusers, magnus and capito. cicero told the jury that they were the more likely perpetrators of murder because the two were greedy, both for conspiring together against a fellow kinsman and, in particular, magnus, for his boldness and for being unashamed to appear in court to support the false charges. the third part explained that chrysogonus had immense political power, and the accusation was successfully made due to that power. even though chrysogonus may not have been what cicero said he was, through rhetoric cicero successfully made him appear to be a foreign freed man who prospered by devious means in the aftermath of the civil war. cicero surmised that it showed what kind of a person he was and that something like murder was not beneath him.[ ] early political career[edit] his first office was as one of the twenty annual quaestors, a training post for serious public administration in a diversity of areas, but with a traditional emphasis on administration and rigorous accounting of public monies under the guidance of a senior magistrate or provincial commander. cicero served as quaestor in western sicily in bc and demonstrated honesty and integrity in his dealings with the inhabitants. as a result, the grateful sicilians asked cicero to prosecute gaius verres, a governor of sicily, who had badly plundered the province. his prosecution of gaius verres was a great forensic success[ ] for cicero. governor gaius verres hired the prominent lawyer of a noble family quintus hortensius hortalus. after a lengthy period in sicily collecting testimonials and evidence and persuading witnesses to come forward, cicero returned to rome and won the case in a series of dramatic court battles. his unique style of oratory set him apart from the flamboyant hortensius. on the conclusion of this case, cicero came to be considered the greatest orator in rome. the view that cicero may have taken the case for reasons of his own is viable. hortensius was, at this point, known as the best lawyer in rome; to beat him would guarantee much success and the prestige that cicero needed to start his career. cicero's oratorical skill is shown in his character assassination of verres and various other techniques of persuasion used on the jury. one such example is found in the speech against verres i, where he states "with you on this bench, gentlemen, with marcus acilius glabrio as your president, i do not understand what verres can hope to achieve".[ ] oratory was considered a great art in ancient rome and an important tool for disseminating knowledge and promoting oneself in elections, in part because there were no regular newspapers or mass media. cicero was neither a patrician nor a plebeian noble; his rise to political office despite his relatively humble origins has traditionally been attributed to his brilliance as an orator.[ ] cicero grew up in a time of civil unrest and war. sulla's victory in the first of a series of civil wars led to a new constitutional framework that undermined libertas (liberty), the fundamental value of the roman republic. nonetheless, sulla's reforms strengthened the position of the equestrian class, contributing to that class's growing political power. cicero was both an italian eques and a novus homo, but more importantly he was a roman constitutionalist. his social class and loyalty to the republic ensured that he would "command the support and confidence of the people as well as the italian middle classes". the optimates faction never truly accepted cicero, and this undermined his efforts to reform the republic while preserving the constitution. nevertheless, he successfully ascended the cursus honorum, holding each magistracy at or near the youngest possible age: quaestor in bc (age ), aedile in bc (age ), and praetor in bc (age ), when he served as president of the "reclamation" (or extortion) court. he was then elected consul at age . consul[edit] cicero denounces catiline, fresco by cesare maccari, – cicero, seizing the opportunity offered by optimate fear of reform, was elected consul for the year bc;[ ][ ] he was elected with the support of every unit of the centuriate assembly, rival members of the post-sullan establishment, and the leaders of municipalities throughout post–social war italy.[ ] his co-consul for the year, gaius antonius hybrida, played a minor role.[citation needed] he began his consular year by opposing a land bill proposed by a plebeian tribune which would have appointed commissioners with semi-permanent authority over land reform.[ ][ ] cicero was also active in the courts, defending gaius rabirius from accusations of participating in the unlawful killing of plebeian tribune lucius appuleius saturninus in bc.[ ] the prosecution occurred before the comita centuriata and threatened to reopen conflict between the marian and sullan factions at rome.[ ] cicero defended the use of force as being authorised by a senatus consultum ultimum, which would prove similar to his own use of force under such conditions.[ ] most famously – in part because of his own publicity[ ] – he thwarted a conspiracy led by lucius sergius catilina to overthrow the roman republic with the help of foreign armed forces. cicero procured a senatus consultum ultimum (a recommendation from the senate attempting to legitimise the use of force)[ ] and drove catiline from the city with four vehement speeches (the catiline orations), which to this day remain outstanding examples of his rhetorical style. the orations listed catiline and his followers' debaucheries, and denounced catiline's senatorial sympathizers as roguish and dissolute debtors clinging to catiline as a final and desperate hope. cicero demanded that catiline and his followers leave the city. at the conclusion of cicero's first speech (which was made in the temple of jupiter stator), catiline hurriedly left the senate. in his following speeches, cicero did not directly address catiline. he delivered the second and third orations before the people, and the last one again before the senate. by these speeches, cicero wanted to prepare the senate for the worst possible case; he also delivered more evidence, against catiline.[ ] catiline fled and left behind his followers to start the revolution from within while he himself assaulted the city with an army of "moral bankrupts and honest fanatics". it is alleged that catiline had attempted to involve the allobroges, a tribe of transalpine gaul, in their plot, but cicero, working with the gauls, was able to seize letters that incriminated the five conspirators and forced them to confess in front of the senate.[ ] the senate then deliberated upon the conspirators' punishment. as it was the dominant advisory body to the various legislative assemblies rather than a judicial body, there were limits to its power; however, martial law was in effect, and it was feared that simple house arrest or exile – the standard options – would not remove the threat to the state. at first decimus junius silanus spoke for the "extreme penalty"; many were swayed by julius caesar, who decried the precedent it would set and argued in favor of life imprisonment in various italian towns. cato the younger rose in defense of the death penalty and the entire senate finally agreed on the matter. cicero had the conspirators taken to the tullianum, the notorious roman prison, where they were strangled. cicero himself accompanied the former consul publius cornelius lentulus sura, one of the conspirators, to the tullianum.[citation needed] cicero received the honorific "pater patriae" for his efforts to suppress the conspiracy, but lived thereafter in fear of trial or exile for having put roman citizens to death without trial.[citation needed] while the senatus consultum ultimum gave some legitimacy to the use of force against the conspirators,[a] cicero also argued that catiline's conspiracy, by virtue of its treason, made the conspirators enemies of the state and forfeited the protections intrinsically possessed by roman citizens.[ ] the consuls moved decisively. antonius hybrida was dispatched to defeat catiline in battle that year, preventing crassus or pompey from exploiting the situation for their own political aims.[ ] after the suppression of the conspiracy, cicero was proud of his accomplishment.[citation needed] some of his political enemies argued that though the act gained cicero popularity, he exaggerated the extent of his success. he overestimated his popularity again several years later after being exiled from italy and then allowed back from exile. at this time, he claimed that the republic would be restored along with him.[ ] many romans at the time, led by populares politicians gaius julius caesar and patrician turned plebeian publius clodius pulcher believed that cicero's evidence against catiline was fabricated and the witnesses were bribed. cicero, who had been elected consul with the support of the optimates, promoted their position as advocates of the status quo resisting social changes, especially more privileges for the average inhabitants of rome.[ ] shortly after completing his consulship, in late bc, cicero arranged the purchase of a large townhouse on the palatine hill previously owned by rome's richest citizen, marcus licinius crassus.[ ] it cost an exorbitant sum, .  million sesterces, which required cicero to arrange for a loan from his co-consul gaius antonius hybrida based on the expected profits from antonius's proconsulship in macedonia.[ ][ ] at the beginning of his consulship, cicero had made an arrangement with hybrida to grant hybrida the profitable province of macedonia that had been granted to cicero by the senate in exchange for hybrida staying out of cicero's way for the year and a quarter of the profits from the province.[ ] in return cicero gained a lavish house which he proudly boasted was "in conspectu prope totius urbis" (in sight of nearly the whole city), only a short walk away from the roman forum.[ ] exile and return[edit] in bc, julius caesar invited cicero to be the fourth member of his existing partnership with pompey and marcus licinius crassus, an assembly that would eventually be called the first triumvirate. cicero refused the invitation because he suspected it would undermine the republic.[ ] during caesar's consulship of bc, the triumvirate had achieved many of their goals of land reform, publicani debt forgiveness, ratification of pompeian conquests, etc. with caesar leaving for his provinces, they wished to maintain their stranglehold on politics. they engineered the adoption of patrician publius clodius pulcher into a plebeian family and had him elected as one of the ten tribunes of the plebs for bc.[ ] clodius used the triumvirate's backing to push through legislation that benefited them all. he introduced several laws (the leges clodiae) that made him very popular with the people, strengthening his power base, then he turned on cicero by threatening exile to anyone who executed a roman citizen without a trial. cicero, having executed members of the catiline conspiracy four years previously without formal trial, was clearly the intended target.[ ] furthermore, many believed that clodius acted in concert with the triumvirate who feared that cicero would seek to abolish many of caesar's accomplishments while consul the year before. cicero argued that the senatus consultum ultimum indemnified him from punishment, and he attempted to gain the support of the senators and consuls, especially of pompey.[ ] cicero grew out his hair, dressed in mourning and toured the streets. clodius' gangs dogged him, hurling abuse, stones and even excrement. hortensius, trying to rally to his old rival's support, was almost lynched. the senate and the consuls were cowed. caesar, who was still encamped near rome, was apologetic but said he could do nothing when cicero brought himself to grovel in the proconsul's tent. everyone seemed to have abandoned cicero.[ ] after clodius passed a law to deny to cicero fire and water (i.e. shelter) within four hundred miles of rome, cicero went into exile.[ ] he arrived at thessalonica, on may  bc.[ ][ ][ ] in his absence, clodius, who lived next door to cicero on the palatine, arranged for cicero's house to be confiscated by the state, and was even able to purchase a part of the property in order to extend his own house.[ ] after demolishing cicero's house, clodius had the land consecrated and symbolically erected a temple of liberty (aedes libertatis) on the vacant spot.[ ] cicero's exile caused him to fall into depression. he wrote to atticus: "your pleas have prevented me from committing suicide. but what is there to live for? don't blame me for complaining. my afflictions surpass any you ever heard of earlier".[ ] after the intervention of recently elected tribune titus annius milo, acting on the behalf of pompey who wanted cicero as a client,[ ] the senate voted in favor of recalling cicero from exile. clodius cast the single vote against the decree. cicero returned to italy on august  bc, landing at brundisium.[ ] he was greeted by a cheering crowd, and, to his delight, his beloved daughter tullia.[ ] in his oratio de domo sua ad pontifices, cicero convinced the college of pontiffs to rule that the consecration of his land was invalid, thereby allowing him to regain his property and rebuild his house on the palatine.[ ][ ] cicero tried to re-enter politics as an independent operator,[ ] but his attempts to attack portions of caesar's legislation were unsuccessful[ ] and encouraged caesar to re-solidify his political alliance with pompey and crassus.[ ] the conference at luca in  bc left the three-man alliance in domination of the republic's politics; this forced cicero to recant and support the triumvirate out of fear from being entirely excluded from public life.[ ] after the conference cicero lavishly praised caesar's achievements, got the senate to vote a thanksgiving for caesar's victories and grant money to pay his troops.[citation needed] he also delivered a speech 'on the consular provinces' (latin: de provinciis consularibus)[ ] which checked an attempt by caesar's enemies to strip him of his provinces in gaul.[ ] after this, a cowed cicero concentrated on his literary works. it is uncertain whether he was directly involved in politics for the following few years.[ ] governorship of cilicia[edit] in bc he reluctantly accepted a promagistracy (as proconsul) in cilicia for the year; there were few other former consuls eligible as a result of a legislative requirement enacted by pompey in  bc specifying an interval of five years between a consulship or praetorship and a provincial command.[ ][ ] he served as proconsul of cilicia from may , arriving in the provinces three months later around august.[ ] he was given instructions to keep nearby cappadocia loyal to king ariobarzanes iii, which he achieved 'satisfactorily without war'. in bc marcus licinius crassus had been defeated by the parthians at the battle of carrhae. this opened up the roman east for a parthian invasion, causing much unrest in syria and cilicia. cicero restored calm by his mild system of government. he discovered that a great amount of public property had been embezzled by corrupt previous governors and members of their staff, and did his utmost to restore it. thus he greatly improved the condition of the cities.[ ] he retained the civil rights of, and exempted from penalties, the men who gave the property back.[ ] besides this, he was extremely frugal in his outlays for staff and private expenses during his governorship, and this made him highly popular among the natives.[ ] previous governors had extorted enormous sums from the provincials in order to supply their households and bodyguards. besides his activity in ameliorating the hard pecuniary situation of the province, cicero was also creditably active in the military sphere. early in his governorship he received information that prince pacorus, son of orodes ii the king of the parthians, had crossed the euphrates, and was ravaging the syrian countryside and had even besieged cassius (the interim roman commander in syria) in antioch.[ ] cicero eventually marched with two understrength legions and a large contingent of auxiliary cavalry to cassius's relief. pacorus and his army had already given up on besieging antioch and were heading south through syria, ravaging the countryside again, cassius and his legions followed them, harrying them wherever they went, eventually ambushing and defeating them near antigonea.[ ] another large troop of parthian horsemen was defeated by cicero's cavalry who happened to run into them while scouting ahead of the main army. cicero next defeated some robbers who were based on mount amanus and was hailed as imperator by his troops. afterwards he led his army against the independent cilician mountain tribes, besieging their fortress of pindenissum. it took him days to reduce the place, which fell in december.[ ] then cicero left the province on july[ ] to his brother quintus, who had accompanied him on his governorship as his legate.[ ] on his way back to rome he stopped over in rhodes and then went to athens, where he caught up with his old friend titus pomponius atticus and met men of great learning.[ ] julius caesar's civil war[edit] cicero arrived in rome on january bc.[ ] he stayed outside the pomerium, to retain his promagisterial powers: either in expectation of a triumph or to retain his independent command authority in the coming civil war.[ ] the struggle between pompey and julius caesar grew more intense in bc. cicero favored pompey, seeing him as a defender of the senate and republican tradition, but at that time avoided openly alienating caesar.[ ] when caesar invaded italy in bc, cicero fled rome. caesar, seeking an endorsement by a senior senator, courted cicero's favor, but even so cicero slipped out of italy and traveled to dyrrachium (epidamnos), illyria, where pompey's staff was situated.[ ] cicero traveled with the pompeian forces to pharsalus in bc,[ ] though he was quickly losing faith in the competence and righteousness of the pompeian side. eventually, he provoked the hostility of his fellow senator cato, who told him that he would have been of more use to the cause of the optimates if he had stayed in rome. after caesar's victory at the battle of pharsalus on august, cicero refused to take command of the pompeian forces and continue the war.[ ] he returned to rome, still as a promagistrate with his lictors, in bc, and dismissed them upon his crossing the pomerium and renouncing his command.[ ] caesar pardoned him and cicero tried to adjust to the situation and maintain his political work, hoping that caesar might revive the republic and its institutions. in a letter to varro on c. april bc, cicero outlined his strategy under caesar's dictatorship. cicero, however, was taken completely by surprise when the liberatores assassinated caesar on the ides of march, bc. cicero was not included in the conspiracy, even though the conspirators were sure of his sympathy. marcus junius brutus called out cicero's name, asking him to restore the republic when he lifted his bloodstained dagger after the assassination.[ ] a letter cicero wrote in february bc to trebonius, one of the conspirators, began, "how i could wish that you had invited me to that most glorious banquet on the ides of march!"[ ][ ] cicero became a popular leader during the period of instability following the assassination. he had no respect for mark antony, who was scheming to take revenge upon caesar's murderers. in exchange for amnesty for the assassins, he arranged for the senate to agree not to declare caesar to have been a tyrant, which allowed the caesarians to have lawful support and kept caesar's reforms and policies intact.[ ] opposition to mark antony and death[edit] cicero's death (france, th century) cicero and antony now became the two leading men in rome: cicero as spokesman for the senate; antony as consul, leader of the caesarian faction, and unofficial executor of caesar's public will. relations between the two, never friendly, worsened after cicero claimed that antony was taking liberties in interpreting caesar's wishes and intentions. octavian was caesar's adopted son and heir. after he returned to italy, cicero began to play him against antony. he praised octavian, declaring he would not make the same mistakes as his father. he attacked antony in a series of speeches he called the philippics,[ ] after demosthenes's denunciations of philip ii of macedon. at the time cicero's popularity as a public figure was unrivalled.[ ] the vengeance of fulvia by francisco maura y montaner, depicting fulvia inspecting the severed head of cicero cicero supported decimus junius brutus albinus as governor of cisalpine gaul (gallia cisalpina) and urged the senate to name antony an enemy of the state. the speech of lucius piso, caesar's father-in-law, delayed proceedings against antony. antony was later declared an enemy of the state when he refused to lift the siege of mutina, which was in the hands of decimus brutus. cicero's plan to drive out antony failed. antony and octavian reconciled and allied with lepidus to form the second triumvirate after the successive battles of forum gallorum and mutina. the triumvirate began proscribing their enemies and potential rivals immediately after legislating the alliance into official existence for a term of five years with consular imperium. cicero and all of his contacts and supporters were numbered among the enemies of the state, even though octavian argued for two days against cicero being added to the list.[ ] cicero was one of the most viciously and doggedly hunted among the proscribed. he was viewed with sympathy by a large segment of the public and many people refused to report that they had seen him. he was caught on december  bc leaving his villa in formiae in a litter heading to the seaside, where he hoped to embark on a ship destined for macedonia.[ ] when his killers – herennius (a centurion) and popilius (a tribune) – arrived, cicero's own slaves said they had not seen him, but he was given away by philologus, a freedman of his brother quintus cicero.[ ] cicero about age  , from a marble bust as reported by seneca the elder, according to the historian aufidius bassus, cicero's last words are said to have been "there is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly."[ ] he bowed to his captors, leaning his head out of the litter in a gladiatorial gesture to ease the task. by baring his neck and throat to the soldiers, he was indicating that he would not resist. according to plutarch, herennius first slew him, then cut off his head. on antony's instructions his hands, which had penned the philippics against antony, were cut off as well; these were nailed along with his head on the rostra in the forum romanum according to the tradition of marius and sulla, both of whom had displayed the heads of their enemies in the forum. cicero was the only victim of the proscriptions who was displayed in that manner. according to cassius dio (in a story often mistakenly attributed to plutarch),[ ] antony's wife fulvia took cicero's head, pulled out his tongue, and jabbed it repeatedly with her hairpin in final revenge against cicero's power of speech.[ ] cicero's son, marcus tullius cicero minor, during his year as a consul in  bc, avenged his father's death, to a certain extent, when he announced to the senate mark antony's naval defeat at actium in  bc by octavian and his commander-in-chief, agrippa.[citation needed] octavian is reported to have praised cicero as a patriot and a scholar of meaning in later times, within the circle of his family.[ ] however, it was octavian's acquiescence that had allowed cicero to be killed, as cicero was condemned by the new triumvirate.[citation needed] cicero's career as a statesman was marked by inconsistencies and a tendency to shift his position in response to changes in the political climate. his indecision may be attributed to his sensitive and impressionable personality; he was prone to overreaction in the face of political and private change. 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declaring that cicero was "not the name of a man, but of eloquence itself."[ ] the english words ciceronian (meaning "eloquent") and cicerone (meaning "local guide") derive from his name.[ ][ ] he is credited with transforming latin from a modest utilitarian language into a versatile literary medium capable of expressing abstract and complicated thoughts with clarity.[ ] julius caesar praised cicero's achievement by saying "it is more important to have greatly extended the frontiers of the roman spirit than the frontiers of the roman empire".[ ] according to john william mackail, "cicero's unique and imperishable glory is that he created the language of the civilized world, and used that language to create a style which nineteen centuries have not replaced, and in some respects have hardly altered."[ ] cicero was also an energetic writer with an interest in a wide variety of subjects, in keeping with the hellenistic philosophical and rhetorical traditions in which he was trained. the quality and ready accessibility of ciceronian texts favored very wide distribution and inclusion in teaching curricula, as suggested by a graffito at pompeii, admonishing: "you will like cicero, or you will be whipped".[ ] cicero was greatly admired by influential church fathers such as augustine of hippo, who credited cicero's lost hortensius for his eventual conversion to christianity,[ ] and st. jerome, who had a feverish vision in which he was accused of being "follower of cicero and not of christ" before the judgment seat.[ ] this influence further increased after the early middle ages in europe, which more of his writings survived than any other latin author. medieval philosophers were influenced by cicero's writings on natural law and innate rights.[ ][additional citation(s) needed] petrarch's rediscovery of cicero's letters provided the impetus for searches for ancient greek and latin writings scattered throughout european monasteries, and the subsequent rediscovery of classical antiquity led to the renaissance. subsequently, cicero became synonymous with classical latin to such an extent that a number of humanist scholars began to assert that no latin word or phrase should be used unless it appeared in cicero's works, a stance criticised by erasmus.[ ] his voluminous correspondence, much of it addressed to his friend atticus, has been especially influential, introducing the art of refined letter writing to european culture. cornelius nepos, the st century bc biographer of atticus, remarked that cicero's letters contained such a wealth of detail "concerning the inclinations of leading men, the faults of the generals, and the revolutions in the government" that their reader had little need for a history of the period.[ ] among cicero's admirers were desiderius erasmus, martin luther, and john locke.[ ] following the invention of johannes gutenberg's printing press, de officiis was the second book printed in europe, after the gutenberg bible. scholars note cicero's influence on the rebirth of religious toleration in the th century.[ ] cicero was especially popular with the philosophes of the th century, including edward gibbon, diderot, david hume, montesquieu, and voltaire.[ ] gibbon wrote of his first experience reading the author's collective works thus: "i tasted the beauty of the language; i breathed the spirit of freedom; and i imbibed from his precepts and examples the public and private sense of a man...after finishing the great author, a library of eloquence and reason, i formed a more extensive plan of reviewing the latin classics..."[ ] voltaire called cicero "the greatest as well as the most elegant of roman philosophers" and even staged a play based on cicero's role in the catilinarian conspiracy, called rome sauvée, ou catilina, to "make young people who go to the theatre acquainted with cicero."[ ] voltaire was spurred to pen the drama as a rebuff to his rival claude prosper jolyot de crébillon's own play catilina, which had portrayed cicero as a coward and villain who hypocritically married his own daughter to catiline.[ ] montesquieu produced his "discourse on cicero" in , in which he heaped praise on the author because he rescued "philosophy from the hands of scholars, and freed it from the confusion of a foreign language".[ ] montesquieu went on to declare that cicero was "of all the ancients, the one who had the most personal merit, and whom i would prefer to resemble."[ ][ ] internationally, cicero the republican inspired the founding fathers of the united states and the revolutionaries of the french revolution.[ ] john adams said, "as all the ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher united than cicero, his authority should have great weight."[ ] jefferson names cicero as one of a handful of major figures who contributed to a tradition "of public right" that informed his draft of the declaration of independence and shaped american understandings of "the common sense" basis for the right of revolution.[ ] camille desmoulins said of the french republicans in that they were "mostly young people who, nourished by the reading of cicero at school, had become passionate enthusiasts for liberty".[ ] jim powell starts his book on the history of liberty with the sentence: "marcus tullius cicero expressed principles that became the bedrock of liberty in the modern world."[ ] likewise, no other ancient personality has inspired as much venomous dislike as cicero, especially in more modern times.[ ] his commitment to the values of the republic accommodated a hatred of the poor and persistent opposition to the advocates and mechanisms of popular representation.[ ] friedrich engels referred to him as "the most contemptible scoundrel in history" for upholding republican "democracy" while at the same time denouncing land and class reforms.[ ] cicero has faced criticism for exaggerating the democratic qualities of republican rome, and for defending the roman oligarchy against the popular reforms of caesar.[ ] michael parenti admits cicero's abilities as an orator, but finds him a vain, pompous and hypocritical personality who, when it suited him, could show public support for popular causes that he privately despised. parenti presents cicero's prosecution of the catiline conspiracy as legally flawed at least, and possibly unlawful.[ ] cicero also had an influence on modern astronomy. nicolaus copernicus, searching for ancient views on earth motion, said that he "first ... found in cicero that hicetas supposed the earth to move."[ ] notably, "cicero" was the name attributed to size font in typesetting table drawers. for ease of reference, type sizes , , , , , , , , , , , and were all given different names.[ ] works[edit] marci tullii ciceronis opera omnia ( ) main article: writings of cicero cicero was declared a righteous pagan by the early church,[ ] and therefore many of his works were deemed worthy of preservation. the bogomils considered him a rare exception of a pagan saint.[ ] subsequent roman and medieval christian writers quoted liberally from his works de re publica (on the commonwealth) and de legibus (on the laws), and much of his work has been recreated from these surviving fragments. cicero also articulated an early, abstract conceptualization of rights, based on ancient law and custom. of cicero's books, six on rhetoric have survived, as well as parts of eight on philosophy. of his speeches, were recorded, but only survive.[citation needed] in archaeology[edit] cicero's great repute in italy has led to numerous ruins being identified as having belonged to him, though none have been substantiated with absolute certainty. in formia, two roman-era ruins are popularly believed to be cicero's mausoleum, the tomba di cicerone, and the villa where he was assassinated in bc. the latter building is centered around a central hall with doric columns and a coffered vault, with a separate nymphaeum, on five acres of land near formia.[ ] a modern villa was built on the site after the rubino family purchased the land from ferdinand ii of the two sicilies in . cicero's supposed tomb is a -meter ( feet) tall tower on an opus quadratum base on the ancient via appia outside of formia. some suggest that it is not in fact cicero's tomb, but a monument built on the spot where cicero was intercepted and assassinated while trying to reach the sea.[ ] in pompeii, a large villa excavated in the mid th century just outside the herculaneum gate was widely believed to have been cicero's, who was known to have owned a holiday villa in pompeii he called his pompeianum. the villa was stripped of its fine frescoes and mosaics and then re-buried after – it has yet to be re-excavated.[ ] however, contemporaneous descriptions of the building from the excavators combined with cicero's own references to his pompeianum differ, making it unlikely that it is cicero's villa.[ ] in rome, the location of cicero's house has been roughly identified from excavations of the republican-era stratum on the northwestern slope of the palatine hill.[ ][ ] cicero's domus has long been known to have stood in the area, according to his own descriptions and those of later authors, but there is some debate about whether it stood near the base of the hill, very close to the roman forum, or nearer to the summit.[ ][ ] during his life the area was the most desirable in rome, densely occupied with patrician houses including the domus publica of julius caesar and the home of cicero's mortal enemy clodius.[ ] in the early imperial era these properties fell into the possession of the julio-claudian dynasty and the substructures of the domus tiberiana were built over the republican-era buildings.[ ] notable fictional portrayals[edit] ben jonson dramatised the conspiracy of catiline in his play catiline his conspiracy, featuring cicero as a character. cicero also appears as a minor character in william shakespeare's play julius caesar.[citation needed] cicero was portrayed on the motion picture screen by british actor alan napier in the film julius caesar, based on shakespeare's play.[ ] he has also been played by such noted actors as michael hordern (in cleopatra),[ ] and andré morell (in the julius caesar).[ ] most recently, cicero was portrayed by david bamber in the hbo series rome ( – ) and appeared in both seasons.[ ] in the historical novel series masters of rome, colleen mccullough presents a not-so-flattering depiction of cicero's career, showing him struggling with an inferiority complex and vanity, morally flexible and fatally indiscreet, while his rival julius caesar is shown in a more approving light.[ ] cicero is portrayed as a hero in the novel a pillar of iron by taylor caldwell ( ). robert harris' novels imperium, lustrum (published under the name conspirata in the united states) and dictator comprise a three-part series based on the life of cicero. in these novels cicero's character is depicted in a more favorable way than in those of mccullough, with his positive traits equaling or outweighing his weaknesses (while conversely caesar is depicted as more sinister than in mccullough).[ ] cicero is a major recurring character in the roma sub rosa series of mystery novels by steven saylor.[ ] he also appears several times as a peripheral character in john maddox roberts' spqr series.[ ] samuel barnett portrays cicero in a audio drama series pilot produced by big finish productions. a full series was released the following year.[ ] all episodes are written by david llewellyn[ ] and directed and produced by scott handcock.[ ] llewellyn, handcock and barnett re-teamed in the doctor who audio-drama tartarus (also produced by big finish) starring peter davison as the th doctor. it is not intended to be a part of the cicero series; in vortex (big finish's official free online magazine) llewellyn revealed that he was "worried that if we had cicero meeting aliens people might go back to the cicero series and see it through a sci-fi lens. then i remembered that simon callow still performs as charles dickens, and that he played dickens before reprising him in the doctor who tv episode, the unquiet dead – so i got over myself!".[ ] it was released in september .[citation needed] see also[edit] 	ancient rome portal 	caecilia attica 	caecilia metella (daughter of metellus celer) 	civis romanus sum 	clausula (rhetoric) 	a dialogue concerning oratorical partitions 	e pluribus unum 	esse quam videri 	ipse dixit 	list of ancient romans 	lorem ipsum 	marcantonius majoragio 	marcus tullius tiro 	marius nizolius 	o tempora o mores! 	otium 	socratici viri 	tempest in a teapot 	translation notes[edit] 	^ wiedemann describes the senatus consultum ultimum by the late republic as "little more than a fig-leaf by those who could muster a majority in the senate ... to legitimate the use of force".[ ] references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ iep/ 	^ cicero, academica book ii, 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Étude sur la société romaine du temps de césar ( ) 	everitt, anthony ( ). cicero. a turbulent life. london: john murray publishers. isbn  - - - - . 	fuhrmann, manfred ( ). cicero and the roman republic. oxford: blackwell. isbn  - - - - . 	gildenhard, ingo ( ). creative eloquence: the construction of reality in cicero's speeches. oxford/new york: oxford university press. 	habicht, christian ( ). cicero the politician. baltimore: johns hopkins university press. isbn  - - - - . 	hamza, gabor, l'optimus status civitatis di cicerone e la sua tradizione nel pensiero politico. in: tradizione romanistica e costituzione. cinquanta anni della corte costituzionale della repubblica italiana. vol. ii. napoli, . – . 	hamza, gabor, ciceros verhältnis zu seinen quellen, mit besonderer berücksichtigung der darstellung der staatslehre in de re publica. klio – beiträge zur alten geschichte ( ) – . 	hamza, gabor, cicero und der idealtypus des iurisconsultus. helixon – ( – ) – . 	hamza, gabor, il potere (lo stato) nel pensiero di cicerone e la sua attualità. revista internacional de derecho romano (ridrom) ( ) – . revista internacional de derecho romano – index 	hamza, gabor, zur interpretation des naturrechts in den werken von cicero. pázmány law review ( ) – .macdonald, c. 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	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 jstor - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	jstor 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		  (redirected from jstor (identifier)) 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		subscription digital library jstor	 	screenshot the jstor front page 	type of site 	digital library 	available in	english (includes content in other languages) 	owner	ithaka harbors[ ] 	created by	andrew w. mellon foundation 	url	jstor.org 	registration	yes 	launched	 ;  years ago ( ) 	current status	active 	oclc number	 	 	links 	website	www.jstor.org 	title list(s)	support.jstor.org/hc/en-us/articles/ -jstor-title-lists 	 jstor (/ˈdʒeɪstɔːr/;[ ] short for journal storage)[ ] is a digital library founded in in new york city, united states. originally containing digitized back issues of academic journals, it now encompasses books and other primary sources as well as current issues of journals.[ ] it provides full-text searches of almost , journals. as of [update], more than , institutions in more than countries had access to jstor.[ ] most access is by subscription but some of the site's public domain and open access content is available free of charge.[ ] jstor's revenue was $ million in .[ ] contents 	 history 	 content 	 access 	 . aaron swartz incident 	 . limitations 	 . increasing public access 	 use 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links history[edit] william g. bowen, president of princeton university from to ,[ ] founded jstor in . jstor originally was conceived as a solution to one of the problems faced by libraries, especially research and university libraries, due to the increasing number of academic journals in existence. most libraries found it prohibitively expensive in terms of cost and space to maintain a comprehensive collection of journals. by digitizing many journal titles, jstor allowed libraries to outsource the storage of journals with the confidence that they would remain available long-term. online access and full-text search ability improved access dramatically. bowen initially considered using cd-roms for distribution.[ ] however, ira fuchs, princeton university's vice-president for computing and information technology, convinced bowen that cd-rom was becoming an increasingly outdated technology and that network distribution could eliminate redundancy and increase accessibility. (for example, all princeton's administrative and academic buildings were networked by ; the student dormitory network was completed in ; and campus networks like the one at princeton were, in turn, linked to larger networks such as bitnet and the internet.) jstor was initiated in at seven different library sites, and originally encompassed ten economics and history journals. jstor access improved based on feedback from its initial sites, and it became a fully searchable index accessible from any ordinary web browser. special software was put in place to make pictures and graphs clear and readable.[ ] with the success of this limited project, bowen and kevin guthrie, then-president of jstor, wanted to expand the number of participating journals. they met with representatives of the royal society of london and an agreement was made to digitize the philosophical transactions of the royal society dating from its beginning in . the work of adding these volumes to jstor was completed by december .[ ] the andrew w. mellon foundation funded jstor initially. until january jstor operated as an independent, self-sustaining nonprofit organization with offices in new york city and in ann arbor, michigan. then jstor merged with the nonprofit ithaka harbors, inc.[ ]—a nonprofit organization founded in and "dedicated to helping the academic community take full advantage of rapidly advancing information and networking technologies".[ ] content[edit] jstor content is provided by more than publishers.[ ] the database contains more than , journal titles,[ ] in more than disciplines. each object is uniquely identified by an integer value, starting at . in addition to the main site, the jstor labs group operates an open service that allows access to the contents of the archives for the purposes of corpus analysis at its data for research service.[ ] this site offers a search facility with graphical indication of the article coverage and loose integration into the main jstor site. users may create focused sets of articles and then request a dataset containing word and n-gram frequencies and basic metadata. they are notified when the dataset is ready and may download it in either xml or csv formats. the service does not offer full-text, although academics may request that from jstor, subject to a non-disclosure agreement. jstor plant science[ ] is available in addition to the main site. jstor plant science provides access to content such as plant type specimens, taxonomic structures, scientific literature, and related materials and aimed at those researching, teaching, or studying botany, biology, ecology, environmental, and conservation studies. the materials on jstor plant science are contributed through the global plants initiative (gpi)[ ] and are accessible only to jstor and gpi members. two partner networks are contributing to this: the african plants initiative, which focuses on plants from africa, and the latin american plants initiative, which contributes plants from latin america. jstor launched its books at jstor program in november , adding , current and backlist books to its site. the books are linked with reviews and from citations in journal articles.[ ] in september , jstor launched jstor daily, an online magazine meant to bring academic research to a broader audience. posted articles are generally based on jstor entries, and some entries provide the backstory to current events.[ ] access[edit] jstor is licensed mainly to academic institutions, public libraries, research institutions, museums, and schools. more than , institutions in more than countries have access.[ ] jstor has been running a pilot program of allowing subscribing institutions to provide access to their alumni, in addition to current students and staff. the alumni access program officially launched in january .[ ] individual subscriptions also are available to certain journal titles through the journal publisher.[ ] every year, jstor blocks million attempts by non-subscribers to read articles.[ ] inquiries have been made about the possibility of making jstor open access. according to harvard law professor lawrence lessig, jstor had been asked "how much would it cost to make this available to the whole world, how much would we need to pay you? the answer was $ million".[ ] aaron swartz incident[edit] main article: united states v. aaron swartz see also: aaron swartz § jstor in late and early , swartz used mit's data network to bulk-download a substantial portion of jstor's collection of academic journal articles.[ ][ ] when the bulk-download was discovered, a video camera was placed in the room to film the mysterious visitor and the relevant computer was left untouched. once video was captured of the visitor, the download was stopped and swartz was identified. rather than pursue a civil lawsuit against him, in june they reached a settlement wherein he surrendered the downloaded data.[ ][ ] the following month, federal authorities charged swartz with several "data theft"-related crimes, including wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer, and recklessly damaging a protected computer.[ ][ ] prosecutors in the case claimed that swartz acted with the intention of making the papers available on p p file-sharing sites.[ ][ ] swartz surrendered to authorities, pleaded not guilty to all counts, and was released on $ , bail. in september , u.s. attorneys increased the number of charges against swartz from four to thirteen, with a possible penalty of years in prison and $ million in fines.[ ][ ] the case still was pending when swartz committed suicide in january .[ ] prosecutors dropped the charges after his suicide.[ ] limitations[edit] the availability of most journals on jstor is controlled by a "moving wall", which is an agreed-upon delay between the current volume of the journal and the latest volume available on jstor. this time period is specified by agreement between jstor and the publisher of the journal, which usually is three to five years. publishers may request that the period of a "moving wall" be changed or request discontinuation of coverage. formerly, publishers also could request that the "moving wall" be changed to a "fixed wall"—a specified date after which jstor would not add new volumes to its database. as of november  [update], "fixed wall" agreements were still in effect with three publishers of journals made available online through sites controlled by the publishers.[ ] in , jstor started adding current issues of certain journals through its current scholarship program.[ ] increasing public access[edit] beginning september , , jstor made public domain content available at no charge to the public.[ ][ ] this "early journal content" program constitutes about % of jstor's total content, and includes over , documents from more than journals that were published before in the united states, and before in other countries.[ ][ ][ ] jstor stated that it had been working on making this material free for some time. the swartz controversy and greg maxwell's protest torrent of the same content led jstor to "press ahead" with the initiative.[ ][ ] as of [update], jstor does not have plans to extend it to other public domain content, stating that "we do not believe that just because something is in the public domain, it can always be provided for free".[ ] in january , jstor started a pilot program, "register & read", offering limited no-cost access (not open access) to archived articles for individuals who register for the service. at the conclusion of the pilot, in january , jstor expanded register & read from an initial publishers to include about , journals from over publishers.[ ] registered readers may read up to six articles online every calendar month, but may not print or download pdfs.[ ] jstor is conducting a pilot program with wikipedia, whereby established editors are given reading privileges through the wikipedia library, as with a university library.[ ][ ] use[edit] in , jstor users performed nearly million searches, with more than million article views and . million article downloads.[ ] jstor has been used as a resource for linguistics research to investigate trends in language use over time and also to analyze gender differences and inequities in scholarly publishing, revealing that in certain fields, men predominate in the prestigious first and last author positions and that women are significantly underrepresented as authors of single-authored papers.[ ][ ][ ] jstor metadata is available through crossref and the unpaywall dump,[ ] which as of identifies nearly million works hosted by jstor as toll access, as opposed to over , available in open access (mainly through third party open access repositories). see also[edit] 	aluka 	artstor 	arxiv 	digital preservation 	hal (open archive) 	japanese historical text initiative 	jhove 	list of academic databases and search engines 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license; additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 fall of constantinople - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	fall of constantinople 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 capture of the capital of the byzantine empire for other sieges of the city, see list of sieges of constantinople. 	fall of constantinople 	part of the byzantine–ottoman wars and ottoman wars in europe 	 the last siege of constantinople ( ), french miniature by jean le tavernier after . 		date	 april – may ( days) 	location	constantinople (present-day istanbul) ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; . coordinates: ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; . 	result	 ottoman victory 	fall of the byzantine empire 	territorial changes	 	ottoman empire annexes the remaining byzantine territories; constantinople becomes its new capital 	the morea and trebizond continue as byzantine rump states, until their conquest in and respectively 	belligerents 	 	 ottoman empire 	 	 byzantine empire 	 republic of genoa 	 republic of venice 	 kingdom of sicily 	 papal states 	 ottoman defectors 	commanders and leaders 	 	 mehmed ii 	 Çandarlı halil  	 zagan pasha 	 suleiman baltoghlu (wia) 	 karaca pasha 	 hamza bey 	 	 konstantinos xi † 	 loukas notaras  	 theophilos palaiologos † 	 giovanni giustiniani (dow) 	 gabriele trevisano (pow) 	 cardinal isidore (pow) 	 orhan Çelebi  	 don francisco de toledo † 	strength 	 ottomans land forces: , – , [note ] , – , janissaries various cannon and bombards horse transports naval forces: galleys large row boats 	 byzantines land forces: , – , ottoman defectors[ ] papal archers[ ] naval forces: ships 	casualties and losses 	 unknown but likely heavy	 	 , killed[ ] 	 , enslaved[ ][ ] 	 		v 	t 	e byzantine–ottoman wars 	 	kulaca hisar 	bapheus 	dimbos 	catalan campaign 	bursa 	pelekanon 	nicaea 	nicomedia 	 st gallipoli 	 nd gallipoli 	adrianople 	 st thessalonica 	philadelphia 	 st constantinople 	 nd constantinople 	 rd constantinople 	 nd thessalonica 	 th constantinople 	trebizond the fall of constantinople (byzantine greek: Ἅλωσις τῆς Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, romanized: hálōsis tē̂s kōnstantinoupóleōs; turkish: İstanbul'un fethi, lit. 'conquest of istanbul') was the capture of the byzantine empire's capital by the ottoman empire. the city fell on may ,[ ] the culmination of a -day siege which had begun on april . the attacking ottoman army, which significantly outnumbered constantinople's defenders, was commanded by the -year-old sultan mehmed ii (later called "the conqueror"), while the byzantine army was led by emperor constantine xi palaiologos. after conquering the city, mehmed ii made constantinople the new ottoman capital, replacing adrianople. the fall of constantinople marked the end of the byzantine empire, and effectively the end of the roman empire, a state which dated back to bc and lasted nearly , years.[ ] the capture of constantinople, a city which marked the divide between europe and asia minor, also allowed the ottomans to more effectively invade mainland europe, eventually leading to ottoman control of much of the balkan peninsula. the conquest of constantinople and the fall of the byzantine empire[ ] was a key event of the late middle ages and is sometimes considered the end of the medieval period.[ ] the city's fall also stood as a turning point in military history. since ancient times, cities and castles had depended upon ramparts and walls to repel invaders. however, constantinople's substantial fortifications were overcome with the use of gunpowder, specifically in the form of large cannons and bombards.[ ] contents 	 state of the byzantine empire 	 preparations 	 . european support 	 . strength 	 . . ottoman dispositions and strategies 	 . . byzantine dispositions and strategies 	 siege 	 . final assault 	 . plundering phase 	 aftermath 	 . third rome 	 . impact on the churches 	 legacy 	 . prophecies 	 . legends 	 . cultural impact 	 . impact on the renaissance 	 . renaming of the city 	 . in historical fiction 	 primary sources 	 . eyewitness accounts 	 . non-eyewitness accounts 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links state of the byzantine empire[edit] constantinople had been an imperial capital since its consecration in under roman emperor constantine the great. in the following eleven centuries, the city had been besieged many times but was captured only once before: the sack of constantinople during the fourth crusade in .[ ]: the crusaders established an unstable latin state in and around constantinople while the remainder of the byzantine empire splintered into a number of successor states, notably nicaea, epirus and trebizond. they fought as allies against the latin establishments, but also fought among themselves for the byzantine throne. the nicaeans eventually reconquered constantinople from the latins in , reestablishing the byzantine empire under the palaiologos dynasty. thereafter, there was little peace for the much-weakened empire as it fended off successive attacks by the latins, serbs, bulgarians and ottoman turks.[ ][page needed][ ][ ][ ] between and the black death killed almost half of the inhabitants of constantinople.[ ] the city was further depopulated by the general economic and territorial decline of the empire, and by , it consisted of a series of walled villages separated by vast fields encircled by the fifth-century theodosian walls. by , the empire was exhausted and had shrunk to a few square kilometers outside the city of constantinople itself, the princes' islands in the sea of marmara and the peloponnese with its cultural center at mystras. the empire of trebizond, an independent successor state that formed in the aftermath of the fourth crusade, was also present at the time on the coast of the black sea. preparations[edit] when mehmed ii succeeded his father in , he was just nineteen years old. many european courts assumed that the young ottoman ruler would not seriously challenge christian hegemony in the balkans and the aegean.[ ] this calculation was boosted by mehmed's friendly overtures to the european envoys at his new court.[ ]: but mehmed's mild words were not matched by his actions. by early , work began on the construction of a second fortress (rumeli hisarı) on the european side of the bosphorus,[ ] several miles north of constantinople. the new fortress sat directly across the strait from the anadolu hisarı fortress, built by mehmed's great-grandfather bayezid i. this pair of fortresses ensured complete control of sea traffic on the bosphorus[ ]: and defended against attack by the genoese colonies on the black sea coast to the north. in fact, the new fortress was called boğazkesen, which means "strait-blocker" or "throat-cutter". the wordplay emphasizes its strategic position: in turkish boğaz means both "strait" and "throat". in october , mehmed ordered turakhan beg to station a large garrison force in the peloponnese to block thomas and demetrios (despotes in southern greece) from providing aid to their brother constantine xi palaiologos during the impending siege of constantinople.[note ] karaca pasha, the beylerbeyi of rumelia, sent men to prepare the roads from adrianople to constantinople so that bridges could cope with massive cannon. fifty carpenters and artisans also strengthened the roads where necessary.[ ] the greek historian michael critobulus quotes mehmed ii's speech to his soldiers before the siege:[ ]: my friends and men of my empire! you all know very well that our forefathers secured this kingdom that we now hold at the cost of many struggles and very great dangers and that, having passed it along in succession from their fathers, from father to son, they handed it down to me. for some of the oldest of you were sharers in many of the exploits carried through by them—those at least of you who are of maturer years—and the younger of you have heard of these deeds from your fathers. they are not such very ancient events nor of such a sort as to be forgotten through the lapse of time. still, the eyewitness of those who have seen testifies better than does the hearing of deeds that happened but yesterday or the day before. european support[edit] byzantine emperor constantine xi swiftly understood mehmed's true intentions and turned to western europe for help; but now the price of centuries of war and enmity between the eastern and western churches had to be paid. since the mutual excommunications of , the pope in rome was committed to establishing authority over the eastern church. the union was agreed by the byzantine emperor michael viii palaiologos in , at the second council of lyon, and indeed, some palaiologoi emperors had since been received into the latin church. emperor john viii palaiologos had also recently negotiated union with pope eugene iv, with the council of florence of proclaiming a bull of union. the imperial efforts to impose union were met with strong resistance in constantinople. a propaganda initiative was stimulated by anti-unionist orthodox partisans in constantinople; the population, as well as the laity and leadership of the byzantine church, became bitterly divided. latent ethnic hatred between greeks and italians, stemming from the events of the massacre of the latins in by the greeks and the sack of constantinople in by the latins, played a significant role. ultimately, the attempted union between east and west failed, greatly annoying pope nicholas v and the hierarchy of the roman church. the byzantine empire in the first half of the th century. thessaloniki was captured by the ottomans in . a few islands in the aegean and the propontis remained under byzantine rule until (not shown on the map). in the summer of , when rumelı hisari was completed and the threat of the ottomans had become imminent, constantine wrote to the pope, promising to implement the union, which was declared valid by a half-hearted imperial court on december .[ ]: although he was eager for an advantage, pope nicholas v did not have the influence the byzantines thought he had over the western kings and princes, some of whom were wary of increasing papal control. furthermore, these western rulers did not have the wherewithal to contribute to the effort, especially in light of the weakened state of france and england from the hundred years' war, spain's involvement in the reconquista, the internecine fighting in the holy roman empire, and hungary and poland's defeat at the battle of varna of . although some troops did arrive from the mercantile city-states in northern italy, the western contribution was not adequate to counterbalance ottoman strength. some western individuals, however, came to help defend the city on their own account. cardinal isidore, funded by the pope, arrived in with archers.[ ] an accomplished soldier from genoa, giovanni giustiniani, arrived in january with men from genoa and men from genoese chios.[ ]: – as a specialist in defending walled cities, giustiniani was immediately given the overall command of the defence of the land walls by the emperor. around the same time, the captains of the venetian ships that happened to be present in the golden horn offered their services to the emperor, barring contrary orders from venice, and pope nicholas undertook to send three ships laden with provisions, which set sail near the end of march.[ ]: meanwhile, in venice, deliberations were taking place concerning the kind of assistance the republic would lend to constantinople. the senate decided upon sending a fleet in february , but the fleet's departure was delayed until april, when it was already too late for ships to assist in battle.[ ][page needed][ ]: further undermining byzantine morale, seven italian ships with around men, despite having sworn to defend constantinople, slipped out of the capital the moment when giustiniani arrived. at the same time, constantine's attempts to appease the sultan with gifts ended with the execution of the emperor's ambassadors.[ ]: [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] restored walls of constantinople the chain that closed off the entrance to the golden horn in , now on display in the İstanbul archaeology museums. fearing a possible naval attack along the shores of the golden horn, emperor constantine xi ordered that a defensive chain be placed at the mouth of the harbour. this chain, which floated on logs, was strong enough to prevent any turkish ship from entering the harbour. this device was one of two that gave the byzantines some hope of extending the siege until the possible arrival of foreign help.[ ]: this strategy was enforced because in , the armies of the fourth crusade successfully circumvented constantinople's land defences by breaching the golden horn wall. another strategy employed by the byzantines was the repair and fortification of the land wall (theodosian walls). emperor constantine deemed it necessary to ensure that the blachernae district's wall was the most fortified because that section of the wall protruded northwards. the land fortifications consisted of a  ft (  m) wide moat fronting inner and outer crenellated walls studded with towers every – metres.[ ] strength[edit] map of constantinople and the dispositions of the defenders and the besiegers the army defending constantinople was relatively small, totalling about , men, , of whom were foreigners.[note ] at the onset of the siege, probably fewer than , people were living within the walls, including the refugees from the surrounding area.[ ]: [note ] turkish commander dorgano, who was in constantinople working for the emperor, was also guarding one of the quarters of the city on the seaward side with the turks in his pay. these turks kept loyal to the emperor and perished in the ensuing battle. the defending army's genoese corps were well trained and equipped, while the rest of the army consisted of small numbers of well-trained soldiers, armed civilians, sailors and volunteer forces from foreign communities, and finally monks. the garrison used a few small-calibre artillery pieces, which in the end proved ineffective. the rest of the citizens repaired walls, stood guard on observation posts, collected and distributed food provisions, and collected gold and silver objects from churches to melt down into coins to pay the foreign soldiers. the ottomans had a much larger force. recent studies and ottoman archival data state that there were some , – , ottoman soldiers, including between , and , janissaries,[ ][page needed], cannons[ ]: – [ ][page needed][ ][page needed], an elite infantry corps. contemporaneous western witnesses of the siege, who tend to exaggerate the military power of the sultan, provide disparate and higher numbers ranging from , to , [ ][page needed](niccolò barbaro:[ ] , ; the florentine merchant jacopo tedaldi[ ] and the great logothete george sphrantzes:[ ][page needed] , ; the cardinal isidore of kiev[ ] and the archbishop of mytilene leonardo di chio:[ ] , ).[ ] ottoman dispositions and strategies[edit] the dardanelles gun, cast by munir ali in , is similar to bombards used by the ottoman besiegers of constantinople in (british royal armouries collection). mehmed built a fleet (partially manned by spanish sailors from gallipoli) to besiege the city from the sea.[ ][page needed] contemporary estimates of the strength of the ottoman fleet span from ships to . (tedaldi:[ ] ; barbaro:[ ] ; ubertino pusculo:[ ] , isidore of kiev[ ] and leonardo di chio:[ ] – ; (sphrantzes):[ ][page needed] ) a more realistic modern estimate predicts a fleet strength of ships comprising large galleys, ordinary galleys, smaller galleys, large rowing boats, and horse-transports.[ ]: before the siege of constantinople, it was known that the ottomans had the ability to cast medium-sized cannons, but the range of some pieces they were able to field far surpassed the defenders' expectations.[ ]: the ottomans deployed a number of cannons, anywhere from cannons to . they were built at foundries that employed turkish cannon founders and technicians, most notably saruca, in addition to at least one foreign cannon founder, orban (also called urban). most of the cannons at the siege were built by turkish engineers, including a large bombard by saruca, while one cannon was built by orban, who also contributed a large bombard.[ ][ ] orban, a hungarian (though some suggest he was german), was a somewhat mysterious figure.[ ]: his feet ( .  m) long cannon was named "basilica" and was able to hurl a  lb (  kg) stone ball over a mile ( .  km).[ ] orban initially tried to sell his services to the byzantines, but they were unable to secure the funds needed to hire him. orban then left constantinople and approached mehmed ii, claiming that his weapon could blast "the walls of babylon itself". given abundant funds and materials, the hungarian engineer built the gun within three months at edirne.[ ]: – however, this was the only cannon that orban built for the ottoman forces at constantinople,[ ][ ] and it had several drawbacks: it took three hours to reload; cannonballs were in very short supply; and the cannon is said to have collapsed under its own recoil after six weeks. the account of the cannon's collapse is disputed,[ ][page needed] given that it was only reported in the letter of archbishop leonardo di chio[ ] and in the later, and often unreliable, russian chronicle of nestor iskander.[note ] modern painting of mehmed and the ottoman army approaching constantinople with a giant bombard, by fausto zonaro. having previously established a large foundry about miles (  km) away, mehmed now had to undertake the painstaking process of transporting his massive artillery pieces. in preparation for the final assault, mehmed had an artillery train of large pieces dragged from his headquarters at edirne, in addition to the bombards cast on the spot.[ ] this train included orban's enormous cannon, which was said to have been dragged from edrine by a crew of oxen and over men.[ ]: [ ]: – there was another large bombard, independently built by turkish engineer saruca, that was also used in the battle.[ ][ ] mehmed planned to attack the theodosian walls, the intricate series of walls and ditches protecting constantinople from an attack from the west and the only part of the city not surrounded by water. his army encamped outside the city on april , the monday after easter. the bulk of the ottoman army was encamped south of the golden horn. the regular european troops, stretched out along the entire length of the walls, were commanded by karadja pasha. the regular troops from anatolia under ishak pasha were stationed south of the lycus down to the sea of marmara. mehmed himself erected his red-and-gold tent near the mesoteichion, where the guns and the elite janissary regiments were positioned. the bashi-bazouks were spread out behind the front lines. other troops under zagan pasha were employed north of the golden horn. communication was maintained by a road that had been destroyed over the marshy head of the horn.[ ]: – byzantine dispositions and strategies[edit] painting of the fall of constantinople, by theophilos hatzimihail the city had about  km of walls (land walls: .  km; sea walls along the golden horn:  km; sea walls along the sea of marmara: .  km), one of the strongest sets of fortified walls in existence. the walls had recently been repaired (under john viii) and were in fairly good shape, giving the defenders sufficient reason to believe that they could hold out until help from the west arrived.[ ]: in addition, the defenders were relatively well-equipped with a fleet of ships: from genoa, from venice, from venetian crete, from ancona, from aragon, from france, and about from the empire itself.[ ]: on april, the sultan himself arrived with his last troops, and the defenders took up their positions. as byzantine numbers were insufficient to occupy the walls in their entirety, it had been decided that only the outer walls would be manned. constantine and his greek troops guarded the mesoteichion, the middle section of the land walls, where they were crossed by the river lycus. this section was considered the weakest spot in the walls and an attack was feared here most. giustiniani was stationed to the north of the emperor, at the charisian gate (myriandrion); later during the siege, he was shifted to the mesoteichion to join constantine, leaving the myriandrion to the charge of the bocchiardi brothers. minotto and his venetians were stationed in the blachernae palace, together with teodoro caristo, the langasco brothers, and archbishop leonardo of chios.[ ]: to the left of the emperor, further south, were the commanders cataneo, who led genoese troops, and theophilus palaeologus, who guarded the pegae gate with greek soldiers. the section of the land walls from the pegae gate to the golden gate (itself guarded by a genoese called manuel) was defended by the venetian filippo contarini, while demetrius cantacuzenus had taken position on the southernmost part of the theodosian wall.[ ]: the sea walls were manned more sparsely, with jacobo contarini at stoudion, a makeshift defence force of greek monks to his left hand, and prince orhan at the harbour of eleutherios. pere julià was stationed at the great palace with genoese and catalan troops; cardinal isidore of kiev guarded the tip of the peninsula near the boom. finally, the sea walls at the southern shore of the golden horn were defended by venetian and genoese sailors under gabriele trevisano.[ ]: two tactical reserves were kept behind in the city: one in the petra district just behind the land walls and one near the church of the holy apostles, under the command of loukas notaras and nicephorus palaeologus, respectively. the venetian alviso diedo commanded the ships in the harbour.[ ]: although the byzantines also had cannons, the weapons were much smaller than those of the ottomans, and the recoil tended to damage their own walls.[ ] according to david nicolle, despite many odds, the idea that constantinople was inevitably doomed is incorrect, and the overall situation was not as one-sided as a simple glance at a map might suggest.[ ]: it has also been claimed that constantinople was "the best-defended city in europe" at that time.[ ] siege[edit] at the beginning of the siege, mehmed sent out some of his best troops to reduce the remaining byzantine strongholds outside the city of constantinople. the fortress of therapia on the bosphorus and a smaller castle at the village of studius near the sea of marmara were taken within a few days. the princes' islands in the sea of marmara were taken by admiral baltoghlu's fleet.[ ]: – mehmed's massive cannon fired on the walls for weeks, but due to its imprecision and extremely slow rate of reloading, the byzantines were able to repair most of the damage after each shot, mitigating the cannon's effect.[ ]: the ottoman turks transport their fleet overland into the golden horn. meanwhile, despite some probing attacks, the ottoman fleet under baltoghlu could not enter the golden horn due to the chain the byzantines had previously stretched across the entrance. although one of the fleet's main tasks was to prevent any foreign ships from entering the golden horn, on april, a small flotilla of four christian ships[note ] managed to slip in after some heavy fighting, an event which strengthened the morale of the defenders and caused embarrassment to the sultan.[ ]: baltoghlu's life was spared after his subordinates testified to his bravery during the conflict. mehmed ordered the construction of a road of greased logs across galata on the north side of the golden horn, and dragged his ships over the hill, directly into the golden horn on april, bypassing the chain barrier.[ ]: this action seriously threatened the flow of supplies from genoese ships from the nominally neutral colony of pera, and it demoralized the byzantine defenders. on the night of april, an attempt was made to destroy the ottoman ships already in the golden horn using fire ships, but the ottomans forced the christians to retreat with heavy losses. italians escaped their sinking ships and swam to the northern shore. on orders of mehmed, they were impaled on stakes, in sight of the city's defenders on the sea walls across the golden horn. in retaliation, the defenders brought their ottoman prisoners, in all, to the walls, where they were executed, one by one, before the eyes of the ottomans.[ ]: [ ] with the failure of their attack on the ottoman vessels, the defenders were forced to disperse part of their forces to defend the sea walls along the golden horn. the ottoman army had made several frontal assaults on the land wall of constantinople, but they were always repelled with heavy losses.[ ] venetian surgeon niccolò barbaro, describing in his diary one such land attack by the janissaries, wrote: they found the turks coming right up under the walls and seeking battle, particularly the janissaries ... and when one or two of them were killed, at once more turks came and took away the dead ones ... without caring how near they came to the city walls. our men shot at them with guns and crossbows, aiming at the turk who was carrying away his dead countryman, and both of them would fall to the ground dead, and then there came other turks and took them away, none fearing death, but being willing to let ten of themselves be killed rather than suffer the shame of leaving a single turkish corpse by the walls.[ ] siege of constantinople as depicted between and [ ] after these inconclusive frontal offensives, the ottomans sought to break through the walls by constructing tunnels in an effort to mine them from mid-may to may. many of the sappers were miners of serbian origin sent from novo brdo[ ] and were under the command of zagan pasha. however, an engineer named johannes grant, a german[note ] who came with the genoese contingent, had counter-mines dug, allowing byzantine troops to enter the mines and kill the workers. the byzantines intercepted the first tunnel on the night of may. subsequent tunnels were interrupted on , , and may, and destroyed with greek fire and vigorous combat. on may, the byzantines captured and tortured two turkish officers, who revealed the location of all the turkish tunnels, which were subsequently destroyed.[ ] on may, mehmed sent an ambassador to constantinople and offered to lift the siege if they gave him the city. he promised he would allow the emperor and any other inhabitants to leave with their possessions. moreover, he would recognize the emperor as governor of the peloponnese. lastly, he guaranteed the safety of the population that might choose to remain in the city. constantine xi only agreed to pay higher tributes to the sultan and recognized the status of all the conquered castles and lands in the hands of the turks as ottoman possession. however, the emperor was not willing to leave the city without a fight: as to surrendering the city to you, it is not for me to decide or for anyone else of its citizens; for all of us have reached the mutual decision to die of our own free will, without any regard for our lives.[note ] around this time, mehmed had a final council with his senior officers. here he encountered some resistance; one of his viziers, the veteran halil pasha, who had always disapproved of mehmed's plans to conquer the city, now admonished him to abandon the siege in the face of recent adversity. zagan pasha argued against halil pasha and insisted on an immediate attack. believing that the beleaguered byzantine defence was already weakened sufficiently, mehmed planned to overpower the walls by sheer force and started preparations for a final all-out offensive. final assault[edit] painting by the greek folk painter theophilos hatzimihail showing the battle inside the city, constantine is visible on a white horse preparations for the final assault began in the evening of may and continued to the next day.[ ]: for hours after the war council decided to attack, the ottomans extensively mobilized their manpower in order to prepare for the general offensive.[ ]: prayer and resting was then granted to the soldiers on the th before the final assault would be launched. on the byzantine side, a small venetian fleet of ships, after having searched the aegean, reached the capital on may and reported to the emperor that no large venetian relief fleet was on its way.[ ]: on may, as the ottoman army prepared for the final assault, large-scale religious processions were held in the city. in the evening, a solemn last ceremony was held in the hagia sophia, in which the emperor with representatives and nobility of both the latin and greek churches partook.[ ]: – shortly after midnight on may, the all-out offensive began. the christian troops of the ottoman empire attacked first, followed by successive waves of the irregular azaps, who were poorly trained and equipped, and anatolian turkmen beylik forces who focused on a section of the damaged blachernae walls in the north-west part of the city. this section of the walls had been built earlier, in the eleventh century, and was much weaker. the turkmen mercenaries managed to breach this section of walls and entered the city, but they were just as quickly pushed back by the defenders. finally, the last wave consisting of elite janissaries, attacked the city walls. the genoese general in charge of the land troops,[ ][page needed][ ][ ] giovanni giustiniani, was grievously wounded during the attack, and his evacuation from the ramparts caused a panic in the ranks of the defenders.[note ] with giustiniani's genoese troops retreating into the city and towards the harbour, constantine and his men, now left to their own devices, continued to hold their ground against the janissaries. however, constantine's men eventually could not prevent the ottomans from entering the city, and the defenders were overwhelmed at several points along the wall. when turkish flags were seen flying above the kerkoporta, a small postern gate that was left open, panic ensued, and the defence collapsed. meanwhile, janissary soldiers, led by ulubatlı hasan, pressed forward. many greek soldiers ran back home to protect their families, the venetians retreated to their ships, and a few of the genoese escaped to galata. the rest surrendered or committed suicide by jumping off the city walls.[ ][page needed] the greek houses nearest to the walls were the first to suffer from the ottomans. it is said that constantine, throwing aside his purple regalia, led the final charge against the incoming ottomans, perishing in the ensuing battle in the streets alongside his soldiers. on the other hand, the venetian nicolò barbaro wrote in his diary that constantine hanged himself at the moment when the turks broke in at the san romano gate, although his ultimate fate remains unknown.[note ] after the initial assault, the ottoman army fanned out along the main thoroughfare of the city, the mese, past the great forums and the church of the holy apostles, which mehmed ii wanted to provide a seat for his newly appointed patriarch to better control his christian subjects. mehmed ii had sent an advance guard to protect these key buildings. a small few lucky civilians managed to escape. when the venetians retreated over to their ships, the ottomans had already taken the walls of the golden horn. luckily for the occupants of the city, the ottomans were not interested in killing potentially valuable slaves, but rather in the loot they could get from raiding the city's houses, so they decided to attack the city instead. the venetian captain ordered his men to break open the gate of the golden horn. having done so, the venetians left in ships filled with soldiers and refugees. shortly after the venetians left, a few genoese ships and even the emperor's ships followed them out of the golden horn. this fleet narrowly escaped prior to the ottoman navy assuming control over the golden horn, which was accomplished by midday.[ ][page needed] the army converged upon the augusteum, the vast square that fronted the great church of hagia sophia whose bronze gates were barred by a huge throng of civilians inside the building, hoping for divine protection. after the doors were breached, the troops separated the congregation according to what price they might bring in the slave markets.[citation needed] ottoman casualties are unknown but they are believed by most historians to be very heavy due to several unsuccessful ottoman attacks made during the siege and final assault.[citation needed] the venetian barbaro observed that blood flowed in the city "like rainwater in the gutters after a sudden storm" and that bodies of turks and christians floated in the sea "like melons along a canal". and that "the turks made a great slaughter of christians through the city".[ ] plundering phase[edit] mehmed ii granted his soldiers three days to plunder the city, as he had promised them and in accordance with the custom of the time.[ ]: [ ] soldiers fought over the possession of some of the spoils of war.[ ]: the women of constantinople also suffered from rape at the hands of ottoman forces.[ ] according to barbaro, "all through the day the turks made a great slaughter of christians through the city". according to historian philip mansel, widespread persecution of the city's civilian inhabitants took place, resulting in thousands of murders and rapes, and , civilians being enslaved or forcibly deported.[ ][ ][ ][ ] george sphrantzes says that people of both genders were raped inside hagia sophia.[ ] loukas notaras and his son were executed after notaras refused mehmed's demand to offer his son for the sultan's pleasure.[ ] according to steven runciman most of the elderly and the infirm/wounded and sick who were refugees inside the churches were killed, and the remainder (mainly teenage males and young boys) were chained up and sold into slavery.[ ] according to the encyclopædia britannica mehmed ii "permitted an initial period of looting that saw the destruction of many orthodox churches", but tried to prevent a complete sack of the city.[ ] the looting was extremely thorough in certain parts of the city. on june, the sultan would find the city largely deserted and half in ruins; churches had been desecrated and stripped, houses were no longer habitable, and stores and shops were emptied. he is famously reported to have been moved to tears by this, saying, "what a city we have given over to plunder and destruction."[ ]: looting was carried out by sailors and marines on a massive scale who entered the city via other walls before they had been suppressed by regular troops, which were beyond main gate. according to david nicolle, the ordinary people were treated better by their ottoman conquerors than their ancestors had been by crusaders back in , stating only about , greeks died in the siege.[ ] aftermath[edit] on the third day of the conquest, mehmed ii ordered all looting to stop and issued a proclamation that all christians who had avoided capture or who had been ransomed could return to their homes without further molestation, although many had no homes to return to, and many more had been taken captive and not ransomed.[ ]: – byzantine historian george sphrantzes, an eyewitness to the fall of constantinople, described the sultan's actions:[ ][ ] on the third day after the fall of our city, the sultan celebrated his victory with a great, joyful triumph. he issued a proclamation: the citizens of all ages who had managed to escape detection were to leave their hiding places throughout the city and come out into the open, as they were to remain free and no question would be asked. he further declared the restoration of houses and property to those who had abandoned our city before the siege. if they returned home, they would be treated according to their rank and religion, as if nothing had changed. — george sphrantzes the hagia sophia was converted into a mosque, but the greek orthodox church was allowed to remain intact and gennadius scholarius was appointed patriarch of constantinople. this was once thought to be the origin of the ottoman millet system; however, it is now considered a myth and no such system existed in the fifteenth century.[ ][ ] following the city's conquest, the church of the holy wisdom (the hagia sophia) was converted into a mosque. the fall of constantinople shocked many europeans, who viewed it as a catastrophic event for their civilization.[ ] many feared other european christian kingdoms would suffer the same fate as constantinople. two possible responses emerged amongst the humanists and churchmen of that era: crusade or dialogue. pope pius ii strongly advocated for another crusade, while the german nicholas of cusa supported engaging in a dialogue with the ottomans.[ ] the morean (peloponnesian) fortress of mystras, where constantine's brothers thomas and demetrius ruled, constantly in conflict with each other and knowing that mehmed would eventually invade them as well, held out until . long before the fall of constantinople, demetrius had fought for the throne with thomas, constantine, and their other brothers john and theodore.[ ]: thomas escaped to rome when the ottomans invaded morea while demetrius expected to rule a puppet state, but instead was imprisoned and remained there for the rest of his life. in rome, thomas and his family received some monetary support from the pope and other western rulers as byzantine emperor in exile, until . in the independent byzantine state in trebizond fell to mehmed.[ ]: constantine xi had died without producing an heir, and had constantinople not fallen he likely would have been succeeded by the sons of his deceased elder brother, who were taken into the palace service of mehmed after the fall of constantinople. the oldest boy, renamed to murad, became a personal favourite of mehmed and served as beylerbey (governor-general) of rumeli (the balkans). the younger son, renamed mesih pasha, became admiral of the ottoman fleet and sancak beg (governor) of the province of gallipoli. he eventually served twice as grand vizier under mehmed's son, bayezid ii.[ ] with the capture of constantinople, mehmed ii had acquired the future capital of his kingdom, albeit one in decline due to years of war. the loss of the city was a crippling blow to christendom, and it exposed the christian west to a vigorous and aggressive foe in the east. the christian reconquest of constantinople remained a goal in western europe for many years after its fall to the ottoman empire. rumours of constantine xi's survival and subsequent rescue by an angel led many to hope that the city would one day return to christian hands. pope nicholas v called for an immediate counter-attack in the form of a crusade,[citation needed] however no european powers wished to participate, and the pope resorted to sending a small fleet of ships to defend the city. the short lived crusade immediately came to an end and as western europe entered the th century, the age of crusading began to come to an end. for some time greek scholars had gone to italian city-states, a cultural exchange begun in by coluccio salutati, chancellor of florence, who had invited manuel chrysoloras, a byzantine scholar to lecture at the university of florence.[ ] after the conquest many greeks, such as john argyropoulos and constantine lascaris, fled the city and found refuge in the latin west, bringing with them knowledge and documents from the greco-roman tradition to italy and other regions that further propelled the renaissance.[ ][ ] those greeks who stayed behind in constantinople mostly lived in the phanar and galata districts of the city. the phanariotes, as they were called, provided many capable advisers to the ottoman rulers. third rome[edit] main article: third rome sultan mehmed ii the conqueror, by gentile bellini byzantium is a term used by modern historians to refer to the later roman empire. in its own time, the empire ruled from constantinople (or "new rome" as some people call it, although this was a laudatory expression that was never an official title) was considered simply as "the roman empire." the fall of constantinople led competing factions to lay claim to being the inheritors of the imperial mantle. russian claims to byzantine heritage clashed with those of the ottoman empire's own claim. in mehmed's view, he was the successor to the roman emperor, declaring himself kayser-i rum, literally "caesar of rome", that is, of the roman empire, though he was remembered as "the conqueror". he founded a political system that survived until with the establishment of the republic of turkey. stefan dušan, tsar of serbia, and ivan alexander, tsar of bulgaria, both made similar claims, regarding themselves as legitimate heirs to the roman empire. other potential claimants, such as the republic of venice and the holy roman empire have disintegrated into history.[ ] impact on the churches[edit] pope pius ii believed that the ottomans would persecute greek orthodox christians and advocated for another crusade at the council of mantua in .[ ][ ] however, vlad the impaler was the only christian ruler who showed enthusiasm for this suggestion. in th-century russia, the fall of constantinople had a role in the fierce theological and political controversy between adherents and opponents of the reforms in the russian orthodox church carried out by patriarch nikon, which he intended to bring the russian church closer to the norms and practices of other orthodox churches. avvakum and other "old believers" saw these reforms as a corruption of the russian church, which they considered to be the "true" church of god. as the other churches were more closely related to constantinople in their liturgies, avvakum argued that constantinople fell to the turks because of these heretical beliefs and practices. the fall of constantinople has a profound impact on the ancient pentarchy of the orthodox church. today, the four ancient sees of jerusalem, antioch, alexandria, and constantinople have relatively few followers and believers locally, because of islamization and the dhimma system to which christians have been subjected since the earliest days of islam, although migration has created a body of followers in western europe and the united states,[citation needed]. as a result of this process, the centre of influence in the orthodox church changed and migrated to eastern europe (e.g., russia) rather than remaining in the former byzantine near east.[citation needed] legacy[edit] prophecies[edit] the islamic prophet muhammad prophesied the hadith about the islamic conquest of constantinople. verily you shall conquer constantinople. what a wonderful leader will he be, and what a wonderful army will that army be!" and "the first army that goes on expedition to constantinople will be forgiven.[ ] legends[edit] there are many legends in greece surrounding the fall of constantinople. it was said that the partial lunar eclipse that occurred on may represented a fulfilment of a prophecy of the city's demise.[ ] four days later, the whole city was blotted out by a thick fog, a condition unknown in that part of the world in may. when the fog lifted that evening, a strange light was seen playing about the dome of the hagia sophia, which some interpreted as the holy spirit departing from the city. "this evidently indicated the departure of the divine presence, and its leaving the city in total abandonment and desertion, for the divinity conceals itself in cloud and appears and again disappears."[ ]: for others, there was still a distant hope that the lights were the campfires of the troops of john hunyadi who had come to relieve the city.[note ] another legend holds that two priests saying divine liturgy over the crowd disappeared into the cathedral's walls as the first turkish soldiers entered. according to the legend, the priests will appear again on the day that constantinople returns to christian hands.[ ]: another legend refers to the marble emperor (constantine xi), holding that an angel rescued the emperor when the ottomans entered the city, turning him into marble and placing him in a cave under the earth near the golden gate, where he waits to be brought to life again (a variant of the sleeping hero legend).[ ][ ] however many of the myths surrounding the disappearance of the constantine were developed later and little evidence can be found to support them even in friendly primary accounts of the siege. cultural impact[edit] guillaume dufay composed several songs lamenting the fall of the eastern church, and the duke of burgundy, philip the good, avowed to take up arms against the turks. however, as the growing ottoman power from this date on coincided with the protestant reformation and subsequent counter-reformation, the recapture of constantinople became an ever-distant dream. even france, once a fervent participant in the crusades, became an ally of the ottomans. nonetheless, depictions of christian coalitions taking the city and of the late emperor's resurrection by leo the wise persisted.[ ]: may , the day of the fall of constantinople, fell on a tuesday, and since then tuesday has been considered an unlucky day by greeks generally.[ ] impact on the renaissance[edit] main article: greek scholars in the renaissance the migration waves of byzantine scholars and émigrés in the period following the sacking of constantinople and the fall of constantinople in is considered by many scholars key to the revival of greek and roman studies that led to the development of the renaissance humanism[ ][dead link][better source needed] and science. these émigrés were grammarians, humanists, poets, writers, printers, lecturers, musicians, astronomers, architects, academics, artists, scribes, philosophers, scientists, politicians and theologians.[ ][better source needed] they brought to western europe the far greater preserved and accumulated knowledge of their own (greek) civilization. according to the encyclopædia britannica: "many modern scholars also agree that the exodus of greeks to italy as a result of this event marked the end of the middle ages and the beginning of the renaissance".[ ] renaming of the city[edit] ottomans used the arabic transliteration of the city's name "qosṭanṭīniyye," (القسطنطينية, more commonly known as "kostantiniyye"), as can be seen in numerous ottoman documents. islambol (اسلامبول, full of islam) or islambul (find islam) or islam(b)ol (old turkic: be islam), both in turkish language, were folk-etymological adaptations of istanbul created after the ottoman conquest of to express the city's new role as the capital of the islamic ottoman empire. it is first attested shortly after the conquest, and its invention was ascribed by some contemporary writers to mehmed ii himself.[ ] the name of istanbul is thought to be derived from the greek phrase īs tīmbolī(n) (greek: εἰς τὴν πόλιν, translit. eis tēn pólin, "to the city"), and it is claimed that it had already spread among the turkish populace of the ottoman empire before the conquest. however, istanbul only became the official name of the city in by the revised turkish postal law as part of atatürk's reforms.[ ][ ][ ] in historical fiction[edit] 	lew wallace, the prince of india; or, why constantinople fell. new york: harper & brothers publishers, . volumes 	mika waltari, the dark angel (original title johannes angelos) . translated from the finnish by naomi walford and pub. in english edition, new york: putnam, 	peter sandham, porphyry and ash. hong kong: johnston fleming, 	muharem bazdulj, the bridge on landz from the second book, . translated from bosnian by oleg andric and andrew wachtel and pub. in english edition, evanston: northwestern university press, 	andrew novo, queen of cities, seattle: coffeetown press, 	jack hight, siege. london: john murray publisher ltd, 	james shipman, constantinopolis, amazon digital services, 	c.c. humphreys, a place called armageddon. london: orion, 	emanuele rizzardi, l'ultimo paleologo. pubme editore, 	john bellairs, the trolley to yesterday dial, 	kiersten white, "the conqueror's saga", 	stefan zweig, "die eroberung von byzanz (conquest of byzantium)" in "sternstunden der menschheit (decisive moments in history)", primary sources[edit] for the fall of constantinople, marios philippides and walter hanak list eyewitness accounts ( christian and turkish) and __ contemporary non-eyewitness accounts ( italian).[ ] eyewitness accounts[edit] 	mehmed Şems el-mille ve'd din, sufi holy man who gives an account in a letter 	tursun beg, wrote a history entitled tarih-i abu'l fath 	george sphrantzes, the only greek eyewitness who wrote about it, but his laconic account is almost entirely lacking in narrative 	nicolò barbaro, physician on a venetian galley who kept a journal 	angelino giovanni lomellini, venetian podestà of pera who wrote a report dated june 	jacopo tetaldi, florentine merchant 	leonardo giustiniani, wrote a report to pope nicholas v 	isidore of kiev, orthodox churchman who wrote eight letters to italy 	benvenuto, anconitan consul in constantinople 	ubertino puscolo, italian poet learning greek in the city, wrote an epic poem 	eparkhos and diplovatatzes, two refugees whose accounts has become garbled through multiple translations 	nestor iskander, youthful eyewitness who wrote a slavonic account 	samile the vladik, bishop who, like eparkhos and diplovatatzes, fled as a refugee to wallachia 	konstantin mihailović, serbian who fought on the ottoman side 	a report by some franciscan prisoners of war who later came to bologna non-eyewitness accounts[edit] 	doukas, a byzantine greek historian, one of the most important sources for the last decades and eventual fall of the byzantine empire to the ottomans 	laonikos chalkokondyles, a byzantine greek historian 	michael kritoboulos, a byzantine greek historian 	makarios melissourgos, th-century historian who augmented the account of sphrantzes, not very reliably 	paolo dotti, venetian official on crete whose account is based on oral reports 	fra girolamo's letter from crete to domenico capranica 	lauro quirini, wrote a report to pope nicholas v from crete based on oral reports 	aeneas silvius piccolomini (pope pius ii), wrote an account based on written sources 	henry of soemmern, wrote a letter dated september in which he cites his sources of information 	niccola della tuccia, whose cronaca di viterbo written in the autumn of contains unique information 	niccolò tignosi da foligno, expugnatio constantinopolitana, part of a letter to a friend 	filippo da rimini, excidium constantinopolitanae urbis quae quondam bizantium ferebatur 	antonio ivani da sarzana, expugnatio constantinopolitana, part of a letter to the duke of urbino 	nikolaos sekoundinos, read a report before the venetian senate, the pope and the neapolitan court 	giacomo languschi, whose account is embedded in the venetian chronicle of zorzi dolfin, had access to eyewitnesses 	john moskhos, wrote a poem in honour of loukas notaras 	adamo di montaldo, de constantinopolitano excidio ad nobilissimum iuvenem melladucam cicadam, which contains unique information 	ashikpashazade, included a chapter on the conquest in his tarih-i al-i osman[ ] 	neshri, included a chapter on the conquest in his universal history[ ] 	evliya Çelebi, th-century traveller who collected local traditions of the conquest[ ] notes[edit] 	^ "exaggerated" western estimates ranged between , and , . 	^ while mehmed ii had been steadily preparing for the siege of constantinople, he had sent the old general turakhan and the latter's two sons, ahmed beg and omar beg, to invade the morea and to remain there all winter also to prevent the despots thomas and demetrius from giving aid to constantine xi.[ ]: 	^ according to sphrantzes, whom constantine had ordered to make a census, the emperor was appalled when the number of native men capable of bearing arms turned out to be only , . leonardo di chio gave a number of , greeks.[ ]: 	^ the spanish cristóbal de villalón claims there were ' , turkish households, , greek and armenian, , jewish.[ ]: 	^ another expert who was employed by the ottomans was ciriaco de' pizzicolli, also known as ciriaco of ancona, a traveler and collector of antiquities.[citation needed] 	^ these were the three genoese ships sent by the pope, joined by a large imperial transport ship which had been sent on a foraging mission to sicily previous to the siege and was on its way back to constantinople.[ ]: 	^ runciman speculates that he may have been scottish[ ]: 	^ original text: Τὸ δὲ τὴν πόλιν σοῖ δοῦναι οὔτ' ἐμὸν ἐστίν οὔτ' ἄλλου τῶν κατοικούντων ἐν ταύτῃ• κοινῇ γὰρ γνώμῃ πάντες αὐτοπροαιρέτως ἀποθανοῦμεν καὶ οὐ φεισόμεθα τῆς ζωῆς ἡμῶν.[ ] 	^ sources hostile towards the genoese (such as the venetian nicolò barbaro), however, report that longo was only lightly wounded or not wounded at all, but, overwhelmed by fear, simulated the wound to abandon the battlefield, determining the fall of the city. these charges of cowardice and treason were so widespread that the republic of genoa had to deny them by sending diplomatic letters to the chancelleries of england, france, the duchy of burgundy and others.[ ]: – giustiniani was carried to chios, where he succumbed to his wounds a few days later. 	^ barbaro added the description of the emperor's heroic last moments to his diary based on information he received afterward. according to some ottoman sources constantine was killed in an accidental encounter with turkish marines a little further to the south, presumably while making his way to the sea of marmara in order to escape by sea.[ ][page needed] 	^ it is possible that all these phenomena were local effects of the cataclysmic kuwae volcanic eruption in the pacific ocean. the "fire" seen may have been an optical illusion due to the reflection of intensely red twilight glow by clouds of volcanic ash high in the atmosphere.[ ] references[edit] 	^ "İstanbul'un fethinde türk askeri, fatih'e karşı savaştı" [in the conquest of istanbul turkish military fought against the conqueror]. osmanlı arauştırmalarlı (in turkish). archived from the original on april . retrieved april . 	^ nicol, donald m. 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( ). la caduta di costantinopoli, ii: l'eco nel mondo [the fall of constantinople, ii: the echo in the world] (in italian). ii. verona: fondazione lorenzo valla. 	philippides, marios and walter k. hanak, the siege and the fall of constantinople in , ashgate, farnham and burlington . 	smith, michael llewellyn, "the fall of constantinople", in history makers magazine no. 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claims as being highly unlikely. eutropius has been referred to as 'italian' in other sources and supposedly held estates in asia. aside from that, his name was greek, making it unlikely he came from gaul. confusion about this has arisen due to the fact that eutropius was a popular name in late antiquity.[ ] he was, however, almost certainly a pagan and remained one under the emperor julian's christian successors.[ ] he served as the imperial secretary (latin: magister memoriae) in constantinople.[ ] he accompanied julian the apostate (r.  – ) on his expedition against the parthians in .[ ][ ] he survived at least as long as the reign of the emperor valens ( – ), to whom he dedicated his summary of roman history.[ ] eutropius may have been the same eutropius that was proconsul, or governor of asia from to .[ ] he may have also been the praetorian prefect of the illyrian provinces from to .[ ] as well possibly being a consul in .[ ] work[edit] his summary of roman history (latin: breviarium historiae romanae) is a ten-chapter compendium of roman history from its foundation to the short reign of jovian.[ ] it was compiled with considerable care from the best accessible authorities; it was written in a clear and simple style; and it treats its subjects with general impartiality.[ ][ ] the message of the book was simple, that romans always overcome their problems. this theme became especially important after the battle of adrianople.[ ] eutropius stressed the importance of the senate in his work.[ ] this is probably secretly advice to valens.[ ] for the republican period, eutropius depended upon an epitome of livy. for the empire, he appears to have used suetonius and the now lost enmannsche kaisergeschichte. at the end, he probably made use of his own personal experiences.[ ] the fact that the work ends with the reign of jovian implies that it was written during the reign of either valentinian i or valens.[ ] if that was true, than the work would been written between - .[ ] legacy[edit] the independent value of his summary is small, but it sometimes fills a gap left by the more authoritative records. it is particularly useful to historians for its account of the first punic war, as no copy of livy's original books for that period have survived. its stylistic and methodological virtues caused it to be much used by later roman chroniclers.[ ] in particular, it received expanded editions by paul the deacon and landolf sagax[ ] that repeated the original text and then continued it into the reigns of justinian the great and leo the armenian respectively.[ ] it was translated into greek by paeanius around [ ] and by capito lycius in the th century. the latter translation has survived almost in its entirety. although eutropius's style contains some idiosyncrasies, the work's plain style made it long a favorite elementary latin schoolbook.[ ] a scholarly edition was compiled by h. droysen in , containing capito lycius's greek edition and the expanded latin editions of paul and landolf.[ ] there have been numerous english editions and translations, including bird's.[ ] references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ a b c d e f lieu ( ), p.  . 	^ eutropius, active th century. ( ). the breviarium ab urbe condita of eutropius : the right honourable secretary of state for general petitions : dedicated to lord valens, gothicus maximus & perpetual emperor. bird, h. w. liverpool: liverpool university press. isbn  - - - . oclc  . 	^ a b c d e f chisholm . 	^ a b c d e f g h i j "eutropius - livius". www.livius.org. retrieved - - . 	^ bird ( ), pp. xliv & seq. sfnp error: no target: citerefbird (help) 	^ landolfus sagax, historia miscella, about ad  . 	^ bird ( ). sfnp error: no target: citerefbird (help) bibliography[edit] 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "eutropius". encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. p.  . 	bird, harold w., ed. ( ), breviarium, liverpool: liverpool university press, isbn  - . 	den boer, willem ( ), some minor roman historians, leiden: brill, pp.  & seq., isbn  - - - 	lieu, samuel n. c. 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wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	classical latin 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		standard form of the latin language in the roman republic and empire this article is about written classical latin. for spoken language, see latin. 	classical latin 	lingva latina, lingua latīna 	latin inscription in the colosseum 	pronunciation	[laˈtiːnɪtaːs] 	native to	roman republic, roman empire 	region	mare nostrum region 	era	 bc to ad rd century, when it developed into late latin 	language family 	indo-european 	 italic	latino-faliscan	latin	classical latin 	early form 	old latin 	writing system 	classical latin alphabet  	official status 	official language in 	roman republic, roman empire 	regulated by	schools of grammar and rhetoric 	language codes 	iso - 	– 	linguist list 	lat-cla 	glottolog	none 	linguasphere	 -aab-aaa 	the range of latin, ad classical latin is the form of latin language recognized as a standard by writers of the late roman republic and early roman empire. it was used from bc- rd century ad when it developed into late latin. in some later periods, it was regarded as good or proper latin, with following versions viewed as debased, degenerate, vulgar, or corrupted. the word latin is now understood by default to mean "classical latin"; for example, modern latin textbooks almost exclusively teach classical latin. cicero and his contemporaries of the late republic used lingua latina and sermo latinus versions of the latin language. conversely, the greeks used vulgar latin (sermo vulgaris and sermo vulgi) in their vernacular, written as latinitas,[note ] or "latinity" (which implies "good") when combined. it was also called sermo familiaris ("speech of the good families"), sermo urbanus ("speech of the city"), and in rare cases sermo nobilis ("noble speech"). besides latinitas, it was mainly called latine (adverb for "in good latin"), or latinius (comparative adverb for "in better latin"). latinitas was spoken and written. it was the language taught in schools. prescriptive rules therefore applied to it, and when special subjects like poetry or rhetoric were taken into consideration, additional rules applied. since spoken latinitas has become extinct (in favor of subsequent registers), the rules of politus (polished) texts may give the appearance of an artificial language. however, latinitas was a form of sermo (spoken language), and as such, retains spontaneity. no texts by classical latin authors are noted for the type of rigidity evidenced by stylized art, with the exception of repetitious abbreviations and stock phrases found on inscriptions. the best known example, "iesvs nazarenvs rex ivdaeorvm" ("jesus nazarenus rex judaeorum", "jesus the nasarean - the king of the judeans") was the titulus written on the placard above jesus' head on the cross, is possibly the most famous example of classical latin. contents 	 philological constructs 	 . classical 	 . canonical 	 . ages of latin 	 authors of the golden age 	 . republican 	 . augustan 	 authors of the silver age 	 . from the ides of march to trajan 	 . through the death of marcus aurelius, ad 	 stylistic shifts 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 . citations 	 . general sources 	 further reading 	 external links philological constructs[edit] classical[edit] "good latin" in philology is known as "classical" latin literature. the term refers to the canonical relevance of literary works written in latin in the late roman republic, and early to middle roman empire. "[t]hat is to say, that of belonging to an exclusive group of authors (or works) that were considered to be emblematic of a certain genre."[ ] the term classicus (masculine plural classici) was devised by the romans to translate greek ἐγκριθέντες (encrithentes), and "select" which refers to authors who wrote in a form of greek that was considered model. before then, the term classis, in addition to being a naval fleet, was a social class in one of the diachronic divisions of roman society in accordance with property ownership under the roman constitution.[ ] the word is a transliteration of greek κλῆσις (clēsis, or "calling") used to rank army draftees by property from first to fifth class. classicus refers to those in the primae classis ("first class"), such as the authors of polished works of latinitas, or sermo urbanus. it contains nuances of the certified and the authentic, or testis classicus ("reliable witness"). it was under this construct that marcus cornelius fronto (an african-roman lawyer and language teacher) used scriptores classici ("first-class" or "reliable authors") in the second century ad. their works were be viewed as models of good latin.[ ] this is the first known reference (possibly innovated during this time) to classical latin applied by authors, evidenced in the authentic language of their works.[ ] canonical[edit] david ruhnken imitating greek grammarians, romans such as quintilian drew up lists termed indices or ordines modeled after the ones created by the greeks, which were called pinakes. the greek lists were considered classical, or recepti scriptores ("select writers"). aulus gellius includes authors like plautus, who are considered writers of old latin and not strictly in the period of classical latin. the classical romans distinguished old latin as prisca latinitas and not sermo vulgaris. each author's work in the roman lists was considered equivalent to one in the greek. in example, ennius was the latin homer, aeneid was the equivalent of iliad, etc. the lists of classical authors were as far as the roman grammarians went in developing a philology. the topic remained at that point while interest in the classici scriptores declined in the medieval period as the best form of the language yielded to medieval latin, inferior to classical standards. the renaissance saw a revival in roman culture, and with it, the return of classic ("the best") latin. thomas sébillet's art poétique ( ), "les bons et classiques poètes françois", refers to jean de meun and alain chartier, who the first modern application of the words.[citation needed] according to merriam webster's collegiate dictionary, the term classical (from classicus) entered modern english in , some years after its re-introduction to the continent. in governor william bradford's dialogue ( ), he referred to synods of a separatist church as "classical meetings", defined by meetings between "young men" from new england and "ancient men" from holland and england.[ ] in , laurence echard's classical geographical dictionary was published.[ ] in , robert ainsworth's thesaurus linguae latinae compendarius turned english words and expressions into "proper and classical latin."[ ] in , david ruhnken's critical history of the greek orators recast the molded view of the classical by applying the word "canon" to the pinakes of orators after the biblical canon, or list of authentic books of the bible. in doing so, ruhnken had secular catechism in mind.[ ] ages of latin[edit] wilhelm sigismund teuffel in , wilhelm sigismund teuffel's geschichte der römischen literatur (a history of roman literature) defined the philological notion of classical latin based on the metaphoric uses of the ancient myth, ages of man. it was viewed as a universal standard, marking the golden and silver ages of classical latin. shortly after wilhem wagner published teuffel's work in german, he translated it to english ( ). teuffel's classification divides the chronology of classical latin authors into several periods according to political events rather than by style. his work (with modifications) is still in use today. teuffel went on to publish other editions, but the english translation of a history of roman literature gained immediate success. in , charles thomas cruttwell produced a similar work in english. in his preface, cruttwell notes, "teuffel's admirable history, without which many chapters in the present work could not have attained completeness." he also credits wagner. cruttwell adopts the time periods found in teuffel's work, but he presents a detailed analysis of style, whereas teuffel was more concerned with history. like teuffel, cruttwell encountered issues while attempting to condense the voluminous details of time periods in an effort to capture the meaning of phases found in their various writing styles. like teuffel, he has trouble finding a name for the first of the three periods (the current old latin phase), calling it "from livius to sulla." he says the language "is marked by immaturity of art and language, by a vigorous but ill-disciplined imitation of greek poetical models, and in prose by a dry sententiousness of style, gradually giving way to a clear and fluent strength..." these abstracts have little meaning to those not well-versed in latin literature. in fact, cruttwell admits "the ancients, indeed, saw a difference between ennius, pacuvius, and accius, but it may be questioned whether the advance would be perceptible by us." in time, some of cruttwell's ideas become established in latin philology. while praising the application of rules to classical latin (most intensely in the golden age, he says "in gaining accuracy, however, classical latin suffered a grievous loss. it became cultivated as distinct from a natural language... spontaneity, therefore, became impossible and soon invention also ceased... in a certain sense, therefore, latin was studied as a dead language, while it was still a living."[ ] also problematic in teuffel's scheme is its appropriateness to the concept of classical latin. cruttwell addresses the issue by altering the concept of the classical. the "best" latin is defined as "golden" latin, the second of the three periods. the other two periods (considered "classical") are left hanging. by assigning the term "pre-classical" to old latin and implicating it to post-classical (or post-augustan) and silver latin, cruttwell realized that his construct was not accordance with ancient usage and assertions: "[t]he epithet classical is by many restricted to the authors who wrote in it [golden latin]. it is best, however, not to narrow unnecessarily the sphere of classicity; to exclude terence on the one hand or tacitus and pliny on the other, would savour of artificial restriction rather than that of a natural classification." the contradiction remains—terence is, and is not a classical author, depending on context.[ ] authors of the golden age[edit] at maecenas' reception, oil, stepan bakalovich, . an artist's view of the classical. maecenas knew and entertained everyone literary in the golden age, especially augustus. teuffel's definition of the "first period" of latin was based on inscriptions, fragments, and the literary works of the earliest known authors. though he does use the term "old roman" at one point, most of these findings remain unnamed. teuffel presents the second period in his major work, das goldene zeitalter der römischen literatur (golden age of roman literature), dated – auc ( bc – ad), according to his own recollection. the timeframe is marked by the dictatorship of lucius cornelius sulla felix and the death of the emperor augustus.[ ][ ] wagner's translation of teuffel's writing is as follows: the golden age of the roman literature is that period in which the climax was reached in the perfection of form, and in most respects also in the methodical treatment of the subject-matters. it may be subdivided between the generations, in the first of which (the ciceronian age) prose culminated, while poetry was principally developed in the augustan age. the ciceronian age was dated – auc ( – bc), ending just after the death of marcus tullius cicero. the augustan – auc ( bc – ad) ends with the death of augustus. the ciceronian age is further divided by the consulship of cicero in auc ( bc) into a first and second half. authors are assigned to these periods by years of principal achievements. the golden age had already made an appearance in german philology, but in a less-systematic way. in a translation of bielfeld's elements of universal erudition ( ): the second age of latin began about the time of caesar [his ages are different from teuffel's], and ended with tiberius. this is what is called the augustan age, which was perhaps of all others the most brilliant, a period at which it should seem as if the greatest men, and the immortal authors, had met together upon the earth, in order to write the latin language in its utmost purity and perfection...[ ] and of tacitus, his conceits and sententious style is not that of the golden age...[ ] evidently, teuffel received ideas about golden and silver latin from an existing tradition and embedded them in a new system, transforming them as he thought best. in cruttwell's introduction, the golden age is dated bc – ad (from cicero to ovid), which corresponds to teuffel's findings. of the "second period," cruttwell paraphrases teuffel by saying it "represents the highest excellence in prose and poetry." the ciceronian age (known today as the "republican period") is dated – bc, marked by the battle of philippi. cruttwell omits the first half of teuffel's ciceronian, and starts the golden age at cicero's consulship in bc—an error perpetuated in cruttwell's second edition. he likely meant bc, as he includes varro in golden latin. teuffel's augustan age is cruttwell's augustan epoch ( bc – ad). republican[edit] marcus tullius cicero, after whom teuffel named his ciceronian period of the golden age julius caesar the literary histories list includes all authors from canonical to the ciceronian age—even those whose works are fragmented or missing altogether. with the exception of a few major writers, such as cicero, caesar, virgil and catullus, ancient accounts of republican literature praise jurists and orators whose writings, and analyses of various styles of language cannot be verified because there are no surviving records. the reputations of aquilius gallus, quintus hortensius hortalus, lucius licinius lucullus, and many others who gained notoriety without readable works, are presumed by their association within the golden age. a list of canonical authors of the period whose works survived in whole or in part is shown here: 	marcus terentius varro ( – bc), highly influential grammarian 	titus pomponius atticus ( / – / ), publisher and correspondent of cicero 	marcus tullius cicero ( – bc), orator, philosopher, essayist, whose works define golden latin prose and are used in latin curricula beyond the elementary level 	servius sulpicius rufus ( – bc), jurist, poet 	decimus laberius ( – bc), writer of mimes 	marcus furius bibaculus ( st century bc), writer of ludicra 	gaius julius caesar ( – bc), general, statesman, historian 	gaius oppius ( st century bc), secretary to julius caesar, probable author under caesar's name 	gaius matius ( st century bc), public figure, correspondent with cicero 	cornelius nepos ( – bc), biographer 	publilius syrus ( st century bc), writer of mimes and maxims 	quintus cornificius ( st century bc), public figure and writer on rhetoric 	titus lucretius carus (lucretius; – bc), poet, philosopher 	publius nigidius figulus ( – bc), public officer, grammarian 	aulus hirtius ( – bc), public officer, military historian 	gaius helvius cinna ( st century bc), poet 	marcus caelius rufus ( – bc), orator, correspondent with cicero 	gaius sallustius crispus ( – bc), historian 	marcus porcius cato uticensis (cato the younger; – bc), orator 	publius valerius cato ( st century bc), poet, grammarian 	gaius valerius catullus (catullus; – bc), poet 	gaius licinius macer calvus ( – bc), orator, poet augustan[edit] main article: augustan literature (ancient rome) the golden age is divided by the assassination of julius caesar. in the wars that followed, a generation of republican literary figures were lost. marcus tullius cicero was beheaded in the streets as he inquired among his litter about a disturbance.[citation needed] cicero and his contemporaries were replaced by a new generation who spent their formidable years under the old constructs, and forced to make their mark under the watchful eye of a new emperor. the demand for great orators had ceased,[ ] shifting to an emphasis on poetry. other than the historian livy, the most remarkable writers of the period were the poets virgil, horace, and ovid. although augustus evidenced some toleration to republican sympathizers, he exiled ovid, and imperial tolerance ended with the continuance of the julio-claudian dynasty. augustan writers include: 	publius vergilius maro (virgil, spelled also as vergil; – bc), 	quintus horatius flaccus (horace; – bc), known for lyric poetry and satires 	sextus aurelius propertius ( – bc), poet 	albius tibullus ( – bc), elegiac poet 	publius ovidius naso (ovid; bc – ad ), poet 	titus livius (livy; bc – ad ), historian 	grattius faliscus (a contemporary of ovid), poet 	marcus manilius ( st century bc and ad), astrologer, poet 	gaius julius hyginus ( bc – ad ), librarian, poet, mythographer 	marcus verrius flaccus ( bc – ad ), grammarian, philologist, calendarist 	marcus vitruvius pollio ( - bc — after bc), engineer, architect 	marcus antistius labeo (d. ad or ), jurist, philologist 	lucius cestius pius ( st century bc & ad), latin educator 	gnaeus pompeius trogus ( st century bc), historian, naturalist 	marcus porcius latro ( st century bc), rhetorician 	gaius valgius rufus (consul bc), poet authors of the silver age[edit] the frowning second emperor, tiberius, limited free speech, precipitating the rise of silver latin, with its emphasis on mannerism rather than on solid content, according to teuffel's model in his second volume, imperial period, teuffel initiated a slight alteration in approach, making it clear that his terms applied to latin and not just to the period. he also changed his dating scheme from auc to modern bc/ad. though he introduces das silberne zeitalter der römischen literatur, (the silver age of roman literature)[ ] from the death of augustus to the death of trajan ( – ad), he also mentions parts of a work by seneca the elder, a wenig einfluss der silbernen latinität (a slight influence of silver latin). it's clear that his mindset had shifted from golden and silver ages to golden and silver latin, also to include latinitas, which at this point must be interpreted as classical latin. he may have been influenced in that regard by one of his sources e. opitz, who in had published specimen lexilogiae argenteae latinitatis, which includes silver latinity.[ ] though teuffel's first period was equivalent to old latin and his second period was equal to the golden age, his third period die römische kaiserheit encompasses both the silver age and the centuries now termed late latin, in which the forms seemed to break loose from their foundation and float freely. that is, men of literature were confounded about the meaning of "good latin." the last iteration of classical latin is known as silver latin. the silver age is the first of the imperial period, and is divided into die zeit der julischen dynastie ( – ); die zeit der flavischen dynastie ( – ), and die zeit des nerva und trajan ( – ). subsequently, teuffel goes over to a century scheme: nd, rd, etc., through th. his later editions (which came about towards the end of the th century) divide the imperial age into parts: st century (silver age), nd century ( the hadrian and the antonines), and the rd through th centuries. of the silver age proper, teuffel points out that anything like freedom of speech had vanished with tiberius:[ ] ...the continual apprehension in which men lived caused a restless versatility... simple or natural composition was considered insipid; the aim of language was to be brilliant... hence it was dressed up with abundant tinsel of epigrams, rhetorical figures and poetical terms... mannerism supplanted style, and bombastic pathos took the place of quiet power. the content of new literary works was continually proscribed by the emperor, who exiled or executed existing authors and played the role of literary man, himself (typically badly). artists therefore went into a repertory of new and dazzling mannerisms, which teuffel calls "utter unreality." cruttwell picks up this theme:[ ] the foremost of these [characteristics] is unreality, arising from the extinction of freedom... hence arose a declamatory tone, which strove by frigid and almost hysterical exaggeration to make up for the healthy stimulus afforded by daily contact with affairs. the vein of artificial rhetoric, antithesis and epigram... owes its origin to this forced contentment with an uncongenial sphere. with the decay of freedom, taste sank... marcus aurelius, emperor over the last generation of classicists and himself a classicist. in cruttwell's view (which had not been expressed by teuffel), silver latin was a "rank, weed-grown garden," a "decline."[ ] cruttwell had already decried what he saw as a loss of spontaneity in golden latin. teuffel regarded the silver age as a loss of natural language, and therefore of spontaneity, implying that it was last seen in the golden age. instead, tiberius brought about a "sudden collapse of letters." the idea of a decline had been dominant in english society since edward gibbon's decline and fall of the roman empire. once again, cruttwell evidences some unease with his stock pronouncements: "the natural history of pliny shows how much remained to be done in fields of great interest." the idea of pliny as a model is not consistent with any sort of decline. moreover, pliny did his best work under emperors who were as tolerant as augustus had been. to include some of the best writings of the silver age, cruttwell extended the period through the death of marcus aurelius ( ad). the philosophic prose of a good emperor was in no way compatible with either teuffel's view of unnatural language, or cruttwell's depiction of a decline. having created these constructs, the two philologists found they could not entirely justify them. apparently, in the worst implication of their views, there was no such thing as classical latin by the ancient definition, and some of the very best writing of any period in world history was deemed stilted, degenerate, unnatural language. the silver age furnishes the only two extant latin novels: apuleius's the golden ass and petronius's satyricon. perhaps history's best-known example of classical latin was written by pontius pilate on the placard placed above jesus' cross: iesus nazarenus rex iudaeorum, which translates to jesus the nazarean the king of the judeans (jesus of nazareth the king of the jews). writers of the silver age include: from the ides of march to trajan[edit] germanicus caesar ancient bust of seneca, part of a double herm (antikensammlung berlin) 	aulus cremutius cordus (died ad ), historian 	marcus velleius paterculus ( bc – ad), military officer, historian 	valerius maximus ( st century ad), rhetorician 	masurius sabinus ( st century ad), jurist 	phaedrus ( bc – ad ), fabulist 	germanicus julius caesar ( bc – ad ), royal family, imperial officer, translator 	aulus cornelius celsus ( bc – ad ), physician, encyclopedist 	quintus curtius rufus ( st century ad), historian 	cornelius bocchus ( st century ad), natural historian 	pomponius mela (d. ad ), geographer 	lucius annaeus seneca ( bc – ad ), educator, imperial advisor, philosopher, man of letters 	titus calpurnius siculus ( st century ad or possibly later), poet 	marcus valerius probus ( st century ad), literary critic 	tiberius claudius caesar augustus germanicus ( bc – ad ), emperor, man of letters, public officer 	gaius suetonius paulinus ( st century ad), general, natural historian 	lucius junius moderatus columella (ad – ), military officer, agriculturalist 	quintus asconius pedianus ( bc – ad), historian, latinist 	gaius musonius rufus (ad – ), stoic philosopher 	quintus marcius barea soranus ( st century ad), imperial officer and public man 	gaius plinius secundus (ad – ), imperial officer and encyclopedist 	gaius valerius flaccus ( st century ad), epic poet 	tiberius catius silius italicus (ad – ), epic poet 	gaius licinius mucianus (d. ad ), general, man of letters 	lucilius junior ( st century ad), poet 	aulus persius flaccus ( – ad), poet and satirist 	marcus fabius quintilianus ( – ad), rhetorician 	sextus julius frontinus (ad – ), engineer, writer 	marcus annaeus lucanus (ad – ), poet, historian 	publius juventius celsus titus aufidius hoenius severianus ( st and early nd centuries ad), imperial officer, jurist 	aemilius asper ( st and nd centuries ad), grammarian, literary critic 	marcus valerius martialis (ad – ), poet, epigrammatist 	publius papinius statius (ad – ), poet 	decimus junius juvenalis ( st and nd centuries ad), poet, satirist 	publius annaeus florus ( st and nd centuries ad), poet, rhetorician and probable author of the epitome of livy 	velius longus ( st and nd centuries ad), grammarian, literary critic 	flavius caper ( st and nd centuries ad), grammarian 	publius or gaius cornelius tacitus (ad − ), imperial officer, historian and in teuffel's view "the last classic of roman literature." 	gaius plinius caecilius secundus (ad – ), historian, imperial officer and correspondent through the death of marcus aurelius, ad[edit] sketch of apuleius of the additional century granted by cruttwell to silver latin, teuffel says: "the second century was a happy period for the roman state, the happiest indeed during the whole empire... but in the world of letters the lassitude and enervation, which told of rome's decline, became unmistakeable... its forte is in imitation."[ ] teuffel, however, excepts the jurists; others find other "exceptions", recasting teuffels's view.[clarification needed] 	gaius suetonius tranquillus ( / – after ad), biographer 	marcus junianus justinus ( nd century ad), historian 	lucius octavius cornelius publius salvius julianus aemilianus (ad – ), imperial officer, jurist 	sextus pomponius ( nd century ad), jurist 	quintus terentius scaurus ( nd century ad), grammarian, literary critic 	aulus gellius (ad – after ), grammarian, polymath 	lucius apuleius platonicus ( / – ad), novelist 	marcus cornelius fronto (ad – ), advocate, grammarian 	gaius sulpicius apollinaris ( nd century ad), educator, literary commentator 	granius licinianus ( nd century ad), writer 	lucius ampelius ( nd century ad), educator 	gaius (ad – ), jurist 	lucius volusius maecianus ( nd century ad), educator, jurist 	marcus minucius felix (d. ad ), apologist of christianity, "the first christian work in latin" (teuffel) 	sextus julius africanus ( nd century ad), christian historian 	marcus aurelius antoninus augustus ( – ad, stoic philosopher, emperor in latin, essayist in ancient greek, role model of the last generation of classicists (cruttwell) stylistic shifts[edit] style of language refers to repeatable features of speech that are somewhat less general than the fundamental characteristics of a language. the latter provides unity, allowing it to be referred to by a single name. thus old latin, classical latin, vulgar latin, etc., are not considered different languages, but are all referred to by the term, latin. this is an ancient practice continued by moderns rather than a philological innovation of recent times. that latin had case endings is a fundamental feature of the language. whether a given form of speech prefers to use prepositions such as ad, ex, de, for "to," "from" and "of" rather than simple case endings is a matter of style. latin has a large number of styles. each and every author has a style, which typically allows his prose or poetry to be identified by experienced latinists. problems in comparative literature have risen out of group styles finding similarity by period, in which case one may speak of old latin, silver latin, late latin as styles or a phase of styles. the ancient authors themselves first defined style by recognizing different kinds of sermo, or "speech". by valuing classical latin as "first class", it was better to write with latinitas selected by authors who were attuned to literary and upper-class languages of the city as a standardized style. all sermo that differed from it was a different style. thus, in rhetoric, cicero was able to define sublime, intermediate, and low styles within classical latin. st. augustine recommend low style for sermons.[ ] style was to be defined by deviation in speech from a standard. teuffel termed this standard "golden latin". john edwin sandys, who was an authority in latin style for several decades, summarizes the differences between golden and silver latin as follows:[ ] silver latin is to be distinguished by: 	"an exaggerated conciseness and point" 	"occasional archaic words and phrases derived from poetry" 	"increase in the number of greek words in ordinary use" (the emperor claudius in suetonius refers to "both our languages," latin and greek[ ]) 	"literary reminiscences" 	"the literary use of words from the common dialect" (dictare and dictitare as well as classical dicere, "to say") see also[edit] 	languages portal 	classic 	classical antiquity 	classics 	late latin 	latin 	latin literature 	medieval latin 	new latin 	social class in ancient rome notes[edit] 	^ when rarely used in english, the term is capitalized: latinitas. in latin it was written all in uppercase: latinitas, as were all words in latin. references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ citroni , p.  . 	^ citroni , p.  . 	^ citroni , p.  , reported in aulus gellius, . . . 	^ citroni , p.  . 	^ bradford, william ( ) [ ]. 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"god and man in the classical latin panegyric". proceedings of the cambridge philological society : – . 	lovric, michelle, and nikiforos doxiadis mardas. . how to insult, abuse & insinuate in classical latin. london: ebury press. 	rosén, hannah. . latine loqui: trends and directions in the crystallization of classical latin. münchen: w. fink. 	spevak, olga. . constituent order in classical latin prose. amsterdam: j. benjamins. 	teuffel, w. s. 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originally likely had wider powers,[ ] they came to meet for only a few purposes by the end of the republic: to confirm the election of magistrates with imperium, to witness the installation of priests, the making of wills, and to carry out certain adoptions. the term is more broadly used to designate an assembly, council, or court, in which public, official, or religious issues are discussed and decided. lesser curiae existed for other purposes. the word curia also came to denote the places of assembly, especially of the senate. similar institutions existed in other towns and cities of italy. in medieval times, a king's council was often referred to as a curia. today, the most famous curia is the curia of the roman catholic church, which assists the roman pontiff in the hierarchical government of the church.[ ] contents 	 origins 	 roman curiae 	 . comitia curiata 	 . senate house 	 . . curia hostilia 	 . . curia julia 	 . curiae veteres 	 . municipal curiae 	 other curiae 	 . medieval curiae 	 . roman catholic church 	 . modern usage 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links origins[edit] the word curia is thought to derive from old latin coviria, meaning "a gathering of men" (co-, "together" =vir, "man").[ ] in this sense, any assembly, public or private, could be called a curia. in addition to the roman curiae, voting assemblies known as curiae existed in other towns of latium, and similar institutions existed in other parts of italy. during the republic, local curiae were established in italian and provincial municipia and coloniae. in imperial times, local magistrates were often elected by municipal senates, which also came to be known as curiae. by extension, the word curia came to mean not just a gathering, but also the place where an assembly would gather, such as a meeting house.[ ] roman curiae[edit] in roman times, "curia" had two principal meanings. originally it applied to the wards of the comitia curiata. however, over time the name became applied to the senate house, which in its various incarnations housed meetings of the roman senate from the time of the kings until the beginning of the seventh century ad. comitia curiata[edit] main article: curiate assembly the most important curiae at rome were the that together made up the comitia curiata. traditionally ascribed to the kings, each of the three tribes established by romulus, the ramnes, tities, and luceres, was divided into ten curiae. in theory, each gens (family, clan) belonged to a particular curia, although whether this was strictly observed throughout roman history is uncertain.[ ][ ] each curia had a distinct name, said to have been derived from the names of some of the sabine women abducted by the romans in the time of romulus. however, some of the curiae evidently derived their names from particular districts or eponymous heroes.[ ] the curiae were probably established geographically, representing specific neighborhoods in rome, for which reason curia is sometimes translated as "ward".[ ] only a few of the names of the curiae have been preserved, including acculeia, calabra, faucia, foriensis, rapta, veliensis, tifata, and titia.[ ][ ] the assertion that the plebeians were not members of the curiae, or that only the dependents (clients) of the patricians were admitted, and not entitled to vote, is expressly contradicted by dionysius[ ] this argument is also refuted by mommsen.[ ] each curia had its own sacra, in which its members, known as curiales, worshipped the gods of the state and other deities specific to the curia, with their own rites and ceremonies.[ ] each curia had a meeting site and place of worship, named after the curia.[ ] originally, this may have been a simple altar, then a sacellum, and finally a meeting house.[ ] the curia was presided over by a curio (plural, curiones), who was always at least years old, and was elected for life.[ ] the curio undertook the religious affairs of the curia. he was assisted by another priest, known as the flamen curialis.[ ] when the curiae gathered to make up the comitia curiata, they were presided over by a curio maximus, who until bc was always a patrician.[ ][ ] originally, the curio maximus was probably elected by the curiones, but in later times by the people themselves.[ ] each curia was attended by one lictor; an assembly of the comitia curiata was attended by thirty lictors.[ ][ ] the comitia curiata voted to confirm the election of magistrates by passing a law called the lex curiata de imperio. it also witnessed the installation of priests, and adoptions, and the making of wills. the pontifex maximus may have presided over these ceremonies.[ ] the assembly probably possessed much greater authority before the establishment of the comitia centuriata, which gradually assumed many of the curiate assembly's original functions.[ ] senate house[edit] since the roman kingdom, the meeting-house of the roman senate was known as the curia. the original meeting place was said to have been a temple built on the spot where the romans and sabines laid down their arms during the reign of romulus (traditionally reigned – bc). the institution of the senate was always ascribed to romulus; although the first senate was said to comprise members, the earliest number which can be called certain is , probably connected with the three tribes and curiae also attributed to romulus.[ ] curia hostilia[edit] main article: curia hostilia after the original temple was destroyed by fire, it was replaced by a new meeting house by tullus hostilius, the third king of rome (traditionally reigned – bc). the curia hostilia stood on the north end of the comitium, where the comitia curiata and other roman assemblies met, and was oriented along the four cardinal points. after more than years of service, the building was restored and enlarged by the dictator lucius cornelius sulla in bc. sulla had doubled the senate's membership from to , necessitating a larger building, which retained the original orientation of the curia hostilia, but extended further south into the comitium. in bc, following the murder of publius clodius pulcher, his clientes set fire to the senate house, which was rebuilt by faustus cornelius sulla, son of the dictator. following this reconstruction, the building came to be called the curia cornelia.[ ] curia julia[edit] main article: curia julia the curia julia, as restored from to a generation after sulla enlarged the senate from members to , julius caesar increased its membership to , necessitating the construction of a larger meeting house. the curia cornelia was demolished, and shortly before his death in bc, caesar began the construction of a new building, which became known as the curia julia. this structure covered most of the comitium, and abandoned the original orientation of the previous curiae, pointing slightly northwest. the building featured a large central hall with a daïs for magistrates, and marble benches on one side. there was also a record office on one side. the building was completed by caesar's grandnephew, octavian, the future emperor augustus, in bc, although he reduced the senate itself to its former number of .[ ] in ad , the curia julia was rebuilt along caesar's original plan by the emperor domitian, who also restored the former orientation of the curia hostilia. the building was damaged by fire during the reign of carinus in , and again restored under his successor, diocletian.[ ] the roman senate is last mentioned in ad . in , pope honorius i transformed the senate house into the church of sant'adriano al foro, preserving the structure at its full height. in , the church and an adjacent convent were bought by the italian government. the building was further restored from to , removing various medieval additions, to reveal the original roman architecture.[ ] curiae veteres[edit] the curiae veteres was the earliest sanctuary of the thirty curiae. it is discussed by both varro and by tacitus, who mentions it as one point of the palatine pomerium of roma quadrata.[ ] it is likely that this shrine was located at the northeast corner of the palatine hill. its remains have likely been identified in excavations carried out by clementina panella.[ ] as the republic continued, the curiae grew too large to meet conveniently at the curiae veteres, and a new meeting place, the curiae novae, was constructed. a few of the curiae continued to meet at the curiae veteres due to specific religious obligations.[ ][ ] municipal curiae[edit] main article: local government (ancient roman) in the roman empire a town council was known as a curia, or sometimes an ordo, or boule. the existence of such a governing body was the mark of an independent city. municipal curiae were co-optive, and their members, the decurions, sat for life. their numbers varied greatly according to the size of the city. in the western empire, one hundred seems to have been a common number, but in the east five hundred was customary, on the model of the athenian boule. however, by the fourth century, curial duties had become onerous, and it was difficult to fill all the posts; often candidates had to be nominated. the emperor constantine exempted christians from serving in the curiae, which led to many rich pagans claiming to be priests in order to escape these duties.[ ] other curiae[edit] the concept of the curia as a governing body, or the court where such a body met, carried on into medieval times, both as a secular institution, and in the church. medieval curiae[edit] main article: curia regis in medieval times, a king's court was frequently known as the curia regis, consisting of the king's chief magnates and councilors. in england, the curia regis gradually developed into parliament. in france, the curia regis or conseil du roi developed in the twelfth century, with the term gradually becoming applied to a judicial body, and falling out of use by the fourteenth century. roman catholic church[edit] main article: roman curia see also: diocesan chancery in the roman catholic church, the administrative body of the holy see is known as the roman curia. it is through this curia that the roman pontiff conducts the business of the church as a whole.[ ] modern usage[edit] emblem of the court of justice of the european union the court of justice of the european union uses "curia" (in roman script) in its official emblem. the term curia may refer to separate electoral colleges in a system of reserved political positions (reserved seats), e.g. during the british mandate of palestine at the third election ( ) of the asefat hanivharim there were three curiae, for the ashkenazi jews, the sephardi jews and for the yemeni jews.[ ][ ][ ][ ] in the united states supreme court an interested third party to a case may file a brief as an amicus curiae.[ ] the federal palace of switzerland, the seat of the swiss confederation, bears the inscription curia confœderationis helveticæ. see also[edit] 	constitution of the roman republic references[edit] 	^ see palmer, robert e. a. ( ). the archaic community of the romans. cambridge: university press. for an ambitious reconstruction. 	^ a b code of canon law, can. 	^ webster's third new international dictionary ( ). 	^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m oxford classical dictionary, nd ed. ( ). 	^ a b c d e f g h harper's dictionary of classical literature and antiquities, second edition, harry thurston peck, editor ( ) 	^ marcus terentius varro, de lingua latina libri xxv. 	^ dionysius of halicarnassus, romaike archaiologia iv. , . 	^ christian matthias theodor mommsen, römische forschungen. 	^ sextus pompeius festus, epitome of marcus verrius flaccus, de verborum significatu. 	^ marcus tullius cicero, de lege agraria contra rullum 	^ tac. annales . 	^ c. panella. "curiae veteres. nuovi dati sulla frequentazione del santuario in età tardo-repubblicana." scienze dell'antichità. storia, archeologia, antropologia fasc. , p. - ( ) 	^ cil vi. 	^ a.f. ferrandes, . "il ripristino delle curiae veteres." in scavare nel centro di roma. storia, uomini, paesaggi, edited by c. panella, - . rome. 	^ a. h. m. jones, the later roman empire, p. . 	^ fannie fern andrews, the holy land under mandate, boston and new york, houghton mifflin company – the riverside press cambridge, , vol. (ch. xiv – building a jewish corporate life, vol. ii, – ) 	^ moshe burstein, self-government of the jews in palestine since , tel aviv, hapoel hatzair, 	^ esco foundation for palestine, inc., palestine. a study of jewish, arab and british policies, new haven, yale university press, , vol. (the growth and organization of the jewish community, vol.ii, – ) 	^ jacob c. hurewitz, the struggle for palestine, new york, norton and company, (ch. – the political structure of the yishuv, – ) 	^ https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/amicus_curiae further reading[edit] 	bond, sarah e. .“curial communiqué: memory, propaganda, and the roman senate house” in aspects of ancient institutions and geography: studies in honor of richard j.a. talbert. impact of empire, . edited by lee l. brice and daniëlle slootjes. leiden: brill, - . 	crofton-sleigh, lissa. . "the curia in aeneid ." illinois classical studies . . 	gorski, gilbert j. and james e. packer. . the roman forum: a reconstruction and architectural guide. new york: cambridge university press. 	heinzelmann, michael. . "the imperial building complex of s. maria antiqua in rome: an incomplete senate building of domitian?" anales de arqueología cordobesa, - : - . 	millar, fergus. . “political power in mid-republican rome. curia or comitium?.” the journal of roman studies lxxix, - . 	santangeli valenzani, riccardo. . “the seat and memory of power: caesar's curia and forum.” in julius caesar in western culture. edited by maria wyke. oxford: blackwell, - . external links[edit] 	library resources about curia 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	"curia" . encyclopædia britannica ( th ed.). . 		v 	t 	e roman forum 	temples	 	temple of antoninus and faustina 	temple of divus augustus 	temple of concord 	temple of castor and pollux (lacus juturnae) 	temple of caesar 	temple of janus 	temple of jupiter stator ( th century bc) 	temple of romulus 	temple of saturn (altar of saturn) 	shrine of venus cloacina 	temple of venus and roma 	temple of vespasian and titus 	temple of 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by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. find sources: "roman circus" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · jstor (june ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) the site of the former circus maximus in modern-day rome the roman circus (from the latin word that means "circle") was a large open-air venue used for public events in the ancient roman empire. the circuses were similar to the ancient greek hippodromes, although circuses served varying purposes and differed in design and construction. along with theatres, amphitheatres, and the much similar but smaller stadiums, circuses were one of the main entertainment sites of the time. circuses were venues for chariot races, horse races, gladiatorial combat, and performances that commemorated important events of the empire were performed there. according to edward gibbon, in chapter xxxi of his work the history of the decline and fall of the roman empire, the roman people, at the start of the th century: ...still considered the circus as their home, their temple, and the seat of the republic.[ ][ ][ ] contents 	 architectural design 	 common characteristics 	 . dates 	 . dimensions 	 . orientation 	 . relative location 	 . carceres 	 best preserved 	 list of roman circuses 	 see also 	 references 	 external links architectural design[edit] floorplan of circus maximus. this design is typical of roman circuses. the performance space of the roman circus was normally, despite its name, an oblong rectangle of two linear sections of race track, separated by a median strip running along the length of about two thirds the track, joined at one end with a semicircular section and at the other end with an undivided section of track closed (in most cases) by a distinctive starting gate known as the carceres, thereby creating a circuit for the races. the circus maximus epitomises the design. the median strip was called the spina and usually featured ornate columns, statues and commemorative obelisks. the turning points on either end of the spina were usually marked by conical poles, called the metae (singular: meta).[ ] the performance surface of the circus was normally surrounded by ascending seating along the length of both straight sides and around the curved end, though there were sometimes interruptions in the seating to provide access to the circus or the seating, or to provide for special viewing platforms for dignitaries and officials. one circus, that at antinoöpolis (egypt), displays a distinct gap of some m between the carceres and the start of the ascending seating where there is apparently no structure. this appears to be an exception. the great majority of circuses fit the description above. those that do not display two different variations: that at emerita augusta (mérida, spain), where the carceres end is substituted by a slightly curved 'straight' end joined to the straight sides of ascending seating by rounded corners of ascending seating; and a few in which the carceres end is substituted by a second semi-circular end to produce an oval shaped arena. these latter circuses are normally small (nicopolis (greece) and aphrodisias (turkey)), and should probably be considered stadia. there are similar buildings, called stadia, which were used for greek style athletics. these buildings were similar in design but typically smaller than circuses; however, the distinction is not always clear. an example of this type is the stadium of domitian. common characteristics[edit] dates[edit] differently from other major roman structures circuses frequently evolved over long periods of time from a simple track in a field, through generations of wooden seating structures (frequently destroyed by fire or rot), before they finally began to be converted to stone. although circuses such as the circus maximus (italy) may have existed in some form from as early as around bce, circuses were mainly constructed during the years between bce and ce.[ ] dimensions[edit] the comparative dimensions of a circus may be measured in two basic ways: by the length of the track, and by the seating capacity. other dimensions, such as the external dimensions of the structure may vary considerably depending on the location, the site, and on specific architectural characteristics. the simplest comparative measurement of a circus is its track length. this is the most easily measured dimension, as it only requires small excavations at either end of the centreline. it is very probable that this can be done even when the circus is buried under subsequent constructions. track lengths may vary from the m of the circus at gerasa (jordan), to the m of the circus maximus (italy). the alternative comparative dimension is that of seating capacity. this is much more complex to measure as it requires that the dimensions of the original vertical and horizontal extent of the inclined seating be re-established. in many cases the full structure of the inclined seating has been destroyed beyond the point where this can be measured, or at the least would require a great deal more excavation than that required for the measurement of the track length. seating capacity may vary from around , people at gerasa (jordan), to , (some estimates put it up to , ) at the circus maximus (italy). orientation[edit] circuses do not appear to have been constructed with any special compass orientation. those that are well identified can be found with their round ends oriented around the compass. examples include: n. gerasa (jordan); ne. antinoöpolis (egypt); e. circus of maxentius (italy); se. circus maximus (italy); s. tyrus (lebanon); sw. gortyn (greece); w. circus of nero (italy). relative location[edit] circuses can be found at three distinct locations relative to the towns to which they belong: 	outside the city walls at anything up to .  km distant, as at: gerasa (jordan) (c m), and leptis magna (libya) ( .  km). 	simply within the town walls, as at: thessalonica (greece). 	inside the walls, in the heart of the town, and an integral part of the architectural power structure of the town, as at: rome, sirmium (serbia) and tarraco (spain). carceres[edit] the carceres, or starting gates, had a distinctive, slanted, slightly curved, plan form, designed to compensate for what would otherwise be significant differences in the distances from the individual starting gates to the start of the first section of straight track on the right hand side of the spina (as seen from the carceres). the carceres were designed for the races to be run round the spina in an anticlockwise direction. the form of the carceres appears to have been standardised throughout the roman world. the similarity in form among the carceres of circuses of many different sizes suggests that carceres were constructed according to a series of proportional mathematical relationships or formulas. it is not clear when the earliest carceres of the standardised form was constructed, nor whether there exists documentary evidence for the existence of such formulas. some of the best examples of carceres can be found at: gerasa (jordan) and the circus of maxentius (italy). best preserved[edit] the best preserved circuses include: emerita augusta (spain), caesarea maritima (coastal) (israel), circus of maxentius (italy), gerasa (jordan), tyrus (lebanon), miróbriga (portugal), leptis magna (libya). list of roman circuses[edit] 	map this section's coordinates using: openstreetmap  	download coordinates as: kml · gpx unless otherwise indicated the coordinates in the following list are of a point that lies within the space of a circus. for the remaining circuses (those whose detailed location is not known) the point is for a location within the space of the historic nucleus of the associated town, or for a location within the associated archaeological site. these points are probably within . kilometres of the site of the circus, as a circus was almost always within this distance from its associated town. (ordered initially by country; number of circuses at latest count ( - - ): ) 	city (roman name) link to detailed circus article 	city (modern name) 	country 	coordinates 	notes references (sorts on length and precision of location) 	images 	auzia[ ] 	sour el-ghozlane (= pre-independence aumale)[ ] 	algeria 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (auzia (sour el-ghozlane) (not the circus; historic nucleus of current town)) (not the circus; historic nucleus of current town) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] no online circus-specific information found. 	 	colonia claudia caesarea 	cherchell 	algeria 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (colonia claudia caesarea (cherchell) roman circus) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] approximate location;[ ] neither the form nor any original structure is visible. 	images (may not be oriented to north)[ ] 	saldae 	béjaïa 	algeria 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (saldae (béjaïa) (not the circus; historic nucleus of current town)) (not the circus; historic nucleus of current town) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] no online circus-specific information found. 	 	setifis 	sétif 	algeria 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (sitifis colonia (sétif) roman circus) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] approximate location confirmed by old air photographs ( % of the circus has now been built over);[ ] only the southern, curved, end remains visible; u-shaped; approximate (formerly visible) track length: c m;[ ] approximate (formerly visible) track width: c m.[ ] 	images (may not be oriented to north)[ ] 	philippopolis (thrace) plovdiv roman stadium 	plovdiv 	bulgaria 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (trimontium (plovdiv) roman circus) 	only a small well preserved part of the northern end is currently visible; c % of the structure is buried under the current main street; track length c m;[ ] track width c m;[ ] the small size of the structure suggests that it is, in fact, more correct to consider it a stadium; this is the view taken by the principal site on the structure[ ] 	 	alexandria 	alexandria 	egypt 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (alexandria roman town (approximate nucleus of town; centred on pompey's pillar)) (not the circus; approximate nucleus of roman town; centred on pompey's pillar) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] no online circus-specific information found. 	 	antinoöpolis 	mallawi (c km) 	egypt 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (antinopolis roman circus) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] visible track length: – m;[ ] visible track width: c m;[ ] u-shaped; the carceres are c m beyond the ends of the ascending seating at the open south-west end; clearly visible and unobstructed. 	 	oxyrhynchus 	beni mazar (c km) 	egypt 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (oxyrhynchus (not the circus; archaeological site of roman town)) (not the circus; archaeological site of roman town) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] no online circus-specific information found. 	 	camulodunum 	colchester 	england 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (camulodunum (colchester) roman circus) 	location information;[ ] archaeological information;[ ] official archaeological information;[ ] length: c m;[ ] width: c m.[ ] 	 	arelate (colonia iulia paterna arelatensium sextanorum) 	arles 	france 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (arelate (arles) roman circus) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] official archaeological information;[ ] c % of curved south-west end is minimally visible; the remaining structure lies to the north-east under a road junction and housing; length: c m;[ ][ ] width: c m;[ ][ ] visible track width: c m.[ ] 	 further images (may not be oriented to north)[ ] 	lugdunum 	lyon 	france 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (lugdunum (lyon) roman circus (approximate hypothesised location)) (approximate hypothesised location[ ]) 	cited in chase;[ ] hypothesised location.[ ] 	 	mediolanum santonum 	saintes 	france 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″w /  . °n . °w / . ; - .  (mediolanum santonum (saintes) roman town (not the circus; historic nucleus of the town)) (not the circus; historic nucleus of the town) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] no online circus-specific information found. 	 	vienna 	vienne 	france 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (vienna (vienne) roman circus) (possibly very approximate; the satellite image at this location is extremely distorted) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] the only remaining feature is a monumental arched structure topped by a tall, narrow, pyramid; this structure was on the spina. 	 further images (may not be oriented to north)[ ] 	augusta treverorum 	trier 	germany 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (augusta treverorum (trier) roman circus) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] location;[ ][ ] plan of roman town[ ] showing location of circus; length: c m.[ ] 	 	corinth (colonia iulia flavia augusta corinthiensis) 	corinth 	greece 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (corinth roman circus (hypothesised and partially excavated location)) (hypothesised and partially excavated location) 	discussion about the evidence for a circus;[ ] plan showing the hypothesised location of the circus[ ] and;[ ] hypothesised and partially excavated location.[ ] 	 	gortyn, gortys or gortyna 	agioi deka (c .  km) 	greece 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (gortyn roman circus) 	cited in chase;[ ] archaeological city plan;[ ] visible track length: c m;[ ] visible track width: c m;[ ] u-shaped plan form clearly visible; space % open agricultural land, % covered by orchard trees. 	images (may not be oriented to north)[ ] 	nicopolis 	preveza (c km) 	greece 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (nikopolis roman circus) 	referred to as a stadium;[ ] very small for a circus; visible track length: c m;[ ] visible track width: c m;[ ] double-u-shaped plan form with both rounded ends clearly visible; the space is unoccupied by any modern structures. 	 	thessalonica 	thessaloniki 	greece 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (thessalonica roman circus) 	location[ ] (the circus is marked 'ancient hippodrome'); archaeological map of historical centre of town,[ ] showing location of hippodrome/circus (in greek; hippodrome = Ιππόδρομος); approximate length inferred from[ ] and:[ ] c m. 	 	rhodes 	rhodes 	greece 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (rhodes roman circus) 	 	 	caesarea maritima (coastal) 	caesarea 	israel 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (caesarea maritima (caesarea) coastal roman circus) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] referred to as a hippodrome;[ ] on the coast; parallel to the coast; visible track length: c m;[ ] visible track width: c m;[ ] u-shaped plan form clearly visible; structure substantially complete; few modern structures constructed within the space. 	 further images (may not be oriented to north)[ ] 	caesarea maritima (inland) 	caesarea 	israel 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (caesarea maritima (caesarea) inland roman circus) 	c km inland from the coast; visible track length: c m;[ ] visible track width: c m;[ ] form substantially visible; apparently u-shaped; the space is unoccupied by any modern structures. 	images (may not be oriented to north)[ ] 	aquileia 	aquileia 	italy 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (aquileia (aquileia) roman circus) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] location;[ ] track length measured from location information: c m;[ ][ ] track width measured from location information: c m.[ ][ ] 	images (may not be oriented to north)[ ] 	bovillae 	marino, lazio 	italy 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (bovillae roman circus) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] (in italian);[ ] information and photos in english;[ ] (track?) length: . m;[ ] (track?) width: m;[ ] location centred on the only visible remains – three stone arches[ ] (part of the carceres). 	 	mediolanum 	milan 	italy 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (mediolanum (milan) roman circus) 	cited in chase;[ ] location;[ ][ ] track length: m;[ ] track width: / m;[ ] the principal visible remains are a tower at the north western corner of the circus;[ ] the main body of the circus lay sse of this tower. 	 images (may not be oriented to north)[ ] 	roma circus flaminius 	rome 	italy 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (circus flaminius, rome) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] it is not entirely clear whether this 'structure' was, in fact, a circus or stadium of the form of the others in this list; wikimapia location;[ ] estimates of size are: length – m,[ ][ ] width m.[ ] 	 	roma circus of maxentius, a.k.a. circus of caracalla 	rome 	italy 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (circus of maxentius, rome) 	visible track length: c m;[ ] visible track width: c m;[ ] form clearly visible; u-shaped; the space is unoccupied by any modern structures; many parts of the structure are visible. 	 further images (may not be oriented to north)[ ] 	roma circus maximus 	rome 	italy 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (circus_maximus, rome) 	track length: c m;[ ] track width: c m;[ ] form substantially visible; u-shaped; the space is practically unoccupied by any modern structures; only a few parts of the structure are visible or remain. 	 	roma circus of nero, a.k.a. circus of caligula, or vatican circus 	rome 	italy 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (circus of nero, rome) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] location just to the south of st. peter's basilica well established, though exact position and orientation unknown; the only surviving remains are the obelisk which was brought from egypt to adorn the spina in ad;[ ] the obelisk was moved to its current location in saint peter's square in .[ ] 	 images (may not be oriented to north)[ ] 	roma circus varianus; it:circo variano (in italian) 	rome 	italy 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (circus varianus, rome) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] wikimapia location;[ ] length: m;[ ] width: m.[ ] 	images (may not be oriented to north)[ ] 	gadara 	umm qais 	jordan 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (gadara roman hippodrome) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] a german language archaeological site map of gadara[ ] indicates a location for what is described as a hippodrome.[ ] 	 	gerasa 	jerash 	jordan 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (gerasa roman circus) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] visible track length: c m;[ ] visible track width: c m;[ ] form clearly visible; u-shaped; the space is unoccupied by any modern structures; a great deal of the structure still stands. 	 further images (may not be oriented to north)[ ] 	colonia iulia augusta felix berytus beirut hippodrome 	beirut 	lebanon 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (colonia iulia augusta felix berytus (beirut) roman hippodrome) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] the location is of the archaeological site of the beirut hippodrome as given on wikimapia;[ ] this may, or may not, be the same structure as the circus. 	 	tyre hippodrome 	tyre 	lebanon 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (tyre roman circus) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] visible track length: c m;[ ] visible track width: c m;[ ] form clearly visible; u-shaped; the space is unoccupied by any modern structures; a great deal of the structure is still visible. 	 further images (may not be oriented to north)[ ] 	cyrene 	shahhat 	libya 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (cyrene roman circus) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] visible track length: c m?;[ ][ ] visible track width: c m;[ ][ ] form reasonably visible; u-shaped; the space is unoccupied by any modern structures; little of the structure is still visible; sometimes referred to as a hippodrome. 	images (may not be oriented to north)[ ] 	leptis magna 	khoms or al khums (c km) 	libya 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (leptis magna roman circus) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] located both on and parallel to the sea shore; visible track length: c m;[ ] visible track width: c m;[ ] form clearly visible; u-shaped; the space is unoccupied by any modern structures; some of the structure is still visible. 	images (may not be oriented to north)[ ] 	aeminium 	coimbra 	portugal 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″w /  . °n . °w / . ; - .  (aeminium (coimbra) roman town (not the circus; nucleus of the roman town)) (not the circus; nucleus of the roman town) 	believed to have existed, but unconfirmed; archaeological information about the roman town;[ ][ ] reference to a suggested location for the circus (praça do comércio); suggested location.[ ] 	 	balsa 	tavira 	portugal 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″w /  . °n . °w / . ; - .  (balsa (tavira) roman circus) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] the location is approximately that indicated conjecturally, though with considerable certainty, at;[ ] that site states "the topographic marks of [the circus] permit a reasonably rigorous survey"; length: c m;[ ] width: c m.[ ] 	 	miróbriga 	santiago do cacém (c km) 	portugal 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″w /  . °n . °w / . ; - .  (mirobriga roman circus) 	cited in chase;[ ] visible track length: c m;[ ] visible track width: c m;[ ] form clearly visible; u-shaped; the space is unoccupied by any modern structures; little of the structure is still visible. 	images (may not be oriented to north)[ ] 	olissipona 	lisbon 	portugal 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″w /  . °n . °w / . ; - .  (olissipona (lisbon) roman circus) 	in what is today the 'rossio'; an account (in portuguese) of excavations which uncovered a section of the spina of the circus can be found at.[ ] 	 	sirmium 	sremska mitrovica 	serbia 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (sirmium (sremska mitrovica) roman circus (approx)) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] the location is a close approximation based on information at;[ ] length: c m;[ ] width: c m;[ ] the structure lies buried some – m under the current town centre, just to the north of the partially excavated palace; only very small sections have been excavated.[ ] 	 	calagurris 	calahorra 	spain 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″w /  . °n . °w / . ; - .  (calagurris (calahorra) roman circus) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] the circus lies under the pedestrian thoroughfare 'paseo del mercadal';[ ] length c - m.[ ] 	 	cáparra 	capera 	spain 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″w /  . °n . °w / . ; - .  (cáparra (capera) roman town (not the circus; nucleus of the roman town)) (not the circus; nucleus of the roman town) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] the location, from wikimapia[ ] and spanish wikipedia[ ] is of the ruins of the roman city only; there is no indication of the location of the circus. 	 	corduba 	córdoba 	spain 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″w /  . °n . °w / . ; - .  (corduba (córdoba) roman circus) 	location from wikimapia and others;[ ][ ] length: c m;[ ][ ] entirely buried under the existing city centre; virtually no remains visible. 	 	emerita augusta circus maximus (mérida) 	mérida 	spain 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″w /  . °n . °w / . ; - .  (emerita augusta (mérida) roman circus) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] visible track length: c m;[ ] visible track width: c m;[ ] form clearly visible; u-shaped but without the distinctive slanted 'flat' carceres end seen in many other circuses; instead the 'flat' end is slightly rounded; the space is unoccupied by any modern structures; much of the structure is still visible. 	 further images (may not be oriented to north)[ ] 	italica 	santiponce 	spain 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″w /  . °n . °w / . ; - .  (italica (santiponce) roman town (not the circus; nucleus of the roman town)) (not the circus; nucleus of the roman town) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] very approximate location;[ ] the circus lies under the centre of the existing old town of santiponce; nothing is visible; note that the very large amphitheatre at italica is sometimes referred to as a circus. 	 	saguntum 	sagunto 	spain 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″w /  . °n . °w / . ; - .  (saguntum (sagunto) roman circus) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] the location of the circus has been confirmed by the excavation, and preservation, of a gate to the circus;[ ][ ] the circus lies buried under the existing town; only the gate is visible;[ ] length: c m;[ ] width: c m.[ ] 	images (may not be oriented to north)[ ] 	tarraco 	tarragona 	spain 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (tarraco (tarragona) roman circus) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] most of the circus lies buried under the existing town; a substantial part of the curved eastern end, and part of the south-western side, are visible; track length: c m;[ ] track width: c m.[ ] 	 images (may not be oriented to north)[ ] 	toletum 	toledo 	spain 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″w /  . °n . °w / . ; - .  (toletum (toledo) roman circus) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] between a third and a half of the circus, including the round end, is partially visible; the remainder of the circus, has either been obliterated, or lies under modern constructions; suggested length: c m;[ ][ ] visible width: c m.[ ] 	 images (may not be oriented to north)[ ] 	 	zafra 	spain 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″w /  . °n . °w / . ; - .  (zafra town (not the circus; historic nucleus of town)) (not the circus; historic nucleus of town) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] there appears to be significant uncertainty about the status, and even name, of zafra in the roman era;[ ] the town appears to have no significant roman remains other than those of some roman villas in the surrounding area;[ ] no online circus-specific information found. 	 	nova trajana bostra 	bosra eski sham or busra eski Şam or busra ash-sham 	syria 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (nova trajana bostra (bosra eski sham or busra eski Şam or busra ash-sham) roman circus) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] french maps of roman bosra showing the location of the circus (or hippodrome);[ ][ ] visible track length: c m;[ ] visible track width: c m;[ ] form clearly visible; u-shaped; the space is virtually unoccupied by any modern structures; much of the structure still stands. 	images (may not be oriented to north)[ ] 	laodicea ad mare 	latakia 	syria 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (laodicea ad mare (latakia) roman town (not the circus; historic nucleus of the town)) (not the circus; historic nucleus of the town) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] no online circus-specific information found. 	 	abthugni[ ][ ] 	henchir souar or henchir esch schorr or henchir es souar 	tunisia 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (abthugni (henchir souar) roman town (not the circus; nucleus of the roman town))[ ] (not the circus; nucleus of the roman town). 	cited in humphrey;[ ] coordinates of place;[ ] location of place on topographic map[ ] (ref: nj  - / ); references to henchir souar;[ ][ ] aerial photograph of place[ ] confirms coordinates reference; topographic features on aerial photograph match with;[ ] no online circus-specific information found. 	 	carthago circus of carthage 	carthage 	tunisia 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (carthago (carthage) roman circus) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] location;[ ] length: c m;[ ][ ] width: c m;[ ][ ] u-shaped; very little remains visible; partly occupied by modern constructions. 	 images (may not be oriented to north)[ ] 	commodum or municipium aurelium commodum[ ][ ] 	henchir bou cha or henchir fraxine 	tunisia 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (municipium aurelium commodum (henchir bou cha) roman town (not the circus; nucleus of the roman town)) (not the circus; nucleus of the roman town) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] archaeological document of tunisian government[ ] (in french); location of place on topographic map[ ] (ref: nj  - / ); no online circus-specific information found. 	 	hadrumetum or colonia concordia ulpia trajana augusta frugifera hadrumetina 	sousse 	tunisia 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (hadrumentum (sousse) roman circus (probable location)) (probable location) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] probable location[ ] based on information in documents[ ] (in french), reinforced by an undated aerial photograph;[ ] visible length (as measured on wikimapia based on cross-reference with aerial photograph): c m or greater. 	 	thugga or municipium septimium aurelium liberum thugga[ ] 	dougga 	tunisia 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (municipium septimium aurelium liberum thugga (dougga) roman circus (approximate location)) (approximate location) 	cited in chase;[ ] approximate location,[ ] on the north western edge of town, suggested (though not explicitly identified) on plan,[ ] and plan;[ ] various lengths are referenced: c m,[ ] m;[ ] the site is open agricultural land with no subsequent occupation. 	images (may not be oriented to north)[ ] 	thysdrus 	el djem 	tunisia 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (thysdrus (el djem) roman circus) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] visible track length: c m;[ ] visible track width: c m;[ ] form lightly visible; u-shaped; the space is unoccupied by any modern structures; little of the structure is still visible. 	images (may not be oriented to north)[ ] 	utica 	near zana 	tunisia 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (utica roman circus (probable location)) (probable location) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] tunisian archaeological site number: . (utique ; henchir bechateur ; utika);[ ] reference to circus;[ ] uncorroborated location;[ ] more probable location[ ] as indicated by the maps in[ ] confirms the given location; approximate length measured from the maps in:[ ] - m. 	 	antioch circus of antioch 	antakya 	turkey 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (antioch (antakya) roman circus) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] location (from s aerial photograph);[ ] map[ ] of ancient antioch[ ] showing the circus as a hippodrome; length: c m;[ ][ ] width: c m;[ ][ ] very little visible today; is more visible in a s aerial photograph;[ ] lightly over-built by modern structures and occupations. 	images (may not be oriented to north)[ ] 	aphrodisias 	aphrodisias 	turkey 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (aphrodisias roman stadium or hippodrome) 	double-u-shaped; very substantially preserved; significantly smaller than other circuses; may be considered a stadium or hippodrome rather than a circus; visible track length: c m;[ ] visible track width: m.[ ] 	images (may not be oriented to north)[ ] 	byzantium hippodrome of constantinople 	istanbul 	turkey 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (byzantium) 	built under septimius severus; estimated length: c m;[ ] estimated width: c m;[ ] other than some monuments from the spina, virtually none of the structure is visible today; it is believed much of the structure may lie buried some m below the current surface.[ ] 	 images (may not be oriented to north)[ ] 	laodicea on the lycus 	denizli (c km) 	turkey 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (laodicea roman stadium) 	referred to as a stadium; double u-shaped and small; visible track length: c m;[ ] visible track width: c m;[ ] form clearly visible; no visible spina; unoccupied by any subsequent construction. 	 	nicomedia 	İzmit 	turkey 	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; .  (nicomedia (İzmit) roman town (not the circus; historic nucleus of İzmit)) (not the circus; historic nucleus of İzmit) 	cited in humphrey;[ ] general information on the archaeological remains of nicomedia;[ ][ ] kocaeli municipal history,[ ] including a th-century map showing the location of the historic nucleus of the city (through history kocaeli has been named successively: olbia, astakos, nicomedia, iznikmid, and izmid or izmit); no online circus-specific information found. 	 see also[edit] 	hippodrome – a greek arena also used for chariot racing references[edit] 	^ gibbon, edward ( ). "chapter - games and spectacles". the history of the decline and fall of the roman empire. christian classics ethereal library; edward gibbon, english historian of the roman empire. retrieved - - . - second sentence of the following paragraph 	^ gibbon, edward ( ). "chapter xxxi: invasion of italy, occupation of territories by barbarians.—part iii". the history of the decline and fall of the roman empire. ( project gutenberg; gibbon, edward, - ). archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - . - second sentence of the th paragraph 	^ gibbon, edward ( ). "chapter xxxi: invasion of italy, occupation of territories by barbarians.—part ii". the history of the decline and fall of the roman empire. ( project gutenberg; gibbon, edward, - ). archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - . - second sentence of the th paragraph 	^ michael gagarin; elaine fantham, eds. ( ). the oxford encyclopedia of ancient greece and rome, volume . oxford university press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ circus maximus#history of construction. 	^ a b [auzia] names of cities in algerie in (a.d. ) roman times and names now from e-dz community | education & learning | algerian history, culture, art, law, politics (order by start date; start date: dec ). 	^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar john h. humphrey: roman circuses: arenas for chariot racing. university of california press, berkeley and los angeles , isbn  - - - . 	^ a b [cherchell] the circus | cherchel at circusmaximus.us. 	^ a b c d [setif] the circus | circus at setif at circusmaximus.us. 	^ a b [trimontium] the ancient stadium of philippopolis track. 	^ [trimontium] the ancient stadium of philippopolis. 	^ a b [antinopolis] wikimapia location: antinopolis. 	^ [camulodunum] the roman circus victricensis in colchester archived - - at the wayback machine. 	^ [camulodunum] colchester archaeological trust. 	^ a b c [camulodunum] roman circus m south of abbey house, eher/smr number at unlocking essex's past website from heritage conservation at essex county council. 	^ [arelate] cirque romain archived - - at the wayback machine (in french), at patrimoine de la ville d'arles archived - - at the wayback machine | ville d'arles archived - - at the wayback machine | barriol / plan-du-bourg archived - - at the wayback machine. 	^ a b [arelate] cirque romain d'arles archived - - at the wayback machine at arles office de tourisme | visit | places to visit archived - - at the wayback machine. 	^ a b [arelate] cirque romain | description archived - - at the wayback machine (in french), at patrimoine de la ville d'arles archived - - at the wayback machine | ville d'arles archived - - at the wayback machine | barriol / plan-du-bourg archived - - at the wayback machine. 	^ [arelate] wikimapia location: arelate. 	^ [arelate] the circus | arles at circusmaximus.us. 	^ a b [lugdunum] cirque antique de lyon and cirque antique de lyon#hypothèses de localisation (in french). 	^ a b c d e raymond g. chase: ancient hellenistic and roman amphitheatres, stadiums, and theatres: the way they look now. p. e. randall, portsmouth , isbn  - - - 	^ [vienna] the circus | vienne at circusmaximus.us. 	^ [augusta treverorum] satellite photo from livius articles on ancient history | germania inferior | topography | augusta treverorum (trier) | trier: circus. 	^ [augusta treverorum] wikimapia location: augusta treverorum roman circus. 	^ [augusta treverorum] archäologie in trier (in german) from universität trier | organisation | fachbereiche und fächer | fachbereich iii archived - - at the wayback machine | klassische archäologie | was | archäologie in trier. 	^ [augusta treverorum] trier: circus at livius articles on ancient history | germania inferior | topography | augusta treverorum (trier). 	^ [corinth] a roman circus in corinth at highbeam research – publications – academic journals – history journals – hesperia, paper reference: david gilman romano, "a roman circus in corinth," in hesperia , , pp. – . 	^ [corinth] figure . roman corinth, ca. a.d. , and a portion of the land divided between the long walls illustrating the north–south roadways. from corinth computer project | greek and roman corinth | bc – colonia laus iulia corinthiensis (figure ). 	^ [corinth] figure . roman corinth, ca. a.d. , and a portion of the land divided between the long walls illustrating the north–south roadways from corinth computer project | greek and roman corinth | colonia laus iulia corinthiensis, bc (figure ). 	^ [corinth] wikimapia location: corinth roman circus (hypothesised and partially excavated location). 	^ [gortyn] map of gortyn (gortina – planta archaeologica dela citta) at romanaqueducts.info | roman aqueducts archived - - at the wayback machine | aquasite: information on selected roman aqueducts | gortyn(a) (greece / crete). 	^ a b [gortyn] wikimapia location: gortyn roman circus. 	^ [gortyn] the circus | circus of gortyn at circusmaximus.us. 	^ a b c [nicopolis] wikimapia location: nicopolis roman circus. 	^ a b [thessalonica] wikimapia location: thessalonica roman circus. 	^ a b [thessalonica] archaeological map of walled historical centre of thessalonica. 	^ a b c [caesarea maritima] the circus | caesarea at circusmaximus.us. 	^ a b [caesarea maritima (coastal)] wikimapia location: caesarea maritima roman circus (coastal). 	^ a b [caesarea maritima (inland)] wikimapia location: caesarea maritima roman circus (inland). 	^ a b c d [aquileia] the circus | aquileia at circusmaximus.us. 	^ a b [aquileia] wikimapia location: aquileia roman circus. 	^ a b c [bovillae] l'antica bovillae | il circo di bovillae (in italian) at parcodibovillae.org | protezione dell'area dell'antica bovillae (in italian). 	^ [bovillae] english page | the roman stadium of boville at parcodibovillae.org | protezione dell'area dell'antica bovillae (in italian). 	^ [bovillae] wikimapia location: bovillae roman circus. 	^ a b [mediolanum] the circus | milan at circusmaximus.us. 	^ [mediolanum] wikimapia location: mediolanum roman circus. 	^ a b [mediolanum] j.h.humphrey, roman circuses, londra , p. . 	^ [mediolanum] wikimapia location: milan roman circus (tower at the north western corner). 	^ [circus flaminius] wikimapia location: circus flaminius, rome. 	^ [circus flaminius] circus flaminius. 	^ a b [circus flaminius] circus flaminius – samuel ball platner, , via http://penelope.uchicago.edu/ at the university of chicago. 	^ a b [circus of maxentius] wikimapia location: circus of maxentius, rome. 	^ [circus of maxentius] the circus | maxentius at circusmaximus.us. 	^ a b [circus maximus] circus maximus#republican era. 	^ [circus of nero] wikimapia location: circus of nero (location of the spina obelisk until ). 	^ [circus of nero] wikimapia location: circus of nero (location of the obelisk since ). 	^ [circus of nero] the circus | vatican circus at circusmaximus.us. 	^ [circus varianus] wikimapia location: circus varianus, rome. 	^ a b [circus varianus] circo variano at italian wikipedia. 	^ [circus varianus] the circus | varianus at circusmaximus.us. 	^ [gadara] gadara (umm quais) topographische bestandkarte (archaeological site map) archived - - at the wayback machine from research projects | geographical order | gadara/umm qais (jordanien) archived - - at the wayback machine at deutsches archäologisches institut (dai) archived - - at the wayback machine. 	^ [gadara] wikimapia location: gadara hippodrome. 	^ a b [gerasa] wikimapia location: gerasa roman circus. 	^ [gerasa] the circus | gerasa at circusmaximus.us. 	^ [berytus] wikimapia location: colonia iulia augusta felix berytus roman hippodrome. 	^ a b [tyrus] wikimapia location: tyrus roman circus. 	^ [tyrus] the circus | tyre at circusmaximus.us. 	^ a b [cyrene] wikimapia location: cyrene roman circus. 	^ a b c [cyrene] the circus | circus at cyrene at circusmaximus.us. 	^ a b [leptis magna] wikimapia location: leptis magna roman circus. 	^ [leptis magna] the circus | leptis magna at circusmaximus.us. 	^ [aeminium] aeminium at museu nacional de machado de castro archived - - at the wayback machine | english version. 	^ [aeminium] aeminium archived january , , at the wayback machine (in portuguese), at museu nacional de machado de castro | mini-sítios. 	^ [aeminium] wikimapia location: suggested location for aeminium roman circus. 	^ a b c [balsa] o urbanismo de balsa romana (from : ; dimensions given at : ) at campo arqueológico de tavira. 	^ a b [miróbriga] wikimapia location: miróbriga roman circus. 	^ [miróbriga] the circus | circus of mirobriga at circusmaximus.us. 	^ [olissipona] a cronologia do circo de olisipo by ippar (now igespar); published as: revista portuguesa de arqueologia. volume . número . , pp – , "a cronologia do circo de olisipo: a terra sigillata", eurico sepúlveda and others. 	^ a b [sirmium] archaeological plan of roman sirmium from sirmium palatium imperiale at carska palata sirmium. 	^ a b [sirmium] sirmium#archeological findings. 	^ [calagurris] cidade | turismo | monumentos | arqueología romana at ayuntamiento de calahorra archived - - at the wayback machine. 	^ [calagurris] wikimapia location: calagurris roman circus. 	^ [cáparra] wikimapia location: cáparra roman circus. 	^ [cáparra] cáparra at spanish wikipedia. 	^ a b [corduba] wikimapia location: corduba roman circus. 	^ a b [corduba] cordoba roman circus archived - - at the wayback machine at artencordoba.com | roman córdoba archived - - at the wayback machine (see also: plan of roman cordoba archived - - at the wayback machine; and: detailed location map of the circus[dead link]). 	^ a b [emerita augusta] wikimapia location: emerita augusta roman circus. 	^ [emerita augusta] the circus | emerita augusta at circusmaximus.us. 	^ [italica] roman sites by list | spain | italica at imperium roman sites. 	^ [saguntum] wikimapia location: saguntum roman circus. 	^ [saguntum] roman sites by list | spain | sagunto at imperium roman sites. 	^ [saguntum] wikimapia location: saguntum roman circus (excavated gate). 	^ a b [saguntum] wikimapia location: saguntum roman circus (information, including dimensions, in spanish). 	^ [saguntum] the circus | segunto at circusmaximus.us. 	^ a b [tarraco] roman art | public spectacles architecture | circus of tarraco in tarragona | roman circus of tarraco, at tarragona at spanisharts.com. 	^ [tarraco] the circus | tarragona at circusmaximus.us. 	^ a b [toletum] the circus | toledo at circusmaximus.us. 	^ [toletum] wikimapia location: toletum roman circus. 	^ [toletum] wikimapia location: toletum roman circus (curved end). 	^ a b [zafra] zafra#roman era (article accessed: - - ). 	^ [bostra] plan de l'ancienne ville de bosra montrant l'emplacement de tous les monuments connus. b&w, x cm, scale by approximation ~ : , . shows in red the boundaries of the site at unesco | ancient city of bosra. 	^ [bostra] plan de bosra (circus identified as a hippodrome) from in-depth history | plan of the city | plan of the city at bosracity.com | english. 	^ a b [bostra] wikimapia location: nova trajana bostra roman circus. 	^ [bostra] the circus | bostra at circusmaximus.us. 	^ a b [abthugni]+[commodum (as: mun. aur. comm.)] map from docartis | progetti | tunisia: projet de gestion du patrimoine culturel | bibliografie | b | pflaum h. g., romanisation de l'ancien territoire de la carthage punique; the full article and map can be found from: pflaum h. g., "romanisation de l'ancien territoire de la carthage punique" - in antiquités africaines, , . pp. - . (the full map is on the last page; a high resolution version of the complete map may be obtained by using the scaling facilities of the site to enlarge the map, and then saving the resulting image). 	^ [abthugni] barrington atlas of the greek and roman world, edited by richard j. a. talbert, map carthago; textual directory to map available from: http://press.princeton.edu/b_atlas.zip | batl _.pdf archived - - at the wayback machine (reference to abthugni and henchir-es-souar on directory page (pdf page )). 	^ a b [abthugni] hennchir kasbat es souar: tunisia, source: national geospatial-intelligence agency, bethesda, md, usa. 	^ a b [abthugni (as: 'ruins' at ref: nj - / )]+[commodum (as: 'henchir boucha (ruins)' at ref: nj - / )] on map: nj - tunis, tunisia from perry–castañeda library map collection | tunisia maps | algeria, morocco and tunisia, joint operations graphic : , . 	^ [abthugni] zaghouan (search for 'a '), from docartis | tunisia | patrimonio archeologico e storico | siti complessi e monumenti | gestion du patrimoine culturel de la tunisie - liste des monuments et décrets par gouvernorat (search for 'zaghouan'). 	^ [abthugni] décret du mars ( rabia-el-aoual ), page (search for 'henchir souar'), from docartis | tunisia | patrimonio archeologico e storico | decreti di protezione | liste decrets (search for ' , décret du mars ( rabia-el-aoual )') | décret du mars ( rabia-el-aoual ). 	^ [abthugni] aerial photograph from docartis | tunisia | fonti documentarie | foto aeree | photos aeriennes (search for 'henchir souar, a '). 	^ [abthugni] wikimapia location: henchir souar. 	^ a b c d [carthago] the circus | carthage circus at circusmaximus.us. 	^ a b [carthago] wikimapia location: carthago roman circus. 	^ a b [commodum] site no. . , henchir fraxine/henchir bou cha (anc. municipium aurelium commodum) (doc page: ; pdf page: )(gives utm coordinates: , n; , e = approx: deg ' n, deg ' e) from institut national du patrimoine tunisie | archaeological map | carte national des sites arqueologiques e des monuments historiques | bir mcherga | cahier bir mcherga . (in french) 	^ [hadrumetum] wikimapia location: sousse roman circus (probable location). 	^ [hadrumetum] sousse archaeological bulletin (especially pdf pages: , , , , , ) "sociÉtÉ archÉologique de sousse, assemblée générale du février , extraits des procès-verbaux des réunions." etc., from institut national du patrimoine tunisie / national heritage institute (inp) | digital library | sousse archaeological bulletin (near bottom of page). (in french) 	^ [hadrumetum] aerial photograph of sousse from docartis | progetti | tunisia: projet de gestion du patrimoine culturel | fonti documentarie | foto aeree | photos aeriennes | sousse ville. | a . 	^ [thugga] dougga#dougga's "liberty". 	^ [thugga] wikimapia location: thugga roman circus (approximate location). 	^ [thugga] délimitation du site culturel de dougga. a . scale by calculation ~ : , . shows boundaries and buffer zone of the world heritage property from unesco – culture – world heritage centre – the list – world heritage list – dougga / thugga – maps. 	^ [thugga] the german-tunisian project at dougga first results of the excavations south of the maison du trifolium (page ). 	^ [thugga] planetware.com > africa and the middle east > tunisia > tunisia tourist attractions > dougga tourist attractions | circus. 	^ [thugga] dougga#circus. 	^ [thugga] the circus | dougga at circusmaximus.us. 	^ a b [thysdrus] wikimapia location: thysdrus roman circus. 	^ [thysdrus] the circus | el djem at circusmaximus.us. 	^ [utica] cahier ghar el melh (no-so) from institut national du patrimoine tunisie | archaeological map | carte national des sites arqueologiques e des monuments historiques | ghar el melh. 	^ [utica] utica, tunisia at british school at rome – accademia britannica di archeologia, storia e belle arti – research – archaeology – geophysics – geophysics projects (search for 'utica, tunisia'). 	^ [utica] wikimapia location: utica roman circus (uncorroborated). 	^ [utica] wikimapia location: utica roman circus (probable). 	^ a b [utica] 'survey and excavation at utica ' by nabil kallala, elizabeth fentress, josephine quinn, andrew wilson (maps on pages and ). 	^ a b c d e [antioch] the circus | antioch at circusmaximus.us. 	^ [antioch] map ancient city of antioch archived december , , at the wayback machine from a past exhibition at the cleveland museum of art. 	^ [antioch] wikimapia location: ancient city of antioch. 	^ a b [antioch] wikimapia location: antioch roman hippodrome. 	^ a b [aphrodisias] wikimapia location: aphrodisias roman circus/hippodrome/stadium. 	^ [aphrodisias] the circus | aphrodisia at circusmaximus.us. 	^ a b [byzantium] hippodrome of constantinople#history and use. 	^ [byzantium] hippodrome of constantinople#the hippodrome today. 	^ [byzantium] the circus | constantinople at circusmaximus.us. 	^ a b [laodicea on the lycus] wikimapia location: laodicea on the lycus roman stadium or circus. 	^ [nicomedia] the princeton encyclopedia of classical sites | nicomedia nw turkey at perseus digital library | collections/texts | perseus collection | greek and roman materials (search for 'the princeton encyclopedia of classical sites'). 	^ [nicomedia] kocaeli - information on historical remains at izmit (ancient nicomedia). 	^ [nicomedia] kocaeli metropolitan municipality | history of kocaeli. external links[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to ancient roman circuses. 	map all coordinates using: 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writer on agriculture for other uses, see columella (disambiguation). 	 	this article needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. find sources: "columella" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · jstor (may ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) 	lucius junius moderatus columella 	portrait of lucius junius moderatus columella from jean de tournes, insignium aliquot virorum icones, lyon, 	born	 ad gades, hispania baetica 	died	c. ad 	citizenship	roman 	notable works	de re rustica statue of columella, holding a sickle and an ox-yoke, in the plaza de las flores, cádiz lucius junius moderatus columella (/ˌkɒljəˈmɛlə/; arabic: yunius,[ ] – c. ad) was a prominent writer on agriculture in the roman empire.[ ] his de re rustica in twelve volumes has been completely preserved and forms an important source on roman agriculture, together with the works of cato the elder and varro, both of which he occasionally cites. a smaller book on trees, de arboribus, is usually attributed to him. in the spanish botanists jose antonio pavón y jimenez and hipólito ruiz lópez named a genus of peruvian asterid columellia in his honour.[ ] contents 	 personal life 	 de re rustica 	 de arboribus 	 sources 	 principal early editions 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links personal life[edit] little is known of columella's life. he was probably born in gades, hispania baetica (modern cádiz), possibly to roman parents. after a career in the army (he was tribune in syria in ), he turned to farming his estates at ardea, carseoli, and alba in latium.[ ] de re rustica[edit] in ancient times, columella's work "appears to have been but little read", cited only by pliny the elder, servius, cassiodorus, and isidorus, and having fallen "into almost complete neglect" after palladius published an abridgement of it.[ ] this book is presented as advice to a certain publius silvinus. previously known only in fragments, the complete book was among those discovered in monastery libraries in switzerland and france by poggio bracciolini and his assistant bartolomeo di montepulciano during the council of constance, between and .[ ] structure of de re rustica ("on rural affairs"): 	soils 	viticulture 	fruits 	olive trees 	big animals: cattle, horses and mules 	small animals: asses, sheep, goats, pigs, dogs 	fish and fowl: chickens, doves, thrushes, peacocks, numidian chicken and guinea fowl, geese, ducks, fish ponds 	wild animals: enclosures for wild animals, bee-keeping, production of honey and wax 	gardens 	personnel management 	calendars 	household management book is written entirely in dactylic hexameter verse, in imitation of or homage to, virgil. it may initially have been intended to be the concluding volume, books and being perhaps an addition to the original scheme.[ ] a complete but anonymous translation into english was published by andrew millar in .[ ] excerpts had previously been translated by richard bradley.[ ] de arboribus[edit] de re rustica, the short work de arboribus, "on trees", is in manuscripts and early editions of columella considered as book of de re rustica.[ ] however it is clear from the opening sentences that it is part of a separate and possibly earlier work. as the anonymous translator of the millar edition notes, there is in de arboribus no mention of the publius silvinus to whom the de re rustica is addressed.[ ]: a recent critical edition of the latin text of the de re rustica of columella includes it, but as incerti auctoris, by an unknown hand.[ ] cassiodorus mentions sixteen books of columella, which has led to the suggestion that de arboribus formed part of a work in four volumes.[ ] sources[edit] in addition to cato the elder and varro, columella used many sources that are no longer extant and for which he is one of the few references. these include works by aulus cornelius celsus, the carthaginian writer mago, tremellius scrofa, and many greek sources. his uncle marcus columella, "a clever man and an exceptional farmer" (vii. . ), had conducted experiments in sheep breeding, crossing colourful wild rams, introduced from africa for gladiatorial games, with domestic sheep,[ ] and may have influenced his nephew's interests. columella owned farms in italy; he refers specifically to estates at ardea, carseoli, and alba,[ ] and speaks repeatedly of his own practical experience in agriculture. principal early editions[edit] the earliest editions of columella group his works with those on agriculture of cato the elder, varro reatinus and palladius. some modern library catalogues follow brunet in listing these under "rei rusticae scriptores" or "scriptores rei rusticae".[ ] 	iunii moderati columellae hortulus [rome: printer of silius italicus, ca. ] (book x only) 	georgius merula, franciscus colucia (eds.) de re rustica opera et impensa nicolai ienson: venetiis, . 	lucii iunii moderati columellae de cultu hortorum liber .xi. quem .pub. virgilius .m. i[n] georgicis posteris edendum dimisit. [padova]: d[ominicus] s[iliprandus], [ca. ] 	opera agricolationum: columellæ: varronis: catonisque: nec non palladii: cū excriptionibus .d. philippi beroaldi: & commentariis quæ in aliis impressionibus non extāt. impensis benedicti hectoris: bonon., xiii. calen. octob. 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(in french). madame c. desplaces. p.  , vol. . accessed june . 	^ von stackelberg, katharine t. ( ). "columella". the encyclopedia of ancient history. american cancer society. doi: . / .wbeah . isbn  . 	^ peck, harry thurston, ed. ( ) [ ]. "columella, l. iunius moderātus". harper's dictionary of classical literature and antiquities. new york: cooper square publishers, inc. pp.  – . 	^ shepherd, william ( ). the life of poggio bracciolini. london, liverpool: t. cadell, jun., & w. davies. pp. iv, . 	^ kenney, e.j. 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( ). l. iuni moderati columellae res rustica. incerti auctoris liber de arboribus (in latin). oxonii [oxford, england]: e typographeo clarendoniano. isbn  - - - - .cs maint: extra text: authors list (link) accessed june . 	^ diderot, denis, jean le rond d' alembert (eds.) ( ). encyclopédie ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers ... neufchatel: s. faulche. p.  , vol. ju–mam.cs maint: extra text: authors list (link) accessed june . 	^ "de re rustica (english translation) iii. . ". loeb classical library edition, . accessed june . 	^ brunet, jacques-charles ( ). manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres, vol ., r–z (in french) ( th ed.). paris: silvestre. p.  . accessed may . 	^ fulvio orsini ( ). notae ad m. catonem, m. varronem, l. columellam de re rustica. ad kalend. rusticum farnesianum & veteres inscriptiones fratrum arvalium. iunius philargyrius in bucolica & georgica virgilij. notae ad servium in bucol. georg. & aeneid. virg. velius longus de orthographia : ex bibliotheca fulvi ursini. romae: in aedib. s.p.q.r.: apud georgium ferrarium. full text online at bayerische staatsbibliothek, two copies: , . further reading[edit] 	baldwin, barry. . "columella’s sources and how he used them." latomus : – . 	bertoni, d. . “geometry and genre in columella.” american journal of philology. . : - . 	carandini, andrea. . "columella’s vineyard and the rationality of the roman economy." opus : – . 	carroll, peter d. . "columella the reformer." latomus : – . 	doody, aude. . "virgil the farmer? critiques of the georgics in columella and pliny." classical philology. . : - . 	dumont, jean christian. . "columella and vergil." vergilius : – . 	forster, e. s. . "columella and his latin treatise on agriculture." greece and rome : – . 	gowers, emily. . "vegetable love: virgil, columella, and garden poetry." ramus : – . 	henderson, john. . "columella's living hedge: the roman gardening book." the journal of roman studies : - . 	olson, l. . 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"probably a chronological summary which included the history of outside nations as well as of rome," it is thought to have been written in three books.[ ] 	exempla, a collection of anecdotes after the style of valerius maximus; exemplorum libri, of which charisius cites the second book, and aulus gellius the fifth (vi. , ). the book likely contained "models for imitation, drawn from the early romans, whose simplicity contrasted with the luxury" of nepos' era.[ ]" 	letters to cicero; de vita ciceronis. aulus gellius corrects an error in this work (xv. ). the book is thought to have been written after the death of the consul, statesman and orator cicero. according to roberts, "his friendship for cicero and atticus and his access to their correspondence would have made the work an especially valuable one for us." 	lives of cato the elder; a complete biography of cato the censor, from which aulus gellius draws an anecdote of cato (ix. ). 	de viris illustribus, parallel lives of distinguished romans and foreigners, in sixteen books. 	epistulae ad ciceronem, an extract of which survives in lactantius (divinarum institutionum libri septem iii. ). it is unclear whether they were ever formally published. pliny the younger mentions verse written by nepos, and in his own life of dion, nepos himself refers to a work of his own authorship, de historicis. if a separate work, this would be from a hypothesized de historicis latinis, only one book in the larger de viris illustribus (see below), although exclusively comprising biographies of romans. pliny also mentions a longer life of cato at the end of the extant life of cato, written at the request of titus pomponius atticus, the "complete biography" now lost. his only surviving work is the excellentium imperatorum vitae. this book is in fact only one volume of nepos' larger "de viris illustribus," originally containing "descriptions of foreign and roman kings, generals, lawyers, orators, poets, historians, and philosophers," in addition to this sole surviving (and thought to be complete) book of commanders and generals (imperatores).[ ] it appeared in the reign of theodosius i, as the work of the grammarian aemilius probus, who presented it to the emperor with a dedication in latin verse. he claims it to have been the work of his mother or father (the manuscripts vary) and his grandfather. despite the obvious questions (such as why the preface addressed to someone named atticus when the work was supposedly dedicated to theodosius), no one seemed to have doubted probus's authorship. eventually peter cornerus[citation needed] discovered in a manuscript of cicero's letters the biographies of cato and atticus. he added them to the other existing biographies, despite the fact that the writer speaks of himself as a contemporary and friend of atticus, and that the manuscript bore the heading e libro posteriore cornelii nepotis ('from the last book of cornelius nepos'). at last dionysius lambinus's edition of bore a commentary demonstrating on stylistic grounds that the work must have been of nepos alone, and not aemilius probus. this view has been tempered by more recent scholarship,[citation needed] which agrees with lambinus that they are the work of nepos, but that probus probably abridged the biographies when he added the verse dedication. the life of atticus, however, is considered to be the exclusive composition of nepos. references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ roberts, arthur w. selected lives from cornelius nepos. boston: ginn & company, 	^ roberts. 	^ roberts. further reading[edit] 	bradley, j. r. the sources of cornelius nepos : selected lives. new york: garland pub., . 	conte, gian biagio. latin literature: a history (trans: solodow, joseph b.). baltimore. . esp. pp.  – . 	geiger, m. j. cornelius nepos and ancient political biography. stuttgart: steiner verlag wiesbaden, . 	hägg, t. the art of biography in antiquity. cambridge: cambridge university press, . 	lindsay, h. “the biography of atticus : cornelius nepos on the philosophical and ethical background of pomponius atticus.” latomus, vol. , no. , , pp. – . 	lord, l. e. “the biographical interests of nepos.” the classical journal, vol. , no. , , pp. – . 	malcovati, enrica. quae exstant (g.b. paravia, ). includes a summary of all references to nepos' lost works ("deperditorum librorum reliquiae", pp.  – ). 	marshall, p. k. the manuscript tradition of cornelius nepos. london: institute of classical studies, . 	millar, f. “cornelius nepos, 'atticus' and the roman revolution.” greece & rome, vol. , no. , , pp. – . 	peck, harry thurston: "nepos" (harper's dictionary of classical antiquities, ) 	pryzwansky, m. m. “cornelius nepos: key issues and critical approaches.” the classical journal, vol. , no. , , pp. – . 	roberts, arthur w. selected lives from cornelius nepos. boston: ginn & company, . 	stem, s. r. the political biographies of cornelius nepos. ann arbor: university of michigan press, . 	titchener, frances. “cornelius nepos and the biographical tradition.” greece & rome, vol. , no. , , pp. – . 	watson, rev. john selby. justin, cornelius nepos, and eutropius: literally translated, with notes and a general index. henry g. bohn, london . external links[edit] 	library resources about cornelius nepos 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 by cornelius nepos 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 media related to cornelius nepos at wikimedia commons 	 latin wikisource has original text related to this article: cornelius nepos 	works by cornelius nepos at perseus digital library 	dickinson college commentaries: life of hannibal 	works of nepos, in latin, at the latin library 	cornelius nepos at tertullian.org (rev. john selby watson's translation of the lives, with preface and translation of the fragments by roger pearse) 	chisholm, hugh, ed. 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ad – 	western ad – 	eastern ad – 	timeline 	 roman constitution 	 	constitution of the kingdom 	constitution of the republic 	constitution of the empire 	constitution of the late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	executive magistrates 	 precedent and law 	 	roman law 	ius 	imperium 	mos maiorum 	collegiality 	auctoritas 	roman citizenship 	cursus honorum 	senatus consultum 	senatus consultum ultimum 	 assemblies 	 	centuriate 	curiate 	plebeian 	tribal 	 ordinary magistrates 	 	consul 	praetor 	quaestor 	promagistrate 	aedile 	tribune 	censor 	governor 	 extraordinary magistrates 	 	corrector 	dictator 	magister equitum 	consular tribune 	rex 	triumviri 	decemviri 	 titles and honours 	 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	praeses 	praefectus 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 	 	other countries 		v 	t 	e the constitution of the roman republic was a set of uncodified norms and customs which,[ ] together with various written laws,[ ] guided the procedural governance of the roman republic. the constitution emerged from that of the roman kingdom, evolved substantively and significantly—almost to the point of unrecognisability[ ]—over the almost five hundred years of the republic. the collapse of republican government and norms from bc would lead to the rise of augustus and his principate.[ ] the republican constitution can be divided into three main branches:[ ] 	the assemblies, composed of the people, which served as the supreme repository of political power and had the authority to elect magistrates, accept or reject laws, administer justice, and declare war or peace;[ ] 	the senate, which advised the magistrates,[ ] acting primarily not on legal authority per se, but rather with its influence, and 	the magistrates, elected by the people to govern the republic in their name, exercising religious, military, and judicial powers, along with the right to preside over and call upon the assemblies.[ ] a complex set of checks and balances developed between these three branches. for example, the assemblies theoretically held all power, but were called and governed by the magistrates, who, controlling discussion, exercised dominating influence over them.[ ] other magistrates could also veto proceedings before the assemblies, though until the late republic, this was rare.[ ] similarly, to check the power of the magistrates, each magistrate could veto one of their colleagues and the plebeians elected tribunes who could intercede and veto the actions of a magistrate.[ ] the republic's constitution, while malleable and evolving, still had substantive norms that entrenched certain portions of it. the senate, consuls, etc were at various times reformed substantially, but existed continuously through the whole republican period.[ ] and the rule that what the legislature (here the assemblies) created was binding law continued, with exception of the dictatorships, through the whole of the republican period.[ ] starting from a period of patrician domination, the conflict of the orders eventually granted plebeian citizens equal political rights, while also creating the tribunate to check patrician power and empowering the plebeian assembly, an assembly composed of the plebeians of rome, with full legislative authority.[ ] the late republic saw an increase in the centralisation of power into the hands of provincial governors,[ ] the use of military power to enforce political changes (e.g. the sullan dictatorship),[ ] and the use of violence, combined with exploitation of the suitably bribed or intimidated "sovereign" assemblies, to grant supreme authority to victorious commanders.[ ] the increasing legitimisation of violence and centralisation of authority into fewer and fewer men would, with the collapse of trust in the republic's institutions,[ ] put it on a path to civil war and its transformation by augustus into an autocratic regime cloaked with republican imagery and legitimacy.[ ][ ] contents 	 development of the constitution 	 assemblies 	 . procedure 	 . assembly types 	 senate 	 executive magistrates 	 . ordinary magistrates 	 . extraordinary magistrates 	 constitutional instability 	 . political violence 	 . sulla's civil war 	 . collapse of the republic 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 . secondary sources 	 . primary sources development of the constitution[edit] main articles: history of the roman constitution and history of the constitution of the roman republic the "capitoline brutus", traditionally identified as a bust of lucius junius brutus (d. bc), who himself was identified traditionally as the founder of the republic. the early republican constitution was dominated by the patricians, who monopolised all control of the magistracies, the senate, and the voting blocs of the assemblies. generally, it slowly developed with a tendency towards greater popular representation at the expense of the patrician class.[ ] the main historical sources for the origins of the roman political system, livy and dionysius of halicarnassus, relied heavily on the roman annalists, who supplemented what little written history existed with oral history. this lack of evidence poses problems for the reliability of the traditional account of the republic's origins.[ ] according to this traditional account, rome had been ruled by a succession of kings. the romans believed that this era, that of the roman kingdom, began in bc and ended in bc. after the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of the republic, the people of rome began electing two consuls each year.[ ] according to the consular fasti, a list of the consuls going back to the foundation of the republic, the first consuls were chosen in bc.[ ] some scholars doubt this traditional account, arguing instead that the monarchy evolved into a government led by elected magistrates.[ ] remnants of the monarchy, however, were reflected in republican institutions, such as the religious office of rex sacrorum ("king of the sacred") and the interregnum (a period of time presided over by an interrex when the offices of consul, praetor, and dictator were all vacant).[ ] there is, however, evidence that the early republic was a time of violent change, with the word rex carrying the same connotations as tyrant and laws which declared forfeit the life and property of any man who plotted to install himself as a king or tyrant.[ ] the first assemblies of the republic emerged during the kingdom, with their use to ratify regal elections and the repurposing of the comitia centuriata to elect the first consuls.[ ] this regime was dominated by the patricians, and the sources on the early republic overwhelmingly focus on the conflicts between the patricians and the plebs, in what is known as the conflict of the orders.[ ] the early years of the republic were a time of external strife and periodic popular unrest. in  bc, under harsh measures from patrician creditors, during a military campaign, the plebeians under arms seceded to the mons sacer outside the city and refused to fight in the campaign without political concessions. with the pressure of an external threat, the patricians were forced to recognise the office of plebeian tribune (latin: tribuni plebis) who were declared sacrosanct,[ ] i.e. that they were declared inviolable and that anyone could be summarily executed for violation of the sanctity of his person.[ ] this was the basis of the tribune's ability to veto (literally translated as "i forbid") any political act or to protect any individual from an injustice committed by a magistrate, known as intercessio and auxilium, respectively.[ ] the people gave the tribunes, whose number is unclear,[ ] two assistants known as plebeian aediles.[ ] later, again under pressure from the plebs, a political compromise was reached in which the consuls and tribunes would give place to a commission of ten men, the decemviri, who would be empowered to publish a code of laws for all rome, the twelve tables.[ ] according to livy, it codified all public and private law, but its promulgation did not grant further political rights to the plebs, as it enshrined into the tables a law banning intermarriage between plebeians and patricians.[ ] with a short attempt to establish a tyranny by the decemviri, they were overthrown by the second secession of the army, restoring the old republic and preventing the creation of a new constitution based on the ten-man commission.[ ] in  bc, quaestors, administrators with wide terms of reference, were first elected; and the office of censor was created to administer the census in  bc.[ ][ ] however, the creation of the censors also was concurrent with the practice of electing military tribunes with consular authority, which, while open to the plebs, stalled efforts to reform the consulate itself.[ ] in  bc, plebeians were allowed to stand for the consulship, and this implicitly opened both the censorship as well as the dictatorship to plebeians.[ ] around this time, the practice of electing military tribunes with consular authority was dropped. in  bc, in an effort by the patricians to reassert their influence over the magisterial offices, two new offices were created. these two offices, the praetorship and the curule aedileship (so-called because its holder, like consuls and praetors, had the right to sit in a curule seat),[ ] were at first open only to patricians, but within a generation they were open to plebeians as well.[ ] beginning around the year bc, the senators and the plebeian tribunes began to grow closer.[ ] the senate began giving tribunes more power, and the tribunes began to feel indebted to the senate.[ ] as the tribunes and the senators grew closer, plebeian senators began to routinely secure the office of tribune for members of their own families.[ ] also, this period saw the enacting of the plebiscitum ovinium, which transferred the power to appoint new senators from the consuls to the censors. this law also required the censors to appoint any newly elected magistrate to the senate,[ ] which probably resulted in a significant increase in the number of plebeian senators.[ ] as the privileged status of the old patrician elite eroded over time, a plebeian aristocracy developed whose status was theoretically based on merit and popular election rather than birth.[ ][ ] because patricians were ineligible to run for plebeian offices, the new plebeian aristocracy actually had more opportunities for advancement than their patrician counterparts.[ ] over time distinctions between patricians and plebeian aristocrats became less important, giving rise to a new "patricio-plebeian aristocracy" termed the nobilitas.[ ] in bc, the plebeians again seceded. to end the secession, the lex hortensia was passed, which required that plebiscites, laws passed by the plebeian council, be binding on the whole roman people.[ ] the hortensian law resolved the last great political question of the earlier era; the electoral and legislative sovereignty of the assemblies was confirmed and would remain part of the constitution until the demise of the republic.[ ] as a whole, the outcome of the political struggles of the early republic was to eliminate the privileged status of patricians in the constitution and grant the plebs recognition of their own officers.[ ] the institution of the senate was also now arguably stronger, as it became a repository of former magistrates rather than a body of hereditary nobles.[ ] assemblies[edit] main article: legislative assemblies of the roman republic further information: roman assemblies chart showing the checks and balances of the constitution of the roman republic in roman constitutional law, the assemblies were a sovereign authority, with the power to enact or reject any law, confer any magistracies, and make any decision.[ ] in fact, with a single law, they held the authority to override the norms and precedents of the republic as well as ancient laws long unchanged.[ ] there were two necessary components to any assembly: ( ) the convening magistrate and ( ) the citizens in the assembly itself. assemblies did not participate or discuss matters laid before them, they heard the speakers put forth by the presiding officer. and after such discussion, the presiding officer could call for a direct up or down vote.[ ] without a magistrate, there would be nobody to legally call upon the assembly; and without the citizens, there is naught but a magistrate. assemblies did not consist of the whole roman people (latin: populus romanus) as only adult male citizens were permitted to participate. until the social war around  bc, italian non-romans were prohibited from voting as well.[ ] that civil war, between rome and her italian allies, led to various laws granting citizenship and voting rights to their italian allies. procedure[edit] there were three types of gatherings, the comitia, the concilium, and the contio or conventio. the first two were formal gatherings where legal decisions were made. the first, the comitia (or comitiatus), was an assembly of all roman citizens convened to take a legal action, such as enacting laws, electing magistrates, and trying judicial cases.[ ][ ] the second type of legislative meeting was the council (latin: concilium), which was a gathering of a specific group of citizens. for example, the concilium plebis, or plebeian council, was for meetings of plebeians only.[ ] the third type of gathering, the convention (latin: contio or conventio), was an unofficial forum for communication where citizens gathered to hear public announcements and arguments debated in speeches as well to witness the examination or execution of criminals. in contrast to the formal assembly or council, no legal decisions were made by the convention.[ ] voters met in conventions to deliberate prior to meeting in assemblies or councils to vote.[ ] assemblies and councils operated according to established procedures overseen by the augurs. they could only be convened by magistrates, and citizens only voted on matters proposed by the presiding magistrate.[ ][ ] over the years, laws were passed which mandated a written ballot, attempted to reduce voter intimidation, and established procedures to watch over voting and prevent voter fraud.[ ] for elections, it was not a matter of who received the most votes, but rather who could first be approved by a majority of the voting blocs.[ ] all votes had to be completed within a single day and had to be done again if interrupted or abandoned.[ ] assembly types[edit] roman citizens were organized into three types of voting units: curiae, centuria, and tribus or tribes. these corresponded to three different kinds of assemblies: the curiate assembly, the centuriate assembly, and the tribal assembly. each unit (curia, century or tribe) cast one vote before their assembly.[ ] the majority of individual votes in any century, tribe, or curia decided how that unit voted.[ ] the curiate assembly (latin: comitia curiata) traditionally dates to the early monarchy, from divisions of the city made by romulus.[ ] by the middle republic, it served only a symbolic purpose. at some point, the curiae ceased to actually meet and were instead represented by lictors. this assembly had authority over some elements of family law and ratified the imperium of elected magistrates and promagistrates through a lex curiata de imperio.[ ] in the realm of family law, it was presided over by the pontifex maximus.[ ] however, there was considerable debate in the late republic on whether or not a magistrate's election actually required ratification by the curiae,[ ] and by  bc, the senate refrained from enforcing this quirk of precedent.[ ] the centuriate assembly (latin: comitia centuriata) was formed under the monarchy, and widely seen by the ancients as a means of allotting voting privileges in proportion to military duties demanded of the citizenry,[ ] disproportionately granting voting power to the richest in society, as at the time of its formation, the wealthiest were also expected to contribute the most to the military.[ ] by the middle republic, the connection between voting power and military service had long ceased, turning into a system to suppress the voting power of the poor.[ ] because of its military roots, it could only be called into session by a magistrate holding imperium.[ ] originally divided into voting blocs, these blocs were further subdivided into five classes and a class of equites by wealth, each further subdivided by age into a junior and senior bloc. the first class and the equites held of the voting blocs, an absolute majority.[ ] this was later reformed around  bc, into an assembly of voting blocs with each class having the same number of votes, though the wealth requirements necessarily meant that the wealthier classes were composed of fewer people.[ ] the body was primarily called for the election of consuls, praetors, and censors;[ ] while it could hear legislation, trials, and only it could declare an offensive war,[ ] these were increasingly rare by the second century bc.[ ] the tribal assembly (latin: comitia tributa) dates from time immemorial, as no ancient historian mentions its establishment.[ ] in the early republic, there were four urban tribes and rural tribes.[ ] in  bc, fourteen rural tribes were added, bringing the total to thirty-five.[ ] the "tribes" were not ethnic or kinship groups, but rather a district to which people were assigned.[ ] a citizen's tribe was inherited from his father, and only changed upon adoption or reallocation in the census;[ ] over time, this meant that tribal affiliation had little relationship to a citizen's home or even place of birth.[ ] the vast majority of legislation was enacted in the comitia tributa,[ ] which also elected quaestors, curule aediles, and military tribunes.[ ][ ] the plebeian council (latin: concilium plebis) was identical to the tribal assembly with one key exception: only plebeians had the power to vote in it.[ ] it elected the plebeian tribunes and aediles, and later, various other minor posts.[ ] it also had the ability to enact laws called plebiscites, which in the early republic, only applied to plebs, but after the passage of lex hortensia, applied to all romans.[ ] in the early republic, the council also had some judicial functions, but by the middle republic, much of these functions were transferred to permanent courts.[ ] senate[edit] main article: senate of the roman republic further information: roman senate artist's impression of the senate in session, cicero delivering his oration catiline, from a th-century fresco. the senate was the predominant political institution in the roman republic. the senate's authority derived primarily from custom and tradition.[ ] it was also one of the few places in which free political discussion could take place.[ ] the senate's principal role was as an advisory council to the consuls on matters of foreign and military policy, and it exercised a great deal of influence over consular decision-making.[ ] the senate resolved disputes between magistrates and oversaw the allocation of public resources to magistrates. it also assigned magistrates to provinces.[ ] some of its responsibilities were enshrined in specific legislation, such as the lex caecilia didia which gave the senate power to declare a law invalid.[ ] during the kingdom, the senate consisted of persons selected to the position by the king, a power which the consuls inherited after the end of the monarchy.[ ] in the very early republic, senators were primarily chosen due to their birth,[ ] but by the late republic, and especially after sulla, membership in the senate became predicated on having previously held a magistracy.[ ] in the late th century bc, the consul's power to control senate membership was transferred to the censor,[ ] exercised with considerable discretion, until laws passed in the late republic formalised some kind of hearing before censorial decisions.[ ] in line with the censor's duty to protect morals, senators were required to be of good character, not have been found guilty of a criminal offence, and not be a person tainted with ignominy (e.g. bankrupts, former gladiators, prostitutes, or deserters).[ ] before the time of augustus, there is no evidence of any kind of property qualification.[ ] the senate consisted of around prior to the dictatorship of sulla, but after his dictatorship, it consisted of somewhere over men.[ ] a decree from the senate was called senatus consultum (plural senatus consulta). while this was formally "advice" from the senate to a magistrate stating the senate's position on some topic, the senatus consulta were usually obeyed by the magistrates.[ ] if a senatus consultum conflicted with a law that was passed by a popular assembly, the law overrode the senatus consultum.[ ] meetings could take place either inside or outside of the formal boundary of the city (the pomerium), though the official meeting place, or curia was at the centre of the roman forum. the president of the senate was normally one of the consuls, but it could be called to meet by any of the praetors or tribunes, both of whom had the authority to call the senate, though praetors rarely did so unless the consuls were away and the tribunes almost never did so.[ ] meetings were suffused in religious ritual. temples were a preferred meeting site and auspices would be taken before the meeting could commence.[ ] the presiding consul began each meeting with a speech on an issue,[ ] and then referred the issue to the senators, who discussed the matter by order of seniority.[ ] unimportant matters could be voted on by a voice vote or by a show of hands, while important votes resulted in a physical division of the house,[ ] with senators voting by taking a place on either side of the chamber. any vote was always between a proposal and its negative.[ ] since all meetings had to end by nightfall, a senator could talk a proposal to death (a filibuster) if he could keep the debate going until nightfall.[ ] any proposed motion could be vetoed by a tribune,[ ] and if it was not vetoed, it was then turned into a final senatus consultum. each senatus consultum was transcribed into a document by the presiding magistrate, and then deposited into the aerarium (the public treasury).[ ] executive magistrates[edit] main articles: roman magistrates and executive magistrates of the roman republic the toga praetexta, the dress of magistrates from the aedile to the consul.[ ] magistrates were elected officials, serving as representatives of the people for the conduct of public business.[ ] there were two broad categories of magistrates, the ordinary magistrates such as the consuls, products of the republican constitution, and the extraordinary magistrates such as the dictators, remnants of the monarchial constitution and reserved primarily for emergencies.[ ] each magistrate held potestas, the authority to exercise the office's powers conferred by custom or statute.[ ] the most powerful magistrates, such as the extraordinary magistrates, consuls, and praetors, held a kind of authority known as imperium, the authority to command in a military or judicial sense.[ ] ordinary magistrates[edit] of the ordinary magistrates, there were two further divisions: the higher magistrates, composed of consuls, praetors, their prorogued equivalents and the censors; and the lower magistrates, composed of the tribunes, aediles, quaestors and other minor positions.[ ] all higher magistrates were elected by the centuriate assembly. the most powerful ordinary magistrate was the consul, of whom there were two,[a] who served for the period of one year.[ ] these consuls had the authority to call assemblies of the people.[ ] in the early republic, they held judicial duties until these responsibilities were moved to the praetors and later to permanent courts; similarly, they held financial responsibilities until these duties were transferred to the quaestors.[ ] the consuls also held vague religious duties inherited from the kings,[ ] along with their more important military functions, serving as the commander-in-chief of rome's armies. the next magistrate was the praetor, who increased in number over the course of the republic[b] and were primarily judges.[ ] in the later republic, praetors were increasingly sent out to the provinces to serve as provincial governors, especially as prorogued magistrates.[ ] in rome, there were primarily two kinds of praetor, the praetor urbanus and the praetor peregrinus, in charge of suits involving citizens and foreigners, respectively.[ ] they were also assigned, in the late republic, to various permanent courts with specific criminal jurisdiction.[c][ ] when the consuls were away, the praetors were empowered to command armies and serve in the place of the consuls, and thus also held authority to call assemblies and introduce legislation[ ] over time, as rome's empire grew, the two annual consuls ceased to be enough to command its many armies in the field or administer its many provinces. to solve this problem, it became normal to prorogue the authority of current consuls and praetors beyond their normal terms so they could continue to command in the field.[ ] over time, however, with increasing need for competent generals and administrators, prorogation of magistrates became the norm;[ ] and the device was used, increasingly by the assemblies, to grant imperium to popular politicians.[ ] the censor was appointed specifically to conduct the census. this involved counting the roman people, assessing their property, and assigning them to their appropriate centuria and tribus.[ ] they were elected around every four or five years.[ ] after the passage of lex ovinia, the censors were also transferred the power from the consuls to control membership in the senate.[ ] along with the main responsibility of dealing with the census, the censors also dealt with property disputes, public contracts, and the management of public lands.[ ] gaius gracchus, tribune of the people, presiding over the plebeian council, in an artist's impression from . the lower magistrates included the tribune of the plebs, who was elected by the plebeian council, and the aediles and quaestors, elected by the tribal assembly. the tribune was sacrosanct, i.e. declared inviolable, with summary execution for violators of his sanctity.[ ] it was on this basis that the tribune could veto any political act or to protect any individual from an injustice committed by a magistrate, known as intercessio and auxilium, respectively.[ ] this power was used increasingly to block public business in the later republic, and was only limited in that a tribune could not oppose the will of the people as a whole.[d][ ] the aediles were in charge of various municipal tasks, e.g. the upkeep of temples, streets, and the water-supply.[ ] they were also responsible for public games,[ ] and some aspects of police work in the city.[ ] the quaestors were elected administrators, which could be put in charge of the treasury, the granaries, or various administrative postings in italy, with the consuls, or in the provinces.[ ] in the late republic, election to the quaestorship became the basis for a life appointment to the senate.[ ] extraordinary magistrates[edit] there were two extraordinary magistrates: the dictator and the magister equitum (literally: master of horse).[ ] dictators were selected by the consuls[ ] to resolve some crisis threatening the republic and served for a term of around six months before they were expected to resign and return their powers to the ordinary magistrates.[ ] the magister equitum was then appointed by the dictator as his lieutenant.[e][ ] the dictatorship was only used in the early and middle republic, before falling out of fashion after the end of the second punic war only to be revived during the time of sulla as an extraconstitutional measure, not to defeat some foe or quell unrest, but rather, to bring stability to the political order.[f][ ][ ] the dictator had maius imperium and total authority to command the state;[ ] however, since the dictator generally tried to maintain order, this did not conflict with the responsibilities of the other magistrates, who continued to function during a dictatorship.[ ][ ] the magister equitum had similar plenary authority, with parallel and somewhat subordinate authority to the dictator.[ ] in the middle and later republic, with the office of dictator falling out of fashion, the need for dictatorial authority was not granted to some extraordinary magistrate, but rather, to the consuls, through a senatus consultum ultimum, or final decree.[ ] this decree took the form of a recommendation from the senate to the consuls to take whatever actions were necessary to defend the republic.[g][ ][ ] due to its general vagueness, however, its use was hotly contested in the late republic and is still debated among scholars today, as in a strict legal sense, the final decree did not grant legal authority to the consuls, but rather, served as an urging from the senate to ignore the laws to protect the state.[ ] constitutional instability[edit] see also: crisis of the roman republic a bust of sulla, the first dictator and general to march on rome of the late republic,[ ] who marched on rome with his troops in and bc.[ ] after the second punic war, there was a great increase in income inequality. while the landed peasantry[ ] was drafted to serve in increasingly long campaigns, their farms and homesteads fell into bankruptcy.[ ] with rome's great military victories, vast numbers of slaves were imported into italy.[ ] significant mineral wealth was distributed unevenly to the population; the city of rome itself expanded considerably in opulence and size; the freeing of slaves brought to italy by conquest too would massively expand the number of urban and rural poor.[ ] the republic, for reasons unclear to modern historians, in bc also stopped regularly establishing roman colonies in italy; one of the major functions of these colonies was to land the urban and rural poor, increasing the draft pool of landed farmers as well as providing economic opportunities to the lower classes.[ ] political violence[edit] the tribunate of tiberius gracchus in bc led to a breakup of the long-standing norms of the republican constitution.[ ] gracchus was successful in passing legislation to pursue land reform,[ ] but only over a norms-breaking attempt by marcus octavius—a tribune in the same year as gracchus—to veto proceedings overwhelmingly supported by the people.[ ] gracchus' legislation would challenge the socio-political power of the old aristocracy,[ ] along with eroding their economic interests.[h] the initial extra-constitutional actions by octavius caused gracchus to take similarly novel norms-breaking actions, that would lead even greater breakdowns in republican norms.[ ] the backlash against tiberius gracchus' attempt to secure for himself a second term as tribune of the plebs would lead to his assassination by the then-pontifex maximus scipio nasica, acting in his role as a private citizen and against the advice of the consul and jurist publius mucius scaevola.[ ] the senate's violent reaction also served to legitimise the use of violence for political ends.[ ] political violence showed fundamentally that the traditional republican norms that had produced the stability of the middle republic were incapable of resolving conflicts between political actors. as well as inciting revenge killing for previous killings,[i] the repeated episodes also showed the inability of the existing political system to solve pressing matters of the day.[ ] the political violence also further divided citizens with different political views and set a precedent that senators—even those without lawful executive authority—could use force to silence citizens merely for holding certain political beliefs.[ ] tiberius gracchus' younger brother gaius gracchus, who later was to win repeated office to the tribunate so to pass similarly expansive reforms, would be killed by similar violence. consul lucius opimius was empowered by the senate to use military force (including a number of foreign mercenaries from crete) in a state of emergency declared so to kill gaius gracchus, marcus fulvius flaccus and followers. while the citizens killed in the political violence were not declared enemies, it showed clearly that the aristocracy believed violence was a "logical and more effective alternative to political engagement, negotiation, and compromise within the parameters set by existing norms".[ ] further political violence emerged in the sixth consulship of gaius marius, a famous general, known to us as bc. marius had been consul consecutively for some years by this point, owing to the immediacy of the cimbrian war.[ ] these consecutive consulships violated roman law, which mandated a decade between consulships, further weakening the primarily norms-based constitution. returning to bc, large numbers of armed gangs—perhaps better described as militias—engaged in street violence.[ ] a candidate for high office, gaius memmius, was also assassinated.[ ] marius was called upon as consul to suppress the violence, which he did, with significant effort and military force.[j] his landless legionaries also affected voting directly, as while they could not vote themselves for failing to meet property qualifications, they could intimidate those who could.[ ] sulla's civil war[edit] see also: social war ( – bc), sulla's civil wars, and constitutional reforms of sulla following the social war—which had the character of a civil war between rome's italian allies and loyalists—which was only resolved by rome granting citizenship to almost all italian communities, the main question looming before the state was how the italians could be integrated into the roman political system.[ ] tribune publius sulpicius rufus in bc attempted to pass legislation granting greater political rights to the italians; one of the additions to this legislative programme included a transfer of command of the coming first mithridatic war from sulla to gaius marius, who had re-entered politics. flower writes, "by agreeing to promote the career of marius, sulpicius ... decided to throw republican norms aside in his bid to control the political scene in rome and get his reforms" passed.[ ] the attempts to recall sulla led to his then-unprecedented and utterly unanticipated[ ] marching on rome with his army encamped at nola (near naples). this choice collapsed any republican norms about the use of force.[ ] in this first (he would invade again) march on rome, he declared a number of his political opponents enemies of the state and ordered their murder.[ ] marius would escape to his friendly legionary colonies in africa. sulpicius was killed.[ ] he also installed two new consuls and forced major reforms of the constitution at sword-point,[ ] before leaving on campaign against mithridates.[ ] while sulla was fighting mithridates, lucius cornelius cinna dominated domestic roman politics, controlling elections and other parts of civil life. cinna and his partisans were no friends of sulla: they razed sulla's house in rome, revoked his command in name, and forced his family to flee the city.[ ] cinna himself would win election to the consulship three times consecutively; he also conducted a purge of his political opponents, displaying their heads on the rostra in the forum.[ ] during the war, rome fielded two armies against mithridates: one under sulla and another, fighting both sulla and mithridates.[ ] sulla returned in bc at the head of his army, after concluding a generous peace with mithridates, to retake the city from the domination of the cinnan faction.[ ] after winning a second civil war and purging the republic of thousands of political opponents and "enemies" (many of whom were targeted for their wealth), he forced the assemblies to make him dictator for the settling of the constitution,[ ][ ] with an indefinite term. sulla also created legal barriers, which would only be lifted during the dictatorship of julius caesar some forty years later, against political participation by the relatives of those whom he ordered murdered.[ ] and with this use of unprecedented violence at a new level, sulla was able not only to take control of the state, but also retain control of it, unlike scipio nasica or gaius marius, both of whom had lost control of the city after deploying force.[ ] the middle republic's consensus-based senate-led culture of decision-making was killed by sulla's dictatorship:[ ] both the people endowed with that culture had been purged and the very rationale for that culture as well. at a broad level, sulla's dictatorial reforms attempted to concentrate political power into the senate and the aristocratic assemblies, whilst trying to reduce the obstructive and legislative powers of the tribune and plebeian council.[ ] to this end, he required that all bills presented to the assemblies first be approved by the senate, restricted the tribunician veto to only matters of individual requests for clemency, and required that men elected tribune would be barred from all other magistracies.[ ][ ] beyond stripping the tribunate of its powers, the last provision was intended to prevent ambitious youth from seeking the office by making it a dead end.[ ] sulla also permanently enlarged the senate by promoting a large number of equestrians from the italian countryside as well as automatically inducting the now- quaestors elected each year into the senate.[ ] the senatorial class was so enlarged to staff newly-created permanent courts.[ ][k] the purpose of these reforms was in an attempt to formalise and strengthen the legal system so prevent political players from emerging with too much power as well as make them accountable to the enlarged senatorial class.[ ] he also rigidly formalised the cursus honorum by clearly stating the progression of office and associated age requirements.[ ] next, to aid administration, he doubled the number of quaestors to and added two more praetors; the greater number of magistrates also meant he could shorten the length of provincial assignments (and lessen the chances of building provincial power bases) by increasing the rate of turnover.[ ] moreover, magistrates were barred from seeking reelection to any post for ten years and barred for two years from holding any other post after their term ended.[ ] after securing election as consul in  bc, sulla resigned the dictatorship and attempted to solidify his republican constitutional reforms.[ ] sulla's reforms proved unworkable.[ ] the first years of sulla's new republic were faced not only the continuation of the civil war against quintus sertorius in spain, but also a revolt in  bc by the then-consul marcus aemilius lepidus.[ ] with significant popular unrest, the tribunate's powers were quickly restored by  bc by sulla's own lieutenants': pompey and crassus.[ ] sulla passed legislation to make it illegal to march on rome as he had,[ ] but having just shown that doing so would bring no personal harm so long as one was victorious, this obviously had little effect.[ ] sulla's actions and civil war fundamentally weakened the authority of the constitution and created a clear precedent that an ambitious general could make an end-run around the entire republican constitution simply by force of arms.[ ] the stronger law courts created by sulla, along with reforms to provincial administration that forced consuls to stay in the city for the duration of their terms (rather than running to their provincial commands upon election), also weakened the republic:[ ] the stringent punishments of the courts helped to destabilise,[ ] as commanders would rather start civil wars than subject themselves to them, and the presence of both consuls in the city increased chances of deadlock.[ ] many romans also followed sulla's example and turned down provincial commands, concentrating military experience and glory into an even smaller circle of leading generals.[ ] collapse of the republic[edit] a depiction of the death of caesar, from the death of caesar, jean-léon gérôme, painted in . over the course of the late republic, formerly authoritative institutions lost their credibility and authority.[ ] for example, the sullan reforms to the senate strongly split the aristocratic class between those who stayed in the city and those who rose to high office abroad, further increasing class divides between romans, even at the highest levels.[ ][ ] furthermore, the dominance of the military in the late republic, along with stronger ties between a general and his troops, caused by their longer terms of service together and the troops' reliance on that general to provide for their retirements,[ ] along with an obstructionist central government,[ ] made a huge number of malcontent soldiers willing to take up arms against the state. adding in the institutionalisation of violence as a means to obstruct or force political change (eg the deaths of the gracchi and sulla's dictatorship, respectively),[ ] the republic was caught in an ever more violent and anarchic struggle between the senate, assemblies at rome, and the promagistrates. even by the early- s bc, political violence began to reassert itself, with unrest at the consular elections noted at every year between and .[ ] the revolt of catiline—which we hear much about from the consul for that year, cicero—was put down by violating the due process rights of citizens and introducing the death penalty to the roman government's relationship with its citizens.[ ] the anarchy of republican politics since the sullan reforms had done nothing to address agrarian reform, the civic disabilities of proscribed families, or intense factionalism between marian and sullan supporters.[ ] through this whole period, pompey's extraordinary multi-year commands in the east made him wealthy and powerful; his return in  bc could not be handled within the context of a republican system: his achievements were not recognised but nor could he be dispatched away from the city to win more victories.[ ] his extraordinary position created a "volatile situation that the senate and the magistrates at home could not control".[ ] both cicero's actions during his consulship and pompey's great military successes challenged the republic's legal codes that were meant to restrain ambition and defer punishments to the courts.[ ] the domination of the state by the three-man group of the first triumvirate—caesar, crassus, and pompey—from  bc did little to restore order or peace in rome.[ ] the first "triumvirate" dominated republican politics by controlling elections, continually holding office, and violating the law through their long periods of ex officio political immunity.[ ] this political authority so dominated other magistrates that they were unwilling to oppose their policies or voice opposition.[ ] political violence both became more acute and chaotic: the total anarchy that emerged in the mid- s by duelling street gangs under the control of publius clodius pulcher and titus annius milo prevented orderly consular elections repeatedly in the s.[ ] the destruction of the senate house and escalation of violence continued[ ] until pompey was simply appointed by the senate, without consultation of the assemblies, as sole consul in  bc.[ ][ ] the domination of the city by pompey[ ] and repeated political irregularities[ ] led to caesar being unwilling to subject himself to what he considered to be biased courts and unfairly administered laws,[ ] starting caesar's civil war. whether the period starting with caesar's civil war should really be called a portion of the republic is a matter of scholarly debate.[ ] after caesar's victory, he ruled a dictatorial regime until his assassination in bc at the hands of the liberatores.[ ] the caesarian faction quickly gained control of the state,[ ] inaugurated the second triumvirate, purged their political enemies, and successfully defeated the assassins in the liberators' civil war at the battle of philippi. the second triumvirate failed to reach any mutually agreeable resolution; leading to the final civil war of the republic,[ ] a war which the promagistrate governors and their troops would win, and in doing so, permanently collapse the republic. see also[edit] 	byzantine senate 	princeps senatus 	acta senatus notes[edit] 	^ this stayed the case until the late republic, a time when the constitution was increasingly ignored, when pompey was appointed by the senate as sole consul for  bc to quell riots in rome.[ ] 	^ in the middle republic, there were one or two. by the late republic, during the dictatorship of caesar, this had ballooned to .[ ] 	^ one court, specifically mentioned by lintott, is the quaestio perpetua de repetundis, set up by lex calpurnia to investigate extortion by roman magistrates.[ ] 	^ an example of this is tiberius gracchus' securing of the removal of marcus octavius for opposition to his land reform policies, by vote of the people.[ ] 	^ lintott writes, 'once chosen, he could not be deposed, but his office ceased with that of his superior. in many respects he might function in parallel to the dictator, like a second consul, rather than as a direct subordinate. however, more spectacular stories about the office show that his subordination was a major issue'.[ ] 	^ the differences between the early dictatorships and the later dictatorships is quite clear. the lex valeria of  bc created sulla dictator for the revision of the constitution, with practically unlimited powers.[ ] caesar took a similar dictatorship in the early s bc as well. these were fundamentally political posts, with the right to name magistrates, change the membership of the senate, exercise plenary judicial authority, and control public lands.[ ] 	^ for clarification, lintott explains that, 'it was not clear, for example, whether it was simple recommending a limited use of force to restore the rule of law or the extermination of those who are thought to have disturbed the peace'.[ ] 	^ nb that gracchus was in fact successful in passing his land reform bill. he was not, however, successful in being returned for a consecutive term as tribune. 	^ eg lucius sergius catalina killing those who had killed his own family during the sullan proscriptions. 	^ flower notes that ironically, while marius was able to defeat immense armies of germanic invaders and was hailed with transgiving, triumphs, and other honours, he would retire (shortly) from politics in the s bc as a failure for his inability to handle the increasingly violence and anarchic politics of the republic.[ ] 	^ permanent courts, such as the extortion court established by the lex calpurnia, had been established in the middle republic primarily to try crimes against the state and extortion of the populace. over time, the jury pool of these courts was enlarged to include equestrians, before shutting out senators entirely. one of the sullan reforms was to restrict the pool of these courts back to the senatorial class.[ ] references[edit] 	^ straumann, benjamin ( ). 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"constantinopolis" and "konstantinopolis" redirect here. for the town of that name in ancient osrhoene, see constantinopolis in osrhoene. for the ottoman greek newspaper, see konstantinoupolis (newspaper). 	 	this article needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. find sources: "constantinople" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · jstor (march ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) constantinople	greek: Κωνσταντινούπολις latin: constantinopolis 	map of constantinople, corresponding to the modern-day fatih district of İstanbul 	alternative name	byzantion (earlier greek name), nova roma ("new rome"), miklagard/miklagarth (old norse), tsarigrad (slavic), qustantiniya (arabic), basileuousa ("queen of cities"), megalopolis ("the great city"), Πόλις ("the city"), konstantiniyye (ottoman turkish), İstanbul (turkish) 	location	İstanbul, turkey 	region	marmara region 	coordinates	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; . coordinates: ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; . 	type	imperial city 	part of	byzantine empire, ottoman empire and turkey 	area	  km ( .  sq mi) enclosed within constantinian walls  km ( .  sq mi) enclosed within theodosian walls 	history 	builder	constantine the great 	founded	 may 	periods	late antiquity to late middle ages 	cultures	byzantine • greek • turkish 	timeline of constantinople 	capital of the byzantine empire – ad; – ad 	 ad: founding of constantinople 	c. / - ad: construction of the theodosian walls 	 ad: great fire of constantinople [ ] 	 ad: nika riots and fire of constantinople 	 ad: completion of the hagia sophia by justinian i[ ][ ][ ] 	 ad: first siege of constantinople 	 – ad: first arab siege of constantinople 	 – ad: great siege of constantinople/second arab siege of constantinople 	 ad: sack of constantinople 	 ad: liberation of constantinople 	 ad: first ottoman siege of constantinople 	 ad: fall of constantinople constantinople (/ˌkɒnstæntɪˈnoʊpəl/[ ] greek: Κωνσταντινούπολη; latin: cōnstantīnopolis; turkish: kostantiniye) was the capital city of the roman empire ( – ), the byzantine empire ( – and – ), the brief crusader state known as the latin empire ( – ), and the ottoman empire ( – ). in , the ancient city of byzantium was made the new capital of the roman empire by emperor constantine the great, after whom it was renamed, and dedicated on may .[ ] from the mid- th century to the early th century, constantinople was the largest and wealthiest city in europe.[ ] the city became famous for its architectural masterpieces, such as hagia sophia, the cathedral of the eastern orthodox church, which served as the seat of the ecumenical patriarchate, the sacred imperial palace where the emperors lived, the galata tower, the hippodrome, the golden gate of the land walls, and opulent aristocratic palaces. the university of constantinople was founded in the fifth century and contained artistic and literary treasures before it was sacked in and ,[ ] including its vast imperial library which contained the remnants of the library of alexandria and had , volumes.[ ] the city was the home of the ecumenical patriarch of constantinople and guardian of christendom's holiest relics such as the crown of thorns and the true cross. aerial view of byzantine constantinople and the propontis (sea of marmara). constantinople was famed for its massive and complex defences. the theodosian walls consisted of a double wall lying about kilometres ( .  mi) to the west of the first wall and a moat with palisades in front.[ ] this formidable complex of defences was one of the most sophisticated of antiquity. the city was built intentionally to rival rome, and it was claimed that several elevations within its walls matched the 'seven hills' of rome. because it was located between the golden horn and the sea of marmara the land area that needed defensive walls was reduced, and this helped it to present an impregnable fortress enclosing magnificent palaces, domes, and towers, the result of the prosperity it achieved from being the gateway between two continents (europe and asia) and two seas (the mediterranean and the black sea). although besieged on numerous occasions by various armies, the defences of constantinople proved impregnable for nearly nine hundred years. in , however, the armies of the fourth crusade took and devastated the city, and its inhabitants lived several decades under latin rule. in the byzantine emperor michael viii palaiologos liberated the city, and after the restoration under the palaiologos dynasty, enjoyed a partial recovery. with the advent of the ottoman empire in , the byzantine empire began to lose territories and the city began to lose population. by the early th century, the byzantine empire was reduced to just constantinople and its environs, along with morea in greece, making it an enclave inside the ottoman empire; after a -day siege the city eventually fell to the ottomans, led by sultan mehmed ii, on may ,[ ] whereafter it replaced edirne (adrianople) as the new capital of the ottoman empire.[ ] contents 	 names 	 . before constantinople 	 . names of constantinople 	 . modern names of the city 	 history 	 . foundation of byzantium 	 . – : the refoundation as constantinople 	 . – : constantinople during the barbarian invasions and the fall of the west 	 . – : constantinople in the age of justinian 	 . survival, – : constantinople during the byzantine dark ages 	 . – : constantinople during the macedonian renaissance 	 . . iconoclast controversy in constantinople 	 . – : constantinople after basil ii 	 . – : constantinople under the comneni 	 . – : constantinople during the imperial exile 	 . – : palaiologan era and the fall of constantinople 	 . – : ottoman kostantiniyye 	 culture 	 . women in literature 	 . markets 	 . architecture 	 . religion 	 . education 	 . media 	 . popular culture 	 international status 	 see also 	 . people from constantinople 	 . secular buildings and monuments 	 . churches, monasteries and mosques 	 . miscellaneous 	 references 	 bibliography 	 external links names[edit] hagia sophia built in ad , during the reign of justinian before constantinople[edit] according to pliny the elder in his natural history, the first known name of a settlement on the site of constantinople was lygos,[ ] a settlement likely of thracian origin founded between the th and th centuries bc.[ ] the site, according to the founding myth of the city, was abandoned by the time greek settlers from the city-state of megara founded byzantium (ancient greek: Βυζάντιον, byzántion) in around  bc,[ ] across from the town of chalcedon on the asiatic side of the bosphorus. the origins of the name of byzantion, more commonly known by the later latin byzantium, are not entirely clear, though some suggest it is of thraco-illyrian origin.[ ][ ] the founding myth of the city has it told that the settlement was named after the leader of the megarian colonists, byzas. the later byzantines of constantinople themselves would maintain that the city was named in honour of two men, byzas and antes, though this was more likely just a play on the word byzantion.[ ] the city was briefly renamed augusta antonina in the early rd century ad by the emperor septimius severus ( – ), who razed the city to the ground in for supporting a rival contender in the civil war and had it rebuilt in honour of his son marcus aurelius antoninus (who succeeded him as emperor), popularly known as caracalla.[ ][ ] the name appears to have been quickly forgotten and abandoned, and the city reverted to byzantium/byzantion after either the assassination of caracalla in or, at the latest, the fall of the severan dynasty in . names of constantinople[edit] main article: names of constantinople the column of constantine, built by constantine i in to commemorate the establishment of constantinople as the new capital of the roman empire. byzantium took on the name of kōnstantinoupolis ("city of constantine", constantinople) after its refoundation under roman emperor constantine i, who transferred the capital of the roman empire to byzantium in and designated his new capital officially as nova roma (Νέα Ῥώμη) 'new rome'. during this time, the city was also called 'second rome', 'eastern rome', and roma constantinopolitana.[ ] as the city became the sole remaining capital of the roman empire after the fall of the west, and its wealth, population, and influence grew, the city also came to have a multitude of nicknames. this huge keystone found in Çemberlitaş, fatih might have belonged to a triumphal arch at the forum of constantine built by constantine i. as the largest and wealthiest city in europe during the th– th centuries and a centre of culture and education of the mediterranean basin, constantinople came to be known by prestigious titles such as basileuousa (queen of cities) and megalopolis (the great city) and was, in colloquial speech, commonly referred to as just polis (ἡ Πόλις) 'the city' by constantinopolitans and provincial byzantines alike.[ ] in the language of other peoples, constantinople was referred to just as reverently. the medieval vikings, who had contacts with the empire through their expansion in eastern europe (varangians) used the old norse name miklagarðr (from mikill 'big' and garðr 'city'), and later miklagard and miklagarth.[ ] in arabic, the city was sometimes called rūmiyyat al-kubra (great city of the romans) and in persian as takht-e rum (throne of the romans). in east and south slavic languages, including in medieval russia, constantinople has been referred to as tsargrad (Царьград) or carigrad, 'city of the caesar (emperor)', from the slavonic words tsar ('caesar' or 'king') and grad ('city'). this was presumably a calque on a greek phrase such as Βασιλέως Πόλις (vasileos polis), 'the city of the emperor [king]'. modern names of the city[edit] obelisk of theodosius is the ancient egyptian obelisk of pharaoh thutmose iii re-erected in the hippodrome of constantinople by the roman emperor theodosius i in the th century ad. the modern turkish name for the city, İstanbul, derives from the greek phrase eis tin polin (εἰς τὴν πόλιν), meaning "(in)to the city".[ ][ ]this name was used in turkish alongside kostantiniyye, the more formal adaptation of the original constantinople, during the period of ottoman rule, while western languages mostly continued to refer to the city as constantinople until the early th century. in , the turkish alphabet was changed from arabic script to latin script. after that, as part of the s turkification movement, turkey started to urge other countries to use turkish names for turkish cities, instead of other transliterations to latin script that had been used in ottoman times.[ ][ ][ ][ ] in time the city came to be known as istanbul and its variations in most world languages. the name "constantinople" is still used by members of the eastern orthodox church in the title of one of their most important leaders, the orthodox patriarch based in the city, referred to as "his most divine all-holiness the archbishop of constantinople new rome and ecumenical patriarch." in greece today, the city is still called konstantinoúpoli(s) (Κωνσταντινούπολις/Κωνσταντινούπολη) or simply just "the city" (Η Πόλη). history[edit] the four bronze horses that used to be in the hippodrome of constantinople, today in venice foundation of byzantium[edit] main article: byzantium constantinople was founded by the roman emperor constantine i ( – ) in [ ] on the site of an already-existing city, byzantium, which was settled in the early days of greek colonial expansion, in around bc, by colonists of the city-state of megara. this is the first major settlement that would develop on the site of later constantinople, but the first known settlements was that of lygos, referred to in pliny's natural histories.[ ] apart from this, little is known about this initial settlement. the site, according to the founding myth of the city, was abandoned by the time greek settlers from the city-state of megara founded byzantium(Βυζάντιον) in around  bc,[ ] across from the town of chalcedon on the asiatic side of the bosphorus. hesychius of miletus wrote that some "claim that people from megara, who derived their descent from nisos, sailed to this place under their leader byzas, and invent the fable that his name was attached to the city." some versions of the founding myth say byzas was the son of a local nymph, while others say he was conceived by one of zeus' daughters and poseidon. hesychius also gives alternate versions of the city's founding legend, which he attributed to old poets and writers:[ ] it is said that the first argives, after having received this prophecy from pythia,     blessed are those who will inhabit that holy city,     a narrow strip of the thracian shore at the mouth of the pontos,     where two pups drink of the gray sea,     where fish and stag graze on the same pasture, set up their dwellings at the place where the rivers kydaros and barbyses have their estuaries, one flowing from the north, the other from the west, and merging with the sea at the altar of the nymph called semestre" the city maintained independence as a city-state until it was annexed by darius i in  bc into the persian empire, who saw the site as the optimal location to construct a pontoon bridge crossing into europe as byzantium was situated at the narrowest point in the bosphorus strait. persian rule lasted until  bc when as part of the greek counterattack to the second persian invasion of greece, a greek army led by the spartan general pausanias captured the city which remained an independent, yet subordinate, city under the athenians, and later to the spartans after  bc.[ ] a farsighted treaty with the emergent power of rome in c.  bc which stipulated tribute in exchange for independent status allowed it to enter roman rule unscathed.[ ] this treaty would pay dividends retrospectively as byzantium would maintain this independent status, and prosper under peace and stability in the pax romana, for nearly three centuries until the late nd century ad.[ ] pammakaristos church, also known as the church of theotokos pammakaristos (greek: Θεοτόκος ἡ Παμμακάριστος, "all-blessed mother of god"), is one of the most famous greek orthodox byzantine churches in istanbul byzantium was never a major influential city-state like that of athens, corinth or sparta, but the city enjoyed relative peace and steady growth as a prosperous trading city lent by its remarkable position. the site lay astride the land route from europe to asia and the seaway from the black sea to the mediterranean, and had in the golden horn an excellent and spacious harbour. already then, in greek and early roman times, byzantium was famous for its strategic geographic position that made it difficult to besiege and capture, and its position at the crossroads of the asiatic-european trade route over land and as the gateway between the mediterranean and black seas made it too valuable a settlement to abandon, as emperor septimius severus later realized when he razed the city to the ground for supporting pescennius niger's claimancy.[ ] it was a move greatly criticized by the contemporary consul and historian cassius dio who said that severus had destroyed "a strong roman outpost and a base of operations against the barbarians from pontus and asia".[ ] he would later rebuild byzantium towards the end of his reign, in which it would be briefly renamed augusta antonina, fortifying it with a new city wall in his name, the severan wall. – : the refoundation as constantinople[edit] a simple cross: example of iconoclast art in the hagia irene church in istanbul emperor constantine i presents a representation of the city of constantinople as tribute to an enthroned mary and christ child in this church mosaic. hagia sophia, c.  . another coin struck by constantine i in – to commemorate the foundation of constantinople and to also reaffirm rome as the traditional centre of the roman empire. coin struck by constantine i to commemorate the founding of constantinople. constantine had altogether more colourful plans. having restored the unity of the empire, and, being in the course of major governmental reforms as well as of sponsoring the consolidation of the christian church, he was well aware that rome was an unsatisfactory capital. rome was too far from the frontiers, and hence from the armies and the imperial courts, and it offered an undesirable playground for disaffected politicians. yet it had been the capital of the state for over a thousand years, and it might have seemed unthinkable to suggest that the capital be moved to a different location. nevertheless, constantine identified the site of byzantium as the right place: a place where an emperor could sit, readily defended, with easy access to the danube or the euphrates frontiers, his court supplied from the rich gardens and sophisticated workshops of roman asia, his treasuries filled by the wealthiest provinces of the empire. constantinople was built over six years, and consecrated on may .[ ][ ] constantine divided the expanded city, like rome, into regions, and ornamented it with public works worthy of an imperial metropolis.[ ] yet, at first, constantine's new rome did not have all the dignities of old rome. it possessed a proconsul, rather than an urban prefect. it had no praetors, tribunes, or quaestors. although it did have senators, they held the title clarus, not clarissimus, like those of rome. it also lacked the panoply of other administrative offices regulating the food supply, police, statues, temples, sewers, aqueducts, or other public works. the new programme of building was carried out in great haste: columns, marbles, doors, and tiles were taken wholesale from the temples of the empire and moved to the new city. in similar fashion, many of the greatest works of greek and roman art were soon to be seen in its squares and streets. the emperor stimulated private building by promising householders gifts of land from the imperial estates in asiana and pontica and on may he announced that, as in rome, free distributions of food would be made to the citizens. at the time, the amount is said to have been , rations a day, doled out from distribution points around the city.[ ] hagia irene is a greek eastern orthodox church located in the outer courtyard of topkapı palace in istanbul. it is one of the few churches in istanbul that has not been converted into a mosque constantine laid out a new square at the centre of old byzantium, naming it the augustaeum. the new senate-house (or curia) was housed in a basilica on the east side. on the south side of the great square was erected the great palace of the emperor with its imposing entrance, the chalke, and its ceremonial suite known as the palace of daphne. nearby was the vast hippodrome for chariot-races, seating over , spectators, and the famed baths of zeuxippus. at the western entrance to the augustaeum was the milion, a vaulted monument from which distances were measured across the eastern roman empire. from the augustaeum led a great street, the mese, lined with colonnades. as it descended the first hill of the city and climbed the second hill, it passed on the left the praetorium or law-court. then it passed through the oval forum of constantine where there was a second senate-house and a high column with a statue of constantine himself in the guise of helios, crowned with a halo of seven rays and looking toward the rising sun. from there, the mese passed on and through the forum tauri and then the forum bovis, and finally up the seventh hill (or xerolophus) and through to the golden gate in the constantinian wall. after the construction of the theodosian walls in the early th century, it was extended to the new golden gate, reaching a total length of seven roman miles.[ ] after the construction of the theodosian walls, constantinople consisted of an area approximately the size of old rome within the aurelian walls, or some , ha.[ ] – : constantinople during the barbarian invasions and the fall of the west[edit] see also: palace of lausus theodosius i was the last roman emperor who ruled over an undivided empire (detail from the obelisk at the hippodrome of constantinople). the importance of constantinople increased, but it was gradual. from the death of constantine in to the accession of theodosius i, emperors had been resident only in the years – , – , – , – . its status as a capital was recognized by the appointment of the first known urban prefect of the city honoratus, who held office from december until . the urban prefects had concurrent jurisdiction over three provinces each in the adjacent dioceses of thrace (in which the city was located), pontus and asia comparable to the -mile extraordinary jurisdiction of the prefect of rome. the emperor valens, who hated the city and spent only one year there, nevertheless built the palace of hebdomon on the shore of the propontis near the golden gate, probably for use when reviewing troops. all the emperors up to zeno and basiliscus were crowned and acclaimed at the hebdomon. theodosius i founded the church of john the baptist to house the skull of the saint (today preserved at the topkapı palace), put up a memorial pillar to himself in the forum of taurus, and turned the ruined temple of aphrodite into a coach house for the praetorian prefect; arcadius built a new forum named after himself on the mese, near the walls of constantine. after the shock of the battle of adrianople in , in which the emperor valens with the flower of the roman armies was destroyed by the visigoths within a few days' march, the city looked to its defences, and in – theodosius ii built the -metre ( -foot)-tall triple-wall fortifications, which were not to be breached until the coming of gunpowder. theodosius also founded a university near the forum of taurus, on february . uldin, a prince of the huns, appeared on the danube about this time and advanced into thrace, but he was deserted by many of his followers, who joined with the romans in driving their king back north of the river. subsequent to this, new walls were built to defend the city and the fleet on the danube improved. mosaics of the great palace of constantinople, now in great palace mosaic museum in istanbul after the barbarians overran the western roman empire, constantinople became the indisputable capital city of the roman empire. emperors were no longer peripatetic between various court capitals and palaces. they remained in their palace in the great city and sent generals to command their armies. the wealth of the eastern mediterranean and western asia flowed into constantinople. – : constantinople in the age of justinian[edit] map of constantinople ( ) by florentine cartographer cristoforo buondelmonti[ ] is the oldest surviving map of the city, and the only one that predates the turkish conquest of the city in . the current hagia sophia was commissioned by emperor justinian i after the previous one was destroyed in the nika riots of . it was converted into a mosque in when the ottoman empire commenced and was a museum from to . the emperor justinian i ( – ) was known for his successes in war, for his legal reforms and for his public works. it was from constantinople that his expedition for the reconquest of the former diocese of africa set sail on or about june . before their departure, the ship of the commander belisarius was anchored in front of the imperial palace, and the patriarch offered prayers for the success of the enterprise. after the victory, in , the temple treasure of jerusalem, looted by the romans in ad  and taken to carthage by the vandals after their sack of rome in , was brought to constantinople and deposited for a time, perhaps in the church of st polyeuctus, before being returned to jerusalem in either the church of the resurrection or the new church.[ ] chariot-racing had been important in rome for centuries. in constantinople, the hippodrome became over time increasingly a place of political significance. it was where (as a shadow of the popular elections of old rome) the people by acclamation showed their approval of a new emperor, and also where they openly criticized the government, or clamoured for the removal of unpopular ministers. in the time of justinian, public order in constantinople became a critical political issue. aqueduct of valens completed by roman emperor valens in the late th century ad. throughout the late roman and early byzantine periods, christianity was resolving fundamental questions of identity, and the dispute between the orthodox and the monophysites became the cause of serious disorder, expressed through allegiance to the chariot-racing parties of the blues and the greens. the partisans of the blues and the greens were said[ ] to affect untrimmed facial hair, head hair shaved at the front and grown long at the back, and wide-sleeved tunics tight at the wrist; and to form gangs to engage in night-time muggings and street violence. at last these disorders took the form of a major rebellion of , known as the "nika" riots (from the battle-cry of "conquer!" of those involved).[ ] fires started by the nika rioters consumed the theodosian basilica of hagia sophia (holy wisdom), the city's cathedral, which lay to the north of the augustaeum and had itself replaced the constantinian basilica founded by constantius ii to replace the first byzantine cathedral, hagia irene (holy peace). justinian commissioned anthemius of tralles and isidore of miletus to replace it with a new and incomparable hagia sophia. this was the great cathedral of the city, whose dome was said to be held aloft by god alone, and which was directly connected to the palace so that the imperial family could attend services without passing through the streets. the dedication took place on december in the presence of the emperor, who was later reported to have exclaimed, "o solomon, i have outdone thee!"[ ] hagia sophia was served by people including priests, and cost , pounds of gold to build.[ ] justinian also had anthemius and isidore demolish and replace the original church of the holy apostles and hagia irene built by constantine with new churches under the same dedication. the justinianic church of the holy apostles was designed in the form of an equal-armed cross with five domes, and ornamented with beautiful mosaics. this church was to remain the burial place of the emperors from constantine himself until the th century. when the city fell to the turks in , the church was demolished to make room for the tomb of mehmet ii the conqueror. justinian was also concerned with other aspects of the city's built environment, legislating against the abuse of laws prohibiting building within feet (  m) of the sea front, in order to protect the view.[ ] during justinian i's reign, the city's population reached about , people.[ ] however, the social fabric of constantinople was also damaged by the onset of the plague of justinian between – ad. it killed perhaps % of the city's inhabitants.[ ] restored section of the fortifications (theodosian walls) that protected constantinople during the medieval period. survival, – : constantinople during the byzantine dark ages[edit] in the early th century, the avars and later the bulgars overwhelmed much of the balkans, threatening constantinople with attack from the west. simultaneously, the persian sassanids overwhelmed the prefecture of the east and penetrated deep into anatolia. heraclius, son of the exarch of africa, set sail for the city and assumed the throne. he found the military situation so dire that he is said to have contemplated withdrawing the imperial capital to carthage, but relented after the people of constantinople begged him to stay. the citizens lost their right to free grain in when heraclius realised that the city could no longer be supplied from egypt as a result of the persian wars: the population fell substantially as a result.[ ] chora church medieval byzantine greek orthodox church preserved as the chora museum in the edirnekapı neighborhood of istanbul. while the city withstood a siege by the sassanids and avars in , heraclius campaigned deep into persian territory and briefly restored the status quo in , when the persians surrendered all their conquests. however, further sieges followed the arab conquests, first from to and then in to . the theodosian walls kept the city impregnable from the land, while a newly discovered incendiary substance known as greek fire allowed the byzantine navy to destroy the arab fleets and keep the city supplied. in the second siege, the second ruler of bulgaria, khan tervel, rendered decisive help. he was called saviour of europe.[ ] – : constantinople during the macedonian renaissance[edit] emperor leo vi ( – ) adoring jesus christ. mosaic above the imperial gate in the hagia sophia. in the s leo iii carried out extensive repairs of the theodosian walls, which had been damaged by frequent and violent attacks; this work was financed by a special tax on all the subjects of the empire.[ ] theodora, widow of the emperor theophilus (died ), acted as regent during the minority of her son michael iii, who was said to have been introduced to dissolute habits by her brother bardas. when michael assumed power in , he became known for excessive drunkenness, appeared in the hippodrome as a charioteer and burlesqued the religious processions of the clergy. he removed theodora from the great palace to the carian palace and later to the monastery of gastria, but, after the death of bardas, she was released to live in the palace of st mamas; she also had a rural residence at the anthemian palace, where michael was assassinated in .[ ] in , an attack was made on the city by a new principality set up a few years earlier at kyiv by askold and dir, two varangian chiefs: two hundred small vessels passed through the bosporus and plundered the monasteries and other properties on the suburban prince's islands. oryphas, the admiral of the byzantine fleet, alerted the emperor michael, who promptly put the invaders to flight; but the suddenness and savagery of the onslaught made a deep impression on the citizens.[ ] in , the emperor basil ii received an unusual gift from prince vladimir of kyiv: , varangian warriors, which basil formed into a new bodyguard known as the varangian guard. they were known for their ferocity, honour, and loyalty. it is said that, in , they were dispersed in winter quarters in the thracesian theme when one of their number attempted to violate a countrywoman, but in the struggle she seized his sword and killed him; instead of taking revenge, however, his comrades applauded her conduct, compensated her with all his possessions, and exposed his body without burial as if he had committed suicide.[ ] however, following the death of an emperor, they became known also for plunder in the imperial palaces.[ ] later in the th century the varangian guard became dominated by anglo-saxons who preferred this way of life to subjugation by the new norman kings of england.[ ] one of the most famous of the surviving byzantine mosaics of the hagia sophia in constantinople – the image of christ pantocrator on the walls of the upper southern gallery, christ being flanked by the virgin mary and john the baptist; circa the book of the eparch, which dates to the th century, gives a detailed picture of the city's commercial life and its organization at that time. the corporations in which the tradesmen of constantinople were organised were supervised by the eparch, who regulated such matters as production, prices, import, and export. each guild had its own monopoly, and tradesmen might not belong to more than one. it is an impressive testament to the strength of tradition how little these arrangements had changed since the office, then known by the latin version of its title, had been set up in to mirror the urban prefecture of rome.[ ] in the th and th centuries, constantinople had a population of between , and , .[ ] mosaic of jesus in pammakaristos church, istanbul. iconoclast controversy in constantinople[edit] in the th and th centuries, the iconoclast movement caused serious political unrest throughout the empire. the emperor leo iii issued a decree in against images, and ordered the destruction of a statue of christ over one of the doors of the chalke, an act that was fiercely resisted by the citizens.[ ] constantine v convoked a church council in , which condemned the worship of images, after which many treasures were broken, burned, or painted over with depictions of trees, birds or animals: one source refers to the church of the holy virgin at blachernae as having been transformed into a "fruit store and aviary".[ ] following the death of her son leo iv in , the empress irene restored the veneration of images through the agency of the second council of nicaea in . the iconoclast controversy returned in the early th century, only to be resolved once more in during the regency of empress theodora, who restored the icons. these controversies contributed to the deterioration of relations between the western and the eastern churches. – : constantinople after basil ii[edit] a fragment of the milion (greek: Μίλ(λ)ιον), a mile-marker monument in the late th century catastrophe struck with the unexpected and calamitous defeat of the imperial armies at the battle of manzikert in armenia in . the emperor romanus diogenes was captured. the peace terms demanded by alp arslan, sultan of the seljuk turks, were not excessive, and romanus accepted them. on his release, however, romanus found that enemies had placed their own candidate on the throne in his absence; he surrendered to them and suffered death by torture, and the new ruler, michael vii ducas, refused to honour the treaty. in response, the turks began to move into anatolia in . the collapse of the old defensive system meant that they met no opposition, and the empire's resources were distracted and squandered in a series of civil wars. thousands of turkoman tribesmen crossed the unguarded frontier and moved into anatolia. by , a huge area had been lost to the empire, and the turks were within striking distance of constantinople. – : constantinople under the comneni[edit] the byzantine empire under manuel i, c.  . th century mosaic from the upper gallery of the hagia sophia, constantinople. emperor john ii ( – ) is shown on the left, with the virgin mary and infant jesus in the centre, and john's consort empress irene on the right. under the comnenian dynasty ( – ), byzantium staged a remarkable recovery. in – , the nomadic pechenegs reached the walls of constantinople, where emperor alexius i with the aid of the kipchaks annihilated their army.[ ] in response to a call for aid from alexius, the first crusade assembled at constantinople in , but declining to put itself under byzantine command set out for jerusalem on its own account.[ ] john ii built the monastery of the pantocrator (almighty) with a hospital for the poor of beds.[ ] with the restoration of firm central government, the empire became fabulously wealthy. the population was rising (estimates for constantinople in the th century vary from some , to , ), and towns and cities across the realm flourished. meanwhile, the volume of money in circulation dramatically increased. this was reflected in constantinople by the construction of the blachernae palace, the creation of brilliant new works of art, and general prosperity at this time: an increase in trade, made possible by the growth of the italian city-states, may have helped the growth of the economy. it is certain that the venetians and others were active traders in constantinople, making a living out of shipping goods between the crusader kingdoms of outremer and the west, while also trading extensively with byzantium and egypt. the venetians had factories on the north side of the golden horn, and large numbers of westerners were present in the city throughout the th century. toward the end of manuel i komnenos's reign, the number of foreigners in the city reached about , – , people out of a total population of about , people.[ ] in , constantinople also contained a small community of , jews.[ ] in , most latin (western european) inhabitants of constantinople were massacred.[ ] in artistic terms, the th century was a very productive period. there was a revival in the mosaic art, for example: mosaics became more realistic and vivid, with an increased emphasis on depicting three-dimensional forms. there was an increased demand for art, with more people having access to the necessary wealth to commission and pay for such work. according to n.h. baynes (byzantium, an introduction to east roman civilization): with its love of luxury and passion for colour, the art of this age delighted in the production of masterpieces that spread the fame of byzantium throughout the whole of the christian world. beautiful silks from the workshops of constantinople also portrayed in dazzling colour animals – lions, elephants, eagles, and griffins – confronting each other, or represented emperors gorgeously arrayed on horseback or engaged in the chase. from the tenth to the twelfth century byzantium was the main source of inspiration for the west. by their style, arrangement, and iconography the mosaics of st. mark's at venice and of the cathedral at torcello clearly reveal their byzantine origin. similarly those of the palatine chapel, the martorana at palermo, and the cathedral of cefalù, together with the vast decoration of the cathedral at monreale, demonstrate the influence of byzantium on the norman court of sicily in the twelfth century. hispano-moorish art was unquestionably derived from the byzantine. romanesque art owes much to the east, from which it borrowed not only its decorative forms but the plan of some of its buildings, as is proved, for instance, by the domed churches of south-western france. princes of kyiv, venetian doges, abbots of monte cassino, merchants of amalfi, and the kings of sicily all looked to byzantium for artists or works of art. such was the influence of byzantine art in the twelfth century, that russia, venice, southern italy and sicily all virtually became provincial centres dedicated to its production." – : constantinople during the imperial exile[edit] pammakaristos church mosaic of saint anthony, the desert father the entry of the crusaders into constantinople, by eugène delacroix, . the latin empire, empire of nicaea, empire of trebizond, and the despotate of epirus. the borders are very uncertain. on july , constantinople was struck by a severe fire which burned the latin quarter and the area around the gate of the droungarios (turkish: odun kapısı) on the golden horn.[ ][ ] nevertheless, the destruction wrought by the fire paled in comparison with that brought by the crusaders. in the course of a plot between philip of swabia, boniface of montferrat and the doge of venice, the fourth crusade was, despite papal excommunication, diverted in against constantinople, ostensibly promoting the claims of alexius, son of the deposed emperor isaac. the reigning emperor alexius iii had made no preparation. the crusaders occupied galata, broke the defensive chain protecting the golden horn, and entered the harbour, where on july they breached the sea walls: alexius iii fled. but the new alexius iv found the treasury inadequate, and was unable to make good the rewards he had promised to his western allies. tension between the citizens and the latin soldiers increased. in january , the protovestiarius alexius murzuphlus provoked a riot, it is presumed, to intimidate alexius iv, but whose only result was the destruction of the great statue of athena promachos, the work of phidias, which stood in the principal forum facing west. in february , the people rose again: alexius iv was imprisoned and executed, and murzuphlus took the purple as alexius v. he made some attempt to repair the walls and organise the citizenry, but there had been no opportunity to bring in troops from the provinces and the guards were demoralised by the revolution. an attack by the crusaders on april failed, but a second from the golden horn on april succeeded, and the invaders poured in. alexius v fled. the senate met in hagia sophia and offered the crown to theodore lascaris, who had married into the angelid family, but it was too late. he came out with the patriarch to the golden milestone before the great palace and addressed the varangian guard. then the two of them slipped away with many of the nobility and embarked for asia. by the next day the doge and the leading franks were installed in the great palace, and the city was given over to pillage for three days. sir steven runciman, historian of the crusades, wrote that the sack of constantinople is "unparalleled in history". for nine centuries, [...] the great city had been the capital of christian civilisation. it was filled with works of art that had survived from ancient greece and with the masterpieces of its own exquisite craftsmen. the venetians [...] seized treasures and carried them off to adorn [...] their town. but the frenchmen and flemings were filled with a lust for destruction. they rushed in a howling mob down the streets and through the houses, snatching up everything that glittered and destroying whatever they could not carry, pausing only to murder or to rape, or to break open the wine-cellars [...] . neither monasteries nor churches nor libraries were spared. in hagia sophia itself, drunken soldiers could be seen tearing down the silken hangings and pulling the great silver iconostasis to pieces, while sacred books and icons were trampled under foot. while they drank merrily from the altar-vessels a prostitute set herself on the patriarch's throne and began to sing a ribald french song. nuns were ravished in their convents. palaces and hovels alike were entered and wrecked. wounded women and children lay dying in the streets. for three days the ghastly scenes [...] continued, till the huge and beautiful city was a shambles. [...] when [...] order was restored, [...] citizens were tortured to make them reveal the goods that they had contrived to hide.[ ] for the next half-century, constantinople was the seat of the latin empire. under the rulers of the latin empire, the city declined, both in population and the condition of its buildings. alice-mary talbot cites an estimated population for constantinople of , inhabitants; after the destruction wrought by the crusaders on the city, about one third were homeless, and numerous courtiers, nobility, and higher clergy, followed various leading personages into exile. "as a result constantinople became seriously depopulated," talbot concludes.[ ] dome of the pammakaristos church, istanbul the latins took over at least churches and monasteries, most prominently the hagia sophia, which became the cathedral of the latin patriarch of constantinople. it is to these that e.h. swift attributed the construction of a series of flying buttresses to shore up the walls of the church, which had been weakened over the centuries by earthquake tremors.[ ] however, this act of maintenance is an exception: for the most part, the latin occupiers were too few to maintain all of the buildings, either secular and sacred, and many became targets for vandalism or dismantling. bronze and lead were removed from the roofs of abandoned buildings and melted down and sold to provide money to the chronically under-funded empire for defense and to support the court; deno john geanokoplos writes that "it may well be that a division is suggested here: latin laymen stripped secular buildings, ecclesiastics, the churches."[ ] buildings were not the only targets of officials looking to raise funds for the impoverished latin empire: the monumental sculptures which adorned the hippodrome and fora of the city were pulled down and melted for coinage. "among the masterpieces destroyed, writes talbot, "were a herakles attributed to the fourth-century b.c. sculptor lysippos, and monumental figures of hera, paris, and helen."[ ] the nicaean emperor john iii vatatzes reportedly saved several churches from being dismantled for their valuable building materials; by sending money to the latins "to buy them off" (exonesamenos), he prevented the destruction of several churches.[ ] according to talbot, these included the churches of blachernae, rouphinianai, and st. michael at anaplous. he also granted funds for the restoration of the church of the holy apostles, which had been seriously damaged in an earthquake.[ ] the final siege of constantinople, contemporary th-century french miniature. the byzantine nobility scattered, many going to nicaea, where theodore lascaris set up an imperial court, or to epirus, where theodore angelus did the same; others fled to trebizond, where one of the comneni had already with georgian support established an independent seat of empire.[ ] nicaea and epirus both vied for the imperial title, and tried to recover constantinople. in , constantinople was captured from its last latin ruler, baldwin ii, by the forces of the nicaean emperor michael viii palaiologos. – : palaiologan era and the fall of constantinople[edit] see also: byzantine empire under the palaiologos dynasty and fall of constantinople mehmed the conqueror enters constantinople, painting by fausto zonaro. although constantinople was retaken by michael viii palaiologos, the empire had lost many of its key economic resources, and struggled to survive. the palace of blachernae in the north-west of the city became the main imperial residence, with the old great palace on the shores of the bosporus going into decline. when michael viii captured the city, its population was , people, but, by the end of his reign, he had succeeded in increasing the population to about , people.[ ] the emperor achieved this by summoning former residents who had fled the city when the crusaders captured it, and by relocating greeks from the recently reconquered peloponnese to the capital.[ ] military defeats, civil wars, earthquakes and natural disasters were joined by the black death, which in spread to constantinople exacerbated the people’s sense that they were doomed by god.[ ][ ] in , when the ottoman turks captured the city, it contained approximately , people.[ ] constantinople was conquered by the ottoman empire on may .[ ] the ottomans were commanded by -year-old ottoman sultan mehmed ii. the conquest of constantinople followed a seven-week siege which had begun on april . – : ottoman kostantiniyye[edit] main article: constantinople during the ottoman era galata tower, the romanesque style tower was built as christea turris (tower of christ) in during an expansion of the genoese colony in constantinople the christian orthodox city of constantinople was now under ottoman control. when mehmed ii finally entered constantinople through the gate of charisius (today known as edirnekapı or adrianople gate), he immediately rode his horse to the hagia sophia, where after the doors were axed down, the thousands of citizens hiding within the sanctuary were raped and enslaved, often with slavers fighting each other to the death over particularly beautiful and valuable slave girls.[ ] moreover, symbols of christianity were everywhere vandalized or destroyed, including the crucifix of hagia sophia which was paraded through the sultan's camps.[ ] afterwards he ordered his soldiers to stop hacking at the city's valuable marbles and 'be satisfied with the booty and captives; as for all the buildings, they belonged to him'.[ ] he ordered that an imam meet him there in order to chant the adhan thus transforming the orthodox cathedral into a muslim mosque,[ ][ ] solidifying islamic rule in constantinople. mehmed's main concern with constantinople had to do with solidifying control over the city and rebuilding its defenses. after , captives were marched from the city, building projects were commenced immediately after the conquest, which included the repair of the walls, construction of the citadel, and building a new palace.[ ] mehmed issued orders across his empire that muslims, christians, and jews should resettle the city, with christans and jews are required to pay jizya and muslims pay zakat; he demanded that five thousand households needed to be transferred to constantinople by september.[ ] from all over the islamic empire, prisoners of war and deported people were sent to the city: these people were called "sürgün" in turkish (greek: σουργούνιδες).[ ] two centuries later, ottoman traveler evliya Çelebi gave a list of groups introduced into the city with their respective origins. even today, many quarters of istanbul, such as aksaray, Çarşamba, bear the names of the places of origin of their inhabitants.[ ] however, many people escaped again from the city, and there were several outbreaks of plague, so that in mehmed allowed the deported greeks to come back to the city.[ ] culture[edit] eagle and snake, th century mosaic flooring constantinople, grand imperial palace. constantinople apple quinces constantinople was the largest and richest urban center in the eastern mediterranean sea during the late eastern roman empire, mostly as a result of its strategic position commanding the trade routes between the aegean sea and the black sea. it would remain the capital of the eastern, greek-speaking empire for over a thousand years. at its peak, roughly corresponding to the middle ages, it was the richest and largest european city, exerting a powerful cultural pull and dominating economic life in the mediterranean. visitors and merchants were especially struck by the beautiful monasteries and churches of the city, in particular the hagia sophia, or the church of holy wisdom. according to russian th-century traveler stephen of novgorod: "as for hagia sophia, the human mind can neither tell it nor make description of it." it was especially important for preserving in its libraries manuscripts of greek and latin authors throughout a period when instability and disorder caused their mass-destruction in western europe and north africa: on the city's fall, thousands of these were brought by refugees to italy, and played a key part in stimulating the renaissance, and the transition to the modern world. the cumulative influence of the city on the west, over the many centuries of its existence, is incalculable. in terms of technology, art and culture, as well as sheer size, constantinople was without parallel anywhere in europe for a thousand years. women in literature[edit] constantinople was home to the first known western armenian journal published and edited by a woman (elpis kesaratsian). entering circulation in , kit'arr or guitar stayed in print for only seven months. female writers who openly expressed their desires were viewed as immodest, but this changed slowly as journals began to publish more "women's sections". in the s, matteos mamurian invited srpouhi dussap to submit essays for arevelian mamal. according to zaruhi galemkearian's autobiography, she was told to write about women's place in the family and home after she published two volumes of poetry in the s. by , several armenian journals had started to include works by female contributors including the constantinople-based tsaghik.[ ] markets[edit] even before constantinople was founded, the markets of byzantion were mentioned first by xenophon and then by theopompus who wrote that byzantians "spent their time at the market and the harbour". in justinian's age the mese street running across the city from east to west was a daily market. procopius claimed "more than prostitutes" did business along the market street. ibn batutta who traveled to the city in wrote of the bazaars "astanbul" in which the "majority of the artisans and salespeople in them are women".[ ] architecture[edit] main article: byzantine architecture columns of the hagia sophia, currently a mosque the byzantine empire used roman and greek architectural models and styles to create its own unique type of architecture. the influence of byzantine architecture and art can be seen in the copies taken from it throughout europe. particular examples include st mark's basilica in venice,[ ] the basilicas of ravenna, and many churches throughout the slavic east. also, alone in europe until the th-century italian florin, the empire continued to produce sound gold coinage, the solidus of diocletian becoming the bezant prized throughout the middle ages. its city walls were much imitated (for example, see caernarfon castle) and its urban infrastructure was moreover a marvel throughout the middle ages, keeping alive the art, skill and technical expertise of the roman empire. in the ottoman period islamic architecture and symbolism were used. religion[edit] constantine's foundation gave prestige to the bishop of constantinople, who eventually came to be known as the ecumenical patriarch, and made it a prime center of christianity alongside rome. this contributed to cultural and theological differences between eastern and western christianity eventually leading to the great schism that divided western catholicism from eastern orthodoxy from onwards. constantinople is also of great religious importance to islam, as the conquest of constantinople is one of the signs of the end time in islam. education[edit] in , in constantinople there were primary schools and secondary schools. of the primary schools were of the lower grade and were of the higher grade; of the latter, were public and were private. there was one secondary college and eleven secondary preparatory schools.[ ] media[edit] 		this section needs expansion. you can help by adding to it. (july ) see also: media of the ottoman empire in the past the bulgarian newspapers in the late ottoman period were makedoniya, napredŭk, and pravo.[ ] popular culture[edit] page depicting constantinople in the nuremberg chronicle published in , forty years after the city's fall to the muslims. 	constantinople appears as a city of wondrous majesty, beauty, remoteness, and nostalgia in william butler yeats' poem "sailing to byzantium." 	constantinople, as seen under the byzantine emperor theodosius ii, makes several on-screen appearances in the tv miniseries attila as the capital of the eastern roman empire. 	finnish author mika waltari wrote one of his most-acclaimed historical novels, johannes angelos (published in english by name "the dark angel") on the fall of constantinople. 	robert graves, author of i, claudius, also wrote count belisarius, a historical novel about belisarius. graves set much of the novel in the constantinople of justinian i. 	constantinople provides the setting of much of the action in umberto eco's novel baudolino. 	the name constantinople was made easy to spell thanks to a novelty song, "c-o-n-s-t-a-n-t-i-n-o-p-l-e," written by harry carlton and performed by paul whiteman and his orchestra, in the s. 	constantinople's change of name was the theme for a song made famous by the four lads and later covered by they might be giants and many others, titled "istanbul (not constantinople)." 	"constantinople" was one of the "big words" the father knows toward the end of dr. seuss's book, hop on pop. (the other was timbuktu.) 	"constantinople" was also the title of the opening edit of the residents' ep duck stab!, released in . 	queen's roger meddows taylor included the track "interlude in constantinople" on side of his debut album fun in space. 	a montreal-based folk/classical/fusion band calls itself "constantinople." 	constantinople under justinian is the scene of the book a flame in byzantium (isbn  - - - ) by chelsea quinn yarbro, released in . 	"constantinople" is the title of a song by the decemberists. 	stephen lawhead's novel byzantium ( ) is set in th-century constantinople. 	folk metal band turisas makes multiple references to constantinople in their song "miklagard overture," referring to it as "konstantinopolis," "tsargrad," and "miklagard." 	constantinople makes an appearance in the mmorpg game silkroad as a major capital, along with a major chinese capital. 	constantinople makes an appearance in the "rome total war" expansion "barbarian invasion" belonging to the eastern roman empire. it would reappear in the same role for the spiritual sequel, total war: attila. 	constantinople also makes an appearance in "medieval total war." it is a starting province and city of the byzantines. 	constantinople makes an appearance in the game "age of empires ii: the age of kings" in the fifth scenario of the barbarossa campaign and again in the third scenario of the attila the hun campaign in the expansion pack "age of empires ii: the conquerors expansion." 	constantinople is the main setting of the game "assassin's creed: revelations," the fourth major title in the best-selling "assassin's creed" series.[ ] 	constantinople is also a setting of the vampire: the dark ages role playing game by white wolf.[ ] 	constantinople is one of the territories featured in the board game diplomacy. it is one of the default territories of turkey. 	constantinople appears in "europa universalis iv" and in "crusader kings ii" as the capital of the byzantine empire, which is featured in both games. 	constantinople appears as the capital of the byzantine civilization in several installments of the video game series "civilization". international status[edit] constantinople's monumental center. the city provided a defence for the eastern provinces of the old roman empire against the barbarian invasions of the th century. the -meter-tall walls built by theodosius ii were, in essence, impregnable to the barbarians coming from south of the danube river, who found easier targets to the west rather than the richer provinces to the east in asia. from the th century, the city was also protected by the anastasian wall, a -kilometer chain of walls across the thracian peninsula. many scholars[who?] argue that these sophisticated fortifications allowed the east to develop relatively unmolested while ancient rome and the west collapsed.[ ] constantinople's fame was such that it was described even in contemporary chinese histories, the old and new book of tang, which mentioned its massive walls and gates as well as a purported clepsydra mounted with a golden statue of a man.[ ][ ][ ] the chinese histories even related how the city had been besieged in the th century by muawiyah i and how he exacted tribute in a peace settlement.[ ][ ] see also[edit] people from constantinople[edit] 	list of people from constantinople secular buildings and monuments[edit] 	augustaion 	column of justinian 	basilica cistern 	column of marcian 	bucoleon palace 	horses of saint mark 	obelisk of theodosius 	serpent column 	walled obelisk 	palace of lausus 	cistern of philoxenos 	palace of the porphyrogenitus 	prison of anemas 	valens aqueduct churches, monasteries and mosques[edit] 	atik mustafa pasha mosque 	bodrum mosque 	chora church 	church of saints sergius and bacchus 	church of the holy apostles 	church of st. polyeuctus 	eski imaret mosque 	fenari isa mosque 	gül mosque 	hagia irene 	hirami ahmet pasha mosque 	kalenderhane mosque 	koca mustafa pasha mosque 	nea ekklesia 	pammakaristos church 	stoudios monastery 	toklu dede mosque 	vefa kilise mosque 	zeyrek mosque 	unnamed mosque established during byzantine times for visiting muslim dignitaries.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] miscellaneous[edit] 	ahmed bican yazıcıoğlu 	byzantine calendar 	byzantine silk 	eparch of constantinople (list of eparchs) 	sieges of constantinople 	third rome 	timeline of istanbul history references[edit] 	^ croke, brian ( ). count marcellinus and his chronicle, p. . university press, oxford. isbn  . 	^ müller-wiener ( ), p. . 	^ "the chronicle of john malalas", bk . translated by e. jeffreys, m. jeffreys, and r. scott. australian association of byzantine studies, vol . 	^ "the chronicle of theophones confessor: byzantine and near eastern history ad - ". translated with commentary by cyril mango and roger scott. am pg , with this note: theophanes' precise date should be accepted. 	^ roach, peter ( ). cambridge english pronouncing dictionary ( th ed.). cambridge: cambridge university press. isbn  - - - - . 	^ a b c mango, cyril ( ). 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civilization. in the first half of the st millennium bc the climate of italy was more humid and cool than now and the presently arid south saw more precipitation.[ ] the northern regions were situated in the temperate climate zone, while the rest of italy was in the subtropics, having a warm and mild climate.[ ] during the annual melt of the mountain snow even small rivers would overflow, swamping the terrain (tuscany and the pontine marshes were deemed impassable in antiquity).[ ] the existence of roman civilization (including the eastern roman empire) spanned three climatological periods: early subatlantic ( bc– ad), mid-subatlantic ( – ) and late subatlantic (since ).[ ] the written, archaeological and natural-scientific proxy evidence independently but consistently shows that during the period of the roman empire's maximum expansion and final crisis, the climate underwent changes.[ ] the empire's greatest extent under trajan coincided with the roman climatic optimum.[ ] the climate change occurred at different rates, from apparent near stasis during the early empire to rapid fluctuations during the late empire.[ ] still, there is some controversy in the notion of a generally moister period in the eastern mediterranean in c.  ad– ad due to conflicting publications.[ ] contents 	 stable climate 	 . winds 	 . precipitation 	 environmental issues and climate change 	 see also 	 notes 	 references stable climate[edit] leopards on the magerius mosaic from modern tunisia. numerous roman mosaics from north african sites depict fauna now found only in tropical africa,[ ] although it's unclear whether any climate change contributed to that. throughout the entire roman kingdom and the republic there was the so-called subatlantic period, in which the greek and etruscan city-states also developed.[ ] it was characterized by cool summers and mild, rainy winters.[ ] at the same time there were a number of severe winters, including the complete freezing of the tiber in bc, bc, bc and bc.[ ] in subsequent centuries the reports of occasional harsh winters became associated with flooding rather than ice on the tiber.[ ] evidence for a cooler mediterranean climate in bc– bc comes from remains of ancient harbors at naples and in the adriatic which are located about one meter below current water level. edward gibbon, citing ancient sources, thought that the rhine and the danube were frequently frozen, facilitating the invasion of barbarian armies into the empire "over a vast and solid bridge of ice".[ ] suggesting colder climate, gibbon also contended that during caesar's time reindeer were commonly found in the forests of modern poland and germany, whereas in his time reindeer were not observed south of the baltic.[ ] during the reign of augustus the climate became warmer and the aridity in north africa persisted.[ ] the biotopes of heterogaster urticae, which in roman times occurred farther north than in the s, suggest that in the early empire mean july temperatures were at least  °c above those of the mid- th-century.[ ] pliny the younger wrote that wine and olives were cultivated in more northerly parts of italy than in the previous centuries,[ ] as did saserna in the last century bc (both father and son).[ ] winds[edit] a comparison of modern wind roses with the situation in the st century ad shows some differences: in that time northern inflows in winter were quite rare.[ ] the typical northwest winds which regularly blew in july are presently non-existent.[ ] the sea breeze began a month earlier, in april.[ ] vitruvius mentioned moisture-carrying winds blowing from the south or west which could damage books.[ ] there is also evidence indicating that in the roman period the mediterranean climate was influenced by low frequency fluctuations in sea level pressure over the north atlantic, called the centennial north atlantic oscillation (cnao).[ ] precipitation[edit] during the second punic war, the mediterranean coast saw such powerful storms that the roman fleet was destroyed twice (in bc and bc).[ ] this was followed by drought in italy in bc, which lasted six months.[ ] in december of bc there was a blood rain in rome.[ ] written sources from about bc to c.  ad also emphasize moisture, mainly in the form of the tiber floods in rome.[ ] large tiber floods occurred in (lasted seven days), , , , , and ad.[ ] starting from the roman annexation of egypt in bc and until ad favorable floods occurred more frequently in the nile.[ ] the winter of / ad was the driest known to tacitus when he wrote his histories around ad; exactly at the same time the dry season persisted in the americas.[ ] dry conditions returned during the reign of hadrian.[ ] in timgad – on hadrian's visit to that city in rain fell for the first time in five years.[ ] some parts of the empire, however, saw better precipitation. a weather diary, compiled by ptolemy in alexandria in around , mentioned rain in every month except august and thunder throughout the summer. it helps to explain the agricultural prosperity of roman africa (the granary of rome), and the prosperity of southern spain in the roman era.[ ] according to rhoads murphey, the total yearly grain supply from north africa to rome, "estimated as enough to feed about , people, is by no means impossible to produce for export under present conditions".[ ] columella's weather calendar suggests that summer precipitation in southern italy, particularly in rome and campania, occurred more often than now. unusually high precipitation levels were in roman spain during the so-called iberian–roman humid period. roman spain experienced three major phases: the most humid interval in – bc, an arid interval in bc– ad and another humid period in – .[ ] in bc the army of scipio aemilianus in spain had to march at night due to extreme heat, when some of its horses and mules died of thirst[ ] (even though earlier, in bc, heavy spring rains prevented the celtiberians from relieving the roman siege of contrebia).[ ] through the nd century ad warm temperatures dominated particularly in the austrian alps, punctuated by further cool spells from c.  to .[ ] after about the temperatures fluctuated, trending toward cool.[ ] environmental issues and climate change[edit] according to sheldon judson, in the nd century bc the rate of soil erosion in latium increased ten times, which is associated with the increased number of settlements in south etruria.[ ] additionally, from the foundation of rome until possibly ad, the romans deforested huge areas for arable land.[ ] in ad seneca the younger described the high level of air pollution in rome, which was associated with the extensive wood burning for fuel.[ ] from c.  to c.  there was a period of cooling, which affected the northwestern provinces of the empire.[ ] dendrochronology indicates that severe drought which began in and persisted until forced the nomadic pastoral federation of huns to seek pastures and predation 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cynicism (contemporary). statue of an unknown cynic philosopher from the capitoline museums in rome. this statue is a roman-era copy of an earlier greek statue from the third century bc.[ ] the scroll in his right hand is an th-century restoration. cynicism (ancient greek: κυνισμός) is a school of thought of ancient greek philosophy as practiced by the cynics (ancient greek: Κυνικοί, latin: cynici). for the cynics, the purpose of life is to live in virtue, in agreement with nature. as reasoning creatures, people can gain happiness by rigorous training and by living in a way which is natural for themselves, rejecting all conventional desires for wealth, power, and fame. instead, they were to lead a simple life free from all possessions. the first philosopher to outline these themes was antisthenes, who had been a pupil of socrates in the late th century bc. he was followed by diogenes, who lived in a ceramic jar on the streets of athens.[ ] diogenes took cynicism to its logical extremes, and came to be seen as the archetypal cynic philosopher. he was followed by crates of thebes, who gave away a large fortune so he could live a life of cynic poverty in athens. cynicism gradually declined in importance after the rd century bc,[ ] but it experienced a revival with the rise of the roman empire in the st century. cynics could be found begging and preaching throughout the cities of the empire, and similar ascetic and rhetorical ideas appeared in early christianity. by the th century, emphasis on the negative aspects of cynic philosophy led to the modern understanding of cynicism to mean a disposition of disbelief in the sincerity or goodness of human motives and actions. contents 	 origin of the cynic name 	 philosophy 	 history of cynicism 	 . influences 	 . symbolisms 	 . antisthenes 	 . diogenes of sinope 	 . crates of thebes 	 . other cynics 	 cynicism in the roman world 	 cynicism and christianity 	 . jesus as a jewish cynic 	 . cynic influences on early christianity 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 . primary sources 	 . secondary sources 	 external links origin of the cynic name[edit] the name cynic derives from ancient greek κυνικός (kynikos) 'dog-like', and κύων (kyôn) 'dog' (genitive: kynos).[ ] one explanation offered in ancient times for why the cynics were called "dogs" was because the first cynic, antisthenes, taught in the cynosarges gymnasium at athens.[ ] the word cynosarges means the "place of the white dog". it seems certain, however, that the word dog was also thrown at the first cynics as an insult for their shameless rejection of conventional manners, and their decision to live on the streets. diogenes, in particular, was referred to as the "dog",[ ] a distinction he seems to have revelled in, stating that "other dogs bite their enemies, i bite my friends to save them."[ ] later cynics also sought to turn the word to their advantage, as a later commentator explained: there are four reasons why the cynics are so named. first because of the indifference of their way of life, for they make a cult of indifference and, like dogs, eat and make love in public, go barefoot, and sleep in tubs and at crossroads. the second reason is that the dog is a shameless animal, and they make a cult of shamelessness, not as being beneath modesty, but as superior to it. the third reason is that the dog is a good guard, and they guard the tenets of their philosophy. the fourth reason is that the dog is a discriminating animal which can distinguish between its friends and enemies. so do they recognize as friends those who are suited to philosophy, and receive them kindly, while those unfitted they drive away, like dogs, by barking at them.[ ] philosophy[edit] cynicism is one of the most striking of all the hellenistic philosophies.[ ] it claimed to offer people the possibility of happiness and freedom from suffering in an age of uncertainty. although there was never an official cynic doctrine, the fundamental principles of cynicism can be summarized as follows:[ ][ ][ ] 	the goal of life is eudaimonia and mental clarity or lucidity (ἁτυφια) - literally "freedom from smoke (τύφος)" which signified false belief, mindlessness, folly, and conceit. 	eudaimonia is achieved by living in accord with nature as understood by human reason. 	arrogance (τύφος) is caused by false judgments of value, which cause negative emotions, unnatural desires, and a vicious character. 	eudaimonia, or human flourishing, depends on self-sufficiency (αὐτάρκεια), equanimity, arete, love of humanity, parrhesia, and indifference to the vicissitudes of life (adiaphora ἁδιαφορία).[ ] 	one progresses towards flourishing and clarity through ascetic practices (ἄσκησις) which help one become free from influences – such as wealth, fame, and power – that have no value in nature. instead they promoted living a life of ponos. for the cynics, this did not seem to mean actual physical work. diogenes of sinope, for example, lived by begging, not by doing manual labor. rather, it means deliberately choosing a hard life — for instance, wearing only that thin cloak and going barefoot in winter.[ ] 	a cynic practices shamelessness or impudence (Αναιδεια) and defaces the nomos of society; the laws, customs, and social conventions which people take for granted. the cynics adopted heracles, shown here in this gilded bronze statue from the second century ad, as their patron hero.[ ][ ] thus a cynic has no property and rejects all conventional values of money, fame, power and reputation.[ ] a life lived according to nature requires only the bare necessities required for existence, and one can become free by unshackling oneself from any needs which are the result of convention.[ ] the cynics adopted heracles as their hero, as epitomizing the ideal cynic.[ ] heracles "was he who brought cerberus, the hound of hades, from the underworld, a point of special appeal to the dog-man, diogenes."[ ] according to lucian, "cerberus and cynic are surely related through the dog."[ ] the cynic way of life required continuous training, not just in exercising judgments and mental impressions, but a physical training as well: [diogenes] used to say, that there were two kinds of exercise: that, namely, of the mind and that of the body; and that the latter of these created in the mind such quick and agile impressions at the time of its performance, as very much facilitated the practice of virtue; but that one was imperfect without the other, since the health and vigour necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body.[ ] none of this meant that a cynic would retreat from society. cynics were in fact to live in the full glare of the public's gaze and be quite indifferent in the face of any insults which might result from their unconventional behaviour.[ ] the cynics are said to have invented the idea of cosmopolitanism: when he was asked where he came from, diogenes replied that he was "a citizen of the world, (kosmopolitês)."[ ] the ideal cynic would evangelise; as the watchdog of humanity, they thought it their duty to hound people about the error of their ways.[ ] the example of the cynic's life (and the use of the cynic's biting satire) would dig up and expose the pretensions which lay at the root of everyday conventions.[ ] although cynicism concentrated primarily on ethics, some cynics, such as monimus, addressed epistemology with regard to tuphos (τῦφος) expressing skeptical views. cynic philosophy had a major impact on the hellenistic world, ultimately becoming an important influence for stoicism. the stoic apollodorus, writing in the nd century bc, stated that "cynicism is the short path to virtue."[ ] history of cynicism[edit] bust of antisthenes the classical greek and roman cynics regarded virtue as the only necessity for happiness, and saw virtue as entirely sufficient for attaining it. classical cynics followed this philosophy to the extent of neglecting everything not furthering their perfection of virtue and attainment of happiness, thus, the title of cynic, derived from the greek word κύων (meaning "dog") because they allegedly neglected society, hygiene, family, money, etc., in a manner reminiscent of dogs. they sought to free themselves from conventions; become self-sufficient; and live only in accordance with nature. they rejected any conventional notions of happiness involving money, power, and fame, to lead entirely virtuous, and thus happy, lives.[ ] the ancient cynics rejected conventional social values, and would criticise the types of behaviours, such as greed, which they viewed as causing suffering. emphasis on this aspect of their teachings led, in the late th and early th centuries,[ ] to the modern understanding of cynicism as "an attitude of scornful or jaded negativity, especially a general distrust of the integrity or professed motives of others."[ ] this modern definition of cynicism is in marked contrast to the ancient philosophy, which emphasized "virtue and moral freedom in liberation from desire."[ ] influences[edit] various philosophers, such as the pythagoreans, had advocated simple living in the centuries preceding the cynics. in the early th century bc, anacharsis, a scythian sage, had combined plain living together with criticisms of greek customs in a manner which would become standard among the cynics.[ ] perhaps of importance were tales of indian philosophers, known as gymnosophists, who had adopted a strict asceticism. by the th century bc, the sophists had begun a process of questioning many aspects of greek society such as religion, law and ethics. however, the most immediate influence for the cynic school was socrates. although he was not an ascetic, he did profess a love of virtue and an indifference to wealth,[ ] together with a disdain for general opinion.[ ] these aspects of socrates' thought, which formed only a minor part of plato's philosophy, became the central inspiration for another of socrates' pupils, antisthenes. symbolisms[edit] cynics were often recognized in the ancient world by their apparel—an old cloak and a staff. the cloak came as an allusion to socrates and his manner of dress, while the staff was to the club of heracles. these items became so symbolic of the cynic vocation that ancient writers accosted those who thought that donning the cynic garb would make them suited to the philosophy.[ ] in the social evolution from the archaic age to the classical, the public ceased carrying weapons into the poleis. originally it was expected that one carried a sword while in the city; however, a transition to spears, and then to staffs occurred until wearing any weapon in the city became a foolish old custom.[ ] thus, the very act of carrying a staff was slightly taboo itself. according to modern theorists, the symbol of the staff was one which both functions as a tool to signal the user's dissociation from physical labour, that is, as a display of conspicuous leisure, and at the same time it also has an association with sport and typically plays a part in hunting and sports clothing. thus, it displays active and warlike qualities, rather than being a symbol of a weak man's need to support himself.[ ][ ] the staff itself became a message of how the cynic was free through its possible interpretation as an item of leisure, but, just as equivalent, was its message of strength - a virtue held in abundance by the cynic philosopher. antisthenes[edit] main article: antisthenes the story of cynicism traditionally begins with antisthenes (c. – bc),[ ][ ] who was an older contemporary of plato and a pupil of socrates. about years his junior, antisthenes was one of the most important of socrates' disciples.[ ] although later classical authors had little doubt about labelling him as the founder of cynicism,[ ] his philosophical views seem to be more complex than the later simplicities of pure cynicism. in the list of works ascribed to antisthenes by diogenes laërtius,[ ] writings on language, dialogue and literature far outnumber those on ethics or politics,[ ] although they may reflect how his philosophical interests changed with time.[ ] it is certainly true that antisthenes preached a life of poverty: i have enough to eat till my hunger is stayed, to drink till my thirst is sated; to clothe myself as well; and out of doors not [even] callias there, with all his riches, is more safe than i from shivering; and when i find myself indoors, what warmer shirting do i need than my bare walls?[ ] diogenes of sinope[edit] diogenes searching for an honest man (c. ) attributed to j. h. w. tischbein main article: diogenes diogenes (c. – bc) dominates the story of cynicism like no other figure. he originally went to athens, fleeing his home city, after he and his father, who was in charge of the mint at sinope, got into trouble for falsifying the coinage.[ ] (the phrase "defacing the currency" later became proverbial in describing diogenes' rejection of conventional values.)[ ] later tradition claimed that diogenes became the disciple of antisthenes,[ ] but it is by no means certain that they ever met.[ ][ ][ ] diogenes did however adopt antisthenes' teachings and the ascetic way of life, pursuing a life of self-sufficiency (autarkeia), austerity (askēsis), and shamelessness (anaideia).[ ] there are many anecdotes about his extreme asceticism (sleeping in a tub),[ ] his shameless behaviour (eating raw meat),[ ] and his criticism of conventional society ("bad people obey their lusts as servants obey their masters"),[ ] and although it is impossible to tell which of these stories are true, they do illustrate the broad character of the man, including an ethical seriousness.[ ] crates of thebes[edit] crates of thebes (c. –c. bc) is the third figure who dominates cynic history. he is notable because he renounced a large fortune to live a life of cynic poverty in athens.[ ] he is said to have been a pupil of diogenes,[ ] but again this is uncertain.[ ] crates married hipparchia of maroneia after she had fallen in love with him and together they lived like beggars on the streets of athens,[ ] where crates was treated with respect.[ ] crates' later fame (apart from his unconventional lifestyle) lies in the fact that he became the teacher of zeno of citium, the founder of stoicism.[ ] the cynic strain to be found in early stoicism (such as zeno's own radical views on sexual equality spelled out in his republic) can be ascribed to crates' influence.[ ] other cynics[edit] there were many other cynics in the th and rd centuries bc, including onesicritus (who sailed with alexander the great to india), the skeptic monimus, the moral satirist bion of borysthenes, the diatribist teles and menippus of gadara. however, with the rise of stoicism in the rd century bc, cynicism as a serious philosophical activity underwent a decline,[ ][ ] and it is not until the roman era that cynicism underwent a revival. cynicism in the roman world[edit] diogenes sitting in his tub ( ) by jean-léon gérôme there is little record of cynicism in the nd or st centuries bc; cicero (c. bc), who was much interested in greek philosophy, had little to say about cynicism, except that "it is to be shunned; for it is opposed to modesty, without which there can be neither right nor honor."[ ] however, by the st century ad, cynicism reappeared with full force. the rise of imperial rome, like the greek loss of independence under philip and alexander three centuries earlier, may have led to a sense of powerlessness and frustration among many people, which allowed a philosophy which emphasized self-sufficiency and inner-happiness to flourish once again.[ ] cynics could be found throughout the empire, standing on street corners, preaching about virtue.[ ] lucian complained that "every city is filled with such upstarts, particularly with those who enter the names of diogenes, antisthenes, and crates as their patrons and enlist in the army of the dog,"[ ] and aelius aristides observed that "they frequent the doorways, talking more to the doorkeepers than to the masters, making up for their lowly condition by using impudence."[ ] the most notable representative of cynicism in the st century ad was demetrius, whom seneca praised as "a man of consummate wisdom, though he himself denied it, constant to the principles which he professed, of an eloquence worthy to deal with the mightiest subjects."[ ] cynicism in rome was both the butt of the satirist and the ideal of the thinker. in the nd century ad, lucian, whilst pouring scorn on the cynic philosopher peregrinus proteus,[ ] nevertheless praised his own cynic teacher, demonax, in a dialogue.[ ] cynicism came to be seen as an idealised form of stoicism, a view which led epictetus to eulogise the ideal cynic in a lengthy discourse.[ ] according to epictetus, the ideal cynic "must know that he is sent as a messenger from zeus to people concerning good and bad things, to show them that they have wandered."[ ] unfortunately for epictetus, many cynics of the era did not live up to the ideal: "consider the present cynics who are dogs that wait at tables, and in no respect imitate the cynics of old except perchance in breaking wind."[ ] unlike stoicism, which declined as an independent philosophy after the nd century ad, cynicism seems to have thrived into the th century.[ ] the emperor, julian (ruled – ), like epictetus, praised the ideal cynic and complained about the actual practitioners of cynicism.[ ] the final cynic noted in classical history is sallustius of emesa in the late th century.[ ] a student of the neoplatonic philosopher isidore of alexandria, he devoted himself to living a life of cynic asceticism. cynicism and christianity[edit] coptic icon of saint anthony of the desert, an early christian ascetic. early christian asceticism may have been influenced by cynicism.[ ] jesus as a jewish cynic[edit] some historians have noted the similarities between the teachings of jesus and those of the cynics. some scholars have argued that the q document, a hypothetical common source for the gospels of matthew and luke, has strong similarities to the teachings of the cynics.[ ][ ] scholars on the quest for the historical jesus, such as burton l. mack and john dominic crossan of the jesus seminar, have argued that st-century ad galilee was a world in which hellenistic ideas collided with jewish thought and traditions. the city of gadara, only a day's walk from nazareth, was particularly notable as a centre of cynic philosophy,[ ] and mack has described jesus as a "rather normal cynic-type figure."[ ] for crossan, jesus was more like a cynic sage from a hellenistic jewish tradition than either a christ who would die as a substitute for sinners or a messiah who wanted to establish an independent jewish state of israel.[ ] other scholars doubt that jesus was deeply influenced by the cynics and see the jewish prophetic tradition as of much greater importance.[ ] cynic influences on early christianity[edit] many of the ascetic practices of cynicism may have been adopted by early christians, and christians often employed the same rhetorical methods as the cynics.[ ] some cynics were martyred for speaking out against the authorities.[ ] one cynic, peregrinus proteus, lived for a time as a christian before converting to cynicism,[ ] whereas in the th century, maximus of alexandria, although a christian, was also called a cynic because of his ascetic lifestyle. christian writers would often praise cynic poverty,[ ] although they scorned cynic shamelessness: augustine stating that they had, "in violation of the modest instincts of men, boastfully proclaimed their unclean and shameless opinion, worthy indeed of dogs."[ ] the ascetic orders of christianity also had direct connection with the cynics, as can be seen in the wandering mendicant monks of the early church who in outward appearance, and in many of their practices differed little from the cynics of an earlier age.[ ] see also[edit] 	philosophy portal 	anticonformism 	asceticism 	cynic epistles 	encratites 	foolishness for christ 	list of ancient greek philosophers 	list of cynic philosophers 	natural law 	stoicism 	kotzker rebbe (a chasidic "cynic" in the ancient sense of the word) notes[edit] 	^ christopher h. hallett, ( ), the roman nude: heroic portrait statuary bc–ad , page . oxford university press 	^ laërtius & hicks , vi:  ; jerome, adversus jovinianum, . . 	^ a b dudley , p.  	^ kynikos, "a greek-english lexicon", liddell and scott, at perseus 	^ diogenes laërtius, vi. . cf. the oxford companion to classical literature, nd edition, p. . 	^ an obscure reference to "the dog" in aristotle's rhetoric ( . . a ) is generally agreed to be the first reference to diogenes. 	^ diogenes of sinope, quoted by stobaeus, florilegium, iii. . . 	^ scholium on aristotle's rhetoric, quoted in dudley , p.  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( ), the cynics: the cynic movement in antiquity and its legacy, university of california press, isbn  - - - - 	dudley, r. ( ), a history of cynicism from diogenes to the th century a.d., cambridge university press 	kidd, i. ( ), "cynicism", in rée, jonathan; urmson, j. o. (eds.), the concise encyclopedia of western philosophy, routledge, isbn  - - - - 	long, a. a., "the socratic tradition: diogenes, crates, and hellenistic ethics", in branham and goulet-cazé, pp. – (ed.), missing or empty |title= (help) 	navia, luis ( ), classical cynicism: a critical study, greenwood press, isbn  - - - - 	prince, susan ( ), "socrates, antisthenes, and the cynics", in ahbel-rappe, sara; kamtekar, rachana (eds.), a companion to socrates, blackwell publishing, isbn  - - - - 	schofield, malcolm ( ), the stoic idea of the city, cambridge university press, isbn  - - - - further reading[edit] primary sources[edit] 	socratis et socraticorum reliquiae, ed. g. giannantoni, volumes (naples, ). volume collects fragments of the early cynics from antisthenes to crates. 	the cynic philosophers, ed. r. dobbin (penguin, ) 	diogenes the cynic: sayings and anecdotes: with other popular moralists, ed. r. hard (oxford, ) 	diogenes laërtius, lives and opinions of eminent philosophers, book vi: the cynics 	dio chrysostom, cynic discourses: oration , oration , oration , oration . 	epictetus, discourse . , on cynicism 	pseudo-lucian[citation needed], the cynic 	julian the apostate, th oration - to the uneducated cynics 	julian the apostate, th oration - to the cynic heracleios secondary sources[edit] 	ian cutler, ( ), cynicism from diogenes to dilbert. mcfarland & co. isbn  - - - 	william d. desmond, ( ), the greek praise of poverty: origins of ancient cynicism. university of notre dame press. isbn  - - - 	————, ( ), cynics. ancient philosophies series. acumen publishing. isbn  - - - 	f. gerald downing, ( ), cynics and christian origins. t. & t. clark. isbn  - - - 	luis e. navia, ( ), classical cynicism: a critical study. greenwood press. isbn  - - - 	lousa shea ( ), the cynic enlightenment: diogenes in the salon johns hopkins university press. 	h. c. baldry, "zeno's ideal state". published in the journal of hellenic studies, vol. ( ), pp.  – . doi: . / 	kathy l. gaca, "early stoic eros: the sexual ethics of zeno and chrysippus and their evaluation of the greek erotic tradition". published in apeiron: a journal for ancient philosophy and science, vol. , no. (september ), pp.  – . external links[edit] 		look up cynicism in wiktionary, the free dictionary. 		wikimedia commons has media related to cynic philosophers. 	cynicism on in our time at the bbc 	"cynicism (philosophy)". internet encyclopedia of philosophy. 	"cynicism", in the dictionary of the history of ideas 	herbermann, charles, ed. ( ). 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		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		clothing style in ancient rome. statue of the emperor tiberius showing the draped toga of the st century ad clothing in ancient rome generally comprised a short-sleeved or sleeveless, knee-length tunic for men and boys, and a longer, usually sleeved tunic for women and girls. on formal occasions, adult male citizens could wear a woolen toga, draped over their tunic, and married citizen women wore a woolen mantle, known as a palla, over a stola, a simple, long-sleeved, voluminous garment that hung to midstep. clothing, footwear and accoutrements identified gender, status, rank and social class. this was especially apparent in the distinctive, privileged official dress of magistrates, priesthoods and the military. the toga was considered rome's "national costume," but for day-to-day activities most romans preferred more casual, practical and comfortable clothing; the tunic, in various forms, was the basic garment for all classes, both sexes and most occupations. it was usually made of linen, and was augmented as necessary with underwear, or with various kinds of cold-or-wet weather wear, such as knee-breeches for men, and cloaks, coats and hats. in colder parts of the empire, full length trousers were worn. most urban romans wore shoes, slippers, boots or sandals of various types; in the countryside, some wore clogs. most clothing was simple in structure and basic form, and its production required minimal cutting and tailoring, but all was produced by hand and every process required skill, knowledge and time. spinning and weaving were thought virtuous, frugal occupations for roman women of all classes. wealthy matrons, including augustus' wife livia, might show their traditionalist values by producing home-spun clothing, but most men and women who could afford it bought their clothing from specialist artisans. the manufacture and trade of clothing and the supply of its raw materials made an important contribution to rome's economy. relative to the overall basic cost of living, even simple clothing was expensive, and was recycled many times down the social scale. rome's governing elite produced laws designed to limit public displays of personal wealth and luxury. none were particularly successful, as the same wealthy elite had an appetite for luxurious and fashionable clothing. exotic fabrics were available, at a price; silk damasks, translucent gauzes, cloth of gold, and intricate embroideries; and vivid, expensive dyes such as saffron yellow or tyrian purple. not all dyes were costly, however, and most romans wore colourful clothing. clean, bright clothing was a mark of respectability and status among all social classes. the fastenings and brooches used to secure garments such as cloaks provided further opportunities for personal embellishment and display. contents 	 tunics and undergarments 	 formal wear for citizens 	 . toga 	 . stola and palla 	 freedmen, freedwomen and slaves 	 children and adolescents 	 footwear 	 military costume 	 religious offices and ceremonies 	 roman clothing of late antiquity (after ad) 	 fabrics 	 . animal fibres 	 . . wool 	 . . silk 	 . plant fibres 	 . . linen 	 . . other plant fibres 	 manufacture 	 colours and dyes 	 leather and hide 	 laundering and fulling 	 see also 	 references 	 cited sources tunics and undergarments th-century mosaic from villa del casale, sicily, showing "bikini girls" in an athletic contest the basic garment for both genders and all classes was the tunica (tunic). in its simplest form, the tunic was a single rectangle of woven fabric, originally woolen, but from the mid-republic onward, increasingly made from linen. it was sewn into a wide, sleeveless tubular shape and pinned around the shoulders like a greek chiton, to form openings for the neck and arms. in some examples from the eastern part of the empire, neck openings were created in the weaving. sleeves could be added, or formed in situ from the excess width. most working men wore knee-length, short-sleeved tunics, secured at the waist with a belt. some traditionalists considered long sleeved tunics appropriate only for women, very long tunics on men as a sign of effeminacy, and short or unbelted tunics as marks of servility; nevertheless, very long-sleeved, loosely belted tunics were also fashionably unconventional and were adopted by some roman men; for example, by julius caesar. women's tunics were usually ankle or foot-length, long-sleeved, and could be worn loosely or belted.[ ] for comfort and protection from cold, both sexes could wear a soft under-tunic or vest (subucula) beneath a coarser over-tunic; in winter, the emperor augustus, whose physique and constitution were never particularly robust, wore up to four tunics, over a vest.[ ] although essentially simple in basic design, tunics could also be luxurious in their fabric, colours and detailing.[ ] loincloths, known as subligacula or subligaria could be worn under a tunic. they could also be worn on their own, particularly by slaves who engaged in hot, sweaty or dirty work. women wore both loincloth and strophium (a breast cloth) under their tunics; and some wore tailored underwear for work or leisure.[ ] a th-century ad sicillian mosaic shows several "bikini girls" performing athletic feats; in a roman leather bikini bottom was excavated from a well in london. formal wear for citizens the orator, c. bc, an etrusco-roman bronze sculpture depicting aule metele (latin: aulus metellus), an etruscan man of roman senatorial rank, engaging in rhetoric. he wears senatorial shoes, and a toga praetexta of "skimpy" (exigua) republican type.[ ] the statue features an inscription in the etruscan alphabet silenus holding a lyre (left); demi-god pan and a nymph sitting on a rock, nursing a goat (centre); woman with coat (right); fresco from the villa of the mysteries, pompeii, italy, c. bc roman society was graded into several citizen and non-citizen classes and ranks, ruled by a powerful minority of wealthy, landowning citizen-aristocrats. even the lowest grade of citizenship carried certain privileges denied to non-citizens, such as the right to vote for representation in government. in tradition and law, an individual's place in the citizen-hierarchy – or outside it – should be immediately evident in their clothing. the seating arrangements at theatres and games enforced this idealised social order, with varying degrees of success. in literature and poetry, romans were the gens togata ("togate race"), descended from a tough, virile, intrinsically noble peasantry of hard-working, toga-wearing men and women. the toga's origins are uncertain; it may have begun as a simple, practical work-garment and blanket for peasants and herdsmen. it eventually became formal wear for male citizens; at much the same time, respectable female citizens adopted the stola. the morals, wealth and reputation of citizens were subject to official scrutiny. male citizens who failed to meet a minimum standard could be demoted in rank, and denied the right to wear a toga; by the same token, female citizens could be denied the stola. respectable citizens of either sex might thus be distinguished from freedmen, foreigners, slaves and infamous persons.[ ] toga main article: toga the toga virilis ("toga of manhood") was a semi-elliptical, white woolen cloth some feet in width and feet in length, draped across the shoulders and around the body. it was usually worn over a plain white linen tunic. a commoner's toga virilis was a natural off-white; the senatorial version was more voluminous, and brighter. the toga praetexta of curule magistrates and some priesthoods added a wide purple edging, and was worn over a tunic with two vertical purple stripes. it could also be worn by noble and freeborn boys and girls, and represented their protection under civil and divine law. equites wore the trabea (a shorter, "equestrian" form of white toga or a purple-red wrap, or both) over a white tunic with two narrow vertical purple-red stripes. the toga pulla, used for mourning, was made of dark wool. the rare, prestigious toga picta and tunica palmata were purple, embroidered with gold. they were originally awarded to roman generals for the day of their triumph, but became official dress for emperors and imperial consuls. from at least the late republic onward, the upper classes favoured ever longer and larger togas, increasingly unsuited to manual work or physically active leisure. togas were expensive, heavy, hot and sweaty, hard to keep clean, costly to launder and challenging to wear correctly. they were best suited to stately processions, oratory, sitting in the theatre or circus, and self-display among peers and inferiors while "ostentatiously doing nothing" at salutationes.[ ] these early morning, formal "greeting sessions" were an essential part of roman life, in which clients visited their patrons, competing for favours or investment in business ventures. a client who dressed well and correctly – in his toga, if a citizen – showed respect for himself and his patron, and might stand out among the crowd. a canny patron might equip his entire family, his friends, freedmen, even his slaves, with elegant, costly and impractical clothing, implying his entire extended family's condition as one of "honorific leisure" (otium), buoyed by limitless wealth.[ ] the vast majority of citizens had to work for a living, and avoided wearing the toga whenever possible.[ ][ ] several emperors tried to compel its use as the public dress of true romanitas but none were particularly successful.[ ] the aristocracy clung to it as a mark of their prestige, but eventually abandoned it for the more comfortable and practical pallium. stola and palla roman marble torso from the st century ad, showing a woman's clothing besides tunics, married citizen women wore a simple garment known as a stola (pl. stolae) which was associated with traditional roman female virtues, especially modesty.[ ] in the early roman republic, the stola was reserved for patrician women. shortly before the second punic war, the right to wear it was extended to plebeian matrons, and to freedwomen who had acquired the status of matron through marriage to a citizen. stolae typically comprised two rectangular segments of cloth joined at the side by fibulae and buttons in a manner allowing the garment to be draped in elegant but concealing folds.[ ] over the stola, citizen-women often wore the palla, a sort of rectangular shawl up to feet long, and five wide. it could be worn as a coat, or draped over the left shoulder, under the right arm, and then over the left arm. outdoors and in public, a chaste matron's hair was bound up in woolen bands (fillets, or vitae) in a high-piled style known as tutulus. her face was concealed from the public, male gaze with a veil; her palla could also serve as a hooded cloak.[ ][ ] two ancient literary sources mention use of a coloured strip or edging (a limbus) on a woman's "mantle", or on the hem of their tunic; probably a mark of their high status, and presumably purple.[ ] outside the confines of their homes, matrons were expected to wear veils; a matron who appeared without a veil was held to have repudiated her marriage.[ ] high-caste women convicted of adultery, and high-class female prostitutes (meretrices), were not only forbidden public use of the stola, but might have been expected to wear a toga muliebris (a "woman's toga") as a sign of their infamy.[ ][ ] freedmen, freedwomen and slaves for citizens, salutationes meant wearing the toga appropriate to their rank.[ ] for freedmen, it meant whatever dress disclosed their status and wealth; a man should be what he seemed, and low rank was no bar to making money. freedmen were forbidden to wear any kind of toga. elite invective mocked the aspirations of wealthy, upwardly mobile freedmen who boldly flouted this prohibition, donned a toga, or even the trabea of an equites, and inserted themselves as equals among their social superiors at the games and theatres. if detected, they were evicted from their seats.[ ] notwithstanding the commonplace snobbery and mockery of their social superiors, some freedmen and freedwomen were highly cultured, and most would have had useful personal and business connections through their former master. those with an aptitude for business could amass a fortune; and many did. they could function as patrons in their own right, fund public and private projects, own grand town-houses, and "dress to impress".[ ][ ] there was no standard costume for slaves; they might dress well, badly, or barely at all, depending on circumstance and the will of their owner. urban slaves in prosperous households might wear some form of livery; cultured slaves who served as household tutors might be indistinguishable from well-off freedmen. slaves serving out in the mines might wear nothing. for appian, a slave dressed as well as his master signalled the end of a stable, well-ordered society. according to seneca, tutor to nero, a proposal that all slaves be made to wear a particular type of clothing was abandoned, for fear that the slaves should realise both their own overwhelming numbers, and the vulnerability of their masters. advice to farm-owners by cato the elder and columella on the regular supply of adequate clothing to farm-slaves was probably intended to mollify their otherwise harsh conditions, and maintain their obedience.[ ][ ][ ] children and adolescents roman infants were usually swaddled. apart from those few, typically formal garments reserved for adults, most children wore a scaled-down version of what their parents wore. girls often wore a long tunic that reached the foot or instep, belted at the waist and very simply decorated, most often white. outdoors, they might wear another tunic over it. boys' tunics were shorter. boys and girls wore amulets to protect them from immoral or baleful influences such as the evil eye and sexual predation. for boys, the amulet was a bulla, worn around the neck; the equivalent for girls was a crescent-shaped lunula. the toga praetexta, which was thought to offer similar apotropaic protection, was formal wear for freeborn boys until puberty, when they gave their toga praetexta and childhood bulla into the care of their family lares and put on the adult male's toga virilis. according to some roman literary sources, freeborn girls might also wear – or at least, had the right to wear – a toga praetexta until marriage, when they offered their childhood toys, and perhaps their maidenly praetexta to fortuna virginalis; others claim a gift made to the family lares, or to venus, as part of their passage to adulthood. in traditionalist families, unmarried girls might be expected to wear their hair demurely bound in a fillet.[ ][ ] notwithstanding such attempts to protect the maidenly virtue of roman girls, there is little anecdotal or artistic evidence of their use or effective imposition. some unmarried daughters of respectable families seem to have enjoyed going out and about in flashy clothing, jewellery, perfume and make-up;[ ] and some parents, anxious to find the best and wealthiest possible match for their daughters, seem to have encouraged it.[ ] footwear left image: the goddess diana hunting in the forest with a bow, and wearing the high-laced open "hellenistic shoe-boots" associated with deities, and some images of very high status romans. from a fresco in the via livenza hypogeum, rome, c. ad right image: detail of the "big game hunt" mosaic from the villa romana del casale ( th century ad), roman sicily, showing hunters shod in calceii, wearing vari-coloured tunics and protective leggings romans used a wide variety of practical and decorative footwear, all of it flat soled (without heels). outdoor shoes were often hobnailed for grip and durability.[ ] the most common types of footwear were a one-piece shoe (carbatina), sometimes with semi-openwork uppers; a usually thin-soled sandal (solea), secured with thongs; a laced, soft half-shoe (soccus); a usually hobnailed, thick-soled walking shoe (calcea); and a heavy-duty, hobnailed standard-issue military marching boot (caliga). thick-soled wooden clogs, with leather uppers, were available for use in wet weather, and by rustics and field-slaves[ ] archaeology has revealed many more unstandardised footwear patterns and variants in use over the existence of the roman empire. for the wealthy, shoemakers employed sophisticated strapwork, delicate cutting, dyes and even gold leaf to create intricate decorative patterns. indoors, most reasonably well-off romans of both sexes wore slippers or light shoes of felt or leather.[ ] brides on their wedding-day may have worn distinctively orange-coloured light soft shoes or slippers (lutei socci).[ ] public protocol required red ankle boots for senators, and shoes with crescent-shaped buckles for equites, though some wore greek-style sandals to "go with the crowd".[ ][ ] costly footwear was a mark of wealth or status, but being completely unshod need not be a mark of poverty. cato the younger showed his impeccable republican morality by going publicly barefoot; many images of the roman gods, and later, statues of the semi-divine augustus, were unshod.[ ][ ] fashions in footwear reflected changes in social conditions. for example, during the unstable middle imperial era, the military was overtly favoured as the true basis for power; at around this time, a tough, heavy, so-called "gallic sandal" – up to inches broad at the toe – developed as outdoor wear for men and boys, reminiscent of the military boot. meanwhile, outdoor footwear for women, young girls and children remained elegantly pointed at the toe.[ ] military costume main article: ancient roman military clothing levy of the army during the taking of the roman census, detail from the marble-sculpted altar of domitius ahenobarbus, – bc, showing two polybian-era soldiers (pedites) wearing chain mail and wielding a gladius and scutum, opposite an aristocratic cavalryman (eques) marble statue of mars from the forum of nerva, wearing a plumed corinthian helmet and muscle cuirass, nd century ad for the most part, common soldiers seem to have dressed in belted, knee-length tunics for work or leisure. in the northern provinces, the traditionally short sleeved tunic might be replaced by a warmer, long-sleeved version. soldiers on active duty wore short trousers under a military kilt, sometimes with a leather jerkin or felt padding to cushion their armour, and a triangular scarf tucked in at the neck.[ ] for added protection from wind and weather, they could wear the sagum, a heavy-duty cloak also worn by civilians. according to roman tradition, soldiers had once worn togas to war, hitching them up with what was known as a "gabine cinch"; but by the mid-republican era, this was only used for sacrificial rites and a formal declaration of war.[ ] thereafter, citizen-soldiers wore togas only for formal occasions. cicero's "sagum-wearing" soldiers versus "toga-wearing" civilians are rhetorical and literary trope, referring to a wished-for transition from military might to peaceful, civil authority.[ ][ ] when on duty in the city, the praetorian guard concealed their weapons beneath their white "civilian" togas.[ ] the sagum distinguished common soldiers from the highest ranking commanders, who wore a larger, purple-red cloak, the paludamentum.[ ] the colour of the ranker's sagum is uncertain.[ ] roman military clothing was probably less uniform and more adaptive to local conditions and supplies than is suggested by its idealised depictions in contemporary literature, statuary and monuments.[ ] nevertheless, rome's levies abroad were supposed to represent rome in her purest form; provincials were supposed to adopt roman ways, not vice versa. even when foreign garments – such as full-length trousers – proved more practical than standard issue, soldiers and commanders who used them were viewed with disdain and alarm by their more conservative compatriots, for undermining rome's military virtus by "going native".[ ][ ] this did not prevent their adoption. in the late rd century the distinctive pannonian "pill-box" hat became firstly a popular, and then a standard item of legionary fatigues.[ ] in mediterranean climates, soldiers typically wore hobnailed "open boots" (caligae). in colder and wetter climates, an enclosing "shoeboot" was preferred.[ ] some of the vindolanda tablets mention the despatch of clothing – including cloaks, socks, and warm underwear – by families to their relatives, serving at brittania's northern frontier.[ ] during the early and middle republican era, conscripted soldiers and their officers were expected to provide or pay for all their personal equipment. from the late republic onwards, they were salaried professionals, and bought their own clothing from legionary stores, quartermasters or civilian contractors. military needs were prioritised. clothing was expensive to start with, and the military demand was high; this inevitably pushed up prices, and a common soldier's clothing expenses could be more than a third of his annual pay. in the rampant inflation of the later imperial era, as currency and salaries were devalued, deductions from military salaries for clothing and other staples were replaced by payments in kind, leaving common soldiers cash-poor, but adequately clothed.[ ] religious offices and ceremonies most priesthoods were reserved to high status, male roman citizens, usually magistrates or ex-magistrates. most traditional religious rites required that the priest wore a toga praetexta, in a manner described as capite velato (head covered [by a fold of the toga]) when performing augury, reciting prayers or supervising at sacrifices.[ ] where a rite prescribed the free use of both arms, the priest could employ the cinctus gabinus ("gabine cinch") to tie back the toga's inconvenient folds.[ ] roman statue of a virgo vestalis maxima (senior vestal) the vestal virgins tended rome's sacred fire, in vesta's temple, and prepared essential sacrificial materials employed by different cults of the roman state. they were highly respected, and possessed unique rights and privileges; their persons were sacred and inviolate. their presence was required at various religious and civil rites and ceremonies. their costume was predominantly white, woolen, and had elements in common with high-status roman bridal dress. they wore a white, priestly infula, a white suffibulum (veil) and a white palla, with red ribbons to symbolise their devotion to vesta's sacred fire, and white ribbons as a mark of their purity.[ ] statue of a gallus priest, nd century, musei capitolini the flamen priesthood was dedicated to various deities of the roman state. they wore a close-fitting, rounded cap (apex) topped with a spike of olive-wood; and the laena, a long, semi-circular "flame-coloured" cloak fastened at the shoulder with a brooch or fibula. their senior was the flamen dialis, who was the high priest of jupiter and was married to the flamenica dialis. he was not allowed to divorce, leave the city, ride a horse, touch iron, or see a corpse. the laena was thought to predate the toga.[ ] the twelve salii ("leaping priests" of mars) were young patrician men, who processed through the city in a form of war-dance during the festival of mars, singing the carmen saliare. they too wore the apex, but otherwise dressed as archaic warriors, in embroidered tunics and breastplates. each carried a sword, wore a short, red military cloak (paludamentum) and ritually struck a bronze shield, whose ancient original was said to have fallen from heaven.[ ] rome recruited many non-native deities, cults and priesthoods as protectors and allies of the state. aesculapius, apollo, ceres and proserpina were worshiped using the so-called "greek rite", which employed greek priestly dress, or a romanised version of it. the priest presided in greek fashion, with his head bare or wreathed.[ ] in bc, the galli priesthood were brought to rome from phrygia, to serve the "trojan" mother goddess cybele and her consort attis on behalf of the roman state. they were legally protected but flamboyantly "un-roman". they were eunuchs, and told fortunes for money; their public rites were wild, frenzied and bloody, and their priestly garb was "womanly". they wore long, flowing robes of yellow silk, extravagant jewellery, perfume and make-up, and turbans or exotic versions of the "phrygian" hat over long, bleached hair.[ ][ ] roman clothing of late antiquity (after ad) roman fashions underwent very gradual change from the late republic to the end of the western empire, years later.[ ] in part, this reflects the expansion of rome's empire, and the adoption of provincial fashions perceived as attractively exotic, or simply more practical than traditional forms of dress. changes in fashion also reflect the increasing dominance of a military elite within government, and a corresponding reduction in the value and status of traditional civil offices and ranks. in the later empire after diocletian's reforms, clothing worn by soldiers and non-military government bureaucrats became highly decorated, with woven or embellished strips, clavi, and circular roundels, orbiculi, added to tunics and cloaks. these decorative elements usually comprised geometrical patterns and stylised plant motifs, but could include human or animal figures.[ ] the use of silk also increased steadily and most courtiers in late antiquity wore elaborate silk robes. heavy military-style belts were worn by bureaucrats as well as soldiers, revealing the general militarization of late roman government. trousers — considered barbarous garments worn by germans and persians — achieved only limited popularity in the latter days of the empire, and were regarded by conservatives as a sign of cultural decay.[ ] the toga, traditionally seen as the sign of true romanitas, had never been popular or practical. most likely, its official replacement in the east by the more comfortable pallium and paenula simply acknowledged its disuse.[ ] in early medieval europe, kings and aristocrats dressed like the late roman generals they sought to emulate, not like the older toga-clad senatorial tradition.[ ] fabrics an elaborately-designed golden fibula (brooch) with the latin inscription "vtere felix" ("use [this] with luck"), late rd century ad, from the osztropataka vandal burial site animal fibres wool wool was the most commonly used fibre in roman clothing. the sheep of tarentum were renowned for the quality of their wool, although the romans never ceased trying to optimise the quality of wool through cross-breeding. miletus in asia minor and the province of gallia belgica were also renowned for the quality of their wool exports, the latter producing a heavy, rough wool suitable for winter.[ ] for most garments, white wool was preferred; it could then be further bleached, or dyed. naturally dark wool was used for the toga pulla and work garments subjected to dirt and stains.[ ] in the provinces, private landowners and the state held large tracts of grazing land, where large numbers of sheep were raised and sheared. their wool was processed and woven in dedicated manufactories. britannia was noted for its woolen products, which included a kind of duffel coat (the birrus brittanicus), fine carpets, and felt linings for army helmets.[ ] silk further information: sino-roman relations and indo-roman trade relations a maenad wearing a silk gown, a roman fresco from the casa del naviglio in pompeii, st century ad silk from china was imported in significant quantities as early as the rd century bc. it was bought in its raw state by roman traders at the phoenician ports of tyre and beirut, then woven and dyed.[ ] as roman weaving techniques developed, silk yarn was used to make geometrically or freely figured damask, tabbies and tapestry. some of these silk fabrics were extremely fine – around threads or more per centimeter. production of such highly decorative, costly fabrics seems to have been a speciality of weavers in the eastern roman provinces, where the earliest roman horizontal looms were developed.[ ] various sumptuary laws and price controls were passed to limit the purchase and use of silk. in the early empire the senate passed legislation forbidding the wearing of silk by men because it was viewed as effeminate[ ] but there was also a connotation of immorality or immodesty attached to women who wore the material,[ ] as illustrated by seneca the elder: "i can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes... wretched flocks of maids labour so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife's body." (declamations vol. ) the emperor aurelian is said to have forbidden his wife to buy a mantle of tyrian purple silk. the historia augusta claims that the emperor elagabalus was the first roman to wear garments of pure silk (holoserica) as opposed to the usual silk/cotton blends (subserica); this is presented as further evidence of his notorious decadence.[ ][ ] moral dimensions aside, roman importation and expenditure on silk represented a significant, inflationary drain on rome's gold and silver coinage, to the benefit of foreign traders and loss to the empire. diocletian's edict on maximum prices of ad set the price of one kilo of raw silk at , gold coins.[ ] wild silk, cocoons collected from the wild after the insect had eaten its way out, was also known;[ ] being of shorter, smaller lengths, its fibres had to be spun into somewhat thicker yarn than the cultivated variety. a rare luxury cloth with a beautiful golden sheen, known as sea silk, was made from the long silky filaments or byssus produced by pinna nobilis, a large mediterranean clam.[ ] plant fibres linen pliny the elder describes the production of linen from flax and hemp. after harvesting, the plant stems were retted to loosen the outer layers and internal fibres, stripped, pounded and then smoothed. following this, the materials were woven. flax, like wool, came in various speciality grades and qualities. in pliny's opinion, the whitest (and best) was imported from spanish saetabis; at double the price, the strongest and most long-lasting was from retovium. the whitest and softest was produced in latium, falerii and paelignium. natural linen was a "greyish brown" that faded to off-white through repeated laundering and exposure to sunlight. it did not readily absorb the dyes in use at the time, and was generally bleached, or used in its raw, undyed state.[ ] other plant fibres cotton from india was imported through the same eastern mediterranean ports that supplied roman traders with silk and spices.[ ] raw cotton was sometimes used for padding. once its seeds were removed, cotton could be spun, then woven into a soft, lightweight fabric appropriate for summer use; cotton was more comfortable than wool, less costly than silk, and unlike linen, it could be brightly dyed; for this reason, cotton and linen were sometimes interwoven to produce vividly coloured, soft but tough fabric.[ ] high quality fabrics were also woven from nettle stems; poppy-stem fibre was sometimes interwoven with flax, to produce a glossy smooth, lightweight and luxuriant fabric. preparation of such stem fibres involved similar techniques to those used for linen.[ ] manufacture ready-made clothing was available for all classes, at a price; the cost of a new cloak for an ordinary commoner might represent three fifths of their annual subsistence expenses. clothing was left to heirs and loyal servants in wills, and changed hands as part of marriage settlements. high quality clothing could be hired out to the less-well-off who needed to make a good impression. clothing was a target in some street robberies, and in thefts from the public baths;[ ] it was re-sold and recycled down the social scale, until it fell to rags; even these were useful, and centonarii ("patch-workers") made a living by sewing clothing and other items from recycled fabric patches.[ ] owners of slave-run farms and sheep-flocks were advised that whenever the opportunity arose, female slaves should be fully occupied in the production of homespun woolen cloth; this would likely be good enough for clothing the better class of slave or supervisor.[ ] self-sufficiency in clothing paid off. the carding, combing, spinning and weaving of wool were part of daily housekeeping for most women. those of middling or low income could supplement their personal or family income by spinning and selling yarn, or by weaving fabric for sale. in traditionalist, wealthy households, the family's wool-baskets, spindles and looms were positioned in the semi-public reception area (atrium), where the mater familias and her familia could thus demonstrate their industry and frugality; a largely symbolic and moral activity for those of their class, rather than practical necessity.[ ] augustus was particularly proud that his wife and daughter had set the best possible example to other roman women by spinning and weaving his clothing.[ ] high-caste brides were expected to make their own wedding garments, using a traditional vertical loom.[ ] most fabric and clothing was produced by professionals whose trades, standards and specialities were protected by guilds; these in turn were recognised and regulated by local authorities.[ ] pieces were woven as closely as possible to their intended final shape, with minimal waste, cutting and sewing thereafter. once a woven piece of fabric was removed from the loom, its loose end-threads were tied off, and left as a decorative fringe, hemmed, or used to add differently coloured "etruscan style" borders, as in the purple-red border of the toga praetexta, and the vertical coloured stripe of some tunics;[ ] a technique known as "tablet weaving".[ ] weaving on an upright, hand-powered loom was a slow process. the earliest evidence for the transition from vertical to more efficient horizontal, foot-powered looms comes from egypt, around ad.[ ] even then, the lack of mechanical aids in spinning made yarn production a major bottleneck in the manufacture of cloth. colours and dyes from rome's earliest days, a wide variety of colours and coloured fabrics would have been available; in roman tradition, the first association of professional dyers dated back to the days of king numa. roman dyers would certainly have had access to the same locally produced, usually plant-based dyes as their neighbours on the italian peninsula, producing various shades of red, yellow, blue, green, and brown; blacks could be achieved using iron salts and oak gall. other dyes, or dyed cloths, could have been obtained by trade, or through experimentation. for the very few who could afford it, cloth-of-gold (lamé) was almost certainly available, possibly as early as the th century bc.[ ] throughout the regal, republican and imperial eras, the fastest, most expensive and sought-after dye was imported tyrian purple, obtained from the murex. its hues varied according to processing, the most desirable being a dark "dried-blood" red.[ ] purple had long-standing associations with regality, and with the divine. it was thought to sanctify and protect those who wore it, and was officially reserved for the border of the toga praetexta, and for the solid purple toga picta. edicts against its wider, more casual use were not particularly successful; it was also used by wealthy women and, somewhat more disreputably, by some men.[ ][ ] verres is reported as wearing a purple pallium at all-night parties, not long before his trial, disgrace and exile for corruption. for those who could not afford genuine tyrian purple, counterfeits were available.[ ] the expansion of trade networks during the early imperial era brought the dark blue of indian indigo to rome; though desirable and costly in itself, it also served as a base for fake tyrian purple.[ ] for red hues, madder was one of the cheapest dyes available. saffron yellow was much admired, but costly. it was a deep, bright and fiery yellow-orange, and was associated with purity and constancy. it was used for the flammeum (meaning "flame-coloured"), a veil used by roman brides and the flamenica dialis, who was virgin at marriage and forbidden to divorce.[ ] specific colours were associated with chariot-racing teams and their supporters. the oldest of these were the reds and the whites. during the later imperial era, the blues and greens dominated chariot-racing and, up to a point, civil and political life in rome and constantinople. although the teams and their supporters had official recognition, their rivalry sometimes spilled into civil violence and riot, both within and beyond the circus venue.[ ] leather and hide the romans had two methods of converting animal skins to leather: tanning produced a soft, supple brown leather; tawing in alum and salt produced a soft, pale leather that readily absorbed dyes. both these processes produced a strong, unpleasant odour, so tanners’ and tawers’ shops were usually placed well away from urban centres. unprocessed animal hides were supplied directly to tanners by butchers, as a byproduct of meat production; some was turned to rawhide, which made a durable shoe-sole. landowners and livestock ranchers, many of whom were of the elite class, drew a proportion of profits at each step of the process that turned their animals into leather or hide and distributed it through empire-wide trade networks. the roman military consumed large quantities of leather; for jerkins, belts, boots, saddles, harness and strap-work, but mostly for military tents.[ ][ ] laundering and fulling workers hanging up clothing to dry, wall painting from a fuller's shop (fullonica) at pompeii the almost universal habit of public bathing ensured that most romans kept their bodies at least visually clean, but dirt, spillage, staining and sheer wear of garments were constant hazards to the smart, clean appearance valued by both the elite and non-elite leisured classes, particularly in an urban setting.[ ] most romans lived in apartment blocks with no facilities for washing or finishing clothes on any but the smallest scale. professional laundries and fuller's shops (fullonicae, singular fullonica) were highly malodorous but essential and commonplace features of every city and town. small fulling enterprises could be found at local market-places; others operated on an industrial scale, and would have required a considerable investment of money and manpower, especially slaves.[ ] basic laundering and fulling techniques were simple, and labour-intensive. garments were placed in large tubs containing aged urine, then well trodden by bare-footed workers. they were well-rinsed, manually or mechanically wrung, and spread over wicker frames to dry. whites could be further brightened by bleaching with sulphur fumes. some colours could be restored to brightness by "polishing" or "refinishing" with cimolian earth (the basic fulling process). others were less colour-fast, and would have required separate laundering. in the best-equipped establishments, garments were further smoothed under pressure, using screw-presses and stretching frames.[ ] laundering and fulling were punishingly harsh to fabrics, but were evidently thought to be worth the effort and cost. the high-quality woolen togas of the senatorial class were intensively laundered to an exceptional, snowy white, using the best and most expensive ingredients. lower ranking citizens used togas of duller wool, more cheaply laundered; for reasons that remain unclear, the clothing of different status groups might have been laundered separately.[ ] front of house, fullonicae were run by enterprising citizens of lower social class, or by freedmen and freedwomen; behind the scenes, their enterprise might be supported discreetly by a rich or elite patron, in return for a share of the profits.[ ] the roman elite seem to have despised the fulling and laundering professions as ignoble; though perhaps no more than they despised all manual trades. the fullers themselves evidently thought theirs a respectable and highly profitable profession, worth celebration and illustration in murals and memorials.[ ] pompeian mural paintings of launderers and fullers at work show garments in a rainbow variety of colours, but not white; fullers seem to have been particularly valued for their ability to launder dyed garments without loss of colour, sheen or "brightness", rather than merely whitening, or bleaching.[ ] new woolen cloth and clothing may also have been laundered; the process would have partially felted and strengthened woolen fabrics, and raised the softer nap.[ ] see also 		wikimedia commons has media related to ancient roman fashion. 	clothing in the ancient world 	biblical clothing 	byzantine dress 	clothing in ancient greece 	ancient roman military clothing 	roman jewelry references 	^ heskel, j., p. in sebesta 	^ suetonius, augustus, 	^ sebesta, j. l., pp. – in sebesta 	^ a b goldman, n., pp. and in sebesta 	^ ceccarelli, l. 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	Українська 		edit links 	 		 this page was last edited on december , at :  (utc). 	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 constitution of the roman empire - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	constitution of the roman empire 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		unwritten set of guidelines and principles of the roman empire 	ancient rome 	 	this article is part of a series on the politics and government of ancient rome 	 periods 	 	roman kingdom – bc 	roman republic – bc 	roman empire bc – ad 	principate bc – ad 	dominate ad – 	western ad – 	eastern ad – 	timeline 	 roman constitution 	 	constitution of the kingdom 	constitution of the republic 	constitution of the empire 	constitution of the late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	executive magistrates 	 precedent and law 	 	roman law 	ius 	imperium 	mos maiorum 	collegiality 	auctoritas 	roman citizenship 	cursus honorum 	senatus consultum 	senatus consultum ultimum 	 assemblies 	 	centuriate 	curiate 	plebeian 	tribal 	 ordinary magistrates 	 	consul 	praetor 	quaestor 	promagistrate 	aedile 	tribune 	censor 	governor 	 extraordinary magistrates 	 	corrector 	dictator 	magister equitum 	consular tribune 	rex 	triumviri 	decemviri 	 titles and honours 	 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	praeses 	praefectus 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 	 	other countries 		v 	t 	e the constitution of the roman empire was an unwritten set of guidelines and principles passed down mainly through precedent.[ ] after the fall of the roman republic, the constitutional balance of power shifted from the roman senate to the roman emperor. beginning with the first emperor, augustus, the emperor and the senate were theoretically two co-equal branches of government. in practice, however, the actual authority of the imperial senate was negligible, as the emperor held the true power of the state. during the reign of the second emperor, tiberius, many of the powers that had been held by the roman assemblies were transferred to the senate.[ ] the powers of an emperor existed by virtue of his legal standing. the two most significant components to an emperor's power were the "tribunician powers" latin: tribunicia potestas and the proconsular imperium, or the power to command.[ ] the tribunician powers gave the emperor authority over rome itself and the civil government, while the proconsular powers gave him authority over the provinces and the army. while these distinctions were clearly defined during the early empire, eventually they were lost, and the emperor's powers became less constitutional and more monarchical. the traditional magistracies that survived the fall of the republic were the consulship, praetorship, plebeian tribunate, aedileship, quaestorship, and military tribunate. any individual of the senatorial class could run for one of these offices. if an individual was not of the senatorial class, he could run for one of these offices if he was allowed to run by the emperor, or otherwise, he could be appointed to one of these offices by the emperor. contents 	 imperial constitutional history 	 senate 	 legislative assemblies 	 executive magistrates 	 the end of the principate 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 . primary sources imperial constitutional history[edit] main articles: history of the roman constitution and history of the constitution of the roman empire the general who won the last civil war of the roman republic, gaius octavian, became the master of the state. in the years after  bc, octavian set out to reform the roman constitution. the ultimate consequence of these reforms was the abolition of the republic and the founding of the roman empire. when octavian deposed his fellow triumvir, mark antony, in  bc, he resigned his position as triumvir,[ ] but was probably vested with powers similar to those that he had given up. octavian wanted to solidify his status as master of the state whilst avoiding assassination. on january  bc, octavian gave up his extraordinary powers, including his proconsular imperium, triumvirate authority, and powers granted in the consensus universorum, back to the senate and people of rome.[ ] however, he kept the senate's grant of tribunician power in  bc and remained consul for  bc. he received from the senate, doubtlessly at his own suggestion, greater proconsular imperium for a period of ten years, giving him supreme authority over the provinces, and therefore, the entire roman military.[ ] these various powers and offices both allowed him to maintain his legal authority over the empire at large and claim that the republic was restored. the wide-reaching grant of proconsular authority was precedented in lex gabinia's grant of similar authority to pompey in  bc.[ ] furthermore, the proconsular powers were theoretically outranked by the consular powers held by the sitting consuls, allowing octavian to claim he did not stand above any other magistrates of the state.[ ] to maintain his control in italy, which was not considered a province, octavian had the assemblies elect him to the position of consul.[ ] at this point, the senate also granted octavian the title "augustus" and the position of princeps senatus, or the first senator. when augustus, as octavian was renamed, gave up the consulship in  bc,[ ] the senate granted him an expansion of his proconsular authority, with legal authority at the same level as those of the normal consuls. furthermore, augustus expanded the use of the tribunician powers granted in  bc, which allowed him to interfere in administration, convoke the people, propose legislation, veto other political bodies, etc.[ ] after these final reforms had been instituted, augustus never again altered his constitution,[ ] although he did periodically assume the office of censor to affect changes in the senatorial rolls (alone in  bc, and with tiberius in ad ) and hold the consulship (twice after  bc).[ ] when, in  bc, a famine in rome led to the people offering augustus the dictatorship, he refused, instead taking on the cura annonae: the administration of the grain supply.[ ] and when the ten-year term of his proconsular authority elapsed, he continued the fiction of the temporary nature of his authority, having it renewed in  bc,  bc,  bc,  bc, and ad.[ ] while there were minor changes in the provinces which he governed by nature of his proconsular authority (gallia narbonensis and cyprus were returned to the senate's administration in  bc),[ ] its overriding nature did not change until after his death. augustus' final goal was to figure out a method to ensure an orderly succession, something necessary in any monarchial constitution and to avoid the resurgence of civil war. augustus could not transfer his powers to a successor upon his death, as they were given specifically to him for some fixed term or during his life.[ ] thus, any successor would need to have his own authority and influence. in  bc augustus granted tribunician powers to his stepson tiberius and recognised tiberius as his heir.[ ] in ad  , a law was passed which made tiberius' legal powers equivalent to and independent from those of augustus.[ ] on augustus' death, tiberius had to take control of the state, since the nominally republican constitution did not allow for the dead emperor to bequeath powers.[ ] with the support of the praetorian guard and the army, he quickly took control of the state.[ ] during his reign, the power to elect magistrates was transferred from the assemblies to the senate and he ended the practice of proposing laws before them.[ ][ ] when tiberius died, caligula was proclaimed emperor by the senate. in , caligula was assassinated, and for two days following his assassination, the senate debated whether to restore the republic.[ ] due to the demands of the army, however, claudius was ultimately declared emperor. while claudius' antiquarian interests resulted in his attempts to revive the old censorship, these powers became increasingly folded into imperial prerogatives.[ ] over time, the consulship was increasingly devalued, as the practice of selecting suffect consuls expanded, with sometimes up to pairs of colleagues being elected every year by the antonine period.[ ] with its duties of state increasingly being folded into the office of emperor, its judicial authority was emphasised in the senate's new role as a criminal court; and with loss of practically all of the position's political powers, the consuls took over responsibility for organising public games to celebrate holidays and imperial events.[ ][ ] with the neutering of the political power of many of the republic's magistracies, many of the former high offices of state effectively became municipal offices with primarily administrative duties only in rome. the praetors became administrators of the grain dole and games, retaining some judicial authority over civil and criminal cases until the third century.[ ][ ] the aediles were duties to organise policing of games and public funerals, their judicial authority stripped away in ad, with the office going into abeyance by the middle of the third century.[ ][ ] the tribunes, who theoretically retained their veto powers, which were irrelevant, as they could be overridden by the emperor,[ ] became presidents of various new city regions.[ ] vespasian's reign saw the reorganisation of the senate from a body of aristocratic romans to one of the empire's aristocracy, with its membership and privileges given by the emperor.[ ] domitian's reign marked a significant turning point on the road to monarchy and the end of the constitutional arrangement whereby the senate and emperor ruled the empire together.[ ] after making himself consul for ten years, domitian made himself censor for life, and unlike his father, he used these powers to further subjugate the senate by controlling its membership.[ ] throughout his reign, he abrogated the rights of senators, only referred to it the most trivial matters, prevented it from acting on matters of any import, and forced it into compliance through his use of censorial powers.[ ] in effect, it became a rubber stamp. while the senate regained some authority when it elected the emperor nerva, by this point, the powers that were theoretically held by the last remaining republican institution of any import, were clearly defined only by the will of the emperor.[ ] senate[edit] main articles: roman senate and senate of the roman empire after the fall of the roman republic, the constitutional balance of power shifted from the roman senate to the roman emperor. beginning with the first emperor, augustus, the emperor and the senate were technically two co-equal branches of government. in practice, however the actual authority of the imperial senate was negligible, as the emperor held the true power of the state. as such, membership in the senate became sought after by individuals seeking prestige and social standing, rather than actual authority. during the reigns of the first emperors, legislative, judicial, and electoral powers were all transferred from the roman assemblies to the senate. however, since the control that the emperor held over the senate was absolute, the senate acted as a vehicle through which the emperor exercised his autocratic powers. the curia julia in the roman forum, the seat of the imperial senate. the first emperor, augustus, inherited a senate whose membership had been increased to senators by his predecessor, the roman dictator julius caesar. augustus reduced the size of the senate to members, and after this point, the size of the senate was never again drastically altered. one could become a senator by being elected quaestor (a magistrate with financial duties). however, one could only stand for election to the quaestorship if one was of senatorial rank, and to be of senatorial rank, one had to be the son of a senator.[ ] if an individual was not of senatorial rank, there were two ways for that individual to become a senator. under the first method, the emperor granted that individual the authority to stand for election to the quaestorship,[ ] while under the second method, the emperor appointed that individual to the senate.[ ] the power that the emperor held over the senate was absolute, in part due to the fact that the emperor was also censor, meaning he controlled membership in the body itself.[ ] during senate meetings, the emperor sat between the two consuls,[ ] and usually acted as the presiding officer. higher ranking senators spoke before lower ranking senators, although the emperor could speak at any time.[ ] most of the bills that came before the senate were presented by the emperor,[ ] who had usually appointed a committee to draft each bill before presenting it. while the roman assemblies continued to meet after the founding of the empire, their powers were all transferred to the senate, and so senatorial decrees (senatus consulta) acquired the full force of law.[ ] the legislative powers of the imperial senate were principally of a financial and an administrative nature, although the senate did retain a range of powers over the provinces.[ ] during the early empire, all judicial powers that had been held by the roman assemblies were also transferred to the senate. for example, the senate now held jurisdiction over criminal trials. in these cases, a consul presided, the senators constituted the jury, and the verdict was handed down in the form of a decree (senatus consultum),[ ] and, while a verdict could not be appealed, the emperor could pardon a convicted individual through a veto. in theory, the senate elected new emperors, while in conjunction with the popular assemblies, it would then confer upon the new emperor his command powers (imperium).[ ] after an emperor had died or abdicated his office, the senate would often deify him, although sometimes it would pass a decree (damnatio memoriae or "damnation from memory") which would attempt to cancel every trace of that emperor from the life of rome, as if he had never existed.[ ] the emperor tiberius transferred all electoral powers from the assemblies to the senate,[ ] and, while theoretically the senate elected new magistrates, the approval of the emperor was always needed before an election could be finalized.[ ] legislative assemblies[edit] main articles: roman assemblies and legislative assemblies of the roman empire the legislative assemblies of the roman empire were political institutions in the ancient roman empire. during the reign of the second roman emperor, tiberius, the powers that had been held by the roman assemblies (the comitia) were transferred to the senate. the neutering of the assemblies had become inevitable because the electors were, in general, ignorant as to the merits of the important questions that were laid before them,[ ] and often willing to sell their votes to the highest bidder. after the founding of the roman empire, the people of rome continued to organize by centuries and by tribes, but by this point, these divisions had lost most of their relevance.[ ] lictor, painted by cesare vecellio. while the machinery of the centuriate assembly continued to exist well into the life of the empire,[ ] the assembly lost all of its practical relevance. under the empire, all gatherings of the centuriate assembly were in the form of an unsorted convention. legislation was never submitted to the imperial centuriate assembly, and the one major legislative power that this assembly had held under the republic, the right to declare war, was now delegated to the emperor through his greater proconsular authority.[ ][ ] all judicial powers that had been held by the republican centuriate assembly were transferred to independent jury courts, and under the emperor tiberius, all of its former electoral powers were transferred to the senate.[ ] after it had lost all of these powers, it had no remaining authority. its only remaining function was, after the senate had 'elected' the magistrates, to hear the renuntiatio,[ ] the renuntiatio had no legal purpose, but instead was a ceremony in which the results of the election were read to the electors. this allowed the emperor to claim that the magistrates had been "elected" by a sovereign people. after the founding of the empire, the tribal divisions of citizens and freedmen continued, but the only political purpose of the tribal divisions was such that they better enabled the senate to maintain a list of citizens.[ ] tribal divisions also simplified the process by which grain was distributed.[ ] eventually, most freedmen belonged to one of the four urban tribes, while most freemen belonged to one of the thirty-one rural tribes.[ ] under the emperor tiberius, the electoral powers of the tribal assembly were transferred to the senate. each year, after the senate had elected the annual magistrates, the tribal assembly also heard the renuntiatio.[ ] any legislation that the emperor submitted to the assemblies for ratification were submitted to the tribal assembly.[ ] the assembly ratified imperial decrees, starting with the emperor augustus, and continuing until the emperor domitian. the ratification of legislation by the assembly, however, had no legal importance as the emperor could make any decree into law, even without the acquiescence of the assemblies. thus, under the empire, the chief executive again became the chief lawgiver, which was a power he had not held since the days of the early republic.[ ] the plebeian council also survived the fall of the republic,[ ] and it also lost its judicial and electoral powers to the senate during the reign of tiberius, even if many of augustus' reforms were passed as plebiscita in the council.[ ] while it retained its theoretical legislative powers, after the reign of tiberius, the only known piece of legislation, excepting the grants of tribunician power to the emperor, passed via the council is an agrarian law under nerva.[ ] by virtue of his tribunician powers, the emperor always had absolute control over the council.[ ] executive magistrates[edit] main articles: roman magistrates and executive magistrates of the roman empire the executive magistrates were elected individuals of the ancient roman empire. the powers of an emperor, (his imperium) existed, in theory at least, by virtue of his legal standing. the two most significant components to an emperor's imperium were the "tribunician powers" (potestas tribunicia) and the "proconsular powers" (imperium proconsulare).[ ] in theory at least, the tribunician powers (which were similar to those of the plebeian tribunes under the old republic) gave the emperor authority over rome's civil government, while the proconsular powers (similar to those of military governors, or proconsuls, under the old republic) gave him authority over the roman army. while these distinctions were clearly defined during the early empire, eventually they were lost, and the emperor's powers became less constitutional and more monarchical.[ ] by virtue of his proconsular powers, the emperor held the same grade of military command authority as did the chief magistrates (the roman consuls and proconsuls) under the republic. however, the emperor was not subject to the constitutional restrictions that the old consuls and proconsuls had been subject to.[ ] eventually, he was given powers that, under the republic, had been reserved for the roman senate and the roman assemblies, including the right to declare war, to ratify treaties, and to negotiate with foreign leaders.[ ] the emperor's degree of proconsular power gave him authority over all of rome's military governors, and thus, over most of the roman army. the emperor's tribunician powers gave him power over rome's civil apparatus,[ ][ ] as well as the power to preside over, and thus to dominate, the assemblies and the senate.[ ] when an emperor was vested with the tribunician powers, his office and his person became sacrosanct,[ ] and thus it became a capital offense to harm or to obstruct the emperor.[ ] the emperor also had the authority to carry out a range of duties that, under the republic, had been performed by the roman censors. such duties included the authority to regulate public morality (censorship) and to conduct a census. as part of the census, the emperor had the power to assign individuals to a new social class, including the senatorial class, which gave the emperor unchallenged control over senate membership.[ ] the emperor also had the power to interpret laws and to set precedents.[ ] in addition, the emperor controlled the religious institutions, since, as emperor, he was always pontifex maximus and a member of each of the four major priesthoods.[ ] under the empire, the citizens were divided into three classes, and for members of each class, a distinct career path was available (known as the cursus honorum).[ ] the traditional magistracies were only available to citizens of the senatorial class. the magistracies that survived the fall of the republic were (by their order of rank per the cursus honorum) the consulship, praetorship, plebeian tribunate, aedileship, quaestorship, and military tribunate.[ ] if an individual was not of the senatorial class, he could run for one of these offices if he was allowed to run by the emperor, or otherwise, he could be appointed to one of these offices by the emperor. during the transition from republic to empire, no office lost more power or prestige than the consulship, which was due, in part, to the fact that the substantive powers of republican consuls were all transferred to the emperor. imperial consuls could preside over the senate, could act as judges in certain criminal trials, and had control over public games and shows.[ ] the praetors also lost a great deal of power, and ultimately had little authority outside of the city.[ ] the chief praetor in rome, the urban praetor, outranked all other praetors, and for a brief time, they were given power over the treasury.[ ] under the empire, the plebeian tribunes remained sacrosanct,[ ] and, in theory at least, retained the power to summon, or to veto, the senate and the assemblies.[ ] augustus divided the college of quaestors into two divisions, and assigned one division the task of serving in the senatorial provinces, and the other the task of managing civil administration in rome.[ ] under augustus, the aediles lost control over the grain supply to a board of commissioners. it wasn't until after they lost the power to maintain order in the city, however, that they truly became powerless, and the office disappeared entirely during the rd century.[ ] the end of the principate[edit] see also: constitution of the late roman empire and history of the constitution of the late roman empire during the period that began with the accession of the emperor nerva and ended with the death of the emperor commodus, the empire continued to weaken. it was becoming difficult to recruit enough soldiers for the army, inflation was becoming an issue, and on at least one occasion, the empire almost went bankrupt. the most significant constitutional development during this era was the steady drift towards monarchy. it is not known exactly how m. cocceius nerva became emperor, although he was probably supported by the conspirators who overthrew domitian. his reign, while too short for any major constitutional reforms, did reverse some of the abuses that his predecessor was responsible for.[ ] when nerva died in january , trajan succeeded him without opposition. trajan went further than even nerva had in restoring the image of a free republic.[ ] he refused to preside over capital trials against senators, and was away from rome for such extended periods that the senate even regained some independent legislative abilities.[ ] hadrian succeeded trajan as emperor. by far, his most important constitutional alteration was his creation of a bureaucratic apparatus,[ ] which included a fixed gradation of clearly defined offices, and a corresponding order of promotion. many of the functions that had been outsourced in the past were now to be performed by the state, and this system would be revived by the emperor diocletian when he established the tetrarchy.[ ] hadrian was succeeded by antonius pius, who made no real changes to the constitution.[ ] he was succeeded by marcus aurelius in . the most significant constitutional development that occurred during the reign of marcus aurelius was the revival of the republican principle of collegiality,[ ] as he made his brother, l. aelius,[ ] his co-emperor. marcus aurelius ruled the western half of the empire, while his brother ruled the eastern half of the empire. in , aelius died, and in , marcus aurelius made his son, l. aurelius commodus, his new co-emperor. this arrangement was also revived when the emperor diocletian established the tetrarchy. in , marcus aurelius died, and commodus became emperor. commodus' tyranny revived the worst memories of the later julian emperors,[ ] as he was more explicit than any of his predecessors in taking powers that he did not legally have, and in disregarding the constitution. he was killed in . no further constitutional reforms were enacted during the principate. the only development of any significance was the continuing slide towards monarchy, as the constitutional distinctions that had been set up by augustus lost whatever meaning that they still had. starting in , with the reign of the barbarian emperor maximinus thrax, the empire was put through a period of severe military, civil, and economic stress. the crisis arguably reached its height during the reign of gallienus, from to . the crisis ended with the accession of diocletian in , who reformed the imperial military, administrative, and economic system, and in doing so abolished the principate in favour of a naked autocratic empire. see also[edit] ‹ the template below (columns) is being considered for deletion. see templates for discussion to help reach a consensus. › 	 	roman kingdom 	roman republic 	roman empire 	roman law 	plebeian council 	centuria 		 	curia 	roman consul 	praetor 	roman censor 	quaestor 	aedile 		 	roman dictator 	master of the horse 	roman senate 	cursus honorum 	byzantine senate 	pontifex maximus 		 	princeps senatus 	interrex 	promagistrate 	acta senatus 	constitution (roman law) references[edit] 	^ 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(translated from the original, with dissertations and notes in two volumes by francis barham, esq ed.). london: edmund spettigue. 	holland, tom ( ). rubicon: the last years of the roman republic. random house books. isbn  - - - . 	polybius ( ). the general history of polybius: translated from the greek. vol. (fifth ed.). oxford: printed by w. baxter. 	taylor, lily ross ( ). roman voting assemblies: from the hannibalic war to the dictatorship of caesar. the university of michigan press. isbn  - - -x. 	taylor, lily ross; scott, russell t ( ). "seating space in the roman senate and the senatores pedarii". transactions and proceedings of the american philological association. the johns hopkins university press. : . doi: . / . jstor  . primary sources[edit] 	cicero's de re publica, book two 	rome at the end of the punic wars: an analysis of the roman government; by polybius 	 	v 	t 	e roman constitution 	ancient rome	 	history 	constitution 	senate 	assemblies 	curiate 	century 	tribal 	plebeian 	magistrates 	roman kingdom	 	history 	constitution 	senate 	assemblies 	magistrates 	roman republic	 	history 	constitution (reforms of sulla • reforms of caesar • reforms of augustus) 	senate 	assemblies 	magistrates 	roman empire	 	history 	(post diocletian) 	constitution 	(post diocletian) 	senate 	assemblies 	magistrates 	miscellaneous	 	sulla's constitutional reforms 	caesar's constitutional reforms 	conflict of the orders 	roman law 	 	v 	t 	e ancient rome topics 	 	outline 	timeline 	history	 	 	foundation 	kingdom 	overthrow 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kingdom 	 . early republic (before bc) 	 . middle republic ( – bc) 	 . late republic (after bc) 	 . early/high empire ( bc to ad ) 	 . . the julio-claudian dynasty 	 . . the flavian dynasty 	 . . the nervan-antonian (ulpio-aelia) dynasty 	 . middle empire (ad – ) 	 . late empire: west (ad – ) 	 . byzantine empire (ad – ) 	 unknown period 	 detective fiction 	 science fiction/time travel novels 	 . alternate history 	 comic books 	 movies 	 plays 	 television 	 video games 	 works inspired by roman history, or by works of fiction and non-fiction about rome 	 . science fiction 	 . comic books 	 see also 	 references 	 external links historical novels arranged by the period of their setting[edit] rome as a kingdom[edit] if you know of works set in the pre-republican era, please expand this section. 	founding fathers ( ) by alfred duggan. originally titled children of the wolf, this novel tells the story of king romulus and the founding of rome through the eyes of a variety of characters who come to the new city. 	roma ( ) by steven saylor. according to the author's website, the book covers part of rome's early history.[ ] 	the seven kings of rome series: the arms of quirinus ( ), the scent of hyacinth ( ), the warrior's dance ( ) by sherrie seibert goff early republic (before bc)[edit] if you know of works set in the early republic, please expand this section. 	roma, published march , , by steven saylor. according to the author's website, the book covers part of rome's early history.[ ] 	the wedding shroud, published september by elisabeth storrs. this book is set on the cusp of the th and th centuries bc, about a roman girl married to an etruscan man in the events leading up to the war between rome and veii. the great roman general marcus furius camillus is featured. 	the etruscan by mika waltari. part of the story is set on the first few years of the republic. 	traitors’ legion (ace g- , ) by jay scotland, a swashbucker about a disgraced legion, set in hannibal's time. middle republic ( – bc)[edit] if you know of works set in the middle republic, please expand this section. 	roma, published march , , by steven saylor. according to the author's website, the book covers part of rome's republican history.[ ] 	scipio: a novel, published march by ross leckie (scottish writer). this is the second book in a loose trilogy about the second punic war. 	scipio trilogy by santiago posteguillo (the punic wars general publius cornelius scipio) 	africanus, el hijo del cónsul 	las legiones malditas 	la traición de roma 	of merchants & heroes, published by paul waters. set at the end of the rd century bc, about the life of a fictional roman called marcus. in the novel marcus becomes involved in the war against philip v of macedon, which was led by titus quinctius flamininus, who later became consul and is a major character in the story. 	"the shield of rome", published by william kelso. bc. the novel is set during "rome's finest hour" after the battle of cannae when hannibal threatens the very existence of the republic. 	"the fortune of carthage", published by william kelso. bc. the novel is set during the nd punic war and covers hasdrubal barca's attempt to link up with the carthaginian army of his brother hannibal. 	numancia by josé luis corral ( nd century bc, numantia) late republic (after bc)[edit] 	viriato by joão aguiar (late nd, early st century bc, viriathus) 	alberix the celt, books and ( - ) by albert noyer, as julius caesar's territory is threatened, he invades gaul. attracted to roman institutions, alberix survives the war and is elected a magistrate. covers the years b.c. to b.c. 	the bow of heaven ( ) by andrew levkoff, a novel of events leading up to the battle of carrhae, and the triumvir responsible for one of the greatest defeats suffered by republican rome, marcus licinius crassus 	young caesar ( ) by rex warner 	imperium and lustrum (novel) by robert harris, the first two volumes of a trilogy of fictionalized biography told by his slave, later freedman, tiro depicting cicero's rise to the consulship in bc and subsequent role in the final days of the republic. 	a pillar of iron ( ) by taylor caldwell, a fictionalized biography of cicero. 	imperial caesar ( ) also by rex warner 	the ides of march ( ) by thornton wilder, culminating in caesar's assassination. 	the key ( ), the door in the wall ( ), the lock ( ) by benita kane jaro 	catiline ( ) by brandon winningham 	barbarians in the republic: the long journey to rome ( ) by skarr one 	caesar, antony by allan massie 	freedom, farewell! by phyllis bentley. 	the roma sub rosa series by steven saylor is set in the later years of the republic and the beginning of the augustan period. 	roma, published march , , by steven saylor. according to the author's website, the book covers part of rome's early history.[ ] 	the emperor series ( - ), by conn iggulden, julius caesar's life 	 th legion: battle born ( ) by ben soden the first book in a series based on a fictional group of roman legionary anti-heroes who join the th legion in hispania culminating in the beginnings of the helvetian campaigns. 	the last king: rome's greatest enemy ( ) by michael curtis ford. the career of mithridates vi ( - bc) 	the masters of rome series by colleen mccullough. beginning before the birth of julius caesar to after his death, it details the self-immolation of the roman republic. 	spartacus by howard fast 	spartacus by lewis grassic gibbon 	three's company ( ) by alfred duggan. the career of lepidus, triumvir with octavian and marcus antonius after the death of julius caesar. 	winter quarters ( ) by alfred duggan. two gauls in the time of julius caesar, one of whom is under a curse from the mother goddess, whose worship he finds throughout the roman world. 	the conquered by naomi mitchison ( ). gaul & the gallic wars st century bc 	beric the briton: a story of the roman invasion ( ) by g. a. henty 	imperial caesar ( ) also by rex warner 	marius' mules ( ) by s.j.a. turney. fictionalised account of caesar's gallic wars from the point of view of a fictional legate. series ongoing at books to 	"marching with caesar series" by r.w. peake a mostly accurate fiction that takes place during the rise of julius caesar, with his first campaign in gaul, onwards and beyond his life, from the perspective of a soldier as he rises through the ranks[ ] early/high empire ( bc to ad )[edit] 	hay luz en casa de publio fama by juan miñana (barcino s ad) 	someday never comes by mk kayem 	an imaginary life by david malouf. a fictional account of the poet ovid's exile from rome. 	the quest for the lost roman legions by tony clunn, battle of the teutoburg forest, with his account of his discovery of the battlefield 	persona non grata, terra incognita, medicus and caveat emptor, a series of mysteries featuring the "reluctant sleuth" gaius petreius ruso by ruth downie, set around ad. 	three legions series by rosemary sutcliff set in roman britain c. ad. the three novels consist of the eagle of the ninth ( ), the silver branch ( ), and the lantern bearers ( ). the three were first collected in one volume as three legions in . 	empire published august , , by steven saylor. the book follows two families through rome's imperial history, from the reign of augustus to the reign of hadrian. the sequel to roma. 	vespasian series by robert fabbri. the series details the early career and rise to power of vespasian. 	empire series by anthony riches. the series follows the fortunes marcus corvus during the reign of commodus. the julio-claudian dynasty[edit] 	the nero prediction by humphry knipe 	the roman ( ) by mika waltari 	the tribune: a novel of ancient rome by patrick larkin 	augustus by john williams 	augustus, tiberius, caligula and nero's heirs by allan massie 	empire: the novel of imperial rome by steven saylor 	let the emperor speak: a novel of caesar augustus by allan massie, doubleday & company, inc, new york, (first published in great britain in by the bodley head as augustus). also by this author: caesar, anthony, tiberius, caligula and nero's heirs. 	"pretender" by lion feuchtwanger 	"feast of sorrow" by crystal king ( ) about roman gourmand marcus gavius apicius books about early christians or the christ include: 	ben-hur: a tale of the christ ( ) by lew wallace; famously made into a film starring charlton heston; set in the reign of tiberius in judaea, the mediterranean, and rome. epilogues carry the story into the reign of nero 	i am a barbarian ( , written ) by edgar rice burroughs; the fictionalized memoirs of caligula's slave. 	a voice in the wind ( ) by francine rivers; the story of hadassah, a christian slave taken from jerusalem and taken to rome in the time of titus and his father mark of the lion trilogy book 	an echo in the darkness ( ) by francine rivers; the continuing story of hadassah and marcus. mark of the lion trilogy book 	as sure as the dawn ( ) by francine rivers; the continuing story of atretes. mark of the lion trilogy book 	the centurion's wife ( ) by davis bunn, janette oke life for an early christian woman and her marriage to a roman soldier. acts of faith book 	the hidden flame ( ) by davis bunn, janette oke acts of faith book 	the damascus way ( ) by davis bunn, janette oke acts of faith book 	the seventh season ( ) by emmanuel of samaria; features a meeting between st andrew and nero. 	the robe ( ), by lloyd c. douglas, set in the same period as ben-hur; like ben-hur, more famous as a film. books about claudius or set in his reign include: 	i, claudius ( ) and its sequel, claudius the god ( ), by robert graves. the classic and influential dramatised account of the life of the emperor claudius, made into a popular tv series (see below). 	the eagle series by nigerian-born british novelist simon scarrow. the first book under the eagle (part of the eagle series) was published by simon scarrow. story of roman invasion of britain, featuring a young vespasian. other books in the series include the eagle's conquest ( set in ad (introducing boudicca at the end); when the eagle hunts ( ) set in ad. other books in the series include the eagle and the wolves ( ), the eagle's prey ( ), the eagle's prophecy ( ), the eagle in the sand ( ), and the forthcoming centurion (january - ). books set in nero's reign include: 	beric the briton, a story of the roman invasion ( ) by g. a. henty; the story of a romanized briton captured as a rebel and sent to rome as a gladiator 	quo vadis ( / ), by henryk sienkiewicz set in the reign of nero in ad. 	the flames of rome by paul l. maier 	a song for nero ( ) by tom holt, writing as thomas holt. 	letters from the realms of nero ( ) by george kapo; story of british slave girl in household of seneca 	rubies of the viper ( ) and its sequel the viper amulet ( ) by martha marks; interwoven stories of a roman woman who inherits a fortune when her brother is murdered and a greek slave who comes into her possession as part of the estate; set in ad – . 	nero, the bloody poet by dezső kosztolányi 	the ides of april by mary ray: part of the roman empire sequence.[ ] 	imperial governor ( , reprinted ), george shipway, the icenii revolt under boudicca. 	the roman ( ) by mika waltari 	the cleft by doris lessing is a book supposedly written by an historian during nero's reign. the flavian dynasty[edit] 	josephus trilogy ( ), by lion feuchtwanger about flavius josephus, but set in ancient rome during reign of vespasianus and titus 	"in the shadow of tyranny" ( ), the first novel by chris westcott tells the story of gaius whose fate and fortune is aligned to the reigns of vespasian, titus and the tyranny of domitian. 	the course of honour ( ), the first novel by lindsey davis (later author of the marcus didius falco mysteries, which also take place during the reign on vespasianus) narrates the history of vespasian's imperial freedwoman mistress antonia caenis. 	the light bearer ( ), by donna gillespie tells the story of a germanic female warrior who becomes a gladiator in rome in the reign of domitian. 	mistress of rome by kate quinn is the story of a young jewish slave who rises to become the mistress of emperor domitian. 	daughters of rome by kate quinn is set during the year of four emperors and ends with the rise of vespasian. 	trajan trilogy by santiago posteguillo (trajan life) 	los asesinos del emperador (domitian death) 	circo máximo (trajan's dacian wars) 	the last days of pompeii by e.g.bulwer-lytton 	pompeii by robert harris, tells the story of pompeii and the volcano vesuveus during the reign of titus. 	the veteran of rome series by william kelso tells the story of a roman military family in roman britain from ad to ad. 	"in the shadow of tyranny" by chris westcott set in the reigns of vespasian, titus and domitian 	"the jew of rome" by lion feuchtwanger the nervan-antonian (ulpio-aelia) dynasty[edit] 	empress of the seven hills by kate quinn is set during the reign of trajan. 	lady of the eternal city by kate quinn is set during the reign of hadrian. 	the equinox ( ) by carol saylor, of rome in the time of commodus 	memoirs of hadrian ( ) by marguerite yourcenar 	the emperor by georg ebers, another fictitious biography of hadrian 	a god strolling in the cool of the evening ( ) by mario de carvalho, set mainly in roman lusitania 	romanike ( - ) by codex regius, a series of six novels set mainly on both sides of the upper-germanic limes middle empire (ad – )[edit] 	family favourites ( ), by alfred duggan; a tale of court life under the teenage emperor elagabalus, as recounted by his personal bodyguard 	warrior of rome series by historian harry sidebottom, takes place in the years to , mostly from to , six books so far published 	iron and rust also by historian harry sidebottom, takes place before the warrior of rome series late empire: west (ad – )[edit] “flavius aetius: the last conqueror and flavius aetius: twilight of empines” by jose gomez rivera iii ( , ) set in the religious-olitival struggles of russia 	"the saint's day deaths" by albert noyer, ( ) set in ancient mainz, a.d. : citizens are found murdered on their namesake's feast day and in the same grisly manner the saint was martyred. who is doing this, why, and who will be next? 	"the secundus papyrus" by albert noyer, ( ) a getorius and arcadia mystery. a.d. : terms of a "last will and test-ament" of christ will bring chaos to the roman world. what did christ leave and to whom; is it genuine; what happened to it? 	"the cybelene conspiracy" by albert noyer, ( ) a getorius and arcadia mystery. a.d. : two products smuggled into italy from china could change the course of western history. what are they and what happened to them? 	"death at pergamum" by albert noyer, ( ) a getorius and arcadia mystery. a.d. : a woman minister stages a bizarre egypto-christian resurrection on the 'throne of satan' to discredit a pagan physician at the asklepion healing shrine. 	unholy sepulcher" by albert noyer, ( ) a getorius and arcadia mystery. a.d. : a body found in jerusalem's holy sepulcher leads to arcadia's abduction by a cult member, where a bedouin warlord will sell her to the highest bidder. 	"the kashat deception" by albert noyer, ( ) a getorius and arcadia mystery. prologue. a.d. / story a.d. : a papyrus concealed in a kushite prince's mummy reveals a youthful jesus raised in an egyptian tradition of diviners and healers. if genuine, orthodox christianity is threatened. 	the young julian by thomas j. hairston 	helena by evelyn waugh; follows the quest of the empress helena, a christian and the mother of emperor constantine to uncover the remains of the cross upon which christ was crucified. 	julian ( ) by gore vidal, fictionalized biography of the emperor julian the apostate, who tried to revive paganism 	the last legion: a novel by valerio massimo manfredi; fictionalized story of the emperor romulus augustulus and what might have happened to his surviving retinue. 	eagle in the snow ( ) by wallace breem; set in britannia and germania in the late th and early th century; features a mithraic roman general. 	the little emperors ( ) by alfred duggan. a succession of coups in late-roman britain. 	gods and legions: a novel of the roman empire ( ) by michael curtis ford 	the sword of attila: a novel of the last years of rome ( ) by michael curtis ford 	the fall of rome: a novel of a world lost ( ) by michael curtis ford 	raptor ( ) by gary jennings is an historical novel set in the late th and early th centuries. it purports to be the memoirs of an ostrogoth, thorn, who has a secret. 	threshold of fire: a novel of fifth century rome ( ) by hella hasse 	legionary ( ) by gordon doherty 	legionary: viper of the north ( ) by gordon doherty 	legionary: land of the sacred fire ( ) by gordon doherty 	legionary: the scourge of thracia ( ) by gordon doherty 	legionary: gods & emperors ( ) by gordon doherty 	legionary: empire of shades ( ) by gordon doherty 	legionary: the blood road ( ) by gordon doherty 	legionary: dark eagle ( ) by gordon doherty 	legionary: eagles in the desert ( ) by gordon doherty 	embers of empire, the veiled assassin ( ) by q. v. hunter espionage adventure series set during reigns of constantius ii and julian the apostate 	embers of empire, usurpers ( ) by q. v. hunter 	embers of empire, the back door to hell ( ) by q. v. hunter 	embers of empire, the wolves of ambition ( ) by q. v. hunter 	embers of empire, the deadly caesar ( ) by q. v. hunter 	embers of empire, the burning stakes ( ) by q. v. hunter 	sons of rome ( ) by gordon doherty & s.j.a. turney 	masters of rome ( ) by gordon doherty & s.j.a. turney byzantine empire (ad – )[edit] 	anna of byzantium, 	bélisaire 	belisarius series 	count belisarius ( ), by robert graves, set in the th century, in the reign of justinian 	the dancing bear ( ), by peter dickinson. young adult. 	justinian, a novel, by h n turteltaub (harry turtledove), august 	the palaeologian dynasty. the rise and fall of byzantium 	roma eterna ( ), by robert silverberg 	a struggle for rome ( ), by felix dahn 	tirant lo blanch (finished posthumously by martí joan de galba, published ), by joanot martorell 	up the line ( ), by robert silverberg 	you with the roses - what are you selling?, ( ) a novel by james wellard, fictionalised biography of the empress theodora 	strategos: born in the borderlands ( ) by gordon doherty 	strategos: rise of the golden heart ( ) by gordon doherty 	strategos: island in the storm ( ) by gordon doherty unknown period[edit] 	avventura nel primo secolo by paolo monelli 	sand of the arena by james duffy 	in the army of marcus batallius by david m. ross 	 a.d. by d.g. bellenger 	three's company, winter quarters, conscience of the king, the little emperors and family favourites by alfred duggan 	domitia & domitian by david corson 	games of venus by sylvia shults 	antonia by brenda jagger 	the virgin's tale by sherri smith 	den of wolves by luke devenish 	nest of vipers by luke devenish 	the tribune: a novel of ancient rome by patrick larkin 	hadrian's wall: a novel by william dietrich 	the centurion: a novel ( ) by jan de hartog 	the nero prediction by humphry knipe detective fiction[edit] 	search the seven hills (the quirinal hill affair) ( ) by barbara hambly 	the roma sub rosa series ( – ) by steven saylor, starts with roman blood ( ); the books cover the period bc to bc. 	the marcus didius falco series by lindsey davis, starts with the silver pigs; set in the reign of vespasian. 	the spqr series by john maddox roberts. 	the i, claudia series of novels by marilyn todd featuring her picaresque heroine claudia seferius 	the publius aurelius series by danila comastri montanari 	the marcus_corvinus_(fictional_character)series by david wishart 	roman justice: spqr: too roman to handle, by anne hart 	the roman mysteries young adults' detective/drama series by caroline lawrence 	the caius trilogy by german author henry winterfeld: caius ist ein dummkopf (caius is an idiot); caius geht ein licht auf (caius has an inspiration), and caius in der klemme (caius in a fix). the first part was published in english with the alternate title detectives in togas. the second was published in english with the alternate title mystery of the roman ransom. 	the third princess: a septimus severus quistus roman mystery by philip boast 	rubies of the viper ( ) by martha marks. a roman woman sets out to uncover the identity of her brother's murderer. 	the eagle series by simon scarrow (see above) 	the germanicus mosaic series by rosemary rowe - set in later roman britain science fiction/time travel novels[edit] 	caesar's bicycle ( ) (timeline wars series) by john barnes 	the green bronze mirror ( ) by lynne ellison (young adult); set in reign of nero 	arria marcella ( ) by théophile gautier set in ad in pompeii 	household gods ( ), by judith tarr and harry turtledove set in the reign of marcus aurelius 	the time travelling cat and the roman eagle ( ) by julia jarman 	toss of the coin (time rangers) ( ) by rob childs 	in daniel godfrey's new pompeii (titan books, ), the population of ancient pompeii is transported through time to the present day and into a replica of their town. 	"codex alera" jim butcher's fantasy take on what happened to the lost roman legion. alternate history[edit] the following alternate history novels are set in fictional universes where rome's struggle with carthago went differently 	the seven hills ( ) by john maddox roberts 	alejandro y las águilas de roma by javier negrete (alexander the great doesn't die in babylon and goes on to italy to fight rome) 	delenda est by poul anderson 	lest darkness fall ( ) by l. sprague de camp; a time-travelling american alters history, set in ad. 	agent of byzantium by harry turtledove set in an alternate th century with no islam. 	hannibal's children ( ) and its sequel the seven hills by john maddox roberts. a victorious hannibal sends all the romans into exile, but they found a new city and their descendants return for vengeance. the following alternate history novels are set in fictional universes where the roman empire never fell, and has endured to the present day: 	romanitas ( ), by sophia mcdougall 	rome burning ( ), sequel to romanitas, by sophia mcdougall 	roma eterna, a novel by robert silverberg 	warlords of utopia by lance parkin 	gunpowder empire by harry turtledove 	the aquiliad ( ), by somtow sucharitkul. circa ad. a light-hearted novel in which roman legions discover america, battle the aztecs, encounter big foot, and drive off flying saucers. 	oebis ( ), by scott mackay. romans return to a modern-day earth to retake it from alien invaders who exiled them centuries ago and imposed a strange form of christianity. 	the germanicus trilogy, a collection of books by kirk mitchell. 	emperor ( ), by stephen baxter. after a celtic chieftain obeys an ancient prophecy, and sides with the invaders, the history of roman britain takes a different path. first in a series. the following alternate history novels are set in fictional universes where julius caesar survived his assassination attempt: 	"caesar ascending" series by r.w. peake. caesar survives his assassination and carries out his plans to invade parthia. comic books[edit] 	the adventures of alix ( -now) series by jacques martin of which some titles are set in rome and the ancient world. this series has a spin-off, called the travels of alix, that gives illustrated information on famous places and empires of the ancient world during the roman era. 	astérix ( -now) series by rené goscinny (stories) and albert uderzo (illustrations). a tiny village in gaul holds out against the roman army, and its doughtiest warriors meet all the famous romans. 	murena ( -now) series by jean dufaux and philippe delaby 	le fléau des dieux ( – ) series by valérie mangin and aleksa gajic. science fiction set in a remote future movies[edit] main article: list of films set in ancient rome 	quo vadis - u.s. director mervyn leroy 	the robe - u.s. director henry koster 	demetrius and the gladiators - u.s. director delmer daves (sequel to the robe) 	jupiter's darling - u.s. director george sidney, based on a play by robert e. sherwood 	ben-hur - u.s. director william wyler 	spartacus - u.s. director stanley kubrick 	king of kings - u.s. director nicholas ray 	cleopatra - u.s. director joseph l. mankiewicz 	the fall of the roman empire - u.s. director anthony mann 	the greatest story ever told - u.s. director george stevens 	a funny thing happened on the way to the forum - u.s. director richard lester 	fellini satyricon - italy director federico fellini 	jesus christ superstar - u.s. director norman jewison 	sebastiane - uk director derek jarman 	caligula - u.s. director tinto brass 	monty python's life of brian - u.k. director terry jones 	history of the world part - u.s. director mel brooks 	the last temptation of christ - u.s. director martin scorsese 	titus - u.s. director julie taymor 	gladiator - u.s. director ridley scott 	quo vadis - polish/u.s. director jerzy kawalerowicz, remake of film 	king arthur - u.s. director antoine fuqua 	the passion of the christ - u.s. director mel gibson 	the nativity story - u.s. director catherine hardwicke 	agora - spain director alejandro amenábar 	centurion - uk director neil marshall 	the eagle - uk director kevin macdonald plays[edit] 	joseph addison 	cato 	albert camus 	caligula 	pierre corneille 	cinna 	henrik ibsen 	emperor and galilean 	ben jonson 	sejanus, his fall 	heinrich von kleist 	die hermannsschlacht 	william shakespeare 	titus andronicus 	julius caesar 	antony and cleopatra 	coriolanus 	cymbeline 	robert sherwood 	the road to rome ( ), on which a little-known film jupiter's darling was based. 	stephen sondheim 	a funny thing happened on the way to the forum television[edit] 	i, claudius 	julius caesar minisieries by uli edel 	masada 	mystery science theater (part of season ) 	pompeii: the last day a dramatized documentary 	the roman holidays 	rome 	spartacus miniseries by robert dornhelm (director) 	spartacus: blood and sand 	up pompeii! 	bread and circuses (star trek: the original series) video games[edit] 	video game 	year 	platform 	score[ ] 	hegemony rome: rise of caesar 	 	microsoft windows 	 	ryse: son of rome 	 	microsoft windows, xbox one 	 	total war: rome ii 	 	mac, microsoft windows 	 	roman empire 	 	microsoft windows phone, microsoft windows 	 	gods & heroes: rome rising 	 	microsoft windows 	 	gladiator begins 	 	psp 	 	tournament of legends 	 	wii 	 	grand ages: rome 	 	microsoft windows 	 	cradle of rome 	 	nintendo ds, wii 	 	europa universalis: rome 	 	microsoft windows, mac 	 	imperium romanum 	 	microsoft windows 	 	caesar iv 	 	microsoft windows 	 	civcity: rome 	 	microsoft windows 	 	glory of the roman empire 	 	microsoft windows 	 	colosseum: road to freedom 	 	playstation 	 	imperivm: great battles of rome 	 	microsoft windows 	 	legion arena 	 	mac, microsoft windows 	 	shadow of rome 	 	playstation 	 	spartan: total warrior 	 	playstation , gamecube, xbox 	 	against rome 	 	windows 	 	nemesis of the roman empire 	 	 	 	rome: total war 	 	microsoft windows, mac 	 	gladius 	 	gamecube, playstation , xbox 	 	praetorians 	 	pc 	 	celtic kings: rage of war 	 	pc 	 	circus maximus: chariot wars 	 	playstation , xbox 	 	the eternal city 	 	 	 	catechumen 	 	windows 	 	nethergate 	 	mac, windows 	 	age of empires: the rise of rome 	 	microsoft windows 	 	caesar iii 	 	mac, microsoft windows 	 	the settlers ii 	 	mac, ms-dos, nintendo ds 	 	spqr: the empire's darkest hour 	 	windows 	 	caesar ii 	 	mac, ms-dos, microsoft windows 	 	cohort ii - fighting for rome[ ][ ] 	 	 	 	walls of rome 	 	dos 	 	caesar i 	 	amiga, atari st, dos 	 	rome: pathway to power 	 	amiga, dos 	 	warrior of rome ii 	 	sega mega drive, sega genesis 	 	warrior of rome 	 	sega mega drive, sega genesis 	 	centurion: defender of rome 	 	ibm pc dos, amiga, mega drive 	 	legions of death 	 	amstrad cpc, commodore , zx spectrum 	 	annals of rome 	 	amiga, amstrad cpc, atari st, commodore , ms-dos, zx spectrum 	 	legionnaire 	 	apple ii, atari -bit, commodore 	 works inspired by roman history, or by works of fiction and non-fiction about rome[edit] science fiction[edit] 	empire of the atom, by a. e. van vogt, translates graves' novel about claudius(above) into a science fiction context. 	the foundation series by isaac asimov, about the fall of a galactic empire, is derived from gibbon's decline and fall of the roman empire. 	dominic flandry series by poul andersen, a space empire similarly inspired by gibbon's history (and by asimov) is decaying and about to collapse into a long night of barbarism; a heroic secret agent fights to stave off this fate. 	julian comstock by robert charles wilson, about a post-apocalyptic america transformed into a neo-roman empire, and a high born youth who, like julian the apostate, fights the power of the church. 	bread and circuses (star trek: the original series) 	tarzan and the lost empire by edgar rice burroughs, a surviving fragment of the roman empire is discovered hidden in a corner of th century africa. 	in philip k. dick's valis ancient rome is superimposed over the present (california in the th century) and the far future world of the android cried me a river to reveal "the empire" – a supra- or trans-temporal constant. furthermore, it is often repeated that the empire never fell. also the novel's protagonist is described as living in two spacetime-continua with one of the personalities presently living in ancient rome. ancient rome is also described as to breaking through into the modern world and "real time" is speculated as to having ceased in ad with roman times still being present.[ ] comic books[edit] 	leading comics - in the s, a series called "nero fox" (about a funny animal named nero fox, who was emperor of rome) was published as a backup series in this comic title. 	trigan empire was a science fiction comic series telling of adventures on the planet elekton with many similarities to the roman empire see also[edit] 	novels portal 	fiction set in the roman empire 	fiction set in ancient greece 	fiction set in ancient egypt 	list of fictional romans 	list of historical fiction by time period references[edit] 	^ a b c d http://www.stevensaylor.com/ saylor, steven. 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"roman society" redirects here. for the learned society, see society for the promotion of roman studies. 	 	this article needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. find sources: "culture of ancient rome" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · jstor (january ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) wall painting ( st century ad) from pompeii depicting a multigenerational banquet the culture of ancient rome existed throughout the almost -year history of the civilization of ancient rome. the term refers to the culture of the roman republic, later the roman empire, which at its peak covered an area from lowland scotland and morocco to the euphrates. life in ancient rome revolved around the city of rome, its famed seven hills, and its monumental architecture such as the colosseum, trajan's forum, and the pantheon. the city also had several theaters, gymnasia, and many taverns, baths, and brothels. throughout the territory under ancient rome's control, residential architecture ranged from very modest houses to country villas, and in the capital city of rome, there were imperial residences on the elegant palatine hill, from which the word palace is derived. the vast majority of the population lived in the city center, packed into insulae (apartment blocks). the city of rome was the largest megalopolis of that time, with a population that may well have exceeded one million people, with a high-end estimate of . million and a low-end estimate of , . a substantial proportion of the population under the city's jurisdiction lived in innumerable urban centers, with population of at least , and several military settlements, a very high rate of urbanization by pre-industrial standards. the most urbanized part of the empire was italy, which had an estimated rate of urbanization of %, the same rate of urbanization of england in . most roman towns and cities had a forum, temples and the same type of buildings, on a smaller scale, as found in rome. the large urban population required an endless supply of food which was a complex logistical task, including acquiring, transporting, storing and distribution of food for rome and other urban centers. italian farms supplied vegetables and fruits, but fish and meat were luxuries. aqueducts were built to bring water to urban centers and wine and oil were imported from hispania, gaul and africa. there was a very large amount of commerce between the provinces of the roman empire, since its transportation technology was very efficient. the average costs of transport and the technology were comparable with th-century europe. the later city of rome did not fill the space within its ancient aurelian walls until after . the majority of the population under the jurisdiction of ancient rome lived in the countryside in settlements with less than thousand inhabitants. landlords generally resided in cities and their estates were left in the care of farm managers. the plight of rural slaves was generally worse than their counterparts working in urban aristocratic households. to stimulate a higher labor productivity most landlords freed a large number of slaves and many received wages; but in some rural areas, poverty and overcrowding were extreme.[ ] rural poverty stimulated the migration of population to urban centers until the early nd century when the urban population stopped growing and started to decline. starting in the middle of the nd century bc, private greek culture was increasingly in ascendancy, in spite of tirades against the "softening" effects of hellenized culture from the conservative moralists. by the time of augustus, cultured greek household slaves taught the roman young (sometimes even the girls); chefs, decorators, secretaries, doctors, and hairdressers all came from the greek east. greek sculptures adorned hellenistic landscape gardening on the palatine or in the villas, or were imitated in roman sculpture yards by greek slaves. against this human background, both the urban and rural setting, one of history's most influential civilizations took shape, leaving behind a cultural legacy that survives in part today. the roman empire, at its height (c. ce), was the most extensive political and social structure in western civilization. by ce the empire had grown too vast to be ruled from the central government at rome and so was divided by emperor diocletian into a western and an eastern empire. the roman empire began when augustus caesar became the first emperor of rome ( bce) and ended, in the west, when the last roman emperor, romulus augustulus, was deposed by the germanic king odoacer ( ce). in the east, it continued as the byzantine empire until the death of constantine xi and the fall of constantinople to the ottoman turks in ce. the influence of the roman empire on western civilization was profound in its lasting contributions to virtually every aspect of western culture. contents 	 social structure 	 . clothing 	 . food 	 . education 	 language 	 the arts 	 . literature 	 . visual art 	 . music 	 . architecture 	 sports and entertainment 	 religion 	 philosophy 	 science 	 see also 	 references 	 bibliography 	 external links social structure[edit] main article: social class in ancient rome a late republican banquet scene in a fresco from herculaneum, italy, c. bc; the woman wears a transparent silk gown while the man to the left raises a rhyton drinking vessel a fresco portrait of a man holding a papyrus roll, pompeii, italy, st century ad the center of the early social structure, dating from the time of the agricultural tribal city state, was the family, which was not only marked by biological relations but also by the legally constructed relation of patria potestas. the pater familias was the absolute head of the family; he was the master over his wife (if she was given to him cum manu, otherwise the father of the wife retained patria potestas), his children, the wives of his sons (again if married cum manu which became rarer towards the end of the republic), the nephews, the slaves and the freedmen (liberated slaves, the first generation still legally inferior to the freeborn), disposing of them and of their goods at will, even having them put to death. slavery and slaves were part of the social order. the slaves were mostly prisoners of war. there were slave markets where they could be bought and sold. roman law was not consistent about the status of slaves, except that they were considered like any other moveable property. many slaves were freed by the masters for fine services rendered; some slaves could save money to buy their freedom. generally, mutilation and murder of slaves was prohibited by legislation,[citation needed] although outrageous cruelty continued. apart from these families (called gentes) and the slaves (legally objects, mancipia i.e. "kept in the [master's] hand") there were plebeians that did not exist from a legal perspective. they had no legal capacity and were not able to make contracts, even though they were not slaves. to deal with this problem, the so-called clientela was created. by this institution, a plebeian joined the family of a patrician (in a legal sense) and could close contracts by mediation of his patrician pater familias. everything the plebeian possessed or acquired legally belonged to the gens. he was not allowed to form his own gens. the authority of the pater familias was unlimited, be it in civil rights as well as in criminal law. the king's duty was to be head over the military, to deal with foreign politics and also to decide on controversies between the gentes. the patricians were divided into three tribes (ramnenses, titientes, luceres). during the time of the roman republic (founded in bc) roman citizens were allowed to vote. these included patricians and plebeians. women, slaves, and children were not allowed to vote. there were two assemblies, the assembly of centuries (comitia centuriata) and the assembly of tribes (comitia tributa), which were made up of all the citizens of rome. in the comitia centuriata the romans were divided according to age, wealth and residence. the citizens in each tribe were divided into five classes based on property and then each group was subdivided into two centuries by age. all in all, there were centuries. like the assembly of tribes, each century had one vote. the comitia centuriata elected the praetors (judicial magistrates), the censors, and the consuls. the comitia tributa comprised thirty-five tribes from rome and the country. each tribe had a single vote. the comitia tributa elected the quaestors (financial magistrates) and the patrician curule aedile. fresco of a seated woman from stabiae, st century ad over time, roman law evolved considerably, as well as social views, emancipating (to increasing degrees) family members. justice greatly increased, as well. the romans became more efficient at considering laws and punishments. life in the ancient roman cities revolved around the forum, the central business district, where most of the romans would go for marketing, shopping, trading, banking, and for participating in festivities and ceremonies. the forum was also a place where orators would express themselves to mould public opinion, and elicit support for any particular issue of interest to them or others. before sunrise, children would go to schools or tutoring them at home would commence. elders would dress, take a breakfast by o'clock, have a nap and in the afternoon or evening would generally go to the forum. going to a public bath at least once daily was a habit with most roman citizens. there were separate baths for men and women. the main difference was that the women's baths were smaller than the men's, and did not have a frigidarium (cold room) or a palaestra (exercise area).[citation needed] different types of outdoor and indoor entertainment, free of cost, were available in ancient rome. depending on the nature of the events, they were scheduled during daytime, afternoons, evenings, or late nights. huge crowds gathered at the colosseum to watch events such as events involving gladiators, combats between men, or fights between men and wild animals. the circus maximus was used for chariot racing. life in the countryside was slow-paced but lively, with numerous local festivals and social events. farms were run by the farm managers, but estate owners would sometimes take a retreat to the countryside for rest, enjoying the splendor of nature and the sunshine, including activities like fishing, hunting, and riding. on the other hand, slave labor slogged on continuously, for long hours and all seven days, and ensuring comforts and creating wealth for their masters. the average farm owners were better off, spending evenings in economic and social interactions at the village markets. the day ended with a meal, generally left over from the noontime preparations. clothing[edit] main article: clothing in ancient rome toga-clad statue, restored with the head of the emperor nerva in ancient rome, the cloth and the dress distinguished one class of people from the other class. the tunic worn by plebeians (common people) like shepherds was made from coarse and dark material, whereas the tunic worn by patricians was of linen or white wool. a magistrate would wear the tunica angusticlavi; senators wore tunics with purple stripes (clavi), called tunica laticlavi. military tunics were shorter than the ones worn by civilians. the many types of togas were also named. boys, up until the festival of liberalia, wore the toga praetexta, which was a toga with a crimson or purple border, also worn by magistrates in office. the toga virilis, (or toga pura) or man's toga was worn by men who had come of age to signify their citizenship in rome. the toga picta was worn by triumphant generals and had embroidery of their skill on the battlefield. the toga pulla was worn when in mourning. even footwear indicated a person's social status. patricians wore red and orange sandals, senators had brown footwear, consuls had white shoes, and soldiers wore heavy boots. women wore closed shoes of colors such as white, yellow, or green. the bulla was a locket-like amulet worn by children. when about to marry, the woman would donate her bulla (sometimes called partha) to the household gods, along with her toys, to signify maturity and womanhood. men typically wore a toga, and women wore a stola. the woman's stola was a dress worn over a tunic, and was usually brightly colored. a fibula (or brooch) would be used as ornamentation or to hold the stola in place. a palla, or shawl, was often worn with the stola. food[edit] main articles: ancient roman cuisine and food and dining in the roman empire since the beginning of the republic until bc, ancient romans had very simple food habits. simple food was generally consumed at around o'clock, and consisted of bread, salad, olives, cheese, fruits, nuts, and cold meat left over from the dinner the night before. breakfast was called ientaculum, lunch was prandium, and dinner was called cena. appetizers were called gustatio, and dessert was called secunda mensa (or second table). usually, a nap or rest followed this. the family ate together, sitting on stools around a table. later on, a separate dining room with dining couches was designed, called a triclinium. fingers were used to take foods which were prepared beforehand and brought to the diners. spoons were used for soups. eggs, thrushes, napkin, and vessels (wall painting from the house of julia felix, pompeii) wine in rome did not become common or mass-produced until around b.c. it was more commonly produced around the time of cato the elder who mentions in his book de agri cultura that the vineyard was the most important aspect of a good farm.[ ] wine was considered a staple drink, consumed at all meals and occasions by all classes and was quite cheap; however, it was always mixed with water.[citation needed] this was the case even during explicit evening drinking events (comissatio) where an important part of the festivity was choosing an arbiter bibendi (judge of drinking) who was, among other things, responsible for deciding the ratio of wine to water in the drinking wine. wine to water ratios of : , : , or : were commonly used. many types of drinks involving grapes and honey were consumed as well. mulsum was honeyed wine, mustum was grape juice, mulsa was honeyed water. the per-person-consumption of wine per day in the city of rome has been estimated at . to . gallons for males, and about . gallons for females. even the notoriously strict cato the elder recommended distributing a daily ration of low quality wine of more than . gallons among the slaves forced to work on farms.[citation needed] drinking non-watered wine on an empty stomach was regarded as boorish and a sure sign of alcoholism whose debilitating physical and psychological effects were already recognized in ancient rome. an accurate accusation of being an alcoholic—in the gossip-crazy society of the city bound to come to light and easily verified—was a favorite and damaging way to discredit political rivals employed by some of rome's greatest orators like cicero and julius caesar. prominent roman alcoholics include mark antony, cicero's own son marcus (cicero minor) and the emperor tiberius whose soldiers gave him the unflattering nickname biberius caldius mero (lit. boozer of pure wine, sueton tib. , ). cato the younger was also known as a heavy drinker, frequently found stumbling home disoriented and the worse for wear in the early hours of morning by fellow citizens. during the imperial period, staple food of the lower class romans (plebeians) was vegetable porridge and bread, and occasionally fish, meat, olives and fruits. sometimes, subsidized or free foods were distributed in cities. the patrician's aristocracy had elaborate dinners, with parties and wines and a variety of comestibles. sometimes, dancing girls would entertain the diners. women and children ate separately, but in the later empire period, with permissiveness creeping in, even decent women would attend such dinner parties. education[edit] main article: education in ancient rome roman portraiture fresco of a young man with a papyrus scroll, from herculaneum, st century ad schooling in a more formal sense was begun around bc. education began at the age of around six, and in the next six to seven years, boys and girls were expected to learn the basics of reading, writing and counting. by the age of twelve, they would be learning latin, greek, grammar and literature, followed by training for public speaking. oratory was an art to be practiced and learnt and good orators commanded respect; to become an effective orator was one of the objectives of education and learning. poor children could not afford education. in some cases, services of gifted slaves were utilized for imparting education. school was mostly for boys, however some wealthy girls were tutored at home, but could still go to school sometimes. language[edit] main articles: latin and languages of the roman empire fragmentary military diploma from carnuntum; latin was the language of the military throughout the empire the native language of the romans was latin, an italic language in the indo-european family. several forms of latin existed, and the language evolved considerably over time, eventually becoming the romance languages spoken today. initially a highly inflectional and synthetic language, older forms of latin rely little on word order, conveying meaning through a system of affixes attached to word stems. like other indo-european languages, latin gradually became much more analytic over time and acquired conventionalized word orders as it lost more and more of its case system and associated inflections. its alphabet, the latin alphabet, is based on the old italic alphabet, which is in turn derived from the greek alphabet. the latin alphabet is still used today to write most european and many other languages. most of the surviving latin literature consists almost entirely of classical latin. in the eastern half of the roman empire, which became the byzantine empire; greek was the main lingua franca as it had been since the time of alexander the great, while latin was mostly used by the roman administration and military. eventually greek would supplant latin as both the official written and spoken language of the eastern roman empire, while the various dialects of vulgar latin used in the western roman empire evolved into the modern romance languages still used today. the expansion of the roman empire spread latin throughout europe, and over time vulgar latin evolved and dialectized in different locations, gradually shifting into a number of distinct romance languages beginning in around the th century. many of these languages, including french, italian, portuguese, romanian, and spanish, flourished, the differences between them growing greater over time. although english is germanic rather than romanic in origin—britannia was a roman province, but the roman presence in britain had effectively disappeared by the time of the anglo-saxon invasions—english today borrows heavily from latin and latin-derived words. old english borrowings were relatively sparse and drew mainly from ecclesiastical usage after the christianization of england. when william the conqueror invaded england from normandy in , he brought with him a considerable number of retainers who spoke anglo-norman french, a romance language derived from latin. anglo-norman french remained the language of the english upper classes for centuries, and the number of latinate words in english increased immensely through borrowing during this middle english period. more recently, during the modern english period, the revival of interest in classical culture during the renaissance led to a great deal of conscious adaptation of words from classical latin authors into english. although latin is an extinct language with very few contemporary fluent speakers, it remains in use in many ways. in particular, latin has survived through ecclesiastical latin, the traditional language of the roman catholic church and one of the official languages of the vatican city. although distinct from both classical and vulgar latin in a number of ways, ecclesiastical latin was more stable than typical medieval latin. more classical sensibilities eventually re-emerged in the renaissance with humanist latin. due to both the prevalence of christianity and the enduring influence of the roman civilization, latin became western europe's lingua franca, a language used to cross international borders, such as for academic and diplomatic usage. a deep knowledge of classical latin was a standard part of the educational curriculum in many western countries until well into the th century, and is still taught in many schools today. although it was eventually supplanted in this respect by french in the th century and english in the th, latin continues to see heavy use in religious, legal, and scientific terminology, and in academia in general. the arts[edit] literature[edit] see also: roman literature and augustan literature (ancient rome) roman literature was from its very inception influenced heavily by greek authors. some of the earliest works currently discovered are of historical epics telling the early military history of rome. as the republic expanded, authors began to produce poetry, comedy, history, and tragedy. mosaic depicting a theatrical troupe preparing for a performance the greeks and romans founded history, and had great influence on the way history is written today. cato the elder was a roman senator, as well as the first man to write history in latin. although theoretically opposed to greek influence, cato the elder wrote the first greek inspired rhetorical textbook in latin ( ), and combined strains of greek and roman history into a method combining both.[ ] one of cato the elder's great historical achievements was the origines, which chronicles the story of rome, from aeneas to his own day, but this document is now lost. in the second and early first centuries bc an attempt was made, led by cato the elder, to use the records and traditions that were preserved, in order to reconstruct the entire past of rome. the historians engaged in this task are often referred to as the "annalists", implying that their writings more or less followed chronological order.[ ] in bc and official endeavor was made to provide a record of the whole of roman history. this work filled eighty books and was known as the annales maximi. the composition recorded the official events of the state, such as elections and commands, civic, provincial and cult business, set out in formal arrangements year by year.[ ] during the reign of the early emperors of rome there was a golden age of historical literature. works such as the 'histories' of tacitus, the 'gallic wars' by julius caesar and 'history of rome' by livy have been passed down through generations. unfortunately, in the case of livy, much of the script has been lost and it is left with a few specific areas: the founding of the city, the war with hannibal, and its aftermath. in the ancient world, poetry usually played a far more important part of daily life than it does today. in general, educated greeks and romans thought of poetry as playing a much more fundamental part of life than in modern times. initially in rome poetry was not considered a suitable occupation for important citizens, but the attitude changed in the second and first centuries bc.[ ] in rome poetry considerably preceded prose writing in date. as aristotle pointed out, poetry was the first sort of literate to arouse people's interest in questions of style. the importance of poetry in the roman empire was so strong that quintilian, the greatest authority on education, wanted secondary schools to focus on the reading and teaching of poetry, leaving prose writings to what would now be referred to as the university stage.[ ] virgil represents the pinnacle of roman epic poetry. his aeneid was produced at the request of maecenas and tells the story of flight of aeneas from troy and his settlement of the city that would become rome. lucretius, in his on the nature of things, attempted to explicate science in an epic poem. some of his science seems remarkably modern, but other ideas, especially his theory of light, are no longer accepted. later ovid produced his metamorphoses, written in dactylic hexameter verse, the meter of epic, attempting a complete mythology from the creation of the earth to his own time. he unifies his subject matter through the theme of metamorphosis. it was noted in classical times that ovid's work lacked the gravitas possessed by traditional epic poetry. catullus and the associated group of neoteric poets produced poetry following the alexandrian model, which experimented with poetic forms challenging tradition. catullus was also the first roman poet to produce love poetry, seemingly autobiographical, which depicts an affair with a woman called lesbia. under the reign of the emperor augustus, horace continued the tradition of shorter poems, with his odes and epodes. martial, writing under the emperor domitian, was a famed author of epigrams, poems which were often abusive and censured public figures. a bust of cicero, capitoline museums, rome roman prose developed its sonority, dignity, and rhythm in persuasive speech.[ ] rhetoric had already been key to many great achievements in athens, so after studying the greeks the romans ranked oratory highly as a subject and a profession.[ ] written speeches were some of the first forms of prose writing in ancient rome, and other forms of prose writing in the future were influenced by this. sixteen books of cicero's letters have survived, all published by after cicero's death by his secretary, tito. the letters provide a look at the social life in the days of the falling republic, providing pictures of the personalities of this epoch.[ ] the letters of cicero are vast and varied, and provide pictures of the personalities of this epoch. cicero's personality is most clearly revealed, emerging as a vain vacillating, snobbish man. cicero's passion for the public life of the capital also emerges from his letters, most clearly when he was in exile and when he took on a provincial governorship in asia minor. the letters also contain much about cicero's family life, and its political and financial complications.[ ] roman philosophical treatises have had great influence on the world, but the original thinking came from the greeks. roman philosophical writings are rooted in four 'schools' from the age of the hellenistic greeks.[ ] the four 'schools' were that of the epicureans, stocis, peripatetics, and academy.[ ] epicureans believed in the guidance of the senses, and identified the supreme goal of life to be happiness, or the absence of pain. stoicism was founded by zeno of citium, who taught that virtue was the supreme good, creating a new sense of ethical urgency. the perpatetics were followers of aristotle, guided by his science and philosophy. the academy was founded by plato and was based on the sceptic pyro's idea that real knowledge could be acquired. the academy also presented criticisms of the epicurean and stoic schools of philosophy.[ ] the genre of satire was traditionally regarded as a roman innovation, and satires were written by, among others, juvenal and persius. some of the most popular plays of the early republic were comedies, especially those of terence, a freed roman slave captured during the first punic war. a great deal of the literary work produced by roman authors in the early republic was political or satirical in nature. the rhetorical works of cicero, a self-distinguished linguist, translator, and philosopher, in particular, were popular. in addition, cicero's personal letters are considered to be one of the best bodies of correspondence recorded in antiquity. visual art[edit] main article: roman art the so-called primavera of stabiae, perhaps the goddess flora most early roman painting styles show etruscan influences, particularly in the practice of political painting. in the rd century bce, greek art taken as booty from wars became popular, and many roman homes were decorated with landscapes by greek artists. evidence from the remains at pompeii shows diverse influence from cultures spanning the roman world. an early roman style of note was "incrustation", in which the interior walls of houses were painted to resemble colored marble. another style consisted of painting interiors as open landscapes, with highly detailed scenes of plants, animals, and buildings. portrait sculpture during the period utilized youthful and classical proportions, evolving later into a mixture of realism and idealism. during the antonine and severan periods, more ornate hair and bearding became prevalent, created with deeper cutting and drilling. advancements were also made in relief sculptures, usually depicting roman victories. music[edit] main article: music of ancient rome musicians playing a roman tuba, a water organ (hydraulis), and a pair of cornua, detail from the zliten mosaic, nd century ad music was a major part of everyday life in ancient rome. many private and public events were accompanied by music, ranging from nightly dining to military parades and manoeuvres. some of the instruments used in roman music are the tuba, cornu, aulos, askaules, flute, panpipes, lyre, lute, cithara, tympanum, drums, hydraulis and the sistrum. architecture[edit] main articles: ancient roman architecture and roman architectural revolution the colosseum in rome in its initial stages, the ancient roman architecture reflected elements of architectural styles of the etruscans and the greeks. over a period of time, the style was modified in tune with their urban requirements, and civil engineering and building construction technology became developed and refined. the roman concrete has remained a riddle,[ ] and even after more than two thousand years some ancient roman structures still stand magnificently, like the pantheon (with one of the largest single span domes in the world) located in the business district of today's rome. the architectural style of the capital city of ancient rome was emulated by other urban centers under roman control and influence,[ ] like the verona arena, verona, italy; arch of hadrian, athens, greece; temple of hadrian, ephesus, turkey; a theatre at orange, france; and at several other locations, for example, lepcis magna, located in libya.[ ] roman cities were well planned, efficiently managed and neatly maintained. palaces, private dwellings and villas, were elaborately designed and town planning was comprehensive with provisions for different activities by the urban resident population, and for countless migratory population of travelers, traders and visitors passing through their cities. marcus vitruvius pollio, a st-century bce roman architect's treatise "de architectura," with various sections, dealing with urban planning, building materials, temple construction, public and private buildings, and hydraulics, remained a classic text until the renaissance. sports and entertainment[edit] the ancient city of rome had a place called the campus, a sort of drill ground for roman soldiers, which was located near the tiber. later, the campus became rome's track and field playground, which even julius caesar and augustus were said to have frequented. imitating the campus in rome, similar grounds were developed in several other urban centers and military settlements. circus maximus, a mass entertainment venue located in rome in the campus, the youth assembled to play, exercise, and indulge in appropriate sports, which included jumping, wrestling, boxing and racing. riding, throwing, and swimming were also preferred physical activities. in the countryside, pastimes also included fishing and hunting. females did not participate in these activities. ball playing was a popular sport and ancient romans had several ball games, which included handball (expulsim ludere), field hockey, catch, and some form of football. board games played in ancient rome included dice (tesserae or tali), roman chess (latrunculi), roman checkers (calculi), tic-tac-toe (terni lapilli), and ludus duodecim scriptorum and tabula, predecessors of backgammon. there were several other activities to keep people engaged like chariot races, musical and theatrical performances, public executions and gladiatorial combat. in the colosseum, rome's amphitheatre, , persons could be accommodated. there are also accounts of the colosseum's floor being flooded to hold mock naval battles for the public to watch. in addition to these, romans also spent their share of time in bars and brothels, and graffiti[ ] carved into the walls of these buildings was common. based on the number of messages found on bars, brothels, and bathhouses, it's clear that they were popular places of leisure and people spent a deal of time there. religion[edit] main article: religion in ancient rome 	religion in ancient rome 	marcus aurelius (head covered) sacrificing at the temple of jupiter 	 practices and beliefs 	 	libation 	sacrifice 	votum 	temples 	festivals 	ludi 	funerals 	imperial cult 	mystery religions 	 priesthoods 	 	pontifices 	augures 	vestales 	flamines 	fetiales 	epulones 	fratres arvales 	 deities 	 	list of roman deities 	twelve major gods 	capitoline triad 	aventine triad 	underworld gods 	indigitamenta deified emperors: 	divus julius 	divus augustus 	 related topics 	 	glossary of ancient roman religion 	roman mythology 	ancient greek religion 	etruscan religion 	gallo-roman religion 	interpretatio graeca 	decline of greco-roman polytheism 		v 	t 	e the romans thought of themselves as highly religious,[ ] and attributed their success as a world power to their collective piety (pietas) in maintaining good relations with the gods. according to legendary history, most of rome's religious institutions could be traced to its founders, particularly numa pompilius, the sabine second king of rome, who negotiated directly with the gods. this archaic religion was the foundation of the mos maiorum, "the way of the ancestors" or simply "tradition", viewed as central to roman identity. the priesthoods of public religion were held by members of the elite classes. there was no principle analogous to "separation of church and state" in ancient rome. during the roman republic ( – bc), the same men who were elected public officials served as augurs and pontiffs. priests married, raised families, and led politically active lives. julius caesar became pontifex maximus before he was elected consul. the augurs read the will of the gods and supervised the marking of boundaries as a reflection of universal order, thus sanctioning roman expansionism as a matter of divine destiny. the roman triumph was at its core a religious procession in which the victorious general displayed his piety and his willingness to serve the public good by dedicating a portion of his spoils to the gods, especially jupiter, who embodied just rule. as a result of the punic wars ( – bc), when rome struggled to establish itself as a dominant power, many new temples were built by magistrates in fulfillment of a vow to a deity for assuring their military success. a fresco from herculaneum depicting heracles and achelous from greco-roman mythology, st century ce roman religion was thus mightily pragmatic and contractual, based on the principle of do ut des, "i give that you might give." religion depended on knowledge and the correct practice of prayer, ritual, and sacrifice, not on faith or dogma, although latin literature preserves learned speculation on the nature of the divine and its relation to human affairs. even the most skeptical among rome's intellectual elite such as cicero, who was an augur, saw religion as a source of social order. for ordinary romans, religion was a part of daily life.[ ] each home had a household shrine at which prayers and libations to the family's domestic deities were offered. neighborhood shrines and sacred places such as springs and groves dotted the city. the roman calendar was structured around religious observances. in the imperial era, as many as days of the year were devoted to religious festivals and games (ludi).[ ] women, slaves, and children all participated in a range of religious activities. some public rituals could be conducted only by women, and women formed what is perhaps rome's most famous priesthood, the state-supported vestal virgins, who tended rome's sacred hearth for centuries, until disbanded under christian domination. the romans are known for the great number of deities they honored. the presence of greeks on the italian peninsula from the beginning of the historical period influenced roman culture, introducing some religious practices that became as fundamental as the cult of apollo. the romans looked for common ground between their major gods and those of the greeks, adapting greek myths and iconography for latin literature and roman art. etruscan religion was also a major influence, particularly on the practice of augury, since rome had once been ruled by etruscan kings. mystery religions imported from the near east (ptolemaic egypt, persia and mesopotamia), which offered initiates salvation through a personal god and eternal life after the death, were a matter of personal choice for an individual, practiced in addition to carrying on one's family rites and participating in public religion. the mysteries, however, involved exclusive oaths and secrecy, conditions that conservative romans viewed with suspicion as characteristic of "magic", conspiracy (coniuratio), and subversive activity. sporadic and sometimes brutal attempts were made to suppress religionists who seemed to threaten traditional roman morality and unity, as with the senate's efforts to restrict the bacchanals in bc. as the romans extended their dominance throughout the mediterranean world, their policy in general was to absorb the deities and cults of other peoples rather than try to eradicate them,[ ] since they believed that preserving tradition promoted social stability.[ ] marble relief of mithras slaying the bull ( nd century, louvre-lens); mithraism was among the most widespread mystery religions of the roman empire.[ ] one way that rome incorporated diverse peoples was by supporting their religious heritage, building temples to local deities that framed their theology within the hierarchy of roman religion. inscriptions throughout the empire record the side-by-side worship of local and roman deities, including dedications made by romans to local gods.[ ] by the height of the empire, numerous international deities were cultivated at rome and had been carried to even the most remote provinces (among them cybele, isis, osiris, serapis, epona), and gods of solar monism such as mithras and sol invictus, found as far north as roman britain. because romans had never been obligated to cultivate one deity or one cult only, religious tolerance was not an issue in the sense that it is for competing monotheistic systems.[ ] the monotheistic rigor of judaism posed difficulties for roman policy that led at times to compromise and the granting of special exemptions, but sometimes to intractable conflict. in the wake of the republic's collapse, state religion had adapted to support the new regime of the emperors. augustus, the first roman emperor, justified the novelty of one-man rule with a vast program of religious revivalism and reform. public vows formerly made for the security of the republic now were directed at the wellbeing of the emperor. so-called "emperor worship" expanded on a grand scale the traditional roman veneration of the ancestral dead and of the genius, the divine tutelary of every individual. imperial cult became one of the major ways rome advertised its presence in the provinces and cultivated shared cultural identity and loyalty throughout the empire: rejection of the state religion was tantamount to treason. this was the context for rome's conflict with christianity, which romans variously regarded as a form of atheism and threat to the stability of the empire,[ ] causing the prosecution of anti-christian policies; under emperor trajan's reign (ad – ), roman intellectuals and functionaries (lucian of samosata, tacitus,[ ] suetonius,[ ] pliny the younger,[ ] and celsus)[ ] gained knowledge about the jewish roots of early christians, therefore many of them considered christianity to be some sort of superstitio iudaica.[ ][ ][ ] from the nd century onward, the church fathers began to condemn the diverse religions practiced throughout the empire collectively as "pagan".[ ] in the early th century, constantine the great and his half-brother licinius stipulated an agreement known as the edict of milan ( ), which granted liberty to all religions to be freely practiced in the roman empire; following the edict's proclamation, the conflict between the two emperors exacerbated, ending with the execution of both licinius and the co-emperor sextus martinianus as ordered by constantine after licinius' defeat in the battle of chrysopolis ( ). head of constantine the great, part of a colossal statue. bronze, th century, musei capitolini, rome. constantine ruled the roman empire as sole emperor for the remainder of his reign. some scholars allege that his main objective was to gain unanimous approval and submission to his authority from all classes, and therefore chose christianity to conduct his political propaganda, believing that it was the most appropriate religion that could fit with the imperial cult (see also sol invictus). regardless, under constantine's rule christianity expanded throughout the empire, launching the era of christian church's dominance under the constantinian dynasty.[ ] however, if constantine himself sincerely converted to christian religion or remained loyal to paganism is still a matter of debate between scholars (see also constantine's religious policy).[ ] his formal conversion to christianity in is almost universally acknowledged among historians,[ ][ ] despite that he was baptized only on his deathbed by the arian bishop eusebius of nicomedia ( );[ ] the real reasons behind it remain unknown and are debated too.[ ][ ] according to hans pohlsander, professor emeritus of history at the university at albany, suny, constantine's conversion was just another instrument of realpolitik in his hands meant to serve his political interest in keeping the empire united under his control: the prevailing spirit of constantine's government was one of conservatorism. his conversion to and support of christianity produced fewer innovations than one might have expected; indeed they served an entirely conservative end, the preservation and continuation of the empire. — hans pohlsander, the emperor constantine[ ] the emperor and neoplatonic philosopher julian the apostate made a short-lived attempt to restore traditional religion and paganism, and to reaffirm the special status of judaism, but in , under theodosius i, nicene christianity became the official state church of the roman empire to the exclusion of all other christian churches and hellenistic religions, including roman religion itself. pleas for religious tolerance from traditionalists such as the senator symmachus (d. ) were rejected, and christian monotheism became a feature of imperial domination. heretics as well as non-christians were subject to exclusion from public life or persecution, but, despite the decline of greco-roman polytheism, rome's original religious hierarchy and many aspects of its ritual influenced christian religion as a whole;[ ] various pre-christian beliefs and practices survived as well in christian festivals and local traditions. philosophy[edit] main article: roman philosophy plato's academy mosaic from pompeii ancient roman philosophy was heavily influenced by the ancient greeks and the schools of hellenistic philosophy; however, unique developments in philosophical schools of thought occurred during the roman period as well. interest in philosophy was first excited at rome in bce. by an athenian embassy consisting of the academic skeptic carneades, the stoic diogenes, and the peripatetic critolaus.[ ] during this time athens declined as an intellectual center of thought while new sites such as alexandria and rome hosted a variety of philosophical discussion.[ ] science[edit] further information: history of science in classical antiquity § roman empire, and roman technology 		this section is empty. you can help by adding to it. (december ) see also[edit] 	ancient rome portal 	classical antiquity 	gallo-roman culture 	roman britain 	romanization 	romanization of hispania 	theatre of ancient rome 	romanization of anatolia references[edit] 	^ for example, a romano-egyptian text attests to the sharing of one small farmhouse by people; elsewhere, six families held common interest in a single olive tree. see alfoldy, geza., the social history of rome (routledge revivals) (online e-edition, unpaginated: accessed october th, ) 	^ e. m. jellinek, drinkers and alcoholics in ancient rome. 	^ a b c grant, michael ( ). roman literature. cambridge england: university press. pp.  – . 	^ a b grant, michael ( ). roman literature. cambridge england: university press. p.  . 	^ tenney, frank ( ). life and literature in the roman republic. berkeley california: university of california press. p.  . 	^ tenney, frank ( ). life and literature in the roman republic. berkeley california: university of california press. p.  . 	^ a b grant, michael ( ). roman literature. cambridge england: university press. pp.  – . 	^ a b grant, michael ( ). roman literature. cambridge england: university press. pp.  – . 	^ grant, michael ( ). roman literature. cambridge england: university press. pp. notes. 	^ the riddle of ancient roman concrete, by david moore, p.e., , retired professional engineer, bureau of reclamation (this article first appeared in "the spillway" a newsletter of the us dept. of the interior, bureau of reclamation, upper colorado region, february, ) 	^ "roman art and architecture". uccs.edu. archived from the original on september , . retrieved july , . 	^ lepcis magna - window on the roman world in north africa 	^ harvey, brian. 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( - - ). crossroads of agony: suffering and violence in the christian tradition. xlibris corporation. isbn  - - - - . 	^ jörg rüpke, "roman religion – religions of rome," in a companion to roman religion (blackwell, ), p. . 	^ matthew bunson, a dictionary of the roman empire (oxford university press, ), p. . 	^ "this mentality", notes john t. koch, "lay at the core of the genius of cultural assimilation which made the roman empire possible"; entry on "interpretatio romana," in celtic culture: a historical encyclopedia (abc-clio, ), p. . 	^ rüpke, "roman religion – religions of rome," p. ; benjamin h. isaac, the invention of racism in classical antiquity (princeton university press, , ), p. ; w.h.c. frend, martyrdom and persecution in the early church: a study of conflict from the maccabees to donatus (doubleday, ), p. . 	^ g. w. bromiley (ed.), the international standard bible encyclopedia, vol. 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		 	 	 constitution of the late roman empire - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	constitution of the late roman empire 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		unwritten set of guidelines and principles passed down mainly through precedent 	ancient rome 	 	this article is part of a series on the politics and government of ancient rome 	 periods 	 	roman kingdom – bc 	roman republic – bc 	roman empire bc – ad 	principate bc – ad 	dominate ad – 	western ad – 	eastern ad – 	timeline 	 roman constitution 	 	constitution of the kingdom 	constitution of the republic 	constitution of the empire 	constitution of the late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	executive magistrates 	 precedent and law 	 	roman law 	ius 	imperium 	mos maiorum 	collegiality 	auctoritas 	roman citizenship 	cursus honorum 	senatus consultum 	senatus consultum ultimum 	 assemblies 	 	centuriate 	curiate 	plebeian 	tribal 	 ordinary magistrates 	 	consul 	praetor 	quaestor 	promagistrate 	aedile 	tribune 	censor 	governor 	 extraordinary magistrates 	 	corrector 	dictator 	magister equitum 	consular tribune 	rex 	triumviri 	decemviri 	 titles and honours 	 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	praeses 	praefectus 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 	 	other countries 		v 	t 	e the constitution of the late roman empire was an unwritten set of guidelines and principles passed down, mainly through precedent, which defined the manner in which the late roman empire was governed.[ ] as a matter of historical convention, the late roman empire emerged from the roman principate (the early roman empire), with the accession of diocletian in ad , his reign marking the beginning of the tetrarchy.[ ] the constitution of the dominate ultimately recognized monarchy as the true source of power, and thus ended the fiction of dyarchy, in which emperor and senate governed the empire together.[ ] diocletian's reforms to the imperial government finally ended the ruse that the old republican magistracies (e.g. consuls and praetors) were anything more than municipal officials with powers beyond rome itself. by the late empire, the consuls had no real duties beyond that of presiding at senate meetings and the duties of the lesser magistrates were effectively just the organisation of various games.[ ] most other magistracies simply disappeared. diocletian attempted to reform the imperial system itself into a structure in which four emperors, consisting of two augusti and two caesares, each governed one fourth of the empire.[ ] known as the tetrarchy, this constitutional structure, however, failed to even outlast diocletian, who lived to see the collapse of his system and the civil wars that followed in his retirement after abdication in ad . he also enacted major administrative reforms to the empire. his division of the empire into east and west, with each half under the command of a separate emperor, remained with brief interruptions of political unity.[ ] although it remained the sole capital until constantinople was elevated to that status in , the city of rome ceased to be the seat of the imperial government which in the west was usually in milan, or sometimes in trier if an emperor was resident there, or wherever the emperor happened to be since th century emperors moved about their realms. the urban prefect an imperial appointee was head of city's administration. a vicar of the prefect of italy headed the imperial administration of italy south of the apennines and the islands. the senate and executive magistrates continued to function as diocletian's constitution had originally specified. diocletian's civil and military divisions of the empire remained in effect with little change though upper egypt from the mid-fifth was governed by a general, the dux, who also exercised civilian authority over the population. later emperors constantine would modify diocletian's constitution[ ] by changing the roles of officials somewhat but not the administrative framework. it was not until justinian i - that major changes that saw the near abolition of the regional tier of officials, and severe weakening of the treasury (sacrae largitones) and crown estates. contents 	 augusti and caesares 	 administration of the empire 	 . the imperial court 	 . provincial government 	 . counts 	 . military structure 	 senate and magistrates 	 see also 	 references 	 notes 	 further reading 	 . primary sources 	 . secondary source material augusti and caesares[edit] roman emperor diocletian, who framed the constitution of the tetrarchy under diocletian's new constitution, power was shared between two emperors called augusti. the establishment of two co-equal augusti marked a rebirth of the old republican principle of collegiality, as all laws, decrees, and appointments that came from one of the augusti, were to be recognized as coming from both conjointly. one augustus was to rule the western half of the empire, and the other augustus was to rule the eastern half of the empire. diocletian made maximian his co-augustus, and gave him the western empire, while diocletian took the eastern empire. diocletian made nicomedia his capital, and maximian made milan his capital. to make the two halves symbolically appear to be one, diocletian called his territory patres orientis, while maximian called his territory patres occidentis. the augusti were legally distinct from the old princeps (roman emperors under the principate), because under the principate, the princeps took the place of the old republican magistrates. when a princeps issued a decree, that decree was only valid so long as that princeps was emperor, whereas in contrast, under the republic, any decree issued by a magistrate was only good so long as that magistrate was in office. under the republic and the principate, only the senate and legislative assemblies were continuous institutions, and thus only they could pass laws that remained in effect indefinitely. under diocletian's new tetrarchy, the augusti took the place of the senate and the assemblies, and thus any decree of an augustus remained in force even after that particular emperor left office. such an act could only be invalidated by a future emperor. the logical extension of this concept meant that neither a magistrate, the assemblies, nor the senate, could legally restrain the emperor. the old republican magistrates, as well as the princeps, both had legal status. under the republic, the state gave the magistrates the authorization to hold their office, while under the principate, the state gave the princeps the legal authorization to be emperor. any augusti, in contrast, did not need authorization from the state to be emperor, because the augusti became the state. the higher authority of the augusti was illustrated by their robes (which were trimmed with precious stones) and the imperial diadem, as well as the elaborate ceremony required of anyone who approached them. unlike the old princeps, the augusti were viewed as being more than mortal, which was illustrated by the honors that they received. these honors had, in the past, been reserved only for the gods. while emperors had received such honors in the past, they only received these honors after their death, and yet, the augusti could receive such honors while they were still alive. in , diocletian and maximian appointed two caesares, which resulted in an arrangement known as the "tetrarchy" ("rule by four"). the caesares were subordinate to their augusti, and the only authority that they had was that which had been given to them by their augusti. their status was so inferior to the augusti that they received a fixed salary. the powers that were delegated to them usually included the right to hear appeals, and a set of provinces were often assigned to them so that they could supervise the governors of those provinces. the reason why diocletian created the office of caesar was to create a method by which orderly successions could occur, so that when one augustus died, one of the two caesares replaced that augustus. when a new caesar was appointed, his augustus adopted him. diocletian had hoped that the augusti would jointly resign at a given point in time, and allow their caesares to replace them. administration of the empire[edit] diocletian separated the civil administrative apparatus and the military administrative apparatus in order to mitigate the risk that future generals might attempt to seize the throne through force, and then he reorganized both of them. while changes were made by subsequent emperors, the basic structure established by diocletian would govern the empire until its eventual fall in the west during the th century. the government of the empire was divided (in both civil and military structures) between central and provincial levels. the central government general refers to those civil officials directly associated with the emperor's court and the highest-ranking military officers. the provincial government includes all levels of provincial governors and local military commanders. the imperial court[edit] the central government of the roman empire consisted of the imperial court. at the top of the central government was the emperor himself. from his presence all imperial authority flowed, both civil and military. the edicts of the emperor were binding upon all persons throughout the empire. to support the emperor in the administration of the empire, the emperor was attended by numerous court officials ("comes" or "counts"). chief among these court officials was the imperial chancellor ("magister officiorum"). he was a kind of interior minister for state security. his post had started out rather lowly as a tribune of the palace guard who was elevated by constantine the great in ad to oversee the imperial secretariats. he functioned as a watchdog head of administration, although not able to order other branches of the administration such as the prefectures, treasury and crown estates what to do without direct orders from the emperor. ranked as a count of the empire, the chancellor oversaw the entire civil service, the officia (however, the prefects and his subordinates had jurisdiction over staffs in civil and criminal suits). they were "the emperors' eyes" according to the orator, libanius. the chancellor's portfolio include a significant number of functions handled by modern government officials. the chancellor was responsible for conducting court ceremonies and regulated audiences with the emperor. all correspondences with foreign powers were sent by and embassies of foreign powers to the emperor were received by the chancellor. the chancellor commanded the imperial intelligence service corps of ("agentes in rebus"), 'men of state affairs,' who handled communications between the emperor and provincial governments as well as gathering intelligence as the emperor's administrative policing force. they were courier/bureaucrats often deputed to other departments on special assignments. from the early s senior agentes in rebus were appointed as heads of the offices, principes, of prefects, vicars and two of three proconsulates (not of asia). all business coming in and out of these offices were vetted by this officials; the wrote confidential reports the chancellor.[ ] nothing could be issued without their counter-signature. their small personal staffs were not part of the office staffs they whose activity they monitored. it has debated to what degree vicars had control over the principes. their presence in the prefectures and proconsular offices connected them directly to the palatine administration headed by the masters of the offices, but also to the prefects and indirectly to the regional comptrollers of the treasury and managers of the crown estates whose offices were almost all located in diocesan see cities which were destination points for masses of information for processing for the upper administration echelon with the emperors.[ ][ ][ ] the chancellors oversaw the imperial transportation service ("cursus publicus"). this was maintained by the prefecture and funded by provincials. despite the name of state post, it was privately operated under state direction.[ ][ ] from the s its use was under the inspection of agentes in rebus deputed to and stationed the provinces with the governors. the system was made up of 'stationes,' guard stations, 'mutationes,' changing stations, and 'mansiones', larger facilities for overnight stays equipped often dining rooms and baths. these spread along the major road systems connecting the regions of the roman world. the changing stations were – miles apart and the hotel/stables were generally – miles apart. these served as relay points and provided horses to dispatch riders (usually soldiers) and vehicles for court officials. the imperial guard corps ("scholae palatinae") was under the chancellor's command. the imperial armories, fabricae, were under the praetorian prefects and cloth/dye manufactories managed by the treasury (oddly of them were managed by the crown estate ( in the west are listed; the list in the east is incomplete). the armories passed under the control of the magister officiorum by . in he was made inspector-general of the frontier army units, a responsibility which had been the prefects and their vicars.[ ] the chancellor had direct control over the imperial chancellory, the central administrative organ of the empire which coordinated the civilian functions of the empire and provided direct support to the emperor. the imperial chancellory was divided into four bureaus (the "sacra scrinia"): the clerical bureau ("scrinium memoriae"), the correspondence bureau ("scrinium epistularum"), the legal bureau ("scrinium libellorum"), and the arrangement bureau ("scrinium dispositionum"). each of these bureaus supported a bureau director ("magistri scriniorum") who reported to the chancellor, but were not totally under his control until the early th century. 	the clerical bureau drafted official documents for the emperor's approval, such as imperial decrees and appointments, and served as the central imperial archive 	the correspondence bureau received and responded to correspondence from public officials to the emperor, managed representation with foreign powers, and served as the imperial translation service 	the legal bureau handled the various legal petitions the emperor received, such as appeals from lower courts 	the arrangement bureau oversaw the administrative matters the emperor faced while traveling the judge of the imperial court ("quaestor sacri palatii") was the empire's top legal official and was responsible for the administration of the justice throughout the empire. selected from those with significant legal training, the judge served as the emperor's chief legal advisor and was responsible for overseeing the enactment of legislation and for drafting imperial decrees. beginning in early th century, he presided over the empire's supreme tribunal, which heard appeals from the various lower courts of the empire. one of the highest ranking court official was the imperial chamberlain ("praepositus sacri cubiculi"). the chamberlain, usually a eunuch, managed the daily operations of the imperial palace. he oversaw the palace servants ("cubicularii"), also eunuchs, and was responsible for the imperial bedchamber, wardrobe and receptions. while the chamberlain technically possessed no administrative authority outside of managing the imperial household, his daily and intimate contact with the emperor granted him great influence over other court officials, allowing him de facto coordinating authority over all court officials. in the case of weak emperors, the chamberlain's influence made him the most powerful man in the empire. however, should the emperor be a powerful force, the chamberlain's role in the administration of the empire was minimal. fiscal administration lay with the count of the imperial treasury ("comes sacrarum largitionum") who oversaw the collection and distribution of imperial money taxes, managed the imperial treasury, and controlled imperial mints, state-run mills and textile factories, and state-run mining facilities. he was the chief financial officer until constantine displaced him with the praetorian prefects. the count also exercised judicial functions as they related to fiscal matters under his supervision, with no appeal of his decision. the other key financial officer was the count of the imperial estates ("comes rerum privatarum") who administered the private property of the emperor and managed all imperial estates, including the collection of rent derived therefrom. the praetorian prefects, vice-regents, however, had control over taxes paid in kind and the separate military annona tax, ta assessments and revisions, censuses the overall budgets composed on a diocesan basis subdivided by province and municipality or other local unit. they alone as for emperors could render final verdicts. from the late s fiscal appeal cases of the sl and rp were taken by the prefects, the vicars, proconsuls and urban prefects from their respective lower provincial and regional administrative courts. in the two counts were allowed once again to receive appeals directly from their own lower-rung administrative courts after . until then they had acted solely in an advisory capacity to the emperors to whom they represented their own interests as did the sl comptrollers and rp managers before the vicars and the other above-named officials, in regard to the restoration of authority.[ ] the first tetrarchs of the constitution of the tetrarchy provincial government[edit] when diocletian reformed the administrative machinery of the empire, he stripped the civilian administrators of their military powers (granting them instead to distinct offices). additionally, he further divided the various provinces into smaller units, effectively doubled the number of provinces from fifty to over a hundred. to this new organization he imposed two new bureaucratic levels between the emperors and the provinces: the prefectures and the dioceses. diocletian grouped these hundred provinces into twelve dioceses, which were then grouped into four prefectures. the result was that the units of government were much smaller, and thus more manageable, than they had been before diocletian's reforms. this not only made administration of the empire easier but also helped to minimize the risk of revolt. the four prefectures, each led by a civilian praetorian prefect ("praefecti praetorio"), served as the highest level of provincial government. the prefects were the emperor's top administrators, ranking just below the emperor himself in dignity. while initially serving as the emperor's second in command in all matters of imperial administration (military, civil, judicial, taxation, etc.), the prefects gradually had portions of their authority stripped from them and given to other offices: the masters of the soldiers for military affairs and the imperial chancellor for central civilian administration. these reforms were the result of both the lack of officials suitable for the prefect's wide-ranging tasks, and of the desire to reduce the potential challenge to the emperor's authority posed by a power prefect. the civilian powers of the prefects were still vast, however, as they could nominate individuals to fill a gubernatorial vacancy, supervise the conduct of the governors, or even dismiss a governor. prefects could also interpret the law, hear appeals, control finances, and some were even assigned military responsibilities. the powers of the prefects were so extensive that diocletian only allowed each prefect to remain in office for a short period of time. the four prefectures were called orientis, illyrici, italiae, and galliarum, with constantinople, sirmium, milan, and treves constituting the capitals of the respective prefectures. the cities of rome and constantinople both were exempt from the control of a praetorian prefect and instead were controlled by their own civilian governors answering directly to the emperor. these two prefects of the city ("praefectus urbi") were responsible for the civilian administration of their respect city, presided over their respective senate, and served as the chief judge for civil and criminal cases within the city. the prefects commanded the urban cohorts ("cohortes urbanae") and the city watchmen ("vigiles") in order to maintain order and security within the city. the prefect also oversaw maintenance of the city's aqueducts and supervised the markets. one of his most important duties was to oversee his respective city's grain supply. ranking between the prefectures and the provinces were the dioceses. each dioceses was led by a civilian governor known as a vicar ("vicarius" meaning "deputy [of the praetorian prefect]"). each vicar was appointed by the emperor upon the recommendation of the respective prefect, and held the rank of count second class. ranking directly below the vicar were the provincial governors, who were appointed by the emperor and held various titles. all provincial governors were counts third class. the highest ranking provincial governors were the proconsuls who governed the provinces of africa, asia, and archaea. these three provincial governors reported directly to the emperor due to their strategic value. all other provinces were administered by governors called presidents ("praeses"), judges (iudices) or moderators. the primary duties of the provincial governors were administrative, judicial and financial. the governor could issues decrees that, if approved by the emperor, would become binding upon the province. the governor was also the highest judicial official of the province, with appeals heard by the vicar of the diocese or in dioceses governed by prefects. counts[edit] civilian and military administrators of the late empire were generally ranked as counts ("comes" meaning "companion [of the emperor]"). the rank of count began as title given to the emperor's trusted officials as a mark of imperial confidence, and later developing into a formal rank. "count" was not a hereditary title as was found in feudalism, but rather a rank associated within a distinct position within the imperial administration. all counts were automatically members of the senatorial order. as the imperial system expanded, however, new offices were needed which resulted in the development of three classes within the rank of count: 	vir illustris – the "illustrious men", counts first class 	vir spectabilis – the "admirable men", counts second class 	vir clarissimus – the "most notable men", counts third class the most important imperial court positions, the highest-ranking military commanders, and the imperial chamberlain were all counts first class. counts second class were the various proconsuls, vicars of the dioceses, provincial military commanders, and others. counts third class was the basic qualification to obtain entrance into the senate and including the governorship of a province and other lower offices. military structure[edit] roman emperor constantine, who reformed the constitution of the tetrarchy to a reformed civilian structure, diocletian added a reorganized supreme military command. two significant parts of the reform are apparent: the separation of military commanders from civil administration and the division of the army into two classes: the field armies ("comitatenses") and the frontier troops ("limitanei"). the field armies served as the empire's strategic reserve to respond to crisis where it may arise whereas the frontier troops were permanently stationed along the empire's borders ("limes"). recruited from the ranks of the field armies were the palace troops units ("palatini"), who accompanied the emperor as he traveled around the empire as were the successor of the principate praetorian guard. the supreme military commanders of the late empire was the master of the soldiers ("magister militum"). there were seven such masters throughout the empire (two in the west and five in the east). the establishment of solely military officials provided for a more professional military leadership. the masters were all counts first class. 	within the east, there were masters of the soldiers in illyria, thrace, and the east. each of these three masters exercised independent command over one of the three field armies of the eastern empire. there were also two masters of the soldiers in the presence who accompanied the eastern emperor and who each commanded half of the palace troops. each of the five masters were coequally ranked among themselves. 	within the west, there was a master of both services (magister utriusque militiae) and a master of the horse. the master of both services was the supreme military commander of the west, ranking only below the emperor and above all other military commanders, and commander of half the palace troops. the master of the horse held command over half the palace troops and the field army of gaul, but still under the command of the master of both services. to support the masters of the soldiers, the empire established several military counts ("comes rei militaris"). there were six such military counts throughout the empire. the military counts were all counts second class. 	within the east, there was only one military count: the military count of egypt ("comes rei militaris aegypti"). unlike the military counts of the west, this count commanded the frontier troops stationed in egypt and reported directly to the eastern emperor. 	within the west, there were six such military counts, one for each of the five field armies in illyria, africa, tingitania, hispania, and britannia. the sixth military count, the count of the saxon shore ("comes littoris saxonici per britanniam"), commanded frontier troops along both sides of the english channel and reported to the count of britannia. the five regular military counts reported to the master of both services the various frontier troops were under the command of dukes ("duces limitis" or "border commanders"). these commanders were the spiritual successor of the imperial legates ("legatus augusti pro praetore") of the principate. most dukes were given command of forces in a single province, but a few controlled more than one province. in the east, the dukes reported to the master of the soldiers of their district whereas in the west they reported to their respective military count. senate and magistrates[edit] the removal of the seat of government from rome reduced the roman senate to a municipal body, an image that was reinforced when the emperor constantine later created a similar body in constantinople. diocletian also discontinued the practice of having the senate ratify the imperial powers of a new emperor[citation needed]. going back to the founding of the city, control of the state was considered to return to the senate whenever the chief magistracy became vacant, and so this particular reform robbed the senate of its status as the depository of supreme power. diocletian's reforms also ended whatever fiction had remained that the senate had substantive legislative powers, and since the magistracies had become meaningless, the electoral powers of the senate had no real meaning. the senate did retain its legislative powers over public games and the senatorial order, as well as the power to try cases, especially treason, if the emperor gave permission. the executive magistrates had been little more than municipal officials since long before diocletian became emperor, and so diocletian's reforms simply declared this openly. the consul now could only preside over the senate, and the praetor and quaestor could only manage public games, although the praetor did retain some limited judicial authority. all other magisterial offices disappeared. the first two "roman consuls" in a given year, the consules ordinarii, were appointed by the emperor, and their term now ended on april , while all other consuls in a given year (the less-prestigious consules suffecti) were elected by the senate. the senate also elected "praetors" and "quaestors"', although the approval of the emperor was required before any election could be certified. see also[edit] 	roman kingdom 	roman republic 	roman empire 	roman law 	principate 	tetrarchy 	curia 	roman consul 	praetor 	roman censor 	quaestor 	aedile 	roman dictator 	master of the horse 	roman senate 	cursus honorum 	byzantine senate 	pontifex maximus 	princeps senatus 	interrex 	promagistrate 	acta senatus 	plebeian council 	centuria 	fall of the western roman empire 	historiography of the fall of the western roman empire references[edit] 	abbott, frank frost ( ). a history and description of roman political institutions. elibron classics (isbn  - - - ). 	byrd, robert ( ). the senate of the roman republic. u.s. government printing office, senate document - . 	cicero, marcus tullius ( ). the political works of marcus tullius cicero: comprising his treatise on the commonwealth; and his treatise on the laws. translated from the original, with dissertations and notes in two volumes. by francis barham, esq. london: edmund spettigue. vol. . 	lintott, andrew ( ). the constitution of the roman republic. oxford university press ( isbn  - - - ). 	polybius ( ). the general history of polybius: translated from the greek. by james hampton. oxford: printed by w. baxter. fifth edition, vol . 	taylor, lily ross ( ). roman voting assemblies: from the hannibalic war to the dictatorship of caesar. the university of michigan press ( isbn  - - -x). notes[edit] 	^ byrd, robert ( ). the senate of the roman republic. u.s. government printing office senate document - . p.  . 	^ abbott, frank frost ( ). a history and description of roman political institutions. new york: biblo and tannen. p.  . 	^ a b abbott , p.  . 	^ abbott , pp.  - . 	^ abbott , pp.  - . 	^ abbott , p.  . 	^ piganiol, andré; chastagnol, andré ( ). l'empire chrétien. presses universitaires de france. doi: . /puf.piga. . . isbn  - - - - . 	^ boak, arthur ( ). two studies in later roman and byzantine administration. ann arbor, mi: university of michigan press. doi: . /mpub. . isbn  - - - - . 	^ centamore, giulio ( - - ). contrattazione collettiva e pluralità di categorie. seminario giuridico della università di bologna. bononia university press. doi: . /sg . isbn  - - - - . 	^ sinnigen, william g. ( ). "two branches of the late roman secret service". the american journal of philology. ( ): – . doi: . / . issn  - . jstor  . 	^ adams, colin ( - - ). travel and geography in the roman empire. routledge. doi: . / . isbn  - - - - . 	^ black, e.w. ( ). cursus publicus: the infrastructure of government in roman britain. oxford, uk: british archaeological reports. doi: . / . isbn  - - - - . 	^ garnsey, peter ( ), mcgill, scott; sogno, cristiana; watts, edward (eds.), "roman patronage", from the tetrarchs to the theodosians, cambridge: cambridge university press, pp.  – , doi: . /cbo . , isbn  - - - - 	^ talbert, richard j. a. (november ). "r. delmaire, largesses sacrées et res privata. l'aerarium impérial et son administration du ive au vie siècle (collection de l'École française de rome cxxi). rome: École française de rome, . pp. xvii + . isbn - - - . fr. . - r. delmaire, les responsables des finances impériales au bas-empire romain (ive–vie s.): Études prosopographiques (collection latomus cciii). brussels: latomus, . pp. . isbn - - - . fr.b. ". journal of roman studies. : – . doi: . / . issn  - . jstor  . further reading[edit] 	ihne, wilhelm. researches into the history of the roman constitution. william pickering. . 	johnston, harold whetstone. orations and letters of cicero: with historical introduction, an outline of the roman constitution, notes, vocabulary and index. scott, foresman and company. . 	mommsen, theodor. roman constitutional law. - 	tighe, ambrose. the development of the roman constitution. d. apple & co. . 	von fritz, kurt. the theory of the mixed constitution in antiquity. columbia university press, new york. . 	the histories by polybius 	cambridge ancient history, volumes – . 	a. cameron, the later roman empire, (fontana press, ). 	m. crawford, the roman republic, (fontana press, ). 	e. s. gruen, "the last generation of the roman republic" (u california press, ) 	f. millar, the emperor in the roman world, (duckworth, , ). 	a. lintott, "the constitution of the roman republic" (oxford university press, ) 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collected	books, journals, newspapers, magazines, multimedia and manuscripts 	criteria for collection	material that is produced in greece as well as material that is produced abroad, but is connected with greece in any language and form. 	other information 	director	fillipos tsimpoglou (Φίλιππος Τσιμπόγλου), general director.[ ] 	website	www.nlg.gr 	map 	 the national library of greece (greek: Εθνική Βιβλιοθήκη) is situated near the center of city of athens. it was designed by the danish architect theophil freiherr von hansen, as part of his famous trilogy of neo-classical buildings including the academy of athens and the original building of the athens university. it was founded by ioannis kapodistrias. contents 	 history 	 holdings 	 relocation to phaleron bay 	 see also 	 references 	 external links history[edit] the original idea for establishing a national library was from the philhellene johann jakob mayer, in an august article of his newspaper ellinika chronika, published at missolonghi, where mayer and lord byron had been promoting greece's independence. mayer's idea was implemented in by the new greek government of ioannis kapodistrias,[ ] who grouped together the national library with other intellectual institutions such as schools, national museums, and printing houses. these were all placed in a building (then being used as an orphanage) on the island aegina and supervised by andreas moustoxydis, who thus became president of the committee of the orphanage, director of the national archaeological museum of athens, and director of the national school. at the end of , the library, which moustoxydis named the national library, had , volumes of printed books, which had been collected from greeks and philhellenes. in , the library was relocated to athens, the new capital, and was at first housed temporarily in the public bath in the roman agora of athens and then later in the panagia gorgoepikoos church. the collection increased rapidly. in addition to the purchase of books from private libraries, supervised by dimitris postolakas ( , volumes), the library accepted many large donations of books, like one from christoforos and konstantinos sakellarios ( , volumes) and one from markos renieris ( , volumes). in , the public library merged with athens university's library ( , volumes), and was housed together with the currency collection at the new building of otto's university. the first director (then-called "president") was georgios kozakis-typaldos[ ] of the newly enlarged institution, retaining the job until . at this time, the library was enriched with significant donations and with rare foreign language books from all over europe. with the royal charter of , the two libraries merged, and were administered as the "national library of greece". from – , its director was michael deffner. on march the foundation stone for a new neoclassical marble building was laid. the building was financed by three kefallonian-born brothers of the diaspora, panagis, marinos and andreas vallianos. it was designed by baron theophil von hansen and its construction supervised by ernst ziller. the library remained in the older university building until , when it was relocated to the new vallianos building, which still partly houses the library in addition to two other buildings, at agia paraskevi and nea halkidona. holdings[edit] the library has , greek manuscripts which is one of the greatest collection of greek scripts. there are also many chrysobulls and archives of the greek revolution. among the library's holdings are a codex of the four gospels attributed to the scribe matthew; uncial codex with a fragment gospel of matthew from th century (uncial ), flora graeca sibthorpiana by english botanist john sibthorp; rigas' chart by rigas velestinlis; the large etymological dictionary, a historic byzantine dictionary; and the first publication of homer's epics and hymns.[ ] some other manuscripts: uncial , uncial , minuscule . relocation to phaleron bay[edit] new building of national library of greece in stavros niarchos foundation cultural center the present building has long been inconvenient due to limited space and technology demands. although the vallianos building will continue to house some of its current functions, the bulk of the library in was relocated to a new , -square meter building at the stavros niarchos foundation cultural center on the phaleron bay "delta". the -hectare delta is a seafront area that used to host the athens horse race track, which was replaced by the markopoulo olympic equestrian centre for the athens olympics. italian architect renzo piano proposed a radical new plan for the national library and the national opera of greece, and the project was funded by the stavros niarchos foundation and donated to the greek state. the twin buildings are integrated within a landscaped park with indigenous mediterranean flora, and feature extensive renewable energy facilities and a central plaza around a -m wide seawater channel. work on the project started in with completion due for .[ ] see also[edit] 	list of national libraries references[edit] 	^ "nlg.gr". archived from the original on june . retrieved june . 	^ dean h. keller ( ). academic libraries in greece: the present situation and future prospects. psychology press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . retrieved december . the national library of greece was founded in by ioannis kapodistrias, the first governor of the greek state. 	^ Εθνική Βιβλιοθήκη της Ελλάδος «Ιστορικά στοιχεία» [ ] archived july at the wayback machine, retrieved july 	^ "treasures - national library of greece". the european library. 	^ (in greek) Γιάννης Ε. 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	language	english 	genre	narrative poem, satire 	publication date 	 – 	pages	 pages 	preceded by	childe harold's pilgrimage  	followed by	mazeppa  childe harold's pilgrimage is a long narrative poem in four parts written by lord byron. the poem was published between and . dedicated to "ianthe", it describes the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man, who is disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry and looks for distraction in foreign lands. in a wider sense, it is an expression of the melancholy and disillusionment felt by a generation weary of the wars of the post-revolutionary and napoleonic eras. the title comes from the term childe, a medieval title for a young man who was a candidate for knighthood. the poem was widely imitated and contributed to the cult of the wandering byronic hero who falls into melancholic reverie as he contemplates scenes of natural beauty. its autobiographical subjectivity was widely influential, not only in literature but in the arts of music and painting as well, and was a powerful ingredient in european romanticism. contents 	 origins 	 structure 	 plot 	 the fictive narrator 	 imitations 	 influence 	 . the byronic hero 	 . music 	 . painting 	 see also 	 references 	 external links origins[edit] charlotte harley ( – ), to whom byron dedicated childe harold, using the nickname ianthe the poem contains elements thought to be autobiographical, as byron generated some of the storyline from experience gained during his travels through portugal, the mediterranean and aegean sea between and .[ ] the "ianthe" of the dedication was the term of endearment he used for lady charlotte harley, about years old when childe harold was first published. charlotte bacon, née harley, was the second daughter of th earl of oxford and lady oxford, jane elizabeth scott. throughout the poem, byron, in character of childe harold, regretted his wasted early youth, hence re-evaluating his life choices and re-designing himself through going on the pilgrimage, during which he lamented various historical events including the iberian peninsular war among others. despite byron's initial hesitation at having the first two cantos of the poem published because he felt it revealed too much of himself,[ ] it was published, at the urging of friends, by john murray in , and brought both the poem and its author to immediate and unexpected public attention. byron later wrote, "i awoke one morning and found myself famous".[ ] the first two cantos in john murray's edition were illustrated by richard westall, well-known painter and illustrator who was then commissioned to paint portraits of byron. published on march , , the first run of quarto copies sold out in three days. there were ten editions of the work within three years. byron was deeming the work "my best" in , a year before adding a fourth canto.[ ] byron chose for the epigraph for the edition title page a passage from le cosmopolite, ou, le citoyen du monde ( ), by louis-charles fougeret de monbron [fr], in the original french. translated into english, the quote emphasizes how the travels have resulted in a greater appreciation of his own country: the universe is a kind of book of which one has read only the first page when one has seen only one's own country. i have leafed through a large enough number, which i have found equally bad. this examination was not at all fruitless for me. i hated my country. all the impertinences of the different peoples among whom i have lived have reconciled me to her. if i had not drawn any other benefit from my travels than that, i would regret neither the expense nor the fatigue.[ ] structure[edit] the poem has four cantos written in spenserian stanzas, which consist of eight iambic pentameter lines followed by one alexandrine (a twelve syllable iambic line), and has rhyme pattern ababbcbcc. frontispiece to a c. edition of childe harold's pilgrimage    lo! where the giant on the mountain stands,    his blood-red tresses deep'ning in the sun,    with death-shot glowing in his fiery hands,    and eye that scorcheth all it glares upon,—    restless it rolls, now fix'd, and now anon    flashing afar,—and at his iron feet    destruction cowers to mark what deeds are done;    for on this morn three potent nations meet, to shed before his shrine the blood he deems most sweet.[ ] — canto the first, stanza xxxix (lines – ) lyrics in a different form occasionally punctuate these stanzas: the farewell to england following canto i's stanza and later the address "to inez" following stanza ; and in canto ii the war song that follows stanza . then in canto iii there is the greeting from drachenfels following stanza . plot[edit] the youthful harold, cloyed with the pleasures of the world and reckless of life, wanders about europe, making his feelings and ideas the subjects of the poem. in canto i he is in spain and portugal, where he recounts the savagery of their invasion by the french. in canto ii he moves to greece, uplifted by the beauty of its past in a country now enslaved by the turks. canto iii finds him on the battlefield of waterloo, from which he journeys down the rhine and crosses into switzerland, enchanted by the beauty of the scenery and its historic associations. in canto iv harold starts from venice on a journey through italy, lamenting the vanished heroic and artistic past, and the subject status of its various regions. the fictive narrator[edit] for the long poem he was envisaging, byron chose not only the spenserian stanza but also the archaising dialect in which the faerie queene was written, possibly following the example of spenser's th century imitators.[ ] thus in the pilgrimage's first three stanzas we find mote (as past tense of the verb 'might'); whilome (once upon a time) and ne (not); hight (named) and losel (good-for-nothing). if such stylistic artificiality was meant to create a distance between hero and author, it failed - protest though byron might in the preface that his protagonist was purely fictitious. no sooner had walter scott read the work than he was commenting in a private letter to joanna baillie that "the hero, notwithstanding the affected antiquity of the style in some parts, is a modern man of fashion and fortune, worn out and satiated with the pursuits of dissipation, and although there is a caution against it in the preface, you cannot for your soul avoid concluding that the author, as he gives an account of his own travels, is also doing so in his own character."[ ] in the public sphere, the anti-jacobin review came to the similar conclusion that childe harold "appears to be nothing but the dull, inanimate, instrument for conveying his poetical creator's sentiments to the public. lord byron avows the intent of this hero's introduction to be the 'giving some connection to the piece'; but we cannot, for the life of us, discover how the piece is more connected, by assigning the sentiments which it conveys to a fictitious personage, who takes no part in any of the scenes described, who achieves no deeds, and who, in short, has no one province to perform, than it would have been had lord byron spoken in his own person, and been the 'hero of his own tale'.[ ] in the face of unanimous scepticism, byron gave up the pretence and finally admitted in the letter to his fellow-traveller john hobhouse that prefaced canto iv: "with regard to the conduct of the last canto, there will be found less of the pilgrim than in any of the preceding, and that little slightly, if at all, separated from the author speaking in his own person. the fact is, that i had become weary of drawing a line which everyone seemed determined not to perceive."[ ] imitations[edit] the first two cantos of childe harold’s pilgrimage had scarcely been published before its world-weary hero was satirised in the popular rejected addresses of . cui bono? enquires "lord b". in the spenserian stanza employed by the original: sated with home, of wife and children tired, the restless soul is driven abroad to roam; sated abroad, all seen, yet nought admired; the restless soul is driven to ramble home.[ ] byron was so amused by the book that he wrote to his publisher, "tell the author i forgive him, were he twenty times our satirist". he was not as forgiving of the next tribute to his work, modern greece: a poem ( ) by felicia hemans, which was dependent for its subject on the second canto of the pilgrimage. at first published anonymously, it was even taken to be by byron himself in one contemporary review.[ ] while it was written in a similar rhetorical style, her poem used a slightly longer -line stanza terminating in an alexandrine. this too deplored the land's turkish enslavement and mourned its decline, although pausing to admire the occasion in the past when "woman mingled with your warrior band" (stanza ) in resisting invasion. where the author diverged to take direct issue with byron was on the controversy over the elgin marbles, championing instead their removal to a land that can still cherish their inspiration. to byron's assertion that dull is the eye that will not weep to see     thy walls defaced, thy mouldering shrines removed,     by british hands, which it had best behoved     to guard those relics ne'er to be restored, she had replied and who may grieve that, rescued from their hands, spoilers of excellence and foes of art, thy relics, athens! borne to other lands, claim homage still to thee from every heart?[ ] over the years, others wrote works dependent on the pilgrimage to a greater or lesser degree. george croly celebrated the victory at the battle of waterloo with his paris in : a poem (london, ). it was prefaced by spenserian stanzas in the byronic manner, followed by many more sections in couplets.[ ] this was followed in by the anonymous collection childe harold’s pilgrimage to the dead sea (and other poems). there the byronic outcast of the title poem relates a catalogue of sins through thirty pages of irregular couplets, wound up by a call to last minute repentance.[ ] by the habit of imitation had crossed to the us, where five spenserian stanzas dependent on the pilgrimage's canto ii were published under the title "childe harold in boetia" in the galaxy.[ ] but the childe was to be found applying himself to other activities than travel. the pages of francis hodgson's childe harold's monitor, or lines occasioned by the last canto of childe harold (london ),[ ] are given over to literary satire in the manner of byron's english bards and scotch reviewers. written in heroic couplets, it champions the style of the augustan poets against the emergent romantic style, particularly of the lake poets. childe harold in the shades: an infernal romaunt (london ), displays much the same sentiments.[ ] the poem is set in the classical underworld and its anonymous youthful author has since been identified as edward dacres baynes.[ ] title page of alphonse de lamartine's le dernier chant du pèlerinage d'harold, byron's death in the greek war of independence initiated a new round of imitations. william lisle bowles responded to his interment with a generous elegy in the six stanzas of "childe harold's last pilgrimage" ( ). these were written in the same form as byron's poem and, forgiving the bitter insults that had passed between them in the course of a public controversy, now paid a magnanimous tribute to the manner of his dying.[ ] there was also a crop of french imitations on this occasion, of which the foremost was alphonse de lamartine's le dernier chant du pélerinage d’harold (paris, ). despite the poet's assertion of the originality of his 'fifth canto', a contemporary english review found it often dependent on byron's works.[ ] its english translation by j. w. lake, the last canto of childe harold's pilgrimage, was published from paris in . another in heroic couplets followed from london in .[ ] another french enthusiast, jules lefèvre-deumier, had actually been on the way to join byron in greece in but a shipwreck robbed him of the opportunity to join the cause. he too recorded a pilgrimage from paris into switzerland in les pélerinages d’un childe harold parisien, published in under the pseudonym d. j. c. verfèle.[ ] in the following year aristide tarry published the pamphlet-length childe-harold aux ruines de rome: imitation du poème de lord byron, which was sold in aid of the greek combatants.[ ] a later imitation of childe harold’s pilgrimage lay unacknowledged for more than a century. john clare had started to compose his own "child harold" in , during the years of his madness, sometimes identifying himself as byron, sometimes as a bigamist byronic hero. its intricate narrative stanzas are interspersed with many more lyrics than had been byron's poem, often on the subject of clare's youthful love for mary joyce. but, though "more sustained in thought than anything else he ever attempted", it was written piecemeal and the fragments were never unified or published until midway through the th century.[ ] influence[edit] the byronic hero[edit] the protagonist of childe harold's pilgrimage embodied the example of the self-exiled byronic hero.[ ] his antinomian character is summed up in lord macaulay's essay on moore’s life of lord byron (edinburgh review, ). "it is hardly too much to say that lord byron could exhibit only one man - a man proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow, and misery in his heart; a scorner of his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affection…it is curious to observe the tendency which the dialogue of lord byron always has, to lose its character of dialogue and to become soliloquy."[ ] the type was caricatured as the melancholy mr cypress in thomas love peacock's nightmare abbey, published in , following the appearance of the pilgrimage's canto iv.[ ] the poet's misanthropic and despairing announcement there sums up the 'heroic' point of view: "i have no hope for myself or for others. our life is a false nature; it is not in the harmony of things; it is an all-blasting upas whose root is earth, and whose leaves are the skies which rain their poison dews upon mankind. we wither from our youth; we gasp with unslaked thirst for unattainable good; lured from the first to the last by phantoms – love, fame, ambition, avarice – all idle, and all ill - one meteor of many names, that vanishes in the smoke of death." almost every word is transcribed from two of the canto's stanzas, and .[ ] eugene onegin as byronic hero, dmitry kardovsky's illustration once byron's poem had launched the heroic prototype, it went on to be an influence on alexander pushkin's eugene onegin ( – ), where the poem's protagonist is compared several times to childe harold. onegin shares the hero's melancholy that cannot be pleased ( . ) and his dreaminess ( . ); but perhaps his mixture of behaviours are only so many masks, and in this respect he is likened to melmoth the wanderer as well as to childe harold ( . ). tatiana too ponders whether onegin's guises make him "a muscovite in harold's dress, a modish second-hand edition" ( . ).[ ] but however much that pose may have been appreciated in the first half of the th century, by world war the reaction to the hero's attitudes had veered to scepticism. c. s. lewis, in the screwtape letters ( ), bracketed childe harold and young werther as romantic types "submerged in self-pity for imaginary distresses" for whom "five minutes' genuine toothache would reveal [their] romantic sorrows for the nonsense they were".[ ] equally, the bluff hero of c. s. forester's the commodore ( ) dismissed byron's poem as "bombast and fustian" while flipping through its pages for inspiration.[ ] music[edit] the first two cantos of the poem were launched under the title childe harold’s pilgrimage: a romaunt, and other poems.[ ] there were twenty of those "other poems", for the most part arising out of byron's tour. these supplemented the three lyrics already mentioned that were incorporated into cantos i and ii. five of the supplementary songs were set by composers, mostly during the course of the th century and sometimes in translated versions. "on parting" (the kiss, dear maid, thy lip has left), for example, was set by ludwig van beethoven and some other composers;[ ] the song "maid of athens, ere we part" had a setting by charles gounod as well as others in german and italian.[ ] the song "adieu! adieu! my native shore", which appeared in the first canto of the pilgrimage, was set as early as , but with the wording "my native shore adieu", and was apparently incorporated into the long-established opera the maid of the mill.[ ] it was also set by some twelve other composers as well as in german and danish translations.[ ] and in addition to the songs, just two spenserian stanzas from the pilgrimage's canto iii have had musical settings: stanza by the american composer larry austin in and a german translation of stanza by robert von hornstein ( – ).[ ] there were also two european romantic composers who referenced childe harold’s pilgrimage in their programmatic works. hector berlioz recorded in his memoires that, in composing harold en italie ( ), he wished to draw on memories of his wanderings in the abruzzi, making of the solo for viola at its start "a sort of melancholic reverie in the manner of byron’s childe harold" (une sorte de rêveur mélancolique dans le genre du child-harold de byron).[ ] nevertheless, donald tovey has pointed out in his analysis of the work that "there is no trace in berlioz's music of any of the famous passages of childe harold".[ ] several of franz liszt's transcriptions of swiss natural scenery in his années de pèlerinage (composed during the s) were accompanied by epigraphs from canto iii of byron's poem, but while the quotations fit the emotional tone of the music, they are sometimes contextually different. thus liszt's second piece, au lac de wallenstadt (by lake wallenstadt), with its evocation of rippling water, is accompanied by byron's description of the still reflective surface of lac leman (stanza ). between the next few quotations there is greater congruence, however. liszt's fifth piece, orage (storm), comes with byron's equating of meteorological and emotional weathers from canto . the change of tone in the sixth piece, vallée d’obermann, is signalled by the transition of mood at the end of byron's following stanza ; and the peaceful beginning of stanza accompanies the succeeding eglogue (eclogue). after this sequence drawn from three contiguous stanzas, the final piece, les cloches de genève (geneva bells), returns to the lac leman sequence of stanzas in the poem and provides another dissonance. the two lines quoted from stanza fit the serene tone of the music, but only by ignoring the rejection of "human cities" two lines later.[ ] in the case of both berlioz's and liszt's pieces, their association with childe’s harold’s pilgrimage is an indication of how they are to be interpreted, in that all three works are subjective and autobiographical. the music, however, is independent of the text. painting[edit] childe harold's pilgrimage by joseph mallord william turner, j. m. w. turner was an admirer of byron's poetry and made scenes from the pilgrimage the subject of several paintings. in addition he was among those commissioned to provide drawings to be engraved for william finden's landscape illustrations to byron ( ), which also included views from the poem.[ ] one of turner's earlier paintings was of the carnage on the field of waterloo ( ), which was accompanied by byron's descriptive lines from canto iii, stanza .[ ] for this, the poet had visited the battlefield in and turner in . then in he exhibited a painting referencing byron's poem in its title, childe harold’s pilgrimage – italy ( ), accompanied by lines reflecting on the passing of imperial might from canto iv, stanza .[ ] turner's ehrenbreitstein ( ) was still another landscape carrying an epigraph, this time from the subject's appearance in canto iii, stanzas – . it had captured the painter's imagination on his first visit there in and he had made studies of the place many times since then. though the painter might first have been drawn to the spot on account of byron's poem, what he made of it came from close personal acquaintance over the intervening years.[ ] the american thomas cole also went to byron for the subject of one painting, though it was to manfred in this case and is typically an imaginative reinterpretation.[ ] so too was his series of paintings the course of empire ( - ), in reference to which he quoted the lines on the rise of cultures through civilisation to barbarism, from the pilgrimage's canto iv, stanza .[ ] in addition, his the fountain of egeria (painted at about the same time and now lost) was accompanied by lines from the same poem.[ ] see also[edit] 	don juan (poem) 	romantic literature in english references[edit] 	^ heffernan, james aw, cultivating picturacy, baylor up, p.  . 	^ maccarthy, fiona ( ), byron: life and legend, john murray, p.  , isbn  - - -x . 	^ spengler-axiopoulos, barbara ( july ), der skeptische kosmopolit (in german), nzz, archived from the original on march . 	^ chalk, aidan. "childe harold's pilgrimage: a romaunt and the influence of local attachment", texas studies in literature and language, vol. . , local habitations (spring ), pp. – . 	^ lord byron. selected poems. london: penguin books, . 	^ byron, george gordon, lord ( ). the complete poetical works (cambridge ed.). boston: houghton mifflin. p.  . 	^ spenserians 	^ john gibson lockhart, life of sir walter scott, vol. , p. 	^ the anti-jacobin review, vol. (may – august ), p. 	^ the works of lord byron, vol. , p. 	^ james and horace smith, rejected addresses: or the new theatrum poetarum, pp. - 	^ spenserians 	^ modern greece, london , p. , stanza 	^ spenserians 	^ london , google books, pp. - 	^ william ellery leonard, byron and byronism in america, columbia university, , p. 	^ google books 	^ the british critic, volume ( ), pp. - 	^ ian macdonald, "a love of poetry", guyana chronicle, september 	^ spenserians 	^ the monthly review or literary journal, vol. , , pp. - 	^ google books 	^ maria walecka-garbalińska, jules lefèvre-deumier ( – ) et le mythe romantique du genie, université d'uppsala, 	^ christian a. e. jensen, l'évolution du romantisme: l'année , slatkine reprints, geneva , p. 	^ eric robinson and geoffrey summerfield, introduction to the later poems of john clare, manchester university press, , pp. - 	^ cf. ¶ in the article on the topic from the norton anthology of english literature 	^ lord macaulay, essays, critical and miscellaneous, philadelphia , pp. , 	^ peter cochran, the burning of byron’s memoirs: new and unpublished essays and papers, cambridge scholars , p. 	^ jane moore, john strachan: key concepts in romantic literature, palgrave macmillan , p. , 	^ charles johnston’s translation 	^ c. s. lewis, the screwtape letters ( ), letter xiii 	^ sue parrill, nelson's navy in fiction and film, mcfarland, , p. 	^ google books 	^ lieder net 	^ lieder net 	^ lieder net "the opera has no other connection with byron’s work" according to the catalogue musical settings of british romantic literature ( ), vol. , p. 	^ lieder net 	^ lieder net 	^ mémoires de hector berlioz, paris , p. 	^ tovey, donald ( ). symphonies and other orchestral works: selections from essays in musical analysis. london: oxford university press. p.  . isbn  . 	^ the liszt companion, greenwood press , pp. - 	^ luke hermann, j. m. w. turner, oup , pp. - 	^ tate gallery 	^ tate gallery 	^ peter aspden, ehrenbreitstein: a painting outside time, sotheby’s 	^ yale university art gallery 	^ elizabeth mankin kornhauser, tim barringer, thomas cole's journey: atlantic crossings, metropolitan museum of art, , p. 	^ thomas cole's journey ( ), p. external links[edit] 	 media related to childe harold's pilgrimage at wikimedia commons 		wikisource has original text related to this article: childe harold's pilgrimage 		wikiquote has quotations related to: childe harold's pilgrimage 	childe harold's pilgrimage at internet archive (scanned books original editions illustrated) 	 	 childe harold's pilgrimage at project gutenberg 	 childe harold's pilgrimage public domain audiobook at librivox 		v 	t 	e lord byron 	topics	 	barony of byron 	byronic hero 	early life 	newstead abbey 	timeline of lord byron 	 	people	 	anne isabella, lady byron (wife) 	ada lovelace (daughter) 	allegra byron (daughter) 	john "mad jack" byron (father) 	claire clairmont 	nicolo giraud 	contessa guiccioli 	jane harley 	john cam hobhouse 	douglas kinnaird 	lady caroline lamb 	augusta leigh (maternal half-sister) 	medora leigh 	thomas moore 	isaac nathan 	walter scott 	john william polidori 	percy bysshe shelley 	mary shelley 	edward john trelawny 	longer poetry	 	hours of idleness ( ) 	english bards and scotch reviewers ( ) 	childe harold's pilgrimage ( – ) 	the giaour ( ) 	the bride of abydos ( ) 	the corsair ( ) 	lara, a tale ( ) 	the siege of corinth ( ) 	parisina ( ) 	the prisoner of chillon ( ) 	the dream ( ) 	prometheus ( ) 	"darkness" ( ) 	the lament of tasso ( ) 	beppo ( ) 	don juan ( – ; 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	cookie statement 		 	 	 equites - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	equites 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		for the play by aristophanes called equites in latin, see the knights. 	part of a series of articles on 	monarchy 	 	 central concepts 		monarch 	monarchism 	imperialism 		divine right of kings 	mandate of heaven 	 types 	absolute 	chinese legalist 	composite 	constitutional 	crowned republic 	diarchy 	dual 	elective 	emirate 	ethnarch 	federal 	hereditary 	personal union 	non-sovereign 	popular 	regency 	coregency 	tetrarch 	triarchy 	universal 	 history 	birth of the roman empire 	magna carta 	foundation of the ottoman empire 		glorious revolution 	french revolution 		trienio liberal 	first french empire 		liberal wars 	second french empire 		italian unification 	meiji restoration 	austro-hungarian compromise 	german unification 	 october revolution 	proclamation of the republic in brazil 		chinese revolution 	russian revolution 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contents 	 description 	 regal era ( – bc) 	 early republic ( – bc) 	 later republic ( – bc) 	 . transformation of state and army ( – ) 	 . political role 	 . military officer role 	 . cavalry role 	 . ethos 	 . business activities 	 . privileges 	 augustan equestrian order (principate era) 	 . differentiation of the senatorial order 	 . ordo equester under augustus 	 . equestrian public careers 	 . relations with the emperor 	 . oligarchical rule in the early principate (to ad ) 	 . equestrian hierarchy 	 equestrians in the later empire (ad – ) 	 . rise of the military equestrians ( rd century) 	 . idle aristocracy ( th century) 	 notes 	 see also 	 citations 	 references 	 . ancient 	 . modern 	 further reading 	 external links description[edit] during the roman kingdom and the first century of the roman republic, legionary cavalry was recruited exclusively from the ranks of the patricians, who were expected to provide six centuriae of cavalry ( horses for each consular legion). around  bc, more centuriae of cavalry were established and these included non-patricians (plebeians). around bc the samnite wars obliged rome to double the normal annual military levy from two to four legions, doubling the cavalry levy from to , horses. legionary cavalry started to recruit wealthier citizens from outside the centuriae. these new recruits came from the first class of commoners in the centuriate assembly organisation, and were not granted the same privileges. by the time of the second punic war ( – bc), all the members of the first class of commoners were required to serve as cavalrymen. the presence of equites in the roman cavalry diminished steadily in the period – bc as only equites could serve as the army's senior officers; as the number of legions proliferated fewer were available for ordinary cavalry service. after c. bc, equites were no longer drafted into the legionary cavalry, although they remained technically liable to such service throughout the principate era (to ad ). they continued to supply the senior officers of the army throughout the principate. with the exception of the purely hereditary patricians, the equites were originally defined by a property threshold. the rank was passed from father to son, although members of the order who at the regular quinquennial census no longer met the property requirement were usually removed from the order's rolls by the roman censors. in the late republic, the property threshold stood at , denarii and was doubled to , by the emperor augustus (sole rule bc – ad ) – roughly the equivalent to the annual salaries of contemporary legionaries. in the later republican period, roman senators and their offspring became an unofficial elite within the equestrian order. as senators' abilities to engage in commerce was strictly limited by law, the bulk of non-agricultural activities were in the hands of non-senatorial equites. as well as holding large landed estates, equites came to dominate mining, shipping and manufacturing industry. in particular, tax farming companies (publicani) were almost all in the hands of equites. under augustus, the senatorial elite was given formal status (as the ordo senatorius) with a higher wealth threshold ( , denarii, or the pay of , legionaries) and superior rank and privileges to ordinary equites. during the principate, equites filled the senior administrative and military posts of the imperial government. there was a clear division between jobs reserved for senators (the most senior) and those reserved for non-senatorial equites. but the career structure of both groups was broadly similar: a period of junior administrative posts in rome or roman italy, followed by a period (normally a decade) of military service as a senior army officer, followed by senior administrative or military posts in the provinces. senators and equites formed a tiny elite of under , members who monopolised political, military and economic power in an empire of about million inhabitants. during the rd century ad, power shifted from the italian aristocracy to a class of equites who had earned their membership by distinguished military service, often rising from the ranks: career military officers from the provinces (especially the balkan provinces) who displaced the italian aristocrats in the top military posts, and under diocletian (ruled – ) from the top civilian positions also. this effectively reduced the italian aristocracy to an idle, but immensely wealthy, group of landowners. during the th century, the status of equites was debased to insignificance by excessive grants of the rank. at the same time the ranks of senators were swollen to over , by the establishment of the byzantine senate, a second senate in constantinople and the tripling of the membership of both senates. the senatorial order of the th century was thus the equivalent of the equestrian order of the principate. regal era ( – bc)[edit] according to roman legend, rome was founded by its first king, romulus, in bc. however, archaeological evidence suggests that rome did not acquire the character of a unified city-state (as opposed to a number of separate hilltop settlements) until c.  bc.[ ] roman tradition relates that the order of knights was founded by romulus, who supposedly established a cavalry regiment of men called the celeres ("swift squadron") to act as his personal escort, with each of the three roman "tribes" (actually voting constituencies) supplying horses. this cavalry regiment was supposedly doubled in size to men by king lucius tarquinius priscus (traditional dates – bc).[ ] that the cavalry was increased to during the regal era is plausible, as in the early republic the cavalry fielded remained -strong (two legions with horses each).[ ] however, according to livy, king servius tullius (traditional reign-dates – bc) established a further centuriae of equites, a further tripling of the cavalry.[ ] yet this is probably anachronistic, as it would have resulted in a contingent of , horse, incongruously large, compared to the heavy infantry, which was probably only , strong in the late regal period. instead, the additional centuriae were probably created at a later stage, perhaps around bc, but these new units were political not military, most likely designed to admit plebeians to the order of knights.[ ] apparently, equites were originally provided with a sum of money by the state to purchase a horse for military service and for its fodder. this was known as an equus publicus.[ ] theodor mommsen argues that the royal cavalry was drawn exclusively from the ranks of the patricians (patricii), the aristocracy of early rome, which was purely hereditary.[ ] apart from the traditional association of the aristocracy with horsemanship, the evidence for this view is the fact that, during the republic, six centuriae (voting constituencies) of equites in the comitia centuriata (electoral assembly) retained the names of the original six royal cavalry centuriae.[ ][note ] these are very likely the "centuriae of patrician nobles" in the comitia mentioned by the lexicologist sextus pompeius festus. if this view is correct, it implies that the cavalry was exclusively patrician (and therefore hereditary) in the regal period. (however, cornell considers the evidence tenuous).[ ] early republic ( – bc)[edit] it is widely accepted that the roman monarchy was overthrown by a patrician coup, probably provoked by the tarquin dynasty's populist policies in favour of the plebeian class.[note ] alfoldi suggests that the coup was carried out by the celeres themselves.[ ] according to the fraccaro interpretation, when the roman monarchy was replaced with two annually elected praetores (later called "consuls"), the royal army was divided equally between them for campaigning purposes, which, if true, explains why polybius later said that a legion's cavalry contingent was strong.[ ] the additional centuriae ascribed by livy to servius tullius were, in reality, probably formed around bc. in bc, according to livy, in a crisis during the siege of veii, the army urgently needed to deploy more cavalry, and "those who possessed equestrian rating but had not yet been assigned public horses" volunteered to pay for their horses out of their own pockets. by way of compensation, pay was introduced for cavalry service, as it had already been for the infantry (in bc).[ ] the persons referred to in this passage were probably members of the new centuriae who were entitled to public horses, but temporarily waived that privilege. mommsen, however, argues that the passage refers to members of the first class of commoners being admitted to cavalry service in bc for the first time as an emergency measure. if so, this group may be the original so-called equites equo privato, a rank that is attested throughout the history of the republic (in contrast to equites equo publico). however, due to a lack of evidence, the origins and definition of equo privato equites remain obscure. it is widely agreed that the new centuriae were open to non-patricians.[ ] thus, from this date if not earlier, not all equites were patricians. the patricians, as a closed hereditary caste, steadily diminished in numbers over the centuries, as families died out. around bc, there are some patrician gentes (clans) recorded, whereas just remained at the time of julius caesar (dictator of rome – bc), whose own iulii clan was patrician.[ ] in contrast, the ranks of equites, although also hereditary (in the male line), were open to new entrants who met the property requirement and who satisfied the roman censors that they were suitable for membership.[ ] as a consequence, patricians rapidly became only a small minority of the equestrian order. however, patricians retained political influence greatly out of proportion with their numbers. until bc, one of the two consuls elected each year had to be a patrician.[ ] in addition, patricians may have retained their original six centuriae, which gave them a third of the total voting-power of the equites, even though they constituted only a tiny minority of the order by bc. patricians also enjoyed official precedence, such as the right to speak first in senatorial debates, which were initiated by the princeps senatus (leader of the senate), a position reserved for patricians. in addition, patricians monopolized certain priesthoods and continued to enjoy enormous prestige.[ ] later republic ( – bc)[edit] transformation of state and army ( – )[edit] the period following the end of the latin war ( – bc) and of the samnite wars ( – ) saw the transformation of the roman republic from a powerful but beleaguered city-state into the hegemonic power of the italian peninsula. this was accompanied by profound changes in its constitution and army. internally, the critical development was the emergence of the senate as the all-powerful organ of state.[ ] by bc, the senate had assumed total control of state taxation, expenditure, declarations of war, treaties, raising of legions, establishing colonies and religious affairs. in other words, of virtually all political power. from an ad hoc group of advisors appointed by the consuls, the senate had become a permanent body of around life peers who, as largely former roman magistrates, boasted enormous experience and influence.[ ] at the same time, the political unification of the latin nation, under roman rule after bc, gave rome a populous regional base from which to launch its wars of aggression against its neighbours.[ ] the grueling contest for italian hegemony that rome fought against the samnite league led to the transformation of the roman army from the greek-style hoplite phalanx that it was in the early period, to the italian-style manipular army described by polybius. it is believed that the romans copied the manipular structure from their enemies the samnites, learning through hard experience its greater flexibility and effectiveness in the mountainous terrain of central italy.[ ] it is also from this period that every roman army that took the field was regularly accompanied by at least as many troops supplied by the socii (rome's italian military confederates, often referred to as "latin allies").[ ] each legion would be matched by a confederate ala (literally: "wing"), a formation that contained roughly the same number of infantry as a legion, but three times the number of horses ( ).[ ] legionary cavalry also probably underwent a transformation during this period, from the light, unarmoured horsemen of the early period to the greek-style armoured cuirassiers described by polybius.[ ] as a result of the demands of the samnite hostilities, a normal consular army was doubled in size to two legions, making four legions raised annually overall. roman cavalry in the field thus increased to approximately , horses.[ ] this now represented only % of the army's total cavalry contingent, the rest being supplied by the italian confederates. a legion's modest cavalry share of % of its , total strength was thus increased to % in a confederate army, comparable with (or higher than) any other forces in italy except the gauls and also similar to those in greek armies such as pyrrhus's.[ ] political role[edit] despite an ostensibly democratic constitution based on the sovereignty of the people, the roman republic was in reality a classic oligarchy, in which political power was monopolised by the richest social echelon.[ ] probably by bc, the centuriate organisation of the roman citizen body for political purposes achieved the evolved form described by polybius and livy. the comitia centuriata was the most powerful people's assembly, as it promulgated roman laws and annually elected the roman magistrates, the executive officers of the state: consuls, praetors, aediles and quaestors.[ ] in the assembly, the citizen body was divided into centuriae, or voting constituencies. of these, were allocated to equites (including patricians) and a further to the first class of commoners, securing an absolute majority of the votes ( out of ) for the wealthiest echelon of society, although it constituted only a small minority of the citizenry. (the lowest class, the proletarii, rated at under drachmae, had just one vote, despite being the most numerous).[ ] as a result, the wealthiest echelon could ensure that the elected magistrates were always their own members. in turn, this ensured that the senate was dominated by the wealthy classes, as its membership was composed almost entirely of current and former magistrates.[ ] analysis of roman centuriate organisation[ ] 	class	property rating (drachmae: denarii after bc)	no. of votes in electoral assembly	military service 	aristocrats 	patricii (patricians) 	n.a. (hereditary) 	 	officers and legionary cavalry 	equites (knights) 	hereditary/over , ?* 	 	officers and legionary cavalry 	commoners 	first class 	 , – , ? 	 	legionary cavalry 	second class 	 , – , 	 	legionary infantry 	third class 	 , – , 	 	legionary infantry 	fourth class 	 , – , 	 	legionary infantry 	fifth class 	 (or , ) – , 	 	legionary infantry (velites) 	proletarii (capite censi) 	under (or , ) 	 	fleets (oarsmen) military officer role[edit] a roman senior officer (centre) of the time of polybius, as depicted on a bas-relief from the altar of cn. domitius ahenobarbus, c. bc. probably a tribunus militum (joint legionary commander), the officer wears a decorated bronze cuirass, pteruges, mantle, and attic-style helmet with horsehair plume. the sash around his cuirass probably denoted knightly rank. in the republican army, tribuni were elected by the comitia centuriata (main people's assembly) from the members of the equestrian order. musée du louvre, paris. a roman coin issued during the second punic war ( – bc) showing (obverse) the god of war mars and (reverse) probably the earliest image of a roman cavalryman of the republican era. helmet with horsehair plume, long spear (hasta), small round shield (parma equestris), and flowing mantle. roman cavalry was levied from the equites, and from volunteers of the second property class, until the early st century bc. bronze quincunx from larinum mint. in the "polybian" army of the mid-republic ( – bc), equites held the exclusive right to serve as senior officers of the army.[ ] these were the six tribuni militum in each legion who were elected by the comitia at the start of each campaigning season and took turns to command the legion in pairs; the praefecti sociorum, commanders of the italian confederate alae, who were appointed by the consuls; and the three decurions that led each squadron (turma) of legionary cavalry (a total of decurions per legion).[ ] cavalry role[edit] main article: roman cavalry as their name implies, equites were liable to cavalry service in the legion of the mid-republic. they originally provided a legion's entire cavalry contingent, although from an early stage (probably from c. and not later than c. bc), when equestrian numbers had become insufficient, large numbers of young men from the first class of commoners were regularly volunteering for the service, which was considered more glamorous than the infantry.[ ] the cavalry role of equites dwindled after the second punic war ( – bc), as the number of equestrians became insufficient to provide the senior officers of the army and general cavalrymen as well. equites became exclusively an officer-class, with the first class of commoners providing the legionary cavalry. ethos[edit] from the earliest times and throughout the republican period, roman equites subscribed, in their role as roman cavalrymen, to an ethos of personal heroism and glory. this was motivated by the desire to justify their privileged status to the lower classes that provided the infantry ranks, to enhance the renown of their family name, and to augment their chances of subsequent political advancement in a martial society. for equites, a focus of the heroic ethos was the quest for spolia militaria, the stripped armour and weapons of a foe whom they had killed in single combat. there are many recorded instances. for example, servilius geminus pulex, who went on to become consul in bc, was reputed to have gained spolia times.[ ] the higher the rank of the opponent killed in combat, the more prestigious the spolia, and none more so than spolia duci hostium detracta, spoils taken from an enemy leader himself.[note ] many equites attempted to gain such an honour, but very few succeeded for the reason that enemy leaders were always surrounded by large numbers of elite bodyguards.[ ] one successful attempt, but with a tragic twist, was that of the decurion titus manlius torquatus in bc during the latin war. despite strict orders from the consuls (one of whom was his own father) not to engage the enemy, manlius could not resist accepting a personal challenge from the commander of the tusculan cavalry, which his squadron encountered while on reconnaissance. there ensued a fiercely contested joust with the opposing squadrons as spectators. manlius won, spearing his adversary after the latter was thrown by his horse. but when the triumphant young man presented the spoils to his father, the latter ordered his son's immediate execution for disobeying orders. "orders of manlius" (manliana imperia) became a proverbial army term for orders that must on no account be disregarded.[ ] business activities[edit] in bc, the lex claudia restricted the commercial activity of senators and their sons, on the grounds that it was incompatible with their status. senators were prohibited from owning ships of greater capacity than amphorae (about seven tonnes) - this being judged sufficient to carry the produce of their own landed estates but too small to conduct large-scale sea transportation.[ ] from this time onwards, senatorial families mostly invested their capital in land. all other equestrians remained free to invest their wealth, greatly increased by the growth of rome's overseas empire after the second punic war, in large-scale commercial enterprises including mining and industry, as well as land.[ ] equestrians became especially prominent in tax farming and, by bc, owned virtually all tax-farming companies (publicani).[ ] during the late republican era, the collection of most taxes was contracted out to private individuals or companies by competitive tender, with the contract for each province awarded to the publicanus who bid the highest advance to the state treasury on the estimated tax-take of the province. the publicanus would then attempt to recoup his advance, with the right to retain any surplus collected as his profit. this system frequently resulted in extortion from the common people of the provinces, as unscrupulous publicani often sought to maximise their profit by demanding a much higher rates of tax than originally set by the government. the provincial governors whose duty it was to curb illegal demands were often bribed into acquiescence by the publicani.[ ] the system also led to political conflict between ''equites publicani and the majority of their fellow-equites, especially senators, who as large landowners wanted to minimise the tax on land outside italy (tributum solis), which was the main source of state revenue.[ ] this system was terminated by the first roman emperor, augustus (sole rule bc – ad), who transferred responsibility for tax collection from the publicani to provincial local authorities (civitates peregrinae).[ ] although the latter also frequently employed private companies to collect their tax quotas, it was in their own interests to curb extortion. during the imperial era, tax collectors were generally paid an agreed percentage of the amount collected. equites publicani became prominent in banking activities such as money-lending and money-changing.[ ] privileges[edit] the official dress of equestrians was the tunica angusticlavia (narrow-striped tunic), worn underneath the toga, in such a manner that the stripe over the right shoulder was visible (as opposed to the broad stripe worn by senators.[ ]) equites bore the title eques romanus, were entitled to wear an anulus aureus (gold ring) on their left hand, and, from bc, enjoyed privileged seats at games and public functions (just behind those reserved for senators).[ ] augustan equestrian order (principate era)[edit] bridle ornament inscribed plinio praefecto ("property of the prefect pliny"), found at castra vetera legionary base (xanten, germany), believed to have belonged to the classical author pliny the elder when he was a praefectus alae (commander of an auxiliary cavalry regiment) in germania inferior. pliny was a hereditary roman knight of the imperial era who became celebrated for his writings on geography and natural history. he also had a distinguished career as a public servant, in a series of posts reserved for equestrians. he served as a military officer in – , as equestrian governor (procurator augusti) of two minor provinces in the period – and then as a secretary of state in rome to the emperor vespasian. by , he was praefectus classis (admiral commanding) of the main imperial fleet at misenum in the bay of naples. in that year, the nearby volcano mount vesuvius erupted, burying the surrounding towns of pompeii and herculaneum. from his base across the bay, pliny led out his fleet in an attempt to rescue thousands of survivors trapped by lava-flows on the shore beneath vesuvius. but after reaching port at stabiae, pliny's ships were prevented from putting to sea again for several hours by a strong in-shore gale. whilst awaiting a change of wind-direction, pliny died on a nearby beach from inhaling toxic gases.[ ] (source: british museum, london) differentiation of the senatorial order[edit] the senate as a body was formed of sitting senators, whose number was held at around by the founder of the principate, augustus (sole rule bc – ad ) and his successors until . senators' sons and further descendants technically retained equestrian rank unless and until they won a seat in the senate. but talbert argues that augustus established the existing senatorial elite as a separate and superior order (ordo senatorius) to the equites for the first time.[ ] the evidence for this includes: 	augustus, for the first time, set a minimum property requirement for admission to the senate, of , denarii, two and a half times the , denarii that he set for admission to the equestrian order.[ ] 	augustus, for the first time, allowed the sons of senators to wear the tunica laticlavia (tunic with broad purple stripes that was the official dress of senators) on reaching their majority even though they were not yet members of the senate.[ ] 	senators' sons followed a separate cursus honorum (career-path) to other equites before entering the senate: first an appointment as one of the vigintiviri ("committee of twenty", a body that included officials with a variety of minor administrative functions), or as an augur (priest), followed by at least a year in the military as tribunus militum laticlavius (deputy commander) of a legion. this post was normally held before the tribune had become a member of the senate. 	a marriage law of bc (the lex julia) seems to define not only senators but also their descendants unto the third generation (in the male line) as a distinct group.[ ] there was thus established a group of men with senatorial rank (senatorii) wider than just sitting senators (senatores). a family's senatorial status depended not only on continuing to match the higher wealth qualification, but on their leading member holding a seat in the senate. failing either condition, the family would revert to ordinary knightly status. although sons of sitting senators frequently won seats in the senate, this was by no means guaranteed, as candidates often outnumbered the seats available each year, leading to intense competition. ordo equester under augustus[edit] as regards the equestrian order, augustus apparently abolished the rank of equo privato, according all its members equo publico status. in addition, augustus organised the order in a quasi-military fashion, with members enrolled into six turmae (notional cavalry squadrons). the order's governing body were the seviri ("committee of six"), composed of the "commanders" of the turmae. in an attempt to foster the equites esprit de corps, augustus revived a defunct republican ceremony, the recognitio equitum (inspection of the equites), in which equites paraded every five years with their horses before the consuls.[ ] at some stage during the early principate, equites acquired the right to the title "egregius" ("distinguished gentleman"), while senators were styled "clarissimus", "most distinguished").[ ] beyond equites with equus publicus, augustus' legislation permitted any roman citizen who was assessed in an official census as meeting the property requirement of , denarii to use the title of eques and wear the narrow-striped tunic and gold ring. but such "property-qualified equites" were not apparently admitted to the ordo equester itself, but simply enjoyed equestrian status.[ ][ ] only those granted an equus publicus by the emperor (or who inherited the status from their fathers) were enrolled in the order. imperial equites were thus divided into two tiers: a few thousand mainly italian equites equo publico, members of the order eligible to hold the public offices reserved for the equites; and a much larger group of wealthy italians and provincials (estimated at , in the nd century) of equestrian status but outside the order.[ ][ ] equestrians could in turn be elevated to senatorial rank (e.g. pliny the younger), but in practice this was much more difficult than elevation from commoner to equestrian rank. to join the upper order, not only was the candidate required to meet the minimum property requirement of , denarii, but also had to be elected a member of the senate. there were two routes for this, both controlled by the emperor: 	the normal route was election to the post of quaestor, the most junior magistracy (for which the minimum eligible age was years), which carried automatic membership of the senate. twenty quaestors were appointed each year, a number that evidently broadly matched the average annual vacancies (caused by death or expulsion for misdemeanors or insufficient wealth) so that the -member limit was preserved. under augustus, senators' sons had the right to stand for election, while equestrians could only do so with the emperor's permission. later in the julio-claudian period, the rule became established that all candidates required imperial leave. previously conducted by the people's assembly (comitia centuriata), the election was in the hands, from the time of tiberius onwards, of the senate itself, whose sitting members inevitably favored the sons of their colleagues. since the latter alone often outnumbered the number of available places, equestrian candidates stood little chance unless they enjoyed the special support of the emperor.[ ] 	the exceptional route was direct appointment to a senate seat by the emperor (adlectio), technically using the powers of roman censor (which also entitled him to expel members). adlectio was, however, generally used sparingly in order not to breach the -member ceiling. it was chiefly resorted to in periods when senate numbers became severely depleted e.g. during the civil war of – , following which the emperor vespasian made large-scale adlectiones.[ ] equestrian public careers[edit] in public service, equites equo publico had their own version of the senatorial cursus honorum, or conventional career-path, which typically combined military and administrative posts. after an initial period of a few years in local government in their home regions as administrators (local aediles or duumviri) or as priests (augures), equites were required to serve as military officers for about years before they would be appointed to senior administrative or military posts.[ ] tombstone of the knight titus cornasidius sabinus, detailing a typical equestrian career in the imperial period. sabinus initially held posts in the local government of lavinium, a town in latium, then served as a military officer, first as praefectus (commander) of cohors i montanorum (in pannonia), then tribunus militum of legio ii augusta (in britannia), and finally praefectus of ala veterana gallorum (in aegyptus). then, after a stint as subpraefectus classis (deputy commander) of the imperial fleet at ravenna, sabinus was governor of the alpes poeninae and then of dacia apulensis provinces. his son, who erected the memorial, is described as of equo publico rank. dated to the early severan period ( – ). equestrians exclusively provided the praefecti (commanders) of the imperial army's auxiliary regiments and five of the six tribuni militum (senior staff officers) in each legion. the standard equestrian officer progression was known as the "tres militiae" ("three services"): praefectus of a cohors (auxiliary infantry regiment), followed by tribunus militum in a legion, and finally praefectus of an ala (auxiliary cavalry regiment). from the time of hadrian, a fourth militia was added for exceptionally gifted officers, commander of an ala milliaria (double-strength ala). each post was held for three to four years.[ ] most of the top posts in the imperial administration were reserved for senators, who provided the governors of the larger provinces (except egypt), the legati legionis (legion commanders) of all legions outside egypt, and the praefectus urbi (prefect of the city of rome), who controlled the cohortes urbanae (public order battalions), the only fully armed force in the city apart from the praetorian guard. nevertheless, a wide range of senior administrative and military posts were created and reserved for equestrians by augustus, though most ranked below the senatorial posts.[ ] in the imperial administration, equestrian posts included that of the governorship (praefectus augusti) of the province of egypt, which was considered the most prestigious of all the posts open to equites, often the culmination of a long and distinguished career serving the state. in addition, equites were appointed to the governorship (procurator augusti) of some smaller provinces and sub-provinces e.g. judaea, whose governor was subordinate to the governor of syria.[ ] equestrians were also the chief financial officers (also called procuratores augusti) of the imperial provinces, and the deputy financial officers of senatorial provinces. at rome, equestrians filled numerous senior administrative posts such as the emperor's secretaries of state (from the time of claudius e.g. correspondence and treasury) and the praefecti annonae (director of grain supplies).[ ] in the military, equestrians provided the praefecti praetorio (commanders of the praetorian guard) who also acted as the emperor's chiefs of military staff. there were normally two of these, but at times irregular appointments resulted in just a single incumbent or even three at the same time.[ ] equestrians also provided the praefecti classis (admirals commanding) of the two main imperial fleets at misenum in the bay of naples and at ravenna on the italian adriatic coast. the command of rome's fire brigade and minor constabulary, the vigiles, was likewise reserved for equites.[ ] not all equites followed the conventional career-path. those equestrians who specialised in a legal or administrative career, providing judges (iudices) in rome's law courts and state secretaries in the imperial government, were granted dispensation from military service by emperor hadrian (r. ad – ).[ ] at the same time, many equites became career military officers, remaining in the army for much longer than years. after completing their tres militiae, some would continue to command auxiliary regiments, moving across units and provinces.[ ] already wealthy to start with, equites equo publico accumulated even greater riches through holding their reserved senior posts in the administration, which carried enormous salaries (although they were generally smaller than senatorial salaries).[ ] for example, the salaries of equestrian procuratores (fiscal and gubernatorial) ranged from , to a maximum of , denarii (for the governor of egypt) per annum, whilst an equestrian praefectus of an auxiliary cohort was paid about times as much as a common foot soldier (about , denarii). a praefectus could thus earn in one year the same as two of his auxiliary rankers combined earned during their entire -year service terms.[ ][ ] relations with the emperor[edit] it was suggested by ancient writers, and accepted by many modern historians, that roman emperors trusted equestrians more than men of senatorial rank, and used the former as a political counterweight to the senators. according to this view, senators were often regarded as potentially less loyal and honest by the emperor, as they could become powerful enough, through the command of provincial legions, to launch coups.[ ] they also had greater opportunities for peculation as provincial governors. hence the appointment of equestrians to the most sensitive military commands. in egypt, which supplied much of italy's grain needs, the governor and the commanders of both provincial legions were drawn from the equestrian order, since placing a senator in a position to starve italy was considered too risky.[ ] the commanders of the praetorian guard, the principal military force close to the emperor at rome, were also usually drawn from the equestrian order.[ ] also cited in support of this view is the appointment of equestrian fiscal procuratores, reporting direct to the emperor, alongside senatorial provincial governors. these would supervise the collection of taxes and act as watchdogs to limit opportunities for corruption by the governors (as well as managing the imperial estates in the province). according to talbert, however, the evidence suggests that equites were no more loyal or less corrupt than senators.[ ] for example, c. bc, the equestrian governor of egypt, cornelius gallus, was recalled for politically suspect behaviour and sundry other misdemeanours. his conduct was deemed sufficiently serious by the senate to warrant the maximum penalty of exile and confiscation of assets.[ ] under tiberius, both the senatorial governor and the equestrian fiscal procurator of asia province were convicted of corruption.[ ] there is evidence that emperors were as wary of powerful equites as they were of senators. augustus enforced a tacit rule that senators and prominent equestrians must obtain his express permission to enter the province of egypt, a policy that was continued by his successors.[ ][ ] also, the command of the praetorian guard was normally split between two equites, to reduce the potential for a successful coup d'état. at the same time, command of the second military force in rome, the cohortes urbanae, was entrusted to a senator. oligarchical rule in the early principate (to ad )[edit] because the senate was limited to members, equites equo publico, numbering several thousands, greatly outnumbered men of senatorial rank.[ ] even so, senators and equites combined constituted a tiny elite in a citizen-body of about million (in ad ) and an empire with a total population of – million.[ ][ ] this immensely wealthy elite monopolised political, military and economic power in the empire. it controlled the major offices of state, command of all military units, ownership of a significant proportion of the empire's arable land (e.g. under nero (r. – ), half of all land in africa proconsularis province was owned by just six senators) and of most major commercial enterprises.[ ] overall, senators and equites cooperated smoothly in the running of the empire. in contrast to the chaotic civil wars of the late republic, the rule of this tiny oligarchy achieved a remarkable degree of political stability. in the first years of the principate ( bc – ad ), there was only a single episode of major internal strife: the civil war of – . equestrian hierarchy[edit] it seems that from the start the equestrians in the imperial service were organised on a hierarchical basis reflecting their pay-grades. according to suetonius, writing in the early part of the second century ad, the equestrian procurators who "performed various administrative duties throughout the empire" were from the time of emperor claudius i organised into four pay-grades, the trecenarii the ducenarii, the centenarii, and the sexagenarii, receiving , , , , , , and , sesterces per annum respectively.[ ] cassius dio, writing a century later, attributed the beginnings of this process to the first emperor, augustus, himself.[ ] there is almost no literary or epigraphic evidence for the use of these ranks until towards the end of the nd century. however, it would seem that the increasing employment of equestrians by the emperors in civil and military roles had had social ramifications for it is then that there begin to appear the first references to a more far-reaching hierarchy with three distinct classes covering the whole of the order: the viri egregii (select men); the viri perfectissimi ("best of men"); and the viri eminentissimi ("most eminent of men"). the mechanisms by which the equestrians were organised into these classes and the distinctions enforced is not known. however, it is generally assumed that the highest class, the viri eminentissimi, was confined to the praetorian prefects, while the viri perfectissimi were the heads of the main departments of state, and the great prefectures, including egypt, the city watch (vigiles), the corn supply (annona) etc. and men commissioned to carry out specific tasks by the emperor himself such as the military duces. the defining characteristic of the perfectissimate seems to have been that its members were of or associated socially (i.e. as clientes - see patronage in ancient rome of great men) with the imperial court circle and were office-holders known to the emperor and appointed by his favour. it is also possible that system was intended to indicate the hierarchy of office-holders in situations where this might be disputed.[ ] the viri egregii comprehended the rest of the equestrian order, in the service of the emperors. the viri egregii included officials of all four pay-grades. ducenariate procurators governing provinces not reserved for senators were of this category[ ] as were the praefecti legionum, after gallienus opened all legionary commands to equestrians.[ ] however, it seems that after ad the procuratores ducenarii were elevated into the ranks of the viri perfectissimi.[ ] equestrians in the later empire (ad – )[edit] the emperor maximinus i (thrax) (ruled – ), whose career epitomises the soldier-equestrians who took over command of the army during the rd century. a thracian shepherd who had led a group of peasant vigilantes against rural robbers in his home region, he joined the army as a cavalryman in c. under septimius severus and was probably granted an equus publicus by caracalla towards the end of his rule ( ). under alexander severus he was given command of a legion and later served as provincial governor (praeses pro legato) in mauretania tingitana and in germania before seizing supreme power in a coup d'état in . rise of the military equestrians ( rd century)[edit] the rd century saw two major trends in the development of the roman aristocracy: the gradual takeover of the top positions in the empire's administration and army by military equestrians and the concomitant exclusion of the italian aristocracy, both senators and equites and the growth in hierarchy within the aristocratic orders. augustus instituted a policy, followed by his successors, of elevating to the ordo equester the primus pilus (chief centurion) of each legion, at the end of his single year in the post.[ ] this resulted in about career-soldiers, often risen from the ranks, joining the order every year. these equites primipilares and their descendants formed a section of the order that was quite distinct from the italian aristocrats who had become nearly indistinguishable from their senatorial counterparts.[ ] they were almost entirely provincials, especially from the danube provinces where about half the roman army was deployed. these danubians mostly came from pannonia, moesia, thrace, illyria and dalmatia. they were generally far less wealthy than the landowning italians (not benefiting from centuries of inherited wealth) and they rarely held non-military posts.[ ] their professionalism led emperors to rely on them ever more heavily, especially in difficult conflicts such as the marcomannic wars ( – ). but because they were only equestrians, they could not be appointed to the top military commands, those of legatus augusti pro praetore (governor of an imperial province, where virtually all military units were deployed) and legatus legionis (commander of a legion). in the later nd century, emperors tried to circumvent the problem by elevating large numbers of primipilares to senatorial rank by adlectio.[ ] but this met resistance in the senate, so that in the rd century, emperors simply appointed equestrians directly to the top commands, under the fiction that they were only temporary substitutes (praeses pro legato). septimius severus (r. ad – ) appointed primipilares to command the three new legions that he raised in for his parthian war, legio i, ii & iii parthica[ ] gallienus (r. ad – ) completed the process by appointing equites to command all the legions.[ ] these appointees were mostly provincial soldier-equestrians, not italian aristocrats.[ ] under the reforming emperor diocletian (r. ad – ), himself an illyrian equestrian officer, the military equestrian "takeover" was brought a stage further, with the removal of hereditary senators from most administrative, as well as military posts. hereditary senators were limited to administrative jobs in italy and a few neighbouring provinces (sicily, africa, achaea and asia), despite the fact that senior administrative posts had been greatly multiplied by the tripling of the number of provinces and the establishment of dioceses (super-provinces). the exclusion of the old italian aristocracy, both senatorial and equestrian, from the political and military power that they had monopolised for many centuries was thus complete. the senate became politically insignificant, although it retained great prestige.[ ] the rd and th centuries saw the proliferation of hierarchical ranks within the aristocratic orders, in line with the greater stratification of society as a whole, which became divided into two broad classes, with discriminatory rights and privileges: the honestiores (more noble) and humiliores (more base). among the honestiores, equestrians were divided into five grades, depending on the salary-levels of the offices they held.[ ] these ranged from egregii or sexagenarii (salary of , sesterces = , denarii) to the eminentissimi (most exalted), limited to the two commanders of the praetorian guard and, with the establishment of diocletian's tetrarchy, the four praefecti praetorio (not to be confused with the commanders of the praetorian guard in rome) that assisted the tetrarchs, each ruling over a quarter of the empire.[ ] idle aristocracy ( th century)[edit] from the reign of constantine i the great ( – ) onwards, there was an explosive increase in the membership of both aristocratic orders. under diocletian, the number of sitting members of the senate remained at around , the level it had retained for the whole duration of the principate.[ ] but constantine established byzantium as a twin capital of the empire, with its own senate, initially of members. by , their number had swollen to , , while the senate in rome probably reached a comparable size, so that the upper order reached total numbers similar to the equo publico equites of the early principate.[ ] by this time, even some commanders of military regiments were accorded senatorial status.[ ] at the same time the order of equites was also expanded vastly by the proliferation of public posts in the late empire, most of which were now filled by equestrians. the principate had been a remarkably slim-line administration, with about senior officials running the vast empire, relying on local government and private contractors to deliver the necessary taxes and services. during the rd century the imperial 'bureaucracy,' all officials and ranks expanded. by the time of the notitia dignitatum, dated to a.d. comparable senior positions had grown to approximately , , a -fold increase.[ ] the total number enrolled in the imperial civilian service, the militia inermata ('unarmed service') is estimated to have been - , : the service was professionalized with a staff made up almost entirely of free men on salary, and enrolled in a fictional legion, i audiutrix.[ ] in addition, large numbers of decuriones (local councillors) were granted equestrian rank, often obtaining it by bribery. officials of ever lower rank were granted equestrian rank as reward for good service e.g. in , the actuarii (accountants) of military regiments. this inflation in the number of equites inevitably led to the debasement of the order's prestige. by ad , equites were no longer an echelon of nobility, but just a title associated with mid-level administrative posts.[ ] constantine established a third order of nobility, the comites (companions (of the emperor), singular form comes, the origin of the medieval noble rank of count). this overlapped with senators and equites, drawing members from both. originally, the comites were a highly exclusive group, comprising the most senior administrative and military officers, such as the commanders of the comitatus, or mobile field armies. but comites rapidly followed the same path as equites, being devalued by excessive grants until the title became meaningless by .[ ] in the late th and in the th century, therefore, the senatorial class at rome and byzantium became the closest equivalent to the equo publico equestrian class of the early principate. it contained many ancient and illustrious families, some of whom claimed descent from the aristocracy of the republic, but had, as described, lost almost all political and military power.[ ] nevertheless, senators retained great influence due to their enormous inherited wealth and their role as the guardians of roman tradition and culture.[ ] centuries of capital accumulation, in the form of vast landed estates (latifundia) across many provinces resulted in enormous wealth for most senators. many received annual rents in cash and in kind of over ,  lbs of gold, equivalent to , solidi (or million augustan-era denarii), at a time when a miles (common soldier) would earn no more than four solidi a year in cash. even senators of middling wealth could expect an income , – ,  lbs of gold.[ ] the th-century historian ammianus marcellinus, a former high-ranking military staff officer who spent his retirement years in rome, bitterly attacked the italian aristocracy, denouncing their extravagant palaces, clothes, games and banquets and above all their lives of total idleness and frivolity.[ ] in his words can be heard the contempt for the senatorial class of a career soldier who had spent his lifetime defending the empire, a view clearly shared by diocletian and his illyrian successors. but it was the latter who reduced the aristocracy to that state, by displacing them from their traditional role of governing the empire and leading the army.[ ] notes[edit] 	^ centuriae: the original three cavalry centuriae were named after the tribes from which they were drawn: ramnes, tities and luceres. when an additional three centuriae were established by king priscus, the latter took the tribal names with the suffix posteriores, with the original three being called priores 	^ roman kingship: the roman monarchy, although an autocracy, was not hereditary and based on "divine right", but elective and subject to the ultimate sovereignty of the people. the king (rex) was elected by the people's assembly (the comitia curiata originally) although there is strong evidence that the process was, in practice, controlled by the patricians. most kings were non-romans brought in from abroad, doubtless as neutral figures who could be seen as above patrician factions. although blood relations could and did succeed, they were still required to submit to election.[ ] the position and powers of a roman king were thus similar to those of julius caesar when he was appointed dictator-for-life in bc. that was why caesar's assassin, marcus junius brutus, felt a moral obligation to emulate his claimed ancestor, lucius junius brutus, "the liberator", the man who, roman tradition averred, in bc, led the coup that overthrew the last king, tarquin the proud, and established the republic.[ ] 	^ spolia opima: the highest form of spolia duci hostium detracta were known as the spolia opima (rich spoils), which were displayed in the temple of jupiter feretrius in rome. according to the most widely understood version of the tradition, to earn the spolia opima one had to be a roman commander-in-chief who killed the enemy paramount leader in single combat. the spolia opima was won only three times: by romulus for killing acro, king of the caeninenses (c. bc); by aulus cornelius cossus for killing lars tolumnius, king of the veientes (in or bc); and by marcus claudius marcellus for killing viridomarus, king of the celtic gaesatae (in bc).[ ] however, the award to cossus was a matter for some controversy, as, according to livy, he was only a tribunus militum, and not commander-in-chief of the army at the time.[ ] a minority tradition, originally preserved by marcus terentius varro, antiquarian of the late republic, held that spolia opima could be won by any roman soldier who killed the enemy leader in battle.[ ] according to varro, there were three classes of spolia opima: first class, spoils taken by the roman commander-in-chief, which alone could be dedicated to jupiter feretrius; second class, spoils taken by a roman officer; and third class, those taken by a common soldier.[ ] see also[edit] 	publican 	hippeus citations[edit] 	^ cornell ( ) , 	^ livy i. 	^ polybius 	^ a b c livy i. 	^ cornell ( ) 	^ cornell ( ) 	^ cornell ( ) 	^ cornell ( ) – 	^ plutarch brutus – 	^ cornell ( ) , note 	^ cornell ( ) 	^ livy v. 	^ a b online encyclopædia britannica equites 	^ a b oxford patricians 	^ livy xxxix. , 	^ online encyclopædia britannica patricians 	^ a b cornell ( ) 	^ cornell ( ) 	^ a b cornell ( ) 	^ cornell ( ) 	^ polybius vi. 	^ polybius vi. 	^ sidnell ( ) 	^ cornell ( ) 	^ a b c cornell ( ) - 	^ based on polybius vi. , ; livy i. and cornell ( ) 	^ smith ( ) equites 	^ polybius vi. , 	^ goldsworthy ( ) 	^ livy, xlv. . ; plutarch aemilius paullus . 	^ plutarch romulus; marcellus 	^ livy iv. 	^ festus lexicon "opima spolia" 	^ smith ( ) spolia 	^ sidnell ( ) – 	^ livy viii. – 	^ livy xxi. 	^ jones ( ) 	^ tacitus annales iv. 	^ a b encyclopædia britannica online publicani 	^ a b talbert ( ) 	^ burton ( ) 	^ a b talbert ( ) 	^ a b c d e jones ( ) 	^ pliny the younger letters vi. 	^ suetonius augustus . 	^ online roman law library lex iulia de maritandis ordinibus 	^ a b c jones ( ) , 	^ a b encyclopædia britannica online ancient rome 	^ talbert ( ) 	^ eck in cah xi ( ) – 	^ a b talbert ( ) 	^ goldsworthy ( ) 	^ goldsworthy ( ) , , 	^ a b c goldsworthy ( ) – 	^ a b jones ( ) 	^ goldsworthy ( ) 	^ birley ( ) 	^ jones ( ) 	^ a b c tacitus annales ii. 	^ talbert ( ) 	^ dio cassius liii. 	^ tacitus annales iv. 	^ ritner ( ) – . 	^ tacitus annales xi. 	^ scheidel ( ) 	^ thompson ( ) 	^ suet:claud( ) 	^ cassius dio( : ) 	^ potter, prof. d.s. ( ). the roman empire at bay, ad - . london / new york: routledge. p.  . 	^ christol(xx) 	^ nagy( : - ) 	^ pflaum(xx) 	^ goldsworthy ( ) 	^ goldsworthy ( ) – 	^ a b goldsworthy ( ) 	^ tomlin ( ) 	^ holder ( ) 	^ jones ( ) , , 	^ a b c jones ( ) 	^ jones ( ) 	^ a b jones ( ) 	^ heather ( ) 	^ peter heather, cah xiii, pp. - , ; christopher kelly, ruling the later roman empire, p. 	^ jones ( ) – 	^ jones ( ) – 	^ jones ( ) 	^ ammianus xxviii. 	^ jones ( ) , references[edit] ancient[edit] 	ammianus marcellinus, res gestae (c. ad) 	dio cassius, roman history (c. ad) 	livy, ab urbe condita (c. ad) 	plutarch, lives (c. ad) 	polybius, histories (c. bc) 	suetonius, caesares xii (c. ad) 	tacitus, annales (c. ad) 	tacitus, historiae (c. ad) modern[edit] 	birley, anthony ( ). band of brothers: garrison life at vindolanda. 	burton, g. ( ): "government and the provinces". in j. wacher, ed., the roman world vol i 	bury, j.b. 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		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 curiate assembly - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	curiate assembly 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 			ancient rome 	 	this article is part of a series on the politics and government of ancient rome 	 periods 	 	roman kingdom – bc 	roman republic – bc 	roman empire bc – ad 	principate bc – ad 	dominate ad – 	western ad – 	eastern ad – 	timeline 	 roman constitution 	 	constitution of the kingdom 	constitution of the republic 	constitution of the empire 	constitution of the late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	executive magistrates 	 precedent and law 	 	roman law 	ius 	imperium 	mos maiorum 	collegiality 	auctoritas 	roman citizenship 	cursus honorum 	senatus consultum 	senatus consultum ultimum 	 assemblies 	 	centuriate 	curiate 	plebeian 	tribal 	 ordinary magistrates 	 	consul 	praetor 	quaestor 	promagistrate 	aedile 	tribune 	censor 	governor 	 extraordinary magistrates 	 	corrector 	dictator 	magister equitum 	consular tribune 	rex 	triumviri 	decemviri 	 titles and honours 	 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	praeses 	praefectus 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 	 	other countries 		v 	t 	e the curiate assembly (comitia curiata) was the principal assembly that evolved in shape and form over the course of the roman kingdom up until the comitia centuriata organized by servius tullius.[ ] during these first decades, the people of rome were organized into thirty units called "curiae".[ ][ ] the curiae were ethnic in nature, and thus were organized on the basis of the early roman family, or, more specifically, on the basis of the thirty original patrician (aristocratic) clans.[ ] the curiae formed an assembly for legislative, electoral, and judicial purposes. the curiate assembly passed laws, elected consuls (the only elected magistrates at the time),[ ] and tried judicial cases. consuls always presided over the assembly. while plebeians (commoners) could participate in this assembly, only the patricians (the roman aristocrats) could vote. since the romans used a form of direct democracy, citizens, and not elected representatives, voted before each assembly. as such, the citizen-electors had no power, other than the power to cast a vote. each assembly was presided over by a single roman magistrate, and as such, it was the presiding magistrate who made all decisions on matters of procedure and legality. ultimately, the presiding magistrate's power over the assembly was nearly absolute. the only check on that power came in the form of vetoes handed down by other magistrates, and decisions made by presiding magistrates could also be vetoed by higher-ranking magistrates. in addition, after bc, any decision made by a presiding magistrate, including one concerning the curiate assembly, could be vetoed by a magistrate known as a plebeian tribune, or tribune of the plebs. contents 	 procedure 	 decline 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 . primary sources 	 . secondary source material 	 external links procedure[edit] in the roman system of direct democracy, primary types of gatherings were used to vote on legislative, electoral, and judicial matters. the first was the assembly (comitia, literally "going together" or "meeting place").[ ] the curiate assembly was a comitia. assemblies represented all citizens,[ ] even if they excluded the plebs like the curiate assembly did, and were used for official purposes, such as for the enactment of statutes. acts of an assembly applied to all roman citizens. the second type of gathering was the council (concilium), which was a forum where a specific class of citizen met. in contrast, the convention (conventio, literally "coming together") was an unofficial forum for communication. conventions were simply forums where romans met for specific unofficial purposes, such as, for example, to hear a political speech.[ ] private citizens who did not hold political office could only speak before a convention, and not before an assembly or a council.[ ] conventions were simply meetings, and no legal or legislative decisions could be made in them. voters always assembled first into conventions to hear debates and conduct other business before voting, and then into assemblies or councils to vote.[ ] chart showing the checks and balances of the constitution of the roman republic a notice always had to be given several days before the assembly was to vote. for elections, at least three market-days (often more than seventeen actual days) had to pass between the announcement of the election, and the actual election. during this time period (the trinundinum), the candidates interacted with the electorate, and no legislation could be proposed or voted upon. in bc, a statute was passed (the lex caecilia didia) which required a similar three market-day interval to pass between the proposal of a statute and the vote on that statute.[ ] during criminal trials, the assembly's presiding magistrate had to give a notice (diem dicere) to the accused person on the first day of the investigation (anquisito). at the end of each day, the magistrate had to give another notice to the accused person (diem prodicere), which informed him of the status of the investigation. after the investigation was complete, a three market-day interval had to elapse before a final vote could be taken with respect to conviction or acquittal.[ ] only one assembly could operate at any given point in time, and any session already underway could be dissolved if a magistrate "called away" (avocare) the electors.[ ] in addition to the presiding magistrate, several additional magistrates were often present to act as assistants. they were available to help resolve procedural disputes, and to provide a mechanism through which electors could appeal decisions of the presiding magistrate.[ ] there were also religious officials (known as augurs) either in attendance or on-call, who would be available to help interpret any signs from the gods (omens), since the romans believed that the gods let their approval or disapproval with proposed actions be known.[ ] in addition, a preliminary search for omens (auspices) was conducted by the presiding magistrate the night before any meeting.[ ] on several known occasions, presiding magistrates used the claim of unfavorable omens as an excuse to suspend a session that was not going the way they wanted. on the day of the vote, the electors first assembled into their conventions for debate and campaigning.[ ] in the conventions, the electors were not sorted into their curiae. speeches from private citizens were only heard if the issue to be voted upon was a legislative or judicial matter, and even then, only if the citizen received permission from the presiding magistrate.[ ] if the purpose of the ultimate vote was for an election, no speeches from private citizens were heard, and instead, the candidates for office used the convention to campaign.[ ] during the convention, the bill to be voted upon was read to the assembly by an officer known as a "herald". then the order of the vote had to be determined. an urn was brought in, and lots were cast to determine the sequence by which the curiae were to vote.[ ] the electors were then told to break up the convention ("depart to your separate groups", or discedite, quirites). the electors assembled behind a fenced off area[ ] and voted by placing a pebble or written ballot into an appropriate jar.[ ] the baskets (cistae) that held the votes were watched by specific officers (the custodes), who then counted the ballots, and reported the results to the presiding magistrate. the majority of votes in any curia decided how that curia voted. if the process was not complete by nightfall, the electors were dismissed without having reached a decision, and the process had to begin again the next day.[ ] decline[edit] shortly after the founding of the republic, many of the political powers of the curiate assembly were transferred to the centuriate assembly and the tribal assembly.[ ] this included the transfer of the election of tribunes to the tribal assembly by the lex publilia in bc.[ ] while it then fell into disuse, it did retain some theoretical powers, most importantly, the power to ratify elections of the top-ranking roman magistrates (consuls and praetors) by passing a law (lex curiata de imperio or "curiate law on imperium") that gave them their legal command (imperium) authority. in practice, however, they received this authority from the centuriate assembly (which formally elected them), and as such, this functioned as nothing more than a reminder of rome's regal heritage.[ ] even after it lost its powers, the curiate assembly continued to be presided over by consuls and praetors, and was subject to obstruction by roman magistrates (especially plebeian tribunes) and unfavorable omens (as were the other assemblies).[ ] by the time of the middle and late republic, there was considerable debate about the need for confirmation in imperium by the curiate assembly. for example, praetors were not permitted to undertake judicial business without confirmation in the imperium and nor could consuls command troops or call the comitia centuriata to hold the election of his successor.[ ] cicero's contemporaries argued that without confirmation in the imperium, a magistrate could not as a promagistrate, or without it, govern the province at his own expense and be ineligible for a triumph after a military victory.[ ] these rules would have prohibited magistrates from engaging in serious public business before confirmation, but for the fact they were widely ignored and legislation often included provisions stating that in the lack of a curiate law, they "be magistrates in as legal a sense as those who are elected according to the strictest forms of law".[ ] by bc, the lack of such a law granting imperium to the propraetor of spain, lucius marcius, was no issue for the senate, which refrained from declaring the election illegal.[ ] during the late republic, by , the consul appius claudius insisted that he held imperium, due to statute passed by sulla granting imperium to promagistrates until their return to the city without mention of the curiate grant of imperium, and also that he held the authority to call the assembly to elect new magistrates.[ ] however, in the late republic, with increasing conflict between the optimates and the populares, it is likely that the senate, trying to increase its control over provincial governors, stressed the importance of this law, even as magistrates ignored their complaints.[ ] acts that the curiate assembly voted on were mostly symbolic and usually in the affirmative.[ ] at one point, possibly as early as bc, the curiate assembly's thirty curiae were abolished, and replaced with thirty lictors, one from each of the original patrician clans.[ ] since the curiae had always been organized on the basis of the roman family,[ ] it retained jurisdiction over clan matters even after the fall of the roman republic in bc.[ ] under the presidency of the pontifex maximus,[ ] it witnessed wills and ratified adoptions,[ ] inaugurated certain priests, and transfer citizens from patrician class to plebeian class (or vice versa). in bc, it transferred publius clodius pulcher from patrician status to plebeian status so that he could run for plebeian tribune. in bc, it ratified the will of julius caesar, and with it caesar's adoption of his nephew gaius octavian (the future roman emperor augustus) as his son and heir.[ ] with the rise of the empire, the sanctioning powers of the curiate assembly fell into disuse, as the power to grant imperium, along with the vast majority of the other powers of the curiate assembly, were transferred into the hands of the senate or delegated to the emperor through a special lex de imperio.[ ] see also[edit] ‹ the template below (columns) is being considered for deletion. see templates for discussion to help reach a consensus. › 	 	roman kingdom 	roman republic 	roman empire 	roman law 	plebeian council 	centuria 		 	curia 	roman consul 	praetor 	roman censor 	quaestor 	aedile 		 	roman dictator 	master of the horse 	roman senate 	cursus honorum 	byzantine senate 	pontifex maximus 		 	princeps senatus 	interrex 	procurator (roman) 	acta senatus notes[edit] 	^ duncan, michael ( ). "the history of rome". 	^ a b c d byrd, robert ( ). the senate of the roman republic. u.s. government printing office, senate document - . 	^ a b c d e f taylor, , 	^ a b abbott, 	^ a b abbott, 	^ a b lintott, andrew ( ). the constitution of the roman republic. oxford university press. p.  . 	^ abbott, 	^ abbott, 	^ a b c taylor, lily ross ( ). roman voting assemblies: from the hannibalic war to the dictatorship of caesar. the university of michigan press. p.  . 	^ a b lintott , p.  . 	^ lintott , pp.  - . 	^ a b taylor, 	^ taylor, 	^ lintott , p.  . 	^ taylor, 	^ lintott , p.  . 	^ lintott , pp.  - . 	^ lintott , p.  . 	^ livy, ab urbe condita, ii. . 	^ a b c botsworth, george willis ( ). the roman assemblies. new york: cooper square publishers, inc. p.  . 	^ botsworth , p.  . 	^ botsworth , p.  . 	^ botsworth , p.  . 	^ taylor, thomas marris ( ). a constitutional and political history of rome. london: methuen & co. p.  . references[edit] 	abbott, frank frost ( ). a history and description of roman political institutions. elibron classics ( isbn  - - - ). 	botsford, george willis ( , repr. ). the roman assemblies. from their origin to the end of the republic, new york. 	byrd, robert ( ). the senate of the roman republic. u.s. government printing office, senate document - . 	lintott, andrew ( ). the constitution of the roman republic. oxford university press ( isbn  - - - ). 	polybius ( ). the general history of polybius: translated from the greek. by james hampton. oxford: printed by w. baxter. fifth edition, vol . 	taylor, lily ross ( ). roman voting assemblies: from the hannibalic war to the dictatorship of caesar. the university of michigan press ( isbn  - - -x). 	tullius cicero, marcus ( edition). the political works of marcus tullius cicero: comprising his treatise on the commonwealth; and his treatise on the laws. translated from the original, with dissertations and notes in two volumes. by francis barham, esq. london: edmund spettigue. vol. . further reading[edit] 	ihne, wilhelm. researches into the history of the roman constitution. william pickering. . 	johnston, harold whetstone. orations and letters of cicero: with historical introduction, an outline of the roman constitution, notes, vocabulary and index. scott, foresman and company. . 	mommsen, theodor. roman constitutional law. - 	tighe, ambrose. the development of the roman constitution. d. apple & co. . 	von fritz, kurt. the theory of the mixed constitution in antiquity. columbia university press, new york. . 	the histories by polybius 	cambridge ancient history, volumes – . 	a. cameron, the later roman empire, (fontana press, ). 	m. crawford, the roman republic, (fontana press, ). 	e. s. gruen, "the last generation of the roman republic" (u california press, ) 	f. millar, the emperor in the roman world, (duckworth, , ). 	a. lintott, "the constitution of the roman republic" (oxford university press, ) primary sources[edit] 	cicero's de re publica, book two 	rome at the end of the punic wars: an analysis of the roman government; by polybius secondary source material[edit] 	considerations on the causes of the greatness of the romans and their decline, by montesquieu 	the roman constitution to the time of cicero 	what a terrorist incident in ancient rome can teach us external links[edit] 	library resources about curiate assembly 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 	v 	t 	e roman constitution 	ancient rome	 	history 	constitution 	senate 	assemblies 	curiate 	century 	tribal 	plebeian 	magistrates 	roman kingdom	 	history 	constitution 	senate 	assemblies 	magistrates 	roman republic	 	history 	constitution (reforms of sulla • reforms of caesar • reforms of augustus) 	senate 	assemblies 	magistrates 	roman empire	 	history 	(post diocletian) 	constitution 	(post diocletian) 	senate 	assemblies 	magistrates 	miscellaneous	 	sulla's constitutional reforms 	caesar's constitutional reforms 	conflict of the orders 	roman law 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			ancient rome 	 	this article is part of a series on the politics and government of ancient rome 	 periods 	 	roman kingdom – bc 	roman republic – bc 	roman empire bc – ad 	principate bc – ad 	dominate ad – 	western ad – 	eastern ad – 	timeline 	 roman constitution 	 	constitution of the kingdom 	constitution of the republic 	constitution of the empire 	constitution of the late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	executive magistrates 	 precedent and law 	 	roman law 	ius 	imperium 	mos maiorum 	collegiality 	auctoritas 	roman citizenship 	cursus honorum 	senatus consultum 	senatus consultum ultimum 	 assemblies 	 	centuriate 	curiate 	plebeian 	tribal 	 ordinary magistrates 	 	consul 	praetor 	quaestor 	promagistrate 	aedile 	tribune 	censor 	governor 	 extraordinary magistrates 	 	corrector 	dictator 	magister equitum 	consular tribune 	rex 	triumviri 	decemviri 	 titles and honours 	 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	praeses 	praefectus 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 	 	other countries 		v 	t 	e the constitution of the roman kingdom was an unwritten set of guidelines and principles originating mainly through precedent.[ ] during the years of the roman kingdom, the constitutional arrangement was centered on the king, who had the power to appoint assistants, and delegate to them their specific powers. the roman senate, which was dominated by the aristocracy, served as the advisory council to the king. often, the king asked the senate to vote on various matters, but he was free to ignore any advice they gave him. the king could also request a vote on various matters by the popular assembly (the "curiate assembly"), which he was also free to ignore. the popular assembly functioned as a vehicle through which the people of rome could express their opinions. in it, the people were organized according to their respective curiae. however, the popular assembly did have other functions. for example, it was a forum used by citizens to hear announcements. it could also serve as a trial court for both civil and criminal matters. contents 	 constitutional history 	 senate 	 legislative assemblies 	 executive magistrates 	 the end of the monarchy 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 . primary sources 	 . secondary source material constitutional history[edit] main articles: history of the roman constitution and history of the constitution of the roman kingdom the period of the kingdom can be divided into two epochs based on the legends.[ ] while the specific legends were probably not true, they were likely based on historical fact. it is likely that, before the founding of the republic, rome had actually been ruled by a succession of kings. the first legendary epoch spans the reigns of the first four legendary kings. during this time, the political foundations of the city were laid,[ ] the city was organized into "curiae", the religious institutions were established, and the senate and the assemblies evolved into formal institutions. the city fought several wars of conquest, the port of ostia was founded, and the tiber river was bridged.[ ] the early romans were divided into three ethnic groups:[ ] the ramnes (latins), tities (sabines), and luceres (etruscans). the original "patrician" families belonged to these ethnic groups. in an attempt to add a level of organization to the city, these patrician families were divided into units called "curiae".[ ] the vehicle through which the early romans expressed their democratic impulses was known as a "committee" (comitia or "assembly"). the two principal assemblies that formed were known as the "curiate assembly" and the "calate assembly". the two assemblies were designed to mirror the ethnic divisions of the city and, as such, the assemblies were organized according to curia. the vehicle through which the early romans expressed their aristocratic impulses was a council of town elders,[ ] which became the roman senate. the elders of this council were known as patres ("fathers"), and thus are known to history as the first roman senators. the populus ("people") and the elders eventually recognized the need for a single political leader,[ ] and thus elected the rex (king). the populus elected the rex, and the elders advised the rex.[ ] aeneas, whom the romans believed romulus and remus descended from and is depicted in the aeneid, fleeing from the burning city of troy the second epoch spans the reigns of the last three legendary kings. this epoch was more consequential than the first, which was due partly to the significant degree of territorial expansion that occurred.[ ] regardless of whether these legends are true, it is likely that, as the legends claim, a series of conquests did occur during the late monarchy. as a result of these conquests, it became necessary to determine what was to be done with the conquered people.[ ] often, some of the individuals whose towns had been conquered remained in those towns,[ ] while some others came to rome.[ ] to acquire legal and economic standing, these newcomers adopted a condition of dependency toward either a patrician family, or toward the king (who himself was a patrician).[ ] eventually, the individuals who were dependents of the king were released from their state of dependency, and became the first "plebeians".[ ] as rome grew, it needed more soldiers to continue its conquests. when the plebeians were released from their dependency, they were released from their curiae. when this occurred, they were freed from the requirement to serve in the army, but they also lost their political and economic standing.[ ] to bring these new plebeians back into the army, the patricians were forced to make concessions.[ ] while it is not known exactly what concessions were made, the fact that they were not granted any political power[ ] set the stage for what history knows as the conflict of the orders. to bring the plebeians back into the army, the army was reorganized. the legends give credit for this reorganization to king servius tullius.[ ] per the legends, tullius abolished the old system whereby the army was organized on the basis of the hereditary curiae, and replaced it with one based on land ownership.[ ] as part of his reorganization, two new types of unit were created; the army was divided into "centuries", and later reorganizations made the army more efficient through the use of "tribes".[ ] the centuries were organized on the basis of property ownership, and any individual, patrician or plebeian, could become a member of a century.[ ] these centuries formed the basis of a new assembly called the "centuriate assembly", though this assembly was not immediately granted any political powers.[ ] in contrast, four tribes were created that encompassed the entire city of rome, and while new tribes were to be created later, those tribes would encompass territory outside of the city of rome. membership in a tribe, unlike that in a curia, was open to both patricians and plebeians without regard to property qualification. senate[edit] main articles: roman senate and senate of the roman kingdom the roman senate was a political institution starting in the ancient roman kingdom. the latin term, "senātus," is derived from senex, which means "old man". therefore, senate literally means "board of old men." the prehistoric indo-europeans that settled italy in the centuries before the legendary founding of rome in bc[ ] were structured into tribal communities.[ ] these communities would often include an aristocratic board of tribal elders.[ ] the early roman family was called a gens, or "clan".[ ] each clan was an aggregation of families under a common living male patriarch, called a pater (latin for "father"), who was the undisputed master of his clan.[ ] when the early roman gentes were aggregating to form a community, the patres from the leading clans were selected[ ] for the confederated board of elders (which later became the roman senate).[ ] over time, the patres came to recognize the need for a single leader. therefore, they elected a roman king (rex),[ ] and vested in him their sovereign power.[ ] when the king died, that sovereign power would naturally revert to the patres.[ ] the senate of the roman kingdom held three principal responsibilities: it functioned as the ultimate repository for the executive power,[ ] served as counsel to the king, and functioned as a legislative body in concert with the people of rome.[ ] romulus, victor over acron, hauls the rich booty to the temple of jupiter, by jean auguste dominique ingres during the years of the monarchy, the senate's most important function was to select new kings. the period between the death of one king and the election of the next, was called an interregnum.[ ] when a king died, a member of the senate (the "interrex"') would nominate a candidate to replace the king.[ ] after the senate gave its initial approval of the nominee, he would then be formally elected by the people,[ ] and then receive the senate's final approval.[ ] so while the king was officially elected by the people, it was effectively the senate's decision. the senate's most significant role outside of royal elections was as an advisory council to the king. while the king was not bound by the senate's advice, the growing prestige of the senate made its advice increasingly impolitic to ignore. technically, the senate could also make laws, though it would be incorrect to view the senate's decrees as legislation in the modern sense. only the king could decree new laws, although he would often involve both the senate and the curiate assembly (the popular assembly) in the process.[ ] legislative assemblies[edit] main articles: roman assemblies and legislative assemblies of the roman kingdom the legislative assemblies were political institutions in the ancient roman kingdom. while one, the curiate assembly, had some legislative powers,[ ] these involved nothing more than a right to symbolically ratify decrees issued by the roman king. the functions of the other, the calate assembly ("comitia calata"), were purely religious. during the years of the kingdom, all of the people of rome were divided among a total of thirty curiae,[ ] the basic units of division in the two popular assemblies.[ ] the members in each curia would vote, and the majority therein would determine how that curia voted before the assembly. thus a majority of the curiae (at least sixteen of the thirty) was needed during any vote in either the curiate assembly or the calate assembly. the curiate assembly (comitia curiata) was the only popular assembly with any political significance during the period of the roman kingdom,[ ] and was organized on the basis of the thirty curiae.[ ] the king presided over the assembly, and submitted decrees to it for ratification.[ ] on the calends (the first day of the month), and the nones (the fifth or seventh day of the month), this assembly met to hear announcements.[ ] appeals heard by the curiate often dealt with questions concerning roman family law.[ ] during two fixed days in the spring, the assembly was scheduled to meet to witness wills and adoptions.[ ] the assembly also had jurisdiction over the admission of new families to a curia, the transfer of families between two curiae, and the transfer of individuals from plebeian to patrician status (or vice versa).[ ] executive magistrates[edit] main articles: roman magistrates and executive magistrates of the roman kingdom growth of the city region during the kingdom executive magistrates were elected officials of the ancient roman kingdom. during the period of the roman kingdom, the king was the principal executive magistrate.[ ] he was the chief executive, chief priest, chief lawgiver, chief judge, and the commander in chief of the army.[ ][ ] his powers rested on law and legal precedent, and he could only receive these powers through the political process of a democratic election. in practice, he had no real restrictions on his power. when war broke out, he had the sole power to organize and levy troops, to select leaders for the army, and to conduct the campaign as he saw fit.[ ] he controlled all property held by the state, had the sole power to divide land and war spoils, was the chief representative of the city during dealings with either the gods or the leaders of other communities, and could unilaterally decree any new law.[ ] sometimes he submitted his decrees to either the popular assembly or to the senate for a ceremonial ratification, but a rejection did not prevent the enactment of the decree. the king chose several officers to assist him,[ ] and unilaterally granted them their powers. when the king left the city, an "urban prefect" presided over the city in his stead.[ ] the king also had two quaestors as general assistants, while several other officers assisted the king during treason cases. in war, the king occasionally commanded only the infantry, and delegated command over the cavalry to the commander of his personal bodyguards, the tribune of the celeres.[ ] the king sometimes deferred to precedent, often simply out of practical necessity. while the king could unilaterally declare war, for example, he typically wanted to have such declarations ratified by the popular assembly.[ ][ ] the period between the death of one king and the election of the next was known as an interregnum.[ ] during the interregnum, the senate elected a senator to the office of interrex[ ] to facilitate the selection of a new king. once the interrex found a suitable nominee for the kingship, he presented this nominee to the senate for an initial approval. if the senate voted in favor of the nominee, that man (women were excluded as nominees) stood for formal election before the people of rome in the curiate assembly (the popular assembly).[ ] after the nominee was elected by the curiate, the senate ratified the election by passing a decree.[ ] the interrex then formally declared the nominee to be king. the new king then took the auspices (a ritual search for omens from the gods), and was vested with legal authority (imperium) by the popular assembly.[ ] the end of the monarchy[edit] main article: overthrow of the roman monarchy the first etruscan king of rome, tarquinius priscus, succeeded king ancus marcius. it has been suggested that rome had been conquered by the etruscans,[ ] but this is unlikely. the city was located in an easily defensible position, and its rapid growth attracted people from all over the region. the city's liberal policy of extending citizenship probably created an opportunity for a skillful leader to gain the throne.[ ] the reign of the first four kings was distinct from that of the last three. the first kings were elected. between the reigns of the final three kings, however, the monarchy became hereditary,[ ] and thus the senate became subordinated to the king. the fact that the monarchy became hereditary is obvious from the kinship among those three kings, as well as from the lack of interregna.[ ] the fact that the auspices did not revert to the senate upon the deaths of those kings constituted a serious erosion of the senate's authority, because it prevented the senate from electing a monarch of its choosing.[ ] this violation of the senate's sovereignty, rather than an intolerable tyranny, was probably what led the patricians in the senate to overthrow the last king.[ ] the king may have sought the support of the plebeians, but the plebeians were no doubt exhausted from their continued military service and from their forced labor in the construction of public works, and were probably also embittered by their lack of political power. therefore, they did not come to the aide of either the king or the senate.[ ] see also[edit] ‹ the template below (columns) is being considered for deletion. see templates for discussion to help reach a consensus. › 	 	roman kingdom 	roman republic 	roman empire 	roman law 	plebeian council 	centuria 		 	curia 	roman consul 	praetor 	roman censor 	quaestor 	aedile 		 	roman dictator 	master of the horse 	roman senate 	cursus honorum 	byzantine senate 	pontifex maximus 		 	princeps senatus 	interrex 	promagistrate 	acta senatus notes[edit] 	^ byrd, 	^ a b c d e f g h i j abbott, 	^ a b c d abbott, 	^ abbott, 	^ a b c d abbott, 	^ abbott, - 	^ a b c d abbott, 	^ a b abbott, 	^ a b abbott, 	^ abbott, 	^ abbott, 	^ a b abbott, 	^ a b abbott, 	^ a b c d e abbott, 	^ byrd, 	^ a b c d e f g abbott, 	^ a b abbott, 	^ a b c d e f abbott, 	^ byrd, 	^ a b c abbott, 	^ byrd, 	^ a b c d e f abbott, 	^ a b c d abbott, 	^ abbott, - references[edit] 	abbott, frank frost ( ). a history and description of roman political institutions. elibron classics (isbn  - - - ). 	byrd, robert ( ). the senate of the roman republic. u.s. government printing office, senate document - . 	cicero, marcus tullius ( ). the political works of marcus tullius cicero: comprising his treatise on the commonwealth; and his treatise on the laws. translated from the original, with dissertations and notes in two volumes. by francis barham, esq. london: edmund spettigue. vol. . 	lintott, andrew ( ). the constitution of the roman republic. oxford university press ( isbn  - - - ). 	polybius ( ). the general history of polybius: translated from the greek. by james hampton. oxford: printed by w. baxter. fifth edition, vol . 	taylor, lily ross ( ). roman voting assemblies: from the hannibalic war to the dictatorship of caesar. the university of michigan press ( isbn  - - -x). further reading[edit] 	library resources about constitution of the roman kingdom 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	ihne, wilhelm. researches into the history of the roman constitution. william pickering. . 	johnston, harold whetstone. orations and 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attribution-sharealike license; additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 works attributed to florus - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	works attributed to florus 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		  (redirected from florus) 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 nd century roman historian see also: florus (roman name) three main sets of works are attributed to florus (a roman cognomen): virgilius orator an poeta, an epitome of roman history and a collection of poems ( tetrameters, and five hexameters about roses). as to whether these were composed by the same person, or set of people, is unclear, but the works are variously attributed to: 	publius annius florus, described as a roman poet and rhetorician 	julius florus, described as an ancient roman poet, orator, and author who was born around ad and died around ad[ ] florus was born in africa,[ ] but raised in rome. 	lucius annaeus florus (circa – ad[ ]), a roman historian, who lived in the time of trajan and hadrian and was also born in africa contents 	 virgilius orator an poeta 	 poems 	 epitome of roman history 	 attribution of the works 	 tentative biography 	 references 	 bibliography 	 external links virgilius orator an poeta[edit] hadrian the introduction to a dialogue called virgilius orator an poeta is extant, in which the author (whose name is given as publius annius florus) states that he was born in africa, and at an early age took part in the literary contests on the capitol instituted by domitian. having been refused a prize owing to the prejudice against african provincials, he left rome in disgust, and after travelling for some time, set up at tarraco as a teacher of rhetoric. here he was persuaded by an acquaintance to return to rome, for it is generally agreed that he is the florus who wrote the well-known lines quoted together with hadrian's answer by aelius spartianus (hadrian i ). twenty-six trochaic tetrameters, de qualitate vitae, and five graceful hexameters, de rosis, are also attributed to him. poems[edit] florus was also an established poet.[ ] he was once thought to have been "the first in order of a number of second-century african writers who exercised a considerable influence on latin literature, and also the first of the poetae neoterici or novelli (new-fashioned poets) of hadrian's reign, whose special characteristic was the use of lighter and graceful meters (anapaestic and iambic dimeters), which had hitherto found little favour." since cameron's article on the topic, however, the existence of such a school has been widely called into question, in part because the remnants of all poets supposedly involved are too scantily attested for any definitive judgment.[ ] the little poems will be found in e. bahrens, poëtae latini minores ( – ); for an unlikely identification of florus with the author of the pervigilium veneris see e. h. o. müller, de p. anino floro poéta et de pervigilio veneris ( ), and, for the poet's relations with hadrian, franz eyssenhardt, hadrian und florus ( ); see also friedrich marx in pauly-wissowa's realencyclopädie, i. pt. ( ). some his better-known poems include “quality of life”, “roses in springtime”, “roses”, “the rose”, “venus’ rose-garden”, and “the nine muses”.[ ][failed verification] florus’ better-known poetry is also associated with his smaller poems that he would write to hadrian out of admiration for the emperor.[ ] epitome of roman history[edit] the two books of the epitome of roman history were written in admiration of the roman people.[ ] the books illuminate many historical events in a favorable tone for the roman citizens.[ ] the book is mainly based on livy's enormous ab urbe condita libri. it consists of a brief sketch of the history of rome from the foundation of the city to the closing of the temple of janus by augustus in bc. the work, which is called epitome de t. livio bellorum omnium annorum dcc libri duo, is written in a bombastic and rhetorical style – a panegyric of the greatness of rome, the life of which is divided into the periods of infancy, youth and manhood. it is often wrong in geographical and chronological details. in spite of its faults, the book was much used as a handy epitome of roman history, in the middle ages, and survived as a textbook into the th century. florus is credited with being politically unbiased for almost all of his work.[citation needed] however, many will say[who?] that after reviewing his descriptions of the civil war, he seems to position himself closer to julius caesar than pompeius.[ ] florus starts his books with the founding of rome and ends them with the reign of augustus.[ ] the first book of the epitome of roman history is mainly about the establishment and growth of rome.[ ] the second is mainly about the decline of rome and its changing morals.[ ] florus has taken some criticism on his writing due to inaccuracies found chronologically and geographically in his stories,[ ] but even so, the epitome of roman history was vastly popular during the late antiquity and the middle ages, as well as being used as a school book until the th century.[ ] the use of his writings far beyond his time is a testament to his premier narrative skills.[citation needed] in the manuscripts, the writer is variously named as julius florus, lucius anneus florus, or simply annaeus florus. from certain similarities of style, he has been identified as publius annius florus, poet, rhetorician and friend of hadrian, author of a dialogue on the question of whether virgil was an orator or poet, of which the introduction has been preserved. the most accessible modern text and translation are in the loeb classical library (no. , published , isbn  - - - ). christopher plantin, antwerp, in , published two lucius florus texts (two title pages) in one volume. the titles were roughly as follows: ) l.ivlii flori de gestis romanorum, historiarum; ) commentarius i stadii l.ivlii flori de gestis romanorum, historiarum. the first title has pages; the second has pages plus an index in a mo-size book. attribution of the works[edit] 		tentative attribution	description	works	dates	other bio	identified with 	florus 	"a roman historian" 	epitome of roman history 	circa - 	born in africa; lived in the time of trajan and hadrian 	"in the manuscripts, the writer is variously named as julius florus, lucius anneus florus, or simply annaeus florus"; "he has been identified as publius annius florus" 	julius florus 	"an ancient roman poet, orator, and author" 	epitome of roman history ; poems including “quality of life”, “roses in springtime”, “roses”, “the rose”, “venus’ rose-garden”, and “the nine muses” 	circa - 	born in africa; accompanied tiberius to armenia; lost domitian’s capital competition due to prejudice; travelled in the greek empire; founded a school in tarraco, spain; returned to rome; a friend of hadrian 	"variously identified with julius florus, a distinguished orator and uncle of julius secundus, an intimate friend of quintilian (instit. x. , ); with the leader of an insurrection of the treviri (tacitus, ann. iii. ); with the postumus of horace (odes, ii. ) and even with the historian florus." 	publius annius florus 	"roman poet and rhetorician" 	virgilius orator an poeta; trochaic tetrameters, de qualitate vitae, and five graceful hexameters, de rosis 	 	born in africa; accompanied tiberius to armenia; lost domitian’s capital competition due to prejudice; travelled; founded a school in tarraco; returned to rome; knew hadrian 	"identified by some authorities with the historian florus." "generally agreed that he is the florus who wrote the well-known lines quoted together with hadrian's answer by aelius spartianus" "for an unlikely identification of florus with the author of the pervigilium veneris see e. h. o. müller, " tentative biography[edit] the florus identified as julius florus was one of the young men who accompanied tiberius on his mission to settle the affairs of armenia. he has been variously identified with julius florus, a distinguished orator and uncle of julius secundus, an intimate friend of quintilian (instit. x. , ); with the leader of an insurrection of the treviri (tacitus, ann. iii. ); with the postumus of horace (odes, ii. ) and even with the historian florus. under domitian’s rule, he competed in the capital competition,[ ] which was an event in which poets received rewards and recognition from the emperor himself.[ ] although he acquired great applause from the crowds, he was not victorious in the event. florus himself blamed his loss on favoritism on behalf of the emperor.[ ] shortly after his defeat, florus departed from rome to travel abroad.[ ] his travels are said to have taken him through the greek-speaking sections of the roman empire, taking in sicily, crete, the cyclades, rhodes, and egypt.[ ] at the conclusion of his travels, he resided in tarraco, spain.[ ] in tarraco, florus founded a school and taught literature.[ ] during this time, he also began to write the epitome of roman history.[ ] after many years in spain, he eventually migrated back to rome during the rule of hadrian ( - ad).[ ] hadrian and florus became very close friends, and florus was rumored to be involved in government affairs during the second half of hadrian's rule.[ ] 		wikisource has original text related to this article: florus references[edit] 	^ a b c "epitome of roman history". 	^ saecula latina ( ), p. 	^ a b c d e f g h i j "lacuscurtius • florus — epitome". 	^ "cameron, a. "poetae novelli" in harvard studies in classical philology ( ), pp. - . 	^ "florus: introduction". lacus curtius. . retrieved - - . 	^ a b c d lucius annaeus, florus ( ). epitome of roman history. london: heinemann. 	^ a b c d e "p. annius florus". 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "florus, publius annius". encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. p.  . 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "florus, julius". encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. p.  . bibliography[edit] 	jona lendering. "publius annius florus". livius.org. 	josé miguel alonso-nuñez ( ). "floro y los historiadores contemporáneos". acta classica universitatis scientiarum debreceniensis. : – . 	w. den boer ( ). some minor roman historians. leiden: brill. 	florus ( ) [c. ]. römische geschichte : lateinisch und deutsch. eingel., übers. und kommentiert von günter laser. darmstadt: wissenschaftliche buchgesellschaft. 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "florus". encyclopædia britannica. 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language in its own right as a full-fledged means of expression) is the primary subject of this article. contents 	 token latin 	 . mottos 	 . fixed phrases 	 . in science 	 . vernacular vocabulary 	 ecclesiastical latin 	 academic latin 	 living latin 	 . origins 	 . pronunciation 	 . aims 	 . . for latin instruction 	 . . for contemporary communication 	 . supporting institutions and publications 	 . on the internet 	 . in public spaces 	 original production 	 . poetry 	 . prose 	 . music 	 . cinema 	 . television 	 . t-shirts 	 translations 	 dictionaries, glossaries, and phrase books for contemporary latin 	 see also 	 notes and references 	 further reading 	 . english 	 . spanish 	 . french 	 . german token latin[edit] as a relic of the great importance of new latin as the formerly dominant international lingua franca down to the th century in a great number of fields, latin is still present in words or phrases used in many languages around the world, and some minor communities use latin in their speech. mottos[edit] the official use of latin in previous eras has survived at a symbolic level in many mottos that are still being used and even coined in latin to this day. old mottos like e pluribus unum, found in on the seal of the united states, along with annuit cœptis and novus ordo seclorum, and adopted by an act of congress in , are still in use. similarly, current pound sterling coins are minted with the latin inscription elizabeth·ii·d·g·reg·f·d (dei gratia regina, fidei defensatrix, i.e. queen by the grace of god, defender of the faith). the official motto of the multilingual european union, adopted as recently as , is the latin in varietate concordia. similarly, the motto on the canadian victoria cross is in latin, perhaps due to canada's bilingual status. fixed phrases[edit] some common phrases that are still in use in many languages have remained fixed in latin, like the well-known dramatis personae or habeas corpus. in science[edit] further information: international scientific vocabulary and english words of greek origin in fields as varied as mathematics, physics, astronomy, medicine, pharmacy, biology, and philosophy[ ] latin still provides internationally accepted names of concepts, forces, objects, and organisms in the natural world. the most prominent retention of latin occurs in the classification of living organisms and the binomial nomenclature devised by carl linnaeus, although the rules of nomenclature used today allow the construction of names which may deviate considerably from historical norms. another continuation is the use of latin names for the constellations and celestial objects (used in the bayer designations of stars), as well as planets and satellites, whose surface features have been given latin selenographic toponyms since the th century. symbols for many of those chemical elements of the periodic table known in ancient times reflect and echo their latin names, like au for aurum (gold) and fe for ferrum (iron). vernacular vocabulary[edit] latin has also contributed a vocabulary for specialised fields such as anatomy and law which has become part of the normal, non-technical vocabulary of various european languages. latin continues to be used to form international scientific vocabulary and classical compounds. separately, more than % of the vocabulary used in english today derives ultimately from latin, either directly ( . %) or through french ( . %).[ ] ecclesiastical latin[edit] main article: ecclesiastical latin the catholic church has continued to use latin. two main areas can be distinguished. one is its use for the official version of all documents issued by the holy see, which has remained intact to the present. although documents are first drafted in various vernaculars (mostly italian), the official version is written in latin by the latin letters office. the other is its use for the liturgy, which has diminished after the second vatican council of – , but to some degree resurged half a century later when pope benedict xvi[ ] encouraged the latin mass. after the church of england published the book of common prayer in english in , a latin edition was published for use at universities such as oxford and the leading public schools, where the liturgy was still permitted to be conducted in latin,[ ] and there have been several latin translations since. most recently a latin edition of the usa anglican book of common prayer has appeared.[ ] academic latin[edit] latin has also survived to some extent in the context of classical scholarship. some classical periodicals, like mnemosyne and the german hermes, to this day accept articles in latin for publication.[ ] latin is used in most of the introductions to the critical editions of ancient authors in the oxford classical texts series, and it is also nearly always used for the apparatus criticus of ancient greek and latin texts. the university orator at the university of cambridge makes a speech in latin marking the achievements of each of the honorands at the annual honorary degree congregations, as does the public orator at the encaenia ceremony at the university of oxford. harvard and princeton also have latin salutatory commencement addresses every year.[ ] the charles university in prague[ ] and many other universities around the world conduct the awarding of their doctoral degrees in latin. other universities and other schools issue diplomas written in latin. brown, sewanee, and bard college also hold a portion of their graduation ceremonies in latin. the song gaudeamus igitur is sung at university opening or graduation ceremonies throughout europe.[citation needed] living latin[edit] living latin (latinitas viva in latin itself), also known as spoken latin, is an effort to revive latin as a spoken language and as the vehicle for contemporary communication and publication. involvement in this latin revival can be a mere hobby or extend to more serious projects for restoring its former role as an international auxiliary language. origins[edit] after the decline of latin at the end of the new latin era started to be perceived, there were attempts to counteract the decline and to revitalize the use of latin for international communication. in , miguel olmo wrote a booklet proposing latin as the common language for europe, with the title otia villaudricensia ad octo magnos principes qui vindobonæ anno mdcccxv pacem orbis sanxerunt, de lingua latina et civitate latina fundanda liber singularis ("leisure[citation needed] of villaudric to the eight great princes who ordained world peace at vienna in , an extraordinary book about the latin language and a latin state to be founded").[ ] in the late th century, latin periodicals advocating the revived use of latin as an international language started to appear. between and , karl heinrich ulrichs published in italy his alaudæ.[ ] this publication was followed by the vox urbis: de litteris et bonis artibus commentarius,[ ] published by the architect and engineer aristide leonori from , twice a month, until , one year before the outbreak of world war i. the early th century, marked by warfare and by drastic social and technological changes, saw few advances in the use of latin outside academia. following the beginnings of the re-integration of postwar europe, however, latin revivalism gained some strength. one of its main promoters was the former dean of the university of nancy (france), prof. jean capelle, who in published a cornerstone article called "latin or babel"[ ] in which he proposed latin as an international spoken language. capelle was called "the soul of the movement" when in the first international conference for living latin (congrès international pour le latin vivant) took place in avignon,[ ] marking the beginning of a new era of the active use of latin. about participants from different countries took part in that foundational conference. pronunciation[edit] the essentials of the classical pronunciation had been defined since the early th century (e.g. in k.l. schneider's elementarlehre der lateinischen sprache, ), but in many countries there was strong resistance to adopting it in instruction. in english-speaking countries, where the traditional academic pronunciation diverged most markedly from the restored classical model, the struggle between the two pronunciations lasted for the entire th century. the transition between latin pronunciations was long drawn out;[ ] in the "new pronunciation" was officially recommended by the board of education for adoption in schools in england.[ ][ ] although the older pronunciation, as found in the nomenclature and terminology of various professions, continued to be used for several decades, and in some spheres prevails to the present day, contemporary latin as used by the living latin community has generally adopted the classical pronunciation of latin as restored by specialists in latin historical phonology.[ ] a similar shift occurred in german-speaking areas: the traditional pronunciation is discussed in deutsche aussprache des lateinischen [de] (in german), while the reconstructed classical pronunciation, which took hold around , is discussed at schulaussprache des lateinischen [de]. aims[edit] many users of contemporary latin promote its use as a spoken language, a movement that dubs itself "living latin". two main aims can be distinguished in this movement: for latin instruction[edit] main article: instruction in latin among the proponents of spoken latin, some promote the active use of the language to make learning latin both more enjoyable and more efficient, drawing upon the methodologies of instructors of modern languages. in the united kingdom, the association for the reform of latin teaching (arlt, still existing as the association for latin teaching), was founded in by the classical scholar w. h. d. rouse. it arose from summer schools which rouse organised to train latin teachers in the direct method of language teaching, which entailed using the language in everyday situations rather than merely learning grammar and syntax by rote. the classical association also encourages this approach. the cambridge university press has now published a series of school textbooks based on the adventures of a mouse called minimus, designed to help children of primary school age to learn the language, as well as its well-known cambridge latin course (clc) to teach the language to secondary school students, all of which include extensive use of dialogue and an approach to language teaching mirroring that now used for most modern languages, which have brought many of the principles espoused by rouse and the arlt into the mainstream of latin teaching. outside great britain, one of the most accomplished handbooks that fully adopts the direct method for latin is the well-known lingua latina per se illustrata by the dane hans henning Ørberg, first published in and improved in . it is composed fully in latin, and requires no other language of instruction, and it can be used to teach pupils whatever their mother tongue. for contemporary communication[edit] others support the revival of latin as a language of international communication, in the academic, and perhaps even the scientific and diplomatic, spheres (as it was in europe and european colonies through the middle ages until the mid- th century), or as an international auxiliary language to be used by anyone. however, as a language native to no people, this movement has not received support from any government, national or supranational. supporting institutions and publications[edit] a substantial group of institutions (particularly in europe, but also in north and south america) has emerged to support the use of latin as a spoken language.[ ] the foundational first international conference for living latin (congrès international pour le latin vivant) that took place in avignon was followed by at least five others.[ ] as a result of those first conferences, the academia latinitati fovendae was then created in rome. among its most prominent members are well-known classicists from all over the world,[ ] like prof. michael von albrecht or prof. kurt smolak [de]. the alf held its first international conference in rome in bringing together about participants. from then on conferences have taken place every four or five years, in bucharest, malta, dakar, erfurt, berlin, madrid, and many other places. the official language of the alf is latin and all acts and proceedings take place in latin. also in the year clément desessard published a method with tapes within the series sans peine of the french company assimil. desessard's work aimed at teaching contemporary latin for use in an everyday context, although the audio was often criticized for being recorded with a thick french accent. assimil took this out of print at the end of and published another latin method which focused on the classical idiom only. however, in assimil re-published desessard's edition with new audio cds in restored classical latin pronunciation. desessard's method is still used for living latin instruction at the schola latina universalis. in the belgian radiologist gaius licoppe, who had discovered the contemporary use of latin and learnt how to speak it thanks to desessard's method, founded in brussels the fundatio melissa for the promotion of latin teaching and use for communication.[ ] in germany, marius alexa and inga pessarra-grimm founded in september the latinitati vivæ provehendæ associatio (lvpa, or association for the promotion of living latin).[ ] the first septimana latina amoeneburgensis (amöneburg latin week) was organized in at amöneburg, near marburg in germany, by mechtild hofmann and robert maier. since then the latin weeks were offered every year. in addition, members of the supporting association septimanae latinae europaeae (european latin weeks) published a text book named piper salve that contains dialogues in modern everyday latin.[ ] at the accademia vivarium novum located in rome, italy, all classes are taught by faculty fluent in latin or ancient greek, and resident students speak in latin or greek at all times outside class. most students are supported by scholarships from the mnemosyne foundation and spend one or two years in residence to acquire fluency in latin.[ ] the living latin movement eventually crossed the atlantic, where it continues to grow. in the summer of , at the university of kentucky, prof. terence tunberg established the first conventiculum, an immersion conference in which participants from all over the world meet annually to exercise the active use of latin to discuss books and literature, and topics related to everyday life.[ ] the success of the conventiculum lexintoniense has inspired similar conferences throughout the united states. in october the septentrionale americanum latinitatis vivæ institutum (salvi, or north american institute for living latin studies) was founded in los angeles, by a group of professors and students of latin literature concerned about the long-term future of classical studies in the us.[ ] in the university of kentucky, prof. terence tunberg founded the institutum studiis latinis provehendis (known in english as the institute of latin studies), which awards graduate certificates in latin studies addressed at those with a special interest gaining "a thorough command of the latin language in reading, writing and speaking, along with a wide exposure to the cultural riches of the latin tradition in its totality".[ ] this is the only degree-conferring program in the world with courses taught entirely in latin. there is also a proliferation of latin-speaking institutions, groups and conferences in the iberian peninsula and in latin america. some prominent examples of this tendency towards the active use of latin within spanish and portuguese-speaking countries are the annual conferences called jornadas de culturaclasica.com, held in different cities of southern spain, as well as the caelvm (cursus aestivus latinitatis vivae matritensis), a latin summer program in madrid. in , the studium angelopolitanum was founded in puebla, mexico, by prof. alexis hellmer, in order to promote the study of latin in that country, where only one university grants a degree in classics. most of these groups and institutions organise seminars and conferences where latin is used as a spoken language, both throughout the year and over the summer, in europe and in america.[ ] less academic summer encounters wholly carried out in latin are the ones known as septimanæ latinæ europææ (european latin weeks), celebrated in germany and attracting people of various ages from all over europe.[ ] at the present time, several periodicals and social networking web sites are published in latin. in france, immediately after the conference at avignon, the publisher théodore aubanel launched the magazine vita latina, which still exists, associated to the cercam (centre d'Étude et de recherche sur les civilisations antiques de la méditerranée) of the paul valéry university, montpellier iii. until very recently, it was published in latin in its entirety.[ ] in germany, the magazine vox latina was founded in by caelestis eichenseer ( – ) and is to this day published wholly in latin four times a year in the university of saarbrücken.[ ] in belgium, the magazine melissa created in by gaius licoppe is still published six times a year completely in latin.[ ] hebdomada aenigmatum[ ] is a free online magazine of crosswords, quizzes, and other games in latin language. it is published by the italian cultural association leonardo in collaboration with the online latin news magazine ephemeris[ ] and with eli publishing house. from until , finnish radio station yle radio broadcast a weekly review of world news called nuntii latini completely in latin.[ ] the german radio bremen also had regular broadcasts in latin until december .[ ] other attempts have been less successful.[ ] beginning from july radio f.r.e.i. from erfurt (germany) broadcasts in latin once a week on wednesdays for minutes; the broadcast is called erfordia latina.[ ] in the italian startup pptart launched its catalogue (catalogus)[ ] and its registration form for artists (specimen ad nomina signanda)[ ] in latin and english. in acem (enel executives' cultural association) organized with luca desiata and daniel gallagher the first business latin course for managers (congressus studiorum – lingua latina mercatoria).[ ][ ] the government of finland, during its presidencies of the european union, issued official newsletters in latin on top of the official languages of the union.[ ] on the internet[edit] the emergence of the internet on a global scale in the s provided a great tool for the flourishing of communication in latin, and in february [ ] a polish latinist from warsaw (poland), konrad m. kokoszkiewicz, founded what is still today the most populated and successful latin-only email list on the internet, the grex latine loquentium [la]. subsequently, the nuntii latini of yle radio would also create a discussion list called yle colloquia latina.[ ] the circulus latinus panormitanus of palermo (italy) went a step further creating the first online chat in latin called the locutorium.[ ] in february konrad m. kokoszkiewicz published an on-line glossary with his proposals for some computer terms in latin under the title of vocabula computatralia.[ ] the internet also allows for the preservation of other contemporary latin dictionaries that have fallen out of print or have never been printed, like the latinitas recens (speculum)[ ] or the adumbratio lexici angli et latini.[ ] in june [ ] an on-line newspaper ephemeris was founded once again from warsaw by stanisław tekieli, and is to this day published wholly in latin about current affairs.[ ] in january a schola, (membership ) a latin-only social network service, including a real-time video and/or text chatroom, was founded from london (uk).[ ] a number of latin web portals, websites, and blogs in latin have developed, like lingua latina Æterna from russia[ ] or verba et facta from somewhere in the us.[ ] the internet also provides tools like latin spell checkers[ ] for contemporary latin writers, or scansion tools[ ] for contemporary latin poets. some websites, such as google and facebook, provide latin as a language option. the hirise (high resolution imaging science experiment) camera onboard the mars reconnaissance orbiter (nasa) has latin language version of their main site, https://uahirise.org/la, as well as a latin twitter account, https://twitter.com/hiriselatin. https://ai.neocities.org/abracadabra.html is mens latina, an artificial intelligence in latin. there was a mud text game in latin called labyrinthus latinus aimed at uniting people interested in the language.[citation needed] in addition, the video games minecraft, openttd, and the battle for wesnoth provide latin as a language option. there is even a latin wikipedia, although discussions are held not only in latin but in german, english, and other languages as well. nearly active editors work on the project. there are nearly , articles on topics ranging from ancient rome [la] to mathematics [la], tolkien's fiction [la], and geography [la]. those in particularly good latin, currently about % of the whole, are marked.[ ] in public spaces[edit] the atm with latin instructions the signs at wallsend metro station are in english and latin as a tribute to wallsend's role as one of the outposts of the roman empire. although less so than in previous eras, contemporary latin has also been used for public notices in public spaces: the wallsend metro station of the tyne and wear metro has signs in latin. the vatican city has an automated teller machine with instructions in latin.[ ] original production[edit] some contemporary works have been produced originally in latin, most overwhelmingly poetry,[ ] but also prose, as well as music or cinema. they include: poetry[edit] 	 . carminum libri quattuor by tomás viñas.[ ] 	 . carmina latina by a. pinto de carvalho.[ ] 	 . vox humana by johannes alexander gaertner.[ ] 	 . pegasus tolutarius by henry c. snurr aka c. arrius nurus [la]. 	 . suaviloquia by jan novák. 	 . cantus firmus by johannes alexander gaertner.[ ] 	 . carmina by traian lăzărescu.[ ] 	 . periegesis amatoria by geneviève immè [la]. 	 . harmonica vitrea by anna elissa radke [la]. prose[edit] 	 . graecarum litterarum historia by antonio d'elia.[ ] 	 . latinarum litterarum historia by antonio d'elia.[ ] 	 . de sacerdotibus sacerdotiisque alexandri magni et lagidarum eponymis by jozef ijsewijn.[ ] 	 . sententiæ by alain van dievoet (pen name: alaenus divutius) [la]. 	 . mystagogus lycius, sive de historia linguaque lyciorum by wolfgang jenniges.[ ] 	 . capti: fabula menippeo-hoffmanniana americana by stephen a. berard (pen name: stephanus berard) [la].[ ][ ] 	 . hebdomada aenigmatum by luca desiata[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] music[edit] 	 . oedipus rex by igor stravinsky (an opera-oratorio with libretto, based on sophocles's tragedy, prepared in french by jean cocteau and given its final latin form by abbé jean daniélou). 	 . ista?!?! by latin hip hop band ista. 	 . the works of elvis presley have been translated into latin by finnish academic jukka ammondt.[ ][ ] 	 . super smash bros. brawl main theme. 	 . audio, video, disco by french electronic group justice. cinema[edit] 	 . sebastiane by derek jarman and paul humfress.[ ] 	 . the passion of the christ by mel gibson.[ ] 	 . pacifica by samohi latin media (slam). 	 . barnabus & bella by slam. 	 . imperator, emperor by konrad Łęcki. television[edit] 	 . o tempora! by the kulturzeit team ( : min special broadcast, august ) of the german public channel sat.[clarification needed][ ][ ] t-shirts[edit] a t-shirt with the rhyming motto multi frigent, pauci rigent, "many are cold but few are frozen" for the fictional university of antarctica, with a penguin seal, by artist janice bender. the motto's translation puns the christian motto, "many are called but few are chosen." translations[edit] see also: list of latin translations of modern literature various texts—usually children's books—have been translated into latin since the beginning of the living latin movement in the early fifties for various purposes, including use as a teaching tool or simply to demonstrate the capability of latin as a means of expression in a popular context. they include: 	 . rebilius cruso[ ] (robinson crusoe) tr. francis william newman. 	 . insula thesavraria (treasure island) tr. arcadius avellanus. 	 . vita discriminaque robinsonis crusoei (robinson crusoe) tr. arcadius avellanus. 	 . winnie ille pu (winnie-the-pooh) tr. alexander lenard. 	 . ferdinandus taurus (ferdinand the bull) tr. elizabeth chamberlayne hadas. 	 . fabula de petro cuniculo (the tale of peter rabbit) tr. e. perot walker. 	 . alicia in terra mirabili (alice's adventures in wonderland) tr. clive harcourt carruthers. 	 . fabula de jemima anate-aquatica (the tale of jemima puddle-duck) tr. jonathan musgrave. 	 . aliciae per speculum transitus (quaeque ibi invenit) (through the looking-glass, and what alice found there) tr. clive harcourt carruthers. 	 –present. asterix[ ] (asterix) 	 . fabula de domino ieremia piscatore (the tale of mr. jeremy fisher) tr. e. perot walker. 	 . alix – spartaci filius (the adventures of alix) 	 . regulus, vel pueri soli sapiunt (the little prince) tr. augusto haury 	 . de titini et miluli facinoribus: de insula nigra (tintin comic the black island) 	 . the classical wizard / magus mirabilis in oz (the wonderful wizard of oz) tr. c.j. hinke and george van buren. 	 . de titini et miluli facinoribus: de sigaris pharaonis (tintin comic cigars of the pharaoh) 	 . tela charlottae (charlotte's web) tr. bernice fox. 	 . sub rota (beneath the wheel) tr. sigrides c. albert 	 . quomodo invidiosulus nomine grinchus christi natalem abrogaverit (how the grinch stole christmas!) tr. jennifer morrish tunberg, terence o. tunberg. 	 . winnie ille pu semper ludet (the house at pooh corner) tr. brian staples. 	 . cattus petasatus (the cat in the hat) tr. jennifer morish tunberg, terence o. tunberg. 	 . arbor alma (the giving tree) tr. terence o. tunberg, jennifer morrish tunberg. 	 . virent ova, viret perna (green eggs and ham) tr. terence o. tunberg, jennifer morrish tunberg. 	 . harrius potter et philosophi lapis (harry potter and the philosopher's stone) tr. peter needham. 	 . tres mures caeci ("three blind mice") tr. david c. noe. 	 . harrius potter et camera secretorum (harry potter and the chamber of secrets) tr. peter needham. 	 . olivia: the essential latin edition tr. amy high. 	 . over illustrated children's books in latin have been published on the tar heel reader website. 	 . murena, murex et aurum (murena, la pourpre et l'or) tr. claude aziza and cathy rousset. 	 . mundo novo[ ] – adaptation of "a whole new world" from disney's aladdin 	 . hobbitus ille (the hobbit) tr. mark walker. dictionaries, glossaries, and phrase books for contemporary latin[edit] 	 . latin for all occasions, a book by henry beard, attempts to find latin equivalents for contemporary catchphrases. 	 – . neues latein lexicon / lexicon recentis latinitatis by karl egger, containing more than , words for contemporary everyday life. 	 . imaginum vocabularium latinum by sigrid albert. 	 . piper salve by robert maier, mechtild hofmann, klaus sallmann, sabine mahr, sascha trageser, dominika rauscher, thomas gölzhäuser. 	 . visuelles wörterbuch latein-deutsch by dorling kindersley, translated by robert maier. 	 . septimana latina vol. + edited by mechtild hofmann and robert maier (based on piper salve). see also[edit] 		 latin edition of wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 	library resources about contemporary latin 	 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	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 ecclesiastical latin - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	ecclesiastical latin 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 			ecclesiastical latin 	church latin, liturgical latin 	native to	never spoken as a native language; other uses vary widely by period and location 	extinct	still used for many purposes, mostly as a liturgical language of the roman rite of the catholic church, as well as in the anglican churches, lutheran churches, and methodist churches.[ ] also used in the western orthodox rite of the eastern orthodox church.[ ] 	language family 	indo-european 	 italic	latino-faliscan	latin	ecclesiastical latin 	writing system 	latin 	official status 	official language in 	  holy see 	language codes 	iso - 	– 	glottolog	none 	this article contains ipa phonetic symbols. without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of unicode characters. for an introductory guide on ipa symbols, see help:ipa. ecclesiastical latin, also called church latin, liturgical latin or italian latin, is a form of latin initially developed to discuss christian thought and later used as a lingua franca by the medieval and early modern upper class of europe. it includes words from vulgar latin and classical latin (as well as greek and hebrew) re-purposed with christian meaning.[ ] it is less stylized and rigid in form than classical latin, sharing vocabulary, forms, and syntax, while at the same time incorporating informal elements which had always been with the language but which were excluded by the literary authors of classical latin.[ ] its pronunciation was partly standardized in the late th century during the carolingian renaissance as part of charlemagne's educational reforms, and this new letter-by-letter pronunciation, used in france and england, was adopted in iberia and italy a couple centuries afterwards.[ ] as time passed, pronunciation diverged depending on the local vernacular language, giving rise to even highly divergent forms such as the traditional english pronunciation of latin, which has now been largely abandoned for reading latin texts. within the roman catholic church and in certain protestant churches, such as the anglican church, a pronunciation based on modern italian phonology became common during the th century. ecclesiastical latin was the language of liturgical rites in the catholic church, as well as the anglican church, lutheran church, methodist church, and in the western rite of the eastern orthodox church.[ ] today, ecclesiastical latin is primarily used in official documents of the roman catholic church, in the tridentine mass, and it is still learned by clergy.[ ][ ] the ecclesiastical latin that is used in theological works, liturgical rites and dogmatic proclamations varies in style: syntactically simple in the vulgate bible, hieratic (very restrained) in the roman canon of the mass, terse and technical in thomas aquinas's summa theologica, and ciceronian (syntactically complex) in pope john paul ii's encyclical letter fides et ratio. contents 	 usage 	 . late antique usage 	 . medieval usage 	 . usage during the reformation and in modern protestant churches 	 . modern catholic usage 	 comparison with classical latin 	 language materials 	 current use 	 church latin kana 	 see also 	 references 	 . citations 	 . sources 	 further reading 	 external links 	 . latin and the catholic church 	 . bibles 	 . breviaries 	 . other documents 	 . course usage[edit] late antique usage[edit] the use of latin in the church started in the late fourth century[ ] with the split of the roman empire after emperor theodosius in . before this split, greek was the primary language of the church as well as the language of the eastern half of the roman empire. following the split, early theologians like jerome translated greek and hebrew texts into latin, the dominant language of the western roman empire. the loss of greek in the western half of the roman empire, and the loss of latin in the eastern half of the roman empire were not immediate, but changed the culture of language as well as the development of the church.[ ] what especially differentiates ecclesiastical latin from classical latin is its utility as a language for translating, since it borrows and assimilates constructions and borrows vocabulary from the koine greek, while adapting the meanings of some latin words to those of the koine greek originals, which are sometimes themselves translations of hebrew originals.[ ] medieval usage[edit] at first there was no distinction between latin and the actual romance vernacular, the former being just the traditional written form of the latter. for instance, in ninth-century spain ⟨saeculum⟩ was simply the correct way to spell [sjeglo], meaning 'century'. the writer would not have actually read it aloud as /sɛkulum/ any more than an english speaker today would pronounce ⟨knight⟩ as */knɪxt/.[ ] the spoken version of ecclesiastical latin was created later during the carolingian renaissance. the british scholar alcuin, tasked by charlemagne with improving the standards of latin writing in france, prescribed a pronunciation based on a fairly literal interpretation of latin spelling. for example, in a radical break from the traditional system, a word such as ⟨viridiarium⟩ 'orchard' now had to be read aloud precisely as it was spelled rather than */verdʒjær/ (later spelled as old french vergier). the carolingian reforms soon brought the new church latin from france to other lands where romance was spoken. usage during the reformation and in modern protestant churches[edit] the use of latin in the western church continued into the early modern period. one of martin luther's tenets of the reformation was to have services and religious texts in the common tongue, rather than latin, a language that at the time, only clergy understood. protestants refrained from using latin in services, however protestant clergy had to learn and understand latin as it was the language of higher learning and theological thought until the th century.[ ] after the reformation, in the lutheran churches, latin was retained as the language of the mass for weekdays, although for the sunday sabbath, the deutsche messe was to be said.[ ] in geneva, among the reformed churches, "persons called before the consistory to prove their faith answered by reciting the paternoster, the ave maria, and the credo in latin."[ ] in the anglican church, the book of common prayer was published in latin, alongside english.[ ] john wesley, the founder of the methodist churches, "used latin text in doctrinal writings",[ ] as martin luther and john calvin did in their era.[ ] in the training of protestant clergy in württemberg, as well as in the rhineland, universities instructed divinity students in latin and their examinations were conducted in this language.[ ] the university of montauban under reformed auspices, required that seminarians complete two theses, with one being in latin and as such, reformed ministers were "latinist by training", comparable to roman catholic seminarians.[ ] modern catholic usage[edit] ecclesiastical latin continues to be the official language of the roman catholic church. the council decided to allow languages other than latin to be used in mass in order to relate the church and its values to modern culture.[ ] however, the church still produces its official liturgical texts in latin, which provide a single clear point of reference for translations into all other languages. the same holds for the official texts of canon law and many other doctrinal and pastoral communications and directives of the holy see, such as encyclical letters, motu proprios, and declarations ex cathedra.[ ] pope benedict xvi gave his unexpected resignation speech in latin.[ ] the holy see has for some centuries usually drafted documents in a modern language, but the authoritative text, published in the acta apostolicae sedis, is usually in latin. some texts may be published initially in a modern language and be later revised, according to a latin version (or “editio typica”), after this latin version is published. for example, the catechism of the catholic church was drafted and published, in , in french. the latin text appeared only five years later, in , and the french text was corrected to match the latin version, which is regarded as the official text. the latin-language department of the vatican secretariat of state (formerly the secretaria brevium ad principes et epistolarum latinarum) is charged with the preparation in latin of papal and curial documents. occasionally the official text is published in a modern language, e.g., the well-known edict tra le sollecitudini[ ] ( ) by pope pius x (in italian) and mit brennender sorge ( ) by pope pius xi (in german). the rule now in force on the use of latin in the eucharistic liturgy of the roman rite states mass is celebrated either in latin or in another language, provided that the liturgical texts used have been approved according to the norm of law. except for celebrations of the mass that are scheduled by the ecclesiastical authorities to take place in the language of the people, priests are always and everywhere permitted to celebrate mass in latin.[ ] comparison with classical latin[edit] see also: latin spelling and pronunciation § ecclesiastical pronunciation, and latin regional pronunciation there are not many differences between classical latin and church latin. one can understand church latin knowing the latin of classical texts, as the main differences between the two are in pronunciation and spelling, as well as vocabulary. in many countries, those who speak latin for liturgical or other ecclesiastical purposes use the pronunciation that has become traditional in rome by giving the letters the value they have in modern italian but without distinguishing between open and close "e" and "o". "ae" and "oe" coalesce with "e"; before them and "i", "c" and "g" are pronounced /t͡ʃ/ (english "ch") and /d͡ʒ/ (english "j"), respectively. "ti" before a vowel is generally pronounced /tsi/ (unless preceded by "s", "t" or "x"). such speakers pronounce consonantal "v" (not written as "u") as /v/ as in english, and double consonants are pronounced as such. the distinction in classical latin between long and short vowels is ignored, and instead of the 'macron', a horizontal line to mark the long vowel, an acute accent is used for stress. the first syllable of two-syllable words is stressed; in longer words, an acute accent is placed over the stressed vowel: adorémus 'let us adore'; dómini 'of the lord'.[ ] language materials[edit] the complete text of the bible in latin, the revised vulgate, appears at nova vulgata - bibliorum sacrorum editio.[ ] new advent[ ] gives the entire bible, in the douay version, verse by verse, accompanied by the vulgate latin of each verse. in , the latinitas foundation[ ] (opus fundatum latinitas in latin) was established by pope paul vi to promote the study and use of latin. its headquarters are in vatican city. the foundation publishes an eponymous quarterly in latin. the foundation also published a , -word italian-latin lexicon recentis latinitatis (dictionary of recent latin), which provides latin coinages for modern concepts, such as a bicycle (birota), a cigarette (fistula nicotiana), a computer (instrumentum computatorium), a cowboy (armentarius), a motel (deversorium autocineticum), shampoo (capitilavium), a strike (operistitium), a terrorist (tromocrates), a trademark (ergasterii nota), an unemployed person (invite otiosus), a waltz (chorea vindobonensis), and even a miniskirt (tunicula minima) and hot pants (brevissimae bracae femineae). some such terms extracted from the book appear on a page[ ] of the vatican website. the latinitas foundation was superseded by the pontifical academy for latin (latin: pontificia academia latinitatis) in . current use[edit] see also: canon law of the catholic church latin remains the official language of the holy see and the roman rite of the catholic church.[ ] until the s and still later in roman colleges like the gregorian, roman catholic priests studied theology using latin textbooks and the language of instruction in many seminaries was also latin, which was seen as the language of the church fathers. the use of latin in pedagogy and in theological research, however, has since declined. nevertheless, canon law requires for seminary formation to provide for a thorough training in latin,[ ] though "the use of latin in seminaries and pontifical universities has now dwindled to the point of extinction."[ ] latin was still spoken in recent international gatherings of roman catholic leaders, such as the second vatican council, and it is still used at conclaves to elect a new pope. the tenth ordinary general assembly of the synod of bishops in was the most recent to have a latin-language group for discussions. although latin is the traditional liturgical language of the roman (latin) church, the liturgical use of the vernacular has predominated since the liturgical reforms that followed the vatican ii: liturgical law for the latin church states that mass may be celebrated either in latin or another language in which the liturgical texts, translated from latin, have been legitimately approved.[ ] the permission granted for continued use of the tridentine mass in its form authorizes use of the vernacular language in proclaiming the scripture readings after they are first read in latin.[ ] in historic protestant churches, such as the anglican communion and lutheran churches, ecclesiastical latin is occasionally employed in sung celebrations of the mass.[ ] church latin kana[edit] in the hymnbook used in the catholic church in japan, there are some special kana characters. to represent the /l/ sound in the latin language, the r column kana letters with ゜(the handakuten diacritic) are used (such as ラ゚ for [la], レ゚ for [le], リ゚ for [li], ロ゚ for [lo] and ル゚ for [lu]). see also[edit] 	christianity portal 	catholicism portal 	language portal 	canon law of the catholic church 	reginald foster 	latin church 	latin mass 	roman rite references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ a b c d e f cross, frank leslie; livingstone, elizabeth a. ( ). the oxford dictionary of the christian church. oxford university press. p.  . isbn  . the second vatican council declared that the use of latin was to be maintained in the liturgy, though permission was granted for some use of the vernacular; in the outcome, the use of the vernacular has almost entirely triumphed, although the official books continue to be published in latin. in the church of england the latin versions of the book of common prayer have never been widely used, though, for instance, john wesley used latin text in doctrinal writings. the option of using traditional latin texts in sung worship has been retained by choirs in both the anglican and lutheran churches. 	^ a b "on the western rite liturgy | antiochian orthodox christian archdiocese". antiochian.org. retrieved - - . 	^ a b c "catholic encyclopedia: church latin". www.newadvent.org. retrieved - - . 	^ collens, primer of ecclesiastical latin, pg. vi 	^ wright, roger ( ). late latin and early romance in spain and carolingian france. arca (classical & medieval texts, papers & monographs). . liverpool: francis cairns. isbn  . 	^ a b collins, primer of ecclesiastical latin, pg. vi 	^ leonhardt, jürgen ( ). latin: story of a world language. munich: harvard university press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ wright, roger ( ). late latin and early romance in spain and carolingian france. liverpool: francis cairns. pp.  – . isbn  - - -x. 	^ janson, tore ( ). natural history of latin: the story of the world's most successful language. oxford university press. p.  . isbn  - . 	^ a b c d waquet, françoise ( ). latin, or, the empire of a sign: from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. verso. p.  . isbn  . 	^ "second vatican council | roman catholic history [ – ]". encyclopedia britannica. retrieved - - . 	^ see it at the catholic news service channel. 	^ "tra le sollecitudini instruction on sacred music". adoremus bulletin. november , . 	^ "instruction redemptionis sacramentum". www.vatican.va. archived from the original on february , . 	^ roman missal 	^ "nova vulgata - bibliorum sacrorum editio". www.vatican.va. 	^ "holy bible: genesis ". www.newadvent.org. 	^ "latinitas, opus fundatum in civitate vaticana". www.vatican.va. 	^ "lexicon recentis latinitatis, parvum verborum novatorum léxicum". www.vatican.va. 	^ as stated above, official documents are frequently published in other languages. the holy see's diplomatic languages are french and latin (such as letters of credence from vatican ambassadors to other countries are written in latin [fr. reginald foster, on vatican radio, june ]). laws and official regulations of vatican city, which is an entity that is distinct from the holy see, are issued in italian. 	^ can. , cic 	^ cross, frank leslie; livingstone, elizabeth a. ( ). the oxford dictionary of the christian church. oxford university press. p.  . isbn  . 	^ can. archived december , , at the wayback machine, cic 	^ ["archived copy". archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - .cs maint: archived copy as title (link) motu proprio summorum pontificum, article sources[edit] 	the new missal latin by edmund j. baumeister, s.m., ph.d. published by st. mary's publishing company, p.o. box , st. mary's, ks - , usa. 	byrne, carol ( ). "simplicissimus". the latin mass society of england and wales. archived from the original on february . retrieved april . (a course in ecclesiastical latin.) further reading[edit] 	a primer of ecclesiastical latin by john f. collins, (catholic university of america press, ) isbn  - - - . a learner's first textbook, comparable in style, layout, and coverage to wheelock's latin, but featuring text selections from the liturgy and the vulgate: unlike wheelock, it also contains translation and composition exercises. 	mohrmann, christine. . liturgical latin, its origins and character: three lectures. washington, dc: catholic university of america press. 	scarre, annie mary. . an introduction to liturgical latin. ditchling: saint dominic's press. 	rev. h.p.g. nunn (m.a.) ( ). introduction to ecclesiastical latin. archive.org. st. john's college, cambridge: cambridge university press. pp.  . archived from the original on october , . retrieved october , . external links[edit] 	 	this article's use of external links may not follow wikipedia's policies or guidelines. please improve this article by removing excessive or inappropriate external links, and converting useful links where appropriate into footnote references. (july ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) 		wikibooks has a book on the topic of: ecclesiastical latin 	library resources about ecclesiastical latin 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries latin and the catholic church[edit] 	pope john xxiii ( ) [ ]. "veterum sapientia: apostolic constitution on the promotion of the study of latin". adoremus: society for the renewal of the sacred liturgy. (in latin here) 	"what the church says on the latin language". michael martin. 	una voce - international organization promoting the latin tridentine mass 	catechism of the catholic church in latin 	fr. nikolaus gihr, the holy sacrifice of the mass "the language used in the celebration of the holy mass" bibles[edit] 	the bible in latin - official text of the roman catholic church 	newadvent.org side-by-side comparisons of the ancient greek, english, and latin vulgate bibles. 	ordo missae of the roman missal, latin and english texts, rubrics in english only 	latin-english study bible side-by-side of the vulgate latin and english 	parallel latin-english psalter breviaries[edit] 	divinum officium 	latin-english pre-vatican-ii breviary other documents[edit] 	"documenta latina". the holy see. retrieved october . 	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that the lex oppia tried to limit their use in bce.[ ] these "designer brands" spawned cheap knock-offs that were sold to poorer women.[ ] working-class women could afford the cheaper varieties, but may not have had the time (or slaves) to apply the makeup[ ] as the use of makeup was a time-consuming affair because cosmetics needed to be reapplied several times a day due to weather conditions and poor composition.[ ] cosmetics were applied in private, usually in a small room where men did not enter. cosmetae, female slaves that adorned their mistresses, were especially praised for their skills.[ ] they would beautify their mistresses with cultus, the latin word encompassing makeup, perfume and jewelry.[ ] scent was also an important factor of beauty. women who smelled good were presumed to be healthy. due to the stench of many of the ingredients used in cosmetics at the time, women often drenched themselves in copious amounts of perfume.[ ] christian women tended to avoid cosmetics with the belief that they should praise what god gave them.[ ] some men, especially cross-dressers, did use cosmetics, although it was viewed as effeminate and improper.[ ] all cosmetic ingredients were also used as medicines to treat various ailments. lead, although known to be poisonous, was still widely used.[ ] contents 	 men's attitudes 	 skincare 	 rouge 	 eye makeup 	 lips, nails and teeth 	 perfume 	 containers and mirrors 	 prostitutes 	 men's use 	 see also 	 references 	 external links men's attitudes[edit] roman attitudes towards cosmetics evolved with the expansion of the empire. the assortment of cosmetics available increased as trade borders expanded and the resulting influx of wealth granted women additional slaves and time to spend on beauty. ideas of beauty from conquered peoples, especially the greeks and egyptians, greatly influenced the roman paradigm of beauty.[ ] unlike their eastern trading partners however, the romans felt that only the "preservation of beauty" was acceptable and not "unnatural embellishment". despite exaggerating their makeup to make it appear in the poor lighting of the time, women still wanted to appear natural as a sign of chastity. artificiality denoted a desire to be seductive, which made men question for whom exactly a woman was trying to appear attractive. this was why men generally viewed the use of cosmetics as deceitful and manipulative.[ ] vestal virgins did not don makeup because they were supposed to look holy and chaste. postumia, one of the vestal virgins, defied this convention and consequently, was accused of incestum.[ ] of all the surviving texts mentioning cosmetics (all written by men) ovid is alone in his approval of their use. the consensus was that women who used cosmetics in excess were immoral and deceptive and were practicing a form of witchcraft. juvenal wrote that "a woman buys scents and lotions with adultery in mind" and mocked the need for cosmetics, believing that they were ineffective. use of perfumes was further looked down upon because they were thought to mask the smell of sex and alcohol. seneca advised virtuous women to avoid cosmetics, as he believed their use to be a part of the decline of morality in rome. stoics were also against the use of cosmetics, as they were opposed to the usage of all man-made luxuries. although there are no surviving texts written by women expounding the attitude of women towards cosmetics, their widespread use indicates that women accepted and enjoyed these products.[ ] skincare[edit] pure white skin, a demarcation of the leisure class, was the most important feature of roman beauty.[ ] native roman women weren’t naturally fair-skinned and spent their time outside with oils on their faces, requiring whitening makeup to fit their model of beauty.[ ] women would often prepare their faces with beauty masks prior to applying makeup. one recipe called for the application of sweat from sheep's wool (lanolin) to the face before bedtime,[ ] emitting a stench often criticized by men.[ ] other ingredients included juice, seeds, horns, excrement,[ ] honey, plants, placenta, marrow, vinegar, bile, animal urine, sulfur, vinegar,[ ] eggs, myrrh, incense, frankincense,[ ] ground oyster shells,[ ] onions with poultry fat, white lead, and barley with vetch. bathing in asses’ milk was an expensive treatment that worked like a chemical peel and was used by wealthy women such as cleopatra vii and poppaea sabina.[ ] after their baths, they would then apply face whitener, such as chalk powder,[ ] white marl, crocodile dung and white lead.[ ] the roman recognition that lead was poisonous underscored their point of view on how important white skin was. other ingredients used in whiteners included beeswax, olive oil, rosewater, saffron,[ ] animal fat, tin oxide, starch,[ ] rocket (arugula), cucumber, anise, mushrooms, honey, rose leaves, poppies, myrrh, frankincense,[ ] almond oil, rosewater, lily root, water parsnip and eggs.[ ] the romans disliked wrinkles, freckles, sunspots, skin flakes and blemishes.[ ] to soften wrinkles, they used swans’ fat, asses’ milk, gum arabic and bean-meal.[ ] sores and freckles were treated with the ashes of snails.[ ] the romans pasted soft leather patches of alum directly over blemishes to pretend that they were beauty marks. criminals and freedmen used these leather patches, which came in both round and crescent shapes, to conceal brand marks.[ ] with the exception of hair on her head, hair was considered to be unattractive on a roman woman. consequently, women removed hair by either shaving, plucking, stripping using a resin paste, or scraping with a pumice stone. older women faced ridicule for their depilation because it was viewed primarily as preparation for sex.[ ] rouge[edit] although romans esteemed pale faces, a light pink on the cheeks was considered to be attractive, signifying good health. plutarch wrote that too much rouge made a woman look showy, while martial mocked women, believing that rouge was in danger of melting in the sun.[ ] sources of rouge included tyrian vermillion,[ ] rose and poppy petals, fucus,[ ] red chalk, alkanet, and crocodile dung.[ ] red ochre, a more expensive blush, was imported from belgium and ground against a stone into powder.[ ] despite a widespread knowledge that cinnabar and red lead were poisonous, they were both still used extensively.[ ] cheap alternatives included mulberry juice and wine dregs.[ ] eye makeup[edit] roman glass perfume flask and two-part eye makeup container. the ideal eyes, from the roman perspective, were large with long eyelashes. pliny the elder wrote that eyelashes fell out from sexual excess, and so it was especially important for women to keep their eyelashes long to prove their chastity.[ ] kohl was the main ingredient in eye makeup, and was composed of ashes or soot and antimony, with saffron usually added to improve the smell. kohl was applied using a rounded stick, made of ivory, glass, bone, or wood, that would be dipped in either oil or water first, before being used to apply the kohl.[ ] the use of kohl as makeup came from the east. in addition to kohl, charred rose petals[ ] and date stones could be used to darken the eyes.[ ] colored eyeshadow was also applied by women to accentuate their eyes. green eyeshadow came from malachite, while blue came from azurite.[ ] the romans preferred dark eyebrows that almost met in the center.[ ] this effect was achieved by darkening their eyebrows with antimony or soot and then extending them inward.[ ] plucking began in the st century bce to tidy their overall look.[ ] lips, nails and teeth[edit] although evidence for the usage of lipstick appears in earlier civilizations, no such evidence has materialized to indicate that the romans ever colored their lips.[ ] the only evidence for painting nails comes from a red dye they imported that was produced from an indian insect. generally only the wealthy cut their nails, as they used barbers to clip their nails short, following the contemporary practice for good hygiene.[ ] although oral hygiene was nowhere near today’s standards, white teeth were prized by the romans, and so false teeth, made from bone, ivory and paste, were popular items. ovid shed light on the way white teeth were viewed in society when he wrote the statement, "you can do yourself untold damage when you laugh if your teeth are black, too long or irregular."[ ] the romans also sweetened their breath with powder and baking soda.[ ] perfume[edit] roman perfume bottles (unguentari) on display at villa boscoreale perfumes were very popular in ancient rome. in fact, they were so heavily used that cicero claimed that, "the right scent for a woman is none at all."[ ] they came in liquid, solid and sticky forms and were often created in a maceration process with flowers or herbs and oil.[ ] distillation technology, as well as most of the imported ingredients, originated in the east.[ ] the most prominent perfume market in italy was seplasia in capua.[ ] perfumes were rubbed on or poured onto the user and were often believed to be helpful against different ailments, such as fever and indigestion. different scents were appropriate for different occasions,[ ] as well as for men and women.[ ] deodorants made from alum, iris and rose petals were common.[ ] in addition to personal use, perfumes were used in food and to freshen the household aroma.[ ] containers and mirrors[edit] makeup usually came in tablet or cake form, sold at marketplaces.[ ] wealthy women bought expensive makeup that came in elaborate containers made from gold, wood, glass or bone.[ ] kohl came in compartmentalized tubes that could store more than one color of eye makeup.[ ] glassblowing, invented in the st century ce in syria, lowered the price of containers. the most common color for glass was teal.[ ] gladiator sweat and fats of the animals fighting in the arena were sold in souvenir pots outside of the games to improve complexion.[ ] mirrors in ancient rome were mostly hand mirrors made from polished metal, or mercury behind glass.[ ] spending too much time in front of a mirror was thought to denote that a woman was weak in character.[ ] prostitutes[edit] further information: prostitution in ancient rome cosmetics, and especially their overuse, were commonly associated with prostitutes, both being regarded as immoral and seductive. the latin word lenocinium actually meant both "prostitution" and "makeup". due to their low income, prostitutes tended to use cheaper cosmetics, which emitted rather foul odors.[ ] this, combined with the strong, exotic scents used to cover up the stench, made brothels smell especially rank. as prostitutes aged, with their income dependent on their appearance, they opted for more copious amounts of makeup. courtesans often received cosmetics and perfumes as gifts or partial payment.[ ] men's use[edit] men are also known to have used cosmetics in roman times, although it was frowned upon by society. men seen carrying mirrors were viewed as effeminate, while those using face-whitening makeup were thought to be immoral because they were expected to be tanned from working outside.[ ] two of the more acceptable practices were the light use of certain perfumes and moderate hair removal. a man removing too much hair was viewed as effeminate, while removing too little made him seem unrefined.[ ] the romans found it especially inappropriate for an emperor to be vain, as was apparently the case with the emperor otho.[ ] the emperor elagabalus removed all of his body hair and often donned makeup, which caused the romans much grief.[ ] see also[edit] 	medicamina faciei femineae, by ovid, a singular didactic poem for the female face, whose methods are still used in the manufacture of cosmetics and pharmaceuticals today.[ ] references[edit] 	^ an ancient roman make-up lesson the history channel. retrieved - - . 	^ a b c stewart, susan. cosmetics 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	cleopatra 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		last active pharaoh of ptolemaic egypt for other uses, see cleopatra (disambiguation). 	cleopatra 	the berlin cleopatra, a roman sculpture of cleopatra wearing a royal diadem, mid- st century bc (around the time of her visits to rome in – bc), discovered in an italian villa along the via appia and now located in the altes museum in germany.[ ][ ][ ][note ] 	queen of the ptolemaic kingdom 	reign	 bc to or august bc ( years)[ ][note ] 	predecessor	ptolemy xii auletes 	successor	ptolemy xv caesarion[note ] 	co-rulers		ptolemy xii auletes 	ptolemy xiii theos philopator 	ptolemy xiv 	ptolemy xv caesarion 	 	born	early bc alexandria, ptolemaic kingdom 	died	 or august  bc (aged )[note ] alexandria, roman egypt 	burial	unlocated tomb (probably in egypt) 	spouse		ptolemy xiii theos philopator 	ptolemy xiv 	mark antony 	issue		caesarion 	alexander helios 	cleopatra selene ii 	ptolemy philadelphus 		full name 	cleopatra vii thea philopator 	dynasty	ptolemaic 	father	ptolemy xii auletes 	mother	presumably cleopatra vi tryphaena (also known as cleopatra v tryphaena)[note ] 	cleopatra vii in hieroglyphs 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 					 			 	 	 	 cleopatra qlwpdrt 	 		 	 	​ 	 	 		 	 					 	 	 	 	 horus name ( ): wer(et)-neb(et)-neferu-achet-seh wr(.t)-nb(.t)-nfrw- ḫ(t)-sḥ the great lady of perfection, excellent in counsel 	 		 	 	​ 	 	 		 	 	 		 	 	 	 horus name ( ): weret-tut-en-it-es wr.t-twt-n-jt=s the great one, sacred image of her father 	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 cleopatra netjeret mer(et) ites qlwpdrt nṯrt mr(t) jts the goddess cleopatra who is beloved of her father 	 	 	part of a series on 	ancient rome and the fall of the republic 	 people 	mark antony 	augustus 	brutus 	cato 	cicero 	cleopatra 	clodius pulcher 	crassus 	lepidus 	pompey 	sextus pompey events 	first triumvirate 	caesar's civil war 	assassination of caesar 	second triumvirate 	liberators' civil war 	sicilian revolt 	final war of the roman republic places 	caesareum 	comitium 	curia julia 	curia hostilia 	rostra 	theatre of pompey 		v 	t 	e 	 	part of a series on 	cleopatra vii 	 early life ( – bc) reign ( – bc) death ( bc) 	 	v 	t 	e cleopatra vii philopator (koinē greek: Κλεοπάτρα Φιλοπάτωρ;[ ]  – or august  bc)[note ] was the last active ruler of the ptolemaic kingdom of egypt.[note ] as a member of the ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder ptolemy i soter, a macedonian greek general and companion of alexander the great.[note ] after the death of cleopatra, egypt became a province of the roman empire, marking the end of the second to last hellenistic state and the age that had lasted since the reign of alexander ( – bc).[note ] her native language was koine greek, and she was the only ptolemaic ruler to learn the egyptian language.[note ] in bc, cleopatra presumably accompanied her father, ptolemy xii auletes, during his exile to rome after a revolt in egypt (a roman client state) allowing his daughter berenice iv to claim the throne. berenice was killed in bc when ptolemy returned to egypt with roman military assistance. when he died in bc, the joint reign of cleopatra and her brother ptolemy xiii began, but a falling-out between them led to open civil war. after losing the bc battle of pharsalus in greece against his rival julius caesar (a roman dictator and consul) in caesar's civil war, the roman statesman pompey fled to egypt. pompey had been a political ally of ptolemy xii, but ptolemy xiii, at the urging of his court eunuchs, had pompey ambushed and killed before caesar arrived and occupied alexandria. caesar then attempted to reconcile the rival ptolemaic siblings, but ptolemy's chief adviser potheinos viewed caesar's terms as favoring cleopatra, so his forces besieged her and caesar at the palace. shortly after the siege was lifted by reinforcements, ptolemy xiii died in the bc battle of the nile; cleopatra's half-sister arsinoe iv was eventually exiled to ephesus for her role in carrying out the siege. caesar declared cleopatra and her brother ptolemy xiv joint rulers, but maintained a private affair with cleopatra that produced a son, caesarion. cleopatra traveled to rome as a client queen in and bc, where she stayed at caesar's villa. after the assassinations of caesar and (on her orders) ptolemy xiv in bc, she named caesarion co-ruler. in the liberators' civil war of – bc, cleopatra sided with the roman second triumvirate formed by caesar's grandnephew and heir octavian, mark antony, and marcus aemilius lepidus. after their meeting at tarsos in bc, the queen had an affair with antony. he carried out the execution of arsinoe at her request, and became increasingly reliant on cleopatra for both funding and military aid during his invasions of the parthian empire and the kingdom of armenia. the donations of alexandria declared their children alexander helios, cleopatra selene ii, and ptolemy philadelphus rulers over various erstwhile territories under antony's triumviral authority. this event, their marriage, and antony's divorce of octavian's sister octavia minor led to the final war of the roman republic. octavian engaged in a war of propaganda, forced antony's allies in the roman senate to flee rome in bc, and declared war on cleopatra. after defeating antony and cleopatra's naval fleet at the bc battle of actium, octavian's forces invaded egypt in bc and defeated antony, leading to antony's suicide. when cleopatra learned that octavian planned to bring her to his roman triumphal procession, she killed herself by poisoning, contrary to the popular belief that she was bitten by an asp. cleopatra's legacy survives in ancient and modern works of art. roman historiography and latin poetry produced a generally critical view of the queen that pervaded later medieval and renaissance literature. in the visual arts, her ancient depictions include roman busts, paintings, and sculptures, cameo carvings and glass, ptolemaic and roman coinage, and reliefs. in renaissance and baroque art, she was the subject of many works including operas, paintings, poetry, sculptures, and theatrical dramas. she has become a pop culture icon of egyptomania since the victorian era, and in modern times, cleopatra has appeared in the applied and fine arts, burlesque satire, hollywood films, and brand images for commercial products. contents 	 etymology 	 biography 	 . background 	 . early childhood 	 . reign and exile of ptolemy xii 	 . accession to the throne 	 . assassination of pompey 	 . relationship with julius caesar 	 . cleopatra in the liberators' civil war 	 . relationship with mark antony 	 . donations of alexandria 	 . battle of actium 	 . downfall and death 	 cleopatra's kingdom and role as a monarch 	 legacy 	 . children and successors 	 . roman literature and historiography 	 . cultural depictions 	 . . depictions in ancient art 	 . . . statues 	 . . . coinage portraits 	 . . . greco-roman busts and heads 	 . . . paintings 	 . . . portland vase 	 . . . native egyptian art 	 . . medieval and early modern reception 	 . . modern depictions and brand imaging 	 . written works 	 ancestry 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 . sources 	 . . online 	 . . print 	 further reading 	 external links etymology the latinized form cleopatra comes from the ancient greek kleopátra (Κλεοπάτρα), meaning "glory of her father",[ ] from κλέος (kléos, "glory") and πᾰτήρ (patḗr, "father").[ ] the masculine form would have been written either as kleópatros (Κλεόπᾰτρος) or pátroklos (Πᾰ́τροκλος).[ ] cleopatra was the name of alexander the great's sister, as well as cleopatra alcyone, wife of meleager in greek mythology.[ ] through the marriage of ptolemy v epiphanes and cleopatra i syra (a seleucid princess), the name entered the ptolemaic dynasty.[ ][ ] cleopatra's adopted title theā́ philopátōra (Θεᾱ́ Φιλοπάτωρα) means "goddess who loves her father."[ ][ ][note ] biography background main article: early life of cleopatra hellenistic kingdoms that emerged after the death of alexander the great hellenistic portrait of ptolemy xii auletes, the father of cleopatra, located in the louvre, paris[ ] ptolemaic pharaohs were crowned by the egyptian high priest of ptah at memphis, but resided in the multicultural and largely greek city of alexandria, established by alexander the great of macedon.[ ][ ][ ][note ] they spoke greek and governed egypt as hellenistic greek monarchs, refusing to learn the native egyptian language.[ ][ ][ ][note ] in contrast, cleopatra could speak multiple languages by adulthood and was the first ptolemaic ruler to learn the egyptian language.[ ][ ][ ][note ] plutarch implies that she also spoke ethiopian, the language of the "troglodytes", hebrew (or aramaic), arabic, the syrian language (perhaps syriac), median, and parthian, and she could apparently also speak latin, although her roman contemporaries would have preferred to speak with her in her native koine greek.[ ][ ][ ][note ] aside from greek, egyptian, and latin, these languages reflected cleopatra's desire to restore north african and west asian territories that once belonged to the ptolemaic kingdom.[ ] roman interventionism in egypt predated the reign of cleopatra.[ ][ ][ ] when ptolemy ix lathyros died in late bc, he was succeeded by his daughter berenice iii.[ ][ ] however, with opposition building at the royal court against the idea of a sole reigning female monarch, berenice iii accepted joint rule and marriage with her cousin and stepson ptolemy xi alexander ii, an arrangement made by the roman dictator sulla.[ ][ ] ptolemy xi had his wife killed shortly after their marriage in bc, but was lynched soon thereafter in the resulting riot over the assassination.[ ][ ][ ] ptolemy xi, and perhaps his uncle ptolemy ix or father ptolemy x alexander i, willed the ptolemaic kingdom to rome as collateral for loans, so that the romans had legal grounds to take over egypt, their client state, after the assassination of ptolemy xi.[ ][ ][ ] the romans chose instead to divide the ptolemaic realm among the illegitimate sons of ptolemy ix, bestowing cyprus to ptolemy of cyprus and egypt to ptolemy xii auletes.[ ][ ] early childhood main article: early life of cleopatra cleopatra vii was born in early bc to the ruling ptolemaic pharaoh ptolemy xii and an unknown mother,[ ][ ][note ] presumably ptolemy xii's wife cleopatra vi tryphaena (also known as cleopatra v tryphaena),[ ][ ][ ][note ][note ] the mother of cleopatra's older sister, berenice iv epiphaneia.[ ][ ][ ][note ] cleopatra tryphaena disappears from official records a few months after the birth of cleopatra in bc.[ ][ ] the three younger children of ptolemy xii, cleopatra's sister arsinoe iv and brothers ptolemy xiii theos philopator and ptolemy xiv,[ ][ ][ ] were born in the absence of his wife.[ ][ ] cleopatra's childhood tutor was philostratos, from whom she learned the greek arts of oration and philosophy.[ ] during her youth cleopatra presumably studied at the musaeum, including the library of alexandria.[ ][ ] reign and exile of ptolemy xii main article: early life of cleopatra further information: first triumvirate in bc the roman censor marcus licinius crassus argued before the roman senate that rome should annex ptolemaic egypt, but his proposed bill and the similar bill of tribune servilius rullus in bc were rejected.[ ][ ] ptolemy xii responded to the threat of possible annexation by offering remuneration and lavish gifts to powerful roman statesmen, such as pompey during his campaign against mithridates vi of pontus, and eventually julius caesar after he became roman consul in bc.[ ][ ][ ][note ] however, ptolemy xii's profligate behavior bankrupted him and he was forced to acquire loans from the roman banker gaius rabirius postumus.[ ][ ][ ] most likely a posthumously painted portrait of cleopatra with red hair and her distinct facial features, wearing a royal diadem and pearl-studded hairpins, from roman herculaneum, italy, st century ad[ ][ ][note ] in bc the romans annexed cyprus and on accusations of piracy drove ptolemy of cyprus, ptolemy xii's brother, to commit suicide instead of enduring exile to paphos.[ ][ ][ ][note ] ptolemy xii remained publicly silent on the death of his brother, a decision which, along with ceding traditional ptolemaic territory to the romans, damaged his credibility among subjects already enraged by his economic policies.[ ][ ][ ] ptolemy xii was then exiled from egypt by force, traveling first to rhodes, then athens, and finally the villa of triumvir pompey in the alban hills, near praeneste, italy.[ ][ ][ ][note ] ptolemy xii spent nearly a year there on the outskirts of rome, ostensibly accompanied by his daughter cleopatra, then about .[ ][ ][note ] berenice iv sent an embassy to rome to advocate for her rule and oppose the reinstatement of her father ptolemy xii, but ptolemy had assassins kill the leaders of the embassy, an incident that was covered up by his powerful roman supporters.[ ][ ][ ][note ] when the roman senate denied ptolemy xii the offer of an armed escort and provisions for a return to egypt, he decided to leave rome in late bc and reside at the temple of artemis in ephesus.[ ][ ][ ] the roman financiers of ptolemy xii remained determined to restore him to power.[ ] pompey persuaded aulus gabinius, the roman governor of syria, to invade egypt and restore ptolemy xii, offering him , talents for the proposed mission.[ ][ ][ ] although it put him at odds with roman law, gabinius invaded egypt in the spring of bc by way of hasmonean judea, where hyrcanus ii had antipater the idumaean, father of herod the great, furnish the roman-led army with supplies.[ ][ ] as a young cavalry officer, mark antony was under gabinius's command. he distinguished himself by preventing ptolemy xii from massacring the inhabitants of pelousion, and for rescuing the body of archelaos, the husband of berenice iv, after he was killed in battle, ensuring him a proper royal burial.[ ][ ] cleopatra, then years of age, would have traveled with the roman expedition into egypt; years later, antony would profess that he had fallen in love with her at this time.[ ][ ] the roman republic (green) and ptolemaic egypt (yellow) in bc gabinius was put on trial in rome for abusing his authority, for which he was acquitted, but his second trial for accepting bribes led to his exile, from which he was recalled seven years later in bc by caesar.[ ][ ] crassus replaced him as governor of syria and extended his provincial command to egypt, but he was killed by the parthians at the battle of carrhae in bc.[ ][ ] ptolemy xii had berenice iv and her wealthy supporters executed, seizing their properties.[ ][ ][ ] he allowed gabinius's largely germanic and gallic roman garrison, the gabiniani, to harass people in the streets of alexandria and installed his longtime roman financier rabirius as his chief financial officer.[ ][ ][ ][note ] within a year rabirius was placed under protective custody and sent back to rome after his life was endangered for draining egypt of its resources.[ ][ ][ ][note ] despite these problems, ptolemy xii created a will designating cleopatra and ptolemy xiii as his joint heirs, oversaw major construction projects such as the temple of edfu and a temple at dendera, and stabilized the economy.[ ][ ][ ][note ] on may bc cleopatra was made a regent of ptolemy xii as indicated by an inscription in the temple of hathor at dendera.[ ][ ][ ][note ] rabirius was unable to collect the entirety of ptolemy xii's debt by the time of the latter's death, and so it was passed on to his successors cleopatra and ptolemy xiii.[ ][ ] accession to the throne main articles: early life of cleopatra and reign of cleopatra left: cleopatra dressed as a pharaoh and presenting offerings to the goddess isis, on a limestone stele dedicated by a greek man named onnophris, dated bc, and located in the louvre, paris right: the cartouches of cleopatra and caesarion on a limestone stele of the high priest of ptah in egypt, dated to the ptolemaic period, and located in the petrie museum of egyptian archaeology, london ptolemy xii died sometime before march bc, when cleopatra, in her first act as queen, began her voyage to hermonthis, near thebes, to install a new sacred buchis bull, worshiped as an intermediary for the god montu in the ancient egyptian religion.[ ][ ][ ][note ] cleopatra faced several pressing issues and emergencies shortly after taking the throne. these included famine caused by drought and a low level of the annual flooding of the nile, and lawless behavior instigated by the gabiniani, the now unemployed and assimilated roman soldiers left by gabinius to garrison egypt.[ ][ ] inheriting her father's debts, cleopatra also owed the roman republic .  million drachmas.[ ] in bc marcus calpurnius bibulus, proconsul of syria, sent his two eldest sons to egypt, most likely to negotiate with the gabiniani and recruit them as soldiers in the desperate defense of syria against the parthians.[ ] however, the gabiniani tortured and murdered these two, perhaps with secret encouragement by rogue senior administrators in cleopatra's court.[ ][ ] cleopatra sent the gabiniani culprits to bibulus as prisoners awaiting his judgment, but he sent them back to cleopatra and chastised her for interfering in their adjudication, which was the prerogative of the roman senate.[ ][ ] bibulus, siding with pompey in caesar's civil war, failed to prevent caesar from landing a naval fleet in greece, which ultimately allowed caesar to reach egypt in pursuit of pompey.[ ] by august bc, official documents started listing cleopatra as the sole ruler, evidence that she had rejected her brother ptolemy xiii as a co-ruler.[ ][ ][ ] she had probably married him,[ ] but there is no record of this.[ ] the ptolemaic practice of sibling marriage was introduced by ptolemy ii and his sister arsinoe ii.[ ][ ][ ] a long-held royal egyptian practice, it was loathed by contemporary greeks.[ ][ ][ ][note ] by the reign of cleopatra, however, it was considered a normal arrangement for ptolemaic rulers.[ ][ ][ ] despite cleopatra's rejection of him, ptolemy xiii still retained powerful allies, notably the eunuch potheinos, his childhood tutor, regent, and administrator of his properties.[ ][ ][ ] others involved in the cabal against cleopatra included achillas, a prominent military commander, and theodotus of chios, another tutor of ptolemy xiii.[ ][ ] cleopatra seems to have attempted a short-lived alliance with her brother ptolemy xiv, but by the autumn of bc ptolemy xiii had the upper hand in their conflict and began signing documents with his name before that of his sister, followed by the establishment of his first regnal date in bc.[ ][ ][ ][note ] assassination of pompey main article: reign of cleopatra a roman portrait of pompey made during the reign of augustus ( bc – ad), a copy of an original from – bc, and located in the venice national archaeological museum, italy in the summer of bc, cleopatra and her forces were still fighting against ptolemy xiii within alexandria when pompey's son gnaeus pompeius arrived, seeking military aid on behalf of his father.[ ] after returning to italy from the wars in gaul and crossing the rubicon in january of bc, caesar had forced pompey and his supporters to flee to greece.[ ][ ] in perhaps their last joint decree, both cleopatra and ptolemy xiii agreed to gnaeus pompeius's request and sent his father ships and troops, including the gabiniani, a move that helped erase some of the debt owed to rome.[ ][ ] losing the fight against her brother, cleopatra was then forced to flee alexandria and withdraw to the region of thebes.[ ][ ][ ] by the spring of bc cleopatra had traveled to roman syria with her younger sister, arsinoe iv, to gather an invasion force that would head to egypt.[ ][ ][ ] she returned with an army, but her advance to alexandria was blocked by her brother's forces, including some gabiniani mobilized to fight against her, so she camped outside pelousion in the eastern nile delta.[ ][ ][ ] in greece, caesar and pompey's forces engaged each other at the decisive battle of pharsalus on  august bc, leading to the destruction of most of pompey's army and his forced flight to tyre, lebanon.[ ][ ][ ][note ] given his close relationship with the ptolemies, pompey ultimately decided that egypt would be his place of refuge, where he could replenish his forces.[ ][ ][ ][note ] ptolemy xiii's advisers, however, feared the idea of pompey using egypt as his base in a protracted roman civil war.[ ][ ][ ] in a scheme devised by theodotus, pompey arrived by ship near pelousion after being invited by a written message, only to be ambushed and stabbed to death on september bc.[ ][ ][ ][note ] ptolemy xiii believed he had demonstrated his power and simultaneously defused the situation by having pompey's head, severed and embalmed, sent to caesar, who arrived in alexandria by early october and took up residence at the royal palace.[ ][ ][ ][note ] caesar expressed grief and outrage over the killing of pompey and called on both ptolemy xiii and cleopatra to disband their forces and reconcile with each other.[ ][ ][ ][note ] relationship with julius caesar main article: reign of cleopatra further information: military campaigns of julius caesar, siege of alexandria ( bc), battle of the nile ( bc), and caesareum of alexandria ptolemy xiii arrived at alexandria at the head of his army, in clear defiance of caesar's demand that he disband and leave his army before his arrival.[ ][ ] cleopatra initially sent emissaries to caesar, but upon allegedly hearing that caesar was inclined to having affairs with royal women, she came to alexandria to see him personally.[ ][ ][ ] historian cassius dio records that she did so without informing her brother, dressed in an attractive manner, and charmed caesar with her wit.[ ][ ][ ] plutarch provides an entirely different and perhaps mythical account that alleges she was bound inside a bed sack to be smuggled into the palace to meet caesar.[ ][ ][ ][note ] the tusculum portrait, a contemporary roman sculpture of julius caesar located in the archaeological museum of turin, italy when ptolemy xiii realized that his sister was in the palace consorting directly with caesar, he attempted to rouse the populace of alexandria into a riot, but he was arrested by caesar, who used his oratorical skills to calm the frenzied crowd.[ ][ ][ ] caesar then brought cleopatra and ptolemy xiii before the assembly of alexandria, where caesar revealed the written will of ptolemy xii—previously possessed by pompey—naming cleopatra and ptolemy xiii as his joint heirs.[ ][ ][ ][note ] caesar then attempted to arrange for the other two siblings, arsinoe iv and ptolemy xiv, to rule together over cyprus, thus removing potential rival claimants to the egyptian throne while also appeasing the ptolemaic subjects still bitter over the loss of cyprus to the romans in bc.[ ][ ][ ][note ] judging that this agreement favored cleopatra over ptolemy xiii and that the latter's army of , , including the gabiniani, could most likely defeat caesar's army of , unsupported troops, potheinos decided to have achillas lead their forces to alexandria to attack both caesar and cleopatra.[ ][ ][ ][note ] after caesar managed to execute potheinos, arsinoe iv joined forces with achillas and was declared queen, but soon afterward had her tutor ganymedes kill achillas and take his position as commander of her army.[ ][ ][ ][note ] ganymedes then tricked caesar into requesting the presence of the erstwhile captive ptolemy xiii as a negotiator, only to have him join the army of arsinoe iv.[ ][ ][ ] the resulting siege of the palace, with caesar and cleopatra trapped together inside, lasted into the following year of bc.[ ][ ][ ][note ] sometime between january and march of bc, caesar's reinforcements arrived, including those led by mithridates of pergamon and antipater the idumaean.[ ][ ][ ][note ] ptolemy xiii and arsinoe iv withdrew their forces to the nile, where caesar attacked them. ptolemy xiii tried to flee by boat, but it capsized, and he drowned.[ ][ ][ ][note ] ganymedes may have been killed in the battle. theodotus was found years later in asia, by marcus junius brutus, and executed. arsinoe iv was forcefully paraded in caesar's triumph in rome before being exiled to the temple of artemis at ephesus.[ ][ ][ ] cleopatra was conspicuously absent from these events and resided in the palace, most likely because she had been pregnant with caesar's child since september bc.[ ][ ][ ] caesar's term as consul had expired at the end of bc.[ ] however, antony, an officer of his, helped to secure caesar's appointment as dictator lasting for a year, until october bc, providing caesar with the legal authority to settle the dynastic dispute in egypt.[ ] wary of repeating the mistake of cleopatra's sister berenice iv in having a female monarch as sole ruler, caesar appointed cleopatra's -year-old brother, ptolemy xiv, as joint ruler with the -year-old cleopatra in a nominal sibling marriage, but cleopatra continued living privately with caesar.[ ][ ][ ][note ] the exact date at which cyprus was returned to her control is not known, although she had a governor there by bc.[ ][ ] cleopatra and caesar ( ), a painting by jean-léon gérôme caesar is alleged to have joined cleopatra for a cruise of the nile and sightseeing of egyptian monuments,[ ][ ][ ] although this may be a romantic tale reflecting later well-to-do roman proclivities and not a real historical event.[ ] the historian suetonius provided considerable details about the voyage, including use of thalamegos, the pleasure barge constructed by ptolemy iv, which during his reign measured metres (  ft) in length and metres (  ft) in height and was complete with dining rooms, state rooms, holy shrines, and promenades along its two decks, resembling a floating villa.[ ][ ] caesar could have had an interest in the nile cruise owing to his fascination with geography; he was well-read in the works of eratosthenes and pytheas, and perhaps wanted to discover the source of the river, but turned back before reaching ethiopia.[ ][ ] caesar departed from egypt around april bc, allegedly to confront pharnaces ii of pontus, the son of mithridates vi of pontus', who was stirring up trouble for rome in anatolia.[ ] it is possible that caesar, married to the prominent roman woman calpurnia, also wanted to avoid being seen together with cleopatra when she bore him their son.[ ][ ] he left three legions in egypt, later increased to four, under the command of the freedman rufio, to secure cleopatra's tenuous position, but also perhaps to keep her activities in check.[ ][ ][ ] caesarion, cleopatra's alleged child with caesar, was born june bc and was originally named "pharaoh caesar", as preserved on a stele at the serapeum in memphis.[ ][ ][ ][note ] perhaps owing to his still childless marriage with calpurnia, caesar remained publicly silent about caesarion (but perhaps accepted his parentage in private).[ ][note ] cleopatra, on the other hand, made repeated official declarations about caesarion's parentage, naming caesar as the father.[ ][ ][ ] egyptian portrait of a ptolemaic queen, possibly cleopatra, c.  –  bc, located in the brooklyn museum[ ] cleopatra and her nominal joint ruler ptolemy xiv visited rome sometime in late bc, presumably without caesarion, and were given lodging in caesar's villa within the horti caesaris.[ ][ ][ ][note ] as with their father ptolemy xii, caesar awarded both cleopatra and ptolemy xiv the legal status of "friend and ally of the roman people" (latin: socius et amicus populi romani), in effect client rulers loyal to rome.[ ][ ][ ] cleopatra's visitors at caesar's villa across the tiber included the senator cicero, who found her arrogant.[ ][ ] sosigenes of alexandria, one of the members of cleopatra's court, aided caesar in the calculations for the new julian calendar, put into effect  january bc.[ ][ ][ ] the temple of venus genetrix, established in the forum of caesar on september bc, contained a golden statue of cleopatra (which stood there at least until the rd century ad), associating the mother of caesar's child directly with the goddess venus, mother of the romans.[ ][ ][ ] the statue also subtly linked the egyptian goddess isis with the roman religion.[ ] cleopatra's presence in rome most likely had an effect on the events at the lupercalia festival a month before caesar's assassination.[ ][ ] antony attempted to place a royal diadem on caesar's head, but the latter refused in what was most likely a staged performance, perhaps to gauge the roman public's mood about accepting hellenistic-style kingship.[ ][ ] cicero, who was present at the festival, mockingly asked where the diadem came from, an obvious reference to the ptolemaic queen whom he abhorred.[ ][ ] caesar was assassinated on the ides of march ( march bc), but cleopatra stayed in rome until about mid-april, in the vain hope of having caesarion recognized as caesar's heir.[ ][ ][ ] however, caesar's will named his grandnephew octavian as the primary heir, and octavian arrived in italy around the same time cleopatra decided to depart for egypt.[ ][ ][ ] a few months later, cleopatra had ptolemy xiv killed by poisoning, elevating her son caesarion as her co-ruler.[ ][ ][ ][note ] cleopatra in the liberators' civil war main article: reign of cleopatra further information: liberators' civil war cleopatra's gate in tarsos (now tarsus, mersin, turkey), the site where she met mark antony in bc[ ] octavian, antony, and marcus aemilius lepidus formed the second triumvirate in bc, in which they were each elected for five-year terms to restore order in the republic and bring caesar's assassins to justice.[ ][ ] cleopatra received messages from both gaius cassius longinus, one of caesar's assassins, and publius cornelius dolabella, proconsul of syria and caesarian loyalist, requesting military aid.[ ] she decided to write cassius an excuse that her kingdom faced too many internal problems, while sending the four legions left by caesar in egypt to dolabella.[ ][ ] however, these troops were captured by cassius in palestine.[ ][ ] while serapion, cleopatra's governor of cyprus, defected to cassius and provided him with ships, cleopatra took her own fleet to greece to personally assist octavian and antony, but her ships were heavily damaged in a mediterranean storm and she arrived too late to aid in the fighting.[ ][ ] by the autumn of bc, antony had defeated the forces of caesar's assassins at the battle of philippi in greece, leading to the suicide of cassius and brutus.[ ][ ] by the end of bc, octavian had gained control over much of the western half of the roman republic and antony the eastern half, with lepidus largely marginalized.[ ] in the summer of bc, antony established his headquarters at tarsos in anatolia and summoned cleopatra there in several letters, which she rebuffed until antony's envoy quintus dellius convinced her to come.[ ][ ] the meeting would allow cleopatra to clear up the misconception that she had supported cassius during the civil war and address territorial exchanges in the levant, but antony also undoubtedly desired to form a personal, romantic relationship with the queen.[ ][ ] cleopatra sailed up the kydnos river to tarsos in thalamegos, hosting antony and his officers for two nights of lavish banquets on board the ship.[ ][ ][note ] cleopatra managed to clear her name as a supposed supporter of cassius, arguing she had really attempted to help dolabella in syria, and convinced antony to have her exiled sister, arsinoe iv, executed at ephesus.[ ][ ] cleopatra's former rebellious governor of cyprus was also handed over to her for execution.[ ][ ] relationship with mark antony main article: reign of cleopatra a roman marble bust of the consul and triumvir mark antony, late st century ad, vatican museums cleopatra invited antony to come to egypt before departing from tarsos, which led antony to visit alexandria by november bc.[ ][ ] antony was well received by the populace of alexandria, both for his heroic actions in restoring ptolemy xii to power and coming to egypt without an occupation force like caesar had done.[ ][ ] in egypt, antony continued to enjoy the lavish royal lifestyle he had witnessed aboard cleopatra's ship docked at tarsos.[ ][ ] he also had his subordinates, such as publius ventidius bassus, drive the parthians out of anatolia and syria.[ ][ ][ ][note ] cleopatra carefully chose antony as her partner for producing further heirs, as he was deemed to be the most powerful roman figure following caesar's demise.[ ] with his powers as a triumvir, antony also had the broad authority to restore former ptolemaic lands, which were currently in roman hands, to cleopatra.[ ][ ] while it is clear that both cilicia and cyprus were under cleopatra's control by november bc, the transfer probably occurred earlier in the winter of – bc, during her time spent with antony.[ ] by the spring of bc, antony left egypt due to troubles in syria, where his governor lucius decidius saxa was killed and his army taken by quintus labienus, a former officer under cassius who now served the parthian empire.[ ] cleopatra provided antony with ships for his campaign and as payment for her newly acquired territories.[ ] she would not see antony again until bc, but she maintained correspondence, and evidence suggests she kept a spy in his camp.[ ] by the end of bc, cleopatra had given birth to twins, a boy named alexander helios and a girl named cleopatra selene ii, both of whom antony acknowledged as his children.[ ][ ] helios (the sun) and selene (the moon) were symbolic of a new era of societal rejuvenation,[ ] as well as an indication that cleopatra hoped antony would repeat the exploits of alexander the great by conquering the parthians.[ ] the meeting of antony and cleopatra ( ), by lawrence alma-tadema mark antony's parthian campaign in the east was disrupted by the events of the perusine war ( – bc), initiated by his ambitious wife fulvia against octavian in the hopes of making her husband the undisputed leader of rome.[ ][ ] it has been suggested that fulvia wanted to cleave antony away from cleopatra, but the conflict emerged in italy even before cleopatra's meeting with antony at tarsos.[ ] fulvia and antony's brother lucius antonius were eventually besieged by octavian at perusia (modern perugia, italy) and then exiled from italy, after which fulvia died at sicyon in greece while attempting to reach antony.[ ] her sudden death led to a reconciliation of octavian and antony at brundisium in italy in september bc.[ ][ ] although the agreement struck at brundisium solidified antony's control of the roman republic's territories east of the ionian sea, it also stipulated that he concede italia, hispania, and gaul, and marry octavian's sister octavia the younger, a potential rival for cleopatra.[ ][ ] in december bc cleopatra received herod in alexandria as an unexpected guest and refugee who fled a turbulent situation in judea.[ ] herod had been installed as a tetrarch there by antony, but he was soon at odds with antigonus ii mattathias of the long-established hasmonean dynasty.[ ] the latter had imprisoned herod's brother and fellow tetrarch phasael, who was executed while herod was fleeing toward cleopatra's court.[ ] cleopatra attempted to provide him with a military assignment, but herod declined and traveled to rome, where the triumvirs octavian and antony named him king of judea.[ ][ ] this act put herod on a collision course with cleopatra, who would desire to reclaim the former ptolemaic territories that comprised his new herodian kingdom.[ ] an ancient roman sculpture possibly depicting either cleopatra of ptolemaic egypt,[ ][ ][note ] or her daughter, cleopatra selene ii, queen of mauretania,[ ] located in the archaeological museum of cherchell, algeria relations between antony and cleopatra perhaps soured when he not only married octavia, but also sired her two children, antonia the elder in bc and antonia minor in bc, and moved his headquarters to athens.[ ] however, cleopatra's position in egypt was secure.[ ] her rival herod was occupied with civil war in judea that required heavy roman military assistance, but received none from cleopatra.[ ] since the authority of antony and octavian as triumvirs had expired on  january bc, octavia arranged for a meeting at tarentum, where the triumvirate was officially extended to bc.[ ] with two legions granted by octavian and a thousand soldiers lent by octavia, antony traveled to antioch, where he made preparations for war against the parthians.[ ] antony summoned cleopatra to antioch to discuss pressing issues, such as herod's kingdom and financial support for his parthian campaign.[ ][ ] cleopatra brought her now three-year-old twins to antioch, where antony saw them for the first time and where they probably first received their surnames helios and selene as part of antony and cleopatra's ambitious plans for the future.[ ][ ] in order to stabilize the east, antony not only enlarged cleopatra's domain,[ ] he also established new ruling dynasties and client rulers who would be loyal to him, yet would ultimately outlast him.[ ][ ][note ] in this arrangement cleopatra gained significant former ptolemaic territories in the levant, including nearly all of phoenicia (lebanon) minus tyre and sidon, which remained in roman hands.[ ][ ][ ] she also received ptolemais akko (modern acre, israel), a city that was established by ptolemy ii.[ ] given her ancestral relations with the seleucids, she was granted the region of coele-syria along the upper orontes river.[ ][ ] she was even given the region surrounding jericho in palestine, but she leased this territory back to herod.[ ][ ] at the expense of the nabataean king malichus i (a cousin of herod), cleopatra was also given a portion of the nabataean kingdom around the gulf of aqaba on the red sea, including ailana (modern aqaba, jordan).[ ][ ] to the west cleopatra was handed cyrene along the libyan coast, as well as itanos and olous in roman crete.[ ][ ] although still administered by roman officials, these territories nevertheless enriched her kingdom and led her to declare the inauguration of a new era by double-dating her coinage in bc.[ ][ ] roman aureus bearing the portraits of mark antony (left) and octavian (right), issued in  bc to celebrate the establishment of the second triumvirate by octavian, antony and marcus aemilius lepidus in  bc antony's enlargement of the ptolemaic realm by relinquishing directly controlled roman territory was exploited by his rival octavian, who tapped into the public sentiment in rome against the empowerment of a foreign queen at the expense of their republic.[ ] octavian, fostering the narrative that antony was neglecting his virtuous roman wife octavia, granted both her and livia, his own wife, extraordinary privileges of sacrosanctity.[ ] some years before, cornelia africana, daughter of scipio africanus, had been the first living roman woman to have a statue dedicated to her.[ ] she was now followed by octavia and livia, whose statues were most likely erected in the forum of caesar to rival that of cleopatra's, erected by caesar.[ ] in bc, cleopatra accompanied antony to the euphrates in his journey toward invading the parthian empire.[ ] she then returned to egypt, perhaps due to her advanced state of pregnancy.[ ] by the summer of bc, she had given birth to ptolemy philadelphus, her second son with antony.[ ][ ] antony's parthian campaign in bc turned into a complete debacle for a number of reasons, in particular the betrayal of artavasdes ii of armenia, who defected to the parthian side.[ ][ ][ ] after losing some , men, more than crassus at carrhae (an indignity he had hoped to avenge), antony finally arrived at leukokome near berytus (modern beirut, lebanon) in december, engaged in heavy drinking before cleopatra arrived to provide funds and clothing for his battered troops.[ ][ ] antony desired to avoid the risks involved in returning to rome, and so he traveled with cleopatra back to alexandria to see his newborn son.[ ] donations of alexandria main articles: donations of alexandria and reign of cleopatra a denarius minted by antony in bc with his portrait on the obverse, which bears the inscription reading "antonivs armenia devicta", alluding to his armenian campaign. the reverse features cleopatra, with the inscription "cleopatr[ae] reginae regvm filiorvm regvm". the mention of her children on the reverse refers to the donations of alexandria.[ ][ ] as antony prepared for another parthian expedition in bc, this time aimed at their ally armenia, octavia traveled to athens with , troops in alleged support of antony, but most likely in a scheme devised by octavian to embarrass him for his military losses.[ ][ ][note ] antony received these troops but told octavia not to stray east of athens as he and cleopatra traveled together to antioch, only to suddenly and inexplicably abandon the military campaign and head back to alexandria.[ ][ ] when octavia returned to rome octavian portrayed his sister as a victim wronged by antony, although she refused to leave antony's household.[ ][ ] octavian's confidence grew as he eliminated his rivals in the west, including sextus pompeius and even lepidus, the third member of the triumvirate, who was placed under house arrest after revolting against octavian in sicily.[ ][ ][ ] dellius was sent as antony's envoy to artavasdes ii in bc to negotiate a potential marriage alliance that would wed the armenian king's daughter to alexander helios, the son of antony and cleopatra.[ ][ ] when this was declined, antony marched his army into armenia, defeated their forces and captured the king and armenian royal family.[ ][ ] antony then held a military parade in alexandria as an imitation of a roman triumph, dressed as dionysus and riding into the city on a chariot to present the royal prisoners to cleopatra, who was seated on a golden throne above a silver dais.[ ][ ] news of this event was heavily criticized in rome as a perversion of time-honored roman rites and rituals to be enjoyed instead by an egyptian queen.[ ] a papyrus document dated february bc granting tax exemptions to a person in egypt and containing the signature of cleopatra written by an official, but with "γινέσθωι" (ginésthōi; lit. "make it happen"[ ][ ] or "so be it"[ ]) added in greek, likely by the queen's own hand[ ][ ][ ] in an event held at the gymnasium soon after the triumph, cleopatra dressed as isis and declared that she was the queen of kings with her son caesarion, king of kings, while alexander helios was declared king of armenia, media, and parthia, and two-year-old ptolemy philadelphos was declared king of syria and cilicia.[ ][ ][ ] cleopatra selene ii was bestowed with crete and cyrene.[ ][ ] antony and cleopatra may have been wed during this ceremony.[ ][ ][note ] antony sent a report to rome requesting ratification of these territorial claims, now known as the donations of alexandria. octavian wanted to publicize it for propaganda purposes, but the two consuls, both supporters of antony, had it censored from public view.[ ][ ] in late bc, antony and octavian engaged in a heated war of propaganda that would last for years.[ ][ ][ ][note ] antony claimed that his rival had illegally deposed lepidus from their triumvirate and barred him from raising troops in italy, while octavian accused antony of unlawfully detaining the king of armenia, marrying cleopatra despite still being married to his sister octavia, and wrongfully claiming caesarion as the heir of caesar instead of octavian.[ ][ ] the litany of accusations and gossip associated with this propaganda war have shaped the popular perceptions about cleopatra from augustan-period literature through to various media in modern times.[ ][ ] cleopatra was said to have brainwashed mark antony with witchcraft and sorcery and was as dangerous as homer's helen of troy in destroying civilization.[ ] pliny the elder claims in his natural history that cleopatra once dissolved a pearl worth tens of millions of sesterces in vinegar just to win a dinner-party bet.[ ][ ] the accusation that antony had stolen books from the library of pergamum to restock the library of alexandria later turned out to be an admitted fabrication by gaius calvisius sabinus.[ ] a papyrus document dated to february bc, later used to wrap a mummy, contains the signature of cleopatra, probably written by an official authorized to sign for her.[ ][ ] it concerns certain tax exemptions in egypt granted to either quintus caecillius or publius canidius crassus,[note ] a former roman consul and antony's confidant who would command his land forces at actium.[ ][ ] a subscript in a different handwriting at the bottom of the papyrus reads "make it happen"[ ][ ] or "so be it"[ ] (ancient greek: γινέσθωι, romanized: ginésthōi);[note ] this is likely the autograph of the queen, as it was ptolemaic practice to countersign documents to avoid forgery.[ ][ ] battle of actium main articles: battle of actium and reign of cleopatra a reconstructed statue of augustus as a younger octavian, dated c.  bc in a speech to the roman senate on the first day of his consulship on  january bc, octavian accused antony of attempting to subvert roman freedoms and territorial integrity as a slave to his oriental queen.[ ] before antony and octavian's joint imperium expired on december bc, antony declared caesarion as the true heir of caesar in an attempt to undermine octavian.[ ] in bc the antonian loyalists gaius sosius and gnaeus domitius ahenobarbus became consuls. the former gave a fiery speech condemning octavian, now a private citizen without public office, and introduced pieces of legislation against him.[ ][ ] during the next senatorial session, octavian entered the senate house with armed guards and levied his own accusations against the consuls.[ ][ ] intimidated by this act, the consuls and over senators still in support of antony fled rome the next day to join the side of antony.[ ][ ][ ] antony and cleopatra traveled together to ephesus in bc, where she provided him with of the naval ships he was able to acquire.[ ] ahenobarbus, wary of having octavian's propaganda confirmed to the public, attempted to persuade antony to have cleopatra excluded from the campaign against octavian.[ ][ ] publius canidius crassus made the counterargument that cleopatra was funding the war effort and was a competent monarch.[ ][ ] cleopatra refused antony's requests that she return to egypt, judging that by blocking octavian in greece she could more easily defend egypt.[ ][ ] cleopatra's insistence that she be involved in the battle for greece led to the defections of prominent romans, such as ahenobarbus and lucius munatius plancus.[ ][ ] during the spring of bc antony and cleopatra traveled to athens, where she persuaded antony to send octavia an official declaration of divorce.[ ][ ][ ] this encouraged plancus to advise octavian that he should seize antony's will, invested with the vestal virgins.[ ][ ][ ] although a violation of sacred and legal rights, octavian forcefully acquired the document from the temple of vesta, and it became a useful tool in the propaganda war against antony and cleopatra.[ ][ ] octavian highlighted parts of the will, such as caesarion being named heir to caesar, that the donations of alexandria were legal, that antony should be buried alongside cleopatra in egypt instead of rome, and that alexandria would be made the new capital of the roman republic.[ ][ ][ ] in a show of loyalty to rome, octavian decided to begin construction of his own mausoleum at the campus martius.[ ] octavian's legal standing was also improved by being elected consul in bc.[ ] with antony's will made public, octavian had his casus belli, and rome declared war on cleopatra,[ ][ ][ ] not antony.[note ] the legal argument for war was based less on cleopatra's territorial acquisitions, with former roman territories ruled by her children with antony, and more on the fact that she was providing military support to a private citizen now that antony's triumviral authority had expired.[ ] left: a silver tetradrachm of cleopatra minted at seleucia pieria, syria right: a silver tetradrachm of cleopatra minted at ascalon, israel antony and cleopatra had a larger fleet than octavian, but the crews of antony and cleopatra's navy were not all well-trained, some of them perhaps from merchant vessels, whereas octavian had a fully professional force.[ ][ ] antony wanted to cross the adriatic sea and blockade octavian at either tarentum or brundisium,[ ] but cleopatra, concerned primarily with defending egypt, overrode the decision to attack italy directly.[ ][ ] antony and cleopatra set up their winter headquarters at patrai in greece, and by the spring of bc they had moved to actium, on the southern side of the ambracian gulf.[ ][ ] cleopatra and antony had the support of various allied kings, but cleopatra had already been in conflict with herod, and an earthquake in judea provided him with an excuse to be absent from the campaign.[ ] they also lost the support of malichus i, which would prove to have strategic consequences.[ ] antony and cleopatra lost several skirmishes against octavian around actium during the summer of bc, while defections to octavian's camp continued, including antony's long-time companion dellius[ ] and the allied kings amyntas of galatia and deiotaros of paphlagonia.[ ] while some in antony's camp suggested abandoning the naval conflict to retreat inland, cleopatra urged for a naval confrontation, to keep octavian's fleet away from egypt.[ ] on september bc the naval forces of octavian, led by marcus vipsanius agrippa, met those of antony and cleopatra at the battle of actium.[ ][ ][ ] cleopatra, aboard her flagship, the antonias, commanded ships at the mouth of the ambracian gulf, at the rear of the fleet, in what was likely a move by antony's officers to marginalize her during the battle.[ ] antony had ordered that their ships should have sails on board for a better chance to pursue or flee from the enemy, which cleopatra, ever concerned about defending egypt, used to swiftly move through the area of major combat in a strategic withdrawal to the peloponnese.[ ][ ][ ] burstein writes that partisan roman writers would later accuse cleopatra of cowardly deserting antony, but their original intention of keeping their sails on board may have been to break the blockade and salvage as much of their fleet as possible.[ ] antony followed cleopatra and boarded her ship, identified by its distinctive purple sails, as the two escaped the battle and headed for tainaron.[ ] antony reportedly avoided cleopatra during this three-day voyage, until her ladies in waiting at tainaron urged him to speak with her.[ ] the battle of actium raged on without cleopatra and antony until the morning of  september, and was followed by massive defections of officers, troops, and allied kings to octavian's side.[ ][ ][ ] downfall and death main article: death of cleopatra further information: epaphroditus (freedman of augustus) and tomb of antony and cleopatra a roman painting from the house of giuseppe ii in pompeii, early st century ad, most likely depicting cleopatra, wearing her royal diadem and consuming poison in an act of suicide, while her son caesarion, also wearing a royal diadem, stands behind her[ ][ ] while octavian occupied athens, antony and cleopatra landed at paraitonion in egypt.[ ][ ] the couple then went their separate ways, antony to cyrene to raise more troops and cleopatra to the harbor at alexandria in a misleading attempt to portray the activities in greece as a victory.[ ] it is uncertain whether or not, at this time, she actually executed artavasdes ii and sent his head to his rival, artavasdes i of media atropatene, in an attempt to strike an alliance with him.[ ][ ] lucius pinarius, mark antony's appointed governor of cyrene, received word that octavian had won the battle of actium before antony's messengers could arrive at his court.[ ] pinarius had these messengers executed and then defected to octavian's side, surrendering to him the four legions under his command that antony desired to obtain.[ ] antony nearly committed suicide after hearing news of this but was stopped by his staff officers.[ ] in alexandria he built a reclusive cottage on the island of pharos that he nicknamed the timoneion, after the philosopher timon of athens, who was famous for his cynicism and misanthropy.[ ] herod, who had personally advised antony after the battle of actium that he should betray cleopatra, traveled to rhodes to meet octavian and resign his kingship out of loyalty to antony.[ ] octavian was impressed by his speech and sense of loyalty, so he allowed him to maintain his position in judea, further isolating antony and cleopatra.[ ] cleopatra perhaps started to view antony as a liability by the late summer of bc, when she prepared to leave egypt to her son caesarion.[ ] cleopatra planned to relinquish her throne to him, take her fleet from the mediterranean into the red sea, and then set sail to a foreign port, perhaps in india, where she could spend time recuperating.[ ][ ] however, these plans were ultimately abandoned when malichus i, as advised by octavian's governor of syria, quintus didius, managed to burn cleopatra's fleet in revenge for his losses in a war with herod that cleopatra had largely initiated.[ ][ ] cleopatra had no other option but to stay in egypt and negotiate with octavian.[ ] although most likely later pro-octavian propaganda, it was reported that at this time cleopatra started testing the strengths of various poisons on prisoners and even her own servants.[ ] the death of cleopatra ( ), by guido cagnacci cleopatra had caesarion enter into the ranks of the ephebi, which, along with reliefs on a stele from koptos dated september bc, demonstrated that cleopatra was now grooming her son to become the sole ruler of egypt.[ ] in a show of solidarity, antony also had marcus antonius antyllus, his son with fulvia, enter the ephebi at the same time.[ ] separate messages and envoys from antony and cleopatra were then sent to octavian, still stationed at rhodes, although octavian seems to have replied only to cleopatra.[ ] cleopatra requested that her children should inherit egypt and that antony should be allowed to live in exile in egypt, offered octavian money in the future, and immediately sent him lavish gifts.[ ][ ] octavian sent his diplomat thyrsos to cleopatra after she threatened to burn herself and vast amounts of her treasure within a tomb already under construction.[ ] thyrsos advised her to kill antony so that her life would be spared, but when antony suspected foul intent, he had this diplomat flogged and sent back to octavian without a deal.[ ] after lengthy negotiations that ultimately produced no results, octavian set out to invade egypt in the spring of bc,[ ] stopping at ptolemais in phoenicia, where his new ally herod provided his army with fresh supplies.[ ] octavian moved south and swiftly took pelousion, while cornelius gallus, marching eastward from cyrene, defeated antony's forces near paraitonion.[ ][ ] octavian advanced quickly to alexandria, but antony returned and won a small victory over octavian's tired troops outside the city's hippodrome.[ ][ ] however, on   august bc, antony's naval fleet surrendered to octavian, followed by antony's cavalry.[ ][ ][ ] cleopatra hid herself in her tomb with her close attendants and sent a message to antony that she had committed suicide.[ ][ ][ ] in despair, antony responded to this by stabbing himself in the stomach and taking his own life at age .[ ][ ][ ] according to plutarch, he was still dying when brought to cleopatra at her tomb, telling her he had died honorably and that she could trust octavian's companion gaius proculeius over anyone else in his entourage.[ ][ ][ ] it was proculeius, however, who infiltrated her tomb using a ladder and detained the queen, denying her the ability to burn herself with her treasures.[ ][ ] cleopatra was then allowed to embalm and bury antony within her tomb before she was escorted to the palace.[ ][ ] the death of cleopatra ( – ), by jean-baptiste regnault octavian entered alexandria, occupied the palace, and seized cleopatra's three youngest children.[ ][ ] when she met with octavian, cleopatra told him bluntly, "i will not be led in a triumph" (ancient greek: οὑ θριαμβεύσομαι, romanized: ou thriambéusomai), according to livy, a rare recording of her exact words.[ ][ ] octavian promised that he would keep her alive but offered no explanation about his future plans for her kingdom.[ ] when a spy informed her that octavian planned to move her and her children to rome in three days, she prepared for suicide as she had no intentions of being paraded in a roman triumph like her sister arsinoe iv.[ ][ ][ ] it is unclear if cleopatra's suicide in august bc, at age , took place within the palace or her tomb.[ ][ ][note ] it is said she was accompanied by her servants eiras and charmion, who also took their own lives.[ ][ ] octavian was said to have been angered by this outcome but had cleopatra buried in royal fashion next to antony in her tomb.[ ][ ][ ] cleopatra's physician olympos did not explain her cause of death, although the popular belief is that she allowed an asp or egyptian cobra to bite and poison her.[ ][ ][ ] plutarch relates this tale, but then suggests an implement (κνῆστις, knêstis, lit. 'spine, cheese-grater') was used to introduce the toxin by scratching, while dio says that she injected the poison with a needle (βελόνη, belónē), and strabo argued for an ointment of some kind.[ ][ ][ ][note ] no venomous snake was found with her body, but she did have tiny puncture wounds on her arm that could have been caused by a needle.[ ][ ][ ] cleopatra decided in her last moments to send caesarion away to upper egypt, perhaps with plans to flee to kushite nubia, ethiopia, or india.[ ][ ][ ] caesarion, now ptolemy xv, would reign for a mere days until executed on the orders of octavian on august bc, after returning to alexandria under the false pretense that octavian would allow him to be king.[ ][ ][ ][note ] octavian was convinced by the advice of the philosopher arius didymus that there was room for only one caesar in the world.[ ][note ] with the fall of the ptolemaic kingdom, the roman province of egypt was established,[ ][ ][ ][note ] marking the end of the hellenistic period.[ ][ ][note ] in january bc octavian was renamed augustus ("the revered") and amassed constitutional powers that established him as the first roman emperor, inaugurating the principate era of the roman empire.[ ] cleopatra's kingdom and role as a monarch main article: reign of cleopatra § egypt under the monarchy of cleopatra further information: ptolemaic coinage and ancient greek coinage cleopatra on a coin of drachms from – bc, minted at alexandria; on the obverse is a portrait of cleopatra wearing a diadem, and on the reverse an inscription reading "ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΗΣ ΚΛΕΟΠΑΤΡΑΣ" with an eagle standing on a thunderbolt. following the tradition of macedonian rulers, cleopatra ruled egypt and other territories such as cyprus as an absolute monarch, serving as the sole lawgiver of her kingdom.[ ] she was the chief religious authority in her realm, presiding over religious ceremonies dedicated to the deities of both the egyptian and greek polytheistic faiths.[ ] she oversaw the construction of various temples to egyptian and greek gods,[ ] a synagogue for the jews in egypt, and even built the caesareum of alexandria, dedicated to the cult worship of her patron and lover julius caesar.[ ][ ] cleopatra was directly involved in the administrative affairs of her domain,[ ] tackling crises such as famine by ordering royal granaries to distribute food to the starving populace during a drought at the beginning of her reign.[ ] although the command economy that she managed was more of an ideal than a reality,[ ] the government attempted to impose price controls, tariffs, and state monopolies for certain goods, fixed exchange rates for foreign currencies, and rigid laws forcing peasant farmers to stay in their villages during planting and harvesting seasons.[ ][ ][ ] apparent financial troubles led cleopatra to debase her coinage, which included silver and bronze currencies but no gold coins like those of some of her distant ptolemaic predecessors.[ ] legacy children and successors left: a roman head of either cleopatra or her daughter cleopatra selene ii, queen of mauretania, from the late st century bc, located in the archaeological museum of cherchell, algeria[ ][ ][ ][note ] right: a likely depiction of cleopatra selene ii, wearing an elephant skin cap, raised relief image on a gilded silver dish from the boscoreale treasure, dated to the early st century ad[ ][ ][note ] after her suicide, cleopatra's three surviving children, cleopatra selene ii, alexander helios, and ptolemy philadelphos, were sent to rome with octavian's sister octavia the younger, a former wife of their father, as their guardian.[ ][ ] cleopatra selene ii and alexander helios were present in the roman triumph of octavian in bc.[ ][ ] the fates of alexander helios and ptolemy philadelphus are unknown after this point.[ ][ ] octavia arranged the betrothal of cleopatra selene ii to juba ii, son of juba i, whose north african kingdom of numidia had been turned into a roman province in bc by julius caesar due to juba i's support of pompey.[ ][ ][ ] the emperor augustus installed juba ii and cleopatra selene ii, after their wedding in bc, as the new rulers of mauretania, where they transformed the old carthaginian city of iol into their new capital, renamed caesarea mauretaniae (modern cherchell, algeria).[ ][ ] cleopatra selene ii imported many important scholars, artists, and advisers from her mother's royal court in alexandria to serve her in caesarea, now permeated in hellenistic greek culture.[ ] she also named her son ptolemy of mauretania, in honor of their ptolemaic dynastic heritage.[ ][ ] cleopatra selene ii died around bc, and when juba ii died in / ad he was succeeded by his son ptolemy.[ ][ ] however, ptolemy was eventually executed by the roman emperor caligula in ad, perhaps under the pretense that ptolemy had unlawfully minted his own royal coinage and utilized regalia reserved for the roman emperor.[ ][ ] ptolemy of mauretania was the last known monarch of the ptolemaic dynasty, although queen zenobia, of the short-lived palmyrene empire during the crisis of the third century, would claim descent from cleopatra.[ ][ ] a cult dedicated to cleopatra still existed as late as ad when petesenufe, an egyptian scribe of the book of isis, explained that he "overlaid the figure of cleopatra with gold."[ ] roman literature and historiography further information: roman historiography, greek historiography, latin literature, and latin poetry cleopatra testing poisons on condemned prisoners ( ), by alexandre cabanel[ ] although almost ancient works of roman historiography mention cleopatra, these often include only terse accounts of the battle of actium, her suicide, and augustan propaganda about her personal deficiencies.[ ] despite not being a biography of cleopatra, the life of antonius written by plutarch in the st century ad provides the most thorough surviving account of cleopatra's life.[ ][ ][ ] plutarch lived a century after cleopatra but relied on primary sources, such as philotas of amphissa, who had access to the ptolemaic royal palace, cleopatra's personal physician named olympos, and quintus dellius, a close confidant of mark antony and cleopatra.[ ] plutarch's work included both the augustan view of cleopatra—which became canonical for his period—as well as sources outside of this tradition, such as eyewitness reports.[ ][ ] the jewish roman historian josephus, writing in the st century ad, provides valuable information on the life of cleopatra via her diplomatic relationship with herod the great.[ ][ ] however, this work relies largely on herod's memoirs and the biased account of nicolaus of damascus, the tutor of cleopatra's children in alexandria before he moved to judea to serve as an adviser and chronicler at herod's court.[ ][ ] the roman history published by the official and historian cassius dio in the early rd century ad, while failing to fully comprehend the complexities of the late hellenistic world, nevertheless provides a continuous history of the era of cleopatra's reign.[ ] a restructured marble roman statue of cleopatra wearing a diadem and 'melon' hairstyle similar to coinage portraits, found along the via cassia near the tomba di nerone [it], rome, and now located in the museo pio-clementino[ ][ ][ ] cleopatra is barely mentioned in de bello alexandrino, the memoirs of an unknown staff officer who served under caesar.[ ][ ][ ][note ] the writings of cicero, who knew her personally, provide an unflattering portrait of cleopatra.[ ] the augustan-period authors virgil, horace, propertius, and ovid perpetuated the negative views of cleopatra approved by the ruling roman regime,[ ][ ] although virgil established the idea of cleopatra as a figure of romance and epic melodrama.[ ][note ] horace also viewed cleopatra's suicide as a positive choice,[ ][ ] an idea that found acceptance by the late middle ages with geoffrey chaucer.[ ][ ] the historians strabo, velleius, valerius maximus, pliny the elder, and appian, while not offering accounts as full as plutarch, josephus, or dio, provided some details of her life that had not survived in other historical records.[ ][note ] inscriptions on contemporary ptolemaic coinage and some egyptian papyrus documents demonstrate cleopatra's point of view, but this material is very limited in comparison to roman literary works.[ ][ ][note ] the fragmentary libyka commissioned by cleopatra's son-in-law juba ii provides a glimpse at a possible body of historiographic material that supported cleopatra's perspective.[ ] cleopatra's gender has perhaps led to her depiction as a minor if not insignificant figure in ancient, medieval, and even modern historiography about ancient egypt and the greco-roman world.[ ] for instance, the historian ronald syme asserted that she was of little importance to caesar and that the propaganda of octavian magnified her importance to an excessive degree.[ ] although the common view of cleopatra was one of a prolific seductress, she had only two known sexual partners, caesar and antony, the two most prominent romans of the time period, who were most likely to ensure the survival of her dynasty.[ ][ ] plutarch described cleopatra as having had a stronger personality and charming wit than physical beauty.[ ][ ][ ][note ] cultural depictions further information: list of cultural depictions of cleopatra depictions in ancient art further information: hellenistic art, art of ancient egypt, and death of cleopatra § depictions in art and literature statues further information: roman portraiture, roman sculpture, esquiline venus, and sleeping ariadne left: an egyptian statue of either arsinoe ii or cleopatra as an egyptian goddess in black basalt from the second half of the st century bc,[ ] located in the hermitage museum, saint petersburg right: the esquiline venus, a roman or hellenistic-egyptian statue of venus (aphrodite) that may be a depiction of cleopatra,[ ] located in the capitoline museums, rome cleopatra was depicted in various ancient works of art, in the egyptian as well as hellenistic-greek and roman styles.[ ] surviving works include statues, busts, reliefs, and minted coins,[ ][ ] as well as ancient carved cameos,[ ] such as one depicting cleopatra and antony in hellenistic style, now in the altes museum, berlin.[ ] contemporary images of cleopatra were produced both in and outside of ptolemaic egypt. for instance, a large gilded bronze statue of cleopatra once existed inside the temple of venus genetrix in rome, the first time that a living person had their statue placed next to that of a deity in a roman temple.[ ][ ][ ] it was erected there by caesar and remained in the temple at least until the rd century ad, its preservation perhaps owing to caesar's patronage, although augustus did not remove or destroy artworks in alexandria depicting cleopatra.[ ][ ] in regards to surviving roman statuary, a life-sized roman-style statue of cleopatra was found near the tomba di nerone [it], rome, along the via cassia and is now housed in the museo pio-clementino, part of the vatican museums.[ ][ ][ ] plutarch, in his life of antonius, claimed that the public statues of antony were torn down by augustus, but those of cleopatra were preserved following her death thanks to her friend archibius paying the emperor , talents to dissuade him from destroying hers.[ ][ ][ ] since the s scholars have debated whether or not the esquiline venus—discovered in on the esquiline hill in rome and housed in the palazzo dei conservatori of the capitoline museums—is a depiction of cleopatra, based on the statue's hairstyle and facial features, apparent royal diadem worn over the head, and the uraeus egyptian cobra wrapped around the base.[ ][ ][ ] detractors of this theory argue that the face in this statue is thinner than the face on the berlin portrait and assert that it was unlikely she would be depicted as the naked goddess venus (or the greek aphrodite).[ ][ ][ ] however, she was depicted in an egyptian statue as the goddess isis,[ ] while some of her coinage depicts her as venus-aphrodite.[ ][ ] she also dressed as aphrodite when meeting antony at tarsos.[ ] the esquiline venus is generally thought to be a mid- st-century ad roman copy of a st-century bc greek original from the school of pasiteles.[ ] coinage portraits further information: ptolemaic coinage, roman currency, and ancient greek coinage cleopatra and mark antony on the obverse and reverse, respectively, of a silver tetradrachm struck at the antioch mint in bc, with greek legends: baciΛΙcca kΛΕΟΠΑΤΡΑ ΘΕΑ ΝΕΩΤΕΡΑ, antΩnioc aytokpatΩp tpiton tpiΩn anΔpΩn. surviving coinage of cleopatra's reign include specimens from every regnal year, from to bc.[ ] cleopatra, the only ptolemaic queen to issue coins on her own behalf, almost certainly inspired her partner caesar to become the first living roman to present his portrait on his own coins.[ ][note ] cleopatra was also the first foreign queen to have her image appear on roman currency.[ ] coins dated to the period of her marriage to antony, which also bear his image, portray the queen as having a very similar aquiline nose and prominent chin as that of her husband.[ ][ ] these similar facial features followed an artistic convention that represented the mutually-observed harmony of a royal couple.[ ][ ] her strong, almost masculine facial features in these particular coins are strikingly different from the smoother, softer, and perhaps idealized sculpted images of her in either the egyptian or hellenistic styles.[ ][ ][ ] her masculine facial features on minted currency are similar to that of her father, ptolemy xii auletes,[ ][ ] and perhaps also to those of her ptolemaic ancestor arsinoe ii ( – bc)[ ][ ] and even depictions of earlier queens such as hatshepsut and nefertiti.[ ] it is likely, due to political expediency, that antony's visage was made to conform not only to hers but also to those of her macedonian greek ancestors who founded the ptolemaic dynasty, to familiarize himself to her subjects as a legitimate member of the royal house.[ ] the inscriptions on the coins are written in greek, but also in the nominative case of roman coins rather than the genitive case of greek coins, in addition to having the letters placed in a circular fashion along the edges of the coin instead of across it horizontally or vertically as was customary for greek ones.[ ] these facets of their coinage represent the synthesis of roman and hellenistic culture, and perhaps also a statement to their subjects, however ambiguous to modern scholars, about the superiority of either antony or cleopatra over the other.[ ] diana kleiner argues that cleopatra, in one of her coins minted with the dual image of her husband antony, made herself more masculine-looking than other portraits and more like an acceptable roman client queen than a hellenistic ruler.[ ] cleopatra had actually achieved this masculine look in coinage predating her affair with antony, such as the coins struck at the ashkelon mint during her brief period of exile to syria and the levant, which joann fletcher explains as her attempt to appear like her father and as a legitimate successor to a male ptolemaic ruler.[ ][ ] various coins, such as a silver tetradrachm minted sometime after cleopatra's marriage with antony in bc, depict her wearing a royal diadem and a 'melon' hairstyle.[ ][ ] the combination of this hairstyle with a diadem is also featured in two surviving sculpted marble heads.[ ][ ][ ][note ] this hairstyle, with hair braided back into a bun, is the same as that worn by her ptolemaic ancestors arsinoe ii and berenice ii in their own coinage.[ ][ ] after her visit to rome in – bc it became fashionable for roman women to adopt it as one of their hairstyles, but it was abandoned for a more modest, austere look during the conservative rule of augustus.[ ][ ][ ] greco-roman busts and heads an ancient roman portrait head, c.  – bc, now located in the british museum, london, that depicts a woman from ptolemaic egypt, either queen cleopatra or a member of her entourage during her – bc visit to rome with her lover julius caesar[ ] of the surviving greco-roman-style busts and heads of cleopatra,[note ] the sculpture known as the "berlin cleopatra", located in the antikensammlung berlin collection at the altes museum, possesses her full nose, whereas the head known as the "vatican cleopatra", located in the vatican museums, is damaged with a missing nose.[ ][ ][ ][note ] both the berlin cleopatra and vatican cleopatra have royal diadems, similar facial features, and perhaps once resembled the face of her bronze statue housed in the temple of venus genetrix.[ ][ ][ ][note ] both heads are dated to the mid- st century bc and were found in roman villas along the via appia in italy, the vatican cleopatra having been unearthed in the villa of the quintilii.[ ][ ][ ][note ] francisco pina polo writes that cleopatra's coinage present her image with certainty and asserts that the sculpted portrait of the berlin head is confirmed as having a similar profile with her hair pulled back into a bun, a diadem, and a hooked nose.[ ] a third sculpted portrait of cleopatra accepted by scholars as being authentic survives at the archaeological museum of cherchell, algeria.[ ][ ][ ] this portrait features the royal diadem and similar facial features as the berlin and vatican heads, but has a more unique hairstyle and may actually depict cleopatra selene ii, daughter of cleopatra.[ ][ ][ ][note ] a possible parian-marble sculpture of cleopatra wearing a vulture headdress in egyptian style is located at the capitoline museums.[ ] discovered near a sanctuary of isis in rome and dated to the st century bc, it is either roman or hellenistic-egyptian in origin.[ ] other possible sculpted depictions of cleopatra include one in the british museum, london, made of limestone, which perhaps only depicts a woman in her entourage during her trip to rome.[ ][ ] the woman in this portrait has facial features similar to others (including the pronounced aquiline nose), but lacks a royal diadem and sports a different hairstyle.[ ][ ] however, the british museum head, once belonging to a full statue, could potentially represent cleopatra at a different stage in her life and may also betray an effort by cleopatra to discard the use of royal insignia (i.e. the diadem) to make herself more appealing to the citizens of republican rome.[ ] duane w. roller speculates that the british museum head, along with those in the egyptian museum, cairo, the capitoline museums, and in the private collection of maurice nahmen, while having similar facial features and hairstyles as the berlin portrait but lacking a royal diadem, most likely represent members of the royal court or even roman women imitating cleopatra's popular hairstyle.[ ] 	 			 			 cleopatra, mid- st century bc, with a "melon" hairstyle and hellenistic royal diadem worn over her head, now in the vatican museums[ ][ ][ ] 			 		 	 			 			 profile view of the vatican cleopatra 			 		 	 			 			 cleopatra, mid- st century bc, showing cleopatra with a "melon" hairstyle and hellenistic royal diadem worn over the head, now in the altes museum[ ][ ][ ] 			 		 	 			 			 profile view of the berlin cleopatra 			 		 paintings a roman second style painting in the house of marcus fabius rufus at pompeii, italy, depicting cleopatra as venus genetrix and her son caesarion as a cupid, mid- st century bc[ ][ ] in the house of marcus fabius rufus at pompeii, italy, a mid- st century bc second style wall painting of the goddess venus holding a cupid near massive temple doors is most likely a depiction of cleopatra as venus genetrix with her son caesarion.[ ][ ] the commission of the painting most likely coincides with the erection of the temple of venus genetrix in the forum of caesar in september bc, where caesar had a gilded statue erected depicting cleopatra.[ ][ ] this statue likely formed the basis of her depictions in both sculpted art as well as this painting at pompeii.[ ][ ] the woman in the painting wears a royal diadem over her head and is strikingly similar in appearance to the vatican cleopatra, which bears possible marks on the marble of its left cheek where a cupid's arm may have been torn off.[ ][ ][ ][note ] the room with the painting was walled off by its owner, perhaps in reaction to the execution of caesarion in bc by order of octavian, when public depictions of cleopatra's son would have been unfavorable with the new roman regime.[ ][ ] behind her golden diadem, crowned with a red jewel, is a translucent veil with crinkles that suggest the "melon" hairstyle favored by the queen.[ ][note ] her ivory-white skin, round face, long aquiline nose, and large round eyes were features common in both roman and ptolemaic depictions of deities.[ ] roller affirms that "there seems little doubt that this is a depiction of cleopatra and caesarion before the doors of the temple of venus in the forum julium and, as such, it becomes the only extant contemporary painting of the queen."[ ] a steel engraving published by john sartain in (left) depicting the now lost painted death portrait of cleopatra, an encaustic painting discovered in in the ancient roman ruins of the egyptian temple of serapis at hadrian's villa in tivoli, lazio;[ ] she is seen here wearing the knotted garment of isis (corresponding with plutarch's description of her wearing the robes of isis),[ ] as well as the radiant crown of the ptolemaic rulers such as ptolemy v (pictured to the right in a golden octodrachm minted in – bc).[ ] another painting from pompeii, dated to the early st century ad and located in the house of giuseppe ii, contains a possible depiction of cleopatra with her son caesarion, both wearing royal diadems while she reclines and consumes poison in an act of suicide.[ ][ ][note ] the painting was originally thought to depict the carthaginian noblewoman sophonisba, who toward the end of the second punic war ( – bc) drank poison and committed suicide at the behest of her lover masinissa, king of numidia.[ ] arguments in favor of it depicting cleopatra include the strong connection of her house with that of the numidian royal family, masinissa and ptolemy viii physcon having been associates, and cleopatra's own daughter marrying the numidian prince juba ii.[ ] sophonisba was also a more obscure figure when the painting was made, while cleopatra's suicide was far more famous.[ ] an asp is absent from the painting, but many romans held the view that she received poison in another manner than a venomous snakebite.[ ] a set of double doors on the rear wall of the painting, positioned very high above the people in it, suggests the described layout of cleopatra's tomb in alexandria.[ ] a male servant holds the mouth of an artificial egyptian crocodile (possibly an elaborate tray handle), while another man standing by is dressed as a roman.[ ] in a now lost encaustic painting was discovered in the temple of serapis at hadrian's villa, near tivoli, lazio, italy, that depicted cleopatra committing suicide with an asp biting her bare chest.[ ] a chemical analysis performed in confirmed that the medium for the painting was composed of one-third wax and two-thirds resin.[ ] the thickness of the painting over cleopatra's bare flesh and her drapery were reportedly similar to the paintings of the fayum mummy portraits.[ ] a steel engraving published by john sartain in depicting the painting as described in the archaeological report shows cleopatra wearing authentic clothing and jewelry of egypt in the late hellenistic period,[ ] as well as the radiant crown of the ptolemaic rulers, as seen in their portraits on various coins minted during their respective reigns.[ ] after cleopatra's suicide, octavian commissioned a painting to be made depicting her being bitten by a snake, parading this image in her stead during his triumphal procession in rome.[ ][ ][ ] the portrait painting of cleopatra's death was perhaps among the great number of artworks and treasures taken from rome by emperor hadrian to decorate his private villa, where it was found in an egyptian temple.[ ][note ] ancient roman fresco in the pompeian third style possibly depicting cleopatra, from the house of the orchard at pompeii, italy, mid- st century ad[ ] a roman panel painting from herculaneum, italy, dated to the st century ad possibly depicts cleopatra.[ ][ ] in it she wears a royal diadem, red or reddish-brown hair pulled back into a bun,[note ] pearl-studded hairpins,[ ] and earrings with ball-shaped pendants, the white skin of her face and neck set against a stark black background.[ ] her hair and facial features are similar to those in the sculpted berlin and vatican portraits as well as her coinage.[ ] a highly similar painted bust of a woman with a blue headband in the house of the orchard at pompeii features egyptian-style imagery, such as a greek-style sphinx, and may have been created by the same artist.[ ] portland vase further information: portland vase a possible depiction of mark antony being lured by cleopatra, straddling a serpent, while anton, antony's alleged ancestor, looks on and eros flies above[ ][ ] the portland vase, a roman cameo glass vase dated to the augustan period and now in the british museum, includes a possible depiction of cleopatra with antony.[ ][ ] in this interpretation, cleopatra can be seen grasping antony and drawing him toward her while a serpent (i.e. the asp) rises between her legs, eros floats above, and anton, the alleged ancestor of the antonian family, looks on in despair as his descendant antony is led to his doom.[ ][ ] the other side of the vase perhaps contains a scene of octavia, abandoned by her husband antony but watched over by her brother, the emperor augustus.[ ][ ] the vase would thus have been created no earlier than bc, when antony sent his wife octavia back to italy and stayed with cleopatra in alexandria.[ ] native egyptian art further information: portraiture in ancient egypt and reign of cleopatra § egypt under the monarchy of cleopatra cleopatra and her son caesarion at the temple of dendera the bust of cleopatra in the royal ontario museum represents a bust of cleopatra in the egyptian style.[ ] dated to the mid- st century bc, it is perhaps the earliest depiction of cleopatra as both a goddess and ruling pharaoh of egypt.[ ] the sculpture also has pronounced eyes that share similarities with roman copies of ptolemaic sculpted works of art.[ ] the dendera temple complex, near dendera, egypt, contains egyptian-style carved relief images along the exterior walls of the temple of hathor depicting cleopatra and her young son caesarion as a grown adult and ruling pharaoh making offerings to the gods.[ ][ ] augustus had his name inscribed there following the death of cleopatra.[ ][ ] a large ptolemaic black basalt statue measuring centimetres (  in) in height, now in the hermitage museum, saint petersburg, is thought to represent arsinoe ii, wife of ptolemy ii, but recent analysis has indicated that it could depict her descendant cleopatra due to the three uraei adorning her headdress, an increase from the two used by arsinoe ii to symbolize her rule over lower and upper egypt.[ ][ ][ ] the woman in the basalt statue also holds a divided, double cornucopia (dikeras), which can be seen on coins of both arsinoe ii and cleopatra.[ ][ ] in his kleopatra und die caesaren ( ), bernard andreae [de] contends that this basalt statue, like other idealized egyptian portraits of the queen, does not contain realistic facial features and hence adds little to the knowledge of her appearance.[ ][note ] adrian goldsworthy writes that, despite these representations in the traditional egyptian style, cleopatra would have dressed as a native only "perhaps for certain rites" and instead would usually dress as a greek monarch, which would include the greek headband seen in her greco-roman busts.[ ] medieval and early modern reception further information: medieval art, medieval literature, renaissance art, renaissance literature, and early modern literature the banquet of cleopatra ( ), by giovanni battista tiepolo, now in the national gallery of victoria, melbourne[ ] in modern times cleopatra has become an icon of popular culture,[ ] a reputation shaped by theatrical representations dating back to the renaissance as well as paintings and films.[ ] this material largely surpasses the scope and size of existent historiographic literature about her from classical antiquity and has made a greater impact on the general public's view of cleopatra than the latter.[ ] the th-century english poet geoffrey chaucer, in the legend of good women, contextualized cleopatra for the christian world of the middle ages.[ ] his depiction of cleopatra and antony, her shining knight engaged in courtly love, has been interpreted in modern times as being either playful or misogynistic satire.[ ] however, chaucer highlighted cleopatra's relationships with only two men as hardly the life of a seductress and wrote his works partly in reaction to the negative depiction of cleopatra in de mulieribus claris and de casibus virorum illustrium, latin works by the th-century italian poet giovanni boccaccio.[ ][ ] the renaissance humanist bernardino cacciante [it], in his libretto apologetico delle donne, was the first italian to defend the reputation of cleopatra and criticize the perceived moralizing and misogyny in boccaccio's works.[ ] works of islamic historiography written in arabic covered the reign of cleopatra, such as the th-century meadows of gold by al-masudi,[ ] although his work erroneously claimed that octavian died soon after cleopatra's suicide.[ ] cleopatra appeared in miniatures for illuminated manuscripts, such as a depiction of her and antony lying in a gothic-style tomb by the boucicaut master in .[ ] in the visual arts, the sculpted depiction of cleopatra as a free-standing nude figure committing suicide began with the th-century sculptors bartolommeo bandinelli and alessandro vittoria.[ ] early prints depicting cleopatra include designs by the renaissance artists raphael and michelangelo, as well as th-century woodcuts in illustrated editions of boccaccio's works.[ ] in the performing arts, the death of elizabeth i of england in , and the german publication in of alleged letters of cleopatra, inspired samuel daniel to alter and republish his play cleopatra in .[ ] he was followed by william shakespeare, whose antony and cleopatra, largely based on plutarch, was first performed in and provided a somewhat salacious view of cleopatra in stark contrast to england's own virgin queen.[ ] cleopatra was also featured in operas, such as george frideric handel's giulio cesare in egitto, which portrayed the love affair of caesar and cleopatra.[ ] modern depictions and brand imaging further information: list of cultural depictions of cleopatra, history of modern literature, and egyptomania the triumph of cleopatra ( ), by william etty, now in the lady lever art gallery, port sunlight, england in victorian britain, cleopatra was highly associated with many aspects of ancient egyptian culture and her image was used to market various household products, including oil lamps, lithographs, postcards and cigarettes.[ ] fictional novels such as h. rider haggard's cleopatra ( ) and théophile gautier's one of cleopatra's nights ( ) depicted the queen as a sensual and mystic easterner, while the egyptologist georg ebers's cleopatra ( ) was more grounded in historical accuracy.[ ][ ] the french dramatist victorien sardou and irish playwright george bernard shaw produced plays about cleopatra, while burlesque shows such as f. c. burnand's antony and cleopatra offered satirical depictions of the queen connecting her and the environment she lived in with the modern age.[ ] shakespeare's antony and cleopatra was considered canonical by the victorian era.[ ] its popularity led to the perception that the painting by lawrence alma-tadema depicted the meeting of antony and cleopatra on her pleasure barge in tarsus, although alma-tadema revealed in a private letter that it depicts a subsequent meeting of theirs in alexandria.[ ] in his unfinished short story the egyptian nights, alexander pushkin popularized the claims of the th-century roman historian aurelius victor, previously largely ignored, that cleopatra had prostituted herself to men who paid for sex with their lives.[ ][ ] cleopatra also became appreciated outside the western world and middle east, as the qing-dynasty chinese scholar yan fu wrote an extensive biography of her.[ ] georges méliès's robbing cleopatra's tomb (french: cléopâtre), an french silent horror film, was the first film to depict the character of cleopatra.[ ] hollywood films of the th century were influenced by earlier victorian media, which helped to shape the character of cleopatra played by theda bara in cleopatra ( ), claudette colbert in cleopatra ( ), and elizabeth taylor in cleopatra ( ).[ ] in addition to her portrayal as a "vampire" queen, bara's cleopatra also incorporated tropes familiar from th-century orientalist painting, such as despotic behavior, mixed with dangerous and overt female sexuality.[ ] colbert's character of cleopatra served as a glamour model for selling egyptian-themed products in department stores in the s, targeting female moviegoers.[ ] in preparation for the film starring taylor as cleopatra, women's magazines of the early s advertised how to use makeup, clothes, jewelry, and hairstyles to achieve the "egyptian" look similar to the queens cleopatra and nefertiti.[ ] by the end of the th century there were forty-three separate films, two hundred plays and novels, forty-five operas, and five ballets associated with cleopatra.[ ] written works further information: ancient greek literature and ancient egyptian literature whereas myths about cleopatra persist in popular media, important aspects of her career go largely unnoticed, such as her command of naval forces, administrative acts, and publications on ancient greek medicine.[ ] only fragments exist of the medical and cosmetic writings attributed to cleopatra, such as those preserved by galen, including remedies for hair disease, baldness, and dandruff, along with a list of weights and measures for pharmacological purposes.[ ][ ][ ] aëtius of amida attributed a recipe for perfumed soap to cleopatra, while paul of aegina preserved alleged instructions of hers for dyeing and curling hair.[ ] the attribution of certain texts to cleopatra, however, is doubted by ingrid d. rowland, who highlights that the "berenice called cleopatra" cited by the rd- or th-century female roman physician metrodora was likely conflated by medieval scholars as referring to cleopatra.[ ] ancestry see also: cleopatra race controversy left: a hellenistic bust of ptolemy i soter, now in the louvre, paris right: a bust of seleucus i nicator, a roman copy of a greek original, from the villa of the papyri, herculaneum, and now in the national archaeological museum, naples cleopatra belonged to the macedonian greek dynasty of the ptolemies,[ ][ ][ ][note ] their european origins tracing back to northern greece.[ ] through her father, ptolemy xii auletes, she was a descendant of two prominent companions of alexander the great of macedon: the general ptolemy i soter, founder of the ptolemaic kingdom of egypt, and seleucus i nicator, the macedonian greek founder of the seleucid empire of west asia.[ ][ ][ ][note ] while cleopatra's paternal line can be traced, the identity of her mother is unknown.[ ][ ][ ][note ] she was presumably the daughter of cleopatra vi tryphaena (also known as cleopatra v tryphaena),[note ] the sister-wife of ptolemy xii who had previously given birth to their daughter berenice iv.[ ][ ][ ][note ] cleopatra i syra was the only member of the ptolemaic dynasty known for certain to have introduced some non-greek ancestry. her mother laodice iii was a daughter born to king mithridates ii of pontus, a persian of the mithridatic dynasty, and his wife laodice who had a mixed greek-persian heritage.[ ] laodice iii's father antiochus iii the great was a descendant of queen apama, the sogdian iranian wife of seleucus i nicator.[ ][ ][ ][note ] it is generally believed that the ptolemies did not intermarry with native egyptians.[ ][ ][note ] michael grant asserts that there is only one known egyptian mistress of a ptolemy and no known egyptian wife of a ptolemy, further arguing that cleopatra probably did not have any egyptian ancestry and "would have described herself as greek."[ ][note ] stacy schiff writes that cleopatra was a macedonian greek with some persian ancestry, arguing that it was rare for the ptolemies to have an egyptian mistress.[ ][note ] duane w. roller speculates that cleopatra could have been the daughter of a theoretical half-macedonian-greek, half-egyptian woman from memphis in northern egypt belonging to a family of priests dedicated to ptah (a hypothesis not generally accepted in scholarship),[note ] but contends that whatever cleopatra's ancestry, she valued her greek ptolemaic heritage the most.[ ][note ] ernle bradford writes that cleopatra challenged rome not as an egyptian woman "but as a civilized greek."[ ] claims that cleopatra was an illegitimate child never appeared in roman propaganda against her.[ ][ ][note ] strabo was the only ancient historian who claimed that ptolemy xii's children born after berenice iv, including cleopatra, were illegitimate.[ ][ ][ ] cleopatra v (or vi) was expelled from the court of ptolemy xii in late bc, a few months after the birth of cleopatra, while ptolemy xii's three younger children were all born during the absence of his wife.[ ] the high degree of inbreeding among the ptolemies is also illustrated by cleopatra's immediate ancestry, of which a reconstruction is shown below.[note ] the family tree given below also lists cleopatra v, ptolemy xii's wife, as a daughter of ptolemy x alexander i and berenice iii, which would make her a cousin of her husband, ptolemy xii, but she could have been a daughter of ptolemy ix lathyros, which would have made her a sister-wife of ptolemy xii instead.[ ][ ] the confused accounts in ancient primary sources have also led scholars to number ptolemy xii's wife as either cleopatra v or cleopatra vi; the latter may have actually been a daughter of ptolemy xii, and some use her as an indication that cleopatra v had died in bc rather than reappearing as a co-ruler with berenice iv in bc (during ptolemy xii's exile in rome).[ ][ ] 			ptolemy v epiphanes		cleopatra i syra 		 													 										 						ptolemy vi philometor		cleopatra ii 		 											 		ptolemy viii physcon			cleopatra iii 			 																 														 				cleopatra selene of syria		ptolemy ix lathyros		cleopatra iv 		 																				 											 	ptolemy x alexander i		berenice iii						 		 															 							 			cleopatra v tryphaena				ptolemy xii auletes 			 													 						 									cleopatra vii see also 	biography portal 	history portal 	ancient egypt portal 	ancient rome portal 	ancient greece portal 	list of female hereditary rulers notes 	^ for further validation about the berlin cleopatra, see pina polo ( , pp.  – ), roller ( , pp.  , – ), jones ( , p.  ), and hölbl ( , p.  ). 	^ a b c d theodore cressy skeat, in skeat ( , pp.  – ), uses historical data to calculate the death of cleopatra as having occurred on august bc. burstein ( , p.  ) provides the same date as skeat, while dodson & hilton ( , p.  ) tepidly supports this, saying it occurred circa that date. those in favor of claiming her death occurred on august bc include roller ( , pp.  – ), fletcher ( , p.  ), and anderson ( , p.  ). 	^ a b roller ( , p.  ) and skeat ( , pp.  – ) explain the nominal short-lived reign of caesarion as lasting days in august bc. however, duane w. roller, relaying theodore cressy skeat, affirms that caesarion's reign "was essentially a fiction created by egyptian chronographers to close the gap between [cleopatra's] death and official roman control of egypt (under the new pharaoh, octavian)", citing, for instance, the stromata by clement of alexandria (roller , pp.  , , footnote ). plutarch, translated by jones ( , p.  ), wrote in vague terms that "octavian had caesarion killed later, after cleopatra's death." 	^ a b c grant ( , pp.  – , ), fletcher ( , pp.  , , ), jones ( , p. xiii), preston ( , p.  ), schiff ( , p.  ) and burstein ( , p.  ) label the wife of ptolemy xii auletes as cleopatra v tryphaena, while dodson & hilton ( , pp.  – , ) and roller ( , p.  ) call her cleopatra vi tryphaena, due to the confusion in primary sources conflating these two figures, who may have been one and the same. as explained by whitehorne ( , p.  ), cleopatra vi may have actually been a daughter of ptolemy xii who appeared in bc to rule jointly with her alleged sister berenice iv (while ptolemy xii was exiled and living in rome), whereas ptolemy xii's wife cleopatra v perhaps died as early as the winter of – bc, when she disappears from historical records. roller ( , pp.  – ) assumes that ptolemy xii's wife, who he numbers as cleopatra vi, was merely absent from the court for a decade after being expelled for an unknown reason, eventually ruling jointly with her daughter berenice iv. fletcher ( , p.  ) explains that the alexandrians deposed ptolemy xii and installed "his eldest daughter, berenike iv, and as co-ruler recalled cleopatra v tryphaena from years' exile from the court. although later historians assumed she must have been another of auletes' daughters and numbered her 'cleopatra vi', it seems she was simply the fifth one returning to replace her brother and former husband auletes." 	^ she was also a diplomat, naval commander, linguist, and medical author; see roller ( , p.  ) and bradford ( , p.  ). 	^ southern ( , p.  ) writes about ptolemy i soter: "the ptolemaic dynasty, of which cleopatra was the last representative, was founded at the end of the fourth century bc. the ptolemies were not of egyptian extraction, but stemmed from ptolemy soter, a macedonian greek in the entourage of alexander the great." for additional sources that describe the ptolemaic dynasty as "macedonian greek", please see roller ( , pp.  – ), jones ( , pp. xiii, , ), kleiner ( , pp.  , , , ), jeffreys ( , p.  ) and johnson ( , p.  ). alternatively, grant ( , p.  ) describes them as a "macedonian, greek-speaking" dynasty. other sources such as burstein ( , p.  ) and pfrommer & towne-markus ( , p.  ) describe the ptolemies as "greco-macedonian" or just macedonians who possessed a greek culture, as in pfrommer & towne-markus ( , pp.  – , ). 	^ a b grant ( , pp.  – ) notes that the hellenistic period, beginning with the reign of alexander the great, came to an end with the death of cleopatra in bc. michael grant stresses that the hellenistic greeks were viewed by contemporary romans as having declined and diminished in greatness since the age of classical greece, an attitude that has continued even into the works of modern historiography. regarding hellenistic egypt, grant argues, "cleopatra vii, looking back upon all that her ancestors had done during that time, was not likely to make the same mistake. but she and her contemporaries of the first century bc had another, peculiar, problem of their own. could the 'hellenistic age' (which we ourselves often regard as coming to an end in about her time) still be said to exist at all, could any greek age, now that the romans were the dominant power? this was a question never far from cleopatra's mind. but it is quite certain that she considered the greek epoch to be by no means finished, and intended to do everything in her power to ensure its perpetuation." 	^ a b the refusal of ptolemaic rulers to speak the native language, late egyptian, is why ancient greek (i.e. koine greek) was used along with late egyptian on official court documents such as the rosetta stone ("radio programmes – a history of the world in objects, empire builders ( bc – ad), rosetta stone". bbc. archived from the original on may . retrieved june .). as explained by burstein ( , pp.  – ), ptolemaic alexandria was considered a polis (city-state) separate from the country of egypt, with citizenship reserved for greeks and ancient macedonians, but various other ethnic groups resided there, especially the jews, as well as native egyptians, syrians, and nubians. for further validation, see grant ( , p.  ). for the multiple languages spoken by cleopatra, see roller ( , pp.  – ) and burstein ( , pp.  – ). for further validation about ancient greek being the official language of the ptolemaic dynasty, see jones ( , p.  ). 	^ tyldesley ( ) offers an alternative rendering of the title cleopatra vii thea philopator as "cleopatra the father-loving goddess". 	^ for a thorough explanation about the foundation of alexandria by alexander the great and its largely hellenistic greek nature during the ptolemaic period, along with a survey of the various ethnic groups residing there, see burstein ( , pp.  – ). for further validation about the founding of alexandria by alexander the great, see jones ( , p.  ). for further validation of ptolemaic rulers being crowned at memphis, see jeffreys ( , p.  ). 	^ for further information, see grant ( , pp.  , , footnote ). 	^ for the list of languages spoken by cleopatra as mentioned by the ancient historian plutarch, see jones ( , pp.  – ), who also mentions that the rulers of ptolemaic egypt gradually abandoned the ancient macedonian language. for further information and validation see schiff ( , p.  ). 	^ grant ( , p.  ) states that cleopatra could have been born in either late bc or early bc. 	^ for further information and validation see schiff ( , p.  ) and kleiner ( , p.  ). for alternate speculation, see burstein ( , p.  ) and roller ( , pp.  , , ). 	^ due to discrepancies in academic works, in which some consider cleopatra vi to be either a daughter of ptolemy xii or his wife, identical to that of cleopatra v, jones ( , p.  ) states that ptolemy xii had six children, while roller ( , p.  ) mentions only five. 	^ for further information and validation, see grant ( , pp.  – ). in , michael grant calculated that , talents, the price of ptolemy xii's fee for receiving the title "friend and ally of the roman people" from the triumvirs pompey and julius caesar, would be worth roughly £ million or us$ million, roughly the entire annual tax revenue for ptolemaic egypt. 	^ fletcher ( , p.  ) describes the painting from herculaneum further: "cleopatra's hair was maintained by her highly skilled hairdresser eiras. although rather artificial looking wigs set in the traditional tripartite style of long straight hair would have been required for her appearances before her egyptian subjects, a more practical option for general day-to-day wear was the no-nonsense 'melon hairdo' in which her natural hair was drawn back in sections resembling the lines on a melon and then pinned up in a bun at the back of the head. a trademark style of arsinoe ii and berenice ii, the style had fallen from fashion for almost two centuries until revived by cleopatra; yet as both traditionalist and innovator, she wore her version without her predecessor's fine head veil. and whereas they had both been blonde like alexander, cleopatra may well have been a redhead, judging from the portrait of a flame-haired woman wearing the royal diadem surrounded by egyptian motifs which has been identified as cleopatra." 	^ for political background information on the roman annexation of cyprus, a move pushed for in the roman senate by publius clodius pulcher, see grant ( , pp.  – ). 	^ for further information, see grant ( , pp.  – ). 	^ fletcher ( , pp.  – ) expresses little doubt about this: "deposed in late summer bc and fearing for his life, auletes had fled both his palace and his kingdom, although he was not completely alone. for one greek source reveals he had been accompanied 'by one of his daughters', and since his eldest berenice iv, was monarch, and the youngest, arisone, little more than a toddler, it is generally assumed that this must have been his middle daughter and favourite child, eleven-year-old cleopatra." 	^ for further information, see grant ( , p.  ). 	^ for further information on roman financier rabirius, as well as the gabiniani left in egypt by gabinius, see grant ( , pp.  – ). 	^ for further information, see grant ( , p.  ). 	^ for further information, see grant ( , pp.  – , – ). 	^ for further information, see grant ( , pp.  – ). 	^ for further information, see fletcher ( , pp.  – ) and jones ( , pp.  , – ). fletcher ( , pp.  – ) states that the partial solar eclipse of  march bc marked the death of ptolemy xii and accession of cleopatra to the throne, although she apparently suppressed the news of his death, alerting the roman senate to this fact months later in a message they received on june bc. however, grant ( , p.  ) claims that the senate was informed of his death on  august bc. michael grant indicates that ptolemy xii could have been alive as late as may, while an ancient egyptian source affirms he was still ruling with cleopatra by july bc, although by this point cleopatra most likely "hushed up her father's death" so that she could consolidate her control of egypt. 	^ pfrommer & towne-markus ( , p.  ) writes the following about the sibling marriage of ptolemy ii and arsinoe ii: "ptolemy keraunos, who wanted to become king of macedon ... killed arsinoë's small children in front of her. now queen without a kingdom, arsinoë fled to egypt, where she was welcomed by her full brother ptolemy ii. not content, however, to spend the rest of her life as a guest at the ptolemaic court, she had ptolemy ii's wife exiled to upper egypt and married him herself around b.c. though such an incestuous marriage was considered scandalous by the greeks, it was allowed by egyptian custom. for that reason, the marriage split public opinion into two factions. the loyal side celebrated the couple as a return of the divine marriage of zeus and hera, whereas the other side did not refrain from profuse and obscene criticism. one of the most sarcastic commentators, a poet with a very sharp pen, had to flee alexandria. the unfortunate poet was caught off the shore of crete by the ptolemaic navy, put in an iron basket, and drowned. this and similar actions seemingly slowed down vicious criticism." 	^ for further information, see fletcher ( , pp.  – ). 	^ for further information, see fletcher ( , pp.  – ) and jones ( , p.  ). 	^ for further information, see jones ( , pp.  – ). 	^ a b for further information, see fletcher ( , p.  ) and jones ( , pp.  – , – ). 	^ for further information, see fletcher ( , pp.  – ) and jones ( , pp.  – ). 	^ for further information, see burstein ( , p.  ) and fletcher ( , pp.  – ). 	^ a b for further information, see fletcher ( , p.  ). 	^ for further information, see fletcher ( , p.  ). 	^ for further information, see burstein ( , p.  ). 	^ for further information, see burstein ( , pp. xxi, ) and fletcher ( , pp.  – ). 	^ for further information, see fletcher ( , pp.  – ). as part of the siege of alexandria, burstein ( , p.  ) states that caesar's reinforcements came in january, but roller ( , p.  ) says that his reinforcements came in march. 	^ for further information and validation, see anderson ( , p.  ) and fletcher ( , p.  ). 	^ for further information and validation, see fletcher ( , p.  ) and jones ( , p. xiv). roller ( , pp.  – ) states that at this point ( bc) ptolemy xiv was years old, while burstein ( , p.  ) claims that he was still only years of age. 	^ for further information and validation, see anderson ( , p.  ) and fletcher ( , pp.  , – ). 	^ roller ( , p.  ) writes the following about caesar and his parentage of caesarion: "the matter of parentage became so tangled in the propaganda war between antonius and octavian in the late s b.c.—it was essential for one side to prove and the other to reject caesar's role—that it is impossible today to determine caesar's actual response. the extant information is almost contradictory: it was said that caesar denied parentage in his will but acknowledged it privately and allowed the use of the name caesarion. caesar's associate c. oppius even wrote a pamphlet proving that caesarion was not caesar's child, and c. helvius cinna—the poet who was killed by rioters after antonius' funeral oration—was prepared in b.c. to introduce legislation to allow caesar to marry as many wives as he wished for the purpose of having children. although much of this talk was generated after caesar's death, it seems that he wished to be as quiet as possible about the child but had to contend with cleopatra's repeated assertions." 	^ for further information and validation, see jones ( , pp. xiv, ). 	^ for further information, see fletcher ( , pp.  – ). 	^ as explained by burstein ( , p.  ), cleopatra, having read antony's personality, boldly presented herself to him as the egyptian goddess isis (in the appearance of the greek goddess aphrodite) meeting her divine husband osiris (in the form of the greek god dionysus), knowing that the priests of the temple of artemis at ephesus had associated antony with dionysus shortly before this encounter. according to brown ( ), a cult surrounding isis had been spreading across the region for hundreds of years, and cleopatra, like many of her predecessors, sought to identify herself with isis and be venerated. in addition, some surviving coins of cleopatra also depict her as venus–aphrodite, as explained by fletcher ( , p.  ). 	^ for further information about publius ventidius bassus and his victory over parthian forces at the battle of mount gindarus, see kennedy ( , pp.  – ). 	^ a b c ferroukhi ( a, p.  ) provides a detailed discussion about this bust and its ambiguities, noting that it could represent cleopatra, but that it is more likely her daughter cleopatra selene ii. kleiner ( , pp.  – ) argues in favor of its depicting cleopatra rather than her daughter, while varner ( , p.  ) mentions only cleopatra as a possible likeness. roller ( , p.  ) observes that it could be either cleopatra or cleopatra selene ii, while arguing the same ambiguity applies to the other sculpted head from cherchel featuring a veil. in regards to the latter head, ferroukhi ( b, p.  ) indicates it as a possible portrait of cleopatra, not cleoptra selene ii, from the early st century ad while also arguing that its masculine features, earrings, and apparent toga (the veil being a component of it) could likely mean it was intended to depict a numidian nobleman. fletcher ( , image plates between pp. – ) disagrees about the veiled head, arguing that it was commissioned by cleopatra selene ii at iol (caesarea mauretaniae) and was meant to depict her mother, cleopatra. 	^ according to roller ( , pp.  – ), these client state rulers installed by antony included herod, amyntas of galatia, polemon i of pontus, and archelaus of cappadocia. 	^ bringmann ( , p.  ) claims that octavia minor provided antony with , troops, not , as stated in roller ( , pp.  – ) and burstein ( , pp.  – ). 	^ roller ( , p.  ) says that it is unclear if antony and cleopatra were ever truly married. burstein ( , pp. xxii, ) says that the marriage publicly sealed antony's alliance with cleopatra and in defiance of octavian he would divorce octavia in bc. coins of antony and cleopatra depict them in the typical manner of a hellenistic royal couple, as explained by roller ( , p.  ). 	^ jones ( , p. xiv) writes that "octavian waged a propaganda war against antony and cleopatra, stressing cleopatra's status as a woman and a foreigner who wished to share in roman power." 	^ stanley m. burstein, in burstein ( , p.  ) provides the name quintus cascellius as the recipient of the tax exemption, not the publius canidius crassus provided by duane w. roller in roller ( , p.  ). 	^ reece ( , p.  ) notes that "[t]he fragmentary texts of ancient greek papyri do not often make their way into the modern public arena, but this one has, and with fascinating results, while remaining almost entirely unacknowledged is the remarkable fact that cleopatra's one-word subscription contains a blatant spelling error: γινέσθωι, with a superfluous iota adscript." this spelling error "has not been noted by the popular media", however, being "simply transliterated [...] including, without comment, the superfluous iota adscript" (p.  ). even in academic sources, the misspelling was largely unacknowledged or quietly corrected (pp.  – , ). although described as "'normal' orthography" (in contrast with "'correct' orthography") by peter van minnen (p.  ), the spelling error is "much rarer and more puzzling" than the sort one would expect from the greek papyri from egypt (p.  )—so rare, in fact, that it occurs only twice in the , greek papyri between the rd century bc and th century ad in the papyrological navigator's database. this is especially so when considering it was added to a word "with no etymological or morphological reason for having an iota adscript" (p.  ) and was written by "the well-educated, native greek-speaking, queen of egypt" cleopatra vii (p.  ). 	^ as explained by jones ( , p.  ), "politically, octavian had to walk a fine line as he prepared to engage in open hostilities with antony. he was careful to minimize associations with civil war, as the roman people had already suffered through many years of civil conflict and octavian could risk losing support if he declared war on a fellow citizen." 	^ for the translated accounts of both plutarch and dio, jones ( , pp.  – ) writes that the implement used to puncture cleopatra's skin was a hairpin. 	^ jones ( , p.  ), translating plutarch, quotes arius didymus as saying to octavian that "it is not good to have too many caesars", which was apparently enough to convince octavian to have caesarion killed. 	^ contrary to regular roman provinces, egypt was established by octavian as territory under his personal control, barring the roman senate from intervening in any of its affairs and appointing his own equestrian governors of egypt, the first of whom was gallus. for further information, see southern ( , p.  ) and roller ( , p.  ). 	^ walker ( , p.  ) writes the following about the raised relief on the gilded silver dish: "conspicuously mounted on the cornucopia is a gilded crescent moon set on a pine cone. around it are piled pomegranates and bunches of grapes. engraved on the horn are images of helios (the sun), in the form of a youth dressed in a short cloak, with the hairstyle of alexander the great, the head surrounded by rays ... the symbols on the cornucopia can indeed be read as references to the ptolemaic royal house and specifically to cleopatra selene, represented in the crescent moon, and to her twin brother, alexander helios, whose eventual fate after the conquest of egypt is unknown. the viper seems to be linked with the pantheress and the intervening symbols of fecundity rather than the suicide of cleopatra vii. the elephant scalp could refer to cleopatra selene's status as ruler, with juba ii, of mauretania. the visual correspondence with the veiled head from cherchel encourages this identification, and many of the symbols used on the dish also appear on the coinage of juba ii." 	^ jones ( , p.  ) offers speculation that the author of de bello alexandrino, written in latin prose sometime between – bc, was a certain aulus hirtius, a military officer serving under caesar. 	^ burstein ( , p.  ) writes that virgil, in his aeneid, described the battle of actium against cleopatra "as a clash of civilizations in which octavian and the roman gods preserved italy from conquest by cleopatra and the barbaric animal-headed gods of egypt." 	^ for further information and extracts of strabo's account of cleopatra in his geographica see jones ( , pp.  – ). 	^ as explained by chauveau ( , pp.  – ), this source material from egypt dated to the reign of cleopatra includes about papyri documents in ancient greek, mostly from the city of heracleopolis, and only a few papyri from faiyum, written in the demotic egyptian language. overall this is a much smaller body of surviving native texts than those of any other period of ptolemaic egypt. 	^ for the description of cleopatra by plutarch, who claimed that her beauty was not "completely incomparable" but that she had a "captivating" and "stimulating" personality, see jones ( , pp.  – ). 	^ fletcher ( , p.  ) writes the following: "cleopatra was the only female ptolemy to issue coins on her own behalf, some showing her as venus-aphrodite. caesar now followed her example and, taking the same bold step, became the first living roman to appear on coins, his rather haggard profile accompanied by the title 'parens patriae', 'father of the fatherland'." 	^ for further information, see raia & sebesta ( ). 	^ there is academic disagreement on whether the following portraits are considered "heads" or "busts". for instance, raia & sebesta ( ) exclusively uses the former, while grout ( b) prefers the latter. 	^ for further information and validation, see curtius ( , pp.  – ), walker ( , p.  ), raia & sebesta ( ) and grout ( b). 	^ for further information and validation, see grout ( b) and roller ( , pp.  – ). 	^ for further information, see curtius ( , pp.  – ), walker ( , p.  ) and raia & sebesta ( ). 	^ the observation that the left cheek of the vatican cleopatra once had a cupid's hand that was broken off was first suggested by ludwig curtius in . kleiner concurs with this assessment. see kleiner ( , p.  ), as well as walker ( , p.  ) and curtius ( , pp.  – ). while kleiner ( , p.  ) has suggested the lump on top of this marble head perhaps contained a broken-off uraeus, curtius ( , p.  ) offered the explanation that it once held a sculpted representation of a jewel. 	^ curtius ( , p.  ) wrote that the damaged lump along the hairline and diadem of the vatican cleopatra likely contained a sculpted representation of a jewel, which walker ( , p.  ) directly compares to the painted red jewel in the diadem worn by venus, most likely cleopatra, in the fresco from pompeii. 	^ for further information about the painting in the house of giuseppe ii (joseph ii) at pompeii and the possible identification of cleopatra as one of the figures, see pucci ( , pp.  – , footnote ). 	^ in pratt & fizel ( , pp.  – ), frances pratt and becca fizel rejected the idea proposed by some scholars in the th and early th centuries that the painting was perhaps done by an artist of the italian renaissance. pratt and fizel highlighted the classical style of the painting as preserved in textual descriptions and the steel engraving. they argued that it was unlikely for a renaissance period painter to have created works with encaustic materials, conducted thorough research into hellenistic period egyptian clothing and jewelry as depicted in the painting, and then precariously placed it in the ruins of the egyptian temple at hadrian's villa. 	^ walker & higgs ( , pp.  – ) describe her hair as reddish brown, while fletcher ( , p.  ) describes her as a flame-haired redhead and, in fletcher ( , image plates and captions between pp. – ), likewise describes her as a red-haired woman. 	^ preston ( , p.  ) comes to a similar conclusion about native egyptian depictions of cleopatra: "apart from certain temple carvings, which are anyway in a highly stylised pharaonic style and give little clue to cleopatra's real appearance, the only certain representations of cleopatra are those on coins. the marble head in the vatican is one of three sculptures generally, though not universally, accepted by scholars to be depictions of cleopatra." 	^ for further information on cleopatra's macedonian greek lineage, see pucci ( , p.  ), grant ( , pp.  – ), burstein ( , pp.  , , , , – ) and royster ( , pp.  – ). 	^ for further information and validation of the foundation of hellenistic egypt by alexander the great and cleopatra's ancestry stretching back to ptolemy i soter, see grant ( , pp.  – ) and jones ( , p.  ). 	^ for further information, see grant ( , pp.  – ) and burstein ( , p.  ). 	^ for further information, see fletcher ( , pp.  , , ). contrary to other sources cited here, dodson & hilton ( , pp.  – , ) refer to cleopatra v tryphaena as a possible cousin or sister of ptolemy xii auletes. 	^ for the sogdian ancestry of apama, wife of seleucus i nicator, see holt ( , pp.  – , footnote ). 	^ as explained by burstein ( , pp.  – ), the main ethnic groups of ptolemaic egypt were egyptians, greeks, and jews, each of whom were legally segregated, living in different residential quarters and forbidden to intermarry with one another in the multicultural cities of alexandria, naucratis, and ptolemais hermiou. however, as explained by fletcher ( , pp.  , – ), the native egyptian priesthood was strongly linked to their ptolemaic royal patrons, to the point where cleopatra is speculated to have had an egyptian half-cousin, pasherienptah iii, the high priest of ptah at memphis, egypt. 	^ grant ( , p.  ) argues that cleopatra's grandmother, i.e. the mother of ptolemy xii, might have been a syrian (though conceding that "it is possible she was also partly greek"), but almost certainly not an egyptian because there is only one known egyptian mistress of a ptolemaic ruler throughout their entire dynasty. 	^ schiff ( , p.  ) further argues that, considering cleopatra's ancestry, she was not dark-skinned, though notes cleopatra was likely not among the ptolemies with fair features, and instead would have been honey-skinned, citing as evidence that her relatives were described as such and it "would have presumably applied to her as well." goldsworthy ( , pp.  , ) agrees to this, contending that cleopatra, having macedonian blood with a little syrian, was probably not dark-skinned (as roman propaganda never mentions it), writing "fairer skin is marginally more likely considering her ancestry," though also notes she could have had a "darker more mediterranean complexion" because of her mixed ancestry. grant ( , p.  ) agrees to goldsworthy's latter speculation of her skin color, that though almost certainly not egyptian, cleopatra had a darker complexion due to being greek mixed with persian and possible syrian ancestry. preston ( , p.  ) agrees with grant that, considering this ancestry, cleopatra was "almost certainly dark-haired and olive-skinned." bradford ( , p.  ) contends that it is "reasonable to infer" cleopatra had dark hair and "pale olive skin." 	^ for further information on the identity of cleopatra's mother, see burstein ( , p.  ), fletcher ( , p.  ), goldsworthy ( , pp.  , ), grant ( , p.  ), and roller ( , pp.  – ). joann fletcher finds this hypothesis to be dubious and lacking evidence. stanley m. burstein claims that strong circumstantial evidence suggests cleopatra's mother could have been a member of the priestly family of ptah, but that historians generally assume her mother was cleopatra v tryphaena, wife of ptolemy xii. adrian goldsworthy dismisses the idea of cleopatra's mother being a member of an egyptian priestly family as "pure conjecture," adding that either cleopatra v or a concubine "probably of greek origin" would be cleopatra vii's mother. michael grant contends that cleopatra v was most likely cleopatra vii's mother. duane w. roller notes that while cleopatra could have been the daughter of the priestly family of ptah, the other main candidate would be cleopatra vi, maintaining the uncertainty stems from cleopatra v/vi's "loss of favor" that "obscured the issue." roller ( , pp.  - ) also posits that cleopatra being the only known ruler of the ptolemaic dynasty to speak egyptian, along with her daughter cleopatra selene ii as queen of mauretania publicly honoring the native egyptian elite, both lend credence to the priestly class mistress hypothesis for maternity. 	^ schiff ( , pp.  ) concurs with this, concluding that cleopatra "upheld the family tradition." as noted by dudley ( , pp.  ), cleopatra and her family were "the successor[s] to the native pharaohs, exploiting through a highly organized bureaucracy the great natural resources of the nile valley." 	^ grant ( , p.  ) argues that if cleopatra had been illegitimate, her "numerous roman enemies would have revealed this to the world." 	^ the family tree and short discussions 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( ). women in hellenistic egypt: from alexander to cleopatra. new york: schocken books. isbn  . 	samson, julia ( ). nefertiti & cleopatra. stacey international. isbn  . 	southern, pat ( ). cleopatra. tempus. isbn  . 	syme, ronald ( ) [ ]. the roman revolution. oxford university press. oclc  . 	tyldesley, joyce ( ). cleopatra: last queen of egypt. basic books. isbn  . 	volkmann, hans ( ). cleopatra: a study in politics and propaganda. t.j. cadoux, trans. new york: sagamore press. oclc  . 	weigall, arthur e. p. brome ( ). the life and times of cleopatra, queen of egypt. edinburgh: blackwood. oclc  . external links cleopatraat wikipedia's sister projects 	definitions from wiktionary 	media from wikimedia commons 	news from wikinews 	quotations from wikiquote 	texts from wikisource 	textbooks from wikibooks 	resources from wikiversity 	ancient roman depictions of cleopatra vii of egypt, at youtube 	cleopatra on in our time at the bbc 	cleopatra ( ), a victorian children's book by jacob abbott, project gutenberg edition 	"mysterious death of cleopatra" at the discovery channel 	cleopatra vii at bbc history 	cleopatra vii at ancient history encyclopedia 	eubanks, w. ralph. ( november ). "how history and hollywood got 'cleopatra' wrong". national public radio (npr) (a book review of cleopatra: a life, by stacy schiff). 	jarus, owen ( march ). "cleopatra: facts & biography". live science. 	watkins, thayer. "the timeline of the life of cleopatra." san jose state university. 	draycott, jane ( may ). "cleopatra's daughter: while antony and cleopatra have been immortalised in history and in popular culture, their offspring have been all but forgotten. their daughter, cleopatra selene, became an important ruler in her own right". history today. 	cleopatra ptolemaic dynasty born:  bc died:  bc 	regnal titles 	preceded by ptolemy xii 	 queen of egypt –  bc with ptolemy xii, ptolemy xiii, ptolemy xiv and ptolemy xv 	office abolished egypt annexed by roman republic 	 	v 	t 	e hellenistic rulers 	argeads	 	philip ii 	alexander iii the great 	philip iii arrhidaeus 	alexander iv 	antigonids	 	antigonus i monophthalmus 	demetrius i poliorcetes 	antigonus ii gonatas 	demetrius ii aetolicus 	antigonus iii doson 	philip v 	perseus 	philip vi (pretender) 	ptolemies	 	ptolemy i soter 	ptolemy keraunos 	ptolemy ii philadelphus 	ptolemy iii euergetes 	ptolemy iv philopator 	ptolemy v epiphanes 	cleopatra i syra (regent) 	ptolemy vi philometor 	ptolemy vii neos philopator 	cleopatra ii philometor soter 	ptolemy viii physcon 	cleopatra iii 	ptolemy ix lathyros 	ptolemy x alexander 	berenice iii 	ptolemy xi alexander 	ptolemy xii auletes 	cleopatra vi tryphaena 	berenice iv epiphanea 	ptolemy xiii 	ptolemy xiv 	cleopatra vii philopator 	ptolemy xv caesarion 	kings of cyrene	 	magas 	demetrius the fair 	ptolemy viii physcon 	ptolemy apion 	seleucids	 	seleucus i nicator 	antiochus i soter 	antiochus ii theos 	seleucus ii callinicus 	seleucus iii ceraunus 	antiochus iii the great 	seleucus iv philopator 	antiochus iv epiphanes 	antiochus v eupator 	demetrius i soter 	alexander i balas 	demetrius ii nicator 	antiochus vi dionysus 	diodotus tryphon 	antiochus vii sidetes 	alexander ii zabinas 	seleucus v philometor 	antiochus viii grypus 	antiochus ix cyzicenus 	seleucus vi epiphanes 	antiochus x eusebes 	antiochus xi epiphanes 	demetrius iii eucaerus 	philip i philadelphus 	antiochus xii dionysus 	antiochus xiii asiaticus 	philip ii philoromaeus 	lysimachids	 	lysimachus 	ptolemy epigonos 	antipatrids	 	cassander 	philip iv 	alexander v 	antipater ii 	antipater etesias 	sosthenes 	attalids	 	philetaerus 	eumenes i 	attalus i 	eumenes ii 	attalus ii 	attalus iii 	eumenes iii 	greco-bactrians	 	diodotus i 	diodotus ii 	euthydemus i 	demetrius i 	euthydemus ii 	antimachus i 	pantaleon 	agathocles 	demetrius ii 	eucratides i 	plato 	eucratides ii 	heliocles i 	indo-greeks	 	demetrius i 	antimachus i 	pantaleon 	agathocles 	apollodotus i 	demetrius ii 	antimachus ii 	menander i 	zoilos i 	agathokleia 	lysias 	strato i 	antialcidas 	heliokles ii 	polyxenos 	demetrius iii 	philoxenus 	diomedes 	amyntas 	epander 	theophilos 	peukolaos 	thraso 	nicias 	menander ii 	artemidoros 	hermaeus 	archebius 	telephos 	apollodotus ii 	hippostratos 	dionysios 	zoilos ii 	apollophanes 	strato ii 	strato iii 	kings of bithynia	 	boteiras 	bas 	zipoetes i 	nicomedes i 	zipoetes ii 	etazeta (regent) 	ziaelas 	prusias i 	prusias ii 	nicomedes ii 	nicomedes iii 	nicomedes iv 	socrates chrestus 	kings of pontus	 	mithridates i ctistes 	ariobarzanes 	mithridates ii 	mithridates iii 	pharnaces i 	mithridates iv philopator philadephos 	mithridates v euergetes 	mithridates vi eupator 	pharnaces ii 	darius 	arsaces 	polemon i 	pythodorida 	polemon ii 	kings of commagene	 	ptolemaeus 	sames ii 	mithridates i 	antiochus i 	mithridates ii 	antiochus ii 	mithridates iii 	antiochus iii 	antiochus iv 	kings of cappadocia	 	ariarathes i 	ariarathes ii 	ariamnes ii 	ariarathes iii 	ariarathes iv 	ariarathes v 	orophernes 	ariarathes vi 	ariarathes vii 	ariarathes viii 	ariarathes ix 	ariobarzanes i 	ariobarzanes ii 	ariobarzanes iii 	ariarathes x 	archelaus 	kings of the cimmerian bosporus	 	paerisades i 	satyros ii 	prytanis 	eumelos 	spartokos iii 	hygiainon (regent) 	paerisades ii 	spartokos iv 	leukon ii 	spartokos v 	paerisades iii 	paerisades iv 	paerisades v 	mithridates i 	pharnaces 	asander with dynamis 	mithridates ii 	asander with dynamis 	scribonius’ attempted rule with dynamis 	dynamis with polemon 	polemon with pythodorida 	aspurgus 	mithridates iii with gepaepyris 	mithridates iii 	cotys i 	hellenistic rulers were preceded by hellenistic satraps in most of their territories. 	 	v 	t 	e pharaohs 	 	protodynastic to first intermediate period  (< – bc) 	 	period 	 	dynasty 		pharaohs   (male 	 female♀) 	 uncertain 	protodynastic (pre- bc)	 	lower	 	hedju hor 	ny-hor 	hsekiu 	khayu 	tiu 	thesh 	neheb 	wazner 	hat-hor 	mekh 	double falcon 	wash 	upper	 	finger snail 	fish 	pen-abu 	animal 	stork 	canide 	bull 	scorpion i 	shendjw 	iry-hor 	ka 	scorpion ii 	narmer / menes 	early dynastic ( – bc)	 	i	 	narmer / menes 	hor-aha 	djer 	djet 	den 	anedjib 	semerkhet 	qa'a 	sneferka 	horus bird 	ii	 	hotepsekhemwy 	nebra/raneb 	nynetjer 	ba 	nubnefer 	horus sa 	weneg-nebty 	wadjenes 	senedj 	seth-peribsen 	sekhemib-perenmaat 	neferkara i 	neferkasokar 	hudjefa i 	khasekhemwy 	old kingdom ( – bc)	 	iii	 	djoser 	sekhemkhet 	sanakht 	nebka 	khaba 	qahedjet 	huni 	iv	 	snefru 	khufu 	djedefre 	khafre 	bikheris 	menkaure 	shepseskaf 	thamphthis 	v	 	userkaf 	sahure 	neferirkare kakai 	neferefre 	shepseskare 	nyuserre ini 	menkauhor kaiu 	djedkare isesi 	unas 	vi	 	teti 	userkare 	pepi i 	merenre nemtyemsaf i 	pepi ii 	merenre nemtyemsaf ii 	netjerkare siptah 	 st intermediate ( – bc)	 		vii/viii 	 	menkare 	neferkare ii 	neferkare iii neby 	djedkare shemai 	neferkare iv khendu 	merenhor 	neferkamin 	nikare 	neferkare v tereru 	neferkahor 	neferkare vi pepiseneb 	neferkamin anu 	qakare iby 	neferkaure 	neferkauhor 	neferirkare 	wadjkare 	khuiqer 	khui 		ix 	 	meryibre khety 	neferkare vii 	nebkaure khety 	setut 		x 	 	meryhathor 	neferkare viii 	wahkare khety 	merykare 	 	middle kingdom and second intermediate period  ( – bc) 	 	period 	 	dynasty 		pharaohs   (male 	 female♀) 	 uncertain 	middle kingdom ( – bc)	 	xi	 	mentuhotep i 	intef i 	intef ii 	intef iii 	mentuhotep ii 	mentuhotep iii 	mentuhotep iv 	nubia	 	segerseni 	qakare ini 	iyibkhentre 	xii	 	amenemhat i 	senusret i 	amenemhat ii 	senusret ii 	senusret iii 	amenemhat iii 	amenemhat iv 	sobekneferu♀ 	 nd intermediate ( – bc)	 	xiii	 	sekhemrekhutawy sobekhotep 	sonbef 	nerikare 	sekhemkare amenemhat v 	ameny qemau 	hotepibre 	iufni 	ameny antef amenemhet vi 	semenkare nebnuni 	sehetepibre 	sewadjkare 	nedjemibre 	khaankhre sobekhotep 	renseneb 	hor 	sekhemrekhutawy khabaw 	djedkheperew 	sebkay 	sedjefakare 	wegaf 	khendjer 	imyremeshaw 	sehetepkare intef 	seth meribre 	sobekhotep iii 	neferhotep i 	sihathor 	sobekhotep iv 	merhotepre sobekhotep 	khahotepre sobekhotep 	wahibre ibiau 	merneferre ay 	merhotepre ini 	sankhenre sewadjtu 	mersekhemre ined 	sewadjkare hori 	merkawre sobekhotep 	mershepsesre ini ii 	sewahenre senebmiu 	merkheperre 	merkare 	sewadjare mentuhotep 	seheqenre sankhptahi 	xiv	 	yakbim sekhaenre 	ya'ammu nubwoserre 	qareh khawoserre 	'ammu ahotepre 	maaibre sheshi 	nehesy 	khakherewre 	nebefawre 	sehebre 	merdjefare 	sewadjkare iii 	nebdjefare 	webenre 	nebsenre 	sekheperenre 	djedkherewre 	bebnum 	'apepi 	nuya 	wazad 	sheneh 	shenshek 	khamure 	yakareb 	yaqub-har 	xv	 	semqen 	'aper-'anati 	salitis 	sakir-har 	khyan 	yanassi 	apepi 	khamudi 	xvi	 	djehuti 	sobekhotep viii 	neferhotep iii 	mentuhotepi 	nebiryraw i 	nebiriau ii 	semenre 	bebiankh 	sekhemre shedwast 	dedumose i 	dedumose ii 	montuemsaf 	merankhre mentuhotep 	senusret iv 	pepi iii 	abydos	 	senebkay 	wepwawetemsaf 	pantjeny 	snaaib 	xvii	 	rahotep 	nebmaatre 	sobekemsaf i 	sobekemsaf ii 	sekhemre-wepmaat intef 	nubkheperre intef 	sekhemre-heruhirmaat intef 	senakhtenre ahmose 	seqenenre tao 	kamose 	 	new kingdom and third intermediate period  ( – bc) 	 	period 	 	dynasty 		pharaohs   (male 	 female♀) 	 uncertain 	new kingdom ( – bc)	 	xviii	 	ahmose i 	amenhotep i 	thutmose i 	thutmose ii 	thutmose iii 	hatshepsut♀ 	amenhotep ii 	thutmose iv 	amenhotep iii 	akhenaten 	smenkhkare 	neferneferuaten♀ 	tutankhamun 	ay 	horemheb 	xix	 	ramesses i 	seti i 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(learn how and when to remove this template message) the roman forum in rome, italy a forum (latin forum "public place outdoors",[ ] plural fora; english plural either fora or forums) was a public square in a roman municipium, or any civitas, reserved primarily for the vending of goods; i.e., a marketplace, along with the buildings used for shops and the stoas used for open stalls. many fora were constructed at remote locations along a road by the magistrate responsible for the road, in which case the forum was the only settlement at the site and had its own name, such as forum popili or forum livi.[ ] contents 	 the functions of a forum 	 typical forum structures 	 equivalent spaces in other cultures 	 see also 	 references 	 external links the functions of a forum[edit] in addition to its standard function as a marketplace, a forum was a gathering place of great social significance, and often the scene of diverse activities, including political discussions and debates, rendezvous, meetings, et cetera. in that case it supplemented the function of a conciliabulum. every municipium had a forum. fora were the first of any civitas synoecized whether latin, italic, etruscan, greek, celtic or some other. the first forums were sited between independent villages in the period, known only through archaeology. after the rise of the roman republic, the most noted forum of the roman world, the roman forum in rome itself, served as a model of new construction. by the time of the late republic expansions refurbishing of the forums of the city had inspired pompey magnus to create the theatre of pompey in bc. the theatre included a massive forum behind the theatre arcades known as the porticus pompei (colonnades of pompey). the structure was the forebearer to julius caesar's first imperial forum and the rest to follow. other major fora are found in italy; however, they are not to be confused with the piazza of the modern town, which may have originated from a number of different types of ancient civic centers, or more likely was its own type. while similar in use and function to fora, most were created in the middle ages and are often not a part of the original city footprint. the forum of jerash, in jordan. the columns mark the location of a stoa, or covered walkway, where the stalls of open-air vendors might be located in bad weather. note the semi-circular shape and traces of a central podium, similar in function to a theatre. fora were a regular part of every roman province in the republic and the empire, with archaeological examples at: 	forum of plovdiv, bulgaria 	forum of philippi, greece 	forum of thessaloniki, greece 	forum of beirut, lebanon 	forum and provincial forum of mérida, spain 	colonial forum and provincial forum of tarragona, spain in new roman towns the forum was usually located at, or just off, the intersection of the main north–south and east–west streets (the cardo and decumanus). all fora would have a temple of jupiter at the north end, and would also contain other temples, as well as the basilica; a public weights and measures table, so customers at the market could ensure they were not being sold short measures; and would often have the baths nearby. at election times, candidates would use the steps of the temples in the forum to make their election speeches, and would expect their clients to come to support them. typical forum structures[edit] 	basilica 	roman baths 	roman temple 	triumphal arch 	victory column equivalent spaces in other cultures[edit] 	agora 	civic center 	internet forum 	piazza 	plateia 	plaza 	town square see also[edit] 	amphitheatre 	circus 	hippodrome 	theatre 	a funny thing happened on the way to the forum references[edit] 	^ from proto-indo-european *dʰworom "enclosure, courtyard", i.e. "something enclosed by a door"; cognate with english door and old church slavonic дворъ dvorŭ "court, courtyard". 	^ abbott, frank frost; johnson, allan chester ( ). municipal administration in the roman 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feeding the twins romulus and remus, the most famous image associated with the founding of rome romulus and remus on the house of the she-wolf at the grand place of brussels. the tale of the founding of rome is recounted in traditional stories handed down by the ancient romans themselves as the earliest history of their city in terms of legend and myth. the most familiar of these myths, and perhaps the most famous of all roman myths, is the story of romulus and remus, twins who were suckled by a she-wolf as infants in the th century bc.[ ] another account, set earlier in time, claims that the roman people are descended from trojan war hero aeneas, who escaped to italy after the war, and whose son, iulus, was the ancestor of the family of julius caesar.[ ] the archaeological evidence of human occupation of the area of modern-day rome, italy dates from about , years ago.[citation needed][ ] contents 	 founding myths and sources 	 . aeneas 	 . romulus and remus 	 . strabo 	 . dionysius of halicarnassus 	 . other myths 	 date 	 the name of rome 	 archaeology 	 later commemoration 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links founding myths and sources[edit] aeneas[edit] aeneas flees burning troy, federico barocci, . galleria borghese, rome. the national epic of mythical rome, the aeneid of virgil, tells the story of how trojan prince aeneas came to italy. the aeneid was written under augustus, who claimed ancestry through julius caesar to aeneas and his mother venus. according to the aeneid, the survivors from the fallen city of troy banded together under aeneas and underwent a series of adventures around the mediterranean sea, including a stop at newly founded carthage under the rule of queen dido, eventually reaching the italian coast. the trojans were thought to have landed in an area between modern anzio and fiumicino, southwest of rome, probably at laurentum or, in other versions, at lavinium, a place named for lavinia, the daughter of king latinus whom aeneas married. this started a series of armed conflicts with turnus over the marriage of lavinia.[ ] before the arrival of aeneas, turnus was betrothed to lavinia, who then married aeneas, starting the war.[ ] aeneas won the war and killed turnus.[ ] the trojans won the right to stay and to assimilate with the local peoples. the young son of aeneas, ascanius, also known as iulus, went on to found alba longa and the line of alban kings who filled the chronological gap between the trojan saga and the traditional founding of rome in the th century bc. toward the end of this line, king procas was the father of numitor and amulius. at procas' death, numitor became king of alba longa, but amulius captured him and sent him to prison; he also forced numitor's daughter rhea silvia to become a virgin priestess among the vestals.[ ] forests have a prominent role in the founding myth – when aeneas arrives at the site that would become rome, it is still forest: these woodland places once were homes of local fauns and myths together with a race of men that came from tree trunks, from hard oak: they had no way of settled life, no arts of life, no skill at yoking oxen, gathering provisions practising husbandry, but got their food from oaken bough and wild game hunted down. —aeneid . – , trans. harrison forests: the shadow of civilization p. evander goes on to explain that from that "first time" the god saturn brings these scattered people laws and bestows upon them the name latium.[ ] romulus and remus[edit] main articles: romulus and remus and romulus the myth of aeneas was of greek origin and had to be reconciled with the italian myth of romulus and remus. they were purported to be sons of rhea silvia and either mars, the god of war, or the demigod hero hercules. they were abandoned at birth, in the manner of many mythological heroes, because of a prophecy that they would overthrow their great-uncle amulius, who had overthrown silvia's father numitor. the twins were abandoned on the river tiber by servants who took pity on the infants, despite their orders. the twins were nurtured by a she-wolf until a shepherd named faustulus found the boys and took them as his sons. faustulus and his wife acca larentia raised the children. when remus and romulus became adults, they killed amulius and restored numitor. they decided to establish a city; however, they quarreled, as romulus was on palatine hill, while remus wanted to found the city on aventine hill, until remus and his followers attacked, and romulus killed his brother.[ ] thus, rome began with a fratricide, a story that was later taken to represent the city's history of internecine political strife and bloodshed. strabo[edit] strabo writes that there is also an older story, about the founding of rome, than the previous legends that he had mentioned. the city was an arcadian colony and was founded by evander. strabo also writes that lucius coelius antipater believed that rome was founded by greeks.[ ][ ] dionysius of halicarnassus[edit] dionysius of halicarnassus writes that the people who came to the lands that later became the city of rome were first the aborigines, who drove the sicels out of these lands, and were from the arcadia, then the pelasgians, who came from thessaly. third came those who accompanied evander into italy from the city of pallantium in arcadia; next the epeans from elis and pheneats from pheneus, who were part of the army commanded by heracles which decided to stay there while they were returning from the expedition at the erytheia, with whom a trojan element also was commingled. last of all came trojans who had escaped with aeneas from ilium, dardanus, and the other trojan cities. dionysius mentions that the trojans were also greek people who were originally from the peloponnesus.[ ] he also adds that even romans say that the pallantium was founded by greeks from pallantium of arcadia, about sixty years before the trojan war and the leader was evander.[ ] later at the sixteenth generation after the trojan war the albans united these places into one settlement, surrounding them with a wall and a ditch. the albans were a mixed nation composed of all the above people. dionysius adds that it is possible that a barbarian element from among the neighboring people or a remnant of the ancient inhabitants of the place were mixed with the greek. but all these people, having lost their tribal past came to be called by one common name, latins, after latinus, who had been the king of the country. the leaders of the colony were the twin brothers romulus and remus.[ ] other myths[edit] another story told how romos, a son of odysseus and circe, was the one who founded rome.[ ] martin p. nilsson speculates that this older story was becoming a bit embarrassing as rome became more powerful and tensions with the greeks grew. being descendants of the greeks was no longer preferable, so the romans settled on the trojan foundation myth instead. nilsson further speculates that the name of romos was changed by the romans to the native name romulus, but the name romos (later changed to the native remus) was never forgotten by the people, and so these two names came to stand side by side as founders of the city.[ ] furthermore, emperor julian in his satire called "the caesars", which describes a contest between the previous roman emperors with alexander the great called in as an extra contestant in the presence of the assembled gods, made alexander say: "i am aware that you romans are yourselves descended from the greeks,..."[ ] date[edit] the ancient romans were certain of the day rome was founded: april , the day of the festival sacred to pales, goddess of shepherds, on which date they celebrated the par ilia (or palilia). however they did not know, or they were uncertain of, the exact year the city had been founded; this is one reason they preferred to date their years by the presiding consuls rather than using the formula a.u.c. or ab urbe condita. several dates had been proposed by ancient authorities, and dionysius of halicarnassus records these: the greek historian timaeus, one of the first to write a history to include the romans, stated that rome was founded in the th year prior to the first olympiad, or / bc; quintus fabius pictor, the first roman to write the history of his people, in greek, stated rome was founded in the first year of the eighth olympiad, or / bc; lucius cincius alimentus claimed rome was founded in the fourth year of the twelfth olympiad, or / bc; and cato the elder calculated that rome was founded years after the trojan war, which dionysius states was equivalent to the first year of the seventh olympiad, or / bc.[ ] dionysius himself provided calculations showing that rome was founded in bc, starting with the battle of the allia, which he dated to the first year of the ninety-eighth olympiad, / bc, then added years to reach the date of the first consuls, junius brutus and tarquinius collatinus, / bc, then added the combined total of the reigns of the kings of rome ( years) to arrive at his own date, bc.[ ] even the official fasti capitolini offers its own date, bc. the most familiar date given for the foundation of rome, bc, was derived by the roman antiquarian titus pomponius atticus, and adopted by marcus terentius varro, having become part of what has come to be known as the varronian chronology.[ ] an anecdote in plutarch where the astrologer lucius tarrutius of firmum provides an argument based on a non-existent eclipse and other erroneous astronomical details that rome was founded in bc suggests that this had become the most commonly accepted date.[ ] through its use by the third-century writer censorinus, whose de die natali was the ultimate influence of joseph justus scaliger's work to establish a scientific basis of ancient chronology, it became familiar.[ ] recent discoveries by andrea carandini on rome's palatine hill have also yielded evidence of a series of fortification walls on the north slope that can be dated to the middle of the th century bc.[citation needed] according to the legend, romulus plowed a furrow (sulcus) around the hill in order to mark the boundary of his new city. the name of rome[edit] further information: history of rome there is no consensus on the etymology of the city's name. jean-jacques rousseau ( – ) suggested greek "ῥώμη" (rhōmē), meaning "strength, vigor".[ ] a modern theory of etymology holds that the name of the city is of etruscan origin (and perhaps the city itself, though this cannot be proven), derived from rumon, "river".[ ] archaeology[edit] there is archaeological evidence of human occupation of the rome area from about , years ago, but the dense layer of much younger debris obscures palaeolithic and neolithic sites.[ ] several excavations support the view that rome grew from pastoral settlements on the palatine hill built above the area of the future roman forum. between the end of the bronze age and the beginning of the iron age, each hill between the sea and the capitol was topped by a village (on the capitol hill, a village is attested since the end of the th century bc).[ ] in any case, the location that became the city of rome was inhabited by latin settlers from various regions, farmers and pastoralists, as evidenced by differences in pottery and burial techniques.[ ] the historical latins were originally an italic tribe who inhabited the alban hills.[when?] they later moved down into the valleys, which provided better land for agriculture. the island isola tiberina was the site of an important ancient ford. the area around the tiber was particularly advantageous and offered notable strategic resources: the river was a natural border on one side, and the hills could provide a safe defensive position on the other side. this position would also have enabled the latins to control the river and the commercial and military traffic on it from the natural observation point at isola tiberina. moreover, road traffic could be controlled, since rome was at the intersection of the principal roads to the sea coming from sabinum (in the northeast) and etruria (to the northwest).[citation needed] there is a wide consensus that the city developed gradually through the aggregation ("synoecism") of several villages around the largest one on the palatine. this aggregation, signalling the transition from a proto-urban to an urban settlement, was made possible by the increase in agricultural productivity above the subsistence level, which allowed the establishment of secondary and tertiary activities[clarification needed]: in turn, these boosted the development of trade with the greek colonies of southern italy (mainly ischia and cumae). all these events, which according to the archeological excavations occurred around the mid th century bc, can be considered as the origin of the city.[ ] recent studies suggest that the quirinal hill was very important in ancient times, although the first hill to be inhabited seems to have been the palatine (thus confirming the legend), which is also at the centre of ancient rome.[citation needed] its three peaks, the minor hills cermalus or germalus, palatium, and velia, were united with the three peaks of the esquiline (cispius, fagutal, and oppius), and then villages on the caelian hill and suburra. recent discoveries revealed that the germalus on the northern part of the palatine was the site of a village (dated to the th century bc) with circular or elliptical dwellings. it was protected by a clay wall (perhaps reinforced with wood), and it is likely that this is the particular location on the palatine hill where rome was actually founded.[citation needed] the territory of this federation was surrounded by a sacred border called the pomerium, which enclosed the so-called servian[clarification needed] expansion of rome. festivals for the septimontium (literally "of the seven hills") on december were previously considered to be related to the foundation of rome. however, april is the only date for rome's foundation upon which all the legends agree, and it has recently been argued that septimontium celebrated the first federations among roman hills. a similar federation was, in fact, celebrated by the latins at cave or at monte cavo (in castelli).[citation needed] later commemoration[edit] during the italian renaissance, a group of humanists affiliated with the roman academy formed a sodality to pursue antiquarian interests, celebrating the "birthday of rome" annually on april . in , the academy was suppressed by pope paul ii for fomenting "republicanism, paganism, and conspiracy", but the sodality was reinstated about ten years later under sixtus iv as the societas literatorum s. victoris in esquiliis ("literary society of saint victor on the esquiline"). the reformed group placed itself under the new patronage of saints victor, fortunatus, and genesius, "whose feast day was conveniently proven to coincide with the palilia". their "palilia" was organized by pomponio leto and featured speeches, a communal meal, and a poetry competition.[ ] references[edit] 	^ a b c livy ( ). "the earliest legends". from the founding of the city . translated by canon roberts. book . – .   – via wikisource. 	^ livy ( ). the early history of rome. penguin books ltd. isbn  - - - - . 	^ "the capitoline wolf". joy of museums. retrieved september . 	^ a b c "turnus". encyclopædia britannica. retrieved - - . 	^ harrison, robert pogue ( ). forests: the shadow of civilization. university of chicago press. p.  . 	^ strabo, geography, . . – gr 	^ strabo, geography, . . – en 	^ dionysius of halicarnassus, roman antiquities, . . – . . this article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. 	^ dionysius of halicarnassus, roman antiquities, . . 	^ dionysius of halicarnassus, roman antiquities, . 	^ goldberg, epic in republican rome, , p. - . 	^ nilsson, olympen, , p. . 	^ julian : the caesars, 	^ dionysius of halicarnassus, roman antiquities . 	^ dionysius of halicarnassus, roman antiquities . 	^ gary forsythe, a critical history of early rome (berkeley: university of california, ), p.  	^ a b anthony grafton and noel swerdlow, "technical chronology and astrological history in varro, censorinus, and others", classical quarterly, n.s. ( ), p.  - 	^ cf. jean-jacques rousseau, the social contract, book iv, chapter iv, written in , where he writes in a footnote that the word for rome is greek in origin and means force. "there are writers who say that the name 'rome' is derived from 'romulus'. it is in fact greek and means force." 	^ a b baldi, philip ( ). the foundations of latin. walter de gruyter. pp.  – . 	^ heiken, g., funiciello, r. and de rita, d. ( ), the seven hills of rome: a geological tour of the eternal city. princeton university press 	^ a b coarelli ( ) p. 	^ angela fritsen, "ludovico lazzarelli's fasti christianae religionis: recipient and context of an ovidian poem," in myricae: essays on neo-latin literature in memory of jozef ijsewijn (leuven university press, ), pp. – . further reading[edit] 	coarelli, f. . guida archeologica di roma. . ed. varia grandi opere. [milano]: a. mondadori. 	caradini, andrea. . rome: day one. princeton: princeton university press. 	forsythe, gary. . a critical history of early rome: from prehistory to the first punic war. berkeley: university of california press. 	fromentin, valérie and sophie gotteland, ed. . origines gentium, collection etudes . bordeaux: editions ausonius. 	lintott, andrew. . the romans in the age of augustus. the peoples of europe. chichester/malden, ma: wiley-blackwell. 	raaflaub, kurt a, and tim cornell. . social struggles in archaic rome : new perspectives on the conflict of the orders. berkeley: university of california press. 	schultze, c. e. . "dionysius of halicarnassus and roman chronology." cambridge classical journal : – . 	serres, michel. . rome: the book of foundations. trans. felicia mccarren. stanford: stanford university press. 	slayman, andrew. . "fact or legend? debate over the origins of rome – were romulus and remus historical figures?." archaeology . : – . 	wiseman, t.p. . remus: a roman myth. cambridge: cambridge university press. 	wiseman, t. p. . the myths of rome. exeter: university of exeter press. external links[edit] 	library resources about founding of rome 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	history of rome by theodor mommsen 		v 	t 	e ancient rome topics 	 	outline 	timeline 	history	 	 	foundation 	kingdom 	overthrow 	republic 	empire	 	history 	pax romana 	principate 	dominate 	western empire 	fall 	historiography of the fall 	byzantine empire 	decline 	fall 	constitution	 	history 	kingdom 	republic 	empire 	late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	curiate 	centuriate 	tribal 	plebeian 	executive magistrates 	spqr 	law	 	twelve tables 	mos maiorum 	citizenship 	auctoritas 	imperium 	status 	litigation 	government	 	curia 	forum 	cursus honorum 	collegiality 	emperor 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( ) by john william waterhouse 	born	c. bc sinope 	died	 bc (aged roughly ) corinth 	 	era	ancient greek philosophy 	region	western philosophy 	school	cynicism 	main interests 	asceticism, cynicism 	notable ideas 	 	cynic philosophy 	cosmopolitanism 	solvitur ambulando 	 influences 	antisthenes, socrates 	 influenced 	crates of thebes, other cynics, epicurus, the stoics, wolfi landstreicher, han ryner, michel onfray, søren kierkegaard, nietzsche 	 diogenes (/daɪˈɒdʒɪniːz/ dy-oj-in-eez; ancient greek: Διογένης, romanized: diogénēs [di.oɡénɛ͜ɛs]), also known as diogenes the cynic (Διογένης ὁ Κυνικός, diogénēs ho kynikós), was a greek philosopher and one of the founders of cynic philosophy. he was born in sinope, an ionian colony on the black sea coast of modern day turkey,[ ] in or bc and died at corinth in bc.[ ] diogenes was a controversial figure. his father minted coins for a living, and diogenes was banished from sinope when he took to debasement of currency.[ ] after being exiled, he moved to athens and criticized many cultural conventions of the city. he modelled himself on the example of heracles, and believed that virtue was better revealed in action than in theory. he used his simple lifestyle and behaviour to criticize the social values and institutions of what he saw as a corrupt, confused society. he had a reputation for sleeping and eating wherever he chose in a highly non-traditional fashion, and took to toughening himself against nature. he declared himself a cosmopolitan and a citizen of the world rather than claiming allegiance to just one place. there are many tales about his dog antisthenes' footsteps and becoming his "faithful hound".[ ] diogenes searching for an honest man ( – ) by giovanni benedetto castiglione held at the national gallery of art diogenes made a virtue of poverty. he begged for a living and often slept in a large ceramic jar, or pithos, in the marketplace.[ ] he became notorious for his philosophical stunts, such as carrying a lamp during the day, claiming to be looking for a man (often rendered in english as "looking for an honest man"). he criticized plato, disputed his interpretation of socrates, and sabotaged his lectures, sometimes distracting listeners by bringing food and eating during the discussions. diogenes was also noted for having mocked alexander the great, both in public and to his face when he visited corinth in bc.[ ][ ][ ] diogenes was captured by pirates and sold into slavery, eventually settling in corinth. there he passed his philosophy of cynicism to crates, who taught it to zeno of citium, who fashioned it into the school of stoicism, one of the most enduring schools of greek philosophy. no writings of diogenes survive but there are some details of his life from anecdotes (chreia), especially from diogenes laërtius' book lives and opinions of eminent philosophers and some other sources.[ ] contents 	 life 	 . in athens 	 . in corinth 	 . diogenes and alexander 	 . death 	 philosophy 	 . cynicism 	 . obscenity 	 . diogenes as dogged or dog-like 	 . contemporary theory 	 diogenes syndrome 	 depictions 	 . art 	 . comics 	 . literature 	 references 	 sources 	 further reading 	 external links life[edit] 	part of a series on 	individualism 	 topics and concepts 	autonomy 	civil liberties 	do it yourself 	eremitism 	free love 	freethought 	human rights 	individual 	individual rights 	individual reclamation 	individuation 	laissez-faire 	libertine 	liberty 	methodological individualism 	negative liberty 	personal property 	positive liberty 	private property 	self-actualization 	self-ownership 	self-sufficiency 	subjectivity 	 thinkers 	antiphon 	aristippus 	aristotle 	armand 	camus 	diogenes 	emerson 	epicurus 	godwin 	goldman 	hayek 	hess 	igualada 	jefferson 	laozi 	libertad 	locke 	hipparchia 	mencken 	mill 	mises 	montaigne 	nietzsche 	novatore 	nozick 	onfray 	palante 	quelle 	rand 	rothbard 	ryner 	sade 	schopenhauer 	smith 	spencer 	spooner 	stirner 	thoreau 	tucker 	walker 	warren 	wilde 	zeno 	yang 	 philosophies 	autarchism 	anarchism 	individualist anarchism 	egoist anarchism 	left-wing market anarchism 	social anarchism 	anarcho-capitalism 	egoism 	ethical egoism 	rational egoism 	existentialism 	hedonism 	humanism 	individualist feminism 	equity feminism 	liberal feminism 	liberalism 	classical liberalism 	libertarianism 	left-libertarianism 	libertarian socialism 	right-libertarianism 	minarchism 	mutualism 	objectivism 	voluntaryism 	 principal concerns 	anti-individualism 	authoritarianism 	collectivism 	conformity 	dogmatism 	group rights 	herd mentality 	indoctrination 	mass society 	mobbing 	social engineering 	statism 	tyranny 	tyranny of the majority 	theocracy 	totalitarianism 		v 	t 	e nothing is known about diogenes' early life except that his father, hicesias, was a banker.[ ] it seems likely that diogenes was also enrolled into the banking business aiding his father. at some point (the exact date is unknown), hicesias and diogenes became involved in a scandal involving the adulteration or debasement of the currency,[ ] and diogenes was exiled from the city and lost his citizenship and all his material possessions.[ ][ ] this aspect of the story seems to be corroborated by archaeology: large numbers of defaced coins (smashed with a large chisel stamp) have been discovered at sinope dating from the middle of the th century bc, and other coins of the time bear the name of hicesias as the official who minted them.[ ] during this time there was much counterfeit money circulating in sinope.[ ] the coins were deliberately defaced in order to render them worthless as legal tender.[ ] sinope was being disputed between pro-persian and pro-greek factions in the th century, and there may have been political rather than financial motives behind the act. in athens[edit] diogenes sitting in his tub by jean-léon gérôme ( ) according to one story,[ ] diogenes went to the oracle at delphi to ask for her advice and was told that he should "deface the currency". following the debacle in sinope, diogenes decided that the oracle meant that he should deface the political currency rather than actual coins. he traveled to athens and made it his life's goal to challenge established customs and values. he argued that instead of being troubled about the true nature of evil, people merely rely on customary interpretations. this distinction between nature ("physis") and custom ("nomos") is a favourite theme of ancient greek philosophy, and one that plato takes up in the republic, in the legend of the ring of gyges.[ ] diogenes arrived in athens with a slave named manes who escaped from him shortly thereafter. with characteristic humor, diogenes dismissed his ill fortune by saying, "if manes can live without diogenes, why not diogenes without manes?"[ ] diogenes would mock such a relation of extreme dependency. he found the figure of a master who could do nothing for himself contemptibly helpless. he was attracted by the ascetic teaching of antisthenes, a student of socrates. when diogenes asked antisthenes to mentor him, antisthenes ignored him and reportedly "eventually beat him off with his staff".[ ] diogenes responds, "strike, for you will find no wood hard enough to keep me away from you, so long as i think you've something to say."[ ] diogenes became antisthenes' pupil, despite the brutality with which he was initially received.[ ] whether the two ever really met is still uncertain,[ ][ ][ ] but he surpassed his master in both reputation and the austerity of his life. he considered his avoidance of earthly pleasures a contrast to and commentary on contemporary athenian behaviors. this attitude was grounded in a disdain for what he regarded as the folly, pretence, vanity, self-deception, and artificiality of human conduct. diogenes searching for an honest man, attributed to j. h. w. tischbein (c. ) the stories told of diogenes illustrate the logical consistency of his character. he inured himself to the weather by living in a clay wine jar[ ][ ] belonging to the temple of cybele.[ ] he destroyed the single wooden bowl he possessed on seeing a peasant boy drink from the hollow of his hands. he then exclaimed: "fool that i am, to have been carrying superfluous baggage all this time!"[ ][ ] it was contrary to athenian customs to eat within the marketplace, and still he would eat there, for, as he explained when rebuked, it was during the time he was in the marketplace that he felt hungry. he used to stroll about in full daylight with a lamp; when asked what he was doing, he would answer, "i am looking for a man."[ ] (modern sources often say that diogenes was looking for an "honest man", but in ancient sources he is simply "looking for a human" – "ἄνθρωπον ζητῶ".[ ] the unreasoning behavior of the people around him means that they do not qualify as human.) diogenes looked for a human being but reputedly found nothing but rascals and scoundrels.[ ] according to diogenes laërtius, when plato gave the tongue-in-cheek[ ] definition of man as "featherless bipeds," diogenes plucked a chicken and brought it into plato's academy, saying, "behold! i've brought you a man," and so the academy added "with broad flat nails" to the definition.[ ] in corinth[edit] according to a story which seems to have originated with menippus of gadara,[ ] diogenes was captured by pirates while on voyage to aegina and sold as a slave in crete to a corinthian named xeniades. being asked his trade, he replied that he knew no trade but that of governing men, and that he wished to be sold to a man who needed a master. xeniades liked his spirit and hired diogenes to tutor his children. as tutor to xeniades's two sons,[ ] it is said that he lived in corinth for the rest of his life, which he devoted to preaching the doctrines of virtuous self-control. there are many stories about what actually happened to him after his time with xeniades's two sons. there are stories stating he was set free after he became "a cherished member of the household", while one says he was set free almost immediately, and still another states that "he grew old and died at xeniades's house in corinth."[ ] he is even said to have lectured to large audiences at the isthmian games.[ ] although most of the stories about his living in a jar[ ] are located in athens, there are some accounts of his living in a jar near the craneum gymnasium in corinth: a report that philip was marching on the town had thrown all corinth into a bustle; one was furbishing his arms, another wheeling stones, a third patching the wall, a fourth strengthening a battlement, every one making himself useful somehow or other. diogenes having nothing to do—of course no one thought of giving him a job—was moved by the sight to gather up his philosopher's cloak and begin rolling his tub-dwelling energetically up and down the craneum; an acquaintance asked, and got, the explanation: "i do not want to be thought the only idler in such a busy multitude; i am rolling my tub to be like the rest."[ ] diogenes and alexander[edit] alexander the great visits diogenes at corinth by w. matthews ( ) main article: diogenes and alexander it was in corinth that a meeting between alexander the great and diogenes is supposed to have taken place.[ ] these stories may be apocryphal. the accounts of plutarch and diogenes laërtius recount that they exchanged only a few words: while diogenes was relaxing in the morning sunlight, alexander, thrilled to meet the famous philosopher, asked if there was any favour he might do for him. diogenes replied, "yes, stand out of my sunlight." alexander then declared, "if i were not alexander, then i should wish to be diogenes." "if i were not diogenes, i would still wish to be diogenes," diogenes replied.[ ][ ][ ] in another account of the conversation, alexander found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones. diogenes explained, "i am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave."[ ] death[edit] there are conflicting accounts of diogenes' death. his contemporaries alleged he had held his breath until he expired; although other accounts of his death say he had become ill from eating raw octopus;[ ] or to have suffered an infected dog bite.[ ] when asked how he wished to be buried, he left instructions to be thrown outside the city wall so wild animals could feast on his body. when asked if he minded this, he said, "not at all, as long as you provide me with a stick to chase the creatures away!" when asked how he could use the stick since he would lack awareness, he replied: "if i lack awareness, then why should i care what happens to me when i am dead?"[ ] in the end, diogenes made fun of people's excessive concern with the "proper" treatment of the dead. the corinthians erected to his memory a pillar on which rested a dog of parian marble.[ ] philosophy[edit] cynicism[edit] diogenes ( ) by jules bastien-lepage along with antisthenes and crates of thebes, diogenes is considered one of the founders of cynicism. the ideas of diogenes, like those of most other cynics, must be arrived at indirectly. no writings of diogenes survive even though he is reported to have authored over ten books, a volume of letters and seven tragedies.[ ] cynic ideas are inseparable from cynic practice; therefore what we know about diogenes is contained in anecdotes concerning his life and sayings attributed to him in a number of scattered classical sources. diogenes maintained that all the artificial growths of society were incompatible with happiness and that morality implies a return to the simplicity of nature. so great was his austerity and simplicity that the stoics would later claim him to be a wise man or "sophos". in his words, "humans have complicated every simple gift of the gods."[ ] although socrates had previously identified himself as belonging to the world, rather than a city,[ ] diogenes is credited with the first known use of the word "cosmopolitan". when he was asked from where he came, he replied, "i am a citizen of the world (cosmopolites)".[ ] this was a radical claim in a world where a man's identity was intimately tied to his citizenship of a particular city-state. an exile and an outcast, a man with no social identity, diogenes made a mark on his contemporaries. plato and diogenes ( th century) by mattia preti diogenes had nothing but disdain for plato and his abstract philosophy.[ ] diogenes viewed antisthenes as the true heir to socrates, and shared his love of virtue and indifference to wealth,[ ] together with a disdain for general opinion.[ ] diogenes shared socrates's belief that he could function as doctor to men's souls and improve them morally, while at the same time holding contempt for their obtuseness. plato once described diogenes as "a socrates gone mad."[ ] obscenity[edit] diogenes taught by living example. he tried to demonstrate that wisdom and happiness belong to the man who is independent of society and that civilization is regressive. he scorned not only family and socio-political organization, but also property rights and reputation. he even rejected normal ideas about human decency. diogenes is said to have eaten in the marketplace,[ ] urinated on some people who insulted him,[ ] defecated in the theatre,[ ] and masturbated in public. when asked about his eating in public he said, "if taking breakfast is nothing out of place, then it is nothing out of place in the marketplace. but taking breakfast is nothing out of place, therefore it is nothing out of place to take breakfast in the marketplace." [ ] on the indecency of his masturbating in public he would say, "if only it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing my belly."[ ][ ] diogenes as dogged or dog-like[edit] many anecdotes of diogenes refer to his dog-like behavior, and his praise of a dog's virtues. it is not known whether diogenes was insulted with the epithet "doggish" and made a virtue of it, or whether he first took up the dog theme himself. when asked why he was called a dog he replied, "i fawn on those who give me anything, i yelp at those who refuse, and i set my teeth in rascals."[ ] diogenes believed human beings live artificially and hypocritically and would do well to study the dog. besides performing natural body functions in public with ease, a dog will eat anything, and make no fuss about where to sleep. dogs live in the present without anxiety, and have no use for the pretensions of abstract philosophy. in addition to these virtues, dogs are thought to know instinctively who is friend and who is foe.[ ] unlike human beings who either dupe others or are duped, dogs will give an honest bark at the truth. diogenes stated that "other dogs bite their enemies, i bite my friends to save them."[ ] statue of diogenes at his birthplace in sinop, turkey the term "cynic" itself derives from the greek word κυνικός, kynikos, "dog-like" and that from κύων, kyôn, "dog" (genitive: kynos).[ ] one explanation offered in ancient times for why the cynics were called dogs was that antisthenes taught in the cynosarges gymnasium at athens.[ ] the word cynosarges means the place of the white dog. later cynics also sought to turn the word to their advantage, as a later commentator explained: there are four reasons why the cynics are so named. first because of the indifference of their way of life, for they make a cult of indifference and, like dogs, eat and make love in public, go barefoot, and sleep in tubs and at crossroads. the second reason is that the dog is a shameless animal, and they make a cult of shamelessness, not as being beneath modesty, but as superior to it. the third reason is that the dog is a good guard, and they guard the tenets of their philosophy. the fourth reason is that the dog is a discriminating animal which can distinguish between its friends and enemies. so do they recognize as friends those who are suited to philosophy, and receive them kindly, while those unfitted they drive away, like dogs, by barking at them.[ ] as noted (see death), diogenes' association with dogs was memorialized by the corinthians, who erected to his memory a pillar on which rested a dog of parian marble.[ ] contemporary theory[edit] diogenes is discussed in a book by german philosopher peter sloterdijk (english language publication in ). in sloterdijk's critique of cynical reason, diogenes is used as an example of sloterdijk's idea of the "kynical" – in which personal degradation is used for purposes of community comment or censure. calling the practice of this tactic "kynismos", sloterdijk theorizes that the kynical actor actually embodies the message he is trying to convey and that the kynical actor's goal is typically a false regression that mocks authority – especially authority that the kynical actor considers corrupt, suspect or unworthy.[ ] there is another discussion of diogenes and the cynics in michel foucault's book fearless speech. here foucault discusses diogenes' antics in relation to the speaking of truth (parrhesia) in the ancient world. foucault expands this reading in his last course at the collège de france, the courage of truth. in this course foucault tries to establish an alternative conception of militancy and revolution through a reading of diogenes and cynicism.[ ] diogenes syndrome[edit] main article: diogenes syndrome diogenes' name has been applied to a behavioural disorder characterised by apparently involuntary self-neglect and hoarding.[ ] the disorder afflicts the elderly and is quite inappropriately named, as diogenes deliberately rejected common standards of material comfort, and was anything but a hoarder.[ ] depictions[edit] art[edit] alexander and diogenes by caspar de crayer (c. ) statue of diogenes with alexander the great in corinth both in ancient and in modern times, diogenes' personality has appealed strongly to sculptors and to painters. ancient busts exist in the museums of the vatican, the louvre, and the capitol. the interview between diogenes and alexander is represented in an ancient marble bas-relief found in the villa albani. among artists who have painted the famous encounter of diogenes with alexander, there are works by de crayer, de vos, assereto, langetti, sevin, sebastiano ricci, gandolfi, johann christian thomas wink [de], abildgaard, monsiau, martin, and daumier. the famous story of diogenes searching for an "honest man" has been depicted by jordaens, van everdingen, van der werff, pannini, steen and corinth. others who have painted him with his famous lantern include de ribera, castiglione, petrini, gérôme, bastien-lepage, and waterhouse. the scene in which diogenes discards his cup has been painted by poussin, rosa, and martin; and the story of diogenes begging from a statue has been depicted by restout. in raphael's fresco the school of athens, a lone reclining figure in the foreground represents diogenes.[ ] diogenes, c. , ugo da carpi, parmigianino in the collection of the national gallery of art, washington, dc. diogenes has also been the subject of sculptures, with famous bas-relief images by puget and pajou. comics[edit] in the adventures of nero album het zeespook ( ) nero meets a character who claims to be diogenes. two scenes in the comic depict famous anecdotes of diogenes' life, namely the moment when he was looking for a human and the moment when he asked alexander to get out of his sun. he is also portrayed living in a barrel.[ ] in the suske en wiske album de mottenvanger suske and wiske travel back to ancient greece, where they meet diogenes.[ ] literature[edit] a th century depiction of diogenes diogenes is referred to in anton chekhov's story "ward no. "; william blake's the marriage of heaven and hell; françois rabelais' gargantua and pantagruel; goethe's poem genialisch treiben; denis diderot's philosophical novella rameau's nephew; as well as in the first sentence of søren kierkegaard's novelistic treatise repetition. the story of diogenes and the lamp is referenced by the character foma fomitch in fyodor dostoevsky's "the friend of the family" as well as "the idiot". in cervantes' short story "the man of glass" ("el licenciado vidriera"), part of the novelas ejemplares collection, the (anti-)hero unaccountably begins to channel diogenes in a string of tart chreiai once he becomes convinced that he is made of glass. diogenes gives his own life and opinions in christoph martin wieland's novel socrates mainomenos ( ; english translation socrates out of his senses, ). diogenes is the primary model for the philosopher didactylos in terry pratchett's small gods. he is mimicked by a beggar-spy in jacqueline carey's kushiel's scion and paid tribute to with a costume in a party by the main character in its sequel, kushiel's justice. the character lucy snowe in charlotte brontë's novel villette is given the nickname diogenes. diogenes also features in part four of elizabeth smart's by grand central station i sat down and wept. he is a figure in seamus heaney's the haw lantern. in christopher moore's lamb: the gospel according to biff, christ's childhood pal, one of jesus' apostles is a devotee of diogenes, complete with his own pack of dogs which he refers to as his own disciples. his story opens the first chapter of dolly freed's book possum living.[ ] the dog that paul dombey befriends in charles dickens' dombey and son is called diogenes. alexander's meeting with diogenes is portrayed in valerio manfredi's (alexander trilogy) "the ends of the earth".[ ] william s. burroughs has been described as "diogenes with a knife and gun." [ ] the many allusions to dogs in shakespeare's timon of athens are references to the school of cynicism that could be interpreted as suggesting a parallel between the misanthropic hermit, timon, and diogenes; but shakespeare would have had access to michel de montaigne's essay, "of democritus and heraclitus", which emphasised their differences: timon actively wishes men ill and shuns them as dangerous, whereas diogenes esteems them so little that contact with them could not disturb him.[ ] "timonism" is in fact often contrasted with "cynicism": "cynics saw what people could be and were angered by what they had become; timonists felt humans were hopelessly stupid & uncaring by nature and so saw no hope for change."[ ] the philosopher's name was adopted by the fictional diogenes club, an organization that sherlock holmes' brother mycroft holmes belongs to in the story "the greek interpreter" by sir arthur conan doyle. it is called such as its members are educated, yet untalkative and have a dislike of socialising, much like the philosopher himself[citation needed]. the group is the focus of a number of holmes pastiches by kim newman. in the rodgers and hart musical the boys from syracuse ( ), the song oh diogenes!—which extols the philosopher's virtues—contains the lyrics "there was an old zany/ who lived in a tub;/ he had so many flea-bites / he didn't know where to rub." references[edit] 	^ a b c d diogenes of sinope "the zen of disengagement: diogene of sinope". voice in the wilderness. archived from the original on - - . 	^ laërtius & hicks , vi: , plutarch, moralia, c. says that he died on the same day as alexander the great, which puts his death at bc. diogenes laërtius's statement that diogenes died "nearly " would put his year of birth at bc. but censorinus (de die natali, . ) says that he died at age , which puts his year of birth at bc. the suda puts his birth at the time of the thirty tyrants, which also gives bc. 	^ diogenes laërtius, vi. , , ; 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a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 deforestation during the roman period - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	deforestation during the roman period 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		deforestation during the roman period was a result of the geographical expansion of the roman empire, with its increased population, large-scale agriculture, and unprecedented economic development. roman expansion marks the transition in the mediterranean from prehistory (around , bc) to the historical period beginning around bc. earth sustained a few million people , years ago and was still fundamentally pristine,[ ] but rome drove human development in western europe and was a leading contributor of the deforestation around the mediterranean.[ ] contents 	 causes 	 . housing and building 	 . fuel 	 . agriculture 	 . animals and overgrazing 	 . military 	 . shipbuilding 	 . urbanization 	 consequences of deforestation 	 . soil 	 . flooding/harbors and ports 	 . reflections and awareness 	 interpretations 	 . conjecture on roman collapse 	 . alternative view 	 see also 	 references 	 sources 	 further reading causes[edit] housing and building[edit] the most basic building supply in the roman time period was wood. trees were cut to house increasing populations throughout the roman empire. while some mediterranean houses were built with brick and stone, roof structures, covered with tiles, as well as the floors in multistory apartment buildings were often made of wood.[ ] it is estimated that at one point the roman empire had a population of . million people and an estimated one million or more in rome alone (a population that was not matched in size in europe until london in the th century).[ ][ ] with such a large population increase, coupled with an enhancement of exuberant lifestyles and a high standard of living for the urbanized communities of the roman world, resource consumption increased.[citation needed] fuel[edit] wood was a primary source of heating and used extensively in industry. wood fuel constituted about percent of the consumption overall,[citation needed] and was a major factor in roman deforestation. wood was essential fuel in industries like mining, smelting, and the making of ceramics.[ ] wood and charcoal were the primary ancient fuels in public facilities, households, public baths and industries that produced light and heat.[citation needed] forest areas around mining centers were deforested first, consuming all natural resources around the area of work. once all the natural resources around the area of production were consumed, wood was then shipped and carried in to supply the furnaces and smelters for the mining centers. eventually, these centers would shut down and move to areas within roman territory to repeat the same cycle of deforestation, supplying an ever-growing population and consumption demand.[citation needed] agriculture[edit] agriculture was the economic base for the roman empire. with an ever-increasing population, the clearing of land for crops was a primary cause of initial deforestation. human hands gave way to the iron plough and the use of animals to clear dense forests to utilize the rich topsoil.[ ] agriculture produced commodities that contributed to the economic prosperity of the romans, who relied on the crops produced from the slaves/landowners. as a result, in bc roman law allowed anyone who occupied public land of up to acres ( ,  m ) to keep it, provided it was brought into cultivation.[ ] this type of policy created widespread clearing and reflected the importance of agriculture, not only to the affluent, but also to citizens, to the military and to merchants engaged in trade with other regions. in chapter ("roman soil erosion") of the book by way of the soil by guy theodore wrench, the author describes the devastating effects which widespread deforestation and the subsequent overworking of the land to grow increasing amounts of grain for the roman empire's burgeoning population had on the land: animals and overgrazing[edit] a major contributor to the environmental degradation and barrier to the regeneration of forests was the grazing of domestic animals. animals grazed and destroyed land areas unsuitable for cultivation.[ ] the consumption of hillside plants and young trees caused erosion, stripping hillsides of soils and eventually exposing bare rock. silt and gravel would wash down off the hills and mountains creating other problems such as flooding, siltation, and filled-in marshlands.[ ] military[edit] with natural resources dwindling, maintaining a strong military for the conquering of new lands was vital in roman times. military campaigns devastated the countryside. some farmers were forced to fight instead of caring for the land. when natural resources were depleted in already occupied regions of the roman empire, the military was sent to not only to defend lands of the romans, but also to accumulate other areas of interest that had a plentiful supply of timber to accommodate the needs of the roman economy. julius caesar himself ordered troops to cut down forests to prevent sneak attacks.[ ] deforestation ensured that the forests could not provide cover and camouflage for rome's enemies. the size of the standing army was about , and increased to , toward the late empire period.[ ] roman legions deforested areas where they camped or marched to reduce the cover where their adversaries could hide and or mount a sneak attack.[ ] the military utilized these resources and built fortresses, along with tools and transportation to carry supplies where needed. shipbuilding[edit] shipbuilding was a major contributor to deforestation and was of great economic and military significance. the importance attached to the supply of timber for building ships cannot be denied; ships were crucial to the burgeoning economic life of the mediterranean, and sea power was vital in the exercise of political control.[ ] warships had priority over merchant vessels in competition for materials.[ ] thousands of ships were built during this classical period. at times of war, hundreds could be built within a month. this put tremendous pressure on supply of usable timbers. consequently, one effect of shipbuilding centers was the scarcity of timber in their immediate areas. then, after immediate areas were depleted of wood resources, the transportation of wood timbers from other areas was the next option. transportation was expensive, but increasing numbers of ships were needed to maintain naval dominance. urbanization[edit] early urbanization of rome and surrounding areas was focused around the ability to obtain natural resources. lowland areas and areas close to water transports were highly urbanized first, but as population increased along with trade and manufacturing, imperial expansion and colonization of conquered territories was needed. the environment underwent drastic degradation as pollution from the burning of fuelwood filled the air and smelters that used wood as fuel transmitted heavy metals into the atmosphere. the creation of large cities contributed to deforestation in the classical world. overcrowding forced citizens to move to the hillsides where forests once stood to build their homes.[ ] consequences of deforestation[edit] soil[edit] with an increased demand for resources and food, constant pressure was put upon the land and soil to provide food for a growing economy. regular clearing and plowing exhausted existing soil, which eventually became infertile. runoff and eroded soil from deforested hillsides increased the amount of silt and impeded the flow of water into agricultural areas.[ ] eventually, due to the mediterranean climate and the increased depletion of soil nutrients from hundreds of years of harvesting, yields diminished.[ ] rainwater that had been locked into the soil through vegetation and forests was now running off too quickly, with each raindrop unprotected by plants or by a litter layer.[ ] flooding/harbors and ports[edit] erosion accelerated up to twentyfold in the rd century, creating unusable marshlands, which spread diseases such as malaria. flooding from runoff disrupted water supply to natural springs and rivers, but also increased siltation to coastal areas and harbours at river deltas. rains washed away the unprotected earth and greatly altered coastlines, in some cases, pushing them many miles farther out to sea as in the case around the mouths of the po river.[ ] the washing away of topsoil and deposits of silt and gravel meant that harbors and ports needed to be moved, causing further burden upon the economy. even in the city of rome, floods covered the lower parts of the city and backed up the sewers. the first such flood was noted in bc; records indicate increased flooding of the river from that time onward.[ ] reflections and awareness[edit] clearing for agricultural needs and for heat was a necessity for long-term survival in roman times, though there is a debate as to whether the romans understood the implications of deforestation. richard grove said, "states will act to prevent environmental degradation only when their economic interests are shown to be directly threatened." the romans did have some forms of ecological conservation though. recycling of glassware was practiced along with architectural design that utilized solar heating. forests were also under government regulations and protected for future resources.[ ] unfortunately, these attempts may have been too little too late. in the th century bc plato complained that "the loss of timber had denuded the hills and plains surrounding athens and caused massive soil erosion."[ ] cicero also noted "we (humans) are the masters of what the earth produces," and "all things in this world which men employ have been created and provided for the sake of men."[ ] interpretations[edit] conjecture on roman collapse[edit] further information: decline of the roman empire tainter argued that "deforestation did not cause the roman collapse,"[ ] but that one could make a case as to being a part of it. as williams wrote, it is more likely that constant war, ravaging epidemics, rebellion, invasion from outside, a declining population, and an excessive degree of urbanization, separately or in combination, operated on the land in an empire that had extended beyond its means.[ ] in the environmental book life without oil by steve hallett, the author argues that the collapse of the roman empire may have been linked to a peak wood scenario in the mediterranean basin. he suggests that, as wood had to be hauled from ever further away, the law of diminishing returns undermined the economic performance of roman industry, leaving rome vulnerable to the other, well documented problems of invasion and internal division. they discuss this as cautionary tale comparing it to contemporary society's potential fate under a post-peak oil scenario.[ ] alternative view[edit] some argue that almost all of the above is based on an unhistorical projection of present concerns, onto the past.[ ] this alternative view argues that there are immense complexities of time, space, climate, geology and topography which, when combined with our extremely fragmentary information, makes generalizations almost impossible. tree crops, dates, figs, olives, chestnuts etc., played a very important role in roman agriculture. grains were often intercultivated with these tree crops. almost all species of trees grow again when cut down. cutting down a wood does not, by itself, destroy woodland. coppicing is one way in which wood could be harvested on a sustainable basis for example. hypocausts were pre-adapted to burn poor quality fuels like straw as well as coal. there is a good reason to believe that both straw and coal were important fuels in antiquity, especially in roman britain where coal was abundant in many areas. a great deal of protection against soil erosion arises from terracing hillsides. we do not know how extensive terraces were in antiquity but a good deal of the soil erosion here assumed to be caused by the romans, may well date to the dark ages when the maintenance of terraces broke down. changes in tree cover may well arise from differences in climate, which are still not well understood. but there is some evidence that the decline of the roman west is linked to climate change.[ ] slash and burn agriculture, associated with lower populations than the roman period, can be at least as responsible for deforestation and soil erosion as roman agriculture. coastal marshes can be caused by sea level changes quite as much as soil erosion. there may be reasons to believe that tree diseases as early as , years ago caused the elm decline but that this 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free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		ancient greek historian "diodorus" redirects here. for other uses, see diodorus (disambiguation). 	diodorus siculus 	diodorus siculus as depicted in a th-century fresco 	born	c.  bc agira, sicily 	died	c.  bc (aged ) 	known for	bibliotheca historica 	scientific career 	fields	history 	influenced		jerome 	charles henry oldfather 	 diodorus siculus (/ˌdaɪəˈdɔːrəs ˈsɪkjʊləs/; koinē greek: Διόδωρος Σικελιώτης diodoros sikeliotes) (fl.  st century bc) or diodorus of sicily was an ancient greek historian. he is known for writing the monumental universal history bibliotheca historica, in forty books, fifteen of which survive intact,[ ] between and bc. the history broke new ground in not being hellenocentric, partly because of stoic influences on his belief in the brotherhood of all men.[ ] the history is arranged in three parts. the first covers mythic history up to the destruction of troy, arranged geographically, describing regions around the world from egypt, india and arabia to europe. the second covers the time from the trojan war to the death of alexander the great. the third covers the period to about bc. bibliotheca, meaning 'library', acknowledges that he was drawing on the work of many other authors. contents 	 life 	 work 	 . details 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links life[edit] according to his own work, he was born at agyrium in sicily (now called agira).[ ] with one exception, antiquity affords no further information about his life and doings beyond in his work. only jerome, in his chronicon under the "year of abraham " ( bc), writes, "diodorus of sicily, a writer of greek history, became illustrious". however, his english translator, charles henry oldfather, remarks on the "striking coincidence"[ ] that one of only two known greek inscriptions from agyrium (inscriptiones graecae xiv, ) is the tombstone of one "diodorus, the son of apollonius".[ ] work[edit] main article: bibliotheca historica bibliotheca historica, diodorus' universal history, which he named bibliotheca historica (greek: Βιβλιοθήκη Ἱστορική, "historical library"), was immense and consisted of books, of which – and – survive:[ ] fragments of the lost books are preserved in photius and the excerpts of constantine porphyrogenitus. it was divided into three sections. the first six books treated the mythic history of the non-hellenic and hellenic tribes to the destruction of troy and are geographical in theme, and describe the history and culture of ancient egypt (book i), of mesopotamia, india, scythia, and arabia (ii), of north africa (iii), and of greece and europe (iv–vi). in the next section (books vii–xvii), he recounts the history of the world from the trojan war down to the death of alexander the great. the last section (books xvii to the end) concerns the historical events from the successors of alexander down to either bc or the beginning of julius caesar's gallic wars. (the end has been lost, so it is unclear whether diodorus reached the beginning of the gallic war as he promised at the beginning of his work or, as evidence suggests, old and tired from his labours he stopped short at bc.) he selected the name "bibliotheca" in acknowledgment that he was assembling a composite work from many sources. identified authors on whose works he drew include hecataeus of abdera, ctesias of cnidus, ephorus, theopompus, hieronymus of cardia, duris of samos, diyllus, philistus, timaeus, polybius, and posidonius. details[edit] 	his book on egypt, besides accounts of education, medicine, and egyptian animal worship,[ ] included the inscription of osymandias - “if anyone wishes to know how mighty i am and where i lie, let him surpass any of my works” - which was shelley’s inspiration for his poem ozymandias.[ ] 	diodorus provides a fuller account of the half-century preceding the peloponnesian war than thucydides, and a more extensive, and arguably less biased, account of fourth century greece than xenophon.[ ] 	diodorus also provides details of pytheas’s voyage to britain, including data about cornish mining, and the judgement that “the inhabitants of britain...are simple in their habits, and far removed from the cunning and knavishness of modern man”.[ ] 	his account of gold mining in nubia in eastern egypt (book iii chapters - )[ ] describes in vivid detail the use of slave labour in terrible working conditions, while he provides an equally sympathetic account of the slave mines in spain.[ ] karl marx in das kapital, for his account of the overworking of slave labour, wrote “only read diodorus siculus”.[ ] 	diodorus also gave an account of the gauls: "the gauls are terrifying in aspect and their voices are deep and altogether harsh; when they meet together they converse with few words and in riddles, hinting darkly at things for the most part and using one word when they mean another; and they like to talk in superlatives, to the end that they may extol themselves and depreciate all other men. they are also boasters and threateners and are fond of pompous language, and yet they have sharp wits and are not without cleverness at learning." (book )[ ] see also[edit] 	pliny the elder 	strabo 	acadine notes[edit] 	^ s usher, the historians of greece and rome (london ) p. 	^ s usher, the historians of greece and rome (london ) p. 	^ diod. history . . . 	^ diodorus of sicily in twelve volumes by charles henry oldfather ( ), introduction. 	^ ctesias' persian history: introduction, text, and translation by ctesias by jan p. stronk ( ), p. . 	^ "diodorus siculus" entry in the encyclopædia britannica. 	^ a r david, the egyptian kingdoms (oxford ) p. 	^ m macovski ed, dialogue and critical discourse (oup ) p. 	^ s usher, the historians of greece and rome (london ) p. 	^ m cary, the ancient explorers (penguin ) p. - 	^ "lacuscurtius • diodorus siculus — book iii chapters ‑ ". uchicago.edu. 	^ s usher, the historians of greece and rome (london ) p. 	^ k marx, capital (oup ) p. 	^ "lacuscurtius • diodorus siculus — book v chapters ‑ ". uchicago.edu. references[edit] 	ambaglio, dino, franca landucci gattinoni and luigi bravi. diodoro siculo: biblioteca storica: commento storico: introduzione generale. storia. ricerche. milano: v&p, . x, p. 	buckley, terry ( ). aspects of greek history - bc: a source-based approach. london: routledge. isbn  - - - . 	siculus, diodorus; oldfather, c. h. (translator) ( ). library of history: loeb classical library. cambridge, ma.: harvard university press. 	siculus, diodorus; g. booth (translator); h. valesius; i. rhodomannus; f. ursinus ( ). the historical library of diodorus the sicilian in fifteen books to which are added the fragments of diodorus. london: j. davis. downloadable via google books. 	siculi, diodori; peter wesseling (editor); l. rhodoman; g. heyn; n. eyring ( ). bibliothecae historicae libri qui supersunt: nova editio (in ancient greek and latin). argentorati: societas bipontina.cs maint: extra text: authors list (link) downloadable via google books. further reading[edit] 	braithwaite-westoby, kara. "diodorus and the alleged revolts of – bce," classical philology , no. (april ): - . 	clarke, katherine. . "universal perspectives in historiography." in the limits of historiography: genre and narrative in ancient historical texts. edited by christina shuttleworth kraus, – . mnemosyne. supplementum . leiden, the netherlands: brill. 	hammond, nicholas g. l. . "portents, prophecies, and dreams in diodorus’ books – ." greek, roman and byzantine studies . : – . 	mcqueen, earl i. . diodorus siculus. the reign of philip ii: the greek and macedonian narrative from book xvi. a companion. london: bristol classical press. 	muntz, charles e. . diodorus siculus and the world of the late roman republic. new york: oxford univ. press. 	pfuntner, laura. . "reading diodorus through photius: the case of the sicilian slave revolts." greek, roman and byzantine studies . : – . 	rubincam, catherine. . "the organization and composition of diodorus’ bibliotheke." Échos du monde classique (= classical views) : – . 	sacks, kenneth s. . diodorus siculus and the first century. princeton, nj: princeton univ. press. 	sinclair, robert k. . "diodorus siculus and the writing of history." proceedings of the african classical association : – . 	stronk, jan p. . semiramis’ legacy. the history of persia according to diodorus of sicily. edinburgh: edinburgh univ. press. 	sulimani, iris. . 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from about ce to ce, the european half of the empire only saw about . to . per cent annual growth (europe as a whole saw . per cent annual growth rates), and the north african and west asian parts of the empire saw almost no growth at all.[ ] by comparison, what is now the territory of china experienced . per cent annual growth from ce to ce. after population decline following the disintegration of the western half of the roman state in the fifth and sixth centuries, europe probably re-attained roman-era population totals in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and, following another decline associated with the black death, consistently exceeded them after the mid- th century.[ ] there are no reliable surviving records for the general demography of the roman empire. there are no detailed local records, such as underlie the demographic study of early modern europe, either. large numbers of impressionistic, moralizing, and anecdotal observations on demography survive from the literary sources. they are of little use in the study of roman demography, which tends to rely instead on conjecture and comparison, rather than records and observations.[ ] mortality[edit] when the high infant mortality rate is factored in (life expectancy at birth) inhabitants of the roman empire had a life expectancy at birth of about years. however, when infant mortality is factored out, life expectancy is doubled to the late- s. if a roman survived infancy to their mid-teens, they could, on average, expect near six decades of life, although of course many lived much longer or shorter lives for varied reasons.[clarification needed] although this figure relies more on conjecture than ancient evidence, which is sparse and of dubious quality, it is a point of general consensus among historians of the period. it originates in cross-country comparison: given the known social and economic conditions of the roman empire, we should expect a life expectancy near the lower bound of known pre-modern populations. roman demography bears comparison to available data for india and rural china in the early th century, where life expectancies at birth were also in the low s.[ ] about census returns filed in egypt in the first three centuries ce survive. r. bagnall and b. frier have used them to build female and male age distributions, which show life expectancies at birth of between and years, results broadly consistent with model life tables.[ ] other sources used for population reconstructions include cemetery skeletons, roman tombstones in north africa, and an annuities table known as "ulpian's life table". the basis and interpretation of these sources is disputed: the skeletons cannot be firmly dated, the tombstones show non-representative sample populations, and the sources of "ulpian's life table" are unknown. nonetheless, because they converge with low roman elite survival rates shown in the literary sources, and because their evidence is consistent with data from populations with comparably high mortality rates, such as in th century france, and early th century china, india, and egypt, they reinforce the basic assumption of roman demography: that life expectancies at birth were in the low s.[ ] as no population for which accurate observations survive has such a low life expectancy, model life tables must be used to understand this population's age demography. these models, based on historical data, describe 'typical' populations at different levels of mortality. for his demographic synopsis of the roman empire, bruce frier used the model west framework, as it is "the most generalized and widely applicable".[ ] because it is based on only one empirical input, the model life table can provide only a very approximate picture of roman demography. on two important points, the table may seriously misrepresent the roman situation: the structural relationship between juvenile and adult mortality, and the relative mortality rates across the sexes.[ ] in any case, roman mortality should be expected to have varied greatly across times, places, and perhaps classes.[ ][notes ] a variation of ten years would not have been unusual. a life expectancy range of between and years is therefore plausible,[ ] though it may have been exceeded in either direction in marginal regions (e.g., malarious urban districts on one end; high-altitude, low-density settlements on the other).[ ] 	model west, level : a possible life table for the roman empire 		females	males 	age	mortality	cohort	life expectancy	mortality	cohort	life expectancy 	 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 	 . 	 , 	 . 	 . 	 	 . 	 	 . 	 	 . 	 . 	 	 . 	 	 . 	 	 . 	 . 	 	 . 	 	 . 	 	 . 	 . 	 	 . 	after frier, "demography", , table .[notes ] the specifics of any ancient age distribution, moreover, would have seen heavy variation under the impact of local conditions.[ ] in pre-modern societies, the major cause of death was not the chronic, end-of-life conditions that characterize mortality in industrialized societies, nor primary malnutrition, but acute infectious disease, which has varied effects on age distributions in populations. pulmonary tuberculosis, for example, characterized much of the roman region in antiquity; its deaths tend to be concentrated in the early twenties, where model life tables show a mortality trough.[ ] similarly, in pre-modern societies for which evidence is available, such as early modern england and early eighteenth-century china, infant mortality varies independently of adult mortality, to the extent that equal life expectancies at age twenty can be obtained in societies with infant mortality rates of % to % (life table models omit this; they depend on the assumption that age-specific mortality ratios co-vary in uniform, predictable ratios).[ ] no ancient evidence can gauge this effect (the sources have a strong tendency to overlook infant death), and the model life tables might overstate it, but comparative evidence suggests that it is very high: mortality was strongly concentrated in the first years of life.[ ] mortality on this scale: ( ) discourages investment in human capital, hindering productivity growth (adolescent mortality rates in rome were two-thirds higher than in early modern britain); ( ) creates large numbers of dependent widows and orphans; and ( ) hinders long-term economic planning. with the prevalence of debilitating diseases, the number of effective working years was even worse: health-adjusted life expectancy (hale), the number of years lived in good health, varies from life expectancy by no more than % in modern societies; in high-mortality societies such as rome, it could be as much as one-sixth ( %) beneath total life expectancy. a hale of less than years would have left the empire with very depressed levels of economic productivity.[ ] fertility[edit] see also: childbirth and obstetrics in antiquity to maintain replacement levels under such a mortality regime—much less to achieve sustained growth—fertility figures needed to be very high. with life expectancies of twenty to thirty, women would have to give birth to between . and . children to maintain replacement levels. given elevated levels of divorce, widowhood, and sterility, however, the birth rate would have needed to be higher than that baseline, at around to children per woman.[ ] fertility could not long have either fallen below or outstripped replacement levels. a population which maintained an annual growth or decline of . % would double or halve itself every century. such rates are feasible locally or over a short period of time, and deaths could consistently outstrip births during epidemics, but, in the long term, convergence to maintenance levels was the rule.[ ] the surviving census returns from roman egypt speak to a population that had not yet undergone the "fertility transition"; artificial fertility controls like contraception and abortion were not widely used to alter natural fecundity in the roman period. only family limitation, in which couples ceased procreating after they had attained an acceptable level of children, could have been widespread.[ ] there is no indication that even this limitation was widespread, however; the recorded distribution shows no evidence of being governed by parity or maternal age.[ ] 	marital fertility in roman egypt 	age	roman egypt	natural fertility 	attested rates	gompertz model 	 – 	 	 	 	 – 	 	 	 	 – 	 	 	 	 – 	 	 	 	 – 	 	 	 	 – 	 	 	 	 – 	 	 	 	 – 	 	 	 	after frier, "natural fertility", , table .[notes ] imperial rome largely conforms to what is known as the "mediterranean" pattern of marital fertility: men married late and women married early.[ ] the evidence on marriage age is fairly robust for roman elites: men in the senatorial class were expected to marry in their early twenties; women were expected to marry in their early teens. according to the most plausible interpretation of the evidence from funerary commemoration, in the lower classes, women married in their late teens or early twenties, and men married in their late twenties or early thirties.[ ] the roman pattern thus stands in contrast to the "eastern" (i.e., east asian) pattern, in which both men and women married young.[ ] china, the major example of the "eastern" pattern, also had lower levels of fertility than rome. this was apparently achieved by a combination of prolonged breastfeeding, female infanticide, and male celibacy, though the details are controversial.[ ] roman families share some features of the "eastern" pattern. roman egypt, for example, had a custom of extended breastfeeding, which may have lengthened birth spacing. egyptian fertility levels are comparable to those recorded in the early modern japanese village nakahara, where about half the population practiced family limitation. on the historian walter scheidel's judgment, this speaks to the incidence of family limitation even in what are supposedly "natural fertility" regimes.[ ] roman and greek literary and legal tradition also makes frequent reference to the "eastern" demographic features infanticide and child exposure. although the extent of these practices is unlikely to have been small, it is nonetheless impossible to quantify (nor can reported gender ratios permit judgment on the prevalence of femicide). these "eastern" features did not prevail in medieval[citation needed] or modern europe, where there were cultural and structural factors directly discouraging them or diminishing their effects on childhood mortality (religious doctrine, legal enforcement, institutions of foundling care, child labor, wet-nursing, etc.). these constraints were weak or absent in greek and roman society.[ ] migration[edit] according to the cavalli–sforza reconstruction of genetic history, there was little migration in europe after the iron age. most population growth can therefore be ascribed to the gradual expansion of local populations under conditions of improving fertility, rather than inter-regional transfer. that said, local migration from village to village may have been substantial; for the successful dedication and expansion of new settlements, it would have been necessary. the geography of the mediterranean made this fairly convenient;[ ] at the beginning of the empire, about , italians lived in the provinces.[ ] julius caesar, mark anthony and octavian–augustus settled many of their veterans in colonies, in italy, and the provinces. those established in italy up to bce have been studied by keppie ( ). in his account of the achievements of his long reign (res gestae), augustus stated that he had settled , soldiers in twenty colonies in italy in bce, then , men in colonies in spain and southern gaul in bce, followed by another , in bce.[ ] brian campbell also states "from to bce about , italians were recruited" – which would thus be the veteran (citizen) stock that was largely sent to the provinces (colonies) during augustus; the lex calpurnia however also allowed citizenship to be granted for distinguished bravery – as example the , socii from camerinum after vercellae bce (plutarch mar. xxxviii) or the auxiliary (later legio xxii deiotariana) after zela. by the time of augustus the legions consisted mostly of ethnic latins/italics and cisalpine gauls.[ ] historian theodore mommsen estimated that under hadrian nearly / of the eastern numidia population (roughly modern tunisia) was descended from roman veterans.[ ] population[edit] modern estimates of the population of the roman empire derive from the fundamental work of th-century historian karl julius beloch.[ ] his estimates of the area of different components of the empire, based on planimetric estimates by contemporary military cartographers, have not been challenged by any more modern analyst. by providing a check to population densities, these area figures compel a baseline level of plausibility.[ ] beloch's estimate of the population of the empire in ce has withstood contemporary and more recent criticism, and underlies modern analysis (his revision of those figures is less esteemed). only his estimates for anatolia and greater syria required extensive revision; beloch estimated population figure, million, produced population densities not otherwise achieved in those areas until the th century. bruce frier, in a recent estimate of the population of the empire, suggested a figure of million as "considerably more plausible".[ ] beloch's figures for spain and africa have also been revised downwards.[ ] this estimate produces a population density of . inhabitants per square kilometer, a very low figure by modern standards (the united kingdom, for example, has a population density of . /km ). the population density in the greek east was . /km , twice as dense as the latin west at . /km ; only the western provinces of italy and sicily had a density comparable to the east.[ ] 	estimate of the population of the empire 	region 	area (  km ) 	 ce population (millions) 	 ce density (per km ) 	 ce population (millions) 	 ce density (per km ) 	population increase (per cent) 	greek peninsula[notes ]	 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	anatolia	 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	greater syria[notes ]	 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	cyprus	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	– 	egypt[notes ]	 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	libya[notes ]	 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	greek east	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	annexations				 . 		 	greek east (with annexations)				 . 		 	italy	 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	sicily	 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	– 	sardinia and corsica	 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	– 	maghreb[notes ]	 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	iberia	 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	gaul and germany	 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	danube region[notes ]	 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	latin west	 , 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	annexations				 . 		 	latin west (with annexations)				 . 		 	roman empire	 , . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	"area" includes the client kingdoms taken over soon after ce. after frier, "demography", , table , , table . slaves constituted about percent of the empire's total population; the proportionate figure would be much higher in italy and much lower in africa and egypt.[ ] 	estimated distribution of citizenship in the roman empire[ ] 	region 	citizens (per cent) 	noncitizen residents (per cent) 	slaves (per cent) 	rome	 	 	 	italy	 	 	 	spain and gaul	 	 	 	other western provinces	 	 	 	greece and asia minor	 	 	 	north african provinces	 	 	 	other eastern provinces	 	 	 there are few recorded population numbers for the whole of antiquity, and those that exist are often rhetorical or symbolic. unlike the contemporaneous han dynasty, no general census survives for the roman empire. the late period of the roman republic provides a small exception to this general rule: serial statistics for roman citizen numbers, taken from census returns, survive for the early republic through the st century ce.[ ] only the figures for periods after the mid- rd century bce are reliable, however. fourteen figures are available for the nd century bce (from , to , ). only four figures are available for the st century bce, and are feature a large break between / bce ( , ) and bce ( , , ). the interpretation of the later figures—the augustan censuses of bce, bce, and ce—is therefore controversial.[ ] alternate interpretations of the augustan censuses (such as those of e. lo cascio[ ]) produce divergent population histories across the whole imperial period.[ ] 	population of italy and the islands in ce 	 	population (millions) 	area (  km ) 	density (per km ) 	standard interpretation of the augustan censuses	 – 	 	 – 	revised interpretation of the augustan censuses	 – 	 	 – 	after scheidel, "demography", n. , . the enfranchisement of the cisalpine provinces and the italian allies after the social war would account for some of the population growth of the st century bce.[ ] alternate readings of the augustan census both accept the basic accuracy of the figures, but assume different methods on the part of the census-takers. the standard interpretation assumes that the census-takers included all citizens—men, women, and children—in the augustan censuses; the revised interpretation assumes that the census-takers only counted adult men, as they had during the republican period. the standard interpretation is not supported by any evidence internal to the text, but reduces the implied population totals for bce italy from million to a more plausible million.[ ] the high total earns support from recorded conflict over land in the late republic and other indications of population pressure, but does not accord well with comparative evidence from other periods and other parts of the empire.[ ] estimates[edit] beloch's estimate for the population of the empire during the reign of augustus:[ ][ ] 	region 	population (in millions) 	total empire 	 	european part 	 	asian part 	 . 	north african part 	 . russell's estimate for the population of the empire in ce:[ ] 	region 	population (in millions) 	total empire 	 . 	european part 	 . 	asian part 	 	north african part 	 recent demographic studies have argued for a population peak ranging from million (comparable to the contemporaneous and similarly sized han empire in china), with one-tenth of them located in italy itself, to more than million.[ ] the cities of the roman world in the imperial period. data source: hanson, j. w. ( ), cities database, (oxrep databases). version . . (link). urbanization[edit] cartogram of the estimated populations of cities in the roman world in the imperial period (after hanson and hanson and ortman ). by the standards of pre-modern economies, the roman empire was highly urbanized. according to recent work, there were some , sites with urban characteristics in the roman world in the imperial period.[ ] at its peak, the city of rome had at least one million inhabitants, a total not equaled again in europe until the th century.[ ][ ] as the imperial capital, rome was sustained by transfers in kind from throughout the empire; no other city could be sustained at this level. other major cities in the empire (alexandria, antioch, carthage, ephesus, salona etc.) had populations of about a few hundred thousand.[ ][ ] of the remaining cities, most were quite small, usually possessing only – , inhabitants. the cumulative urban population of the empire is estimated at around million (using a population threshold of , individuals), indicating an urbanization rate of at least –  % to be consistent with conventional estimates for the total population, comparable to those in the th century.[ ][ ] high mortality rates and pre-modern sanitary conditions made urban regions net population sinks, with more local deaths than births. they could only be sustained by constant immigration.[ ] the large cities provided a major stimulus to demand, and not only for agricultural products, but for manufactured goods and luxury items as well.[ ] russell estimated the urban population in late antiquity, as follows.[ ] 	city 	population (thousands) 	region 	rome	 	italy 	alexandria	 	egypt 	antioch	 	syria 	smyrna	 	asia minor 	cadiz	 	hispania 	salona	 	dalmatia 	ephesus	 	asia minor 	carthage	 	africa 	corinth	 	greece 	jerash	 	jordan 	apamea	 	syria 	capua	 	italy 	ancyra	 	asia minor 	nicomedia	 	asia minor 	oxyrhyncus	 	egypt 	memphis	 	egypt 	damascus	 	syria 	bostra	 	syria 	athens	 	greece 	tarragona	 	hispania 	cyzicus	 	asia minor 	hermopolis	 	egypt 	pergamum	 	asia minor 	mytilene	 	asia minor 	arsinoe	 	egypt 	cordoba	 	hispania 	cirta	 	africa 	hadrumetum	 	africa 	pisa	 	italy 	rusicade	 	africa 	tyre	 	syria 	catania	 	italy 	nicaea	 	asia minor 	antiochia	 	asia minor 	antinoe	 	egypt 	sicca v.	 	africa 	mérida	 	hispania 	miletus	 	asia minor 	naples	 	italy 	heliopolis	 	egypt 	baalbek	 . 	syria 	thugga	 	africa 	isaura	 	asia minor 	sidon	 	syria 	bologna	 	italy 	cartagena	 	hispania 	hippo regis	 	africa 	jerusalem	 	syria 	lambraesis	 	africa 	pamplona	 	hispania 	thysdrus	 	africa 	trebizond	 	asia minor notes[edit] 	^ frier elsewhere quotes material to the effect that cross-class variation in life expectancy in high mortality societies is small.[ ] 	^ "mortality" is a function predicting the likelihood that a person aged exactly (x) will die before the next indicated interval; "cohort" lists the number of survivors to exact age (x). 	^ the gompertz figures are obtained using linear regression on the census figures to create a relational fertility model, producing a probable schedule of true fertility rates. the model uses two values, α and β, that determine the model's relationship to a standard of early marriage and natural fertility. for this dataset, α, which indicates variation from median age of marital maternity, is − . , and β, which indicates the degree of fertility concentration, is . . as the standard figure for β is . , the dataset for roman egypt shows a wider spread of childbearing than is typical of the standard.[ ] 	^ roughly includes the southern balkan peninsula; greece, albania, north macedonia, serbia, about half of bulgaria and european turkey. or approximately the roman provinces of achaea, macedonia, epirus and thracia.[ ] 	^ defined to include the modern territories of lebanon, israel and palestine, as well as approximately the western half of syria (i.e. the coastal levant).[ ] 	^ area figure is only the narrow strip of land along the nile and its delta. not the vast deserts of egypt.[ ] 	^ refers only to the coastal area of cyrenaica.[ ] 	^ refers to the coastal area of north africa. i.e. northern areas of morocco, algeria, tunisia and most of coastal libya (except cyrenaica).[ ] 	^ areas generally south of the river danube. includes the roman provinces of raetia, noricum, pannonia superior, pannonia inferior, illyricum (or dalmatia) and moesia (superior and inferior). parts of modern switzerland, southern germany and austria, western hungary, slovenia, croatia, bosnia, montenegro, central serbia and northern bulgaria.[ ] references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ scheidel, "demography", – . 	^ a b scheidel, "demography", . 	^ frier, "demography", ; scheidel, "demography", . 	^ frier, "demography", . 	^ scheidel, "demography", – . 	^ a b c scheidel, "demography", . 	^ frier, "demography", . on this model, frier cites a. j. coale and p. demeny regional model life tables and stable populations, nd ed. 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search 		late antique biographer of classical greek philosophers for other people named diogenes, see diogenes (disambiguation). 	diogenes laërtius 	Διογένης Λαέρτιος 	 th-century engraving 	born	fl.  rd century ad 	occupation	biographer diogenes laërtius (/daɪˌɒdʒɪniːz leɪˈɜːrʃiəs/ dy-oj-in-eez lay-ur-shee-əs;[ ] greek: Διογένης Λαέρτιος, translit. dīogénēs lāértios; fl.  rd century ad) was a biographer of the greek philosophers. nothing is definitively known about his life, but his surviving lives and opinions of eminent philosophers is a principal source for the history of ancient greek philosophy. his reputation is controversial among scholars because he often repeats information from his sources without critically evaluating it. he also frequently focuses on trivial or insignificant details of his subjects' lives while ignoring important details of their philosophical teachings and he sometimes fails to distinguish between earlier and later teachings of specific philosophical schools. however, unlike many other ancient secondary sources, diogenes laërtius generally reports philosophical teachings without attempting to reinterpret or expand on them, which means his accounts are often closer to the primary sources. due to the loss of so many of the primary sources on which diogenes relied, his work has become the foremost surviving source on the history of greek philosophy. contents 	 life 	 writings 	 legacy and assessment 	 editions and translations 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links life[edit] laërtius must have lived after sextus empiricus (c. ), whom he mentions, and before stephanus of byzantium and sopater of apamea (c. ), who quote him. his work makes no mention of neoplatonism, even though it is addressed to a woman who was "an enthusiastic platonist".[ ] hence he is assumed to have flourished in the first half of the rd century, during the reign of alexander severus ( – ) and his successors.[ ] the precise form of his name is uncertain. the ancient manuscripts invariably refer to a "laertius diogenes", and this form of the name is repeated by sopater[ ] and the suda.[ ] the modern form "diogenes laertius" is much rarer, used by stephanus of byzantium,[ ] and in a lemma to the greek anthology.[ ] he is also referred to as "laertes"[ ] or simply "diogenes".[ ] the origin of the name "laertius" is also uncertain. stephanus of byzantium refers to him as "Διογένης ὁ Λαερτιεύς" (diogenes ho laertieus),[ ] implying that he was the native of some town, perhaps the laerte in caria (or another laerte in cilicia). another suggestion is that one of his ancestors had for a patron a member of the roman family of the laërtii.[ ] the prevailing modern theory is that "laertius" is a nickname (derived from the homeric epithet diogenes laertiade, used in addressing odysseus) used to distinguish him from the many other people called diogenes in the ancient world.[ ] his home town is unknown (at best uncertain, even according to a hypothesis that laertius refers to his origin). a disputed passage in his writings has been used to suggest that it was nicaea in bithynia.[ ][ ] it has been suggested that diogenes was an epicurean or a pyrrhonist. he passionately defends epicurus[ ] in book , which is of high quality and contains three long letters attributed to epicurus explaining epicurean doctrines.[ ] he is impartial to all schools, in the manner of the pyrrhonists, and he carries the succession of pyrrhonism further than that of the other schools. at one point, he even seems to refer to the pyrrhonists as "our school."[ ] on the other hand, most of these points can be explained by the way he uncritically copies from his sources. it is by no means certain that he adhered to any school, and he is usually more attentive to biographical details.[ ] in addition to the lives, diogenes was the author of a work in verse on famous men, in various metres, which he called epigrammata or pammetros (Πάμμετρος).[ ] writings[edit] main article: lives and opinions of eminent philosophers the work by which he is known, lives and opinions of eminent philosophers, was written in greek and professes to give an account of the lives and sayings of the greek philosophers. diogenes divides his subjects into two "schools" which he describes as the ionian/ionic and the italian/italic; the division is somewhat dubious and appears to be drawn from the lost doxography of sotion. the biographies of the "ionian school" begin with anaximander and end with clitomachus, theophrastus and chrysippus; the "italian" begins with pythagoras and ends with epicurus. the socratic school, with its various branches, is classed with the ionic, while the eleatics and pyrrhonists are treated under the italic. legacy and assessment[edit] the italian renaissance scholar, painter, philosopher, and architect leon battista alberti ( – ) modeled his own autobiography on diogenes laërtius's life of thales.[ ] henricus aristippus, the archdeacon of catania, produced a latin translation of diogenes laertius's book in southern italy in the late s, which has since been lost or destroyed.[ ] geremia da montagnone used this translation as a source for his compedium moralium notabilium ( ) and an anonymous italian author used it as a source for work entitled liber de vita et moribus philosophorum (written c. – ), which reached international popularity in the late middle ages.[ ] the monk ambrogio traversari ( – ) produced another latin translation in florence between and , for which far better records have survived.[ ] the italian renaissance scholar, painter, philosopher, and architect leon battista alberti ( – ) borrowed from traversari's translation of the lives and opinions of eminent philosophers in book of his libri della famiglia[ ] and modeled his own autobiography on diogenes laërtius's life of thales.[ ] diogenes laërtius's work has had a complicated reception in modern times.[ ] the value of his lives and opinions of eminent philosophers as an insight into the private lives of the greek sages led the french renaissance philosopher michel de montaigne ( – ) to exclaim that he wished that, instead of one laërtius, there had been a dozen.[ ] georg wilhelm friedrich hegel ( – ) criticized diogenes laërtius for his lack of philosophical talent and categorized his work as nothing more than a compilation of previous writers' opinions.[ ] nonetheless, he admitted that diogenes laërtius's compilation was an important one given the information that it contained.[ ] hermann usener ( – ) deplored diogenes laërtius as a "complete ass" (asinus germanus) in his epicurea ( ).[ ] werner jaeger ( – ) damned him as "that great ignoramus".[ ] in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, however, scholars have managed to partially redeem diogenes laertius's reputation as a writer by reading his book in a hellenistic literary context.[ ] nonetheless, modern scholars treat diogenes's testimonia with caution, especially when he fails to cite his sources. herbert s. long warns: "diogenes has acquired an importance out of all proportion to his merits because the loss of many primary sources and of the earlier secondary compilations has accidentally left him the chief continuous source for the history of greek philosophy."[ ] robert m. strozier offers a somewhat more positive assessment of diogenes laertius's reliability, noting that many other ancient writers attempt to reinterpret and expand on the philosophical teachings they describe, something which diogenes laërtius rarely does.[ ] strozier concludes, "diogenes laertius is, when he does not conflate hundreds of years of distinctions, reliable simply because he is a less competent thinker than those on whom he writes, is less liable to re-formulate statements and arguments, and especially in the case of epicurus, less liable to interfere with the texts he quotes. he does, however, simplify."[ ] despite his importance to the history of western philosophy and the controversy surrounding him, according to gian mario cao, diogenes laërtius has still not received adequate philological attention.[ ] both modern critical editions of his book, by h. s. long ( ) and by m. marcovich ( ) have received extensive criticism from scholars.[ ] he is criticized primarily for being overly concerned with superficial details of the philosophers' lives and lacking the intellectual capacity to explore their actual philosophical works with any penetration. however, according to statements of the th-century monk walter burley in his de vita et moribus philosophorum, the text of diogenes seems to have been much fuller than that which we now possess. editions and translations[edit] 	diogenis laertii vitae philosophorum edidit miroslav marcovich, stuttgart-lipsia, teubner, – . bibliotheca scriptorum graecorum et romanorum teubneriana, vol. : books i–x isbn  ; vol. : excerpta byzantina; v. : indices by hans gärtner. 	lives of eminent philosophers, edited by tiziano dorandi, cambridge: cambridge university press, (cambridge classical texts and commentaries, vol. , new radically improved critical edition). 	translation by r.d. hicks: 	 "index" . lives of the eminent philosophers (two volume ed.). loeb classical library. . 	lives of eminent philosophers. i. harvard university press, loeb classical library. . isbn  - - - - . 	lives of eminent philosophers. ii. harvard university press, loeb classical library. . isbn  - - - - . notes[edit] 	^ "diogenes laërtius", the columbia electronic encyclopedia, 	^ laërtius a, § . 	^ a b chisholm , p.  . 	^ sopater, ap. photius, biblioth. 	^ suda, tetralogia 	^ stephanus of byzantium, druidai 	^ lemma to anthologia palatina, vii. 	^ eustathius, on iliad, m. 	^ stephanus of byzantium, enetoi 	^ stephanus of byzantium, cholleidai 	^ smith , p.  . sfn error: no target: citerefsmith (help) 	^ long , p. xvi. 	^ a b laërtius b, § . specifically, diogenes refers to "our apollonides of nicaea". this has been conjectured to mean either "my fellow-citizen" or "a sceptic like myself". 	^ craig , p.  . 	^ laërtius c, § – . 	^ laërtius c, § – . 	^ long , pp. xvii–xviii. 	^ a b c d e f g h i j k cao , p.  . 	^ a b cao , pp.  – . 	^ montaigne, essays ii. "of books" archived february , , at the wayback machine. 	^ werner, p.  n. . 	^ long , p. xix. 	^ a b strozier , p.  . references[edit] 	cao, gian mario ( ), "diogenes laertius", in grafton, anthony; most, glenn w.; settis, salvatore (eds.), the classical tradition, cambridge, massachusetts and london, england: the belknap press of harvard university press, pp.  – , isbn  - - - - 	craig, edward, ed. ( ). "diogenes laertius (c. ad – )". routledge encyclopedia of philosophy. . p.  . 	 laërtius, diogenes ( a). "plato" . lives of the eminent philosophers. : . translated by hicks, robert drew (two volume ed.). loeb classical library. 	 laërtius, diogenes ( b). "others: timon" . lives of the eminent philosophers. : . translated by hicks, robert drew (two volume ed.). loeb classical library. 	 laërtius, diogenes ( c). "epicurus" . lives of the eminent philosophers. : . translated by hicks, robert drew (two volume ed.). loeb classical library. 	long, herbert s. ( ). introduction. lives of eminent philosophers. by laërtius, diogenes. (reprint ed.). loeb classical library. p. xvi. 	 smith, william, ed. ( ). "diogenes laertius". dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology. 	strozier, robert m. ( ), epicurus and hellenistic philosophy, lanham, maryland and london, england: university press of america, isbn  - - - - 	werner, jaeger. paideia: the ideals of greek culture. iii. p.  n. . [full citation needed] attribution: 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "diogenes laërtius". encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. p.  . further reading[edit] 	barnes, jonathan. . "diogenes laertius ix – : the philosophy of pyrrhonism." in aufstieg und niedergang der römischen welt: geschichte und kultur roms im spiegel der neueren forschung. vol. : . – . edited by wolfgang haase, – . berlin: w. de gruyter. 	barnes, jonathan. . "nietzsche and diogenes laertius." nietzsche-studien : – . 	dorandi, tiziano. . laertiana: capitoli sulla tradizione manoscritta e sulla storia del testo delle vite dei filosofi di diogene laerzio. berlin; new york: walter de gruyter. 	eshleman, kendra joy. . "affection and affiliation: social networks and conversion to philosophy." the classical journal . : – . 	grau, sergi. . "how to kill a philosopher: the narrating of ancient greek philosophers' deaths in relation to the living. ancient philosophy . : - 	hägg, tomas. . the art of biography in antiquity. cambridge, uk: cambridge univ. press. 	kindstrand, jan frederik. . "diogenes laertius and the chreia tradition." elenchos : – . 	long, anthony a. . "diogenes laertius, life of arcesilaus." in from epicurus to epictetus: studies in hellenistic and roman philosophy. edited by anthony a. long, – . oxford: oxford univ. press. 	mansfeld, jaap. . "diogenes laertius on stoic philosophy." elenchos : – . 	mejer, jørgen. . diogenes laertius and his hellenistic background. wiesbaden: steiner. 	mejer, jørgen. . "diogenes laertius and the transmission of greek philosophy." in aufstieg und niedergang der römischen welt: geschichte und kultur roms im spiegel der neueren forschung. vol. : . – . edited by wolfgang haase, – . berlin: w. de gruyter. 	morgan, teresa j. . "encyclopaedias of virtue?: collections of sayings and stories about wise men in greek." in encyclopaedism from antiquity to the renaissance. edited by jason könig and greg woolf, – . cambridge; new york: cambridge university press. 	sassi, maria michela. . ionian philosophy and italic philosophy: from diogenes laertius to diels. in the presocratics from the latin middle ages to hermann diels. edited by oliver primavesi and katharina luchner, – . stuttgart: steiner. 	sollenberger, michael. . the lives of the peripatetics: an analysis of the content and structure of diogenes laertius’ “vitae philosophorum” book . in aufstieg und niedergang der römischen welt: geschichte und kultur roms im spiegel der neueren forschung. vol. : . – . edited by wolfgang haase, – . berlin: w. de gruyter. 	vogt, katja maria, ed. . pyrrhonian skepticism in diogenes laertius. tübingen, germany: mohr siebeck. 	warren, james. . 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"dante" redirects here. for other uses, see dante (disambiguation). 	dante alighieri 	posthumous portrait in tempera by sandro botticelli, 	born	c.  florence, republic of florence 	died	september or , (aged around ) ravenna, papal states 	resting place	tomb of dante 	occupation	statesman, poet, language theorist, political theorist 	language	italian tuscan 	nationality	florentine 	period	late middle ages 	literary movement	dolce stil novo 	notable works	divine comedy 	spouse	gemma donati 	children	 dante alighieri (italian: [ˈdante aliˈɡjɛːri]), probably baptized durante di alighiero degli alighieri[note ] and often referred to simply as dante (/ˈdɑːnteɪ, ˈdænteɪ, ˈdænti/,[ ][ ] also us: /ˈdɑːnti/;[ ] c.  – ), was an italian poet, writer and philosopher.[ ] his divine comedy, originally called comedìa (modern italian: commedia) and later christened divina by giovanni boccaccio,[ ] is widely considered the most important poem of the middle ages and the greatest literary work in the italian language.[ ][ ] dante is known for establishing the use of the vernacular in literature at a time when most poetry was written in latin, making it accessible only to the most educated readers. his de vulgari eloquentia (on eloquence in the vernacular) was one of the first scholarly defenses of the vernacular. his use of the tuscan dialect for works such as the new life ( ) and divine comedy helped establish the modern-day standardized italian language, and set a precedent that important later italian writers such as petrarch and boccaccio would follow. dante was instrumental in establishing the literature of italy, and his depictions of hell, purgatory and heaven provided inspiration for the larger body of western art.[ ][ ] he is cited as an influence on geoffrey chaucer, john milton and alfred tennyson, among many others. in addition, the first use of the interlocking three-line rhyme scheme, or the terza rima, is attributed to him. he is described as the "father" of the italian language,[ ] and in italy he is often referred to as il sommo poeta ("the supreme poet"). dante, petrarch, and boccaccio are also called the tre corone ("three crowns") of italian literature. contents 	 life 	 . early life 	 . education and poetry 	 . florence and politics 	 . exile and death 	 legacy 	 works 	 . list of works 	 notes 	 citations 	 references 	 external links life[edit] early life[edit] dante was born in florence, republic of florence, in what is now italy. the exact date of his birth is unknown, although it is generally believed to be around . this can be deduced from autobiographic allusions in the divine comedy. its first section, the inferno, begins, "nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita" ("midway upon the journey of our life"), implying that dante was around years old, since the average lifespan according to the bible (psalm : , vulgate) is years; and since his imaginary travel to the netherworld took place in , he was most probably born around . some verses of the paradiso section of the divine comedy also provide a possible clue that he was born under the sign of gemini: "as i revolved with the eternal twins, i saw revealed, from hills to river outlets, the threshing-floor that makes us so ferocious" (xxii  – ). in , the sun was in gemini between approximately may and june (julian calendar).[ ] dante alighieri, attributed to giotto, in the chapel of the bargello palace in florence. this oldest picture of dante was painted just prior to his exile and has since been heavily restored. portrait of dante, from a fresco in the palazzo dei giudici, florence giovanni boccaccio described dante's appearance and demeanor as follows: "the poet was of middle height, and in his later years he walked somewhat bent over, with a grave and gentle gait. he was clad always in most seemly attire, such as befitted his ripe years. his face was long, his nose aquiline, and his eyes big rather than small. his jaws were large, and his lower lip protruded. he had a brown complexion, his hair and beard were thick, black, and curly, and his countenance was always melancholy and thoughtful."[ ] dante claimed that his family descended from the ancient romans (inferno, xv, ), but the earliest relative he could mention by name was cacciaguida degli elisei (paradiso, xv, ), born no earlier than about . dante's father, alighiero[ ] or alighiero di bellincione, was a white guelph who suffered no reprisals after the ghibellines won the battle of montaperti in the middle of the th century. this suggests that alighiero or his family may have enjoyed some protective prestige and status, although some suggest that the politically inactive alighiero was of such low standing that he was not considered worth exiling.[ ] dante's family was loyal to the guelphs, a political alliance that supported the papacy and which was involved in complex opposition to the ghibellines, who were backed by the holy roman emperor. the poet's mother was bella, probably a member of the abati family.[ ] she died when dante was not yet ten years old, and alighiero soon married again, to lapa di chiarissimo cialuffi. it is uncertain whether he really married her, since widowers were socially limited in such matters, but this woman definitely bore him two children, dante's half-brother francesco and half-sister tana (gaetana). when dante was , he was promised in marriage to gemma di manetto donati, daughter of manetto donati, member of the powerful donati family.[ ] contracting marriages at this early age was quite common and involved a formal ceremony, including contracts signed before a notary. but by this time dante had fallen in love with another, beatrice portinari (known also as bice), whom he first met when he was only nine. years after his marriage to gemma he claims to have met beatrice again; he wrote several sonnets to beatrice but never mentioned gemma in any of his poems though other donati relations, notably forese and piccarda, appear in his divine comedy. the exact date of his marriage is not known: the only certain information is that, before his exile in , he had three children (pietro, jacopo and antonia).[ ] dante fought with the guelph cavalry at the battle of campaldino (june , ).[ ] this victory brought about a reformation of the florentine constitution. to take any part in public life, one had to enroll in one of the city's many commercial or artisan guilds, so dante entered the physicians' and apothecaries' guild. in the following years, his name is occasionally recorded as speaking or voting in the various councils of the republic. a substantial portion of minutes from such meetings in the years – was lost, however, so the true extent of dante's participation in the city's councils is uncertain. gemma bore dante several children. although several others subsequently claimed to be his offspring, it is likely that only jacopo, pietro, giovanni, and antonia were his actual children. antonia later became a nun, taking the name sister beatrice. education and poetry[edit] 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (december ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) mural of dante in the uffizi, florence, by andrea del castagno, c. not much is known about dante's education; he presumably studied at home or in a chapter school attached to a church or monastery in florence. it is known that he studied tuscan poetry and that he admired the compositions of the bolognese poet guido guinizelli—whom in purgatorio xxvi he characterized as his "father"—at a time when the sicilian school (scuola poetica siciliana), a cultural group from sicily, was becoming known in tuscany. his interests brought him to discover the provençal poetry of the troubadours, such as arnaut daniel, and the latin writers of classical antiquity, including cicero, ovid and especially virgil.[ ] dante said he first met beatrice portinari, daughter of folco portinari, at age nine, and claimed to have fallen in love with her "at first sight", apparently without even talking with her.[ ] he saw her frequently after age , often exchanging greetings in the street, but never knew her well. in effect, he set an example of so-called courtly love, a phenomenon developed in french and provençal poetry of prior centuries. dante's experience of such love was typical, but his expression of it was unique. it was in the name of this love that dante left his imprint on the dolce stil novo (sweet new style, a term which dante himself coined), and he would join other contemporary poets and writers in exploring never-before-emphasized aspects of love (amore). love for beatrice (as petrarch would show for laura somewhat differently) would be his reason for poetry and for living, together with political passions. in many of his poems, she is depicted as semi-divine, watching over him constantly and providing spiritual instruction, sometimes harshly. when beatrice died in , dante sought refuge in latin literature.[ ] the convivio chronicles his having read boethius's de consolatione philosophiae and cicero's de amicitia. he then dedicated himself to philosophical studies at religious schools like the dominican one in santa maria novella. he took part in the disputes that the two principal mendicant orders (franciscan and dominican) publicly or indirectly held in florence, the former explaining the doctrines of the mystics and of st. bonaventure, the latter expounding on the theories of st. thomas aquinas.[ ] at , dante met guido cavalcanti, lapo gianni, cino da pistoia and soon after brunetto latini; together they became the leaders of the dolce stil novo. brunetto later received special mention in the divine comedy (inferno, xv, ) for what he had taught dante: nor speaking less on that account i go with ser brunetto, and i ask who are his most known and most eminent companions.[ ] some fifty poetical commentaries by dante are known (the so-called rime, rhymes), others being included in the later vita nuova and convivio. other studies are reported, or deduced from vita nuova or the comedy, regarding painting and music. florence and politics[edit] 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (december ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) further information: guelphs and ghibellines statue of dante at the uffizi statue of dante in the piazza santa croce in florence, enrico pazzi, dante, like most florentines of his day, was embroiled in the guelph–ghibelline conflict. he fought in the battle of campaldino (june , ), with the florentine guelphs against arezzo ghibellines;[ ][ ] then in he was among the escorts of charles martel of anjou (grandson of charles i of anjou) while he was in florence. to further his political career, he became a pharmacist. he did not intend to practice as one, but a law issued in required nobles aspiring to public office to be enrolled in one of the corporazioni delle arti e dei mestieri, so dante obtained admission to the apothecaries' guild. this profession was not inappropriate since at that time books were sold from apothecaries' shops. as a politician, he accomplished little but held various offices over some years in a city rife with political unrest. after defeating the ghibellines, the guelphs divided into two factions: the white guelphs (guelfi bianchi)—dante's party, led by vieri dei cerchi—and the black guelphs (guelfi neri), led by corso donati. although the split was along family lines at first, ideological differences arose based on opposing views of the papal role in florentine affairs, with the blacks supporting the pope and the whites wanting more freedom from rome. the whites took power first and expelled the blacks. in response, pope boniface viii planned a military occupation of florence. in , charles of valois, brother of king philip iv of france, was expected to visit florence because the pope had appointed him peacemaker for tuscany. but the city's government had treated the pope's ambassadors badly a few weeks before, seeking independence from papal influence. it was believed that charles had received other unofficial instructions, so the council sent a delegation to rome to ascertain the pope's intentions. dante was one of the delegates. exile and death[edit] pope boniface quickly dismissed the other delegates and asked dante alone to remain in rome. at the same time (november , ), charles of valois entered florence with the black guelphs, who in the next six days destroyed much of the city and killed many of their enemies. a new black guelph government was installed, and cante dei gabrielli da gubbio was appointed podestà of the city. in march , dante, a white guelph by affiliation, along with the gherardini family, was condemned to exile for two years and ordered to pay a large fine.[ ] dante was accused of corruption and financial wrongdoing by the black guelphs for the time that dante was serving as city prior (florence's highest position) for two months in .[ ] the poet was still in rome in where the pope, who had backed the black guelphs, had "suggested" that dante stay. florence under the black guelphs therefore considered dante an absconder.[ ] dante did not pay the fine, in part because he believed he was not guilty and in part because all his assets in florence had been seized by the black guelphs. he was condemned to perpetual exile; if he returned to florence without paying the fine, he could have been burned at the stake. (in june , nearly seven centuries after his death, the city council of florence passed a motion rescinding dante's sentence.)[ ] dante in verona, by antonio cotti he took part in several attempts by the white guelphs to regain power, but these failed due to treachery. dante, bitter at the treatment he received from his enemies, grew disgusted with the infighting and ineffectiveness of his erstwhile allies and vowed to become a party of one. he went to verona as a guest of bartolomeo i della scala, then moved to sarzana in liguria. later he is supposed to have lived in lucca with a woman called gentucca, who made his stay comfortable (and was later gratefully mentioned in purgatorio, xxiv, ). some speculative sources claim he visited paris between and , and other sources even less trustworthy took him to oxford: these claims, first occurring in boccaccio's book on dante several decades after his death, seem inspired by readers who were impressed with the poet's wide learning and erudition. evidently, dante's command of philosophy and his literary interests deepened in exile and when he was no longer busy with the day-to-day business of florentine domestic politics, and this is evidenced in his prose writings in this period, but there is no real evidence that he ever left italy. dante's immensa dei dilectione testante to henry vii of luxembourg confirms his residence "beneath the springs of arno, near tuscany" in march . in , holy roman emperor henry vii of luxembourg marched into italy at the head of , troops. dante saw in him a new charlemagne who would restore the office of the holy roman emperor to its former glory and also retake florence from the black guelphs. he wrote to henry and several italian princes, demanding that they destroy the black guelphs. mixing religion and private concerns in his writings, he invoked the worst anger of god against his city and suggested several particular targets that were also his personal enemies. it was during this time that he wrote de monarchia, proposing a universal monarchy under henry vii. at some point during his exile, he conceived of the comedy, but the date is uncertain. the work is much more assured and on a larger scale than anything he had produced in florence; it is likely he would have undertaken such a work only after he realized his political ambitions, which had been central to him up to his banishment, had been halted for some time, possibly forever. it is also noticeable that beatrice has returned to his imagination with renewed force and with a wider meaning than in the vita nuova; in convivio (written c. – ) he had declared that the memory of this youthful romance belonged to the past. an early indication that the poem was underway is a notice by francesco da barberino, tucked into his documenti d'amore (lessons of love), probably written in or early . francesco notes that dante followed the aeneid in a poem called "comedy" and that the setting of this poem (or part of it) was the underworld; i.e., hell.[ ] the brief note gives no incontestable indication that he himself had seen or read even the inferno or that this part had been published at the time, but it indicates composition was well underway and that the sketching of the poem might have begun some years before. (it has been suggested that a knowledge of dante's work also underlies some of the illuminations in francesco da barberino's earlier officiolum [c. – ], a manuscript that came to light only in .[ ]) it is known that the inferno had been published by ; this is established by quoted lines interspersed in the margins of contemporary dated records from bologna, but there is no certainty as to whether the three parts of the poem were each published in full or, rather, a few cantos at a time. paradiso seems to have been published posthumously. in florence, baldo d'aguglione pardoned most of the white guelphs in exile and allowed them to return. however, dante had gone too far in his violent letters to arrigo (henry vii) and his sentence was not revoked. statue of dante alighieri in verona in henry assaulted florence and defeated the black guelphs, but there is no evidence that dante was involved. some say he refused to participate in the attack on his city by a foreigner; others suggest that he had become unpopular with the white guelphs, too, and that any trace of his passage had carefully been removed. henry vii died (from a fever) in , and with him any hope for dante to see florence again. he returned to verona, where cangrande i della scala allowed him to live in certain security and, presumably, in a fair degree of prosperity. cangrande was admitted to dante's paradise (paradiso, xvii, ). during the period of his exile dante corresponded with dominican theologian fr. nicholas brunacci op [ – ] who had been a student of thomas aquinas at the santa sabina studium in rome, later at paris,[ ][ ] and of albert the great at the cologne studium.[ ] brunacci became lector at the santa sabina studium, forerunner of the pontifical university of saint thomas aquinas, and later served in the papal curia.[ ] in , florence was forced by uguccione della faggiuola (the military officer controlling the town) to grant an amnesty to those in exile, including dante. but for this, florence required public penance in addition to a heavy fine. dante refused, preferring to remain in exile. when uguccione defeated florence, dante's death sentence was commuted to house arrest on condition that he go to florence to swear he would never enter the town again. he refused to go, and his death sentence was confirmed and extended to his sons. he still hoped late in life that he might be invited back to florence on honorable terms. for dante, exile was nearly a form of death, stripping him of much of his identity and his heritage. he addressed the pain of exile in paradiso, xvii ( – ), where cacciaguida, his great-great-grandfather, warns him what to expect: 	 ... tu lascerai ogne cosa diletta più caramente; e questo è quello strale che l'arco de lo essilio pria saetta. tu proverai sì come sa di sale lo pane altrui, e come è duro calle lo scendere e 'l salir per l'altrui scale ... 	 ... you shall leave everything you love most: this is the arrow that the bow of exile shoots first. you are to know the bitter taste of others' bread, how salty it is, and know how hard a path it is for one who goes ascending and descending others' stairs ... 	 	 as for the hope of returning to florence, he describes it as if he had already accepted its impossibility (in paradiso, xxv, – ): 	 se mai continga che 'l poema sacro al quale ha posto mano e cielo e terra, sì che m'ha fatto per molti anni macro, vinca la crudeltà che fuor mi serra del bello ovile ov'io dormi' agnello, nimico ai lupi che li danno guerra; con altra voce omai, con altro vello ritornerò poeta, e in sul fonte del mio battesmo prenderò 'l cappello ... 	 if it ever comes to pass that the sacred poem to which both heaven and earth have set their hand so as to have made me lean for many years should overcome the cruelty that bars me from the fair sheepfold where i slept as a lamb, an enemy to the wolves that make war on it, with another voice now and other fleece i shall return a poet and at the font of my baptism take the laurel crown ... 	 	 dante's tomb exterior and interior in ravenna, built in dante accepted prince guido novello da polenta's invitation to ravenna in . he finished paradiso and died in (aged ) while returning to ravenna from a diplomatic mission to venice, possibly of malaria contracted there. he was buried in ravenna at the church of san pier maggiore (later called basilica di san francesco). bernardo bembo, praetor of venice, erected a tomb for him in .[ ][ ] on the grave, a verse of bernardo canaccio, a friend of dante, is dedicated to florence: 	 parvi florentia mater amoris 	 florence, mother of little love 	 	 legacy[edit] the first formal biography of dante was the vita di dante (also known as trattatello in laude di dante), written after by giovanni boccaccio.[ ] although several statements and episodes of it have been deemed unreliable on the basis of modern research, an earlier account of dante's life and works had been included in the nuova cronica of the florentine chronicler giovanni villani.[ ] cenotaph in basilica of santa croce, florence florence eventually came to regret dante's exile, and the city made repeated requests for the return of his remains. the custodians of the body in ravenna refused, at one point going so far as to conceal the bones in a false wall of the monastery. nonetheless, a tomb was built for him in florence in , in the basilica of santa croce. that tomb has been empty ever since, with dante's body remaining in ravenna, far from the land he had loved so dearly. the front of his tomb in florence reads onorate l'altissimo poeta—which roughly translates as "honor the most exalted poet". the phrase is a quote from the fourth canto of the inferno, depicting virgil's welcome as he returns among the great ancient poets spending eternity in limbo. the ensuing line, l'ombra sua torna, ch'era dipartita ("his spirit, which had left us, returns"), is poignantly absent from the empty tomb. recreated death mask of dante alighieri in palazzo vecchio, florence a copy of dante's so-called death mask has been displayed since in the palazzo vecchio; scholars today believe it is not a true death mask and was probably carved in , perhaps by pietro and tullio lombardo.[ ][ ] italy's first dreadnought battleship was completed in and named dante alighieri in honor of him. on april , , in honor of the th anniversary of dante's death, pope benedict xv promulgated an encyclical named in praeclara summorum, calling him one "of the many celebrated geniuses of whom the catholic faith can boast" and the "pride and glory of humanity".[ ] in , a reconstruction of dante's face was undertaken in a collaborative project. artists from pisa university and engineers at the university of bologna at forlì constructed the model, portraying dante's features as somewhat different from what was once thought.[ ][ ] in , the municipality of florence officially apologized for expelling dante years earlier.[ ][ ][ ][ ] a celebration was held in at italy's senate of the republic for the th anniversary of dante's birth. it included a commemoration from pope francis.[ ][ ] works[edit] see also: category:works by dante alighieri divina commedia ( ) dante, poised between the mountain of purgatory and the city of florence, displays the incipit nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita in a detail of domenico di michelino's painting, florence, most of dante's literary work was composed after his exile in . la vita nuova ("the new life") is the only major work that predates it; it is a collection of lyric poems (sonnets and songs) with commentary in prose, ostensibly intended to be circulated in manuscript form, as was customary for such poems.[ ] it also contains, or constructs, the story of his love for beatrice portinari, who later served as the ultimate symbol of salvation in the comedy, a function already indicated in the final pages of the vita nuova. the work contains many of dante's love poems in tuscan, which was not unprecedented; the vernacular had been regularly used for lyric works before, during all the thirteenth century. however, dante's commentary on his own work is also in the vernacular—both in the vita nuova and in the convivio—instead of the latin that was almost universally used. the divine comedy describes dante's journey through hell (inferno), purgatory (purgatorio), and paradise (paradiso); he is first guided by the roman poet virgil and then by beatrice. of the books, purgatorio is arguably the most lyrical of the three, referring to more contemporary poets and artists than inferno; paradiso is the most heavily theological, and the one in which, many scholars have argued, the divine comedy's most beautiful and mystic passages appear (e.g., when dante looks into the face of god: "all'alta fantasia qui mancò possa"—"at this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe," paradiso, xxxiii, ). with its seriousness of purpose, its literary stature and the range—both stylistic and thematic—of its content, the comedy soon became a cornerstone in the evolution of italian as an established literary language. dante was more aware than most early italian writers of the variety of italian dialects and of the need to create a literature and a unified literary language beyond the limits of latin writing at the time; in that sense, he is a forerunner of the renaissance, with its effort to create vernacular literature in competition with earlier classical writers. dante's in-depth knowledge (within the limits of his time) of roman antiquity, and his evident admiration for some aspects of pagan rome, also point forward to the th century. ironically, while he was widely honored in the centuries after his death, the comedy slipped out of fashion among men of letters: too medieval, too rough and tragic, and not stylistically refined in the respects that the high and late renaissance came to demand of literature. dante alighieri, detail from luca signorelli's fresco, chapel of san brizio, orvieto cathedral he wrote the comedy in a language he called "italian", in some sense an amalgamated literary language mostly based on the regional dialect of tuscany, but with some elements of latin and other regional dialects.[ ] he deliberately aimed to reach a readership throughout italy including laymen, clergymen and other poets. by creating a poem of epic structure and philosophic purpose, he established that the italian language was suitable for the highest sort of expression. in french, italian is sometimes nicknamed la langue de dante. publishing in the vernacular language marked dante as one of the first in roman catholic western europe (among others such as geoffrey chaucer and giovanni boccaccio) to break free from standards of publishing in only latin (the language of liturgy, history and scholarship in general, but often also of lyric poetry). this break set a precedent and allowed more literature to be published for a wider audience, setting the stage for greater levels of literacy in the future. however, unlike boccaccio, milton or ariosto, dante did not really become an author read across europe until the romantic era. to the romantics, dante, like homer and shakespeare, was a prime example of the "original genius" who set his own rules, created persons of overpowering stature and depth, and went far beyond any imitation of the patterns of earlier masters; and who, in turn, could not truly be imitated.[citation needed] throughout the th century, dante's reputation grew and solidified; and by , the th anniversary of his birth, he had become established as one of the greatest literary icons of the western world. new readers often wonder how such a serious work may be called a "comedy". in the classical sense the word comedy refers to works which reflect belief in an ordered universe, in which events tend toward not only a happy or amusing ending but one influenced by a providential will that orders all things to an ultimate good. by this meaning of the word, as dante himself wrote in a letter to cangrande i della scala, the progression of the pilgrimage from hell to paradise is the paradigmatic expression of comedy, since the work begins with the pilgrim's moral confusion and ends with the vision of god. dante's other works include convivio ("the banquet"),[ ] a collection of his longest poems with an (unfinished) allegorical commentary; de monarchia,[ ] a summary treatise of political philosophy in latin which was condemned and burned after dante's death[ ][ ] by the papal legate bertrando del poggetto, which argues for the necessity of a universal or global monarchy to establish universal peace in this life, and this monarchy's relationship to the roman catholic church as guide to eternal peace; and de vulgari eloquentia ("on the eloquence in the vernacular"),[ ] on vernacular literature, partly inspired by the razos de trobar of raimon vidal de bezaudun. list of works[edit] 	il fiore and detto d'amore ( – ) 	la vita nuova ("the new life", ) 	de vulgari eloquentia ("on the eloquence in the vernacular", – ; latin essay) 	convivio ("the banquet", ) 	de monarchia ( ; latin treatise on secular and religious power) 	divine comedy ( ) 	eclogues ( ) 	quaestio de aqua et terra ("a question of the water and of the land", ; latin discussion of a problem in medieval cosmology) 	le rime (collected and ordered by modern critics) 	 			 			 illustration for purgatorio (of the divine comedy) by gustave doré 			 		 	 			 			 illustration for paradiso (of the divine comedy) by gustave doré 			 		 	 			 			 illustration for paradiso (of the divine comedy) by gustave doré 			 		 notes[edit] 	^ the name 'dante' is understood to be a hypocorism of the name 'durante', though no document known to survive from dante's lifetime refers to him as such (including his own writings). a document prepared for dante's son jacopo refers to "durante, often called dante". he may have been named for his maternal grandfather durante degli abati.[ ] citations[edit] 	^ gorni, guglielmo ( ). 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( ). the fragile leaves of the sibyl: dante's master plan. westminster, md: newman press. oclc  . 	toynbee, paget ( ). a dictionary of the proper names and notable matters in the works of dante. london: the clarendon press. oclc  . retrieved march , . 	whiting, mary bradford ( ). dante the man and the poet. cambridge: w. heffer & sons. oclc  . 	guénon, rené ( ). the esoterism of dante, trans. by c.b. berhill, in the perennial wisdom series. ghent, ny: sophia perennis et universalis, . viii, p. n.b.: originally published in french, entitled l'esoterisme de danté, in . isbn  - - - external links[edit] dante alighieriat wikipedia's sister projects 	media from wikimedia commons 	quotations from wikiquote 	texts from wikisource 	data from wikidata 	dante at the encyclopædia britannica 	dante alighieri at curlie 	works by dante alighieri at project gutenberg 	works by or about dante alighieri at internet archive 	works by dante alighieri at librivox (public domain audiobooks) 	works by dante alighieri at one more library (works in english, italian, latin, arabic, german, french and spanish) 	wetherbee, winthrop. 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registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 dionysius of halicarnassus - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	dionysius of halicarnassus 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 dionysius of halicarnassus dionysius of halicarnassus (greek: Διονύσιος Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἁλικαρνασσεύς, dionúsios alexándrou halikarnasseús, ''dionysios son of alexandros of halikarnassos''; c. bc – after bc) was a greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of augustus caesar. his literary style was atticistic—imitating classical attic greek in its prime. dionysius' opinion of the necessity of a promotion of paideia within education, from true knowledge of classical sources, endured for centuries in a form integral to the identity of the greek elite.[ ] dionysius should be distinguished from the greek god dionysus. contents 	 life 	 works 	 . dionysian imitatio 	 history in the roman antiquities, and the foundation myth 	 . romulus and remus 	 . . origins and survival in the wild 	 . . education, and foundation of rome 	 . . institutions 	 . . sabine women, and death of romulus 	 see also 	 editions 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links life[edit] he was a halicarnassian.[ ] at some time he moved to rome after the termination of the civil wars, and spent twenty-two years studying latin and literature and preparing materials for his history.[ ] during this period, he gave lessons in rhetoric, and enjoyed the society of many distinguished men. the date of his death is unknown.[ ] in the th century, it was commonly supposed that he was the ancestor of aelius dionysius of halicarnassus.[ ] works[edit] his major work, entitled rhōmaïkḕ arkhaiología (Ῥωμαϊκὴ Ἀρχαιολογία, ''roman antiquities''), embraced the history of rome from the mythical period to the beginning of the first punic war. it was divided into twenty books, of which the first nine remain entire, the tenth and eleventh are nearly complete, and the remaining books exist in fragments,[ ] in the excerpts of the roman emperor constantine porphyrogenitus and an epitome discovered by angelo mai in a milan manuscript. the first three books of appian, plutarch's life of camillus and life of coriolanus also embody much of dionysius.[citation needed] his chief object was to reconcile the greeks to the rule of rome, by dilating upon the good qualities of their conquerors and also by arguing, using more ancient sources, that the romans were genuine descendants of the older greeks.[ ][ ] according to him, history is philosophy teaching by examples, and this idea he has carried out from the point of view of a greek rhetorician. but he carefully consulted the best authorities, and his work and that of livy are the only connected and detailed extant accounts of early roman history.[ ] dionysius was also the author of several rhetorical treatises, in which he shows that he has thoroughly studied the best attic models: 	the art of rhetoric (Τέχνη ῥητορική, tékhnē rhētorikḗ), which is rather a collection of essays on the theory of rhetoric, incomplete, and certainly not all his work; 	the arrangement of words (Περὶ συνθέσεως ὀνομάτων, perì sunthéseōs onomátōn, latin: de compositione verborum), treating of the combination of words according to the different styles of oratory; 	on imitation (Περὶ μιμήσεως, perì mimḗseōs), on the best models in the different kinds of literature and the way in which they are to be imitated—a fragmentary work; 	commentaries on the attic orators (Περὶ τῶν Ἀττικῶν ῥητόρων, perì tôn attikôn rhētórōn), which, however, only deal with lysias, isaeus, isocrates and (by way of supplement) dinarchus; 	on the admirable style of demosthenes (Περὶ λεκτικῆς Δημοσθένους δεινότητος, perì lektikês dēmosthénous deinótētos); and 	on the character of thucydides (Περὶ Θουκιδίδου χαρακτῆρος, perì thoukidídou kharaktêros). the last two treatises are supplemented by letters to gn. pompeius and ammaeus (two, one of which is about thucydides).[ ] dionysian imitatio[edit] main article: dionysian imitatio dionysian imitatio is the literary method of imitation as formulated by dionysius, who conceived it as the rhetorical practice of emulating, adapting, reworking, and enriching a source text by an earlier author.[ ][ ] it shows marked similarities with quintilian’s view of imitation, and both may derive from a common source.[ ] dionysius' concept marked a significant departure from the concept of mimesis formulated by aristotle in the th century bc, which was only concerned with "imitation of nature" and not "imitation of other authors."[ ] latin orators and rhetoricians adopted dionysius' method of imitatio and discarded aristotle's mimesis.[ ] history in the roman antiquities, and the foundation myth[edit] dionysius carried out extensive research for his roman history, selecting among authorities, and preserving (for example) details of the servian census.[ ] his first two books present a unified account of the supposed greek origin for rome, merging a variety of sources into a firm narrative: his success, however, was at the expense of concealing the primitive roman actuality (as revealed by archaeology).[ ] along with livy,[ ] dionysius is thus one of the primary sources for the accounts of the roman foundation myth, and that of romulus and remus, and was relied on in the later publications of plutarch, for example. he writes extensively on the myth, sometimes attributing direct quotations to its figures. the myth spans the first volumes of his roman antiquities, beginning with book i chapter and concluding in book ii chapter .[citation needed] romulus and remus[edit] origins and survival in the wild[edit] dionysius claims that the twins, romulus and remus, were born to a vestal named ilia silvia (sometimes called rea), descended from aeneas of troy and the daughter of king latinus of the original latin tribes, thus linking rome to trojans and latins both. dionysius lays out the different accounts of her pregnancy and the twins' conception, but declines to choose one over the others. citing fabius, cincius, porcius cato, and piso, dionysius recounts the most common tale, whereby the twins are to be tossed into the tiber; are left at the site of the ficus ruminalis; and rescued by a she-wolf who nurses them in front of her lair (the lupercal). dionysius relates an alternate, "non-fantastical" version of romulus and remus' birth, survival and youth. in this version, numitor managed to switch the twins at birth with two other infants. the twins were delivered by their grandfather to faustulus to be fostered by him and his wife, laurentia, a former prostitute. according to plutarch, lupa(latin for "wolf") was a common term for members of her profession and this gave rise to the she-wolf legend. education, and foundation of rome[edit] the twins receive a proper education in the city of gabii, before eventually winning control of the area around where rome would be founded. dispute over the particular hill upon which rome should be built, the palatine hill or the aventine hill for its strategic advantages saw the brothers fall out and remus killed. before construction on the city began romulus made sacrifices and received good omens, and he then ordered the populace to ritually atone for their guilt. the city's fortifications were first and then housing for the populace. he assembled the people and gave them the choice as to what type of government they wanted - monarchy, democracy, or oligarchy - for its constitution.[ ] after his address, which extolled bravery in war abroad and moderation at home, and in which romulus denied any need to remain in power, the people decided to remain a kingdom and asked him to remain its king. before accepting he looked for a sign of the approval of the gods. he prayed and witnessed an auspicious lightning bolt, after which he declared that no king shall take the throne without receiving approval from the gods. institutions[edit] dionysus then provided a detailed account of the ‘romulus’ constitution, most probably based on the work of terentius varro.[ ] romulus supposedly divides rome into tribes, each with a tribune in charge. each tribe was divided into curia, and each of those into smaller units. he divided the kingdoms land holdings between them, and dionysus alone among our authorities insists that this was done in equal lots.[ ] the patrician class was separated from the plebeian class; while each curiae was responsible for providing soldiers in the event of war. bernard van orley - romulus gives laws to the roman people – wga a system of patronage (clientela), a senate (attributed by dionysius to greek influence) and a personal bodyguard of of the strongest and fittest among the nobles were also established: the latter, the celeres, were so-named either for their quickness, or, according to valerius antias, for their commander.[ ] a separation of power,[ . - ] and measures to increase manpower,[ - ] were also instituted, as were rome's religious customs and practices[ - ], and a variety of legal measures praised by dionysus. again, dionysius thoroughly describes the laws of other nations before contrasting the approach of romulus and lauding his work. the roman law governing marriage is, according to his antiquities, an elegant yet simple improvement over that of other nations, most of which he harshly derides. by declaring that wives would share equally in the possessions and conduct of their husband, romulus promoted virtue in the former and deterred mistreatment by the latter. wives could inherit upon their husband's death. a wife's adultery was a serious crime, however, drunkenness could be a mitigating factor in determining the appropriate punishment. because of his laws, dionysius claims that not a single roman couple divorced over the following five centuries. romulus' laws governing parental rights, in particular, those that allow fathers to maintain power over their adult children were also considered an improvement over those of others; while dionysius further approved of how, under the laws of romulus, native-born free roman's were limited to two forms of employment: farming and the army. all other occupations were filled by slaves or non-roman labor. romulus used the trappings of his office to encourage compliance with the law. his court was imposing and filled with loyal soldiers and he was always accompanied by the lictors appointed to be his attendants. sabine women, and death of romulus[edit] the intervention of the sabine women, by jacques-louis david, following his institutional account, dionysus described the famous abducting of the sabine women, stressing particularly how they were to be married according to their own sabine customs,[ ] and suggesting thereby that the abduction was a pretext for alliance with the sabines.[ ] in his narrative, however, the cities of caecina, crustumerium, and antemnae petition for tatius, king of the sabines to lead them to war; and it is only after the famous intervention of the sabine women that the nations agreed to become a single kingdom under the joint rule of romulus and tatius, both declared quirites. after the death of tatius, however, romulus became more dictatorial, until he met his end, either through actions divine or earthly. see also[edit] 	battle of the lacus curtius 	diodorus siculus 	hellanicus of lesbos editions[edit] 	collected works edited by friedrich sylburg ( – ) (parallel greek and latin) (frankfurt ) (available at google books) 	complete edition by johann jakob reiske ( – )[ ] 	archaeologia by a. kiessling ( - ) (vol. , vol. , vol. , vol. ) and v. prou ( ) and c. jacoby ( – ) (vol. , vol. , vol. , vol. , supplementum) [ ] 	opuscula by hermann usener and ludwig radermacher ( - )[ ] in the teubner series (vol. contains commentaries on the attic orators, letter to ammaeus, on the admirable style of demosthenes, on the character of thucydides, letter to ammaeus about thucydides, vol. contains the arrangement of words, on imitation, letter to gn. pompeius, the art of rhetoric, fragments) 	roman antiquities by v. fromentin and j. h. sautel ( –), and opuscula rhetorica by aujac ( –), in the collection budé 	english translation by edward spelman ( ) (available at google books) 	trans. earnest cary, harvard university press, loeb classical library: 	roman antiquities, i, . 	roman antiquities, ii, . 	roman antiquities, iii, . 	roman antiquities, iv, . 	roman antiquities, v, . 	roman antiquities, vi, . 	roman antiquities, vii, . 	trans. stephen usher, critical essays, i, harvard university press, , isbn  - - - - 	trans. stephen usher, critical essays, ii, harvard university press, , isbn  - - - - references[edit] 	^ a b hidber, t. ( oct ). wilson, n. (ed.). encyclopedia of ancient greece(p. ). routledge. p.  . isbn  - . retrieved - - . 	^ j e sandys, a dictionary of classical antiquities (london p. 	^ a b  one or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "dionysius halicarnassensis". encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. pp.  – . 	^ schmitz, leonhard ( ), "dionysius, aelius", in smith, william (ed.), dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology, , boston, p.  	^ j e sandys, a dictionary of classical antiquities (london p. 	^ the roman antiquities of dionysius of halicarnassus. i (loeb classical library ed.). chicago: university of chicago. march , [ ]. 	^ gabba, e. ( ), dionysius and the history of archaic rome. berkeley. 	^ s usher, the historians of greece and rome (london ) p. - 	^ a b c ruthven ( ) pp. – 	^ jansen ( ) 	^ s f bonner, the literary treatises of dionysius of halicarnassus ( ) p. 	^ s usher, the historians of greece and rome (london ) p. 	^ s usher, the historians of greece and rome (london ) p. 	^ j burrow, a history of histories (penguin ) p. and 	^ t p wiseman, remembering the roman republic ( ) p. xviii-ix 	^ t p wiseman, remembering the roman republic ( ) p. xviii 	^ t p wiseman, remembering the roman republic ( ) p. xviii 	^ t p wiseman, remembering the roman republic ( ) p. ii 	^ g miles, livy ( ) p. 	^ r hexter ed., innovations of antiquity ( ) p. 	^ a b c chisholm . further reading[edit] 	bonner, s. f. . the literary treatises of dionysius of halicarnassus: a study in the development of critical method. cambridge, uk: cambridge univ. press. 	damon, c. . aesthetic response and technical analysis in the rhetorical writings of dionysius of halicarnassus. museum helveticum : – . 	dionysius of halicarnassus. . on thucydides. translated, with commentary, by w. kendrick pritchett. berkeley and london: univ. of california press. 	gabba, emilio. . dionysius and the history of archaic rome. berkeley: univ. of california press. 	gallia, andrew b. . reassessing the 'cumaean chronicle': greek chronology and roman history in dionysius of halicarnassus. journal of roman studies : – . 	jonge, casper constantijn de. . between grammar and rhetoric: dionysius of halicarnassus on language, linguistics and literature. leiden: brill. 	jonge, casper c. de, and richard l. hunter (ed.). . dionysius of halicarnassus and augustan rome. cambridge: cambridge university press. 	sacks, kenneth. . rhetoric and speeches in hellenistic historiography. athenaeum : – . 	usher, s. – . dionysius of halicarnassus: the critical essays. vols. cambridge, ma, and london: harvard univ. press. 	wiater, n. . the ideology of classicism: language, history and identity in dionysius of halicarnassus. berlin and new york: de gruyter. 	wooten, c. w. . the peripatetic tradition in the literary essays of dionysius of halicarnassus. in: peripatetic rhetoric after aristotle. edited by w. w. fortenbaugh and d. c. mirhady, – . rutgers university studies in classical humanities . new brunswick, nj: transaction. external links[edit] 	library resources about dionysius of halicarnassus 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 by dionysius of halicarnassus 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	english translation of the antiquities (at lacuscurtius) 	 edition with the original greek from the internet archive 	greek text and french translation 	authority control 	 	bibsys: 	bne: xx 	bnf: cb v (data) 	cantic: a 	cinii: da 	gnd: 	isni: 	lccn: n 	lnb: 	ndl: 	nkc: jn 	nla: 	nli: 	nlp: a 	nsk: 	nta: 	rero: -a 	selibr: 	sudoc: x 	trove: 	vcba: / 	viaf: 	 worldcat identities: lccn-n 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covered in ink. the ink is wiped off the surface of the plate, but remains in the grooves. paper is placed on the plate and compressed, such as by a heavy roller. the paper is removed, and the ink has been transferred from the plate to the paper. micro-topography of an ordinary french post stamp (detail) showing the thickness of ink obtained by intaglio. the words la poste appeared in white on red background and hence corresponds to areas with a lack of ink. banknote portrait pattern made with intaglio printing. denomination: hungarian forint. depicted area: . by . millimetres ( .  in ×  .  in). intaglio (/ɪnˈtælioʊ/ in-tal-ee-oh; italian: [inˈtaʎʎo]) is the family of printing and printmaking techniques in which the image is incised into a surface and the incised line or sunken area holds the ink.[ ] it is the direct opposite of a relief print, where the parts of the matrix that make the image stand above the main surface. normally, copper or in recent times zinc sheets, called plates, are used as a surface or matrix, and the incisions are created by etching, engraving, drypoint, aquatint or mezzotint, often in combination.[ ] collagraphs may also be printed as intaglio plates.[ ] after the decline of the main relief technique of woodcut around , the intaglio techniques dominated both artistic printmaking as well as most types of illustration and popular prints until the mid th century. contents 	 process 	 brief history 	 current usage 	 intaglio artists 	 see also 	 references 	 external links process[edit] in intaglio printing, the lines to be printed are cut into a metal (e.g. copper) plate by means either of a cutting tool called a burin, held in the hand – in which case the process is called engraving; or through the corrosive action of acid – in which case the process is known as etching.[ ] in etching, for example, the plate is pre-covered in a thin, acid-resistant resin or wax ground. using etching needles or burins, the artist or writer (etcher) engraves their image (therefore to be only where the plate beneath is exposed). the plate's ground side is then dipped into acid, or the acid poured onto it. the acid bites into the surface of the plate where it was exposed. biting is a printmaking term to describe the acid's etching, or incising, of the image; its duration depends on the acid strength, metal's reactivity, temperature, air pressure and the depth desired.[ ] after the plate is sufficiently bitten it is removed from the acid bath, the ground is removed gently and the plate is usually dried or cleaned.[ ] to print an intaglio plate, ink or inks are painted, wiped and/or dabbed into the recessed lines (such as with brushes/rubber gloves/rollers). the plate is then rubbed with tarlatan cloth to remove most of its waste (surface ink) and a final smooth wipe is often done with newspaper or old public phone book pages, leaving it in the incisions. dampened paper will usually be fed against the plate, covered by a blanket, so when pressed by rolling press it is squeezed into the plate's ink-filled grooves with uniform very high pressure.[ ] the blanket is then lifted, revealing the paper and printed image. the final stages repeat for each copy needed. brief history[edit] main articles: old master print and line engraving intaglio printmaking emerged in europe well after the woodcut print, with the earliest known surviving examples being undated designs for playing cards made in germany, using drypoint technique, probably in the late s.[ ] engraving had been used by goldsmiths to decorate metalwork, including armor, musical instruments and religious objects since ancient times, and the niello technique, which involved rubbing an alloy into the lines to give a contrasting color, also goes back to late antiquity. scholars and practitioners of printmaking have suggested that the idea of making prints from engraved plates may well have originated with goldsmiths' practices of taking an impression on paper of a design engraved on an object, in order to keep a record of their work, or to check the quality.[ ][ ][ ] martin schongauer was one of the most significant early artists in the engraving technique, and albrecht dürer is one of the most famous intaglio artists. italian and dutch engraving began slightly after the germans, but were well developed by . drypoint and etching were also german inventions of the fifteenth century, probably by the housebook master and daniel hopfer respectively.[ ][ ] in the nineteenth century, viennese printer karel klíč introduced a combined intaglio and photographic process. photogravure retained the smooth continuous tones of photography but was printed using a chemically-etched copper plate. this permitted a photographic image to be printed on regular paper, for inclusion in books or albums.[ ] in the s and s the italian security printer gualtiero giori brought intaglio printing into the era of high-technology by developing the first ever six-colour intaglio printing press, designed to print banknotes which combined more artistic possibilities with greater security.[ ] current usage[edit] 	 	this section does not cite any sources. please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. find sources: "intaglio" printmaking – news · newspapers · books · scholar · jstor (september ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) at one time, intaglio printing was used for all mass-printed materials including banknotes, stock certificates, newspapers, books, maps and magazines, fabrics, wallpapers and sheet music. today, intaglio engraving is used largely for paper or plastic currency, banknotes, passports and occasionally for high-value postage stamps. the appearance of engraving is sometimes mimicked for items such as wedding invitations by producing an embossment around lettering printed by another process (such as lithography or offset) to suggest the edges of an engraving plate. intaglio artists[edit] 	william blake 	albrecht dürer 	m. c. escher 	helen frank 	francisco goya 	michael hafftka 	stanley william hayter 	edward hopper 	william kentridge 	max klinger 	käthe kollwitz 	mauricio lasansky 	martin lewis 	evan k mwendwa 	lucas van leyden 	cheryl anne lorance 	[[lothar osterburg] 	gabor peterdi 	pablo picasso 	anton pieck 	krishna reddy 	rembrandt 	félicien rops 	ludwig von siegen 	diane victor 	james abbott mcneill whistler see also[edit] 	history of printing 	rotogravure 	viscosity printing references[edit] 	^ strauss, victor ( ). the printing industry: an introduction to its many branches, processes, and products. washington: printing industries of america. isbn  . 	^ mustalish, rachel ( ). 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after , it tended to decry war propaganda. contents 	 context 	 uses in art and literature 	 use as a motto and inscription 	 . organizations 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 external links context[edit] the poem from which the line comes, exhorts roman citizens to develop martial prowess such that the enemies of rome, in particular the parthians, will be too terrified to resist the romans. in john conington's translation, the relevant passage reads: 	 angustam amice pauperiem pati robustus acri militia puer condiscat et parthos ferocis vexet eques metuendus hasta vitamque sub divo et trepidis agat in rebus. illum ex moenibus hosticis matrona bellantis tyranni prospiciens et adulta virgo suspiret, eheu, ne rudis agminum sponsus lacessat regius asperum tactu leonem, quem cruenta per medias rapit ira caedes. dulce et decorum est pro patria mori: mors et fugacem persequitur virum nec parcit inbellis iuventae poplitibus timidove tergo.[ ] 	 to suffer hardness with good cheer, in sternest school of warfare bred, our youth should learn; let steed and spear make him one day the parthian's dread; cold skies, keen perils, brace his life. methinks i see from rampired town some battling tyrant's matron wife, some maiden, look in terror down,— “ah, my dear lord, untrain'd in war! o tempt not the infuriate mood of that fell lion i see! from far he plunges through a tide of blood!” what joy, for fatherland to die! death's darts e'en flying feet o'ertake, nor spare a recreant chivalry, a back that cowers, or loins that quake.[ ] a humorous elaboration of the original line was used as a toast in the th century: "dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, sed dulcius pro patria vivere, et dulcissimum pro patria bibere. ergo, bibamus pro salute patriae." a reasonable english translation would be: "it is sweet and fitting to die for the homeland, but sweeter still to live for the homeland, and sweetest yet to drink for the homeland. so, let us drink to the health of the homeland." uses in art and literature[edit] 	perhaps the most famous modern use of the phrase is as the title of a poem, "dulce et decorum est", by british poet wilfred owen during world war i. owen's poem describes a gas attack during world war i and is one of his many anti-war poems that were not published until after the war ended. in the final lines of the poem, the horatian phrase is described as "the old lie".[ ] it is believed, and illustrated by the original copy of the poem, that owen intended to dedicate the poem ironically to jessie pope, a popular writer who glorified the war and recruited "laddies" who "longed to charge and shoot" in simplistically patriotic poems like "the call".[ ] 	"died some, pro patria, non 'dulce' non 'et decor' ..." from part iv of ezra pound's "hugh selwyn mauberley", a damning indictment of world war i; "daring as never before, wastage as never before." 	in a school essay, german playwright bertolt brecht referred to the phrase as zweckpropaganda (cheap propaganda for a specific cause) and pointed out that "it is sweeter and more fitting to live for one's country", an essay for which he was nearly expelled.[ ] 	the title of damon knight's short story "dulcie and decorum" is an ironic play on the first three words of the phrase; the story is about computers that induce humans to kill themselves. 	the film johnny got his gun ends with this saying, along with casualty statistics since world war i. 	in the film all quiet on the western front, a teacher quotes this early on while talking to his class. 	in his book and no birds sang, chronicling his service in italy with the canadian army during world war ii, farley mowat quotes wilfred owen's poem on the opening pages and addresses "the old lie" in the final section of the book. 	tim o'brien quotes the line in the book if i die in a combat zone, box me up and ship me home. 	in margaret mitchell's gone with the wind, the tarleton brothers are buried under a tombstone which bears the phrase. 	the last words attributed to the israeli national hero yosef trumpeldor – "it is good to die for our country" (טוב למות בעד ארצנו) – are considered to be derived from horace's, and were a frequently used zionist slogan in the early th century. 	in william makepeace thackeray's novel vanity fair, the quote appears on george osborne's tombstone after he dies at waterloo. 	in thomas wolfe's look homeward, angel: a story of the buried life, after the outbreak of world war i, adolescent eugene, encouraged by his teacher, margaret leonard, devours stories of wartime courage (r. brooke's "if i should die ..." and r. hanky's a student in arms), and fueled by these stories, composes his own, to the ever-present literary-referenced commentary by wolfe. 	karl marlantes' novel matterhorn: a novel of the vietnam war features a mock-mass between mellas and others, in which the line is satirically quoted. 	the british rock band kasabian includes the phrase at the end of the music video for their song "empire".[ ] 	the british rock band the damned released a single named "in dulce decorum" in . 	the song the latin one by , maniacs sets the poem by owen to music and includes the phrase. 	american band kamelot quotes the line in the song "memento mori", from their seventh album, the black halo. 	scottish rock band the skids include a song named "dulce et decorum est (pro patria mori)" on the album days in europa in . 	british folk-metal band skyclad uses the quote in the song "jeopardy", in their album the silent whales of lunar sea.[ ] 	the british dark cabaret act the tiger lillies include a song called "dulce et decorum est" in the album a dream turns sour from . this is a reading of the wilfred owen poem with music written by martyn jacques.[ ] 	in kenneth branagh's film version of mozart's "the magic flute", sarastro's palace has the quote engraved across its entrance. 	the line is quoted in the movie "modesty blaise," after a plane is apparently shot down. 	the line appears as a morse coded message as part of a puzzle in the videogame battlefield . use as a motto and inscription[edit] 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (march ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) plaque at the graceville war memorial, queensland, australia 	australia 	the phrase appears prominently on a plaque at ama house, sydney commemorating fallen members of the new south wales branch of the british medical association. 	the phrase can be found at the graceville war memorial, graceville, queensland. 	brazil 	the phrase can be found at the monument to the expeditionary (monumento ao expedicionário) in alegrete city, state of rio grande do sul. plaque at queen's park in toronto dedicated to the militia that put down the north-west rebellion 	canada 	queen's park in toronto includes a monument to the militia members who died putting down the north-west rebellion with the phrase. 	the phrase appears on a bronze plaque bearing the names of canadian soldiers lost from the city of calgary during world war i and world war ii at central memorial high school's front entrance.[ ] 	the phrase is found on the great war cenotaph in phoenix, british columbia [ ] 	cuba 	the phrase was prominently inscribed in a large bronze tablet commemorating cuban patriot calixto garcía, major-general of the spanish–american war. the tablet was erected by the freemasons where he died at the raleigh hotel in washington, d.c. today, this tablet resides at the private residence of one of garcía's direct descendants. 	dominican republic 	the phrase is inscribed in bronze letters above the arch of the puerta del conde in santo domingo, dominican republic. 	india 	found on the inscription on the french monument in shillong, meghalaya for the soldiers of the th khasi labour corps who died during world war i ( – ). 	the inscription is also seen on the rear-quarter of the memorial tablet in the front garden of st joseph's boys' high school, bangalore in memory of the old boys of the school who died in the great war ( – ). a statue of st joseph with infant jesus now stands upon the tablet. 	italy 	the verse is engraved in each medallion in the center of the crosses of aquileia's cemetery of the heroes, dedicated to every soldier died during the first world war. this is the place from which, in october , the unknown soldier departed in the direction of the altare patria in rome. 	new zealand 	the phrase is found on the memorial archway at the entrance of otago boys' high school in dunedin. 	pakistan 	the phrase is written on a plaque on the left wall of main entrance of the patiala block, king edward medical university, lahore. it commemorates the students and graduates of the institution who died in the first world war. 	spain 	the phrase is scribed on the tomb of major william martin, a fictional royal marine officer whose death was concocted as part of operation mincemeat, in the cemetery of nuestra señora in huelva. 	sweden 	the phrase can be found inscribed on the outer wall of an old war fort within the friseboda nature reserve in sweden. 	united kingdom 	the phrase was inscribed on the wall of the chapel of the royal military academy sandhurst in .[ ] 	it is also inscribed on the parish roll of honour for devoran in cornwall, hanging in the village hall.[ ] 	united states 	the phrase can be found at the front entrance to the arlington memorial amphitheater at the arlington national cemetery, which was constructed from to – just before owen's poem was published. 	the phrase is carved in the monument commemorating the battle of wyoming (pennsylvania), known as the wyoming massacre, july , erected july . 	the phrase is located on the second monument of the point lookout confederate cemetery in point lookout, maryland, and at the confederate cemetery in the manassas national battlefield park. organizations[edit] dulce et decorum est pro patria mori is the motto of the following organizations: 	the portuguese military academy (academia militar)[ ][ ] 	the royal grammar school, newcastle upon tyne (former motto) 	the rd ground reconnaissance squadron of the royal netherlands army 	the / royal south australian regiment of the royal australian infantry corps adopted pro patria derived from the above line meaning "for one's country" as their unit motto. the shorter phrase pro patria ("for the homeland") may or may be not related to the horace quote: 	pro patria is the motto of the higgins or o'huigan clan. 	it is the motto of the sri lanka army as well as being inscribed on the collar insignia of the royal canadian regiment. 	pro patria is the name of a neighborhood in caracas, venezuela. see also[edit] 	tellus of athens 	dulce (disambiguation) 	decorum 	patria (disambiguation) 	mori notes[edit] 	^ latin pronunciation: [ˈd̪ʊɫ̪.keː ɛt̪ d̪ɛˈkoː.rʊ̃ˑ ɛst̪ proː ˈpa.t̪ri.aː ˈmoː.riː] ecclesiastical latin: [ˈd̪ul̠ʲ.t͡ʃɛ ɛt̪ d̪ɛˈkɔː.rum ɛst̪ prɔ ˈpaː.t̪ri.a ˈmɔː.ri] references[edit] 	^ "horace: odes iii". thelatinlibrary.com. 	^ "q. horatius flaccus (horace), odes, book , poem ". 	^ "dulce et decorum est by wilfred owen". poemhunter.com. retrieved july . 	^ "copy of archival record". archived from the original on march . retrieved march . 	^ hässler, hans-jürgen; von heusinger, christian, eds. ( ). kultur gegen krieg, wissenschaft für den frieden [culture against war, science for peace] (in german). würzburg, germany: königshausen & neumann. isbn  - . 	^ kasabianvevo ( october ). "kasabian - empire" – via youtube. 	^ "jeopardy - skyclad". 	^ the tiger lillies ( june ). ""dulce et decorum est" by the tiger lillies" – via youtube. 	^ "calgary board of education - central memorial high school". schools.cbe.ab.ca. june . archived from the original on july . retrieved - - . 	^ https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e /wwi_cenotaph_phoenix_bc_canda.jpg 	^ law, francis ( ). a man at arms: memoirs of two world wars. london: collins. p.  . isbn  - - - . 	^ "roll of honour of devoran men who served in ww , devoran village hall". january . 	^ [ ] archived march at the wayback machine 	^ [ ] archived september at the wayback machine external links[edit] 	latin text of horace's ode 	wilfred owen's poem retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=dulce_et_decorum_est_pro_patria_mori&oldid= " 		categories: 	war poetry 	latin words and phrases 	horace hidden categories: 	articles containing latin-language text 	cs german-language sources (de) 	webarchive template wayback links 	articles with short description 	short description matches wikidata 	use dmy dates from july 	use british english from december 	articles needing additional references from march 	all articles needing additional references 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			article 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	edit 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		search 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigation 	 	 			main page 	contents 	current events 	random article 	about wikipedia 	contact us 	donate 		 	 	 	 		contribute 	 	 			help 	learn to edit 	community portal 	recent changes 	upload file 		 	 	 		tools 	 	 			what links here 	related changes 	upload file 	special pages 	permanent link 	page information 	cite this page 	wikidata item 		 	 	 		print/export 	 	 			download as pdf 	printable version 		 	 	 		in other projects 	 	 			wikimedia commons 		 	 	 	 		languages 	 	 			brezhoneg 	català 	Čeština 	español 	français 	interlingua 	italiano 	עברית 	latina 	lingua franca nova 	português 	Српски / srpski 		edit links 	 		 this page was last edited on december , at :  (utc). 	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 category:wikipedia articles with vcba identifiers - wikipedia 	 	 	 	help 	 	category:wikipedia articles with vcba identifiers 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		this category is for articles with vcba identifiers. please do not add subcategories. for more information, see wikipedia:authority control. 		administrators: please do not delete this category even if it is empty! this category may be empty occasionally or even most of the time. 		this is a maintenance category, used for maintenance of the wikipedia project. it is not part of the encyclopedia and contains non-article pages, or groups articles by status rather than subject. do not include this category in content categories. this is a tracking category. it builds and maintains a list of pages primarily for the sake of the list itself. they are not part of the encyclopedia's categorization scheme. 	this category is hidden on its member pages—unless the corresponding user preference (appearance → show hidden categories) is set. 	these categories are used to track, build and organize lists of pages needing "attention en masse" (for example, pages using deprecated syntax), or that may need to be edited at someone's earliest convenience. 	these categories also serve to aggregate members of several lists or sub-categories into a larger, more efficient list (discriminated by classifications). contents: top – a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z * # • a aa ae aj ao at • b ba be bj bo bt • c ca ce cj co ct • d da de dj do dt • e ea ee ej eo et • f fa fe fj fo ft • g ga ge gj go gt • h ha he hj ho ht • i ia ie ij io it • j ja je jj jo jt • k ka ke kj ko kt • l la le lj lo lt • m ma me mj mo mt • n na ne nj no nt • o oa oe oj oo ot • p pa pe pj po pt • q qa qe qj qo qt • r ra re rj ro rt • s sa se sj so st • t ta te tj to tt • u ua ue uj uo ut • v va ve vj vo vt • w wa we wj wo wt • x xa xe xj xo xt • y ya ye yj yo yt • z za ze zj zo zt pages in this category should only be added by module:authority control. pages in category "wikipedia articles with vcba identifiers" the following pages are in this category, out of approximately , total. this list may not reflect recent changes (learn more). 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	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 dominate - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	dominate 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		"despotic" phase of government in the ancient roman empire for the album by adagio, see dominate (album). 	ancient rome 	 	this article is part of a series on the politics and government of ancient rome 	 periods 	 	roman kingdom – bc 	roman republic – bc 	roman empire bc – ad 	principate bc – ad 	dominate ad – 	western ad – 	eastern ad – 	timeline 	 roman constitution 	 	constitution of the kingdom 	constitution of the republic 	constitution of the empire 	constitution of the late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	executive magistrates 	 precedent and law 	 	roman law 	ius 	imperium 	mos maiorum 	collegiality 	auctoritas 	roman citizenship 	cursus honorum 	senatus consultum 	senatus consultum ultimum 	 assemblies 	 	centuriate 	curiate 	plebeian 	tribal 	 ordinary magistrates 	 	consul 	praetor 	quaestor 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form, the dominate is considered to have been more authoritarian, less collegial and more bureaucratic than the principate from which it emerged. contents 	 origin of the term 	 transition from the principate 	 characteristics 	 . multiple emperors 	 . devaluation of the consulate 	 . transformation of the traditional senatorial order 	 . military reforms 	 . religious reforms 	 . downgrading of rome as capital of the empire 	 . stylistic changes 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links origin of the term[edit] the modern term dominate is derived from the latin dominus, which translates into english as lord or master. dominus, traditionally used by roman slaves to address their masters, was sporadically used in addressing emperors throughout the principate, usually in the form of excessive flattery (or political invective) when referring to the emperor.[ ] augustus actively discouraged the practice, and tiberius in particular is said to have reviled it as sycophancy.[ ] domitian encouraged its use,[ ] but none of the emperors used the term in any semi-official capacity until the reign of aurelian in ad , where coins were issued bearing the inscription deus et dominus natus.[ ] however, it was only under diocletian that the term dominus was adopted as part of the emperor's official titulature, forming part of diocletian's radical reforms.[ ] transition from the principate[edit] the dominate system of government emerged as a response to the years of chaos that is referred to as the crisis of the third century. the stresses and strains of those years (chronic usurpations, military insurrections, simultaneous military conflicts across multiple frontiers) exposed the weaknesses in the roman state under the principate, and saw a gradual movement from the collegiate model of government that existed prior to ad to a more formally autocratic version that begins after ad .[ ] in broad terms, it saw the gradual exclusion of the senatorial elite from high military commands and the parallel elevation of the equestrian orders, the reorganisation of the armed forces and the creation of mobile field armies, changes in imperial dress and ceremonial displays, a religious policy aiming at religious unity, large scale monetary reforms, and the creation of an empire-wide civil bureaucracy.[ ] although diocletian is commonly thought of as creator of the dominate, its origins lie in the innovations of earlier emperors, principally those undertaken by aurelian (ad – )[ ] some stretching back to the reign of gallienus (ad – ).[ ] not all the changes that produced the 'dominate' were completed by the time of diocletian's abdication in ad ; many changes were either introduced or modified by constantine i. consequently, just as the principate emerged over the period bc through to ad, it is only by ad that the reforms that resulted in the dominate were largely complete.[ ] in the opinion of the historian john bagnall bury, the system of government, "constructed with the most careful attention to details, was a solution of the formidable problem of holding together a huge heterogeneous empire, threatened with dissolution and bankruptcy, an empire which was far from being geographically compact and had four long, as well as several smaller, frontiers to defend. to govern a large state by two independent but perfectly similar machines, controlled not from one centre but from two foci, without sacrificing its unity was an interesting and entirely new experiment. these bureaucratic machines worked moderately well, and their success might have been extraordinary if the monarchs who directed them had always been men of superior ability. blots of course and defects there were, especially in the fields of economy and finance. the political creation of the illyrian emperors was not unworthy of the genius of rome."[ ] characteristics[edit] multiple emperors[edit] under the principate, the position of emperor saw the concentration of various civil and military offices within a single magistracy.[ ] augustus and his successors usually took great care to disguise the autocratic nature of the office by hiding behind the institutions of the roman republic and the fiction that the emperor was simply the princeps or first citizen, whose authority was granted by the senate. this role was almost always filled by a single individual, and the date that the potestas tribunicia was conferred onto that person was the point when imperial authority could be exercised.[ ] over the course of the principate, it became common for the emperor (or augustus) to nominate an heir (referred to as the caesar), but the caesar did not have access to the powers of the emperor, nor was he delegated any official authority.[ ] it was during the crisis of the third century that the traditional imperial approach of a single imperial magistrate based at rome became unable to cope with multiple and simultaneous invasions and usurpations that required the emperor to be everywhere at once. further, it was their absence which caused usurpations to occur in response to a local or provincial crisis that traditionally would have been dealt with by the emperor.[ ] under the dominate, the burden of the imperial position was increasingly shared between colleagues, referred to as the consortium imperii. it was diocletian who introduced this form of government, under a system called the tetrarchy, which originally consisted of two co-emperors (augusti) and two respectively subordinate junior emperors (caesars), each of whom shared in the imperial power. this original power sharing model lasted from ad through to ad , being undone during the civil wars of the tetrarchy. with constantine i’s death in ad , the empire was again shared between multiple augusti, lasting until ad . the model became a permanent feature of the empire in ad with the accession of valentinian i, who shared the imperial office with his brother valens. barring the -year period of solitary rule by theodosius i from ad – , this approach would last until the overthrow of the last western emperor in ad . while each augustus was autonomous within each portion of the empire they managed, all laws that were introduced by any emperor were valid across the entirety of the empire. devaluation of the consulate[edit] during the roman republic, the office of consul was the highest elected magistracy in the roman state, with two consuls elected annually. with the arrival of the principate, although all real power was invested in the emperor, the consuls were still in theory the head of state, and the calendar year was identified by the two ordinary consuls who began in office at the start of the year.[ ] throughout the principate, the imperial consulate was an important position, albeit as the method through which the roman aristocracy could progress through to the higher levels of imperial administration – only former consuls could become consular legates, the proconsuls of africa and asia, or the urban prefect of rome.[ ] consequently, the high regard placed upon the ordinary consulate remained intact, as it was one of the few offices that one could share with the emperor, and during this period it was filled mostly by patricians or by individuals who had consular ancestors. it was a post that would be occupied by a man halfway through his career, in his early thirties for a patrician, or in his early forties for most others.[ ] if they were especially skilled or valued, they may even have achieved a second (or rarely, a third) consulate. prior to achieving the consulate, these individuals already had a significant career behind them, and would expect to continue serving the state, filling in the post upon which the state functioned.[ ] under the dominate, the loss of many pre-consular functions and the encroachment of the equites into the traditional senatorial administrative and military functions meant that senatorial careers virtually vanished prior to their appointment as consuls.[ ] this had the effect of seeing a suffect consulship granted at an earlier age, to the point that by the th century, it was being held by men in their early twenties, and possibly younger.[ ] as time progressed, second consulates, usually ordinary, became far more common than had been the case during the first two centuries, while the first consulship was usually a suffect consulate. also, the consulate during this period was no longer just the province of senators – the automatic awarding of a suffect consulship to the equestrian praetorian prefects (who were given the ornamenta consularia upon achieving their office) allowed them to style themselves cos. ii when they were later granted an ordinary consulship by the emperor.[ ] all this had the effect of further devaluing the office of consul, to the point that by time of the dominate, holding an ordinary consulate was occasionally left out of the cursus inscriptions, while suffect consulships were hardly ever recorded.[ ] transformation of the traditional senatorial order[edit] roman emperor constantine, who adjusted much of the civil and military reforms initiated by diocletian one of the key changes in the management of the empire during the dominate was the large scale removal of old-style senatorial participation in administrative and military functions. the process began with the reforms of gallienus, who removed senators from military commands, placing them in the hands of the equites.[ ] under diocletian, the military equestrian transformation was taken a stage further, with the removal of hereditary senators from most administrative, as well as military, posts (such as the legatus legionis). hereditary senators were limited to administrative jobs in italy and a few neighbouring provinces (sicily, africa, achaea and asia), despite the fact that senior administrative posts had been greatly multiplied by the tripling of the number of provinces and the establishment of dioceses (or super-provinces). the exclusion of the old italian aristocracy, both senatorial and equestrian, from the political and military power that they had monopolised for many centuries was largely complete. the senate became politically insignificant, although it retained great prestige.[ ] constantine i, however, re-introduced a limited form of senatorial career, basing the magistracies on previous offices but with changed functions.[ ] beginning with the quaestorship, a role which had acted as a form of apprenticeship for an ambitious senator during the principate, it was downgraded during the dominate and assigned to the sons of senators, with the legal qualifying age lowered to sixteen. this was followed by a suffect consulship and/or a praetorship. the office of praetor had also lost much of its influence, as it had been stripped of its legal functions, so that during the dominate its purpose was primarily to organise the ludi romani.[ ] the most prestigious post that a senator could hold under the dominate was that of praefectus urbi; during this period the office gained in effective power, as the imperial court was removed from the city of rome, meaning that the prefects were no longer under the emperor's direct supervision. the most significant change was the return of provincial government to the senatorial order, with the larger or more important provinces handed over to those senators who had held an ordinary consulship. however, unlike the time of the principate, the role of governor was much reduced, being a purely civil magistrate with no military functions, and with provinces greatly reduced in size, and the number increasing from the roughly fifty pre-existing provinces to approximately one hundred.[ ] the decline in the functions carried out by the old aristocratic senatorial families acting collegially with the emperor in the running of the empire was offset by the rise of an expanded imperial bureaucracy who served the emperor in a subordinate role. interposed between the governors and the emperors was the vicarius and, above him, the praetorian prefect, both of which were civilian (non-military) roles. gone was the division between provinces under the jurisdiction of the senate and those under the authority of the emperor. now all provinces, dioceses and praetorian prefectures were under the authority of the emperor.[ ] the praetorian prefects had wide-ranging administrative, financial, judicial and legislative powers. the provincial governors were appointed at his recommendation, and with him rested their dismissal, subject to the emperor's approval. the only civilian officials not under the direct oversight of the praetorian prefects were the proconsular governors of africa and asia, along with the urban prefects.[ ] the increasing administrative machinery surrounding the emperor resulted in an explosion of bureaucratic offices. these state officials were paid originally both in food and with money, but over the course of the dominate, the annona (or food ration) was converted into money. their salaries therefore consumed a considerable chunk of the imperial budget. although precise numbers are not available, it has been speculated that the state bureaucracy in the praetorian prefecture of the east and the praetorian prefecture of illyricum, including the diocesan and provincial governor's staffs, would have consisted of somewhere around , individuals.[ ] this figure did not include the staff of the military commanders, or the financial and other central ministries, and contrasts with the estimated state bureaucrats that were employed across all the provinces during the period of the julio-claudian emperors.[ ] among the most important offices under the dominate were the: 	quaestor sacri palatii (the officer responsible for drafting the laws, and the imperial rescripts responding to petitions) 	magister officiorum (officer responsible for managing the secretarial departments in the palace, the conduct of court ceremonies, and controlling the special department which dealt with ceremonial arrangements and imperial audiences) 	magistri scriniorum (the emperor's secretaries, belonging to the memoriae, epistularum, and libellorum bureaus) 	praepositus sacri cubiculi (the emperor's chamberlain, who exercised a general authority over all officers associated with the imperial court). all important offices automatically carried with them admission into the senate, thereby further eroding the standing of the traditional aristocratic senatorial families of the principate under the dominate. this resulted in a senatorial body of around , members during the reign of constantine,[ ] and these numbers only increased when there were two senatorial bodies in existence, one at rome and one at constantinople. all the higher officials in the imperial bureaucracy belonged to one of the three classes or ranks introduced by constantine i – the illustres, spectabiles and clarissimi, all of whom were automatically members of the senatorial order. the heads of the great central civil ministries, the magistri militum and other high level military commanders as well as the praepositus sacri cubiculi were all graded as illustres, the highest of the new senatorial ranks. the second class (spectabiles) was assigned to a large group of civil servants, including the proconsuls, vicarii, the military governors in the provinces and the magistri scriniorum.[ ] the entry level class, clarissimus, was the minimum qualification for membership of the senate. it was automatically awarded as part of the governorship of a province, and to a myriad of other lesser officers. it was held by a large number of junior imperial public servants, as well as being awarded to them after their retirement. the generosity of the emperors in bestowing the clarissimus witnessed the gradual erosion in its value. as a consequence, the emperors began to raise many clarissimi graded officials to the rank of spectabiles, which in turn cheapened the highest rank of illustres. this inflationary pressure resulted in the creation of a new senatorial rank before the middle of the th century, that of gloriosi. higher in grading than the illustres, all of the highest state officials were regraded to this rank.[ ] military reforms[edit] the original command structure of the late roman army, with a separate magister equitum and a magister peditum in place of the later overall magister militum in the command structure of the army of the western roman empire. further information: late roman army under the principate, provinces that contained legions were under the proconsular authority of the emperor, who managed those provinces through designated legates (legatus augusti pro praetore), while the units stationed at rome were under the authority of the praetorian prefect. during the crisis of the third century, greater authority over imperial military matters was ceded to the praetorian prefects,[ ] while the imperial legates took advantage of weakened centralised authority to use the troops under their command to rebel against the emperor and claim the imperial title for themselves. it was diocletian who initially divided the military administrative apparatus and the civil administration in order to mitigate the risk that future imperial governors or praetorian prefects might attempt to seize the throne through force, and then he reorganized both of them.[ ] during the tetrarchy, the praetorian prefects were the emperor's top administrators, ranking just below the emperor himself in dignity. while initially serving as the emperor's second in command in all matters of imperial administration (military, civil, judicial, taxation, etc.), during the course of the dominate the prefects gradually had portions of their authority stripped from them and given to other offices: the masters of the soldiers for military affairs and the imperial chancellor for central civilian administration.[ ] these reforms were the result of both the lack of officials suitable for the prefect's wide-ranging tasks, and of the desire to reduce the potential challenge to the emperor's authority posed by a powerful prefect.[ ] the next reforms were undertaken by constantine i, who reorganised the supreme military command. two significant parts of the reform are apparent: the separation of military commanders from civil administration and the division of the army into two classes: the field armies ("comitatenses") and the frontier troops ("limitanei").[ ] the field armies served as the empire's strategic reserve to respond to crisis where it may arise whereas the frontier troops were permanently stationed along the empire's borders ("limes"). recruited from the ranks of the field armies were the palace troops units ("palatini"), who accompanied the emperor as he travelled around the empire, functioning as the successor to the principate's praetorian guard.[ ] around the same time, constantine established the new military roles of the master of the soldiers ("magister militum"), who were the supreme military commanders of the empire. beginning with the head of the foot troops, the magister peditum ("master of the foot"), and one for the more prestigious horse troops, the magister equitum ("master of the horse"), these were established in each of the four praetorian prefectures. over time, the numbers and types of masters would vary across the empire. the establishment of solely military officials provided for a more professional military leadership. the masters were all ranked as illustres. 	within the east, by the late th century, there were masters of the soldiers, per illyricum, per thracias , and per orientem. each of these three masters exercised independent command over one of the three field armies of the eastern empire. there were also two masters of the soldiers in the presence (in praesenti) who accompanied the eastern emperor and who each commanded half of the palace troops. each of the five masters were of equal rank.[ ] 	within the west, there were originally four masters of the soldiers; foot and horse per gallias and per italiam. over time, it became more common for the offices (foot and horse) to be combined under a single person, then styled magister equitum et peditum or magister utriusquae militiae ("master of both forces"). by the time of stilicho, the master of both services was the supreme military commander of the west, ranking only below the emperor and above all other military commanders, and commander of half the palace troops. the master of the horse held command over half the palace troops and the field army of gaul, but still under the command of the master of both services.[ ] to support the masters of the soldiers, the empire established several military counts ("comes rei militaris"). there were six such military counts throughout the empire. the military counts were all ranked as spectabiles. 	within the east, there was only one military count: the military count of egypt ("comes rei militaris aegypti"). unlike the military counts of the west, this count commanded the frontier troops stationed in egypt and reported directly to the eastern emperor. 	within the west, there were six such military counts, one for each of the five field armies in illyria, africa, tingitania, hispania, and britannia. the sixth military count, the count of the saxon shore ("comes littoris saxonici per britanniam"), commanded frontier troops along both sides of the english channel and reported to the count of britannia. the five regular military counts reported to the master of both services. the various frontier troops were under the command of dukes ("duces limitis" or "border commanders"). these commanders were the closest in function to the imperial legates of the principate.[ ] most dukes were given command of forces in a single province, but a few controlled more than one province. in the east, the dukes reported to the master of the soldiers of their district whereas in the west they reported to their respective military count. religious reforms[edit] the dominate saw enormous changes in the official religion of the empire from its pantheistic principate origins. its principal feature was the elevation of a supreme deity that all peoples in the empire were to worship. according to john bagnall bury, "while in all ancient monarchies religion and sacerdotalism were a political as well as a social power, the position of the christian church in the roman empire was a new thing in the world, presenting problems of a kind with which no ruler had hitherto been confronted and to which no past experience offered a key. the history of the empire would have been profoundly different if the church had remained as independent of the state as it had been before constantine. but heresies and schisms and religious intolerance on one side, and the despotic instinct to control all social forces on the other, brought about a close union between state and church which altered the character and spirit of the state, and constituted perhaps the most striking difference between the early and the later empire."[ ] the origins of the change began in the reign of aurelian, who promoted the worship of sol invictus as the supreme deity of the empire.[ ] although the worship of sol invictus did not remove the veneration towards the traditional roman gods, it was seen as a mark of imperial favouritism, and the emperors linked his cult to the well being of the state and on-going military victories of the empire.[ ] next, it was during diocletian's reign that emperor worship was fully adopted by the emperors, as a method of expressing loyalty to the state.[ ] previously, deceased emperors had been worshiped as divus across the empire. living emperors had been worshiped as gods in the eastern half of the empire since the time of augustus, but this was not officially encouraged during the principate, and it was not introduced into italy. it was diocletian who altered this to have the worship of the living emperors as an official part of the religious framework of the entire empire.[ ] to facilitate this, diocletian was linked to the god jupiter, while his colleague maximian was associated with hercules.[ ] it was under constantine i that the religious transformation began to take its late dominate shape, initially with constantine officially favouring the worship of a single deity in the shape of sol invictus.[ ] during the course of his reign, the identification of sol invictus as the principal god began to merge with the christian god.[ ] to avoid offending christians, constantine abandoned the emperor's formal claim to divinity and ceased to demand sacrifices to the emperor that formed part of the imperial cult.[ ] in an attempt to appeal to both christians and pagans, constantine adopted two new religious symbols into the imperial iconography, in the form of the chi rho and the labarum.[ ] by the time of constantine's death in ad , this process was largely complete, with constantine officially converting to christianity on his deathbed. at the imperial court, christians began indiscernibly to rise in favour, to the detriment of pagans. this did not begin to immediately hamper the advancement of pagan courtiers after the defeat of maxentius in , as the full effects were not visible until paganism was prohibited at the end of the th century.[ ] ultimately, however, as a result of the imperial patronage of constantine and especially his sons, christianity rapidly emerged as the official religion of the empire, although many vestiges of the imperial cult took some time to pass (such as the emperors still assuming the role of pontifex maximus, chief priest of the pagan cults, until ad ).[ ] by the time of theodosius i, the organisation of the imperial church had aligned to the civil administration of the empire. every city had a bishop, every province had a metropolitan, and every civil diocese had an exarch.[ ] at the level of the praetorian prefectures sat the five patriarchates. the bishop of rome's authority extended over the whole western or latin half of the empire, and included the praetorian prefecture of illyricum. the patriarchate of constantinople had oversight over the civil dioceses of thrace, pontus, and asia. the patriarchate of alexandria corresponded to the diocese of egypt. the patriarchate of antioch had jurisdiction over the majority of the praetorian prefecture of the east, while the smaller patriarchate of jerusalem dominated the three palestinian provinces.[ ] the emperors had, over time, conceded many privileges to the clergy and the churches. firstly, all clergy, like the holders of the pagan religious offices, were exempted from taxation. there were no restrictions placed on churches receiving bequests through wills, and they were given the same rights as the pagan temples had in granting asylum to any who requested it. bishops were permitted to act as judges in civil cases when both parties had agreed, and no appeal was permitted once the bishop had made their ruling. the state made increasing use of the ecclesiastical authorities in local administration due to the decline in the civic life of the urban communities, which coincided with the increasing local influence of the bishops. finally, bishops were given the same role as the defensor civitatis, who was responsible for protecting the poor against exploitation by government officials and defending them from other powerful individuals, during the course of which the bishop could bring cases of illegality directly to the emperor.[ ] downgrading of rome as capital of the empire[edit] one of the most visible signs of the changes brought about by the dominate was the downgrading of rome from its status as the official residence of the emperor. this precedent had already been established by gallienus in , who moved the imperial court to mediolanum in response to a suspected future attack by the usurper postumus as well as defending italy from the ravages of the alamanni.[ ] rome was increasingly seen to be too distant a residence for the emperor when troubles could erupt along any of the borders of the empire. in the west, mediolanum was seen to be a much better strategic city for the emperor to be based at, as it gave good access through the alps northwards to both the danubian provinces in the east as well as the rhine provinces and gaul to the west. further, it was well positioned to guard against incursions through the alpine passes.[ ] this decision was confirmed when diocletian established the tetrarchy, and his colleague maximian informally established mediolanum as the senior western emperor's official residence.[ ] diocletian, conscious that the persian threat to the eastern provinces required a continuous imperial presence, placed his eastern capital in the city of nicomedia. meanwhile, the caesars also had imperial residences – constantius chlorus was based at augusta treverorum, while galerius sited his residence at sirmium.[ ] after the collapse of the tetrachy, constantine i at first placed his imperial capital at ulpia serdica before erecting a new imperial capital on the site of the old greek city of byzantium. naming it constantinople, it finally replaced nicomedia as the site of the emperor's residence in the east in .[ ] constantinople would remain the capital of the eastern provinces throughout the period of the dominate. in the west, mediolanum continued to be the imperial residence until the repeated invasions by alaric i forced the western emperor honorius to relocate to the strongly fortified city of ravenna in .[ ] ravenna remained the western imperial capital until the loss of italy in . although rome was reincorporated into the empire by justinian i in , it was ravenna which was selected as the official residence of the exarch, the governor who represented the emperor in italy. ravenna would retain this position until , when the byzantine empire finally lost the central italian provinces to the lombards. stylistic changes[edit] diocletian and his augusti colleagues and successors openly displayed the naked face of imperial power. they ceased using the more modest title of princeps; they adopted the veneration of the potentates of ancient egypt and persia; and, they started wearing jeweled robes and shoes in contrast to the simple toga praetexta used by emperors of the principate. emperors inhabited luxurious palaces (the ruins of diocletian's enormous palace in dalmatia survive to this day; see diocletian's palace) and were surrounded by a court of individuals who, only due to the favor and proximity of the emperor, attained the highest honorific titles and bureaucratic functions. in fact, many offices associated with the palatine life and that suggested intimate relationship with royalty eventually developed connotations of power, such as the offices of chamberlain and constable. the titles of senator and consul, after the loss of every residue of political power they had had in the principate, became mere honorifics in the later empire. historian david potter describes the transformation of government under diocletian when describing the shifts in imagery the emperor used to display his power (in this case the building of a huge new palace at sirmium): the style of government so memorably described by marcus, whereby the emperor sought to show himself as a model of correct aristocratic deportment, had given way to a style in which the emperor was seen to be distinct from all other mortals. his house could no longer be a grander version of houses that other people might live in: it, like him, had to be different. the adoption of dominus as a formal title reflected the divine status (divus) that has come to be a prerogative of the imperial position. originally an exceptional honour awarded by the senate to an emperor posthumously, the elevation had devolved to an expected convention for still-living caesars. to dissuade the rebellions and usurpations of the crisis of the third century, the emperors sought the kind of divine legitimacy invoked by eastern monarchies. emperors imported rituals such as kneeling before the emperor, and kissing of the hem of the imperial robe (proskynesis). even some christian emperors, such as constantine, were venerated after death. in the eastern roman empire after ad, the symbiotic relation between the imperial crown in constantinople and the orthodox church led to the distinctive character of the medieval roman state. anastasius i was the last emperor known to be consecrated as divus on his death ( ad). the title appears to have been abandoned thereafter on grounds of its spiritual impropriety. see imperial cult (ancient rome). the last ruler to use the titles dominus noster was justinian i (died ), giving place to the title of basileus ("king"). in the eastern half of the empire, and especially from the time of justinian i, the system of the dominate evolved into autocratic absolutism.[ ] in contrast to the situation in the principate, however, emperors in the dominate could not be deified as it was, excepting the two initial decades and the reign of julian, the christian period of the roman empire. another clear symptom of the upgrading of the imperial status was the notion of the emperor as an incarnation of the majesty of rome; thus lèse majesté became high treason.[citation needed] see also[edit] 	constitution of the late roman empire references[edit] 	^ menne, i., power and status in the roman empire, ad – ( ) p. 	^ kuhoff, wolfgang ( ). 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"conclusion: a simple answer". how rome fell: death of a superpower. new haven, conn.: yale university press. pp.  – . isbn  - - - . oclc  . retrieved july . further reading[edit] 	carson, robert. . principal coins of the romans, iii: the dominate, a.d. – . london: brit. museum publ. 	elton, hugh. . the roman empire in late antiquity, a political and military history. cambridge: cambridge university press. 	hebblewhite, mark . the emperor and the army in the later roman empire, ad – . london; new york: routledge. 	kelly, christopher . ruling the later roman empire. cambridge, ma: harvard university press. 	kulikowski, michael. . the triumph of empire: the roman world from hadrian to constantine. cambridge: harvard university press. 	melounová, markéta. . "trials with religious and political charges from the principate to the dominate." sborník prací filosofické fakulty brnenské university = studia minora facultatis philosophicae universitatis brunensis. rada archeologicko-klasicka = series archaeologica et classica. . : – . 	minamikawa, takashi ed. . new approaches to the later roman empire. kyoto: kyoto university. 	roymans, nico, stijn heeren, and wim de clerq eds. . social dynamics in the northwest frontiers of the late roman empire: beyond transformation or decline. amsterdam archaeological studies, . amsterdam: amsterdam university press. 	vitiello, massimiliano. . 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public offices held by aspiring politicians in the roman republic and the early roman empire. it was designed for men of senatorial rank. the cursus honorum comprised a mixture of military and political administration posts. each office had a minimum age for election. there were minimum intervals between holding successive offices and laws forbade repeating an office.[citation needed] these rules were altered and flagrantly ignored in the course of the last century of the republic. for example, gaius marius held consulships for five years in a row between bc and bc. he was consul seven times in all, also serving in and . officially presented as opportunities for public service, the offices often became mere opportunities for self-aggrandizement. the reforms of sulla required a ten-year interval before holding the same office again for another term.[ ] to have held each office at the youngest possible age (suo anno, "in his own year") was considered a great political success. for instance, to miss out on a praetorship at meant that one could not become consul at . cicero expressed extreme pride not only in being a novus homo ("new man"; comparable to a "self-made man") who became consul even though none of his ancestors had ever served as a consul, but also in having become consul "in his year".[ ][ ] the roman cursus honorum contents 	 military tribune 	 quaestor 	 aedile 	 praetor 	 consul 	 governor 	 censor 	 tribune of the plebs 	 princeps senatus 	 dictator and magister equitum 	 see also 	 references 	 external links military tribune[edit] main article: military tribune for the military career track for equestrians, see tres militiae. 	 	this section's factual accuracy is disputed. relevant discussion may be found on talk:cursus honorum. please help to ensure that disputed statements are reliably sourced. (october ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) the cursus honorum began with ten years of military duty in the roman cavalry (the equites) or in the staff of a general who was a relative or a friend of the family.[ ] the ten years of service were intended to be mandatory in order to qualify for political office,[ ] but in practice, the rule was not always rigidly applied. a more prestigious position was that of a military tribune.[ ] in the early roman republic, men at the age of around were elected by the tribal assembly to serve as commanders on a rotating basis; each commander retained six tribunes on his staff. tribunes could also be appointed by the consuls or by military commanders in the field as necessary. after the reforms of gaius marius in bc, the six tribunes acted as staff officers for the legionary legatus and were appointed tasks and command of units of troops whenever the need arose.[citation needed] the subsequent steps of the cursus honorum were achieved by direct election every year.[citation needed] quaestor[edit] main article: quaestor the first official post was that of quaestor. candidates had to be at least years old. however, men of patrician rank could subtract two years from this and other minimum age requirements.[citation needed] twenty quaestors served in the financial administration at rome or as second-in-command to a governor in the provinces. they could also serve as the paymaster for a legion. a young man who obtained this job was expected to become a very important official. an additional task of all quaestors was the supervision of public games. as a quaestor, an official was allowed to wear the toga praetexta, but was not escorted by lictors, nor did he possess imperium.[citation needed] aedile[edit] main article: aedile at years of age, proquaestor could stand for election to one of the aedile (pronounced ee-dyle /ˈiːdaɪl/, from aedes, "temple edifice") positions. of these aediles, two were plebeian and two were patrician, with the patrician aediles called curule aediles. the plebeian aediles were elected by the plebeian council and the curule aediles were either elected by the tribal assembly or appointed by the reigning consul. the aediles had administrative responsibilities in rome. they had to take care of the temples (whence their title, from the latin aedes, "temple"), organize games, and be responsible for the maintenance of the public buildings in rome. moreover, they took charge of rome's water and food supplies; in their capacity as market superintendents, they served sometimes as judges in mercantile affairs.[citation needed] the aedile was the supervisor of public works; the words "edifice" and "edification" stem from the same root. he oversaw the public works, temples and markets. therefore, the aediles would have been in some cooperation with the current censors, who had similar or related duties. also they oversaw the organization of festivals and games (ludi), which made this a very sought-after office for a career minded politician of the late republic, as it was a good means of gaining popularity by staging spectacles.[citation needed][ ] cursus honorum as during julius caesar's career ( st century bc) curule aediles were added at a later date in the th century bc, and their duties do not differ substantially from plebeian aediles. however, unlike plebeian aediles, curule aediles were allowed certain symbols of rank—the sella curulis or 'curule chair,' for example—and only patricians could stand for election to curule aedile. this later changed, and both plebeians and patricians could stand for curule aedileship.[citation needed] the elections for curule aedile were at first alternated between patricians and plebeians, until late in the nd century bc, when the practice was abandoned and both classes became free to run during all years.[citation needed] while part of the cursus honorum, this step was optional and not required to hold future offices. though the office was usually held after the quaestorship and before the praetorship, there are some cases with former praetors serving as aediles.[ ] praetor[edit] main article: praetor after serving either as quaestor or as aedile, a man of years could run for praetor. the number of praetors elected varied through history, generally increasing with time. during the republic, six or eight were generally elected each year to serve judicial functions throughout rome and other governmental responsibilities. in the absence of the consuls, a praetor would be given command of the garrison in rome or in italy. also, a praetor could exercise the functions of the consuls throughout rome, but their main function was that of a judge. they would preside over trials involving criminal acts, grant court orders and validate "illegal" acts as acts of administering justice. a praetor was escorted by six lictors, and wielded imperium. after a term as praetor, the magistrate would serve as a provincial governor with the title of propraetor, wielding propraetor imperium, commanding the province's legions, and possessing ultimate authority within his province(s).[ ] two of the praetors were more prestigious than the others. the first was the praetor peregrinus, who was the chief judge in trials involving one or more foreigners. the other was the praetor urbanus, the chief judicial office in rome. he had the power to overturn any verdict by any other courts, and served as judge in cases involving criminal charges against provincial governors. the praetor urbanus was not allowed to leave the city for more than ten days. if one of these two praetors was absent from rome, the other would perform the duties of both.[citation needed] consul[edit] main article: roman consul the office of consul was the most prestigious of all of the offices on the cursus honorum, and represented the summit of a successful career. the minimum age was . years were identified by the names of the two consuls elected[ ] for a particular year; for instance, m. messalla et m. pisone consulibus, "in the consulship of messalla and piso,"[ ][ ][ ] dates an event to bc. consuls were responsible for the city's political agenda, commanded large-scale armies and controlled important provinces. the consuls served for only a year (a restriction intended to limit the amassing of power by individuals) and could only rule when they agreed, because each consul could veto the other's decision.[citation needed] the consuls would alternate monthly as the chairman of the senate. they also were the supreme commanders in the roman army, with each being granted two legions during their consular year. consuls also exercised the highest juridical power in the republic, being the only office with the power to override the decisions of the praetor urbanus. only laws and the decrees of the senate or the people's assembly limited their powers, and only the veto of a fellow consul or a tribune of the plebs could supersede their decisions.[citation needed] a consul was escorted by twelve lictors, held imperium and wore the toga praetexta. because the consul was the highest executive office within the republic, they had the power to veto any action or proposal by any other magistrate, save that of the tribune of the plebs. after a consulship, a consul was assigned one of the more important provinces and acted as the governor in the same way that a propraetor did, only owning proconsular imperium. a second consulship could only be attempted after an interval of years to prevent one man holding too much power.[citation needed] governor[edit] main article: roman governor although not part of the cursus honorum, upon completing a term as either praetor or consul, an officer was required to serve a term as propraetor and proconsul, respectively, in one of rome's many provinces. these propraetors and proconsuls held near autocratic authority within their selected province or provinces. because each governor held equal imperium to the equivalent magistrate, they were escorted by the same number of lictors ( ) and could only be vetoed by a reigning consul or praetor. their abilities to govern were only limited by the decrees of the senate or the people's assemblies, and the tribune of the plebs was unable to veto their acts as long as the governor remained at least a mile outside of rome. censor[edit] main article: roman censor after a term as consul, the final step in the cursus honorum was the office of censor. this was the only office in the roman republic whose term was a period of eighteen months instead of the usual twelve. censors were elected every five years and although the office held no military imperium, it was considered a great honour. the censors took a regular census of the people and then apportioned the citizens into voting classes on the basis of income and tribal affiliation. the censors enrolled new citizens in tribes and voting classes as well. the censors were also in charge of the membership roll of the senate, every five years adding new senators who had been elected to the requisite offices. censors could also remove unworthy members from the senate. this ability was lost during the dictatorship of sulla. censors were also responsible for construction of public buildings and the moral status of the city.[citation needed] censors also had financial duties, in that they had to put out to tender projects that were to be financed by the state. also, the censors were in charge of the leasing out of conquered land for public use and auction. though this office owned no imperium, meaning no lictors for protection, they were allowed to wear the toga praetexta.[citation needed] tribune of the plebs[edit] main article: tribune of the plebs the office of tribune of the plebs was an important step in the political career of plebeians. patricians could not hold the office. the tribune was an office first created to protect the right of the common man in roman politics and served as the head of the plebeian council. in the mid-to-late republic, however, plebeians were often just as, and sometimes more, wealthy and powerful than patricians. those who held the office were granted sacrosanctity (the right to be legally protected from any physical harm), the power to rescue any plebeian from the hands of a patrician magistrate, and the right to veto any act or proposal of any magistrate, including another tribune of the people and the consuls. the tribune also had the power to exercise capital punishment against any person who interfered in the performance of his duties. the tribunes could even convene a senate meeting and lay legislation before it and arrest magistrates. their houses had to remain open for visitors even during the night, and they were not allowed to be more than a day's journey from rome. due to their unique power of sacrosanctity, the tribune had no need for lictors for protection and owned no imperium, nor could they wear the toga praetexta.[citation needed] for a period after sulla's reforms, a person who had held the office of tribune of the plebs could no longer qualify for any other office, and the powers of the tribunes were more limited, but these restrictions were subsequently lifted. princeps senatus[edit] main article: princeps senatus another office not officially a step in the cursus honorum was the princeps senatus, an extremely prestigious office for a patrician. the princeps senatus served as the leader of the senate and was chosen to serve a five-year term by each pair of censors every five years. censors could, however, confirm a princeps senatus for a period of another five years. the princeps senatus was chosen from all patricians who had served as a consul, with former censors usually holding the office. the office originally granted the holder the ability to speak first at session on the topic presented by the presiding magistrate, but eventually gained the power to open and close the senate sessions, decide the agenda, decide where the session should take place, impose order and other rules of the session, meet in the name of the senate with embassies of foreign countries, and write in the name of the senate letters and dispatches. this office, like the tribune, did not own imperium, was not escorted by lictors, and could not wear the toga praetexta.[citation needed] dictator and magister equitum[edit] main articles: roman dictator and magister equitum of all the offices within the roman republic, none granted as much power and authority as the position of dictator, known as the master of the people. in times of emergency, the senate would declare that a dictator was required, and the current consuls would appoint a dictator. this was the only decision that could not be vetoed by the tribune of the plebs. the dictator was the sole exception to the roman legal principles of having multiple magistrates in the same office and being legally able to be held to answer for actions in office. essentially by definition, only one dictator could serve at a time, and no dictator could ever be held legally responsible for any action during his time in office for any reason.[citation needed] the dictator was the highest magistrate in degree of imperium and was attended by twenty-four lictors (as were the former kings of rome). although his term lasted only six months instead of twelve (except for the dictatorships of sulla and caesar), all other magistrates reported to the dictator (except for the tribunes of the plebs - although they could not veto any of the dictator's acts), granting the dictator absolute authority in both civil and military matters throughout the republic. the dictator was free from the control of the senate in all that he did, could execute anyone without a trial for any reason, and could ignore any law in the performance of his duties. the dictator was the sole magistrate under the republic that was truly independent in discharging his duties. all of the other offices were extensions of the senate's executive authority and thus answerable to the senate. since the dictator exercised his own authority, he did not suffer this limitation, which was the cornerstone of the office's power.[citation needed] when a dictator entered office, he appointed to serve as his second-in-command a magister equitum, the master of the horse, whose office ceased to exist once the dictator left office. the magister equitum held praetorian imperium, was attended by six lictors, and was charged with assisting the dictator in managing the state. when the dictator was away from rome, the magister equitum usually remained behind to administer the city. the magister equitum, like the dictator, had unchallengeable authority in all civil and military affairs, with his decisions only being overturned by the dictator himself.[citation needed] the dictatorship was definitively abolished in bc after the assassination of 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		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		this article is about a major work of virgil. for the genre of poetry known as "bucolics" or "eclogues", see eclogue. for the poems by dante, see eclogues (dante). the opening lines of the eclogues in the th-century vergilius romanus the eclogues (/ˈɛklɒɡz/; latin: eclogae [ˈɛklɔɡae̯]), also called the bucolics, is the first of the three major works[ ] of the latin poet virgil. contents 	 background 	 structure and organization 	 eclogue 	 eclogue 	 eclogue 	 eclogue 	 eclogue 	 eclogue 	 eclogue 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links background[edit] taking as his generic model the greek bucolic poetry of theocritus, virgil created a roman version partly by offering a dramatic and mythic interpretation of revolutionary change at rome in the turbulent period between roughly and bc. virgil introduced political clamor largely absent from theocritus' poems, called idylls ("little scenes" or "vignettes"), even though erotic turbulence disturbs the "idyllic" landscapes of theocritus. virgil's book contains ten pieces, each called not an idyll but an eclogue ("draft" or "selection" or "reckoning"), populated by and large with herdsmen imagined conversing and performing amoebaean singing in largely rural settings, whether suffering or embracing revolutionary change or happy or unhappy love. performed with great success on the roman stage, they feature a mix of visionary politics and eroticism that made virgil a celebrity, legendary in his own lifetime. first page of an italian translation of eclogue , ad structure and organization[edit] like the rest of virgil's works, the eclogues are composed in dactylic hexameter. it is likely that virgil deliberately designed and arranged his book of eclogues, in which case it is the first extant collection of latin poems in the same meter put together by the poet. (although it is thought that catullus also compiled his book of poetry, it consists of poems written in different meters).[ ][ ] several scholars have attempted to identify the organizational/architectural principles underpinning the construction of the book. the book is arguably based on an alternation of antiphonal poems (e.g., dialogues) with non-dramatic/narrative poems.[ ][ ] beyond this, there have been many attempts (with little consensus) to identify other organizational principles. many of these attempts have been catalogued and critiqued by niall rudd.[ ] rudd refuted a number of cruder organizational theories, including theories that the eclogues are organized 	in chronological order[ ] 	by geographic setting, with italian settings alternating with non-italian settings[ ] 	into two halves, each featuring a movement from lighter, more peaceful poems to heavier, more emphatic and agitated poems[ ] rudd also identified more-convoluted organizational theories. while considering these more plausible than the above, he concluded that "each system has at least one defect, and none is so superior to the others as to be obviously virgil's own".[ ] such systems include: 	arrangement based on mutually supporting principles, such as topical and arithmetic correspondences 	arrangement into a series of pairs of poems, bracketing eclogue with the balancing eclogue and supported by arithmetical correspondence (i.e., length of poems) 	arrangement into two halves, with corresponding pairs based on length more recently, thomas k. hubbard has noted, "the first half of the book has often been seen as a positive construction of a pastoral vision, whilst the second half dramatizes progressive alienation from that vision, as each poem of the first half is taken up and responded to in reverse order."[ ] eclogue [edit] a dialogue between tityrus and meliboeus. in the turmoil of the era meliboeus has been forced off his land and faces an uncertain future. tityrus recounts his journey to rome and the "god" he met there who answered his plea and allowed him to remain on his land. he offers to let meliboeus spend the night with him. eclogue [edit] a monologue by the shepherd corydon bemoaning his unrequited love for alexis in the height of summer. eclogue [edit] a singing competition between menalcas and damoetas. palaemon is the judge and pronounces the contest a tie. eclogue [edit] main article: eclogue capping a sequence or cycle in which virgil created and augmented a new political mythology, eclogue reaches out to imagine a golden age ushered in by the birth of a boy heralded as "great increase of jove" (magnum iovis incrementum), which ties in with divine associations claimed in the propaganda of octavian, the ambitious young heir to julius caesar. the poet makes this notional scion of jove the occasion to predict his own metabasis up the scale in epos, rising from the humble range of the bucolic to the lofty range of the heroic, potentially rivaling homer: he thus signals his own ambition to make roman epic that will culminate in the aeneid. in the surge of ambition, virgil also projects defeating the legendary poet orpheus and his mother, the epic muse calliope, as well as pan, the inventor of the bucolic pipe, even in pan's homeland of arcadia, which virgil will claim as his own at the climax of his eclogue book in the tenth eclogue. biographical identification of the fourth eclogue's child has proved elusive; but the figure proved a link between traditional roman authority and christianity. the connection is first made in the oration of constantine[ ] appended to the life of constantine by eusebius of caesarea (a reading to which dante makes fleeting reference in his purgatorio). some scholars have also remarked similarities between the eclogue's prophetic themes and the words of isaiah : : "a little child shall lead". eclogue [edit] eclogue articulates another significant pastoral theme, the shepherd-poet's concern with achieving worldly fame through poetry. this concern is related to the metabasis virgil himself undertakes thematically in eclogue . in eclogue , the shepherds menalcas and mopsus mourn their deceased companion daphnis by promising to "praise ... daphnis to the stars – / yes, to the stars raise daphnis". menalcas and mopsus praise daphnis out of compassion but also out of obligation. daphnis willed that his fellow shepherds memorialize him by making a "mound and add[ing] above the mound a song: / daphnis am i in woodland, known hence far as the stars". not only are daphnis's survivors concerned with solidifying and eternizing his poetic reputation, but the dead shepherd-poet himself is involved in self-promotion from beyond the grave through the aegis of his will. it is an outgrowth of the friendly poetic rivalries that occur between them and of their attempts to best the gods, usually pan or phoebus, at their lyric craft. at the end of eclogue , daphnis is deified in the shepherds' poetic praise: "'a god, a god is he, menalcas!' / ... here are four altars: / look, daphnis, two for you and two high ones for phoebus." menalcas apostrophizes daphnis with a promise: "always your honor, name and praises will endure." ensuring poetic fame is a fundamental interest of the shepherds in classical pastoral elegies, including the speaker in milton's "lycidas".[ ] eclogue [edit] this eclogue is also known as pharmaceutria ("sorceress"). eclogue [edit] in eclogue , virgil caps his book by inventing a new myth of poetic authority and origin: he replaces theocritus' sicily and old bucolic hero, the impassioned oxherd daphnis, with the impassioned voice of his contemporary roman friend, the elegiac poet gaius cornelius gallus, imagined dying of love in arcadia. virgil transforms this remote, mountainous, and myth-ridden region of greece, homeland of pan, into the original and ideal place of pastoral song, thus founding a richly resonant tradition in western literature and the arts. this eclogue is the origin of the phrase omnia vincit amor ("love conquers all"). see also[edit] 	aeneid 	georgics 	the golden bough references[edit] 	^ davis, gregson ( ). "introduction". virgil's eclogues, trans. len krisak. philadelphia: u of pennsylvania p. p. vii. isbn  - - - - 	^ rudd, niall ( ). lines of enquiry: studies in latin poetry. cambridge: cambridge university press. p. . 	^ clausen, wendell ( ). virgil: eclogues. clarendon, oxford university press. p. xxi. isbn  - - - . 	^ goold, g. p. ( ), virgil: eclogues, georgics, aeneid – . loeb classical library. cambridge, ma: harvard university press. p. . isbn  - - - - 	^ rudd, lines of enquiry, pp. ff. 	^ rudd, lines of enquiry, pp. ff. 	^ rudd, lines of enquiry, pp. ff., citing r. helm in bursians jahresbericht ( ) and w. port in phililogus ( ). 	^ rudd, lines of enquiry, pp. ff., citing r. s. conway, harvard lectures on the vergilian age ( ), p. . 	^ rudd, lines of enquiry, pp. ff., citing büchner. 	^ rudd, lines of enquiry, pp. ff. 	^ hubbard, thomas k. ( ). the pipes of pan: intertextuality and literary filiation in the pastoral tradition from theocritus to milton. ann arbor: university of michigan press. p. . isbn  - - - - 	^ oration of constantine 	^ lee, guy, trans. ( ). "eclogue ". in virgil, the eclogues. new york: penguin. pp. – . further reading[edit] 	buckham, philip wentworth; spence, joseph; holdsworth, edward; warburton, william; jortin, john, miscellanea virgiliana: in scriptis maxime eruditorum virorum varie dispersa, in unum fasciculum collecta, cambridge : printed for w. p. grant; . 	coleman, robert, ed. ( ). vergil: eclogues. cambridge university press. isbn  - - - .cs maint: multiple names: authors list (link) cs maint: extra text: authors list (link) 	hornblower, simon; antony spawforth ( ). the oxford classical dictionary: third edition. oxford university press. isbn  - - -x. 	hunter, richard, ed. ( ). theocritus: a selection. cambridge university press. isbn  - - -x.cs maint: multiple names: authors list (link) cs maint: extra text: authors list (link) 	van sickle; john b. ( ). the design of virgil's bucolics. duckworth. isbn  - - - . 	_________. 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additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 decline of the byzantine empire - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	decline of the byzantine empire 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 map of the changes in borders of the byzantine empire. the dates represented are (fall of the western roman empire; basiliscus deposed and zeno restored), (justinian i's western reclamations; ostrogothic kingdom), (leo iii reign; nd arab siege), (basil i reign begins), (basil ii dies; constantine viii reign begins), (alexius i comnenus requests western aid against the seljuk turks), (amalric i and manuel i alliance), (michael viii reign), and (closing of the byzantine–ottoman wars). the byzantine empire experienced several cycles of growth and decay over the course of nearly a thousand years, including major losses during the arab conquests of the th century. however, modern historians generally agree that the start of the empire's final decline began in the th century.[citation needed] in the th century the empire experienced a major catastrophe in which most of its heartland territory in anatolia was lost to the seljuk turks following the battle of manzikert and ensuing civil war. at the same time, the empire lost its last territory in italy to the norman kingdom of sicily and faced repeated attacks on its territory in the balkans. these events created the context for emperor alexios i komnenos to call to the west for help, which led to the first crusade. however, economic concessions to the italian republics of venice and genoa weakened the empire's control over its own finances, especially from the th century onward, while tensions with the west led to the sack of constantinople by the forces of the fourth crusade in and the dismemberment of the empire. although a number of small byzantine successor states survived and eventually reclaimed constantinople in , the empire had been severely weakened. in the longer term, the rise of turkish power in anatolia eventually gave rise to the ottoman empire which rapidly conquered the former byzantine heartland over the course of the th and th centuries, culminating in the fall of constantinople to the army of sultan mehmed the conqueror in . contents 	 timeline of decline 	 causes of the decline 	 . civil wars 	 . fall of the theme system 	 . increasing reliance on mercenaries 	 . loss of control over revenue 	 . the failed union of the churches 	 conflict with crusaders and turks 	 . crusaders 	 . rise of the seljuks and ottomans 	 see also 	 notes 	 bibliography 	 external links timeline of decline[edit] 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (june ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) further information: history of the byzantine empire the most significant events generally agreed by historians to have played a role in the decline of the byzantine empire are summarised below: 	the battle of manzikert in , which saw emperor romanos iv diogenes captured by the army of seljuk sultan alp arslan. the defeat led to a byzantine civil war lasting ten years, in which eight different revolts took place. the damage was increased by the use of turkish mercenaries by the various factions, which in some cases led to turkish occupation of entire cities and regions. a notable example is the revolt of nikephoros melissenos in , in which the towns he had occupied and garrisoned with turkish soldiers in ionia, phrygia, galatia, and bithynia remained in their hands even after the revolt ended, including nicaea, which for a time became the capital of the seljuk sultanate of rum. 	the battle of myriokephalon in , in which an army led by emperor manuel i komnenos attempted to capture the turkish capital at konya, but was ambushed in a narrow mountain pass and defeated by the army of turkish sultan kilij arslan ii. the battle is generally considered significant both because it put an end to byzantine plans to recover central anatolia, and because of the psychological effect it had both on the emperor himself, and the empire's international reputation. in the years after manuel's death in , the seljuks built on their victory by expanding their control at the expense of the byzantines, while manuel's teenage successor alexios ii was overthrown in a coup. 	the sack of constantinople in saw the empire partitioned between the republic of venice and a crusader army led by boniface i, marquess of montferrat. a new latin empire was established, led by baldwin i, latin emperor. although byzantine successor states emerged in nicaea, trebizond and epirus, and went on to reclaim the capital in , many historians cite the loss of the capital as a fatal blow to the byzantine empire. 	the byzantine civil wars of the th century, including the byzantine civil war of – and the byzantine civil war of – , which completely destroyed what little strength the empire had left. the fall of gallipoli in saw the ottoman turks cross into europe, while the empire was powerless to stop them. this event has been seen by modern historians such as donald m. nicol to be the point of no return for the byzantine empire, after which its fall was virtually inevitable. causes of the decline[edit] civil wars[edit] probably the most important single cause of byzantium's collapse was its recurrent debilitating civil wars. three of the worst periods of civil war and internal infighting took place during byzantium's decline. each time, these civil wars coincided with a catastrophic reduction in byzantine power and influence, which was never fully reversed before the next collapse. the period from to saw eight revolts: 	 : uprising of georgi voiteh 	 – : revolt of roussel de bailleul proclaims caesar john doukas emperor. 	 – : revolt and successful usurpation by nikephoros iii botaneiates. 	 – : revolt of nikephoros bryennios the elder against michael vii doukas and nikephoros iii, defeated at the battle of kalavrye. 	 : revolt of philaretos brachamios against michael vii doukas. 	 : revolt of nikephoros basilakes against nikephoros iii. 	 – : revolt of nikephoros melissenos against nikephoros iii. 	 : revolt and successful usurpation by alexios i komnenos. this was followed by a period of secure dynastic rule by the komnenos dynasty, under alexios i ( - ), john ii komnenos ( - ) and manuel i komnenos ( - ). cumulatively, these three emperors were able to partially restore the empire's fortunes, but they never were able to fully undo the damage caused by the instability at the end of the th century, nor return the empire's frontiers to those of . the second period of civil war and collapse took place after manuel's death in . manuel's son alexios ii komnenos was overthrown in by andronikos i komnenos, whose reign of terror destabilised the empire internally and led to his overthrow and death in constantinople in . the angelos dynasty which ruled byzantium from to has been considered one of the most unsuccessful and ineffectual administrations in the empire's history. during this period, bulgaria, serbia and croatia broke away from the empire, further land was lost to the seljuk turks. in , the imprisoned former emperor alexios iv angelos escaped jail and fled to the west, where he promised the leaders of the fourth crusade generous payment if they would help him regain the throne. these promises later proved to be impossible to keep; in the event, the dynastic squabbling between the weak and ineffectual members of the angelid dynasty brought about the sack of constantinople; constantinople was burned, pillaged and destroyed, thousands of its citizens were killed, many of the surviving inhabitants fled, and much of the city became a depopulated ruin. the damage to byzantium was incalculable; many historians point to this moment as a fatal blow in the empire's history. although the empire was reformed in by the recapture of the city by forces from the empire of nicaea, the damage was never reversed and the empire never returned to anywhere near its former territorial extent, wealth and military power. the third period of civil war took place in the th century. two separate periods of civil war, again making extensive use of turkish, serbian and even catalan troops, often operating independently under their own commanders, and often raiding and destroying byzantine lands in the process, ruined the domestic economy and left the state virtually powerless and overrun by its enemies. conflicts between andronikos ii and andronikos iii, and then later between john vi kantakouzenos and john v palaiologos, marked the final ruin of byzantium. the byzantine civil war of – allowed the turks to make notable gains in anatolia and set up their capital in bursa kilometers from constantinople the byzantine's capital. the civil war of – saw exploitation of the byzantine empire by the serbs, whose ruler took advantage of the chaos to proclaim himself emperor of the serbs and greeks. the serbian king stefan uroš iv dušan made significant territorial gains in byzantine macedonia in and conquered large swathes of thessaly and epirus in .[ ] in order to secure his authority during the civil war, kantakouzenos hired turkish mercenaries. although these mercenaries were of some use, in they seized gallipoli from the byzantines.[ ] by , the empire's territory consisted of constantinople and thrace, the city of thessaloniki, and some territory in the morea. fall of the theme system[edit] main article: byzantine army main article: komnenian army 	 	this section does not cite any sources. please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (june ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) the disintegration of the byzantine empire's traditional military system, the 'theme' system, played a role in its decline. under this arrangement, which was in its heyday from circa to , the empire was divided into several regions which contributed locally raised troops to the imperial armies. the system provided an effective means of cheaply mobilizing large numbers of men, and the result was a comparatively large and powerful force – the army of the theme of thrakesion alone had provided about , men in the period – , for example. but from the th century onwards, the theme system was allowed to decay. this played a major role in the loss of anatolia to the turks at the end of that century. in the th century, the komnenian dynasty re-established an effective military force. manuel i komnenos, for example, was able to muster an army of over , men. however, the theme system was never replaced by a viable long-term alternative, and the result was an empire that depended more than ever before on the strengths of each individual emperor or dynasty. the collapse of imperial power and authority after revealed the inadequacy of this approach. after the deposition of andronikos i komnenos in , the dynasty of the angeloi oversaw a period of military decline. from onwards, byzantine emperors found it increasingly difficult to muster and pay for sufficient military forces, while the failure of their efforts to sustain their empire exposed the limitations of the entire byzantine military system, dependent as it was on competent personal direction from the emperor. despite the restoration under the palaiologoi, byzantium was never again a great power on the scale of the past. by the th century, the imperial army numbered a mere , men. as one of the main institutional strengths of the byzantine state, the demise of the theme system left the empire lacking in underlying structural strengths. increasing reliance on mercenaries[edit] as far back as the invasion of africa by belisarius, foreign soldiers were used in war.[ ] while foreign military intervention was not an all together new occurrence,[ ] the reliance on it, and its ability to damage political, social, and economic institutions were dramatically increased in the th, th, th, and th centuries. the th century saw increasing tensions between courtly, and military factions.[ ][ ] until the mid th century the empire had long been under the control of the military factions with leaders such as basil ii, and john i tzimiskes,[ ] however the crisis of basil ii's succession led to increasing uncertainty in the future of politics.[ ] the army demanded constantine viii's daughters ascend to the throne by virtue of their relation to basil ii, leading to a number of marriages, and increasing power for the courtly faction.[ ] this culminated after the failed battle of manzikert. as civil wars broke out, and tensions between courtly, and military factions reached a zenith, the demand for soldiers led to the hiring of turkish mercenaries.[ ] these mercenaries aided in the byzantine loss of anatolia by drawing more turkish soldiers into the interior of the empire, and by giving the turks an increasing presence in byzantine politics. these interventions also led to further destabilization of the political system.[ ][ ] reliance on foreign military intervention, and sponsorship for political motives, continued even during the komnenoi restoration, alexius i used turkish mercenaries in the civil wars he participated in with nikephoros iii botaneiates.[ ] in , alexios iv angelos relied on latin soldiers to claim the throne of byzantium, leading to the sack of constantinople, and the creation of the successor states. loss of control over revenue[edit] economic concessions to the italian republics of venice and genoa weakened the empire's control over its own finances, especially from the ascension of michael viii palaiologos in the th century onward. at this time it was common for emperors to seek sponsorship from venice, genoa, and the turks. this led to a series of disastrous trade deals with the italian states; drying up one of the empire's final sources of revenue.[ ] this further led to competition between venice, and genoa to get emperors on the throne who supported their respective trade agenda to the detriment of the other, adding another level of instability to the byzantine political process.[ ] by the time of the byzantine–genoese war ( – ), only thirteen percent of custom dues passing through the bosporus strait were going to the empire. the remaining percent was collected by the genoese from their colony of galata.[ ] genoa collected , hyperpyra from annual custom revenues from galata, while constantinople collected a mere , .[ ] the loss of control over its own revenue sources drastically weakened the byzantine empire, hastening its decline. at the same time, the system of pronoia (land grants in exchange for military service), became increasingly corrupt and dysfunctional by the later empire, and by the th century many of the empire's nobles were not paying any tax, nor were they serving in the empire's armies. this further undermined the financial basis of the state, and placed further reliance on unreliable mercenaries, which only hasted the empire's demise. the failed union of the churches[edit] john vi kantakouzenos presiding over a synod of orthodox clergy in . despite the return to orthodoxy after , byzantium was unable to restore harmony. john vi abdicated in ; the civil war with john v palaiologos weakened the empire emperor michael viii palaiologos signed a union with the catholic church in the th century in the hope of staving off western attack, but the policy was unsuccessful. the empire's western enemies soon resumed attacking the empire, while the social divisions the deeply unpopular union created inside the empire were damaging to byzantine society. the controversy over church union failed to provide the empire with any lasting benefit, while the prisons were soon full of dissenters and orthodox clergy. this undermined the legitimacy of the palaiologos dynasty and further facilitated social divisions, which were ultimately to play a role in the loss of anatolia to the ottoman turks. byzantine envoys presented themselves at the second council of lyons june . on the fourth session of the council the formal act of union was performed,[ ] however with pope gregory's death (january, ), the hoped for gains did not materialise.[ ] while the union was opposed at all levels of society, it was especially opposed by the greater populace, led by the monks and the adherents of the deposed patriarch arsenios, known as the arsenites. one of the chief anti-unionist leaders was michael's own sister eulogia (aka irene), who fled to the court of her daughter maria palaiologina kantakouzene, tsarina of the bulgars, from where she intrigued unsuccessfully against michael. more serious was the opposition of the sons of michael of epirus, nikephoros i komnenos doukas and his half-brother john the bastard: they posed as the defenders of orthodoxy and gave support to the anti-unionists fleeing constantinople. michael at first responded with comparative leniency, hoping to win the anti-unionists through persuasion, but eventually the virulence of the protests led him to resort to force. many anti-unionists were blinded or exiled. two prominent monks, meletios and ignatios, were punished: the first had his tongue cut out, the second was blinded. even imperial officials were harshly treated, and the death penalty was decreed even for simply reading or possessing pamphlets directed against the emperor.[ ] "from the intensity of these disorders, tantamount almost to civil wars," concludes geanakoplos, "it might appear that too great a price had been paid for the sake of union."[ ] the religious situation only worsened for michael. the arsenite party found widespread support amongst the discontented in the anatolian provinces, and michael responded there with similar viciousness: according to vryonis, "these elements were either removed from the armies or else, alienated, they deserted to the turks".[ ] another attempt to clear the encroaching turkmen from the meaender valley in found limited success, but antioch on the maeander was irretrievably lost as were tralles and nyssa four years later.[ ] on may , john the bastard convoked a synod at neopatras that anathematized the emperor, patriarch, and pope as heretics.[ ] in response, a synod was convoked at the hagia sophia on july where both nikephoros and john were anathematized in return. john called a final synod at neopatras in december , where an anti-unionist council of eight bishops, a few abbots, and one hundred monks, again anathematized the emperor, patriarch, and pope.[ ] conflict with crusaders and turks[edit] crusaders[edit] though the crusades assisted byzantium in driving back some of the turks, they went far beyond the military assistance envisaged by alexios i. instead of following the strategic necessities of the war against the turks, the crusaders were focussed on the quest of re-conquering jerusalem, and instead of returning territory to byzantium, the crusaders established their own principalities, becoming a territorial rival to byzantine interests in their own right. this was true already during the third crusade, which induced emperor isaac ii angelos to make a secret alliance with saladin to impede the progress of frederick barbarossa, but open conflict between crusaders and byzantium erupted in the fourth crusade, resulting in the sack of constantinople in . constantinople was now itself a crusader state, known as the latin empire in historiography, but from the greek perspective as frankokratia or "rule of the franks". vestiges of imperial power were preserved in minor principalities, the nicaean empire, trebizond and epirus. much of the nicaean emperors' efforts now went into combating the latins, and even after constantinople was returned to greek rule under the palaiologoi in , the empire exerted much of its efforts into defeating its latin neighbours, contributing to the eventual failure of the crusades by . rise of the seljuks and ottomans[edit] main article: byzantine–seljuq wars main article: byzantine-ottoman wars no emperor after the komnenian period was in a position to expel the turks from asia minor, while the preoccupation of the nicaean emperors with the attempt to recover constantinople meant that resources were diverted away from asia minor and towards the west. the result was a weakening of the byzantine defenses in the region, which, when combined with insufficient resources and incompetent leadership, led to the complete loss of all the empire's asian territory to the turks by . the disintegration of the seljuk turks led to the rise of the ottoman turks. their first important leader was osman i bey, who attracted ghazi warriors and carved out a domain in north-western asia minor.[ ] attempts by the byzantine emperors to drive back the ottomans were unsuccessful, and ceased in with the battle of pelekanon. following a number of civil disputes in the byzantine empire, the ottomans subjugated the byzantines as vassals in the late th century and attempts to relieve this vassal status culminated in the fall of constantinople in . see also[edit] 	byzantine empire portal 	byzantine dark ages in the th– th centuries 	byzantine-lombard wars 	byzantine–seljuq wars 	byzantine empire under the doukas dynasty 	byzantine empire under the angelos dynasty 	byzantine empire under the palaiologos dynasty notes[edit] 	^ robert browning, the byzantine empire (washington d. c. :the catholic u of america p, ), . 	^ robert browning, the byzantine empire (washington d. c. :the catholic u of america p, ), . 	^ procopius history of the wars book iii 	^ justinian ii constance head 	^ a b c chronographia michael psellos 	^ the histories michael attaleiites 	^ a synopsis of byzantine history john skylitzes 	^ a b the grand byzantine strategy edward luttwak 	^ a b the alexiad anna komnene 	^ a b city of fortune: how venice ruled the seas roger crowley 	^ ostrogorsky, p. . 	^ ostrogorsky, p. . 	^ geanakoplos, michael palaeologus, pp. – 	^ geanakoplos, michael palaeologus, pp. – 	^ geanakoplos, michael palaeologus, pp. – 	^ geanakoplos, michael palaeologus, p. 	^ vryonis, decline of medieval hellenism, p. 	^ vryonis, decline of medieval hellenism, p. 	^ geanakoplos, michael palaeologus, p. 	^ geanakoplos, michael palaeologus, p. 	^ stanford shaw, history of the ottoman empire and modern turkey (cambridge: university press, ), vol. pp. f bibliography[edit] 	angold, michael ( ). the byzantine empire, – . longman. isbn  - - - . 	haldon, john ( ). byzantium – a history. tempus. isbn  - - - . 	harris, jonathan ( ). byzantium and the crusades. hambledon and london. isbn  - - - . 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"frank ford on the[a] main"), is the most populous city in the german state of hesse. its , inhabitants as of december , make it the fifth-most populous city in germany. on the river main (a tributary of the rhine), it forms a continuous conurbation with the neighbouring city of offenbach am main and its urban area has a population of .  million.[ ][ ] the city is at the centre of the larger rhine-main metropolitan region, which has a population of .  million[ ] and is germany's second-largest metropolitan region after the rhine-ruhr region. frankfurt's central business district lies about  km (  mi) northwest of the geographic centre of the eu at gadheim, lower franconia. like france and franconia, the city is named after the franks. frankfurt is the largest city in the rhine franconian dialect area. frankfurt was a city state, the free city of frankfurt, for nearly five centuries, and was one of the most important cities of the holy roman empire, as a site of imperial coronations; it lost its sovereignty upon the collapse of the empire in , regained it in and then lost it again in , when it was annexed (though neutral) by the kingdom of prussia. it has been part of the state of hesse since . frankfurt is culturally, ethnically and religiously diverse, with half of its population, and a majority of its young people, having a migrant background. a quarter of the population consists of foreign nationals, including many expatriates. frankfurt is a global hub for commerce, culture, education, tourism and transportation, and rated as an "alpha world city" according to gawc. it is the site of many global and european corporate headquarters. frankfurt airport is germany's busiest. frankfurt is one of the major financial centres of the european continent, with the headquarters of the european central bank, deutsche bundesbank, frankfurt stock exchange, deutsche bank, dz bank, kfw, commerzbank, several cloud and fintech startups[ ] and other institutes. automotive, technology and research, services, consulting, media and creative industries complement the economic base. frankfurt's de-cix is the world's largest internet exchange point. messe frankfurt is one of the world's largest trade fairs. major fairs include the music fair and the frankfurt book fair, the world's largest book fair. frankfurt is home to influential educational institutions, including the goethe university, the uas, the fumpa and graduate schools like the frankfurt school of finance & management. its renowned cultural venues include the concert hall alte oper, europe's largest english theatre and many museums (e.g. the museumsufer ensemble with städel and liebieghaus, senckenberg natural museum, goethe house and the schirn art venue at the old town). frankfurt's skyline is shaped by some of europe's tallest skyscrapers. the city is also characterised by various green areas and parks, including the central wallanlagen, the city forest, two major botanical gardens (the palmengarten and the university's botanical garden) and the frankfurt zoo. in sports, the city is known as the home of the top-tier football club eintracht frankfurt, the löwen frankfurt ice hockey team, the basketball club frankfurt skyliners, the frankfurt marathon and the venue of ironman germany. it was also one of the host cities of the and fifa world cups. contents 	 distinctions 	 etymology 	 history 	 . early history and holy roman empire 	 . impact of french revolution and the napoleonic wars 	 . frankfurt as a fully sovereign state 	 . frankfurt after the loss of sovereignty 	 geography 	 . site 	 . districts 	 . history of incorporations 	 . neighbouring districts and cities 	 . climate 	 demographics 	 . population 	 . immigration/foreign nationals 	 . religion 	 politics 	 . international relations 	 . . partnerships 	 cityscape 	 . landmarks 	 . th-century architecture 	 . st-century architecture 	 . skyscrapers 	 . history of high-rise buildings 	 . other tall structures 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rhein-main-area 	 . north 	 . west 	 . east 	 . south 	 see also 	 references 	 . notes 	 . citations 	 further reading 	 . history 	 . architecture 	 . others 	 external links distinctions[edit] often stereotyped as a financial city, frankfurt is multifaceted, including the entertainment district at bahnhofsviertel. frankfurt is the largest financial centre in continental europe. it is home to the european central bank, deutsche bundesbank, frankfurt stock exchange and several large commercial banks. the frankfurt stock exchange is one of the world's largest stock exchanges by market capitalization and accounts for more than percent of the turnover in the german market. in , national and international banks had their registered offices in frankfurt, including germany's major banks, notably deutsche bank, dz bank, kfw and commerzbank, as well as representative offices of international banks.[ ] frankfurt is considered a global city (alpha world city) as listed by the gawc group's inventory.[ ] among global cities it was ranked th by the global power city index and th by the global city competitiveness index . among financial centres it was ranked th by the international financial centers development index and th in the global financial centres index. its central location within germany and europe makes frankfurt a major air, rail and road transport hub. frankfurt airport is one of the world's busiest international airports by passenger traffic and the main hub for germany's flag carrier lufthansa. frankfurt central station is one of the largest rail stations in europe and the busiest junction operated by deutsche bahn, the german national railway company, with trains a day to domestic and european destinations.[ ] frankfurter kreuz, the autobahn interchange close to the airport, is the most heavily used interchange in the eu, used by , cars daily.[ ] in human-resource-consulting firm mercer ranked frankfurt as seventh in its annual 'quality of living' survey of cities around the world.[ ] according to the economist cost-of-living survey, frankfurt is germany's most expensive city and the world's th most expensive.[ ] frankfurt has many high-rise buildings in the city centre, forming the frankfurt skyline. it is one of the few cities in the european union (eu) to have such a skyline, which is why germans sometimes refer to frankfurt as mainhattan, a portmanteau of the local main river and manhattan. the other well-known and obvious nickname is bankfurt. before world war ii the city was globally noted for its unique old town with timber-framed buildings, the largest timber-framed old town in europe. the römer area was later rebuilt and is popular with visitors and for events such as christmas markets. other parts of the old town were reconstructed as part of the dom-römer project from to . etymology[edit] the legend of the frankenfurt (ford of the franks) frankonovurd (in old high german) or vadum francorum (in latin) were the first names mentioned in written records from . it transformed to frankenfort during the middle ages and then to franckfort and franckfurth in the modern era. according to historian david gans, the city was named c. ad by its builder, a frankish king named zuna, who ruled over the province then known as sicambri. he hoped thereby to perpetuate the name of his lineage.[ ] the name is derived from the franconofurd of the germanic tribe of the franks; furt (cf. english ford) where the river was shallow enough to be crossed on foot. by the th century, the name frankfurt had been established as the official spelling. the older english spelling of frankfort is now rarely seen in reference to frankfurt am main, although more than a dozen other towns and cities, mainly in the united states, use this spelling (e.g., frankfort, kentucky; frankfort, new york; frankfort, illinois). the suffix am main has been used regularly since the th century. in english, the city's full name of frankfurt am main means "frankfurt on the main" (pronounced like english mine or german mein). frankfurt is located on an ancient ford (german: furt) on the main river. as a part of early franconia, the inhabitants were the early franks, thus the city's name reveals its legacy as "the ford of the franks on the main".[ ] among english speakers, the city is commonly known simply as frankfurt, but germans occasionally call it by its full name to distinguish it from the other (significantly smaller) german city of frankfurt an der oder in the land of brandenburg on the polish border. the city district bonames has a name probably dating back to roman times, thought to be derived from bona me(n)sa (good table). the common abbreviations for the city, primarily used in railway services and on road signs, are frankfurt (main), frankfurt (m), frankfurt a. m., frankfurt/main or frankfurt/m. the common abbreviation for the name of the city is "ffm". also in use is "fra", the iata code for frankfurt airport. history[edit] main articles: history of frankfurt am main and timeline of frankfurt early history and holy roman empire[edit] roman settlements were established in the area of the römer, probably in the first century. nida (heddernheim) was also a roman civitas capital. alemanni and franks lived there, and by , charlemagne presided over an imperial assembly and church synod, at which franconofurd (alternative spellings end with -furt and -vurd) was first mentioned. frankfurt was one of the most important cities in the holy roman empire. from , the german kings and emperors were elected and crowned in aachen. from , the kings and emperors were crowned in frankfurt, initiated for maximilian ii. this tradition ended in , when franz ii was elected. his coronation was deliberately held on bastille day, july, the anniversary of the storming of the bastille. the elections and coronations took place in st. bartholomäus cathedral, known as the kaiserdom (emperor's cathedral), or its predecessors. the frankfurter messe (frankfurt trade fair) was first mentioned in . in , emperor friedrich ii granted an imperial privilege to its visitors, meaning they would be protected by the empire. the fair became particularly important when similar fairs in french beaucaire lost attraction around . book trade fairs began in . in , frankfurt became a reichsstadt (imperial free city), i.e., directly subordinate to the holy roman emperor and not to a regional ruler or a local nobleman. in , frankfurt traders established a system of exchange rates for the various currencies that were circulating to prevent cheating and extortion. therein lay the early roots for the frankfurt stock exchange. frankfurt managed to remain neutral during the thirty years' war, but suffered from the bubonic plague that refugees brought to the city. after the war, frankfurt regained its wealth. in the late s the theatre principal abel seyler was based in frankfurt, and established the city's theatrical life.[ ] frankfurt in frankfurt in kaiserplatz, circa impact of french revolution and the napoleonic wars[edit] following the french revolution, frankfurt was occupied or bombarded several times by french troops. it remained a free city until the collapse of the holy roman empire in / . in , it became part of the principality of aschaffenburg under the fürstprimas (prince-primate), karl theodor anton maria von dalberg. this meant that frankfurt was incorporated into the confederation of the rhine. in , dalberg adopted the title of a grand duke of frankfurt. napoleon intended to make his adopted son eugène de beauharnais, already prince de venise ("prince of venice", a newly established primogeniture in italy), grand duke of frankfurt after dalberg's death (since the latter as a catholic bishop had no legitimate heirs). the grand duchy remained a short episode lasting from to , when the military tide turned in favour of the anglo-prussian led allies that overturned the napoleonic order. dalberg abdicated in favour of eugène de beauharnais, which of course was only a symbolic action, as the latter effectively never ruled after the ruin of the french armies and frankfurt's takeover by the allies. frankfurt as a fully sovereign state[edit] after napoleon's final defeat and abdication, the congress of vienna ( – ) dissolved the grand-duchy and frankfurt became a fully sovereign city state with a republican form of government. frankfurt entered the newly founded german confederation (till ) as a free city, becoming the seat of its bundestag, the confederal parliament where the nominally presiding habsburg emperor of austria was represented by an austrian "presidential envoy". after the ill-fated revolution of , frankfurt was the seat of the first democratically elected german parliament, the frankfurt parliament, which met in the frankfurter paulskirche (st. paul's church) and was opened on may . the institution failed in when the prussian king, frederick william iv, declared that he would not accept "a crown from the gutter". in the year of its existence, the assembly developed a common constitution for a unified germany, with the prussian king as its monarch. frankfurt after the loss of sovereignty[edit] view of frankfurt am main, including the alte brücke (old bridge), by gustave courbet ( ) frankfurt lost its independence after the austro-prussian war in when prussia annexed several smaller states, among them the free city of frankfurt. the prussian administration incorporated frankfurt into its province of hesse-nassau. the prussian occupation and annexation was perceived as a great injustice in frankfurt, which retained its distinct western european, urban and cosmopolitan character. the formerly independent towns of bornheim and bockenheim were incorporated in . in , the citizens founded the university of frankfurt, later named goethe university frankfurt. this marked the only civic foundation of a university in germany; today it is one of germany's largest. from april to may , following military intervention to put down the ruhr uprising, frankfurt was occupied by french troops.[ ] the french claimed that articles to of the peace treaty of versailles concerning the demilitarisation of the rhineland had been broken.[ ] in , ludwig landmann became the first jewish mayor of the city, and led a significant expansion during the following years. during the nazi era, the synagogues of the city were destroyed. frankfurt was severely bombed in world war ii ( – ). about , residents were killed during the raids, and the once-famous medieval city centre, by that time the largest in germany, was almost completely destroyed. it became a ground battlefield on march , when the allied advance into germany was forced to take the city in contested urban combat that included a river assault. the th infantry division and the th armored division of the united states army captured frankfurt after several days of intense fighting, and it was declared largely secure on march .[ ] after the end of the war, frankfurt became a part of the newly founded state of hesse, consisting of the old hesse-(darmstadt) and the prussian hesse provinces. the city was part of the american zone of occupation of germany. the military governor for the united states zone ( – ) and the united states high commissioner for germany (hicog) ( – ) had their headquarters in the ig farben building, intentionally left undamaged by the allies' wartime bombardment. frankfurt was the original choice for the provisional capital city of the newly founded state of west germany in . the city constructed a parliament building that was never used for its intended purpose (it housed the radio studios of hessischer rundfunk). in the end, konrad adenauer, the first postwar chancellor, preferred the town of bonn, for the most part because it was close to his hometown, but also because many other prominent politicians opposed the choice of frankfurt out of concern that frankfurt would be accepted as the permanent capital, thereby weakening the west german population's support for a reunification with east germany and the eventual return of the capital to berlin. postwar reconstruction took place in a sometimes simple modern style, thus changing frankfurt's architectural face. a few landmark buildings were reconstructed historically, albeit in a simplified manner (e.g., römer, st. paul's church, and goethe house). the collection of historically significant cairo genizah documents of the municipal library was destroyed by the bombing. according to arabist and genizah scholar s.d. goitein, "not even handlists indicating its contents have survived."[ ] the frankfurt parliament at st. paul's church in aerial view of the cathedral in may reconstruction ( – ) of six houses at the east side of the römerberg which were destroyed in world war ii the end of the war marked frankfurt's comeback as germany's leading financial centre, mainly because berlin, now a city divided into four sectors, could no longer rival it. in , the allies founded the bank deutscher länder, the forerunner of deutsche bundesbank. following this decision, more financial institutions were re-established, e.g. deutsche bank and dresdner bank. in the s, frankfurt stock exchange regained its position as the country's leading stock exchange. frankfurt also re-emerged as germany's transportation centre and frankfurt airport became europe's second-busiest airport behind london heathrow airport in . during the s, the city created one of europe's most efficient underground transportation systems.[ ] that system includes a suburban rail system (s-bahn) linking outlying communities with the city centre, and a deep underground light rail system with smaller coaches (u-bahn) also capable of travelling above ground on rails. in , the european central bank was founded in frankfurt, followed by the european insurance and occupational pensions authority and european systemic risk board in . geography[edit] frankfurt as seen by the european space agency's sentinel- a. frankfurt is the largest city in the federated state of hesse in the south-western part of germany. site[edit] frankfurt is located on both sides of the main river, south-east of the taunus mountain range. the southern part of the city contains the frankfurt city forest, germany's largest city forest. the city area is .  km ( .  sq mi) and extends over .  km ( .  mi) east to west and .  km ( .  mi) north to south. the city centre is north of the river main in altstadt district (the historical centre) and the surrounding innenstadt district. the geographical centre is in bockenheim district near frankfurt west station. frankfurt is the centre of the densely populated frankfurt rhine-main metropolitan region with a population of .  million. other important cities in the region are wiesbaden (capital of hesse), mainz (capital of rhineland-palatinate), darmstadt, offenbach am main, hanau, aschaffenburg, bad homburg vor der höhe, rüsselsheim, wetzlar and marburg. districts[edit] the stadtteile (city districts) of central frankfurt the city is divided into city districts (stadtteile), which are in turn divided into city boroughs (stadtbezirke) and electoral districts (wahlbezirke). the city districts combine into area districts (ortsbezirke), which each have a district committee and chairperson. the largest city district by population and area is sachsenhausen, while the smallest is altstadt, frankfurt's historical center. three larger city districts (sachsenhausen, westend and nordend) are divided for administrative purposes into a northern (-nord) and a southern (-süd) part, respectively a western (-west) and an eastern (-ost) part, but are generally considered as one city district (which is why often only city districts are mentioned, even on the city's official website).[ ] some larger housing areas are often falsely called city districts, even by locals, like nordweststadt (part of niederursel, heddernheim and praunheim), goldstein (part of schwanheim), riedberg (part of kalbach-riedberg) and europaviertel (part of gallus). the bankenviertel (banking district), frankfurt's financial district, is also not an administrative city district (it covers parts of the western innenstadt district, the southern westend district and the eastern bahnhofsviertel district). many city districts are incorporated suburbs (vororte), or were previously independent cities, such as höchst. some like nordend and westend arose during the rapid growth of the city in the gründerzeit following the unification of germany, while others were formed from territory which previously belonged to other city district(s), such as dornbusch and riederwald. history of incorporations[edit] until the year the city's territory consisted of the present-day inner-city districts of altstadt, innenstadt, bahnhofsviertel, gutleutviertel, gallus, westend, nordend, ostend and sachsenhausen. bornheim was part of an administrative district called landkreis frankfurt, before becoming part of the city on january , followed by bockenheim on april . seckbach, niederrad and oberrad followed on july . the landkreis frankfurt was finally dispersed on april , and therefore berkersheim, bonames, eckenheim, eschersheim, ginnheim, hausen, heddernheim, niederursel, praunheim, preungesheim and rödelheim joined the city. in the same year a new city district, riederwald, was created on territory that had formerly belonged to seckbach and ostend. on april the city of höchst became part of frankfurt, as well as its city districts sindlingen, unterliederbach and zeilsheim. simultaneously the landkreis höchst was dispersed with its member cities either joining frankfurt (fechenheim, griesheim, nied, schwanheim, sossenheim) or joining the newly established landkreis of main-taunus-kreis. dornbusch became a city district in . it was created on territory that had formerly belonged to eckenheim and ginnheim. on august , hesse's smaller suburbs of harheim, kalbach, nieder-erlenbach, and nieder-eschbach became districts while other neighbouring suburbs chose to join the main-taunus-kreis, the landkreis offenbach, the kreis groß-gerau, the hochtaunuskreis, the main-kinzig-kreis or the wetteraukreis. bergen-enkheim was the last suburb to become part of frankfurt on january . flughafen became an official city district in . it covers the area of frankfurt airport that had belonged to sachsenhausen and the neighbouring city of mörfelden-walldorf. frankfurt's youngest city district is frankfurter berg. it was part of bonames until . kalbach was officially renamed kalbach-riedberg in because of the large residential housing development in the area known as riedberg. neighbouring districts and cities[edit] frankfurt urban area within hesse to the west frankfurt borders the administrative district (landkreis) of main-taunus-kreis with towns such as hattersheim am main, kriftel, hofheim am taunus, kelkheim, liederbach am taunus, sulzbach, schwalbach am taunus and eschborn; to the northwest the hochtaunuskreis with steinbach, oberursel (taunus) and bad homburg vor der höhe; to the north the wetteraukreis with karben and bad vilbel; to the northeast the main-kinzig-kreis with niederdorfelden and maintal; to the southeast the city of offenbach am main; to the south the kreis offenbach with neu-isenburg and to the southwest the kreis groß-gerau with mörfelden-walldorf, rüsselsheim and kelsterbach. together with these towns (and some larger nearby towns, e.g., hanau, rodgau, dreieich, langen) frankfurt forms a contiguous built-up urban area called stadtregion frankfurt which is not an official administrative district. the urban area had an estimated population of .  million in , and is the th-largest urban area in the eu. climate[edit] frankfurt has a temperate-oceanic climate (köppen: cfb). its average annual temperature is .  °c ( .  °f), with monthly mean temperatures ranging from 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( . ) 	average rainy days 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 	mean monthly sunshine hours 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 , 	percent possible sunshine 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	source : data derived from deutscher wetterdienst[ ] 	source : weather atlas (sunshine data)[ ] 	climate data for frankfurt 	month 	jan 	feb 	mar 	apr 	may 	jun 	jul 	aug 	sep 	oct 	nov 	dec 	year 	mean daily daylight hours 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	average ultraviolet index 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . 	source: weather atlas [ ] demographics[edit] population[edit] historical population	year	pop.	±% 	 	 , 	—     	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	− . % 	 	 , 	− . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	− . % 	 	 , 	− . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	largest groups of foreign residents[ ] 	nationality	population ( . . ) 	 turkey	 , 	 croatia	 , 	 italy	 , 	 poland	 , 	 romania	 , 	 serbia	 , 	 bulgaria	 , 	 india	 , 	 spain	 , 	 greece	 , 	 morocco	 , 	 bosnia and herzegovina	 , 	 afghanistan	 , 	 china	 , 	 france	 , 	 algeria	 , 	 portugal	 , with a population of , ( ) within its administrative boundaries[ ] and of , , in the actual urban area,[ ] frankfurt is the fifth-largest city in germany, after berlin, hamburg, munich and cologne. central frankfurt has been a großstadt (a city with at least , residents by definition) since . with , residents in , it was the ninth largest city in germany and the number of inhabitants grew to , before world war ii. after the war, at the end of the year , the number had dropped to , . in the following years, the population grew again and reached an all-time-high of , in . it dropped again to , in but has increased since then. according to the demographic forecasts for central frankfurt, the city will have a population up to , within its administrative boundaries in and more than .  million inhabitants in its urban area. during the s, the state government of hesse wanted to expand the city's administrative boundaries to include the entire urban area. this would have made frankfurt officially the second-largest city in germany after berlin with up to million inhabitants.[ ] however, because local authorities did not agree, the administrative territory is still much smaller than its actual urban area. population of the city districts on december 	no 	city district (stadtteil) 	area in km [ ] 	population[ ] 	foreign nationals[ ] 	foreign nationals in %[ ] 	area district (ortsbezirk) 	 	altstadt	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – innenstadt i 	 	innenstadt	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – innenstadt i 	 	bahnhofsviertel	 . 	 . 	 	 . 	 – innenstadt i 	 	westend-süd	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – innenstadt ii 	 	westend-nord	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – innenstadt ii 	 	nordend-west	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – innenstadt iii 	 	nordend-ost	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – innenstadt iii 	 	ostend	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – bornheim/ostend 	 	bornheim	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – bornheim/ostend 	 	gutleutviertel	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – innenstadt i 	 	gallus	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – innenstadt i 	 	bockenheim	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – innenstadt ii 	 	sachsenhausen-nord	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – süd 	 	sachsenhausen-süd	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – süd 	 	flughafen	 . 	 	 	 . 	 – süd 	 	oberrad	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – süd 	 	niederrad	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – süd 	 	schwanheim	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – west 	 	griesheim	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – west 	 	rödelheim	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – mitte-west 	 	hausen	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – mitte-west 	 / 	praunheim	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – mitte-west 	 	heddernheim	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – nord-west 	 	niederursel	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – nord-west 	 	ginnheim	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – mitte-nord 	 	dornbusch	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – mitte-nord 	 	eschersheim	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – mitte-nord 	 	eckenheim	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – nord-ost 	 	preungesheim	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – nord-ost 	 	bonames	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – nord-ost 	 	berkersheim	 . 	 . 	 	 . 	 – nord-ost 	 	riederwald	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – ost 	 	seckbach	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – ost 	 	fechenheim	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – ost 	 	höchst	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – west 	 	nied	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – west 	 	sindlingen	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – west 	 	zeilsheim	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – west 	 	unterliederbach	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – west 	 	sossenheim	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – west 	 	nieder-erlenbach	 . 	 . 	 	 . 	 – nieder-erlenbach 	 	kalbach-riedberg	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – kalbach-riedberg 	 	harheim	 . 	 . 	 	 . 	 – harheim 	 	nieder-eschbach	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – nieder-eschbach 	 	bergen-enkheim	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – bergen-enkheim 	 	frankfurter berg	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 – nord-ost 		frankfurt am main	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . immigration/foreign nationals[edit] according to data from the city register of residents, . % of the population had a migration background as of , which means that a person or at least one or both of their parents was born with foreign citizenship. for the first time, a majority of the city residents had an at least part non-german background.[ ] moreover, three of four children in the city under the age of six had immigrant backgrounds.[ ] and . % of residents had a foreign citizenship.[ ] according to statistics, . % of immigrants in frankfurt come from other countries in the eu; . % come from european countries that are not part of the eu; . % come from asia (including western asia and south asia); . % come from africa; . % come from north america (including the caribbean and central america); . % come from australia and zealandia; . % come from south america; and . % come from pacific island nations. because of this the city is often considered to be a multicultural city, and has been compared to new york city, london and toronto. religion[edit] frankfurt was historically a protestant-dominated city. however, during the th century an increasing number of catholics moved there. the jewish community has a history dating back to medieval times and has always ranked among the largest in germany. two synagogues operate there. due to the growing immigration of people from muslim countries beginning in the s, frankfurt has a large muslim community. the ahmadiyya noor mosque, constructed in , is the city's largest mosque and the third-largest in germany.[ ] as of [update], the largest christian denominations were catholicism ( . % of the population) and protestantism, especially lutheranism ( . %).[ ] estimations put the share of muslim inhabitants at approximately % ( ).[ ] according to calculations based on census data for countries of origin, the number of muslim migrants in frankfurt amounted to about , in , making up . percent of the population.[ ] a large part of them was from turkey and morocco. over , inhabitants were affiliated with the jewish community, amounting to approximately % of the population.[ ] politics[edit] lord mayor peter feldmann (spd) 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (september ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) frankfurt is one of five independent district-free cities (kreisfreie städte) in hesse, which means that it does not form part of another general-purpose local government entity, in this case it is not part of a landkreis. the other four cities are the second to fifth largest cities in hesse: wiesbaden, kassel, darmstadt and offenbach am main. a kreisfreie stadt has territorial sovereignty within its defined city limits. in petra roth of the christian democratic union (cdu) became lord mayor (oberbürgermeisterin), frankfurt's municipal leader. in , peter feldmann (spd) succeeded roth as lord mayor. the cdu and the alliance ' /the greens (bündnis ' /die grünen) formed the government. international relations[edit] see also: list of twin towns and sister cities in germany frankfurt is twinned with: 	 	 lyon, auvergne-rhône-alpes, france (since ) 	 birmingham, west midlands, england, united kingdom ( ) 	 milan, lombardy, italy ( ) 	 guangzhou, china ( ) 	 prague, czechia ( ) 	 	 budapest, hungary ( ) 	 san pedro sula, honduras ( ) 	 yokohama, japan ( ) 	 eskişehir, turkey ( )[ ] 	 philadelphia, pennsylvania, united states ( ) partnerships[edit] partnerships and city friendships are a weaker form of cooperation than the sister city relationship, acting more like a fixed-term cooperation or limited to certain projects. frankfurt has partnerships with the following cities: 	 cairo, egypt ( ) 	 tel aviv, israel ( ) 	 toronto, ontario, canada, ( )[ ] 	 deuil-la-barre, val-d'oise, Île-de-france, france, partnered with nieder-eschbach, ( ; incorporated into frankfurt in ) 	 kraków, poland, ( )[ ] 	 leipzig, saxony, germany ( ) 	 dubai, united arab emirates ( ) cityscape[edit] 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (september ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) landmarks[edit] römer, the city hall römer römer, the german word for roman, is a complex of nine houses that form the frankfurt city hall (rathaus). the houses were acquired by the city council in from a wealthy merchant family. the middle house became the city hall and was later connected with its neighbours. the kaisersaal ("emperor's hall") is located on the upper floor and is where the newly crowned emperors held their banquets. the römer was partially destroyed in world war ii and later rebuilt. the surrounding square, the römerberg, is named after the city hall. the new frankfurt old town was completed in , including reconstructed historical buildings. the former altstadt (old town) quarter between the römer and the frankfurt cathedral was redeveloped as the dom-römer quarter from to , including reconstructions of historical buildings that were destroyed during world war ii. frankfurt cathedral frankfurt cathedral (frankfurter dom) is not a cathedral, but the main catholic church, dedicated to st. bartholomew. the gothic building was constructed in the th and th centuries on the foundation of an earlier church from the merovingian time. from onwards, kings of the holy roman empire were elected in this church, and from to , roman-german emperors were crowned there. since the th century, st. bartholomew's has been called dom, although it was never a bishop's seat. in it was destroyed by fire and rebuilt in its present style. it was again partially destroyed in world war ii and rebuilt in the s. its height is meters. the cathedral tower has a viewing platform open to the public at a height of meters, accessed through a narrow spiral staircase with steps. frankfurt cathedral römerberg st. paul's church st. paul's church st. paul's church (paulskirche) is a national historic monument in germany because it was the seat of the first democratically elected parliament in . it was established in as a protestant church, but was not completed until . its importance has its roots in the frankfurt parliament, which met in the church during the revolutionary years of / in order to write a constitution for a united germany. the attempt failed because the monarchs of prussia and austria did not want to lose power. in prussian troops ended the democratic experiment by force and the parliament dissolved. afterwards, the building was used for church services again. st. paul's was partially destroyed in world war ii, particularly its interior, which now has a modern appearance. it was quickly and symbolically rebuilt after the war; today it is used mainly for exhibitions and events. archäologischer garten frankfurt the archaeological garden contains small parts of the oldest recovered buildings: an ancient roman settlement and the frankfurt royal palace (kaiserpfalz frankfurt) from the th century. the garden is located between the römerberg and the cathedral. it was discovered after world war ii when the area was heavily bombed and later partly rebuilt. the remains were preserved and are now open to the public. from until an event building, the stadthaus ("city house"), has been built on top of the garden, but it remains open to the public free of charge. haus wertheim wertheim house is the only timbered house in the altstadt district that survived the heavy bombings of world war ii undamaged. it is located on the römerberg next to the historical museum. saalhof the saalhof is the oldest conserved building in the altstadt district and dates to the th century. it was used as an exhibition hall by dutch clothiers when trade fairs were held during the th and th century. the saalhof was partly destroyed in world war ii and later rebuilt. today it serves as a part of the historical museum. eiserner steg the eiserner steg (iron bridge) is a pedestrian-only bridge across the main that connects römerberg and sachsenhausen. it was built in and was the second bridge to cross the river. after world war ii, when it was blown up by the wehrmacht, it was quickly rebuilt in . today some , people cross the bridge on a daily basis. alte oper, now a concert hall, at opernplatz alte oper the alte oper is a former opera house, hence the name "old opera". the opera house was built in by architect richard lucae. it was one of the major opera houses in germany until it was heavily damaged in world war ii. until the late s, it was a ruin, nicknamed "germany's most beautiful ruin". former frankfurt lord mayor rudi arndt called for blowing it up in the s, which earned him the nickname "dynamite-rudi". (later on, arndt said he never had meant his suggestion seriously.) public pressure led to its refurbishment and reopening in . today, it functions as a famous concert hall, while operas are performed at the "new" frankfurt opera. the inscription on the frieze of the alte oper says: "dem wahren, schönen, guten" ("to the true, the beautiful, the good"). eschenheimer turm the eschenheim tower (eschenheimer turm) was erected at the beginning of the th century and served as a city gate as part of late-medieval fortifications. it is the oldest and most unaltered building in the innenstadt district. st. catherine's church st. catherine's church (katharinenkirche) is the largest protestant church, dedicated to catherine of alexandria, a martyred early christian saint. it is located in the city centre at the entrance to the zeil, the central pedestrian shopping street. hauptwache although today hauptwache is mostly associated with the inner-city underground train station of the same name, the name originates from a baroque building on the square above the station. the hauptwache building was constructed in and was used as a prison, therefore the name that translates as "main guard-house". today the square surrounding the building is also called "hauptwache" (formal: an der hauptwache). it is situated in the city centre opposite to st. catherine's church and houses a famous café. hauptwache and st. catherine's church eschenheimer turm frankfurt central station central station frankfurt central station (frankfurt hauptbahnhof), which opened in , was built as the central train station for frankfurt to replace three smaller train stations in the city centre and to boost the needed capacity for travellers. it was constructed as a terminus station and was the largest train station in europe by floor area until when leipzig central station was opened. its three main halls were constructed in a neorenaissance-style, while the later enlargement with two outer halls in was constructed in neoclassic-style. frankfurter hof the frankfurter hof is a landmarked hotel in the city centre at kaiserplatz, built from to . it is part of steigenberger hotels group and is considered the city's most prestigious. st. leonhard st. leonhard, on the main close to the bridge eiserner steg, is a catholic late gothic hall church, derived from a romanesque style basilica beginning in . it is the only one of nine churches in the old town that survived world war ii almost undamaged. the parish serves the english-speaking community. the church has been under restoration from until . [ ] th-century architecture[edit] 	frauenfriedenskirche and holy cross church (with the centre for christian meditation and spirituality of the diocese of limburg), both consecrated , are examples of early modernist church buildings during the time of the new frankfurt. 	großmarkthalle, built – as a part of the new frankfurt-project, the former wholesale market hall was repaired after the second world war and integrated into the new seat of the european central bank between and . 	goethe house, rebuilt . the birthplace of johann wolfgang von goethe from was destroyed in world war ii and then rebuilt true to the original. 	junior-haus, built , an example of early post-world war ii architecture located at kaiserplatz. 	bayer-haus, built , another example of early post-world war ii architecture. 	museum für angewandte kunst, built , designed by richard meier. 	ig farben building – also known as poelzig building (poelzig-bau) after its architect hans poelzig, it was built from to as the corporate headquarters of i.g. farbenindustrie ag. it is located in the westend district and borders grüneburgpark in the west. upon its completion, the complex was the largest office building in europe and remained so until the s. the building served as headquarters for research projects relating to the development of synthetic oil and rubber and the manufacturing of magnesium, lubricating oil, explosives, methanol, and zyklon b, the lethal gas used in concentration camps.[ ][ ] after world war ii, it served as the headquarters for the supreme allied command and from to the high commissioner for germany (hicog). it became the principal location for implementing the marshall plan, which largely financed the post-war reconstruction of europe. the state apparatus of the federal german government was devised there. it served as the headquarters for the us army's v corps and the northern area command (nacom) until when the us army returned control of the ig farben building to the german government. it was purchased on behalf of the goethe university frankfurt by the state of hesse. in october it became part of the westend campus of goethe university. ig farben building, now the central lecture building of the westend campus of the goethe university st-century architecture[edit] the squaire in 	die welle (the wave), built – , a complex of three wavelike-formed office buildings next to the opernplatz. 	alte stadtbibliothek, rebuilt – , reconstruction of the old public library house originally built – . 	palais thurn und taxis, rebuilt – , reconstruction of a palace originally built – . 	myzeil, built – , shopping mall at the zeil with an imposing vaulted glass-structure. 	the squaire (portmanteau of square and air), also known as airrail center frankfurt, is a  m ( , .  ft) long and  m ( .  ft) tall office building located at frankfurt airport. it was built from to on top of an existing railway station (frankfurt airport long distance station) and has a connecting bridge to terminal for pedestrians. its total of ,  m ( , ,  sq ft) rentable floor space makes it germany's largest office building. skyscrapers[edit] see also: list of tallest buildings in frankfurt upper section of the main tower with a public observation deck at metres frankfurt is one of the few european cities with a significant number of skyscrapers, (buildings at least  m ( .  ft) tall). it hosts out of germany's skyscrapers. most skyscrapers and high-rise office buildings are located in the financial district (bankenviertel) near the city centre, around the trade fair premises (europaviertel) and at mainzer landstraße between opernplatz and platz der republik, which connects the two areas. the skyscrapers are: 	commerzbank tower, .  m ( .  ft) – the eu's tallest building; commerzbank headquarters. 	messeturm, .  m ( .  ft) – the eu's second-tallest building, the tallest building in europe – ; main tenant is goldman sachs (germany). 	westend tower, .  m ( .  ft) – dz bank headquarters 	main tower, .  m ( .  ft) – landesbank hessen-thüringen and standard & poor's (germany) headquarters 	tower , .  m ( .  ft) – pricewaterhousecoopers (germany) headquarters 	omniturm, .  m ( .  ft) 	trianon, .  m ( .  ft) – dekabank headquarters 	seat of the european central bank, .  m ( .  ft) – european central bank headquarters 	grand tower, .  m ( .  ft) – residential tower 	opernturm, .  m ( .  ft) – ubs (germany) headquarters 	taunusturm, .  m ( .  ft) 	silberturm, .  m ( .  ft) – germany's tallest building – , main tenant is deutsche bahn. 	westend gate, .  m ( .  ft) – germany's tallest building – , main tenant is marriott frankfurt hotel. 	deutsche bank i, .  m ( .  ft) – deutsche bank headquarters 	deutsche bank ii, .  m ( .  ft) 	marienturm, .  m ( .  ft) 	skyper, .  m ( .  ft) – main tenant is dekabank. other high-rise buildings include: 	eurotower, .  m ( .  ft) – former european central bank headquarters 	frankfurter büro center, .  m ( .  ft) – main tenant is clifford chance (germany). 	city-haus, .  m ( .  ft) – main tenant is dz bank. 	gallileo, .  m ( .  ft) – main tenant is commerzbank. frankfurt skyline in june , view from south-west history of high-rise buildings[edit] main article: list of tallest buildings in frankfurt skyline at dusk, seen from deutschherrnbrücke ( ) for centuries, st. bartholomeus's cathedral was the tallest structure. the first building to exceed the -metre-high cathedral was not an office building but a grain silo, the -metre-high (  ft) henninger turm, built from to . the first high-rise building boom came in the s when westend gate (then called plaza büro center) and silberturm were constructed and became the tallest buildings in germany with a height of . metres and . metres, respectively. around the same time, frankfurter büro center and city-haus ( . metres and . metres) were constructed at mainzer landstraße and eurotower ( . metres) and garden tower ( . metres; then called helaba-hochhaus) were constructed in the financial district. none of the buildings constructed during the s surpassed silberturm. the most famous buildings from this decade are the deutsche bank twin towers at taunusanlage, both . metres tall. the s featured a second wave. messeturm, built on the trade fair site, reached a height of . metres and became the tallest building in europe by . it was overtaken by the -metre-high (  ft) commerzbank tower in . other tall buildings from this decade are westendstrasse ( . metres), main tower ( . metres) and trianon ( . metres). in st-century frankfurt, more high-rise buildings and skyscrapers (e.g., skyper, opernturm, tower , seat of the european central bank, taunusturm) emerged, but none have surpassed commerzbank tower. other tall structures[edit] top of the europaturm, a  m communications tower 	europaturm — the europe tower is a telecommunications tower, also known as the frankfurt tv tower, built from to . with a height of . metres it is the tallest tower and the second tallest structure in germany after the fernsehturm berlin. it was open to the public until , with an entertainment establishment in the revolving top. it is normally referred to by locals as the "ginnheimer spargel" (ginnheim asparagus), but stands a few metres within bockenheim district. 	henninger turm — the henninger tower was a -metre-high grain silo built from to and owned by henninger brewery. it was the highest structure until . the henninger tower had two rotating restaurants at the height of and metres and an open-air observation deck at the height of metres. the tower closed to the public in october and was demolished in to be replaced by a  m (  ft) tall residential tower, which is externally inspired by the old henninger turm. the cornerstone for this project was laid in june and construction was completed in summer . the new tower offers luxury flats [ ] and houses the non-rotating restaurant „franziska“. from to a famous yearly cycling race was named after the tower, the "radrennen rund um den henninger turm" (cycling race around henninger tower). the now-renamed race is still a yearly event. 	goetheturm — the goethe tower was a -metre-high (  ft) tower on the northern edge of the frankfurt city forest in sachsenhausen. it was the fifth tallest wood construction structure in germany. it was built in and was a popular place for day-trippers until it burned down in . a faithful reconstruction has been opened to the public on october , exactly three years after the original's destruction.[ ] shopping streets[edit] zeil, frankfurt's central shopping street. 	zeil – frankfurt's central shopping street. it is a pedestrian-only area and is bordered by two large public squares, hauptwache in the west and konstablerwache in the east. it is the second most expensive street for shops to rent in germany after the kaufingerstraße in munich. percent of the shops are retail chains such as h&m, saturn, esprit, zara or newyorker. in a new shopping mall named myzeil opened there with nearly stores and chains like hollister. three more shopping malls occupy the zeil: upperzeil (replacing the zeilgalerie, which was demolished in ), galeria kaufhof and karstadt, as well as large fashion retail clothing stores from peek & cloppenburg and c&a. during the month before christmas, the extended pedestrian-only zone is host to frankfurt christmas market, one of the largest and oldest christmas markets in germany. 	goethestraße – frankfurt's most expensive shopping street with prestigious shops like louis vuitton, prada, gucci, tiffany, giorgio armani, versace, cartier, burberry, vertu and bulgari. it is located between the financial district and the city centre and runs from goetheplatz to opernplatz. 	freßgass – (officially kalbächer gasse and große bockenheimer straße) is a pedestrian-only street section between börsenstraße and opernplatz in the city centre. the name translates as "feeding alley" because of its high concentration of gastronomy, but lately prestigious shops (e.g., apple store, hugo boss, porsche design) have moved here due to the lack of space in the neighbouring goethestraße, displacing old, established restaurants, butchers and delicatessens. 	berger straße – frankfurt's longest shopping street. it starts in the city center, runs through nordend and bornheim and ends in seckbach. the street is less crowded than the zeil and offers a greater variety of smaller shops, restaurants and cafés. 	leipziger straße – central shopping street in the bockenheim district starting at bockenheimer warte going towards west. high density of shops for daily needs. 	braubachstraße – in the altstadt district, close to the historic sites of the city, offers a large variety of art galleries, second-hand bookshops and antique shops. 	münchener straße – in the bahnhofsviertel district, located between the central station and willy-brandt-platz, is the most multicultural shopping street with many shops selling imported products mainly from turkey, the middle east and asia. 	kaiserstraße – one of the best-known streets and considered one of the most beautiful because of its amount of gründerzeit-style buildings. it runs parallel to münchener straße from the central station to the financial district. kaiserstraße is still a synonym for frankfurt's red-light district although sex-oriented businesses moved to neighbouring streets such as taunusstrasse [de] in the s. today kaiserstraße houses many small shops, restaurants and cafés. 	kleinmarkthalle – (literally: small market hall) is a market hall in the city centre close to konstablerwache offering fresh food and flowers. in addition to regional delicacies like green sauce imported goods are offered. the kleinmarkthalle is the largest public market place in frankfurt. sidewalk cafés at fressgass shopping mall myzeil luxury shopping at goethestraße green city[edit] frankfurt city forest with a large forest, many parks, the main riverbanks and the two botanical gardens, frankfurt is considered a "green city": more than percent of the area within the city limits are protected green areas.[ ] 	frankfurter grüngürtel – the green belt is a ring-shaped public green space around the city. with , ha it covers a third of the administrative area. it includes the frankfurter stadtwald (frankfurt city forest, germany's largest forest within a city), the schwanheimer düne (schwanheim dune), the niddatal (nidda valley), the niddapark, the lohrberg (lohr mountain, frankfurt's only vineyard), the huthpark, the enkheimer ried (enkheim marsh), the seckbacher ried (seckbach marsh) and the fechenheimer mainbogen (a s-shaped part of the main river in fechenheim). the green belt is a protected area which means that housing is not allowed. the green belt was formally created in with its own constitution. 	mainuferpark – the mainuferpark (main riverbanks park) is the common term to describe the inner-city main riverbanks. it is an auto-free zone with large green areas that is popular with strollers and tourists, especially in the summertime, when it can become crowded. the southern riverbank, which continues further to offenbach am main and hanau, offers the best skyline views. the northern riverbank ends in the west at the former westhafen (west harbour, a residential housing area) and is growing to the east: a former industrial-used area between the new seat of the european central bank and the osthafen (east harbour) has become a park named hafenpark (harbour park), which offers outdoor courts for basketball, football and a skatepark. 	wallanlagen – the wallanlagen (former ramparts) relate to the former ring-shaped city wall fortifications around the altstadt and the innenstadt district (abolished – ), now a series of parks. building is not allowed, with a few exceptions, the most famous being the alte oper (built ) at the opernplatz. the part between the northern main riverbank and the opernplatz, referred to officially as taunusanlage and gallusanlage, is locally known as "central park" (a reference to the famous park in manhattan), because of the skyscrapers which stand on both sides. 	nizza park – at the juncture of the northern main riverbank and the wallanlagen is a famous small park called nizza. the name of the park recalls nice in southern france, because it is one of the warmest areas with a nearly mediterranean climate. numerous mediterranean flora grow there and can survive outside during the winter. 	garten des himmlischen friedens – garden of heavenly peace, named after the tiananmen gate in beijing, is a chinese-styled park in the nordend district and part of the larger bethmannpark. it contains chinese buildings, with building materials imported from china and built by chinese workers in the s. hosts traditional chinese plants and herbs. 	other parks – the largest parks are the niddapark ( ha), the ostpark ( ha) and the grüneburgpark ( ha). culture[edit] 	 	this section needs additional citations for 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(september ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) museums[edit] the städel senckenberg natural history museum with more than museums, frankfurt has one of the largest variety of museums in europe. museums are part of the museumsufer, located on the front row of both sides of the main riverbank or nearby, which was created on an initiative by cultural politician hilmar hoffmann. ten museums are located on the southern riverbank in sachsenhausen between the eiserner steg and the friedensbrücke. the street itself, schaumainkai, is partially closed to traffic on saturdays for frankfurt's largest flea market. 	deutsches architekturmuseum (german architecture museum) 	deutsches filmmuseum (german film museum) 	frankfurter ikonenmuseum (icon museum frankfurt) 	liebieghaus (museum of sculptures) 	museum für angewandte kunst (museum of applied arts) 	museum giersch (museum for regional art) 	museum für kommunikation (museum of communications) 	museum der weltkulturen (museum of world cultures) 	städel, one of the most famous art museums in germany 	bibelhaus erlebnis museum (bible house experience museum) two museums are located on the northern riverbank: 	jüdisches museum frankfurt (jewish museum frankfurt) 	historisches museum frankfurt (historical museum frankfurt) not directly located on the northern riverbank in the altstadt district are: 	museum für moderne kunst (museum of modern art) 	schirn kunsthalle frankfurt (schirn art gallery frankfurt) 	frankfurter kunstverein (art association frankfurt) 	museum judengasse (jews' alley museum) 	goethe-haus (goethe house) 	archäologisches museum frankfurt (archaeological museum frankfurt) 	caricatura museum für komische kunst 	dommuseum frankfurt (frankfurt cathedral museum) another important museum is located in the westend district: 	naturmuseum senckenberg (senckenberg natural history museum), the second largest natural history museum in germany other museums are the dialogmuseum (dialogue museum) in the ostend district, eintracht frankfurt museum at deutsche bank park, the frankfurter feldbahnmuseum (light railway museum frankfurt) in the gallus district, the verkehrsmuseum frankfurt (transport museum frankfurt) in the schwanheim district, the hammer museum in the bahnhofsviertel district and the geldmuseum der deutschen bundesbank (money museum of the german federal bank) in the ginnheim district. the explora museum+wissenschaft+technik (explora museum of science and engineering) in the nordend district was closed in . performing arts[edit] festhalle frankfurt the english theatre music[edit] eurodance and trance music originated in frankfurt. in german producers michael münzing and luca anzilotti (under the pseudonyms benito benites and john "virgo" garrett iii) formed the snap! project. snap! songs combined rap and soul vocals adding rhythm by using computer technology and mixing electronic sounds, bass and drums. by doing so a new genre was born: eurodance.[ ] in the early s, djs including sven väth and dj dag (of dance trance) first played a harder, deeper style of acid house that became popular worldwide over the next decade as trance music. some of the early and most influential eurodance, trance and techno acts, e.g., la bouche, jam and spoon, magic affair, culture beat, snap!, dance trance, oliver lieb and hardfloor, and record labels such as harthouse and eye q, were based in the city in the early s. venues[edit] 	oper frankfurt – a leading germany opera company and one of europe's most important. it was elected opera house of the year (of germany, austria and german-speaking switzerland) by german magazine opernwelt in , and . it was also elected best opera house in germany in and . its orchestra was voted orchestra of the year in , and .[ ] 	schauspiel frankfurt – theatre at willy-brandt-platz in the financial district, next to the frankfurt opera. 	frankfurt radio symphony (hr-sinfonieorchester in german) – one of the top symphony orchestras in the world 	festhalle frankfurt – multi-purpose hall next to the messeturm at the grounds of the frankfurt trade fair. it is mostly used for concerts, exhibitions or sport events and can accommodate up to , . 	deutsche bank park – frankfurt's largest sports stadium and one of germany's ten largest. it is located in the frankfurt city forest near niederrad. it is primarily used for soccer and concerts with a capacity up to , . it opened in and underwent several major reconstructions. locals still prefer to call the stadium by its traditional name, waldstadion (forest stadium). 	alte oper – a major concert hall. 	jahrhunderthalle – century hall is a large concert and exhibition hall in unterliederbach district. sometimes referred to as "jahrhunderthalle höchst", because it was built to celebrate the th anniversary of the chemical company hoechst ag in . 	the english theatre – located on the ground floor of the gallileo high-rise building, this is the largest anglophone theatre in continental europe. it was established in . 	tigerpalast – tiger palace is a varieté in the city centre near the zeil. it was established in and houses the famous tiger-restaurant which was awarded a michelin star. 	künstlerhaus mousonturm – house of artists mouson tower is a free theatre, which means that it has a smaller budget than traditional theatres and used more unconventional performing methods. it is located in an old factory in the ostend district. 	die schmiere – the grease is a cabaret and frankfurt's oldest privately owned theatre. it is located in the karmeliterkloster in the altstadt district. according to its own advertising it is the worst theatre in the world. 	die komödie – the comedy is a boulevard theatre in the city centre near willy-brandt-platz. botanical gardens[edit] palmengarten frankfurt is home to two major botanical gardens. 	palmengarten – located in the westend district, it is hesse's largest botanical garden covering ha. it opened to the public in . the botanical exhibits are organized according to their origin in free-air or in greenhouses that host tropical and subtropical plants, hence the name "palm garden". 	botanischer garten der goethe-universität – the university's botanical garden is also an arboretum. it contains about , species, with special collections of rubus ( species) and indigenous plants of central europe. it is organized into two major areas: the geobotanical area contains an alpine garden, arboretum, meadows, steppes, marsh, and a pond, as well as collections of plants from the canary islands, caucasus, east asia, mediterranean, and north america and the systematic and ecological collection includes crop plants, endangered species, ornamental plants, roses, and the neuer senckenbergischer arzneipflanzengarten (new senckenberg medicinal plant garden, m ). the botanical garden, the neighbouring palmengarten and the neighbouring grüneburgpark form the largest inner-city green area. foreign culture[edit] 	instituto cervantes – named after miguel de cervantes, one of the most important spanish authors, this is the world's largest organization for promoting the study and teaching of spanish language and culture. such centros cervantes across the world offer spanish language and history courses. the frankfurt branch was officially opened in september by felipe, prince of asturias and his wife letizia, princess of asturias. it is located in the so-called amerika-haus.[ ] 	institut français – a french public industrial and commercial organization (epic), started in by the ministry of foreign affairs for promoting french, francophone as well as local cultures around the world. the french institute works closely with the french cultural network abroad consisting of more than branches and nearly branches of the alliance française around the world.[ ] 	istituto italiano di cultura – a worldwide non-profit organization created by the italian government. it promotes italian culture and is involved in the teaching of the italian language; there are italian cultural institutes throughout major cities around the world.[ ] 	confucius institute – a non-profit public educational organization affiliated with the ministry of education of the people's republic of china, whose aim is to promote chinese language and culture, support local chinese teaching internationally, and facilitate cultural exchanges. there are over confucius institutes worldwide.[ ] 	central and eastern european online library – ceeol is an online archive providing access to full text articles from humanities and social science scholarly journals on central, eastern and south eastern european topics. subject areas include anthropology, culture and society, economy, gender studies, history, judaic studies, fine arts, literature, linguistics, political sciences and social sciences, philosophy and religion. ceeol is operated by questa.soft gmbh.[ ] festivals[edit] the museumsuferfest in "ovo" at luminale 	museumsuferfest – museums riverbank festival is one of germany's biggest cultural festivals, attracting more than million visitors over three days at the end of august along the main riverbank in the city centre. the museums there open far into the night. it offers live music, dance shows, booths for crafts, jewellery, clothes and food stands from around the world. 	dippemess – frankfurt's oldest folk festival is the festival of stoneware, which takes place semi-annually around easter and the end of september in the eastern area. "dippe" is a regional hessian dialect word meaning "pot" or "jar" which would not be understood in most other german regions. mentioned for the first time in the th century as an annual marketplace it is now more of an amusement park. the name of the festival derives from its original purpose, when it was a fair where traditionally crafted jars, pots and other stoneware were on offer. 	wäldchestag – day of the forest is known as a regional holiday because until the s it was common that frankfurt's shops were closed on this day. the festival takes place over four days after pentecost with the formal wäldchestag on tuesday. its unique location is in the frankfurt city forest, south-west of the city centre in niederrad. "wäldches" is a regional dialect of the german word "wäldchen", meaning "small forest". 	nacht der museen – night of the museums takes place every year in april or may. museums in frankfurt and in the neighbouring city of offenbach am main are open until :  am surrounded by special music events, dance performances, readings and guided tours. a free shuttle operates between the museums. in , approximately , visitors attended. 	nacht der clubs – night of the clubs is an event similar to nacht der museen: on one night as many as clubs can be visited with a single ticket for € . usually club-door-policies are loosened to attract new customers. a free shuttle runs between the clubs. , people participated in . 	luminale — the "festival of light" takes place biannually since , parallel to the light + building exhibition at the trade fair. many buildings are specially lit for the event. in , more than light installations could be seen and attracted , visitors. the last luminale was held in march . 	wolkenkratzer festival — the skyscraper festival is unique in germany. it takes place irregularly, lately in may , and attracted around . million visitors. for two days most skyscrapers are open to the public. sky-divers, base jumpers, fireworks and laser shows are extra attractions. nightlife[edit] frankfurt offers a variety of restaurants, bars, pubs and clubs. clubs concentrate in and around the city centre and in the ostend district, mainly close to hanauer landstraße. restaurants, bars and pubs concentrate in sachsenhausen, nordend, bornheim and bockenheim. in electronic music, frankfurt was a pioneering city in the late s and early s, with renowned djs including sven väth, marc trauner, scot project and kai tracid. one of the main venues of the early trance music sound was the omen nightclub from to . another popular disco club of the s– s and a hotspot for techno/trance music was the dorian gray, which was located within terminal at frankfurt airport from to . further popular venues were the u ( – ) and the coocoon club in fechenheim ( – ). notable live music venues of the past include the sinkkasten arts club ( – ) and the king kamehameha club ( – ). among the most popular active rock and pop concert venues is the batschkapp in seckbach, which opened in as a center for autonomous and left-wing counter culture. further popular active clubs and music venues include the velvet club, the cave, cooky's, nachtleben, silbergold, zoom, tanzhaus west and the yachtclub. domestic culture[edit] a "frankfurt kitchen" in the version of in an austrian museum 	frankfurt kitchen – designed originally in for the new frankfurt-project and built in some , units, the kitchen became a milestone in domestic architecture, considered the forerunner of modern fitted kitchens. 	frankfurt cupboard – the baroque frankfurt-style cupboards were used to store the family linen, one of them by goethe's father, who took one cupboard to rome. the most luxurious versions have wave-shaped parts, some are made of solid cherry wood inlaid with plumwood. culinary specialties[edit] see also: hessian cuisine "bembel" (jug) and "geripptes" (glas) 	apfelwein – apple wine or hard cider is regionally known as "ebbelwoi", "Äppler" or "stöffsche". it has an alcohol content of . %– % and a tart, sour taste. it is traditionally served in a glass, typically decorated with lozenges, called "geripptes", a full glass is then called "schoppen". apfelwein is also available in a stoneware jar locally known as "bembel". a group normally orders a "bembel" and shares the contents. apfelwein can be ordered as "sauergespritzer", which is apfelwein blended with % mineral water or as "süssgespritzer", which is apfelwein blended with lemon soda, orange soda or fresh-pressed apple juice (lemon soda being the most common). most of the pubs which serve apfelwein are located in sachsenhausen, which is therefore known as "ebbelwoi district". due to its national drink frankfurt is sometimes called "big ebbel" (pronunciation with hessian dialect), an homage to big apple, the famous nickname of new york city. 	grüne soße – green sauce is a sauce made with hard-boiled eggs, oil, vinegar, salt and generous amount of seven fresh herbs, namely borage, sorrel, garden cress, chervil, chives, parsley and salad burnet. variants, often due to seasonal availability include dill, lovage, lemon balm and spinach. original green sauce frankfurt-style is made of herbs that were gathered only on fields within the city limits. 	frankfurter würstchen – "short frankfurter" is a small sausage made of smoked pork. they are similar to hot dogs. the name frankfurter würstchen has been trademarked since . 	frankfurter rindswurst – sausage made of pure beef. 	frankfurter rippchen – also known as rippchen mit kraut, this is a traditional dish which consists of cured pork cutlets, slowly heated in sauerkraut or meat broth, and usually served with sauerkraut, mashed potatoes and yellow mustard. 	handkäs mit musik – german regional sour milk cheese (similar to harzer) and a culinary specialty in the rhine main region. the traditional way producing it is by hand. when it is topped with chopped onions it becomes "handkäs mit musik" (with music) because the onions are supposed to stimulate flatulence. 	frankfurter kranz – cake speciality believed to originate from frankfurt. 	bethmännchen – "a little bethmann" is a pastry made from marzipan with almond, powdered sugar, rosewater, flour, and egg. it is usually baked for christmas. quality of life[edit] in a ranking by the university of liverpool, frankfurt was rated the richest city in europe by gdp per capita, followed by karlsruhe, paris and munich.[ ] frankfurt was voted the th in the mercer quality of living survey by the mercer quality of living survey ( ),[ ] seventh in the mercer quality of living survey ( ) and th at the economist's world's most liveable cities survey ( ).[ ] according to an annual citizen survey ( ), arranged by the city council, percent inhabitants are satisfied or highly satisfied with the city, while only percent said that they are dissatisfied. compared to the 's survey the number of satisfied inhabitants has grown about percent while the number of dissatisfied inhabitants was reduced by percent. percent of the inhabitants like to live in frankfurt, percent would rather choose to live somewhere else. percent are satisfied with the public safety ( : only percent), percent are dissatisfied ( : percent).[ ] frankfurt consistently has the highest levels of crime per , inhabitants in germany ( . crimes per annum in ) and is therefore dubbed the german "crime capital".[ ] however, this statistic is often criticized[citation needed] because it ignores major factors: it is calculated based on the administrative , -inhabitant figure while the urban area has . m inhabitants and on weekdays adds another million people[citation needed] (not counting the million passengers passing through the airport each year). the rate for personal safety-relevant crimes such as murder, manslaughter, rape or bodily harm, is . percent, placing frankfurt twelfth in the ranking (related to the official , -inhabitant figure) or number (related to the one-million-figure).[ ] in , the state of hesse, where frankfurt is located, was ranked the third-safest state in germany.[ ] transport[edit] 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (september ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) airports[edit] frankfurt airport (with the fourth runway under construction in ) and the frankfurter kreuz (lower right corner) frankfurt airport[edit] the city can be accessed from around the world via frankfurt airport (flughafen frankfurt am main) located  km (  mi) southwest of the city centre. the airport has four runways and serves non-stop destinations. run by transport company fraport it ranks among the world's busiest airports by passenger traffic and is the busiest airport by cargo traffic in europe. the airport also serves as a hub for condor and as the main hub for german flag carrier lufthansa. it is the busiest airport in europe in terms of cargo traffic, and the fourth busiest in europe in terms of passenger traffic behind london heathrow airport, paris charles de gaulle airport and amsterdam airport schiphol. passenger traffic at frankfurt airport in was , , passengers. a third terminal is being constructed (planned to open in ). the third terminal will increase the capacity of the airport to over million passengers per year.[ ] the airport can be reached by car or bus and has two railway stations, one for regional and one for long-distance traffic. the s-bahn lines s and s (direction offenbach ost or hanau hbf) departing at the regional station take – minutes from the airport to frankfurt central station and onwards to the city centre (hauptwache station), the ic and ice trains departing at the long-distance station take minutes to frankfurt central station. frankfurt hahn airport[edit] despite the name, frankfurt hahn airport (flughafen frankfurt-hahn) is situated approximately  km (  mi) from the city in lautzenhausen (rhineland-palatinate). hahn airport is a major base for low-cost carrier ryanair. this airport can only be reached by car or bus. an hourly bus service runs from frankfurt central station, taking just over hours.[ ] passenger traffic at hahn airport in was .  million. frankfurt egelsbach airport[edit] frankfurt egelsbach airport (flugplatz frankfurt-egelsbach) is a busy general aviation airport located south-east of frankfurt airport, near egelsbach. roads[edit] rush hour on autobahn frankfurt is a traffic hub for the german motorway (autobahn) system. the frankfurter kreuz is an autobahn interchange close to the airport, where the bundesautobahn (a ), cologne to würzburg, and the bundesautobahn (a ), basel to hanover, meet. with approximately , cars passing through it every day it is europe's most heavily used interchange. the bundesautobahn (a ) connects frankfurt with wiesbaden in the west and fulda in the east. the bundesautobahn (a ) is mainly a commuter motorway which starts in the south (egelsbach), runs through the eastern part and ends in the north (oberursel). the bundesautobahn (a ) is a very short motorway in the western part which primarily serves as a fast connection between the a and the frankfurt trade fair. the a in the west, the a in the south and the a in the north-east form a ring road around the inner city districts and define a low-emission zone (umweltzone; established in ), meaning that vehicles have to meet certain emission criteria to enter the zone. the streets of central frankfurt are usually congested with cars during rush hour. some areas, especially around the shopping streets zeil, goethestraße and freßgass, are pedestrian-only streets. car parks are located throughout the city and especially in the city centre. railway stations[edit] frankfurt central station s-bahn at central station (underground) frankfurt central station[edit] frankfurt central station (frankfurt hauptbahnhof, often abbreviated as frankfurt (main) hbf or f-hbf) is the largest railway station in germany by railway traffic. by daily passenger volume, it ranks second together with munich central station ( , each) after hamburg central station ( , ). it is located between the gallus, the gutleutviertel and the bahnhofsviertel district, not far away from the trade fair and the financial district. it serves as a major hub for long-distance trains (intercity, ice) and regional trains as well as for frankfurt's public transport system. it is a stop for most of ice high speed lines, making it germany's most important ice station. ice trains to london via the channel tunnel were planned for .[ ] all rhine-main s-bahn lines, two u-bahn lines (u , u ), several tram and bus lines stop there. regional and local trains are integrated in the public transport system rhein-main-verkehrsverbund (rmv), the second largest integrated public transport systems in the world, after verkehrsverbund berlin-brandenburg. frankfurt airport stations[edit] frankfurt airport can be accessed by two railway stations: frankfurt airport long-distance station (frankfurt flughafen fernbahnhof) is only for long-distance traffic and connects the airport to the main rail network, with most of the ice services using the cologne-frankfurt high-speed rail line. the long-distance station is located outside the actual airport ground but has a connecting bridge for pedestrians to terminal , concourse b. frankfurt airport regional station (frankfurt flughafen regionalbahnhof) is for local s-bahn trains (lines s , s ) and regional trains. the regional station is located within terminal , concourse b. frankfurt south station[edit] frankfurt's third long-distance station is frankfurt south station (frankfurt südbahnhof, often abbreviated as frankfurt (main) süd or f-süd), located in sachsenhausen. it is an important destination for local trains and trams (lines , and ) and the terminal stop for four u-bahn lines (u , u , u , u ) as well as two s-bahn lines (s , s ). two other s-bahn lines (s , s ) also serve the station. messe stations[edit] the frankfurt trade fair offers two railway stations: messe station is for local s-bahn trains (lines s -s ) and is located at the centre of the trade fair premises while festhalle/messe station is served by u-bahn line u and is located at the north-east corner of the premises. konstablerwache station and hauptwache station[edit] two other major railway stations in the city centre are konstablerwache and hauptwache, located on each end of the zeil. they are the main stations to change from east-to-west-bound s-bahn trains to north-to-south-bound u-bahn trains. konstablerwache station is the second-busiest railway station regarding daily passenger volume ( , ) after the central station. the third-busiest railway station is hauptwache station ( , ).[ ][ ] frankfurt west station[edit] this station, located in bockenheim, is served by north-heading long-distance ice trains, multiple regional trains, and four commuter s-bahn lines (s , s , s , s ). additionally, it is an important terminal stop for three "metrobus" lines (m , m , m ). coach stations[edit] there are three stations for intercity bus services in frankfurt: one at the south side of the central station, one at the terminal of the airport and another one at stephanstraße.[ ] public transport[edit] public transport network main article: public transport in frankfurt am main the city has two rapid transit systems: the u-bahn and the s-bahn, as well as an above-ground tram system. information about the u- and s-bahn can be found on the website of the rmv.[ ] s-bahn[edit] main article: rhine-main s-bahn nine s-bahn lines (s to s ) connect frankfurt with the densely populated rhine main region. most routes have at least -minute service during the day, either by one line running every minutes, or by two lines servicing one route at a -minute interval. all lines, except line s , run through the frankfurt city tunnel and serve the stations ostendstraße, konstablerwache, hauptwache, taunusanlage and frankfurt central station. when leaving the city the s-bahn travels above ground. it provides access to the trade fair (s , s , s , s ), the airport (s , s ), the stadium (s , s , s ) and nearby cities such as wiesbaden, mainz, darmstadt, rüsselsheim, hanau, offenbach am main, oberursel, bad homburg, kronberg, friedberg and smaller towns that are on the way. the s /s runs / . u-bahn[edit] main article: frankfurt u-bahn the u-bahn has nine lines (u to u ) serving frankfurt and the larger suburbs of bad homburg and oberursel in the north. the trains that run on the u-bahn are in fact light rail (stadtbahn) as many lines travel along a track in the middle of the street instead of underground further from the city centre. the minimum service interval is . minutes, although the usual pattern is that each line runs at . to -minute intervals, which produce between and -minute intervals on city centre tracks shared by more than one line. tram[edit] main article: trams in frankfurt am main frankfurt has ten tram lines ( , , to ), with trams arriving usually every minutes. many sections are served by two lines, combining to run at -minute intervals during rush-hour. trams only run above ground and serve more stops than the u-bahn or the s-bahn. bus[edit] main article: public transport in frankfurt am main § bus a number of bus lines complete the frankfurt public transport system. night buses replace u-bahn and tram services between :  am and :  am.[ ] the central junction for the night bus service is konstablerwache in the city centre, where all night bus lines start and end. taxis[edit] taxicabs can usually be found outside the major s-bahn and u-bahn stations, at the central station, the south station, the airport, the trade fair and in the crowded inner-city shopping streets. the common way to obtain a taxi is to either call a taxi operator or to go to a taxi rank. however, although not the norm, one can hail a passing taxi on the street. uber ceased operations in frankfurt on november after operating in the city for months.[ ] bicycles[edit] velotaxi at the zeil deutsche bahn makes bicycles available for hire through their call a bike service. the bicycles are stationed all over the city, including at selected railway stations. they can easily be spotted because of their eye-catching silver-red colour. to rent a specific bike, riders either call a service number to get an unlock code or reserve the bike via the smartphone application. to return the bike, the rider locks it within a designated return area (and calls the service number, if not booked via the app).[ ] nextbike also makes bicycles available for hire in frankfurt. they are stationed all over the city. these can be spotted with their blue color scheme. cycle rickshaws (velotaxis), a type of tricycle designed to carry passengers in addition to the driver, are also available. these are allowed to operate in pedestrian-only areas and are therefore practical for sightseeing. frankfurt has a network of cycle routes. many long-distance bike routes into the city have cycle tracks that are separate from motor vehicle traffic. a number of roads in the city centre are "bicycle streets" where the cyclist has the right of way and where motorised vehicles are only allowed access if they do not disrupt the cycle users. in addition, cyclists are allowed to ride many cramped one-way streets in both directions. as of [update], percent of citizens used bicycles.[ ] economy and business[edit] 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (september ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) frankfurt is one of the world's most important financial centres and germany's financial capital, followed by munich. frankfurt was ranked th at the international financial centers development index ( ), th at the worldwide centres of commerce index ( ), th at the global financial centres index (september ),[ ] th at the global power city index ( ), th at the global city competitiveness index ( ), th at the innovation cities index ( ),[ ] th at the world city survey ( ) and rd at the global cities index ( ).[ ] the city's importance as a financial centre has risen since the eurozone crisis. indications are the establishment of two institutions of the european system of financial supervisors (european insurance and occupational pensions authority and european systemic risk board) in and the single supervisory mechanism by which the european central bank was to assume responsibility for specific supervisory tasks related to the financial stability of the biggest and most important eurozone banks. according to an annual study by cushman & wakefield, the european cities monitor ( ), frankfurt has been one of the top three cities for international companies in europe, after london and paris, since the survey started in .[ ] it is the only german city considered to be an alpha world city (category ) as listed by the loughborough university group's inventory,[ ] which was a promotion from the group's inventory when it was ranked as an alpha minus world city (category ).[ ] with over jobs per , inhabitants, frankfurt has the highest concentration of jobs in germany. on work days and saturdays one million people commute from all over the rhein-main-area. the city is expected to benefit from international banks relocating jobs from london to frankfurt as a result of brexit to retain access to the eu market.[ ][ ] thus far, morgan stanley, citigroup inc., standard chartered plc and nomura holdings inc. announced they would move their eu headquarters to frankfurt.[ ] central banks[edit] the new headquarters of the european central bank in the ostend district frankfurt is home to two important central banks: the german bundesbank and the european central bank (ecb).[ ] european central bank[edit] the european central bank (europäische zentralbank) is one of the world's most important central banks. the ecb sets monetary policy for the eurozone, consisting of eu member states that have adopted the euro (€) as their common currency. from the ecb headquarters have been located in frankfurt, first in the eurotower at willy-brandt-platz and in two other nearby high-rises. the new seat of the european central bank in the ostend district, consisting of the former wholesale market hall (großmarkthalle) and a newly built -metre skyscraper, was completed in late . the new building complex was designed to accommodate up to , ecb personnel. the location is a few kilometres away from the city centre and borders an industrial area as well as the osthafen (east harbour), it was primarily chosen because of its large premises which allows the ecb to install security arrangements without high fences. the city honours the importance of the ecb by officially using the slogan "the city of the euro" since . deutsche bundesbank[edit] the deutsche bundesbank (german federal bank), located in ginnheim, was established in as the central bank for the federal republic of germany. until the euro (€) was introduced in , the deutsche bundesbank was responsible for the monetary policy of germany and for the german currency, the deutsche mark (dm). the bundesbank was greatly respected for its control of inflation through the second half of the th century. today the bundesbank is an integral part of the european system of central banks (escb) which is formed by all eu member states. commercial banks[edit] deutsche bank twin towers westend tower, also known as westendstraße or crown tower, headquarters of dz bank opernturm, headquarters of ubs germany, at the opernplatz in , national and international banks had a registered office, including the headquarters of the major german banks, as well as offices of international banks.[ ] frankfurt is therefore known as bankenstadt ("city of the banks") and nicknamed "mainhattan" (a portmanteau of the local main river and manhattan in new york city) or "bankfurt". , people were employed at banks in . 	deutsche bank — germany's largest commercial bank. it had % share of private customers and total assets of € ,  billion in . deutsche bank ranks among the largest banks in the world and the ten largest banks in europe.[ ] deutsche bank is listed on the dax, the stock market index of the largest german business companies at the frankfurt stock exchange. in november deutsche bank bought the majority of shares of competitor postbank. its headquarters are located at taunusanlage in the financial district. 	dz bank — central institution for more than co-operative banks (volksbanken und raiffeisenbanken) and their , branch offices in germany and is a corporate and investment bank. it is germany's second-largest bank (total assets: € billion). the dz bank group defines itself primarily as a service provider for the local volksbanken and raiffeisenbanken and their million clients. the dz bank headquarters are the westend tower and the city-haus at platz der republik. the dz bank group includes union investment, dvb bank and reisebank, which are also headquartered in frankfurt. 	kfw bankengruppe — government-owned development bank formed in as part of the marshall plan. kfw provides loans for approved purposes at lower rates than commercial banks, especially to medium-sized businesses. with total assets of €  billion ( ), it is germany's third-largest bank. the kfw headquarters are located in the westend district at bockenheimer landstraße and senckenberganlage. 	commerzbank — germany's fourth-largest bank by total assets ( ). in , commerzbank merged with competitor dresdner bank, then the third-largest german bank. due to the merger and the higher credit risks, commerzbank was % nationalized during the great recession. it is listed in the dax. its headquarters are at commerzbank tower ( metres), the second-tallest building in the eu, at kaiserplatz. 	landesbank hessen-thüringen – landesbank hessen-thüringen, or short helaba, is the central federal bank (landesbank) for the federal states of hesse and thuringia. as such, it is state-owned and defined as a service provider for the local german public banks (sparkassen). helaba is one of nine landesbanken and is the fifth-largest in germany. it is located in the -metre-tall main tower in the financial district, the only skyscraper with an observation desk open to the public. 	dekabank – dekabank is the central asset manager of the sparkassen in germany. the headquarters of dekabank are located at the trianon skyscraper at mainzer landstraße. 	ing diba germany – germany's largest direct bank, headquartered in bockenheim. other major german banks include frankfurter volksbank, the second-largest volksbank in germany, frankfurter sparkasse and old-established private banks such as bankhaus metzler, hauck & aufhäuser and delbrück bethmann maffei. many international banks have a registered or a representative office, e.g., credit suisse, ubs, bank of america, morgan stanley, goldman sachs, merrill lynch, jpmorgan chase & co., bank of china, banco do brasil, itaú unibanco société générale, bnp paribas, seb, royal bank of scotland and barclays. frankfurt stock exchange[edit] main article: frankfurt stock exchange bull and bear in front of the frankfurt stock exchange the frankfurt stock exchange (frankfurter wertpapierbörse) began in the th century. by the th century frankfurt had developed into an important european hub for trade fairs and financial services. today the frankfurt stock exchange is by far the largest in germany, with a turnover of more than percent of the german stock market and is the third-largest in europe after the london stock exchange and the european branch of the nyse euronext. the most important stock market index is the dax, the index of the largest german business companies listed at the stock exchange. the stock exchange is owned and operated by deutsche börse, which is itself listed in the dax. deutsche börse also owns the european futures exchange eurex and clearing company clearstream. trading takes place exclusively via the xetra trading system, with redundant floor brokers taking on the role of market-makers on the new platform. on february european commission blocked the proposed merger of deutsche börse and nyse euronext. "the merger between deutsche börse and nyse euronext would have led to a near-monopoly in european financial derivatives worldwide. these markets are at the heart of the financial system and it is crucial for the whole european economy that they remain competitive. we tried to find a solution, but the remedies offered fell far short of resolving the concerns."[ ] european competition commissioner joaquín almunia said. it is located in the city centre at the börsenplatz. deutsche börse's headquarters are formally registered in frankfurt, but it moved most of its employees to a high-rise called "the cube" in eschborn in , primarily due to significantly lower local corporate taxes. frankfurt trade fair[edit] messeturm seen from the trade fair premises main article: frankfurt trade fair frankfurt trade fair (messe frankfurt) has the third-largest exhibition site in the world with a total of , square metres ( , , square feet). the trade fair premises are located in the western part between bockenheim, the westend and the gallus district. it houses ten exhibition halls with a total of , square meters ( , , square feet) of space and , square metres ( , , square feet) of outdoor space. hosted in frankfurt are the frankfurt motor show (internationale automobil-ausstellung – iaa), the world's largest auto show, the frankfurt book fair (frankfurter buchmesse), the world's largest book fair, the ambiente frankfurt, the world's largest consumer goods fair, the achema, the world's largest plant engineering fair, and many more like paperworld, christmasworld, beautyworld, tendence lifestyle or light+building. messe frankfurt gmbh, the owner and operator company, organized exhibitions in , thereof in foreign countries. it is one of the largest trade fair companies with commercial activities in over countries. messeturm[edit] a landmark building of the trade fair (and of the whole city) is the messeturm (the name translates as fair trade tower), which was the tallest building in europe from to . it is located on the north-east corner of the trade fair premises at the so-called city entrance. despite the name it is not used for exhibition but serves as an office tower. aviation[edit] two lufthansa airbus a s at frankfurt airport frankfurt airport is one of the busiest airports in the world and is also the single largest place of work in germany with over companies which employ , people ( ).[ ] lufthansa[edit] the largest company at frankfurt airport is lufthansa, germany's flag carrier and europe's largest airline. lufthansa employs , people in frankfurt.[ ][ ] the lufthansa aviation center (lac) is the main operation base of lufthansa at frankfurt airport. the airport serves as lufthansa's primary hub with worldwide destinations (compared to destinations at munich airport, lufthansa's second-largest hub). lufthansa cargo is based in frankfurt and operates its largest cargo center (lcc) at frankfurt airport. lufthansa flight training is also based here. fraport[edit] fraport is the owner and operator of frankfurt airport. it is the airport's second-largest employer ( , workers in ).[ ] fraport also operates other airports worldwide, e.g., king abdulaziz international airport in jeddah, jorge chávez international airport in lima and antalya airport. condor[edit] condor is a german airline and part of thomas cook group, based at frankfurt airport. other industries[edit] accountancy and professional services[edit] three of the four largest international accountancy and professional services firms (big four) are present. pricewaterhousecoopers (pwc) german headquarters are located at tower . kpmg moved its european headquarters (kpmg europe llp) to the squaire. deloitte touche tohmatsu are present, while ernst & young is located in eschborn. credit rating agencies[edit] the three major international credit rating agencies – standard & poor's, moody's and fitch ratings – have their german headquarters in frankfurt. investment trust companies[edit] dws investments is the largest investment trust company in germany and manages €  billion fund assets. it is one of the largest investment trust companies in the world.[ ] other large investment trust companies are allianz global investors europe (a division of allianz se, and a top-five global active investment manager with € ,  billion assets under management globally), union investment and deka investmentfonds. management consultancies[edit] many of the largest international management consultancies are represented, including arthur d. little, mckinsey & company, boston consulting group, booz & company, oliver wyman, bearing point, capgemini, bain & company and roland berger strategy consultants. real estate services companies[edit] located in frankfurt are the german headquarters of jones lang lasalle and bnp paribas real estate. law firms[edit] frankfurt has the highest concentration of lawyers in germany, with one lawyer per inhabitants (followed by düsseldorf with a ratio of / and munich with / ) in .[ ] most of the large international law firms maintain offices, among them allen & overy, baker & mckenzie, bird & bird, clifford chance, cleary gottlieb steen & hamilton, debevoise & plimpton, dla piper, freshfields bruckhaus deringer, hogan lovells, jones day, latham & watkins, linklaters, mayer brown, milbank, tweed, hadley & mccloy, norton rose, shearman & sterling, sidley austin, sj berwin, skadden, arps, slate, meagher & flom, sullivan & cromwell, k&l gates, taylor wessing and white & case. advertising agencies[edit] although it is best known for its banks and financial institutions, frankfurt is also a centre for media companies. around companies of the advertising industry and public relations companies are there. according to a ranking of german focus magazine (november ) seven of the largest advertising agencies in germany are based in frankfurt, including havas, dentsu, mccann-erickson, saatchi & saatchi, jwt, and publicis.[ ] food[edit] frankfurt is home to the german headquarters of nestlé, the world's largest food company, located in niederrad. other important food companies are ferrero spa (german headquarters) and radeberger gruppe kg, the largest private brewery group in germany. automotive[edit] the south-korean automobile manufacturer kia motors moved its european headquarters to frankfurt in . in the same year italian manufacturer fiat opened its new german headquarters. the automotive supplier continental ag has the headquarters and a major manufacturing plant of its chassis & safety division (formerly itt automotive) located in frankfurt rödelheim. construction[edit] some of the largest german construction companies have offices, e.g., bilfinger berger, hochtief, züblin and bam deutschland. property and real estate[edit] frankfurt has germany's highest concentration of homeowners. this is partly attributed to the financial sector, but also to its cosmopolitan nature, with expatriates and immigrants representing one fourth of its population. for this reason frankfurt's property market often operates differently than the rest of the country where the prices are generally flatter. tourism[edit] frankfurt is one of germany's leading tourist destinations. in addition to its infrastructure and economy, its diversity supports a vibrant cultural scene. this blend of attractions led .  million tourists ( ) to visit frankfurt.[ ] the hotels in central frankfurt offer , beds in hotels, of which are luxury hotels and are first-class hotels.[ ] other[edit] industriepark höchst mainova heating plant frankfurt is home to companies from the chemical, the transportation, the telecommunication and the energy industry. some of the larger companies are: 	industriepark höchst — an industrial park in höchst. it is one of germany's largest with over companies from the pharmaceutical, the chemical and the biotechnology industry, including celanese, clariant, basf, merck kgaa and siemens. it was founded by chemical company hoechst ag in . at the beginning of the s hoechst ag was the largest pharmaceutical corporation and industriepark höchst was known as "the pharmacy of the world". hoechst ag merged with rhône-poulenc to become aventis in and in aventis merged with sanofi-synthélabo to become sanofi-aventis. in , around , people worked at industriepark höchst. in , ticona now part of celanese, an international manufacturer of engineering polymers, moved to industriepark höchst. 	deutsche bahn – deutsche bahn subsidiaries db fernverkehr, db regio, db stadtverkehr, db netz, db schenker and the corporate development department of deutsche bahn are frankfurt-based. 	deutsche telekom – deutsche telekom's subsidiary t-systems is frankfurt-based. 	colt – telecommunications company with frankfurt-based german headquarters. 	centurylink — internet service provider with german headquarters in frankfurt. 	de-cix – frankfurt is an important location for electronic communication, especially the internet. it is home to de-cix, the world's largest internet exchange point, and also the place where domain names are registered for top-level-domain ".de". 	mainova – the largest regional energy supplier in germany with about one million customers in hesse. it provides electricity, gas, heat and water. its headquarters are frankfurt-based. urban area (suburban) businesses[edit] within frankfurt's urban area are several important companies. the business centre of eschborn is located right at frankfurt's city limits in the west and attracts businesses with significantly lower corporate taxes compared to frankfurt. major companies in eschborn include ernst & young, vodafone germany, randstad holding and vr leasing. deutsche börse moved most of its employees to eschborn in . rüsselsheim is internationally known for its automobile manufacturer opel, one of the biggest automobile manufacturers in germany. with , employees in , opel was one of the five largest employers in hesse. offenbach am main is home to the european headquarters of automobile manufacturer hyundai motor company, to the german headquarters of automobile manufacturer honda, to honeywell germany and to deutscher wetterdienst, the central scientific agency that monitors weather and meteorological conditions over germany. two dax companies are located in bad homburg vor der höhe, fresenius se & co. kgaa and fresenius medical care. other major companies are hewlett-packard, bridgestone, deutsche leasing and basler versicherungen. kronberg im taunus is home of the german headquarters of automobile manufacturer jaguar cars as well as the german headquarters of accenture. lufthansa systems, a subsidiary of lufthansa, is located in kelsterbach. lsg sky chefs, another subsidiary of lufthansa, is located in neu-isenburg. the german headquarters of thomas cook group are based in oberursel. langen is home to deutsche flugsicherung, the german air traffic control. public institutions[edit] westhafen tower, home to the european insurance and occupational pensions authority (eiopa) european insurance and occupational pensions authority[edit] the european insurance and occupational pensions authority (eiopa) is an institution of the eu and part of the european system of financial supervisors that was created in response to the financial crisis of – . it was established on january . federal financial supervisory authority[edit] frankfurt is one of two locations of the german federal financial supervisory authority (bundesanstalt für finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht, short: bafin). the bafin is an independent federal institution and acts as germany's financial regulatory authority. international finance corporation[edit] frankfurt is home to the german office of the international finance corporation (ifc), which is part of the world bank group. the ifc promotes sustainable private sector investment in developing countries. german national library[edit] frankfurt is one of two sites of the german national library (deutsche nationalbibliothek), the other being leipzig. the deutsche nationalbibliothek is the largest universal library in germany.[citation needed] its task, unique in germany, is to collect, permanently archive, comprehensively document and record bibliographically all german and german-language publications from on, foreign publications about germany, translations of german works and the works of german-speaking emigrants published abroad between and , and to make them available to the public.[citation needed] consulates[edit] greek consulate as a profoundly international city, frankfurt hosts diplomatic missions (consulates and consulates-general).[citation needed] worldwide, only new york city and hamburg are non-capital cities with more foreign representation.[citation needed] the consulate general of the united states in eckenheim is the largest american consulate in the world.[citation needed] courts[edit] several courts are located in frankfurt, including: 	hessisches landesarbeitsgericht (hessian state employment court)[ ] 	oberlandesgericht frankfurt (higher regional court frankfurt)[ ] 	landgericht frankfurt (regional court frankfurt)[ ] 	amtsgericht frankfurt (local court frankfurt)[ ] 	sozialgericht frankfurt (social court frankfurt)[ ] 	arbeitsgericht frankfurt (employment court frankfurt)[ ] 	verwaltungsgericht frankfurt (administration court frankfurt)[ ] education and research[edit] frankfurt hosts two universities and several specialist schools. the two business schools are goethe university frankfurt's goethe business school and frankfurt school of finance & management. universities and schools[edit] johann wolfgang goethe university[edit] johann wolfgang goethe university the oldest and best-known university is the johann wolfgang goethe university, with locations in bockenheim, westend, and riedberg, and the university hospital in niederrad. goethe business school is part of the university's house of finance at campus westend. the business school's full time mba program has over % international students. frankfurt university of applied sciences[edit] the frankfurt university of applied sciences was created out of several older organisations in , and offers over study areas, in the arts, sciences, engineering and law. some of the most important research projects: planet earth simulator, fraline-it-school-service, quantitative analysis of methane in human corpses with the help of a mass spectrometer, software engineering (e.g., fradesk), analysis of qualitative and quantitative gas in human lungs, long-term studies on photovoltaic modules (to name only a few). frankfurt school of finance and management[edit] the city is also home to a business school, frankfurt school of finance & management, formerly known as the hochschule für bankwirtschaft (institution of higher learning for banking economics), with its new campus near deutsche nationalbibliothek u-bahn stop (recently moving from its previous location in the ostend (eastend) neighbourhood). in , it became a specialist institution for economics and management, or fom. frankfurt school is consistently ranked among the best business schools in the world, attributed to its high research output and quality of undergraduate and graduate training.[ ] städelschule[edit] frankfurt has the state institution of higher learning for artistic education known as the städelschule, founded in by johann friedrich städel. it was taken over by the city in and turned into a state art school. music schools and conservatory[edit] music institutions are the frankfurt university of music and performing arts, and the hoch conservatory (dr. hoch's konservatorium) which was founded in . the international ensemble modern academy is a significant institution for the study of contemporary music.[ ] other notable schools[edit] the sankt georgen graduate school of philosophy and theology (german:philosophisch-theologische hochschule sankt georgen), a private institution with membership in the german jesuit association, has been located in sachsenhausen since . education and media[edit] frankfurt schools rank among the best equipped schools nationwide for availability of pcs and other media facilities.[citation needed] in order to assure maintenance and support of the school pcs, the city in cooperation with the university of applied sciences launched the project fraline – it-schul-service, an initiative employing students to provide basic school it-support.[citation needed] research institutes[edit] max planck institute for brain research the city is home to three max planck society institutes: the max planck institute for european history of law (mpier), max planck institute for biophysics, and the max planck institute for brain research. the frankfurt institute for advanced studies, sponsored by several institutional and private sources, is involved in theoretical research in physics, chemistry, neuroscience, and computer science. frankfurt is host to the römisch-germanische-kommission (rgk), the german archaeological institute branch for prehistoric archaeology in germany and europe. the rgk is involved in a variety of research projects. its library, with over , volumes, is one of the largest specialised archaeological libraries in the world.[citation needed] trade unions and associations[edit] 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (september ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) main forum, home to ig metall frankfurt is home to multiple trade unions and associations, including: 	ig metall, germany's largest metalworkers trade union, based at the main forum high-rise building in the gutleutviertel district 	ig bauen-agrar-umwelt, a union for construction and engineering workers, 	gewerkschaft erziehung und wissenschaft, a union for teachers 	gewerkschaft deutscher lokomotivführer, a union for train drivers trade associations include: 	verband der elektrotechnik, elektronik und informationstechnik (electrotechnical, electronic and information technology association) 	dechema gesellschaft für chemische technik und biotechnologie (applied chemistry and biotechnology association) 	börsenverein des deutschen buchhandels, which organises the frankfurt book fair 	bundesverband des deutschen versandhandels (german catalogue selling association) 	verband der chemischen industrie (chemical industry association) 	verband der photoindustrie (photography industry association) 	verband deutscher maschinen- und anlagenbau (german machine and equipment building association) 	verband der köche deutschlands (german cooks association) media[edit] 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (september ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) newspapers[edit] editorial department building of frankfurter allgemeine zeitung two important daily newspapers are published. the conservative frankfurter allgemeine zeitung, also known as faz, was founded in and is the german newspaper with the widest circulation outside of germany, with its editors claiming to deliver the newspaper to countries every day. the faz has a circulation of over , copies daily. the other important newspaper, the frankfurter rundschau, was first published in and has a daily circulation of over , . magazines[edit] several magazines also originate from frankfurt. the local journal frankfurt is the best-known magazine for events, parties, and "insider tips". Öko-test is a consumer-oriented magazine that focuses on ecological topics. titanic is a well-known and often criticized satirical magazine with a circulation of approximately , . radio and tv[edit] frankfurt's first radio station was the südwestdeutsche rundfunkdienst ag (southwest german broadcast service), founded in . its successor service is the public broadcaster hessischer rundfunk (hessian broadcast service). it is located at the "funkhaus am dornbusch" in the dornbusch district and is one of the most important radio and television broadcasters in hesse, with additional studios in kassel, darmstadt and fulda. bloomberg tv and rtl television have regional studios. other radio broadcasters include main fm and radio x. from august to october , the american forces network (afn) had broadcast from frankfurt. due to troop reductions the afn's location has been closed with afn now broadcasting from mannheim. news agency[edit] frankfurt is home to the german office of reuters, a global news agency. associated press and us-based international news agency feature story news have bureaux in frankfurt. sports[edit] the waldstadion (currently known as the deutsche bank park) — home of the football club eintracht frankfurt 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (september ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) frankfurt is home to several professional sports teams. some of them have won german championships. e.g. the skyliners frankfurt won the german basketball championship in and the german cup in . women's side . ffc frankfurt (merged with eintracht frankfurt in ) are germany's record title holders; eintracht frankfurt are one-time german champions, five-times winners of the dfb-pokal, and winners of the uefa cup in . frankfurt hosts the following sports teams or clubs: 	eintracht frankfurt, football (women) 	eintracht frankfurt, football (men) 	fsv frankfurt, football (men) 	rot-weiss frankfurt, football 	frankfurter fc germania , football 	skyliners frankfurt, basketball 	frankfurt galaxy ( – ), american football 	frankfurt universe, american football 	frankfurt pirates, american football 	frankfurt sarsfields gaa, gaelic football 	frankfurt lions (until ), ice hockey 	löwen frankfurt (since ), ice hockey 	sc frankfurt, rugby union frankfurt is host to the classic cycle race eschborn-frankfurt city loop (known as rund um den henninger-turm from to ). the city hosts also the annual frankfurt marathon and the ironman germany. in addition to the former, it is one of global host locations to the j.p. morgan corporate challenge [ ], germany's biggest corporate sports event. rhein-main eissport club forms the base of the german bandy community.[ ] sights in the frankfurt rhein-main-area[edit] wiesbaden kurhaus with the casino roman empire army camp saalburg the real frankenstein castle waldspirale besides the tourist attractions in central frankfurt many internationally famous sites are within  km (  mi) of the city, such as: north[edit] 	taunus mountain range 	roman empire army camp saalburg 	limes (former northern border of the roman empire) 	bad homburg vor der höhe with its famous casino 	bad nauheim elvis presley memorial 	hessenpark west[edit] 	wiesbaden with its kurhaus, state theater, neroberg and casino 	rüdesheim 	rheingau 	eberbach monastery (the original movie set of the film the name of the rose) 	rhine valley 	river rhine 	rheinhessen wine region east[edit] 	leather museum offenbach 	hanau grimm brothers summer festival 	german fairy tale route 	spessart south[edit] 	darmstadt with the art nouveau mathildenhoehe 	waldspirale 	the former private chapel of the last tsar of russia 	vortex garden 	odenwald 	bergstrasse 	vineyards at heppenheim 	frankenstein castle 	heidelberg see also[edit] 	germany portal 	europe portal 	geography portal 	frankfurt school 	list of people from frankfurt 	mayor of frankfurt-am-main 	list of cities in hesse by population 	list of cities in germany by population references[edit] notes[edit] 	^ an dem → am citations[edit] 	^ a b regional monitoring . facts and figures – frankfurtrheinmain metropolitan region archived january at the wayback machine retrieved january 	^ a b the frankfurtrheinmain region – facts and figures archived january at the wayback machine retrieved january 	^ "bevölkerungsstand am . . 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(mit schwerpunkt architektur). 	bodenbach, christoph (hrsg.): neue architektur in frankfurt am main. junius verlag, hamburg , isbn  - - - - . 	sturm, philipp, schmal, peter cachola: hochhausstadt frankfurt. bauten und visionen seit . prestel, münchen , isbn  - - - - . others[edit] 	setzepfandt, christian: geheimnisvolles frankfurt am main. wartberg, gudensberg-gleichen , isbn  - - - . 	mosebach, martin: mein frankfurt. mit photographien von barbara klemm. insel, frankfurt am main , isbn  - - -x. 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. °n . °w / . ; - . 	type	fortification and settlement 	history 	builder	quintus petillius cerialis 	founded	 	periods	roman imperial 	site notes 	archaeologists	leslie peter wenham 	 	part of a series on the 	military of ancient rome bc – ad 	 structural history 	 army 	 	unit types and ranks 	decorations and punishments 	legions 	auxilia 	generals 	 navy 	 	fleets 	admirals 	 campaign history 	wars and battles 	 technological history 	 military engineering 	 	castra 	siege engines 	triumphal arches 	roads 	 political history   	 strategy and tactics 	 	infantry tactics 	 frontiers and fortifications 	 	limes 	limes britannicus 	antonine wall 	hadrian's wall 	saxon shore 	limes germanicus 	alb limes 	lauter valley limes 	lower germanic limes 	main limes 	neckar-odenwald limes 	upper germanic-rhaetian limes 	wetterau limes 	danube–iller–rhine limes 	norican limes 	claustra alpium iuliarum 	pannonian limes 	limes alutanus 	limes moesiae 	trajan's wall 	anastasian wall 	limes sarmatiae 	limes arabicus 	limes tripolitanus 	limes mauretaniae 	  ancient rome portal •  war portal 		v 	t 	e eboracum (latin /ebo'rakum/, english /iːˈbɒrəkəm/ or /ˌiːbɔːˈrɑːkəm/)[ ] was a fort and later a city in the roman province of britannia. in its prime it was the largest town in northern britain and a provincial capital. the site remained occupied after the decline of the western roman empire and ultimately evolved into the present-day city york, occupying the same site in north yorkshire, england. two roman emperors died in eboracum: septimius severus in  ad, and constantius chlorus in  ad. contents 	 etymology 	 origins 	 military 	 visiting emperors 	 government 	 culture 	 . diet 	 . religion 	 . death and burial 	 economy 	 . roads 	 . rivers 	 late roman york 	 rediscovery of roman york 	 archaeological remains 	 . visible remains 	 see also 	 bibliography 	 references 	 external links etymology[edit] the first known recorded mention of eboracum by name is dated c.  –  ad, and is an address containing the genitive form of the settlement's name, eburaci, on a wooden stylus tablet from the roman fortress of vindolanda in what is now the modern northumberland.[ ] during the roman period, the name was written both eboracum and eburacum (in nominative form).[ ] the name eboracum comes from the common brittonic eburākon, which means "yew tree place".[ ][failed verification] the word for "yew" was *ebura in proto-celtic (cf. old irish ibar "yew-tree", irish: iúr (older iobhar), scottish gaelic: iubhar, welsh: efwr "alder buckthorn", breton: evor "alder buckthorn"), combined with the proprietive suffix *-āko(n) "having" (cf. welsh -og, gaelic -ach)[ ] meaning "yew tree place" (cf. efrog in welsh, eabhrach/iubhrach in irish gaelic and eabhrach/iobhrach in scottish gaelic, by which names the city is known in those languages). the name was then latinized by replacing the celtic neuter nominative ending -on by its latin equivalent -um, a common use noted also in gaul and lusitania (ebora liberalitas julia). various place names, such as Évry, ivry, ivrey, ivory and ivrac in france would all come from *eburacon / *eburiacon; for example: ivry-la-bataille (eure, ebriaco in – ), ivry-le-temple (evriacum in ),[ ] and Évry (essonne, everiaco in ).[ ][ ] peter schrijver has instead argued that "eburos did not mean yew tree" and that the derivation from latin ebur instead refers to boar's tusks.[ ] origins[edit] the roman conquest of britain began in  ad, but advance beyond the humber did not take place until the early s ad. this was because the people in the area, known as the brigantes by the romans, became a roman client state. when brigantian leadership changed, becoming more hostile to rome, roman general quintus petillius cerialis led the ninth legion north from lincoln across the humber.[ ] eboracum was founded in  ad when cerialis and the ninth legion constructed a military fortress (castra) on flat ground above the river ouse near its junction with the river foss. in the same year, cerialis was appointed governor of britain.[ ] a legion at full strength at that time numbered some , men, and provided new trading opportunities for enterprising local people, who doubtless flocked to eboracum to take advantage of them. as a result, permanent civilian settlement grew up around the fortress especially on its south-east side. civilians also settled on the opposite side of the ouse, initially along the main road from eboracum to the south-west. by the later nd century, growth was rapid; streets were laid out, public buildings were erected and private houses spread out over terraces on the steep slopes above the river. military[edit] a bust of constantine i from to  ad from musei capitolini, rome from its foundation the roman fort of eboracum was aligned on a north-east/south-east bearing on the north bank of the river ouse. it measured , pes monetalis ( . m) by , pes monetalis ( . m)[ ] and covered an area of acres ( ,  m ).[ ] the standard suit of streets running through the castra is assumed, although some evidence exists for the via praetoria, via decumana and via sagularis.[ ] much of the modern understanding of the fortress defences has come from extensive excavations undertaken by leslie peter wenham.[ ][ ][ ] the layout of the fortress also followed the standard for a legionary fortress with wooden buildings inside a square defensive boundary.[ ] these defences originally consisting of turf ramparts on a green wood foundation, were built by the ninth legion between and  ad. later these were replaced by a clay mound with a turf front on a new oak foundation, and eventually, wooden battlements were added which were then replaced by limestone walls and towers.[ ] the original wooden camp was refurbished by agricola in , before being completely rebuilt in stone between and . the fortress was garrisoned soon afterwards by the sixth legion, possibly as soon as .[ ] multiple phases of restructuring and rebuilding within the fortress are recorded. rebuilding in stone began in the early second century ad under trajan but may have taken as long as the start of the reign of septimius severus to be completed; a period of over years.[ ] estimates suggest that over , m of stone were required,[ ] largely consisting of magnesian limestone from the quarries nearby the roman settlement of calcaria (tadcaster).[ ] marble bust of constantine the great from stonegate, york visiting emperors[edit] there is evidence that the emperor hadrian visited in on his way north to plan his great walled frontier. he either brought, or sent earlier, the sixth legion to replace the existing garrison. emperor septimius severus visited eboracum in [ ] and made it his base for campaigning in scotland. (the fortress wall was probably reconstructed during his stay and at the east angle it is possible to see this work standing almost to full height.) the imperial court was based in york until at least , when severus died and was succeeded by his sons, caracalla and geta.[ ] a biographer, cassius dio, described a scene in which the emperor utters the final words to his two sons on his death bed: "agree with each other, make the soldiers rich, and ignore everyone else."[ ] severus was cremated in eboracum shortly after his death.[ ] dio described the ceremony: "his body arrayed in military garb was placed upon a pyre, and as a mark of honour the soldiers and his sons ran about it and as for the soldier's gifts, those who had things at hand to offer them put them upon it and his sons applied the fire."[ ] (the location of the cremation was not recorded. a hill to the west of modern york, known as severus hill, is associated by some antiquarians as the site where this cremation took place,[ ] but no archaeological investigation has corroborated this claim.) in the later rd century, the western empire experienced political and economic turmoil and britain was for some time ruled by usurpers independent of rome. it was after crushing the last of these that emperor constantius i came to eboracum and, in , became the second emperor to die there. his son constantine was instantly proclaimed as successor by the troops based in the fortress. although it took constantine eighteen years to become sole ruler of the empire, he may have retained an interest in eboracum and the reconstruction of the south-west front of the fortress with polygonally-fronted interval towers and the two great corner towers, one of which (the multangular tower) still survives, is probably his work. in the colonia, constantine's reign was a time of prosperity and a number of extensive stone town houses of the period have been excavated. government[edit] for the romans, eboracum was the major military base in the north of britain and, following the rd century division of the province of britannia, the capital of northern britain, britannia inferior. by eboracum had been made a colonia, the highest legal status a roman city could attain, one of only four in britain and the others were founded for retired soldiers.[ ] this mark of imperial favour was probably a recognition of eboracum as the largest town in the north and the capital of britannia inferior. at around the same time eboracum became self-governing, with a council made up of rich locals, including merchants and veteran soldiers.[ ] in britannia inferior was divided into two provinces of equal status with eboracum becoming the provincial capital of britannia secunda. culture[edit] statue of mars from blossom street in york as a busy port and a provincial capital eboracum was a cosmopolitan city with residents from throughout the roman empire.[ ] diet[edit] substantial evidence for the use of cereal crops and animal husbandry can be found in eboracum.[ ] a first-century warehouse fire from coney street, on the north bank of the ouse and outside the fortress, showed that spelt wheat was the most common cereal grain used at that time, followed by barley.[ ] cattle, sheep/goat and pig are the major sources of meat.[ ] hunting scenes, as shown through romano-british "hunt cups",[ ] suggest hunting was a popular pastime and that diet would be supplemented through the hunting of hare, deer and boar. a variety of food preparation vessels (mortaria) have been excavated from the city[ ] and large millstones used in the processing of cereals have been found in rural sites outside the colonia at heslington and stamford bridge.[ ] in terms of the ceremonial use of food; dining scenes are used on tombstones to represent an aspirational image of the deceased in the afterlife, reclining on a couch and being served food and wine.[ ] the tombstones of julia velva, mantinia maercia and aelia aeliana each depict a dining scene.[ ] additionally, several inhumation burials from trentholme drive contained hen's eggs placed in ceramic urns as grave goods for the deceased.[ ] mithraic tauroctony scene from micklegate, evidence of the cult of mithras in eboracum. religion[edit] a range of evidence of roman religious beliefs among the people of eboracum have been found including altars to mars, hercules, jupiter and fortune. in terms of number of references, the most popular deities were the spiritual representation (genius) of eboracum and the mother goddess.[ ] there is also evidence of local and regional deities. evidence showing the worship of eastern deities has also been found during excavations in york. for example, evidence of the mithras cult, which was popular among the military, has been found including a sculpture showing mithras slaying a bull and a dedication to arimanius, the god of evil in the mithraic tradition.[ ] the mithraic relief located in micklegate[ ] suggests the location of a temple to mithras right in the heart of the colonia.[ ] another example is the dedication of a temple to serapis a hellenistic-egyptian god by the commander of the sixth legion, claudius hieronymianus.[ ] other known deities from the city include: tethys,[ ] veteris,[ ] venus,[ ]silvanus,[ ] toutatis, chnoubis and the imperial numen. there was also a christian community in eboracum although it is unknown when this was first formed and in archaeological terms there is virtually no record of it. the first evidence of this community is a document noting the attendance of bishop eborius of eboracum at the council of arles ( ).[ ] the episcopal see at eboracum was called eboracensis in latin and bishops from the see also attended the first council of nicaea in , the council of sardica, and the council of ariminum.[ ] the name is preserved in the abbreviated form ebor as the official name of the archbishop of york.[ ] sarcophagus of julia fortunata, found in ; now in the yorkshire museum death and burial[edit] the cemeteries of roman york follow the major roman roads out of the settlement; excavations in the castle yard (next to clifford's tower), beneath the railway station, at trentholme drive and the mount[ ] have located significant evidence of human remains using both inhumation and cremation burial rites. the cemetery beneath the railway station was subject to excavations in advance of railway works of – , , and – .[ ] several sarcophagi were unearthed during this phase of excavations including those of flavius bellator[ ] and julia fortunata.[ ] inhumation burial in sarcophagi can often include the body being encased in gypsum and then in a lead coffin. variations on this combination exist. the gypsum casts, when found undisturbed, frequently retain a cast impression of the deceased in a textile shroud[ ] – surviving examples of both adults and children show a selection of textiles used to wrap the body before interment, but usually plain woven cloth.[ ] the high number of sarcophagi from eboracum has provided a large number of these casts, in some cases with cloth surviving adhered to the gypsum.[ ] two gypsum burials at york have shown evidence for frankincense and another clear markers of pistacia spp. (mastic) resin used as part of the funerary rite.[ ] these resins had been traded to eboracum from the mediterranean and eastern africa, or southern arabia, the latter known as the "frankincense kingdom" in antiquity[ ][page needed] this is the northernmost confirmed use of aromatic resins in mortuary contexts during the roman period.[ ] an excavation in advance of building work underneath the yorkshire museum in located a male skeleton with significant pathology to suggest that he may have died as a gladiator in eboracum.[ ][ ] economy[edit] the military presence at eboracum was the driving force behind early developments in its economy. in these early stages, eboracum operated as a command economy with workshops growing up outside the fortress to supply the needs of the , troops garrisoned there. production included military pottery until the mid- rd century, military tile kilns have been found in the aldwark-peasholme green area, glassworking at coppergate, metalworks and leatherworks producing military equipment in tanner row.[ ] in the roman period, eboracum was the major manufacturing centre for whitby jet. known as gagates in latin, it was used from the early rd century as material for jewelry[ ][page needed] and was exported from here throughout britain and into europe.[ ] examples found in york take the form of rings, bracelets, necklaces, and pendants depicting married couples and the medusa.[ ] there are fewer than jet pendants in the roman world,[ ] of which six are known from eboracum. these are housed in the yorkshire museum. roads[edit] during construction of the york to scarborough railway bridge in , workmen discovered a large stone coffin, close to the river ouse. inside was a skeleton, accompanied by an array of unusual and expensive objects. this chance find represents one of the most significant discoveries ever made from roman york. the true paths of all original roman roads leading out of eboracum are not known,[ ] although eleven have been suggested.[ ] the known roads include dere street leading north-west from the city through clifton towards the site of cataractonium (modern catterick), cade's road towards petuaria (modern brough), and ermine street towards lindum (modern lincoln).[ ] a road bypassing the south wall of the fortress, between the fortress and the river ouse has not been formally planned, although its path is conjectured to run beneath the york museum gardens.[ ] rivers[edit] the river ouse and river foss provided important access points for the importation of heavy goods. the existence of two possible wharves on the east bank of the river foss[ ] support this idea. a large deposit of grain, in a timber-structure beneath modern day coney street, on the north-east bank of the river ouse[ ] suggests the existence of storehouses for moving goods via the river. late roman york[edit] the decline of roman britain in early fifth century ad led to significant social and economic changes all over britain. whilst the latest datable inscription referencing eboracum dates from ad, the continuation of the settlement after this time is certain.[ ] building work in the city continued in the fourth century under constantine and later count theodosius.[ ] the locally produced crambeck ware pottery[ ] arrives in eboracum in the fourth century—the most famous form being intricately decorated buff-yellow "parchment ware" painted with bright shades of red. the effect of constantine's religious policy allowed the greater development of christianity in roman britain—a bishop of york named "eborius" is attested here and several artifacts decorated with chi-rho symbols are known.[ ] additionally, a small bone plaque from an inhumation grave bore the phrase soror ave vivas in deo ("hail sister may you live in god").[ ] changes in the layout of both the fort and colonia occurred in the late fourth century ad, suggested as representing a social change in the domestic lives of the military garrison here whereby they might have lived in smaller family groups with wives, children or other civilians.[ ] rediscovery of roman york[edit] the rediscovery and modern understanding of eboracum began in the th century. several prominent figures have been involved in this process. martin lister was the first to recognise that the multangular tower was roman in date in a paper with the royal society.[ ] john horsley's britannia romana, or "the roman antiquities of britain", included a chapter on roman york and at least partly informed francis drake's eboracum[ ]—the first book of its kind on roman york. drake also published accounts in the philosophical transactions of the royal society.[ ] the rev. charles wellbeloved was one of the founders of the yorkshire philosophical society and a curator of the antiquities in the yorkshire museum until his death in . he published a systematic account of roman york titled eboracum or york under the romans in ,[ ] including first hand records of discoveries during excavations in .[ ] william hargrove brought many new discoveries to the attention of the public through published articles in his newspaper the herald and the courant[ ] and published a series of guides with references to casual finds. the first large-scale excavations were undertaken by s. miller from glasgow university in the s[ ] with a focus on the defences. archaeological remains[edit] substantial physical remains have been excavated in york in the last two centuries[ ] including the city walls, the legionary bath-house and headquarters building, civilian houses, workshops, storehouses and cemeteries. visible remains[edit] 	remains of the roman basilica building, at the north side of the principia are visible in the undercroft of york minster. a column found during excavations and a modern statue of constantine the great are located outside.[ ] 	the multangular tower of york city walls is a multi-period structure based on the south-west corner tower of the roman legionary fortress. it is within the york museum gardens. 	the roman bath pub and museum (st sampson's square) displays remains of the military bath-house.[ ] 	a fragment of foundations of the western curtain wall is visible through a glass floor in a cafe near bootham bar.[ ] 	a large number of roman finds are now housed in the yorkshire museum.[ ] the york museum gardens have roman sarcophagi on open display. see also[edit] 	history of york 	roman britain 	seal of new york city which is inscribed sigillum civitatis novi eboraci bibliography[edit] 	allason-jones, lindsay ( ). roman jet in the yorkshire museum. york: yorkshire museum. isbn  . 	baines, edward, ed. 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of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 education in ancient rome - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	education in ancient rome 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		"roman school" redirects here. for the th to th century music composers, see roman school. for th century art movement, see scuola romana. bronze statuette of a girl reading ( st century) education in ancient rome progressed from an informal, familial system of education in the early republic to a tuition-based system during the late republic and the empire. the roman education system was based on the greek system – and many of the private tutors in the roman system were greek slaves or freedmen. the educational methodology and curriculum used in rome was copied in its provinces, and provided a basis for education systems throughout later western civilization. organised education remained relatively rare, and there are few primary sources or accounts of the roman educational process until the nd century ad. due to the extensive power wielded by the paterfamilias over roman families, the level and quality of education provided to roman children varied drastically from family to family; nevertheless, roman popular morality came eventually to expect fathers to have their children educated to some extent, and a complete advanced education was expected of any roman who wished to enter politics.[ ] contents 	 education during the empire 	 influences 	 tiers of schooling 	 . moral education 	 . ludus 	 . grammaticus 	 . rhetor 	 . philosophy 	 references 	 further reading education during the empire[edit] relief found in neumagen near trier, a teacher with three discipuli ( - ad) at the height of the roman republic and later the roman empire, the roman system of education gradually found its final form. formal schools were established, which served paying students; very little that could be described as free public education existed.[ ] both boys and girls were educated, though not necessarily together.[ ] in a system much like the one that predominates in the modern world, the roman education system that developed arranged schools in tiers. the educator quintilian recognized the importance of starting education as early as possible, noting that "memory ... not only exists even in small children, but is specially retentive at that age".[ ] a roman student would progress through schools just as a student today might go from primary school to secondary school and then to college. they were generally exempted from studies during the market days which formed a kind of weekend on every eighth day of the year.[ ] progression depended more on ability than age[ ] with great emphasis being placed upon a student's ingenium or inborn "gift" for learning,[ ] and a more tacit emphasis on a student's ability to afford high-level education. influences[edit] roman fresco of a blond maiden reading a text, pompeian fourth style ( - ad), pompeii, italy prior to the rd century bc. the roman system of education was closely bound to the roman social institution of patria potestas, in which the father acted as head of the household (paterfamilias), and had, according to law, absolute right of control over his children. it was the father's duty to educate his children and should he be unable to fulfill this duty, the task was assumed by other family members.[ ] it was not until bc with the capture of tarentum, the annexation of sicily in bc, and the period following the first punic war that romans were exposed to a strong influence of greek thought and lifestyle and found leisure to study the arts. in the rd century b.c., a greek captive from tarentum named livius andronicus was sold as a slave and employed as a tutor for his master's children.[ ] after obtaining his freedom, he continued to live in rome and became the first schoolmaster (private tutor) to follow greek methods of education and would translate homer's odyssey into latin verse in saturnian meter. as rome grew in size and in power, following the punic wars, the importance of the family as the central unit within roman society began to deteriorate,[ ] and with this decline, the old roman system of education carried out by the paterfamilias deteriorated as well. the new educational system began to center more on the one encountered by the romans with the prominent greek and hellenistic centers of learning such as alexandria later on. it was becoming a literary educational system. the situation of the greeks was ideal for the foundation of literary education as they were the possessors of the great works of homer, hesiod and the lyric poets of archaic greece. the absence of a literary method of education from roman life was due to the fact that rome was bereft of any national literature. the military arts were all that rome could afford to spend time studying. when not waging war, the romans devoted what time remained to agriculture. the concern of rome was that of survival, whether through defense or dominion. it was not until the appearance of ennius ( – bc), the father of roman poetry, that any sort of national literature surfaced. while the romans adopted many aspects of greek education, two areas in particular were viewed as trifle: music and athletics. music to the greeks was fundamental to their educational system and tied directly to the greek paideia. mousike encompassed all those areas supervised by the muses, comparable to today's liberal arts. the area that many romans considered unimportant equates to our modern definition of music. to the greeks, the ability to play an instrument was the mark of a civilized, educated man, and through an education in all areas of mousike it was thought that the soul could become more moderate and cultivated. the romans did not share this view and considered the study of music as a path to moral corruption.[ ] however, they did adopt one area of mousike: greek literature. athletics, to the greeks, was the means to obtaining a healthy and beautiful body, which was an end in and of itself and further promoted their love of competition. the romans, though, did not share this stance either, believing that athletics was only the means to maintaining good soldiers. this illustrates one of the central differences between the two cultures and their view on education: that to the greeks beauty or an activity could be an end in itself, and the practice of that activity was beneficial accordingly. the romans, on the other hand, tended to be more practically minded when it came to what they taught their children. to them, it would appear, an area of study was good only as far as it served a better purpose or end determined outside of itself. also, prior to the war, they had focused more on government and politics rather than army and military.[ ] tiers of schooling[edit] moral education[edit] roman portraiture frescos from pompeii, st century ad, depicting two different men wearing laurel wreaths, one holding the rotulus (blondish figure, left), the other a volumen (brunet figure, right), both made of papyrus roman portraiture fresco of a young man with a papyrus scroll, from herculaneum, st century ad at the foundation of ancient greek education was an effective system of formal education, but in contrast, the romans lacked such a system until the rd century bc.[ ] instead, at the foundation of ancient roman education was, above all else, the home and family, from which children derived their so-called "moral education". whereas greek boys primarily received their education from the community, a roman child's first and most important educators were almost always his or her parents. parents taught their children the skills necessary for living in the early republic, which included agricultural, domestic and military skills as well as the moral and civil responsibilities that would be expected from them as citizens. roman education was carried on almost exclusively in the household under the direction of the paterfamilias.[ ] from the paterfamilias, or highest ranking male of the family, one usually learned "just enough reading, writing, and arithmetic to enable them to understand simple business transactions and to count, weigh, and measure.[ ] men like cato the elder adhered to this roman tradition and took their roles as teachers very seriously. cato the elder not only made his children hardworking, good citizens and responsible romans, but "he was his (son's) reading teacher, his law professor, his athletic coach. he taught his son not only to hurl a javelin, to fight in armor, and to ride a horse, but also to box, to endure both heat and cold, and to swim well".[ ] job training was also emphasized, and boys gained valuable experience through apprenticeships. mothers, though, cannot be overlooked for their roles as moral educators and character builders of their children. cornelia africana, the mother of the gracchi, is even credited as a major cause of her sons' renowned eloquence.[ ] perhaps the most important role of the parents in their children's education was to instill in them a respect for tradition and a firm comprehension of pietas, or devotion to duty. for a boy, this meant devotion to the state, and for a girl, devotion to her husband and family. as the roman republic transitioned into a more formal education beyond the r's, parents began to hire teachers for this level of advanced academic training. for this, "the romans began to bring greek slaves to rome" to further enrich their children's knowledge and potential; yet, romans still always cherished the tradition of pietas and the ideal of the father as his child's teacher.[ ] ludus[edit] rome as a republic or an empire never formally instituted a state-sponsored form of elementary education.[ ] in no stage of its history did rome ever legally require its people to be educated on any level.[ ] it was typical for roman children of wealthy families to receive their early education from private tutors. however, it was common for children of more humble means to be instructed in a primary school, traditionally known as a ludus litterarius.[ ]: an instructor in such a school was often known as a litterator or litteratus, which was seen as a more respectable title.[ ] there was nothing stopping a litterator from setting up his own school, aside from his meager wages.[ ] there were never any established locations for a ludus litterarius. they could be found in a variety of places, anywhere from a private residence to a gymnasium, or even in the street.[ ] typically, elementary education in the roman world focused on the requirements of everyday life, reading, and writing. the students would progress up from reading and writing letters, to syllables, to word lists, eventually memorizing and dictating texts.[ ] the majority of the texts used in early roman education were literature, predominantly poetry.[ ] greek poets, such as homer and hesiod, were frequently used as classroom examples due to the lack of roman literature.[ ] roman students were expected to work on their own. there was little sense of a class as a cohesive unit, exemplified by students coming and going at different times throughout the day.[ ] young roman students faced no formal examinations or tests. their performance was measured through exercises that were either corrected or applauded based on performance. this created an unavoidable sense of competition amongst students.[ ] using a competitive educational system, romans developed a form of social control that allowed elites to maintain class stability.[ ] this, along with the obvious monetary expenses, prevented the majority of roman students from advancing to higher levels of education. grammaticus[edit] main article: grammarian (greco-roman world) at between nine and twelve years of age, boys from affluent families would leave their 'litterator' behind and take up study with a grammaticus, who honed his students' writing and speaking skills, versed them in the art of poetic analysis and taught them greek if they did not yet know it.[ ] poetry analysis continued to use the same poems and poets the students were exposed to in ludus, such as phoenissae by euripides.[ ] by this point, lower-class boys would already be working as apprentices, and girls—rich or poor—would be focused on making themselves attractive brides and, subsequently, capable mothers.[ ] daily activities included lectures by the grammaticus (enarratio), expressive reading of poetry (lectio) and the analysis of poetry (partitio).[ ] the curriculum was thoroughly bilingual, as students were expected to both read and speak in greek as well as in latin.[ ] assessment of a student's performance was done on-the-spot and on-the-fly according to standards set by his particular grammaticus, as no source on roman education ever mentions work taken away to be graded.[ ] instead, pupils would complete an exercise, display their results and be corrected or congratulated as needed by the grammaticus, who revelled in his self-perception as a "guardian of language".[ ] famous grammatici include lucius orbilius pupillus, who still serves as the quintessential pedagogue that isn't afraid to flog or whip his students to drive a point home,[ ] and the freedman marcus verrius flaccus, who gained imperial patronage and a widespread tutelage due to his novel practice of pitting students of similar age and ability against each other and rewarding the winner with a prize, usually an old book of some rarity.[ ] even at the height of his career, verrius flaccus, whose prestige allowed him to charge enormous fees and be hired by augustus to teach his grandsons, never had his own schoolroom.[ ] instead, he, like many of his fellow teachers, shared space at privately financed schools, which were dependent on (usually very low) tuition fees, and rented out classroom space wherever they could find it.[ ] other teachers sidestepped rent and lighting costs by convening their classes on pavements, colonnades or in other public spaces, where traffic noise, street crowds and bad weather were sure to pose problems.[ ] though both literary and documentary sources interchange the various titles for a teacher and often use the most general of terms as a catch-all, a price edict issued by diocletian in ad proves that such distinctions did in fact exist and that a litterator, grammaticus or rhetor, at least in theory, had to define himself as such.[ ] this edict on maximum prices fixed the salary of a grammaticus at denarii per pupil per month, though the edict was unenforceable, ignored and eventually repealed. children continued their studies with the grammaticus until the age of fourteen or fifteen, at which point only the wealthiest and most promising students matriculated with a rhetor.[ ] rhetor[edit] the orator, c. bc, an etrusco-roman bronze statue depicting aule metele (latin: aulus metellus), an etruscan man wearing a roman toga while engaged in rhetoric; the statue features an inscription in the etruscan alphabet the rhetor was the final stage in roman education. very few boys went on to study rhetoric. early on in roman history, it may have been the only way to train as a lawyer or politician.[ ] in early roman times, rhetoric studies were not taught exclusively through a teacher, but were learned through a student's careful observation of his elders.[ ] the practice of rhetoric was created by the greeks before it became an institution in roman society, and it took a long time for it to gain acceptance in rome.[ ] the orator, or student of rhetoric, was important in roman society because of the constant political strife that occurred throughout roman history.[ ] young men who studied under a rhetor would not only focus on public speaking. these students also learned other subjects such as geography, music, philosophy, literature, mythology and geometry.[ ] these well-rounded studies gave roman orators a more diverse education and helped prepare them for future debates. unlike other forms of roman education, there is not much evidence to show that the rhetor level was available to be pursued in organized school. because of this lack of evidence, it is assumed that the education was done through the previously mentioned private tutors.[ ] these tutors had enormous impact on the opinions and actions of their students. in fact, their influence was so great that the roman government expelled many rhetoricians and philosophers in bc. there were two fields of oratory study that were available for young men. the first of these fields was the deliberative branch of study. this field was for the training of young men who would later need to urge the "advisability or inadvisability" of measures affecting the roman senate.[ ] the second field of study was much more lucrative and was known as judicial oratory. these orators would later enter into fields such as criminal law, which was important in gaining a public following. the support of the public was necessary for a successful political career in rome.[ ] later in roman history, the practice of declamation became focused more on the art of delivery as opposed to training to speak on important issues in the courts. tacitus pointed out that during his day (the second half of the st century ad), students had begun to lose sight of legal disputes and had started to focus more of their training on the art of storytelling.[ ] philosophy[edit] a final level of education was philosophical study. the study of philosophy is distinctly greek, but was undertaken by many roman students. to study philosophy, a student would have to go to a center of philosophy where philosophers taught, usually abroad in greece. an understanding of a philosophical school of thought could have done much to add to cicero's vaunted knowledge of 'that which is great', but could be pursued by the very wealthiest of rome's elite. romans regarded philosophical education as distinctly greek, and instead focused their efforts on building schools of law and rhetoric.[ ] references[edit] 	^ michael chiappetta, "historiography and roman education," history of education journal , no. ( ): - . 	^ a b c d e f oxford classical dictionary, edited by simon hornblower and antony spawforth, third edition. oxford; new york: oxford university press, 	^ quintilian, quintilian on education, translated by william m. smail (new york: teachers college press, ). 	^ struck ( ), "nundinae" harvp error: no target: citerefstruck (help). 	^ yun lee too, education in greek and roman antiquity (boston: brill, ). 	^ bonner, stanley ( ). education in ancient rome: from the elder cato to the younger pliny, volume . park square, milton park, abingdon, oxon: routledge. pp.  , . isbn  - .cs maint: location (link) 	^ j.f. dobson, ancient education and its meaning to us (cooper square: new york, ). 	^ robin barrow, greek and roman education (macmillan education: london, ). 	^ a b c lee too, y; faroqhi, s.n ( ). education in greek and roman antiquity. brill. p.  . isbn  . 	^ a b william a. smith, ancient education (new york: philosophical library, ). 	^ william a. smith, ancient education (new york: philosophical library, ), p. . 	^ a b c d e f g h i j k jo-ann shelton, as the romans did: a source book in roman social history (new york: oxford university press, ). 	^ plutarch, the lives of aristeides and cato, translated by david sansone (warminster: aris & phillips, ). 	^ a b c d e f g h i j bonner, stanley f., education in ancient rome (berkeley: university of california press, ). 	^ a b c d e f g h i j morgan, teresa, "assessment in roman education," assessment in education, vol. , no. , (mar, ): , hyperlink "http://web.ebscohost.com/" http://web.ebscohost.com (accessed november , ) 	^ the legacy of roman education (in the forum), nanette r. pacal, the classical journal, vol. , no. . (apr. – may, ) 	^ robert a. kaster, guardians of language: the grammarian and society in late antiquity (berkeley: university of california press, ). 	^ jo-ann shelton. as the romans did: a sourcebook in roman social history. (new york: oxford university press, ), p. . further reading[edit] 	library resources about education in ancient rome 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	bloomer, w. martin. . the school of rome: latin studies and the origins of liberal education. berkeley: univ. of california press. 	bonner, stanley f. . education in ancient rome: from the elder cato to the younger pliny. berkeley: univ. of california press. 	booth, alan d. . "the schooling of slaves in first-century rome." transactions of the american philological association : – . 	bowman, alan k., and greg woolf, eds. . literacy and power in the ancient world. cambridge, uk: cambridge univ. press. 	dickey, eleanor. . "the creation of latin teaching materials in antiquity: a re-interpretation of p. sorb. inv. ." zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik. : – . 	gwynn, aubrey. . roman education from cicero to quintilian. oxford: oxford univ. press. 	richlin, amy. . "old boys: teacher-student bonding in roman oratory [section = ancient education]." classical world . : - 	starr, raymond j. . "the circulation of literary texts in the roman world." classical quarterly : – . 	turner, j. hilton. . "roman elementary mathematics: the operations." classical journal : – , – . 	van den bergh, rena. . 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		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		british statesman and author ( – ) not to be confused with his son, robert bulwer-lytton, st earl of lytton, governor-general of india. for the british general, see edward bulwer (british army officer). 	the right honourable the lord lytton pc 	 	 	secretary of state for the colonies 	in office june  – june 	monarch	victoria 	prime minister	the earl of derby 	preceded by	lord stanley 	succeeded by	the duke of newcastle 	 	personal details 	born	edward george earle lytton bulwer[ ] ( - - ) may london, england 	died	 january ( - - ) (aged  ) torquay, england 	nationality	british 	political party	whig ( – ) conservative ( – ) 	spouse(s)	rosina doyle wheeler ​ ​ (m.  )​ 	children	 , including robert 	parents	william earle bulwer elizabeth barbara warburton-lytton 	alma mater	trinity college, cambridge trinity hall, cambridge edward george earle lytton bulwer-lytton, st baron lytton, pc ( may – january ) was an english writer and politician. he served as a whig member of parliament from to and a conservative from to . he was secretary of state for the colonies from june to june , choosing richard clement moody as founder of british columbia. he declined the crown of greece in after king otto abdicated. he was created baron lytton of knebworth in .[ ][ ] his marriage to the writer rosina bulwer lytton broke down. her detention in an insane asylum provoked a public outcry. bulwer-lytton's works sold and paid him well. he coined the phrases "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", and "dweller on the threshold", and the opening phrase "it was a dark and stormy night." yet his standing declined and he is little read today. the sardonic bulwer-lytton fiction contest, held annually since , claims to seek the "opening sentence of the worst of all possible novels".[ ][ ][ ][ ] contents 	 life 	 political career 	 . british columbia 	 literary works 	 legacy 	 . quotations 	 . theosophy 	 . contest 	 . operas 	 . magazines 	 . translations 	 . place names 	 . portrayal on television 	 works by bulwer-lytton 	 . novels 	 . series 	 . verse 	 . plays 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links life[edit] bulwer was born on may to general william earle bulwer of heydon hall and wood dalling, norfolk and elizabeth barbara lytton, daughter of richard warburton lytton of knebworth house, hertfordshire. he had two older brothers, william earle lytton bulwer ( – ) and henry ( – ), later lord dalling and bulwer.[ ] his father died and his mother moved to london when he was four years old. when he was , a tutor named wallington, who tutored him at ealing, encouraged him to publish an immature work: ishmael and other poems. around this time, bulwer fell in love, but the woman's father induced her to marry another man. she died about the time that bulwer went to cambridge and he stated that her loss affected all his subsequent life.[ ] in bulwer-lytton entered trinity college, cambridge, where he met john auldjo, but soon moved to trinity hall. in he won the chancellor's gold medal for english verse.[ ] in the following year he took his ba degree and printed for private circulation a small volume of poems, weeds and wild flowers.[ ] he purchased an army commission in , but sold it in without serving.[ ] edward bulwer-lytton. his harold, the last of the saxons ( ) was the source for verdi's opera aroldo. in august , he married rosina doyle wheeler ( – ), a noted irish beauty, but against the wishes of his mother, who withdrew his allowance, forcing him to work for a living.[ ] they had two children, emily elizabeth bulwer-lytton ( – ), and (edward) robert lytton bulwer-lytton, st earl of lytton ( – ) who became governor-general and viceroy of british india ( – ). his writing and political work strained their marriage and his infidelity embittered rosina.[ ] in they separated acrimoniously and in the separation became legal.[ ] three years later, rosina published cheveley, or the man of honour ( ), a near-libellous fiction satirising her husband's alleged hypocrisy.[ ] in june , when her husband was standing as parliamentary candidate for hertfordshire, she denounced him at the hustings. he retaliated by threatening her publishers, withholding her allowance and denying her access to their children.[ ] finally he had her committed to a mental asylum,[ ] but she was released a few weeks later after a public outcry.[ ] this she chronicled in a memoir, a blighted life ( ).[ ][ ] she continued attacking her husband's character for several years.[ ] bulwer-lytton in later life the death of bulwer's mother in meant his "exhaustion of toil and study had been completed by great anxiety and grief," and by "about the january of , i was thoroughly shattered."[ ][ ] in his mother's room at knebworth house, which he inherited, he "had inscribed above the mantelpiece a request that future generations preserve the room as his beloved mother had used it." it remains hardly changed to this day.[ ] on february , in accordance with his mother's will, he changed his surname from bulwer to bulwer-lytton and assumed the arms of lytton by royal licence.[ ] his widowed mother had done the same in . his brothers remained plain "bulwer". by chance bulwer-lytton encountered a copy of "captain claridge's work on the "water cure", as practised by priessnitz, at graefenberg", and "making allowances for certain exaggerations therein", pondered the option of travelling to graefenberg, but preferred to find something closer to home, with access to his own doctors in case of failure: "i who scarcely lived through a day without leech or potion!".[ ][ ] after reading a pamphlet by doctor james wilson, who operated a hydropathic establishment with james manby gully at malvern, he stayed there for "some nine or ten weeks", after which he "continued the system some seven weeks longer under doctor weiss, at petersham", then again at "doctor schmidt's magnificent hydropathic establishment at boppart" (at the former marienberg convent at boppard), after developing a cold and fever upon his return home.[ ] when otto, king of greece abdicated in , bulwer-lytton was offered the greek crown, but declined.[ ] the english rosicrucian society, founded in by robert wentworth little, claimed bulwer-lytton as their "grand patron", but he wrote to the society complaining that he was "extremely surprised" by their use of the title, as he had "never sanctioned such."[ ] nevertheless, a number of esoteric groups have continued to claim bulwer-lytton as their own, chiefly because some of his writings – such as the book zanoni – have included rosicrucian and other esoteric notions. according to the fulham football club, he once resided in the original craven cottage, today the site of their stadium. bulwer-lytton had long suffered from a disease of the ear, and for the last two or three years of his life lived in torquay nursing his health.[ ] after an operation to cure deafness, an abscess formed in the ear and burst; he endured intense pain for a week and died at am on january , just short of his th birthday.[ ] the cause of death was unclear but it was thought the infection had affected his brain and caused a fit.[ ] rosina outlived him by nine years. against his wishes, bulwer-lytton was honoured with a burial in westminster abbey.[ ] his unfinished history athens: its rise and fall was published posthumously. political career[edit] caricature by ape published in vanity fair in bulwer began his political career as a follower of jeremy bentham. in he was elected member for st ives, cornwall, after which he was returned for lincoln in , and sat in parliament for that city for nine years. he spoke in favour of the reform bill and took the lead in securing the reduction, after vainly essaying the repeal, of the newspaper stamp duties. his influence was perhaps most keenly felt when, on the whigs' dismissal from office in , he issued a pamphlet entitled a letter to a late cabinet minister on the crisis.[ ] lord melbourne, then prime minister, offered him a lordship of the admiralty, which he declined as likely to interfere with his activity as an author.[ ] bulwer was created a baronet, of knebworth house in the county of hertford, in the baronetage of the united kingdom, in .[ ] in , he left parliament and spent much of his time in travel.[ ] he did not return to politics until , when having differed from lord john russell over the corn laws, he stood for hertfordshire as a conservative. bulwer-lytton held that seat until , when he was raised to the peerage as baron lytton of knebworth in the county of hertford. in he entered lord derby's government as secretary of state for the colonies, thus serving alongside his old friend disraeli. he was comparatively inactive in the house of lords.[ ] "just prior to his government’s defeat in the secretary of state for the colonies, sir edward bulwer lytton, notified sir george ferguson bowen of his appointment as governor of the new colony to be known as ‘queen’s land’." the draft letter was ranked # in the ‘top : documenting queensland’ exhibition when it toured to venues around queensland from february to april .[ ] the exhibition was part of queensland state archives’ events and exhibition program which contributed to the state’s q celebrations, marking the th anniversary of the separation of queensland from new south wales.[ ] british columbia[edit] when news of the fraser canyon gold rush reached london, bulwer-lytton, as secretary of state for the colonies, requested that the war office recommend a field officer, "a man of good judgement possessing a knowledge of mankind", to lead a corps of (later increased to ) royal engineers, who had been selected for their "superior discipline and intelligence".[ ] the war office chose richard clement moody, and lord lytton, who described moody as his "distinguished friend",[ ] accepted the nomination in view of moody's military record, his success as governor of the falkland islands, and the distinguished record of his father, colonel thomas moody, knight at the colonial office.[ ] moody was charged to establish british order and transform the newly established colony of british columbia ( – ) into the british empire's "bulwark in the farthest west"[ ] and "found a second england on the shores of the pacific."[ ] lytton desired to send to the colony "representatives of the best of british culture, not just a police force": he sought men who possessed "courtesy, high breeding and urbane knowledge of the world,"[ ] and decided to send moody, whom the government considered to be the archetypal "english gentleman and british officer."[ ] at the head of the royal engineers, columbia detachment, to whom he wrote an impassioned letter.[ ] the former hbc fort dallas at camchin, the confluence of the thompson and fraser rivers, was renamed in his honour by governor sir james douglas in as lytton, british columbia.[ ] literary works[edit] bulwer-lytton's literary career began in with the publication of a book of poems and spanned much of the th century. he wrote in a variety of genres, including historical fiction, mystery, romance, the occult and science fiction. he financed his extravagant way of life with a varied and prolific literary output, sometimes publishing anonymously.[ ] printing of pelham with hablot k. browne (phiz) frontispiece: pelham's electioneering visit to the rev. combermere st quintin, who is surprised at dinner with his family. bulwer-lytton published falkland in , a novel which was only a moderate success.[ ] but pelham brought him public acclaim in and established his reputation as a wit and dandy.[ ] its intricate plot and humorous, intimate portrayal of pre-victorian dandyism kept gossips busy trying to associate public figures with characters in the book.[ ] pelham resembled benjamin disraeli's first novel vivian grey ( ).[ ] the character of the villainous richard crawford in the disowned, also published in , borrowed much from that of banker and forger henry fauntleroy, who was hanged in london in before a crowd of some , .[ ] bulwer-lytton admired disraeli's father isaac d'israeli, himself a noted author. they began corresponding in the late s and met for the first time in march , when isaac d'israeli dined at bulwer-lytton's house. also present that evening were charles pelham villiers and alexander cockburn. the young villiers had a long parliamentary career, while cockburn became lord chief justice of england in . bulwer-lytton reached his height of popularity with the publication of godolphin ( ).[ ] this was followed by the pilgrims of the rhine ( ), the last days of pompeii ( ), rienzi, last of the roman tribunes about cola di rienzo ( ),[ ] leila; or, the siege of granada ( ), and harold, the last of the saxons ( ).[ ] the last days of pompeii was inspired by karl briullov's painting the last day of pompeii, which bulwer-lytton saw in milan.[ ] his new timon lampooned tennyson, who responded in kind.[ ] bulwer-lytton also wrote the horror story "the haunted and the haunters" or "the house and the brain" ( ). another novel with a supernatural theme was a strange story ( ), which was an influence on bram stoker's dracula.[ ] bulwer-lytton wrote many other works, including vril: the power of the coming race ( ) which drew heavily on his interest in the occult and contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre.[ ] its story of a subterranean race waiting to reclaim the surface of the earth is an early science fiction theme. the book popularised the hollow earth theory and may have inspired nazi mysticism.[ ] his term "vril" lent its name to bovril meat extract.[ ] "vril" has been adopted by theosophists and occultists since the s and became closely associated with the ideas of an esoteric neo-nazism after .[ ] his play money ( ) was first produced at the theatre royal, haymarket, london, on december . the first american production was at the old park theater in new york on february . subsequent productions include the prince of wales's theatre's in and as the inaugural play at the new california theatre (san francisco) in .[ ] among bulwer-lytton's lesser-known contributions to literature was that he convinced charles dickens to revise the ending of great expectations to make it more palatable to the reading public, as in the original version of the novel, pip and estella do not get together.[ ] legacy[edit] quotations[edit] bulwer-lytton's most famous quotation is "the pen is mightier than the sword" from his play richelieu: beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword he popularized the phrase "pursuit of the almighty dollar" from his novel the coming race,[ ] and he is credited with "the great unwashed", using this disparaging term in his novel paul clifford: he is certainly a man who bathes and "lives cleanly", (two especial charges preferred against him by messrs. the great unwashed).[ ] theosophy[edit] the writers of theosophy were among those influenced by bulwer-lytton's work. annie besant and especially helena blavatsky incorporated his thoughts and ideas, particularly from the last days of pompeii, vril, the power of the coming race and zanoni in her own books.[ ][ ] contest[edit] further information: bulwer-lytton fiction contest bulwer-lytton's name lives on in the annual bulwer-lytton fiction contest, in which contestants think up terrible openings for imaginary novels, inspired by the first line of his novel paul clifford:[ ] it was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents – except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in london that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. entrants in the contest seek to capture the rapid changes in point of view, the florid language, and the atmosphere of the full sentence.[citation needed] the opening was popularized by the peanuts comic strip, in which snoopy's sessions on the typewriter usually began with it was a dark and stormy night.[ ] the same words also form the first sentence of madeleine l'engle's newbery medal-winning novel a wrinkle in time. similar wording appears in edgar allan poe's short story, the bargain lost, although not at the very beginning. it reads: it was a dark and stormy night. the rain fell in cataracts; and drowsy citizens started, from dreams of the deluge, to gaze upon the boisterous sea, which foamed and bellowed for admittance into the proud towers and marble palaces. who would have thought of passions so fierce in that calm water that slumbers all day long? at a slight alabaster stand, trembling beneath the ponderous tomes which it supported, sat the hero of our story. operas[edit] several of bulwer-lytton's novels were made into operas. one of them, rienzi, der letzte der tribunen ( ) by richard wagner, eventually became more famous than the novel. leonora ( ) by william henry fry, the first european-styled "grand" opera composed in the united states, is based on bulwer-lytton's play the lady of lyons, as is frederic cowen's first opera pauline ( ). verdi rival errico petrella's most successful opera, jone ( ), was based upon bulwer-lytton's the last days of pompeii, and was performed all over the world until the first world war. harold, the last of the saxons ( ) was the source for verdi's opera aroldo in . magazines[edit] in addition to his political and literary work, bulwer-lytton became the editor of the new monthly in , but he resigned the following year. in , he started the monthly chronicle, a semi-scientific magazine. during his career he wrote poetry, prose, and stage plays; his last novel was kenelm chillingly, which was in course of publication in blackwood’s magazine at the time of his death in .[ ] translations[edit] bulwer-lytton's works of fiction and non-fiction were translated in his day and since then into many languages, including serbian (by laza kostic), german, russian, norwegian, swedish, french, finnish, and spanish. in , his ernest maltravers was the first complete novel from the west to be translated into japanese.[ ] place names[edit] in brisbane, queensland, australia, the suburb of lytton, the town of bulwer on moreton island (moorgumpin) and the neighbourhood (former island) of bulwer island are named after him.[ ][ ][ ] the township of lytton, quebec (today part of montcerf-lytton) was named after him[ ] as was lytton, british columbia, and lytton, iowa. lytton road in gisborne, new zealand was named after the novelist. later a state secondary school, lytton high school, was founded in the road.[ ] portrayal on television[edit] bulwer-lytton was portrayed by the actor brett usher in the television serial disraeli. works by bulwer-lytton[edit] novels[edit] 	falkland ( )[ ] 	pelham: or the adventures of a gentleman ( )[ ] available online 	the disowned ( ) 	devereux ( ) 	paul clifford ( ) available online 	eugene aram ( ) available online 	godolphin ( ) 	asmodeus at large ( ) 	the last days of pompeii ( ) available online 	the pilgrims of the rhine ( ) 	rienzi, the last of the roman tribunes ( )[ ] available online 	the student ( ) 	calderon, the courtier ( ) 	leila; or, the siege of granada ( ) available online 	zicci: a tale ( ) available online 	night and morning ( ) available online 	zanoni ( ) available online 	the last of the barons ( ) available online 	lucretia ( ) available online 	harold, the last of the saxons ( )[ ] available online 	the caxtons: a family picture ( )[ ] available online 	a strange story ( ) available online 	my novel, or varieties in english life ( )[ ] 	the haunted and the haunters or the house and the brain (novelette, ) available online 	what will he do with it? ( )[ ] 	a strange story ( ) 	the coming race ( ), republished as vril: the power of the coming race available online 	kenelm chillingly ( ) 	the parisians ( )[ ] 	pausanias, the spartan – unfinished ( ) series[edit] 	ernest maltravers ( ) 	alice, or the mysteries ( ) a sequel to ernest maltravers available online verse[edit] 	ismael ( )[ ] 	the new timon ( ), an attack on tennyson published anonymously[ ] 	king arthur ( – )[ ] plays[edit] 	the duchess de la vallière ( ) 	the lady of lyons ( )[ ] 	richelieu ( ), adapted for the film cardinal richelieu 	money ( ) 	not so bad as we seem, or, many sides to a character: a comedy in five acts ( ) 	the rightful heir ( ), based on the sea captain, an earlier play of lytton's 	walpole, or every man has his price 	darnley (unfinished) see also[edit] 	bulwer-lytton and theosophy 	lytton, queensland references[edit] 	^ a b brown, andrew ( september ). 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"the lady of lyons; or, love and pride". archived from the original on october . retrieved october – via project gutenberg. further reading[edit] 	christensen, allan conrad ( ). edward bulwer-lytton: the fiction of new regions. athens, georgia: the university of georgia press. isbn  . 	christensen, allan conrad, ed. ( ). the subverting vision of bulwer lytton: bicentenary reflections. newark: the university of delaware press. isbn  . 	escott, t. h. s. ( ). edward bulwer, first baron lytton of knebworth; a social, personal, and political monograph. london: george routledge & sons. 	mitchell, l. g ( ). bulwer lytton: the rise and fall of a victorian man of letters. london & new york: hambledon and london. isbn  . (distributed in the united states and canada by palgrave macmillan) 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: waugh, arthur ( ). "bulwer-lytton, edward". in chisholm, hugh (ed.). encyclopædia britannica. 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intelligence, gave her a thorough education in languages, history, poetry and mathematics. tollet was fluent in latin, italian, and french and she achieved a proficiency in latin that was unconventional for women of her time.[ ] the tollets' social circle included isaac newton, who also encouraged her to pursue her education.[ ][ ] tollet grew up in the tower of london where her father lived as a commissioner of the british navy.[ ] she refers to the tower in several of her poems and expresses her confinement and frustration with it.[ ][ ] tollet remained unmarried her whole life.[ ][ ] her mother most likely died and tollet, being the eldest daughter, would've been expected to stay home and care for her siblings.[ ] in she published poems on several occasions, which included her hypatia, now seen as a feminist protest poem.[ ] on newton's death in tollet produced an elegy, on the death of sir isaac newton.[ ] she died in in the village of westham, essex (now known as west ham) and is buried at all saints church there.[ ] references[edit] 	^ a b c d e f g fara, patricia (june ). "elizabeth tollet: a new newtonian woman" (pdf). history of science. science history publications ltd. , part ( ): – . bibcode: hissc.. .. f. doi: . / . s cid  . archived from the original (pdf) on august . retrieved october . 	^ brown, susan; clements, patricia; grundy, isobel. "elizabeth tollet; overview screen". the orlando project. retrieved october . 	^ a b c d e londry, michael (september ). tollet, elizabeth ( – ). oxford dictionary of national biography. oxford university press. retrieved october . (library card access). the first edition of this text is available at wikisource: "tollet, elizabeth" . dictionary of national biography. london: smith, elder & co. – . 	^ a b c d e backscheider, paula r. 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(april ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) 	ancient rome 	 	this article is part of a series on the politics and government of ancient rome 	 periods 	 	roman kingdom – bc 	roman republic – bc 	roman empire bc – ad 	principate bc – ad 	dominate ad – 	western ad – 	eastern ad – 	timeline 	 roman constitution 	 	constitution of the kingdom 	constitution of the republic 	constitution of the empire 	constitution of the late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	executive magistrates 	 precedent and law 	 	roman law 	ius 	imperium 	mos maiorum 	collegiality 	auctoritas 	roman citizenship 	cursus honorum 	senatus consultum 	senatus consultum ultimum 	 assemblies 	 	centuriate 	curiate 	plebeian 	tribal 	 ordinary magistrates 	 	consul 	praetor 	quaestor 	promagistrate 	aedile 	tribune 	censor 	governor 	 extraordinary magistrates 	 	corrector 	dictator 	magister equitum 	consular tribune 	rex 	triumviri 	decemviri 	 titles and honours 	 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	praeses 	praefectus 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 	 	other countries 		v 	t 	e the decemviri or decemvirs (latin for "ten men") were any of several -man commissions established by the roman republic. the most important were those of the two decemvirates, formally the "decemvirs writing the laws with consular imperium" (latin: decemviri legibus scribundis consulari imperio) who reformed and codified roman law during the conflict of the orders between ancient rome's patrician aristocracy and plebeian commoners. other decemviri include the "decemviri adjudging litigation" (decemviri stlitibus judicandis), the "decemviri making sacrifices" (decemviri sacris faciundis), and the "decemviri distributing public lands" (decemviri agris dandis adsignandis). contents 	 decemviri legibus scribundis consulari imperio 	 . background 	 . first decemvirate 	 . second decemvirate 	 . second plebeian secession 	 . valerio-horatian laws (leges valeriae horatiae) 	 . demise of the decemviri 	 . the law of the twelve tables 	 . views of modern historians 	 decemviri stlitibus judicandis 	 decemviri sacris faciundis 	 decemviri agris dandis adsignandis 	 see also 	 references 	 . citations 	 . sources decemviri legibus scribundis consulari imperio[edit] background[edit] the setting up of the decemviri legibus scribundis consulari imperio occurred within the context of the two-hundred-year conflict of the orders between the patrician order (the aristocracy) and the plebeian order (the commoners). the patricians had developed into the upper class by monopolising the priesthoods, which played an important part in the politics of archaic rome and, in the early republic, the consulship (the office of the two annual elected heads of the roman republic and the army), and the seats of the (unelected) senate, the advisory body for the consuls. they were also large landowners. the form of labour exploitation during this archaic period was the nexum, which was what historians call debt bondage, bonded labour, or debt slavery. the debtor pledged his labour services as collateral for debt. defaulting debtors were liable to have their labour bonded for life.[ ] in the early th century bc there was an increase in the problem of indebtedness due to the appropriation of public land (ager publicus) by the rich landowners to expand their estates (which restricted the amount of land available to small farmers), rome's territory being attacked by neighbouring peoples and taxation. this also led to an increase in the problem of the abuse of defaulting debtors. because of the absence of clearly defined laws and judicial procedures, the creditors could imprison and torture the debtors and, sometimes, sell them as slaves. this led to the first plebeian secession ( bc), which was the start of the conflict of the orders. the plebeians demanded that the state protect small farmers from the abuse of defaulting debtors by the creditors, who were the wealthy patrician landowners. when this was not forthcoming, they resorted to boycotting the military levy. at that time the roman army was a part-time militia of peasant farmers who were drafted each year for the military campaigning season and then went back to their farms. refusing the call-up gave plebeians significant political leverage. when their demands were not met, on their return from a defensive military campaign the soldiers refused to obey orders and seceded to mons sacer, outside rome. they threatened to stay there until their demands were met. there were negotiations and the secession ended. however, the plebeian demands were not fully met. rather, they obtained the recognition of the institutions which they had created during the rebellion, the plebeian council (an assembly restricted to plebeians where they could debate their issues) [ ] and the plebeian tribunes.[ ] the latter acted as the defenders of the plebeians from abuse by consuls or officials through the provocatio, the power to veto the actions of the consuls and officials. they used it for actions they judged inequitable or abusive to any plebeian. they also convened and presided over the plebeian council and presented bills for its vote. an element of this conflict was about whether the resolutions of this council should be binding on all roman citizens, including the patricians, or only on the plebeians. the plebeian institutions were parallel and separate from that of the roman state (the consuls, the senate and the two other popular assemblies). livy said "[t]wo states had been created out of one; each faction had its own magistrates [officials], its own laws." [ ] the main role of the plebeian institutions in the early days of the conflict of the orders was self-defence.[ ] the next step in the conflict was the lex terentilia proposed by gaius terentilius harsa, a plebeian tribune, in  bc. it provided for a five-man commission to set out the norms through which the power of the consuls would be defined. with the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of the republic, the powers of the king were transferred to the consuls, who were regarded as the representatives of regal power.[ ][ ] as such, consular powers were undefined and therefore without limits. gaius terentilus wanted to have them defined, and therefore curtailed, as a way of proving further protections for the plebeians. the patricians were opposed to this curtailment and managed to postpone the debate on this law for eight years. in  bc the plebeian tribunes dropped the fruitless pursuit of this law. they asked the senate to “consent to the appointment of a body of legislators, chosen in equal numbers from plebeians and patricians to enact what would be useful to both orders and secure equal liberty for each”.[ ] the patricians replied that this was worthy of consideration, but said that only patricians could legislate. although disputed by historians such as niebuhr, cornell and grant, according to livy and dionysius, three envoys were sent to athens to study the law of solon and inquire about the laws of other greek city-states. in  bc the envoys “returned with the laws of athens.” the plebeian tribunes pressed to begin the compilation of the laws. it was agreed to appoint decemviri with consular powers which would not be subject to appeal and to suspend both the consulship and the plebeian tribunate.[ ] this made the decemvirate an extraordinary magistracy (a governing body with extraordinary powers) as well as a commission tasked with compiling laws. after a long debate about whether plebeians should sit on the decemvirate, the plebeian tribunes agreed to a patrician-only panel in exchange for a law they had passed not being repealed.[ ] first decemvirate[edit] the decemviri took office in  bc. both consuls elect, appius claudius crassinus inregillensis sabinus and titus genucius augurinus, resigned. so did the other magistrates and the plebeian tribunes. in compensation for their loss of office, appius claudius and titus genucius were appointed to the decemviri. so was one of the consuls of the previous year ( bc), publius sestius capitolinus vaticanus, because he had put the proposal to the senate despite the opposition of his colleague. the three envoys were also part of the decemviri.[ ] the most influential member was appius claudius who, according to livy, "was the guiding hand in the whole magistracy ... thanks to the favour of the plebs."[ ] each day a different decemvir presided over the magistracy and this man had the twelve lictors (the bodyguards of the consuls) with fasces (bound bundles of rods which were the symbol of supreme authority and sometimes had axes). their rule was fair and their administration of justice was exemplary. despite not being subject to appeal, they yielded to one another when an appeal was taken. they drafted their laws on ten bronze tables and presented them to the people, asked for feedback and amended them accordingly. they were approved by the higher popular assembly, the assembly of the soldiers. there was a general feeling that two more tables were needed to have a corpus of all roman law. it was decided to elect a new decemvirate.[ ] the first decemvirate consisted of: 	appius claudius crassus, consul 	titus genucius augurinus, consul 	titus veturius geminus cicurinus 	gaius julius iulus 	aulus manlius vulso 	servius sulpicius camerinus cornutus 	publius sestius capitolinus vaticanus 	publius curiatius fistus trigeminus 	titus romilius rocus vaticanus 	spurius postumius albus regillensis second decemvirate[edit] many men canvassed for election to the second decemvirate. according to livy, appius claudius rigged the election and announced the election of himself and nine men who were his supporters. this new decemvirate became tyrannical. all the ten men had twelve lictors and their fasces had axes (even though the carrying of weapons within the city walls was forbidden). the sight of these lictors terrified everyone. they conducted trials behind closed doors and issued arbitrary judgements. there were rumours that they wanted to rule perpetually. everyone hated them. when they issued the two additional tables there was no longer any justification for their rule and people looked forward to elections. however, when the time came, they were not held and the decimviri became violent.[ ] a sabine army attacked roman territory and encamped there and an aequi army attacked an ally of rome. according to livy, the decemviri summoned the senate, but the senators did not show up. to the plebeians this showed the illegitimacy of the decemviri as their term had expired and were now meant to be just private citizens. they were considering boycotting the military draft. however, it turned out that the senators had left and gone to their farms, supposedly in disgust. the senate was summoned again and this time some senators attended. the plebeians saw this as a betrayal of liberty. however, the senators denounced the decemviri and tried to oppose them, called them private citizens and refused to call a levy. in the end they allowed its proclamation of the levy in silence because they feared a popular uprising would bolster the plebeian tribunes, their political adversaries. the plebeians enlisted because they feared violent reprisal as there was no right to appeal. some of the decemviri led two armies against the two enemies. as they were not good military men, both armies were routed.[ ] according to livy, appius claudius had his eyes on verginia, the daughter of a plebeian, lucius verginius, who was a centurion absent from rome with the army. having failed to woo her with money and promises, appius claudius decided to seize this opportunity to get one of his men to claim her as her slave. she was dragged off her feet in the forum and the shouts of her nurses attracted a crowd. the claimant said that he was acting lawfully and had summoned her to court. verginia went to court followed by her friends and acquaintances. the judge was appius claudius. the claimant said that the girl was born at his house and then he palmed her off to verginius as his, but that she still was his slave. verginia's friends asked for an adjournment until verginius could attend and to leave verginia in the custody of the defendants. appius claudius agreed to summon verginius, but put verginia in the custody of the claimant. verginia's lover, icilius, arrived at the forum, but was stopped by a lictor. he pleaded his case loudly and attracted the attention of the crowd. verginia's supporters sent a relative and icilius' brother to quickly go to verginius' military camp. the claimant pressed icilius to pay surety to be verginia's guarantor. many people offered money and verginia was bailed to her family. appius claudius wrote to his colleagues at the camp not to grant verginius leave and to arrest him. however, the messengers had already arrived and verginius had already been given leave. at dawn a crowd was waiting to see what would happen. verginius arrived, leading his daughter and a large mass of supporters. he canvassed people for help to claim his due. the tears of the matrons who accompanied verginia moved people more than words. appius claudius upheld the fabricated case of the claimant and adjudged verginia to him without even listening to verginius. the crowd was stunned. when the claimant made his way to take her, verginius shouted that he had betrothed verginia to icilius, not to appius claudius, and that he did not bring her up for dishonour. appius claudius claimed that he knew that there had been seditious meetings and told verginius to be quiet and the lictors to seize the slave (verginia). the crowd did not react. according to livy, verginius stabbed his daughter to death saying that that was the only way he could assert her freedom. appius claudius ordered his arrest, but the crowd protected him as he made his way to the city gate. as a result, the crowd talked about restoring the plebeian tribunes and the right to appeal. [ ] the second decemvirate consisted of: 	appius claudius crassus 	marcus cornelius maluginensis 	lucius sergius esquilinus 	lucius minucius esquilinus augurinus 	quintus fabius vibulanus 	quintus poetelius libo visolus 	titus antonius merenda 	kaeso duillius longus 	spurius oppius cornicen 	manius rabuleius second plebeian secession[edit] according to livy, appius claudius ordered the arrest of icilius, but the crowd prevented this. two patricians, lucius valerius potitus and marcus horatius barbatus pushed the lictors back, announcing that “if appius proceeded legally, they would protect icilius from the prosecution of a mere citizen; if he sought to make use of violence, there too they would be a match for him." appius claudius, lucius valerius, and marcus horatius made speeches. the crowd booed the former and listened only to the latter two, who ordered the lictors to back off. appius claudius fled. another decemvir, not knowing what to do, ended up summoning the senate. the senators were hostile to the decemviri and there was hope that they would bring them down. however, the senators were concerned that the arrival of verginius at the military camp would cause unrest and sent messengers to tell the commanders to keep the troops from mutiny. verginius, who had been followed by nearly four hundred men, caused an even bigger stir with the soldiers than in the city. he told his fellow soldiers to "look out for themselves and for their own children" and they replied that they "would not forget his sufferings nor fail to vindicate their liberty." the civilians who had come with verginius to the military camp claimed that the decemviri had been overthrown and that appius claudius had gone into exile and incited the soldiers to rise up.[ ] these soldiers, who were from the army which had been sent against the aequi, marched to rome and took possession of the aventine hill. they urged the plebeians to regain their freedom and elect the plebeian tribunes. the senate decided to take no harsh action as it had been partly responsible for the mutiny. it sent three envoys to inquire who had seized the aventine, who their leaders were and what they wanted. the mutineers did not have a leader and no one dared to express enmity. the civilian crowd shouted that they wanted lucius valerius and marcus horatius to be the envoys. verginius proposed the election of ten leaders to be given the military title, military tribune. verginius was elected. at the instigation of icilius, the soldiers of the roman armies located in sabine territories also rebelled. on hearing of the election of military tribunes at the aventine, icilius, thinking that these men would then be elected as plebeian tribunes and wanting to become one himself, arranged the election of the same number of "military tribunes" among these soldiers, who headed for rome, marched through the city and to the aventine. when they joined the other army, the twenty "military tribunes" appointed two men, marcus oppius and sextus manilius, to take command.[ ] according to livy, the senators, who were convening daily, spent most of the time squabbling. they decided to send valerius and horatius to the aventine on the condition that the decemviri resign. the latter said that they would do so only after the enactment of the two tables of laws for which they were elected. given that the senate kept bickering, the soldiers decided to secede to mons sacer as they had done in  bc to increase pressure on the senators and the decemviri. they now demanded the restoration of tribunician power (i.e. the reinstatement of the plebeian tribunes) and they would stand firm to obtain this. on their way through the city they were joined by civilian plebeians. the senate hesitated because of the enmity between senators and plebeian tribunes. some senators, including valerius and horatius, argued that their restoration was needed in order to both get rid of the decemviri and restore patrician magistrates. the decemviri agreed to step down on the condition that they would get personal protection against any reprisals. [ ] lucius valerius and marcus horatius were sent to negotiate terms with the plebeians at their discretion. the plebeians welcomed and thanked them because of their previous stand at the forum. they demanded the recovery of the protections the plebeians enjoyed through the plebeian tribunes and the right to appeal, immunity for those who incited the rebellion and harsh punishment for the decemviri. the envoys agreed on the first three demands and asked that the issue of punishment be postponed. the plebeians accepted this. the senate decreed the abdication of the decemviri, the election of the plebeian tribunes and the mentioned immunity. the plebeians returned to rome and elected their tribunes. the plebeian council carried a motion of immunity and passed a bill for the election of consuls subject to appeal.[ ] valerio-horatian laws (leges valeriae horatiae)[edit] lucius valerius potitius and marcus horatius barbatus were elected as consuls. they passed the valerio-horatian laws (leges valeriae horatiae). the first law provided that the resolutions of the plebeian council were binding on the people. then "they not only restored a consular law about the appeal, but they also safeguarded it for the future by the solemn enactment of a new law, that no one should declare the election of any magistrate without appeal, and that he who should so declare might be put to death [by anyone] without offence to law or religion, and that such a homicide should not be held a capital crime." they also reinstated the principle of the sacrosanctity of the plebeian tribunes "by restoring certain long-neglected ceremonies" and by putting what had been just a religious sanction into the statutes with a law which extended it to all plebeian magistrates, including the aediles and the decemviral judges. additionally, they specified that the heads of those who violated these ceremonies were to be forfeited to jupiter and their property sold at the temple of ceres, liber, and libera. they also introduced the practice of delivering the decrees of the senate to the aediles at the temple of ceres, “[u]p to that time they were wont to be suppressed or falsified, at the pleasure of the consuls." in addition, the plebeian council passed a law whereby those who left the plebeians without tribunes or elected a magistrate without appeal were to be scourged and beheaded. livy noted that all the measures were passed against the will of the patricians, but they did not actively oppose them.[ ] demise of the decemviri[edit] the plebeian tribunes tasked verginius with prosecuting appius claudius. verginius pardoned him for the crimes he had committed over two years saying "[i shall not] suffer him to add to his other crimes the impudence of defending himself". however, he said that he would arrest appius claudius unless he named a referee who could prove that he had not illegally adjudged a free citizen to the custody of one who claimed her as a slave. appius claudius asked for a trial to assess whether his new laws had established tyranny or freedom and whether the appeal "had been merely a parade of meaningless forms, or had been really granted." this was refused. he appealed repeatedly, but verginius kept repeating the challenge of a referee and then adjourned the trial. while in prison, appius claudius committed suicide. another decemvir, spurius oppius cornicen was arrested and afterwards also committed suicide. the property of these two men was confiscated. the other decemviri went into exile.[ ] the law of the twelve tables[edit] the two consuls marched with their armies to confront the sabines and the aequi who had not withdrawn. "before they left the city, the consuls had the decemviral laws, which are known as the twelve tables, engraved on bronze, and set them up in a public place. some authors say that the aediles, acting under orders from the tribunes, performed this service." [ ] views of modern historians[edit] the reason why the first decemvirate had a dual role--as a new magistracy which replaced the consuls and took on governance with extraordinary powers, and as a commission for compiling law--is not explained by the sources. some modern historians have grappled with this as an apparent contradiction. a theory has tried to explain this contradiction by positing that the first decemvirate differed from the second one by being a commission to compile laws, while the latter was a permanent governing body.[ ][ ] mommsen criticised this for not having any support from the sources.[ ] cornell notes that if this was the case the consuls and the plebeian tribunes would have been suspended at the start of the second decemvirate instead of the first. moreover, that the second decemvirate was elected because it was felt that two new tables were needed implies that the decemvirate was meant to be a temporary body for the duration of the drawing up of the laws. so does the second decemvirate's attempt to prolong its office by pretending that they were still working on the final two tables.[ ] the decemvirate's role as a new magistracy which replaced the consuls and the plebeian tribunes has been interpreted being intended to reintegrate the plebeians into the roman state by doing away with the plebeian tribunes. if this was the case, the fact that livy seemed to suggest that only patricians sat on the first decemvirate would be a contradiction. this and the fact that one of the decemviri was t. genucius, who had a plebeian name, have led some historians to reject both that this man was a decemvir and the existence of a second decemvirate, which they see as fiction.[ ][ ] mommsen argued that the decemvirate must have been open to plebeians from the beginning.[ ] some historians see the sharp contrast between the first, good decemvirate and the second, bad one as a legend to explain the twelve tables in general being good while the prohibition of marriage between patricians and plebeians was bad. this bad law was fictively ascribed to a second body of bad decemvirs. however, cornell argues that this view is problematic. he asks two questions. if this was a fiction to explain this law, why were the last two tables (one of which contained this law) published by the consuls for  bc after the deposition of the bad decemvirate? why was a law banning marriage between patricians and plebeians drawn up by a body composed by both patricians and plebeians (the majority of the members of the second decemvirate being plebeians)? [ ] in , historian gary forsythe dismissed the second decemvirate as unhistorical. he presents a number of arguments for his view. first, it is an invention modeled on the story of the thirty tyrants. athens was forced to abolish her democracy following her defeat by sparta and it was replaced by a commission tasked with drafting the laws of a new constitution. they arrested and executed political opponents and seized power. many athenians fled or were exiled. they formed a militia and reached peiraeus (piraeus, the port of athens), defeated the forces sent by the thirty tyrants, and then forced them to abdicate and restored democracy. forsythe sees similarities with the story of the decemviri, where the republican offices are suspended and replaced by the decemviri who were also tasked with drafting new laws, who then refused to leave office when their term was up, became tyrannical, were forced to resign by a secession and the republican offices were restored. second, the story fits with the greek theory that a good form of government gives way to its corrupt counterpart, which, in turn, leads back to another good one. the first decemvirate represents “ideal aristocratic rule in its ideal form, followed by the corrupt oligarchy of the second one whose misrule leads to rebellion and further political change.” third, one year and one decemvirate should have been enough to draw up a legislation which was not overly complicated.[ ] forsythe also says that the idea of the decemviri being overthrown “might have been suggested to later roman historians by the names of the consuls for  bc, lucius valerius potitus and marcus horatius barbatus.” they were similar to the names of the consuls for bc, the year of the establishment of the roman republic (publius valerius publicola and marcus horatius pulvillus). the republic was instituted with the overthrow of the last king of rome, who was a tyrant, in a rebellion and the decision to do away with the monarchy.[ ] cornell thinks that the story of the second decemvirate attracted much secondary elaboration (later additions), that some of this at times romanticised it and that parts of the story are fictitious, but that it cannot be proved the whole story was fictive and more convincing cases have to be made to support this view. he adds that “identifying the fictitious parts is no easier than deciding which parts might be based on genuine fact.” he also notes that the tradition of two decemvirates and the division of the tables into groups of ten and two were already around in the mid-second century bc. therefore, although the later historians who have given us the accounts of the decemvirate might have added additional elaborations, there is no evidence that they made up the core story.[ ] doubts have been cast about the story of appius claudius and verginia. appius claudius was the victim of a later tradition of hostility towards the claudii, his family (mommsen showed traces of this, but did not see it as a reason for rejecting the story); the character of verginia bears similarities with that of lucretia, whose rape led to the overthrow of the monarchy (ogilvie notes that in the original story might not have provided names and that she may have been referred to as ‘a maiden’ and the name verginia was ascribed to her later, but she did exist); the story was the subject of a traditional ballade. cornell argues that such objections do not prove that “the story is a later invention.”[ ][ ][ ] the story of the embassy to athens to study the law of solon is unlikely. if it had gone to athens, by that time the law of solon would have been replaced by the radical reforms of pericles in the first half of the th century bc. cornell notes that the fragments of the law of the twelve tables show many signs of greek influence and even some greek loan-words. he thinks that the source was likely to have been the greek cities of southern italy and that it is there that efforts to familiarise with greek written laws would have been directed. he also points out that according to an alternative tradition the decemviri were advised by hermodorus of ephesus, a greek philosopher in exile.[ ][ ][ ][ ] decemviri stlitibus judicandis[edit] the decemviri stlitibus judicandis ("the ten men who judge lawsuits") was a civil court of ancient origin (traditionally attributed to king servius tullius) mainly concerned with questions bearing on the status of individuals. it originally served as a jury rendering verdicts under the presidency of the praetor, but these decemviri subsequently became annual minor magistrates (magistratus minores) of the republic, elected by the comitia populi tributa and forming part of the vigintisexviri ("twenty-six men").[ ] suetonius and dio cassius record that during the principate, caesar augustus transferred to the decemviri the presidency in the courts of the centumviri ("hundred men"). under imperial law, the decemvirate had jurisdiction in capital cases. decemviri sacris faciundis[edit] the decemviri sacris faciundis (also called the decemviri sacrorum) had religious functions and was the outcome of the claim of the plebs to equal share in the administration of the state religion (five decemviri were plebeians, five were patricians). they were first appointed in bc in lieu of the patrician duumviri ("two men") who had had responsibility for the care and consultation of the sibylline books and the celebration of the games of apollo.[ ] membership in this ecclesiastical college (collegium) was for life, and the college was increased to a quindecimvirate—that is, a college of fifteen members—and renamed accordingly (see quindecimviri sacris faciundis) in the last century of the republic, possibly by the dictator lucius cornelius sulla; the dictator gaius julius caesar added a sixteenth member, but this precedent was not followed. decemviri agris dandis adsignandis[edit] the decemviri agris dandis adsignandis was appointed from time to time to control the distribution of public lands (ager publicus).[ ] see also[edit] 	constitution of the roman republic – the norms, customs, and written laws, which guided the government of the roman republic 	triumvirate – political regime ruled or dominated by three powerful individuals known as triumvirs (the arrangement can be formal or informal) 	septemvir 	vigintisexviri – college of minor magistrates of the roman republic references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ cornell, t.j., the beginnings of rome, p.  	^ cornell, the beginnings of rome, pp.  – 	^ cornell, t. j., the beginnings of rome, pp.  – 	^ livy, the history of rome, . . 	^ raaflaub, (ed.), chapter , from protection and decense to offense and participation: stages in the conflict of the orders 	^ polybius, histories, . , 	^ cicero, on the laws, . 	^ livy, the history of rome, . 	^ clay, agnes ( ). "decemviri". in chisholm, hugh. encyclopædia britannica ( th ed.). cambridge university press. 	^ livy, the history of rome, . 	^ livy, the history of rome, . . - 	^ livy, the history of rome, . . 	^ livy, the history of rome, . . - , 	^ livy, . . - . - 	^ livy, . . - 	^ livy, . - 	^ livy, . - 	^ livy, . - 	^ livy, . 	^ livy, . - 	^ livy, . 	^ livy, the history of rome, . ., . - , . - 	^ livy, . - 	^ niebuhr, history rome, ( ). ii, p. 	^ de martino storia della costituzione romana, ii ( ) p. 	^ a b mommsem, romische forschungen, i ( ), p. 	^ cornell, t. j., the beginnings of rome, p. – 	^ beloch, romische geschichte bis zum beginn der punischen kriege, , p. 	^ drummond a, cambridge ancient history vii. , pp. – 	^ cornell, t.j., the beginnings of rome, p. 	^ forsythe, g., a critical history of early rome, pp.  – 	^ forsythe, a critical history of early rome, p.  	^ cornell, t. j., the beginnings of rome, pp.  – 	^ a b cornell, p.  	^ mommsen, romische forschungen, i ( ), pp.  – 	^ ogilvie a commentary on livy, ( ) p.  	^ pliny the elder, natural history, . 	^ strabo, geographia, . . 	^ pomponius, . . . 	^ a b c clay, agnes ( ). 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hardship, but in he was appointed secretary to the so-called "english court" (englischer hof) in hamburg, a trading company founded in the th century.[ ] he shortly afterwards married, and from this time had sufficient leisure to pursue his literary occupations till his death. career[edit] the first collection of hagedorn's poems was published at hamburg shortly after his return from jena in , under the title versuch einiger gedichte (reprinted by a. sauer, heilbronn, ). in appeared versuch in poetischen fabeln und erzählungen;[ ] in a collection of his lyric poems, under the title sammlung neuer oden und lieder;[ ] and his moralische gedichte in .[ ] a collection of his entire works was published at hamburg in after his death. the best is j.j. eschenburg's edition ( vols., hamburg, ). selections of his poetry with an excellent introduction in f. muncker's anakreontiker und preussisch-patriotische lyriker (stuttgart, ). see also h. schuster, f. von hagedorn und seine bedeutung für die deutsche literatur (leipzig, ); w. eigenbrodt, hagedorn und die erzählung in reimversen (berlin, ). the austrian composer wolfgang amadeus mozart set his poem die alte (the old woman) in his song of the same name (k. ) in . joseph haydn set two of his poems in his canons (a capella songs) (hob. xxviib). references[edit] 	^ britannica online. 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	superpower 	 politics portal 		v 	t 	e an empire is a sovereign state consisting of several territories and peoples subject to a single ruling authority, often an emperor. states can be empires either by narrow definition through having an emperor and being named as such, or by broad definition as stated above in being an aggregated realm under the rule of a supreme authority. an empire can be made solely of contiguous territories, such as the austro-hungarian empire or the russian empire, or include territories which are far remote from the 'home' country of the empire, such as a colonial empire. aside from the more formal usage, the word empire can also refer colloquially to a large-scale business enterprise (e.g. a transnational corporation), a political organisation controlled by a single individual (a political boss), or a group (political bosses).[ ] the concept of empire is associated with other such concepts as imperialism, colonialism, and globalization, with imperialism referring to the creation and maintenance of unequal relationships between nations and not necessarily the policy of a state headed by an emperor or empress. empire is often used as a term to describe displeasure to overpowering situations.[ ] there are two main ways to establish and maintain an imperial political structure: (i) as a territorial empire of direct conquest and control with force or (ii) as a coercive, hegemonic empire of indirect conquest and control with power. the former method provides greater tribute and direct political control, yet limits further expansion because it absorbs military forces to fixed garrisons. the latter method provides less tribute and indirect control, but avails military forces for further expansion.[ ] territorial empires (e.g. the mongol empire and median empire) tend to be contiguous areas. the term, on occasion, has been applied to maritime republics or thalassocracies (e.g. the athenian and british empires) with looser structures and more scattered territories, often consisting of many islands and other forms of possessions which required the creation and maintenance of a powerful navy. empires such the holy roman empire also came together by electing the emperor with votes from member realms through the imperial election. contents 	 definition 	 characteristics 	 history of imperialism 	 . bronze and iron age empires 	 . classical period 	 . post-classical period 	 . colonial empires 	 . modern period 	 . transition from empire 	 fall of empires 	 . roman empire 	 contemporary usage 	 timeline of empires 	 theoretical research 	 . the seven stages of empire 	 . empire versus nation state 	 . universal empire 	 . circumscription theory 	 . present 	 . future 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links definition[edit] an empire is an aggregate of many separate states or territories under a supreme ruler or oligarchy.[ ] this is in contrast to a federation, which is an extensive state voluntarily composed of autonomous states and peoples. an empire is a large polity which rules over territories outside of its original borders. definitions of what physically and politically constitute an empire vary. it might be a state affecting imperial policies or a particular political structure. empires are typically formed from diverse ethnic, national, cultural, and religious components.[ ] 'empire' and 'colonialism' are used to refer to relationships between a powerful state or society versus a less powerful one; michael w. doyle has defined empire as "effective control, whether formal or informal, of a subordinated society by an imperial society".[ ] tom nairn and paul james define empires as polities that "extend relations of power across territorial spaces over which they have no prior or given legal sovereignty, and where, in one or more of the domains of economics, politics, and culture, they gain some measure of extensive hegemony over those spaces for the purpose of extracting or accruing value".[ ] rein taagepera has defined an empire as "any relatively large sovereign political entity whose components are not sovereign".[ ] the terrestrial empire's maritime analogue is the thalassocracy, an empire composed of islands and coasts which are accessible to its terrestrial homeland, such as the athenian-dominated delian league. furthermore, empires can expand by both land and sea. stephen howe notes that empires by land can be characterized by expansion over terrain, "extending directly outwards from the original frontier"[ ] while an empire by sea can be characterized by colonial expansion and empire building "by an increasingly powerful navy".[ ] however, sometimes an empire is only a semantic construction, such as when a ruler assumes the title of "emperor".[ ][ ][ ][ ] that polity over which the ruler reigns logically becomes an "empire", despite having no additional territory or hegemony. examples of this form of empire are the central african empire, or the korean empire proclaimed in when korea, far from gaining new territory, was on the verge of being annexed by the empire of japan, one of the last to use the name officially. among the last states in the th century known as empires in this sense were the central african empire, ethiopia, empire of vietnam, manchukuo, russia, germany, and korea. characteristics[edit] empires originated as different types of states, although they commonly began as powerful monarchies. ideas about empires have changed over time, ranging from public approval to universal distaste. empires are built out of separate units with some kind of diversity – ethnic, national, cultural, religious – and imply at least some inequality between the rulers and the ruled. without this inequality, the system would be seen as a commonwealth. throughout history, the major powers of the world constantly seek to conquer other parts of the world. imperialism is the idea of a major power controlling another nation or land with the intentions to use the native people and resources to help the mother country in any way possible. many empires were the result of military conquest, incorporating the vanquished states into a political union, but imperial hegemony can be established in other ways. the athenian empire, the roman empire, and the british empire developed at least in part under elective auspices. the empire of brazil declared itself an empire after separating from the portuguese empire in . france has twice transitioned from being called the french republic to being called the french empire while it retained an overseas empire.[ ] diachronic map of the main empires of the modern era ( – ). europeans began applying the designation of "empire" to non-european monarchies, such as the qing empire and the mughal empire, as well as the maratha empire, eventually leading to the looser denotations applicable to any political structure meeting the criteria of "imperium". some monarchies styled themselves as having greater size, scope, and power than the territorial, politico-military, and economic facts support. as a consequence, some monarchs assumed the title of "emperor" (or its corresponding translation, tsar, empereur, kaiser, shah etc.) and renamed their states as "the empire of ...". empires were seen as an expanding power, administration, ideas and beliefs followed by cultural habits from place to place. empires tend to impose their culture on the subject states to strengthen the imperial structure. this can have notable effects that outlast the empire itself, both positive and negative. most histories of empires have been hostile, especially if the authors were promoting nationalism. stephen howe, although himself hostile, listed positive qualities: the guaranteed stability, security, and legal order for their subjects. they tried to minimize ethnic and religious antagonism inside the empire. the aristocracies that ruled them were often more cosmopolitan and broad-minded than their nationalistic successors. [ ] history of imperialism[edit] for comprehensive historical coverage see peter stearns, ed. the encyclopedia of world history: ancient, medieval, and modern, chronologically arranged ( th ed. ). bronze and iron age empires[edit] 	 early empires 	 	 			 			 achaemenid empire of persia at its zenith 			 		 	 			 			 maurya empire of india at its greatest extent under ashoka the great 			 		 the earliest known empire appeared in southern egypt sometime around bc. southern egypt was divided by three kingdoms each centered on a powerful city. hierapolis conquered the other two cities over two centuries, and later grew into the country of egypt. the akkadian empire, established by sargon of akkad ( th century bc), was an early all-mesopotamian empire. this imperial achievement was repeated by hammurabi of babylon in the th century bc. in the th century bc, the new kingdom of ancient egypt, ruled by thutmose iii, was ancient africa's major force upon incorporating nubia and the ancient city-states of the levant. circa bc in china rose the shang empire which was succeeded by the zhou empire circa bc. both surpassed in territory their contemporary near eastern empires. the zhou empire dissolved in bc into feudal multi-state system which lasted for five and a half centuries until the universal conquest of qin in bc. the first empire comparable to rome in organization was the neo-assyrian empire ( – bc). the median empire was the first empire within the territory of persia. by the th century bc, after having allied with the babylonians to defeat the neo-assyrian empire, the medes were able to establish their own empire, which was the largest of its day and lasted for about sixty years.[ ] classical period[edit] 	 classical period 	 	 			 			 the roman empire under trajan ( – ). this would be the peak of the empire's territorial extent. 			 		 	 			 			 han empire of china in ad. 			 		 the axial age (mid-first millennium bc) witnessed unprecedented imperial expansion in the indo-mediterranean region and china.[ ] the successful and extensive achaemenid empire ( – bc), also known as the first persian empire, covered mesopotamia, egypt, parts of greece, thrace, the middle east, much of central asia, and north-western india. it is considered the first great empire in history or the first "world empire".[ ] it was overthrown and replaced by the short-lived empire of alexander the great. his empire was succeeded by three empires ruled by the diadochi—the seleucid, ptolemaic, and macedonian, which, despite being independent, are called the "hellenistic empire" by virtue of their similarities in culture and administration. meanwhile, in the western mediterranean the empires of carthage and rome began their rise. having decisively defeated carthage in bc, rome defeated macedonia in bc and the seleucids in – bc to establish an all-mediterranean empire. the seleucid empire broke apart and its former eastern part was absorbed by the parthian empire. in bc rome annexed ptolemaic egypt. in india during the axial age appeared the maurya empire—a geographically extensive and powerful empire, ruled by the mauryan dynasty from to bc. the empire was founded in bc by chandragupta maurya through the help of chanakya,[ ] who rapidly expanded his power westward across central and western india, taking advantage of the disruptions of local powers following the withdrawal by alexander the great. by bc, the maurya empire had fully occupied northwestern india as well as defeating and conquering the satraps left by alexander. under emperor asoka the great, the maurya empire became the first indian empire to conquer the whole indian peninsula — an achievement repeated only twice, by the gupta and mughal empires. in the reign of asoka buddhism spread to become the dominant religion in many parts of the ancient india.[ ] in bc, china became an empire when the state of qin ended the chaotic warring states period through its conquest of the other six states and proclaimed the qin empire ( – bc). the qin empire is known for the construction of the great wall of china and the terracotta army, as well as the standardization of currency, weights, measures and writing system. it laid the foundation for china's first golden age, the han empire ( bc–ad , ad – ). the han empire expanded into central asia and established trade through the silk road. confucianism was, for the first time, adopted as an official state ideology. during the reign of the emperor wu of han, the xiongnu were pacified. by this time, only four empires stretched between the pacific and the atlantic: the han empire of china, the kushan empire, the parthian empire of persia, and the roman empire. the collapse of the han empire in ad saw china fragmented into the three kingdoms, only to be unified once again by the jin empire (ad – ). the relative weakness of the jin empire plunged china into political disunity that would last from ad to ad when the sui empire (ad – ) reunited china.[ ] map showing the four empires of eurasia in the nd century ad the romans were the first people to invent and embody the concept of empire in their two mandates: to wage war and to make and execute laws.[ ] they were the most extensive western empire until the early modern period, and left a lasting impact on european society. many languages, cultural values, religious institutions, political divisions, urban centers, and legal systems can trace their origins to the roman empire. the roman empire governed and rested on exploitative actions. they took slaves and money from the peripheries to support the imperial center.[ ] however, the absolute reliance on conquered peoples to carry out the empire's fortune, sustain wealth, and fight wars would ultimately lead to the collapse of the roman empire.[ ] the romans were strong believers in what they called their "civilizing mission". this term was legitimized and justified by writers like cicero who wrote that only under roman rule could the world flourish and prosper.[ ] this ideology, that was envisioned to bring a new world order, was eventually spread across the mediterranean world and beyond. people started to build houses like romans, eat the same food, wear the same clothes and engage in the same games.[ ] even rights of citizenship and authority to rule were granted to people not born within roman territory.[ ] the latin word imperium, referring to a magistrate's power to command, gradually assumed the meaning "the territory in which a magistrate can effectively enforce his commands", while the term "imperator" was originally an honorific meaning "commander". the title was given to generals who were victorious in battle. thus, an "empire" may include regions that are not legally within the territory of a state, but are under either direct or indirect control of that state, such as a colony, client state, or protectorate. although historians use the terms "republican period" and "imperial period" to identify the periods of roman history before and after absolute power was assumed by augustus, the romans themselves continued to refer to their government as a republic, and during the republican period, the territories controlled by the republic were referred to as "imperium romanum". the emperor's actual legal power derived from holding the office of "consul", but he was traditionally honored with the titles of imperator (commander) and princeps (first man or, chief). later, these terms came to have legal significance in their own right; an army calling their general "imperator" was a direct challenge to the authority of the current emperor.[ ] the legal systems of france and its former colonies are strongly influenced by roman law.[ ] similarly, the united states was founded on a model inspired by the roman republic, with upper and lower legislative assemblies, and executive power vested in a single individual, the president. the president, as "commander-in-chief" of the armed forces, reflects the ancient roman titles imperator princeps.[ ] the roman catholic church, founded in the early imperial period, spread across europe, first by the activities of christian evangelists, and later by official imperial promulgation. post-classical period[edit] in western asia, the term "persian empire" came to denote the iranian imperial states established at different historical periods of pre–islamic and post–islamic persia.[ ] in east asia, various chinese empires dominated the political, economic and cultural landscapes during this era, the most powerful of which was probably the tang empire ( – , – ). other influential chinese empires during the post-classical period include the sui empire ( – ), the great liao empire ( – ), the song empire ( – ), the western xia empire ( – ), the great jin empire ( – ), the western liao empire ( – ), the great yuan empire ( – ), and the great ming empire ( – ). during this period, japan and korea underwent voluntary sinicization.[ ][ ][ ] the sui, tang and song empires had the world's largest economy and were the most technologically advanced during their time;[ ][ ] the great yuan empire was the world's ninth largest empire by total land area; while the great ming empire is famous for the seven maritime expeditions led by zheng he.[ ] the th century saw the emergence of the islamic empire, also referred to as the islamic caliphate. the rashidun caliphate expanded from the arabian peninsula and swiftly conquered the persian empire and much of the byzantine roman empire. its successor state, the umayyad caliphate, expanded across north africa and into the iberian peninsula. by the beginning of the th century, the umayyad caliphate had become the largest empire in history, it would not be surpassed in size until the establishment of the mongol empire in the th century. in the caliphate clashed with the tang china at talas. by this time only these two empires stretched between the atlantic and the pacific. from the th century moroccan empires began to appear, starting with the almoravid empire, dominating territories in both europe as well as sub-saharan africa.[ ] 	 post-classical period 	 	 			 			 eastern roman empire in . 			 		 	 			 			 the territory directly held by the tang empire of china and its sphere of influence. 			 		 	 			 			 the great liao empire, the song empire and the western xia empire of china in . 			 		 	 	 			 			 the expansion of the rashidun empire. 			 		 	 			 			 mongol empire in the th century. 			 		 	 	 			 			 ajuran sultanate in the th century 			 		 	 			 			 almohad empire - 			 		 	 	 			 			 bulgarian empire in 			 		 the ajuran sultanate was a somali empire in the medieval times that dominated the indian ocean trade. they belonged to the somali muslim sultanate [ ][ ][ ] that ruled over large parts of the horn of africa in the middle ages. through a strong centralized administration and an aggressive military stance towards invaders, the ajuran sultanate successfully resisted an oromo invasion from the west and a portuguese incursion from the east during the gaal madow and the ajuran-portuguese wars. trading routes dating from the ancient and early medieval periods of somali maritime enterprise were strengthened or re-established, and foreign trade and commerce in the coastal provinces flourished with ships sailing to and coming from many kingdoms and empires in east asia, south asia, southeast asia, europe, middle east, north africa and east africa.[ ] in the th century, maritime southeast asia witnessed the rise of a buddhist thallasocracy, the srivijaya empire, which thrived for years and was succeeded by the hindu-buddhist majapahit empire that ruled from the th to th centuries. in the southeast asian mainland, the hindu-buddhist khmer empire was centered in the city of angkor and flourished from the th to th centuries. following the demise of the khmer empire, the siamese empire flourished alongside the burmese and lan chang empires from the th through the th centuries. in southeastern and eastern europe, during the year of , the eastern roman empire, sometimes called byzantine empire, was forced to recognize the imperial title of bulgarian ruler simeon the great, who were then called tsar, the first ruler to hold that precise imperial title. the bulgarian empire, establishes in the region in / , remained a major power in southeast europe until its fall in the late th century. bulgaria gradually reached its cultural and territorial apogee in the th century and early th century under prince boris i and simeon i, when its early christianization in allowed it to develop into the cultural and literary center of slavic europe, as well as one of the largest states in europe, thus the period is considered the golden age of medieval bulgarian culture. major events included the development of the cyrillic script at the preslav literary school, declared official in , and the establishment of the liturgy in old church slavonic, also called old bulgarian.[ ][ ][ ] at the time, in the medieval west, the title "empire" had a specific technical meaning that was exclusively applied to states that considered themselves the heirs and successors of the roman empire. among these were the "byzantine empire", which was the actual continuation of the eastern portion of the roman empire, the carolingian empire, the largely germanic holy roman empire, and the russian empire. yet, these states did not always fit the geographic, political, or military profiles of empires in the modern sense of the word. to legitimise their imperium, these states directly claimed the title of empire from rome. the sacrum romanum imperium (holy roman empire), which lasted from to , claimed to have exclusively comprehended christian principalities, and was only nominally a discrete imperial state. the holy roman empire was not always centrally-governed, as it had neither core nor peripheral territories, and was not governed by a central, politico-military elite. hence, voltaire's remark that the holy roman empire "was neither holy, nor roman, nor an empire" is accurate to the degree that it ignores[ ] german rule over italian, french, provençal, polish, flemish, dutch, and bohemian populations, and the efforts of the ninth-century holy roman emperors (i.e., the ottonians) to establish central control. voltaire's "nor an empire" observation applies to its late period. in , after the fourth crusade conquered constantinople, the crusaders established a latin empire ( – ) in that city, while the defeated byzantine empire's descendants established two smaller, short-lived empires in asia minor: the empire of nicaea ( – ) and the empire of trebizond ( – ). constantinople was retaken in by the byzantine successor state centered in nicaea, re-establishing the byzantine empire until , by which time the turkish-muslim ottoman empire (ca. – ), had conquered most of the region. the ottoman empire was a successor of the abbasid empire and it was the most powerful empire to succeed the abbasi empires at the time, as well as one of the most powerful empires in the world.[ ] the ottoman empire centered on modern day turkey, dominated the eastern mediterranean, overthrew the byzantine empire to claim constantinople and it would start battering at austria and malta, which were countries that were key to central and to south-west europe respectively — mainly for their geographical location.[ ] the reason these occurrences of batterings were so important was because the ottomans were muslim, and the rest of europe was christian, so there was a sense of religious fighting going on.[ ] this was not just a rivalry of east and west but a rivalry between christians and muslims.[ ] both the christians and muslims had alliances with other countries, and they had problems in them as well.[ ] the flows of trade and of cultural influences across the supposed great divide never ceased, so the countries never stopped bartering with each other.[ ] these epochal clashes between civilizations profoundly shaped many people's thinking back then, and continues to do so in the present day.[ ] modern hatred against muslim communities in south-eastern europe, mainly in bosnia and kosovo, has often been articulated in terms of seeing them as unwelcome residues of this imperialism: in short, as turks.[ ] moreover, eastern orthodox imperialism was not re-established until the coronation of peter the great as emperor of russia in . likewise, with the collapse of the holy roman empire in during the napoleonic wars ( – ), the austrian empire ( – ) emerged reconstituted as the empire of austria–hungary ( – ), having "inherited" the imperium of central and western europe from the losers of said wars. in the thirteenth century, genghis khan expanded the mongol empire to be the largest contiguous empire in the world. however, within two generations, the empire was separated into four discrete khanates under genghis khan's grandsons. one of them, kublai khan, conquered china and established the yuan dynasty with the imperial capital at beijing. one family ruled the whole eurasian land mass from the pacific to the adriatic and baltic seas. the emergence of the pax mongolica had significantly eased trade and commerce across asia. the safavid empire of iran was also founded. [ ][ ] the age of the islamic gunpowders started to develop from the th century.[ ] in the indian subcontinent, the delhi sultanate conquered most of the indian peninsula and spread islam across it. it later got broken with the establishment of the bengal sultanate. in the th century, the mughal empire was founder by timur and genghis khan's direct descendant babur. his successors such humayun, akbar, jahangir and shah jahan extended the empire. meanwhile, the sur empire was also established in the north by sher shah suri. in the th century, muhammad aurangzeb alamgir expanded the mughal empire, controlling most of the south asia through sharia,[ ][ ] which became the world's largest economy and leading manufacturing power with a nominal gdp that valued a quarter of world gdp, superior than the combination of europe's gdp.[ ][ ] it has been estimated that the mughal emperors controlled an unprecedented one-fourth of the world's entire economy and was home to one-fourth of the world's population at the time.[ ] after the death of aurangzeb, which marks the end of the medieval india and the beginning of european invasion in india, the empire was weakened by nader shah's invasion.[ ] the mysore empire was soon established by hyder ali and tipu sultan, allies of napoleone bonaparte.[ ][ ][ ] other independent empires were also been established, such as those ruled by the nawabs of bengal and murshidabad[ ] and hyderabad state's nizam of hyderabad.[ ] in the pre-columbian americas, two empires were prominent—the azteca in mesoamerica and inca in peru. both existed for several generations before the arrival of the europeans. inca had gradually conquered the whole of the settled andean world as far south as today santiago in chile. in oceania, the tonga empire was a lonely empire that existed from the late middle ages to the modern period.[ ] colonial empires[edit] all areas of the world that were once part of the portuguese empire. the portuguese established in the early th century together with the spanish empire the first global empire and trade network.[ ] 	 	this section does not cite any sources. please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (april ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) in the th century, castile (spain) landing in the so-called "new world" (first, the americas, and later australia), along with portuguese travels around the cape of good hope and along the coast of africa bordering the southeast indian ocean, proved ripe opportunities for the continent's renaissance-era monarchies to establish colonial empires like those of the ancient romans and greeks. in the old world, colonial imperialism was attempted and established on the canary islands and ireland. these conquered lands and people became de jure subordinates of the empire, rather than de facto imperial territories and subjects. such subjugation often elicited "client-state" resentment that the empire unwisely ignored, leading to the collapse of the european colonial imperial system in the late th through the mid- th century. portuguese discovery of newfoundland in the new world gave way to many expeditions led by england (later britain), spain, france, and the dutch republic. in the th century, the spanish empire was at its height because of the great mass of goods taken from conquered territory in the americas (nowadays mexico, parts of the united states, the caribbean, most of central america, and south america) and the philippines. modern period[edit] 	 modern period 	 	 			 			 red shows self-governing north american british colonies and pink shows claimed and largely indirectly controlled territories in . 			 		 	 			 			 in the year , the realms of the mughal empire spanned from kabul in the west to cape comorin, tamil nadu in the south.[ ] 			 		 	 	 			 			 the ottoman empire at its greatest extent. 			 		 	 			 			 the spanish–portuguese empire of the iberian union ( – ) was the first global imperial entity. the map includes all spanish territories, but only territories portugal had during the iberian union. 			 		 	 	 			 			 the russian empire in became the second largest contiguous empire to have ever existed. the russian federation is currently the largest state on the planet. 			 		 	 			 			 in , the british empire was the largest empire in history. 			 		 	 	 			 			 the evolution of the french empire in the th to the th century. 			 		 	 			 			 the th to th century japanese empire at its maximum extent, . 			 		 	 	 			 			 the territory ruled by the great qing empire of china in . 			 		 	 			 			 the german empire in . 			 		 the british established their first empire ( – ) in north america by colonising lands that made up british america, including parts of canada, the caribbean and the thirteen colonies. in , the continental congress of the thirteen colonies declared itself independent from the british empire, thus beginning the american revolution. britain turned towards asia, the pacific, and later africa, with subsequent exploration leading to the rise of the second british empire ( – ), which was followed by the industrial revolution and britain's imperial century ( – ). it became the largest empire in world history, encompassing one quarter of the world's land area and one fifth of its population.[ ] the impacts of this period are still prominent in the current age "including widespread use of the english language, belief in protestant religion, economic globalization, modern precepts of law and order, and representative democracy."[ ][ ] the great qing empire of china ( – ) was the fifth largest empire in world history by total land area, and laid the foundation for the modern territorial claims of both the people's republic of china and the republic of china. apart from having direct control over much of east asia, the empire also exerted domination over other states through the chinese tributary system. the multiethnic and multicultural nature of the great qing empire was crucial to the subsequent birth of the nationalistic concept of zhonghua minzu. the empire reached its peak during the reign of the qianlong emperor, after which the empire entered a period of prolonged decline, culminating in its collapse as a result of the xinhai revolution. the ashanti empire (or confederacy), also asanteman ( – ), was a west african state of the ashanti, the akan people of the ashanti region, akanland in modern-day ghana. the ashanti (or asante) were a powerful, militaristic and highly disciplined people in west africa. their military power, which came from effective strategy and an early adoption of european firearms, created an empire that stretched from central akanland (in modern-day ghana) to present day benin and ivory coast, bordered by the dagomba kingdom to the north and dahomey to the east. due to the empire's military prowess, sophisticated hierarchy, social stratification and culture, the ashanti empire had one of the largest historiographies of any indigenous sub-saharan african political entity. the sikh empire ( – ) was established in the punjab region of india. the empire collapsed when its founder, ranjit singh, died and its army fell to the british. during the same period, the maratha empire (also known as the maratha confederacy) was a hindu state located in present-day india. it existed from to , and at its peak, the empire's territories covered much of southern asia. the empire was founded and consolidated by shivaji. after the death of mughal emperor aurangzeb, it expanded greatly under the rule of the peshwas. in , the maratha army lost the third battle of panipat, which halted the expansion of the empire. later, the empire was divided into a confederacy of states which, in , were lost to the british during the anglo-maratha wars.[ ] the french emperors napoleon i and napoleon iii (see: premier empire, second french empire) each attempted establishing a western imperial hegemony centered in france. the french colonial empire constituted the overseas colonies, protectorates and mandate territories that came under french rule from the th century onward. a distinction is generally made between the "first colonial empire," that existed until , and the "second colonial empire", which began with the conquest of algiers in . the second colonial empire came to an end after the decolonizations of indochina ( ), algeria ( ) and french africa. at its apex, it was one of the largest empires in history; including metropolitan france, the total amount of land under french sovereignty reached , , km ( , , sq mi), with a population of million people in . the empire of brazil ( – ) was the only south american modern monarchy, established by the heir of the portuguese empire as an independent nation eventually became an emerging international power. the new country was huge but sparsely populated and ethnically diverse. in the monarchy was overthrown in a sudden coup d'état led by a clique of military leaders whose goal was the formation of a republic. the german empire ( – ), another "heir to the holy roman empire", arose in . the term "american empire" refers to the united states' cultural ideologies and foreign policy strategies. the term is most commonly used to describe the u.s.'s status since the th century, but it can also be applied to the united states' world standing before the rise of nationalism in the th century.[ ] the united states is not traditionally recognized as an empire, in part because the u.s. adopted a different political system from those that previous empires had used. despite these systematic differences, the political objectives and strategies of the united states government have been quite similar to those of previous empires.[ ] due to this similarity some scholars confess: "when it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, it's a duck."[ ][ ][ ] academic, krishna kumar, argues the distinct principles of nationalism and imperialism may result in common practice; that is, the pursuit of nationalism can often coincide with the pursuit of imperialism in terms of strategy and decision making.[ ] throughout the th century, the united states government attempted to expand its territory by any means necessary. regardless of the supposed motivation for this constant expansion, all of these land acquisitions were carried out by imperialistic means. this was done by financial means in some cases, and by military force in others. most notably, the louisiana purchase ( ), the texas annexation ( ), and the mexican cession ( ) highlight the imperialistic goals of the united states during this “modern period” of imperialism. the u.s. government has stopped adding additional territories, where they permanently and politically take over since the early th century, and instead have established military bases as their outposts. [ ] with this overt but subtile military control of other countries, scholars consider u.s. foreign policy strategies to be imperialistic.[ ] this idea is explored in the "contemporary usage" section. transition from empire[edit] in time, an empire may change from one political entity to another. for example, the holy roman empire, a german re-constitution of the roman empire, metamorphosed into various political structures (i.e., federalism), and eventually, under habsburg rule, re-constituted itself in as the austrian empire, an empire of much different politics and scope, which in turn became the austro-hungarian empire in . the roman empire, perennially reborn, also lived on as the byzantine empire (eastern roman empire) – temporarily splitting into the latin empire, the empire of nicaea and the empire of trebizond before its remaining territory and centre became part of the ottoman empire. a similarly persistent concept of empire saw the mongol empire become the khanate of the golden horde, the yuan empire of china, and the ilkhanate before resurrection as the timurid empire and as the mughal empire. after the empire of japan retained its emperor but lost its colonial possessions and became the state of japan. an autocratic empire can become a republic (e.g., the central african empire in ), or it can become a republic with its imperial dominions reduced to a core territory (e.g., weimar germany shorn of the german colonial empire ( – ), or the ottoman empire ( – )). the dissolution of the austro-hungarian empire after provides an example of a multi-ethnic superstate broken into constituent nation-oriented states: the republics, kingdoms, and provinces of austria, hungary, transylvania, croatia, slovenia, bosnia and herzegovina, czechoslovakia, ruthenia, galicia, et al. in the aftermath of world war i the russian empire also broke up and became reduced to the russian soviet federative socialist republic (rsfsr) before re-forming as the ussr ( – ) – sometimes seen as the core of a soviet empire. after the second world war ( – ), the deconstruction of colonial empires quickened and became commonly known as decolonisation. the british empire evolved into a loose, multinational commonwealth of nations, while the french colonial empire metamorphosed to a francophone commonwealth. the same process happened to the portuguese empire, which evolved into a lusophone commonwealth, and to the former territories of the extinct spanish empire, which alongside the lusophone countries of portugal and brazil, created an ibero-american commowealth. france returned the french territory of kwang-chou-wan to china in . the british gave hong kong back to china in after years of rule. the portuguese territory of macau reverted to china in . macau and hong kong did not become part of the provincial structure of china; they have autonomous systems of government as special administrative regions of the people's republic of china. france still governs overseas territories (french guiana, martinique, réunion, french polynesia, new caledonia, saint martin, saint-pierre-et-miquelon, guadeloupe, taaf, wallis and futuna, saint barthélemy, and mayotte), and exerts hegemony in francophone africa ( francophone countries such as chad, rwanda, et cetera). fourteen british overseas territories remain under british sovereignty. sixteen countries of the commonwealth of nations share their head of state, queen elizabeth ii, as commonwealth realms. in eliot a. cohen summarized the contemporary transition from empire: "the age of empire may indeed have ended, but then an age of american hegemony has begun, regardless of what one calls it."[ ] fall of empires[edit] roman empire[edit] further information: fall of the western roman empire the fall of the western half of the roman empire is seen as one of the most pivotal points in all of human history. this event traditionally marks the transition from classical civilization to the birth of europe. the roman empire started to decline at the end of the reign of the last of the five good emperors, marcus aurelius in – a.d. there is still a debate over the cause of the fall of one of the largest empires in history. piganiol argues that the roman empire under its authority can be described as "a period of terror",[ ] holding its imperial system accountable for its failure. another theory blames the rise of christianity as the cause, arguing that the spread of certain christian ideals caused internal weakness of the military and state.[ ] in the book the fall of the roman empire, by peter heather, he contends that there are many factors, including issues of money and manpower, which produce military limitations and culminate in the roman army's inability to effectively repel invading barbarians at the frontier.[ ] the western roman economy was already stretched to its limit in the th and th centuries c.e. due to continual conflict and loss of territory which, in turn, generated loss of revenue from the tax base. there was also the looming presence of the persians which, at any time, took a large percentage of the fighting force's attention. at the same time the huns, a nomadic warrior people from the steppes of asia, are also putting extreme pressure on the german tribes outside of the roman frontier, which gave the german tribes no other choice, geographically, but to move into roman territory. at this point, without increased funding, the roman army could no longer effectively defend its borders against major waves of germanic tribes. this inability is illustrated by the crushing defeat at adrianople in c.e. and, later, the battle of frigidus. contemporary usage[edit] main article: imperialism contemporaneously, the concept of empire is politically valid, yet is not always used in the traditional sense. for example, japan is considered the world's sole remaining empire because of the continued presence of the japanese emperor in national politics. despite the semantic reference to imperial power, japan is a de jure constitutional monarchy, with a homogeneous population of million people that is . percent ethnic japanese, making it one of the largest nation-states.[ ] characterising some aspects of the united states in regards to its territorial expansion, foreign policy, and its international behaviour as "american empire" is controversial but not uncommon. this characterisation is controversial because of the strong tendency in american society to reject claims of american imperialism. the initial motivations for the inception of the united states eventually led to the development of this tendency, which has been perpetuated by the country-wide obsession with this national narrative. the united states was formed because colonists did not like being under control of the british empire. essentially, the united states was formed in an attempt to reject imperialism. this makes it very hard for people to acknowledge america's status as an empire. this active rejection of imperialist status is not limited to high-ranking government officials, as it has been ingrained in american society throughout its entire history. as david ludden explains, "journalists, scholars, teachers, students, analysts, and politicians prefer to depict the u.s. as a nation pursuing its own interests and ideals".[ ] this often results in imperialist endeavors being presented as measures taken to enhance state security. ludden explains this phenomenon with the concept of "ideological blinders", which he says prevent american citizens from realizing the true nature of america's current systems and strategies. these "ideological blinders" that people wear have resulted in an "invisible" american empire of which most american citizens are unaware.[ ] stuart creighton miller posits that the public's sense of innocence about realpolitik (cf. american exceptionalism) impairs popular recognition of us imperial conduct since it governed other countries via surrogates. these surrogates were domestically-weak, right-wing governments that would collapse without us support.[ ] former president g. w. bush's secretary of defense, donald rumsfeld, said: "we don't seek empires. we're not imperialistic; we never have been."[ ] this statement directly contradicts thomas jefferson who, in the s while awaiting the fall of the spanish empire, said: "till our population can be sufficiently advanced to gain it from them piece by piece".[ ][ ][ ] in turn, historian sidney lens argues that from its inception, the us has used every means available to dominate foreign peoples and states.[ ] since the european union was formed as a polity in , it has established its own currency, its own citizenship, established discrete military forces, and exercises its limited hegemony in the mediterranean, eastern parts of europe, sub-saharan africa, and asia. the big size and high development index of the eu economy often has the ability to influence global trade regulations in its favour. the political scientist jan zielonka suggests that this behaviour is imperial because it coerces its neighbouring countries into adopting its european economic, legal, and political structures.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] in his book review of empire ( ) by michael hardt and antonio negri, mehmet akif okur posits that since the september terrorist attacks in the us, the international relations determining the world's balance of power (political, economic, military) have been altered. these alterations include the intellectual (political science) trends that perceive the contemporary world's order via the re-territorrialisation of political space, the re-emergence of classical imperialist practices (the "inside" vs. "outside" duality, cf. the other), the deliberate weakening of international organisations, the restructured international economy, economic nationalism, the expanded arming of most countries, the proliferation of nuclear weapon capabilities and the politics of identity emphasizing a state's subjective perception of its place in the world, as a nation and as a civilisation. these changes constitute the "age of nation empires"; as imperial usage, nation-empire denotes the return of geopolitical power from global power blocs to regional power blocs (i.e., centred upon a "regional power" state [china, eu, russia, us, et al.]) and regional multi-state power alliances (i.e., mediterranean, latin america, south east asia). nation-empire regionalism claims sovereignty over their respective (regional) political (social, economic, ideologic), cultural, and military spheres.[ ] timeline of empires[edit] 	 	this section does not cite any sources. please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (april ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) the chart below shows a timeline of polities that have been called empires. dynastic changes are marked with a white line.[ ] 	the roman empire's timeline listed below only includes the western portion. the byzantine continuation of the roman empire is listed separately. 	the empires of nicaea and trebizond were byzantine successor states. 	the empire of bronze age egypt is not included in the graph. established by narmer circa bc, it lasted as long as china until it was conquered by achaemenid persia in bc. 	japan is presented for the period of its overseas empire ( – ). the original japanese empire of "the eight islands" would be third persistent after egypt and china. 	many indian empires are also included, though only mauryans, guptas, delhi sultans, mughals and marathas ruled most of the india. theoretical research[edit] the seven stages of empire[edit] the military historian sir john bagot glubb studied eleven empires starting with the assyrians in b.c. and ending with the british in a.d. sir john determined that each followed a remarkably similar pattern from birth to demise. spanning a period of about ten generations, each went through stages of empire:[ ] 		the age of pioneers (outburst) 	the age of conquests 	the age of commerce 	the age of affluence 	the age of intellect 	the age of decadence 	the age of decline & collapse glubb noted that in all these example, the penultimate age was marked by defensiveness, pessimism, materialism, frivolity, an influx of foreigners, the welfare state, and a weakening of religion. he attributed this decadence to an excessively long period of wealth and power, selfishness, love of money, and the loss of a sense of duty. mike maloney, an economist, arrived at exactly the same conclusion but in economic terms whilst studying the history of money. his stages were: [ ] 		the age of good money 	the age of public works 	the age of military expansionism 	the age of war 	the age of currency debasement 	the age of monetary inflation 	the age of financial decline & fiscal collapse empire versus nation state[edit] empires have been the dominant international organization in world history: the fact that tribes, peoples, and nations have made empires points to a fundamental political dynamic, one that helps explain why empires cannot be confined to a particular place or era but emerged and reemerged over thousands of years and on all continents.[ ] empires ... can be traced as far back as the recorded history goes; indeed, most history is the history of empires ... it is the nation-state—an essentially th-century ideal—that is the historical novelty and that may yet prove to be the more ephemeral entity.[ ] our field’s fixation on the westphalian state has tended to obscure the fact that the main actors in global politics, for most of time immemorial, have been empires rather than states ... in fact, it is a very distorted view of even the westphalian era not to recognize that it was always at least as much about empires as it was states. almost all of the emerging european states no sooner began to consolidate than they were off on campaigns of conquest and commerce to the farthest reaches of the globe… ironically, it was the european empires that carried the idea of the sovereign territorial state to the rest of the world ...[ ] empire has been the historically predominant form of order in world politics. looking at a time frame of several millennia, there was no global anarchic system until the european explorations and subsequent imperial and colonial ventures connected disparate regional systems, doing so approximately years ago. prior to this emergence of a global-scope system, the pattern of world politics was characterized by regional systems. these regional systems were initially anarchic and marked by high levels of military competition. but almost universally, they tended to consolidate into regional empires ... thus it was empires—not anarchic state systems—that typically dominated the regional systems in all parts of the world ... within this global pattern of regional empires, european political order was distinctly anomalous because it persisted so long as an anarchy.[ ] similarly, anthony pagden, eliot a. cohen, jane burbank and frederick cooper estimate that "empires have always been more frequent, more extensive political and social forms than tribal territories or nations have ever been".[ ] many empires endured for centuries, while the age of the ancient egyptian, chinese and japanese empires is counted in millennia. "most people throughout history have lived under imperial rule."[ ] empires have played a long and critical part in human history ... [despite] efforts in words and wars to put national unity at the center of political imagination, imperial politics, imperial practices, and imperial cultures have shaped the world we live in ... rome was evoked as a model of splendor and order into the twentieth century and beyond… by comparison, the nation-state appears as a blip on the historical horizon, a state form that emerged recently from under imperial skies and whose hold on the world's political imagination may well prove partial or transitory… the endurance of empire challenges the notion that the nation-state is natural, necessary, and inevitable ...[ ] political scientist hedley bull wrote that "in the broad sweep of human history ... the form of states system has been the exception rather than the rule".[ ] his colleague robert gilpin confirmed this conclusion for the pre-modern period: the history of interstate relations was largely that of successive great empires. the pattern of international political change during the millennia of the pre-modern era has been described as an imperial cycle ... world politics was characterized by the rise and decline of powerful empires, each of which in turn unified and ordered its respective international system. the recurrent pattern in every civilization of which we have knowledge was for one state to unify the system under its imperial domination. the propensity toward universal empire was the principal feature of pre-modern politics.[ ] historian michael doyle who undertook an extensive research on empires extended the observation into the modern era: empires have been the key actors in world politics for millennia. they helped create the interdependent civilizations of all the continents ... imperial control stretches through history, many say, to the present day. empires are as old as history itself ... they have held the leading role ever since.[ ] universal empire[edit] expert on warfare quincy wright generalized on what he called "universal empire"—empire unifying all the contemporary system: balance of power systems have in the past tended, through the process of conquest of lesser states by greater states, towards reduction in the number of states involved, and towards less frequent but more devastating wars, until eventually a universal empire has been established through the conquest by one of all those remaining.[ ] german sociologist friedrich tenbruck finds that the macro-historic process of imperial expansion gave rise to global history in which the formations of universal empires were most significant stages.[ ] a later group of political scientists, working on the phenomenon of the current unipolarity, in edited research on several pre-modern civilizations by experts in respective fields. the overall conclusion was that the balance of power was inherently unstable order and usually soon broke in favor of imperial order.[ ] yet before the advent of the unipolarity, world historian arnold toynbee and political scientist martin wight had drawn the same conclusion with an unambiguous implication for the modern world: when this [imperial] pattern of political history is found in the new world as well as in the old world, it looks as if the pattern must be intrinsic to the political history of societies of the species we call civilizations, in whatever part of the world the specimens of this species occur. if this conclusion is warranted, it illuminates our understanding of civilization itself.[ ] most states systems have ended in universal empire, which has swallowed all the states of the system. the examples are so abundant that we must ask two questions: is there any states system which has not led fairly directly to the establishment of a world empire? does the evidence rather suggest that we should expect any states system to culminate in this way? ... it might be argued that every state system can only maintain its existence on the balance of power, that the latter is inherently unstable, and that sooner or later its tensions and conflicts will be resolved into a monopoly of power.[ ] the earliest thinker to approach the phenomenon of universal empire from a theoretical point of view was polybius ( : ): in previous times events in the world occurred without impinging on one another ... [then] history became a whole, as if a single body; events in italy and libya came to be enmeshed with those in asia and greece, and everything gets directed towards one single goal. fichte, having witnessed the battle at jena in when napoleon overwhelmed prussia, described what he perceived as a deep historical trend: there is necessary tendency in every cultivated state to extend itself generally ... such is the case in ancient history ... as the states become stronger in themselves and cast off that [papal] foreign power, the tendency towards a universal monarchy over the whole christian world necessarily comes to light ... this tendency ... has shown itself successively in several states which could make pretensions to such a dominion, and since the fall of the papacy, it has become the sole animating principle of our history ... whether clearly or not—it may be obscurely—yet has this tendency lain at the root of the undertakings of many states in modern times ... although no individual epoch may have contemplated this purpose, yet is this the spirit which runs through all these individual epochs, and invisibly urges them onward.[ ] fichte's later compatriot, geographer alexander von humboldt ( – ), in the mid-nineteenth century observed a macro-historic trend of imperial growth in both hemispheres: "men of great and strong minds, as well as whole nations, acted under influence of one idea, the purity of which was utterly unknown to them."[ ] the imperial expansion filled the world circa .[ ][ ] two famous contemporary observers—frederick turner and halford mackinder described the event and drew implications, the former predicting american overseas expansion[ ] and the latter stressing that the world empire is now in sight.[ ] friedrich ratzel, writing at the same time, observed that the "drive toward the building of continually larger states continues throughout the entirety of history" and is active in the present.[ ] he drew "seven laws of expansionism". his seventh law stated: "the general trend toward amalgamation transmits the tendency of territorial growth from state to state and increases the tendency in the process of transmission." he commented on this law to make its meaning clear: "there is on this small planet sufficient space for only one great state."[ ] two other contemporaries—kang yu-wei and george vacher de lapouge—stressed that imperial expansion cannot indefinitely proceed on the definite surface of the globe and therefore world empire is imminent. kang yu-wei in believed that the imperial trend will culminate in the contest between washington and berlin[ ] and vacher de lapouge in estimated that the final contest will be between russia and america in which america is likely to triumph.[ ] the above envisaged contests indeed took place, known to us as world war i and ii. writing during the second, political scientists derwent whittlesey, robert strausz-hupé and john h. herz concluded: “now that the earth is at last parceled out, consolidation has commenced.”[ ] in "this world of fighting superstates there could be no end to war until one state had subjected all others, until world empire had been achieved by the strongest. this undoubtedly is the logical final stage in the geopolitical theory of evolution."[ ] the world is no longer large enough to harbor several self-contained powers ... the trend toward world domination or hegemony of a single power is but the ultimate consummation of a power-system engrafted upon an otherwise integrated world.[ ] writing in the last year of the war, german historian ludwig dehio drew a similar conclusion: [t]he old european tendency toward division is now being thrust aside by the new global trend toward unification. and the onrush of this trend may not come to rest until it has asserted itself throughout our planet ... the global order still seems to be going through its birth pangs ... with the last tempest barely over, a new one is gathering.[ ] the year after the war and in the first year of the nuclear age, albert einstein and british philosopher bertrand russell, known as prominent pacifists, outlined for the near future a perspective of world empire (world government established by force). einstein believed that, unless world government is established by agreement, an imperial world government would come by war or wars.[ ] russell expected a third world war to result in a world government under the empire of the united states.[ ] three years later, another prominent pacifist, theologian reinhold niebuhr, generalized on the ancient empires of egypt, babylon, persia and greece to imply for the modern world: "the analogy in present global terms would be the final unification of the world through the preponderant power of either america or russia, whichever proved herself victorious in the final struggle."[ ] russian colleague of russell and neighbour, georgy fedotov, wrote in : all empires are but stages on the way to the sole empire which must swallow all others. the only question is who will build it and on which foundations. universal unity is the only alternative to annihilation. unity by conference is utopian but unity by conquest by the strongest power is not and probably the uncompleted in this war will be completed in the next. "pax atlantica" is the best of possible outcomes.[ ] originally drafted as a secret study for the office of strategic services (the precursor of the cia) in [ ] and published as a book three years later, the struggle for the world... by james burnham concludes: if either of the two superpowers wins, the result would be a universal empire which in our case would also be a world empire. the historical stage for a world empire had already been set prior to and independently of the discovery of atomic weapons but these weapons make a world empire inevitable and imminent. "the atomic weapons ... will not permit the world to wait." only a world empire can establish monopoly on atomic weapons and thus guarantee the survival of civilization. a world empire "is in fact the objective of the third world war which, in its preliminary stages, has already began". the issue of a world empire "will be decided, and in our day. in the course of the decision, both of the present antagonists may, it is true, be destroyed, but one of them must be."[ ] in , hans morgenthau concluded that the "best" outcome of world war iii would be world empire: today war has become an instrument of universal destruction, an instrument that destroys the victor and the vanquished ... at worst, victor and loser would be undistinguishable under the leveling impact of such a catastrophe ... at best, the destruction on one side would not be quite as great as on the other; the victor would be somewhat better off than the loser and would establish, with the aid of modern technology, his domination over the world.[ ] expert on earlier civilizations, toynbee, further developed the subject of world war iii leading to world empire: the outcome of the third world war ... seemed likely to be the imposition of an ecumenical peace of the roman kind by the victor whose victory would leave him with a monopoly on the control of atomic energy in his grasp ... this denouement was foreshadowed, not only by present facts, but by historical precedents, since, in the histories of other civilizations, the time of troubles had been apt to culminate in the delivery of a knock-out blow resulting in the establishment of a universal state ...[ ] the year this volume of a study of history was published, us secretary of state john foster dulles announced "a knock-out blow" as an official doctrine, a detailed plan was elaborated and fortune magazine mapped the design.[ ] section viii, "atomic armaments", of the famous national security council report (nsc ), approved by president harry truman in , uses the term "blow" times, mostly preceded by such adjectives as "powerful", "overwhelming", or "crippling". another term applied by the strategists was "sunday punch".[ ] a pupil of toynbee, william mcneill, associated on the case of ancient china, which "put a quietus upon the disorders of the warring states by erecting an imperial bureaucratic structure ... the warring states of the twentieth century seem headed for a similar resolution of their conflicts."[ ] the ancient "resolution" mcneill evoked was one of the most sweeping universal conquests in world history, performed by qin in – bc. chinese classic sima qian (d. bc) described the event ( : ): "qin raised troops on grand scale" and "the whole world celebrated a great bacchanal". herman kahn of the rand corporation criticized to an assembled group of sac officers their war plan (siop- ). he did not use the term bacchanal but he coined on the occasion an associating word: "gentlemen, you do not have a war plan. you have a wargasm!"[ ] history did not completely repeat itself but it passed close. circumscription theory[edit] main article: carneiro's circumscription theory according to the circumscription theory of robert carneiro, "the more sharply circumscribed area, the more rapidly it will become politically unified."[ ] the empires of egypt,[ ][ ] china[ ] and japan are named the most durable political structures in human history. correspondingly, these are the three most circumscribed civilizations in human history. the empires of egypt (established by narmer c. bc) and china (established by cheng in bc) endured for over two millennia. german sociologist friedrich tenbruck, criticizing the western idea of progress, emphasized that china and egypt remained at one particular stage of development for millennia. this stage was universal empire. the development of egypt and china came to a halt once their empires "reached the limits of their natural habitat".[ ] sinology does not recognize the eurocentric view of the "inevitable" imperial fall;[ ][ ] egyptology[ ][ ] and japanology pose equal challenges. carneiro explored the bronze age civilizations. stuart j. kaufman, richard little and william wohlforth researched the next three millennia, comparing eight civilizations. they conclude: the "rigidity of the borders" contributed importantly to hegemony in every concerned case.[ ] hence, "when the system's borders are rigid, the probability of hegemony is high".[ ] the circumscription theory was stressed in the comparative studies of the roman and chinese empires. the circumscribed chinese empire recovered from all falls, while the fall of rome, by contrast, was fatal. "what counteracted this [imperial] tendency in europe ... was a countervailing tendency for the geographical boundaries of the system to expand." if "europe had been a closed system, some great power would eventually have succeeded in establishing absolute supremacy over the other states in the region".[ ] the ancient chinese system was relatively enclosed, whereas the european system began to expand its reach to the rest of the world from the onset of system formation… in addition, overseas provided outlet for territorial competition, thereby allowing international competition on the european continent to ... trump the ongoing pressure toward convergence.[ ] his book on the four centuries of the european power struggle, ludwig dehio titled the precarious balance. he explained the durability of the european states system by its overseas expansion: "overseas expansion and the system of states were born at the same time; the vitality that burst the bounds of the western world also destroyed its unity."[ ] edward carr causally linked the end of the overseas outlet for imperial expansion and world wars. in the nineteenth century, he wrote during the second world war, imperialist wars were waged against "primitive" peoples. "it was silly for european countries to fight against one another when they could still ... maintain social cohesion by continuous expansion in asia and africa. since , however, this has no longer been possible: "the situation has radically changed". now wars are between "imperial powers."[ ] hans morgenthau wrote that the very imperial expansion into relatively empty geographical spaces in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in africa, eurasia, and western north america, deflected great power politics into the periphery of the earth, thereby reducing conflict. for example, the more attention russia, france and the united states paid to expanding into far-flung territories in imperial fashion, the less attention they paid to one another, and the more peaceful, in a sense, the world was. but by the late nineteenth century, the consolidation of the great nation-states and empires of the west was consummated, and territorial gains could only be made at the expense of one another.[ ] john h. herz outlined one "chief function" of the overseas expansion and the impact of its end: [a] european balance of power could be maintained or adjusted because it was relatively easy to divert european conflicts into overseas directions and adjust them there. thus the openness of the world contributed to the consolidation of the territorial system. the end of the 'world frontier' and the resulting closedness of an interdependent world inevitably affected the system's effectiveness.[ ] some later commentators[who?] drew similar conclusions: for some commentators, the passing of the nineteenth century seemed destined to mark the end of this long era of european empire building. the unexplored and unclaimed "blank" spaces on the world map were rapidly diminishing ... and the sense of "global closure" prompted an anxious fin-de-siècle debate about the future of the great empires ... the "closure" of the global imperial system implied ... the beginning of a new era of intensifying inter-imperial struggle along borders that now straddled the globe.[ ] the opportunity for any system to expand in size seems almost a necessary condition for it to remain balanced, at least over the long haul. far from being impossible or exceedingly improbable, systemic hegemony is likely under two conditions: "when the boundaries of the international system remain stable and no new major powers emerge from outside the system."[ ] with the system becoming global, further expansion is precluded. the geopolitical condition of "global closure"[ ] will remain to the end of history. since "the contemporary international system is global, we can rule out the possibility that geographic expansion of the system will contribute to the emergence of a new balance of power, as it did so many times in the past."[ ] as quincy wright had put it, "this process can no longer continue without interplanetary wars."[ ] one of leading experts on world-system theory, christopher chase-dunn, noted that the circumscription theory is applicable for the global system, since the global system is circumscribed.[ ][ ] in fact, within less than a century of its circumscribed existence the global system overcame the centuries-old balance of power and reached the unipolarity. given "constant spatial parameters" of the global system, its unipolar structure is neither historically unusual nor theoretically surprising.[ ] randall schweller theorized that a "closed international system", such as the global became a century ago, would reach "entropy" in a kind of thermodynamic law. once the state of entropy is reached, there is no going back. the initial conditions are lost forever. stressing the curiosity of the fact, schweller writes that since the moment the modern world became a closed system, the process has worked in only one direction: from many poles to two poles to one pole. thus unipolarity might represent the entropy—stable and permanent loss of variation—in the global system.[ ] present[edit] main article: american empire see also: pax americana al udeid air base in qatar chalmers johnson argues that the us globe-girding network of hundreds of military bases already represents a global empire in its initial form: for a major power, prosecution of any war that is not a defense of the homeland usually requires overseas military bases for strategic reasons. after the war is over, it is tempting for the victor to retain such bases and easy to find reasons to do so. commonly, preparedness for a possible resumption of hostilities will be invoked. over time, if a nation’s aims become imperial, the bases form the skeleton of an empire.[ ] simon dalby associates the network of bases with the roman imperial system: looking at these impressive facilities which reproduce substantial parts of american suburbia complete with movie theatres and restaurant chains, the parallels with roman garrison towns built on the rhine, or on hadrian’s wall in england, where the remains are strikingly visible on the landscape, are obvious … less visible is the sheer scale of the logistics to keep garrison troops in residence in the far-flung reaches of empire ... that [military] presence literally builds the cultural logic of the garrison troops into the landscape, a permanent reminder of imperial control.[ ] kenneth pomeranz and harvard historian niall ferguson share the above-cited views: "with american military bases in over countries, we have hardly seen the end of empire.” this “vast archipelago of us military bases … far exceeds th-century british ambitions. britain’s imperium consisted of specific, albeit numerous, colonies and clients; the american imperial vision is much more global…”[ ] conventional maps of us military deployments understate the extent of america's military reach. a defense department map of the world, which shows the areas of responsibility of the five major regional commands, suggests that america's sphere of military influence is now literally global … the regional combatant commanders—the 'pro-consuls' of this imperium—have responsibility for swaths of territory beyond the wildest imaginings of their roman predecessors.[ ] another harvard historian charles s. maier opens his among empires: american ascendancy and its predecessors with these words: "what a substratum for empire! compared with which, the foundation of the macedonian, the roman and the british, sink into insignificance."[ ] one of the most accepted distinctions between earlier empires and the american empire is the latter's “global” or “planetary” scope.[ ] french former foreign minister hubert vedrine wondered: "the situation is unprecedented: what previous empire subjugated the entire world...?"[ ] the quests for universal empire are old but the present quest outdoes the previous in "the notable respect of being the first to actually be global in its reach."[ ] for historian eric hobsbawm, a "key novelty of the us imperial project is that all other great powers and empires knew that they were not the only ones..."[ ] another historian paul kennedy, who made his name in the s with his prediction of the imminent us “imperial overstretch,” in acknowledged about the present world system: nothing has ever existed like this disparity of power. the pax britannica was run on the cheap. napoleon’s france and philip ii’s spain had powerful foes and were part of a multipolar system. charlemagne’s empire was merely western european in stretch. the roman empire stretched further afield, but there was another great empire in persia and a larger one in china. there is … no comparison.[ ] walter russell mead observes that the united states attempts to repeate “globally” what the ancient empires of egypt, china and rome had each accomplished on a regional basis.[ ] professor emeritus of sociology at the university of leeds, zygmunt bauman, concludes that due to its planetary dimension, the new empire cannot be drawn on a map: the new ‘empire’ is not an entity that could be drawn on a map… drawing a map of the empire would also be a pointless exercise because the most conspicuously ‘imperial’ trait of the new empire’s mode of being consists in viewing and treating the whole of the planet … as a potential grazing ground…[ ] times atlas of empires numbers empires in the world history. niall ferguson lists numerous parallels between them and the united states. he concludes: “to those who would still insist on american exceptionalism, the historian of empires can only retort: as exceptional as all the other empires.”[ ] fareed zakaria stressed one element not exceptional for the american empire—the concept of exceptionalism. all dominant empires thought they were special.[ ] future[edit] in , historian ludwig dehio predicted global unification due to the circumscription of the global system, although he did not use this term. being global, the system can neither expand nor be subject to external intrusion as the european states system had been for centuries: in all previous struggles for supremacy, attempts to unite the european peninsula in a single state have been condemned to failure primarily through the intrusion of new forces from outside the old occident. the occident was an open area. but the globe was not, and, for that very reason, ultimately destined to be unified… and this very process [of unification] was clearly reflected in both world wars.[ ] fifteen years later, dehio confirmed his hypothesis: the european system owed its durability to its overseas outlet. “but how can a multiple grouping of world states conceivably be supported from outside in the framework of a finite globe?”[ ] during the same time, quincy wright developed a similar concept. balance-of-power politics has aimed less at preserving peace than at preserving the independence of states and preventing the development of world empire. in the course of history, the balance of power repeatedly reemerged, but on ever-wider scale. eventually, the scale became global. unless we proceed to “interplanetary wars,” this pattern can no longer continue. in spite of significant reversals, the “trend towards world unity” can “scarcely be denied.” world unity appears to be “the limit toward which the process of world history seems to tend.”[ ] five scholars—hornell hart,[ ] raoul naroll,[ ] louis morano,[ ] rein taagepera[ ] and the author of the circumscription theory robert carneiro[ ][ ]—researched expanding imperial cycles. they worked with historical atlases but the advent of youtube provided us with a better visualization.[ ][ ] they reached the same conclusion—that a world empire is pre-determined—and attempted to estimate the time of its appearance. naroll and carneiro found that this time is close at hand: around the year and respectively. the founder of the paneuropean union, richard von coudenhove-kalergi, writing yet in , drew a more specific and immediate future imperial project: after the war america is bound “to take over the command of the skies.” the danger of “the utter annihilation of all enemy towns and lands” can “only be prevented by the air superiority of a single power … america’s air role is the only alternative to intercontinental wars.” despite his outstanding anti-imperialism, coudenhove-kalergi detailed: no imperialism, but technical and strategic problems of security urge america to rule the skies of the globe, just as britain during the last century ruled the seas of the world… pacifists and anti-imperialists will be shocked by this logic. they will try to find an escape. but they will try in vain… at the end of the war the crushing superiority of american plane production will be an established fact… the solution of the problem … is by no means ideal, nor even satisfactory. but it is the minor evil…[ ] coudenhove-kalergi envisaged a kind of pax americana modeled on “pax romana”: during the third century bc the mediterranean world was divided on five great powers—roma and carthage, macedonia, syria, and egypt. the balance of power led to a series of wars until rome emerged the queen of the mediterranean and established an incomparable era of two centuries of peace and progress, the ‘pax romana’… it may be that america’s air power could again assure our world, now much smaller than the mediterranean at that period, two hundred years of peace…[ ] this period would be necessary transitory stage before world state is eventually established, though he did not specify how the last transformation is expected to occur. coudenhove-kalergi's follower in the teleological theory of world state, toynbee, supposed the traditional way of universal conquest and emphasized that the world is ripe for conquest: "…hitler's eventual failure to impose peace on the world by the force of arms was due, not to any flaw in his thesis that the world was ripe for conquest, but to an accidental combination of incidental errors in his measures…" but "in falling by so narrow a margin to win the prize of world-dominion for himself, hitler had left the prize dangling within the reach of any successor capable of pursuing the same aims of world-conquest with a little more patience, prudence, and tact." with his "revolution of destruction," hitler has performed the "yeoman service" for "some future architect of a pax ecumenica... for a post-hitlerian empire-builder, hitler's derelict legacy was a gift of the gods."[ ] the next “architect of a pax ecumenica,” known more commonly as pax americana, demonstrated “more patience, prudence, and tact.” consequently, as president dwight eisenhower put it, the nato allies became “almost psychopathic” whenever anyone talked about a us withdrawal, and the reception of his successor john f. kennedy in berlin was “almost hysterical,” as chancellor conrad adenauer characterized it .[ ] john ikenberry finds that the europeans wanted a stronger, more formal and more imperial system than the united states was initially willing to provide. in the end the united states settled for this “form of empire—a pax americana with formal commitments to europe.”[ ] according to a much debated thesis, the united states became “empire by invitation.”[ ] the period discussed in the thesis ( – ) ended precisely the year toynbee theorized on "some future architect of a pax ecumenica.” dissociating america from rome, eisenhower gave a pessimistic forecast. in , before he became president, he had written on west europe: “we cannot be a modern rome guarding the far frontiers with our legions if for no other reason than that these are not, politically, our frontiers. what we must do is to assist these [west european] peoples.” two years later, he wrote: when it was decided to deploy us divisions to europe, no one had “for an instant” thought that they would remain there for “several decades”—that the united states could “build a sort of roman wall with its own troops and so protect the world.”[ ] eisenhower assured soviet chairman nikita khrushchev on berlin in : “clearly we did not contemplate years in occupation there.” it lasted, remarks marc trachtenberg, from july to september , months short of years.[ ] notably, when the us troops eventually left, they left eastward. confirming the theory of the “empire by invitation,” with their first opportunity east european states extended the “invitation.”[ ] chalmers johnson regards the global military reach of the united states as empire in its “initial” form.[ ] dimitri simes finds that most of the world sees the united states as a "nascent" imperial power.[ ] some scholars concerned how this empire would look in its ultimate form. the ultimate form of empire was described by michael doyle in his empires. it is empire in which its two main components—the ruling core and the ruled periphery—merged to form one integrated whole. at this stage the empire as defined ceases to exist and becomes world state. doyle examplifies the transformation on the case of the roman emperor caracalla whose legislation in ad extended the roman citizenship to all inhabitants of the mediterranean world.[ ] international relations scholar alexander wendt in his article “why the world state is inevitable…” supposed the pathway of universal conquest and subsequent consolidation provided the conquering power recognizes all conquered members.[ ] replying on criticism, wendt invoked the example of the roman empire: a "world empire would be an unstable equilibrium, still subject to the struggle for recognition." however, conquest can "produce a proper ‘state’ if, as a result of internal reform, the world empire eventually recognizes all of its members (like the roman empire did, for example).”[ ] doyle's case of the roman empire had also been evoked by susan strange in her article, "the future of the american empire." strange emphasized that the most persistent empires were those which best managed to integrate the ruling core and the peripheral allies. the article is partly a reply on the published a year earlier bestseller the rise and fall of the great powers which predicted imminent us "imperial overstretch." strange found this outcome unlikely, stressing the fact that the peripheral allies have been successfully recruited into the american empire.[ ] envisaging a world empire of either the united states or the soviet union (whoever is victorious in world war iii), bertrand russell projected the roman scenario too: "like the romans, they will, in the course of time, extend citizenship to the vanquished. there will then be a true world state, and it will be possible to forget that it will have owed its origin to conquest."[ ] to the case of caracalla, toynbee added the abbasid cosmopolitan reformation of ad. both "were good auguries for the prospect that, in a post-modern chapter of western history, a supranational commonwealth originally based on the hegemony of a paramount power over its satellites might eventually be put on the sounder basis of a constitutional partnership in which all the people of all the partner states would have their fare share in the conduct of common affairs.”[ ] historian maks ostrovski finds above mentioned cosmopolitan reformations to be the characteristic fate of persistent empires. when such a reformation occurs in our world, he writes, the green card would be abolished since all earth inhabitants would have it by birth. this cosmopolitan world state, as the records of earlier circumscribed civilizations suggest, will last millennia.[ ] see also[edit] 	 	colonialism 	comparative studies of the roman and han empires 	democratic empire 	empire-building 	hegemony 	historical powers 	imperialism 	linguistic imperialism 	military globalization 	nomadic empire 	soviet empire 	world state 	 lists: 	list of empires 	list of largest empires 	list of extinct countries, empires, etc. 	list of countries spanning more than one continent 	list of hindu empires and dynasties references[edit] 	citations 	^ 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	中文 		edit links 	 		 this page was last edited on december , at :  (utc). 	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 epicureanism - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	epicureanism 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 "epicurean" redirects here. for other uses, see epicurean (disambiguation). roman epicurus bust epicureanism is a system of philosophy founded around bc based upon the teachings of the ancient greek philosopher epicurus. epicureanism was originally a challenge to platonism. later its main opponent became stoicism. some writings by epicurus have survived. some scholars consider the epic poem de rerum natura (latin for on the nature of things) by lucretius to present in one unified work the core arguments and theories of epicureanism. many of the scrolls unearthed at the villa of the papyri at herculaneum are epicurean texts. at least some are thought to have belonged to the epicurean philosopher philodemus. epicurus was an atomic materialist, following in the steps of democritus. his materialism led him to a general attack on superstition and divine intervention. following the cyrenaic philosopher aristippus, epicurus believed that the greatest good was to seek modest, sustainable pleasure in the form of a state of ataraxia (tranquility and freedom from fear) and aponia (the absence of bodily pain) through knowledge of the workings of the world and limiting desires. correspondingly, epicurus and his followers shunned politics because it could lead to frustrations and ambitions which can directly conflict with the epicurean pursuit for peace of mind and virtues.[ ] although epicureanism is a form of hedonism insofar as it declares pleasure to be its sole intrinsic goal, the concept that the absence of pain and fear constitutes the greatest pleasure, and its advocacy of a simple life, make it very different from "hedonism" as colloquially understood. epicureanism flourished in the late hellenistic era and during the roman era, and many epicurean communities were established, such as those in antiochia, alexandria, rhodes, and herculaneum. by the late rd century ce epicureanism all but died out, being opposed by other philosophies (mainly neoplatonism) that were now in the ascendant. interest in epicureanism was resurrected in the age of enlightenment and continues in the modern era. contents 	 history 	 philosophy 	 ethics 	 politics 	 religion 	 epicurean physics 	 epistemology 	 tetrapharmakos 	 notable epicureans 	 modern usage and misconceptions 	 criticism 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links history[edit] in mytilene, the capital of the island lesbos, and then in lampsacus, epicurus taught and gained followers. in athens, epicurus bought a property for his school called "garden", later the name of epicurus' school.[ ] its members included hermarchus, idomeneus, colotes, polyaenus, and metrodorus. epicurus emphasized friendship as an important ingredient of happiness, and the school seems to have been a moderately ascetic community which rejected the political limelight of athenian philosophy. they were fairly cosmopolitan by athenian standards, including women and slaves. community activities held some importance, particularly the observance of eikas, a monthly social gathering. some members were also vegetarians as, from slender evidence, epicurus did not eat meat, although no prohibition against eating meat was made.[ ][ ] the school's popularity grew and it became, along with stoicism, platonism, peripateticism, and pyrrhonism, one of the dominant schools of hellenistic philosophy, lasting strongly through the later roman empire.[ ] another major source of information is the roman politician and philosopher cicero, although he was highly critical, denouncing the epicureans as unbridled hedonists, devoid of a sense of virtue and duty, and guilty of withdrawing from public life. another ancient source is diogenes of oenoanda, who composed a large inscription at oenoanda in lycia. deciphered carbonized scrolls obtained from the library at the villa of the papyri in herculaneum contain a large number of works by philodemus, a late hellenistic epicurean, and epicurus himself, attesting to the school's enduring popularity. diogenes reports slanderous stories, circulated by epicurus' opponents.[ ] with growing dominance of neoplatonism and peripateticism, and later, christianity, epicureanism declined. by the late third century ce, there was little trace of its existence.[ ] the early christian writer lactantius criticizes epicurus at several points throughout his divine institutes. in dante alighieri's divine comedy, the epicureans are depicted as heretics suffering in the sixth circle of hell. in fact, epicurus appears to represent the ultimate heresy.[ ] the word for a heretic in the talmudic literature is "apiqoros" (אפיקורוס‎).[citation needed] in the th century, the french franciscan priest, scientist and philosopher pierre gassendi wrote two books forcefully reviving epicureanism. shortly thereafter, and clearly influenced by gassendi, walter charleton published several works on epicureanism in english. attacks by christians continued, most forcefully by the cambridge platonists.[citation needed] in the early modern period, scientists adopted atomist theories, while materialist philosophers embraced epicurus' hedonist ethics and restated his objections to natural teleology.[citation needed] philosophy[edit] 	part of a series on 	hedonism 	 thinkers 	ajita kesakambali 	jeremy bentham 	julien offray de la mettrie 	aristippus 	epicurus 	fred feldman 	theodorus the atheist 	michel onfray 	aristippus the younger 	hermarchus 	lucretius 	pierre gassendi 	metrodorus of lampsacus 	david pearce 	zeno of sidon 	yang zhu 	torbjörn tännsjö 	esperanza guisán 	 schools of hedonism 	cārvāka 	cyrenaics 	epicureanism 	christian hedonism 	utilitarianism 	yangism 	 key concepts 	aponia 	ataraxia 	eudaimonia 	happiness 	hedone 	pain 	pleasure 	sensation 	suffering 	tetrapharmakos 	libertine 	 related articles 	paradox of hedonism 	hedonic treadmill 		v 	t 	e epicureanism argued that pleasure was the chief good in life.[ ] hence, epicurus advocated living in such a way as to derive the greatest amount of pleasure possible during one's lifetime, yet doing so moderately in order to avoid the suffering incurred by overindulgence in such pleasure.[ ] emphasis was placed on pleasures of the mind rather than on physical pleasures.[ ] unnecessary and, especially, artificially produced desires were to be suppressed.[ ] since the political life could give rise to desires that could disturb virtue and one's peace of mind, such as a lust for power or a desire for fame, participation in politics was discouraged.[ ][ ] further, epicurus sought to eliminate the fear of the gods and of death, seeing those two fears as chief causes of strife in life.[ ] epicurus actively recommended against passionate love, and believed it best to avoid marriage altogether. he viewed recreational sex as a natural, but not necessary desire that should be generally avoided.[ ] the epicurean understanding of justice was inherently self-interested. justice was deemed good because it was seen as mutually beneficial.[ ] individuals would not act unjustly even if the act was initially unnoticed because of possibly being caught and punished.[ ] both punishment and fear of punishment would cause a person disturbance and prevent them from being happy.[ ] epicurus laid great emphasis on developing friendships as the basis of a satisfying life. of all the things which wisdom has contrived which contribute to a blessed life, none is more important, more fruitful, than friendship — quoted by cicero[ ] while the pursuit of pleasure formed the focal point of the philosophy, this was largely directed to the "static pleasures" of minimizing pain, anxiety and suffering. in fact, epicurus referred to life as a "bitter gift". when we say ... that pleasure is the end and aim, we do not mean the pleasures of the prodigal or the pleasures of sensuality, as we are understood to do by some through ignorance, prejudice or wilful misrepresentation. by pleasure we mean the absence of pain in the body and of trouble in the soul. it is not by an unbroken succession of drinking bouts and of revelry, not by sexual lust, nor the enjoyment of fish and other delicacies of a luxurious table, which produce a pleasant life; it is sober reasoning, searching out the grounds of every choice and avoidance, and banishing those beliefs through which the greatest tumults take possession of the soul. — epicurus, "letter to menoeceus"[ ] epicureanism rejects immortality. it believes in the soul, but suggests that the soul is mortal and material, just like the body.[ ] epicurus rejected any possibility of an afterlife, while still contending that one need not fear death: "death is nothing to us; for that which is dissolved, is without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us."[ ] from this doctrine arose the epicurean epitaph: non fui, fui, non sum, non curo ("i was not; i have been; i am not; i do not mind."), which is inscribed on the gravestones of his followers and seen on many ancient gravestones of the roman empire. this quotation is often used today at humanist funerals.[ ] ethics[edit] epicureanism bases its ethics on a hedonistic set of values. in the most basic sense, epicureans see pleasure as the purpose of life.[ ] as evidence for this, epicureans say that nature seems to command us to avoid pain, and they point out that all animals try to avoid pain as much as possible.[ ] epicureans had a very specific understanding of what the greatest pleasure was, and the focus of their ethics was on the avoidance of pain rather than seeking out pleasure.[ ] epicureanism divided pleasure into two broad categories: pleasures of the body and pleasures of the mind.[ ] 	pleasures of the body: these pleasures involve sensations of the body, such as the act of eating delicious food or of being in a state of comfort free from pain, and exist only in the present.[ ] one can only experience pleasures of the body in the moment, meaning they only exist as a person is experiencing them.[ ] 	pleasures of the mind: these pleasures involve mental processes and states; feelings of joy, the lack of fear, and pleasant memories are all examples of pleasures of the mind.[ ] these pleasures of the mind do not only exist in the present, but also in the past and future, since memory of a past pleasant experience or the expectation of some potentially pleasing future can both be pleasurable experiences.[ ] because of this, the pleasures of the mind are considered to be greater than those of the body.[ ] the epicureans further divided each of these types of pleasures into two categories: kinetic pleasure and katastematic pleasure.[ ] 	kinetic pleasure: kinetic pleasure describes the physical or mental pleasures that involve action or change.[ ] eating delicious food, as well as fulfilling desires and removing pain, which is itself considered a pleasurable act, are all examples of kinetic pleasure in the physical sense.[ ][ ] according to epicurus, feelings of joy would be an example of mental kinetic pleasure.[ ] 	katastematic pleasure: katastematic pleasure describes the pleasure one feels while in a state without pain.[ ] like kinetic pleasures, katastematic pleasures can also be physical, such as the state of not being thirsty, or mental, such as freedom from a state of fear.[ ][ ] complete physical katastematic pleasure is called aponia, and complete mental katastematic pleasure is called ataraxia.[ ] from this understanding, epicureans concluded that the greatest pleasure a person could reach was the complete removal of all pain, both physical and mental.[ ] the ultimate goal then of epicurean ethics was to reach a state of aponia and ataraxia.[ ] in order to do this an epicurean had to control their desires, because desire itself was seen as painful.[ ] not only will controlling one's desires bring about aponia, as one will rarely suffer from not being physically satisfied, but controlling one's desires will also help to bring about ataraxia because one will not be anxious about becoming discomforted since one would have so few desires anyway.[ ] epicurus distinguishes three kinds of desires: the natural and necessary, the natural but not necessary, and those that are neither natural nor necessary.[ ] 	natural and necessary: these desires are limited desires that are innately present in all humans; it is part of human nature to have them.[ ] they are necessary for one of three reasons: necessary for happiness, necessary for freedom from bodily discomfort, and necessary for life.[ ] clothing would belong to the first two categories, while something like food would belong to the third.[ ] 	natural but not necessary: these desires are innate to humans, but they do not need to be fulfilled for their happiness or their survival.[ ] wanting to eat delicious food when one is hungry is an example of a natural but not necessary desire.[ ] the main problem with these desires is that they fail to substantially increase a person's happiness, and at the same time require effort to obtain and are desired by people due to false beliefs that they are actually necessary.[ ] it is for this reason that they should be avoided.[ ] 	not natural nor necessary: these desires are neither innate to humans nor required for happiness or health; indeed, they are also limitless and can never be fulfilled.[ ] desires of wealth or fame would fall under this category, and such desires are to be avoided because they will ultimately only bring about discomfort.[ ] if one follows only natural and necessary desires, then, according to epicurus, one would be able to reach aponia and ataraxia and thereby the highest form of happiness.[ ] epicurus was also an early thinker to develop the notion of justice as a social contract. he defined justice as an agreement made by people not to harm each other.[ ] the point of living in a society with laws and punishments is to be protected from harm so that one is free to pursue happiness.[ ] because of this, laws that do not contribute to promoting human happiness are not just.[ ] he gave his own unique version of the ethic of reciprocity, which differs from other formulations by emphasizing minimizing harm and maximizing happiness for oneself and others: "it is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life."[ ] 	("justly" meaning to prevent a "person from harming or being harmed by another")[ ] epicureanism incorporated a relatively full account of the social contract theory, and in part attempts to address issues with the society described in plato's republic.[ ] the social contract theory established by epicureanism is based on mutual agreement, not divine decree.[ ] politics[edit] epicurean ideas on politics disagree with other philosophical traditions, namely the stoic, platonist and aristotelian traditions.[ ] to epicureans all our social relations are a matter of how we perceive each other, of customs and traditions. no one is inherently of higher value or meant to dominate another.[ ] that is because there is no metaphysical basis for the superiority of one kind of person, all people are made of the same atomic material and are thus naturally equal.[ ] epicureans also discourage political participation and other involvement in politics.[ ] however epicureans are not apolitical, it is possible that some political association could be seen as beneficial by some epicureans.[ ] some political associations could lead to certain benefits to the individual that would help to maximize pleasure and avoid physical or mental distress.[ ] the avoidance or freedom from hardship and fear is ideal to the epicureans.[ ] while this avoidance or freedom could conceivably be achieved through political means it was insisted by epicurus that involvement in politics would not release one from fear and he advised against a life of politics.[ ] epicurus also discouraged contributing to political society by starting a family, as the benefits of a wife and children are outweighed by the trouble brought about by having a family.[ ] instead epicurus encouraged a formation of a community of friends outside the traditional political state. this community of virtuous friends would focus on internal affairs and justice.[ ] however, epicureanism is adaptable to circumstance as is the epicurean approach to politics.[ ] the same approaches will not always work in protection from pain and fear. in some situations it will be more beneficial to have a family and in other situations it will be more beneficial to participate in politics. it is ultimately up to the epicurean to analyse their circumstance and take whatever action befits the situation.[ ] religion[edit] epicureanism does not deny the existence of the gods; rather it denies their involvement in the world. according to epicureanism, the gods do not interfere with human lives or the rest of the universe in any way[ ]-thus, it shuns the idea that frightening weather events are divine retribution.[ ] one of the fears the epicurean ought to be freed from is fear relating to the actions of the gods.[ ] the manner in which the epicurean gods exist is still disputed. some scholars say that epicureanism believes that the gods exist outside the mind as material objects (the realist position), while others assert that the gods only exist in our minds as ideals (the idealist position).[ ][ ][ ] the realist position holds that epicureans understand the gods as existing as physical and immortal beings made of atoms that reside somewhere in reality.[ ][ ] however, the gods are completely separate from the rest of reality; they are uninterested in it, play no role in it, and remain completely undisturbed by it.[ ] instead, the gods live in what is called the metakosmia, or the space between worlds.[ ] contrarily, the idealist position holds that epicurus did not actually conceive of the gods as existing in reality. rather, epicurus is said to have viewed the gods as just idealized forms of the best human life,[ ][ ] and it is thought that the gods were emblematic of the life one should aspire towards.[ ] the debate between these two positions was revived by a. a. long and david sedley in their book, the hellenistic philosophers, in which the two argued in favour of the idealist position.[ ][ ] while a scholarly consensus has yet to be reached, the realist position remains the prevailing viewpoint at this time.[ ][ ] epicureanism also offered arguments against the existence of the gods in the manner proposed by other belief systems. the riddle of epicurus, or problem of evil, is a famous argument against the existence of an all-powerful and providential god or gods. as recorded by lactantius: god either wants to eliminate bad things and cannot, or can but does not want to, or neither wishes to nor can, or both wants to and can. if he wants to and cannot, then he is weak – and this does not apply to god. if he can but does not want to, then he is spiteful – which is equally foreign to god's nature. if he neither wants to nor can, he is both weak and spiteful, and so not a god. if he wants to and can, which is the only thing fitting for a god, where then do bad things come from? or why does he not eliminate them? — lactantius, de ira deorum[ ] this type of trilemma argument (god is omnipotent, god is good, but evil exists) was one favoured by the ancient greek skeptics, and this argument may have been wrongly attributed to epicurus by lactantius, who, from his christian perspective, regarded epicurus as an atheist.[ ] according to reinhold f. glei, it is settled that the argument of theodicy is from an academical source which is not only not epicurean, but even anti-epicurean.[ ] the earliest extant version of this trilemma appears in the writings of the pyrrhonist philosopher sextus empiricus.[ ] parallels may be drawn to jainism and buddhism, which similarly emphasize a lack of divine interference and aspects of its atomism. epicureanism also resembles buddhism in its temperateness, including the belief that great excess leads to great dissatisfaction.[ ][ ][ ] some modern epicureans have argued that epicureanism is a type of religious identity, arguing that it fulfils ninian smart's "seven dimensions of religion", and that the epicurean practices of feasting on the twentieth and declaring an oath to follow epicurus, insistence on doctrinal adherence, and the sacredness of epicurean friendship, make epicureanism more similar to some non-theistic religions than to other philosophies.[ ] epicurean physics[edit] epicurean physics held that the entire universe consisted of two things: matter and void.[ ] matter is made up of atoms, which are tiny bodies that have only the unchanging qualities of shape, size, and weight.[ ][ ] atoms were felt to be unchanging because the epicureans believed that the world was ordered and that changes had to have specific and consistent sources, e.g. a plant species only grows from a seed of the same species.[ ][ ] epicurus holds that there must be an infinite supply of atoms, although only a finite number of types of atoms, as well as an infinite amount of void.[ ] epicurus explains this position in his letter to herodotus: moreover, the sum of things is unlimited both by reason of the multitude of the atoms and the extent of the void. for if the void were infinite and bodies finite, the bodies would not have stayed anywhere but would have been dispersed in their course through the infinite void, not having any supports or counterchecks to send them back on their upward rebound. again, if the void were finite, the infinity of bodies would not have anywhere to be.[ ] because of the infinite supply of atoms, there are an infinite amount of worlds, or cosmoi.[ ] some of these worlds could be vastly different than our own, some quite similar, and all of the worlds were separated from each other by vast areas of void (metakosmia).[ ] epicureanism states that atoms are unable to be broken down into any smaller parts, and epicureans offered multiple arguments to support this position.[ ] epicureans argue that because void is necessary for matter to move, anything which consists of both void and matter can be broken down, while if something contains no void then it has no way to break apart because no part of the substance could be broken down into a smaller subsection of the substance.[ ] they also argued that in order for the universe to persist, what it is ultimately made up of must not be able to be changed or else the universe would be essentially destroyed.[ ][ ] atoms are constantly moving in one of four different ways.[ ] atoms can simply collide with each other and then bounce off of each other.[ ] when joined with each other and forming a larger object, atoms can vibrate as they collide into each other while still maintaining the overall shape of the larger object.[ ] when not prevented by other atoms, all atoms move at the same speed naturally downwards in relation to the rest world.[ ][ ] this downwards motion is natural for atoms; however, as their fourth means of motion, atoms can at times randomly swerve out of their usual downwards path.[ ] this swerving motion is what allowed for the creation of the universe, since as more and more atoms swerved and collided with each other, objects were able to take shape as the atoms joined together. without the swerve, the atoms would never have interacted with each other, and simply continued to move downwards at the same speed.[ ][ ] epicurus also felt that the swerve was what accounted for humanity's free will.[ ] if it were not for the swerve, humans would be subject to a never-ending chain of cause and effect.[ ] this was a point which epicureans often used to criticize democritus' atomic theory.[ ] epicureans believed that senses also relied on atoms. every object was continually emitting particles from itself that would then interact with the observer.[ ] all sensations, such as sight, smell, or sound, relied on these particles.[ ] while the atoms that were emitted did not have the qualities that the senses were perceiving, the manner in which they were emitted caused the observer to experience those sensations, e.g. red particles were not themselves red but were emitted in a manner that caused the viewer to experience the color red.[ ] the atoms are not perceived individually, but rather as a continuous sensation because of how quickly they move.[ ] epistemology[edit] epicurean philosophy employs an empirical epistemology.[ ] the epicureans believed that all sense perceptions were true,[ ][ ] and that errors arise in how we judge those perceptions.[ ] when we form judgments about things (hupolepsis), they can be verified and corrected through further sensory information.[ ][ ][ ][ ] for example, if someone sees a tower from far away that appears to be round, and upon approaching the tower they see that it is actually square, they would come to realize that their original judgement was wrong and correct their wrong opinion.[ ] epicurus is said to have proposed three criteria of truth: sensations (aisthêsis), preconceptions (prolepsis), and feelings (pathê).[ ] a fourth criterion called "presentational applications of the mind" (phantastikai epibolai tês dianoias) was said to have been added by later epicureans.[ ][ ] these criteria formed the method through which epicureans thought we gained knowledge.[ ] since epicureans thought that sensations could not deceive, sensations are the first and main criterion of truth for epicureans.[ ] even in cases where sensory input seems to mislead, the input itself is true and the error arises from our judgments about the input. for example, when one places a straight oar in the water, it appears bent. the epicurean would argue that image of the oar, that is the atoms travelling from the oar to the observer's eyes, have been shifted and thus really do arrive at the observer's eyes in the shape of a bent oar.[ ] the observer makes the error in assuming that the image he or she receives correctly represents the oar and has not been distorted in some way.[ ] in order to not make erroneous judgments about perceivable things and instead verify one's judgment, epicureans believed that one needed to obtain "clear vision" (enargeia) of the perceivable thing by closer examination.[ ] this acted as a justification for one's judgements about the thing being perceived.[ ] enargeia is characterized as sensation of an object that has been unchanged by judgments or opinions and is a clear and direct perception of that object.[ ] an individual's preconceptions are his or her concepts of what things are, e.g. what someone's idea of a horse is, and these concepts are formed in a person's mind through sensory input over time.[ ] when the word that relates to the preconception is used, these preconceptions are summoned up by the mind into the person's thoughts.[ ] it is through our preconceptions that we are able to make judgments about the things that we perceive.[ ] preconceptions were also used by epicureans to avoid the paradox proposed by plato in the meno regarding learning.[ ] plato argues that learning requires us to already have knowledge of what we are learning, or else we would be unable to recognize when we had successfully learned the information.[ ] preconceptions, epicureans argue, provide individuals with that pre-knowledge required for learning.[ ] our feelings or emotions (pathê) are how we perceive pleasure and pain.[ ] they are analogous to sensations in that they are a means of perception, but they perceive our internal state as opposed to external things.[ ] according to diogenes laertius, feelings are how we determine our actions. if something is pleasurable, we pursue that thing, and if something is painful, we avoid that thing.[ ] the idea of "presentational applications of the mind" is an explanation for how we can discuss and inquire about things we cannot directly perceive.[ ] we receive impressions of such things directly in our minds, instead of perceiving them through other senses.[ ] the concept of "presentational applications of the mind" may have been introduced to explain how we learn about things that we cannot directly perceive, such as the gods.[ ][ ] tetrapharmakos[edit] main article: tetrapharmakos part of herculaneum papyrus (p.herc. ), col. . contains epicurean tetrapharmakos from philodemus' adversus sophistas. tetrapharmakos, or "the four-part cure", is philodemus of gadara's basic guideline as to how to live the happiest possible life, based on the first four of epicurus' principal doctrines. this poetic doctrine was handed down by an anonymous epicurean who summed up epicurus' philosophy on happiness in four simple lines: don't fear god, don't worry about death; what is good is easy to get, and what is terrible is easy to endure. — philodemus, herculaneum papyrus, , . – notable epicureans[edit] de rerum natura manuscript, copied by an augustinian friar for pope sixtus iv, c. , after the discovery of an early manuscript in by the humanist and papal secretary poggio bracciolini one of the earliest roman writers espousing epicureanism was amafinius. other adherents to the teachings of epicurus included the poet horace, whose famous statement carpe diem ("seize the day") illustrates the philosophy, as well as lucretius, who wrote the poem de rerum natura about the tenets of the philosophy. the poet virgil was another prominent epicurean (see lucretius for further details). the epicurean philosopher philodemus of gadara, until the th century only known as a poet of minor importance, rose to prominence as most of his work along with other epicurean material was discovered in the villa of the papyri. in the second century ce, comedian lucian of samosata and wealthy promoter of philosophy diogenes of oenoanda were prominent epicureans. julius caesar leaned considerably toward epicureanism, which led to his plea against the death sentence during the trial against catiline, during the catiline conspiracy where he spoke out against the stoic cato.[ ] his father-in-law, lucius calpurnius piso caesoninus was also an adept of the school. in modern times thomas jefferson referred to himself as an epicurean: if i had time i would add to my little book the greek, latin and french texts, in columns side by side. and i wish i could subjoin a translation of gassendi's syntagma of the doctrines of epicurus, which, notwithstanding the calumnies of the stoics and caricatures of cicero, is the most rational system remaining of the philosophy of the ancients, as frugal of vicious indulgence, and fruitful of virtue as the hyperbolical extravagances of his rival sects.[ ] other modern-day epicureans were gassendi, walter charleton, françois bernier, saint-evremond, ninon de l'enclos, denis diderot, frances wright and jeremy bentham. christopher hitchens referred to himself as an epicurean.[ ] in france, where perfumer/restaurateur gérald ghislain refers to himself as an epicurean,[ ] michel onfray is developing a post-modern approach to epicureanism.[ ] in his recent book titled the swerve, stephen greenblatt identified himself as strongly sympathetic to epicureanism and lucretius. humanistic judaism as a denomination also claims the epicurean label. modern usage and misconceptions[edit] in modern popular usage, an epicurean is a connoisseur of the arts of life and the refinements of sensual pleasures; epicureanism implies a love or knowledgeable enjoyment especially of good food and drink. because epicureanism posits that pleasure is the ultimate good (telos), it has been commonly misunderstood since ancient times as a doctrine that advocates the partaking in fleeting pleasures such as sexual excess and decadent food. this is not the case. epicurus regarded ataraxia (tranquility, freedom from fear) and aponia (absence of pain) as the height of happiness. he also considered prudence an important virtue and perceived excess and overindulgence to be contrary to the attainment of ataraxia and aponia.[ ] epicurus preferred "the good", and "even wisdom and culture", to the "pleasure of the stomach".[ ] while twentieth-century commentary has generally sought to diminish this and related quotations, the consistency of the lower-case epicureanism of meals with epicurean materialism overall has more recently been explained.[ ] while epicurus sought moderation at meals, he was also not averse to moderation in moderation, that is, to occasional luxury. called "the garden" for being based in what would have been a kitchen garden, his community also became known for its feasts of the twentieth (of the greek month). criticism[edit] francis bacon wrote an apothegm related to epicureanism: there was an epicurean vaunted, that divers of other sects of philosophers did after turn epicureans, but there was never any epicurean that turned to any other sect. whereupon a philosopher that was of another sect, said; the reason was plain, for that cocks may be made capons, but capons could never be made cocks.[ ] this echoed what the academic skeptic philosopher arcesilaus had said when asked "why it was that pupils from all the other schools went over to epicurus, but converts were never made from the epicureans?" to which he responded: "because men may become eunuchs, but a eunuch never becomes a man."[ ] see also[edit] 	philosophy portal 	charvaka, a hedonic indian school 	cyrenaics, a sensual hedonist greek school of philosophy founded in the th century bce 	dehellenization 	epicurea 	epicurean paradox 	epikoros 	hedonic treadmill 	list of english translations of de rerum natura 	philosophy of happiness 	separation of church and state 	zeno of sidon references[edit] 	^ -, wilson, catherine ( ). epicureanism : a very short introduction (first ed.). oxford, united kingdom. isbn  . oclc  .cs maint: numeric names: authors list (link) 	^ a b david konstan. 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(epicurus, frag. , usener). david hume paraphrased this passage in his dialogues concerning natural religion: "epicurus's old questions are yet unanswered. is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? then is he impotent. is he able, but not willing? then is he malevolent. is he both able and willing? whence then is evil?" 	^ mark joseph larrimore, ( ), the problem of evil, pp. xix–xxi. wiley-blackwell 	^ glei, reinhold f. ( ). "et invidus et inbecillus. das angebliche epikurfragment bei laktanz, de ira dei , – ". vigiliae christianae. : – . doi: . / . 	^ sextus empiricus, outlines of pyrrhonism, : "those who firmly maintain that god exists will be forced into impiety; for if they say that he [god] takes care of everything, they will be saying that god is the cause of evils, while if they say that he takes care of some things only or even nothing, they will be forced to say that he is either malevolent or weak" 	^ scharfstein, ben-ami ( ). a comparative history of world philosophy: from the upanishads to kant. suny press. p.  . isbn  . 	^ cooper, david e.; james, simon p. ( ). buddhism, virtue and environment. routledge. p.  . isbn  . 	^ berenice ii and the golden age of ptolemaic egypt, dee l. clayman, oxford university press, , p. 	^ "epicureanism as a religious identity". 	^ o'keefe, tim ( ). epicureanism. university of california press. pp.  – . 	^ a b c d wilson, catherine ( ). epicureanism: a very short introduction. united states of america: oxford university press. p.  . 	^ o'keefe, tim ( ). epicureanism. university of california press. p.  . 	^ a b c o'keefe, tim ( ). epicureanism. university of california press. pp.  – . 	^ sharples, r. w. ( ). stoics, epicureans, and sceptics: an introduction to hellenistic philosophy. new york, ny: routledge. pp.  – . 	^ diogenes, laertius ( ). lives of eminent philosophers: volume ii: books - . translated by hicks, r. d. cambridge, mass: harvard university press. pp.  – . 	^ a b sharples, r. w. ( ). stoics, epicureans, and sceptics: an introduction to hellenistic philosophy. new york, ny: routledge. pp.  – . 	^ a b c d e wilson, catherine ( ). epicureanism: a very short introduction. united states of america: oxford university press. p.  . 	^ a b c o'keefe, tim ( ). epicureanism. university of california press. pp.  – . 	^ a b c sharples, r. w. ( ). stoics, epicurus, and sceptics: an introduction to hellenistic philosophy. new york, ny: routledge. pp.  – . 	^ a b c d wilson, catherine ( ). epicureanism: a very short introduction. united states of america: oxford university press. pp.  – . 	^ a b o'keefe, tim ( ). epicureanism. university of california press. p.  . 	^ asmis, elizabeth ( ). "epicurean empiricism". in warren, james (ed.). the cambridge companion to epicureanism. cambridge university press. p.  . 	^ a b c d o'keefe, tim ( ). epicureanism. university of california pres. pp.  – . 	^ bakalis, nikolaos ( ). handbook of greek philosophy: from thales to the stoics analysis and fragments. canada: trafford publishing. pp.  – . 	^ konstan, david ( ). fish, jeffrey; sanders, kirk r. (eds.). epicurus and the epicurean tradition. cambridge: cambridge university press. pp.  – . 	^ a b c o'keefe, tim ( ). epicureanism. university of california press. pp.  – . 	^ a b c d sharples, r. w. ( ). stoics, epicureans and sceptics. new york, ny: routledge. p.  . 	^ a b c d asmis, elizabeth ( ). "epicurean empiricism". in warren, james (ed.). the cambridge companion to epicureanism. cambridge: cambridge university press. pp.  – . 	^ a b sharples, r. w. 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( ): . doi: . / - . 	^ cf. sallust, the war with catiline, caesar's speech: . & cato's reply: . ). 	^ "full text of "the writings of thomas jefferson;"". archive.org. retrieved may . 	^ "townhall.com::talk radio online::radio show". archived from the original on november . retrieved september . 	^ anon., gérald ghislain – creator of the scent of departure. ideamensch, july . 	^ michel onfray, la puissance d'exister: manifeste hédoniste, grasset, 	^ cyril bailey, epicurus: the extant remains, oxford: clarendon press, , p. 	^ michael symons, "epicurus, the foodies’ philosopher", pp. - , in fritz allhoff and dave monroe, eds, food & philosophy: eat, think, and be merry, malden (ma, usa): blackwell publishing, 	^ francis bacon, apothegms , the works of francis bacon, volume /apophthegms 	^ diogenes laertius, lives of the eminent philosophers book iv, chapter , section http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=perseus% atext% a . . % abook% d % achapter% d further reading[edit] 	dane r. gordon and david b. suits, epicurus. his continuing influence and contemporary relevance, rochester, n.y.: rit cary graphic arts press, . 	holmes, brooke & shearin, w. h. dynamic reading: studies in the reception of epicureanism, new york: oxford university press, . 	jones, howard. the epicurean tradition, new york: routledge, . 	neven leddy and avi s. lifschitz, epicurus in the enlightenment, oxford: voltaire foundation, . 	long, a.a. & sedley, d.n. the hellenistic philosophers volume , cambridge: cambridge university press, . ( isbn  - - - ) 	long, roderick ( ). "epicureanism". in hamowy, ronald (ed.). the encyclopedia of libertarianism. thousand oaks, ca: sage; cato institute. p.  . doi: . / .n . isbn  - - - - . lccn  . oclc  . 	martin ferguson smith (ed.), diogenes of oinoanda. the epicurean inscription, edited with introduction, translation, and notes, naples: bibliopolis, . 	martin ferguson smith, supplement to diogenes of oinoanda. the epicurean inscription, naples: bibliopolis, . 	warren, james (ed.) the cambridge companion to epicureanism, cambridge: cambridge university press, . 	wilson, catherine. epicureanism at the origins of modernity, new york: oxford university press, . 	zeller, eduard; reichel, oswald j., the stoics, epicureans and sceptics, longmans, green, and co., external links[edit] 	library resources about epicureanism 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 		wikimedia commons has media related to epicureanism. 	society of friends of epicurus 	epicureans on philpapers 	epicurus.info – 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the neoteric style of poetry, which is about personal life rather than classical heroes. his surviving works are still read widely and continue to influence poetry and other forms of art. catullus's poems were widely appreciated by contemporary poets, significantly influencing ovid and virgil, among others. after his rediscovery in the late middle ages, catullus again found admirers such as petrarca. the explicit sexual imagery which he uses in some of his poems has shocked many readers. yet, at many instruction levels, catullus is considered a resource for teachers of latin.[ ] his profane body of work is still frequently read from secondary school to higher education programs across the world, with his th poem often considered his greatest. contents 	 life 	 poetry 	 . sources and organization 	 . intellectual influences 	 . style 	 . musical settings 	 cultural depictions 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links life[edit] gāius valerius catullus (classical latin: [ˈɡaː.i.us waˈlɛrɪʊs kaˈtʊllʊs]) was born to a leading equestrian family of verona, in cisalpine gaul. the social prominence of the catullus family allowed the father of gaius valerius to entertain julius caesar when he was the promagistrate (proconsul) of both gallic provinces.[ ] in a poem, catullus describes his happy homecoming to the family villa at sirmio, on lake garda, near verona; he also owned a villa near the resort of tibur (tivoli).[ ] catullus appears to have spent most of his young adult years in rome. his friends there included the poets licinius calvus, and helvius cinna, quintus hortensius (son of the orator and rival of cicero) and the biographer cornelius nepos, to whom catullus dedicated a libellus of poems,[ ] the relation of which to the extant collection remains a matter of debate.[ ] he appears to have been acquainted with the poet marcus furius bibaculus. a number of prominent contemporaries appear in his poetry, including cicero, caesar and pompey. according to an anecdote preserved by suetonius, caesar did not deny that catullus's lampoons left an indelible stain on his reputation, but when catullus apologized, he invited the poet for dinner the very same day.[ ] catullus at lesbia's by sir lawrence alma-tadema it was probably in rome that catullus fell deeply in love with the "lesbia" of his poems, who is usually identified with clodia metelli, a sophisticated woman from the aristocratic house of patrician family claudii pulchri, sister of the infamous publius clodius pulcher, and wife to proconsul quintus caecilius metellus celer. in his poems catullus describes several stages of their relationship: initial euphoria, doubts, separation, and his wrenching feelings of loss. clodia had several other partners; "from the poems one can adduce no fewer than five lovers in addition to catullus: egnatius (poem ), gellius (poem ), quintius (poem ), rufus (poem ), and lesbius (poem )." there is also some question surrounding her husband's mysterious death in b.c., some critics believing he was domestically poisoned. yet, a sensitive and passionate catullus could not relinquish his flame for clodia, regardless of her obvious indifference to his desire for a deep and permanent relationship. in his poems, catullus wavers between devout, sweltering love and bitter, scornful insults that he directs at her blatant infidelity (as demonstrated in poems and ). his passion for her is unrelenting—yet it is unclear when exactly the couple split up for good. catullus's poems about the relationship display striking depth and psychological insight.[ ] he spent the provincial command year summer to summer bc in bithynia on the staff of the commander gaius memmius. while in the east, he traveled to the troad to perform rites at his brother's tomb, an event recorded in a moving poem.[ ] bithynia within the roman empire there survives no ancient biography of catullus: his life has to be pieced together from scattered references to him in other ancient authors and from his poems. thus it is uncertain when he was born and when he died. st. jerome says that he died in his th year, and was born in bc. but the poems include references to events of and bc. since the roman consular fasti make it somewhat easy to confuse – bc with – bc, many scholars accept the dates bc– bc,[ ] supposing that his latest poems and the publication of his libellus coincided with the year of his death. other authors suggest or bc as the year of the poet's death.[ ] though upon his elder brother's death catullus lamented that their "whole house was buried along" with the deceased, the existence (and prominence) of valerii catulli is attested in the following centuries. t.p. wiseman argues that after the brother's death catullus could have married, and that, in this case, the later valerii catulli may have been his descendants.[ ] poetry[edit] main article: poetry of catullus see also: list of poems by catullus catullus et in eum commentarius ( ) sources and organization[edit] catullus's poems have been preserved in an anthology of carmina (the actual number of poems may slightly vary in various editions), which can be divided into three parts according to their form: sixty short poems in varying meters, called polymetra, eight longer poems, and forty-eight epigrams. there is no scholarly consensus on whether catullus himself arranged the order of the poems. the longer poems differ from the polymetra and the epigrams not only in length but also in their subjects: there are seven hymns and one mini-epic, or epyllion, the most highly prized form for the "new poets". the polymetra and the epigrams can be divided into four major thematic groups (ignoring a rather large number of poems that elude such categorization): 	poems to and about his friends (e.g., an invitation like poem ). 	erotic poems: some of them ( and ) are about his homosexual desires and acts, but most are about women, especially about one he calls "lesbia" (which served as a false name for his married girlfriend, clodia, source and inspiration of many of his poems). 	invectives: often rude and sometimes downright obscene poems targeted at friends-turned-traitors (e.g., poem ), other lovers of lesbia, well-known poets, politicians (e.g., julius caesar) and rhetors, including cicero. 	condolences: some poems of catullus are solemn in nature. comforts a friend in the death of a loved one; several others, most famously , lament the death of his brother. all these poems describe the lifestyle of catullus and his friends, who, despite catullus's temporary political post in bithynia, lived their lives withdrawn from politics. they were interested mainly in poetry and love. above all other qualities, catullus seems to have valued venustas, or charm, in his acquaintances, a theme which he explores in a number of his poems. the ancient roman concept of virtus (i.e. of virtue that had to be proved by a political or military career), which cicero suggested as the solution to the societal problems of the late republic, meant little to them. however catullus does not reject traditional notions, but rather their particular application to the vita activa of politics and war. indeed, he tries to reinvent these notions from a personal point of view and to introduce them into human relationships. for example, he applies the word fides, which traditionally meant faithfulness towards one's political allies, to his relationship with lesbia and reinterprets it as unconditional faithfulness in love. so, despite the seeming frivolity of his lifestyle, catullus measured himself and his friends by quite ambitious standards. intellectual influences[edit] lesbia, painting by john reinhard weguelin inspired by the poems of catullus catullus's poetry was influenced by the innovative poetry of the hellenistic age, and especially by callimachus and the alexandrian school, which had propagated a new style of poetry that deliberately turned away from the classical epic poetry in the tradition of homer. cicero called these local innovators neoteroi (νεώτεροι) or 'moderns' (in latin poetae novi or 'new poets'), in that they cast off the heroic model handed down from ennius in order to strike new ground and ring a contemporary note. catullus and callimachus did not describe the feats of ancient heroes and gods (except perhaps in re-evaluating and predominantly artistic circumstances, e.g. poems and ), focusing instead on small-scale personal themes. although these poems sometimes seem quite superficial and their subjects often are mere everyday concerns, they are accomplished works of art. catullus described his work as expolitum, or polished, to show that the language he used was very carefully and artistically composed. catullus was also an admirer of sappho, a female poet of the seventh century bc. catullus partly translates, partly imitates and transforms sappho . some hypothesize that and were perhaps inspired by lost works of sappho but this is purely speculative. both of the latter are epithalamia, a form of laudatory or erotic wedding-poetry that sappho was famous for. catullus twice used a meter that sappho developed, called the sapphic strophe, in poems and , perhaps prompting his successor horace's interest in the form. catullus, as was common to his era, was greatly influenced by stories from greek and roman myth. his longer poems—such as , , , , and —allude to mythology in various ways. some stories he refers to are the wedding of peleus and thetis, the departure of the argonauts, theseus and the minotaur, ariadne's abandonment, tereus and procne, as well as protesilaus and laodamia. style[edit] catullus wrote in many different meters including hendecasyllabic verse and elegiac couplets (common in love poetry). a great part of his poetry shows strong and occasionally wild emotions, especially in regard to lesbia. his love poems are very emotional and ardent, and we can relate to them even today. catullus describes his lesbia as having multiple suitors and often showing little affection towards him. he also demonstrates a great sense of humour such as in catullus . musical settings[edit] catullus dreams ( ) is a song cycle by david glaser set to texts of catullus. the cycle is scored for soprano and seven instruments. it was premiered at symphony space in new york by soprano linda larson and sequitur ensemble. catulli carmina is a cantata by carl orff to the texts of catullus. "carmina catulli" is a song cycle arranged from of catullus' poems by american composer michael linton. the cycle was recorded in december and premiered at carnegie hall's weill recital hall in march by french baritone edwin crossley-mercer and pianist jason paul peterson.[ ][ ][ ] catullus , the love poem "vivamus mea lesbia atque amemus", in the translation by ben jonson, was set to music[ ] (lute accompanied song) by alfonso ferrabosco the younger. thomas campion also wrote a lute-song using his own translation of the first six lines of catullus followed by two verses of his own. the translation by richard crashaw was set to music[ ] in a four-part glee by samuel webbe jr. it was also set to music[ ] in a three-part glee by john stafford smith. the hungarian born british composer matyas seiber set poem for unaccompanied mixed chorus sirmio in . finnish jazz singer reine rimón has recorded poems of catullus set to standard jazz tunes. the american composer ned rorem set catullus to music for voice and piano. the song, "catallus: on the burial of his brother", was originally published in . the icelandic composer jóhann jóhannsson set catullus to music. the poem is sung through a vocoder. the music is played by a string quartet and piano. titled "odi et amo", the song is found on jóhannsson's album englabörn. cultural depictions[edit] 	the play lesbia by richard davey depicts the relationship between catullus and lesbia, based on incidents from his poems.[ ][ ] 	catullus was the main protagonist of the historical novel farewell, catullus ( ) by pierson dixon. the novel shows the corruption of roman society.[ ][ ] 	w. g. hardy's novel the city of libertines ( ) tells the fictionalized story of catullus and a love affair during the time of julius caesar. the financial post described the book as "an authentic story of an absorbing era".[ ] 	a poem by catullus is being recited to cleopatra in the eponymous film when julius caesar comes to visit her; they talk about him (cleopatra: 'catullus doesn't approve of you. why haven't you had him killed?' caesar: 'because i approve of him.') and caesar then recites other poems by him. 	the american poet louis zokofsky in wrote an extraordinary set of homophonic translations of catullus that attempted in english to replicate the sound as primary emphasis, rather than the more common emphasis on sense of the originals (although the relationship between sound and sense there is often misrepresented and has been clarified by careful study); his catullus versions have had extensive influence on contemporary innovative poetry and homophonic translation, including the work of poets robert duncan, robert kelly, and charles bernstein. 	catullus is the protagonist of tom holland's novel attis. see also[edit] 	codex vaticanus ottobonianus latinus 	poetry of catullus 	prosody (latin) references[edit] 	^ the bust was commissioned in by sirmione's mayor, luigi trojani, and produced by the milanese foundry clodoveo barzaghi with the assistance of the sculptor villarubbia norri (n. criniti & m. arduino (eds.), catullo e sirmione. società e cultura della cisalpina alle soglie dell'impero (brescia: grafo, ), p. ). 	^ skinner, marilyn b. ( ). a companion to catullus. wiley-blackwell. p.  . isbn  . retrieved july , . 	^ a b c d e "gaius valerius catullus". www.bookrags.com. retrieved september , . 	^ m. skinner, "authorial arrangement of the collection", pp. – , in: a companion to catullus, wiley-blackwell, . 	^ suetonius divus iulius ". 	^ howe, jr., quincy ( ). introduction to catullus, the complete poems for american readers. new york: e. p. dutton & co., inc. pp. vii to xvii. 	^ m. skinner, "introduction", p. , in: a companion to catullus, wiley-blackwell, . 	^ t.p. wiseman, "the valerii catulli of verona", in: m. skinner, ed., a companion to catullus, wiley-blackwell, . 	^ mcmurtry, chris (august , ). 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( ). catullan provocations; lyric poetry and the drama of position. berkeley: university of california press. 	fletcher, g.b.a. ( ). "catulliana". latomus. : – . 	fletcher, g.b.a. ( ). "further catulliana". latomus. : – . 	fordyce, c.j. ( ). catullus, a commentary. oxford: oxford university press. 	gaisser, julia haig ( ). catullus and his renaissance readers. oxford: clarendon press. 	greene, ellen ( ). "catullus, caesar and the roman masculine identity". antichthon. : – . doi: . /s . 	hallett, judith ( ). "catullus and horace on roman women poets". antichthon. : – . doi: . /s . 	harrington, karl pomeroy ( ). catullus and his influence. new york: cooper square publishers. 	havelock, e.a. ( ). the lyric genius of catullus. oxford: b. blackwell. 	hild, christian ( ). liebesgedichte als wagnis. emotionen und generationelle prozesse in catulls lesbiagedichten. st.ingbert: röhrig. isbn  - - - - . 	jackson, anna ( ). 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( ). criticisms and elucidations of catullus. cambridge: deighton, bell and co. 	newman, john kevin ( ). roman catullus and the modification of the alexandrian sensibility. hildesheim: weidmann. 	quinn, kenneth ( ). the catullan revolution. melbourne: melbourne university press. 	quinn, kenneth ( ). catullus: the poems ( nd ed.). london: macmillan. 	rothstein, max ( ). "catull und lesbia". philologus. ( – ): – . doi: . /phil- - - . s cid  . 	small, stuart g.p. ( ). catullus. lanham, md.: university press of america. isbn  - - - . 	swann, bruce w. ( ). martial's catullus. the reception of an epigrammatic rival. hildesheim: georg olms. 	thomson, douglas ferguson scott ( ). catullus: edited with a textual and interpretative commentary. phoenix. : suppl. toronto: university of toronto press. isbn  - - - . 	townend, g.b. ( ). "a further point in catullus' attack on volusius". greece & rome. n.s. ( ): – . doi: . /s . 	townend, g.b. ( ). 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registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 dulce et decorum est - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	dulce et decorum est 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		  (redirected from dulce et decorum est) 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 poem by wilfred owen this article is about the world war i poem. for the latin lines by horace, see dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. dulce et decorum est bent double, like old beggars under sacks, knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, and towards our distant rest began to trudge. men marched asleep. many had lost their boots, but limped on, blood-shod. all went lame, all blind; drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots of gas-shells dropping softly behind. gas! gas! quick, boys!—an ecstasy of fumbling fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, but someone still was yelling out and stumbling and flound'ring like a man in fire or lime.— dim through the misty panes and thick green light, as under a green sea, i saw him drowning. in all my dreams before my helpless sight he plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. if in some smothering dreams, you too could pace behind the wagon that we flung him in, and watch the white eyes writhing in his face, his hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin, if you could hear, at every jolt, the blood come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, obscene as cancer, bitter[ ] as the cud of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,– my friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old lie: dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.[ ] "dulce et decorum est" is a poem written by wilfred owen during world war i, and published posthumously in . the latin title is taken from ode . (valor) of the roman poet horace and means "it is sweet and fitting".[ ] it is followed by pro patria mori, which means "to die for one's country". one of owen's most renowned works, the poem is known for its horrific imagery and condemnation of war. it was drafted at craiglockhart in the first half of october and later revised, probably at scarborough but possibly ripon, between january and march . the earliest surviving manuscript is dated october and addressed to his mother, susan owen, with the message: "here is a gas poem done yesterday (which is not private, but not final)." contents 	 summary 	 dedication 	 title 	 structure 	 composition 	 notes 	 references 	 external links summary[edit] the text presents a vignette from the front lines of world war i; specifically, of british soldiers attacked with chlorine gas. in the rush when the shells with poison gas explode, one soldier is unable to get his mask on in time. the speaker of the poem describes the gruesome effects of the gas on the man and concludes that, if one were to see first-hand the reality of war, one might not repeat mendacious platitudes like dulce et decorum est pro patria mori: "how sweet and honourable it is to die for one's country". these horrors are what inspired owen to write the poem, and because he did, he was able to voice his own opinion on the atrocities of war, and what it was like to be in those very situations.[ ] dedication[edit] throughout the poem, and particularly strong in the last stanza, there is a running commentary, a letter to jessie pope, a civilian propagandist of world war i, who encouraged—"with such high zest"—young men to join the battle, through her poetry, e.g. "who's for the game?" the first draft of the poem, indeed, was dedicated to pope.[ ] a later revision amended this to "a certain poetess",[ ] though this did not make it into the final publication, either, as owen apparently decided to address his poem to the larger audience of war supporters in general such as the women who handed out white feathers during the conflict to men whom they regarded as cowards for not being at the front. in the last stanza, however, the original intention can still be seen in owen's address. title[edit] the title of this poem means 'it is sweet and fitting'. the title and the latin exhortation of the final two lines are drawn from the phrase "dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" written by the roman poet horace (quintus horatius flaccus): 	 dulce et decorum est pro patria mori: mors et fugacem persequitur virum nec parcit inbellis iuventae poplitibus timidoque tergo. 	 how sweet and fitting it is to die for one's country: death pursues the man who flees, spares not the hamstrings or cowardly backs of battle-shy youths. 	—ode iii. . [ ] 	 these words were well known and often quoted by supporters of the war near its inception and were, therefore, of particular relevance to soldiers of the era. in , the line dulce et decorum est pro patria mori was inscribed on the wall of the chapel of the royal military college, sandhurst.[ ] in the final stanza of his poem, owen refers to this as "the old lie".[ ] some uncertainty arises around how to pronounce the latin phrase when the poem is read aloud. there are essentially three choices: . the traditional english pronunciation of latin, current until the early twentieth century (“dull-see et decorum est, pro pay-tria mor-eye”). . the italianate or ecclesiastical latin pronunciation, used in owen’s day in both the roman catholic and anglican churches, and in continued use today in the catholic church (“dool-chay et decorum est, pro patria mor-ee”). . the classical latin pronunciation reconstructed by scholars in the nineteenth century and generally taught in schools since the early s (“dool-kay et decorum est, pro patria mor-ee”). owen’s own schooling took place at a time when the teaching of latin pronunciation was in transition and therefore – without knowing how he himself would have pronounced the phrase – any of the three versions can be considered acceptable. structure[edit] detail of the inscription over the rear entrance to the arlington memorial amphitheater. the inscription reads: "dulce et decorum est pro patria mori", written by the roman poet horace. the style of "dulce et decorum est" is similar to the french ballade poetic form.[ ] by referencing this formal poetic form and then breaking the conventions of pattern and rhyming, owen accentuates the disruptive and chaotic events being told. each of the stanzas has a traditional rhyming scheme, using two quatrains of rhymed iambic pentameter with several spondaic substitutions. these make the poem's reading experience seem close to a casual talking speed and clarity. the poem is in two parts, each of lines. the first part of the poem (the first line and the second line stanzas) is written in the present as the action happens and everyone is reacting to the events around them. in the second part (the third line and the last line stanzas), the narrator writes as though at a distance from the horror: he refers to what is happening twice as if in a "dream", as though standing back watching the events or even recalling them. another interpretation is to read the lines literally. "in all my dreams" may mean this sufferer of shell shock is haunted by a friend drowning in his own blood, and cannot sleep without revisiting the horror nightly. the second part looks back to draw a lesson from what happened at the start. the two line parts of the poem echo a formal poetic style, the sonnet, but a broken and unsettling version of this form.[ ] this poem is considered by many as one of the best war poems ever written.[citation needed] studying the two parts of the poem reveals a change in the use of language from visual impressions outside the body, to sounds produced by the body – or a movement from the visual to the visceral.[ ] in the opening lines, the scene is set with visual phrases such as "haunting flares", but after the gas attack the poem has sounds produced by the victim – "guttering", "choking", "gargling". in this way, owen evokes the terrible effects of chlorine gas corroding the body from inside.[ ] composition[edit] in may owen was diagnosed with neurasthenia (shell-shock) and sent to craiglockhart hospital near edinburgh to recover. whilst receiving treatment at the hospital, owen became the editor of the hospital magazine, the hydra, and met the poet siegfried sassoon, who was to have a major impact upon his life and work and to play a crucial role in the dissemination of owen’s poetry following his untimely death in , aged . owen wrote a number of his most famous poems at craiglockhart, including several drafts of "dulce et decorum est", "soldier's dream", and "anthem for doomed youth". sassoon advised and encouraged owen, and this is evident in a number of drafts which include sassoon’s annotations.[ ] only five of owen's poems were published in his lifetime. however, after his death his heavily worked manuscript drafts were brought together and published in two different editions by siegfried sassoon with the assistance of edith sitwell (in ) and edmund blunden (in ).[ ] notes[edit] 	^ poems ( ) has "bitten": plausible, as the topic is "cud". however, the original manuscript is transcribed as "bitter" in: owen, wilfred ( ). stallworthy, jon (ed.). the complete poems and fragments. volume ii: the manuscripts of the poems and the fragments. london: chatto & windus. p.  . isbn  . 	^ owen, wilfred ( ). poems. london: chatto & windus. p.  . oclc  . 	^ "'dulce et decorum est' & intertextuality in wilfred owen" (pdf). poetryclass fresh ideas for learning from the poetry society. poetrysociety.org.uk. 	^ "a short analysis of wilfred owen's 'dulce et decorum est'". interesting literature. - - . retrieved - - . 	^ a b "dulce and decorum est". the first world war poetry digital archive. retrieved - - . 	^ "q. horati flaccvs". the latin library. retrieved - - . 	^ francis law, a man at arms: memoirs of two world wars ( ) page 	^ "the poem". oucs.ox.ac.uk. retrieved - - . 	^ a b teachout, mika. "dulce et decorum est – a literary writer's point of view". writers write: the internet writing journal. retrieved february . 	^ a b das, santanu. "wilfred owen, 'dulce et decorum est'". world war one. british library. retrieved august . 	^ a b "the poetry manuscripts of wilfred owen". british library. retrieved august . references[edit] 	"q. horati flaccvs". the latin library. retrieved - - . external links[edit] 		wikisource has original text related to this article: dulce et decorum est 		wikimedia commons has media related to dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. 	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for i still live, as i pass to and fro through the mouths of men.”[ ] literature[edit] ennius continued the nascent literary tradition by writing plays in greek and roman style (praetextae and palliatae), as well as his most famous work, a historic epic in hexameters called the annales. other minor works include the epicharmus, epigrammata, the euhemerus, the hedyphagetica, praecepta/protrepticus, saturae (or satires), scipio, and sota.[ ] the annales[edit] the annales was an epic poem in fifteen books, later expanded to eighteen, covering roman history from the fall of troy in bc down to the censorship of cato the elder in bc. it was the first latin poem to adopt the dactylic hexameter metre used in greek epic and didactic poetry,[ ] leading it to become the standard metre for these genres in latin poetry. the annals became a school text for roman schoolchildren, eventually supplanted by virgil's aeneid. about lines survive. a copy of the work is among the latin rolls of the herculaneum library. minor works[edit] the epicharmus was inspired by the philosophical hypotheses developed by the sicilian poet and philosopher epicharmus of kos, after which ennius's work took its name.[ ][ ] in the epicharmus, the poet describes a dream he had in which he died and was transported to some place of heavenly enlightenment. here, he met epicharmus, who explained the nature of the gods and taught ennius the physics of the universe.[ ] the euhemerus presented a theological doctrine based on the ideas greek of euhemerus of messene, who argued that the gods of olympus were not supernatural powers that interference in the lives of humans, but rather heroes of old who after death were eventually regarded as deities due to their valor, bravery, or cultural impact (this belief is now known as euhemerism). both cicero and lactantius write that the euhemerus was a "translat[ion] and a recount[ing]" of euhemerus's original work the sacred history, but it is unclear if this means ennius simply translated the original from greek into latin, or added in his own elements. most of what is preserved of this work comes to us from lactantius, and these snippets suggest that the euhemerus was a prose text.[ ] the hedyphagetica took much of its substance from the gastronomical epic of archestratus of gela. the extant portions of ennius's poem discuss where a reader might find the best type of fish. most of the fragments, replete with unique terms for fish and numerous place names, are corrupt or damaged. the hedyphagetica is written in hexameters, but differs from the annales in regards to "metrical practices"; this difference is largely due to each works' distinct subject matter.[ ] the titles praecepta and protrepticus were likely used to refer to the same (possibly exhortatory) work. however, given this work's almost non-existent nature (only the word pannibus—an "unusual" form of the word pannis, meaning "rags"—is preserved in the work of the latin grammarian charisius), this position is extremely difficult to verify.[ ][ ] the saturae is a collection of about thirty lines from satirical poems—making it the first extant instance of roman satire.[ ] these lines are written in a variety of poetic metres.[ ][ ] the poems in this collection "were mostly concerned with practical wisdom, often driving home a lesson with the help of a fable."[ ] ennius's scipio was a work (possibly a panegyric poem) that apparently celebrated the life and deeds of scipio africanus. hardly anything remains of this work, and what is preserved is embedded in the works of others. unfortunately, "no quotation of [scipio] supplies a context".[ ] some have proposed that the work was written before the annales, and others have said that the work was written after scipio's bc triumph that followed the battle of zama ( bc).[ ] the sota was a poem, potentially of some length, named after the greek poet sotades. the work, which followed a metre established by sotades known as the "sotadeus", concerned itself with a number of disparate topics and ideas.[ ] editions[edit] 	quinto ennio. le opere minori, vol. i. praecepta, protrepticus, saturae, scipio, sota. ed., tr., comm. alessandro russo. pisa: edizioni ets, (testi e studi di cultura classica, ). 	warmington, e. h. ( ). ennius (q. ennius). remains of old latin. edited by eric herbert warmington. vol. : ennius and caecilius. cambridge: harvard university press. see also[edit] 	ancient rome portal 	latin literature 	list of ancient romans 	prosody (latin) footnotes[edit] 	^ smith ( ), p. . "rudiae is celebrated as the birthplace of ennius." 	^ e. badian, “ennius and his friends” in ennius, fondation hardt, geneva , pp. - 	^ aicher ( ), pp. – . 	^ commentary on the aeneid, vii. 	^ noctes atticae . . 	^ most of this section is drawn from the edition of the encyclopaedia britannica 	^ a b c d la barbera ( ). 	^ "fjcl latin literature study guide" (pdf). florida junior classical league. retrieved march . 	^ a b editors of encyclopædia britannica ( ). 	^ ennius, goldberg, & manuwald ( ), pp. – . 	^ merry ( ), p. . 	^ ennius, goldberg, & manuwald ( ), pp. – . 	^ ennius, goldberg, & manuwald ( ), pp. – . 	^ ennius, goldberg, & manuwald ( ), pp. – . 	^ ennius, goldberg, & manuwald ( ), pp. – . 	^ a b ennius, goldberg, & manuwald ( ), pp. – . 	^ ennius, goldberg, & manuwald ( ), pp. – . bibliography[edit] 	aicher, peter (summer ). "ennius' dream of homer". the american journal of philology. ( ): – . doi: . / . jstor  . 	editors of encyclopædia britannica (february , ). "ennius". encyclopædia britannica online. retrieved august , .cs maint: extra text: authors list (link) 	ennius ( ). goldberg, sander m.; manuwald, gesine (eds.). fragmentary republican latin. volume ii: ennius, dramatic fragments. minor works. cambridge, ma: harvard university press. 	la barbera, sandro (august , ). "ennius". oxford bibliographies. oxford university press. doi: . /obo/ - . retrieved august , . 	merry, william walter, ed. ( ). selected fragments of roman poetry: from the earliest times of the republic to the augustan age. oxford, uk: clarendon press. 	smith, william ( ). "rudiae". a smaller classical dictionary. london, uk: john murray. retrieved august , . further reading[edit] 	bettini, m. ( ). studi e note su ennio. pisa: giardini. 	brooks, r. a. ( ). ennius and roman tragedy. new york: arno press. isbn  - - - . 	elliott, j. ( ). "ennius' 'cunctator' and the history of a gerund in the roman historiographical tradition". the classical quarterly. ( ): – . doi: . /s . 	elliott, j. ( ). "ennius as universal historian: the case of the annales." historiae mundi: studies in universal history. ed. peter liddel and andrew fear. london: bloomsbury academic, – . 	evans, r.l.s. ( ). "ennius". in briggs, ward (ed.). ancient roman writers. dictionary of literary biography. . 	fisher, j. ( ). the 'annals' of quintus ennius and the italic tradition. baltimore: johns hopkins university press. 	fitzgerald, w., and emily gowers, eds. ( ). ennius perennis. the annals and beyond. proceedings of the cambridge philolological society, supplementary volume . cambridge: cambridge university press. 	goldberg, s. m. ( ). epic in republican rome. new york: oxford university press. isbn  - - - . 	goldberg, sander m. ( ). "poetry, politics, and ennius". transactions of the american philological association. : – . doi: . / . jstor  . 	goldschmidt, n. ( ). "absent presence: pater ennius in renaissance europe". classical receptions journal. : – . doi: . /crj/clr . 	goldschmidt, nora ( ). "shaggy crowns". doi: . /acprof:oso/ . . . isbn  . cite journal requires |journal= (help) 	jocelyn, h. d. ennius (q. ennius). ( ). the tragedies of ennius: the fragments. edited by henry david jocelyn. cambridge: cambridge university press. 	jocelyn, henry david ( ). "the poems of quintus ennius". recht, religion, sprache und literatur (bis zum ende des . jahrhunderts v. chr.). doi: . / - . isbn  . 	morgan, llewelyn ( ). "a metrical scandal in ennius". the classical quarterly. : – . doi: . /s . 	sciarrino, enrica ( ). "the introduction of epic in rome: cultural thefts and social contests". arethusa. ( ): – . doi: . /are. . . 	skutsch, o. ( ). studia enniana. london: athlone. 	ennius, quintus ( ). skutsch, otto (ed.). the annals of quintus ennius. p.  . doi: . /oseo/instance. . isbn  . external links[edit] 	library resources about ennius 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 by ennius 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 quotations related to ennius at wikiquote 	 latin wikisource has original text related to this article: ennius 	 media related to quintus ennius at wikimedia commons 	fragments of ennius' annals at the latin library; text from wordsworth ( ), line numbering from warmington ( ) 	ennius' annales: text and translation of all fragments at attalus.org; adapted from warmington ( ) 	ennius: translation of selected fragments at elfinspell.com; from specimens of the poets and poetry of greece and rome by various translators ( ) 	remains of old latin. vol. : aennius and caecilius, e. h. warmington (a cura di), cambridge-london, , pagg. - . 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. 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esther quincy, who married jonathan sewall; and elizabeth quincy, who was the mother of samuel sewall.[ ] after his first wife's death in , quincy married anna gerrish.[ ] quincy was also a freemason, and was a member of master's lodge along with richard gridley.[ ] edmund quincy died july , , at the age of .[ ] 	 			 			 john hancock 			 		 	 			 			 dorothy (quincy) hancock 			 		 	 			 			 lydia henchman hancock ( - ) 			 		 	 			 			 john george washington hancock ( - ) 			 		 see also[edit] 	quincy political family references[edit] 	^ massachusetts historical society ( ). proceedings of the massachusetts historical society. massachusetts historical society. p.  . retrieved - - . 	^ howard, r.h.; crocker, henry e. ( ). a history of new england. crocker & co. p.  . retrieved - - . 	^ quincy, edmund ( ). life of josiah quincy. little, brown, and company. pp.  – . retrieved - - . 	^ a b c massachusetts historical society ( ). proceedings of the massachusetts historical society. massachusetts historical society. pp.  – . retrieved - - . 	^ historical society of pennsylvania ( ). "josiah quincy, snr". the pennsylvania magazine of history and biography: . retrieved - - . 	^ a b c massachusetts historical society: quincy, wendell, holmes, and upham family papers, - 	^ a b quincy, josiah; quincy, eliza susan morton ( ). memoir of the life of josiah quincy, junior, of massachusetts bay, - . little, brown. pp.  . retrieved - - . 	^ adams, oscar fay ( ). a dictionary of american authors ( th ed.). houghton, mifflin and company. pp.  . retrieved - - . 	^ stark, james henry ( ). the loyalists of massachusetts and the other side of the american revolution. salem press. pp.  . retrieved - - . 	^ triber, jayne e. 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greek: Εὐσέβιος τῆς Καισαρείας, eusébios tés kaisareías; ad  /  – / ), also known as eusebius pamphili (from the greek: Εὐσέβιος τοῦ Παμϕίλου), was a historian of christianity, exegete, and christian polemicist. he became the bishop of caesarea maritima about ad . together with pamphilus, he was a scholar of the biblical canon and is regarded as one of the most learned christians of his time.[ ] he wrote demonstrations of the gospel, preparations for the gospel and on discrepancies between the gospels, studies of the biblical text. as "father of church history" (not to be confused with the title of church father), he produced the ecclesiastical history, on the life of pamphilus, the chronicle and on the martyrs. he also produced a biographical work on constantine the great, the first christian emperor, who was augustus between ad and ad . a portrait of st. eusebius of caesarea (left) and ammonius of alexandria (right), prefacing the letter eusebius wrote to him in the rabbula gospels ( th cent. ad) although eusebius' works are regarded as giving insight into the history of the early church, he was not without prejudice, especially in regard to the jews, for while "eusebius indeed blames the jews for the crucifixion of jesus, he nevertheless also states that forgiveness can be granted even for this sin and that the jews can receive salvation."[ ] nor can his works be trusted to be free from subjectivism, for some scholars believe that "eusebius is a notoriously unreliable historian, and so anything he reports should be critically scrutinized."[ ] this is especially true of his life of constantine, which he wrote as a eulogy shortly after the emperor's death in ad , and which is "often maligned for perceived factual errors, deemed by some so hopelessly flawed that it cannot be the work of eusebius at all."[ ] yet others see him as a "constantinian flunky"[ ] for, as a trusted adviser to constantine, it was politically expedient for him to present constantine in the best light possible. he is recognized as a saint in the egyptian coptic church and the ethiopian church. contents 	 sources 	 early life 	 bishop of caesarea 	 death 	 works 	 . onomasticon 	 . biblical text criticism 	 . chronicle 	 . church history 	 . life of constantine 	 . . conversion of constantine according to eusebius 	 . minor historical works 	 . apologetic and dogmatic works 	 . exegetical and miscellaneous works 	 doctrine 	 . nicene creed 	 assessment 	 bibliography 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 . citations 	 . sources 	 further reading 	 external links sources[edit] little is known about the life of eusebius. his successor at the see of caesarea, acacius, wrote a life of eusebius, a work that has since been lost. eusebius' own surviving works probably only represent a small portion of his total output. beyond notices in his extant writings, the major sources are the th-century ecclesiastical historians socrates, sozomen, and theodoret, and the th-century christian author jerome. there are assorted notices of his activities in the writings of his contemporaries athanasius, arius, eusebius of nicomedia, and alexander of alexandria. eusebius' pupil, eusebius of emesa, provides some incidental information.[ ] early life[edit] most scholars date the birth of eusebius to some point between ad and ad .[ ][ ] he was most likely born in or around caesarea maritima.[ ][ ] nothing is known about his parents.[ ] he was baptized and instructed in the city, and lived in syria palaestina in , when diocletian's army passed through the region (in the life of constantine, eusebius recalls seeing constantine traveling with the army).[ ][ ] eusebius was made presbyter by agapius of caesarea.[ ] some, like theologian and ecclesiastical historian john henry newman, understand eusebius' statement that he had heard dorotheus of tyre "expound the scriptures wisely in the church" to indicate that eusebius was dorotheus' pupil while the priest was resident in antioch; others, like the scholar d. s. wallace-hadrill, deem the phrase too ambiguous to support the contention.[ ] through the activities of the theologian origen ( / – ) and the school of his follower pamphilus (later rd century – ), caesarea became a center of christian learning. origen was largely responsible for the collection of usage information, or which churches were using which gospels, regarding the texts which became the new testament. the information used to create the late-fourth-century easter letter, which declared accepted christian writings, was probably based on the ecclesiastical history [he] of eusebius of caesarea, wherein he uses the information passed on to him by origen to create both his list at he : and origen's list at he : . eusebius got his information about what texts were accepted by the third-century churches throughout the known world, a great deal of which origen knew of firsthand from his extensive travels, from the library and writings of origen.[ ] on his deathbed, origen had made a bequest of his private library to the christian community in the city.[ ] together with the books of his patron ambrosius, origen's library (including the original manuscripts of his works[ ][note ]) formed the core of the collection that pamphilus established.[ ] pamphilus also managed a school that was similar to (or perhaps a re-establishment of[ ]) that of origen.[ ] pamphilus was compared to demetrius of phalerum and pisistratus, for he had gathered bibles "from all parts of the world".[ ] like his model origen, pamphilus maintained close contact with his students. eusebius, in his history of the persecutions, alludes to the fact that many of the caesarean martyrs lived together, presumably under pamphilus.[ ] soon after pamphilus settled in caesarea (ca. s), he began teaching eusebius, who was then somewhere between twenty and twenty-five.[ ] because of his close relationship with his schoolmaster, eusebius was sometimes called eusebius pamphili: "eusebius, son of pamphilus".[note ] the name may also indicate that eusebius was made pamphilus' heir.[ ] pamphilus gave eusebius a strong admiration for the thought of origen.[ ] neither pamphilus nor eusebius knew origen personally;[ ] pamphilus probably picked up origenist ideas during his studies under pierius (nicknamed "origen junior"[ ]) in alexandria.[ ] eusebius' preparation for the gospel bears witness to the literary tastes of origen: eusebius quotes no comedy, tragedy, or lyric poetry, but makes reference to all the works of plato and to an extensive range of later philosophic works, largely from middle platonists from philo to the late nd century.[ ] whatever its secular contents, the primary aim of origen and pamphilus' school was to promote sacred learning. the library's biblical and theological contents were more impressive: origen's hexapla and tetrapla; a copy of the original aramaic version of the gospel of matthew; and many of origen's own writings.[ ] marginal comments in extant manuscripts note that pamphilus and his friends and pupils, including eusebius, corrected and revised much of the biblical text in their library.[ ] their efforts made the hexaplaric septuagint text increasingly popular in syria and palestine.[ ] soon after joining pamphilus' school, eusebius started helping his master expand the library's collections and broaden access to its resources. at about this time eusebius compiled a collection of ancient martyrdoms, presumably for use as a general reference tool.[ ] eusebius of caesarea and carpianus depicted as saints in a gospel book from monastery at amba geshan in the s, eusebius began work on his most important work, the ecclesiastical history, a narrative history of the church and christian community from the apostolic age to eusebius' own time. at about the same time, he worked on his chronicle, a universal calendar of events from the creation to, again, eusebius' own time. he completed the first editions of the ecclesiastical history and chronicle before .[ ] bishop of caesarea[edit] eusebius succeeded agapius as bishop of caesarea soon after and was called on by arius who had been excommunicated by his bishop alexander of alexandria. an episcopal council in caesarea pronounced arius blameless.[ ] eusebius enjoyed the favor of the emperor constantine. because of this he was called upon to present the creed of his own church to the attendees of the council of nicaea in .[ ] however, the anti-arian creed from palestine prevailed, becoming the basis for the nicene creed.[ ] the theological views of arius, that taught the subordination of the son to the father, continued to be controversial. eustathius of antioch strongly opposed the growing influence of origen's theology, as the root of arianism. eusebius, an admirer of origen, was reproached by eustathius for deviating from the nicene faith. eusebius prevailed and eustathius was deposed at a synod in antioch. however, athanasius of alexandria became a more powerful opponent and in he was summoned before a synod in caesarea (which he refused to attend). in the following year, he was again summoned before a synod in tyre at which eusebius of caesarea presided. athanasius, foreseeing the result, went to constantinople to bring his cause before the emperor. constantine called the bishops to his court, among them eusebius. athanasius was condemned and exiled at the end of . eusebius remained in the emperor's favour throughout this time and more than once was exonerated with the explicit approval of the emperor constantine. after the emperor's death (c. ), eusebius wrote the life of constantine, an important historical work because of eyewitness accounts and the use of primary sources.[ ] death[edit] much like his birth, the exact date of eusebius' death is unknown. however, there is primary text evidence from a council held in antioch that by the year , his successor acacius had already filled the seat as bishop. socrates and sozomen write about eusebius' death, and place it just before constantine's son constantine ii died, which was in early . they also say that it was after the second banishment of athanasius, which began in mid . this means that his death occurred some time between the second half of and early .[ ][ ] works[edit] armenian translation of chronicon. th century manuscript of the extensive literary activity of eusebius, a relatively large portion has been preserved. although posterity suspected him of arianism, eusebius had made himself indispensable by his method of authorship; his comprehensive and careful excerpts from original sources saved his successors the painstaking labor of original research. hence, much has been preserved, quoted by eusebius, which otherwise would have been lost. the literary productions of eusebius reflect on the whole the course of his life. at first, he occupied himself with works on biblical criticism under the influence of pamphilus and probably of dorotheus of tyre of the school of antioch. afterward, the persecutions under diocletian and galerius directed his attention to the martyrs of his own time and the past, and this led him to the history of the whole church and finally to the history of the world, which, to him, was only a preparation for ecclesiastical history. then followed the time of the arian controversies, and dogmatic questions came into the foreground. christianity at last found recognition by the state; and this brought new problems – apologies of a different sort had to be prepared. lastly, eusebius wrote eulogies in praise of constantine. to all this activity must be added numerous writings of a miscellaneous nature, addresses, letters, and the like, and exegetical works that extended over the whole of his life and that include both commentaries and an important treatise on the location of biblical place names and the distances between these cities. onomasticon[edit] main article: onomasticon (eusebius) biblical text criticism[edit] eusebius's canon tables were often included in early medieval gospel books pamphilus and eusebius occupied themselves with the textual criticism of the septuagint text of the old testament and especially of the new testament. an edition of the septuagint seems to have been already prepared by origen, which, according to jerome, was revised and circulated by eusebius and pamphilus. for an easier survey of the material of the four evangelists, eusebius divided his edition of the new testament into paragraphs and provided it with a synoptical table so that it might be easier to find the pericopes that belong together. these canon tables or "eusebian canons" remained in use throughout the middle ages, and illuminated manuscript versions are important for the study of early medieval art, as they are the most elaborately decorated pages of many gospel books. eusebius detailed in epistula ad carpianum how to use his canons. chronicle[edit] main article: chronicon (eusebius) the chronicle (Παντοδαπὴ Ἱστορία (pantodape historia)) is divided into two parts. the first part, the chronography (Χρονογραφία (chronographia)), gives an epitome of universal history from the sources, arranged according to nations. the second part, the canons (Χρονικοὶ Κανόνες (chronikoi kanones)), furnishes a synchronism of the historical material in parallel columns, the equivalent of a parallel timeline.[ ] the work as a whole has been lost in the original greek, but it may be reconstructed from later chronographists of the byzantine school who made excerpts from the work, especially george syncellus. the tables of the second part have been completely preserved in a latin translation by jerome, and both parts are still extant in an armenian translation. the loss of the greek originals has given the armenian translation a special importance; thus, the first part of eusebius' chronicle, of which only a few fragments exist in the greek, has been preserved entirely in armenian, though with lacunae. the chronicle as preserved extends to the year .[ ] church history[edit] main article: church history (eusebius) in his church history or ecclesiastical history, eusebius wrote the first surviving history of the christian church as a chronologically-ordered account, based on earlier sources, complete from the period of the apostles to his own epoch.[ ] the time scheme correlated the history with the reigns of the roman emperors, and the scope was broad. included were the bishops and other teachers of the church, christian relations with the jews and those deemed heretical, and the christian martyrs through .[ ] although its accuracy and biases have been questioned,[ ] it remains an important source on the early church due to eusebius's access to materials now lost.[ ] life of constantine[edit] eusebius' life of constantine (vita constantini) is a eulogy or panegyric, and therefore its style and selection of facts are affected by its purpose, rendering it inadequate as a continuation of the church history. as the historian socrates scholasticus said, at the opening of his history which was designed as a continuation of eusebius, "also in writing the life of constantine, this same author has but slightly treated of matters regarding arius, being more intent on the rhetorical finish of his composition and the praises of the emperor than on an accurate statement of facts." the work was unfinished at eusebius' death. some scholars have questioned the eusebian authorship of this work. conversion of constantine according to eusebius[edit] main article: constantine the great and christianity writing decades after constantine had died, eusebius claimed that the emperor himself had recounted to him that some time between the death of his father – the augustus constantius – and his final battle against his rival maxentius as augustus in the west, constantine experienced a vision in which he and his soldiers beheld a christian symbol, "a cross-shaped trophy formed from light", above the sun at midday.[ ][ ] attached to the symbol was the phrase "by this conquer" (ἐν τούτῳ νίκα, en toútōi níka), a phrase often rendered into latin as "in hoc signo vinces".[ ] in a dream that night "the christ of god appeared to him with the sign which had appeared in the sky, and urged him to make himself a copy of the sign which had appeared in the sky, and to use this as a protection against the attacks of the enemy."[ ] eusebius relates that this happened "on a campaign he [constantine] was conducting somewhere".[ ][ ] it is unclear from eusebius's description whether the shields were marked with a christian cross or with a chi-rho, a staurogram, or another similar symbol.[ ] the latin text de mortibus persecutorum contains an early account of the october battle of the milvian bridge written by lactantius probably in , the year following the battle. lactantius does not mention a vision in the sky but describes a revelatory dream on the eve of battle.[ ] eusebius's work of that time, his church history, also makes no mention of the vision.[ ] the arch of constantine, constructed in ad , neither depicts a vision nor any christian insignia in its depiction of the battle. in his posthumous biography of constantine, eusebius agrees with lactantius that constantine received instructions in a dream to apply a christian symbol as a device to his soldiers' shields, but unlike lactantius and subsequent christian tradition, eusebius does not date the events to october and does not connect constantine's vision and dream-vision with the battle of the milvian bridge.[ ] minor historical works[edit] before he compiled his church history, eusebius edited a collection of martyrdoms of the earlier period and a biography of pamphilus. the martyrology has not survived as a whole, but it has been preserved almost completely in parts. it contained: 	an epistle of the congregation of smyrna concerning the martyrdom of polycarp; 	the martyrdom of pionius; 	the martyrdoms of carpus, papylus, and agathonike; 	the martyrdoms in the congregations of vienne and lyon; 	the martyrdom of apollonius. of the life of pamphilus, only a fragment survives. a work on the martyrs of palestine in the time of diocletian was composed after ; numerous fragments are scattered in legendaries which have yet to be collected. the life of constantine was compiled after the death of the emperor and the election of his sons as augusti ( ). it is more a rhetorical eulogy on the emperor than a history but is of great value on account of numerous documents incorporated into it. apologetic and dogmatic works[edit] to the class of apologetic and dogmatic works belong: 	the apology for origen, the first five books of which, according to the definite statement of photius, were written by pamphilus in prison, with the assistance of eusebius. eusebius added the sixth book after the death of pamphilus. we possess only a latin translation of the first book, made by rufinus. 	a treatise against hierocles (a roman governor), in which eusebius combated the former's glorification of apollonius of tyana in a work entitled a truth-loving discourse (greek: philalethes logos); in spite of manuscript attribution to eusebius, however, it has been argued (by thomas hagg[ ] and more recently, aaron johnson)[ ] that this treatise "against hierocles" was written by someone other than eusebius of caesarea. 	praeparatio evangelica (preparation for the gospel), commonly known by its latin title, which attempts to prove the excellence of christianity over every pagan religion and philosophy. the praeparatio consists of fifteen books which have been completely preserved. eusebius considered it an introduction to christianity for pagans. but its value for many later readers is more because eusebius studded this work with so many lively fragments from historians and philosophers which are nowhere else preserved. here alone is preserved pyrrho's translation of the buddhist three marks of existence upon which pyrrho based pyrrhonism. here alone is a summary of the writings of the phoenician priest sanchuniathon of which the accuracy has been shown by the mythological accounts found on the ugaritic tables. here alone is the account from diodorus siculus's sixth book of euhemerus' wondrous voyage to the island of panchaea where euhemerus purports to have found his true history of the gods. and here almost alone is preserved writings of the neo-platonist philosopher atticus along with so much else. 	demonstratio evangelica (proof of the gospel) is closely connected to the praeparatio and comprised originally twenty books of which ten have been completely preserved as well as a fragment of the fifteenth. here eusebius treats of the person of jesus christ. the work was probably finished before ; 	another work which originated in the time of the persecution, entitled prophetic extracts (eclogae propheticae). it discusses in four books the messianic texts of scripture. the work is merely the surviving portion (books – ) of the general elementary introduction to the christian faith, now lost. the fragments given as the commentary on luke in the pg have been claimed to derive from the missing tenth book of the general elementary introduction (see d. s. wallace-hadrill); however, aaron johnson has argued that they cannot be associated with this work.[ ] 	the treatise on divine manifestation or on the theophania (peri theophaneias), of unknown date. it treats of the incarnation of the divine logos, and its contents are in many cases identical with the demonstratio evangelica. only fragments are preserved in greek, but a complete syriac translation of the theophania survives in an early th-century manuscript. samuel lee, the editor ( ) and translator ( ) of the syriac theophania, thought that the work must have been written "after the general peace restored to the church by constantine, and before either the 'praeparatio,' or the 'demonstratio evangelica,' was written ...it appears probable ... therefore, that this was one of the first productions of eusebius, if not the first after the persecutions ceased."[ ] hugo gressmann, noting in that the demonstratio seems to be mentioned at iv. and v. , and that ii. seems to mention the extant practice of temple prostitution at hieropolis in phoenica, concluded that the theophania was probably written shortly after . others have suggested a date as late as .[ ] 	a polemical treatise against marcellus of ancyra, the against marcellus, dating from about ; 	a supplement to the last-named work, also against marcellus, entitled ecclesiastical theology, in which he defended the nicene doctrine of the logos against the party of athanasius. a number of writings, belonging in this category, have been entirely lost. exegetical and miscellaneous works[edit] all of the exegetical works of eusebius have suffered damage in transmission. the majority of them are known to us only from long portions quoted in byzantine catena-commentaries. however these portions are very extensive. extant are: 	an enormous commentary on the psalms; 	a commentary on isaiah, discovered more or less complete in a manuscript in florence early in the th century and published years later; 	small fragments of commentaries on romans and corinthians. eusebius also wrote a work quaestiones ad stephanum et marinum, on the differences of the gospels (including solutions). this was written for the purpose of harmonizing the contradictions in the reports of the different evangelists. this work was recently ( ) translated into the english language by david j. miller and adam c. mccollum and was published under the name eusebius of caesarea: gospel problems and solutions.[ ] the original work was also translated into syriac, and lengthy quotations exist in a catena in that language, and also in coptic and arabic catenas.[ ] eusebius also wrote treatises on the biblical past; these three treatises have been lost. they were: 	a work on the greek equivalents of hebrew gentilic nouns; 	a description of old judea with an account of the loss of the ten tribes; 	a plan of jerusalem and the temple of solomon. the addresses and sermons of eusebius are mostly lost, but some have been preserved, e.g., a sermon on the consecration of the church in tyre and an address on the thirtieth anniversary of the reign of constantine ( ). most of eusebius' letters are lost. his letters to carpianus and flacillus exist complete. fragments of a letter to the empress constantia also exists. doctrine[edit] 	 	this section possibly contains original research. please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. statements consisting only of original research should be removed. (december ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) eusebius is fairly unusual in his preterist, or fulfilled, eschatological view. saying "the holy scriptures foretell that there will be unmistakable signs of the coming of christ. now there were among the hebrews three outstanding offices of dignity, which made the nation famous, firstly the kingship, secondly that of prophet, and lastly the high priesthood. the prophecies said that the abolition and complete destruction of all these three together would be the sign of the presence of the christ. and that the proofs that the times had come, would lie in the ceasing of the mosaic worship, the desolation of jerusalem and its temple, and the subjection of the whole jewish race to its enemies. ...the holy oracles foretold that all these changes, which had not been made in the days of the prophets of old, would take place at the coming of the christ, which i will presently shew to have been fulfilled as never before in accordance with the predictions" (demonstratio evangelica viii). from a dogmatic point of view, eusebius stands entirely upon the shoulders of origen. like origen, he started from the fundamental thought of the absolute sovereignty (monarchia) of god. god is the cause of all beings. but he is not merely a cause; in him everything good is included, from him all life originates, and he is the source of all virtue. god sent christ into the world that it may partake of the blessings included in the essence of god. eusebius expressly distinguishes the son as distinct from father as a ray is also distinct from its source the sun.[citation needed] eusebius held that men were sinners by their own free choice and not by the necessity of their natures. eusebius said: the creator of all things has impressed a natural law upon the soul of every man, as an assistant and ally in his conduct, pointing out to him the right way by this law; but, by the free liberty with which he is endowed, making the choice of what is best worthy of praise and acceptance, he has acted rightly, not by force, but from his own free-will, when he had it in his power to act otherwise, as, again, making him who chooses what is worst, deserving of blame and punishment, because he has by his own motion neglected the natural law, and becoming the origin and fountain of wickedness, and misusing himself, not from any extraneous necessity, but from free will and judgment. the fault is in him who chooses, not in god. for god has not made nature or the substance of the soul bad; for he who is good can make nothing but what is good. everything is good which is according to nature. every rational soul has naturally a good free-will, formed for the choice of what is good. but when a man acts wrongly, nature is not to be blamed; for what is wrong, takes place not according to nature, but contrary to nature, it being the work of choice, and not of nature.[ ] a letter eusebius is supposed to have written to constantine's daughter constantina, refusing to fulfill her request for images of christ, was quoted in the decrees (now lost) of the iconoclast council of hieria in , and later quoted in part in the rebuttal of the hieria decrees in the second council of nicaea of , now the only source from which some of the text is known. the authenticity or authorship of the letter remains uncertain.[ ] nicene creed[edit] in the june issue of the church history journal, pier beatrice reports that eusebius testified that the word homoousios (consubstantial) "was inserted in the nicene creed solely by the personal order of constantine."[ ] according to eusebius of caesarea, the word homoousios was inserted in the nicene creed solely by the personal order of constantine. but this statement is highly problematic. it is very difficult to explain the seeming paradoxical fact that this word, along with the explanation given by constantine, was accepted by the "arian" eusebius, whereas it has left no traces at all in the works of his opponents, the leaders of the anti-arian party such as alexander of alexandria, ossius of cordova, marcellus of ancyra, and eustathius of antioch, who are usually considered constantine's theological advisers and the strongest supporters of the council. neither before nor during constantine's time is there any evidence of a normal, well-established christian use of the term homoousios in its strictly trinitarian meaning. having once excluded any relationship of the nicene homoousios with the christian tradition, it becomes legitimate to propose a new explanation, based on an analysis of two pagan documents which have so far never been taken into account. the main thesis of this paper is that homoousios came straight from constantine's hermetic background. as can be clearly seen in the poimandres, and even more clearly in an inscription mentioned exclusively in the theosophia, in the theological language of egyptian paganism the word homoousios meant that the nous-father and the logos-son, who are two distinct beings, share the same perfection of the divine nature. — pier franco beatrice, "the word 'homoousios' from hellenism to christianity", church history, volume , № , june , p. assessment[edit] 	edward gibbon openly distrusted the writings of eusebius concerning the number of martyrs, by noting a passage in the shorter text of the martyrs of palestine attached to the ecclesiastical history (book , chapter ) in which eusebius introduces his description of the martyrs of the great persecution under diocletian with: "wherefore we have decided to relate nothing concerning them except the things in which we can vindicate the divine judgment. ...we shall introduce into this history in general only those events which may be useful first to ourselves and afterwards to posterity." in the longer text of the same work, chapter , eusebius states: "i think it best to pass by all the other events which occurred in the meantime: such as ... the lust of power on the part of many, the disorderly and unlawful ordinations, and the schisms among the confessors themselves; also the novelties which were zealously devised against the remnants of the church by the new and factious members, who added innovation after innovation and forced them in unsparingly among the calamities of the persecution, heaping misfortune upon misfortune. i judge it more suitable to shun and avoid the account of these things, as i said at the beginning." 	when his own honesty was challenged by his contemporaries,[ ] gibbon appealed to a chapter heading in eusebius' praeparatio evangelica (book xii, chapter )[ ] in which eusebius discussed "that it will be necessary sometimes to use falsehood as a remedy for the benefit of those who require such a mode of treatment."[ ] 	although gibbon refers to eusebius as the "gravest" of the ecclesiastical historians,[ ] he also suggests that eusebius was more concerned with the passing political concerns of his time than with his duty as a reliable historian.[ ] 	jacob burckhardt ( th century cultural historian) dismissed eusebius as "the first thoroughly dishonest historian of antiquity". 	other critics of eusebius' work cite the panegyrical tone of the vita, plus the omission of internal christian conflicts in the canones, as reasons to interpret his writing with caution.[ ] alternate views have suggested that gibbon's dismissal of eusebius is inappropriate: 	with reference to gibbon's comments, joseph barber lightfoot (late th century theologian and former bishop of durham) pointed out[ ] that eusebius' statements indicate his honesty in stating what he was not going to discuss, and also his limitations as a historian in not including such material. he also discusses the question of accuracy. "the manner in which eusebius deals with his very numerous quotations elsewhere, where we can test his honesty, is a sufficient vindication against this unjust charge." lightfoot also notes that eusebius cannot always be relied on: "a far more serious drawback to his value as a historian is the loose and uncritical spirit in which he sometimes deals with his materials. this shows itself in diverse ways. he is not always to be trusted in his discrimination of genuine and spurious documents." 	averil cameron (professor at king's college london and oxford) and stuart hall (historian and theologian), in their recent translation of the life of constantine, point out that writers such as burckhardt found it necessary to attack eusebius in order to undermine the ideological legitimacy of the habsburg empire, which based itself on the idea of christian empire derived from constantine, and that the most controversial letter in the life has since been found among the papyri of egypt.[ ] 	in church history (vol. , ), michael j. hollerich (assistant professor at the jesuit santa clara university, california) replies to burckhardt's criticism of eusebius, that "eusebius has been an inviting target for students of the constantinian era. at one time or another they have characterized him as a political propagandist, a good courtier, the shrewd and worldly adviser of the emperor constantine, the great publicist of the first christian emperor, the first in a long succession of ecclesiastical politicians, the herald of byzantinism, a political theologian, a political metaphysician, and a caesaropapist. it is obvious that these are not, in the main, neutral descriptions. much traditional scholarship, sometimes with barely suppressed disdain, has regarded eusebius as one who risked his orthodoxy and perhaps his character because of his zeal for the constantinian establishment." hollerich concludes that "the standard assessment has exaggerated the importance of political themes and political motives in eusebius's life and writings and has failed to do justice to him as a churchman and a scholar". while many have shared burckhardt's assessment, particularly with reference to the life of constantine, others, while not pretending to extol his merits, have acknowledged the irreplaceable value of his works which may principally reside in the copious quotations that they contain from other sources, often lost. bibliography[edit] 	eusebius of caesarea. 	historia ecclesiastica (church history) first seven books ca. , eighth and ninth book ca. , tenth book ca. , epilogue ca. . 			migne, j.p., ed. eusebiou tou pamphilou, episkopou tes en palaistine kaisareias ta euriskomena panta (in greek). patrologia graeca – . paris, . online at khazar skeptik and documenta catholica omnia. accessed november . 	mcgiffert, arthur cushman, trans. church history. from nicene and post-nicene fathers, second series, vol. . edited by philip schaff and henry wace. buffalo, ny: christian literature publishing co., . revised and edited for new advent by kevin knight. online at new advent and ccel. accessed september . 	williamson, g.a., trans. church history. london: penguin, . 		contra hieroclem (against hierocles). 	onomasticon (on the place-names in holy scripture). 			klostermann, e., ed. eusebius' werke . (die griechischen christlichen schrifsteller der ersten (drei) jahrhunderte . . leipzig and berlin, ). online at the internet archive. accessed january . 	wolf, umhau, trans. the onomasticon of eusebius pamphili: compared with the version of jerome and annotated. washington, d.c.: catholic university of america press, . online at tertullian. accessed january . 	taylor, joan e., ed. palestine in the fourth century. the onomasticon by eusebius of caesarea, translated by greville freeman-grenville, and indexed by rupert chapman iii (jerusalem: carta, ). 		de martyribus palestinae (on the martyrs of palestine). 			mcgiffert, arthur cushman, trans. martyrs of palestine. from nicene and post-nicene fathers, second series, vol. . edited by philip schaff and henry wace. buffalo, ny: christian literature publishing co., . revised and edited for new advent by kevin knight. online at new advent and ccel. accessed june , . 	cureton, william, trans. history of the martyrs in palestine by eusebius of caesarea, discovered in a very antient syriac manuscript. london: williams & norgate, . online at tertullian. accessed september , . 		praeparatio evangelica (preparation for the gospel). 	demonstratio evangelica (demonstration of the gospel). 	theophania (theophany). 	laudes constantini (in praise of constantine) . 			migne, j.p., ed. eusebiou tou pamphilou, episkopou tes en palaistine kaisareias ta euriskomena panta (in greek). patrologia graeca – . paris, . online at khazar skeptik. accessed november . 	richardson, ernest cushing, trans. oration in praise of constantine. from nicene and post-nicene fathers, second series, vol. . edited by philip schaff and henry wace. buffalo, ny: christian literature publishing co., . revised and edited for new advent by kevin knight. online at new advent. accessed october . 		vita constantini (the life of the blessed emperor constantine) ca. – . 			migne, j.p., ed. eusebiou tou pamphilou, episkopou tes en palaistine kaisareias ta euriskomena panta (in greek). patrologia graeca – . paris, . online at khazar skeptik. accessed november . 	richardson, ernest cushing, trans. life of constantine. from nicene and post-nicene fathers, second series, vol. . edited by philip schaff and henry wace. buffalo, ny: christian literature publishing co., . revised and edited for new advent by kevin knight. online at new advent. accessed june . 	cameron, averil and stuart hall, trans. life of constantine. new york: oxford university press, . 	gregory thaumaturgus. oratio panegyrica. 	salmond, s.d.f., trans. from ante-nicene fathers, vol. . edited by alexander roberts, james donaldson, and a. cleveland coxe. buffalo, ny: christian literature publishing co., . revised and edited for new advent by kevin knight. online at new advent. accessed january . 	jerome. 	chronicon (chronicle) ca. . 			fotheringham, john knight, ed. the bodleian manuscript of jerome's version of the chronicle of eusebius. oxford: clarendon, . online at the internet archive. accessed october . 	pearse, roger, et al., trans. the chronicle of st. jerome, in early church fathers: additional texts. tertullian, . online at tertullian. accessed august . 		de viris illustribus (on illustrious men) . 			herding, w., ed. de viris illustribus (in latin). leipzig: teubner, . online at internet archive. accessed october . 	liber de viris inlustribus (in latin). texte und untersuchungen . leipzig, . 	richardson, ernest cushing, trans. de viris illustribus (on illustrious men). from nicene and post-nicene fathers, second series, vol. . edited by philip schaff and henry wace. buffalo, ny: christian literature publishing co., . revised and edited for new advent by kevin knight. online at new advent. accessed august . 		epistulae (letters). 			fremantle, w.h., g. lewis and w.g. martley, trans. letters. from nicene and post-nicene fathers, second series, vol. . edited by philip schaff and henry wace. buffalo, ny: christian literature publishing co., . revised and edited for new advent by kevin knight. online at new advent and ccel. accessed october . 	origen. 	de principiis (on first principles). see also[edit] 	church fathers 	constantine i and christianity 	early christianity 	fifty bibles of constantine 	travelogues of palestine notes[edit] 	^ pamphilus might not have obtained all of origen's writings, however: the library's text of origen's commentary on isaiah broke off at : , while the original commentary was said to have taken up thirty volumes.[ ] 	^ there are three interpretations of this term: ( ) that eusebius was the "spiritual son", or favored pupil, of pamphilus;[ ] ( ) that eusebius was literally adopted by pamphilus;[ ] and ( ) that eusebius was pamphilus' biological son. the third explanation is the least popular among scholars. the scholion on the preparation for the gospels . in the codex paris. is usually adduced in support of the thesis. most reject the scholion as too late or misinformed, but e. h. gifford, an editor and translator of the preparation, believes it to have been written by arethas, the tenth-century archbishop of caesarea, who was in a position to know the truth of the matter.[ ] references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ ayad, mariam. studies in coptic culture: transmission and interaction. new york:the american university in cairo press, , p. , footnote . 	^ https://marginalia.lareviewofbooks.org/discoveries-ethiopian-desert/ 	^ mckenzie, judith s, & watson, francis. the garima gospels: early illuminated gospel books from ethiopia. manar al-athar, , pp. & 	^ "for these reasons i am satisfied that our present passages in luke chapter from the coptic cantenado belong to eusebius of caesarea, despite his designation in fr. copt. as 'the holy' or 'saint' eusebius, because the discussion of mary bringing forth her 'first-born son' and the language used in this context seems so clearly to reflect the creedal formula of caesarea, as mentioned above, and do not seem appropriate material for st. 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this page was last edited on june , at :  (utc). 	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 eduard fraenkel - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	eduard fraenkel 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		german-british classicist 	david mortier eduard fraenkel 	born	( - - ) march berlin, german empire 	died	 february ( - - ) (aged  ) oxford, england, united kingdom 	nationality	german-british 	occupation	philologist, chair of latin at corpus christi college, oxford david mortier eduard fraenkel ( march in berlin – february in oxford) was a german-british philologist. contents 	 background and early life 	 oxford years and later life 	 works 	 selected writings 	 references background and early life[edit] eduard fraenkel was born to jewish parents in berlin. his father was a wine dealer, and his mother the daughter of an important publishing family. at the age of ten, fraenkel suffered from an attack of osteomyelitis in his right arm that deformed his right hand. from to he attended the askanisches gymnasium in berlin, where he was educated in greek and latin. at university, he began to study law, but soon turned his attention to classics at berlin university under the great philologist ulrich von wilamowitz-moellendorff. after two years, he moved from berlin to göttingen where he stayed until , studying under friedrich leo ( – ). oxford years and later life[edit] after losing his post under the antisemitic laws passed in , fraenkel emigrated to great britain. in he was elected to a bevan fellowship at trinity college, cambridge, but later in the year took up the corpus chair of latin at corpus christi college, oxford, a post he held until . he was known to be an impressive and exhilarating, if formidable, teacher of both latin and greek literature. his wartime seminars on aeschylus's agamemnon were famous both in their own right and also for forming the basis of his edition of the play, published in , which remains a monument of th-century classical scholarship. after he continued teaching as an honorary fellow. he received the freedom of the city of sarsina, the birthplace of the playwright plautus, to whose study fraenkel made groundbreaking and lasting contributions.[ ] several prominent female scholars have remarked since fraenkel's death that he was known for inappropriate contact with his some of his female students during private lessons. isobel henderson, a tutor at somerville college, warned students that they would learn much from fraenkel but they would be "pawed about a bit." one of these students, the philosopher baroness mary warnock, recounted being groped by fraenkel in her memoirs.[ ] nevertheless, she later remarked that fraenkel was the best teacher she had ever known and stresses that his status as a classical scholar is undiminished by his conduct towards women.[ ] cambridge classicist mary beard referred to him as a "serial groper", and noted that biographies omitted the "persistent sexual harassment" intrinsic to his teaching.[ ] in a interview, roger tomlin described fraenkel as "a bully": in the one seminar of fraenkel's that tomlin attended he described fraenkel trying to embarrass women by asking them ridiculous questions, like what an 'ithyphallic metre' was.[ ] fraenkel took his own life on february , aged , a few hours after his wife died of natural causes.[ ] works[edit] eduard fraenkel was one of the most prominent and respected classical philologists of the th century, publishing studies of both greek and latin poets. most well known are his book-length study of the roman comic poet plautus, plautinisches im plautus, which was later expanded and translated into italian as elementi plautini in plauto. an english version, entitled plautine elements in plautus, was published in on the basis of the german and italian versions. also notable are his magisterial three volume text, commentary, and translation of the agamemnon of aeschylus, which remains one of the standard works of scholarship on that play, and a valuable study of the poetry of horace. selected writings[edit] 	— ( ). plautinisches bei plautus (in german). berlin: weidmannsche buchhandlung.cs maint: numeric names: authors list (link) 	— ( ). plautine elements in plautus. translated by drevikovsky, tomas; muecke, frances. oxford: oxford university press.cs maint: numeric names: authors list (link) 	— ( ). die stellung des römertums in der humanistischen bildung (in german). berlin: weidmannsche buchhandlung.cs maint: numeric names: authors list (link) 	— ( ). iktus und akzent im lateinischen sprechvers (in german). berlin: weidmannsche buchhandlung.cs maint: numeric names: authors list (link) 	— ( ). gedanken zu einer deutschen vergilfeier (in german). berlin: weidmannsche buchhandlung.cs maint: numeric names: authors list (link) 	— ( ). das pindargedicht des horaz (in german). heidelberg: carl winter.cs maint: numeric names: authors list (link) 	— ( ). aeschylus: agamemnon, edited with a commentary. oxford: clarendon press.cs maint: numeric names: authors list (link) 	— ( ). der agamemnon des aeschylus. ein vortrag (in german). zürich: artemis.cs maint: numeric names: authors list (link) 	— ( ). die sieben redenpaare im thebanerdrama des aeschylus (in german). munich: bayerische akademie der wissenschaften.cs maint: numeric names: authors list (link) 	— ( ). horace. oxford: clarendon press.cs maint: numeric names: authors list (link) 	— ( ). horaz (in german). darmstadt: wbg.cs maint: numeric names: authors list (link) 	— ( ). beobachtungen zu aristophanes (in german). rome: edizioni di storia e letteratura.cs maint: numeric names: authors list (link) 	— ( ). zu den phoenissen des euripides (in german). munich: bayerische akademie der wissenschaften.cs maint: numeric names: authors list (link) 	— ( ). noch einmal kolon und satz (in german). munich: bayerische akademie der wissenschaften.cs maint: numeric names: authors list (link) 	delz, josef; — ( ). schwarz, georg; nikitinski, oleg (eds.). briefwechsel – . eine gelehrtenfreundschaft [correspondence – : a scholarly friendship] (in german). munich: symposion eleutheron. isbn  - - - - . oclc  .cs maint: numeric names: authors list (link) references[edit] 	di benedetto, vincenzo ( ). "ricordo di eduard fraenkel" [i remember eduard fraenkel]. annali della scuola normale di pisa. iv (in italian). : – . jstor  . 	krömer, dietfried ( ). "eduard fraenkel ( – )". eikasmós. iv: – . issn  - . 	^ "fraenkel, eduard david mortier". oxford dictionary of national biography (online ed.). oxford university press. doi: . /ref:odnb/ . (subscription or uk public library membership required.) 	^ a b beard, mary ( ). "what gets left out". confronting the classics: traditions, adventures, and innovations. london: profile books. pp.  – . isbn  . oclc  . 	^ beard, mary ( august ). "keeping sex out of scholarship". times literary supplement. 	^ "scholar fires sex harassment row". times higher education (the). august . retrieved december . 	^ czeti, i.; seres, d. ( ). 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تطبيق شروط إضافية. بص على شروط الاستخدام للتفاصيل. 		بوليسة الخصوصيه 	عن ويكيبيديا 	تنازل عن مسئوليه 	نسخة المحمول 	مطورين 	إحصائيات 	بيان تعريف الارتباطات 		 	 	 epodes (horace) - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	 	epodes (horace) 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 collection of poems by horace epodes 	by horace 	a edition of the epodes by c. l. smith 	original title	epodi epodon liber iambi 	written	c. – bc 	language	latin 	genre(s)	iambus, invective 	publication date	 bc ( bc) 	metre	various iambic metres the epodes (latin: epodi or epodon liber; also called iambi) are a collection of iambic poems written by the roman poet horace. they were published in bc and form part of his early work alongside the satires. following the model of the greek poets archilochus and hipponax, the epodes largely fall into the genre of blame poetry, which seeks to discredit and humiliate its targets. the poems of the epodes cover a variety of topics, including politics, magic, eroticism and food. a product of the turbulent final years of the roman republic, the collection is known for its striking depiction of rome's socio-political ills in a time of great upheaval. due to their recurring coarseness and explicit treatment of sexuality, the epodes have traditionally been horace's least regarded work. however, the last quarter of the th century saw a resurgence in scholarly interest in the collection. contents 	 names 	 date 	 the iambic genre 	 metre 	 contents 	 themes 	 reception 	 selected editions 	 references 	 works cited 	 external links names[edit] the modern standard name for the collection is epodes. deriving from the greek epodos stichos ('verse in reply'), the term refers to a poetic verse following on from a slightly longer one.[ ] since all poems except epode are composed in such an epodic form, the term is used with some justification. this naming convention, however, is not attested before the commentary of pomponius porphyrion in the second century ad.[ ] horace himself referred to his poems as iambi on several occasions,[ ] but it is uncertain if this was intended as a title or only as a generic descriptor, referring to the dominant metre used in the collection: the iamb. in the ancient tradition of associating metrical form with content, the term had by horace's time become a metonym for the genre of blame poetry which was habitually written in iambic metre. both terms, epodes and iambi, have become common names for the collection.[ ] date[edit] the dramatic date of the epodes is around the battle of actium, here imagined by justus van egmont. horace began writing his epodes after the battle of philippi in bc. he had fought as a military tribune in the losing army of caesar's assassins and his fatherly estate was confiscated in the aftermath of the battle. having been pardoned by octavian, horace began to write poetry in this period.[ ] his budding relationship with the wealthy gaius maecenas features in several poems, which locates most of the work on the epodes in the s bc.[ ] the finished collection was published in bc.[ ] the dramatic date of the collection is less certain. two poems (epodes and ) are explicitly and respectively set before and after the battle of actium ( bc). the remaining poems cannot be placed with any certainty. however, it emerges that they are all set in the tumultuous decade between the death of caesar and octavian's final victory. as such, the epodes are considered a crucial witness to rome's violent transition from a republic to an autocratic monarchy.[ ] the iambic genre[edit] main article: iambus (genre) the archaic poet hipponax was a major influence on horace's epodes. the image shows him as imagined by the th-century humanist guillaume rouillé. the epodes situate themselves in the tradition of iambic poetry going back to the lyric poets of archaic greece. in the following quotation from his epistles, horace identifies the poet archilochus of paros as his most important influence: i was the first to show to latium the iambics of paros, following the rhythms and spirit of archilochus not the themes or the words that hounded lycambes. — epistles . . – [ ] dating to the seventh century bc, the poems of archilochus contain attacks, often highly sexualised and scatological, on flawed members of society. two groups in particular are targets of his abuse: personal enemies and promiscuous women. the above-mentioned lycambes features in many of archilochus' poems[ ] and was thought to have committed suicide after being viciously slandered by the poet.[ ] horace, as is indicated in the above passage, largely followed the model of archilochus with regards to metre and spirit, but, on the whole, the epodes are much more restrained in their verbal violence. while horace does not borrow extensively from him, archilochian influence can be felt in some of his themes (e.g. epod. and as a variation on the cologne epodes) and poetic stances (e.g. addressing fellow citizens or hated enemies).[ ] another significant iambic predecessor of horace was hipponax, a lyric poet who flourished during the sixth century bc in ephesus, asia minor. writing in the same vein as archilochus, his poems depict the vulgar aspects of contemporary society. in contrast to the previous iambic tradition, he has been described as striking a discernibly satirical pose: through the use of eccentric and foreign language, many of his poems come across as humorous takes on low-brow activities.[ ] his influence is acknowledged in epode . – . the hellenistic scholar and poet callimachus (third century bc) also wrote a collection of iambi, which are thought to have left a mark on horace's poems. in these poems, callimachus presented a toned-down version of the archaic iambus. horace avoids direct allusions to callimachus, a fact which has sometimes been seen as a strategy in favour of the style of archilochus and hipponax.[ ] metre[edit] see also: prosody (latin) the metrical pattern of epodes – consists of an iambic trimeter (three sets of two iambs) followed by an iambic dimeter (two sets of two iambs). possible caesurae are indicated by a vertical line. in the trimeter, all longs (—) before the caesura may be replaced by two shorts (∪ ∪). in the dimeter, only the first long may be so replaced.[ ] x — ∪ — x | — ∪ | — x — ∪ — x — ∪ — x — ∪ — poems – deviate from this pattern and, with the exception of and , each exhibit a different metre. most of thees metres combine iambic elements with dactylic ones and include: the second and third archilochian, the alcmanic strophe, and the first and second pythiambic.[ ] epode presents an anomaly: it is the only poem in the collection with a stichic metre. the term 'stichic' denotes a succession of identical verses. in this case, the poem consists of eighty-one identical iambic trimeters. therefore, is the only epode that may not technically be described as an epode.[ ] contents[edit] epode is dedicated to horace's patron, maecenas, who is about to join octavian on the actium campaign.[ ] the poet announces that he is willing to share the dangers of his influential friend, even though he is unwarlike himself.[ ] this loyalty, the poem claims, is not motivated by greed but rather by genuine friendship for maecenas.[ ] epode is a poem of exceptional length ( verses) and popularity among readers of horace.[ ] it envisions the tranquil life of a farmer as a desirable contrast to the hectic life of rome's urban elite. each season holds its own pleasures and life is dictated by the agricultural calendar.[ ] at the end of the poem, a money-lender named alfius is revealed as the speaker of the epode, leaving the reader to ponder its sincerity.[ ] epode comments on the health effects of garlic. epode in a twelfth-century french manuscript of horace's complete works in the british library; allium or garlic is the penultimate word of the second line, written with a scribal abbreviation; the names canidia and medea may be read near the small hole, which must predate the use of this leaf, since the text itself is not lacunose; the folio beneath is visible through the gap (harley ms f. v)[ ] in epode , horace reacts to an excessive amount of garlic he has consumed at one of maecenas' dinner parties: its strong taste has set his stomach on fire. comparing the ingredient to the poison used by witches such as medea, he playfully wishes that his host be stricken by the same condition.[ ] epode criticises the pretentious behaviour of a social climber. the main charge levelled at the man is that he used to be a slave and has now risen to be a military tribune, thereby offending those who traditionally occupied such positions. the poem also imagines the heckling of passers-by on the via sacra.[ ] critics have stated that the target of the epode resembles horace's own biography.[ ] epode details the encounter of a young boy with the witch (venefica) canidia. together with a group of fellow witches, she plans to use his bone marrow and liver to concoct a love potion.[ ] unable to escape from his entrapment, the boy utters a vow to haunt the witches in his afterlife. the poem is the longest in the collection and is particularly notable for its portrayal of witchcraft.[ ] in epode , horace envisions himself as the successor of the greek iambographers archilochus and hipponax. should someone be brave enough to provoke him, he will bite back with the fervour of his greek models.[ ] epode is addressed to the citizens of rome. set in the context of octavian's civil war, the poet scolds his fellow citizens for rushing to shed their own blood instead of fighting foreign enemies.[ ] the poem and its opening line (quo, quo scelesti ruitis? "where, where are you rushing in your wickedness?") are famous for their desperate attempt to prevent renewed civil warfare.[ ] epode is the first of two 'sexual epodes'. in it, horace lambasts a repulsive old woman for expecting sexual favours from him. although she is wealthy and has a collection of sophisticated books, the poet rejects her ageing body.[ ] epode extends an invitation to maecenas to celebrate octavian's victory in the battle of actium. octavian is praised for having defeated mark antony, who is portrayed as an unmanly leader because of his alliance with cleopatra.[ ] epode strikes a more traditionally iambic note. in the style of hipponax' strasbourg epode, the poet curses his enemy mevius. horace wishes that the ship carrying mevius will suffer shipwreck and that his enemy's corpse will be devoured by gulls.[ ] in epode , the poet complains to his friend pettius that he is mad with love for a boy named lyciscus. the poem is a variation on the idea that love may make the lover's life unbearable. it thus has much in common with roman love elegy.[ ] epode is the second of two 'sexual epodes'. like in poem , the poet finds himself in bed with an ageing woman. this time, horace is criticised for his impotence — which he blames on the woman's repulsive body. the poem is known for its obscene sexual vocabulary.[ ] epode is set at a symposium, an all-male drinking party. drinking with one's friends is presented as an antidote to both bad weather and worries. the second half of the poem tells how the centaur chiron gave the same piece of advice to his pupil achilles.[ ] epode returns to the theme of poem : the inhibiting effects of love. horace apologises to maecenas for not having completed as promised a set of iambics. the reason for this failure, he adds, is the powerful grip of love.[ ] epode continues the motif of love by commenting on the infidelity of one neaera. having sworn an oath of loyalty to the poet, she has now run off to another man. the poem contains a well-known pun on horace's cognomen flaccus (nam si quid in flacco viri est "... if there is anything manly in a man called floppy").[ ] epode weaves together strands from epodes and . after lamenting the devastating effects of civil warfare on rome and its citizens, horace exhorts his countrymen to emigrate to a faraway place. this vision of a rural lifestyle as an alternative to a depressed state of affairs shows characteristics of escapism.[ ] the final epode ( ) takes the shape of a palinode, a type of poem which serves to retract a previously stated sentiment. here, the poet takes back his defamations of canidia in poem . still occupying the position of the captive boy, he begs the witch for mercy. his request is shrugged off by canidia who thus has the last word of the collection.[ ] themes[edit] victimhood is an import theme within the collection. although horace assumes the strident persona of the iambic poet for most of the epodes, critics have described that the roles of aggressor and victim are regularly reversed. in the two erotic poems ( and ), for example, the poet is forced to retaliate viciously because his sexual potency has been called into question.[ ] similarly, his toothless tirade against the use of garlic comes after the poet has been poisoned by the same ingredient.[ ] central to discussions of victimhood in the epodes is horace's fascination with the witch canidia and her coven. she features prominently in two poems ( and ) which together make up nearly a third of the collection.[ ] the latinist ellen oliensis describes her as a "kind of anti-muse":[ ] horace finds himself forced to write poems in order to assuage her anger.[ ] in keeping with the overall depiction of women in the collection,[ ] the witch is reduced to her repulsive sexuality which the poet is nevertheless unable to resist.[ ] this weakness in the face of canidia is illustrated by the fact that she speaks the last word of the epodes.[ ] features such as these have made the epodes a popular case study for the exploration of poetic impotence.[ ] horace's friendship with the wealthy maecenas is a recurring theme of the epodes. this bust of maecenas located in coole park, county galway is possibly from the th or th century.[ ] the dramatic situation of the epodes is set against the backdrop of octavian's civil war against mark antony. anxiety about the outcome of the conflict manifests itself in several poems: while epodes and express support for the octavian cause, displays a frustration about the precarious political situation more generally. the wish to escape to a simpler, less hostile environment comes to the fore in two lengthy poems ( and ) and strikes a tone much like that of virgil's early work, the eclogues and georgics. one result of decades of civil war is the increasing confusion of friend and foe, which can be seen in horace's attacks on maecenas ( ) and the upstart military tribune ( ).[ ] palpable throughout much of the epodes is a concern for the poet's standing in society already familiar to readers of the satires. in this regard, horace's friendship with the wealthy maecenas is of particular interest. horace, the son of an ex-slave, seems to have felt some uncertainty about their cross-class relationship. a good example of this is epode : in response to an overly garlicky dinner, horace hopes that maecenas will suffer from a similar garlic overdose. the humorous curse against his social superior has been interpreted as the poet standing his ground in a socially acceptable way.[ ] the opposite dynamic can be observed in epode . here, the poet, apparently oblivious of his low social status, joins a mob of citizens in ridiculing a former slave who has risen to become a roman knight.[ ] reception[edit] the epodes have traditionally been horace's least regarded work, due, in part, to the collection's recurring coarseness and its open treatment of sexuality. this has caused critics to strongly favour the political poems ( , , , and ), while the remaining ones became marginalised.[ ] leaving few traces in later ancient texts, the epodes were often treated as a lesser appendix to the famous odes in the early modern period. only the second epode, an idyllic vision of rural life, received regular attention by publishers and translators. nevertheless, during the victorian era, a number of leading english boarding schools prescribed parts of the collection as set texts for their students.[ ] the last quarter of the th century saw a resurgence of critical interest in the epodes, bringing with it the publication of several commentaries and scholarly articles.[ ] in the wake of this resurgence, the collection has become known for what the classicist stephen harrison describes as "hard-hitting analyses" of the socio-political issues of late-republican rome.[ ] one feature that has proved of enduring interest is the collection's eccentric portrayal of witchcraft. examples of this include a hostile review of uncle tom's cabin published in the southern literary messenger in . the anonymous reviewer criticised the book's educational message, describing it as "the song of canidia."[ ] selected editions[edit] 	mankin, david ( ). horace: epodes. cambridge: cambridge university press. isbn  - . latin text with a commentary and introduction. 	rudd, niall ( ). odes and epodes. cambridge, ma: harvard university press. isbn  - . latin text with a facing english prose translation. 	shackleton bailey, d. r. ( ). horatius, opera (in latin). berlin and new york: de gruyter. isbn  - - - - . critical edition of horace's collected works, in latin with a critical apparatus. 	shepherd, w. g. ( ). the complete odes and epodes. london: penguin classics. isbn  - - - - . english verse translation. 	watson, lindsay ( ). a commentary on horace's epodes. oxford: oxford university press. isbn  - . latin text with a commentary and introduction. 	west, martin ( ). horace: the complete odes and epodes. oxford: oxford university press. isbn  . english prose translation. references[edit] 	^ a b watson , p.  . 	^ mankin , p.  . 	^ e.g. epod. . and carm. . . . 	^ bather & stocks , p.  . 	^ albrecht , p.  . 	^ rudd , p.  . 	^ a b watson , p.  . 	^ trans. fairclough ( ). 	^ e.g. fr. – w. 	^ west , p. x. 	^ mankin , p.  . 	^ west , p. xvii–xviii. 	^ barchiesi , p.  – . 	^ watson , p.  – . 	^ rudd , p.  – . 	^ watson , p.  . 	^ epod. . – . 	^ epod. . – . 	^ epod. . – . 	^ mankin , p.  . 	^ epod. . – . 	^ epod. . – . 	^ "harley ms ". british library. retrieved august . 	^ epod. . – . 	^ epod. . . 	^ watson , p.  – . 	^ epod. . – . 	^ oliensis , p.  . 	^ epod. . – . 	^ epod. . – . 	^ fitzgerald , p.  – . 	^ epod. . – . 	^ epod. . – . 	^ epod. . – . 	^ luck , p.  – . 	^ henderson , p.  – . 	^ epod. . – . 	^ epod. . – . 	^ watson , p.  . 	^ watson , p.  . 	^ epod. . – . 	^ fitzgerald , p.  – . 	^ watson , p.  . 	^ a b watson , p.  . 	^ oliensis , p.  . 	^ oliensis , p.  - . 	^ watson , p.  . 	^ oliensis . 	^ bather & stocks , p.  – . 	^ mountford , p.  . 	^ bather & stocks , p.  . 	^ watson , p.  – . 	^ schmitzer , p.  . 	^ watson , p.  – . 	^ oliensis , p.  – . 	^ harrison . 	^ oliensis , p.  – . works cited[edit] 	albrecht, michael von ( ). geschichte der römischen literatur. teil (in german). boston and berlin. doi: . / . (subscription required) 	bather, philippa; stocks, clare ( ). "horace's epodes". in bather, philippa; stocks, clare (eds.). horace's epodes: contexts, intertexts, and reception. oxford. pp.  – . doi: . /acprof:oso/ . . . (subscription required) 	barchiesi, alessandro ( ). "horace and iambos: the poet as literary historian". in cavarzere, alberto; aloni, antonio; barchiesi, alessandro (eds.). iambic ideas: essays on a poetic tradition from archaic greece to the late roman empire. lanham, md. pp.  – . isbn  . 	fairclough, h. r. ( ). horace. satires, epistles, art of poetry. cambridge, ma. (subscription required) 	fitzgerald, william ( ). "power and impotence in horace's epodes". ramus. ( ): – . doi: . /s x . (subscription required) 	harrison, stephen j. ( ). "horace (horatius flaccus, quintus), roman poet, – bce". in whitmarsh, timothy g. (ed.). oxford classical dictionary online. oxford. (subscription required) 	henderson, john ( ). 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"the fall of the roman empire" redirects here. for the film, see the fall of the roman empire (film). political change in late antiquity that came with the collapse of the western roman empire   republic   empire   eastern roman/byzantine empire   western empire 		v 	t 	e fall of the western roman empire 	 	gothic war ( – ) 	gothic war ( - ) 	florence 	faesulae 	crossing of the rhine 	ostia 	rome ( ) 	massilia 	nervasos mountains 	tarraco 	arles ( ) 	mérida 	hippo regius 	rimini 	arles ( ) 	narbonne 	carthage 	toulouse ( ) 	vicus helena 	utus 	catalaunian plains (chalons) 	aquileia 	rome ( ) 	agrigentum 	corsica 	garigliano 	camp cannini 	toulouse ( ) 	arelate 	cartagena 	orleans 	cape bon 	déols 	arles ( ) 	rome ( ) 	ravenna ( ) 	pavia 	ravenna ( ) the fall of the western roman empire (also called the fall of the roman empire or the fall of rome) was the process of decline in the western roman empire in which the empire failed to enforce its rule, and its vast territory was divided into several successor polities. the roman empire lost the strengths that had allowed it to exercise effective control over its western provinces; modern historians posit factors including the effectiveness and numbers of the army, the health and numbers of the roman population, the strength of the economy, the competence of the emperors, the internal struggles for power, the religious changes of the period, and the efficiency of the civil administration. increasing pressure from invading barbarians outside roman culture also contributed greatly to the collapse. climate change has been suggested as a driver of the changes in some of these factors.[ ] the reasons for the collapse are major subjects of the historiography of the ancient world and they inform much modern discourse on state failure.[ ][ ][ ] in , unmanageable numbers of goths and other non-roman people, fleeing from the huns, entered the empire. in , after winning two destructive civil wars, theodosius i died, leaving a collapsing field army and the empire, still plagued by goths, divided between the warring ministers of his two incapable sons. further barbarian groups crossed the rhine and other frontiers and, like the goths, were not exterminated, expelled or subjugated. the armed forces of the western empire became few and ineffective, and despite brief recoveries under able leaders, central rule was never effectively consolidated. by , the position of western roman emperor wielded negligible military, political, or financial power, and had no effective control over the scattered western domains that could still be described as roman. barbarian kingdoms had established their own power in much of the area of the western empire. in , odoacer deposed the last emperor in italy, and the western senate sent the imperial insignia to the eastern emperor. while its legitimacy lasted for centuries longer and its cultural influence remains today, the western empire never had the strength to rise again. it never again controlled any portion of western europe to the north of the alps. the eastern roman, or byzantine empire survived, and though lessened in strength remained for centuries an effective power of the eastern mediterranean. while the loss of political unity and military control is universally acknowledged, the fall is not the only unifying concept for these events; the period described as late antiquity emphasizes the cultural continuities throughout and beyond the political collapse. contents 	 historical approaches 	 . timespan 	 . reasons 	 . alternative descriptions and labels 	 height of power, crises, and recoveries 	 . height of power, systematic weaknesses 	 . climatic worsening and plague 	 . crisis of the third century 	 . reunification and political division 	 . growing social divisions 	 – : abuse of power, frontier warfare, and rise of christianity 	 – ; invasions, civil wars, and religious discord 	 . battle of adrianople 	 . partial recovery in the balkans, internal corruption and financial desperation 	 . civil wars 	 military, financial, and political ineffectiveness: the process of failure 	 – ; stilicho 	 . stilicho's attempts to unify the empire, revolts, and invasions 	 – ; the end of effective regular field armies ( - ), starvation in italy, sack of rome 	 . stilicho's fall and alaric's reaction 	 . alaric besieges rome 	 . the goths move out of italy 	 – in the gallic provinces; barbarians and usurpers, loss of britannia, partial loss of hispania and gaul 	 . settlement of ; barbarians within the empire 	 – ; renewed dissension after the death of constantius, partial loss of the diocese of africa 	 – ; ascendancy of aetius, loss of carthage 	 . – ; attacks by the empire of attila the hun 	 – ; failure of avitus, further losses in gaul, rise of ricimer 	 – ; resurgence under majorian, attempt to recover africa, control by ricimer 	 – , anthemius; an emperor and an army from the east 	 – ; the final emperors, puppets of the warlords 	 from ; last emperor, rump states 	 legacy 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 bibliography 	 external links historical approaches main article: historiography of the fall of the western roman empire since , when edward gibbon published the first volume of his the history of the decline and fall of the roman empire, decline and fall has been the theme around which much of the history of the roman empire has been structured. "from the eighteenth century onward," historian glen bowersock wrote, "we have been obsessed with the fall: it has been valued as an archetype for every perceived decline, and, hence, as a symbol for our own fears."[ ] the fall is not the only unifying concept for these events; the period described as late antiquity emphasizes the cultural continuities throughout and beyond the political collapse. timespan the fall of the western roman empire was the process in which it failed to enforce its rule. the loss of centralized political control over the west, and the lessened power of the east, are universally agreed, but the theme of decline has been taken to cover a much wider time span than the hundred years from . for cassius dio, the accession of the emperor commodus in ce marked the descent "from a kingdom of gold to one of rust and iron",[ ] while gibbon also began his narrative of decline from the reign of commodus, after a number of introductory chapters. arnold j. toynbee and james burke argue that the entire imperial era was one of steady decay of institutions founded in republican times, while theodor mommsen excluded the imperial period from his nobel prize-winning history of rome ( – ). as one convenient marker for the end, has been used since gibbon, but other key dates for the fall of the roman empire in the west include the crisis of the third century, the crossing of the rhine in (or ), the sack of rome in , and the death of julius nepos in .[ ][page needed] routes taken by barbarian invaders of the roman empire during the migration period reasons gibbon gave a classic formulation of reasons why the fall happened. he gave great weight to internal decline as well as to attacks from outside the empire. the story of its ruin is simple and obvious; and, instead of inquiring why the roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long. the victorious legions, who, in distant wars, acquired the vices of strangers and mercenaries, first oppressed the freedom of the republic, and afterwards violated the majesty of the purple. the emperors, anxious for their personal safety and the public peace, were reduced to the base expedient of corrupting the discipline which rendered them alike formidable to their sovereign and to the enemy; the vigour of the military government was relaxed, and finally dissolved, by the partial institutions of constantine; and the roman world was overwhelmed by a deluge of barbarians. — edward gibbon. the decline and fall of the roman empire, "general observations on the fall of the roman empire in the west", chapter gibbon felt that christianity had hastened the fall, but also ameliorated the results: as the happiness of a future life is the great object of religion, we may hear without surprise or scandal that the introduction, or at least the abuse of christianity, had some influence on the decline and fall of the roman empire... the soldiers' pay was lavished on the useless multitudes of both sexes who could only plead the merits of abstinence and chastity... if the decline of the roman empire was hastened by the conversion of constantine, his victorious religion broke the violence of the fall, and mollified the ferocious temper of the conquerors (chapter ).[ ] some modern roman historians do not believe that christianity per se had a significant role in the empire's fall, in part because of the eastern (and thoroughly christian) empire’s continuation for almost a thousand years longer.[ ] alexander demandt enumerated different theories on why rome fell, and new ideas have emerged since.[ ][ ] historians still try to analyze the reasons for loss of political control over a vast territory (and, as a subsidiary theme, the reasons for the survival of the eastern roman empire). comparison has also been made with china after the end of the han dynasty, which re-established unity under the sui dynasty while the mediterranean world remained politically disunited. harper identifies a roman climatic optimum from about bce to ce, when lands around the mediterranean were generally warm and well-watered. from to , the climate entered a transitional period, in which taxes were less easy to collect and bore more heavily on the working population. after about , the climate worsened further in the late antique little ice age.[ ][page needed] climate change has also been suggested as a driver of changes in populations outside the empire, in particular on the eurasian steppe.[ ] alternative descriptions and labels main article: late antiquity from at least the time of henri pirenne scholars have described a continuity of roman culture and political legitimacy long after .[citation needed] pirenne postponed the demise of classical civilization to the th century. he challenged the notion that germanic barbarians had caused the western roman empire to end, and he refused to equate the end of the western roman empire with the end of the office of emperor in italy. he pointed out the essential continuity of the economy of the roman mediterranean even after the barbarian invasions, and suggested that only the muslim conquests represented a decisive break with antiquity. the more recent formulation of a historical period characterized as "late antiquity" emphasizes the transformations of ancient to medieval worlds within a cultural continuity.[ ] in recent decades archaeologically-based argument even extends the continuity in material culture and in patterns of settlement as late as the eleventh century.[ ][ ][page needed][ ][page needed] observing the political reality of lost control (and the attendant fragmentation of commerce, culture, and language), but also the cultural and archaeological continuities, the process has been described as a complex cultural transformation, rather than a fall.[ ][page needed] height of power, crises, and recoveries height of power, systematic weaknesses the roman empire reached its greatest geographical extent under trajan (r. – ), who ruled a prosperous state that stretched from armenia to the atlantic. the empire had large numbers of trained, supplied, and disciplined soldiers, drawn from a growing population. it had a comprehensive civil administration based in thriving cities with effective control over public finances. among its literate elite it had ideological legitimacy as the only worthwhile form of civilization and a cultural unity based on comprehensive familiarity with greek and roman literature and rhetoric. the empire's power allowed it to maintain extreme differences of wealth and status (including slavery on a large scale),[ ][page needed] and its wide-ranging trade networks permitted even modest households to use goods made by professionals far away.[ ] the empire had both strength and resilience. its financial system allowed it to raise significant taxes which, despite endemic corruption, supported a large regular army with logistics and training. the cursus honorum, a standardized series of military and civil posts organised for ambitious aristocratic men, ensured that powerful noblemen became familiar with military and civil command and administration. at a lower level within the army, connecting the aristocrats at the top with the private soldiers, a large number of centurions were well-rewarded, literate, and responsible for training, discipline, administration, and leadership in battle.[ ] city governments with their own properties and revenues functioned effectively at a local level; membership of city councils involved lucrative opportunities for independent decision-making, and, despite its obligations, became seen as a privilege. under a series of emperors who each adopted a mature and capable successor, the empire did not require civil wars to regulate the imperial succession. requests could be submitted directly to the better emperors, and the answers had the force of law, putting the imperial power directly in touch with even humble subjects.[ ] the cults of polytheist religion were hugely varied, but none claimed that theirs was the only truth, and their followers displayed mutual tolerance, producing a polyphonous religious harmony.[ ] religious strife was rare after the suppression of the bar kokhba revolt in (after which the devastated judaea ceased to be a major centre for jewish unrest). nevertheless, it remained a culture based on an early subsistence economy, with no germ theory of disease. despite its aqueducts, the water supply did not allow good hygiene, and sewage was disposed of on the streets, in open drains, or by scavenging animals. even in the roman climatic optimum, local harvest failures causing famines were always a possibility.[ ][page needed] and even in good times, roman women needed to have, on average, six children each in order to maintain the population.[ ][page needed] good nourishment and bodily cleanliness were privileges of the rich, advertised by their firm tread, healthy skin color, and lack of the "dull smell of the underbathed".[ ] infant mortality was very high, diarrhoeal diseases were a major cause of death, and malaria was endemic in many areas, notably in the city of rome itself, possibly encouraged by the enthusiasm of rich romans for water features in their gardens.[ ][page needed] climatic worsening and plague from about , the climate became on average somewhat worse for most of the inhabited lands around the mediterranean.[ ][ ] heavy mortality in – from the antonine plague seriously impaired attempts to repel germanic invaders, but the legions generally held or at least speedily re-instated the borders of the empire.[ ] roman empire in the early second century crisis of the third century main article: crisis of the third century the empire suffered multiple serious crises during the third century. the rising sassanid empire inflicted three crushing defeats on roman field armies and remained a potent threat for centuries.[ ] other disasters included repeated civil wars, barbarian invasions, and more mass-mortality in the plague of cyprian (from onwards). rome abandoned the province of dacia on the north of the danube ( ), and for a short period the empire split into a gallic empire in the west ( – ), a palmyrene empire in the east ( – ), and a central roman rump state. the rhine/danube frontier also came under more effective threats from larger barbarian groupings, which had developed improved agriculture and increased their populations.[ ][ ] the average nutritional state of the population in the west suffered a serious decline in the late second century; the population of north-western europe did not recover, though the mediterranean regions did.[ ] the empire survived the "crisis of the third century", directing its economy successfully towards defense, but survival came at the price of a more centralized and bureaucratic state. under gallienus (emperor from to ) the senatorial aristocracy ceased joining the ranks of the senior military commanders, its typical members lacking interest in military service and showing incompetence at command.[ ][ ] the divided empire in ce reunification and political division aurelian reunited the empire in , and from diocletian and his successors reorganized it with more emphasis on the military. john the lydian, writing over two centuries later, reported that diocletian's army at one point totaled , men, plus , in the fleets, and numbers may have increased later.[ ] with the limited communications of the time, both the european and the eastern frontiers needed the attention of their own supreme commanders. diocletian tried to solve this problem by re-establishing an adoptive succession with a senior (augustus) and junior (caesar) emperor in each half of the empire, but this system of tetrarchy broke down within one generation; the hereditary principle re-established itself with generally unfortunate results, and thereafter civil war became again the main method of establishing new imperial regimes. although constantine the great (in office to ) again re-united the empire, towards the end of the fourth century the need for division was generally accepted. from then on, the empire existed in constant tension between the need for two emperors and their mutual mistrust.[ ] until late in the fourth century the united empire retained sufficient power to launch attacks against its enemies in germania and in the sassanid empire. receptio of barbarians became widely practised: imperial authorities admitted potentially hostile groups into the empire, split them up, and allotted to them lands, status, and duties within the imperial system.[ ] in this way many groups provided unfree workers (coloni) for roman landowners, and recruits (laeti) for the roman army. sometimes their leaders became officers. normally the romans managed the process carefully, with sufficient military force on hand to ensure compliance, and cultural assimilation followed over the next generation or two. the roman empire under the tetrarchy, showing the dioceses and the four tetrarchs' zones of responsibility growing social divisions the new supreme rulers disposed of the legal fiction of the early empire (seeing the emperor as but the first among equals); emperors from aurelian (reigned – ) onwards openly styled themselves as dominus et deus, "lord and god", titles appropriate for a master-slave relationship.[ ] an elaborate court ceremonial developed, and obsequious flattery became the order of the day. under diocletian, the flow of direct requests to the emperor rapidly reduced and soon ceased altogether. no other form of direct access replaced them, and the emperor received only information filtered through his courtiers.[ ] official cruelty, supporting extortion and corruption, may also have become more commonplace.[ ] while the scale, complexity, and violence of government were unmatched,[ ] the emperors lost control over their whole realm insofar as that control came increasingly to be wielded by anyone who paid for it.[ ] meanwhile, the richest senatorial families, immune from most taxation, engrossed more and more of the available wealth and income,[ ][ ] while also becoming divorced from any tradition of military excellence. one scholar identifies a great increase in the purchasing power of gold, two and a half fold from to the later fourth century, which may be an index of growing economic inequality between a gold-rich elite and a cash-poor peasantry.[ ] within the late roman military, many recruits and even officers had barbarian origins, and soldiers are recorded as using possibly-barbarian rituals such as elevating a claimant on shields.[ ] some scholars have seen this as an indication of weakness; others disagree, seeing neither barbarian recruits nor new rituals as causing any problem with the effectiveness or loyalty of the army.[ ] – : abuse of power, frontier warfare, and rise of christianity further information: history of late ancient christianity in constantine i declared official toleration of christianity, followed over the ensuing decades by establishment of christian orthodoxy and by official and private action against pagans and non-orthodox christians. his successors generally continued this process, and christianity became the religion of any ambitious civil official. under constantine the cities lost their revenue from local taxes, and under constantius ii (r. – ) their endowments of property.[ ] this worsened the existing difficulty in keeping the city councils up to strength, and the services provided by the cities were scamped or abandoned.[ ] public building projects became fewer, more often repairs than new construction, and now provided at state expense rather than by local grandees wishing to consolidate long-term local influence.[ ] a further financial abuse was constantius's increased habit of granting to his immediate entourage the estates of persons condemned of treason and other capital charges; this reduced future though not immediate income, and those close to the emperor gained a strong incentive to stimulate his suspicion of plots.[ ] constantine settled franks on the lower left bank of the rhine; their settlements required a line of fortifications to keep them in check, indicating that rome had lost almost all local control.[ ] under constantius, bandits came to dominate areas such as isauria well within the empire.[ ] the tribes of germany also became more populous and more threatening.[ ] in gaul, which did not really recover from the invasions of the third century, there was widespread insecurity and economic decline in the s,[ ] perhaps worst in armorica. by , after decades of pirate attacks, virtually all villas in armorica were deserted, and local use of money ceased about .[ ] repeated attempts to economize on military expenditure included billeting troops in cities, where they could less easily be kept under military discipline and could more easily extort from civilians.[ ] except in the rare case of a determined and incorruptible general, these troops proved ineffective in action and dangerous to civilians.[ ] frontier troops were often given land rather than pay; as they farmed for themselves, their direct costs diminished, but so did their effectiveness, and there was much less economic stimulus to the frontier economy.[ ] however, except for the provinces along the lower rhine, the agricultural economy was generally doing well.[ ] the numbers and effectiveness of the regular soldiers may have declined during the fourth century: payrolls were inflated so that pay could be diverted and exemptions from duty sold, their opportunities for personal extortion were multiplied by residence in cities, and their effectiveness was reduced by concentration on extortion instead of drill.[ ] however, extortion, gross corruption, and occasional ineffectiveness[ ] were not new to the roman army; there is no consensus whether its effectiveness significantly declined before .[ ] ammianus marcellinus, himself a professional soldier, repeats longstanding observations about the superiority of contemporary roman armies being due to training and discipline, not to physical size or strength.[ ] despite a possible decrease in its ability to assemble and supply large armies,[ ] rome maintained an aggressive and potent stance against perceived threats almost to the end of the fourth century.[ ] solidus of julian, c. . obverse: julian with the beard appropriate to a neoplatonic philosopher. inscription: fl(avivs) cl(avdivs) ivlianvs pp(=pater patriae, "father of the nation") avg(=augustus). reverse: an armed roman, military standard in one hand, a captive in the other. inscription: virtvs exercitvs romanorvm, "the bravery/virtue of the roman army"; the mint mark is sirm, sirmium julian (r. – ) launched a drive against official corruption which allowed the tax demands in gaul to be reduced to one-third of their previous amount, while all government requirements were still met.[ ] in civil legislation julian was notable for his pro-pagan policies. all christian sects were officially tolerated by julian, persecution of heretics was forbidden, and non-christian religions were encouraged. some christians continued to destroy temples, disrupt rituals, and break sacred images, seeking martyrdom and at times achieving it at the hands of non-christian mobs or secular authorities; some pagans attacked the christians who had previously been involved with the destruction of temples.[ ] julian won victories against germans who had invaded gaul. he launched an expensive campaign against the persians,[ ] which ended in defeat and his own death. he succeeded in marching to the sassanid capital of ctesiphon, but lacked adequate supplies for an assault. he burned his boats and supplies to show resolve in continuing operations, but the sassanids began a war of attrition by burning crops. finding himself cut off in enemy territory, he began a land retreat during which he was mortally wounded. his successor jovian, acclaimed by a demoralized army, began his brief reign ( – ) trapped in mesopotamia without supplies. to purchase safe passage home, he had to concede areas of northern mesopotamia and kurdistan, including the strategically important fortress of nisibis, which had been roman since before the peace of nisibis in . the brothers valens (r. – ) and valentinian i (r. – ) energetically tackled the threats of barbarian attacks on all the western frontiers[ ] and tried to alleviate the burdens of taxation, which had risen continuously over the previous forty years; valens in the east reduced the tax demand by half in his fourth year.[ ] both were christians and confiscated the temple lands that julian had restored, but were generally tolerant of other beliefs. valentinian in the west refused to intervene in religious controversy; in the east, valens had to deal with christians who did not conform to his ideas of orthodoxy, and persecution formed part of his response.[ ] the wealth of the church increased dramatically, immense resources both public and private being used for ecclesiastical construction and support of the religious life.[ ] bishops in wealthy cities were thus able to offer vast patronage; ammianus described some as "enriched from the offerings of matrons, ride seated in carriages, wearing clothing chosen with care, and serve banquets so lavish that their entertainments outdo the tables of kings". edward gibbon remarked that "the soldiers' pay was lavished on the useless multitudes of both sexes who could only plead the merits of abstinence and chastity", though there are no figures for the monks and nuns nor for their maintenance costs. pagan rituals and buildings had not been cheap either; the move to christianity may not have had significant effects on the public finances.[ ] some public disorder also followed competition for prestigious posts; pope damasus i was installed in after an election whose casualties included a hundred and thirty-seven corpses in the basilica of sicininus.[ ] valentinian died of an apoplexy while shouting at envoys of germanic leaders. his successors in the west were children, his sons gratian (r. – ) and valentinian ii (r. – ). gratian, "alien from the art of government both by temperament and by training" removed the altar of victory from the senate house, and he rejected the pagan title of pontifex maximus.[ ] – ; invasions, civil wars, and religious discord battle of adrianople in the east faced an enormous barbarian influx across the danube, mostly goths who were refugees from the huns. they were exploited by corrupt officials rather than effectively resettled, and they took up arms, joined by more goths and by some alans and huns. valens was in asia with his main field army, preparing for an assault on the persians, and redirecting the army and its logistic support would have required time. gratian's armies were distracted by germanic invasions across the rhine. in valens attacked the invaders with the eastern field army, perhaps some , men – possibly only % of the soldiers nominally available in the danube provinces[ ] – and in the battle of adrianople, august , he lost much of that army and his own life. all of the balkan provinces were thus exposed to raiding, without effective response from the remaining garrisons who were "more easily slaughtered than sheep".[ ] cities were able to hold their own walls against barbarians who had no siege equipment, and they generally remained intact although the countryside suffered.[ ] partial recovery in the balkans, internal corruption and financial desperation gratian appointed a new augustus, a proven general from hispania called theodosius. during the next four years, he partially re-established the roman position in the east.[ ][ ] these campaigns depended on effective imperial coordination and mutual trust – between and theodosius controlled not only the eastern empire, but also, by agreement, the diocese of illyricum.[ ] theodosius was unable to recruit enough roman troops, relying on barbarian warbands without roman military discipline or loyalty. in contrast, during the cimbrian war, the roman republic, controlling a smaller area than the western empire, had been able to reconstitute large regular armies of citizens after greater defeats than adrianople, and it ended that war with the near-extermination of the invading barbarian supergroups, each recorded as having more than , warriors (with allowances for the usual exaggeration of numbers by ancient authors).[ ] the final gothic settlement was acclaimed with relief,[ ] even the official panegyrist admitting that these goths could not be expelled or exterminated, nor reduced to unfree status.[ ] instead they were either recruited into the imperial forces, or settled in the devastated provinces along the south bank of the danube, where the regular garrisons were never fully re-established.[ ] in some later accounts, and widely in recent work, this is regarded as a treaty settlement, the first time that barbarians were given a home within the empire in which they retained their political and military cohesion.[ ] no formal treaty is recorded, nor details of whatever agreement was actually made; when the goths are next mentioned in roman records, they have different leaders and are soldiers of a sort.[ ] in alaric, a gothic leader, rebelled against roman control. goths attacked the emperor himself, but within a year alaric was accepted as a leader of theodosius's gothic troops and this rebellion was over.[ ] theodosius's financial position must have been difficult, since he had to pay for expensive campaigning from a reduced tax base. the business of subduing barbarian warbands also demanded substantial gifts of precious metal.[ ] nevertheless, he is represented as financially lavish, though personally frugal when on campaign.[ ] at least one extra levy provoked desperation and rioting in which the emperor's statues were destroyed.[ ] a contemporary reports that at his court "everything was for sale", with corruption rampant.[ ] he was pious, a nicene christian heavily influenced by ambrose, and implacable against heretics. in he forbade even private honor to the gods, and pagan rituals such as the olympic games. he either ordered or connived at the widespread destruction of sacred buildings.[ ] civil wars theodosius had to face a powerful usurper in the west; magnus maximus declared himself emperor in , stripped troops from the outlying regions of britannia (probably replacing some with federate chieftains and their war-bands) and invaded gaul. his troops killed gratian and he was accepted as augustus in the gallic provinces, where he was responsible for the first official executions of christian heretics.[ ] to compensate the western court for the loss of gaul, hispania, and britannia, theodosius ceded the diocese of dacia and the diocese of macedonia to their control. in maximus invaded italy, forcing valentinian ii to flee to the east, where he accepted nicene christianity. maximus boasted to ambrose of the numbers of barbarians in his forces, and hordes of goths, huns, and alans followed theodosius.[ ] maximus negotiated with theodosius for acceptance as augustus of the west, but theodosius refused, gathered his armies, and counterattacked, winning the civil war in . there were heavy troop losses on both sides of the conflict. later welsh legend has maximus's defeated troops resettled in armorica, instead of returning to britannia, and by , armorica was controlled by bagaudae rather than by imperial authority.[ ] theodosius restored valentinian ii, still a very young man, as augustus in the west. he also appointed arbogast, a pagan general of frankish origin, as valentinian's commander-in-chief and guardian. valentinian quarreled in public with arbogast, failed to assert any authority, and died, either by suicide or by murder, at the age of . arbogast and theodosius failed to come to terms and arbogast nominated an imperial official, eugenius (r. – ), as emperor in the west. eugenius made some modest attempts to win pagan support,[ ] and with arbogast led a large army to fight another destructive civil war. they were defeated and killed at the battle of the frigidus, which was attended by further heavy losses especially among the gothic federates of theodosius. the north-eastern approaches to italy were never effectively garrisoned again.[ ] the eastern and western roman empire at the death of theodosius i in theodosius died a few months later in early , leaving his young sons honorius (r. – ) and arcadius (r. – ) as emperors. in the immediate aftermath of theodosius's death, the magister militum stilicho, married to theodosius's niece, asserted himself in the west as the guardian of honorius and commander of the remains of the defeated western army. he also claimed control over arcadius in constantinople, but rufinus, magister officiorum on the spot, had already established his own power there. henceforward the empire was not under the control of one man, until much of the west had been permanently lost.[ ] neither honorius nor arcadius ever displayed any ability either as rulers or as generals, and both lived as the puppets of their courts.[ ] stilicho tried to reunite the eastern and western courts under his personal control, but in doing so achieved only the continued hostility of all of arcadius's successive supreme ministers. military, financial, and political ineffectiveness: the process of failure the ineffectiveness of roman military responses from stilicho onwards has been described as "shocking",[ ] with little evidence of indigenous field forces or of adequate training, discipline, pay, or supply for the barbarians who formed most of the available troops. local defence was occasionally effective, but was often associated with withdrawal from central control and taxes; in many areas, barbarians under roman authority attacked culturally-roman "bagaudae".[ ][ ][ ] corruption, in this context the diversion of public finance from the needs of the army, may have contributed greatly to the fall. the rich senatorial aristocrats in rome itself became increasingly influential during the fifth century; they supported armed strength in theory, but did not wish to pay for it or to offer their own workers as army recruits.[ ][ ] they did, however, pass large amounts of money to the christian church.[ ] at a local level, from the early fourth century, the town councils lost their property and their power, which often became concentrated in the hands of a few local despots beyond the reach of the law.[ ] the fifth-century western emperors, with brief exceptions, were individuals incapable of ruling effectively or even of controlling their own courts.[ ] those exceptions were responsible for brief, but remarkable resurgences of roman power. – ; stilicho the emperor honorius, a contemporary depiction on a consular diptych issued by anicius petronius probus to celebrate probus's consulship in , now in the aosta museum without an authoritative ruler, the balkan provinces fell rapidly into disorder. alaric was disappointed in his hopes for promotion to magister militum after the battle of the frigidus. he again led gothic tribesmen in arms and established himself as an independent power, burning the countryside as far as the walls of constantinople.[ ] alaric's ambitions for long-term roman office were never quite acceptable to the roman imperial courts, and his men could never settle long enough to farm in any one area. they showed no inclination to leave the empire and face the huns from whom they had fled in ; indeed the huns were still stirring up further migrations which often ended by attacking rome in turn. alaric's group was never destroyed nor expelled from the empire, nor acculturated under effective roman domination.[ ][ ][ ] stilicho's attempts to unify the empire, revolts, and invasions alaric took his gothic army on what stilicho's propagandist claudian described as a "pillaging campaign" that began first in the east.[ ] alaric's forces made their way along the coast to athens, where he sought to force a new peace upon the romans.[ ] his march in passed through thermopylae. stilicho sailed from italy to greece with his remaining mobile forces, a clear threat to rufinus' control of the eastern empire. (the bulk of rufinus' forces were occupied with hunnic incursions in asia minor and syria, leaving thrace undefended.) stilicho's propagandist claudian reports that only stilicho's attack stemmed the plundering as he pushed alaric's forces north into epirus.[ ] burns' interpretation is that alaric and his men had been recruited by rufinus's eastern regime, and sent to thessaly to stave off stilicho's threat.[ ] no battle took place. zosimus adds that stilicho's troops destroyed and pillaged too, and let alaric's men escape with their plunder.[a] stilicho was forced to send some of his eastern forces home.[ ] they went to constantinople under the command of one gainas, a goth with a large gothic following. on arrival, gainas murdered rufinus, and was appointed magister militum for thrace by eutropius, the new supreme minister and the only eunuch consul of rome, who controlled arcadius "as if he were a sheep".[ ] stilicho obtained a few more troops from the german frontier and continued to campaign ineffectively against the eastern empire; again he was successfully opposed by alaric and his men. during the next year, , eutropius personally led his troops to victory over some huns who were marauding in asia minor. with his position thus strengthened he declared stilicho a public enemy, and he established alaric as magister militum per illyricum. a poem by synesius advises the emperor to display manliness and remove a "skin-clad savage" (probably alaric) from the councils of power and his barbarians from the roman army. we do not know if arcadius ever became aware of the existence of this advice, but it had no recorded effect.[ ] synesius, from a province suffering the widespread ravages of a few poor but greedy barbarians, also complained of "the peacetime war, one almost worse than the barbarian war and arising from military indiscipline and the officer's greed."[ ] the favorites of the emperor honorius, by john william waterhouse, the magister militum in the diocese of africa declared for the east and stopped the supply of grain to rome.[ ] italy had not fed itself for centuries and could not do so now. in , stilicho sent his last reserves, a few thousand men, to re-take the diocese of africa, and he strengthened his position further when he married his daughter maria to honorius. throughout this period stilicho, and all other generals, were desperately short of recruits and supplies for them.[ ] in , stilicho was charged to press into service any "laetus, alamannus, sarmatian, vagrant, son of a veteran" or any other person liable to serve.[ ] he had reached the bottom of his recruitment pool.[ ] though personally not corrupt, he was very active in confiscating assets;[ ] the financial and administrative machine was not producing enough support for the army. an ivory diptych, thought to depict stilicho (right) with his wife serena and son eucherius, ca. (monza cathedral) in , tribigild's rebellion in asia minor allowed gainas to accumulate a significant army (mostly goths), become supreme in the eastern court, and execute eutropius.[ ] he now felt that he could dispense with alaric's services and he nominally transferred alaric's province to the west. this administrative change removed alaric's roman rank and his entitlement to legal provisioning for his men, leaving his army – the only significant force in the ravaged balkans – as a problem for stilicho.[ ] in , the citizens of constantinople revolted against gainas and massacred as many of his people, soldiers and their families, as they could catch. some goths at least built rafts and tried to cross the strip of sea that separates asia from europe; the roman navy slaughtered them.[ ] by the beginning of , gainas' head rode a pike through constantinople while another gothic general became consul.[ ] meanwhile, groups of huns started a series of attacks across the danube, and the isaurians marauded far and wide in anatolia.[ ] in stilicho travelled over the alps to raetia, to scrape up further troops.[ ] he left the rhine defended only by the "dread" of roman retaliation, rather than by adequate forces able to take the field.[ ] early in spring, alaric, probably desperate,[ ] invaded italy, and he drove honorius westward from mediolanum, besieging him in hasta pompeia in liguria. stilicho returned as soon as the passes had cleared, meeting alaric in two battles (near pollentia and verona) without decisive results. the goths, weakened, were allowed to retreat back to illyricum where the western court again gave alaric office, though only as comes and only over dalmatia and pannonia secunda rather than the whole of illyricum.[ ] stilicho probably supposed that this pact would allow him to put italian government into order and recruit fresh troops.[ ] he may also have planned with alaric's help to relaunch his attempts to gain control over the eastern court.[ ] chi-rho pendant of empress maria, daughter of stilicho, and wife of honorius, now in the musée du louvre. the pendant reads, around a central cross (clockwise): honori maria serhna vivatis stelicho. the letters form a christogram however, in , stilicho was distracted by a fresh invasion of northern italy. another group of goths fleeing the huns, led by one radagaisus, devastated the north of italy for six months before stilicho could muster enough forces to take the field against them. stilicho recalled troops from britannia and the depth of the crisis was shown when he urged all roman soldiers to allow their personal slaves to fight beside them.[ ] his forces, including hun and alan auxiliaries, may in the end have totalled rather less than , men.[ ] radagaisus was defeated and executed. , prisoners from the defeated horde were drafted into stilicho's service.[ ] stilicho continued negotiations with alaric; flavius aetius, son of one of stilicho's major supporters, was sent as a hostage to alaric in . in stilicho, hearing of new invaders and rebels who had appeared in the northern provinces, insisted on making peace with alaric, probably on the basis that alaric would prepare to move either against the eastern court or against the rebels in gaul. the senate deeply resented peace with alaric; in , when alaric marched into noricum and demanded a large payment for his expensive efforts in stilicho's interests, the senate, "inspired by the courage, rather than the wisdom, of their predecessors,"[ ] preferred war. one senator famously declaimed non est ista pax, sed pactio servitutis ("this is not peace, but a pact of servitude").[ ] stilicho paid alaric four thousand pounds of gold nevertheless.[ ] stilicho sent sarus, a gothic general, over the alps to face the usurper constantine iii, but he lost and barely escaped, having to leave his baggage to the bandits who now infested the alpine passes.[ ] the empress maria, daughter of stilicho, died in or early and her sister aemilia materna thermantia married honorius. in the east, arcadius died on may and was replaced by his son theodosius ii; stilicho seems to have planned to march to constantinople, and to install there a regime loyal to himself.[ ] he may also have intended to give alaric a senior official position and send him against the rebels in gaul. before he could do so, while he was away at ticinum at the head of a small detachment, a bloody coup against his supporters took place at honorius's court. it was led by stilicho's own creature, one olympius.[ ] – ; the end of effective regular field armies ( - ), starvation in italy, sack of rome stilicho's fall and alaric's reaction stilicho had news of the coup at bononia (where he was probably waiting for alaric).[ ] his army of barbarian troops, including a guard of huns and many goths, discussed attacking the forces of the coup, but stilicho prevented them when he heard that the emperor had not been harmed. sarus's gothic troops then massacred the hun contingent in their sleep, and stilicho withdrew from the quarreling remains of his army to ravenna. he ordered that his former soldiers should not be admitted into the cities in which their families were billeted. stilicho was forced to flee to a church for sanctuary, promised his life, and killed.[ ] alaric was again declared an enemy of the emperor. the conspiracy then massacred the families of the federate troops (as presumed supporters of stilicho, although they had probably rebelled against him), and the troops defected en masse to alaric.[ ] the conspirators seem to have let their main army disintegrate,[ ] and had no policy except hunting down supporters of stilicho.[ ] italy was left without effective indigenous defence forces thereafter.[ ] heraclianus, a co-conspirator of olympius, became governor of the diocese of africa, where he controlled the source of most of italy's grain, and he supplied food only in the interests of honorius's regime.[ ] as a declared 'enemy of the emperor', alaric was denied the legitimacy that he needed to collect taxes and hold cities without large garrisons, which he could not afford to detach. he again offered to move his men, this time to pannonia, in exchange for a modest sum of money and the modest title of comes, but he was refused as a supporter of stilicho.[ ] he moved into italy, probably using the route and supplies arranged for him by stilicho,[ ] bypassing the imperial court in ravenna which was protected by widespread marshland and had a port, and he menaced the city of rome itself. in , there was no equivalent of the determined response to the catastrophic battle of cannae in bce, when the entire roman population, even slaves, had been mobilized to resist the enemy.[ ] alaric's military operations centred on the port of rome, through which rome's grain supply had to pass. alaric's first siege of rome in caused dreadful famine within the walls. it was ended by a payment that, though large, was less than one of the richest senators could have produced.[ ] the super-rich aristocrats made little contribution; pagan temples were stripped of ornaments to make up the total. with promises of freedom, alaric also recruited many of the slaves in rome.[ ] alaric withdrew to tuscany and recruited more slaves.[ ] ataulf, a goth nominally in roman service and brother-in-law to alaric, marched through italy to join alaric despite taking casualties from a small force of hunnic mercenaries led by olympius. sarus was an enemy of ataulf, and on ataulf's arrival went back into imperial service.[ ] alaric besieges rome in olympius fell to further intrigue, having his ears cut off before he was beaten to death. alaric tried again to negotiate with honorius, but his demands (now even more moderate, only frontier land and food[ ]) were inflated by the messenger and honorius responded with insults, which were reported verbatim to alaric.[ ] he broke off negotiations and the standoff continued. honorius's court made overtures to the usurper constantine iii in gaul and arranged to bring hunnic forces into italy, alaric ravaged italy outside the fortified cities (which he could not garrison), and the romans refused open battle (for which they had inadequate forces).[ ] late in the year alaric sent bishops to express his readiness to leave italy if honorius would only grant his people a supply of grain. honorius, sensing weakness, flatly refused.[ ] alaric moved to rome and captured galla placidia, sister of honorius. the senate in rome, despite its loathing for alaric, was now desperate enough to give him almost anything he wanted. they had no food to offer, but they tried to give him imperial legitimacy; with the senate's acquiescence, he elevated priscus attalus as his puppet emperor, and he marched on ravenna. honorius was planning to flee to constantinople when a reinforcing army of , soldiers from the east disembarked in ravenna.[ ] these garrisoned the walls and honorius held on. he had constantine's principal court supporter executed and constantine abandoned plans to march to honorius's defence.[ ] attalus failed to establish his control over the diocese of africa, and no grain arrived in rome where the famine became even more frightful.[ ] jerome reports cannibalism within the walls.[ ] attalus brought alaric no real advantage, failing also to come to any useful agreement with honorius (who was offered mutilation, humiliation, and exile). indeed, attalus's claim was a marker of threat to honorius, and alaric dethroned him after a few months.[ ] in alaric took rome by starvation, sacked it for three days (there was relatively little destruction, and in some christian holy places alaric's men even refrained from wanton wrecking and rape), and invited its remaining barbarian slaves to join him, which many did. the city of rome was the seat of the richest senatorial noble families and the centre of their cultural patronage; to pagans it was the sacred origin of the empire, and to christians the seat of the heir of saint peter, pope innocent i, the most authoritative bishop of the west. rome had not fallen to an enemy since the battle of the allia over eight centuries before. refugees spread the news and their stories throughout the empire, and the meaning of the fall was debated with religious fervour. both christians and pagans wrote embittered tracts, blaming paganism or christianity respectively for the loss of rome's supernatural protection, and blaming stilicho's earthly failures in either case.[ ][ ] some christian responses anticipated the imminence of judgement day. augustine in his book "city of god" ultimately rejected the pagan and christian idea that religion should have worldly benefits; he developed the doctrine that the city of god in heaven, undamaged by mundane disasters, was the true objective of christians.[ ] more practically, honorius was briefly persuaded to set aside the laws forbidding pagans to be military officers, so that one generidus could re-establish roman control in dalmatia. generidus did this with unusual effectiveness; his techniques were remarkable for this period, in that they included training his troops, disciplining them, and giving them appropriate supplies even if he had to use his own money.[ ] the penal laws were reinstated no later than august and the overall trend of repression of paganism continued.[ ] inscription honouring honorius, as florentissimo invictissimoque, the most excellent and invincible, – , forum romanum procopius mentions a story in which honorius, on hearing the news that rome had "perished", was shocked, thinking the news was in reference to his favorite chicken he had named "roma". on hearing that rome itself had fallen he breathed a sigh of relief: at that time they say that the emperor honorius in ravenna received the message from one of the eunuchs, evidently a keeper of the poultry, that roma had perished. and he cried out and said, "and yet it has just eaten from my hands!" for he had a very large cockerel, roma by name; and the eunuch comprehending his words said that it was the city of roma which had perished at the hands of alaric, and the emperor with a sigh of relief answered quickly: "but i thought that my fowl roma had perished." so great, they say, was the folly with which this emperor was possessed. — procopius, the vandalic war (de bellis iii. . – ) the goths move out of italy alaric then moved south, intending to sail to africa, but his ships were wrecked in a storm and he shortly died of fever. his successor ataulf, still regarded as an usurper and given only occasional and short-term grants of supplies, moved north into the turmoil of gaul, where there was some prospect of food. his supergroup of barbarians are called the visigoths in modern works: they may now have been developing their own sense of identity.[ ] – in the gallic provinces; barbarians and usurpers, loss of britannia, partial loss of hispania and gaul the crossing of the rhine in / brought unmanageable numbers of germanic and alan barbarians (perhaps some , warriors, , people[ ]) into gaul. they may have been trying to get away from the huns, who about this time advanced to occupy the great hungarian plain.[ ] for the next few years these barbarian tribes wandered in search of food and employment, while roman forces fought each other in the name of honorius and a number of competing claimants to the imperial throne.[ ] the remaining troops in britannia elevated a succession of imperial usurpers. the last, constantine iii, raised an army from the remaining troops in britannia, invaded gaul and defeated forces loyal to honorius led by sarus. constantine's power reached its peak in when he controlled gaul and beyond, he was joint consul with honorius[ ] and his magister militum gerontius defeated the last roman force to try to hold the borders of hispania. it was led by relatives of honorius; constantine executed them. gerontius went to hispania where he may have settled the sueves and the asding vandals. gerontius then fell out with his master and elevated one maximus as his own puppet emperor. he defeated constantine and was besieging him in arelate when honorius's general constantius arrived from italy with an army (possibly, mainly of hun mercenaries).[ ] gerontius's troops deserted him and he committed suicide. constantius continued the siege, defeating a relieving army. constantine surrendered in with a promise that his life would be spared, and was executed.[ ] in , the roman civitates of britannia rebelled against constantine and evicted his officials. they asked for help from honorius, who replied that they should look to their own defence. while the british may have regarded themselves as roman for several generations, and british armies may at times have fought in gaul, no central roman government is known to have appointed officials in britannia thereafter.[ ] the supply of coinage to the diocese of britannia ceases with honorius.[ ] in , jovinus rebelled and took over constantine's remaining troops on the rhine. he relied on the support of burgundians and alans to whom he offered supplies and land. in jovinus also recruited sarus; ataulf destroyed their regime in the name of honorius and both jovinus and sarus were executed. the burgundians were settled on the left bank of the rhine. ataulf then operated in the south of gaul, sometimes with short-term supplies from the romans.[ ] all usurpers had been defeated, but large barbarian groups remained un-subdued in both gaul and hispania.[ ] the imperial government was quick to restore the rhine frontier. the invading tribes of moved into spain at the end of ; the visigoths left italy at the beginning of and settled themselves around narbo. heraclianus was still in command in the diocese of africa; of the clique that overthrew stilicho, he was the last to retain power. in he led an invasion of italy, lost to a subordinate of constantius, and fled back to africa where he was murdered by constantius's agents.[ ] in january roman naval forces blockaded ataulf in narbo, where he married galla placidia. the choir at the wedding included attalus, a puppet emperor without revenues or soldiers.[ ] ataulf famously declared that he had abandoned his intention to set up a gothic empire because of the irredeemable barbarity of his followers, and instead he sought to restore the roman empire.[ ][ ] he handed attalus over to honorius's regime for mutilation, humiliation, and exile, and abandoned attalus's supporters.[ ] (one of them, paulinus pellaeus, recorded that the goths considered themselves merciful for allowing him and his household to leave destitute, but alive, without being raped.)[ ] ataulf moved out of gaul, to barcelona. there his infant son by galla placidia was buried, and there ataulf was assassinated by one of his household retainers, possibly a former follower of sarus.[ ][ ] his ultimate successor wallia had no agreement with the romans; his people had to plunder in hispania for food.[ ] settlement of ; barbarians within the empire areas allotted to or claimed by barbarian groups in – in wallia reached agreement with constantius; he sent galla placidia back to honorius and received provisions, six hundred thousand modii of wheat.[ ] from to , wallia's goths campaigned in hispania on constantius's behalf, exterminating the siling vandals in baetica and reducing the alans to the point where the survivors sought the protection of the king of the asding vandals. (after retrenchment they formed another barbarian supergroup, but for the moment they were reduced in numbers and effectively cowed.) in , by agreement with constantius, wallia's goths accepted land to farm in aquitania.[ ] constantius also reinstituted an annual council of the southern gallic provinces, to meet at arelate. although constantius rebuilt the western field army to some extent, he did so only by replacing half of its units (vanished in the wars since ) by re-graded barbarians, and by garrison troops removed from the frontier.[ ] the notitia dignitatum gives a list of the units of the western field army circa . it does not give strengths for these units, but a. h. m. jones used the notitia to estimate the total strength of the field armies in the west at ,  : gaul, “about” , ; italy, “nearly” , ; britain , ; in spain, – , , in the diocese of illyricum – , , and in the diocese of africa , .[ ] constantius had married the princess galla placidia (despite her protests) in . the couple soon had two children, honoria and valentinian iii, and constantius was elevated to the position of augustus in . this earned him the hostility of the eastern court, which had not agreed to his elevation.[ ] nevertheless, constantius had achieved an unassailable position at the western court, in the imperial family, and as the able commander-in-chief of a partially restored army.[ ][ ] this settlement represented a real success for the empire—a poem by rutilius namatianus celebrates his voyage back to gaul in and his confidence in a restoration of prosperity. but it marked huge losses of territory and of revenue; rutilius travelled by ship past the ruined bridges and countryside of tuscany, and in the west the river loire had become the effective northern boundary of roman gaul.[ ] in the east of gaul the franks controlled large areas; the effective line of roman control until ran from north of cologne (lost to the ripuarian franks in ) to boulogne. the italian areas which had been compelled to support the goths had most of their taxes remitted for several years.[ ][ ] even in southern gaul and hispania large barbarian groups remained, with thousands of warriors, in their own non-roman military and social systems. some occasionally acknowledged a degree of roman political control, but without the local application of roman leadership and military power they and their individual subgroups pursued their own interests.[ ] – ; renewed dissension after the death of constantius, partial loss of the diocese of africa constantius died in , after only seven months as augustus. he had been careful to make sure that there was no successor in waiting, and his own children were far too young to take his place.[ ] honorius was unable to control his own court, and the death of constantius initiated more than ten years of instability. initially galla placidia sought honorius's favour in the hope that her son might ultimately inherit. other court interests managed to defeat her, and she fled with her children to the eastern court in . honorius himself died, shortly before his thirty-ninth birthday, in . after some months of intrigue, the patrician castinus installed joannes as western emperor, but the eastern roman government proclaimed the child valentinian iii instead, his mother galla placidia acting as regent during his minority. joannes had few troops of his own. he sent aetius to raise help from the huns. an eastern army landed in italy, captured joannes, cut his hand off, abused him in public, and killed him with most of his senior officials. aetius returned, three days after joannes' death, at the head of a substantial hunnic army which made him the most powerful general in italy. after some fighting, placidia and aetius came to an agreement; the huns were paid off and sent home, while aetius received the position of magister militum.[ ] galla placidia, as augusta, mother of the emperor, and his guardian until , could maintain a dominant position in court, but women in ancient rome did not exercise military power, and she could not herself become a general. she tried for some years to avoid reliance on a single dominant military figure, maintaining a balance of power between her three senior officers, aetius (magister militum in gaul), count boniface governor in the diocese of africa, and flavius felix magister militum praesentalis in italy.[ ] meanwhile, the empire deteriorated seriously. apart from the losses in the diocese of africa, hispania was slipping out of central control and into the hands of local rulers and suevic bandits. in gaul the rhine frontier had collapsed, the visigoths in aquitaine may have launched further attacks on narbo and arelate, and the franks, increasingly powerful although disunited, were the major power in the north-east. aremorica was controlled by bagaudae, local leaders not under the authority of the empire.[ ] aetius at least campaigned vigorously and mostly victoriously, defeating aggressive visigoths, franks, fresh germanic invaders, bagaudae in aremorica, and a rebellion in noricum.[ ] not for the first time in rome's history, a triumvirate of mutually distrustful rulers proved unstable. in felix tried to recall boniface from africa; he refused, and overcame felix's invading force. boniface probably recruited some vandal troops among others.[ ] in the vandals and alans were united under the able, ferocious, and long-lived king genseric; he moved his entire people to tarifa near gibraltar, divided them into groups nominally of , people (perhaps , warriors in total),[ ] and crossed from hispania to mauretania without opposition. (the straits of gibraltar were not an important thoroughfare at the time, and there were no significant fortifications nor military presence at this end of the mediterranean.) they spent a year moving slowly to numidia, defeating boniface. he returned to italy where aetius had recently had felix executed. boniface was promoted to magister militum and earned the enmity of aetius, who may have been absent in gaul at the time. in the two met at the battle of ravenna, which left aetius's forces defeated and boniface mortally wounded. aetius temporarily retired to his estates, but after an attempt to murder him he raised another hunnic army (probably by conceding parts of pannonia to them) and in he returned to italy, overcoming all rivals. he never threatened to become an augustus himself and thus maintained the support of the eastern court, where valentinian's cousin theodosius ii reigned until .[ ] – ; ascendancy of aetius, loss of carthage aetius campaigned vigorously, somewhat stabilizing the situation in gaul and in hispania. he relied heavily on his forces of huns. with a ferocity celebrated centuries later in the nibelungenlied, the huns slaughtered many burgundians on the middle rhine, re-establishing the survivors as roman allies, the first kingdom of the burgundians. this may have returned some sort of roman authority to trier.[ ] eastern troops reinforced carthage, temporarily halting the vandals, who in agreed to limit themselves to numidia and leave the most fertile parts of north africa in peace. aetius concentrated his limited military resources to defeat the visigoths again, and his diplomacy restored a degree of order to hispania.[ ] however, his general litorius was badly defeated by the visigoths at toulouse, and a new suevic king, rechiar, began vigorous assaults on what remained of roman hispania. at one point rechiar even allied with bagaudae. these were romans not under imperial control; some of their reasons for rebellion may be indicated by the remarks of a roman captive under attila who was happy in his lot, giving a lively account of "the vices of a declining empire, of which he had so long been the victim; the cruel absurdity of the roman princes, unable to protect their subjects against the public enemy, unwilling to trust them with arms for their own defence; the intolerable weight of taxes, rendered still more oppressive by the intricate or arbitrary modes of collection; the obscurity of numerous and contradictory laws; the tedious and expensive forms of judicial proceedings; the partial administration of justice; and the universal corruption, which increased the influence of the rich, and aggravated the misfortunes of the poor.[ ]" vegetius's advice on re-forming an effective army may be dated to the early s,[ ][ ][ ] (though a date in the s has also been suggested).[ ] he identified many deficiencies in the military, especially mentioning that the soldiers were no longer properly equipped: from the foundation of the city till the reign of the emperor gratian, the foot wore cuirasses and helmets. but negligence and sloth having by degrees introduced a total relaxation of discipline, the soldiers began to think their armor too heavy, as they seldom put it on. they first requested leave from the emperor to lay aside the cuirass and afterwards the helmet. in consequence of this, our troops in their engagements with the goths were often overwhelmed with their showers of arrows. nor was the necessity of obliging the infantry to resume their cuirasses and helmets discovered, notwithstanding such repeated defeats, which brought on the destruction of so many great cities. troops, defenseless and exposed to all the weapons of the enemy, are more disposed to fly than fight. what can be expected from a foot-archer without cuirass or helmet, who cannot hold at once his bow and shield; or from the ensigns whose bodies are naked, and who cannot at the same time carry a shield and the colors? the foot soldier finds the weight of a cuirass and even of a helmet intolerable. this is because he is so seldom exercised and rarely puts them on.[ ] a religious polemic of about this time complains bitterly of the oppression and extortion[ ] suffered by all but the richest romans. many wished to flee to the bagaudae or even to foul-smelling barbarians. "although these men differ in customs and language from those with whom they have taken refuge, and are unaccustomed too, if i may say so, to the nauseous odor of the bodies and clothing of the barbarians, yet they prefer the strange life they find there to the injustice rife among the romans. so you find men passing over everywhere, now to the goths, now to the bagaudae, or whatever other barbarians have established their power anywhere ... we call those men rebels and utterly abandoned, whom we ourselves have forced into crime. for by what other causes were they made bagaudae save by our unjust acts, the wicked decisions of the magistrates, the proscription and extortion of those who have turned the public exactions to the increase of their private fortunes and made the tax indictions their opportunity for plunder?"[ ] gildas, a th-century monk and author of de excidio et conquestu britanniae, wrote that "no sooner were the ravages of the enemy checked, than the island [britain] was deluged with a most extraordinary plenty of all things, greater than was before known, and with it grew up every kind of luxury and licentiousness."[ ] nevertheless, effective imperial protection from barbarian ravages was eagerly sought. about this time authorities in britannia asked aetius for help: "to aetius, now consul for the third time: the groans of the britons." and again a little further, thus: – "the barbarians drive us to the sea; the sea throws us back on the barbarians: thus two modes of death await us, we are either slain or drowned." the romans, however, could not assist them ...[ ] the visigoths passed another waymark on their journey to full independence; they made their own foreign policy, sending princesses to make (rather unsuccessful) marriage alliances with rechiar of the sueves and with huneric, son of the vandal king genseric.[ ] in the vandals moved eastward (temporarily abandoning numidia) and captured carthage, where they established an independent state with a powerful navy. this brought immediate financial crisis to the western empire; the diocese of africa was prosperous, normally required few troops to keep it secure, contributed large tax revenues, and exported wheat to feed rome and many other areas.[ ] roman troops assembled in sicily, but the planned counter-attack never happened. huns attacked the eastern empire,[ ] and "the troops, which had been sent against genseric, were hastily recalled from sicily; the garrisons, on the side of persia, were exhausted; and a military force was collected in europe, formidable by their arms and numbers, if the generals had understood the science of command, and the soldiers the duty of obedience. the armies of the eastern empire were vanquished in three successive engagements ... from the hellespont to thermopylae, and the suburbs of constantinople, [attila] ravaged, without resistance, and without mercy, the provinces of thrace and macedonia"[ ] attila's invasions of the east were stopped by the theodosian walls, and at this heavily fortified eastern end of the mediterranean there were no significant barbarian invasions across the sea into the rich southerly areas of anatolia, the levant, and egypt.[ ] despite internal and external threats, and more religious discord than the west, these provinces remained prosperous contributors to tax revenue; despite the ravages of attila's armies and the extortions of his peace treaties, tax revenue generally continued to be adequate for the essential state functions of the eastern empire.[ ][ ] genseric settled his vandals as landowners[ ] and in was able to negotiate very favourable peace terms with the western court. he kept his latest gains and his eldest son huneric was honoured by betrothal to valentinian iii's daughter eudocia, who carried the legitimacy of the conjoined valentinianic and theodosian dynasties. huneric's gothic wife was suspected of trying to poison her father-in-law genseric; he sent her home without her nose or ears, and his gothic alliance came to an early end.[ ] the romans regained numidia, and rome again received a grain supply from africa. the losses of income from the diocese of africa were equivalent to the costs of nearly , infantry or over , cavalry.[ ] the imperial regime had to increase taxes. despite admitting that the peasantry could pay no more, and that a sufficient army could not be raised, the imperial regime protected the interests of landowners displaced from africa and allowed wealthy individuals to avoid taxes.[ ][ ] – ; attacks by the empire of attila the hun in , the huns were united under attila. his subjects included huns, outnumbered several times over by other groups, predominantly germanic.[ ] his power rested partly on his continued ability to reward his favoured followers with precious metals,[ ] and he continued to attack the eastern empire until , by when he had extracted vast sums of money and many other concessions.[ ] attila may not have needed any excuse to turn west, but he received one in the form of a plea for help from honoria, the emperor's sister, who was being forced into a marriage which she resented. attila claimed honoria as his wife and half of the western empire's territory as his dowry. faced with refusal, he invaded gaul in with a huge army. in the bloody battle of the catalaunian plains the invasion was stopped by the combined forces of the barbarians within the western empire, coordinated by aetius and supported by what troops he could muster. the next year, attila invaded italy and proceeded to march upon rome, but an outbreak of disease in his army, lack of supplies, reports that eastern roman troops were attacking his noncombatant population in pannonia, and, possibly, pope leo's plea for peace induced him to halt this campaign. attila unexpectedly died a year later ( ) and his empire crumbled as his followers fought for power. the life of severinus of noricum gives glimpses of the general insecurity, and ultimate retreat of the romans on the upper danube, in the aftermath of attila's death. the romans were without adequate forces; the barbarians inflicted haphazard extortion, murder, kidnap, and plunder on the romans and on each other. "so long as the roman dominion lasted, soldiers were maintained in many towns at the public expense to guard the boundary wall. when this custom ceased, the squadrons of soldiers and the boundary wall were blotted out together. the troop at batavis, however, held out. some soldiers of this troop had gone to italy to fetch the final pay to their comrades, and no one knew that the barbarians had slain them on the way."[ ] in aetius was personally stabbed to death by valentinian, who was himself murdered by the dead general's supporters a year later.[ ] "[valentinian] thought he had slain his master; he found that he had slain his protector: and he fell a helpless victim to the first conspiracy which was hatched against his throne."[ ] a rich senatorial aristocrat, petronius maximus, who had encouraged both murders, then seized the throne. he broke the engagement between eudocia and huneric, prince of the vandals, and had time to send avitus to ask for the help of the visigoths in gaul[ ] before a vandal fleet arrived in italy. petronius was unable to muster any effective defence and was killed by a mob as he tried to flee the city. the vandals entered rome, and plundered it for two weeks. despite the shortage of money for the defence of the state, considerable private wealth had accumulated since the previous sack in . the vandals sailed away with large amounts of treasure and also with the princess eudocia, who became the wife of one vandal king and the mother of another.[ ] the vandals conquered sicily, and their fleet became a constant danger to roman sea trade and to the coasts and islands of the western mediterranean.[ ] – ; failure of avitus, further losses in gaul, rise of ricimer avitus, at the visigothic court in burdigala, declared himself emperor. he moved on rome with visigothic support which gained his acceptance by majorian and ricimer, commanders of the remaining army of italy. this was the first time that a barbarian kingdom had played a key role in the imperial succession.[ ] avitus's son-in-law sidonius apollinaris wrote propaganda to present the visigothic king theoderic ii as a reasonable man with whom a roman regime could do business.[ ] theoderic's payoff included precious metal from stripping the remaining public ornaments of italy,[ ] and an unsupervised campaign in hispania. there he not only defeated the sueves, executing his brother-in-law rechiar, but he also plundered roman cities.[ ] the burgundians expanded their kingdom in the rhone valley and the vandals took the remains of the diocese of africa.[ ] in the visigothic army was too heavily engaged in hispania to be an effective threat to italy, and ricimer had just destroyed a pirate fleet of sixty vandal ships; majorian and ricimer marched against avitus and defeated him near placentia. he was forced to become bishop of placentia, and died (possibly murdered) a few weeks later.[ ] – ; resurgence under majorian, attempt to recover africa, control by ricimer during his four-year reign majorian reconquered most of hispania and southern gaul, meanwhile reducing the visigoths, burgundians and suevi to federate status. majorian and ricimer were now in control of italy. ricimer was the son of a suevic king, and his mother was the daughter of a gothic one, so he could not aspire to an imperial throne. after some months, allowing for negotiation with the new emperor of constantinople and the defeat of alamannic invaders of italy by one of his subordinates, majorian was acclaimed as augustus. majorian is described by gibbon as "a great and heroic character".[ ] he rebuilt the army and navy of italy with vigour and set about recovering the remaining gallic provinces, which had not recognized his elevation. he defeated the visigoths at the battle of arelate, reducing them to federate status and obliging them to give up their claims in hispania; he moved on to subdue the burgundians, the gallo-romans around lugdunum (who were granted tax concessions and whose senior officials were appointed from their own ranks) and the suevi and bagaudae in hispania. marcellinus, magister militum in dalmatia and the pagan general of a well-equipped army, acknowledged him as emperor and recovered sicily from the vandals.[ ] aegidius also acknowledged majorian and took effective charge of northern gaul. (aegidius may also have used the title "king of the franks".[ ]) abuses in tax collection were reformed and the city councils were strengthened, both actions necessary to rebuild the strength of the empire but disadvantageous to the richest aristocrats.[ ] majorian prepared a fleet at carthago nova for the essential reconquest of the diocese of africa. the fleet was burned by traitors, and majorian made peace with the vandals and returned to italy. here ricimer met him, arrested him, and executed him five days later. marcellinus in dalmatia and aegidius around soissons in northern gaul rejected both ricimer and his puppets and maintained some version of roman rule in their areas.[ ] ricimer later ceded narbo and its hinterland to the visigoths for their help against aegidius; this made it impossible for roman armies to march from italy to hispania. ricimer was then the effective ruler of italy (but little else) for several years. from to the pious italian aristocrat libius severus reigned. there is no record of anything significant that he even tried to achieve, he was never acknowledged by the east whose help ricimer needed, and he died conveniently in . – , anthemius; an emperor and an army from the east tremissis of anthemius after two years without a western emperor, the eastern court nominated anthemius, a successful general who had a strong claim on the eastern throne. he arrived in italy with an army, supported by marcellinus and his fleet; he married his daughter to ricimer, and he was proclaimed augustus in . in , at vast expense, the eastern empire assembled an enormous force to help the west retake the diocese of africa. marcellinus rapidly drove the vandals from sardinia and sicily, and a land invasion evicted them from tripolitania. the commander in chief with the main force defeated a vandal fleet near sicily and landed at cape bon. here genseric offered to surrender, if he could have a five-day truce to prepare the process. he used the respite to prepare a full-scale attack preceded by fireships, which destroyed most of the roman fleet and killed many of its soldiers. the vandals were confirmed in their possession of the diocese of africa and they retook sardinia and sicily. marcellinus was murdered, possibly on orders from ricimer.[ ] the praetorian prefect of gaul, arvandus, tried to persuade the new king of the visigoths to rebel, on the grounds that roman power in gaul was finished anyway, but he refused. anthemius was still in command of an army in italy. additionally, in northern gaul, a british army led by one riothamus, operated in imperial interests.[ ] anthemius sent his son over the alps, with an army, to request that the visigoths return southern gaul to roman control. this would have allowed the empire land access to hispania again. the visigoths refused, defeated the forces of both riothamus and anthemius, and with the burgundians took over almost all of the remaining imperial territory in southern gaul. ricimer then quarreled with anthemius, and besieged him in rome, which surrendered in july after more months of starvation.[ ] anthemius was captured and executed (on ricimer's orders) by the burgundian prince gundobad. in august ricimer died of a pulmonary haemorrhage. olybrius, his new emperor, named gundobad as his patrician, then died himself shortly thereafter.[ ] – ; the final emperors, puppets of the warlords after the death of olybrius there was a further interregnum until march , when gundobad proclaimed glycerius emperor. he may have made some attempt to intervene in gaul; if so, it was unsuccessful.[ ] tremissis of julius nepos in julius nepos, nephew and successor of the general marcellinus, arrived in rome with soldiers and authority from the eastern emperor leo i. gundobad had already left to contest the burgundian throne in gaul[ ] and glycerius gave up without a fight, retiring to become bishop of salona in dalmatia.[ ] in , orestes, a former secretary of attila, drove julius nepos out of ravenna and proclaimed his own son flavius momyllus romulus augustus (romulus augustulus) to be emperor, on october . his surname 'augustus' was given the diminutive form 'augustulus' by rivals because he was still a minor, and he was never recognized outside of italy as a legitimate ruler.[ ] in , orestes refused to grant odoacer and the heruli federated status, prompting an invasion. orestes fled to the city of pavia on august , , where the city's bishop gave him sanctuary. orestes was soon forced to flee pavia when odoacer's army broke through the city walls and ravaged the city. odoacer's army chased orestes to piacenza, where they captured and executed him on august , . on september , , odoacer forced then -year-old romulus augustulus, whom his father orestes had proclaimed to be rome's emperor, to abdicate. after deposing romulus, odoacer did not execute him. the anonymus valesianus wrote that odoacer, "taking pity on his youth", spared romulus' life and granted him an annual pension of , solidi before sending him to live with relatives in campania.[ ][ ] odoacer then installed himself as ruler over italy, and sent the imperial insignia to constantinople.[ ] from ; last emperor, rump states europe and the mediterranean in ad by convention, the western roman empire is deemed to have ended on september , when odoacer deposed romulus augustulus and proclaimed himself ruler of italy, but this convention is subject to many qualifications. in roman constitutional theory, the empire was still simply united under one emperor, implying no abandonment of territorial claims. in areas where the convulsions of the dying empire had made organized self-defence legitimate, rump states continued under some form of roman rule after . julius nepos still claimed to be emperor of the west and controlled dalmatia until his murder in . syagrius son of aegidius ruled the domain of soissons until his murder in .[ ] the indigenous inhabitants of mauretania developed kingdoms of their own, independent of the vandals, with strong roman traits. they again sought imperial recognition with the reconquests of justinian i, and they put up effective resistance to the muslim conquest of the maghreb.[ ] while the civitates of britannia sank into a level of material development inferior even to their pre-roman iron age ancestors,[ ] they maintained identifiably roman traits for some time, and they continued to look to their own defence as honorius had authorized.[ ][ ] the ostrogothic kingdom, which rose from the ruins of the western roman empire odoacer began to negotiate with the east roman (byzantine) emperor zeno, who was busy dealing with unrest in the east. zeno eventually granted odoacer the status of patrician and accepted him as his own viceroy of italy. zeno, however, insisted that odoacer had to pay homage to julius nepos as the emperor of the western empire. odoacer never returned any territory or real power, but he did issue coins in the name of julius nepos throughout italy. the murder of julius nepos in (glycerius may have been among the conspirators) prompted odoacer to invade dalmatia, annexing it to his kingdom of italy. in the eastern emperor authorized a troublesome goth, theoderic (later known as "the great") to take italy. after several indecisive campaigns, in theoderic and odoacer agreed to rule jointly. they celebrated their agreement with a banquet of reconciliation, at which theoderic's men murdered odoacer's, and theoderic personally cut odoacer in half.[ ] the mostly powerless, but still influential western roman senate continued to exist in the city of rome under the rule of the ostrogothic kingdom and, later, the byzantine empire for at least another century, before disappearing at an unknown date in the early th century.[ ] legacy main article: legacy of the roman empire the roman empire was not only a political unity enforced by the use of military power. it was also the combined and elaborated civilization of the mediterranean basin and beyond. it included manufacture, trade, and architecture, widespread secular literacy, written law, and an international language of science and literature.[ ] the western barbarians lost much of these higher cultural practices, but their redevelopment in the middle ages by polities aware of the roman achievement formed the basis for the later development of europe.[ ] observing the cultural and archaeological continuities through and beyond the period of lost political control, the process has been described as a complex cultural transformation, rather than a fall.[ ] see also 	succession of the roman empire 	comparative studies of the roman and han empires 	decline of the byzantine empire (fall of the eastern roman empire) 	historiography of the fall of the roman empire 	last of the romans 	late roman army notes 	^ see: zosimus, book http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/new_history/book_the_fifth references 	^ mcmichael, anthony ( february ). climate change 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navigation 		jump to search 		 mosaic of minerva by elihu vedder (thomas jefferson building). beneath the mosaic is an inscription from horace's ars poetica: "nil invita minerva, quae monumentum aere perennius exegit, and translated as, not unwilling, minerva raises a monument more lasting than bronze." the epistles (or letters) of horace were published in two books, in bce and bce, respectively. 	epistularum liber primus (first book of letters) is the seventh work by horace, published in the year bce. this book consists of epistles. the phrase sapere aude ("dare to be wise") comes from this collection of poems. 	epistularum liber secundus (second book of letters) was published in the year bc. this book consists of epistles. however, the third epistle – the ars poetica – is usually treated as a separate composition. contents 	 background 	 book 	 book 	 editions 	 see also 	 references 	 external links background[edit] as one commentator has put it: "horace's epistles may be said to be a continuation of his satires in the form of letters... but few of the epistles are [actually] letters except in form..."[ ]: they do indeed contain an excellent specimen of a letter of introduction (i. ); a piece of playful banter (i. ); pieces of friendly correspondence (i. , i. and i. ); while the last, epistle i. , is inscribed 'to his book," and forms a sort of epilogue to the epistles he had already written. however, as a rule, the epistles "are compositions like those which pope, following the manner of horace, has made familiar to us as moral essays."[ ]: the epistles were published about four years after the first three books of odes, and were introduced by a special address to his patron maecenas, as his odes, epodes and satires had been.[ ]: – the form of composition may have been suggested by some of the satires of lucilius, which were composed as letters to his personal friends...[ ]: "from the epistles... we gather that [horace] had gradually adopted a more retired and meditative life, and had become fonder of the country and of study, and that while owing allegiance to no school or sect of philosophy, he was framing for himself a scheme of life, was endeavoring to conform to it, and was bent on inculcating it in others."[ ]: "in both his satires and epistles, horace shows himself a genuine moralist, a subtle observer and true painter of life, and an admirable writer." but in spirit the epistles are more philosophic, more ethical and meditative. like the odes they exhibit the twofold aspects of horace's philosophy, that of temperate epicureanism and that of more serious and elevated conviction.[ ]: book [edit] book contains epistles.[ ][ ] 	i. – on the importance of philosophy - (dedication to maecenas, horace's patron) 	 - – horace excuses himself to maecenas for giving up the composition of lyric poetry, but he is better suited to philosophy as he grows older. however, he is not bound to any particular philosophic school. 	 - – wisdom is the true business of life; yet most of us must be content with but a moderate share of it: wisdom too is the only power which can tame our passions. 	 - – men will do and suffer anything to avoid poverty, but they will do nothing to gain virtue, which is more precious than gold. a clear conscience makes a man truly a king. 	 - – he cannot follow the popular ideas, because he sees that they all tend one way - namely, to money-making. besides, not only do men differ from one another in their pursuits, but no man is ever consistent with himself. 	 - – external inconsistencies are noticed at once, while those of life and practice are passed over. this epistle ends with a joke on the stoic doctrine of the perfect man. 	i. – homer: the teacher of true philosophy – (addressed to lollius maximus) 	 - – horace begins by demonstrating, in the manner of the stoic philosophers, the merit of homer as a teacher of morals. 	 - – men will take more trouble for bad deeds than for good, and more for the body than the mind. yet, without contentment and peace of mind, material acquisitions cannot be enjoyed. avarice and envy are always beggars, and remorse comes after anger. youth is the time to learn self-control. he shall always adhere to the philosophy of moderation. 	i. – a literary staff – (addressed to julius florus) 	to julius florus, who was serving on the staff of tiberius claudius nero. the letter consists mainly of inquiries and observations as to the literary pursuits of members of the staff; and concludes with a hope that the quarrel between florus and munatius has ended in a reconciliation. 	i. – an exhortation to contentment – (addressed to albius tibullus, the elegaic poet) 	horace urges his friend to enjoy each passing hour, and suggests that a visit to his sabine farm may divert him. 	i. – an invitation – (addressed to manlius torquatus, to whom horace also wrote ode iv. ) 	horace invites his friend to dinner – tomorrow is a holiday and torquatus may well forget his occupations for a time. horace then extols the virtues of wine (see also ode iii. ); and describes the preparations he is making for the banquet. 	i. – on philosophic indifference – (addressed to numicius) 	equanimity is happiness – fear and desire alike disturb our peace of mind. you will find this maxim true if you seek the chief good in any other pursuit – ) in riches, ) in political honors, ) in sumptuous living, or ) in love and trifling. 	i. – an independent spirit – (addressed to maecenas) 	 - – horace excuses himself to maecenas for not keeping his promise to come to rome, on the ground that it would be dangerous to his health. he feels that this reason will satisfy maecenas, as being a friend who has always had a sincere regard for his welfare. 	 - – if maecenas would want him to always be at rome, then horace must have back his health and youth. he must be free, even if freedom costs him the loss of all maecenas' favors. horace would give back all, as telemachus refused the horses which were unsuited to his poor and rocky island. 	 - – the story of volteius mena and his patron l. marcius philippus, with an implied allusion to the relationship between horace and maecenas. the attainment of our wishes does not always make us happy. 	i. – a word of warning – (addressed to celsus albinovanus, who was serving on the staff of tiberius in the province of asia) 	this letter seems to be a reply. horace speaks of his own fickleness and discontent, and gently recommends moderation to celsus in prosperity. 	i. – a letter of recommendation – (addressed to tiberius) 	this letter is written to the future emperor tiberius, in behalf of titius septimius, to whom ode ii. is addressed. 	i. – the advantages of country life – (addressed to aristius fuscus, to whom ode i. is also addressed) 	this epistle begins with horace contrasting his own love of the country with his friend's fondness for the town; then follows the praise of nature; and finally the poet dwells on the superior happiness that moderate means and contentment afford, compared with riches and ambition. 	i. – on contentment – (addressed to bullatius) 	to bullatius who is travelling to ionia – change of scene does not alter the mind. if the mind is tranquil, the meanest and least interesting of places seem agreeable. 	i. – consolation – (addressed to iccius, to whom ode i. is also addressed) 	horace advises iccius, who is now steward of agrippa's property in sicily, to be content, and compliments him on pursuing the study of philosophy. he then encourages him to cultivate the friendship of pompeius grosphus, and tells him the news at rome. 	i. – instructions to a messenger – (addressed to vinius asina) 	horace sends a copy of his odes to augustus by a friend of his court circles – vinius asina. the poet writes a playful note of instruction to the messenger, whom he likens (on account of his name "asina") to a beast of burden. 	i. – master to bailiff – 	horace writes a letter to his bailiff, who dislikes the country and longs to return to city life; while horace, detained at rome, has his heart in the country. 	i. – a request for information – (addressed to numonius vala) 	horace has decided to spend the winter at the seashore, and now writes to his friend for information about the climate and resources of velia and salernum. 	i. – happiness depends upon virtue – (addressed to quinctius hirpinus, to whom ode ii. is also addressed) 	 - – horace describes the simple attractions of his sabine farm. 	 - – advice to his friend not to value too highly the admiration of the masses – their honors can be taken away. 	 - – many a man who seems to be good is actuated by fear, not love – his morality is hollow. 	 - – the miser is a slave to his money. the good man is free and fearless, come what will. 	i. – on true independence – (address to scaeva) 	horace shows that one may observe proper deference towards a patron without sacrificing one's self-respect. he gives some humorous directions for gaining the favor of great men. 	i. – on the proper demeanor towards a patron – (addressed to lollius maximum) 	as in epistle i. , horace assures a friend that he can show proper deference to a patron, without laying himself open to the charge of obsequiousness. 	i. – the poet on his critics – (addressed to maecenas) 	the odes (books i–iii) had evidently met with unfavorable criticism outside the small circle of the poet's friends. he points out to maecenas the injustice of the charges which have been made against him, and expresses contempt for his detractors. 	i. – epilogue – (addressed to his book) 	horace warns his book of epistles of the fate that attends publishing. he compares it to a young and beautiful slave, and foretells its destiny – ) success until it falls into the hands of the vulgar; ) banishment to the provinces; ) an old age spent in schools. book [edit] book consists of epistles. however, the third epistle – the ars poetica – is usually treated as a separate composition. (for further discussion, see the wikipedia article on the ars poetica). 	ii. – on popular taste and judgment – (dedication to augustus) 	horace dedicates his second collection of epistles to augustus, who had apparently urged him to undertake something in the line of dramatic or epic poetry. he complains of the poor taste shown by the general public, especially in regard to the drama, and says that he is unwilling to make an attempt in that line. for epic poetry he has no ability. 	ii. – a renunciation of lyric poetry – (addressed to julius florus, to whom epistle i. is also addressed) 	horace expresses at greater length the same general sentiments as in epistle i. – he intends to devote himself to philosophy and to write only in the field represented by the satires and epistles. 	ii. – ars poetica – the art of poetry – (addressed to the pisos) 	(for further discussion, see the wikipedia article on the ars poetica) 	the ars poetica is dedicated to horace's friend lucius calpurnius piso (the roman senator and consul) and his two sons. 	 - – unity and simplicity are necessary in a poem. 	 - – we, who would be poets, must guard against all extremes. 	 - – we must well consider our powers before we write. 	 - – we may coin new words when necessary, but this must be done with care: words, like all other things, are subject to change. 	 - – the various kinds of poetry: epic, elegiac, dramatic, lyric. 	 - – we must suit our style to the different kinds of poetry. 	 - – the words also must be suitable to the character in whose mouth the poet puts them. 	 - – a writer should follow the traditions of the muse; or, if he strikes out something new, must be consistent. no better guide can we follow than homer. 	 - – a writer too should observe the characteristics of each age of man. 	 - – some things should be represented on the stage, others related to the spectators. 	 - – certain rules not to be transgressed. the role of the chorus. 	 - – of the music of the stage, and how it changes with the fortunes and manners of the people. 	 - – the satyric drama, which accompanied the tragedy, is not the same as comedy, and has its rules and wholesome restraints. 	 - – on the iambic and spondee. the greek taste is to be followed, rather than the license of the roman poets, in respect to meter. 	 - – the origin of tragedy & its development. to it succeeded the old comedy – vigorous, but scurrilous. the latin poets deserve some praise, but their great fault is their careless, slovenly style. 	 - – genius cannot afford to dispense with the rules of art. the critic has his place in literature. 	 - – knowledge is the foundation of good writing. poetry without sense is but a harmonious trifling. 	 - – the greeks had genius; the romans are a money-getting race. 	 - – the object of the poet should be to give instruction and delight. 	 - – we do not expect perfection in a poem, but we do expect care and pains. 	 - – a short comparison between poetry and painting. 	 - – mediocrity in poetry is insufferable – for this reason, be careful before you publish. 	 - – the origins and office of poetry in early days. 	 - – genius is necessary for a poet – and yet, without art and study, genius will fail. 	 - – let poets avoid flatterers. quinctilius was an honest friend, whose mission it was to tell an author unpleasant truths. 	 - – a poet goes as mad as empedocles; let all beware of him and keep out of the way of one who will not be helped. editions[edit] 	ed. th. k. arnold, london ( ) see also[edit] 	prosody (latin) references[edit] 	^ a b c the works of horace rendered into english prose by james lonsdale m.a. and samuel lee m.a. london: macmillan and co., . edition is available on google books. 	^ a b c d chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "horace" . encyclopædia britannica. 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speaking world, ad late latin (latin: latinitas serior) is the scholarly name for the written latin of late antiquity.[ ] english dictionary definitions of late latin date this period from the rd to the th centuries ad,[ ][ ] and continuing into the th century in the iberian peninsula.[ ] this somewhat ambiguously defined version of latin was used between the eras of classical latin and medieval latin. there is no scholarly consensus about exactly when classical latin should end or medieval latin should begin. however, late latin is characterized (with variations and disputes) by an identifiable style. being a written language, late latin is not the same as vulgar latin. the latter served as ancestor of the romance languages. although late latin reflects an upsurge of the use of vulgar latin vocabulary and constructs, it remains largely classical in its overall features, depending on the author who uses it. some late latin writings are more literary and classical, but others are more inclined to the vernacular. also, late latin is not identical to christian patristic latin, used in the theological writings of the early christian fathers. while christian writings used a subset of late latin, pagans also wrote extensively in late latin, especially in the early part of the period. late latin formed when large numbers of non-latin-speaking peoples on the borders of the empire were being subsumed and assimilated, and the rise of christianity was introducing a heightened divisiveness in roman society, creating a greater need for a standard language for communicating between different socioeconomic registers and widely separated regions of the sprawling empire. a new and more universal speech evolved from the main elements: classical latin, christian latin, which featured sermo humilis (ordinary speech) in which the people were to be addressed,[ ] and all the various dialects of vulgar latin.[ ] the linguist antoine meillet wrote, "without the exterior appearance of the language being much modified, latin became in the course of the imperial epoch a new language",[ ] and, "serving as some sort of lingua franca to a large empire, latin tended to become simpler, to keep above all what it had of the ordinary".[ ] contents 	 philological constructs 	 . late and post-classical latin 	 . imperial latin 	 . christian, patristic, vulgate and ancient latin 	 . low latin 	 . through the death of boethius 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links philological constructs[edit] late and post-classical latin[edit] neither late latin nor late antiquity are modern terms or concepts; neither are they ancient; their origin remains obscure. a notice in harper's new monthly magazine of the publication of andrews' freund's lexicon of the latin language in mentions that the dictionary divides latin into ante-classic, quite classic, ciceronian, augustan, post-augustan and post-classic or late latin,[ ][ ] which indicates the term already was in professional use by english classicists in the early th century. instances of english vernacular use of the term may also be found from the th century. the term late antiquity meaning post-classical and pre-medieval had currency in english well before then. imperial latin[edit] wilhelm sigismund teuffel's first edition ( ) of history of roman literature defined an early period, the golden age, the silver age and then goes on to define other ages first by dynasty and then by century (see under classical latin). in subsequent editions he subsumed all periods under three headings: the first period (old latin), the second period (the golden age) and the third period, "the imperial age", subdivided into the silver age, the nd century, and centuries – together, which was a recognition of late latin, as he sometimes refers to the writings of those times as "late." imperial latin went on into english literature; fowler's history of roman literature mentions it in .[ ] there are, however, insoluble problems with the beginning and end of imperial latin. politically the excluded augustan period is the paradigm of imperiality, and yet the style cannot be bundled with either the silver age or with late latin. moreover, in th century italy, the roman empire no longer existed; the rule of gothic kings prevailed. subsequently, the term imperial latin was dropped by historians of latin literature, although it may be seen in marginal works. the silver age was extended a century and the final four centuries represent late latin. christian, patristic, vulgate and ancient latin[edit] main articles: ecclesiastical latin, vulgate, vetus latina, patrologia latina, and patristics low latin[edit] st. gildas, one of a number of late latin writers to promulgate an excidium or ruina britanniae because of moral turpitude. low latin is a vague and often pejorative term that might refer to any post-classical latin from late latin through renaissance latin depending on the author.[clarification needed] its origins are obscure but the latin expression media et infima latinitas sprang into public notice in in the title of a glossary (by today's standards a dictionary) by charles du fresne, sieur du cange. the multi-volume set had many editions and expansions by other authors subsequently. the title varies somewhat; most commonly used was glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis. it has been translated by expressions of widely different meanings. the uncertainty is understanding what media, "middle", and infima, "low", mean in this context. the media is securely connected to medieval latin by cange's own terminology expounded in the praefatio,[ ] such as scriptores mediae aetatis, "writers of the middle age." cange's glossary takes words from authors ranging from the christian period (late latin) to the renaissance, dipping into the classical period if a word originated there. either media et infima latinitas refers to one age, which must be the middle age covering the entire post-classical range, or it refers to two consecutive periods, infima latinitas and media latinitas. both interpretations have their adherents. edward gibbon, english historian who espoused the concept of a decline of the roman empire resulting in its fall. in the former case the infimae appears extraneous; it recognizes the corruptio of the corrupta latinitas cange said his glossary covered.[ ] the two-period case postulates a second unity of style, infima latinitas, translated into english as "low latin" (which in the one-period case would be identical to media latinitas). cange in the glossarial part of his glossary identifies some words as being used by purioris latinitatis scriptores, such as cicero (of the golden age). he has already said in the preface that he rejects the ages scheme used by some: golden age, silver age, brass age, iron age. a second category are the inferioris latinitatis scriptores, such as apuleius (silver age). the third and main category are the infimae latinitatis scriptores, who must be post-classical; that is, late latin, unless they are also medieval. his failure to state which authors are low leaves the issue unresolved. he does however give some idea of the source of his infima, which is a classical word, "lowest", of which the comparative degree is inferior, "lower." in the preface he opposes the style of the scriptores aevi inferioris (silver age) to the elegantes sermones, "elegant speech", the high and low styles of latinitas defined by the classical authors. apparently cange was basing his low style on sermo humilis,[ ] the simplified speech devised by late latin christian writers to address the ordinary people. humilis (humble, humility) means "low", "of the ground". the christian writers were not interested in the elegant speech of the best or classical latin, which belonged to their aristocratic pagan opponents. instead they preferred a humbler style lower in correctness, so that they might better deliver the gospel to the vulgus or "common people." low latin in this view is the latin of the two periods in which it has the least degree of purity, or is most corrupt. by corrupt du cange only meant that the language had resorted to non-classical vocabulary and constructs from various sources, but his choice of words was unfortunate. it allowed the "corruption" to extend to other aspects of society, providing fuel for the fires of religious (catholic vs. protestant) and class (conservative vs. revolutionary) conflict. low latin passed from the heirs of the italian renaissance to the new philologists of the northern and germanic climes, where it became a different concept. in britain gildas' view that britain fell to the anglo-saxons because it was morally slack was already well known to the scholarly world. the northern protestants now worked a role reversal: if the language was "corrupt" it must be symptomatic of a corrupt society, which indubitably led to a "decline and fall", as edward gibbon put it, of imperial society. writers taking this line relied heavily on the scandalous behavior of the julio-claudian dynasty and the bad emperors reported by tacitus and other writers and later by the secret history of procopius, who hated his royal employers to such a degree that he could not contain himself about their real methods and way of life any longer. they, however, spoke elegant latin. the protestants changed the scenario to fit their ideology that the church needed to be purified of corruption. for example, baron bielfeld, a prussian officer and comparative latinist, characterised the low in low latin, which he saw as medieval latin, as follows: ‹ the template below (columns) is being considered for deletion. see templates for discussion to help reach a consensus. › 	 french: le quatrieme âge de la langue latine, est celui où pendant le reste du moyen âge & les premiers siecles des temps modernes, le latin tomba successivement dans une telle décadence, que ce ne fut plus qu’un jargon barbare. c’est au latin de cet âge qu’on a donné le nom de basse latinité ; […] en effet […] tellement corrompu, altéré, mêlé d’expressions étrangeres […] et que pouvoit-on espérer pour la langue latine d’un temps où des nations barbares pénétrerent dans toute l’europe, & sur-tout en italie, où l’empire d’orient étoit gouverné par des imbécilles, où les moeurs étoient abominables, où les arts & les sciences étoient comme anéantis, où les prêtres & les moines, &c. étoient les seuls lettrés, & néanmoins les plus ignorans & les plus ineptes personnages du monde. aussi faut-il ranger sous ces temps ténébreux ce latin absurde qu’on nommoit lingua ecclesiastica, & qu’on ne sauroit lire sans dégoût.[ ]		 the fourth age of the latin tongue is that of the remainder of the middle age, and the st centuries of modern times, during which the language fell by degrees into so great a decadency, that it became nothing better than a barbarous jargon. it is the style of these times that is given the name of low latin. ... what indeed could be expected from this language, at a time when the barbarians had taken possession of europe, but especially of italy; when the empire of the east was governed by idiots; when there was a total corruption of morals; when the priests and monks were the only men of letters, and were at the same time the most ignorant and futile mortals in the world. under these times of darkness, we must, therefore, rank that latin, which is called lingua ecclesiastica, and which we cannot read without disgust.[ ] — the elements of universal erudition, containing an analytical abrigement of the sciences, polite arts and belles lettres as 'low latin' tends to be muddled with vulgar latin, late latin and medieval latin and has unfortunate extensions of meaning into the sphere of socioeconomics, it has gone out of use by the mainstream philologists of latin literature. a few writers on the periphery still mention it, influenced by the dictionaries and classic writings of former times. tertullian cyprian as teuffel's scheme of the golden age and the silver age is the generally accepted one, the canonical list of authors should begin just after the end of the silver age, regardless of what rd century event is cited as the beginning; otherwise there are gaps. teuffel gave the end of the silver age as the death of hadrian at ad. his classification of styles left a century between that event and his final period, the rd– th centuries bc, which was in other systems being considered late antiquity. starting with charles thomas crutwell's a history of roman literature from the earliest period to the death of marcus aurelius, which first came out in , english literary historians have included the spare century in silver latin. accordingly, the latter ends with the death of the last of the five good emperors in ad. other authors use other events, such as the end of the nervan–antonine dynasty in ad or later events. a good round date of ad gives a canonical list of nearly no overlap. the transition between late latin and medieval latin is by no means as easy to assess. taking that media et infima latinitas was one style, mantello in a recent handbook asserts of "the latin used in the middle ages" that it is "here interpreted broadly to include late antiquity and therefore to extend from c. ad to ."[ ] although recognizing "late antiquity" he does not recognize late latin. it did not exist and medieval latin began directly at bc. in this view all differences from classical latin are bundled as though they evolved through a single continuous style. of the two-style interpretations the late latin period of erich auerbach and others is one of the shortest: "in the first half of the th century, which witnessed the beginning and end of ostrogoth rule in italy, latin literature becomes medieval. boethius was the last 'ancient' author and the role of rome as the center of the ancient world, as communis patria, was at an end."[ ] in essence, the lingua franca of classical vestiges was doomed when italy was overrun by the goths, but its momentum carried it one lifetime further, ending with the death of boethius in ad . not everyone agrees that the lingua franca came to an end with the fall of rome, but argue that it continued and became the language of the reinstituted carolingian empire (predecessor of the holy roman empire) under charlemagne. toward the end of his reign his administration conducted some language reforms. the first recognition that late latin could not be understood by the masses and therefore was not a lingua franca was the decrees of ad by synods at mainz, rheims tours that from then on preaching was to be done in a language more understandable to the people, which was stated by tours canon as rustica romana lingua, identified as proto-romance, the descendant of vulgar latin.[ ] late latin as defined by meillet was at an end; however, pucci's harrington's mediaeval latin sets the end of late latin when romance began to be written, "latin retired to the cloister" and "romanitas lived on only in the fiction of the holy roman empire."[ ] the final date given by those authors is ad . through the death of boethius[edit] constantine the great ausonius ambrose 	domitius ulpianus ( ad – ad), jurist, imperial officer 	julius paulus prudentissimus ( nd & rd centuries ad), jurist, imperial officer 	aelius marcianus ( nd & rd centuries ad), jurist 	herennius modestinus ( rd century ad), jurist 	censorinus ( rd century ad), historian, essayist 	quintus gargilius martialis ( rd century ad), horticulturalist, pharmacologist 	gaius asinius quadratus ( rd century ad), historian 	quintus septimius florens tertullianus (ad - ), "the father of latin christianity", polemicist against heresy 	thascius caecilius cyprianus (ad - ), converted rhetorician, bishop of carthage, martyr, saint 	novatianus ( ad – ad), theologian, rival pope, excommunicant 	quintus serenus sammonicus ( nd century ad, early rd century ad), scholar, educator 	commodianus ( rd century ad), poet, christian educator 	lucius caelius firmianus lactantius (ad - ), converted rhetorician, scholar, christian apologist and educator 	ammianus marcellinus ( th century ad), soldier, imperial officer, historian 	claudius claudianus ( th century ad), court poet 	gaius julius solinus ( rd or th century ad), topical writer 	nonius marcellus ( rd or th century ad), topical writer 	marcus aurelius olympius nemesianus (fl. ad), poet 	aquila romanus ( rd century ad), rhetorician 	eumenius of autun ( rd century ad), educator 	aelius festus aphthonius ( rd or th century ad), grammarian 	calcidius ( th century ad), translator 	gaius marius victorinus ( th century ad), converted philosopher 	arnobius of sicca ( th century), christian apologist 	constantine i ( ad – ad), first christian emperor 	nazarius ( th century ad), rhetorician, educator 	gaius julius victor ( th century ad), rhetorician 	gaius vettius aquilinus juvencus ( th century ad), christian poet 	nonius marcellus ( rd and th centuries ad), grammarian, lexicographer 	julius firmicus maternus ( th century ad), converted advocate, pagan and christian writer 	aelius donatus ( th century ad), grammarian, rhetorician, educator 	palladius ( / ad – / ad), saint, first bishop of ireland 	sextus aurelius victor (ad - ), imperial officer, historian 	eutropius ( th century ad), imperial officer, historian 	aemilius magnus arborius ( th century ad), poet, educator, friend of the imperial family 	decimius magnus ausonius (ca. ad – ad), poet, rhetorician, educator, friend of the imperial family 	claudius mamertinus ( th century ad), imperial officer, panegyricist, embezzler 	hilarius ( th century ad), converted neo-platonist, theologian, bishop of poitiers, saint 	ambrosius ( / ad – ad), theologian, bishop of milan, saint 	lucifer (d. / ad), theologian, bishop of sardinia 	priscillianus (d. ad), theologian, first person executed as a heretic 	flavius sosipater charisius ( th century ad), grammarian 	diomedes grammaticus ( th century ad), grammarian 	postumius rufus festus avienus ( th century ad), imperial officer, poet, translator 	priscianus caesariensis (fl. ad ), grammarian see also[edit] 	decline of the roman empire 	panegyrici latini, a collection of rd to th century panegyrics; their language is however predominantly classical (golden age) latin base, derived from an education heavy on cicero, mixed with a large number of silver age usages and a small number of late and vulgar terms. notes[edit] 	^ a b roberts ( ), p. . 	^ "late latin". webster's third new international dictionary. volume ii, h to r. chicago: encyclopædia britannica, inc. . 	^ "late latin". the american heritage dictionary of the english language ( rd ed.). boston, new york, london: houghton mifflin company. 	^ auerbach ( ), chapter , sermo humilis. 	^ harrington, karl pomeroy; pucci, joseph michael ( ). mediaeval latin ( nd ed.). chicago: university of chicago press. p.  . isbn  - - - . the combination of features specific to vulgar latin and ecclesiastical latin had the effect, then, of transforming the language by the fourth century into something of extraordinary vigor. 	^ meillet ( ), p. : "sans que l'aspect extérieur de la langue se soit beaucoup modifié, le latin est devenu au cours de l'epoque impériale une langue nouvelle}", 	^ meillet ( ), p. : "servant en quelque sorte de lingua franca à un grand empire, le latin a tendu à se simplifier, à garder surtout ce qu'il avait de banal". 	^ "harper's new monthly magazine, monthly record of current events". i. : . cite journal requires |journal= (help) 	^ ethan allen andrews; william freund ( ). a copious and critical latin-english lexicon: founded on the larger latin-german lexicon of dr. william freund; with additions and corrections from the lexicons of gesner, facciolati, scheller, georges, etc. harper & brothers. 	^ fowler, harold north ( ). a history of roman literature. new york: d. appleton and co. p.  . the third or imperial period lasts from a. d. to the beginning of the middle ages. 	^ du cange, charles du fresne; et al. ( ). "præfatio lxii". glossarium mediæ et infimæ latinitatis. volume . paris: firmin didot fratres. p.  . retrieved june . 	^ du cange, charles du fresne; et al. ( ). "præfatio lxiii". glossarium mediæ et infimæ latinitatis. volume . paris: firmin didot fratres. pp.  – . retrieved june . 	^ https://sermohumilis.com 	^ von bielfeld, jakob friedrich ( ). the elements of universal erudition, containing an analytical abrigement of the sciences, polite arts and belles lettres. iii. translated by hooper, w. london: g. scott. p.  . 	^ the text was originally published in french, the court language of prussia at the time: von bielfeld, jakob friedrich ( ). les premiers traits de l'érudition universelle : ou, analyse abregée de toutes les sciences, des beaux-arts et des belles-lettres. iii. leiden: luchtmans. p.  . 	^ mantello, fac ( ) [ ]. "part i". in mantello, frank anthony carl; rigg, a. g (eds.). medieval latin: an introduction and bibliographical guide. washington, d.c.: the catholic university of america press. p.  . 	^ auerbach ( ), p. . 	^ uytfanghe, marc van ( ). "the consciousness of a linguistic dichotomy (latin-romance) in carolingian gaul: the contradictions of the sources and of their interpretation". in wright, roger (ed.). latin and the romance languages in the early middle ages. university park, penn.: pennsylvania state university press. pp.  – . isbn  - - - . 	^ harrington, karl pomeroy; pucci, joseph michael ( ). mediaeval latin ( nd ed.). chicago: university of chicago press. p.  . isbn  - - - . references[edit] 	auerbach, erich ( ) [ ]. literary language and its public in late latin antiquity and in the middle ages. bollingen series lxxiv. trans. ralph mannheim. pantheon books. 	meillet, antoine ( ). esquisse d'une histoire de la langue latine (in french). paris: hachette. 	roberts, michael ( ). "the latin literature of late antiquity". in anthony, frank; mantello, carl; rigg, a.g (eds.). medieval latin: an introduction and bibliographical guide. catholic university of america press. pp.  – . 	teuffel, wilhelm sigismund; schwabe, ludwig ( ). teuffel's history of roman literature revised and enlarged. ii, the imperial period. trans. george c.w. warr (from the th german ed.). london: george bell & sons. further reading[edit] 	adams, j. n., nigel vincent, and valerie knight. . early and late latin: continuity or change? cambridge, uk: cambridge university press. 	courcelle, pierre. . late latin writers and their greek sources. translated by harry wedeck. cambridge, ma: harvard university press. 	elsner, jaś, and jesús hernández lobato. . the poetics of late latin literature. new york: oxford university press. 	langslow, d. r. . the latin alexander trallianus: the text and transmission of a late latin medical book. london: society for the promotion of roman studies. 	löfstedt, einar. . late latin. cambridge, ma: harvard univ. press. 	wright, roger. . late latin and early romance in spain and carolingian france. liverpool, uk: francis cairns. 	--. . a sociophilological study of late latin. turnhout, belgium: brepols. external links[edit] 	library resources about late latin 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	"christian latin" (in latin). the latin library. retrieved october . 	du cange, charles du fresne ( ) [ ]. glossarium ad scriptores mediae et infimae latinitatis. francofurti ad moenum: apud johannem adamum jungium, camena - corpus automatum multiplex electorum neolatinitatis auctorum, university of heidelberg. 	"du cange, le glossarium: en ligne". École nationale des chartres. . retrieved october . 	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distribution of romance languages: blue – french; green – spanish; orange – portuguese; purple – catalan; yellow – italian; red – romanian the legacy of the roman empire has been varied and significant, comparable to that of other hegemonic polities of world history (e.g. persian empire, ancient egypt or imperial china). the roman empire itself, built upon the legacy of other cultures, has had long-lasting influence with broad geographical reach on a great range of cultural aspects, including state institutions, law, cultural values, religious beliefs, technological advances, engineering and language. this legacy survived the demise of the empire itself ( th century ad in the west, and th century ad in the east) and went on to shape other civilisations, a process which continues to this day. the city of rome was the civitas (reflected in the etymology of the word "civilisation") and connected with the actual western civilisation on which subsequent cultures built. one main legacy is the latin language of ancient rome, epitomized by the classical latin used in latin literature, evolved during the middle ages and remains in use in the roman catholic church as ecclesiastical latin. vulgar latin, the common tongue used for regular social interactions, evolved simultaneously into the various romance languages that exist today (notably italian, sardinian, french, spanish, portuguese, catalan, romanian, etc.). although the western roman empire fell in the th century ad, the eastern roman empire continued until its conquest by the ottoman empire in the th century ad and cemented the greek language in many parts of the eastern mediterranean even after the early muslim conquests of the th century ad. although there has been a small modern revival of the hellenistic religion with hellenism, ancient roman paganism was largely displaced by roman catholic christianity after the th century ad and the christian conversion of roman emperor constantine i (r. - ad). the christian faith of the late roman empire continued to evolve during the middle ages and remains a major facet of the religion and the psyche of the modern western world. ancient roman architecture, largely indebted to ancient greek architecture of the hellenistic period, has influenced the architecture of the western world, particularly during the italian renaissance of the th century. roman law and republican politics (from the age of the roman republic) have left an enduring legacy, influencing the italian city-state republics of the medieval period as well as the early united states and other modern democratic republics. the julian calendar of ancient rome formed the basis of the standard modern gregorian calendar, while roman inventions and engineering, such as the construction of concrete domes, continued to influence various peoples after the fall of rome. roman models of colonialism and of warfare also became influential. contents 	 language 	 . script 	 . latin literature 	 education 	 calendar and measurement 	 . hours of the day 	 . numerals and units 	 . three-age systems 	 religion 	 science and philosophy 	 roman law and politics 	 inventions 	 colonies and roads 	 architecture 	 imperial idea 	 toponymy and ethnonymy 	 see also 	 references 	 sources 	 external links language[edit] main articles: romance languages and romance-speaking world latin became the lingua franca of the early roman empire and later of the western roman empire, while - particularly in the eastern roman empire - indigenous languages such as greek and to a lesser degree egyptian and aramaic language continued in use. despite the decline of the western roman empire, the latin language continued to flourish in the very different social and economic environment of the middle ages, not least because it became the official language of the roman catholic church. koine greek, which served as a lingua franca in the eastern empire, remains in use today as a sacred language in some eastern orthodox churches. in western and central europe and in parts of northern africa, latin retained its elevated status as the main vehicle of communication for the learned classes throughout the middle ages and subsequently; witness especially the renaissance and baroque periods. books which had a revolutionary impact on science, such as nicolaus copernicus' de revolutionibus orbium coelestium ( ), were composed in latin. this language was not supplanted for scientific purposes until the th century, and for formal descriptions in zoology, as well as botany - it survived to the later th century.[ ] the modern international binomial nomenclature holds to this day: taxonomists assign a latin or latinized name as the scientific name of each species. in the st century the romance languages, which comprise all languages that descended from latin, are spoken by more than million people as their mother tongue, and by million people as a second language, mainly in the americas, europe, and africa.[ ] romance languages are either official, co-official, or significantly used in countries around the world.[ ][failed verification][ ][need quotation to verify][ ][need quotation to verify][ ][need quotation to verify][ ][need quotation to verify][ ][need quotation to verify] of the united nations' six official languages, two (french and spanish) descend from latin. additionally, latin has had a great influence on both the grammar[citation needed] and the lexicon of west germanic languages. romance words make respectively %, % and % of english, german and dutch vocabularies.[ ][ ][ ] those figures can rise dramatically when only non-compound and non-derived words are included. accordingly, romance words make roughly % of the vocabulary of dutch.[ ] of all the loanwords in dutch, . % come directly from some form of latin (excluding loans from romance languages).[ ] script[edit] main article: latin alphabet global distribution of the latin script. all three official scripts of the modern european union— latin, greek and cyrillic—descend from writing systems used in the roman empire. today, the latin script, the latin alphabet spread by the roman empire to most of europe, and derived from the phoenician alphabet through an ancient form of the greek alphabet adopted and modified by etruscan, is the most widespread and commonly used script in the world. spread by various colonies, trade routes, and political powers, the script has continued to grow in influence. the greek alphabet, which had spread throughout the eastern mediterranean region during the hellenistic period, remained the primary script of the eastern roman empire through the byzantine empire until its demise in the th century. cyrillic scripts largely derive from the greek.[ ] latin literature[edit] th-century printed books by language.[ ] the high prestige of latin meant that that language still dominated european published discourse a millennium after the demise of the western roman empire. the carolingian renaissance of the th century rescued many works in latin from oblivion: manuscripts transcribed at that time are our only sources for some works that later fell into obscurity once more, only to be recovered during the renaissance: tacitus, lucretius, propertius and catullus furnish examples.[ ] other latin writers never went out of circulation: virgil, reinterpreted as a prophet of christianity by the th century, gained the reputation of a sorcerer in the th century. cicero, in a limited number of his works, remained a model of good style, mined for quotations. medieval christians read ovid allegorically, or re-imagined seneca as the correspondent of saint paul. lucan, persius, juvenal, horace, terence, and statius survived in the continuing canon and the historians valerius maximus and livy continued to be read for the moral lessons history was expected to impart. through the roman empire, greek literature also continued to make an impact in europe long after the empire's fall, especially after the recovery of greek texts from the east during the high middle ages and the resurgence of greek literacy during the renaissance. many educated westerners from the renaissance up to the th century, for instance, read plutarch's lives of the noble greeks and romans, originally written in greek. shakespeare's play julius caesar takes most of its material from plutarch's biographies of caesar, cato, and brutus, whose exploits were frequently discussed and debated by the literati of shakespeare's time. education[edit] main article: liberal arts martianus capella developed the system of the seven liberal arts that structured medieval education. although the liberal arts were already known in ancient greece, it was only after martianus that the seven liberal arts took on canonical form. his single encyclopedic work, de nuptiis philologiae et mercurii "on the marriage of philology and mercury", laid the standard formula of academic learning from the christianized roman empire of the th century until the renaissance of the th century. the seven liberal arts were formed by the trivium, which included the skills of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, while arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy played part as the quadrivium. calendar and measurement[edit] main articles: gregorian calendar and names of the days of the week the modern western calendar is a refinement of the julian calendar, which was introduced by julius caesar. the calendar of the roman empire began with the months ianuarius (january), februarius (february), and martius (march). the common tradition to begin the year on january was a convention established in ancient rome. throughout the medieval period, the year began on march, the catholic solemnity of the annunciation. roman monk of the th-century, dionysius exiguus, devised the modern dating system of the anno domini (ad) era, which is based on the reckoned year of the birth of jesus, with ad counting years from the start of this epoch, and bc denoting years before the start of the era. the modern seven-day week follows the greco-roman system of planetary hours, in which one of the seven heavenly bodies of the solar system that were known in ancient times—saturn, jupiter, mars, the sun, venus, mercury and the moon—is given "rulership" over each day. the romance languages (with the exception of portuguese, that assigns an ordinal number to five days of the week, from monday to friday, beginning with segunda-feira, and ending with sexta-feira) preserve the original latin names of each day of the week, except for sunday, which came to be called dies dominicus (lord's day) under christianity. this system for the days of the week spread to celtic and germanic peoples, as well as the albanians, before the collapse of the empire, after which the names of comparable gods were substituted for the roman deities in some languages. in germanic languages, for instance, thor stood in for jupiter (jove), yielding "thursday" from the latin dies iovis, while in albanian, native deities en and prende were assigned to thursday and friday respectively. 	day 	sunday sōl (sun) 	monday luna (moon) 	tuesday mars (mars) 	wednesday mercurius (mercury) 	thursday iuppiter (jupiter) 	friday venus (venus) 	saturday saturnus (saturn) 	latin 	dies sōlis 	dies lūnae 	dies martis 	dies mercuriī 	dies iovis 	dies veneris 	dies saturnī 	italian 	domenica 	lunedì 	martedì 	mercoledì 	giovedì 	venerdì 	sabato 	french 	dimanche 	lundi 	mardi 	mercredi 	jeudi 	vendredi 	samedi 	spanish 	domingo 	lunes 	martes 	miércoles 	jueves 	viernes 	sábado 	catalan 	diumenge 	dilluns 	dimarts 	dimecres 	dijous 	divendres 	dissabte 	romanian 	duminică 	luni 	marți 	miercuri 	joi 	vineri 	sâmbătă 	albanian 	te dielën (diell = "sun") 	të hënën (hënë = "moon") 	të martën 	të mërkurën 	të enjten 	të premte 	të shtunën 	irish 	an domhnach dé domhnaigh 	an luan dé luain 	an mháirt dé máirt 	an chéadaoin dé céadaoin 	an déardaoin déardaoin 	an aoine 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the romans divided the day into equal hours, a.m. (ante-meridiem, meaning before midday) and p.m. (post-meridiem, meaning past midday). the romans also started the practice used worldwide today of a new day beginning at midnight. numerals and units[edit] main articles: roman numerals and ancient roman units of measurement a typical clock face with roman numerals in bad salzdetfurth, germany. the notion of a twelve-hour day dates to the roman empire. roman numerals continued as the primary way of writing numbers in europe until the th century, when they were largely replaced in common usage by hindu-arabic numerals. the roman numeral system continues to be widely used, however, in certain formal and minor contexts, such as on clock faces, coins, in the year of construction on cornerstone inscriptions, and in generational suffixes (such as louis xiv or william howard taft iv). according to the royal spanish academy, in the spanish language centuries must be written in roman numerals, so " st century" should be written as "siglo xxi". the romans solidified the modern concept of the hour as one- th part of a day and night. the english measurement system also retains features of the ancient roman foot ( . modern inches), which was used in england prior to the anglo-saxon settlement of britain. the inch itself derives from the roman uncia, meaning one-twelfth part. three-age systems[edit] main article: three-age system although the present archaeological system of the three main ages—stone, bronze and iron—originates with the danish archaeologist christian jürgensen thomsen, the concept of dividing pre-historical ages into systems based on metals extends to ancient rome, originated by the roman lucretius in the first century bc. religion[edit] christianity by percentage of population in each country. main articles: catholic church and eastern orthodox church while classical roman and hellenistic religion were ultimately superseded by christianity, many key theological ideas and questions that are characteristic of western religions originated with pre-christian theology. the first cause argument for the existence of god, for instance, originates with plato. design arguments, which were introduced by socrates and aristotle and remain widely discussed to this day, formed an influential component of stoic theology well into the late roman period. the problem of evil was widely discussed among ancient philosophers, including the roman writers such as cicero and seneca, and many of the answers they provided were later absorbed into christian theodicy. in christian moral theology, moreover, the field of natural law ethics draws heavily on the tradition established by aristotle, the stoics, and especially by cicero's popular latin work, de legibus. cicero's conception of natural law "found its way to later centuries notably through the writings of saint isidore of seville and the decretum of gratian"[ ] and influenced the discussion of the topic up through the era of the american revolution. christianity itself also spread through the roman empire; since emperor theodosius i (ad - ), the official state church of the roman empire was christianity. subsequently, former roman territories became christian states which exported their religion to other parts of the world, through colonization and missionaries. christianity also served as a conduit for preserving and transmitting greco-roman literary culture. classical educational tradition in the liberal arts was preserved after the fall of the empire by the medieval christian university. education in the middle ages relied heavily on greco-roman books such as euclid's elements and the influential quadrivium textbooks written in latin by the roman statesman boethius (ad – ). major works of greek and latin literature, moreover, were both read and written by christians during the imperial era. many of the most influential works of the early christian tradition were written by roman and hellenized theologians who engaged heavily with the literary culture of the empire (see church fathers). st. augustine's (ad - ) city of god, for instance, draws extensively on virgil, cicero, varro, homer, plato, and elements of roman values and identity to criticize paganism and advocate for christianity amidst a crumbling empire. the engagement of early christians as both readers and writers of important roman and greek literature helped to ensure that the literary culture of rome would persist after the fall of the empire. for thousands of years to follow, religious scholars in the latin west from bede to thomas aquinas and later renaissance figures such as dante, montaigne and shakespeare would continue to read, reference and imitate both christian and pagan literature from the roman empire. in the east, the empire's prolific tradition of greek literature continued uninterrupted after the fall of the west, in part due to the works of the greek fathers, who were widely read by christians in medieval byzantium and continue to influence religious thought to this day (see byzantine literature). science and philosophy[edit] main articles: roman philosophy and ancient greek philosophy ptolemy's refined geocentric theory of epicycles was backed up by rigorous mathematics and detailed astronomical observations. it was not overturned until the copernican revolution, over a thousand years later. the bible as codex. the codex, the book format today in universal use, was invented by the romans and spread by roman christians.[ ] while much of the most influential greek science and philosophy was developed before the rise of the empire, major innovations occurred under roman rule that have had a lasting impact on the intellectual world. the traditions of greek, egyptian and babylonian scholarship continued to flourish at great centers of learning such as athens, alexandria, and pergamon. epicurean philosophy reached a literary apex in the long poem by lucretius, who advocated an atomic theory of matter and revered the older teachings of the greek democritus. the works of the philosophers seneca the younger, epictetus and the roman emperor marcus aurelius were widely read during the revival of stoic thought in the renaissance, which synthesized stoicism and christianity. fighter pilot james stockdale famously credited the philosophy of epictetus as being a major source of strength when he was shot down and held as prisoner during the vietnam war. plato's philosophy continued to be widely studied under the empire, growing into the sophisticated neoplatonic system through the influence of plotinus. platonic philosophy was largely reconciled with christianity by the roman theologian augustine of hippo, who, while a staunch opponent of roman paganism, viewed the platonists as having more in common with christians than the other pagan schools.[ ] to this day, plato's republic is considered the foundational work of western philosophy, and is read by students around the globe. the widespread lorem ipsum text, which is widely used as a meaningless placeholder in modern typography and graphic design, is derived from the latin text of cicero's philosophical treatise de finibus. pagan philosophy was gradually supplanted by christianity in the later years of the empire, culminating in the closure of the academy of athens by justinian i. many greek-speaking philosophers moved to the east, outside the borders of the empire. neoplatonism and aristotelianism gained a stronghold in persia, where they were a heavy influence on early islamic philosophy. thinkers of the islamic golden age such as ibn sina (avicenna) and ibn rushd (averroës) engaged deeply with greek philosophy, and played a major role in saving works of aristotle that had been lost to the latin west. the influence of greek philosophy on islam was dramatically reduced in the th century when the views of avicenna and avveroes were strongly criticized by al-ghazali. his incoherence of the philosophers is among the most influential books in islamic history. in western europe, meanwhile, the recovery of greek texts during the scholastic period had a profound influence on latin science and theology from the middle ages into the renaissance. in science, the theories of the greco-roman physician galen dominated western medical thought and practice for more than , years. ptolemy produced the most thorough and sophisticated astronomical theory of antiquity, documented in the almagest. the ptolemaic model of the solar system would remain the dominant approach to astronomy across europe and the middle east for more than a thousand years. forty eight of the constellations the iau recognizes today were recorded in the seventh and eighth books of claudius ptolemy's almagest. at alexandria, the engineer and experimentalist hero of alexandria founded the study of mechanics and pneumatics. in modern geometry, heron's formula bears his name. roman alexandria also saw the seeds of modern algebra arise in the works of diophantus. greek algebra continued to be studied in the east well after the fall of the western empire, where it matured into modern algebra in the hands of al-khwārizmī (see the history of algebra). the study of diophantine equations and diophantine approximations are still important areas of mathematical research today. all of the planets in the solar system, excluding earth and uranus, are named after roman deities. roman law and politics[edit] main articles: corpus juris civilis, civil law (legal system), and republic roman law in blue tones. republics   presidential republics with a full presidential system.   presidential republics with a semi-presidential system.   parliamentary republics with an executive president chosen by the parliament   parliamentary republics with a ceremonial president, where the prime minister is the executive.   one-party state considered republics although the law of the roman empire is not used today, modern law in many jurisdictions is based on principles of law used and developed during the roman empire. some of the same latin terminology is still used today. the general structure of jurisprudence used today, in many jurisdictions, is the same (trial with a judge, plaintiff, and defendant) as that established during the roman empire. the modern concept of republican government is directly modeled on the roman republic. the republican institutions of rome survived in many of the italian city-states of the middle ages and the renaissance. the united states congress is inspired by the roman senate and legislative assemblies, while the president holds a position similar to that of a roman consul. many european political thinkers of the enlightenment were avid consumers of latin literature. montesquieu, edmund burke, and john adams were all strongly influenced by cicero, for instance. adams recommended cicero as a model for politicians to imitate, and once remarked that "the sweetness and grandeur of his sounds, and the harmony of his numbers give pleasure enough to reward the reading if one understood none of his meaning."[ ] inventions[edit] main articles: roman technology and eastern roman technology gnocchi, a kind of traditional italian pasta, was introduced to various parts of europe by the roman legions during the expansion of the empire. many roman inventions were improved versions of other people's inventions and ranged from military organization, weapon improvements, armour, siege technology, naval innovation, architecture, medical instruments, irrigation, civil planning, construction, agriculture and many more areas of civic, governmental, military and engineering development. that said, the romans also developed a huge array of new technologies and innovations. many came from common themes but were vastly superior to what had come before, whilst others were totally new inventions developed by and for the needs of empire and the roman way of life. some of the more famous examples are the roman aqueducts (some of which are still in use today), roman roads, water powered milling machines, thermal heating systems (as employed in roman baths, and also used in palaces and wealthy homes) sewage and pipe systems and the invention and widespread use of concrete. metallurgy and glass work (including the first widespread use of glass windows) and a wealth of architectural innovations including high rise buildings, dome construction, bridgeworks and floor construction (seen in the functionality of the colosseum's arena and the underlying rooms/areas beneath it) are other examples of roman innovation and genius. military inventiveness was widespread and ranged from tactical/strategic innovations, new methodologies in training, discipline and field medicine as well as inventions in all aspects of weaponry, from armor and shielding to siege engines and missile technology. this combination of new methodologies, technical innovation, and creative invention in the military gave rome the edge against its adversaries for half a millennium, and with it, the ability to create an empire that even today, more than years later, continues to leave its legacy in many areas of modern life. colonies and roads[edit] main article: list of cities founded by the romans rome left a legacy of founding many cities as colonia. there were more than roman colonies spread through the empire, most of them populated by veterans of the roman legions. some roman colonies rose to become influential commercial and trade centers, transportation hubs and capitals of international empires, like constantinople, london, paris and vienna. all those colonies were connected by another important legacy of the roman empire: the roman roads. indeed, the empire comprised more than , kilometres ( ,  mi) of roads, of which over , kilometres ( ,  mi) were stone-paved.[ ] the courses (and sometimes the surfaces) of many roman roads survived for millennia and many are overlaid by modern roads, like the via emilia in northern italy. the roads are closely linked to modern-day economies, with those that survived from the empire's territorial peak in ce having more economic activity today. this is especially true in european areas, which kept wheeled vehicles in the latter half of the first millennium, whereas other regions preferred cheaper methods of transport such as camel caravans.[ ] architecture[edit] main article: ancient roman architecture the cathedral of vilnius ( ), by laurynas gucevičius. in the mid- th century, roman architecture inspired neoclassical architecture. neoclassicism was an international movement. though neoclassical architecture employs the same classical vocabulary as late baroque architecture, it tends to emphasize its planar qualities, rather than sculptural volumes. projections and recessions and their effects of light, and shade are flatters; sculptural bas-reliefs are flatter and tend to be enframed in friezes, tablets or panels. its clearly articulated individual features are isolated rather than interpenetrating, autonomous and complete in themselves. international neoclassical architecture was exemplified in karl friedrich schinkel's buildings, especially the old museum in berlin, sir john soane's bank of england in london and the newly built white house and capitol in washington, dc in the united states. the scots architect charles cameron created palatial italianate interiors for the german-born catherine ii the great in st. petersburg. italy clung to rococo until the napoleonic regimes brought the new archaeological classicism, which was embraced as a political statement by young, progressive, urban italians with republican leanings. imperial idea[edit] see also: succession of the roman empire and translatio imperii from a legal point of view the roman empire, founded by augustus in bc and divided into two "parts" (or rather, courts, as the empire continued to be considered as one) after the death of theodosius i in , had survived only in the eastern part which, with the deposition of the last western emperor romulus augustulus, in , had also obtained the imperial regalia of the western part reuniting from a formal point of view the roman empire. the roman line continued uninterrupted to rule the eastern roman empire, whose main characteristics were roman concept of state, medieval greek culture and language, and orthodox christian faith. the byzantines themselves never ceased to refer to themselves as "romans" (rhomaioi) and to their state as the "roman empire", the "empire of the romans" (in greek Βασιλεία των Ῥωμαίων, basileía ton rhōmaíōn) or "romania" (Ῥωμανία, rhōmanía). likewise, they were called "rûm" (rome) by their eastern enemies to the point that competing neighbours even acquired its name, such as the sultanate of rûm. flask for priming power with the justice of trajan (mid- th century), depicting a woman's plea for justice from trajan, with an imperial pennant of the habsburgs suggesting that as holy roman emperors they are the political descendants of the ancient roman emperors (walters art museum) the designation of the empire as "byzantine" is a retrospective idea: it began only in , a century after the fall of constantinople, when german historian hieronymus wolf published his work corpus historiæ byzantinæ, a collection of byzantine sources. the term did not come in general use in the western world before the th century,[citation needed] when modern greece was born. the end of the continuous tradition of the roman empire is open to debate: the final point may be viewed as coming as early as the sack of constantinople in , or the capture of constantinople in , or as late as the abolition of the ottoman sultanate in given the sultans' adoption of the title of emperor of the romans (kayser-i rum) for themselves. after the fall of constantinople, thomas palaiologos, brother of the last eastern roman emperor, constantine xi, was elected emperor and tried to organize the remaining forces. his rule came to an end after the fall of the last major byzantine city, corinth. he then moved to italy and continued to be recognized as eastern emperor by the christian powers. his son andreas palaiologos continued claims on the byzantine throne until he sold the title to ferdinand ii of aragon and isabella i of castile before his death in .[ ] however, there is no evidence that any spanish monarch used the byzantine imperial titles. in western europe, the roman concept of state was continued for almost a millennium by the holy roman empire whose emperors, mostly of german tongue, viewed themselves as the legitimate successors to the ancient imperial tradition (king of the romans) and rome as the capital of its empire. the german title of "kaiser" is derived from the latin name caesar, which is pronounced [ˈkae̯sar] in classical latin. the coronation of charlemagne as "roman" emperor by pope leo iii in the year happened at a time of unprecedented sole female imperial rule in constantinople (by empress irene) which was interpreted by adversaries as tantamount to a vacancy. the imperial title in the west generated what historians have called the problem of two emperors. the emperors of the holy roman empire sought in many ways to make themselves accepted by the byzantines as their peers: with diplomatic relations, political marriages or threats. sometimes, however, they did not obtain the expected results, because from constantinople they were always called "king of the germans", never "emperor." the holy roman empire survived byzantium, but was eventually dissolved in owing to pressure by napoleon i. in eastern europe, firstly the bulgarian, then the serbian and ultimately the russian czars (czar derived from caesar) proclaimed being emperors. in moscow in russia adopted the idea of being a third rome (with constantinople being the second). sentiments[citation needed] of being the heir of the fallen eastern roman empire began during the reign of ivan iii, grand duke of moscow who had married sophia paleologue, the niece of constantine xi (it is important to note that she was not the heiress of the byzantine throne, rather her brother andreas was). being the most powerful orthodox christian state, the tsars were thought of in russia as succeeding the eastern roman empire as the rightful rulers of the orthodox christian world.[citation needed] there were also competing bulgarian and wallachian[ ][ ] claims for succession of the roman empire. in the early th century, the italian fascists under their "duce" benito mussolini dreamed of transforming italy back into the roman empire again, encompassing the mediterranean basin. associated with italian fascism also nazi germany and francoist spain connected their claims with roman imperialism. toponymy and ethnonymy[edit] see also: list of cities founded by the romans; list of latin place names in continental europe, ireland and scandinavia; list of latin place names in britain; list of latin place names in africa; and list of latin place names in asia aside from the city of rome itself, the imperial roman name has survived in a number of regions and was also adopted by some of the political regimes that ruled them. these include: 	romagna, the italian region that was the administrative center of byzantine italy and thus remained associated with the roman empire when most of the country had fallen under lombard rule; 	rûm, the name by which the seljuq turks referred to the parts of anatolia which they had conquered from the eastern roman empire, thus the common name of the sultanate of rum for their realm ( - ).[ ] under the ottoman empire after the s, the rûm eyalet was the region around sivas, later known simply as eyalet of sivas. 	the name of the turkish city of erzurum has been derived from the arabic arḍ ar-rūm (arabic: ارض الروم‎) 'land of the rûm'.[ ][ ] 	romania, a habitual reference in medieval latin and romance languages to the byzantine empire, or between and to the latin empire. it survived for a time in place names such as that of nafplio, which in italian was referred to as napoli in romania well into the modern era, or to this day in the bosnian region of romanija. 	rumelia, the balkanic parts of the former eastern empire, labelled "land of the romans" following their conquest by the ottomans and at a time when the asia minor territories formerly known as rum were more commonly referred to again as anatolia. 	central greece is still known colloquially as roúmeli (Ρούμελη). 	the modern country of romania. tracing the origin of the romanians to the roman empire's province of dacia has long been part of the national narrative in spite of the scarcity of conclusive evidence. the "roman" demonym referring to romance speakers in wallachia, moldavia and transylvania appeared in the th century (with various vernacular spellings) under the influence of renaissance humanism. in linguistics and ethnonymy: 	the word romance, naming the language family that also includes spanish, portuguese, french and italian among others, is itself derived from "roman". see also: substrate in romanian 	rûm in asia minor and the middle east refers dependent on context to byzantines and/or orthodox christians, namely the rum millet in the ottoman empire. correspondingly, orthodox armenians are known as hayhurum - literally, armenian and rûm - and urums are turkic-speaking orthodox christians in the crimea and georgia. 	romaniote jews also derive their name from the former eastern/byzantine/ottoman empire. 	in turn, during the th century, portuguese used "rume" and "rumes" (plural) as a generic term to refer to the mamluk-ottoman forces they faced then in the indian ocean.[ ] 	chinese authors during the ming dynasty similarly referred to the ottomans in general as lumi (魯迷), derived from rûm. during the qing dynasty they also used the word wulumu (務魯木). 	the romani people, by 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	nationality	english 	alma mater	the queen's college, oxford 	occupation	poet, novelist, and short-story writer ernest christopher dowson ( august  – february ) was an english poet, novelist, short-story writer, often associated with the decadent movement. contents 	 biography 	 works 	 . books 	 legacy 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links biography[edit] ernest dowson was born in lee, london, in . his great-uncle was alfred domett, a poet and politician who became premier of new zealand and had allegedly been the subject of robert browning's poem "waring." dowson attended the queen's college, oxford, but left in march without obtaining a degree.[ ] in november , he started work with his father at dowson and son, a dry-docking business in limehouse, east london, which had been established by the poet's grandfather. he led an active social life, carousing with medical students and law pupils, going to music halls and taking the performers to dinner. he was also working assiduously at his writing during this time. he was a member of the rhymers' club, which included w. b. yeats and lionel johnson. he was a contributor to such literary magazines as the yellow book and the savoy.[ ] dowson collaborated on two unsuccessful novels with arthur moore, worked on a novel of his own, madame de viole, and wrote reviews for the critic. later in his career, dowson was a prolific translator of french fiction, including novels by balzac and the goncourt brothers, and les liaisons dangereuses by choderlos de laclos.[ ] in , aged , dowson became infatuated with the year old adelaide "missie" foltinowicz, daughter of a polish restaurant owner; in he unsuccessfully proposed to her.[ ] to dowson's despair, adelaide was eventually to marry a tailor.[ ] in august , dowson's father, who was in the advanced stages of tuberculosis, died of an overdose of chloral hydrate. his mother, who was also consumptive, hanged herself in february . soon after her death, dowson began to decline rapidly.[ ] the publisher leonard smithers gave him an allowance to live in france and write translations,[ ] but he returned to london in (where he stayed with the foltinowicz family, despite the transfer of adelaide's affections).[ ] in , robert sherard found dowson almost penniless in a wine bar and took him back to the cottage in catford, where sherard was living. dowson spent the last six weeks of his life at sherard's cottage where he died at age . he had become a catholic in and was interred in the roman catholic section of nearby brockley and ladywell cemeteries.[ ] after dowson's death, oscar wilde wrote: "poor wounded wonderful fellow that he was, a tragic reproduction of all tragic poetry, like a symbol, or a scene. i hope bay leaves will be laid on his tomb and rue and myrtle too for he knew what love was".[ ] wilde himself was dead before the end of the year. works[edit] dowson is best remembered for such vivid phrases as "days of wine and roses": they are not long, the days of wine and roses: out of a misty dream our path emerges for a while, then closes within a dream. – ernest dowson, from "vitae summa brevis" ( ). and "gone with the wind": i have forgot much, cynara! gone with the wind, flung roses, roses riotously with the throng, dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind; but i was desolate and sick of an old passion, yea, all the time, because the dance was long: i have been faithful to thee, cynara! in my fashion. – ernest dowson, from non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno cynarae,[a] third stanza ( ). this latter poem was first published in the second book of the rhymer's club in ,[ ] and was noticed by richard le gallienne in his "wanderings in bookland" column in the idler, volume .[ ] this is also the source of the phrase 'i have been faithful..in my fashion'. faithful in my fashion became the title of a film. cole porter paraphrased dowson in "always true to you in my fashion" from kiss me, kate. morrissey has the lines, "in my own strange way,/i've always been true to you./in my own sick way,/i'll always stay true to you," in "speedway," on the album vauxhall & i. margaret mitchell, touched by the "far away, faintly sad sound i wanted" of the third stanza's first line, chose that line as the title of her novel gone with the wind.[ ] according to the oxford english dictionary, dowson provides the earliest use of the word soccer in written language (although he spells it socca, presumably because it did not yet have a standard written form).[b] his prose works include the short stories collected as dilemmas ( ), and the two novels a comedy of masks ( ) and adrian rome (each co-written with arthur moore). books[edit] 	a comedy of masks: a novel ( ) with arthur moore. 	dilemmas, stories and studies in sentiment ( ) 	verses ( ) 	the pierrot of the minute : a dramatic phantasy in one act ( ) 	decorations in verse and prose ( ) 	adrian rome ( ) with arthur moore. 	cynara: a little book of verse ( ) 	studies in sentiment ( ) 	the poems and prose of ernest dowson, with a memoir by arthur symons ( ) 	letters of ernest dowson ( ) 	collected shorter fiction ( ) legacy[edit] his collaborator arthur moore wrote several witty comic novels about the young adult duo of anthony 'tony' wilder and paul morrow (one, 'the eyes of light' is mentioned by friend e. nesbit in her book 'the phoenix and the carpet'). tony is based on dowson, while paul is based on moore. “days of wine and roses” was recited in the british tv series, the durrells in corfu; season , episode . composer frederick delius set a number of dowson's poems to music, in his songs of sunset and cynara. john ireland included a setting of "i was not sorrowful (spleen)" from verses ( ) in his song cycle songs of a wayfarer. t. e. lawrence quotes from dowson's poem, "impenitentia ultima," in seven pillars of wisdom, chapter liv. in anticipation of the anniversary of dowson's birth on august , his grave, which had fallen derelict and been vandalized, was restored. the unveiling and memorial service were publicised in the local (south london press) and national (bbc radio and the times literary supplement) british press, and dozens paid posthumous tribute to the poet years after his death. in the poems and prose of ernest dowson, a memoir written by arthur symons, symons described dowson as, "... a man who was undoubtedly a man of genius ... there never was a poet to whom verse came more naturally ... he had the pure lyric gift, unweighed or unballasted by any other quality of mind or emotion..."[ ] notes[edit] 	^ non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno cynarae ("i am not what i was, under the reign of the good cynara"), is a quotation from horace's odes, book iv, "vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam..." 	^ "i absolutely decline to see socca' matches." (letter by dowson, february ). soccer , in oxford english dictionary online, (subscription required), accessed april . references[edit] citations 	^ jad , p.  . sfn error: no target: citerefjad (help) 	^ richards, (n.d.) 	^ richards, (n.d.) 	^ anon ( ), pp. - . 	^ richards, (n.d.) 	^ anon ( ), p. . 	^ richards, (n.d.) 	^ anon ( ), p. . 	^ richards, (n.d.) 	^ ernest christopher dowson, ed., the letters of ernest dowson, epilogue, p. ; retrieved august 	^ mathews & lane , pp.  – . 	^ the idler volume , p.  . 	^ https://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/source-of-the-title-gwtw-margaret-mitchell-gone-with-the-wind 	^ dowson , memoir from edition. sources 	adams, jad ( ). madder music, stronger wine. the life of ernest dowson, poet and decadent. london, england: i.b. tauris. isbn  - - - .cs maint: ref=harv (link) 	anon ( ) "ernest dowson", in essays and reviews from the times literary supplement , london: oxford university press, pp.  – . originally published in the times literary supplement, november . 	dowson, ernest ( ) [ ]. the poems and prose of ernest dowson. middlesex, england: the echo library. isbn  - - .cs maint: ref=harv (link) 	le gallienne, richard ( ). "wanderings in bookland". the idler. london: chatto & windus. : . 	mathews, elkin; lane, john ( ). the second book of the rhymers' club. edinburgh, uk: j. miller & son.cs maint: ref=harv (link) 	plarr,victor ( ). ernest dowson - : reminiscences, unpublished letters and marginalia, with a bibliography compiled by h. guy harrison. new york: laurence j. gomme. 	richards, bernard (n.d.). "dowson, ernest christopher ( – ), poet", in oxford dictionary of national biography online, (subscription required), accessed april . further reading[edit] primary works (modern scholarly editions) 	ernest dowson, the stories of ernest dowson, ed. by mark longaker (philadelphia: university of pennsylvania press, ) 	ernest dowson, the poems of ernest dowson, ed. by mark longaker (philadelphia: university of pennsylvania press, ) 	ernest dowson, the letters of ernest dowson, ed. by desmond flower and henry maas (london: cassell, ) 	ernest dowson, the poetry of ernest dowson, ed. by desmond flower (cranbury, nj: fairleigh dickinson university press, ) 	ernest dowson, the pierrot of the minute, restored edition with aubrey beardsley's illustrations (createspace, ) 	ernest dowson, le pierrot de la minute, bilingual illustrated edition with french translation by philippe baudry (createspace, ) biographies 	jad adams, madder music, stronger wine: the life of ernest dowson, poet and decadent (london: i.b. tauris & co., ) 	mark longaker, ernest dowson: a biography (philadelphia: university of pennsylvania press, ) 	henry maas, ernest dowson: poetry and love in the s (london: greenwich exchange, ) critical studies on dowson and the s 	elisa bizzotto, la mano e l'anima. il ritratto immaginario fin de siècle (milano: cisalpino, ) 	jean-jacques chardin, ernest dowson et la crise fin de siècle anglaise (paris: editions messene, ) 	linda dowling, language and decadence in the victorian fin de siècle (princeton: princeton university press, ) 	b. ifor evans, english poetry in the later nineteenth century (london: methuen, ) 	ian fletcher, decadence and the s (london: edward arnold, ) 	jessica gossling and alice condé (eds), in cynara’s shadow: collected essays on ernest dowson (bern, switzerland: peter lang uk, ) 	graham hough, the last romantics (london: duckworth, ) 	holbrook jackson, the eighteen nineties (london: jonathan cape, ) 	agostino lombardo, la poesia inglese dall'estetismo al simbolismo (roma: edizioni di storia e letteratura, ) 	franco marucci, storia della letteratura inglese dal al (firenze: le lettere, ) 	william monahan ( october ). "a gallows sermon: life & death among the decadents". new york press. archived from the original on june . retrieved march . 	murray g. h. pittock, spectrum of decadence: the literature of the s (london: routledge, ) 	mario praz, la carne, la morte e il diavolo nella letteratura romantica (firenze: sansoni, ) 	bernard richards, english poetry of the victorian period (london: longman, ) 	thomas burnett swann, ernest dowson (new york: twayne, ) 	arthur symons, the memoirs of arthur symons, ed. by karl beckson (university park: pennsylvania state university press, ) 	william butler yeats, autobiographies (london: macmillan, ) external links[edit] 		wikiquote has quotations related to: ernest dowson 		wikisource has original text related to this article: ernest dowson 		wikimedia commons has media related to ernest dowson. 	poems ( ) 	a few of dowson's poems, through the university of toronto. 	arthur symons' memoir of dowson. 	works by ernest christopher dowson at project gutenberg 	works by or about ernest dowson at internet archive 	works by ernest dowson at librivox (public domain audiobooks) 	dowson, schoenberg and the birth of modernism, horizon review 	ernest dowson at find a grave 	text of days of wine and roses 	authority control 	 	bibsys: 	bne: xx 	bnf: cb v (data) 	gnd: 	isni: 	lccn: n 	mba: bc ed -cb - eca-a -f bdb e 	ndl: 	nkc: jn 	nla: 	nli: 	nlp: a 	nta: x 	snac: w t p n 	sudoc: 	trove: 	vcba: / 	viaf: 	 worldcat identities: lccn-n retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ernest_dowson&oldid= " 		categories: 	 births 	 deaths 	alumni of the queen's college, oxford 	english roman catholics 	converts to roman catholicism 	people from lee, london 	roman catholic writers 	english male poets 	 th-century english poets 	 th-century british male writers 	burials at brockley and ladywell cemeteries 	french–english translators 	 th-century translators hidden categories: 	pages containing links to subscription-only content 	harv and sfn no-target errors 	use dmy dates from december 	use british english from december 	articles with hcards 	cs maint: ref=harv 	commons category link is on wikidata 	articles with project gutenberg links 	articles with internet archive links 	articles with librivox links 	wikipedia articles with bibsys identifiers 	wikipedia articles with bne identifiers 	wikipedia articles with bnf identifiers 	wikipedia articles with gnd identifiers 	wikipedia articles with isni identifiers 	wikipedia articles with lccn identifiers 	wikipedia articles with musicbrainz identifiers 	wikipedia articles with ndl identifiers 	wikipedia articles with nkc identifiers 	wikipedia articles with nla identifiers 	wikipedia articles with nli identifiers 	wikipedia articles with nlp identifiers 	wikipedia articles with nta identifiers 	wikipedia articles with snac-id identifiers 	wikipedia articles with sudoc identifiers 	wikipedia articles with trove identifiers 	wikipedia articles with vcba identifiers 	wikipedia articles with viaf identifiers 	wikipedia articles with worldcatid identifiers 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			article 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	edit 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		search 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigation 	 	 			main page 	contents 	current events 	random article 	about wikipedia 	contact us 	donate 		 	 	 	 		contribute 	 	 			help 	learn to edit 	community portal 	recent changes 	upload file 		 	 	 		tools 	 	 			what links here 	related changes 	upload file 	special pages 	permanent link 	page information 	cite this page 	wikidata item 		 	 	 		print/export 	 	 			download as pdf 	printable version 		 	 	 		in other projects 	 	 			wikimedia commons 	wikiquote 	wikisource 		 	 	 	 		languages 	 	 			català 	deutsch 	español 	français 	한국어 	italiano 	latina 	مصرى 	nederlands 	日本語 	português 	Русский 	Српски / srpski 	svenska 		edit links 	 		 this page was last edited on december , at :  (utc). 	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 conflict of the orders - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	conflict of the orders 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 			ancient rome 	 	this article is part of a series on the politics and government of ancient rome 	 periods 	 	roman kingdom – bc 	roman republic – bc 	roman empire bc – ad 	principate bc – ad 	dominate ad – 	western ad – 	eastern ad – 	timeline 	 roman constitution 	 	constitution of the kingdom 	constitution of the republic 	constitution of the empire 	constitution of the late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	executive magistrates 	 precedent and law 	 	roman law 	ius 	imperium 	mos maiorum 	collegiality 	auctoritas 	roman citizenship 	cursus honorum 	senatus consultum 	senatus consultum ultimum 	 assemblies 	 	centuriate 	curiate 	plebeian 	tribal 	 ordinary magistrates 	 	consul 	praetor 	quaestor 	promagistrate 	aedile 	tribune 	censor 	governor 	 extraordinary magistrates 	 	corrector 	dictator 	magister equitum 	consular tribune 	rex 	triumviri 	decemviri 	 titles and honours 	 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	praeses 	praefectus 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 	 	other countries 		v 	t 	e the conflict or struggle of the orders was a political struggle between the plebeians (commoners) and patricians (aristocrats) of the ancient roman republic lasting from bc to bc, in which the plebeians sought political equality with the patricians. it played a major role in the development of the constitution of the roman republic. shortly after the founding of the republic, this conflict led to a secession from rome by plebeians to the sacred mount at a time of war. the result of this first secession was the creation of the office of plebeian tribune, and with it the first acquisition of real power by the plebeians. at first only patricians were allowed to stand for election to political office, but over time these laws were revoked, and eventually all offices were opened to the plebeians. since most individuals who were elected to political office were given membership in the roman senate, this development helped to transform the senate from a body of patricians into a body of plebeian and patrician aristocrats. this development occurred at the same time that the plebeian legislative assembly, the plebeian council, was acquiring additional power. at first, its acts ("plebiscites") applied only to plebeians, although after bc, with the institution of laws by the first plebeian dictator q. publilius philo, these acts began to apply to both plebeians and patricians, with a senatorial veto of all measures approved by the council. it was not until bc that the patrician senators lost their last check over the plebeian council. however, the patricio-plebeian aristocracy in the senate still retained other means by which to control the plebeian council, in particular the closeness between the plebeian tribunes and the senators. while this conflict would end in bc with the plebeians having acquired political equality with the patricians, the plight of the average plebeian had not changed. a small number of aristocratic plebeian families had emerged, and most plebeian politicians came from one of these families. contents 	 the patrician era ( – bc) 	 the end of the conflict of the orders ( – bc) 	 historicity 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 . primary sources 	 . secondary sources the patrician era ( – bc)[edit] the conflict of the orders began less than years after the republic was founded. under the existing system, the poorer plebeians made up the bulk of the roman army. during their military service, the farms on which their livelihood depended were left abandoned. unable to earn a sufficient income, many turned to the patricians for aid, which left them open to abuse and even enslavement. as the patricians controlled roman politics, the plebeians found no help from within the existing political system. their solution was to go on strike. in bc rome was at war with three italic tribes (the aequi, sabine and volsci),[ ] but the plebeian soldiers advised by lucius sicinius vellutus, refused to march against the enemy, and instead seceded to the sacred mount outside rome. a settlement was negotiated and the patricians agreed that the plebs be given the right to meet in their own assembly, the plebeian council (con cilium plebs), and to elect their own officials to protect their rights, the plebeian tribunes (tribune plebs). [ ][ ] during the th century bc, there were a number of unsuccessful attempts to reform roman agrarian laws to distribute newly conquered territories amongst the plebs. in a number of instances, these reforms were advocated by the plebeian tribunes. in bc the lex publilia was passed. it was an important reform shifting practical power from the patricians to the plebeians. the law transferred the election of the tribunes of the plebs to the commit tribute, thereby freeing their election from the influence of the patrician clients. during the early years of the republic, the plebeians were not allowed to hold magisterial office. neither tribunes nor aediles were technically magistrates, since they were both elected solely by the plebeians, rather than by both the plebeians and the patricians. while the plebeian tribunes regularly attempted to block legislation unfavorable to their order, the patricians frequently tried to thwart them by gaining the support of one or another of the tribunes. one example of this occurred in bc, when only five tribunes were elected to fill ten positions; following tradition and pressured by the patricians, they co-opted five colleagues, two of whom were patricians. concerns that the patricians would attempt to influence future elections in this manner, or by obtaining the office themselves prevent the plebeian tribunes from exercising their powers, led to the passage of the lex trebonia, forbidding the plebeian tribunes from co-opting their colleagues in the future.[ ] in bc, the plebeians demanded the right to stand for election as consul (the chief-magistrate of the roman republic),[ ] but the roman senate refused to grant them this right. ultimately, a compromise was reached, and while the consulship remained closed to the plebeians, consular command authority (imperium) was granted to a select number of military tribunes. these individuals, the so-called consular tribunes ("military tribunes with consular powers" or tribune militates consular potentate) were elected by the centuriate assembly (the assembly of soldiers), and the senate had the power to veto any such election.[ ] this was the first of many attempts by the plebeians to achieve political equality with the patricians. starting around the year bc, a series of wars were fought against several neighboring tribes (in particular the aequi, the volsci, the latins, and the vii). the disenfranchised plebeians fought in the army, while the patrician aristocracy enjoyed the fruits of the resulting conquests.[ ] the plebeians, by now exhausted and bitter, demanded real concessions, so the tribunes gaius licinius stolo and lucius sextius lateranus passed a law in bc (the lex licinia sextia),[ ] which dealt with the economic plight of the plebeians. however, the law also required the election of at least one plebeian consul each year. the opening of the consulship to the plebeians was probably the cause behind the concession of bc, in which the praetorship and curule aedile were both created, but opened only to patricians.[ ][ ] shortly after the founding of the republic, the centurion assembly became the principal roman assembly in which magistrates were elected, laws were passed, and trials occurred. also around this time, the plebeians assembled into an informal plebeian curiae assembly, which was the original plebeian council. since they were organized on the basis of the curia (and thus by clan), they remained dependent on their patrician patrons. in bc, a law was passed due to the efforts of the tribune volero publilius,[ ] which allowed the plebeians to organize by tribe, rather than by curia. thus, the plebeian curiae assembly became the plebeian tribal assembly, and the plebeians became politically independent.[ ] during the regal period, the king nominated two equestrians to serve as his assistants, and after the overthrow of the monarchy, the consuls retained this authority. however, in bc, cicero tells us that the equators began to be elected by a tribal assembly that was presided over by a magistrate.[ ] it seems as though this was the first instance of a joint patricia-plebeian tribal assembly, and thus was probably an enormous gain for the plebeians. while patricians were able to vote in a joint assembly, there were never very many patricians in rome. thus, most of the electors were plebeians, and yet any magistrate elected by a joint assembly had jurisdiction over both plebeians and patricians. therefore, for the first time, the plebeians seemed to have indirectly acquired authority over patricians.[ ] most contemporary accounts of an assembly of the tribes refer specifically to the plebeian council. the distinction between the joint tribal assembly (composed of both patricians and plebeians) and the plebeian council (composed only of plebeians) is not well defined in the contemporary accounts, and because of this, the very existence of a joint tribal assembly can only be assumed through indirect evidence.[ ] during the th century bc, a series of reforms were passed (the leges valeria horatio or the "laws of the consul lucius valerius potitus and marcus horatius barbatus"), which ultimately required that any law passed by the plebeian council have the full force of law over both plebeians and patricians. this gave the plebeian tribunes, who presided over the plebeian council, a positive character for the first time. before these laws were passed, tribunes could only interpose the sacrosanct of their person (intercession) to veto acts of the senate, assemblies, or magistrates. it was a modification to the valerian law in bc which first allowed acts of the plebeian council to have the full force of law over both plebeians and patricians, but eventually the final law in the series was passed (the "shortening law"), which removed the last check that the patricians in the senate had over this power. the end of the conflict of the orders ( – bc)[edit] in the decades following the passage of the licinio-sextian law of bc, a series of laws were passed which ultimately granted plebeians political equality with patricians.[ ][ ] the patrician era came to a complete end in bc, with the passage of the hortensian law.[ ] when the curule aedileship had been created, it had only been opened to patricians. however, an unusual agreement was ultimately secured between the plebeians and the patricians. one year, the curule aedileship was to be open to plebeians, and the next year, it was only to be open to patricians.[ ] eventually, however, this agreement was abandoned and the plebeians won full admission to the curule aedileship. in addition, after the consulship had been opened to the plebeians, the plebeians acquired a de facto right to hold both the roman dictatorship and the roman censorship [ ] since only former consuls could hold either office. bc saw the appointment of the first plebeian dictator,[ ] and in bc the plebeians facilitated the passage of a law (the lex publilia), which required the election of at least one plebeian censor for each five-year term.[ ] in bc, the first plebeian praetor (q. publilius philo) was elected.[ ] in addition, during these years, the plebeian tribunes and the senators grew increasingly close.[ ] the senate realized the need to use plebeian officials to accomplish desired goals,[ ] and so to win over the tribunes, the senators gave the tribunes a great deal of power, and unsurprisingly, the tribunes began to feel obligated to the senate. as the tribunes and the senators grew closer, plebeian senators were often able to secure the tribunate for members of their own families.[ ] in time, the tribunate became a stepping stone to higher office.[ ] during the era of the kingdom, the roman king appointed new senators through a process called lectio senatus, but after the overthrow of the kingdom, the consuls acquired this power. around the middle of the th century bc, however, the plebeian council enacted the "ovinian plebiscite" (plebiscitum ovinium),[ ] which gave the power to appoint new senators to the roman censors. it also codified a commonplace practice, which all but required the censor to appoint any newly elected magistrate to the senate.[ ] while this was not an absolute requirement, the language in the law was so strict that the censors rarely disobeyed it. it is not known what year this law was passed, although it was probably passed between the opening of the censorship to plebeians (in bc) and the first known lectio senatus by a censor (in bc).[ ] by this point, plebeians were already holding a significant number of magisterial offices, and so the number of plebeian senators probably increased quickly.[ ] it was, in all likelihood, simply a matter of time before the plebeians came to dominate the senate. under the new system, newly elected magistrates were awarded with automatic membership in the senate, although it remained difficult for a plebeian from an unknown family to enter the senate. on the rare occasion that an individual of an unknown family (ignobilis) was elected to high office, it was usually due to the unusual character of that individual, as was the case for both gaius marius and marcus tullius cicero.[ ] several factors made it difficult for individuals from unknown families to be elected to high office, in particular the very presence of a long-standing nobility, as this appealed to the deeply rooted roman respect for the past.[ ] in addition, elections were expensive, neither senators nor magistrates were paid, and the senate often did not reimburse magistrates for expenses associated with their official duties. therefore, an individual usually had to be independently wealthy before seeking high office.[ ] ultimately, a new patricio-plebeian aristocracy (nobilitas) emerged,[ ] which replaced the old patrician nobility. it was the dominance of the long-standing patrician nobility which ultimately forced the plebeians to wage their long struggle for political power. the new nobility, however, was fundamentally different from the old nobility.[ ] the old nobility existed through the force of law, because only patricians were allowed to stand for high office, and it was ultimately overthrown after those laws were changed. now, however, the new nobility existed due to the organization of society, and as such, it could only be overthrown through a revolution.[ ] the conflict of the orders was finally coming to an end, since the plebeians had achieved political equality with the patricians.[ ][ ] a small number of plebeian families had achieved the same standing that the old aristocratic patrician families had always had, but these new plebeian aristocrats were as uninterested in the plight of the average plebeian as the old patrician aristocrats had always been.[ ] during this time period, the plebeian plight had been mitigated due to the constant state of war that rome was in.[ ] these wars provided employment, income, and glory for the average plebeian, and the sense of patriotism that resulted from these wars also eliminated any real threat of plebeian unrest. the lex publilia, which had required the election of at least one plebeian censor every five years, contained another provision. before this time, any bill passed by an assembly (either by the plebeian council, the tribal assembly, or the centuriate assembly) could only become a law after the patrician senators gave their approval. this approval came in the form of an auctoritas patrum ("authority of the fathers" or "authority of the patrician senators"). the lex publilia modified this process, requiring the auctoritas patrum to be passed before a law could be voted on by one of the assemblies, rather than after the law had already been voted on.[ ] it is not known why, but this modification seems to have made the auctoritas patrum irrelevant.[ ] by bc, the economic condition of the average plebeian had become poor. the problem appears to have centered around widespread indebtedness,[ ] and the plebeians quickly demanded relief. the senators, most of whom belonged to the creditor class, refused to abide by the demands of the plebeians, and the result was the final plebeian secession. the plebeians seceded to the janiculum hill, and to end the secession, a dictator named quintus hortensius was appointed. hortensius, a plebeian, passed a law called the "hortensian law" (lex hortensia), which ended the requirement that an auctoritas patrum be passed before any bill could be considered by either the plebeian council or the tribal assembly.[ ] the requirement was not changed for the centuriate assembly. the hortensian law also reaffirmed the principle that an act of the plebeian council have the full force of law over both plebeians and patricians, which it had originally acquired as early as bc.[ ] the importance of the hortensian law was in that it removed from the patrician senators their final check over the plebeian council.[ ] it should therefore not be viewed as the final triumph of democracy over aristocracy,[ ] since, through the tribunes, the senate could still control the plebeian council.[example needed] thus, the ultimate significance of this law was in the fact that it robbed the patricians of their final weapon over the plebeians. the result was that the ultimate control over the state fell, not onto the shoulders of democracy, but onto the shoulders of the new patricio-plebeian aristocracy.[ ] historicity[edit] the traditional account was long accepted as factual, but it has a number of problems and inconsistencies, and almost every element of the story is controversial today; some scholars, such as richard e. mitchell, have even argued that there was no conflict at all, the romans of the late republic having interpreted events of their distant past as if they were comparable to the class struggles of their own time. the crux of the problem is that there is no contemporaneous account of the conflict; writers such as polybius, who might have met persons whose grandparents participated in the conflict, do not mention it (which may not be surprising, since polybius' history covered a period after the conflict), while the writers who do speak of the conflict, such as livy or cicero, are sometimes thought to have reported fact and fable equally readily, and sometimes assume that there were no fundamental changes in roman institutions in nearly years. however, there are numerous roman and greek authors who record the events which form part of the conflict of the orders, and they each rely on more ancient sources, and if the story were false it could only be because there were some great collusion between them to distort history or some deliberate fabrication of history, which seems unlikely.[ ] for instance, the fasti report a number of consuls with plebeian names during the th century, when the consulate was supposedly only open to patricians, and explanations to the effect that previously patrician gentes somehow became plebeians later are difficult to prove. another point of difficulty is the apparent absence of armed revolt; as the history of the late republic shows, similar types of grievances tended to lead to bloodshed rather quickly, yet livy's account seems to entail debate mostly, with the occasional threat of secessio. none of this is helped by our basic uncertainty as to who the plebs actually were; many of them are known to have been wealthy landowners, and the "lower class" label dates from the late republic.[ ] see also[edit] ‹ the template below (columns) is being considered for deletion. see templates for discussion to help reach a consensus. › 	 	roman kingdom 	roman republic 	roman empire 	roman law 	plebeian council 	centuria 		 	curia 	roman consul 	praetor 	roman censor 	quaestor 		 	aedile 	roman dictator 	master of the horse 	senate 	cursus honorum 		 	pontifex maximus 	princeps senatus 	interrex 	procurator 	acta senatus notes[edit] 	^ 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	taylor, lily ross ( ). roman voting assemblies: from the hannibalic war to the dictatorship of caesar. the university of michigan press ( isbn  - - -x). 	kurt raaflaub, ed. social struggles in archaic rome: new perspectives on the conflict of orders (university of california press, ) isbn  - - - 	shindler, michael ( ). patrician and plebeian sociopolitical dynamics in early rome. the apollonian revolt. further reading[edit] 	library resources about conflict of the orders 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	ihne, wilhelm. researches into the history of the roman constitution. william pickering. . 	johnston, harold whetstone. orations and letters of cicero: with historical introduction, an outline of the roman constitution, notes, vocabulary and index. scott, foresman and company. . 	mommsen, theodor. roman constitutional law. - 	tighe, ambrose. the development of the roman constitution. d. apple & co. . 	von fritz, kurt. the theory of the mixed constitution in antiquity. columbia university press, new york. . 	the histories by polybius 	cambridge ancient history, volumes – . 	a. cameron, the later roman empire, (fontana press, ). 	m. crawford, the roman republic, (fontana press, ). 	e. s. gruen, "the last generation of the roman republic" (u california press, ) 	f. millar, the emperor in the roman world, (duckworth, , ). 	a. lintott, "the constitution of the roman republic" (oxford university press, ) primary sources[edit] 	cicero's de re publica, book two 	rome at the end of the punic wars: an analysis of the roman government; by polybius secondary sources[edit] 	considerations on the causes of the greatness of the romans and their decline, by montesquieu 	the roman constitution to the time of cicero 	what a terrorist incident in ancient rome can teach us 	 	v 	t 	e roman constitution 	ancient rome	 	history 	constitution 	senate 	assemblies 	curiate 	century 	tribal 	plebeian 	magistrates 	roman kingdom	 	history 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(january ) click [show] for important translation instructions. 	view a machine-translated version of the german article. 	machine translation like deepl or google translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the english wikipedia. 	do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. if possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. 	you must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. a model attribution edit summary content in this edit is translated from the existing german wikipedia article at [[:de:lettische nationalbibliothek]]; see its history for attribution. 	you should also add the template {{translated|de|lettische nationalbibliothek}} to the talk page. 	for more guidance, see wikipedia:translation. national library of latvia latvijas nacionālā bibliotēka	the main building of the national library of latvia in riga 	country	latvia 	type	national library 	established	  august (  years ago) ( - - ) 	location	 buildings in riga and in ropaži municipality 	collection 	size	 . million books and other publications 	other information 	director	andris vilks 	staff	 	website	https://www.lnb.lv 	map 	 the national library of latvia (latvian: latvijas nacionālā bibliotēka), also known as castle of light (gaismas pils), is a national cultural institution under the supervision of the ministry of culture of latvia. the national library of latvia was formed in after the independent republic of latvia was proclaimed in . the first supervisor of the library was jānis misiņš, a librarian and the founder of the latvian scientific bibliography ( – ). the current building was designed in by noted latvian-american architect gunnar birkerts ( - ), who emigrated to the united states and made his career there. it was constructed in the early st century and opened in . today the library plays an important role in the development of latvia's information society, providing internet access to residents and supporting research and lifelong education. the historical main building, krišjāņa barona iela contents 	 history 	 . interwar period 	 . german and soviet occupation 	 . renewed independence 	 collections 	 lettonica 	 new building 	 . current projects 	 see also 	 references 	 external links history[edit] interwar period[edit] the national library was founded on august , one year after independence, as the state library (valsts bibliotēka).[ ] its first chief librarian and bibliographer was jānis misiņš ( - ), who made his immense private collection the basis of the new library.[ ] within a year, until , the stocks had grown to , volumes.[ ] starting in the same year, all publishers were obliged to hand in a deposit copy of their works. since , the library has published the national bibliography of latvia. there were significant additions in and , when the state library took over many of the libraries and collections of the baltic germans. most resettled to the nazi german reich. among these collections was a large part of the collection of the society for history and archaeology of russia's baltic provinces, est. , the primary historical society of the baltic germans.[ ] in , holdings encompassed . million volumes,[ ] so that they had to be stored in two different locations in the old town (jēkaba iela / and anglikāņu iela ). german and soviet occupation[edit] during world war ii, germany invaded latvia and occupied riga ( - ). at that time, german authorities renamed the state library as country library (zemes bibliotēka), eliminating reference to a sovereign latvian state). following the war, latvia was under soviet rule, and the institution was known as state library of the latvian ssr (latvijas psr valsts bibliotēka).[ ] according to soviet customs, in the library received an honorary name, commemorating vilis lācis, a writer and the late prime minister of soviet latvia. from , literature deemed 'dangerous' from the soviet perspective was withdrawn from the shelves and until , when the soviet union gave up control, could be accessed only with a special permit. [ ] in , the state library moved into a new building at krišjāņa barona iela. renewed independence[edit] since the reestablishment of lativan national independence in , the institution has been called national library of latvia. in , it received as a permanent loan the baltic central library of otto bong ( - ), a collection pertaining to the history, regional studies and languages of the baltic countries.[ ] in , the national library joined the european library online service. collections[edit] the library's holdings today encompass more than million titles, incl. about , manuscripts from the th century up to modern times.[ ] one of the characteristic cornerstones of the nll, which characterizes every national library, is the formation of the collection of national literature, its eternal storage and long-term access. the nll is a centre of theoretical research and practical analyses of the activities of latvian libraries. the library carries out the functions of the centre of latvia interlibrary loan, ensures the library and information service to the parliament of the republic of latvia – the saeima, implements the standardisation of the branch. since the very outset, its main concern has been the national bibliography. the massive union catalogue seniespiedumi latviešu valodā (ancient prints in latvian – , published in riga, )[ ] received the spīdola prize in and was awarded the beautiful book of the year .[ ] in , the letonikas grāmatu autoru rādītājs ( - ) (index of the authors of lettonica books ( – )) was published,[ ] providing information about versatile branches of science and representatives of various nations, latvia being the main focus of their publications. the nll includes several collections of posters (artists oskars Šteinbergs ( – ), sigismunds vidbergs ( – ), raoul dufy ( – ), bernhard borchert ( – ), niklāvs strunke ( – ) and others).[ ] lettonica[edit] digitising collections at the nll started in . at present the latvian national digital library letonica, which was formed in , holds digitized collections of newspapers, pictures, maps, books, sheet-music and audio recordings. in nll launched two major digital projects. periodika.lv is the nll's collection of digitized historical periodicals in latvian with the possibility to read full texts and search page by page.[ ] latvia has a tradition of song and dance festivals organized every four years. the historical materials from the first song festival in till the latgale song festival in can be explored in another digital collection of the national library of latvia.[ ] new building[edit] interior of the library conference hall ziedonis from the tower of st. peter's church an amphora-shaped sculpture in front of the library. the surface of the sculpture is covered in letters. the first discussions about the need for a new national library began as early as , and the significance of the project of this century was confirmed by high-level international recognition of the value of its collections. in almost all unesco member states adopted a resolution during its general conference,[ ] calling on member states and the international community to ensure all possible support for the implementation of the nll project. the continuous growth of the library had made it necessary to transfer parts of the stocks into other buildings. by nll had its holdings distributed among five locations in riga.[ ] furthermore, since , some stocks had to be stored in a depot in silakrogs outside the capital.[ ] the parliament finally authorized a new building to be constructed on the left bank of the daugava river. on may , after discussions lasting for many years, the state agency three new brothers and the union of national construction companies signed the contract on the construction of the new national library of latvia. on may , the main facility of the library at krišjāņa barona iela was closed for the move.[ ] in , construction started according to the design of noted latvian-american architect gunnar birkerts, who had been based in the detroit, michigan area since the early s.[ ] he had been commissioned to design the building in .[ ] he was inspired by the glass mountain of latvian mythology. the new building has floors[ ] and is m high.[ ] construction costs were given as million euros.[ ] people work there. as part of riga's programme for its title as european capital of culture, selected holdings were symbolically carried from the old to the new building by a human chain on january . the new building was finally opened on august that year, the library's th anniversary.[ ] today the nll building is a dominant landmark on the riga cityscape. it has space for conferences and conventions, and other community events. among others, it hosted the th summit of the eu's eastern partnership programme in may ,[ ] and a debate chaired by the bbc's jonathan dimbleby on march .[ ] current projects[edit] 	liber rd annual conference 	development of the digital library services 	dissemination and exploitation via libraries: for success and sustainability of llp results 	effective training tools application to qualification improvement in library sector (etqi) 	europeana awareness 	europeana inside 	europeana newspapers 	europeana sounds 	the exhibition "book – " and academic readings "content of the st century" 	the impact of digital text and multimedia format on childhood learning: a multidimensional approach see also[edit] 	list of national libraries 	latvian isbn agency references[edit] 	^ a b c klöker, martin ( ). "bibliotheksgeschichtliche einleitung". in garber, klaus (ed.). handbuch des personalen gelegenheitsschrifttums in europäischen bibliotheken und archiven. vol. : riga - tallinn. part : riga (in german). hildesheim: olms. p.  . isbn  - - - . 	^ zanders, viesturs ( ). "bibliotheken in lettland". in fabian, bernhard (ed.). handbuch deutscher historischer buchbestände in europa. eine Übersicht über sammlungen in ausgewählten bibliotheken. bd. , teil : finnland, estland, lettland, litauen (in german). hildesheim: olms. p.  . isbn  - - - . 	^ a b zanders, viesturs ( ). "latvijas nacionālā bibliotēka – lettische nationalbibliothek". in fabian, bernhard (ed.). handbuch deutscher historischer buchbestände in europa. eine Übersicht über sammlungen in ausgewählten bibliotheken. bd. , teil : finnland, estland, lettland, litauen. hildesheim: olms. p.  . 	^ a b "lnb vēstures fakti" (in latvian). retrieved may . 	^ zanders, viesturs ( ). 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	occupation	short-story writer, novelist, poet, journalist 	nationality	british 	genre	short story, novel, children's literature, poetry, travel literature, science fiction 	notable works	the jungle book just so stories kim captains courageous "if—" "gunga din" "the white man's burden" 	notable awards	nobel prize in literature 	spouse	caroline starr balestier ​ ​ (m.  )​ 	children		josephine 	elsie 	john 	 	signature	 joseph rudyard kipling (/ˈrʌdjərd/ rud-yərd; december – january )[ ] was an english journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. he was born in india, which inspired much of his work. kipling's works of fiction include the jungle book ( ), kim ( ), and many short stories, including "the man who would be king" ( ).[ ] his poems include "mandalay" ( ), "gunga din" ( ), "the gods of the copybook headings" ( ), "the white man's burden" ( ), and "if—" ( ). he is seen as an innovator in the art of the short story.[ ] his children's books are classics; one critic noted "a versatile and luminous narrative gift." [ ][ ] kipling in the late th and early th centuries was among the united kingdom's most popular writers.[ ] henry james said "kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that i have ever known."[ ] in , he was awarded the nobel prize in literature, as the first english-language writer to receive the prize, and at , its youngest recipient to date.[ ] he was also sounded out for the british poet laureateship and several times for a knighthood, but declined both.[ ] following his death in , his ashes were interred at poets' corner, part of the south transept of westminster abbey. kipling's subsequent reputation has changed with the political and social climate of the age.[ ][ ] the contrasting views of him continued for much of the th century.[ ][ ] literary critic douglas kerr wrote: "[kipling] is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled. but as the age of the european empires recedes, he is recognised as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. that, and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with."[ ] contents 	 childhood ( – ) 	 . education in britain 	 . return to india 	 early adult life ( – ) 	 . return to london 	 . london 	 . united states 	 . . life in new england 	 . devon 	 . visits to south africa 	 . sussex 	 . . speculative fiction 	 . . nobel laureate and beyond 	 . freemasonry 	 first world war ( – ) 	 . death of john kipling 	 after the war ( – ) 	 death 	 . legacy 	 . links with camping and scouting 	 . kipling's burwash home 	 . reputation in india 	 art 	 screen portrayals 	 bibliography 	 see also 	 references 	 cited sources 	 further reading 	 external links 	 . other information childhood ( – )[edit] malabar point, bombay, rudyard kipling was born on december in bombay, in the bombay presidency of british india, to alice kipling (née macdonald) and john lockwood kipling.[ ] alice (one of the four noted macdonald sisters)[ ] was a vivacious woman,[ ] of whom lord dufferin would say, "dullness and mrs kipling cannot exist in the same room."[ ][ ][ ] john lockwood kipling, a sculptor and pottery designer, was the principal and professor of architectural sculpture at the newly founded sir jamsetjee jeejebhoy school of art in bombay.[ ] john lockwood and alice had met in and courted at rudyard lake in rudyard, staffordshire, england. they married and moved to india in . they had been so moved by the beauty of the rudyard lake area that they named their first child after it. two of alice's sisters were married to artists: georgiana to the painter edward burne-jones, and her sister agnes to edward poynter. kipling's most prominent relative was his first cousin, stanley baldwin, who was conservative prime minister three times in the s and s.[ ] kipling's birth home on the campus of the j.j. school of art in bombay was for many years used as the dean's residence.[ ] although a cottage bears a plaque noting it as his birth site, the original one may have been torn down and replaced decades ago.[ ] some historians and conservationists take the view that the bungalow marks a site merely close to the home of kipling's birth, as it was built in – about years after kipling was born. kipling seems to have said as much to the dean when visiting j. j. school in the s.[ ] kipling's india: a map of british india kipling wrote of bombay: mother of cities to me, for i was born in her gate, between the palms and the sea, where the world-end steamers wait.[ ] according to bernice m. murphy, "kipling's parents considered themselves 'anglo-indians' [a term used in the th century for people of british origin living in india] and so too would their son, though he spent the bulk of his life elsewhere. complex issues of identity and national allegiance would become prominent in his fiction."[ ] kipling referred to such conflicts. for example: "in the afternoon heats before we took our sleep, she (the portuguese ayah, or nanny) or meeta (the hindu bearer, or male attendant) would tell us stories and indian nursery songs all unforgotten, and we were sent into the dining-room after we had been dressed, with the caution 'speak english now to papa and mamma.' so one spoke 'english', haltingly translated out of the vernacular idiom that one thought and dreamed in."[ ] education in britain[edit] english heritage blue plaque marking kipling's time in southsea, portsmouth kipling's days of "strong light and darkness" in bombay ended when he was five.[ ] as was the custom in british india, he and his three-year-old sister alice ("trix") were taken to the united kingdom – in their case to southsea, portsmouth – to live with a couple who boarded children of british nationals living abroad.[ ] for the next six years (from october to april ), the children lived with the couple – captain pryse agar holloway, once an officer in the merchant navy, and sarah holloway – at their house, lorne lodge, campbell road, southsea.[ ] in his autobiography published years later, kipling recalled the stay with horror, and wondered if the combination of cruelty and neglect which he experienced there at the hands of mrs holloway might not have hastened the onset of his literary life: "if you cross-examine a child of seven or eight on his day's doings (specially when he wants to go to sleep) he will contradict himself very satisfactorily. if each contradiction be set down as a lie and retailed at breakfast, life is not easy. i have known a certain amount of bullying, but this was calculated torture – religious as well as scientific. yet it made me give attention to the lies i soon found it necessary to tell: and this, i presume, is the foundation of literary effort." [ ] kipling's england: a map of england showing kipling's homes trix fared better at lorne lodge; mrs holloway apparently hoped that trix would eventually marry the holloways' son.[ ] the two kipling children, however, had no relatives in england they could visit, except that they spent a month each christmas with a maternal aunt georgiana ("georgy") and her husband, edward burne-jones, at their house, the grange, in fulham, london, which kipling called "a paradise which i verily believe saved me."[ ] in the spring of , alice returned from india and removed the children from lorne lodge. kipling remembers "often and often afterwards, the beloved aunt would ask me why i had never told any one how i was being treated. children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established. also, badly-treated children have a clear notion of what they are likely to get if they betray the secrets of a prison-house before they are clear of it."[ ] alice took the children during spring to goldings farm at loughton, where a carefree summer and autumn was spent on the farm and adjoining forest, some of the time with stanley baldwin. in january , kipling was admitted to the united services college at westward ho!, devon, a school recently founded to prepare boys for the army. it proved rough going for him at first, but later led to firm friendships and provided the setting for his schoolboy stories stalky & co. ( ).[ ] while there, kipling met and fell in love with florence garrard, who was boarding with trix at southsea (to which trix had returned). florence became the model for maisie in kipling's first novel, the light that failed ( ).[ ] return to india[edit] near the end of his schooling, it was decided that kipling did not have the academic ability to get into oxford university on a scholarship.[ ] his parents lacked the wherewithal to finance him,[ ] and so kipling's father obtained a job for him in lahore, where the father served as principal of the mayo college of art and curator of the lahore museum. kipling was to be assistant editor of a local newspaper, the civil and military gazette. he sailed for india on september and arrived in bombay on october. he described the moment years later: "so, at sixteen years and nine months, but looking four or five years older, and adorned with real whiskers which the scandalised mother abolished within one hour of beholding, i found myself at bombay where i was born, moving among sights and smells that made me deliver in the vernacular sentences whose meaning i knew not. other indian-born boys have told me how the same thing happened to them."[ ] this arrival changed kipling, as he explains: "there were yet three or four days' rail to lahore, where my people lived. after these, my english years fell away, nor ever, i think, came back in full strength." [ ] early adult life ( – )[edit] from to , kipling worked in british india for local newspapers such as the civil and military gazette in lahore and the pioneer in allahabad.[ ] lahore railway station in the s bundi, rajputana, where kipling was inspired to write kim. the former, which was the newspaper kipling was to call his "mistress and most true love," [ ] appeared six days a week throughout the year, except for one-day breaks for christmas and easter. stephen wheeler, the editor, worked kipling hard, but kipling's need to write was unstoppable. in , he published his first collection of verse, departmental ditties. that year also brought a change of editors at the newspaper; kay robinson, the new editor, allowed more creative freedom and kipling was asked to contribute short stories to the newspaper.[ ] in an article printed in the chums boys' annual, an ex-colleague of kipling's stated that "he never knew such a fellow for ink – he simply revelled in it, filling up his pen viciously, and then throwing the contents all over the office, so that it was almost dangerous to approach him."[ ] the anecdote continues: "in the hot weather when he (kipling) wore only white trousers and a thin vest, he is said to have resembled a dalmatian dog more than a human being, for he was spotted all over with ink in every direction." in the summer of , kipling visited shimla, then simla, a well-known hill station and the summer capital of british india. by then it was the practice for the viceroy of india and government to move to simla for six months, and the town became a "centre of power as well as pleasure." [ ] kipling's family became annual visitors to simla, and lockwood kipling was asked to serve in christ church there. rudyard kipling returned to simla for his annual leave each year from to , and the town featured prominently in many stories he wrote for the gazette.[ ] "my month's leave at simla, or whatever hill station my people went to, was pure joy – every golden hour counted. it began in heat and discomfort, by rail and road. it ended in the cool evening, with a wood fire in one's bedroom, and next morn – thirty more of them ahead! – the early cup of tea, the mother who brought it in, and the long talks of us all together again. one had leisure to work, too, at whatever play-work was in one's head, and that was usually full."[ ] back in lahore, of his stories appeared in the gazette between november and june . kipling included most of them in plain tales from the hills, his first prose collection, published in calcutta in january , a month after his nd birthday. kipling's time in lahore, however, had come to an end. in november , he was moved to the gazette's larger sister newspaper, the pioneer, in allahabad in the united provinces, where he worked as assistant editor and lived in belvedere house from to .[ ][ ] rudyard kipling (right) with his father john lockwood kipling (left), circa kipling's writing continued at a frenetic pace. in , he published six collections of short stories: soldiers three, the story of the gadsbys, in black and white, under the deodars, the phantom rickshaw, and wee willie winkie. these contain a total of stories, some quite long. in addition, as the pioneer's special correspondent in the western region of rajputana, he wrote many sketches that were later collected in letters of marque and published in from sea to sea and other sketches, letters of travel.[ ] kipling was discharged from the pioneer in early after a dispute. by this time, he had been increasingly thinking of his future. he sold the rights to his six volumes of stories for £ and a small royalty, and the plain tales for £ ; in addition, he received six-months' salary from the pioneer, in lieu of notice.[ ] return to london[edit] kipling decided to use the money to move to london, as the literary centre of the british empire. on march , he left india, travelling first to san francisco via rangoon, singapore, hong kong and japan. kipling was favourably impressed by japan, calling its people "gracious folk and fair manners." [ ] kipling later wrote that he "had lost his heart" to a geisha whom he called o-toyo, writing while in the united states during the same trip across the pacific, "i had left the innocent east far behind.... weeping softly for o-toyo.... o-toyo was a darling."[ ] kipling then travelled through the united states, writing articles for the pioneer that were later published in from sea to sea and other sketches, letters of travel.[ ] starting his north american travels in san francisco, kipling went north to portland, oregon, then seattle, washington, up to victoria and vancouver, british columbia, through medicine hat, alberta, back into the us to yellowstone national park, down to salt lake city, then east to omaha, nebraska and on to chicago, illinois, then to beaver, pennsylvania on the ohio river to visit the hill family. from there, he went to chautauqua with professor hill, and later to niagara falls, toronto, washington, d.c., new york, and boston.[ ] in the course of this journey he met mark twain in elmira, new york, and was deeply impressed. kipling arrived unannounced at twain's home, and later wrote that as he rang the doorbell, "it occurred to me for the first time that mark twain might possibly have other engagements other than the entertainment of escaped lunatics from india, be they ever so full of admiration."[ ] a portrait of kipling by john collier, ca. rudyard kipling, by bourne & shepherd, calcutta ( ) as it was, twain gladly welcomed kipling and had a two-hour conversation with him on trends in anglo-american literature and about what twain was going to write in a sequel to tom sawyer, with twain assuring kipling that a sequel was coming, although he had not decided upon the ending: either sawyer would be elected to congress or he would be hanged.[ ] twain also passed along the literary advice that an author should "get your facts first and then you can distort 'em as much as you please."[ ] twain, who rather liked kipling, later wrote of their meeting: "between us, we cover all knowledge; he covers all that can be known and i cover the rest."[ ] kipling then crossed the atlantic to liverpool in october . he soon made his début in the london literary world, to great acclaim.[ ] london[edit] in london, kipling had several stories accepted by magazines. he found a place to live for the next two years at villiers street, near charing cross (in a building subsequently named kipling house): meantime, i had found me quarters in villiers street, strand, which forty-six years ago was primitive and passionate in its habits and population. my rooms were small, not over-clean or well-kept, but from my desk i could look out of my window through the fanlight of gatti's music-hall entrance, across the street, almost on to its stage. the charing cross trains rumbled through my dreams on one side, the boom of the strand on the other, while, before my windows, father thames under the shot tower walked up and down with his traffic.[ ] in the next two years, he published a novel, the light that failed, had a nervous breakdown, and met an american writer and publishing agent, wolcott balestier, with whom he collaborated on a novel, the naulahka (a title which he uncharacteristically misspelt; see below).[ ] in , as advised by his doctors, kipling took another sea voyage, to south africa, australia, new zealand, and once again india.[ ] he cut short his plans to spend christmas with his family in india when he heard of balestier's sudden death from typhoid fever and decided to return to london immediately. before his return, he had used the telegram to propose to, and be accepted by, wolcott's sister, caroline starr balestier ( – ), called "carrie", whom he had met a year earlier, and with whom he had apparently been having an intermittent romance.[ ] meanwhile, late in , a collection of his short stories on the british in india, life's handicap, was published in london.[ ] on january , carrie balestier (aged ) and rudyard kipling (aged ) married in london, in the "thick of an influenza epidemic, when the undertakers had run out of black horses and the dead had to be content with brown ones."[ ] the wedding was held at all souls church, langham place. henry james gave away the bride. united states[edit] kipling in his study at naulakha, vermont, us, . kipling and his wife settled upon a honeymoon that took them first to the united states (including a stop at the balestier family estate near brattleboro, vermont) and then to japan.[ ] on arriving in yokohama, they discovered that their bank, the new oriental banking corporation, had failed. taking this loss in their stride, they returned to the u.s., back to vermont – carrie by this time was pregnant with their first child – and rented a small cottage on a farm near brattleboro for $ a month.[ ] according to kipling, "we furnished it with a simplicity that fore-ran the hire-purchase system. we bought, second or third hand, a huge, hot-air stove which we installed in the cellar. we cut generous holes in our thin floors for its eight-inch [ cm] tin pipes (why we were not burned in our beds each week of the winter i never can understand) and we were extraordinarily and self-centredly content."[ ] in this house, which they called bliss cottage, their first child, josephine, was born "in three-foot of snow on the night of th december, . her mother's birthday being the st and mine the th of the same month, we congratulated her on her sense of the fitness of things...."[ ] rudyard kipling's america – , it was also in this cottage that the first dawnings of the jungle books came to kipling: "the workroom in the bliss cottage was seven feet by eight, and from december to april, the snow lay level with its window-sill. it chanced that i had written a tale about indian forestry work which included a boy who had been brought up by wolves. in the stillness, and suspense, of the winter of ' some memory of the masonic lions of my childhood's magazine, and a phrase in haggard's nada the lily, combined with the echo of this tale. after blocking out the main idea in my head, the pen took charge, and i watched it begin to write stories about mowgli and animals, which later grew into the two jungle books."[ ] with josephine's arrival, bliss cottage was felt to be congested, so eventually the couple bought land – acres ( .  ha) on a rocky hillside overlooking the connecticut river – from carrie's brother beatty balestier and built their own house. kipling named this naulakha, in honour of wolcott and of their collaboration, and this time the name was spelt correctly.[ ] from his early years in lahore ( – ), kipling had become enamoured with the mughal architecture,[ ] especially the naulakha pavilion situated in lahore fort, which eventually inspired the title of his novel as well as the house.[ ] the house still stands on kipling road, three miles (  km) north of brattleboro in dummerston, vermont: a big, secluded, dark-green house, with shingled roof and sides, which kipling called his "ship," and which brought him "sunshine and a mind at ease." [ ] his seclusion in vermont, combined with his healthy "sane clean life," made kipling both inventive and prolific. in a mere four years he produced, along with the jungle books, a book of short stories (the day's work), a novel (captains courageous), and a profusion of poetry, including the volume the seven seas. the collection of barrack-room ballads was issued in march , first published individually for the most part in , and contained his poems "mandalay" and "gunga din." he especially enjoyed writing the jungle books and also corresponding with many children who wrote to him about them.[ ] life in new england[edit] caroline starr balestier, portrait by philip burne-jones the writing life in naulakha was occasionally interrupted by visitors, including his father, who visited soon after his retirement in ,[ ] and the british writer arthur conan doyle, who brought his golf clubs, stayed for two days, and gave kipling an extended golf lesson.[ ][ ] kipling seemed to take to golf, occasionally practising with the local congregational minister and even playing with red-painted balls when the ground was covered in snow.[ ][ ] however, winter golf was "not altogether a success because there were no limits to a drive; the ball might skid two miles ( km) down the long slope to connecticut river."[ ] kipling loved the outdoors,[ ] not least of whose marvels in vermont was the turning of the leaves each fall. he described this moment in a letter: "a little maple began it, flaming blood-red of a sudden where he stood against the dark green of a pine-belt. next morning there was an answering signal from the swamp where the sumacs grow. three days later, the hill-sides as fast as the eye could range were afire, and the roads paved, with crimson and gold. then a wet wind blew, and ruined all the uniforms of that gorgeous army; and the oaks, who had held themselves in reserve, buckled on their dull and bronzed cuirasses and stood it out stiffly to the last blown leaf, till nothing remained but pencil-shadings of bare boughs, and one could see into the most private heart of the woods."[ ] the kiplings' first daughter josephine, . she died of pneumonia in aged . in february , elsie kipling was born, the couple's second daughter. by this time, according to several biographers, their marital relationship was no longer light-hearted and spontaneous.[ ] although they would always remain loyal to each other, they seemed now to have fallen into set roles.[ ] in a letter to a friend who had become engaged around this time, the ‑year‑old kipling offered this sombre counsel: marriage principally taught "the tougher virtues – such as humility, restraint, order, and forethought."[ ] later in the same year, he temporarily taught at bishop's college school in quebec, canada.[ ] the kiplings loved life in vermont and might have lived out their lives there, were it not for two incidents – one of global politics, the other of family discord. by the early s, the united kingdom and venezuela were in a border dispute involving british guiana. the u.s. had made several offers to arbitrate, but in , the new american secretary of state richard olney upped the ante by arguing for the american "right" to arbitrate on grounds of sovereignty on the continent (see the olney interpretation as an extension of the monroe doctrine).[ ] this raised hackles in britain, and the situation grew into a major anglo-american crisis, with talk of war on both sides. although the crisis eased into greater united states–british cooperation, kipling was bewildered by what he felt was persistent anti-british sentiment in the u.s., especially in the press.[ ] he wrote in a letter that it felt like being "aimed at with a decanter across a friendly dinner table."[ ] by january , he had decided[ ] to end his family's "good wholesome life" in the u.s. and seek their fortunes elsewhere. a family dispute became the final straw. for some time, relations between carrie and her brother beatty balestier had been strained, owing to his drinking and insolvency. in may , an inebriated beatty encountered kipling on the street and threatened him with physical harm.[ ] the incident led to beatty's eventual arrest, but in the subsequent hearing and the resulting publicity, kipling's privacy was destroyed, and he was left feeling miserable and exhausted. in july , a week before the hearing was to resume, the kiplings packed their belongings, left the united states and returned to england.[ ] kipling's torquay house, with an english heritage blue plaque on the wall. devon[edit] by september , the kiplings were in torquay, devon, on the south-western coast of england, in a hillside home overlooking the english channel. although kipling did not much care for his new house, whose design, he claimed, left its occupants feeling dispirited and gloomy, he managed to remain productive and socially active.[ ] kipling was now a famous man, and in the previous two or three years had increasingly been making political pronouncements in his writings. the kiplings had welcomed their first son, john, in august . kipling had begun work on two poems, "recessional" ( ) and "the white man's burden" ( ), which were to create controversy when published. regarded by some as anthems for enlightened and duty-bound empire-building (capturing the mood of the victorian era), the poems were seen by others as propaganda for brazen-faced imperialism and its attendant racial attitudes; still others saw irony in the poems and warnings of the perils of empire.[ ] take up the white man's burden— send forth the best ye breed— go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives' need; to wait, in heavy harness, on fluttered folk and wild— your new-caught sullen peoples, half devil and half child. —the white man's burden[ ] there was also foreboding in the poems, a sense that all could yet come to naught.[ ] far-called, our navies melt away; on dune and headland sinks the fire: lo, all our pomp of yesterday is one with nineveh and tyre! judge of the nations, spare us yet. lest we forget – lest we forget! —recessional[ ] a prolific writer during his time in torquay, he also wrote stalky & co., a collection of school stories (born of his experience at the united services college in westward ho!), whose juvenile protagonists display a know-it-all, cynical outlook on patriotism and authority. according to his family, kipling enjoyed reading aloud stories from stalky & co. to them and often went into spasms of laughter over his own jokes.[ ] visits to south africa[edit] h.a. gwynne, julian ralph, perceval landon, and rudyard kipling in south africa, – . in early , the kiplings travelled to south africa for their winter holiday, so beginning an annual tradition which (except the following year) would last until . they would stay in "the woolsack," a house on cecil rhodes's estate at groote schuur (now a student residence for the university of cape town), within walking distance of rhodes' mansion.[ ] with his new reputation as poet of the empire, kipling was warmly received by some of the influential politicians of the cape colony, including rhodes, sir alfred milner, and leander starr jameson. kipling cultivated their friendship and came to admire the men and their politics. the period – was crucial in the history of south africa and included the second boer war ( – ), the ensuing peace treaty, and the formation of the union of south africa. back in england, kipling wrote poetry in support of the british cause in the boer war and on his next visit to south africa in early , became a correspondent for the friend newspaper in bloemfontein, which had been commandeered by lord roberts for british troops.[ ] although his journalistic stint was to last only two weeks, it was kipling's first work on a newspaper staff since he left the pioneer in allahabad more than ten years before.[ ] at the friend, he made lifelong friendships with perceval landon, h. a. gwynne, and others.[ ] he also wrote articles published more widely expressing his views on the conflict.[ ] kipling penned an inscription for the honoured dead memorial (siege memorial) in kimberley. sussex[edit] kipling at his desk, . portrait by his cousin, sir philip burne-jones in , kipling moved from torquay to rottingdean, near brighton, east sussex – first to north end house and then to the elms.[ ] in , kipling bought bateman's, a house built in and located in rural burwash. bateman's was kipling's home from until his death in .[ ] the house and its surrounding buildings, the mill and acres (  ha), were bought for £ , . it had no bathroom, no running water upstairs and no electricity, but kipling loved it: "behold us, lawful owners of a grey stone lichened house – a.d. over the door – beamed, panelled, with old oak staircase, and all untouched and unfaked. it is a good and peaceable place. we have loved it ever since our first sight of it" (from a november letter).[ ][ ] in the non-fiction realm, he became involved in the debate over the british response to the rise in german naval power known as the tirpitz plan, to build a fleet to challenge the royal navy, publishing a series of articles in collected as a fleet in being. on a visit to the united states in , kipling and his daughter josephine developed pneumonia, from which she eventually died. ("kim's gun" as seen in ) "he sat in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun zam-zammeh, on her old platform, opposite the old ajaibgher, the wonder house, as the natives called the lahore museum." -kim in the wake of his daughter's death, kipling concentrated on collecting material for what became just so stories for little children, published in , the year after kim.[ ] the american literary scholar david scott has argued that kim disproves the claim by edward said about kipling as a promoter of orientalism as kipling – who was deeply interested in buddhism – as he presented tibetan buddhism in a fairly sympathetic light and aspects of the novel appeared to reflect a buddhist understanding of the universe.[ ][ ] kipling was offended by the german emperor wilhelm ii's hun speech (hunnenrede) in , urging german troops being sent to china to crush the boxer rebellion to behave like "huns" and take no prisoners.[ ] in a poem, the rowers, kipling attacked the kaiser as a threat to britain and made the first use of the term "hun" as an anti-german insult, using wilhelm's own words and the actions of german troops in china to portray germans as essentially barbarian.[ ] in an interview with the french newspaper le figaro, the francophile kipling called germany a menace and called for an anglo-french alliance to stop it.[ ] in another letter at the same time, kipling described the "unfrei peoples of central europe" as living in "the middle ages with machine guns." [ ] speculative fiction[edit] kipling wrote a number of speculative fiction short stories, including "the army of a dream," in which he sought to show a more efficient and responsible army than the hereditary bureaucracy of england at the time, and two science fiction stories: "with the night mail" ( ) and "as easy as a.b.c." ( ). both were set in the st century in kipling's aerial board of control universe. they read like modern hard science fiction,[ ] and introduced the literary technique known as indirect exposition, which would later become one of science fiction writer robert heinlein's hallmarks. this technique is one that kipling picked up in india, and used to solve the problem of his english readers not understanding much about indian society, when writing the jungle book.[ ] nobel laureate and beyond[edit] in , he was awarded the nobel prize for literature, having been nominated in that year by charles oman, professor at the university of oxford.[ ] the prize citation said it was "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author." nobel prizes had been established in and kipling was the first english-language recipient. at the award ceremony in stockholm on december , the permanent secretary of the swedish academy, carl david af wirsén, praised both kipling and three centuries of english literature: the swedish academy, in awarding the nobel prize in literature this year to rudyard kipling, desires to pay a tribute of homage to the literature of england, so rich in manifold glories, and to the greatest genius in the realm of narrative that that country has produced in our times.[ ] to "book-end" this achievement came the publication of two connected poetry and story collections: puck of pook's hill ( ), and rewards and fairies ( ). the latter contained the poem "if—." in a bbc opinion poll, it was voted the uk's favourite poem.[ ] this exhortation to self-control and stoicism is arguably kipling's most famous poem.[ ] rudyard kipling by george wylie hutchinson such was kipling's popularity that he was asked by his friend max aitken to intervene in the canadian election on behalf of the conservatives.[ ] in , the major issue in canada was a reciprocity treaty with the united states signed by the liberal prime minister sir wilfrid laurier and vigorously opposed by the conservatives under sir robert borden. on september , the montreal daily star newspaper published a front-page appeal against the agreement by kipling, who wrote: "it is her own soul that canada risks today. once that soul is pawned for any consideration, canada must inevitably conform to the commercial, legal, financial, social, and ethical standards which will be imposed on her by the sheer admitted weight of the united states."[ ] at the time, the montreal daily star was canada's most read newspaper. over the next week, kipling's appeal was reprinted in every english newspaper in canada and is credited with helping to turn canadian public opinion against the liberal government.[ ] kipling sympathised with the anti-home rule stance of irish unionists, who opposed irish autonomy. he was friends with edward carson, the dublin-born leader of ulster unionism, who raised the ulster volunteers to prevent home rule in ireland. kipling wrote in a letter to a friend that ireland was not a nation, and that before the english arrived in , the irish were a gang of cattle thieves living in savagery and killing each other while "writing dreary poems" about it all. in his view it was only british rule that allowed ireland to advance.[ ] a visit to ireland in confirmed kipling's prejudices. he wrote that the irish countryside was beautiful, but spoiled by what he called the ugly homes of irish farmers, with kipling adding that god had made the irish into poets having "deprived them of love of line or knowledge of colour." [ ] in contrast, kipling had nothing but praise for the "decent folk" of the protestant minority and unionist ulster, free from the threat of "constant mob violence".[ ] kipling wrote the poem "ulster" in , reflecting his unionist politics. kipling often referred to the irish unionists as "our party." [ ] kipling had no sympathy or understanding for irish nationalism, seeing home rule as an act of treason by the government of the liberal prime minister h. h. asquith that would plunge ireland into the dark ages and allow the irish catholic majority to oppress the protestant minority.[ ] the scholar david gilmour wrote that kipling's lack of understanding of ireland could be seen in his attack on john redmond – the anglophile leader of the irish parliamentary party who wanted home rule because he believed it was the best way of keeping the united kingdom together – as a traitor working to break up the united kingdom.[ ] ulster was first publicly read at an unionist rally in belfast, where the largest union jack ever made was unfolded.[ ] kipling admitted it was meant to strike a "hard blow" against the asquith government's home rule bill: "rebellion, rapine, hate, oppression, wrong and greed, are loosed to rule our fate, by england's act and deed." [ ] ulster generated much controversy with the conservative mp sir mark sykes – who as a unionist was opposed to the home rule bill – condemning ulster in the morning post as a "direct appeal to ignorance and a deliberate attempt to foster religious hate." [ ] kipling was a staunch opponent of bolshevism, a position which he shared with his friend henry rider haggard. the two had bonded on kipling's arrival in london in largely due to their shared opinions, and remained lifelong friends. freemasonry[edit] according to the english magazine masonic illustrated, kipling became a freemason in about , before the usual minimum age of ,[ ] being initiated into hope and perseverance lodge no. in lahore. he later wrote to the times, "i was secretary for some years of the lodge... which included brethren of at least four creeds. i was entered [as an apprentice] by a member from brahmo somaj, a hindu, passed [to the degree of fellow craft] by a mohammedan, and raised [to the degree of master mason] by an englishman. our tyler was an indian jew." kipling received not only the three degrees of craft masonry but also the side degrees of mark master mason and royal ark mariner.[ ] kipling so loved his masonic experience that he memorialised its ideals in his poem "the mother lodge," [ ] and used the fraternity and its symbols as vital plot devices in his novella the man who would be king.[ ] first world war ( – )[edit] at the beginning of the first world war, like many other writers, kipling wrote pamphlets and poems enthusiastically supporting the uk war aims of restoring belgium, after it had been occupied by germany, together with generalised statements that britain was standing up for the cause of good. in september , kipling was asked by the government to write propaganda, an offer that he accepted.[ ] kipling's pamphlets and stories were popular with the british people during the war, his major themes being to glorify the british military as the place for heroic men to be, while citing german atrocities against belgian civilians and the stories of women brutalised by a horrific war unleashed by germany, yet surviving and triumphing in spite of their suffering.[ ] kipling was enraged by reports of the rape of belgium together with the sinking of the rms lusitania in , which he saw as a deeply inhumane act, which led him to see the war as a crusade for civilisation against barbarism.[ ] in a speech, kipling declared, "there was no crime, no cruelty, no abomination that the mind of men can conceive of which the german has not perpetrated, is not perpetrating, and will not perpetrate if he is allowed to go on.... today, there are only two divisions in the world... human beings and germans."[ ] alongside his passionate antipathy towards germany, kipling was privately deeply critical of how the war was being fought by the british army, complaining as early as october that germany should have been defeated by now, and something must be wrong with the british army.[ ] kipling, who was shocked by the heavy losses that the british expeditionary force had taken by the autumn of , blamed the entire pre-war generation of british politicians who, he argued, had failed to learn the lessons of the boer war. thus thousands of british soldiers were now paying with their lives for their failure in the fields of france and belgium.[ ] kipling had scorn for men who shirked duty in the first world war. in "the new army in training"[ ] ( ), kipling concluded by saying: this much we can realise, even though we are so close to it, the old safe instinct saves us from triumph and exultation. but what will be the position in years to come of the young man who has deliberately elected to outcaste himself from this all-embracing brotherhood? what of his family, and, above all, what of his descendants, when the books have been closed and the last balance struck of sacrifice and sorrow in every hamlet, village, parish, suburb, city, shire, district, province, and dominion throughout the empire? in , kipling was one of leading british authors — a number that included h. g. wells, arthur conan doyle and thomas hardy — who signed their names to the “authors’ declaration.” this manifesto declared that the german invasion of belgium had been a brutal crime, and that britain “could not without dishonour have refused to take part in the present war.”[ ] death of john kipling[edit] nd lt john kipling memorial to nd lt john kipling in burwash parish church, sussex, england kipling's son john was killed in action at the battle of loos in september , at age . john initially wanted to join the royal navy, but having had his application turned down after a failed medical examination due to poor eyesight, he opted to apply for military service as an army officer. again, his eyesight was an issue during the medical examination. in fact, he tried twice to enlist, but was rejected. his father had been lifelong friends with lord roberts, former commander-in-chief of the british army, and colonel of the irish guards, and at rudyard's request, john was accepted into the irish guards.[ ] john kipling was sent to loos two days into the battle in a reinforcement contingent. he was last seen stumbling through the mud blindly, with a possible facial injury. a body identified as his was found in , although that identification has been challenged.[ ][ ][ ] in , the commonwealth war grave commission confirmed that it had correctly identified the burial place of john kipling;[ ] they record his date of death as september , and that he is buried at st mary's a.d.s. cemetery, haisnes.[ ] after his son's death, in a poem titled "epitaphs of the war," kipling wrote "if any question why we died / tell them, because our fathers lied." critics have speculated that these words may express kipling's guilt over his role in arranging john's commission.[ ] professor tracy bilsing contends that the line refers to kipling's disgust that british leaders failed to learn the lessons of the boer war, and were unprepared for the struggle with germany in , with the "lie" of the "fathers" being that the british army was prepared for any war when it was not.[ ] john's death has been linked to kipling's poem "my boy jack," notably in the play my boy jack and its subsequent television adaptation, along with the documentary rudyard kipling: a remembrance tale. however, the poem was originally published at the head of a story about the battle of jutland and appears to refer to a death at sea; the "jack" referred to is probably a generic "jack tar." [ ] in the kipling family, jack was the name of the family dog, while john kipling was always john, making the identification of the protagonist of "my boy jack" with john kipling somewhat questionable. however, kipling was indeed emotionally devastated by the death of his son. he is said to have assuaged his grief by reading the novels of jane austen aloud to his wife and daughter.[ ] during the war, he wrote a booklet the fringes of the fleet[ ] containing essays and poems on various nautical subjects of the war. some of these were set to music by the english composer edward elgar. kipling became friends with a french soldier named maurice hammoneau, whose life had been saved in the first world war when his copy of kim, which he had in his left breast pocket, stopped a bullet. hammoneau presented kipling with the book, with bullet still embedded, and his croix de guerre as a token of gratitude. they continued to correspond, and when hammoneau had a son, kipling insisted on returning the book and medal.[ ] on august , the poem "the old volunteer" appeared under his name in the times. the next day, he wrote to the newspaper to disclaim authorship and a correction appeared. although the times employed a private detective to investigate, the detective appears to have suspected kipling himself of being the author, and the identity of the hoaxer was never established.[ ] after the war ( – )[edit] kipling, aged , on the cover of time magazine, september . partly in response to john's death, kipling joined sir fabian ware's imperial war graves commission (now the commonwealth war graves commission), the group responsible for the garden-like british war graves that can be found to this day dotted along the former western front and the other places in the world where british empire troops lie buried. his main contributions to the project were his selection of the biblical phrase, "their name liveth for evermore" (ecclesiasticus . , kjv), found on the stones of remembrance in larger war cemeteries, and his suggestion of the phrase "known unto god" for the gravestones of unidentified servicemen. he also chose the inscription "the glorious dead" on the cenotaph, whitehall, london. additionally, he wrote a two-volume history of the irish guards, his son's regiment, published in and seen as one of the finest examples of regimental history.[ ] kipling's short story "the gardener" depicts visits to the war cemeteries, and the poem "the king's pilgrimage" ( ) a journey which king george v made, touring the cemeteries and memorials under construction by the imperial war graves commission. with the increasing popularity of the automobile, kipling became a motoring correspondent for the british press, writing enthusiastically of trips around england and abroad, though he was usually driven by a chauffeur. after the war, kipling was sceptical of the fourteen points and the league of nations, but had hopes that the united states would abandon isolationism and the post-war world be dominated by an anglo-french-american alliance.[ ] he hoped the united states would take on a league of nations mandate for armenia as the best way of preventing isolationism, and hoped that theodore roosevelt, whom kipling admired, would again become president.[ ] kipling was saddened by roosevelt's death in , believing him to be the only american politician capable of keeping the united states in the "game" of world politics.[ ] kipling was hostile towards communism, writing of the bolshevik take-over in that one sixth of the world had "passed bodily out of civilization."[ ] in a poem, kipling wrote of soviet russia that everything good in russia had been destroyed by the bolsheviks – all that was left was "the sound of weeping and the sight of burning fire, and the shadow of a people trampled into the mire." [ ] in , kipling co-founded the liberty league[ ] with haggard and lord sydenham. this short-lived enterprise focused on promoting classic liberal ideals as a response to the rising power of communist tendencies within great britain, or as kipling put it, "to combat the advance of bolshevism." [ ][ ] kipling (second from left) as rector of the university of st andrews, scotland in in , kipling, having referred to the work of engineers in some of his poems, such as "the sons of martha," "sappers," and "mcandrew's hymn," [ ] and in other writings, including short-story anthologies such as the day's work,[ ] was asked by a university of toronto civil engineering professor, herbert e. t. haultain, for assistance in developing a dignified obligation and ceremony for graduating engineering students. kipling was enthusiastic in his response and shortly produced both, formally titled "the ritual of the calling of an engineer." today engineering graduates all across canada are presented with an iron ring at a ceremony to remind them of their obligation to society.[ ][ ] in kipling became lord rector of st andrews university in scotland, a three-year position. kipling, as a francophile, argued strongly for an anglo-french alliance to uphold the peace, calling britain and france in the "twin fortresses of european civilization." [ ] similarly, kipling repeatedly warned against revising the treaty of versailles in germany's favour, which he predicted would lead to a new world war.[ ] an admirer of raymond poincaré, kipling was one of few british intellectuals who supported the french occupation of the ruhr in , at a time when the british government and most public opinion was against the french position.[ ] in contrast to the popular british view of poincaré as a cruel bully intent on impoverishing germany with unreasonable reparations, kipling argued that he was rightfully trying to preserve france as a great power in the face of an unfavourable situation.[ ] kipling argued that even before , germany's larger economy and higher birth rate had made that country stronger than france; with much of france devastated by war and the french suffering heavy losses meant that its low birth rate would give it trouble, while germany was mostly undamaged and still with a higher birth rate. so he reasoned that the future would bring german domination if versailles were revised in germany's favour, and it was madness for britain to press france to do so.[ ] kipling late in his life, portrait by elliott & fry. in , kipling was opposed to the labour government of ramsay macdonald as "bolshevism without bullets." he believed that labour was a communist front organisation, and "excited orders and instructions from moscow" would expose labour as such to the british people.[ ] kipling's views were on the right. though he admired benito mussolini to some extent in the s, he was against fascism, calling oswald mosley was "a bounder and an arriviste." by , he was calling mussolini a deranged and dangerous egomaniac and in wrote, "the hitlerites are out for blood." [ ] despite his anti-communism, the first major translations of kipling into russian took place under lenin's rule in the early s, and kipling was popular with russian readers in the interwar period. many younger russian poets and writers, such as konstantin simonov, were influenced by him.[ ] kipling's clarity of style, use of colloquial language and employment of rhythm and rhyme were seen as major innovations in poetry that appealed to many younger russian poets.[ ] though it was obligatory for soviet journals to begin translations of kipling with an attack on him as a "fascist" and an "imperialist," such was kipling's popularity with russian readers that his works were not banned in the soviet union until , with the signing of the molotov–ribbentrop pact.[ ] the ban was lifted in after operation barbarossa, when britain become a soviet ally, but imposed for good with the cold war in .[ ] a left-facing swastika in , a symbol of good luck covers of two of kipling's books from (l) and (r) showing the removal of the swastika many older editions of rudyard kipling's books have a swastika printed on the cover, associated with a picture of an elephant carrying a lotus flower, reflecting the influence of indian culture. kipling's use of the swastika was based on the indian sun symbol conferring good luck and the sanskrit word meaning "fortunate" or "well-being." [ ] he used the swastika symbol in both right and left-facing forms, and it was in general use by others at the time.[ ][ ] in a note to edward bok after the death of lockwood kipling in , rudyard said: "i am sending with this for your acceptance, as some little memory of my father to whom you were so kind, the original of one of the plaques that he used to make for me. i thought it being the swastika would be appropriate for your swastika. may it bring you even more good fortune."[ ] once the nazis came to power and usurped the swastika, kipling ordered that it should no longer adorn his books.[ ] less than a year before his death, kipling gave a speech (titled "an undefended island") to the royal society of st george on may , warning of the danger which nazi germany posed to britain.[ ] kipling scripted the first royal christmas message, delivered via the bbc's empire service by george v in .[ ][ ] in , he published a short story in the strand magazine, "proofs of holy writ," postulating that william shakespeare had helped to polish the prose of the king james bible.[ ] death[edit] kipling kept writing until the early s, but at a slower pace and with less success than before. on the night of january , he suffered a haemorrhage in his small intestine. he underwent surgery, but died at middlesex hospital less than a week later on january , at the age of , of a perforated duodenal ulcer.[ ][ ][ ] his death had previously been incorrectly announced in a magazine, to which he wrote, "i've just read that i am dead. don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers."[ ] the pallbearers at the funeral included kipling's cousin, prime minister stanley baldwin, and the marble casket was covered by a union jack.[ ] kipling was cremated at golders green crematorium in north-west london, and his ashes interred at poets' corner, part of the south transept of westminster abbey, next to the graves of charles dickens and thomas hardy.[ ] kipling's will was proven on april, with his estate valued at £ , s. d. (roughly equivalent to £ , , in [ ]).[ ] legacy[edit] in , the international astronomical union approved that a crater on the planet mercury should be named after kipling – one of ten newly discovered impact craters observed by the messenger spacecraft in – .[ ] in , an extinct species of crocodile, goniopholis kiplingi, was named in his honour "in recognition for his enthusiasm for natural sciences." [ ] more than unpublished poems by kipling, discovered by the american scholar thomas pinney, were released for the first time in march .[ ] kipling's writing has strongly influenced that of others. his stories for adults remain in print and have garnered high praise from writers as different as poul anderson, jorge luis borges, and randall jarrell, who wrote: "after you have read kipling's fifty or seventy-five best stories you realize that few men have written this many stories of this much merit, and that very few have written more and better stories."[ ] his children's stories remain popular and his jungle books made into several films. the first was made by producer alexander korda. other films have been produced by the walt disney company. a number of his poems were set to music by percy grainger. a series of short films based on some of his stories was broadcast by the bbc in .[ ] kipling's work is still popular today. the poet t.s. eliot edited a choice of kipling's verse ( ) with an introductory essay.[ ] eliot was aware of the complaints that had been levelled against kipling and he dismissed them one by one: that kipling is "a tory" using his verse to transmit right wing political views, or "a journalist" pandering to popular taste; while eliot writes: "i cannot find any justification for the charge that he held a doctrine of race superiority."[ ] eliot finds instead: an immense gift for using words, an amazing curiosity and power of observation with his mind and with all his senses, the mask of the entertainer, and beyond that a queer gift of second sight, of transmitting messages from elsewhere, a gift so disconcerting when we are made aware of it that thenceforth we are never sure when it is not present: all this makes kipling a writer impossible wholly to understand and quite impossible to belittle. — t.s. eliot[ ] of kipling's verse, such as his barrack-room ballads, eliot writes "of a number of poets who have written great poetry, only... a very few whom i should call great verse writers. and unless i am mistaken, kipling's position in this class is not only high, but unique."[ ] in response to eliot, george orwell wrote a long consideration of kipling's work for horizon in , noting that although as a "jingo imperialist" kipling was "morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting," his work had many qualities which ensured that while "every enlightened person has despised him... nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and kipling is in some sense still there.": one reason for kipling's power [was] his sense of responsibility, which made it possible for him to have a world-view, even though it happened to be a false one. although he had no direct connexion with any political party, kipling was a conservative, a thing that does not exist nowadays. those who now call themselves conservatives are either liberals, fascists or the accomplices of fascists. he identified himself with the ruling power and not with the opposition. in a gifted writer this seems to us strange and even disgusting, but it did have the advantage of giving kipling a certain grip on reality. the ruling power is always faced with the question, 'in such and such circumstances, what would you do?', whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions. where it is a permanent and pensioned opposition, as in england, the quality of its thought deteriorates accordingly. moreover, anyone who starts out with a pessimistic, reactionary view of life tends to be justified by events, for utopia never arrives and 'the gods of the copybook headings', as kipling himself put it, always return. kipling sold out to the british governing class, not financially but emotionally. this warped his political judgement, for the british ruling class were not what he imagined, and it led him into abysses of folly and snobbery, but he gained a corresponding advantage from having at least tried to imagine what action and responsibility are like. it is a great thing in his favour that he is not witty, not 'daring', has no wish to épater les bourgeois. he dealt largely in platitudes, and since we live in a world of platitudes, much of what he said sticks. even his worst follies seem less shallow and less irritating than the 'enlightened' utterances of the same period, such as wilde's epigrams or the collection of cracker-mottoes at the end of man and superman. — george orwell[ ] in , the poet w.h. auden celebrated kipling in a similarly ambiguous way in his elegy for william butler yeats. auden deleted this section from more recent editions of his poems. time, that is intolerant of the brave and innocent, and indifferent in a week to a beautiful physique, worships language, and forgives everyone by whom it lives; pardons cowardice, conceit, lays its honours at his feet. time, that with this strange excuse, pardons kipling and his views, and will pardon paul claudel, pardons him for writing well.[ ] the poet alison brackenbury writes "kipling is poetry's dickens, an outsider and journalist with an unrivalled ear for sound and speech."[ ] the english folk singer peter bellamy was a lover of kipling's poetry, much of which he believed to have been influenced by english traditional folk forms. he recorded several albums of kipling's verse set to traditional airs, or to tunes of his own composition written in traditional style.[ ] however, in the case of the bawdy folk song, "the bastard king of england," which is commonly credited to kipling, it is believed that the song is actually misattributed.[ ] kipling often is quoted in discussions of contemporary british political and social issues. in , kipling wrote the poem "the reeds of runnymede" that celebrated magna carta, and summoned up a vision of the "stubborn englishry" determined to defend their rights. in , the following verses of the poem were quoted by former prime minister margaret thatcher warning against the encroachment of the european union on national sovereignty: at runnymede, at runnymede, oh, hear the reeds at runnymede: ‘you musn’t sell, delay, deny, a freeman’s right or liberty. it wakes the stubborn englishry, we saw ’em roused at runnymede! … and still when mob or monarch lays too rude a hand on english ways, the whisper wakes, the shudder plays, across the reeds at runnymede. and thames, that knows the mood of kings, and crowds and priests and suchlike things, rolls deep and dreadful as he brings their warning down from runnymede![ ] political singer-songwriter billy bragg, who attempts to build a left-wing english nationalism in contrast with the more common right-wing english nationalism, has attempted to 'reclaim' kipling for an inclusive sense of englishness.[ ] kipling's enduring relevance has been noted in the united states, as it has become involved in afghanistan and other areas about which he wrote.[ ][ ][ ] links with camping and scouting[edit] in , kipling gave permission to elizabeth ford holt to borrow themes from the jungle books to establish camp mowglis, a summer camp for boys on the shores of newfound lake in new hampshire. throughout their lives, kipling and his wife carrie maintained an active interest in camp mowglis, which still continues the traditions that kipling inspired. buildings at mowglis have names such as akela, toomai, baloo, and panther. the campers are referred to as "the pack," from the youngest "cubs" to the oldest living in "den."[ ] kipling's links with the scouting movements were also strong. robert baden-powell, founder of scouting, used many themes from jungle book stories and kim in setting up his junior wolf cubs. these ties still exist, such as the popularity of "kim's game." the movement is named after mowgli's adopted wolf family, and adult helpers of wolf cub packs take names from the jungle book, especially the adult leader called akela after the leader of the seeonee wolf pack.[ ] kipling's burwash home[edit] bateman's, kipling's beloved home – which he referred to as "a good and peaceable place" – in burwash, east sussex, is now a public museum dedicated to the author[ ] after the death of kipling's wife in , his house, bateman's in burwash, east sussex, where he had lived from until , was bequeathed to the national trust. it is now a public museum dedicated to the author. elsie bambridge, his only child who lived to maturity, died childless in , and bequeathed her copyrights to the national trust, which in turn donated them to the university of sussex to ensure better public access.[ ] novelist and poet sir kingsley amis wrote a poem, "kipling at bateman's," after visiting burwash (where amis's father lived briefly in the s) as part of a bbc television series on writers and their houses.[ ] in , actor ralph fiennes read excerpts from kipling's works from the study in bateman's, including the jungle book, something of myself, kim, and the just so stories, and poems, including "if ..." and "my boy jack," for a cd published by the national trust.[ ][ ] reputation in india[edit] in modern-day india, whence he drew much of his material, kipling's reputation remains controversial, especially among modern nationalists and some post-colonial critics. rudyard kipling was a prominent supporter of colonel reginald dyer, who was responsible for the jallianwala bagh massacre in amritsar (in the province of punjab). kipling called dyer "the man who saved india" and initiated collections for the latter's homecoming prize.[ ] however, subhash chopra writes in his book kipling sahib – the raj patriot that the benefit fund was started by the morning post newspaper, not by kipling, and that kipling made no contribution to the dyer fund. while kipling's name was conspicuously absent from the list of donors as published in the morning post, he clearly admired dyer.[ ] other contemporary indian intellectuals such as ashis nandy have taken a more nuanced view. jawaharlal nehru, the first prime minister of independent india, often described kipling's novel kim as one of his favourite books.[ ][ ] g.v. desani, an indian writer of fiction, had a more negative opinion of kipling. he alludes to kipling in his novel all about h. hatterr: i happen to pick up r. kipling's autobiographical kim. therein, this self-appointed whiteman's burden-bearing sherpa feller's stated how, in the orient, blokes hit the road and think nothing of walking a thousand miles in search of something. indian writer khushwant singh wrote in that he considers kipling's "if—" "the essence of the message of the gita in english," [ ] referring to the bhagavad gita, an ancient indian scripture. indian writer r.k. narayan said "kipling, the supposed expert writer on india, showed a better understanding of the mind of the animals in the jungle than of the men in an indian home or the marketplace."[ ] the indian politician and writer sashi tharoor commented "kipling, that flatulent voice of victorian imperialism, would wax eloquent on the noble duty to bring law to those without it".[ ] in november , it was announced that kipling's birth home in the campus of the j. j. school of art in mumbai would be turned into a museum celebrating the author and his works.[ ] art[edit] though best known as an author, kipling was also an accomplished artist. influenced by aubrey beardsley, kipling produced many illustrations for his stories, e.g. just so stories, .[ ] screen portrayals[edit] 	reginald sheffield portrayed rudyard kipling in gunga din ( ). 	paul scardon portrayed rudyard kipling in the adventures of mark twain ( ). 	christopher plummer portrayed rudyard kipling in the man who would be king ( ). 	david haig portrayed rudyard kipling in my boy jack ( ). bibliography[edit] main article: rudyard kipling bibliography kipling's bibliography includes fiction (including novels and short stories), non-fiction, and poetry. several of his works were collaborations. see also[edit] 	poetry 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( ): – [ ]. doi: . /jwh. . . jstor  . s cid  . further reading[edit] 	biography and criticism 	allen, charles ( ). kipling sahib: india and the making of rudyard kipling, abacus. isbn  - - - - 	bauer, helen pike ( ). rudyard kipling: a study of the short fiction. new york: twayne 	birkenhead, lord (frederick smith, nd earl of birkenhead) ( ). rudyard kipling. worthing: littlehampton book services ltd. isbn  - - - - 	carrington, charles ( ). rudyard kipling: his life and work. london: macmillan & co. 	croft-cooke, rupert ( ). rudyard kipling (london: home & van thal ltd.) 	david, c. ( ). rudyard kipling: a critical study, new delhi: anmol. isbn  - - - 	dillingham, william b ( ). rudyard kipling: hell and heroism new york: palgrave macmillan[isbn missing] 	gilbert, elliot l. ed. ( ). kipling and the critics (new york: new york university press) 	gilmour, david ( ). the long recessional: the imperial life of rudyard kipling new york: farrar, straus and giroux. isbn  - - - 	green, roger lancelyn, ed. ( ). kipling: the critical heritage. london: routledge and kegan paul. 	gross, john, ed. ( ). rudyard kipling: the man, his work and his world. london: weidenfeld and nicolson 	harris, brian ( ). the surprising mr kipling: an anthology and reassessment of the poetry of rudyard kipling. createspace. isbn  - - - - 	harris, brian ( ). the two sided man. createspace. isbn  . 	kemp, sandra ( ). kipling's hidden narratives oxford: blackwell 	lycett, andrew ( ). rudyard kipling. london: weidenfeld & nicolson. isbn  - - - 	lycett, andrew (ed.) ( ). kipling abroad, i. b. tauris. isbn  - - - - 	mallett, phillip ( ). rudyard kipling: a literary life basingstoke: palgrave macmillan 	montefiore, jan (ed.) ( ). in time's eye: essays on rudyard kipling. manchester: manchester university press 	narita, tatsushi ( ). t. s. eliot and his youth as 'a literary columbus'. nagoya: kougaku shuppan 	nicolson, adam ( ). carrie kipling –  : the hated wife. faber & faber, london. isbn  - - - 	ricketts, harry ( ). rudyard kipling: a life. new york: da capo press isbn  - - - 	rooney, caroline, and kaori nagai, eds. ( ). kipling and beyond: patriotism, globalisation, and postcolonialism. palgrave macmillan; pp.; scholarly essays on kipling's "boy heroes of empire," kipling and c.l.r. james, and kipling and the new american empire, etc. 	rutherford, andrew, ed. ( ). kipling's mind and art. edinburgh and london: oliver and boyd 	sergeant, david ( ). kipling's art of fiction – oxford: oxford university press 	martin seymour-smith ( ). rudyard kipling,[isbn missing] 	shippey, tom, "rudyard kipling," in: cahier calin: makers of the middle ages. essays in honor of william calin, ed. richard utz and elizabeth emery (kalamazoo, mi: studies in medievalism, ), pp.  – . 	tompkins, j.m.s. ( ). the art of rudyard kipling. london: methuen online edition 	walsh, sue ( ). kipling's children's literature: language, identity, and constructions of childhood farnham: ashgate 	wilson, angus ( ). the strange ride of rudyard kipling: his life and works new york: the viking press. isbn  - - - external links[edit] rudyard kiplingat wikipedia's sister projects 	media from wikimedia commons 	quotations from wikiquote 	texts from wikisource 	data from wikidata 	the kipling society website 	rudyard kipling on nobelprize.org 	rudyard kipling at the encyclopedia of fantasy 	rudyard kipling at the encyclopedia of science fiction other information[edit] 	library resources about rudyard kipling 	 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	works 	works by rudyard kipling at project gutenberg 	list of works at the works catalogues of laureates of the nobel prize for literature 	works by or about rudyard kipling at internet archive 	works by rudyard kipling at librivox (public domain audiobooks) 	works by rudyard kipling (not public domain in us, so not available on wikisource) 	resources 	the rudyard kipling collection maintained by marlboro college. 	the rudyard kipling poems by poemist. 	rudyard kipling: the books i leave behind exhibition, related podcast, and digital images maintained by the beinecke rare book & manuscript library, yale university 	rudyard kipling at the internet speculative fiction database 	the rudyard kipling collections from the rare book and special collections division at the library of congress 	archival material at leeds university library 	newspaper clippings about rudyard kipling in the th century press archives of the zbw 	a. p. watt & son records relating to rudyard kipling. general collection, beinecke rare book and manuscript library, yale university. 	academic offices 	preceded by sir j. m. barrie 	 rector of the university of st andrews – 	succeeded by fridtjof nansen 		v 	t 	e rudyard kipling 	novels	 	the light that failed ( ) 	the naulahka: a story of west and east (co-author, wolcott balestier, ) 	captains courageous ( ) 	kim ( ) 	collections	 	plain tales from the hills ( ) 	soldiers three ( ) 	the story of the gadsbys ( ) 	in black and white ( ) 	the phantom 'rickshaw and other eerie tales ( ) 	under the deodars ( ) 	wee willie winkie and other child stories ( ) 	from sea to sea and other sketches, letters of travel ( ) 	barrack-room ballads ( , poetry) 	many inventions ( ) 	the jungle book ( ) 	"mowgli's brothers" 	"kaa's hunting" 	"tiger! tiger!" 	"rikki-tikki-tavi" 	the second jungle book ( ) 	"letting in the jungle" 	"red dog" 	all the mowgli stories (c. ) 	the seven seas ( , poetry) 	the day's work ( ) 	stalky & co. 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non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 edward fitzgerald (poet) - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	edward fitzgerald (poet) 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 	edward fitzgerald 	edward fitzgerald by eva rivett-carnac (after a photograph of ) 	born	( - - ) march bredfield house, bredfield, woodbridge, suffolk, england, uk 	died	 june ( - - ) (aged  ) merton, norfolk, england, uk 	occupation	poet, writer 	notable works	english translation of the rubaiyat of omar khayyam 	 	signature	 edward fitzgerald or fitzgerald[ ] ( march – june ) was an english poet and writer. his most famous poem is the first and best known english translation of the rubaiyat of omar khayyam, which has kept its reputation and popularity since the s. contents 	 life 	 early literary work 	 personal life 	 the rubáiyát 	 . parodies 	 see also 	 notes 	 bibliography, biographies 	 further reading 	 external links life[edit] edward fitzgerald was born edward purcell at bredfield house in bredfield, some miles north of woodbridge, suffolk, england, in . in , his father, john purcell, assumed the name and arms of his wife's family, the fitzgeralds.[ ] his elder brother john used the surname purcell-fitzgerald from .[ ] the change of family name occurred shortly after fitzgerald's mother inherited her second fortune. she had previously inherited over half a million pounds from an aunt, but in , her father died and left her considerably more than that. the fitzgeralds were one of the wealthiest families in england. edward fitzgerald later commented that all of his relatives were mad; further, that he was insane as well, but was at least aware of the fact.[ ] in , the family moved to france, and lived in st germain as well as paris, but in , after the death of his maternal grandfather, the family had to return to england. in , edward was sent to king edward vi school, bury st edmunds. in , he went on to trinity college, cambridge.[ ] he became acquainted with william makepeace thackeray and william hepworth thompson.[ ] though he had many friends who were members of the cambridge apostles, most notably alfred tennyson, fitzgerald himself was never offered an invitation to this famous group.[citation needed] in , fitzgerald left for paris, but in was living in a farmhouse on the battlefield of naseby.[ ] needing no employment, fitzgerald moved to his native suffolk, where he lived quietly, never leaving the county for more than a week or two while he resided there. until , the fitzgeralds lived in wherstead, then moved until to a cottage in the grounds of boulge hall, near woodbridge, to which his parents had moved. in , he again moved with his family to farlingay hall, where they stayed until in . their final move was to woodbridge itself, where fitzgerald resided at his own house close by, called little grange. during most of this time, fitzgerald was preoccupied with flowers, music and literature. friends like tennyson and thackeray had surpassed him in the field of literature, and for a long time fitzgerald showed no intention of emulating their literary success. in , he published his first book, euphranor, a platonic dialogue, born of memories of the old happy life in cambridge. this was followed in by the publication of polonius, a collection of "saws and modern instances," some of them his own, the rest borrowed from the less familiar english classics. fitzgerald began the study of spanish poetry in at elmsett, followed by persian literature at the university of oxford with professor edward byles cowell in .[ ] fitzgerald married lucy, daughter of the quaker poet bernard barton, in chichester on november , after a death-bed promise to bernard made in to look after her. the marriage was unhappy and the couple separated after only a few months,[ ] despite having known each other for many years, including collaborating on a book about her father's works in . early literary work[edit] in , fitzgerald issued six dramas of calderon, freely translated.[ ] he then turned to oriental studies, and in published anonymously a version of the salámán and absál of jami in miltonic verse. in march , cowell discovered a set of persian quatrains by omar khayyám in the asiatic society library, calcutta, and sent them to fitzgerald. at the time, the name with which fitzgerald has been so closely identified first occurs in his correspondence: "hafiz and omar khayyam ring like true metal." on january , an anonymous pamphlet appeared as the rubaiyat of omar khayyam. in the world at large and the circle of fitzgerald's close friends, the poem seems at first to have attracted no attention. the publisher allowed it to gravitate to a fourpenny or even (as he afterwards boasted) to a penny box on the bookstalls.[ ] grave of edward fitzgerald in boulge churchyard[ ] however, it was discovered in by rossetti and soon after by swinburne and lord houghton. the rubaiyat slowly became famous, but it was not until that fitzgerald was encouraged to print a second, greatly revised edition of it. he had produced in a version of the agamemnon, and two more plays from calderón. in – , he privately issued translations of the two oedipus tragedies. his last publication was readings in crabbe, . he left in manuscript a version of attar of nishapur's mantic-uttair.[ ] this last translation fitzgerald called "a bird's-eye view of the bird parliament", whittling the persian original (some lines) down to a more manageable lines in english. some have called this translation a virtually unknown masterpiece.[ ] from onwards, fitzgerald's greatest interest had been in the sea. in june he bought a yacht, "the scandal", and in he became part-owner of a herring lugger, the meum and tuum ("mine and thine"). for some years up to , he spent his summers "knocking about somewhere outside of lowestoft." he died in his sleep in and was buried in the graveyard at st michael's church in boulge, suffolk. he was in his own words "an idle fellow, but one whose friendships were more like loves." in his fame was enhanced by tennyson's dedication of his tiresias to fitzgerald's memory, in some reminiscent verses to "old fitz."[ ] personal life[edit] little was known of fitzgerald personally until his close friend and literary executor w. aldis wright, published his three-volume letters and literary remains in and the letters to fanny kemble in . these letters reveal that fitzgerald was a witty, picturesque, and sympathetic letter writer.[ ] the late th-century english novelist george gissing found them interesting enough to read the three-volume collection twice, in and . this included some of fitzgerald's letters to fanny kemble. gissing also read the volume of letters in december of that year.[ ] fitzgerald was unobtrusive personally, but in the s, his distinctive individuality gradually gained a broad influence over english belles-lettres.[ ] fitzgerald's emotional life was complex. he was extremely close to many friends, among them william browne, who was when they met. browne's tragically early death in a horse-riding accident was a catastrophe for fitzgerald. later, fitzgerald became close to a fisherman named joseph fletcher, with whom he had bought a herring boat.[ ] while it appears there are no contemporary sources on the matter, a number of present-day academics and journalists believe fitzgerald to have been a homosexual.[ ] with professor daniel karlin writing in his introduction to the edition of rubáiyát of omar khayyám that "his [fitzgerald] homoerotic feelings (...) were probably unclear to him, at least in the form conveyed by our word 'gay'",[ ] it is unclear whether fitzgerald himself ever identified himself as a homosexual or acknowledged himself to be one. fitzgerald grew disenchanted with christianity and eventually ceased to attend church.[ ] this drew the attention of the local pastor, who stopped by. fitzgerald reportedly told him that his decision to absent himself was the fruit of long and hard meditation. when the pastor protested, fitzgerald showed him the door and said, "sir, you might have conceived that a man does not come to my years of life without thinking much of these things. i believe i may say that i have reflected [on] them fully as much as yourself. you need not repeat this visit."[ ] the book edward fitzgerald and "posh": herring merchants (including letters from e. fitzgerald to j. fletcher) recounts the friendship of fitzgerald with joseph fletcher (born june ), nicknamed "posh", who was still living when james blyth started researching for the book.[ ] posh is also often present in fitzgerald's letters. documentary data about the fitzgerald–posh partnership are available at the port of lowestoft research society. posh died at mutford union workhouse, near lowestoft, on september , at the age of .[ ] fitzgerald was termed "almost vegetarian", as he ate meat only in other people's houses.[ ] his biographer thomas wright noted that "though never a strict vegetarian, his diet was mainly bread and fruit."[ ] several years before his death, fitzgerald said of his diet, "tea, pure and simple, with bread-and-butter, is the only meal i do care to join in."[ ] the rubáiyát[edit] beginning in , fitzgerald authorized four editions ( , , and ) and there was a fifth posthumous edition ( ) of his translation of the rubáiyát of omar khayyám (persian: رباعیات عمر خیام‎). three (the first, second, and fifth) differ significantly; the second and third are almost identical, as are the fourth and fifth. the first and fifth are reprinted almost equally often,[ ][ ] and equally often anthologized.[ ] a book of verses underneath the bough, a jug of wine, a loaf of bread – and thou beside me singing in the wilderness – oh, wilderness were paradise enow! title page from the first american edition of fitzgerald's translation, stanza xi above, from the fifth edition, differs from the corresponding stanza in the first edition, wherein it reads: "here with a loaf of bread beneath the bough/a flask of wine, a book of verse – and thou". other differences are discernible. stanza xlix is more well known in its incarnation in the first edition ( ): 'tis all a chequer-board of nights and days where destiny with men for pieces plays: hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays, and one by one back in the closet lays. the fifth edition ( ) of stanza lxix, with different numbering, is less familiar: "but helpless pieces of the game he plays/upon this chequer-board of nights and days;/hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays,/and one by one back in the closet lays." fitzgerald's translation of the rubáiyát is notable for being a work to which allusions are both frequent and ubiquitous.[ ] it remains popular, but enjoyed its greatest popularity for a century following its publication, wherein it formed part of the wider english literary canon.[ ] one indicator of the popular status of the rubáiyát is that, of the stanzas in the poem's fifth edition, the oxford dictionary of quotations ( nd edition) quotes no less than entire stanzas in full, in addition to many individual lines and couplets. stanza li, also well-known, runs: the moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on; nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it. lines and phrases from the poem have been used as the titles of many literary works, among them nevil shute's the chequer board, james michener's the fires of spring and agatha christie's the moving finger. eugene o'neill's ah, wilderness alludes to the rubáiyát without making a direct quotation. allusions are frequent in the short stories of o. henry.[ ] saki's pseudonym makes reference to it. the popular song a cup of coffee, a sandwich, and you, by billy rose and al dubin, echoes the first of the stanzas quoted above. parodies[edit] fitzgerald's translations were popular in the century of their publication, also with humorists for the purpose of parody.[ ] 	the rubáiyát of ohow dryyam by j. l. duff utilises the original to create a satire commenting on prohibition. 	rubaiyat of a persian kitten by oliver herford, published in , is the illustrated story of a kitten in parody of the original verses. 	the rubaiyat of omar cayenne by gelett burgess ( – ) was a condemnation of the writing and publishing business. 	the rubaiyat of omar khayyam, jr. ( ) by wallace irwin purports to be a translation from "mango-bornese" chronicling the adventures of omar khayyam's son "omar junior" – unmentioned in the original – who has emigrated from persia to borneo. 	astrophysicist arthur eddington wrote a parody about his famous experiment to test albert einstein's general theory of relativity by observing a solar eclipse. 	the new rubaiyat: omar khayyam reincarnated by "ame perdue" (pen name of w.j. carroll) was published in melbourne in . it revisits the plaints of the original text with references to modern science, technology and industry. see also[edit] 	translation § history notes[edit] 	^ his name is seen written as both fitzgerald and fitzgerald. the use here of fitzgerald conforms to that of his own publications, anthologies such as quiller-couch's oxford book of english verse, and most reference books until about the s. 	^ a b c d e f g  one or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: gosse, edmund ( ). "edward fitzgerald". in chisholm, hugh (ed.). encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. p.  . 	^ "fitzgerald (formerly purcell), john (ftst j)". a cambridge alumni database. university of cambridge. 	^ caufield, catherine ( ). the emperor of the united states and other magnificent british eccentrics. routledge and kegan paul. p.  . isbn  - - - . 	^ "edward fitzgerald (ftst e)". a cambridge alumni database. university of cambridge. 	^ a b c "edward fitzgerald", poem hunter 	^ historic england. "details from listed building database ( )". national heritage list for england. 	^ briggs, a. d. p. ( ). the rubaiyat and the bird parliament. everyman's poetry. 	^ joseph sendry ( ) "edward fitzgerald", in william e. fredeman and ira b. nadel, eds ( ) dictionary of literary biography, volume : victorian poets before gale research company, detroit, michigan, pp. – , isbn  - - - 	^ pierre coustillas, ed., london and the life of literature in late victorian england: the diary of george gissing, novelist. brighton: harvester press, , pp. , , and . 	^ a b c d staff ( april ) "two centenaries" new york times: saturday review of books p. br- 	^ "from persia to tyneside and the door of darkness". the independent. november . retrieved july . 	^ omar khayyam ( ). rubáiyát of omar khayyám. fitzgerald, edward, - , karlin, daniel, -. oxford: oxford university press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . oclc  . 	^ a b plomer, william ( ). electric delights. david r. godine. p.  . isbn  - - -x. 	^ blyth, james ( ). edward fitzgerald and 'posh', 'herring merchants' including letters from e. fitzgerald to j. fletcher. 	^ fitzgerald, edward ( ). the letters of edward fitzgerald, volume : – . princeton university press. p.  . isbn  . 	^ "an old man in a dry month": a brief life of edward fitzgerald ( – )". the victorian web. 	^ thomas wright, the life of edward fitzgerald. new york, , p. . 	^ john glyde, the life of edward fitz-gerald, by john glyde. chicago. p. . 	^ christopher decker, ed., "introduction: postscript" edward fitzgerald, rubáiyát of omar khayyám: a critical edition university press of virginia, charlottesville, virginia, page xlv, . isbn  - - - 	^ stanley appelbaum, (editor) ( ) "note" rubaiyat of omar khayyam dover publications, mineola, new york, back cover, isbn  - - -x 	^ frederick a. manchester and william f. giese, eds, harper's anthology for college courses in composition and literature harper & brothers, new york, vol. , , p. , oclc worldcat.org. 	^ victoria blake, ed., "notes" selected stories of o. henry barnes & noble books, new york, pp. and , . isbn  - - - bibliography, biographies[edit] 	the works of edward fitzgerald appeared in . 	see also a chronological list of fitzgerald's works (caxton club, chicago, ). 	notes for a bibliography by col. w. f. prideaux, in notes and queries ( th series, vol. vl), published separately in 	letters and literary remains, ed. w. aldis wright, – 	'letters to fanny kemble', ed. william aldis wright 	life of edward fitzgerald, by thomas wright ( ) contains a bibliography, vol. ii. pp.  – , and a list of sources, vol. i. pp. xvi–xvii 	the volume on fitzgerald in the "english men of letters" series is by a. c. benson. 	the fitzgerald centenary was marked in march . see the centenary celebrations souvenir (ipswich, ) and the times for march . 	today, the major source is robert bernard martin's biography, with friends possessed: a life of edward fitzgerald. 	a comprehensive four-volume collection of the letters of edward fitzgerald, edited by syracuse university english professor alfred m. terhune, was published in . further reading[edit] 	william axon, "omar" fitzgerald. good health ( ), , pp. – 	harold bloom, modern critical interpretations philadelphia, 	jorge borges, "the enigma of edward fitzgerald," selected non-fictions, penguin, . isbn  - - - 	robert douglas-fairhurst, victorian afterlives: the shaping of influence in nineteenth-century literature. oxford: oxford university press, 	garnett, richard; gosse, edmund ( ). english literature. . new york: grosset & dunlap. 	francis hindes groome; edward fitzgerald ( ). edward fitzgerald. portland, maine: thomas b. mosher. edward fitzgerald 	gary sloan, great minds, "the rubáiyát of edward fitzomar", free inquiry, winter / – volume , no. external links[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to edward fitzgerald (poet). 		wikisource has original works written by or about: edward fitzgerald 		wikisource has the text of the encyclopædia britannica article fitzgerald, edward. 		wikiquote has quotations related to: edward fitzgerald (poet) 	works by edward fitzgerald at project gutenberg 	works by edward fitzgerald (translator) at faded page (canada) 	works by or about edward fitzgerald at internet archive 	works by edward fitzgerald at librivox (public domain audiobooks) 	encyclopedia iranica, "fitzgerald edward" by dick davis 	bird parliament by edward fitzgerald 	parodies of the rubaiyat – several parodies of the rubaiyat are included, with artwork and comparisons to the fitzgerald translation. 	rubáiyát of omar khayyam. rendered into english verse by edward fitzgerald. complete edition showing variants in the five original printings. new york: thomas y. crowell, 	edward fitzgerald collection. general collection, beinecke rare book and manuscript library. 		v 	t 	e the barton/hack family tree 		 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (april ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) 														mary done ( – )		john barton ( – )						elizabeth horne ( – ) 								 																													 										 				lucy jesup ( – )		bernard barton ( – )						maria hack ( – )		stephen hack ( – )		john barton ( – ) 				 																																 															 		edward fitzgerald ( – )		lucy barton ( – )		bridget watson ( – )		john barton hack ( – )		stephen hack		elizabeth marsh wilton ( - )		thomas sandon hack ( – ) 					 																								 												theodore hack ( – )						wilton hack ( – )	 	notes 	references: 	"thomas sandon hack: architect of southampton, - " (pdf). southampton.gov.uk. 	"edward fitzgerald (poet)". oxford dictionary of national biography (online ed.). oxford university press. doi: . /ref:odnb/ . (subscription or uk public library membership required.) 	"bernard barton". oxford dictionary of national biography (online ed.). oxford university press. doi: . /ref:odnb/ . 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additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 lictor - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	lictor 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 gold coin from dacia, minted by coson, depicting a consul and two lictors a lictor (possibly from latin: ligare, "to bind") was a roman civil servant who was an attendant and bodyguard to a magistrate who held imperium. lictors are documented since the roman kingdom, and may have originated with the etruscans.[ ] contents 	 origin 	 eligibility 	 tasks 	 lictor curiatus 	 see also 	 references 	 external links origin[edit] a fasces was the symbol of a lictor the lictors were instituted by rome's first king, romulus, who appointed lictors to attend him. livy refers to two competing traditions for the reason that romulus chose that number of lictors. the first version is that was the number of birds that appeared in the augury, which had portended the kingdom to romulus. the second version, favoured by livy, is that the number of lictors was borrowed from the etruscan kings, who had one lictor appointed from each of their states.[ ] eligibility[edit] 	ancient rome 	 	this article is part of a series on the politics and government of ancient rome 	 periods 	 	roman kingdom – bc 	roman republic – bc 	roman empire bc – ad 	principate bc – ad 	dominate ad – 	western ad – 	eastern ad – 	timeline 	 roman constitution 	 	constitution of the kingdom 	constitution of the republic 	constitution of the empire 	constitution of the late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	executive magistrates 	 precedent and law 	 	roman law 	ius 	imperium 	mos maiorum 	collegiality 	auctoritas 	roman citizenship 	cursus honorum 	senatus consultum 	senatus consultum ultimum 	 assemblies 	 	centuriate 	curiate 	plebeian 	tribal 	 ordinary magistrates 	 	consul 	praetor 	quaestor 	promagistrate 	aedile 	tribune 	censor 	governor 	 extraordinary magistrates 	 	corrector 	dictator 	magister equitum 	consular tribune 	rex 	triumviri 	decemviri 	 titles and honours 	 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	praeses 	praefectus 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 	 	other countries 		v 	t 	e originally, lictors were chosen from the plebs, but through most of roman history, they seemed to have been freedmen. centurions from the legions were also automatically eligible to become lictors on retirement from the army.[ ] they were, however, definitely roman citizens, since they wore togas inside rome. a lictor had to be a strongly built man, capable of physical work. lictors were exempted from military service, received a fixed salary (of sesterces, in the beginning of the empire), and were organized in a corporation. usually, they were personally chosen by the magistrate they were supposed to serve, but it is also possible that they were drawn by lots. lictors were associated with comitia curiata and, probably, one was originally selected from each curia, since there were originally curiae and lictors ( for the two consuls and six for the sole praetor). tasks[edit] the lictor's main task was to attend as bodyguards to magistrates who held imperium. they carried rods decorated with fasces and, outside the pomerium, with axes that symbolized the power to carry out capital punishment. dictatorial lictors had axes even within the pomerium. they followed the magistrate wherever he went, including the forum, his house, temples, and the baths. lictors were organized in an ordered line before him, with the primus lictor (the principal lictor) directly in front of him, waiting for orders. if there was a crowd, the lictors opened the way and kept their master safe, pushing all aside except for roman matrons, who were accorded special honor. they also had to stand beside the magistrate whenever he addressed the crowd. magistrates could only dispense with their lictors if they were visiting a free city or addressing a higher status magistrate. lictors also had legal and penal duties; they could, at their master's command, arrest roman citizens and punish them. a vestal virgin was accorded a lictor when her presence was required at a public ceremony. the degree of magistrate's imperium was symbolised by the number of lictors escorting him: 	dictator: lictors outside the pomerium, inside. the latter rule was ignored beginning with the dictatorship of sulla 	emperor: originally lictors, after domitian lictors 	rex and consul: lictors 	proconsul: lictors 	magister equitum: lictors 	praetor: lictors, within the pomerium 	propraetor and legatus: lictors 	curule aediles: lictors 	quaestor: lictors in the city of rome, but quaestors were permitted to have fasces in the provinces.[ ] 	judge: lictor sometimes, lictors were ascribed to private citizens on special occasions, such as funerals or political reunions, as a show of respect by the city. lictor curiatus[edit] the lictor curiatus (plural lictores curiati) was a special kind of lictor who did not carry rods or fasces and whose main tasks were religious. there were approximately of them, serving at the command of the pontifex maximus, the high priest of rome. they were present at sacrifices where they carried or guided sacrificial animals to the altars. vestal virgins, flamines (priests), and other high-ranking priests were entitled to be escorted and protected by lictores curiati. in the empire, women of the royal family were usually followed by two of this kind of lictor. the lictores curiati were also responsible to summon the comitia curiata (the public assembly) and to maintain order during its procedures. 	 			 			 head of libertas, and on the reverse a consul flanked by two lictors on a denarius 			 		 	 			 			 a lictor is sent to arrest publilius volero (the comic history of rome by gilbert abbott à beckett.) 			 		 see also[edit] 	cursus honorum 	praetorian guard references[edit] 	^ eastland stuart staveley, andrew lintott, oxford classical dictionary, march , doi: . /acrefore/ . . , s.v. 	^ livy. the history of rome by titus livius: books nine to twenty-six, trans. d. spillan and cyrus edmonds. york street, covent garden, london: henry g. bohn, . . 	^ the legions of rome, stephen dando-collins, pp , quercus (december ) 	^ william, smith ( ). 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wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 golden mean (philosophy) - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	golden mean (philosophy) 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		the golden mean or golden middle way is the desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of deficiency. it appeared in greek thought at least as early as the delphic maxim nothing to excess and emphasized in later aristotelian philosophy, [ ] for example, in the aristotelian view, courage is a virtue, but if taken to excess would manifest as recklessness, and, in deficiency, cowardice. contents 	 history 	 . western philosophy 	 . . crete 	 . . delphi 	 . . cleobulus 	 . . socrates 	 . . plato 	 . . aristotle 	 . eastern philosophy 	 . judaism 	 . christianity 	 . islam 	 . hinduism 	 . modernity 	 quotations 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 bibliography history[edit] western philosophy[edit] crete[edit] the earliest representation of this idea in culture is probably in the mythological cretan tale of daedalus and icarus. daedalus, a famous artist of his time, built feathered wings for himself and his son so that they might escape the clutches of king minos. daedalus warns his beloved son whom he loved so much to "fly the middle course", between the sea spray and the sun's heat. icarus did not heed his father; he flew up and up until the sun melted the wax off his wings. for not heeding the middle course, he fell into the sea and drowned. delphi[edit] another early elaboration is the doric saying carved on the front of the temple at delphi: "nothing in excess" ("meden agan"). cleobulus[edit] to cleobulus is attributed the maxim: mέτρον ἄριστον "moderation is best"[ ] socrates[edit] socrates teaches that a man must know "how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible."[ ] in education, socrates asks us to consider the effect of either an exclusive devotion to gymnastics or an exclusive devotion to music. it either "produced a temper of hardness and ferocity, (or) the other of softness and effeminacy."[citation needed] having both qualities, he believed, produces harmony; i.e., beauty and goodness.[citation needed] he additionally stresses the importance of mathematics in education for the understanding of beauty and truth.[citation needed] plato[edit] proportion's relation to beauty and goodness is stressed throughout plato's dialogues, particularly in the republic and philebus. he writes: socrates: that any kind of mixture that does not in some way or other possess measure of the nature of proportion will necessarily corrupt its ingredients and most of all itself. for there would be no blending in such a case at all but really an unconnected medley, the ruin of whatever happens to be contained in it. protarchus: very true. socrates: but now we notice that the force of the good has taken up refuge in an alliance with the nature of the beautiful. for measure and proportion manifest themselves in all areas of beauty and virtue. protarchus: undeniably. socrates: but we said that truth is also inclined along with them in our mixture? protarchus: indeed. socrates: well, then, if we cannot capture the good in one form, we will have to take hold of it in a conjunction of three: beauty, proportion and truth. let us affirm that these should by right be treated as a unity and be held responsible for what is in the mixture, for goodness is what makes the mixture good in itself. (phlb. d– a) in the laws, plato applies this principle to electing a government in the ideal state: "conducted in this way, the election will strike a mean between monarchy and democracy …" aristotle[edit] in the eudemian ethics, aristotle writes on the virtues. aristotle’s theory on virtue ethics is one that does not see a person’s actions as a reflection of their ethics but rather looks into the character of a person as the reason behind their ethics. his constant phrase is, "… is the middle state between …". his psychology of the soul and its virtues is based on the golden mean between the extremes. in the politics, aristotle criticizes the spartan polity by critiquing the disproportionate elements of the constitution; e.g., they trained the men and not the women, and they trained for war but not peace. this disharmony produced difficulties which he elaborates on in his work. see also the discussion in the nicomachean ethics of the golden mean, and aristotelian ethics in general. eastern philosophy[edit] gautama buddha (fl. th century bc) taught of the middle way, a path between the extremes of religious asceticism and worldly self-indulgence. confucius in the analects,[ ] written through the warring states period of ancient china (c. bc – bc), taught excess is similar to deficiency. a way of living in the mean is the way of zhongyong. zhuangzi was the tao's most famous commentator ( – bc).[ ] tiruvalluvar ( nd century bc and the th century ad; date disputed) in his tirukkural of the sangam period of tamizhagam writes of the middle state which is to preserve equity. he emphasises this principle and suggests that the two ways of preserving equity is to be impartial and avoid excess. parimelazhagar was the historical commentator of the tirukkural. judaism[edit] main article: golden mean (judaism) rambam in mishneh torah attributes this method to the first scholars (chazal), and to abraham. indeed, a similar concept exists even in the rabbinic literature, tosefta and the yerushalmi. yitzhak arama finds references even in the bible. one such instance is eccl. : - , where the preacher admonishes his audience to "be not righteous over much" and to "be not over much wicked." adam clarke takes the phrase "righteous over much" to mean indulging in too much "austerity and hard study," [ ] and concludes that “there is no need of all this watching, fasting, praying, self-denial, etc., you carry things to extremes. why should you wish to be reputed singular and precise?” [ ] thus, the ideal of the golden mean may have existed as long as six hundred years before aristotle. however, some scholars, such as albert barnes, hold a slightly different interpretation of ecclesiastes : - .[ ] ahead of the times rambam, - ad (probably due to plato's and aristotle’s engagement with ethics), determined that a person has to take care of his soul as well as his body, and just as a person who is sick in his body turns to the doctor, a person who has mental illness needs to go to the doctor of the soul, which is, according to him, the philosopher or the sage. rambam opposed the deterministic approach, arguing that a person has free will and the ability to change its properties. christianity[edit] saint thomas aquinas, op, the medieval catholic philosopher and theologian, in his summa theologiae, prima secundæ partis, question , argued that christian morality is consistent with the mean: "evil consists in discordance from their rule or measure. now this may happen either by their exceeding the measure or by their falling short of it[.] ... therefore it is evident that moral virtue observes the mean." islam[edit] islam promotes the golden mean in many instances. the quran states an example in finance, in that a person should not spend all he makes as not to be caught needing, and not to be stingy as to not live a comfortable life. muhammad also had a saying "خير الأمور أوسطها" meaning the best choice is the middle ground/golden mean one. in quran (chapter 'the cow', verse number ) it is said that, "we have made you a balanced, moderate nation". quran quotes the example of two groups of people, calling one of them extremely greedy (chasing the wealth of the world) in chapter 'the cow' verse and to the others as inventors of monasticism (over-zealousness in religion) in chapter al-hadeed verse number . islam councils its followers to abstain from both these paths of extremities and adopt moderation in chasing the world and practicing religion alike. not the least the quran emphasises that the muslim community ( umma) is a ’middle nation’ / a 'just community' / an umma justly balanced / a moderate nation / a midmost nation (ummatan wasatan) in verse - : a middle between extremism and sloppiness. hinduism[edit] many hindu texts emphasize middle path. for example in verse : of gita warrior arjuna is told by sri krishna that "yoga is not for one who eats too much, or eats too little, sleeps too much or does not sleep enough. modernity[edit] jacques maritain, throughout his introduction to philosophy ( ),[ ] uses the idea of the golden mean to place aristotelian-thomist philosophy between the deficiencies and extremes of other philosophers and systems. quotations[edit] 	 	this section does not cite any sources. please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (may ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) 	"in many things the middle have the best / be mine a middle station." — phocylides 	"when coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature,—or, more exactly, in the variety of our experience. poetry, painting, the arts are the same search, in coleridge’s phrase, for unity in variety." — jacob bronowski 	"…but for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following." — henri poincaré. 	"if a man finds that his nature tends or is disposed to one of these extremes..., he should turn back and improve, so as to walk in the way of good people, which is the right way. the right way is the mean in each group of dispositions common to humanity; namely, that disposition which is equally distant from the two extremes in its class, not being nearer to the one than to the other." — maimonides 	"what is wanted is a balance between extravagance and miserliness through moderation, with the goal of distance between both extremes." — al-ghazali see also[edit] 	frugality 	centrism 	neutrality 	argument to moderation (logical fallacy) 	averageness 	doctrine of the mean (confucian analog) 	golden ratio (golden mean applied to aesthetics, mathematics, geometry) 	mathematical optimization 	goldilocks principle 	sweet spot 	horseshoe theory 	middle way (buddhist analog) 	third way 	molinism (middle knowledge) 	welfare in sweden 	sweden: the middle way 	lagom notes[edit] 	^ aristotle, nicomachean ethics ii. 	^ "diogenes laertius, lives of eminent philosophers, book i, chapter cleobulus (c b.c.)". retrieved august . 	^ plato, republic . a 	^ confucius ( ). the analects. filiquarian publishing, llc. isbn  - - - - . 	^ watts, alan with huan, al chungliang ( ). tao: the watercourse way. pantheon books. isbn  - - - .cs maint: multiple names: authors list (link) 	^ clarke, adam (n.d.). 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the voyage from africa is described in his poem hodoeporicum (now lost[ ]). there, he associated in the imperial circle with the administrator and polemicist sossianus hierocles and the pagan philosopher porphyry; he first met constantine, and galerius, whom he cast as villain in the persecutions.[ ] having converted to christianity, he resigned his post[ ] before diocletian's purging of christians from his immediate staff and before the publication of diocletian's first "edict against the christians" (february , ).[ ] as a latin rhetor in a greek city, he subsequently lived in poverty according to saint jerome and eked out a living by writing until constantine i became his patron. the persecution forced him to leave nicomedia, perhaps re-locating to north africa. the emperor constantine appointed the elderly lactantius latin tutor to his son crispus in - who was probably - years old at the time.[ ] lactantius followed crispus to trier in , when crispus was made caesar (lesser co-emperor) and sent to the city. crispus was put to death by order of his father constantine i in , but when lactantius died and under what circumstances are unknown.[ ] writing[edit] like so many of the early christian authors, lactantius depended on classical models. the early humanists called him the "christian cicero" (cicero christianus).[ ] a translator of the divine institutes wrote: "lactantius has always held a very high place among the christian fathers, not only on account of the subject-matter of his writings, but also on account of the varied erudition, the sweetness of expression, and the grace and elegance of style, by which they are characterized."[ ] he wrote apologetic works explaining christianity in terms that would be palatable to educated people who still practiced the traditional religions of the empire. he defended christian beliefs against the criticisms of hellenistic philosophers. his divinae institutiones ("divine institutes") were an early example of a systematic presentation of christian thought. he was considered somewhat heretical after his death, but renaissance humanists took a renewed interest in him, more for his elaborately rhetorical latin style than for his theology. his works were copied in manuscript several times in the th century and were first printed in by the germans arnold pannartz and konrad sweynheim at the abbey of subiaco. this edition was the first book printed in italy to have a date of printing, as well as the first use of a greek alphabet font anywhere, which was apparently produced in the course of printing, as the early pages leave greek text blank. it was probably the fourth book ever printed in italy. a copy of this edition was sold at auction in for more than $ million.[ ] prophetic exegesis[edit] beginning of lactantius’ divinae institutiones in a renaissance manuscript written in florence ca. – by guglielmino tanaglia like many writers in the first few centuries of the early church, lactantius took a premillennialist view, holding that the second coming of christ will precede a millennium or a thousand-year reign of christ on earth. according to charles e. hill, "with lactantius in the early fourth century we see a determined attempt to revive a more “genuine” form of chiliasm."[ ] lactantius quoted the sibyls extensively (although the sibylline oracles are now considered to be pseudepigrapha). book vii of the divine institutes indicates a familiarity with jewish, christian, egyptian and iranian apocalyptic material.[ ] none of the fathers thus far had been more verbose on the subject of the millennial kingdom than lactantius or more particular in describing the times and events preceding and following. he held to the literalist interpretation of the millennium, that the millennium originates with the second advent of christ and marks the destruction of the wicked, the binding of the devil and the raising of the righteous dead.[ ] he depicted jesus reigning with the resurrected righteous on this earth during the seventh thousand years prior to the general judgment. in the end, the devil, having been bound during the thousand years, is loosed; the enslaved nations rebel against the righteous, who hide underground until the hosts, attacking the holy city, are overwhelmed by fire and brimstone and mutual slaughter and buried altogether by an earthquake: rather unnecessarily, it would seem, since the wicked are thereupon raised again to be sent into eternal punishment. next, god renews the earth, after the punishment of the wicked, and the lord alone is thenceforth worshiped in the renovated earth.[ ] lactantius confidently stated that the beginning of the end would be the fall, or breakup, of the roman empire.[ ] however, this view fell out of favor with the conversion of constantine and the improved lot of christians: "many christians felt that any expectation of the downfall of the empire was as disloyal to god as it was to rome."[ ] attempts to determine the time of the end were viewed as in contradiction to acts : : "it is not for you to know the times or seasons that the father has established by his own authority,"[ ] and mark : : "but of that day or hour, no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the son, but only the father." works[edit] 	de opificio dei ("the works of god"), an apologetic work, written in or during diocletian's persecution and dedicated to a former pupil, a rich christian named demetrianius. the apologetic principles underlying all the works of lactantius are well set forth in this treatise.[ ] 	institutiones divinae ("the divine institutes"), written between and .[ ] this is the most important of the writings of lactantius. it was "one of the first books printed in italy and the first dated italian imprint."[ ] as an apologetic treatise, it was intended to point out the futility of pagan beliefs and to establish the reasonableness and truth of christianity as a response to pagan critics. it was also the first attempt at a systematic exposition of christian theology in latin and was planned on a scale sufficiently broad to silence all opponents.[ ] patrick healy notes, "the strengths and the weakness of lactantius are nowhere better shown than in his work. the beauty of the style, the choice and aptness of the terminology, cannot hide the author's lack of grasp on christian principles and his almost utter ignorance of scripture."[ ] included in this treatise is a quote from the nineteenth of the odes of solomon, one of only two known texts of the odes until the early twentieth century.[ ] however, his mockery of the idea of a round earth[ ] was criticised by copernicus as "childish".[ ] page from the opera, a manuscript from , featuring various colours of pen-work 	an epitome of the divine institutes is a summary treatment of the subject.[ ] 	de ira dei ("on the wrath of god" or "on the anger of god"), directed against the stoics and epicureans.[ ] 	de mortibus persecutorum ("on the deaths of the persecutors") has an apologetic character but has been treated as a work of history by christian writers. the point of the work is to describe the deaths of the persecutors of christians before lactantius (nero, domitian, decius, valerian, aurelian) and the contemporaries of lactantius himself: diocletian, maximian, galerius, maximinus. this work is taken as a chronicle of the last and greatest of the persecutions in spite of the moral point that each anecdote has been arranged to tell. here, lactantius preserves the story of constantine's vision of the chi rho before his conversion to christianity. the full text is found in only one manuscript, which bears the title lucii caecilii liber ad donatum confessorem de mortibus persecutorum.[ ] 	widely attributed to lactantius although it shows only cryptic signs of christianity, the poem the phoenix (de ave phoenice) tells the story of the death and rebirth of that mythical bird. that poem in turn appears to have been the principal source for the famous old english poem to which the modern title the phoenix is given. 	opera ("works") a second edition printed in the monastery at subiaco, lazio, is still extant. it remained in italy until the late eighteenth century, when it was known to be in the library of prince vincenzo maria carafa in messina. the bodleian library in oxford, england, acquired this volume in .[ ] see also[edit] 	problem of evil references[edit] 	^ his role is examined in detail in elizabeth depalma digeser, the making of a christian empire: lactantius and rome, ithaca: cornell university press, . 	^ white, carolinne. early christian latin poets. 	^ serralda, vincent; 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(october ) 	ancient rome 	 	this article is part of a series on the politics and government of ancient rome 	 periods 	 	roman kingdom – bc 	roman republic – bc 	roman empire bc – ad 	principate bc – ad 	dominate ad – 	western ad – 	eastern ad – 	timeline 	 roman constitution 	 	constitution of the kingdom 	constitution of the republic 	constitution of the empire 	constitution of the late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	executive magistrates 	 precedent and law 	 	roman law 	ius 	imperium 	mos maiorum 	collegiality 	auctoritas 	roman citizenship 	cursus honorum 	senatus consultum 	senatus consultum ultimum 	 assemblies 	 	centuriate 	curiate 	plebeian 	tribal 	 ordinary magistrates 	 	consul 	praetor 	quaestor 	promagistrate 	aedile 	tribune 	censor 	governor 	 extraordinary magistrates 	 	corrector 	dictator 	magister equitum 	consular tribune 	rex 	triumviri 	decemviri 	 titles and honours 	 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	praeses 	praefectus 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 	 	other countries 		v 	t 	e a legatus (anglicised as legate) was a high-ranking roman military officer in the roman army, equivalent to a modern high-ranking general officer. initially used to delegate power, the term became formalised under augustus as the officer in command of a legion. from the times of the roman republic, legates received large shares of the military's rewards at the end of a successful campaign. this made the position a lucrative one, so it could often attract even distinguished consuls or other high-ranking political figures within roman politics (e.g., the consul lucius julius caesar volunteered late in the gallic wars as a legate under his first cousin once removed, gaius julius caesar). contents 	 overview 	 diplomatic legatus 	 see also 	 references overview[edit] a legatus held full power over his legion. consul militaris held control of all legions under the emperor, who held entire control of rome during the time of the roman empire. after the roman republic, all control from the senate shifted to the emperor, making him the most powerful person in rome. the legatus legionis would delegate duties to his command staff, who would then carry out his orders. a legatus was one of the most respected military ranks in rome. the men who filled the office of legate were drawn from among the senatorial class of rome. there were two main positions; the legatus legionis was an ex-praetor given command of one of rome's elite legions,[ ] while the legatus pro praetore was an ex-consul given the governorship of a roman province, with the magisterial powers of a praetor, which in some cases included command of four or more legions. a legatus was entitled to twelve lictors, who carried out punishments with fasces (bundled rods). by the time of the roman republic, the term legatus was applied to those holding delegated authority (usually a consul or proconsul). julius caesar made wide use of the title throughout the gallic wars.[ ] from augustus, the emperor gave the title of legatus legionis to senior commanders (former military tribunes) of a legion, except in egypt and mesopotamia, where the legions were commanded by a praefectus legionis of an equestrian rank. the legatus legionis was under the supreme command of a legatus augusti pro praetore of senatorial rank. if the province was defended by a single legion, the legatus augusti pro praetor was also in direct command of the legion. this post was generally appointed by the emperor. the person chosen for this rank was a former tribune, and although the emperor augustus set a maximum term of command of two years for a legatus, subsequent emperors extended the tenure to three or four years (although the incumbent could serve for a much longer period). in a province with only one legion, the legatus served as the provincial governor, while in provinces with multiple legions each legion had a legatus and a separate provincial governor who had overall command. the legatus could be distinguished in the field by his elaborate helmet and body armour, as well as a scarlet paludamentum (cloak) and cincticulus (a waist-band tied around the waist in a bow). a legatus legionis could order capital punishment.[ ] the senatorial legatus legionis was removed from the roman army by gallienus, who preferred to entrust the command of a legionary unit to a leader chosen from within the equestrian order who had a long military career. diplomatic legatus[edit] legatus was also a term for an ambassador of the roman republic who was appointed by the senate for a mission (legatio) to a foreign nation, as well as for ambassadors who came to rome from other countries.[ ] the concept remains today as a diplomatic legation. see also[edit] 	ancient rome portal 	war portal 	list of roman army unit types 	centurion references[edit] 	^ "the roman army archived - - at the wayback machine". 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wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		leptis magna	the arch of septimius severus in leptis magna 	 shown within libya 	alternative name	lepcis magna, neapolis, lpqy 	location	khoms, libya 	region	tripolitania 	coordinates	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; . coordinates: ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; . 	type	settlement 	history 	founded	 th c. bc 	abandoned	 th c. ad 	periods	iron age to byzantine 	cultures	carthaginian libyco-berber roman 	 	 unesco world heritage site 	official name	archaeological site of leptis magna 	type	cultural 	criteria	i, ii, iii 	designated	 ( th session) 	reference no.	 	state party	libya 	region	north africa 	 	 leptis or lepcis magna, also known by other names in antiquity, was a prominent city of the carthaginian empire and roman libya at the mouth of the wadi lebda in the mediterranean. originally a th-century bc phoenician foundation, it was greatly expanded under roman emperor septimius severus (r.  – ), who was a native of the city. the rd augustan legion was stationed here to defend the city against berber incursions. after the legion's dissolution under gordian iii in , the city was increasingly open to raids in the later part of the rd century. diocletian reinstated the city as provincial capital, and it grew again in prosperity until it fell to the vandals in . it was reincorporated into the eastern empire in but continued to be plagued by berber raids and never recovered its former importance. it fell to the muslim invasion in c.  and was subsequently abandoned. its ruins are within present-day khoms, libya,  km (  mi) east of tripoli. they are among the best-preserved roman sites in the mediterranean. contents 	 names 	 history 	 . phoenicians 	 . roman republic 	 . roman empire 	 . vandal kingdom 	 . byzantine empire 	 . islamic conquest 	 . excavation 	 gallery 	 see also 	 references 	 . citations 	 . bibliography 	 further reading 	 external links names[edit] the punic name of the settlement was written lpq (punic: 𐤋𐤐𐤒) or lpqy (𐤋𐤐𐤒𐤉).[ ][ ][ ] this has been tentatively connected to the semitic root (present in arabic) lfq, meaning "to build" or "to piece together", presumably in reference to the construction of the city.[ ] this name was hellenized as léptis (ancient greek: Λέπτις),[ ] also known as léptis megálē (Λέπτις μεγάλη, "greater leptis") distinguishing it from the "lesser leptis" closer to carthage in modern-day tunisia. it was also known by the greeks as neápolis (Νεάπολις, "new town"). the latinization of these names was lepcis or leptis magna ("greater leptis"), which also appeared as the "leptimagnese city" (latin: leptimagnensis civitas). the latin demonym was "leptitan" (leptitanus). it was also known as ulpia traiana as a roman colony.[ ] its italian name is lepti maggiore, and in arabic it is named labdah (لَبْدَة).[ ][ ] history[edit] map of leptis magna severan basilica angling in the st century ce. villa of the nile mosaic, leptis magna, tripoli national museum. phoenicians[edit] the phoenician city was founded in the second half of the th century bc. little is known about leptis during this time, but it appears to have been powerful enough to repel dorieus's attempt to establish a greek colony nearby around  bc.[ ] like most western phoenician settlements, leptis became part of the carthaginian empire and fell under rome's control with carthage's defeat in the punic wars. leptis remained highly independent for a period after about  bc. roman republic[edit] the roman republic sent some colonists together with a small garrison in order to control the city. the city prospered and was even allowed to coin its own money in silver and bronze. reflecting its blend of cultures, its coins bore punic inscriptions but images of hercules and dionysus.[ ] soon italian merchants settled in the city and started a profitable commerce with the libyan interior.[ ] the city depended primarily on the fertility of its surrounding farmland, where many olive-presses have been excavated. by  bc, its olive oil production was of such an extent that the city was able to provide three million pounds of oil annually to julius caesar as tax.[ ] roman empire[edit] kenneth d. matthews, jr. writes:[ ] during the reign of augustus, leptis magna was classified as a civitas libera et immunis, or a free community, over which the governor had an absolute minimum of control. as such leptis retain its two suphetes at the head of its government, with the mhzm, similar to the roman aediles, as minor magistrates. in addition there were such sacred officials as the ʾaddir ʾararim or praefectus sacrorum, the nēquim ēlīm, and probably a sacred college of fifteen members. leptis magna remained as such until the reign of the roman emperor tiberius, when the city and the surrounding area were formally incorporated into the empire as part of the province of africa. it soon became one of the leading cities of roman africa and a major trading post. the city grew rapidly under roman administration. during the reign of nero, an amphitheater was constructed. the settlement was elevated to municipium in ad or and to colonia under trajan (r.  – ) leptis achieved its greatest prominence beginning in ad  , as the hometown of emperor septimius severus. septimius favored his hometown above all other provincial cities, and the buildings and wealth he lavished on it made leptis magna the third-most important city in africa, rivaling carthage and alexandria. in ad  , he and the imperial family visited the city and bestowed great honors. among the changes that severus introduced were the creation of a magnificent new forum and the rebuilding of the docks. the natural harbor had a tendency to silt up, but the severan changes made this worse, and the eastern wharves are extremely well preserved, since they were scarcely used. leptis overextended itself during this period. during the crisis of the rd century, when trade declined precipitously, leptis magna's importance also fell into a decline, and by the middle of the th century, even before it was completely devastated by the tsunami, large parts of the city had been abandoned. ammianus marcellinus recounts that the crisis was worsened by a corrupt roman governor named romanus, who demanded bribes to protect the city during a major tribal raid. the ruined city could not pay these and complained to the emperor valentinian i. romanus then bribed people at court and arranged for the leptan envoys to be punished "for bringing false accusations". it enjoyed a minor renaissance beginning in the reign of the emperor theodosius i. vandal kingdom[edit] in , leptis magna and the rest of the cities of tripolitania fell under the control of the vandals when their king, gaiseric, captured carthage from the romans and made it his capital. unfortunately for the future of leptis magna, gaiseric ordered the city's walls demolished so as to dissuade its people from rebelling against vandal rule. the people of leptis and the vandals both paid a heavy price for this in ad  when a group of berber raiders sacked the city. byzantine empire[edit] belisarius, general of emperor justinian i of the byzantine empire, recaptured leptis magna in the name of the roman empire ten years later, and in / it was re-incorporated into the empire. leptis became a provincial capital of the eastern empire, but never recovered from the destruction wreaked upon it by the berbers. in , under the prefecture of sergius, the city came under intensified attack of berber tribes, and after some successes, sergius was reduced to retreating into the city, with the leuathae tribal confederation camped outside the gate demanding payments. sergius admitted eighty deputies into the city to present their demands, but when sergius moved to leave the conference he was detained by the robe by one deputy and crowded by others. this provoked an officer of the prefect's guard to kill the deputy laying hands on the prefect, which resulted in a general massacre. the berbers reacted with an all-out attack and sergius was eventually forced to abandon leptis and retreat to carthage.[ ] islamic conquest[edit] by the th century, the city was fully christianized.[ ][failed verification] during the decade – ad christian missionaries from leptis magna even began to move once more among the berber tribes as far south as the fezzan in the libyan desert and converted the garamantes.[ ] numerous new churches were built in the th century,[ ] but the city continued to decline, and by the time of the arab conquest around the city was mostly abandoned except for a byzantine garrison force and a population of less than , inhabitants. by the th century, the city of al-khums had fully absorbed it.[ ] excavation[edit] today, the site of leptis magna is the site of some of the most impressive ruins of the roman period. part of an ancient temple was brought from leptis magna to the british museum in and installed at the fort belvedere royal residence in england in . it now lies in part of windsor great park.[ ] the ruins are located between the south shore of virginia water and blacknest road close to the junction with the a london road and wentworth drive. theater when italians conquered italian libya in the early th century, they dedicated huge efforts to the rediscovery of leptis magna. in the early s italian archeological research was able to show again the buried remains of nearly all the city.[ ][page needed] a th to rd century bc necropolis was found under the roman theater. in june , it was revealed that archaeologists from the university of hamburg had been working along the coast of libya when they uncovered a ft length of five colorful mosaics created during the st or nd century. the mosaics show with exceptional clarity depictions of a warrior in combat with a deer, four young men wrestling a wild bull to the ground, and a gladiator resting in a state of fatigue and staring at his slain opponent. the mosaics decorated the walls of a cold plunge pool in a bath house within a roman villa at wadi lebda in leptis magna. the gladiator mosaic is noted by scholars as one of the finest examples of representational mosaic art ever seen—a "masterpiece comparable in quality with the alexander mosaic in pompeii." the mosaics were originally discovered in the year but were kept secret in order to avoid looting. they are currently on display in the leptis magna museum.[ ] there were reports that leptis magna was used as a cover for tanks and military vehicles by pro-gaddafi forces during the first libyan civil war in .[ ] when asked about the possibility of conducting an air-strike on the historic site, nato refused to rule out the possibility of such an action saying that it had not been able to confirm the rebels' report that weapons were being hidden at the location.[ ] shortly after the war, libyan archaeologist hafed walda reported that leptis magna, along with nearby rasaimergib fort and the western tripolis of sabratha, had "so far seen no visible loss" from either fighting on the ground or bombings conducted by international forces.[ ] in the midst of the second libyan civil war and the disappearance of governmental and international support for the site, people living in the area organized to voluntarily protect and maintain leptis magna.[ ][ ] gallery[edit] 	 			 			 columns (on the stage) 			 		 	 			 			 columns (on the stage) 			 		 	 			 			 ruins 			 		 	 			 			 small gate (western side) 			 		 	 			 			 theater 			 		 	 			 			 theater (side view) 			 		 	 			 			 amphitheater 			 		 	 			 			 marketplace 			 		 	 			 			 arch of septimius severus 			 		 	 			 			 some of leptis magna yet to be excavated 			 		 	 			 			 one of the entrances to the theater (external view) 			 		 	 			 			 view on leptis magna from the theater wall 			 		 	 			 			 street view (from arch of septimius severus arch to arch of trajan) 			 		 	 			 			 market place 			 		 	 			 			 market place 			 		 	 			 			 measure converter, market (founded or bc) (phoenician colony) 			 		 	 			 			 severan basilica, leptis magna nd century ad 			 		 	 			 			 stairs inside septimius severus basilica 			 		 	 			 			 decorative columns inside basilica of septimius severus 			 		 	 			 			 severan basilica 			 		 	 			 			 forum in leptis magna, nd century ad 			 		 see also[edit] 	ancient rome portal 	libya portal 	caesarea, numidia 	cirta 	lambaesis 	thysdrus 	timgad 	volubilis references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ ghaki ( ), p.  . 	^ a b c brogan & wilson ( ). 	^ a b c head ( ). 	^ lipiński ( ), p.  . 	^ strabo, geography, § . . . 	^ "لَبْدَة, libya". national geospatial-intelligence agency. june . archived from the original on - - – via geographic.org. 	^ leptis magna at the encyclopædia britannica 	^ bullo ( ), pp.  – . 	^ matthews ( ), p.  . 	^ beechey & beechey ( ), pp.  – . 	^ mommsen ( ), chapter xiii. the african provinces. 	^ 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( ). kenrick, philip (ed.). the severan buildings of lepcis magna: an architectural survey (pdf). society for libyan studies monograph, . with a contribution by barri jones and roger ling; architectural drawings prepared and edited by r. kronenburg. london: the society for libyan studies, on behalf of the department of antiquities, tripoli, splaj. isbn  . retrieved - - . external links[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to leptis magna. 	lepcis magna - the roman empire in africa, documenting the archaeological site and excavations undertaken in the s, including teams from king's college london and the ucl institute of archaeology 	lepcis magna article on livius.org 	lepcis (leptis) magna images, a gallery of photographs taken at the site in february 	neapolis/lepcis magna on pleiades, a collaborative scholarly gazetteer to the ancient world 		v 	t 	e world heritage sites in libya 	 	archaeological site of cyrene 	archaeological site of leptis magna 	archaeological site of 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lentulus spinther, depicting the crowned head of libertas, with a sacrificial jug and lituus on the reverse libertas (latin for 'liberty' or 'freedom', pronounced [liːˈbɛrt̪aːs̠]) is the roman goddess and personification of liberty. she became a politicised figure in the late republic, featured on coins supporting the populares faction, and later those of the assassins of julius caesar. nonetheless, she sometimes appears on coins from the imperial period, such as galba's "freedom of the people" coins during his short reign after the death of nero.[ ] she is usually portrayed with two accoutrements: the rod and the soft pileus, which she holds out, rather than wears. the greek equivalent of the goddess libertas is eleutheria, the personification of liberty. there are many post-classical depictions of liberty as a person which often retain some of the iconography of the roman goddess. contents 	 etymology 	 attributes 	 temples 	 post-classical 	 see also 	 references 	 . bibliography 	 external links etymology[edit] the name lībertās ('freedom') is a derivation from latin līber ('free'), stemming from proto-italic *leuþero, and ultimately from proto-indo-european *h₁leudʰero ('belonging to the people', hence 'free').[ ] attributes[edit] libertas was associated with the pileus, commonly worn by the freed slave:[ ] among the romans the cap of felt was the emblem of liberty. when a slave obtained his freedom he had his head shaved, and wore instead of his hair an undyed pileus (πίλεον λευκόν, diodorus siculus exc. leg. p , ed. wess.; plaut. amphit. i. . ; persius, v. ). hence the phrase servos ad pileum vocare is a summons to liberty, by which slaves were frequently called upon to take up arms with a promise of liberty (liv. xxiv. ). "the figure of liberty on some of the coins of antoninus pius, struck a.d. , holds this cap in the right hand".[ ] libertas was also recognized in ancient rome by the rod (vindicta or festuca),[ ] used ceremonially in the act of manumissio vindicta, latin for 'freedom by the rod' (emphasis added): the master brought his slave before the magistratus, and stated the grounds (causa) of the intended manumission. "the lictor of the magistratus laid a rod (festuca) on the head of the slave, accompanied with certain formal words, in which he declared that he was a free man ex jure quiritium", that is, "vindicavit in libertatem". the master in the meantime held the slave, and after he had pronounced the words "hunc hominem liberum volo," he turned him round (momento turbinis exit marcus dama, persius, sat. v. ) and let him go (emisit e manu, or misit manu, plaut. capt. ii. . ), whence the general name of the act of manumission. the magistratus then declared him to be free [...][ ] temples[edit] the roman republic was established simultaneously with the creation of libertas and is associated with the overthrow of the tarquin kings. she was worshiped by the junii, the family of marcus junius brutus.[ ] in bc, before the second punic war, tiberius sempronius gracchus built a temple to libertas on the aventine hill.[ ] census tables were stored inside the temple's atrium. a subsequent temple was built ( – bc) on palatine hill, another of the seven hills of rome, by publius clodius pulcher. by building and consecrating the temple on the site of the former house of then-exiled cicero, clodius ensured that the land was legally uninhabitable. upon his return, cicero successfully argued that the consecration was invalid and thus managed to reclaim the land and destroy the temple. in bc, the roman senate voted to build and dedicate a shrine to libertas in recognition of julius caesar, but no temple was built; instead, a small statue of the goddess stood in the roman forum.[ ] post-classical[edit] the statue of liberty (liberty enlightening the world) in new york derives from the ancient goddess libertas. the goddess libertas is also depicted on the great seal of france, created in . this is the image which later influenced french sculptor frederic-auguste bartholdi in the creation of his statue of liberty enlightening the world. libertas, along with other roman goddesses, has served as the inspiration for many modern-day personifications, including the statue of liberty on liberty island in the united states. according to the national park service, the statue's roman robe is the main feature that invokes libertas and the symbol of liberty from which the statue derives its name.[ ] in addition, money throughout history has borne the name or image of libertas. as "liberty", libertas was depicted on the obverse (heads side) of most coinage in the u.s. into the twentieth century – and the image is still used for the american gold eagle gold bullion coin. the university of north carolina records two instances of private banks in its state depicting libertas on their banknotes;[ ][ ] libertas is depicted on the , and rappen denomination coins of switzerland. the symbolic characters columbia who represents the united states and marianne, who represents france, the statue of liberty (liberty enlightening the world) in new york harbor, and many other characters and concepts of the modern age were created, and are seen, as embodiments of libertas. see also[edit] 	liber 	libera (mythology) a goddess in roman mythology 	liberty leading the people, painting references[edit] 	^ "roman coins" (pdf). archived from the original (pdf) on - - . retrieved - - . 	^ de vaan , p.  . 	^ a b tate, karen; olson, brad ( ). sacred places of goddess: destinations. ccc publishing. pp.  – . isbn  - - - . 	^ yates, james. entry "pileus" in william smith's a dictionary of greek and roman antiquities (john murray, london, ). 	^ long, george. entry "manumission" in william smith's a dictionary of greek and roman antiquities (john murray, london, ). 	^ the american catholic quarterly review ... hardy and mahony. . p.  . 	^ karl galinsky; kenneth lapatin ( january ). cultural memories in the roman empire. getty publications. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ "libertas". encyclopædia britannica. . retrieved september . 	^ "robe". national park service. retrieved - - . 	^ howgego, c. j. ( ). ancient history from coins. psychology press. isbn  - - - - . retrieved december . 	^ "bank of fayetteville one-dollar note, ". archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - . bibliography[edit] 	de vaan, michiel ( ). etymological dictionary of latin and the other italic languages. brill. isbn  . external links[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to libertas. 	david hackett fischer, liberty and freedom ( ) the many faces of miss liberty 		v 	t 	e liberty 	concepts	 	cognitive liberty 	moral responsibility 	personification of liberty 	libertas 	negative liberty 	positive liberty 	rights 	self-ownership 	social liberty 	free will 	by type	 	academic 	civil 	economic 	intellectual 	morphological 	political 	by right	 	assembly 	association 	choice 	education 	gun 	information 	life 	movement 	press 	property 	religion 	public speech 	thought 	 	v 	t 	e ancient roman religion and mythology 	deities (dii consentes)	 	 	agenoria 	angerona 	anna perenna 	apollo 	bellona 	bona dea 	carmenta 	castor and pollux 	ceres 	cloacina 	cupid 	dea dia 	diana 	dies 	dīs pater 	egeria 	fauna 	faunus 	flora 	genius 	hercules 	janus 	juno 	jupiter 	lares 	liber 	libertas 	mars 	mercury 	minerva 	neptune 	orcus 	penates 	pluto 	pomona 	priapus 	proserpina 	quirinus 	saturn 	silvanus 	sol 	venus 	veritas 	vesta 	vulcan 	abstract deities	 	abundantia 	aequitas 	aeternitas 	africa 	annona 	averruncus 	concordia 	feronia 	fides 	fortuna 	fontus 	laverna 	pietas 	roma 	salus 	securitas 	spes 	tranquillitas 	victoria 	terra 	 	legendary figures	 	aeneas 	rhea silvia 	romulus and remus 	numa pompilius 	tullus hostilius 	servius tullius 	ancus marcius 	lucius tarquinius priscus 	lucius tarquinius superbus 	texts	 	virgil 	aeneid 	ovid 	metamorphoses 	fasti 	propertius 	apuleius 	the golden ass 	varro 	concepts and practices	 	religion in ancient rome 	festivals 	interpretatio graeca 	imperial cult 	pomerium 	temples 	philosophy	 	cynicism 	epicureanism 	neoplatonism 	peripateticism 	pythagoreanism 	stoicism 	see also	 	glossary 	greek mythology 	myth and ritual 	roman polytheism (list) 	classical mythology 	conversion to christianity 	decline of greco-roman polytheism 	 	v 	t 	e statue of liberty 	liberty enlightening the world 	creators	 	Édouard rené de laboulaye, originator 	frédéric auguste bartholdi, sculptor 	gustave eiffel (builder, eiffel company) 	richard morris hunt, pedestal 	eugène secrétan, donated copper 	 	engineers	 	eugène viollet-le-duc 	maurice koechlin 	joachim giæver 	location	 	statue of liberty national monument 	liberty island 	original torch: statue of liberty museum 	original statue: musée des arts et métiers 	former locations	 	right arm and torch: centennial exposition, 	madison square park, - 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c. – or ) was a greek teacher of rhetoric of the sophist school. during the rise of christian hegemony in the later roman empire, he remained unconverted and in religious matters was a pagan hellene. contents 	 life 	 works 	 english editions 	 references 	 external links life[edit] libanius was born into a once-influential, deeply cultured family of antioch[ ] that had recently come into diminished circumstances. at fourteen years old he began his study of rhetoric, for which he withdrew from public life and devoted himself to philosophy. unfamiliar with latin literature, he deplored its influence. he studied in athens under diophantus the arab and began his career in constantinople as a private tutor. he was exiled to nicomedia in (or earlier) for around five years[ ] but returned to constantinople and taught there until .[ ] before his exile, libanius was a friend of the emperor julian, with whom some correspondence survives, and in whose memory he wrote a series of orations; they were composed between and . in he accepted the chair of rhetoric in antioch, his birthplace, where he stayed until his death. his pupils included both pagans and christians.[ ] libanius used his arts of rhetoric to advance various private and political causes. he attacked the increasing imperial pressures on the traditional city-oriented culture that had been supported and dominated by the local upper classes. he is known to have protested against the persecution of pagans in the late roman empire. in , he appealed without success to emperor theodosius to prevent the destruction of a temple in edessa, and pleaded for toleration and the preservation of the temples against the predation of christian monks, who he claimed: 	"hasten to attack the temples with sticks and stones and bars of iron, and in some cases, disdaining these, with hands and feet. then utter desolation follows, with the stripping of roofs, demolition of walls, the tearing down of statues and the overthrow of altars, and the priests must either keep quiet or die. after demolishing one, they scurry to another, and to a third, and trophy is piled on trophy, in contravention of the law. such outrages occur even in the cities, but they are most common in the countryside. many are the foes who perpetrate the separate attacks, but after their countless crimes this scattered rabble congregates and they are in disgrace unless they have committed the foulest outrage...temples, sire, are the soul of the countryside: they mark the beginning of its settlement, and have been passed down through many generations to the men of today. in them the farming communities rest their hopes for husbands, wives, children, for their oxen and the soil they sow and plant. an estate that has suffered so has lost the inspiration of the peasantry together with their hopes, for they believe that their labour will be in vain once they are robbed of the gods who direct their labours to their due end. and if the land no longer enjoys the same care, neither can the yield match what it was before, and, if this be the case, the peasant is the poorer, and the revenue jeopardized."[ ] the surviving works of libanius, which include over , letters, speeches and progymnasmata (rhetorical exercises), are valuable as a historical source for the changing world of the later th century.[ ] his oration "a reply to aristides on behalf of the dancers" is one of the most important records of roman concert dance, particularly that immensely popular form known as pantomime.[ ] his first oration i is an autobiographical narrative, first written in and revised throughout his life, a scholar's account that ends as an old exile's private journal. progymnasma (see below for explanation of a "progymnasma") is an imaginary summation of the prosecution's case again a physician charged with poisoning some of his patients.[ ] although libanius was not a christian his students included such notable christians as john chrysostom[ ] and theodore of mopsuestia.[ ] despite his friendship with the pagan restorationist emperor julian he was made an honorary praetorian prefect by the christian emperor theodosius i. works[edit] 	 orations in the three fields of oratory: judicial, deliberative and epideictic, both orations as if delivered in public and orations meant to be privately read (aloud) in the study. the two volumes of selections in the loeb classical library devote one volume to libanius' orations that bear on the emperor julian, the other on theodosius; the most famous is his "lamentation" about the desecration of the temples (Περὶ τῶν Ἱερῶν); 	 declamationes, a traditional public-speaking format of rhetoric in antiquity, taking set topics with historical and mythological themes (translations into english by e.g. d.a. russell, "libanius: imaginary speeches"; m. johansson, "libanius' declamations and "; 	 progymnasmata or compositional exercises for students of rhetoric, used in his courses of instruction and widely admired as models of good style; 	 hypotheses or introductions to demosthenes' orations (written ca ), in which he sets them in historical context for the novice reader, without polemics; 	 letters have been preserved, more letters than those of cicero. some additional letters in latin were later accepted, purporting to be translations, but a dispassionate examination of the texts themselves shows them to be misattributed or forgeries, by the italian humanist francesco zambeccari in the th century. among his correspondents there was censorius datianus. english editions[edit] 	scott bradbury, selected letters of libanius. liverpool, university press, . isbn  - - - 	raffaella cribiore, the school of libanius in late antique antioch. princeton: princeton university press, . (includes translation of c. letters dealing with the school and its students. reviewed in bryn mawr classical reviews.) 	margaret e. molloy: libanius and the dancers, olms-weidmann, hildesheim isbn  - - -x 	a.f. norman, libanius: selected works, volumes. cambridge, massachusetts: loeb classical library, – . 	a.f. norman, libanius: autobiography and selected letters, volumes. cambridge, massachusetts: loeb classical library, . reviewed in bryn mawr classical reviews.) 	lieve van hoof, libanius: a critical introduction (cambridge university press, ) references[edit] 	^ a b c chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "libanius" . encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. p.  . 	^ a b c speake, graham, ed. ( ). dictionary of ancient history. london: penguin books. p.  . isbn  - - - . 	^ pro templis (oration xxx. - ) 	^ alessandra zanobi, ancient pantomime and its reception, article retrieved april [ ] 	^ ratzan rm and ferngren gb (april ). "a greek progymnasma on the physician-poisoner". journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences. ( ): – . 	^ cameron, a. ( ) "education and literary culture" in cameron, a. and garnsey, p. (eds.) the cambridge ancient history: vol. xiii the late empire, a.d. - . cambridge: cambridge university press, pp. - . external links[edit] 	libanius: "funeral oration on julian" 	libanius: " letters to julian" 	libanius: "on the temple of apollo destroyed by fire" 	libanius: "on nicomedia, destroyed by an earthquake" 	libanius: oration : for the temples 	(in french) centre libanios, the libanius site by p.-l. malosse, part of crises research centre. 	two moral anecdotes from the progymnasmata: (in english) on the harshness of classical roman education and an encomium of thersites 	craig gibson, translator, summary of “libanius, hypotheses to the orations of demosthenes” 	open source xml version of libanius' works by the university of leipzig, at open greek & latin project 	authority control 	 	bibsys: 	bne: xx 	bnf: cb z (data) 	cantic: a 	cinii: da 	gnd: x 	isni: 	lccn: n 	lnb: 	ndl: 	nkc: jn 	nla: 	nlg: 	nli: 	nsk: 	nta: 	rero: -a 	selibr: 	sudoc: 	trove: 	vcba: / 	viaf: 	 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	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 bibliography 	 external links key if there is an ipa symbol you are looking for that you do not see here, see help:ipa, which is a more complete list. for a table listing all spellings of the sounds on this page, see english orthography § sound-to-spelling correspondences. for help converting spelling to pronunciation, see english orthography § spelling-to-sound correspondences. the words given as examples for two different symbols may sound the same to you. for example, you may pronounce cot and caught the same, do and dew, or marry and merry. this often happens because of dialect variation (see our articles english phonology and international phonetic alphabet chart for english dialects). if this is the case, you will pronounce those symbols the same for other words as well.[ ] whether this is true for all words, or just when the sounds occur in the same context, depends on the merger.[ ] the footnotes explain some of these cases. 	 	consonants 	ipa	examples 	b 	buy, cab 	d 	dye, cad, ladder[ ] 	dj 	dew[ ] 	dʒ 	giant, badge 	ð 	thy, breathe, father 	f 	fan, leaf 	ɡ 	guy, bag 	h 	high, ahead 	hw 	whine[ ] 	j[ ] 	yes, hallelujah 	k 	sky, crack 	l 	lie, sly, gal[ ] 	lj 	lute[ ] 	m 	my, smile, cam 	n 	nigh, snide, can 	nj 	new[ ] 	ŋ 	sang, sink, singer 	p 	pie, spy, cap 	r[ ] 	rye, try, very 	s 	sigh, mass 	sj 	consume[ ] 	ʃ 	shy, cash, emotion 	t 	tie, sty, cat, latter[ ] 	tj 	tune[ ] 	tʃ 	china, catch 	θ 	thigh, math 	θj 	enthuse[ ] 	v 	vine, leave 	w 	wine, swine 	z 	zoo, has 	zj 	zeus[ ] 	ʒ 	pleasure, beige[ ] 	  	marginal segments 	ipa	examples 	x 	ugh, loch, chanukah[ ] 	ʔ 	uh-oh /ˈʔʌʔoʊ/ 	ɒ̃ 	bon vivant[ ] 	æ̃ 	fin de siècle[ ] 	ɜː 	möbius (uk only)[ ] 	 	vowels 	strong vowels	...followed by r[ ] 	ipa	examples	ipa	examples 	ɑː 	palm, bra 	ɑːr 	 start 	ɒ 	 lot, blockade[ ] 	ɒr 	moral[ ] 	æ 	 trap, tattoo[ ] 	ær 	marry[ ] 	aɪ 	 price, pie[ ] 	aɪər 	hire[ ] 	aɪ.ər 	higher[ ] 	aʊ 	 mouth, how[ ] 	aʊər 	flour[ ] 	aʊ.ər 	flower[ ] 	ɛ 	 dress, prestige[ ] 	ɛr 	merry[ ] 	eɪ 	 face 	ɛər 	 square, mary[ ][ ] 	eɪər 	player[ ] 	ɪ 	 kit, historic[ ] 	ɪr 	mirror 	iː 	 fleece, pedigree, idea[ ] 	ɪər 	 near, serious[ ] 	iːər 	freer 	oʊ 	 goat[ ][ ] 	oʊər 	mower 	ɔː 	 thought[ ] 	ɔːr 	 north, force[ ] 	ɔːər 	sawer 	ɔɪ 	 choice 	ɔɪər 	coir[ ] 	ɔɪ.ər 	employer[ ] 	ʊ 	 foot 	ʊr 	courier 	uː 	 goose, cruel[ ] 	ʊər 	tour, cure (/ˈkjʊər/)[ ][ ] 	uːər 	truer 	ʌ 	 strut, untidy, trustee[ ][ ] 	ɜːr 	 nurse, blurry, urbane, foreword[ ] 	ʌr 	hurry[ ] 	weak vowels 	ipa	examples	ipa	examples 	ə 	 comma, addition, abbot 	ər 	 letter, forward, history[ ] 	ɪ 	edition, rabbit, latin, heating[ ][ ] 	oʊ 	motto, retroactive, follower[ ][ ] 	i 	 happy, mediocre[ ] 	iə 	california[ ] 	u 	fruition[ ][ ] 	uə 	influence[ ] 	syllabic consonants[ ] 	ipa	examples	ipa	examples 	əl 	bottle (either [əl] or [l̩]) 	ən 	button (either [ən] or [n̩]) 	əm 	rhythm (either [əm] or [m̩]) 	  	stress[ ] 	syllabification 	ipa	examples 	ipa	examples 	ˈ 	intonation /ˌɪntəˈneɪʃən/ 	. 	/ˈhaɪər/ hire, /ˈhaɪ.ər/ higher[ ] /ˈtæks.peɪər/ taxpayer 	ˌ notes 	words in small capitals are the standard lexical sets.[ ] 	the length mark ⟨ː⟩ does not mean that the vowels transcribed with it are always longer than those without it. when unstressed, followed by a voiceless consonant, or in a polysyllabic word, a vowel in the former group is frequently shorter than the latter in other environments (see clipping (phonetics) § english). dialect variation further information: english phonology and international phonetic alphabet chart for english dialects this key represents diaphonemes, abstractions of speech sounds that accommodate general american, received pronunciation (rp) and to a large extent also australian, canadian, irish (including ulster), new zealand, scottish, south african and welsh pronunciations. therefore, not all of the distinctions shown here are relevant to a particular dialect: 	⟨i⟩ does not represent a phoneme but a variation between /iː/ and /ɪ/ in unstressed positions. speakers of dialects with happy tensing (australian english, general american, modern rp) should read it as an unstressed /iː/, whereas speakers of other dialects (e.g. some northern england english) should treat it the same as /ɪ/. in scotland, this vowel can be considered the same as the short allophone of /eɪ/, as in take. before /ə/ within the same word, another possible pronunciation is /j/ as in yet. 	many speakers of american and canadian english pronounce cot /ˈkɒt/ and caught /ˈkɔːt/ the same.[j] you may simply ignore the difference between the symbols /ɒ/ and /ɔː/, just as you ignore the distinction between the written vowels o and au when pronouncing them. 	speakers of rhotic dialects (irish english, north american english, scottish english) do not distinguish between the vowels of near /ˈnɪər/, cure /ˈkjʊər/ and square /ˈskwɛər/ on the one hand and freerunning /ˈfriːrʌnɪŋ/, q-rating /ˈkjuːreɪtɪŋ/ and dayroom /ˈdeɪruːm/ on the other. if you speak such a dialect, read /ɪər, ʊər, ɛər/ as /iːr, uːr, eɪr/. 	in northern ireland, scotland and many north american dialects the distinction between /ʊr/ as in courier and the aforementioned /ʊər/ and /uːr/ does not exist. if you speak such a dialect, ignore the difference between /ʊr/, /ʊər/ and /uːr/. 	in northern ireland and scotland this merger occurs in all environments, which means that foot /ˈfʊt/ and goose /ˈɡuːs/ also have the same vowel.[k][l] if you speak such a dialect, ignore the difference between /ʊ/ and /uː/ in all contexts. 	in north america, the /ʊr/ of courier and the /ʊər/ of cure may instead merge with /ɔːr/ as in north or /ɜːr/ as in nurse. no such merger is possible in the case of the sequence which we transcribe as /uːr/ as there is an implied morpheme boundary after the length mark. 	in north american dialects that do not distinguish between /ʊr/, /ʊər/ and /uːr/ there is also no distinction between the /ɪr/ of mirror and the aforementioned /ɪər/ and /iːr/. if you speak such a dialect, ignore the difference between /ɪr/, /ɪər/ and /iːr/. 	in many north american dialects there is also no distinction between the vowels in merry /ˈmɛri/, mary /ˈmɛəri/ and marry /ˈmæri/. if you speak such a dialect, ignore the difference between /ɛr/, /ɛər/ and /ær/. some speakers keep marry and/or merry separate from the rest, but in the general american accent all three vowels are the same and may not be distinct from /eɪr/ as in dayroom /ˈdeɪruːm/. 	in rhotic north american english there is no distinction between the vowels in nurse /ˈnɜːrs/ and letter /ˈlɛtər/. if you speak such a dialect, read /ɜːr/ as /ər/. the /ʌr/ of hurry often joins this neutralization; if you have it in your speech, read /ɜːr/, /ər/ and /ʌr/ as /ər/. 	some speakers from northern england do not distinguish the vowel of square /ˈskwɛər/ and nurse /ˈnɜːrs/.[m] if you speak such a dialect, ignore the difference between the symbols /ɛər/ and /ɜːr/. 	in new zealand english, the vowels of kit /ˈkɪt/ and focus /ˈfoʊkəs/ have the same schwa-like quality.[n][o] if you are from new zealand, ignore the difference between the symbols /ɪ/ and /ə/. 	in contemporary new zealand english and some other dialects, the vowels of near /ˈnɪər/ and square /ˈskwɛər/ are not distinguished.[p] if you speak such a dialect, ignore the difference between the symbols /ɪər/ and /ɛər/. 	in northern england english, the vowels of foot /ˈfʊt/ and strut /ˈstrʌt/ are not distinguished.[q] if you are from northern england, ignore the difference between the symbols /ʊ/ and /ʌ/. 	in welsh english and some other dialects, the vowels of unorthodoxy /ʌnˈɔːrθədɒksi/ and an orthodoxy /ən ˈɔːrθədɒksi/ are not distinguished.[r] if you speak such a dialect, ignore the difference between the symbols /ʌ/ and /ə/. 	depending on the dialect, vowels can be subject to various mergers before /l/, so that e.g. fill /ˈfɪl/ and feel /ˈfiːl/ or pull /ˈpʊl/ and pool /ˈpuːl/ may not be distinguished. l-vocalization may trigger even more mergers, so that e.g. cord /ˈkɔːrd/ and called /ˈkɔːld/ may be homophonous as /ˈkɔːd/ in non-rhotic dialects of south east england. see english-language vowel changes before historic /l/ for more information. 	in many dialects, /r/ occurs only before a vowel; if you speak such a dialect, simply ignore /r/ in the pronunciation guides where you would not pronounce it, as in cart /kɑːrt/. 	in other dialects, /j/ (yes) cannot occur after /t, d, n/, etc., within the same syllable; if you speak such a dialect, then ignore the /j/ in transcriptions such as new /njuː/. for example, new york is transcribed /njuː ˈjɔːrk/. for most people from england and for some new yorkers, the /r/ in /jɔːrk/ is not pronounced; for most people from the united states, including some new yorkers, the /j/ in /njuː/ is not pronounced and may be ignored. (see yod-dropping.) on the other hand, there are some distinctions which you might make but which this key does not encode, as they are seldom reflected in the dictionaries used as sources for wikipedia articles: 	the vowels of kit and bit, distinguished in south africa.[s] both of them are transcribed as /ɪ/ in stressed syllables and as /ɪ/ or /ə/ in unstressed syllables. 	the difference between the vowels of fir, fur and fern, maintained in some scottish and irish english but lost elsewhere.[t] all of them are transcribed as /ɜːr/. 	the vowels of north and force, distinguished in scottish english, irish english and by a minority of american speakers.[t] both of them are transcribed as /ɔːr/. 	the vowels of pause and paws, distinguished in cockney and by some estuary english speakers.[u] both of them are transcribed as /ɔː/ when the spelling does not contain ⟨r⟩ and /ɔːr/ or /ʊər/ (depending on the word) when it does. 	the vowels of manning and manning, distinguished in some parts of the united states (see /æ/ raising). both of them are transcribed as /æ/. 	the difference between the vowels of pain and pane found in some english, welsh, and newfoundland dialects. both of them are transcribed as /eɪ/. 	the difference between the vowels of holy and wholly found in cockney and many estuary english speakers.[v] both of them are transcribed as /oʊ/. 	any allophonic distinctions, such as: 	the vowels of bad and lad, distinguished in many parts of australia. both of them are transcribed as /æ/. 	the vowels of spider and spied her, distinguished in many parts of scotland,[w] plus many parts of north america. both of them are transcribed as /aɪ/. 	the vowels of rider and writer, distinguished in most parts of canada and many parts of the united states. both of them are transcribed as /aɪ/. 	the vowels of powder and pouter distinguished in most parts of canada and some parts of the united states. both of them are transcribed as /aʊ/. 	allophonic vowel length (including the scottish vowel length rule), as in knife /ˈnaɪf/ vs. knives /ˈnaɪvz/. phonemic vowel length, which exists in some dialects and involves pairs such as /ɛ/ vs. /ɛər/ and /ə/ vs. /ɜːr/ is also not marked explicitly. /i/ and /u/ do not represent phonemes; see above. 	flapping in words such as better, which we write /ˈbɛtər/, rather than /ˈbɛdər/. 	glottalization in words such as jetlag and, in some accents, daughter, which we write /ˈdʒɛtlæɡ/ and /ˈdɔːtər/, rather than /ˈdʒɛʔlæɡ/ and /ˈdɔːʔər/. in this system, /ʔ/ is used only for paralanguage or in loanwords where it occurs phonemically in the original language. 	l-vocalization in words such as bottle and alps, which we write /ˈbɒtəl/ and /ˈælps/, rather than /ˈbɒtʊ/ and /ˈæwps/. 	the difference between allophones of /ə/ in balance ([ə]) vs. the ones in about and russia (and, in non-rhotic dialects, better), both of which may be closer to /ʌ/ in dialects with the foot-strut split (that is, [ɐ]) vs. the one in button (the syllabicity of the following consonant). all are transcribed as /ə/ in our system. 	the difference between the phonetic realization of english sounds (mostly vowels) in various dialects. let's pick some grapes for betty should be transcribed /lɛts ˈpɪk səm ˈɡreɪps fər ˈbɛti/ regardless of the variety of english and everyone should interpret that transcription according to their own dialect. thus, a person from south east england will read it as something like [lɛʔs ˈpʰɪk səm ˈɡɹɛɪps fə ˈbɛtˢɪi], a scot as [ɫɛts ˈpʰɪk səm ˈɡɾeps fɚ ˈbɛte], whereas someone from new zealand will interpret that transcription as [ɫɪts ˈpʰək səm ˈɡɹæɪps fə ˈbɪɾi]. because we are transcribing diaphonemes rather than phones (actual sounds), it is irrelevant that, for example, the vowel in let's as pronounced by someone from new zealand overlaps with how people with england and scotland typically pronounce the first vowel in pick, or that the scottish realization of /r/ after /ɡ/ overlaps with the new zealand realization of /t/ between vowels. in other words, the symbol ⟨ɛ⟩ does not stand specifically for the open-mid front unrounded vowel in our system but any vowel that can be identified as the vowel in let's, depending on the accent. this is also why we use the simple symbol ⟨r⟩ for the second sound in grapes. other words may have different vowels depending on the speaker. the pronunciation of the /æ/ vowel in most dialects of scotland, northern ireland, northern england and wales has always been closer to [a]. received pronunciation has moved away from the traditional near-open front realization [æ] towards almost fully open front realization [a], and both the oxford english dictionary and the edition of gimson's pronunciation of english transcribe the vowel in lad, bad, cat, trap with /a/.[x] for more extensive information on dialect variations, you may wish to see the ipa chart for english dialects. note that place names are not generally exempted from being transcribed in this abstracted system, so rules such as the above must be applied in order to recover the local pronunciation. examples include place names in much of england ending ‑ford, which although locally pronounced [‑fəd] are transcribed /‑fərd/. this is best practice for editors. however, readers should be aware that not all editors may have followed this consistently, so for example if /‑fəd/ is encountered for such a place name, it should not be interpreted as a claim that the /r/ would be absent even in a rhotic dialect. other transcriptions if you feel it is necessary to add a pronunciation respelling using another convention, then please use the conventions of wikipedia's pronunciation respelling key. 	to compare the following ipa symbols with non-ipa american dictionary conventions that may be more familiar, see pronunciation respelling for english, which lists the pronunciation guides of fourteen english dictionaries published in the united states. 	to compare the following ipa symbols with other ipa conventions that may be more familiar, see help:ipa/conventions for english, which lists the conventions of eight english dictionaries published in britain, australia, and the united states. see also 	if your browser does not display ipa symbols, you probably need to install a font that includes the ipa (for good, free ipa fonts, see the download links in the articles for gentium and the more complete charis sil; for a monospaced font, see the complete everson mono) 	to add ipa pronunciations to wikipedia articles, see the {{ipa}} template 	for a guide to adding ipa characters to wikipedia articles, see wikipedia:manual of style/pronunciation § entering ipa characters. 	help:ipa/conventions for english 	help:pronunciation respelling key 	pronunciation respelling for english notes 	^ this rule is generally employed in the pronunciation guide of our articles, even for local terms such as place names. however, be aware that not all editors may have followed this consistently, so for example if a pronunciation of an english town ending in ‑ford reads /‑fəd/, it doesn't mean that the /r/ would be absent in a rhotic dialect. 	^ for example, if you have the marry–merry merger, you probably only merge /æ/ and /ɛ/ before /r/. you would still distinguish man and men. 	^ a b in varieties with flapping, /t/ and sometimes also /d/ between a vowel and a weak or word-initial vowel may be pronounced with a voiced tap [ɾ], making latter sound similar or identical to ladder. some dictionaries transcribe /t/ subject to this process as ⟨d⟩ or ⟨t̬⟩, but they are not distinguished in this transcription system. in those varieties, the sequence /nt/ in the same environment may also be realized as a nasalized tap [ɾ̃], making winter sound similar or identical to winner. this is also not distinguished in this system. 	^ a b c d e f g in dialects with yod dropping, /j/ in /juː/, /ju/, or /jʊər/ is not pronounced after coronal consonants (/t/, /d/, /s/, /z/, /n/, /θ/, and /l/) in the same syllable, so that dew /djuː/ is pronounced the same as do /duː/. in dialects with yod coalescence, /tj/ and /dj/ mostly merge with /tʃ/ and /dʒ/, so that the first syllable in tuesday is pronounced the same as choose. in some dialects /sj/ and /zj/ are also affected and frequently merge with /ʃ/ and /ʒ/. where /j/ in /juː/, /ju/, or /jʊər/ following a coronal is still pronounced in yod-dropping accents, place a syllable break before it: menu /ˈmɛn.juː/. 	^ the phoneme /hw/ is not distinguished from /w/ in the many dialects with the wine–whine merger, such as rp and most varieties of general american. for more information on this sound, see voiceless labialized velar approximant. 	^ the ipa value of the letter ⟨j⟩ may be counterintuitive to english speakers, but the spelling is found even in some common english words like hallelujah and fjord. 	^ /l/ in the syllable coda, as in the words all, cold, or bottle, is pronounced as [o], [u], [w] or a similar sound in many dialects through l-vocalization. 	^ in most varieties of english, /r/ is pronounced as an approximant [ɹ]. although the ipa symbol ⟨r⟩ represents the alveolar trill, ⟨r⟩ is widely used instead of ⟨ɹ⟩ in broad transcriptions of english. 	^ a number of english words, such as genre and garage, may be pronounced with either /ʒ/ or /dʒ/. 	^ in most dialects, /x/ can also be replaced by /k/ in most words, including loch. it is also replaced with /h/ in some words, particularly of yiddish origin, such as chanukah. 	^ a b /ɒ̃, æ̃/ are only found in french loanwords and often replaced by another vowel and a nasal consonant: bon vivant /ˌbɒn viːˈvɒnt/, ensemble /ɒnˈsɒmbəl/, etc.[a] 	^ /ɜː/ is only found in loanwords and represents a situation where such an r-less vowel is used only in british or southern hemisphere accents, and therefore a transcription that includes it must always be prefaced with a label indicating the variety of english. it is to be used only when a reliable source shows that general american has a different vowel in the same position. if r-ful nurse is used even in ga, even if spelled without ⟨r⟩, as in goethe and hors d'oeuvre, use /ɜːr/. /ɜː/ is also not the same as ⟨œ⟩ seen in some american dictionaries. ⟨œ⟩ in those dictionaries is merely a notational convention and does not correspond to any vowel in any accent of english, so a transcription containing ⟨œ⟩ cannot be converted to one that uses this key. 	^ in non-rhotic accents like rp, /r/ is not pronounced unless followed by a vowel. 	^ in dialects with the father–bother merger such as general american, /ɒ/ is not distinguished from /ɑː/. 	^ in most of the united states, /ɒr/ is merged with /ɔːr/, except for a handful of words such as borrow, tomorrow and sorry, which instead have /ɑːr/. in some parts of the southern and northeastern us, it is always merged with /ɑːr/. in canada, it is always merged with /ɔːr/. 	^ in north america, /æ/ is often pronounced like a diphthong [eə~ɛə] before nasal consonants and, in some particular regional dialects, other environments. see /æ/ raising. 	^ a b c /ær/, /ɛr/ and /ɛər/ are not distinguished in many north american accents (mary–marry–merry merger). some speakers merge only two of the sounds (most typically /ɛər/ with one of the short vowels) and less than a fifth of speakers of american english make a full three-way distinction, like rp and similar accents.[b] 	^ a b in much of north america, /aɪ/ or /aʊ/ may have a slightly different quality when it precedes a voiceless consonant, as in price or mouth, from that in ride/pie or loud/how, a phenomenon known as canadian raising. since this occurs in a predictable fashion, it is not distinguished in this transcription system. 	^ a b c in some dialects, especially in the uk, the second segment in a diphthong followed by /ə/ is often omitted. this process or lack thereof may help choose between /aɪər, aʊər, ɔɪər/ in some words (diary, admirer) and /aɪr, aʊr, ɔɪr/ in others (pirate, siren), a distinction not always clear. 	^ a b c d some speakers pronounce higher, flower, mayor and coyer ("more coy") with two syllables, and hire, flour, mare and coir with one. most pronounce them the same. 	^ /ɛ/ is transcribed with ⟨e⟩ in many dictionaries. however, /eɪ/ is also sometimes transcribed with ⟨e⟩, especially in north american literature, so ⟨ɛ⟩ is chosen here. 	^ a b c /ɛə/, /ɪə/, or /ʊə/ may be separated from /r/ only when a stress follows it. the ipac-en template supports /ɛəˈr/, /ɪəˈr/, /ʊəˈr/, /ɛəˌr/, /ɪəˌr/, and /ʊəˌr/ as distinct diaphonemes for such occasions. 	^ a b c d /ɪ/ and /oʊ/ may be strong or weak depending on context.[c] whether an instance of unstressed /ɪ/ is strong or weak may not be clear in some circumstances.[d] 	^ a b words like idea, real, theatre, and cruel may be pronounced with /ɪə/ or /ʊə/ in non-rhotic accents such as received pronunciation, and some dictionaries transcribe them with /ɪə, ʊə/,[e] but since they do not stem from historical /r/ and are not pronounced with /r/ in rhotic accents, they should be transcribed with /iːə, uːə/, not with /ɪə, ʊə/, in this transcription system. 	^ /oʊ/ is often transcribed with ⟨əʊ⟩, particularly in british literature, based on its modern realization in received pronunciation. it is also transcribed with ⟨o⟩, particularly in north american literature. 	^ /ɔː/ is not distinguished from /ɒ/ in dialects with the cot–caught merger such as scottish english, canadian english and many varieties of general american. in north america, the two vowels most often fall together with /ɑː/. 	^ some conservative dialects make a distinction between the vowels in horse and hoarse, but the number of speakers who make this distinction any longer is very small and many dictionaries do not differentiate between them (horse–hoarse merger). the vowel in hoarse was formerly represented as /ɔər/ on wikipedia, but is now represented as /ɔːr/, identical to horse. 	^ /ʊər/ is not distinguished from /ɔːr/ in dialects with the cure–force merger, including many younger speakers. in england, the merger may not be fully consistent and may only apply to more common words. in conservative rp and northern england english /ʊər/ is much more commonly preserved than in modern rp and southern england english. in australia and new zealand, /ʊər/ does not exist as a separate phoneme and is replaced either by the sequence /uːər/ (/uːr/ before vowels within the same word, save for some compounds) or the monophthong /ɔːr/. 	^ some, particularly north american, dictionaries notate /ʌ/ with the same symbol as /ə/, which is found only in unstressed syllables, and distinguish it from /ə/ by marking the syllable as stressed. also note that although ⟨ʌ⟩, the ipa symbol for the open-mid back vowel, is used, the typical modern pronunciation is rather close to the near-open central vowel [ɐ] in most dialects, including received pronunciation and general american. 	^ /ʌ/ is not used in the dialects of the northern half of england, some bordering parts of wales, and some broad eastern ireland accents. these words would take the /ʊ/ vowel: there is no foot–strut split. 	^ in received pronunciation, /ɜːr/ is pronounced as a lengthened schwa, [əː]. in general american, it is phonetically identical to /ər/. some dictionaries therefore use ⟨əː, ər⟩ instead of the conventional notations ⟨ɜː, ɜr⟩. when ⟨ər⟩ is used for /ɜːr/, it is distinguished from /ər/ by marking the syllable as stressed. word-initially, /ər/ never occurs, giving way to /ɜːr/. where there is a free variation between /ɜːr/ and /ər/ in rp, it is acceptable to transcribe only the more common variant (e.g. /ər/ for persona). 	^ /ʌr/ is not distinguished from /ɜːr/ in dialects with the hurry–furry merger such as general american. 	^ a b in a number of contexts, /ə/ in /ər/, /əl/, /ən/, or /əm/ is often omitted, resulting in a syllable with no vowel. some dictionaries show /ə/ in those contexts in parentheses, superscript, or italics to indicate this possibility, or simply omit /ə/. when followed by a weak vowel, the syllable may be lost altogether, with the consonant moving to the next syllable, so that doubling /ˈdʌb.əl.ɪŋ/ may alternatively be pronounced as [ˈdʌb.lɪŋ], and edinburgh /ˈɛd.ɪn.bər.ə/ as [ˈɛd.ɪn.brə].[i] when not followed by a vowel, /ər/ merges with /ə/ in non-rhotic accents. 	^ in accents with the weak vowel merger such as most australian and american accents, /ɪ/ in unstressed positions is not distinguished from /ə/, making rabbit and abbot rhyme and lenin and lennon homophonous. pairs like roses and rosa's are kept distinct in american accents because of the difference in morphological structure,[f] but may be homophonous in australian.[g] in these accents, unstressed /ɪl, ɪn, ɪm/ merge with /əl, ən, əm/, so that the second vowel in latin may be lost and cabinet may be disyllabic (see the previous note). 	^ a b /oʊ/ and /u/ in unstressed, prevocalic positions are transcribed as /əw/ by merriam-webster, but no other dictionary uniformly follows this practice.[h] hence a difference between /əw/ in merriam-webster and /oʊ/ or /u/ in another source is most likely one in notation, not in pronunciation, so /əw/ in such cases may be better replaced with /oʊ/ or /u/ accordingly, to minimize confusion: /ˌsɪtʃəˈweɪʃən/ → /ˌsɪtʃuˈeɪʃən/, /ˈfɒləwər/ → /ˈfɒloʊər/. 	^ a b ⟨i⟩ represents variation between /iː/ and /ɪ/ in unstressed prevocalic or morpheme-final positions. it is realized with a quality closer to /iː/ in accents with happy tensing, such as australian english, general american, and modern rp, and to /ɪ/ in others. ⟨u⟩ likewise represents variation between /uː/ and /ʊ/ in unstressed prevocalic positions. 	^ the sequence ⟨iə⟩ may be pronounced as two syllables, [i.ə] or [ɪ.ə], or as one, [jə] or [ɪə̯]. when pronounced as one syllable in a non-rhotic accent, it may be indistinguishable from, and identified as, the near vowel (/ɪər/).[e] this transcription system uses ⟨iə⟩, not ⟨i.ə⟩, ⟨ɪə⟩, etc., to cover all these possibilities. 	^ the sequence ⟨uə⟩ may be pronounced as two syllables, [u.ə] or [ʊ.ə], or as one, [wə] or [ʊə̯]. when pronounced as one syllable in a non-rhotic accent, it may be indistinguishable from, and identified as, the cure vowel (/ʊər/).[e] this transcription system uses ⟨uə⟩, not ⟨u.ə⟩, ⟨ʊə⟩, etc., to cover all these possibilities. 	^ the ipa stress mark ⟨ˈ⟩ comes before the syllable that has the stress, in contrast to stress marking in pronunciation keys of some dictionaries published in the united states. 	^ syllable divisions are not usually marked, but the ipa dot ⟨.⟩ may be used when it is wished to make explicit where a division between syllables is (or may be) made. 	^ not all of the sets defined in wells standard lexical sets for english are used here. in particular, we excluded words in the lexical sets bath and cloth, which may be given two transcriptions, the former either with /ɑː/ or /æ/, the latter with /ɒ/ or /ɔː/. references 	^ jones ( ). 	^ 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pieces of display armour typical of the hippika gymnasia the hippika gymnasia (greek: ἱππικὰ γυμνάσια, "horse exercises") were ritual tournaments performed by the cavalry of the roman empire to both practice their skills and display their expertise.[ ] they took place on a parade ground situated outside a fort and involved the cavalry practicing manoeuvring and the handling of weapons such as javelins and spears.[ ] the riders and their mounts wore highly elaborate armour and helmets specially made for display purposes, decorated with images from classical mythology.[ ] such tournaments served several purposes, improving the riders' skills, helping to build unit morale and impressing dignitaries and conquered peoples.[ ] the romans maintained substantial cavalry forces to support their legions. the elite of the cavalry, the alae, were expected to perform complex manoeuvres that required extensive training. the role of the cavalry was described in the nd century ad by the roman writer arrian in his ars tactica, a (possibly theoretical) work in which he described how the legions and auxiliary troops could be organised to defeat an enemy. he recorded the hippika gymnasia in considerable detail, though – as he was writing in greek – we do not know the latin name of such events.[ ] the riders practised complex manoeuvres with dummy weapons, alternately attacking and defending, and displaying their horsemanship and courage to onlookers. contents 	 clothing and armour 	 weapons and exercises 	 see also 	 references 	 external links clothing and armour[edit] reconstruction of a roman cavalry "sports helmet" of the nd century ad the participants in the hippika gymnasia would have been an impressive sight for those who saw them; as one writer has put it, "a cavalcade of richly armoured horses and men – who in their masked helmets with silvered faces looked like divine beings."[ ] the riders wore brightly coloured tunics – which seems to have evolved into decorated bronze armour by the rd century – and very ornate greaves and helmets with face masks. as arrian described them, the horsemen enter [the parade ground] fully armed, and those of high rank or superior in horsemanship wear gilded helmets of iron or bronze to draw the attention of the spectators. unlike the helmets made for active service, these do not cover the head and cheeks only but are made to fit all round the faces of the riders with apertures for the eyes . . . from the helmets hang yellow plumes, a matter of décor as much as utility. as the horses move forward, the slightest breeze adds to the beauty of these plumes. they carry oblong shields of a lighter type than those used in action, since both agility and smart turnout are the objects of the exercise and they improve the appearance of their shields by embellishment. instead of breastplates the horsemen wear close-fitting cimmerian tunics [leather jerkins] embroidered with scarlet, red or blue and other colours. on their legs they wear tight trousers, not loosely fitting like those of the parthians and armenians. the horses have frontlets carefully made to measure and also have side armour.[ ] substantial archaeological evidence has been found of such "sports equipment", as it has been dubbed. a hoard of cavalry display armour dating to the rd century ad was discovered at straubing in bavaria in . it included extraordinarily elaborate horse armour, greaves, helmets and other pieces of armour.[ ] many more "sports helmets" have been recovered from other locations. they were made from a variety of metals and alloys, often from gold-coloured alloys or iron covered with tin. they were decorated with embossed reliefs and engravings depicting the war god mars and other divine and semi-divine figures associated with the military. one of the newstead helmets from scotland, for instance, is embossed with a naked winged figure of cupid driving a chariot.[ ] the helmets were of both "male" and "female" types, portraying the wearers as greeks or amazons. these were apparently commonly competing teams in the hippika gymnasia, which may also have involved re-enactments of other scenes from classical tradition.[ ] the female helmets can be recognised by their sculpted hairstyles and other distinctively female elements such as diadems, ribbons and jewels. they were often equipped with the full-face masks mentioned by arrian in his account. the faces depicted were not always those of romans, as some were clearly intended to portray easterners.[ ] the origin of these very elaborate helmets is uncertain but appears not to have been rome. various origins have been suggested, including a theory that they came from rome's eastern provinces. they were produced from the early st century ad through to the mid- rd century.[ ] although they are relatively light, they appear to have been worn in battle as well as for display purposes. one such helmet was found at the site of the battle of the teutoburg forest, where three roman legions were wiped out by germans in ad. it was perhaps worn by an officer or standard-bearer who intended its imposing appearance to intimidate his enemies on the battlefield.[ ] 	roman cavalry "sports helmets" from britain 	 			 			 the ribchester helmet 			 		 	 			 			 one of the newstead helmets 			 		 	 			 			 the crosby garrett helmet 			 		 	 			 			 the guisborough helmet 			 		 arrian's account makes it clear that the horses were also armoured to protect them from javelins and other weapons used during the hippika gymnasia: "[the javelins] fall harmlessly on [the horses'] sides, particularly since the sides are for the most part protected by the horses' armour." examples of roman scale armour for horses have been found at dura-europos in syria. it is possible that cloth or linen horse armour may also have been used, which would have been in keeping with the tunics worn by the riders. arrian also describes the horses as wearing frontlets or head armour, of which examples were found at the roman fort of trimontium (newstead) in scotland.[ ] weapons and exercises[edit] reenactment of the hippika gymnasia at carnuntum, austria the riders in the hippika gymnasia were armed with dummy javelins and darts that they employed in mock battles. according to arrian, the riders would divide into two teams, one of which would be the attacking side and one the defenders. they used their shields to cover their own and their horses' backs, forming a type of mobile testudo. two of the defenders would stand in front of their team, acting as targets for the throws of the other side. the attackers were tested on their accuracy in hitting the two defenders, who in turn would attempt to protect themselves with their shields. some of the other defenders would ride out and try to hit the passing attackers. this was a challenging exercise, as arrian noted: it is at this point that good horsemanship is especially needed to be able simultaneously to throw at those who are charging in and to give one's right hand side the protection of the shield. when riding parallel to his target, the rider must swivel himself to the right in order to throw; when making a complete about-turn, he must throw in the matter called, in the gallic tongue petrinos, which is the most difficult of all. for he must turn right round as far as the tenderness of the sides will allow, to face the horse's tail, so as to throw backwards as straight as possible, and having done so, he must quickly turn forward again and bring his shield to cover his back, since if he turns without getting protection, he exposes a vulnerable target to the enemy.[ ] in another exercise, the cavalry would attempt to throw as many darts as far as they could in a gallop across the parade area in front of the viewing platform where the commanders or other dignitaries were sitting. fifteen was considered to be a good number but achieving a score of twenty was considered praiseworthy. they also undertook exercises in accurately striking targets with a lance: "each man carries one lance, and before he gets near the platform, he must whirl his lance with all his might, and, as soon as it reverberates, throw it, taking aim at the target which has been set up . . . on the left of the platform."[ ] the final stage of the display demonstrated skills that would evidently have been useful in combat, where the cavalry was given the task of chasing down the enemy and preventing him from regrouping. as arrian puts it, they advance first with pikes levelled in defensive style, then as though they were overtaking a fleeing enemy. others, as if against another enemy, as their horses turn, swing their shields over their heads to a position behind them and turn their pikes as though meeting an enemy's assault. this manuoeuvre is called in gallic toloutegon. also they draw their swords and make a variety of strokes, best calculated to overtake an enemy in flight, to kill a man already down, or to achieve any success by a quick movement [along] from the flanks. nor is this all: they demonstrate in as great a variety as possible, the number of shapes and forms which can be given to the act of leaping on a horse. finally they demonstrate how a man wearing his armour can leap onto a horse when it is running. some call this the 'wayfarer's jump'.[ ] the emperor hadrian witnessed one such display in north africa in and reviewed the performance of the riders. he complimented their prowess, telling them: you did everything in orderly fashion. you filled the field with manoeuvres. your javelin hurling was not without grace, although you used javelins which are short and stiff. several of you hurled your lances equally well. and your mounting was smart just now and lively yesterday. if there were anything lacking i should notice it; if there were anything conspicuously bad, i should point it out. but you pleased me uniformly throughout the whole exercise . . .[ ] see also[edit] 	lusus troiae, the equestrian "troy game" references[edit] 	^ southern, pat. the roman army: a social and institutional history, p. . abc-clio, . isbn  - - - - 	^ a b fields, nic; hook, adam. roman auxiliary cavalryman: ad - , p. . osprey publishing, . isbn  - - - - 	^ a b maxfield, valerie a. the military decorations of the roman army, p. . university of california press, . isbn  - - - - 	^ lendon, j.e. soldiers and ghosts: a history of battle in classical antiquity, p. . yale university press, . isbn  - - - - 	^ a b simkins, michael. the roman army from hadrian to constantine, pp. - . osprey publishing, . isbn  - - - - 	^ arrian, ars tactica 	^ a b hargrave, james; yu treister, michail. hammering techniques in greek and roman jewellery and toreutics, pp. - . brill, . isbn  - - - - 	^ dixon, karen r.; southern, pat. the roman cavalry: from the first to the third century ad, p. . routledge, . isbn  - - - - 	^ sidnell, philip. warhorse: cavalry in ancient warfare, p. . continuum international 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view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 list of pontifices maximi - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	list of pontifices maximi 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 			priesthoods of ancient rome 	flamen ( – ce) 	 major colleges 	 pontifices · augures · septemviri epulonum quindecimviri sacris faciundis 	 other colleges or sodalities 	 fetiales · fratres arvales · salii titii · luperci · sodales augustales 	 priests 	 pontifex maximus · rex sacrorum flamen dialis · flamen martialis flamen quirinalis · rex nemorensis curio maximus 	 priestesses 	 virgo vestalis maxima flaminica dialis · regina sacrorum 	 related topics 	 religion in ancient rome · imperial cult glossary of ancient roman religion gallo-roman religion 		v 	t 	e the pontifex maximus was chief priest of the collegium pontificum ("college of pontiffs") in ancient roman religion. the names of pontifices maximi for the roman republic are listed below as known. the last pontifex maximus of the republican era was lepidus, the triumvir. upon his death, augustus acquired the office, consolidating an additional source of power and authority for the princeps. in the imperial era, it was customary for the emperor to serve as pontifex maximus. contents 	 pontifices maximi of the roman kingdom 	 pontifices maximi of the roman republic 	 pontifices maximi of the roman empire 	 notes 	 further reading 	 external links pontifices maximi of the roman kingdom[edit] 	numa marcius. the first pontifex maximus, according to livy. pontifices maximi of the roman republic[edit] the pontifex maximus held his office for life, but the date of death is not known for every man who held the office, and the name of the pontifex is not recorded for every period. unless otherwise noted, dates and citations of primary sources are from t.r.s. broughton's three-volume the magistrates of the roman republic (american philological association, , ). 	 bc: gaius papirius[ ] or marcus horatius pulvillus[ ] 	 : either quintus furius[ ] or marcus papirius[ ] 	 : aulus cornelius cossus, usually identified with the famous general of this era who was consul in [ ] 	 : spurius minucius[ ] 	 : marcus foslius, possibly the m. foslius flaccinator who was consular tribune in [ ] 	 : publius cornelius calussa[ ] 	 : cornelius (scipio) barbatus, possibly the publius cornelius scipio barbatus who was consul in , or if his praenomen was gnaeus, the father of the consul of [ ] 	ca. – : tiberius coruncanius, first plebeian to become pontifex maximus, and first roman jurist and professor of law; consul in bc[ ] 	ca. – : lucius caecilius metellus (d. ), credited with saving the palladium when the temple of vesta was on fire; removed from office or resigned around [ ] 	 – : lucius cornelius lentulus caudinus (d. )[ ] 	 – : publius licinius crassus dives (d. )[ ] 	 – : gaius servilius geminus (d. )[ ] 	 – : marcus aemilius lepidus (d. )[ ] 	 – : vacant 	 – : publius cornelius scipio nasica corculum (d. )[ ] 	 – : publius cornelius scipio nasica serapio (d. ), probably succeeded his father and elected in absentia;[ ] first pontifex to leave italy (as compelled by the senate to escape a plot against his life), and the first to die outside italy[citation needed] 	 – : publius licinius crassus dives mucianus[ ] (killed in battle bc, asia minor), first pontifex to leave italy by choice, and the first to die in battle[citation needed] 	 –late : publius mucius scaevola[ ] succeeding his brother, and last pontifex maximus to publish the annales maximi[citation needed] 	by december – : lucius caecilius metellus dalmaticus, with start date determined by his presiding as pontifex maximus over a vestal trial[ ] 	 –ca. : gnaeus domitius ahenobarbus (d. )[ ] 	ca. – : quintus mucius scaevola (d. ),[ ] first pontifex to be openly murdered (in the temple of vesta, with his body thrown into the tiber)[citation needed] 	 – : quintus caecilius metellus pius (d. ca bc)[ ] 	 – : julius caesar,[ ] elected over two higher-ranking candidates for the office, quintus lutatius catulus and publius servilius vatia isauricus[ ] 	 – : marcus aemilius lepidus (died bc)[ ] pontifices maximi of the roman empire[edit] on march bc, augustus became pontifex maximus, following the death of lepidus. thereafter, it became customary for the emperor to hold the post. constantine (reigned – ) is known as the first emperor to convert to christianity, but gratian ( – ) is recorded as the first emperor to decline the office of pontifex maximus of the traditional state religion.[ ] notes[edit] 	^ dionysius of halicarnassus . . ; t.r.s. broughton, the magistrates of the roman republic (american philological association, , ), vol. , p. . 	^ broughton, vol i, pp. - , note , pp. , cicero, dom. , fr. consol. valerius maximus . . , seneca cons. ad. marc. . , places him in bc 	^ livy . . . 	^ asconius c; broughton, mrr , p. . 	^ livy . . ; broughton, mrr , p. . 	^ plutarch, "on putting one's enemies to use (see also livy . . – ); broughton, mrr , p. 	^ livy . . ; plutarch, camillus . (as fabius); broughton, mrr , p. ; jörg rüpke, fasti sacerdotum (franz steiner, ), p. . 	^ livy . . ; broughton, mrr , p. . 	^ livy . . ; broughton, mrr , p. . 	^ broughton, mrr , pp. and , attested widely in works by cicero and other sources. 	^ livy, periochae ; valerius maximus . . ; broughton, mrr , pp. and . 	^ livy . . ; broughton, mrr , p. . 	^ livy . . – and . . ; broughton, mrr , pp. , . 	^ livy . . and . . and – ; broughton, mrr , pp. , . 	^ livy . . and – , periochae ; broughton, mrr , p. . 	^ cicero, de senectute , de natura deorum . , de oratore . ; broughton, mrr , pp. , . 	^ broughton, mrr , pp. – , , citing multiple testimonia. 	^ broughton, mrr , pp. , . 	^ broughton, mrr , pp. , . 	^ asconius – c; broughton, mrr , pp. , . 	^ broughton, mrr , pp. – ; mrr ( ), p. . 	^ broughton, mrr , pp. , . 	^ broughton, mrr , pp. , , (note ). 	^ broughton, mrr , pp. , (note ), . 	^ velleius paterculus, . ; plutarch, caesar ; suetonius, divus julius . 	^ broughton, mrr , p. . 	^ catholic encyclopedia: gratian further reading[edit] 	bowersock, g. w. 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search 		for other people named henry vaughan, see henry vaughan (disambiguation). 	henry vaughan 	born	 april newton st bridget, brecknockshire, wales 	died	 april ( - - ) (aged  – ) scethrog house, llansantffraed, brecknockshire, wales 	occupation	poet 	nationality	welsh 	period	 th century 	genre	poetry 	notable works	silex scintillans 	spouse	catherine vaughan, elizabeth vaughan 	relatives	thomas vaughan henry vaughan ( april – april ) was a welsh metaphysical poet, author, translator and physician, writing in english. he is chiefly known for religious poetry published in silex scintillans in , with a second part in .[ ] in his poems, with the tenth satyre of juvenal englished, were published, followed by a second volume in . meanwhile, he had been persuaded by reading the religious poet george herbert to give up "idle verse". the prose mount of olives or solitary devotions ( ) shows the depth of his religious convictions and authenticity of his genius. two more volumes of secular verse followed, ostensibly without his sanction, but it is his religious verse that has been acclaimed. he also translated short moral and religious works and two medical works in prose. in the s he began a lifelong practise in medicine.[ ] contents 	 early life 	 education 	 secular works 	 conversion and sacred poetry 	 poetic influences 	 death and legacy 	 musical settings 	 works 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 external links early life[edit] henry vaughan was born at newton by usk in the parish of llansantffraed (st. bridget's), brecknockshire, the eldest known child of thomas vaughan (c. – ) of tretower, and denise jenkin (c. ) only daughter and heir of david and gwenllian morgan of llansantffraed.[ ] vaughan had a twin brother called thomas vaughan, who became a philosopher and alchemist.[ ] vaughan could claim kinship with two powerful welsh families, one catholic and one protestant. his paternal grandfather, william, owned tretower court.[ ] his paternal grandmother, frances, was the natural daughter of thomas somerset, who spent some years in the tower of london for his adherence to catholicism.[ ]:pp. – and – as she survived into vaughan's boyhood, there may have been some direct catholic influence upon his early nurturing. vaughan shared ancestry with the herbert family through the daughter of the famous warrior of agincourt dafydd ap llywelyn, the "davy gam, esquire" of shakespeare's henry v. he is not known to have claimed kinship with george herbert, but may have been aware of the connection. education[edit] thomas vaughan later remarked that "english is a language the author was not born to."[ ] both boys were sent to school under matthew herbert, rector of llangattock, to whom both wrote tributes. since their interest was so clearly shared, the two brothers' intimate acquaintance with hermeticism may have dated from those years. matthew herbert may have reinforced a devotion to church and monarchy that the boys would have learned at home. like several others among vaughan's clerical acquaintances, he later proved uncompromising during the interregnum. he was imprisoned, his property was seized, and he narrowly avoided banishment.[ ] the buttery books of jesus college, oxford show thomas vaughan being admitted in may , and it has long been assumed that henry went up at the same time, although wood states, "he made his first entry into jesus college in michaelmas term , aged years. there is no clear record to establish henry's residence or matriculation, but the assumption of his association with oxford, supported by his inclusion in athenae oxoniensis, is reasonable enough." recent research in the jesus college archives, however, suggests that henry did not enter jesus college before , unless he did so in without matriculating or paying an admission fee, and left before the record in the surviving buttery books resumes in december of that year.[ ] it has been suggested that henry went to oxford later, after thomas, on the basis of a comparison of the poems each wrote for the edition of the comedies, tragi-comedies, with other poems of william cartwright, who had died in . thomas had clearly attended cartwright's lectures, which were a great draw at the time: "when he did read, how did we flock to hear!"[ ] henry, however, apparently had not, since he begins his poem "upon the poems and plays of the ever-memorable mr william cartwright" with the words, "i did but see thee."[ ] this and the poem "upon mr fletcher's plays" are both celebrations of royalist volumes that implied "a reaffirmation of cavalier ideals and a gesture of defiance against the society which had repudiated them."[ ] as the civil war developed, he was recalled home from london, initially to serve as a secretary to sir marmaduke lloyd, a chief justice on the brecknockshire circuit and staunch royalist. vaughan is thought to have served briefly in the royalist army[ ] and, upon his return, began to practise medicine. by , he had married catherine wise, with whom he reared a son, thomas, and three daughters, lucy, frances, and catherine. his courtship with his first wife is reflected in "upon the priory grove", in his first volume of poetry, poems with the tenth satire of juvenal englished ( ). after his first wife's death, he married her sister, elizabeth, probably in .[ ] secular works[edit] vaughan took his literary inspiration from his native environment and chose the descriptive name "silurist", derived from his homage to the silures, a celtic tribe of pre-roman south wales that strongly resisted the romans. the name reflects the love vaughan felt for the welsh mountains of his home in what is now part of the brecon beacons national park and the river usk valley, where he spent most of his early and professional life. by henry vaughan, with his wife and children, had chosen life in the country. this was the setting in which vaughan wrote olor iscanus (the swan of usk). however, it was not published until , over three years after it was written, which presumably reflects some crisis in vaughan's life.[ ] during those years, his grandfather william vaughan died and he was evicted from his living in llansantffraed. vaughan later decried the publication, having "long ago condemned these poems to obscurity." olor iscanus is filled with odd words and similes that beg attention, despite its dark and morbid cognitive appeal. it is founded on crises felt in vaughan's homeland, brecknockshire. during the civil war there was never a major battle fought there, but the effects of the war were deeply felt by vaughan and his community. the puritan parliament visited misfortune, ejecting anglicans and royalists. vaughan also lost his home at that time.[ ]:p there is a marked difference in the atmosphere vaughan attempts to convey in this work and in his most famous work, silex scintillans. olor iscanus directly represents a specific period in vaughan's life, which emphasises other secular writers and provides allusions to debt and happy living. a fervent topic of vaughan throughout the poems is the civil war, and it reveals vaughan's somewhat paradoxical thinking, which ultimately fails to indicate whether he participated or not. vaughan states his complete satisfaction at being clean of "innocent blood", but also provides seemingly eyewitness accounts of battles and his own "soldiery". although vaughan is thought to have been a royalist, these poems express contempt for all current authority and lack of zeal for the royalist cause.[ ]:s , p. his poems generally reflect a sense of severe decline, which may mean he lamented the effects of the war on the monarchy and society. his short poem "the timber", ostensibly about a dead tree, concludes: "thy strange resentment after death / means only those who broke – in life – thy peace." olor iscanus includes translations from the latin of ovid, boethius, and the polish poet casimir sarbiewski. conversion and sacred poetry[edit] it was not until the writing of silex scintillans that vaughan received significant acclaim. the period shortly preceding the publication of the first volume of this work ( ) marked an important period of his life. certain indications in the first volume and explicit statements in the preface to the second volume ( ) suggest that vaughan suffered a prolonged sickness that inflicted much pain. vaughan interprets this experience to be an encounter with death that alerted him to a "misspent youth". vaughan believed he had been spared to make amends and start a new course not only in his life but in the literature he would produce. he described his previous work as foul and a contribution to "corrupt literature". perhaps the most notable mark of vaughan's conversion is how much it is credited to george herbert. vaughan claims he is the least of herbert's many "pious converts".[ ] it was during this period of vaughan's life, around , that he adopted the saying "moriendo, revixi" – "by dying, i gain new life".[ ]:p the first volume of silex scintillans was followed by the mount of olives, or solitary devotions ( ), a prose book of devotions. it provides prayers for different stages of the day, for prayer in church, and for other purposes. it is written as a "companion volume" to the book of common prayer, to which it alludes frequently, though it had been outlawed under the commonwealth. the work was also influenced by lancelot andrewes's preces privatae ( ) and john cosin's collection of private devotions ( ).[ ] flores solitudinis ( ) contains translations from the latin of two works by the spanish jesuit juan eusebio nieremberg, one by a th-century bishop of lyon, eucherius, and by paulinus of nola, of whom vaughan wrote a prose life. vaughan practised medicine, perhaps as early as the s, and attached to the second volume of silex scintillans ( ) a translation of henry nollius's hermetical physick. he went on to produce a translation of nollius's the chymists key in .[ ] poetic influences[edit] vaughan was greatly indebted to george herbert, who provided a model for vaughan's newly founded spiritual life and literary career,[ ] in which he displayed "spiritual quickening and the gift of gracious feeling"[ ]:p derived from herbert. archbishop trench took the view, "as a divine vaughan may be inferior [to herbert], but as a poet he is certainly superior."[ ]:p critics praise vaughan's use of literary elements. vaughan's use of monosyllables and long-drawn alliterations, and his ability to compel the reader place him as "more than the equal of george herbert". yet others say the two are not even comparable, because herbert is in fact the master. while these commentators admit that henry vaughan's use of words can be superior to herbert's, they believe his poetry is, in fact, worse. herbert's profundity as well as consistency are said to be the key to his superiority.[ ]:p certainly vaughan would have never written the way he did without herbert's direction. the explicit spiritual influence here[ ]:p is undeniable, and is all but proclaimed in the preface to silex scintillans. the prose of vaughan exemplifies this as well. for instance, the temple, by herbert, is often seen as the inspiration and model on which vaughan created his work. silex scintillans is most often classed with this collection of herbert's. silex scintillans borrows the same themes, experience, and beliefs as the temple. herbert's influence is evident both in the shape and spirituality of vaughan's poetry. for example, the opening to vaughan's poem 'unprofitableness': 	how rich, o lord! how fresh thy visits are! is reminiscent of herbert's 'the flower': 	how fresh, o lord, how sweet and clean 	are thy returns! ev'n as the flowers in spring another work of vaughan's that clearly parallels george herbert is mount of olives, e. g., the passage, "let sensual natures judge as they please, but for my part, i shall hold it no paradoxe to affirme, there are no pleasures in the world. some coloured griefes of blushing woes there are, which look as clear as if they were true complexions; but it is very sad and tyred truth, that they are but painted." this echoes herbert's rose:[ ]:p 	in this world of sugar's lies, 	and to use a larger measure 	than my strict yet welcome size. 	first, there is no pleasure here: 	coloure'd griefs indeed there are, 	blushing woes that look as clear, 	as if they could beauty spare. critics have complained that vaughan is enslaved to herbert's works, using similar "little tricks" such as abrupt introductions and whimsical titles as a framework for his work, and "failing to learn" from herbert. vaughan carried an inability to know his limits and focused more on the intensity of the poem, meanwhile losing the attention of his audience.[ ]:pp – however, alexander grosart denies that henry vaughan was solely an imitator of herbert.[ ]:p there are moments when the reader can identify vaughan's true self, rather than an imitation of herbert. in these vaughan is seen to show naturalness, immediacy and ability to relate the concrete through poetry.[ ]:p in some instances, vaughan derives observations from herbert's language that are distinctly his own. it is as if vaughan takes proprietorship of some of herbert's work, yet makes it completely unique to himself.[ ]:p vaughan takes another step away from herbert in his manner of presenting his poetry. herbert in the temple, which is most often the source of comparison between the two writers, lays down explicit instructions on its reading. this contrasts with the attitude of vaughan, who saw the experience of reading as the best guide to his meanings and promoted no special reading method.[ ]:p in these times he shows himself different from any other poet. much of his distinction derives from an apparent lack of sympathy with the world around him. his aloof appeal to his surroundings detaches him and encourages his love of nature and mysticism, which in turn influenced other later poets, wordsworth among others. vaughan's mind thinks in terms of a physical and spiritual world and the obscure relation between the two.[ ]:p vaughan's mind often moved to original, unfamiliar and remote places, and this is reflected in his poetry. he was loyal to the themes of the anglican church and religious festivals, but found his true voice in the more mystical themes of eternity, communion with the dead, nature, and childhood. he was a "poet of revelation" who uses the bible, nature and his own experience to illustrate his vision of eternity.[ ] this gives vaughan's poetry a particularly modern sound. alliteration, conspicuous in welsh poetry, is more extensively used by vaughan than by most of his contemporaries writing english verse, noticeably in the opening to "the water-fall".[ ] vaughan drew on personal loss in two well-known poems: "the world" and "they are all gone into the world of light". another poem, "the retreat", combines the theme of loss with the corruption of childhood, which is yet another consistent theme of vaughan's. vaughan's new-found personal voice and persona are seen as a result of the death of a younger brother. this is an example of an especially beautiful fragment of one of his poems entitled 'the world': 	i saw eternity the other night, 	like a great ring of pure and endless light, 	all calm, as it was bright, 	and round beneath it, time in hours, days, years 	driv'n by the spheres 	like a vast shadow mov'd; in which the world 	and all her train were hurl'd.[ ] death and legacy[edit] henry vaughan was acclaimed less in his lifetime than after his death, on april , aged . he was buried in the churchyard of st bride's, llansantffraed, powys, where he had spent most of his life.[ ] the grave is visited by enthusiasts and has been the inspiration for other poets, including siegfried sassoon,[ ] roland mathias[ ] and brian morris.[ ] vaughan is recognised as an "example of a poet who can write both graceful and effective prose".[ ] he influenced the work of poets such as wordsworth, tennyson and siegfried sassoon. the american science fiction writer philip k. dick also named vaughan as a key influence. musical settings[edit] several poems by vaughan from silex scintillans have been set to music, including: 	"the evening-watch" was used in "the evening-watch: dialogue between body and soul" by gustav holst ( ). 	the eucharistic poem "welcome, sweet and sacred feast" was set by gerald finzi as the anthem welcome, sweet and sacred feast, from three anthems, op. ( ).[ ] 	peace was set as the first of hubert parry's songs of farewell ( – ), "my soul, there is a country".[ ] 	several poems were set by daniel jones (composer) in his cantata the country beyond the stars. 	"christ's nativity" and "peace" were set by the american composer timothy hoekman in his sequence of three songs entitled the nativity for soprano and orchestra. works[edit] 	poems with the tenth satire of juvenal englished ( ) 	olor iscanus ( ) 	silex scintillans ( and ) 	mount of olives, or solitary devotions ( ) 	flores solitudinis ( ) 	hermetical physics ( ), translated from the latin of henry nollius 	the chymists key ( ), translated from the latin of henry nollius 	several translations from the latin contributed to thomas powell's humane industry ( ) 	thalia rediviva ( ), a joint collection of poetry with his brother thomas vaughan, after thomas's death[ ] see also[edit] 	poetry portal 	physician writer notes[edit] 	^ a b oxford companion to english literature, s. v. henry vaughan 	^ britannica. retrieved november . 	^ hutchinson , p. , citing martin's first edition, p. . 	^ powys literary links – henry vaughan bbc mid wales, january 	^ vaughan family, of tretower court in welsh biography online, at national library of wales. "william vaughan's children included thomas vaughan (died ), who m. the heiress of newton in llansantffraed; henry vaughan the silurist (q. v.) and thomas vaughan (q. v.) were their sons." 	^ a b c hutchinson, f. e. ( ). henry vaughan, a life and interpretation, oxford: clarenden press. 	^ works of thomas vaughan, clarendon press, oxford, , ed. alan rudrum with jennifer drake-brockman, a.k.a. jennifer speake. 	^ a b c d a. w. ward and a. r. waller (eds) the sacred poets, the cambridge history of english and american literature, vol . :s , p. 	^ brigid allen, "the vaughans at jesus college, oxford, – ", scintilla, the journal of the usk valley vaughan association, : , pp. – , cited by alan rudrum, in the oxford dictionary of national biography. 	^ rudrum, "works of thomas vaughan," p. . 	^ rudrum, "complete poems of henry vaughan, p. . 	^ p. w. thomas, "sir john berkenhead – . a royalist career in politics and polemics (clarendon press, oxford, ), p. . 	^ mathias, roland ( ). roland (ed.). "in search of the silurist". poetry wales. swansea: christopher davies. ( ): – . 	^ vaughan, henry in welsh biography online, at national library of wales; oxford companion to english literature, s.v. henry vaughan. 	^ his conversion in the cambridge history of english and american literature. 	^ a b c d e f g h calhoun, thomas o. henry vaughan: the achievement of the silex scintillans. new jersey: associated university presses, inc, . 	^ oxford companion to english literature, s.v. henry vaughan retrieved november . 	^ a b c d e grosart, rev. alexander b. (ed.). essay on the life and writings of henry vaughan, silurist --in the works in verse and prose complete of henry vaughan, silurist, vol. ii. london uk: gale . pp. ix–ci blackburn, , reprinted in literature criticism from to , vol. , ed. person j e.cs maint: extra text: authors list (link) 	^ thomas, noel k.,henry vaughan, poet of revelation, churchman publishing, worthing, . isbn  . 	^ henry vaughan, 'the world' – rpo 	^ images of wales: st bride's church, llansantffraed juxta usk, breconshire. accessed april . 	^ edmund blunden ( january ). on the poems of henry vaughan: characteristics and intimations. r. cobden-sanderson. p.  . 	^ malcolm ballin ( june ). welsh periodicals in english: – . university of wales press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ brian morris ( ). the collected poems of brian morris. rare books & berry limited. isbn  - - - - . 	^ [ ] 	^ [ ] 	^ oxford companion to english literature, s.v. henry vaughan; t. o. calhoun, the achievement of silex scintillans, east brunswick, new jersey, , p. .] references[edit] 	thomas o. calhoun: henry vaughan: the achievement of the silex scintillans. associated university presses, inc, . east brunswick, new jersey 	harold fisch: the dual image. london: world jewish library, , p.  , katz, philo-semitism, pp. – 	rev. alexander b. grosart (ed.): "essay on the life and writings of henry vaughan, silurist", in the works in verse and prose complete of henry vaughan, silurist, vol. ii. blackburn, , pp. ix–ci. reprinted in literature criticism from to , vol. 	f. e. hutchinson: the works of george herbert. oxford: clarendon press, ; to henry vaughan from the edition by the works of henry vaughan, l. c. martin, oxford: clarendon press, nd ed., 	nabil i. matar, "george herbert, henry vaughan, and the conversion of the jews". studies in english literature (rice), , winter , vol. , issue 	ceri sullivan: the rhetoric of the conscience in donne, herbert, and vaughan. oxford university press, external links[edit] 		wikiquote 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		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		history of the latin language 	 	this article needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. find sources: "history of latin" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · jstor (october ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) one of the seven ceiling fresoes painted by bartolomeo altomonte in his th year for the library of admont abbey. an allegory of the enlightenment, it shows aurora, goddess of dawn, with the geniuses of language in her train awakening morpheus, god of dreaming, a symbol of man. the geniuses are grammar, didactic, greek, hebrew and latin. approximate distribution of languages in iron age italy during the th century bc. latin is confined to latium, a small region on the coast of west central italy, hemmed in by other italic peoples on the east and south and the powerful etruscan civilization on the north. latin is a member of the broad family of italic languages. its alphabet, the latin alphabet, emerged from the old italic alphabets, which in turn were derived from the greek and phoenician scripts. historical latin came from the prehistoric language of the latium region, specifically around the river tiber, where roman civilization first developed. how and when latin came to be spoken by the romans are questions that have long been debated. various influences on latin of celtic dialects in northern italy, the non-indo-european etruscan language in central italy, and the greek of southern italy have been detected, but when these influences entered the native latin is not known for certain. surviving latin literature consists almost entirely of classical latin in its broadest definition. it includes a polished and sometimes highly stylized literary language sometimes termed golden latin, which spans the st century bc and the early years of the st century ad. however, throughout the history of ancient rome the spoken language differed in both grammar and vocabulary from that of literature, and is referred to as vulgar latin. in addition to latin, the greek language was often spoken by the well-educated elite, who studied it in school and acquired greek tutors from among the influx of enslaved educated greek prisoners of war, captured during the roman conquest of greece. in the eastern half of the roman empire, which became the byzantine empire, the greek koine of hellenism remained current and was never replaced by latin. it continued to influence the vulgar latin that evolved into the eastern romance languages. contents 	 origins 	 old latin 	 classical latin 	 . golden age 	 . silver age 	 late latin 	 vulgar latin 	 romance languages 	 ecclesiastical latin 	 medieval latin 	 renaissance latin 	 new latin 	 contemporary latin 	 phonological changes 	 . vowels 	 . . pure vowels 	 . . . initial syllables 	 . . . medial syllables 	 . . . syncope 	 . . . final syllables 	 . . diphthongs 	 . . . initial syllables 	 . . . medial syllables 	 . . . final syllables 	 . . syllabic resonants and laryngeals 	 . consonants 	 . . aspirates 	 . . labiovelars 	 . . other sequences 	 . . s-rhotacism 	 see also 	 notes 	 sources 	 external links origins[edit] main article: italic languages the forum inscription (lapis niger, "black stone"), one of the oldest known latin inscriptions, from the th century bc; it is written boustrophedon, albeit irregularly; from a rubbing by domenico comparetti. the name latin derives from the italic tribal group named latini that settled around the th century bc in latium, and the dialect spoken by these people.[ ] the italic languages form a centum subfamily of the indo-european language family. these include the romance, germanic, celtic, and hellenic languages, and a number of extinct ones. broadly speaking, in initial syllables the indo-european simple vowels — (*a), *e, *i, *o, *u; short and long — are usually retained in latin. the schwa indogermanicum (*ə) appears in latin as a (cf. ie *pəter > l pater). diphthongs are also preserved in old latin, but in classical latin some tend to become monophthongs (for example oi > ū or oe, and ei > ē > ī).[ ] in non-initial syllables, there was more vowel reduction. the most extreme case occurs with short vowels in medial open syllables (i.e. short vowels followed by at most a single consonant, occurring neither in the first nor last syllable): all are reduced to a single vowel, which appears as i in most cases, but e (sometimes o) before r, and u before an l which is followed by o or u. in final syllables, short e and o are usually raised to i and u, respectively. consonants are generally more stable. however, the indo-european voiced aspirates bh, dh, gh, gwh are not maintained, becoming f, f, h, f respectively at the beginning of a word, but usually b, d, g, v elsewhere. non-initial dh becomes b next to r or u, e.g. *h₁rudh- "red" > rub-, e.g. rubeō "to be red"; *werdh- "word" > verbum. s between vowels becomes r, e.g. flōs "flower", gen. flōris; erō "i will be" vs. root es-; aurōra "dawn" < *ausōsā (cf. germanic *aust- > english "east", vedic sanskrit uṣā́s "dawn"); soror "sister" < *sosor < *swezōr < *swésōr (cf. old english sweostor "sister"). of the original eight cases of proto-indo-european, latin inherited six: nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, dative, and ablative. the indo-european locative survived in the declensions of some place names and a few common nouns, such as roma "rome" (locative romae) and domus "home" (locative domī "at home"). vestiges of the instrumental case may remain in adverbial forms ending in -ē.[ ] it is believed that the earliest surviving inscription is a seventh-century bc fibula known as the praenestine fibula, which reads manios med fhefhaked numasioi "manius made me for numerius".[ ] old latin[edit] the duenos inscription, from the th century bc, is the second-earliest known latin text. main article: old latin old latin (also called early latin or archaic latin) refers to the period of latin texts before the age of classical latin, extending from textual fragments that probably originated in the roman monarchy to the written language of the late roman republic about bc. almost all the writing of its earlier phases is inscriptional. some phonological characteristics of older latin are the case endings -os and -om (later latin -us and -um). in many locations, classical latin turned intervocalic /s/ into /r/. this had implications for declension: early classical latin, honos, honosis; classical honor, honoris ("honor"). some latin texts preserve /s/ in this position, such as the carmen arvale's lases for lares. classical latin[edit] main article: classical latin julius caesar's commentarii de bello gallico is one of the most famous classical latin texts of the golden age of latin. the unvarnished, journalistic style of this upper-class general has long been taught as a model of the urbane latin officially spoken and written in the floruit of the roman republic. classical latin is the form of the latin language used by the ancient romans in classical latin literature. in the latest and narrowest philological model its use spanned the golden age of latin literature – broadly the st century bc and the early st century ad – possibly extending to the silver age – broadly the st and nd centuries. it was a polished written literary language based on the refined spoken language of the upper classes. classical latin differs from old latin: the earliest inscriptional language and the earliest authors, such as ennius, plautus and others, in a number of ways; for example, the early -om and -os endings shifted into -um and -us ones, and some lexical differences also developed, such as the broadening of the meaning of words.[ ] in the broadest and most ancient sense, the classical period includes the authors of early latin, the golden age and the silver age. golden age[edit] the golden age of latin literature is a period consisting roughly of the time from  bc to ad  , covering the end of the roman republic and the reign of augustus caesar. in the currently used philological model this period represents the peak of latin literature. since the earliest post-classical times the latin of those authors has been an ideal norm of the best latin, which other writers should follow. silver age[edit] in reference to roman literature, the silver age covers the first two centuries ad directly after the golden age. literature from the silver age is more embellished with mannerisms. late latin[edit] main article: late latin late latin is the administrative and literary language of late antiquity in the late roman empire and states that succeeded the western roman empire over the same range. by its broadest definition it is dated from about ad to about ad when it was replaced by written romance languages. opinion concerning whether it should be considered classical is divided. the authors of the period looked back to a classical period they believed should be imitated and yet their styles were often classical. according to the narrowest definitions, late latin did not exist and the authors of the times are to be considered medieval. vulgar latin[edit] main article: vulgar latin vulgar latin, as in this political graffito at pompeii, was the language of the ordinary people of the roman empire, distinct from the classical latin of literature. vulgar latin (in latin, sermo vulgaris) is a blanket term covering vernacular dialects of the latin language spoken from earliest times in italy until the latest dialects of the western roman empire, diverging still further, evolved into the early romance languages – whose writings began to appear about the th century. this spoken latin differed from the literary language of classical latin in its grammar and vocabulary. it is likely to have evolved over time, with some features not appearing until the late empire. other features are likely to have been in place much earlier. because there are few phonetic transcriptions of the daily speech of these latin speakers (to match, for example, the post-classical appendix probi) vulgar latin must be studied mainly by indirect methods. a replica of the old roman cursive inspired by the vindolanda tablets knowledge of vulgar latin comes from a variety of sources. first, the comparative method reconstructs items of the mother language from the attested romance languages. also, prescriptive grammar texts from the late latin period condemn some usages as errors, providing insight into how latin was actually spoken. the solecisms and non-classical usages occasionally found in late latin texts also shed light on the spoken language. a windfall source lies in the chance finds of wax tablets such as those found at vindolanda on hadrian's wall. the roman cursive script was used on these tablets. romance languages[edit] main article: romance languages the romance languages, a major branch of the indo-european language family, comprise all languages that descended from latin, the language of the roman empire. the romance languages have more than million native speakers worldwide, mainly in the americas, europe, and africa, as well as in many smaller regions scattered through the world. all romance languages descend from vulgar latin, the language of soldiers, settlers, and slaves of the roman empire, which was substantially different from that of the roman literati. between bc and ad , the expansion of the empire and the administrative and educational policies of rome made vulgar latin the dominant vernacular language over a wide area which stretched from the iberian peninsula to the west coast of the black sea. during the empire's decline and after its collapse and fragmentation in the th century, vulgar latin began to evolve independently within each local area, and eventually diverged into dozens of distinct languages. the overseas empires established by spain, portugal and france after the th century then spread these languages to other continents – about two thirds of all romance speakers are now outside europe. in spite of the multiple influences of pre-roman languages and later invasions, the phonology, morphology, lexicon, and syntax of all romance languages are predominantly derived from vulgar latin. as a result, the group shares a number of linguistic features that set it apart from other indo-european branches. ecclesiastical latin[edit] main article: ecclesiastical latin ecclesiastical latin (sometimes called church latin) is a broad and analogous term referring to the latin language as used in documents of the roman catholic church, its liturgies (mainly in past times) and during some periods the preaching of its ministers. ecclesiastical latin is not a single style: the term merely means the language promulgated at any time by the church. in terms of stylistic periods, it belongs to late latin in the late latin period, medieval latin in the medieval period, and so on through to the present. one may say that, starting from the church's decision in the early late latin period to use a simple and unornamented language that would be comprehensible to ordinary latin speakers and yet still be elegant and correct, church latin is usually a discernible substyle within the major style of the period. its authors in the new latin period are typically paradigmatic of the best latin and that is true in contemporary times. the decline in its use within the last years has been a matter of regret to some, who have formed organizations inside and outside the church to support its use and to use it. medieval latin[edit] main article: medieval latin page with medieval latin text from the carmina cantabrigiensia (cambridge university library, gg. . ), th century medieval latin, the literary and administrative latin used in the middle ages, exhibits much variation between individual authors, mainly due to poor communications in those times between different regions. the individuality is characterised by a different range of solecisms and by the borrowing of different words from vulgar latin or from local vernaculars. some styles show features intermediate between latin and romance languages; others are closer to classical latin. the stylistic variations came to an end with the rise of nation states and new empires in the renaissance period, and the authority of early universities imposing a new style: renaissance latin. renaissance latin[edit] main article: renaissance latin renaissance latin is a name given to the latin written during the european renaissance in the th- th centuries, particularly distinguished by the distinctive latin style developed by the humanist movement. ad fontes was the general cry of the humanists, and as such their latin style sought to purge latin of the medieval latin vocabulary and stylistic accretions that it had acquired in the centuries after the fall of the roman empire. they looked to golden age latin literature, and especially to cicero in prose and virgil in poetry, as the arbiters of latin style. they abandoned the use of the sequence and other accentual forms of meter, and sought instead to revive the greek formats that were used in latin poetry during the roman period. the humanists condemned the large body of medieval latin literature as "gothic" – for them, a term of abuse – and believed instead that only ancient latin from the roman period was "real latin". the humanists also sought to purge written latin of medieval developments in its orthography. they insisted, for example, that ae be written out in full wherever it occurred in classical latin; medieval scribes often wrote e instead of ae. they were much more zealous than medieval latin writers in distinguishing t from c: because the effects of palatalization made them homophones, medieval scribes often wrote, for example, eciam for etiam. their reforms even affected handwriting: humanists usually wrote latin in a script derived from carolingian minuscule, the ultimate ancestor of most contemporary lower-case typefaces, avoiding the black-letter scripts used in the middle ages. erasmus even proposed that the then-traditional pronunciations of latin be abolished in favour of his reconstructed version of classical latin pronunciation. the humanist plan to remake latin was largely successful, at least in education. schools now taught the humanistic spellings, and encouraged the study of the texts selected by the humanists, largely to the exclusion of later latin literature. on the other hand, while humanist latin was an elegant literary language, it became much harder to write books about law, medicine, science or contemporary politics in latin while observing all of the humanists' norms of vocabulary purging and classical usage. because humanist latin lacked precise vocabulary to deal with modern issues, their reforms accelerated the transformation of latin from a working language to an object of antiquarian study. their attempts at literary work, especially poetry, often have a strong element of pastiche. new latin[edit] main article: new latin after the medieval era, latin was revived in original, scholarly, and scientific works between c. and c. . the result language is called new latin. modern scholarly and technical nomenclature, such as in zoological and botanical taxonomy and international scientific vocabulary, draws extensively from new latin vocabulary. in such use, new latin is subject to new word formation. as a language for full expression in prose or poetry, however, it is often distinguished from its successor, contemporary latin. classicists use the term "neo-latin" to describe the use of latin after the renaissance as a result of renewed interest in classical civilization in the th and th centuries.[ ] contemporary latin[edit] main article: contemporary latin a contemporary latin inscription at salamanca university commemorating the visit of the then-prince "akihitus" and princess "michika" of japan on february contemporary latin is the form of the latin language used since the end of the th century. various kinds of contemporary latin can be distinguished, including the use of single words in taxonomy, and the fuller ecclesiastical use in the catholic church . as a relic of the great importance of new latin as the formerly dominant international lingua franca down to the th century in a great number of fields, latin is still present in words or phrases used in many languages around the world, and some minor communities use latin in their speech. phonological changes[edit] vowels[edit] proto-italic inherited all ten of the early post-proto-indo-european simple vowels (i.e. at a time when laryngeals had colored and often lengthened adjacent vowels and then disappeared in many circumstances): *a, *e, *i, *o, *u, *ā, *ē, *ī, *ō, *ū. it also inherited all of the post-pie diphthongs except for *eu, which became *ou. proto-italic and old latin had a stress accent on the first syllable of a word, and this caused steady reduction and eventual deletion of many short vowels in non-initial syllables while affecting initial syllables much less. long vowels were largely unaffected in general except in final syllables, where they had a tendency to shorten. development of proto-italic vowels in latin[ ] 		initial	medial	final 	proto-italic	+r	+l pinguis 	+labial (/p, b, f, m/) 	+other 	+one consonant	+cluster	absolutely final 	one consonant	cluster 	s	m, n	other 	a 	a	e[a]	o > u[b] 	ʏ (sonus medius)[c] 	i[d]	e[e]	i	e	i	e	e 	e 	e 	o > u[f] 	i 	i 	i?	i[g] 	o 	o 	o > u[h]	o[i]	u 	u 	u 	u[j]	u[k] 	ā 	ā	a	a, ā 	ē 	ē	e	ē? 	ī 	ī	i	ī? 	ō 	ō	o	ō 	ū 	ū	u	ū? 	ai 	ae	ī 	au 	au	ū 	ei 	ī 	oi 	ū, oe	ū	ī 	ou 	ū notes: 	^ example: imberbis (from in + barba) 	^ example: exsultare (from ex + saltare) 	^ examples: documentum, optimus, lacrima (also spelled docimentum, optumus, lacruma) 	^ examples: inficere (from in + facere), oppidum (from ob + pedum, borrowed from gr. πέδον) 	^ examples: infectus (from in + factus), ineptus (from in + aptus), exspectare (from ex + spectare) 	^ examples: occultus (from ob + cel(a)tus), multus (from pie *mel-) 	^ example: invictus (from in + victus) 	^ example: cultus (participle of colō) 	^ example: adoptare (from ad + optare) 	^ example: exculpare (from ex + culpare) 	^ example: eruptus (from e + ruptus) note: for the following examples, it helps to keep in mind the normal correspondences between pie and certain other languages: development of some proto-indo-european sounds in other languages 	(post-)pie	ancient greek	old english	gothic	sanskrit	notes 	*i 	i	i	i, aí /ɛ/	i	 	*e 	e	e	i, aí /ɛ/	a	 	*a 	a	a	a	a	 	*o 	o	a	a	a	 	*u 	u	u, o	u, aú /ɔ/	u	 	*ī 	ī	ī	ei /ī/	ī	 	*ē 	ē	ā	ē	ā	 	*ā 	ē (attic); ā (doric, etc.)	ō	ō	ā	 	*ō 	ō	ō	ō	ā	 	*ū 	ū	ū	ū	ū	 	*ai 	ai	ā	ái	ē	 	*au 	au	ēa	áu	ō	 	*ei 	ei	ī	ei /ī/	ē	 	*eu 	eu	ēo	iu	ō	 	*oi 	oi	ā	ái	ē	 	*ou 	ou	ēa	áu	ō	 	*p 	p	f	f; b	p	b in gothic by verner's law 	*t 	t	þ/ð; d	þ; d	t	þ and ð are different graphs for the same sound; d in the germanic languages by verner's law 	*ḱ 	k	h; g	h; g	ś	g in the germanic languages by verner's law 	*k 	k; c (+ pie e/i)	 	*kʷ 	p; t (+ e/i)	hw, h; g, w	ƕ /hʷ/; g, w, gw	g, w, gw in the germanic languages by verner's law 	*b 	b	p	p	b	 	*d 	d	t	t	d	 	*ǵ 	g	k	k	j	 	*g 	g; j (+ pie e/i) 	*gʷ 	b; d (+ i)	q, c	q	 	*bʰ 	ph; p	b	b	bh; b	greek p, sanskrit b before any aspirated consonant (grassmann's law) 	*dʰ 	th; t	d	d	dh; d	greek t, sanskrit d before any aspirated consonant 	*ǵʰ 	kh; k	g	g	h; j	greek k, sanskrit j before any aspirated consonant 	*gʰ 	gh; g h; j (+ pie e/i)	greek k, sanskrit g, j before any aspirated consonant 	*gʷʰ 	ph; p th; t (+ e/i)	b (word-initially); g, w	b (word-initially); g, w, gw	greek p, t, sanskrit g, j before any aspirated consonant 	*s 	h (word-initially); s, -	s; r	s; z	s, ṣ	r, z in germanic by verner's law; sanskrit ṣ by ruki sound law 	*y 	h, z (word-initially); -	g(e) /j/	j /j/	y	 	*w 	-	w	w	v	 pure vowels[edit] initial syllables[edit] in initial syllables, latin generally preserves all of the simple vowels of proto-italic (see above): 	pie *h₂eǵros "field" > *agros > ager, gen. agrī (greek agrós, english acre, sanskrit ájra) 	pie *kápros "he-goat" > *kapros > caper "he-goat", gen. caprī (greek kápros "boar", old english hæfer "he-goat", sanskrit kápṛtha "penis") 	pie *swéḱs "six", septḿ̥ "seven" > *seks, *septem > sex, septem (greek heks, heptá, lithuanian šešì, septynì, sanskrit ṣáṣ, saptá) 	pie *kʷís > *kʷis > quis "who?" (greek tís,[ ] avestan čiš, sanskrit kíḥ) 	pie *kʷód > *kʷod > quod "what, that" (relative) (old english hwæt "what", sanskrit kád) 	pie *oḱtṓ "eight" > *oktō > octō (greek oktṓ, irish ocht, sanskrit aṣṭā́) 	pie *nókʷts "night" > *noks > nox, gen. noctis (greek nuks < *nokʷs, sanskrit nák < *nákts, lithuanian naktìs) 	pie *yugóm "yoke" > *jugom > iugum (greek zugón, gothic juk, sanskrit yugá) 	pie *méh₂tēr "mother" > *mātēr > māter (doric greek mā́tēr, old irish máthir, sanskrit mā́tṛ) 	pie *sweh₂dús "pleasing, tasty" > *swādus > *swādwis (remade into i-stem) > suāvis (doric greek hādús, english sweet, sanskrit svādú) 	pie *sēmi- "half" > *sēmi- > sēmi- (greek hēmi-, old english sām-, sanskrit sāmí) 	pie *ǵneh₃tós "known" > *gnōtos > nōtus (i-gnōtus "unknown"; welsh gnawd "customary", sanskrit jñātá; greek gnōtós[ ]) 	pie *múh₂s "mouse" > *mūs > mūs (old english mūs, greek mûs, sanskrit mū́ṣ) 	pie *gʷih₃wós "alive" > *gʷīwos > vīvus (old english cwic, greek bíos "life", sanskrit jīvá) short vowel changes in initial syllables: 	*swe- > so-: 	*swezōr > soror, gen. sorōris "sister" 	*swepnos > *swepnos > somnus "sleep" 	*we- > wo- before labial consonants or velarized l [ɫ] (l pinguis; i.e. an l not followed by i, ī or l): 	*welō "i want" > volō (vs. velle "to want" before l exīlis) 	*wemō "i vomit" > vomō (greek eméō, sanskrit vámiti) 	e > i before [ŋ] (spelled n before a velar, or g before n): 	pie *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s > *denɣwā > old latin dingua > lingua "tongue" (l- from lingō "to lick") 	pie *deḱnós > *degnos > dignus "worthy" there are numerous examples where pie *o appears to result in latin a instead of expected o, mostly next to labial or labializing consonants. a group of cases showing *-ow- > *-aw- > -av- (before stress), *-ōw- > *-āw- > -āv- is known as thurneysen-havet's law:[ ] examples include pie *lowh₃ṓ > *lawō > lavō 'i wash'; pie *oḱtṓwos > *oktāwos > octāvus 'eighth' (but octō 'eight'). other cases remain more disputed, such as mare 'sea', in contrast to irish muir, welsh môr (proto-celtic *mori) < pie *móri; lacus 'lake', in contrast to irish loch < pie *lókus. de vaan ( : ) suggests a general shift *o > a in open syllables when preceded by any of *b, *m; *kʷ, *w; *l. vine ( )[ ] disputes the cases with *mocv, but proposes inversely that *mo- > ma- when followed by r plus a velar (k or g). medial syllables[edit] in non-initial syllables, there was more vowel reduction of short vowels. the most extreme case occurs with short vowels in medial syllables (i.e. short vowels in a syllable that is neither the first nor the last), where all five vowels usually merge into a single vowel: . they merge into e before r (sometimes original o is unaffected) 	*en-armis > inermis "unarmed" (vs. arma "arms") 	latin-faliscan *pe-par-ai "i gave birth" > peperī (vs. pariō "i give birth") 	*kom-gesō > congerō "to collect" (vs. gerō "to do, carry out") 	*kinis-es "ash" (gen.sg.) > cineris (vs. nom.sg. cinis) 	*falisiōi > faleriī "falerii (major town of the faliscans)" (vs. faliscus "faliscan") 	latin-faliscan numasiōi (praeneste fibula) > numeriō "numerius" 	*-foro- "carrying" (cf. greek -phóros) > -fero-, e.g. furcifer "gallows bird" 	pie *swéḱuros "father-in-law" > *swekuros > old latin *soceros > socer, gen. socerī . they become old latin o > u before l pinguis, i.e., an l not followed by i, ī, or l: 	*en-saltō "to leap upon" > īnsoltō (with lengthening before ns) > īnsultō (vs. saltō "i leap") 	*ad-alēskō "to grow up" > adolēscō > adulēscō (vs. alō "i nourish") 	*ob-kelō "to conceal" > occulō (vs. celō "i hide") 	greek sikelós "a sicilian" > *sikolos > siculus (vs. sicilia "sicily") 	te-tol-ai > tetulī "i carried" (formerly l pinguis here because of the original final -ai) 	kom-solō "deliberate" > cōnsulō 	pie *-kl̥d-to- "beaten" > *-kolsso-[ ] > perculsus "beaten down" . but they remain o before l pinguis when immediately following a vowel: 	latin-faliscan *fili-olos > filiolus "little son" 	similarly, alveolus "trough" . before /w/ the result is always u, in which case the /w/ is not written: 	*eks-lawō "i wash away" > ēluō 	*mon-i-wai "i warned" > monuī 	*tris-diw-om "period of three days" > trīduom > trīduum 	*dē nowōd "anew" > dēnuō . they become i before one consonant other than r or l pinguis: 	*wre-fakjō "to remake" > *refakiō > reficiō (vs. faciō "i do, make") 	latin-faliscan *ke-kad-ai "i fell" > cecidī (vs. cadō "i fall") 	*ad-tenējō > attineō "to concern" (vs. teneō "i hold") 	*kom-regō > corrigō "to set right, correct" (vs. regō "i rule; straighten") 	greek sikelía "sicily" > sicilia (vs. siculus "a sicilian") 	pie *me-món-h₂e (perfect) "thought, pondered" > latin-faliscan *me-mon-ai > meminī "i remember" 	*kom-itājō "accompany" > comitō 	*nowotāts "newness" > novitās 	*kornu-kan- "trumpeter" > cornicen 	*kaput-es "head" (gen. sg.) > capitis (vs. nom.sg. caput) . but they sometimes become e before one consonant other than r or l pinguis, when immediately following a vowel: 	*sokiotāts "fellowship" > societās 	*wariogājesi "to make diverse" > variegāre 	but: *tībia-kan- "flute-player" > *tībiikan- > tībīcen 	but: *medio-diēs "midday" > *meriodiēs (dissimilative rhotacism) > *meriidiēs > merīdiēs "noon; south" . variation between i and (often earlier) u is common before a single labial consonant (p, b, f, m), underlyingly the sonus medius vowel: 	from the root *-kap- "grab, catch": 	occupō "seize" vs. occipiō "begin" 	from the related noun *-kaps "catcher": prīnceps "chief" (lit. "seizer of the first (position)"), gen. prīncipis, vs. auceps "bird catcher", gen. aucupis 	*man-kapiom > mancupium "purchase", later mancipium 	*sub-rapuit > surrupuit "filches", later surripuit 	*mag-is-emos > maxumus "biggest", later maximus; similarly proxumus "nearest", optumus "best" vs. later proximus, optimus 	*pot-s-omos > possumus "we can"; *vel-omos > volumus "we want"; but *leg-omos > legimus "we gather", and all other such verbs (-umus is isolated in sumus, possumus and volumus) medially before two consonants, when the first is not r or l pinguis, the vowels do not merge to the same degree: . original a, e and u merge into e: 	greek tálanton > *talantom > talentum 	*sub-raptos "filched" > surreptus (vs. raptus "seized") 	*wre-faktos "remade" > refectus (cf. factus "made") 	*ad-tentos > attentus "concerned" (cf. tentus "held", attineō "to concern") . but original i is unaffected: 	*wre-likʷtos "left (behind)" > relictus . and original o raises to u: 	*legontor "they gather" > leguntur 	*ejontes "going" (gen. sg.) > euntis 	rōbos-to- > rōbustus "oaken" (cf. rōbur "oak" < *rōbos) syncope[edit] exon's law dictates that if there are two light medial syllables in a row (schematically, σσ̆σ̆σ, where σ = syllable and σ̆ = light syllable, where "light" means a short vowel followed by only a single consonant), the first syllable syncopates (i.e. the vowel is deleted): 	*deksiteros "right (hand)" > dexterus (cf. greek deksiterós) 	*wre-peparai > repperī "i found" (cf. peperī "i gave birth" < *peparai) 	*prīsmo-kapes > prīncipis "prince" gen. sg. (nom. sg. prīnceps < *prīsmo-kaps by analogy) 	*mag-is-emos > maximus "biggest" (cf. magis "more") syncopation tends to occur after r and l in all non-initial syllables, sometimes even in initial syllables.[ ] 	*feret "he carries" > fert 	*agros "field" > *agr̩s > *agers > *agerr > ager 	*imbris "rainstorm" > *imbers > imber 	*tris "three times" > *tr̩s > *ters > old latin terr > ter 	*faklitāts > facultās sometimes early syncope causes apparent violations of exon's law: 	kosolinos "of hazel" > *kozolnos (not **koslinos) > *korolnos > *korulnos (o > u before l pinguis, see above) > colurnus (metathesis) syncope of -i- also occurred in -ndis, -ntis and -rtis.[ ] -nts then became -ns with lengthening of the preceding vowel, while -rts was simplified to -rs without lengthening. 	*montis "hill" > *monts > mōns 	*gentis "tribe" > *gents > gēns 	*frondis "leaf" > *fronts > frōns 	*partis "part" > *parts > pars final syllables[edit] in final syllables of polysyllabic words before a final consonant or cluster, short a, e, i merge into either e or i depending on the following consonant, and short o, u merge into u. . short a, e, i merge into i before a single non-nasal consonant: 	proto-italic *wrededas, *wrededat > reddis, reddit "you return, he returns" 	pie thematic nd/ rd sg. *-esi, *-eti > pi *-es, *-et > -is, -it (e.g. legis, legit "you gather, he gathers") 	i-stem nom. sg. *-is > -is . short a, e, i merge into e before a cluster or a single nasal consonant: 	*prīsmo-kaps > prīnceps "first, chief" (cf. capiō "to take") 	*kornu-kan-(?s) > cornicen "trumpeter" (cf. canō "to sing") 	*mīlets > mīles "soldier" 	*in-art-is > iners "unskilled" (cf. ars "skill") 	*septḿ̥ > septem "seven" 	i-stem acc. sg. *-im > -em . short o, u merge into u: 	o-stem nominative *-os > old latin -os > -us 	o-stem accusative *-om > old latin -om > -um 	pie thematic rd pl. *-onti > *-ont > -unt 	pie *yekʷr̥ > *jekʷor > iecur "liver" 	pie thematic rd sg. mediopassive *-etor > -itur 	*kaput > caput "head" . all short vowels apparently merge into -e in absolute final position.[dubious – discuss] 	pie *móri > pi *mari > mare "sea" (cf. plural maria) 	proto-italic *kʷenkʷe > quīnque "five" 	 nd sg. passive -ezo, -āzo > -ere, -āre 	pi s-stem verbal nouns in *-zi > infinitives in -re 	but: u-stem neuter nom./acc. sg. *-u > -ū, apparently by analogy with gen. sg. -ūs, dat./abl. sg. -ū (it is not known if this change occurred already in proto-italic) long vowels in final syllables shorten before most consonants (but not final s), yielding apparent exceptions to the above rules: 	proto-italic *amāt > amat "he/she loves" (cf. passive amātur) 	proto-italic *amānt > amant "they love" 	a-stem acc. sg. *-ām > -am 	pie thematic st sg. mediopassive *-ōr > -or 	*swesōr > soror "sister" (cf. gen. sorōris) absolutely final long vowels are apparently maintained with the exception of ā, which is shortened in the st declension nominative singular and the neuter plural ending (both < pie *-eh₂) but maintained in the st conjugation nd sg. imperative (< pie *-eh₂-yé). diphthongs[edit] initial syllables[edit] proto-italic maintained all pie diphthongs except for the change *eu > *ou. the proto-italic diphthongs tend to remain into old latin but generally reduce to pure long vowels by classical latin. . pie *ei > old latin ei > ẹ̄, a vowel higher than ē < pie *ē. this then developed to ī normally, but to ē before v: 	pie *deiḱ- "point (out)" > old latin deicō > dīcō "to say" 	pie *bʰeydʰ- "be persuaded, be confident" > *feiðe- > fīdō "to trust" 	pie *deiwós "god, deity" > very old latin deiuos (duenos inscription) > dẹ̄vos > deus 	but nominative plural *deivoi > *deivei > *dẹ̄vẹ̄ > dīvī > diī; vocative singular *deive > *dẹ̄ve > dīve . pie *eu, *ou > proto-italic *ou > old latin ou > ọ̄ (higher than ō < pie *ō) > ū: 	pie *(h)yeug- "join" > *youg-s-mn̥-to- > old latin iouxmentom "pack horse" > iūmentum 	pie *louk-s-neh₂ > *louksnā > old latin losna (i.e. lọ̄sna) > lūna "moon" (cf. old prussian lauxnos "stars", avestan raoχšnā "lantern") 	pie *deuk- > *douk-e- > old latin doucō > dūcō "lead" . pie (*h₂ei >) *ai > ae: 	pie *kh₂ei-ko- > *kaiko- > caecus "blind" (cf. old irish cáech /kaiχ/ "blind", gothic háihs "one-eyed", sanskrit kekara- "squinting") . pie (*h₂eu >) *au > au: 	pie *h₂eug- > *augeje/o > augeō "to increase" (cf. greek aúksō, gothic áukan, lithuanian áugti) . pie *oi > old latin oi, oe > ū (occasionally preserved as oe): 	pie *h₁oi-nos > old latin oinos > oenus > ūnus "one" 	greek phoiniks > pūnicus "phoenician" 	but: pie *bʰoidʰ- > *foiðo- > foedus "treaty" (cf. fīdō above) medial syllables[edit] all diphthongs in medial syllables become ī or ū. . (post-)pie *ei > ī, just as in initial syllables: 	*en-deik-ō > indīcō "to point out" (cf. dīcō "to say") . (post-)pie *oi > ū, just as in initial syllables: 	pie *n̥-poini "with impunity" > impūne (cf. poena "punishment"). . (post-)pie *eu, *ou > proto-italic *ou > ū, just as in initial syllables: 	*en-deuk-ō > *indoucō > indūcō "to draw over, cover" (cf. dūcō "to lead") . post-pie *ai > old latin ei > ī: 	*ke-kaid-ai "i cut", perf. > cecīdī (cf. caedō "i cut", pres.) 	*en-kaid-ō "cut into" > incīdō (cf. caedō "cut") 	early greek (or from an earlier source) *elaíwā "olive" > olīva . post-pie *au > ū (rarely oe): 	*en-klaud-ō "enclose" > inclūdō (cf. claudō "close") 	*ad-kauss-ō "accuse" > accūsō (cf. causa "cause") 	*ob-aud-iō "obey" > oboediō (cf. audiō "hear") final syllables[edit] mostly like medial syllables: 	*-ei > ī: pie *meh₂tr-ei "to mother" > mātrī 	*-ai > ī in multisyllabic words: latin-faliscan peparai "i brought forth" > peperī 	*-eu/ou- > ū: post-pie manous "hand", gen. sg. > manūs different from medial syllables: 	-oi > old latin -ei > ī (not ū): pie o-stem plural *-oi > -ī (cf. greek -oi); 	-oi > ī also in monosyllables: pie kʷoi "who" > quī 	-ai > ae in monosyllables: pie *prh₂ei "before" > prae (cf. greek paraí) syllabic resonants and laryngeals[edit] the pie syllabic resonants *m̥, *n̥, *r̥, *l̥ generally become em, en, or, ol (cf. greek am/a, an/a, ar/ra, al/la; germanic um, un, ur, ul; sanskrit am/a, an/a, r̥, r̥; lithuanian im̃, iñ, ir̃, il̃): 	pie *déḱm̥(t) "ten" > decem (cf. irish deich, greek deka, gothic taíhun /tɛhun/) 	pie *(d)ḱm̥tóm "hundred" > centum (cf. welsh cant, gothic hund, lithuanian šim̃tas) 	pie *n̥- "not" > ol en- > in- (cf. greek a-/an-, english un-) 	pie *tn̥tós "stretched" > tentus (cf. greek tatós, sanskrit tatá-) 	pie *ḱr̥d- "heart" > *cord > cor (cf. greek kēr, english heart, lithuanian širdìs) 	pie *ml̥dús "soft" > *moldus > *moldwis (remade as i-stem) > *molwis > mollis (cf. irish meldach "pleasing", english mild, czech mladý) the laryngeals *h₁, *h₂, *h₃ appear in latin as a when between consonants, as in most languages (but greek e/a/o respectively, sanskrit i): 	pie *dʰh₁-tós "put" > l factus, with /k/ of disputed etymology (cf. greek thetós, sanskrit hitá- < *dhitá-) 	pie *ph₂tḗr "father" > l pater (cf. greek patḗr, sanskrit pitā́, english father) 	pie *dh₃-tós "given" > l datus (cf. greek dotós, sanskrit ditá-) a sequence of syllabic resonant + laryngeal, when before a consonant, produced mā, nā, rā, lā (as also in celtic, cf. greek nē/nā/nō, rē/rā/rō, etc. depending on the laryngeal; germanic um, un, ur, ul; sanskrit ā, ā, īr/ūr, īr/ūr; lithuanian ím, ín, ír, íl): 	pie *ǵr̥h₂-nom "grain" > grānum (cf. old irish grán, english corn, lithuanian žìrnis "pea") 	pie *h₂wl̥h₁-neh₂ "wool" > *wlānā > lāna (cf. welsh gwlân, gothic wulla, greek lēnos, lithuanian vìlna) 	pie *ǵn̥h₁-tos "born" > gnātus "son", nātus "born" (participle) (cf. middle welsh gnawt "relative", greek dió-gnētos "zeus' offspring", english kind) consonants[edit] aspirates[edit] the indo-european voiced aspirates bʰ, dʰ, gʰ, gʷʰ, which were probably breathy voiced stops, first devoiced in initial position (fortition), then fricatized in all positions, producing pairs of voiceless/voiced fricatives in proto-italic: f ~ β, θ ~ ð, χ ~ ɣ, χʷ ~ ɣʷ respectively.[ ] the fricatives were voiceless in initial position. however, between vowels and other voiced sounds, there are indications — in particular, their evolution in latin — that the sounds were actually voiced. likewise, proto-italic /s/ apparently had a voiced allophone [z] in the same position. in all italic languages, the word-initial voiceless fricatives f, θ, and χʷ all merged to f, whereas χ debuccalized to h (except before a liquid where it became g); thus, in latin, the normal outcome of initial pie bʰ, dʰ, gʰ, gʷʰ is f, f, h, f, respectively. examples: 	pie *bʰréh₂tēr "brother" > *bʰrā́tēr > frāter (cf. old irish bráthair, sanskrit bhrā́tar-, greek phrā́tēr "member of a phratry") 	pie *bʰére "carry" > ferō (cf. old irish beirim "i bear", english bear, sanskrit bhárati) 	pie *dʰwṓr "door" > θwor- > *forā > forēs (pl.) "door(s)" (cf. welsh dôr, greek thurā, sanskrit dhvā́raḥ (pl.)) 	pie *dʰeh₁- "put, place" > *dʰh₁-k- > *θaki- > faciō "do, make" (cf. welsh dodi, english do, greek títhēmi "i put", sanskrit dádhāti he puts") 	pie *gʰabʰ- "seize, take" > *χaβ-ē- > habeō "have" (cf. old irish gaibid "takes", old english gifan "to give", polish gabać "to seize") 	pie *ǵʰh₂ens "goose" > *χans- > (h)ānser (cf. old irish géiss "swan", german gans, greek khḗn) 	pie *ǵʰaidos "goat" > *χaidos > haedus "kid" (cf. old english gāt "goat", polish zając "hare", sanskrit háyas "horse") 	pie *gʷʰerm- "warm" > *χʷormo- > formus (cf. old prussian gorme "heat", greek thermós, sanskrit gharmáḥ "heat") 	pie *gʷʰen-dʰ- "to strike, kill" > *χʷ(e)nð- > fendō (cf. welsh gwanu "to stab", old high german gundo "battle", sanskrit hánti "(he) strikes, kills") word-internal *-bʰ-, *-dʰ-, *-gʰ-, *-gʷʰ- evolved into proto-italic β, ð, ɣ, ɣʷ. in osco-umbrian, the same type of merger occurred as that affecting voiceless fricatives, with β, ð, and ɣʷ merging to β. in latin, this did not happen, and instead the fricatives defricatized, giving b, d ~ b, g ~ h, g ~ v ~ gu. *-bʰ- is the simplest case, consistently becoming b. 	pie *bʰébʰrus "beaver" > *feβro > old latin feber > fiber *-dʰ- usually becomes d, but becomes b next to r or u, or before l. 	pie *bʰeidʰ- "be persuaded" > *feiðe > fīdō "i trust" (cf. old english bīdan "to wait", greek peíthō "i trust") 	pie *medʰi-o- "middle" > *meðio- > medius (cf. old irish mide, gothic midjis, sanskrit mádhya-) 	pie *h₁rudʰ-ró- "red" > *ruðro- > ruber (cf. old russian rodrŭ, greek eruthrós, sanskrit rudhirá-) 	pie *werh₁-dʰh₁-o- "word" > *werðo- > verbum (cf. english word, lithuanian var̃das) 	pie *krei(h)-dʰrom "sieve, sifter" > *kreiðrom > crībrum "sieve" (cf. old english hrīder "sieve") 	pie *sth̥₂-dʰlom > *staðlom > stabulum "abode" (cf. german stadel) the development of *-gʰ- is twofold: *-gʰ- becomes h [ɦ] between vowels but g elsewhere: 	pie *weǵʰ- "carry" > *weɣ-e/o > vehō (cf. greek okhéomai "i ride", old english wegan "to carry", sanskrit váhati "(he) drives") 	pie *dʰi-n-ǵʰ- "shapes, forms" > *θinɣ-e/o > fingō (cf. old irish -ding "erects, builds", gothic digan "to mold, shape") *-gʷʰ- has three outcomes, becoming gu after n, v between vowels, and g next to other consonants. all three variants are visible in the same root *snigʷʰ- "snow" (cf. irish snigid "snows", greek nípha): 	pie *snigʷʰ-s > *sniɣʷs > *nigs > nom. sg. nix "snow" 	pie *snigʷʰ-ós > *sniɣʷos > *niβis > gen. sg. nivis "of snow" 	pie *snei-gʷʰ-e/o > *sninɣʷ-e/o (with n-infix) > ninguit "it snows" other examples: 	pie *h₁le(n)gʷʰu- > *h₁legʷʰu- > *leɣʷus > *leβwi- (remade as i-stem) > levis "lightweight" (cf. welsh llaw "small, low", greek elakhús "small", sanskrit laghú-, raghú- "quick, light, small") labiovelars[edit] *gʷ has results much like non-initial *-gʷʰ, becoming v /w/ in most circumstances, but gu after a nasal and g next to other consonants: 	pie *gʷih₃wos > *ɣʷīwos > vīvus "alive" (cf. old irish biu, beo, lithuanian gývas, sanskrit jīvá- "alive") 	pie *gʷm̥i̯e/o- "come" > *ɣʷen-je/o > veniō (cf. english come, greek baínō "i go", avestan ǰamaiti "he goes") 	pie *gʷr̥h₂us "heavy" > *ɣʷraus > grāvis (cf. greek barús, gothic kaúrus, sanskrit gurú-) 	pie *h₃engʷ- > *onɣʷ-en > unguen "salve" (cf. old irish imb "butter", old high german ancho "butter", sanskrit añjanam "anointing, ointment") 	pie *n̥gʷén- "(swollen) gland" > *enɣʷen > inguen "bubo; groin" (cf. greek adḗn gen. adénos "gland", old high german ankweiz "pustules") *kʷ remains as qu before a vowel, but reduces to c /k/ before a consonant or next to a u: 	pie *kʷetwóres, neut. *kʷetwṓr "four" > quattuor (cf. old irish cethair, lithuanian keturì, sanskrit catvā́raḥ) 	pie *sekʷ- "to follow" > sequor (cf. old irish sechem, greek hépomai, sanskrit sácate) 	pie *leikʷ- (pres. *li-né-kʷ-) "leave behind" > *linkʷ-e/o- : *likʷ-ē- > linquō "leaves" : liceō "is allowed; is for sale" (cf. greek leípō, limpánō, sanskrit riṇákti, gothic leiƕan "to lend") 	pie *nokʷts "night" > nox, gen. sg. noctis the sequence *p ... *kʷ assimilates to *kʷ ... *kʷ: 	pie *pénkʷe "five" > quīnque (cf. old irish cóic, greek pénte, sanskrit páñca) 	pie *pérkʷus "oak" > quercus (cf. trentino porca "fir", punjabi pargāī "holm oak", gothic faírƕus "world", faírgun- "mountain"[ ]) 	pie *pekʷō "i cook" > *kʷekʷō > coquō (cf. coquīna, cocīnā "kitchen" vs. popīna "tavern" < oscan, where *kʷ > p, polish piekę "i bake") the sequences *ḱw, *ǵw, *ǵʰw develop identically to *kʷ, *gʷ, *gʷʰ: 	pie *éḱwos "horse" > *ekʷos > old latin equos > ecus > equus (assimilated from other forms, e.g. gen. sg. equī; cf. sanskrit aśva-, which indicates -ḱw- not -kʷ-) 	pie *ǵʰweh₁ro- "wild animal" > *χʷero- > ferus (cf. greek thḗr, lesbian phḗr, lithuanian žvėrìs) 	pie *mreǵʰus "short" > *mreɣu- > *mreɣwi- (remade as i-stem) > brevis (cf. old english myrge "briefly", greek brakhús, avestan mǝrǝzu-) 	pie *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂[ ] "tongue" > *dn̥ɣwā > *denɣʷā > old latin dingua > lingua other sequences[edit] initial *dw- (attested in old latin as du-) becomes b-, thus compensating for the dearth of words beginning with *b in pie: 	pie *dwis "twice" > duis > bis (cf. greek dís, sanskrit dvis) 	pie *deu-l̥- "injure" > duellom "war" > bellum (a variant duellum survived in poetry as a trisyllabic word, whence english "duel") s-rhotacism[edit] indo-european s between vowels was first voiced to [z] in late proto-italic and became r in latin and umbrian, a change known as rhotacism. early old latin documents still have s [z], and cicero once remarked that a certain papirius crassus officially changed his name from papisius in b. c.,[ ] indicating the approximate time of this change. this produces many alternations in latin declension: 	flōs "flower", gen. flōris 	mūs "mouse", pl. mūrēs 	est "he is", fut. erit "he will be" other examples: 	proto-italic *ausōs, ausōsem > *auzōs, auzōzem > aurōra "dawn" (change of suffix; cf. english east, aeolic greek aúōs, sanskrit uṣā́s) 	proto-italic *swesōr > *swozōr > soror "sister" (cf. old english sweostor, sanskrit svásar) 	proto-italic *a(j)os, a(j)esem > *aes, aezem > aes, aerem "bronze", but pi *a(j)es-inos > *aeznos > aēnus "bronze (adj.)" however, before another r, dissimilation occurred with sr [zr] becoming br (likely via an intermediate *ðr): 	proto-italic *swesr-īnos > *swezrīnos ~ *sweðrīnos > sobrīnus "maternal cousin" 	proto-italic *keras-rom > *kerazrom ~ *keraðrom > cerebrum "skull, brain" (cf. greek kéras "horn") see also[edit] 	de vulgari eloquentia 	legacy of the roman empire notes[edit] 	^ leonard robert palmer - the latin language - pages university of oklahoma press, retrieved - - isbn  - - -x 	^ ramat, anna g.; paolo ramat ( ). the indo-european languages. routledge. pp.  – . isbn  - - -x. 	^ ramat, anna g.; paolo ramat ( ). the indo-european languages. routledge. p.  . isbn  - - -x. 	^ timothy j. pulju rice university .edu/~ retrieved - - 	^ allen, w. sidney ( ). vox latina. cambridge university press. pp.  – . isbn  - - - . 	^ "what is neo-latin?". archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - . 	^ sen, ranjan (december ). "reconstructing phonological change: duration and syllable structure in latin vowel reduction". phonology. ( ): – . doi: . /s . issn  - . 	^ kʷi- > ti- is normal in attic greek; thessalian greek had kís while cypro-arcadian had sís. 	^ greek is ambiguously either < *gneh₃tós or *gn̥h₃tós 	^ collinge, n. e. ( ). the laws of indo-european. john benjamins. pp.  – . isbn  - - - . 	^ vine, brent ( ). 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	historiography of the fall of the western roman empire 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		this article is about the historiography of the decline of the roman empire. for a description of events, see fall of the western roman empire. for the historical era in general, see late antiquity. for the book by edward gibbon, see the history of the decline and fall of the roman empire. the western and eastern roman empires by ce the causes and mechanisms of the fall of the western roman empire are a historical theme that was introduced by historian edward gibbon in his book the history of the decline and fall of the roman empire. he started an ongoing historiographical discussion about what caused the fall of the western roman empire, and the reduced power of the remaining eastern empire, in the th– th centuries. gibbon was not the first to speculate on why the empire collapsed, but he was the first to give a well-researched and well-referenced account. many theories of causality have been explored. in , alexander demandt enumerated different theories on why rome fell, and new theories emerged thereafter.[ ][ ] gibbon himself explored ideas of internal decline (the disintegration of political, economic, military, and other social institutions, civil wars) and of attacks from outside the empire. "from the eighteenth century onward," historian glen bowersock wrote, "we have been obsessed with the fall: it has been valued as an archetype for every perceived decline, and, hence, as a symbol for our own fears."[ ] contents 	 overview of historiography 	 overview of events 	 . highlights 	 theories and explanations of a fall 	 . decay owing to general malaise 	 . . edward gibbon 	 . . vegetius on military decline 	 . . arnold j. toynbee and james burke 	 . . michael rostovtzeff, ludwig von mises, and bruce bartlett 	 . . joseph tainter 	 . . adrian goldsworthy 	 . monocausal decay 	 . . disease 	 . . environmental degradation 	 . . lead poisoning 	 . . . criticism of lead poisoning theory 	 . catastrophic collapse 	 . . j. b. bury 	 . . peter heather 	 . . bryan ward-perkins 	 . transformation 	 . . henri pirenne 	 . . lucien musset and the clash of civilizations 	 . . late antiquity 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 . foreign language 	 external links overview of historiography historiographically, the primary issue historians have looked at when analyzing any theory is the continued existence of the eastern empire or byzantine empire, which lasted almost a thousand years after the fall of the west. for example, gibbon implicates christianity in the fall of the western empire, yet the eastern half of the empire, which was even more christian than the west in geographic extent, fervor, penetration and vast numbers continued on for a thousand years afterwards (although gibbon did not consider the eastern empire to be much of a success). as another example, environmental or weather changes affected the east as much as the west, yet the east did not "fall." theories will sometimes reflect the particular concerns that historians might have on cultural, political, or economic trends in their own times. gibbon's criticism of christianity reflects the values of the enlightenment; his ideas on the decline in martial vigor could have been interpreted by some as a warning to the growing british empire. in the th century socialist and anti-socialist theorists tended to blame decadence and other political problems. more recently, environmental concerns have become popular, with deforestation and soil erosion proposed as major factors, and destabilizing population decreases due to epidemics such as early cases of bubonic plague and malaria also cited. global climate changes of – , perhaps caused by the possible eruption of krakatoa in , as mentioned by david keys and others,[ ] is another example. ideas about transformation with no distinct fall mirror the rise of the postmodern tradition, which rejects periodization concepts (see metanarrative). what is not new are attempts to diagnose rome's particular problems, with satire x, written by juvenal in the early nd century at the height of roman power, criticizing the peoples' obsession with "bread and circuses" and rulers seeking only to gratify these obsessions. one of the primary reasons for the vast number of theories is the notable lack of surviving evidence from the th and th centuries. for example, there are so few records of an economic nature it is difficult to arrive at even a generalization of the economic conditions. thus, historians must quickly depart from available evidence and comment based on how things ought to have worked, or based on evidence from previous and later periods, on inductive reasoning. as in any field where available evidence is sparse, the historian's ability to imagine the th and th centuries will play as important a part in shaping our understanding as the available evidence, and thus be open for endless interpretation. the end of the western roman empire traditionally has been seen by historians to mark the end of the ancient era and beginning of the middle ages. more recent schools of history, such as late antiquity, offer a more nuanced view from the traditional historical narrative. there is no consensus on a date for the start of the decline. gibbon started his account in .[citation needed] the year is taken as pivotal by many modern historians.[citation needed] in that year there was an unmanageable influx of goths and other barbarians into the balkan provinces, and the situation of the western empire generally worsened thereafter, with recoveries being incomplete and temporary. significant events include the battle of adrianople in , the death of theodosius i in (the last time the roman empire was politically unified), the crossing of the rhine in by germanic tribes, the execution of stilicho in , the sack of rome in , the death of constantius iii in , the death of aetius in , and the second sack of rome in , with the death of majorian in marking the end of the last opportunity for recovery. gibbon took september , as a convenient marker for the final dissolution of the western roman empire, when romulus augustus, the last emperor of the western roman empire, was deposed by odoacer, a germanic chieftain. some modern historians question the significance of the year for its end.[ ] julius nepos, the western emperor recognized by the eastern roman empire, continued to rule in dalmatia, until he was assassinated in . the ostrogothic rulers of italia considered themselves upholders of the direct line of roman tradition, and the eastern emperors considered themselves the sole rightful roman rulers of a united empire.[citation needed] roman cultural traditions continued throughout the territory of the western empire, and a recent school of interpretation argues that the great political changes can more accurately be described as a complex cultural transformation, rather than a fall.[ ] overview of events see also: late antiquity, migration period, and fall of the western roman empire romulus augustus was deposed as western roman emperor in while still young. however, julius nepos continued to claim the title of western emperor after his deposition. the decline of the roman empire is one of the traditional markers of the end of classical antiquity and the beginning of the european middle ages. throughout the th century, the empire's territories in western europe and northwestern africa, including italy, fell to various invading or indigenous peoples in what is sometimes called the migration period. although the eastern half still survived with borders essentially intact for several centuries (until the muslim conquests), the empire as a whole had initiated major cultural and political transformations since the crisis of the third century, with the shift towards a more openly autocratic and ritualized form of government, the adoption of christianity as the state religion, and a general rejection of the traditions and values of classical antiquity. while traditional historiography emphasized this break with antiquity by using the term "byzantine empire" instead of roman empire, recent schools of history offer a more nuanced view, seeing mostly continuity rather than a sharp break. the empire of late antiquity already looked very different from classical rome. the roman empire emerged from the roman republic when julius caesar and augustus caesar transformed it from a republic into a monarchy. rome reached its zenith in the nd century, then fortunes slowly declined (with many revivals and restorations along the way). the reasons for the decline of the empire are still debated today, and are likely multiple. historians infer that the population appears to have diminished in many provinces—especially western europe—from the diminishing size of fortifications built to protect the cities from barbarian incursions from the rd century on. some historians even have suggested that parts of the periphery were no longer inhabited because these fortifications were restricted to the center of the city only. tree rings suggest "distinct drying" beginning in .[ ] by the late rd century, the city of rome no longer served as an effective capital for the emperor and various cities were used as new administrative capitals. successive emperors, starting with constantine, privileged the eastern city of byzantium, which he had entirely rebuilt after a siege. later renamed constantinople, and protected by formidable walls in the late th and early th centuries, it was to become the largest and most powerful city of christian europe in the early middle ages. since the crisis of the third century, the empire was intermittently ruled by more than one emperor at once (usually two), presiding over different regions. at first a haphazard form of power sharing, this eventually settled on an east–west administrative division between the western roman empire (centered on rome, but now usually presided from other seats of power such as trier, milan, and especially ravenna), and the eastern roman empire (with its capital initially in nicomedia, and later constantinople). the latin-speaking west, under dreadful demographic crisis, and the wealthier[citation needed] greek-speaking east, also began to diverge politically and culturally. although this was a gradual process, still incomplete when italy came under the rule of barbarian chieftains in the last quarter of the th century, it deepened further afterward, and had lasting consequences for the medieval history of europe. throughout the th century, western emperors were usually figureheads, while the eastern emperors maintained more independence. for most of the time, the actual rulers in the west were military strongmen who took the titles of magister militum, patrician, or both, such as stilicho, aetius, and ricimer. although rome was no longer the capital in the west, it remained the west's largest city and its economic center. but the city was sacked by rebellious visigoths in and by the vandals in , events that shocked contemporaries and signaled the disintegration of roman authority. saint augustine wrote the city of god partly as an answer to critics who blamed the sack of rome by the visigoths on the abandonment of the traditional pagan religions. in june , julius nepos became western emperor but in the next year the magister militum orestes revolted and made his son romulus augustus emperor. romulus, however, was not recognized by the eastern emperor zeno and so was technically an usurper, nepos still being the legal western emperor. nevertheless, romulus augustus is often known as the last western roman emperor. in , after being refused lands in italy, orestes' germanic mercenaries under the leadership of the chieftain odoacer captured and executed orestes and took ravenna, the western roman capital at the time, deposing romulus augustus. the whole of italy was quickly conquered, and odoacer was granted the title of patrician by zeno, effectively recognizing his rule in the name of the eastern empire. odoacer returned the imperial insignia to constantinople and ruled as king in italy. following nepos' death theodoric the great, king of the ostrogoths, conquered italy with zeno's approval. meanwhile, much of the rest of the western provinces were conquered by waves of germanic invasions, most of them being disconnected politically from the east altogether and continuing a slow decline. although roman political authority in the west was lost, roman culture would last in most parts of the former western provinces into the th century and beyond. the first invasions disrupted the west to some degree, but it was the gothic war launched by the eastern emperor justinian in the th century, and meant to reunite the empire, that eventually caused the most damage to italy, as well as straining the eastern empire militarily. following these wars, rome and other italian cities would fall into severe decline (rome itself was almost completely abandoned). another blow came with the persian invasion of the east in the th century, immediately followed by the muslim conquests, especially of egypt, which curtailed much of the key trade in the mediterranean on which europe depended. the empire was to live on in the east for many centuries, and enjoy periods of recovery and cultural brilliance, but its size would remain a fraction of what it had been in classical times. it became an essentially regional power, centered on greece and anatolia. modern historians tend to prefer the term byzantine empire for the eastern, medieval stage of the roman empire. highlights see also: fall of the western roman empire the decline of the western roman empire was a process spanning many centuries; there is no consensus when it might have begun but many dates and time lines have been proposed by historians. 	 rd century 	 	the crisis of the third century ( – ), a period of political instability. 	the reign of emperor diocletian ( – ), who attempted substantial political and economic reforms, many of which would remain in force in the following centuries. 	 th century 	 	the reign of constantine i ( – ), who built the new eastern capital of constantinople and converted to christianity, legalizing and even favoring to some extent this religion. all roman emperors after constantine, except for julian, would be christians. 	the first war with the visigoths ( – ), culminating in the battle of adrianople (august , ), in which a large roman army was defeated by the visigoths, and emperor valens was killed. the visigoths, fleeing a migration of the huns, had been allowed to settle within the borders of the empire by valens, but were mistreated by the local roman administrators, and rebelled. 	the reign of theodosius i ( – ), last emperor to reunite under his authority the western and eastern halves of the empire. theodosius continued and intensified the policies against paganism of his predecessors, eventually outlawing it, and making nicaean christianity the state religion. 	 th century 	 	the crossing of the rhine: on december , (or , according to some historians), a mixed band of vandals, suebi and alans crossed the frozen river rhine at moguntiacum (modern mainz), and began to ravage gaul. some moved on to the regions of hispania and africa. the empire would never regain control over most of these lands. 	the second war with the visigoths, led by king alaric, in which they raided greece, and then invaded italy, culminating in the sack of rome ( ). the visigoths eventually left italy and founded the visigothic kingdom in southern gaul and hispania. 	the rise of the hunnic empire under attila and bleda ( – ), who raided the balkans, gaul, and italy, threatening both constantinople and rome. 	the second sack of rome, this time by the vandals ( ). 	failed counterstrikes against the vandals ( – ). the western emperor majorian planned a naval campaign against the vandals to reconquer northern africa in , but word of the preparations got out to the vandals, who took the roman fleet by surprise and destroyed it. a second naval expedition against the vandals, sent by emperors leo i and anthemius, was defeated at cape bon in . europe in , from muir's historical atlas ( ) 	deposition of the last western emperors, julius nepos and romulus augustus ( – ). julius nepos, who had been nominated by the eastern emperor zeno, was deposed by the rebelled magister militum orestes, who installed his own son romulus in the imperial throne. both zeno and his rival basiliscus, in the east, continued to regard julius nepos, who fled to dalmatia, as the legitimate western emperor, and romulus as an usurper. shortly after, odoacer, magister militum appointed by julius, invaded italy, defeated orestes, and deposed romulus augustus on september , . odoacer then proclaimed himself ruler of italy and asked the eastern emperor zeno to become formal emperor of both empires, and in so doing legalize odoacer's own position as imperial viceroy of italy. zeno did so, setting aside the claims of nepos, who was murdered by his own soldiers in . 	foundation of the ostrogothic kingdom in italy ( ). concerned with the success and popularity of odoacer, zeno started a campaign against him, at first with words, then by inciting the ostrogoths to take back italy from him. they did as much, but then founded an independent kingdom of their own, under the rule of king theodoric. italy and the entire west were lost to the empire. theories and explanations of a fall the various theories and explanations for the fall of the roman empire in the west may be very broadly classified into four schools of thought, although the classification is not without overlap: 	decay owing to general malaise 	monocausal decay 	catastrophic collapse 	transformation the tradition positing general malaise goes back to edward gibbon who argued that the edifice of the roman empire had been built on unsound foundations to begin with. according to gibbon, the fall was - in the final analysis - inevitable. on the other hand, gibbon had assigned a major portion of the responsibility for the decay to the influence of christianity, and is often, though perhaps unjustly, seen as the founding father of the school of monocausal explanation. on the other hand, the school of catastrophic collapse holds that the fall of the empire had not been a pre-determined event and need not be taken for granted. rather, it was due to the combined effect of a number of adverse processes, many of them set in motion by the migration of the peoples, that together applied too much stress to the empire's basically sound structure. finally, the transformation school challenges the whole notion of the 'fall' of the empire, asking to distinguish between the fall into disuse of a particular political dispensation, anyway unworkable towards its end, and the fate of the roman civilisation which under-girded the empire. according to this school, drawing its basic premise from the pirenne thesis, the roman world underwent a gradual (though often violent) series of transformations, morphing into the medieval world. the historians belonging to this school often prefer to speak of late antiquity instead of the fall of the roman empire. decay owing to general malaise edward gibbon in the history of the decline and fall of the roman empire ( – ), edward gibbon famously placed the blame on a loss of civic virtue among the roman citizens. they gradually entrusted the role of defending the empire to barbarian mercenaries who eventually turned on them. gibbon held that christianity contributed to this shift by making the populace less interested in the worldly here-and-now because it was willing to wait for the rewards of heaven. the decline of rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the causes of destruction multiplied with the extent of conquest; and as soon as time or accident had removed the artificial supports, the stupendous fabric yielded to the pressure of its own weight. in discussing barbarism and christianity i have actually been discussing the fall of rome. vegetius on military decline writing in the th century, the roman historian vegetius pleaded for reform of what must have been a greatly weakened army. the historian arther ferrill has suggested that the roman empire – particularly the military – declined largely as a result of an influx of germanic mercenaries into the ranks of the legions. this "germanization" and the resultant cultural dilution or "barbarization" led not only to a decline in the standard of drill and overall military preparedness within the empire, but also to a decline of loyalty to the roman government in favor of loyalty to commanders. ferrill agrees with other roman historians such as a.h.m. jones: ...the decay of trade and industry was not a cause of rome’s fall. there was a decline in agriculture and land was withdrawn from cultivation, in some cases on a very large scale, sometimes as a direct result of barbarian invasions. however, the chief cause of the agricultural decline was high taxation on the marginal land, driving it out of cultivation. jones is surely right in saying that taxation was spurred by the huge military budget and was thus ‘indirectly’ the result of the barbarian invasion.[ ] arnold j. toynbee and james burke in contrast with the declining empire theories, historians such as arnold j. toynbee and james burke argue that the roman empire itself was a rotten system from its inception, and that the entire imperial era was one of steady decay of institutions founded in republican times. in their view, the empire could never have lasted longer than it did without radical reforms that no emperor could implement. the romans had no budgetary system and thus wasted whatever resources they had available. the economy of the empire was a raubwirtschaft or plunder economy based on looting existing resources rather than producing anything new. the empire relied on riches from conquered territories (this source of revenue ending, of course, with the end of roman territorial expansion) or on a pattern of tax collection that drove small-scale farmers into destitution (and onto a dole that required even more exactions upon those who could not escape taxation), or into dependency upon a landed élite exempt from taxation. with the cessation of tribute from conquered territories, the full cost of their military machine had to be borne by the citizenry. an economy based upon slave labor precluded a middle class with buying power. the roman empire produced few exportable goods. material innovation, whether through entrepreneurialism or technological advancement, all but ended long before the final dissolution of the empire. meanwhile, the costs of military defense and the pomp of emperors continued. financial needs continued to increase, but the means of meeting them steadily eroded. in the end, due to economic failure, even the armor and weaponry of soldiers became so obsolete that the enemies of the empire had better armor and weapons as well as larger forces. the decrepit social order offered so little to its subjects that many saw the barbarian invasion as liberation from onerous obligations to the ruling class. by the late th century the barbarian conqueror odoacer had no use for the formality of an empire upon deposing romulus augustus and chose neither to assume the title of emperor himself nor to select a puppet, although legally he kept the lands as a commander of the eastern empire and maintained the roman institutions such as the consulship. the formal end of the roman empire on the west in ad thus corresponds with the time in which the empire and the title emperor no longer had value. michael rostovtzeff, ludwig von mises, and bruce bartlett historian michael rostovtzeff and economist ludwig von mises both argued that unsound economic policies played a key role in the impoverishment and decay of the roman empire. according to them, by the nd century ad, the roman empire had developed a complex market economy in which trade was relatively free. tariffs were low and laws controlling the prices of foodstuffs and other commodities had little impact because they did not fix the prices significantly below their market levels. after the rd century, however, debasement of the currency (i.e., the minting of coins with diminishing content of gold, silver, and bronze) led to inflation. the price control laws then resulted in prices that were significantly below their free-market equilibrium levels. it should, however, be noted that constantine initiated a successful reform of the currency which was completed before the barbarian invasions of the th century, and that thereafter the currency remained sound everywhere that remained within the empire until at least the th century - at any rate for gold coins. according to rostovtzeff and mises, artificially low prices led to the scarcity of foodstuffs, particularly in cities, whose inhabitants depended on trade to obtain them. despite laws passed to prevent migration from the cities to the countryside, urban areas gradually became depopulated and many roman citizens abandoned their specialized trades to practice subsistence agriculture. this, coupled with increasingly oppressive and arbitrary taxation, led to a severe net decrease in trade, technical innovation, and the overall wealth of the empire.[ ] bruce bartlett traces the beginning of debasement to the reign of nero. he claims that the emperors increasingly relied on the army as the sole source of their power, and therefore their economic policy was driven more and more by a desire to increase military funding in order to buy the army's loyalty. by the rd century, according to bartlett, the monetary economy had collapsed. but the imperial government was now in a position where it had to satisfy the demands of the army at all costs. failure to do so would result in the army forcibly deposing the emperor and installing a new one. therefore, being unable to increase monetary taxes, the roman empire had to resort to direct requisitioning of physical goods anywhere it could find them - for example taking food and cattle from farmers. the result, in bartlett's view, was social chaos, and this led to different responses from the authorities and from the common people. the authorities tried to restore order by requiring free people (i.e. non-slaves) to remain in the same occupation or even at the same place of employment. eventually, this practice was extended to force children to follow the same occupation as their parents. so, for instance, farmers were tied to the land, and the sons of soldiers had to become soldiers themselves. many common people reacted by moving to the countryside, sometimes joining the estates of the wealthy, and in general trying to be self-sufficient and interact as little as possible with the imperial authorities. thus, according to bartlett, roman society began to dissolve into a number of separate estates that operated as closed systems, provided for all their own needs and did not engage in trade at all. these were the beginnings of feudalism.[ ] joseph tainter in his book the collapse of complex societies, american anthropologist tainter presents the view that for given technological levels there are implicit declining returns to complexity, in which systems deplete their resource base beyond levels that are ultimately sustainable. tainter argues that societies become more complex as they try to solve problems. social complexity can include differentiated social and economic roles, reliance on symbolic and abstract communication, and the existence of a class of information producers and analysts who are not involved in primary resource production. such complexity requires a substantial "energy" subsidy (meaning resources, or other forms of wealth). when a society confronts a "problem", such as a shortage of or difficulty in gaining access to energy, it tends to create new layers of bureaucracy, infrastructure, or social class to address the challenge. for example, as roman agricultural output slowly declined and population increased, per-capita energy availability dropped. the romans solved this problem in the short term by conquering their neighbours to appropriate their energy surpluses (metals, grain, slaves, etc.). however, this solution merely exacerbated the issue over the long term; as the empire grew, the cost of maintaining communications, garrisons, civil government, etc., increased. eventually, this cost grew so great that any new challenges such as invasions and crop failures could not be solved by the acquisition of more territory. at that point, the empire fragmented into smaller units. we often assume that the collapse of the roman empire was a catastrophe for everyone involved. tainter points out that it can be seen as a very rational preference of individuals at the time, many of whom were better off (all but the elite, presumably.) archeological evidence from human bones indicates that average nutrition improved after the collapse in many parts of the former roman empire. average individuals may have benefited because they no longer had to invest in the burdensome complexity of empire. in tainter's view, while invasions, crop failures, disease or environmental degradation may be the apparent causes of societal collapse, the ultimate cause is diminishing returns on investments in social complexity.[ ] adrian goldsworthy in the complete roman army ( ) adrian goldsworthy, a british military historian, sees the causes of the collapse of the roman empire not in any 'decadence' in the make-up of the roman legions, but in a combination of endless civil wars between factions of the roman army fighting for control of the empire. this inevitably weakened the army and the society upon which it depended, making it less able to defend itself against the growing numbers of rome's enemies. the army still remained a superior fighting instrument to its opponents, both civilized and barbarian; this is shown in the victories over germanic tribes at the battle of strasbourg ( ) and in its ability to hold the line against the sassanid persians throughout the th century. but, says goldsworthy, "weakening central authority, social and economic problems and, most of all, the continuing grind of civil wars eroded the political capacity to maintain the army at this level."[ ] goldsworthy set out in greater detail his theory that recurring civil wars during the late fourth and early fifth centuries contributed to the fall of the west roman empire ( - ), in his book the fall of the west: the slow death of the roman superpower ( ). monocausal decay disease william h. mcneill, a world historian, noted in chapter three of his book plagues and peoples ( ) that the roman empire suffered the severe and protracted antonine plague starting around ad. for about twenty years, waves of one or more diseases, possibly the first epidemics of smallpox and measles, swept through the empire, ultimately killing about half the population. similar epidemics, such as the plague of cyprian, also occurred in the rd century. mcneill argues that the severe fall in population left the state apparatus and army too large for the population to support, leading to further economic and social decline that eventually killed the western empire. the eastern half survived due to its larger population, which even after the plagues was sufficient for an effective state apparatus. archaeology has revealed that from the nd century onward, the inhabited area in most roman towns and cities grew smaller and smaller. imperial laws concerning "agri deserti", or deserted lands, became increasingly common and desperate. the economic collapse of the rd century may also be evidence of a shrinking population as rome's tax base was also shrinking and could no longer support the roman army and other roman institutions. rome's success had led to increased contact with asia though trade, especially in a sea route through the red sea that rome cleared of pirates shortly after conquering egypt. wars also increased contact with asia, particularly wars with the persian empire. with increased contact with asia came increased transmission of disease into the mediterranean from asia. romans used public fountains, public latrines, public baths, and supported many brothels all of which were conducive to the spread of pathogens. romans crowded into walled cities and the poor and the slaves lived in very close quarters with each other. epidemics began sweeping though the empire. the culture of the german barbarians living just across the rhine and danube rivers was not so conducive to the spread of pathogens. germans lived in small scattered villages that did not support the same level of trade as did roman settlements. germans lived in single-family detached houses. germans did not have public baths nor as many brothels and drank ale made with boiled water. the barbarian population seemed to be on the rise. the demographics of europe were changing. economically, depopulation led to the impoverishment of east and west as economic ties among different parts of the empire weakened. increasing raids by barbarians further strained the economy and further reduced the population, mostly in the west. in areas near the rhine and danube frontiers, raids by barbarians killed romans and disrupted commerce. raids also forced romans into walled towns and cities furthering the spread of pathogens and increasing the rate of depopulation in the west. a low population and weak economy forced rome to use barbarians in the roman army to defend against other barbarians. environmental degradation further information: deforestation during the roman period another theory is that gradual environmental degradation caused population and economic decline. deforestation and excessive grazing led to erosion of meadows and cropland. increased irrigation without suitable drainage caused salinization, especially in north africa. these human activities resulted in fertile land becoming nonproductive and eventually increased desertification in some regions. many animal species became extinct.[ ] the recent research of tainter stated that "deforestation did not cause the roman collapse",[ ] although it could be a minor contributing factor. also, high taxes and heavy slavery are another reason for decline, as they forced small farmers out of business and into the cities, which became overpopulated. roman cities were only designed to hold a certain number of people, and once they passed that, disease, water shortage and food shortage became common.[citation needed] lead poisoning see also: lead poisoning publishing several articles in the s, the sociologist seabury colum gilfillan advanced the argument that lead poisoning was a significant factor in the decline of the roman empire.[ ][ ] later, a posthumously published book elaborated on gilfillan's work on this topic.[ ] jerome nriagu, a geochemist, argued in a book that "lead poisoning contributed to the decline of the roman empire." his work centred on the level to which the ancient romans, who had few sweeteners besides honey, would boil must in lead pots to produce a reduced sugar syrup called defrutum, concentrated again into sapa. this syrup was used to some degree to sweeten wine and food.[ ] if acidic must is boiled within lead vessels the sweet syrup it yields will contain a quantity of pb(c h o ) or lead(ii) acetate.[ ] lead was also leached from the glazes on amphorae and other pottery, from pewter drinking vessels and cookware, and from lead piping used for municipal water supplies and baths.[ ] the main culinary use of defrutum was to sweeten wine, but it was also added to fruit and meat dishes as a sweetening and souring agent and even given to food animals such as suckling pig and duck to improve the taste of their flesh. defrutum was mixed with garum to make the popular condiment oenogarum, and as such was one of rome's most popular condiments. quince and melon were preserved in defrutum and honey through the winter, and some roman women used defrutum or sapa as a cosmetic. defrutum was often used as a food preservative in provisions for roman troops.[ ] nriagu produced a table showing his estimated consumption of lead by various classes within the roman empire. however, to produce the table nriagu assumes all of the defrutum/sapa consumed to have been made in lead vessels:[ ][ ] 	population	source	lead level in source	daily intake	absorption factor	lead absorbed 	aristocrats 		air	 .  µg/m 	 m 	 . 	 .  µg/day 		water	 ( – ) µg/l	 . liter	 . 	 ( – ) µg/day 		wines	 ( – )	 . liters	 . 	 ( – ) µg/day 		foods	 . ( . – . ) µg/g	  kg (  lb)	 . 	 ( – ) µg/day 		other/misc. 	 	 .  µg/day 		total 	 	 ( - ) µg/day 	plebeians 	 	less food, same wine consumption. 	 ( - ) µg/day 	slaves 	 	still less food, more water, . liters wine 	 ( - ) µg/day lead is not removed quickly from the body. it tends to form lead phosphate complexes within bone.[ ] this is detectable in preserved bone.[ ] chemical analysis of preserved skeletons found in herculaneum by dr. sara c. bisel from the university of minnesota indicated they contained lead in concentrations of parts per million (ppm),[ ] whereas skeletons found in a greek cave had lead concentrations of just ppm. however, the lead content revealed in many other ancient roman remains have been shown to have been less than half those of modern europeans,[ ] which have concentrations between - ppm.[ ] criticism of lead poisoning theory the role and importance of lead poisoning in contributing to the fall of the roman empire is the subject of controversy, and its importance and validity is discounted by many historians.[ ] john scarborough, a pharmacologist and classicist, criticized nriagu's book as "so full of false evidence, miscitations, typographical errors, and a blatant flippancy regarding primary sources that the reader cannot trust the basic arguments."[ ] he concluded that ancient authorities were well aware of lead poisoning and that it was not endemic in the roman empire nor did it cause its fall. although defrutum and sapa prepared in leaden containers would indubitably have contained toxic levels of lead, the use of leaden containers, though popular, was not the standard, and copper was used far more generally. the exact amount of sapa added to wine was also not standardised, and there is no indication of how often sapa was added or in what quantity. additionally, roman authors such as pliny the elder[ ] and vitruvius recognised the toxicity of lead. vitruvius, who flourished during augustus' time, writes that the romans knew very well of the dangers. water conducted through earthen pipes is more wholesome than that through lead; indeed that conveyed in lead must be injurious, because from it white lead [cerussa, lead carbonate, pbco ] is obtained, and this is said to be injurious to the human system. this may be verified by observing the workers in lead, who are of a pallid colour; water should therefore on no account be conducted in leaden pipes if we are desirous that it should be wholesome. — viii. . – nevertheless, recent research supports the idea that the lead found in the water came from the supply pipes, rather than another source of contamination. it was not unknown for locals to punch holes in the pipes to draw water off, increasing the number of people exposed to the lead. thirty years ago, jerome nriagu argued in a milestone paper that roman civilization collapsed as a result of lead poisoning. clair patterson, the scientist who convinced governments to ban lead from gasoline, enthusiastically endorsed this idea, which nevertheless triggered a volley of publications aimed at refuting it. although today lead is no longer seen as the prime culprit of rome's demise, its status in the system of water distribution by lead pipes (fistulæ) still stands as a major public health issue. by measuring pb isotope compositions of sediments from the tiber river and the trajanic harbor, the present work shows that "tap water" from ancient rome had times more lead than local spring waters.[ ][ ][ ] catastrophic collapse j. b. bury j. b. bury's history of the later roman empire ( / ) challenged the prevailing "theory of moral decay" established by gibbon as well as the classic "clash of christianity vs. paganism" theory, citing the relative success of the eastern empire, which was resolutely christian. he held that gibbon's grand history, though epoch-making in its research and detail, was too monocausal. his main difference from gibbon lay in his interpretation of facts, rather than disputing any facts. he made it clear that he felt that gibbon's thesis concerning "moral decay" was viable—but incomplete. bury's judgment was that:[ ] the gradual collapse of the roman power ... was the consequence of a series of contingent events. no general causes can be assigned that made it inevitable. bury held that a number of crises arose simultaneously: economic decline, germanic expansion, depopulation of italy, dependency on germanic foederati for the military, the disastrous (though bury believed unknowing) treason of stilicho, loss of martial vigor, aetius' murder, the lack of any leader to replace aetius—a series of misfortunes which, in combination, proved catastrophic: the empire had come to depend on the enrollment of barbarians, in large numbers, in the army, and ... it was necessary to render the service attractive to them by the prospect of power and wealth. this was, of course, a consequence of the decline in military spirit, and of depopulation, in the old civilised mediterranean countries. the germans in high command had been useful, but the dangers involved in the policy had been shown in the cases of merobaudes and arbogastes. yet this policy need not have led to the dismemberment of the empire, and but for that series of chances its western provinces would not have been converted, as and when they were, into german kingdoms. it may be said that a german penetration of western europe must ultimately have come about. but even if that were certain, it might have happened in another way, at a later time, more gradually, and with less violence. the point of the present contention is that rome's loss of her provinces in the fifth century was not an "inevitable effect of any of those features which have been rightly or wrongly described as causes or consequences of her general 'decline'". the central fact that rome could not dispense with the help of barbarians for her wars (gentium barbararum auxilio indigemus) may be held to be the cause of her calamities, but it was a weakness which might have continued to be far short of fatal but for the sequence of contingencies pointed out above.[ ] peter heather peter heather, in his the fall of the roman empire ( ), maintains the roman imperial system with its sometimes violent imperial transitions and problematic communications notwithstanding, was in fairly good shape during the first, second, and part of the rd centuries ad. according to heather, the first real indication of trouble was the emergence in iran of the sassanid persian empire ( – ). as reviewed by one writer on heather's writing, the sassanids were sufficiently powerful and internally cohesive to push back roman legions from the euphrates and from much of armenia and southeast turkey. much as modern readers tend to think of the "huns" as the nemesis of the roman empire, for the entire period under discussion it was the persians who held the attention and concern of rome and constantinople. indeed, – % of the military might of the roman army was addressing the persian threat from the late third century onward ... and upwards of % of the troops under the eastern emperors.[ ] heather goes on to state—in the tradition of gibbon and bury—that it took the roman empire about half a century to cope with the sassanid threat, which it did by stripping the western provincial towns and cities of their regional taxation income. the resulting expansion of military forces in the middle east was finally successful in stabilizing the frontiers with the sassanids, but the reduction of real income in the provinces of the empire led to two trends which, heather says, had a negative long-term impact. first, the incentive for local officials to spend their time and money in the development of local infrastructure disappeared. public buildings from the th century onward tended to be much more modest and funded from central budgets, as the regional taxes had dried up. second, heather says "the landowning provincial literati now shifted their attention to where the money was ... away from provincial and local politics to the imperial bureaucracies." having set the scene of an empire stretched militarily by the sassanid threat, heather then suggests, using archaeological evidence, that the germanic tribes on the empire's northern border had altered in nature since the st century. contact with the empire had increased their material wealth, and that in turn had led to disparities of wealth sufficient to create a ruling class capable of maintaining control over far larger groupings than had previously been possible. essentially they had become significantly more formidable foes. heather then posits what amounts to a domino theory—namely that pressure on peoples very far away from the empire could result in sufficient pressure on peoples on the empire's borders to make them contemplate the risk of full scale immigration to the empire. thus he links the gothic invasion of directly to hunnic movements around the black sea in the decade before. in the same way he sees the invasions across the rhine in as a direct consequence of further hunnic incursions in germania; as such he sees the huns as deeply significant in the fall of the western empire long before they themselves became a military threat to the empire. he postulates that the hunnic expansion caused unprecedented immigration in and by barbarian groupings who had become significantly more politically and militarily capable than in previous eras. this impacted an empire already at maximum stretch due to the sassanid pressure. essentially he argues that the external pressures of – could have brought the western empire down at any point in its history. he disputes gibbon's contention that christianity and moral decay led to the decline. he also rejects the political infighting of the empire as a reason, considering it was a systemic recurring factor throughout the empire's history which, while it might have contributed to an inability to respond to the circumstances of the th century, it consequently cannot be blamed for them. instead he places its origin squarely on outside military factors, starting with the sassanids. like bury, he does not believe the fall was inevitable, but rather a series of events which came together to shatter the empire. he differs from bury, however, in placing the onset of those events far earlier in the empire's timeline, with the sassanid rise. bryan ward-perkins bryan ward-perkins's the fall of rome and the end of civilization ( ) takes a traditional view tempered by modern discoveries, arguing that the empire's demise was caused by a vicious circle of political instability, foreign invasion, and reduced tax revenue. essentially, invasions caused long-term damage to the provincial tax base, which lessened the empire's medium- to long-term ability to pay and equip the legions, with predictable results. likewise, constant invasions encouraged provincial rebellion as self-help, further depleting imperial resources. contrary to the trend among some historians of the "there was no fall" school, who view the fall of rome as not necessarily a "bad thing" for the people involved, ward-perkins argues that in many parts of the former empire the archaeological record indicates that the collapse was truly a disaster. ward-perkins' theory, much like bury's, and heather's, identifies a series of cyclic events that came together to cause a definite decline and fall. transformation henri pirenne in the second half of the th century, some historians focused on the continuities between the roman empire and the post-roman germanic kingdoms rather than the rupture. in histoire des institutions politiques de l'ancienne france ( – ), fustel de coulanges argued that the barbarians simply contributed to an ongoing process of transforming roman institutions. henri pirenne continued this idea with the "pirenne thesis", published in the s, which remains influential to this day. it holds that even after the barbarian invasions, the roman way of doing things did not immediately change; barbarians came to rome not to destroy it, but to take part in its benefits, and thus they tried to preserve the roman way of life. the pirenne thesis regards the rise of the frankish realm in europe as a continuation of the roman empire, and thus validates the crowning of charlemagne as the first holy roman emperor as a successor of the roman emperors. according to pirenne, the real break in roman history occurred in the th and th centuries as a result of arab expansion. islamic conquest of the area of today's south-eastern turkey, syria, palestine, north africa, spain and portugal ruptured economic ties to western europe, cutting the region off from trade and turning it into a stagnant backwater, with wealth flowing out in the form of raw resources and nothing coming back. this began a steady decline and impoverishment so that by the time of charlemagne western europe had become almost entirely agrarian at a subsistence level, with no long-distance trade. pirenne's view on the continuity of the roman empire before and after the germanic invasion has been supported by recent historians such as françois masai, karl ferdinand werner, and peter brown. some modern critics have argued that the "pirenne thesis" erred on two counts: by treating the carolingian realm as a roman state and by overemphasizing the effect of the islamic conquests on the byzantine or eastern roman empire. other critics have argued that while pirenne was correct in arguing for the continuity of the empire beyond the sack of rome, the arab conquests in the th century may not have disrupted mediterranean trade routes to the degree that pirenne argued. michael mccormick in particular has argued that some recently unearthed sources, such as collective biographies, describe new trade routes. moreover, other records and coins document the movement of islamic currency into the carolingian empire. mccormick has concluded that if money was coming in, some type of goods must have been going out – including slaves, timber, weapons, honey, amber, and furs. lucien musset and the clash of civilizations in the spirit of "pirenne thesis", a school of thought pictured a clash of civilizations between the roman and the germanic world, a process taking place roughly between rd and th century. the french historian lucien musset, studying the barbarian invasions, argues the civilization of medieval europe emerged from a synthesis between the graeco-roman world and the germanic civilizations penetrating the roman empire. the roman empire did not fall, did not decline, it just transformed but so did the germanic populations which invaded it. to support this conclusion, beside the narrative of the events, he offers linguistic surveys of toponymy and anthroponymy, analyzes archaeological records, studies the urban and rural society, the institutions, the religion, the art, the technology. late antiquity historians of late antiquity, a field pioneered by peter brown, have turned away from the idea that the roman empire fell at all – refocusing instead on pirenne's thesis. they see a transformation occurring over centuries, with the roots of medieval culture contained in roman culture and focus on the continuities between the classical and medieval worlds. thus, it was a gradual process with no clear break. brown argues in his book that: factors we would regard as natural in a 'crisis'—malaise caused by urbanization, public disasters, the intrusion of alien religious ideas, and a consequent heightening of religious hopes and fears—may not have bulked as large in the minds of the men of the late second and third centuries as we suppose... the towns of the mediterranean were small towns. for all their isolation from the way of life of the villagers, they were fragile excrescences in a spreading countryside."[ ] see also 	fall of the western roman empire 	the history of the decline and fall of the roman empire 	last of the romans 	late roman army 	legacy of the roman empire 	roman historiography 	rise of christianity 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	religion in ancient rome 	marcus aurelius (head covered) sacrificing at the temple of jupiter 	 practices and beliefs 	 	libation 	sacrifice 	votum 	temples 	festivals 	ludi 	funerals 	imperial cult 	mystery religions 	 priesthoods 	 	pontifices 	augures 	vestales 	flamines 	fetiales 	epulones 	fratres arvales 	 deities 	 	list of roman deities 	twelve major gods 	capitoline triad 	aventine triad 	underworld gods 	indigitamenta deified emperors: 	divus julius 	divus augustus 	 related topics 	 	glossary of ancient roman religion 	roman mythology 	ancient greek religion 	etruscan religion 	gallo-roman religion 	interpretatio graeca 	decline of greco-roman polytheism 		v 	t 	e "roman pantheon" redirects here. it is not to be confused with pantheon, rome. the roman deities most familiar today are those the romans identified with greek counterparts (see interpretatio graeca), integrating greek myths, iconography, and sometimes religious practices into roman culture, including latin literature, roman art, and religious life as it was experienced throughout the empire. many of the romans' own gods remain obscure, known only by name and sometimes function, through inscriptions and texts that are often fragmentary. this is particularly true of those gods belonging to the archaic religion of the romans dating back to the era of kings, the so-called "religion of numa", which was perpetuated or revived over the centuries. some archaic deities have italic or etruscan counterparts, as identified both by ancient sources and by modern scholars. throughout the empire, the deities of peoples in the provinces were given new theological interpretations in light of functions or attributes they shared with roman deities. an extensive alphabetical list follows a survey of theological groups as constructed by the romans themselves.[ ] for the cult pertaining to deified roman emperors (divi), see imperial cult. contents 	 titles and honorifics 	 . augustus and augusta 	 . bonus and bona 	 . caelestis 	 . invictus 	 . mater and pater 	 . . magna mater 	 collectives 	 . spatial tripartition 	 . di indigetes and novensiles 	 roman god lists 	 . triads 	 . groupings of twelve 	 . . lectisternium of bc 	 . . dii consentes 	 . di flaminales 	 . . the three roman deities cultivated by major flamens[ ] 	 . . twelve roman deities attended by the minor flamens 	 . di selecti 	 . sabine gods 	 . indigitamenta 	 . alphabetical list 	 . . a 	 . . b 	 . . c 	 . . d 	 . . e 	 . . f 	 . . g 	 . . h 	 . . i 	 . . j 	 . . l 	 . . m 	 . . n 	 . . o 	 . . p 	 . . q 	 . . r 	 . . s 	 . . t 	 . . v 	 see also 	 references titles and honorifics[edit] certain honorifics and titles could be shared by different gods, divine personifications, demi-gods and divi (deified mortals). augustus and augusta[edit] augustus, "the elevated or august one" (masculine form) is an honorific and title awarded to octavian in recognition of his unique status, the extraordinary range of his powers, and the apparent divine approval of his principate. after his death and deification, the title was awarded to each of his successors. it also became a near ubiquitous title or honour for various minor local deities, including the lares augusti of local communities, and obscure provincial deities such as the north african marazgu augustus. this extension of an imperial honorific to major and minor deities of rome and her provinces is considered a ground-level feature of imperial cult. augusta, the feminine form, is an honorific and title associated with the development and dissemination of imperial cult as applied to roman empresses, whether living, deceased or deified as divae. the first augusta was livia, wife of octavian, and the title is then shared by various state goddesses including bona dea, ceres, juno, minerva, and ops; by many minor or local goddesses; and by the female personifications of imperial virtues such as pax and victoria. bonus and bona[edit] the epithet bonus, "the good," is used in imperial ideology with abstract deities such as bona fortuna ("good fortune"), bona mens ("good thinking" or "sound mind"), and bona spes ("valid hope," perhaps to be translated as "optimism"). during the republic, the epithet may be most prominent with bona dea, "the good goddess" whose rites were celebrated by women. bonus eventus, "good outcome", was one of varro's twelve agricultural deities, and later represented success in general.[ ] roman isis in black and white marble, from the time of apuleius caelestis[edit] from the middle imperial period, the title caelestis, "heavenly" or "celestial" is attached to several goddesses embodying aspects of a single, supreme heavenly goddess. the dea caelestis was identified with the constellation virgo ("the virgin"), who holds the divine balance of justice. in the metamorphoses of apuleius,[ ] the protagonist lucius prays to the hellenistic egyptian goddess isis as regina caeli, "queen of heaven", who is said to manifest also as ceres, "the original nurturing parent"; heavenly venus (venus caelestis); the "sister of phoebus", that is, diana or artemis as she is worshipped at ephesus; or proserpina as the triple goddess of the underworld. juno caelestis was the romanised form of the carthaginian tanit.[ ] grammatically, the form caelestis can also be a masculine word, but the equivalent function for a male deity is usually expressed through syncretization with caelus, as in caelus aeternus iuppiter, "jupiter the eternal sky." invictus[edit] dedication made to the deus invictus by a roman legionary in brigetio, pannonia[ ] invictus ("unconquered, invincible") was in use as a divine epithet by the early rd century bc. in the imperial period, it expressed the invincibility of deities embraced officially, such as jupiter, mars, hercules, and sol. on coins, calendars, and other inscriptions, mercury, saturn, silvanus, fons, serapis, sabazius, apollo, and the genius are also found as invictus. cicero considers it a normal epithet for jupiter, in regard to whom it is probably a synonym for omnipotens. it is also used in the mithraic mysteries.[ ] mater and pater[edit] mater ("mother") was an honorific that respected a goddess's maternal authority and functions, and not necessarily "motherhood" per se. early examples included terra mater (mother earth) and the mater larum (mother of the lares). vesta, a goddess of chastity usually conceived of as a virgin, was honored as mater. a goddess known as stata mater was a compital deity credited with preventing fires in the city.[ ] from the middle imperial era, the reigning empress becomes mater castrorum et senatus et patriae, the symbolic mother of military camps, the senate, and the fatherland. the gallic and germanic cavalry (auxilia) of the roman imperial army regularly set up altars to the "mothers of the field" (campestres, from campus, "field," with the title matres or matronae).[ ] see also magna mater (great mother) following. gods were called pater ("father") to signify their preeminence and paternal care, and the filial respect owed to them. pater was found as an epithet of dis, jupiter, mars, and liber, among others. magna mater[edit] "the great mother" was a title given to cybele in her roman cult. some roman literary sources accord the same title to maia and other goddesses.[ ] collectives[edit] even in invocations, which generally required precise naming, the romans sometimes spoke of gods as groups or collectives rather than naming them as individuals. some groups, such as the camenae and parcae, were thought of as a limited number of individual deities, even though the number of these might not be given consistently in all periods and all texts. the following groups, however, are numberless collectives. spatial tripartition[edit] varro grouped the gods broadly into three divisions of heaven, earth, and underworld: 	di superi, the gods above or heavenly gods, whose altars were designated as altaria.[ ] 	di terrestres, "terrestrial gods," whose altars were designated as arae. 	di inferi, the gods below, that is, the gods of the underworld, infernal or chthonic gods, whose altars were foci, fire pits or specially constructed hearths. more common is a dualistic contrast between superi and inferi. di indigetes and novensiles[edit] the di indigetes were thought by georg wissowa to be rome's indigenous deities, in contrast to the di novensides or novensiles, "newcomer gods". no ancient source, however, poses this dichotomy, which is not generally accepted among scholars of the st century. the meaning of the epithet indiges (singular) has no scholarly consensus, and noven may mean "nine" (novem) rather than "new". roman god lists[edit] triads[edit] 	archaic triad: jupiter, mars, quirinus. 	capitoline triad: jupiter, juno, minerva.[ ] 	plebeian or aventine triad: ceres, liber, libera, dating to bc.[ ] groupings of twelve[edit] lectisternium of bc[edit] a lectisternium is a banquet for the gods, at which they appear as images seated on couches, as if present and participating. in describing the lectisternium of the twelve great gods in bc, the augustan historian livy places the deities in gender-balanced pairs:[ ] 	jupiter–juno 	neptune–minerva 	mars–venus 	apollo–diana 	vulcan–vesta 	mercury–ceres divine male-female complements such as these, as well as the anthropomorphic influence of greek mythology, contributed to a tendency in latin literature to represent the gods as "married" couples or (as in the case of venus and mars) lovers.[citation needed] di consentes on an altar dii consentes[edit] varro uses the name dii consentes for twelve deities whose gilded images stood in the forum. these were also placed in six male-female pairs.[ ] although individual names are not listed, they are assumed to be the deities of the lectisternium. a fragment from ennius, within whose lifetime the lectisternium occurred, lists the same twelve deities by name, though in a different order from that of livy: juno, vesta, minerva, ceres, diana, venus, mars, mercurius, jove, neptunus, vulcanus, apollo.[ ] the dii consentes are sometimes seen as the roman equivalent of the greek olympians. the meaning of consentes is subject to interpretation, but is usually taken to mean that they form a council or consensus of deities. di flaminales[edit] the three roman deities cultivated by major flamens[ ][edit] 	jupiter 	mars 	quirinus twelve roman deities attended by the minor flamens[edit] 	carmentis 	ceres 	falacer 	flora 	furrina 	palatua 	pomona 	portunus 	vulcan 	volturnus 	two other deities whose names are not known[ ] di selecti[edit] varro[ ] gives a list of twenty principal gods of roman religion: 	janus 	jupiter 	saturn 	genius 	mercury 	apollo 	mars 	vulcan 	neptune 	sol 	orcus 	liber 	tellus 	ceres 	juno 	luna 	diana 	minerva 	venus 	vesta sabine gods[edit] varro, who was himself of sabine origin, gives a list of sabine gods who were adopted by the romans: 	feronia 	minerva 	novensides[ ] 	pales 	salus 	fortuna 	fons 	fides[ ] 	ops 	flora 	vediovis 	saturn 	sol 	luna 	vulcan 	summanus 	larunda 	terminus 	quirinus 	vortumnus 	lares 	diana 	lucina livia, wife of augustus, dressed as the goddess ops. elsewhere, varro claims sol indiges, who had a sacred grove at lavinium, as sabine but at the same time equates him with apollo.[ ] of those listed, he writes, "several names have their roots in both languages, as trees that grow on a property line creep into both fields. saturn, for instance, can be said to have another origin here, and so too diana."[ ] varro makes various claims for sabine origins throughout his works, some more plausible than others, and his list should not be taken at face value.[ ] but the importance of the sabines in the early cultural formation of rome is evidenced, for instance, by the bride abduction of the sabine women by romulus's men, and in the sabine ethnicity of numa pompilius, second king of rome, to whom are attributed many of rome's religious and legal institutions.[ ] varro, however, says that the altars to most of these gods were established at rome by king tatius as the result of a vow (votum).[ ] indigitamenta[edit] main article: indigitamenta the indigitamenta are deities known only or primarily as a name; they may be minor entities, or epithets of major gods. lists of deities were kept by the college of pontiffs to assure that the correct names were invoked for public prayers. the books of the pontiffs are lost, known only through scattered passages in latin literature. the most extensive lists are provided by the church fathers who sought systematically to debunk roman religion while drawing on the theological works of varro, also surviving only in quoted or referenced fragments. w.h. roscher collated the standard modern list of indigitamenta,[ ] though other scholars may differ with him on some points. alphabetical list[edit] contents 	 – 	a 	b 	c 	d 	e 	f 	g 	h 	i 	j 	k 	l 	m 	n 	o 	p 	q 	r 	s 	t 	u 	v 	w 	x 	y 	z a[edit] a "lizard-slayer" apollo on a mosaic from roman africa 	abundantia, divine personification of abundance and prosperity. 	acca larentia, a diva of complex meaning and origin in whose honor the larentalia was held. 	acis, god of the acis river in sicily. 	aerecura, goddess possibly of celtic origin, associated with the underworld and identified with proserpina. 	aequitas, divine personification of fairness. 	aesculapius, the roman equivalent of asclepius, god of health and medicine. 	aeternitas, goddess and personification of eternity. 	aion (latin spelling aeon), hellenistic god of cyclical or unbounded time, related to the concepts of aevum or saeculum 	aius locutius, divine voice that warned the romans of the imminent gallic invasion. 	alernus or elernus (possibly helernus), an archaic god whose sacred grove (lucus) was near the tiber river. he is named definitively only by ovid.[ ] the grove was the birthplace of the nymph cranea, and despite the obscurity of the god, the state priests still carried out sacred rites (sacra) there in the time of augustus.[ ] alernus may have been a chthonic god, if a black ox was the correct sacrificial offering to him, since dark victims were offered to underworld gods.[ ] dumézil wanted to make him a god of beans.[ ] 	angerona, goddess who relieved people from pain and sorrow. 	angitia, goddess associated with snakes and medea. 	anna perenna, early goddess of the "circle of the year", her festival was celebrated march . 	annona, the divine personification of the grain supply to the city of rome. 	antevorta, goddess of the future and one of the camenae; also called porrima. 	apollo, god of poetry, music, and oracles, and one of the dii consentes. 	arimanius, an obscure mithraic god. 	aura, often plural aurae, "the breezes". 	aurora, goddess of the dawn. 	averruncus, a god propitiated to avert calamity. b[edit] a bacchus from roman spain, nd century 	bacchus, god of wine, sensual pleasures, and truth, originally a cult title for the greek dionysus and identified with the roman liber. 	bellona or duellona, war goddess. 	bona dea, the "women's goddess"[ ] with functions pertaining to fertility, healing, and chastity. 	bonus eventus, divine personification of "good outcome". 	bubona, goddess of cattle. c[edit] 	caca, an archaic fire goddess and "proto-vesta";[ ] the sister of cacus. 	cacus, originally an ancient god of fire, later regarded as a giant. 	caelus, god of the sky before jupiter. 	camenae, goddesses with various attributes including fresh water, prophecy, and childbirth. there were four of them: carmenta, egeria, antevorta, and postvorta. 	cardea, goddess of the hinge (cardo), identified by ovid with carna (below) 	carmenta, goddess of childbirth and prophecy, and assigned a flamen minor. the leader of the camenae. 	carmentes, two goddesses of childbirth: antevorta and postvorta or porrima, future and past. 	carna, goddess who preserved the health of the heart and other internal organs. 	ceres, goddess of the harvest and mother of proserpina, and one of the dii consentes. the roman equivalent of demeter [greek goddess]. 	clementia, goddess of forgiveness and mercy. 	cloacina, goddess who presided over the system of sewers in rome; identified with venus. 	concordia, goddess of agreement, understanding, and marital harmony. 	consus, chthonic god protecting grain storage. 	cupid, roman god of love. the son of venus, and equivalent to greek eros. 	cura, personification of care and concern who according to a single source[ ] created humans from clay. 	cybele, an imported tutelary goddess often identified with magna mater d[edit] 	dea dia, goddess of growth. 	dea tacita ("the silent goddess"), a goddess of the dead; later equated with the earth goddess larenta. 	decima, minor goddess and one of the parcae (roman equivalent of the moirai). the measurer of the thread of life, her greek equivalent was lachesis. diana nemorensis on a denarius 	devera or deverra, goddess who ruled over the brooms used to purify temples in preparation for various worship services, sacrifices and celebrations; she protected midwives and women in labor. 	diana, goddess of the hunt, the moon, virginity, and childbirth, twin sister of apollo and one of the dii consentes. 	diana nemorensis, local version of diana. the roman equivalent of artemis [greek goddess] 	discordia, personification of discord and strife. the roman equivalent of eris [greek goddess] 	dius fidius, god of oaths, associated with jupiter. 	di inferi, deities associated with death and the underworld. 	disciplina, personification of discipline. 	dis pater or dispater, god of wealth and the underworld; perhaps a translation of greek plouton (pluto). e[edit] the gallo-roman horse goddess epona 	egeria, water nymph or goddess, later considered one the camenae. 	empanda or panda, a goddess whose temple never closed to those in need. 	epona, gallo-roman goddess of horses and horsemanship, usually assumed to be of celtic origin. f[edit] 	falacer, obscure god. he was assigned a minor flamen. 	fama, goddess of fame and rumor. 	fascinus, phallic god who protected from invidia (envy) and the evil eye. 	fauna, goddess of prophecy, but perhaps a title of other goddesses such as maia. 	faunus, god of flocks. 	faustitas, goddess who protected herd and livestock. 	februus, god of etruscan origin for whom the month of february was named; concerned with purification 	febris, "fever," goddess with the power to cause or prevent fevers and malaria. 	fecunditas, personification of fertility. 	felicitas, personification of good luck and success. 	ferentina, patron goddess of the city ferentinum, latium, protector of the latin commonwealth. 	feronia, goddess concerned with wilderness, plebeians, freedmen, and liberty in a general sense. 	fides, personification of loyalty. 	flora, goddess of flowers, was assigned a flamen minor. 	fornax, goddess probably conceived of to explain the fornacalia, "oven festival." 	fontus or fons, god of wells and springs. 	fortuna, goddess of fortune. 	fufluns, god of wine, natural growth and health. he was adopted from etruscan religion. 	fulgora, personification of lightning. 	furrina, goddess whose functions are mostly unknown, but in archaic times important enough to be assigned a flamen. g[edit] 	genius, the tutelary spirit or divinity of each individual 	gratiae, roman term for the charites or graces. h[edit] roman statue of the infant hercules strangling a snake 	hercules, god of strength, whose worship was derived from the greek hero heracles but took on a distinctly roman character. 	hermaphroditus, an androgynous greek god whose mythology was imported into latin literature. 	honos, a divine personification of honor. 	hora, the wife of quirinus. i[edit] 	indiges, the deified aeneas. 	intercidona, minor goddess of childbirth; invoked to keep evil spirits away from the child; symbolised by a cleaver. 	inuus, god of fertility and sexual intercourse, protector of livestock. 	invidia, goddess of envy and wrongdoing. j[edit] a janiform sculpture, perhaps of janus punishment of ixion: in the center is mercury holding the caduceus and on the right juno sits on her throne. behind her iris stands and gestures. on the left is vulcan (blond figure) standing behind the wheel, manning it, with ixion already tied to it. nephele sits at mercury's feet; a roman fresco from the eastern wall of the triclinium in the house of the vettii, pompeii, fourth style ( - ad). 	janus, double-faced or two-headed god of beginnings and endings and of doors. 	juno, queen of the gods, goddess of matrimony, and one of the dii consentes. equivalent to greek hera. 	jupiter, king of the gods, god of storms, lightning, sky, and one of the dii consentes; was assigned a flamen maior. equivalent to greek zeus. 	justitia, goddess of justice. 	juturna, goddess of fountains, wells, and springs. 	juventas, goddess of youth. l[edit] 	lares, household gods. 	latona, goddess of light. 	laverna, patroness of thieves, con men and charlatans. 	lemures, the malevolent dead. 	levana, goddess of the rite through which fathers accepted newborn babies as their own. 	letum, personification of death.[citation needed] 	liber, a god of male fertility, viniculture and freedom, assimilated to roman bacchus and greek dionysus. 	libera, liber's female equivalent, assimilated to roman proserpina and greek persephone. 	liberalitas, goddess or personification of generosity. 	libertas, goddess or personification of freedom. 	libitina, goddess of death, corpses and funerals. 	lua, goddess to whom soldiers sacrificed captured weapons, probably a consort of saturn. 	lucifer, god of the morning star 	lucina, goddess of childbirth, but often as an aspect of juno. 	luna, goddess of the moon. 	lupercus, god of shepherds and wolves; as the god of the lupercalia, his identity is obscure, but he is sometimes identified with the greek god pan. 	lympha, often plural lymphae, a water deity assimilated to the greek nymphs. m[edit] capitoline triad of juno, jupiter, and minerva 	mana genita, goddess of infant mortality 	manes, the souls of the dead who came to be seen as household deities. 	mania, the consort of the etruscan underworld god mantus, and perhaps to be identified with the tenebrous mater larum; not to be confused with the greek maniae. 	mantus, an etruscan god of the dead and ruler of the underworld. 	mars, god of war and father of romulus, the founder of rome; one of the archaic triad assigned a flamen maior; lover of venus; one of the dii consentes.greek equivalent-ares. 	mater matuta, goddess of dawn and childbirth, patroness of mariners. 	meditrina, goddess of healing, introduced to account for the festival of meditrinalia. 	mefitis or mephitis, goddess and personification of poisonous gases and volcanic vapours. 	mellona or mellonia, goddess of bees and bee-keeping. 	mena or mene, goddess of fertility and menstruation. 	mercury, messenger of the gods and bearer of souls to the underworld, and one of the dii consentes. roman counterpart of the greek god hermes. 	minerva, goddess of wisdom, war, the arts, industries and trades, and one of the dii consentes. roman equivalent of the greek goddess athena. 	mithras, god worshipped in the roman empire; popular with soldiers. 	molae, daughters of mars, probably goddesses of grinding of the grain. 	moneta, minor goddess of memory, equivalent to the greek mnemosyne. also used as an epithet of juno. 	mors, personification of death and equivalent of the greek thanatos. 	morta, minor goddess of death and one of the parcae (roman equivalent of the moirai). the cutter of the thread of life, her greek equivalent was atropos. 	murcia or murtia, a little-known goddess who was associated with the myrtle, and in other sources was called a goddess of sloth and laziness (both interpretations arising from false etymologies of her name). later equated with venus in the form of venus murcia. 	mutunus tutunus, a phallic god. n[edit] neptune velificans on a rd-century mosaic 	naenia, goddess of funerary lament. 	nascio, personification of the act of birth. 	necessitas, goddess of destiny, the roman equivalent of ananke. 	nemesis, goddess of revenge (greek), adopted as an imperial deity of retribution. 	neptune, god of the sea, earthquakes, and horses, and one of the dii consentes. greek equivalent is poseidon. 	nerio, ancient war goddess and the personification of valor. the consort of mars. 	neverita, presumed a goddess, and associated with consus and neptune in the etrusco-roman zodiac of martianus capella but otherwise unknown.[ ] 	nixi, also di nixi, dii nixi, or nixae, goddesses of childbirth. 	nona, minor goddess, one of the parcae (roman equivalent of the moirai). the spinner of the thread of life, her greek equivalent was clotho. 	nortia a roman-adopted etruscan goddess of fate, destiny, and chance from the city of volsinii, where a nail was driven into a wall of her temple as part a new-year ceremony. 	nox, goddess of night, derived from the greek nyx. o[edit] 	ops or opis, goddess of resources or plenty. 	orcus, a god of the underworld and punisher of broken oaths. p[edit] 	palatua, obscure goddess who guarded the palatine hill. she was assigned a flamen minor. 	pales, deity of shepherds, flocks and livestock. 	parcae, the three fates. 	pax, goddess of peace; equivalent of greek eirene. aeneas and the penates, from a th-century manuscript 	penates or di penates, household gods. 	picumnus, minor god of fertility, agriculture, matrimony, infants and children. 	picus, italic woodpecker god with oracular powers. 	pietas, goddess of duty; personification of the roman virtue pietas. 	pilumnus, minor guardian god, concerned with the protection of infants at birth. 	pluto, greek plouton, a name for the ruler of the dead popularized through the mystery religions and greek philosophy, sometimes used in latin literature and identified with dis pater or orcus. 	poena, goddess of punishment.[citation needed] 	pomona, goddess of fruit trees, gardens and orchards; assigned a flamen minor. 	porrima, goddess of the future. also called antevorta. one of the carmentes and the camenae. 	portunus, god of keys, doors, and livestock, he was assigned a flamen minor. 	postverta or prorsa postverta, goddess of childbirth and the past, one of the two carmentes (other being porrima). 	priapus, imported phallic guardian of guardians. 	proserpina, queen of the dead and a grain-goddess, the roman equivalent of the greek persephone. 	providentia, goddess of forethought. 	pudicitia, goddess and personification of chastity, one of the roman virtues. her greek equivalent was aidôs. q[edit] 	querquetulanae, nymphs of the oak. 	quirinus, sabine god identified with mars; romulus, the founder of rome, was deified as quirinus after his death. quirinus was a war god and a god of the roman people and state, and was assigned a flamen maior; he was one of the archaic triad gods. 	quiritis, goddess of motherhood. originally sabine or pre-roman, she was later equated with juno. r[edit] 	robigo or robigus, a god or goddess who personified grain disease and protected crops. 	roma, personification of the roman state. 	rumina, goddess who protected breastfeeding mothers. s[edit] sol invictus, or christ depicted in his guise. rd century ad 	salacia, goddess of seawater, wife of neptune. 	salus, goddess of the public welfare of the roman people; came to be equated with the greek hygieia. 	sancus, god of loyalty, honesty, and oaths. 	saturn, a titan, god of harvest and agriculture, the father of jupiter, neptune, juno, and pluto. 	securitas, goddess of security, especially the security of the roman empire. 	silvanus, god of woodlands and forests. 	sol invictus, sun god. 	somnus, god of sleep; equates with the greek hypnos. 	soranus, a god later subsumed by apollo in the form apollo soranus. 	sors, god of luck. 	spes, goddess of hope. 	stata mater, goddess who protected against fires. sometimes equated with vesta. 	sterquilinus ("manure"), god of fertilizer. also known as stercutus, sterculius, straculius, struculius. 	suadela, goddess of persuasion, her greek equivalent was peitho. 	summanus, god of nocturnal thunder. 	sulis minerva, a conflation of the celtic goddess sul and minerva t[edit] 	talasius, a god of marriage 	tellumo or tellurus, male counterpart of tellus. 	tempestas, a goddess of storms or sudden weather, usually plural as the tempestates 	terra mater or tellus, goddess of the earth and land. the greek equivalent is gaea, mother of titans, consort of caelus (uranus). 	terminus, the rustic god of boundaries. 	tiberinus, river god; deity of the tiber river. 	tibertus, god of the river anio, a tributary of the tiber. 	tranquillitas, goddess of peace and tranquility. 	trivia, goddess of crossroads and magic, equated with hecate. v[edit] venus, vulcan, mars, and cupid on a wall painting from pompeii 	vacuna, ancient sabine goddess of rest after harvest who protected the farmers' sheep; later identified with nike and worshipped as a war goddess. 	vagitanus, or vaticanus, opens the newborn's mouth for its first cry. 	vediovus or veiovis, obscure god, a sort of anti-jupiter, as the meaning of his name suggests. may be a god of the underworld. 	venilia or venelia, sea goddess, wife of neptune or faunus.[citation needed] 	venti, the winds, equivalent to the greek anemoi: north wind aquilo(n) or septentrio (greek boreas); south wind auster (greek notus); east wind vulturnus (eurus); west wind favonius (zephyrus); northwest wind caurus or corus (see minor winds). 	venus, goddess of love, beauty, sexuality, and gardens; mother of the founding hero aeneas; one of the dii consentes. 	veritas, goddess and personification of the roman virtue of veritas or truth. 	verminus, god of cattle worms. 	vertumnus, vortumnus or vertimnus, god of the seasons, and of gardens and fruit trees. 	vesta, goddess of the hearth, the roman state, and the sacred fire; one of the dii consentes. 	vica pota, goddess of victory and competitions. 	victoria, goddess of victory. 	viduus, god who separated the soul and body after death. 	virbius, a forest god, the reborn hippolytus. 	virtus, god or goddess of military strength, personification of the roman virtue of virtus. 	volturnus, god of water, was assigned a flamen minor. not to be confused with vulturnus. 	voluptas, goddess of pleasure. 	vulcan, god of the forge, fire, and blacksmiths, husband to venus, and one of the dii consentes, was assigned a flamen minor. see also[edit] 	list of metamorphoses characters 	roman polytheistic reconstructionism 	seven factors of awakening 	classical planets 	seven churches of asia 	chakra 	seven mesopotamian planetary deities for minor deities known for a single function or by a single name, see: 	indigitamenta 	list of roman birth and childhood deities 	list of roman agricultural deities a number of figures from greek mythology who were not part of roman religious practice appear in latin mythological narratives and as poetic allusions; for these names, see: 	list of greek mythological figures references[edit] 	^ robert schilling, "roman gods," roman and european mythologies (university of chicago press, , from the french edition of ), pp. online and (note ). unless otherwise noted, citations of primary sources are schilling's. 	^ hendrik h.j. brouwer, bona dea: the sources and a description of the cult pp. – . 	^ apuleius, metamorphoses . . 	^ benko, stephen, the virgin goddess: studies in the pagan and christian roots of mariology, brill, , pp. – : see also pp. , . 	^ cil , "a soldier of the legio i adiutrix [dedicated this] to the unconquered god" (deo invicto / ulpius sabinus / miles legio/nis primae / (a)diutricis). 	^ steven ernst hijmans, sol: the sun in the art and religions of rome (diss., university of groningen ), p. , with citations from the corpus inscriptionum latinarum. 	^ lawrence richardson, a new topographical dictionary of ancient rome (johns hopkins university press, ), pp. – . 	^ r.w. davies, "the training grounds of the roman cavalry," archaeological journal ( ), p. et passim. 	^ macrobius, saturnalia . . – . cited in h.h.j. brouwer, bona dea: the sources and a description of the cult (brill, ), pp. , . 	^ varro, divine antiquities, book , frg. ; see also livy . . ; paulus apud festus, p. ; servius danielis, note to aeneid . ; lactantius placidus, note to statius, theb. . – . 	^ livy, . . , . . – . 	^ dionysius of halicarnassus . . 	^ livy, . . . 	^ varro, de re rustica . . : "eos urbanos, quorum imagines ad forum auratae stant, sex mares et feminae totidem. 	^ ennius, annales frg. , in j. vahlen, ennianae poesis reliquiae (leipzig, , nd ed.). ennius's list appears in poetic form, and the word order may be dictated by the metrical constraints of dactylic hexameter. 	^ https://www.encyclopedia.com/philosophy-and-religion/ancient-religions/ancient-religion/flamen 	^ forsythe, gary, a critical history of early rome: from prehistory to the first punic war, university of california press, august, 	^ as recorded by augustine of hippo, de civitate dei . . 	^ or novensiles: the spelling -d- for -l- is characteristic of the sabine language 	^ for fides, see also semo sancus or dius fidius; roger d. woodard, indo-european sacred space: vedic and roman cult p. . 	^ varro, de lingua latina . ; paul rehak, imperium and cosmos: augustus and the northern campus martius (university of wisconsin press, ), p. . 	^ e quis nonnulla nomina in utraque lingua habent radices, ut arbores quae in confinio natae in utroque agro serpunt: potest enim saturnus hic de alia causa esse dictus atque in sabinis, et sic diana. 	^ anna clark, divine qualities: cult and community in republican rome (oxford university press, ) pp. – ; emma dench, romulus' asylum: roman identities from the age of alexander to the age of hadrian (oxford university press, ), pp. – . 	^ william warde fowler, the religious experience of the roman people (london, ), p. . 	^ tatius is said by varro to have dedicated altars to "ops, flora, vediovis and saturn, to sol, luna, vulcan and summanus, and likewise to larunda, terminus, quirinus, vortumnus, the lares, diana and lucina." 	^ w.h. roscher, ausführliches lexikon der griechischen und römischen mythologie (leipzig: teubner, – ), vol. , pt. , pp. – . 	^ ovid, fasti . and . ( teubner edition). 	^ ovid, fasti . . 	^ this depends on a proposed emendation of aternus to alernus in an entry from festus, p. in the edition of lindsay. at fasti . , a reading of avernus, though possible, makes no geographical sense. see discussion of this deity by matthew robinson, a commentary on ovid's fasti, book (oxford university press, ), pp. – . 	^ as noted by robinson, commentary, p. ; georges dumézil, fêtes romaines d'été et d'automne ( ), pp. ff., taking the name as helernus in association with latin holus, holera, "vegetables." the risks and "excessive fluidity" inherent in dumézil's reconstructions of lost mythologies were noted by robert schilling, "the religion of the roman republic: a review of recent studies," in roman and european mythologies, pp. – , and specifically in regard to the myth of carna as a context for the supposed helernus. 	^ dea feminarum: macrobius, saturnalia i. . . 	^ marko marinčič, "roman archaeology in vergil's arcadia (vergil eclogue ; aeneid ; livy . ), in clio and the poets: augustan poetry and the traditions of ancient historiography (brill, ), p. . 	^ hyginus, fabulae ; compare prometheus. 	^ de grummond, n. t., and simon, e., (editors) the religion of the etruscans, university of texas press, , p. 	 	v 	t 	e ancient rome topics 	 	outline 	timeline 	history	 	 	foundation 	kingdom 	overthrow 	republic 	empire	 	history 	pax romana 	principate 	dominate 	western empire 	fall 	historiography of the fall 	byzantine empire 	decline 	fall 	constitution	 	history 	kingdom 	republic 	empire 	late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	curiate 	centuriate 	tribal 	plebeian 	executive magistrates 	spqr 	law	 	twelve tables 	mos maiorum 	citizenship 	auctoritas 	imperium 	status 	litigation 	government	 	curia 	forum 	cursus honorum 	collegiality 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	prefect 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 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consuls known to have held office, from the beginning of the roman republic to the latest use of the title in imperial times, together with those magistrates of the republic who were appointed in place of consuls, or who superseded consular authority for a limited period. contents 	 background 	 . republican consuls 	 . other magistrates included 	 . the consulship in imperial times 	 . chronology 	 . consules prior and posterior 	 . other lists of consuls 	 key 	 . latin terms 	 . abbreviations for praenomina 	 . colors 	 th century bc ( – ) 	 th century bc ( – ) 	 th century bc ( – ) 	 rd century bc ( – ) 	 nd century bc ( – ) 	 st century bc ( – ) 	 st century ( – ) 	 nd century ( – ) 	 rd century ( – ) 	 th century ( – ) 	 roman consuls of east and west ( – ) 	 roman consuls of the east alone ( – ) 	 references 	 further reading 	 . primary sources 	 . secondary sources 	 external links background[edit] republican consuls[edit] from the establishment of the republic to the time of augustus, the consuls were the chief magistrates of the roman state, and normally there were two of them, so that the executive power of the state was not vested in a single individual, as it had been under the kings.[ ][ ] as other ancient societies dated historical events according to the reigns of their kings, it became customary at rome to date events by the names of the consuls in office when the events occurred, rather than (for instance) by counting the number of years since the foundation of the city, although that method could also be used.[ ] if a consul died during his year of office, another was elected to replace him. although his imperium was the same as his predecessor's, he was termed consul suffectus, in order to distinguish him from the consul ordinarius whom he replaced; but the eponymous magistrates for each year were normally the consules ordinarii.[ ][ ] because of this method of dating events, it was important to keep records of each year's eponymous magistrates. many such lists have survived, either in the form of monumental inscriptions, conventionally referred to as fasti, or indirectly through the ancient historians, who had access to linen rolls recording the names of magistrates. although these lists account for the entire period of the republic, and most of imperial times, there are discrepancies due to gaps and disagreements between different sources. many of these no doubt arose as copying errors, especially those that involved the substitution of a familiar name for a less common one. others may represent later attempts to edit the lists in order to explain deficiencies in the record, to reconcile conflicting traditions, or to ascribe particular actions or events to the time of a particular individual.[ ] other magistrates included[edit] occasionally, the authority of the consuls was temporarily superseded by the appointment of a dictator, who held greater imperium than that of the consuls.[ ] by tradition, these dictators laid down their office upon the completion of the task for which they were nominated, or after a maximum period of six months, and did not continue in office longer than the year for which the nominating consul had been elected.[ ] however, in four years at the end of the th century bc, dictators are said to have continued in office in the year following their nomination, in place of consuls. modern scholars are skeptical of these years, which might be due to later editing of the lists of magistrates in order to fill a gap.[ ] all known dictators have been included in this table. two other types of magistrates are listed during the period of the republic. in the year bc, a board of ten men, known as decemviri, or decemvirs, was appointed in place of the consuls in order to draw up the tables of roman law, in a sense establishing the roman constitution. according to tradition, a second college of decemvirs was appointed for the next year, and these continued in office illegally into , until they were overthrown in a popular revolt, and the consulship was reinstated.[ ][ ] among the disputes which the decemvirs failed to resolve was the relationship between the patricians, rome's hereditary aristocracy, and the plebeians, or common citizens. although it has been argued that some of the consuls prior to the decemvirate may have been plebeians, the office was definitely closed to them in the second half of the th century bc. to prevent open hostility between the two orders, the office of military tribune with consular power, or "consular tribune", was established. in place of patrician consuls, the people could elect a number of military tribunes, who might be either patrician or plebeian.[ ][ ] according to livy, this compromise held until bc, when two of the tribunes of the plebs, gaius licinius calvus stolo and lucius sextius lateranus, blocked the election of any magistrates for the following year, unless the senate would agree to place a law before the people opening the consulship to the plebeians, and effecting other important reforms. the senate refused, and the tribunes continued to prevent the election of magistrates for several years until the senate capitulated, and the lex licinia sextia was passed, leading to the election of the first plebeian consul in .[ ][ ][ ] other accounts of this event are inconsistent, and current scholarly opinion is that the duration of the period without magistrates may have been exaggerated, or even invented to fill a gap in the record; nevertheless roman tradition unanimously holds that licinius and sextius were able to open the consulship to the plebeians.[ ] the consulship in imperial times[edit] in imperial times the consulship became the senior administrative office under the emperors, who frequently assumed the title of consul themselves, and appointed other consuls at will.[ ] the consulship was often bestowed as a political favour, or a reward for faithful service. because there could only be two consuls at once, the emperors frequently appointed several sets of suffecti sequentially in the course of a year; holding the consulship for an entire year became a special honour.[ ][ ] as the office lost much of its executive authority, and the number of consuls appointed for short and often irregular periods increased, surviving lists from imperial times are often incomplete, and have been reconstructed from many sources, not always with much certainty. in many cases it is stated that a particular person had been consul, but the exact time cannot be firmly established. as an institution, the consulship survived the abdication of the last emperor of the west, and for a time consuls continued to be appointed, one representing the eastern roman empire, and the other the western, even as the western empire dissolved as a political entity. the last consuls appointed represented only the eastern empire, until finally the title became the sole province of the emperor, who might or might not assume it upon taking office.[ ][ ] chronology[edit] for the early republic, this article observes the varronian chronology, established by the historian marcus terentius varro, who calculated that rome was founded in what is now called the year bc (the founding of the city was traditionally observed on the palilia, a festival occurring on april ). this becomes the year ab urbe condita, or auc. the republic was established in auc, or bc. although other ancient historians gave different years, varro's chronology was the most widely accepted; it was used in the fasti capitolini, and its use by censorinus brought it to the attention of joseph scaliger, who helped popularize its use in modern times.[ ][ ] for imperial times, the dates of the consules ordinarii are far more certain than those of the suffecti, who were not recorded with the same attention as the eponymous magistrates. their identification and dating is far more controversial, and despite the efforts of generations of scholars, gaps in coverage remain. known consules suffecti are shown with their known (or reconstructed) dates of tenure, which normally varied from two to six months — although one suffect consul, rosius regulus, is known to have held the fasces for a single day, october , ad .[ ] where neither consul is known or inferred for a portion of the year, their names are omitted for convenience; if one consul can be named, but his colleague is unknown, the unnamed colleague is listed as ignotus (unknown). consules prior and posterior[edit] consuls during the republic and the early empire are identified as consul prior and consul posterior, terms that the romans used to distinguish between the magistrates. the consul prior was the more senior and esteemed of the pair. under the republic he was elected first, and had priority in holding the fasces, as well as the honor of being named first in the lists for the year, although in all other respects the two consuls' authority was equal.[ ][ ] the order of the consuls of the republic was however edited in the fasti capitolini. augustus and several prominent patricians falsified the fasti by listing some of their ancestors as consuls prior. livy apparently gives the initial order throughout most of his work, but seems to have followed the new "official" order in his later books; perhaps he was influenced by the imperial propaganda.[ ] when the emperor assumed the consulship, he was necessarily consul prior. this distinction continued until the th century ad, when the empire was divided into a western roman empire and an eastern roman empire: the consuls who were appointed by the court in the western empire, which was sometimes at rome, are commonly identified as the "western consul", and those appointed by the court in the eastern, usually constantinople, the "eastern consul". these designations were used until the end of the consulship in the th century.[ ] other lists of consuls[edit] for a list of consuls whose year of office is uncertain or entirely unknown (usually suffecti, although some of the ordinarii in the breakaway gallic empire also lack dates[ ]), see the list of undated roman consuls. for those individuals who were elected consul but never assumed the office due to death, disgrace, or any other reason, see list of roman consuls designate. key[edit] latin terms[edit] 	imperator (abbreviated imp.) = literally "commander"; originally an honorary title bestowed upon a general by his soldiers, the term later became part of the style of the emperors, and the word "emperor" is derived from it. 	suffectus (abbreviated suff.) = a substitute elected or appointed in place of a magistrate who died or resigned. information is not available for all consules suffecti, and some may not be listed. 	ignotus = unknown. all consuls who can be assigned to a particular date, at least tentatively, are included in this table. if neither consul for a given period is known, they are entirely omitted; if one is known, and the other is not, the unknown colleague is referred to as ignotus. 	sine collega = without colleague. on a few occasions before the dissolution of the western empire, only one consul was appointed. 	post consulatum = after the (preceding) consulship. used for gaps when no consuls were appointed for a period following the end of another consulship, or at least none are known to have been appointed. 	inter alios = among others. abbreviations for praenomina[edit] 	 	a. = aulus 	ap. = appius 	c. = gaius 	cn. = gnaeus 	d. = decimus 	k. = caeso 	 	l. = lucius 	m. = marcus 	m'. = manius 	mam. = mamercus 	n. = numerius 	opet. = opiter 	 	p. = publius 	post. = postumus 	proc. = proculus 	q. = quintus 	ser. = servius 	 	sex. = sextus 	sp. = spurius 	t. = titus 	ti. = tiberius 	vop. = vopiscus colors[edit] 	republican senators 	consular tribunes 	decemviri 	dictators 	imperial senators 	emperor serving as consul th century bc ( – )[edit] unless otherwise indicated, the names and dates of the consuls between and bc are taken from thomas broughton's the magistrates of the roman republic. 	year 	consul prior 	consul posterior 	 [ ] 	l. junius brutus 	l. tarquinius collatinus 	suff. 	sp. lucretius tricipitinus 	p. valerius poplicola 	suff. 	m. horatius pulvillus 	 	 	p. valerius poplicola ii 	t. lucretius tricipitinus 	 	p. valerius poplicola iii 	m. horatius pulvillus ii[ ] 	 	sp. lartius (rufus or flavus) 	t. herminius aquilinus[ ] 	 	m. valerius volusus 	p. postumius tubertus 	 	p. valerius poplicola iv 	t. lucretius tricipitinus ii 	 	agrippa menenius lanatus 	p. postumius tubertus ii 	 	opet. verginius tricostus 	sp. cassius viscellinus 	 	post. cominius auruncus 	t. lartius (flavus or rufus) th century bc ( – )[edit] 	year 	consul prior 	consul posterior 	 	ser. sulpicius camerinus cornutus 	m'. tullius longus 	 	t. aebutius elva 	c. veturius geminus cicurinus 	 	q. cloelius siculus 	t. lartius (flavus or rufus) ii 	 	a. sempronius atratinus i 	m. minucius augurinus i 	 	a. postumius albus regillensis 	t. verginius tricostus caeliomontanus 	 	ap. claudius sabinus regillensis 	p. servilius priscus structus 	 	a. verginius tricostus caeliomontanus 	t. veturius geminus cicurinus 	 	dictator: m'. valerius maximus 	 	 	post. cominius auruncus ii 	sp. cassius viscellinus ii 	 	t. geganius macerinus 	p. minucius augurinus 	 	m. minucius augurinus ii 	a. sempronius atratinus ii 	 	q. sulpicius camerinus cornutus 	sp. lartius (rufus or flavus) ii[ ] 	 	c. julius iulus 	p. pinarius mamercinus rufus 	 	sp. nautius rutilus 	sex. furius medullinus tuscus 	 	t. sicinius (sabinus?) 	c. aquillius (tuscus?) 	 	sp. cassius viscellinus iii 	proculus verginius tricostus rutilus 	 	q. fabius vibulanus[ ] 	ser. cornelius maluginensis[ ] 	 	l. aemilius mamercus 	k. fabius vibulanus i 	 	m. fabius vibulanus i 	l. valerius potitus i 	 	q. fabius vibulanus ii[ ] 	c. julius iulus[ ] 	 	k. fabius vibulanus ii 	sp. furius medullinus fusus 	 	m. fabius vibulanus ii[ ] 	cn. manlius cincinnatus[ ] 	 	k. fabius vibulanus iii 	t. verginius tricostus rutilus 	 	l. aemilius mamercus ii 	c. servilius structus ahala[ ] 	suff. 	 	opet. verginius tricostus esquilinus[ ] 	 	c. horatius pulvillus 	t. menenius lanatus[ ] 	 	a. verginius tricostus rutilus 	sp. servilius structus 	 	p. valerius poplicola 	c. nautius rutilus 	 	l. furius medullinus fusus[ ] 	cn. manlius vulso[ ] 	 	l. aemilius mamercus iii 	vop. julius iulus[ ] 	 	l. pinarius mamercinus rufus 	p. furius medullinus fusus 	 	ap. claudius sabinus regillensis 	t. quinctius capitolinus barbatus 	 	l. valerius potitus ii 	ti. aemilius mamercus 	 	t. numicius priscus 	a. verginius caeliomontanus 	 	t. quinctius capitolinus barbatus ii 	q. servilius structus priscus 	 	ti. aemilius mamercus ii 	q. fabius vibulanus 	 	sp. postumius albinus regillensis 	q. servilius structus priscus structus ii 	 	q. fabius vibulanus ii 	t. quinctius capitolinus barbatus iii 	 	a. postumius albinus regillensis 	sp. furius medullinus fusus 	 	p. servilius priscus 	l. aebutius elva 	 	l. lucretius tricipitinus 	t. veturius geminus cicurinus 	 	p. volumnius amintinus gallus 	ser. sulpicius camerinus cornutus 	 	p. valerius poplicola ii 	c. claudius inregillensis sabinus 	suff. 	l. quinctius cincinnatus 	 	 	q. fabius vibulanus iii 	l. cornelius maluginensis uritinus 	 	c. nautius rutilus ii 	l. minucius esquilinus augurinus[ ] 	 	dictator: l. quinctius 	 	 	c. horatius pulvillus ii 	q. minucius esquilinus[ ] 	 	 m. valerius maximus lactuca 	sp. verginius tricostus caeliomontanus 	 	t. romilius rocus vaticanus 	c. veturius cicurinus 	 	sp. tarpeius montanus capitolinus 	a. aternius varus fontinalis 	 	sex. quinctilius varus 	p. curiatius fistus trigeminus 	suff. 	sp. furius medullinus fusus ii 	 	 	p. sestius capitolinus vaticanus 	t. menenius lanatus 	 [ ] 	ap. claudius crassus sabinus regillensis 	t. genucius augurinus 	 	first decemvirate 	 	 	ap. claudius crassus sabinus regillensis 	a. manlius vulso 	 	t. genucius augurinus 	ser. sulpicius camerinus cornutus[ ] 	 	veturius geminus cicurinus[ ] 	p. curiatius fistus trigeminus 	 	p. sestius capitolinus vaticanus 	t. romilius rocus vaticanus 	 	c. julius iulus 	sp. postumius albus regillensis 	 	second decemvirate 	 	 	ap. claudius crassus sabinus regillensis ii 	q. poetelius libo visolus 	 	m. cornelius maluginensis 	t. antonius merenda 	 	l. (?) sergius esquilinus[ ] 	k. duillius 	 	l. minucius esquilinus augurinus 	sp. oppius cornicen 	 	q. fabius vibulanus 	m'. rabuleius 	 	second decemvirate (continued) 	 	 	ap. claudius crassus sabinus regillensis iii 	q. poetelius libo visolus ii 	 	m. cornelius maluginensis ii 	t. antonius merenda ii 	 	l. (?) sergius esquilinus ii 	k. duillius ii 	 	l. minucius esquilinus augurinus ii 	sp. oppius cornicen ii 	 	q. fabius vibulanus ii 	m'. rabuleius ii 	 	l. valerius potitus 	m. horatius (tu?)rrinus barbatus 	 	lars herminius aquilinus 	t. verginius tricostus caeliomontanus 	 	m. geganius macerinus 	c. julius iulus 	 	t. quinctius capitolinus barbatus iv[ ] 	agrippa furius fusus[ ] 	 	m. genucius augurinus 	c. curtius philo 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	a. sempronius atratinus 	t. cloelius siculus 	 	l. atilius luscus 	 	suff. 	l. papirius mugillanus 	l. sempronius atratinus[ ] 	 	m. geganius macerinus ii 	t. quinctius capitolinus barbatus v 	 	m. fabius vibulanus 	post. aebutius elva cornicen 	 	c. furius pacilus fusus 	m'. papirius crassus 	 	proc. geganius macerinus 	menenius lanatus ii[ ] 	 	t. quinctius capitolinus barbatus vi[ ] 	agrippa menenius lanatus[ ] 	 	dictator: l. quinctius cincinnatus 	 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	mam. aemilius macerinus 	l. julius iulus 	 	l. quinctius cincinnatus 	 	 	m. geganius macerinus iii 	l. sergius fidenas 	suff. 	m. valerius lactuca maximus 	 	 	l. papirius crassus 	m. cornelius maluginensis 	 	c. julius iulus ii 	l. verginius tricostus 	 	m. manlius capitolinus 	q. sulpicius camerinus praetextatus[ ] 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	m. fabius vibulanus 	l. sergius fidenas 	 	m. folius flaccinator 	 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	l. pinarius mamercinus 	sp. postumius albus regillensis 	 	l. furius medullinus 	 	 	t. quinctius poenus cincinnatus 	c. julius mento 	 	l. papirius crassus ii[ ] 	l. julius iulus 	 	hostus lucretius tricipitinus 	l. sergius fidenas ii 	 	a. cornelius cossus 	t. quinctius poenus cincinnatus ii[ ] 	 	c. servilius structus ahala 	l. papirius mugillanus 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	t. quinctius poenus cincinnatus 	m. postumius albinus regillensis 	 	c. furius pacilus fusus 	a. cornelius cossus 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	a. sempronius atratinus 	l. furius medullinus ii 	 	l. quinctius cincinnatus ii 	l. horatius barbatus 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	ap. claudius crassus 	l. sergius fidenas ii 	 	sp. nautius rutilus[ ] 	sex. julius iulus 	 	c. sempronius atratinus 	q. fabius vibulanus 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	l. manlius capitolinus 	l. papirius mugillanus 	 	q. antonius merenda 	 	 	t. quinctius capitolinus barbatus 	cn. fabius vibulanus[ ] 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	quinctius cincinnatus[ ] 	m. manlius vulso 	 	l. furius medullinus iii 	a. sempronius atratinus ii 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	agrippa menenius lanatus 	sp. nautius rutilus 	 	p. lucretius tricipitinus 	c. servilius axilla 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	l. sergius fidenas iii 	c. servilius axilla ii 	 	m. papirius mugillanus 	 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	p. lucretius tricipitinus ii 	agrippa menenius lanatus ii 	 	sp. veturius crassus[ ] 	c. servilius axilla iii 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	a. sempronius atratinus iii 	q. fabius vibulanus 	 	m. papirius mugillanus ii 	sp. nautius rutilus ii 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	p. cornelius cossus 	n. fabius vibulanus 	 	c. valerius potitus volusus 	q. quinctius cincinnatus 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	cn. cornelius cossus 	q. fabius vibulanus ii 	 	l. valerius potitus 	p. postumius albinus regillensis 	 	l. furius medullinus[ ] 	a. cornelius cossus ii[ ] 	 	q. fabius vibulanus ambustus 	c. furius pacilus 	 	m. papirius atratinus[ ] 	sp. nautius rutilus 	 	m'. aemilius mamercinus 	c. valerius potitus volusus 	 	cn. cornelius cossus 	l. furius medullinus ii 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	c. julius iulus 	c. servilius ahala 	 	p. cornelius cossus 	 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	l. furius medullinus 	n. fabius vibulanus ii 	 	c. valerius potitus volusus ii 	c. servilius ahala ii 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	p. cornelius rutilus cossus 	n. fabius ambustus 	 	cn. cornelius cossus 	l. valerius potitus ii 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	t. quinctius capitolinus barbatus 	a. manlius vulso capitolinus 	 	q. quinctius cincinnatus ii 	l. furius medullinus ii 	 	c. julius iulus ii 	m'. aemilius mamercinus 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	c. valerius potitus volusus iii 	cn. cornelius cossus ii 	 	m'. sergius fidenas 	k. fabius ambustus[ ] 	 	p. cornelius maluginensis 	sp. nautius rutilus iii 	 [ ] 	consular tribunes 	 	 	m'. aemilius mamercinus ii 	m. quinctilius varus 	 	l. valerius potitus iii 	l. julius iulus 	 	ap. claudius crassus inregillensis 	m. furius fusus 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	c. servilius ahala iii 	q. sulpicius camerinus cornutus 	 	q. servilius fidenas 	a. manlius vulso capitolinus ii 	 	l. verginius tricostus esquilinus 	m'. sergius fidenas ii 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	l. valerius potitus iv 	cn. cornelius cossus iii 	 	m. furius camillus 	k. fabius ambustus ii 	 	m'. aemilius mamercinus iii 	l. julius iulus th century bc ( – )[edit] 	year 	consul prior 	consul posterior 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	p. licinius calvus esquilinus 	p. maelius capitolinus 	 	p. manlius vulso 	sp. furius medullinus 	 	l. titinius pansa saccus 	l. publilius philo vulscus 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	cn. genucius augurinus 	c. duillius longus 	 	l. atilius priscus 	m. veturius crassus cicurinus 	 	m. pomponius rufus 	volero publilius philo 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	l. valerius potitus v 	l. furius medullinus iii 	 	m. valerius lactucinus maximus 	q. servilius fidenas ii 	 	m. furius camillus ii 	q. sulpicius camerinus cornutus ii 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	l. julius iulus ii 	a. postumius albinus regillensis 	 	l. furius medullinus iv 	p. cornelius maluginensis 	 	l. sergius fidenas 	a. manlius vulso capitolinus iii 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	l. titinius pansa saccus ii 	q. manlius vulso capitolinus 	 	p. licinius calvus esquilinus ii 	cn. genucius augurinus ii 	 	p. maelius capitolinus ii 	l. atilius priscus ii 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	p. cornelius cossus 	l. furius medullinus v 	 	p. cornelius scipio 	q. servilius fidenas iii 	 	k. fabius ambustus iii 	m. valerius lactucinus maximus ii 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	m. furius camillus iii 	l. valerius poplicola 	 	l. furius medullinus vi 	sp. postumius albinus regillensis 	 	c. aemilius mamercinus 	p. cornelius ii[ ] 	 	l. valerius potitus 	ser. cornelius maluginensis 	suff.[ ] 	l. lucretius tricipitinus flavus 	ser. sulpicius camerinus 	 	l. valerius potitus ii 	m. manlius capitolinus 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	l. lucretius tricipitinus flavus 	l. furius medullinus vii 	 	ser. sulpicius camerinus 	agrippa furius fusus 	 	l. aemilius mamercinus[ ] 	c. aemilius mamercinus ii 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	q. fabius ambustus 	q. sulpicius longus 	 	k. fabius ambustus iv 	q. servilius fidenas iv 	 	n. fabius ambustus ii 	p. cornelius maluginensis iv 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	l. valerius poplicola ii 	a. manlius capitolinus 	 	l. verginius tricostus esquilinus (ii?) 	l. aemilius mamercinus ii 	 	p. cornelius 	l. postumius albinus regillensis 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	t. quinctius cincinnatus capitolinus 	q. servilius fidenas v 	 	l. julius iulus 	l. aquillius corvus 	 	l. lucretius tricipitinus flavus ii 	ser. sulpicius rufus 	 	consular tribunes[ ] 	 	 	l. papirius cursor 	cn. sergius fidenas coxo 	 	l. aemilius mamercinus iii 	licinus menenius lanatus 	 	l. valerius poplicola iii 	 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	m. furius camillus iv 	ser. cornelius maluginensis 	 	q. servilius fidenas vi 	l. quinctius cincinnatus 	 	l. horatius pulvillus 	p. valerius potitus poplicola 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	a. manlius capitolinus ii 	p. cornelius 	 	t. quinctius (cincinnatus?) capitolinus ii 	l. papirius cursor ii 	 	l. quinctius capitolinus 	cn. sergius fidenas coxo ii 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	ser. cornelius maluginensis ii 	p. valerius potitus poplicola ii 	 	m. furius camillus v 	ser. sulpicius rufus ii 	 	c. papirius crassus 	t. quinctius cincinnatus capitolinus iii 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	l. valerius poplicola iv 	a. manlius capitolinus iv 	 	ser. sulpicius rufus iii 	l. lucretius tricipitinus flavus iii 	 	l. aemilius mamercinus iv 	m. trebonius 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	sp. papirius crassus 	l. papirius mugillanus 	 	ser. cornelius maluginensis iii 	q. servilius fidenas 	 	c. sulpicius camerinus 	l. aemilius mamercinus v 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	m. furius camillus vi 	a. postumius albinus regillensis ii 	 	l. postumius albinus regillensis ii 	l. furius medullinus 	 	l. lucretius tricipitinus flavus iv 	m. fabius ambustus 	 	consular tribunes[ ] 	 	 	l. valerius potitus poplicola v 	p. valerius potitus poplicola iii 	 	ser. cornelius maluginensis iv 	licinus menenius lanatus ii 	 	c. sulpicius peticus 	l. aemilius mamercinus vi 	 	cn. sergius fidenas coxo iii 	ti. papirius crassus 	 	l. papirius mugillanus ii 	 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	p. manlius capitolinus 	cn. manlius vulso 	 	l. julius iulus ii 	c. sextilius 	 	m. albinius 	l. antistius 	 	p. trebonius[ ] 	c. erenucius[ ] 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	sp. furius medullinus 	q. servillius fidenas ii 	 	licinus menenius lanatus iii 	p. cloelius siculus 	 	m. horatius[ ] 	l. geganius macerinus[ ] 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	l. aemilius mamercinus 	p. valerius potitus poplicola iv 	 	c. veturius crassus cicurinus 	ser. sulpicius rufus iv or: ser. sulpicius praetextatus 	 	l. quinctius cincinnatus iii 	c. quinctius cincinnatus 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	l. papirius mugillanus iii 	licinus menenius lanatus iv 	 	ser. cornelius maluginensis v 	ser. sulpicius praetextatus ii 	 – 	solitudo magistratuum according to livy ( . ), the tribunes gaius licinius stolo and lucius sextius introduced new laws known as the lex licinia sextia, which provoked strong resistance from the patricians. licinius stolo and sextius resorted to using the tribunican veto to prevent either consuls or consular tribunes from being elected.the actual length of this period is controversial, with primary sources stating it was one (diodorus siculus), five (fasti capitolini), or ten (livy) years.[ ] 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	a. manlius capitolinus v 	l. furius medullinus ii 	 	ser. sulpicius praetextatus iii 	ser. cornelius maluginensis vi 	 	p. valerius potitus poplicola v 	c. valerius potitus 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	q. servilius fidenas iii 	c. veturius crassus cicurinus ii 	 	a. cornelius cossus 	m. cornelius maluginensis 	 	q. quinctius cincinnatus 	m. fabius ambustus ii 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	ser. cornelius maluginensis vii 	ser. sulpicius praetextatus iv 	 	sp. servilius structus 	t. quinctius cincinnatus capitolinus 	 	l. papirius crassus 	l. veturius crassus cicurinus 	 	consular tribunes 	 	 	a. cornelius cossus ii 	m. cornelius maluginensis ii 	 	m. geganius macerinus 	p. manlius capitolinus ii 	 	l. veturius crassus cicurinus ii 	p. valerius potitus poplicola vi 	 	l. aemilius mamercinus 	l. sextius sextinus lateranus (first plebeian) 	 	l. genucius aventinensis 	q. servilius ahala 	 	c. sulpicius peticus 	c. licinius calvus[ ] 	 	l. aemilius mamercinus ii 	cn. genucius aventinensis 	 	q. servilius ahala ii 	l. genucius aventinensis ii 	 	c. sulpicius peticus ii[ ] 	c. licinius stolo[ ][ ] 	 	m. fabius ambustus i 	c. poetelius libo visolus 	 	m. popillius laenas 	cn. manlius capitolinus imperiosus 	 	c. fabius ambustus 	c. plautius proculus 	 	c. marcius rutilus 	cn. manlius capitolinus imperiosus ii 	 	m. fabius ambustus ii 	m. popillius laenas ii 	 	c. sulpicius peticus iii 	m. valerius poplicola 	 	m. fabius ambustus iii 	t. quinctius poenus capitolinus crispinus[ ] 	 	c. sulpicius peticus iv 	m. valerius poplicola ii 	 	p. valerius poplicola 	c. marcius rutilus ii 	 	c. sulpicius peticus v 	t. quinctius pennus capitolinus crispinus ii 	 	m. popillius laenas iii 	l. cornelius scipio 	 	l. furius camillus 	ap. claudius crassus inregillensis[ ] 	 	m. valerius (maximus) corvus i[ ] 	m. popillius laenas iv[ ] 	 	t. manlius imperiosus torquatus i[ ] 	c. plautius venno (or venox)[ ] 	 	m. valerius (maximus) corvus ii 	c. poetelius libo visolus ii 	 	m. fabius dorsuo 	ser. sulpicius camerinus rufus 	 	c. marcius rutilus iii 	t. manlius imperiosus torquatus ii 	 	a. cornelius cossus arvina 	m. valerius (maximus) corvus iii 	 	c. marcius rutilus iv[ ] 	q. servilius ahala iii[ ] 	 	c. plautius venno (or venox) ii 	l. aemilius mamercinus privernas 	 	t. manlius imperiosus torquatus iii 	p. decius mus 	 	ti. aemilius mamercinus 	q. publilius philo 	 	l. furius camillus 	c. maenius 	 	c. sulpicius longus[ ] 	p. aelius paetus[ ] 	 	l. papirius crassus 	k. duillius 	 	m. valerius (maximus) corvus iv[ ] 	m. atilius regulus calenus[ ] 	 	sp. postumius albinus (caudinus) 	t. veturius calvinus 	 	dictator: p. cornelius rufinus[ ] 	 	 	a. cornelius cossus arvina ii[ ] 	cn. domitius calvinus[ ] 	 	m. claudius marcellus[ ] 	c. valerius potitus[ ] 	 	l. papirius crassus ii 	l. plautius venno (or venox) 	 	l. aemilius mamercinus privernas ii 	c. plautius decianus 	 [ ] 	plautius 	p. cornelius 	 	l. cornelius lentulus 	q. publilius philo ii 	 	c. poetelius libo visolus iii 	l. papirius cursor 	 	l. furius camillus ii 	d. junius brutus scaeva 	 	dictator: l. papirius cursor[ ] 	 	 	c. sulpicius longus ii 	q. aulius cerretanus[ ] 	 	q. fabius maximus rullianus i[ ] 	l. fulvius curvus[ ] 	 	t. veturius calvinus ii 	sp. postumius albinus caudinus ii 	 	q. publilius philo iii[ ] 	l. papirius cursor ii[ ] 	 	l. papirius cursor iii[ ] 	q. aulius cerretanus ii 	 	m. folius flaccinator[ ] 	l. plautius venno (or venox)[ ] 	 	c. junius bubulcus brutus[ ] 	q. aemilius barbula[ ] 	 	sp. nautius rutilus 	m. popillius laenas 	 	l. papirius cursor iv 	q. publilius philo iv 	 	m. poetelius libo 	c. sulpicius longus iii 	 	l. papirius cursor v 	c. junius bubulcus brutus ii 	 	m. valerius maximus (corvinus) i 	p. decius mus i 	 	c. junius bubulcus brutus iii 	q. aemilius barbula ii 	 	q. fabius maximus rullianus ii 	c. marcius rutilus censorinus 	 	dictator: l. papirius cursor[ ] 	 	 	q. fabius maximus rullianus iii[ ] 	p. decius mus ii[ ] 	 	ap. claudius caecus i 	l. volumnius flamma violens i 	 	p. cornelius arvina i[ ] 	q. marcius tremulus i[ ] 	 	l. postumius megellus i 	ti. minucius augurinus 	suff. 	 	m. fulvius curvus paetinus 	 	p. sempronius sophus 	p. sulpicius saverrio 	 	l. genucius aventinensis[ ] 	ser. cornelius lentulus[ ] 	 	m. livius denter 	m. aemilius paullus 	 	dictator: m. valerius maximus corvus[ ] 	 rd century bc ( – )[edit] 	year 	consul prior 	consul posterior 	 	m. valerius maximus corvus v 	q. appuleius pansa 	 	m. fulvius paetinus 	t. manlius torquatus 	suff. 	 	m. valerius maximus corvus vi 	 	l. cornelius scipio barbatus 	cn. fulvius maximus centumalus 	 	q. fabius maximus rullianus iv 	p. decius mus iii 	 	ap. claudius caecus ii 	l. volumnius flamma violens ii 	 	q. fabius maximus rullianus v 	p. decius mus iv 	 	l. postumius megellus ii 	m. atilius regulus 	 	l. papirius cursor i 	sp. carvilius maximus i 	 	q. fabius maximus gurges i 	d. junius brutus scaeva 	 	l. postumius megellus iii 	c. junius bubulcus brutus i 	 	p. cornelius rufinus i[ ] 	m'. curius dentatus i[ ] 	 	m. valerius maximus corvinus ii 	q. caedicius noctua 	 	q. marcius tremulus ii 	p. cornelius arvina ii 	 	m. claudius marcellus 	c. nautius rutilus 	 	m. valerius maximus potitus[ ] 	c. aelius paetus 	 	c. claudius canina i 	m. aemilius lepidus 	 	c. servilius tucca 	l. caecilius metellus denter 	 	p. cornelius dolabella 	cn. domitius calvinus maximus 	 	c. fabricius luscinus i 	q. aemilius papus i 	 	l. aemilius barbula 	q. marcius philippus 	 	p. valerius laevinus 	ti. coruncanius 	 	p. sulpicius saverrio 	p. decius mus 	 	c. fabricius luscinus ii 	q. aemilius papus ii 	 	p. cornelius rufinus ii 	c. junius bubulcus brutus ii 	 	q. fabius maximus gurges ii 	c. genucius clepsina i 	 	m'. curius dentatus ii 	l. cornelius lentulus caudinus 	 	ser. cornelius merenda[ ] 	m'. curius dentatus iii[ ] 	 	c. fabius licinus 	c. claudius canina ii 	 	l. papirius cursor ii 	sp. carvilius maximus ii 	 	k. quinctius claudus 	l. genucius clepsina 	 	c. genucius clepsina ii 	cn. cornelius blasio 	 	q. ogulnius gallus 	c. fabius pictor 	 	p. sempronius sophus 	ap. claudius russus 	 	m. atilius regulus i 	l. julius libo 	 	d. junius pera 	n. fabius pictor 	 	q. fabius maximus gurges 	l. mamilius vitulus 	 	ap. claudius caudex 	m. fulvius flaccus 	 	m'. valerius maximus mesalla 	m'. otacilius crassus i 	 	l. postumius megellus 	q. mamilius vitulus 	 	l. valerius flaccus 	t. otacilius crassus 	 	cn. cornelius scipio asina i 	c. duilius 	 	l. cornelius scipio 	c. aquillius florus 	 	a. atilius calatinus i 	c. sulpicius paterculus 	 	cn. cornelius blasio ii[ ] 	c. atilius regulus i[ ] 	 	l. manlius vulso longus i 	q. caedicius 	suff. 	 	m. atilius regulus ii 	 	ser. fulvius paetinus nobilior[ ] 	m. aemilius paullus[ ] 	 	cn. cornelius scipio asina ii 	a. atilius calatinus ii 	 	cn. servilius caepio 	c. sempronius blaesus 	 	c. aurelius cotta i 	p. servilius geminus i 	 	l. caecilius metellus i 	c. furius pacilus 	 	c. atilius regulus ii 	l. manlius vulso longus ii 	 	p. claudius pulcher 	l. junius pullus 	 	c. aurelius cotta ii 	p. servilius geminus ii 	 	l. caecilius metellus ii 	n. fabius buteo 	 	m'. otacilius crassus ii 	m. fabius licinus 	 	m. fabius buteo 	c. atilius bulbus i 	 	a. manlius torquatus atticus i 	c. sempronius blaesus ii 	 	c. fundanius fundulus 	c. sulpicius galus 	 	c. lutatius catulus 	a. postumius albinus 	 	a. manlius torquatus atticus ii 	q. lutatius cerco 	 	c. claudius centho 	m. sempronius tuditanus 	 	c. mamilius turrinus 	q. valerius falto 	 	ti. sempronius gracchus 	p. valerius falto 	 	l. cornelius lentulus caudinus 	q. fulvius flaccus i 	 	p. cornelius lentulus caudinus 	c. licinius varus 	 	t. manlius torquatus i 	c. atilius bulbus ii 	 	l. postumius albinus i 	sp. carvilius maximus ruga i 	 	q. fabius maximus verrucosus i 	m'. pomponius matho 	 	m. aemilius lepidus 	m. publicius malleolus 	 	m. pomponius matho 	c. papirius maso 	 	m. aemilius barbula 	m. junius pera 	 	l. postumius albinus ii 	cn. fulvius centumalus 	 	q. fabius maximus verrucosus ii[ ] 	sp. carvilius maximus ruga ii[ ] 	 	p. valerius flaccus 	m. atilius regulus i 	 	m. valerius maximus messalla 	l. apustius fullo 	 	l. aemilius papus 	c. atilius regulus 	 	t. manlius torquatus ii 	q. fulvius flaccus ii 	 	c. flaminius i 	p. furius philus 	 	m. claudius marcellus i[ ] 	cn. cornelius scipio calvus[ ] 	 	p. cornelius scipio asina 	m. minucius rufus 	 [ ] 	m. valerius laevinus 	q. mucius scaevola 	 	q. lutatius catulus 	l. veturius philo 	 	l. aemilius paullus i 	m. livius (salinator) i 	 	p. cornelius scipio 	ti. sempronius longus 	 	cn. servilius geminus 	c. flaminius ii 	 	dictator: q. fabius maximus verrucosus iii 	 	suff. 	m. atilius regulus ii 	 	l. aemilius paullus ii 	c. terentius varro 	 	ti. sempronius gracchus i 	l. postumius albinus iii[ ] 	suff. 	 	m. claudius marcellus ii[ ] 	suff. 	 	q. fabius maximus verrucosus iii 	 	q. fabius maximus verrucosus iv 	m. claudius marcellus iii 	 	q. fabius maximus 	ti. sempronius gracchus ii 	 	q. fulvius flaccus iii[ ] 	ap. claudius pulcher[ ] 	 	cn. fulvius centumalus maximus[ ] 	p. sulpicius galba maximus i[ ] 	 	m. claudius marcellus iv[ ] 	m. valerius laevinus[ ] 	 	q. fabius maximus verrucosus v 	q. fulvius flaccus iv 	 	m. claudius marcellus v 	t. quinctius crispinus 	 	c. claudius nero 	m. livius salinator ii 	 	l. veturius philo 	q. caecilius metellus 	 	p. cornelius scipio (africanus) i 	p. licinius crassus dives 	 	m. cornelius cethegus 	p. sempronius tuditanus 	 	cn. servilius caepio 	c. servilius geminus 	 	ti. claudius nero 	m. servilius pulex geminus 	 	cn. cornelius lentulus 	p. aelius paetus nd century bc ( – )[edit] 	year 	consul prior 	consul posterior 	 	p. sulpicius galba maximus ii 	c. aurelius cotta 	 	l. cornelius lentulus 	p. villius tappulus 	 	t. quinctius flamininus 	sex. aelius paetus catus 	 	c. cornelius cethegus 	q. minucius rufus 	 	l. furius purpureo 	m. claudius marcellus 	 	l. valerius flaccus[ ] 	m. porcius cato[ ] 	 	p. cornelius scipio africanus ii 	ti. sempronius longus 	 	l. cornelius merula 	q. minucius thermus 	 	l. quinctius flamininus 	cn. domitius ahenobarbus 	 	p. cornelius scipio nasica[ ] 	m'. acilius glabrio[ ] 	 	l. cornelius scipio asiaticus 	c. laelius 	 	m. fulvius nobilior[ ] 	cn. manlius vulso[ ] 	 	c. livius salinator 	m. valerius messalla 	 	m. aemilius lepidus i 	c. flaminius 	 	sp. postumius albinus 	q. marcius philippus i 	 	ap. claudius pulcher 	m. sempronius tuditanus 	 	p. claudius pulcher 	l. porcius licinus 	 	m. claudius marcellus[ ] 	q. fabius labeo[ ] 	 	l. aemilius paullus macedonicus i 	cn. baebius tamphilus 	 	p. cornelius cethegus 	m. baebius tamphilus 	 	a. postumius albinus luscus 	c. calpurnius piso 	suff. 	 	q. fulvius flaccus 	 	q. fulvius flaccus[ ] 	l. manlius acidinus fulvianus[ ] 	 	m. junius brutus 	a. manlius vulso 	 	c. claudius pulcher 	ti. sempronius gracchus i 	 	cn. cornelius scipio hispallus 	q. petillius spurinus 	suff. 	c. valerius laevinus 	 	 	m. aemilius lepidus ii[ ] 	p. mucius scaevola[ ] 	 	sp. postumius albinus paullulus 	q. mucius scaevola 	 	l. postumius albinus 	m. popillius laenas 	 	c. popillius laenas i 	p. aelius ligus 	 	p. licinius crassus 	c. cassius longinus 	 	a. hostilius mancinus 	a. atilius serranus 	 	q. marcius philippus ii 	cn. servilius caepio 	 	l. aemilius paullus macedonicus ii 	c. licinius crassus 	 	q. aelius paetus 	m. junius pennus 	 	m. claudius marcellus i[ ] 	c. sulpicius galus[ ] 	 	cn. octavius[ ] 	t. manlius torquatus[ ] 	 	a. manlius torquatus 	q. cassius longinus 	 	ti. sempronius gracchus ii 	m'. juventius thalna 	 	p. cornelius scipio nasica corculum i 	c. marcius figulus i 	suff. 	p. cornelius lentulus 	cn. domitius ahenobarbus 	 	m. valerius messalla 	c. fannius strabo 	 	l. anicius gallus 	m. cornelius cethegus 	 	cn. cornelius dolabella 	m. fulvius nobilior 	 	m. aemilius lepidus 	c. popillius laenas ii 	 	sex. julius caesar 	l. aurelius orestes 	 	l. cornelius lentulus lupus 	c. marcius figulus ii 	 	p. cornelius scipio nasica corculum ii 	m. claudius marcellus ii 	 	q. opimius 	l. postumius albinus 	suff. 	 	m'. acilius glabrio 	 	q. fulvius nobilior 	t. annius luscus 	 	m. claudius marcellus iii 	l. valerius flaccus 	 	l. licinius lucullus 	a. postumius albinus 	 	t. quinctius flamininus 	m'. acilius balbus 	 	l. marcius censorinus 	m'. manilius 	 	sp. postumius albinus magnus 	l. calpurnius piso caesoninus 	 	p. cornelius scipio aemilianus i 	c. livius drusus 	 	cn. cornelius lentulus 	l. mummius achaicus 	 	q. fabius maximus aemilianus 	l. hostilius mancinus 	 	ser. sulpicius galba 	l. aurelius cotta 	 	ap. claudius pulcher 	q. caecilius metellus macedonicus 	 	l. caecilius metellus calvus 	q. fabius maximus servilianus 	 	cn. servilius caepio 	q. pompeius 	 	q. servilius caepio[ ] 	c. laelius[ ] 	 	cn. calpurnius piso 	m. popillius laenas 	 	p. cornelius scipio nasica serapio 	d. junius brutus callaicus 	 	m. aemilius lepidus porcina 	c. hostilius mancinus 	 	l. furius philus 	sex. atilius serranus 	 	ser. fulvius flaccus 	q. calpurnius piso 	 	p. cornelius scipio africanus aemilianus ii 	c. fulvius flaccus 	 	p. mucius scaevola 	l. calpurnius piso frugi 	 	p. popillius laenas 	p. rupilius 	 	p. licinius crassus dives mucianus 	l. valerius flaccus 	 	m. perperna[ ] 	l. cornelius lentulus[ ] 	suff. 	ap. claudius pulcher 	 	 	c. sempronius tuditanus 	m'. aquillius 	 	cn. octavius 	t. annius rufus 	 	l. cassius longinus ravilla 	l. cornelius cinna 	 	m. aemilius lepidus 	l. aurelius orestes 	 	m. plautius hypsaeus 	m. fulvius flaccus 	 	c. cassius longinus 	c. sextius calvinus 	 	q. caecilius metellus balearicus 	t. quinctius flamininus 	 	cn. domitius ahenobarbus 	c. fannius 	 	l. opimius 	q. fabius maximus allobrogicus 	 	p. manilius 	c. papirius carbo 	 	l. caecilius metellus delmaticus 	l. aurelius cotta 	 	m. porcius cato 	q. marcius rex 	 	l. caecilius metellus diadematus 	q. mucius scaevola augur 	 	c. licinius geta 	q. fabius maximus eburnus 	 	m. aemilius scaurus 	m. caecilius metellus 	 	m'. acilius balbus 	c. porcius cato 	 	c. caecilius metellus caprarius 	cn. papirius carbo 	 	m. livius drusus 	l. calpurnius piso caesoninus 	 	p. cornelius scipio nasica 	l. calpurnius bestia 	 	m. minucius rufus 	sp. postumius albinus 	 	q. caecilius metellus (numidicus) 	m. junius silanus 	 	ser. sulpicius galba 	m. aurelius scaurus 	 	l. cassius longinus 	c. marius i 	suff. 	m. aemilius scaurus ii 	 	 	q. servilius caepio[ ] 	c. atilius serranus[ ] 	 	p. rutilius rufus 	cn. mallius maximus 	 	c. marius ii 	c. flavius fimbria 	 	c. marius iii 	l. aurelius orestes 	 	c. marius iv 	q. lutatius catulus 	 	c. marius v 	m'. aquillius st century bc ( – )[edit] 	year 	consul prior 	consul posterior 	 [ ] 	c. marius vi 	l. valerius flaccus 	 	m. antonius 	a. postumius albinus 	 	q. caecilius metellus nepos 	t. didius 	 	cn. cornelius lentulus 	p. licinius crassus 	 	cn. domitius ahenobarbus 	c. cassius longinus 	 	l. licinius crassus 	q. mucius scaevola 	 	c. coelius caldus 	l. domitius ahenobarbus 	 	c. valerius flaccus 	m. herennius 	 	c. claudius pulcher 	m. perperna 	 	l. marcius philippus 	sex. julius caesar 	 	l. julius caesar 	p. rutilius lupus 	 	cn. pompeius strabo 	l. porcius cato 	 	l. cornelius sulla i 	q. pompeius rufus 	 	cn. octavius 	l. cornelius cinna i 	suff. 	 	l. cornelius merula 	 	l. cornelius cinna ii 	c. marius vii 	suff. 	 	l. valerius flaccus 	 	l. cornelius cinna iii 	cn. papirius carbo i 	 	cn. papirius carbo ii 	l. cornelius cinna iv 	 	l. cornelius scipio asiaticus 	c. norbanus 	 	c. marius 	cn. papirius carbo iii 	 	m. tullius decula 	cn. cornelius dolabella 	 	dictator: l. cornelius sulla felix 	 	 [ ] 	l. cornelius sulla felix ii 	q. caecilius metellus pius 	 	p. servilius vatia isauricus 	ap. claudius pulcher 	 	m. aemilius lepidus 	q. lutatius catulus 	 	d. junius brutus 	mam. aemilius lepidus livianus 	 	cn. octavius 	c. scribonius curio 	 	l. octavius 	c. aurelius cotta 	 	l. licinius lucullus 	m. aurelius cotta 	 	m. terentius varro lucullus 	c. cassius longinus 	 	l. gellius 	cn. cornelius lentulus clodianus 	 	p. cornelius lentulus sura 	cn. aufidius orestes 	 	cn. pompeius magnus i 	m. licinius crassus i 	 	q. hortensius hortalus 	q. caecilius metellus creticus 	 	l. caecilius metellus 	q. marcius rex 	suff. 	servilius vatia[ ] 	 	 	c. calpurnius piso 	m'. acilius glabrio 	 	m'. aemilius lepidus 	l. volcatius tullus 	 [ ] 	consules designati 	 	 	p. cornelius sulla 	p. autronius paetus 	 	l. aurelius cotta 	l. manlius torquatus 	 	l. julius caesar 	c. marcius figulus 	 	m. tullius cicero 	c. antonius hybrida 	 	d. junius silanus 	l. licinius murena 	 	m. pupius piso frugi calpurnianus 	m. valerius messalla niger 	 	q. caecilius metellus celer 	l. afranius 	 	c. julius caesar i 	m. calpurnius bibulus 	 	l. calpurnius piso caesoninus 	a. gabinius 	 	p. cornelius lentulus spinther 	q. caecilius metellus nepos 	 	cn. cornelius lentulus marcellinus 	l. marcius philippus 	 	cn. pompeius magnus ii 	m. licinius crassus ii 	 	l. domitius ahenobarbus 	ap. claudius pulcher 	 	cn. domitius calvinus i 	m. valerius messalla rufus 	 	cn. pompeius magnus iii 	q. caecilius metellus pius scipio 	 	ser. sulpicius rufus 	m. claudius marcellus 	 	l. aemilius paullus 	c. claudius marcellus 	 	c. claudius marcellus 	l. cornelius lentulus crus 	 	c. julius caesar ii 	p. servilius isauricus i 	 	q. fufius calenus 	p. vatinius 	 	c. julius caesar iii 	m. aemilius lepidus i 	 	c. julius caesar iv 	sine collega 	suff. 	q. fabius maximus 	c. trebonius 	suff. 	c. caninius rebilus 	 	 	c. julius caesar v 	m. antonius i 	suff. 	p. cornelius dolabella 	 	 	c. vibius pansa caetronianus 	a. hirtius 	suff. 	c. julius caesar (octavianus) i 	q. pedius 	suff. 	p. ventidius bassus 	c. carrinas 	 	m. aemilius lepidus ii 	l. munatius plancus 	 	l. antonius pietas 	p. servilius isauricus ii 	 	cn. domitius calvinus ii 	c. asinius pollio 	suff. 	l. cornelius balbus 	p. canidius crassus 	 [ ] 	l. marcius censorinus 	c. calvisius sabinus 	suff. 	 	p. alfenus varus (after october–december) 	suff. 	c. cocceius balbus (december) 	 	 [ ] 	ap. claudius pulcher (january–june) 	c. norbanus flaccus (january–august) 	suff. 	l. cornelius lentulus (july–december) 	 	suff. 	 	l. marcius philippus (september–december) 	 	m. vipsanius agrippa i 	l. caninius gallus 	suff. 	 	t. statilius taurus i 	 [ ] 	l. gellius poplicola (january–august) 	m. cocceius nerva (january–june) 	suff. 	 	q. marcius (july–december) 	suff. 	l. nonius asprenas (september–december) 	 	 [ ] 	l. cornificius (january–august) 	sex. pompeius (january–june) 	suff. 	p. cornelius dolabella (september–december) 	 	suff. 	 	t. peducaeus (july–december) 	 [ ] 	m. antonius ii ( january only) 	l. scribonius libo (january–june) 	suff. 	l. sempronius atratinus ( january–june) 	 	suff. 	paullus aemilius lepidus (july–december) 	c. memmius (july–august) 	suff. 	 	m. herennius picens (september–december) 	 [ ] 	imp. caesar divi f. ii ( january only) 	l. volcacius tullus (january–april) 	suff. 	l. autronius paetus ( january–april) 	 	suff. 	l. flavius (may–june or august) 	c. fonteius capito (may–june or august) 	suff. 	m. acilius glabrio (july–august or september) 	 	suff. 	l. vinicius (september–december) 	 	suff. 	 	q. laronius (october–december) 	 	cn. domitius ahenobarbus 	c. sosius 	suff. 	l. cornelius cinna 	m. valerius messalla 	 	m. antonius iii (only in the east) 	imp. caesar divi f. iii 	suff. 	m. valerius messalla corvinus 	 	suff. 	m. titius 	 	suff. 	cn. pompeius 	 	 	imp. caesar divi f. iv 	m. licinius crassus 	suff. 	 	c. antistius vetus 	suff. 	 	m. tullius cicero 	suff. 	 	l. saenius 	 	imp. caesar divi f. v 	sex. appuleius 	suff. 	 	potitus valerius messalla 	 	imp. caesar divi f. vi 	m. vipsanius agrippa ii 	 	imp. caesar divi f. augustus vii 	m. vipsanius agrippa iii 	 	imp. caesar divi f. augustus viii 	t. statilius taurus ii 	 	imp. caesar divi f. augustus ix 	m. junius silanus 	 	imp. caesar divi f. augustus x 	c. norbanus flaccus 	 [ ] 	imp. caesar divi f. augustus xi (january–june) 	cn. calpurnius piso (january–december)[ ] 	suff. 	l. sestius albanianus quirinalis (july–december) 	 	 	m. claudius marcellus aeserninus 	l. arruntius 	 	m. lollius 	q. aemilius lepidus 	 	m. appuleius 	p. silius nerva 	 [ ] 	c. sentius saturninus (until some point between august and october) 	sine collega 	suff. 	m. vinicius (before october–december) 	q. lucretius vespillo (before october–december) 	 	publius cornelius lentulus marcellinus 	cn. cornelius lentulus 	 	c. furnius 	c. junius silanus 	 	l. domitius ahenobarbus 	p. cornelius scipio 	suff. 	 	l. tarius rufus 	 	m. livius drusus libo 	l. calpurnius piso 	 	m. licinius crassus frugi 	cn. cornelius lentulus augur 	 	ti. claudius nero i 	p. quinctilius varus 	 [ ] 	m. valerius messalla appianus (died march) 	p. sulpicius quirinius (january–after august) 	suff. 	c. valgius rufus (march–after august) 	 	suff. 	c. caninius rebilus (until death in office) 	l. volusius saturninus (until december) 	 	q. aelius tubero 	paullus fabius maximus 	 	africanus fabius maximus 	iullus antonius 	 	nero claudius drusus 	t. quinctius crispinus sulpicianus 	 	c. marcius censorinus 	c. asinius gallus 	 	ti. claudius nero ii 	cn. calpurnius piso 	 	d. laelius balbus 	c. antistius vetus 	 [ ] 	imp. caesar divi f. augustus xii (january–after april) 	l. cornelius sulla (january–after april) 	suff. 	q. haterius (before july–december) 	l. vinicius (until july or august) 	suff. 	 	c. sulpicius galba (until december) 	 	c. calvisius sabinus 	l. passienus rufus 	suff. 	c. caelius (rufus?) 	galus sulpicius 	 	l. cornelius lentulus 	m. valerius messalla messallinus 	 [ ] 	imp. caesar divi f. augustus xiii (january–august) 	m. plautius silvanus (january–june) 	suff. 	 	l. caninius gallus (july–december) 	suff. 	c. fufius geminus (september–october) 	 	suff. 	q. fabricius (november–december) 	 	 	cossus cornelius lentulus (gaetulicus) 	l. calpurnius piso 	suff. 	a. plautius 	a. caecina severus st century ( – )[edit] 	year 	consul prior 	consul posterior 	 [ ] 	c. caesar (january–december) 	l. aemilius paullus (january–june) 	suff. 	 	m. herennius picens (july–december) 	 	p. vinicius (january–june) 	p. alfenus varus 	suff. 	p. cornelius lentulus scipio (july–december) 	t. quinctius crispinus valerianus 	 	l. aelius lamia (january–june) 	m. servilius 	suff. 	p. silius (july–december) 	l. volusius saturninus 	 	sex. aelius catus (january–june) 	c. sentius saturninus 	suff. 	cn. sentius saturninus (july–december) 	c. clodius licinus 	 	l. valerius messalla volesus (january–june) 	cn. cornelius cinna magnus 	suff. 	c. vibius postumus (july–december) 	c. ateius capito 	 	m. aemilius lepidus (january–december) 	l. arruntius (january–june) 	suff. 	 	l. nonius asprenas (july–december) 	 	q. caecilius metellus creticus silanus (january–december) 	a. licinius nerva silianus (january–june) 	suff. 	 	lucilius longus (july–december) 	 	m. furius camillus (january–june) 	sex. nonius quinctilianus 	suff. 	l. apronius (july–december) 	a. vibius habitus 	 	c. poppaeus sabinus (january–june) 	q. sulpicius camerinus 	suff. 	m. papius mutilus (july–december) 	q. poppaeus secundus 	 	p. cornelius dolabella (january–june) 	c. junius silanus 	suff. 	ser. cornelius lentulus maluginensis (july–december) 	q. junius blaesus 	 	m'. aemilius lepidus (january–june) 	t. statilius taurus (january–december) 	suff. 	l. cassius longinus (july–december) 	 	 	germanicus julius caesar (january–december) 	c. fonteius capito (january–june) 	suff. 	 	c. visellius varro (july–december) 	 [ ] 	c. silius (january–june) 	l. munatius plancus (january–december) 	suff. 	a. caecina largus (july–december) 	 	 [ ] 	sex. pompeius (january–december) 	sex. appuleius 	 	drusus julius caesar (january–december) 	c. norbanus flaccus (january–june) 	suff. 	 	m. junius silanus (july–december) 	 	sisenna statilius taurus (january–june) 	l. scribonius libo 	suff. 	c. vibius rufus (july–december) 	p. pomponius graecinus 	 	l. pomponius flaccus (january–june) 	c. caelius rufus 	suff. 	c. vibius marsus (july–december) 	l. voluseius proculus 	 	ti. caesar augustus iii (january) 	germanicus julius caesar ii (january–april) 	suff. 	l. seius tubero (february–july) 	livineius regulus (may–july) 	suff. 	c. rubellius blandus (august–december) 	m. vipstanus gallus 	 	m. junius silanus torquatus (january–december) 	l. norbanus balbus (january–june) 	suff. 	 	p. petronius (july–december) 	 	m. valerius messala barbatus (january–december) 	m. aurelius cotta maximus messalinus 	 	ti. caesar augustus iv (january–june) 	drusus julius caesar ii 	suff. 	mam. aemilius scaurus (july–december) 	cn. tremellius 	 [ ] 	d. haterius agrippa 	c. sulpicius galba 	suff. 	m. cocceius nerva[ ] 	c. vibius rufinus[ ] 	 	c. asinius pollio (january–december) 	c. antistius vetus (january–june) 	suff. 	 	c. stertinius maximus (july–december) 	 	ser. cornelius cethegus (january–june) 	l. visellius varro 	suff. 	c. calpurnius aviola (july–december) 	p. cornelius lentulus scipio 	 	cossus cornelius lentulus (january–august) 	m. asinius agrippa (january–december) 	suff. 	c. petronius (september–december) 	 	 	cn. cornelius lentulus gaetulicus (january–june) 	c. calvisius sabinus 	suff. 	q. junius blaesus (july–december) 	l. antistius vetus 	 	l. calpurnius piso (january–june) 	m. licinius crassus frugi 	suff. 	p. cornelius lentulus (july–december) 	c. sallustius passienus crispus 	 	ap. junius silanus (january–june) 	p. silius nerva 	suff. 	l. junius silanus (july–december) 	c. vellaeus tutor 	 	c. fufius geminus (january–june) 	l. rubellius geminus 	suff. 	a. plautius (july–december) 	l. nonius asprenas 	 	l. cassius longinus (january–june) 	m. vinicius 	suff. 	l. naevius surdinus (july–december) 	c. cassius longinus 	 [ ] 	ti. caesar augustus v (january- may) 	l. aelius seianus 	suff. 	faustus cornelius sulla ( may–september) 	sex. tedius valerius catullus ( may–june) 	suff. 	 	l. fulcinius trio (july–december) 	suff. 	p. memmius regulus (october–december) 	 	 	cn. domitius ahenobarbus (january–december) 	l. arruntius camillus scribonianus (january–june) 	suff. 	 	a. vitellius (july–december) 	 	l. livius ocella ser. sulpicius galba (january–june) 	l. cornelius sulla felix 	suff. 	l. salvius otho (july–december) 	c. octavius laenas 	 	paullus fabius persicus (january–june) 	l. vitellius i 	suff. 	q. marcius barea soranus (july–december) 	t. rustius nummius gallus 	 	c. cestius gallus (january–june) 	m. servilius nonianus 	suff. 	d. valerius asiaticus (july–december) 	a. gabinius secundus 	 	sex. papinius allenius (january–june) 	q. plautius 	suff. 	c. vettius rufus[ ] (july–december) 	m. porcius cato 	 	 [ ] 	cn. acerronius proculus (january–june) 	c. petronius pontius nigrinus 	suff. 	c. caesar augustus germanicus (july–august) 	ti. claudius nero germanicus 	suff. 	a. caecina paetus (september–december) 	c. caninius rebilus 	 	 	m. aquila julianus (january–june) 	p. nonius asprenas calpurnius serranus 	suff. 	ser. asinius celer (july–december) 	sex. nonius quinctilianus 	 	 	c. caesar augustus germanicus ii (january) 	l. apronius caesianus (january–june) 	suff. 	q. sanquinius maximus (february–june) 	 	suff. 	cn. domitius corbulo (july– september) 	ignotus 	suff. 	a. didius gallus ( september–december) 	cn. domitius afer 	 	 	c. caesar augustus germanicus iii (to january) 	sine collega 	suff. 	c. laecanius bassus (january–june) 	q. terentius culleo 	 	 [ ] 	c. caesar augustus germanicus iv (january) 	cn. sentius saturninus (january–june) 	suff. 	q. pomponius secundus (february–june) 	 	suff. 	q. futius lusius saturninus (september–october) 	m. seius varanus 	suff. 	q. ostorius scapula[ ] (november–december) 	p. suillius rufus 	 	 	ti. claudius caesar augustus germanicus ii (january–february) 	c. caecina largus (january–december) 	suff. 	c. cestius gallus (march–? june) 	 	suff. 	cornelius lupus[ ] 	 	 	 [ ] 	ti. claudius caesar augustus germanicus iii (january–february) 	l. vitellius ii 	suff. 	sex. palpellius hister (march–july) 	l. pedanius secundus 	suff. 	a. gabinius secundus (august–september) 	ignotus 	suff. 	q. curtius rufus (october–december) 	sp. oppius[ ] 	 	 [ ] 	c. sallustius crispus passienus ii (early january) 	t. statilius taurus (january–june) 	suff. 	p. calvisius sabinus pomponius secundus (early january–june) 	 	 	 	m. vinicius ii (january–february) 	t. statilius taurus corvinus (january–june) 	suff. 	ti. plautius silvanus aelianus (march–june) 	 	suff. 	a. antonius rufus (july–? october) 	m. pompeius silvanus staberius flavianus 	 	 	d. valerius asiaticus ii (january–february) 	m. junius silanus (january–december) 	suff. 	camerinus antistius vetus (early march)[ ] 	 	suff. 	q. sulpicius camerinus (early march–june) 	 	suff. 	d. laelius balbus (july–august) 	 	suff. 	c. terentius tullius geminus (september–december) 	 	 	 [ ] 	ti. claudius caesar augustus germanicus iv (january–february) 	l. vitellius iii 	suff. 	c. calpetanus rantius sedatus (march–april) 	m. hordeonius flaccus 	suff. 	cn. hosidius geta (july–december) 	t. flavius sabinus (july–august) 	suff. 	 	l. vagellius (september–october) 	suff. 	 	c. volasenna severus (november–december) 	 	 	a. vitellius (january–june) 	l. vipstanus poplicola[ ] 	suff. 	l. vitellius (july–december) 	messalla vipstanus gallus 	 	 	q. veranius (january–february) 	c. pompeius longus gallus 	suff. 	l. mammius pollio (march–june) 	q. allius maximus 	 	 	c. antistius vetus (january–? february) 	m. suillius nerullinus 	 	 	ti. claudius caesar augustus germanicus v (january–december) 	ser. cornelius scipio salvidienus orfitus (january–june) 	suff. 	 	l. calventius vetus carminius (by september–october) 	suff. 	 	t. flavius vespasianus (november–december) 	 	 	faustus cornelius sulla felix (january–december) 	l. salvius otho titianus i (january–june) 	suff. 	 	q. marcius barea soranus (attested august) 	suff. 	 	l. salvidienus rufus salvianus (attested december) 	 	 	d. junius silanus torquatus (january–june) 	q. haterius antoninus 	suff. 	p. trebonius (june–? october) 	q. caecina primus 	suff. 	p. calvisius ruso (? november–december) 	 	 	 	m'. acilius aviola (january–june) 	m. asinius marcellus 	suff. 	m. aefulanus (after june)[ ] 	ignotus 	 	 [ ] 	nero claudius caesar augustus germanicus (january–february) 	l. antistius vetus[ ] 	suff. 	n. cestius (march–april) 	 	suff. 	p. cornelius dolabella (may–june) 	l. annaeus seneca (until october) 	suff. 	m. trebellius maximus (july–august) 	 	suff. 	p. palfurius (september–october) 	 	suff. 	cn. cornelius lentulus gaetulicus (november–december) 	t. curtilius mancia 	 	 	q. volusius saturninus (january–june) 	p. cornelius (lentulus?) scipio 	suff. 	l. junius gallio annaeanus (july–august) 	t. cutius ciltus 	suff. 	p. sulpicius scribonius rufus (september–october) 	p. sulpicius scribonius proculus 	suff. 	l. duvius avitus (november–december) 	p. clodius thrasea paetus 	 	 [ ] 	nero claudius caesar augustus germanicus ii (january–december) 	l. calpurnius piso (january–june) 	suff. 	 	l. caesius martialis (july–december) 	 	 	nero claudius caesar augustus germanicus iii (january–april) 	m. valerius messalla corvinus (january–june) 	suff. 	c. fonteius agrippa (may–june) 	 	suff. 	a. petronius lurco (july–december) 	a. paconius sabinus 	 	 	c. vipstanus apronianus (january–june) 	c. fonteius capito 	suff. 	t. sextius africanus (july–december) 	m. ostorius scapula 	 	 	nero claudius caesar augustus germanicus iv (january–june) 	cossus cornelius lentulus 	suff. 	c. velleius paterculus (july–october) 	m. manilius vopiscus 	 	 	p. petronius turpilianus (january–june) 	l. junius caesennius paetus 	suff. 	cn. pedanius fuscus salinator (july–august) 	l. velleius paterculus 	 	 [ ] 	p. marius[ ] (january – april) 	lucius afinius gallus 	suff. 	q. manlius ancharius tarquitius saturninus (may–august) 	p. petronius niger 	suff. 	q. junius marullus[ ] (september–december) 	t. clodius eprius marcellus 	 	 	c. memmius regulus (january–june) 	l. verginius rufus 	suff. 	t. petronius niger[ ] (july–august) 	q. manlius tarquitius saturninus 	 	 	c. laecanius bassus (january–june) 	m. licinius crassus frugi 	suff. 	c. licinius mucianus i (july–october) 	q. fabius barbarus antonius macer 	 	 	a. licinius nerva silianus (january–june) 	m. julius vestinus atticus (killed self in april) 	suff. 	 	p. pasidienus firmus (attested june)[ ] 	suff. 	c. pomponius pius (attested august) 	c. anicius cerialis 	 	 	c. luccius telesinus (january–june) 	c. suetonius paullinus 	suff.[ ] 	m. annius afrinus (july–august) 	c. paccius africanus 	suff. 	m. arruntius aquila (september–december) 	m. vettius bolanus 	 	 	l. julius rufus (january–june) 	fonteius capito (january–may) 	suff. 	 	l. aurelius priscus (june) 	suff.[ ] 	ap. annius gallus (july–december) 	l. verulanus severus 	 	 [ ] 	ti. catius asconius silius italicus (january–march) 	p. galerius trachalus 	suff. 	imp. nero claudius caesar augustus germanicus v (april–june) 	c. luccius telesinus ii (may-june) 	suff. 	c. bellicius natalis (september–december) 	p. cornelius scipio asiaticus 	 	 [ ] 	ser. galba imp. caesar augustus ii (murdered january) 	t. vinius (rufinus?) (murdered january) 	suff. 	m. otho caesar augustus ( january– february) 	l. salvius otho titianus ii 	suff. 	l. verginius rufus ii (march) 	l. pompeius vopiscus 	suff. 	cn. arulenus caelius sabinus (april–june) 	t. flavius sabinus i 	suff. 	cn. arrius antoninus (july–august) 	a. marius celsus 	suff. 	fabius valens (september–october) 	a. caecina alienus (september– october) 	suff. 	 	rosius regulus ( october) 	suff. 	cn. caecilius simplex (november−december) 	c. quinctius atticus 	 	 [ ] 	imp. caesar vespasianus augustus ii (january–june) 	t. caesar vespasianus 	suff. 	c. licinius mucianus ii (july–august) 	q. petillius cerealis caesius rufus 	suff.[ ] 	q. julius cordinus c. rutilius gallicus (september–october) 	ignotus 	suff. 	l. annius bassus (november–december) 	c. laecanius bassus caecina paetus 	 	 [ ] 	imp. caesar vespasianus augustus iii (january–february) 	m. cocceius nerva i 	suff. 	caesar domitianus (march–june) 	cn. pedius cascus (march–april) 	suff. 	 	c. calpetanus rantius quirinalis valerius festus (may–june) 	suff. 	l. flavius fimbria (july–august) 	c. atilius barbarus 	suff.[ ] 	cn. pompeius collega (november–december) 	q. julius cordus 	 	 	imp. caesar vespasianus augustus iv (january–april) 	t. caesar vespasianus ii 	suff. 	c. licinius mucianus iii (may–? june) 	t. flavius sabinus ii 	suff. 	m. ulpius traianus[ ] (september–october) 	 	suff.[ ] 	sex. marcius priscus (november–december) 	cn. pinarius aemilius cicatricula 	 	 	caesar domitianus ii (january–? february) 	l. valerius catullus messallinus 	suff. 	l. aelius oculatus (may–june) 	q. gavius atticus 	suff. 	m. arrecinus clemens i (july–? august) 	. ]m[ .....[ ] 	suff. 	sex. julius frontinus 	ignotus 	 	 	imp. caesar vespasianus augustus v (to january) 	t. caesar vespasianus iii (january–april) 	suff. 	ti. plautius silvanus aelianus ii ( january–february) 	 	suff. 	l. junius q. vibius crispus ii (march–april) 	 	suff. 	q. petillius cerialis caesius rufus ii (may–june) 	t. clodius eprius marcellus ii 	suff. 	ignotus (july–august) 	.... ]on[.[ ] 	suff. 	c. pomponius (september–october) 	l. manlius patruinus 	suff. 	cn. domitius tullus[ ] 	 	 	 	imp. caesar vespasianus augustus vi (to january or february) 	t. caesar vespasianus iv (january–february) 	suff. 	caesar domitianus iii ( january or march–april) 	 	suff. 	 	l. pasidienus firmus (march–april) 	 	 	imp. caesar vespasianus augustus vii (to january or february) 	t. caesar vespasianus v (to january or february or april) 	suff. 	caesar domitianus iv ( january or march–february or april) 	 	suff. 	l. tampius flavianus ii (march–april or may–june) 	m. pompeius silvanus staberius flavianus ii 	suff. 	galeo tettienus petronianus (november–december) 	m. fulvius gillo 	 	 	imp. caesar vespasianus augustus viii (to january or february) 	t. caesar vespasianus vi (january–june) 	suff. 	caesar domitianus v ( january or february–june) 	 	suff. 	l. pompeius vopiscus c. arruntius catellius celer (september–october) 	m. arruntius aquila 	suff. 	cn. julius agricola (november–december) 	ignotus 	 	 	d. junius novius priscus (? rufus) (january–april) 	l. ceionius commodus 	suff. 	q. corellius rufus (september–october) 	l. funisulanus vettonianus 	suff. 	sex. vitulasius nepos 	ignotus 	suff. 	q. articuleius paetus 	ignotus 	 	 	imp. caesar vespasianus augustus ix (to january) 	t. caesar vespasianus vii (january–february) 	suff. 	caesar domitianus vi ( january–february) 	 	suff. 	l. junius caesennius paetus (march–june) 	p. calvisius ruso[ ] 	suff. 	t. rubrius aelius nepos (september–december) 	m. arrius flaccus 	 	 	imp. t. caesar vespasianus augustus viii (to january) 	caesar domitianus vii 	suff. 	a. didius gallus fabricius veiento ii ( january–february) 	l. aelius lamia plautius aelianus ( january–june) 	suff. 	q. aurelius pactumeius fronto (march–april) 	 	suff. 	c. marius marcellus octavius publius cluvius rufus (may–june) 	 	suff.[ ] 	m. atilius postumus bradua (july–august) 	q. pompeius trio 	suff.[ ] 	sex. neranius capito (september–october) 	l. acilius strabo 	suff. 	m. tittius frugi (november–december) 	t. vinicius julianus 	 	 	l. flavius silva nonius bassus (january–february) 	l. asinius pollio verrucosus 	suff. 	m. roscius coelius (march–april) 	c. julius juvenalis 	suff. 	l. vettius paullus (may–june) 	t. junius montanus 	suff. 	c. scoedius natta pinarius (july–august) 	t. tettienus serenus 	suff. 	l. carminius lusitanicus (september–october) 	m. petronius umbrinus 	 	 	imp. caesar domitianus augustus viii (to january) 	t. flavius sabinus 	suff. 	[? servaeus in]noc(ens) ( january–february) 	l. salvius otho cocceianus[ ] 	suff. 	[ ... ]an(us)[ ] (march–april) 	m'. acilius aviola[ ] 	suff. 	[c. arinius mo]dest(us)[ ] (may–june) 	ignotus 	suff.[ ] 	p. valerius patruinus (july–august) 	l. antonius saturninus 	suff. 	m. larcius magnus pompeius silo (september–october) 	t. aurelius quietus 	 	 [ ] 	imp. caesar domitianus augustus ix (to january) 	q. petillius rufus[ ] (january–february) 	suff. 	m. annius messalla (march–april) 	c. fisius sabinus 	suff. 	l. tettius julianus (may–june) 	terentius strabo erucius homullus 	suff. 	l. calventius sex. carminius vetus (september–october) 	m. cornelius nigrinus curiatius maternus 	 	 	imp. caesar domitianus augustus x (to january or ? february) 	c. oppius sabinus (january–february) 	suff. 	l. julius ursus (july–august) 	ignotus 	suff. 	c. tullius capito pomponianus plotius firmus (september–october) 	c. cornelius gallicanus 	suff. 	ignotus 	gallus[ ] 	 	 [ ] 	imp. caesar domitianus augustus xi (january–february ) 	t. aurelius fulvus ii 	suff. 	q. julius cordinus c. rutilius gallicus ii (march–april) 	l. valerius catullus messallinus ii 	suff. 	m. arrecinus clemens ii (may–june) 	l. baebius honoratus 	suff. 	p. herennius pollio (july–august) 	m. annius herennius pollio 	suff. 	d. aburius bassus (september–october) 	q. julius balbus 	suff.[ ] 	c. salvius liberalis nonius bassus (november–december) 	[? cornelius] orestes 	 	 	imp. caesar domitianus augustus xii (to january) 	ser. cornelius dolabella petronianus (january–february) 	suff. 	c. secius campanus[ ] ( january–february or april) 	 	suff. 	incertus (march–april)[ ] 	q. vibius secundus (march–april) 	suff. 	sex. octavius fronto (may–august) 	ti. julius candidus marius celsus 	suff. 	a. bucius lappius maximus (september–december) 	c. octavius tidius tossianus l. javolenus priscus 	 	 	imp. caesar domitianus augustus xiii (to january) 	l. volusius saturninus (january–april) 	suff. 	c. calpurnius piso crassus frugi licinianus ( january–april) 	 	suff. 	c. bellicius natalis gavidius tebanianus[ ] (may–august) 	c. ducenius proculus 	suff. 	c. cilnius proculus (september–december) 	l. neratius priscus 	 	 	imp. caesar domitianus augustus xiv (to january) 	l. minicius rufus (january–april) 	suff. 	d. plotius grypus ( january–april) 	 	suff. 	q. ninnius hasta (may–august) 	l. scribonius libo rupilius frugi bonus 	suff. 	m. otacilius catulus (september–december) 	sex. julius sparsus 	 	 	t. aurelius fulvus (january–april) 	m. asinius atratinus 	suff. 	p. sallustius blaesus (may–august) 	m. peducaeus saenianus 	suff. 	a. vicirius proculus (september–december) 	m'. laberius maximus 	 	 	imp. caesar domitianus augustus xv (to january) 	m. cocceius nerva ii (january–february) 	suff. 	l. cornelius pusio annius messala ( january–february) 	 	suff. 	l. antistius rusticus (march–april) 	ser. julius servianus 	suff. 	q. accaeus rufus (may–june) 	c. caristanius fronto 	suff. 	p. baebius italicus (july–august) 	c. aquillius proculus 	suff. 	l. albius pullaienus pollio (september–october) 	cn. pinarius aemilius cicatricula pompeius longinus 	suff. 	m. tullius cerialis[ ] (november–december) 	cn. pompeius catullinus 	 	 	m'. acilius glabrio (january–april) 	m. ulpius trajanus 	suff. 	d. minicius faustinus (may–august) 	p. valerius marinus 	suff. 	q. valerius vegetus (september–december) 	p. metilius sabinus nepos 	 	 	imp. caesar domitianus augustus xvi (to january) 	q. volusius saturninus (january–april) 	suff. 	l. venuleius montanus apronianus ( january–april) 	 	suff. 	l. stertinius avitus (may–august) 	ti. julius celsus polemaeanus 	suff. 	c. julius silanus (september–december) 	q. junius arulenus rusticus 	 	 [ ] 	sex. pompeius collega (january–april) 	q. peducaeus priscinus 	suff.[ ] 	t. avidius quietus (may–august) 	sex. lusianus proculus 	suff. 	c. cornelius rarus sextius na(so?) (september–december) 	[? tuccius ceria]lis 	 	 	l. nonius calpurnius torquatus asprenas (january–april) 	t. sextius magius lateranus 	suff. 	m. lollius paulinus d. valerius asiaticus saturninus (may–august) 	c. antius a. julius quadratus 	suff. 	l. silius decianus (september–december) 	t. pomponius bassus 	 	 	imp. caesar domitianus augustus xvii (to january) 	t. flavius clemens (january–april) 	suff. 	l. neratius marcellus ( january–april) 	 	suff. 	a. bucius lappius maximus ii (may–august) 	p. ducenius verus 	suff. 	q. pomponius rufus (september–december) 	l. baebius tullus 	 	 	c. manlius valens (january–april) 	c. antistius vetus 	suff. 	q. fabius postuminus (may–august) 	t. prifernius [paetus] 	suff. 	ti. catius caesius fronto (september–december) 	m. calpurnius [...]icus 	 	 [ ] 	imp. nerva caesar augustus iii (january–february) 	l. verginius rufus iii 	suff. 	cn. arrius antoninus ii (march–april ) 	(c.?) calpurnius piso 	suff. 	m. annius verus i (may–june) 	l. neratius priscus 	suff. 	l. domitius apollinaris (july–august ) 	sex. hermentidius campanus 	suff. 	q. glitius atilius agricola (september–october) 	l. pomponius maternus[ ] 	suff. 	p. cornelius tacitus (november–december) 	m. ostorius scapula[ ] 	 	 [ ] 	imp. nerva caesar augustus iv (to january) 	imp. caesar nerva trajanus ii (january–june) 	suff. 	cn. domitius afer curvius tullus ii ( january– january) 	 	suff. 	sex. julius frontinus ii (february) 	 	suff. 	l. julius ursus ii (march) 	 	suff. 	t. vestricius spurinna ii (april) 	 	suff. 	c. pomponius pius (may–june) 	 	suff. 	a. vicirius martialis (july–august) 	l. maecius postumus 	suff. 	c. pomponius rufus acilius [pri]scus coelius sparsus (september–october) 	cn. pompeius ferox licinianus 	suff.[ ] 	q. fulvius gillo bittius proculus (november–december) 	p. julius lupus 	 	 	a. cornelius palma frontonianus (january–?) 	q. sosius senecio 	suff. 	p. sulpicius lucretius barba (june–july) 	senecio memmius afer 	suff. 	q. fabius barbarus valerius magnus julianus (august–?) 	a. caecilius faustinus 	suff. 	ti. julius ferox[ ] 	ignotus 	 	 	imp. caesar nerva trajanus augustus iii (january) 	sex. julius frontinus iii (january–february) 	suff. 	l. julius ursus iii (january–february) 	 	suff. 	m. marcius macer (march–april) 	c. cilnius proculus 	suff. 	l. herennius saturninus (may–june) 	pomponius mamilianus 	suff. 	q. acutius nerva (july–august) 	l. fabius tuscus 	suff. 	c. julius cornutus tertullus (september–october) 	c. plinius caecilius secundus 	suff. 	l. roscius aelianus maecius celer (november–december) 	ti. claudius sacerdos julianus nd century ( – )[edit] 	year 	consul prior 	consul posterior 	 [ ] 	imp. caesar nerva trajanus augustus iv (january) 	q. articuleius paetus ii (january–march) 	suff. 	sex. attius suburanus aemilianus (february–march) 	 	suff. 	c. sertorius brocchus q. servaeus innocens (april–may) 	m. maecius celer 	suff. 	[...]us proculus (sometime between may and october) 	ignotus 	suff.[ ] 	l. arruntius stella (attested october) 	l. julius marinus caecilius simplex 	 	l. julius ursus servianus ii (january–april) 	l. licinius sura ii (january–february) 	suff. 	 	l. fabius justus (march–april) 	suff.[ ] 	t. didius secundus (may–august) 	l. publilius celsus 	suff. 	l. antonius albus (september–december) 	m. junius homullus 	 	imp. caesar nerva trajanus augustus v (january) 	m'. laberius maximus ii (january–march) 	suff. 	q. glitius atilius agricola ii (january–march) 	 	suff. 	p. metilius nepos (april–june) 	q. baebius macer 	suff. 	[? m. flavius ap]er[ ] (july–september) 	c. trebonius proculus mettius modestus 	suff. 	(a?)nnius mela (october–december) 	p. calpurnius macer caulius rufus 	 	sex. attius suburanus aemilianus ii 	m. asinius marcellus 	 	ti. julius candidus marius celsus ii (january–march) 	c. antius a. julius quadratus ii 	suff. 	c. julius quadratus bassus (may–august) 	cn. afranius dexter (may– july) 	suff. 	 	q. caelius honoratus (july–august) 	suff. 	m. vitorius marcellus (september–december) 	c. caecilius strabo 	 	l. ceionius commodus 	sex. vettulenus civica cerialis 	suff. 	l. minicius natalis 	q. licinius silvanus granianus quadronius proculus 	 	l. licinius sura iii (january–february or april)[ ] 	q. sosius senecio ii 	suff. 	acilius rufus[ ] (march–april) 	 	suff. 	c. minicius fundanus (may–august) 	c. vettennius severus 	suff. 	c. julius longinus (september–december) 	c. valerius paullinus 	 	ap. annius trebonius gallus (january–?) 	m. appius bradua 	suff. 	p. aelius hadrianus (attested june) 	m. trebatius priscus 	suff.[ ] 	q. pompeius falco (attested july) 	m. titius lustricus bruttianus 	 	a. cornelius palma frontonianus ii (january–february) 	p. calvisius tullus ruso (january–april) 	suff. 	l. annius largus (march–april) 	 	suff. 	cn. antonius fuscus (may–august) 	c. julius antiochus epiphanes philopappus 	suff. 	c. aburnius valens (september–december) 	c. julius proculus 	 	m. peducaeus priscinus (january–march) 	ser. cornelius scipio salvidienus orfitus 	suff. 	c. avidius nigrinus (april–june) 	ti. julius aquila polemaeanus 	suff. 	l. catilius severus julianus claudius reginus (july–september) 	c. erucianus silo 	suff. 	a. larcius priscus (october–december) 	sex. marcius honoratus 	 	c. calpurnius piso (january–april) 	m. vettius bolanus 	suff. 	t. avidius quietus (may–august) 	l. eggius marullus 	suff. 	l. octavius crassus (september–december) 	p. coelius apollinaris 	 	imp. caesar nerva trajanus augustus vi (january) 	t. sextius cornelius africanus (january–march) 	suff. 	[m. ?] licinius ruso (january–march) 	 	suff. 	cn. pinarius cornelius severus (april–june) 	l. mummius niger q. valerius vegetus 	suff. 	p. stertinius quartus (july–september) 	t. julius maximus manlianus brocchus servilianus 	suff. 	c. claudius severus (october–december) 	t. settidius firmus 	 	l. publilius celsus ii (january) 	c. clodius crispinus (january–april) 	suff. 	ser. cornelius dolabella metilianus pompeius marcellus (february–april) 	 	suff. 	l. stertinius noricus (may–august) 	l. fadius rufinus 	suff. 	cn. cornelius urbicus (september–december) 	t. sempronius rufus 	 	q. ninnius hasta (january–april) 	p. manilius vopiscus vicinillianus 	suff. 	c. clodius nummus (may–august) 	l. caesennius sospes[ ] 	suff. 	l. hedius rufus lollianus avitus (september–december) 	m. messius rusticus[ ] 	 	l. vipstanus messalla (january–april) 	m. pedo vergilianus (january) 	suff. 	 	t. statilius maximus severus hadrianus (february–april) 	suff. 	l. julius frugi (may–august) 	p. juventius celsus t. aufidius hoenius severianus 	suff. 	m. pompeius macrinus neos theophanes (september–december) 	t. vibius varus 	 [ ] 	l. fundanius lamia aelianus (january–march) 	sex. carminius vetus 	suff. 	ti. julius secundus (april–june) 	m. egnatius marcellinus 	suff. 	d. terentius gentianus (july–september) 	l. co[...][ ] 	suff. 	l. statius aquila (october–december) 	c. julius alexander berenicianus 	 	q. aquilius niger (january–? march) 	m. rebilus apronianus 	suff. 	l. cossonius gallus (attested august) 	p. afranius flavianus 	suff. 	ignotus (attested september) 	cn. minicius faustinus 	 [ ] 	imp. caesar trajanus hadrianus augustus ii (january–june) 	cn. pedanius fuscus salinator (january–february) 	suff. 	 	bellicius tebanianus (march) 	suff. 	 	c. ummidius quadratus (attested may) 	suff. 	l. pomponius bassus (attested july and august) 	t. sabinius barbarus 	 [ ] 	imp. caesar traianus hadrianus augustus iii (january–april) 	p. dasumius rusticus (january–february) 	suff. 	 	a. platorius nepos (march–april) 	suff. 	m. paccius silvanus q. coredius gallus gargilius antiquus (may–june) 	q. vibius gallus 	suff. 	c. herennius capella (november–december) 	l. coelius rufus 	 [ ] 	l. catilius severus julianus claudius reginus ii 	t. aurelius fulvus boionius arrius antoninus 	suff. 	c. quinctius certus poblicius marcellus (may–june) 	t. rutilius propinquus 	suff. 	c. arminius gallus[ ] (attested october) 	c. atilius serranus 	 	m. annius verus ii (january–february) 	cn. arrius augur 	suff. 	m. herennius faustus (march–april) 	q. pomponius marcellus 	suff. 	t. pomponius antistianus funisulanus vettonianus (may–june) 	l. pomponius silvanus 	suff. 	m. statorius secundus (july–august) 	l. sempronius merula auspicatus 	 [ ] 	m'. acilius aviola 	l. corellius neratius pansa 	suff. 	ti. julius candidus capito (attested july) 	l. vitrasius flamininus 	suff. 	c. trebius maximus (attested november) 	t. calestrius tiro orbius speratus 	 [ ] 	q. articuleius paetinus 	l. venuleius apronianus octavius priscus 	suff. 	t. prifernius geminus (attested june) 	p. metilius secundus 	suff. 	t. salvius rufinus minicius opimianus (attested august) 	cn. sentius aburnianus 	 [ ] 	m'. acilius glabrio (january–april) 	c. bellicius flaccus torquatus tebanianus 	suff. 	a. larcius macedo (may–august) 	p. ducenius verres 	suff. 	c. julius gallus (september–december) 	c. valerius severus 	 	m. lollius paulinus d. valerius asiaticus saturninus ii 	l. titius epidius aquilinus 	suff. 	q. vetina verus[ ] (attested june) 	p. lucius cosconianus 	 	m. annius verus iii (january–february) 	c. eggius ambibulus 	suff. 	l. valerius propinquus (from march) 	 	suff. 	l. cuspius camerinus (attested july) 	c. saenius severus 	 	t. atilius rufus titianus (january–march) 	m. gavius squilla gallicanus 	suff. 	p. tullius varro (april) 	[d.?] junius paetus 	suff. 	q. tineius rufus (may–september) 	m. licinius celer nepos 	suff. 	l. aemilius juncus (october–december) 	sex. julius severus 	 	l. nonius calpurnius torquatus asprenas ii (january) 	m. annius libo (january–march) 	suff. 	l. caesennius antoninus (february–march) 	 	suff. 	m. junius mettius rufus (april–june) 	q. pomponius maternus 	suff. 	l. valerius flaccus (july–september) 	m. [junius homullus ?][ ] 	suff. 	a. egrilius plarianus (october–december) 	q. [planius sardus varius ambibulus ?][ ] 	 	p. juventius celsus t. aufidius hoenius severianus ii (january–after march) 	l. neratius marcellus ii (january–? february) 	suff. 	 	q. julius balbus (attested march) 	 	q. fabius catullinus (january–february) 	m. flavius aper 	suff. 	cassius agrippa (or agrippinus) (attested march) 	ti. claudius quartinus 	 [ ] 	sergius octavius laenas pontianus (january–april) 	m. antonius rufinus 	suff. 	l. fabius gallus (may–august) 	q. fabius julianus 	 	c. junius serius augurinus (january–april) 	c. trebius sergianus 	suff. 	c. acilius priscus (september–december) 	a. cassius arrianus 	 	m. antonius hiberus (january–april) 	p. mummius sisenna 	suff. 	q. flavius tertullus (may–august) 	q. junius rusticus 	suff. 	ti. claudius atticus herodes (september–december) 	p. sufenas verus 	 	l. julius ursus servianus iii (january–march) 	t. vibius varus (january–april) 	suff. 	t. haterius nepos (attested april) 	 	suff. 	p. licinius pansa (attested september–december) 	l. attius macro 	 	l. tutilius lupercus pontianus (january–april) 	p. calpurnius atilianus (atticus rufus?) 	suff. 	m. cutius priscus messius rusticus aemilius papus arrius proculus julius celsus (may–august) 	l. burbuleius optatus ligarianus 	suff. 	p. rutilius fabianus (september–december) 	cn. papirius aelianus aemilius tuscillus 	 [ ] 	l. ceionius commodus 	sex. vettulenus civica pompeianus 	 	l. aelius caesar ii 	p. coelius balbinus vibullius pius 	 [ ] 	kanus junius niger (january–march) 	c. pomponius camerinus 	suff. 	m. vindius verus (april–june) 	p. pactumeius clemens (in absentia) 	suff. 	p. cassius secundus (october–december) 	marcus nonius mucianus 	 	imp. caesar t. aelius hadrianus antoninus augustus pius ii (january–april) 	c. bruttius praesens l. fulvius rusticus ii 	suff. 	l. minicius natalis quadronius verus (july–august) 	l. claudius proculus 	suff. 	ignotus (september–october) 	c. julius scapula 	suff. 	m. ceccius justinus (november–december) 	c. julius bassus 	 	imp. caesar t. aelius hadrianus antoninus augustus pius iii (january) 	m. aurelius caesar (january–april) 	suff. 	q. antonius isauricus (may) 	l. aurelius flaccus 	suff. 	julius crassipes (between june and october) 	ignotus 	suff. 	m. barbius aemilianus (november–december) 	t. flavius julianus 	 	t. hoenius severus (january–february) 	m. peducaeus stloga priscinus 	suff. 	c. julius pisibanus (may–june) 	(larcius?) lepidus 	suff. 	t. caesernius statianus (september–october) 	ignotus 	suff. 	l. annius fabianus (november–december) 	ignotus 	 [ ] 	l. cuspius pactumeius rufinus (january–march) 	l. statius quadratus 	suff. 	l. granius castus (april–june) 	ti. junius julianus 	suff. 	m. cornelius fronto (july–august) 	c. laberius priscus 	suff. 	l. tusidius campester (september–october) 	q. cornelius senecio annianus 	suff. 	[? sulpicius] julianus (november–december) 	t. julius castus 	 	c. bellicius flaccus torquatus (january–march) 	l. vibullius hipparchus ti. claudius atticus herodes 	suff. 	q. junius calamus (attested august) 	m. valerius junianus 	 	l. hedius rufus lollianus avitus (january–february) 	t. statilius maximus 	suff. 	l. aemilius carus (attested march) 	q. egrilius plarianus 	suff. 	ignotus (attested september) 	q. laberius licinianus 	suff. 	l. marcius celer m. calpurnius longus (attested december) 	d. velius fidus 	 	imp. caesar t. aelius hadrianus antoninus augustus pius iv (january–february) 	m. aurelius caesar ii 	suff. 	l. plautius lamia silvanus (march–april) 	l. poblicola priscus 	suff. 	cn. arrius cornelius proculus (may–june) 	d. junius (paetus?) 	suff. 	q. mustius priscus (july–august) 	m. pontius laelianus 	suff. 	l. petronius sabinus (september–october) 	c. vicrius rufus 	suff. 	c. fadius rufus (november–december) 	p. vicrius 	 	sex. erucius clarus ii (january–february) 	cn. claudius severus arabianus (january–april) 	suff. 	q. licinius modestinus (sex.?) attius labeo (march–april) 	 	suff. 	p. mummius sisenna rutilianus (may–june) 	t. prifernius paetus rosianus nonius agricola c. labeo tetius geminus 	suff. 	cn. terentius homullus iunior (july–august) 	l. aurelius gallus 	suff. 	q. voconius saxa fidus (september–october) 	c. annianus verus 	suff. 	l. aemilius longus (november–december) 	q. cornelius proculus 	 	c. prastina messalinus (january–march) 	l. annius largus 	suff. 	a. claudius charax (april–june) 	q. fuficius cornutus 	suff. 	cupressenus gallus (july–september) 	q. cornelius quadratus 	suff. 	sex. cocceius severianus honorinus (october–december) 	ti. licinius cassius cassianus (october–?) 	suff. 	 	c. popilius carus pedo (to december) 	 	l. octavius cornelius p. salvius julianus aemilianus (january–march) 	c. bellicius calpurnius torquatus 	suff. 	satyrius firmus (april–june) 	c. salvius capito 	suff. 	l. coelius festus (july–september) 	p. orfidius senecio 	suff. 	c. fabius agrippinus (october–december) 	m. antonius zeno 	 	l. sergius salvidienus scipio orfitus[ ] (january–? february) 	q. pompeius sosius priscus 	suff. 	q. passienus licinus (attested july) 	c. julius avitus 	 	m. gavius squilla gallicanus (january–february) 	sex. carminius vetus 	suff. 	--]mus (attested may) 	c. la[berius priscus][ ] 	suff. 	m. cassius apollinaris (attested august) 	m. petronius mamertinus 	 	sex. quintilius condianus (january–march) 	sex. quintilius valerius maximus 	suff. 	m. cominius secundus (attested september) 	l. attidius cornelianus 	suff. 	c. curtius justus (attested october) 	p. julius nauto 	 	m'. acilius glabrio cn. cornelius severus (january–march) 	m. valerius homullus 	suff. 	p. sufenas [? verus] (april–june) 	l. dasumius tullius tuscus 	suff. 	c. novius priscus (july–september) 	l. julius romulus 	suff. 	p. cluvius maximus paulinus (october–december) 	m. servilius silanus 	 	l. fulvius rusticus c. bruttius praesens (january–march) 	a. junius rufinus 	suff. 	sex. caecilius maximus[ ] (april–june) 	m. pontius sabinus 	suff. 	p. septimius aper (july–september) 	m. sedatius severianus julius acer metilius nepos rufinus ti. rutilianus censor 	suff. 	c. cattius marcellus (october–december) 	q. petiedius gallus 	 	l. aelius aurelius commodus i (january–march) 	t. sextius lateranus 	suff. 	[prifernius ?] paetus (april–june) 	m. nonius macrinus 	suff. 	m. valerius etruscus (?)[ ] (july–august) 	l. [aemilius iuncus ?][ ] 	suff. 	ti. claudius julianus (september–october) 	sex. calpurnius agricola 	suff. 	c. julius statius severus (november–december) 	t. junius severus 	 	c. julius severus (january–march) 	m. junius rufinus sabinianus 	suff. 	c. aufidius victorinus (april–june) 	m. gavius ...[ ] 	suff. 	antius pollio (attested november) 	minicius opimianus[ ] 	suff. 	[? d. rupilius] severus (attested december) 	l. julius t. statilius severus 	 	m. ceionius silvanus (january–february) 	c. serius augurinus 	suff. 	a. avillius urinatius quadratus (attested – march) 	strabo aemilianus 	suff. 	q. canusius praenestinus (attested december) 	c. lusius sparsus 	 	m. vettulenus civica barbarus (january–march) 	m. metilius aquillius regulus nepos volusius torquatus fronto 	suff. 	l. roscius aelianus (april-? june) 	cn. papirius aelianus 	suff. 	c. julius commodus orfitianus (attested september) 	c. caelius secundus 	suff. 	q. vilius proculus[ ] (attested december) 	q. [...]binus 	 	sextus sulpicius tertullus (january–march ?) 	q. tineius sacerdos clemens 	suff. 	m. servilius fabianus maximus (attested july) 	q. iallius bassus 	suff. 	q. pomponius musa (attested december) 	l. cassius juvenalis 	 	plautius quintillus (january–march) 	m. statius priscus licinius italicus 	suff. 	m. pisibanius lepidus (april–june) 	l. matuccius fuscinus 	suff. 	publius cornelius dexter (july–september) 	ignotus 	suff. 	a. curtius crispinus (october–december) 	ignotus 	 	appius annius atilius bradua (january–february) 	t. clodius vibius varus 	suff. 	a. platorius nepos calpurnianus (march–april) 	m. postumius festus 	suff. 	[? c. septimius] severus[ ] (may–june) 	[...] flavus[ ] 	suff. 	c. prastina pacatus (july–september) 	m. censorius paulus[ ] 	suff. 	ti. oclatius severus (october–december) 	[q.?] ninnius hastianus (october-?) 	suff. 	 	[... n]ovius sabinianus (attested december) 	 	m. aurelius caesar iii ( – january or january) 	l. aelius aurelius commodus ii 	suff. 	m. annius libo ( or january–? march) 	q. camurius numisius junior 	suff. 	[? julius] geminus capellianus (attested october) 	t. flavius boethus 	 [ ] 	q. junius rusticus ii 	l. titius plautius aquilinus 	suff.[ ] 	ti. claudius paullinus (attested august) 	ti. claudius pompeianus 	suff. 	d. fonteius frontinianus l. stertinius rufus 	ignotus 	suff. 	m. insteius bithynicus 	ignotus 	 	m. pontius laelianus 	a. junius pastor l. caesennius sospes 	 	m. pompeius macrinus 	p. juventius celsus 	suff. 	ti. haterius saturninus (attested and july) 	q. caecilius avitus 	 [ ] 	m. gavius orfitus 	l. arrius pudens 	 	q. servilius pudens 	l. fufidius pollio 	suff. 	m. vibius liberalis (attested march) 	p. martius verus 	 	imp. caesar l. aurelius verus augustus iii 	m. ummidius quadratus 	suff. 	q. caecilius dentilianus (attested may) 	m. antonius pallas 	 	l. venuleius apronianus octavius priscus ii 	l. sergius paullus ii 	suff. 	q. tullius maximus[ ] 	ignotus 	 	q. pompeius senecio sosius priscus 	p. coelius apollinaris 	 	c. erucius clarus 	m. gavius cornelius cethegus 	suff. 	t. hoenius severus 	ignotus 	 	t. statilius severus 	l. alfidius herennianus 	 	ser. calpurnius scipio orfitus 	sex. quintilius maximus 	suff. 	c. modius justus 	ignotus 	 	cn. claudius severus ii 	ti. claudius pompeianus ii 	 	l. aurelius gallus 	q. volusius flaccus cornelianus 	suff. 	m. aemilius macer saturninus 	ignotus 	 	l. calpurnius piso 	p. salvius julianus 	suff. 	p. helvius pertinax 	m. didius severus julianus 	 	t. pomponius proculus vitrasius pollio ii 	m. flavius aper ii 	 	l. aelius aurelius commodus caesar i 	m. peducaeus plautius quintillus 	 	ser. cornelius scipio salvidienus orfitus 	d. velius rufus (julianus?) 	 	imp. caesar l. aelius aurelius commodus augustus ii 	p. martius verus ii 	suff.[ ] 	t. flavius claudianus (attested march) 	l. aemilius iuncus 	suff.[ ] 	m'. acilius faustinus (attested april) 	l. julius proculianus 	 	l. fulvius rusticus c. bruttius praesens ii 	sex. quintilius condianus 	 [ ] 	imp. caesar l. aurelius commodus augustus iii 	l. antistius burrus 	 	m. petronius sura mamertinus 	q. tineius rufus 	suff. 	(?) aurelianus (attested may) 	(l. attidius?) cornelianus 	 	imp. caesar m. aurelius commodus antoninus augustus iv 	c. aufidius victorinus ii 	suff. 	l. tutilius pontianus gentianus (attested february) 	ignotus 	suff. 	m. herennius secundus (attested and may) 	m. egnatius postumus 	suff. 	t. pactumeius magnus (after may) 	l. septimius flaccus 	 	l. cossonius eggius marullus 	cn. papirius aelianus 	suff. 	c. octavius vindex (attested may) 	cassius apronianus[ ] 	 	triarius maternus lascivius 	ti. claudius m. ap. atilius bradua regillus atticus 	 	imp. caesar m. aurelius commodus antoninus augustus v 	m'. acilius glabrio ii 	suff. 	l. novius rufus (attested may) 	l. annius ravus[ ] 	suff. 	c. sabucius maior caecilianus (attested and november) 	valerius senecio 	 	l. bruttius quintius crispinus 	l. roscius aelianus paculus 	 	p. seius fuscianus ii 	m. servilius silanus ii 	 	dulius silanus 	q. servilius silanus 	suff. 	severus (attested may) 	vitellius 	 	imp. caesar m. aurelius commodus antoninus augustus vi 	m. petronius sura septimianus 	suff. 	l. septimius severus (may–?) 	apuleius rufinus[ ] 	 	popilius pedo apronianus 	m. valerius bradua mauricus 	 	imp. caesar l. aelius aurelius commodus augustus vii 	p. helvius pertinax ii 	 [ ] 	q. pompeius sosius falco 	c. julius erucius clarus vibianus 	suff. 	q. tineius sacerdos (march) 	p. julius scapula priscus 	suff. 	m. silius messala (may) 	ignotus 	suff. 	l. julius messala rutilianus (july) 	c. aemilius severus cantabrinus 	suff. 	l. fabius cilo septiminus catinius acilianus lepidus fulcinianus[ ] 	 	 	imp. caesar l. septimius severus pertinax augustus ii 	d. clodius septimius albinus caesar ii 	suff. 	c. gabinius barbarus pompeianus 	ignotus 	 	p. julius scapula tertullus priscus 	q. tineius clemens 	 	c. domitius dexter ii 	l. valerius messalla thrasea priscus 	 	t. sextius magius lateranus 	cuspius rufinus[ ] 	 	p. martius sergius saturninus 	l. aurelius gallus 	suff. 	q. anicius faustus[ ] 	ignotus 	 	p. cornelius anullinus ii 	m. aufidius fronto 	 	ti. claudius severus proculus 	c. aufidius victorinus rd century ( – )[edit] 	year 	consul prior 	consul posterior 	 	l. annius fabianus 	m. nonius arrius mucianus 	 	imp. caesar l. septimius severus pertinax augustus iii 	imp. caesar m. aurelius antoninus augustus 	suff.[ ] 	t. murrenius severus 	c. cassius regallianus 	 	c. fulvius plautianus 	p. septimius geta ii 	 	l. fabius cilo septiminus catinius acilianus lepidus fulcinianus ii 	m. annius flavius libo 	suff. 	l. pomponius liberalis[ ] 	ignotus 	 	imp. caesar m. aurelius antoninus augustus ii 	p. septimius geta caesar 	 	m. nummius umbrius primus senecio albinus 	l. fulvius gavius numisius petronius aemilianus 	suff.[ ] 	p. tullius marsus (attested december) 	m. caelius faustinus 	 	l. annius maximus[ ] 	c. septimius severus aper 	 	imp. caesar m. aurelius antoninus augustus iii 	p. septimius geta caesar ii 	 	l. aurelius commodus pompeianus 	q. hedius lollianus plautius avitus 	 	m'. acilius faustinus 	a. triarius rufinus 	 	hedius lollianus terentius gentianus 	pomponius bassus 	 	c. julius asper ii 	c. julius camilius asper 	suff. 	(cn. claudius ?) severus (may - june) 	(ti. claudius ?) pompeianus 	 	imp. caesar m. aurelius severus antoninus augustus iv 	d. caelius calvinus balbinus ii 	 	l. valerius messalla 	c. octavius appius suetrius sabinus 	 	q. maecius laetus ii 	m. munatius sulla cerialis 	 	p. catius sabinus ii 	p. cornelius anullinus 	 	c. bruttius praesens 	t. messius extricatus ii 	 	imp. caesar m. opellius severus macrinus augustus ii 	m. oclatinius adventus 	suff. 	imp. caesar m. aurelius antoninus augustus (from june) 	 	 	imp. caesar m. aurelius antoninus augustus ii 	q. tineius sacerdos ii 	 	imp. caesar m. aurelius antoninus augustus iii 	p. valerius comazon 	 	c. vettius gratus sabinianus 	m. flavius vitellius seleucus 	 	imp. caesar m. aurelius antoninus augustus iv 	m. aurelius alexander caesar i 	 	l. marius maximus perpetuus aurelianus ii 	l. roscius aelianus paculus salvius julianus 	 	ap. claudius julianus ii 	c. bruttius crispinus 	 	ti. manilius fuscus ii 	ser. calpurnius domitius dexter 	 	imp. caesar m. aurelius severus alexander augustus ii 	c. aufidius marcellus ii 	 	m. nummius senecio albinus 	m. laelius fulvius maximus aemilianus 	 	q. aiacius modestus crescentianus ii 	m. pomponius maecius probus 	 	imp. caesar m. aurelius severus alexander augustus iii 	l. claudius cassius dio cocceianus ii 	 	l. virius agricola 	sex. catius clementinus priscillianus 	 	l. ti. claudius pompeianus 	t. flavius sallustius paelignianus 	 	l. virius lupus julianus 	l. marius maximus 	 	l. valerius maximus . . . acilius priscillianus 	cn. cornelius paternus 	 	m. clodius pupienus maximus ii 	m. munatius sulla urbanus[ ] 	 	cn. claudius severus 	l. ti. claudius quintianus 	 [ ] 	imp. caesar c. julius verus maximinus augustus 	m. pupienus africanus maximus 	 	l. marius perpetuus 	l. mummius felix cornelianus 	 	[? l.] fulvius pius 	pontius proculus pontianus 	 	imp. caesar m. antonius gordianus augustus 	m'. acilius aviola 	 	c. octavius appius suetrius sabinus ii 	l. ragonius venustus 	 	imp. caesar m. antonius gordianus augustus ii 	clodius pompeianus 	 	c. vettius gratus atticus sabinianus 	c. asinius lepidus praetextatus 	 	l. annius arrianus 	c. cervonius papus 	 	ti. pollienus armenius peregrinus 	fulvius aemilianus 	 	imp. caesar m. julius philippus augustus 	c. maesius titianus 	 	c. bruttius praesens 	c. allius albinus[ ] 	 	imp. caesar m. julius philippus augustus ii 	m. julius severus philippus caesar 	 	imp. caesar m. julius philippus augustus iii 	imp. caesar m. julius severus philippus augustus ii 	 	l. fulvius gavius numisius aemilianus ii 	l. naevius aquilinus 	 	imp. caesar c. messius quintus trajanus decius augustus ii 	c. vettius gratus 	 	imp. caesar c. messius quintus trajanus decius augustus iii 	q. herennius etruscus messius decius caesar 	 	imp. caesar c. vibius trebonianus gallus augustus ii 	imp. caesar c. vibius volusianus augustus 	 	imp. caesar c. vibius volusianus augustus ii 	l. valerius poplicola balbinus maximus 	 	imp. caesar p. licinius valerianus augustus ii 	imp. caesar p. licinius gallienus augustus 	 	imp. caesar p. licinius valerianus augustus iii 	imp. caesar p. licinius gallienus augustus ii 	 	l. valerius maximus . . . acilius priscillianus ii 	m. acilius glabrio 	 	imp. caesar p. licinius valerianus augustus iv 	imp. caesar p. licinius gallienus augustus iii 	 	m. nummius tuscus 	mummius bassus 	 	(nummius) aemilianus (dexter) 	pomponius bassus i 	 	p. cornelius saecularis ii 	c. junius donatus ii 	 	imp. caesar m. cassianius latinius postumus augustus ii (gaul) 	honoratianus (gaul)[ ] 	 	imp. caesar p. licinius gallienus augustus iv 	l. petronius taurus volusianus 	 	imp. caesar m. cassianius latinius postumus augustus iii (gaul) 	 	 	imp. caesar fulvius macrianus augustus ii (east) 	imp. caesar fulvius quietus augustus (east) 	 	imp. caesar p. licinius gallienus augustus v 	nummius faustianus 	 	m. nummius albinus ii 	dexter (maximus?) 	 	imp. caesar p. licinius gallienus augustus vi 	saturninus 	 	p. licinius valerianus ii 	lucillus 	 	imp. caesar p. licinius gallienus augustus vii 	sabinillus 	 	ovinius gaius julius aquilius paternus 	arcesilaus 	 	imp. caesar m. cassianius latinius postumus augustus iv (gaul) 	m. piavonius victorinus i (gaul) 	 	aspasius paternus ii 	p. licinius egnatius marinianus 	 	imp. caesar m. cassianius latinius postumus augustus v (gaul) 	 	 	imp. caesar m. aurelius claudius augustus 	paternus 	 	imp. caesar m. piavonius victorinus ii (gaul) 	sanctus (gaul) 	 	flavius antiochianus ii 	virius orfitus 	 	imp. caesar m. piavonius victorinus ii (gaul) 	 	 	imp. caesar l. domitius aurelianus augustus i 	pomponius bassus ii 	 	imp. caesar c. pius esuvius tetricus augustus i (gaul) 	 	 	t. flavius postumius quietus 	junius veldumnianus 	 	imp. caesar c. pius esuvius tetricus augustus ii (gaul) 	 	 	m. claudius tacitus i 	julius placidianus 	 	imp. caesar c. pius esuvius tetricus augustus iii (gaul) 	 	 	imp. caesar l. domitius aurelianus augustus ii 	capitolinus 	 	imp. caesar l. domitius aurelianus augustus iii 	(aurelius?) marcellinus[ ] 	 	imp. caesar m. claudius tacitus augustus ii 	(fulvius?) aemilianus 	 	imp. caesar m. aurelius probus augustus i 	paulinus 	 	imp. caesar m. aurelius probus augustus ii 	virius lupus 	 	imp. caesar m. aurelius probus augustus iii 	nonius paternus ii 	 	(lucius valerius?) messalla 	(vettius?) gratus 	 	imp. caesar m. aurelius probus augustus iv 	junius tiberianus 	 	imp. caesar m. aurelius probus augustus v 	victorinus 	 	imp. caesar m. aurelius carus augustus ii 	imp. caesar m. aurelius carinus augustus i 	 	imp. caesar m. aurelius carinus augustus ii 	imp. caesar m. aurelius numerianus augustus 	suff. 	imp. caesar c. valerius diocletianus augustus i (november–december ) 	(?) l. caesonius ovinius rufinus manilius bassus ii (november–december ) 	 	imp. caesar m. aurelius carinus augustus iii (west) 	t. claudius aurelius aristobulus 	 	imp. caesar c. valerius diocletianus augustus ii (east)[ ] 	 	 	m. junius maximus ii 	vettius aquilinus 	 	imp. caesar c. aurelius valerius diocletianus augustus iii 	imp. caesar m. aurelius valerius maximianus augustus i 	 	imp. caesar m. aurelius valerius maximianus augustus ii 	pomponius januarianus 	suff. 	... a 	... ivianus[ ] 	 	imp. caesar m. aurelius mausaeus carausius ii (britain) 	 	 	m. magrius bassus (january -june)[ ] 	l. ragonius quintianus (january–june) 	suff. 	m. umbrius primus (july–august ) 	t. flavius coelianus (july–august ) 	suff. 	m. ceionius proculus (september–october ) 	helvius clemens (september–october) 	suff. 	flavius decimus (november–december ) 	... ninius maximus (november–december ) 	 	imp. caesar m. aurelius mausaeus carausius iii (britain) 	 	 	imp. caesar c. aurelius valerius diocletianus augustus iv 	imp. caesar m. aurelius valerius maximianus augustus iii 	 	imp. caesar m. aurelius mausaeus carausius iv (britain) 	 	 	c. junius tiberianus ii 	cassius dio 	 	afranius hannibalianus 	julius asclepiodotus 	 	imp. caesar c. aurelius valerius diocletianus augustus v 	imp. caesar m. aurelius valerius maximianus augustus iv 	 	flavius valerius constantius caesar i 	c. galerius valerius maximianus caesar i 	 	nummius tuscus 	c. annius anullinus 	 	imp. caesar c. aurelius valerius diocletianus augustus vi 	flavius valerius constantius caesar ii 	 	imp. caesar m. aurelius valerius maximianus augustus v 	c. galerius valerius maximianus caesar ii 	 	anicius faustus ii 	virius gallus 	 	imp. caesar c. aurelius valerius diocletianus augustus vii 	imp. caesar m. aurelius valerius maximianus augustus vi 	 	flavius valerius constantius caesar iii 	c. galerius valerius maximianus caesar iii th century ( – )[edit] 	year 	consul prior 	consul posterior 	 	t. flavius postumius titianus ii 	virius nepotianus 	 	flavius valerius constantius caesar iv 	c. galerius valerius maximianus caesar iv 	 	imp. caesar c. aurelius valerius diocletianus augustus viii 	imp. caesar m. aurelius valerius maximianus augustus vii 	 	imp. caesar c. aurelius valerius diocletianus augustus ix 	imp. caesar m. aurelius valerius maximianus augustus viii 	 	flavius valerius constantius caesar v 	c. galerius valerius maximianus caesar v 	 	flavius valerius constantius augustus vi 	c. galerius valerius maximianus augustus vi 	 	m. aurelius valerius maximianus augustus ix (west) 	flavius valerius constantinus caesar (west) 	 	flavius valerius severus augustus (east) 	galerius valerius maximinus caesar (east) 	 	c. galerius valerius maximianus augustus vii (rome, january–april) 	galerius valerius maximinus caesar (rome, january–april) 	 	m. aurelius valerius maximianus augustus x (west) 	c. galerius valerius maximianus augustus vii (west) 	 	c. aurelius valerius diocletianus senior augustus x (east) 	c. galerius valerius maximianus augustus vii (east) 	 	m. aurelius valerius maxentius augustus (rome, april–december) 	valerius romulus i (rome, april–december) 	 	valerius licinianus licinius augustus 	flavius valerius constantinus augustus 	 	m. aurelius valerius maxentius augustus ii (rome) 	valerius romulus ii (rome) 	 	tatius andronicus 	pompeius probus 	 	m. aurelius valerius maxentius augustus iii (rome) 	 	 	c. galerius valerius maximianus augustus viii 	galerius valerius maximinus augustus ii 	 	c. caeionius rufius volusianus (rome, from september) 	aradius rufinus (rome, from september) 	 	flavius valerius constantinus augustus ii 	valerius licinianus licinius augustus ii 	 	m. aurelius valerius maxentius augustus iv (rome) 	 	 	flavius valerius constantinus augustus iii 	valerius licinianus licinius augustus iii 	 	galerius valerius maximinus augustus iii (rome, egypt, inter alios) 	 	 	c. caeionius rufius volusianus ii 	petronius annianus 	 	flavius valerius constantinus augustus iv 	valerius licinianus licinius augustus iv 	 	antonius caecina sabinus 	c. vettius cossinius rufinus 	 	ovinius gallicanus 	caesonius bassus (from february) 	 	valerius licinianus licinius augustus v 	flavius julius crispus caesar 	 	flavius valerius constantinus augustus v 	valerius licinianus licinius caesar 	 	flavius valerius constantinus augustus vi 	flavius claudius constantinus caesar 	 	flavius julius crispus caesar ii (west) 	flavius claudius constantinus caesar ii (west) 	 	valerius licinianus licinius augustus vi (east) 	valerius licinianus licinius caesar ii (east) 	 	petronius probianus (west) 	amnius anicius julianus (west) 	 	post consulatum licinii augusti vi et licinii caesaris ii (east) 	 	 	acilius severus (west) 	vettius rufinus (west)[ ] 	 	ii post consulatum licinii augusti vi et licinii caesaris ii (east) 	 	 	flavius julius crispus caesar iii 	flavius claudius constantinus caesar iii 	 	valerius proculus (january–may)[ ] 	sex. anicius paulinus 	suff. 	julius julianus (may–december)[ ] 	 	 	flavius valerius constantinus augustus vii 	flavius julius constantius caesar 	 	flavius constantius 	l. valerius maximus basilius 	 	flavius januarinus 	vettius justus 	 	flavius valerius constantinus augustus viii 	flavius claudius constantinus caesar iv 	 	flavius gallicanus 	aurelius valerius tullianus symmachus 	 	junius annius bassus 	ablabius 	 	lucius papius pacatianus 	maecilius hilarianus 	 	flavius dalmatius 	domitius zenophilus 	 	flavius optatus 	amnius m'. caesonius nicomachus anicius paulinus honorius 	 	julius constantius 	caeionius rufius albinus 	 	virius nepotianus 	tettius facundus 	 	flavius felicianus 	t. fabius titianus 	 	flavius ursus 	flavius polemius 	 	flavius julius constantius augustus ii 	flavius julius constans augustus 	 	septimius acindynus 	l. aradius valerius proculus populonius 	 	antonius marcellinus 	petronius probinus 	 	flavius julius constantius augustus iii 	flavius julius constans augustus ii 	 	m. maecius memmius furius baburius caecilianus placidus 	flavius romulus 	 	domitius leontius (west and east) 	flavius bonosus (west, until april/may) 	 	 	julius sallustius (east, all year. west, after april/may) 	 	flavius amantius 	m. nummius albinus 	 	flavius julius constantius augustus iv 	flavius julius constans augustus iii 	 	vulcacius rufinus 	flavius eusebius 	 	flavius philippus 	flavius salia 	 	ulpius limenius 	fabius aconius catullinus philomathius 	 	flavius sergius 	flavius nigrinianus 	 	flavius magnus magnentius augustus (west) 	gaiso (west) 	 	post consulatum sergii et nigriniani (east) 	 	 	magnus decentius caesar (west) 	paulus (west) 	 	flavius julius constantius augustus v (east) 	flavius claudius constantius caesar i (east) 	 	flavius julius constantius augustus vi 	flavius claudius constantius caesar ii 	 	flavius julius constantius augustus vii 	flavius claudius constantius caesar iii 	 	flavius arbitio 	q. flavius maesius egnatius lollianus mavortius 	 	flavius julius constantius augustus viii 	flavius claudius julianus caesar 	 	flavius julius constantius augustus ix 	flavius claudius julianus caesar ii 	 	censorius datianus 	neratius cerealis 	 	flavius eusebius 	flavius hypatius 	 	flavius julius constantius augustus x 	flavius claudius julianus caesar iii 	 	flavius taurus 	flavius florentius 	 	claudius mamertinus 	flavius nevitta 	 	flavius claudius julianus augustus iv 	flavius sallustius 	 	flavius jovianus augustus 	varronianus 	 	flavius valentinianus augustus 	flavius valens augustus 	 	flavius gratianus 	dagalaifus 	 	flavius lupicinus 	flavius jovinus 	 	flavius valentinianus augustus ii 	flavius valens augustus ii 	 	valentinianus galates 	flavius victor 	 	flavius valentinianus augustus iii 	flavius valens augustus iii 	 	flavius gratianus augustus ii 	sex. claudius petronius probus 	 	domitius modestus 	flavius arinthaeus 	 	flavius valentinianus augustus iv 	flavius valens augustus iv 	 	flavius gratianus augustus iii 	flavius equitius 	 	post consulatum gratiani augusti iii et equiti 	 	 	flavius valens augustus v 	flavius valentinianus iunior augustus i 	 	flavius gratianus augustus iv 	flavius merobaudes i 	 	flavius valens augustus vi 	flavius valentinianus iunior augustus ii 	 	decimius magnus ausonius 	q. clodius hermogenianus olybrius 	 	flavius gratianus augustus v 	flavius theodosius augustus 	 	flavius syagrius 	flavius eucherius 	 	claudius antonius 	afranius syagrius 	 	flavius merobaudes ii 	flavius saturninus 	 	flavius ricomer 	flavius clearchus 	 	flavius arcadius augustus 	flavius bauto 	 	flavius honorius 	flavius euodius 	 	flavius valentinianus iunior augustus iii 	eutropius 	 	flavius merobaudes iii (west, until jan. ) 	flavius theodosius augustus ii 	 	magnus maximus augustus ii (west, from jan. ) 	sine collega 	 	flavius theodosius augustus ii (east) 	maternus cynegius (east) 	 	flavius timasius 	flavius promotus 	 	flavius valentinianus iunior augustus iv 	flavius neoterius 	 	flavius eutolmius tatianus 	q. aurelius symmachus 	 	flavius arcadius augustus ii 	flavius rufinus 	 	flavius theodosius augustus iii (west and east) 	flavius eugenius augustus (west) 	 	 	flavius abundantius (east) 	 	virius nicomachus flavianus (west) 	sine collega 	 	flavius arcadius augustus iii (east) 	flavius honorius augustus ii (east) 	 	anicius hermogenianus olybrius 	anicius probinus roman consuls of east and west ( – )[edit] in , the roman empire was divided into a western roman empire and an eastern roman empire, and thereafter the separate courts each appointed one consul. western consuls continued to be appointed after the fall of the western roman empire in . 	year 	eastern consul 	western consul 	 	flavius arcadius augustus iv 	flavius honorius augustus iii 	 	flavius caesarius 	nonius atticus 	 	flavius eutychianus 	flavius honorius augustus iv 	 	eutropius 	flavius mallius theodorus 	 	aurelianus 	flavius stilicho 	 	flavius vincentius 	flavius fravitta (fravitus) 	 	flavius arcadius augustus v 	flavius honorius augustus v 	 	flavius theodosius augustus i 	flavius rumoridus 	 	aristaenetus 	flavius honorius augustus vi 	 	flavius anthemius 	flavius stilicho ii 	 	flavius arcadius augustus vi 	anicius petronius probus 	 	flavius theodosius augustus ii 	flavius honorius augustus vii 	 	anicius auchenius bassus 	flavius philippus 	 	flavius theodosius augustus iii 	flavius honorius augustus viii 	 	flavius claudius constantinus augustus (britannia/gaul) 	 	 	varanes 	tertullus 	 	flavius theodosius augustus iv 	sine collega 	 	flavius theodosius augustus v 	flavius honorius augustus ix 	 	heraclianus 	flavius lucius 	 	flavius constantius 	flavius constans 	 	flavius theodosius augustus vi 	flavius honorius augustus x 	 	flavius theodosius augustus vii 	junius quartus palladius 	 	flavius honorius augustus xi 	flavius constantius ii 	 	flavius theodosius augustus viii 	flavius honorius augustus xii 	 	flavius monaxius 	flavius plinta 	 	flavius theodosius augustus ix 	flavius constantius iii 	 	flavius eustathius 	flavius agricola 	 	flavius theodosius augustus x 	flavius honorius augustus xiii 	 	flavius asclepiodotus 	flavius avitus marinianus 	 	flavius castinus 	victor 	 	 	johannes augustus (west) 	 	flavius theodosius augustus xi 	placidus valentinianus caesar 	 	flavius theodosius augustus xii 	flavius placidus valentinianus augustus ii 	 	flavius hierius 	flavius ardaburius 	 	flavius taurus 	flavius felix 	 	flavius florentius 	flavius dionysius 	 	flavius theodosius augustus xiii 	flavius placidus valentinianus augustus iii 	 	anicius auchenius bassus 	flavius antiochus 	 	flavius valerius 	flavius aëtius 	 	flavius theodosius augustus xiv 	petronius maximus 	 	flavius ardaburius aspar 	flavius areobindus 	 	flavius theodosius augustus xv 	flavius placidus valentinianus augustus iv 	 	flavius anthemius isidorus 	flavius senator 	 	flavius sigisvultus 	flavius aëtius ii 	 	flavius theodosius augustus xvi 	anicius acilius glabrio faustus 	 	flavius theodosius augustus xvii 	festus 	 	flavius anatolius 	flavius placidus valentinianus augustus v 	 	flavius taurus seleucus cyrus 	sine collega 	 	flavius dioscorus 	flavius eudoxius 	 	flavius paterius 	petronius maximus ii 	 	flavius theodosius augustus xviii 	caecina decius aginatius albinus 	 	flavius nomus 	flavius placidus valentinianus augustus vi 	 	flavius aetius iii (west) 	q. aurelius symmachus 	 	flavius ardaburius iunior 	flavius calepius 	 	flavius zeno 	rufius praetextatus postumianus 	 	flavius astyrius (west) 	flavius flor(entius?) romanus protogenes 	 	gennadius avienus 	flavius placidus valentinianus augustus vii 	 	flavius marcianus augustus vi 	valerius faltonius adelfius 	 	flavius sporacius 	flavius bassus herculanus 	 	flavius rufius opilio 	iohannes vincomalus 	 	flavius aëtius[ ] 	flavius studius (east) 	 	procopius anthemius 	flavius placidus valentinianus augustus viii 	 	eparchius avitus augustus (west) 	sine collega 	 	johannes (east) 	varanes (east) 	 	flavius constantinus 	flavius rufus (east) 	 	flavius leo augustus 	julius valerius majorianus augustus 	 	flavius patricius 	flavius ricimer 	 	flavius magnus 	flavius apollonius 	 	flavius dagalaiphus 	flavius severinus 	 	flavius valerius leo augustus ii 	libius severus augustus 	 	flavius antoninus messala vivianus 	caecina decius basilius 	 	anicius olybrius 	flavius rusticius 	 	flavius hermenericus 	flavius basiliscus 	 	flavius valerius leo augustus iii 	tatianus (gaul) 	 	flavius pusaeus 	flavius johannes (east) 	 	sine collega 	procopius anthemius augustus ii 	 	flavius zeno 	flavius marcianus 	 	messius phoebus severus (west) 	flavius jordanes 	 	flavius valerius novus leo augustus iv 	caelius aconius probianus 	 	rufius postumius festus 	flavius marcianus ii 	 	flavius valerius leo augustus v 	sine collega 	 	flavius leo iunior augustus 	sine collega 	 	flavius zeno augustus ii 	post consulatum leonis iunioris augusti (west) 	 	flavius basiliscus augustus ii 	flavius armatus 	 	post consulatum basilisci augusti ii et armati 	 	 	illus 	sine collega 	 	flavius zeno augustus iii 	sine collega 	 	sine collega 	caecina decius maximus basilius iunior[ ] 	 	sine collega 	rufius achilius maecius placidus 	 	flavius appalius illus trocundes 	severinus iunior 	 	post consulatum trocundis (east) 	anicius acilius aginantius faustus iunior 	 	flavius theodericus 	decius marius venantius basilius 	 	post consulatum theoderici (east) 	q. aurelius memmius symmachus iunior 	 	flavius longinus 	caecina mavortius basilius decius iunior 	 	post consulatum longini (east) 	nar. manlius boëthius 	 	claudius julius ecclesius dynamius 	rufius achilius sividius 	 	flavius eusebius 	petronius probinus 	 	flavius longinus ii 	anicius probus faustus iunior 	 	flavius olybrius iunior 	sine collega 	 	flavius anastasius augustus 	flavius rufus[ ] 	 	flavius eusebius ii 	flavius albinus iunior 	 	flavius turcius rufius apronianus asterius 	flavius praesidius 	 	sine collega 	flavius viator[ ] 	 	flavius paulus 	post consulatum viatoris (west) 	 	flavius anastasius augustus ii 	ii post consulatum viatoris (west) 	 	johannes scytha 	flavius paulinus 	 	flavius johannes qui est gibbus 	post consulatum paulini (west) 	 	flavius patricius 	flavius hypatius 	 	flavius pompeius 	flavius avienus iunior 	 	flavius probus 	rufius magnus faustus avienus iunior 	 	flavius dexicrates[ ] 	flavius volusianus[ ] 	 	sine collega 	rufius petronius nicomachus cethegus 	 	flavius sabinianus 	flavius theodorus 	 	flavius areobindus dagalaiphus areobindus 	flavius ennodius messala 	 	flavius anastasius augustus iii 	venantius iunior 	 	flavius celer 	basilius venantius iunior 	 	sine collega 	flavius inportunus iunior 	 	sine collega 	anicius manlius severinus boëthius iunior 	 	flavius secundinus 	felix 	 	flavius paulus 	flavius moschianus (east) 	 	taurus clementinus armonius clementinus 	flavius probus 	 	magnus aurelius cassiodorus senator 	sine collega 	 	procopius anthemius 	flavius florentius[ ] 	 	sine collega 	flavius petrus 	 	flavius anastasius paulus probus sabinianus pompeius anastasius 	flavius agapitus 	 	flavius anastasius paulus probus moschianus probus magnus 	post consulatum agapiti (west) 	 	flavius justinus augustus 	eutharicus cillica 	 	flavius vitalianus 	flavius rusticius[ ] 	 	flavius petrus sabbatius justinianus 	flavius valerius 	 	flavius symmachus (west) 	flavius boëthius (west) 	 	sine collega 	flavius anicius maximus 	 	flavius justinus augustus ii 	venantius opilio 	 	flavius theodorus philoxenus soterichus philoxenus 	flavius probus iunior 	 	sine collega 	flavius olybrius iunior 	 	sine collega 	vettius agorius basilius mavortius 	 	flavius petrus sabbatius justinianus augustus ii 	post consulatum mavortii (west) 	 	sine collega 	flavius decius iunior; ii post consulatum mavortii (gaul) 	 	flavius lampadius[ ] 	rufius gennadius probus orestes 	 	post consulatum lampadii et orestis 	post consulatum lampadii et orestis 	 	ii post consulatum lampadii et orestis 	ii post consulatum lampadii et orestis 	 	flavius petrus sabbatius justinianus augustus iii 	iii post consulatum lampadii et orestis (west) 	 	flavius petrus sabbatius justinianus augustus iv 	flavius decius paulinus iunior roman consuls of the east alone ( – )[edit] during the reign of justinian i ( – ), the position of consul altered in two significant ways. from , there was no longer a roman consul chosen in the west. in , the separate office of roman consul was abolished.[ ] when used thereafter, the office was with few exceptions used as part of the imperial title. the office was finally abolished as part of the basilika reforms of leo vi the wise in .[ ] 	year 	eastern roman consul 	 [ ] 	flavius belisarius 	 	post consulatum belisarii 	 	ii post consulatum belisarii 	 	flavius marianus michaelius gabrielius archangelius johannes[ ] 	 	flavius strategius apion strategius apion 	 	flavius mar. petrus theodorus valentinus rusticius boraides germanus justinus 	 	anicius faustus albinus basilius iunior 	 	flavius justinus augustus 	 	flavius justinus augustus ii 	 	flavius tiberius constantinus augustus 	 	flavius mauricius tiberius augustus 	 	flavius phocas augustus 	 	flavius heraclius augustus 	 	flavius heraclius novus constantinus augustus 	 	leontius (honorary) 	 	flavius constantinus heraclius augustus 	 	flavius constantinus augustus 	 	theodosius,[ ] paulus[ ] 	 	flavius constantinus augustus 	 	flavius justinianus augustus[ ][ ] 	 	tiberius augustus 	 	philippicus augustus[ ] 	 	anastasius augustus 	 	leo augustus 	 	constantinus augustus 	 	leo augustus 	 	constantinus augustus 	 	nicephorus augustus 	 	leo augustus 	 	michael augustus 	 	theophilus augustus 	 	michael augustus 	 	basilius augustus 	 	leo augustus references[edit] 	^ a b c d e f g "consules", in harper's dictionary of classical antiquities. 	^ a b c d e f g "consul" in a dictionary of greek and roman antiquities. 	^ broughton, the magistrates of the roman republic, vol. i, pp. xi, xii. 	^ "dictator" in harper's dictionary of classical antiquities. 	^ broughton, the magistrates of the roman republic, vol. i, pp. xi, xii, , , , , . 	^ livy, history of rome, iii. ff. 	^ "decemviri" in harper's dictionary of classical antiquities. 	^ a b "tribunus" in harper's dictionary of classical antiquities. 	^ livy, history of rome, vi. , vii. . 	^ broughton, the magistrates of the roman republic, vol. i, pp. – . 	^ anthony grafton and noel swerdlow, "technical chronology and astrological history in varro, censorinus, and others", classical quarterly, n.s. ( ), p.  - 	^ lendering, jona ( ). "varronian chronology". livius.org. 	^ tacitus, historiae, . 	^ the evidence for this is collected in lily ross taylor and t. robert s. broughton, "the order of the two consuls' names in the yearly lists", memoirs of the american academy in rome, ( ), pp. - 	^ taylor, "augustan editing in the capitoline fasti", pp. – . 	^ roger s. bagnall, et alia, consuls of the later roman empire, philological monographs # (atlanta: american philological association, ), pp. - 	^ the fasti for the gallic consuls under postumus are incomplete, with the names of some ordinary consuls known, but not the year they served — see martindale et al., prosopography of the later roman empire ( ), p. . 	^ both livy (ii. . ) and dionysius of halicarnassus (iv. . , iv. . , iv. . ) assign consuls to the first year of the republic; however polybius (iii. . ), a historian considered very reliable and having access to an older tradition, names only brutus and horatius as consuls for this year. various theories have been offered to explain this contradiction. for example, gary forsythe argues that polybius accurately reports the names of the first pair of consuls, while livy and dionysius follow "the later annalistic tradition". (forsythe, a critical history of early rome (berkley: university of california, ), p. ) 	^ these consuls are omitted by livy, likely due to confusion with the consuls of bc 	^ so dionysius of halicarnassus (v. . ) and others. livy (ii. . ), however, names another pair: p. lucretius and p. valerius poplicola. alan samuel explains this difference as lucretius being an error for larcius, due to confusion with poplicola's colleague in and bc. (samuel, greek and roman chronology (muenchen: beck'sche, ), p.  ) 	^ this pair of consuls as well as those of bc are omitted by livy. 	^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf the order of these consuls was reversed in the fasti capitolini after augustus and other patricians falsified the list in order to enhance the prestige of their ancestors (by placing them as consuls prior). cf. taylor, "augustan editing in the capitoline fasti", pp. – . 	^ so the fasti capitolini; both livy and dionysisus of halicarnassus call him simply c. servilius. diodorus siculus (xi. . ) names c. cornelius lentulus as the colleague of mamercus (samuel, greek and roman chronology, p.  ) 	^ both livy and dionysius of halicarnassus omit all mention of this suffect consul. 	^ aulus gellius ( . . ) names a different pair of consuls for this year: menenius agrippa and m. horatius pulvillus. b.w. frier suggests his source may have been the chronica of cornelius nepos, "who is cited three times in this passage". (frier, "licinius macer and the consules suffecti of b. c.", transactions of the american philological association, ( ), p. ) 	^ so dionysius of halicarnassus (ix. . ) and fasti capitolini, which livy admits is an alternative to the man he names as mamercus' colleague, opet. verginius (ii. . ). diodorus siculus (xi. . ) names l. stoudios iulius as mamercus' colleague. (samuel, greek and roman chronology, p.  ) 	^ r. m. ogilvie opens his article on the line containing the consuls for this year with the words "one of the outstanding puzzles of the capitoline fasti." ("the consul of b.c.", hermes, ( ), pp. - ) the fasti capitolini adds a suffect consul with the cognomen carve[tus] or carve[ntanus] for the suffect of this year; livy (iii. . ) names only the consuls l. minucius and c. nautius for this year, as does dionysius of halicarnassus (x. . ; xi. . ); diodorus siculus xi. . gives l. minucius the cognomen karoutianos; the late sources the chronicle pascal and the fasti hydratus both present the cognomen atratinus. based on these contradictory entries, ogilvie notes that it "was the practice of the annalists to collect together whatever material from whatever sources they could and to combine evidence from the tabulae pontificum, inscriptions, monuments and family tradition" and claims to have found here an example of such an interpolation. 	^ diodorus siculus (xii. . ) instead lists the consuls for this year as l. quinctius cincinnatus and m. fabius vibulanus 	^ livy mentions claudius and genucius as being elected consuls, but resigning to allow the decemviri to take office (iii. ); diodorus siculus mentions them only as decemviri (xii. . ). 	^ two different praenomina have been reported for this person: publius and servius. if he was p. sulpicius camerinus cornutus, he would be identical with an officer who fought the volscians in bc under the consuls quinctius and furius; if he was ser. sulpicius camerinus cornutus, he would be identical with the consul of bc; in either case, this decemvir was one of three ambassadors sent to greece to study their laws. (broughton, magistrates of the roman republic, vol. , p. n. , p. and note) 	^ three different praenomina have been reported for this person: spurius, lucius, and titus. if he was t. veturius crassus cicurinus, he would be identical with the consul of bc; if he was c. veturius crassus cicurinus (in old roman cursive, "c", "s" and "l" are similar enough that it is not unreasonable to assume they could be confused), he would be identical with the consul of bc. (broughton, magistrates of the roman republic, vol. , p. n. 	^ his praenomen is not preserved in fasti capitolini, but ancient authors disagree. livy gives "marcus" and later "lucius", diodorus siculus gives "caius", and dionysius of halicarnassus gives "marcus". (broughton, magistrates of the roman republic, vol. , p. n. ) 	^ livy (iv. . ) adds this pair of consuls, based on macer's reading of the libri lintei; however they are not mentioned by diodorus siculus, and according to cicero these two consuls became rome's first pair of censors the following year. as a result modern authorities eliminate the consuls, the consular tribunes, or attempt to fit both into bc. b.w. frier argues that this textual issue "reflects an important historiographic conflict in the late roman republic." (frier, "licinius macer", p. ; this is the thesis of his article.) 	^ livy (iv. . ) records his praenomen as lucius, while diodorus siculus (xii. . ) gives it as titus. 	^ livy (iv. . – ) states gaius julius iullus and lucius verginius tricostus were re-elected consuls, based on the testimony of licinius macer, while admitting valerius antias and aelius tubero both report m. manlius capitolinus and q. sulpicius camerinus praetextatus as consuls. diodorus (xii. . ) includes manlius and sulpicius with ser. cornelius cossus as consular tribunes for the year. broughton: "of the three possibilities listed ... it seems least likely that the consuls of continued in office this year. the second pair of consuls are repeated in the other tradition which reported military tribunes with consular powers." (magistrates of the roman republic, vol. , p. n. ) 	^ cicero (de re publica . ), when referring to the consul of this year, calls him p. papirius while diodorus siculus (xii, . ) calls him c. papirius 	^ diodorus siculus (xii. . ) inserts the pair l. quinctius cincinnatus and a. sempronius atratinus between the consuls of and bc. 	^ so diodorus siculus (xii. . ), whose reading is favored by broughton; livy names this consular tribune naevius rutilius, but in another passage (iv. . ) states all four consular tribunes are patricians, and in a third passage (iv. . ) calls him nautius rutilus. 	^ so broughton (magistrates of the roman republic, vol. , p. ) following degrassi, which is the praenomen livy (iv. . ) gives; the fasti capitolini has "n." which is a much more common praenomen for the gens fabii than gnaeus. this praenomen would also indicate he is identical to the consular tribune of and bc, n. fabius vibulanus. 	^ livy (iv. . ) calls him l. quinctius cincinnatus iii; the fasti capitolini reads [...] cincinnatus ii which would indicate he was t. quinctius pennus cincinnatus ii 	^ so diodorus siculus (xiii. . ); livy has here sp. rutilius crassus cicurinus, but none of the rutilii appear in the fasti for the next years, and neither do they use the praenomen spurius or the cognomen crassus. (broughton, magistrates of the roman republic, vol. , p. n. ) 	^ so livy (iv. . ), following licinius macer who attributed this reading to the libri lintei; fasti derived from the fasti capitolini show it was marcus papirius mugillanus. ogilvie notes that "is the only instance of a papirius being attributed the cognomen atratinus which is common among, if not confined to, the sempronii", and on this basis argues that "the original list of will have been a college of three consular tribunes, papirius, sempronius and nautius". (ogilvie, "consul of bc", pp. f) 	^ livy (iv. . ) instead has gaius fabius ambustus, and treats him as a different person than the consular tribune of , and bc. 	^ livy adds to this college the two censors m. furius camillus and m. postumius albinus regillensis. (broughton, magistrates of the roman republic, vol. p. n. ) 	^ the fasti capitolini is damaged where the cognomen would appear; broughton suggests three identifications: p. cornelius scipio (consular tribune bc), p. cornelius cossos (consular tribune bc) or p. cornelius maluginensis (consular tribune bc). (magistrates of the roman republic, vol. , p. n. ) 	^ livy ( . . ) omits all reference to valerius and cornelius, presenting l. lucretius tricipinus flavus and ser. sulpicius camerinus as the consules ordinaires for the year. 	^ livy ( . . ) calls him m. aemilius mamercinus, indicating he is a different person than the four-time consular tribune of bc forward. 	^ diodorus siculus (xv. . ) states that there were six consular tribunes this year, but livy only lists five; attilio degrassi suggests either l. cornelius or a. manlius for the sixth member of this college; broughton, based on the evidence of the fasti capitolini, suggests a. manlius capitolinus. (broughton, magistrates of the roman republic, vol. , p. n. ) 	^ these are the nine consular tribunes the fasti capitolini lists for this year. livy names only six (omitting c. sulpicius peticus, l. aemilius mamercinus, and ti. papirius crassus), and diodorus siculus eight (omitting l. papirius mugillanus). broughton notes, "clearly fast. cap. has the most seriously interpolated tradition." (magistrates of the roman republic, vol. p. n. ) 	^ a b these two consular tribunes are only known from diodorus siculus (xv. . ). broughton suggests "erenucius" may be a corruption of "genucius" or "minucius". (magistrates of the roman republic, vol. , p. n. ) 	^ a b these two consular tribunes are only known from livy ( . . ) 	^ modern scholarly consensus is that the fasti for the fourth century was discovered to be missing several sets of eponymous magistrates, and explained this gap by stating elections were blocked by these two tribunes. see the discussions of t.j. cornell, the beginnings of rome (london: routeledge, ), pp. - ; and forsythe, critical history of early rome, pp. - 	^ a b the fasti capitolini states c. licinius calvus was consul in bc and c. lincinius stolo in bc; however livy reverses these two. 	^ livy ( . . ) notes that "in some annals" m. popillius laenas appears instead of quinctius. 	^ diodorus siculus (xvi. . ) reports instead the consuls for this year were m. aemilius and t. quinctius. 	^ a b c d the years , , and bc come from the fasti capitolini, but are not evidenced in other authorities, such as livy, diodorus siculus, or cicero. a. drummond has persuasively argued that they are the introduction of the antiquarian titus pomponius atticus (whose work is better known as the varronian chronology, which was adopted by the fasti capitolini) both to fix the synchronization of the battle of allia to bc, and to provide precedent for julius caesar's use of annual dictatorships. "the dictator years", historia: zeitschrift für alte geschichte, ( ), pp.  - 	^ broughton admits that the primary sources -- livy, diodorus siculus, and the lists derived from the fasti capitolini -- "admit of four different identifications for plautius and two for cornelius". plautius may be c. plautius proculus (cos. bc); p. plautius proculus, an otherwise unattested son of the consul; c. plautius decianus (cos. bc); or c. plautius venno/vennox, a brother of the consul of bc. likewise, p. cornelius could be p. cornelius scapula or p. cornelius scipio barbatus. (magistrates of the roman republic, vol.  , p.   n.  ) 	^ livy ( . . - ) would prefer aemilius to aulius, but notes this form is found in some annals, and describes aulius as consul iterum in bc. 	^ livy ( . . ) notes one source instead names as consul l. papirius mugillanus. 	^ so broughton; munzer (de gente valeria , no. and , n. ) identifies this m. valerius maximus with m. valerius maximus corvinus, consul in and bc. for the period - bc the only authorities for this list are late sources such as the "chronography of ", fasti hydratus and the pascal chronicle, which are often corrupt. (magistrates of the roman republic, vol. , p. n. ) 	^ for some reason laevinus and scaevola never entered office, and in their place catulus and philo served as consuls. (broughton, magistrates of the roman republic, vol. , p. ) 	^ killed before taking office. cf. broughton, vol. i, pp. , (note ). 	^ election declared invalid. cf. broughton, vol. i, pp. , (note ). 	^ unless otherwise noted, consuls from bc through bc are taken from thomas robert shannon broughton, the magistrates of the roman republic. philological monograph no. . new york: american philological association, 	^ unless otherwise noted, consuls from bc through bc are taken from ronald syme, the augustan aristocracy (oxford: clarendon press, ), pp. - 	^ metellus died early in bc; vatia was elected to replace him, but vatia died before he could enter office and marcius continued as sole consul. (dio . . ; broughton, magistrates vol. ii p. ) 	^ p. cornelius sulla and p. antonius paetus were elected consuls, but both were convicted of bribery under the calpurnian law. l. aurelius cotta and l. manlius torquatus were their replacements 	^ a b c dates of succession for this year are taken from john bodel, "chronology and succession : notes on some consular lists on stone", zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik, ( ), p. 	^ dates of succession for this year are taken from bodel, "chronology and succession", p. 	^ a b dates of succession for this year are taken from bodel, "chronology and succession", p. 	^ dates of succession for this year are taken from darryl a. phillips, "the conspiracy of egnatius rufus and the election of suffect consuls under augustus", historia: zeitschrift für alte geschichte, ( ), pp. f 	^ aulus terentius varro murena was consul designate for bc, but died before taking office – see swan, michael ( ). "the consular fasti of b.c. and the conspiracy of varro murena". harvard studies in classical philology. harvard university press. : – . doi: . / . jstor  . 	^ augustus was apparently intended to be the other consul ordinarius, but never took office. dates of succession for this year are taken from phillips, "conspiracy of egnatius rufus", p. 	^ dates of succession for this year are taken from phillips, "conspiracy of egnatius rufus", p. 	^ dates of succession for this year are taken from phillips, "conspiracy of egnatius rufus", pp. f 	^ dates of succession for this year are taken from bodel, "chronology and succession", p. 	^ unless otherwise noted, consuls from ad through ad are taken from ronald syme, the augustan aristocracy, (oxford: clarendon press, ), pp. – 	^ the consuls of this year are taken from diana gorostidi pi, "sui consoli dell’anno d.c.: nuovi dati dai fasti consulares tusculani", zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik, ( ), pg – 	^ unless otherwise indicated, the names and dates for the years ad – are taken from alison e. cooley, the cambridge manual of latin epigraphy (cambridge: university press, ), pp. - 	^ cooley indicates no suffect consuls for this year 	^ tacitus, ann., iv, . 	^ der neue pauly, stuttgardiae , t. / , c. 	^ the dates of the consuls in this year is taken from john bodel, "chronology and succession : notes on some consular lists on stone", zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik, ( ), p.  	^ first proposed by hans-georg pflaum, and accepted by ladislaus vidman (fasti ostienses, nd edition, p. ); cooley offers as a possible alternative a. didius gallus although she also puts him in the last nundinium of . 	^ unless otherwise indicated, the names and dates for the years ad – are taken from paul gallivan, "the fasti for the reign of gaius", antichthon, ( ), p. – 	^ unless otherwise indicated, the names and dates for the years ad - are taken from gallivan, "the fasti for the reign of claudius", classical quarterly, ( ), pp. – 	^ m. christol and s. demougin have shown that the colleague of p. suillius rufus is not the governor of britain, but another member of the gens ostoria ("notes de prosopographie équestre", in zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik, ( ), pp. - ). 	^ gallivan's source (gaius institutes, . ) does not indicate which months cornelius held office. 	^ in a re-examination of the primary source, camodeca has shown that the consul "l. s[...]" is a phantom, and it has been removed from this list. ("i consoli del e gli antistii veteres d'età claudia dalla riedizione delle tabulae herculanenses", zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik, ( ), pp. – 	^ camodeca concludes that the former reading, l. oppius, is erroneous, and that the initial is certainly 's', probably followed by 'p', but the name is definitely not sex. this late occurrence of the praenomen indicates that the consul was probably descended from the praetor spurius oppius of bc, and recalls the decemvir spurius oppius cornicen. "i consoli del ", pp. , , . 	^ suffect consuls for july–december gallivan placed in camodeca moved to ("novità sui fasti consolari delle tavolette cerate della campania", publications de l'École française de rome, ( ), p. ) 	^ giuseppe camodeca, "i consoli del e gli antistii veteres d'età claudia dalla riedizione delle tabulae herculanenses", zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik ( ), pp. – . 	^ see camodeca, "novità sui fasti consolari", p. 	^ giuseppe camodeca argues that gallivan mistakenly followed an error by the writer of tabula pompeiana , and combined the two vipstani into one person; other wax tablets dated to that year show the two suffect consuls as separate people. ("novità sui fasti consolari", p. ) 	^ gallivan shows aefulanus held his office in this year, but not which month. 	^ names and dates for and taken from giuseppe camodeca, "i consoli des – e un nuovo collega di seneca nel consolato: p. cornelius dolabella (tp. [= + )*", zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik, ( ), pp. – . 	^ camodeca allocates january–april to vetus, while werner eck, historia, ( ), pp. ff. extends his tenure to june. 	^ unless otherwise indicated, the names and dates for the years - are taken from gallivan, "some comments on the fasti for the reign of nero", classical quarterly, ( ), pp. – 	^ names and dates for taken from eck, "miscellanea prosopographica", zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik, ( ), pp. ff. 	^ george houston points out that this consul had no attested cognomen, and "celsus" was added based on a preliminary reading of a wax table from pompeii, cil iv. . . "p. marius p.f., cos. ord. a.d. ", zpe ( ), pp. – 	^ giuseppe camodeca reads c. junius marullus ("i consoli degli anni di nerone nelle 'tabulae herculanenses'", zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik, ( ), p. ) 	^ camodeca reads p. petronius niger ("i consoli degli anni di nerone", p. ) 	^ gallivan, "reign of nero" followed degrassi in assuming that the ordinary consul for this year was named "a. licinius nerva silianus p. pasidienus firmus", a case of polyonymy. a military diploma published later (ae , ) shows they are two different people. 	^ a b gallivan, "reign of nero", placed appius annius gallus and severus in and marcus annius afrinus and africanus in ; however camodeca published one of the tabulae herculei that shows appius annius gallus and severus were suffect consuls november of an unknown year -- thus proving their office was in . (ae , = bolletino del centro internazionale per lo studio dei papiri ercolanesi, ( ), - ) 	^ names and dates for this year are taken from camodeca, "i consoli degli anni di nerone", p.  	^ names and dates for this year are taken from g. b. townend, "the consuls of a. d. / ", american journal of philology, ( ), pp. – 	^ unless otherwise indicated, the names and dates for the years – are taken from paul gallivan, "the fasti for a. d. – ", classical quarterly, ( ), pp. – 	^ a b gallivan dated m. ulpius traianus (father of trajan) to based on his arrangement of the fragments of tablet e of the fasti ostienses (p. ); however, subsequent recovery of fragments allowed ladislav vidman to date ulpius traianus' tenure to (vidman, fasti ostienses, pp. - ). ae , proves that c. licinius mucianus was suffect consul for that nundinium; redating ulpius traianus is the only change required. 	^ the suffect consuls for september–october are attested in by the fasti septempeda, a primary source. 	^ this pair of suffects added from camodeca, "novità sui fasti consolari", pp. – 	^ gallivan ("fasti for a. d. – ", pp. , ) dated this pair of suffects to december " - "; because camodeca added the consuls for november–december , they are placed here. 	^ all that survives of this suffect's name on the fasti feriarum latinarum (cil vi, ) 	^ ae , restores this as "sex. iulius fr]on[tinus", stating he is attested as suffect consul in june. 	^ grainger, john d. ( ). nerva and the roman succession crisis of ad – . london: routledge. p.  . isbn  . 	^ see syme, "p. calvisius ruso. one person or two?" zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik, ( ), pp. - 	^ gallivan ("fasti for a. d. – ", pp. , ) dated this pair of suffects to " - "; this is the only open office in those two years, so he is placed here. 	^ a b c added from the fasti septempeda (ae , ) 	^ all that survives of this suffect's name on the fasti ostienses (frag. fa) 	^ so gallivan. werner eck suggests instead m. mettius modestus. "epigraphische untersuchungen zu konsuln und senatoren des .- . jh. n. chr.", zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik, ( ), pp. - 	^ cil ix, dates patruinus to this nundinium, and werner eck ("epigraphische untersuchungen zu konsuln und senatoren des .- . jh. n. chr.", zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik, ( ), pp. - ) restores the deleted name as saturninus'. 	^ for the suffect consuls gallivan placed in july/august of this year see list of undated roman consuls and note. 	^ this person is a puzzle. g.b. townend stated he was the son of the suffect consul of and , but that means the older petillius either held the fasces late in life, or had his son very young. gallivan suggests that this may actually be the third consulship of petilius. (gallivan, "the fasti for a. d. – ", p. ) 	^ syme first proposed the identification of this consul with m. raecius gallus ("pliny the procurator", harvard studies in classical philology, ( ), pp. – [p. ]). however, he later concluded that publius glitius gallus "is on every count a better candidate" than raecius ("p. calvisius ruso. one person or two?", zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik, ( ), pp. - [p. ]). 	^ syme raised the possibility that l. valerius catullus messallinus was the second consul ordinarius for this year journal of roman studies, ( ), p.  ), a suggestion shared by h. nesselhauf (gnomon ( ), p. ); however, vidman has found an inscription which is dated a.d. x k. februarias imp. domitiano xi, t. aurelio fulvo it(terum) co(n)sulibus, showing that fulvus was the consul posterior for this year. (fasti ostienses, pp. f) 	^ this pair of suffects taken from eck and pangerl, "neue diplome mit den namen von konsuln und statthaltern", zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik, ( ), pp. f 	^ a b evidence is lacking to determine whether campanus served until april, or an unknown person held the fasces in march and april. 	^ so ae , ; gallivan "bellicus", following cil vi, 	^ or m. tuccius cerialis, a consular mentioned by pliny (epistulae, ii. . ) 	^ names and dates for this year are taken from werner eck, "diplome, konsuln und statthalter: fortschritte und probleme der kaiserzeitlichen prosopographie", chiron, ( ), pp. - . 	^ ae , 	^ unless otherwise noted, the consuls for this year are taken from fausto zevi "i consoli del d. cr. in due framenti gia' editi dei fasti ostienses", listy filologické / folia philologica, ( ), pp. – 	^ all that survives of the consul's name on the fasti ostienses is "..]us", which zevi had plausibly restored as lucius licinius sura. however, two more recently recovered fragments of military diplomas show that the name of this consul is l. pomponius maternus, who is otherwise unknown. (eck and pangerl, "zwei konstitutionen für die truppen niedermösiens vom . september ", zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik, ( ), pp. - 	^ so zevi; cooley offers no colleague for tacitus. peter weiss has argued, based on more recently recovered evidence, that scapula could have been suffect consul in september–october , or even later. (weiss, "weitere diplomfragmente von moesia inferior", zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik, ( ), pp. - 	^ unless otherwise indicated, the names and dates for the years - are taken from cooley, cambridge manual of latin epigraphy, pp. f 	^ this pair of suffects added from vidman (fasti ostienses, p. ), following syme's suggestion (review of degrassi, i fasti consolari dell' impero romano dal av anti christo al dopo christo in journal of roman studies, ( ), p. ) 	^ placed in this year by mommsen. 	^ unless otherwise indicated, the names and dates for the years through are taken from cooley, cambridge manual of latin epigraphy, pp. f 	^ added from werner eck, "jahres- und provinzialfastern der senatorischen statthalter von / bis / ", chiron, ( ), p. n. 	^ added from ae , 	^ as proposed by syme, "people in pliny", journal of roman studies, ( ), pp. f 	^ it is uncertain which ordinary consul acilius rufus replaced. 	^ fasti ostiensis reads ...] rufu[s]; attilo degrassi and vidman restore this name as "l. acilius rufus", while ronald syme restores it as "m. acilius rufus" (syme, "superior suffect consuls", zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik, ( ), pp. - ) 	^ this pair of consuls added from ae , 	^ added from evgeni i. paunov and margaret m. roxan, "the earliest extant diploma of thrace, ad (=rmd i )", zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik, ( ), pp. – . 	^ the praenomen marcus is attested by an inscription dated september. (ae , ) 	^ unless otherwise indicated, the names and dates for the years and are taken from werner eck, "konsuln des jahres in militärdiplomen traians mit tribunicia potestas xx", zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik, ( ), pp. – 	^ all that survives of the name on the fasti ostienses. suggested restorations include q. cornelius senecio annainus (favored by cooley) and q. coelius honoratus. (vidman fasti ostienses, nd edition, p. ) 	^ a b the names and dates for this year are taken from cooley, cambridge manual of latin epigraphy, p. 	^ the names and dates for this year are taken from werner eck and andreas pangerl, "neue diplome mit den namen von konsuln und statthaltern," zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik, ( ), p. 	^ the names and dates for and are taken from werner eck and andreas pangerl, "ein consul suffectus q. aburnius in drei fragmentarischen diplomen", zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik, ( ), pp. – 	^ w. eck, a. pangerl,"neue diplome aus der zeit hadrians für die beiden mösischen provinzen", zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik, ( ), pp. - 	^ the names and dates for this year are taken from eck and pangerl, "neue diplome," pp. f 	^ unless otherwise indicated, the names and dates for the years through are taken from cooley, cambridge manual of latin epigraphy, pp. f 	^ werner eck and andreas pangerl had previously reconstructed the gentilium of this otherwise unknown person as "accena", but a more recently discovered military diploma proved this is his correct name. eck and pangerl, "eine konstitution für das herr von moesia inferior vom . juni in fünf diplomen", zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik, ( ), pp. – 	^ all that survives from the fasti ostienses is the praenomen; vidman suggests this restoration (vidman, fasti ostienses, p. ) 	^ all that survives from the fasti ostienses is the praenomen; cooley suggests this restoration. 	^ unless otherwise noted, the names and dates for the consuls from to are taken from werner eck, paul holder and andreas pangerl, "a diploma for the army of britain in and hadrian's return to rome from the east", zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik, ( ), p. . the structure of the nundinia presented for those years is also used here. 	^ unless otherwise indicated, the names and dates for the years and are taken from cooley, cambridge manual of latin epigraphy, p. 	^ unless otherwise noted, consuls from to are taken from werner eck, "die fasti consulares der regungszeit des antoninus pius, eine bestandsaufnahme seit géza alföldys konsulat und senatorenstand" in studia epigraphica in memoriam géza alföldy, hg. w. eck, b. feher, and p. kovács (bonn, ), pp. – 	^ a b werner eck and peter weiß have shown a fragment of a military diploma proves that the suffect consuls previously allocated to are correctly placed in . "tusidius campester, cos. suff. unter antoninus pius, und die fasti ostienses der jahrec / n. chr.", zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik, ( ), pp. - 	^ so eck ("die fasti consulares", p. ) and james h. oliver ("the solonian constitution and a consul of a.d. ", greek, roman and byzantine studies, ( ), pp. - ) separately. alföldy identifies this consul with servius cornelius scipio salvidienus orfitus, proconsul of africa / (konsulat und senatorenstand, p. ) 	^ ae , , as restored by alföldy; eck accepts this restoration. 	^ thus ronald syme and alföldy. fasti ostiensis reads ...]imus; attilo degrassi reads "c. julius maximus". (eck, "die fasti consulares", p. ) 	^ fasti ostiensis reads [...]cus; eck restores the name as the legate of legio iii (eck, "die fasti consulares", p. ) 	^ all that survives from the fasti ostienses is the praenomen; eck accepts this restoration by alföldy. 	^ identified by alföldy as m. gavius appalius maximus. (eck, "die fasti consulares", p. n. ) 	^ the son of the son of the suffect consul of . (eck, "die fasti consulares", p. ) 	^ or q. virius larcius sulpicius, both suggested by eck. the inscription these suggestions are based on, igr iii reads q. v[...]sv[...]clus. (eck, "die fasti consulares", p. ) 	^ eck suggests that he may be identical to c. septimus severus, proconsul of africa. 	^ all that survives of this suffect's name on the diploma cil xvi, 	^ ladislav vidman, "ein neuer konsul des jahres ", listy filologické / folia philologica, ( ), pp. – 	^ unless otherwise noted, consuls from to are taken from géza alföldy, konsulat und senatorenstand unter der antoninen (bonn: rudolf habelt verlag, ), pp. - 	^ w. eck, a. pangerl, "eine neue bürgerrechtskonstitution für die truppen von pannonia inferior aus dem jahr mit einem neuen konsulnpaar", zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik, ( ), pp. - 	^ p. a. holder, roman military diplomas v, ( ), p. 	^ c. römer, "diplom für einen fußsoldaten aus koptos vom . märz ", zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik, ( ), pp. – 	^ ioan piso and doina benea, "das militärdiplom von drobeta", zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik, ( ), pp. ff 	^ unless otherwise noted, consuls from to are taken from paul m. m. leunissen, konsuln und konsulare in der zeit von commodus bis severus alexander, (amsterdam: verlag gieben, ), pp. - 	^ david stone potter, the roman empire at bay, ad – ( ), pg. 	^ cil vi, reads ..]vo or (nominative) ...]vus for rufus' colleague. this is the most frequent restoration. 	^ leunissen disagrees with dessau, groag, and barbieri that the gentilium of this suffect consul could be atulenus. (leunissen, konsuln und konsulare, p. n. ) 	^ the suffects for this year are taken from peter weiß, "konstitutionen eines toten kaisers: militärdiplome von commodus aus dem jahr n. chr.", pharos studien zur griechisch-römischen antike. verlag marie leidorf gmbh, rahden . verlag marie leidorf gmbh, rahden , pp. – . 	^ fabius cilo was possibly a colleague of silius messalla. peter weiß, p. . 	^ the sources disagree on his praenomen: cil xiii, attests "l.", while cil viii, attests "c." 	^ suffectus in absentia. it is uncertain which consul he replaced. (leunissen, konsuln und konsulare, p. and note) 	^ this pair of suffect consuls taken from werner eck, "prosopographische bemerkungen zum militärdiplom vom . . n. chr. der flottenpräfekt aemilius sullectinus und das gentilnomen des usurpators regalianus", zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik, ( ), pp.  – . 	^ added from leunissen, p. 	^ this pair is attested in m. m. roxan, roman military diplomas, : – ( ), no. 	^ his praenomen was confirmed by askold ivantchik, oleg pogorelets and rostislav savvov, "a new roman military diploma from the territory of the ukraine", zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik, ( ), pp. - 	^ andreas krieckhaus, "vater und sohn. bemerkungen zu den severischen consules ordinarii m. munatius sulla cerialis und m. munatius sulla urbanus", zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik, ( ), pp. - 	^ unless otherwise noted, consuls from to are taken from alan e. samuel, greek and roman chronology (münchen: beck'sch, ), pp. f 	^ cognomen restored from rmd- , 	^ olivier hekster, nicholas zair, rome and its empire, ad – ( ), pg. 	^ bowman, alan k. the cambridge ancient history: the crisis of empire, ad. – , pg. 	^ diocletian assumed the ordinary consulship in the east in opposition to carinus in rome – see bagnall, consuls of the later roman empire ( ), pg. 	^ from the fasti caleni, as published in bagnall, roger s., et al., consuls of the later roman empire ( ), p. 	^ from the fasti caleni, as published in bagnall, roger s., et al., consuls of the later roman empire ( ), pp. – 	^ potentially related to vettius rufinus, consul of ad, see discussion in bagnall, roger s., et al., consuls of the later roman empire ( ), p. 	^ proculus seems to have fallen into disgrace and iulianus appointed for him, see t. d. barnes, in zpe ( ), p. and t. d. barnes, the new empire of diocletian and constantine, p. . proculus could be identical with the proc. africae in / ad, see bagnall, roger s., et al., consuls of the later roman empire ( ), p. . 	^ following p.stras . and p.stras . the first name could be ionius instead of julius, see discussion in bagnall, roger s., et al., consuls of the later roman empire ( ), p. f. 	^ this aëtius was not the general of the western empire, but comes domesticorum of the eastern court. bagnall, roger s.; cameron, alan; schwartz, seth r.; worp, klaas a. consuls of the later roman empire. philological monographs # . american philological association, , p. 	^ "the first consul designated by a barbarian king" according to bagnall, roger s.; cameron, alan; schwartz, seth r.; worp, klaas a. ( ). consuls of the later roman empire. philological monographs # . american philological association. p.  . isbn  - - -x. 	^ both consuls were easterners – see bagnall, roger s.; cameron, alan; schwartz, seth r.; worp, klaas a. ( ). consuls of the later roman empire. philological monographs # . american philological association. p.  . isbn  - - -x. 	^ '[p]resumably a westerner' – bagnall, roger s.; cameron, alan; schwartz, seth r.; worp, klaas a. ( ). consuls of the later roman empire. philological monographs # . american philological association. p.  . isbn  - - -x. 	^ a b c d e otherwise unknown 	^ vasiliev ( ), p. i . 	^ timothy gregory, a history of byzantium, (oxford: blackwell publishing, ), p. 	^ unless otherwise noted, consuls from through are taken from attilio degrassi, i fasti consolari dell'impero romano dal avanti cristo al dopo cristo (rome, ), pp. - 	^ latin-greek inscription (ae , ) 	^ a b chapman, john. buehler, joe (ed.). "catholic encyclopedia: maxiums of constantinople, saint". eternal word television network. 	^ bede ( ). halsall, paul (ed.). "bede ( – ): ecclesiastical history of the english nation, book v: chapter vii". medieval sourcebook. archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - . 	^ justinian ii adopted the title of consul for all the julian years of his reign, consecutively numbered. 	^ thompson, margaret ( ). "the american excavations in the athenian agora: eighteenth report (jul. – sep., ): some unpublished bronze money of the early eighth century". hesperia. ( ): – . doi: . / . jstor  . further reading[edit] primary sources[edit] 	baiterus, georgius ( ). "consulares triumphalesque romanorum ad fidem optimorum auctorum". in von orelli, johann caspar (ed.). m. tullii ciceronis opera quae supersunt omnia, ac deperditorum (in latin). volume . turici: typis orelli, fuesslini et sociorum. 	b. bargaglia and c. grosso, i fasti ostienses, itinerari ostiensi ( ). 	attilio degrassi. fasti capitolini. n.p.: g. b. paravia, 	an english translation of one version of this primary source can be found on attalus.org 	mommsen, theodor; pearse, roger, eds. ( ) [ ]. "part : list (fasti) of the consuls to ad". chronography of . the tertullian project. 	ladislav vidman (ed.), fasti ostienses. first edition: praha: Československá akademie věd, . second edition: 	praha: academia, 	richard w. burgess, "'non duo antonini sed duo augusti' the consuls of and the origins and traditions of the latin consular fasti of the roman empire", zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik, ( ), pp.  – secondary sources[edit] 	alföldy, géza ( ). konsulat und senatorenstand unter den antoninen (in german). bonn: habelt verlag. 	bagnall, roger s.; cameron, alan; schwartz, seth r.; worp, klaas a. ( ). consuls of the later roman empire. philological monographs # . american philological association. isbn  - - -x. 	broughton, thomas robert shannon; patterson, marcia l. (collaborator) ( ). the magistrates of the roman republic. philological monograph no. . american philological association. isbn  - - - . 	camodeca, giuseppe ( ). "i consoli des – e un nuovo collega di seneca nel consolato: p. cornelius dolabella (tp. [= + )*". zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik (in italian). : – . 	camodeca, giuseppe ( ). "epigrafia. actes du colloque international d'epigraphie latine en mémoire de attilio degrassi etc". collection de l’ecole française de rome (in italian). rome: – . cite journal requires |journal= (help); |contribution= ignored (help) 	degrassi, attilio ( ). i fasti consolari dell'impero romano dal avanti cristo al dopo cristo (in italian). roma. 	eck, werner ( ). senatoren von vespasian bis hadrian (in german). münchen: beck. 	eck, werner ( ). "ergänzungen zu den fasti consulares des . und . jh.n.chr". historia (in german). : – . 	gallivan, paul a. ( ). "some comments on the fasti for the reign of nero". classical quarterly. new series. ( ): – . doi: . /s . 	gallivan, paul a. ( ). "the fasti for the reign of claudius". classical quarterly. ( ): – . doi: . /s . 	ginsburg, judith r. ( ). "nero's consular policy". american journal of ancient history. ( ): – . 	leunissen, paul ( ). konsuln und konsulare in der zeit von commodus bis severus alexander (in german). amsterdam: verlag gieben. 	mennen, inge ( ). power and status in the roman empire, ad – . brill. 	peck, harry thurston, ed. ( ). "consules". harper's dictionary of classical literature and antiquities (second ed.). p.  . 	smith, william, ed. ( ). "consul". a dictionary of greek and roman antiquities (second ed.). boston: little, brown, and company. pp.  – . 	smith, william; anthon, charles, eds. ( ). "fasti consulares". a dictionary of greek and roman antiquities (third american carefully revised ed.). new york: harper & brothers, publishers. pp.  – . 	tortoriello, annalisa ( ). i fasti consolari degli anni di claudio (in italian). roma: accademia nazionale dei lincei. external links[edit] 	livius.org: varronian chronology 	 	v 	t 	e ancient rome topics 	 	outline 	timeline 	history	 	 	foundation 	kingdom 	overthrow 	republic 	empire	 	history 	pax romana 	principate 	dominate 	western empire 	fall 	historiography of the fall 	byzantine empire 	decline 	fall 	constitution	 	history 	kingdom 	republic 	empire 	late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	curiate 	centuriate 	tribal 	plebeian 	executive magistrates 	spqr 	law	 	twelve tables 	mos maiorum 	citizenship 	auctoritas 	imperium 	status 	litigation 	government	 	curia 	forum 	cursus honorum 	collegiality 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	prefect 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps 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using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 zosimus - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	zosimus 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		byzantine historian for other uses, see zosimus (disambiguation). 	 	this article needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. find sources: "zosimus" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · jstor (december ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) zosimus (greek: Ζώσιμος [ˈzosimos]; also known by the latin name zosimus historicus, i.e. "zosimus the historian"; fl. s– s) was a greek historian who lived in constantinople during the reign of the eastern roman emperor anastasius i ( – ). according to photius, he was a comes, and held the office of "advocate" of the imperial treasury.[ ] zosimus was also known for condemning constantine’s rejection of the traditional polytheistic religion. contents 	 historia nova 	 editions 	 references 	 external links historia nova[edit] zosimus' historia nova (Ἱστορία Νέα, "new history") is written in greek in six books. for the period from to , he apparently uses dexippus; for the period from to , eunapius; and after , olympiodorus. his dependence upon his sources is made clear by the change in tone and style between the eunapian and olympiodoran sections, and by the gap left in between them. in the eunapian section, for example, he is pessimistic and critical of stilicho; in the olympiodoran section, he offers precise figures and transliterations from the latin, and favors stilicho.[ ] the first book sketches briefly the history of the early roman emperors from augustus to diocletian ( ); the second, third and fourth deal more fully with the period from the accession of constantius chlorus and galerius to the death of theodosius i;[ ] the fifth and sixth cover the period between and , when priscus attalus was deposed; for this period, he is the most important surviving non-ecclesiastical source. the work, which breaks off abruptly in the summer of at the beginning of the sixth book, is believed to have been written in – . the style is characterized by photius as concise, clear and pure.[ ] the historian's object was to account for the decline of the roman empire from the pagan point of view. zosimus is the only non-christian source for much of what he reports. in contrast to polybius, who had narrated the rise of the roman empire, zosimus documented the events and causes which led to its decline.[ ] though the decline of the roman empire was zosimus' primary subject, he also discussed events connected with persian, and greek history, perhaps in imitation of polybius. it is clear that photius and evagrius did not have any more of zosimus' work than what survives today. yet it is likely that either a part of the work has been lost or, more likely, that zosimus did not live to finish it; for it does not cover all the areas that zosimus himself tells us he intended to discuss.[ ] there does not seem much probability in the conjecture that the monks and other ecclesiastics succeeded in suppressing that portion of the work in which the evil influences of their body were to be more especially touched upon.[ ] if the work was thus left incomplete, that circumstance would account for some carelessness of style which is here and there apparent. there may appear some difficulty at first sight, however, in the statement of photius, that the work, in the form in which he saw it, appeared to him to be a second edition. but it would seem that photius was under some misapprehension. it is called in the manuscripts historia nova (in what sense is not quite clear). this may perhaps have misled photius. he himself remarks that he had not seen the first edition. zosimus was a pagan, and is by no means sparing of the faults and crimes of the christian emperors. in consequence of this his credibility has been fiercely assailed by several christian writers, and has been sometimes defended merely because his history tended to the discredit of many leading persons in the christian party. the question does not, as has sometimes been supposed, turn upon the credibility of the historians whom zosimus followed, for he did not adhere in all cases to their judgment with respect to events and characters. for instance, although zosimus followed eunapius for the period – , he entirely differed from eunapius in his account of stilicho and serena. of modern writers, caesar baronius, lelio bisciola, kaspar von barth, johann daniel ritter, richard bentley, and g. e. m. de ste. croix, have taken the derogatory side. bentley in particular speaks of zosimus with great contempt.[ ] on the other hand, his historical authority has been maintained by leunclavius, g. b. von schirach, j. matth. schrockh, and reitemeier. editions[edit] the history of zosimus was first printed in the latin translation of leunclavius, accompanied by a defence of the historian (basel, , fol.). the first two books, in greek, with the translation of leunclavius, were printed by h. stephanus, in his edition of herodian (paris, ). the first complete edition of the greek text of zosimus was that by f. sylburg (scriptores hist. rom. min., vol. iii., frankfurt, ). later editions are those published at oxford ( ), at zeitz and jena, edited by cellarius, with annotations of his own and others ( , , ). the next edition is that by reitemeier, who, though he consulted no fresh manuscripts, made good use of the critical remarks of heyne and other scholars (leipzig, ). bekker produced a reliable edition in at bonn. there is a german translation by seybold and heyler, and also an english and a french translation. (schöll, gesch. d. griech. lit. vol. iii, p.   ; fabric. bibl. graec. vol. viii. p.  .) the single good manuscript, in the vatican library (ms vat. gr. ), was unavailable to scholars until the mid- th century, although it lacks the conclusion of the first book and the beginning of the second. ludwig mendelssohn (leipzig ) edited the first dependable text. the modern standard edition is f. paschoud zosime: histoire nouvelle (paris ) which has a french translation, introduction and commentary. a later edition in english, zosimus: new history a translation with commentary by ronald t. ridley, was published in by the australian association of byzantine studies. references[edit] 	^ a b c  one or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "zosimus (historian)". encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. p.  . 	^ sorek, susan ( ). ancient historians: a student handbook. a&c black. p.  . isbn  . 	^ i. 	^ iv. . § , , i. . § , iv. . § 	^ v. . § ; harles. ad fabr. vol. viii. p.  ; comp. voss. de hist. gr. p.  [clarification needed] 	^ bentley, remarks upon a late discourse of freethinking, part. ii. p.  external links[edit] 		wikisource has original text related to this article: zosimus 	greek text with latin translation on google books 	raw ocr greek text of mendelssohn's teubner edition of the historia nova (from the lace collection at mount allison university) 	greek text from the first one-thousand years of greek project 	the manuscripts of the historia nova 	translation of the historia nova (published in ), book , book , book , book , book , book 	"zosimus" . catholic encyclopedia. . 	the chinese translation of zosimi historia nova 	jona lendering (livius.org) on zosimus 		v 	t 	e byzantine historians 	 th century	 	annianus of alexandria 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biography[edit] he displayed an early affinity for drawing and received his first art lessons from his father, who was a decorative painter.[ ] at the age of sixteen, when his father died, he packed his bags and went to saint petersburg, hoping to enter the imperial academy of arts. after failing to gain admission, he became an apprentice in the workshop of evstafy bernardsky [ru], a well known woodcutter. his talent drew the attention of the sculptor pyotr clodt, who arranged for him to audit classes at the academy.[ ] in , he was able to become a regular student, and worked with alexey markov.[ ] he graduated in and was awarded a stipend to study in italy for his graduation painting, the mother of god. the following year, he settled in rome and established his own studio on via vittoria, near the villa borghese. he painted a wide variety of canvases, including landscapes, village scenes, genre scenes, historical works and, of course, portraits of the city's notable citizens. his health was poor, so he remained there after his stipend expired, to take advantage of the warm climate. he paid a long visit home from to .[ ] while there, the academy awarded him a professorship in history painting for his depiction of horace reading his satires to gaius maecenas.[ ] he also came into contact with a group of dissident artists who would later be known as the peredvizhniki; which inspired him to paint a series of genre works on peasant life. later, he became a member of the group and regularly sent paintings from italy to show in their exhibitions.[ ] he was awarded the order of st. anna as well as being named an academician and an honorary member of the academy. during this period he created one of his best known works: the cursed field ( ), an indictment of slavery. he died near rome and was buried in the protestant cemetery. despite having lived in italy for most of his life, he left over paintings and drawings and the equivalent of rubles to establish an art school 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	whispering gallery 	 	category 	 architecture portal 		v 	t 	e domes were a characteristic element of the architecture of ancient rome and of its medieval continuation, the byzantine empire. they had widespread influence on contemporary and later styles, from russian and ottoman architecture to the italian renaissance and modern revivals. the domes were customarily hemispherical, although octagonal and segmented shapes are also known, and they developed in form, use, and structure over the centuries. early examples rested directly on the rotunda walls of round rooms and featured a central oculus for ventilation and light. pendentives became common in the byzantine period, provided support for domes over square spaces. early wooden domes are known only from a literary source, but the use of wooden formwork, concrete, and unskilled labor enabled domes of monumental size in the late republic and early imperial period, such as the so-called "temple of mercury" bath hall at baiae. nero introduced the dome into roman palace architecture in the st century and such rooms served as state banqueting halls, audience rooms, or throne rooms. the pantheon's dome, the largest and most famous example, was built of concrete in the nd century and may have served as an audience hall for hadrian. imperial mausolea, such as the mausoleum of diocletian, were domed beginning in the rd century. some smaller domes were built with a technique of using ceramic tubes in place of a wooden centering for concrete, or as a permanent structure embedded in the concrete, but light brick became the preferred building material over the course of the th and th centuries. brick ribs allowed for a thinner structure and facilitated the use of windows in the supporting walls, replacing the need for an oculus as a light source. christian baptisteries and shrines were domed in the th century, such as the lateran baptistery and the likely wooden dome over the church of the holy sepulchre. constantine's octagonal church in antioch may have been a precedent for similar buildings for centuries afterward. the first domed basilica may have been built in the th century, with a church in southern turkey being the earliest proposed example, but the th century architecture of justinian made domed church architecture standard throughout the roman east. his hagia sophia and church of the holy apostles inspired copies in later centuries. cruciform churches with domes at their crossings, such as the churches of hagia sophia in thessaloniki and st. nicholas at myra, were typical of th and th century architecture and bracing a dome with barrel vaults on four sides became the standard structural system. domes over windowed drums of cylindrical or polygonal shape were standard after the th century. in the empire's later period, smaller churches were built with smaller diameter domes, normally less than meters (  ft) after the th century. exceptions include the th century domed-octagons of hosios loukas and nea moni, and the th century chora church, among others. the cross-in-square plan, with a single dome at the crossing or five domes in a quincunx pattern, as at the church of st. panteleimon, was the most popular type from the th century until the fall of constantinople in . contents 	 overview 	 history 	 . late republic and early imperial period 	 . first century 	 . second century 	 . third century 	 . fourth century 	 . fifth century 	 . sixth century 	 . seventh and eighth centuries 	 . ninth century 	 . tenth century 	 . eleventh century 	 . twelfth century 	 . thirteenth century 	 . fourteenth and fifteenth centuries 	 influence 	 . armenia 	 . the balkans 	 . the rus 	 . romanesque europe 	 . orthodox europe 	 . italian renaissance 	 . ottoman empire 	 . modern revival 	 see also 	 references 	 . citations 	 . sources overview[edit] rounded arches, vaults, and domes distinguish roman architecture from that of ancient greece and were facilitated by the use of concrete and brick.[ ] by varying the weight of the aggregate material in the concrete, the weight of the concrete could be altered, allowing lighter layers to be laid at the top of concrete domes. but concrete domes also required expensive wooden formwork, also called shuttering, to be built and kept in place during the curing process, which would usually have to be destroyed to be removed. formwork for brick domes need not be kept in place as long and could be more easily reused.[ ] the mortar and aggregate of roman concrete was built up in horizontal layers laid by hand against wooden form-work with the thickness of the layers determined by the length of the workday, rather than being poured into a mold as concrete is today. roman concrete domes were thus built similarly to the earlier corbel domes of the mediterranean region, although they have different structural characteristics.[ ][ ] the aggregate used by the romans was often rubble, but lightweight aggregate in the upper levels served to reduce stresses.[ ] empty "vases and jugs" could be hidden inside to reduce weight.[ ] the dry concrete mixtures used by the romans were compacted with rams to eliminate voids, and added animal blood acted as a water reducer.[ ] because roman concrete was weak in tension, it did not provide any structural advantage over the use of brick or stone. but, because it could be constructed with unskilled slave labor, it provided a constructional advantage and facilitated the building of large-scale domes.[ ] roman domes were used in baths, villas, palaces, and tombs. oculi were common features.[ ] they were customarily hemispherical in shape and partially or totally concealed on the exterior. in order to buttress the horizontal thrusts of a large hemispherical masonry dome, the supporting walls were built up beyond the base to at least the haunches of the dome and the dome was then also sometimes covered with a conical or polygonal roof.[ ] a variety of other shapes, including shallow saucer domes, segmental domes, and ribbed domes were also sometimes used.[ ] the audience halls of many imperial palaces were domed.[ ] domes were also very common over polygonal garden pavilions.[ ] domes were "closely associated with senatorial, imperial, and state-sponsored patrons" and proliferated in the capital cities and other cities with imperial affiliations.[ ] construction and development of domes declined in the west with the decline and fall of the western portion of the empire.[ ] in byzantine architecture, a supporting structure of four arches with pendentives between them allowed the spaces below domes to be opened up. pendentives allowed for weight loads to be concentrated at just four points on a more practical square plan, rather than a circle.[ ] until the th century, domes were low with thick buttressing and did not project much into the exterior of their buildings. drums were cylindrical when used and likewise low and thick. after the th century, domes were built higher and used polygonal drums decorated with engaged columns and arcades. exterior dome decoration was more elaborate by the th century and included engaged columns along with niches, blind arcades, and string courses. multiple domes on a single building were normal.[ ] domes were important elements of baptisteries, churches, and tombs.[ ] they were normally hemispherical and had, with occasional exceptions, windowed drums. roofing for domes ranged from simple ceramic tile to more expensive, more durable, and more form-fitting lead sheeting.[ ] the domes and drums typically incorporated wooden tension rings at several levels to resist deformation in the mortar and allow for faster construction. metal clamps between stone cornice blocks, metal tie rods, and metal chains were also used to stabilize domed buildings.[ ] timber belts at the bases of domes helped to stabilize the walls below them during earthquakes, but the domes themselves remained vulnerable to collapse.[ ] the surviving ribbed or pumpkin dome examples in constantinople are structurally equivalent and those techniques were used interchangeably, with the number of divisions corresponding to the number of windows. aided by the small scale of churches after the th century, such ribbed domes could be built with formwork only for the ribs. pumpkin domes could have been built in self-supporting rings and small domical vaults were effectively corbelled, dispensing with formwork altogether.[ ] the circular oculus of the pantheon, at the center of the domed ceiling the dome of santa costanza is concealed externally by the buttressing of its cylindrical drum a dome of the former pantokrator monastery, showing an exposed external profile and lead roofing a dome at chora church, with ribs from between the drum windows converging on a circular fresco image history[edit] late republic and early imperial period[edit] roman baths played a leading role in the development of domed construction in general, and monumental domes in particular. modest domes in baths dating from the nd and st centuries bc are seen in pompeii, in the cold rooms of the terme stabiane and the terme del foro.[ ][ ] these domes are very conical in shape, similar to those on an assyrian bas-relief found in nineveh.[ ][ ] at a roman era tepidarium in cabrera de mar, spain, a dome has been identified from the middle of the nd century bc that used a refined version of the parallel arch construction found in an earlier hellenistic bath dome in sicily.[ ] according to vitruvius, the temperature and humidity of domed warm rooms could be regulated by raising or lowering bronze discs located under an oculus.[ ] domes were particularly well suited to the hot rooms of baths circular in plan to facilitate even heating from the walls. however, the extensive use of domes did not occur before the st century ad.[ ] varro's book on agriculture describes an aviary with a wooden dome decorated with the eight winds that is compared by analogy to the eight winds depicted on the tower of the winds, which was built in athens at about the same time. this aviary with its wooden dome may represent a fully developed type. wooden domes in general would have allowed for very wide spans. their earlier use may have inspired the development and introduction of large stone domes of previously unprecedented size.[ ] complex wooden forms were necessary for dome centering and support during construction, and they seem to have eventually become more efficient and standardized over time.[ ] flooded ruins of the so-called "temple of mercury" in baiae domes reached monumental size in the roman imperial period.[ ] although imprints of the formwork itself have not survived, deformations from the ideal of up to centimeters ( .  in) at the so-called "temple of mercury" in baiae suggest a centering of eight radiating frames, with horizontal connectors supporting radial formwork for the shallow dome.[ ] the building, actually a concrete bath hall dating from the age of augustus ( bc – ad), has the first known large roman dome. there are five openings in the dome: a circular oculus and four square skylights.[ ] the dome has a span of . meters (  ft) and is the largest known dome built before that of the pantheon.[ ] it is also the earliest preserved concrete dome.[ ] first century[edit] while there are earlier examples in the republican period and early imperial period, the growth of domed construction increased under emperor nero and the flavians in the st century ad, and during the nd century. centrally planned halls become increasingly important parts of palace and palace villa layouts beginning in the st century, serving as state banqueting halls, audience rooms, or throne rooms.[ ] formwork was arranged either horizontally or radially, but there is not enough surviving evidence from the st and nd centuries to say what was typical.[ ] the octagonal domed hall found in nero's domus aurea the opulent palace architecture of the emperor nero ( –  ad) marks an important development.[ ] there is evidence of a dome in his domus transitoria at the intersection of two corridors, resting on four large piers, which may have had an oculus at the center. in nero's domus aurea, or "golden house", planned by severus and celer, the walls of a large octagonal room transition to an octagonal domical vault, which then transitions to a dome with an oculus.[ ][ ] this is the earliest known example of a dome in the city of rome itself.[ ] the domus aurea was built after ad and the dome was over meters (  ft) in diameter.[ ] this octagonal and semicircular dome is made of concrete and the oculus is made of brick. the radial walls of the surrounding rooms buttress the dome, allowing the octagonal walls directly beneath it to contain large openings under flat arches and for the room itself to be unusually well lit.[ ] because there is no indication that mosaic or other facing material had ever been applied to the surface of the dome, it may have been hidden behind a tent-like fabric canopy like the pavilion tents of hellenistic (and earlier persian) rulers. the oculus is unusually large, more than two-fifths the span of the room, and it may have served to support a lightweight lantern structure or tholos, which would have covered the opening. circular channels on the upper surface of the oculus also support the idea that this lantern, perhaps itself domed, was the rotating dome referred to in written accounts.[ ] according to suetonius, the domus aurea had a dome that perpetually rotated on its base in imitation of the sky.[ ] it was reported in that newly discovered foundations of a round room may be those of a rotating domed dining hall.[ ] also reported in contemporary sources is a ceiling over a dining hall in the palace fitted with pipes so that perfume could rain from the ceiling, although it is not known whether this was a feature of the same dome.[ ] the expensive and lavish decoration of the palace caused such scandal that it was abandoned soon after nero's death and public buildings such as the baths of titus and the colosseum were built at the site.[ ] the only intact dome from the reign of emperor domitian is a . -meter (  ft) wide example in what may have been a nymphaeum at his villa at albano. it is now the church of santa maria della rotunda [it].[ ] domitian's ad domus augustana established the apsidal semi-dome as an imperial motif.[ ] square chambers in his palace on the palatine hill used pendentives to support domes.[ ] his palace contained three domes resting over walls with alternating apses and rectangular openings.[ ] an octagonal domed hall existed in the domestic wing.[ ] unlike nero's similar octagonal dome, its segments extended all the way to the oculus.[ ] the dining hall of this private palace, called the coenatio jovis, or dining hall of jupiter, contained a rotating ceiling like the one nero had built, but with stars set into the simulated sky.[ ] second century[edit] during the reign of emperor trajan, domes and semi-domes over exedras were standard elements of roman architecture, possibly due to the efforts of trajan's architect, apollodorus of damascus, who was famed for his engineering ability.[ ][ ] two rotundas meters (  ft) in diameter were finished in ad as part of the baths of trajan, built over the domus aurea, and exedras and meters ( and  ft) wide were built as part of the markets north-east of his forum. the architecture of trajan's successor, hadrian, continued this style.[ ] three -foot (  m) wide exedras at trajan's baths have patterns of coffering that, as in the later pantheon, align with lower niches only on the axes and diagonals and, also as in the pantheon, that alignment is sometimes with the ribs between the coffers, rather than with the coffers themselves.[ ] the pantheon in rome the pantheon in rome, completed by emperor hadrian as part of the baths of agrippa, has the most famous, best preserved, and largest roman dome.[ ] its diameter was more than twice as wide as any known earlier dome.[ ] although considered an example of hadrianic architecture, there is brickstamp evidence that the rebuilding of the pantheon in its present form was begun under trajan.[ ] speculation that the architect of the pantheon was apollodorus has not been proven, although there are stylistic commonalities between his large coffered half-domes at trajan's baths and the dome of the pantheon.[ ] dating from the nd century, it is an unreinforced concrete dome . meters (  ft) wide resting on a circular wall, or rotunda, meters (  ft) thick. this rotunda, made of brick-faced concrete, contains a large number of relieving arches and voids. seven interior niches and the entrance way divide the wall structurally into eight virtually independent piers. these openings and additional voids account for a quarter of the rotunda wall's volume. the only opening in the dome is the brick-lined oculus at the top, meters (  ft) in diameter, that provides light and ventilation for the interior.[ ] the shallow coffering in the dome accounts for a less than five percent reduction in the dome's mass, and is mostly decorative. the aggregate material hand-placed in the concrete is heaviest at the base of the dome and changes to lighter materials as the height increases, dramatically reducing the stresses in the finished structure. in fact, many commentators have cited the pantheon as an example of the revolutionary possibilities for monolithic architecture provided by the use of roman pozzolana concrete. however, vertical cracks seem to have developed very early, such that in practice the dome acts as an array of arches with a common keystone, rather than as a single unit. the exterior step-rings used to compress the "haunches" of the dome, which would not be necessary if the dome acted as a monolithic structure, may be an acknowledgement of this by the builders themselves. such buttressing was common in roman arch construction.[ ] the cracks in the dome can be seen from the upper internal chambers of the rotunda, but have been covered by re-rendering on the inside surface of the dome and by patching on the outside of the building.[ ] the pantheon's roof was originally covered with gilt bronze tiles, but these were removed in by emperor constans ii and replaced with lead roofing.[ ][ ] the function of the pantheon remains an open question. strangely for a temple, its inscription, which attributes this third building at the site to the builder of the first, marcus agrippa, does not mention any god or group of gods. its name, pantheon, comes from the greek for "all gods" but is unofficial, and it was not included in the list of temples restored by hadrian in the historia augusta. circular temples were small and rare, and roman temples traditionally allowed for only one divinity per room. the pantheon more resembles structures found in imperial palaces and baths. hadrian is believed to have held court in the rotunda using the main apse opposite the entrance as a tribune, which may explain its very large size.[ ] later roman buildings similar to the pantheon include a temple to asklepios soter [de] (c. ) in the old hellenistic city of pergamon and the so-called "round temple" at ostia (c. – ), which may have been related to the imperial cult. the pergamon dome was about roman feet wide, versus about for the pantheon, and made of brick over a cut stone rotunda. the ostia dome was roman feet wide and made of brick-faced concrete.[ ][ ] no later dome built in the imperial era came close to the span of the pantheon.[ ] it remained the largest dome in the world for more than a millennium and is still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome.[ ] ruins in the piazza d'oro at hadrian's villa use of concrete facilitated the complex geometry of the octagonal domed hall at the nd century small thermal baths of hadrian's villa in tivoli. the vaulting has collapsed, but a virtual reconstruction suggests that the walls of the octagonal hall, which alternate flat and convex, merged into a spherical cap.[ ] segmented domes made of radially concave wedges, or of alternating concave and flat wedges, appear under hadrian in the nd century and most preserved examples of the style date from this period. hadrian's villa has examples at the piazza d'oro and in the semidome of the serapeum. recorded details of the decoration of the segmented dome at the piazza d'oro suggests it was made to evoke a billowing tent, perhaps in imitation of the canopies used by hellenistic kings. other examples exist at the hadrianic baths of otricoli and the so-called "temple of venus" at baiae. this style of dome required complex centering and radially oriented formwork to create its tight curves, and the earliest surviving direct evidence of radial formwork is found at the caldarium of the large baths at hadrian's villa.[ ] hadrian was an amateur architect and it was apparently domes of hadrian's like these that trajan's architect, apollodorus of damascus, derisively called "pumpkins" prior to hadrian becoming emperor. according to dio cassius, the memory of this insult contributed to hadrian as emperor having apollodorus exiled and killed.[ ] in the middle of the nd century, some of the largest domes were built near present-day naples, as part of large bath complexes taking advantage of the volcanic hot springs in the area. at the bath complex at baiae, there are remains of a collapsed dome spanning . meters (  ft), called the "temple of venus", and a larger half-collapsed dome spanning . meters (  ft) called the "temple of diana". the dome of the "temple of diana", which may have been a nymphaeum as part of the bath complex, can be seen to have had an ogival section made of horizontal layers of mortared brick and capped with light tufa. it dates to the second half of the nd century and is the third largest dome known from the roman world. the second largest is the collapsed "temple of apollo" built nearby along the shore of lake avernus. the span cannot be precisely measured due to its ruined state, but it was more than meters (  ft) in diameter.[ ] octagonal rooms of the baths of antoninus in carthage were covered with cloister vaults and have been dated to – .[ ] in the second half of the nd century in north africa, a distinctive type of nozzle tube shape was developed in the tradition of the terracotta tube dome at the hellenistic era baths of morgantina, an idea that had been preserved in the use of interlocking terracotta pots for kiln roofs. this tube could be mass-produced on potter's wheels and interlocked to form a permanent centering for concrete domes, avoiding the use of wooden centering altogether. this spread mainly in the western mediterranean.[ ] although rarely used, the pendentive dome was known in nd century roman architecture, such as the funerary monuments of the sedia dei diavolo and the torracio della secchina on the via nomentana. it would be used much more widely in the byzantine period.[ ] a "roman tomb in palestine at kusr-en-nêuijîs" had a pendentive dome over the square intersection of cruciform barrel vaults and has been dated to the nd century.[ ] third century[edit] ruins at villa gordiani the large rotunda of the baths of agrippa, the oldest public baths in rome, has been dated to the severan period at the beginning of the rd century, but it is not known whether this is an addition or simply a reconstruction of an earlier domed rotunda.[ ] in the rd century, imperial mausolea began to be built as domed rotundas rather than tumulus structures or other types, following similar monuments by private citizens. pagan and christian domed mausolea from this time can be differentiated in that the structures of the buildings also reflect their religious functions. the pagan buildings are typically two story, dimly lit, free-standing structures with a lower crypt area for the remains and an upper area for devotional sacrifice. christian domed mausolea contain a single well-lit space and are usually attached to a church.[ ] the first st. peter's basilica would later be built near a preexisting early rd century domed rotunda that may have been a mausoleum. in the th century the rotunda would be dedicated to st. andrew and joined to the mausoleum of honorius.[ ][ ] examples from the rd century include the brick dome of the mausoleum of diocletian, and the mausoleum at villa gordiani.[ ] the villa gordiani also contains remains of an oval gored dome.[ ] the mausoleum of diocletian uses small arched squinches of brick built up from a circular base in an overlapping scales pattern, called a "stepped squinches dome". the scales pattern was a popular hellenistic motif adopted by the parthians and sasanians, and such domes are likely related to persian "squinch vaults".[ ] in addition to the mausoleum, the palace of diocletian also contains a rotunda near the center of the complex that may have served as a throne room. it has side niches similar to those of an octagonal mausoleum but was located at the end of an apparently barrel-vaulted hall like the arrangement found in later sasanian palaces.[ ] masonry domes were less common in the roman provinces, although the rd century "temple of venus" at baalbek was built with a stone dome meters (  ft) in diameter.[ ] the technique of building lightweight domes with interlocking hollow ceramic tubes further developed in north africa and italy in the late rd and early th centuries.[ ] by the th century, the thin and lightweight tubed vaulting had become a vaulting technique in its own right, rather than simply serving as a permanent centering for concrete. it was used in early christian buildings in italy.[ ] arranging these terracotta tubes in a continuous spiral created a dome that was not strong enough for very large spans, but required only minimal centering and formwork.[ ] the later dome of the baptistry of neon in ravenna is an example.[ ] fourth century[edit] the so-called "temple of minerva medica" in rome in the th century, roman domes proliferated due to changes in the way domes were constructed, including advances in centering techniques and the use of brick ribbing. the so-called "temple of minerva medica", for example, used brick ribs along with step-rings and lightweight pumice aggregate concrete to form a decagonal dome.[ ] the material of choice in construction gradually transitioned during the th and th centuries from stone or concrete to lighter brick in thin shells.[ ] the use of ribs stiffened the structure, allowing domes to be thinner with less massive supporting walls. windows were often used in these walls and replaced the oculus as a source of light, although buttressing was sometimes necessary to compensate for large openings. the mausoleum of santa costanza has windows beneath the dome and nothing but paired columns beneath that, using a surrounding barrel vault to buttress the structure.[ ] the -meter (  ft) dome of the mausoleum of galerius was built around ad close to the imperial palace as either a mausoleum or a throne room. it was converted into a church in the th century.[ ] also in thessaloniki, at the tetrarchic palace, an octagonal building has been excavated with a . meter span that may have been used as a throne room. it is known not to have been used as a church and was unsuitable as a mausoleum, and was used for some period between about and when it was destroyed before about .[ ] the octagonal "domus aurea", or "golden octagon", built by emperor constantine in at the imperial palace of antioch likewise had a domical roof, presumably of wood and covered with gilded lead.[ ][ ] it was dedicated two years after the council of nicea to "harmony, the divine power that unites universe, church, and empire". it may have been both the cathedral of antioch as well as the court church of constantine, and the precedent for the later octagonal plan churches near palaces of saints sergius and bacchus and hagia sophia by justinian and aachen cathedral by charlemagne.[ ] the dome was rebuilt by – with cypress wood from daphne after being destroyed in a fire. most domes on churches in the syrian region were built of wood, like that of the later dome of the rock in jerusalem, and the dome of the domus aurea survived a series of earthquakes in the th century that destroyed the rest of the building. there is no record of the church being rebuilt after the earthquake of , perhaps due to the general abandonment of many public buildings in what was no longer a capital of the empire.[ ] the st. george rotunda and some remains of serdica can be seen in the foreground centralized buildings of circular or octagonal plan also became used for baptistries and reliquaries due to the suitability of those shapes for assembly around a single object.[ ] baptisteries began to be built in the manner of domed mausolea during the th century in italy. the octagonal lateran baptistery or the baptistery of the holy sepulchre may have been the first, and the style spread during the th century.[ ] examples include the baptistery of san giovanni in fonte in milan [it] (late th century), a domed baptistery in naples ( th to th centuries), and a baptistery in aquileia (late th century).[ ] part of a baths complex begun in the early th century, the brick church of st. george in sofia was a caldarium that was converted in the middle of the fifth century. it is a rotunda with four apse niches in the corners.[ ] the best preserved example of roman architecture in the city, it has been used as a baptistery, church, mosque, and mausoleum over the centuries. the dome rises to about m from the floor with a diameter of about . m.[ ] in the middle of the th century in rome, domes were built as part of the baths of constantine and the baths of helena [it]. domes over the calderia, or hot rooms, of the older baths of agrippa and the baths of caracalla were also rebuilt at this time. between the second half of the th century and the middle of the th century, domed mausolea for wealthy families were built attached to a new type of martyrial basilica before burials within the basilica itself, closer to the martyr's remains, made such attached buildings obsolete.[ ] a pagan rotunda from this period located on the via sacra was later incorporated into the basilica of saints cosmas and damian as a vestibule around .[ ] christian mausolea and shrines developed into the "centralized church" type, often with a dome over a raised central space.[ ] the church of the holy apostles, or apostoleion, probably planned by constantine but built by his successor constantius in the new capital city of constantinople, combined the congregational basilica with the centralized shrine. with a similar plan to that of the church of saint simeon stylites, four naves projected from a central rotunda containing constantine's tomb and spaces for the tombs of the twelve apostles.[ ] above the center may have been a clerestory with a wooden dome roofed with bronze sheeting and gold accents.[ ] the oblong decagon of today's st. gereon's basilica in cologne, germany, was built upon an extraordinary and richly decorated th century roman building with an apse, semi-domed niches, and dome. a church built in the city's northern cemetery, its original dedication is unknown.[ ] it may have been built by julianus, the governor of gaul from to who would later become emperor, as a mausoleum for his family.[ ] the oval space may have been patterned after imperial audience halls or buildings such as the temple of minerva medica.[ ] the largest centrally planned early christian church, milan's san lorenzo maggiore, was built in the middle of the th century while that city served as the capital of the western empire and may have been domed with a light material, such as timber or cane.[ ][ ] there are two theories about the shape of this dome: a byzantine-style dome on spherical pendentives with a ring of windows similar to domes of the later justinian era, or an octagonal cloister vault following roman trends and like the vaulting over the site's contemporary chapel of saint aquiline, possibly built with vaulting tubes, pieces of which had been found in excavations. although these tubes have been shown to date from a medieval reconstruction, there is evidence supporting the use of roman concrete in the original.[ ] alternatively, the central covering may have been a square groin vault.[ ] fires in and damaged the building and the central covering collapsed in . it was rebuilt with a romanesque dome that lasted until , when it collapsed and was replaced by the present structure.[ ] the original vaulting was concealed by a square drum externally rather than the octagon of today, which dates from the th century.[ ] the church of the holy sepulchre in jerusalem was likely built with a wooden dome over the shrine by the end of the th century.[ ] the rotunda, . meters (  ft) in diameter and centered on the tomb of christ, consisted of a domed center room surrounded by an ambulatory. the dome rose over a ground floor, gallery, and clerestory and may have had an oculus.[ ] the dome was about meters (  ft) wide.[ ] razed to the ground in by the fatimid caliph, it was rebuilt in by emperor constantine ix monomachos, reportedly with a mosaic depicting christ and the twelve apostles. the current dome is a renovation in thin reinforced concrete.[ ] fifth century[edit] the mausoleum of galla placidia in ravenna by the th century, structures with small-scale domed cross plans existed across the christian world. examples include the mausoleum of galla placidia, the martyrium attached to the basilica of san simpliciano, and churches in macedonia and on the coast of asia minor.[ ] in italy, the baptistery of san giovanni in naples and the church of santa maria della croce in casarano have surviving early christian domes.[ ] in tolentino, the mausoleum of catervus was modeled on the pantheon, but at one-quarter scale and with three protruding apses, around - . the baptistery of neon in ravenna was completed in the middle of the th century and there were th century domes in the baptisteries at padula and novara.[ ] small brick domes are also found in towers of constantinople's early th century land walls.[ ] underground cisterns in constantinople, such as the cistern of philoxenos and the basilica cistern, were composed of a grid of columns supporting small domes, rather than groin vaults.[ ] the square bay with an overhead sail vault or dome on pendentives became the basic unit of architecture in the early byzantine centuries, found in a variety of combinations.[ ] early examples of byzantine domes existed over the hexagonal hall of the palace of antiochos, the hexagon at gülhane, the martyium of sts. karpos and papylos, and the rotunda at the myrelaion.[ ] the th century st. mary's church in ephesus had small rectangular side rooms with sail vaults made of arched brick courses. the brick dome of the baptistery at st. mary's was composed of a series of tightly arched meridional sections.[ ] the church of saint simeon stylites likely had a wooden polygonal dome over its central -meter (  ft) wide octagon.[ ] in the city of rome, at least domes in buildings are known to have been built before domed construction ended in the middle of the th century.[ ] the last imperial domed mausoleum in the city was that of emperor honorius, built in next to st. peter's basilica. it was demolished in as part of the rebuilding of st. peter's, but had a dome . meters wide and its appearance is known from some images.[ ] the last domed church in the city of rome for centuries was santo stefano al monte celio around . it had an unusual centralized plan and a meter wide dome made with vaulting tubes [it], a technique that may have been imported from the new western capital of ravenna.[ ] although they continued to be built elsewhere in italy, domes would not be built again within the city until .[ ] other th century italian domes may include a church at casaranello [it] (first half of the th century), the chapel of san vittore in milan [it] at the basilica of sant'ambrogio, the chapel of st. maria mater domini in the church of san felice and fortunato in vicenza [it], and sicily's cuba [it] of malvagna ( th or th century) and san pietro ad baias ( th or th century).[ ] with the end of the western roman empire, domes became a signature feature of the church architecture of the surviving eastern roman empire.[ ][ ] a transition from timber-roofed basilicas to vaulted churches seems to have occurred there between the late th century and the th century, with early examples in constantinople, asia minor, and cilicia.[ ] the first known domed basilica may have been a church at meriamlik in southern turkey, dated to between and , although the ruins do not provide a definitive answer. it is possible earlier examples existed in constantinople, where it has been suggested that the plan for the meriamlik church itself was designed, but no domed basilica has been found there before the th century.[ ] sixth century[edit] the th century marks a turning point for domed church architecture. centrally planned domed churches had been built since the th century for very particular functions, such as palace churches or martyria, with a slight widening of use around ad, but most church buildings were timber-roofed halls on the basilica plan. the church of st. polyeuctus in constantinople ( – ) may have been built as a large and lavish domed basilica similar to the meriamlik church of fifty years before—and to the later hagia irene of emperor justinian—by anicia juliana, a descendant of the former imperial house, although the linear walls suggest a timber roof, rather than a brick dome.[ ][ ] there is a story that she used the contribution to public funds that she had promised justinian on his ascension to the throne to roof her church in gold.[ ] the church included an inscription praising juliana for having "surpassed solomon" with the building, and it may have been with this in mind that justinian would later say of his hagia sophia, "solomon, i have vanquished thee!".[ ][ ] in the second third of the th century, church building by the emperor justinian used the domed cross unit on a monumental scale, in keeping with justinian's emphasis on bold architectural innovation. his church architecture emphasized the central dome and his architects made the domed brick-vaulted central plan standard throughout the roman east. this divergence with the roman west from the second third of the th century may be considered the beginning of a "byzantine" architecture.[ ] timber-roofed basilicas, which had previously been the standard church form, would continue to be so in the medieval west.[ ] the earliest existing of justinian's domed buildings may be the central plan church of saints sergius and bacchus in constantinople, completed by . it is called the "little hagia sophia" mosque today, but may have been begun five years earlier than that building. the dome rests on an octagonal base created by eight arches on piers and is divided into sixteen sections. those sections above the flat sides of the octagon are flat and contain a window at their base, alternating with sections from the corners of the octagon that are scalloped, creating an unusual kind of pumpkin dome.[ ] its dates of construction are disputed and may have begun in . the alternating scalloped and flat surfaces of the current dome resemble those in hadrian's half-dome serapeum in tivoli, but may have replaced an original drum and dome similar to that over the basilica of san vitale in ravenna.[ ] the building was built within the precinct of the palace of hormistas, the residence of justinian before his ascension to the throne in , and includes an inscription mentioning the "sceptered justinian" and "god-crowned theodora".[ ] the hagia sophia in istanbul (annotations). after the nika revolt destroyed much of the city of constantinople in , including the churches of hagia sophia ("holy wisdom") and hagia irene ("holy peace"), justinian had the opportunity to rebuild. both had been basilica plan churches and both were rebuilt as domed basilicas, although the hagia sophia was rebuilt on a much grander scale.[ ] built by anthemius of tralles and isidore of miletus in constantinople between and , the hagia sophia has been called the greatest building in the world. it is an original and innovative design with no known precedents in the way it covers a basilica plan with dome and semi-domes. periodic earthquakes in the region have caused three partial collapses of the dome and necessitated repairs. the precise shape of the original central dome completed in was significantly different from the current one and, according to contemporary accounts, much bolder.[ ] procopius wrote that the original dome seemed "not to rest upon solid masonry, but to cover the space with its golden dome suspended from heaven." byzantine chronicler john malalas reported that this dome was byzantine feet lower than its replacement.[ ] one theory is that the original dome continued the curve of the existing pendentives (which were partially reconstructed after its collapse), creating a massive sail vault pierced with a ring of windows.[ ][ ] this vault would have been part of a theoretical sphere meters (  ft) in diameter (the distance from the base of one pendentive to the base of the one opposite), percent greater than the span of the pantheon's dome.[ ][ ] another theory raises the shallow cap of this dome (the portion above what are today the pendentives) on a relatively short recessed drum containing the windows.[ ] this first dome partially collapsed due to an earthquake in and the design was then revised to the present profile. earthquakes also caused partial collapses of the dome in and , so that the present dome consists of portions dating from the th century, on the north and south sides, and portions from the th and th centuries on the west and east sides, respectively. there are irregularities where these sectors meet.[ ] the current central dome, above the pendentives, is about millimeters (  in) thick.[ ] it is about meters (  ft) wide and contains radial ribs that spring from between the windows at its base. four of the windows were blocked as part of repairs in the th century.[ ] the ring of windows at the base of the central dome are in the portion where the greatest hoop tension would have been expected and so they may have been used to help alleviate cracking along the meridians.[ ] iron cramps between the marble blocks of its cornice helped to reduce outward thrusts at the base and limit cracking, like the wooden tension rings used in other byzantine brick domes.[ ] the dome and pendentives are supported by four large arches springing from four piers. additionally, two huge semi-domes of similar proportion are placed on opposite sides of the central dome and themselves contain smaller semi-domes between an additional four piers.[ ] the hagia sophia, as both the cathedral of constantinople and the church of the adjacent great palace of constantinople, has a form of octagonal plan.[ ] the basilica of san vitale in ravenna the city of ravenna, italy, had served as the capital of the western roman empire after milan from and the capital of the subsequent kingdoms of odoacer and of theodoric until justinian's reconquest in . an octagonal building in ravenna, begun under theodoric in , was completed under the byzantines in as the basilica of san vitale and contains a terracotta dome.[ ] it may belong to a school of architecture from th and th century milan.[ ] the building is similar to the byzantine church of saints sergius and bacchus and the later chrysotriklinos, or throne hall and palace church of constantinople, and it would be used as the model for charlemagne's palace chapel at aix-la-chapelle.[ ] hollow amphorae were fitted inside one another to provide a lightweight structure for the dome and avoid additional buttressing.[ ] it is meters (  ft) in diameter.[ ] the amphorae were arranged in a continuous spiral, which required minimal centering and formwork but was not strong enough for large spans.[ ] the dome was covered with a timber roof, which would be the favored practice for later medieval architects in italy although it was unusual at the time.[ ] in constantinople, justinian also tore down the aging church of the holy apostles and rebuilt it on a grander scale between and .[ ] the original building was a cruciform basilica with a central domed mausoleum. justinian's replacement was apparently likewise cruciform but with a central dome and four flanking domes. the central dome over the crossing had pendentives and windows in its base, while the four domes over the arms of the cross had pendentives but no windows.[ ] the domes appear to have been radically altered between and by the addition of windowed drums beneath all five domes and by raising the central dome higher than the others.[ ] the second most important church in the city after the hagia sophia, it fell into disrepair after the latin occupation of constantinople between and and it was razed to the ground by mehmed the conqueror in to build his fatih mosque on the site.[ ] justinian's basilica of st. john at ephesus and venice's st mark's basilica are derivative of holy apostles.[ ] more loosely, the cathedral of st. front and the basilica of saint anthony of padua are also derived from this church.[ ] justinian and his successors modernized frontier fortifications throughout the century. the example at qasr ibn wardan ( ) in the desert of eastern syria is particularly impressive, containing a governor's palace, barracks, and a church built with techniques and to plans possibly imported from constantinople.[ ] the church dome is unusual in that the pendentives sprang from an octagonal drum, rather than the four main arches, and in that it was made of brick, which was rare in syria.[ ] the golden triclinium, or chrysotriklinos, of the great palace of constantinople served as an audience hall for the emperor as well as a palace chapel. nothing of it has survived except descriptions, which indicate that it had a pumpkin dome containing sixteen windows in its webs and that the dome was supported by the arches of eight niches connecting to adjoining rooms in the building's likely circular plan.[ ] alternatively, the building may have been octagonal in plan, rather than circular.[ ] the building was not free-standing and was located at the intersection of the public and private parts of the palace. smaller windows filled with thin sheets of alabaster may have existed over each of the curtain-covered side niches and below the cornice at the base of the dome.[ ] the dome seems to have had webs that alternated straight and concave, like those of the dome of justinian's church of saints sergius and bacchus, and may have been built about years after that church.[ ] it was begun under emperor justin ii, completed by his successor tiberius ii, and continued to be improved by subsequent rulers. it was connected to the imperial living quarters and was a space used for assembly before religious festivals, high promotions and consultations, as a banqueting hall, a chapel for the emperor, and a throne room. never fully described in any of its frequent mentions in byzantine texts, the room was restricted to members of the court and the "most highly rated foreigners". in the th century, the throne in the east niche chamber was directly below an icon of an enthroned christ.[ ] other th century examples of domed constructions may include nostra segnora de mesumundu in siligo, sardinia (before ), sant’angelo in perugia, san miserino [it] near san donaci ( th or th century), and the trigona of cittadella near noto ( th or th century).[ ] seventh and eighth centuries[edit] the period of iconoclasm, roughly corresponding to the th to th centuries, is poorly documented but can be considered a transitional period.[ ] the cathedral of sofia has an unsettled date of construction, ranging from the last years of justinian to the middle of the th century, as the balkans were lost to the slavs and bulgars. it combines a barrel-vaulted cruciform basilica plan with a crossing dome hidden externally by the drum. it resembles some romanesque churches of later centuries, although the type would not be popular in later byzantine architecture.[ ] part of the th century basilica of st. mary at ephesus seems to have been rebuilt in the th century as a cross-domed church, a development typical of the th to th centuries and similar to the cross-domed examples of hagia sophia in thessaloniki, st. nicholas at myra, st. clement's at ankara, and the church of the koimesis at nicaea.[ ] the hagia irene in istanbul with the decline in the empire's resources following losses in population and territory, domes in byzantine architecture were used as part of more modest new buildings. the large-scale churches of byzantium were, however, kept in good repair. the upper portion of the church of hagia irene was thoroughly rebuilt after the constantinople earthquake. the nave was re-covered with an elliptical domical vault hidden externally by a low cylinder on the roof, in place of the earlier barrel vaulted ceiling, and the original central dome from the justinian era was replaced with one raised upon a high windowed drum. the barrel vaults supporting these two new domes were also extended out over the side aisles, creating cross-domed units.[ ] by bracing the dome with broad arches on all four sides, the cross-domed unit provided a more secure structural system.[ ] these units, with most domes raised on drums, became a standard element on a smaller scale in later byzantine church architecture, and all domes built after the transitional period were braced with bilateral symmetry.[ ] a small, unisex monastic community in bithynia, near constantinople, may have developed the cross-in-square plan church during the iconoclastic period, which would explain the plan's small scale and unified naos. the ruined church of st. john at pelekete monastery is an early example.[ ] monks had supported the use of icons, unlike the government-appointed secular clergy, and monasticism would become increasingly popular. a new type of privately funded urban monastery developed from the th century on, which may help to explain the small size of subsequent building.[ ] ninth century[edit] timber-roofed basilicas, which had been the standard form until the th century, would be displaced by domed churches from the th century onward.[ ] in the middle byzantine period (c. – ), domes were normally built to emphasize separate functional spaces, rather than as the modular ceiling units they had been earlier.[ ][ ] resting domes on circular or polygonal drums pierced with windows eventually became the standard style, with regional characteristics.[ ] the cross-in-square plan, with a single dome at the crossing or five domes in a quincunx pattern, became widely popular in the middle byzantine period.[ ] examples include an early th century church in tirilye, now called the fatih mosque, and the palace chapel of the myrelaion, built around .[ ] the nea ekklesia of emperor basil i was built in constantinople around as part of a substantial building renovation and construction program during his reign. it had five domes, which are known from literary sources, but different arrangements for them have been proposed under at least four different plans. one has the domes arranged in a cruciform pattern like those of the contemporaneous church of st. andrew at peristerai or the much older church of the holy apostles in constantinople. others arrange them in a quincunx pattern, with four minor domes in the corners of a square and a larger fifth in the center, as part of a cross-domed or cross-in-square plan.[ ] it is often suggested that the five-domed design of st. panteleimon at nerezi, from , is based on that of the nea ekklesia.[ ] tenth century[edit] the hosios loukas panagia church near distomo, greece in the middle byzantine period, more complex plans emerge, such as the integrated chapels of theotokos of lips, a monastic church in constantinople that was built around . it included four small chapels on its second floor gallery level that may have been domed.[ ] the cross-in-square is the most common church plan from the th century until the fall of constantinople in .[ ] this type of plan, with four columns supporting the dome at the crossing, was best suited for domes less than meters (  ft) wide and, from the th to the th centuries, a typical byzantine dome measured less than meters (  ft) in diameter. for domes beyond that width, variations in the plan were required such as using piers in place of the columns and incorporating further buttressing around the core of the building.[ ] the palace chapel of the myrelaion in constantinople was built around as a cross-in-square church and remains a good example. the earliest cross-in-square in greece is the panagia church at the monastery of hosios loukas, dated to the late th century, but variations of the type can be found from southern italy to russia and anatolia. they served in a wide variety of church roles, including domestic, parish, monastic, palatial, and funerary.[ ] the distinctive rippling eaves design for the roofs of domes began in the th century. in mainland greece, circular or octagonal drums became the most common.[ ] eleventh century[edit] the katholikon of the monastery of hosios loukas near distomo, greece in constantinople, drums with twelve or fourteen sides were popular beginning in the th century.[ ] the th century rock-cut churches of cappadocia, such as karanlik kilise and elmali kilise in göreme, have shallow domes without drums due to the dim natural lighting of cave interiors.[ ] the domed-octagon plan is a variant of the cross-in-square plan.[ ] the earliest extant example is the katholikon at the monastery of hosios loukas, with a -meter (  ft) wide dome built in the first half of the th century.[ ] this hemispherical dome was built without a drum and supported by a remarkably open structural system, with the weight of the dome distributed on eight piers, rather than four, and corbelling used to avoid concentrating weight on their corners. the use of squinches to transition from those eight supports to the base of the dome has led to speculation of a design origin in arab, sasanian, or caucasian architecture, although with a byzantine interpretation. similar openness in design was used in the earlier myrelaion church, as originally built, but the katholikon of hosios loukas is perhaps the most sophisticated design since the hagia sophia.[ ] the smaller monastic church at daphni, c. , uses a simpler version of this plan.[ ] the katholikon of nea moni, a monastery on the island of chios, was built some time between and and featured a nine sided, ribbed dome rising . meters ( .  ft) above the floor (this collapsed in and was replaced with the slightly taller present version). the transition from the square naos to the round base of the drum is accomplished by eight conches, with those above the flat sides of the naos being relatively shallow and those in the corners of the being relatively narrow. the novelty of this technique in byzantine architecture has led to it being dubbed the "island octagon" type, in contrast to the "mainland octagon" type of hosios loukas. speculation on design influences have ranged from arab influence transmitted via the recently built domed octagon chapels at the church of the holy sepulchre in jerusalem or the al-hakim mosque in islamic cairo, to caucasian buildings such as the armenian cathedral of the holy cross. later copies of the nea moni, with alterations, include the churches of agios georgios sykousis, agioi apostoli at pyrghi, panagia krina, and the church of the metamorphosis in chortiatis.[ ] twelfth century[edit] kalenderhane mosque in istanbul the larger scale of some byzantine buildings of the th century required a more stable support structure for domes than the four slender columns of the cross-in-square type could provide. the byzantine churches today called kalenderhane mosque, gül mosque, and the enez fatih mosque all had domes greater than meters (  ft) in diameter and used piers as part of large cruciform plans, a practice that had been out of fashion for several centuries. a variant of the cross-in-square, the "so-called atrophied greek cross plan", also provides greater support for a dome than the typical cross-in-square plan by using four piers projecting from the corners of an otherwise square naos, rather than four columns. this design was used in the chora church of constantinople in the th century after the previous cross-in-square structure was destroyed by an earthquake.[ ] the th century pantokrator monastic complex ( – ) was built with imperial sponsorship as three adjoining churches.[ ] the south church, a cross-in-square, has a ribbed dome over the naos, domical vaults in the corners, and a pumpkin dome over the narthex gallery. the north church is also a cross-in-square plan. the middle church, the third to be built, fills the long space between the two earlier churches with two oval domes of the pumpkin and ribbed types over what appear to be separate functional spaces. the western space was an imperial mausoleum, whereas the eastern dome covered a liturgical space.[ ] there is a written account by nicholas mesarites of a persian-style muqarnas dome built as part of a late th century imperial palace in constantinople.[ ] called the "mouchroutas hall", it may have been built as part of an easing in tensions between the court of manuel i komnenos and kilij arslan ii of the sultanate of rum around , evidence of the complex nature of the relations between the two states. the account, written by nicholas mesarites shortly before the fourth crusade, is part of a description of the coup attempt by john komnenos in , and may have been mentioned as a rhetorical device to disparage him.[ ] thirteenth century[edit] the church of the parigoritissa in arta, greece the late byzantine period, from to , has an unsettled chronology of buildings, especially during the latin occupation. the fragmentation of the empire, beginning in , is reflected in a fragmentation of church design and regional innovations.[ ] the church of hagia sophia in the empire of trebizond dates to between and and has a variation on the quincunx plan. heavy with traditional detailing from asia minor, and possibly armenian or georgian influence, the brick pendentives and drum of the dome remain byzantine.[ ] after , new church architecture in constantinople consisted mainly of additions to existing monastic churches, such as the monastery of lips and pammakaristos church, and as a result the building complexes are distinguished in part by an asymmetric array of domes on their roofs. this effect may have been in imitation of the earlier triple-church pantokrator monastic complex.[ ] in the despotate of epirus, the church of the parigoritissa ( – ) is the most complex example, with a domed octagon core and domed ambulatory.[ ] built in the capital of arta, its external appearance resembles a cubic palace. the upper level narthex and galleries have five domes, with the middle dome of the narthex an open lantern. this greek-cross octagon design, similar to the earlier example at daphni, is one of several among the various byzantine principalities. another is found in the hagia theodoroi at mistra ( – ).[ ] fourteenth and fifteenth centuries[edit] the gračanica monastery in kosovo, built under the medieval kingdom of serbia mistra was ruled from constantinople after , then was the suzerain of the despotate of the morea from to .[ ] in mistra, there are several basilica plan churches with domed galleries that create a five-domed cross-in-square over a ground-level basilica plan. the aphentiko at brontochion monastery was built c. – and the later church of the pantanassa monastery ( ) is of the same type.[ ] the aphentiko may have been originally planned as a cross-in-square church, but has a blend of longitudinal and central plan components, with an interior divided into nave and aisles like a basilica. the barrel-vaulted nave and cross arms have a dome at their crossing, and the corner bays of the galleries are also domed to form a quincunx pattern. a remodeling of the metropolis church in mistra created an additional example. the pantanassa incorporates western elements in that domes in its colonnaded porch are hidden externally, and its domes have ribs of rectangular section similar to those of salerno, ravello, and palermo.[ ] in thessaloniki, a distinctive type of church dome developed in the first two decades of the th century. it is characterized by a polygonal drum with rounded colonnettes at the corners, all brick construction, and faces featuring three arches stepped back within one another around a narrow "single-light window".[ ] one of the hallmarks of thessalonian churches was the plan of a domed naos with a peristoon wrapped around three sides.[ ] the churches of hagios panteleimon, hagia aikaterine, and hagioi apostoloi have domes on these ambulatory porticoes.[ ] the five domes of the hagioi apostoloi, or church of the holy apostles, in thessaloniki (c. ) makes it an example of a five-domed cross-in-square church in the late byzantine style, as is the gračanica monastery, built around in serbia.[ ] the architect and artisans of the gračanica monastery church probably came from thessaloniki and its style reflects byzantine cultural influence.[ ] the church has been said to represent "the culmination of late byzantine architectural design."[ ] a th century account of a russian traveler to constantinople mentions an abandoned hall, presumably domed, "in which the sun, the moon, and the stars succeeded each other as in heaven."[ ] influence[edit] armenia[edit] constantinople's cultural influence extended from sicily to russia.[ ] armenia, as a border state between the roman-byzantine and sasanian empires, was influenced by both.[ ] the exact relationship between byzantine architecture and that of the caucasus is unclear. georgia and armenia produced many central planned, domed buildings in the th century and, after a lull during the arab invasions, the architecture flourished again in the middle byzantine period.[ ] armenian church domes were initially wooden structures. etchmiadzin cathedral (c. ) originally had a wooden dome covered by a wooden pyramidal roof before this was replaced with stone construction in . churches with stone domes became the standard type after the th century, perhaps benefiting from a possible exodus of stonecutters from syria, but the long traditions of wooden construction carried over stylistically. some examples in stone as late as the th century are detailed imitations of clearly wooden prototypes.[ ] armenian church building was prolific in the late th and th centuries and, by the th century, the churches tend to be either central plans or combinations of central and longitudinal plans. domes were supported by either squinches (which were used in the sasanian empire but rarely in the byzantine) or pendentives like those of the byzantine empire, and the combination of domed-cross plan with the hall-church plan could have been influenced by the architecture of justinian. domes and cross arms were added to the longitudinal cathedral of dvin from to and a church in tekor. other domed examples include ptghnavank in ptghni (c. ), a church in t'alinn ( - ), the cathedral of mren ( - ), and the mastara church ( th and th centuries).[ ][ ] an th century armenian source names an armenian architect, trdat, as responsible for the rebuilding of the dome of hagia sophia in constantinople after the earthquake caused a partial collapse of the central dome. although squinches were the more common supporting system used to support armenian domes, pendentives are always used beneath the domes attributed to trdat, which include the th century monasteries of marmasen, sanahin, and halpat, as well as the patriarchal cathedral of argina (c. ), the cathedral of ani ( - ), and the palace chapel of king gagik ii (c. - ).[ ] the balkans[edit] in the balkans, where byzantine rule weakened in the th and th centuries, domed architecture may represent byzantine influence or, in the case of the centrally planned churches of th-century dalmatia, the revival of earlier roman mausoleum types. an interest in roman models may have been an expression of the religious maneuvering of the region between the church of constantinople and that of rome. examples include the church of sv. luka in kotor, the church of sv. trojce near split, and the early th century church of sv. donat in zadar. the church of sv. donat, originally domed, may have been built next to a palace and resembles palace churches in the byzantine tradition. the architectural chronology of the central and eastern balkans is unsettled during the period of the first bulgarian empire, in part because of similarity between justinian-era churches from the th century and what may have been a revival of that style in the late th and early th centuries under the christianized bulgarian tsars. remains of the round church in preslav, a building traditionally associated with the rule tsar simeon ( – ), indicate that it was a domed palace chapel. its construction features, however, resemble instead rd and th century roman mausolea, perhaps due to the association of those structures with the imperial idea.[ ] the rus[edit] byzantine architecture was introduced to the rus' people in the th century, with churches after the conversion of prince vladimir of kiev being modeled after those of constantinople, but made of wood. the russian onion dome was a later development.[ ] the earliest architecture of kiev, the vast majority of which was made of wood, has been lost to fire, but by the th century masonry domes on low drums in kiev and vladimir-suzdal were little different than byzantine domes, although modified toward the "helmet" type with a slight point. the cathedral of st. sophia in kiev ( – ) was distinctive in having thirteen domes, for jesus and the twelve apostles, but they have since been remodeled in the baroque style and combined with an additional eight domes.[ ] the pyramidal arrangement of the domes was a byzantine characteristic, although, as the largest and perhaps most important th century building in the byzantine tradition, many of the details of this building have disputed origins.[ ] bulbous onion domes on tall drums were a development of northern russia, perhaps due to the demands of heavy ice and snowfall along with the more rapid innovation permitted by the novgorod region's emphasis on wooden architecture. the central dome of the cathedral of st. sophia ( – ) in novgorod dates from the th century and shows a transitional stage. other churches built around this time are those of st. nicholas ( ), the nativity of the virgin ( ), and st. george ( – ).[ ] eastern european and orthodox examples saint nicholas cathedral, novgorod church of christ pantocrator, nesebar, bulgaria ravanica monastery, serbia cathedral of the assumption, moscow romanesque europe[edit] in romanesque italy, byzantine influence can most clearly be seen in venice's st mark's basilica, from about , but also in the domed churches of southern italy, such as canosa cathedral ( ) and the old cathedral of molfetta [it] (c. ).[ ] in norman sicily, architecture was a fusion of byzantine, islamic, and romanesque forms, but the dome of the palatine chapel ( – ) at palermo was decorated with byzantine mosaic, as was that of the church of santa maria dell'ammiraglio ( s).[ ] the unusual use of domes on pendentives in a series of seventy romanesque churches in the aquitaine region of france strongly suggests a byzantine influence. st. mark's basilica was modeled on the now-lost byzantine church of the holy apostles in constantinople, and périgueux cathedral in aquitaine (c. ) likewise has five domes on pendentives in a greek cross arrangement.[ ] other examples include the domed naves of angoulême cathedral ( – ), cahors cathedral (c. – ), and the abbey church of sainte-marie in souillac [fr] (c. ).[ ] orthodox europe[edit] byzantium's neighboring orthodox powers emerged as architectural centers in their own right during the late byzantine period. the bulgarian churches of nesebar are similar to those in constantinople at this time.[ ] the style and vaulting in the nesebar cross-in-square churches of christ pantocrator and st john aliturgetos, for example, are similar to examples in constantinople.[ ] following the construction of gračanica monastery, the architecture of serbia used the "so-called athonite plan", for example at ravanica ( – ). in romania, wallachia was influenced by serbian architecture and moldavia was more original, such as in the voroneț monastery with its small dome.[ ] moscow emerged as the most important center of architecture following the fall of constantinople in .[ ] the cathedral of the assumption ( – ), built in the kremlin to house the icon of our lady of vladimir, was designed in a traditional russian style by an italian architect.[ ] italian renaissance[edit] italian renaissance architecture combined roman and romanesque practices with byzantine structures and decorative elements, such as domes with pendentives over square bays.[ ][ ] the cassinese congregation used windowed domes in the byzantine style, and often also in a quincunx arrangement, in their churches built between and , such as the abbey of santa giustina.[ ] the technique of using wooden tension rings at several levels within domes and drums to resist deformation, frequently said to be a later invention of filippo brunelleschi, was common practice in byzantine architecture.[ ] the technique of using double shells for domes, although revived in the renaissance, originated in byzantine practice.[ ] the dome of the pantheon, as a symbol of rome and its monumental past, was particularly celebrated and imitated, although copied only loosely. studied in detail from the early renaissance on, it was an explicit point of reference for the dome of st. peter's basilica and inspired the construction of domed rotundas with temple-front porches throughout western architecture into the modern era. examples include palladio's chapel at maser ( – ), bernini's church of s. maria dell'assunzione ( - ), the library rotunda of the university of virginia ( – ), and the church of st. mary in malta ( – ).[ ] ottoman empire[edit] ottoman architecture adopted the byzantine dome form and continued to develop it.[ ] one type of mosque was modeled after justinian's church of sergius and bacchus with a dome over an octagon or hexagon contained within a square, such as the Üç Şerefeli mosque ( – ).[ ] the dome and semi-domes of the hagia sophia, in particular, were replicated and refined. a "universal mosque design" based upon this development spread throughout the world.[ ] the first ottoman mosque to use a dome and semi-dome nave vaulting scheme like that of hagia sophia was the mosque of beyazit ii. only two others were modeled similarly: kılıç ali pasha mosque and the süleymaniye mosque ( – ). other ottoman mosques, although superficially similar to hagia sophia, have been described as structural criticisms of it. when mimar sinan set out to build a dome larger than that of hagia sophia with selimiye mosque ( – ), he used a more stable octagonal supporting structure.[ ] the selimiye mosque is of the type originating with the church of sergius and bacchus. three other imperial mosques in istanbul built in this "classical style" of hagia sophia include four large semi-domes around the central dome, rather than two: Şehzade camii, sultan ahmed i camii (completed in ), and the last to be built: yeni cami ( – ).[ ] western european and ottoman examples st mark's basilica, venice süleymaniye mosque, istanbul st. peter's basilica, rome sultan ahmed mosque, istanbul modern revival[edit] a byzantine revival style of architecture occurred in the th and th centuries. an early example of the revival style in russia was the cathedral of christ the saviour ( – ), which was approved by the tsar to be a model for other churches in the empire.[ ] the style's popularity spread through scholarly publications produced after the independence of greece and the balkans from the ottoman empire.[ ] it was used throughout europe and north america, peaking in popularity between and . the greek orthodox st sophia's cathedral ( – ) and roman catholic westminster cathedral (begun ), both in london, are examples. the throne room of neuschwanstein castle ( – ) was built by king ludwig ii in bavaria.[ ] in the late th century, the hagia sophia became a widespread model for greek orthodox churches.[ ] in southeastern europe, monumental national cathedrals built in the capital cities of formerly ottoman areas used neo-classical or neo-byzantine styles. sofia's alexander nevsky cathedral and belgrade's church of saint sava are examples, and used hagia sophia as a model due to their large sizes.[ ] synagogues in the united states were built in a variety of styles, as they had been in europe (and often with a mixture of elements from different styles), but the byzantine revival style was the most popular in the s. domed examples include the temple of cleveland ( ), the synagogue of kam isaiah israel ( ) in chicago, based upon san vitale in ravenna and hagia sophia in istanbul, and the synagogue of congregation emanu-el ( ) in san francisco.[ ] in the united states, greek orthodox churches beginning in the s tended to use a large central dome with a ring of windows at its base evocative of the central dome of hagia sophia, rather than more recent or more historically common byzantine types, such as the greek-cross-octagon or five-domed quincunx plans. examples include annunciation greek orthodox church, completed in but designed by frank lloyd wright in , ascension greek orthodox cathedral of oakland ( ), and annunciation greek orthodox cathedral in atlanta ( ).[ ] the use of a large central dome in american greek orthodox churches continued in the s and s before moving toward smaller middle byzantine domes, or versions of early christian basilicas.[ ] see also[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to domes. 	list of roman domes 	history of architecture references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ fleming, honour & pevsner , pp.  – . 	^ roth 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	byzantine empire 	 	today part of	 countries 	  albania 	 algeria 	 andorra 	 armenia 	 austria 	 azerbaijan 	 belgium 	 bosnia and herzegovina 	 bulgaria 	 croatia 	 cyprus 	 egypt 	 france 	 georgia 	 germany 	 gibraltar 	 greece 	 guernsey 	 hungary 	 iran 	 iraq 	 israel 	 italy 	 jersey 	 jordan 	 kosovo 	 kuwait 	 lebanon 	 liechtenstein 	 libya 	 luxembourg 	 macedonia 	 malta 	 moldova 	 monaco 	 montenegro 	 morocco 	 netherlands 	 palestine 	 portugal 	 romania 	 russia 	 san marino 	 saudi arabia 	 serbia 	 slovakia 	 slovenia 	 spain 	  switzerland 	 syria 	 tunisia 	 turkey 	 ukraine 	 united kingdom 	  vatican city 		a officially the final emperor of the western empire. 	b last emperor of the eastern (byzantine) empire. 	c abbreviated "hs". prices and values are usually expressed in sesterces; see below for currency denominations by period. territorial development of the roman republic and of the roman empire (animated map) the history of the roman empire covers the history of ancient rome from the fall of the roman republic in bc until the abdication of romulus augustulus in ad in the west, and the fall of constantinople in the east in ad . ancient rome became a territorial empire while still a republic, but was then ruled by roman emperors beginning with augustus (r.  bc –  ad), becoming the roman empire following the death of the last republican dictator, the first emperor's adoptive father julius caesar. rome had begun expanding shortly after the founding of the republic in the th century bc, though it did not expand outside of the italian peninsula until the rd century bc.[ ][ ][ ][ ] civil war engulfed the roman state in the mid st century bc, first between julius caesar and pompey, and finally between octavian and mark antony. antony was defeated at the battle of actium in bc. in bc the senate and people of rome made octavian imperator ("commander") thus beginning the principate, the first epoch of roman imperial history usually dated from bc to ad ; they later awarded him the name augustus, "the venerated". subsequent emperors all took this name as the imperial title augustus. the success of augustus in establishing principles of dynastic succession was limited by his outliving a number of talented potential heirs: the julio-claudian dynasty lasted for four more emperors—tiberius, caligula, claudius, and nero—before it yielded in ad to the strife-torn year of the four emperors, from which vespasian emerged as victor. vespasian became the founder of the brief flavian dynasty, to be followed by the nerva–antonine dynasty which produced the "five good emperors": nerva, trajan, hadrian, antoninus pius and the philosophically inclined marcus aurelius. in the view of the greek historian dio cassius, a contemporary observer, the accession of the emperor commodus in ad marked the descent "from a kingdom of gold to one of rust and iron"[ ]—a famous comment which has led some historians, notably edward gibbon, to take commodus' reign as the beginning of the decline of the roman empire. in , during the reign of caracalla, roman citizenship was granted to all freeborn inhabitants of the empire. despite this gesture of universality, the severan dynasty was tumultuous—an emperor's reign was ended routinely by his murder or execution—and following its collapse, the roman empire was engulfed by the crisis of the third century, a period of invasions, civil strife, economic disorder, and epidemic disease.[ ] in defining historical epochs, this crisis is typically viewed as marking the start of the late roman empire,[ ] and also the transition from classical antiquity to late antiquity. in the reign of philip the arab (r.  – ), rome celebrated the thousandth anniversary of her founding by romulus and remus with the saecular games. diocletian (r.  – ) restored stability to the empire, modifying the role of princeps and becoming the first emperor to be addressed by roman citizens as domine, "master" or "lord"[ ] or referred to as dominus noster "our lord". diocletian's reign also brought the empire's most concerted effort against the perceived threat of christianity, the "great persecution". the state of absolute monarchy that began with diocletian endured until the fall of the eastern roman empire in . diocletian divided the empire into four regions, each ruled by an emperor (the tetrarchy).[ ] confident that he fixed the disorders plaguing rome, he abdicated along with his co-augustus, and the tetrarchy eventually collapsed in the civil wars of the tetrarchy. order was eventually restored by the victories of constantine, who became the first emperor to convert to christianity, and who founded constantinople as a new capital for the empire after defeating his co-emperor licinius. the reign of julian, who under the influence of his adviser mardonius attempted to restore classical roman and hellenistic religion, only briefly interrupted the succession of christian emperors of the constantinian dynasty. during the decades of the valentinianic and theodosian dynasties, the established practice of multiple emperors was continued. theodosius i, the last emperor to rule over both the eastern empire and the whole western empire, died in ad after making christianity the official religion of the empire.[ ] the western roman empire began to disintegrate in the early th century as the germanic migrations and invasions of the migration period overwhelmed the capacity of the empire to assimilate the immigrants and fight off the invaders. most chronologies place the end of the western roman empire in , when romulus augustulus was forced to abdicate to the germanic warlord odoacer.[ ] by placing himself under the rule of the eastern emperor zeno, rather than naming himself or a puppet ruler as emperor, as other germanic chiefs, had done, odoacer ended the separate roman government of the western empire. the eastern empire exercised diminishing control over the west over the course of the next century. the empire in the east—known today as the byzantine empire, but referred to in its time as the "roman empire" or by various other names—ended in with the death of constantine xi and the fall of constantinople to the ottoman turks.[ ] contents 	 bc–ad : augustus 	 . sources 	 – : julio-claudian dynasty 	 . – : tiberius 	 . – : caligula 	 . – : claudius 	 . – : nero 	 – : year of the four emperors 	 – : flavian dynasty 	 . – : vespasian 	 . – : titus 	 . – : domitian 	 – : five good emperors 	 . – : nerva 	 . – : trajan 	 . – : hadrian 	 . – : antoninus pius 	 . – : marcus aurelius and lucius verus 	 – : commodus and the year of the five emperors 	 . commodus 	 . pertinax 	 . didius julianus 	 – : severan dynasty 	 . septimius severus ( – ) 	 . caracalla and geta ( – ) 	 . interlude: macrinus and diadumenian ( – ) 	 . elagabalus ( – ) 	 . alexander severus ( – ) 	 – : crisis of the third century 	 late roman empire 	 . – : diocletian and the tetrarchy 	 . – : constantinian dynasty 	 . . constantine and his sons 	 . . – : julian 	 . . : jovian 	 . – : valentinianic dynasty 	 . . valentinian and valens 	 . . . battle of adrianople ( ) 	 . . gratian and valentinian ii 	 . . . – : rebellion of magnus maximus 	 . – : valentinianic–theodosian dynasty 	 . . – : rebellion of eugenius 	 . . – : arcadius and honorius 	 . – : leonid dynasty 	 . . decline of the western roman empire 	 . – justinian dynasty 	 map gallery 	 see also 	 notes 	 references bc–ad : augustus[edit] further information: praetorian guard, roman triumph, battle of the teutoburg forest, arminius, and publius quinctilius varus the battle of actium, by laureys a castro ( ) octavian, the grandnephew and adopted son of julius caesar, had made himself a central military figure during the chaotic period following caesar's assassination. in bc at the age of twenty he became one of the three members of the second triumvirate, a political alliance with marcus lepidus and mark antony.[ ] octavian and antony defeated the last of caesar's assassins in bc at the battle of philippi, although after this point, tensions began to rise between the two. the triumvirate ended in  bc, torn apart by the competing ambitions of its members: lepidus was forced into exile and antony, who had allied himself with his lover queen cleopatra vii of egypt, committed suicide in  bc following his defeat at the battle of actium ( bc) by the fleet of octavian. octavian subsequently annexed egypt to the empire.[ ] now sole ruler of rome, octavian began a full-scale reformation of military, fiscal and political matters. the senate granted him power over appointing its membership and several successive consulships, allowing augustus to operate within the existing constitutional machinery and thus reject titles that romans associated with monarchy, such as rex ("king"). the dictatorship, a military office in the early republic typically lasting only for the six-month military campaigning season, had been resurrected first by sulla in the late s bc and then by julius caesar in the mid- s; the title dictator was never again used. as the adopted heir of julius caesar, augustus had taken caesar as a component of his name, and handed down the name to his heirs of the julio-claudian dynasty. with vespasian, one of the first emperors outside the dynasty, caesar evolved from a family name to the imperial title caesar. augustus created his novel and historically unique position by consolidating the constitutional powers of several republican offices. he renounced his consulship in bc, but retained his consular imperium, leading to a second compromise between augustus and the senate known as the second settlement. augustus was granted the authority of a tribune (tribunicia potestas), though not the title, which allowed him to call together the senate and people at will and lay business before it, veto the actions of either the assembly or the senate, preside over elections, and it gave him the right to speak first at any meeting. also included in augustus's tribunician authority were powers usually reserved for the roman censor; these included the right to supervise public morals and scrutinize laws to ensure they were in the public interest, as well as the ability to hold a census and determine the membership of the senate. no tribune of rome ever had these powers, and there was no precedent within the roman system for consolidating the powers of the tribune and the censor into a single position, nor was augustus ever elected to the office of censor. whether censorial powers were granted to augustus as part of his tribunician authority, or he simply assumed those, is a matter of debate. in addition to those powers, augustus was granted sole imperium within the city of rome itself; all armed forces in the city, formerly under the control of the prefects, were now under the sole authority of augustus. additionally, augustus was granted imperium proconsulare maius (power over all proconsuls), the right to interfere in any province and override the decisions of any governor. with imperium maius, augustus was the only individual able to grant a triumph to a successful general as he was ostensibly the leader of the entire roman army. the senate re-classified the provinces at the frontiers (where the vast majority of the legions were stationed) as imperial provinces, and gave control of those to augustus. the peaceful provinces were re-classified as senatorial provinces, governed as they had been during the republic by members of the senate sent out annually by the central government.[ ] senators were prohibited from so much as visiting roman egypt, given its great wealth and history as a base of power for opposition to the new emperor. taxes from the imperial provinces went into the fiscus, the fund administrated by persons chosen by and answerable to augustus. the revenue from senatorial provinces continued to be sent to the state treasury (aerarium), under the supervision of the senate. the augustus of prima porta the roman legions, which had reached an unprecedented in number because of the civil wars, were reduced to . several legions, particularly those with members of doubtful loyalties, were simply disbanded. other legions were united, a fact hinted by the title gemina (twin).[ ] augustus also created nine special cohorts to maintain peace in italia, with three, the praetorian guard, kept in rome. control of the fiscus enabled augustus to ensure the loyalty of the legions through their pay. augustus completed the conquest of hispania, while subordinate generals expanded roman possessions in africa and asia minor. augustus' final task was to ensure an orderly succession of his powers. his stepson tiberius had conquered pannonia, dalmatia, raetia, and temporarily germania for the empire, and was thus a prime candidate. in  bc, augustus granted some of his powers to his stepson,[ ] and soon after he recognized tiberius as his heir. in ad  , a law was passed which extended augustus' powers over the provinces to tiberius,[ ] so that tiberius' legal powers were equivalent to, and independent from, those of augustus.[ ] attempting to secure the borders of the empire upon the rivers danube and elbe, augustus ordered the invasions of illyria, moesia, and pannonia (south of the danube), and germania (west of the elbe). at first everything went as planned, but then disaster struck. the illyrian tribes revolted and had to be crushed, and three full legions under the command of publius quinctilius varus were ambushed and destroyed at the battle of the teutoburg forest in ad by germanic tribes led by arminius. being cautious, augustus secured all territories west of rhine and contented himself with retaliatory raids. the rivers rhine and danube became the permanent borders of the roman empire in the north. in ad  augustus died at the age of seventy-five, having ruled the empire for forty years, and was succeeded as emperor by tiberius. sources[edit] left image: a roman fresco from pompeii showing a maenad in silk dress, st century ad right image: a fresco of a young man from the villa di arianna, stabiae, st century ad. the augustan age is not as well documented as the age of caesar and cicero. livy wrote his history during augustus's reign and covered all of roman history through bc, but only epitomes survive of his coverage of the late republican and augustan periods. important primary sources for the augustan period include: 	res gestae divi augusti, augustus's highly partisan autobiography, 	historiae romanae by velleius paterculus, the best annals of the augustan period, 	controversiae and suasoriae of seneca the elder. works of poetry such as ovid's fasti and propertius's fourth book, legislation and engineering also provide important insights into roman life of the time. archaeology, including maritime archaeology, aerial surveys, epigraphic inscriptions on buildings, and augustan coinage, has also provided valuable evidence about economic, social and military conditions. secondary ancient sources on the augustan age include tacitus, dio cassius, plutarch and lives of the twelve caesars by suetonius. josephus's jewish antiquities is the important source for judea,which became a province during augustus's reign. – : julio-claudian dynasty[edit] main article: julio-claudian dynasty the great cameo of france, a cameo five layers sardonyx, rome, c. ad , depicting the emperor tiberius seated with his mother livia and in front of his designated heir germanicus, with the latter's wife agrippina the elder; above them float the deceased members of their house: augustus, drusus julius caesar, and nero claudius drusus the portland vase, ad – , cameo glass augustus had three grandsons by his daughter julia the elder: gaius caesar, lucius caesar and agrippa postumus. none of the three lived long enough to succeed him. he therefore was succeeded by his stepson tiberius. tiberius was the son of livia, the third wife of octavian, by her first marriage to tiberius nero. augustus was a scion of the gens julia (the julian family), one of the most ancient patrician clans of rome, while tiberius was a scion of the gens claudia, only slightly less ancient than the julians. their three immediate successors were all descended both from the gens claudia, through tiberius' brother nero claudius drusus, and from gens julia, either through julia the elder, augustus' daughter from his first marriage (caligula and nero), or through augustus' sister octavia minor (claudius). historians thus refer to their dynasty as "julio-claudian". – : tiberius[edit] main article: tiberius the early years of tiberius's reign were relatively peaceful. tiberius secured the overall power of rome and enriched its treasury. however, his rule soon became characterized by paranoia. he began a series of treason trials and executions, which continued until his death in .[ ] he left power in the hands of the commander of the guard, lucius aelius sejanus. tiberius himself retired to live at his villa on the island of capri in , leaving administration in the hands of sejanus, who carried on the persecutions with contentment. sejanus also began to consolidate his own power; in he was named co-consul with tiberius and married livilla, the emperor's niece. at this point he was "hoist by his own petard": the emperor's paranoia, which he had so ably exploited for his own gain, turned against him. sejanus was put to death, along with many of his associates, the same year. the persecutions continued until tiberius' death in . – : caligula[edit] main article: caligula at the time of tiberius's death most of the people who might have succeeded him had been killed. the logical successor (and tiberius' own choice) was his -year-old grandnephew, gaius, better known as "caligula" ("little boots"). caligula was a son of germanicus and agrippina the elder. his paternal grandparents were nero claudius drusus and antonia minor, and his maternal grandparents were marcus vipsanius agrippa and julia the elder. he was thus a descendant of both augustus and livia. marble bust of caligula, the louvre caligula started out well, by putting an end to the persecutions and burning his uncle's records. unfortunately, he quickly lapsed into illness. the caligula that emerged in late demonstrated features of mental instability that led modern commentators to diagnose him with such illnesses as encephalitis, which can cause mental derangement, hyperthyroidism, or even a nervous breakdown (perhaps brought on by the stress of his position). whatever the cause, there was an obvious shift in his reign from this point on, leading his biographers to label him as insane. most of what history remembers of caligula comes from suetonius, in his book lives of the twelve caesars. according to suetonius, caligula once planned to appoint his favourite horse incitatus to the roman senate. he ordered his soldiers to invade britain to fight the sea god neptune, but changed his mind at the last minute and had them pick sea shells on the northern end of france instead. it is believed he carried on incestuous relations with his three sisters: julia livilla, drusilla and agrippina the younger. he ordered a statue of himself to be erected in herod's temple at jerusalem, which would have undoubtedly led to revolt had he not been dissuaded from this plan by his friend king agrippa i. he ordered people to be secretly killed, and then called them to his palace. when they did not appear, he would jokingly remark that they must have committed suicide. in , caligula was assassinated by the commander of the guard cassius chaerea. also killed were his fourth wife caesonia and their daughter julia drusilla. for two days following his assassination, the senate debated the merits of restoring the republic.[ ] – : claudius[edit] main article: claudius claudius was a younger brother of germanicus, and had long been considered a weakling and a fool by the rest of his family. the praetorian guard, however, acclaimed him as emperor. claudius was neither paranoid like his uncle tiberius, nor insane like his nephew caligula, and was therefore able to administer the empire with reasonable ability. he improved the bureaucracy and streamlined the citizenship and senatorial rolls. he ordered the construction of a winter port at ostia antica for rome, thereby providing a place for grain from other parts of the empire to be brought in inclement weather. claudius ordered the suspension of further attacks across the rhine,[ ] setting what was to become the permanent limit of the empire's expansion in that direction.[ ] in , he resumed the roman conquest of britannia that julius caesar had begun in the s bc, and incorporated more eastern provinces into the empire. in his own family life, claudius was less successful. his wife messalina cuckolded him; when he found out, he had her executed and married his niece, agrippina the younger. she, along with several of his freedmen, held an inordinate amount of power over him, and although there are conflicting accounts about his death, she may very well have poisoned him in .[ ] claudius was deified later that year. the death of claudius paved the way for agrippina's own son, the -year-old lucius domitius nero. – : nero[edit] main article: nero nero ruled from to . during his rule, nero focused much of his attention on diplomacy, trade, and increasing the cultural capital of the empire. he ordered the building of theatres and promoted athletic games. his reign included the roman–parthian war (a successful war and negotiated peace with the parthian empire ( – )), the suppression of a revolt led by boudica in britannia ( – ) and the improvement of cultural ties with greece. however, he was egotistical and had severe troubles with his mother, who he felt was controlling and over-bearing. after several attempts to kill her, he finally had her stabbed to death. he believed himself a god and decided to build an opulent palace for himself. the so-called domus aurea, meaning golden house in latin, was constructed atop the burnt remains of rome after the great fire of rome ( ). because of the convenience of this many believe that nero was ultimately responsible for the fire, spawning the legend of him fiddling while rome burned which is almost certainly untrue. the domus aurea was a colossal feat of construction that covered a huge space and demanded new methods of construction in order to hold up the golden, jewel-encrusted ceilings. by this time nero was hugely unpopular despite his attempts to blame the christians for most of his regime's problems. a military coup drove nero into hiding. facing execution at the hands of the roman senate, he reportedly committed suicide in . according to cassius dio, nero's last words were "jupiter, what an artist perishes in me!"[ ][ ] – : year of the four emperors[edit] main article: year of the four emperors 		v 	t 	e year of the four emperors 	 	forum julii 	placentia 	locus castorum 	 st bedriacum 	 nd bedriacum 	castra vetera 	augusta treverorum since he had no heir, nero's suicide was followed by a brief period of civil war, known as the "year of the four emperors". between june and december , rome witnessed the successive rise and fall of galba, otho and vitellius until the final accession of vespasian, first ruler of the flavian dynasty. the military and political anarchy created by this civil war had serious implications, such as the outbreak of the batavian rebellion. these events showed that a military power alone could create an emperor.[ ] augustus had established a standing army, where individual soldiers served under the same military governors over an extended period of time. the consequence was that the soldiers in the provinces developed a degree of loyalty to their commanders, which they did not have for the emperor. thus the empire was, in a sense, a union of inchoate principalities, which could have disintegrated at any time.[ ] through his sound fiscal policy, the emperor vespasian was able to build up a surplus in the treasury, and began construction on the colosseum. titus, vespasian's successor, quickly proved his merit, although his short reign was marked by disaster, including the eruption of mount vesuvius in pompeii. he held the opening ceremonies in the still unfinished colosseum, but died in . his brother domitian succeeded him. having exceedingly poor relations with the senate, domitian was murdered in september . – : flavian dynasty[edit] main article: flavian dynasty roman trade with india according to the periplus of the erythraean sea, st century ad the flavians, although a relatively short-lived dynasty, helped restore stability to an empire on its knees. although all three have been criticised, especially based on their more centralised style of rule, they issued reforms that created a stable enough empire to last well into the rd century. however, their background as a military dynasty led to further marginalisation of the roman senate, and a conclusive move away from princeps, or first citizen, and toward imperator, or emperor. – : vespasian[edit] main article: vespasian vespasian was a remarkably successful roman general who had been given rule over much of the eastern part of the roman empire. he had supported the imperial claims of galba, after whose death vespasian became a major contender for the throne. following the suicide of otho, vespasian was able to take control of rome's winter grain supply in egypt, placing him in a good position to defeat his remaining rival, vitellius. on december , , some of vespasian's partisans were able to occupy rome. vitellius was murdered by his own troops and, the next day, vespasian, then sixty years old, was confirmed as emperor by the senate. although vespasian was considered an autocrat by the senate, he mostly continued the weakening of that body begun in the reign of tiberius. the degree of the senate's subservience can be seen from the post-dating of his accession to power, by the senate, to july , when his troops proclaimed him emperor, instead of december , when the senate confirmed his appointment. another example was his assumption of the censorship in , giving him power over the make up of the senate. he used that power to expel dissident senators. at the same time, he increased the number of senators from (at that low level because of the actions of nero and the year of crisis that followed), to , ; most of the new senators came not from rome but from italy and the urban centres within the western provinces. vespasian commissioned the colosseum in rome. polyphemus hears of the arrival of galatea, ancient roman fresco painted in the "fourth style" of pompeii (ad – ) vespasian was able to liberate rome from the financial burdens placed upon it by nero's excesses and the civil wars. to do this, he not only increased taxes, but created new forms of taxation. also, through his power as censor, he was able to carefully examine the fiscal status of every city and province, many paying taxes based upon information and structures more than a century old. through this sound fiscal policy, he was able to build up a surplus in the treasury and embark on public works projects. it was he who first commissioned the amphitheatrum flavium (colosseum); he also built a forum whose centrepiece was a temple to peace. in addition, he allotted sizeable subsidies to the arts, and created a chair of rhetoric at rome. vespasian was also an effective emperor for the provinces, having posts all across the empire, both east and west. in the west he gave considerable favouritism to hispania (the iberian peninsula, comprising modern spain and portugal) in which he granted latin rights to over three hundred towns and cities, promoting a new era of urbanisation throughout the western (formerly barbarian) provinces. through the additions he made to the senate he allowed greater influence of the provinces in the senate, helping to promote unity in the empire. he also extended the borders of the empire, mostly done to help strengthen the frontier defenses, one of vespasian's main goals. the crisis of had wrought havoc on the army. one of the most marked problems had been the support lent by provincial legions to men who supposedly represented the best will of their province. this was mostly caused by the placement of native auxiliary units in the areas they were recruited in, a practice vespasian stopped; he mixed auxiliary units with men from other areas of the empire or moved the units away from where they were recruited. also, to reduce further the chances of another military coup, he broke up the legions and, instead of placing them in singular concentrations, spread them along the border. perhaps the most important military reform he undertook was the extension of legion recruitment from exclusively italy to gaul and hispania, in line with the romanisation of those areas. – : titus[edit] main article: titus roman fresco with a banquet scene from the casa dei casti amanti, pompeii titus, the eldest son of vespasian, had been groomed to rule. he had served as an effective general under his father, helping to secure the east and eventually taking over the command of roman armies in syria and iudaea, quelling a significant jewish revolt at the time. he shared the consulship for several years with his father and received the best tutelage. although there was some trepidation when he took office because of his known dealings with some of the less respectable elements of roman society, he quickly proved his merit, even recalling many exiled by his father as a show of good faith. however, his short reign was marked by disaster: in , mount vesuvius erupted in pompeii, and in , a fire destroyed much of rome. his generosity in rebuilding after these tragedies made him very popular. titus was very proud of his work on the vast amphitheater begun by his father. he held the opening ceremonies in the still unfinished edifice during the year , celebrating with a lavish show that featured gladiators and lasted days. titus died in at the age of of what is presumed to be illness; it was rumoured that his brother domitian murdered him in order to become his successor, although these claims have little merit. whatever the case, he was greatly mourned and missed. – : domitian[edit] main article: domitian all of the flavians had rather poor relations with the senate due to their autocratic rule; however, domitian was the only one who encountered significant problems. his continuous control as consul and censor throughout his rule—the former his father shared in much the same way as his julio-claudian forerunners, the latter presented difficulty even to obtain—were unheard of. in addition, he often appeared in full military regalia as an imperator, an affront to the idea of what the principate-era emperor's power was based upon: the emperor as the princeps. his reputation in the senate aside, he kept the people of rome happy through various measures, including donations to every resident of rome, wild spectacles in the newly finished colosseum, and the continuation of the public works projects of his father and brother. he also apparently had the good fiscal sense of his father; although he spent lavishly, his successors came to power with a well-endowed treasury. domitian repelled the dacians in his dacian war; the dacians had sought to conquer moesia, south of the danube in the roman balkans. toward the end of his reign domitian became extremely paranoid, which probably had its roots in the treatment he received by his father: although given significant responsibility, he was never trusted with anything important without supervision. this flowered into the severe and perhaps pathological repercussions following the short-lived rebellion in of lucius antonius saturninus, a governor and commander in germania superior. domitian's paranoia led to a large number of arrests, executions, and seizures of property (which might help explain his ability to spend so lavishly). eventually it reached the point where even his closest advisers and family members lived in fear. this led to his murder in , orchestrated by his enemies in the senate, stephanus (the steward of the deceased julia flavia), members of the praetorian guard and the empress domitia longina. – : five good emperors[edit] situation of eurasia in nd century ad main article: nerva–antonine dynasty the next century came to be known as the period of the "five good emperors", in which the succession was peaceful and the empire prosperous. the emperors of this period were nerva ( – ), trajan ( – ), hadrian ( – ), antoninus pius ( – ) and marcus aurelius ( – ), each one adopted by his predecessor as his successor during the former's lifetime. while their respective choices of successor were based upon the merits of the individual men they selected rather than dynastic, it has been argued that the real reason for the lasting success of the adoptive scheme of succession lay more with the fact that none but the last had a natural heir. the last two emperors of the "five good emperors" and commodus are also called antonines. – : nerva[edit] main article: nerva after his accession, nerva set a new tone: he released those imprisoned for treason, banned future prosecutions for treason, restored much confiscated property, and involved the roman senate in his rule. he probably did so as a means to remain relatively popular and therefore alive, but this did not completely aid him. support for domitian in the army remained strong, and in october the praetorian guard laid siege to the imperial palace on the palatine hill and took nerva hostage. he was forced to submit to their demands, agreeing to hand over those responsible for domitian's death and even giving a speech thanking the rebellious praetorians. nerva then adopted trajan, a commander of the armies on the german frontier, as his successor shortly thereafter in order to bolster his own rule. casperius aelianus, the guard prefect responsible for the mutiny against nerva, was later executed under trajan. – : trajan[edit] trajan's column, marble with stone-carved reliefs that show various scenes depicting events of trajan's dacian wars main article: trajan upon his accession to the throne, trajan prepared and launched a carefully planned military invasion in dacia, a region north of the lower danube whose inhabitants the dacians had long been an opponent to rome. in , trajan personally crossed the danube and defeated the armies of the dacian king decebalus at the battle of tapae. the emperor decided not to press on towards a final conquest as his armies needed reorganisation, but he did impose very hard peace conditions on the dacians. at rome, trajan was received as a hero and he took the name of dacicus, a title that appears on his coinage of this period.[ ] decebalus complied with the terms for a time, but before long he began inciting revolt. in trajan once again invaded and after a yearlong invasion ultimately defeated the dacians by conquering their capital, sarmizegetusa regia. king decebalus, cornered by the roman cavalry, eventually committed suicide rather than being captured and humiliated in rome. the conquest of dacia was a major accomplishment for trajan, who ordered days of celebration throughout the empire. he also constructed trajan's column in the middle of trajan's forum in rome to glorify the victory. the maximum extent of the roman empire under trajan ( ) in , trajan was provoked by the decision of osroes i to put his own nephew axidares on the throne of the kingdom of armenia. the arsacid dynasty of armenia was a branch of the parthian royal family established in . since then, the two great empires had shared hegemony of armenia. the encroachment on the traditional roman sphere of influence by osroes ended the peace which had lasted for some years.[ ] trajan first invaded armenia. he deposed the king and annexed it to the roman empire. then he turned south into parthian territory in mesopotamia, taking the cities of babylon, seleucia and finally the capital of ctesiphon in , while suppressing the kitos war, a jewish uprising across the eastern provinces. he continued southward to the persian gulf, whence he took mesopotamia as a new province of the empire and lamented that he was too old to follow in the steps of alexander the great and continue his invasion eastward. but he did not stop there. in , he captured the great city of susa. he deposed the emperor osroes i and put his own puppet ruler parthamaspates on the throne. not until the reign of heraclius would the roman army push so far to the east, and roman territory never again reached so far eastward. during his rule, the roman empire reached its greatest extent; it was quite possible for a roman to travel from britain to the persian gulf without leaving roman territory. – : hadrian[edit] main article: hadrian parts of hadrian's wall in britain remain to this day. despite his own excellence as a military administrator, hadrian's reign was marked more by the defense of the empire's vast territories, rather than major military conflicts. he surrendered trajan's conquests in mesopotamia, considering them to be indefensible. there was almost a war with vologases iii of parthia around , but the threat was averted when hadrian succeeded in negotiating a peace. hadrian's army crushed the bar kokhba revolt, a massive jewish uprising in judea ( – ). hadrian was the first emperor to extensively tour the provinces, donating money for local construction projects as he went. in britain, he ordered the construction of a wall, the famous hadrian's wall as well as various other such defences in germania and north africa. his domestic policy was one of relative peace and prosperity. – : antoninus pius[edit] main article: antoninus pius antoninus pius's reign was comparatively peaceful; there were several military disturbances throughout the empire in his time, in mauretania, judaea, and amongst the brigantes in britain, but none of them are considered serious. the unrest in britain is believed to have led to the construction of the antonine wall from the firth of forth to the firth of clyde, although it was soon abandoned. – : marcus aurelius and lucius verus[edit] main articles: marcus aurelius and lucius verus marcus aurelius green roman glass cup unearthed from an eastern han dynasty (ad – ) tomb, guangxi, china germanic tribes and other people launched many raids along the long north european border, particularly into gaul and across the danube—germans, these in turn, may have been under attack from more warlike tribes farther east, driving them into the empire. his campaigns against them are commemorated on the column of marcus aurelius. in asia, a revitalised parthian empire renewed its assault. marcus aurelius sent his co-emperor lucius verus to command the legions in the east. lucius was authoritative enough to command the full loyalty of the troops, but already powerful enough that he had little incentive to overthrow marcus. the plan succeeded—verus remained loyal until his death, while on campaign, in . in , while on campaign in the northern germany in the marcomannic wars, marcus was forced to contend with a rebellion by avidius cassius, a general who had been an officer during the wars against persia. cassius proclaimed himself roman emperor and took the provinces of egypt and syria as his part of the empire. it is said that cassius had revolted as he had heard word that marcus was dead. after three months cassius was assassinated and marcus restored the eastern part of the empire. in the last years of his life marcus, a philosopher as well as an emperor, wrote his book of stoic philosophy known as the meditations. the book has since been hailed as marcus' great contribution to philosophy. when marcus died in the throne passed to his son commodus, who had been elevated to the rank of co-emperor in . this ended the succession plan of the previous four emperors where the emperor would adopt his successor, although marcus was the first emperor since vespasian to have a natural son that could succeed him, which probably was the reason he allowed the throne to pass to commodus and not adopt a successor from outside his family. it is possible that an alleged roman embassy from "daqin" that arrived in eastern han china in via a roman maritime route into the south china sea, landing at jiaozhou (northern vietnam) and bearing gifts for the emperor huan of han (r.  – ), was sent by marcus aurelius, or his predecessor antoninus pius (the confusion stems from the transliteration of their names as "andun", chinese: 安敦).[ ][ ] the embassy was perhaps simply a group of roman merchants, not official diplomats.[ ] other roman embassies of the rd century supposedly visited china by sailing along the same maritime route.[ ] these were preceded by the appearance of roman glasswares in chinese tombs, the earliest piece found at guangzhou (along the coast of the south china sea) and dating to the st century bc.[ ] the earliest roman coins found in china date to the th century ad and appear to have come by way of the silk road through central asia.[ ] however, roman golden medallions from the reign of antoninus pius, and possibly his successor marcus aurelius, have been discovered at Óc eo (in southern vietnam), which was then part of the kingdom of funan near chinese-controlled jiaozhi (northern vietnam) and the region where chinese historical texts claim the romans first landed before venturing further into china to conduct diplomacy.[ ][ ] furthermore, in his geography (c.  ad), ptolemy described the location of the golden chersonese, now known as the malay peninsula, and beyond this a trading port called kattigara. ferdinand von richthofen assumed this as hanoi, yet the roman and mediterranean artefacts found at Óc eo suggest this location instead.[ ][ ] – : commodus and the year of the five emperors[edit] main article: year of the five emperors commodus[edit] main article: commodus a bust of commodus, depicting him as the legendary heracles (i.e. hercules) wearing the skins of the nemean lion the period of the "five good emperors" was brought to an end by the reign of commodus from to . commodus was the son of marcus aurelius, making him the first direct successor in a century, breaking the scheme of adoptive successors that had worked so well. he was co-emperor with his father from . when he became sole emperor upon the death of his father in , it was at first seen as a hopeful sign by the people of the roman empire. nevertheless, as generous and magnanimous as his father was, commodus was just the opposite. in the decline and fall of the roman empire by edward gibbon, it is noted that commodus at first ruled the empire well. however, after an assassination attempt, involving a conspiracy by certain members of his family, commodus became paranoid and slipped into insanity. the pax romana, or "roman peace", ended with the reign of commodus. one could argue that the assassination attempt began the long decline of the roman empire. when commodus' behaviour became increasingly erratic throughout the early s, pertinax is thought to have been implicated in the conspiracy that led to commodus' assassination on december .[citation needed] the plot was carried out by the praetorian prefect quintus aemilius laetus, commodus' mistress marcia, and his chamberlain eclectus.[ ] pertinax[edit] main article: pertinax after the murder had been carried out, pertinax, who was serving as urban prefect at this time, was hurried to the praetorian camp and proclaimed emperor the following morning.[ ] his short reign ( days) was an uneasy one. he attempted to emulate the restrained practices of marcus aurelius, and made an effort to reform the welfare program for poor children but he faced antagonism from many quarters.[ ] his monetary reform was far-sighted, but would not survive his death. he attempted to impose stricter military discipline upon the pampered praetorians.[ ] in early march he narrowly averted one conspiracy by a group to replace him with the consul quintus sosius falco while he was in ostia inspecting the arrangements for grain shipments.[ ] the plot was betrayed; falco himself was pardoned but several of the officers behind the coup were executed.[ ] on march , pertinax was at his palace when a contingent of some three hundred soldiers of the praetorian guard rushed the gates[ ] (two hundred according to cassius dio).[ ] sources suggest that they had received only half their promised pay.[ ] neither the guards on duty nor the palace officials chose to resist them. pertinax sent laetus to meet them, but he chose to side with the insurgents instead and deserted the emperor.[ ] although advised to flee, he then attempted to reason with them, and was almost successful before being struck down by one of the soldiers.[ ] the praetorian guards auctioned off the imperial position, which senator didius julianus won and became the new emperor.[citation needed] didius julianus[edit] main article: didius julianus bust of clodius albinus (d. ), a usurper who was proclaimed emperor after the assassination of pertinax upon his accession, julianus immediately devalued the roman currency by decreasing the silver purity of the denarius from % to . %.[ ] after the initial confusion had subsided, the population did not tamely submit to the dishonor brought upon rome.[ ][ ][ ] whenever julianus appeared in public he was saluted with groans, imprecations, and shouts of "robber and parricide."[ ] the mob tried to obstruct his progress to the capitol, and even threw stones.[ ] when news of the public anger in rome spread across the empire, the generals pescennius niger in syria, septimius severus in pannonia, and clodius albinus in britain, each having three legions under his command, refused to recognize the authority of julianus.[ ][ ] julianus declared severus a public enemy because he was the nearest of the three and, therefore, the most dangerous foe.[ ][ ] deputies were sent from the senate to persuade the soldiers to abandon him;[ ] a new general was nominated to supersede him, and a centurion dispatched to take his life.[ ] the praetorian guard, lacking discipline and sunk in debauchery and sloth, were incapable of offering any effectual resistance.[ ] julianus, now desperate, attempted negotiation and offered to share the empire with his rival.[ ][ ] [ ][ ] severus ignored these overtures and pressed forward, all italy declaring for him as he advanced.[ ] at last the praetorians, having received assurances that they would suffer no punishment – provided they surrendered the actual murderers of pertinax – seized the ringleaders of the conspiracy and reported what they had done to silius messala, the consul, by whom the senate was summoned and informed of the proceedings.[ ] julianus was killed in the palace by a soldier in the third month of his reign ( june ).[ ][ ] severus dismissed the praetorian guard and executed the soldiers who had killed pertinax.[ ] according to cassius dio, who lived in rome during the period, julianus's last words were "but what evil have i done? whom have i killed?"[ ] his body was given to his wife and daughter, who buried it in his great-grandfather's tomb by the fifth milestone on the via labicana.[ ] – : severan dynasty[edit] septimius severus ( – )[edit] main article: septimius severus the empire under septimius severus ( ) lucius septimius severus was born to a family of phoenician equestrian rank in the roman province of africa proconsularis. he rose through military service to consular rank under the later antonines. proclaimed emperor in by his legionaries in noricum during the political unrest that followed the death of commodus, he secured sole rule over the empire in after defeating his last rival, clodius albinus, at the battle of lugdunum. in securing his position as emperor, he founded the severan dynasty. severus fought a successful war against the parthians and campaigned with success against barbarian incursions in roman britain, rebuilding hadrian's wall. in rome, his relations with the senate were poor, but he was popular with the commoners, as with his soldiers, whose salary he raised. starting in , the influence of his praetorian prefect gaius fulvius plautianus was a negative influence; the latter was executed in . one of plautianus's successors was the jurist papinian. severus continued official persecution of christians and jews, as they were the only two groups who would not assimilate their beliefs to the official syncretistic creed. severus died while campaigning in britain. he was succeeded by his sons caracalla and geta, whom he made his co-augusti and who reigned under the influence of their mother, julia domna. caracalla and geta ( – )[edit] main articles: caracalla and geta (emperor) caracalla and geta, lawrence alma-tadema ( ). the eldest son of severus, caracalla was born lucius septimius bassianus in lugdunum, gaul. "caracalla" was a nickname referring to the gallic hooded tunic he habitually wore even when he slept. before his father's death, caracalla was proclaimed co-emperor with his father and brother geta. conflict between the two culminated in the assassination of the latter. unlike the much more successful joint reign of marcus aurelius and his brother lucius verus in the previous century, relations were hostile between the two severid brothers from childhood. geta was assassinated in his mother's apartments by order of caracalla, who thereafter ruled as sole augustus. reigning alone, caracalla was noted for lavish bribes to the legionaries and unprecedented cruelty, authorizing numerous assassinations of perceived enemies and rivals. he campaigned with indifferent success against the alamanni. the baths of caracalla in rome are the most enduring monument of his rule. his reign was also notable for the antonine constitution (latin: constitutio antoniniana), also known as the edict of caracalla, which granted roman citizenship to nearly all freemen throughout the roman empire. he was assassinated while en route to a campaign against the parthians by the praetorian guard. severan dynasty family tree interlude: macrinus and diadumenian ( – )[edit] main article: macrinus macrinus was born in at caesarea. although coming from a humble background that was not dynastically related to the severan dynasty, he rose through the imperial household until, under the emperor caracalla, he was made prefect of the praetorian guard. on account of the cruelty and treachery of the emperor, macrinus became involved in a conspiracy to kill him, and ordered the praetorian guard to do so. on april , , caracalla was assassinated traveling to carrhae. three days later, macrinus was declared augustus. diadumenian was the son of macrinus, born in . he was given the title caesar in , when his father became augustus, and raised to co-augustus the following year. his most significant early decision was to make peace with the parthian empire, but many thought that the terms were degrading to the romans. however, his downfall was his refusal to award the pay and privileges promised to the eastern troops by caracalla. he also kept those forces wintered in syria, where they became attracted to the young elagabalus. after months of mild rebellion by the bulk of the army in syria, macrinus took his loyal troops to meet the army of elagabalus near antioch. despite a good fight by the praetorian guard, his soldiers were defeated. macrinus managed to escape to chalcedon but his authority was lost: he was betrayed and executed after a short reign of just months. after his father's defeat outside antioch, diadumenian tried to escape east to parthia, but was captured and killed. elagabalus ( – )[edit] main article: elagabalus roman aureus depicting elagabalus. the reverse commemorates the sun god elagabal. born varius avitus bassianus on may , known later as m. aurelius antonius, he was appointed at an early age to be priest of the sun god, elagabalus, represented by a large, dark rock called a baetyl, by which name he is known to historians (his name is sometimes written "heliogabalus"). he was proclaimed emperor by the troops of emesa, his hometown, who were instigated to do so by elagabalus's grandmother, julia maesa. she spread a rumor that elagabalus was the secret son of caracalla. this revolt spread to the entire syrian army (which, at the time, was swollen with troops raised by the emperor caracalla, and not fully loyal to macrinus), and eventually they were to win the short struggle that followed by defeating macrinus at a battle just outside antioch. elagabalus was then accepted by the senate, and he began the slow journey to rome. his reign in rome has long been known for outrageousness, although the historical sources are few, and in many cases not to be fully trusted. he is said to have smothered guests at a banquet by flooding the room with rose petals; married his male lover – who was then referred as the 'empress's husband'; and married one of the vestal virgins. some say he was transgender, and one ancient text states that he offered half the empire to the physician who could give him female genitalia. the running of the empire during this time was mainly left to his grandmother and mother (julia soaemias). seeing that her grandson's outrageous behavior could mean the loss of power, julia maesa persuaded elagabalus to accept his cousin alexander severus as caesar (and thus the nominal emperor-to-be). however, alexander was popular with the troops, who viewed their new emperor with dislike: when elagabalus, jealous of this popularity, removed the title of caesar from his nephew, the enraged praetorian guard swore to protect him. elagabalus and his mother were murdered in a praetorian guard camp mutiny. alexander severus ( – )[edit] main article: alexander severus bust of alexander severus, the last emperor of the severan dynasty alexander severus was adopted as son and caesar by his slightly older and very unpopular cousin, the emperor elagabalus at the urging of the influential and powerful julia maesa — who was grandmother of both cousins and who had arranged for the emperor's acclamation by the third legion. on march , , when alexander was just fourteen, a rumour went around the city troops that alexander had been killed, triggering a revolt of the guards that had sworn his safety from elegabalus and his accession as emperor. the eighteen-year-old emperor elagabalus and his mother were both taken from the palace, dragged through the streets, murdered and thrown in the river tiber by the praetorian guard, who then proclaimed alexander severus as augustus. ruling from the age of fourteen under the influence of his able mother, julia avita mamaea, alexander restored, to some extent, the moderation that characterized the rule of septimius severus. the rising strength of the sasanian empire ( – ) heralded perhaps the greatest external challenge that rome faced in the rd century. his prosecution of the war against a german invasion of gaul led to his overthrow by the troops he was leading, whose regard the twenty-seven-year-old had lost during the campaign. – : crisis of the third century[edit] main article: crisis of the third century further information: year of the six emperors the situation of the roman empire became dire in ad , when the emperor alexander severus was murdered by his own troops. many roman legions had been defeated during a campaign against germanic peoples raiding across the borders, while the emperor was focused primarily on the dangers from the sassanid persian empire. leading his troops personally, alexander severus resorted to diplomacy and the paying of tribute in an attempt to pacify the germanic chieftains quickly. according to herodian this cost him the respect of his troops, who may have felt they should be punishing the tribes who were intruding on rome's territory.[ ] in the years following the emperor's death, generals of the roman army fought each other for control of the empire and neglected their duties in preventing invasions. provincials became victims of frequent raids by foreign tribes, such as the carpians, goths, vandals, and alamanni, along the rhine and danube rivers in the western part of the empire, as well as attacks from sassanids in the eastern part of the empire. additionally, in , the plague of cyprian (possibly smallpox) broke out, causing large-scale mortality which may have seriously affected the ability of the empire to defend itself. an antoninianus coin depicting zenobia, showing her diadem and draped bust on a crescent with the reverse showing a standing figure of iuno regina by , the roman empire broke up into three competing states. the roman provinces of gaul, britain and hispania broke off to form the gallic empire and, two years later in , the eastern provinces of syria, palestine and aegyptus became independent as the palmyrene empire, leaving the remaining italian-centered roman empire-proper in the middle. an invasion by a vast host of goths was beaten back at the battle of naissus in . this victory was significant as the turning point of the crisis, when a series of tough, energetic soldier-emperors took power. victories by the emperor claudius ii gothicus over the next two years drove back the alamanni and recovered hispania from the gallic empire. when claudius died in of the plague, aurelian, who had commanded the cavalry at naissus, succeeded him as the emperor and continued the restoration of the empire. aurelian reigned ( – ) through the worst of the crisis, defeating the vandals, the visigoths, the palmyrenes, the persians, and then the remainder of the gallic empire. by late , the roman empire was reunited into a single entity, and the frontier troops were back in place. more than a century would pass before rome again lost military ascendancy over its external enemies. however, dozens of formerly thriving cities, especially in the western empire, had been ruined, their populations dispersed and, with the breakdown of the economic system, could not be rebuilt. major cities and towns, even rome itself, had not needed fortifications for many centuries; many then surrounded themselves with thick walls. finally, although aurelian had played a significant role in restoring the empire's borders from external threat, more fundamental problems remained. in particular, the right of succession had never been clearly defined in the roman empire, leading to continuous civil wars as competing factions in the military, senate and other parties put forward their favored candidate for emperor. another issue was the sheer size of the empire, which made it difficult for a single autocratic ruler to effectively manage multiple threats at the same time. these continuing problems would be radically addressed by diocletian, allowing the empire to continue to survive in the west for over a century and in the east for over a millennium. late roman empire[edit] further information: dominate, late antiquity, fall of the western roman empire, and historiography of the fall of the western roman empire as a matter of historical convention, the late roman empire emerged from the roman principate (the early roman empire), with the accession of diocletian in , following the third century crisis of ad – .[ ][ ] the end of the late empire is usually marked in the west with the collapse of the western empire in ad , while in the east its end is disputed, as either occurring at the close of the reign of justinian i (ad )[ ] or of heraclius (ad ).[ ] the subsequent period of centuries of the roman empire's history is conventionally labelled the "byzantine empire", with the reign of heraclius beginning the middle byzantine period, which lasted until the fourth crusade. – : diocletian and the tetrarchy[edit] main articles: diocletian and tetrarchy the tetrarchs, a porphyry sculpture sacked from a byzantine palace in , treasury of st mark's, venice the transition to divided western and eastern halves of the empire was gradual. in july , diocletian defeated rival emperor carinus and briefly became sole emperor of the roman empire. diocletian's reign stabilized the empire and marked the end of the crisis of the third century. diocletian appointed a co-emperor in and delegated further with two junior-emperors. diocletian secured the empire's borders and purged it of all threats to his power. he defeated the sarmatians and carpi during several campaigns between and , the alamanni in , and usurpers in egypt between and . galerius, aided by diocletian, campaigned successfully against sassanid persia, the empire's traditional enemy. in he sacked their capital, ctesiphon. diocletian led the subsequent negotiations and achieved a lasting and favorable peace. diocletian separated and enlarged the empire's civil and military services and reorganized the empire's provincial divisions, establishing the largest and most bureaucratic government in the history of the empire. he established new administrative centers in nicomedia, mediolanum, antioch, and trier, closer to the empire's frontiers than the traditional capital at rome had been. building on third-century trends towards absolutism, he styled himself an autocrat, elevating himself above the empire's masses with imposing forms of court ceremonies and architecture. bureaucratic and military growth, constant campaigning, and construction projects increased the state's expenditures and necessitated a comprehensive tax reform. from at least on, imperial taxation was standardized, made more equitable, and levied at generally higher rates. diocletian saw that the vast roman empire was ungovernable by a single emperor in the face of internal pressures and military threats on two fronts. he therefore split the empire in half along a northwest axis just east of italy, and created two equal emperors to rule under the title of augustus. diocletian himself was the augustus of the eastern half, and he made his long-time friend maximian augustus of the western half. in doing so, he effectively created what would become the western empire and the eastern empire. on march , , authority was further divided. each augustus took a junior emperor called a caesar to aid him in administrative matters, and to provide a line of succession. galerius became caesar for diocletian and constantius chlorus caesar for maximian. this constituted what is called the tetrarchy by modern scholars, as each emperor would rule over a quarter-division of the empire. after the empire had been plagued by bloody disputes about the supreme authority, this finally formalised a peaceful succession of the emperor: in each half a caesar would rise up to replace the augustus and select a new caesar. on may , , diocletian and maximian abdicated in favour of their caesares. galerius named the two new caesares: his nephew maximinus daia for himself, and valerius severus for constantius. the arrangement worked well under diocletian and maximian and shortly thereafter. the internal tensions within the roman government were less acute than they had been. in the decline and fall of the roman empire, edward gibbon notes that this arrangement worked well because of the affinity the four rulers had for each other. gibbon says that this arrangement has been compared to a "chorus of music". with the retirement of diocletian and maximian, this harmony disappeared. on the reverse of this argenteus struck in antioch under constantius chlorus, the tetrarchs are sacrificing to celebrate a victory against the sarmatians. after an initial period of tolerance, diocletian, who was a fervent pagan and was worried about the ever-increasing numbers of christians in the empire, persecuted them with zeal unknown since the time of nero; this was to be one of the greatest persecutions the christians endured in history. not all of diocletian's plans were successful: the edict on maximum prices ( ), his attempt to curb inflation via price controls, was counterproductive and quickly ignored. although effective while he ruled, diocletian's tetrarchic system collapsed after his abdication under the competing dynastic claims of maxentius and constantine, sons of maximian and constantius respectively. the diocletianic persecution ( – ), the empire's last, largest, and bloodiest official persecution of christianity, did not destroy the empire's christian community; indeed, after christianity became the empire's preferred religion under its first christian emperor, constantine. in spite of his failures, diocletian's reforms fundamentally changed the structure of roman imperial government and helped stabilize the empire economically and militarily, enabling the empire to remain essentially intact for another hundred years despite being near the brink of collapse in diocletian's youth. weakened by illness, diocletian left the imperial office on may , and became the first roman emperor to voluntarily abdicate the position (john vi retired to a monastery in the th century). he lived out his retirement in his palace on the dalmatian coast, tending to his vegetable gardens. his palace eventually became the core of the modern-day city of split. the peaceful tetrarchy would effectively collapse with the death of constantius chlorus on july , . constantius's troops in eboracum immediately proclaimed his son constantine the great as augustus. in august , galerius promoted severus to the position of augustus. a revolt in rome supported another claimant to the same title: maxentius, son of maximian, who was proclaimed augustus on october , . his election was supported by the praetorian guard and the roman senate. this left the empire with five rulers: four augusti (galerius, constantine, severus and maxentius) and one caesar (maximinus). the year saw the return of maximian to the rank of augustus alongside his son maxentius, creating a total of six rulers of the empire. galerius and severus campaigned against them in italy. severus was killed under command of maxentius on september , . the two augusti of italy also managed to ally themselves with constantine by having constantine marry fausta, the daughter of maximian and sister of maxentius. at the end of , the empire had four augusti (maximian, galerius, constantine and maxentius) and a sole caesar. in galerius's edict of serdica officially put an end to the persecution of christians, though the persecution continued in the territory of maximinius daia until his death in . constantine and his co-augustus licinius legalised christianity definitively in in the so-called edict of milan. in , constantine and licinius elevated three of the grandchildren of constantius to caesar: constantine's eldest sons crispus and constantine ii, and his nephew, licinius's son licinius ii constantine defeated his brother-in-law in and executed both him and his son. this unified the empire under his control as sole augustus, with only his young sons as co-emperors; he raised his son constantius ii to caesar in . – : constantinian dynasty[edit] main article: constantinian dynasty constantine and his sons[edit] main articles: constantine the great and roman empire under the constantinian dynasty the empire under constantine ( ) division of the roman empire among the caesares appointed by constantine i: from west to east, the territories of constantine ii, constans, dalmatius and constantius ii having executed his eldest son and caesar crispus in , constantine also elevated his son constans to caesar in , as well as appointing his relatives dalmatius and hannibalianus to caesar and king of kings respectively. constantine would rule until his death on may . on their father's death, an interregnum followed during which constantine ii, constantius ii, and constans eliminated most of the constantinian dynasty in a struggle for power that ended with the elevation of the three brothers as co-augusti in september . the empire was parted again among his three surviving sons. constantine ii was killed in conflict with his youngest brother in . constans was himself killed in conflict with the rebel augustus magnentius on january , . magnentius was at first opposed in the city of rome by self-proclaimed augustus nepotianus, a paternal first cousin of constans. nepotianus was killed alongside his mother eutropia. his other first cousin constantia convinced vetranio to proclaim himself caesar in opposition to magnentius. vetranio served a brief term from march to december , . he was then forced to abdicate by the legitimate augustus constantius. the usurper magnentius would continue to rule the western roman empire until while in conflict with constantius. his eventual defeat and suicide left constantius as sole emperor until the nomination of his cousin constantius gallus as his caesar and co-emperor. constantius's rule would however be opposed again in . after his execution of constantius gallus, the augustus constantius had named his paternal half-cousin and brother-in-law julian as his caesar in , sending him to rule from trier. during the following five years, julian had a series of victories against invading germanic tribes, including the alamanni. this allowed him to secure the rhine frontier. his victorious gallic troops thus ceased campaigning. constantius sent orders for the troops to be transferred to the east as reinforcements for his own currently unsuccessful campaign against shapur ii of persia. this order led the gallic troops to an insurrection. they acclaimed, invested, and crowned their commanding officer julian as augustus after the decisive battle of strasbourg, a distinction he had previously been offered but declined. both augusti readied their troops for another roman civil war, but the timely demise of constantius on november and his deathbed recognition of julian as co-augustus prevented the roman civil war of – from reaching constantinople. map of rome in – : julian[edit] main article: julian (emperor) detail of the "bikini girls" mosaic from the villa romana del casale, roman sicily, th century ad julian would serve as the sole emperor for two years. he had been raised by the gothic slave mardonius, a great admirer of ancient greek philosophy and literature. julian had received his baptism as a christian years before, but no longer considered himself one. his reign would see the ending of restrictions and violence against paganism introduced by his uncle and father-in-law constantine i and his cousins and brothers-in-law constantine ii, constans and constantius ii. he instead placed similar restrictions on christianity, and some unofficial violence against christians occurred. his edict of toleration in ordered the reopening of pagan temples and the reinstitution of alienated temple properties, and, more problematically for the christian church, the recalling of previously exiled christian bishops. returning orthodox and arian bishops resumed their conflicts, thus further weakening the church as a whole. julian himself was not a traditional pagan. his personal beliefs were largely influenced by neoplatonism and theurgy; he reputedly believed he was the reincarnation of alexander the great. he produced works of philosophy arguing his beliefs. his brief renaissance of paganism would, however, end with his death. julian eventually resumed the war against shapur ii of persia. he received a mortal wound in battle and died on june , . according to gibbon in the decline and fall of the roman empire, upon being mortally wounded by a dart, he was carried back to his camp. he gave a farewell speech, in which he refused to name a successor. he then proceeded to debate the philosophical nature of the soul with his generals. he then requested water and, shortly after drinking it, died. he was considered a hero by pagan sources of his time and a villain by christian ones. gibbon wrote quite favourably about julian. contemporary historians have treated him as a controversial figure. : jovian[edit] main article: jovian (emperor) julian died childless and with no designated successor. the officers of his army elected the rather obscure officer jovian emperor. he is remembered for signing an unfavourable peace treaty with the sasanian empire, ceding territories won from the persians, dating back to trajan. he restored the privileges of christianity. he is considered a christian himself, though little is known of his beliefs. jovian himself died on february , . – : valentinianic dynasty[edit] main article: valentinianic dynasty valentinian and valens[edit] main articles: valentinian the great and valens a golden solidus depicting valentinian i (r. – ) and (righthand image) a marble statue of his son and later ruler valentinian ii (r. – ) the role of choosing a new augustus fell again to army officers. on february , , pannonian officer valentinian i was elected augustus in nicaea, bithynia. the army had been left leaderless twice in less than a year, and the officers demanded valentinian choose a co-ruler. on march valentinian chose his own younger brother valens and the two new augusti parted the empire in the pattern established by diocletian: valentinian would administer the western provinces, while valens took control over the eastern empire. the election of valens was soon disputed. procopius, a cilician maternal cousin of julian, had been considered a likely heir to his cousin but was never designated as such. he had been in hiding since the election of jovian. in , while valentinian was at paris and then at rheims to direct the operations of his generals against the alamanni, procopius managed to bribe two legions assigned to constantinople and take control of constantinople. he was acclaimed augustus on september and soon extended his control to both thrace and bithynia. war between the rival emperors continued until procopius was defeated. valens had him executed on may , . on august , , the eight-year-old gratian was proclaimed as a third augustus by his father valentinian, who had fallen ill, a nominal co-ruler and means to secure succession. in april valentinian i led his army in a campaign against the quadi, a germanic tribe which had invaded his native region of pannonia. according to ammianus marcellinus, during an audience with an embassy from the quadi at brigetio on the danube, valentinian suffered a burst blood vessel in his brain while angrily yelling at the people gathered,[ ] resulting in his death on november , . gratian was then a -year-old and arguably ready to act as emperor, but the troops in pannonia proclaimed his infant half-brother emperor under the title valentinian ii. valens and gratian acquiesced in their choice. while the senior augustus administered the eastern empire, gratian governed the praetorian prefecture of gaul. the praetorian prefecture of italy, illyricum, and africa were officially administrated by infant brother and gratian's stepmother justina. however the division was merely nominal, actual authority in the west still rested with gratian, and with valens as the senior emperor. battle of adrianople ( )[edit] main article: battle of adrianople barbarian invasions of the roman empire, showing the battle of adrianople meanwhile, the eastern roman empire faced its own problems with germanic tribes. the thervingi, an east germanic tribe, fled their former lands following an invasion by the huns. their leaders alavivus and fritigern led them to seek refuge in the eastern roman empire. valens allowed them to settle as foederati on the southern bank of the danube in . however, the newcomers faced problems from allegedly corrupted provincial commanders and a series of hardships. their dissatisfaction led them to revolt against their roman hosts. conflicts continued for the following two years. valens led a campaign against them in . gratian provided his uncle with reinforcements from the western roman army. however, this campaign proved disastrous for the romans. the two armies approached each other near adrianople. valens was apparently overconfident of the numerical superiority of his own forces over the goths. some of his officers advised caution and to await the arrival of gratian, others urged an immediate attack and eventually prevailed over valens, who, eager to have all of the glory for himself, rushed into battle. on august , , the battle of adrianople resulted in the crushing defeat of the romans and the death of valens. contemporary historian ammianus marcellinus estimated that two-thirds of the roman army were lost in the battle. the battle had far-reaching consequences. veteran soldiers and valuable administrators were among the heavy casualties. there were few available replacements at the time, leaving the empire with the problem of finding suitable leadership. the roman army also started to face recruiting problems. in the following century much of the roman army would consist of germanic mercenaries. gratian and valentinian ii[edit] main articles: gratian and valentinian ii the death of valens left gratian and valentinian ii as the sole augusti. gratian was now effectively responsible for the whole empire. he sought a replacement augustus for the eastern roman empire. his choice was theodosius i, son of formerly distinguished magister equitum count theodosius. the elder theodosius had been executed in early for unclear reasons. the younger theodosius was named gratian and valentinian's junior co-augustus on january , , at sirmium. gratian governed the western roman empire with energy and success for some years, but he gradually sank into indolence. he is considered to have become a figurehead while frankish general merobaudes and bishop ambrose of milan jointly acted as the power behind the throne. gratian lost favour with factions of the roman senate by prohibiting traditional paganism at rome and relinquishing his title of pontifex maximus. the senior augustus also became unpopular with his own roman troops because of his close association with so-called barbarians. he reportedly recruited alans to his personal service and adopted the guise of a scythian warrior for public appearances. meanwhile, gratian, valentinian ii and theodosius were joined by a fourth augustus. theodosius elevated his oldest son arcadius to augustus in january , in an obvious attempt to secure succession. the boy was still only five or six years old and held no actual authority. nevertheless, he was recognised as a co-emperor by all three augusti. – : rebellion of magnus maximus[edit] main article: magnus maximus the increasing unpopularity of gratian would cause the four augusti problems later that same year. magnus maximus, a general from hispania, stationed in roman britain, was proclaimed augustus by his troops in and, rebelling against gratian, he invaded gaul. gratian fled from lutetia (paris) to lugdunum (lyon), where he was assassinated on august , , at the age of . maximus was a firm believer of the nicene creed and introduced state persecution on charges of heresy, which brought him into conflict with pope siricius who argued that the augustus had no authority over church matters. but he was an emperor with popular support, as is attested in romano-british tradition, where he gained a place in the mabinogion, compiled about a thousand years after his death. following gratian's death, maximus had to deal with valentinian ii, at the time only twelve years old, as the senior augustus. during the first few years, the alps would serve as the borders between the respective territories of the two rival western roman emperors. maximus controlled the praetorian prefecture of gaul. he assumed the government at augusta treverorum (trier), the prefecture's capital. maximus soon entered negotiations with valentinian ii and theodosius, attempting to gain their official recognition. by , negotiations were unfruitful and maximus tried to press the matter by settling succession as only a legitimate emperor could do: proclaiming his own infant son flavius victor an augustus. the end of the year found the empire having five augusti (valentinian ii, theodosius i, arcadius, magnus maximus and flavius victor) with relations between them yet to be determined. theodosius was left a widower in , following the sudden death of aelia flaccilla, his augusta and the mother of arcadius and honorius. in maximus and victor finally received official recognition by theodosius but not by valentinian. in , maximus apparently decided to rid himself of his italian rival. he crossed the alps into the valley of the po and threatened milan. theodosius was remarried to the sister of valentinian ii, galla, after their mother justina fled with the young emperor to theodosius's territory to escape magnus maximus's invasion of italy. the marriage secured closer relations between the two augusti. theodosius indeed campaigned west in and was victorious against maximus. maximus himself was captured and executed in aquileia on july , . the magister militum arbogast was sent to trier with orders to also kill flavius victor. theodosius restored valentinian to power and through his influence had him converted to orthodox catholic christianity. theodosius continued supporting valentinian and protecting him from a variety of usurpations. – : valentinianic–theodosian dynasty[edit] detail of one of the carved reliefs on the obelisk of theodosius in istanbul (constantinople), showing roman emperor theodosius i surrounded by members of his court and receiving tributary gifts from foreign emissaries, late th century ad the division of the empire after the death of theodosius i, c. , superimposed on modern borders.   western empire   eastern empire main articles: valentinianic dynasty and theodosian dynasty – : rebellion of eugenius[edit] main article: eugenius in valentinian ii died mysteriously in vienne. arbogast, who may have killed him, arranged for the appointment of eugenius as emperor. however, the eastern emperor theodosius refused to recognise eugenius as emperor and invaded the west, defeating and killing arbogast and eugenius at the battle of the frigidus. he thus reunited the entire roman empire under his rule, the last emperor who had practical power over the whole empire. on his death in february , the two halves of the empire to his two sons arcadius and honorius. – : arcadius and honorius[edit] main articles: arcadius and honorius (emperor) arcadius became ruler in the east, with his capital in constantinople, and honorius became ruler in the west, with his capital in milan and later ravenna. the roman state would continue to have two different emperors with different seats of power throughout the th century, though the eastern romans considered themselves to be the only ones who were fully roman. latin was used in official writings as much as, if not more than, greek and the two halves were nominally, culturally and historically, if not politically, the same state. arcadius died in , having already elevated his infant son theodosius ii to augustus in . theodosius ii reigned for more than forty years. theodosius had two sons and a daughter, pulcheria, from his first wife, aelia flacilla. his daughter and wife had died in . by his second wife, galla, the daughter of valentinian the great, he had a daughter, galla placidia; his son gratian did not survive infancy. galla placidia, having grown up at constantinople, married first athaulf, king of the visigoths, and then the future constantius iii. both her husbands died not long after the marriages, and constantius iii, who succeeded honorius as augustus, reigned for less than a year. galla placidia and constantius had two children: the future valentinian iii, who became augustus in the western empire, and justa grata honoria. on the death of honorius, the official joannes seized power in italy and thedosius ii appointed valentinian iii his caesar and dispatched him to the western empire with an army, which deposed joannes and whose commander elevated valentinian to augustus on the first anniversary of his appointment as caesar. his mother the augusta galla placidia was regent during his youth. valentinian iii married theodosius ii's daughter licinia eudoxia and reigned for three decades until his murder by the rebel augustus petronius maximus and his caesar palladius, who forced valentinian's wife licinia and daughter placidia to marry them. on the death of theodosius ii, the military officer marcian was acclaimed valentinian iii's co-augustus and married the late emperor's elder sister, the augusta pulcheria. marcian was the last of the theodosians to rule in the east, and only connected to them by marriage to the augusta. when pulcheria died in and marcian died in , ending the theodosian line, the court at constantinople selected the general leo i as his successor as augustus, beginning the reign of the leonid dynasty. – : leonid dynasty[edit] main article: leonid dynasty the leonid dynasty established by leo i was continued by his daughters by the augusta verina: ariadne and leontia. ariadne married zeno and their son together, leo ii, was elevated to augustus on the death of his grandfather (or shortly beforehand) in . leo ii, still a child, also died that year, but not before crowning his own father zeno his co-emperor. zeno, who was then sole augustus, faced numerous rebellions because of his tenuous claim to the throne, including a usurpation by basiliscus, leo i's brother-in-law, that briefly ousted zeno from constantinople. other claimants were descended from marcia euphemia, the daughter of the emperor marcian from his first marriage, before becoming emperor. marcia euphemia married anthemius, who became augustus in the west in , and had several sons: anthemiolus was killed fighting the goths in the west, but his brothers romulus, procopius anthemius, and marcian, who married had leontia, sought to overthrow zeno, as did the generals illus and leontius, though each failed to dislodge the emperor. a relative of leo i's wife verina whose name is lost was married to julius, the future emperor, who took the name nepos, 'nephew', from his wife's relationship with the imperial dynasty. when zeno finally died in , his widow ariadne remarried, wedding a silentiarius, anastasius dicorus, who was then acclaimed and crowned emperor. anastasius built the anastasian wall as an outer defensive works for the fortification walls of constantinople. decline of the western roman empire[edit] main articles: western roman empire, fall of the western roman empire, and migration period the western and eastern halves of the empire under majorian and leo ( ) the roman empire in after , the emperors in the western empire were usually figureheads, while the actual rulers were military strongmen who took the title of magister militum, patrician or both—stilicho from to , constantius from about to , aëtius from to and ricimer from about to . the year is generally accepted as the formal end of the western roman empire. that year, orestes, having stolen power from the emperor julius nepos the year before, refused the request of germanic mercenaries in his service for lands in italy. the dissatisfied mercenaries, including the heruli, revolted. the revolt was led by the germanic chieftain odoacer. odoacer and his men captured and executed orestes; weeks later they captured ravenna and deposed orestes' usurper son, romulus augustus. this event has been traditionally considered the fall of the roman empire in the west. odoacer quickly conquered the remaining provinces of italy. odoacer returned the western imperial regalia to the eastern emperor, zeno. zeno soon received two deputations. one was from odoacer requesting that his control of italy be formally recognised by the empire, in which case he would in turn acknowledge zeno's supremacy. the other deputation was from julius nepos, requesting support to regain the throne. zeno granted odoacer the title patrician. zeno told odoacer and the roman senate to take nepos back, but nepos never returned from dalmatia, even though odoacer issued coins in his name. upon nepos's death in , zeno claimed dalmatia for the east; j. b. bury considers this the real end of the western roman empire. odoacer attacked dalmatia, and the ensuing war ended with theodoric the great, king of the ostrogoths, conquering italy under zeno's authority and forming the ostrogothic kingdom, with its capital at ravenna. – justinian dynasty[edit] main article: roman empire under the justinian dynasty when anastasius himself died, the court at constantinople ignored potential claimants from the valentinianic–theodosian dynasty and elevated instead a senior officer of the imperial guard, justin i, as augustus. map gallery[edit] 	empire 	 			 			 			 		 	 			 			 			 		 	 			 			 			 		 	 			 			 			 		 	 			 			 			 		 	 			 			 			 		 	 			 			 			 		 	 			 			 			 		 	orient 	 			 			 			 		 	 			 			 			 		 	 			 			 			 		 	 			 			 			 		 	 			 			 			 		 see also[edit] 	history of rome 	legacy of the roman empire 	roman imperial period (chronology) 	history of the byzantine empire 	list of cities founded by the romans notes[edit] 	^ other ways of referring to the "roman empire" among the romans and greeks themselves included res publica romana or imperium romanorum (also in greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων – basileíā tôn rhōmaíōn – ["dominion (literally 'kingdom') of the romans"]) and romania. res publica means roman "commonwealth" and can refer to both the republican and the imperial eras. imperium romanum (or romanorum) refers to the territorial extent of roman authority. populus romanus ("the roman people") was/is often used to indicate the roman state in matters involving other nations. the term romania, initially a colloquial term for the empire's territory as well as a collective name for its inhabitants, appears in greek and latin sources from the th century onward and was eventually carried over to the byzantine empire (see r. l. wolff, "romania: the latin empire of constantinople" in speculum ( ), pp. – and especially pp. – ). references[edit] 	works cited 	abbott, frank frost ( ). a history and description of roman political institutions. boston: ginn. oclc  . 	cassius dio ( ). roman history. loeb classical library, . viii: books – . translated by cary, earnest; foster, herbert b. cambridge: harvard university press. doi: . /dlcl.dio_cassius-roman_history. . isbn  - . oclc  . 	cassius dio ( ). roman history. loeb classical library, . ix: books – . translated by cary, earnest; foster, herbert b. cambridge: harvard university press. doi: . /dlcl.dio_cassius-roman_history. . isbn  - . oclc  . 	magie, david. historia augusta, volume i: hadrian. 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wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 	giacomo di chirico 	self portrait 	born	( - - ) january venosa, basilicata 	died	 december ( - - ) (aged  ) naples, campania 	nationality	italian 	known for	painting giacomo ernesto eduardo di chirico ( january – december ) was an italian painter. together with domenico morelli and filippo palizzi, he was one of the most elite neapolitan artists of the th century. contents 	 biography 	 artworks 	 honor 	 notes 	 bibliography 	 external links biography[edit] giacomo di chirico was born in venosa into a carpenter's family, the younger son of luigi and caterina savino. in , when di chirico was barely years old, his father luigi died, leaving the family impoverished. he attended a private school for boys from deprived families under the supervision of priest giuseppe gianturco, the brother of politician emanuele gianturco. he began working at a barbershop to support his family economically but had become passionate about his painting hobby, after learning basic art techniques from his older brother, nicola, a sculptor. di chirico had begun to create portraits of his customers, who expressed admiration for his work, and local citizens who saw his portraits began to request them. feeling stimulated from such interest and their appreciation, di chirico decided to become a professional painter. he obtained a subsidy salary from the municipality of venosa, was enrolled in the academy of fine arts of naples[ ] and graduated after he had demonstrated optimal results from the studies. in , di chirico became a disciple of francesco de sanctis, who taught him lessons in literature for two years. between and , di chirico refined his artistic technique while living in rome, further strengthening his friendship with domenico morelli and filippo palizzi. he returned to naples to open an art studio. during his career, di chirico created masterpieces such as buoso da duera, quinto orazio flacco, corteggiamento and donna lucana. sposalizio in basilicata, one of his best known paintings, was exposed in paris ( ), vienna ( ) and munich ( ). it was purchased by the french merchant adolphe goupil. di chirico's works were exposed at the goupil & cie in paris. he received the title knight of the order of the crown of italy from victor emmanuel ii. between and , di chirico was made an honorary professor at the academy of art in naples. he spent august (ferragosto) in maiori, where he met his wife emilia d’amato. he remained with her for the rest of his life and they had a daughter named maria. one of his pupils was pietro scoppetta. as his artistic career continued to reach new heights, so did the rise of his activity until , when di chirico began to exhibit symptoms of mania, sleep deprivation and cachexia, a pattern of ailments that overlapped with the dutch painter vincent van gogh's illness. di chirico was confined to the provincial lunatic asylum for his mental illness. in the asylum, his physical health continued to deteriorate, and he died during treatment in naples in at age . artworks[edit] 	 			 			 buoso da duera 			 		 	 			 			 sposalizio in basilicata 			 		 	 			 			 donna lucana 			 		 	 			 			 horace 			 		 	 			 			 il ministrante 			 		 honor[edit] 	 • knight of the order of the crown of italy, kingdom of italy[ ] notes[edit] 	^ http://www.accademianapoli.it/istituzioni-e-societa/[permanent dead link] academy of art in naples 	^ enrico castelnuovo, la pittura in italia: l'ottocento, volume , p. bibliography[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to giacomo di chirico. 	richard muther, the history of modern painting, volume , j.m. dent & co., . 	enrico castelnuovo, la pittura in italia: l'ottocento, volume , electa, . external links[edit] 	https://web.archive.org/web/ /http://www.giacomodichirico.com/ (in english) 	biografia di giacomo di chirico 	wedding of the prefect of the province of basilicata in the south of italy 	authority 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	parents	osiris and isis 	siblings	anubis,[a] bastet 	consort	hathor 	offspring	ihy horus or her, heru, hor, har in ancient egyptian, is one of the most significant ancient egyptian deities who served many functions, most notably god of kingship and the sky. he was worshipped from at least the late prehistoric egypt until the ptolemaic kingdom and roman egypt. different forms of horus are recorded in history and these are treated as distinct gods by egyptologists.[ ] these various forms may possibly be different manifestations of the same multi-layered deity in which certain attributes or syncretic relationships are emphasized, not necessarily in opposition but complementary to one another, consistent with how the ancient egyptians viewed the multiple facets of reality.[ ] he was most often depicted as a falcon, most likely a lanner falcon or peregrine falcon, or as a man with a falcon head.[ ] the earliest recorded form of horus is the tutelary deity of nekhen in upper egypt, who is the first known national god, specifically related to the ruling pharaoh who in time came to be regarded as a manifestation of horus in life and osiris in death.[ ] the most commonly encountered family relationship describes horus as the son of isis and osiris, and he plays a key role in the osiris myth as osiris's heir and the rival to set, the murderer and brother of osiris. in another tradition hathor is regarded as his mother and sometimes as his wife.[ ] claudius aelianus wrote that egyptians called the god apollo 'horus' in their own language.[ ] contents 	 etymology 	 horus and the pharaoh 	 origin mythology 	 mythological roles 	 . sky god 	 . conflict between horus and set 	 . golden horus osiris 	 other forms of horus 	 . her-ur (horus the elder) 	 . heru-pa-khered (horus the younger) 	 . heru-behdeti (horus of behdet) 	 . her-em-akhet (horus in the horizon) 	 celebrations of horus 	 in popular culture 	 influences on christianity 	 gallery 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 external links etymology[edit] 		 	 	ḥr "horus" in hieroglyphs horus is recorded in egyptian hieroglyphs as ḥr.w "falcon"; the pronunciation has been reconstructed as /ˈħaːruw/. additional meanings are thought to have been "the distant one" or "one who is above, over".[ ] as the language changed over time, it appeared in coptic varieties variously as /hoːɾ/ or /ħoːɾ/ and was adopted into ancient greek as Ὧρος hōros (pronounced at the time as /hɔ̂ːros/). it also survives in late egyptian and coptic theophoric name forms such as siese "son of isis" and harsiese "horus, son of isis". nekheny may have been another falcon god worshipped at nekhen, city of the falcon, with whom horus was identified from early on. horus may be shown as a falcon on the narmer palette, dating from about the st century bc. horus and the pharaoh[edit] the pyramid texts (c. – bc) describe the nature of the pharaoh in different characters as both horus and osiris. the pharaoh as horus in life became the pharaoh as osiris in death, where he was united with the other gods. new incarnations of horus succeeded the deceased pharaoh on earth in the form of new pharaohs.[ ] the lineage of horus, the eventual product of unions between the children of atum, may have been a means to explain and justify pharaonic power. the gods produced by atum were all representative of cosmic and terrestrial forces in egyptian life. by identifying horus as the offspring of these forces, then identifying him with atum himself, and finally identifying the pharaoh with horus, the pharaoh theologically had dominion over all the world. origin mythology[edit] 	part of a series on 	ancient egyptian religion 	 	 beliefs 	afterlife 	duat 	ma'at 	mythology 	numerology 	philosophy 	soul 	 practices 	funerals 	offering formula 	temples 	pyramids 	 deities (list) 	ogdoad	 	amun 	amunet 	hauhet 	heh 	kauket 	kek 	naunet 	nu 	ennead	 	atum 	geb 	isis 	nephthys 	nut 	osiris 	set 	shu 	tefnut 	a 	aker 	akhty 	ammit 	am-heh 	anat 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pe and nekhen t 	tatenen 	taweret 	tayt 	ta-bitjet 	tenenet 	thoth 	hermes trismegistus 	tjenenyet 	tutu u 	unut w 	wadjet 	wadj-wer 	weneg 	wepset 	wepwawet 	werethekau 	wosret 	 locations 	neter-khertet 	aaru 	benben 	duat 	land of manu 	the indestructibles 	 symbols and objects 	aani 	abtu 	ankh 	atef 	atet 	book of thoth 	cartouche 	crook and flail 	deshret 	djed 	egyptian obelisk 	egyptian pool 	eye of horus 	eye of ra 	griffin 	hedjet 	hemhem crown 	hennu 	hieracosphinx 	imiut fetish 	khepresh 	kneph 	matet boat 	medjed 	menat 	nebu 	nemes 	neshmet 	ouroboros 	pschent 	scarab 	seqtet boat 	serekh 	serpopard 	set animal 	shen ring 	sphinx 	tyet 	uraeus 	ushabti 	was-sceptre 	winged sun 	 texts 	funerary texts (amduat • books of breathing • book of caverns • book of the dead • book of the earth • book of gates) 	 related religions 	atenism 	hermeticism 	thelema 	kemeticism (kemetic orthodoxy • church of the most high goddess) 	  ancient egypt portal 		v 	t 	e horus was born to the goddess isis after she retrieved all the dismembered body parts of her murdered husband osiris, except his penis, which was thrown into the nile and eaten by a catfish,[ ][ ] or sometimes depicted as instead by a crab, and according to plutarch's account used her magic powers to resurrect osiris and fashion a phallus[ ] to conceive her son (older egyptian accounts have the penis of osiris surviving). after becoming pregnant with horus, isis fled to the nile delta marshlands to hide from her brother set, who jealously killed osiris and who she knew would want to kill their son.[ ] there isis bore a divine son, horus. mythological roles[edit] 		 		 	rˁ-ḥr- ḫty "ra-horakhty" in hieroglyphs sky god[edit] since horus was said to be the sky, he was considered to also contain the sun and moon.[ ] it became said[by whom?] that the sun was his right eye and the moon his left, and that they traversed the sky when he, a falcon, flew across it. later, the reason that the moon was not as bright as the sun was explained by a tale, known as the contendings of horus and seth. in this tale, it was said that set, the patron of upper egypt, and horus, the patron of lower egypt, had battled for egypt brutally, with neither side victorious, until eventually, the gods sided with horus. as horus was the ultimate victor he became known as ḥr.w wr "horus the great", but more usually translated "horus the elder". in the struggle, set had lost a testicle, and horus' eye was gouged out. horus was occasionally shown in art as a naked boy with a finger in his mouth sitting on a lotus with his mother. in the form of a youth, horus was referred to as nfr ḥr.w "good horus", transliterated neferhor, nephoros or nopheros (reconstructed as naːfiru ħaːruw). eye of horus or wedjat the eye of horus is an ancient egyptian symbol of protection and royal power from deities, in this case from horus or ra. the symbol is seen on images of horus' mother, isis, and on other deities associated with her. in the egyptian language, the word for this symbol was "wedjat" (wɟt).[ ][ ] it was the eye of one of the earliest of egyptian deities, wadjet, who later became associated with bastet, mut, and hathor as well. wadjet was a solar deity and this symbol began as her all-seeing eye. in early artwork, hathor is also depicted with this eye.[ ] funerary amulets were often made in the shape of the eye of horus. the wedjat or eye of horus is "the central element" of seven "gold, faience, carnelian and lapis lazuli" bracelets found on the mummy of shoshenq ii.[ ] the wedjat "was intended to protect the king [here] in the afterlife"[ ] and to ward off evil. egyptian and near eastern sailors would frequently paint the symbol on the bow of their vessel to ensure safe sea travel.[ ] conflict between horus and set[edit] horus, louvre, shen rings in his grasp horus was told by his mother, isis, to protect the people of egypt from set, the god of the desert, who had killed horus' father, osiris.[ ][ ] horus had many battles with set, not only to avenge his father, but to choose the rightful ruler of egypt. in these battles, horus came to be associated with lower egypt, and became its patron. according to the contendings of horus and seth, set is depicted as trying to prove his dominance by seducing horus and then having sexual intercourse with him. however, horus places his hand between his thighs and catches set's semen, then subsequently throws it in the river so that he may not be said to have been inseminated by set. horus (or isis herself in some versions) then deliberately spreads his own semen on some lettuce, which was set's favorite food. after set had eaten the lettuce, they went to the gods to try to settle the argument over the rule of egypt. the gods first listened to set's claim of dominance over horus, and call his semen forth, but it answered from the river, invalidating his claim. then, the gods listened to horus' claim of having dominated set, and call his semen forth, and it answered from inside set.[ ][ ] figure of a horus falcon, between circa and circa bc (greco-roman).[ ] the walters art museum. horus falcon, after bce. original in the department of ancient egypt and sudan, british museum however, set still refused to relent, and the other gods were getting tired from over eighty years of fighting and challenges. horus and set challenged each other to a boat race, where they each raced in a boat made of stone. horus and set agreed, and the race started. but horus had an edge: his boat was made of wood painted to resemble stone, rather than true stone. set's boat, being made of heavy stone, sank, but horus' did not. horus then won the race, and set stepped down and officially gave horus the throne of egypt.[ ] after the new kingdom, set was still considered lord of the desert and its oases.[ ] in many versions of the story, horus and set divide the realm between them. this division can be equated with any of several fundamental dualities that the egyptians saw in their world. horus may receive the fertile lands around the nile, the core of egyptian civilization, in which case set takes the barren desert or the foreign lands that are associated with it; horus may rule the earth while set dwells in the sky; and each god may take one of the two traditional halves of the country, upper and lower egypt, in which case either god may be connected with either region. yet in the memphite theology, geb, as judge, first apportions the realm between the claimants and then reverses himself, awarding sole control to horus. in this peaceable union, horus and set are reconciled, and the dualities that they represent have been resolved into a united whole. through this resolution, order is restored after the tumultuous conflict.[ ] egyptologists have often tried to connect the conflict between the two gods with political events early in egypt's history or prehistory. the cases in which the combatants divide the kingdom, and the frequent association of the paired horus and set with the union of upper and lower egypt, suggest that the two deities represent some kind of division within the country. egyptian tradition and archaeological evidence indicate that egypt was united at the beginning of its history when an upper egyptian kingdom, in the south, conquered lower egypt in the north. the upper egyptian rulers called themselves "followers of horus", and horus became the tutelary deity of the unified nation and its kings. yet horus and set cannot be easily equated with the two halves of the country. both deities had several cult centers in each region, and horus is often associated with lower egypt and set with upper egypt. other events may have also affected the myth. before even upper egypt had a single ruler, two of its major cities were nekhen, in the far south, and nagada, many miles to the north. the rulers of nekhen, where horus was the patron deity, are generally believed to have unified upper egypt, including nagada, under their sway. set was associated with nagada, so it is possible that the divine conflict dimly reflects an enmity between the cities in the distant past. much later, at the end of the second dynasty (c. – bce), pharaoh seth-peribsen used the set animal to writing his serekh name in place of the falcon hieroglyph representing horus. his successor khasekhemwy used both horus and set in the writing of his serekh. this evidence has prompted conjecture that the second dynasty saw a clash between the followers of the horus king and the worshippers of set led by seth-peribsen. khasekhemwy's use of the two animal symbols would then represent the reconciliation of the two factions, as does the resolution of the myth.[ ] golden horus osiris[edit] horus gradually took on the nature as both the son of osiris and osiris himself. he was referred to as golden horus osiris.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] in the temple of denderah he is given the full royal titulary of both that of horus and osiris. he was sometimes believed to be both the father of himself as well as his own son, and some later accounts have osiris being brought back to life by isis.[ ] other forms of horus[edit] 	heru-ur 	god of nekhen, egypt, and the pharaohs 	 	major cult center	heliopolis, gizah 	symbol	hawk-headed man 	personal information 	parents	geb and nut 	siblings	osiris, isis, set, and nephthys 	consort	serqet, hathor 	offspring	imset, hapi, duamutef, qebehsenuef her-ur (horus the elder)[edit] heru-ur (or herwer), (haroeris to the ptolemaic greeks), also known as horus the elder, was a form of horus, where he was the son of geb and nut. he was one of the oldest gods of ancient egypt. he absorbed a number of local gods including a hawk god nekheny the nome of nekhen and wer (a god of light known as “the great one” whose eyes were the sun and moon) to become the patron of nekhen (hierakonpolis), the first national god ("god of the kingdom") and later the patron god of the pharaohs. nekhen was a powerful city in the pre-dynastic period, and the early capital of upper egypt. by the old kingdom he was simply referred to as horus had become the first national god and the patron of the pharaoh. he was called the son of truth[ ] – signifying his role as an important upholder of maat. his right eye was the sun and the left one was the moon. her-ur was sometimes depicted fully as a falcon, he was sometimes given the title kemwer, meaning "(the) great black (one)". other variants include hor merti 'horus of the two eyes' and horkhenti irti.[ ] heru-pa-khered (horus the younger)[edit] heru-pa-khered (harpocrates to the ptolemaic greeks), also known as horus the younger, is represented in the form of a youth wearing a lock of hair (a sign of youth) on the right of his head while sucking his finger. in addition, he usually wears the united crowns of egypt, the crown of upper egypt and the crown of lower egypt. he is a form of the rising sun, representing its earliest light. heru-behdeti (horus of behdet)[edit] the winged sun of horus of edfu and depicted on the top of pylons in the ancient temples throughout egypt. her-em-akhet (greek: harmakhis), the wall relief of a hieracosphinx depicted at the temple of horus in edfu her-em-akhet (horus in the horizon)[edit] her-em-akhet (or horemakhet), (harmakhis in greek), represented the dawn and the early morning sun. he was often depicted as a sphinx with the head of a man (like the great sphinx of giza), or as a hieracosphinx, a creature with a lion's body and a falcon's head and wings, sometimes with the head of a lion or ram (the latter providing a link to the god khepri, the rising sun). it was believed that he was the inspiration for the great sphinx of giza, constructed under the order of khafre, whose head it depicts. other forms of horus include: - hor merti ('horus of the two eyes'); - horkhenti irti;[ ] - her-sema-tawy ('horus uniter of the two lands'), the greek harsomptus, depicted like the double-crowned horus her-iunmutef (iunmutef), ('horus, pillar of his mother'), depicted as a priest wearing a leopard-skin over torso in the tomb of nefertari, valley of the queens herui, the th nome god of upper egypt in coptos besides the pharaoh sahure - her-iunmutef or iunmutef, depicted as a priest with a leopard-skin over the torso; - herui (the "double falcon or horuses"), the th nome god of upper egypt in coptos her-sema-tawy ('horus, uniter of the two lands'), tying the papyrus and reed plants in the sema tawy symbol for the unification of upper and lower egypt opposite with set (sutekh) celebrations of horus[edit] macrobius' chronicon noted the annual ancient egyptian celebration of horus, specifying the time as the winter solstice. an analysis of the works of epiphanius of salamis noted the egyptian winter solstice celebration of horus in panarion.[ ] in popular culture[edit] main article: ancient egyptian deities in popular culture § horus influences on christianity[edit] william r. cooper's book and acharya s's self-published book, among others, have suggested that there are many similarities between the story of horus and the much posterior story of jesus.[ ][ ] however, this theory has been rejected by both christian and non-christian scholars.[ ][ ][ ][ ] gallery[edit] 	 			 			 falcon horus, deity of hierakonpolis, on a naqada iic jar, circa bce, british museum ea .[ ][ ] 			 		 	 			 			 god horus as a falcon wearing the double crown of egypt. th dynasty. state museum of egyptian art, munich 			 		 	 			 			 horus, patron deity of hierakonpolis (near edfu), the predynastic capital of upper egypt. its head was executed by means of beating the gold then connecting it with the copper body. a uraeus is fixed to the diadem which supports two tall openwork feathers. the eyes are inlaid with obsidian. sixth dynasty. 			 		 	 			 			 horus represented in relief with wadjet and wearing the double crown. mortuary temple of hatshepsut 			 		 	 			 			 horus relief in the temple 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see also 	 footnotes 	 references 	 bibliography key to latin terms and phrases[edit] roman dictators were usually appointed for a specific purpose, or causa, which limited the scope of their activities. the chief causae were rei gerundae (a general purpose, usually to lead an army in the field against a particular enemy), clavi figendi (an important religious rite involving the driving of a nail into the wall of the temple of jupiter optimus maximus), and comitiorum habendorum (the holding of the comitia to elect magistrates, when the consuls were unable to do so). other causae included ludorum faciendorum, holding the ludi romani (roman games), an important religious festival; ferarium constituendarum (establishing a religious festival in response to serious prodigies); seditionis sedandae (quelling sedition); and in one remarkable case, senatus legendi (filling up the ranks of the senate after the battle of cannae). the causa given at the very end of the republic for the dictatorships of sulla and caesar are completely novel, as the powers granted greatly exceeded those traditionally accorded a roman dictator. by legibus faciendis et rei publicae constituendae causa, sulla was empowered to rewrite the laws and revise the constitution of the roman state; by dictator perpetuo rei publicae constituendae causa, caesar was appointed dictator in perpetuity, and given the power to revise the constitution. the various causae may not have been legally distinguished from one another prior to bc, when publius manlius capitolinus was appointed dictator seditionis sedandae et rei gerundae causa. the precise formula of each causa later reported by ancient historians may only date to manlius' dictatorship, in which case the causae attributed to earlier dictators must be later additions.[ ] other phrases[edit] 	abdicavit – abdicated, or resigned. 	mortuus est – died in office. 	non iniit – not inaugurated. 	occisus est – killed, slain. 	sine magistro equitum – without a magister equitum. roman numerals given following a name indicate that the dictator or magister equitum for that year previously held the same magistracy. the causae listed in the table are based largely on t. r. s. broughton's the magistrates of the roman republic, reporting those given in ancient sources. for cases in which no causa is given, rei gerundae may usually be inferred. list of dictators and magistri equitum[edit] th and th centuries bc[edit] 	year bc 	year auc 	dictator 	magister equitum 	notes 	 	 	titus lartius flavus[i]	spurius cassius viscellinus	rei gerundae causa 	 	 	aulus postumius albus regillensis	titus aebutius elva	 	 	 	manius valerius volusus maximus	quintus servilius priscus structus	 	 	 	(gaius aemilius mamercus)[ii]	not recorded	clavi figendi causa 	 	 	lucius quinctius cincinnatus	lucius tarquitius flaccus	 	 	 	lucius quinctius cincinnatus ii	gaius servilius structus ahala	 	 	 	mamercus aemilius mamercinus	lucius quinctius cincinnatus	 	 	 	quintus servilius priscus structus fidenas	postumus aebutius elva cornicen	 	 	 	mamercus aemilius mamercinus ii	aulus postumius tubertus	 	 	 	aulus postumius tubertus	lucius julius iulus	 	 	 	mamercus aemilius mamercinus iii	aulus cornelius cossus	 	 	 	quintus servilius priscus structus fidenas ii	gaius servilius structus axilla	 	 	 	publius cornelius rutilus cossus	gaius servilius structus ahala	 th century bc[edit] 	year bc 	year auc 	dictator 	magister equitum 	notes 	 	 	marcus furius camillus	publius cornelius maluginensis	 	 	 	marcus furius camillus ii	lucius valerius potitus	 	 	 	marcus furius camillus iii	gaius servilius ahala	 	 	 	aulus cornelius cossus	titus quinctius cincinnatus capitolinus	 	 	 	titus quinctius cincinnatus capitolinus	aulus sempronius atratinus	 	 	 	marcus furius camillus iv	lucius aemilius mamercinus	rei gerundae causa 	 	 	publius manlius capitolinus	gaius licinius calvus	seditionis sedandae et rei gerundae causa 	 	 	marcus furius camillus v	titus quinctius cincinnatus capitolinus	rei gerundae causa 	 	 	lucius manlius capitolinus imperiosus	lucius pinarius natta	clavi figendi causa 	 	 	appius claudius crassus regillensis	publius cornelius scapula?	 	 	 	titus quinctius pennus capitolinus crispinus	servius cornelius maluginensis	rei gerundae causa 	 	 	quintus servilius ahala	titus quinctius pennus capitolinus crispinus	rei gerundae causa 	 	 	gaius sulpicius peticus	marcus valerius poplicola	 	 	 	gaius marcius rutilus	gaius plautius proculus	 	 	 	titus manlius imperiosus torquatus	aulus cornelius cossus arvina	 	 	 	gaius julius iulus	lucius aemilius mamercinus	 	 	 	marcus fabius ambustus	quintus servilius ahala	comitiorum habendorum causa 	 	 	lucius furius camillus	publius cornelius scipio	comitiorum habendorum causa 	 	 	titus manlius imperiosus torquatus ii	aulus cornelius cossus arvina ii	comitiorum habendorum causa 	 	 	(gaius claudius crassinus regillensis)	(gaius livius denter)	comitiorum habendorum causa; names uncertain.[iii] 	 	 	lucius furius camillus ii	gnaeus manlius capitolinus imperiosus	 	 	 	publius valerius poplicola	quintus fabius ambustus	ferarium constituendarum causa 	 	 	marcus valerius corvus	lucius aemilius mamercinus privernas	 	 	 	lucius papirius crassus	lucius papirius cursor	 	 	 	quintus publilius philo	decimus junius brutus scaeva	 	 	 	gaius claudius crassinus regillensis	gaius claudius hortator	abdicavit 	 	 	lucius aemilius mamercinus privernas	quintus publilius philo	comitiorum habendorum causa 	 to 	 to 	publius cornelius rufinus	marcus antonius	abdicavit; the first of the "dictator years".[iv] 	 	 	marcus papirius crassus	publius valerius poplicola	 	 	 	gnaeus quinctilius varus or  gnaeus quinctius capitolinus	lucius valerius potitus	clavi figendi causa 	 	 	marcus claudius marcellus	spurius postumius albinus	comitiorum habendorum causa; abdicavit 	 to 	 to 	lucius papirius cursor	quintus fabius maximus rullianus	rei gerundae causa; the second of the "dictator years".[iv] 	 	 	aulus cornelius cossus arvina	marcus fabius ambustus	rei gerundae (for a general purpose) or ludi faciendorum causa [v] 	 	 	quintus fabius ambustus	publius aelius paetus	comitiorum habendorum causa; abdicavit 	 	 	marcus aemilius papus	lucius valerius flaccus	comitiorum habendorum causa 	 	 	gaius maenius	marcus foslius flaccinator	causa uncertain.[vi] 	 	 	lucius cornelius lentulus	lucius papirius cursor ii	 	 	 	titus manlius imperiosus torquatus iii	lucius papirius crassus	 	 	 	lucius aemilius mamercinus privernas ii	lucius fulvius curvus	rei gerundae causa 	 	 	quintus fabius maximus rullianus	quintus aulius cerretanus gaius fabius ambustus	rei gerundae causa 	 	 	gaius maenius ii	marcus foslius flaccinator ii	rei gerundae causa 	 	 	gaius poetilius libo visolus or  quintus fabius maximus rullianus ii	marcus foslius flaccinator iii or  marcus poetilius libo	rei gerundae (et clavi figendi?) causa [vii] 	 	 	gaius sulpicius longus	gaius junius bubulcus brutus	rei gerundae causa [viii] 	 to 	 to 	lucius papirius cursor ii	gaius junius bubulcus brutus ii	 the third of the "dictator years".[iv] 	 	 	publius cornelius scipio barbatus	publius decius mus	comitiorum habendorum causa 	 	 	gaius junius bubulcus brutus	marcus titinius	 	 to 	 to 	marcus valerius maximus corvus ii	quintus fabius maximus rullianus?  or marcus aemilius paullus?	 the fourth and last of the "dictator years".[iv] rd century bc[edit] 	year bc 	year auc 	dictator 	magister equitum 	notes 	 	 	quintus hortensius mortuus est	not recorded	 	 	 	appius claudius caecus?	not recorded	dictator suffectus? [ix] 	 	 	marcus aemilius barbula?	not recorded	date uncertain.[x] 	 	 	gnaeus domitius calvinus maximus	not recorded	comitiorum habendorum causa 	 	 	publius cornelius rufinus?	not recorded	date uncertain.[xi] 	 	 	gnaeus fulvius maximus centumalus	quintus marcius philippus	clavi figendi causa 	 	 	quintus ogulnius gallus	marcus laetorius plancianus	latinarum feriarum causa 	 	 	marcus claudius glicia		abdicavit [xii] 	 	 	aulus atilius calatinus	lucius caecilius metellus	 	 	 	tiberius coruncanius	 marcus fulvius flaccus	comitiorum habendorum causa 	 	 	gaius duilius	gaius aurelius cotta	comitiorum habendorum causa 	 	 	lucius caecilius metellus	numerius fabius buteo	comitiorum habendorum causa 	 	 	quintus fabius maximus verrucosus	gaius flaminius	date uncertain.[xiii] 	 	 	quintus fabius maximus verrucosus ii	marcus minucius rufus	minucius given authority equal to the dictator's.[xiv] 	 	 	lucius veturius philo	marcus pomponius matho	comitiorum habendorum causa; abdicavit 	 	 	marcus junius pera	 tiberius sempronius gracchus	 	 	 	marcus fabius buteo	sine magistro equitum	senatus legendi causa [xv] 	 	 	gaius claudius centho	 quintus fulvius flaccus	comitiorum habendorum causa 	 	 	quintus fulvius flaccus	publius licinius crassus dives	comitiorum habendorum causa 	 	 	titus manlius torquatus	gaius servilius geminus	comitiorum habendorum et ludorum faciendorum causa 	 	 	marcus livius salinator	quintus caecilius metellus	comitiorum habendorum causa 	 	 	quintus caecilius metellus	lucius veturius philo	comitiorum habendorum causa 	 	 	publius sulpicius galba maximus	marcus servilius pulex geminus	comitiorum habendorum causa 	 	 	gaius servilius geminus	publius aelius paetus	comitiorum habendorum causa st century bc[edit] 	year bc 	year auc 	dictator 	magister equitum 	notes 	 to 	 to 	lucius cornelius sulla felix	lucius valerius flaccus	legibus faciendis et rei publicae constituendae causa 	 	 	gaius julius caesar	sine magistro equitum	rei gerundae causa 	 	 	gaius julius caesar ii	marcus antonius	 	 to 	 to 	gaius julius caesar iii	marcus aemilius lepidus	 	 	 	gaius julius caesar iv occisus est	marcus aemilius lepidus ii gaius octavius gnaeus domitius calvinus (non iniit)	dictator perpetuo rei publicae constituendae causa see also[edit] 	constitution of the roman republic 	dictator footnotes[edit] 	^ the name of the first dictator is also given as manius valerius, but livy rejects this in favor of titus lartius flavus on the basis of the law that only consulars could be named dictator; valerius had not yet been named consul. broughton follows livy in this.[ ] 	^ no dictator is listed for this year in the fasti consulares, but lydus says that there was a dictator in the forty-eighth year of the republic. bendel links this with the story that the senate appointed a dictator clavi figendi causa in bc because that had worked to stop a pestilence a century earlier and concludes that mamercus was this dictator. broughton sees this as an insufficient reason to say that mamercus was dictator in bc, and suggests that lydus has mistaken an interrex for a dictator.[ ] 	^ the names of the dictator and magister equitum for this year are missing from the consular fasti, and not explicitly stated by any ancient author. the dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology inserts these names, although the basis for them is not stated.[ ][ ] 	^ a b c d the fasti consulares, but no other source, list four years in which there was a dictator but no consuls elected: , , , and . in each case, livy includes the names of the dictator and magister equitum under the previous year's consuls.[ ] 	^ the sources for the causa of this dictator conflict. most historians accept that cornelius carried on the ludi romani games when the praetor fell ill, and attempt to explain how an annalist would have altered the records to make this a dictator rei gerundae causa.[ ] 	^ maenius is one of three dictators appointed in , none of whom is listed as having abdicated and been replaced by another dictator. hartfield asserts that maenius was not appointed for quaestionibus exercendis, to conduct a court of inquiry into conspiracies against the republic, as described by livy. instead, she concludes that he must have had a religious function, although she cannot determine precisely which causa he had, except to exclude clavi figendi. cornelius can only have been nominated rei gerundae causa, due to the war with the samnites, while manlius must have been appointed to hold the elections for the next year's magistrates.[ ] 	^ livy and the fasti consulares suggest that poetelius was dictator rei gerundae causa, but livy preserves a source who claims that one of the consuls that year instead captured the town poetelius was said to have captured and that his dictatorship was instead clavi figendi causa. some modern historians do not dismiss this alternate account. because a dictator rei gerundae causa would not have hammered in the sacred nail, hartfield adduces that he must have been appointed dictator twice this year, if he did so. diodorus siculus attributes the victories credited to gaius poetelius libo visolus to "Κόιντος Φάβιος" (quintus fabius) instead.[ ] 	^ the fasti consulares list gaius sulpicius longus as the dictator rei gerundae causa and gaius junius bubulcus brutus as his magister equitum, but livy names the latter as dictator, without following his usual procedure of recording the magister equitum.[ ] 	^ three dictators are known only from various literary sources. historians date them to a period for which the fasti consulares and livy's history are missing but nothing about their causa can be known.[ ] one of these was probably dictator suffectus after the death of quintus hortensius in bc. mommsen suggested that this was claudius.[ ] 	^ one of three dictators known from literary sources, but not found in the surviving portions of the consular fasti or livy's history. broughton concludes that they must have held office between and bc, and lists them under the latest possible date. 	^ the third of three dictators known from literary sources, but not found in the surviving portions of the consular fasti or livy's history. although broughton concluded that they must have held office between and bc, the dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology places rufinus in , during the war with pyrrhus, noting, however, that niebuhr placed his dictatorship in , after the battle of heraclea.[ ] 	^ nominated by the consul publius claudius pulcher after the senate had relieved him of his command following the battle of drepana. glicia was a freedman and a scribe; as such he was considered wholly unsuitable for the office and compelled to resign even before he could name his magister equitum. the precise means by which his resignation was procured is unclear. aulus atilius calatinus was appointed in claudius' stead. notwithstanding his humble origin, glicia was recorded as dictator in the consular fasti, and continued to wear the toga praetexta as a symbol of the honour. in bc, he was a legate under the consul gaius licinius varus, but after granting a treaty without permission from the senate or the consul, was handed over to the enemy, who returned him unharmed; he was then imprisoned, banished, or put to death.[ ][ ][ ] 	^ livy says that fabius was appointed dictator for the second time in . broughton adduces that he must have been dictator during a gap in the capitoline fasti from to , and before livy's history resumes in . since flaminius was censor in and , broughton places this dictatorship in .[ ] 	^ minucius, the magister equitum, vehemently opposed the dictator's delaying strategy against hannibal, and induced a tribune of the plebs to propose a law granting him authority equal to that of the dictator. some scholars therefore regard minucius as a second dictator, while others describe him as a magister equitum with dictatorial imperium. since ancient sources refer to minucius as having been dictator, those who consider him merely magister equitum during fabius' dictatorship suggest that minucius later held the office during a period for which livy's history is missing, perhaps in order to hold the comitia.[ ][ ] 	^ this is the only instance of this causa. the senate appointed a dictator to enroll new senators after the battle of cannae, instead of holding elections for new censors to carry out the same task. references[edit] 	^ hartfield, pp. (?). 	^ broughton, vol. i, p. . 	^ broughton, vol. i, p. (note ). 	^ broughton, vol. i, p. . 	^ dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology, vol. i, pp. ("livius denter, no. "), vol. iii, p. ("chronological tables of roman history"). 	^ broughton, vol. i, p. . 	^ hartfield, p. . 	^ hartfield, pp. – . 	^ hartfield, pp. – . 	^ hartfield, pp. – . 	^ hartfield, pp. – . 	^ broughton, vol. i, pp. – . 	^ dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology, vol. iii, pp. ("cornelius rufinus" no. ), ("chronological tables of roman history"). 	^ dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology, vol. ii, p. (glicia). 	^ broughton, vol. i, pp. , . 	^ hartfield, pp. – . 	^ broughton, vol. i, pp. , . 	^ hartfield, pp. – . 	^ broughton, vol. i, pp. , . bibliography[edit] 	marianne elizabeth hartfield, the roman dictatorship: its character and evolution (ph.d. dissertation), university of california, berkeley ( ). 	t. robert s. broughton, the magistrates of the roman republic, american philological association ( ). retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=list_of_roman_dictators&oldid= " 		categories: 	people of the roman republic 	government of the roman republic 	ancient roman titles 	ancient roman dictators 	lists of office-holders in ancient rome 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			article 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	edit 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		search 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigation 	 	 			main page 	contents 	current events 	random article 	about wikipedia 	contact us 	donate 		 	 	 	 		contribute 	 	 			help 	learn to edit 	community portal 	recent changes 	upload file 		 	 	 		tools 	 	 			what links here 	related changes 	upload file 	special pages 	permanent link 	page information 	cite this page 	wikidata item 		 	 	 		print/export 	 	 			download as pdf 	printable version 		 	 	 		in other projects 	 	 			wikidata 		 	 	 	 		languages 	 	 			Беларуская 	Български 	español 	français 	ქართული 	magyar 	日本語 	Русский 	Українська 	中文 		edit links 	 		 this page was last edited on december , at :  (utc). 	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; 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the check digit does not need to be re-calculated. some publishers, such as ballantine books, would sometimes use -digit sbns where the last three digits indicated the price of the book;[ ] for example, woodstock handmade houses had a -digit standard book number of - - - (valid sbn: - - , isbn: - - - ),[ ] and it cost us$ . .[ ] since january , isbns have contained thirteen digits, a format that is compatible with "bookland" european article numbers, which have digits.[ ] overview a separate isbn is assigned to each edition and variation (except reprintings) of a publication. for example, an ebook, audiobook, paperback, and hardcover edition of the same book will each have a different isbn assigned to it.[ ]: the isbn is thirteen digits long if assigned on or after january , and ten digits long if assigned before .[c][ ] an international standard book number consists of four parts (if it is a -digit isbn) or five parts (for a -digit isbn). section of the international isbn agency's official user manual[ ]: describes the structure of the -digit isbn, as follows: the parts of a -digit isbn and the corresponding ean‑ and barcode. note the different check digits in each. the part of the ean‑ labeled "ean" is the bookland country code. 	for a -digit isbn, a prefix element – a gs prefix: so far or have been made available by gs , 	the registration group element (language-sharing country group, individual country or territory),[d] 	the registrant element, 	the publication element, and 	a checksum character or check digit. a -digit isbn can be separated into its parts (prefix element, registration group, registrant, publication and check digit), and when this is done it is customary to separate the parts with hyphens or spaces. separating the parts (registration group, registrant, publication and check digit) of a -digit isbn is also done with either hyphens or spaces. figuring out how to correctly separate a given isbn is complicated, because most of the parts do not use a fixed number of digits.[e] how isbns are issued isbn issuance is country-specific, in that isbns are issued by the isbn registration agency that is responsible for that country or territory regardless of the publication language. the ranges of isbns assigned to any particular country are based on the publishing profile of the country concerned, and so the ranges will vary depending on the number of books and the number, type, and size of publishers that are active. some isbn registration agencies are based in national libraries or within ministries of culture and thus may receive direct funding from government to support their services. in other cases, the isbn registration service is provided by organisations such as bibliographic data providers that are not government funded.[ ] a full directory of isbn agencies is available on the international isbn agency website.[ ] list for a few countries is given below: 	australia – thorpe-bowker[ ][ ] 	brazil – the national library of brazil;[ ] (up to february )[ ] 	brazil – câmara brasileira do livro[ ] (from march )[ ] 	canada – english library and archives canada, a government agency; french bibliothèque et archives nationales du québec; 	colombia – cámara colombiana del libro, an ngo 	hong kong – books registration office (bro), under the hong kong public libraries[ ] 	india – the raja rammohun roy national agency for isbn (book promotion and copyright division), under department of higher education, a constituent of the ministry of human resource development[ ] 	iceland – landsbókasafn (national and university library of iceland) 	israel – the israel center for libraries[ ] 	italy – ediser srl, owned by associazione italiana editori (italian publishers association)[ ][ ] 	maldives – the national bureau of classification (nbc) 	malta – the national book council (maltese: il-kunsill nazzjonali tal-ktieb)[ ][ ][ ] 	morocco – the national library of morocco 	new zealand – the national library of new zealand[ ] 	pakistan – national library of pakistan 	philippines – national library of the philippines[ ] 	south africa – national library of south africa 	spain – spanish isbn agency – agencia del isbn 	turkey – general directorate of libraries and publications, a branch of the ministry of culture[ ] 	united kingdom and republic of ireland – nielsen book services ltd, part of nielsen holdings n.v.[ ] 	united states – r. r. bowker[ ][ ] registration group identifier the isbn registration group identifier is a - to -digit number that is valid within a single prefix element (i.e. one of or ),[ ]: and can be separated between hyphens, such as " - -...". registration group identifiers have primarily been allocated within the prefix element.[ ] the single-digit group identifiers within the -prefix element are: or for english-speaking countries; for french-speaking countries; for german-speaking countries; for japan; for russian-speaking countries; and for people's republic of china. an example -digit group identifier is , for bhutan. the allocated group ids are: – , – , , , – , – , – , and – .[ ] books published in rare languages typically have longer group identifiers.[ ] within the prefix element, the registration group identifier is reserved for compatibility with international standard music numbers (ismns), but such material is not actually assigned an isbn.[ ] the registration group identifiers within prefix element that have been assigned are for the united states of america, for france, for the republic of korea, and for italy.[ ] the original -digit standard book number (sbn) had no registration group identifier, but prefixing a zero ( ) to a -digit sbn creates a valid -digit isbn. registrant element the national isbn agency assigns the registrant element (cf. category:isbn agencies) and an accompanying series of isbns within that registrant element to the publisher; the publisher then allocates one of the isbns to each of its books. in most countries, a book publisher is not legally required to assign an isbn, although most large bookstores only handle publications that have isbns assigned to them.[ ][ ][ ] a listing of more than , assigned publisher codes is published, and can be ordered in book form. the web site of the isbn agency does not offer any free method of looking up publisher codes.[ ] partial lists have been compiled (from library catalogs) for the english-language groups: identifier and identifier . publishers receive blocks of isbns, with larger blocks allotted to publishers expecting to need them; a small publisher may receive isbns of one or more digits for the registration group identifier, several digits for the registrant, and a single digit for the publication element. once that block of isbns is used, the publisher may receive another block of isbns, with a different registrant element. consequently, a publisher may have different allotted registrant elements. there also may be more than one registration group identifier used in a country. this might occur once all the registrant elements from a particular registration group have been allocated to publishers. by using variable block lengths, registration agencies are able to customise the allocations of isbns that they make to publishers. for example, a large publisher may be given a block of isbns where fewer digits are allocated for the registrant element and many digits are allocated for the publication element; likewise, countries publishing many titles have few allocated digits for the registration group identifier and many for the registrant and publication elements.[ ] here are some sample isbn- codes, illustrating block length variations. 	isbn	country or area	publisher 	 - - - 	qatar	nccah, doha 	 - - - 	singapore	world scientific 	 - - - 	greece	sigma publications 	 - - - 	czech republic; slovakia	taita publishers 	 - - - 	brazil	companhia das letras 	 - - - 	english-speaking area	simon wallenberg press 	 - - - 	english-speaking area	scribner 	 - - -x	english-speaking area	frederick ungar 	 - - - 	english-speaking area	j. a. allen & co. 	 - - - 	english-speaking area	edupedia publications pvt ltd. 	 - - - 	english-speaking area	willmann–bell 	 - - -x	english-speaking area	kt publishing pattern for english language isbns english-language registration group elements are and ( of more than registration group elements). these two registration group elements are divided into registrant elements in a systematic pattern, which allows their length to be determined, as follows:[ ] 	publication element length 	 – registration group element 	 – registration group element 	total registrants 	from	to	registrants	from	to	registrants 	 digits 	 - -xxxxxx-x 	 - -xxxxxx-x 	 	 - -xxxxxx-x - -xxxxxx-x 	 - -xxxxxx-x - -xxxxxx-x 	 	 	 digits 	 - -xxxxx-x - -xxxxx-x - -xxxxx-x - -xxxxx-x - -xxxxx-x - -xxxxx-x - -xxxxx-x 	 - -xxxxx-x - -xxxxx-x - -xxxxx-x - -xxxxx-x - -xxxxx-x - -xxxxx-x - -xxxxx-x 	 	 - -xxxxx-x - -xxxxx-x - -xxxxx-x - -xxxxx-x 	 - -xxxxx-x - -xxxxx-x - -xxxxx-x - -xxxxx-x 	 	 	 digits 	 - -xxxx-x - -xxxx-x - -xxxx-x - -xxxx-x - -xxxx-x 	 - -xxxx-x - -xxxx-x - -xxxx-x - -xxxx-x - -xxxx-x 	 , 	 - -xxxx-x - -xxxx-x - -xxxx-x - -xxxx-x - -xxxx-x - -xxxx-x - -xxxx-x - -xxxx-x - -xxxx-x 	 - -xxxx-x - -xxxx-x - -xxxx-x - -xxxx-x - -xxxx-x - -xxxx-x - -xxxx-x - -xxxx-x - -xxxx-x 	 , 	 , 	 digits 	 - -xxx-x 	 - -xxx-x 	 , 	 - -xxx-x - -xxx-x - -xxx-x - -xxx-x - -xxx-x - -xxx-x - -xxx-x - -xxx-x - -xxx-x 	 - -xxx-x - -xxx-x - -xxx-x - -xxx-x - -xxx-x - -xxx-x - -xxx-x - -xxx-x - -xxx-x 	 , 	 , 	 digits 	 - -xx-x 	 - -xx-x 	 , 	 - -xx-x - -xx-x - -xx-x - -xx-x 	 - -xx-x - -xx-x - -xx-x - -xx-x 	 , 	 , 	 digit 	 - -x-x - -x-x - -x-x - -x-x 	 - -x-x - -x-x - -x-x - -x-x 	 , 	 - -x-x - -x-x - -x-x - -x-x - -x-x - -x-x - -x-x - -x-x 	 - -x-x - -x-x - -x-x - -x-x - -x-x - -x-x - -x-x - -x-x 	 , 	 , 	total 	 , 	total 	 , 	 , check digits a check digit is a form of redundancy check used for error detection, the decimal equivalent of a binary check bit. it consists of a single digit computed from the other digits in the number. the method for the -digit isbn is an extension of that for sbns, so the two systems are compatible; an sbn prefixed with a zero (the -digit isbn) will give the same check digit as the sbn without the zero. the check digit is base eleven, and can be an integer between and , or an 'x'. the system for -digit isbns is not compatible with sbns and will, in general, give a different check digit from the corresponding -digit isbn, so does not provide the same protection against transposition. this is because the -digit code was required to be compatible with the ean format, and hence could not contain an 'x'. isbn- check digits according to the edition of the international isbn agency's official user manual,[ ] the isbn- check digit (which is the last digit of the -digit isbn) must range from to (the symbol 'x' is used for ), and must be such that the sum of the ten digits, each multiplied by its (integer) weight, descending from to , is a multiple of . that is, if xi is the ith digit, then x must be chosen such that: ∑ i = ( − i ) x i ≡ ( mod ) {\displaystyle \sum _{i= }^{ }( -i)x_{i}\equiv {\pmod { }}} for example, for an isbn- of - - - : s = ( × ) + ( × ) + ( × ) + ( × ) + ( × ) + ( × ) + ( × ) + ( × ) + ( × ) + ( × ) = + + + + + + + + + = = × {\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}s&=( \times )+( \times )+( \times )+( \times )+( \times )+( \times )+( \times )+( \times )+( \times )+( \times )\\&= + + + + + + + + + \\&= = \times \end{aligned}}} formally, using modular arithmetic, this is rendered: ( x + x + x + x + x + x + x + x + x + x ) ≡ ( mod ) . {\displaystyle ( x_{ }+ x_{ }+ x_{ }+ x_{ }+ x_{ }+ x_{ }+ x_{ }+ x_{ }+ x_{ }+x_{ })\equiv {\pmod { }}.} it is also true for isbn- s that the sum of all ten digits, each multiplied by its weight in ascending order from to , is a multiple of . for this example: s = ( × ) + ( × ) + ( × ) + ( × ) + ( × ) + ( × ) + ( × ) + ( × ) + ( × ) + ( × ) = + + + + + + + + + = = × {\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}s&=( \times )+( \times )+( \times )+( \times )+( \times )+( \times )+( \times )+( \times )+( \times )+( \times )\\&= + + + + + + + + + \\&= = \times \end{aligned}}} formally, this is rendered: ( x + x + x + x + x + x + x + x + x + x ) ≡ ( mod ) . {\displaystyle (x_{ }+ x_{ }+ x_{ }+ x_{ }+ x_{ }+ x_{ }+ x_{ }+ x_{ }+ x_{ }+ x_{ })\equiv {\pmod { }}.} the two most common errors in handling an isbn (e.g. when typing it or writing it down) are a single altered digit or the transposition of adjacent digits. it can be proven mathematically that all pairs of valid isbn- s differ in at least two digits. it can also be proven that there are no pairs of valid isbn- s with eight identical digits and two transposed digits. (these proofs are true because the isbn is less than eleven digits long and because is a prime number.) the isbn check digit method therefore ensures that it will always be possible to detect these two most common types of error, i.e., if either of these types of error has occurred, the result will never be a valid isbn – the sum of the digits multiplied by their weights will never be a multiple of . however, if the error were to occur in the publishing house and remain undetected, the book would be issued with an invalid isbn.[ ] in contrast, it is possible for other types of error, such as two altered non-transposed digits, or three altered digits, to result in a valid isbn (although it is still unlikely). isbn- check digit calculation each of the first nine digits of the -digit isbn—excluding the check digit itself—is multiplied by its (integer) weight, descending from to , and the sum of these nine products found. the value of the check digit is simply the one number between and which, when added to this sum, means the total is a multiple of . for example, the check digit for an isbn- of - - -? is calculated as follows: s = ( × ) + ( × ) + ( × ) + ( × ) + ( × ) + ( × ) + ( × ) + ( × ) + ( × ) = {\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}s&=( \times )+( \times )+( \times )+( \times )+( \times )+( \times )+( \times )+( \times )+( \times )\\&= \end{aligned}}} adding to gives a multiple of (because = × ) – this is the only number between and which does so. therefore, the check digit has to be , and the complete sequence is isbn - - - . if the value of x {\displaystyle x_{ }} required to satisfy this condition is , then an 'x' should be used. alternatively, modular arithmetic is convenient for calculating the check digit using modulus . the remainder of this sum when it is divided by (i.e. its value modulo ), is computed. this remainder plus the check digit must equal either or . therefore, the check digit is ( minus the remainder of the sum of the products modulo ) modulo . taking the remainder modulo a second time accounts for the possibility that the first remainder is . without the second modulo operation, the calculation could result in a check digit value of − = , which is invalid. (strictly speaking, the first "modulo " is not needed, but it may be considered to simplify the calculation.) for example, the check digit for the isbn- of - - -? is calculated as follows: s = ( − ( ( ( × ) + ( × ) + ( × ) + ( × ) + ( × ) + ( × ) + ( × ) + ( × ) + ( × ) ) mod ) ) mod = ( − ( ( + + + + + + + + ) mod ) ) mod = ( − ( ( ) mod ) ) mod = ( − ( ) ) mod = ( ) mod = {\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}s&=( -((( \times )+( \times )+( \times )+( \times )+( \times )+( \times )+( \times )+( \times )+( \times ))\,{\bmod {\,}} ))\,{\bmod {\,}} \\&=( -(( + + + + + + + + )\,{\bmod {\,}} ))\,{\bmod {\,}} \\&=( -(( )\,{\bmod {\,}} ))\,{\bmod {\,}} \\&=( -( ))\,{\bmod {\,}} \\&=( )\,{\bmod {\,}} \\&= \end{aligned}}} thus the check digit is . it is possible to avoid the multiplications in a software implementation by using two accumulators. repeatedly adding t into s computes the necessary multiples: // returns isbn error syndrome, zero for a valid isbn, non-zero for an invalid one. // digits[i] must be between and . int checkisbn(int const digits[ ]) { int i, s = , t = ; for (i = ; i < ; i++) { t += digits[i]; s += t; } return s % ; } the modular reduction can be done once at the end, as shown above (in which case s could hold a value as large as , for the invalid isbn - - -x), or s and t could be reduced by a conditional subtract after each addition. isbn- check digit calculation appendix of the international isbn agency's official user manual[ ]: describes how the -digit isbn check digit is calculated. the isbn- check digit, which is the last digit of the isbn, must range from to and must be such that the sum of all the thirteen digits, each multiplied by its (integer) weight, alternating between and , is a multiple of . as isbn- is a subset of ean- , the algorithm for calculating the check digit is exactly the same for both. formally, using modular arithmetic, this is rendered: ( x + x + x + x + x + x + x + x + x + x + x + x + x ) ≡ ( mod ) . {\displaystyle (x_{ }+ x_{ }+x_{ }+ x_{ }+x_{ }+ x_{ }+x_{ }+ x_{ }+x_{ }+ x_{ }+x_{ }+ x_{ }+x_{ })\equiv {\pmod { }}.} the calculation of an isbn- check digit begins with the first twelve digits of the -digit isbn (thus excluding the check digit itself). each digit, from left to right, is alternately multiplied by or , then those products are summed modulo to give a value ranging from to . subtracted from , that leaves a result from to . a zero ( ) replaces a ten ( ), so, in all cases, a single check digit results. for example, the isbn- check digit of - - - -? is calculated as follows: s = × + × + × + × + × + × + × + × + × + × + × + × = + + + + + + + + + + + = / = remainder – = thus, the check digit is , and the complete sequence is isbn - - - - . in general, the isbn- check digit is calculated as follows. let r = ( − ( x + x + x + x + ⋯ + x + x ) mod ) . {\displaystyle r={\big (} -{\big (}x_{ }+ x_{ }+x_{ }+ x_{ }+\cdots +x_{ }+ x_{ }{\big )}\,{\bmod {\,}} {\big )}.} then x = { r  ;  r <  ;  r = . {\displaystyle x_{ }={\begin{cases}r&{\text{ ; }}r< \\ &{\text{ ; }}r= .\end{cases}}} this check system – similar to the upc check digit formula – does not catch all errors of adjacent digit transposition. specifically, if the difference between two adjacent digits is , the check digit will not catch their transposition. for instance, the above example allows this situation with the followed by a . the correct order contributes × + × = to the sum; while, if the digits are transposed ( followed by a ), the contribution of those two digits will be × + × = . however, and are congruent modulo , and so produce the same, final result: both isbns will have a check digit of . the isbn- formula uses the prime modulus which avoids this blind spot, but requires more than the digits – to express the check digit. additionally, if the sum of the nd, th, th, th, th, and th digits is tripled then added to the remaining digits ( st, rd, th, th, th, th, and th), the total will always be divisible by (i.e., end in ). isbn- to isbn- conversion an isbn- is converted to isbn- by prepending " " to the isbn- and recalculating the final checksum digit using the isbn- algorithm. the reverse process can also be performed, but not for numbers commencing with a prefix other than , which have no -digit equivalent. errors in usage publishers and libraries have varied policies about the use of the isbn check digit. publishers sometimes fail to check the correspondence of a book title and its isbn before publishing it; that failure causes book identification problems for libraries, booksellers, and readers.[ ] for example, isbn  - - - is shared by two books – ninja gaiden®: a novel based on the best-selling game by tecmo ( ) and wacky laws ( ), both published by scholastic. most libraries and booksellers display the book record for an invalid isbn issued by the publisher. the library of congress catalogue contains books published with invalid isbns, which it usually tags with the phrase "cancelled isbn".[ ] however, book-ordering systems such as amazon.com will not search for a book if an invalid isbn is entered to its search engine.[citation needed] oclc often indexes by invalid isbns, if the book is indexed in that way by a member library. eisbn only the term "isbn" should be used; the terms "eisbn" and "e-isbn" have historically been sources of confusion and should be avoided. if a book exists in one or more digital (e-book) formats, each of those formats must have its own isbn. in other words, each of the three separate epub, amazon kindle, and pdf formats of a particular book will have its own specific isbn. they should not share the isbn of the paper version, and there is no generic "eisbn" which encompasses all the e-book formats for a title.[ ] ean format used in barcodes, and upgrading currently the barcodes on a book's back cover (or inside a mass-market paperback book's front cover) are ean- ; they may have a separate barcode encoding five digits called an ean- for the currency and the recommended retail price.[ ] for -digit isbns, the number " ", the bookland "country code", is prefixed to the isbn in the barcode data, and the check digit is recalculated according to the ean- formula (modulo , x and x weighting on alternating digits). partly because of an expected shortage in certain isbn categories, the international organization for standardization (iso) decided to migrate to a -digit isbn (isbn- ). the process began on january and was planned to conclude on january .[ ] as of [update], all the -digit isbns began with . as the isbn supply is exhausted, the prefix was introduced. part of the prefix is reserved for use with the musicland code for musical scores with an ismn. the -digit ismn codes differed visually as they began with an "m" letter; the bar code represents the "m" as a zero ( ), and for checksum purposes it counted as a . all ismns are now thirteen digits commencing - ; - to - will be used by isbn. publisher identification code numbers are unlikely to be the same in the and isbns, likewise, there is no guarantee that language area code numbers will be the same. moreover, the -digit isbn check digit generally is not the same as the -digit isbn check digit. because the gtin- is part of the global trade item number (gtin) system (that includes the gtin- , the gtin- , and the gtin- ), the -digit isbn falls within the -digit data field range.[ ] barcode format compatibility is maintained, because (aside from the group breaks) the isbn- barcode format is identical to the ean barcode format of existing -digit isbns. so, migration to an ean-based system allows booksellers the use of a single numbering system for both books and non-book products that is compatible with existing isbn based data, with only minimal changes to information technology systems. hence, many booksellers (e.g., barnes & noble) migrated to ean barcodes as early as march . although many american and canadian booksellers were able to read ean- barcodes before , most general retailers could not read them. the upgrading of the upc barcode system to full ean- , in , eased migration to the isbn- in north america. see also 	asin (amazon standard identification number) 	bici (book item and component identifier) 	coden (serial publication identifier currently used by libraries; replaced by the issn for new works) 	csbn (chinese standard book number, digits from to , digits since , includes the lsbn, by the china isbn centre)[ ][ ] 	doi (digital object identifier) 	estc (english short title catalogue) 	ettn (electronic textbook track number) 	isan (international standard audiovisual number) 	ismn (international standard music number) 	isrc (international standard recording code) 	issn (international standard serial number) 	istc (international standard text code) 	iswc (international standard musical work code) 	iswn (international standard wine number) 	lccn (library of congress control number) 	license number (east german books) [de] (book identification system used between and in the former gdr) 	list of group- isbn publisher codes 	list of group- isbn publisher codes 	list of isbn identifier groups 	lsbn (chinese book identification system since , main part of csbn)[ ][ ] 	oclc number (online computer library center number)[ ] 	registration authority 	sici (serial item and contribution identifier) 	vd (verzeichnis der im deutschen sprachbereich erschienenen drucke des . jahrhunderts, "bibliography of books printed in the german speaking countries of the sixteenth century") 	vd (verzeichnis der im deutschen sprachraum erschienenen drucke des . jahrhunderts, "bibliography of books printed in the german speaking countries of the seventeenth century") notes 	^ occasionally, publishers erroneously assign an isbn to more than one title—the first edition of the ultimate alphabet and the ultimate alphabet workbook have the same isbn, - - - . conversely, books are published with several isbns: a german second-language edition of emil und die detektive has the isbns - - - (denmark), - - - (united states), - - -x (sweden), - - - (united kingdom) and - - - (germany). 	^ in some cases, books sold only as sets share isbns. for example, the vance integral edition used only two isbns for books. 	^ a b publishers were required to convert existing isbns from the -digit format to the -digit format (in their publication records) by  january . for existing publications, the new -digit isbn would only need to be added if (and when) a publication was reprinted. during the transition period, publishers were recommended to print both the -digit and -digit isbns on the verso of a publication's title page, but they were required to print only the -digit isbn after  january .[ ] 	^ some books have several codes in the first block: e.g. a. m. yaglom's correlation theory..., published by springer verlag, has two isbns, - - - and - - - . though springer's and codes are different for english ( ) and german ( ); the same item number produces the same check digit for both ( ). springer uses as the publisher code for japanese ( ), and - - -? also has a check digit of . other springer books in english have publisher code , and - - -? would also have a check digit of . this suggests that special considerations were made for assigning springer's publisher codes, as random assignments of different publisher codes would not be expected to lead by coincidence to the same check digit every time for the same item number. finding publisher codes for english and german, say, with this effect would amount to solving a linear equation in modular arithmetic.[original research?] 	^ the international isbn agency's isbn user's manual says: "the ten-digit number is divided into four parts of variable length, which must be separated clearly, by hyphens or spaces", although omission of separators is permitted for internal data processing. if present, hyphens must be correctly placed.[ ] the actual definition for hyphenation contains more than different registration group elements with each one broken down into a few to several ranges for the length of the registrant element (more than , total). the document defining the ranges, listed by agency, is pages. references 	^ "the international isbn agency". retrieved february . 	^ a b c tc /sc . "frequently asked questions about the new isbn standard from iso". lac-bac.gc.ca. library and archives canada. archived from the original on june . 	^ bradley, philip ( ). "book numbering: the importance of the isbn" (pdf [ kb]). the indexer. ( ): – . 	^ foster, gordon ( ). "international standard book numbering (isbn) system original report". informaticsdevelopmentinstitute.net. archived from the original on april . retrieved april . 	^ a b "isbn history". isbn.org. april . archived from the original on april . retrieved april . 	^ a b c d manwal ghall-utenti tal-isbn (pdf) (in maltese) ( th ed.). malta: kunsill nazzjonali tal-ktieb. . p.  . isbn  - - - - . archived from the original (pdf) on august . 	^ "international publishers association—'it was an idea whose time had come.' david whitaker on the birth of isbn". international publishers association. retrieved august . cite journal requires |journal= (help) 	^ a b "emery koltay, david whitaker named niso fellows" (pdf), information standards quarterly, national information standards organization, ( ): – , july , archived from the original (pdf) on august 	^ us isbn agency. "bowker.com – products". commerce.bowker.com. retrieved june . 	^ gregory, daniel. "isbn". printrs. archived from the original on may . retrieved june . 	^ iso : (pdf), iso 	^ https://archive.org/search.php?query=% sbn% % &sin=txt 	^ https://archive.org/details/woodstockhandmad robe/page/n /mode/ up?q=sbn+ - - - - by ballantine books, isbn  - - - links to http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/ 	^ https://archive.org/details/woodstockhandmad robe - "ballantine/craft [...] . " 	^ a b c d isbn users' manual, international edition (pdf) ( th ed.). london: international isbn agency. . isbn  - - - - . 	^ "isbn ranges". international isbn agency. . 	^ "isbn canada". www.bac-lac.gc.ca. lac. retrieved january . 	^ "find an agency – international isbn agency". isbn-international.org. 	^ "about the australian isbn agency". thorpe-bowker. 	^ "bowker – isbn". thorpe-bowker. january . retrieved march . 	^ "tabela de preços dos serviços" [table of service prices] (in portuguese). biblioteca nacional do brasil. retrieved september . 	^ a b "changes in arrangements for isbn in brazil". retrieved january . 	^ "isbn brasil" (in portuguese). retrieved january . 	^ "introduction to books registration". hkpl. retrieved january . 	^ "union hrd minister smt. smriti zubin irani launches isbn portal". mhrd. april . 	^ "what is an isbn ?". icl – מרכז הספר והספריות. april . 	^ "isbn – chi siamo e contatti" [isbn – who we are and contacts] (in italian). ediser srl. retrieved january . 	^ "isbn – tariffe servizi isbn" [isbn service tariffs] (in italian). ediser srl. retrieved january . 	^ "isbn". kunsill nazzjonali tal-ktieb. . archived from the original on october . 	^ manwal ghall-utenti tal-isbn (pdf) (in maltese) ( th ed.). malta: kunsill nazzjonali tal-ktieb. . pp.  – . isbn  - - - - . archived from the original (pdf) on august . 	^ "gazzetta tal-gvern ta' malta" (pdf). government gazette. january . p.  . archived from the original (pdf) on november . 	^ "isbns, issns, and ismns". national library of new zealand. retrieved january . 	^ "international standard book number". nlp. retrieved december . 	^ "isbn – kültür ve turizm bakanlığı kütüphaneler ve yayımlar genel müdürlüğü os". ekygm.gov.tr. 	^ "nielsen uk isbn agency". nielsen uk isbn agency. retrieved january . 	^ "bowker – isbn". r. r. bowker. march . retrieved march . 	^ "isbn ranges". isbn-international.org. april . select the format you desire and click on the generate button. archived from the original on april . retrieved april . 	^ see a complete list of group identifiers. isbn.org sometimes calls them group numbers. their table of identifiers now refers to isbn prefix ranges, which must be assumed to be group identifier ranges. 	^ hailman, jack parker ( ). coding and redundancy: man-made and animal-evolved signals. harvard university press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ isbn users' manual, international edition (pdf) ( th ed.). london: international isbn agency. . p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ international isbn agency ( december ). "international isbn agency – range message (pdf sorted by prefix)" (pdf). isbn-international.org. p.  . retrieved december . 	^ "independent publishers". waterstones. retrieved february . before submitting any titles to our central buying team for consideration, your book must have the following: an isbn... 	^ "how to obtain an isbn". barnes & noble. retrieved february . we use isbns to track inventory and sales information. all books barnes & noble transacts on must have an isbn. 	^ "product id (gtin) requirements for books". amazon.com. retrieved february . effective june , , you must provide an isbn, ean, or jan to list a book in the amazon catalog, regardless of the book's publication date. 	^ see publisher's international isbn directory archived september at the wayback machine 	^ splane, lily ( ). the book book: a complete guide to creating a book on your computer. anaphase ii publishing. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ "isbn ranges". isbn-international.org. international isbn agency. september . retrieved september . 	^ "isbn users' manual ( edition) – . structure of isbn". international isbn agency. archived from the original on may . 	^ for example, i'saka: a sketch grammar of a language of north-central new guinea. pacific linguistics. isbn " - - - ". 	^ lorimer, rowland; shoichet, jillian; maxwell, john w. ( ). book publishing i. ccsp press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ " – international standard book number (r) – marc bibliographic – full". library of congress. september . 	^ "the myth of the eisbn why every ebook edition needs a unique number – publishing services for self publishing authors and businesses". publishing services for self publishing authors and businesses. june . retrieved january . 	^ frequently asked questions, us: isbn, march , archived from the original on april — including a detailed description of the ean- format. 	^ "isbn", iso tc sc (faq), ca: collections 	^ "are you ready for isbn- ?", standards, isbn 	^ a b https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ /a a ca deb e e e bab a .pdf 	^ a b https://www.hicom-asia.com/how-to-register-isbn-in-china/ 	^ "xisbn (web service)". xisbn.worldcat.org. archived from the original on may . retrieved may . external links 		wikidata has the properties: 	 isbn- (p ) (see uses) 	 isbn- (p ) (see uses) international standard book numberat wikipedia's sister projects 	definitions from wiktionary 	media from wikimedia commons 	data from wikidata 	documentation from mediawiki 	iso : – international standard book number (isbn) 	international isbn agency—coordinates and supervises the worldwide use of the isbn system 	numerical list of group identifiers—list of language/region prefixes 	free conversion tool: isbn- to isbn- & isbn- to isbn- from the isbn agency. also shows correct hyphenation & verifies if isbns are valid or not. 	"guidelines for the implementation of -digit isbns" (pdf). archived from the original (pdf) on september 	"are you ready for isbn- ?". r. r. bowker llc. 	 rfc  —using international standard book numbers as uniform resource names (urn) 		v 	t 	e international numbering standards 	standards 	 	iso : international standard book number (isbn) 	iso : international standard serial number (issn) 	iso : international standard recording code (isrc) 	iso : international securities identification number (isin) 	iso/iec : issuer identification number (iin) 	iso : business entity identifier (bic) 	iso : international standard music number (ismn) 	iso : international bank account number (iban) 	iso : international standard identifier for libraries... 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wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	 	homer 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 this is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on december . 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 name ascribed by the ancient greeks to the author of the iliad and the odyssey for other uses, see homer (disambiguation). "homeric" and "homerus" redirect here. for other uses, see homeric (disambiguation) and homerus (disambiguation). "homeric" redirects here. it is not to be confused with homerian. roman bust of homer from the second century ad, portrayed with traditional iconography, based on a greek original dating to the hellenistic period[ ] homer (/ˈhoʊmər/; ancient greek: Ὅμηρος greek pronunciation: [hómɛːros], hómēros) is the presumed author of the iliad and the odyssey, two epic poems that are the foundational works of ancient greek literature. the iliad is set during the trojan war, the ten-year siege of the city of troy by a coalition of greek kingdoms. it focuses on a quarrel between king agamemnon and the warrior achilles lasting a few weeks during the last year of the war. the odyssey focuses on the ten-year journey home of odysseus, king of ithaca, after the fall of troy. many accounts of homer's life circulated in classical antiquity, the most widespread being that he was a blind bard from ionia, a region of central coastal anatolia in present-day turkey. modern scholars consider these accounts legendary.[ ][ ][ ] the homeric question – concerning by whom, when, where and under what circumstances the iliad and odyssey were composed – continues to be debated. broadly speaking, modern scholarly opinion falls into two groups. one holds that most of the iliad and (according to some) the odyssey are the works of a single poet of genius. the other considers the homeric poems to be the result of a process of working and reworking by many contributors, and that "homer" is best seen as a label for an entire tradition.[ ] it is generally accepted that the poems were composed at some point around the late eighth or early seventh century bc.[ ] the poems are in homeric greek, also known as epic greek, a literary language which shows a mixture of features of the ionic and aeolic dialects from different centuries; the predominant influence is eastern ionic.[ ][ ] most researchers believe that the poems were originally transmitted orally.[ ] from antiquity until the present day, the influence of homeric epic on western civilization has been great, inspiring many of its most famous works of literature, music, art and film.[ ] the homeric epics were the greatest influence on ancient greek culture and education; to plato, homer was simply the one who "has taught greece" – ten hellada pepaideuken.[ ][ ] contents 	 works attributed to homer 	 ancient biographical traditions 	 history of homeric scholarship 	 . ancient 	 . modern 	 . contemporary 	 historicity of the homeric epics and homeric society 	 homeric language 	 homeric style 	 textual transmission 	 see also 	 notes 	 selected bibliography 	 . editions 	 . interlinear translations 	 . english translations 	 . general works on homer 	 . influential readings and interpretations 	 . commentaries 	 . dating the homeric poems 	 further reading 	 external links works attributed to homer[edit] homer and his guide ( ) by william-adolphe bouguereau today only the iliad and odyssey are associated with the name 'homer'. in antiquity, a very large number of other works were sometimes attributed to him, including the homeric hymns, the contest of homer and hesiod, the little iliad, the nostoi, the thebaid, the cypria, the epigoni, the comic mini-epic batrachomyomachia ("the frog-mouse war"), the margites, the capture of oechalia, and the phocais. these claims are not considered authentic today and were by no means universally accepted in the ancient world. as with the multitude of legends surrounding homer's life, they indicate little more than the centrality of homer to ancient greek culture.[ ][ ][ ] ancient biographical traditions[edit] further information: ancient accounts of homer many traditions circulated in the ancient world concerning homer, most of which are lost. modern scholarly consensus is that they have no value as history.[citation needed] some claims were established early and repeated often. they include that homer was blind (taking as self-referential a passage describing the blind bard demodocus[ ][ ]), that he was born in chios, that he was the son of the river meles and the nymph critheïs, that he was a wandering bard, that he composed a varying list of other works (the "homerica"), that he died either in ios or after failing to solve a riddle set by fishermen, and various explanations for the name "homer". the two best known ancient biographies of homer are the life of homer by the pseudo-herodotus and the contest of homer and hesiod.[ ][ ] in the early th century bc alcidamas composed a fictional account of a poetry contest at chalcis with both homer and hesiod. homer was expected to win, and answered all of hesiod's questions and puzzles with ease. then, each of the poets was invited to recite the best passage from their work. hesiod selected the beginning of works and days: "when the pleiades born of atlas ... all in due season". homer chose a description of greek warriors in formation, facing the foe, taken from the iliad. though the crowd acclaimed homer victor, the judge awarded hesiod the prize; the poet who praised husbandry, he said, was greater than the one who told tales of battles and slaughter.[ ] history of homeric scholarship[edit] further information: homeric scholarship and homeric question ancient[edit] part of an eleventh-century manuscript, "the townley homer". the writings on the top and right side are scholia. the study of homer is one of the oldest topics in scholarship, dating back to antiquity.[ ][ ][ ] nonetheless, the aims of homeric studies have changed over the course of the millennia.[ ] the earliest preserved comments on homer concern his treatment of the gods, which hostile critics such as the poet xenophanes of colophon denounced as immoral.[ ] the allegorist theagenes of rhegium is said to have defended homer by arguing that the homeric poems are allegories.[ ] the iliad and the odyssey were widely used as school texts in ancient greek and hellenistic cultures.[ ][ ][ ] they were the first literary works taught to all students.[ ] the iliad, particularly its first few books, was far more intently studied than the odyssey during the hellenistic and roman periods.[ ] as a result of the poems' prominence in classical greek education, extensive commentaries on them developed to explain parts of the poems that were culturally or linguistically difficult.[ ][ ] during the hellenistic and roman periods, many interpreters, especially the stoics, who believed that homeric poems conveyed stoic doctrines, regarded them as allegories, containing hidden wisdom.[ ] perhaps partially because of the homeric poems' extensive use in education, many authors believed that homer's original purpose had been to educate.[ ] homer's wisdom became so widely praised that he began to acquire the image of almost a prototypical philosopher.[ ] byzantine scholars such as eustathius of thessalonica and john tzetzes produced commentaries, extensions and scholia to homer, especially in the twelfth century.[ ][ ] eustathius's commentary on the iliad alone is massive, sprawling over nearly , oversized pages in a twenty-first century printed version and his commentary on the odyssey an additional nearly , .[ ] modern[edit] homer as depicted in the nuremberg chronicle in , the greek scholar demetrios chalkokondyles published the editio princeps of the homeric poems.[ ] the earliest modern homeric scholars started with the same basic approaches towards the homeric poems as scholars in antiquity.[ ][ ][ ] the allegorical interpretation of the homeric poems that had been so prevalent in antiquity returned to become the prevailing view of the renaissance.[ ] renaissance humanists praised homer as the archetypically wise poet, whose writings contain hidden wisdom, disguised through allegory.[ ] in western europe during the renaissance, virgil was more widely read than homer and homer was often seen through a virgilian lens.[ ] in , contradicting the widespread praise of homer as the epitome of wisdom, françois hédelin, abbé d'aubignac wrote a scathing attack on the homeric poems, declaring that they were incoherent, immoral, tasteless, and without style, that homer never existed, and that the poems were hastily cobbled together by incompetent editors from unrelated oral songs.[ ] fifty years later, the english scholar richard bentley concluded that homer did exist, but that he was an obscure, prehistoric oral poet whose compositions bear little relation to the iliad and the odyssey as they have been passed down.[ ] according to bentley, homer "wrote a sequel of songs and rhapsodies, to be sung by himself for small earnings and good cheer at festivals and other days of merriment; the ilias he wrote for men, and the odysseis for the other sex. these loose songs were not collected together in the form of an epic poem till pisistratus' time, about years after."[ ] friedrich august wolf's prolegomena ad homerum, published in , argued that much of the material later incorporated into the iliad and the odyssey was originally composed in the tenth century bc in the form of short, separate oral songs,[ ][ ][ ] which passed through oral tradition for roughly four hundred years before being assembled into prototypical versions of the iliad and the odyssey in the sixth century bc by literate authors.[ ][ ][ ] after being written down, wolf maintained that the two poems were extensively edited, modernized, and eventually shaped into their present state as artistic unities.[ ][ ][ ] wolf and the "analyst" school, which led the field in the nineteenth century, sought to recover the original, authentic poems which were thought to be concealed by later excrescences.[ ][ ][ ][ ] within the analyst school were two camps: proponents of the "lay theory", which held that the iliad and the odyssey were put together from a large number of short, independent songs,[ ] and proponents of the "nucleus theory", which held that homer had originally composed shorter versions of the iliad and the odyssey, which later poets expanded and revised.[ ] a small group of scholars opposed to the analysts, dubbed "unitarians", saw the later additions as superior, the work of a single inspired poet.[ ][ ][ ] by around , the central preoccupations of homeric scholars, dealing with whether or not "homer" actually existed, when and how the homeric poems originated, how they were transmitted, when and how they were finally written down, and their overall unity, had been dubbed "the homeric question".[ ] following world war i, the analyst school began to fall out of favor among homeric scholars.[ ] it did not die out entirely, but it came to be increasingly seen as a discredited dead end.[ ] starting in around , milman parry and albert lord, after their studies of folk bards in the balkans, developed the "oral-formulaic theory" that the homeric poems were originally composed through improvised oral performances, which relied on traditional epithets and poetic formulas.[ ][ ][ ] this theory found very wide scholarly acceptance[ ][ ][ ] and explained many previously puzzling features of the homeric poems, including their unusually archaic language, their extensive use of stock epithets, and their other "repetitive" features.[ ] many scholars concluded that the "homeric question" had finally been answered.[ ] meanwhile, the 'neoanalysts' sought to bridge the gap between the 'analysts' and 'unitarians'.[ ][ ] the neoanalysts sought to trace the relationships between the homeric poems and other epic poems, which have now been lost, but of which modern scholars do possess some patchy knowledge.[ ] neoanalysts hold that knowledge of earlier versions of the epics can be derived from anomalies of structure and detail in the surviving versions of the iliad and odyssey. these anomalies point to earlier versions of the iliad in which ajax played a more prominent role, in which the achaean embassy to achilles comprised different characters, and in which patroclus was actually mistaken for achilles by the trojans. they point to earlier versions of the odyssey in which telemachus went in search of news of his father not to menelaus in sparta but to idomeneus in crete, in which telemachus met up with his father in crete and conspired with him to return to ithaca disguised as the soothsayer theoclymenus, and in which penelope recognized odysseus much earlier in the narrative and conspired with him in the destruction of the suitors.[ ] contemporary[edit] most contemporary scholars, although they disagree on other questions about the genesis of the poems, agree that the iliad and the odyssey were not produced by the same author, based on "the many differences of narrative manner, theology, ethics, vocabulary, and geographical perspective, and by the apparently imitative character of certain passages of the odyssey in relation to the iliad."[ ][ ][ ][ ] nearly all scholars agree that the iliad and the odyssey are unified poems, in that each poem shows a clear overall design, and that they are not merely strung together from unrelated songs.[ ] it is also generally agreed that each poem was composed mostly by a single author, who probably relied heavily on older oral traditions.[ ] nearly all scholars agree that the doloneia in book x of the iliad is not part of the original poem, but rather a later insertion by a different poet.[ ] some ancient scholars believed homer to have been an eyewitness to the trojan war; others thought he had lived up to years afterwards.[ ] contemporary scholars continue to debate the date of the poems.[ ][ ][ ] a long history of oral transmission lies behind the composition of the poems, complicating the search for a precise date.[ ] at one extreme, richard janko has proposed a date for both poems to the eighth century bc based on linguistic analysis and statistics.[ ][ ] barry b. powell dates the composition of the iliad and the odyssey to sometime between and bc, based on the statement from herodotus, who lived in the late fifth century bc, that homer lived four hundred years before his own time "and not more" (καὶ οὐ πλέοσι), and on the fact that the poems do not mention hoplite battle tactics, inhumation, or literacy.[ ] martin litchfield west has argued that the iliad echoes the poetry of hesiod, and that it must have been composed around – bc at the earliest, with the odyssey up to a generation later.[ ][ ][ ] he also interprets passages in the iliad as showing knowledge of historical events that occurred in the ancient near east during the middle of the seventh century bc, including the destruction of babylon by sennacherib in bc and the sack of thebes by ashurbanipal in / bc.[ ] at the other extreme, a few american scholars such as gregory nagy see "homer" as a continually evolving tradition, which grew much more stable as the tradition progressed, but which did not fully cease to continue changing and evolving until as late as the middle of the second century bc.[ ][ ][ ] "'homer" is a name of unknown etymological origin, around which many theories were erected in antiquity. one such linkage was to the greek ὅμηρος (hómēros), "hostage" (or "surety"). the explanations suggested by modern scholars tend to mirror their position on the overall homeric question. nagy interprets it as "he who fits (the song) together". west has advanced both possible greek and phoenician etymologies.[ ][ ] historicity of the homeric epics and homeric society[edit] main article: historicity of the homeric epics greece according to the iliad scholars continue to debate questions such as whether the trojan war actually took place – and if so when and where – and to what extent the society depicted by homer is based on his own or one which was, even at the time of the poems' composition, known only as legends. the homeric epics are largely set in the east and center of the mediterranean, with some scattered references to egypt, ethiopia and other distant lands, in a warlike society that resembles that of the greek world slightly before the hypothesized date of the poems' composition.[ ][ ][ ][ ] in ancient greek chronology, the sack of troy was dated to bc. by the nineteenth century, there was widespread scholarly skepticism that the trojan war had ever happened and that troy had even existed, but in heinrich schliemann announced to the world that he had discovered the ruins of homer's troy at hissarlik in modern turkey. some contemporary scholars think the destruction of troy viia circa bc was the origin of the myth of the trojan war, others that the poem was inspired by multiple similar sieges that took place over the centuries.[ ] most scholars now agree that the homeric poems depict customs and elements of the material world that are derived from different periods of greek history.[ ][ ][ ] for instance, the heroes in the poems use bronze weapons, characteristic of the bronze age in which the poems are set, rather than the later iron age during which they were composed;[ ][ ][ ] yet the same heroes are cremated (an iron age practice) rather than buried (as they were in the bronze age).[ ][ ][ ] in some parts of the homeric poems, heroes are accurately described as carrying large shields like those used by warriors during the mycenaean period,[ ] but, in other places, they are instead described carrying the smaller shields that were commonly used during the time when the poems were written in the early iron age.[ ] in the iliad . – , odysseus is described as wearing a helmet made of boar's tusks. such helmets were not worn in homer's time, but were commonly worn by aristocratic warriors between and bc.[ ][ ][ ] the decipherment of linear b in the s by michael ventris and continued archaeological investigation has increased modern scholars' understanding of aegean civilisation, which in many ways resembles the ancient near east more than the society described by homer.[ ] some aspects of the homeric world are simply made up;[ ] for instance, the iliad . – describes there being two springs that run near the city of troy, one that runs steaming hot and the other that runs icy cold.[ ] it is here that hector takes his final stand against achilles.[ ] archaeologists, however, have uncovered no evidence that springs of this description ever actually existed.[ ] homeric language[edit] main article: homeric greek detail of the parnassus (painted – ) by raphael, depicting homer wearing a crown of laurels atop mount parnassus, with dante alighieri on his right and virgil on his left the homeric epics are written in an artificial literary language or 'kunstsprache' only used in epic hexameter poetry. homeric greek shows features of multiple regional greek dialects and periods, but is fundamentally based on ionic greek, in keeping with the tradition that homer was from ionia. linguistic analysis suggests that the iliad was composed slightly before the odyssey, and that homeric formulae preserve older features than other parts of the poems.[ ][ ] homeric style[edit] the homeric poems were composed in unrhymed dactylic hexameter; ancient greek metre was quantity-based rather than stress-based.[ ][ ] homer frequently uses set phrases such as epithets ('crafty odysseus', 'rosy-fingered dawn', 'owl-eyed athena', etc.), homeric formulae ('and then answered [him/her], agamemnon, king of men', 'when the early-born rose-fingered dawn came to light', 'thus he/she spoke'), simile, type scenes, ring composition and repetition. these habits aid the extemporizing bard, and are characteristic of oral poetry. for instance, the main words of a homeric sentence are generally placed towards the beginning, whereas literate poets like virgil or milton use longer and more complicated syntactical structures. homer then expands on these ideas in subsequent clauses; this technique is called parataxis.[ ] the so-called 'type scenes' (typische scenen), were named by walter arend in . he noted that homer often, when describing frequently recurring activities such as eating, praying, fighting and dressing, used blocks of set phrases in sequence that were then elaborated by the poet. the 'analyst' school had considered these repetitions as un-homeric, whereas arend interpreted them philosophically. parry and lord noted that these conventions are found in many other cultures.[ ][ ] 'ring composition' or chiastic structure (when a phrase or idea is repeated at both the beginning and end of a story, or a series of such ideas first appears in the order a, b, c ... before being reversed as ... c, b, a) has been observed in the homeric epics. opinion differs as to whether these occurrences are a conscious artistic device, a mnemonic aid or a spontaneous feature of human storytelling.[ ][ ] both of the homeric poems begin with an invocation to the muse.[ ] in the iliad, the poet invokes her to sing of "the anger of achilles",[ ] and, in the odyssey, he asks her to sing of "the man of many ways".[ ] a similar opening was later employed by virgil in his aeneid.[ ] textual transmission[edit] a reading from homer ( ) by lawrence alma-tadema the orally transmitted homeric poems were put into written form at some point between the eighth and sixth centuries bc. some scholars believe that they were dictated to a scribe by the poet and that our inherited versions of the iliad and odyssey were in origin orally-dictated texts.[ ] albert lord noted that the balkan bards that he was studying revised and expanded their songs in their process of dictating.[ ] some scholars hypothesize that a similar process of revision and expansion occurred when the homeric poems were first written down.[ ][ ] other scholars hold that, after the poems were created in the eighth century, they continued to be orally transmitted with considerable revision until they were written down in the sixth century.[ ] after textualisation, the poems were each divided into rhapsodes, today referred to as books, and labelled by the letters of the greek alphabet. most scholars attribute the book divisions to the hellenistic scholars of alexandria, in egypt.[ ] some trace the divisions back further to the classical period.[ ] very few credit homer himself with the divisions.[ ] in antiquity, it was widely held that the homeric poems were collected and organised in athens in the late sixth century bc by the tyrant peisistratos (died / bc), in what subsequent scholars have dubbed the "peisistratean recension".[ ][ ] the idea that the homeric poems were originally transmitted orally and first written down during the reign of peisistratos is referenced by the first-century bc roman orator cicero and is also referenced in a number of other surviving sources, including two ancient lives of homer.[ ] from around bc, the texts of the homeric poems seem to have become relatively established. after the establishment of the library of alexandria, homeric scholars such as zenodotus of ephesus, aristophanes of byzantium and in particular aristarchus of samothrace helped establish a canonical text.[ ] the first printed edition of homer was produced in in milan, italy. today scholars use medieval manuscripts, papyri and other sources; some argue for a "multi-text" view, rather than seeking a single definitive text. the nineteenth-century edition of arthur ludwich mainly follows aristarchus's work, whereas van thiel's ( , ) follows the medieval vulgate. others, such as martin west ( – ) or t.w. allen, fall somewhere between these two extremes.[ ] see also[edit] 	ancient greece portal 	poetry portal 	literature portal 	achaeans (homer) 	aeneid 	bibliomancy 	catalogue of ships 	creophylus of samos 	cyclic poets 	deception of zeus 	epithets in homer 	geography of the odyssey 	greek mythology 	hector 	historicity of homer 	homeric scholarship 	ithaca 	list of homeric characters 	peisistratos 	sortes homericae 	tabula iliaca 	telemachy 	the golden bough 	trojan battle order 	trojan war in popular culture 	troy vii 	venetus a 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"scholarship, ancient". the homer encyclopedia. doi: . / .wbhe . isbn  - . 	^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa west, m. l. (december ). "the homeric question today". proceedings of the american philosophical society. ( ): – . jstor  . 	^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p lamberton, robert ( ). "homer". in grafton, anthony; most, glenn w.; settis, salvatore (eds.). the classical tradition. cambridge, massachusetts and london, england: the belknap press of harvard university press. pp.  – . isbn  - - - - . 	^ a b c hunter, richard l. ( ). the measure of homer: the ancient reception of the iliad and the odyssey. cambridge, england: cambridge university press. pp.  – . isbn  - - - - . 	^ kaldellis, anthony ( ). "scholarship, byzantine". the homer encyclopedia. doi: . / .wbhe . isbn  - . 	^ heiden, bruce ( ). "scholarship, renaissance through th century". the homer encyclopedia. doi: . / .wbhe . isbn  - . 	^ a b c d e heiden, bruce ( ). "scholarship, th century". the homer encyclopedia. doi: . / .wbhe . isbn  - . 	^ a b c d e heiden, bruce ( ). "scholarship, th century". the homer encyclopedia. doi: . / .wbhe . isbn  - . 	^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m taplin, oliver ( ). " : homer". in boardman, john; griffin, jasper; murray, oswyn (eds.). the oxford history of the classical world. oxford, england: oxford university press. pp.  – . isbn  - . 	^ a b foley, john miles ( ). the theory of oral composition: history and methodology. indiana university press. isbn  - . 	^ heiden, bruce ( ). "scholarship, th century". the homer encyclopedia. doi: . / .wbhe . isbn  - . 	^ edwards, mark w. ( ). "neoanalysis". the homer encyclopedia. doi: . / .wbhe . isbn  - . 	^ reece, steve. "the cretan odyssey: a lie truer than truth". american journal of philology ( ) - . the_cretan_odyssey 	^ west, m. l. ( ). "the invention of homer". classical quarterly. ( ): – . doi: . /cq/ . . . jstor  . 	^ west, martin l. ( ). "homeric question". the homer encyclopedia. doi: . / .wbhe . isbn  - . 	^ latacz, joachim; bierl, anton; olson, s. douglas ( ). "new trends in homeric scholarship" in homer's iliad: the basel commentary. de gruyter. isbn  - . 	^ saïd, suzanne ( ). homer and the odyssey. oup oxford. pp.  – . isbn  - . 	^ a b c graziosi, barbara ( ). inventing homer: the early reception of epic. cambridge university press. pp.  – . isbn  - . 	^ a b c fowler, robert; fowler, robert louis ( ). the cambridge companion to homer. cambridge university press. pp.  – . isbn  - . 	^ burgess, jonathan s. ( ). the tradition of the trojan war in homer and the epic cycle. jhu press. pp.  – . isbn  - . 	^ barry, barry b. ( ). homer and the origins of the greek alphabet. cambridge, england: cambridge university press. pp.  – . isbn  - - - - . 	^ hall, jonathan m. ( ). hellenicity: between ethnicity and culture. university of chicago press. pp.  – . isbn  - . 	^ west, martin l. ( ). "date of homer". the homer encyclopedia. doi: . / .wbhe . isbn  - . 	^ graziosi, barbara ( ). inventing homer: the early reception of epic. cambridge university press. pp.  – . isbn  - . 	^ west, m. l. ( ). the east face of helicon: west asiatic elements in greek poetry and myth. oxford: clarendon press. p.  . 	^ raaflaub, kurt a. ( ). "historicity of homer". the homer encyclopedia. doi: . / .wbhe . isbn  - . 	^ finley, moses i. ( ). the world of odysseus. penguin. isbn  - . 	^ wees, hans van ( ). war and violence in ancient greece. isd llc. isbn  - . 	^ morris, ian ( ). "the use and abuse of homer". classical antiquity. ( ): – . doi: . / . jstor  . 	^ dowden, ken; livingstone, niall ( ). a companion to greek mythology. john wiley & sons. p.  . isbn  - . 	^ a b c sacks, david; murray, oswyn; brody, lisa r. ( ). encyclopedia of the ancient greek world. infobase publishing. p.  . isbn  - . 	^ a b c morris, ian; powell, barry b. ( ). a new companion to homer. brill. pp.  – . isbn  - . 	^ wood, michael ( ). in search of the trojan war. berkeley, california: university of california press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . retrieved september . 	^ schofield, louise ( ). the mycenaeans. los angeles, california: the j. paul getty museum. p.  . isbn  - - - - . retrieved september . 	^ everson, tim ( ). warfare in ancient greece: arms and armour from the heroes of homer to alexander the great. brimscombe port: the history press. pp.  – . isbn  - - - - . retrieved september . 	^ morris, ian; powell, barry b. ( ). a new companion to homer. brill. p.  . isbn  - . 	^ willi, andreas ( ). "language, homeric". the homer encyclopedia. doi: . / .wbhe . isbn  - . 	^ bakker, egbert j. ( ). a companion to the ancient greek language. john wiley & sons. p.  . isbn  - . 	^ w. edwards, mark ( ). "meter". the homer encyclopedia. doi: . / .wbhe . isbn  - . 	^ nussbaum, g.b. ( ). homer's metre: a practical guide for reading greek hexameter poetry. bristol classical press. isbn  - . 	^ edwards, mark w. ( ). "style". the homer encyclopedia. doi: . / .wbhe . isbn  - . 	^ reece, steve t. ( ). "type-scenes". the homer encyclopedia. doi: . / .wbhe . isbn  - . 	^ edwards, mw ( ). "homer and oral tradition: the type-scene". oral tradition. : – . 	^ stanley, keith ( ). the shield of homer: narrative structure in the illiad. princeton university press. isbn  - . 	^ minchin, elizabeth ( ). "ring composition". the homer encyclopedia. doi: . / .wbhe . isbn  - . 	^ a b c d adler, eve ( ). vergil's empire: political thought in the aeneid. lanham, maryland: rowman & littlefield publishers, inc. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ steve reece, "homer's iliad and odyssey: from oral performance to written text", in mark amodio (ed.), new directions in oral theory (tempe: center for medieval and renaissance studies, ) - . 	^ albert b. lord, the singer of tales (cambridge, ma: harvard university press, ). 	^ kirk, g.s. ( ). homer and the oral tradition. cambridge university press. p.  . isbn  - . 	^ foley, john miles ( ). "oral dictated texts". the homer encyclopedia. doi: . / .wbhe . isbn  - . 	^ nagy, gregory ( ). poetry as performance: homer and beyond. cambridge university press. isbn  - . 	^ u. von wilamowitz-moellendorff, homerische untersuchungen (berlin, ) ; r. pfeiffer, history of classical scholarship (oxford, ) - . 	^ west, martin l. ( ). "book division". the homer encyclopedia. doi: . / .wbhe . isbn  - . ; s. west, the ptolemaic papyri of homer (cologne, ) - . 	^ p. mazon, introduction à l'iliade (paris, ) - ; c.h. whitman, homer and the heroic tradition (cambridge [mass.], ) - ; g.p. goold, "homer and the alphabet", tapa ( ) - ; k. stanley, the shield of homer (princeton, ) , ff. 	^ jensen, minna skafte ( ). the homeric question and the oral-formulaic theory. museum tusculanum press. p.  . isbn  - . 	^ a b haslam, michael ( ). "text and transmission". the homer encyclopedia. doi: . / .wbhe . isbn  - . selected bibliography[edit] editions[edit] 	texts in homeric greek 	demetrius chalcondyles editio princeps, florence, 	the aldine editions ( and ) 	 st ed. with comments, micyllus and camerarius, basel, , (improved text), (incl. the batrachomyomachia) 	th. ridel, strasbourg, c. , and . 	wolf (halle, – ; leipzig, ) 	spitzner (gotha, – ) 	bekker (berlin, ; bonn, ) 	la roche (odyssey, – ; iliad, – , both at leipzig) 	ludwich (odyssey, leipzig, – ; iliad, vols., and ) 	w. leaf (iliad, london, – ; nd ed. – ) 	william walter merry and james riddell (odyssey i–xii., nd ed., oxford, ) 	monro (odyssey xiii–xxiv. with appendices, oxford, ) 	monro and allen (iliad), and allen (odyssey, , oxford). 	d.b. monro and t.w. allen – , homeri opera ( volumes: iliad= rd edition, odyssey= nd edition), oxford. isbn  - - - , isbn  - - - , isbn  - - - , isbn  - - - , isbn  - - - 	h. van thiel , homeri odyssea, hildesheim. isbn  - - - , , homeri ilias, hildesheim. isbn  - - - 	m. l. west – , homeri ilias ( volumes), munich/leipzig. isbn  - - - , isbn  - - - 	p. von der mühll , homeri odyssea, munich/leipzig. isbn  - - - 	m. l. west , homerus odyssea, berlin/boston. isbn  - - - interlinear translations[edit] 	the iliad of homer a parsed interlinear handheldclassics.com ( ) text isbn  - - - - english translations[edit] main article: english translations of homer this is a partial list of translations into english of homer's iliad and odyssey. 	augustus taber murray ( – ) 	homer: iliad, vols., revised by william f. wyatt, loeb classical library, harvard university press ( ). 	homer: odyssey, vols., revised by george e. dimock, loeb classical library, harvard university press ( ). 	robert fitzgerald ( – ) 	the iliad, farrar, straus and giroux ( ) isbn  - - - 	the odyssey, farrar, straus and giroux ( ) isbn  - - - 	robert fagles ( – ) 	the iliad, penguin classics ( ) isbn  - - - 	the odyssey, penguin classics ( ) isbn  - - - 	stanley lombardo (b. ) 	iliad, hackett publishing company ( ) isbn  - - - 	odyssey, hackett publishing company ( ) isbn  - - - 	iliad, (audiobook) parmenides ( ) isbn  - - - 	odyssey, (audiobook) parmenides ( ) isbn  - - - 	the essential homer, (audiobook) parmenides ( ) isbn  - - - 	the essential iliad, (audiobook) parmenides ( ) isbn  - - - 	barry b. powell (b. ) 	"iliad", oxford university press ( ) isbn  - - - - 	"odyssey", oxford university pressi ( ) isbn  - - - - 	homer's iliad and odyssey: the essential books, oxford university press ( ) isbn  - - - - 	samuel butler ( – ) 	the iliad, red and black publishers ( ) isbn  - - - - 	the odyssey, red and black publishers ( ) isbn  - - - - 	herbert jordan (b. ) 	iliad, university of oklahoma press ( ) isbn  - - - - (soft cover) 	emily wilson (b. ) 	the odyssey, w.w. norton & company ( ) isbn  - - - - 	rodney merrill 	the iliad, university of michigan press ( ) isbn  - - - - 	the odyssey, university of michigan press ( ) isbn  - - - - general works on homer[edit] 	carlier, pierre ( ). homère (in french). paris: les éditions fayard. isbn  - - - - . 	de romilly, jacqueline ( ). homère ( th ed.). paris: presses universitaires de france. isbn  - - - - . 	fowler, robert, ed. ( ). the cambridge companion to homer. cambridge: cambridge university press. isbn  - - - - . 	latacz, j.; windle, kevin, tr.; ireland, rosh, tr. ( ). troy and homer: towards a solution of an old mystery. oxford: oxford university press. isbn  - - - - . in german, th updated and expanded edition, leipzig, . in spanish, , isbn  - - - . in modern greek, , isbn  - - - . 	monro, david binning ( ). "homer" . encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). pp.  – . 	morris, ian; powell, barry b., eds. ( ). a new companion to homer. leiden: brill. isbn  - - - - . 	powell, barry b. ( ). homer ( nd ed.). malden, ma; oxford, uk; carlton, victoria: wiley-blackwell. isbn  - - - - . 	vidal-naquet, pierre ( ). le monde d'homère (in french). paris: perrin. isbn  - - - - . 	wace, a.j.b.; f.h. stubbings ( ). a companion to homer. london: macmillan. isbn  - - - - . influential readings and interpretations[edit] 	auerbach, erich ( ). "chapter ". mimesis: the representation of reality in western literature. princeton: princeton university press. isbn  - - - - . (orig. publ. in german, , bern) 	de jong, irene j.f. ( ). narrators and focalizers: the presentation of the story in the iliad ( nd ed.). london: bristol classical press. isbn  - - - - . 	edwards, mark w. ( ). homer, poet of the iliad. baltimore: johns hopkins university press. isbn  - - - - . 	fenik, bernard ( ). studies in the odyssey. hermes, einzelschriften . wiesbaden: steiner. 	finley, moses ( ). the world of odysseus. new york: new york review of books. isbn  - - - - . 	nagy, gregory ( ). the best of the achaeans: concepts of the hero in archaic greek poetry. baltimore; london: johns hopkins university press. 	nagy, gregory ( ). homer: the preclassic. berkeley: university of california press. isbn  - - - - . 	reece, steve. the stranger's welcome: oral theory and the aesthetics of the homeric hospitality scene. ann arbor: university of michigan press, . commentaries[edit] 	iliad: 	p.v. jones (ed.) , homer's iliad. a commentary on three translations, london. isbn  - - - 	g.s. kirk (gen. ed.) – , the iliad: a commentary ( volumes), cambridge. isbn  - - - , isbn  - - - , isbn  - - - , isbn  - - - , isbn  - - - , isbn  - - - 	j. latacz (gen. ed.) homers ilias. gesamtkommentar. auf der grundlage der ausgabe von ameis-hentze-cauer ( – ) ( volumes published so far, of an estimated ), munich/leipzig. isbn  - - - , isbn  - - - 	n. postlethwaite (ed.) , homer's iliad: a commentary on the translation of richmond lattimore, exeter. isbn  - - - 	m.w. willcock (ed.) , a companion to the iliad, chicago. isbn  - - - 	odyssey: 	a. heubeck (gen. ed.) – , a commentary on homer's odyssey ( volumes; orig. publ. – in italian), oxford. isbn  - - - , isbn  - - - , isbn  - - - 	p. jones (ed.) , homer's odyssey: a commentary based on the english translation of richmond lattimore, bristol. isbn  - - - 	i.j.f. de jong (ed.) , a narratological commentary on the odyssey, cambridge. isbn  - - - dating the homeric poems[edit] 	janko, richard ( ). homer, hesiod and the hymns: diachronic development in epic diction. cambridge classical studies. cambridge: cambridge university press. isbn  - - - - . further reading[edit] 	buck, carl darling ( ). the greek dialects. chicago: university of chicago press. 	evelyn-white, hugh gerard (tr.) ( ). hesiod, the homeric hymns and homerica. the loeb classical library. london; new york: heinemann; macmillen. 	ford, andrew ( ). homer : the poetry of the past. ithaca, ny: cornell university press. isbn  - - - - . 	graziosi, barbara ( ). inventing homer: the early perception of epic. cambridge classical studies. cambridge: cambridge university press. 	kirk, g.s. ( ). the songs of homer. cambridge: cambridge university press. 	liddell, henry george; scott, robert ( ). a greek-english lexicon (revised ed.). oxford: clarendon press; perseus digital library. 	murray, gilbert ( ). the rise of the greek epic (galaxy books ed.). new york: oxford university press. 	schein, seth l. ( ). the mortal hero : an introduction to homer's iliad. berkeley: university of california press. isbn  - - - - . 	silk, michael ( ). homer: the iliad. cambridge: cambridge university press. isbn  - - - - . 	smith, william, ed. ( ). a dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology. i, ii & iii. london: john murray. external links[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to homer. 		wikiquote has quotations related to: homer 		wikisource has original works written by or about: homer 	library resources about homer 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 by homer 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	works by homer at perseus digital library 	homer at the encyclopædia britannica 	works by homer at project gutenberg 	works by or about homer at internet archive 	works by homer at librivox (public domain audiobooks) 	homer; murray, a.t. ( ). the iliad with an english translation (in ancient greek and english). i, books i–xii. london; new york: william heinemann ltd.; g.p. putnam's sons; internet archive. 	the chicago homer 	daitz, stephen (reader). "homer, iliad, book i, lines – ". society for the reading of greek and latin literature (sorgll). archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - . 	heath, malcolm (may , ). "clas further greek literature ii: aristotle's poetics: notes on homer's iliad and odyssey". department of classics, university of leeds; internet archive. archived from the original on september , . retrieved - - . 	bassino, paola ( ). 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using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 category:quintus horatius flaccus - wikimedia commons 	 	 	 	help 	 	category:quintus horatius flaccus 	 		from wikimedia commons, the free media repository 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 			english: horace, ( december bc - november bc), was the leading lyric poet in latin, the son of a freedman, but himself born free. 	latina: quintus horatius flaccus horacio (es); quintus horatius flaccus (nah); horatius (ms); horace (en-gb); horace (kw); Хораций (bg); quintus horatius flaccus (ro); horace (mg); horatius (sk); horace (oc); 贺拉斯 (zh-hant); horatius (io); quinto orazio flacco (sc); goratsiy (uz); Гораций (kk); horacio (eo); quintus horatius flaccus (cs); horacije (bs); horacio 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(ar); římský básník (cs); poet roman din „perioada de aur” a literaturii romane (ro) quinto horacio flaco (es); Квінт Горацій Флакк (uk); horatius, horatius poeta (la); quintus horatius flaccus (diq); Квинт Гораций Флакк (ru); horatius, quintus horatius flaccus (de); quintus horatius flaccus, q. horatius flaccus, horatius (en); quintus horatius flaccus (gl); quintus horatius flaccus, quint horaci flac (ca); kwintus horacjusz flakkus, orazio, horace, horacius (cs); orazio (it) horace 	roman lyric poet هوراس كما تخيله الرسام أنتون ألكساندر فون فرن 	upload media 	  wikipedia   wikiquote   wikisource 	name in native language	q. horatius flaccus 	date of birth	 december bc venosa 	date of death	 november bc rome 	place of burial		rome 	country of citizenship		ancient rome 	occupation		poet 	writer 	philosopher 	father		unknown 	mother		unknown 	work location		rome 	notable work		ars poetica 	present in work		the divine comedy ( ) 		authority control 	 q isni: viaf id: gnd id: library of congress authority id: n union list of artist names id: bibliothèque nationale de france id: b idref id: cinii author id (books): da national diet library id: sbn author id: it\iccu\cfiv\ libraries australia id: musicbrainz artist id: af f f- - -a bf- d f c open library id: ol a nkcr aut id: jn selibr id: rsl id (person): national library of israel id: biblioteca nacional de españa id: xx nationale thesaurus voor auteurs id: bibsys id: nlp id (unique): a national library of korea id: kac europeana entity: agent/base/ 	 	reasonator 	petscan 	scholia 	statistics 	openstreetmap 	locator tool 	search depicted 	 subcategories this category has the following subcategories, out of total. b 	► books about quintus horatius flaccus‎ ( c, f) 	► books by quintus horatius flaccus‎ ( c, f) c 	► carpe diem‎ ( c, f) e 	► exegi monumentum‎ ( f) h 	► horace's home in venosa‎ ( f) 	► horace portrait medallion, leeds central library‎ ( f) i 	► ille terrarum mihi praeter omnes angulus ridet‎ ( f) j 	► les jardins d'horace, cliché-verre by jean-baptiste-camille corot‎ ( f) n 	► nescit vox missa reverti‎ ( f) 	► non omnis moriar‎ ( f) o 	► odes and carmen saeculare of horace - conington ( )‎ ( f) p 	► pulvis et umbra sumus‎ ( f) s 	► wieland, horazens satyren ( )‎ ( f) 	► satires, epistles and art of poetry of horace - conington ( )‎ ( f) 	► quintus horatius flaccus on stamps‎ ( f) pages in category "quintus horatius flaccus" the following pages are in this category, out of total. 	quintus horatius flaccus h 	creator:horace q 	creator:quintus horatius flaccus media in category "quintus horatius flaccus" the following files are in this category, out of total. 	 			 			 horace and lydia by albert edelfelt ( - ).jpg × ; 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(december ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) international standard name identifier	acronym	isni 	organisation	isni-ia 	introduced	march  ,   ( - - ) 	no. of digits	 	check digit	mod - 	example	 x 	website	isni.org the international standard name identifier (isni) is an identifier system for uniquely identifying the public identities of contributors to media content such as books, television programmes, and newspaper articles. such an identifier consists of digits. it can optionally be displayed as divided into four blocks. isni can be used to disambiguate named entities that might otherwise be confused, and links the data about names that are collected and used in all sectors of the media industries. it was developed under the auspices of the international organization for standardization (iso) as draft international standard ; the valid standard was published on march . the iso technical committee , subcommittee (tc /sc ) is responsible for the development of the standard. contents 	 isni format 	 . format without space 	 . format with space 	 uses of an isni 	 . orcid 	 organisations involved in the management 	 . isni registration authority 	 . isni registration agencies 	 . isni members 	 isni assignment 	 isni coverage 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links isni format[edit] the faq of the isni.org websites states "an isni is made up of digits, the last character being a check character."[ ] format without space[edit] 	marc: it was proposed to store the isni without spaces, e.g.(isni) [ ] 	isni.org url: no spaces, e.g. http://www.isni.org/isni/ 	viaf.org: 	url https://viaf.org/viaf/ / 	url https://viaf.org/processed/isni% c 	the data dumps contain it in form isni| format with space[edit] in display it is frequently shown with spaces. 	isni.org[ ] 	viaf.org[ ] uses of an isni[edit] the isni allows a single identity (such as an author's pseudonym or the imprint used by a publisher) to be identified using a unique number. this unique number can then be linked to any of the numerous other identifiers that are used across the media industries to identify names and other forms of identity. an example of the use of such a number is the identification of a musical performer who is also a writer both of music and of poems. where he or she might currently be identified in many different databases using numerous private and public identification systems, under the isni system, he or she would have a single linking isni record. the many different databases could then exchange data about that particular identity without resorting to messy methods such as comparing text strings. an often quoted example in the english language world is the difficulty faced when identifying 'john smith' in a database. while there may be many records for 'john smith', it is not always clear which record refers to the specific 'john smith' that is required. if an author has published under several different names or pseudonyms, each such name will receive its own isni. isni can be used by libraries and archives when sharing catalogue information; for more precise searching for information online and in databases, and it can aid the management of rights across national borders and in the digital environment. orcid[edit] orcid (open researcher and contributor id) identifiers consist of a reserved block of isni identifiers for scholarly researchers[ ] and administered by a separate organisation.[ ] individual researchers can create and claim their own orcid identifier.[ ] the two organisations coordinate their efforts.[ ][ ] organisations involved in the management[edit] isni registration authority[edit] according to iso the registration authority for iso : is the "isni international agency".[ ] it is located in london (c/o editeur)[ ] it is incorporated under the companies act as a private company limited by guarantee.[ ] the 'international agency' is commonly known as the isni-ia.[ ][ ] this uk registered, not-for-profit company has been founded by a consortium of organisations consisting of the confédération internationale des sociétés d'auteurs et compositeurs (cisac), the conference of european national librarians (cenl), the international federation of reproduction rights organisations (ifrro), the international performers database association (ipda), the online computer library center (oclc) and proquest. it is managed by directors nominated from these organisations and, in the case of cenl, by representatives of the bibliothèque nationale de france and the british library. isni registration agencies[edit] a registration agency provides the interface between isni applicants and the isni assignment agency.[ ] list of registration agencies in order as on isni-ia website 	name (as on isni-ia website)	since	relation 	biblioteca nacional de españa (bne)		spain 	bnf (bibliothèque nationale de france)	 [ ]	france 	bibliothèque nationale de luxembourg		luxembourg 	british library		uk 	btlf 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organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 ancient greek literature - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	 	ancient greek literature 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		  (redirected from hellenistic poetry) 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 a greek manuscript of the beginning of hesiod's works and days ancient greek literature is literature written in the ancient greek language from the earliest texts until the time of the byzantine empire. the earliest surviving works of ancient greek literature, dating back to the early archaic period, are the two epic poems the iliad and the odyssey, set in an idealized archaic past today identified as having some relation to the mycenaean era. these two epics, along with the homeric hymns and the two poems of hesiod, theogony and works and days, comprised the major foundations of the greek literary tradition that would continue into the classical, hellenistic, and roman periods. the lyric poets sappho, alcaeus, and pindar were highly influential during the early development of the greek poetic tradition. aeschylus is the earliest greek tragic playwright for whom any plays have survived complete. sophocles is famous for his tragedies about oedipus, particularly oedipus the king and antigone. euripides is known for his plays which often pushed the boundaries of the tragic genre. the comedic playwright aristophanes wrote in the genre of old comedy, while the later playwright menander was an early pioneer of new comedy. the historians herodotus of halicarnassus and thucydides, who both lived during the sixth century bc, wrote accounts of events that happened shortly before and during their own lifetimes. the philosopher plato wrote dialogues, usually centered around his teacher socrates, dealing with various philosophical subjects, whereas his student aristotle wrote numerous treatises, which later became highly influential. important later writers included apollonius of rhodes, who wrote the argonautica, an epic poem about the voyage of the argonauts; archimedes, who wrote groundbreaking mathematical treatises; and plutarch, who wrote mainly biographies and essays. the second-century ad writer [ contents 	 pre-classical and classical antiquity 	 . epic poetry 	 . lyric poetry 	 . drama 	 . historiography 	 . philosophy 	 hellenistic period 	 . poetry 	 . drama 	 . historiography 	 . ancient biography 	 . science and mathematics 	 . prose fiction 	 roman period 	 . poetry 	 . historiography 	 . science and mathematics 	 . philosophy 	 . prose fiction 	 legacy 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links pre-classical and classical antiquity[edit] further information: mycenaean greece, archaic greece, and classical greece linear b tablet from the archaeological museum of mycenae tablet my oe (obverse) exhibited at the greek national archaeological museum this period of greek literature stretches from homer until the fourth century bc and the rise of alexander the great. the earliest known greek writings are mycenaean, written in the linear b syllabary on clay tablets. these documents contain prosaic records largely concerned with trade (lists, inventories, receipts, etc.); no real literature has been discovered.[ ][ ] michael ventris and john chadwick, the original decipherers of linear b, state that literature almost certainly existed in mycenaean greece,[ ] but it was either not written down or, if it was, it was on parchment or wooden tablets, which did not survive the destruction of the mycenaean palaces in the twelfth century bc.[ ] greek literature was divided in well-defined literary genres, each one having a compulsory formal structure, about both dialect and metrics.[ ] the first division was between prose and poetry. within poetry there were three super-genres: epic, lyric and drama. the common european terminology about literary genres is directly derived from the ancient greek terminology.[ ] lyric and drama were further divided into more genres: lyric in four (elegiac, iambic, monodic lyric and choral lyric); drama in three (tragedy, comedy and pastoral drama).[ ] prose literature can largely be said to begin with herodotus.[ ] over time, several genres of prose literature developed,[ ] but the distinctions between them were frequently blurred.[ ] epic poetry[edit] at the beginning of greek literature stand the two monumental works of homer, the iliad and the odyssey.[ ]: – the figure of homer is shrouded in mystery. although the works as they now stand are credited to him, it is certain that their roots reach far back before his time (see homeric question).[ ]: the iliad is a narrative of a single episode spanning over the course of a ten-day-period from near the end of the ten years of the trojan war. it centers on the person of achilles,[ ] who embodied the greek heroic ideal.[ ][ ]: a painting by the french neoclassical painter thomas degeorge depicting the climactic final scene from book twenty-two of the odyssey in which odysseus, telemachus, eumaeus, and philoetius slaughter the suitors of penelope the odyssey is an account of the adventures of odysseus, one of the warriors at troy.[ ]: after ten years fighting the war, he spends another ten years sailing back home to his wife and family. penelope was considered the ideal female, homer depicted her as the ideal female based on her commitment, modesty, purity, and respect during her marriage with odysseus. during his ten-year voyage, he loses all of his comrades and ships and makes his way home to ithaca disguised as a beggar. both of these works were based on ancient legends.[ ]: the stories are told in language that is simple, and direct. the homeric dialect was an archaic language based on ionic dialect mixed with some element of aeolic dialect and attic dialect,[ ] the latter due to the athenian edition of the th century bc. the epic verse was the hexameter.[ ] the other great poet of the preclassical period was hesiod.[ ]: – [ ] unlike homer, hesiod refers to himself in his poetry.[ ] nonetheless, nothing is known about him from any external source. he was a native of boeotia in central greece, and is thought to have lived and worked around bc.[ ] hesiod's two extant poems are works and days and theogony. works and days is a faithful depiction of the poverty-stricken country life he knew so well, and it sets forth principles and rules for farmers. theogony is a systematic account of creation and of the gods. it vividly describes the ages of mankind, beginning with a long-past golden age.[ ] the writings of homer and hesiod were held in extremely high regard throughout antiquity[ ] and were viewed by many ancient authors as the foundational texts behind ancient greek religion;[ ] homer told the story of a heroic past, which hesiod bracketed with a creation narrative and an account of the practical realities of contemporary daily life.[ ]: – lyric poetry[edit] main article: greek lyric a nineteenth-century painting by the english painter sir lawrence alma-tadema depicting the poetess sappho gazing on in admiration as the poet alcaeus plays the lyre lyric poetry received its name from the fact that it was originally sung by individuals or a chorus accompanied by the instrument called the lyre. despite the name, however, the lyric poetry in this general meaning was divided in four genres, two of which were not accompanied by cithara, but by flute. these two latter genres were elegiac poetry and iambic poetry. both were written in the ionic dialect. elegiac poems were written in elegiac couplets and iambic poems were written in iambic trimeter. the first of the lyric poets was probably archilochus of paros, th century bc, the most important iambic poet.[ ] only fragments remain of his work, as is the case with most of the poets. the few remnants suggest that he was an embittered adventurer who led a very turbulent life.[ ] many lyric poems were written in the aeolic dialect. lyric poems often employed highly varied poetic meters. the most famous of all lyric poets were the so-called "nine lyric poets".[ ] of all the lyric poets, sappho of lesbos (c. – c. bc) was by far the most widely revered. in antiquity, her poems were regarded with the same degree of respect as the poems of homer.[ ] only one of her poems, "ode to aphrodite", has survived to the present day in its original, completed form.[ ] in addition to sappho, her contemporary alcaeus of lesbos was also notable for monodic lyric poetry. the poetry written by alcman was considered beautiful, even though he wrote exclusively in the doric dialect, which was normally considered unpleasant to hear.[ ] the later poet pindar of thebes was renowned for his choral lyric poetry.[ ] drama[edit] medea kills her son (a scene from euripides's medea), campanian red-figure amphora, c. bc, louvre (k ) all surviving works of greek drama were composed by playwrights from athens and are written exclusively in the attic dialect.[ ] choral performances were a common tradition in all greek city-states.[ ] the athenians credited a man named thespis with having invented drama[ ] by introducing the first actor, whose primary purpose was to interact with the leader of the chorus.[ ] later playwrights expanded the number of actors to three, allowing for greater freedom in storytelling.[ ] in the age that followed the greco-persian wars, the awakened national spirit of athens was expressed in hundreds of tragedies based on heroic and legendary themes of the past. the tragic plays grew out of simple choral songs and dialogues performed at festivals of the god dionysus. in the classical period, performances included three tragedies and one pastoral drama, depicting four different episodes of the same myth. wealthy citizens were chosen to bear the expense of costuming and training the chorus as a public and religious duty. attendance at the festival performances was regarded as an act of worship. performances were held in the great open-air theater of dionysus in athens. the poets competed for the prizes offered for the best plays.[ ] all fully surviving greek tragedies are conventionally attributed to aeschylus, sophocles or euripides. the authorship of prometheus bound, which is traditionally attributed to aeschylus,[ ] and rhesus, which is traditionally attributed to euripides, are, however, questioned.[ ] there are seven surviving tragedies attributed to aeschylus. three of these plays, agamemnon, the libation-bearers, and the eumenides, form a trilogy known as the oresteia.[ ] one of these plays, prometheus bound, however, may actually be the work of aeschylus's son euphorion.[ ] seven works of sophocles have survived, the most acclaimed of which are the three theban plays, which center around the story of oedipus and his offspring.[ ] the theban trilogy consists of oedipus the king, oedipus at colonus, and antigone. although the plays are often called a "trilogy," they were actually written many years apart. antigone, the last of the three plays sequentially, was actually first to be written, having been composed in bc, towards the beginning of sophocles's career.[ ] oedipus the king, the most famous of the three, was written around bc at the midpoint of sophocles's career.[notes ] oedipus at colonus, the second of the three plays chronologically, was actually sophocles's last play and was performed in bc, after sophocles's death.[ ] there are nineteen surviving plays attributed to euripides. the most well-known of these plays are medea, hippolytus, and bacchae.[ ] rhesus is sometimes thought to have been written by euripides' son, or to have been a posthumous reproduction of a play by euripides.[ ] euripides pushed the limits of the tragic genre and many of the elements in his plays were more typical of comedy than tragedy.[ ] his play alcestis, for instance, has often been categorized as a "problem play" or perhaps even as a work of tragicomedy rather than a true tragedy due to its comedic elements and the fact that it has a happy ending.[ ][ ] illustration for aristophanes's lysistrata by aubrey beardsley ( ) like tragedy, comedy arose from a ritual in honor of dionysus, but in this case the plays were full of frank obscenity, abuse, and insult. at athens, the comedies became an official part of the festival celebration in bc, and prizes were offered for the best productions. as with the tragedians, few works still remain of the great comedic writers. the only complete surviving works of classical comedy are eleven plays written by the playwright aristophanes.[ ] these are a treasure trove of comic presentation. he poked fun at everyone and every institution. in the birds, he ridicules athenian democracy. in the clouds, he attacks the philosopher socrates. in lysistrata, he denounces war.[ ] aristophanes has been praised highly for his dramatic skill and artistry. john lemprière's bibliotheca classica describes him as, quite simply, "the greatest comic dramatist in world literature: by his side molière seems dull and shakespeare clownish."[ ] of all aristophanes's plays, however, the one that has received the most lasting recognition is the frogs, which simultaneously satirizes and immortalizes the two giants of athenian tragedy: aeschylus and euripides. when it was performed for the first time at the lenaia festival in bc, just one year after the death of euripides, the athenians awarded it first prize.[ ] it was the only greek play that was ever given an encore performance, which took place two months later at the city dionysia.[ ] even today, the frogs still appeals to modern audiences. a commercially successful modern musical adaptation of it was performed on broadway in .[ ] the third dramatic genre was the satyr play. although the genre was popular, only one complete example of a satyr play has survived: cyclops by euripides.[ ] large portions of a second satyr play, ichneutae by sophocles, have been recovered from the site of oxyrhynchus in egypt among the oxyrhynchus papyri.[ ] historiography[edit] a second century ad roman copy of a greek bust of herodotus from the first half of the fourth century bc two notable historians who lived during the classical era were herodotus of halicarnassus and thucydides. herodotus is commonly called "the father of history."[ ] his book the histories is among the oldest works of prose literature in existence. thucydides's book history of the peloponnesian war greatly influenced later writers and historians, including the author of the book of acts of the apostles and the byzantine era historian procopius of caesarea.[ ] a third historian of ancient greece, xenophon of athens, began his hellenica where thucydides ended his work about bc and carried his history to bc.[ ] xenophon's most famous work is his book the anabasis, a detailed, first-hand account of his participation in a greek mercenary army that tried to help the persian cyrus expel his brother from the throne. xenophon also wrote three works in praise of the philosopher socrates: the apology of socrates to the jury, the symposium, and memorabilia. although both xenophon and plato knew socrates, their accounts are very different. many comparisons have been made between the account of the military historian and the account of the poet-philosopher.[ ] philosophy[edit] many important and influential philosophers lived during the fifth and fourth centuries bc. among the earliest greek philosophers were the three so-called "milesian philosophers": thales of miletus, anaximander, and anaximenes.[ ] of these philosophers' writings, however, only one fragment from anaximander preserved by simplicius of cilicia has survived.[notes ][ ] very little is known for certain about the life of the philosopher pythagoras of samos and no writings by him have survived to the present day,[ ] but an impressive corpus of poetic writings written by his pupil empedocles of acragas has survived, making empedocles one of the most widely attested pre-socratic philosophers.[ ] a large number of fragments written by the philosophers heraclitus of ephesus[ ] and democritus of abdera have also survived.[ ] of all the classical philosophers, however, socrates, plato, and aristotle are generally considered the most important and influential. socrates did not write any books himself and modern scholars debate whether or not plato's portrayal of him is accurate. some scholars contend that many of his ideas, or at least a vague approximation of them, are expressed in plato's early socratic dialogues.[ ] meanwhile, other scholars have argued that plato's portrayal of socrates is merely a fictional representation intended to expound plato's own opinions who has very little to do with the historical figure of the same name.[ ] the debate over the extent to which plato's portrayal of socrates represents the actual socrates's ideas is known as the socratic problem.[ ][ ] the death of socrates, by jacques-louis david ( ) plato expressed his ideas through dialogues, that is, written works purporting to describe conversations between different individuals. some of the best-known of these include: the apology of socrates, a purported record of the speech socrates gave at his trial;[ ] phaedo, a description of the last conversation between socrates and his disciples before his execution;[ ] the symposium, a dialogue over the nature of love;[ ] and the republic, widely regarded as plato's most important work,[ ][ ] a long dialogue describing the ideal government.[ ] aristotle of stagira is widely considered to be one of the most important and influential philosophical thinkers of all time.[ ] the first sentence of his metaphysics reads: "all men by nature desire to know." he has, therefore, been called the "father of those who know." his medieval disciple thomas aquinas referred to him simply as "the philosopher". aristotle was a student at plato's academy, and like his teacher, he wrote dialogues, or conversations. however, none of these exist today. the body of writings that have come down to the present probably represents lectures that he delivered at his own school in athens, the lyceum.[ ] even from these books, the enormous range of his interests is evident: he explored matters other than those that are today considered philosophical; the extant treatises cover logic, the physical and biological sciences, ethics, politics, and constitutional government. among aristotle's most notable works are politics, nicomachean ethics, poetics, on the soul, and rhetoric.[ ] hellenistic period[edit] further information: hellenistic period, hellenistic art, and hellenistic greece imaginative nineteenth-century engraving of the ancient library of alexandria by bc all of the greek city-states except sparta had been united by philip ii of macedon.[ ] philip's son alexander the great extended his father's conquests greatly. athens lost its preeminent status as the leader of greek culture, and it was replaced temporarily by alexandria, egypt.[ ] the city of alexandria in northern egypt became, from the rd century bc, the outstanding center of greek culture. it also soon attracted a large jewish population, making it the largest center for jewish scholarship in the ancient world. in addition, it later became a major focal point for the development of christian thought. the musaeum, or shrine to the muses, which included the library and school, was founded by ptolemy i. the institution was from the beginning intended as a great international school and library.[ ] the library, eventually containing more than a half million volumes, was mostly in greek. it was intended to serve as a repository for every work of classical greek literature that could be found.[ ] poetry[edit] a painting by john william waterhouse depicting a scene from the argonautica by apollonius of rhodes the genre of bucolic poetry was first developed by the poet theocritus.[ ] the roman virgil later wrote his eclogues in this genre.[ ] callimachus, a scholar at the library of alexandria, composed the aetia ("causes"),[ ] a long poem written in four volumes of elegiac couplets describing the legendary origins of obscure customs, festivals, and names,[ ] which he probably wrote in several stages over the course of many years in the third century bc.[ ] the aetia was lost during the middle ages,[ ] but, over the course of the twentieth century, much of it was recovered due to new discoveries of ancient papyri.[ ] scholars initially denigrated it as "second-rate", showing great learning, but lacking true "art".[ ] over the course of the century, scholarly appraisal of it greatly improved, with many scholars now seeing it in a much more positive light.[ ] callimachus also wrote short poems for special occasions and at least one short epic, the ibis, which was directed against his former pupil apollonius.[ ] he also compiled a prose treatise entitled the pinakes, in which he catalogued all the major works held in the library of alexandria.[ ] the alexandrian poet apollonius of rhodes is best known for his epic poem the argonautica, which narrates the adventures of jason and his shipmates the argonauts on their quest to retrieve the golden fleece from the land of colchis.[ ] the poet aratus wrote the hexameter poem phaenomena, a poetic rendition of eudoxus of cnidus's treatise on the stars written in the fourth century bc.[ ] drama[edit] republican or early imperial relief depicting a seating menander holding the masks of new comedy ( st century bc – early st century ad) princeton university art museum during the hellenistic period, the old comedy of the classical era was replaced by new comedy. the most notable writer of new comedy was the athenian playwright menander. none of menander's plays have survived to the present day in their complete form, but one play, the bad-tempered man, has survived to the present day in a near-complete form. most of another play entitled the girl from samos and large portions of another five have also survived.[ ] historiography[edit] the historian timaeus was born in sicily but spent most of his life in athens.[ ] his history, though lost, is significant because of its influence on polybius. in books it covered the history of sicily and italy to the year bc, which is where polybius begins his work. timaeus also wrote the olympionikai, a valuable chronological study of the olympic games.[ ] ancient biography[edit] ancient biography, or bios, as distinct from modern biography, was a genre of greek (and roman) literature interested in describing the goals, achievements, failures, and character of ancient historical persons and whether or not they should be imitated. authors of ancient bios, such as the works of nepos and plutarch's parallel lives imitated many of the same sources and techniques of the contemporary historiographies of ancient greece, notably including the works of herodotus and thucydides. there were various forms of ancient biographies, including ) philosophical biographies that brought out the moral character of their subject (such as diogenes laertius's lives of eminent philosophers ) literary biographies which discussed the lives of orators and poets (such as philostratus's lives of the sophists) ) school and reference biographies that offered a short sketch of someone including their ancestry, major events and accomplishments, and death, ) autobiographies, commentaries and memoirs where the subject presents his own life and ) historical/political biography focusing on the lives of those active in the military, among other categories.[ ] science and mathematics[edit] in , the archimedes palimpsest revealed works by archimedes previously thought to have been lost. eratosthenes of alexandria (c. bc – c.  / bc), wrote on astronomy and geography, but his work is known mainly from later summaries. he is credited with being the first person to measure the earth's circumference. much that was written by the mathematicians euclid and archimedes has been preserved. euclid is known for his elements, much of which was drawn from his predecessor eudoxus of cnidus. the elements is a treatise on geometry, and it has exerted a continuing influence on mathematics. from archimedes several treatises have come down to the present. among them are measurement of the circle, in which he worked out the value of pi; the method of mechanical theorems, on his work in mechanics; the sand reckoner; and on floating bodies. a manuscript of his works is currently being studied.[ ] prose fiction[edit] very little has survived of prose fiction from the hellenistic era. the milesiaka by aristides of miletos was probably written during the second century bc. the milesiaka itself has not survived to the present day in its complete form, but various references to it have survived. the book established a whole new genre of so-called "milesian tales," of which the golden ass by the later roman writer apuleius is a prime example.[ ][ ] the ancient greek novels chaereas and callirhoe[ ] by chariton and metiochus and parthenope[ ][ ] were probably both written during the late first century bc or early first century ad, during the latter part of the hellenistic era. the discovery of several fragments of lollianos's phoenician tale reveal the existence of a genre of ancient greek picaresque novel.[ ] roman period[edit] further information: roman greece while the transition from city-state to empire affected philosophy a great deal, shifting the emphasis from political theory to personal ethics, greek letters continued to flourish both under the successors (especially the ptolemies) and under roman rule. romans of literary or rhetorical inclination looked to greek models, and greek literature of all types continued to be read and produced both by native speakers of greek and later by roman authors as well. a notable characteristic of this period was the expansion of literary criticism as a genre, particularly as exemplified by demetrius, pseudo-longinus and dionysius of halicarnassus. the new testament, written by various authors in varying qualities of koine greek also hails from this period,[ ][ ]: – the most important works being the gospels and the epistles of saint paul.[ ][ ]: – poetry[edit] the mykonos vase, one of the earliest surviving depictions of the myth of the trojan horse, a myth which is described in depth in quintus of smyrna's posthomerica the poet quintus of smyrna, who probably lived during the late fourth century ad,[ ][ ] wrote posthomerica, an epic poem narrating the story of the fall of troy, beginning where the iliad left off.[ ] the poet nonnus of panopolis wrote the dionysiaca, the longest surviving epic poem from antiquity. he also wrote a poetic paraphrase of the gospel of john.[ ][ ] nonnus probably lived sometime during the late fourth century ad or early fifth century ad.[ ][ ] historiography[edit] a bust of plutarch, one of the most famous ancient greek historians, from his hometown of chaeronea the historian polybius was born about bc. he was brought to rome as a hostage in . in rome he became a friend of the general scipio aemilianus. he probably accompanied the general to spain and north africa in the wars against carthage. he was with scipio at the destruction of carthage in .[ ] diodorus siculus was a greek historian who lived in the st century bc, around the time of julius caesar and augustus. he wrote a universal history, bibliotheca historica, in books. of these, the first five and the th through the th remain. the first two parts covered history through the early hellenistic era. the third part takes the story to the beginning of caesar's wars in gaul, now france.[ ] dionysius of halicarnassus lived late in the first century bc. his history of rome from its origins to the first punic war ( to bc) is written from a roman point of view, but it is carefully researched. he also wrote a number of other treatises, including on imitation, commentaries on the ancient orators, and on the arrangement of words.[ ] the historians appian of alexandria and arrian of nicomedia both lived in the second century ad.[ ][ ] appian wrote on rome and its conquests, while arrian is remembered for his work on the campaigns of alexander the great. arrian served in the roman army. his book therefore concentrates heavily on the military aspects of alexander's life. arrian also wrote a philosophical treatise, the diatribai, based on the teachings of his mentor epictetus. best known of the late greek historians to modern readers is plutarch of chaeronea, who died about ad . his parallel lives of great greek and roman leaders has been read by every generation since the work was first published. his other surviving work is the moralia, a collection of essays on ethical, religious, political, physical, and literary topics.[ ][ ] during later times, so-called "commonplace books," usually describing historical anecdotes, became quite popular. surviving examples of this popular genre include works such as aulus gellius's attic nights,[ ] athenaeus of naucratis's deipnosophistae,[ ] and claudius aelianus's de natura animalium and varia historia.[ ] science and mathematics[edit] further information: greek mathematics, greek astronomy, and medicine in ancient greece manuscript ( ), of pausanias's description of greece at the laurentian library the physician galen lived during the nd century ad. he was a careful student of anatomy, and his works exerted a powerful influence on medicine for the next , years. strabo, who died about ad , was a geographer and historian. his historical sketches in volumes has nearly all been lost. his geographical sketches remain as the only existing ancient book covering the whole range of people and countries known to the greeks and romans through the time of augustus.[ ] pausanias, who lived in the nd century ad, was also a geographer.[ ] his description of greece is a travel guide describing the geography and mythic history of greece during the second century. the book takes the form of a tour of greece, starting in athens and ending in naupactus.[ ] the scientist of the roman period who had the greatest influence on later generations was undoubtedly the astronomer ptolemy. he lived during the nd century ad,[ ] though little is known of his life. his masterpiece, originally entitled the mathematical collection, has come to the present under the title almagest, as it was translated by arab astronomers with that title.[ ] it was ptolemy who devised a detailed description of an earth-centered universe,[ ] a notion that dominated astronomical thinking for more than , years.[ ] the ptolemaic view of the universe endured until copernicus, galileo, kepler, and other early modern astronomers replaced it with heliocentrism.[ ] philosophy[edit] head of plotinus, a major philosopher from the roman era epictetus (c. ad – ad) was associated with the moral philosophy of the stoics. his teachings were collected by his pupil arrian in the discourses and the encheiridion (manual of study).[ ] diogenes laërtius, who lived in the third century ad, wrote lives and opinions of eminent philosophers, a voluminous collection of biographies of nearly every greek philosopher who ever lived. unfortunately, diogenes laërtius often fails to cite his sources and many modern historians consider his testimony unreliable.[ ] nonetheless, in spite of this, he remains the only available source on the lives of many early greek philosophers.[ ] his book is not entirely without merit; it does preserve a tremendous wealth of information that otherwise would not have been preserved. his biography of epicurus, for instance, is of particularly high quality and contains three lengthy letters attributed to epicurus himself, at least two of which are generally agreed to be authentic.[ ] another major philosopher of his period was plotinus. he transformed plato's philosophy into a school called neoplatonism.[ ] his enneads had a wide-ranging influence on european thought until at least the seventeenth century.[ ] plotinus's philosophy mainly revolved around the concepts of nous, psyche, and the "one."[ ] after the rise of christianity, many of the most important philosophers were christians. the second-century christian apologist justin martyr, who wrote exclusively in greek, made extensive use of ideas from greek philosophy, especially platonism.[ ] origen of alexandria, the founder of christian theology,[ ] also made extensive use of ideas from greek philosophy[ ] and was even able to hold his own against the pagan philosopher celsus in his apologetic treatise contra celsum.[ ] prose fiction[edit] a nineteenth-century painting by the swiss-french painter marc gabriel charles gleyre depicting a scene from daphnis and chloe the roman period was the time when the majority of extant works of greek prose fiction were composed. the ancient greek novels leucippe and clitophon by achilles tatius[ ][ ] and daphnis and chloe by longus[ ] were both probably written during the early second century ad. daphnis and chloe, by far the most famous of the five surviving ancient greek romance novels, is a nostalgic tale of two young lovers growing up in an idealized pastoral environment on the greek island of lesbos.[ ] the wonders beyond thule by antonius diogenes may have also been written during the early second century ad, although scholars are unsure of its exact date. the wonders beyond thule has not survived in its complete form, but a very lengthy summary of it written by photios i of constantinople has survived.[ ] the ephesian tale by xenophon of ephesus was probably written during the late second century ad.[ ] illustration from by william strang depicting a battle scene from book one of lucian of samosata's a true story the satirist lucian of samosata lived during the late second century ad. lucian's works were incredibly popular during antiquity. over eighty different writings attributed to lucian have survived to the present day.[ ] almost all of lucian's works are written in the heavily atticized dialect of ancient greek language prevalent among the well-educated at the time. his book the syrian goddess, however, was written in a faux-ionic dialect, deliberately imitating the dialect and style of herodotus.[ ][ ] lucian's most famous work is the novel a true story, which some authors have described as the earliest surviving work of science fiction.[ ][ ] his dialogue the lover of lies contains several of the earliest known ghost stories[ ] as well as the earliest known version of "the sorcerer's apprentice."[ ] his letter the passing of peregrinus, a ruthless satire against christians, contains one of the earliest pagan appraisals of early christianity.[ ] the aethiopica by heliodorus of emesa was probably written during the third century ad.[ ] it tells the story of a young ethiopian princess named chariclea, who is estranged from her family and goes on many misadventures across the known world.[ ] of all the ancient greek novels, the one that attained the greatest level of popularity was the alexander romance, a fictionalized account of the exploits of alexander the great written in the third century ad. eighty versions of it have survived in twenty-four different languages, attesting that, during the middle ages, the novel was nearly as popular as the bible.[ ]: – versions of the alexander romance were so commonplace in the fourteenth century that geoffrey chaucer wrote that "...every wight that hath discrecioun / hath herd somwhat or al of [alexander's] fortune."[ ]: – legacy[edit] hero mourns the dead leander by gillis backereel ( s) ancient greek literature has had an enormous impact on western literature as a whole.[ ] ancient roman authors adopted various styles and motifs from ancient greek literature. these ideas were later, in turn, adopted by other western european writers and literary critics.[ ] ancient greek literature especially influenced later greek literature. for instance, the greek novels influenced the later work hero and leander, written by musaeus grammaticus.[ ] ancient roman writers were acutely aware of the ancient greek literary legacy and many deliberately emulated the style and formula of greek classics in their own works. the roman poet vergil, for instance, modeled his epic poem the aeneid on the iliad and the odyssey.[ ] during the middle ages, ancient greek literature was largely forgotten in western europe. the medieval writer roger bacon wrote that "there are not four men in latin christendom who are acquainted with the greek, hebrew, and arabic grammars."[ ] it was not until the renaissance that greek writings were rediscovered by western european scholars.[ ] during the renaissance, greek began to be taught in western european colleges and universities for the first time, which resulted in western european scholars rediscovering the literature of ancient greece.[ ] the textus receptus, the first new testament printed in the original greek, was published in by the italian humanist scholar desiderius erasmus.[ ] erasmus also published latin translations of classical greek texts, including a latin translation of hesiod's works and days.[ ] the influence of classical greek literature on modern literature is also evident. numerous figures from classical literature and mythology appear throughout the divine comedy by dante alighieri.[ ] plutarch's lives were a major influence on william shakespeare and served as the main source behind his tragedies julius caesar, antony and cleopatra, and coriolanus.[ ]: – shakespeare's comedies a comedy of errors and the twelfth night drew heavily on themes from graeco-roman new comedy.[ ]: – meanwhile, shakespeare's tragedy timon of athens was inspired by a story written by lucian[ ] and his comedy pericles, prince of tyre was based on an adaptation of the ancient greek novel apollonius of tyre found in john gower's confessio amantis.[ ] page from an arabic translation of aristotle's poetics by abū bishr mattā john milton's epic poem paradise lost is written using a similar style to the two homeric epics.[ ] it also makes frequent allusions to figures from classical literature and mythology, using them as symbols to convey a christian message.[ ] lucian's a true story was part of the inspiration for jonathan swift's novel gulliver's travels.[ ]: bulfinch's mythology, a book on greek mythology published in and aimed at a popular audience, was described by carl j. richard as "one of the most popular books ever published in the united states".[ ] george bernard shaw's play pygmalion is a modern, rationalized retelling of the ancient greek legend of pygmalion.[ ]: james joyce's novel ulysses, heralded by critics as one of the greatest works of modern literature,[ ][ ] is a retelling of homer's odyssey set in modern-day dublin.[ ][ ] the mid-twentieth-century british author mary renault wrote a number of critically acclaimed novels inspired by ancient greek literature and mythology, including the last of the wine and the king must die.[ ] even in works that do not consciously draw on graeco-roman literature, authors often employ concepts and themes originating in ancient greece. the ideas expressed in aristotle's poetics, in particular, have influenced generations of western writers and literary critics.[ ] a latin translation of an arabic version of the poetics by averroes was available during the middle ages.[ ] common greek literary terms still used today include: catharsis,[ ] ethos,[ ] anagnorisis,[ ] hamartia,[ ] hubris,[ ] mimesis,[ ] mythos,[ ] nemesis,[ ] and peripeteia.[ ] notes[edit] 	^ although sophocles won second prize with the group of plays that included oedipus rex, its date of production is uncertain. the prominence of the theban plague at the play's opening suggests to many scholars a reference to the plague that devastated athens in bc, and hence a production date shortly thereafter. see, for example, knox, bernard ( ). "the date of the oedipus tyrannus of sophocles". american journal of philology. ( ): – . doi: . / . jstor  . 	^ simplicius, comments on aristotle's physics ( , ): 	"Ἀναξίμανδρος [...] λέγει δ' αὐτὴν μήτε ὕδωρ μήτε ἄλλο τι τῶν καλουμένων εἶναι στοιχείων, ἀλλ' ἑτέραν τινὰ φύσιν ἄπειρον, ἐξ ἧς ἅπαντας γίνεσθαι τοὺς οὐρανοὺς καὶ τοὺς ἐν αὐτοῖς κόσμους· ἐξ ὧν δὲ ἡ γένεσίς ἐστι τοῖς οὖσι, καὶ τὴν φθορὰν εἰς ταῦτα γίνεσθαι κατὰ τὸ χρεών· διδόναι γὰρ αὐτὰ δίκην καὶ τίσιν ἀλλήλοις τῆς ἀδικίας κατὰ τὴν τοῦ χρόνου τάξιν, ποιητικωτέροις οὕτως ὀνόμασιν αὐτὰ λέγων. δῆλον δὲ ὅτι τὴν εἰς ἄλληλα μεταβολὴν τῶν τεττάρων στοιχείων οὗτος θεασάμενος οὐκ ἠξίωσεν ἕν τι τούτων ὑποκείμενον ποιῆσαι, ἀλλά τι ἄλλο παρὰ ταῦτα· οὗτος δὲ οὐκ ἀλλοιουμένου τοῦ στοιχείου τὴν γένεσιν ποιεῖ, ἀλλ' ἀποκρινομένων τῶν ἐναντίων διὰ τῆς αἰδίου κινήσεως." in ancient greek, quotes usually blend with the surrounding text. consequently, deciding where they start and where they end is often difficult. however, it is generally accepted that this quote is not simplicius' own interpretation, but anaximander's writing, in "somewhat poetic terms" as it is mentioned by simplicius. references[edit] 	^ chadwick, john ( ). the decipherment of linear b (second ed.). cambridge, england: cambridge university press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 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(learn how and when to remove this template message) 		look up imperium in wiktionary, the free dictionary. in ancient rome, imperium was a form of authority held by a citizen to control a military or governmental entity. it is distinct from auctoritas and potestas, different and generally inferior types of power in the roman republic and empire. one's imperium could be over a specific military unit, or it could be over a province or territory. individuals given such power were referred to as curule magistrates or promagistrates. these included the curule aedile, the praetor, the consul, the magister equitum, and the dictator. in a general sense, imperium was the scope of someone's power, and could include anything, such as public office, commerce, political influence, or wealth. contents 	 ancient rome 	 later roman empire 	 divine and earthly imperium 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading ancient rome[edit] imperium originally meant absolute or kingly power—the word being derived from the latin verb imperare (to command)—which became somewhat limited under the republic by the collegiality of the republican magistrates and the right of appeal, or provocatio, on the part of citizens. imperium remained absolute in the army, and the power of the imperator (army commander) to punish remained uncurtailed. the title imperator later was exclusively held by the emperor, as the commander of the armed forces. in fact, the latin word imperator is the root of the english word emperor.[ ][ ] in ancient rome, imperium could be used as a term indicating a characteristic of people, their wealth in property, or the measure of formal power they had. this qualification could be used in a rather loose context (for example, poets used it, not necessarily writing about state officials). however, in roman society, it was also a more formal concept of legal authority. a man with imperium (an imperator) had, in principle, absolute authority to apply the law within the scope of his magistracy or promagistracy. he could be vetoed or overruled either by a magistrate or promagistrate who was a colleague with equal power (e.g. a fellow consul), by one whose imperium outranked his – that is, one of imperium maius (greater imperium), or by a tribune of the people. some modern scholars such as a. h. m. jones have defined imperium as "the power vested by the state in a person to do what he considers to be in the best interests of the state".[citation needed] imperium was indicated in two prominent ways: a curule magistrate or promagistrate carried an ivory baton surmounted by an eagle as his personal symbol of office (compare the field marshal's baton);[citation needed] any such magistrate was also escorted by lictors bearing the fasces (traditional symbols of imperium and authority), when outside the pomerium, axes being added to the fasces to indicate an imperial magistrate's power to inflict capital punishment outside rome (the axes being removed within the pomerium). the number of lictors in attendance upon a magistrate was an overt indication of the degree of imperium. when in the field, a curule magistrate possessing an imperium greater or equal to that of a praetor wore a sash ritually knotted on the front of his cuirass. furthermore, any man executing imperium within his sphere of influence was entitled to the curule chair. 	curule aedile (aedilis curulis) – lictors 	since a plebeian aedile (aedilis plebis) was not vested with imperium, he was not escorted by lictors. 	magister equitum (the dictator's deputy) – lictors 	praetor – lictors ( lictors within the pomerium) 	consul – lictors each 	dictator – lictors outside the pomerium and inside; starting from the dictatorship of lucius sulla the latter rule was ignored. 	to symbolize that the dictator could enact capital punishment within rome as well as without, his lictors did not remove the axes from their fasces within the pomerium. as can be seen, dictatorial imperium was superior to consular, consular to praetorian, and praetorian to aedilician; there is some historical dispute as to whether or not praetorian imperium was superior to "equine-magisterial" imperium. a promagistrate, or a man executing a curule office without actually holding that office, also possessed imperium in the same degree as the actual incumbents (i.e., proconsular imperium being more or less equal to consular imperium, propraetorian imperium to praetorian) and was attended by an equal number of lictors. certain extraordinary commissions, such as pompey's famous command against the pirates, were invested with imperium maius meaning they outranked all other owners of imperium of the same type or rank (in pompey's case, even the consuls) within their sphere of command (his being "ultimate on the seas, and within miles inland"). imperium maius later became a hallmark of the roman emperor. another technical use of the term in roman law was for the power to extend the law beyond its mere interpretation, extending imperium from formal legislators under the ever-republican constitution: popular assemblies, senate, magistrates, emperor and their delegates to the jurisprudence of jurisconsults. later roman empire[edit] while the byzantine eastern roman emperors retained full roman imperium and made the episcopate subservient, in the feudal west a long rivalry would oppose the claims to supremacy within post-roman christianity between sacerdotium in the person of the pope and the secular imperium of the holy roman emperor, beginning with charlemagne, whose title was claimed to have "restored" the office of western roman emperor among the new kingdoms of western europe. both would refer to the heritage of roman law by their titular link with the very city rome: the pope, bishop of rome, versus the holy roman emperor (even though his seat of power was north of the alps). the donatio constantini, by which the papacy had allegedly been granted the territorial patrimonium petri in central italy, became a weapon against the emperor. the first pope who used it in an official act and relied upon it, leo ix, cites the "donatio" in a letter of to michael cærularius, patriarch of constantinople, to show that the holy see possessed both an earthly and a heavenly imperium, the royal priesthood. thenceforth the "donatio" acquires more importance and is more frequently used as evidence in the ecclesiastical and political conflicts between the papacy and the secular power: anselm of lucca and cardinal deusdedit inserted it in their collections of canons; gratian excluded it from his decretum, but it was soon added to it as palea; the ecclesiastical writers in defence of the papacy during the conflicts of the early part of the th century quoted it as authoritative. in one bitter episode, pope gregory ix, who had several times mediated between the lombards and the holy roman emperor frederick ii, reasserted his right to arbitrate between the contending parties. in the numerous manifestos of the pope and the emperor the antagonism between church and state became more evident: the pope claimed for himself the imperium animarum ("command of the souls", i.e. voicing god's will to the faithful) and the principatus rerum et corporum in universo mundo ("primacy over all things and bodies in the whole world"), while the emperor wished to restore the imperium mundi, imperium (as under roman law) over the (now christian) world. rome was again to be the capital of the world and frederick was to become the real emperor of the romans, so he energetically protested against the authority of the pope. the emperor's successes, especially his victory over the lombards at the battle of cortenuova ( ), only aggravated tensions between church and state. the pope again excommunicated the "self-confessed heretic", the "blasphemous beast of the apocalypse" ( march ) who now attempted to conquer the rest of italy (i.e. the papal states, et cetera). divine and earthly imperium[edit] in some monotheistic religions such as christianity (the catholic church where the official language, latin, used terms as imperium dei/domini) the divine is held to have a superior imperium, as ultimate king of kings, above all earthly powers. whenever a society accepts this divine will to be expressed on earth, as by a religious authority, this can lead to theocratic legitimation. however, the catholic church and most other christian groups acknowledge the authority of secular governments. if however, a secular ruler controls the religious hierarchy, he can use it to legitimize his own authority. thus absolute, universal power was vested under early islam in the original caliphate, and later again claimed by mahdis. the chief minister of henry viii, the archbishop of canterbury thomas cranmer suggested removal of the roman catholic papacy's imperium in imperio (latin for "state within a state") by requesting that parliament pass the act in restraint of appeals ( ) specifying that england was an empire and that the crown was imperial, and a year later the act of supremacy proclaiming the imperial crown protector and supreme head of the church of england.[citation needed] in orthodox russia too, when peter i the great assumed the byzantine imperial titles imperator and autokrator, instead of the royal tsar, the idea in founding the russian holy synod was to put an end to the old imperium in imperio of the free church, by substituting the synod for the all too independent patriarch of moscow, which had become almost a rival of the tsars — peter meant to unite all authority in himself, over church as well as state: through his ober-procurator and synod, the emperor ruled his church as absolutely as the military through their respective ministries; he appointed its members just as he did generals; and the russian government continued his policy until the end of the empire in . see also[edit] 	imperator 	constitution of the roman republic 	cursus honorum 	translatio imperii references[edit] 	^ "etymology of the word emperor". retrieved january . 	^ hornblower, simon; spawforth, antony, eds. ( ). "imperium". oxford classical dictionary ( rd ed.). oxford and new york: oxford university press. pp.  – . isbn  - - - - . retrieved october . further reading[edit] 	cary, m. 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– ad 	dominate ad – 	western ad – 	eastern ad – 	timeline 	 roman constitution 	 	constitution of the kingdom 	constitution of the republic 	constitution of the empire 	constitution of the late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	executive magistrates 	 precedent and law 	 	roman law 	ius 	imperium 	mos maiorum 	collegiality 	auctoritas 	roman citizenship 	cursus honorum 	senatus consultum 	senatus consultum ultimum 	 assemblies 	 	centuriate 	curiate 	plebeian 	tribal 	 ordinary magistrates 	 	consul 	praetor 	quaestor 	promagistrate 	aedile 	tribune 	censor 	governor 	 extraordinary magistrates 	 	corrector 	dictator 	magister equitum 	consular tribune 	rex 	triumviri 	decemviri 	 titles and honours 	 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	praeses 	praefectus 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 	 	other countries 		v 	t 	e the history of the roman constitution is a study of ancient rome that traces the progression of roman political development from the founding of the city of rome in bc to the collapse of the western roman empire in ad. the constitution of the roman kingdom vested the sovereign power in the king of rome. the king did have two rudimentary checks on his authority, which took the form of a board of elders (the roman senate) and a popular assembly (the curiate assembly). the arrangement was similar to the constitutional arrangements found in contemporary greek city-states (such as athens or sparta). these greek constitutional principles probably came to rome through the greek colonies of magna graecia in southern italy. the roman kingdom was overthrown in bc, according to legend, and in its place the roman republic was founded. the constitutional history of the roman republic can be divided into five phases. the first phase began with the revolution which overthrew the roman kingdom in bc, and the final phase ended with the revolution which overthrew the roman republic, and thus created the roman empire, in bc. throughout the history of the republic, the constitutional evolution was driven by the struggle between the aristocracy (the "patricians") and the ordinary citizens (the "plebeians"). approximately two centuries after the founding of the republic, the plebeians attained, in theory at least, equality with the patricians. in practice, however, the plight of the average plebeian remained unchanged. this set the stage for the civil wars of the st century bc, and rome's transformation into a formal empire. the general who won the last civil war of the roman republic, gaius octavian, became the master of the state. in the years after bc, octavian set out to reform the roman constitution, and to found the principate. the ultimate consequence of these reforms was the abolition of the republic, and the founding of the roman empire. octavian was given the honorific augustus ("venerable") by the roman senate, and became known to history by this name, and as the first roman emperor. octavian's reforms did not, at the time, seem drastic, since they did nothing more than reorganize the constitution. the reorganization was revolutionary, however, because the ultimate result was that octavian ended up with control over the entire constitution, which itself set the stage for outright monarchy. when diocletian became roman emperor in , the principate was abolished, and a new system, the dominate, was established. this system survived until the ultimate fall of the eastern roman (byzantine) empire in .[ ] contents 	 under the kingdom 	 under the republic 	 under the empire 	 decline and fall 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links under the kingdom[edit] main articles: history of the constitution of the roman kingdom and constitution of the roman kingdom the period of the kingdom can be divided into two epochs based on the legends, handed down to us principally in the first book of livy's ab urbe condita ("from the city having been founded", or simply "history of rome").[ ] while the specific legends were probably not true, they were likely based on historical fact. it is likely that, before the founding of the republic, rome actually had been ruled by a succession of kings. the first legendary epoch saw the reigns of the first four legendary kings. during this time, the political foundations of the city were laid,[ ] the city grew increasingly organized, the religious institutions were established, and the senate and the assemblies evolved into formal institutions.[ ] the early romans were divided into three ethnic groups.[ ] the families that belonged to one of these ethnic groups were the original patrician families. in an attempt to add a level of organization to the city, these patrician families were divided into units called curia.[ ] the vehicle through which the early romans expressed their democratic impulses was known as a "committee" (comitia or "assembly"). the two principle assemblies that formed were known as the curiate assembly and the calculate assembly. the two assemblies were designed to mirror the ethnic divisions of the city, and as such, the assemblies were organized by curia. the vehicle through which the early romans expressed their aristocratic impulses was a council of town elders,[ ] which became the roman senate. the elders of this council were known as patres ("fathers"), and thus are known to history as the first roman senators. the demos ("people") and the elders eventually recognized the need for a single political leader,[ ] and thus elected such a leader, the rex (roman king). the demos elected the rex, and the elders advised the rex.[ ] aeneas, whom the romans believed romulus and remus descended from, fleeing from the burning city of troy the second epoch saw the reigns of the last three legendary kings. the second epoch was more consequential than was the first, which was in part due to the significant degree of territorial expansion which occurred during this period.[ ] regardless of how true these legends were, it is likely that, as the legends suggest, a series of conquests did occur during the late monarchy. as a result of these conquests, it became necessary to determine what was to be done with the conquered people.[ ] often, individuals whose towns had been conquered remained in those towns,[ ] while other such individuals came to rome.[ ] to acquire legal and economic standing, these newcomers adopted a condition of dependency toward either a patrician family, or toward the king.[ ] eventually, the individuals who were dependents of the king were released from their state of dependency, and became the first plebeians.[ ] as rome grew, it needed more soldiers to continue its conquests. when the plebeians were released from their dependency, they were released from their curia. when this occurred, while they were no longer required to serve in the army, they also lost their political and economic standing.[ ] to bring these new plebeians back into the army, the patricians were forced to make concessions.[ ] while it is not known exactly what concessions were made, the fact that they were not granted any political power[ ] set the stage for what history knows as the conflict of the orders. the reign of the first four kings was distinct from that of the last three kings. the first kings were elected. between the reigns of the final three kings, however, the monarchy became hereditary,[ ] and as such, the senate became subordinated to the king.[ ] this breach in the senate's sovereignty, rather than an intolerable tyranny, was probably what led the patricians in the senate to overthrow the last king.[ ] the king may have sought the support of the plebeians; however, the plebeians were no doubt exhausted from their continued military service, and from their forced labor in the construction of public works. they were probably also embittered by their lack of political power, and therefore did not come to the aide of either the king or the senate.[ ] under the republic[edit] main articles: history of the constitution of the roman republic and constitution of the roman republic after the monarchy had been overthrown, and the roman republic had been founded, the people of rome began electing two consuls each year.[ ] in the year bc, the plebeians (commoners) seceded to the aventine hill, and demanded of the patricians (the aristocrats) the right to elect their own officials.[ ][ ] the patricians duly capitulated, and the plebeians ended their secession. the plebeians called these new officials plebeian tribunes, and gave these tribunes two assistants, called plebeian aediles.[ ] in bc, the senate promulgated the twelve tables as the centerpiece of the roman constitution. in bc, the office of censor was created,[ ] and in bc, plebeians were allowed to stand for the consulship. the opening of the consulship to the plebeian class implicitly opened both the censorship as well as the dictatorship to plebeians.[ ] in bc, in an effort by the patricians to reassert their influence over the magisterial offices, two new offices were created. while these two offices, the praetorship and the curule aedileship, were at first open only to patricians, within a generation, they were open to plebeians as well.[ ] beginning around the year bc, the senators and the plebeian tribunes began to grow closer.[ ] the senate began giving tribunes more power, and, unsurprisingly, the tribunes began to feel indebted to the senate.[ ] as the tribunes and the senators grew closer, plebeian senators began to routinely secure the office of tribune for members of their own families.[ ] also around the year bc, the plebeian council (popular assembly) enacted a significant law (the "ovinian law")[ ] which transferred, from the consuls to the censors, the power to appoint new senators. this law also required the censors to appoint any newly elected magistrate to the senate,[ ] which probably resulted in a significant increase in the number of plebeian senators.[ ] this, along with the closeness between the plebeian tribunes and the senate, helped to facilitate the creation of a new plebeian aristocracy.[ ] this new plebeian aristocracy soon merged with the old patrician aristocracy, creating a combined "patricio-plebeian" aristocracy.[ ] the old aristocracy existed through the force of law, because only patricians had been allowed to stand for high office. now, however, the new aristocracy existed due to the organization of society, and as such, this order could only be overthrown through a revolution.[ ] in bc, the plebeians seceded to the janiculum hill. to end the secession, a law (the "hortensian law") was passed, which ended the requirement that the patrician senators consent before a bill could be brought before the plebeian council for a vote.[ ] the ultimate significance of this law was in the fact that it robbed the patricians of their final weapon over the plebeians. the result was that the ultimate control over the state fell, not onto the shoulders of democracy, but onto the shoulders of the new patricio-plebeian aristocracy.[ ] by the middle of the second century bc, the economic situation for the average plebeian had declined significantly.[ ] farmers became bankrupted, and soon masses of unemployed plebeians began flooding into rome, and thus into the ranks of the legislative assemblies, where their economic status usually led them to vote for the candidate who offered them the most. a new culture of dependency was emerging, which would look to any populist leader for relief.[ ] cornelia, mother of the future gracchi tribunes, pointing to her children as her treasures in bc, an aristocratic senator named lucius cornelius sulla was elected consul,[ ] and soon left for a war in the east. when a tribune revoked sulla's command of the war, sulla brought his army back to italy, marched on rome, secured the city, and left for the east again.[ ] in bc he returned to rome, and captured the city a second time.[ ] in bc, he made himself dictator, and then used his status as dictator to pass a series of constitutional reforms that were intended to strengthen the senate.[ ] in bc he resigned his dictatorship, and by bc he was dead. while he thought that he had firmly established aristocratic rule, his own career had illustrated the fatal weakness in the constitution: that it was the army, and not the senate, which dictated the fortunes of the state.[ ] in bc, the generals pompey magnus and marcus licinius crassus were both elected consul, and quickly dismantled sulla's constitution.[ ] in bc pompey returned to rome from battle in the east, and soon entered into an agreement with julius caesar.[ ] caesar and pompey, along with crassus, established a private agreement, known as the first triumvirate. under the agreement, pompey's arrangements were to be ratified, crassus was to be promised a future consulship, and caesar was to be promised the consulship in bc, and then the governorship of gaul (modern france) immediately afterwards.[ ] in bc, violence began sweeping the city,[ ] and in bc crassus was killed. in january bc, the senate passed a resolution which declared that if caesar did not lay down his arms by july of that year, he would be considered an enemy of the republic.[ ] in response, caesar quickly crossed the rubicon with his veteran army, and marched towards rome. caesar's rapid advance forced pompey, the consuls and the senate to abandon rome for greece, and allowed caesar to enter the city unopposed.[ ] by bc, after having defeated the last of his major enemies, julius caesar wanted to ensure that his control over the government was undisputed.[ ] he assumed these powers by increasing his own authority, and by decreasing the authority of rome's other political institutions. caesar held the office of roman dictator, and alternated between the consulship (the chief-magistracy) and the proconsulship (in effect, a military governorship).[ ] in bc, caesar was given the powers of a plebeian tribune,[ ] which made his person sacrosanct, gave him the power to veto the senate, and allowed him to dominate the legislative process. after caesar was assassinated in bc, mark antony formed an alliance with caesar's adopted son and great-nephew, gaius octavian. along with marcus aemilius lepidus, they formed an alliance known as the second triumvirate,[ ] and held powers that were nearly identical to the powers that caesar had held under his constitution. while the conspirators who had assassinated caesar were defeated at the battle of philippi in bc, the peace that resulted was only temporary. antony and octavian fought against each other in one last battle in bc. antony was defeated, and in bc he committed suicide. in bc, octavian returned to rome as the unchallenged master of the state. the reign of octavian, whom history remembers as augustus, the first roman emperor, marked the dividing line between the roman republic and the roman empire. by the time this process was complete, rome had completed its transition from a city-state with a network of dependencies, to the capital of an empire.[ ] under the empire[edit] main articles: history of the constitution of the roman empire and constitution of the roman empire when octavian returned to rome two years after defeating mark antony, no one remained to oppose him.[ ] decades of war had taken a terrible toll on the people of rome. the political situation was unstable, and there was a constant threat of renewed warfare.[ ] octavian's arrival alone caused a wave of optimism to ripple throughout italy.[ ] as soon as he arrived, he began addressing the problems that were plaguing rome. octavian's popularity soon reached new heights, which ultimately gave him the support he needed to implement his reforms. when octavian deposed mark antony in bc, he resigned his position as triumvir, but was probably vested with powers similar to those that he had given up.[ ] octavian wanted to solidify his status as master of the state, but avoid the fate of his adopted father. on january of bc, octavian transferred control of the state back to the senate and the people of rome,[ ] but neither the senate nor the people of rome were willing to accept what was, in effect, octavian's resignation. octavian was allowed to remain roman consul (the chief-executive under the old republic), and was also allowed to retain his tribunician powers (similar to those of the plebeian tribunes, or chief representatives of the people).[ ] this arrangement, in effect, functioned as a popular ratification of his position within the state. the senate then granted octavian a unique grade of proconsular command power (imperium) which gave him the authority over all of rome's military governors, and thus, over the entire roman army.[ ] octavian was also granted the title of "augustus" ("venerable") and of princeps ("first citizen").[ ] in bc, augustus (as octavian now called himself) gave up his consulship, and expanded both his proconsular imperium and his tribunician powers.[ ] after these final reforms had been instituted, augustus never again altered his constitution.[ ] augustus' final goal was to ensure an orderly succession. in bc augustus granted tribunician powers to his stepson tiberius,[ ] and quickly recognized tiberius as his heir. in ad a law was passed which made tiberius' legal powers equivalent to, and independent from, those of augustus. within a year, augustus was dead.[ ] augustus, the first roman emperor. when augustus died in ad, the principate legally ended.[ ] tiberius knew that if he secured the support of the army, the rest of the government would soon follow. therefore, tiberius assumed command of the praetorian guard, and used his proconsular imperium to force the armies to swear allegiance to him.[ ] as soon as this occurred, the senate and the magistrates acquiesced. under tiberius, the power to elect magistrates was transferred from the assemblies to the senate.[ ] when tiberius died, caligula was proclaimed emperor by the senate. in caligula was assassinated, and for two days following his assassination, the senate debated the merits of restoring the republic.[ ] due to the demands of the army, however, claudius was declared emperor, but he was ultimately killed, and nero was declared emperor.[ ] in the decades after the death of augustus, the roman empire was, in a sense, a union of inchoate principalities, which could have disintegrated at any time.[ ] in ad, ser. sulpicius galba, the governor of hispania tarraconensis, was proclaimed emperor by his troops.[ ] in rome, the emperor nero quickly lost his supporters and committed suicide.[ ] the governor of lower germany, a. vitellius, was soon proclaimed emperor by his troops, and in rome, the praetorian guard proclaimed m. salvius otho emperor.[ ] in , galba was assassinated and otho took an army to germany to defeat vitellius, but instead was himself defeated. he committed suicide,[ ] and vitellius was proclaimed emperor, but was quickly defeated and the executed by vespasian, who was then declared emperor.[ ] under the emperor vespasian, the roman constitution began a slide toward outright monarchy.[ ] vespasian died in , and was succeeded by his son, titus, who presided over a further weakening of the senate.[ ] he was succeeded by his brother, domitian, in . domitian's reign marked a significant turning point on the road to monarchy,[ ] as he made himself censor for life, and unlike his father, used these powers to further subjugate the senate.[ ] domitian, ultimately, was a tyrant with the character which always makes tyranny repulsive,[ ] and this derived in part from his own paranoia, which itself was a consequence of the fact that he had no son, and thus no obvious heir. in september , domitian was assassinated.[ ] during the period that began with the accession of the emperor nerva and ended with the death of the emperor commodus, the empire continued to weaken. it was becoming difficult to recruit enough soldiers for the army, inflation was becoming an issue, and on at least one occasion, the empire almost went bankrupt. the most significant constitutional development during this era was the steady drift towards monarchy. m. cocceius nerva succeeded domitian, and although his reign was too short for any major constitutional reforms, he did reverse some of his predecessor's abuses.[ ] he was succeeded by trajan in , who then went further than even nerva had in restoring the image of a free republic,[ ] by, for example, allowing the senate to regain some independent legislative abilities.[ ] hadrian succeeded trajan as emperor. by far, his most important constitutional alteration was his creation of a bureaucratic apparatus,[ ] which included a fixed gradation of clearly defined offices, and a corresponding order of promotion.[ ] hadrian was succeeded by antonius pius, who made no real changes to the constitution.[ ] antonius pius was succeeded by marcus aurelius in . the most significant constitutional development that occurred during the reign of marcus aurelius was the revival of the republican principle of collegiality,[ ] as he made his brother, l. aelius, his co-emperor. in , aelius died, and in , marcus aurelius made his son, l. aurelius commodus, his new co-emperor. in , marcus aurelius died, and commodus became emperor. commodus' tyranny revived the worst memories of the later julian emperors,[ ] as he was more explicit than any of his predecessors in taking powers that he did not legally have, and in disregarding the constitution. he was killed in .[ ] no further constitutional reforms were enacted during the principate.[ ] the only development of any significance was the continuing slide towards monarchy, as the constitutional distinctions that had been set up by augustus lost whatever meaning that they still had.[ ] starting in , with the reign of the barbarian emperor maximinus thrax, the empire was put through a period of severe military, civil, and economic stress. the crisis arguably reached its height during the reign of gallienus, from to .[ ] the crisis ended with the accession of diocletian in , and the abolishment of the principate.[ ] decline and fall[edit] main articles: history of the constitution of the late roman empire and constitution of the late roman empire when diocletian became roman emperor in , the military situation had recently stabilized,[ ] which allowed him to enact badly needed constitutional reforms. diocletian resurrected the "collegial" system that marcus aurelius had first used, and divided the empire into east and west.[ ] each half was to be ruled by one of two co-emperors, called the augusti. he then resurrected the precedent set by hadrian, and ensured that each emperor named his successor early in his reign. diocletian called that successor a caesar.[ ] diocletian then created a bureaucratic apparatus that was similar to the system that hadrian had created, wherein each office had a defined set of responsibilities, a set rank, and a set path of promotion. in this administrative system, diocletian followed the example that had been set by domitian, and divided the empire into small administrative units.[ ] he also assigned to the four tetrarchs (the two augusti and the two caesares) honorary titles and insignia that had been used by domitian.[ ] one important consequence of these reforms was the fact that the image of a free republic had finally given way, and the centuries-old reality of monarchy now became obvious.[ ] when diocletian resigned, chaos ensued, but after the chaos had subsided, most of his reforms remained in effect.[ ] while the emperor constantine the great did enact some revisions to this constitution, the most significant change over the centuries was in the abolition of the caesares. ultimately this constitution survived, in one form or another, until the western roman empire fell in .[ ] diocletian's division of the empire into west and east set the stage for ages to come, and was a significant factor behind the ultimate division of the christian church into western roman catholic and eastern greek orthodox, while his division of the empire into prefectures and dioceses is used by the catholic church to this day. see also[edit] ‹ the template below (columns) is being considered for deletion. see templates for discussion to help reach a consensus. › 	 	centuria 	master of the horse 	byzantine senate 		 	interrex 	promagistrate 	acta senatus notes[edit] 	^ a b c d abbott, 	^ a b c d e f abbott, 	^ a b c abbott, 	^ abbott, 	^ a b c d abbott, 	^ abbott, - 	^ a b abbott, 	^ a b c d abbott, 	^ holland, 	^ abbott, 	^ holland, 	^ a b holland, 	^ abbott, 	^ abbott, 	^ a b abbott, 	^ abbott, 	^ a b abbott, 	^ a b abbott, 	^ holland, 	^ abbott, 	^ abbott, 	^ 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benedict stuart ("cardinal duke of york") ( – ) 	military leaders	 	earl of tyrconnell 	john graham of claverhouse 	marquis de st ruth 	patrick sarsfield 	earl of mar 	thomas forster 	marquess of tullibardine 	lord george murray 	dates of operation	 – s 	active regions	kingdom of great britain and kingdom of ireland 	ideology	 	legitimist support for the senior line of the stuarts 	indefeasible dynastic right 	divine right of kings 	anti-unionism (after )[citation needed] 	allies	 	 bourbon spain ( – ) 	 kingdom of france ( – ) 	opponents	 	 england ( – ) 	 scotland ( – ) 	 great britain (from ) 	 kingdom of ireland 	battles and wars	 	williamite war in ireland ( – ) 	jacobite rising of ( – ) 	jacobite rising of 	jacobite rising of ( – ) jacobitism (/ˈdʒækəbaɪˌtɪzəm/ jak-ə-bye-tiz-əm; scottish gaelic: seumasachas, [ˈʃeːməs̪əxəs̪]; irish: seacaibíteachas, séamusachas) was a largely th- and th-century movement that supported the restoration of the house of stuart to the british throne. the name is derived from jacobus, the latin version of james. when james ii and vii went into exile after the glorious revolution, the parliament of england argued he abandoned the english throne and offered it to his protestant daughter mary ii and her husband william iii.[ ] in april, the scottish convention held he "forfeited" the throne of scotland by his actions, listed in the articles of grievances.[ ] the revolution created the principle of a contract between monarch and people; if that was violated, he or she could be removed. jacobites argued monarchs were appointed by god, or divine right, and could not be removed, making the post- regime illegitimate. while this was the most consistent difference, jacobitism was a complex mix of ideas, many opposed by the stuarts themselves; in ireland, it meant tolerance for catholicism, which james supported, but also irish autonomy and reversing the th-century land settlements, which he opposed. in , the opposition of scots jacobites to the union and divine right was central to the internal conflicts that ended it as a viable movement. outside ireland, jacobitism was strongest in the western scottish highlands, perthshire and aberdeenshire, and areas of northern england with a high proportion of catholics such as western lancashire, northumberland and county durham.[ ] sympathisers were also found in parts of wales, and in the west midlands and south west england, to some degree overlapping with the royalist strongholds of the civil war era. the movement had an international dimension; several european powers sponsored the jacobites as an extension of larger conflicts, while many jacobite exiles served in foreign armies. in addition to the – williamite war in ireland and the simultaneous conflict in scotland, there were open jacobite revolts in scotland and england in , and ; abortive french-backed invasion attempts in and ; and several unsuccessful plots. while the rising was briefly a serious crisis for the british state, leading to the recall of british troops from continental europe, its collapse and the withdrawal of french support ended jacobitism as a serious political movement. contents 	 political background 	 jacobite supporters in the three kingdoms 	 . ireland 	 . england and wales 	 . scotland 	 ideology 	 community 	 decline 	 . elibank plot 	 . loss of french support 	 . henry ix 	 analysis 	 . romantic revival 	 . neo-jacobite revival 	 in literature and popular culture 	 claimants to the thrones of england, scotland, ireland and france 	 footnotes 	 references 	 sources 	 external links political background[edit] 'the true law of free monarchies;' james vi and i's political tract formed the basis of stuart ideology jacobite ideology originated with james vi and i, first monarch of england, scotland and ireland in . its basis was divine right, which claimed his position and authority came from god, and the duty of subjects was to obey. personal rule by the monarch eliminated the need for parliaments, and required political and religious union, concepts widely unpopular in all three kingdoms.[ ] "divine right" also clashed with catholic allegiance to the pope and protestant nonconformists, since both argued there was an authority above the king.[ ] the th century belief 'true religion' and 'good government' were one and the same meant disputes in one area fed into the other; millenarianism and belief in the imminence of the second coming meant many protestants viewed such issues as urgent and real.[ ] as the first step towards union, james began creating standard practices between the churches of england, scotland and ireland. this continued after under charles i, but enforcing laudian practices on the church of england, and ruling without parliament led to a political crisis.[ ] similar measures in scotland caused the – bishops' wars, and installation of a covenanter government.[ ] organised by a small group of catholic nobility, the october irish rebellion was the cumulative effect of land confiscation, loss of political control, anti-catholic measures and economic decline. intended as a bloodless coup, its leaders quickly lost control, leading to atrocities on both sides.[ ] in may, a covenanter army landed in ulster to support scots settlers; the english parliament refused to fund an army, fearing charles would use it against them, and the first english civil war began in august.[ ] charles i, whose policies caused instability throughout his three kingdoms in , the catholic confederacy representing the irish insurgents proclaimed allegiance to charles, but the stuarts were an unreliable ally, since concessions in ireland cost them protestant support in all three kingdoms. in addition, the adventurers' act, approved by charles in march , funded suppression of the revolt by confiscating land from irish catholics, much of it owned by members of the confederacy.[ ] the result was a three-way contest between the confederacy, royalist forces under the protestant duke of ormond, and a covenanter-led army in ulster. the latter were increasingly at odds with the english government; after charles' execution in january , ormond combined these factions to resist the to cromwellian conquest of ireland.[ ] charles ii repudiated his alliance with the confederacy, in return for scottish support in the third english civil war, and ormond went into exile in . defeat in led to the mass confiscation of catholic and royalist land, and its re-distribution among english parliamentary soldiers and protestant settlers.[ ] the three kingdoms were combined into the commonwealth of england, regaining their separate status when the monarchy was restored in .[ ] charles's reign was dominated by the expansionist policies of louis xiv of france, seen as a threat to protestant europe. when his brother and heir james announced his conversion to catholicism in , an attempt was made to bar him from the english throne.[ ] nevertheless, he became king in february with widespread support in england and scotland; a catholic monarch was preferable to excluding the 'natural heir', and rebellions by protestant dissidents quickly suppressed. it was also viewed as temporary; james was , his second marriage was childless after years, and his protestant daughter mary was heir.[ ] his religion made james popular among irish catholics, whose position had not improved under his brother. by , catholic land ownership had fallen to %, versus % in , and after , a series of proclamations deprived them of the right to bear arms or hold public office.[ ] the catholic richard talbot, st earl of tyrconnell was appointed lord deputy of ireland in , and began building a catholic establishment that could survive james. fearing a short reign, tyrconnell moved at a speed that destabilised all three kingdoms.[ ] the last stuart monarch, anne ca ; she viewed the creation of great britain as the culmination of the work begun by james i in james dismissed the english and scottish parliaments when they refused to approve his measures of religious tolerance, which he enforced using the royal prerogative. doing so threatened to re-open disputes over religion, reward those who rebelled in and undermine his own supporters. it also ignored the impact of the edict of fontainebleau, which revoked tolerance for french protestants and created an estimated , refugees, , of whom settled in london.[ ] two events in june turned discontent into rebellion; first, the birth of james's son, creating the prospect of a catholic dynasty. second, prosecution of the seven bishops, which seemed to signal an assault on the established churches; their acquittal caused widespread rejoicing throughout england and scotland, and destroyed james's political authority.[ ] in , many feared civil war if james were bypassed; by , even the earl of sunderland, his chief minister, felt only his removal could prevent it. sunderland secretly co-ordinated an invitation to william, assuring mary and her husband william of orange of english support for armed intervention. william landed in brixham on november with , men; as he advanced, james's army deserted and he went into exile on december.[ ] in february , william and mary were appointed joint monarchs of england, followed by scotland in march.[ ] most of ireland was still controlled by tyrconnell, where james landed on march with , french troops. the to war in ireland highlighted two recurring trends; james and his successors viewed ireland and scotland as secondary to the main prize of england, while french backing was intended to support the wider nine years' war, not necessarily to restore the stuarts.[ ] elections in may produced the first irish parliament with a catholic majority since . it repealed the cromwellian land seizures, confiscated land from williamites, and proclaimed ireland a 'distinct kingdom from england', measures annulled after defeat in .[ ] a minor jacobite rising in scotland was suppressed. several days after the irish jacobites were defeated at boyne in july , victory at beachy head gave the french temporary control of the english channel. james returned to france to urge an immediate invasion of england, but the anglo-dutch fleet soon regained maritime supremacy, and the opportunity was lost.[ ] the treaty of limerick ended the war in ireland; future risings on behalf of the exiled stuarts were confined to england and scotland. the act of settlement barred catholics from the english throne, and when anne became the last stuart monarch in , her heir was her protestant cousin sophia of hanover, not her catholic half-brother james. ireland retained a separate parliament until , but the union combined england and scotland into the kingdom of great britain. anne viewed this as the unified protestant kingdom which her predecessors had failed to achieve.[ ] the exiled stuarts continued to agitate for a return to power, based on the support they retained within the three kingdoms of england, scotland and ireland.[ ] [ ] [ ] doing so required external help, most consistently supplied by france, while spain backed the rising. while talks were also held at different times with sweden, prussia, and russia, these never produced concrete results; while the stuarts were useful as a lever, their foreign backers had little interest in their restoration.[ ] jacobite supporters in the three kingdoms[edit] jacobite support in the three kingdoms of england, scotland and ireland was rooted partly in specific religious communities and among those whose political beliefs encompassed the core stuart doctrines of divine right, sacred kingship and indefeasible hereditary right. however, the motivation of individual jacobites varied widely across the stuarts' former realms: establishing motivation is complicated by the fact that "by and large, those who wrote most did not act, and those who acted wrote little, if anything".[ ] historians have characterised the movement in a variety of ways, including as a revolutionary extension of anti-court, 'country' ideology; an aristocratic reaction against a growth in executive power; a simple conflict between feudalism and capitalism; or as a product of nationalist feeling in scotland and ireland.[ ] ireland[edit] tyrconnell, deputy governor of ireland; his appointment of catholics to military and political positions built widespread support for the jacobite regime the role of jacobitism in irish political history is debated; some argue it was a broad based popular movement, and the main driver of irish catholic nationalism between and .[ ] others see it as part of "a pan-british movement, rooted in confessional and dynastic loyalties", very different from th century irish nationalism.[ ] historian vincent morely describes irish jacobitism as a distinctive ideology within the broader movement, that "emphasised the milesian ancestry of the stuarts, their loyalty to catholicism, and ireland's status as a kingdom with a crown of its own.'[ ] in the first half of the th century, jacobitism was "the primary allegiance of politically conscious catholics".[ ] irish catholic support for james was based primarily on his religion and willingness to deliver their demands. in , gaelic poet dáibhí Ó bruadair celebrated his accession as ensuring the supremacy of catholicism and the irish language. tyrconnell's expansion of the army by the creation of catholic regiments was welcomed by diarmuid mac carthaigh, as enabling the native irish 'tadhg' to be armed and to assert their dominance over 'john' the english protestant.[ ] conversely, most irish protestants viewed his policies as designed to "utterly ruin the protestant interest and the english interest in ireland".[ ] this restricted protestant jacobitism to "doctrinaire clergymen, disgruntled tory landowners and catholic converts", who opposed catholicism but still viewed james' removal as unlawful.[ ] a few church of ireland ministers refused to swear allegiance to the new regime and became non-jurors, the most famous being propagandist charles leslie.[ ] after james was exiled, ireland seemed the best place to begin the attempt to regain his kingdoms, since the administration was controlled by tyrconnell. in may , james called the first parliament of ireland since , primarily seeking taxes to fund the war effort. tyrconnell ensured a predominantly catholic electorate and candidates by issuing new borough charters, admitting catholics into city corporations, and removing "disloyal members".[ ] since elections were not held in many northern areas, the commons was members short, and out of mps were catholic.[ ] later known as the 'patriot parliament, it opened by proclaiming james the rightful king and condemning his "treasonous subjects" who had ousted him. however, it was divided on the issue of returning catholic lands confiscated following the cromwellian conquest. only a small minority of the catholic elite benefited from the act of settlement which sought to mitigate the confiscations enacted in ; major beneficiaries included james himself, along with tyrconnell and members of the lords. the majority of the commons wanted the act repealed in its entirety, with ownership returned to that prevailing in , and refused tyrconnell's initial offer to return half their estates, with compensation for the remainder.[ ] with the commons overwhelmingly in favour of complete restoration of catholic owned lands, tyrconnell persuaded the lords to approve the bill. however, these divisions resurfaced later in the war in the contest between jacobite 'peace' and 'war' factions.[ ] more serious were the differences between the irish parliament and james; his priority was the throne of england, while a french diplomat observed he had 'a heart too english to do anything that might vex the english.'[ ] he therefore resisted measures that might "dissatisfy his protestant subjects" in england and scotland, complaining "he was fallen into the hands of a people who would ram many hard things down his throat".[ ] when parliament made it clear it would only vote through taxes to pay for war if he complied with their minimum demands, he reluctantly approved the restoration of pre- s catholic landowners to their estates and passed an act of attainder, confiscating estates from , mostly protestant "rebels". [ ] he also assented to the assertion ireland was a "distinct kingdom", and laws passed in england did not apply there, but refused to abolish poynings' law, which required irish legislation to be approved by the english parliament.[ ] despite his own catholicism, james viewed the protestant church of ireland as an important part of his support base; he insisted retained its legal pre-eminence, although it was agreed that landowners would only have to pay tithes to clergy of their own religion.[ ] the spanish regiment of hibernia, ca ; foreign military service remained common for irish catholics until banned after james left ireland after defeat at the boyne in , telling his supporters to "shift for themselves". [ ] this led some to depict him as "seamus an chaca", or "james the shit", who had deserted his loyal followers.[ ] however, gaelic scholar breandán Ó buachalla claims his reputation subsequently recovered as "the rightful king...destined to return' and upper-class irish jacobite writers like charles o'kelly and nicholas plunkett blamed "corrupt english and scottish advisors" for his apparent desertion.[ ] after , measures passed by the parliament were annulled, penal laws barred catholics from public life, while the act of attainder was used to justify further land confiscations. , jacobite soldiers went into exile in the diaspora known as the flight of the wild geese, the majority of whom were later absorbed into the french irish brigade. about , men were recruited for the french and spanish armies annually, many with a "tangible commitment to the stuart cause".[ ] elements of the french irish brigade participated in the scottish jacobite rising of . irish language poets, especially in munster, continued to champion the cause after james' death; in , eoin o callanain described his son james francis edward stuart as "taoiseach na ngaoidheal" or "chieftain of the gaels".[ ] as in england, throughout the s, james' birthday on june was marked by celebrations in dublin, and towns like kilkenny and galway. these were often accompanied by rioting, suggested as proof of popular pro-jacobite sympathies.[ ] others argue riots were common in th century urban areas and see them as a "series of ritualised clashes".[ ] combined with jacobite rhetoric and symbolism among rapparees or bandits, some historians claim this provides evidence of continuing popular support for a stuart restoration.[ ] other however argue that it is hard to descern "how far rhetorical jacobitism reflected support for the stuarts, as opposed to discontent with the status quo".[ ] nevertheless, fears of resurgent catholic jacobitism among the ruling protestant minority meant anti-catholic penal laws remained in place for most of the eighteenth century.[ ] there was no irish rising in either or to accompany those in england and scotland; one suggestion is after , for various reasons irish jacobites looked to european allies, rather than relying on a domestic revolt.[ ] from the s on, many catholics were willing to swear loyalty to the hanoverian regime, but not the oath of abjuration, which required renouncing the authority of the pope, as well as the stuarts.[ ] after the effective demise of the jacobite cause in the s, many catholic gentry withdrew support from the stuarts. instead, they created organisations like the catholic convention, which worked within the existing state for redress of catholic grievances.[ ] when charles died in , irish nationalists looked for alternative liberators, among them the french first republic, napoleon bonaparte and daniel o'connell.[ ] england and wales[edit] tory minister and jacobite lord bolingbroke; driven into exile in and pardoned in in england and wales, jacobitism was often associated with the tories, many of whom supported james's right to the throne during the exclusion crisis. tory ideology implied that neither "time nor statute law [...] could ameliorate the sin of usurpation",[ ] while shared tory and jacobite themes of divine right and sacred kingship may have provided an alternative to whig concepts of "liberty and property".[ ] a minority of academics, including eveline cruickshanks, have argued that until the late s, the tories were a crypto-jacobite party, others that jacobitism was a "limb of toryism".[ ] however, the supremacy of the church of england was also central to tory ideology: when this had seemed threatened by james's policies, they became closely involved in his removal. the act of settlement excluding catholics from the english throne was passed by a tory administration; for the vast majority, stuart catholicism was an insuperable barrier to active support, while the tory doctrine of non-resistance also discouraged them from supporting the exiles against a reigning monarch.[ ] for most of the period from to , parliament was either controlled by the tories, or evenly split with the whigs; when george i succeeded anne, most hoped to reconcile with the new regime. the earl of mar, who led the rising, observed "jacobitisme, which they used to brand the tories with, is now i presum out of doors".[ ] however, george blamed the to tory government for the peace of utrecht, which he viewed as damaging to hanover. his isolation of former tory ministers like lord bolingbroke and the earl of mar drove them first into opposition, then exile. exclusion from power between and meant many tories sought opportunities to change the existing government, including contact with the jacobite court.[ ] in , there were co-ordinated celebrations on may, restoration day, and june, james stuart's birthday, especially in tory-dominated towns like bristol, oxford, manchester and norwich, although they remained quiet in the rising. in the s, many 'jacobite' demonstrations in wales and elsewhere were driven by local tensions, especially hostility to methodism, and featured attacks on nonconformist chapels.[ ] the earl of mar, leader of the rising most english participants in came from traditionally catholic areas in the northwest, like lancashire.[ ] by , they numbered under , in england and wales, and most remained loyal in , including the duke of norfolk, head of the english catholic community, sentenced to death for his role in but pardoned.[ ] even so, sympathies were complex; norfolk's agent andrew blood joined the manchester regiment, and he later employed another ex-officer, john sanderson, as his master of horse.[ ] english catholics provided the exiles with financial support into the s.[ ] in , around % of clergy in the church of england refused to take the oath of allegiance to william and mary; one list identifies a total of clergy, schoolmasters and university dons as non jurors. [ ] this almost certainly understates their numbers, since many sympathisers remained within the church of england, but non jurors were disproportionately represented in jacobite risings and riots, and provided many "martyrs". by the late s, arguments over doctrine and the death of its originators reduced the church to a handful, but several of those executed in came from manchester, the last significant congregation in england.[ ] the quaker leader, william penn was a prominent non-conformist supporter of james, although this was based on their personal relationship and did not survive his deposition. another element in english jacobitism was a handful of disaffected radicals, for whom the exiled stuarts provided a potential alternative to the whig establishment. an example was john matthews, a jacobite printer executed in ; his pamphlet vox populi vox dei emphasised the lockean theory of the social contract, a doctrine very few tories of the period would have supported.[ ] scotland[edit] highland jacobite, ca scottish jacobitism had wider and more extensive roots than in england. , scots fought for the jacobites in , compared to , who joined the government army, and were the majority of the , to , who served in .[ ] one reason was the persistence of feudalism in parts of rural scotland, where tenants could be compelled to provide their landlords with military service. many of the highland clansmen who were a feature of jacobite armies were raised this way: in all three major risings, the bulk of the rank and file were supplied by a small number of north-western clans whose leaders joined the rebellion.[ ] despite this, many jacobites were protestant lowlanders, rather than the catholic, gaelic-speaking highlanders of legend.[ ] by , fewer than % of scots were catholic, restricted to the far north-west and a few noble families.[ ] the majority of the rank and file, as well as many jacobite leaders, belonged to protestant episcopalian congregations.[ ] throughout the th century, the close connection between scottish politics and religion meant changes of regime were accompanied by the losers being expelled from the kirk. in , over clergy lost their positions, mostly in aberdeenshire and banffshire, a strongly episcopalian area since the s. in , around % of jacobite recruits came from this part of the country.[ ] jacobite commander george murray; a pro-union, anti-hanoverian scot who fought in the , and risings but loathed prince charles, he encapsulated the many contradictions of jacobite support episcopalianism was popular among social conservatives, as it emphasised indefeasible hereditary right, absolute obedience, and implied deposition of the senior stuart line was a breach of natural order.[ ] the church continued to offer prayers for the stuarts until , while many refused to swear allegiance to the hanoverians in .[ ] however, even in , a substantial minority accommodated to the new regime, a number that increased significantly after the establishment of the scottish episcopal church in .[ ] episcopalian ministers, such as professor james garden of aberdeen, presented the union as one in a series of disasters to befall scotland, provoked by "the sins [...] of rebellion, injustice, oppression, schism and perjury".[ ] opposition was boosted by measures imposed by the post- parliament of great britain, including the treason act , the ruling that barred scots peers from the house of lords, and tax increases.[ ] despite their own preferences, the stuarts tried to appeal to this group; in , charles issued declarations dissolving the "pretended union", despite concerns this would alienate his english supporters.[ ] however, opposition to post-union legislation was not restricted to jacobites. many presbyterians opposed the establishment of the episcopal church in and other measures of indulgence, while the worst tax riots took place in glasgow, a town noted for its antipathy to the stuarts.[ ] as in england, some objected less to the union than the hanoverian connection; lord george murray, a senior jacobite commander in , was a unionist who repeatedly disagreed with charles, but opposed "wars [...] on account of the electors of hanover".[ ] ideology[edit] historian frank mclynn identifies seven primary drivers in jacobitism, noting that while the movement contained "sincere men [..] who aimed solely to restore the stuarts", it was "rarely [...] a positive doctrine" and "provided a source of legitimacy for political dissent of all kinds".[ ] alexander forbes, th lord forbes of pitsligo; his support of the doctrine of indefeasible hereditary right placed him in a minority of jacobites by its four main ideological tenets drew on a theology shared by nonjurors, high church anglicans and scots episcopalians.[ ] they were, firstly, the divine right of kings, their accountability to god, not man or parliament; secondly that monarchy was a divine institution; thirdly, the crown's descent by indefeasible hereditary right, which could not be overturned or annulled; and lastly the scriptural injunction of passive obedience and non-resistance, even towards monarchs of which the subject might disapprove.[ ][ ] jacobites attempted, however, to draw a distinction between 'absolute' and 'arbitrary' power.[ ] the exact interpretation of the monarch and subject's rights and duties varied between different writers, with nonjuror charles leslie being perhaps the most extreme divine right theorist, although even he argued the monarch was bound by "his oath to god, as well as his promise to his people" and "the laws of justice and honour".[ ] jacobite political discourse argued that divinely sanctioned authority was the main moral safeguard of society, while its absence led to party strife.[ ] it claimed the revolution had allowed self-interested minorities, such as whigs, religious dissenters, and foreigners, to take control of the state and oppress the weak.[ ] however, such sentiments were not always consistently held within the jacobite community, or restricted to jacobites alone:[ ] many whigs, and church of england clergy, also argued that the post succession was "divinely ordained".[ ][ ] as time progressed, jacobite discourse grew closer to mainstream toryism; post pamphleteers began to blame the exile of the stuarts on a "malevolent" whig faction, rather than the nation collectively.[ ] after the act of settlement, jacobite propagandists deemphasised the purely legitimist elements in their writing and by , active promotion of hereditary and indefeasible right was restricted largely to a few scots jacobites, notably the episcopalian lords pitsligo and balmerino.[ ] they instead began to focus on populist themes such as opposition to a standing army, electoral corruption and social injustice.[ ] by the s charles himself promised triannual parliaments, disbanding the army and legal guarantees on press freedom.[ ] such tactics broadened their appeal but also carried risks, since they could always be undercut by a government prepared to offer similar concessions.[ ] tensions between doctrinaire jacobites and their broader-based supporters surfaced in the rebellion, when many of the scots had a primary goal of dissolving the union: after prestonpans, they preferred to negotiate rather than invade england as charles wanted.[ ] more generally, jacobite theorists reflected broader currents in enlightenment thought, appealing to those attracted to a monarchist solution to perceived modern decadence.[ ] populist songs and tracts presented the stuart monarch as a king capable of putting right a wide range of ills and restoring social harmony; a man who continued to eat english beef and consume english beer in exile.[ ] while particularly calculated to appeal to tories, the wide range of themes adopted by jacobite pamphleteers and agents periodically drew in disaffected whigs and former radicals: such "whig-jacobites" were highly valued by james ii's exiled court, but seem to have mainly viewed him a potentially weak king from whom it would be easy to extract concessions in the event of a restoration.[ ] community[edit] flora macdonald by allan ramsay c. – ; note white roses, a jacobite symbol while jacobite agents continued in their attempts to recruit the disaffected, the most committed jacobites were often linked by relatively small family networks, particularly in scotland; jacobite activities in areas like perthshire and aberdeenshire centred on a limited number of influential families heavily involved in and .[ ] some of the most powerful landowning families preserved their establishment loyalties, but maintained traditions of stuart allegiance by 'permitting' younger sons to become involved in active jacobitism; in , lewis gordon was widely believed to be a proxy for his brother, the duke of gordon.[ ] many jacobite leaders were closely linked to each other and the exile community by marriage or blood. this has led some historians, notably bruce lenman, to characterise the jacobite risings as french-backed coup attempts by a small network drawn from the elite, though this view is not universally accepted.[ ] family traditions of jacobite sympathy were reinforced through objects such as inscribed glassware or rings with hidden symbols, although many of those that survive are in fact th century neo-jacobite creations. other family heirlooms contained reference to executed jacobite "martyrs", for which the movement preserved an unusual level of veneration.[ ] tartan cloth, widely adopted by the jacobite army in , was used in portraiture as a symbol of stuart sympathies, even before the rising. outside elite social circles, the jacobite community circulated propaganda and symbolic objects through a network of clubs, print-sellers and pedlars, aimed at the provincial gentry and "middling sort".[ ] in , prince charles ordered commemorative medals and miniature pictures for clandestine distribution.[ ] welsh tory sir watkin williams-wynn; his blue coat was often worn by jacobite sympathisers among the more visible elements of the jacobite community were drinking clubs established in the early th century, such as the scottish bucks club or the "cycle of the white rose", led by welsh tory sir watkin williams-wynn.[ ] others included the "sea serjeants", largely composed of south wales gentry or the "independent electors of westminster" led by the glamorganshire lawyer david morgan, executed for his role in .[ ] other than morgan, the vast majority of their members took no part in the rising; charles later suggested he "will do for the welsh jacobites what they did for me. i will drink their health".[ ] jacobites relied heavily on symbols, which were impossible to prosecute, the most common being the white rose of york, adopted after for reasons now unclear. various origins have been suggested, including its use as an ancient scottish royal device, its association with james ii as duke of york, or charles i being styled as the "white king".[ ] jacobite military units often used plain white standards and white cockades: green ribbons were another recognised stuart symbol despite also having whig associations.[ ] many of these symbols were also employed by tories to provoke government supporters, such as the oak boughs or oak leaf associated with charles ii.[ ] restoration day, on may , was an occasion for displays of stuart sympathy, as was james stuart's birthday on june, or "white rose day".[ ] decline[edit] charles edward stuart as an old man despite being greeted as a hero on his return to paris, charles' reception behind the scenes was more muted. d’Éguilles, unofficial french envoy to the jacobites, had a low opinion of him and other senior jacobites, describing lochgarry as "a bandit", and suggesting george murray was a british spy. for their part, the scots were disillusioned by lack of meaningful english or french support, despite constant assurances of both.[ ] as early as , the french were struggling with the costs of the war of the austrian succession, and in june , they began peace negotiations with britain at breda. victories in flanders in and actually worsened their position by drawing in the previously neutral dutch republic, whose shipping they relied on to avoid the british naval blockade.[ ] by , food shortages among the french population meant ending the war was a matter of urgency, but the british refused to sign the treaty of aix-la-chapelle while charles remained in france. after he ignored requests to leave, the french lost patience; in december , he was seized on his way to the opéra and briefly jailed before being expelled. the rising also highlighted the reality that a low level, ongoing insurgency was far more cost-effective for the french than a restoration.[a] as the stuarts themselves recognised, this form of warfare was devastating for the local populace; it took fifty years for the area around drogheda to recover from the destruction inflicted by jacobite troops prior to withdrawal in .[ ] by exposing these divisions, the rising largely ended jacobitism as a viable political alternative.[ ] the british authorities enacted a series of measures designed to prevent the scottish highlands being used for another rising. new forts were built, the military road network finally completed and william roy made the first comprehensive survey of the highlands.[ ] even before , the clan system had been under severe stress due to changing economic conditions; the heritable jurisdictions act removed feudal controls by highland chiefs, while the act of proscription outlawed highland dress unless worn in military service.[ ] elibank plot[edit] archibald cameron being taken to his execution, ; he was allegedly betrayed for his role in pressing recruits in from to charles began exploring a further rising in england; he considered converting to anglicanism, a proposal that had outraged his father james when previously suggested.[ ] in he secretly visited london: the english jacobites were clear that they would do nothing without foreign backing, which despite charles's overtures to frederick ii of prussia seemed unlikely. a plot to capture or assassinate george ii, headed by alexander murray of elibank, eventually stalled but not before charles had sent two exiled scots as agents. one was archibald cameron, responsible for recruiting the cameron regiment in : he was allegedly betrayed by his own clansmen on returning to scotland and executed on june .[ ] in a dispute with the english conspirators, a drunken and increasingly desperate charles threatened to publish their names for having "betrayed" him; most remaining english sympathisers now left the cause.[ ] loss of french support[edit] in french naval defeats at lagos and quiberon bay forced them to abandon a planned invasion of britain, which would have placed charles on the throne. it is often considered the last realistic chance for the jacobites. with its passing, charles lapsed further into alcoholism and was soon entirely abandoned by the french government, who saw little further use for him. the english jacobites stopped sending funds, and by charles, who had returned to catholicism, was relying on the papacy to support his lifestyle in rome. when james edward stuart died in , the holy see refused to recognise charles as the lawful sovereign of great britain. in , scottish catholics swore allegiance to the house of hanover, and resolved two years later to pray for king george by name. henry ix[edit] detail of the monument in the vatican when charles died in the stuart claim to the throne passed to his younger brother henry, who had become a cardinal, and who now styled himself king henry ix of england. after falling into financial difficulty during the french revolution, he was granted a stipend by george iii. however, he never actually surrendered his claims to the throne, though all former supporters of jacobitism had stopped funding. following the death of henry in , the jacobite claims passed to those excluded by the act of settlement: initially to the house of savoy ( – ), then to the modenese branch of the house of habsburg-lorraine ( – ), and finally to the house of wittelsbach ( –present). franz, duke of bavaria is the current jacobite heir. neither he nor any of his predecessors since have pursued their claim. henry, charles and james are memorialised in the monument to the royal stuarts in the vatican. analysis[edit] traditional whig historiography viewed jacobitism as marginal to the progression towards present-day parliamentary democracy, taking the view that as it was defeated, it could never have won.[ ] representing "pre-industrial paternalism" and "mystical loyalism" against forward-thinking individualism, this conception of jacobitism was reinforced by macaulay's stereotype of the typical "tory-jacobite squire" as a "bigoted, ignorant, drunken philistine".[ ] more recent analyses, such as that of j. c. d. clark, suggest that jacobitism can instead be regarded as part of a "deep vein of social and political conservatism running throughout british history", arguing that the whig settlement was not as stable as has been depicted.[ ] further interest in jacobite studies has been prompted by a reassessment of the nationalist aspirations of scots jacobites in particular, emphasising its place as part of an ongoing political idea. romantic revival[edit] "jacobites" by john pettie: romantic view of jacobitism as the political danger represented by jacobitism receded, a nostalgic and sentimental view of the movement appeared, particularly with respect to the final rebellion. relics and mementoes of were preserved and charles himself became celebrated in "increasingly emotional and sentimental language".[ ] the publication in the s of parts of the lyon in mourning by episcopalian bishop robert forbes ( – ), a collection of source material and interviews with jacobite participants in the rising, reinforced this memorialising tendency.[ ] th century historiography often presented the scots jacobites as driven by a romantic attachment to the house of stuart, rather than as having a wide range of individual motivations. this suited a victorian depiction of highlanders as a "martial race", distinguished by a tradition of a "misplaced loyalism" since transferred to the british crown.[ ] the participation of lowland and north-eastern gentry in the movement was less emphasised, while the irish jacobites were presented as a largely negative influence on charles in . walter scott, author of waverley, a story of the rebellion, combined romantic, nostalgic jacobitism with an appreciation of the practical benefits of union. in he arranged a pageantry of reinvented scottish traditions for the visit of king george iv to scotland when george iv visited edinburgh as a successor to his distant relative charles stuart. the tartan pageantry was immensely popular, and highland clothing, previously associated with rebellion and disorder became scotland's national dress. saw the restoration of some jacobite titles and catholic emancipation; with political jacobitism now safely confined to an "earlier era", the hitherto largely ignored site of the final jacobite defeat at culloden began to be celebrated.[ ] many jacobite folk songs emerged in scotland in this period; a number of examples were collected by scott's colleague james hogg in his jacobite reliques, including several he likely composed himself. nineteenth century scots poets such as alicia spottiswoode and carolina nairne, lady nairne (whose "bonnie charlie" remains popular) added further examples. relatively few of the surviving songs, however, actually date from the time of the risings; one of the best known is the irish song mo ghile mear, which although a more recent composition is based on the contemporary lyric buan ar buairt gach ló by seán clárach mac domhnaill. neo-jacobite revival[edit] main article: neo-jacobite revival there was a brief revival of political jacobitism in the late s and into the s.[ ] a number of jacobite clubs and societies were formed, starting with the order of the white rose founded by bertram ashburnham in .[citation needed] in , herbert vivian and ruaraidh erskine co-founded a weekly newspaper, the whirlwind, that espoused a jacobite political view.[ ] vivian, erskine and melville henry massue formed the legitimist jacobite league of great britain and ireland in , which lasted for several years. vivian went on to stand for parliament four times on a jacobite platform – though he failed to be elected each time.[ ] the revival largely came to an end with the first world war and the various societies of the time are now represented by the royal stuart society. in literature and popular culture[edit] jacobitism has been a popular subject for historical novels, and for speculative and humorous fiction. 	the historical novels waverley ( ) and rob roy ( ) by sir walter scott focus on the first and second jacobite rebellions. 	kidnapped ( ) is a historical fiction adventure novel by the scottish author robert louis stevenson that features the intrigues of jacobite troubles in scotland. 	in the s, d. k. broster wrote the jacobite trilogy of novels featuring the dashing hero ewen cameron. 	joan aiken's wolves chronicles have as background an alternative history of england, in which king james iii, a stuart, is on the throne, and the hanoverians plot to overthrow him. 	a fictional account is given of the jacobite/hanoverian conflict in the long shadow, the chevalier and the maiden, volumes – of the morland dynasty, a series of historical novels by author cynthia harrod-eagles. insight is given through the eyes of the morland family into the religious, political and emotional issues at the heart of the struggle. 	corrag (also known as witch light) ( ) by susan fletcher centres on the massacre of glencoe. it offers the eyewitness account of corrag, a reputed witch. 	the historical book series outlander and its television adaptation. claimants to the thrones of england, scotland, ireland and france[edit] main article: jacobite succession 	james ii and vii ( february  – september ). 	james iii and viii ( september  – january ), james francis edward stuart, also known as the chevalier de st. george, the king over the water, or the old pretender. (son of james ii) 	charles iii ( december  – january ), charles edward stuart, also known as bonnie prince charlie, the young chevalier, or the young pretender. (son of james iii) 	henry ix and i ( march  – july ), henry benedict stuart, also known as the cardinal king. (son of james iii) since henry's death, none of the jacobite heirs have claimed the english or scottish thrones. franz, duke of bavaria (born ), a direct descendant of charles i, is the current legitimate heir of the house of stuart. it has been suggested that a repeal of the act of settlement could allow him to claim the throne, although he has expressed no interest in doing so.[ ] footnotes[edit] 	^ summarised in a british intelligence report of ; "...'tis not in the interest of france the house of stuart shoud ever be restored, as it would only unite the three kingdoms against them; england would have no exterior [threat] to mind, and [...] prevent any of its descendants (the stuarts) attempting anything against the libertys or religion of the people. references[edit] 	^ harris , pp.  – . 	^ barnes , pp.  – . 	^ gooch , p. ?. sfn error: no target: citerefgooch (help) 	^ stephen , p.  . 	^ ryan , pp.  – . 	^ jacob , pp.  – . 	^ kenyon, ohlmeyer , p.  . sfn error: no target: citerefkenyon,_ohlmeyer (help) 	^ kenyon, ohlmeyer , p.  . sfn error: no target: citerefkenyon,_ohlmeyer (help) 	^ lenihan , pp.  – . sfn error: multiple targets ( ×): citereflenihan (help) 	^ kenyon, ohlmeyer , p.  . sfn error: no target: citerefkenyon,_ohlmeyer (help) 	^ manganiello , p.  . 	^ lenihan , pp.  – . sfn error: multiple targets ( ×): citereflenihan (help) 	^ lenihan , pp.  – . sfn error: no target: citereflenihan (help) 	^ worden , pp.  – . 	^ harris , pp.  – . sfn error: multiple targets ( ×): citerefharris (help) 	^ miller , pp.  – . 	^ mcgrath , pp.  – . 	^ harris , pp.  – . sfn error: multiple targets ( ×): citerefharris (help) 	^ spielvogel , p.  . sfn error: no target: citerefspielvogel (help) 	^ harris , pp.  – . 	^ harris , pp.  – . 	^ coward, p.  . sfn error: no target: citerefcoward (help) 	^ mckay , pp.  – . 	^ lenihan , pp.  – . sfn error: no target: citereflenihan (help) 	^ lynn , p.  . sfn error: no target: citereflynn (help) 	^ somerset , pp.  – . 	^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/scottishhistory/union/features_union_jacobites.shtml 	^ Ó ciardha , p.  . 	^ https://www.historic-uk.com/historyuk/historyofscotland/the-jacobite-revolts-chronology/ 	^ wills , pp.  - 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complex near licenza, italy. the identification has been made possible because horace wrote several poems about the place, and the location of the villa corresponds to the geographical indications in the poetry. the site can be visited today.[ ] contents 	 identification 	 description 	 references 	 external links identification[edit] it was owing to references to the villa in horace's writings that humanists attempted to find the site as early as the mid-fifteenth century, but the site in licenza was not considered as a possible candidate for two hundred years. this changed when an inscription mentioning a temple of the goddess victory was found in nearby roccagiovine. vicovaro (marked), close to tibur on the tabula peutingeriana, - th century horace tells in one of his poems (epistles . ) that his villa was next to the sanctuary of the sabine goddess, vacuna. lucas holstenius (a mid- th century geographer and a librarian at the vatican library) identified the sanctuary with the temple of the goddess victory mentioned in the inscription, and he showed that the romans associated the sabine deity with their goddess victoria. a confirmation of holstenius' thesis came in with the discovery of the massa mandelana inscription near cantalupo (mandela), which helped antiquarians to identify yet another place name mentioned by horace as being near his sabine estate. description[edit] the aniene valley to the east of rome is rich with archaeological remains. the roman villa on the east slope of the colle rotondo ( meters above sea level) in the lucretili mountains near the hilltown of licenza is one of the best preserved and most significant sites. attributed by most scholars since the th century to the roman poet horace, this villa dates from the first century b.c. and is located just miles from the center of rome in a valley near vicovaro and hadrian's villa at tivoli. the actual site was identified and a small portion was excavated in the th century. major 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about the prophet. for other uses, see jeremiah (disambiguation). biblical prophet 	jeremiah 	jeremiah, as depicted by michelangelo from the sistine chapel ceiling 	born	c. bc anathoth 	died	c. bc egypt 	occupation	prophet 	parent(s)	hilkiah jeremiah[a] (probably after – c. bc),[ ] also called the "weeping prophet",[ ] was one of the major prophets of the hebrew bible (source of the old testament of christian bibles). according to jewish tradition, jeremiah authored the book of jeremiah, the books of kings and the book of lamentations,[ ] with the assistance and under the editorship of baruch ben neriah, his scribe and disciple. in addition to proclaiming many prophecies of the god of israel, the book of jeremiah goes into detail regarding the prophet's private life (e.g., the purchase of a field belonging to his uncle as a part of the right of redemption[jeremiah : – ]) and his experiences (e.g., imprisonment[jeremiah : – ][ : ]), which are thus better known than those of any other prophet. judaism considers the book of jeremiah part of its canon, and regards jeremiah as the second of the major prophets. christianity and islam also regard jeremiah as a prophet. his words are quoted in the new testament[matthew : ][hebrews : – ][ : – ] and his narrative is recounted in islamic tradition.[ ] contents 	 chronology 	 biblical narrative 	 . lineage and early life 	 . calling 	 . persecution 	 . conflicts with false prophets 	 . relationship with the northern kingdom (samaria) 	 . babylon 	 . egypt 	 religious views 	 . judaism 	 . christianity 	 . islam 	 historicity 	 archaeology 	 . nebo-sarsekim tablet 	 . seals 	 . tel arad ostraca 	 cultural influence 	 references 	 . notes 	 . citations 	 . works cited 	 further reading 	 external links chronology[edit] jeremiah by enrico glicenstein jeremiah's ministry was active from the thirteenth year of josiah, king of judah ( bc[ ]), until after the fall of jerusalem and the destruction of solomon's temple in bc.[ ] this period spanned the reigns of five kings of judah: josiah, jehoahaz, jehoiakim, jehoiachin, and zedekiah.[ ] biblical narrative[edit] main article: book of jeremiah lineage and early life[edit] jeremiah was the son of hilkiah, a kohen (jewish priest) from the benjamite village of anathoth.[jeremiah : ] the difficulties he encountered, as described in the books of jeremiah and lamentations, have prompted scholars to refer to him as "the weeping prophet".[ ] jeremiah was called to prophetic ministry c.  bc[ ] by yhwh to give prophecy of jerusalem's coming destruction[jeremiah : – ] by invaders from the north.[jeremiah ] this was because israel had forsaken god by worshiping the idols of baal[jeremiah ][ ][ ][ ] and burning their children as offerings to moloch.[jeremiah : – ] the nation had deviated so far from god's laws that they had broken the covenant, causing god to withdraw his blessings. jeremiah was guided by god to proclaim that the nation of judah would suffer famine, foreign conquest, plunder, and captivity in a land of strangers.[jeremiah ][ ] the prophetess huldah was a relative and contemporary of jeremiah while the prophet zephaniah was his mentor.[ ] calling[edit] horace vernet, jeremiah on the ruins of jerusalem ( ) according to jeremiah : – , yahweh called jeremiah to prophetic ministry in about  bc,[ ] about five years before josiah king of judah turned the nation toward repentance from idolatrous practices.[ kings : - ] according to the books of kings and jeremiah, josiah's reforms were insufficient to save judah and jerusalem from destruction, because of the sins of manasseh, josiah's grandfather,[ kings : – ] and judah's lustful return to the idolatry of foreign gods after josiah's death.[jeremiah : ][ kings : ] jeremiah was said to have been appointed to reveal the sins of the people and the punishment to come.[jeremiah : – : ][ ] jeremiah resisted the call by complaining that he was only a child and did not know how to speak,[ ] but the lord placed the word in jeremiah's mouth,[jeremiah : – ] commanding "get yourself ready!"[jeremiah : ] the qualities of a prophet listed in jeremiah include not being afraid, standing up to speak, speaking as told, and going where sent.[jeremiah : – ][jeremiah : – ] since jeremiah is described as emerging well trained and fully literate from his earliest preaching, his relationship with the shaphan family has been used to suggest that he may have trained at the scribal school in jerusalem over which shaphan presided.[ kings : – ][ ] in his early ministry, jeremiah was primarily a preaching prophet,[jeremiah : ] preaching throughout israel.[ ] he condemned idolatry,[jeremiah : – ],[jeremiah : – ] the greed of priests, and false prophets.[jeremiah : – ]. many years later, god instructed jeremiah to write down these early oracles and his other messages.[jeremiah : – ] persecution[edit] rembrandt van rijn, jeremiah lamenting the destruction of jerusalem, c. jeremiah's ministry prompted plots against him.[jeremiah : – ] unhappy with jeremiah's message, possibly from concern that it would shut down the anathoth sanctuary, his priestly kin and the men of anathoth conspired to kill him. however, the lord revealed the conspiracy to jeremiah, protected his life, and declared disaster for the men of anathoth.[ ][jeremiah : – : ] when jeremiah complains to the lord about this persecution, he is told that the attacks on him will become worse.[ ] a priest, pashur the son of ben immer, a temple official in jerusalem, had jeremiah beaten and put in the stocks at the upper gate of benjamin for a day. after this, jeremiah laments the travails and mockery that speaking god's word have caused him.[jeremiah : ] he recounts how if he tries to shut god's word inside, it burns in his heart and he is unable to hold it in.[jeremiah : ] conflicts with false prophets[edit] while jeremiah was prophesying the coming destruction, he denounced a number of other prophets who were prophesying peace.[jeremiah : – ][ : – ][ : – ][ : – : ][ : ] according to the book of jeremiah, during the reign of king zedekiah, the lord instructed jeremiah to make a yoke with the message that the nation would be subject to the king of babylon. the prophet hananiah took the yoke off jeremiah's neck and broke it, prophesying that within two years the lord would break the yoke of the king of babylon, but jeremiah prophesied in return: "you have broken the yoke of wood, but you have made instead a yoke of iron."[jeremiah : ] relationship with the northern kingdom (samaria)[edit] jeremiah was sympathetic to, as well as descended from, the northern kingdom. many of his first reported oracles are about, and addressed to, the israelites at samaria. he resembles the northern prophet hosea in his use of language and examples of god's relationship to israel. hosea seems to have been the first prophet to describe the desired relationship as an example of ancient israelite marriage, where a man might be polygynous, while a woman was only permitted one husband. jeremiah often repeats hosea's marital imagery.[jeremiah : ][ : ][ : – ][ : – ][ : – ][ ] babylon[edit] the biblical narrative portrays jeremiah as being subject to additional persecutions. after jeremiah prophesied that jerusalem would be handed over to the babylonian army, the king's officials, including pashur the priest, tried to convince king zedekiah that jeremiah should be put to death for disheartening the soldiers and the people. zedekiah allowed them, and they cast jeremiah into a cistern, where he sank down into the mud. the intent seemed to be to kill jeremiah by starvation, while allowing the officials to claim to be innocent of his blood.[ ] a cushite rescued jeremiah by pulling him out of the cistern, but jeremiah remained imprisoned until jerusalem fell to the babylonian army in  bc.[jeremiah ] the babylonians released jeremiah, and showed him great kindness, allowing him to choose the place of his residence, according to a babylonian edict. jeremiah accordingly went to mizpah in benjamin with gedaliah, who had been made governor of judea.[jeremiah : – ] egypt[edit] johanan succeeded gedaliah, who had been assassinated by an israelite prince in the pay of ammon "for working with the babylonians." refusing to listen to jeremiah's counsel, johanan fled to egypt, taking with him jeremiah and baruch, jeremiah's faithful scribe and servant, and the king's daughters.[jeremiah : – ] there, the prophet probably spent the remainder of his life, still seeking in vain to turn the people back to god.[jeremiah : – ] there is no authentic record of his death. religious views[edit] judaism[edit] in jewish rabbinic literature, especially the aggadah, jeremiah and moses are often mentioned together;[ ] their life and works being presented in parallel lines. the following ancient midrash is especially interesting, in connection with deuteronomy : , in which "a prophet like moses" is promised: "as moses was a prophet for forty years, so was jeremiah; as moses prophesied concerning judah and benjamin, so did jeremiah; as moses' own tribe [the levites under korah] rose up against him, so did jeremiah's tribe revolt against him; moses was cast into the water, jeremiah into a pit; as moses was saved by a slave (the slave of pharaoh's daughter); so, jeremiah was rescued by a slave (ebed-melech); moses reprimanded the people in discourses; so did jeremiah."[ ] the prophet ezekiel was a son of jeremiah according to rabbinic literature.[ ] in maccabees : ff the subject is credited with hiding the ark, incense altar, and tabernacle on the mountain of moses.[ ] christianity[edit] 	 	this section relies too much on references to primary sources. please improve this section by adding secondary or tertiary sources. (may ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) the book of jeremiah plays a foundational role in christian thought as it presages the inauguration of a new covenant,[jeremiah : ] to which the new testament testifies. there are about forty direct quotations of the book in the new testament, most in revelation in connection with the destruction of babylon.[ ] 	jeremiah : in revelation : 	jeremiah : in revelation : ; 	jeremiah : - in revelation : of the gospel writers, matthew is especially mindful of how the events in the life, death and resurrection of jesus fulfill jeremianic prophecies.[matthew : ][ : – ] the letter to the hebrews also picks up the fulfilment of the prophetic expectation of the new covenant.[hebrews : - ][ : – ]) islam[edit] jeremiah in the wilderness (top left); jonah and the fish; uzeyr awakened after the destruction of jerusalem. ottoman turkish miniature, th century.[ ] as with many other prophets of the hebrew bible, jeremiah is also regarded as a prophet in islam. although jeremiah is not mentioned in the quran, muslim exegesis and literature narrates many instances from the life of jeremiah and fleshes out his narrative, which closely corresponds with the account given in the hebrew bible. in arabic, jeremiah's name is usually vocalised irmiyā, armiyā or Ūrmiyā,.[ ] classical historians such as wahb ibn munabbih gave accounts of jeremiah which turned "upon the main points of the old testament story of jeremiah: his call to be a prophet, his mission to the king of judah, his mission to the people and his reluctance, the announcement of a foreign tyrant who is to rule over judah."[ ] moreover, some hadiths and tafsirs narrate that the parable of the hamlet in ruins is about jeremiah.[ ] also, in sura (al-isra), ayah – , that is about the two corruptions of children of israel on the earth, some hadith and tafsir cite that one of these corruptions is the imprisonment and persecution of jeremiah. muslim literature narrates a detailed account of the destruction of jerusalem, which parallels the account given in the book of jeremiah.[ ] historicity[edit] the consensus is that there was a historical prophet named jeremiah and that portions of the book probably were written by jeremiah and/or his scribe baruch. views range from the belief that the narratives and poetic sections in jeremiah are contemporary with his life (w.l. holladay), to the view that the work of the original prophet is beyond identification or recovery (r. p. carroll).[ ][ ] see the extensive analysis in albertz , pp.  – first there were early collections of oracles, including material in ch. - , - , , - , etc. then there was an early deuteronomistic redaction which albertz dates to around bc, with the original ending to the book at : . there was a second redaction around - bc which added much more material, up to about ch. . then there was a third redaction around – bc, expanding the book up to the ending at : . then there were further post-exilic redactions adding ch. and editing content throughout the book. although jeremiah was often thought of traditionally as the author of the book of lamentations, this is probably a collection of individual and communal laments composed at various times throughout the babylonian captivity. albertz considers ch. as the oldest, dating shortly after the siege of jerusalem ( bc) and ch. after the assassination of gedaliah, with the other chapters added later (p.  ). archaeology[edit] nebo-sarsekim tablet[edit] in july , assyrologist michael jursa translated a cuneiform tablet dated to  bc, as describing a nabusharrussu-ukin as "the chief eunuch" of nebuchadnezzar ii of babylon. jursa hypothesized that this reference might be to the same individual as the nebo-sarsekim mentioned in jeremiah : .[ ][ ] seals[edit] a th-century bce seal of jehucal, son of shelemiah and another of gedaliah, son of pashhur (mentioned together in jeremiah : ; jehucal also mentioned in jeremiah : ) were found during excavation by eilat mazar in the city of david, jerusalem, in and , respectively.[ ] tel arad ostraca[edit] pottery shards at tel arad were unearthed in the s that mention pashhur, and this reference may be the same individual mentioned in jeremiah : [ ] cultural influence[edit] jeremiah inspired the french noun jérémiade, and subsequently the english jeremiad, meaning "a lamentation; mournful complaint,"[ ] or further, "a cautionary or angry harangue."[ ] jeremiah has periodically been a popular first name in the united states, beginning with the early puritan settlers, who often took the names of biblical prophets and apostles. jeremiah was substituted for the irish diarmuid/diarmaid (also anglicised as dermot), with which it has no etymological connection, when gaelic names were frowned upon in official records. the name jeremy also derives from jeremiah. references[edit] notes[edit] 	^ /ˌdʒɛrɪˈmaɪ.ə/;[ ] hebrew: יִרְמְיָהוּ‎, modern: yīrməyahū  [jiʁmiˈjahu], tiberian: yīrəməyāhū; greek: Ἰερεμίας, romanized: ieremíās; meaning "yah exalts" citations[edit] 	^ wells , p.  . 	^ "jeremiah". encyclopedia britannica. 	^ hillers , p.  . 	^ hillers , pp. xix–xxiv. 	^ a b wensinck – . 	^ a b douglas , p.  – . 	^ sweeney , p.  . 	^ henderson , pp.  – . 	^ a b longman , p.  . 	^ singer , p.  . 	^ ryken , p.  - . 	^ freedman , p.  . sfn error: no target: citereffreedman (help) 	^ a b c freedman , p.  . sfn error: no target: citereffreedman (help) 	^ sweeney , p.  . 	^ anon. , p.  . 	^ barker, youngblood & stek , p.  . 	^ this article incorporates text from the – jewish encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain. 	^ pesiqta, ed. buber, xiii. a. 	^ "ezekiel – jewishencyclopedia.com". jewishencyclopedia.com. 	^ collins , pp.  –. 	^ dillard & longman , p.  . 	^ renda . 	^ see tād̲j̲ al-ʿarūs, x. . 	^ tafsir al-qurtubi, vol. , p. ; tafsir al-qummi, vol. , p. . 	^ tabari, i, ff. 	^ anon. , p.  . 	^ marsh . 	^ reynolds . 	^ hobbins . 	^ kantrowitz . 	^ "arad-canaanite city and israelite citadel in the negev – site no. 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images archive, the contract crawling service archive-it, and the wiki-editable library catalog and book information site open library. soon after that, the archive began working to provide specialized services relating to the information access needs of the print-disabled; publicly accessible books were made available in a protected digital accessible information system (daisy) format.[notes ] according to its website:[notes ] most societies place importance on preserving artifacts of their culture and heritage. without such artifacts, civilization has no memory and no mechanism to learn from its successes and failures. our culture now produces more and more artifacts in digital form. the archive's mission is to help preserve those artifacts and create an internet library for researchers, historians, and scholars. in august , the archive announced[ ] that it has added bittorrent to its file download options for more than . million existing files, and all newly uploaded files.[ ][ ] this method is the fastest means of downloading media from the archive, as files are served from two archive data centers, in addition to other torrent clients which have downloaded and continue to serve the files.[ ][notes ] on november , , the internet archive's headquarters in san francisco's richmond district caught fire,[ ] destroying equipment and damaging some nearby apartments.[ ] according to the archive, it lost a side-building housing one of of its scanning centers; cameras, lights, and scanning equipment worth hundreds of thousands of dollars; and "maybe boxes of books and film, some irreplaceable, most already digitized, and some replaceable".[ ] the nonprofit archive sought donations to cover the estimated $ , in damage.[ ] in november , kahle announced that the internet archive was building the internet archive of canada, a copy of the archive to be based somewhere in canada. the announcement received widespread coverage due to the implication that the decision to build a backup archive in a foreign country was because of the upcoming presidency of donald trump.[ ][ ][ ] kahle was quoted as saying: on november th in america, we woke up to a new administration promising radical change. it was a firm reminder that institutions like ours, built for the long-term, need to design for change. for us, it means keeping our cultural materials safe, private and perpetually accessible. it means preparing for a web that may face greater restrictions. it means serving patrons in a world in which government surveillance is not going away; indeed it looks like it will increase. throughout history, libraries have fought against terrible violations of privacy—where people have been rounded up simply for what they read. at the internet archive, we are fighting to protect our readers' privacy in the digital world.[ ] since , the internet archive visual arts residency, which is organized by amir saber esfahani and andrew mcclintock, helps connect artists with the archive's over petabytes[notes ] of digitized materials. over the course of the yearlong residency, visual artists create a body of work which culminates in an exhibition. the hope is to connect digital history with the arts and create something for future generations to appreciate online or off.[ ] previous artists in residence include taravat talepasand, whitney lynn, and jenny odell.[ ] in , its headquarters in san francisco received a bomb threat which forced a temporary evacuation of the building.[ ] the internet archive acquires most materials from donations,[notes ] such as hundreds of thousands of  rpm discs from boston public library in ,[ ] a donation of , books from trent university in ,[ ] and the entire collection of marygrove college's library in after it closed.[ ] all material is then digitized and retained in digital storage, while a digital copy is returned to the original holder and the internet archive's copy, if not in the public domain, is borrowed to patrons worldwide one at a time under the controlled digital lending (cdl) theory of the first-sale doctrine.[ ] web archiving[edit] wayback machine[edit] main article: wayback machine wayback machine logo, used since mark graham the internet archive capitalized on the popular use of the term "wabac machine" from a segment of the adventures of rocky and bullwinkle cartoon (specifically peabody's improbable history), and uses the name "wayback machine" for its service that allows archives of the world wide web to be searched and accessed.[ ] this service allows users to view some of the archived web pages. the wayback machine was created as a joint effort between alexa internet and the internet archive when a three-dimensional index was built to allow for the browsing of archived web content.[notes ] millions of web sites and their associated data (images, source code, documents, etc.) are saved in a database. the service can be used to see what previous versions of web sites used to look like, to grab original source code from web sites that may no longer be directly available, or to visit web sites that no longer even exist. not all web sites are available because many web site owners choose to exclude their sites. as with all sites based on data from web crawlers, the internet archive misses large areas of the web for a variety of other reasons. a paper found international biases in the coverage, but deemed them "not intentional".[ ] a purchase of additional storage at the internet archive a "save page now" archiving feature was made available in october ,[ ] accessible on the lower right of the wayback machine's main page.[notes ] once a target url is entered and saved, the web page will become part of the wayback machine.[ ] through the internet address web.archive.org,[ ] users can upload to the wayback machine a large variety of contents, including pdf and data compression file formats. the wayback machine creates a permanent local url of the upload content, that is accessible in the web, even if not listed while searching in the http://archive.org official website. may , , is the date of the oldest archived pages on the archive.org wayback machine, such as infoseek.com.[ ] in october , it was announced that the way web pages are counted would be changed, resulting in the decrease of the archived pages counts shown.[ ] 	year 	archived pages (billions) 	 	 [notes ] 	 	 [notes ] 	 	 [notes ] 	 	 [notes ] 	 	 [notes ] 	 	 [notes ] 	 	 [notes ] 	 	 [notes ] 	 	 [notes ] 	 	 [ ] 	 	 [notes ] 	 	 [a][notes ] [b][ ] 	 	 [notes ] 	 	 [notes ] 	a using the old counting system used before october 	b using the new counting system used after october in september , the internet archive announced a partnership with cloudflare to automatically index websites served via its "always online" services.[ ] archive-it[edit] play media brewster kahle of the internet archive talks about archiving operations created in early , archive-it[ ] is a web archiving subscription service that allows institutions and individuals to build and preserve collections of digital content and create digital archives. archive-it allows the user to customize their capture or exclusion of web content they want to preserve for cultural heritage reasons. through a web application, archive-it partners can harvest, catalog, manage, browse, search, and view their archived collections.[ ] in terms of accessibility, the archived web sites are full text searchable within seven days of capture.[ ] content collected through archive-it is captured and stored as a warc file. a primary and back-up copy is stored at the internet archive data centers. a copy of the warc file can be given to subscribing partner institutions for geo-redundant preservation and storage purposes to their best practice standards.[ ] periodically, the data captured through archive-it is indexed into the internet archive's general archive. as of march  [update], archive-it had more than partner institutions in u.s. states and countries that have captured more than . billion urls for more than , public collections. archive-it partners are universities and college libraries, state archives, federal institutions, museums, law libraries, and cultural organizations, including the electronic literature organization, north carolina state archives and library, stanford university, columbia university, american university in cairo, georgetown law library, and many others. internet archive scholar[edit] in september internet archive announced a new initiative to archive and preserve open access academic journals, called the "internet archive scholar".[ ] book collections[edit] text collection[edit] internet archive "scribe" book scanning workstation the internet archive operates scanning centers in five countries, digitizing about , books a day for a total of more than million books,[ ] financially supported by libraries and foundations.[notes ] as of july  [update], the collection included . million books with more than million downloads per month.[ ] as of november  [update], when there were approximately million texts, the entire collection was greater than . petabytes, which includes raw camera images, cropped and skewed images, pdfs, and raw ocr data.[ ] between about and , microsoft had a special relationship with internet archive texts through its live search books project, scanning more than , books that were contributed to the collection, as well as financial support and scanning equipment. on may , , microsoft announced it would be ending the live book search project and no longer scanning books.[ ] microsoft made its scanned books available without contractual restriction and donated its scanning equipment to its former partners.[ ] an internet archive in-house scan ongoing around october , archive users began uploading public domain books from google book search.[notes ] as of november  [update], there were more than , google-digitized books in the archive's collection;[notes ] the books are identical to the copies found on google, except without the google watermarks, and are available for unrestricted use and download.[ ] brewster kahle revealed in that this archival effort was coordinated by aaron swartz, who with a "bunch of friends" downloaded the public domain books from google slow enough and from enough computers to stay within google's restrictions. they did this to ensure public access to the public domain. the archive ensured the items were attributed and linked back to google, which never complained, while libraries "grumbled". according to kahle, this is an example of swartz's "genius" to work on what could give the most to the public good for millions of people.[ ] besides books, the archive offers free and anonymous public access to more than four million court opinions, legal briefs, or exhibits uploaded from the united states federal courts' pacer electronic document system via the recap web browser plugin. these documents had been kept behind a federal court paywall. on the archive, they had been accessed by more than six million people by .[ ] the archive's bookreader web app,[ ] built into its website, has features such as single-page, two-page, and thumbnail modes; fullscreen mode; page zooming of high-resolution images; and flip page animation.[ ][ ] number of texts for each language[edit] 	number of all texts (december , ) 	 , , [ ] 	language 	number of texts (november , ) 	english 	 , , [notes ] 	french 	 , [notes ] 	german 	 , [notes ] 	spanish 	 , [notes ] 	chinese 	 , [notes ] 	arabic 	 , [notes ] 	dutch 	 , [notes ] 	portuguese 	 , [notes ] 	russian 	 , [notes ] 	urdu 	 , [notes ] 	japanese 	 , [notes ] number of texts for each decade[edit] 	 xix century 	decade 	number of texts (november , ) 	 s 	 , [notes ] 	 s 	 , [notes ] 	 s 	 , [notes ] 	 s 	 , [notes ] 	 s 	 , [notes ] 	 s 	 , [notes ] 	 s 	 , [notes ] 	 s 	 , [notes ] 	 s 	 , [notes ] 	 s 	 , [notes ] 	 xx century 	decade 	number of texts (november , ) 	 s 	 , [notes ] 	 s 	 , [notes ] 	 s 	 , [notes ] 	 s 	 , [notes ] 	 s 	 , [notes ] 	 s 	 , [notes ] 	 s 	 , [notes ] 	 s 	 , [notes ] 	 s 	 , [notes ] 	 s 	 , [notes ] 	 xxi century 	decade 	number of texts (november , ) 	 s 	 , [notes ] 	 s 	 , [notes ] open library[edit] main article: open library the open library is another project of the internet archive. the wiki seeks to include a web page for every book ever published: it holds million catalog records of editions. it also seeks to be a web-accessible public library: it contains the full texts of approximately , , public domain books (out of the more than five million from the main texts collection), as well as in-print and in-copyright books,[ ] many of which are fully readable, downloadable[ ][ ] and full-text searchable;[ ] it offers a two-week loan of e-books in its controlled digital lending program for over , books not in the public domain, in partnership with over , library partners from countries[ ][ ] after a free registration on the web site. open library is a free and open-source software project, with its source code freely available on github. the open library faces objections from some authors and the society of authors, who hold that the project is distributing books without authorization and is thus in violation of copyright laws,[ ] and four major publishers initiated a copyright infringement lawsuit against the internet archive in june to stop the open library project.[ ] digitizing sponsors for books[edit] many large institutional sponsors have helped the internet archive provide millions of scanned publications (text items).[ ] some sponsors that have digitized large quantities of texts include the university of toronto's robarts library, the university of alberta libraries, the university of ottawa, the library of congress, boston library consortium member libraries, the boston public library, the princeton theological seminary library, and many others.[ ] in , the mit press authorized the internet archive to digitize and lend books from the press's backlist,[ ] with financial support from the arcadia fund.[ ][ ] a year later, the internet archive received further funding from the arcadia fund to invite some other university presses to partner with the internet archive to digitize books, a project called "unlocking university press books".[ ][ ] the library of congress has created numerous handle system identifers that point to free digitized books in the internet archive.[ ] the internet archive and open library are listed on the library of congress website as a source of e-books.[ ] media collections[edit] media reader microfilms at the internet archive videocassettes at the internet archive in addition to web archives, the internet archive maintains extensive collections of digital media that are attested by the uploader to be in the public domain in the united states or licensed under a license that allows redistribution, such as creative commons licenses. media are organized into collections by media type (moving images, audio, text, etc.), and into sub-collections by various criteria. each of the main collections includes a "community" sub-collection (formerly named "open source") where general contributions by the public are stored. audio collection[edit] main articles: live music archive and the great project the audio archive includes music, audiobooks, news broadcasts, old time radio shows, and a wide variety of other audio files. there are more than , free digital recordings in the collection. the subcollections include audio books and poetry, podcasts, non-english audio, and many others.[notes ] the sound collections are curated by b. george, director of the archive of contemporary music.[ ] the live music archive sub-collection includes more than , concert recordings from independent musicians, as well as more established artists and musical ensembles with permissive rules about recording their concerts, such as the grateful dead, and more recently, the smashing pumpkins. also, jordan zevon has allowed the internet archive to host a definitive collection of his father warren zevon's concert recordings. the zevon collection ranges from to and contains concerts including , songs.[ ] the great project aims to digitize , rpm singles ( , songs) from the period between and , donated by various collectors and institutions. it has been developed in collaboration with the archive of contemporary music and george blood audio, responsible for the audio digitization.[ ] brooklyn museum[edit] this collection contains approximately , items from brooklyn museum.[notes ] images collection[edit] this collection contains more than . million items.[ ] cover art archive, metropolitan museum of art - gallery images, nasa images, occupy wall street flickr archive, and usgs maps and are some sub-collections of image collection. cover art archive[edit] the cover art archive is a joint project between the internet archive and musicbrainz, whose goal is to make cover art images on the internet. this collection contains more than , items.[notes ] metropolitan museum of art images[edit] the images of this collection are from the metropolitan museum of art. this collection contains more than , items.[notes ] nasa images[edit] the nasa images archive was created through a space act agreement between the internet archive and nasa to bring public access to nasa's image, video, and audio collections in a single, searchable resource. the ia nasa images team worked closely with all of the nasa centers to keep adding to the ever-growing collection.[ ] the nasaimages.org site launched in july and had more than , items online at the end of its hosting in . occupy wall street flickr archive[edit] this collection contains creative commons licensed photographs from flickr related to the occupy wall street movement. this collection contains more than , items.[notes ] usgs maps[edit] this collection contains more than , items from libre map project.[notes ] machinima archive[edit] one of the sub-collections of the internet archive's video archive is the machinima archive. this small section hosts many machinima videos. machinima is a digital artform in which computer games, game engines, or software engines are used in a sandbox-like mode to create motion pictures, recreate plays, or even publish presentations or keynotes. the archive collects a range of machinima films from internet publishers such as rooster teeth and machinima.com as well as independent producers. the sub-collection is a collaborative effort among the internet archive, the how they got game research project at stanford university, the academy of machinima arts and sciences, and machinima.com.[notes ] mathematics – hamid naderi yeganeh[edit] this collection contains mathematical images created by mathematical artist hamid naderi yeganeh.[notes ] microfilm collection[edit] this collection contains approximately , items from a variety of libraries including the university of chicago libraries, the university of illinois at urbana-champaign, the university of alberta, allen county public library, and the national technical information service.[notes ][notes ] moving image collection[edit] see also: wikipedia list of films freely available on the internet archive the internet archive holds a collection of approximately , feature films.[notes ] additionally, the internet archive's moving image collection includes: newsreels, classic cartoons, pro- and anti-war propaganda, the video cellar collection, skip elsheimer's "a.v. geeks" collection, early television, and ephemeral material from prelinger archives, such as advertising, educational, and industrial films, as well as amateur and home movie collections. subcategories of this collection include: 	ia's brick films collection, which contains stop-motion animation filmed with lego bricks, some of which are "remakes" of feature films. 	ia's election collection, a non-partisan public resource for sharing video materials related to the united states presidential election. 	ia's fedflix collection, joint venture ntis- between the national technical information service and public.resource.org that features "the best movies of the united states government, from training films to history, from our national parks to the u.s. fire academy and the postal inspectors"[notes ] 	ia's independent news collection, which includes sub-collections such as the internet archive's world at war competition from , in which contestants created short films demonstrating "why access to history matters". among their most-downloaded video files are eyewitness recordings of the devastating indian ocean earthquake. 	ia's september television archive, which contains archival footage from the world's major television networks of the terrorist attacks of september , , as they unfolded on live television.[notes ] netlabels[edit] not to be confused with netlabel. the archive has a collection of freely distributable music that is streamed and available for download via its netlabels service. the music in this collection generally has creative commons-license catalogs of virtual record labels.[notes ][ ] open educational resources[edit] open educational resources is a digital collection at archive.org. this collection contains hundreds of free courses, video lectures, and supplemental materials from universities in the united states and china. the contributors of this collection are arsdigita university, hewlett foundation, mit, monterey institute, and naropa university.[notes ] tv news search & borrow[edit] tv tuners at the internet archive in september , the internet archive launched the tv news search & borrow service for searching u.s. national news programs.[notes ] the service is built on closed captioning transcripts and allows users to search and stream -second video clips. upon launch, the service contained " , news programs collected over years from national u.s. networks and stations in san francisco and washington d.c."[ ] according to kahle, the service was inspired by the vanderbilt television news archive, a similar library of televised network news programs.[ ] in contrast to vanderbilt, which limits access to streaming video to individuals associated with subscribing colleges and universities, the tv news search & borrow allows open access to its streaming video clips. in , the archive received an additional donation of "approximately , well-organized tapes" from the estate of a philadelphia woman, marion stokes. stokes "had recorded more than years of tv news in philadelphia and boston with her vhs and betamax machines."[ ] other services and endeavors[edit] physical media[edit] a vintage wall intercom, an example of another "archived" item voicing a strong reaction to the idea of books simply being thrown away, and inspired by the svalbard global seed vault, kahle now envisions collecting one copy of every book ever published. "we're not going to get there, but that's our goal", he said. alongside the books, kahle plans to store the internet archive's old servers, which were replaced in .[ ] software[edit] the internet archive has "the largest collection of historical software online in the world", spanning years of computer history in terabytes of computer magazines and journals, books, shareware discs, ftp web sites, video games, etc. the internet archive has created an archive of what it describes as "vintage software", as a way to preserve them.[notes ] the project advocated for an exemption from the united states digital millennium copyright act to permit them to bypass copy protection, which was approved in for a period of three years.[notes ] the archive does not offer the software for download, as the exemption is solely "for the purpose of preservation or archival reproduction of published digital works by a library or archive."[ ] the exemption was renewed in , and in was indefinitely extended pending further rulemakings.[ ] the library reiterated the exemption as a "final rule" with no expiration date in .[ ] in , the internet archive began to provide abandonware video games browser-playable via mess, for instance the atari game e.t. the extra-terrestrial.[ ] since december , , the internet archive presents, via a browser-based dosbox emulation, thousands of dos/pc games[ ][ ][notes ][ ] for "scholarship and research purposes only".[notes ][ ][ ] in november , the archive introduced a new emulator for adobe flash called ruffle, and began archiving flash animations and games ahead of the december , end-of-life for the flash plugin across all computer systems.[ ] table top scribe system[edit] a combined hardware software system has been developed that performs a safe method of digitizing content.[notes ][ ] credit union[edit] from to november , the internet archive operated the internet archive federal credit union, a federal credit union based in new brunswick, new jersey, with the goal of providing access to low- and middle-income people. throughout its short existence, the iafcu experienced significant conflicts with the national credit union administration, which severely limited the iafcu's loan portfolio and concerns over serving bitcoin firms. at the time of its dissolution, it consisted of members and was worth $ . million.[ ][ ] controversies and legal disputes[edit] see also: wayback machine § in legal evidence the main hall of the current headquarters grateful dead[edit] in november , free downloads of grateful dead concerts were removed from the site. john perry barlow identified bob weir, mickey hart, and bill kreutzmann as the instigators of the change, according to an article in the new york times.[ ] phil lesh commented on the change in a november , , posting to his personal web site: it was brought to my attention that all of the grateful dead shows were taken down from archive.org right before thanksgiving. i was not part of this decision making process and was not notified that the shows were to be pulled. i do feel that the music is the grateful dead's legacy and i hope that one way or another all of it is available for those who want it.[ ] a november forum post from brewster kahle summarized what appeared to be the compromise reached among the band members. audience recordings could be downloaded or streamed, but soundboard recordings were to be available for streaming only. concerts have since been re-added.[notes ] national security letters[edit] a national security letter issued to the internet archive demanding information about a user on may , , it was revealed that the internet archive had successfully challenged an fbi national security letter asking for logs on an undisclosed user.[ ][ ] on november , , it was revealed that a second fbi national security letter had been successfully challenged that had been asking for logs on another undisclosed user.[ ] opposition to sopa and pipa bills[edit] the internet archive blacked out its web site for hours on january , , in protest of the stop online piracy act and the protect ip act bills, two pieces of legislation in the united states congress that they claimed would "negatively affect the ecosystem of web publishing that led to the emergence of the internet archive". this occurred in conjunction with the english wikipedia blackout, as well as numerous other protests across the internet.[ ] opposition to google books settlement[edit] the internet archive is a member of the open book alliance, which has been among the most outspoken critics of the google book settlement. the archive advocates an alternative digital library project.[ ] nintendo power magazine[edit] in february , internet archive users had begun archiving digital copies of nintendo power, nintendo's official magazine for their games and products, which ran from to . the first issues had been collected, before nintendo had the archive removed on august , . in response to the take-down, nintendo told gaming website polygon, "[nintendo] must protect our own characters, trademarks and other content. the unapproved use of nintendo's intellectual property can weaken our ability to protect and preserve it, or to possibly use it for new projects".[ ] government of india[edit] in august , the department of telecommunications of the government of india blocked the internet archive along with other file-sharing websites, in accordance with two court orders issued by the madras high court,[ ] citing piracy concerns after copies of two bollywood films were allegedly shared via the service.[ ] the http version of the archive was blocked but it remained accessible using the https protocol.[ ] turkey[edit] see also: censorship in turkey on october , , the internet archive was temporarily blocked in turkey after it was used (amongst other file hosters) by hackers to host gb of leaked government emails.[ ][ ] national emergency library[edit] in the midst of the covid- pandemic which closed many schools, universities, and libraries, the archive announced on march , that it was creating the national emergency library by removing the lending restrictions it had in place for . million digitized books in its open library but otherwise limiting users to the number of books they could check out and enforcing their return; normally, the site would only allow one digital lending for each physical copy of the book they had, by use of an encrypted file that would become unusable after the lending period was completed. this library would remain as such until at least june , or until the us national emergency was over, whichever came later.[ ] at launch, the internet archive allowed authors and rightholders to submit opt-out requests for their works to be omitted from the national emergency library.[ ][ ][ ] the internet archive said the national emergency library addressed an "unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research material" due to the closures of physical libraries worldwide.[ ] they justified the move in a number of ways. legally, they said they were promoting access to those inaccessible resources, which they claimed was an exercise in fair use principles. the archive continued implementing their controlled digital lending policy that predated the national emergency library, meaning they still encrypted the lent copies and it was no easier for users to create new copies of the books than before. an ultimate determination of whether or not the national emergency library constituted fair use could only be made by a court. morally, they also pointed out that the internet archive was a registered library like any other, that they either paid for the books themselves or received them as donations, and that lending through libraries predated copyright restrictions.[ ][ ] however, the archive had already been criticized by authors and publishers for its prior lending approach, and upon announcement of the national emergency library, authors, publishers, and groups representing both took further issue, equating the move to copyright infringement and digital piracy, and using the covid- pandemic as a reason to push the boundaries of copyright (see also: open library § copyright violation accusations).[ ][ ][ ] after the works of some of these authors were ridiculed in responses, the internet archive's jason scott requested that supporters of the national emergency library not denigrate anyone's books: "i realize there's strong debate and disagreement here, but books are life-giving and life-changing and these writers made them."[ ] the operation of the national emergency library is part of the lawsuit filed against the open library project by four major book publishers in june , challenging the copyright validity of the program.[ ] in response, the internet archive closed the national emergency library on june , , rather than the planned june , , due to the lawsuit.[ ][ ] the plaintiffs claimed in their lawsuit that the internet archive's actions constituted a "willful mass copyright infringement". additionally, senator thom tillis (r-north carolina), chairman of the intellectual property subcommittee on the senate judiciary committee, said in a letter to the internet archive that he was "concerned that the internet archive thinks that it — not congress — gets to determine the scope of copyright law".[ ] the lawsuit trial is tentatively scheduled to begin in november .[ ] ceramic archivists collection[edit] ceramic figures of internet archive employees the great room of the internet archive features a collection of more than ceramic figures representing employees of the internet archive. this collection, inspired by the statues of the xian warriors in china, was commissioned by brewster kahle, sculpted by nuala creed, and is ongoing.[ ] artists in residence[edit] the internet archive visual arts residency,[ ] organized by amir saber esfahani, is designed to connect emerging and mid-career artists with the archive's millions of collections and to show what is possible when open access to information intersects with the arts. during this one-year residency, selected artists develop a body of work that responds to and utilizes the archive's collections in their own practice.[ ] residency artists: caleb duarte, whitney lynn, and jeffrey alan scudder. residency artists: mieke marple, chris sollars, and taravat talepasand. residency artists: laura kim, jeremiah jenkins, and jenny odell see also[edit] 	internet portal 	history portal 	lists of internet archive's collections 	list of online image archives 	public domain music 	web archiving 	 	similar projects 	archive.today 	internet memory foundation 	librivox 	national digital information infrastructure and preservation program (ndiipp) 	national digital library program (ndlp) 	project gutenberg 	uk government web archive at the national archives (united kingdom) 	uk web archive 	webcite 	 	other 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"acron, helenius". in smith, william (ed.). dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology. . boston, ma. p.  . 	^ a b chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "acro, helenius" . encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. p.  . external links[edit] 	acronis et porphyrionis commentarii in q. horatium flaccum. edidit ferdinandus hauthal, vol. , vol. , berolini sumptibus julii springeri, . 	heleni acronis commentarium in horatium flaccum at www.horatius.net.  this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: smith, william, ed. ( ). 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the grammarian, see virgilius maro grammaticus. for other uses, see virgil (disambiguation). st-century bc roman poet 	virgil 	 th-century imagining of virgil 	born	publius vergilius maro october bc near mantua, cisalpine gaul, roman republic 	died	 september bc (age ) brundisium, italy, roman empire 	occupation	poet 	nationality	roman 	genre	epic poetry, didactic poetry, pastoral poetry 	literary movement	augustan poetry publius vergilius maro (classical latin: [ˈpuːbli.ʊs wɛrˈɡɪli.ʊs ˈmaroː]; traditional dates october bc – september bc),[ ] usually called virgil or vergil (/ˈvɜːrdʒɪl/ vur-jil) in english, was an ancient roman poet of the augustan period. he wrote three of the most famous poems in latin literature: the eclogues (or bucolics), the georgics, and the epic aeneid. a number of minor poems, collected in the appendix vergiliana, are sometimes attributed to him as well.[ ][ ] virgil is traditionally ranked as one of rome's greatest poets. his aeneid has been considered the national epic of ancient rome since the time of its composition. modeled after homer's iliad and odyssey, the aeneid follows the trojan refugee aeneas as he struggles to fulfill his destiny and reach italy, where his descendants romulus and remus were to found the city of rome. virgil's work has had wide and deep influence on western literature, most notably dante's divine comedy, in which virgil appears as the author's guide through hell and purgatory.[ ] contents 	 life and works 	 . birth and biographical tradition 	 . early works 	 . the eclogues 	 . the georgics 	 . the aeneid 	 . reception of the aeneid 	 . virgil's death and editing of the aeneid 	 later views and reception 	 . in antiquity 	 . late antiquity, the middle ages, and after 	 . legends 	 . virgil's tomb 	 spelling of name 	 see also 	 references 	 . notes 	 . citations 	 further reading 	 external links life and works[edit] birth and biographical tradition[edit] virgil's biographical tradition is thought to depend on a lost biography by varius, virgil's editor, which was incorporated into the biography by suetonius and the commentaries of servius and donatus, the two great commentators on virgil's poetry. although the commentaries no doubt record much factual information about virgil, some of their evidence can be shown to rely on inferences made from his poetry and allegorizing; thus, virgil's biographical tradition remains problematic.[ ]: the tradition holds that virgil was born in the village of andes, near mantua[i] in cisalpine gaul (northern italy, added to italy proper during his lifetime).[ ] analysis of his name has led some to believe that he descended from earlier roman colonists. modern speculation, however, ultimately is not supported by narrative evidence either from his own writings or his later biographers. macrobius says that virgil's father was of a humble background, though scholars generally believe that virgil was from an equestrian landowning family who could afford to give him an education. he attended schools in cremona, mediolanum, rome and naples. after considering briefly a career in rhetoric and law, the young virgil turned his talents to poetry.[ ] according to robert seymour conway, the only ancient source which reports the actual distance between andes and mantua is a surviving fragment from the works of marcus valerius probus. probus flourished during the reign of nero (ad – ).[ ] probus reports that andes was located roman miles from mantua. conway translated this to a distance of about kilometres or miles.[ ] relatively little is known about the family of virgil. his father reportedly belonged to gens vergilia, and his mother belonged to gens magia.[ ] according to conway, gens vergilia is poorly attested in inscriptions from the entire northern italy, where mantua is located. among thousands of surviving ancient inscriptions from this region, there are only or mentions of individuals called "vergilius" (masculine) or "vergilia" (feminine). out of these mentions, three appear in inscriptions from verona, and one in an inscription from calvisano.[ ] conway theorized that the inscription from calvisano had to do with a kinswoman of virgil. calvisano is located roman miles from mantua, and would fit with probus' description of andes.[ ] the inscription, in this case, is a votive offering to the matronae (a group of deities) by a woman called vergilia, asking the goddesses to deliver from danger another woman, called munatia. conway notes that the offering belongs to a common type for this era, where women made requests for deities to preserve the lives of female loved ones who were pregnant and were about to give birth. in most cases, the woman making the request was the mother of a woman who was pregnant or otherwise in danger. though there is another inscription from calvisano, where a woman asks the deities to preserve the life of her sister.[ ] munatia, the woman who vergilia wished to protect, was likely a close relative of vergilia, possibly her daughter. the name "munatia" indicates that this woman was a member of gens munatia, and makes it likely that vergilia married into this family.[ ] other studies[ ] claim that today's consideration for ancient andes should be sought in the area of castel goffredo.[ ] early works[edit] main article: appendix vergiliana according to the commentators, virgil received his first education when he was five years old and he later went to cremona, milan, and finally rome to study rhetoric, medicine, and astronomy, which he soon abandoned for philosophy. from virgil's admiring references to the neoteric writers pollio and cinna, it has been inferred that he was, for a time, associated with catullus' neoteric circle. according to servius, schoolmates considered virgil extremely shy and reserved, and he was nicknamed "parthenias" or "maiden" because of his social aloofness. virgil also seems to have suffered bad health throughout his life and in some ways lived the life of an invalid. according to the catalepton, he began to write poetry while in the epicurean school of siro in naples. a group of small works attributed to the youthful virgil by the commentators survive collected under the title appendix vergiliana, but are largely considered spurious by scholars. one, the catalepton, consists of fourteen short poems,[ ]: some of which may be virgil's, and another, a short narrative poem titled the culex ("the gnat"), was attributed to virgil as early as the st century ad. the eclogues[edit] main article: eclogues page from the beginning of the eclogues in the th-century vergilius romanus the biographical tradition asserts that virgil began the hexameter eclogues (or bucolics) in bc and it is thought that the collection was published around – bc, although this is controversial.[ ]: the eclogues (from the greek for "selections") are a group of ten poems roughly modeled on the bucolic hexameter poetry ("pastoral poetry") of the hellenistic poet theocritus. after defeating the army led by the assassins of julius caesar in the battle of philippi ( bc), octavian tried to pay off his veterans with land expropriated from towns in northern italy, which—according to tradition—included an estate near mantua belonging to virgil. the loss of virgil's family farm and the attempt through poetic petitions to regain his property have traditionally been seen as his motives in the composition of the eclogues. this is now thought to be an unsupported inference from interpretations of the eclogues. in eclogues and , virgil indeed dramatizes the contrasting feelings caused by the brutality of the land expropriations through pastoral idiom but offers no indisputable evidence of the supposed biographic incident. while some readers have identified the poet himself with various characters and their vicissitudes, whether gratitude by an old rustic to a new god (ecl. ), frustrated love by a rustic singer for a distant boy (his master's pet, ecl. ), or a master singer's claim to have composed several eclogues (ecl. ), modern scholars largely reject such efforts to garner biographical details from works of fiction, preferring to interpret an author's characters and themes as illustrations of contemporary life and thought. the ten eclogues present traditional pastoral themes with a fresh perspective. eclogues and address the land confiscations and their effects on the italian countryside. and are pastoral and erotic, discussing both homosexual love (ecl. ) and attraction toward people of any gender (ecl. ). eclogue , addressed to asinius pollio, the so-called "messianic eclogue", uses the imagery of the golden age in connection with the birth of a child (who the child was meant to be has been subject to debate). and describe the myth of daphnis in a song contest, , the cosmic and mythological song of silenus; , a heated poetic contest, and the sufferings of the contemporary elegiac poet cornelius gallus. virgil is credited[by whom?] in the eclogues with establishing arcadia as a poetic ideal that still resonates in western literature and visual arts, and setting the stage for the development of latin pastoral by calpurnius siculus, nemesianus and later writers. the georgics[edit] main article: georgics sometime after the publication of the eclogues (probably before bc),[ ]: virgil became part of the circle of maecenas, octavian's capable agent d'affaires who sought to counter sympathy for antony among the leading families by rallying roman literary figures to octavian's side. virgil came to know many of the other leading literary figures of the time, including horace, in whose poetry he is often mentioned,[ ] and varius rufus, who later helped finish the aeneid. late th-century illustration of a passage from the georgics by jerzy siemiginowski-eleuter at maecenas' insistence (according to the tradition) virgil spent the ensuing years (perhaps – bc) on the long didactic hexameter poem called the georgics (from greek, "on working the earth") which he dedicated to maecenas. the ostensible theme of the georgics is instruction in the methods of running a farm. in handling this theme, virgil follows in the didactic ("how to") tradition of the greek poet hesiod's works and days and several works of the later hellenistic poets. the four books of the georgics focus respectively on raising crops and trees ( and ), livestock and horses ( ), and beekeeping and the qualities of bees ( ). well-known passages include the beloved laus italiae of book , the prologue description of the temple in book , and the description of the plague at the end of book . book concludes with a long mythological narrative, in the form of an epyllion which describes vividly the discovery of beekeeping by aristaeus and the story of orpheus' journey to the underworld. ancient scholars, such as servius, conjectured that the aristaeus episode replaced, at the emperor's request, a long section in praise of virgil's friend, the poet gallus, who was disgraced by augustus, and who committed suicide in bc. the georgics' tone wavers between optimism and pessimism, sparking critical debate on the poet's intentions,[ ]: but the work lays the foundations for later didactic poetry. virgil and maecenas are said to have taken turns reading the georgics to octavian upon his return from defeating antony and cleopatra at the battle of actium in bc. the aeneid[edit] main article: aeneid a st-century terracotta expressing the pietas of aeneas, who carries his aged father and leads his young son the aeneid is widely considered virgil's finest work and one of the most important poems in the history of western literature (t. s. eliot referred to it as 'the classic of all europe').[ ] virgil worked on the aeneid during the last eleven years of his life ( – bc), commissioned, according to propertius, by augustus.[ ] the epic poem consists of books in dactylic hexameter verse which describe the journey of aeneas, a warrior fleeing the sack of troy, to italy, his battle with the italian prince turnus, and the foundation of a city from which rome would emerge. the aeneid's first six books describe the journey of aeneas from troy to rome. virgil made use of several models in the composition of his epic;[ ]: homer, the preeminent author of classical epic, is everywhere present, but virgil also makes special use of the latin poet ennius and the hellenistic poet apollonius of rhodes among the various other writers to which he alludes. although the aeneid casts itself firmly into the epic mode, it often seeks to expand the genre by including elements of other genres such as tragedy and aetiological poetry. ancient commentators noted that virgil seems to divide the aeneid into two sections based on the poetry of homer; the first six books were viewed as employing the odyssey as a model while the last six were connected to the iliad.[ ] book [ii] (at the head of the odyssean section) opens with a storm which juno, aeneas' enemy throughout the poem, stirs up against the fleet. the storm drives the hero to the coast of carthage, which historically was rome's deadliest foe. the queen, dido, welcomes the ancestor of the romans, and under the influence of the gods falls deeply in love with him. at a banquet in book , aeneas tells the story of the sack of troy, the death of his wife, and his escape, to the enthralled carthaginians, while in book he recounts to them his wanderings over the mediterranean in search of a suitable new home. jupiter in book recalls the lingering aeneas to his duty to found a new city, and he slips away from carthage, leaving dido to commit suicide, cursing aeneas and calling down revenge in symbolic anticipation of the fierce wars between carthage and rome. in book , funeral games are celebrated for aeneas' father anchises, who had died a year before. on reaching cumae, in italy in book , aeneas consults the cumaean sibyl, who conducts him through the underworld where aeneas meets the dead anchises who reveals rome's destiny to his son. book (beginning the iliadic half) opens with an address to the muse and recounts aeneas' arrival in italy and betrothal to lavinia, daughter of king latinus. lavinia had already been promised to turnus, the king of the rutulians, who is roused to war by the fury allecto, and amata lavinia's mother. in book , aeneas allies with king evander, who occupies the future site of rome, and is given new armor and a shield depicting roman history. book records an assault by nisus and euryalus on the rutulians, book , the death of evander's young son pallas, and the death of the volscian warrior princess camilla and the decision to settle the war with a duel between aeneas and turnus. the aeneid ends in book with the taking of latinus' city, the death of amata, and aeneas' defeat and killing of turnus, whose pleas for mercy are spurned. the final book ends with the image of turnus' soul lamenting as it flees to the underworld. reception of the aeneid[edit] virgil reading the aeneid to augustus, octavia, and livia by jean-baptiste wicar, art institute of chicago critics of the aeneid focus on a variety of issues.[iii] the tone of the poem as a whole is a particular matter of debate; some see the poem as ultimately pessimistic and politically subversive to the augustan regime, while others view it as a celebration of the new imperial dynasty. virgil makes use of the symbolism of the augustan regime, and some scholars see strong associations between augustus and aeneas, the one as founder and the other as re-founder of rome. a strong teleology, or drive towards a climax, has been detected in the poem. the aeneid is full of prophecies about the future of rome, the deeds of augustus, his ancestors, and famous romans, and the carthaginian wars; the shield of aeneas even depicts augustus' victory at actium against mark antony and cleopatra vii in bc. a further focus of study is the character of aeneas. as the protagonist of the poem, aeneas seems to waver constantly between his emotions and commitment to his prophetic duty to found rome; critics note the breakdown of aeneas' emotional control in the last sections of the poem where the "pious" and "righteous" aeneas mercilessly slaughters turnus. the aeneid appears to have been a great success. virgil is said to have recited books , , and to augustus;[ ]: and book apparently caused augustus' sister octavia to faint. although the truth of this claim is subject to scholarly skepticism, it has served as a basis for later art, such as jean-baptiste wicar's virgil reading the aeneid. unfortunately, some lines of the poem were left unfinished, and the whole was unedited, at virgil's death in bc. virgil's death and editing of the aeneid[edit] according to the tradition, virgil traveled to greece in about bc to revise the aeneid. after meeting augustus in athens and deciding to return home, virgil caught a fever while visiting a town near megara. after crossing to italy by ship, weakened with disease, virgil died in brundisium harbor on september bc. augustus ordered virgil's literary executors, lucius varius rufus and plotius tucca, to disregard virgil's own wish that the poem be burned, instead of ordering it published with as few editorial changes as possible.[ ] as a result, the text of the aeneid that exists may contain faults which virgil was planning to correct before publication. however, the only obvious imperfections are a few lines of verse that are metrically unfinished (i.e. not a complete line of dactylic hexameter). some scholars have argued that virgil deliberately left these metrically incomplete lines for dramatic effect.[ ] other alleged imperfections are subject to scholarly debate. later views and reception[edit] a rd-century roman mosaic of virgil seated between clio and melpomene (from hadrumetum [sousse], tunisia) a th-century portrait of virgil from the vergilius romanus virgil in his basket, lucas van leyden, in antiquity[edit] the works of virgil almost from the moment of their publication revolutionized latin poetry. the eclogues, georgics, and above all the aeneid became standard texts in school curricula with which all educated romans were familiar. poets following virgil often refer intertextually to his works to generate meaning in their own poetry. the augustan poet ovid parodies the opening lines of the aeneid in amores . . – , and his summary of the aeneas story in book of the metamorphoses, the so-called "mini-aeneid", has been viewed as a particularly important example of post-virgilian response to the epic genre. lucan's epic, the bellum civile, has been considered an anti-virgilian epic, disposing of the divine mechanism, treating historical events, and diverging drastically from virgilian epic practice. the flavian poet statius in his -book epic thebaid engages closely with the poetry of virgil; in his epilogue he advises his poem not to "rival the divine aeneid, but follow afar and ever venerate its footsteps."[ ] in silius italicus, virgil finds one of his most ardent admirers. with almost every line of his epic punica, silius references virgil. indeed, silius is known to have bought virgil's tomb and worshipped the poet.[ ] partially as a result of his so-called "messianic" fourth eclogue – widely interpreted later to have predicted the birth of jesus christ – virgil was in later antiquity imputed to have the magical abilities of a seer; the sortes vergilianae, the process of using virgil's poetry as a tool of divination, is found in the time of hadrian, and continued into the middle ages. in a similar vein macrobius in the saturnalia credits the work of virgil as the embodiment of human knowledge and experience, mirroring the greek conception of homer.[ ]: virgil also found commentators in antiquity. servius, a commentator of the th century ad, based his work on the commentary of donatus. servius' commentary provides us with a great deal of information about virgil's life, sources, and references; however, many modern scholars find the variable quality of his work and the often simplistic interpretations frustrating. late antiquity, the middle ages, and after[edit] the verse inscription at virgil's tomb was supposedly composed by the poet himself: mantua me genuit, calabri rapuere, tenet nunc parthenope. cecini pascua, rura, duces. ("mantua gave me life, the calabrians took it away, naples holds me now; i sang of pastures, farms, and commanders" [transl. bernard knox]) even as the western roman empire collapsed, literate men acknowledged that virgil was a master poet – saint augustine, for example, confessing how he had wept at reading the death of dido.[ ] gregory of tours read virgil, whom he quotes in several places, along with some other latin poets, though he cautions that "we ought not to relate their lying fables, lest we fall under sentence of eternal death".[ ] in the renaissance of the th century, alexander neckham placed the "divine" aeneid on his standard arts curriculum,[ ] and dido became the romantic heroine of the age.[ ] monks like maiolus of cluny might repudiate what they called "the luxurious eloquence of virgil",[ ] but they could not deny the power of his appeal. dante made virgil his guide in hell and the greater part of purgatory in the divine comedy.[ ] dante also mentions virgil in de vulgari eloquentia, along with ovid, lucan and statius, as one of the four regulati poetae (ii, vi, ). the renaissance saw a number of authors inspired to write epic in virgil's wake: edmund spenser called himself the english virgil; paradise lost was calqued on the aeneid; and later artists influenced by virgil include berlioz and hermann broch.[ ] the best-known surviving manuscripts of virgil's works include the vergilius augusteus, the vergilius vaticanus and the vergilius romanus. legends[edit] the legend of "virgil in his basket" arose in the middle ages, and is often seen in art and mentioned in literature as part of the power of women literary topos, demonstrating the disruptive force of female attractiveness on men. in this story virgil became enamoured of a beautiful woman, sometimes described as the emperor's daughter or mistress and called lucretia. she played him along and agreed to an assignation at her house, which he was to sneak into at night by climbing into a large basket let down from a window. when he did so he was hoisted only halfway up the wall and then left trapped there into the next day, exposed to public ridicule. the story paralleled that of phyllis riding aristotle. among other artists depicting the scene, lucas van leyden made a woodcut and later an engraving.[ ] in the middle ages, virgil's reputation was such that it inspired legends associating him with magic and prophecy. from at least the rd century, christian thinkers interpreted eclogues , which describes the birth of a boy ushering in a golden age, as a prediction of jesus' birth. in consequence, virgil came to be seen on a similar level to the hebrew prophets of the bible as one who had heralded christianity.[ ] relatedly, the jewish encyclopedia argues that medieval legends about the golem may have been inspired by virgilian legends about the poet's apocryphal power to bring inanimate objects to life.[ ] possibly as early as the second century ad, virgil's works were seen as having magical properties and were used for divination. in what became known as the sortes vergilianae ('virgilian lots'), passages would be selected at random and interpreted to answer questions.[ ] in the th century, starting around naples but eventually spreading widely throughout europe, a tradition developed in which virgil was regarded as a great magician. legends about virgil and his magical powers remained popular for over two hundred years, arguably becoming as prominent as his writings themselves.[ ] virgil's legacy in medieval wales was such that the welsh version of his name, fferyllt or pheryllt, became a generic term for magic-worker, and survives in the modern welsh word for pharmacist, fferyllydd.[ ] virgil's tomb[edit] the structure known as "virgil's tomb" is found at the entrance of an ancient roman tunnel (aka "grotta vecchia") in piedigrotta, a district kilometres ( .  mi) from the centre of naples, near the mergellina harbor, on the road heading north along the coast to pozzuoli. while virgil was already the object of literary admiration and veneration before his death, in the middle ages his name became associated with miraculous powers, and for a couple of centuries his tomb was the destination of pilgrimages and veneration.[ ] tomb of virgil in naples, italy spelling of name[edit] by the fourth or fifth century ad the original spelling vergilius had been corrupted to virgilius, and then the latter spelling spread to the modern european languages.[ ] the error persisted even though, as early as the th century, the classical scholar poliziano had shown vergilius to be the original spelling.[ ] today, the anglicizations vergil and virgil are both acceptable.[ ] there is some speculation that the spelling virgilius might have arisen due to a pun, since virg- carries an echo of the latin word for 'wand' (uirga), vergil being particularly associated with magic in the middle ages. there is also a possibility that virg- is meant to evoke the latin uirgo ('virgin'); 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"the youth of vergil." bulletin of the john rylands library july . 	farrell, j. . vergil's georgics and the traditions of ancient epic: the art of allusion in literary history. new york: oxford university press. 	— . "the vergilian century." vergilius ( -) : – . jstor  . 	farrell, j., and michael c. j. putnam, eds. . a companion to vergil's aeneid and its tradition, (blackwell companions to the ancient world). chichester, ma: wiley-blackwell. 	fletcher, k. f. b. . finding italy: travel, nation and colonization in vergil's 'aeneid'. ann arbor: university of michigan press. 	gregory of tours. . the history of the franks, translated by e. brehaut. new york: columbia university press. oclc  . 	hardie, philip r., ed. . virgil: critical assessments of ancient authors – . new york: routledge. 	henkel, john. . "vergil talks technique: metapoetic arboriculture in 'georgics' ." vergilius ( –) : – . jstor  . 	horsfall, n. . the epic distilled: studies in the composition of the aeneid. oxford: oxford university press. 	mack, s. . patterns of time in vergil. hamden: archon books. 	panoussi, v. . greek tragedy in vergil's "aeneid": ritual, empire, and intertext. cambridge: cambridge university press. 	quinn, s., ed. . why vergil? a collection of interpretations. wauconda: bolchazy-carducci. 	rossi, a. . contexts of war: manipulation of genre in virgilian battle narrative. ann arbor: university of michigan press. 	sondrup, steven p. . "virgil: from farms to empire: kierkegaard's understanding of a roman poet." in kierkegaard and the roman world, edited by j. b. stewart. farnham: ashgate. 	syed, y. . vergil's aeneid and the roman self: subject and nation in literary discourse. ann arbor: university of michigan press. 	syson, a. . fama and fiction in vergil's 'aeneid'. columbus: ohio state university press. external links[edit] virgilat wikipedia's sister projects 	definitions from wiktionary 	media from wikimedia commons 	news from wikinews 	quotations from wikiquote 	texts from wikisource 	resources from wikiversity 	library resources about virgil 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 by virgil 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	collected works 	works by virgil at project gutenberg 	works by or about virgil at internet archive 	works by virgil at librivox (public domain audiobooks) 	works of virgil at the perseus digital library — latin texts, translations, and commentaries 	aeneid, eclogues, and georgics translated by j. c. greenough, 	aeneid, translated by t. c. williams, 	— translated by john dryden, 	works of virgil at theoi project 	aeneid, eclogues and georgics, translated by h. r. fairclough, 	works of virgil at internet sacred texts archive 	aeneid, translated by john dryden, 	eclogues and georgics, translated by j. w. mackail, 	p. vergilius maro at the latin library 	virgil's works — text, concordances, and frequency list. 	virgil: the major texts: contemporary, line-by-line english translations of eclogues, georgics, and aeneid. 	virgil in the collection of ferdinand, duke of calabria at somni: 	publii vergilii maronis opera naples and milan, . 	publii vergilii maronis opera italy, – . 	publii vergilii maronis opera milan, . 	lewis e opera at openn 	biography 	virgil at the encyclopædia britannica 	suetonius: the life of virgil — an english translation. 	vita vergiliana [the life of virgil] by aelius donatus (in original latin). 	aelius donatus' life of virgil, translated by david wilson-okamura 	vergil – a biography (project gutenberg ed.), by tenney frank. 	vergilian chronology (in german). 	commentary 	the vergil project. 	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	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 interrex - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	interrex 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		for the interrex of the polish-lithuanian commonwealth, see interrex (poland). the interrex (plural interreges) was literally a ruler "between kings" (latin inter reges) during the roman kingdom and the roman republic. he was in effect a short-term regent. the office of interrex was supposedly created following the death of rome's first king romulus, and thus its origin is obscured by legend. the senate of the roman kingdom was at first unable to choose a new king. for the purpose of continuing the government of the city, the senate, which then consisted of one hundred members, was divided into ten decuriae (groups of ten); and from each of these decuriae one senator was nominated as decurio. each of the ten decuriones in succession held the regal power and its badges for five days as interrex; and if no king had been appointed at the expiration of fifty days, the rotation began anew. the period during which they exercised their power was called an interregnum, and on that occasion lasted for one year, after which numa pompilius was elected as the new king.[ ] after the death of each subsequent king, an interrex was appointed by the senate. his function was to call a meeting of the comitia curiata, which would elect a new king.[ ] under the republic, interreges were appointed to hold the comitia for the election of the consuls when the consuls, through civil commotion or other cause such as death, had been unable to do so during their year of office. each interrex held the office for only five days, as under the kings. the comitia were, as a general rule, not held by the first interrex, who was originally the curio maximus, but more usually by the second or third; but in one instance we read of an eleventh, and in another of a fourteenth interrex. the comitia to elect the first consuls were held by spurius lucretius tricipitinus as interrex was also called praefectus urbis.[clarification needed] the interreges under the republic, at least from bc, were elected from ex-consuls by the senate, and were not confined to the decem primi or ten chief senators as under the kings. plebeians, however, were not admissible to this office; and consequently when the senate included plebeians, the patrician senators met together without the plebeian members to elect an interrex. for this reason, as well as on account of the influence which the interrex exerted in the election of the magistrates, we find that the tribunes of the plebs were strongly opposed to the appointment of an interrex. the interrex had jurisdictio.[clarification needed] interreges continued to be appointed occasionally until the time of the second punic war. after that no interrex was appointed until the senate, by command of sulla, named l. valerius flaccus to hold the comitia for his election as dictator in bc. in bc another interrex was appointed to hold the comitia in which pompey and crassus were elected consuls. there were interreges in and bc; in an interrex held the comitia in which pompey was appointed sole consul. list of roman interreges ( - bc)[edit] unless otherwise indicated, the names and dates of the interreges are taken from thomas broughton's the magistrates of the roman republic.[ ] 	year 	interrex 	note 	 	sp. lucretius tricipitinus 	 	 	a. sempronius atratinus, st sp. lartius flavus, nd 	 	 	p. valerius poplicola 	 	 	t. quinctius capitolinus barbatus 	 	 	l. papirius mugillanus 	 	 	q. fabius vibulanus 	 	 	l. valerius potitus q. servilius fidenas m. furius camillus 	 	 	m. furius camillus ii p. cornelius scipio l. valerius potitus ii 	 	 	p. cornelius scipio ii m. furius camillus iii 	 	 	m. manlius capitolinus ser. sulpicius camerinus l. valerius potitus iii 	 	 	q. servilius ahala i & ii m. fabius ambustus i & ii cn. manlius capitolinus imperiosus c. fabius ambustus c. sulpicius peticus l. aemilius mamercinus 	servilius & m. fabius appointed twice 	 	 unknown interreges l. cornelius scipio 	cornelius as the twelfth of a series of interreges 	 	c. sulpicius peticus ii m. fabius ambustus iii 	 	 	m. valerius corvus m. fabius ambustus iv? or m. fabius dursuo 	 	 	 unknown interreges m. valerius corvus ii 	valerius as the fifth and last of a series of interreges 	 	 unknown interreges l. aemilius mamercinus privernas 	aemilius as the fifteenth of a series of interreges 	 	q. fabius maximus rullianus m. valerius corvus iii 	 	 	ap. claudius caecus p. sulpicius saverrio 	 	 	l. postumius megellus 	 	 	q. fabius maximus verrucosus? 	fabius was twice interrex, both at unknown dates. this is one possible date as suggested by broughton. 	 	c. claudius centho p. cornelius scipio asina 	scipio held the comitia that elected the consul varro 	 ? 	q. fabius maximus verrucosus ii? 	mommsen and broughton suggests this as a possible date for fabius as interrex. livy instead attributes the elections to the dictator, t. manlius torquatus 	 	l. valerius flaccus 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 references[edit] "oxford classical dictionary: interrex". oxford classical dictionary. oxford research encyclopedias. retrieved may . 	^ livy, ab urbe condita, : 	^ see e.g. livy, ab urbe condita, : 	^ broughton, t. robert s. 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encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		for other people named john milton, see john milton (disambiguation). th-century english poet and civil servant 	john milton 	portrait of milton, circa 	born	( - - ) december bread street, cheapside, london, england 	died	 november ( - - ) (aged  ) bunhill, london, england 	resting place	st giles-without-cripplegate 	occupation	poet, prose polemicist, civil servant 	language	english, latin, greek, hebrew, french, spanish, italian, old english, dutch 	alma mater	christ's college, cambridge 	spouse	mary powell ​ ​ (m.  ; died  )​ katherine woodcock ​ ​ (m.  ; died  )​ elizabeth mynshull ​ (m.  )​ 	children	 	 	signature	 john milton ( december  – november ) was an english poet and intellectual who served as a civil servant for the commonwealth of england under its council of state and later under oliver cromwell. he wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem paradise lost ( ), written in blank verse, and widely considered to be one of the greatest works of literature ever written. writing in english, latin, greek, and italian, he achieved international renown within his lifetime; his celebrated areopagitica ( ), written in condemnation of pre-publication censorship, is among history's most influential and impassioned defences of freedom of speech and freedom of the press. his desire for freedom extended into his style: he introduced new words (coined from latin and ancient greek) to the english language, and was the first modern writer to employ unrhymed verse outside of the theatre or translations. william hayley's biography called him the "greatest english author",[ ] and he remains generally regarded "as one of the preeminent writers in the english language",[ ] though critical reception has oscillated in the centuries since his death (often on account of his republicanism). samuel johnson praised paradise lost as "a poem which...with respect to design may claim the first place, and with respect to performance, the second, among the productions of the human mind", though he (a tory and recipient of royal patronage) described milton's politics as those of an "acrimonious and surly republican".[ ] poets such as william blake, william wordsworth and thomas hardy revered him. contents 	 biography 	 . early life 	 . study, poetry, and travel 	 . civil war, prose tracts, and marriage 	 . secretary for foreign tongues 	 . the restoration 	 . death 	 . family 	 poetry 	 . paradise lost 	 views 	 . philosophy 	 . political thought 	 . theology 	 . religious toleration 	 . divorce 	 . history 	 legacy and influence 	 . early reception of the poetry 	 . blake 	 . romantic theory 	 . later legacy 	 . literary legacy 	 . musical settings 	 works 	 . poetry and drama 	 . prose 	 notes 	 references 	 sources 	 external links biography[edit] the phases of milton's life parallel the major historical and political divisions in stuart britain. milton studied, travelled, wrote poetry mostly for private circulation, and launched a career as pamphleteer and publicist under the increasingly personal rule of charles i and its breakdown into constitutional confusion and war. the shift in accepted attitudes in government placed him in public office under the commonwealth of england, from being thought dangerously radical and even heretical, and he even acted as an official spokesman in certain of his publications. the restoration of deprived milton, now completely blind, of his public platform, but this period saw him complete most of his major works of poetry. milton's views developed from his very extensive reading, as well as travel and experience, from his student days of the s to the english civil war.[ ] by the time of his death in , milton was impoverished and on the margins of english intellectual life, yet famous throughout europe and unrepentant for his political choices. early life[edit] main article: early life of john milton blue plaque in bread street, london, where milton was born john milton was born in bread street, london on december , the son of composer john milton and his wife sarah jeffrey. the senior john milton ( – ) moved to london around after being disinherited by his devout catholic father richard "the ranger" milton for embracing protestantism.[ ] in london, the senior john milton married sarah jeffrey ( – ) and found lasting financial success as a scrivener.[ ] he lived in and worked from a house on bread street, where the mermaid tavern was located in cheapside. the elder milton was noted for his skill as a musical composer, and this talent left his son with a lifelong appreciation for music and friendships with musicians such as henry lawes.[ ] milton's father's prosperity provided his eldest son with a private tutor, thomas young, a scottish presbyterian with an m.a. from the university of st. andrews. research suggests that young's influence served as the poet's introduction to religious radicalism.[ ] after young's tutorship, milton attended st paul's school in london. there he began the study of latin and greek, and the classical languages left an imprint on both his poetry and prose in english (he also wrote in italian and latin). john milton at age by cornelis janssens van ceulen. in milton's cottage, chalfont st giles. milton's first datable compositions are two psalms done at age at long bennington. one contemporary source is the brief lives of john aubrey, an uneven compilation including first-hand reports. in the work, aubrey quotes christopher, milton's younger brother: "when he was young, he studied very hard and sat up very late, commonly till twelve or one o'clock at night". aubrey adds, "his complexion exceeding faire—he was so faire that they called him the lady of christ's college."[ ] in , milton began attending christ's college, cambridge. he graduated with a b.a. in ,[ ] ranking fourth of  honours graduates that year in the university of cambridge.[ ] preparing to become an anglican priest, milton stayed on and obtained his master of arts degree on july . milton may have been rusticated (suspended) in his first year for quarrelling with his tutor, bishop william chappell. he was certainly at home in london in the lent term ; there he wrote his elegia prima, a first latin elegy, to charles diodati, a friend from st paul's. based on remarks of john aubrey, chappell "whipt" milton.[ ] this story is now disputed, though certainly milton disliked chappell.[ ] historian christopher hill cautiously notes that milton was "apparently" rusticated, and that the differences between chappell and milton may have been either religious or personal.[ ] it is also possible that, like isaac newton four decades later, milton was sent home because of the plague, by which cambridge was badly affected in . in , milton's tutor was nathaniel tovey. at cambridge, milton was on good terms with edward king, for whom he later wrote "lycidas". he also befriended anglo-american dissident and theologian roger williams. milton tutored williams in hebrew in exchange for lessons in dutch.[ ] despite developing a reputation for poetic skill and general erudition, milton experienced alienation from his peers and university life as a whole. having once watched his fellow students attempting comedy upon the college stage, he later observed 'they thought themselves gallant men, and i thought them fools'.[ ] milton was disdainful of the university curriculum, which consisted of stilted formal debates conducted in latin on abstruse topics. his own corpus is not devoid of humour, notably his sixth prolusion and his epitaphs on the death of thomas hobson. while at cambridge, he wrote a number of his well-known shorter english poems, among them "on the morning of christ's nativity", his "epitaph on the admirable dramaticke poet, w. shakespeare" (his first poem to appear in print), l'allegro, and il penseroso. study, poetry, and travel[edit] further information: early life of john milton it appears in all his writings that he had the usual concomitant of great abilities, a lofty and steady confidence in himself, perhaps not without some contempt of others; for scarcely any man ever wrote so much, and praised so few. of his praise he was very frugal; as he set its value high, and considered his mention of a name as a security against the waste of time, and a certain preservative from oblivion.[ ] – samuel johnson, lives of the most eminent english poets upon receiving his m.a. in , milton retired to hammersmith, his father's new home since the previous year. he also lived at horton, berkshire, from and undertook six years of self-directed private study. hill argues that this was not retreat into a rural idyll; hammersmith was then a "suburban village" falling into the orbit of london, and even horton was becoming deforested and suffered from the plague.[ ] he read both ancient and modern works of theology, philosophy, history, politics, literature, and science in preparation for a prospective poetical career. milton's intellectual development can be charted via entries in his commonplace book (like a scrapbook), now in the british library. as a result of such intensive study, milton is considered to be among the most learned of all english poets. in addition to his years of private study, milton had command of latin, greek, hebrew, french, spanish, and italian from his school and undergraduate days; he also added old english to his linguistic repertoire in the s while researching his history of britain, and probably acquired proficiency in dutch soon after.[ ] commemorative blue plaque 'john milton lived here – ' at berkyn manor farm, horton, berkshire milton continued to write poetry during this period of study; his arcades and comus were both commissioned for masques composed for noble patrons, connections of the egerton family, and performed in and respectively. comus argues for the virtuousness of temperance and chastity. he contributed his pastoral elegy lycidas to a memorial collection for one of his fellow-students at cambridge. drafts of these poems are preserved in milton's poetry notebook, known as the trinity manuscript because it is now kept at trinity college, cambridge. in may , milton embarked upon a tour of france and italy that lasted until july or august .[ ] his travels supplemented his study with new and direct experience of artistic and religious traditions, especially roman catholicism. he met famous theorists and intellectuals of the time, and was able to display his poetic skills. for specific details of what happened within milton's "grand tour", there appears to be just one primary source: milton's own defensio secunda. there are other records, including some letters and some references in his other prose tracts, but the bulk of the information about the tour comes from a work that, according to barbara lewalski, "was not intended as autobiography but as rhetoric, designed to emphasise his sterling reputation with the learned of europe."[ ] he first went to calais and then on to paris, riding horseback, with a letter from diplomat henry wotton to ambassador john scudamore. through scudamore, milton met hugo grotius, a dutch law philosopher, playwright, and poet. milton left france soon after this meeting. he travelled south from nice to genoa, and then to livorno and pisa. he reached florence in july . while there, milton enjoyed many of the sites and structures of the city. his candour of manner and erudite neo-latin poetry earned him friends in florentine intellectual circles, and he met the astronomer galileo who was under house arrest at arcetri, as well as others.[ ] milton probably visited the florentine academy and the accademia della crusca along with smaller academies in the area, including the apatisti and the svogliati. in [florence], which i have always admired above all others because of the elegance, not just of its tongue, but also of its wit, i lingered for about two months. there i at once became the friend of many gentlemen eminent in rank and learning, whose private academies i frequented—a florentine institution which deserves great praise not only for promoting humane studies but also for encouraging friendly intercourse.[ ] – milton's account of florence in defensio secunda he left florence in september to continue to rome. with the connections from florence, milton was able to have easy access to rome's intellectual society. his poetic abilities impressed those like giovanni salzilli, who praised milton within an epigram. in late october, milton attended a dinner given by the english college, rome, despite his dislike for the society of jesus, meeting english catholics who were also guests—theologian henry holden and the poet patrick cary.[ ] he also attended musical events, including oratorios, operas, and melodramas. milton left for naples toward the end of november, where he stayed only for a month because of the spanish control.[ ] during that time, he was introduced to giovanni battista manso, patron to both torquato tasso and to giambattista marino.[ ] originally, milton wanted to leave naples in order to travel to sicily and then on to greece, but he returned to england during the summer of because of what he claimed in defensio secunda[ ] were "sad tidings of civil war in england."[ ] matters became more complicated when milton received word that his childhood friend diodati had died. milton in fact stayed another seven months on the continent, and spent time at geneva with diodati's uncle after he returned to rome. in defensio secunda, milton proclaimed that he was warned against a return to rome because of his frankness about religion, but he stayed in the city for two months and was able to experience carnival and meet lukas holste, a vatican librarian who guided milton through its collection. he was introduced to cardinal francesco barberini who invited milton to an opera hosted by the cardinal. around march, milton travelled once again to florence, staying there for two months, attending further meetings of the academies, and spending time with friends. after leaving florence, he travelled through lucca, bologna, and ferrara before coming to venice. in venice, milton was exposed to a model of republicanism, later important in his political writings, but he soon found another model when he travelled to geneva. from switzerland, milton travelled to paris and then to calais before finally arriving back in england in either july or august .[ ] civil war, prose tracts, and marriage[edit] main article: milton's antiprelatical tracts title page of the edition of areopagitica on returning to england where the bishops' wars presaged further armed conflict, milton began to write prose tracts against episcopacy, in the service of the puritan and parliamentary cause. milton's first foray into polemics was of reformation touching church discipline in england ( ), followed by of prelatical episcopacy, the two defences of smectymnuus (a group of presbyterian divines named from their initials; the "ty" belonged to milton's old tutor thomas young), and the reason of church-government urged against prelaty. he vigorously attacked the high-church party of the church of england and their leader william laud, archbishop of canterbury, with frequent passages of real eloquence lighting up the rough controversial style of the period, and deploying a wide knowledge of church history. he was supported by his father's investments, but milton became a private schoolmaster at this time, educating his nephews and other children of the well-to-do. this experience and discussions with educational reformer samuel hartlib led him to write his short tract of education in , urging a reform of the national universities. in june , milton paid a visit to the manor house at forest hill, oxfordshire, and returned with -year-old bride mary powell.[ ][ ] mary found life difficult with the severe -year-old schoolmaster and pamphleteer, and she returned to her family a month later. she did not return until , partly because of the outbreak of the civil war.[ ] in the meantime, her desertion prompted milton to publish a series of pamphlets over the next three years arguing for the legality and morality of divorce. (anna beer, one of milton's most recent biographers, points to a lack of evidence and the dangers of cynicism in urging that it was not necessarily the case that the private life so animated the public polemicising.) in , milton had a brush with the authorities over these writings, in parallel with hezekiah woodward, who had more trouble.[ ] it was the hostile response accorded the divorce tracts that spurred milton to write areopagitica; a speech of mr. john milton for the liberty of unlicenc'd printing, to the parlament of england, his celebrated attack on pre-printing censorship. in areopagitica, milton aligns himself with the parliamentary cause, and he also begins to synthesize the ideal of neo-roman liberty with that of christian liberty.[ ][ ] secretary for foreign tongues[edit] with the parliamentary victory in the civil war, milton used his pen in defence of the republican principles represented by the commonwealth. the tenure of kings and magistrates ( ) defended the right of the people to hold their rulers to account, and implicitly sanctioned the regicide; milton's political reputation got him appointed secretary for foreign tongues by the council of state in march . his main job description was to compose the english republic's foreign correspondence in latin and other languages, but he also was called upon to produce propaganda for the regime and to serve as a censor.[ ] the back of no york street ( ). in , milton moved into a "pretty garden-house" in petty france, westminster. he lived there until the restoration. later it became no. york street, belonged to jeremy bentham, was occupied successively by james mill and william hazlitt, and finally was demolished in .[ ] in october , he published eikonoklastes, an explicit defence of the regicide, in response to the eikon basilike, a phenomenal best-seller popularly attributed to charles i that portrayed the king as an innocent christian martyr. milton tried to break this powerful image of charles i (the literal translation of eikonoklastes is 'the image breaker'). a month later, however, the exiled charles ii and his party published the defence of monarchy defensio regia pro carolo primo, written by leading humanist claudius salmasius. by january of the following year, milton was ordered to write a defence of the english people by the council of state. milton worked more slowly than usual, given the european audience and the english republic's desire to establish diplomatic and cultural legitimacy, as he drew on the learning marshalled by his years of study to compose a riposte. on february , milton published his latin defence of the english people defensio pro populo anglicano, also known as the first defence. milton's pure latin prose and evident learning exemplified in the first defence quickly made him a european reputation, and the work ran to numerous editions.[ ] he addressed his sonnet to 'the lord generall cromwell in may ' beginning "cromwell, our chief of men...", although it was not published until .[ ] in , milton completed the second defence of the english nation defensio secunda in response to an anonymous royalist tract "regii sanguinis clamor ad coelum adversus parricidas anglicanos" [the cry of the royal blood to heaven against the english parricides], a work that made many personal attacks on milton.[ ] the second defence praised oliver cromwell, now lord protector, while exhorting him to remain true to the principles of the revolution. alexander morus, to whom milton wrongly attributed the clamor (in fact by peter du moulin), published an attack on milton, in response to which milton published the autobiographical defensio pro se in . milton held the appointment of secretary for foreign tongues to the commonwealth council of state until , although after he had become totally blind, most of the work was done by his deputies, georg rudolph wecklein, then philip meadows, and from by the poet andrew marvell.[ ] by , milton had become totally blind;[ ] the cause of his blindness is debated but bilateral retinal detachment or glaucoma are most likely.[ ] his blindness forced him to dictate his verse and prose to amanuenses who copied them out for him; one of these was the poet andrew marvell. one of his best-known sonnets, when i consider how my light is spent, titled by a later editor, john newton, "on his blindness", is presumed to date from this period.[ ] the restoration[edit] engraving by william faithorne, cromwell's death in caused the english republic to collapse into feuding military and political factions. milton, however, stubbornly clung to the beliefs that had originally inspired him to write for the commonwealth. in , he published a treatise of civil power, attacking the concept of a state-dominated church (the position known as erastianism), as well as considerations touching the likeliest means to remove hirelings, denouncing corrupt practises in church governance. as the republic disintegrated, milton wrote several proposals to retain a non-monarchical government against the wishes of parliament, soldiers, and the people.[ ][ ] 	a letter to a friend, concerning the ruptures of the commonwealth, written in october , was a response to general lambert's recent dissolution of the rump parliament. 	proposals of certain expedients for the preventing of a civil war now feared, written in november . 	the ready and easy way to establishing a free commonwealth, in two editions, responded to general monck's march towards london to restore the long parliament (which led to the restoration of the monarchy). the work is an impassioned, bitter, and futile jeremiad damning the english people for backsliding from the cause of liberty and advocating the establishment of an authoritarian rule by an oligarchy set up by unelected parliament. upon the restoration in may , milton, fearing for his life, went into hiding, while a warrant was issued for his arrest and his writings were burnt. he re-emerged after a general pardon was issued, but was nevertheless arrested and briefly imprisoned before influential friends intervened, such as marvell, now an mp. milton married for a third and final time on february , marrying elizabeth (betty) minshull, aged , a native of wistaston, cheshire. he spent the remaining decade of his life living quietly in london, only retiring to a cottage during the great plague of london—milton's cottage in chalfont st. giles, his only extant home. during this period, milton published several minor prose works, such as the grammar textbook art of logic and a history of britain. his only explicitly political tracts were the of true religion, arguing for toleration (except for catholics), and a translation of a polish tract advocating an elective monarchy. both these works were referred to in the exclusion debate, the attempt to exclude the heir presumptive from the throne of england—james, duke of york—because he was roman catholic. that debate preoccupied politics in the s and s and precipitated the formation of the whig party and the glorious revolution. death[edit] milton’s statue and memorial in st giles-without-cripplegate church, london milton died of consumption (not gout, state the parish books of bunhill fields) on november and was buried in the church of st giles-without-cripplegate, fore street, london.[ ] according to an early biographer, his funeral was attended by "his learned and great friends in london, not without a friendly concourse of the vulgar."[ ] a monument was added in , sculpted by john bacon the elder. family[edit] milton and his first wife mary powell ( – ) had four children:[ ] 	anne (born july ) 	mary (born october ) 	john ( march – june ) 	deborah ( may – august [ ]) mary powell died on may from complications following deborah's birth. milton's daughters survived to adulthood, but he always had a strained relationship with them. on november , milton was married to katherine woodcock at st margaret's, westminster.[ ] she died on february , less than four months after giving birth to her daughter katherine, who also died. milton married for a third time on february to elizabeth mynshull or minshull ( – ), the niece of thomas mynshull, a wealthy apothecary and philanthropist in manchester. the marriage took place at st mary aldermary in the city of london. despite a -year age gap, the marriage seemed happy, according to john aubrey, and lasted more than years until milton's death. (a plaque on the wall of mynshull's house in manchester describes elizabeth as milton's " rd and best wife".) samuel johnson, however, claims that mynshull was "a domestic companion and attendant" and that milton's nephew edward phillips relates that mynshull "oppressed his children in his lifetime, and cheated them at his death".[ ] his nephews, edward and john phillips (sons of milton's sister anne), were educated by milton and became writers themselves. john acted as a secretary, and edward was milton's first biographer. poetry[edit] milton's poetry was slow to see the light of day, at least under his name. his first published poem was "on shakespeare" ( ), anonymously included in the second folio edition of william shakespeare's plays in . an annoted copy of the first folio has been suggested to contain marginal notes by milton.[ ] milton collected his work in poems in the midst of the excitement attending the possibility of establishing a new english government. the anonymous edition of comus was published in , and the publication of lycidas in in justa edouardo king naufrago was signed j. m. otherwise. the collection was the only poetry of his to see print until paradise lost appeared in . paradise lost[edit] main article: paradise lost milton dictates the lost paradise to his three daughters, ca. , by eugène delacroix milton's magnum opus, the blank-verse epic poem paradise lost, was composed by the blind and impoverished milton from to (first edition), with small but significant revisions published in (second edition). as a blind poet, milton dictated his verse to a series of aides in his employ. it has been argued that the poem reflects his personal despair at the failure of the revolution yet affirms an ultimate optimism in human potential. some literary critics have argued that milton encoded many references to his unyielding support for the "good old cause".[ ] on april ,[ ] milton sold the publication rights for paradise lost to publisher samuel simmons for £ (equivalent to approximately £ in purchasing power),[ ] with a further £ to be paid if and when each print run sold out of between , and , copies.[ ] the first run was a quarto edition priced at three shillings per copy (about £ in purchasing power equivalent), published in august , and it sold out in eighteen months.[ ] milton followed up the publication paradise lost with its sequel paradise regained, which was published alongside the tragedy samson agonistes in . both of these works also reflect milton's post-restoration political situation. just before his death in , milton supervised a second edition of paradise lost, accompanied by an explanation of "why the poem rhymes not", and prefatory verses by andrew marvell. in , milton republished his poems, as well as a collection of his letters and the latin prolusions from his cambridge days. views[edit] an unfinished religious manifesto, de doctrina christiana, probably written by milton, lays out many of his heterodox theological views, and was not discovered and published until . milton's key beliefs were idiosyncratic, not those of an identifiable group or faction, and often they go well beyond the orthodoxy of the time. their tone, however, stemmed from the puritan emphasis on the centrality and inviolability of conscience.[ ] he was his own man, but he was anticipated by henry robinson in areopagitica.[clarification needed] philosophy[edit] while milton's beliefs are generally considered to be consistent with protestant christianity, stephen fallon argues that by the late s, milton may have at least toyed with the idea of monism or animist materialism, the notion that a single material substance which is "animate, self-active, and free" composes everything in the universe: from stones and trees and bodies to minds, souls, angels, and god.[ ] fallon claims that milton devised this position to avoid the mind-body dualism of plato and descartes as well as the mechanistic determinism of hobbes. according to fallon, milton's monism is most notably reflected in paradise lost when he has angels eat ( . – )[clarification needed] and apparently engage in sexual intercourse ( . – )[clarification needed] and the de doctrina, where he denies the dual natures of man and argues for a theory of creation ex deo. political thought[edit] main article: john milton's politics milton was a "passionately individual christian humanist poet."[ ] he appears on the pages of seventeenth century english puritanism, an age characterized as "the world turned upside down."[ ] he is a puritan and yet is unwilling to surrender conscience to party positions on public policy. thus, milton's political thought, driven by competing convictions, a reformed faith and a humanist spirit, led to enigmatic outcomes. milton’s apparently contradictory stance on the vital problems of his age, arose from religious contestations, to the questions of the divine rights of kings. in both the cases, he seems in control, taking stock of the situation arising from the polarization of the english society on religious and political lines. he fought with the puritans against the cavaliers i.e. the king’s party, and helped win the day. but the very same constitutional and republican polity, when tried to curtail freedom of speech, milton, given his humanistic zeal, wrote areopagitica . . .[ ] title page of john milton's edition of areopagitica milton's political thought may be best categorized according to respective periods in his life and times. the years – were dedicated to church politics and the struggle against episcopacy. after his divorce writings, areopagitica, and a gap, he wrote in – in the aftermath of the execution of charles i, and in polemic justification of the regicide and the existing parliamentarian regime. then in – he foresaw the restoration, and wrote to head it off.[ ] milton's own beliefs were in some cases both unpopular and dangerous, and this was true particularly to his commitment to republicanism. in coming centuries, milton would be claimed as an early apostle of liberalism.[ ] according to james tully: ... with locke as with milton, republican and contraction conceptions of political freedom join hands in common opposition to the disengaged and passive subjection offered by absolutists such as hobbes and robert filmer.[ ] a friend and ally in the pamphlet wars was marchamont nedham. austin woolrych considers that although they were quite close, there is "little real affinity, beyond a broad republicanism", between their approaches.[ ] blair worden remarks that both milton and nedham, with others such as andrew marvell and james harrington, would have taken their problem with the rump parliament to be not the republic itself, but the fact that it was not a proper republic.[ ] woolrych speaks of "the gulf between milton's vision of the commonwealth's future and the reality".[ ] in the early version of his history of britain, begun in , milton was already writing off the members of the long parliament as incorrigible.[ ] he praised oliver cromwell as the protectorate was set up; though subsequently he had major reservations. when cromwell seemed to be backsliding as a revolutionary, after a couple of years in power, milton moved closer to the position of sir henry vane, to whom he wrote a sonnet in .[ ][ ] the group of disaffected republicans included, besides vane, john bradshaw, john hutchinson, edmund ludlow, henry marten, robert overton, edward sexby and john streater; but not marvell, who remained with cromwell's party.[ ] milton had already commended overton, along with edmund whalley and bulstrode whitelocke, in defensio secunda.[ ] nigel smith writes that ... john streater, and the form of republicanism he stood for, was a fulfilment of milton's most optimistic ideas of free speech and of public heroism [...][ ] as richard cromwell fell from power, he envisaged a step towards a freer republic or "free commonwealth", writing in the hope of this outcome in early . milton had argued for an awkward position, in the ready and easy way, because he wanted to invoke the good old cause and gain the support of the republicans, but without offering a democratic solution of any kind.[ ] his proposal, backed by reference (amongst other reasons) to the oligarchical dutch and venetian constitutions, was for a council with perpetual membership. this attitude cut right across the grain of popular opinion of the time, which swung decisively behind the restoration of the stuart monarchy that took place later in the year.[ ] milton, an associate of and advocate on behalf of the regicides, was silenced on political matters as charles ii returned. theology[edit] main article: john milton's religion milton was neither a clergyman nor a theologian; however, theology, and particularly english calvinism, formed the great palette on which john milton created his greatest thoughts. john milton wrestled with the great doctrines of the church amidst the theological crosswinds of his age. the great poet was undoubtedly reformed (though his grandfather, richard "the ranger" milton had been roman catholic).[ ][ ] however, milton's calvinism had to find expression in a broad-spirited humanism. like many renaissance artists before him, milton attempted to integrate christian theology with classical modes. in his early poems, the poet narrator expresses a tension between vice and virtue, the latter invariably related to protestantism. in comus, milton may make ironic use of the caroline court masque by elevating notions of purity and virtue over the conventions of court revelry and superstition. in his later poems, milton's theological concerns become more explicit. his use of biblical citation was wide-ranging; harris fletcher, standing at the beginning of the intensification of the study of the use of scripture in milton's work (poetry and prose, in all languages milton mastered), notes that typically milton clipped and adapted biblical quotations to suit the purpose, giving precise chapter and verse only in texts for a more specialized readership. as for the plenitude of milton's quotations from scripture, fletcher comments, "for this work, i have in all actually collated about twenty-five hundred of the five to ten thousand direct biblical quotations which appear therein".[ ] milton's customary english bible was the authorized king james.[ ] when citing and writing in other languages, he usually employed the latin translation by immanuel tremellius, though "he was equipped to read the bible in latin, in greek, and in hebrew, including the targumim or aramaic paraphrases of the old testament, and the syriac version of the new, together with the available commentaries of those several versions".[ ] milton embraced many heterodox christian theological views. he has been accused of rejecting the trinity, believing instead that the son was subordinate to the father, a position known as arianism; and his sympathy or curiosity was probably engaged by socinianism: in august he licensed for publication by william dugard the racovian catechism, based on a non-trinitarian creed.[ ][ ] milton's alleged arianism, like much of his theology, is still subject of debate and controversy. rufus wilmot griswold argued that "in none of his great works is there a passage from which it can be inferred that he was an arian; and in the very last of his writings he declares that "the doctrine of the trinity is a plain doctrine in scripture."[ ] in areopagitica, milton classified arians and socinians as "errorists" and "schismatics" alongside arminians and anabaptists.[ ] a source has interpreted him as broadly protestant, if not always easy to locate in a more precise religious category. in his treatise, of reformation, milton expressed his dislike for catholicism and episcopacy, presenting rome as a modern babylon, and bishops as egyptian taskmasters. these analogies conform to milton's puritanical preference for old testament imagery. he knew at least four commentaries on genesis: those of john calvin, paulus fagius, david pareus and andreus rivetus.[ ] through the interregnum, milton often presents england, rescued from the trappings of a worldly monarchy, as an elect nation akin to the old testament israel, and shows its leader, oliver cromwell, as a latter-day moses. these views were bound up in protestant views of the millennium, which some sects, such as the fifth monarchists predicted would arrive in england. milton, however, would later criticise the "worldly" millenarian views of these and others, and expressed orthodox ideas on the prophecy of the four empires.[ ] the restoration of the stuart monarchy in began a new phase in milton's work. in paradise lost, paradise regained and samson agonistes, milton mourns the end of the godly commonwealth. the garden of eden may allegorically reflect milton's view of england's recent fall from grace, while samson's blindness and captivity—mirroring milton's own lost sight—may be a metaphor for england's blind acceptance of charles ii as king. illustrated by paradise lost is mortalism, the belief that the soul lies dormant after the body dies.[ ] despite the restoration of the monarchy, milton did not lose his personal faith; samson shows how the loss of national salvation did not necessarily preclude the salvation of the individual, while paradise regained expresses milton's continuing belief in the promise of christian salvation through jesus christ. though he maintained his personal faith in spite of the defeats suffered by his cause, the dictionary of national biography recounted how he had been alienated from the church of england by archbishop william laud, and then moved similarly from the dissenters by their denunciation of religious tolerance in england. milton had come to stand apart from all sects, though apparently finding the quakers most congenial. he never went to any religious services in his later years. when a servant brought back accounts of sermons from nonconformist meetings, milton became so sarcastic that the man at last gave up his place. writing of the enigmatic and often conflicting views of milton in the puritan age, david daiches wrote convincingly, "christian and humanist, protestant, patriot and heir of the golden ages of greece and rome, he faced what appeared to him to be the birth-pangs of a new and regenerate england with high excitement and idealistic optimism.”[ ] a fair theological summary may be: that john milton was a puritan, though his tendency to press further for liberty of conscience, sometimes out of conviction and often out of mere intellectual curiosity, made the great man, at least, a vital if not uncomfortable ally in the broader puritan movement.[ ][ ] religious toleration[edit] milton called in the areopagitica for "the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties" to the conflicting protestant denominations.[ ] according to american historian william hunter, "milton argued for disestablishment as the only effective way of achieving broad toleration. rather than force a man's conscience, government should recognise the persuasive force of the gospel."[ ] divorce[edit] main article: milton's divorce tracts milton wrote the doctrine and discipline of divorce in , at the beginning of the english civil war. in august of that year, he presented his thoughts to the westminster assembly of divines, which had been created by the long parliament to bring greater reform to the church of england. the assembly convened on july against the will of king charles i. milton's thinking on divorce caused him considerable trouble with the authorities. an orthodox presbyterian view of the time was that milton's views on divorce constituted a one-man heresy: the fervently presbyterian edwards had included milton's divorce tracts in his list in gangraena of heretical publications that threatened the religious and moral fabric of the nation; milton responded by mocking him as "shallow edwards" in the satirical sonnet "on the new forcers of conscience under the long parliament", usually dated to the latter half of .[ ] even here, though, his originality is qualified: thomas gataker had already identified "mutual solace" as a principal goal in marriage.[ ] milton abandoned his campaign to legitimise divorce after , but he expressed support for polygamy in the de doctrina christiana, the theological treatise that provides the clearest evidence for his views.[ ] milton wrote during a period when thoughts about divorce were anything but simplistic; rather, there was active debate among thinkers and intellectuals at the time. however, milton's basic approval of divorce within strict parameters set by the biblical witness was typical of many influential christian intellectuals, particularly the westminster divines. milton addressed the assembly on the matter of divorce in august ,[ ] at a moment when the assembly was beginning to form its opinion on the matter. in the doctrine & discipline of divorce, milton argued that divorce was a private matter, not a legal or ecclesiastical one. neither the assembly nor parliament condemned milton or his ideas. in fact, when the westminster assembly wrote the westminster confession of faith they allowed for divorce ('of marriage and divorce,' chapter , section ) in cases of infidelity or abandonment. thus, the christian community, at least a majority within the 'puritan' sub-set, approved of milton's views. nevertheless, reaction among puritans to milton's views on divorce was mixed. herbert palmer, a member of the westminster assembly, condemned milton in the strongest possible language: if any plead conscience ... for divorce for other causes than christ and his apostles mention; of which a wicked booke is abroad and uncensured, though deserving to be burnt, whose author, hath been so impudent as to set his name to it, and dedicate it to your selves ... will you grant a toleration for all this? — the glasse of god's providence towards his faithfull ones, , p. .[ ] palmer expressed his disapproval in a sermon addressed to the westminster assembly. the scottish commissioner robert baillie described palmer's sermon as one "of the most scottish and free sermons that ever i heard any where."[ ] history[edit] history was particularly important for the political class of the period, and lewalski considers that milton "more than most illustrates" a remark of thomas hobbes on the weight placed at the time on the classical latin historical writers tacitus, livy, sallust and cicero, and their republican attitudes.[ ] milton himself wrote that "worthy deeds are not often destitute of worthy relaters", in book ii of his history of britain. a sense of history mattered greatly to him:[ ] the course of human history, the immediate impact of the civil disorders, and his own traumatic personal life, are all regarded by milton as typical of the predicament he describes as "the misery that has bin since adam".[ ] legacy and influence[edit] once paradise lost was published, milton's stature as epic poet was immediately recognised. he cast a formidable shadow over english poetry in the th and th centuries; he was often judged equal or superior to all other english poets, including shakespeare. very early on, though, he was championed by whigs, and decried by tories: with the regicide edmund ludlow he was claimed as an early whig,[ ] while the high tory anglican minister luke milbourne lumped milton in with other "agents of darkness" such as john knox, george buchanan, richard baxter, algernon sidney and john locke.[ ] the political ideas of milton, locke, sidney, and james harrington strongly influenced the radical whigs, whose ideology in turn was central to the american revolution.[ ] modern scholars of milton's life, politics, and work are known as miltonists: "his work is the subject of a very large amount of academic scholarship".[ ] in , john milton passage, a short passage by bread street into st mary-le-bow churchyardin, london was unveiled.[ ] early reception of the poetry[edit] title page of a – edition of "the poetical works of john milton with notes of various authors by thomas newton" printed by j. & r. tonson in the strand john dryden, an early enthusiast, in began the trend of describing milton as the poet of the sublime.[ ] dryden's the state of innocence and the fall of man: an opera ( ) is evidence of an immediate cultural influence. in , patrick hume became the first editor of paradise lost, providing an extensive apparatus of annotation and commentary, particularly chasing down allusions.[ ] in , the classical scholar richard bentley offered a corrected version of paradise lost.[ ] bentley was considered presumptuous, and was attacked in the following year by zachary pearce. christopher ricks judges that, as critic, bentley was both acute and wrong-headed, and "incorrigibly eccentric"; william empson also finds pearce to be more sympathetic to bentley's underlying line of thought than is warranted.[ ][ ] there was an early, partial translation of paradise lost into german by theodore haak, and based on that a standard verse translation by ernest gottlieb von berge. a subsequent prose translation by johann jakob bodmer was very popular; it influenced friedrich gottlieb klopstock. the german-language milton tradition returned to england in the person of the artist henry fuseli. many enlightenment thinkers of the th century revered and commented on milton's poetry and non-poetical works. in addition to john dryden, among them were alexander pope, joseph addison, thomas newton, and samuel johnson. for example, in the spectator,[ ] joseph addison wrote extensive notes, annotations, and interpretations of certain passages of paradise lost. jonathan richardson, senior, and jonathan richardson, the younger, co-wrote a book of criticism.[ ] in , thomas newton published an extensive edition of milton's poetical works with annotations provided by himself, dryden, pope, addison, the richardsons (father and son) and others. newton's edition of milton was a culmination of the honour bestowed upon milton by early enlightenment thinkers; it may also have been prompted by richard bentley's infamous edition, described above. samuel johnson wrote numerous essays on paradise lost, and milton was included in his lives of the most eminent english poets ( – ). in the age of louis xiv, voltaire said "milton remains the glory and the wonder (l'admiration) of england."[ ] blake[edit] frontispiece to milton: a poem in two books william blake considered milton the major english poet. blake placed edmund spenser as milton's precursor, and saw himself as milton's poetical son.[ ] in his milton: a poem in two books, blake uses milton as a character. romantic theory[edit] edmund burke was a theorist of the sublime, and he regarded milton's description of hell as exemplary of sublimity as an aesthetic concept. for burke, it was to set alongside mountain-tops, a storm at sea, and infinity.[ ] in the beautiful and the sublime, he wrote: "no person seems better to have understood the secret of heightening, or of setting terrible things, if i may use the expression, in their strongest light, by the force of a judicious obscurity than milton."[ ] the romantic poets valued his exploration of blank verse, but for the most part rejected his religiosity. william wordsworth began his sonnet "london, " with "milton! thou should'st be living at this hour"[ ] and modelled the prelude, his own blank verse epic, on paradise lost. john keats found the yoke of milton's style uncongenial;[ ] he exclaimed that "miltonic verse cannot be written but in an artful or rather artist's humour."[ ] keats felt that paradise lost was a "beautiful and grand curiosity", but his own unfinished attempt at epic poetry, hyperion, was unsatisfactory to the author because, amongst other things, it had too many "miltonic inversions".[ ] in the madwoman in the attic, sandra gilbert and susan gubar note that mary shelley's novel frankenstein is, in the view of many critics, "one of the key 'romantic' readings of paradise lost."[ ] later legacy[edit] the victorian age witnessed a continuation of milton's influence, george eliot[ ] and thomas hardy being particularly inspired by milton's poetry and biography. hostile th-century criticism by t. s. eliot and ezra pound did not reduce milton's stature.[ ] f. r. leavis, in the common pursuit, responded to the points made by eliot, in particular the claim that "the study of milton could be of no help: it was only a hindrance", by arguing, "as if it were a matter of deciding not to study milton! the problem, rather, was to escape from an influence that was so difficult to escape from because it was unrecognized, belonging, as it did, to the climate of the habitual and 'natural'."[ ] harold bloom, in the anxiety of influence, wrote that "milton is the central problem in any theory and history of poetic influence in english [...]".[ ] milton's areopagitica is still cited as relevant to the first amendment to the united states constitution.[ ] a quotation from areopagitica—"a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life"—is displayed in many public libraries, including the new york public library. the title of philip pullman's his dark materials trilogy is derived from a quotation, "his dark materials to create more worlds", line of book ii in paradise lost. pullman was concerned to produce a version of milton's poem accessible to teenagers,[ ] and has spoken of milton as "our greatest public poet".[ ] titles of a number of other well-known literary works are also derived from milton's writings. examples include thomas wolfe's look homeward, angel, aldous huxley's eyeless in gaza, arthur koestler's darkness at noon, and william golding's darkness visible.[ ] t. s. eliot believed that "of no other poet is it so difficult to consider the poetry simply as poetry, without our theological and political dispositions... making unlawful entry".[ ] literary legacy[edit] milton is commemorated in the temple of british worthies, stowe, buckinghamshire milton's use of blank verse, in addition to his stylistic innovations (such as grandiloquence of voice and vision, peculiar diction and phraseology) influenced later poets. at the time, poetic blank verse was considered distinct from its use in verse drama, and paradise lost was taken as a unique examplar.[ ] said isaac watts in , "mr. milton is esteemed the parent and author of blank verse among us".[ ] "miltonic verse" might be synonymous for a century with blank verse as poetry, a new poetic terrain independent from both the drama and the heroic couplet. lack of rhyme was sometimes taken as milton's defining innovation. he himself considered the rhymeless quality of paradise lost to be an extension of his own personal liberty: this neglect then of rhime ... is to be esteem'd an example set, the first in english, of ancient liberty recover'd to heroic poem from the troublesom and modern bondage of rimeing.[ ] this pursuit of freedom was largely a reaction against conservative values entrenched within the rigid heroic couplet.[ ] within a dominant culture that stressed elegance and finish, he granted primacy to freedom, breadth and imaginative suggestiveness, eventually developed into the romantic vision of sublime terror. reaction to milton's poetic worldview included, grudgingly, acknowledgement that of poet's resemblance to classical writers (greek and roman poetry being unrhymed). blank verse came to be a recognised medium for religious works and for translations of the classics. unrhymed lyrics like collins' ode to evening (in the meter of milton's translation of horace's ode to pyrrha) were not uncommon after .[ ] a second aspect of milton's blank verse was the use of unconventional rhythm: his blank-verse paragraph, and his audacious and victorious attempt to combine blank and rhymed verse with paragraphic effect in lycidas, lay down indestructible models and patterns of english verse-rhythm, as distinguished from the narrower and more strait-laced forms of english metre.[ ] before milton, "the sense of regular rhythm ... had been knocked into the english head so securely that it was part of their nature".[ ] the "heroick measure", according to samuel johnson, "is pure ... when the accent rests upon every second syllable through the whole line ... the repetition of this sound or percussion at equal times, is the most complete harmony of which a single verse is capable".[ ] caesural pauses, most agreed, were best placed at the middle and the end of the line. in order to support this symmetry, lines were most often octo- or deca-syllabic, with no enjambed endings. to this schema milton introduced modifications, which included hypermetrical syllables (trisyllabic feet), inversion or slighting of stresses, and the shifting of pauses to all parts of the line.[ ] milton deemed these features to be reflective of "the transcendental union of order and freedom".[ ] admirers remained hesitant to adopt such departures from traditional metrical schemes: "the english ... had been writing separate lines for so long that they could not rid themselves of the habit".[ ] isaac watts preferred his lines distinct from each other, as did oliver goldsmith, henry pemberton, and scott of amwell, whose general opinion it was that milton's frequent omission of the initial unaccented foot was "displeasing to a nice ear".[ ] it was not until the late th century that poets (beginning with gray) began to appreciate "the composition of milton's harmony ... how he loved to vary his pauses, his measures, and his feet, which gives that enchanting air of freedom and wilderness to his versification".[ ] by the th century, american poet and critic john hollander would go so far as to say that milton "was able, by plying that most remarkable instrument of english meter ... to invent a new mode of image-making in english poetry."[ ] while neo-classical diction was as restrictive as its prosody, and narrow imagery paired with uniformity of sentence structure resulted in a small set of nouns circumscribing the vocabulary of % of heroic couplets ever written up to the eighteenth century,[ ] and tradition required that the same adjectives attach to the same nouns, followed by the same verbs, milton's pursuit of liberty extended into his vocabulary as well. it included many latinate neologisms, as well as obsolete words already dropped from popular usage so completely that their meanings were no longer understood. in , francis peck identified some examples of milton's "old" words (now popular).[ ] the "miltonian dialect", as it was called, was emulated by later poets; pope used the diction of paradise lost in his homer translation, while the lyric poetry of gray and collins was frequently criticised for their use of "obsolete words out of spenser and milton".[ ] the language of thomson's finest poems (e.g. the seasons, the castle of indolence) was self-consciously modelled after the miltonian dialect, with the same tone and sensibilities as paradise lost. following to milton, english poetry from pope to john keats exhibited a steadily increasing attention to the connotative, the imaginative and poetic, value of words.[ ] musical settings[edit] milton's ode at a solemn musick was set for choir and orchestra as blest pair of sirens by hubert parry ( – ), and milton's poem on the morning of christ's nativity was set as a large-scale choral work by cyril rootham ( – ). norma wendelburg used milton's words for her choral work song on may morning. milton also wrote the hymn let us with a gladsome mind, a versification of psalm . his 'l'allegro' and 'il penseroso', with additional material, were magnificently set by handel ( ). works[edit] 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (april ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) poetry and drama[edit] 	 : on the morning of christ's nativity 	 : on shakespeare 	 : on arriving at the age of twenty-three 	 : l'allegro 	 : il penseroso 	 : a mask presented at ludlow castle, , commonly known as comus (a masque) 	 : lycidas 	 : poems of mr john milton, both english and latin 	 : when i consider how my light is spent (commonly referred to as "on his blindness", though milton did not use this title)[a] 	 : on the late massacre in piedmont 	 : paradise lost 	 : paradise regained 	 : samson agonistes 	 : poems, &c, upon several occasions 	arcades: a masque. (date is unknown). 	on his deceased wife, to the nightingale, on reaching the age of twenty four. prose[edit] 	of reformation ( ) 	of prelatical episcopacy ( ) 	animadversions ( ) 	the reason of church-government urged against prelaty ( ) 	apology for smectymnuus ( ) 	doctrine and discipline of divorce ( ) 	judgement of martin bucer concerning divorce ( ) 	of education ( ) 	areopagitica ( ) 	tetrachordon ( ) 	colasterion ( ) 	the tenure of kings and magistrates ( ) 	eikonoklastes ( ) 	defensio pro populo anglicano [first defence] ( ) 	defensio secunda [second defence] ( ) 	a treatise of civil power ( ) 	the likeliest means to remove hirelings from the church ( ) 	the ready and easy way to establish a free commonwealth ( ) 	brief notes upon a late sermon ( ) 	accedence commenced grammar ( ) 	the history of britain ( ) 	artis logicae plenior institutio [art of logic] ( ) 	of true religion ( ) 	epistolae familiaries ( ) 	prolusiones ( ) 	a brief history of moscovia, and other less known countries lying eastward of russia as far as cathay, gathered from the writings of several eye-witnesses ( ) 	de doctrina christiana ( ) notes[edit] 	^ "when i consider how my light is spent" is one of the best known of milton's sonnets. the last three lines (concluding with "they also serve who only stand and wait") are particularly well known, though rarely in context. the poem may have been written as early as , although most scholars believe it was composed sometime between june and october , when milton's blindness was essentially complete. references[edit] 	^ mccalman p. . 	^ contemporary literary criticism. "milton, john – introduction". 	^ murphy, arthur ( ). the works of samuel johnson, ll. d.: an essay on the life and genius of samuel johnson. new york, ny: george dearborn. 	^ masson pp. v–vi. 	^ a b jenks, tudor ( ). in the days of milton. new york: a.s. barnes & company. pp.  – . 	^ forsyth, neil ( ). "st. paul's". john milton a biography ( st ed.). wilkinson house, jordan hill road, oxford ox dr, england: lion hudson. p.  . isbn  - - - - .cs maint: location (link) 	^ lewalski p. . 	^ skerpan-wheeler, elizabeth. 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(february ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) (learn how and when to remove this template message) 	joachim du bellay 	 	born	c. liré, anjou, france 	died	( - - ) january paris, france 	occupation	poet 	nationality	french 	period	 th century 	genre	poetry 	notable works	les regrets 	 french literature 	 by category 	 french literary history 	 	medieval 	renaissance 	 th 	 th 	 th 	 th century 	contemporary 	 french writers 	 	chronological list 	writers by category 	essayists 	novelists 	playwrights 	poets 	short story writers 	children's writers 	 portals 	 	france 	literature 		v 	t 	e joachim du bellay (also joachim du bellay; french: [ʒoaʃɛ̃ dy bɛlɛ]; c. – january )[ ] was a french poet, critic, and a founder of the pléiade. he notably wrote the manifesto of the group: défense et illustration de la langue française, which aimed at promoting french as an artistic language, equal to greek and latin. contents 	 biography 	 last works and death 	 bibliography 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links biography[edit] joachim du bellay was born at the castle of la turmelière, not far from liré, near angers, being the son of jean du bellay, lord of gonnor, first cousin of the cardinal jean du bellay and of guillaume du bellay. his mother was renée chabot, daughter of perceval chabot and heiress of la turmelière (plus me plaît le séjour qu'ont bâti mes aïeux). both his parents died while he was still a child, and he was left to the guardianship of his elder brother, rené du bellay, who neglected his education, leaving him to run wild at la turmelière. when he was twenty-three, however, he received permission to study law at the university of poitiers, no doubt with a view to his obtaining preferment through his kinsman the cardinal jean du bellay. at poitiers he came in contact with the humanist marc antoine muret, and with jean salmon macrin ( – ), a latin poet famous in his day. there too he probably met jacques peletier du mans, who had published a translation of the ars poetica of horace, with a preface in which much of the program advocated later by la pléiade is to be found in outline. it was probably in that du bellay met ronsard in an inn on the way to poitiers, an event which may justly be regarded as the starting-point of the french school of renaissance poetry. the two had much in common, and became fast friends. du bellay returned with ronsard to paris to join the circle of students of the humanities attached to jean dorat at the collège de coqueret. while ronsard and jean-antoine de baïf were most influenced by greek models, du bellay was more especially a latinist, and perhaps his preference for a language so nearly connected with his own had some part in determining the more national and familiar note of his poetry. in appeared the art poétique of thomas sébillet, who enunciated many of the ideas that ronsard and his followers had at heart, though with essential differences in the point of view, since he held up as models clément marot and his disciples. ronsard and his friends dissented violently from sébillet on this and other points, and they doubtless felt a natural resentment at finding their ideas forestalled and, moreover, inadequately presented. the famous manifesto of the pléiade, the défense et illustration de la langue française (defense and illustration of the french language, ), was at once a complement and a refutation of sébillet's treatise. this book (inspired in part by sperone speroni's dialogo delle lingue, ) was the expression of the literary principles of the pléiade as a whole, but although ronsard was the chosen leader, its redaction was entrusted to du bellay. this work also bolstered french political debate as a means of learned men to reform their country.[ ] to obtain a clear view of the reforms aimed at by the pléiade, the defence should be further considered in connection with ronsard's abrégé d'art poétique and his preface to the franciade. du bellay maintained that the french language as it was then constituted was too poor to serve as a medium for the higher forms of poetry, but he contended that by proper cultivation it might be brought on a level with the classical tongues. he condemned those who despaired of their mother tongue, and used latin for their more serious and ambitious work. for translations from the ancients he would substitute imitations, though he does not in the defense explain precisely how one is to go about this. not only were the forms of classical poetry to be imitated, but a separate poetic language and style, distinct from those employed in prose, were to be used. the french language was to be enriched by a development of its internal resources and by discreet borrowing from italian, latin and greek. both du bellay and ronsard laid stress on the necessity of prudence in these borrowings, and both repudiated the charge of wishing to latinize their mother tongue. the book was a spirited defence of poetry and of the possibilities of the french language; it was also a declaration of war on those writers who held less heroic views. the violent attacks made by du bellay on marot and his followers, and on sébillet, did not go unanswered. sébillet replied in the preface to his translation of the iphigenia of euripides; guillaume des autels, a lyonnese poet, reproached du bellay with ingratitude to his predecessors, and showed the weakness of his argument for imitation as opposed to translation in a digression in his réplique aux furieuses defenses de louis meigret (lyons, ); barthélemy aneau, regent of the collège de la trinité at lyons, attacked him in his quintil horatian (lyons, ), the authorship of which was commonly attributed to charles fontaine. aneau pointed out the obvious inconsistency of inculcating imitation of the ancients and depreciating native poets in a work professing to be a defence of the french language. du bellay replied to his various assailants in a preface to the second edition ( ) of his sonnet sequence olive, with which he also published two polemical poems, the musagnaeomachie, and an ode addressed to ronsard, contre les envieux fioles. olive, a collection of sonnets modeled after the poetry of petrarch, ariosto, and contemporary italians published by gabriele giolito de' ferrari, first appeared in . with it were printed thirteen odes entitled vers lyriques. olive has been supposed to be an anagram for the name of a mlle viole, but there is little evidence of real passion in the poems, and they may perhaps be regarded as a petrarchan exercise, especially as, in the second edition, the dedication to his lady is exchanged for one to marguerite de valois, daughter of henry ii. du bellay did not actually introduce the sonnet into french poetry, but he acclimatized it; and when the fashion of sonneteering became a mania he was one of the first to ridicule its excesses. about this time du bellay had a serious illness of two years' duration, from which dates the beginning of his deafness. he had further anxieties in the guardianship of his nephew. the boy died in , and joachim, who had up to this time borne the title of sieur de liré, became seigneur of gonnor. in he had published a recueil de poésies dedicated to the princess marguerite. this was followed in by a version of the fourth book of the aeneid, with other translations and some occasional poems. in the next year he went to rome as one of the secretaries of cardinal du bellay. to the beginning of his four and a half years' residence in italy belong the forty-seven sonnets of his antiquités de rome, published in . sonnet iii of the antiquités, "nouveau venu qui cherches rome en rome," has been shown to reflect the direct influence of a latin poem by a renaissance writer named jean or janis vitalis. the antiquités were rendered into english by edmund spenser (the ruins of rome, ), and the sonnet "nouveau venu qui cherches rome en rome" was rendered into spanish by francisco de quevedo ("a roma sepultada en sus ruinas," ).[ ] these sonnets were more personal and less imitative than the olive sequence, and struck a note which was revived in later french literature by volney and chateaubriand. his stay in rome was, however, a real exile. his duties were those of an attendant. he had to meet the cardinal's creditors and to find money for the expenses of the household. nevertheless, he found many friends among italian scholars, and formed a close friendship with another exiled poet whose circumstances were similar to his own, olivier de magny. towards the end of his sojourn in rome he fell violently in love with a roman lady called faustine, who appears in his poetry as columba and columbelle. this passion finds its clearest expression in the latin poems. faustine was guarded by an old and jealous husband, and du bellay's eventual conquest may have had something to do with his departure for paris at the end of august . in the next year he published the poems he had brought back with him from rome, the latin poemata, the antiquités de rome, the divers jeux rustiques, and the sonnets of the regrets, the greater number of which were written in italy. the regrets show that he had moved away from the theories of the défence. the simplicity and tenderness specially characteristic of du bellay appear in the sonnets telling of his unlucky passion for faustine, and of his nostalgia for the banks of the loire. among them are some satirical sonnets describing roman manners, and the later ones written after his return to paris are often appeals for patronage. his intimate relations with ronsard were not renewed, but he formed a close friendship with the scholar jean de morel, whose house was the centre of a learned society. in du bellay published at poitiers la nouvelle manière de faire son profit des lettres, a satirical epistle translated from the latin of adrien turnèbe, and with it le poète courtisan, which introduced the formal satire into french poetry. the nouvelle manière is believed to be directed at pierre de paschal, who was elected as royal historiographer, and who had promised to write latin biographies of the great, but who in fact never wrote anything of the sort. both works were published under the pseudonym of j quintil du troussay, and the courtier-poet was generally supposed to be mellin de saint-gelais, with whom du bellay had always, however, been on friendly terms. last works and death[edit] a long and eloquent discours au roi (detailing the duties of a prince, and translated from a latin original written by michel de l'hôpital, now lost) was dedicated to francis ii in , and is said to have secured for the poet a tardy pension, although it was not published until , after his death.[ ] in paris he was still in the employ of the cardinal, who delegated to him the lay patronage which he still retained in the diocese. in the exercise of these functions joachim quarrelled with eustache du bellay, bishop of paris, who prejudiced his relations with the cardinal, less cordial since the publication of the outspoken regrets. his chief patron, marguerite de valois, to whom he was sincerely attached, had gone to savoy. du bellay's health was weak; his deafness seriously hindered his official duties; and on january he died at the age of . there is no evidence that he was in priest's orders, but he was a clerk, and as such held various preferments. he had at one time been a canon of notre dame of paris, and was accordingly buried in the cathedral. the statement that he was nominated archbishop of bordeaux during the last year of life is unauthenticated by documentary evidence and is in itself extremely improbable. bibliography[edit] the best edition of his collected works in french is still that produced by henri chamard in six volumes. also, there are the Œuvres francaises ( vols., – ), edited with introduction and notes by c. marty-laveaux in his pléiade française. his Œuvres choisies were published by l. becq de fouquières in . the chief source of his biography is his own poetry, especially the latin elegy addressed to jean de morel, "elegia ad janum morellum ebredunensem, pytadem suum," printed with a volume of xenia (paris, ). a study of his life and writings by h. chamard, forming vol. viii. of the travaux et mémoires de l'université de lille (lute, ), contains all the available information and corrects many common errors. references[edit] 	^ a b smith, malcolm ( ). joachim du bellay's veiled victim: with an edition of the xenia, seu illustrium quorundam nominum allusiones. librairie droz. pp.  –. isbn  - - - - . 	^ jones, colin ( ). the cambridge illustrated history of france ( st ed.). cambridge university press. p.  . isbn  - - - . 	^ zarucchi, jeanne morgan ( ). "du bellay, spenser, and quevedo search for rome: a teacher's peregrination". the french review. : : – . 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "du bellay, joachim". encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. pp.  – . further reading[edit] 	sainte-beuve, tableau de la poésie française au xvi siècle ( ) 	la défense et illust. de la langue française ( ), with biographical and critical introduction by léon séché, who also wrote joachim du bellay--documents nouveaux et inédits ( ), and published in the first volume of a new edition of the Œuvres 	lettres de joachim du bellay ( ), edited by pierre de nolhac 	walter pater, "joachim du bellay", essay in the renaissance ( ) [ ] pp.  – 	george wyndham, ronsard and la pléiade ( ) 	hilaire belloc, avril ( ) 	arthur tilley, the literature of the french renaissance ( vols., ). 	ursula hennigfeld, der ruinierte körper. petrarkistische sonette in transkultureller perspektive. königshausen & neuman, würzburg ( ). external links[edit] 	works by or about joachim du bellay at internet archive 	works by joachim du bellay at librivox (public domain audiobooks) 	biography, bibliography, analysis (in french) 	university of 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cambridge 	occupation	poet, literary critic, playwright, librettist john dryden (/ˈdraɪdən/; august [o.s. august]  – may  [o.s. may]  ) was an english poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was appointed england's first poet laureate in .[ ] he is seen as dominating the literary life of restoration england to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the age of dryden. romanticist writer sir walter scott called him "glorious john".[ ] contents 	 early life 	 later life and career 	 reputation and influence 	 poetic style 	 . translation style 	 personal life 	 selected works 	 . dramatic works 	 . other works 	 references 	 further reading 	 . editions 	 . biography 	 . modern criticism 	 external links early life[edit] dryden was born in the village rectory of aldwincle near thrapston in northamptonshire, where his maternal grandfather was rector of all saints. he was the eldest of fourteen children born to erasmus dryden and wife mary pickering, paternal grandson of sir erasmus dryden, st baronet ( – ), and wife frances wilkes, puritan landowning gentry who supported the puritan cause and parliament. he was a second cousin once removed of jonathan swift. as a boy, dryden lived in the nearby village of titchmarsh, where it is likely that he received his first education. in he was sent to westminster school as a king's scholar where his headmaster was dr. richard busby, a charismatic teacher and severe disciplinarian.[ ] having been re-founded by elizabeth i, westminster during this period embraced a very different religious and political spirit encouraging royalism and high anglicanism. whatever dryden's response to this was, he clearly respected the headmaster and would later send two of his sons to school at westminster. as a humanist public school, westminster maintained a curriculum which trained pupils in the art of rhetoric and the presentation of arguments for both sides of a given issue. this is a skill which would remain with dryden and influence his later writing and thinking, as much of it displays these dialectical patterns. the westminster curriculum included weekly translation assignments which developed dryden's capacity for assimilation. this was also to be exhibited in his later works. his years at westminster were not uneventful, and his first published poem, an elegy with a strong royalist feel on the death of his schoolmate henry, lord hastings from smallpox, alludes to the execution of king charles i, which took place on january , very near the school where dr. busby had first prayed for the king and then locked in his schoolboys to prevent their attending the spectacle. in dryden went up to trinity college, cambridge.[ ] here he would have experienced a return to the religious and political ethos of his childhood: the master of trinity was a puritan preacher by the name of thomas hill who had been a rector in dryden's home village.[ ] though there is little specific information on dryden's undergraduate years, he would most certainly have followed the standard curriculum of classics, rhetoric, and mathematics. in he obtained his ba, graduating top of the list for trinity that year. in june of the same year dryden's father died, leaving him some land which generated a little income, but not enough to live on.[ ] returning to london during the protectorate, dryden obtained work with oliver cromwell's secretary of state, john thurloe. this appointment may have been the result of influence exercised on his behalf by his cousin the lord chamberlain, sir gilbert pickering. at cromwell's funeral on november dryden processed with the puritan poets john milton and andrew marvell. shortly thereafter he published his first important poem, heroic stanzas ( ), a eulogy on cromwell's death which is cautious and prudent in its emotional display. in dryden celebrated the restoration of the monarchy and the return of charles ii with astraea redux, an authentic royalist panegyric. in this work the interregnum is illustrated as a time of chaos, and charles is seen as the restorer of peace and order. later life and career[edit] after the restoration, as dryden quickly established himself as the leading poet and literary critic of his day, he transferred his allegiances to the new government. along with astraea redux, dryden welcomed the new regime with two more panegyrics: to his sacred majesty: a panegyric on his coronation ( ) and to my lord chancellor ( ). these poems suggest that dryden was looking to court a possible patron, but he was to instead make a living in writing for publishers, not for the aristocracy, and thus ultimately for the reading public. these, and his other nondramatic poems, are occasional—that is, they celebrate public events. thus they are written for the nation rather than the self, and the poet laureate (as he would later become) is obliged to write a certain number of these per annum.[ ] in november dryden was proposed for membership in the royal society, and he was elected an early fellow. however, dryden was inactive in society affairs and in was expelled for non-payment of his dues. dryden, by john michael wright, dryden, by james maubert, c. on december dryden married the royalist sister of sir robert howard—lady elizabeth. dryden's works occasionally contain outbursts against the married state but also celebrations of the same. thus, little is known of the intimate side of his marriage. lady elizabeth bore three sons and outlived her husband. with the reopening of the theatres in after the puritan ban, dryden began writing plays. his first play the wild gallant appeared in , and was not successful, but was still promising, and from on he was contracted to produce three plays a year for the king's company in which he became a shareholder. during the s and s, theatrical writing was his main source of income. he led the way in restoration comedy, his best-known work being marriage à la mode ( ), as well as heroic tragedy and regular tragedy, in which his greatest success was all for love ( ). dryden was never satisfied with his theatrical writings and frequently suggested that his talents were wasted on unworthy audiences. he thus was making a bid for poetic fame off-stage. in , around the same time his dramatic career began, he published annus mirabilis, a lengthy historical poem which described the english defeat of the dutch naval fleet and the great fire of london in . it was a modern epic in pentameter quatrains that established him as the preeminent poet of his generation, and was crucial in his attaining the posts of poet laureate ( ) and historiographer royal ( ). when the great plague of london closed the theatres in , dryden retreated to wiltshire where he wrote of dramatick poesie ( ), arguably the best of his unsystematic prefaces and essays. dryden constantly defended his own literary practice, and of dramatick poesie, the longest of his critical works, takes the form of a dialogue in which four characters—each based on a prominent contemporary, with dryden himself as 'neander'—debate the merits of classical, french and english drama. the greater part of his critical works introduce problems which he is eager to discuss, and show the work of a writer of independent mind who feels strongly about his own ideas, ideas which demonstrate the breadth of his reading. he felt strongly about the relation of the poet to tradition and the creative process, and his best heroic play aureng-zebe ( ) has a prologue which denounces the use of rhyme in serious drama. his play all for love ( ) was written in blank verse, and was to immediately follow aureng-zebe. at around pm on december , dryden was attacked in rose alley behind the lamb & flag pub, near his home in covent garden, by thugs hired by the earl of rochester,[ ][ ] with whom he had a long-standing conflict.[ ] the pub was notorious for staging bare-knuckle prize fights, earning the nickname "the bucket of blood."[ ] dryden's poem, "an essay upon satire," contained a number of attacks on king charles ii, his mistresses and courtiers, but most pointedly on the earl of rochester, a notorious womaniser.[ ] rochester responded by hiring thugs who attacked dryden whilst walking back from will's coffee house (a popular london coffee house where the wits gathered to gossip, drink and conduct their business) back to his house on gerrard street.[ ] dryden survived the attack, offering £ for the identity of the thugs placed in the london gazette, and a royal pardon if one of them would confess. no one claimed the reward.[ ] dryden's greatest achievements were in satiric verse: the mock-heroic mac flecknoe, a more personal product of his laureate years, was a lampoon circulated in manuscript and an attack on the playwright thomas shadwell. dryden's main goal in the work is to "satirize shadwell, ostensibly for his offenses against literature but more immediately we may suppose for his habitual badgering of him on the stage and in print."[ ] it is not a belittling form of satire, but rather one which makes his object great in ways which are unexpected, transferring the ridiculous into poetry.[ ] this line of satire continued with absalom and achitophel ( ) and the medal ( ). his other major works from this period are the religious poems religio laici ( ), written from the position of a member of the church of england; his edition of plutarch's lives translated from the greek by several hands in which he introduced the word biography to english readers; and the hind and the panther, ( ) which celebrates his conversion to roman catholicism. frontispiece and title page, vol. ii, edition, works of virgil translated by dryden he wrote britannia rediviva celebrating the birth of a son and heir to the catholic king and queen on june .[ ] when later in the same year james ii was deposed in the glorious revolution, dryden's refusal to take the oaths of allegiance to the new monarchs, william and mary, left him out of favour at court. thomas shadwell succeeded him as poet laureate, and he was forced to give up his public offices and live by the proceeds of his pen. dryden translated works by horace, juvenal, ovid, lucretius, and theocritus, a task which he found far more satisfying than writing for the stage. in he began work on what would be his most ambitious and defining work as translator, the works of virgil ( ), which was published by subscription. the publication of the translation of virgil was a national event and brought dryden the sum of £ , .[ ] his final translations appeared in the volume fables ancient and modern ( ), a series of episodes from homer, ovid, and boccaccio, as well as modernised adaptations from geoffrey chaucer interspersed with dryden's own poems. as a translator, he made great literary works in the older languages available to readers of english. dryden died on may , and was initially buried in st. anne's cemetery in soho, before being exhumed and reburied in westminster abbey ten days later.[ ] he was the subject of poetic eulogies, such as luctus brittannici: or the tears of the british muses; for the death of john dryden, esq. (london, ), and the nine muses. a royal society of arts blue plaque commemorates dryden at gerrard street in london's chinatown.[ ] he lived at long acre from to and at gerrard street from until his death.[ ] in his will, he left the george inn at northampton to trustees, to form a school for the children of the poor of the town. this became john dryden's school, later the orange school.[ ] reputation and influence[edit] dryden near end of his life dryden was the dominant literary figure and influence of his age. he established the heroic couplet as a standard form of english poetry by writing successful satires, religious pieces, fables, epigrams, compliments, prologues, and plays with it; he also introduced the alexandrine and triplet into the form. in his poems, translations, and criticism, he established a poetic diction appropriate to the heroic couplet—auden referred to him as "the master of the middle style"[ ]—that was a model for his contemporaries and for much of the th century. the considerable loss felt by the english literary community at his death was evident in the elegies written about him.[ ] dryden's heroic couplet became the dominant poetic form of the th century. alexander pope was heavily influenced by dryden and often borrowed from him; other writers were equally influenced by dryden and pope. pope famously praised dryden's versification in his imitation of horace's epistle ii.i: "dryden taught to join / the varying pause, the full resounding line, / the long majestic march, and energy divine." samuel johnson[ ] summed up the general attitude with his remark that "the veneration with which his name is pronounced by every cultivator of english literature, is paid to him as he refined the language, improved the sentiments, and tuned the numbers of english poetry." his poems were very widely read, and are often quoted, for instance, in henry fielding's tom jones and johnson's essays. johnson also noted, however, that "he is, therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetic; and had so little sensibility of the power of effusions purely natural, that he did not esteem them in others. simplicity gave him no pleasure." readers in the first half of the th century did not mind this too much, but later generations considered dryden's absence of sensibility a fault. one of the first attacks on dryden's reputation was by william wordsworth, who complained that dryden's descriptions of natural objects in his translations from virgil were much inferior to the originals. however, several of wordsworth's contemporaries, such as george crabbe, lord byron, and walter scott (who edited dryden's works), were still keen admirers of dryden. besides, wordsworth did admire many of dryden's poems, and his famous "intimations of immortality" ode owes something stylistically to dryden's "alexander's feast." john keats admired the "fables," and imitated them in his poem lamia. later th-century writers had little use for verse satire, pope, or dryden; matthew arnold famously dismissed them as "classics of our prose." he did have a committed admirer in george saintsbury, and was a prominent figure in quotation books such as bartlett's, but the next major poet to take an interest in dryden was t. s. eliot, who wrote that he was "the ancestor of nearly all that is best in the poetry of the eighteenth century," and that "we cannot fully enjoy or rightly estimate a hundred years of english poetry unless we fully enjoy dryden."[ ] however, in the same essay, eliot accused dryden of having a "commonplace mind." critical interest in dryden has increased recently, but, as a relatively straightforward writer (william empson, another modern admirer of dryden, compared his "flat" use of language with donne's interest in the "echoes and recesses of words"[ ]), his work has not occasioned as much interest as andrew marvell's, john donne's or pope's.[ ] dryden dryden is believed to be the first person to posit that english sentences should not end in prepositions because latin sentences cannot end in prepositions.[ ][ ] dryden created the proscription against preposition stranding in when he objected to ben jonson's phrase, "the bodies that those souls were frighted from," though he did not provide the rationale for his preference.[ ] dryden often translated his writing into latin, to check whether his writing was concise and elegant, latin being considered an elegant and long-lived language with which to compare; then dryden translated his writing back to english according to latin-grammar usage. as latin does not have sentences ending in prepositions, dryden may have applied latin grammar to english, thus forming the rule of no sentence-ending prepositions, subsequently adopted by other writers.[ ] the phrase "blaze of glory" is believed to have originated in dryden's poem the hind and the panther, referring to the throne of god as a "blaze of glory that forbids the sight."[ ] poetic style[edit] what dryden achieved in his poetry was neither the emotional excitement of the early nineteenth-century romantics nor the intellectual complexities of the metaphysicals. his subject matter was often factual, and he aimed at expressing his thoughts in the most precise and concentrated manner. although he uses formal structures such as heroic couplets, he tried to recreate the natural rhythm of speech, and he knew that different subjects need different kinds of verse. in his preface to religio laici he says that "the expressions of a poem designed purely for instruction ought to be plain and natural, yet majestic... the florid, elevated and figurative way is for the passions; for (these) are begotten in the soul by showing the objects out of their true proportion.... a man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth." translation style[edit] while dryden had many admirers, he also had his share of critics, mark van doren among them. van doren complained that in translating virgil's aeneid, dryden had added "a fund of phrases with which he could expand any passage that seemed to him curt." dryden did not feel such expansion was a fault, arguing that as latin is a naturally concise language it cannot be duly represented by a comparable number of words in english. "he...recognized that virgil 'had the advantage of a language wherein much may be comprehended in a little space' ( : – ). the 'way to please the best judges...is not to translate a poet literally; and virgil least of any other' ( : )."[ ] for example, take lines – of book when aeneas sees and receives a message from the ghost of his wife, creusa. iamque vale et nati serva communis amorem.' haec ubi dicta dedit, lacrimantem et multa volentem dicere deseruit, tenuisque recessit in auras. ter conatus ibi collo dare bracchia circum; ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago, par levibus ventis volucrique simillima somno. sic demum socios consumpta nocte reviso[ ] dryden translates it like this: i trust our common issue to your care.' she said, and gliding pass'd unseen in air. i strove to speak: but horror tied my tongue; and thrice about her neck my arms i flung, and, thrice deceiv'd, on vain embraces hung. light as an empty dream at break of day, or as a blast of wind, she rush'd away. thus having pass'd the night in fruitless pain, i to my longing friends return again[ ] dryden's translation is based on presumed authorial intent and smooth english. in line the literal translation of haec ubi dicta dedit is "when she gave these words." but "she said" gets the point across, uses half the words, and makes for better english. a few lines later, with ter conatus ibi collo dare bracchia circum; ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago, he alters the literal translation "thrice trying to give arms around her neck; thrice the image grasped in vain fled the hands," in order to fit it into the metre and the emotion of the scene. in his own words, the way i have taken, is not so streight as metaphrase, nor so loose as paraphrase: some things too i have omitted, and sometimes added of my own. yet the omissions i hope, are but of circumstances, and such as wou'd have no grace in english; and the addition, i also hope, are easily deduc'd from virgil's sense. they will seem (at least i have the vanity to think so), not struck into him, but growing out of him. ( : )[ ] in a similar vein, dryden writes in his preface to the translation anthology sylvae: where i have taken away some of [the original authors'] expressions, and cut them shorter, it may possibly be on this consideration, that what was beautiful in the greek or latin, would not appear so shining in the english; and where i have enlarg’d them, i desire the false criticks would not always think that those thoughts are wholly mine, but that either they are secretly in the poet, or may be fairly deduc’d from him; or at least, if both those considerations should fail, that my own is of a piece with his, and that if he were living, and an englishman, they are such as he wou’d probably have written.[ ] personal life[edit] on december dryden married lady elizabeth howard (died ).[ ] the marriage was at st. swithin's, london, and the consent of the parents is noted on the licence, though lady elizabeth was then about twenty-five. she was the object of some scandals, well or ill founded; it was said that dryden had been bullied into the marriage by her playwright brothers. a small estate in wiltshire was settled upon them by her father. the lady's intellect and temper were apparently not good; her husband was treated as an inferior by those of her social status.[ ] both dryden and his wife were warmly attached to their children.[ ] they had three sons: charles ( – ), john ( – ), and erasmus henry ( – ).[ ] lady elizabeth dryden survived her husband, but went insane soon after his death.[ ] though some have historically claimed to be from the lineage of john dryden, his three children had no children themselves.[ ] selected works[edit] the title page of the hind and the panther an illustration in alexander's feast dramatic works[edit] dates given are (acted/published) and unless otherwise noted are taken from scott's edition.[ ] 	the wild gallant, a comedy ( / ) 	the rival ladies, a tragi-comedy ( / ) 	the indian queen, a tragedy ( / ) 	the indian emperor, or the conquest of mexico by the spaniards ( /) 	secret love, or the maiden queen ( /) 	sir martin mar-all, or the feigned innocence, a comedy ( / ) 	the tempest, or the enchanted island, a comedy ( / ), an adaptation with william d'avenant of shakespeare's the tempest 	an evening's love, or the mock astrology, a comedy ( / ) 	tyrannick love, or the royal martyr, a tragedy ( or / ) 	almanzor and almahide, or the conquest of granada by the spaniards, a tragedy, part i & part ii ( or / ) 	marriage-a-la-mode, a comedy ( / ) 	the assignation, or love in a nunnery, a comedy ( / ) 	amboyna; or the cruelties of the dutch to the english merchants, a tragedy ( / ) 	the mistaken husband (comedy) ( / )[ ] 	the state of innocence, and fall of man, an opera (/ ) 	aureng-zebe, a tragedy ( / ) 	all for love, or the world well lost, a tragedy ( / ) 	limberham, or the kind keeper, a comedy (/ ) 	oedipus, a tragedy ( or / ), an adaptation with nathaniel lee of sophocles' oedipus 	troilus and cressida, or truth found too late, a tragedy (/ ) 	the spanish friar, or the double discovery ( or /) 	the duke of guise, a tragedy ( / ) with nathaniel lee 	albion and albanius, an opera ( / ) 	don sebastian, a tragedy ( / ) 	amphitryon, or the two sosias, a comedy ( / ) 	king arthur, or the british worthy, a dramatic opera ( / ) 	cleomenes, the spartan hero, a tragedy ( / ) 	love triumphant, or nature will prevail, a tragedy ( or / or ) 	the secular masque ( / ) other works[edit] the infant prince of wales whose birth dryden celebrated in britannia rediviva 	astraea redux, 	annus mirabilis (poem), 	an essay of dramatick poesie, 	absalom and achitophel, 	mac flecknoe, 	the medal, 	religio laici, 	to the memory of mr. oldham, 	threnodia augustalis, 	the hind and the panther, 	a song for st. cecilia's day, 	britannia rediviva, , written to mark the birth of james, prince of wales. 	epigram on milton, 	creator spirit, by whose aid, . translation of rabanus maurus' veni creator spiritus[ ] 	the works of virgil, 	alexander's feast, 	fables, ancient and modern, 	the art of satire references[edit] 	^ "john dryden (british author)". encyclopædia britannica. retrieved may . 	^ scott, w. waverley, vol. , ch. , the pirate: "i am desirous to hear of your meeting with dryden". 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(berkeley and los angeles: university of california press, – ) 	john dryden the major works, ed. by keith walker, (oxford: oxford university press, ) 	the works of john dryden, ed. by david marriott (hertfordshire: wordsworth editions, ) 	john dryden selected poems, ed. by david hopkins (london: everyman paperbacks, ) 	john dryden selected poems, ed. by steven n. swicker and david bywaters (london: penguin books, ) isbn  - biography[edit] 	winn, james anderson. john dryden and his world (new haven: yale university press, ) modern criticism[edit] 	eliot, t. s., "john dryden," in selected essays (london: faber and faber, ) 	hopkins, david, john dryden, ed. by isobel armstrong (tavistock: northcote house publishers, ) 	oden, richard, l. dryden and shadwell, the literary controversy and 'mac flecknoe ( – ) (scholars' facsimiles and reprints, inc., delmar, new york, ) 	wilding, michael, 'allusion and innuendo in macflecknoe', essays in criticism, ( ) - 	van doren, mark ( ). john dryden: a study of his poetry. read books. isbn  - . 	stark, ryan. 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wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	horatia gens 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		  (redirected from horatia (gens)) 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		ancient roman family horatius cocles defending the bridge ( – ) by charles le brun the gens horatia was a patrician family at ancient rome. in legend, the gens dates back to the time of tullus hostilius, the third king of rome. one of its members, marcus horatius pulvillus, was consul suffectus in bc, the first year of the republic, and again in . the most famous of the horatii was his nephew, publius horatius cocles, who held the sublician bridge against the army of lars porsena circa bc.[ ] contents 	 origin 	 praenomina 	 branches and cognomina 	 members 	 . horatii pulvilli 	 . horatii barbati 	 see also 	 references 	 bibliography origin[edit] the nomen horatius is said to have been derived from the hero horatus, to whom an oak wood was dedicated. the gens was certainly of latin origin, although there was some uncertainty as to when they arrived at rome. a legend relates that in the reign of tullus hostilius, the fate of the ancient city of alba longa was decided by combat between three brothers from that city and three from rome. the historian livy states that most sources assigned the horatii to rome, and their opponents, the curiatii, to alba longa. the victory of the horatii was a pretext for the destruction of alba longa, and the transfer of its noble families to rome.[ ][ ] praenomina[edit] the horatii favored the praenomina publius, marcus, lucius, and gaius. branches and cognomina[edit] the horatii of the republic bore the surnames barbatus, cocles, and pulvillus.[ ] of these, barbatus and pulvillus were family names, while cocles appears to have been a personal cognomen, given to the hero of the sublician bridge. plutarch supposes that it was derived from the greek cyclops, because he had lost an eye, or because the shape of his face made it appear as if he had but one eye.[ ][ ] cocles is said to have been the nephew of marcus horatius pulvillus, and if he left any issue, they do not seem to have carried on his surname. other surnames appearing amongst the horatii in later times may have been adopted by freedmen of the gens; the poet horace was the son of a libertinus, and the cognomen flaccus is not otherwise found amongst the horatii.[ ] members[edit] 	this list includes abbreviated praenomina. for an explanation of this practice, see filiation. 	publius horatius, father of the horatii who fought against the curiatii, absolved his son of guilt in the death of his sister. in some versions of the story, his praenomen is marcus.[ ][ ][ ][ ] 	publius horatius, one of the horatii, three brothers who fought against the three curiatii in the reign of tullus hostilius; and the sole survivor of the combat. enraged by his sister's grief for one of the slain curiatii, to whom she had been betrothed, he slew her as well, and by custom his life was forfeit; but their father decreed that in light of his service to his country, his penance was to pass under the yoke.[ ][ ] 	horatia, sister of the horatii, was betrothed to one of the curiatii, and because of her display of grief was slain by her victorious brother. an ancient tomb near the porta capena was said to have been hers.[ ][ ][ ] 	publius horatius cocles, one of the heroes of the republic, defended the sublician bridge against the army of lars porsena, circa bc.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] 	quintus horatius flaccus, a poet during the time of augustus. horatii pulvilli[edit] 	marcus horatius pulvillus, father of the consul of , and according to legend, grandfather of publius horatius cocles.[ ] 	marcus horatius m. f. pulvillus, consul suffectus in bc, the first year of the republic; he was consul again in .[ ][ ][ ] 	gaius horatius m. f. m. n. pulvillus, consul in and bc; he defeated the aequi.[ ][ ][ ] 	publius horatius (pulvillus), according to dionysius of halicarnassus, one of the consuls in bc; other sources give publius curiatius fistus trigeminus.[ ][ ][ ] 	lucius horatius pulvillus, consular tribune in bc.[ ][ ] 	marcus horatius pulvillus, consular tribune in bc.[ ][ ] horatii barbati[edit] 	marcus horatius m. f. l. n. barbatus, with lucius valerius potitus, helped to abolish the decemvirate in bc; the two elected consuls for the same year; horatius triumphed over the sabines.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] 	lucius horatius m. f. m. n. barbatus, consular tribune in bc.[ ][ ][ ] see also[edit] 	list of roman gentes references[edit] 	^ a b c dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology, vol. ii, p. ("horatia gens"). 	^ a b livy, i. – . 	^ a b dionysius, iii. – , – ; v. . 	^ a b plutarch, "the life of poplicola", . 	^ dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology, vol. i, pp. , ("cocles, horatius"). 	^ livy, i. . 	^ zonaras, vii. . 	^ dionysius, iii. – . 	^ cicero, pro milone, . 	^ dionysius, iii. . 	^ livy, i. . 	^ florus, i. . 	^ livy, i. . 	^ dionysius, v. , . 	^ valerius maximus, iii. . § . 	^ florus, i. . 	^ aurelius victor, de viris illustribus, . 	^ seneca the younger, epistulae morales ad lucilium, ff. 	^ fasti capitolini, ae , ; , . 	^ livy, ii. . 	^ dionysius, v. , . 	^ broughton, vol. i, pp. , . 	^ livy, ii. , iii. . 	^ diodorus, xi. , . 	^ broughton, vol. i, pp. , (and note ), (and note ). 	^ dionysius, x. . 	^ livy, iii. . 	^ broughton, vol. i, pp. , (and note ). 	^ livy, vi. . 	^ broughton, vol. i, pp. , . 	^ livy, vi. . 	^ broughton, vol. i, p. (and note ). 	^ livy, iii. . 	^ dionysius, xi. . 	^ diodorus, xii. . 	^ cicero, de republica, ii. . 	^ broughton, vol. i, pp. – (and note ). 	^ livy, iv. . 	^ diodorus, xii. . 	^ broughton, vol. i, p. (and note ). bibliography[edit] 	marcus tullius cicero, de republica, pro milone. 	diodorus siculus, bibliotheca historica (library of history). 	dionysius of halicarnassus, romaike archaiologia (roman antiquities). 	titus livius (livy), history of rome. 	valerius maximus, factorum ac dictorum memorabilium (memorable facts and sayings). 	lucius annaeus seneca (seneca the younger), epistulae morales ad lucilium (moral letters to lucilius). 	lucius mestrius plutarchus (plutarch), lives of the noble greeks and romans. 	lucius annaeus florus, epitome de t. livio bellorum omnium annorum dcc (epitome of livy: all the wars of seven hundred years). 	sextus aurelius victor, de viris illustribus (on famous men). 	joannes zonaras, epitome historiarum (epitome of history). 	dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology, william smith, ed., little, brown and company, boston ( ). 	t. robert s. broughton, the magistrates of the roman republic, american philological association ( – ).  this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: donne, william bodham ( ). 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wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		"keats" redirects here. for other uses, see keats (disambiguation). english romantic poet ( - ) 	john keats 	posthumous portrait of john keats by william hilton. national portrait gallery, london 	born	( - - ) october moorgate, london, england 	died	 february ( - - ) (aged  ) rome, papal states	 	cause of death	tuberculosis 	 	occupation	poet 	literary movement	romanticism 	relatives	george keats (brother) john keats (/kiːts/; october – february ) was an english romantic poet. he was one of the main figures of the second generation of romantic poets, along with lord byron and percy bysshe shelley, despite his works having been in publication for only four years before his death from tuberculosis at the age of .[ ] although his poems were not generally well received by critics during his lifetime, his reputation grew after his death, and by the end of the th century, he had become one of the most beloved of all english poets. he had a significant influence on a diverse range of poets and writers. jorge luis borges stated that his first encounter with keats' work was a great experience that he felt all of his life.[ ] the poetry of keats is characterised by a style "heavily loaded with sensualities", most notably in the series of odes. this is typical of the romantic poets, as they aimed to accentuate extreme emotion through an emphasis on natural imagery. today his poems and letters are some of the most popular and most analysed in english literature. some of his most acclaimed works are "ode to a nightingale", "sleep and poetry", and the sonnet "on first looking into chapman's homer". contents 	 biography 	 . early life 	 . early career 	 . wentworth place 	 . isabella jones and fanny brawne 	 . last months: rome 	 . death 	 reception 	 . biographers 	 . other portrayals 	 letters 	 major works 	 notes 	 references 	 sources 	 further reading 	 external links biography[edit] early life[edit] john keats was born in moorgate, london, on october to thomas keats and his wife, frances jennings. there is little evidence of his exact birthplace. although keats and his family seem to have marked his birthday on october, baptism records give the date as the st.[ ][ ] he was the eldest of four surviving children; his younger siblings were george ( – ), thomas ( – ), and frances mary "fanny" ( – ) who eventually married spanish author valentín llanos gutiérrez.[ ] another son was lost in infancy. his father first worked as a hostler[ ] at the stables attached to the swan and hoop inn, an establishment he later managed, and where the growing family lived for some years. keats believed that he was born at the inn, a birthplace of humble origins, but there is no evidence to support his belief.[ ] the globe pub now occupies the site ( ), a few yards from the modern-day moorgate station.[ ] he was baptised at st botolph-without-bishopsgate, and sent to a local dame school as a child.[ ][ ] life mask of keats by benjamin haydon, his parents were unable to afford eton or harrow,[ ][ ] so in the summer of , he was sent to board at john clarke's school in enfield, close to his grandparents' house. the small school had a liberal outlook and a progressive curriculum more modern than the larger, more prestigious schools.[ ] in the family atmosphere at clarke's, keats developed an interest in classics and history, which would stay with him throughout his short life. the headmaster's son, charles cowden clarke, also became an important mentor and friend, introducing keats to renaissance literature, including tasso, spenser, and chapman's translations. the young keats was described by his friend edward holmes as a volatile character, "always in extremes", given to indolence and fighting. however, at he began focusing his energy on reading and study, winning his first academic prize in midsummer .[ ] in april , when keats was eight, his father died from a skull fracture, suffered when he fell from his horse while returning from a visit to keats and his brother george at school.[ ] thomas keats died intestate. frances remarried two months later, but left her new husband soon afterwards, and the four children went to live with their grandmother, alice jennings, in the village of edmonton.[ ] in march , when keats was , his mother died of tuberculosis, leaving the children in the custody of their grandmother. she appointed two guardians, richard abbey and john sandell, to take care of them. that autumn, keats left clarke's school to apprentice with thomas hammond, a surgeon and apothecary who was a neighbour and the doctor of the jennings family. keats lodged in the attic above the surgery at church street until .[ ] cowden clarke, who remained a close friend of keats, described this period as "the most placid time in keats' life."[ ] early career[edit] from keats had two bequests, held in trust for him until his st birthday: £ , willed by his grandfather john jennings (equivalent to about £ in ) and a quarter of his mother's legacy of £ (equivalent to about £ in ), to be equally divided between her living children.[nb ] it seems he was not told of the £ , and probably knew nothing of it, since he never applied for it. historically, blame has often been laid on abbey as legal guardian, but he may also have been unaware.[ ] william walton, solicitor for keats' mother and grandmother, definitely did know and had a duty of care to relay the information to keats. it seems he did not. the money would have made a critical difference to the poet's expectations. money was always a great concern and difficulty for him, as he struggled to stay out of debt and make his way in the world independently.[ ][ ] on first looking into chapman's homer much have i travell'd in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen; round many western islands have i been which bards in fealty to apollo hold. oft of one wide expanse had i been told that deep-browed homer ruled as his demesne; yet did i never breathe its pure serene till i heard chapman speak out loud and bold: then felt i like some watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his ken; or like stout cortez when with eagle eyes he star'd at the pacific — and all his men look'd at each other with a wild surmise — silent, upon a peak in darien. the sonnet "on first looking into chapman's homer" october having finished his apprenticeship with hammond, keats registered as a medical student at guy's hospital (now part of king's college london) and began studying there in october . within a month of starting, he was accepted as a dresser at the hospital, assisting surgeons during operations, the equivalent of a junior house surgeon today. it was a significant promotion, that marked a distinct aptitude for medicine; it brought greater responsibility and a heavier workload.[ ] keats' long and expensive medical training with hammond and at guy's hospital led his family to assume he would pursue a lifelong career in medicine, assuring financial security, and it seems that at this point keats had a genuine desire to become a doctor.[ ][ ] he lodged near the hospital, at st thomas's street in southwark, with other medical students, including henry stephens who became an inventor and ink magnate.[ ] however, keats' training took up increasing amounts of his writing time, and he was increasingly ambivalent about his medical career. he felt that he faced a stark choice.[ ][ ] he had written his first extant poem, "an imitation of spenser," in , when he was . now, strongly drawn by ambition, inspired by fellow poets such as leigh hunt and lord byron, and beleaguered by family financial crises, he suffered periods of depression. his brother george wrote that john "feared that he should never be a poet, & if he was not he would destroy himself".[ ] in , keats received his apothecary's licence, which made him eligible to practise as an apothecary, physician, and surgeon, but before the end of the year he announced to his guardian that he was resolved to be a poet, not a surgeon.[ ] although he continued his work and training at guy's, keats devoted more and more time to the study of literature, experimenting with verse forms, particularly the sonnet.[ ] in may , leigh hunt agreed to publish the sonnet "o solitude" in his magazine, the examiner, a leading liberal magazine of the day.[ ] it was the first appearance in print of keats' poetry, and charles cowden clarke described it as his friend's red letter day,[ ] the first proof that keats' ambitions were valid. among his poems of was to my brothers.[ ] in the summer of that year, keats went with clarke to the seaside town of margate to write. there he began "calidore" and initiated the era of his great letter writing. on his return to london, he took lodgings at dean street, southwark, and braced himself for further study in order to become a member of the royal college of surgeons.[ ] in october , clarke introduced keats to the influential leigh hunt, a close friend of byron and shelley. five months later came the publication of poems, the first volume of keats' verse, which included "i stood tiptoe" and "sleep and poetry," both strongly influenced by hunt.[ ] the book was a critical failure, arousing little interest, although reynolds reviewed it favourably in the champion.[ ] clarke commented that the book "might have emerged in timbuctoo."[ ] keats' publishers, charles and james ollier, felt ashamed of the book. keats immediately changed publishers to taylor and hessey on fleet street.[ ] unlike the olliers, keats' new publishers were enthusiastic about his work. within a month of the publication of poems they were planning a new keats volume and had paid him an advance. hessey became a steady friend to keats and made the company's rooms available for young writers to meet. their publishing lists eventually included coleridge, hazlitt, clare, hogg, carlyle and lamb.[ ] through taylor and hessey, keats met their eton-educated lawyer, richard woodhouse, who advised them on literary as well as legal matters and was deeply impressed by poems. although he noted that keats could be "wayward, trembling, easily daunted," woodhouse was convinced of keats' genius, a poet to support as he became one of england's greatest writers. soon after they met, the two became close friends, and woodhouse started to collect keatsiana, documenting as much as he could about keats' poetry. this archive survives as one of the main sources of information on keats' work.[ ] andrew motion represents him as boswell to keats' johnson, ceaselessly promoting the writer's work, fighting his corner, and spurring his poetry to greater heights. in later years, woodhouse was one of the few people to accompany keats to gravesend to embark on his final trip to rome.[ ] in spite of the bad reviews of poems, hunt published the essay "three young poets" (shelley, keats, and reynolds) and the sonnet "on first looking into chapman's homer," foreseeing great things to come.[ ] he introduced keats to many prominent men in his circle, including the editor of the times, thomas barnes; the writer charles lamb; the conductor vincent novello; and the poet john hamilton reynolds, who would become a close friend.[ ] he was also regularly meeting william hazlitt, a powerful literary figure of the day. it was a decisive turning point for keats, establishing him in the public eye as a figure in what hunt termed "a new school of poetry."[ ] at this time keats wrote to his friend bailey: "i am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of the imagination. what imagination seizes as beauty must be truth."[ ][ ] this passage would eventually be transmuted into the concluding lines of "ode on a grecian urn": "'beauty is truth, truth beauty' – that is all / ye know on earth, and all ye need to know". in early december , under the heady influence of his artistic friends, keats told abbey that he had decided to give up medicine in favour of poetry, to abbey's fury. keats had spent a great deal on his medical training and, despite his state of financial hardship and indebtedness, had made large loans to friends such as painter benjamin haydon. keats would go on to lend £ to his brother george. by lending so much, keats could no longer cover the interest of his own debts.[ ][ ] having left his training at the hospital, suffering from a succession of colds, and unhappy with living in damp rooms in london, keats moved with his brothers into rooms at well walk in the village of hampstead in april . both john and george nursed their brother tom, who was suffering from tuberculosis. the house was close to hunt and others from his circle in hampstead, as well as to coleridge, respected elder of the first wave of romantic poets, at that time living in highgate. on april , keats reported that he and coleridge had a long walk together on hampstead heath. in a letter to his brother george, keats wrote that they talked about "a thousand things,... nightingales, poetry, poetical sensation, metaphysics."[ ] around this time he was introduced to charles wentworth dilke and james rice.[ ] in june , keats began a walking tour of scotland, ireland, and the lake district with his friend charles armitage brown. keats' brother george and his wife georgina accompanied them as far as lancaster and then continued to liverpool, from where the couple emigrated to america. they lived in ohio and louisville, kentucky, until , when george's investments failed. like keats' other brother, they both died penniless and racked by tuberculosis, for which there was no effective treatment until the next century.[ ][ ] in july, while on the isle of mull, keats caught a bad cold and "was too thin and fevered to proceed on the journey."[ ] after his return south in august, keats continued to nurse tom, exposing himself to infection. some biographers suggest that this is when tuberculosis, his "family disease," first took hold.[ ][ ] "consumption" was not identified as a disease with a single infectious origin until , and there was considerable stigma attached to the condition, as it was often associated with weakness, repressed sexual passion, or masturbation. keats "refuses to give it a name" in his letters.[ ] tom keats died on december . wentworth place[edit] wentworth place, now the keats house museum (left), ten keats grove (right) john keats moved to the newly built wentworth place, owned by his friend charles armitage brown. it was on the edge of hampstead heath, ten minutes' walk south of his old home in well walk. the winter of – , though a difficult period for the poet, marked the beginning of his annus mirabilis in which he wrote his most mature work.[ ] he had been inspired by a series of recent lectures by hazlitt on english poets and poetic identity and had also met wordsworth.[ ][ ] keats may have seemed to his friends to be living on comfortable means, but in reality he was borrowing regularly from abbey and his friends.[ ] he composed five of his six great odes at wentworth place in april and may and, although it is debated in which order they were written, "ode to psyche" opened the published series. according to brown, "ode to a nightingale" was composed under a plum tree in the garden.[nb ][ ][ ] brown wrote, "in the spring of a nightingale had built her nest near my house. keats felt a tranquil and continual joy in her song; and one morning he took his chair from the breakfast-table to the grass-plot under a plum-tree, where he sat for two or three hours. when he came into the house, i perceived he had some scraps of paper in his hand, and these he was quietly thrusting behind the books. on inquiry, i found those scraps, four or five in number, contained his poetic feelings on the song of our nightingale."[ ] dilke, co-owner of the house, strenuously denied the story, printed in richard monckton milnes' biography of keats, dismissing it as 'pure delusion'.[ ] my heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains  my sense, as though of hemlock i had drunk, or emptied some dull opiate to the drains  one minute past, and lethe-wards had sunk: 'tis not through envy of thy happy lot,  but being too happy in thine happiness,—  that thou, light-winged dryad of the trees,  in some melodious plot  of beechen green, and shadows numberless,  singest of summer in full-throated ease. first stanza of "ode to a nightingale", may "ode on a grecian urn" and "ode on melancholy" were inspired by sonnet forms and probably written after "ode to a nightingale".[ ] keats' new and progressive publishers taylor and hessey issued endymion, which keats dedicated to thomas chatterton, a work that he termed "a trial of my powers of imagination".[ ] it was damned by the critics, giving rise to byron's quip that keats was ultimately "snuffed out by an article", suggesting that he never truly got over it. a particularly harsh review by john wilson croker appeared in the april edition of the quarterly review.[nb ] john gibson lockhart writing in blackwood's magazine, described endymion as "imperturbable drivelling idiocy". with biting sarcasm, lockhart advised, "it is a better and a wiser thing to be a starved apothecary than a starved poet; so back to the shop mr john, back to plasters, pills, and ointment boxes".[nb ] it was lockhart at blackwoods who coined the defamatory term "the cockney school" for hunt and his circle, which included both hazlitt and keats. the dismissal was as much political as literary, aimed at upstart young writers deemed uncouth for their lack of education, non-formal rhyming and "low diction". they had not attended eton, harrow or oxbridge and they were not from the upper classes.[ ] in , keats wrote "the eve of st. agnes", "la belle dame sans merci", "hyperion", "lamia" and a play, otho the great (critically damned and not performed until ).[ ] the poems "fancy" and "bards of passion and of mirth" were inspired by the garden of wentworth place. in september, very short of money and in despair considering taking up journalism or a post as a ship's surgeon, he approached his publishers with a new book of poems.[ ] they were unimpressed with the collection, finding the presented versions of "lamia" confusing, and describing "st agnes" as having a "sense of pettish disgust" and "a 'don juan' style of mingling up sentiment and sneering" concluding it was "a poem unfit for ladies".[ ] the final volume keats lived to see, lamia, isabella, the eve of st. agnes, and other poems, was eventually published in july . it received greater acclaim than had endymion or poems, finding favourable notices in both the examiner and edinburgh review. it would come to be recognised as one of the most important poetic works ever published.[ ] wentworth place now houses the keats house museum.[ ] isabella jones and fanny brawne[edit] see also: fanny brawne keats befriended isabella jones in may , while on holiday in the village of bo peep, near hastings. she is described as beautiful, talented and widely read, not of the top flight of society yet financially secure, an enigmatic figure who would become a part of keats' circle.[ ][ ] throughout their friendship keats never hesitates to own his sexual attraction to her, although they seem to enjoy circling each other rather than offering commitment. he writes that he "frequented her rooms" in the winter of – , and in his letters to george says that he "warmed with her" and "kissed her".[ ] the trysts may have been a sexual initiation for keats according to bate and gittings.[ ] jones inspired and was a steward of keats' writing. the themes of "the eve of st. agnes" and "the eve of st mark" may well have been suggested by her, the lyric hush, hush! ["o sweet isabel"] was about her, and that the first version of "bright star" may have originally been for her.[ ][ ] in , jones was one of the first in england to be notified of keats' death.[ ] letters and drafts of poems suggest that keats first met frances (fanny) brawne between september and november .[ ] it is likely that the -year-old brawne visited the dilke family at wentworth place before she lived there. she was born in the hamlet of west end (now in the district of west hampstead), on august . like keats' grandfather, her grandfather kept a london inn, and both lost several family members to tuberculosis. she shared her first name with both keats' sister and mother, and had a talent for dress-making and languages as well as a natural theatrical bent.[ ] during november she developed an intimacy with keats, but it was shadowed by the illness of tom keats, whom john was nursing through this period.[ ] ambrotype of fanny brawne taken circa (photograph on glass) on april , brawne and her widowed mother moved into the other half of dilke's wentworth place, and keats and brawne were able to see each other every day. keats began to lend brawne books, such as dante's inferno, and they would read together. he gave her the love sonnet "bright star" (perhaps revised for her) as a declaration. it was a work in progress which he continued at until the last months of his life, and the poem came to be associated with their relationship. "all his desires were concentrated on fanny".[ ] from this point there is no further documented mention of isabella jones.[ ] sometime before the end of june, he arrived at some sort of understanding with brawne, far from a formal engagement as he still had too little to offer, with no prospects and financial stricture.[ ] keats endured great conflict knowing his expectations as a struggling poet in increasingly hard straits would preclude marriage to brawne. their love remained unconsummated; jealousy for his 'star' began to gnaw at him. darkness, disease and depression surrounded him, reflected in poems such as "the eve of st. agnes" and "la belle dame sans merci" where love and death both stalk. "i have two luxuries to brood over in my walks;" he wrote to her, "...your loveliness, and the hour of my death".[ ] in one of his many hundreds of notes and letters, keats wrote to brawne on october : "my love has made me selfish. i cannot exist without you – i am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again – my life seems to stop there – i see no further. you have absorb'd me. i have a sensation at the present moment as though i was dissolving – i should be exquisitely miserable without the hope of soon seeing you ... i have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion – i have shudder'd at it – i shudder no more – i could be martyr'd for my religion – love is my religion – i could die for that – i could die for you." tuberculosis took hold and he was advised by his doctors to move to a warmer climate. in september keats left for rome knowing he would probably never see brawne again. after leaving he felt unable to write to her or read her letters, although he did correspond with her mother.[ ] he died there five months later. none of brawne's letters to keats survive.[ ] it took a month for the news of his death to reach london, after which brawne stayed in mourning for six years. in , more than years after his death, she married and went on to have three children; she outlived keats by more than years.[ ][ ] last months: rome[edit] during keats displayed increasingly serious symptoms of tuberculosis, suffering two lung haemorrhages in the first few days of february.[ ][ ] on first coughing up blood, on february , he said to charles armitage brown, "i know the colour of that blood! it is arterial blood. i cannot be deceived in that colour. that drop of blood is my death warrant. i must die."[ ][ ] he lost large amounts of blood and was bled further by the attending physician. hunt nursed him in london for much of the following summer. at the suggestion of his doctors, he agreed to move to italy with his friend joseph severn. on september, they left for gravesend and four days later boarded the sailing brig maria crowther. on october the ship landed at lulworth bay or holworth bay where the two went ashore; back onboard ship he made the final revisions of "bright star".[ ][ ] the journey was a minor catastrophe: storms broke out followed by a dead calm that slowed the ship's progress. when they finally docked in naples, the ship was held in quarantine for ten days due to a suspected outbreak of cholera in britain. keats reached rome on november, by which time any hope of the warmer climate he sought had disappeared.[ ] keats' house in rome keats wrote his last letter on november to charles armitage brown; "tis the most difficult thing in the world to me to write a letter. my stomach continues so bad, that i feel it worse on opening any book – yet i am much better than i was in quarantine. then i am afraid to encounter the proing and conning of any thing interesting to me in england. i have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that i am leading a posthumous existence".[ ] on arrival in italy, he moved into a villa on the spanish steps in rome, today the keats–shelley memorial house museum. despite care from severn and dr. james clark, his health rapidly deteriorated. the medical attention keats received may have hastened his death.[ ] in november , clark declared that the source of his illness was "mental exertion" and that the source was largely situated in his stomach. clark eventually diagnosed consumption (tuberculosis) and placed keats on a starvation diet of an anchovy and a piece of bread a day intended to reduce the blood flow to his stomach. he also bled the poet: a standard treatment of the day, but also likely a significant contributor to keats' weakness.[ ] severn's biographer sue brown writes: "they could have used opium in small doses, and keats had asked severn to buy a bottle of opium when they were setting off on their voyage. what severn didn't realise was that keats saw it as a possible resource if he wanted to commit suicide. he tried to get the bottle from severn on the voyage but severn wouldn't let him have it. then in rome he tried again... severn was in such a quandary he didn't know what to do, so in the end he went to the doctor who took it away. as a result keats went through dreadful agonies with nothing to ease the pain at all." keats was angry with both severn and clark when they would not give him laudanum (opium). he repeatedly demanded "how long is this posthumous existence of mine to go on?"[ ] death[edit] the first months of marked a slow and steady decline into the final stage of tuberculosis. keats was coughing up blood and covered in sweat. severn nursed him devotedly and observed in a letter how keats would sometimes cry upon waking to find himself still alive. severn writes, keats raves till i am in a complete tremble for him[ ]...about four, the approaches of death came on. [keats said] "severn—i—lift me up—i am dying—i shall die easy; don't be frightened—be firm, and thank god it has come." i lifted him up in my arms. the phlegm seem'd boiling in his throat, and increased until eleven, when he gradually sank into death, so quiet, that i still thought he slept.[ ] keats' grave in rome john keats died in rome on february . his body was buried in the city's protestant cemetery. his last request was to be placed under a tombstone bearing no name or date, only the words, "here lies one whose name was writ in water." severn and brown erected the stone, which under a relief of a lyre with broken strings, includes the epitaph: this grave / contains all that was mortal / of a / young english poet / who / on his death bed, in the bitterness of his heart / at the malicious power of his enemies / desired / these words to be / engraven on his tomb stone: / here lies one / whose name was writ in water. february the text bears an echo from catullus lxx: sed mulier cupido quod dicit amanti / in vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua (what a woman says to a passionate lover / should be written in the wind and the running water). francis beaumont also used the expression in the nice valour, act , scene (? ): all your better deeds / shall be in water writ, but this in marble. severn and brown added their lines to the stone in protest at the critical reception of keats' work. hunt blamed his death on the quarterly review's scathing attack of "endymion". as byron quipped in his narrative poem don juan; 'tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle should let itself be snuffed out by an article. (canto , stanza ) seven weeks after the funeral, shelley memorialised keats in his poem adonais.[ ] clark saw to the planting of daisies on the grave, saying that keats would have wished it. for public health reasons, the italian health authorities burned the furniture in keats' room, scraped the walls and made new windows, doors and flooring.[ ][ ] the ashes of shelley, one of keats' most fervent champions, are buried in the cemetery and joseph severn is buried next to keats. describing the site today, marsh wrote, "in the old part of the graveyard, barely a field when keats was buried here, there are now umbrella pines, myrtle shrubs, roses, and carpets of wild violets".[ ] reception[edit] relief on wall near his grave in rome when keats died at , he had been writing poetry seriously for only about six years, from until the summer of ; and publishing for only four. in his lifetime, sales of keats' three volumes of poetry probably amounted to only copies.[ ] his first poem, the sonnet o solitude, appeared in the examiner in may , while his collection lamia, isabella, the eve of st. agnes and other poems was published in july before his last visit to rome. the compression of his poetic apprenticeship and maturity into so short a time is just one remarkable aspect of keats' work.[ ] although prolific during his short career, and now one of the most studied and admired british poets, his reputation rests on a small body of work, centred on the odes,[ ] and only in the creative outpouring of the last years of his short life was he able to express the inner intensity for which he has been lauded since his death.[ ] keats was convinced that he had made no mark in his lifetime. aware that he was dying, he wrote to fanny brawne in february , "i have left no immortal work behind me – nothing to make my friends proud of my memory – but i have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things, and if i had had time i would have made myself remember'd."[ ] keats' ability and talent was acknowledged by several influential contemporary allies such as shelley and hunt.[ ] his admirers praised him for thinking "on his pulses", for having developed a style which was more heavily loaded with sensualities, more gorgeous in its effects, more voluptuously alive than any poet who had come before him: "loading every rift with ore".[ ] shelley often corresponded with keats in rome and loudly declared that keats' death had been brought on by bad reviews in the quarterly review. seven weeks after the funeral he wrote adonais, a despairing elegy,[ ] stating that keats' early death was a personal and public tragedy: the loveliest and the last, the bloom, whose petals nipped before they blew died on the promise of the fruit.[ ][ ] although keats wrote that "if poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all", poetry did not come easily to him; his work was the fruit of a deliberate and prolonged classical self-education. he may have possessed an innate poetic sensibility, but his early works were clearly those of a young man learning his craft. his first attempts at verse were often vague, languorously narcotic and lacking a clear eye.[ ] his poetic sense was based on the conventional tastes of his friend charles cowden clarke, who first introduced him to the classics, and also came from the predilections of hunt's examiner, which keats read as a boy.[ ] hunt scorned the augustan or "french" school, dominated by pope, and attacked the earlier romantic poets wordsworth and coleridge, now in their forties, as unsophisticated, obscure and crude writers. indeed, during keats' few years as a published poet, the reputation of the older romantic school was at its lowest ebb. keats came to echo these sentiments in his work, identifying himself with a "new school" for a time, somewhat alienating him from wordsworth, coleridge and byron and providing the basis for the scathing attacks from blackwood's and the quarterly.[ ] season of mists and mellow fruitfulness close bosom-friend of the maturing sun conspiring with him how to load and bless with fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run; to bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, and fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; to swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells with a sweet kernel; to set budding more, and still more, later flowers for the bees, until they think warm days will never cease, for summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells. first stanza of "to autumn",[ ] september by the time of his death, keats had therefore been associated with the taints of both old and new schools: the obscurity of the first-wave romantics and the uneducated affectation of hunt's "cockney school". keats' posthumous reputation mixed the reviewers' caricature of the simplistic bumbler with the image of the hyper-sensitive genius killed by high feeling, which shelley later portrayed.[ ] the victorian sense of poetry as the work of indulgence and luxuriant fancy offered a schema into which keats was posthumously fitted. marked as the standard-bearer of sensory writing, his reputation grew steadily and remarkably.[ ] his work had the full support of the influential cambridge apostles, whose members included the young tennyson,[nb ] later a popular poet laureate who came to regard keats as the greatest poet of the th century.[ ] constance naden was a great admirer of his poems, arguing that his genius lay in his 'exquisite sensitiveness to all the elements of beauty'.[ ] in , twenty-seven years after keats' death, richard monckton milnes published the first full biography, which helped place keats within the canon of english literature. the pre-raphaelite brotherhood, including millais and rossetti, were inspired by keats and painted scenes from his poems including "the eve of st. agnes", "isabella" and "la belle dame sans merci", lush, arresting and popular images which remain closely associated with keats' work.[ ] in , swinburne wrote in the encyclopædia britannica that "the ode to a nightingale, [is] one of the final masterpieces of human work in all time and for all ages".[ ] in the twentieth century, keats remained the muse of poets such as wilfred owen, who kept his death date as a day of mourning, yeats and t. s. eliot.[ ] critic helen vendler stated the odes "are a group of works in which the english language find ultimate embodiment".[ ] bate declared of to autumn: "each generation has found it one of the most nearly perfect poems in english"[ ] and m. r. ridley claimed the ode "is the most serenely flawless poem in our language."[ ] the largest collection of the letters, manuscripts, and other papers of keats is in the houghton library at harvard university. other collections of material are archived at the british library, keats house, hampstead, the keats-shelley memorial house in rome and the pierpont morgan library in new york. since the british keats-shelley memorial association have annually awarded a prize for romantic poetry.[ ] a royal society of arts blue plaque was unveiled in to commemorate keats at keats house.[ ] biographers[edit] none of keats' biographies were written by people who had known him.[ ] shortly after his death, his publishers announced they would speedily publish the memoirs and remains of john keats but his friends refused to cooperate and argued with each other to the extent that the project was abandoned. leigh hunt's lord byron and some of his contemporaries ( ) gives the first biographical account, strongly emphasising keats' supposedly humble origins, a misconception which still continues.[ ] given that he was becoming a significant figure within artistic circles, a succession of other publications followed, including anthologies of his many notes, chapters and letters.[ ] however, early accounts often gave contradictory or heavily biased versions of events and were subject to dispute.[ ] his friends brown, severn, dilke, shelley and his guardian richard abbey, his publisher taylor, fanny brawne and many others issued posthumous commentary on keats' life. these early writings coloured all subsequent biography and have become embedded in a body of keats legend.[ ] shelley promoted keats as someone whose achievement could not be separated from agony, who was 'spiritualised' by his decline and too fine-tuned to endure the harshness of life; the consumptive, suffering image popularly held today.[ ] the first full biography was published in by richard monckton milnes. landmark keats biographers since include sidney colvin, robert gittings, walter jackson bate, aileen ward, and andrew motion. the idealised image of the heroic romantic poet who battled poverty and died young was inflated by the late arrival of an authoritative biography and the lack of an accurate likeness. most of the surviving portraits of keats were painted after his death, and those who knew him held that they did not succeed in capturing his unique quality and intensity.[ ] other portrayals[edit] sculpture of poet john keats (seated on bench) by vincent gray – chichester, west sussex, uk. august john keats: his life and death, the first major motion picture about the life of keats, was produced in by encyclopædia britannica, inc.. it was directed by john barnes. john stride played john keats and janina faye played fanny brawne.[ ] the film bright star, written and directed by jane campion, focuses on keats' relationship with fanny brawne.[ ] inspired by the keats biography penned by andrew motion, it stars ben whishaw as keats and abbie cornish as fanny.[ ] in dan wells's book a night of blacker darkness, john keats is portrayed in a comedic tone. he is the companion and sidekick of the protagonist.[ ] in dan simmons' book hyperion, one of the characters is a clone of john keats, of whom he possesses personality and memories.[ ] in tim powers' book the stress of her regard, john keats, along with percy shelley and lord byron, is the victim of a vampire and his gift with language and poetry is a direct consequence of the vampire breed's attention.[ ] letters[edit] the poem on death on a wall at breestraat in leiden, netherlands. keats' letters were first published in and . during the th century, critics deemed them unworthy of attention, distractions from his poetic works.[ ] during the th century they became almost as admired and studied as his poetry,[ ] and are highly regarded within the canon of english literary correspondence.[ ] t. s. eliot described them as "certainly the most notable and most important ever written by any english poet."[ ][ ] keats spent a great deal of time considering poetry itself, its constructs and impacts, displaying a deep interest unusual amongst his milieu who were more easily distracted by metaphysics or politics, fashions or science. eliot wrote of keats' conclusions; "there is hardly one statement of keats' about poetry which ... will not be found to be true, and what is more, true for greater and more mature poetry than anything keats ever wrote."[ ][ ] few of keats' letters are extant from the period before he joined his literary circle. from spring , however, there is a rich record of his prolific letter writing.[ ] keats and his friends, poets, critics, novelists, and editors wrote to each other daily, and keats' ideas are bound up in the ordinary, his day-to-day missives sharing news, parody and social commentary..[ ] when his brother george went to america, keats wrote to him in great detail, the body of letters becoming "the real diary" and self-revelation of keats' life, as well as containing an exposition of his philosophy, and the first drafts of poems containing some of keats' finest writing and thought.[ ] gittings describes them as akin to a "spiritual journal" not written for a specific other, so much as for synthesis.[ ] keats also reflected on the background and composition of his poetry, and specific letters often coincide with or anticipate the poems they describe.[ ] in february to may he produced many of his finest letters.[ ] writing to his brother george, keats explored the idea of the world as "the vale of soul-making", anticipating the great odes that he would write some months later.[ ][ ] in the letters, keats coined ideas such as the mansion of many apartments and the chameleon poet, concepts that came to gain common currency and capture the public imagination, despite only making single appearances as phrases in his correspondence.[ ] the poetical mind, keats argued: has no self – it is every thing and nothing – it has no character – it enjoys light and shade;... what shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the camelion [chameleon] poet. it does no harm from its relish of the dark side of things any more than from its taste for the bright one; because they both end in speculation. a poet is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence; because he has no identity – he is continually in for – and filling some other body – the sun, the moon, the sea and men and women who are creatures of impulse are poetical and have about them an unchangeable attribute – the poet has none; no identity – he is certainly the most unpoetical of all god's creatures. he used the term negative capability to discuss the state in which we are "capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact & reason ...[being] content with half knowledge" where one trusts in the heart's perceptions.[ ] he wrote later: "i am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination – what the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth – whether it existed before or not – for i have the same idea of all our passions as of love they are all in their sublime, creative of essential beauty"[ ] again and again turning to the question of what it means to be a poet.[ ] "my imagination is a monastery and i am its monk", keats notes to shelley. in september , keats wrote to reynolds "how beautiful the season is now – how fine the air. a temperate sharpness about it  ... i never lik'd the stubbled fields as much as now – aye, better than the chilly green of spring. somehow the stubble plain looks warm – in the same way as some pictures look warm – this struck me so much in my sunday's walk that i composed upon it".[ ] the final stanza of his last great ode, "to autumn", runs: where are the songs of spring? ay, where are they? think not of them, thou hast thy music too,- while barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, and touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;[ ] later, "to autumn" became one of the most highly regarded poems in the english language.[nb ][nb ] there are areas of his life and daily routine that keats does not describe. he mentions little about his childhood or his financial straits and is seemingly embarrassed to discuss them. there is a total absence of any reference to his parents.[ ] in his last year, as his health deteriorated, his concerns often give way to despair and morbid obsessions. the publications of letters to fanny brawne in focus on this period and emphasise this tragic aspect, giving rise to widespread criticism at the time.[ ] major works[edit] main article: john keats bibliography 	cox, jeffrey n., ed., keats's poetry and prose (new york and london: w.w. norton & co., ). isbn  - 	wolfson, susan, ed., john keats (london and new york: longman, ). 	allott, miriam, ed., the complete poems (london and new york: longman, ). 	scott, grant f., ed., selected letters of john keats (cambridge: harvard up, ). 	stillinger, jack, ed., john keats: poetry manuscripts at harvard, a facsimile edition (cambridge: harvard up, ). isbn  - - - 	stillinger, jack, ed., the poems of john keats (cambridge: harvard up, ). 	hyder edward rollins, ed., the letters of john keats – , vols. (cambridge: harvard up, ). 	forman, h. buxton, ed., the complete poetical works of john keats (oxford: oxford up, ). 	scudder, horace e., ed., the complete poetical works and letters of john keats (boston: riverside press, ). notes[edit] 	^ keats' share would have increased on the death of his brother tom in . 	^ the original plum tree no longer survives, though others have been planted since. 	^ the quarterly review. april . – . "it is not, we say, that the author has not powers of language, rays of fancy, and gleams of genius – he has all these; but he is unhappily a disciple of the new school of what has been somewhere called 'cockney poetry'; which may be defined to consist of the most incongruous ideas in the most uncouth language ... there is hardly a complete couplet enclosing a complete idea in the whole book. he wanders from one subject to another, from the association, not of ideas, but of sounds." 	^ extracts from blackwood's edinburgh magazine, ( ) p - ". nineteenth century literary manuscripts, part . retrieved january . "to witness the disease of any human understanding, however feeble, is distressing; but the spectacle of an able mind reduced to a state of insanity is, of course, ten times more afflicting. it is with such sorrow as this that we have contemplated the case of mr john keats .... he was bound apprentice some years ago to a worthy apothecary in town. but all has been undone by a sudden attack of the malady ... for some time we were in hopes that he might get off with a violent fit or two; but of late the symptoms are terrible. the phrenzy of the "poems" was bad enough in its way; but it did not alarm us half so seriously as the calm, settled, imperturbable drivelling idiocy of endymion .... it is a better and a wiser thing to be a starved apothecary than a starved poet; so back to the [apothecary] shop mr john, back to 'plasters, pills, and ointment boxes' ". 	^ tennyson was writing keats-style poetry in the s and was being critically attacked in the same manner as his predecessor. 	^ bate p : "each generation has found it one of the most nearly perfect poems in english." 	^ the encyclopædia britannica declared that, "of these [odes] perhaps the two nearest to absolute perfection, to the triumphant achievement and accomplishment of the very utmost beauty possible to human words, may be that of to autumn and that on a grecian urn" baynes, thomas (ed.). encyclopædia britannica vol xiv. cambridge: cambridge university press, . oclc  . references[edit] 	^ a b c d o'neill and mahoney ( ), 	^ jorge luis borges ( ). this craft of verse. harvard university press, – 	^ a b motion ( ), 	^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w kelvin everest, "keats, john ( – )", oxford dictionary of national biography, oxford university press, online (subscription only) 	^ "literary gossip". the week : a canadian journal of politics, literature, science and arts. ( ): . december . retrieved april . 	^ gittings ( ), 	^ "two become one at the globe". evening standard. august . retrieved september . 	^ gittings ( ), 	^ harrow. motion ( ), 	^ milnes ( ) 	^ a b c d e gittings ( ), – 	^ john keats, colvin, s, ( ) 	^ monckton milnes ( ), xiii 	^ motion ( ), 	^ motion, andrew ( ). keats. university of chicago press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ "see the british national archives for conversion rates". nationalarchives.gov.uk. retrieved march . 	^ motion ( ), 	^ motion ( ), 	^ motion ( ), 	^ a b hirsch, edward ( ) 	^ colvin ( ), 	^ keats, john ( ). "sonnett viii. to my brothers". poemist.com. retrieved october . 	^ motion ( ), – 	^ motion proposes that the olliers suggested keats leave their publishing lists. see motion ( ) p 	^ motion ( ), 	^ motion ( ), 	^ gittings ( ), 	^ motion ( ), – 	^ motion ( ) 	^ keats' letter to benjamin bailey, november 	^ bate ( ) p 	^ motion ( ), – 	^ motion ( ), , 	^ tracing the keats family in america new york times koch july . retrieved january . 	^ motion ( ), 	^ letter of august ; brown ( ) 	^ motion ( ), 	^ zur pathogenie der impetigines. auszug aus einer brieflichen mitteilung an den herausgeber. [müller's] archiv für anatomie, physiologie und wissenschaftliche medicin. , p . 	^ de almeida ( ), – ; motion ( ), – 	^ a b o'neill and mahoney ( ), 	^ a b c d "keats, john" the oxford companion to english literature. edited by dinah birch. oxford university press inc. 	^ charles armitage brown ( ) – 	^ hart, christopher. ( august .) "savour john keats' poetry in garden where he wrote". the sunday times. retrieved january . 	^ bate ( ), 	^ keats, john; gittings, robert ( ). the odes of keats and their earliest known manuscripts. kent state university press. isbn  - . 	^ motion ( ) pp - 	^ a preface to keats ( ) cedric thomas watts, longman, university of michigan p isbn  	^ gittings ( ), 	^ a b kennedy, maev. "keats' london home reopens after major refurbishment". the guardian, july . retrieved january . 	^ a b motion ( ), – 	^ a b c gittings ( ), 	^ walsh william ( ) introduction to keats law book co of australasia p 	^ gittings ( ), mask of keats. heinmann, 	^ gittings ( ), 	^ gittings ( ), 	^ gittings ( ), 	^ a b gittings ( ), – 	^ a b gittings ( ), – 	^ houghton library, harvard university, i shall ever be your dearest love: john keats and fanny brawne. " ". 	^ richardson, , 	^ bate ( ), 	^ motion ( ), 	^ porter, roy ( april ). the greatest benefit to mankind: a medical history of humanity (the norton history of science). w. w. norton & company. p.  ?. isbn  - . 	^ mccormick, eric hall ( february ). the friend of keats: a life of charles armitage brown. victoria university press. p.  . isbn  . retrieved february – via google books. 	^ rodriguez, andres; rodríguez, andrés ( september ). book of the heart: the poetics, letters, and life of john keats. steinerbooks. isbn  – via google books. 	^ thomas hardy’s poem ‘at lulworth cove a century back’, september , commemorates keats’ landing on the dorset coast on the voyage to rome 	^ a b "a window to the soul of john keats" by marsh, stefanie. the times, november . retrieved january . 	^ keats' last letter, written to charles armitage brown from rome, november 	^ brown ( ) 	^ a b c flood, alison. 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( ). complete poems and selected letters of john keats. random house publishing. isbn  - - - 	houghton, richard (ed.) ( ). the life and letters of john keats. read books. isbn  - - - - 	jones, michael ( ). "twilight of the gods: the greeks in schiller and lukacs". germanic review. ( ): – . doi: . / . . . 	lachman, lilach ( ). "history and temporalization of space: keats' hyperion poems". proceedings of the xii congress of the international comparative literature association, edited by roger bauer and douwe fokkema (munich, germany): – . 	g. m. matthews (ed). ( ). "john keats: the critical heritage". london: routledge. isbn  - - - 	monckton milnes, richard, ed. (lord houghton) ( ). life, letters and literary remains of john keats. vols. london: edward moxon. 	motion, andrew ( ). keats. london: faber. 	o'neill, michael & mahoney charles (eds.) ( ). romantic poetry: an annotated anthology. blackwell. isbn  - - - 	ridley, m. and r. clarendon ( ). keats' craftsmanship: a study in poetic development asin: b um i (out of print in ). 	scott, grant f. ( ). the sculpted word: keats, ekphrasis, and the visual arts. hanover, nh: university press of new england. isbn  - - -x 	stillinger, jack ( ). complete poems. cambridge, massachusetts: belknap press of harvard university press. isbn  - - - 	strachan, john (ed.) ( ). a routledge literary sourcebook on the poems of john keats. new york: routledge. isbn  - - - 	vendler, helen ( ). the odes of john keats. belknap press isbn  - - - 	walsh, john evangelist ( ). darkling i listen: the last days and death of john keats. new york: st. martin's press. 	walsh, william ( ). "john keats", in from blake to byron. middlesex: penguin. 	ward, aileen ( ). john keats: the making of a poet. london: secker & warburg. 	wolfson, susan j. ( ). the questioning presence. ithaca, new york: cornell university press. isbn  - - - further reading[edit] 	bate, walter jackson. negative capability: the intuitive approach in keats. new york: contra mundum press, . 	cox, jeffrey n. poetry and politics in the cockney school: keats, shelley, hunt and their circle. cambridge: cambridge university press, . isbn  - 	kirkland, john ( ). love letters of great men, vol. . createspace publishing. 	kottoor, gopikrishnan ( ). the mask of death: the final days of john keats, (a radio play). writers workshop kolkata, . 	lowell, amy ( ). john keats. vols. boston: houghton mifflin. 	parson, donald ( ). portraits of keats. cleveland: world publishing co. 	plumly, stanley ( ). posthumous keats. new york: w.w. norton & co. 	richardson, joanna ( ). the everlasting spell. a study of keats and his friends. london: cape. 	richardson, joanna ( ). keats and his circle. an album of portraits. london: cassell. 	roe, nicholas ( ). john keats. a new life. new haven and london: yale university press isbn  - - - - 	rossetti, william michael ( ). the life and writings of john keats. london: walter scott. 	turley, richard marggraf ( ). keats' boyish imagination. london: routledge, isbn  - - - - external links[edit] 	poetry portal 		wikimedia commons has media related to john keats. 		wikiquote has quotations related to: john keats 		wikisource has original works written by or about: john keats 	john keats on the british library's discovering literature website 	john keats at the poetry foundation 	biography of keats at poets.org 	works by john keats at project gutenberg 	works by or about john keats at internet archive 	works by john keats at librivox (public domain audiobooks) 	the harvard keats collection at the houghton library, harvard university 	keats house, hampstead: official website 	the keats-shelley house museum in rome 	john keats at the national portrait gallery 	keats, john ( – ) poet at the national register of archives 	mapping 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	 	 	 	 	john pine 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		for those of a similar name, see john pyne (disambiguation). portrait of john pine by william hogarth john pine ( – ) was an english designer, engraver, and cartographer notable for his artistic contribution to the augustan style and newtonian scientific paradigm that flourished during the british enlightenment. contents 	 early life and apprenticeships 	 career 	 legacy 	 selected works 	 references early life and apprenticeships[edit] little is known of pine's parents or ancestry. biographical sketches frequently refer to him as black or of african ancestry, especially in the lore of freemasonry, a society with which he became affiliated. however, the united grand lodge of england has not been able to verify such claims.[ ] pine began his career as an apprentice goldsmith. he also apprenticed with the french engraver bernard picart ( – ), who was associated with a movement described by historian margaret jacob as the "radical enlightenment."[ ][ ] career[edit] pine was a close friend of william hogarth, who also began his career as an engraver. it appears likely that their careers were mutually reinforcing, even though pine remained principally in the field of engraving while hogarth became a famous painter. hogarth painted pine several times; once, in his engraving the gate of calais, depicting him as a fat friar.[ ] both men served as governors of the foundling hospital,[ ] and both were freemasons, a social affiliation that was also a means of marketing their talents. pine was a member of the lodge that met at the horn tavern in westminster and joined with other lodges to form the grand lodge in . pine engraved the frontispiece of the constitutions of the free-masons, which elevated his status as an artist and secured his position as principal engraver for the grand lodge. subsequent work for the grand lodge included annual engraved lists of member lodges, which provided details about the time and place of their meetings. these engravings included miniature signs for each lodge symbolizing their meeting place, usually a tavern. pine's work is an essential part of the record of early freemasonry. in , pine worked with james oglethorpe and the trustees for the establishment of the colony of georgia in america on the first conceptual map of the colony, illustrating many of its design principles. he may have prepared the more detailed plan for the town of savannah, the source of which remains an intriguing mystery to town planners (see the oglethorpe plan). in , pine began work on an edition of the works of horace, considered a masterpiece of th-century book art.[ ] he engraved the text and illustrations for the entire work, which consisted of hundreds of pages. subscribers who underwrote the project included the prince of wales, handel, alexander pope, and hogarth.[ ] in , pine successfully collaborated with hogarth and george vertue in obtaining passage of a law enacted by parliament securing copyrights for artists. this law granted specifically to him copyright on some works not otherwise original enough to receive copyright under it. in he was among those who attempted to form a royal academy for the arts, but he did not live to see it established.[ ] pine collaborated with surveyor john rocque on the first detailed map of london, published in . legacy[edit] pine's achievements were recognized in , when he became engraver of his majesty's signet and seals, and subsequently bluemantle pursuivant of arms in ordinary. his son, robert edge pine ( – ), became a notable portrait painter of the late eighteenth century in both england and america. he painted george ii and the famous actor david garrick before emigrating to america where he painted washington and other figures of the revolutionary era. another son, simon, became a miniature-painter in bath. pine's daughter, charlotte, married the painter alexander cozens.[ ][ ] selected works[edit] the "armada . july: the burning and capture of miguel de oquendo's ship san salvador" (plate v, the tapestry hangings of the house of lords)", published by pine in 	frontispiece, daniel defoe’s robinson crusoe, (collaboration with john clark) 	illustrations, edward ward's nuptial dialogues and debates, 	frontispiece, constitutions of the free-masons, 	illustrations, king george i at ceremonies restoring the order of the bath, 	illustrations, henry pemberton’s view of newton’s philosophy, 	reproduction of "the magna carta," 	frontispiece, "some account of the design of the trustees for the establishment of the colony of *georgia in america," 	reproduction of tapestries in the house of lords depicting "destruction of the spanish armada," 	"plan of london,” , in sheets (a collaboration with surveyor john roque) 	"a view of the house of commons," 	"virgil," containing the bucolics and georgics, references[edit] 	^ a b prescott, andrew. "john pine: a sociable craftsman." mq magazine. issue , july, 	^ jacob, margaret c. the radical enlightenment: pantheists, freemasons and republicans. london: george allen & unwin, . pages - . 	^ a b c lee, sidney, ed. ( ). "pine, john" . dictionary of national biography. . london: smith, elder & co. 	^ a b "the 'tapestry hangings of the house of lords'". the national maritime museum. archived from the original on august . retrieved december . 	^ suarez, michael. "the reach of bibliography: lyell lectures". livestream. oxford university. retrieved july . 	^ stewart, robert g. robert edge pine: a british portrait painter in america, - . washington: smithsonian institution press, . 	authority control 	 	bne: xx 	dsi: 	gnd: 	isni: x 	lccn: n 	nlg: 	nta: 	rkd: 	sudoc: x 	ulan: 	viaf: 	 worldcat identities: lccn-n retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=john_pine&oldid= " 		categories: 	english engravers 	english cartographers 	 deaths 	 births hidden categories: 	articles incorporating cite dnb template 	use dmy dates from february 	use british english from february 	wikipedia articles with bne identifiers 	wikipedia articles with dsi identifiers 	wikipedia articles with gnd identifiers 	wikipedia articles with isni identifiers 	wikipedia articles with lccn identifiers 	wikipedia articles with nlg identifiers 	wikipedia articles with nta identifiers 	wikipedia articles with rkdartists identifiers 	wikipedia articles with sudoc 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simonides agrippa 	flavius justus 	parent(s)	 	matthias 	jewish noblewoman 	 	academic background 	influences	 	philo[ ] 	pharisees 	greco-roman world 	academic work 	era	hellenistic judaism 	main interests	 	jewish history 	maccabees 	jewish–roman wars 	herodian dynasty 	hasmonean dynasty 	notable works	 	the jewish war 	antiquities of the jews 	influenced	 	early christianity 	josephus problem 	 titus flavius josephus (/dʒoʊˈsiːfəs/;[ ] – c. ),[ ] born yosef ben matityahu (hebrew: יוסף בן מתתיהו‎; greek: Ἰώσηπος Ματθίου παῖς),[ ][ ][ ] was a first-century romano-jewish historian who was born in jerusalem—then part of roman judea—to a father of priestly descent and a mother who claimed royal ancestry. he initially fought against the romans during the first jewish–roman war as head of jewish forces in galilee, until surrendering in ce to roman forces led by vespasian after the six-week siege of jotapata. josephus claimed the jewish messianic prophecies that initiated the first jewish–roman war made reference to vespasian becoming emperor of rome. in response vespasian decided to keep josephus as a slave and presumably interpreter. after vespasian became emperor in ce, he granted josephus his freedom, at which time josephus assumed the emperor's family name of flavius.[ ] flavius josephus fully defected to the roman side and was granted roman citizenship. he became an advisor and friend of vespasian's son titus, serving as his translator when titus led the siege of jerusalem in ce. since the siege proved ineffective at stopping the jewish revolt, the city's destruction and the looting and destruction of herod's temple (second temple) soon followed. josephus recorded jewish history, with special emphasis on the first century ce and the first jewish–roman war ( – ce),[ ] including the siege of masada. his most important works were the jewish war (c.  ) and antiquities of the jews (c.  ).[ ] the jewish war recounts the jewish revolt against roman occupation. antiquities of the jews recounts the history of the world from a jewish perspective for an ostensibly greek and roman audience. these works provide valuable insight into first century judaism and the background of early christianity,[ ] although not specifically mentioned by josephus. josephus' works are the chief source next to the bible for the history and antiquity of ancient palestine,[ ] and provide a significant and independent extra-biblical account of such figures as pontius pilate, herod the great, john the baptist, and jesus christ. contents 	 biography 	 scholarship and impact on history 	 . impact on history and archaeology 	 . manuscripts, textual criticism, and editions 	 . josephus's audience 	 historiography and josephus 	 works 	 . the jewish war 	 . jewish antiquities 	 . against apion 	 . spurious works 	 see also 	 notes and references 	 . explanatory notes 	 . citations 	 general sources 	 further reading 	 external links biography[edit] galilee, site of josephus's governorship, before the first jewish–roman war born into one of jerusalem's elite families,[ ] josephus introduces himself in greek as iōsēpos (Ιώσηπος), son of matthias, an ethnic jewish priest. he was the second-born son of matthias (mattiyah or mattityahu in hebrew). his older full-blooded brother was also called matthias.[ ] their mother was an aristocratic woman who descended from the royal and formerly ruling hasmonean dynasty.[ ] josephus's paternal grandparents were josephus and his wife—an unnamed hebrew noblewoman, distant relatives of each other and direct descendants of simon psellus.[ ] josephus's family was wealthy. he descended through his father from the priestly order of the jehoiarib, which was the first of the orders of priests in the temple in jerusalem.[ ] josephus was a descendant of the high priest of israel jonathan apphus.[ ] he was raised in jerusalem and educated alongside his brother.[ ] in his mid twenties, he traveled to negotiate with emperor nero for the release of some jewish priests.[ ] upon his return to jerusalem, at the outbreak of the first jewish–roman war, josephus was appointed the military governor of galilee.[ ] his arrival in galilee, however, was fraught with internal division: the inhabitants of sepphoris and tiberias opting to maintain peace with the romans; the people of sepphoris enlisting the help of the roman army to protect their city,[ ] whilst the people of tiberias appealing to king agrippa's forces to protect them from the insurgents.[ ] josephus also contended with john of gischala who had also set his sight over the control of galilee. like josephus, john had amassed to himself a large band of supporters from gischala (gush halab) and gabara,[a] including the support of the sanhedrin in jerusalem.[ ] meanwhile, josephus fortified several towns and villages in lower galilee, among which were tiberias, bersabe, selamin, japha, and tarichaea, in anticipation of a roman onslaught.[ ] in upper galilee, he fortified the towns of jamnith, seph, mero, and achabare, among other places.[ ] josephus, with the galileans under his command, managed to bring both sepphoris and tiberias into subjection,[ ] but was eventually forced to relinquish his hold on sepphoris by the arrival of roman forces under placidus the tribune and later by vespasian himself. josephus first engaged the roman army at a village called garis, where he launched an attack against sepphoris a second time, before being repulsed.[ ] at length, he resisted the roman army in its siege of yodfat (jotapata) until it fell to the roman army in the lunar month of tammuz, in the thirteenth year of nero's reign. after the jewish garrison of yodfat fell under siege, the romans invaded, killing thousands; the survivors committed suicide. according to josephus, he was trapped in a cave with of his companions in july ce. the romans (commanded by flavius vespasian and his son titus, both subsequently roman emperors) asked the group to surrender, but they refused. josephus suggested a method of collective suicide;[ ] they drew lots and killed each other, one by one, counting to every third person. two men were left [b] who surrendered to the roman forces and became prisoners. in ce, josephus was released.[ ] according to his account, he acted as a negotiator with the defenders during the siege of jerusalem in ce, during which time his parents were held as hostages by simon bar giora.[ ] while being confined at yodfat (jotapata), josephus claimed to have experienced a divine revelation that later led to his speech predicting vespasian would become emperor. after the prediction came true, he was released by vespasian, who considered his gift of prophecy to be divine. josephus wrote that his revelation had taught him three things: that god, the creator of the jewish people, had decided to "punish" them; that "fortune" had been given to the romans; and that god had chosen him "to announce the things that are to come".[ ][ ][ ] to many jews, such claims were simply self-serving.[ ] in ce, he went to rome in the entourage of titus, becoming a roman citizen and client of the ruling flavian dynasty (hence he is often referred to as flavius josephus). in addition to roman citizenship, he was granted accommodation in conquered judaea and a pension. while in rome and under flavian patronage, josephus wrote all of his known works. although he uses "josephus", he appears to have taken the roman praenomen titus and nomen flavius from his patrons.[ ] vespasian arranged for josephus to marry a captured jewish woman, whom he later divorced. about ce, josephus married an alexandrian jewish woman as his third wife. they had three sons, of whom only flavius hyrcanus survived childhood. josephus later divorced his third wife. around ce, he married his fourth wife, a greek jewish woman from crete, who was a member of a distinguished family. they had a happy married life and two sons, flavius justus and flavius simonides agrippa. josephus's life story remains ambiguous. he was described by harris in as a law-observant jew who believed in the compatibility of judaism and graeco-roman thought, commonly referred to as hellenistic judaism.[ ] before the th century, the scholar nitsa ben-ari notes that his work was banned as those of a traitor, whose work was not to be studied or translated into hebrew.[ ] his critics were never satisfied as to why he failed to commit suicide in galilee, and after his capture, accepted the patronage of romans. the historian e. mary smallwood writes critically of josephus: [josephus] was conceited, not only about his own learning, but also about the opinions held of him as commander both by the galileans and by the romans; he was guilty of shocking duplicity at jotapata, saving himself by sacrifice of his companions; he was too naive to see how he stood condemned out of his own mouth for his conduct, and yet no words were too harsh when he was blackening his opponents; and after landing, however involuntarily, in the roman camp, he turned his captivity to his own advantage, and benefited for the rest of his days from his change of side.[ ] author joseph raymond calls josephus "the jewish benedict arnold" for betraying his own troops at jotapata.[ ] scholarship and impact on history[edit] a st-century roman bust thought by robert eisler to be of josephus. now conserved in the ny carlsberg glyptotek, copenhagen, denmark[ ] the works of josephus provide crucial information about the first jewish-roman war and also represent important literary source material for understanding the context of the dead sea scrolls and late temple judaism. josephan scholarship in the th and early th centuries took an interest in josephus's relationship to the sect of the pharisees.[citation needed] it consistently portrayed him as a member of the sect and as a traitor to the jewish nation—a view which became known as the classical concept of josephus.[ ] in the mid- th century a new generation of scholars[who?] challenged this view and formulated the modern concept of josephus. they consider him a pharisee but restore his reputation in part as patriot and a historian of some standing. in his book, steve mason argued that josephus was not a pharisee but an orthodox aristocrat-priest who became associated with the philosophical school of the pharisees as a matter of deference, and not by willing association.[ ] impact on history and archaeology[edit] the works of josephus include useful material for historians about individuals, groups, customs, and geographical places. josephus mentions that in his day there were towns and villages scattered across upper and lower galilee,[ ] some of which he names. a few of the jewish customs named by him include the practice of hanging a curtain of fine-linen at the entrance to one's house,[ ] and the jewish custom to partake of a sabbath-day's meal around the sixth-hour of the day (at noon).[ ] he notes also that it was permissible for jewish men to marry many wives (polygamy).[ ] his writings provide a significant, extra-biblical account of the post-exilic period of the maccabees, the hasmonean dynasty, and the rise of herod the great. he describes the sadducees, jewish high priests of the time, pharisees and essenes, the herodian temple, quirinius' census and the zealots, and such figures as pontius pilate, herod the great, agrippa i and agrippa ii, john the baptist, james the brother of jesus, and jesus (found only in the slavonic version of the jewish war).[ ] josephus represents an important source for studies of immediate post-temple judaism and the context of early christianity. a careful reading of josephus's writings and years of excavation allowed ehud netzer, an archaeologist from hebrew university, to discover what he considered to be the location of herod's tomb, after searching for years.[ ] it was above aqueducts and pools, at a flattened desert site, halfway up the hill to the herodium,  km south of jerusalem—as described in josephus's writings.[ ] in october , archaeologists joseph patrich and benjamin arubas challenged the identification of the tomb as that of herod.[ ] according to patrich and arubas, the tomb is too modest to be herod's and has several unlikely features.[ ] roi porat, who replaced netzer as excavation leader after the latter's death, stood by the identification.[ ] josephus's writings provide the first-known source for many stories considered as biblical history, despite not being found in the bible or related material. these include ishmael as the founder of the arabs,[ ] the connection of "semites", "hamites" and "japhetites" to the classical nations of the world, and the story of the siege of masada.[ ] manuscripts, textual criticism, and editions[edit] for many years, the works of josephus were largely known in europe only in an imperfect latin translation from the original greek. only in did a version of the standard greek text become available in french, edited by the dutch humanist arnoldus arlenius. the first english translation, by thomas lodge, appeared in , with subsequent editions appearing throughout the th century. the greek edition formed the basis of the english translation by william whiston, which achieved enormous popularity in the english-speaking world. it was often the book—after the bible—that christians most frequently owned. a cross-reference apparatus for whiston's version of josephus and the biblical canon also exists.[ ][ ] whiston claimed that certain works by josephus had a similar style to the epistles of st paul.[ ] later editions of the greek text include that of benedikt niese, who made a detailed examination of all the available manuscripts, mainly from france and spain. henry st. john thackeray used niese's version for the loeb classical library edition widely used today. the standard editio maior of the various greek manuscripts is that of benedictus niese, published – . the text of antiquities is damaged in some places. in the life, niese follows mainly manuscript p, but refers also to amw and r. henry st. john thackeray for the loeb classical library has a greek text also mainly dependent on p.[citation needed] andré pelletier edited a new greek text for his translation of life. the ongoing münsteraner josephus-ausgabe of münster university will provide a new critical apparatus. there also exist late old slavonic translations of the greek, but these contain a large number of christian interpolations.[ ] josephus's audience[edit] scholars debate about josephus's intended audience. for example, antiquities of the jews could be written for jews—"a few scholars from laqueur onward have suggested that josephus must have written primarily for fellow-jews (if also secondarily for gentiles). the most common motive suggested is repentance: in later life he felt so badly about the traitorous war that he needed to demonstrate … his loyalty to jewish history, law and culture."[ ] however, josephus's "countless incidental remarks explaining basic judean language, customs and laws … assume a gentile audience. he does not expect his first hearers to know anything about the laws or judean origins."[ ] the issue of who would read this multi-volume work is unresolved. other possible motives for writing antiquities could be to dispel the misrepresentation of jewish origins[ ] or as an apologetic to greek cities of the diaspora in order to protect jews and to roman authorities to garner their support for the jews facing persecution.[ ] neither motive explains why the proposed gentile audience would read this large body of material. historiography and josephus[edit] josephus in the nuremberg chronicle in the preface to jewish wars, josephus criticizes historians who misrepresent the events of the jewish–roman war, writing that "they have a mind to demonstrate the greatness of the romans, while they still diminish and lessen the actions of the jews."[ ] josephus states that his intention is to correct this method but that he "will not go to the other extreme … [and] will prosecute the actions of both parties with accuracy."[ ] josephus suggests his method will not be wholly objective by saying he will be unable to contain his lamentations in transcribing these events; to illustrate this will have little effect on his historiography, josephus suggests, "but if any one be inflexible in his censures of me, let him attribute the facts themselves to the historical part, and the lamentations to the writer himself only."[ ] his preface to antiquities offers his opinion early on, saying, "upon the whole, a man that will peruse this history, may principally learn from it, that all events succeed well, even to an incredible degree, and the reward of felicity is proposed by god."[ ] after inserting this attitude, josephus contradicts himself: "i shall accurately describe what is contained in our records, in the order of time that belongs to them … without adding any thing to what is therein contained, or taking away any thing therefrom."[ ] he notes the difference between history and philosophy by saying, "[t]hose that read my book may wonder how it comes to pass, that my discourse, which promises an account of laws and historical facts, contains so much of philosophy."[ ] in both works, josephus emphasizes that accuracy is crucial to historiography. louis h. feldman notes that in wars, josephus commits himself to critical historiography, but in antiquities, josephus shifts to rhetorical historiography, which was the norm of his time.[ ] feldman notes further that it is significant that josephus called his later work "antiquities" (literally, archaeology) rather than history; in the hellenistic period, archaeology meant either "history from the origins or archaic history."[ ] thus, his title implies a jewish peoples' history from their origins until the time he wrote. this distinction is significant to feldman, because "in ancient times, historians were expected to write in chronological order," while "antiquarians wrote in a systematic order, proceeding topically and logically" and included all relevant material for their subject.[ ] antiquarians moved beyond political history to include institutions and religious and private life.[ ] josephus does offer this wider perspective in antiquities. to compare his historiography with another ancient historian, consider dionysius of halicarnassus. feldman lists these similarities: "dionysius in praising rome and josephus in praising jews adopt same pattern; both often moralize and psychologize and stress piety and role of divine providence; and the parallels between … dionysius's account of deaths of aeneas and romulus and josephus's description of the death of moses are striking."[ ] works[edit] the works of josephus are major sources of our understanding of jewish life and history during the first century.[ ] the works of josephus translated by thomas lodge ( ). 	(c.  ) war of the jews, the jewish war, jewish wars, or history of the jewish war (commonly abbreviated jw, bj or war) 	(c.  ) antiquities of the jews, jewish antiquities, or antiquities of the jews/jewish archeology (frequently abbreviated aj, aotj or ant. or antiq.) 	(c.  ) flavius josephus against apion, against apion, contra apionem, or against the greeks, on the antiquity of the jewish people (usually abbreviated ca) 	(c.  ) the life of flavius josephus, or autobiography of flavius josephus (abbreviated life or vita) the jewish war[edit] main article: the jewish war his first work in rome was an account of the jewish war, addressed to certain "upper barbarians"—usually thought to be the jewish community in mesopotamia—in his "paternal tongue" (war i. ), arguably the western aramaic language. in ce he finished a seven-volume account in greek known as the jewish war (latin bellum judaicum or de bello judaico). it starts with the period of the maccabees and concludes with accounts of the fall of jerusalem, and the subsequent fall of the fortresses of herodion, macharont and masada and the roman victory celebrations in rome, the mopping-up operations, roman military operations elsewhere in the empire and the uprising in cyrene. together with the account in his life of some of the same events, it also provides the reader with an overview of josephus's own part in the events since his return to jerusalem from a brief visit to rome in the early s (life – ). in the wake of the suppression of the jewish revolt, josephus would have witnessed the marches of titus's triumphant legions leading their jewish captives, and carrying treasures from the despoiled temple in jerusalem. it was against this background that josephus wrote his war, claiming to be countering anti-judean accounts. he disputes the claim[citation needed] that the jews served a defeated god and were naturally hostile to roman civilization. rather, he blames the jewish war on what he calls "unrepresentative and over-zealous fanatics" among the jews, who led the masses away from their traditional aristocratic leaders (like himself), with disastrous results. josephus also blames some of the roman governors of judea, representing them as corrupt and incompetent administrators. according to josephus, the traditional jew was, should be, and can be a loyal and peace-loving citizen. jews can, and historically have, accepted rome's hegemony precisely because their faith declares that god himself gives empires their power.[ ] jewish antiquities[edit] main article: antiquities of the jews the next work by josephus is his twenty-one volume antiquities of the jews, completed during the last year of the reign of the emperor flavius domitian, around or ce. in expounding jewish history, law and custom, he is entering into many philosophical debates current in rome at that time. again he offers an apologia for the antiquity and universal significance of the jewish people. josephus claims to be writing this history because he "saw that others perverted the truth of those actions in their writings,"[ ] those writings being the history of the jews. in terms of some of his sources for the project, josephus says that he drew from and "interpreted out of the hebrew scriptures"[ ] and that he was an eyewitness to the wars between the jews and the romans,[ ] which were earlier recounted in jewish wars. he outlines jewish history beginning with the creation, as passed down through jewish historical tradition. abraham taught science to the egyptians, who, in turn, taught the greeks.[ ] moses set up a senatorial priestly aristocracy, which, like that of rome, resisted monarchy. the great figures of the tanakh are presented as ideal philosopher-leaders. he includes an autobiographical appendix defending his conduct at the end of the war when he cooperated with the roman forces. louis h. feldman outlines the difference between calling this work antiquities of the jews instead of history of the jews. although josephus says that he describes the events contained in antiquities "in the order of time that belongs to them,"[ ] feldman argues that josephus "aimed to organize [his] material systematically rather than chronologically" and had a scope that "ranged far beyond mere political history to political institutions, religious and private life."[ ] against apion[edit] main article: against apion josephus's against apion is a two-volume defence of judaism as classical religion and philosophy, stressing its antiquity, as opposed to what josephus claimed was the relatively more recent tradition of the greeks. some anti-judaic allegations ascribed by josephus to the greek writer apion and myths accredited to manetho are also addressed. spurious works[edit] 	(date unknown) josephus's discourse to the greeks concerning hades (spurious; adaptation of "against plato, on the cause of the universe" by hippolytus of rome) see also[edit] 	josephus on jesus 	josephus problem – a mathematical problem named after josephus 	josippon 	pseudo-philo notes and references[edit] explanatory notes[edit] 	^ a large village in galilee during the st century ce, located to the north of nazareth. in antiquity, the town was called "garaba", but in josephus' historical works of antiquity, the town is mentioned by its greek corruption, "gabara".[ ][ ][ ] 	^ this method as a mathematical problem is referred to as the josephus problem, or roman roulette.[ ] citations[edit] 	^ antiquities of the jews, xviii. , § , whiston's translation (online) 	^ "josephus". collins english dictionary. harpercollins publishers. 	^ mason . 	^ douer, alisa ( ). egypt – the lost homeland: exodus from egypt, – – the history of the jews in egypt, bce to ce (arabische welt – arab world). logos verlag. p.  , footnote . isbn  - . 	^ josephus refers to himself in his greek works as Ἰώσηπος Ματθίου παῖς, iōsēpos matthiou pais (josephus the son of matthias). josephus spoke aramaic, hebrew and greek. 	^ Φλαβίου Ἰωσήπου τὰ εὑρισκόμενα – flavii josephi opera. graece et latine. recognovit guilelmus dindorfius [= wilhelm dindorf]. volumen secundum. paris, 	^ simon claude mimouni, le judaïsme ancien du vie siècle avant notre ère au iiie siècle de notre ère : des prêtres aux rabbins, paris, p.u.f., coll. « nouvelle clio », , p.  . 	^ telushkin, joseph. 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( ). the historical jesus for dummies. wiley publishing, inc. isbn  - - - - . 	nodet, etienne ( ). a search for the origins of judaism: from joshua to the mishnah. continuum international publishing group. 	raymond, joseph ( ). herodian messiah: case for jesus as grandson of herod. tower grover publishing. isbn  - . 	schürer, emil ( ) [ ]. vermes, géza; millar, fergus; black, matthew (eds.). the history of the jewish people in the age of jesus christ ( b.c. – a.d. ). continuum international publishing group. further reading[edit] 	library resources about josephus 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	the works of josephus, complete and unabridged new updated edition. translated by whiston, william; peabody, a. m. (hardcover ed.). m. a. hendrickson publishers, inc. . isbn  - - - . (josephus, flavius ( ). the works of josephus, complete and unabridged new updated edition (paperback ed.). isbn  - - - . ) 	hillar, marian ( ). "flavius josephus and his testimony concerning the historical jesus". essays in the philosophy of humanism. washington, dc: american humanist association. : – . 	o'rourke, p. j. ( ). "the year old middle east policy expert". give war a chance. vintage. 	pastor, jack; stern, pnina; mor, menahem, eds. ( ). flavius josephus: interpretation and history. leiden: brill. isbn  - - - - . issn  - . 	bilde, per. flavius josephus between jerusalem and rome: his life, his works and their importance. sheffield: jsot, . 	shaye j. d. cohen. josephus in galilee and rome: his vita and development as a historian. (columbia studies in the classical tradition; ). leiden: brill, . 	louis feldman. "flavius josephus revisited: the man, his writings, and his significance". in: aufstieg und niedergang der römischen welt . ( ). 	mason, steve: flavius josephus on the pharisees: a composition-critical study. leiden: brill, . 	rajak, tessa: josephus: the historian and his society. nd ed. london: . (oxford d.phil. thesis, vols. .) 	the josephus trilogy, a novel by lion feuchtwanger 	der jüdische krieg (josephus), 	die söhne (the jews of rome), 	der tag wird kommen (the day will come, josephus and the emperor), 	 flavius josephus eyewitness to rome's first-century conquest of judea, mireille hadas-lebel, macmillan , simon and schuster 	josephus and the new testament: second edition, by steve mason, hendrickson publishers, . 	making history: josephus and historical method, edited by zuleika rodgers (boston: brill, ). 	josephus, the emperors, and the city of rome: from hostage to historian, by william den hollander (boston: brill, ). 	josephus, the bible, and history, edited by louis h. feldman and gohei hata (detroit: wayne state university press, ). 	josephus: the man and the historian, by h. st. john thackeray (new york: ktav publishing house, ). 	a jew among romans: the life and legacy of flavius josephus, by frederic raphael (new york: pantheon books, ). 	a companion to 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(february ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) hieron i (greek: Ἱέρων Α΄; usually latinized hiero) was the son of deinomenes, the brother of gelon and tyrant of syracuse in sicily from to bc. in succeeding gelon, he conspired against a third brother, polyzelos. life[edit] helmet commemorating the battle of cumae now in the british museum's collection during his reign, he greatly increased the power of syracuse. he removed the inhabitants of naxos and catania to leontini, peopled catania (which he renamed aetna) with dorians, concluded an alliance with acragas (agrigentum) and espoused the cause of the locrians against anaxilas, tyrant of rhegium. his most important military achievement was the defeat of the etruscans and carthaginians at the battle of cumae ( bc), by which he saved the greeks of campania from etruscan domination. a bronze helmet (now in the british museum[ ]), with an inscription commemorating the event, was dedicated at olympia. hieron's reign was marked by the creation of the believed first secret police in greek history, and he was a liberal patron of literature and culture. the poets simonides, pindar, bacchylides, aeschylus, and epicharmus were active at his court, as well the philosopher xenophanes. he was an active participant in panhellenic athletic contests, winning several victories in the single horse race and also in the chariot race. he won the chariot race at delphi in (a victory celebrated in pindar's first pythian ode) and at olympia in (this, his greatest victory, was commemorated in bacchylides' third victory ode). other odes dedicated to him include pindar's first olympian ode, his second and third pythian odes, and bacchylides' fourth and fifth victory odes. he died at catania/aetna in and was buried there, but his grave was later destroyed when the former inhabitants of catania returned to the city. the tyranny at syracuse lasted only a year or so after his death. references[edit] 	^ british museum collection 	chisholm, hugh, ed. 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(proclaimed in early ) 	predecessor	constantius ii 	successor	jovian 	caesar	 november  – early 	 	born	 constantinople 	died	 june (aged or ) frygium, mesopotamia 	burial	tarsus, then church of the holy apostles 	spouse	helena 		full name 	flavius claudius julianus 	regnal name 	imperator caesar dominus noster flavius claudius iulianus pius felix augustus[ ] 	dynasty	constantinian 	father	julius constantius 	mother	basilina 	religion		greco-roman polytheism 	previously christianity julian[i] (latin: flavius claudius julianus; greek: Ἰουλιανὸς, ioulianòs; – june ) was roman emperor from to , as well as a notable philosopher and author in greek.[ ] his rejection of christianity, and his promotion of neoplatonic hellenism in its place, caused him to be remembered as julian the apostate by the christian church.[ ][ ] a member of the constantinian dynasty, julian was orphaned as a child. he was raised by the gothic slave mardonius, who had a profound influence on him, providing julian with an excellent education.[ ] julian became caesar over the western provinces by order of constantius ii in , and in this role he campaigned successfully against the alamanni and franks. most notable was his crushing victory over the alamanni at the battle of argentoratum (strasbourg) in , leading his , men against a germanic army three times larger. in , julian was proclaimed augustus by his soldiers at lutetia (paris), sparking a civil war with constantius. however, constantius died before the two could face each other in battle, and named julian as his successor. in , julian embarked on an ambitious campaign against the sasanian empire. the campaign was initially successful, securing a victory outside ctesiphon in mesopotamia.[ ] however, he did not attempt to besiege the capital and moved into persia's heartland, but soon faced supply problems and was forced to retreat northwards while ceaselessly being harassed by persian skirmishes. during the battle of samarra, julian was mortally wounded under mysterious circumstances.[ ][ ] he was succeeded by jovian, a senior officer in the imperial guard, who was obliged to cede territory, including nisibis, in order to save the trapped roman forces.[ ] julian was a man of unusually complex character: he was "the military commander, the theosophist, the social reformer, and the man of letters".[ ] he was the last non-christian ruler of the roman empire, and he believed that it was necessary to restore the empire's ancient roman values and traditions in order to save it from dissolution.[ ] he purged the top-heavy state bureaucracy, and attempted to revive traditional roman religious practices at the expense of christianity. his attempt to build a third temple in jerusalem was probably intended to harm christianity rather than please jews.[ ] julian also forbade the christians from teaching and learning classical texts.[ ] contents 	 life 	 . early life 	 . caesar in gaul 	 . . campaigns against germanic kingdoms 	 . . taxation and administration 	 . rebellion in paris 	 . empire and administration 	 . clash with the antiochenes 	 . persian campaign 	 . . into enemy territory 	 . . ctesiphon 	 . . death 	 . tomb 	 religious issues 	 . beliefs 	 . restoration of state paganism 	 . . paganism's shift under julian 	 . . juventinus and maximus 	 . . charity 	 . attempt to rebuild the jewish temple 	 ancestry 	 works 	 . problems regarding authenticity 	 in popular culture 	 . literature 	 . film 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 . citations 	 . ancient sources 	 . modern sources 	 further reading 	 external links life[edit] early life[edit] flavius claudius julianus was born at constantinople in ,[ ] the son of julius constantius,[ ] consul in and half-brother of the emperor constantine, by his second wife, basilina, a woman of greek origin.[ ][ ] both of his parents were christians. julian's paternal grandparents were the emperor constantius chlorus and his second wife, flavia maximiana theodora. his maternal grandfather was julius julianus, praetorian prefect of the east under the emperor licinius from to , and consul suffectus in .[ ] the name of julian's maternal grandmother is unknown. julian solidus, c. . the obverse shows a bearded julian inscribed fl·cl·iulianus p·p· aug·, calling julian "father of the nation" (latin: pater patriae). the reverse depicts an armed roman soldier bearing a military standard in one hand and subduing a captive with the other, a reference to the military strength of the roman empire, inscribed: virtus exercitus romanorum, lit. 'the virtue of the roman army' the mint mark sirm. indicates the coin was minted in sirmium, the home of constantine's family. in the turmoil after the death of constantine in , in order to establish himself and his brothers, julian's zealous arian cousin constantius ii appears to have led a massacre of most of julian's close relatives. constantius ii allegedly ordered the murders of many descendants from the second marriage of constantius chlorus and theodora, leaving only constantius and his brothers constantine ii and constans i, and their cousins, julian and constantius gallus (julian's half-brother), as the surviving males related to emperor constantine. constantius ii, constans i, and constantine ii were proclaimed joint emperors, each ruling a portion of roman territory. julian and gallus were excluded from public life, were strictly guarded in their youth, and given a christian education. they were likely saved by their youth and at the urging of the empress eusebia. if julian's later writings are to be believed, constantius would later be tormented with guilt at the massacre of . initially growing up in bithynia, raised by his maternal grandmother, at the age of seven julian was under the guardianship of eusebius, the semi-arian christian bishop of nicomedia, and taught by mardonius, a gothic eunuch, about whom he later wrote warmly. after eusebius died in , both julian and gallus were exiled to the imperial estate of macellum in cappadocia. here julian met the christian bishop george of cappadocia, who lent him books from the classical tradition. at the age of , the exile was lifted and he dwelt briefly in constantinople and nicomedia.[ ] he became a lector, a minor office in the christian church, and his later writings show a detailed knowledge of the bible, likely acquired in his early life.[ ] julian's conversion from christianity to paganism happened at around the age of . looking back on his life in , julian wrote that he had spent twenty years in the way of christianity and twelve in the true way, i.e., the way of helios.[ ] julian began his study of neoplatonism in asia minor in , at first under aedesius, the philosopher, and then aedesius' student eusebius of myndus. it was from eusebius that julian learned of the teachings of maximus of ephesus, whom eusebius criticized for his more mystical form of neoplatonic theurgy. eusebius related his meeting with maximus, in which the theurgist invited him into the temple of hecate and, chanting a hymn, caused a statue of the goddess to smile and laugh, and her torches to ignite. eusebius reportedly told julian that he "must not marvel at any of these things, even as i marvel not, but rather believe that the thing of the highest importance is that purification of the soul which is attained by reason." in spite of eusebius' warnings regarding the "impostures of witchcraft and magic that cheat the senses" and "the works of conjurers who are insane men led astray into the exercise of earthly and material powers", julian was intrigued, and sought out maximus as his new mentor. according to the historian eunapius, when julian left eusebius, he told his former teacher "farewell, and devote yourself to your books. you have shown me the man i was in search of."[ ] constantine ii died in when he attacked his brother constans. constans in turn fell in in the war against the usurper magnentius. this left constantius ii as the sole remaining emperor. in need of support, in he made julian's half-brother, gallus, caesar of the east, while constantius ii himself turned his attention westward to magnentius, whom he defeated decisively that year. in gallus, who had imposed a rule of terror over the territories under his command, was executed. julian was summoned to constantius' court in mediolanum (milan) in , and held for a year, under suspicion of treasonable intrigue, first with his brother and then with claudius silvanus; he was cleared, in part because empress eusebia intervened on his behalf, and he was permitted to study in athens (julian expresses his gratitude to the empress in his third oration).[ ] while there, julian became acquainted with two men who later became both bishops and saints: gregory of nazianzus and basil the great. in the same period, julian was also initiated into the eleusinian mysteries, which he would later try to restore. caesar in gaul[edit] after dealing with the rebellions of magnentius and silvanus, constantius felt he needed a permanent representative in gaul. in , julian was summoned to appear before the emperor in mediolanum and on november was made caesar of the west, marrying constantius' sister, helena. constantius, after his experience with gallus, intended his representative to be more a figurehead than an active participant in events, so he packed julian off to gaul with a small retinue, assuming his prefects in gaul would keep julian in check. at first reluctant to trade his scholarly life for war and politics, julian eventually took every opportunity to involve himself in the affairs of gaul.[ ] in the following years he learned how to lead and then run an army, through a series of campaigns against the germanic tribes that had settled on both sides of the rhine. campaigns against germanic kingdoms[edit] during his first campaign in , julian led an army to the rhine, where he engaged the inhabitants and recovered several towns that had fallen into frankish hands, including colonia agrippina (cologne). with success under his belt he withdrew for the winter to gaul, distributing his forces to protect various towns, and choosing the small town of senon near verdun to await the spring.[ ] this turned out to be a tactical error, for he was left with insufficient forces to defend himself when a large contingent of franks besieged the town and julian was virtually held captive there for several months, until his general marcellus deigned to lift the siege. relations between julian and marcellus seem to have been poor. constantius accepted julian's report of events and marcellus was replaced as magister equitum by severus.[ ][ ] the following year saw a combined operation planned by constantius to regain control of the rhine from the germanic peoples who had spilt across the river onto the west bank. from the south his magister peditum barbatio was to come from milan and amass forces at augst (near the rhine bend), then set off north with , soldiers; julian with , troops would move east from durocortorum (rheims). however, while julian was in transit, a group of laeti attacked lugdunum (lyon) and julian was delayed in order to deal with them. this left barbatio unsupported and deep in alamanni territory, so he felt obliged to withdraw, retracing his steps. thus ended the coördinated operation against the germanic peoples.[ ][ ] with barbatio safely out of the picture, king chnodomarius led a confederation of alamanni forces against julian and severus at the battle of argentoratum. the romans were heavily outnumbered[ii] and during the heat of battle a group of horsemen on the right wing deserted,[ ] yet, taking full advantage of the limitations of the terrain, the romans were overwhelmingly victorious. the enemy was routed and driven into the river. king chnodomarius was captured and later sent to constantius in milan.[ ][ ] ammianus, who was a participant in the battle, portrays julian in charge of events on the battlefield[ ] and describes how the soldiers, because of this success, acclaimed julian attempting to make him augustus, an acclamation he rejected, rebuking them. he later rewarded them for their valor.[ ] rather than chase the routed enemy across the rhine, julian now proceeded to follow the rhine north, the route he followed the previous year on his way back to gaul. at moguntiacum (mainz), however, he crossed the rhine in an expedition that penetrated deep into what is today germany, and forced three local kingdoms to submit. this action showed the alamanni that rome was once again present and active in the area. on his way back to winter quarters in paris he dealt with a band of franks who had taken control of some abandoned forts along the meuse river.[ ][ ] in , julian gained victories over the salian franks on the lower rhine, settling them in toxandria in the roman empire, north of today's city of tongeren, and over the chamavi, who were expelled back to hamaland. taxation and administration[edit] at the end of julian, with the prestige of his victory over the alamanni to give him confidence, prevented a tax increase by the gallic praetorian prefect florentius and personally took charge of the province of belgica secunda. this was julian's first experience with civil administration, where his views were influenced by his liberal education in greece. properly it was a role that belonged to the praetorian prefect. however, florentius and julian often clashed over the administration of gaul. julian's first priority, as caesar and nominal ranking commander in gaul, was to drive out the barbarians who had breached the rhine frontier. however, he sought to win over the support of the civil population, which was necessary for his operations in gaul and also to show his largely germanic army the benefits of imperial rule. he therefore felt it was necessary to rebuild stable and peaceful conditions in the devastated cities and countryside. for this reason, julian clashed with florentius over the latter's support of tax increases, as mentioned above, and florentius's own corruption in the bureaucracy. constantius attempted to maintain some modicum of control over his caesar, which explains his removal of julian's close adviser saturninius secundus salutius from gaul. his departure stimulated the writing of julian's oration, "consolation upon the departure of salutius".[ ] rebellion in paris[edit] th century depiction of julian being proclaimed emperor in paris (fancifully located in the thermes de cluny, then thought to have been the imperial palace), standing on a shield in the frankish manner, in february . in the fourth year of julian's stay in gaul, the sassanid emperor, shapur ii, invaded mesopotamia and took the city of amida after a -day siege. in february , constantius ii ordered more than half of julian's gallic troops to join his eastern army, the order by-passing julian and going directly to the military commanders. although julian at first attempted to expedite the order, it provoked an insurrection by troops of the petulantes, who had no desire to leave gaul. according to the historian zosimus, the army officers were those responsible for distributing an anonymous tract[ ] expressing complaints against constantius as well as fearing for julian's ultimate fate. notably absent at the time was the prefect florentius, who was seldom far from julian's side, though now he was kept busy organizing supplies in vienne and away from any strife that the order could cause. julian would later blame him for the arrival of the order from constantius.[ ] ammianus marcellinus even suggested that the fear of julian gaining more popularity than himself caused constantius to send the order on the urging of florentius.[ ] the troops proclaimed julian augustus in paris, and this in turn led to a very swift military effort to secure or win the allegiance of others. although the full details are unclear, there is evidence to suggest that julian may have at least partially stimulated the insurrection. if so, he went back to business as usual in gaul, for, from june to august of that year, julian led a successful campaign against the attuarian franks.[ ][ ] in november, julian began openly using the title augustus, even issuing coins with the title, sometimes with constantius, sometimes without. he celebrated his fifth year in gaul with a big show of games.[ ] solidus of julian issued at ravenna in , during his war with constantius. the reverse reads virtus exerc(itus) gall(icarum), 'virtue of the gallic army', celebrating julian's legions from gaul which acclaimed him as emperor. in the spring of , julian led his army into the territory of the alamanni, where he captured their king, vadomarius. julian claimed that vadomarius had been in league with constantius, encouraging him to raid the borders of raetia.[ ] julian then divided his forces, sending one column to raetia, one to northern italy and the third he led down the danube on boats. his forces claimed control of illyricum and his general, nevitta, secured the pass of succi into thrace. he was now well out of his comfort zone and on the road to civil war.[ ] (julian would state in late november that he set off down this road "because, having been declared a public enemy, i meant to frighten him [constantius] merely, and that our quarrel should result in intercourse on more friendly terms..."[ ]) however, in june, forces loyal to constantius captured the city of aquileia on the north adriatic coast, an event that threatened to cut julian off from the rest of his forces, while constantius's troops marched towards him from the east. aquileia was subsequently besieged by , men loyal to julian.[ ] all julian could do was sit it out in naissus, the city of constantine's birth, waiting for news and writing letters to various cities in greece justifying his actions (of which only the letter to the athenians has survived in its entirety).[ ] civil war was avoided only by the death on november of constantius, who, in his last will, is alleged by some sources to have recognized julian as his rightful successor. empire and administration[edit] the church of the holy apostles, where julian brought constantius ii to be buried. on december , , julian entered constantinople as sole emperor and, despite his rejection of christianity, his first political act was to preside over constantius' christian burial, escorting the body to the church of the apostles, where it was placed alongside that of constantine.[ ] this act was a demonstration of his lawful right to the throne.[ ] he is also now thought to have been responsible for the building of santa costanza on a christian site just outside rome as a mausoleum for his wife helena and sister-in-law constantina.[ ] the new emperor rejected the style of administration of his immediate predecessors. he blamed constantine for the state of the administration and for having abandoned the traditions of the past. he made no attempt to restore the tetrarchal system begun under diocletian. nor did he seek to rule as an absolute autocrat. his own philosophic notions led him to idealize the reigns of hadrian and marcus aurelius. in his first panegyric to constantius, julian described the ideal ruler as being essentially primus inter pares ("first among equals"), operating under the same laws as his subjects. while in constantinople, therefore, it was not strange to see julian frequently active in the senate, participating in debates and making speeches, placing himself at the level of the other members of the senate.[ ] he viewed the royal court of his predecessors as inefficient, corrupt and expensive. thousands of servants, eunuchs and superfluous officials were therefore summarily dismissed. he set up the chalcedon tribunal to deal with the corruption of the previous administration under the supervision of magister militum arbitio. several high-ranking officials under constantius, including the chamberlain eusebius, were found guilty and executed. (julian was conspicuously absent from the proceedings, perhaps signaling his displeasure at their necessity.)[ ] he continually sought to reduce what he saw as a burdensome and corrupt bureaucracy within the imperial administration whether it involved civic officials, secret agents or the imperial postal service. another effect of julian's political philosophy was that the authority of the cities was expanded at the expense of the imperial bureaucracy as julian sought to reduce direct imperial involvement in urban affairs. for example, city land owned by the imperial government was returned to the cities, city council members were compelled to resume civic authority, often against their will, and the tribute in gold by the cities called the aurum coronarium was made voluntary rather than a compulsory tax. additionally, arrears of land taxes were cancelled.[ ] this was a key reform reducing the power of corrupt imperial officials, as the unpaid taxes on land were often hard to calculate or higher than the value of the land itself. forgiving back taxes both made julian more popular and allowed him to increase collections of current taxes. while he ceded much of the authority of the imperial government to the cities, julian also took more direct control himself. for example, new taxes and corvées had to be approved by him directly rather than left to the judgment of the bureaucratic apparatus. julian certainly had a clear idea of what he wanted roman society to be, both in political as well as religious terms. the terrible and violent dislocation of the rd century meant that the eastern mediterranean had become the economic locus of the empire. if the cities were treated as relatively autonomous local administrative areas, it would simplify the problems of imperial administration, which as far as julian was concerned, should be focused on the administration of the law and defense of the empire's vast frontiers. in replacing constantius's political and civil appointees, julian drew heavily from the intellectual and professional classes, or kept reliable holdovers, such as the rhetorician themistius. his choice of consuls for the year was more controversial. one was the very acceptable claudius mamertinus, previously the praetorian prefect of illyricum. the other, more surprising choice was nevitta, julian's trusted frankish general. this latter appointment made overt the fact that an emperor's authority depended on the power of the army. julian's choice of nevitta appears to have been aimed at maintaining the support of the western army which had acclaimed him. clash with the antiochenes[edit] julian as portrayed by giovanni battista cavalieri ( ). from romanorum imperatorum effigies, preserved in the municipal library of trento (italy) after five months of dealings at the capital, julian left constantinople in may and moved to antioch, arriving in mid-july and staying there for nine months before launching his fateful campaign against persia in march . antioch was a city favored by splendid temples along with a famous oracle of apollo in nearby daphne, which may have been one reason for his choosing to reside there. it had also been used in the past as a staging place for amassing troops, a purpose which julian intended to follow.[ ] his arrival on july was well received by the antiochenes, though it coincided with the celebration of the adonia, a festival which marked the death of adonis, so there was wailing and moaning in the streets—not a good omen for an arrival.[ ][ ] julian soon discovered that wealthy merchants were causing food problems, apparently by hoarding food and selling it at high prices. he hoped that the curia would deal with the issue for the situation was headed for a famine. when the curia did nothing, he spoke to the city's leading citizens, trying to persuade them to take action. thinking that they would do the job, he turned his attention to religious matters.[ ] he tried to resurrect the ancient oracular spring of castalia at the temple of apollo at daphne. after being advised that the bones of rd-century bishop babylas were suppressing the god, he made a public-relations mistake in ordering the removal of the bones from the vicinity of the temple. the result was a massive christian procession. shortly after that, when the temple was destroyed by fire, julian suspected the christians and ordered stricter investigations than usual. he also shut up the chief christian church of the city, before the investigations proved that the fire was the result of an accident.[ ][ ] when the curia still took no substantial action in regards to the food shortage, julian intervened, fixing the prices for grain and importing more from egypt. then landholders refused to sell theirs, claiming that the harvest was so bad that they had to be compensated with fair prices. julian accused them of price gouging and forced them to sell. various parts of libanius' orations may suggest that both sides were justified to some extent[ ][ ] while ammianus blames julian for "a mere thirst for popularity".[ ] julian's ascetic lifestyle was not popular either, since his subjects were accustomed to the idea of an all-powerful emperor who placed himself well above them. nor did he improve his dignity with his own participation in the ceremonial of bloody sacrifices.[ ] david s. potter, an assistant secretary of the us navy, said after nearly two millennia: they expected a man who was both removed from them by the awesome spectacle of imperial power, and would validate their interests and desires by sharing them from his olympian height (...) he was supposed to be interested in what interested his people, and he was supposed to be dignified. he was not supposed to leap up and show his appreciation for a panegyric that it was delivered, as julian had done on january , when libanius was speaking, and ignore the chariot races.[ ] he then tried to address public criticism and mocking of him by issuing a satire ostensibly on himself, called misopogon or "beard hater". there he blames the people of antioch for preferring that their ruler have his virtues in the face rather than in the soul. even julian's intellectual friends and fellow pagans were of a divided mind about this habit of talking to his subjects on an equal footing: ammianus marcellinus saw in that only the foolish vanity of someone "excessively anxious for empty distinction", whose "desire for popularity often led him to converse with unworthy persons".[ ] on leaving antioch he appointed alexander of heliopolis as governor, a violent and cruel man whom the antiochene libanius, a friend of the emperor, admits on first thought was a "dishonourable" appointment. julian himself described the man as "undeserving" of the position, but appropriate "for the avaricious and rebellious people of antioch".[ ] persian campaign[edit] 		v 	t 	e julian's persian war 	 	pirisabora 	maiozamalcha 	ctesiphon 	maranga 	samarra julian's rise to augustus was the result of military insurrection eased by constantius's sudden death. this meant that, while he could count on the wholehearted support of the western army which had aided his rise, the eastern army was an unknown quantity originally loyal to the emperor he had risen against, and he had tried to woo it through the chalcedon tribunal. however, to solidify his position in the eyes of the eastern army, he needed to lead its soldiers to victory and a campaign against the sassanid persians offered such an opportunity. an audacious plan was formulated whose goal was to lay siege on the sassanid capital city of ctesiphon and definitively secure the eastern border. yet the full motivation for this ambitious operation is, at best, unclear. there was no direct necessity for an invasion, as the sassanids sent envoys in the hope of settling matters peacefully. julian rejected this offer.[ ] ammianus states that julian longed for revenge on the persians and that a certain desire for combat and glory also played a role in his decision to go to war.[ ] illustration from the fall of princes by john lydgate (which is a translation of de casibus virorum illustribus by giovanni boccaccio) depicting "the skyn of julyan". there is no evidence that julian's corpse was skinned and displayed, and it is likely that the illustrator simply confused the fate of julian's body with that of emperor valerian. into enemy territory[edit] on march , despite a series of omens against the campaign, julian departed from antioch with about , – , ,[ ][ ] or , – , men[ ] (the traditional number accepted by gibbon[ ] is , effectives total), and headed north toward the euphrates. en route he was met by embassies from various small powers offering assistance, none of which he accepted. he did order the armenian king arsaces to muster an army and await instructions.[ ] he crossed the euphrates near hierapolis and moved eastward to carrhae, giving the impression that his chosen route into persian territory was down the tigris.[ ] for this reason it seems he sent a force of , soldiers under procopius and sebastianus further eastward to devastate media in conjunction with armenian forces.[ ] this was where two earlier roman campaigns had concentrated and where the main persian forces were soon directed.[ ] julian's strategy lay elsewhere, however. he had had a fleet built of over , ships at samosata in order to supply his army for a march down the euphrates and of pontoon ships to facilitate river crossings. procopius and the armenians would march down the tigris to meet julian near ctesiphon.[ ] julian's ultimate aim seems to have been "regime change" by replacing king shapur ii with his brother hormisdas.[ ][ ] after feigning a march further eastward, julian's army turned south to circesium at the confluence of the abora (khabur) and the euphrates arriving at the beginning of april.[ ] passing dura on april , the army made good progress, bypassing towns after negotiations or besieging those which chose to oppose him. at the end of april the romans captured the fortress of pirisabora, which guarded the canal approach from the euphrates to ctesiphon on the tigris.[ ] as the army marched toward the persian capital, the sassanids broke the dikes which crossed the land, turning it into marshland, slowing the progress of the roman army.[ ] ctesiphon[edit] julian near ctesiphon; medieval miniature by mid-may, the army had reached the vicinity of the heavily fortified persian capital, ctesiphon, where julian partially unloaded some of the fleet and had his troops ferried across the tigris by night.[ ] the romans gained a tactical victory over the persians before the gates of the city, driving them back into the city.[ ] however, the persian capital was not taken, the main persian army was still at large and approaching, while the romans lacked a clear strategic objective.[ ] in the council of war which followed, julian's generals persuaded him not to mount a siege against the city, given the impregnability of its defenses and the fact that shapur would soon arrive with a large force.[ ] julian, not wanting to give up what he had gained and probably still hoping for the arrival of the column under procopius and sebastianus, set off east into the persian interior, ordering the destruction of the fleet.[ ] this proved to be a hasty decision, for they were on the wrong side of the tigris with no clear means of retreat and the persians had begun to harass them from a distance, burning any food in the romans' path. julian had not brought adequate siege equipment, so there was nothing he could do when he found that the persians had flooded the area behind him, forcing him to withdraw.[ ] a second council of war on june decided that the best course of action was to lead the army back to the safety of roman borders, not through mesopotamia, but northward to corduene.[ ][ ] death[edit] sassanian relief of the investiture of ardashir ii showing mithra, shapur ii and ahura mazda above a defeated julian, lying prostrate detail of the fallen julian during the withdrawal, julian's forces suffered several attacks from sassanid forces.[ ] in one such engagement on june , the indecisive battle of samarra near maranga, julian was wounded when the sassanid army raided his column. in the haste of pursuing the retreating enemy, julian chose speed rather than caution, taking only his sword and leaving his coat of mail.[ ] he received a wound from a spear that reportedly pierced the lower lobe of his liver, the peritoneum and intestines. the wound was not immediately deadly. julian was treated by his personal physician, oribasius of pergamum, who seems to have made every attempt to treat the wound. this probably included the irrigation of the wound with a dark wine, and a procedure known as gastrorrhaphy, the suturing of the damaged intestine. on the third day a major hemorrhage occurred and the emperor died during the night.[ ][iii] as julian wished, his body was buried outside tarsus, though it was later removed to constantinople.[ ] in , libanius stated that julian was assassinated by a christian who was one of his own soldiers;[ ] this charge is not corroborated by ammianus marcellinus or other contemporary historians. john malalas reports that the supposed assassination was commanded by basil of caesarea.[ ] fourteen years later, libanius said that julian was killed by a saracen (lakhmid) and this may have been confirmed by julian's doctor oribasius who, having examined the wound, said that it was from a spear used by a group of lakhmid auxiliaries in persian service.[ ] later christian historians propagated the tradition that julian was killed by saint mercurius.[ ] julian was succeeded by the short-lived emperor jovian who reestablished christianity's privileged position throughout the empire. libanius says in his epitaph of the deceased emperor ( . ) that "i have mentioned representations (of julian); many cities have set him beside the images of the gods and honour him as they do the gods. already a blessing has been besought of him in prayer, and it was not in vain. to such an extent has he literally ascended to the gods and received a share of their power from him themselves." however, no similar action was taken by the roman central government, which would be more and more dominated by christians in the ensuing decades. considered apocryphal is the report that his dying words were νενίκηκάς με, Γαλιλαῖε, or vicisti, galilaee ("you have won, galilean"),[iv] supposedly expressing his recognition that, with his death, christianity would become the empire's state religion. the phrase introduces the poem hymn to proserpine, which was algernon charles swinburne's elaboration of what a philosophic pagan might have felt at the triumph of christianity. it also ends the polish romantic play the undivine comedy written in by zygmunt krasiński. tomb[edit] porphyry sarcophagi outside the istanbul archaeological museum. as he had requested,[ ] julian's body was buried in tarsus. it lay in a tomb outside the city, across a road from that of maximinus daia.[ ] however, chronicler zonaras says that at some "later" date his body was exhumed and reburied in or near the church of the holy apostles in constantinople, where constantine and the rest of his family lay.[ ] his sarcophagus is listed as standing in a "stoa" there by constantine porphyrogenitus.[ ] the church was demolished by the ottoman turks after the fall of constantinople in . today a sarcophagus of porphyry, identified as julian's by jean ebersolt, stands in the grounds of the archaeological museum in istanbul.[ ] th-century cameo of an emperor, probably julian, performing sacrifice (national archaeological museum, florence) religious issues[edit] beliefs[edit] julian's personal religion was both pagan and philosophical; he viewed the traditional myths as allegories, in which the ancient gods were aspects of a philosophical divinity. the chief surviving sources are his works to king helios and to the mother of the gods, which were written as panegyrics, not theological treatises.[ ] as the last pagan ruler of the roman empire, julian's beliefs are of great interest for historians, but they are not in complete agreement. he learned theurgy from maximus of ephesus, a student of iamblichus;[ ] his system bears some resemblance to the neoplatonism of plotinus; polymnia athanassiadi has brought new attention to his relations with mithraism, although whether he was initiated into it remains debatable; and certain aspects of his thought (such as his reorganization of paganism under high priests, and his fundamental monotheism) may show christian influence. some of these potential sources have not come down to us, and all of them influenced each other, which adds to the difficulties.[ ] according to one theory (that of glen bowersock in particular), julian's paganism was highly eccentric and atypical because it was heavily influenced by an esoteric approach to platonic philosophy sometimes identified as theurgy and also neoplatonism. others (rowland smith, in particular) have argued that julian's philosophical perspective was nothing unusual for a "cultured" pagan of his time, and, at any rate, that julian's paganism was not limited to philosophy alone, and that he was deeply devoted to the same gods and goddesses as other pagans of his day. because of his neoplatonist background julian accepted the creation of humanity as described in plato's timaeus. julian writes, "when zeus was setting all things in order there fell from him drops of sacred blood, and from them, as they say, arose the race of men."[ ] further he writes, "they who had the power to create one man and one woman only, were able to create many men and women at once..."[ ] his view contrasts with the christian belief that humanity is derived from the one pair, adam and eve. elsewhere he argues against the single pair origin, indicating his disbelief, noting for example, "how very different in their bodies are the germans and scythians from the libyans and ethiopians."[ ][ ] the christian historian socrates scholasticus was of the opinion that julian believed himself to be alexander the great "in another body" via transmigration of souls, "in accordance with the teachings of pythagoras and plato".[ ] the diet of julian is said to have been predominantly vegetable-based.[ ] restoration of state paganism[edit] see also: henosis and henotheism julian the apostate presiding at a conference of sectarians, by edward armitage, after gaining the purple, julian started a religious reformation of the empire, which was intended to restore the lost strength of the roman state. he supported the restoration of hellenistic polytheism as the state religion. his laws tended to target wealthy and educated christians, and his aim was not to destroy christianity but to drive the religion out of "the governing classes of the empire — much as chinese buddhism was driven back into the lower classes by a revived confucian mandarinate in th century china."[ ] he restored pagan temples which had been confiscated since constantine's time, or simply appropriated by wealthy citizens; he repealed the stipends that constantine had awarded to christian bishops, and removed their other privileges, including a right to be consulted on appointments and to act as private courts. he also reversed some favors that had previously been given to christians. for example, he reversed constantine's declaration that majuma, the port of gaza, was a separate city. majuma had a large christian congregation while gaza was still predominantly pagan. on february , julian promulgated an edict to guarantee freedom of religion. this edict proclaimed that all the religions were equal before the law, and that the roman empire had to return to its original religious eclecticism, according to which the roman state did not impose any religion on its provinces. the edict was seen as an act of favor toward the jews, in order to upset the christians. coptic icon showing saint mercurius killing julian. according to a tradition, saint basil (an old school-mate of julian) had been imprisoned at the start of julian's sassanid campaign. basil prayed to mercurius to help him, and the saint appeared in a vision to basil, claiming to have speared julian to death. since the persecution of christians by past roman emperors had seemingly only strengthened christianity, many of julian's actions were designed to harass christians and undermine their ability to organize resistance to the re-establishment of paganism in the empire.[ ] julian's preference for a non-christian and non-philosophical view of iamblichus' theurgy seems to have convinced him that it was right to outlaw the practice of the christian view of theurgy and demand the suppression of the christian set of mysteries.[ ] in his school edict julian required that all public teachers be approved by the emperor; the state paid or supplemented much of their salaries. ammianus marcellinus explains this as intending to prevent christian teachers from using pagan texts (such as the iliad, which was widely regarded as divinely inspired)[citation needed] that formed the core of classical education: "if they want to learn literature, they have luke and mark: let them go back to their churches and expound on them", the edict says.[ ] this was an attempt to remove some of the influence of the christian schools which at that time and later used ancient greek literature in their teachings in their effort to present the christian religion as being superior to paganism.[citation needed] the edict also dealt a severe financial blow to many christian scholars, tutors and teachers, as it deprived them of students. in his tolerance edict of , julian decreed the reopening of pagan temples, the restitution of confiscated temple properties, and the return from exile of dissident christian bishops. the latter was an instance of tolerance of different religious views, but it may also have been an attempt by julian to foster schisms and divisions between different christian sects, since conflict between rival christian sects was quite fierce.[ ] his care in the institution of a pagan hierarchy in opposition to that of the christians was due to his wish to create a society in which every aspect of the life of the citizens was to be connected, through layers of intermediate levels, to the consolidated figure of the emperor — the final provider for all the needs of his people. within this project, there was no place for a parallel institution, such as the christian hierarchy or christian charity.[ ] paganism's shift under julian[edit] julian's popularity among the people and the army during his brief reign suggest that he might have brought paganism back to the fore of roman public and private life.[ ] in fact, during his lifetime, neither pagan nor christian ideology reigned supreme, and the greatest thinkers of the day argued about the merits and rationality of each religion.[ ] most importantly for the pagan cause, though, rome was still a predominantly pagan empire that had not wholly accepted christianity.[ ] even so, julian's short reign did not stem the tide of christianity. the emperor's ultimate failure can arguably be attributed to the manifold religious traditions and deities that paganism promulgated. most pagans sought religious affiliations that were unique to their culture and people, and they had internal divisions that prevented them from creating any one ‘pagan religion.’ indeed, the term pagan was simply a convenient appellation for christians to lump together the believers of a system they opposed.[ ] in truth, there was no roman religion, as modern observers would recognize it.[ ] instead, paganism came from a system of observances that one historian has characterized as “no more than a spongy mass of tolerance and tradition.”[ ] this system of tradition had already shifted dramatically by the time julian came to power; gone were the days of massive sacrifices honoring the gods. the communal festivals that involved sacrifice and feasting, which once united communities, now tore them apart—christian against pagan.[ ] civic leaders did not even have the funds, much less the support, to hold religious festivals. julian found the financial base that had supported these ventures (sacred temple funds) had been seized by his uncle constantine to support the christian church.[ ] in all, julian's short reign simply could not shift the feeling of inertia that had swept across the empire. christians had denounced sacrifice, stripped temples of their funds, and cut priests and magistrates off from the social prestige and financial benefits accompanying leading pagan positions in the past. leading politicians and civic leaders had little motivation to rock the boat by reviving pagan festivals. instead, they chose to adopt the middle ground by having ceremonies and mass entertainment that were religiously neutral.[ ] after witnessing the reign of two emperors bent on supporting the church and stamping out paganism, it is understandable that pagans simply did not embrace julian's idea of proclaiming their devotion to polytheism and their rejection of christianity. many chose to adopt a practical approach and not support julian's public reforms actively for fear of a christian revival. however, this apathetic attitude forced the emperor to shift central aspects of pagan worship. julian's attempts to reinvigorate the people shifted the focus of paganism from a system of tradition to a religion with some of the same characteristics that he opposed in christianity.[ ] for example, julian attempted to introduce a tighter organization for the priesthood, with greater qualifications of character and service. classical paganism simply did not accept this idea of priests as model citizens. priests were elites with social prestige and financial power who organized festivals and helped pay for them.[ ] yet julian's attempt to impose moral strictness on the civic position of priesthood only made paganism more in tune with christian morality, drawing it further from paganism's system of tradition. indeed, this development of a pagan order created the foundations of a bridge of reconciliation over which paganism and christianity could meet.[ ] likewise, julian's persecution of christians, who by pagan standards were simply part of a different cult, was quite an un-pagan attitude that transformed paganism into a religion that accepted only one form of religious experience while excluding all others—such as christianity.[ ] in trying to compete with christianity in this manner, julian fundamentally changed the nature of pagan worship. that is, he made paganism a religion, whereas it once had been only a system of tradition. juventinus and maximus[edit] despite this inadvertent reconciliation of paganism to christianity, however, many of the church fathers viewed the emperor with hostility, and told stories of his supposed wickedness after his death. a sermon by saint john chrysostom, entitled on saints juventinus and maximinus, tells the story of two of julian's soldiers at antioch, who were overheard at a drinking party, criticizing the emperor's religious policies, and taken into custody. according to john, the emperor had made a deliberate effort to avoid creating martyrs of those who disagreed with his reforms; but juventinus and maximinus admitted to being christians, and refused to moderate their stance. john asserts that the emperor forbade anyone from having contact with the men, but that nobody obeyed his orders; so he had the two men executed in the middle of the night. john urges his audience to visit the tomb of these martyrs.[ ] charity[edit] the fact that christian charities were open to all, including pagans, put this aspect of roman citizens' lives out of the control of imperial authority and under that of the church. thus julian envisioned the institution of a roman philanthropic system, and cared for the behaviour and the morality of the pagan priests, in the hope that it would mitigate the reliance of pagans on christian charity, saying: "these impious galileans not only feed their own poor, but ours also; welcoming them into their agapae, they attract them, as children are attracted, with cakes."[ ] attempt to rebuild the jewish temple[edit] in , not long before julian left antioch to launch his campaign against persia, in keeping with his effort to oppose christianity, he allowed jews to rebuild their temple.[ ][ ][ ] the point was that the rebuilding of the temple would invalidate jesus prophecy about its destruction in , which christians had cited as proof of jesus' truth.[ ] but fires broke out and stopped the project.[ ] a personal friend of his, ammianus marcellinus, wrote this about the effort: julian thought to rebuild at an extravagant expense the proud temple once at jerusalem, and committed this task to alypius of antioch. alypius set vigorously to work, and was seconded by the governor of the province; when fearful balls of fire, breaking out near the foundations, continued their attacks, till the workmen, after repeated scorchings, could approach no more: and he gave up the attempt. the failure to rebuild the temple has been ascribed to the galilee earthquake of . although there is contemporary testimony for the miracle, in the orations of st. gregory nazianzen, this may be taken to be unreliable.[ ] sabotage by christians is a possibility, as is an accidental fire. divine intervention was for centuries a common view among christian historians,[ ] and it was seen as proof of jesus divinity.[ ] julian's support of jews caused jews to call him "julian the hellene".[ ] ancestry[edit] 	ancestors of julian 		 	 	 	 	 	 . constantius chlorus 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . julius constantius	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . flavia maximiana theodora 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 .julian	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . julius julianus 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . basilina	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 . (unknown) 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 works[edit] julian wrote several works in greek, some of which have come down to us. 	budé 	date 	work 	comment 	wright 	i 	 / [ ] 	panegyric in honour of constantius 	written to reassure constantius that he was on his side. 	i 	ii 	~june [ ] 	panegyric in honour of eusebia 	expresses gratitude for eusebia's support. 	iii 	iii 	 / [ ] 	the heroic deeds of constantius 	indicates his support of constantius, while being critical. (sometimes called "second panegyric to constantius".) 	ii 	iv 	 [ ] 	consolation upon the departure of salutius[ ] 	grapples with the removal of his close advisor in gaul. 	viii 	v 	 [ ] 	letter to the senate and people of athens 	an attempt to explain the actions leading up to his rebellion. 	– 	vi 	early [ ] 	letter to themistius the philosopher 	response to an ingratiating letter from themistius, outlining j.'s political reading 	– 	vii 	march [ ] 	to the cynic heracleios 	attempt to set cynics straight regarding their religious responsibilities. 	vii 	viii 	~march [ ] 	hymn to the mother of the gods 	a defense of hellenism and roman tradition. 	v 	ix 	~may [ ] 	to the uneducated cynics 	another attack on cynics who he thought didn't follow the principles of cynicism. 	vi 	x 	december [ ] 	the caesars[ ] 	satire describing a competition among roman emperors as to who was the best. strongly critical of constantine. 	– 	xi 	december [ ] 	hymn to king helios 	attempt to describe the roman religion as seen by julian. 	iv 	xii 	early [ ] 	misopogon, or, beard-hater 	written as a satire on himself, while attacking the people of antioch for their shortcomings. 	– 	– 	 / [ ] 	against the galilaeans 	polemic against christians, which now only survives as fragments. 	– 	– 	 [v] 	fragment of a letter to a priest 	attempt to counteract the aspects that he thought were positive in christianity. 	– 	– 	 – 	letters 	both personal and public letters from much of his career. 	– 	– 	? 	epigrams 	small number of short verse works. 	– 	budé indicates the numbers used by athanassiadi given in the budé edition ( & ) of julian's opera.[vi] 	wright indicates the oration numbers provided in w.c.wright's edition of julian's works. ioulianou autokratoros ta sozomena ( ) the religious works contain involved philosophical speculations, and the panegyrics to constantius are formulaic and elaborate in style. the misopogon (or "beard hater") is a light-hearted account of his clash with the inhabitants of antioch after he was mocked for his beard and generally scruffy appearance for an emperor. the caesars is a humorous tale of a contest among some of the most notable roman emperors: julius caesar, augustus, trajan, marcus aurelius, constantine, and also alexander the great. this was a satiric attack upon the recent constantine, whose worth, both as a christian and as the leader of the roman empire, julian severely questions. one of the most important of his lost works is his against the galileans, intended to refute the christian religion. the only parts of this work which survive are those excerpted by cyril of alexandria, who gives extracts from the three first books in his refutation of julian, contra julianum. these extracts do not give an adequate idea of the work: cyril confesses that he had not ventured to copy several of the weightiest arguments. problems regarding authenticity[edit] julian's works have been edited and translated several times since the renaissance, most often separately; but many are translated in the loeb classical library edition of , edited by wilmer cave wright. wright mentions, however, that there are many problems surrounding julian's vast collection of works, mainly the letters ascribed to julian.[ ] the collections of letters we have today are the result of many smaller collections which contained varying numbers of julian's works in various combinations. for example, in laurentianus . the largest collection of letters ascribed to julian was found, containing manuscripts. it is unclear what the origins of many letters in these collections are. joseph bidez & françois cumont compiled all of these different collections together in and got a total of items. of these were considered genuine and were regarded spurious. this contrasts starkly with wright's earlier mentioned collection which contains only items which are considered genuine and apocryphal letter. michael trapp notes however that when comparing bidez & cumont's work with wright, they regard as many as sixteen of wright's genuine letters as spurious.[ ] which works can be ascribed to julian is thus very much up to debate. the problems surrounding julian's collection of works are exacerbated by the fact that julian was a very motivated writer, which means it is possible that many more letters could have circulated, despite his short reign. julian himself attests to the large amount of letters he had to write in one of the letters which is likely to be genuine.[ ] julian's religious agenda gave him even more work than the average emperor as he sought to instruct his newly-styled pagan priests and he had to deal with discontent christian leaders and communities. an example of him instructing his pagan priests is visible in a fragment in the vossianus ms., inserted in the letter to themistius.[ ] additionally, julian's hostility towards the christian faith inspired vicious counteractions by christian authors as can be seen in gregory of nazianzus' invectives against julian.[ ][ ] christians no doubt suppressed some of julian's works as well.[ ] this christian influence is still visible in wright's much smaller collection of julian's letters. she comments on how some letters are suddenly cut off when the contents become hostile towards christians, believing them to be the result of christian censoring. notable examples of this are in the fragment of a letter to a priest and the letter to high-priest theodorus.[ ][ ] in popular culture[edit] 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. find sources: "julian" emperor – news · newspapers · books · scholar · jstor (june ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) literature[edit] 	in lord russell, an outspoken opponent of king charles ii of england and his brother the duke of york, got his chaplain to write a life of julian the apostate. this work made use of the roman emperor's life in order to address contemporary english political and theological debates – specifically, to reply to the conservative arguments of dr hickes's sermons, and defend the lawfulness of resistance in extreme cases. 	in , the controversial german theologian david friedrich strauss published in mannheim the pamphlet der romantiker auf dem thron der cäsaren ("a romantic on the throne of the caesars"), in which julian was satirised as "an unworldly dreamer, a man who turned nostalgia for the ancients into a way of life and whose eyes were closed to the pressing needs of the present". in fact, this was a veiled criticism of the contemporary king frederick william iv of prussia, known for his romantic dreams of restoring the supposed glories of feudal medieval society.[ ] 	julian's life inspired the play emperor and galilean by henrik ibsen. 	the late nineteenth century english novelist george gissing read an english translation of julian's work in [ ] 	julian's life and reign were the subject of the novel the death of the gods (julian the apostate) ( ) in the trilogy of historical novels entitled "christ and antichrist" ( – ) by the russian symbolist poet, novelist and literary theoretician dmitrii s. merezhkovskii. 	the opera der apostat ( ) by the composer and conductor felix weingartner is about julian. 	in nikos kazantzakis authored the tragedy julian the apostate in which the emperor is depicted as an existentialist hero committed to a struggle which he knows will be in vain. it was first staged in paris in . 	julian was the subject of a novel, julian ( ), by gore vidal, describing his life and times. it is notable for, among other things, its scathing critique of christianity. 	julian appeared in gods and legions, by michael curtis ford ( ). julian's tale was told by his closest companion, the christian saint caesarius, and accounts for the transition from a christian philosophy student in athens to a pagan roman augustus of the old nature. 	julian's letters are an important part of the symbolism of michel butor's novel la modification. 	the fantasy alternate history the dragon waiting by john m. ford, while set in the time of the wars of the roses, uses the reign of julian as its point of divergence. his reign not being cut short, he was successful in disestablishing christianity and restoring a religiously eclectic societal order which survived the fall of rome and into the renaissance. characters in the novel refer to him as "julian the wise". 	the dystopian speculative fiction novel by robert charles wilson, julian comstock: a story of nd-century america, parallels the life of julian with the title character as the hereditary president of an oligarchic future united states of america who tries to restore science and combat the fundamentalist christianity that has taken over the country. film[edit] 	an italian movie treatment of his life, giuliano l'apostata, appeared in . see also[edit] 	byzantine empire portal 	against the galilaeans 	peroz-shapur, the ancient town of perisabora destroyed by julian in 	diodorus of tarsus 	itineraries of the roman emperors, – 	list of byzantine emperors notes[edit] 	^ rarely julian ii. the iteration distinguishes him from didius julianus; it does not account for the usurper sabinus julianus.[ ] 	^ ammianus says that there were , alamanni, res gestae, . . , though this figure is now thought to be an overestimate – see david s. potter, p. . 	^ note that ammianus marcellinus (res gestae, . . & ) is of the view that julian died the night of the same day that he was wounded. 	^ first recorded by theodoret[ ] in the th century. 	^ not dealt with in athanassiadi, or dated by bowersock, but reflects a time when julian was emperor, and he had other issues to deal with later. 	^ julian's opera, edited by j.bidez, g.rochefort, and c.lacombrade, with french translations of all the principal works except against the galilaeans, which is only preserved in citations in a polemic work by cyril. references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ browning, p.  . 	^ david sear, roman coins and their values, volume (london: spink, ), p. . 	^ grant, michael ( ). greek and latin authors, b.c.–a.d. , part . h. w. wilson co. p.  . isbn  - - - - . julian the apostate (flavins claudius julianus), roman emperor and greek writer, was born at constantinople in ad and died in . 	^ gibbon, edward. "chapter ". the history of the decline and fall of the roman empire. 	^ a companion to julian the apostate. brill. - - . isbn  - - - - . 	^ a b c "julian". encyclopædia britannica online. retrieved august , . 	^ phang et al. , p.  . 	^ "ancient rome: the reign of julian". encyclopædia britannica online. retrieved august , . 	^ potter, david ( ). rome in the ancient world - from romulus to justinian. thames & hudson. p.  . isbn  - . 	^ glanville downey, "julian the apostate at antioch", church history, vol. , no. (december, ), pp. – . see p. . 	^ athanassiadi, p. . 	^ potter, david ( ). rome in the ancient world - from romulus to justinian. thames & hudson. p.  . isbn  - . 	^ tougher, , citing bouffartigue: l'empereur julien et la culture de son temps p. for the argument for ; a.h. jones, j.r. martindale, and j. morris "prosopography of the later roman empire, vol. i", p. (iulianus ) argues for may or june . bowersock, p. , wrote that the month attribution originated in an error and considers that the weight of evidence points to , against . 	^ a b chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "julian" . encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. p.  . 	^ norwich, john julius ( ). byzantium: the early centuries. knopf. p.  . isbn  - - - - . julius constantius...constantine had invited him, with his second wife and his young family, to take up residence in his new capital; and it was in constantinople that his third son julian was born, in may or june of the year . the baby's mother, basilina, a greek from asia minor, died a few weeks later... 	^ bradbury, jim ( ). the routledge companion to medieval warfare. routledge. p.  . isbn  - - - - . julian the apostate, flavius claudius julianus, roman emperor ( – ) emperor from , son of julius constantius and a greek mother basilina, grandson of constantius chlorus, the only pagan byzantine emperor. 	^ jones, martindale, and morris ( ) prosopography of the later roman empire volume , pp. , – . cambridge. 	^ cambridge ancient history, v. , pp. – . 	^ boardman, p. , citing julian to the alexandrians, wright's letter , of november or december . ezekiel spanheim d. twelve would be literal, but julian is counting inclusively. 	^ julian. "letter : to the alexandrians", translated by emily wilmer cave wright, v. , p. . the full text of letters of julian/letter at wikisource 	^ "maximus lives of the philosophers and sophists (english translation)". www.tertullian.org. . pp.  – . retrieved march , . 	^ r. browning, the emperor julian (london, ), pp. – . however, shaun tougher, "the advocacy of an empress: julian and eusebia" (the classical quarterly, new series, vol. , no. ( ), pp. – ), argues that the kind eusebia of julian's panegyric is a literary creation and that she was doing the bidding of her husband in bringing julian around to doing what constantius had asked of him. see especially p. . 	^ david s. potter, the roman empire at bay ad – , p. . 	^ most sources give the town as sens, which is well into the interior of gaul. see john f. drinkwater, the alamanni and rome – , oup oxford , p. . 	^ cambridge ancient history, v. , p. . 	^ david s. potter, the roman empire at bay ad – , p. . 	^ david s. potter, p. . 	^ cambridge ancient history, v. , pp. – . 	^ d. woods, "on the 'standard-bearers' at strasbourg: libanius, or. . – ", mnemosyne, fourth series, vol. , fasc. (august, ), p. . 	^ david s. potter, pp. – . 	^ a b cambridge ancient history, v. , p. . 	^ ammianus marcellinus res gestae, . . ff, ff, 	^ ammianus marcellinus res gestae, . . – 	^ john f. drinkwater, the alamanni and rome – , pp. – . 	^ a b athanassiadi, p. . 	^ grammation: cf. zosimus, historia nova, . , commented by veyne, l'empire gréco-romain, p. 	^ julian, letter to the athenians, c. 	^ ammianus marcellinus res gestae, . . – 	^ ammianus marcellinus. res gestae, . . – 	^ cambridge ancient history, v. , pp. – . 	^ david s. potter, p. . 	^ cambridge ancient history v. , p. . 	^ cambridge ancient history v. , p. . 	^ in a private letter to his uncle julian, in w.c. wright, v. , p. . 	^ j. norwich, byzantium: the early centuries, 	^ a b cambridge ancient history v. , p. . 	^ athanassiadi, p. . 	^ webb, matilda. the churches and catacombs of early christian rome: a comprehensive guide, pp. – , , sussex academic press, isbn  - - - , - - - - , google books 	^ cambridge ancient history v. , pp. – . 	^ cambridge ancient history v. , p. . 	^ cambridge ancient history v. , p. . 	^ bowersock, p. . 	^ cambridge ancient history v. , p. . 	^ a b bowersock, p. . 	^ ammianus marcellinus, res gestae, . . – . . 	^ socrates of constantinople, historia ecclesiastica, . 	^ libanius, orations, . & . 	^ libanius, orations, . & . 	^ ammianus marcellinus, res gestae, . . 	^ ammianus marcellinus, res gestae, . . 	^ david s. potter, the roman empire at bay, pp. – 	^ ammianus marcellinus, res gestae, . . , . . (commented by veyne, l"empire gréco-romain, p. ) 	^ see letter by libanius: "that alexander was appointed to the government at first, i confess, gave me some concern, as the principal persons among us were dissatisfied. i thought it dishonourable, injurious, and unbecoming a prince; and that repeated fines would rather weaken than improve the city...." and the translator's note upon it: "this is the alexander of whom ammianus says ( . ), "when julian was going to leave antioch, he made one alexander of heliopolis, governor of syria, a turbulent and severe man, saying that 'undeserving as he was, such a ruler suited the avaricious and contumellious antiochians'." as the letter makes clear, julian handed the city over to be looted by a man he himself regarded as unworthy, and the christian inhabitants, who had dared to oppose his attempt to restore paganism, to be forced to attend and applaud pagan ceremonies at sword-point; and be 'urged' to cheer more loudly." 	^ libanius, oration , – 	^ ammianus marcellinus, res gestae, . . – 	^ zosimus, historia nova, book , chapter . zosimus' text is ambiguous and refers to a smaller force of , under procopius and a larger force of , under julian himself; it's unclear if the second figure includes the first. 	^ elton, hugh, warfare in roman europe ad – , p. , using the higher estimate of , . 	^ bowersock, julian the apostate, p. . 	^ the decline and fall of the roman empire, (the modern library, ), chapter xxiv., p. 	^ ammianus marcellinus, res gestae, . . – 	^ ridley, notes, p. . 	^ a b c bowersock, julian the apostate, p. . 	^ a b david s, potter, the roman empire at bay, p. . 	^ libanius, epistulae, . 	^ dodgeon & lieu, the roman eastern frontier and the persian wars, p. . 	^ ammianus marcellinus, res gestae, . . – . 	^ dodgeon & lieu, the roman eastern frontier and the persian wars, p. . 	^ a b cambridge ancient history, p. . 	^ adrian goldsworth, how rome fell. new haven: yale university press, , isbn  - - - - , p. 	^ ammianus marcellinus, res gestae, . . . 	^ david s. potter, rome in the ancient world, pp. – . 	^ ammianus marcellinus, res gestae, . . – . 	^ a b dodgeon & lieu, the roman eastern frontier and the persian wars, p. . 	^ ammianus marcellinus, res gestae, . . 	^ lascaratos, john and dionysios voros. fatal wounding of the byzantine emperor julian the apostate ( – a.d.): approach to the contribution of ancient surgery. world journal of surgery : – . see p. . 	^ grant, michael. the roman emperors. (new york: barnes and noble books, ), p. . 	^ libanius, orations, . 	^ john malalas, chronographia, pp. – . patrologia graeca xcii, col. . 	^ evidence preserved by philostorgius, see david s. potter, the roman empire at bay ad  – , p. . 	^ sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica, . 	^ theodoret, historia ecclesiastica, . 	^ kathleen mcvey (editor), the fathers of the church: selected prose works ( ) p. 	^ libanius, oration , ; ammianus marcellinus , . and , . . references from g. downey,the tombs of the byzantine emperors at the church of the holy apostles in constantinople, journal of hellenic studies ( ) p. 	^ downey gives the text: '...later the body was transferred to the imperial city' (xiii , ) 	^ glanville downey, the tombs of the byzantine emperors at the church of the holy apostles in constantinople, journal of hellenic studies ( ) – . on p. he states that the book of ceremonies of constantine vii porphyrogenitus gives a list of tombs, ending with: " . in this stoa, which is to the north, lies a cylindrically-shaped sarcophagus, in which lies the cursed and wretched body of the apostate julian, porphyry or roman in colour. another sarcophagus, porphyry, or roman, in which lies the body of jovian, who ruled after julian." 	^ vasiliev, a. a. ( ). "imperial porphyry sarcophagi in constantinople" (pdf). dumbarton oaks papers. : + – . doi: . / . jstor  . 	^ the emperor's study of iamblichus and of theurgy are a source of criticism from his primary chronicler, ammianus marcellinus, res gestae, . . – and . . 	^ tougher, shaun ( ). julian the apostate. edinburgh university press. pp.  ff, f. isbn  . 	^ julian, "letter to a priest", . transl. w.c. wright, v. , p. . 	^ as above. wright, v. , p. . 	^ julian, "against the galilaeans", . transl. w.c. wright, v. , p. . 	^ thomas f. gossett, race: the history of an idea in america, (southern methodist university press) / (oxford university press, us), p. . 	^ socrates scholasticus, church history, iii, . 	^ gibbon, edward. the history of the decline and fall of the roman empire, chapter . 	^ a b brown, peter, the world of late antiquity, w. w. norton, new york, , p. . 	^ julian, epistulae, . a ff. 	^ richard t. wallis, jay bregman ( ). neoplatonism and gnosticism. p.  . isbn  . 	^ ammianus marcellinus, res gestae, . . . 	^ see roberts and dimaio. 	^ adrian murdoch, the last pagan (uk: sutton publishing limited, ), . 	^ adrian murdoch, the last pagan (uk: sutton publishing limited, ), . 	^ scott bradbury, "julian's pagan revival and the decline of blood sacrifice," phoenix ( ), . 	^ scott bradbury, "julian's pagan revival and the decline of blood sacrifice," phoenix ( ). 	^ a b jonathan kirsch, god against the gods (new york: penguin group, ), . 	^ scott bradbury, "julian's pagan revival and the decline of blood sacrifice," phoenix ( ): . 	^ a b scott bradbury, "julian's pagan revival and the decline of blood sacrifice," phoenix ( ): . 	^ scott bradbury, "julian's pagan revival and the decline of blood sacrifice," phoenix ( ): . 	^ harold mattingly, “the later paganism,” the harvard theological review ( ): . 	^ harold mattingly, “the later paganism,” the harvard theological review ( ): . 	^ james o’donnell, “the demise of paganism,” traditio ( ): , accessed september , , jstor  	^ st. john chrysostom, the cult of the saints (select homilies and letters), wendy mayer & bronwen neil, eds., st. vladimir's seminary press ( ). 	^ quoted in : schmidt, charles ( ). the social results of early christianity ( ed.). wm. isbister. p.  . retrieved - - . 	^ a b c jacob neusner ( september ). judaism and christianity in the age of constantine: history, messiah, israel, and the initial confrontation. university of chicago press. pp.  – . isbn  - - - - . 	^ ammianus marcellinus, res gestae, . . – . 	^ kavon, eli ( december ). "julian and the dream of a third temple". the jerusalem post. retrieved february . 	^ encyclopaedia britannica: or, dictionary of arts, sciences, and general literature, volume ; volume . little, brown & company. . p.  . in a.d. , the emperor julian undertook to rebuild the temple, but after considerable preparations and much expense he was compelled to desist by flames which burst forth from the foundations. repeated attempts have been made to account for these igneous explosions by natural causes; for instance, by the ignition of gases which had long been pent up in the subterraneous vaults. 	^ edward gibbon, the decline and fall of the roman empire, (the modern library), chapter xxiii., pp. – , note 	^ see "julian and the jews – ce" (fordham university, the jesuit university of new york) and "julian the apostate and the holy temple" archived - - at the wayback machine 	^ falk, avner, a psychoanalytic history of the jews ( ), fairleigh dickinson university press, london, isbn  - - - . 	^ a b athanassiadi, p. . 	^ athanassiadi, pp. – . 	^ the manuscript tradition uses the name "sallustius", but see bowersock, p. (footnote # ), and athanassiadi, p. . 	^ athanassiadi, p. . 	^ athanassiadi, p. . 	^ athanassiadi, p. . 	^ athanassiadi, p. , "at the same time" as to the cynic heracleios. 	^ athanassiadi, p. . 	^ athanassiadi, p. , written for the saturnalia festival, which began december . 	^ "julian: caesars – translation". www.attalus.org. 	^ athanassiadi, p. , doesn't supply a clear date. bowersock, p. , dates it to the celebration of sol invictus, december , shortly after the caesars was written. 	^ athanassiadi, p. , dates it "towards the end of his stay in antioch". 	^ athanassiadi, p. . – wikisource:against the galileans 	^ wright, wilmer ( ). letters. epigrams. against the galilaeans. fragments. cambridge: harvard university press. pp. xxvii–xxviii. isbn  . 	^ trapp, michael ( ). baker-brian & tougher, nicholas & shaun (ed.). the emperor's shadow: julian in his correspondence. emperor and author: the writings of julian the apostate. swansea: classical press of wales. p.  . isbn  - . 	^ wright, wilmer ( ). julian. letters. epigrams. against the galilaeans. fragments. cambridge: harvard university press. pp.  - . isbn  - . 	^ wright, wilmer ( ). julian, volume ii. orations – . letters to themistius. to the senate and people of athens. to a priest. the caesars. misopogon. loeb classical library (book ). cambridge: harvard university press. p.  . isbn  - . 	^ pearse, roger ( ). 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( ). julian the apostate. london: duckworth. isbn  - - -x. 	browning, robert ( ). the emperor julian. london: weidenfeld and nicolson. isbn  - - - . 	dodgeon, michael h. & samuel n.c. lieu, the roman eastern frontier and the persian wars ad – , routledge, london, . isbn  - - - 	drinkwater, john f., the alamanni and rome – (caracalla to clovis), oup oxford . isbn  - - - 	lascaratos, john and dionysios voros. fatal wounding of the byzantine emperor julian the apostate ( – a.d.): approach to the contribution of ancient surgery. world journal of surgery : – 	murdoch, adrian. the last pagan: julian the apostate and the death of the ancient world, stroud, , isbn  - - - 	phang, sara e.; spence, iain; kelly, douglas; londey, peter, eds. ( ). conflict in ancient greece and rome: the definitive political, social, and military encyclopedia. abc-clio. 	potter, david s. the roman empire at bay ad – , routledge, new york, . isbn  - - - 	ridley, r.t., "notes on julian's persian expedition ( )", historia: zeitschrift für alte geschichte, vol. , no. , , pp.  – 	roberts, walter e. & dimaio, michael ( ), "julian the apostate ( – a.d.)", de imperatoribus romanis 	smith, rowland. julian's gods: religion and philosophy in the thought and action of julian the apostate, london, . isbn  - - - 	veyne, paul. l'empire gréco-romain. seuil, paris, . isbn  - - - 	wiemer, hans-ulrich & stefan rebenich, eds. ( ). a companion to julian the apostate. brill. isbn  - - - - . further reading[edit] 	gardner, alice, julian philosopher and emperor and the last struggle of paganism against christianity, g.p. putnam's son, london, . isbn  - - - / isbn  - - - - . downloadable at julian, philosopher and emperor. 	hunt, david. "julian". in the cambridge ancient history, volume (averil cameron & peter garnsey editors). cup, cambridge, . isbn  - - - 	kettenhofen, erich ( ). "julian". julian – encyclopaedia iranica. encyclopaedia iranica, vol. xv, facs. . pp.  – . 	lenski, noel emmanuel failure of empire: valens and the roman state in the fourth century ad university of california press: london, 	lieu, samuel n.c. & dominic montserrat: editors, from constantine to julian: a source history routledge: new york, . isbn  - - - 	neander, august, the emperor julian and his generation, an historical picture, translated by g.v. cox, john w. parker, london, . isbn  - - - / isbn  . downloadable at the emperor julian and his generation. 	rendall, gerald henry, the emperor julian: paganism and christianity with genealogical, chronological and bibliographical appendices, george bell and sons, london, . isbn  - - - / isbn  . downloadable at the emperor julian. 	rohrbacher, david. historians of late antiquity. routledge: new york, . isbn  - - - 	rosen, klaus. julian. kaiser, gott und christenhasser. klett-cotta, stuttgart, . external links[edit] 		wikisource has original works written by or about: julian 		wikiquote has quotations related to: julian (emperor) 		wikimedia commons has media related to flavius claudius julianus. 	works by julian at project gutenberg 	laws of julian. two laws by constantius ii, while julian was caesar. 	imperial laws and letters involving religion, some of which are by julian relating to christianity. 	a th century chalcedony portrait of julian, saint petersburg, the state hermitage museum. 	julian's spin doctor: the persian mutiny, article by adam j. bravo. 	rowland smith's "julian's gods", review by thomas banchich. 	excerpt from by adrian murdoch, the last pagan at the california literary review. 	the julian society. a society of pagans who admire julian. 	the emperor julian, paganism and christianity, by gerald henry rendall 	julian the apostate why he was important, and his place in world history, by andrew selkirk 	letters in epistolographi graeci, r. hercher (ed.), parisiis, editore ambrosio firmin didot, , pp. – . 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crown 	 gaius julius caesar[a] (/ˈsiːzər/ see-zər, latin: [ˈɡaːiʊs ˈjuːliʊs ˈkae̯sar]; july bc – march bc) was a roman general and statesman who played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the roman republic and the rise of the roman empire. in bc, caesar, crassus and pompey formed the first triumvirate, a political alliance that dominated roman politics for several years. their attempts to amass power as populares were opposed by the optimates within the roman senate, among them cato the younger with the frequent support of cicero. caesar rose to become one of the most powerful politicians in the roman republic through a string of military victories in the gallic wars, completed by  bc, which greatly extended roman territory. during this time he both invaded britain and built a bridge across the rhine river. these achievements and the support of his veteran army threatened to eclipse the standing of pompey, who had realigned himself with the senate after the death of crassus in  bc. with the gallic wars concluded, the senate ordered caesar to step down from his military command and return to rome. leaving his command in gaul would mean losing his immunity to criminal prosecution by his enemies; knowing this, caesar openly defied the senate's authority by crossing the rubicon and marching towards rome at the head of an army.[ ] this began caesar's civil war, which he won, leaving him in a position of near unchallenged power and influence. after assuming control of government, caesar began a program of social and governmental reforms, including the creation of the julian calendar. he gave citizenship to many residents of far regions of the roman republic. he initiated land reform and support for veterans. he centralized the bureaucracy of the republic and was eventually proclaimed "dictator for life" (latin: dictator perpetuo). his populist and authoritarian reforms angered the elites, who began to conspire against him. on the ides of march ( march), bc, caesar was assassinated by a group of rebellious senators led by brutus and cassius, who stabbed him to death.[ ][ ] a new series of civil wars broke out and the constitutional government of the republic was never fully restored. caesar's great-nephew and adopted heir octavian, later known as augustus, rose to sole power after defeating his opponents in a civil war. octavian set about solidifying his power, and the era of the roman empire began. caesar was an accomplished author and historian as well as a statesman; much of his life is known from his own accounts of his military campaigns. other contemporary sources include the letters and speeches of cicero and the historical writings of sallust. later biographies of caesar by suetonius and plutarch are also important sources. caesar is considered by many historians to be one of the greatest military commanders in history.[ ] his cognomen was subsequently adopted as a synonym for "emperor"; the title "caesar" was used throughout the roman empire, giving rise to modern cognates such as kaiser and tsar. he has frequently appeared in literary and artistic works, and his political philosophy, known as caesarism, inspired politicians into the modern era. contents 	 early life and career 	 consulship and military campaigns 	 . conquest of gaul 	 . civil war 	 dictatorship and assassination 	 . dictatorship 	 . . political reforms 	 . assassination 	 . aftermath of the assassination 	 . deification 	 personal life 	 . health and physical appearance 	 . name and family 	 . . the name gaius julius caesar 	 . . family 	 . rumors of passive homosexuality 	 literary works 	 . memoirs 	 legacy 	 . historiography 	 . politics 	 . depictions 	 . battle record 	 chronology 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 sources 	 . primary sources 	 . . own writings 	 . . ancient historians' writings 	 . secondary sources 	 external links early life and career main article: early life and career of julius caesar gaius marius, caesar's uncle gaius julius caesar was born into a patrician family, the gens julia, which claimed descent from julus, son of the legendary trojan prince aeneas, supposedly the son of the goddess venus.[ ] the julii were of alban origin, mentioned as one of the leading alban houses, which settled in rome around the mid- th century bc, following the destruction of alba longa. they were granted patrician status, along with other noble alban families.[ ] the julii also existed at an early period at bovillae, evidenced by a very ancient inscription on an altar in the theatre of that town, which speaks of their offering sacrifices according to the lege albana, or alban rites.[ ][ ][ ] the cognomen "caesar" originated, according to pliny the elder, with an ancestor who was born by caesarean section (from the latin verb to cut, caedere, caes-).[ ] the historia augusta suggests three alternative explanations: that the first caesar had a thick head of hair (latin caesaries); that he had bright grey eyes (latin oculis caesiis); or that he killed an elephant during the punic wars (caesai in moorish) in battle.[ ] caesar issued coins featuring images of elephants, suggesting that he favored the latter interpretation of his name. despite their ancient pedigree, the julii caesares were not especially politically influential, although they had enjoyed some revival of their political fortunes in the early st century bc.[ ] caesar's father, also called gaius julius caesar, governed the province of asia,[ ] and his sister julia, caesar's aunt, married gaius marius, one of the most prominent figures in the republic.[ ] his mother, aurelia cotta, came from an influential family. little is recorded of caesar's childhood.[ ] in bc, caesar's father died suddenly,[ ] so caesar was the head of the family at the age of . his coming of age coincided with a civil war between his uncle gaius marius and his rival lucius cornelius sulla. both sides carried out bloody purges of their political opponents whenever they were in the ascendancy. marius and his ally lucius cornelius cinna were in control of the city when caesar was nominated as the new flamen dialis (high priest of jupiter),[ ] and he was married to cinna's daughter cornelia.[ ][ ] following sulla's final victory, though, caesar's connections to the old regime made him a target for the new one. he was stripped of his inheritance, his wife's dowry, and his priesthood, but he refused to divorce cornelia and was forced to go into hiding.[ ] the threat against him was lifted by the intervention of his mother's family, which included supporters of sulla, and the vestal virgins. sulla gave in reluctantly and is said to have declared that he saw many a marius in caesar.[ ] the loss of his priesthood had allowed him to pursue a military career, as the high priest of jupiter was not permitted to touch a horse, sleep three nights outside his own bed or one night outside rome, or look upon an army.[ ] caesar felt that it would be much safer far away from sulla should the dictator change his mind, so he left rome and joined the army, serving under marcus minucius thermus in asia and servilius isauricus in cilicia. he served with distinction, winning the civic crown for his part in the siege of mytilene. he went on a mission to bithynia to secure the assistance of king nicomedes's fleet, but he spent so long at nicomedes' court that rumours arose of an affair with the king, which caesar vehemently denied for the rest of his life.[ ] hearing of sulla's death in bc, caesar felt safe enough to return to rome. he lacked means since his inheritance was confiscated, but he acquired a modest house in subura, a lower-class neighbourhood of rome.[ ] he turned to legal advocacy and became known for his exceptional oratory accompanied by impassioned gestures and a high-pitched voice, and ruthless prosecution of former governors notorious for extortion and corruption. dictator lucius cornelius sulla stripped caesar of the priesthood. on the way across the aegean sea,[ ] caesar was kidnapped by pirates and held prisoner.[ ][ ] he maintained an attitude of superiority throughout his captivity. the pirates demanded a ransom of talents of silver, but he insisted that they ask for .[ ][ ] after the ransom was paid, caesar raised a fleet, pursued and captured the pirates, and imprisoned them. he had them crucified on his own authority, as he had promised while in captivity[ ]—a promise that the pirates had taken as a joke. as a sign of leniency, he first had their throats cut. he was soon called back into military action in asia, raising a band of auxiliaries to repel an incursion from the east.[ ] on his return to rome, he was elected military tribune, a first step in a political career. he was elected quaestor for bc,[ ] and during that year he delivered the funeral oration for his aunt julia, and included images of her husband marius in the funeral procession, unseen since the days of sulla. his wife cornelia also died that year.[ ] caesar went to serve his quaestorship in hispania after her funeral, in the spring or early summer of bc.[ ] while there, he is said to have encountered a statue of alexander the great, and realised with dissatisfaction that he was now at an age when alexander had the world at his feet, while he had achieved comparatively little. on his return in bc,[ ] he married pompeia, a granddaughter of sulla, whom he later divorced in bc after her embroilment in the bona dea scandal.[ ] in bc, he was elected curule aedile, and staged lavish games that won him further attention and popular support.[ ] in bc, he ran for election to the post of pontifex maximus, chief priest of the roman state religion. he ran against two powerful senators. accusations of bribery were made by all sides. caesar won comfortably, despite his opponents' greater experience and standing.[ ] cicero was consul that year, and he exposed catiline's conspiracy to seize control of the republic; several senators accused caesar of involvement in the plot.[ ] after serving as praetor in bc, caesar was appointed to govern hispania ulterior (the western part of the iberian peninsula) as propraetor,[ ][ ][ ] though some sources suggest that he held proconsular powers.[ ][ ] he was still in considerable debt and needed to satisfy his creditors before he could leave. he turned to marcus licinius crassus, the richest man in rome. crassus paid some of caesar's debts and acted as guarantor for others, in return for political support in his opposition to the interests of pompey. even so, to avoid becoming a private citizen and thus open to prosecution for his debts, caesar left for his province before his praetorship had ended. in spain, he conquered two local tribes and was hailed as imperator by his troops; he reformed the law regarding debts, and completed his governorship in high esteem.[ ] caesar was acclaimed imperator in bc (and again later in bc). in the roman republic, this was an honorary title assumed by certain military commanders. after an especially great victory, army troops in the field would proclaim their commander imperator, an acclamation necessary for a general to apply to the senate for a triumph. however, he also wanted to stand for consul, the most senior magistracy in the republic. if he were to celebrate a triumph, he would have to remain a soldier and stay outside the city until the ceremony, but to stand for election he would need to lay down his command and enter rome as a private citizen. he could not do both in the time available. he asked the senate for permission to stand in absentia, but cato blocked the proposal. faced with the choice between a triumph and the consulship, caesar chose the consulship.[ ] consulship and military campaigns main articles: military campaigns of julius caesar and first triumvirate a denarius depicting julius caesar, dated to february–march bc—the goddess venus is shown on the reverse, holding victoria and a scepter. caption: caesar imp. m. / l. aemilivs bvca in bc, caesar sought election as consul for  bc, along with two other candidates. the election was sordid—even cato, with his reputation for incorruptibility, is said to have resorted to bribery in favour of one of caesar's opponents. caesar won, along with conservative marcus bibulus.[ ] caesar was already in marcus licinius crassus' political debt, but he also made overtures to pompey. pompey and crassus had been at odds for a decade, so caesar tried to reconcile them. the three of them had enough money and political influence to control public business. this informal alliance, known as the first triumvirate ("rule of three men"), was cemented by the marriage of pompey to caesar's daughter julia.[ ] caesar also married again, this time calpurnia, who was the daughter of another powerful senator.[ ] caesar proposed a law for redistributing public lands to the poor—by force of arms, if need be—a proposal supported by pompey and by crassus, making the triumvirate public. pompey filled the city with soldiers, a move which intimidated the triumvirate's opponents. bibulus attempted to declare the omens unfavourable and thus void the new law, but he was driven from the forum by caesar's armed supporters. his lictors had their fasces broken, two high magistrates accompanying him were wounded, and he had a bucket of excrement thrown over him. in fear of his life, he retired to his house for the rest of the year, issuing occasional proclamations of bad omens. these attempts proved ineffective in obstructing caesar's legislation. roman satirists ever after referred to the year as "the consulship of julius and caesar."[ ] when caesar was first elected, the aristocracy tried to limit his future power by allotting the woods and pastures of italy, rather than the governorship of a province, as his military command duty after his year in office was over.[ ] with the help of political allies, caesar secured passage of the lex vatinia, granting him governorship over cisalpine gaul (northern italy) and illyricum (southeastern europe).[ ] at the instigation of pompey and his father-in-law piso, transalpine gaul (southern france) was added later after the untimely death of its governor, giving him command of four legions.[ ] the term of his governorship, and thus his immunity from prosecution, was set at five years, rather than the usual one.[ ][ ] when his consulship ended, caesar narrowly avoided prosecution for the irregularities of his year in office, and quickly left for his province.[ ] conquest of gaul main article: gallic wars the extent of the roman republic in bc after caesar's conquests caesar was still deeply in debt, but there was money to be made as a governor, whether by extortion[ ] or by military adventurism. caesar had four legions under his command, two of his provinces bordered on unconquered territory, and parts of gaul were known to be unstable. some of rome's gallic allies had been defeated by their rivals at the battle of magetobriga, with the help of a contingent of germanic tribes. the romans feared these tribes were preparing to migrate south, closer to italy, and that they had warlike intent. caesar raised two new legions and defeated these tribes.[ ] in response to caesar's earlier activities, the tribes in the north-east began to arm themselves. caesar treated this as an aggressive move and, after an inconclusive engagement against the united tribes, he conquered the tribes piecemeal. meanwhile, one of his legions began the conquest of the tribes in the far north, directly opposite britain.[ ] during the spring of  bc, the triumvirs held a conference, as rome was in turmoil and caesar's political alliance was coming undone. the lucca conference renewed the first triumvirate and extended caesar's governorship for another five years.[ ] the conquest of the north was soon completed, while a few pockets of resistance remained.[ ] caesar now had a secure base from which to launch an invasion of britain. in bc, caesar repelled an incursion into gaul by two germanic tribes, and followed it up by building a bridge across the rhine and making a show of force in germanic territory, before returning and dismantling the bridge. late that summer, having subdued two other tribes, he crossed into britain, claiming that the britons had aided one of his enemies the previous year, possibly the veneti of brittany.[ ] his intel was poor, and although he gained a beachhead on the coast, he could not advance further. he raided out from his beachhead and destroyed some villages, then returned to gaul for the winter.[ ] he returned the following year, better prepared and with a larger force, and achieved more. he advanced inland, and established a few alliances, but poor harvests led to widespread revolt in gaul, forcing caesar to leave britain for the last time.[ ] vercingetorix throws down his arms at the feet of julius caesar, painting by lionel royer. musée crozatier, le puy-en-velay, france. while caesar was in britain his daughter julia, pompey's wife, had died in childbirth. caesar tried to re-secure pompey's support by offering him his great-niece in marriage, but pompey declined. in bc crassus was killed leading a failed invasion of the east. rome was on the brink of civil war. pompey was appointed sole consul as an emergency measure, and married the daughter of a political opponent of caesar. the triumvirate was dead.[ ] though the gallic tribes were just as strong as the romans militarily, the internal division among the gauls guaranteed an easy victory for caesar. vercingetorix's attempt in bc to unite them against roman invasion came too late.[ ][ ] he proved an astute commander, defeating caesar at the battle of gergovia, but caesar's elaborate siege-works at the battle of alesia finally forced his surrender.[ ] despite scattered outbreaks of warfare the following year,[ ] gaul was effectively conquered. plutarch claimed that during the gallic wars the army had fought against three million men (of whom one million died, and another million were enslaved), subjugated tribes, and destroyed cities.[ ] civil war main article: caesar's civil war further information: alexandrine war, early life of cleopatra vii, and reign of cleopatra vii a roman bust of pompey the great made during the reign of augustus ( bc – ad), a copy of an original bust from – bc, venice national archaeological museum, italy in bc, the senate (led by pompey) ordered caesar to disband his army and return to rome because his term as governor had finished.[ ] caesar thought he would be prosecuted if he entered rome without the immunity enjoyed by a magistrate. pompey accused caesar of insubordination and treason. on january bc, caesar crossed the rubicon river (the frontier boundary of italy) with only a single legion, the legio xiii gemina, and ignited civil war. upon crossing the rubicon, caesar, according to plutarch and suetonius, is supposed to have quoted the athenian playwright menander, in greek, "the die is cast".[ ] erasmus, however, notes that the more accurate latin translation of the greek imperative mood would be "alea iacta esto", let the die be cast.[ ] pompey and many of the senate fled to the south, having little confidence in pompey's newly raised troops. pompey, despite greatly outnumbering caesar, who only had his thirteenth legion with him, did not intend to fight. caesar pursued pompey, hoping to capture pompey before his legions could escape.[ ] pompey managed to escape before caesar could capture him. heading for spain, caesar left italy under the control of mark antony. after an astonishing -day route-march, caesar defeated pompey's lieutenants, then returned east, to challenge pompey in illyria, where, on july bc in the battle of dyrrhachium, caesar barely avoided a catastrophic defeat. in an exceedingly short engagement later that year, he decisively defeated pompey at pharsalus, in greece on august bc.[ ] cleopatra and caesar, painting by jean-léon gérôme this mid- st-century-bc roman wall painting in pompeii is probably a depiction of cleopatra vii as venus genetrix, with her son caesarion as cupid. its owner marcus fabius rufus most likely ordered its concealment behind a wall in reaction to the execution of caesarion on orders of octavian in bc.[ ][ ] in rome, caesar was appointed dictator,[ ] with mark antony as his master of the horse (second in command); caesar presided over his own election to a second consulship and then, after days, resigned this dictatorship.[ ][ ] caesar then pursued pompey to egypt, arriving soon after the murder of the general. there, caesar was presented with pompey's severed head and seal-ring, receiving these with tears.[ ] he then had pompey's assassins put to death.[ ] caesar then became involved with an egyptian civil war between the child pharaoh and his sister, wife, and co-regent queen, cleopatra. perhaps as a result of the pharaoh's role in pompey's murder, caesar sided with cleopatra. he withstood the siege of alexandria and later he defeated the pharaoh's forces at the battle of the nile in  bc and installed cleopatra as ruler. caesar and cleopatra celebrated their victory with a triumphal procession on the nile in the spring of  bc. the royal barge was accompanied by additional ships, and caesar was introduced to the luxurious lifestyle of the egyptian pharaohs.[ ] caesar and cleopatra were not married. caesar continued his relationship with cleopatra throughout his last marriage—in roman eyes, this did not constitute adultery—and probably fathered a son called caesarion. cleopatra visited rome on more than one occasion, residing in caesar's villa just outside rome across the tiber.[ ] late in bc, caesar was again appointed dictator, with a term of one year.[ ] after spending the first months of  bc in egypt, caesar went to the middle east, where he annihilated the king of pontus; his victory was so swift and complete that he mocked pompey's previous victories over such poor enemies.[ ] on his way to pontus, caesar visited tarsus from to may bc ( – maygreg.), where he met enthusiastic support, but where, according to cicero, cassius was planning to kill him at this point.[ ][ ][ ] thence, he proceeded to africa to deal with the remnants of pompey's senatorial supporters. he was defeated by titus labienus at ruspina on january bc but recovered to gain a significant victory at thapsus on april  bc over cato, who then committed suicide.[ ] after this victory, he was appointed dictator for years.[ ] pompey's sons escaped to spain; caesar gave chase and defeated the last remnants of opposition in the battle of munda in march  bc.[ ] during this time, caesar was elected to his third and fourth terms as consul in  bc and  bc (this last time without a colleague). dictatorship and assassination while he was still campaigning in spain, the senate began bestowing honours on caesar. caesar had not proscribed his enemies, instead pardoning almost all, and there was no serious public opposition to him. great games and celebrations were held in april to honour caesar's victory at munda. plutarch writes that many romans found the triumph held following caesar's victory to be in poor taste, as those defeated in the civil war had not been foreigners, but instead fellow romans.[ ] on caesar's return to italy in september bc, he filed his will, naming his grandnephew gaius octavius (octavian, later known as augustus caesar) as his principal heir, leaving his vast estate and property including his name. caesar also wrote that if octavian died before caesar did, decimus junius brutus albinus would be the next heir in succession.[ ] in his will, he also left a substantial gift to the citizens of rome. between his crossing of the rubicon in bc, and his assassination in  bc, caesar established a new constitution, which was intended to accomplish three separate goals.[ ] first, he wanted to suppress all armed resistance out in the provinces, and thus bring order back to the republic. second, he wanted to create a strong central government in rome. finally, he wanted to knit together all of the provinces into a single cohesive unit.[ ] the first goal was accomplished when caesar defeated pompey and his supporters.[ ] to accomplish the other two goals, he needed to ensure that his control over the government was undisputed,[ ] so he assumed these powers by increasing his own authority, and by decreasing the authority of rome's other political institutions. finally, he enacted a series of reforms that were meant to address several long-neglected issues, the most important of which was his reform of the calendar.[ ] dictatorship green caesar, posthumous portrait of the st century ad, altes museum, berlin statue of julius caesar, via dei fori imperiali, rome when caesar returned to rome, the senate granted him triumphs for his victories, ostensibly those over gaul, egypt, pharnaces, and juba, rather than over his roman opponents.[citation needed] when arsinoe iv, egypt's former queen, was paraded in chains, the spectators admired her dignified bearing and were moved to pity.[ ] triumphal games were held, with beast-hunts involving lions, and gladiator contests. a naval battle was held on a flooded basin at the field of mars.[ ] at the circus maximus, two armies of war captives, each of , people, horses, and elephants, fought to the death. again, some bystanders complained, this time at caesar's wasteful extravagance. a riot broke out, and only stopped when caesar had two rioters sacrificed by the priests on the field of mars.[ ] after the triumph, caesar set out to pass an ambitious legislative agenda.[ ] he ordered a census be taken, which forced a reduction in the grain dole, and decreed that jurors could only come from the senate or the equestrian ranks. he passed a sumptuary law that restricted the purchase of certain luxuries. after this, he passed a law that rewarded families for having many children, to speed up the repopulation of italy. then, he outlawed professional guilds, except those of ancient foundation, since many of these were subversive political clubs. he then passed a term-limit law applicable to governors. he passed a debt-restructuring law, which ultimately eliminated about a fourth of all debts owed.[ ] the forum of caesar, with its temple of venus genetrix, was then built, among many other public works.[ ] caesar also tightly regulated the purchase of state-subsidised grain and reduced the number of recipients to a fixed number, all of whom were entered into a special register.[ ] from to  bc, he made plans for the distribution of land to about , of his veterans.[ ] the most important change, however, was his reform of the calendar. the roman calendar at the time was regulated by the movement of the moon. by replacing it with the egyptian calendar, based on the sun, roman farmers were able to use it as the basis of consistent seasonal planting from year to year. he set the length of the year to . days by adding an intercalary/leap day at the end of february every fourth year.[ ] to bring the calendar into alignment with the seasons, he decreed that three extra months be inserted into  bc (the ordinary intercalary month at the end of february, and two extra months after november). thus, the julian calendar opened on january bc.[ ][ ] this calendar is almost identical to the current western calendar. shortly before his assassination, he passed a few more reforms.[ ] he established a police force, appointed officials to carry out his land reforms, and ordered the rebuilding of carthage and corinth. he also extended latin rights throughout the roman world, and then abolished the tax system and reverted to the earlier version that allowed cities to collect tribute however they wanted, rather than needing roman intermediaries. his assassination prevented further and larger schemes, which included the construction of an unprecedented temple to mars, a huge theatre, and a library on the scale of the library of alexandria.[ ] he also wanted to convert ostia to a major port, and cut a canal through the isthmus of corinth. militarily, he wanted to conquer the dacians and parthians, and avenge the loss at carrhae. thus, he instituted a massive mobilisation. shortly before his assassination, the senate named him censor for life and father of the fatherland, and the month of quintilis was renamed july in his honour.[ ] he was granted further honours, which were later used to justify his assassination as a would-be divine monarch: coins were issued bearing his image and his statue was placed next to those of the kings. he was granted a golden chair in the senate, was allowed to wear triumphal dress whenever he chose, and was offered a form of semi-official or popular cult, with mark antony as his high priest.[ ] political reforms main article: constitutional reforms of julius caesar la clémence de césar, abel de pujol, the history of caesar's political appointments is complex and uncertain. caesar held both the dictatorship and the tribunate, but alternated between the consulship and the proconsulship.[ ] his powers within the state seem to have rested upon these magistracies.[ ] he was first appointed dictator in  bc, possibly to preside over elections, but resigned his dictatorship within days. in  bc, he was reappointed dictator, only this time for an indefinite period, and in  bc, he was appointed dictator for years.[ ] in bc, caesar was given permanent tribunician powers,[ ][failed verification] which made his person sacrosanct and allowed him to veto the senate,[ ] although on at least one occasion, tribunes did attempt to obstruct him. the offending tribunes in this case were brought before the senate and divested of their office.[ ] this was not the first time caesar had violated a tribune's sacrosanctity. after he had first marched on rome in bc, he forcibly opened the treasury, although a tribune had the seal placed on it. after the impeachment of the two obstructive tribunes, caesar, perhaps unsurprisingly, faced no further opposition from other members of the tribunician college.[ ] when caesar returned to rome in bc, the ranks of the senate had been severely depleted, so he used his censorial powers to appoint many new senators, which eventually raised the senate's membership to .[ ] all the appointments were of his own partisans, which robbed the senatorial aristocracy of its prestige, and made the senate increasingly subservient to him.[ ] to minimise the risk that another general might attempt to challenge him,[ ] caesar passed a law that subjected governors to term limits.[ ] in bc, caesar gave himself the title of "prefect of the morals", which was an office that was new only in name, as its powers were identical to those of the censors.[ ] thus, he could hold censorial powers, while technically not subjecting himself to the same checks to which the ordinary censors were subject, and he used these powers to fill the senate with his own partisans. he also set the precedent, which his imperial successors followed, of requiring the senate to bestow various titles and honours upon him. he was, for example, given the title of "father of the fatherland" and "imperator".[ ] coins bore his likeness, and he was given the right to speak first during senate meetings.[ ] caesar then increased the number of magistrates who were elected each year, which created a large pool of experienced magistrates, and allowed caesar to reward his supporters.[ ] caesar even took steps to transform italy into a province, and to link more tightly the other provinces of the empire into a single cohesive unit. this addressed the underlying problem that had caused the social war decades earlier, where persons from outside rome or italy did not have citizenship. this process, of fusing the entire roman empire into a single unit, rather than maintaining it as a network of unequal principalities, would ultimately be completed by caesar's successor, the emperor augustus. in february bc, one month before his assassination, he was appointed dictator in perpetuity. under caesar, a significant amount of authority was vested in his lieutenants,[ ] mostly because caesar was frequently out of italy.[ ] in october  bc, caesar resigned his position as sole consul, and facilitated the election of two successors for the remainder of the year, which theoretically restored the ordinary consulship, since the constitution did not recognise a single consul without a colleague.[ ] denarius ( bc) issued by gaius cassius longinus and lentulus spinther, depicting the crowned head of liberty and on the reverse a sacrificial jug and lituus, from the military mint in smyrna. caption: c. cassi. imp. leibertas / lentvlvs spint. near the end of his life, caesar began to prepare for a war against the parthian empire. since his absence from rome might limit his ability to install his own consuls, he passed a law which allowed him to appoint all magistrates, and all consuls and tribunes.[ ] this, in effect, transformed the magistrates from being representatives of the people to being representatives of the dictator.[ ] assassination see also: assassination of julius caesar on the ides of march ( march; see roman calendar) of bc, caesar was due to appear at a session of the senate. several senators had conspired to assassinate caesar. mark antony, having vaguely learned of the plot the night before from a terrified liberator named servilius casca, and fearing the worst, went to head caesar off. the plotters, however, had anticipated this and, fearing that antony would come to caesar's aid, had arranged for trebonius to intercept him just as he approached the portico of the theatre of pompey, where the session was to be held, and detain him outside (plutarch, however, assigns this action of delaying antony to brutus albinus). when he heard the commotion from the senate chamber, antony fled.[ ] according to plutarch, as caesar arrived at the senate, tillius cimber presented him with a petition to recall his exiled brother.[ ] the other conspirators crowded round to offer support. both plutarch and suetonius say that caesar waved him away, but cimber grabbed his shoulders and pulled down caesar's tunic. caesar then cried to cimber, "why, this is violence!" ("ista quidem vis est!").[ ] the senators encircle caesar, a th-century interpretation of the event by carl theodor von piloty casca simultaneously produced his dagger and made a glancing thrust at the dictator's neck. caesar turned around quickly and caught casca by the arm. according to plutarch, he said in latin, "casca, you villain, what are you doing?"[ ] casca, frightened, shouted, "help, brother!" in greek ("ἀδελφέ, βοήθει", "adelphe, boethei"). within moments, the entire group, including brutus, was striking out at the dictator. caesar attempted to get away, but, blinded by blood, he tripped and fell; the men continued stabbing him as he lay defenceless on the lower steps of the portico. according to eutropius, around men participated in the assassination. he was stabbed times.[ ] according to suetonius, a physician later established that only one wound, the second one to his chest, had been lethal.[ ] the dictator's last words are not known with certainty, and are a contested subject among scholars and historians alike. suetonius reports that others have said caesar's last words were the greek phrase "καὶ σύ, τέκνον;"[ ] (transliterated as "kai su, teknon?": "you too, child?" in english). however, suetonius' own opinion was that caesar said nothing.[ ] plutarch also reports that caesar said nothing, pulling his toga over his head when he saw brutus among the conspirators.[ ] the version best known in the english-speaking world is the latin phrase "et tu, brute?" ("and you, brutus?", commonly rendered as "you too, brutus?");[ ][ ] best known from shakespeare's julius caesar, where it actually forms the first half of a macaronic line: "et tu, brute? then fall, caesar." this version was already popular when the play was written, as it appears in richard edes's latin play caesar interfectus of and the true tragedie of richarde duke of yorke & etc. of , shakespeare's source work for other plays.[ ] the death of caesar, jean-léon gérôme, according to plutarch, after the assassination, brutus stepped forward as if to say something to his fellow senators; they, however, fled the building.[ ] brutus and his companions then marched to the capitol while crying out to their beloved city: "people of rome, we are once again free!" they were met with silence, as the citizens of rome had locked themselves inside their houses as soon as the rumour of what had taken place had begun to spread. caesar's dead body lay where it fell on the senate floor for nearly three hours before other officials arrived to remove it. caesar's body was cremated. a crowd which had gathered at the cremation started a fire, which badly damaged the forum and neighbouring buildings. on the site of his cremation, the temple of caesar was erected a few years later (at the east side of the main square of the roman forum). only its altar now remains.[ ] a life-size wax statue of caesar was later erected in the forum displaying the stab wounds. in the chaos following the death of caesar, mark antony, octavian (later augustus caesar), and others fought a series of five civil wars, which would culminate in the formation of the roman empire. aftermath of the assassination the result unforeseen by the assassins was that caesar's death precipitated the end of the roman republic.[ ] the roman middle and lower classes, with whom caesar was immensely popular and had been since before gaul, became enraged that a small group of aristocrats had killed their champion. antony, who had been drifting apart from caesar, capitalised on the grief of the roman mob and threatened to unleash them on the optimates, perhaps with the intent of taking control of rome himself. to his surprise and chagrin, caesar had named his grandnephew gaius octavius his sole heir (hence the name octavian), bequeathing him the immensely potent caesar name and making him one of the wealthiest citizens in the republic.[ ] bust of mark antony made during the flavian dynasty ( – ad) marc antony's oration at caesar's funeral by george edward robertson the crowd at the funeral boiled over, throwing dry branches, furniture, and even clothing on to caesar's funeral pyre, causing the flames to spin out of control, seriously damaging the forum. the mob then attacked the houses of brutus and cassius, where they were repelled only with considerable difficulty, ultimately providing the spark for the civil war, fulfilling at least in part antony's threat against the aristocrats.[ ] antony did not foresee the ultimate outcome of the next series of civil wars, particularly with regard to caesar's adopted heir. octavian, aged only when caesar died, proved to have considerable political skills, and while antony dealt with decimus brutus in the first round of the new civil wars, octavian consolidated his tenuous position. to combat brutus and cassius, who were massing an enormous army in greece, antony needed soldiers, the cash from caesar's war chests, and the legitimacy that caesar's name would provide for any action he took against them. with the passage of the lex titia on november bc,[ ] the second triumvirate was officially formed, composed of antony, octavian, and caesar's loyal cavalry commander lepidus.[ ] it formally deified caesar as divus iulius in bc, and caesar octavian henceforth became divi filius ("son of the divine").[ ] because caesar's clemency had resulted in his murder, the second triumvirate reinstated the practice of proscription, abandoned since sulla.[ ] it engaged in the legally sanctioned killing of a large number of its opponents to secure funding for its legions in the second civil war against brutus and cassius.[ ] antony and octavian defeated them at philippi.[ ] gaius julius caesar octavianus, caesar's adopted heir afterward, mark antony formed an alliance with caesar's lover, cleopatra, intending to use the fabulously wealthy egypt as a base to dominate rome. a third civil war broke out between octavian on one hand and antony and cleopatra on the other. this final civil war, culminating in the latter's defeat at actium in bc and suicide in egypt in bc, resulted in the permanent ascendancy of octavian, who became the first roman emperor, under the name caesar augustus, a name conveying religious, rather than political, authority.[ ] julius caesar had been preparing to invade parthia, the caucasus, and scythia, and then march back to germania through eastern europe. these plans were thwarted by his assassination.[ ] his successors did attempt the conquests of parthia and germania, but without lasting results. deification see also: divus julius and caesar's comet julius caesar was the first historical roman to be officially deified. he was posthumously granted the title divus iulius (the divine/deified julius) by decree of the roman senate on january bc. the appearance of a comet during games in his honour was taken as confirmation of his divinity. though his temple was not dedicated until after his death, he may have received divine honours during his lifetime:[ ] and shortly before his assassination, mark antony had been appointed as his flamen (priest).[ ] both octavian and mark antony promoted the cult of divus iulius. after the death of caesar, octavian, as the adoptive son of caesar, assumed the title of divi filius (son of the divine). personal life health and physical appearance bust of julius caesar, posthumous portrait in marble, – bc, museo pio-clementino, vatican museums based on remarks by plutarch,[ ] caesar is sometimes thought to have suffered from epilepsy. modern scholarship is sharply divided on the subject, and some scholars believe that he was plagued by malaria, particularly during the sullan proscriptions of the s.[ ] other scholars contend his epileptic seizures were due to a parasitic infection in the brain by a tapeworm.[ ][ ] caesar had four documented episodes of what may have been complex partial seizures. he may additionally have had absence seizures in his youth. the earliest accounts of these seizures were made by the biographer suetonius, who was born after caesar died. the claim of epilepsy is countered among some medical historians by a claim of hypoglycemia, which can cause epileptoid seizures.[ ][ ][ ] in , psychiatrist harbour f. hodder published what he termed as the "caesar complex" theory, arguing that caesar was a sufferer of temporal lobe epilepsy and the debilitating symptoms of the condition were a factor in caesar's conscious decision to forgo personal safety in the days leading up to his assassination.[ ] a line from shakespeare has sometimes been taken to mean that he was deaf in one ear: "come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf".[ ] no classical source mentions hearing impairment in connection with caesar. the playwright may have been making metaphorical use of a passage in plutarch that does not refer to deafness at all, but rather to a gesture alexander of macedon customarily made. by covering his ear, alexander indicated that he had turned his attention from an accusation in order to hear the defence.[ ] francesco m. galassi and hutan ashrafian suggest that caesar's behavioral manifestations—headaches, vertigo, falls (possibly caused by muscle weakness due to nerve damage), sensory deficit, giddiness and insensibility—and syncopal episodes were the results of cerebrovascular episodes, not epilepsy. pliny the elder reports in his natural history that caesar's father and forefather died without apparent cause while putting on their shoes. these events can be more readily associated with cardiovascular complications from a stroke episode or lethal heart attack. caesar possibly had a genetic predisposition for cardiovascular disease.[ ] suetonius, writing more than a century after caesar's death, describes caesar as "tall of stature with a fair complexion, shapely limbs, a somewhat full face, and keen black eyes".[ ] name and family the name gaius julius caesar main article: gaius julius caesar (name) using the latin alphabet of the period, which lacked the letters j and u, caesar's name would be rendered gaivs ivlivs caesar; the form caivs is also attested, using the older roman representation of g by c. the standard abbreviation was c. ivlivs cÆsar, reflecting the older spelling. (the letterform Æ is a ligature of the letters a and e, and is often used in latin inscriptions to save space.) in classical latin, it was pronounced [ˈɡaː.i.ʊs ˈjuːl.i.ʊs ˈkae̯sar]. in the days of the late roman republic, many historical writings were done in greek, a language most educated romans studied. young wealthy roman boys were often taught by greek slaves and sometimes sent to athens for advanced training, as was caesar's principal assassin, brutus. in greek, during caesar's time, his family name was written Καίσαρ (kaísar), reflecting its contemporary pronunciation. thus, his name is pronounced in a similar way to the pronunciation of the german kaiser. in vulgar latin, the original diphthong [ae̯] first began to be pronounced as a simple long vowel [ɛː]. then, the plosive /k/ before front vowels began, due to palatalization, to be pronounced as an affricate, hence renderings like [ˈtʃeːsar] in italian and [ˈtseːzar] in german regional pronunciations of latin, as well as the title of tsar. with the evolution of the romance languages, the affricate [ts] became a fricative [s] (thus, [ˈseːsar]) in many regional pronunciations, including the french one, from which the modern english pronunciation is derived. caesar's cognomen itself became a title; it was promulgated by the bible, which contains the famous verse "render unto caesar the things which are caesar's, and unto god the things that are god's". the title became kaiser in german and tsar or czar in the slavic languages. the last tsar in nominal power was simeon ii of bulgaria, whose reign ended in . this means that for almost two thousand years after julius caesar's assassination, there was at least one head of state bearing his name. family main article: julio-claudian family tree julio-claudian family tree 	parents 	father gaius julius caesar (proconsul asiae) (proconsul of asia in s bc) 	mother aurelia (one of the aurelii cottae) 	sisters 	julia major 	julia minor 	wives 	first marriage to cornelia (cinnilla), from  bc until her death in or  bc 	second marriage to pompeia, from  bc until he divorced her around  bc over the bona dea scandal 	third marriage to calpurnia, from  bc until caesar's death reliefs of cleopatra and her son by julius caesar, caesarion, at the temple of dendera roman painting from the house of giuseppe ii, pompeii, early st century ad, most likely depicting cleopatra vii, wearing her royal diadem, consuming poison in an act of suicide, while her son caesarion, also wearing a royal diadem, stands behind her[ ] 	children 	julia, by cornelia, born in or bc 	caesarion, by cleopatra vii, born bc, and killed at age by caesar's adopted son octavianus. 	posthumously adopted: gaius julius caesar octavianus, his great-nephew by blood (grandson of julia, his sister), who later became emperor augustus. suspected children 	marcus junius brutus (born bc): the historian plutarch notes that caesar believed brutus to have been his illegitimate son, as his mother servilia had been caesar's lover during their youth.[ ] caesar would have been years old when brutus was born. 	junia tertia (born ca. s bc), the daughter of caesar's lover servilia was believed by cicero among other contemporaries, to be caesar's natural daughter. 	decimus junius brutus albinus (born ca. – bc): on several occasions caesar expressed how he loved decimus brutus like a son. this brutus was also named an heir of caesar in case octavius had died before the latter. ronald syme argued that if a brutus was the natural son of caesar, decimus was more likely than marcus.[ ] 	grandchildren grandchild from julia and pompey, dead at several days, unnamed.[ ] 	lovers 	cleopatra vii, mother of caesarion 	servilia, mother of brutus 	eunoë, queen of mauretania and wife of bogudes 	notable relatives 	gaius marius (married to his paternal aunt julia) 	mark antony (his relative through antony's mother julia) 	lucius julius caesar (his third cousin) rumors of passive homosexuality roman society viewed the passive role during sexual activity, regardless of gender, to be a sign of submission or inferiority. indeed, suetonius says that in caesar's gallic triumph, his soldiers sang that, "caesar may have conquered the gauls, but nicomedes conquered caesar."[ ] according to cicero, bibulus, gaius memmius, and others (mainly caesar's enemies), he had an affair with nicomedes iv of bithynia early in his career. the stories were repeated, referring to caesar as the queen of bithynia, by some roman politicians as a way to humiliate him. caesar himself denied the accusations repeatedly throughout his lifetime, and according to cassius dio, even under oath on one occasion.[ ] this form of slander was popular during this time in the roman republic to demean and discredit political opponents. catullus wrote two poems suggesting that caesar and his engineer mamurra were lovers,[ ] but later apologised.[ ] mark antony charged that octavian had earned his adoption by caesar through sexual favors. suetonius described antony's accusation of an affair with octavian as political slander. octavian eventually became the first roman emperor as augustus.[ ] literary works julii caesaris quae exstant ( ) during his lifetime, caesar was regarded as one of the best orators and prose authors in latin —even cicero spoke highly of caesar's rhetoric and style.[ ] only caesar's war commentaries have survived. a few sentences from other works are quoted by other authors. among his lost works are his funeral oration for his paternal aunt julia and his anticato, a document written to defame cato in response to cicero's published praise. poems by julius caesar are also mentioned in ancient sources.[ ] memoirs a edition of the gallic wars 	the commentarii de bello gallico, usually known in english as the gallic wars, seven books each covering one year of his campaigns in gaul and southern britain in the s bc, with the eighth book written by aulus hirtius on the last two years. 	the commentarii de bello civili (the civil war), events of the civil war from caesar's perspective, until immediately after pompey's death in egypt. other works historically have been attributed to caesar, but their authorship is in doubt: 	de bello alexandrino (on the alexandrine war), campaign in alexandria; 	de bello africo (on the african war), campaigns in north africa; and 	de bello hispaniensi (on the hispanic war), campaigns in the iberian peninsula. these narratives were written and published annually during or just after the actual campaigns, as a sort of "dispatches from the front." they were important in shaping caesar's public image and enhancing his reputation when he was away from rome for long periods. they may have been presented as public readings.[ ] as a model of clear and direct latin style, the gallic wars traditionally has been studied by first- or second-year latin students. legacy historiography the texts written by caesar, an autobiography of the most important events of his public life, are the most complete primary source for the reconstruction of his biography. however, caesar wrote those texts with his political career in mind, so historians must filter the exaggerations and bias contained in it.[ ] the roman emperor augustus began a cult of personality of caesar, which described augustus as caesar's political heir. the modern historiography is influenced by the octavian traditions, such as when caesar's epoch is considered a turning point in the history of the roman empire. still, historians try to filter the octavian bias.[ ] many rulers in history became interested in the historiography of caesar. napoleon iii wrote the scholarly work histoire de jules césar, which was not finished. the second volume listed previous rulers interested in the topic. charles viii ordered a monk to prepare a translation of the gallic wars in . charles v ordered a topographic study in france, to place the gallic wars in context; which created forty high-quality maps of the conflict. the contemporary ottoman sultan suleiman the magnificent catalogued the surviving editions of the commentaries, and translated them to turkish language. henry iv and louis xiii of france translated the first two commentaries and the last two respectively; louis xiv retranslated the first one afterwards.[ ] politics main article: caesarism julius caesar is seen as the main example of caesarism, a form of political rule led by a charismatic strongman whose rule is based upon a cult of personality, whose rationale is the need to rule by force, establishing a violent social order, and being a regime involving prominence of the military in the government.[ ] other people in history, such as the french napoleon bonaparte and the italian benito mussolini, have defined themselves as caesarists.[ ][ ] bonaparte did not focus only on caesar's military career but also on his relation with the masses, a predecessor to populism.[ ] the word is also used in a pejorative manner by critics of this type of political rule. depictions main article: cultural depictions of julius caesar 	 			 			 bust in naples national archaeological museum, photograph published in 			 		 	 			 			 bust in the national archaeological museum of naples 			 		 	 			 			 bust of julius caesar from the british museum 			 		 	 			 			 modern bronze statue of julius caesar, rimini, italy 			 		 battle record 	date 	war 	action 	opponent/s 	type 	country (present day) 	outcome 	 bc bc 	gallic wars 	arar battle of the arar 	.helvetii 	battle 	france 	victory ⁂ 	 bc bc 	gallic wars 	mount haemus battle of bibracte 	helvetii, boii, tulingi, rauraci 	battle 	france 	victory ⁂ 	 bc bc 	gallic wars 	vosges battle of vosges 	.suebi 	battle 	france 	victory ⁂ 	 bc bc 	gallic wars 	battle of the axona 	.belgae 	battle 	france 	victory ⁂ 	 bc bc 	gallic wars 	battle of the sabis battle of the sabis 	.nervii, viromandui, atrebates, aduatuci 	battle 	france 	victory ⁂ 	 and bc and bc 	gallic wars 	julius caesar's invasions of britain julius caesar's invasions of britain 	.celtic britons 	campaign 	england 	victory ⁂ 	 bc– bc bc– bc 	gallic wars 	ambiorix's revolt ambiorix's revolt 	.eburones 	campaign 	belgium, france 	victory ⁂ 	 bc bc 	gallic wars 	avaricum avaricum 	.bituriges, arverni 	siege 	france 	victory ⁂ 	 bc bc 	gallic wars 	battle of gergovia battle of gergovia 	.gallic tribes 	battle 	france 	defeat 	september bc 	gallic wars 	battle of alesia battle of alesia 	.gallic confederation 	siege and battle 	alise-sainte-reine, france 	decisive victory ⁂ 	 bc bc 	gallic wars 	siege of uxellodunum siege of uxellodunum 	.gallic 	siege 	vayrac, france 	victory ⁂ 	june–august bc june–august bc 	caesar's civil war 	battle of ilerda battle of ilerda 	optimates. 	battle 	catalonia, spain 	victory ⁂ 	 july bc july bc 	caesar's civil war 	battle of dyrrhachium ( bc) 	.optimates 	battle 	durrës, albania 	defeat ⁂ 	 august bc august bc 	caesar's civil war 	battle of pharsalus 	.pompeians 	battle 	greece 	decisive victory ⁂ 	 january bc january bc 	caesar's civil war 	battle of ruspina battle of ruspina 	.optimates, numidia 	battle 	ruspina africa 	defeat ⁂ 	 april bc april bc 	caesar's civil war 	battle of thapsus battle of thapsus 	.optimates, numidia 	battle 	tunisia 	decisive victory ⁂ 	 march bc march bc 	caesar's civil war 	battle of munda battle of munda 	.pompeians 	battle 	andalusia spain 	victory ⁂ chronology see also 	et tu, brute? 	gaius julius caesar (name) 	julius caesar, a play by william shakespeare (c. ) 	giulio cesare, an opera by handel, 	veni, vidi, vici 	caesareum of alexandria notes 	^ his titulary name was imperator gaius iulius gaii filius gaii nepos caesar pater patriae "commander gaius julius caesar, son of gaius, grandson of gaius, father of the fatherland", pronounced [ɪmpɛˈraːtɔr ˈɡaːiʊs ˈjuːliʊs ˈɡaː(i)iː ˈfiːliʊs ˈɡaː(i)iː ˈnɛpoːs ˈkae̯sar ˈpatɛr ˈpatriae̯] (suetonius, divus julius . ). official name after deification in  bc: divus iulius ("the divine julius"). references 	^ for july being the wrong date, see badian in griffin (ed.) p. 	^ keppie, lawrence ( ). 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	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 hydatius - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	hydatius 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 th-century bishop and historian hydatius, also spelled idacius (c. – c. ), bishop of aquae flaviae in the roman province of gallaecia (almost certainly the modern chaves, portugal, in the modern district of vila real) was the author of a chronicle of his own times that provides us with our best evidence for the history of hispania (that is, the iberian peninsula in roman times) in the th century. contents 	 life 	 chronicle 	 references 	 sources 	 . edition 	 . secondary sources 	 external links life[edit] hydatius was born around the year in the environs of civitas lemica, a roman town near modern xinzo de limia in the spanish galician province of ourense. as a young boy, he travelled as a pilgrim to the holy land with his mother, where he met jerome in his hermitage at bethlehem.[ ] about the year he joined the clergy, and in was consecrated bishop probably of chaves (the roman aquae flaviae) in gallaecia. as bishop he had to come to terms with the presence of non-roman powers, especially a succession of kings of the suevi, in a province where imperial control became increasingly nominal during the course of his lifetime. the suevi had settled in gallaecia in , and there was constant friction between them and the local hispano-roman provincials. in this context, hydatius took part in a deputation of the year requesting assistance in dealing with the suevi from the general flavius aëtius, the most important representative of the imperial government in the west. along with this concern, hydatius devoted himself to rooting out heresy, not just in his own episcopal diocese, but in the rest of hispania as well. he was in frequent contact with some important bishops of the day, including thoribius of astorga and antoninus of mérida. together with thoribius, he petitioned pope leo i for assistance and advice in dealing with heresy. though hydatius consistently characterizes hispanian heretics as manichees, it is generally believed that he meant priscillianists, followers of the ascetic bishop priscillian, who had been condemned as a heretic by several church councils and executed as a magician by the emperor magnus maximus around . we know very little else about hydatius's life, though we know he was kidnapped and imprisoned for a time in by local enemies, which suggests he played an important role in the internal politics of roman gallaecia. hydatius probably died in or shortly after, since at that point his chronicle breaks off abruptly. chronicle[edit] hydatius's main claim to historical importance is the chronicle he wrote towards the end of his life. the chronicle was a very popular historical genre in late antiquity, though with precedents in older chronographic genres like the fasti consulares. a consciously christian genre, the main goal of the chronicle was to place human history in the context of a linear progression from creation according genesis to the second coming of christ. under the entry for each year one or several events were listed, usually with great brevity. the greatest exponent of the form had been the fourth-century bishop eusebius of caesarea. jerome brought the greek chronicle of eusebius of caesarea up to date as far as the year , after translating it into latin. jerome's translation and continuation proved very popular, and others decided to continue jerome in the same way. hydatius was one such continuator. his continuation begins with a preface explaining his debt to jerome, and then picks up in the year . hydatius had access to a number of chronographic and historical sources and used four parallel chronological systems. because of this, and particularly towards the end of the chronicle, it can be difficult to translate his chronology into any modern calendar. at the beginning, hydatius's continuation offers relatively little information for each year. he narrates the events from onward as a contemporary witness and the text becomes increasingly full as the years progress until it resembles an organic literary work more than a typical chronicle. hydatius's main concern throughout is to show the dissolution of civil society in the western roman empire and in hispania in particular, and he paints a very dark picture of fifth-century life. his deep pessimism may stem from a belief in the imminent end of the world, since he had read the apocryphal letter of christ to thomas, which was interpreted to show that the world would end in may . hydatius may thus have believed that he was chronicling the world's last days, and on occasion he deliberately distorted his account to show events in a gloomier light. this is especially true of the narrative climax of his account, the sack in of the suevi capital at braga by the visigothic king theodoric ii, acting in the service of the roman emperor avitus. regardless of his sometimes very sophisticated literary devices, hydatius's chronicle is an essential source of information for reconstructing the course of fifth-century events. moreover, it is our only source for the history of hispania in the period up to , at which point the narrative breaks off. it is doubtful whether hydatius is also the author of the fasti consulares for the years – , appended to the chronicle in the only almost complete manuscript in our possession. the chronicle is printed in migne, p.l. vol. , – , and vol. , – ; the fasti consulares are found in p.l., vol. , – . references[edit] 	^ brown, peter. the rise of western christendom. (malden, massachusetts: blackwell publishing, ) p. sources[edit] edition[edit] 	burgess, r.w., ed. and trans. the chronicle of hydatius and the consularia constantinopolitana. oxford: clarendon press, . (this is now the standard reference work, with latin and english translation on facing pages. the chapter numbering differs from mommsen's.). 	mommsen, theodor, ed. chronica minora saec. iv.v.vi.vii., volumen ii. (monumenta germaniae historica, auctores antiquissimi, vol. .) berlin: weidmann, . (this was until recently the standard edition, and its chapter numbering is still frequently cited.) secondary sources[edit] 	arce, javier. "el catastrofismo de hydacio y los camellos de la gallaecia." in: los últimos romanos en lusitania. (cuaderno emeritenses .) edited by a. velázquez, e. cerrillo and p. mateos. mérida: museo nacional de arte romano, , pp.  – . (an example of hydatius's literary sophistication.) 	börm, henning. "hydatius von aquae flaviae und die einheit des römischen reiches im fünften jahrhundert." in: griechische profanhistoriker des fünften nachchristlichen jahrhunderts. edited by b. bleckmann and t. stickler. stuttgart: franz steiner verlag, , pp.  – . (börm argues that hydatius saw the roman empire as an undivided whole even after .) 	gillett, andrew. envoys and political communication in the late antique west, - . cambridge: cambridge university press, (esp. ch. ). 	kulikowski, michael. late roman spain and its cities. baltimore: johns hopkins university press, . 	muhlberger, steven. the fifth-century chroniclers: prosper, hydatius, and the gallic chronicler of . leeds: francis cairns, . 	 herbermann, charles, ed. ( ). 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(discuss) proposed since october . this article is about the alphabet used to write the latin language. for modern alphabets derived from it used in other languages and applications, see latin script and latin-script alphabet. 	latin 	 	type	 alphabet 	languages		latin 	romance 	germanic some dialects of 	kurdish 	celtic 	baltic 	some slavic languages 	some turkic languages 	some uralic languages 	some caucasic languages 	some niger–congo languages 	some nilo-saharan languages 	afroasiatic languages 	austronesian languages 	austroasiatic languages official script in: sovereign states 	 albania 	 andorra 	 angola 	 antigua and barbuda 	 argentina 	 australia 	 austria 	 azerbaijan 	 bahamas 	 barbados 	 belgium 	 belize 	 benin 	 bolivia 	 botswana 	 brazil 	 burkina faso 	 burundi 	 cameroon 	 canada 	 cape verde 	 central african republic 	 chile 	 colombia 	 congo 	 costa rica 	 cote d'ivoire 	 croatia 	 cuba 	 czech republic 	 denmark 	 democratic republic of congo 	 dominica 	 dominican republic 	 east timor 	 ecuador 	 el salvador 	 equatorial guinea 	 estonia 	 fiji 	 finland 	 france 	 gabon 	 gambia 	 ghana 	 germany 	 grenada 	 guatemala 	 guinea 	 guyana 	 haiti 	 honduras 	 hungary 	 iceland 	 indonesia 	 ireland 	 italy 	 jamaica 	 kenya 	 kiribati 	 kazakhstan 	 latvia 	 lesotho 	 liberia 	 liechtenstein 	 lithuania 	 luxembourg 	 madagascar 	 malawi 	 malaysia 	 mali 	 malta 	 marshall islands 	 mexico 	 micronesia 	 moldova 	 monaco 	 mozambique 	 namibia 	 nauru 	 netherlands 	 new zealand 	 nicaragua 	 niger 	 nigeria 	 norway 	 palau 	 panama 	 papua new guinea 	 paraguay 	 peru 	 philippines 	 poland 	 portugal 	 romania 	 rwanda 	 samoa 	 san marino 	 saint kitts and nevis 	 saint lucia 	 são tomé and príncipe 	 saint vincent and the grenadines 	 senegal 	 sierra leone 	 singapore 	 slovakia 	 slovenia 	 solomon islands 	 south africa 	 spain 	 south sudan 	 suriname 	 swaziland 	 sweden 	  switzerland 	 tanzania 	 togo 	 tonga 	 trinidad and tobago 	 turkey 	 turkmenistan 	 tuvalu 	 uganda 	 united kingdom 	 united states 	 uruguay 	 uzbekistan 	 vanuatu 	  vatican city 	 venezuela 	 vietnam 	 zambia 	 zimbabwe co-official script in: sovereign states 	 bosnia and herzegovina 	 chad 	 djibouti 	 eritrea 	 india 	 kazakhstan 	 mauritania 	 montenegro 	 pakistan 	 serbia 	 somalia 	 sudan 	 european union 	time period 	c.  bc – present 	parent systems 	egyptian hieroglyphs	proto-sinaitic alphabet	phoenician alphabet	greek alphabet	old italic script	latin 	child systems 	numerous latin alphabets; also more divergent derivations such as osage 	sister systems 		cyrillic 	coptic 	armenian 	georgian 	runic (futhark) 	direction	left-to-right 	iso 	latn, 	unicode alias 	latin 	unicode range 	see latin characters in unicode 	this article contains ipa phonetic symbols. without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of unicode characters. for an introductory guide on ipa symbols, see help:ipa. 		this article contains special characters. without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. 	 history of the alphabet egyptian hieroglyphs c. bce 	hieratic c. bce 	demotic c. bce 	meroitic c. bce 	proto-sinaitic c. bce 	ugaritic c. bce 	epigraphic south arabian c. bce 	ge’ez – c. bce 	phoenician c. bce 	paleo-hebrew c. bce 	samaritan c. bce 	libyco-berber c. bce 	tifinagh 	paleohispanic (semi-syllabic) c. bce 	aramaic c. bce 	kharoṣṭhī c. bce 	brāhmī c. bce 	brahmic family (see) 	e.g. tibetan c. ce 	devanagari c. ce 	canadian syllabics 	hebrew c. bce 	square aramiac alphabet 	pahlavi c. bce 	avestan c. ce 	palmyrene c. bce 	nabataean c. bce 	arabic c. ce 	n'ko ce 	syriac c. bce 	sogdian c. bce 	orkhon (old turkic) c. ce 	old hungarian c. ce 	old uyghur 	mongolian ce 	mandaic c. ce 	greek c. bce 	etruscan c. bce 	latin c. bce 	cherokee (syllabary; letter forms only) c. ce 	osage ce 	runic c. ce 	ogham (origin uncertain) c. ce 	coptic c. ce 	gothic c. ce 	armenian ce 	caucasian albanian (origin uncertain) c. ce 	georgian (origin uncertain) c. ce 	glagolitic ce 	cyrillic c. ce 	old permic ce hangul thaana c. ce (derived from brahmi numerals) 		v 	t 	e 	 	calligraphy 	 	arabic 	chinese 	georgian 	indian 	islamic 	japanese 	korean 	mongolian 	persian 	tibetan 	vietnamese 	western 	 	v 	t 	e the latin or roman alphabet is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient romans to write the latin language and its extensions used to write modern languages. contents 	 etymology 	 evolution 	 . diacritics 	 . signs and abbreviations 	 history 	 . origins 	 . . old italic alphabet 	 . . archaic latin alphabet 	 . . old latin alphabet 	 . . classical latin alphabet 	 . medieval and later developments 	 . spread 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links etymology the term latin alphabet may refer to either the alphabet used to write latin (as described in this article) or other alphabets based on the latin script, which is the basic set of letters common to the various alphabets descended from the classical latin alphabet, such as the english alphabet. these latin-script alphabets may discard letters, like the rotokas alphabet, or add new letters, like the danish and norwegian alphabets. letter shapes have evolved over the centuries, including the development in medieval latin of lower-case, forms which did not exist in the classical period alphabet. evolution due to its use in writing germanic, romance and other languages first in europe and then in other parts of the world and due to its use in romanizing writing of other languages, it has become widespread (see latin script). it is also used officially in asian countries such as china (separate from its ideographic writing), malaysia, indonesia, and vietnam, and has been adopted by baltic and some slavic states. the latin alphabet evolved from the visually similar etruscan alphabet, which evolved from the cumaean greek version of the greek alphabet, which was itself descended from the phoenician alphabet, which in turn derived from egyptian hieroglyphics.[ ] the etruscans ruled early rome; their alphabet evolved in rome over successive centuries to produce the latin alphabet. during the middle ages, the latin alphabet was used (sometimes with modifications) for writing romance languages, which are direct descendants of latin, as well as celtic, germanic, baltic and some slavic languages. with the age of colonialism and christian evangelism, the latin script spread beyond europe, coming into use for writing indigenous american, australian, austronesian, austroasiatic and african languages. more recently, linguists have also tended to prefer the latin script or the international phonetic alphabet (itself largely based on the latin script) when transcribing or creating written standards for non-european languages, such as the african reference alphabet. diacritics although it does not seem that classical latin used diacritics (accents etc), modern english is the only major modern european language that does not have any for native words.[note ] signs and abbreviations although latin did not use diacritical signs, signs of truncation of words, often placed above the truncated word or at the end of it, were very common. furthermore, abbreviations or smaller overlapping letters were often used. this was due to the fact that if the text was engraved on the stone, the number of letters to be written was reduced, while if it was written on paper or parchment, it was spared the space, which was very precious. this habit continued even in the middle ages. hundreds of symbols and abbreviations exist, varying from century to century.[ ] history main article: history of the latin script 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (july ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) origins it is generally believed that the latin alphabet used by the romans was derived from the old italic alphabet used by the etruscans.[citation needed] that alphabet was derived from the euboean alphabet used by the cumae, which in turn was derived from the phoenician alphabet.[citation needed] old italic alphabet the duenos inscription, dated to the th century bc, shows the earliest known forms of the old latin alphabet. old italic alphabet 	letters	𐌀	𐌁	𐌂	𐌃	𐌄	𐌅	𐌆	𐌇	𐌈	𐌉	𐌊	𐌋	𐌌	𐌍	𐌎	𐌏	𐌐	𐌑	𐌒	𐌓	𐌔	𐌕	𐌖	𐌗	𐌘	𐌙	𐌚 	transliteration	a	b	c	d	e	v	z	h	Θ	i	k	l	m	n	Ξ	o	p	Ś	q	r	s	t	y	x	Φ	Ψ	f archaic latin alphabet archaic latin alphabet 	as old italic	𐌀	𐌁	𐌂	𐌃	𐌄	𐌅	𐌆	𐌇	𐌉	𐌊	𐌋	𐌌	𐌍	𐌏	𐌐	𐌒	𐌓	𐌔	𐌕	𐌖	𐌗 	as latin	a	b	c	d	e	f	z	h	i	k	l	m	n	o	p	q	r	s	t	v	x old latin alphabet latin included different characters. the letter ⟨c⟩ was the western form of the greek gamma, but it was used for the sounds /ɡ/ and /k/ alike, possibly under the influence of etruscan, which might have lacked any voiced plosives. later, probably during the rd century bc, the letter ⟨z⟩ – unneeded to write latin properly – was replaced with the new letter ⟨g⟩, a ⟨c⟩ modified with a small vertical stroke, which took its place in the alphabet. from then on, ⟨g⟩ represented the voiced plosive /ɡ/, while ⟨c⟩ was generally reserved for the voiceless plosive /k/. the letter ⟨k⟩ was used only rarely, in a small number of words such as kalendae, often interchangeably with ⟨c⟩. old latin alphabet 	letter	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h	i	k	l	m	n	o	p	q	r	s	t	v	x classical latin alphabet the apices in this first-century inscription are very light. (there is one over the ó in the first line.) the vowel i is written taller rather than taking an apex. the interpuncts are comma-shaped, an elaboration of a more typical triangular shape. from the shrine of the augustales at herculaneum. after the roman conquest of greece in the st century bc, latin adopted the greek letters ⟨y⟩ and ⟨z⟩ (or readopted, in the latter case) to write greek loanwords, placing them at the end of the alphabet. an attempt by the emperor claudius to introduce three additional letters did not last. thus it was during the classical latin period that the latin alphabet contained letters: classical latin alphabet 	letter 	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h	i	k	l	m	n	o	p	q	r	s	t	v	x	y	z 	latin name (majus) 	 á	 bé	 cé	 dé	 é	 ef	 gé	 há	 í	 ká	 el	 em	 en	 ó	 pé	 q v́	 er	 es	 té	 v́	 ix	 í graeca	 zéta 	latin name 	ā	bē	cē	dē	ē	ef	gē	hā	ī	kā	el	em	en	ō	pē	qū	er	es	tē	ū	ix	ī graeca	zēta 	latin pronunciation (ipa) 	aː	beː	keː	deː	eː	ɛf	ɡeː	haː	iː	kaː	ɛl	ɛm	ɛn	oː	peː	kuː	ɛr	ɛs	teː	uː	iks	iː ˈɡraɪka	ˈdzeːta the latin names of some of these letters are disputed; for example, ⟨h⟩ may have been called latin pronunciation: [ˈaha] or latin pronunciation: [ˈaka].[ ] in general the romans did not use the traditional (semitic-derived) names as in greek: the names of the plosives were formed by adding /eː/ to their sound (except for ⟨k⟩ and ⟨q⟩, which needed different vowels to be distinguished from ⟨c⟩) and the names of the continuants consisted either of the bare sound, or the sound preceded by /e/. the letter ⟨y⟩ when introduced was probably called "hy" /hyː/ as in greek, the name upsilon not being in use yet, but this was changed to "i graeca" (greek i) as latin speakers had difficulty distinguishing its foreign sound /y/ from /i/. ⟨z⟩ was given its greek name, zeta. this scheme has continued to be used by most modern european languages that have adopted the latin alphabet. for the latin sounds represented by the various letters see latin spelling and pronunciation; for the names of the letters in english see english alphabet. diacritics were not regularly used, but they did occur sometimes, the most common being the apex used to mark long vowels, which had previously sometimes been written doubled. however, in place of taking an apex, the letter i was written taller: ⟨ á é ꟾ ó v́⟩. for example, what is today transcribed lūciī a fīliī was written ⟨ lv́ciꟾ·a·fꟾliꟾ⟩ in the inscription depicted. the primary mark of punctuation was the interpunct, which was used as a word divider, though it fell out of use after ad. old roman cursive script, also called majuscule cursive and capitalis cursive, was the everyday form of handwriting used for writing letters, by merchants writing business accounts, by schoolchildren learning the latin alphabet, and even emperors issuing commands. a more formal style of writing was based on roman square capitals, but cursive was used for quicker, informal writing. it was most commonly used from about the st century bc to the rd century, but it probably existed earlier than that. it led to uncial, a majuscule script commonly used from the rd to th centuries ad by latin and greek scribes. new roman cursive script, also known as minuscule cursive, was in use from the rd century to the th century, and uses letter forms that are more recognizable to modern eyes; ⟨a⟩, ⟨b⟩, ⟨d⟩, and ⟨e⟩ had taken a more familiar shape, and the other letters were proportionate to each other. this script evolved into the medieval scripts known as merovingian and carolingian minuscule. medieval and later developments de chalcographiae inventione ( , mainz) with the letters. j, u and w are missing. jeton from nuremberg, c.  it was not until the middle ages that the letter ⟨w⟩ (originally a ligature of two ⟨v⟩s) was added to the latin alphabet, to represent sounds from the germanic languages which did not exist in medieval latin, and only after the renaissance did the convention of treating ⟨i⟩ and ⟨u⟩ as vowels, and ⟨j⟩ and ⟨v⟩ as consonants, become established. prior to that, the former had been merely allographs of the latter.[citation needed] with the fragmentation of political power, the style of writing changed and varied greatly throughout the middle ages, even after the invention of the printing press. early deviations from the classical forms were the uncial script, a development of the old roman cursive, and various so-called minuscule scripts that developed from new roman cursive, of which the insular script developed by irish literati & derivations of this, such as carolingian minuscule were the most influential, introducing the lower case forms of the letters, as well as other writing conventions that have since become standard. the languages that use the latin script generally use capital letters to begin paragraphs and sentences and proper nouns. the rules for capitalization have changed over time, and different languages have varied in their rules for capitalization. old english, for example, was rarely written with even proper nouns capitalized, whereas modern english writers and printers of the th and th century frequently capitalized most and sometimes all nouns,[ ] which is still systematically done in modern german, e.g. in the preamble and all of the united states constitution: we the people of the united states, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution for the united states of america. spread main article: spread of the latin script this map shows the countries in the world that use only language(s) predominantly written in a latin alphabet as the official (or de facto official) national language(s) in dark green. the lighter green indicates the countries that use a language predominantly written in a latin alphabet as a co-official language at the national level. the latin alphabet spread, along with the latin language, from the italian peninsula to the lands surrounding the mediterranean sea with the expansion of the roman empire. the eastern half of the empire, including greece, anatolia, the levant, and egypt, continued to use greek as a lingua franca, but latin was widely spoken in the western half, and as the western romance languages evolved out of latin, they continued to use and adapt the latin alphabet. with the spread of western christianity during the middle ages, the script was gradually adopted by the peoples of northern europe who spoke celtic languages (displacing the ogham alphabet) or germanic languages (displacing earlier runic alphabets), baltic languages, as well as by the speakers of several uralic languages, most notably hungarian, finnish and estonian. the latin alphabet came into use for writing the west slavic languages and several south slavic languages, as the people who spoke them adopted roman catholicism. later, it was adopted by non-catholic countries. romanian, most of whose speakers are orthodox, was the first major language to switch from cyrillic to latin script, doing so in the th century, although moldova only did so after the soviet collapse. it has also been increasingly adopted by turkic-speaking countries, beginning with turkey in the s. after the soviet collapse, azerbaijan, turkmenistan, and uzbekistan all switched from cyrillic to latin. the government of kazakhstan announced in that the latin alphabet would replace cyrillic as the writing system for the kazakh language by .[ ] the spread of the latin alphabet among previously illiterate peoples has inspired the creation of new writing systems, such as the avoiuli alphabet in vanuatu, which replaces the letters of the latin alphabet with alternative symbols. see also 	latin spelling and pronunciation 	calligraphy 	euboean alphabet 	latin script in unicode 	iso basic latin alphabet 	latin- 	legacy of the roman empire 	palaeography 	phoenician alphabet 	pinyin 	roman letters used in mathematics 	typography 	western latin character sets (computing) notes 	^ a diaeresis may be seen in words such as "coöperation", though this is unusual. as an example, an article in the new yorker contained a diaeresis in "coöperate" (as well as cedilla in "façades" and a circumflex in the word "crêpe", both imported from french).[ ][ ] references 	^ michael c. howard ( ), transnationalism in ancient and medieval societies. p. . 	^ grafton, anthony ( - - ). "books: the nutty professors, the history of academic charisma". the new yorker. 	^ "the new yorker's odd mark — the diaeresis". december . archived from the original on december . 	^ cappelli, adriano ( ). dizionario di abbreviature latine ed italiane. milano: editore ulrico hoepli. isbn  - - - . 	^ liberman, anatoly ( august ). "alphabet soup, part : h and y". oxford etymologist. oxford university press. retrieved october . 	^ crystal, david ( august ). the cambridge encyclopedia of the english language. cambridge university press. isbn  – via google books. 	^ kazakh language to be converted to latin alphabet – mcs rk. inform.kz ( january ). retrieved on - - . further reading 	jensen, hans ( ). sign symbol and script. london: george allen and unwin ltd. isbn  - - - . transl. of jensen, hans ( ). die schrift in vergangenheit und gegenwart. deutscher verlag der wissenschaften. , as revised by the author 	rix, helmut ( ). "la scrittura e la lingua". in cristofani, mauro (hrsg.) (ed.). gli etruschi – una nuova immagine. firenze: giunti. pp. s. – . 	sampson, geoffrey ( ). writing systems. london (etc.): hutchinson. 	wachter, rudolf ( ). altlateinische inschriften: sprachliche und epigraphische untersuchungen zu den dokumenten bis etwa v.chr. bern (etc.). : peter lang. 	allen, w. sidney ( ). 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	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 juan boscán almogáver - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	juan boscán almogáver 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		  (redirected from juan boscán) 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		joan boscà i almogàver (catalan pronunciation: [ʒuˈam busˈka j əlmuˈɣaβə], spanish: juan boscán almogávar; c. – september ), was a spanish poet who incorporated hendecasyllable verses into spanish. contents 	 biography 	 works 	 later reputation 	 references 	 external links biography[edit] the exact date of birth for boscà is unclear, but there is a consensus that he was born anywhere between and . boscà was born in barcelona and was one of three children. his father, joan valentí boscà, was a public official, and his mother was named violant almogàver. boscà's father died in . around , boscà left to live in the court of fernando and isabel, where he was a student of lucio marineo siculo from vizzini, italy,[ ] who taught him the skill of translating italian love poetry, latin, and greek lyrics into spanish. marineo's teachings evidence the close cultural interactions that existed between spain and italy and helped to develop the talent of boscán. by , joan boscà was working as a tutor to fernando Álvarez de toledo, duke of alba. in this same year, he participated with garcilaso de la vega in giving naval assistance to the isle of rhodes during a turkish invasion. boscà fought against the turks again in with Álvarez de toledo and charles i in vienna. during this period, boscán had made serious progress in his mastery of verse in the italian style. boscà is most famous for the incorporation of hendecasyllable verses into spanish. although he was preceded by Íñigo lópez de mendoza, st marquess of santillana, who wrote sonnets in the italian style, boscà was one of the first people to use the present-day structures of the sonnet in castilian. his originality and open-minded nature made him an innovator, and his use of hendecasyllabic verse gave his poetry a distinctly creative flare that allowed him to emphasize the emotions and significance of each poem. in the s he came under the influence of andrea navagiero, the venetian ambassador to spain. it is because of navagiero's persuasion that boscà abandoned the traditional eight-syllable verses of spanish poetry. boscán was also influenced by another italian ambassador (a friend of navagiero) named count baldassare castiglione. boscán was urged by castiglione and garcilaso to translate the ambassador's "il cortegiano" into spanish, which was published on april to great success. with boscán's fame came great controversy, because he constantly had to combat with those who preferred the old style of poetry over the new. in , he married ana girón de rebolledo of valencia and fathered three daughters. boscán died on september after becoming ill in perpignan, while he was preparing some of his poetry for publication. works[edit] joan boscà's most famous works appear in las obras de boscán y algunas de garcilaso de la vega repartidas en quatro libros (the works of boscà and some of garcilaso de la vega divided in four volumes). in volume three, this includes leandro y hero (leander and hero), based on an ancient greek fable and ottava rima (royal octave). a stanza of "ottava rima" reads: 	 amor es todo quanto aquí se trata; es la sazón del tiempo enamorada; todo muere d'amor o d'amor mata; sin amor no veréyes ni una pisada; d'amores se negocia y se barata; toda la tierra en esto es ocupada; si veys bullir d'un árbol una hoja, diréys que amor aquello se os antoja 	 love is everything treated here; it is love's season; all dies of love or kills for love; without love you'll see hardly a footstep; with love, you trade and barter; the entire world is thus occupied; if a tree's leaf buds you will say that love tickles your desire. 	 	 carlos clavería, who has edited boscán´s work, affirms that the reader who reaches the third book will find veritable treasures, including the above cited mythological poem based on musaeus and with touches of virgil and hesiod. the reader will also find a petrarchan poem that has includes a very surprising turn.[ ] capítulo, which begins in a rather conventional manner, but then turns to describe in the last thirty-two tercets a painting from antiquity: timanthes's the sacrifice of iphigenia best known for the veil worn by agamemnon, her father, since the poet was unable to show his immense suffering. this is one of the earliest ekphrasis found in iberian renaissance poetry.[ ]what cannot be shown or described in the poem is the extreme jealousy felt by the poetic voice. later reputation[edit] boscà's and his close friend garcilaso de la vega (who he met at the spanish court) are seen as very influential in the poetry of the spanish renaissance. boscán was the first poet to introduce the italian metres to spain. boscà's poems were published after his death by his widow around (garcilaso died in and boscà was given the task of editing some of his works before his own death on september , ). the collection proved popular: between and , twenty-one editions were printed throughout europe. while the collection was supposed to focus mainly on his poetry, boscà was soon overshadowed by his friend garcilaso. in contrast to garcilaso, who explored several genres and themes in the new italian style, boscà wrote mostly about love. he has been compared to fray luis de león, a poet and professor of the th century, who also enjoyed the process of translating and writing poetry. one of his works, oh sombra!, was adapted into a song by the british rock band electrelane in . references[edit] 	^ jstor: renaissance quarterly, vol. , no. (autumn, ), pp. - :# marineo siculo: a protagonist of humanism in spain(erika rummel) 	^ carlos claveria, editor.juan boscan. madrid: catedra, . 	^ frederick a. de armas, 'un pintor clásico en la poesía del siglo de oro: timantes en boscán, garcilaso, lope de vega y argensola,” serenisima palabra: actas del x congreso de la asociación internacional siglo de oro (venecia, - de julio ), eds. ana bognolo et al., biblioteca de rassegna iberistica . venezia: edizione ca’foscari, : - . 	"juan boscán." (original name "joan boscà") in sixteenth-century spanish writers. volume : dictionary of literary biography, edited by gregory b. kaplan. chicago: bruccoli clark layman / gale, . pp.  – . (for the poem) 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). 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iambic heptameter is found in australian poet a. b. "banjo" paterson's "the man from ironbark". related to iambic heptameter is the more common ballad verse (also called common metre), in which a line of iambic tetrameter is succeeded by a line of iambic trimeter, usually in quatrain form. samuel taylor coleridge's the rime of the ancient mariner is a classic example of this form. the reverse of an iamb is called a trochee. types of meter[edit] key: 	non-bold = unstressed syllable 	bold = stressed syllable dimeter[edit] iambic dimeter is a meter referring to a line consisting of two iambic feet. the way a crow shook down on me.... (robert frost, "dust of snow") trimeter[edit] main article: iambic trimeter iambic trimeter is a meter referring to a line consisting of three iambic feet. we romped until the pans slid from the kitchen shelf; (theodore roethke, "my papa's waltz") the only news i know is bulletins all day (emily dickinson, "the only news i know") tetrameter[edit] main article: iambic tetrameter iambic tetrameter is a meter referring to a line consisting of four iambic feet: she walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies; (lord byron, "she walks in beauty") pentameter[edit] main article: iambic pentameter iambic pentameter is a meter referring to a line consisting of five iambic feet: 	to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. (alfred tennyson, "ulysses") 	shall i compare thee to a summer's day? (william shakespeare, sonnet ) (although, it could be argued that this line in fact reads: shall i compare thee to a summer's day? meter is often broken in this way, sometimes for intended effect and sometimes simply due to the sound of the words in the line. where the stresses lie can be debated, as it depends greatly on where the reader decides to place the stresses. although in this meter the foot is no longer iambs but trochees.)[original research?] 	a horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! (william shakespeare, richard iii) hexameter[edit] main article: iambic hexameter iambic hexameter is a meter referring to a line consisting of six iambic feet. in english verse, "alexandrine" is typically used to mean "iambic hexameter" 	ye sacred bards, that to ¦ your harps' melodious strings 	sung th'ancient heroes' deeds (the monuments of kings) (michael drayton, poly-olbion) heptameter[edit] main article: iambic heptameter iambic heptameter is a meter referring to a line consisting of seven iambic feet: 	i s'pose the flats is pretty green up there in ironbark. (a. b. paterson, the man from ironbark) sound change[edit] main article: latin spelling and pronunciation § iambic shortening through iambic shortening, a word with the shape light–heavy or short–long changes to become light–light. see also[edit] 		look up iamb in wiktionary, the free dictionary. 	common metre 	long metre 	prosody (latin) 	short metre notes[edit] 	^ r. s. p. beekes, etymological dictionary of greek, brill, , p. . 	^ versnel, h. s. ( ). "i. Θρίαμβος". triumphus: an inquiry into the origin, development and meaning of the roman triumph. leiden, netherlands: brill publishers. pp.  – . isbn  - - - . retrieved january . 	^ studies in greek elegy and iambus by martin litchfield west page isbn  - - - 	^ "poetry : what is a shakespearean sonnet? learn about shakespearean sonnets with examples". masterclass. master class. retrieved november . references[edit] 	murfin, ross c.; ray, supryia m. ( ). the bedford glossary of critical and literary terms. boston: bedford/st. martin's. isbn  - - - - . lccn  . external links[edit] 	"iambic" . encyclopædia britannica ( th ed.). . retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=iamb_(poetry)&oldid= " 		categories: 	metrical feet 	phonology hidden categories: 	articles with short description 	short description matches wikidata 	articles containing ancient greek (to )-language text 	all articles that may contain original research 	articles that may contain original research from february 	wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the encyclopaedia britannica with wikisource reference 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			article 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	edit 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		search 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigation 	 	 			main page 	contents 	current events 	random article 	about wikipedia 	contact us 	donate 		 	 	 	 		contribute 	 	 			help 	learn to edit 	community portal 	recent changes 	upload file 		 	 	 		tools 	 	 			what links here 	related changes 	upload file 	special pages 	permanent link 	page information 	cite this page 	wikidata item 		 	 	 		print/export 	 	 			download as pdf 	printable version 		 	 	 	 		languages 	 	 			alemannisch 	Беларуская 	Беларуская (тарашкевіца)‎ 	Български 	català 	Чӑвашла 	Čeština 	dansk 	deutsch 	eesti 	Ελληνικά 	español 	esperanto 	estremeñu 	euskara 	français 	galego 	贛語 	Հայերեն 	ido 	Íslenska 	italiano 	ქართული 	Кыргызча 	latina 	latviešu 	magyar 	nederlands 	日本語 	norsk bokmål 	norsk nynorsk 	polski 	português 	română 	Русский 	slovenčina 	slovenščina 	Српски / srpski 	srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски 	suomi 	svenska 	Українська 	中文 		edit links 	 		 this page was last edited on november , at :  (utc). 	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 hexameter - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	hexameter 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		hexameter is a metrical line of verses consisting of six feet. it was the standard epic metre in classical greek and latin literature, such as in the iliad, odyssey and aeneid. its use in other genres of composition include horace's satires, ovid's metamorphoses, and the hymns of orpheus. according to greek mythology, hexameter was invented by phemonoe, daughter of apollo and the first pythia of delphi.[ ][ ] contents 	 classical hexameter 	 application 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 external links classical hexameter[edit] in classical hexameter, the six feet follow these rules: 	a foot can be made up of two long syllables (– –), a spondee; or a long and two short syllables, a dactyl (– υ υ). 	the first four feet can contain either one of them. 	the fifth is almost always a dactyl, and last must be a spondee. a short syllable (υ) is a syllable with a short vowel and no consonant at the end. a long syllable (–) is a syllable that either has a long vowel, one or more consonants at the end (or a long consonant), or both. spaces between words are not counted in syllabification, so for instance "cat" is a long syllable in isolation, but "cat attack" would be syllabified as short-short-long: "ca", "ta", "tack" (υ υ –). variations of the sequence from line to line, as well as the use of caesura (logical full stops within the line) are essential in avoiding what may otherwise be a monotonous sing-song effect. application[edit] although the rules seem simple, it is hard to use classical hexameter in english, because english is a stress-timed language that condenses vowels and consonants between stressed syllables, while hexameter relies on the regular timing of the phonetic sounds. languages having the latter properties (i.e., languages that are not stress-timed) include ancient greek, latin, lithuanian and hungarian. while the above classical hexameter has never enjoyed much popularity in english, where the standard metre is iambic pentameter, english poems have frequently been written in iambic hexameter. there are numerous examples from the th century and a few from the th; the most prominent of these is michael drayton's poly-olbion ( ) in couplets of iambic hexameter. an example from drayton (marking the feet): 	nor a | ny o | ther wold | like cot | swold e | ver sped, 	so rich | and fair | a vale | in for | tuning | to wed. in the th century the iambic hexameter, also called alexandrine, was used as a substitution in the heroic couplet, and as one of the types of permissible lines in lyrical stanzas and the pindaric odes of cowley and dryden. several attempts were made in the th century to naturalise the dactylic hexameter to english, by henry wadsworth longfellow, arthur hugh clough and others, none of them particularly successful. gerard manley hopkins wrote many of his poems in six-foot iambic and sprung rhythm lines. in the th century a loose ballad-like six-foot line with a strong medial pause was used by william butler yeats. the iambic six-foot line has also been used occasionally, and an accentual six-foot line has been used by translators from the latin and many poets. in the late th century the hexameter was adapted to the lithuanian language by kristijonas donelaitis. his poem "metai" (the seasons) is considered the most successful hexameter text in lithuanian as yet. hungarian is extremely suitable to hexameter (and other forms of poetry based on quantitative metre).[ ] it has been applied to hungarian since , introduced by the grammarian jános sylvester.[ ] it can even occur spontaneously: a student may extricate oneself from failing to remember a poem by saying "i'm stuck here, unfortunately the rest won't come into my mind," which is a hexameter in hungarian: 	itt ela | kadtam, | sajnos | nem jut e | szembe a | többi. sándor weöres included an ordinary nameplate text ("gyula tóth tinsmith and plumber") in one of his poems (this time, a pentameter): 	tóth gyula | bádogos | és || vízveze | ték-szere | lő. an inscription on a bar of chocolate went as follows ("milk chocolate with apricot and biscuit pieces"), another hexameter, noticed by the poet dániel varró:[ ] 	tejcsoko | ládé | sárgaba | rack- és | kekszdara | bokkal. due to this feature, hexameter has been widely used both in translated (greek and roman) and in original hungarian poetry up to the twentieth century (e.g. by miklós radnóti).[ ] see also[edit] 	dactylic hexameter 	prosody (latin) notes[edit] 	^ pausanias, . . 	^ pliny the elder, . 	^ a magyar nyelv szelleme; művelt magyar nyelvtan i., , by the linguist jános fogarasi, pp. – [pp. – in the pdf] ha jelesb magyar költőink hexametereit olvassuk vagy halljuk, oly szabályszerűeknek találjuk a kifejezéseket, a szórendet oly erőltetésnélkülinek, s — a formától s válogatottabb szóktul elvontan — az egészet oly természetes folyamatúnak, mintha csak gondos kötetlen beszédet hallanánk. "when we read or hear hexameters by our hungarian poets of note, we find the expressions so regular, the word order so uncontrived, and – detached from the form and the refined terms – the whole so naturally flowing, as if we were to hear careful colloquial speech." the author then goes on to illustrate his point by quoting cserhalom by mihály vörösmarty. 	^ hexameter in pallas’ great lexicon. 	^ a líra az ász: varró dániel a költői szerepekről 	^ radnóti's poems with english translations, see the fifth, seventh or eighth eclogue, the seventh being the most famous, while the eighth is rendered into english in hexameter. references[edit] 	stephen greenblatt et al. the norton anthology of english literature, volume d, th edition (norton, ). 	pausanias. description of greece, vol. iv. translation by w.h.s. jones, litt.d., and h.a. ormerod, m.a. (cambridge, ma: harvard university press; london: william heinemann ltd., ). 	pliny the elder. the natural history. translated by john bostock, m.d., f.r.s. h.t. riley, esq., b.a. 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additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 iambus (genre) - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	iambus (genre) 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 engraving from quinti horatii flacci emblemata, antwerp , showing socrates receiving the contents of a chamberpot, and a young man bullying his elders in a boat in the background. iambus depicted the ugly and unheroic side of humanity. iambus or iambic poetry was a genre of ancient greek poetry that included but was not restricted to the iambic meter and whose origins modern scholars have traced to the cults of demeter and dionysus. the genre featured insulting and obscene language[ ][ ] and sometimes it is referred to as "blame poetry".[ ] for alexandrian editors, however, iambus signified any poetry of an informal kind that was intended to entertain, and it seems to have been performed on similar occasions as elegy even though lacking elegy's decorum.[ ] the archaic greek poets archilochus, semonides and hipponax were among the most famous of its early exponents. the alexandrian poet callimachus composed "iambic" poems against contemporary scholars, which were collected in an edition of about a thousand lines, of which fragments of thirteen poems survive.[ ] he in turn influenced roman poets such as catullus, who composed satirical epigrams that popularized hipponax's choliamb.[ ] horace's epodes on the other hand were mainly imitations of archilochus[ ] and, as with the greek poet, his invectives took the forms both of private revenge and denunciation of social offenders.[ ][ ] contents 	 historical background 	 a tale of two ditties 	 . epode 	 . strasbourg papyrus 	 extras 	 see also 	 notes 	 citations 	 references historical background[edit] originally "iambos" (ἴαμβος) denoted a type of poetry, specifically its content, and only secondarily did it have any significance as a metrical term. this emerges for example from the fact that archilochus, a famous iambic poet, was once criticized for being "too iambic"[nb ] the genre appears to have originated in the cult of demeter, whose festivals commonly featured insulting and abusive language (αἰσχρολογία, aischrologia). a figure called "iambe" is even mentioned in the homeric hymn to demeter, employing language so abusive that the goddess forgets her sorrows and laughs instead. the abuse of a divinity however is quite common in other cults too, as an ironic means of affirming piety: "normality is reinforced by experiencing its opposite".[ ] the common element in all iambus is blame, drawing attention to dangerous or unsuitable behaviours. it is addressed to an audience with shared values and customs, which are represented as under threat, as for example a body of citizens or companions. whatever its real composition, the audience is cast in the role of mutual friends and their friendship (φιλότης, philotēs or latin amicitia) is asserted in various ways: 	the poet, speaking in his own person, might criticize someone directly, whether a group member or an outsider; 	the poet might act out the role of someone guilty of misconduct, condemning "himself" in his own words; 	the poet might tell a story, combining 'self-indictments' with a narrative account of misconduct. blame ranges from humorous ribbing of friends to merciless attacks on outsiders.[ ] among ancient literary theorists, iambic verse came to be regarded as lower than lyric poetry, partly because iambic meter was thought to be the simplest of verse forms, and the nearest to common speech, but also because of its undignified content.[ ] it isn't clear what role archilochus played in the development of the literary genre at the beginning of the seventh century. demeter was a significant deity in his home island, paros, but she isn't prominent in his surviving poetry. possibly he became involved in iambus via the cult of dionysus. this cult's association with iambus seems to be indicated etymologically by the poetic form associated with dionysus, the dithyramb, a term which appears to include the same root as "iambus". early dithyrambs were a "riotous affair"[ ] and archilochus was prominent in the controversial development of dionyssian worship on paros[ ] (possibly in relation to phallic rites).[ ] there is no sure evidence about the original venue for iambic poetry but the drinking party (or symposium) and the cult festival were probably the main occasions.[ ] nor do we know clearly what role iambic poetry played in ancient society. it was certainly complex. it seems to have found voice during times of social change and political dissent, when the poet felt entitled or empowered to preach and condemn.[ ] semonides, probably about the middle of the seventh century, composed iambic verse on a misogynist theme, but without the invective and obscenity of archilochus.[ ] a hundred years after archilochus, hipponax was composing choliambs, a deliberately awkward version of the iambic trimeter symbolizing mankind's imperfections and vices,[ ] yet by then iambus seems to have been performed mainly for entertainment (our understanding of his work however might change significantly when and as more fragments are unearthed).[ ] the genre's religious and moral value was evidently not appreciated by the fifth century lyric poet pindar, who condemned archilochus for being "sharp-tongued" and "grown fat on the harsh words of hate",[ ] yet archilochus's brand of iambus could still find sympathetic audiences even in the first century ad, when the philosopher, dio chrysostom, compared him with homer in these terms: for of the two poets who for all time deserve to be compared with no other, namely homer and archilochus, homer praised nearly everything ... but archilochus went to the opposite extreme, to censure, seeing, i suppose, that men are in greater need of this, and first of all he censures himself ... [thus winning for himself, in dio's opinion] ... the highest commendation from heaven.[ ] the spread of literacy impacted on all ancient poetry, iambus included. its influence was already becoming evident in athens by the fifth century bc, gradually changing the nature of poetry from a performance before a local group to a literary artifact with an international reach.[ ] by the hellenistic period, the librarian/scholar callimachus claimed to be following the example of hipponax yet introduced a wider range of content and a more literary and intellectual focus. he also aligned iambus more closely with other genres[ ] such as curse poetry (Ἀραί) and farewell poetry (propemptika, προπέμπτικα).[ ] iambus was taken up as a political weapon by some public figures in rome, such as cato the elder, who, in an account by plutarch: ... betook himself to iambic verse, and heaped much scornful abuse upon scipio, adopting the bitter tone of archilochus, but avoiding his license and puerility.[ ] neoteric poets such as catullus combined a native tradition of satirical epigram with hipponax's pungent invective to form neatly crafted, personal attacks. hipponactean choliambs were among catullus's most often used meters[ ] but the spirit of iambus seems to have infused much of his non-iambic verse as well.[ ] horace nominally modelled his epodes on the work of archilochus but he mainly followed the example of callimachus, relying on painstaking craftsmanship rather than instinctive vitriol[ ] and broadening the range of the genre. thus for example he introduced a panagyric element in support of augustus (epodes and ), a lyrical element (epode ), and a suggestion of love poetry (epodes and ). moreover, his iambic persona is deliberately presented as powerless, in contrast to the swaggering persona of archilochus.[ ] horace's weak iambic persona is not inconsistent with the genre. traditionally the iambic poet, though he bullies others, is a victim too. thus archilochus was said to have driven his would-be in-laws to suicide by his invectives after they had cheated him out of a promised marriage, and hipponax was said to have driven bupalus to suicide after being caricatured by him in a sculpture. similarly the author of the strasbourg fragment below is motivated by revenge. moreover, horace's thematic variety is not without parallel among archaic poets such as archilochus and hipponax: the mood of the genre is meant to appear spontaneous and that inevitably led to some "hodepodge" contexts.[ ] whatever his unique contribution may have been, horace still managed to recreate something of the ancient spirit of the genre, alerting his companions to threats facing them as a group, in this case as roman citizens of a doomed republic: in the midst of a crisis which could be seen as a result of the decline and failure of traditional roman amicitia, horace turned to a type of poetry whose function had been the affirmation of "friendship" in its community. it is doubtful whether he believed that his or anyone else's poetry could avert disaster. but he may have hoped that his iambi would somehow 'blame' his friends and fellow citizens into at least asking themselves quo ruitis [i.e. where are you careering to]? — d. mankin[ ][nb ] a tale of two ditties[edit] the nature of iambus changed from one epoch to another, as becomes obvious if we compare two poems that are otherwise very similar – horace's epode (around bc) and the "strasbourg" papyrus, a fragment attributed either to archilochus or hipponax (seventh and sixth century respectively). the modern world became aware of the greek poem only in , when it was discovered by r. reitzenstein among other papyri at the university library of strasbourg. he published it straight away, recognizing its significance and its resemblance to horace's poem. this study however begins with horace and it is based on comments by eduard fraenkel.[ ] epode [edit] horace's poem is in couplets, where a line of iambic trimeter (six iambic feet) is followed by a line of iambic dimeter (four iambic feet). here it is broken into four-line stanzas to bring out the intrinsic structure of the poem. the english translation has the same metrical couplets but the rhythm is accentual (the norm for english verse) rather than quantitative (the norm for classical latin and greek verse). 	 	 	 mala soluta navis exit alite    ferens olentem mevium. ut horridis utrumque verberes latus,    auster, memento fluctibus; niger rudentis eurus inverso mari    fractosque remos differat; insurgat aquilo, quantus altis montibus    frangit trementis ilices; nec sidus atra nocte amicum appareat,    qua tristis orion cadit; quietiore nec feratur aequore    quam graia victorum manus, cum pallas usto vertit iram ab ilio    in inpiam aiacis ratem. o quantus instat navitis sudor tuis    tibique pallor luteus et illa non virilis eiulatio    preces et aversum ad iovem, ionius udo cum remugiens sinus    noto carinam ruperit! opima quodsi praeda curvo litore    porrecta mergos iuverit, libidinosus immolabitur caper    et agna tempestatibus. [ ] 	 the ship casts off from shore in an ill-omened hour,    carrying the stinking mevius. god of the southern wind – take care to pulverize    both its sides with horrendous waves! let the black eastern wind turn the sea upside-down,    some oars here, some rigging there, and may the north wind loom as large as when it rends    oaks trembling on the mountain tops, and not one friendly star appear through the dark night    as orion sinks in the west! may the sea carrying him be no more gentle than    the waves the winning greeks sailed on that time athena turned her rage from smouldering troy    onto ajax and his damned ship! oh what a cold damp sweating will beset your crew    while you change hue to a pale green, and oh how woman-like will all that wailing be    and all those prayers ignored by jove, when the ionian sea, resounding with the wet    southern wind, breaks apart your ship! if then the rich spoil, scattered round the curving shore,    lies at the pleasure of the gulls, there will be sacrifices of a lusty goat    and lamb in honour of the winds. it is not known who mevius is nor what he is supposed to have done wrong. the name could be of a real person but it could also function like "john doe" and thus it might be a stock figure with some special significance for the original audience. some scholars identify him with the maevius rubbished as a contemptible poet by virgil in eclogues . but there is no proof for such an identification. he could represent an imaginary scapegoat intended to avert the gods' anger from the poet's circle of 'friends', a device common in the archaic iambus of hipponax and archilochus: in this case, the "friends" may be understood to be roman citizens at a time of social and political decay.[ ] a fictional mevius would also be consistent with iambus as a mere literary topic, where horace makes up for the lack of any real context by adding artistic values, in the hellenistic manner.[ ] the poem is skilfully structured. there is an introduction briefly outlining the situation (lines – ), a large midsection made up of curses (lines – ) and predictions ( – ), and finally an epilogue ( – ). three winds (auster, eurus, aquilo) are the chief figures in the main body of the poem and also at the very end (tempestates). each wind is assigned its own couplet (lines – ), but only the south wind is addressed. the south wind gets another mention, though by a different name, 'notus' (line ), so that these two mentions provide the poem with the kind of symmetry found in ring composition. by the latter part of the poem, however, the south wind is no longer being addressed, a change that happens when mevius is addressed instead (lines – ). this change in addressee is preceded by a mythological episode taken from the heroic ajax legend, occurring exactly in the middle of the poem (lines – ), where it functions as a sort of piano nobile, with curses before and predictions afterwards. in some versions of the poem, mevius continues to be addressed right to the very end, i.e. iuverit has been taken to be iuveris instead (line ). some scholars prefer iuveris since it implies that only mevius ends up as rich spoil for the gulls, but other scholars argue that it is quite consistent with iambus for the whole crew to be punished on account of one offender, a result implied by the impersonal ending iuverit in the version here. moreover, the impersonal ending marks a clear break between the epilogue and the main body of the poem.[ ] the intricate structure of the poem reveals hellenistic influence. a poet of the archaic period, such as archilochus or hipponax, might have mentioned this or that wind but not arranged them as neatly as here, assigning each its own couplet. moreover, the epode bears resemblance to curse poems or Ἀραί, fashionable in the hellenistic period. on the other hand, horace leaves out the heavy-handed pedantry of a craftsman like callimachus. the epode also resembles a "farewell" poem or προπεμπτικόν but with an ironic inversion: in a hellenistic "farewell" poem, it was conventional to wish upon the traveller a safe voyage and favourable winds, pledging sacrifices if the ship arrived at port. nevertheless, the ironic genre-bending quality of epode (and some others in the collection) was fairly typical of hellenistic poetry generally. to sum up. horace did not attempt to reproduce the true nature of the old greek iambus which had partly suggested to him the theme of his epode. his borrowing was confined to the most general outlines of the subject. as if to make up for the resulting loss, he embroidered his own poem with many elaborate devices, most of them derived from hellenistic poetry. consequently what had been a weapon in a serious struggle became in his hands a dexterous display of literary patterns. — eduard fraenkel[ ] the "serious struggle" is found in the strasbourg fragment. strasbourg papyrus[edit] reitzenstein, the first editor of the fragment, attributed it to archilochus but, in the following year ( ) friedrich blass assigned it to hipponax. the papyrus includes, among its tattered portions, an incomplete name (Ἱππωνά.., hippona..), which seems to support blass's identification since hipponax often mentions himself by name in his extant work. however the brilliance of the poem's invective suggests it is the work of a more significant poet i.e. archilochus.[ ] some scholars conclude that the fragment is not a single poem, assigning part to archilochus and the rest to hipponax.[ ] like horace's epode above, the verse below is made of couplets, but the meter is a bit different. an initial line of iambic trimeter in this case is followed by a hemiepes (two dactyls then an emphatic final syllable). the english translation follows it closely but in accentual rhythm. the opening lines are lost and the square brackets indicate another lost portion. the square brackets are not in the english version, replaced by an "educated guess" suggested by eduard fraenkel. a few more letters were lost in the original but scholars are in general agreement about their identity and those gaps are not shown here. the comments are also largely based on fraenkel's work.[ ] despite all the gaps in the original, the fragment supplies a key meaning absent from horace's epode – a motive for hate. 	 	 	 .....    κύματι πλαζόμενος· κἀν Σαλμυδησσῶι γυμνὸν εὐφρονέστατα    Θρήϊκες ἀκρόκομοι λάβοιεν - ἔνθα πόλλ᾽ ἀναπλήσει κακὰ    δούλιον ἄρτον ἔδων - ῥίγει πεπηγότ᾽ αὐτόν· ἐκ δὲ τοῦ χνόου    φυκία πόλλ᾽ ἐπέχοι, κροτέοι δ᾽ ὀδόντας, ὡς κύων ἐπὶ στόμα    κείμενος ἀκρασίηι ἄκρον παρὰ ῥηγμῖνα κυμα[...]    ταῦτ᾽ ἐθέλοιμ᾽ ἂν ἰδεῖν, ὅς μ᾽ ἠδίκησε, λὰξ δ᾽ ἐφ᾽ ὁρκίοισ᾽ ἔβη,    τὸ πρὶν ἑταῖρος ἐών.[ ] 	 ....    drifting about in the swell; when he comes nude to salmydessus, may the kind    thracians, their hair in a bun, take him in hand – there he shall have his fill of woe,    slavishly eating his bread – stiff with the freezing cold; emerging from the froth,    clung to by piles of seaweed, may he lie like a dog face-down on chattering teeth,    laid low by his feebleness, sprawled at the breakers' edge, still licked at by the surf!    these are the things i must see, because he wronged me, trampling all over our oaths,    once a companion of mine! the language is vigorous and direct, appropriate to the mood of the piece. some of the diction is borrowed from the older work of homer but it adds dignity and pathos without any artificiality. meanings flow clearly and naturally with the simple meter, except in one place, marked with a "parenthesis" or endash, where emotions get ahead of the poet's control as he anticipates years of suffering for his former friend. images seem to tumble from his excited mind but nothing is superfluous and his control of the material is shown for example in his use of irony when referring to the great kindness of the savage thracians, their hair neatly dressed, in contrast to his nude friend.[ ] his skill as a wordsmith can be seen in the way he loads the beginnings of lines with key words, a trend he overturns in the final couplet, with a caesura, marked by a comma, between key words justifying his hatred, μ᾽ ἠδίκησε, λὰξ ("wronged me, trampling").[ ] one of the uncertainties in the text comes in the word ἐπέχοι, which indicates that the seaweed has a hold on the castaway. some scholars prefer to read ἐπιχέοι, indicating that he spews out seaweed.[nb ] scholars often contrast the poem's realism with the artificiality of horace's epode , but not all scholars are willing to go along with this view, citing the homeric diction as a literary device and the absence of proof that the oath-breaker was ever a real man rather than just a scapegoat or imaginary exemplar.[ ] yet the poet has made the context seem real. in this poem fierce hatred mingled with contempt finds a powerful voice, and yet, with so much passion, every phrase and every sentence is kept strictly under the control of a masterly mind. the impact on the ear, on the eye, and on the sense of smell is strong throughout. every detail, the surf, the seaweed, the dog, the wretched man's frozen body, is there, life-like, or rather in even sharper outlines than they would appear to us in actual life. — e. fraenkel.[ ] extras[edit] 	in his famous speech on the crown, the great athenian rhetor, demosthenes, denounced his rival aeschines with the neologism ἰαμβειοφάγος, signifying an iambus devourer or devourer of insults.[ ] see also[edit] 	library resources about iambus 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	prosody (latin) 	epodes (horace) 	epode 	category:iambic poets notes[edit] 	^ the phrase "too iambic" appears in a fragmentary inscription dated to the third century bc, originally part of a commemorative shrine to archilochus, "the archilocheion". the inscription was a part of a record of his life and reception on paros, where his poetry was deemed offensive by the population until dionyssus opened their eyes to their own folly by punishing them with some kind of affliction, possibly impotence (the fragment is very patchy at that point). a pythian oracle then advised them to honour archilochus and thus a shrine was established to him. (see archilochus fr. and commentary, d.e. gerber, greek iambic poetry, – 	^ mankin's latin here refers to the opening to epode , "quo quo scelesti ruitis? 	^ the variant reading is cited for instance by d. gerber, greek iambic poetry, citations[edit] 	^ christopher brown, in a companion to the greek lyric poets, d.e.gerber (ed), leiden , pages – 	^ douglas e. gerber, greek iambic poetry, loeb classical library ( ), introduction pages i–iv 	^ d. mankin, horace: epodes,c.u.p., 	^ j.p. barron and p.e. easterling, "elegy and iambus" in the cambridge history of classical literature: greek literature, p.easterling and b.knox (eds), cambridge university press ( ), page 	^ a.w. bulloch, "hellenistic poetry", in the cambridge history of classical literature: greek literature, p.easterling and b.knox (eds), cambridge university press ( ), pages – , 	^ peter green, the poems of catullus, university of california press ( ), pages , 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, sandpiper books ltd, 	^ j.p. clancy, the odes and epodes of horace, chicago ( ), page 	^ v.g. kiernan, horace: poetics and politics, new york ( ), page 	^ c. brown in a companion to the greek lyric poets, 	^ d. mankin, horace: epodes, – 	^ s. harrison, lyric and iambic, 	^ d. gerber, greek iambic poetry, – 	^ d. campbell, greek lyric poetry, 	^ d. gerber, greek iambic poetry, 	^ d. gerber, greek iambic poetry, 	^ l. o'higgins, women and humour in classical greece, 	^ d. gerber, greek iambic poetry, – 	^ p. green, the poems of catullus, , 	^ d. gerber, greek iambic poetry, 	^ pindar, pythian ii, translated by geoffrey conway, the odes of pindar, 	^ dio chrysostom . – , cited and translated by douglas e. gerber, greek iambic poetry, 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, 	^ s. harrison, lyric and iambic, 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, 	^ plutarch, life of cato, quoted by d. gerber, greek iambic poetry, 	^ p. green, the poems of catullus, , 	^ s. harrison, lyric and iambic, 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, 	^ s. harrison, lyric and iambic, – 	^ l. watson, the epodes: horace's archilochus?, 	^ d. mankin, horace: epodes, 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, – 	^ epode from d. mankin, horace: epodes, - 	^ d. mankin, horace: epodes, – 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, – 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, - 	^ d. campbell, greek lyric poetry, 	^ d. gerber, greek iambic poetry, 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, – 	^ strasburg papyrus, d. gerber, greek iambic poetry, - 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, – 	^ d. campbell, greek lyric poetry, 	^ d. mankin, horace: epodes, 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, – 	^ harvey yunis, demosthenes: on the crown, cambridge university press ( ), page , note references[edit] 	barron, j.p. and easterling, p.e. 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	dux 	officium 	praeses 	praefectus 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 	 	other countries 		v 	t 	e the latin word "imperator" derives from the stem of the verb imperare, meaning 'to order, to command'. it was originally employed as a title roughly equivalent to commander under the roman republic. later it became a part of the titulature of the roman emperors as part of their cognomen. the english word emperor derives from imperator via old french: empereür. the roman emperors themselves generally based their authority on multiple titles and positions, rather than preferring any single title. nevertheless, imperator was used relatively consistently as an element of a roman ruler's title throughout the principate and the dominate. contents 	 imperatores in the ancient roman kingdom 	 imperatores in the roman republic 	 imperator as an imperial title 	 post-roman use 	 imperatrix 	 derivatives 	 references 	 bibliography imperatores in the ancient roman kingdom[edit] when rome was ruled by kings,[ ] to be able to rule, the king had to be invested with the full regal authority and power. so, after the comitia curiata, held to elect the king, the king also had to be conferred the imperium.[ ] imperatores in the roman republic[edit] in roman republican literature and epigraphy, an imperator was a magistrate with imperium.[ ] but also, mainly in the later roman republic and during the late republican civil wars, imperator was the honorific title assumed by certain military commanders. after an especially great victory, an army's troops in the field would proclaim their commander imperator, an acclamation necessary for a general to apply to the senate for a triumph. after being acclaimed imperator, the victorious general had a right to use the title after his name until the time of his triumph, where he would relinquish the title as well as his imperium. since a triumph was the goal of many politically ambitious roman commanders, roman republican history is full of cases where legions were bribed to call their commander imperator. the title of imperator was given in bc to lucius julius caesar, in bc to gnaeus pompeius magnus, in bc to gaius julius caesar, relative of the previously mentioned lucius julius caesar, in the s to gaius julius caesar (in gaul), in bc again to gaius julius caesar, in bc to marcus iunius brutus, and in bc to lucius antonius (younger brother and ally of the more famous marcus antonius). in ad germanicus was also imperator during the empire (see below) of his adoptive father tiberius.[ ] imperator as an imperial title[edit] after augustus established the roman empire, the title imperator was generally restricted to the emperor, though in the early years of the empire it would occasionally be granted to a member of his family. as a permanent title, imperator was used as a praenomen by the roman emperors and was taken on accession. after the reign of tiberius, the act of being proclaimed imperator was transformed into the act of imperial accession. in fact, if a general was acclaimed by his troops as imperator, it would be tantamount to a declaration of rebellion against the ruling emperor. at first the term continued to be used in the republican sense as a victory title but attached to the de facto monarch and head of state, rather than the actual military commander. the title followed the emperor's name along with the number of times he was acclaimed as such, for example imp v ("imperator five times"). in time it became the title of the de facto monarch, pronounced upon (and synonymous with) their assumption. as a title imperator was generally translated into greek as autokrator ("one who rules himself," also sometimes used as a translation for roman dictators.) this was necessarily imprecise as it lost the nuances of latin political thought contrasting imperium with other forms of public authority. nevertheless, this title (along with sebastos for augustus) was used in greek-language texts for roman emperors from the establishment of the empire. in the east, the title continued to be used into the byzantine period, though to a lesser, and much more ceremonial, extent. in most byzantine writings, the greek translation "autokrator" is preferred, but "imperator" makes an appearance in constantine iv's mid th century mosaic in the basilica of sant'apollinare in classe, and on various th century lead seals. post-roman use[edit] after the roman empire collapsed in the west in the th century, latin continued to be used as the language of learning and diplomacy for some centuries. the roman emperors of this period (referred to by modern historians as the byzantine emperors) were referred to as imperatores in latin texts, while the word basileus (king) was used in greek. after , the imperator was used (in conjunction with augustus) as a formal latin title in succession by the carolingian and german holy roman emperors until and by the austrian emperors until . in medieval spain, the title imperator was used under a variety of circumstances from the ninth century onwards, but its usage peaked, as a formal and practical title, between and . it was primarily used by the kings of león and castile, but it also found currency in the kingdom of navarre and was employed by the counts of castile and at least one duke of galicia. it signalled at various points the king's equality with the byzantine emperor and holy roman emperor, his rule by conquest or military superiority, his rule over several people groups ethnic or religious, and his claim to suzerainty over the other kings of the peninsula, both christian and muslim. beginning in alfonso instituted the use of the style ego adefonsus imperator totius hispaniae ("i, alfonso, emperor of all spain") and its use soon became regular.[ ] this title was used throughout the period – , which represents the peak of his imperial pretensions before his capture of the city of toledo, ancient capital of the visigoths. in he introduced the form ego adefonsus hispaniarum imperator ("i, alfonso, emperor of the spains"), which he used again in . his most elaborate imperial title was ego adefonsus imperator totius castelle et toleto necnon et nazare seu alave ("i, alfonso, emperor of all castile and of toledo also and of nájera, or Álava").[ ] after the ottoman empire conquered both the balkan peninsula (rumeli in turkish meaning "lands of rome") and constantinople, the turkish ruler acclaimed himself caesar of rome (sultan-ı iklim-i rûm). in the th century bayezid ii established diplomatic relations with some christian european states, and sent a document to the king of poland in which he used the titles sultan dei gratia asie, grecie etc. İmperator maximus ("with help of god, emperor of asia and greece"). like his predecessor, selim i titled himself imperator in diplomatic correspondence (per la divina favente clementia grande imperator di constantinopoli, di asia, europa, persia, soria et egipto et arabia et de li mari etc.) due to his military successes.[ ] in , as part of his drive to both westernize the russian empire and assert the monarchy's claim that it was the successor to the byzantine emperors, peter the great imported the latin word directly into russian and styled himself imperator (Императоръ). the style remained the official one for all his successors down to the end of the russian empire in , though the russian rulers continued to be colloquially known as tsar (a word derived from "caesar"), which they had begun to use c. to likewise assert their contention to be the heirs to the byzantine state (see: third rome.) reigning female russian rulers were styled imperatritsa. signature of king edward viii. the "r" and "i" after his name indicate rex ("king") and imperator ("emperor") respectively. german east african roupie, . coins of european colonial empires were sometimes inscribed in latin, such as this colonial coin featuring wilhelm ii of germany. napoleon famously adopted the title for himself and after the napoleonic wars, the number of emperors in europe proliferated, but latin began to fall out of use for all but the most ceremonial situations. still, in those rare cases in which a european monarch's latin titles were used, imperator was used as a translation for emperor. famously, after assuming the title emperor of india, british monarchs would follow their signatures with the initials ri, standing for rex imperator ("king-emperor"). george vi of the united kingdom was the last european ruler to claim an imperial title; when he abdicated as emperor of india in , the last active use of the title imperator in the west ceased. it was thereafter used only historically, or as a latin translation for certain continuing titles of non-european cultures, such as japan. the imperial title was also adopted by jean-bédel bokassa, during his reign as the emperor of the short-lived central african empire ( – ). imperatrix[edit] the term imperatrix seems not to have been used in ancient rome to indicate the consort of an imperator or later of an emperor. in the early years of the roman empire there was no standard title or honorific for the emperor's wife, even the "augusta" honorific was rather exceptionally granted, and not exclusively to wives of living emperors. it is not clear when the feminine form of the latin term imperator originated or was used for the first time. it usually indicates a reigning monarch, and is thus used in the latin version of titles of modern reigning empresses. likewise, when fortuna is qualified "imperatrix mundi" in the carmina burana there's no implication of any type of consort — the term describes (the goddess or personified) fortune "ruling the world". in christian context, imperatrix became a laudatory address to the virgin mary, in diverse forms at least since the middle ages — for example, she is sometimes called "imperatrix angelorum" ("ruler of the angels"). derivatives[edit] imperator is the root of most romance languages' word for emperor. it is the root of the english word "emperor", which entered the language via the french empereur, while related adjectives like "imperial" were imported into english directly from latin. references[edit] 	^ rex.a dictionary of greek and roman antiquities, john murray, london, . 	^ lacuscurtius • roman law — auctor (smith's dictionary, ) 	^ rivero ( ). 	^ tacitus, the annals . 	^ reilly , . 	^ garcía gallo , . 	^ kołodziejczyk, dariusz. "khan, caliph, tsar and imperator: the multiple identities of the ottoman sultan". cambridge.org. cambridge university press. retrieved . check date values in: |access-date= (help) bibliography[edit] 	combès, robert ( ). imperator : recherches sur l’emploi et la signification du titre d’imperator dans la rome républicaine. paris: presses universitaires de france; publications de la faculté des lettres et sciences humaines de l’université de montpellier. archived from the original on - - . p. 	rivero, pilar ( ). imperator populi romani: una aproximación al poder republicano. zaragoza: institución fernando el católico. p. 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was elected fellow of the royal society of london in , fcp in . one of the most respected anatomists in the country, douglas was also a well-known man-midwife. he was asked to investigate the case of mary toft, an english woman from godalming, surrey, who in became the subject of considerable controversy when she tricked doctors into believing that she had given birth to rabbits. despite his early scepticism (douglas thought that a woman giving birth to rabbits was as likely as a rabbit giving birth to a human child), douglas went to see toft, and subsequently exposed her as a fraud. douglas practiced midwifery and performed public dissections at home. douglas mentored and befriended anatomist and surgeon william hunter ( – ), whom he met in when hunter came to london. hunter would live in the douglas household and remained there after douglas died in london on april , leaving a widow and two children. douglas produced a series of manuscript english, french, latin and greek grammars, and an ample index to the works of horace. a treatise on english pronunciation by james douglas ( ) was edited by anna paues. another edition was due to börje holmberg (lund, ).[ ] he undertook botanical studies, notably his monograph on the guernsey lily. terminology[edit] as a result of douglas's investigations of female pelvic anatomy, several anatomical terms bear his name: 	douglas pouch 	peritoneal space formed by deflection of the peritoneum. 	douglasitis 	inflammation of douglas pouch. 	douglas abscess 	suppuration in douglas pouch, most often seen in appendicitis or adnexitis. 	douglas fold 	a fold of peritoneum forming the lateral boundary of douglas' pouch. 	douglas line 	the arcuate line of the sheath of the rectus abdominis muscle. 	douglas septum 	the septum formed by the union of rathke's folds, forming the rectum of the fetus. footnotes[edit] 	^ james douglas on english pronunciation, c. ; [an edition of the hunterian museum manuscript no. edited, with an introduction 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julius paulus prudentissimus (greek: Ἰούλιος Παῦλος; fl. nd century and rd century ad), often simply referred to as paul in english, was one of the most influential and distinguished roman jurists. he was also a praetorian prefect under the roman emperor alexander severus. contents 	 life 	 paulus's legal works 	 pseudo-pauline works 	 economics 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 external links life[edit] little is known of the life and family of paulus; he was a man of greek descent[citation needed], who originated from an unknown phoenician town or from patavium (modern padua italy). the possibility that paulus could come from patavium is based on a statue with an inscription found in patavium dedicated to a paulus.[citation needed] during the reign of emperors septimius severus and caracalla, paulus served as a jurist. he was exiled by the emperor elagabalus and recalled from exile by his successor, emperor alexander severus. severus and his mother julia avita mamaea in , appointed him among the emperor’s chief advisers and between and , he was the praetorian prefect of the praetorian guard. paulus was a contemporary of the jurist ulpian. he partly followed the career path of former praetorian prefect aemilius papinianus. due to his cautious politic nature and opinion, the emperor gordian iii, awarded him the honorific title of prudentissimus. paulus's legal works[edit] codex theodosianus, edition the roman jurist herennius modestinus describes paulus, along with ulpian and quintus cervidius scaevola, as among "the last of the great jurists". paulus’ work was held in high respect. he had written various legal publications. his surviving works are extremely prolific, displaying a keen analysis of other opinions of jurists and paulus expressed his legal views. he appears to have written on a great variety on legal subjects and had a thorough knowledge of legal subjects and law. paulus comments on the jurists javolenus priscus, quintus cervidius scaevola, marcus antistius labeo, salvius julianus and aemilius papinianus. he is cited by the jurists macer[citation needed] and herennius modestinus. his writing style is condensed and sometimes obscure; however, his work is just as good as the other roman jurists. paulus’ work has survived from excerpts, although his work needs to be carefully read to be understood. paulus was one of the five jurists whose opinions were made constitutionally authoritative in by roman emperors theodosius ii and valentinian iii. another legacy from paulus is the inclusion of his writings in the digest which was written and put together by byzantine emperor justinian i. one sixth of the corpus juris civilis in the digest consists of paulus’ work. he is the most excerpted roman jurist in the digest, ahead of ulpian. the digest attributes to paulus the first articulation of the presumption of innocence in roman law: ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui negat[ ]—"proof lies on him who asserts, not on him who denies".[ ] paulus in the digest is also referred in two passages, which he gave a contrary opinion to alexander severus, but severus chose papinianus‘ opinion. pseudo-pauline works[edit] due to his fame several other works have been attributed to him, in particular the rd century compilation pauli sententiae ("paul's views" or "sentences").[ ] from paulus’ surviving works and works attributed to him, the sententiae ad filium have the longest fragments.[ ] economics[edit] in the digest, paulus wrote a passage on money. much as aristotle did, paulus described the nature of money, including how it arises from the inconvenience of barter.[ ] see also[edit] 	law of citations notes[edit] 	^ "digesta seu pandectae . . ". grenoble: université pierre-mendés-france. retrieved - - . 	^ watson, alan, ed. ( ) [ ]. " . . ". the digest of justinian. philadelphia: university of pennsylvania press. isbn  - - - . 	^ honoré, tony ( ), "iulius paulus", in hornblower, simon; spawforth, anthony (eds.), the oxford classical dictionary ( rd ed.), oxford: oxfordup, pp.  – , isbn  - - - - 	^ a list of various legal publications from paulus, see ‘dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology’ archived - - at the wayback machine 	^ schumpeter, joseph a. 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	occupation	poet 	alma mater	trinity college, cambridge 	notable works	"to his coy mistress", "the garden", "an horatian ode" andrew marvell (/ˈmɑːrvəl, mɑːrˈvɛl/; march – august ) was an english metaphysical poet, satirist and politician who sat in the house of commons at various times between and . during the commonwealth period he was a colleague and friend of john milton. his poems range from the love-song "to his coy mistress", to evocations of an aristocratic country house and garden in "upon appleton house" and "the garden", the political address "an horatian ode upon cromwell's return from ireland", and the later personal and political satires "flecknoe" and "the character of holland". contents 	 early life 	 first poems and marvell's time at nun appleton 	 anglo-dutch war and employment as latin secretary 	 after the restoration 	 prose works 	 views 	 marvell's poetic style 	 in popular culture 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links early life[edit] attributed to sir godfrey kneller (who arrived in england in ), trinity college, cambridge andrew marvell marvell was born in winestead-in-holderness, east riding of yorkshire, near the city of kingston upon hull, the son of a church of england clergyman also named andrew marvell. the family moved to hull when his father was appointed lecturer at holy trinity church there, and marvell was educated at hull grammar school. a secondary school in the city, the andrew marvell business and enterprise college, is named after him.[ ] at the age of , marvell attended trinity college, cambridge and eventually received a ba degree.[ ] a portrait of marvell attributed to godfrey kneller hangs in trinity college's collection.[ ] afterwards, from the middle of onwards, marvell probably travelled in continental europe. he may well have served as a tutor for an aristocrat on the grand tour, but the facts are not clear on this point. while england was embroiled in the civil war, marvell seems to have remained on the continent until . in rome in he probably met the villiers brothers, lord francis and the nd duke of buckingham, as well as richard flecknoe, about whom he would later on write a satirical poem.[ ] it is not known exactly where his travels took him except that milton later reported that marvell had mastered four languages, including french, italian and spanish.[ ] first poems and marvell's time at nun appleton[edit] marvell's first poems, which were written in latin and greek and published when he was still at cambridge, lamented a visitation of the plague and celebrated the birth of a child to king charles i and queen henrietta maria. he only belatedly became sympathetic to the successive regimes during the interregnum after charles i's execution on january . his "horatian ode", a political poem dated to early , responds with lament to the regicide even as it praises oliver cromwell's return from ireland.[ ][ ][ ] circa – , marvell served as tutor to the daughter of the lord general thomas fairfax, who had recently relinquished command of the parliamentary army to cromwell. he lived during that time at nun appleton hall, near york, where he continued to write poetry. one poem, "upon appleton house, to my lord fairfax", uses a description of the estate as a way of exploring fairfax's and marvell's own situation in a time of war and political change.[ ] probably the best-known poem he wrote at this time is "to his coy mistress". anglo-dutch war and employment as latin secretary[edit] during the period of increasing tensions leading up to the first anglo-dutch war of , marvell wrote the satirical "character of holland," repeating the then-current stereotype of the dutch as "drunken and profane": "this indigested vomit of the sea,/ fell to the dutch by just propriety." he became a tutor to cromwell's ward, william dutton, in , and moved to live with his pupil at the house of john oxenbridge in eton. oxenbridge had made two trips to bermuda, and it is thought that this inspired marvell to write his poem bermudas. he also wrote several poems in praise of cromwell, who was by this time lord protector of england. in marvell and dutton travelled to france, to visit the protestant academy of saumur.[ ][ ] in , marvell joined milton, who by that time had lost his sight, in service as latin secretary to cromwell's council of state at a salary of £ a year, which represented financial security at that time. oliver cromwell died in . he was succeeded as lord protector by his son richard. in marvell was elected member of parliament for kingston upon hull in the third protectorate parliament.[ ] he was paid a rate of shillings, pence per day during sittings of parliament, a financial support derived from the contributions of his constituency.[ ] he was re-elected mp for hull in for the convention parliament. after the restoration[edit] a statue of andrew marvell, located in the marketplace, kingston upon hull, uk the monarchy was restored to charles ii in . marvell avoided punishment for his own co-operation with republicanism, and he helped convince the government of charles ii not to execute john milton for his antimonarchical writings and revolutionary activities.[ ] the closeness of the relationship between the two former colleagues is indicated by the fact that marvell contributed an eloquent prefatory poem, entitled "on mr. milton's paradise lost", to the second edition of milton's epic paradise lost. according to a biographer: "skilled in the arts of self-preservation, he was not a toady."[ ] in marvell was re-elected mp for hull in the cavalier parliament.[ ] he eventually came to write several long and bitterly satirical verses against the corruption of the court. although circulated in manuscript form, some finding anonymous publication in print, they were too politically sensitive and thus dangerous to be published under his name until well after his death. marvell took up opposition to the 'court party', and satirised them anonymously. in his longest verse satire, last instructions to a painter, written in , marvell responded to the political corruption that had contributed to english failures during the second anglo-dutch war. the poem did not find print publication until after the revolution of – . the poem instructs an imaginary painter how to picture the state without a proper navy to defend them, led by men without intelligence or courage, a corrupt and dissolute court, and dishonest officials. of another such satire, samuel pepys, himself a government official, commented in his diary, "here i met with a fourth advice to a painter upon the coming in of the dutch and the end of the war, that made my heart ake to read, it being too sharp and so true."[ ] from until his death in , marvell was serving as london agent for the hull trinity house, a shipmasters' guild.[citation needed] he went on two missions to the continent, one to the dutch republic and the other encompassing russia, sweden, and denmark.[citation needed] he spent some time living in a cottage on highgate hill in north london, where his time in the area is recorded by a bronze plaque that bears the following inscription: four feet below this spot is the stone step, formerly the entrance to the cottage in which lived andrew marvell, poet, wit, and satirist; colleague with john milton in the foreign or latin secretaryship during the commonwealth; and for about twenty years m.p. for hull. born at winestead, yorkshire, st march, , died in london, th august, , and buried in the church of st. giles-in-the-fields. this memorial is placed here by the london county council, december, .[ ] a floral sundial in the nearby lauderdale house bears an inscription quoting lines from his poem "the garden".[ ] he died suddenly in , while in attendance at a popular meeting of his old constituents at hull. his health had previously been remarkably good; and it was supposed by many that he was poisoned by some of his political or clerical enemies. marvell was buried in the church of st giles in the fields in central london. his monument, erected by his grateful constituency, bears the following inscription: near this place lyeth the body of andrew marvell, esq., a man so endowed by nature, so improved by education, study, and travel, so consummated by experience, that, joining the peculiar graces of wit and learning, with a singular penetration and strength of judgment; and exercising all these in the whole course of his life, with an unutterable steadiness in the ways of virtue, he became the ornament and example of his age, beloved by good men, feared by bad, admired by all, though imitated by few; and scarce paralleled by any. but a tombstone can neither contain his character, nor is marble necessary to transmit it to posterity; it is engraved in the minds of this generation, and will be always legible in his inimitable writings, nevertheless. he having served twenty years successfully in parliament, and that with such wisdom, dexterity, and courage, as becomes a true patriot, the town of kingston-upon-hull, from whence he was deputed to that assembly, lamenting in his death the public loss, have erected this monument of their grief and their gratitude, . prose works[edit] marvell also wrote anonymous prose satires criticizing the monarchy and roman catholicism, defending puritan dissenters, and denouncing censorship. the rehearsal transpros'd, an attack on samuel parker, was published in two parts in and . in , mr. smirke; or the divine in mode, a work critical of intolerance within the church of england, was published together with a "short historical essay, concerning general councils, creeds, and impositions, in matters of religion." marvell's pamphlet an account of the growth of popery and arbitrary government in england, published in late , alleged that: "there has now for diverse years, a design been carried on, to change the lawfull government of england into an absolute tyranny, and to convert the established protestant religion into down-right popery".[ ] john kenyon described it as "one of the most influential pamphlets of the decade"[ ] and g. m. trevelyan called it: "a fine pamphlet, which throws light on causes provocative of the formation of the whig party".[ ] a work published anonymously ("by a protestant") in defense of john howe against the attack of his fellow-dissenter, the severe calvinist thomas danson, is also probably by marvell. its full title is remarks upon a late disingenuous discourse, writ by one t.d. under the pretence de causa dei, and of answering mr. john howe's letter and postscript of god's prescience, &c., affirming, as the protestant doctrine, that god doth by efficacious influence universally move and determine men to all their actions, even to those that are most wicked. views[edit] although marvell became a parliamentarian and was opposed to episcopacy, he was not a puritan. later in life especially, he seems to have been a conforming anglican.[ ] marvell positively identifies himself as "a protestant" in pamphlets.[ ] he had flirted briefly with catholicism as a youth,[ ] and was described in his thirties (on the saumur visit) as "a notable english italo-machiavellian".[ ][ ] his strong biblical influence is clear in poems such as "the garden", the "coronet" and "the bermudas".[ ] vincent palmieri noted that marvell is sometimes known as the "british aristides" for his incorruptible integrity in life and poverty at death. many of his poems were not published until , three years after his death, from a collection owned by mary palmer, his housekeeper. after marvell's death she laid dubious claim to having been his wife, from the time of a secret marriage in .[ ] marvell's poetic style[edit] marvell is said to have adhered to the established stylized forms of his contemporary neoclassical tradition. these include the carpe diem lyric tradition which also forms the basis of his famous lyric "to his coy mistress". he adopted familiar forms and infused them with his unique conceits, analogies, reflections and preoccupations with larger questions about life and death[ ] t.s. eliot wrote of marvell's style that "it is more than a technical accomplishment, or the vocabulary and syntax of an epoch; it is, what we have designated tentatively as wit, a tough reasonableness beneath the slight lyric grace". he also identified marvell and the metaphysical school with the "dissociation of sensibility" that occurred in th-century english literature; eliot described this trend as "something which...happened to the mind of england...it is the difference between the intellectual poet and the reflective poet".[ ] poets increasingly developed a self-conscious relationship to tradition, which took the form of a new emphasis on craftsmanship of expression and an idiosyncratic freedom in allusions to classical and biblical sources. "to his coy mistress", marvell's most celebrated poem, combines an old poetic conceit (the persuasion of the speaker's lover by means of a carpe diem philosophy) with marvell's typically vibrant imagery and easy command of rhyming couplets. other works incorporate topical satire and religious themes. in popular culture[edit] his work is referenced in the british film the serpent's kiss and quoted in the british film a matter of life and death. it is also referenced in audrey niffenegger's the time traveler's wife and emily colin's the memory thief. several works of science fiction, fantasy, and mystery allude to "to his coy mistress". in , christopher peachment published "the green and the gold", a first-person fictional narrative following marvell's life. see also[edit] 	list of works by andrew marvell 	the marvell college 	andrew marvel ( ship) - ship built at kingston upon hull that made some voyages as a greenland whaler references[edit] 	^ "andrew marvell college". 	^ "marvell, andrew (mrvl a)". a cambridge alumni database. university of cambridge. 	^ "trinity college, university of cambridge". bbc your paintings. archived from the original on may . retrieved february . 	^ edward chaney, the grand tour and the great rebellion (geneva, ), pp. - . 	^ nicholas murray, andrew marvell ( ), pp. – . 	^ full title "an horatian ode upon cromwell's return from ireland". 	^ "online text". archived from the original on october . 	^ understanding poetry (brooks/penn warren): marvell's horatian ode 	^ marvell, andrew. "upon appleton house, to my lord fairfax". luminarium. retrieved august . 	^ andrew marvell: chronology of important dates 	^ nicholas murray, andrew marvell ( ), pp. – . 	^ a b history of parliament online – marvell, andrew 	^ john stuart mill, considerations on representative government, chapter x, last paragraph p. oxford world's classic edition, on liberty and other essays, , reed. 	^ andrew crozier's introduction to the works of andrew marvell, ware , p.vi 	^ nicholas murray, andrew marvell ( ), p. . 	^ september , the diary of samuel pepys, volume , p. 	^ andrew marvell's cottage : london remembers, aiming to capture all memorials in london 	^ poetry landmarks - individual landmark 	^ andrew marvell, an account of the growth of popery and arbitrary government in england (gregg international publishers limited, ), p. . 	^ john kenyon, the popish plot (phoenix, ), p. . 	^ g. m. trevelyan, england under the stuarts (routledge, ), p. . 	^ http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/ . /ref:odnb/ . . /odnb- -e- 	^ http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/ . /ref:odnb/ . . /odnb- -e- 	^ john dixon hunt andrew marvell: his life and writings (paul elek, ) pp.  – 	^ http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/old% site/lists/marvelldates.htm archived january at the wayback machine 	^ robert r. hay, an andrew marvell companion (routledge, ), p. . 	^ http://www.gradesaver.com/andrew-marvell-poems/study-guide/summary-bermudas 	^ nicholas murray, andrew marvell ( ), pp. – . 	^ moldenhauer, josheph j. ( ). "the voices of seduction in "to his coy mistress": a rhetorical analysis". texas studies in literature and language. : – – via jstor. 	^ t s. eliot."the metaphysical poets" and "andrew marvell". selected prose of t.s. eliot. ed. frank kermode. harcourt, . further reading[edit] 	a. b. chambers ( ). andrew marvell and edmund waller: seventeenth-century praise and restoration satire. university park, pa. 	warren l. chernaik ( ). the poet's time: politics and religion in the work of andrew marvell. cambridge university press. 	will davenport. the painter. harpercollins. isbn  - - -x. this novel about rembrandt features andrew marvell as a character. 	kenneth r. friedenreich (ed.) ( ). tercentenary essays in honor of andrew marvell. hamden, ct. 	nicholas mcdowell ( ). poetry and allegiance in the english civil wars: marvell and the cause of wit. oxford: oxford university press. 	nigel smith ( ). andrew marvell: the chameleon. new haven, ct. isbn  - - - - . external links[edit] 		wikiquote has quotations related to: andrew marvell 		wikisource has original works written by or about: andrew marvell 	works by marvell: 	works by andrew marvell at project gutenberg 	works by or about andrew marvell at internet archive 	works by andrew marvell at librivox (public domain audiobooks) 	poems: luminarium 	correspondence and prose works: in grosart's edition (via google books) 	biography: poetry foundation; 	 andrew marvell at project gutenberg by augustine birrell 	andrew marvell's grave 	portraits of andrew marvell at the national portrait gallery, london 	"archival material relating to andrew marvell". uk national archives. 	andrew marvell, sir thomas widdrington and 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	education	universidad de salamanca 	occupation	lyric poet, augustinian friar, theologian and academic luis de león oesa (belmonte, cuenca,  – madrigal de las altas torres, castile, spain, august ), was a spanish lyric poet, augustinian friar, theologian and academic, active during the spanish golden age. contents 	 early life 	 academic career 	 imprisonment 	 later life 	 major works 	 . cantar de los cantares (translation of song of songs) 	 . in cantica canticorum salomonis explanatio (commentary on the song of solomon) 	 . la perfecta casada (the perfect wife) 	 . de los nombres de cristo (the names of christ) 	 . f luysii legionensis augustiniani theologiae doctoris, & divinorum librorum primi apud salmanticenses interpretis explanatiorum in eosdem 	 . exposición del libro de job (commentary on the book of job) 	 . twenty three original poems in spanish 	 poetry selections 	 . the life removed 	 . ode to salinas 	 later reputation 	 see also 	 references 	 modern translations 	 further reading 	 external links early life[edit] luis de león was born in belmonte, in the province of cuenca, in or .[ ] his parents were lope de león and inés de varela, and they had five children.[ ] his father practiced law, and it was due to his profession that the family moved to madrid in , and later to valladolid.[ ] luis obtained a very thorough and extensive education, and was devoted to the interpretation and translation of religious texts and ideas. he was proficient in greek, hebrew, and latin. he entered the university of salamanca at the age of fourteen, in , to study canon law under the care of his uncle francisco. at some point between and (thompson states that it was about - months after beginning his studies, while other authors often claim it was ), luis abandoned his studies and instead entered the order of the hermits of st. augustine. after a novitiate of uncertain duration he joined the priory of san pedro on january . the first record of león as a student of theology is in the matriculation book at the university of salamanca for - . in , fray luis graduated with a bachelor's degree in theology from the university of toledo and continued his education as a student of hebrew and biblical interpretation at the university of alcalá de henares. academic career[edit] hall of fray luis de león in the old building of the universidad de salamanca. having returned to salamanca the previous year, in he graduated from the university of salamanca as a licentiate ( may) and master of theology ( june), and in the following year he won the election to the chair of st thomas, a chair in theology, at the same university (salamanca was unusual in that all chairs were subject to an election for the position). this was a minor chair, with a limited four-year tenure. in , he won the chair of st durandus, to which he was re-elected in (he lost it in because he was in prison while the elections took place). in he was named administrator of the augustinian college of san guillermo in salamanca, and in he took on the position of vice rector of the university. in he attained the chair of sacred letters as well. while at the university, he translated classical and biblical literature and wrote on religious themes. he was widely known for his works. imprisonment[edit] in dominican professors bartolomé de medina and castro put forth seventeen propositions to the inquisition documenting fray luis' allegedly heretical opinions. his translation into spanish and commentary of the song of solomon was the biggest evidence presented for their case against him. another charge touched on his criticizing the text of the vulgate. as a result, he was imprisoned at valladolid from march until december , fell ill and remained in bad health throughout his imprisonment. though he suffered greatly from his isolation and less than desirable conditions, fray luis continued to actively write and study during his confinement. at the end of , the tables turned, and on december fray luis was cleared of all charges and released from prison with an admonishment to be more careful and reserved in his publications and speech. he returned to salamanca on december in triumph. tradition has it that he began his university lecture on january , his first after returning from four years' imprisonment, with the words dicebamus hesterna die ("as we were saying yesterday...."). later life[edit] statue of fray luis de león in salamanca, spain fray luis continued to teach at the university, being awarded a special chair at the end of , shortly after his acquittal. in he obtained, for life, the chair of moral philosophy, and in was elected to the most significant chair in the university, the chair of holy scripture (sometimes known as the chair of biblical studies or the bible chair). he went on to earn a master of the arts degree from the university of sahagún. fray luis did not pay heed to the cautionary admonishments of the inquisitorial committee after his earlier imprisonment. in , he had another inquisitional run-in, following three disputations held on the subject of the merits of christ and human predestination, but was not this time imprisoned. he was absolved two years later, in . fray luis's first published spanish and latin works emerged in , some having been begun in prison; most of his works were printed during this decade. between and he published the three books of his celebrated treatise, the names of christ, which he had written in prison. in also appeared the most popular of his prose works, the perfect wife, an instruction for newly married women. in , fray luis published the first collected edition of the writings of teresa of Ávila.[ ] to produce this work, he had performed the task of collating her manuscripts, checking references and notes, and preparing a definitive text (although teresa and león were both in salamanca in late , it is not believed they ever met in their lifetimes). he died at the age of on august , in madrigal de las altas torres, Ávila,[ ] and is buried in salamanca in the priory of san agustín.[ ] ten days before his death he was elected vicar general of the augustinian order.[ ] major works[edit] statue of fray luis de león on display outside the gran teatro in santiago de los caballeros in the dominican republic. cantar de los cantares (translation of song of songs)[edit] in , he began translating the song of songs into spanish for his cousin, isabel osorio, a nun in salamanca who could not read the latin text, and wrote an accompanying commentary. this was león's first major translation of a biblical text, and was probably inspired by a commentary his contemporary arias montano had lent to him when he passed through salamanca in . translation of biblical texts into spanish had been banned by the council of trent, so there was a certain risk in this undertaking. the manuscript, however, was popular amongst his friends, who copied it and circulated it privately. however, the translations formed part of the accusations levelled against león when he was denounced to the inquisition in . because of the controversial nature of the text, it was not published until . in cantica canticorum salomonis explanatio (commentary on the song of solomon)[edit] this was published in , and built on an earlier spanish commentary. he revised and enlarged it in a edition. la perfecta casada (the perfect wife)[edit] this book is fray luis’ interpretation of the proverbs of solomon, and was written as a moral exposition to his newly married young niece. it advises all young women on the proper behavior and duties of a married woman, both in regard to her husband and her children. the book quickly became a popular wedding gift to young women of the era, as it was an instruction manual for marriage. in addition, this book was a revolutionary defense of women’s roles in society at the time. it was first published in , and was popular, appearing in six editions by . de los nombres de cristo (the names of christ)[edit] another well-known work, this was written as a guide to the layman about the essential principles of the church. it is written in dialogue form about three friends who discuss fourteen of the scriptural names of christ over a period of two days in a country estate. each book ends in a lyrical meditation expressed in a poem. the predominant theme is the centrality and universality of christ. the work grew by stages. the first edition of is made up of only two books, considering nine names in total. the second edition of adds a third book, considering four names, and adds the name 'shepherd' to the first book. finally, the posthumous edition of includes one extra name, 'lamb'. the structure of the third edition was used for the english translation.[ ] the work quickly became popular in spain: seven editions were printed by . f luysii legionensis augustiniani theologiae doctoris, & divinorum librorum primi apud salmanticenses interpretis explanatiorum in eosdem[edit] in , fray luis published a volume of latin commentaries on obadiah, thessalonians, galatians and the song of songs. these represent the summit of his achievement as a biblical scholar. exposición del libro de job (commentary on the book of job)[edit] this is another contribution made by fray luis to make scripture available to those who could not read latin. in other words, he wanted ordinary people to be exposed to the biblical message. the story tells of job's patience and suffering, and also serves as a correctional guide to man's behavior. it is written in both verse and dialogue, to make it both enjoyable and informative. león began the work while in prison, and had completed thirty-five chapters by the end of . he resumed work on it ten years later and finished the work in , a few months before his death. he dedicated the work to mother ana de jesús, to whom john of the cross had dedicated his spiritual canticle. fray luis had come to know her in recent years, both in preparing the first edition of the works of teresa of avila, and in defending the privileges of the discalced carmelite nuns against proposed changes in the teresan constitution. it was first published in . twenty three original poems in spanish[edit] fray luis composed a number of poems, the majority probably between and . he did not publish them, but circulated them among his friends.[ ] they were first published in , when quevedo printed them. the canon of fray luis's poetry, as fixed by hispanists, consists of twenty-nine poems. see two of his most well-known examples below: the life removed and ode to salinas. poetry selections[edit] the life removed[edit] in the poem the life removed, of which an excerpt is shown below, fray luis, following the beatus ille theme introduced by horace, expounds upon the notion of choice and its consequences. he says that those irrational men who aspire to power and wealth and are guided by the talk and opinion of others will not achieve the peace, happiness, and liberty assured to those who travel the hidden path. the poem continues on to mention a ship in a storm, and how the sailors aboard are motivated only by greed and ambition, and they will not meet the harmonious end of those who travel the hidden path. 	 "la vida retirada" ¡qué descansada vida la del que huye el mundanal ruïdo y sigue la escondida senda por donde han ido los pocos sabios que en el mundo han sido! que no le enturbia el pecho de los soberbios grandes el estado, ni del dorado techo se admira, fabricado del sabio moro, en jaspes sustentado. no cura si la fama canta con voz su nombre pregonera, ni cura si encarama la lengua lisonjera lo que condena la verdad sincera. 	 "the life removed" how tranquil is the life of him who, shunning the vain world’s uproar, may follow, free from strife, the hidden path, of yore trod by the few who conned true wisdom’s lore! for he with thoughts aloof by proud men’s great estate is not oppressed, nor marvels at the roof of gold, built to attest the moor’s skill and on jasper piles to rest. he cares not though his name be raised aloft, to winds of rumour flung, he cares not for the fame of cunning flatterer’s tongue, not that which truth sincere would leave unsung. 	 	—peers ode to salinas[edit] another well-known poem composed by fray luis is an ode written for his friend francisco de salinas. they frequently spoke about art and poetry, and listened to music together. salinas was an organist and composer, who shared fray luis's belief that music can make one more religious, and that it inspires man to contemplate spiritual matters. the ode, an excerpt of which is listed below, includes numerous positive images about music as a means to contemplate the divine and to overcome ignorance and foolishness. 	 "oda iii - a francisco de salinas" ¡oh, desmayo dichoso! ¡oh, muerte que das vida! ¡oh, dulce olvido! ¡durase en tu reposo, sin ser restituido jamás a aqueste bajo y vil sentido! a este bien os llamo, gloria del apolíneo sacro coro, amigos a quien amo sobre todo tesoro; que todo lo visible es triste lloro. ¡oh, suene de contino, salinas, vuestro son en mis oídos, por quien al bien divino despiertan los sentidos quedando a lo demás amortecidos! 	 "ode to salinas" o blessed swoon! o life- bestowing death! o sweet oblivion! would that i could linger in your bliss and never be restored to this lower, viler sense. glory of apollo's sacred choir, i call you to this rapture, friends i love above all treasure, for all the rest is but sad plaint. o let your strains ring always in my ears, salinas, by which my senses wake to heavenly good while to all else they stay asleep. 	 	—translated by m. smith later reputation[edit] in subsequent centuries, fray luis was especially praised in spain as a poet.[ ] in , the poet francisco de quevedo prepared an edition of león's poems.[ ] in the eighteenth century he was the source of inspiration to various neoclassical poets.[ ] see also[edit] 	gilbert luis centina iii 	spanish renaissance literature references[edit] 	^ ramajo caño, antonio ( ) [ ]. 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"luis de león". catholic encyclopedia. new york: robert appleton company. modern translations[edit] 	the unknown light: the poems of fray luis de león, translation and introduction by willis barnstone, (albany, ) 	rivers, elias l, fray luis de león: the original poems, (london: grant & cutler, ). 	fray luis de león, the names of christ, translation and introduction by manuel durán and william kluback, (new york: paulist press, ) [translation of nombres de christo] 	a bilingual edition of fray luis de león's la perfecta casada: the role of married women in sixteenth-century spain, translated and introduction by john a. jones and javier san josé lera, (lewiston, ny; lampeter, uk: e. mellen, ) 	luis de león, luis de león: ode to francisco salinas, trans michael smith, (shearsman books, ). [ ]. further reading[edit] 	chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "león, luis ponce de" . encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. p.  . 	f. h. reusch, luis de león und die spanische inquisition, bonn, . 	m. gutierrez, fray luis de león y la filosofia española, madrid, . 	m. menéndez y pelayo, estudios de crítica literaria, madrid, . 	the columbia encyclopedia, sixth edition. león, luis ponce de. columbia university press, . 	encyclopædia britannica. luis ponce de león. encyclopædia britannica, inc., . 	 herbermann, charles, ed. ( ). "luis de león". catholic encyclopedia. new york: robert appleton company. 	alvarez turienzo, s. fray luis de león: el fraile, el humanista, el teólogo. salamanca: imprenta kadmos, . 	bultman, dana c. “fray luis de león.” dictionary of literary biography: sixteenth century spanish writers. ed. gregory b. kaplan. detroit: thomson gale ( ): - . 	fitzmaurice-kelly, james. fray luis de león: a biographical fragment. milford, eng.: oxford up, . 	peers, e. allison. spanish mysticism. london: methuen & co, . 	thompson, colin p. the strife of tongues: fray luis de león and the golden age of spain. new york: cambridge up, . external links[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to fray luis de león. 	cervantes virtual library - fray luis de león (in spanish) collection of the author's works and studies on them 	oda xxiii set to music. musical version in mp of oda xxiii. 	works by luis de león at librivox (public domain audiobooks) 	authority control 	 	bne: xx 	bnf: cb m (data) 	cantic: a 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iambic poetry) 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 engraving from quinti horatii flacci emblemata, antwerp , showing socrates receiving the contents of a chamberpot, and a young man bullying his elders in a boat in the background. iambus depicted the ugly and unheroic side of humanity. iambus or iambic poetry was a genre of ancient greek poetry that included but was not restricted to the iambic meter and whose origins modern scholars have traced to the cults of demeter and dionysus. the genre featured insulting and obscene language[ ][ ] and sometimes it is referred to as "blame poetry".[ ] for alexandrian editors, however, iambus signified any poetry of an informal kind that was intended to entertain, and it seems to have been performed on similar occasions as elegy even though lacking elegy's decorum.[ ] the archaic greek poets archilochus, semonides and hipponax were among the most famous of its early exponents. the alexandrian poet callimachus composed "iambic" poems against contemporary scholars, which were collected in an edition of about a thousand lines, of which fragments of thirteen poems survive.[ ] he in turn influenced roman poets such as catullus, who composed satirical epigrams that popularized hipponax's choliamb.[ ] horace's epodes on the other hand were mainly imitations of archilochus[ ] and, as with the greek poet, his invectives took the forms both of private revenge and denunciation of social offenders.[ ][ ] contents 	 historical background 	 a tale of two ditties 	 . epode 	 . strasbourg papyrus 	 extras 	 see also 	 notes 	 citations 	 references historical background[edit] originally "iambos" (ἴαμβος) denoted a type of poetry, specifically its content, and only secondarily did it have any significance as a metrical term. this emerges for example from the fact that archilochus, a famous iambic poet, was once criticized for being "too iambic"[nb ] the genre appears to have originated in the cult of demeter, whose festivals commonly featured insulting and abusive language (αἰσχρολογία, aischrologia). a figure called "iambe" is even mentioned in the homeric hymn to demeter, employing language so abusive that the goddess forgets her sorrows and laughs instead. the abuse of a divinity however is quite common in other cults too, as an ironic means of affirming piety: "normality is reinforced by experiencing its opposite".[ ] the common element in all iambus is blame, drawing attention to dangerous or unsuitable behaviours. it is addressed to an audience with shared values and customs, which are represented as under threat, as for example a body of citizens or companions. whatever its real composition, the audience is cast in the role of mutual friends and their friendship (φιλότης, philotēs or latin amicitia) is asserted in various ways: 	the poet, speaking in his own person, might criticize someone directly, whether a group member or an outsider; 	the poet might act out the role of someone guilty of misconduct, condemning "himself" in his own words; 	the poet might tell a story, combining 'self-indictments' with a narrative account of misconduct. blame ranges from humorous ribbing of friends to merciless attacks on outsiders.[ ] among ancient literary theorists, iambic verse came to be regarded as lower than lyric poetry, partly because iambic meter was thought to be the simplest of verse forms, and the nearest to common speech, but also because of its undignified content.[ ] it isn't clear what role archilochus played in the development of the literary genre at the beginning of the seventh century. demeter was a significant deity in his home island, paros, but she isn't prominent in his surviving poetry. possibly he became involved in iambus via the cult of dionysus. this cult's association with iambus seems to be indicated etymologically by the poetic form associated with dionysus, the dithyramb, a term which appears to include the same root as "iambus". early dithyrambs were a "riotous affair"[ ] and archilochus was prominent in the controversial development of dionyssian worship on paros[ ] (possibly in relation to phallic rites).[ ] there is no sure evidence about the original venue for iambic poetry but the drinking party (or symposium) and the cult festival were probably the main occasions.[ ] nor do we know clearly what role iambic poetry played in ancient society. it was certainly complex. it seems to have found voice during times of social change and political dissent, when the poet felt entitled or empowered to preach and condemn.[ ] semonides, probably about the middle of the seventh century, composed iambic verse on a misogynist theme, but without the invective and obscenity of archilochus.[ ] a hundred years after archilochus, hipponax was composing choliambs, a deliberately awkward version of the iambic trimeter symbolizing mankind's imperfections and vices,[ ] yet by then iambus seems to have been performed mainly for entertainment (our understanding of his work however might change significantly when and as more fragments are unearthed).[ ] the genre's religious and moral value was evidently not appreciated by the fifth century lyric poet pindar, who condemned archilochus for being "sharp-tongued" and "grown fat on the harsh words of hate",[ ] yet archilochus's brand of iambus could still find sympathetic audiences even in the first century ad, when the philosopher, dio chrysostom, compared him with homer in these terms: for of the two poets who for all time deserve to be compared with no other, namely homer and archilochus, homer praised nearly everything ... but archilochus went to the opposite extreme, to censure, seeing, i suppose, that men are in greater need of this, and first of all he censures himself ... [thus winning for himself, in dio's opinion] ... the highest commendation from heaven.[ ] the spread of literacy impacted on all ancient poetry, iambus included. its influence was already becoming evident in athens by the fifth century bc, gradually changing the nature of poetry from a performance before a local group to a literary artifact with an international reach.[ ] by the hellenistic period, the librarian/scholar callimachus claimed to be following the example of hipponax yet introduced a wider range of content and a more literary and intellectual focus. he also aligned iambus more closely with other genres[ ] such as curse poetry (Ἀραί) and farewell poetry (propemptika, προπέμπτικα).[ ] iambus was taken up as a political weapon by some public figures in rome, such as cato the elder, who, in an account by plutarch: ... betook himself to iambic verse, and heaped much scornful abuse upon scipio, adopting the bitter tone of archilochus, but avoiding his license and puerility.[ ] neoteric poets such as catullus combined a native tradition of satirical epigram with hipponax's pungent invective to form neatly crafted, personal attacks. hipponactean choliambs were among catullus's most often used meters[ ] but the spirit of iambus seems to have infused much of his non-iambic verse as well.[ ] horace nominally modelled his epodes on the work of archilochus but he mainly followed the example of callimachus, relying on painstaking craftsmanship rather than instinctive vitriol[ ] and broadening the range of the genre. thus for example he introduced a panagyric element in support of augustus (epodes and ), a lyrical element (epode ), and a suggestion of love poetry (epodes and ). moreover, his iambic persona is deliberately presented as powerless, in contrast to the swaggering persona of archilochus.[ ] horace's weak iambic persona is not inconsistent with the genre. traditionally the iambic poet, though he bullies others, is a victim too. thus archilochus was said to have driven his would-be in-laws to suicide by his invectives after they had cheated him out of a promised marriage, and hipponax was said to have driven bupalus to suicide after being caricatured by him in a sculpture. similarly the author of the strasbourg fragment below is motivated by revenge. moreover, horace's thematic variety is not without parallel among archaic poets such as archilochus and hipponax: the mood of the genre is meant to appear spontaneous and that inevitably led to some "hodepodge" contexts.[ ] whatever his unique contribution may have been, horace still managed to recreate something of the ancient spirit of the genre, alerting his companions to threats facing them as a group, in this case as roman citizens of a doomed republic: in the midst of a crisis which could be seen as a result of the decline and failure of traditional roman amicitia, horace turned to a type of poetry whose function had been the affirmation of "friendship" in its community. it is doubtful whether he believed that his or anyone else's poetry could avert disaster. but he may have hoped that his iambi would somehow 'blame' his friends and fellow citizens into at least asking themselves quo ruitis [i.e. where are you careering to]? — d. mankin[ ][nb ] a tale of two ditties[edit] the nature of iambus changed from one epoch to another, as becomes obvious if we compare two poems that are otherwise very similar – horace's epode (around bc) and the "strasbourg" papyrus, a fragment attributed either to archilochus or hipponax (seventh and sixth century respectively). the modern world became aware of the greek poem only in , when it was discovered by r. reitzenstein among other papyri at the university library of strasbourg. he published it straight away, recognizing its significance and its resemblance to horace's poem. this study however begins with horace and it is based on comments by eduard fraenkel.[ ] epode [edit] horace's poem is in couplets, where a line of iambic trimeter (six iambic feet) is followed by a line of iambic dimeter (four iambic feet). here it is broken into four-line stanzas to bring out the intrinsic structure of the poem. the english translation has the same metrical couplets but the rhythm is accentual (the norm for english verse) rather than quantitative (the norm for classical latin and greek verse). 	 	 	 mala soluta navis exit alite    ferens olentem mevium. ut horridis utrumque verberes latus,    auster, memento fluctibus; niger rudentis eurus inverso mari    fractosque remos differat; insurgat aquilo, quantus altis montibus    frangit trementis ilices; nec sidus atra nocte amicum appareat,    qua tristis orion cadit; quietiore nec feratur aequore    quam graia victorum manus, cum pallas usto vertit iram ab ilio    in inpiam aiacis ratem. o quantus instat navitis sudor tuis    tibique pallor luteus et illa non virilis eiulatio    preces et aversum ad iovem, ionius udo cum remugiens sinus    noto carinam ruperit! opima quodsi praeda curvo litore    porrecta mergos iuverit, libidinosus immolabitur caper    et agna tempestatibus. [ ] 	 the ship casts off from shore in an ill-omened hour,    carrying the stinking mevius. god of the southern wind – take care to pulverize    both its sides with horrendous waves! let the black eastern wind turn the sea upside-down,    some oars here, some rigging there, and may the north wind loom as large as when it rends    oaks trembling on the mountain tops, and not one friendly star appear through the dark night    as orion sinks in the west! may the sea carrying him be no more gentle than    the waves the winning greeks sailed on that time athena turned her rage from smouldering troy    onto ajax and his damned ship! oh what a cold damp sweating will beset your crew    while you change hue to a pale green, and oh how woman-like will all that wailing be    and all those prayers ignored by jove, when the ionian sea, resounding with the wet    southern wind, breaks apart your ship! if then the rich spoil, scattered round the curving shore,    lies at the pleasure of the gulls, there will be sacrifices of a lusty goat    and lamb in honour of the winds. it is not known who mevius is nor what he is supposed to have done wrong. the name could be of a real person but it could also function like "john doe" and thus it might be a stock figure with some special significance for the original audience. some scholars identify him with the maevius rubbished as a contemptible poet by virgil in eclogues . but there is no proof for such an identification. he could represent an imaginary scapegoat intended to avert the gods' anger from the poet's circle of 'friends', a device common in the archaic iambus of hipponax and archilochus: in this case, the "friends" may be understood to be roman citizens at a time of social and political decay.[ ] a fictional mevius would also be consistent with iambus as a mere literary topic, where horace makes up for the lack of any real context by adding artistic values, in the hellenistic manner.[ ] the poem is skilfully structured. there is an introduction briefly outlining the situation (lines – ), a large midsection made up of curses (lines – ) and predictions ( – ), and finally an epilogue ( – ). three winds (auster, eurus, aquilo) are the chief figures in the main body of the poem and also at the very end (tempestates). each wind is assigned its own couplet (lines – ), but only the south wind is addressed. the south wind gets another mention, though by a different name, 'notus' (line ), so that these two mentions provide the poem with the kind of symmetry found in ring composition. by the latter part of the poem, however, the south wind is no longer being addressed, a change that happens when mevius is addressed instead (lines – ). this change in addressee is preceded by a mythological episode taken from the heroic ajax legend, occurring exactly in the middle of the poem (lines – ), where it functions as a sort of piano nobile, with curses before and predictions afterwards. in some versions of the poem, mevius continues to be addressed right to the very end, i.e. iuverit has been taken to be iuveris instead (line ). some scholars prefer iuveris since it implies that only mevius ends up as rich spoil for the gulls, but other scholars argue that it is quite consistent with iambus for the whole crew to be punished on account of one offender, a result implied by the impersonal ending iuverit in the version here. moreover, the impersonal ending marks a clear break between the epilogue and the main body of the poem.[ ] the intricate structure of the poem reveals hellenistic influence. a poet of the archaic period, such as archilochus or hipponax, might have mentioned this or that wind but not arranged them as neatly as here, assigning each its own couplet. moreover, the epode bears resemblance to curse poems or Ἀραί, fashionable in the hellenistic period. on the other hand, horace leaves out the heavy-handed pedantry of a craftsman like callimachus. the epode also resembles a "farewell" poem or προπεμπτικόν but with an ironic inversion: in a hellenistic "farewell" poem, it was conventional to wish upon the traveller a safe voyage and favourable winds, pledging sacrifices if the ship arrived at port. nevertheless, the ironic genre-bending quality of epode (and some others in the collection) was fairly typical of hellenistic poetry generally. to sum up. horace did not attempt to reproduce the true nature of the old greek iambus which had partly suggested to him the theme of his epode. his borrowing was confined to the most general outlines of the subject. as if to make up for the resulting loss, he embroidered his own poem with many elaborate devices, most of them derived from hellenistic poetry. consequently what had been a weapon in a serious struggle became in his hands a dexterous display of literary patterns. — eduard fraenkel[ ] the "serious struggle" is found in the strasbourg fragment. strasbourg papyrus[edit] reitzenstein, the first editor of the fragment, attributed it to archilochus but, in the following year ( ) friedrich blass assigned it to hipponax. the papyrus includes, among its tattered portions, an incomplete name (Ἱππωνά.., hippona..), which seems to support blass's identification since hipponax often mentions himself by name in his extant work. however the brilliance of the poem's invective suggests it is the work of a more significant poet i.e. archilochus.[ ] some scholars conclude that the fragment is not a single poem, assigning part to archilochus and the rest to hipponax.[ ] like horace's epode above, the verse below is made of couplets, but the meter is a bit different. an initial line of iambic trimeter in this case is followed by a hemiepes (two dactyls then an emphatic final syllable). the english translation follows it closely but in accentual rhythm. the opening lines are lost and the square brackets indicate another lost portion. the square brackets are not in the english version, replaced by an "educated guess" suggested by eduard fraenkel. a few more letters were lost in the original but scholars are in general agreement about their identity and those gaps are not shown here. the comments are also largely based on fraenkel's work.[ ] despite all the gaps in the original, the fragment supplies a key meaning absent from horace's epode – a motive for hate. 	 	 	 .....    κύματι πλαζόμενος· κἀν Σαλμυδησσῶι γυμνὸν εὐφρονέστατα    Θρήϊκες ἀκρόκομοι λάβοιεν - ἔνθα πόλλ᾽ ἀναπλήσει κακὰ    δούλιον ἄρτον ἔδων - ῥίγει πεπηγότ᾽ αὐτόν· ἐκ δὲ τοῦ χνόου    φυκία πόλλ᾽ ἐπέχοι, κροτέοι δ᾽ ὀδόντας, ὡς κύων ἐπὶ στόμα    κείμενος ἀκρασίηι ἄκρον παρὰ ῥηγμῖνα κυμα[...]    ταῦτ᾽ ἐθέλοιμ᾽ ἂν ἰδεῖν, ὅς μ᾽ ἠδίκησε, λὰξ δ᾽ ἐφ᾽ ὁρκίοισ᾽ ἔβη,    τὸ πρὶν ἑταῖρος ἐών.[ ] 	 ....    drifting about in the swell; when he comes nude to salmydessus, may the kind    thracians, their hair in a bun, take him in hand – there he shall have his fill of woe,    slavishly eating his bread – stiff with the freezing cold; emerging from the froth,    clung to by piles of seaweed, may he lie like a dog face-down on chattering teeth,    laid low by his feebleness, sprawled at the breakers' edge, still licked at by the surf!    these are the things i must see, because he wronged me, trampling all over our oaths,    once a companion of mine! the language is vigorous and direct, appropriate to the mood of the piece. some of the diction is borrowed from the older work of homer but it adds dignity and pathos without any artificiality. meanings flow clearly and naturally with the simple meter, except in one place, marked with a "parenthesis" or endash, where emotions get ahead of the poet's control as he anticipates years of suffering for his former friend. images seem to tumble from his excited mind but nothing is superfluous and his control of the material is shown for example in his use of irony when referring to the great kindness of the savage thracians, their hair neatly dressed, in contrast to his nude friend.[ ] his skill as a wordsmith can be seen in the way he loads the beginnings of lines with key words, a trend he overturns in the final couplet, with a caesura, marked by a comma, between key words justifying his hatred, μ᾽ ἠδίκησε, λὰξ ("wronged me, trampling").[ ] one of the uncertainties in the text comes in the word ἐπέχοι, which indicates that the seaweed has a hold on the castaway. some scholars prefer to read ἐπιχέοι, indicating that he spews out seaweed.[nb ] scholars often contrast the poem's realism with the artificiality of horace's epode , but not all scholars are willing to go along with this view, citing the homeric diction as a literary device and the absence of proof that the oath-breaker was ever a real man rather than just a scapegoat or imaginary exemplar.[ ] yet the poet has made the context seem real. in this poem fierce hatred mingled with contempt finds a powerful voice, and yet, with so much passion, every phrase and every sentence is kept strictly under the control of a masterly mind. the impact on the ear, on the eye, and on the sense of smell is strong throughout. every detail, the surf, the seaweed, the dog, the wretched man's frozen body, is there, life-like, or rather in even sharper outlines than they would appear to us in actual life. — e. fraenkel.[ ] extras[edit] 	in his famous speech on the crown, the great athenian rhetor, demosthenes, denounced his rival aeschines with the neologism ἰαμβειοφάγος, signifying an iambus devourer or devourer of insults.[ ] see also[edit] 	library resources about iambus 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	prosody (latin) 	epodes (horace) 	epode 	category:iambic poets notes[edit] 	^ the phrase "too iambic" appears in a fragmentary inscription dated to the third century bc, originally part of a commemorative shrine to archilochus, "the archilocheion". the inscription was a part of a record of his life and reception on paros, where his poetry was deemed offensive by the population until dionyssus opened their eyes to their own folly by punishing them with some kind of affliction, possibly impotence (the fragment is very patchy at that point). a pythian oracle then advised them to honour archilochus and thus a shrine was established to him. (see archilochus fr. and commentary, d.e. gerber, greek iambic poetry, – 	^ mankin's latin here refers to the opening to epode , "quo quo scelesti ruitis? 	^ the variant reading is cited for instance by d. gerber, greek iambic poetry, citations[edit] 	^ christopher brown, in a companion to the greek lyric poets, d.e.gerber (ed), leiden , pages – 	^ douglas e. gerber, greek iambic poetry, loeb classical library ( ), introduction pages i–iv 	^ d. mankin, horace: epodes,c.u.p., 	^ j.p. barron and p.e. easterling, "elegy and iambus" in the cambridge history of classical literature: greek literature, p.easterling and b.knox (eds), cambridge university press ( ), page 	^ a.w. bulloch, "hellenistic poetry", in the cambridge history of classical literature: greek literature, p.easterling and b.knox (eds), cambridge university press ( ), pages – , 	^ peter green, the poems of catullus, university of california press ( ), pages , 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, sandpiper books ltd, 	^ j.p. clancy, the odes and epodes of horace, chicago ( ), page 	^ v.g. kiernan, horace: poetics and politics, new york ( ), page 	^ c. brown in a companion to the greek lyric poets, 	^ d. mankin, horace: epodes, – 	^ s. harrison, lyric and iambic, 	^ d. gerber, greek iambic poetry, – 	^ d. campbell, greek lyric poetry, 	^ d. gerber, greek iambic poetry, 	^ d. gerber, greek iambic poetry, 	^ l. o'higgins, women and humour in classical greece, 	^ d. gerber, greek iambic poetry, – 	^ p. green, the poems of catullus, , 	^ d. gerber, greek iambic poetry, 	^ pindar, pythian ii, translated by geoffrey conway, the odes of pindar, 	^ dio chrysostom . – , cited and translated by douglas e. gerber, greek iambic poetry, 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, 	^ s. harrison, lyric and iambic, 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, 	^ plutarch, life of cato, quoted by d. gerber, greek iambic poetry, 	^ p. green, the poems of catullus, , 	^ s. harrison, lyric and iambic, 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, 	^ s. harrison, lyric and iambic, – 	^ l. watson, the epodes: horace's archilochus?, 	^ d. mankin, horace: epodes, 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, – 	^ epode from d. mankin, horace: epodes, - 	^ d. mankin, horace: epodes, – 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, – 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, - 	^ d. campbell, greek lyric poetry, 	^ d. gerber, greek iambic poetry, 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, – 	^ strasburg papyrus, d. gerber, greek iambic poetry, - 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, – 	^ d. campbell, greek lyric poetry, 	^ d. mankin, horace: epodes, 	^ e. fraenkel, horace, – 	^ harvey yunis, demosthenes: on the crown, cambridge university press ( ), page , note references[edit] 	barron, j.p. and easterling, p.e. 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( ), women and humour in classical greece, cambridge university press 	rosen, ralph m. ( ). old comedy and the iambographic tradition. american classical studies . atlanta, ga: scholars press. 	rotstein, andrea ( ), the idea of iambos, oxford university press 	steinrück, martin. ( ). the suitors in the odyssey: the clash between homer and archilochus. hermeneutic commentaries . new york: peter lang. 	watson, lindsay ( ), "the epodes: horace's archilochus?", in stephen harrison (ed.), the cambridge companion to horace, cambridge university press 	west, martin. 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and sir william bennet (d. ), a whig laird who was a patron of allan ramsay.[ ] while some early poems by thomson survive, he burned most of them on new year's day each year.[ ] thomson entered the college of edinburgh in autumn , destined for the presbyterian ministry. at edinburgh he studied metaphysics, logic, ethics, greek, latin and natural philosophy. he completed his arts course in but chose not to graduate, instead entering divinity hall to become a minister.[ ] in thomas thomson died, with local legend saying that he was killed whilst performing an exorcism.[ ] at edinburgh thomson became a member of the grotesque club, a literary group, and he met his lifelong friend david mallet. after the successful publication of some of his poems in the "edinburgh miscellany" thomson followed mallet to london in february in an effort to publish his verse.[ ] london, – [edit] james thomson, from samuel johnson's lives of the english poets (c. ) in london, thomson became a tutor to the son of charles hamilton, lord binning, through connections on his mother's side of the family. through david mallet, by a published poet, thomson met the great english poets of the day including richard savage, aaron hill and alexander pope.[ ] thomson's mother died on may , around the time of his writing ‘winter’, the first poem of ‘‘the seasons’’. ‘winter’ was first published in by john millian, with a second edition being released (with revisions, additions and a preface) later the same year. by , thomson was working on summer, published in february, and was working at watt's academy, a school for young gentlemen and a bastion of newtonian science. in the same year millian published a poem by thomson titled ‘a poem to the memory of sir isaac newton’ (who had died in march). leaving watt's academy, thomson hoped to earn a living through his poetry, helped by his acquiring several wealthy patrons including thomas rundle, the countess of hertford and charles talbot, st baron talbot.[ ] later life, – [edit] he wrote spring in and finally autumn in , when the set of four was published together as the seasons. during this period he also wrote other poems, such as to the memory of sir isaac newton, and his first play, sophonisba ( ). the latter is best known today for its mention in samuel johnson's lives of the english poets, where johnson records that one 'feeble' line of the poem – "o, sophonisba, sophonisba, o!" was parodied by the wags of the theatre as, "o, jemmy thomson, jemmy thomson, o!".[ ] in , he became tutor to the son of sir charles talbot, then solicitor-general, and spent nearly two years in the company of the young man on a tour of europe. on his return talbot arranged for him to become a secretary in chancery, which gave him financial security until talbot's death in . meanwhile, there appeared his next major work, liberty ( ).[ ] this is a lengthy monologue by the "goddess of liberty", describing her travels through the ancient world, and then english and british history, before the resolution of the glorious revolution of .[ ] in his tragedy agamemnon was played at drury lane and the following year he wrote a prologue when mallet's mustapha was performed there. in , he collaborated with mallet on the masque alfred which was first performed at cliveden, the country home of frederick, prince of wales. thomson's words for "rule britannia", written as part of that masque and set to music by thomas arne, became one of the best-known british patriotic songs – quite apart from the masque which is now virtually forgotten. the prince gave him a pension of £ per annum. he had also introduced him to george lyttelton, who became his friend and patron.[ ] in later years, thomson lived in richmond upon thames, and it was there that he wrote his final work the castle of indolence, which was published just before his untimely death on august . johnson writes about thomson's death, "by taking cold on the water between london and kew, he caught a disorder, which, with some careless exasperation, ended in a fever that put end to his life".[ ][ ] he is buried in st. mary magdalene church in richmond.[ ] a dispute over the publishing rights to one of his works, the seasons, gave rise to two important legal decisions (millar v. taylor; donaldson v. beckett) in the history of copyright. thomson's the seasons was translated into german by barthold heinrich brockes ( ). this translation formed the basis for a work with the same title by gottfried van swieten, which became the libretto for haydn's oratorio the seasons. memorials[edit] the poet james thomson as depicted on the scott monument thomson is one of the sixteen scottish poets and writers appearing on the scott monument on princes street in edinburgh. he appears on the right side of the east face. thomson has a large memorial in westminster abbey's poets' corner, next to william shakespeare and underneath thomson's countryman, robert burns. thomson is the poet memorialised at poet's corner in richmond park's pembroke lodge gardens. a bench sculpted by richard farrington,[ ] and known as "poet's seat", is inscribed with lines by thomson, who was living in richmond at the time of his death.[ ] a wooden memorial plaque with an ode to thomson by the writer and historian john heneage jesse was installed in . the plaque was replaced by the selborne society in [ ] and by a re-gilded board in ..[ ] king henry's mound, which is also in richmond park, has a seat inscribed with a few lines from thomson's poem "the seasons".[ ] editions[edit] the frontispiece of the seasons by james thomson. published by alexander donaldson. 	the four seasons, and other poems. by james thomson. london: printed for j. millan, near scotland-yard, white-hall; and a. millar, in the strand, m.dcc.xxxv., . [ ]; ,[ ]; ; ; ,[ ]p., plates; ⁰. (estc t ; foxon t ; ota k . ) 	thomson, james & bloomfield, robert, the seasons & castles of indolence / the farmer's boy, rural tales, banks of the wye, &c. &c., (london: scott, webster & geary, ). 	gilfillan, rev. george, thomson's poetical works, with life, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes, library edition of the british poets ( ). 	thomson, james. the seasons, by ... a new edition. adorned with a set of engravings, from original paintings. together with an original life of the author, and a critical essay on the seasons. by robert heron, (perth: r. morison, ) 	thomson, james the seasons and castle of indolence printed for j. and f.c. rivington and the other proprietors, james marsh, 	thomson, james. poems, edited by william bayne, london : walter scott publishing co., [ ], (series: the canterbury poets). 	thomson, james. the seasons, edited with introduction and commentary by james sambrook, (oxford: clarendon press, ) isbn  - - - . 	thomson, james. liberty, the castle of indolence and other poems, edited with introduction and commentary by james sambrook, (oxford: clarendon press, ) isbn  - - - . 	bayne, william, life of james thomson, edinburgh: oliphant, anderson and ferrier, , ("famous scots series"). see also[edit] 	list of abolitionist forerunners references[edit] 	^ september is the date of birth given in murdoch, patrick, 'an account of the life and writings of mr. james thomson', in the works of james thomson ( ), vol. i, p.i. 	^ a b beach, chandler b., ed. ( ). "thomson, james" . the new students reference work . chicago: f. e. compton and co. 	^ sambrook, james, james thomson – ; a life (oxford: clarendon press, ) 	^ a b c d e sambrook, 	^ robert sheilds, 'mr james thomson' in theophilus cibber, lives of the poets of great-britain and ireland ( ), vol. v, p. . 	^ murdoch, p.iii.. 	^ drennon, herbert, 'james thomson's contact with newtonianism and his interest in natural philosophy', pmla, vol. , no. ( ) p. . 	^ a b c d tovey . 	^ johnson, samuel. lives of the english poets. pp. – in google books edition. 	^ text of liberty online 	^ johnson, op.cit., p. . 	^ "richmond – poet's seat". richard farrington: sculptor. archived from the original on march . retrieved february . 	^ a b c "monuments in richmond park". the royal parks. archived from the original on may . retrieved february . 	^ "new poet's corner". friends of richmond park newsletter: . autumn . bibliography[edit] 	tovey, duncan crookes ( ). "thomson, james (poet, – )" . in chisholm, hugh (ed.). encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press.cs maint: ref=harv (link) 	"thomson, james ( – )" . dictionary of national biography. london: smith, elder & co. – . 	sambrook, james. "thomson, james ( – )". oxford dictionary of national biography (online ed.). oxford university press. doi: . /ref:odnb/ . 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wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	galen 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		greek physician, surgeon and philosopher for other uses, see galen (disambiguation). 	galen 	eighteenth-century portrait by georg paul busch 	born	september ad pergamon, asia, roman empire 	died	c. ad rome, roman empire 	nationality	greek 	occupation	physician aelius galenus or claudius galenus (greek: Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; september ad – c.  /c.  ), often anglicized as galen and sometimes known as galen of pergamon (/ˈɡeɪlən/),[ ] was a physician, surgeon and philosopher in the roman empire.[ ][ ][ ] considered one of the most accomplished of all medical researchers of antiquity, galen influenced the development of various scientific disciplines, including anatomy,[ ] physiology, pathology,[ ] pharmacology,[ ] and neurology, as well as philosophy[ ] and logic. the son of aelius nicon, a wealthy greek architect with scholarly interests, galen received a comprehensive education that prepared him for a successful career as a physician and philosopher. born in the ancient city of pergamon (present-day bergama, turkey), galen travelled extensively, exposing himself to a wide variety of medical theories and discoveries before settling in rome, where he served prominent members of roman society and eventually was given the position of personal physician to several emperors. galen's understanding of anatomy and medicine was principally influenced by the then-current theory of humorism (also known as the theory of the four humors: black bile, yellow bile, blood, and phlegm), as advanced by ancient greek physicians such as hippocrates. galen's views dominated and influenced western medical science for more than , years. his anatomical reports were based mainly on the dissection of monkeys. however, while dissecting them he discovered that their facial expressions were too much like those of humans; thus, he switched to other animals, especially pigs. the reason for using animals to discover the human body was due to the fact that dissections and vivisections on humans were strictly prohibited at the time. galen would encourage his students to go look at dead gladiators or bodies that washed up in order to get better acquainted with the human body. galen’s most famous experiment that he recreated in public was the squealing pig. the squealing pig experiment was when galen would cut open a pig, and while it was squealing he would cut the nerve, or vocal cords, showing they controlled the making of sound. his anatomical reports remained uncontested until , when printed descriptions and illustrations of human dissections were published in the seminal work de humani corporis fabrica by andreas vesalius[ ][ ] where galen's physiological theory was accommodated to these new observations.[ ] galen's theory of the physiology of the circulatory system remained unchallenged until ca. , when ibn al-nafis published his book sharh tashrih al-qanun li’ ibn sina (commentary on anatomy in avicenna's canon), in which he reported his discovery of pulmonary circulation.[ ] galen saw himself as both a physician and a philosopher, as he wrote in his treatise titled that the best physician is also a philosopher.[ ][ ][ ] galen was very interested in the debate between the rationalist and empiricist medical sects,[ ] and his use of direct observation, dissection and vivisection represents a complex middle ground between the extremes of those two viewpoints.[ ][ ][ ] many of his works have been preserved and/or translated from the original greek, although many were destroyed and some credited to him are believed to be spurious. although there is some debate over the date of his death, he was no younger than seventy when he died. contents 	 early life: ad – 	 later years: ad – 	 . the antonine plague 	 . eudemus 	 . death 	 contributions to medicine 	 contributions to philosophy 	 . opposition to the stoics 	 . localization of function 	 mind–body problem 	 psychotherapy 	 published works 	 legacy 	 . late antiquity 	 . influence on medicine in the islamic world 	 . reintroduction to the latin west 	 . renaissance 	 . contemporary scholarship 	 see also 	 notes 	 sources 	 further reading 	 . primary sources 	 external links early life: ad – [edit] galen's name Γαληνός, galēnos comes from the adjective "γαληνός", "calm".[ ] galen’s hometown of pergamum happened to be the site of a large shrine to the healing god, asclepius, which galen’s father claimed to have had a dream about, leading galen to start studying medicine.[ ] galen describes his early life in on the affections of the mind. he was born in september ad .[ ] his father, aelius nicon, was a wealthy patrician, an architect and builder, with eclectic interests including philosophy, mathematics, logic, astronomy, agriculture and literature. galen describes his father as a "highly amiable, just, good and benevolent man". at that time pergamon (modern-day bergama, turkey) was a major cultural and intellectual centre, noted for its library, second only to that in alexandria,[ ][ ] and attracted both stoic and platonic philosophers, to whom galen was exposed at age . his studies also took in each of the principal philosophical systems of the time, including aristotelian and epicurean. his father had planned a traditional career for galen in philosophy or politics and took care to expose him to literary and philosophical influences. however, galen states that in around ad his father had a dream in which the god asclepius (aesculapius) appeared and commanded nicon to send his son to study medicine. again, no expense was spared, and following his earlier liberal education, at he began studies at the prestigious local sanctuary or asclepieum dedicated to asclepius, god of medicine, as a θεραπευτής (therapeutes, or attendant) for four years. there he came under the influence of men like aeschrion of pergamon, stratonicus and satyrus. asclepiea functioned as spas or sanitoria to which the sick would come to seek the ministrations of the priesthood. romans frequented the temple at pergamon in search of medical relief from illness and disease. it was also the haunt of notable people such as claudius charax the historian, aelius aristides the orator, polemo the sophist, and cuspius rufinus the consul.[ ] galen's father died in , leaving galen independently wealthy at the age of . he then followed the advice he found in hippocrates' teaching[ ] and travelled and studied widely including such destinations as smyrna (now izmir), corinth, crete, cilicia (now Çukurova), cyprus, and finally the great medical school of alexandria, exposing himself to the various schools of thought in medicine. in , aged , he returned to pergamon as physician to the gladiators of the high priest of asia, one of the most influential and wealthy men in asia. galen claims that the high priest chose him over other physicians after he eviscerated an ape and challenged other physicians to repair the damage. when they refused, galen performed the surgery himself and in so doing won the favor of the high priest of asia. over his four years there, he learned the importance of diet, fitness, hygiene and preventive measures, as well as living anatomy, and the treatment of fractures and severe trauma, referring to their wounds as "windows into the body". only five deaths among the gladiators occurred while he held the post, compared to sixty in his predecessor's time, a result that is in general ascribed to the attention he paid to their wounds. at the same time he pursued studies in theoretical medicine and philosophy.[ ][ ][ ][ ] later years: ad – [edit] modern statue of galen in his home town, pergamon galen went to rome in and made his mark as a practicing physician. his impatience brought him into conflict with other doctors and he felt menaced by them. his demonstrations there antagonized the less skilled and more conservative physicians in the city. when galen's animosity with the roman medical practitioners became serious, he feared he might be exiled or poisoned, so he left the city.[ ] rome had engaged in foreign wars in ; marcus aurelius and his colleague lucius verus were in the north fighting the marcomanni.[ ] during the autumn of when roman troops were returning to aquileia, a great plague broke out, and the emperor summoned galen back to rome. he was ordered to accompany marcus and verus to germany as the court physician. the following spring marcus was persuaded to release galen after receiving a report that asclepius was against the project.[ ] he was left behind to act as physician to the imperial heir commodus. it was here in court that galen wrote extensively on medical subjects. ironically, lucius verus died in , and marcus aurelius himself died in , both victims of the plague. galen was the physician to commodus for much of the emperor’s life and treated his common illnesses. according to dio cassius . . – , in about , under commodus’ reign, a pestilence occurred which at its height killed , people a day in rome. this was most likely the same plague that struck rome during marcus aurelius’ reign.[ ] galen became physician to septimius severus during his reign in rome. galen compliments severus and caracalla on keeping a supply of drugs for their friends and mentions three cases in which they had been of use in .[ ] the antonine plague[edit] main article: antonine plague the 'galen' group of physicians in an image from the vienna dioscurides; he is depicted top center. the antonine plague was named after marcus aurelius’ family name of antoninus. it was also known as the plague of galen and held an important place in medicinal history because of its association with galen. he had first-hand knowledge of the disease, and was present in rome when it first struck in ad, and was also present in the winter of – during an outbreak among troops stationed at aquileia. he had experience with the epidemic, referring to it as very long lasting, and described its symptoms and his treatment of it. unfortunately, his references to the plague are scattered and brief. galen was not trying to present a description of the disease so that it could be recognized in future generations; he was more interested in the treatment and physical effects of the disease. for example, in his writings about a young man afflicted with the plague, he concentrated on the treatment of internal and external ulcerations. according to niebuhr, "this pestilence must have raged with incredible fury; it carried off innumerable victims. the ancient world never recovered from the blow inflicted upon it by the plague that visited it in the reign of m. aurelius." the mortality rate of the plague was – percent; the outbreak in – would have caused approximately . to million deaths. otto seeck believes that over half the population of the empire perished. j. f. gilliam believes that the antonine plague probably caused more deaths than any other epidemic during the empire before the mid- rd century.[ ] although galen's description is incomplete, it is sufficient to enable a firm identification of the disease as smallpox. galen notes that the exanthema covered the victim's entire body and was usually black. the exanthem became rough and scabby where there was no ulceration. he states that those who were going to survive developed a black exanthem. according to galen, it was black because of a remnant of blood putrefied in a fever blister that was pustular. his writings state that raised blisters were present in the antonine plague, usually in the form of a blistery rash. galen states that the skin rash was close to the one thucydides described. galen describes symptoms of the alimentary tract via a patient's diarrhea and stools. if the stool was very black, the patient died. he says that the amount of black stools varied. it depended on the severity of the intestinal lesions. he observes that in cases where the stool was not black, the black exanthema appeared. galen describes the symptoms of fever, vomiting, fetid breath, catarrh, cough, and ulceration of the larynx and trachea.[ ] eudemus[edit] when the peripatetic philosopher eudemus became ill with quartan fever, galen felt obliged to treat him "since he was my teacher and i happened to live nearby."[ ] galen wrote: "i return to the case of eudemus. he was thoroughly attacked by the three attacks of quartan ague, and the doctors had given him up, as it was now mid-winter."[ ] some roman physicians criticized galen for his use of the prognosis in his treatment of eudemus. this practice conflicted with the then-current standard of care, which relied upon divination and mysticism. galen retaliated against his detractors by defending his own methods. garcia-ballester quotes galen as saying: "in order to diagnose, one must observe and reason. this was the basis of his criticism of the doctors who proceeded alogos and askeptos."[ ] however, eudemus warned galen that engaging in conflict with these physicians could lead to his assassination. "eudemus said this, and more to the same effect; he added that if they were not able to harm me by unscrupulous conduct they would proceed to attempts at poisoning. among other things he told me that, some ten years before, a young man had come to the city and had given, like me practical demonstrations of the resources of our art; this young man was put to death by poison, together with two servants who accompanied him."[ ] garcia-ballester says the following of galen’s use of prognosis: "in modern medicine, we are used to distinguishing between the diagnostic judgment (the scientific knowledge of what a patient has) and the prognostic judgment (the conjecture about what will happen to him.) for galen, to understand a clinical case technically, ‘to diagnose’, was, among other things, to know with greater or lesser certainty the outcome for the patient, ‘to prognosticate’. prognosis, then, is one of the essential problems and most important objectives of galenic diagnosis. galen was concerned with distinguishing prognosis from divination or prophecy, both to improve diagnosis technically and to enhance the physician's reputation."[ ] death[edit] the th-century suda lexicon states that galen died at the age of , which would place his death in about the year . however, there is a reference in galen's treatise "on theriac to piso" (which may, however, be spurious) to events of . there are also statements in arabic sources[ ] that he died in sicily at age , after years studying medicine and practicing it, which would mean he died about . according to these sources, the tomb of galenus in palermo was still well preserved in the tenth century. nutton[ ] believes that "on theriac to piso" is genuine, that the arabic sources are correct, and that the suda has erroneously interpreted the years of galen's career in the arabic tradition as referring to his whole lifespan. boudon-millot[ ] more or less concurs and favours a date of . contributions to medicine[edit] further information: humorism galen contributed a substantial amount to the hippocratic understanding of pathology. under hippocrates' bodily humors theory, differences in human moods come as a consequence of imbalances in one of the four bodily fluids: blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm. galen promoted this theory and the typology of human temperaments. in galen's view, an imbalance of each humor corresponded with a particular human temperament (blood—sanguine, black bile—melancholic, yellow bile—choleric, and phlegm—phlegmatic). thus, individuals with sanguine temperaments are extroverted and social; choleric people have energy, passion, and charisma; melancholics are creative, kind, and considerate; and phlegmatic temperaments are characterized by dependability, kindness, and affection.[ ] many theorist just like galen believed that sickness came from an imbalance in the body and that the best way to treat an imbalance was by bleeding, enemas, and vomitting. however, the practice of blood letting is no longer used today. galen dissecting a monkey, as imagined by veloso salgado in galen's principal interest was in human anatomy, but roman law had prohibited the dissection of human cadavers since about bc.[ ] because of this restriction, galen performed anatomical dissections on living (vivisection) and dead animals, mostly focusing on primates.[ ] this work was useful because galen believed that the anatomical structures of these animals closely mirrored those of humans. galen clarified the anatomy of the trachea and was the first to demonstrate that the larynx generates the voice.[ ][ ] in one experiment, galen used bellows to inflate the lungs of a dead animal.[ ][ ] galen's work on the anatomy remained largely unsurpassed and unchallenged up until the th century in europe. in the middle of the th century, the anatomist andreas vesalius challenged the anatomical knowledge of galen by conducting dissections on human cadavers. these investigations allowed vesalius to refute aspects of galen's anatomy. galen’s research on physiology was largely influenced by previous works of philosophers plato and aristotle, as well as physician hippocrates. he was one of the first people to experiments as a method of research for his medical findings.[ ] doing so allowed him to explore various parts of the body and its function. many of his findings were accurate and has helped to shape medical science today. because of galen this is where we get most of our medical knowledge from. among galen's major contributions to medicine was his work on the circulatory system. he was the first to recognize that there are distinct differences between venous (dark) and arterial (bright) blood. although his anatomical experiments on animal models led him to a more complete understanding of the circulatory system, nervous system, respiratory system, and other structures, his work contained scientific errors.[ ] galen believed the circulatory system to consist of two separate one-way systems of distribution, rather than a single unified system of circulation. he believed venous blood to be generated in the liver, from where it was distributed and consumed by all organs of the body. he posited that arterial blood originated in the heart, from where it was distributed and consumed by all organs of the body. the blood was then regenerated in either the liver or the heart, completing the cycle. galen also believed in the existence of a group of blood vessels he called the rete mirabile in the carotid sinus.[ ] both of these theories of the circulation of blood were later (beginning with works of ibn al-nafis published ca. ) shown to be incorrect.[ ] not only did galen contribute tremendously to the understanding of  the respiratory system, blood and the circulatory system, but he was also a pioneer in research about the human spine. his dissections and vivisections of animals led to key observations that helped him accurately describe the human spine, spinal cord, and vertebral column. galen also played a major role in the discoveries of the central nervous system. he was also able to describe the nerves that emerge from the spine, which is integral to his research about the nervous system.[ ] galen went on to be the first physician to study what happens when the spinal cord is transected on multiple different levels.[ ] he worked with pigs and studied their neuroanatomy by severing different nerves either totally or partially to see how it affected the body. he even dealt with diseases affecting the spinal cord and nerves. although his work demonstrated inevitable anatomical inaccuracies, his research was integral to the future advances in knowledge about the spinal column, vertebrae, and spinal cord. galen primarily worked on lower animals, such as pigs, barbary apes, sheep, and goats. these animals were used for dissections and anatomical studies. due to the taboo at the time of dissection and work with human cadavers, galen had to draw parallels between the animals he worked on and the human body. this led to some inaccuracies, most notably galen’s anatomy of the uterus which largely resembled a dog’s. though incorrect in his studies of human reproduction and reproductive anatomy, he came very close to identifying the ovaries as analogous to the male testes. reproduction was a controversial topic in galen’s lifetime, as there was much debate over if the male was solely responsible for the seed, or if the woman was also responsible. in his work de motu musculorum, galen explained the difference between motor and sensory nerves, discussed the concept of muscle tone, and explained the difference between agonists and antagonists. for years before galen’s research, it was believed that the arteries carries oxygen rather than blood. through his vivisection practices, galen also proved that the voice was controlled by the brain. he did this through tying off the recurrent laryngeal nerve. he used the same method to tie off the ureters to prove his theories of kidney and bladder function. galen believed the human body had three interconnected systems that allowed it to work. the first system that he theorized consisted of the brain and the nerves, responsible for thought and sensation. the second theorized system was the heart and the arteries, which galen believed to be responsible for providing life-giving energy. the last theorized system was the liver and veins, which galen theorized were responsible for nutrition and growth. galen also theorized that blood was made in the liver and sent out around the body. galen was a skilled surgeon, operating on human patients. many of his procedures and techniques would not be used again for centuries, such as the procedures he performed on brains and eyes.[ ] to correct cataracts in patients, galen performed an operation similar to a modern one. using a needle-shaped instrument, galen attempted to remove the cataract-affected lens of the eye.[ ] his surgical experiments included ligating the arteries of living animals.[ ] although many th century historians have claimed that galen believed the lens to be in the exact center of the eye, galen actually understood that the crystalline lens is located in the anterior aspect of the human eye.[ ] at first reluctantly but then with increasing vigour, galen promoted hippocratic teaching, including venesection and bloodletting, then unknown in rome. this was sharply criticised by the erasistrateans, who predicted dire outcomes, believing that it was not blood but pneuma that flowed in the veins. galen, however, staunchly defended venesection in his three books on the subject[ ] and in his demonstrations and public disputations. contributions to philosophy[edit] see also: philosophy of medicine although the main focus of his work was on medicine, anatomy, and physiology, galen also wrote about logic and philosophy. his writings were influenced by earlier greek and roman thinkers, including plato, aristotle, the stoics, and the pyrrhonists. galen was concerned to combine philosophical thought with medical practice, as in his brief work that the best physician is also a philosopher he took aspects from each group and combined them with his original thought. he regarded medicine as an interdisciplinary field that was best practiced by utilizing theory, observation, and experimentation in conjunction. several schools of thought existed within the medical field during galen's lifetime, the main two being the empiricists and rationalists (also called dogmatists or philosophers), with the methodists being a smaller group. the empiricists emphasized the importance of physical practice and experimentation, or "active learning" in the medical discipline. in direct opposition to the empiricists were the rationalists, who valued the study of established teachings in order to create new theories in the name of medical advancements. the methodists formed somewhat of a middle ground, as they were not as experimental as the empiricists, nor as theoretical as the rationalists. the methodists mainly utilized pure observation, showing greater interest in studying the natural course of ailments than making efforts to find remedies. galen's education had exposed him to the five major schools of thought (platonists, peripatetics, stoics, epicureans, pyrrhonists), with teachers from the rationalist sect and from the empiricist sect. opposition to the stoics[edit] galen was well known for his advancements in medicine and the circulatory system, but he was also concerned with philosophy. he developed his own tripartite soul model following the examples of plato; some scholars refer to him as a platonist.[ ] galen developed a theory of personality based on his understanding of fluid circulation in humans, and he believed that there was a physiological basis for mental disorders.[ ] galen connected many of his theories to the pneuma and he opposed the stoics' definition of and use of the pneuma.[ ] the stoics, according to galen, failed to give a credible answer for the localization of functions of the psyche, or the mind. through his use of medicine, he was convinced that he came up with a better answer, the brain.[ ] the stoics only recognized the soul as having one part, which was the rational soul and they claimed it would be found in the heart. galen, following plato's idea, came up with two more parts to the soul.[ ] galen also rejected stoic propositional logic and instead embraced a hypothetical syllogistic which was strongly influenced by the peripatetics and based on elements of aristotelian logic.[ ] localization of function[edit] one of galen's major works, on the doctrines of hippocrates and plato, sought to demonstrate the unity of the two subjects and their views. using their theories, combined with aristotle's, galen developed a tripartite soul consisting of similar aspects.[ ] he used the same terms as plato, referring to the three parts as rational, spiritual, and appetitive. each corresponded to a localized area of the body. the rational soul was in the brain, the spiritual soul was in the heart, and the appetitive soul was in the liver. galen was the first scientist and philosopher to assign specific parts of the soul to locations in the body because of his extensive background in medicine.[ ] this idea is now referred to as localization of function.[ ] galen's assignments were revolutionary for the time period, which set the precedent for future localization theories. galen believed each part of this tripartite soul controlled specific functions within the body and that the soul, as a whole, contributed to the health of the body, strengthening the "natural functioning capacity of the organ or organs in question".[ ] the rational soul controlled higher level cognitive functioning in an organism, for example, making choices or perceiving the world and sending those signals to the brain.[ ] he also listed "imagination, memory, recollection, knowledge, thought, consideration, voluntary motion and sensation" as being found within the rational soul.[ ] the functions of "growing or being alive" resided in the spirited soul.[ ] the spirited soul also contained our passions, such as anger. these passions were considered to be even stronger than regular emotions, and, as a consequence, more dangerous.[ ] the third part of the soul, or the appetitive spirit, controlled the living forces in our body, most importantly blood.[ ] the appetitive spirit also regulated the pleasures of the body and was moved by feelings of enjoyment. this third part of the soul is the animalistic, or more natural, side of the soul; it deals with the natural urges of the body and survival instincts. galen proposed that when the soul is moved by too much enjoyment, it reaches states of "incontinence" and "licentiousness", the inability to willfully cease enjoyment, which was a negative consequence of too much pleasure.[ ] in order to unite his theories about the soul and how it operated within the body, he adapted the theory of the pneuma,[ ] which he used to explain how the soul operated within its assigned organs, and how those organs, in turn, interacted together. galen then distinguished the vital pneuma, in the arterial system, from the psychic pneuma, in the brain and nervous system.[ ] galen placed the vital pneuma in the heart and the psychic pneuma within the brain. he conducted many anatomical studies on animals, most famously an ox, to study the transition from vital to psychic pneuma.[ ] although highly criticized for comparing animal anatomy to human anatomy, galen was convinced that his knowledge was abundant enough in both anatomies to base one on the other.[ ] in his treatise on the usefulness of the parts of the body, galen argued the perfect conformation of each part of the body and its strict pertinence with its function founded the needy role of an intelligent creator. his creationist was anticipated by the anatomical examples of socrates and empedocles.[ ] mind–body problem[edit] further information: mind–body problem galen believed there to be no distinction between the mental and the physical.[ ] this was a controversial argument of the time, and galen fell with the greeks in believing that the mind and body were not separate faculties.[ ] he believed that this could be scientifically proven.[ ] this was where his opposition to the stoics became most prevalent.[ ] galen proposed organs within the body to be responsible for specific functions, rather than individual parts. according to galen, the stoics' lack of scientific justification discredited their claims of the separateness of mind and body, which is why he spoke so strongly against them.[ ] psychotherapy[edit] another one of galen's major works, on the diagnosis and cure of the soul's passion, discussed how to approach and treat psychological problems.[ ] this was galen's early attempt at what would later be called psychotherapy. his book contained directions on how to provide counsel to those with psychological issues to prompt them to reveal their deepest passions and secrets, and eventually cure them of their mental deficiency. the leading individual, or therapist, had to be a male, preferably of an older, wiser, age, as well as free from the control of the passions.[ ] these passions, according to galen, caused the psychological problems that people experienced. published works[edit] main article: galenic corpus de curandi ratione galenou apanta ( ) galen may have produced more work than any author in antiquity, rivaling the quantity of work issued from augustine of hippo.[ ] so profuse was galen's output that the surviving texts represent nearly half of all the extant literature from ancient greece.[ ][ ] it has been reported that galen employed twenty scribes to write down his words.[citation needed] galen may have written as many as treatises,[ ] amounting to some million words.[citation needed] although his surviving works amount to some million words,[ ] this is thought to represent less than a third of his complete writings. in ad , a fire in the temple of peace destroyed many of his works, in particular treatises on philosophy.[ ] because galen's works were not translated into latin in the ancient period, and because of the collapse of the roman empire in the west, the study of galen, along with the greek medical tradition as a whole, went into decline in western europe during the early middle ages, when very few latin scholars could read greek. however, in general, galen and the ancient greek medical tradition continued to be studied and followed in the eastern roman empire, commonly known as the byzantine empire. all of the extant greek manuscripts of galen were copied by byzantine scholars. in the abbasid period (after ad ) arab muslims began to be interested in greek scientific and medical texts for the first time, and had some of galen's texts translated into arabic, often by syrian christian scholars (see below). as a result, some texts of galen exist only in arabic translation,[ ] while others exist only in medieval latin translations of the arabic. in some cases scholars have even attempted to translate from the latin or arabic back into greek where the original is lost.[ ][ ][ ] for some of the ancient sources, such as herophilus, galen's account of their work is all that survives. even in his own time, forgeries and unscrupulous editions of his work were a problem, prompting him to write on his own books. forgeries in latin, arabic or greek continued until the renaissance. some of galen's treatises have appeared under many different titles over the years. sources are often in obscure and difficult-to-access journals or repositories. although written in greek, by convention the works are referred to by latin titles, and often by merely abbreviations of those. no single authoritative collection of his work exists, and controversy remains as to the authenticity of a number of works attributed to galen. as a consequence, research on galen's work is fraught with hazard.[ ][ ] various attempts have been made to classify galen's vast output. for instance coxe ( ) lists a prolegomena, or introductory books, followed by classes of treatise embracing physiology ( vols.), hygiene ( ), aetiology ( ), semeiotics ( ), pharmacy ( ), blood letting ( ) and therapeutics ( ), in addition to of aphorisms, and spurious works.[ ] the most complete compendium of galen's writings, surpassing even modern projects like the corpus medicorum graecorum, is the one compiled and translated by karl gottlob kühn of leipzig between and .[ ] this collection consists of of galen's treatises, translated from the original greek into latin (the text is presented in both languages). over , pages in length, it is divided into volumes, with index pages.[citation needed] many of galen's works are included in the thesaurus linguae graecae, a digital library of greek literature started in . another useful modern source is the french bibliothèque interuniversitaire de médecine (bium). legacy[edit] late antiquity[edit] in his time, galen's reputation as both physician and philosopher was legendary,[ ] the emperor marcus aurelius describing him as "primum sane medicorum esse, philosophorum autem solum" (first among doctors and unique among philosophers praen : ). other contemporary authors in the greek world confirm this including theodotus the shoemaker, athenaeus and alexander of aphrodisias. the th-century poet george of pisida went so far as to refer to christ as a second and neglected galen.[ ] galen continued to exert an important influence over the theory and practice of medicine until the mid- th century in the byzantine and arabic worlds and europe. hippocrates and galen form important landmarks of years of greek medicine. a. j. brock describes them as representing the foundation and apex respectively.[ ] a few centuries after galen, palladius iatrosophista stated, in his commentary on hippocrates, that hippocrates sowed and galen reaped. thus galen summarised and synthesised the work of his predecessors, and it is in galen's words (galenism) that greek medicine was handed down to subsequent generations, such that galenism became the means by which greek medicine was known to the world. often, this was in the form of restating and reinterpreting, such as in magnus of nisibis' th-century work on urine, which was in turn translated into arabic.[ ] yet the full importance of his contributions was not appreciated till long after his death.[ ] galen's rhetoric and prolificity were so powerful as to convey the impression that there was little left to learn. the term galenism has subsequently taken on both a positive and pejorative meaning as one that transformed medicine in late antiquity yet so dominated subsequent thinking as to stifle further progress.[ ] after the collapse of the western empire the study of galen and other greek works almost disappeared in the latin west. in contrast, in the predominantly greek-speaking eastern half of the roman empire (byzantium), many commentators of the subsequent centuries, such as oribasius, physician to the emperor julian who compiled a synopsis in the th century, preserved and disseminated galen's works, making galenism more accessible. nutton refers to these authors as the "medical refrigerators of antiquity".[ ][ ] in late antiquity, medical writing veered increasingly in the direction of the theoretical at the expense of the practical, with many authors merely debating galenism. magnus of nisibis was a pure theorist, as were john of alexandria and agnellus of ravenna with their lectures on galen's de sectis.[ ] so strong was galenism that other authors such as hippocrates began to be seen through a galenic lens, while his opponents became marginalised and other medical sects such as asclepiadism slowly disappeared.[ ] greek medicine was part of greek culture, and syrian eastern christians came in contact with it while the eastern roman empire (byzantium) ruled syria and western mesopotamia, regions that were conquered from byzantium in the th century by arab muslims. after ad , muslims had these syrian christians make the first translations of galen into arabic. from then on, galen and the greek medical tradition in general became assimilated into the medieval and early modern islamic middle east.[ ] influence on medicine in the islamic world[edit] further information: medicine in the medieval islamic world galen's approach to medicine became and remains influential in the islamic world. the first major translator of galen into arabic was the arab christian hunayn ibn ishaq. he translated (c. – ) works of "jalinos"[ ] into arabic. arabic sources, such as muhammad ibn zakarīya al-rāzi (ad – ), continue to be the source of discovery of new or relatively inaccessible galenic writings.[ ] one of hunayn's arabic translations, kitab ila aglooqan fi shifa al amrad, which is extant in the library of ibn sina academy of medieval medicine & sciences, is regarded as a masterpiece of galen's literary works. a part of the alexandrian compendium of galen's work, this th-century manuscript comprises two parts that include details regarding various types of fevers (humyat) and different inflammatory conditions of the body. more important is that it includes details of more than single and compound formulations of both herbal and animal origin. the book provides an insight into understanding the traditions and methods of treatment in the greek and roman eras. in addition, this book provides a direct source for the study of more than single and compound drugs used during the greco-roman period. as the title of doubts on galen by al-rāzi implies, as well as the writings of physicians such as ibn zuhr and ibn al-nafis,[ ] the works of galen were not accepted unquestioningly, but as a challengeable basis for further inquiry. a strong emphasis on experimentation and empiricism led to new results and new observations, which were contrasted and combined with those of galen by writers such as al-rāzi, ali ibn abbas al-majusi, abu al-qasim al-zahrawi, ibn sina (avicenna), ibn zuhr and ibn al-nafis. for example, ibn al-nafis' discovery of the pulmonary circulation contradicted the galenic theory on the heart.[ ] the influence of galen's writings, including humorism, remains strong in modern unani medicine, now closely identified with islamic culture, and widely practiced from india (where it is officially recognized) to morocco.[ ] reintroduction to the latin west[edit] mondino dei liuzzi, anathomia, from the th century onwards, latin translations of islamic medical texts began to appear in the west, alongside the salerno school of thought, and were soon incorporated into the curriculum at the universities of naples and montpellier. from that time, galenism took on a new, unquestioned authority, galen even being referred to as the "medical pope of the middle ages".[ ] constantine the african was amongst those who translated both hippocrates and galen from arabic. in addition to the more numerous translations of arabic texts in this period, there were a few translations of galenic works directly from the greek, such as burgundio of pisa's translation of de complexionibus. galen's works on anatomy and medicine became the mainstay of the medieval physician's university curriculum, alongside ibn sina's the canon of medicine, which elaborated on galen's works. unlike pagan rome, christian europe did not exercise a universal prohibition of the dissection and autopsy of the human body and such examinations were carried out regularly from at least the th century.[citation needed] however, galen's influence was so great that when dissections discovered anomalies compared with galen's anatomy, the physicians often tried to fit these into the galenic system. an example of this is mondino de liuzzi, who describes rudimentary blood circulation in his writings but still asserts that the left ventricle should contain air. some cited these changes as proof that human anatomy had changed since the time of galen.[ ] the most important translator of galen's works into latin was niccolò di deoprepio da reggio, who spent several years working on galen. niccolò worked at the angevin court during the reign of king robert of naples. among niccolò's translations is a piece from a medical treatise by galen, of which the original text is lost.[ ] renaissance[edit] galen's opera omnia, dissection of a pig. venice, the first edition of galen's complete works in latin translation was edited by diomede bonardo of brescia and printed at venice by filippo pinzi in .[ ] the renaissance, and the fall of the byzantine empire ( ), were accompanied by an influx of greek scholars and manuscripts to the west, allowing direct comparison between the arabic commentaries and the original greek texts of galen. this new learning and the humanist movement, particularly the work of linacre, promoted literae humaniores including galen in the latin scientific canon, de naturalibus facultatibus appearing in london in . debates on medical science now had two traditions, the more conservative arabian and the liberal greek.[ ] the more extreme liberal movements began to challenge the role of authority in medicine, as exemplified by paracelsus' symbolically burning the works of avicenna and galen at his medical school in basle.[ ] nevertheless, galen's pre-eminence amongst the great thinkers of the millennium is exemplified by a th-century mural in the refectory of the great lavra of mt athos. it depicts pagan sages at the foot of the tree of jesse, with galen between the sibyl and aristotle.[ ] galen. de pulsibus. (manuscript; venice, c. ). this greek manuscript of galen’s treatise on the pulse is interleaved with a latin translation. galenism's final defeat came from a combination of the negativism of paracelsus and the constructivism of the italian renaissance anatomists, such as vesalius in the th century.[ ] in the s, the flemish anatomist and physician andreas vesalius took on a project to translate many of galen's greek texts into latin. vesalius' most famous work, de humani corporis fabrica, was greatly influenced by galenic writing and form. seeking to examine critically galen's methods and outlook, vesalius turned to human cadaver dissection as a means of verification. galen's writings were shown by vesalius to describe details present in monkeys but not in humans, and he demonstrated galen's limitations through books and hands-on demonstrations despite fierce opposition from orthodox pro-galenists such as jacobus sylvius. since galen states that he is using observations of monkeys (human dissection was prohibited) to give an account of what the body looks like, vesalius could portray himself as using galen's approach of description of direct observation to create a record of the exact details of the human body, since he worked in a time when human dissection was allowed. galen argued that monkey anatomy was close enough to humans for physicians to learn anatomy with monkey dissections and then make observations of similar structures in the wounds of their patients, rather than trying to learn anatomy only from wounds in human patients, as would be done by students trained in the empiricist model.[ ] the examinations of vesalius also disproved medical theories of aristotle and mondino de liuzzi. one of the best known examples of vesalius' overturning of galenism was his demonstration that the interventricular septum of the heart was not permeable, as galen had taught (nat fac iii xv). however, this had been revealed two years before by michael servetus in his fateful "christianismi restitutio" ( ) with only three copies of the book surviving, but these remaining hidden for decades; the rest were burned shortly after its publication because of persecution of servetus by religious authorities. michael servetus, using the name "michel de villeneuve" during his stay in france, was vesalius' fellow student and the best galenist at the university of paris, according to johann winter von andernach,[ ] who taught both. in the galenism of the renaissance, editions of the opera omnia by galen were very important. it was begun in venice in – by the guinta. there were fourteen editions of the book from that date until . just one edition was produced from lyon between and . the lyon edition has commentaries on breathing and blood streaming that correct the work of earlier renowned authors such as vesalius, caius or janus cornarius. "michel de villeneuve" had contracts with jean frellon for that work, and the servetus scholar-researcher francisco javier gonzález echeverría[ ][ ] presented research that became an accepted communication in the international society for the history of medicine,[ ] which concluded that michael de villeneuve (michael servetus) is the author of the commentaries of this edition of frellon, in lyon.[ ][ ] another convincing case where understanding of the body was extended beyond where galen had left it came from these demonstrations of the nature of human circulation and the subsequent work of andrea cesalpino, fabricio of acquapendente and william harvey.[ ] some galenic teaching, such as his emphasis on bloodletting as a remedy for many ailments, however, remained influential until well into the th century.[ ] contemporary scholarship[edit] galenic scholarship remains an intense and vibrant field, following renewed interest in his work, dating from the german encyclopedia realencyclopädie der classischen altertumswissenschaft.[ ] copies of his works translated by robert m. green are held at the national library of medicine in bethesda, maryland.[ ] in , the university of basel discovered that a mysterious greek papyrus with mirror writing on both sides, which was at the collection of basilius amerbach, a professor of jurisprudence at the university of basel in the th century, is an unknown medical document of galen or an unknown commentary on his work. the medical text describes the phenomenon of ‘hysterical apnea’.[ ] see also[edit] 	abascantus 	galenic formulation 	timeline of medicine and medical technology 	history of medicine notes[edit] 	^ "galen" entry in collins english dictionary. 	^ life, death, and entertainment in the roman empire. david stone potter, d. j. mattingly ( ). university of michigan press. p. . isbn  - - - 	^ "galen on bloodletting: a study of the origins, development, and validity of his opinions, with a translation of the three works". peter brain, galen ( ). cambridge university press. p. . isbn  - - - 	^ a b c d nutton vivian ( ). 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(latin) 	roman empire at its greatest extent c.  ad, with italy in red and provinces in pink. 	capital	rome, mediolanum and ravenna (as capitals of the republic or the empire) 	common languages	latin 	religion 	polytheistic synchretism, followed by monotheistic christianity 	government	mixed constitution 	legislature	senate and people of rome 	historical era	classic antiquity 	population 	 	• ad 	c. million (c. million in rome)[ ] 	 	iso code	it 	 	 preceded by	succeeded by 	 	 	archaic italy 	 	regnum italiae 	 italia (the latin and italian name for the italian peninsula) was the homeland of the romans and metropole of rome's empire in classical antiquity.[ ][ ][ ][ ] according to roman mythology, italy was the ancestral home promised by jupiter to aeneas of troy and his descendants, whose descendants were the founders of rome. aside from the legendary accounts, rome was an italic city-state that changed its form of government from kingdom to republic and then grew within the context of a peninsula dominated by the celts in the north, the etruscans and umbrians in the centre, and the messapians (illyrian colonies) and greeks colonies in the south. the consolidation of italy into a single entity occurred during the roman expansion in the peninsula, when rome formed a permanent association with most of the local tribes and cities.[ ] the strength of the italian confederacy was a crucial factor in the rise of rome, starting with the punic and macedonian wars between the rd and nd century bc. as provinces were being established throughout the mediterranean, italy maintained a special status which made it "not a province, but the domina (ruler) of the provinces".[ ] such a status meant that roman magistrates exercised the imperium domi (police power) within italy, rather than the imperium militiae (military power) used abroad. italy's inhabitants had latin rights as well as religious and financial privileges. the period between the end of the nd century bc and the st century bc was turbulent, beginning with the servile wars, continuing with the opposition of aristocratic élite to populist reformers and leading to a social war in the middle of italy. however, roman citizenship was recognized to the rest of the italics by the end of the conflict and then extended to cisalpine gaul when julius caesar became roman dictator. in the context of the transition from republic to principate, italy swore allegiance to octavian augustus and was then organized in eleven regions from the alps to the ionian sea. more than two centuries of stability followed, during which italy was referred to as the rectrix mundi (queen of the world) and omnium terrarum parens (motherland of all lands).[ ] several emperors made notable accomplishments in this period: claudius incorporated britain into the roman empire, vespasian subjugated the great revolt of judea and reformed the financial system, trajan conquered dacia and defeated parthia, and marcus aurelius epitomized the ideal of the philosopher king. the crisis of the third century hit italy particularly hard and left the eastern half of the empire more prosperous. in ad the roman emperor diocletian moved the capital of the western roman empire from rome to mediolanum.[ ] nevertheless, the islands of corsica, sardinia, sicily and malta were added to italy by diocletian in ad, and italian cities such as mediolanum and ravenna continued to serve as capitals for the west. the bishop of rome gained importance during constantine's reign and was given religious primacy with the edict of thessalonica under theodosius i. italy was invaded several times by the barbarians and fell under the control of odoacer, when romulus augustus was deposed in ad. in the sixth century, italy's territory was divided between the eastern roman empire and the germanic peoples.[further explanation needed] after that, italy remained divided until , when it was reunited by the house of savoy in the kingdom of italy, which became the present-day italian republic in . contents 	 characteristics 	 history 	 . augustan organization 	 . diocletianic and constantinian re-organizations 	 . western roman empire 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links characteristics[edit] northern and southern section of italia under augustus and successors following the end of the social war in bc, rome had allowed its italian allies full rights in roman society and granted roman citizenship to all the italic peoples.[ ] after having been for centuries the heart of the roman empire, from the rd century the government and the cultural center began to move eastward: first the edict of caracalla in ad extended roman citizenship to all free men within the imperial boundaries. then, christianity became the dominant religion during constantine's reign ( – ), raising the power of other eastern political centres. although not founded as a capital city in , constantinople grew in importance. it finally gained the rank of eastern capital when given an urban prefect in and the senators who were clari became senators of the lowest rank as clarissimi. as a result, italy began to decline in favour of the provinces, which resulted in the division of the empire into two administrative units in : the western roman empire, with its capital at mediolanum (now milan), and the eastern roman empire, with its capital at constantinople (now istanbul). in , the capital was moved to ravenna from milan, confirming the decline of the city of rome (which was sacked in for the first time in seven centuries). history[edit] the name italia covered an area whose borders evolved over time. according to strabo's geographica, before the expansion of the roman republic, the name was used by greeks to indicate the land between the strait of messina and the line connecting the gulf of salerno and gulf of taranto (corresponding roughly to the current region of calabria); later the term was extended by romans to include the italian peninsula up to the rubicon, a river located between northern and central italy. in bc, with the lex roscia, julius caesar gave roman citizenship to the people of the cisalpine gaul;[ ] while in bc the hitherto existing province was abolished, thus extending italy to the north up to the southern foot of the alps.[ ][ ] under augustus, the peoples of today's aosta valley and of the western and northern alps were subjugated (so the western border of roman italy was moved to the varus river), and the italian eastern border was brought to the arsia in istria.[ ] lastly, in the late rd century, italy came to also include the islands of sicily, corsica and sardinia, as well as raetia and part of pannonia.[ ] the city of emona (modern ljubljana, slovenia) was the easternmost town of italy. augustan organization[edit] at the beginning of the roman imperial era, italy was a collection of territories with different political statuses. some cities, called municipia, had some independence from rome, while others, the coloniae, were founded by the romans themselves. around bc, augustus divided italy into eleven regiones, as reported by pliny the elder in his naturalis historia: roman italia (in green) as organized by augustus. the tropaeum alpium the victory monument of the alps, la turbie, france, marked the augustan border between italy and gaul italia annonaria and italia suburbicaria dioceses. 	regio i latium et campania 	regio ii apulia et calabria 	regio iii lucania et bruttium 	regio iv samnium 	regio v picenum 	regio vi umbria et ager gallicus 	regio vii etruria 	regio viii aemilia 	regio ix liguria 	regio x venetia et histria 	regio xi transpadana italy was privileged by augustus and his heirs, with the construction, among other public structures, of a dense network of roman roads. the italian economy flourished: agriculture, handicraft and industry had a sensible growth, allowing the export of goods to the other provinces.[citation needed] the italian population may have grown as well: three census were ordered by augustus, to record the number of roman citizens throughout the empire. the surviving totals were , , in bc, , , in bc, and , , in ad , but it is still debated whether these counted all citizens, all adult male citizens, or citizens sui iuris.[ ] estimates for the population of mainland italy, including cisalpine gaul, at the beginning of the st century range from , , according to karl julius beloch in , to , , according to elio lo cascio in .[ ] diocletianic and constantinian re-organizations[edit] during the crisis of the third century the roman empire nearly collapsed under the combined pressures of invasions, military anarchy and civil wars, and hyperinflation. in , emperor diocletian restored political stability. he carried out thorough administrative reforms to maintain order. he created the so-called tetrarchy whereby the empire was ruled by two senior emperors called augusti and two junior vice-emperors called caesars. he decreased the size of the roman provinces by doubling their number to reduce the power of the provincial governors. he grouped the provinces into several dioceses (latin: diocesis) and put them under the supervision of the imperial vicarius (vice, deputy), who was the head of the diocese. during the crisis of the third century the importance of rome declined because the city was far from the troubled frontiers. diocletian and his colleagues usually resided in four imperial seats. the augusti, diocletian and maximian, who were responsible for the east and west respectively, established themselves at nicomedia, in north-western anatolia (closer to the persian frontier in the east) and milan, in northern italy (closer to the european frontiers) respectively. the seats of the caesars were augusta treverorum (on the river rhine frontier) for constantius chlorus and sirmium (on the river danube frontier) for galerius who also resided at thessaloniki. under diocletian italy became the dioecesis italiciana. it included raetia. it was subdivided the following provinces: 		liguria (today's liguria and western piedmont) 	transpadana (eastern piedmont and lombardy) 	rhaetia (eastern switzerland, western and central austria, part of southern germany, and part of northeastern italy) 	venetia et histria (today's veneto, friuli-venezia giulia and trentino-alto adige and istria county) 	aemilia (emilia-romagna) 	tuscia (etruria) et umbria (tuscany and umbria) 	flaminia (picenum and the former ager gallicus, in today's marche) 	latium et campania (the coastal parts of lazio and campania) 	samnium (abruzzo, molise and irpinia) 	apulia et calabria (today's apulia) 	lucania et bruttium (basilicata and calabria) 	sicilia (sicily and malta) 	corsica et sardinia constantine subdivided the empire into four praetorian prefectures. the diocesis italiciana became the praetorian prefecture of italy (praefectura praetoria italiae), and was subdivided into two dioceses. it still included raetia. the two dioceses and their provinces were: diocesis italia annonaria (italy of the annona - its inhabitants had to provide the administration in milan and the troops stationed in that city the annona - food, wine and timber).[clarification needed] 		alpes cottiae (modern liguria and western part of piedmont) 	liguria (western lombardy and eastern part of piedmont) 	venetia et histria (istria [which is now part of croatia, slovenia and italy], friuli-venezia giulia, trentino-alto adige, veneto and eastern and central lombardy) 	raetia i (eastern switzerland and western austria) 	rhaetia ii (central austria, part of southern germany, and part of northeastern italy) 	aemilia (the emilia part of emilia-romagna) 	flaminia et picenum annonarium (romagna and northern marche) diocesis italia suburbicaria (italy "under the government of the urbs", i.e. rome) 		tuscia (etruria) et umbria (tuscany, umbria and the northern part of coastal lazio) 	picenum suburbicarium (piceno, in southern marche) 	valeria sabina (the modern province of rieti, other areas of lazio and areas of umbria and abruzzo) 	campania (central and southern coastal lazio and coastal campania except for the modern province of salerno) 	samnium (abruzzo, molise and the mountain areas of modern campania; i.e., the modern provinces of benevento and avellino and part of the province of caserta) 	apulia et calabria (today's apulia) 	lucania et bruttium (modern calabria, basilicata and the province of salerno in modern campania) 	sicilia (sicily and malta) 	sardinia 	corsica western roman empire[edit] in , constantine inaugurated constantinople. he established the imperial court, a senate, financial and judicial administrations, as well as the military structures. the new city, however, did not receive an urban prefect until which raised it to the status of eastern capital. after the death of theodosius in and the subsequent division of the empire italy was part of the western roman empire. as a result of alaric's invasion in the western seat was moved from mediolanum to ravenna. alaric, king of visigoths, sacked rome itself in ; something that hadn't happened for eight centuries. northern italy was attacked by attila's huns in . rome was sacked in again by the vandals under the command of genseric. the "praetorian prefecture of italy" (in yellow) stretched from the danube river to north africa according to notitia dignitatum, one of the very few surviving documents of roman government updated to the s, roman italy was governed by a praetorian prefect, prefectus praetorio italiae (who also governed the diocese of africa and the diocese of pannonia), one vicarius, and one comes rei militaris. the regions of italy were governed at the end of the fourth century by eight consulares (venetiae et histriae, aemiliae, liguriae, flaminiae et piceni annonarii, tusciae et umbriae, piceni suburbicarii, campaniae, and siciliae), two correctores (apuliae et calabriae and lucaniae et bruttiorum) and seven praesides (alpium cottiarum, rhaetia prima and secunda, samnii, valeriae, sardiniae, and corsicae). in the fifth century, with the emperors controlled by their barbarian generals, the western imperial government maintained weak control over italy, whose coasts were periodically under attack. in , with the abdication of romulus augustulus, the western roman empire had formally fallen unless one considers julius nepos, the legitimate emperor recognized by constantinople as the last. he was assassinated in he may have been recognized by odoacer. italy remained under odoacer and his kingdom of italy, and then under the ostrogothic kingdom. the germanic successor states under odoacer and theodoric the great continued to use the roman administrative machinery, as well as being nominal subjects of the eastern emperor at constantinople. in roman emperor justinian invaded italy which suffered twenty years of disastrous war. in august , justinian issued a pragmatic sanction which maintained most of the organization of diocletian. the "prefecture of italy" thus survived, and came under roman control in the course of justinian's gothic war. as a result of the lombard invasion in , the byzantines lost most of italy, except the territories of the exarchate of ravenna - a corridor from venice to lazio - and footholds in the south naples and the toe and heel of the peninsula. references[edit] 	^ [ ] 	^ [ ] 	^ [ ] 	^ [ ] 	^ [ ] 	^ mommsen, theodor ( ). history of rome, book ii: from the abolition of the monarchy in rome to the union of italy. leipzig: reimer & hirsel. 	^ [ ] 	^ [ ] 	^ video of roman milan (in italian) 	^ keaveney, arthur ( ). rome and the unification of italy. london: croom helm. isbn  . 	^ cassius, dio. historia romana. . . 	^ laffi, umberto ( ). 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( ). the making of roman italy. ithaca: cornell university press. isbn  - . 	whatmough, joshua ( ). the foundations of roman italy. london: methuen & company. 	lomas, kathryn ( ). roman italy, bc-ad . new york: st. martin's press. isbn  - - - - . 	launaro, alessandro ( ). peasants and slaves: the rural population of roman italy. cambridge university press. isbn  - . 	hin, saskia ( ). the demography of roman italy. cambridge university press. isbn  - - - - . 	clarke, john r. ( ). the houses of roman italy, bc-ad . berkeley: university of california press. isbn  - - - . 	laurence, ray ( ). the roads of roman italy: mobility and cultural change. london: routledge. isbn  - - - . external links[edit] 	(in italian) geographical regions in roman history: italy 		v 	t 	e provinces of the early roman empire ( ad) 	 	achaea 	aegyptus 	africa proconsularis 	alpes cottiae 	alpes maritimae 	alpes poeninae 	arabia petraea 	armenia 	asia 	assyria 	bithynia and pontus 	britannia 	cappadocia 	cilicia 	corsica and sardinia 	crete and cyrenaica 	cyprus 	dacia 	dalmatia 	epirus 	galatia 	gallia aquitania 	gallia belgica 	gallia lugdunensis 	gallia narbonensis 	germania inferior 	germania superior 	hispania baetica 	hispania lusitania 	hispania tarraconensis 	italia † 	iudaea 	lycia et pamphylia 	macedonia 	mauretania caesariensis 	mauretania tingitana 	mesopotamia 	moesia inferior 	moesia superior 	noricum 	pannonia inferior 	pannonia superior 	raetia 	sicilia 	syria 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	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 gaius julius hyginus - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	gaius julius hyginus 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		"hyginus" redirects here. for other uses, see hyginus (disambiguation). roman freedman and writer during the age of augustus gaius julius hyginus (/hɪˈdʒaɪnəs/; c. bc – ad ) was a latin author, a pupil of the scholar alexander polyhistor, and a freedman of caesar augustus. he was elected superintendent of the palatine library by augustus according to suetonius' de grammaticis, .[ ] it is not clear whether hyginus was a native of the iberian peninsula or of alexandria. suetonius remarks that hyginus fell into great poverty in his old age and was supported by the historian clodius licinus. hyginus was a voluminous author: his works included topographical and biographical treatises, commentaries on helvius cinna and the poems of virgil, and disquisitions on agriculture and bee-keeping. all these are lost. under the name of hyginus there are extant what are probably two sets of school notes abbreviating his treatises on mythology; one is a collection of fabulae ("stories"), the other a "poetical astronomy". contents 	 fabulae 	 de astronomica or poeticon astronomicon 	 legacy 	 notes 	 references 	 external links fabulae[edit] fabulae consists of some three hundred very brief and plainly, even crudely told myths and celestial genealogies,[ ] made by an author who was characterized by his modern editor, h. j. rose, as adulescentem imperitum, semidoctum, stultum—"an ignorant youth, semi-learned, stupid"—but valuable for the use made of works of greek writers of tragedy that are now lost. arthur l. keith, reviewing h. j. rose's edition ( ) of hygini fabulae,[ ] wondered "at the caprices of fortune who has allowed many of the plays of an aeschylus, the larger portion of livy's histories, and other priceless treasures to perish, while this school-boy's exercise has survived to become the pabulum of scholarly effort." hyginus' compilation represents in primitive form what every educated roman in the age of the antonines was expected to know of greek myth, at the simplest level. the fabulae are a mine of information today, when so many more nuanced versions of the myths have been lost. in fact the text of fabulae was all but lost: a single surviving manuscript from the abbey of freising,[ ] in a beneventan script datable c. , formed the material for the first printed edition, negligently and uncritically[ ] transcribed by jacob micyllus, , who may have supplied it with the title we know it by. in the course of printing, following the usual practice, by which the manuscripts printed in the th and th centuries have rarely survived their treatment at the printshop, the manuscript was pulled apart: only two small fragments of it have turned up, significantly as stiffening in book bindings.[ ] another fragmentary text, dating from the th century is in the vatican library.[ ] among hyginus' sources are the scholia on apollonius of rhodes' argonautica, which were dated to about the time of tiberius by apollonius' editor r. merkel, in the preface to his edition of apollonius (leipzig, ).[ ] de astronomica or poeticon astronomicon[edit] main article: de astronomica de astronomica was first published, with accompanying figures, by erhard ratdolt in venice, , under the title clarissimi uiri hyginii poeticon astronomicon opus utilissimum. this "poetic astronomy by the most renowned hyginus, a most useful work," chiefly tells us the myths connected with the constellations, in versions that are chiefly based on catasterismi, a work that was traditionally attributed to eratosthenes. like the fabulae, the astronomica is a collection of abridgements, and the style and level of latin competence and the elementary mistakes (especially in the rendering of the greek originals) were held by the anonymous contributor to the encyclopædia britannica ( th edition, ), to prove that they cannot have been the work of "so distinguished" a scholar as c. julius hyginus. it was further suggested that these treatises are an abridgment made in the latter half of the nd century of the genealogiae of hyginus by an unknown adapter, who added a complete treatise on mythology.[ ] the star lists in the astronomica are in exactly the same order as in ptolemy's almagest, reinforcing the idea of a nd-century compilation.[ ] legacy[edit] the lunar crater hyginus and the minor planet hyginus are named after him. the english author sir thomas browne opens his discourse the garden of cyrus ( ) with a creation myth sourced from the fabulae of hyginus. notes[edit] 	^ not everyone is sure that the hyginus of fabulae was this freedman of augustus; for one, edward fitch, reviewing herbert j. rose, hygini fabulae in the american journal of philology , ( ), p. . 	^ "the fabulae (more correctly genealogiae) of hyginus", according to h. j. rose, "second thoughts on hyginus" mnemosyne, fourth series, . ( : – ) p. ; the article is in the way of a set of marginalia to rose's edition of fabulae. 	^ a.l. keith, in the classical journal . (october ) p. . 	^ a codex freisingensis, noted by fitch, reviewing rose, hygini fabulae : . 	^ a. h. f. griffin, "hyginus, fabula (laomedon)" the classical quarterly new series, . ( ), p. note. 	^ one was discovered at regensburg in , another in munich, . both fragments are conserved in munich. see m.d. reeve on hyginus, fabulae in l.d. reynolds, ed., texts and transmission (oxford) , pp f. 	^ review by wilfred e. major of p.k. marshall, hyginus: fabulae. editio altera. 	^ noted by rose : note . 	^ chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "hyginus, gaius julius" . encyclopædia britannica ( th ed.). cambridge university press. 	^ "julius hyginus poeticon astronomicon". retrieved - - . references[edit] 	grant, mary (transl.), the myths of hyginus (lawrence: university of kansas press, ). 	marshall, p.k. (ed.), hyginus: fabulae (munich: saur, [corr. ed. ]). 	rose, herbert jennings (ed.), hygini fabulae (leiden: a.w. sijthoff, [ nd ed. ]). the standard text, in latin. 	smith, r. scott & trzaskoma, stephen m. (transl.), apollodorus' library and hyginus' fabulae: two handbooks of greek mythology (indianapolis/cambridge: hackett publishing, ), isbn  - - - - . 	this article incorporates text from chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). 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additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 garcilaso de la vega (poet) - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	garcilaso de la vega (poet) 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		for the spanish peruvian writer, see garcilaso de la vega (chronicler). spanish poet 	garcilaso de la vega kos 	portrait at the new gallery, kassel 	born	garcía laso de la vega february – toledo, spain 	died	( - - ) october (aged – ) nice, duchy of savoy (present-day france) garcilaso de la vega, kos (c. – october ) was a spanish soldier and poet. although not the first or the only one to do so, he was the most influential poet to introduce italian renaissance verse forms, poetic techniques, and themes to spain. he was well known in poetic circles during his lifetime, and his poetry has continued to be popular without interruption until the present. his poetry was published posthumously by juan boscán in , and it has been the subject of several annotated editions, the first and most famous of which appeared in . contents 	 biography 	 works 	 literary references 	 modern translations 	 further reading 	 references 	 external links biography[edit] garcilaso was born in the spanish city of toledo between and .[ ] clavería boscán affirms he was born between and ,[ ] and another sources affirms he was born in .[ ] his father garcilaso de la vega, the third son of pedro suárez de figueroa, was a nobleman and ambassador in the royal court of the catholic monarchs.[ ] his mother's name was sancha de guzmán.[ ] garcilaso was the second son which meant he did not receive the mayorazgo (entitlement) to his father's estate. however, he spent his younger years receiving an extensive education, mastered five languages (spanish, greek, latin, italian and french), and learned how to play the zither, lute and the harp. when his father died in , garcilaso received a sizeable inheritance. cover of the works of boscán and garcilaso de la vega in books, after his schooling, he joined the military in hopes of joining the royal guard. he was named "contino" (imperial guard) of charles v in , and he was made a member of the order of santiago in . there were a few women in the life of this poet. his first lover was guiomar carrillo, with whom he had a child. he had another suspected lover named isabel freire, who was a lady-in-waiting of isabel of portugal, but this is today regarded as mythical.[ ] in , garcilaso married elena de zúñiga, who served as a lady-in-waiting for the king's favorite sister, leonor. their marriage took place in garcilaso's hometown of toledo in one of the family's estates. he had six children: lorenzo, an illegitimate child with guiomar carrillo, garcilaso, Íñigo de zúñiga, pedro de guzmán, sancha, and francisco. garcilaso's military career meant that he took part in the numerous battles and campaigns conducted by charles v across europe. his duties took him to italy, germany, tunisia and france. in for a short period he was exiled to a danube island where he was the guest of the count györgy cseszneky, royal court judge of győr. later in france, he would fight his last battle. the king desired to take control of marseille and eventually control of the mediterranean sea, but this goal was never realized. garcilaso de la vega died on october in nice, after suffering days from an injury sustained in a battle at le muy. his body was first buried in the church of st. dominic in nice, but two years later his wife had his body moved to the church of san pedro martir in toledo. works[edit] garcilaso de la vega is best known for his tragic love poetry that contrasts the playful poetry of his predecessors. he seemed to progress through three distinct episodes of his life which are reflected in his works. during his spanish period, he wrote the majority of his eight-syllable poems; during his italian or petrarchan period, he wrote mostly sonnets and songs; and during his neapolitan or classicist period, he wrote his other more classical poems, including his elegies, letters, eclogues and odes. influenced by many italian renaissance poets, garcilaso adapted the eleven-syllable line to the spanish language in his sonetos (sonnets), mostly written in the s, during his petrarchan period. increasing the number of syllables in the verse from eight to eleven allowed for greater flexibility. in addition to the sonetos, garcilaso helped to introduce several other types of stanzas to the spanish language. these include the estancia, formed by eleven- and seven-syllable lines; the "lira", formed by three seven-syllable and two eleven-syllable lines; and endecasílabos sueltos, formed by unrhymed eleven-syllable lines. dramatized lecture of garcilaso's apollo and daphne throughout his life, garcilaso de la vega wrote various poems in each of these types. his works include: forty sonetos (sonnets), five canciones (songs), eight coplas (couplets), three Églogas (eclogues), two elegías (elegies), and the epístola a boscán (letter to boscán). allusions to classical myths and greco-latin figures, great musicality, alliteration, rhythm and an absence of religion characterize his poetry. it can be said that spanish poetry was never the same after garcilaso de la vega. his works have influenced the majority of subsequent spanish poets, including other major authors of the period like jorge de montemor, luis de león, john of the cross, miguel de cervantes, lope de vega, luis de góngora and francisco quevedo. for example: (égloga tercera): 				más a las veces son mejor oídos 	el puro ingenio y lengua casi muda, 	testigos limpios de ánimo inocente, 	que la curiosidad del elocuente. he was very good at transmitting the sense of life into writing, in many poems including his «dolorido sentir»: 				no me podrán quitar el dolorido 	sentir, si ya del todo 	primero no me quitan el sentido. we see the shift in traditional belief of heaven as influenced by the renaissance, which is called "neo-platonism," which tried to lift love to a spiritual, idealistic plane, as compared to the traditional catholic view of heaven. (Égloga primera): 				contigo mano a mano 	busquemos otros prados y otros ríos, 	otros valles floridos y sombríos, 	donde descanse, y siempre pueda verte 	ante los ojos míos, 	sin miedo y sobresalto de perderte. (Égloga primera) he has enjoyed a revival of influence among st century pastoral poets such as seamus heaney, dennis nurkse, and giannina braschi. literary references[edit] monument to garcilaso in toledo, spain garcilaso is mentioned in multiple works by miguel de cervantes. in the second volume of don quixote, the protagonist quotes one of the poet's sonnets.[ ] in el licenciado vidriera, tomás rodaja carries a volume of garcilaso on his journey across europe. the title of pedro salinas's sequence of poems la voz a ti debida is taken from garcilaso's third eclogue. in the novel of love and other demons by gabriel garcía márquez, one of the main characters, father cayetano delaura, is an admirer of garcilaso de la vega. in the novel, which takes place in th-century colonial colombia, delaura is forced to give up being a priest because of his tragic love affair. puerto rican poet giannina braschi wrote both a poetic treatise on garcilaso de la vega's eclogues, as well as a book of poems in homage to the spanish master, entitled empire of dreams. modern translations[edit] 	the odes and sonnets of garcilaso de la vega, trans james cleugh, (london: aquila, ) further reading[edit] 	creel, bryant. "garcilaso de la vega". dictionary of literary biography, volume : sixteenth-century spanish writers. a bruccoli clark layman book. edited by gregory b. kaplan, university of tennessee. gale, . pp.  – . 	braschi, giannina. “la metamorfosis del ingenio en la egloga iii de garcilaso." revista canadiense de estudios hispanicos, . , . references[edit] 	^ vallvey, angela ( july ). el arte de amar la vida. kailas editorial. p.  . isbn  . 	^ pérez lópez, josé luis ( ). "la fecha de nacimiento de garcilaso de la vega a la luz de un nuevo documento biográfico" (pdf). criticón. centro virtual cervantes. : – . isbn  - - - . issn  - x. 	^ "garcilaso de la vega" (pdf). consellería de cultura, educación e ordenación universitaria (in spanish). xunta de galicia. retrieved august . 	^ mazo romero, fernando. "los suárez de figueroa y el señorío de feria" (pdf) (in spanish). universidad de sevilla: – . cite journal requires |journal= (help) 	^ "garcilaso de la vega". litoral. revista litoral s.a. ( / ): – . – . jstor  . 	^ darst, david h. ( ). "garcilaso´s love for isabel freire: the creation of a myth". journal of hispanic philology. : – . 	^ herreid, grant. "the musical world of don quixote" (pdf). retrieved october , . external links[edit] 	works by garcilaso de la vega at project gutenberg 	works by or about garcilaso de la vega at internet archive 	works by garcilaso de la vega at librivox (public domain audiobooks) 	page about garcilaso de la vega "la página de garcilaso en internet." . la asociación de amigos de garcilaso de la vega (toledo, españa). (in spanish) 	"multiculturalism gone wrong: spain in the renaissance", alix ingber, (adapted from a lecture). <http://www.dean.sbc.edu/ingber.html>. [last updated: january , ]. 	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some had both patrician and plebeian branches. the importance of membership in a gens declined considerably in imperial times, although the gentilicium continued to be used and defined the origins and dynasties of roman emperors.[ ][ ] contents 	 origins 	 . stirpes 	 . praenomina 	 social function of the gens 	 patrician and plebeian gentes 	 see also 	 references 	 external links origins[edit] the word gens is sometimes translated as "race", or "nation", meaning a people descended from a common ancestor (rather than sharing a common physical trait). it can also be translated as "clan", "kin", or "tribe", although the word tribus has a separate and distinct meaning in roman culture. a gens could be as small as a single family, or could include hundreds of individuals. according to tradition, in bc the gens fabia alone were able to field a militia consisting of three hundred and six men of fighting age. the concept of the gens was not uniquely roman, but was shared with communities throughout italy, including those who spoke italic languages such as latin, oscan, and umbrian as well as the etruscans. all of these peoples were eventually absorbed into the sphere of roman culture.[ ][ ][ ][ ] the oldest gentes were said to have originated before the foundation of rome (traditionally bc), and claimed descent from mythological personages as far back as the time of the trojan war (traditionally ended bc[ ]). however, the establishment of the gens cannot long predate the adoption of hereditary surnames. the nomen gentilicium, or "gentile name", was its distinguishing feature, for a roman citizen's nomen indicated his membership in a gens.[ ][ ][ ][ ] the nomen could be derived from any number of things, such as the name of an ancestor, a person's occupation, physical appearance, behavior, or characteristics, or town of origin. because some of these things were fairly common, it was possible for unrelated families to bear the same nomen, and over time to become confused. persons could be adopted into a gens and acquire its nomen. a libertus, or "freedman", usually assumed the nomen (and sometimes also the praenomen) of the person who had manumitted him, and a naturalized citizen usually took the name of the patron who granted his citizenship. freedmen and newly enfranchised citizens were not technically part of the gentes whose names they shared, but within a few generations it often became impossible to distinguish their descendants from the original members. in practice this meant that a gens could acquire new members and even new branches, either by design or by accident.[ ][ ][ ] stirpes[edit] different branches or stirpes of a gens were usually distinguished by their cognomina, additional surnames following the nomen, which could be either personal or hereditary. some particularly large stirpes themselves became divided into multiple branches, distinguished by additional cognomina.[ ][ ] praenomina[edit] most gentes regularly employed a limited number of personal names, or praenomina, the selection of which helped to distinguish members of one gens from another. sometimes different branches of a gens would vary in their names of choice. the most conservative gentes would sometimes limit themselves to three or four praenomina, while others made regular use of six or seven.[ ][ ] there were two main reasons for this limited selection: first, it was traditional to pass down family names from one generation to the next; such names were always preferred. second, most patrician families limited themselves to a small number of names as a way of distinguishing themselves from the plebeians, who often employed a wider variety of names, including some that were seldom used by the patricians. however, several of the oldest and most noble patrician houses frequently used rare and unusual praenomina.[ ][ ] certain families also deliberately avoided particular praenomina. in at least some cases, this was because of traditions concerning disgraced or dishonored members of the gens bearing a particular name. for example, the gens junia carefully avoided the praenomina titus and tiberius after two members with these names were executed for treason. a similar instance supposedly led the assembly of the gens manlia to forbid its members from bearing the praenomen marcus, although this prohibition does not seem to have been strictly observed.[ ][ ][ ][ ] social function of the gens[edit] in theory, each gens functioned as a state within a state, governed by its own elders and assemblies, following its own customs, and carrying out its own religious rites. certain cults were traditionally associated with specific gentes. the gentile assemblies had the responsibility of adoption and guardianship for their members. if a member of a gens died intestate and without immediate family, his property was distributed to the rest of the gens.[ ][ ] the decisions of a gens were theoretically binding on all of its members. however, no public enactment is recorded as having been passed by the assembly of a gens. as a group, the gentes had considerable influence on the development of roman law and religious practices, but comparatively little influence on the political and constitutional history of rome.[ ][ ] patrician and plebeian gentes[edit] certain gentes were considered patrician, and others plebeian. according to tradition, the patricians were descended from the "city fathers", or patres; that is, the heads of family at the time of its foundation by romulus, the first king of rome. other noble families which came to rome during the time of the kings were also admitted to the patriciate, including several who emigrated from alba longa after that city was destroyed by tullus hostilius. the last known instance of a gens being admitted to the patriciate prior to the st century bc was when the claudii were added to the ranks of the patricians after coming to rome in bc, five years after the establishment of the republic.[ ][ ][ ][ ] numerous sources describe two classes amongst the patrician gentes, known as the gentes maiores, or major gentes, and the gentes minores, or minor gentes. no definite information has survived concerning which families were numbered amongst the gentes maiores, or even how many there were. however, they almost certainly included the aemilii, claudii, cornelii, fabii, manlii, and valerii. nor is it certain whether this distinction was of any practical importance, although it has been suggested that the princeps senatus, or speaker of the senate, was usually chosen from their number.[ ] for the first several decades of the republic, it is not entirely certain which gentes were considered patrician and which plebeian. however, a series of laws promulgated in and bc as the twelve tables attempted to codify a rigid distinction between the classes, formally excluding the plebeians from holding any of the major magistracies from that time until the passage of the lex licinia sextia in bc. the law forbidding the intermarriage of patricians and plebeians was repealed after only a few years, by the lex canuleia in bc.[ ][ ] despite the formal reconciliation of the orders in , the patrician houses, which as time passed represented a smaller and smaller percentage of the roman populace, continued to hold on to as much power as possible, resulting in frequent conflict between the orders over the next two centuries. certain patrician families regularly opposed the sharing of power with the plebeians, while others favored it, and some were divided.[ ][ ][ ] many gentes included both patrician and plebeian branches. these may have arisen through adoption or manumission, or when two unrelated families bearing the same nomen became confused. it may also be that individual members of a gens voluntarily left or were expelled from the patriciate, along with their descendants. in some cases, gentes that must originally have been patrician, or which were so regarded during the early republic, were later known only by their plebeian descendants.[ ] by the first century bc, the practical distinction between the patricians and the plebeians was minimal. nonetheless, with the rise of imperial authority, several plebeian gentes were raised to the patriciate, replacing older patrician families that had faded into obscurity, and were no longer represented in the roman senate. although both the concept of the gens and of the patriciate survived well into imperial times, both gradually lost most of their significance. in the final centuries of the western empire, patricius was used primarily as an individual title, rather than a class to which an entire family belonged.[ ][ ] see also[edit] 	genos – a similar concept in ancient greece 	gana - a cognate sanskrit term referring to a different type of human group 	list of roman gentes 	list of roman nomina 	roman naming conventions references[edit] 	^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m harper's dictionary of classical literature and antiquities, second edition, harry thurston peck, editor ( ) 	^ a b c d e f g h i j k oxford classical dictionary, nd ed. 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agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 gaius lucilius - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	gaius lucilius 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		gaius lucilius (c. – / bc),[ ] the earliest roman satirist, of whose writings only fragments remain, was a roman citizen of the equestrian class, born at suessa aurunca in campania. he was a member of the scipionic circle. contents 	 problem of his birthdate 	 life and satire 	 editions of the fragments 	 references 	 sources 	 . ancient sources 	 . modern works 	 external links problem of his birthdate[edit] the dates assigned by jerome for his birth and death are  bc and  bc or  bc. but it is impossible to reconcile the first of these dates with other facts recorded of him, and the date given by jerome must be due to an error, the true date being about  bc. his sister was lucilia, being the mother of roman politician sextus pompeius and the paternal grandmother of roman triumvir pompey. we learn from velleius paterculus that he served under scipio aemilianus at the siege of numantia in  bc. we learn from horace that he lived on the most intimate terms of friendship with scipio and laelius (satire ii. ), and that he celebrated the exploits and virtues of the former in his satires. fragments of those books of his satires which seem to have been first given to the world (xxvi–xxix) clearly indicate that they were written in the lifetime of scipio. some of these bring the poet before us as either corresponding with, or engaged in controversial conversation with, his great friend. marx, "percrepa pugnam popilli, facta corneli cane" ("make a loud noise about popillius' battle, and sing the exploits of cornelius") in which the defeat of marcus popillius laenas, in  bc, is contrasted with the subsequent success of scipio, bears the stamp of having been written while the news of the capture of numantia was still fresh. it is in the highest degree improbable that lucilius served in the army at the age of fourteen; it is still more unlikely that he could have been admitted into the familiar intimacy of scipio and laelius at that age. it also seems an impossibility that between the ages of fifteen and nineteen—i.e. between  bc and  bc, the year of scipio's death—he could have come before the world as the author of an entirely new kind of composition, and one which, to be at all successful, demands especially maturity of judgment and experience. it may further be said that the well-known words of horace (satires, ii. ,  ), in which he characterizes the vivid portraiture of his life, character and thoughts, which lucilius bequeathed to the world, "quo fit ut omnis votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella vita senis," ("whereby the whole life of the old (great) man may be laid out as upon a votive tablet") lose much of their force unless senis is to be taken in its ordinary sense—which it cannot be if lucilius died at the age of forty-six. life and satire[edit] lucilius spent the greater part of his life at rome, and died, according to jerome, at naples. he belonged to the equestrian order, a fact indicated by horace's notice of himself as infra lucili censum. though not himself belonging to any of the great senatorial families, he was in a position to associate with them on equal terms. as an equestrian, he was "one of the few outstanding poets of the period not of lowly birth".[ ] this circumstance contributed to the boldness, originality and thoroughly national character of his literary work. had he been a semi-graecus, like ennius and pacuvius, or of humble origin, like plautus, terence or accius, he would scarcely have ventured, at a time when the senatorial power was strongly in the ascendant, to revive the role which had proved disastrous to naevius; nor would he have had the intimate knowledge of the political and social life of his day which fitted him to be its painter. another circumstance determining the bent of his mind was the character of the time. the origin of roman political and social satire is to be traced to the same disturbing and disorganizing forces which led to the revolutionary projects and legislation of the gracchi. the reputation which lucilius enjoyed in the best ages of roman literature is proved by the terms in which cicero and horace speak of him. persius, juvenal and quintilian vouch for the admiration with which he was regarded in the first century of the empire. the popularity which he enjoyed in his own time is attested by the fact that at his death, although he had filled none of the offices of state, he received the honour of a public funeral. his chief claim to distinction is his literary originality. he may be called the inventor of poetical satire, as he was the first to impress upon the rude inartistic medley, known to the romans by the name of satura, that character of aggressive and censorious criticism of persons, morals, manners, politics, literature, etc. which the word satire has ever since denoted. in point of form, the satire of lucilius owed nothing to the greeks. it was a legitimate development of an indigenous dramatic entertainment, popular among the romans before the first introduction of the forms of greek art among them; also, it seems largely to have employed the form of the familiar epistle. but the style, substance and spirit of his writings were apparently as original as the form. he seems to have commenced his poetical career by ridiculing and parodying the conventional language of epic and tragic poetry, and to have used the language commonly employed in the social intercourse of educated men. even his frequent use of greek words, phrases and quotations, reprehended by horace, was probably taken from the actual practice of men, who found their own speech as yet inadequate to give free expression to the new ideas and impressions which they derived from their first contact with greek philosophy, rhetoric and poetry. further, he not only created a style of his own, but, instead of taking the substance of his writings from greek poetry, or from a remote past, he treated of the familiar matters of daily life, of the politics, the wars, the administration of justice, the eating and drinking, the money-making and money-spending, the scandals and vices, which made up the public and private life of rome in the last quarter of the nd century bc. this he did in a singularly frank, independent and courageous spirit, with no private ambition to serve, or party cause to advance, but with an honest desire to expose the iniquity or incompetence of the governing body, the sordid aims of the middle class, and the corruption and venality of the city mob. there was nothing of stoical austerity or of rhetorical indignation in the tone in which he treated the vices and follies of his time. his character and tastes were much more akin to those of horace than those of either persius or juvenal. but he was what horace was not, a thoroughly good hater; and he lived at a time when the utmost freedom of speech and the most unrestrained indulgence of public and private animosity were the characteristics of men who took a prominent part in affairs. although lucilius took no active part in the public life of his time, he regarded it in the spirit of a man of the world and of society, as well as a man of letters. his ideal of public virtue and private worth had been formed by intimate association with the greatest and best of the soldiers and statesmen of an older generation. the remains of lucilius extend to about eleven hundred, mostly unconnected lines, most of them preserved by late grammarians, as illustrative of peculiar verbal usages. he was, for his time, a voluminous as well as a very discursive writer. he left behind him thirty books of satires, and there is reason to believe that each book, like the books of horace and juvenal, was composed of different pieces. the order in which they were known to the grammarians was not that in which they were written. the earliest in order of composition were probably those numbered from xxvi. to xxix., which were written in the trochaic and iambic metres that had been employed by ennius and pacuvius in their saturae. in these he made those criticisms on the older tragic and epic poets of which horace and other ancient writers speak. in them too he speaks of the numantine war as recently finished, and of scipio as still living. book i., on the other hand, in which the philosopher carneades, who died in , is spoken of as dead, must have been written after the death of scipio. most of the satires of lucilius were written in hexameters, but, so far as an opinion can be formed from a number of unconnected fragments, he seems to have written the trochaic tetrameter with a smoothness, clearness and simplicity which he never attained in handling the hexameter. the longer fragments produce the impression of great discursiveness and carelessness, but at the same time of considerable force. he appears, in the composition of his various pieces, to have treated everything that occurred to him in the most desultory fashion, sometimes adopting the form of dialogue, sometimes that of an epistle or an imaginary discourse, and often to have spoken in his own name, giving an account of his travels and adventures, or of amusing scenes that he had witnessed, or expressing the results of his private meditation and experiences. like horace he largely illustrated his own observations by personal anecdotes and fables. the fragments clearly show how often horace has imitated him, not only in expression, but in the form of his satires (see for instance i.  and ii.  ), in the topic which he treats of, and the class of social vices and the types of character which he satirizes. editions of the fragments[edit] 	dousa, f: leiden ( ), nd edition amsterdam ( ) 	marx, f: c. lucili carminum reliquiae (teubner, leipzig) 	vol. i prolegomena and text ( ) 	vol. ii commentary ( ) the best and standard edition from its appearance and still a century later 	loeb classical library (l , ), remains of old latin, vol.iii: lucilius, the twelve tables, edited with latin text and english translation by e. h. warmington. isbn  - - - references[edit] 	^ "gaius lucilius". encyclopædia britannica. 	^ boak, arthur e. r. & sinnigen, william g. history of rome to a.d. . fifth edition. the macmillan company, . p. sources[edit] ancient sources[edit] 	stangl, thomas: ciceronis orationum scholiastae: asconius. scholia bobiensia. scholia pseudoasconii sangallensia. scholia cluniacensia et recentiora ambrosiana ac vaticana. scholia lugdunensia sive gronoviana et eorum excerpta lugdunensia (vienna, ; reprinted georg olms, hildesheim, ) 	asconius. caesar giarratano (ed.) q. asconii pediani commentarii (rome, ; reprinted adolf m. hakkert, amsterdam, ) modern works[edit] 	cichorius, c: untersuchungen zu lucilius (berlin, ). 	christes, j: "lucilius. ein bericht über die forschung seit f. marx ( / )", in h.temporini (ed.) anrw i. ( ), – . 	krenkel, w a: "zur biographie des lucilius", in h. temporini (ed.) anrw i. ( ), – . 	gruen, erich s: culture and national identity in republican rome (cornell university press, ), especially chapter : "lucilius and the contemporary scene", pp.  – . 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "lucilius, gaius". encyclopædia britannica. 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died  )​ 	children	 	sir alexander boswell, st baronet 	james boswell 	veronica boswell 	euphemia boswell 	elizabeth boswell 	charles boswell (extramarital) 	sally (extramarital) james boswell, th laird of auchinleck (/ˈbɒzwɛl, -wəl/; october (n.s.)[ ] – may ), was a scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in edinburgh. he is best known for his biography of his friend and older contemporary, the english writer samuel johnson, which is commonly said to be the greatest biography written in the english language.[ ][ ] a great mass of boswell's diaries, letters and private papers were recovered from the s to the s, and their ongoing publication by yale university has transformed his reputation. contents 	 early life 	 european travels 	 mature life 	 life of samuel johnson 	 slavery 	 discovery of papers 	 freemasonry 	 in fiction and popular culture 	 major works 	 published journals 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links early life[edit] boswell was born in blair's land on the east side of parliament close behind st giles' cathedral in edinburgh on october (n.s.).[ ] he was the eldest son of a judge, alexander boswell, lord auchinleck, and his wife euphemia erskine. as the eldest son, he was heir to his family's estate of auchinleck in ayrshire. boswell's mother was a strict calvinist, and he felt that his father was cold to him. as a child, he was delicate. kay jamison, professor of psychiatry at johns hopkins, in her book touched with fire, believes that boswell may have suffered from bipolar disorder,[ ] and this condition would afflict him sporadically all through his life. at the age of five, he was sent to james mundell's academy, an advanced institution by the standards of the time, where he was instructed in english, latin, writing and arithmetic. the eight-year-old boswell was unhappy there, and suffered from nightmares and extreme shyness. consequently, he was removed from the academy and educated by a string of private tutors. the most notable and supportive of these, john dunn, exposed boswell to modern literature, such as the spectator essays, and religion. dunn was also present during boswell's serious affliction of , when he was confined to the town of moffat in northern dumfriesshire. this afforded boswell his first experience of genuine society. his recovery was rapid and complete, and boswell may have decided that travel and entertainment exerted a calming therapeutic effect on him. boswell's edinburgh. in his journals he often mentions using the "back stairs" behind parliament close. his birthplace was the family's town house on the east side of the close, just around the corner at the top of the steps. at thirteen, boswell was enrolled into the arts course at the university of edinburgh, studying there from to . midway through his studies, he suffered an episode of serious depression but recovered fully. boswell had swarthy skin, black hair and dark eyes; he was of average height, and he tended to plumpness. his appearance was alert and masculine. he also had an ingratiating sense of humour. upon turning nineteen, he was sent to continue his studies at the university of glasgow, where he attended the lectures of adam smith. while at glasgow, boswell decided to convert to catholicism and become a monk. upon learning of this, his father ordered him home. instead of obeying, though, boswell ran away to london, where he spent three months, living the life of a libertine, before he was taken back to scotland by his father. upon returning, he was re-enrolled at edinburgh university and forced by his father to sign away most of his inheritance in return for an allowance of £ a year. on july , boswell passed his oral law exam, after which his father decided to raise his allowance to £ a year and permitted him to return to london. in this period, boswell wrote his london journal and, on may , met johnson for the first time. the pair became friends almost immediately, though johnson became more of a parental figure in boswell's eyes.[ ] johnson eventually nicknamed him "bozzy". the first conversation between johnson and boswell is quoted in life of samuel johnson as follows: [boswell:] "mr johnson, i do indeed come from scotland, but i cannot help it." [johnson:] "that, sir, i find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help."[ ] european travels[edit] it was around three months after this first encounter with johnson that boswell departed for europe with the initial goal of continuing his law studies at utrecht university. he spent a year there and although desperately unhappy the first few months, eventually quite enjoyed his time in utrecht. he befriended and fell in love with isabelle de charrière, also known as belle van zuylen, a vivacious young dutchwoman of unorthodox opinions, his social and intellectual superior. boswell admired the young widow geelvinck who refused to marry him. after this, boswell spent most of the next two years travelling around the continent, his grand tour. during this time he met jean-jacques rousseau and voltaire with a recommendation letter of constant d'hermenches, and made a pilgrimage to rome, where his portrait was painted by george willison. boswell also travelled to corsica to meet one of his heroes, the independence leader pasquale paoli. his well-observed diaries and correspondence of this time have been compiled into two books, boswell in holland and boswell on the grand tour. mature life[edit] james boswell by george willison in rome in . scottish national gallery, edinburgh. boswell returned to london in february accompanied by rousseau's mistress, with whom he had a brief affair on the journey home.[ ] after spending a few weeks in the capital, he returned to scotland, buying (or perhaps renting) the former house of david hume on james court on the lawnmarket.[ ] he studied for his final law exam at edinburgh university. he passed the exam and became an advocate. he practised for over a decade, during which time he spent no more than a month every year with johnson. nevertheless, he returned to london annually to mingle with johnson and the rest of the london literary crowd, and to escape his mundane existence in scotland. he found enjoyment in playing the intellectual rhyming game crambo with his peers. some of his journal entries and letters from this period describe his amatory exploits. thus, in , in a letter to william johnson temple, he wrote, "i got myself quite intoxicated, went to a bawdy-house and past a whole night in the arms of a whore. she indeed was a fine strong spirited girl, a whore worthy of boswell if boswell must have a whore."[ ] a few years earlier, he wrote that during a night with an actress named louisa, "five times was i fairly lost in supreme rapture. louisa was madly fond of me; she declared i was a prodigy and asked me if this was not extraordinary for human nature."[ ] though he sometimes used a condom for protection,[ ] he contracted venereal disease at least seventeen times.[ ] boswell was a major supporter of the corsican republic. following the island's invasion by france in , boswell attempted to raise public awareness and rally support for the corsicans. he sent arms and money to the corsican fighters, who were ultimately defeated at the battle of ponte novu in . boswell attended the masquerade held at the shakespeare jubilee in stratford-upon-avon in september dressed as a corsican chief.[ ] boswell married his cousin, margaret montgomerie, in november . she remained faithful to boswell, despite his frequent liaisons with prostitutes, until her death from tuberculosis in . after his infidelities, he would deliver tearful apologies to her and beg her forgiveness, before again promising her, and himself, that he would reform. james and margaret had four sons and three daughters. two sons died in infancy; the other two were alexander ( – ) and james ( – ). their daughters were veronica ( – ), euphemia ( – c. ) and elizabeth, known as 'betsy', ( – ). boswell also had at least two extramarital children, charles ( – ) and sally ( – c. ). a commemorative plaque to boswell at his former home at james court, lawnmarket, edinburgh. despite his relative literary success with accounts of his european travels, boswell was only a moderately successful advocate, with the exception of the copyright infringement case of donaldson v beckett, where boswell represented the scottish bookseller alexander donaldson. by the late s, boswell descended further and further into alcoholism and gambling addiction. throughout his life, from childhood until death, he was beset by severe swings of mood. his depressions frequently encouraged and were exacerbated by his various vices. his happier periods usually saw him relatively vice-free. his character mixed a superficial enlightenment sensibility for reason and taste with a genuine and somewhat romantic love of the sublime and a propensity for occasionally puerile whimsy. the latter, along with his tendency for drink and other vices, caused many contemporaries and later observers to regard him as being too lightweight to be an equal in the literary crowd that he wanted to be a part of. however, his humour and innocent good nature won him many lifelong friends. in boswell bought the house of david hume (who moved to a new house on south st david street/st andrew square) on the south east corner of james court.[ ][ ] he lived there until .[ ] boswell's residency at james court has been well established, but not the exact location. for example, a later edition of traditions of edinburgh by robert chambers suggests that boswell's residence at james court was actually in the western wing. his james court flat was notable for having two levels, and although a modern renovation in the eastern section reveals such a possibility, it is likely that boswell's residence was a similarly equipped one in the western section that no longer exists, having burned down in the mid s. boswell was a frequent guest of lord monboddo at monboddo house, a setting where he gathered significant observations for his writings by association with samuel johnson, lord kames and other luminaries. after johnson's death in , boswell moved to london to try his luck at the english bar, which proved even less successful than his career in scotland. in boswell lobbied the home secretary to help gain royal pardons for four botany bay escapees, including mary bryant. he also offered to stand for parliament but failed to get the necessary support, and he spent the final years of his life writing his life of samuel johnson. during this time his health began to fail due to venereal disease and his years of drinking. boswell died in london in . close to the end of his life he became strongly convinced that the "shakespeare papers", including two previously unknown plays vortigern and rowena and henry ii, allegedly discovered by william henry ireland, were genuine. after boswell's death they proved to be forgeries created by ireland himself.[ ] boswell's remains were interred in the crypt of the boswell family mausoleum in what is now the old auchinleck kirkyard in ayrshire. the mausoleum is attached to the old auchinleck kirk. life of samuel johnson[edit] main article: life of samuel johnson a literary party at sir joshua reynolds' – . the painting shows the friends of reynolds including boswell at left. when the life of samuel johnson was published in it at once commanded the admiration that boswell had sought for so long, and it has since suffered no diminution. its style was unique in that, unlike other biographies of that era, it directly incorporated conversations that boswell had noted down at the time for his journals. he also included far more personal and human details than those to which contemporary readers were accustomed. instead of writing a respectful and dry record of johnson's public life in the style of the time, he painted a vivid portrait of the complete man, brought to life through a "dramatic" style of dialogue. it has often been described as the greatest biography ever written. macaulay and carlyle, among others, have attempted to explain how a man such as boswell could have produced so remarkable a work as the life of johnson. the former argued that boswell's uninhibited folly and candour were his greatest qualifications; the latter replied that beneath such traits was a mind to discern excellence and a heart to appreciate it, aided by the power of accurate observation and considerable dramatic ability.[ ] slavery[edit] boswell was present at the meeting of the committee for the abolition of the slave trade in may set up to persuade william wilberforce to lead the abolition movement in parliament. however, the abolitionist thomas clarkson records that by boswell "after having supported the cause ... became inimical to it".[ ] boswell's most prominent display of support for slavery was his poem "no abolition of slavery; or the universal empire of love", which lampooned clarkson, wilberforce and pitt. the poem also supports the common suggestion of the pro-slavery movement, that the slaves actually enjoyed their lot: "the cheerful gang! – the negroes see / perform the task of industry." discovery of papers[edit] in the s a great part of boswell's private papers, including intimate journals for much of his life, were discovered at malahide castle, north of dublin. these provide a hugely revealing insight into the life and thoughts of the man. they were sold to the american collector ralph h. isham and have since passed to yale university, which has published popular and scholarly editions of his journals and correspondence. a second cache was discovered soon after and also purchased by isham. a substantially longer edition of the journal of a tour to the hebrides was published in based on his original manuscript, edited by l. f. powell. his london journal – , the first of the yale journal publications, appeared in . the last popular edition, the great biographer, – , was published in . publication of the research edition of boswell's journals and letters, each including never before published material, is ongoing. these detailed and frank journals include voluminous notes on the grand tour of europe that he took as a young man and, subsequently, of his tour of scotland with johnson. his journals also record meetings and conversations with eminent individuals belonging to the club, including lord monboddo, david garrick, edmund burke, joshua reynolds and oliver goldsmith. it is since the discovery of these journals that boswell has become recognized as a major literary artist. his openness to every nuance of feeling, his delicacy in capturing fugitive sentiments and revealing gestures, his comic self-regard and (at times) self-contempt. boswell was willing to express what other authors of the time repressed.[ ] freemasonry[edit] boswell was initiated into freemasonry in lodge canongate kilwinning on august . he subsequently became master of that lodge in and in that year was senior grand warden of the grand lodge of scotland. from to he was the depute grand master of that grand lodge.[ ][ ] in fiction and popular culture[edit] boswell's surname has passed into the english language as a term (boswell, boswellian, boswellism) for a constant companion and observer, especially one who records those observations in print. in "a scandal in bohemia", sir arthur conan doyle's character sherlock holmes affectionately says of dr. watson, who narrates the tales, "i am lost without my boswell."[ ] the comedy young auchinleck ( ) by scottish playwright robert mclellan depicts boswell's various courtships and troubled relations with his father in the period after his return to scotland in , culminating in his eventual marriage to his cousin margaret montgomery (peggy) in on the same day as his father's second marriage in a different part of the country. the play was first produced at the edinburgh international festival in and adapted for bbc television in . boswell was played by john sessions in boswell & johnson's tour of the western isles a bbc play[ ] in february and march , bbc radio broadcast three episodes of "boswell's lives", writer jon canter's comedic take on boswell meeting later historical figures (sigmund freud, maria callas and harold pinter, respectively) for the purposes of biographing them.[ ] boswell was played by miles jupp. american novelist philip baruth wrote a fictional account of james boswell's early life in the brothers boswell (soho press ). the novel, which includes scenes that feature samuel johnson, is a thriller that focuses on the tense relationship between james and his younger brother john. on november , new york times columnist maureen dowd called reporter maggie haberman "trump's boswell", referring to ms. habermans tenacious and in depth reporting of donald trumps presidential years.[ ] major works[edit] 	the cub at newmarket[ ] ( , published by james dodsley) 	letters between the honourable andrew erskine, and james boswell, esq. ( ) 	dorando, a spanish tale ( , anonymously) 	account of corsica, the journal of a tour to that island, and memoirs of pascal paoli ( ) account of corsica, 	"the rampager" ( – , a series of essays published sporadically in the public advertiser)[ ] 	the hypochondriack ( – , a series of essays published monthly in the london magazine) 	the journal of a tour to the hebrides with samuel johnson, ll.d ( ) 	the life of samuel johnson, ll.d vols. ( , reprinted in everyman's library) 	no abolition of slavery ( ) (poem) published journals[edit] after boswell's private papers were recovered, and brought together by ralph isham, they were acquired by yale university, where a dedicated office was established to edit and publish his journals and correspondence. the journals have been published in volumes, as follows. 	boswell's london journal, – , ed. f. a. pottle ( ) 	boswell in holland, – , including his correspondence with belle de zuylen (zelide), ed. f. a. pottle ( ) 	boswell on the grand tour: germany and switzerland, , ed. f. a. pottle ( ) 	boswell on the grand tour: italy, corsica, and france, – , ed. frank brady and f. a. pottle ( ) 	boswell in search of a wife, – , ed. frank brady and f. a. pottle ( ) 	boswell for the defence, – , ed. w. a. wimsatt and f. a. pottle ( ) 	boswell: the ominous years, – , ed. charles ryskamp and f. a. pottle ( ) 	boswell in extremes, – , ed. c. mcc. weis and f. a. pottle ( ) 	boswell, laird of auchinleck, – , ed. j. w. reed and f. a. pottle ( ) 	boswell: the applause of the jury, – , ed. i. s. lustig and f. a. pottle ( ) 	boswell: the english experiment, – , ed. i. s. lustig and f. a. pottle ( ) 	boswell: the great biographer, – , ed. marlies k. danziger and frank brady ( ) references[edit] notes 	^ a b c here "n.s." 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( ). british biography: a reader. new york: iuniverse. p.  . isbn  . retrieved july . 	^ kay redfield jamison. touched with fire: manic-depressive illness and the artistic temperament. free press, . isbn  - 	^ price, martin, – ( ). the restoration and the eighteenth century. new york: oxford university press. p.  . isbn  - - - . oclc  .cs maint: multiple names: authors list (link) 	^ james boswell life of samuel johnson, [ ] everyman ed, p 	^ correspondence of james boswell and william johnson temple, edinburgh , page footnote [ ] 	^ grants old and new edinburgh vol , p. 	^ boswell, james; temple, william johnston ( ). boswell correspondence, letter of june . isbn  . retrieved may . 	^ maccubbin, robert purks ( ). tis nature's fault: unauthorized sexuality during the enlightenment by r.p.macubbin, page . isbn  . retrieved may . 	^ spacks, patricia meyer (june ). privacy: concealing the eighteenth-century self by p spacks page . isbn  . retrieved may . 	^ greaves, richard l. 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"a scandal in bohemia". the adventures of sherlock holmes. project gutenberg. retrieved february . 	^ https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/ c d f bd c be 	^ "bbc radio – boswell's lives, series – episode guide". bbc. 	^ https://www.nytimes.com/ / / /opinion/donald-trump-defeat.html 	^ boswell, james. ( ). cub, at newmarket : a tale. [place of publication not identified]: gale ecco, print editions. isbn  - - - - . oclc  . 	^ boswell, james, – ( june ). facts and inventions : selections from the journalism of james boswell. tankard, paul. new haven. pp.  – . isbn  . oclc  .cs maint: multiple names: authors list (link) sources 	pierce, patricia. the great shakespeare fraud: the strange, true story of william-henry ireland. sutton publishing, . 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: cousin, john william ( ). "boswell, james". a short biographical dictionary of english literature. london: j. m. dent & sons – via wikisource. further reading[edit] 	boswell, james. boswell's book of bad verse (a verse self-portrait) or 'love poems and other verses by james boswell'. edited with notes by jack werner. london. white lion, . isbn  - - - . 	boswell, james. boswell's column. being his seventy contributions to the london magazine under the pseudonym the hypochondriack from to here first printed in book form in england. introduction and notes by margery bailey. london. william kimber, . 	boswell, james. facts and inventions: selections from the journalism of james boswell. edited by paul tankard. new haven. yale university press, . isbn  - - - - 	boswell, james. the journal of a tour to corsica; and memoirs of pascal paoli. edited, with an introduction, by morchard bishop. london. williams & norgate, . 	boswell, james. letters of james boswell to the rev. w. j. temple. introduction by thomas seccombe. london. sidgwick & jackson, . 	finlayson, iain. the moth and the candle. a life of james boswell. london. constable, . isbn  - - - . 	mclaren, moray: the highland jaunt. a study of james boswell and samuel johnson upon their highland and hebridean tour of . london. jarrolds, . 	mallory, george. boswell the biographer. london. smith, elder, . 	martin, peter. "a life of james boswell". london. weidenfeld & nicolson, . 	pottle, frederick a. boswell and the girl from botany bay. london. heinemann, . 	tinker, chauncey brewster. young boswell. chapters on james boswell the biographer based largely on new material. boston. atlantic monthly, . 	uglow, jenny, "big talkers" (review of leo damrosch, the club: johnson, boswell, and the friends who shaped an age, yale university press, pp.), the new york review of books, vol. lxvi, no. 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gospels. his list of writings is extensive.[ ] the protégé of pope damasus i who died in december of , jerome was known for his teachings on christian moral life, especially to those living in cosmopolitan centers such as rome. in many cases, he focused his attention on the lives of women and identified how a woman devoted to jesus should live her life. this focus stemmed from his close patron relationships with several prominent female ascetics who were members of affluent senatorial families.[ ] jerome is recognised as a saint and doctor of the church by the catholic church, the eastern orthodox church, the lutheran church, and the anglican communion.[ ] his feast day is september. contents 	 life 	 conversion to christianity 	 after rome 	 death 	 translation of the bible ( – ) 	 commentaries ( – ) 	 historical and hagiographic writings 	 . description of vitamin a deficiency 	 letters 	 theological writings 	 . eschatology 	 reception by later christianity 	 in art 	 see also 	 references 	 . bibliography 	 further reading 	 external links 	 . latin texts 	 . . facsimiles 	 . english translations life[edit] eusebius sophronius hieronymus was born at stridon around - ad.[ ] he was of illyrian ancestry,[ ] although whether he was able to speak the illyrian languages is a subject of controversy. he was not baptized until about – in rome, where he had gone with his friend bonosus of sardica to pursue rhetorical and philosophical studies. (this bosonus may or may not have been the same bonosus whom jerome identifies as his friend who went to live as a hermit on an island in the adriatic.) jerome studied under the grammarian aelius donatus. there he learned latin and at least some greek,[ ] though he probably did not yet acquire the familiarity with greek literature that he later claimed to have acquired as a schoolboy.[ ] as a student, jerome engaged in the superficial escapades and sexual experimentation of students in rome; he indulged himself quite casually but he suffered terrible bouts of guilt afterwards.[ ][better source needed] to appease his conscience, on sundays he visited the sepulchers of the martyrs and the apostles in the catacombs. this experience reminded him of the terrors of hell: often i would find myself entering those crypts, deep dug in the earth, with their walls on either side lined with the bodies of the dead, where everything was so dark that almost it seemed as though the psalmist's words were fulfilled, let them go down quick into hell.[ ] here and there the light, not entering in through windows, but filtering down from above through shafts, relieved the horror of the darkness. but again, as soon as you found yourself cautiously moving forward, the black night closed around and there came to my mind the line of virgil, "horror ubique animos, simul ipsa silentia terrent".[ ][ ] st. jerome in his study ( ), by domenico ghirlandaio. his quote from virgil reads: "on all sides round horror spread wide; the very silence breathed a terror on my soul"[ ]—to describe the horror of hell. he initially used classical authors to describe christian concepts such as hell that indicated both his classical education and his deep shame of their associated practices, such as the pederasty then found in rome.[citation needed] conversion to christianity[edit] st jerome in the nuremberg chronicle although initially skeptical of christianity, he eventually converted.[ ] after several years in rome, he travelled with bonosus to gaul and settled in trier where he seems to have first taken up theological studies, and where, for his friend tyrannius rufinus, he copied hilary of poitiers' commentary on the psalms and the treatise de synodis. next came a stay of at least several months, or possibly years, with rufinus at aquileia, where he made many christian friends. some of these accompanied jerome when in about he set out on a journey through thrace and asia minor into northern syria. at antioch, where he stayed the longest, two of his companions died and he himself was seriously ill more than once. during one of these illnesses (about the winter of – ), he had a vision that led him to lay aside his secular studies and devote himself to god. he seems to have abstained for a considerable time from the study of the classics and to have plunged deeply into study of the bible, under the impulse of apollinaris of laodicea, then teaching in antioch and not yet suspected of heresy. st. jerome in the desert, by giovanni bellini ( ) seized with a desire for a life of ascetic penance, jerome went for a time to the desert of chalcis, to the southeast of antioch, known as the "syrian thebaid" from the number of eremites inhabiting it. during this period, he seems to have found time for studying and writing. he made his first attempt to learn hebrew under the guidance of a converted jew; and he seems to have been in correspondence with jewish christians in antioch. around this time he had copied for him a hebrew gospel, of which fragments are preserved in his notes. it is known today as the gospel of the hebrews which the nazarenes considered to be the true gospel of matthew.[ ] jerome translated parts of this hebrew gospel into greek.[ ] returning to antioch in or , jerome was ordained there by bishop paulinus, apparently unwillingly and on condition that he continue his ascetic life. soon afterward, he went to constantinople to pursue a study of scripture under gregory nazianzen. he seems to have spent two years there, then left, and for the next three ( – ) he was in rome again, as secretary to pope damasus i and the leading roman christians. invited originally for the synod of , held to end the schism of antioch as there were rival claimants to be the proper patriarch in antioch. jerome had accompanied one of the claimants, paulinus, back to rome to get more support for him; jerome distinguished himself before the pope and assumed a prominent place in his papal councils. jerome was given duties in rome, and he undertook a revision of the latin bible based on the greek manuscripts of the new testament. he also updated the psalter containing the book of psalms then in use in rome, based on the septuagint. though he did not realize it yet, translating much of what became the latin vulgate bible would take many years and be his most important achievement (see writings – translations section below). saint jerome in his study, , by antonio da fabriano ii, shows writing implements, scrolls, and manuscripts testifying to jerome's scholarly pursuits.[ ] the walters art museum. in rome, jerome was surrounded by a circle of well-born and well-educated women, including some from the noblest patrician families, such as the widows lea, marcella and paula, with paula's daughters blaesilla and eustochium. the resulting inclination of these women towards the monastic life, away from the indulgent lasciviousness in rome, and his unsparing criticism of the secular clergy of rome, brought a growing hostility against him among the roman clergy and their supporters. soon after the death of his patron pope damasus i on december , jerome was forced to leave his position at rome after an inquiry was brought up by the roman clergy into allegations that he had an improper relationship with the widow paula. still, his writings were highly regarded by women who were attempting to maintain a vow of becoming a consecrated virgin. his letters were widely read and distributed throughout the christian empire and it is clear through his writing that he knew these virgin women were not his only audience.[ ] additionally, jerome's condemnation of blaesilla's hedonistic lifestyle in rome had led her to adopt ascetic practices, but it affected her health and worsened her physical weakness to the point that she died just four months after starting to follow his instructions; much of the roman populace were outraged at jerome for causing the premature death of such a lively young woman, and his insistence to paula that blaesilla should not be mourned, and complaints that her grief was excessive, were seen as heartless, polarising roman opinion against him.[ ] after rome[edit] in august , jerome left rome for good and returned to antioch, accompanied by his brother paulinian and several friends, and followed a little later by paula and eustochium who had resolved to end their days in the holy land. in the winter of , jerome acted as their spiritual adviser. the pilgrims, joined by bishop paulinus of antioch, visited jerusalem, bethlehem, and the holy places of galilee, and then went to egypt, the home of the great heroes of the ascetic life. at the catechetical school of alexandria, jerome listened to the catechist didymus the blind expounding the prophet hosea and telling his reminiscences of anthony the great, who had died years before. jerome spent some time in nitria, admiring the disciplined community life of the numerous inhabitants of that "city of the lord", but detecting even there "concealed serpents", i.e., the influence of origen of alexandria. late in the summer of he was back in palestine, and spent the remainder of his life working in a cave near bethlehem, the very cave where jesus was born,[ ] surrounded by a few friends, both men and women (including paula and eustochium), to whom he acted as priestly guide and teacher. saint jerome in his study, by niccolò antonio colantonio c. – , depicts jerome's removal of a thorn from a lion's paw. amply provided for by paula with the means of livelihood and for increasing his collection of books, jerome led a life of incessant activity in literary production. to these last years of his career belong the most important of his works; his version of the old testament from the original hebrew text, the best of his scriptural commentaries; his catalogue of christian authors; and the dialogue against the pelagians, the literary perfection of which even an opponent recognized.[citation needed] to this period also belong most of his polemics, which distinguished him among the orthodox fathers, including the treatises against the origenism later declared anathema, of bishop john ii of jerusalem and his early friend rufinus. later, as a result of his writings against pelagianism, a body of excited partisans broke into the monastic buildings, set them on fire, attacked the inmates and killed a deacon, forcing jerome to seek safety in a neighboring fortress in . death[edit] it is recorded that jerome died near bethlehem on september . the date of his death is given by the chronicon of prosper of aquitaine. his remains, originally buried at bethlehem, are said to have been later transferred to the basilica of santa maria maggiore in rome, though other places in the west claim some relics, the cathedral at nepi boasting possession of his head, which, according to another tradition, is in the escorial.[citation needed] translation of the bible ( – )[edit] saint jerome writing, by michelangelo merisi da caravaggio, , at st john's co-cathedral, valletta, malta jerome was a scholar at a time when that statement implied a fluency in greek. he knew some hebrew when he started his translation project, but moved to jerusalem to strengthen his grip on jewish scripture commentary. a wealthy roman aristocrat, paula, funded his stay in a monastery in bethlehem and he completed his translation there. he began in by correcting the existing latin-language version of the new testament, commonly referred to as the vetus latina. by he turned to translating the hebrew bible from the original hebrew, having previously translated portions from the septuagint which came from alexandria. he believed that the mainstream rabbinical judaism had rejected the septuagint as invalid jewish scriptural texts because of what were ascertained as mistranslations along with its hellenistic heretical elements.[ ] he completed this work by . prior to jerome's vulgate, all latin translations of the old testament were based on the septuagint, not the hebrew. jerome's decision to use a hebrew text instead of the previous-translated septuagint went against the advice of most other christians, including augustine, who thought the septuagint inspired. modern scholarship, however, has sometimes cast doubts on the actual quality of jerome's hebrew knowledge. many modern scholars believe that the greek hexapla is the main source for jerome's "iuxta hebraeos" (i.e. "close to the hebrews", "immediately following the hebrews") translation of the old testament.[ ] however, detailed studies have shown that to a considerable degree jerome was a competent hebraist.[ ] commentaries ( – )[edit] saint jerome, unknown southern dutch artist, , hamburger kunsthalle for the next years, until he died, jerome produced a number of commentaries on scripture, often explaining his translation choices in using the original hebrew rather than suspect translations. his patristic commentaries align closely with jewish tradition, and he indulges in allegorical and mystical subtleties after the manner of philo and the alexandrian school. unlike his contemporaries, he emphasizes the difference between the hebrew bible "apocrypha" and the hebraica veritas of the protocanonical books. in his vulgate's prologues, he describes some portions of books in the septuagint that were not found in the hebrew as being non-canonical (he called them apocrypha);[ ] for baruch, he mentions by name in his prologue to jeremiah and notes that it is neither read nor held among the hebrews, but does not explicitly call it apocryphal or "not in the canon".[ ] his preface to the books of samuel and kings[ ] includes the following statement, commonly called the helmeted preface: this preface to the scriptures may serve as a "helmeted" introduction to all the books which we turn from hebrew into latin, so that we may be assured that what is not found in our list must be placed amongst the apocryphal writings. wisdom, therefore, which generally bears the name of solomon, and the book of jesus, the son of sirach, and judith, and tobias, and the shepherd are not in the canon. the first book of maccabees i have found to be hebrew, the second is greek, as can be proved from the very style. although jerome was once suspicious of the apocrypha, it is said that he later viewed them as scripture. for example, in jerome's letter to eustochium he quotes sirach : ;[ ] elsewhere jerome also refers to baruch, the story of susannah and wisdom as scripture.[ ][ ][ ] jerome in the desert, tormented by his memories of the dancing girls, by francisco de zurbarán, , monastery of santa maría de guadalupe jerome's commentaries fall into three groups: 	his translations or recastings of greek predecessors, including fourteen homilies on the book of jeremiah and the same number on the book of ezekiel by origen (translated c. in constantinople); two homilies of origen of alexandria on the song of solomon (in rome, c. ); and thirty-nine on the gospel of luke (c. , in bethlehem). the nine homilies of origen on the book of isaiah included among his works were not done by him. here should be mentioned, as an important contribution to the topography of palestine, his book de situ et nominibus locorum hebraeorum, a translation with additions and some regrettable omissions of the onomasticon of eusebius. to the same period (c. ) belongs the liber interpretationis nominum hebraicorum, based on a work supposed to go back to philo and expanded by origen. 	original commentaries on the old testament. to the period before his settlement at bethlehem and the following five years belong a series of short, old testament studies: de seraphim, de voce osanna, de tribus quaestionibus veteris legis (usually included among the letters as , , and ); quaestiones hebraicae in genesim; commentarius in ecclesiasten; tractatus septem in psalmos – (lost); explanationes in michaeam, sophoniam, nahum, habacuc, aggaeum. after he composed a series of longer commentaries, though in rather a desultory fashion: first on jonah and obadiah ( ), then on isaiah (c. – c. ), on zechariah, malachi, hoseah, joel, amos (from ), on the book of daniel (c. ), on ezekiel (between and ), and on jeremiah (after , left unfinished). 	new testament commentaries. these include only philemon, galatians, ephesians, and titus (hastily composed – ); matthew (dictated in a fortnight, ); mark, 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(august ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) in the middle ages, jerome was often ahistorically depicted as a cardinal. jerome is also known as a historian. one of his earliest historical works was his chronicon, composed c. in constantinople; this is a translation into latin of the chronological tables which compose the second part of the chronicon of eusebius, with a supplement covering the period from to . despite numerous errors taken over from eusebius, and some of his own, jerome produced a valuable work, if only for the impulse which it gave to such later chroniclers as prosper, cassiodorus, and victor of tunnuna to continue his annals. of considerable importance as well is the de viris illustribus, which was written at bethlehem in , the title and arrangement of which are borrowed from suetonius. it contains short biographical and literary notes on christian authors, from saint peter down to jerome himself. for the first seventy-eight authors eusebius (historia ecclesiastica) is the main source; in the second section, beginning with arnobius and lactantius, he includes a good deal of independent information, especially as to western writers. four works of a hagiographic nature are: 	the vita pauli monachi, written during his first sojourn at antioch (c. ), the legendary material of which is derived from egyptian monastic tradition; 	the vitae patrum (vita pauli primi eremitae), a biography of saint paul of thebes; 	the vita malchi monachi captivi (c. ), probably based on an earlier work, although it purports to be derived from the oral communications of the aged ascetic malchus of syria originally made to him in the desert of chalcis; 	the vita hilarionis, of the same date, containing more trustworthy historical matter than the other two, and based partly on the biography of epiphanius and partly on oral tradition. the so-called martyrologium hieronymianum is spurious; it was apparently composed by a western monk toward the end of the th or beginning of the th century, with reference to an expression of jerome's in the opening chapter of the vita malchi, where he speaks of intending to write a history of the saints and martyrs from the apostolic times. description of vitamin a deficiency[edit] the following passage, taken from saint jerome's "life of st. hilarion" which was written about a.d. , appears to be the earliest account of the etiology, symptoms and cure of severe vitamin a deficiency:[ ] from his thirty-first to his thirty-fifth year he had for food six ounces of barley bread, and vegetables slightly cooked without oil. but finding that his eyes were growing dim, and that his whole body was shrivelled with an eruption and a sort of stony roughness (impetigine et pumicea quad scabredine) he added oil to his former food, and up to the sixty-third year of his life followed this temperate course, tasting neither fruit nor pulse, nor anything whatsoever besides.[ ] letters[edit] saint jerome by matthias stom, jerome's letters or epistles, both by the great variety of their subjects and by their qualities of style, form an important portion of his literary remains. whether he is discussing problems of scholarship, or reasoning on cases of conscience, comforting the afflicted, or saying pleasant things to his friends, scourging the vices and corruptions of the time and against sexual immorality among the clergy,[ ] exhorting to the ascetic life and renunciation of the world, or breaking a lance with his theological opponents, he gives a vivid picture not only of his own mind, but of the age and its peculiar characteristics. because there was no distinct line between personal documents and those meant for publication, we frequently find in his letters both confidential messages and treatises meant for others besides the one to whom he was writing.[ ] due to the time he spent in rome among wealthy families belonging to the roman upper-class, jerome was frequently commissioned by women who had taken a vow of virginity to write to them in guidance of how to live their life. as a result, he spent a great deal of his life corresponding with these women about certain abstentions and lifestyle practices.[ ] these included the clothing she should wear, the interactions she should undertake and how to go about conducting herself during such interactions, and what and how she ate and drank. the letters most frequently reprinted or referred to are of a hortatory nature, such as ep. , ad heliodorum de laude vitae solitariae; ep. , ad eustochium de custodia virginitatis; ep. , ad nepotianum de vita clericorum et monachorum, a sort of epitome of pastoral theology from the ascetic standpoint; ep. , ad paulinum de studio scripturarum; ep. , to the same, de institutione monachi; ep. , ad magnum de scriptoribus ecclesiasticis; and ep. , ad laetam de institutione filiae. francesco st jerome by jacopo palma il giovane, c. theological writings[edit] the virgin and child with saints jerome and nicholas of tolentino by lorenzo lotto, practically all of jerome's productions in the field of dogma have a more or less vehemently polemical character, and are directed against assailants of the orthodox doctrines. even the translation of the treatise of didymus the blind on the holy spirit into latin (begun in rome , completed at bethlehem) shows an apologetic tendency against the arians and pneumatomachoi. the same is true of his version of origen's de principiis (c. ), intended to supersede the inaccurate translation by rufinus. the more strictly polemical writings cover every period of his life. during the sojourns at antioch and constantinople he was mainly occupied with the arian controversy, and especially with the schisms centering around meletius of antioch and lucifer calaritanus. two letters to pope damasus ( and ) complain of the conduct of both parties at antioch, the meletians and paulinians, who had tried to draw him into their controversy over the application of the terms ousia and hypostasis to the trinity. at the same time or a little later ( ) he composed his liber contra luciferianos, in which he cleverly uses the dialogue form to combat the tenets of that faction, particularly their rejection of baptism by heretics. in rome (c. ) jerome wrote a passionate counterblast against the teaching of helvidius, in defense of the doctrine of the perpetual virginity of mary and of the superiority of the single over the married state. an opponent of a somewhat similar nature was jovinianus, with whom he came into conflict in (adversus jovinianum, against jovinianus) and the defense of this work addressed to his friend pammachius, numbered in the letters. once more he defended the ordinary practices of piety and his own ascetic ethics in against the gallic presbyter vigilantius, who opposed the cultus of martyrs and relics, the vow of poverty, and clerical celibacy. meanwhile, the controversy with john ii of jerusalem and rufinus concerning the orthodoxy of origen occurred. to this period belong some of his most passionate and most comprehensive polemical works: the contra joannem hierosolymitanum ( or ); the two closely connected apologiae contra rufinum ( ); and the "last word" written a few months later, the liber tertius seuten ultima responsio adversus scripta rufini. the last of his polemical works is the skilfully composed dialogus contra pelagianos ( ). eschatology[edit] jerome in his study, made by the flemish drawer de bry.[ ] jerome warned that those substituting false interpretations for the actual meaning of scripture belonged to the "synagogue of the antichrist".[ ] "he that is not of christ is of antichrist," he wrote to pope damasus i.[ ] he believed that "the mystery of iniquity" written about by paul in thessalonians : was already in action when "every one chatters about his views."[ ] to jerome, the power restraining this mystery of iniquity was the roman empire, but as it fell this restraining force was removed. he warned a noble woman of gaul: he that letteth is taken out of the way, and yet we do not realize that antichrist is near. yes, antichrist is near whom the lord jesus christ "shall consume with the spirit of his mouth." "woe unto them," he cries, "that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days."... savage tribes in countless numbers have overrun run all parts of gaul. the whole country between the alps and the pyrenees, between the rhine and the ocean, has been laid waste by hordes of quadi, vandals, sarmatians, alans, gepids, herules, saxons, burgundians, allemanni, and—alas! for the commonweal!—even pannonians.[ ] his commentary on daniel was expressly written to offset the criticisms of porphyry,[ ] who taught that daniel related entirely to the time of antiochus iv epiphanes and was written by an unknown individual living in the second century bc. against porphyry, jerome identified rome as the fourth kingdom of chapters two and seven, but his view of chapters eight and was more complex. jerome held that chapter eight describes the activity of antiochus epiphanes, who is understood as a "type" of a future antichrist; : onwards applies primarily to a future antichrist but was partially fulfilled by antiochus. instead, he advocated that the "little horn" was the antichrist: we should therefore concur with the traditional interpretation of all the commentators of the christian church, that at the end of the world, when the roman empire is to be destroyed, there shall be ten kings who will partition the roman world amongst themselves. then an insignificant eleventh king will arise, who will overcome three of the ten kings. ...after they have been slain, the seven other kings also will bow their necks to the victor.[ ] in his commentary on daniel, he noted, "let us not follow the opinion of some commentators and suppose him to be either the devil or some demon, but rather, one of the human race, in whom satan will wholly take up his residence in bodily form."[ ] instead of rebuilding the jewish temple to reign from, jerome thought the antichrist sat in god's temple inasmuch as he made "himself out to be like god."[ ] jerome identified the four prophetic kingdoms symbolized in daniel as the neo-babylonian empire, the medes and persians, macedon, and rome.[ ] jerome identified the stone cut out without hands as "namely, the lord and savior".[ ] jerome refuted porphyry's application of the little horn of chapter seven to antiochus. he expected that at the end of the world, rome would be destroyed, and partitioned among ten kingdoms before the little horn appeared.[ ] jerome believed that cyrus of persia is the higher of the two horns of the medo-persian ram of daniel : .[ ] the he-goat is greece smiting persia.[ ] alexander is the great horn, which is then succeeded by alexander's half brother philip and three of his generals. reception by later christianity[edit] statue of saint jerome (hieronymus) – bethlehem, palestine authority, west bank jerome is the second most voluminous writer (after augustine of hippo) in ancient latin christianity. in the catholic church, he is recognized as the patron saint of translators, librarians and encyclopedists.[ ] he acquired a knowledge of hebrew by studying with a jew who converted to christianity. against the traditional view at the time, he maintained that the hebrew, not the septuagint, was the inspired text of the old testament. over a period of fifteen years at the request of pope damasus, he made a translation from the hebrew into latin that eventually superseded the preceding latin translations and became known as the vulgate. in the council of trent, it was declared authoritative "in public lectures, disputations, sermons and expositions".[ ][ ] jerome showed more zeal and interest in the ascetic ideal than in abstract speculation. he lived as an ascetic for four or five years in the syrian desert and later, for years, near bethlehem. nevertheless, his writings show outstanding scholarship and his correspondence is historically of great importance.[ ] it was jerome's strict asceticism that made martin luther judge him so severely. in fact, protestant readers are not generally inclined to accept his writings as authoritative. the tendency to recognize a superior comes out in his correspondence with augustine (cf. jerome's letters numbered , , – , – , – ; and , , , – , – , – in augustine's).[citation needed] in art[edit] in art, jerome is often represented as one of the four latin doctors of the church along with augustine of hippo, ambrose, and pope gregory i. as a prominent member of the roman clergy, he has often been portrayed anachronistically in the garb of a cardinal. even when he is depicted as a half-clad anchorite, with cross, skull and bible for the only furniture of his cell, the red hat or some other indication of his rank as cardinal is as a rule introduced somewhere in the picture. during jerome's life, cardinals did not exist. however, by the time of the renaissance and the baroque it was common practice for a secretary to the pope to be a cardinal (as jerome had effectively been to damasus), and so this was reflected in artistic interpretations. jerome is also often depicted with a lion, in reference to the popular hagiographical belief that jerome had tamed a lion in the wilderness by healing its paw. the source for the story may actually have been the second century roman tale of androcles, or confusion with the exploits of saint gerasimus (jerome in later latin is "geronimus").[ ][ ][ ] hagiographies of jerome talk of his having spent many years in the syrian desert, and artists often depict him in a "wilderness", which for west european painters can take the form of a wood.[ ] from the late middle ages, depictions of jerome in a wider setting became popular. he is either shown in his study, surrounded by books and the equipment of a scholar, or in a rocky desert, or in a setting that combines both themes, with him studying a book under the shelter of a rock-face or cave mouth. his attribute of the lion, often shown at a smaller scale, may be beside him in either setting. jerome is often depicted in connection with the vanitas motif, the reflection on the meaninglessness of earthly life and the transient nature of all earthly goods and pursuits. in the th century saint jerome in his study by pieter coecke van aelst and workshop, the saint is depicted with a skull. behind him on the wall is pinned an admonition, cogita mori ("think upon death"). further reminders of the vanitas motif of the passage of time and the imminence of death are the image of the last judgment visible in the saint's bible, the candle and the hourglass.[ ] jerome is also sometimes depicted with an owl, the symbol of wisdom and scholarship.[ ] writing materials and the trumpet of final judgment are also part of his iconography.[ ] he is commemorated on september with a memorial. 	 			 			 saint jerome in his study, c. by pieter coecke van aelst and workshop, walters art museum 			 		 	 			 			 saint jerome and the paulines painted by gabriel thaller in the st. jerome church in Štrigova, međimurje county, northern croatia ( th century) 			 		 	 			 			 saint jerome by simon vouet c. 			 		 	 			 			 saint jerome c. netherlandish stained glass window at met. 			 		 see also[edit] 	saints portal 	christianity portal 	bible translations 	church fathers 	ferdinand cavallera 	genesius of arles 	international translation day 	letter of jerome to pope damasus 	order of st. jerome 	saint jerome, patron saint archive references[edit] 	^ the encyclopedia of christian literature, volume . scarecrow press. . isbn  . jerome ("hieronymus" in latin), was born into a christian family in stridon, modern-day strigova in northern croatia. 	^ "st. jerome (christian scholar)". britannica encyclopedia. february . archived from the original on march . retrieved march . 	^ scheck, thomas p. (december ). commentary on matthew (the fathers of the church, volume ). p.  . isbn  . archived from the original on february . retrieved june . "" 	^ maisie ward, saint jerome, sheed & ward, london , p. "it may be taken as certain that jerome was an italian, coming from that wedge of italy which seems on the old maps to be driven between dalmatia and pannonia." 	^ tom streeter, the church and western culture: an introduction to church history, authorhouse , p. "jerome was born around ad at stridon, a town in northeast italy at the head of the adriatic ocean." 	^ schaff, philip, ed. ( ). a select library of nicene and post-nicene fathers of the christian church. nd series. vi. henry wace. new york: the christian literature company. archived from the original on july . retrieved june . 	^ a b c megan hale williams, the monk and the book: jerome and the making of christian scholarship, (chicago: the university of chicago press, ) 	^ in the eastern orthodox church he is known as saint jerome of stridonium or blessed jerome. though "blessed" in this context does not have the sense of being less than a saint, as in the west. 	^ williams, megan hale ( ), the monk and the book: jerome and the making of christian scholarship, chicago 	^ pevarello, daniele ( ). the sentences of sextus and the origins of christian ascetiscism. tübingen: mohr siebeck. p.  . isbn  - - - - . archived from the original on february . retrieved december . 	^ walsh, michael, ed. ( ), butler's lives of the saints, new york: harpercollins, p.  	^ kelly, jnd ( ), jerome: his life, writings, and controversies, new york: harper & row, pp.  – 	^ payne, robert ( ), the fathers of the western church, new york: viking press, pp.  – 	^ psalm : 	^ jerome, commentarius in ezzechielem, c. , v. 	^ patrologia latina , : crebroque cryptas ingredi, quae in terrarum profunda defossae, ex utraque parte ingredientium per parietes habent corpora sepultorum, et ita obscura sunt omnia, ut propemodum illud propheticum compleatur: descendant ad infernum viventes (ps. liv, ): et raro desuper lumen admissum, horrorem temperet tenebrarum, ut non-tam fenestram, quam foramen demissi luminis putes: rursumque pedetentim acceditur, et caeca nocte circumdatis illud virgilianum proponitur (aeneid. lib. ii): "horror ubique animos, simul ipsa silentia terrent." 	^ p. vergilius maro, aeneid theodore c. williams, ed. perseus project archived november at the wayback machine (retrieved august ) 	^ payne, robert ( ), the fathers of the western church, new york: viking, p.  	^ rebenich, stefan ( ), jerome, p.  , further, he began to study hebrew: 'i betook myself to a brother who before his conversion had been a hebrew and...' 	^ pritz, ray ( ), nazarene jewish christianity: from the end of the new testament, p.  , in his accounts of his desert sojourn, jerome never mentions leaving chalcis, and there is no pressing reason to think... 	^ "saint jerome in his study". the walters art museum. archived from the original on may . retrieved september . 	^ joyce e. salisbury, encyclopedia of women in the ancient world, blaesilla 	^ bennett, rod ( ). the apostasy that wasn't: the extraordinary story of the unbreakable early church. catholic answers press. isbn  - - - - . 	^ "(...) die griechische bibelübersetzung, die einem innerjüdischen bedürfnis entsprang (...) [von den] rabbinen zuerst gerühmt (...) später jedoch, als manche ungenaue Übertragung des hebräischen textes in der septuaginta und Übersetzungsfehler die grundlage für hellenistische irrlehren abgaben, lehte man die septuaginta ab." verband der deutschen juden (hrsg.), neu hrsg. von walter homolka, walter jacob, tovia ben chorin: die lehren des judentums nach den quellen; münchen, knesebeck, , bd. , s. ff 	^ pierre nautin, article hieronymus, in: theologische realenzyklopädie, vol. , walter de gruyter, berlin-new york , p. - , here p. - . 	^ michael graves, jerome's hebrew philology: a study based on his commentary on jeremiah, brill, : – . page : "in his discussion he gives clear evidence of having consulted the hebrew himself, providing details about the hebrew that could not have been learned from the greek translations." 	^ "the bible". archived from the original on january . retrieved december . 	^ edgecomb, kevin p., jerome's prologue to jeremiah, archived from the original on december , retrieved december 	^ "jerome's preface to samuel and kings". archived from the original on december . retrieved december . 	^ barber, michael ( march ). "loose canons: the development of the old testament (part )". archived from the original on december . retrieved august . 	^ jerome, to paulinus, epistle (a.d. ), in npnf , vi: .: "do not, my dearest brother, estimate my worth by the number of my years. gray hairs are not wisdom; it is wisdom which is as good as gray hairs at least that is what solomon says: 'wisdom is the gray hair unto men' [wisdom : ]. moses too in choosing the seventy elders is told to take those whom he knows to be elders indeed, and to select them not for their years but for their discretion [num. : ]? and, as a boy, daniel judges old men and in the flower of youth condemns the incontinence of age [daniel : – aka story of susannah – ]." 	^ jerome, to oceanus, epistle : (a.d. ), in npnf , vi: .:"i would cite the words of the psalmist: 'the sacrifices of god are a broken spirit,’ [ps : ] and those of ezekiel 'i prefer the repentance of a sinner rather than his death,’ [ez : ] and those of baruch, 'arise, arise, o jerusalem,’ [baruch : ] and many other proclamations made by the trumpets of the prophets." 	^ jerome, letter , , , npnf , vi: - : "for in the book of wisdom, which is inscribed with his name, solomon says: 'god created man to be immortal and made him be an image of his own eternity.'[wisdom : ]...instead of the three proofs from holy scripture which you said would satisfy you if i could produce them, behold i have given you seven" 	^ a b taylor, f. sherwood ( december ). 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( ): . bibcode: natur. q. t. doi: . / a . s cid  . 	^ "regulae sancti pachomii rule . 	^ w. h. fremantle, "prolegomena to jerome", v. 	^ "hiëronymus in zijn studeervertrek". lib.ugent.be. retrieved october . 	^ see jerome's the dialogue against the luciferians archived january at the wayback machine, p. in a select library of nicene and post-nicene fathers of the christian church : st. jerome: letters and select works, . second series by philip schaff, henry wace. 	^ see jerome's letter to pope damasus archived march at the wayback machine, p. in a select library of nicene and post-nicene fathers of the christian church : st. jerome: letters and select works, . second series by philip schaff, henry wace. 	^ see jerome's against the pelagians, book i archived january at the wayback machine, p. in a select library of nicene and post-nicene fathers of the christian church : st. jerome: letters and select works, . second series by philip schaff, henry wace. 	^ see jerome's letter to ageruchia archived - - at the wayback machine, p. - in a select library of nicene and post-nicene fathers of the christian church : st. jerome: letters and select works, . second series by philip schaff, henry wace. 	^ eremantle, note on jerome's commentary on daniel, in npaf, d series, vol. , p. . 	^ a b c d "jerome, commentario in danielem". archived from the original on may . retrieved may . 	^ "jerome, commentaria in danelem, chap. , verses – ". archived from the original on may . retrieved may . 	^ "jerome, commentaria in danieluem, chap. , verse ". archived from the original on may . retrieved may . 	^ "jerome, commentario in danielem, chap. , verse ". archived from the original on may . retrieved may . 	^ "jerome, commentaria in danielem, chap. , verse ". archived from the original on may . retrieved may . 	^ "st. jerome: patron saint of librarians | luther college library and information services". lis.luther.edu. archived from the original on july . retrieved june . 	^ jimmy akin, "is the vulgate the catholic church’s official bible?" in national catholic register 	^ the oxford dictionary of the christian church. oxford university press; . isbn  - - - - . vulgate. p. – . 	^ the oxford dictionary of the christian church. oxford university press; . isbn  - - - - . jerome. p. – . 	^ hope werness, continuum encyclopaedia of animal symbolism in art, 	^ "eugene rice has suggested that in all probability the story of gerasimus's lion became attached to the figure of jerome some time during the seventh century, after the military invasions of the arabs had forced many greek monks who were living in the deserts of the middle east to seek refuge in rome. rice conjectures (saint jerome in the renaissance, pp. – ) that because of the similarity between the names gerasimus and geronimus – the late latin form of jerome's name – 'a latin-speaking cleric . . . made st geronimus the hero of a story he had heard about st gerasimus; and that the author of plerosque nimirum, attracted by a story at once so picturesque, so apparently appropriate, and so resonant in suggestion and meaning, and under the impression that its source was pilgrims who had been told it in bethlehem, included it in his life of a favourite saint otherwise bereft of miracles.'" salter, david ( ). holy and noble beasts: encounters with animals in medieval literature. d. s. brewer. p.  . isbn  - - - - . archived from the original on february . retrieved december . 	^ "a figment" found in the thirteenth-century golden legend by jacobus de voragine williams, megan hale ( ). the monk and the book: jerome and the making of christian scholarship. chicago: u of chicago p. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ "saint jerome in catholic saint info". catholic-saints.info. archived from the original on april . retrieved june . 	^ "saint jerome in his study". the walters art museum. archived from the original on september . retrieved september . 	^ a b the collection: saint jerome archived october at the wayback machine, gallery of the religious art collection of new mexico state university, with explanations. retrieved august . bibliography[edit] 	andrew cain and josef lössl, jerome of stridon: his life, writings and legacy (london and new york, ) 	j. n. d. kelly, jerome: his life, writings, and controversies (peabody, ma ) 	s. rebenich, jerome (london and new york, ) 	megan hale williams. the monk and the book: jerome and the making of christian scholarship (chicago and london, ) 	biblia sacra vulgata [e.g. edition published stuttgart, , isbn  - - - ] 	attribution 	this article uses material from the schaff–herzog encyclopedia of religious knowledge. further reading[edit] 	saint jerome, three biographies: malchus, st. hilarion and paulus the first hermit authored by saint jerome, london, . limovia.net. isbn  - - - - external links[edit] 		wikiquote has quotations related to: jerome 		wikimedia commons has media related to saint jerome. 		latin wikisource has original text related to this article: biblia sacra 	letters of jerome dataset – corpus as structured data, with sender, receiver, and letter-type classification 	st. jerome (pdf) from fr. alban butler's lives of the saints 	the life of st. jerome, priest, confessor and doctor of the church 	herbermann, charles, ed. 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gaelic: seòras bochanan; february – september ) was a scottish historian and humanist scholar. according to historian keith brown, buchanan was "the most profound intellectual sixteenth century scotland produced." his ideology of resistance to royal usurpation gained widespread acceptance during the scottish reformation. brown says the ease with which king james vii was deposed in shows the power of buchananite ideas.[ ] the -metre-high (  ft  in) buchanan monument in killearn commemorates his nearby birthplace. contents 	 early life 	 . early upbringing and education in paris 	 . return to scotland 	 . professor and procurator 	 . theological stance 	 humanist in exile 	 . arrest, escape and relocation 	 . return to paris 	 . coimbra 	 . trial and imprisonment 	 . release 	 return to scotland 	 . espousal of protestantism 	 . tutor and other offices 	 . final years 	 works 	 . latin scholar 	 . prose works 	 . late works 	 . lasting legacy 	 modern publications and influence 	 memorials 	 see also 	 references 	 . citations 	 . bibliography 	 external links early life[edit] early upbringing and education in paris[edit] his father, a highlander[ ] and a younger son of an old family, owned the farm of moss, in the parish of killearn, stirlingshire, but he died young, leaving his widow, five sons, and three daughters in poverty.[ ] george's mother, agnes heriot, was of the family of the heriots of trabroun, east lothian, of which george heriot, founder of heriot's hospital, was also a member. buchanan, a native speaker of scottish gaelic, is said to have attended killearn school, but not much is known of his early education. his brother, patrick buchanan, was also a scholar.[ ] in he was sent by his uncle, james heriot, to the university of paris, where he first came in contact with the two great influences of the age, the renaissance and the reformation. there, according to him, he devoted himself to the writing of verses "partly by liking, partly by compulsion (that being then the one task prescribed to youth)". return to scotland[edit] in his uncle died, and george buchanan, who was at that time severely ill,[ ] was unable to stay in paris and returned to scotland. after recovering from his illness, he joined the french auxiliaries who had been brought over to scotland by john stewart, duke of albany, and took part in an unsuccessful siege of wark castle on the border with england in late .[ ] in the following year he entered the university of st andrews, where he graduated b.a. in . he had gone there mainly to attend the lectures of john mair on logic; and when mair moved to paris, buchanan followed him in . professor and procurator[edit] in buchanan graduated m.a. at scots college, university of paris. the next year he was appointed regent, or professor, in the college of sainte-barbe, and taught there for over three years. sainte-barbe was one of the most prestigious and advanced colleges at that time.[ ] george added to that prestige by creating new reforms in teaching latin.[ ] in he was elected "procurator of the german nation" in the university of paris, and was re-elected four times in four successive months. he resigned his regentship in , and in became tutor to gilbert kennedy, rd earl of cassilis, with whom he returned to scotland early in having acquired a great reputation for learning. theological stance[edit] at this period buchanan assumed the same attitude toward the roman catholic church as erasmus: he did not repudiate its doctrines, but considered himself free to criticise its practice. though he listened to the arguments of the protestant reformers, he did not join their ranks until . his first literary production in scotland, when he was in lord cassilis's household in the west country, was the poem somnium, a satirical attack on the franciscan friars and the monastic life generally. this assault on the monks was not displeasing to james v, who engaged buchanan as tutor to one of his natural sons, lord james stewart (not the son who was afterwards regent), and encouraged him in a more daring effort. the poems palinodia and franciscanus et fratres remained unpublished for many years, but made the author hated by the franciscan order. humanist in exile[edit] arrest, escape and relocation[edit] in there was persecution in scotland of the lutherans, and buchanan among others was arrested. although the king had withheld his protection, buchanan managed to escape and made his way to london, and then paris. in paris, however, he found himself in danger when his main enemy, cardinal david beaton, arrived there as ambassador, and on the invitation of andré de gouveia, he moved to bordeaux. gouveia was then principal of the newly founded college of guienne, and by his influence buchanan was appointed professor of latin. during his time there several of his major works, the translations of medea and alcestis, and the two dramas, jephthes (sive votum) and baptistes (sive calumnia), were completed. buchanan, original engraving by jacobus houbraken michel de montaigne was buchanan's pupil at bordeaux[ ] and acted in his tragedies. in the essay of presumption he classes buchanan with jean d'aurat, theodore beza, michel de l'hôpital, pierre de montdoré and adrianus turnebus, as one of the foremost latin poets of his time.[ ] here also buchanan formed a lasting friendship with julius caesar scaliger; in later life he won the admiration of joseph scaliger, who wrote an epigram on buchanan which contains the couplet, famous in its day: "imperii fuerat romani scotia limes; romani eloquii scotia limes erit?" austin seal and steve philp translate this as: 'just as scotland was at the apex of the roman empire, so scotland shall be at the apex of roman eloquence'. (not only is buchanan's latin scholarship extolled, a congratulatory reference to scotland retaining scottish law – quintessentially an improved version of roman law – as the foundation of its legal system is also implied.) return to paris[edit] in or he returned to paris, and in he was appointed regent in the collège du cardinal lemoine. among his colleagues were muretus and turnebus. although little is known about george during this time, we can gather that he probably once again fell ill according to an elegy[ ] he wrote to his comrades tastaeus and tevius.[ ] coimbra[edit] in buchanan joined the band of french and portuguese humanists who had been invited by gouveia to lecture in the portuguese university of coimbra. the french mathematician elie vinet, and the portuguese historian, jerónimo osório, were among his colleagues; gouveia, called by montaigne le plus grand principal de france, was rector of the university, which had reached the summit of its prosperity under the patronage of king john iii. but the rectorship had been coveted by diogo de gouveia, uncle of andré and formerly head of sainte-barbe. it is probable that before andré's death at the end of diogo had urged the inquisition to investigate him and his staff; up to , when the records of the trial were first published in full, buchanan's biographers generally attributed the attack to the influence of cardinal beaton, the franciscans, or the jesuits, and the whole history of buchanan's residence in portugal was extremely obscure. trial and imprisonment[edit] george buchanan, painter unknown[ ] a commission of inquiry was appointed in october and reported in june . buchanan and two portuguese, diogo de teive and joão da costa (who had succeeded to the rectorship), were committed for trial. teive and costa were found guilty of various offences against public order, and the evidence shows that there was ample reason for a judicial inquiry. buchanan was accused of lutheran and judaistic practices. he defended himself, admitting that some of the charges were true. about june he was sentenced to abjure his errors, and to be imprisoned in the monastery of são bento in lisbon. here he listened to edifying discourses from the monks, whom he found "not unkind but ignorant". in his leisure he began to translate the psalms into latin verse, completing the greater part of the work. release[edit] after seven months, buchanan was released on condition that he remain in lisbon; and on february this restriction was lifted. buchanan then sailed for england, but soon made his way to paris, where in he was appointed regent in the college of boncourt. he remained in that post for two years, and then accepted the office of tutor to the son of the maréchal de brissac. it was almost certainly during this last stay in france, where protestantism was being repressed under king henry ii and his son francis ii, that buchanan took the side of calvinism. return to scotland[edit] detail on the buchanan memorial in greyfriars kirkyard, edinburgh espousal of protestantism[edit] in or buchanan returned to scotland, and by april was installed as tutor to the young mary, queen of scots, who read livy with him daily. although he had remained catholic throughout his support of the new learning and his strident criticism of the vices of the clergy, he now openly joined the protestants reformed church and in was appointed principal of st leonard's college, st andrews, by the earl of moray. two years before, he had received from the queen the gift of the revenues of crossraguel abbey. though a layman, he was made moderator of the general assembly of the church of scotland in . he had sat in the assemblies from . he was the last lay person to be elected moderator until alison elliot in , the first female moderator. tutor and other offices[edit] buchanan accompanied the regent moray to england, and his famous detectio mariæ reginæ—a scathing exposure of the queen's relations to darnley and the circumstances leading up to his death, published london: john day, [ ]—was produced to the commissioners at westminster. in , after the assassination of moray, he was appointed one of the preceptors of the young king, and it was through his strict tuition that james vi acquired his scholarship. as the young king's senior tutor, buchanan subjected james to regular beatings but also instilled in him a lifelong passion for literature and learning.[ ] buchanan sought to turn james into a god-fearing, protestant king who accepted the limitations of monarchy, as outlined in his treatise de jure regni apud scotos.[ ] while royal tutor he also held other offices: he was for a short time director of chancery, and then became keeper of the privy seal of scotland, a post which entitled him to a seat in the parliament. he appears to have continued in this office for some years, at least till . john geddie was his clerk and servant in this role, and copied some of buchanan's manuscripts.[ ] final years[edit] his last years were occupied with completion and publication of two of his major works, de jure regni apud scotos ( ) and rerum scoticarum historia ( ). he died in his first floor flat on kennedy's close (near the modern hunter square) in edinburgh on friday september and was buried in greyfriars kirkyard on the following day. the grave was originally marked by a through-stone but this had sunk into the ground by .[ ] currently, two memorials in greyfriars each claim to mark his burial: one just north-west of the church and a second, more modest memorial near the eastmost path. the smaller (later) one is correct.[citation needed] works[edit] latin scholar[edit] for mastery of the latin language, buchanan has seldom been surpassed by any modern writer. his style is not rigidly modelled on that of any classical author, but has a freshness and elasticity of its own. hugh trevor-roper called him "by universal consent, the greatest latin writer, whether in prose or in verse, in sixteenth century europe". he wrote latin as if it were his mother tongue. buchanan also had a rich vein of poetical feeling, and much originality of thought. his translations of the psalms and of the greek plays are more than mere versions; his two tragedies, baptistes and jephthes, enjoyed a european reputation for academic excellence. his pompae verses were written for performance at the court entertainments of mary, including the offering of the rustic gods sung during a masque devised by bastian pagez for the baptism of king james.[ ] prose works[edit] in addition to these works, buchanan wrote in prose chamaeleon, a satire in scots against maitland of lethington, first printed in ; a latin translation of linacre's grammar (paris, ); libellus de prosodia (edinburgh, ); and vita ab ipso scripta biennio ante mortem ( ), edited by r. sibbald ( ). his other poems are fratres fraterrimi, elegiae, silvae, two sets of verses entitled hendecasyllabon liber and iambon liber; three books of epigrammata; a book of miscellaneous verse; de sphaera (in five books), suggested by the poem de sphaera mundi of joannes de sacrobosco, and intended as a defence of the ptolemaic theory against the new copernican view. there are two early editions of buchanan's works: thomas ruddiman's[ ] and pieter burman's.[ ] late works[edit] the first of his important late works was the treatise de jure regni apud scotos, published in . in this famous work, composed in the form of a dialogue, and evidently intended to instil sound political principles into the mind of his pupil, buchanan lays down the doctrine that the source of all political power is the people, that the king is bound by those conditions under which the supreme power was first committed to his hands, and that it is lawful to resist, even to punish, tyrants. the importance of the work is proved by the persistent efforts of the legislature to suppress it during the century following its publication. it was condemned by act of parliament in , and again in ; and in it was burned by the university of oxford. the second of his larger works is the history of scotland, rerum scoticarum historia, completed shortly before his death, and published in . it is remarkable for the power and richness of its style, and of great value for the period personally known to the author, which occupies the greater portion of the book. the earlier part is based, to a considerable extent, on the legendary history of boece. buchanan's purpose was to "purge" the national history "of sum inglis lyis and scottis vanite" (letter to randolph). he said that it would "content few and displease many"; in fact, its matter gave so much offence that a proclamation was issued calling in all copies of it, as well as of the de jure regni, that they might be purged of the "offensive and extraordinary matters" which they contained. lasting legacy[edit] buchanan holds his great and unique place in literature not so much for his own writings as for his strong and lasting influence on subsequent writers. his influence was notable by when andrew millar, a prominent th-century bookseller, took over james mceuen's bookshop in london at the sign of 'buchanan's head, temple bar'. the sign for the shop depicted the face of george buchanan, a testament to buchanan's early place and reputation in scottish letters.[ ] modern publications and influence[edit] polygon books have published the poet robert crawford's selection of buchanan's verse in apollos of the north: selected poems of george buchanan and arthur johnston (isbn  - - - ) in , the th anniversary of buchanan's birth. in the lead-up to the anniversary professor roger mason of the university of st andrews has published a dialogue on the law of kingship among the scots, a critical edition and translation of george buchanan's 'de iure regni apud scotos dialogus ( isbn  - - - ). george buchanan's statue on the scott monument memorials[edit] a statue of buchanan stands on the west-facing side of the scott monument on princes street, edinburgh. it was sculpted by john rhind.[ ] a memorial stained glass window stands in the south wall of greyfriars kirk. a bust of buchanan is in the hall of heroes of the national wallace monument in stirling. a monument was erected by public subscription in in the place of his birth, killearn, stirlingshire. see also[edit] 	poetry portal 	scottish literature 	british latin literature references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ keith m brown, "reformation to union, – ," in r.a. houston and w. w. j. knox, eds., the new penguin history of scotland ( ) pp – , quote at p 	^ macmillan, d. ( ). george buchanan, a biography. london: simpkin, marshall, & co. ltd. p.  . 	^ macmillan, d. ( ). george buchanan, a biography. london: simpkin, marshall, & co. ltd. p.  . 	^ macmillan, d. ( ). george buchanan, a biography. london: simpkin, marshall, & co. ltd. p.  . 	^ macmillan, d. ( ). george buchanan, a biography. london: simpkin, marshall, & co. ltd. p.  . 	^ "buchanan, george ( – )" . dictionary of national biography. london: smith, elder & co. – . 	^ macmillan, d. ( ). george buchanan, a biography. london: simpkin, marshall, & co. ltd. p.  . 	^ macmillan, d. ( ). george buchanan, a biography. london: simpkin, marshall, & co. ltd. p.  . 	^ montaigne, michel ( ). emmanuel naya (ed.). essais i. delphine reguig-naya, alexandre tarrête (folio ed.). gallimard. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ montaigne, michel. emmanuel naya (ed.). essais ii. delphine reguig-naya, alexandre tarrête (folio ed.). gallimard. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ macmillan, d. ( ). george buchanan, a biography. london: simpkin, marshall, & co. ltd. p.  . 	^ irving, david ( ). memoirs of the life and writings of george buchanan. london: bell and bradfute and a. lawrie, and longman, hurst, and rees, and orme. p.  . 	^ annan, thomas ( ). illustrated catalogue of the exhibition of portraits on loan in the new galleries of art, corporation buildings, sauchiehall street. glasgow: glasgow art gallery and museum. p.  . retrieved december . 	^ croft, pauline ( ). king james. basingstoke and new york: palgrave macmillan, p.  – . 	^ croft, pauline ( ). king james. basingstoke and new york: palgrave macmillan, pp.  , . 	^ sebastiaan verweij, the literary culture of early modern scotland (oxford, ), p. . 	^ monuments and monumental inscriptions in scotland: the grampian society, 	^ shire, helena mennie, song dance and poetry at the court of james vi, cup ( ), : buchanan, george, omnia opera, vol.  ( ), pp.  – 	^ ruddiman, thomas ( ), georgii buchanani scoti, poetarum sui seculi facile principis, opera omnia, edinburgh: freebairn . (in latin) 	^ ruddiman ( ). 	^ "the manuscripts, letter from andrew millar to robert woodrow, july , . see footnote no. ". millar-project.ed.ac.uk. retrieved june . 	^ "archived copy". archived from the original on july . retrieved january .cs maint: archived copy as title (link) bibliography[edit] 	baptistes sive calumnia (written before , not published until ) 	jephthes sive votum, tragoedia, 	ruddiman, thomas [thoma ruddimannus] ( ), burman, pieter [petrus burmannus] (ed.), georgii buchanani, scoti, poëtarum sui seculi facile principis, praeceptoris jacobi vi scotorum, & primi angl. reg. opera omnia, historica, chronologica, juridica, politica, satyrica & poetica, j. arnold langerak . (in latin) 	the sphera of george buchanan, by james naiden, . 	the art and science of government among the scots, being george buchanan's de jure regni apud scotos, . english translation and commentary by duncan h. macneill. 	george buchanan by robert wallace,(completed by j. campbell smith). edinburgh: oliphant, anderson and ferrier, , ("famous scots series") 	aitken, james m. ( ). the trial of george buchanan before the lisbon inquisition. edinburgh, london: oliver and boyd. 	macmillan, d. 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	iso - 	lat 	iso - 	lat 	glottolog	impe [ ] lati [ ] 	linguasphere	 -aab-aa to -aab-ac 	map indicating the greatest extent of the roman empire under emperor trajan (c. ad) and the area governed by latin speakers (dark red). many languages other than latin were spoken within the empire. 	range of the romance languages, the modern descendants of latin, in europe. 	this article contains ipa phonetic symbols. without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of unicode characters. for an introductory guide on ipa symbols, see help:ipa. latin (latīnum, [laˈtiːnʊ̃] or lingua latīna, [ˈlɪŋɡʷa laˈtiːna]) is a classical language belonging to the italic branch of the indo-european languages. latin was originally spoken in the area around rome, known as latium.[ ] through the power of the roman republic, it became the dominant language in italy, and subsequently throughout the western roman empire. latin has contributed many words to the english language. in particular, latin (and ancient greek) roots are used in english descriptions of theology, the sciences, medicine, and law. it is the official language in the holy see (vatican city). by the late roman republic ( bc), old latin had been standardised into classical latin. vulgar latin was the colloquial form spoken during the same time and attested in inscriptions and the works of comic playwrights like plautus and terence[ ] and author petronius. late latin is the written language from the rd century; its colloquial form vulgar latin developed in the th to th centuries into the romance languages, such as italian, sardinian, venetian, neapolitan, sicilian, piedmontese, lombard, french, franco-provençal, occitan, corsican, ladin, friulan, romansh, catalan/valencian, aragonese, spanish, asturian, galician, and portuguese. medieval latin was used as a literary language from the th century to the renaissance which used renaissance latin. later, early modern latin and new latin evolved. latin was the language of international communication, scholarship and science until well into the th century, when vernaculars (including the romance languages) supplanted it. ecclesiastical latin remains the official language of the holy see and the roman rite of the catholic church. latin is a highly inflected language, with three distinct genders, six or seven noun cases, five declensions, four verb conjugations, six tenses, three persons, three moods, two voices, two or three aspects, and two numbers. the latin alphabet is derived from the etruscan and greek alphabets and ultimately from the phoenician alphabet. contents 	 history 	 . old latin 	 . classical latin 	 . vulgar latin 	 . medieval latin 	 . renaissance latin 	 . new latin 	 . contemporary latin 	 . . religious use 	 . . use of latin for mottos 	 . . other modern uses 	 legacy 	 . inscriptions 	 . literature 	 . influence on present-day languages 	 . education 	 . official status 	 phonology 	 . consonants 	 . vowels 	 . . simple vowels 	 . . diphthongs 	 . syllables 	 . . length 	 . . stress 	 orthography 	 . alternative scripts 	 grammar 	 . nouns 	 . adjectives 	 . . first and second-declension adjectives 	 . . third declension adjectives 	 . . participles 	 . prepositions 	 . verbs 	 . . deponent verbs 	 vocabulary 	 phrases (neo-latin) 	 numbers 	 example text 	 see also 	 references 	 bibliography 	 external links 	 . language tools 	 . courses 	 . grammar and study 	 . phonetics 	 . latin language news and audio 	 . latin language online communities history[edit] main article: history of latin the linguistic landscape of central italy at the beginning of roman expansion a number of historical phases of the language have been recognized, each distinguished by subtle differences in vocabulary, usage, spelling, morphology, and syntax. there are no hard and fast rules of classification; different scholars emphasize different features. as a result, the list has variants, as well as alternative names. in addition to the historical phases, ecclesiastical latin refers to the styles used by the writers of the roman catholic church from late antiquity onward, as well as by protestant scholars. after the western roman empire fell in and germanic kingdoms took its place, the germanic people adopted latin as a language more suitable for legal and other, more formal uses.[citation needed] old latin[edit] main article: old latin the lapis niger, probably the oldest extant latin inscription, from rome, c. bc during the semi-legendary roman kingdom the earliest known form of latin is old latin, which was spoken from the roman kingdom to the later part of the roman republic period. it is attested both in inscriptions and in some of the earliest extant latin literary works, such as the comedies of plautus and terence. the latin alphabet was devised from the etruscan alphabet. the writing later changed from what was initially either a right-to-left or a boustrophedon[ ][ ] script to what ultimately became a strictly left-to-right script.[ ] classical latin[edit] main article: classical latin during the late republic and into the first years of the empire, a new classical latin arose, a conscious creation of the orators, poets, historians and other literate men, who wrote the great works of classical literature, which were taught in grammar and rhetoric schools. today's instructional grammars trace their roots to such schools, which served as a sort of informal language academy dedicated to maintaining and perpetuating educated speech.[ ][ ] vulgar latin[edit] main articles: vulgar latin, late latin, and romance languages philological analysis of archaic latin works, such as those of plautus, which contain snippets of everyday speech, indicates that a spoken language, vulgar latin (termed sermo vulgi, "the speech of the masses", by cicero), existed concurrently with literate classical latin. the informal language was rarely written, so philologists have been left with only individual words and phrases cited by classical authors and those found as graffiti.[ ] as it was free to develop on its own, there is no reason to suppose that the speech was uniform either diachronically or geographically. on the contrary, romanised european populations developed their own dialects of the language, which eventually led to the differentiation of romance languages.[ ] the decline of the roman empire meant a deterioration in educational standards that brought about late latin, a postclassical stage of the language seen in christian writings of the time. it was more in line with everyday speech, not only because of a decline in education but also because of a desire to spread the word to the masses.[citation needed] despite dialectal variation, which is found in any widespread language, the languages of spain, france, portugal, and italy retained a remarkable unity in phonological forms and developments, bolstered by the stabilising influence of their common christian (roman catholic) culture. it was not until the moorish conquest of spain in , cutting off communications between the major romance regions, that the languages began to diverge seriously.[ ] the vulgar latin dialect that would later become romanian diverged somewhat more from the other varieties, as it was largely separated from the unifying influences in the western part of the empire. one key marker of whether a given romance feature was found in vulgar latin is to compare it with its parallel in classical latin. if it was not preferred in classical latin, then it most likely came from the undocumented contemporaneous vulgar latin. for example, the romance for "horse" (italian cavallo, french cheval, spanish caballo, portuguese cavalo and romanian cal) came from latin caballus. however, classical latin used equus. therefore, caballus was most likely the spoken form.[ ] vulgar latin began to diverge into distinct languages by the th century at the latest, when the earliest extant romance writings begin to appear. they were, throughout the period, confined to everyday speech, as medieval latin was used for writing.[ ][ ] medieval latin[edit] main article: medieval latin the latin malmesbury bible from . medieval latin is the written latin in use during that portion of the postclassical period when no corresponding latin vernacular existed. the spoken language had developed into the various incipient romance languages; however, in the educated and official world, latin continued without its natural spoken base. moreover, this latin spread into lands that had never spoken latin, such as the germanic and slavic nations. it became useful for international communication between the member states of the holy roman empire and its allies. without the institutions of the roman empire that had supported its uniformity, medieval latin lost its linguistic cohesion: for example, in classical latin sum and eram are used as auxiliary verbs in the perfect and pluperfect passive, which are compound tenses. medieval latin might use fui and fueram instead.[ ] furthermore, the meanings of many words have been changed and new vocabularies have been introduced from the vernacular. identifiable individual styles of classically incorrect latin prevail.[ ] renaissance latin[edit] main article: renaissance latin most th-century printed books (incunabula) were in latin, with the vernacular languages playing only a secondary role.[ ] the renaissance briefly reinforced the position of latin as a spoken language by its adoption by the renaissance humanists. often led by members of the clergy, they were shocked by the accelerated dismantling of the vestiges of the classical world and the rapid loss of its literature. they strove to preserve what they could and restore latin to what it had been and introduced the practice of producing revised editions of the literary works that remained by comparing surviving manuscripts. by no later than the th century they had replaced medieval latin with versions supported by the scholars of the rising universities, who attempted, by scholarship, to discover what the classical language had been.[ ][ ] new latin[edit] main article: new latin during the early modern age, latin still was the most important language of culture in europe. therefore, until the end of the th century the majority of books and almost all diplomatic documents were written in latin. afterwards, most diplomatic documents were written in french (a romance language) and later native or other languages. contemporary latin[edit] main articles: contemporary latin and ecclesiastical latin despite having no native speakers, latin is still used for a variety of purposes in the contemporary world. religious use[edit] the signs at wallsend metro station are in english and latin as a tribute to wallsend's role as one of the outposts of the roman empire. the largest organisation that retains latin in official and quasi-official contexts is the catholic church. latin remains the language of the roman rite; the tridentine mass is celebrated in latin. although the mass of paul vi is usually celebrated in the local vernacular language, it can be and often is said in latin, in part or in whole, especially at multilingual gatherings. it is the official language of the holy see, the primary language of its public journal, the acta apostolicae sedis, and the working language of the roman rota. vatican city is also home to the world's only automatic teller machine that gives instructions in latin.[ ] in the pontifical universities postgraduate courses of canon law are taught in latin, and papers are written in the same language. in the anglican church, after the publication of the book of common prayer of , a latin edition was published in for use in universities such as oxford and the leading "public schools" (english private academies), where the liturgy was still permitted to be conducted in latin.[ ] there have been several latin translations since, including a latin edition of the usa anglican book of common prayer.[ ] the polyglot european union has adopted latin names in the logos of some of its institutions for the sake of linguistic compromise, an "ecumenical nationalism" common to most of the continent and as a sign of the continent's heritage (such as the eu council: consilium) use of latin for mottos[edit] in the western world, many organizations, governments and schools use latin for their mottos due to its association with formality, tradition, and the roots of western culture.[citation needed] canada's motto a mari usque ad mare ("from sea to sea") and most provincial mottos are also in latin. the canadian victoria cross is modelled after the british victoria cross which has the inscription "for valour". because canada is officially bilingual, the canadian medal has replaced the english inscription with the latin pro valore. spain's motto plvs vltra, meaning "further beyond", is also latin in origin.[ ] it is taken from the personal motto of charles v, holy roman emperor and king of spain (as charles i), and is a reversal of the original phrase non terrae plus ultra ("no land further beyond"). this was said to have been inscribed as a warning on the pillars of hercules at the strait of gibraltar, which marked the edge of the known world. charles adopted the motto following the discovery of the new world by columbus, and it also has metaphorical suggestions of taking risks and striving for excellence. several states of the united states have latin mottos: such as connecticut's motto qui transtulit sustinet ("he who transplanted sustains"); kansas's ad astra per aspera ("to the stars through hardships"); colorado's nil sine numine ("nothing without providence"); michigan's si quaeris peninsulam amoenam, circumspice ("if you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you"); missouri's salus populi suprema lex esto ("the health of the people should be the highest law"); north carolina's esse quam videri ("to be rather than to seem"); virginia's sic semper tyrannis ("thus always to tyrants"); and west virginia's montani semper liberi ("mountaineers are always free"). many military organizations today have latin mottos, such as semper paratus ("always ready"), the motto of the united states coast guard; semper fidelis ("always faithful"), the motto of the united states marine corps; and per ardua ad astra ("through adversity/struggle to the stars"), the motto of the royal air force (raf). some colleges and universities have adopted latin mottos, for example harvard university's motto is veritas ("truth"). veritas was the goddess of truth, a daughter of saturn, and the mother of virtue. other modern uses[edit] switzerland has adopted the country's latin short name helvetia on coins and stamps, since there is no room to use all of the nation's four official languages. for a similar reason, it adopted the international vehicle and internet code ch, which stands for confœderatio helvetica, the country's full latin name. some films of ancient settings, such as sebastiane and the passion of the christ, have been made with dialogue in latin for the sake of realism. occasionally, latin dialogue is used because of its association with religion or philosophy, in such film/television series as the exorcist and lost ("jughead"). subtitles are usually shown for the benefit of those who do not understand latin. there are also songs written with latin lyrics. the libretto for the opera-oratorio oedipus rex by igor stravinsky is in latin. the continued instruction of latin is often seen as a highly valuable component of a liberal arts education. latin is taught at many high schools, especially in europe and the americas. it is most common in british public schools and grammar schools, the italian liceo classico and liceo scientifico, the german humanistisches gymnasium and the dutch gymnasium. occasionally, some media outlets, targeting enthusiasts, broadcast in latin. notable examples include radio bremen in germany, yle radio in finland (the nuntii latini broadcast from until it was shut down in june ),[ ] and vatican radio & television, all of which broadcast news segments and other material in latin.[ ][ ][ ] there are many websites and forums maintained in latin by enthusiasts. the latin wikipedia has more than , articles. legacy[edit] italian, french, portuguese, spanish, romanian, catalan, romansh, and other romance languages are direct descendants of latin. there are also many latin derivatives in english as well as a few in german, dutch, norwegian, danish, and swedish. latin is still spoken in vatican city, a city-state situated in rome that is the seat of the catholic church. inscriptions[edit] some inscriptions have been published in an internationally agreed, monumental, multivolume series, the corpus inscriptionum latinarum (cil). authors and publishers vary, but the format is about the same: volumes detailing inscriptions with a critical apparatus stating the provenance and relevant information. the reading and interpretation of these inscriptions is the subject matter of the field of epigraphy. about , inscriptions are known. literature[edit] julius caesar's commentarii de bello gallico is one of the most famous classical latin texts of the golden age of latin. the unvarnished, journalistic style of this patrician general has long been taught as a model of the urbane latin officially spoken and written in the floruit of the roman republic. the works of several hundred ancient authors who wrote in latin have survived in whole or in part, in substantial works or in fragments to be analyzed in philology. they are in part the subject matter of the field of classics. their works were published in manuscript form before the invention of printing and are now published in carefully annotated printed editions, such as the loeb classical library, published by harvard university press, or the oxford classical texts, published by oxford university press. latin translations of modern literature such as the hobbit, treasure island, robinson crusoe, paddington bear, winnie the pooh, the adventures of tintin, asterix, harry potter, le petit prince, max and moritz, how the grinch stole christmas!, the cat in the hat, and a book of fairy tales, "fabulae mirabiles", are intended to garner popular interest in the language. additional resources include phrasebooks and resources for rendering everyday phrases and concepts into latin, such as meissner's latin phrasebook. influence on present-day languages[edit] the latin influence in english has been significant at all stages of its insular development. in the middle ages, borrowing from latin occurred from ecclesiastical usage established by saint augustine of canterbury in the th century or indirectly after the norman conquest, through the anglo-norman language. from the th to the th centuries, english writers cobbled together huge numbers of new words from latin and greek words, dubbed "inkhorn terms", as if they had spilled from a pot of ink. many of these words were used once by the author and then forgotten, but some useful ones survived, such as 'imbibe' and 'extrapolate'. many of the most common polysyllabic english words are of latin origin through the medium of old french. romance words make respectively %, % and % of english, german and dutch vocabularies.[ ][ ][ ] those figures can rise dramatically when only non-compound and non-derived words are included. the influence of roman governance and roman technology on the less-developed nations under roman dominion led to the adoption of latin phraseology in some specialized areas, such as science, technology, medicine, and law. for example, the linnaean system of plant and animal classification was heavily influenced by historia naturalis, an encyclopedia of people, places, plants, animals, and things published by pliny the elder. roman medicine, recorded in the works of such physicians as galen, established that today's medical terminology would be primarily derived from latin and greek words, the greek being filtered through the latin. roman engineering had the same effect on scientific terminology as a whole. latin law principles have survived partly in a long list of latin legal terms. a few international auxiliary languages have been heavily influenced by latin. interlingua is sometimes considered a simplified, modern version of the language.[dubious – discuss] latino sine flexione, popular in the early th century, is latin with its inflections stripped away, among other grammatical changes. the logudorese dialect of the sardinian language is the closest contemporary language to latin.[ ] education[edit] a multivolume latin dictionary in the university library of graz. throughout european history, an education in the classics was considered crucial for those who wished to join literate circles. instruction in latin is an essential aspect. in today's world, a large number of latin students in the us learn from wheelock's latin: the classic introductory latin course, based on ancient authors. this book, first published in ,[ ] was written by frederic m. wheelock, who received a phd from harvard university. wheelock's latin has become the standard text for many american introductory latin courses. the living latin movement attempts to teach latin in the same way that living languages are taught, as a means of both spoken and written communication. it is available at the vatican and at some institutions in the us, such as the university of kentucky and iowa state university. the british cambridge university press is a major supplier of latin textbooks for all levels, such as the cambridge latin course series. it has also published a subseries of children's texts in latin by bell & forte, which recounts the adventures of a mouse called minimus. latin and ancient greek at duke university, . in the united kingdom, the classical association encourages the study of antiquity through various means, such as publications and grants. the university of cambridge,[ ] the open university,[ ] a number of prestigious independent schools, for example eton, harrow, haberdashers' aske's boys' school, merchant taylor’s school, via facilis and rugby,[ ] a london-based charity, run latin courses. in the united states and in canada, the american classical league supports every effort to further the study of classics. its subsidiaries include the national junior classical league (with more than , members), which encourages high school students to pursue the study of latin, and the national senior classical league, which encourages students to continue their study of the classics into college. the league also sponsors the national latin exam. classicist mary beard wrote in the times literary supplement in that the reason for learning latin is because of what was written in it.[ ] official status[edit] latin was or is the official language of european states: 	  holy see – used in the diocese, with italian being the official language of vatican city 	 hungary – latin was an official language in the kingdom of hungary from the th century to the mid th century, when hungarian became the exclusive official language in . the best known latin language poet of croatian-hungarian origin was janus pannonius. 	 croatia – latin was the official language of croatian parliament (sabor) from the th to the th century ( ). the oldest preserved records of the parliamentary sessions (congregatio regni totius sclavonie generalis) – held in zagreb (zagabria), croatia – date from april . an extensive croatian latin literature exists. latin is still used on croatian coins on even years.[ ] 	 poland, kingdom of poland – officially recognised and widely used[ ][ ][ ][ ] between the th and th centuries, commonly used in foreign relations and popular as a second language among some of the nobility.[ ] phonology[edit] main article: latin phonology and orthography the ancient pronunciation of latin has been reconstructed; among the data used for reconstruction are explicit statements about pronunciation by ancient authors, misspellings, puns, ancient etymologies, the spelling of latin loanwords in other languages, and the historical development of romance languages.[ ] consonants[edit] the consonant phonemes of classical latin are as follows:[ ] 	 	labial 	dental 	palatal 	velar 	glottal 	plain 	labial 	plosive 	voiced 	b 	d 	 	ɡ 	ɡʷ 	 	voiceless 	p 	t 	 	k 	kʷ 	 	fricative 	voiced 	 	(z) 	 	 	 	 	voiceless 	f 	s 	 	 	 	h 	nasal 	m 	n 	 	(ŋ) 	 	 	rhotic 	 	r 	 	 	 	 	approximant 	 	l 	j 	 	w 	 /z/ was not native to classical latin. it appeared in greek loanwords starting around the first century bc, when it was probably pronounced [z] initially and doubled [zz] between vowels, in contrast to classical greek [dz] or [zd]. in classical latin poetry, the letter ⟨z⟩ between vowels always counts as two consonants for metrical purposes.[ ][ ] the consonant b usually sounds as [b]; however, when a t or s precedes b then it is pronounced as in [pt] or [ps]. further, consonants do not blend together. so, ch, ph, and th are all sounds that would be pronounced as [ch], [ph], and [th]. in latin, q is always followed by the vowel u. together they make a [kw] sound.[ ] in old and classical latin, the latin alphabet had no distinction between uppercase and lowercase, and the letters ⟨j u w⟩ did not exist. in place of ⟨j u⟩, ⟨i v⟩ were used, respectively; ⟨i v⟩ represented both vowels and consonants. most of the letterforms were similar to modern uppercase, as can be seen in the inscription from the colosseum shown at the top of the article. the spelling systems used in latin dictionaries and modern editions of latin texts, however, normally use ⟨j u⟩ in place of classical-era ⟨i v⟩. some systems use ⟨j v⟩ for the consonant sounds /j w/ except in the combinations ⟨gu su qu⟩ for which ⟨v⟩ is never used. some notes concerning the mapping of latin phonemes to english graphemes are given below: notes 	latin grapheme	latin phoneme	english examples 	⟨c⟩, ⟨k⟩ 	[k] 	always as k in sky (/skaɪ/) 	⟨t⟩ 	[t] 	as t in stay (/steɪ/) 	⟨s⟩ 	[s] 	as s in say (/seɪ/) 	⟨g⟩ 	[ɡ] 	always as g in good (/ɡʊd/) 	[ŋ] 	before ⟨n⟩, as ng in sing (/sɪŋ/) 	⟨n⟩ 	[n] 	as n in man (/mæn/) 	[ŋ] 	before ⟨c⟩, ⟨x⟩, and ⟨g⟩, as ng in sing (/sɪŋ/) 	⟨l⟩ 	[l] 	when doubled ⟨ll⟩ and before ⟨i⟩, as "light l", [l̥] in link ([l̥ɪnk]) (l exilis)[ ][ ] 	[ɫ] 	in all other positions, as "dark l", [ɫ] in bowl ([boʊɫ]) (l pinguis) 	⟨qu⟩ 	[kʷ] 	similar to qu in quick (/kwɪk/) 	⟨u⟩ 	[w] 	sometimes at the beginning of a syllable, or after ⟨g⟩ and ⟨s⟩, as /w/ in wine (/waɪn/) 	⟨i⟩ 	[j] 	sometimes at the beginning of a syllable, as y (/j/) in yard (/jaɹd/) 	[ij] 	"y" (/j/), in between vowels, becomes "i-y", being pronounced as parts of two separate syllables, as in capiō (/kapiˈjo:/) 	⟨x⟩ 	[ks] 	a letter representing ⟨c⟩ + ⟨s⟩: as x in english axe (/æks/) in classical latin, as in modern italian, double consonant letters were pronounced as long consonant sounds distinct from short versions of the same consonants. thus the nn in classical latin annus "year" (and in italian anno) is pronounced as a doubled /nn/ as in english unnamed. (in english, distinctive consonant length or doubling occurs only at the boundary between two words or morphemes, as in that example.) vowels[edit] simple vowels[edit] 		front	central	back 	close 	iː ɪ		ʊ uː 	mid 	eː ɛ		ɔ oː 	open 		a aː	 in classical latin, ⟨u⟩ did not exist as a letter distinct from v; the written form ⟨v⟩ was used to represent both a vowel and a consonant. ⟨y⟩ was adopted to represent upsilon in loanwords from greek, but it was pronounced like ⟨u⟩ and ⟨i⟩ by some speakers. it was also used in native latin words by confusion with greek words of similar meaning, such as sylva and ὕλη. classical latin distinguished between long and short vowels. then, long vowels, except for ⟨i⟩, were frequently marked using the apex, which was sometimes similar to an acute accent ⟨Á É Ó v́ Ý⟩. long /iː/ was written using a taller version of ⟨i⟩, called i longa "long i": ⟨ꟾ⟩. in modern texts, long vowels are often indicated by a macron ⟨ā ē ī ō ū⟩, and short vowels are usually unmarked except when it is necessary to distinguish between words, when they are marked with a breve ⟨ă ĕ ĭ ŏ ŭ⟩. however, they would also signify a long vowel by writing the vowel larger than other letters in a word or by repeating the vowel twice in a row.[ ] the acute accent, when it is used in modern latin texts, indicates stress, as in spanish, rather than length. long vowels in classical latin are, technically, pronounced as entirely different from short vowels. the difference is described in the table below: pronunciation of latin vowels 	latin grapheme 	latin phone 	modern examples 	⟨a⟩ 	[a] 	similar to the last a in attack (/ətæk/) 	[aː] 	similar to a in father (/fɑːðəɹ/) 	⟨e⟩ 	[ɛ] 	as e in pet (/pɛt/) 	[eː] 	similar to e in hey (/heɪ/) 	⟨i⟩ 	[ɪ] 	as i in grid (/ɡɹɪd/) 	[iː] 	similar to i in machine (/məʃiːn/) 	⟨o⟩ 	[ɔ] 	as o in cloth (/klɔθ/) 	[oː] 	similar to o in rose (/ɹoʊz/) 	⟨u⟩ 	[ʊ] 	as oo in hood (/hʊd/) 	[uː] 	similar to ue in true (/tɹuː/) 	⟨y⟩ 	[ʏ] 	does not exist in english; as ü in german stück (/ʃtʏk/) 	[yː] 	does not exist in english; as üh in german früh (/fʀyː/) this difference in quality is posited by w. sidney allen in his book vox latina. however, andrea calabrese has disputed that short vowels differed in quality from long vowels, based upon the observation that [ɪ] and [ʊ] do not exist even in very conservative romance languages such as sardinian, with the difference in vowel quality more associated with germanic languages. a vowel letter followed by ⟨m⟩ at the end of a word, or a vowel letter followed by ⟨n⟩ before ⟨s⟩ or ⟨f⟩, represented a long nasal vowel, as in monstrum [mõːstrũː]. diphthongs[edit] classical latin had several diphthongs. the two most common were ⟨ae au⟩. ⟨oe⟩ was fairly rare, and ⟨ui eu ei⟩ were very rare, at least in native latin words.[ ] there has also been debate over whether ⟨ui⟩ is truly a diphthong in classical latin, due to its rarity, absence in works of roman grammarians, and the roots of classical latin words (i.e. hui ce to huic, quoi to cui, etc.) not matching or being similar to the pronunciation of classical words if ⟨ui⟩ were to be considered a diphthong.[ ] the sequences sometimes did not represent diphthongs. ⟨ae⟩ and ⟨oe⟩ also represented a sequence of two vowels in different syllables in aēnus [aˈeː.nʊs] "of bronze" and coēpit [kɔˈeː.pɪt] "began", and ⟨au ui eu ei ou⟩ represented sequences of two vowels or of a vowel and one of the semivowels /j w/, in cavē [ˈka.weː] "beware!", cuius [ˈkʊj.jʊs] "whose", monuī [ˈmɔn.ʊ.iː] "i warned", solvī [ˈsɔɫ.wiː] "i released", dēlēvī [deːˈleː.wiː] "i destroyed", eius [ˈɛj.jʊs] "his", and novus [ˈnɔ.wʊs] "new". old latin had more diphthongs, but most of them changed into long vowels in classical latin. the old latin diphthong ⟨ai⟩ and the sequence ⟨āī⟩ became classical ⟨ae⟩. old latin ⟨oi⟩ and ⟨ou⟩ changed to classical ⟨ū⟩, except in a few words whose ⟨oi⟩ became classical ⟨oe⟩. these two developments sometimes occurred in different words from the same root: for instance, classical poena "punishment" and pūnīre "to punish".[ ] early old latin ⟨ei⟩ usually changed to classical ⟨ī⟩.[ ] in vulgar latin and the romance languages, ⟨ae oe⟩ merged with ⟨e ē⟩. during the classical latin period this form of speaking was deliberately avoided by well-educated speakers.[ ] diphthongs classified by beginning sound 		front	back 	close 		ui /ui̯/ 	mid 	ei /ei̯/ eu/eu̯/	oe /oe̯/ ou /ou̯/ 	open 	ae /ae̯/ au /au̯/ syllables[edit] syllables in latin are signified by the presence of diphthongs and vowels. the number of syllables is the same as the number of vowel sounds.[ ] further, if a consonant separates two vowels, it will go into the syllable of the second vowel. when there are two consonants between vowels, the last consonant will go with the second vowel. an exception occurs when a phonetic stop and liquid come together. in this situation, they are thought to be a single consonant, and as such, they will go into the syllable of the second vowel.[ ] length[edit] syllables can also be seen as long. within a word, a syllable may either be long by nature or long by position.[ ] a syllable that is long by nature has a long vowel or diphthong. on the other hand, a syllable that is long by position has a short vowel that is followed by more than one consonant.[ ] stress[edit] there are two rules that define which syllable is stressed in the latin language.[ ] 	in a word with only two syllables, the emphasis will be on the first syllable. 	in a word with more than two syllables, there are two cases. 	if the second-to-last syllable is long, that syllable will have stress. 	if the second-to-last syllable is not long, the syllable before that one will be stressed instead.[ ] orthography[edit] main article: latin alphabet the duenos inscription, from the th century bc, is one of the earliest known old latin texts. latin was written in the latin alphabet, derived from the etruscan alphabet, which was in turn drawn from the greek alphabet and ultimately the phoenician alphabet.[ ] this alphabet has continued to be used over the centuries as the script for the romance, celtic, germanic, baltic, finnic, and many slavic languages (polish, slovak, slovene, croatian, bosnian and czech); and it has been adopted by many languages around the world, including vietnamese, the austronesian languages, many turkic languages, and most languages in sub-saharan africa, the americas, and oceania, making it by far the world's single most widely used writing system. the number of letters in the latin alphabet has varied. when it was first derived from the etruscan alphabet, it contained only letters.[ ] later, g was added to represent /ɡ/, which had previously been spelled c, and z ceased to be included in the alphabet, as the language then had no voiced alveolar fricative.[ ] the letters y and z were later added to represent greek letters, upsilon and zeta respectively, in greek loanwords.[ ] w was created in the th century from vv. it represented /w/ in germanic languages, not latin, which still uses v for the purpose. j was distinguished from the original i only during the late middle ages, as was the letter u from v.[ ] although some latin dictionaries use j, it is rarely used for latin text, as it was not used in classical times, but many other languages use it. classical latin did not contain sentence punctuation, letter case,[ ] or interword spacing, but apices were sometimes used to distinguish length in vowels and the interpunct was used at times to separate words. the first line of catullus , originally written as 	lv́géteóveneréscupꟾdinésqve ("mourn, o venuses and cupids") or with interpunct as 	 lv́géte·ó·venerés·cupꟾdinésqve would be rendered in a modern edition as 	lugete, o veneres cupidinesque or with macrons 	lūgēte, ō venerēs cupīdinēsque or with apices 	lúgéte, ó venerés cupídinésque. a replica of the old roman cursive inspired by the vindolanda tablets, the oldest surviving handwritten documents in britain. the roman cursive script is commonly found on the many wax tablets excavated at sites such as forts, an especially extensive set having been discovered at vindolanda on hadrian's wall in britain. most notable is the fact that while most of the vindolanda tablets show spaces between words, spaces were avoided in monumental inscriptions from that era. alternative scripts[edit] occasionally, latin has been written in other scripts: 	the praeneste fibula is a th-century bc pin with an old latin inscription written using the etruscan script. 	the rear panel of the early th-century franks casket has an inscription that switches from old english in anglo-saxon runes to latin in latin script and to latin in runes. grammar[edit] main articles: latin grammar and latin syntax latin is a synthetic, fusional language in the terminology of linguistic typology. in more traditional terminology, it is an inflected language, but typologists are apt to say "inflecting". words include an objective semantic element and markers specifying the grammatical use of the word. the fusion of root meaning and markers produces very compact sentence elements: amō, "i love," is produced from a semantic element, ama-, "love," to which -ō, a first person singular marker, is suffixed. the grammatical function can be changed by changing the markers: the word is "inflected" to express different grammatical functions, but the semantic element usually does not change. (inflection uses affixing and infixing. affixing is prefixing and suffixing. latin inflections are never prefixed.) for example, amābit, "he (or she or it) will love", is formed from the same stem, amā-, to which a future tense marker, -bi-, is suffixed, and a third person singular marker, -t, is suffixed. there is an inherent ambiguity: -t may denote more than one grammatical category: masculine, feminine, or neuter gender. a major task in understanding latin phrases and clauses is to clarify such ambiguities by an analysis of context. all natural languages contain ambiguities of one sort or another. the inflections express gender, number, and case in adjectives, nouns, and pronouns, a process called declension. markers are also attached to fixed stems of verbs, to denote person, number, tense, voice, mood, and aspect, a process called conjugation. some words are uninflected and undergo neither process, such as adverbs, prepositions, and interjections. nouns[edit] main article: latin declension a regular latin noun belongs to one of five main declensions, a group of nouns with similar inflected forms. the declensions are identified by the genitive singular form of the noun. the first declension, with a predominant ending letter of a, is signified by the genitive singular ending of -ae. the second declension, with a predominant ending letter of us, is signified by the genitive singular ending of -i. the third declension, with a predominant ending letter of i, is signified by the genitive singular ending of -is. the fourth declension, with a predominant ending letter of u, is signified by the genitive singular ending of -ūs. the fifth declension, with a predominant ending letter of e, is signified by the genitive singular ending of -ei. there are seven latin noun cases, which also apply to adjectives and pronouns and mark a noun's syntactic role in the sentence by means of inflections. thus, word order is not as important in latin as it is in english, which is less inflected. the general structure and word order of a latin sentence can therefore vary. the cases are as follows: 	nominative – used when the noun is the subject or a predicate nominative. the thing or person acting: the girl ran: puella cucurrit, or cucurrit puella 	genitive – used when the noun is the possessor of or connected with an object: "the horse of the man", or "the man's horse"; in both instances, the word man would be in the genitive case when it is translated into latin. it also indicates the partitive, in which the material is quantified: "a group of people"; "a number of gifts": people and gifts would be in the genitive case. some nouns are genitive with special verbs and adjectives: the cup is full of wine. (poculum plēnum vīnī est.) the master of the slave had beaten him. (dominus servī eum verberāverat.) 	dative – used when the noun is the indirect object of the sentence, with special verbs, with certain prepositions, and if it is used as agent, reference, or even possessor: the merchant hands the stola to the woman. (mercātor fēminae stolam trādit.) 	accusative – used when the noun is the direct object of the subject and as the object of a preposition demonstrating place to which.: the man killed the boy. (vir puerum necāvit.) 	ablative – used when the noun demonstrates separation or movement from a source, cause, agent or instrument or when the noun is used as the object of certain prepositions; adverbial: you walked with the boy. (cum puerō ambulāvistī.) 	vocative – used when the noun is used in a direct address. the vocative form of a noun is often the same as the nominative, with the exception of second-declension nouns ending in -us. the -us becomes an -e in the vocative singular. if it ends in -ius (such as fīlius), the ending is just -ī (filī), as distinct from the nominative plural (filiī) in the vocative singular: "master!" shouted the slave. ("domine!" clāmāvit servus.) 	locative – used to indicate a location (corresponding to the english "in" or "at"). it is far less common than the other six cases of latin nouns and usually applies to cities and small towns and islands along with a few common nouns, such as the words domus (house), humus (ground), and rus (country). in the singular of the first and second declensions, its form coincides with the genitive (roma becomes romae, "in rome"). in the plural of all declensions and the singular of the other declensions, it coincides with the ablative (athēnae becomes athēnīs, "at athens"). in the fourth-declension word domus, the locative form, domī ("at home") differs from the standard form of all other cases. latin lacks both definite and indefinite articles so puer currit can mean either "the boy is running" or "a boy is running". adjectives[edit] main article: latin declension there are two types of regular latin adjectives: first- and second- declension and third-declension. they are so-called because their forms are similar or identical to first- and second-declension and third-declension nouns, respectively. latin adjectives also have comparative (more --, -er) and superlative (most --, est) forms. there are also a number of latin participles. latin numbers are sometimes declined as adjectives. see numbers below. first and second-declension adjectives[edit] first and second-declension adjectives are declined like first-declension nouns for the feminine forms and like second-declension nouns for the masculine and neuter forms. for example, for mortuus, mortua, mortuum (dead), mortua is declined like a regular first-declension noun (such as puella (girl)), mortuus is declined like a regular second-declension masculine noun (such as dominus (lord, master)), and mortuum is declined like a regular second-declension neuter noun (such as auxilium (help)). third declension adjectives[edit] third-declension adjectives are mostly declined like normal third-declension nouns, with a few exceptions. in the plural nominative neuter, for example, the ending is -ia (omnia (all, everything)), and for third-declension nouns, the plural nominative neuter ending is -a or -ia (capita (heads), animalia (animals)) they can have one, two or three forms for the masculine, feminine, and neuter nominative singular. participles[edit] latin participles, like english participles, are formed from a verb. there are a few main types of participles: present active participles, perfect passive participles, future active participles, and future passive participles. prepositions[edit] latin sometimes uses prepositions, depending on the type of prepositional phrase being used. most prepositions are followed by a noun in either the accusative or ablative case: "apud puerum" (with the boy), with "puerum" being the accusative form of "puer", boy, and "sine puero" (without the boy, "puero" being the ablative form of "puer". a few adpositions, however, govern a noun in the genitive (such as "gratia" and "tenus"). verbs[edit] main articles: latin grammar and latin conjugation a regular verb in latin belongs to one of four main conjugations. a conjugation is "a class of verbs with similar inflected forms."[ ] the conjugations are identified by the last letter of the verb's present stem. the present stem can be found by omitting the -re (-rī in deponent verbs) ending from the present infinitive form. the infinitive of the first conjugation ends in -ā-re or -ā-ri (active and passive respectively): amāre, "to love," hortārī, "to exhort"; of the second conjugation by -ē-re or -ē-rī: monēre, "to warn", verērī, "to fear;" of the third conjugation by -ere, -ī: dūcere, "to lead," ūtī, "to use"; of the fourth by -ī-re, -ī-rī: audīre, "to hear," experīrī, "to attempt".[ ] irregular verbs may not follow the types or may be marked in a different way. the "endings" presented above are not the suffixed infinitive markers. the first letter in each case is the last of the stem so the conjugations are also called a-conjugation, e-conjugation and i-conjugation. the fused infinitive ending is -re or -rī. third-conjugation stems end in a consonant: the consonant conjugation. further, there is a subset of the third conjugation, the i-stems, which behave somewhat like the fourth conjugation, as they are both i-stems, one short and the other long.[ ] the stem categories descend from indo-european and can therefore be compared to similar conjugations in other indo-european languages. there are six general "tenses" in latin (present, imperfect, future, perfect, pluperfect and future perfect), three moods (indicative, imperative and subjunctive, in addition to the infinitive, participle, gerund, gerundive and supine), three persons (first, second and third), two numbers (singular and plural), two voices (active and passive) and two aspects (perfective and imperfective). verbs are described by four principal parts: 	the first principal part is the first-person singular, present tense, active voice, indicative mood form of the verb. if the verb is impersonal, the first principal part will be in the third-person singular. 	the second principal part is the present active infinitive. 	the third principal part is the first-person singular, perfect active indicative form. like the first principal part, if the verb is impersonal, the third principal part will be in the third-person singular. 	the fourth principal part is the supine form, or alternatively, the nominative singular of the perfect passive participle form of the verb. the fourth principal part can show one gender of the participle or all three genders (-us for masculine, -a for feminine and -um for neuter) in the nominative singular. the fourth principal part will be the future participle if the verb cannot be made passive. most modern latin dictionaries, if they show only one gender, tend to show the masculine; but many older dictionaries instead show the neuter, as it coincides with the supine. the fourth principal part is sometimes omitted for intransitive verbs, but strictly in latin, they can be made passive if they are used impersonally, and the supine exists for such verbs. there are six "tenses" in the latin language. these are divided into two tense systems: the present system, which is made up of the present, imperfect and future tenses, and the perfect system, which is made up of the perfect, pluperfect and future perfect tenses. each tense has a set of endings corresponding to the person, number, and voice of the subject. subject (nominative) pronouns are generally omitted for the first (i, we) and second (you) persons except for emphasis. the table below displays the common inflected endings for the indicative mood in the active voice in all six tenses. for the future tense, the first listed endings are for the first and second conjugations, and the second listed endings are for the third and fourth conjugations: 	tense	singular	plural 	 st person	 nd person	 rd person	 st person	 nd person	 rd person 	present 	-ō/m	-s	-t	-mus	-tis	-nt 	future 	-bō, -am	-bis, -ēs	-bit, -et	-bimus, -ēmus	-bitis, -ētis 	-bunt, -ent 	imperfect 	-bam	-bās	-bat	-bāmus	-bātis	-bant 	perfect 	-ī	-istī	-it	-imus	-istis	-ērunt 	future perfect 	-erō	-eris/erīs	-erit	-erimus/-erīmus	-eritis/-erītis	-erint 	pluperfect 	-eram	-erās	-erat	-erāmus	-erātis	-erant deponent verbs[edit] some latin verbs are deponent, causing their forms to be in the passive voice but retain an active meaning: hortor, hortārī, hortātus sum (to urge). vocabulary[edit] as latin is an italic language, most of its vocabulary is likewise italic, ultimately from the ancestral proto-indo-european language. however, because of close cultural interaction, the romans not only adapted the etruscan alphabet to form the latin alphabet but also borrowed some etruscan words into their language, including persona "mask" and histrio "actor".[ ] latin also included vocabulary borrowed from oscan, another italic language. after the fall of tarentum ( bc), the romans began hellenising, or adopting features of greek culture, including the borrowing of greek words, such as camera (vaulted roof), sumbolum (symbol), and balineum (bath).[ ] this hellenisation led to the addition of "y" and "z" to the alphabet to represent greek sounds.[ ] subsequently, the romans transplanted greek art, medicine, science and philosophy to italy, paying almost any price to entice greek skilled and educated persons to rome and sending their youth to be educated in greece. thus, many latin scientific and philosophical words were greek loanwords or had their meanings expanded by association with greek words, as ars (craft) and τέχνη (art).[ ] because of the roman empire's expansion and subsequent trade with outlying european tribes, the romans borrowed some northern and central european words, such as beber (beaver), of germanic origin, and bracae (breeches), of celtic origin.[ ] the specific dialects of latin across latin-speaking regions of the former roman empire after its fall were influenced by languages specific to the regions. the dialects of latin evolved into different romance languages. during and after the adoption of christianity into roman society, christian vocabulary became a part of the language, either from greek or hebrew borrowings or as latin neologisms.[ ] continuing into the middle ages, latin incorporated many more words from surrounding languages, including old english and other germanic languages. over the ages, latin-speaking populations produced new adjectives, nouns, and verbs by affixing or compounding meaningful segments.[ ] for example, the compound adjective, omnipotens, "all-powerful," was produced from the adjectives omnis, "all", and potens, "powerful", by dropping the final s of omnis and concatenating. often, the concatenation changed the part of speech, and nouns were produced from verb segments or verbs from nouns and adjectives.[ ] phrases (neo-latin)[edit] main article: list of latin phrases the phrases are mentioned with accents to show where stress is placed.[ ] in latin, words are normally stressed either on the second-to-last (penultimate) syllable, called in latin paenultima or syllaba paenultima,[ ] or on the third-to-last syllable, called in latin antepaenultima or syllaba antepaenultima.[ ] in the following notation, accented short vowels have an acute diacritic, accented long vowels have a circumflex diacritic (representing long falling pitch), and unaccented long vowels are marked simply with a macron. this reflects the tone of the voice with which, ideally, the stress is phonetically realized; but this may not always be clearly articulated on every word in a sentence.[ ] regardless of length, a vowel at the end of a word may be significantly shortened or even altogether deleted if the next word begins with a vowel also (a process called elision), unless a very short pause is inserted. as an exception, the following words: est (english "is"), es ("[you (sg.)] are") lose their own vowel e instead. sálvē to one person / salvête to more than one person – hello ávē to one person / avête to more than one person – greetings válē to one person / valête to more than one person – goodbye cûrā ut váleās – take care exoptâtus to male / exoptâta to female, optâtus to male / optâta to female, grâtus to male / grâta to female, accéptus to male / accépta to female – welcome quômodo válēs?, ut válēs? – how are you? béne – good béne váleō – i'm fine mále – bad mále váleō – i'm not good quaêsō (roughly: ['kwaeso:]/['kwe:so:]) – please amâbō tē – please íta, íta est, íta vêrō, sîc, sîc est, étiam – yes nôn, mínimē – no grâtiās tíbi, grâtiās tíbi ágō – thank you, i give thanks to you mágnās grâtiās, mágnās grâtiās ágō – many thanks máximās grâtiās, máximās grâtiās ágō, ingéntēs grâtiās ágō – thank you very much áccipe sīs to one person / accípite sîtis to more than one person, libénter – you're welcome quā aetâte es? – how old are you? (vīgíntī quînque) ánnōs nâtus sumby male / ánnōs nâta sum by female – i am years old úbi lātrîna est? – where is the toilet? scîs (tū) ... – do you speak (literally: "do you know") ... 	latînē? – latin? 	graêcē? (roughly: ['graeke:]/['gre:ke:]) – greek? 	Ánglicē? – english? 	itálicē? – italian? 	gállicē? – french? 	hispânicē? – spanish? (or: hispânē) 	lūsitânē? – portuguese? 	theodíscē?/germânicē? – german? (sometimes also: teutónicē) 	sînicē? – chinese? 	iapônicē? – japanese? 	coreânē? – korean? 	arábicē? – arabic? 	pérsicē? – persian? 	Índicē? – hindi? 	rússicē? – russian? (sometimes rutênicē) 	cámbricē? – welsh? 	suêticē? – swedish? (or: suêcicē) 	polônicē? – polish? ámō tē / tē ámō – i love you numbers[edit] 	 	this section does not cite any sources. please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (may ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) further information: latin numerals (linguistics) in ancient times, numbers in latin were written only with letters. today, the numbers can be written with the arabic numbers as well as with roman numerals. the numbers , and and every whole hundred from to are declined as nouns and adjectives, with some differences. 	ūnus, ūna, ūnum (masculine, feminine, neuter) 	 	i 	 	one 	duo, duae, duo (m., f., n.) 	 	ii 	 	two 	trēs, tria (m./f., n.) 	 	iii 	 	three 	quattuor 	 	iiii or iv 	 	four 	quīnque 	 	v 	 	five 	sex 	 	vi 	 	six 	septem 	 	vii 	 	seven 	octō 	 	viii 	 	eight 	novem 	 	viiii or ix 	 	nine 	decem 	 	x 	 	ten 	quīnquāgintā 	 	l 	 	fifty 	centum 	 	c 	 	one hundred 	quīngentī, quīngentae, quīngenta (m., f., n.) 	 	d 	 	five hundred 	mīlle 	 	m 	 	one thousand the numbers from to do not change their endings. as in modern descendants such as spanish, the gender for naming a number in isolation is masculine, so that " , , " is counted as ūnus, duo, trēs. example text[edit] commentarii de bello gallico, also called de bello gallico (the gallic war), written by gaius julius caesar, begins with the following passage: gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres, quarum unam incolunt belgae, aliam aquitani, tertiam qui ipsorum lingua celtae, nostra galli appellantur. hi omnes lingua, institutis, legibus inter se differunt. gallos ab aquitanis garumna flumen, a belgis matrona et sequana dividit. horum omnium fortissimi sunt belgae, propterea quod a cultu atque humanitate provinciae longissime absunt, minimeque ad eos mercatores saepe commeant atque ea quae ad effeminandos animos pertinent important, proximique sunt germanis, qui trans rhenum incolunt, quibuscum continenter bellum gerunt. qua de causa helvetii quoque reliquos gallos virtute praecedunt, quod fere cotidianis proeliis cum germanis contendunt, cum aut suis finibus eos prohibent aut ipsi in eorum finibus bellum gerunt. eorum una pars, quam gallos obtinere dictum est, initium capit a flumine rhodano, continetur garumna flumine, oceano, finibus belgarum; attingit etiam ab sequanis et helvetiis flumen rhenum; vergit ad septentriones. belgae ab extremis galliae finibus oriuntur; pertinent ad inferiorem partem fluminis rheni; spectant in septentrionem et orientem solem. aquitania a garumna flumine ad pyrenaeos montes et eam partem oceani quae est ad hispaniam pertinet; spectat inter occasum solis et septentriones. the same text may be marked for all long vowels (before any possible elisions at word boundary) with apices over vowel letters, including customarily before "nf" and "ns" where a long vowel is automatically produced: gallia est omnis dívísa in partés trés, quárum únam incolunt belgae, aliam aquítání, tertiam quí ipsórum linguá celtae, nostrá gallí appellantur. hí omnés linguá, ínstitútís, légibus inter sé differunt. gallós ab aquítánís garumna flúmen, á belgís mátrona et séquana dívidit. hórum omnium fortissimí sunt belgae, proptereá quod á cultú atque húmánitáte próvinciae longissimé absunt, miniméque ad eós mercátórés saepe commeant atque ea quae ad efféminandós animós pertinent important, proximíque sunt germánís, quí tráns rhénum incolunt, quibuscum continenter bellum gerunt. quá dé causá helvétií quoque reliquós gallós virtúte praecédunt, quod feré cotídiánís proeliís cum germánís contendunt, cum aut suís fínibus eós prohibent aut ipsí in eórum fínibus bellum gerunt. eórum úna pars, quam gallós obtinére dictum est, initium capit á flúmine rhodanó, continétur garumná flúmine, Óceanó, fínibus belgárum; attingit etiam ab séquanís et helvétiís flúmen rhénum; vergit ad septentriónés. belgae ab extrémís galliae fínibus oriuntur; pertinent ad ínferiórem partem flúminis rhéní; spectant in septentriónem et orientem sólem. aquítánia á garumná flúmine ad pýrénaeós montés et eam partem Óceaní quae est ad hispániam pertinet; spectat inter occásum sólis et septentriónés. see also[edit] 	ancient rome portal 	language portal 	catholicism portal 	accademia vivarium novum 	classical compound 	contemporary latin 	greek and latin roots in english 	hybrid word 	latin grammar 	latin mnemonics 	latin obscenity 	latin school 	latino sine flexione (latin without inflections) 	list of greek and latin roots in english 	list of latin abbreviations 	list of latin and greek words commonly used in systematic names 	list of latin phrases 	list of latin translations of modern literature 	list of latin words with english derivatives 	list of latinised names 	lorem ipsum 	romanization (cultural) 	toponymy 	vulgar latin references[edit] 	^ "schools". britannica ( ed.). 	^ hammarström, harald; forkel, robert; haspelmath, martin, eds. 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additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 julius obsequens - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	julius obsequens 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		late antique roman writer and collector of prodigies julius obsequens was a roman writer active in the th or early th centuries ad, during late antiquity. his sole known work is the prodigiorum liber (book of prodigies), a tabulation of the wonders and portents that had occurred in the roman republic and early principate in the years – bc.[ ] the material for the prodigiorum liber was largely excerpted from the st century ad ab urbe condita libri of the augustan historian livy, which chronicled the history of the roman state from its origin to the beginning of the imperial period, though julius used it selectively and sometimes added interpretations of the omens and incidents he included.[ ] there is a common view that julius only knew livy's text wholly or in part from an epitome, but there is scant evidence of this.[ ] the work was first printed by the italian humanist, aldus manutius, in , after a manuscript belonging to jodocus of verona (now lost). of great importance was the edition by the basle humanist conrad lycosthenes ( ), trying to reconstruct lost parts and illustrating the text with wood-cuts. later editions were printed by johannes schefferus (amsterdam, ), franciscus oudendorp (leiden, ) and otto jahn ( , with the periochae of livy). the text of julius obsequens frequently makes reference to unusual astronomical and meteorological events as portentous signs like meteor showers, comets, and sun dogs, alongside earthquakes, aberrant births, haruspicy, and sweating, crying, or bleeding statues. after the alleged kenneth arnold ufo sighting in , harold t. wilkins among others, interpreted julius obsequens as preserving ancient reports of unidentified flying objects (ufos).[ ] since julius wrote some four centuries after the latest of the events he describes, his is not an eye-witness account, and for most of his subject matter his source livy was himself neither an eye-witness nor even a contemporary. 	 	this section's factual accuracy is disputed. relevant discussion may be found on talk:julius obsequens. please help to ensure that disputed statements are reliably sourced. (june ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) in the consulship of gaius marius and l. valerius flaccus, ( bc) for example, julius writes: 	at tarquinii a blazing torch was seen far and wide and fell suddenly dropping. around the setting of the sun an orb similar to a shield seemed to be borne across [the sky] from the west to the east.[ ][ ] for the consulship of l. marcius philippus and sextus julius caesar, ( bc) julius obsequens reports that: 	when livius drusus, tribune of the people, was passing his laws, and the italian war began, many prodigies appeared in the city. around sunrise a ball of fire flashed out of the sky with a mighty sound from the northern regions. at arretium as they were breaking bread blood flowed from the middle of the loaves. in the territory of the vestini for seven days it rained stones and potsherds. at aenaria a flame which came out of a cleft in the earth flashed out to the sky. around regium part of the city and the walls were destroyed by an earth tremor. at spoletum a ball of fire with a golden hue rolled down to earth. it increased in size and after it was seen being carried from the land to the east it covered the sun with its magnitude.[ ][ ] finally, obsequens provided another example of this phenomenon for the consulship of m. aemilius lepidus and l. munatius plancus ( bc), stating that: 	at rome a mule gave birth by the twelve gates. a dead bitch belonging to a temple keeper was dragged away by a dog. light so shone at night, that it seemed that people woke up for work as though it was daybreak. at mutina the south facing standard of the marian victory, of its own accord, turned northward at the fourth hour. when these things were being expiated by sacrificial victims, three suns were seen at around the third hour of the day, then they drew together as one globe.[ ][ ] references[edit] 	^ a b c pelling, christopher brendan reginald ( ), hornblower, simon; spawforth, antony; eidinow, esther (eds.), "obsequens (re ), iulius", the oxford classical dictionary ( th ed.), oxford university press, doi: . /acref/ . . , isbn  - - - - , retrieved - - 	^ Östling, erik a. w. ( ). "what does god need with a starship? ufos and extraterrestrials in the contemporary religious landscape". in lewis, james r.; tollefsen, inga b. (eds.). the oxford handbook of new religious movements. ii. oxford university press. pp.  – . isbn  - - - - . 	^ julius obsequens, prodigiorum liber, xlv. "fax ardens tarquiniis late visa subito lapsu cadens. sub occasu solis orbis clipei similis ab occidente ad orientem visus perferri." 	^ "julius obsequens, liber prodigiorum". alexthenice.com. retrieved - - . 	^ julius obsequens, prodigiorum liber, liv. "livio druso tr.pl. leges ferente cum bellum italicum consurgeret, prodigia multa apparuerunt urbi. sub ortu solis globus ignis a septemtrionali regione cum ingenti sono caeli emicuit. arretii frangentibus panes cruor e mediis fluxit. in vestinis per dies septem lapidibus testisque pluit. aenariae terrae hiatu flamma exorta in caelum emicuit. circa regium terrae motu pars urbis murique diruta. in spoletino colore aureo globus ignis ad terram devolutus, maiorque factus e terra ad orientem ferri visus magnitudine solem obtexit." 	^ "julius obsequens, liber prodigiorum". alexthenice.com. retrieved - - . 	^ julius obsequens, prodigiorum liber, lxx. "mula romae ad duodecim portas peperit. canis aeditui mortua a cane tracta. lux ita nocte fulsit ut tamquam die orto ad opus surgeretur. in mutinensi victoriae marianae signum meridiem spectans sua sponte conversum in septentrionem hora quarta. cum haec victimis expiarentur, soles tres circiter hora tertia diei visi, mox in unum orbem contracti." 	^ "julius obsequens, liber prodigiorum". alexthenice.com. retrieved - - . 	julio obsecuente, libro de los prodigios (restituido a su integridad, en beneficio de la historia, por conrado licóstenes), ed. ana moure casas (madrid: ediciones clásicas, ) 	giulio ossequente, il libro dei prodigi, ed. solas boncompagni (rome: edizioni mediterranee, ) 	beyer, jürgen, 'obsequens, julius', in enzyklopädie des märchens. handwörterbuch zur historischen und vergleichenden erzählforschung, vol. (berlin & new york: walter de gruyter, – ), coll. - 	david engels, das römische vorzeichenwesen ( - v.chr.). quellen, terminologie, kommentar, historische entwicklung (stuttgart: franz-steiner, ), p. - . external links[edit] 	latin text of prodigiorum liber at the latin library 		v 	t 	e ufos 	 	ufology 	index of ufology articles 	claimed sightings	 	general	 	list of reported ufo sightings 	sightings in outer space 	pre- th century	 	tulli papyrus (possibly th century b.c.) 	ezekiel's wheel (circa – b.c.) 	 celestial phenomenon over nuremberg 	 celestial phenomenon over basel 	josé bonilla observation ( ) 	aurora ( ) 	 th century	 	los angeles ( ) 	kenneth arnold ( ) 	roswell ( ) 	mantell ( ) 	chiles-whitted ( ) 	gorman dogfight ( ) 	mariana ( ) 	mcminnville photographs ( ) 	sperry ( ) 	lubbock lights ( ) 	carson sink ( ) 	nash-fortenberry ( ) 	washington, d.c. 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"the sonnets of desolation" 	 . sprung rhythm 	 . use of language 	 . influences 	 . . erotic 	 . . isolation 	 influence on others 	 selected poems 	 . recordings 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links early life and family[edit] gerard manley hopkins was born in stratford, essex[ ] (now in greater london), as the eldest of probably nine children to manley and catherine hopkins, née smith.[ ] he was christened at the anglican church of st john's, stratford. his father founded a marine insurance firm and at one time served as hawaiian consul-general in london. he was also for a time churchwarden at st john-at-hampstead. his grandfather was the physician john simm smith, a university colleague of john keats, and close friend of the eccentric philanthropist ann thwaytes. as a poet, hopkins's father published works including a philosopher's stone and other poems ( ), pietas metrica ( ), and spicelegium poeticum, a gathering of verses by manley hopkins ( ). he reviewed poetry for the times and wrote one novel. catherine (smith) hopkins was the daughter of a london physician, particularly fond of music and of reading, especially german philosophy, literature and the novels of dickens. both parents were deeply religious high-church anglicans. catherine's sister, maria smith giberne, taught her nephew gerard to sketch. the interest was supported by his uncle, edward smith, his great-uncle richard james lane, a professional artist, and other family members.[ ] hopkins's initial ambition was to be a painter – he would continue to sketch throughout his life and was inspired as an adult by the work of john ruskin and the pre-raphaelites.[ ][ ] hopkins became a skilled draughtsman. he found his early training in visual art supported his later work as a poet.[ ] his siblings were much inspired by language, religion and the creative arts. milicent ( – ) joined an anglican sisterhood in . kate ( – ) would help hopkins publish the first edition of his poetry. hopkins's youngest sister grace ( – ) set many of his poems to music. lionel ( – ) became a world-famous expert on archaic and colloquial chinese. arthur ( – ) and everard ( – ) were highly successful artists. cyril ( – ) would join his father's insurance firm.[ ] hopkins, painted july manley hopkins moved his family to hampstead in , near where john keats had lived years before and close to the green spaces of hampstead heath. when he was ten years old, gerard was sent to board at highgate school ( – ).[ ] while studying keats's poetry, he wrote "the escorial" ( ), his earliest extant poem. here he practised early attempts at asceticism. he once argued that most people drank more liquids than they really needed and bet that he could go without drinking for a week. he persisted until his tongue was black and he collapsed at drill. on another occasion he abstained from salt for a week.[ ][ ] among his teachers at highgate was richard watson dixon, who became an enduring friend and correspondent. of the older pupils hopkins recalls in his boarding house, the poet philip stanhope worsley won the newdigate prize.[ ] oxford and priesthood[edit] hopkins studied classics at balliol college, oxford ( – ).[ ] he began his time in oxford as a keen socialite and prolific poet, but seems to have alarmed himself with resulting changes in his behaviour. there he forged a lifelong friendship with robert bridges (later poet laureate of the united kingdom), which would be important to his development as a poet and in establishing his posthumous acclaim.[ ] hopkins was deeply impressed with the work of christina rossetti, who became one of his great contemporary influences and met him in .[ ] during this time he studied with the writer and critic walter pater, who tutored him in and remained a friend until hopkins left oxford in september .[ ][ ] alfred william garrett, william alexander comyn macfarlane and gerard manley hopkins (left to right) by thomas c. bayfield, in a journal entry of november , hopkins declared an ascetic intention for his life and work: "on this day by god's grace i resolved to give up all beauty until i had his leave for it."[ ] on january , hopkins composed his most ascetic poem, the habit of perfection. on january, he included poetry in a list of things to be given up for lent. in july, he decided to become a roman catholic and travelled to birmingham in september to consult the leader of the oxford converts, john henry newman.[ ] newman received him into the roman catholic church on october . the decision to convert estranged hopkins from his family and from a number of acquaintances. after graduating in , he was provided by newman with a teaching post at the oratory in birmingham. while there he began to study the violin. on may hopkins firmly "resolved to be a religious." less than a week later, he made a bonfire of his poetry and gave it up almost entirely for seven years. he also felt a call to enter the ministry and decided to become a jesuit. he paused first to visit switzerland, which officially forbade jesuits to enter.[ ][ ] in september hopkins began his jesuit novitiate at manresa house, roehampton, under the guidance of alfred weld. two years later he moved to st mary's hall, stonyhurst, for philosophical studies, taking vows of poverty, chastity and obedience on september .[ ] he felt that his interest in poetry had stopped him devoting himself wholly to religion. however, on reading duns scotus in , he saw how the two need not conflict.[ ] he continued to write a detailed prose journal in – . unable to suppress a desire to describe the natural world, he also wrote music, sketched, and for church occasions, wrote "verses", as he called them. he later wrote sermons and other religious pieces. in hopkins returned to manresa house to teach classics. while studying in the jesuit house of theological studies, st beuno's college, near st asaph in north wales, he was asked by his religious superior to write a poem to commemorate the foundering of a german ship in a storm. so in he took up poetry once more to write a lengthy piece, "the wreck of the deutschland", inspired by the deutschland incident, a maritime disaster in which people died, including five franciscan nuns who had been leaving germany due to harsh anti-catholic laws (see kulturkampf). the work displays both the religious concerns and some of the unusual metre and rhythms of his subsequent poetry not present in his few remaining early works. it not only depicts the dramatic events and heroic deeds, but tells of him reconciling the terrible events with god's higher purpose. the poem was accepted but not printed by a jesuit publication. this rejection fed his ambivalence about his poetry, most of which remained unpublished until after his death. blue plaque commemorating hopkins in roehampton, london hopkins chose the austere and restrictive life of a jesuit and was gloomy at times. his biographer robert bernard martin notes that "the life expectancy of a man becoming a novice at twenty-one was twenty-three more years rather than the forty years of males of the same age in the general population."[ ] the brilliant student who had left oxford with first-class honours failed his final theology exam. this almost certainly meant that despite his ordination in , hopkins would not progress in the order. in he wrote god's grandeur, an array of sonnets that included "the starlight night". he finished "the windhover" only a few months before his ordination. his life as a jesuit trainee, though rigorous, isolated and sometimes unpleasant, at least had some stability; the uncertain and varied work after ordination was even harder on his sensibilities. in october , not long after completing "the sea and the skylark" and only a month after his ordination, hopkins took up duties as sub-minister and teacher at mount st mary's college near sheffield. in july he became curate at the jesuit church in mount street, london, and in december that of st aloysius's church, oxford, then moving to manchester, liverpool and glasgow.[ ] while ministering in oxford, he became a founding member of the newman society, established in for catholic members of the university of oxford. he taught greek and latin at mount st mary's college, sheffield, and stonyhurst college, lancashire. in the late s hopkins met father matthew russell, the jesuit founder and editor of the irish monthly magazine, who presented him to katharine tynan and w. b. yeats.[ ] in he became a professor of greek and latin at university college dublin.[ ] his english roots and disagreement with the irish politics of the time, along with his small stature (  ft  in or .  m), unprepossessing nature and personal oddities, reduced his effectiveness as a teacher. this and his isolation in ireland deepened a gloom that was reflected in his poems of the time, such as "i wake and feel the fell of dark, not day". they came to be known as the "terrible sonnets", not for their quality but according to hopkins's friend canon richard watson dixon, because they reached the "terrible crystal", meaning they crystallised the melancholic dejection that plagued the later part of hopkins's life. final years[edit] several issues led to a melancholic state and restricted his poetic inspiration in his last five years.[ ] his workload was heavy. he disliked living in dublin, away from england and friends. he was disappointed at how far the city had fallen from its georgian elegance of the previous century.[ ] his general health suffered and his eyesight began to fail. he felt confined and dejected. as a devout jesuit, he found himself in an artistic dilemma. to subdue an egotism that he felt would violate the humility required by his religious position, he decided never to publish his poems. but hopkins realised that any true poet requires an audience for criticism and encouragement. this conflict between his religious obligations and his poetic talent made him feel he had failed at both. after several years' ill health and bouts of diarrhoea, hopkins died of typhoid fever in and was buried in glasnevin cemetery,[ ] after a funeral in st francis xavier church in gardiner street, located in georgian dublin. he is thought to have suffered throughout his life from what today might be labelled bipolar disorder or chronic unipolar depression,[ ] and battled a deep sense of melancholic anguish. however, his last words on his death bed were, "i am so happy, i am so happy. i loved my life."[ ] he was years of age. poetry[edit] "the sonnets of desolation"[edit] according to john bayley, "all his life hopkins was haunted by the sense of personal bankruptcy and impotence, the straining of 'time's eunuch' with no more to 'spend'... " a sense of inadequacy, graphically expressed in his last sonnets.[ ] toward the end of his life, hopkins suffered several long bouts of depression. his "terrible sonnets" struggle with problems of religious doubt. he described them to bridges as "[t]he thin gleanings of a long weary while."[ ] "thou art indeed just, lord" ( ) echoes jeremiah : in asking why the wicked prosper. it reflects the exasperation of a faithful servant who feels he has been neglected, and is addressed to a divine person ("sir") capable of hearing the complaint, but seemingly unwilling to listen.[ ] hopkins uses parched roots as a metaphor for despair. the image of the poet's estrangement from god figures in "i wake and feel the fell of dark, not day", in which he describes lying awake before dawn, likening his prayers to "dead letters sent to dearest him that lives alas! away." the opening line recalls lamentations : : "he hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light." "no worst, there is none" and "carrion comfort" are also counted among the "terrible sonnets". sprung rhythm[edit] "pied beauty" glory be to god for dappled things—  for skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;  for rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;  landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;  and áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim. all things counter, original, spare, strange;  whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)  with swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; he fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:  praise him. "pied beauty" written .[ ] much of hopkins's historical importance has to do with the changes he brought to the form of poetry, which ran contrary to conventional ideas of metre. prior to hopkins, most middle english and modern english poetry was based on a rhythmic structure inherited from the norman side of english literary heritage. this structure is based on repeating "feet" of two or three syllables, with the stressed syllable falling in the same place on each repetition. hopkins called this structure "running rhythm", and although he wrote some of his early verse in running rhythm, he became fascinated with the older rhythmic structure of the anglo-saxon tradition, of which beowulf is the most famous example. hopkins called his own rhythmic structure sprung rhythm. sprung rhythm is structured around feet with a variable number of syllables, generally between one and four syllables per foot, with the stress always falling on the first syllable in a foot. it is similar to the "rolling stresses" of robinson jeffers, another poet who rejected conventional metre. hopkins saw sprung rhythm as a way to escape the constraints of running rhythm, which he said inevitably pushed poetry written in it to become "same and tame". in this way, hopkins sprung rhythm can be seen as anticipating much of free verse. his work has no great affinity with either of the contemporary pre-raphaelite and neo-romanticism schools, although he does share their descriptive love of nature and he is often seen as a precursor to modernist poetry, or as a bridge between the two poetic eras. use of language[edit] the language of hopkins's poems is often striking. his imagery can be simple, as in heaven-haven, where the comparison is between a nun entering a convent and a ship entering a harbour out of a storm. it can be splendidly metaphysical and intricate, as it is in as kingfishers catch fire, where he leaps from one image to another to show how each thing expresses its own uniqueness, and how divinity reflects itself through all of them. hopkins was a supporter of linguistic purism in english. in an letter to robert bridges, hopkins writes: "it makes one weep to think what english might have been; for in spite of all that shakespeare and milton have done... no beauty in a language can make up for want of purity."[ ] he took time to learn old english, which became a major influence on his writing. in the same letter to bridges he calls old english "a vastly superior thing to what we have now."[ ] he uses many archaic and dialect words but also coins new words. one example of this is twindles, which seems from its context in inversnaid to mean a combination of twines and dwindles. he often creates compound adjectives, sometimes with a hyphen (such as dapple-dawn-drawn falcon) but often without, as in rolling level underneath him steady air. this use of compound adjectives, similar to the old english use of compounds nouns, concentrates his images, communicating to his readers the instress of the poet's perceptions of an inscape. added richness comes from hopkins's extensive use of alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia and rhyme, both at the end of lines and internally as in: as kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; as tumbled over rim in roundy wells stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; hopkins was influenced by the welsh language, which he had acquired while studying theology at st beuno's near st asaph. the poetic forms of welsh literature and particularly cynghanedd, with its emphasis on repeating sounds, accorded with his own style and became a prominent feature of his work. this reliance on similar-sounding words with close or differing senses means that his poems are best understood if read aloud. an important element in his work is hopkins's own concept of inscape, which was derived in part from the medieval theologian duns scotus. anthony domestico explains, inscape, for hopkins, is the charged essence, the absolute singularity that gives each created thing its being; instress is both the energy that holds the inscape together and the process by which this inscape is perceived by an observer. we instress the inscape of a tulip, hopkins would say, when we appreciate the particular delicacy of its petals, when we are enraptured by its specific, inimitable shade of pink."[ ] the windhover aims to depict not the bird in general, but instead one instance and its relation to the breeze. this is just one interpretation of hopkins's most famous poem, one which he felt was his best.[ ] i caught this morning morning's minion, king-  dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn falcon, in his riding  of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding high there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing in his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,  as a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding  rebuffed the big wind. my heart in hiding stirred for a bird, — the achieve of, the mastery of the thing! the first stanza of "the windhover" written may , published .[ ] during his lifetime, hopkins published few poems. it was only through the efforts of robert bridges that his works were seen. despite hopkins burning all his poems on entering the jesuit novitiate, he had already sent some to bridges, who with some other friends, was one of the few people to see many of them for some years. after hopkins's death they were distributed to a wider audience, mostly fellow poets, and in bridges, by then poet laureate, published a collected edition; an expanded edition, prepared by charles williams, appeared in , and a greatly expanded edition by william henry gardner appeared in (eventually reaching a fourth edition, , with n. h. mackenzie). notable collections of hopkins's manuscripts and publications are in campion hall, oxford; the bodleian library, oxford; and the foley library at gonzaga university in spokane, washington.[ ] influences[edit] erotic[edit] timothy d'arch smith, antiquarian bookseller, ascribes to hopkins suppressed erotic impulses which he views as taking on a degree of specificity after hopkins met robert bridges's distant cousin, friend, and fellow etonian digby mackworth dolben, "a christian uranian".[ ] robert martin asserts that when hopkins first met dolben, on dolben's th birthday in oxford in february , it "was, quite simply, the most momentous emotional event of [his] undergraduate years, probably of his entire life."[ ] according to robert martin, "hopkins was completely taken with dolben, who was nearly four years his junior, and his private journal for confessions the following year proves how absorbed he was in imperfectly suppressed erotic thoughts of him."[ ] martin also considers it "probable that [hopkins] would have been deeply shocked at the reality of sexual intimacy with another person."[ ] gerard manley hopkins hopkins composed two poems about dolben, "where art thou friend" and "the beginning of the end". robert bridges, who edited the first edition of dolben's poems as well as hopkins's, cautioned that the second poem "must never be printed," though bridges himself included it in the first edition ( ).[ ] another indication of the nature of his feelings for dolben is that hopkins's high anglican confessor seems to have forbidden him to have any contact with dolben except by letter. hopkins never saw dolben again after the latter's short visit to oxford during which they met, and any continuation of their relationship was abruptly ended by dolben's drowning two years later in june . hopkins's feeling for dolben seems to have cooled by that time, but he was nonetheless greatly affected by his death. "ironically, fate may have bestowed more through dolben's death than it could ever have bestowed through longer life ... [for] many of hopkins's best poems – impregnated with an elegiac longing for dolben, his lost beloved and his muse – were the result."[ ] hopkins's relationship with dolben is explored in the novel the hopkins conundrum.[ ] some of hopkins's poems, such as the bugler's first communion and epithalamion, arguably embody homoerotic themes, although the second poem was arranged by robert bridges from extant fragments.[ ] one contemporary critic, m. m. kaylor, argued for hopkins's inclusion with the uranian poets, a group whose writings derived, in many ways, from prose works of walter pater, hopkins's academic coach for his greats exams and later a lifelong friend.[ ][ ][ ] some critics have argued that homoerotic readings are either highly tendentious, or that they can be classified under the broader category of "homosociality", over the gender, sexual-specific "homosexual" term. hopkins's journal writings, they argue, offer a clear admiration for feminised beauty. in his book hopkins reconstructed ( ), justus george lawler criticises robert martin's controversial biography gerard manley hopkins: a very private life ( ) by suggesting that martin "cannot see the heterosexual beam... for the homosexual biographical mote in his own eye... it amounts to a slanted eisegesis". the poems that elicit homoerotic readings can be read not merely as exercises in sublimation but as powerful renditions of religious conviction, a conviction that caused strain in his family and even led him to burn some poems that he felt were unnecessarily self-centred. julia saville's book a queer chivalry views the religious imagery in the poems as hopkins's way of expressing the tension with homosexual identity and desire. christopher ricks notes that hopkins engaged in a number of penitential practices, "but all of these self-inflictions were not self-inflictions to him, and they are his business – or are his understanding of what it was for him to be about his father's business."[ ] ricks takes issue with martin's apparent lack of appreciation of the importance of the role of hopkins's religious commitment to his writing, and cautions against assigning a priority of influence to any sexual instincts over other factors such as hopkins's estrangement from his family.[ ] biographer paul mariani finds in hopkins poems "an irreconcilable tension – on the one hand, the selflessness demanded by jesuit discipline; on the other, the seeming self-indulgence of poetic creation."[ ] isolation[edit] hopkins spent the last five years of his life as a classics professor at university college dublin. hopkins's isolation in was multiple: a jesuit distanced from his anglican family and his homeland, an englishman teaching in dublin during a time of political strife, an unpublished poet striving to reconcile his artistic and religious callings.[ ] the poem "to seem the stranger" was written in ireland between and and is a poem of isolation and loneliness.[ ] influence on others[edit] ricks called hopkins "the most original poet of the victorian age."[ ] hopkins is considered as influential as t. s. eliot in initiating the modern movement in poetry.[ ] his experiments with elliptical phrasing and double meanings and quirky conversational rhythms turned out to be liberating to poets such as w. h. auden and dylan thomas.[ ] the gerard manley hopkins building in university college dublin is named after him. selected poems[edit] well-known works by hopkins include: 	"binsey poplars" 	"pied beauty" 	"the windhover: to christ our lord" 	the wreck of the deutschland recordings[edit] see also: § external links 	richard austin reads hopkins's poetry in back to beauty's giver.[ ] 	jeremy northam reads hopkins's poetry in the great poets.[ ] 	american singer/songwriter natalie merchant set hopkins's poem spring and fall: to a young child to music on her album leave your sleep. 	author simon edge reads the wreck of the deutschland in a recording to accompany his novel the hopkins conundrum.[ ] 	paul kelly (australian musician) sings god's grandeur on his album nature. 	lance pierson has made two recordings of hopkins poems which are now available as a podcast see also[edit] 	biography portal 	poetry portal 	united kingdom portal 	adoro te devote (translated by g. m. hopkins) 	caudate sonnet 	curtal sonnet (invented by g. m. hopkins) 	sprung rhythm 	inscape and instress 	inscape (visual art) references[edit] 	^ a b c d e w. h. gardner ( ), gerard manley hopkins: poems and prose penguin p. xvi. 	^ norman white, "hopkins, gerard manley ( – )", oxford dictionary of national biography, oxford university press. 	^ a b c d e f poetry foundation biography poetry foundation. accessed march . 	^ a b c eleanor ruggles ( ) gerard manley hopkins: a life. norton. 	^ abbott, claude colleer ( ). the correspondence of gerard manley hopkins and richard watson dixon ( nd ed.). oxford university press. pp.  , . 	^ a b w. h. gardner ( ), gerard manley hopkins: poems and prose penguin p. xvii. 	^ a b gardner, w. h. ( ) gerard manley hopkins: poems and prose penguin p. xviii. 	^ gerald monsman, "pater, hopkins and the self", victorian notes, . 	^ journal entry ( november ), as reported in extremity: a study of gerard manley hopkins ( ) by john robinson, p. . 	^ p. kitchen, gerard manley hopkins, london, . 	^ o'leary, sean (july ). "gerard manley hopkins, poet priest artist writer musician". gerard manley hopkins' poems to music. retrieved may . 	^ gerard manley hopkins: a brief biography glenn everett, phd. 	^ a b c d ricks, christopher. "the art and faith of gerard manley hopkins", the new criterion, september 	^ white, norman (september ). a newly discovered version of a verse translation by gerard manley hopkins. notes and queries. . oxford university press. pp.  – . doi: . /notesj/ . . . issn  - . oclc  . retrieved june – via archive.is. 	^ new english key notes , mentor books, dublin. 	^ w. h. gardner, ( ) gerard manley hopkins: poems and prose penguin, p. xxvii. 	^ irish times. 	^ scott wilson, resting places: the burial sites of more than , famous persons, rd ed.: (kindle location ). mcfarland & company, inc., publishers. kindle edition. 	^ fda consumer. u.s. food and drug administration. february . p.  . 	^ bayley, john. "review: gerard manley hopkins: a very private life by robert bernard martin", london review of books, vol. no. , april 	^ a b allbery, debra. "to seem the stranger lies my lot, my life", poetry daily, april , 	^ boudway, matthew. "hopkins agonistes", commonweal, april , 	^ "pied beauty" at the poetry foundation 	^ nils langer, winifred v. davies. linguistic purism in the germanic languages. walter de gruyter, . p. . 	^ brook, george leslie ( ). an introduction to old english, manchester university press, p. . 	^ a b domestico, anthony. "inscape, instress & distress", commonweal, march , 	^ – the windhover 	^ plowman, stephanie. "libguides: manuscript collections: hopkins". researchguides.gonzaga.edu. retrieved december . 	^ timothy d'arch smith. love in earnest, p. . 	^ gerard manley hopkins: a very private life, p. ; see also norman white, hopkins: a literary biography, p. . 	^ robert bernard martin, "digby augustus stewart dolben," dnb) 	^ martin, robert bernard. gerard manley hopkins: a very private life, chapter iii, faber and faber 	^ "joseph cady english literature: nineteenth century". archived from the original on march . retrieved march . 	^ michael m. kaylor, secreted desires: the major uranians: hopkins, pater and wilde. brno, cz: masaryk university press, . p. . 	^ edge, simon ( may ). the hopkins conundrum. lightning books. isbn  - . 	^ notes no. . poems of gerard manley hopkins; now first published, edited with notes by robert bridges. london: humphrey milford, . 	^ the bugler's first communion, kaylor, secreted desires. pp – 	^ epithalamion in kaylor secreted desires, pp – 	^ victorian poetry . ( ), pp. – . 	^ hopkins, gerard m. "to seem the stranger lies my lot, my life", poemhunter.com 	^ "review: martin, 'a very private life'", kirkus reviews. 	^ casey, constance. "book review : a very private life of a victorian poet : gerard manley hopkins: a very private life by robert bernard martin", the los angeles times, june , . 	^ audio book, cd, isbn  - - - , . poems, including the wreck of the deutschland, god's grandeur, the windhover, pied beauty and binsley poplars, and the "terrible sonnets". 	^ the great poets: g.m hopkins (jeremy northam) (naxos audio books: na ) 	^ retrieved july . further reading[edit] 	abbott, claude colleer (ed.), . the correspondence of gerard manley hopkins and richard watson dixon (london: oxford university press.) 	abbott, claude colleer (ed.), . the letters of gerard manley hopkins to robert bridges (london: oxford university press.) 	fiddes, paul s., . 'g.m. hopkins', in rebecca lemon, emma mason, jonathan roberts, and christopher rowland, eds, the blackwell companion to the bible in english literature (blackwell companions to religion, chichester: wiley-blackwell), pp.  – 	mackenzie, norman h. (ed.), . the early poetic manuscripts and note-books of gerard manley hopkins in facsimile. (new york and london: garland publishing.) 	mackenzie, norman h. (ed.), . the later poetic manuscripts of gerard manley hopkins in facsimile (new york: garland publishing.) 	martin, robert bernard, . gerard manley hopkins – a very private life (london: flamingo/harpercollins publishers) 	pomplun, trent, "the theology of gerard manley hopkins: from john duns scotus to the baroque," journal of religion (january ) # pp: – . doi: . / 	sagar, keith, . "hopkins and the religion of the diamond body", in literature and the crime against nature, (london: chaucer press.) 	stiles, cheryl, . "hopkins-stricken: gerard manley hopkins, a selective bibliography." (berkeley electronic press). 	white, norman, . hopkins – a literary biography (oxford: oxford university press) 	chakrabarti, tapan kumar, gerard manley hopkins: his experiments in poetic diction (ph.d. dissertation, approved by the university of calcutta [unpublished]) external links[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to gerard manley hopkins. 		wikiquote has quotations related to: gerard manley hopkins 	gerard manley hopkins, s.j. conference, regis university 	profile and poems at the poetry foundation. retrieved - - 	profile and poems at poets.org 	gerard manley hopkins at st beuno's retreat. retrieved - - 	annual literary festival – monasterevin hopkins society, ireland. retrieved - - 	the hopkins society united kingdom 	ucd letters, including letters and postcards written to alexander william mowbray, between and . a ucd digital library collection. 	works by gerard manley hopkins at project gutenberg 	works by or about gerard manley hopkins at internet archive 	 poems of gerard manley hopkins public domain audiobook at librivox: solo recordings of his collected poems 	works by gerard manley hopkins at librivox (public domain audiobooks) : recordings of individual short poems 	authority control 	 	bne: xx 	bnf: cb (data) 	gnd: 	isni: 	lccn: n 	mba: c a- b - 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wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	leiden 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		city and municipality in south holland, netherlands "leyden" redirects here. for other uses, see leyden (disambiguation). city and municipality in south holland, netherlands 	leiden 	city and municipality 	 	 flag coat of arms 	location in south holland 	coordinates: ° ′n ° ′e /  . °n . °e / . ; . coordinates: ° ′n ° ′e /  . °n . °e / . ; . 	country	netherlands 	province	south holland 	government[ ] 	 • body	municipal council 	 • mayor	henri lenferink (pvda) 	area[ ] 	 • municipality	 .  km ( .  sq mi) 	 • land	 .  km ( .  sq mi) 	 • water	 .  km ( .  sq mi) 	elevation[ ] 	  m (  ft) 	population (municipality, january ; urban and metro, may )[ ][ ] 	 • municipality	 , 	 • density	 , /km ( , /sq mi) 	 • urban 	 , 	 • metro 	 , 	demonym(s)	leidenaar 	time zone	utc+ (cet) 	 • summer (dst)	utc+ (cest) 	postcode	 – 	area code	 	website	official website topographic map of leiden. leiden (/ˈlaɪdən/, dutch: [ˈlɛi̯də(n)] (listen); in english and archaic dutch also leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of south holland, netherlands. the municipality of leiden had a population of , in august , but the city forms one densely connected agglomeration with its suburbs oegstgeest, leiderdorp, voorschoten and zoeterwoude with , inhabitants. the netherlands central bureau of statistics (cbs) further includes katwijk in the agglomeration which makes the total population of the leiden urban agglomeration , , and in the larger leiden urban area also teylingen, noordwijk, and noordwijkerhout are included with in total , inhabitants. leiden is located on the oude rijn, at a distance of some kilometres ( miles) from the hague to its south and some  km (  mi) from amsterdam to its north. the recreational area of the kaag lakes (kagerplassen) lies just to the northeast of leiden. a university city since , leiden has been one of europe's most prominent scientific centres for more than four centuries. leiden is a typical university city, university buildings are scattered throughout the city and the many students from all over the world give the city a bustling, vivid and international atmosphere. many important scientific discoveries have been made here, giving rise to leiden's motto: ‘city of discoveries’. the city houses leiden university, the oldest university of the netherlands, and leiden university medical center. leiden university is one of europe's top universities, with thirteen nobel prize winners. it is a member of the league of european research universities and positioned highly in all international academic rankings. it is twinned with oxford, the location of the united kingdom's oldest university. leiden university and leiden university of applied sciences (leidse hogeschool) together have around , students. modern scientific medical research and teaching started in the early th century in leiden with boerhaave. leiden is a city with a rich cultural heritage, not only in science, but also in the arts. one of the world's most famous painters, rembrandt, was born and educated in leiden. other famous leiden painters include lucas van leyden, jan van goyen and jan steen. contents 	 history 	 . siege of 	 . th to th centuries 	 . th and th centuries 	 . leiden today 	 rivers, canals and parks 	 buildings of interest 	 . fortifications 	 . churches 	 . university buildings 	 . other buildings 	 public transport 	 notable inhabitants 	 . public thinking & public service 	 . the arts 	 . science 	 . sport 	 . others 	 international relations 	 . twin cities – sister cities 	 miscellaneous 	 sports 	 see also 	 references 	 . citations 	 . sources 	 further reading 	 external links history[edit] see also: timeline of leiden historical population	year	pop.	±% p.a. 	 	 , 	—     	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	− . % 	 	 , 	− . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	− . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	− . % 	 	 , 	− . % 	source: lourens & lucassen , pp.  – leiden was formed on an artificial hill (today called the burcht van leiden) at the confluence of the rivers oude and nieuwe rijn (old and new rhine). in the oldest reference to this, from circa , the settlement was called leithon. the name is said to be from germanic *leitha- "canal" [ ] in dative pluralis, thus meaning "at the canals". "canal" is actually not the completely proper word. a leitha (later "lede") was a human-modified natural river, partly natural, partly artificial. leiden has in the past erroneously been associated with the roman outpost lugdunum batavorum. this particular castellum was thought to be located at the burcht of leiden, and the city's name was thought to be derived from the latin name lugdunum. however the castellum was in fact closer to the town of katwijk, whereas the roman settlement near modern-day leiden was called matilo.[ ] windmill museum de valk the landlord of leiden, situated in a stronghold on the hill (motte), was initially subject to the bishop of utrecht but around the burgraves became subject to the county of holland. this county got its name in from a domain near the stronghold: holtland or holland. leiden was sacked in by emperor henry iii. early th century, ada, countess of holland took refuge here when she was fighting in a civil war against her uncle, william i, count of holland. he besieged the stronghold and captured ada. leiden received city rights in . in , its population had grown to about , persons. siege of [edit] in , during the hook and cod wars, duke john iii of bavaria along with his army marched from gouda in the direction of leiden in order to conquer the city since leiden did not pay the new count of holland jacqueline, countess of hainaut, his niece and only daughter of count william vi of holland. burgrave filips of wassenaar and the other local noblemen of the hook faction assumed that the duke would besiege leiden first and send small units out to conquer the surrounding citadels. but john of bavaria chose to attack the citadels first. he rolled the cannons along with his army but one which was too heavy went by ship. by firing at the walls and gates with iron balls the citadels fell one by one. within a week john of bavaria conquered the castles of poelgeest, ter does, hoichmade, de zijl, ter waerd, warmond and de paddenpoel. on june the army appeared before the walls of leiden. on august , after a two-month siege the city surrendered to john of bavaria. the burgrave filips of wassenaar was stripped of his offices and rights and lived out his last years in captivity. th to th centuries[edit] relief of leiden ( ), painting by otto van veen. inundated meadows allow the dutch fleet access to the spanish infantry positions. th-century houses along the herengracht townhall and bridge (de koornbrug) the sijthoff printing office, leiden leiden's west gate, the morspoort leiden's east gate, the zijlpoort the singel at night, showing the chimney of the light factory leiden flourished in the th and th century. at the close of the th century the weaving establishments (mainly broadcloth) of leiden were very important. after the expulsion of the spaniards, leiden cloth, leiden baize and leiden camlet were familiar terms.[citation needed] in the same period, leiden developed an important printing and publishing industry. the influential printer christoffel plantijn lived there at one time. one of his pupils was lodewijk elzevir ( – ), who established the largest bookshop and printing works in leiden, a business continued by his descendants through and the name subsequently adopted (in a variant spelling) by contemporary publisher elsevier.[citation needed] in , the city sided with the dutch revolt against spanish rule and played an important role in the eighty years' war. besieged from may until october by the spanish, leiden was relieved by the cutting of the dikes, thus enabling ships to carry provisions to the inhabitants of the flooded town. as a reward for the heroic defence of the previous year, the university of leiden was founded by william i of orange in . yearly on october, the end of the siege is still celebrated in leiden. tradition tells that the citizens were offered the choice between a university and a certain exemption from taxes and chose the university. the siege is notable also for being the first instance in europe of the issuance of paper money, with paper taken from prayer books being stamped using coin dies when silver ran out.[ ] leiden is also known as the place where the pilgrims (as well as some of the first settlers of new amsterdam)[ ][ ] lived (and operated a printing press)[ ] for a time in the early th century before their departure to massachusetts and new amsterdam in the new world.[ ] in the th century, leiden prospered, in part because of the impetus to the textile industry by refugees from flanders. while the city had lost about a third of its , citizens during the siege of , it quickly recovered to , inhabitants in , and may have come near to , circa . during the dutch golden era, leiden was the second largest city of holland, after amsterdam.[citation needed] particularly due to the work by herman boerhaave ( – ), it played a crucial role in the establishment of modern chemistry and medicine. from the late th century onwards leiden slumped, mainly due to the decline of the cloth industries. in the beginning of the th century the baize manufacture was altogether given up, although industry remained central to leiden economy. this decline is painted vividly by the fall in population. the population of leiden had sunk to , between and , and in was , . [ ] from the th to the early th century, leiden was the publishing place of one of the most important contemporary journals, nouvelles extraordinaires de divers endroits, known also as gazette de leyde.[ ] th and th centuries[edit] on january , a catastrophe struck the city when a boat loaded with , kilograms ( , pounds) of gunpowder blew up in the middle of leiden. people were killed, over , were injured and some homes were destroyed. king louis bonaparte personally visited the city to provide assistance to the victims. although located in the centre of the city, the area destroyed remained empty for many years. in the space was turned into a public park, the van der werff park.[ ] in , the railroad from leiden to haarlem was inaugurated and one year later the railway to den haag was completed, resulting in some social and economic improvement. perhaps the most important piece of dutch history contributed by leiden was the constitution of the netherlands. johan rudolf thorbecke ( – ) wrote the dutch constitution in april in his house at garenmarkt in leiden. leiden's reputation as the "city of books" continued through the th century with the establishment of publishing dynasties by evert jan brill and albertus willem sijthoff.[ ] sijthoff, who rose to prominence in the trade of translated books, wrote a letter in to queen wilhelmina regarding his opposition to becoming a signatory to the berne convention for the protection of literary and artistic works. he felt that international copyright restrictions would stifle the dutch publishing industry.[ ] leiden grew -fold in size between and , annexing land from neighboring municipalities leiden began to expand beyond its th-century moats around and the number of citizens surpassed , in . after , new industries were established in the city, such as the canning and metal industries. during world war ii, leiden was hit hard by allied bombardments. the areas surrounding the railway station and marewijk were almost completely destroyed. leiden today[edit] the city's biggest and most popular annual festival is celebrated at october and is called simply oktober. the people of leiden celebrate the end of the spanish siege of .[ ] it typically takes place over the course of two to three days (usually two but three if there's a sunday involved) and includes parades, a hutspot feast, historical reenactments, a funfair and other events. the city has recently started to host the leiden international film festival, the fastest growing festival of its type in the netherlands.[ ] leiden has important functions as a shopping and trade centre for communities around the city. the university of leiden is famous for its many discoveries including snells law (by willebrord snellius), the famous leyden jar, a capacitor made from a glass jar, invented in leiden by pieter van musschenbroek in . another development was in cryogenics: heike kamerlingh onnes ( nobel prize winner in physics) liquefied helium for the first time ( ) and later managed to reach a temperature of less than one degree above the absolute minimum. albert einstein also spent some time at leiden university during his early to middle career. the city also houses the eurotransplant, the international organization responsible for the mediation and allocation of organ donation procedures in austria, belgium, croatia, germany, luxembourg, the netherlands and slovenia. leiden also houses the headquarters of airbus, a global pan-european aerospace and defence corporation and a leading defence and military contractor worldwide. the group includes airbus, the leading manufacturer of commercial aircraft worldwide. rivers, canals and parks[edit] canal near leiden - may the two branches of the oude rijn, which enter leiden on the east, unite in the centre of the city. the city is further intersected by numerous small canals with tree-bordered quays. on the west side of the city, the hortus botanicus and other gardens extend along the old singel, or outer canal. the leidse hout park, which contains a small deer park, lies on the northwest border with oegstgeest. the van der werf park is named after the mayor pieter adriaansz. van der werff [nl], who defended the city against the spaniards in . the city was beleaguered for months and many died from famine. the open space for the park was formed by the accidental explosion of a ship loaded with gunpowder in , which destroyed hundreds of houses, including that of the elsevier family of printers. buildings of interest[edit] because of the economic decline from the end of the th until the middle of the th century, much of the th- and th-century city centre is still intact. it is the second largest th-century town centre in the netherlands, the largest being amsterdam's city centre. a hundred buildings in the centre are decorated with large murals of poetry, part of a wall poem project active from , and still ongoing.[ ][ ] 	 			 			 shakespeare on a leiden wall 			 		 	 			 			 langston hughes on a leiden wall 			 		 	 			 			 e.e. cummings 			 		 	 			 			 waring cuney 			 		 fortifications[edit] 	 	this section does not cite any sources. please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (may ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) at the strategically important junction of the two arms of the oude rijn stands the old castle de burcht, a circular tower built on an earthen mound. the mound probably was a refuge against high water before a small wooden fortress was built on top of it in the th century. the citadel is a so-called motte-and-bailey castle.[ ] of leiden's old city gates only two are left, the zijlpoort and the morspoort,[ ] both dating from the end of the th century. apart from one small watch tower on the singel nothing is left of the town's city walls. another former fortification is the gravensteen. built as a fortress in the th century it has since served as house, library and prison.[ ] presently it is one of the university's buildings. churches[edit] hooglandse kerk, leiden church (de sint lodewijkskerk) the chief of leiden's numerous churches are the hooglandse kerk (or the church of st pancras, built in the th century and containing a monument to pieter adriaansz. van der werff) and the pieterskerk (church of st peter ( )) with monuments to scaliger, boerhaave and other famous scholars. from a historical perspective the marekerk is interesting too. arent van 's gravesande designed that church in . other fine examples of his work in leiden are in the stedelijk museum de lakenhal (the municipal museum of fine arts), and the bibliotheca thysiana. the growing city needed another church and the marekerk was the first protestant church to be built in leiden (and in holland) after the reformation. it is an example of dutch classicism. in the drawings by van 's gravesande the pulpit is the centrepiece of the church. the pulpit is modelled after the one in the nieuwe kerk at haarlem (designed by jacob van campen). the building was first used in , and is still in use. the heilige lodewijkkerk is first catholic church in leiden that was built after the reformation. this church was given to the catholics after the gunpowder explosion in , which killed inhabitants and destroyed a large part of the city centre.[ ][ ] the 'waalse kerk' (breestraat ) was originally part of the katharina hospital. in it became the church of protestant refugees from the southern netherlands (brugge) and france. later churches in the centre include the st. joseph in expressionistic style. university buildings[edit] the leiden observatory, after restoration ( ) the city centre contains many buildings that are in use by the university of leiden. the academy building is housed in a former th-century convent. among the institutions connected with the university are the national institution for east indian languages, ethnology and geography; the botanical gardens, founded in ; the observatory ( ); the museum of antiquities (rijksmuseum van oudheden); and the ethnographical museum, of which p. f. von siebold's japanese collection was the nucleus (rijksmuseum voor volkenkunde). this collection is now housed in a separate museum called the sieboldhuis. the bibliotheca thysiana occupies an old renaissance building of the year . it is especially rich in legal works and vernacular chronicles. noteworthy are also the many special collections at leiden university library among which those of the society of dutch literature ( ) and the collection of casts and engravings. in recent years the university has built the leiden bio science park at the city's outskirts to accommodate the science departments.[citation needed] de waag ( ) other buildings[edit] 	stadhuis (city hall), a th-century building that was badly damaged by a fire in but has its renaissance façade designed by lieven de key still standing 	gemeenlandshuis van rijnland ( , restored in ) 	de waag (weigh house in dutch), built by pieter post 	gravensteen – a former th century jail at the gerecht square (former court-house) 	stedelijk gymnasium (aka latijnse school) – the old gymnasium ( ) 	stadstimmerwerf – the city carpenter's yard and wharf ( ), both built by lieven de key (c. – ) 	heilige geest weeshuis (a former holy spirit orphanage) – a complex of th century buildings. 	molen de valk – a corn-grinding windmill, now home to a museum ( ) 	pesthuis, which was built during – at that time just outside the city for curing patients suffering the bubonic plague. however, after it was built the feared disease did not occur in the netherlands anymore so it was never used for its original purpose. the building has been used as a military hospital, prison, national asylum and army museum. it now serves as the entrance of naturalis, one of the largest natural history museums in the world.[ ] public transport[edit] leiden, central railway station bus transport in leiden is provided by arriva.[ ] railway stations within the municipality of leiden are: 	leiden centraal 	leiden lammenschans 	de vink notable inhabitants[edit] see also: category:people from leiden the following is a selection of important leidenaren throughout history: william ii, count of holland in the lakenhal public thinking & public service[edit] 	william ii, count of holland ( – ) count of holland - 	floris v, count of holland ( – ) count of holland and zeeland – . 	john of leiden ( – ) leader of the anabaptist münster rebellion [ ] 	william brewster ( – ) pilgrim, mayflower passenger in [ ] 	daniel heinsius ( – ) a famous scholar of the dutch renaissance[ ] 	william bradford ( – ) pilgrim, leader of the american plymouth colony in massachusetts [ ] 	franciscus junius ( – ) a pioneer of germanic philology [ ] 	isaac elzevir ( – ) a dutch publisher and printer, co-founder of house of elzevir[ ] 	love brewster ( – / ) pilgrim and founder of bridgewater, massachusetts 	isaac vossius ( – ) a scholar, manuscript collector and canon at windsor castle [ ] 	nicolaas heinsius the elder ( – ) a dutch classical scholar and poet [ ] 	johann bachstrom ( – ) writer, scientist and lutheran theologian 	gottfried, freiherr van swieten ( - ) diplomat, friend and patron of several great composers 	jan bake ( – ) a dutch philologist and critic [ ] 	reinhart dozy ( – ) a dutch scholar of arabic of huguenot origin [ ] 	cornelis tiele ( – ) a dutch theologian and scholar [ ] 	j. p. b. de josselin de jong ( – ) a museum curator, founding father of modern dutch anthropology and structural anthropology and an academic 	hans de koster ( – ) a dutch politician, diplomat and businessman 	twins alfred kossmann ( – ) a poet and prose writer & ernst kossmann ( – ) an historian. 	leendert ginjaar ( – ) a dutch politician and chemist 	laurens jan brinkhorst (born ) a retired dutch politician and diplomat 	ankie broekers-knol (born ) a dutch politician, jurist and minister 	carel stolker (born ) is rector magnificus and president of leiden university since 	princess laurentien of the netherlands (born ) the wife of prince constantijn 	kajsa ollongren (born ) a dutch-swedish politician, deputy prime minister of the netherlands 	julius terpstra (born ) a dutch politician the arts[edit] rembrandt van rijn, ca. willem van de velde ii, ca. ) leoni jansen, 	cornelis engebrechtsz. (ca. – ) an early dutch painter [ ] 	lucas van leyden ( – ) a dutch painter and printmaker in engraving and woodcut 	jan van goyen ( – ) a dutch landscape painter [ ] 	justus van egmont ( – ) a painter and tapestry designer 	rembrandt van rijn ( – ) a dutch draughtsman, painter and printmaker[ ] 	willem van de velde the elder ( / – ) a dutch golden age seascape painter [ ] 	frans post ( – ) a dutch golden age painter 	gerard dou ( – ) a dutch golden age painter [ ] 	jan steen (ca. – ) a dutch golden age genre painter [ ] 	gabriel metsu ( – ) painter of history paintings, still life, portraits and genre works [ ] 	willem van de velde the younger ( - ) a dutch marine painter[ ] 	frans van mieris the elder ( – ) a dutch golden age genre and portrait painter [ ] 	jan gaykema jacobsz. ( – ) a dutch painter, draughtsman and botanical illustrator 	jan elias kikkert ( – ) a dutch lithographer and watercolorist of street scenes of leiden 	coenraad v. bos ( – ) a dutch pianist, an accompanist to singers of lieder 	theo van doesburg ( – ) a dutch artist, founder and leader of de stijl 	ernst winar ( – ) a dutch actor and film director [ ] 	nina foch ( – ) a dutch american actress and drama teacher [ ] 	michel waisvisz ( – ) a dutch composer, performer, inventor of experimental electronic musical instruments and artistic director of steim - 	leoni jansen (born ) a tv personality and anchor-woman, singer and stage-director [ ] 	daniel reuss (born ) a dutch conductor, primarily a choral conductor 	isa hoes (born ) a dutch actress and voice actress [ ] 	eva dorrepaal (born ) a dutch actress [ ] 	armin van buuren (born ) a dutch dj, record producer and remixer [ ] 	carice van houten (born ) a dutch actress and singer [ ] 	dyro (born ) a dutch dj and electronic dance music producer science[edit] herman boerhaave johannes diderik van der waals 	charles de l'Écluse ( – ) botanist, horticulturist and director of hortus botanicus leiden 	ludolph van ceulen ( – ) mathematician, computed the number π, pi 	willebrord snellius ( – ) a dutch astronomer and mathematician [ ]> 	herman boerhaave ( – ) a botanist, chemist, christian humanist and physician [ ] 	bernhard siegfried albinus ( – ) a german-born dutch anatomist [ ] 	gerard van swieten ( – ) a dutch physician, personal physician of maria theresa 	petrus camper frs ( – ) a dutch physician, anatomist, physiologist, midwife, zoologist, anthropologist, palaeontologist and a naturalist [ ] 	philipp franz von siebold ( – ) a german physician and botanist, studied japanese flora and fauna[ ] 	johannes diderik van der waals ( – ) a dutch theoretical physicist, winner of the nobel prize in physics 	hendrik lorentz ( – ) a dutch physicist, joint winner of the nobel prize in physics 	heike kamerlingh onnes ( – ) a dutch physicist and winner of the nobel prize in physics 	willem einthoven ( – ) a dutch physician and physiologist 	pieter zeeman ( – ) a dutch physicist, joint winner of the nobel prize in physics 	willem de sitter ( – ) a dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer 	albert einstein ( – ) lecturer/researcher at leiden university, variously between and 	paul ehrenfest ( – ) an austrian/dutch theoretical physicist, contributed to statistical mechanics 	geertruida de haas-lorentz ( – ) a female dutch physicist, worked on brownian motion and electrical noise theory 	jan oort ( – ) a dutch astronomer, pioneer in radio astronomy 	hendrik casimir ( – ) a dutch physicist 	ewine van dishoeck (born ) a dutch astronomer, chemist, molecular astrophysicist and academic sport[edit] alfons groenendijk, kjeld nuis, 	willem slijkhuis ( – ) a dutch middle distance runner, won two bronze medals in the summer olympics 	sandra le poole (born ) a retired field hockey player, team gold medallist at the summer olympics 	ronald florijn (born ) a former rower, twice team gold medallist, at the and summer olympics 	carina benninga (born ) & taco van den honert (born ) former dutch field hockey players, team gold medallist at the summer olympics and team bronze medallist at the summer olympics 	alfons groenendijk (born ) a former footballer with club caps and current manager 	gerritjan eggenkamp (born ) a dutch rower, team silver medallist at the summer olympics 	rodney glunder (born ) a retired kickboxer, mixed martial artist, professional wrestler and boxer 	tim de cler (born ) a dutch former footballer with club caps 	erik van den doel (born ) a dutch chess grandmaster 	merel witteveen (born ) a sailor, team silver medallist at the summer olympics 	biurakn hakhverdian (born ) & iefke van belkum (born ) dutch water polo players, team gold medallist at the summer olympics 	gegard mousasi (born ) a dutch mixed martial artist and former kickboxer 	laurine van riessen (born ) a long track speed skater and track cyclist, bronze medallist at the winter olympics 	kjeld nuis (born ) a dutch speed skater, world record holder and gold medallist at the winter olympics over metre and metre buurtpoes bledder 	chantal de ridder (born ) a dutch football striker, caps with the netherlands women's national football team 	esmee visser (born ) a long distance speed skater, gold medallist in the winter olympics in the women's metres others[edit] 	maria swanenburg ( – ) a dutch serial killer, murdered at least people and suspected of killing more than 	marinus van der lubbe ( – ) executed for the reichstag fire in berlin in 	buurtpoes bledder ( – ) a male domestic cat, media star for his exploits in the city [ ] international relations[edit] twin cities – sister cities[edit] leiden is twinned with: 	 	 buffalo city, eastern cape, south africa 	 juigalpa, chontales, nicaragua 	 krefeld, north rhine-westphalia, germany 	 	 nagasaki, japan 	 oxford, united kingdom [ ] 	 toruń, poland [ ] miscellaneous[edit] eastern gate 'zijlpoort' at the singel 	the coat of arms of leiden is two red keys, crossed in an x-shape on a white background. these keys are the keys of heaven held by st. peter, for whom a large church in the city centre is named. because of this coat of arms, leiden is referred to as the "sleutelstad" ("the key city").[ ] 	for a time leiden held the title "the coldest place on earth" because of the developments in cryogenics in a laboratory there. heike kamerlingh onnes ( nobel prize winner in physics) liquefied helium for the first time ( ), and later managed to reach a temperature of less than one degree above absolute zero. 	the norwegian cheese "nøkkelost" ("key cheese") is named after the keys in coat of arms of leyden, as it is a variation of leyden cheese. 	the following places and things are named after this city: 	leyden, new york, usa 	leyden, massachusetts, usa[ ] 	leyden high school district in franklin park, illinois, usa. 	leiden scale, for measuring extreme low temperatures. 	factor v leiden is named after the city of leiden where it was discovered in . 	the leyden jar, a capacitor made from a glass jar, was invented here by pieter van musschenbroek in . it was actually first invented by ewald georg von kleist the year before, but the name "leyden jar" stuck. 	leiden's stadhuis (town hall) has a poem in the form of a cryptogram on its façade that records the date in roman numerals, the year of the "black famine" or spanish siege (w equals two vs): the poem on leiden's stadhuis nae zwarte hvnger-noot gebracht had tot de doot binaest zes-dvizent menschen; alst god den heer verdroot gaf hi vns weder broot zo veel wi cvnsten wenschen. (dutch: "when the black famine had brought to the death nearly six thousand persons, then god the lord repented, and gave bread again as much as we could wish".)[ ] sports[edit] 	zorg en zekerheid leiden is the basketball club of leiden. in and they won the national title, in and the national cup and in and the national super cup. the club also played in the fiba eurochallenge and reached the second round (best ) in / . see also[edit] 	geography portal 	netherlands portal 	leiden classical a distributed computing project 	oudt leyden, former michelin starred restaurant 	wireless leiden references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ "college van burgemeester en wethouders" [board of mayor and aldermen] (in dutch). gemeente leiden. archived from the original on july . retrieved august . 	^ "kerncijfers wijken en buurten " [key figures for neighbourhoods ]. statline (in dutch). cbs. july . retrieved september . 	^ "postcodetool for at". actueel hoogtebestand nederland (in dutch). het waterschapshuis. archived from the original on september . retrieved august . 	^ "bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand" [population growth; regions per month]. cbs statline (in dutch). cbs. january . retrieved january . 	^ "bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand" [population growth; regions per month]. cbs statline (in dutch). cbs. june . retrieved july . 	^ "online etymology dictionary". 	^ jona lendering. 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(february ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) 	juvenal 	frontispiece from john dryden, the satires of decimus junius juvenalis: and of aulus persius flaccus 	born	 st century ad aquinum (modern aquino) 	died	 nd century ad 	occupation	poet 	nationality	roman 	genre	satire decimus junius juvenalis (latin: [ˈdɛkɪmʊs ˈjuːnɪ.ʊs jʊwɛˈnaːlɪs]), known in english as juvenal (/ˈdʒuːvənəl/ joo-vən-əl), was a roman poet active in the late first and early second century ad. he is the author of the collection of satirical poems known as the satires. the details of the author's life are unclear, although references within his text to known persons of the late first and early second centuries ad fix his earliest date of composition. one recent scholar argues that his first book was published in or .[ ] because of a reference to a recent political figure, his fifth and final surviving book must date from after . juvenal wrote at least poems in the verse form dactylic hexameter. these poems cover a range of roman topics. this follows lucilius—the originator of the roman satire genre, and it fits within a poetic tradition that also includes horace and persius. the satires are a vital source for the study of ancient rome from a number of perspectives, although their comic mode of expression makes it problematic to accept the content as strictly factual. at first glance the satires could be read as a critique of pagan rome. that critique may have ensured their survival in the christian monastic scriptoria although the majority of ancient texts did not survive.[further explanation needed] contents 	 life 	 the satires and their genre 	 modern criticism and historical context of the satires 	 literary and cultural influence 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 external links life[edit] juvenal, s. h. gimber, details of the author's life cannot be reconstructed definitively. the vita iuvenalis (life of juvenal), a biography of the author that became associated with his manuscripts no later than the tenth century, is little more than an extrapolation from the satires. traditional biographies, including the vita iuvenalis, give us the writer's full name and also tell us that he was either the son, or adopted son, of a rich freedman. he is supposed to have been a pupil of quintilian, and to have practised rhetoric until he was middle-aged, both as amusement and for legal purposes. the satires do make frequent and accurate references to the operation of the roman legal system. his career as a satirist is supposed to have begun at a fairly late stage in his life. biographies agree in giving his birthplace as the volscian town of aquinum[ ] and also, in allotting to his life a period of exile, which supposedly was due to his insulting an actor who had high levels of court influence. the emperor who is said to have banished him is given variously, as either trajan or domitian. a preponderance of the biographies place his exile in egypt, with the exception of one, that opts for scotland.[ ] only one of these traditional biographies supplies a date of birth for juvenal: it gives ad, which most probably is speculation, but accords reasonably well with the rest of the evidence. other traditions have him surviving for some time past the year of hadrian's death ( ad). some sources place his death in exile, others have him being recalled to rome (the latter of which is considered more plausible by contemporary scholars). if he was exiled by domitian, then it is possible that he was one of the political exiles recalled during the brief reign of nerva.[ ] it is impossible to tell how much of the content of these traditional biographies is fiction and how much is fact. large parts clearly are mere deduction from juvenal's writings, but some elements appear more substantial. juvenal never mentions a period of exile in his life, yet it appears in every extant traditional biography. many scholars think the idea to be a later invention; the satires do display some knowledge of egypt and britain, and it is thought that this gave rise to the tradition that juvenal was exiled. others, however - particularly gilbert highet - regard the exile as factual, and these scholars also supply a concrete date for the exile: ad until , when nerva became emperor. they argue that a reference to juvenal in one of martial's poems, which is dated to , is impossible if, at this stage juvenal was already in exile, or, had served his time in exile, since in that case, martial would not have wished to antagonise domitian by mentioning such a persona non grata as juvenal. if juvenal was exiled, he would have lost his patrimony, and this may explain the consistent descriptions of the life of the client he bemoans in the satires. the only other biographical evidence available is a dedicatory inscription said to have been found at aquinum in the nineteenth century, which consists of the following text:[ ] 	 	...]ri·sacrvm 	...]nivs·ivvenalis 	...] coh·[.]·delmatarvm 	ii·vir·qvinq·flamen 	divi·vespasiani 	vovit·dedicav[...]ue 	sva pec 	 	[cere]ri·sacrvm 	[d(ecimvs) iv]nivs·ivvenalis 	[trib(vnvs)] coh(ortis)·[i]·delmatarvm 	ii·vir·qvinq(vennalis)·flamen 	divi·vespasiani 	vovit·dedicav[itq]ve 	sva pec(vnia) 	 	to ceres (this) sacred (thing) 	(decimus junius?) juvenalis 	military tribune of the first cohort of the dalmatian[ ] (legions) 	duovir, quinquennalis, flamen 	of the divine vespasian 	vowed and dedicated 	at his own expense 	(corpus inscriptionum latinarum x. ) scholars usually are of the opinion that this inscription does not relate to the poet: a military career would not fit well with the pronounced anti-militarism of the satires and, moreover, the dalmatian legions do not seem to have existed prior to ad. therefore, it seems likely that this reference is to a juvenal who was a later relative of the poet, however, as they both came from aquinum and were associated with the goddess ceres (the only deity the satires shows much respect for). if the theory that connects these two juvenals is correct, then the inscription does show that juvenal's family was reasonably wealthy, and that, if the poet really was the son of a foreign freedman, then his descendants assimilated into the roman class structure more quickly than typical. green thinks it more likely that the tradition of the freedman father is false and, that juvenal's ancestors had been minor nobility of roman italy of relatively ancient descent.[ ] the satires and their genre[edit] main article: satires (juvenal) saturae, juvenal is credited with sixteen known poems divided among five books; all are in the roman genre of satire, which, at its most basic in the time of the author, comprised a wide-ranging discussion of society and social mores in dactylic hexameter.[ ] in satire i, concerning the scope and content of his work, juvenal says: 	 ex quo deucalion nimbis tollentibus aequor nauigio montem ascendit sortesque poposcit paulatimque anima caluerunt mollia saxa et maribus nudas ostendit pyrrha puellas, quidquid agunt homines, uotum, timor, ira, uoluptas, gaudia, discursus, nostri farrago libelli est. 	 back from when deucalion climbed a mountain in a boat as the clouds lifted the waters, and then asked for an oracle, and then little by little spirit warmed the soft stones and pyrrha showed naked girls to their husbands, whatever men do—prayer, fear, rage, pleasure, joy, running about—is the gist of my little book. 	—( . – ) 	 juvenal claims as his purview, the entire gamut of human experience since the dawn of history. quintilian—in the context of a discussion of literary genres appropriate for an oratorical education—claimed that, unlike so many literary and artistic forms adopted from greek models, “satire at least is all ours” (satura quidem tota nostra est).[ ] at least in the view of quintillian, earlier greek satiric verse (e.g. that of hipponax) or even latin satiric prose (e.g. that of petronius) did not constitute satura, per se. roman satura was a formal literary genre rather than being simply clever, humorous critique in no particular format. 	book i: satires – 	book ii: satire 	book iii: satires – 	book iv: satires – 	book v: satires – (although satire is incomplete) the individual satires (excluding satire ) range in length from (satire ) to c. (satire ) lines. the poems are not entitled individually, but translators often have added titles for the convenience of readers. modern criticism and historical context of the satires[edit] while juvenal's mode of satire has been noted from antiquity for its wrathful scorn toward all representatives of social deviance, some politically progressive scholars such as, w. s. anderson and later s. m. braund, have attempted to defend his work as that of a rhetorical persona (mask), taken up by the author to critique the very attitudes he appears to be exhibiting in his works.[ ] in any case it would be an error to read the satires as a literal account of normal roman life and thought in the late first and early second centuries ad, just as it would be an error to give credence to every slander recorded in suetonius against the members of prior imperial dynasties. themes similar to those of the satires are present in authors spanning the period of the late roman republic and early empire ranging from cicero and catullus to martial and tacitus; similarly, the stylistics of juvenal's text fall within the range of post-augustan literature, as represented by persius, statius, and petronius.[ ] juvenal's satires, giving several accounts of jewish life in first-century rome, have been regarded by scholars, such as j. juster and, more recently, peter nahon, as a valuable source about early judaism.[ ] literary and cultural influence[edit] the satires have inspired many authors, including samuel johnson, who modeled his “london” on satire iii and “the vanity of human wishes” on satire x. alexander theroux, whose novels are rife with vicious satire, identified juvenal as his most important influence.[ ] juvenal also provided a source for the name for a forensically important beetle, histeridae. juvenal is the source of many well-known maxims, including: 	that the common people—rather than caring about their freedom—are only interested in “bread and circuses” (panem et circenses . ; i.e. food and entertainment), 	that—rather than for wealth, power, eloquence, or children—one should pray for a “sound mind in a sound body” (mens sana in corpore sano . ), 	that a perfect wife is a “rare bird” (rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cycno . ; a rare bird in the earth and most similar to a black swan)[ ] 	that "honesty is praised and left out in the cold" probitas laudatur et alget (i, line ). 	and the troubling question of who can be trusted with power—“who will watch the watchers?” or "who will guard the guardians themselves?" (quis custodiet ipsos custodes . – ). asics, the footwear and sports equipment manufacturing company, is named after the acronym of the latin phrase "anima sana in corpore sano" (a sound mind in a sound body) from satire x by juvenal ( . ).[ ] in his autobiography, the german writer heinrich böll notes that in the high school he attended when growing up under nazi rule, an anti-nazi teacher paid special attention to juvenal: "mr. bauer realized how topical juvenal was, how he dealt at length with such phenomena as arbitrary government, tyranny, corruption, the degradation of public morals, the decline of the republican ideal and the terrorizing acts of the praetorian guards. (...) in a second-hand bookshop i found an translation of juvenal with an extensive commentary, twice the length of the translated text itself, written at the height of the romantic period. though its price was more than i could really afford, i bought it. i read all of it very intensely, as if it was a detective novel. it was one of the few books to which i persistently held on throughout the war (wwii) and beyond, even when most of my other books were lost or sold on the black market".[ ] see also[edit] 	ancient rome portal 	literature portal 	junia (gens) 	panem et circenses 	satires (juvenal) 	satire vi notes[edit] 	^ uden, j. the invisible satirist: juvenal and second-century rome (oxford, ), pp. – 	^ a b sellar, william; postgate, john ( ). "juvenal" . in chisholm, hugh (ed.). encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. pp.  – . 	^ a b peter green: introduction to penguin classics edition of the satires, edition: pp. ff 	^ (from l to r: the inscription as preserved, the restored inscription, and the translation of the restored inscription.) 	^ peter green: introduction to penguin classics edition of the satires, edition: pp. – 	^ lucilius experimented with other meters before settling on dactylic hexameter. 	^ quintilian ( january ). institutio oratoria. check date values in: |date= (help) 	^ according to braund ( p. ), satire – the opening poem of book iii – represents a “break” with satires one through six – books i and ii – where juvenal relinquishes the indignatio of the “angry persona” in favor of the irony of a “much more rational and intelligent” persona. 	^ amy richlin identifies oratorical invective as a source for both satire and epigram. p. . 	^ peter nahon, . idées neuves sur un vieux texte : juvénal, saturae, , – . in: revue des études latines : – 	^ "theroux metaphrastes: an essay on literature," in three wogs (boston: david godine, ), p. . 	^ though in fact the description of a good wife as rara avis is not juvenal's coining but dates back to seneca de matr. . (ferguson ( ) juvenal: the satires, on line . ). 	^ "about asics". asics america. retrieved - - . 	^ heinrich boll, "what will become of this kid? or: about books", ch, references[edit] 	anderson, william s. ( ) essays on roman satire, princeton: princeton university press. 	braund, susanna m. ( ) beyond anger: a study of juvenal’s third book of satires, cambridge: press syndicate of the university of cambridge. 	braund, susanna ( ) juvenal satires book i, cambridge: press syndicate of the university of cambridge. 	braund, susanna ( ) the roman satirists and their masks, london: bristol classical press. 	courtney, e. ( ) a commentary of the satires of juvenal, london: athlone press. 	edwards, catherine ( ) the politics of immorality in ancient rome, cambridge: cambridge university press. 	gleason, maud w. 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( ): juvenal juvenal: the satires, with an introduction and notes by william barr. oxford. 	syme, ronald ( ) the roman revolution, oxford: oxford university press. 	uden, james ( ) the invisible satirist: juvenal and second-century rome. oxford: oxford university press. 	stramaglia, antonio; grazzini, stefano; dimatteo, giuseppe ( ): giovenale tra storia, poesia e ideologia, berlin/boston: de gruyter. external links[edit] 		wikisource has original works written by or about: juvenal 		wikiquote has quotations related to: juvenal 	library resources about juvenal 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 by juvenal 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	latin text of the satires of juvenal at the latin library 	english translations of all satires at the tertullian project. together with a survey of the manuscript transmission. 	works by juvenal at perseus digital library 	english translations of satires , , , , and 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includes european writers after the fall of the empire, from religious writers like aquinas ( – ), to secular writers like francis bacon ( – ), baruch spinoza ( – ), and isaac newton ( – ). contents 	 history 	 . early latin literature 	 . the golden age 	 . . the age of cicero 	 . . the augustan age 	 . the imperial period 	 . latin in the middle ages, renaissance, and early modernity 	 characteristics 	 . language and form 	 see also 	 references 	 sources 	 external links history[edit] early latin literature[edit] main article: old latin formal latin literature began in bc, when a roman audience saw a latin version of a greek play.[ ] the adaptor was livius andronicus, a greek who had been brought to rome as a prisoner of war in bc.[citation needed] andronicus also translated homer's greek epic the odyssey into an old type of latin verse called saturnian. the first latin poet to write on a roman theme was gnaeus naevius during the rd century bc.[citation needed] he composed an epic poem about the first punic war, in which he had fought. naevius's dramas were mainly reworkings of greek originals, but he also created tragedies based on roman myths and history. other epic poets followed naevius. quintus ennius wrote a historical epic, the annals (soon after bc), describing roman history from the founding of rome to his own time.[ ] he adopted greek dactylic hexameter, which became the standard verse form for roman epics. he also became famous for his tragic dramas. in this field, his most distinguished successors were marcus pacuvius and lucius accius. these three writers rarely used episodes from roman history. instead, they wrote latin versions of tragic themes that the greeks had already handled. but even when they copied the greeks, their translations were not straightforward replicas. only fragments of their plays have survived. cato the elder considerably more is known about early latin comedy, as early latin comedies are extant – of which plautus wrote, and the remaining six of which terence wrote.[ ] these men modeled their comedies on greek plays known as new comedy. but they treated the plots and wording of the originals freely. plautus scattered songs through his plays and increased the humor with puns and wisecracks, plus comic actions by the actors. terence's plays were more polite in tone, dealing with domestic situations. his works provided the chief inspiration for french and english comedies of the th century ad, and even for modern american comedy. the prose of the period is best known through on agriculture ( bc) by cato the elder. cato also wrote the first latin history of rome and of other italian cities.[ ] he was the first roman statesman to put his political speeches in writing as a means of influencing public opinion. early latin literature ended with gaius lucilius, who created a new kind of poetry in his books of satires ( nd century bc). he wrote in an easy, conversational tone about books, food, friends, and current events. the golden age[edit] main article: classical latin traditionally, the height of latin literature has been assigned to the period from bc to ad , although recent scholarship has questioned the assumptions that privileged the works of this period over both earlier and later works.[ ] this period is usually said to have begun with the first known speech of cicero and ended with the death of ovid. the age of cicero[edit] cicero cicero has traditionally been considered the master of latin prose.[ ][ ] the writing he produced from about bc until his death in bc exceeds that of any latin author whose work survives in terms of quantity and variety of genre and subject matter, as well as possessing unsurpassed stylistic excellence. cicero's many works can be divided into four groups: ( ) letters, ( ) rhetorical treatises, ( ) philosophical works, and ( ) orations. his letters provide detailed information about an important period in roman history and offer a vivid picture of the public and private life among the roman governing class. cicero's works on oratory are our most valuable latin sources for ancient theories on education and rhetoric. his philosophical works were the basis of moral philosophy during the middle ages. his speeches inspired many european political leaders and the founders of the united states. roman orator julius caesar and sallust were outstanding historical writers of cicero's time. caesar wrote commentaries on the gallic and civil wars in a straightforward style to justify his actions as a general. he wrote descriptions of people and their motives. the birth of lyric poetry in latin occurred during the same period. the short love lyrics of catullus are noted for their emotional intensity. catullus also wrote poems that attacked his enemies. contemporary with catullus, lucretius expounded the epicurean philosophy in a long poem, de rerum natura. one of the most learned writers of the period was marcus terentius varro. called "the most learned of the romans" by quintillian,[ ] he wrote about a remarkable variety of subjects, from religion to poetry. but only his writings on agriculture and the latin language are extant in their complete form. the augustan age[edit] main article: augustan literature (ancient rome) virgil the emperor augustus took a personal interest in the literary works produced during his years of power from bc to ad . this period is sometimes called the augustan age of latin literature. virgil published his pastoral eclogues, the georgics, and the aeneid, an epic poem describing the events that led to the creation of rome. virgil told how the trojan hero aeneas became the ancestor of the roman people. virgil also provided divine justification for roman rule over the world. although virgil died before he could put the finishing touches on his poem, it was soon recognized as the greatest work of latin literature.[ ][ ] virgil's friend horace wrote epodes, odes, satires, and epistles. the perfection of the odes in content, form, and style has charmed readers for hundreds of years. the satires and epistles discuss ethical and literary problems in an urbane, witty manner. horace's art of poetry, probably published as a separate work, greatly influenced later poetic theories. it stated the basic rules of classical writing as the romans understood and used them. after virgil died, horace was rome's leading poet.[ ] the latin elegy reached its highest development in the works of tibullus, propertius, and ovid. most of this poetry is concerned with love. ovid also wrote the fasti, which describes roman festivals and their legendary origins. ovid's greatest work, the metamorphoses weaves various myths into a fast-paced, fascinating story. ovid was a witty writer who excelled in creating lively and passionate characters. the metamorphoses was the best-known source of greek and roman mythology throughout the middle ages and the renaissance. it inspired many poets, painters, and composers. in prose, livy produced a history of the roman people in books. only survived, but they are a major source of information on rome.[ ] the imperial period[edit] from the death of augustus in ad until about , roman authors emphasized style and tried new and startling ways of expression. during the reign of nero from to , the stoic philosopher seneca wrote a number of dialogues and letters on such moral themes as mercy and generosity. in his natural questions, seneca analyzed earthquakes, floods, and storms. seneca's tragedies greatly influenced the growth of tragic drama in europe. his nephew lucan wrote the pharsalia (about ), an epic poem describing the civil war between caesar and pompey. the satyricon (about ) by petronius was the first picaresque latin novel.[ ] only fragments of the complete work survive. it describes the adventures of various low-class characters in absurd, extravagant, and dangerous situations, often in the world of petty crime. epic poems included the argonautica of gaius valerius flaccus, following the story of jason and the argonauts in their quest for the golden fleece, the thebaid of statius, following the conflict of oedipus's sons and the seven against thebes, and the punica of silius italicus, following the second punic war and the invasions of hannibal into italy. at the hands of martial, the epigram achieved the stinging quality still associated with it. juvenal satirized vice. the historian tacitus painted an unforgettably dark picture of the early empire in his histories and annals, both written in the early nd century. his contemporary suetonius wrote biographies of the roman rulers from julius caesar through domitian. the letters of pliny the younger described roman life of the period. quintilian composed the most complete work on ancient education that we possess. important works from the nd century include the attic nights of aulus gellius, a collection of anecdotes and reports of literary discussions among his friends; and the letters of the orator marcus cornelius fronto to marcus aurelius. the most famous work of the period was metamorphoses, also called the golden ass, by apuleius. this novel concerns a young man who is accidentally changed into a donkey. the story is filled with tales of love and witchcraft. latin in the middle ages, renaissance, and early modernity[edit] pagan latin literature showed a final burst of vitality from the late rd century till the th centuries. ammianus marcellinus in history, quintus aurelius symmachus in oratory, and ausonius and rutilius claudius namatianus in poetry. the mosella by ausonius demonstrated a modernism of feeling that indicates the end of classical literature as such. at the same time, other men laid the foundations of christian latin literature during the th century and th century. they included the church fathers augustine of hippo, jerome, and ambrose, and the first great christian poet, prudentius. during the renaissance there was a return to the latin of classical times, called for this reason neo-latin. this purified language continued to be used as the lingua franca among the learned throughout europe, with the great works of descartes, francis bacon, and baruch spinoza all being composed in latin. among the last important books written primarily in latin prose were the works of swedenborg (d. ), linnaeus (d. ), euler (d. ), gauss (d. ), and isaac newton (d. ), and latin remains a necessary skill for modern readers of great early modern works of linguistics, literature, and philosophy. several of the leading english poets wrote in latin as well as english. milton's poems are one example, but there were also thomas campion, george herbert and milton's colleague andrew marvell. some indeed wrote chiefly in latin and were valued for the elegance and classicism of their style. examples of these were anthony alsop and vincent bourne, who were noted for the ingenious way that they adapted their verse to describing details of life in the th century while never departing from the purity of latin diction.[ ] one of the last to be noted for the quality of his latin verse well into the th century was walter savage landor.[ ] characteristics[edit] much latin writing reflects the romans' interest in rhetoric, the art of speaking and persuading. public speaking had great importance for educated romans because most of them wanted successful political careers. when rome was a republic, effective speaking often determined who would be elected or what bills would pass. after rome became an empire, the ability to impress and persuade people by the spoken word lost much of its importance. but training in rhetoric continued to flourish and to affect styles of writing. a large part of rhetoric consists of the ability to present a familiar idea in a striking new manner that attracts attention. latin authors became masters of this art of variety. language and form[edit] latin is a highly inflected language, with many grammatical forms for various words. as a result, it can be used with a pithiness and brevity unknown in english. it also lends itself to elaboration, because its tight syntax holds even the longest and most complex sentence together as a logical unit. latin can be used with conciseness, as in the works of sallust and tacitus. or it can have wide, sweeping phrases, as in the works of livy and the speeches of cicero. latin lacks poetic vocabulary that marks the greek poetry. some earlier latin poets tried to make up for this deficiency by creating new compound words, as the greeks had done. but roman writers seldom invented words. except in epic poetry, they tended to use a familiar vocabulary, giving it poetic value by combinations of words and by rich sound effects. rome's leading poets had great technical skill in the choice and arrangement of language. they also had an intimate knowledge of the greek poets, whose themes appear in almost all roman literature. see also[edit] 	ancient rome portal 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thought to be of equestrian rank, and always remained close to his roots in the area, owning a large farm in the reatine plain, reported as near lago di ripa sottile,[ ] until his old age. he supported pompey, reaching the office of praetor, after having been tribune of the people, quaestor and curule aedile.[ ] he was one of the commission of twenty that carried out the great agrarian scheme of caesar for the resettlement of capua and campania (  bc).[ ] statue of marcus terentius varro in rieti during caesar's civil war he commanded one of pompey's armies in the ilerda campaign.[ ] he escaped the penalties of being on the losing side in the civil war through two pardons granted by julius caesar, before and after the battle of pharsalus.[ ] caesar later appointed him to oversee the public library of rome in  bc, but following caesar's death mark antony proscribed him, resulting in the loss of much of his property, including his library. as the republic gave way to empire, varro gained the favour of augustus, under whose protection he found the security and quiet to devote himself to study and writing. varro studied under the roman philologist lucius aelius stilo, and later at athens under the academic philosopher antiochus of ascalon. varro proved to be a highly productive writer and turned out more than latin works on a variety of topics. among his many works, two stand out for historians; nine books of disciplines and his compilation of the varronian chronology. his nine books of disciplines became a model for later encyclopedists, especially pliny the elder. the most noteworthy portion of the nine books of disciplines is its use of the liberal arts as organizing principles.[ ] varro decided to focus on identifying nine of these arts: grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, musical theory, medicine, and architecture. using varro's list, subsequent writers defined the seven classical "liberal arts of the medieval schools".[ ] in bc,[ ] in his old age, he also wrote on agriculture for his wife fundania, writing a "voluminous" work de re rustica (also called res rusticae)—similar to cato the elder's similar work de agri cultura—on the management of large slave-run estates.[ ] calendars[edit] fasti antiates maiores, an inscription containing the roman calendar. this calendar predates the julian reform of the calendar; it contains the months quintilis and sextilis, and allows for the insertion of an intercalary month the compilation of the varronian chronology was an attempt to determine an exact year-by-year timeline of roman history up to his time. it is based on the traditional sequence of the consuls of the roman republic—supplemented, where necessary, by inserting "dictatorial" and "anarchic" years. it has been demonstrated to be somewhat erroneous but has become the widely accepted standard chronology, in large part because it was inscribed on the arch of augustus in rome; though that arch no longer stands, a large portion of the chronology has survived under the name of fasti capitolini. works[edit] varro's literary output was prolific; ritschl estimated it at  works in some  books, of which only one work survives complete, although we possess many fragments of the others, mostly in gellius' attic nights. he was called "the most learned of the romans" by quintilian,[ ] and also recognized by plutarch as "a man deeply read in roman history".[ ] varro was recognized as an important source by many other ancient authors, among them cicero, pliny the elder, virgil in the georgics, columella, aulus gellius, macrobius, augustine, and vitruvius, who credits him (vii.intr. ) with a book on architecture. his only complete work extant, rerum rusticarum libri tres (three books on agriculture), has been described as "the well digested system of an experienced and successful farmer who has seen and practised all that he records."[ ] one noteworthy aspect of the work is his anticipation of microbiology and epidemiology. varro warned his contemporaries to avoid swamps and marshland, since in such areas ...there are bred certain minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes, but which float in the air and enter the body through the mouth and nose and cause serious diseases.[ ][ ][ ] extant works[edit] plan of the birdhouse at casinum designed and built by varro 	de lingua latina libri xxv (or on the latin language in books, of which six books (v–x) survive, partly mutilated) 	rerum rusticarum libri iii (or agricultural topics in three books) known lost works[edit] 	saturarum menippearum libri cl or menippean satires in books 	antiquitates rerum humanarum et divinarum libri xli (antiquities of human and divine things)[ ] 	logistoricon libri lxxvi 	hebdomades vel de imaginibus 	disciplinarum libri ix (an encyclopedia on the liberal arts, of which the first book dealt with grammar) 	de rebus urbanis libri iii (or on urban topics in three books) 	de gente populi romani libri iiii (cf. augustine, 'de civitate dei' xxi. .) 	de sua vita libri iii (or on his own life in three books) 	de familiis troianis (or on the families of troy) 	de antiquitate litterarum libri ii (addressed to the tragic poet lucius accius; it is therefore one of his earliest writings) 	de origine linguae latinae libri iii (addressed to pompey; cf. augustine, 'de civitate dei' xxii. .) 	Περί Χαρακτήρων (in at least three books, on the formation of words) 	quaestiones plautinae libri v (containing interpretations of rare words found in the comedies of plautus) 	de similitudine verborum libri iii (on regularity in forms and words) 	de utilitate sermonis libri iiii (on the principle of anomaly or irregularity) 	de sermone latino [it] libri v (?) (addressed to marcellus,[ ] on orthography and the metres of poetry) 	de philosophia (cf. augustine, 'de civitate dei' xix. .) most of the extant fragments of these works (mostly the grammatical works) can be found in the goetz–schoell edition of de lingua latina, pp.  – ; in the collection of wilmanns, pp.  – ; and in that of funaioli, pp.  – . references[edit] 	^ "marcus terentius varro | roman author". encyclopedia britannica. retrieved january . 	^ "lacuscurtius • varro on agriculture – book i". penelope.uchicago.edu. retrieved january . 	^ a b baynes, thomas spencer ( ). the encyclopaedia britannica: a dictionary of arts, sciences, and general literature. c. scribner's sons. 	^ caesar; damon, cynthia ( ). civil war. harvard university press. isbn  - . 	^ prioreschi, plinio ( ). a history of medicine: roman medicine. horatius press. isbn  - . 	^ a b lindberg, david ( ). the beginnings of western science. chicago: university of chicago press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . retrieved march . 	^ flower, harriet i., director de la publicación. ( ). the cambridge companion to the roman republic. cambridge university press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . oclc  .cs maint: multiple names: authors list (link) 	^ flower, harriet i., director de la publicación. ( ). the cambridge companion to the roman republic. cambridge university press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . oclc  .cs maint: multiple names: authors list (link) 	^ quintilian. "chapter ". institutio oratoria. book x. verse . 	^ plutarch. life of romulus. new york: modern library. p.  . 	^ harrison, fairfax ( ). "note upon the roman agronomists". roman farm management. new york: the macmillan company. pp.  – [ ]. 	^ varro, marcus terentius ( ) [ ]. de re rustica. loeb classical library. i. . – via bill thayer's website. 	^ thompson, sue (march ). "from ground to tap" (pdf). the mole: (sidebar). archived from the original on october . retrieved august . 	^ hempelmann, ernst; krafts, kristine (october ). "bad air, amulets and mosquitoes: , years of changing perspectives on malaria". malaria journal. : . doi: . / - - - . issn  - . pmc  . pmid  . 	^ "marcus terentius varro | roman author". encyclopedia britannica. retrieved january . 	^ wilmanns, augustus ( ). "ii: ". de m. terenti varronis libris grammaticis. gutenberg. berlin: weidmann. marcellus autem ad quem haec uolumina misit quis fuerit nescio. 	^ several people called marcellus lived during varro's time. the identity of this one is unclear.[ ] further reading[edit] 	cardauns, b. marcus terentius varro: einführung in sein werk. heidelberger studienhefte zur altertumswissenschaft. heidelberg, germany: c. winter, . 	d’alessandro, p. “varrone e la tradizione metrica antica”. spudasmata, volume . hildesheim; zürich; new york: georg olms verlag, . 	dahlmann, h.m. “terentius varro. paulys realencyclopädie der classischen altertumswissenschaft”. supplement , abretten bis thunudromon. edited by wilhelm kroll, – . stuttgart: metzler, . 	ferriss-hill, j. “varro’s intuition of cognate relationships.” illinois classical studies, volume , , pp. – . 	freudenburg, k. "the afterlife of varro in horace's sermones: generic issues in roman satire." generic interfaces in latin literature: encounters, interactions and transformations, edited by stavros frangoulidis, de gruyter, , pp. – . 	kronenberg, l. allegories of farming from greece and rome: philosophical satire in xenophon, varro and virgil. cambridge/new york: cambridge university press, . 	nelsestuen, g. varro the agronomist: political philosophy, satire, and agriculture in the late republic. columbus: ohio state university press, . 	richardson, j.s. “the triumph of metellus scipio and the dramatic date of varro, rr .” the classical quarterly, volume , no. , , pp. – . 	taylor, d.j.. declinatio : a study of the linguistic theory of marcus terentius varro. amsterdam: john benjamins publishing company, . 	van nuffelen, p. “varro’s divine antiquities: roman religion as an image of truth.” classical philology, volume , no. , , pp. – . external links[edit] 		wikiquote has quotations related to: marcus 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(march ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) 	for the grammarian, see aelius herodianus. for the dynasty, see herodian dynasty. for the saint numbered among the seventy disciples, see herodion of patras. herodian or herodianus (greek: Ἡρωδιανός) of syria, sometimes referred to as "herodian of antioch" (c. – c. ), was a minor roman civil servant who wrote a colourful history in greek titled history of the empire from the death of marcus (τῆς μετὰ Μάρκον βασιλείας ἱστορία) in eight books covering the years to . his work is not entirely reliable although his relatively unbiased account of elagabalus is more useful than that of cassius dio. he was a greek (perhaps from antioch) who appears to have lived for a considerable period of time in rome, but possibly without holding any public office. from his extant work, we gather that he was still living at an advanced age during the reign of gordianus iii, who ascended the throne in . beyond this, nothing is known of his life. herodian writes ( . . ; . . ) that the events described in his history occurred during his lifetime. photius (codex ) gives an outline of the contents of this work and passes a flattering encomium on the style of herodian, which he describes as clear, vigorous, agreeable, and preserving a happy medium between an utter disregard of art and elegance and a profuse employment of the artifices and prettinesses which were known under the name of atticism, as well as between boldness and bombast. he appears to have used thucydides as a model to some extent, both for style and for the general composition of his work, often introducing speeches wholly or in part imaginary. in spite of occasional inaccuracies in chronology and geography, his narrative is in the main truthful and impartial[citation needed]. however, some[who?] charge him with showing too great a partiality for pertinax. contents 	 birth, life, and death 	 occupation and social status 	 accomplishments 	 references 	 external links birth, life, and death[edit] the dates of the birth and death of herodian are unknown. all available information concerning his life is derived from what he himself wrote, so the evidence is scarce. one can assume that he must have reached the age of ten by the year due to the attentive detail in his descriptions of the events of that time. one notion is that herodian must have finished writing around , which would have made him about . he mentions, “my aim is to write a systematic account of the events within a period of seventy years, covering the reigns of several emperors, of which i have personal experience.” ( . . ) this reaffirms the notion that herodian was about years of age when this was written and that the actions did indeed occur during his lifetime. however, it is possible that his history was composed at a later date. herodian's descriptions of gordian iii are less than flattering, and it is doubtful that he released such a negative review of a current emperor. following this logic, his history was finished in at the earliest, when gordian iii died. in his first and third books, herodian mentions the games of commodus in , and the secular games of septimius severus in . did herodian attend the games of commodus, he had been at least at the time, which is to say that he was born in at the latest. the nationality of herodian is also unclear. he was not from italy, for he says the alps were bigger than anything “in our part of the world.” ( . . ) it has been suggested that herodian was from alexandria since he placed such a large emphasis on caracalla's massacre of this city and its inhabitants. it is also believed that he could have possibly been an eyewitness to these attacks.[citation needed] herodian does refer to alexandria as the second city of the empire; however, this may be disregarded since he also applies the same title to antioch and carthage. it has been proposed that herodian was the son of aelius herodianus, an alexandrian grammarian. although this does fit chronologically, there is no other evidence to support it. the popular speculation, however, is that herodian was from antioch. herodian describes the character of the syrians as quick-witted and mentions them twice more. however, there are also gaps in herodian's knowledge of syrian affairs which lead one to believe that he might not have been from the region at all. for example, he confuses two parthian kings, and his chronology and geography of the parthian campaign in – are deeply flawed. these flaws could be explained with a lack of knowledge of a small part of the empire; however, one would assume that an inhabitant of syria would have had access to this knowledge. in short, unless an inscription is discovered, herodian's place of birth will never be known for certain. occupation and social status[edit] neither the occupation nor the social status of herodian is known. herodian mentions, “i have written a history of the events following the death of marcus which i saw and heard in my lifetime. i had a personal share in some of these events during my imperial and public service.” ( . . ) it has been suggested that herodian was a senator due to his knowledge of the senatus consultum tacitum, which was a secret declaration by the senate when they chose the emperors pupienus and balbinus. however, it is also stated that news of this was leaked by some senators, and it certainly would not have remained a secret for the entirety of herodian's lifetime. it is possible, however, that herodian was a freedman. this fits the profile perfectly, for he would not have cared for the larger political issues, and instead, would have concentrated on personalities and intricacies. still yet, herodian could have been an apparitor, a scribe or an attendant to the emperor. this would be suiting, for he would have had access to senatorial documents, traveled extensively, and been knowledgeable in the field of fiscal affairs, which herodian repetitively stressed in his history.[ ] accomplishments[edit] herodian's roman history is a collection of eight books covering the period from the death of marcus aurelius in a.d. to the beginning of gordian iii's reign in . it provides a first person account of one of the most politically diverse times of the roman empire. the first book describes the reign of commodus from to , and the second discusses the year of the five emperors in . book three encompasses the reign of septimius severus from to , while the fourth discusses the reign of caracalla from to . book five is about the reign of elagabalus from through , and book six deals with the reign of severus alexander from to . the seventh book recounts the reign of maximinus thrax from to , and the final one describes the year of the six emperors in . most likely, herodian is writing for an eastern audience, for he often explains different roman customs and beliefs that would have seemed foreign to easterners. herodian has been both praised and criticized by scholars. the first person on record to review herodian is the ninth-century patriarch of constantinople, photius. of herodian, photius wrote “he neither exaggerates with hyperbole nor omits anything essential; in short, in all the virtues of historiography there are few men who are his superior.” zosimus used him as a source as did john of antioch when writing his world chronicle. an english translator of the roman history wrote in that herodian "still preserves a majesty suitable to the greatness of the subject which he treats, and has something in him so pleasing and comely, as perhaps all the art and labour of other men can never reach.” altheim commended herodian's wide vision of the period, and f.a. wolf acclaimed herodian's lack of bias and superstition. however, not all views of herodian are positive. for example, wolf also charged herodian with a deficiency in critical faculty. while the author of the historia augusta drew from herodian, he also censured him for bias, and herodian was by no means zosimus’ first choice. similarly, joannes zonaras only utilized herodian where cassius dio's history leaves off. herodian has long been criticized for a lack of historical accuracy, but recent studies have tended to side with him, legitimizing his historical facts[citation needed]. in the second book, herodian states that his intention was to “narrate only the most important and conclusive…actions separately and in chronological order.” ( . . ) because of this, herodian sometimes conflates a large number of events into a single reference or two. for example, all of caracalla's campaign in the north during through is condensed into two short allusions. similarly, a single reference to a winter in sirmium sums up maximinus’ battles on the rhine and danube in through . herodian also occasionally falls short in his descriptions of geography. he confuses arabia scenite with arabia felix and claims that issus was where the final battle and capture of darius iii took place. in regards to cassius dio, both he and herodian admittedly make many errors in their histories. dio is credited as the expert when it comes to the senate; however, herodian challenges dio on his description of the people's reaction to the proclamation of septimius severus as their new emperor. dio's work is not always the more accurate of the two and must not be immediately chosen over herodian's. references[edit] 	^ bartolomeo borghesi suggested that cil , , for a legate of sicily, may be in his honour see ils . 	browning, robert. the classical review, new series, vol. , no. 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		the list below includes roman women who were notable for their family connections, or their sons or husbands, or their own actions. in the earlier periods, women came to the attention of (later) historians either as poisoners of their husbands (a very few cases), or as wives, daughters, and mothers of great men such as scipio africanus. in later periods, women exercised or tried to exercise political power either through their husbands (as did fulvia and livia drusilla) or political intrigues (as did clodia and servilia), or directly (as did agrippina the younger and later roman empresses). even the severan dynasty from the beginning to the end was completely dominated by four powerful and calculating women. contents 	 roman kingdom ( bc– bc) 	 distinguished women of the roman republic ( - bc) 	 distinguished women of the julio-claudian dynasty (c. bc - ad) 	 distinguished women of the classical roman empire 	 see also 	 references roman kingdom ( bc– bc)[edit] 	name 	image 	dates 	details 	rhea silvia 	 	c. s bc 	according to the founding myth of rome, rhea silvia was a vestal virgin who got pregnant by mars and gave birth to the twins romulus and remus, who went on to found the city, with romulus becoming its first king. 	hersilia 	 	c. s bc 	hersilia was the wife of romulus and following the abduction of the sabine women, helped end the conflict between the romans and sabines. 	tarpeia 	 	c. s bc 	tarpeia was the daughter of the roman commander spurius tarpeius and a vestal virgin who betrayed rome to the sabines at the time of their women's abduction for what she thought would be a reward of jewellery. 	tatia 	 	c. s– s bc 	tatia was the daughter of sabine king titus tatius and first wife of numa pompilius, who would become rome's second king. 	lucretia (queen of rome) 	 	c. s– s bc 	lucretia was the second wife of roman king titus tatius. 	tanaquil 	 	died c. bc 	tanaquil came from a powerful etruscan family and was queen of rome through her marriage to lucius tarquinius priscus, rome's fifth king. 	tarquinia 	 	c. s– s bc 	tarquinia was the daughter of rome's fifth king, lucius tarquinius priscus, and his wife tanaquil. 	tullia major 	 	died c. bc 	tullia major was the first daughter of rome's sixth king, servius tullius, elder sister of tullia major. she was married to lucius tarquinius superbus, while her younger sister married arruns tarquinius. she was assassinated by her husband and younger sister, so that they could marry and become monarchs. 	tullia minor 	 	died after bc 	tullia major was the second daughter of rome's sixth king, servius tullius, and the young sister of tullia major. she was originally married to arruns tarquinius, while her sister married lucius tarquinius superbus. dominating her husband, she conspired with her brother-in-law to kill her husband and sister. after their assassination and that of her father, they got married and she became the last queen of rome. following lucretia's suicide and the overthrow of the monarchy, she and her family was exiled. 	lucretia 	 	died c.  bc 	lucretia was a noblewoman whose rape and eventual suicide led to the overthrow of the roman monarchy. distinguished women of the roman republic ( - bc)[edit] 	valeria, the name of the women of the valeria gens 	valeria, first priestess of fortuna muliebris in bc[ ] 	aemilia tertia (с. - or bc), wife of scipio africanus and mother of cornelia (see below), noted for the unusual freedom given her by her husband, her enjoyment of luxuries, and her influence as role model for elite roman women after the second punic war. her date of birth, marriage, and death are all unknown. her husband's birth and death dates are also not known precisely, but approximated. 	cornelia (с. s - c. bc), virtually deified by roman women as a model of feminine virtues and stoicism, but never officially deified. the first roman woman, whose approximate birth year and whose year of death is known, thanks to a law she had passed to allow her granddaughter to inherit. 	licinia, the name of the women of the gens licinius. notable members include 	licinia, a woman killed by her relatives in bc for murdering her husband 	pomponia (mother of scipio) ( nd century bc), daughter, niece, wife, and mother of consuls; born a plebeian noblewoman but married to a patrician. mother of scipio africanus and scipio asiaticus. she was reportedly very religious and devout, but nothing else is known of her including the year of her marriage or death. 	publilia ( st century bc), the name of a woman of the gens publilius. she was killed in bc for poisoning her husband, the consul of the preceding year. distinguished women of the julio-claudian dynasty (c. bc - ad)[edit] 	agrippina the elder (c. bc - ad ), wife of germanicus, granddaughter of augustus, mother of emperor caligula and agrippina the younger (below) 	agrippina the younger ( st century), niece and wife of emperor claudius, mother of emperor nero; held up as a bad example. 	aurelia ( st century bc), mother of julius caesar 	antonia the elder ( st century bc), grandmother of emperor nero 	antonia minor ( st century bc- st century ad), mother of emperor claudius and germanicus, favorite niece of augustus caesar, considered a role model for women in the roman empire after she refused to remarry and spent the rest of her life raising her children and grandchildren. 	atia balba caesonia, mother of augustus and octavia minor 	claudia pulchra, wife of publius quinctilius varus 	claudia marcella, nieces of caesar augustus 	domitia lepida the elder, aunt of emperor nero 	domitia lepida the younger, sister of the following, mother of the empress valeria messalina 	domitia longina, wife of emperor domitian 	domitia calvilla, mother of emperor marcus aurelius 	domitia paulina, aelia domitia paulina, julia serviana paulina, female relatives of emperor hadrian 	julia the elder, daughter of augustus 	julia livia ( st century), granddaughter of emperor tiberius 	livia drusilla ( st century bc), wife of tiberius claudius nero, mother of the emperor tiberius, and then wife of augustus caesar. the first woman to be officially deified. 	livilla ( st century), granddaughter of livia 	marcia, sister of the consul quintus marcius rex, wife of gaius julius caesar ii, paternal grandmother of julius caesar 	messalina, emperor claudius' wife, notorious for her promiscuity. 	octavia the younger, sister of caesar augustus and fourth wife of marcus antonius (mark antony) 	plautia urgulanilla, emperor claudius' first wife 	scribonia, second wife of augustus and mother of his only legitimate child (whom she apparently ignored until her exile) 	vipsania agrippina, first wife of tiberius and the only one he loved 	vipsania julia ( bc - c. ad ), granddaughter of augustus distinguished women of the classical roman empire[edit] 	claudia metrodora ( st century ad), greco-roman public benefactor, lived on kos. 	lucilla, ( nd century ad) roman empress, failed in her coup attempt on brother commodus. 	aquilia severa ( rd century), vestal virgin and wife of elagabalus. 	clodia ( st century bc), possibly catullus's lesbia 	domitia decidiana - wife of roman general gnaeus julius agricola and mother-in-law to historian tacitus. 	galla placidia, ( th century) 	julia avita mamaea ( rd century ad), mother of emperor alexander severus, she played a leading and magistral role in commanding the roman empire throughout her son's reign, she (who also did not have the official title), exercised the her regency during the young of the her son, first with the help and support of her mother julia maesa and then herself alone. mamea indeed had a good reputation for modesty, prudence and loyalty to the dynasty. the her son decided to name her, once she reached the age of majority, as a consors imperii ("partner in rule"), a qualification that made her "associated in command". she and her son were killed by rebel soldiers during a military campaign against the germans. 	julia soaemias ( rd century ad), mother of emperor elagabalus, she (who also did not have the official title), exercised the her regency during the young of the her son, with the support and companionship of her mother julia maesa. she attended meetings of the senate, and even held a "women's senate" deciding on matters of fashion and protocol, after an uprising led by the praetorian guard, julia entered the camp to protect her son, but was slain along with elagabalus by the praetorian guard in . 	julia domna ( rd century ad), wife of septimius severus and mother of caracalla and geta, she for more than two decades, with her rare and enormous influence, she determined the fate of the roman empire and helped her husband and sons in administering the empire until her death. julia supported and consulted with artists, thinkers, and scholars in many fields, creating an influential circle at court devoted to the advancement of philosophy. she often accompanied severus and after their son and his successor caracalla on campaign, earning her the title “mother of the invincible camps” from ce. she became a deity after her death. 	julia maesa ( rd century), grandmother of elagabalus and alexander severus, who was the major power behind the throne in the reigns of her grandsons, as powerful augusta of the roman empire from to her death. she is best known for her plotting and scheming which resulted in the restoration of the severan dynasty to the roman throne after the assassination of caracalla and the usurpation of the throne by macrinus. she was later deified in syria along with her sister. 	pomponia graecina, possibly the saint lucina, a descendant of vipsania (above). 	saint procula wife of pontius pilate. 	servilia, mother of brutus and lover of julius caesar. 	ulpia severina ( rd century ad), wife of emperor aurelian. there's evidence to suppose that, after aurelian's death, she ruled the roman empire for a short period of time, until the new emperor, marcus claudius tacitus was chosen by the senate. this is the only moment before rome's conversion to christianity that the ruler was a woman, a handful of women would rule as empress in their own right from the th century onwards, such as pulcheria. this list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. see also[edit] 	women in ancient rome 	list of vestal virgins references[edit] 	^ dion.hal. . . ; cf. . - broughton, vol i, p. 		v 	t 	e ancient rome topics 	 	outline 	timeline 	history	 	 	foundation 	kingdom 	overthrow 	republic 	empire	 	history 	pax romana 	principate 	dominate 	western empire 	fall 	historiography of the fall 	byzantine empire 	decline 	fall 	constitution	 	history 	kingdom 	republic 	empire 	late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	curiate 	centuriate 	tribal 	plebeian 	executive magistrates 	spqr 	law	 	twelve tables 	mos maiorum 	citizenship 	auctoritas 	imperium 	status 	litigation 	government	 	curia 	forum 	cursus honorum 	collegiality 	emperor 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wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		  (redirected from neumes) 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		"daseia" redirects here. for the greek diacritic, see rough breathing. a sample of kýrie eléison xi (orbis factor) from the liber usualis. listen to it interpreted. a neume (/ˈnjuːm/; sometimes spelled neum)[ ][ ][ ] is the basic element of western and eastern systems of musical notation prior to the invention of five-line staff notation. the earliest neumes were inflective marks that indicated the general shape but not necessarily the exact notes or rhythms to be sung. later developments included the use of heightened neumes that showed the relative pitches between neumes, and the creation of a four-line musical staff that identified particular pitches. neumes do not generally indicate rhythm, but additional symbols were sometimes juxtaposed with neumes to indicate changes in articulation, duration, or tempo. neumatic notation was later used in medieval music to indicate certain patterns of rhythm called rhythmic modes, and eventually evolved into modern musical notation. neumatic notation remains standard in modern editions of plainchant. contents 	 etymology 	 early history 	 western plainchant 	 solesmes notation 	 rhythmic interpretation 	 illustrations 	 . clefs 	 . single notes 	 . two notes 	 . three notes 	 . compound neumes 	 . other basic markings 	 . interpretive marks 	 other functions 	 other types 	 digital notation 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 external links etymology[edit] the word "neume" entered the english language in the middle english forms "newme", "nevme", "neme" in the th century, from the middle french "neume", in turn from either medieval latin "pneuma" or "neuma", the former either from ancient greek πνεῦμα pneuma ("breath") or νεῦμα neuma ("sign"),[ ][ ] or else directly from greek as a corruption or an adaptation of the former.[ ][citation needed] early history[edit] although chant was probably sung since the earliest days of the church, for centuries they were only transmitted orally. the earliest known systems involving neumes are of aramaic origin and were used to notate inflections in the quasi-emmelic (melodic) recitation of the christian holy scriptures. as such they resemble functionally a similar system used for the notation of recitation of the qur'an, the holy book of islam. this early system was called ekphonetic notation, from the greek ἐκφώνησις ekphonesis meaning quasi-melodic recitation of text. around the th century neumes began to become shorthand mnemonic aids for the proper melodic recitation of chant.[ ] a prevalent view is that neumatic notation was first developed in the eastern roman empire. this seems plausible given the well-documented peak of musical composition and cultural activity in major cities of the empire (now regions of southern turkey, syria, lebanon and israel) at that time. the corpus of extant byzantine music in manuscript and printed form is far larger than that of the gregorian chant, due in part to the fact that neumes fell into disuse in the west after the rise of modern staff notation and with it the new techniques of polyphonic music, while the eastern tradition of greek orthodox church music and the reformed neume notation remains alive today. slavic neume notations ("znamenny chant") are on the whole even more difficult to decipher and transcribe than byzantine or gregorian neume notations. western plainchant[edit] "iubilate deo universa terra" shows psalm verses in unheightened cheironomic neumes. the earliest western notation for chant appears in the th century. these early staffless neumes, called cheironomic or in campo aperto, appeared as freeform wavy lines above the text. various scholars see these as deriving from cheironomic hand-gestures, from the ekphonetic notation of byzantine chant, or from punctuation or accent marks.[ ] a single neume could represent a single pitch, or a series of pitches all sung on the same syllable. cheironomic neumes indicated changes in pitch and duration within each syllable, but did not attempt to specify the pitches of individual notes, the intervals between pitches within a neume, nor the relative starting pitches of different syllables' neumes. there is evidence that the earliest western musical notation, in the form of neumes in campo aperto (without staff-lines), was created at metz around , as a result of charlemagne's desire for frankish church musicians to retain the performance nuances used by the roman singers.[ ] presumably these were intended only as mnemonics for melodies learned by ear. the earliest extant manuscripts ( th– th centuries) of such neumes include: 	the abbey of st. gall, in modern-day switzerland 	messine neumes (from the monastery of metz in northeast france) 	aquitanian neumes (southern france, also used in spain) 	laon, chartres, montpellier digraphic neumes in an th-century manuscript from dijon. letter names for individual notes in the neume are provided in the early th century, beneventan neumes (from the churches of benevento in southern italy) were written at varying distances from the text to indicate the overall shape of the melody; such neumes are called "heightened" or "diastematic" neumes, which showed the relative pitches between neumes. a few manuscripts from the same period use "digraphic" notation in which note names are included below the neumes. shortly after this, one to four staff lines—an innovation traditionally ascribed to guido d'arezzo—clarified the exact relationship between pitches. one line was marked as representing a particular pitch, usually c or f. these neumes resembled the same thin, scripty style of the chironomic notation. by the th century, chironomic neumes had evolved into square notation;[ ] in germany, a variant called gothic neumes continued to be used until the th century. this variant is also known as hufnagel notation, as the used neumes resemble the nails (hufnagels) one uses to attach horseshoes.[ ] "gaudeamus omnes", from the graduale aboense, was scripted using square notation. by the th century, the neumes of gregorian chant were usually written in square notation on a staff with four lines and three spaces and a clef marker, as in the th– th century graduale aboense shown here. in square notation, small groups of ascending notes on a syllable are shown as stacked squares, read from bottom to top, while descending notes are written with diamonds read from left to right. in melismatic chants, in which a syllable may be sung to a large number of notes, a series of smaller such groups of neumes are written in succession, read from left to right. a special symbol called the custos, placed at the end of a system, showed which pitch came next at the start of the following system. special neumes such as the oriscus, quilisma, and liquescent neumes, indicate particular vocal treatments for these notes. this system of square notation is standard in modern chantbooks. solesmes notation[edit] various manuscripts and printed editions of gregorian chant, using varying styles of square-note neumes, circulated throughout the catholic church for centuries. some editions added rhythmic patterns, or meter, to the chants. in the th century the monks of the benedictine abbey of solesmes, particularly dom joseph pothier ( – ) and dom andré mocquereau ( – ) collected facsimiles of the earliest manuscripts and published them in a series of publications called paléographie musicale (french article). they also assembled definitive versions of many of the chants, and developed a standardized form of the square-note notation that was adopted by the catholic church and is still in use in publications such as the liber usualis (although there are also published editions of this book in modern notation). as a general rule, the notes of a single neume are never sung to more than one syllable; all three pitches of a three-note neume, for example, must all be sung on the same syllable. (this is not universally accepted; richard crocker has argued that in the special case of the early aquitanian polyphony of the st. martial school, neumes must have been "broken" between syllables to facilitate the coordination of parts.) however, a single syllable may be sung to so many notes that several neumes in succession are used to notate it. the single-note neumes indicate that only a single note corresponds to that syllable. chants that primarily use single-note neumes are called syllabic; chants with typically one multi-note neume per syllable are called neumatic, and those with many neumes per syllable are called melismatic. rhythmic interpretation[edit] the solesmes monks also determined, based on their research, performance practice for gregorian chant. because of the ambiguity of medieval musical notation, the question of rhythm in gregorian chant is contested by scholars. some neumes, such as the pressus, do indicate the lengthening of notes.[contradictory] common modern practice, following the solesmes interpretation, is to perform gregorian chant with no beat or regular metric accent, in which time is free, allowing the text to determine the accent and the melodic contour to determine phrasing. by the th century, with the widespread use of square notation, it is believed that most chant was sung with each note getting approximately an equal value, although jerome of moravia cites exceptions in which certain notes, such as the final notes of a chant, are lengthened.[ ] the solesmes school, represented by dom pothier and dom mocquereau, supports a rhythm of equal values per note, allowing for lengthening and shortening of note values for musical purposes. a second school of thought, including wagner, jammers, and lipphardt, supports different rhythmic realizations of chant by imposing musical meter on the chant in various ways.[ ] musicologist gustave reese said that the second group, called mensuralists, "have an impressive amount of historical evidence on their side" (music in the middle ages, p.  ), but the equal-note solesmes interpretation has permeated the musical world, apparently due to its ease of learning and resonance with modern musical taste.[ ] illustrations[edit] examples of neumes may be seen here: "basic & liquescent aquitanian neumes" (archive from june , accessed september ), [ ], [ ]. clefs[edit] neumes are written on a four-line staff on the lines and spaces, unlike modern music notation, which uses five lines. chant does not rely on any absolute pitch or key; the clefs are only to establish the half and whole steps of the solfege or hexachord scale: "ut", "re", "mi", "fa", "sol", "la", "ti", "ut". the clef bracketing a line indicates the location "ut" in the case of the c clef, or "fa" in the case of the f clef as shown: 			c clef 		f clef single notes[edit] 			punctum ("point") 		virga ("rod") 		bipunctum ("two points") the virga and punctum are sung identically. scholars disagree on whether the bipunctum indicates a note twice as long, or whether the same note should be re-articulated. when this latter interpretation is favoured, it may be called a repercussive neume. two notes[edit] 			clivis ("by slope")	two notes descending 		podatus or pes ("foot")	two notes ascending when two notes are one above the other, as in the podatus, the lower note is always sung first. three notes[edit] 			scandicus	three notes ascending 		climacus	three notes descending 		torculus	down-up-down 		porrectus	up-down-up the fact that the first two notes of the porrectus are connected as a diagonal rather than as individual notes seems to be a scribe's shortcut. compound neumes[edit] several neumes in a row can be juxtaposed for a single syllable, but the following usages have specific names. these are only a few examples. 			praepunctis	a note appended to the beginning is praepunctis; this example is a podatus pressus because it involves a repeated note 		subpunctis	one or more notes appended at the end of a neume; this example is a scandicus subbipunctis other basic markings[edit] 			flat	same meaning as modern flat; only occurs on b, and is placed before the entire neume, or group of neumes, rather than immediately before the affected note. its effect typically lasts the length of a word and is reinserted if needed on the next word. 		custos	at the end of a staff, the custos indicates what the first note of the next staff will be 		mora	like a dot in modern notation, lengthens the preceding note, typically doubling it interpretive marks[edit] the interpretation of these markings is the subject of great dispute among scholars. 			vertical episema (vertical stroke)	indicates a subsidiary accent when there are five or more notes in a neume group. this marking was an invention of the solemnes interpreters, rather than a marking from the original manuscripts. 		horizontal episema (horizontal stroke)	used over a single note or a group of notes (as shown), essentially ignored in the solesmes interpretation; other scholars treat it as indicating a lengthening or stress on the note(s). 		liquescent neume (small note)	can occur on almost any type of neume pointing up or down; usually associated with certain letter combinations such as double consonants, consonant pairs, or diphthongs in the text; usually interpreted as a kind of grace note 		quilisma (squiggly note)	always as part of a multi-note neume, usually a climacus, this sign is a matter of great dispute; the solesmes interpretation is that the preceding note is to be lengthened slightly. other interpretations of the quilisma: 	shake or trill—prof. william mahrt of stanford university supports this interpretation. this interpretation is also put into practice by the washington cappella antiqua, under the current direction of dr. patrick jacobson. 	quarter-tone or accidental. the support for this interpretation lies in some early digraphic manuscripts that combine chironomic neumes with letter-names. in places where other manuscripts have quilismas these digraphs often have a strange symbol in place of a letter, suggesting to some scholars the use of a pitch outside the solmization system represented by the letter names.[citation needed] there are other uncommon neume shapes thought to indicate special types of vocal performance, though their precise meaning is a matter of debate:[ ] 	the trigon.[ ] the orthodox solesme interpretation of this obscure three-note neume is a unison plus a third below, but there are other possibilities.[ ] it appears to have originated at st. gall, though it is also widespread in french chant sources from the th and th centuries.[ ] it has been proposed that it may have a microtonal meaning, but there is "an admitted lack of conclusiveness in the arguments in favor of notes smaller than a semitone."[ ] 	the distropha and tristropha are groups of two and three apostrophes, usually of the same pitch. they probably differed from normal repeated notes (virgae or puncta) in the way they were sung. although there is some doubt on the matter, most modern writers accept aurelian of réôme's description of a staccato reiteration.[ ] 	the oriscus is a single-note neume, usually found added as an auxiliary note to another neume. the name may derive from either the greek horos (limit) or ōriskos (little hill). its intended manner of performance is not clear. although a microtonal interpretation has been suggested, there is possible contradicting evidence in the dijon tonary, montpellier h. .[ ] 	the pressus is a compound neume, usually involving an initial neume followed by an oriscus and a punctum. the initial neume may be a virga (in which case the virga + oriscus may be together called a virga strata), in which case the pressus indicates three notes; if the initial neume is a pes, then the compound indicates a four-note group. just as with the oriscus itself, the interpretation is unsure. when chant came to be notated on a staff, the oriscus was normally represented as having the same pitch as the immediately preceding note.[ ] there are also litterae significativae in many manuscripts, usually interpreted to indicate variations in tempo, e.g. c = celeriter (fast), t = tenete (hold) (an early form of the tenuto), a = auge (lengthen, as in a tie). the solesmes editions omit all such letters. other functions[edit] neumes were used for notating other kinds of melody than plainchant, including troubadour and trouvère melodies, monophonic versus and conductus, and the individual lines of polyphonic songs. in some traditions, such as the notre dame school of polyphony, certain patterns of neumes were used to represent particular rhythmic patterns called rhythmic modes. other types[edit] 	ekphonetic neumes annotating the melodic recitation of (christian) holy scriptures. 	neumes of byzantine music – in several stages, old byzantine, middle byzantine, late byzantine and post-byzantine, and neo-byzantine (reformed). 	neumes of slavic chant (slavic neumes). 	mozarabic or hispanic neumes (spain), also called visigothic script. these neumes have not been deciphered, but the mozarabic liturgy varies somewhat from the roman rite. 	catalan notation.[ ] 	daseian notation – an early form of western music notation used in th and th-century music theory treatises. 	buddhist chant uses a type of neume. digital notation[edit] because notation software usually focuses on modern european music notation, software that allows the user to use neumes is rare. 	gregorio is a software especially written for that purpose. with its own gabc-syntax and together with luatex it provides high quality output of square notation neumes and also st. gall neumes. 	finale can be enhanced with medieval , a third-party package devoted to early music and especially neumes.[ ][ ] 	lilypond is able to produce output using neumes.[ ] 	some open fonts[ ][ ] for neumes are available, which can be used by common office software or scorewriters. see also[edit] 	mensural notation 	musical notation 	znamenny chant notes[edit] 	^ dom gregory sunol, textbook of gregorian chant according to the solesmes method, , isbn  - - - , isbn  - - - - . 	^ chants of the church 	^ liber usualis 	^ "neume". oxford english dictionary (online ed.). oxford university press.  (subscription or participating institution membership required.) 	^ πνεῦμα, νεῦμα. liddell, henry george; scott, robert; a greek–english lexicon at the perseus project. 	^ "neume". oxford english dictionary ( nd ed.). oxford university press. . 	^ one of the earliest examples is the planctus de obitu karoli (c. ), which was provided neumatic notation in the th century, cf. rosamond mckitterick ( ), charlemagne: the formation of a european identity (cambridge: cambridge university press, isbn  - - - ), n . for the lyrics, see peter godman ( ), latin poetry of the carolingian renaissance (norman: university of oklahoma press), – . 	^ kenneth levy, "plainchant", grove music online, edited by laura macy (accessed january , ), (subscription access) 	^ james grier ademar de chabannes, carolingian musical practices, and "nota romana", journal of the american musicological society, vol. , no. (spring, ), pp. – , retrieved july 	^ "gregorian chant - classical music". sites.google.com. 	^ david hiley. "hufnagel". oxford music online. oxford university. retrieved february . 	^ hiley, "chant", p. . "the performance of chant in equal note lengths from the th century onwards is well supported by contemporary statements." 	^ apel, gregorian chant, p. . 	^ mahrt "chant,", p. . 	^ don michael randel (ed.). . "neume". harvard dictionary of music, fourth edition. cambridge: harvard university press. isbn  - - - . 	^ willi apel, ed. ( ). "neume". harvard dictionary of music, nd ed. cambridge, massachusetts: harvard university press. p.  . 	^ david hughes, "the musical text of the introit ressurexi", in music in medieval europe: studies in honour of bryan gillingham, edited by terence bailey and alma colk santosuosso, – (farnham, surrey: ashgate publishing, ), p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ david hughes, "an enigmatic neume", in themes and variations: writings on music in honor of rulan chao pian, edited by bell yung and joseph s. c. lam, – (cambridge, massachusetts: harvard university press; hong kong: the chinese university press press, ), pp.  – . 	^ david hughes, "an enigmatic neume", in themes and variations: writings on music in honor of rulan chao pian, edited by bell yung and joseph s. c. lam, – (cambridge, massachusetts: harvard university press; hong kong: the chinese university press press, ), p.  . 	^ david hiley, "distropha, tristropha [double apostrophe, bistropha; triple apostrophe]", the new grove dictionary of music and musicians, second edition, edited by stanley sadie and john tyrrell (london: macmillan publishers, ). 	^ anon., "oriscus", the new grove dictionary of music and musicians, second edition, edited by stanley sadie and john tyrrell (london: macmillan publishers, ). 	^ david hiley, "pressus", the new grove dictionary of music and musicians, second edition, edited by stanley sadie and john tyrrell (london: macmillan publishers, ). 	^ garrigosa i massana, joaquim ( ). els manuscrits musicals a catalunya fins al segle xiii. lleida: institut d'estudis ilerdencs. isbn  . 	^ "medieval release". makemusic. retrieved - - . 	^ "medieval website". klemm music technology (for robert piéchaud). retrieved - - . 	^ "lilypond notation reference – typesetting gregorian chant". lilypond development team. retrieved - - . 	^ "caeciliaecaeciliae". marello.org. archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - .cs maint: bot: original-url status unknown (link) 	^ "liturgical music / downloads". monastery saint meinrad archabbey. retrieved - - . references[edit] 	graduale triplex ( ). tournai: desclée & socii. isbn  - - -x, a special edition of the graduale romanum with chant notation in three forms, one above the other, for easy comparison: laon, st. gall, and square note 	liber usualis ( ). tournai: desclée & socii. 	paléographie musicale.[full citation needed] isbn  - - - . facsimiles of early adiastamatic chant manuscripts. 	apel, willi ( ). gregorian chant. bloomington, in: indiana university press. isbn  - - - . 	constantin, floros. "universale neumenkunde" (universal theory of neumes); three-volume[full citation needed] covering all major styles and schools of neumatic musical notation in three major divisions: byzantine, gregorian and slavic. 	hiley, david ( ). "chant". in performance practice: music before , howard mayer brown and stanley sadie, eds., pp.  – . new york: w.w. norton & co. isbn  - - - . 	hiley, david ( ). western plainchant: a handbook. cambridge and new york: clarendon press and cambridge university press. isbn  - - - . 	mahrt, william p. ( ). "chant". in a performer's guide to medieval music, ross duffin, ed., pp.  – . bloomington, in: indiana university press. isbn  - - - . 	mckinnon, james, ed. ( ). antiquity and the middle ages. prentice hall. isbn  - - - .cs maint: extra text: authors list (link) 	wagner, peter. ( ) einführung in die gregorianischen melodien. ein handbuch der choralwissenschaft. leipzig: breitkopf & härtel. 	wilson, david ( ). music of the middle ages. schirmer books. isbn  - - -x. external links[edit] 	learning resources 	the liber usualis compares, inter alia, modern and chant notations. it is also a handy reference for all the types of neumes. 	singing gregorian chant: pitch and mode 	other 	oliver gerlach (ensemble ison): performing western plainchant—introduction into the latin neumes of the th century (accessed november , ) 	david hiley and janka szendrei: "notation", grove music online, ed. l. macy (accessed june , ), (subscription access) 	font package for writing post-byzantine neumes 	kenneth levy: "plainchant", grove music online, ed. l. macy (accessed january , ), (subscription access) 	comparative table of cheironomic and square neumes 	samples of early notation, showing the same chant in many different notations 	catholic encyclopedia entry for neum 	solesmes 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roman empire roman era 	history of rome 	founding of rome 	kingdom of rome 	kings of rome 	 enlargeable map showing the expansion of the roman republic in italy from about bc to the start of the second punic war in bc. roman republic 	conflict of the orders ( - bc) 	punic wars ( - bc) – series of three wars fought between rome and ancient carthage 	first punic war ( - bc) 	ebro treaty 	second punic war ( - bc) – marked by hannibal's surprising overland journey and his costly crossing of the alps, followed by his reinforcement by gaulish allies and crushing victories over roman armies in the battle of the trebia and the giant ambush at trasimene. 	hannibal – punic carthaginian military commander, generally considered one of the greatest military commanders in history. hannibal occupied much of italy for years, but a roman counter-invasion of north africa forced him to return to carthage, where he was decisively defeated by scipio africanus at the battle of zama. 	conquests of hannibal 	hannibal's crossing of the alps 	battle of the trebia 	battle of lake trasimene 	battle of cannae 	battle of zama – marked the final and decisive end of the second punic war. a roman army led by publius cornelius scipio africanus defeated a carthaginian force led by the legendary commander hannibal. soon after this defeat on their home ground, the carthaginian senate sued for peace, which was given to them by the roman republic on rather humiliating terms, ending the -year war. 	third punic war ( - bc) – involved an extended siege of carthage, ending in the city's thorough destruction. the resurgence of the struggle can be explained by growing anti-roman agitations in hispania and greece, and the visible improvement of carthaginian wealth and martial power in the fifty years since the second punic war. 	battle of carthage (c. bc) 	crisis of the roman republic ( bc- bc) – extended period of political instability and social unrest that culminated in the demise of the roman republic and the advent of the roman empire. 	 extent of the roman republic on the eve of the assassination of julius caesar, bc assassination of julius caesar 	roman empire 	principate ( bc- ad) – first period of the roman empire, extending from the beginning of the reign of caesar augustus to the crisis of the third century, after which it was replaced with the dominate. during the principate, the constitution of the roman republic was never formally abolished. it was amended in such a way as to maintain a politically correct façade of republican government. this ended following the crisis of the third century ( – ), during the reign of diocletian. 	julio-claudian dynasty ( bc- ad) – the first five roman emperors, including augustus, tiberius, caligula (also known as gaius), claudius, and nero. the dynasty ended when nero committed suicide. 	 extent of the roman empire under augustus. yellow shows the extent of the republic in  bc, shades of green represent territories gradually conquered by augustus, and pink shows client states. augustus 	tiberius (ruled - ad) – stepson of augustus. he was one of rome's greatest generals, conquering pannonia, dalmatia, raetia, and temporarily germania; laying the foundations for the northern frontier. but he came to be remembered as a dark, reclusive, and sombre ruler who never really desired to be emperor; pliny the elder called him tristissimus hominum, "the gloomiest of men."[ ] 	caligula 	claudius 	nero 	year of the four emperors ( ad) – these four emperors were galba, otho, vitellius, and vespasian. vespasian's rule marked the beginning of the flavian dynasty. 	galba 	otho 	vitellius 	vespasian 	flavian dynasty ( - ad) 	nerva–antonine dynasty ( - ad) – dynasty of seven roman emperors who ruled over the roman empire from ad to ad. these emperors were nerva, trajan, hadrian, antoninus pius, marcus aurelius, lucius verus, and commodus. 	nerva 	 the roman empire at its greatest extent, during the reign of trajan in ad trajan 	hadrian 	antoninus pius 	marcus aurelius 	lucius verus 	commodus 	severan dynasty ( - ad) 	 during the crisis of the third century, the roman empire suffered internal schisms, forming the palmyrene empire and the gallic empire crisis of the third century ( - ad) – period in which the roman empire nearly collapsed under the combined pressures of invasion, civil war, plague, and economic depression. the crisis began with the assassination of emperor alexander severus at the hands of his own troops, initiating a fifty-year period in which – claimants to the title of emperor, mostly prominent roman army generals, assumed imperial power over all or part of the empire. 	barracks emperor – any roman emperor who seized power by virtue of his command of the army. barracks emperors were especially common in the period from through , during the crisis of the third century. 	list of barracks emperors 	gallic empire ( - ad) – modern name for a breakaway realm of the roman empire, founded by postumus in in the wake of barbarian invasions and instability in rome, and at its height included the territories of germania, gaul, britannia, and (briefly) hispania. 	palmyrene empire ( - ) – splinter empire, that broke away from the roman empire during the crisis of the third century. it encompassed the roman provinces of syria palaestina, egypt and large parts of asia minor. 	dominate ( - ad) – 'despotic' latter phase of government in the ancient roman empire from the conclusion of the third century crisis until the collapse of the western empire. the emperor diocletian abandoned the appearances of the republic for the sake of control, and introduced a novel system of joint rule by four monarchs known as the tetrarchy. 	decline of the roman empire – process spanning many centuries; there is no consensus when it might have begun but many dates and time lines have been proposed by historians. 	 map of the roman empire under the tetrarchy, showing the dioceses and the four tetrarchs' zones of influence. tetrarchy ( - ad) – diocletian designated the general maximian as co-emperor, first as caesar (junior emperor) in , and then promoted him to augustus in . diocletian took care of matters in the eastern regions of the empire while maximian similarly took charge of the western regions. in , feeling more focus was needed on both civic and military problems, diocletian, with maximian's consent, expanded the imperial college by appointing two caesars (one responsible to each augustus). the tetrarchy collapsed, however, in and a few years later constantine i reunited the two administrative divisions of the empire as sole augustus.[ ] 	first tetrarchy – created by diocletian with maximian's consent in by the appointment of two subordinate caesars. 	diocletian (augustus) 	galerius (caesar) 	maximian (augustus) 	constantius chlorus (caesar) 	second tetrarchy – in , the senior emperors jointly abdicated and retired, elevating constantius and galerius to the rank of augusti. they in turn appointed two new caesars. 	galerius (augustus) 	maximinus (caesar) 	constantius chlorus (augustus) 	flavius valerius severus (caesar) 	civil wars of the tetrarchy – series of conflicts between the co-emperors of the roman empire, starting in ad with the usurpation of maxentius and the defeat of severus, and ending with the defeat of licinius at the hands of constantine i in ad. 	constantinian dynasty – informal name for the ruling family of the roman empire from constantius chlorus († ) to the death of julian in . it is named after its most famous member, constantine the great who became the sole ruler of the empire in . it is also called the neo-flavian dynasty. 	first phase of the migration period 	 the roman empire during the reigns of leo i (east) and majorian (west) in ad. division of the roman empire – in order to maintain control and improve administration, various schemes to divide the work of the roman emperor by sharing it between individuals were tried between and , from to , from to , and again between and . although the administrative subdivisions varied, they generally involved a division of labour between east and west. each division was a form of power-sharing (or even job-sharing), for the ultimate imperium was not divisible and therefore the empire remained legally one state—although the co-emperors often saw each other as rivals or enemies rather than partners. 	western roman empire – in , emperor diocletian (r. – ) divided the roman empire's administration into western and eastern halves.[ ] in , rome lost its capital status, and milan became the capital. 	byzantine empire (eastern roman empire) – term used by modern historians to distinguish the constantinople-centered roman empire of the middle ages from its earlier classical existence. 	nicomedia – nicomedia was the metropolis of bithynia under the roman empire, and diocletian made it the eastern capital city of the roman empire in when he introduced the tetrarchy system. 	constantinople – founded in ad , at ancient byzantium as the new capital of the entire roman empire by constantine the great, after whom it was named. 	walls of constantinople 	 the western and eastern roman empires by fall of the western roman empire ( ad) – the two halves of the roman empire ended at different times, with the western roman empire coming to an end in ad (the end of ancient rome). the eastern roman empire (referred to by historians as the byzantine empire) survived for nearly a thousand years more, and eventually engulfed much of the western roman empire's former territory. 	fall of the western roman empire – this was not sudden, and took over a hundred years. by , when odoacer deposed the emperor romulus, the western roman empire wielded negligible military, political, or financial power and had no effective control over the scattered western domains that still described themselves as roman. 	odoacer – germanic soldier, who in became the first king of italy ( - ). his reign is commonly seen as marking the end of the western roman empire.[ ] 	 for comparison, the byzantine empire at its greatest extent under justinian i, in ad byzantine empire (byzantium) – after the western roman empire fragmented and collapsed, the eastern roman empire (byzantium) continued to thrive, existing for nearly another thousand years until it fell to the ottoman turks in . its citizens referred to it as the roman empire, and saw it as a direct continuation of it. historians consider it to be a distinctly different empire, with some overlap, but generally not included in the period referred to as ancient rome. byzantium differed in major ways, including its primary language, which was greek rather than latin. it also differed religiously, with roman mythology being replaced by christianity. 	legacy of the roman empire – what the roman empire passed on, in the form of cultural values, religious beliefs, as well as technological and other achievements, and through which 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foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 list of cities founded by the romans - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	list of cities founded by the romans 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		wikipedia list article this list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. this is a list of cities and towns founded by the romans. it lists every city established and built by the ancient romans to have begun as a colony, often for the settlement of citizens or veterans of the legions. many roman colonies rose to become important commercial and cultural centers, transportation hubs and capitals of global empires. contents 	 cities founded by the romans 	 cities not founded by the romans, but which have gained importance with them 	 see also 	 references cities founded by the romans[edit] 'this list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. 	foundation 	latin name 	modern-day 	modern country 	 bc	roma 	rome	italy 	 bc	ariminum	rimini	italy 	 bc	belum	belluno	italy 	 bc	placentia	piacenza	italy 	 bc	tarraco	tarragona	spain 	 bc	italica	santiponce	spain [ ] 	 rd c. bc	modicia	monza	italy 	 bc	salernum	salerno	italy 	 bc	bononia	bologna	italy 	 bc	forum livii	forlì	italy 	 bc	regium lepidi	reggio emilia	italy 	 bc	aquileia	aquileia	italy 	 bc	colonia patricia corduba	córdoba	spain 	 bc	 ascrivium	kotor	montenegro 	 bc	valentia edetanorum	valencia	spain 	 bc	scalabis	santarém	portugal 	 bc	villa euracini	póvoa de varzim	portugal 	 bc	palma	palma de mallorca	spain 	 bc	colonia narbo martius	narbonne	france 	 nd c. bc	massa	massa	italy 	 nd c. bc	pistoria	pistoia	italy 	 bc	confloenta	duratón	spain 	 bc	gerunda	girona	spain 	 bc	pompaelo	pamplona	spain 	 bc	naissus	niš	serbia 	 bc	brigantium	a coruña	spain 	 bc	florentia	florence	italy 	 bc	vesontio	besançon	france 	 bc	lutetia parisiorum	paris	france 	 bc	atuatuca tungrorum	tongeren	belgium [ ] 	 bc	iulia romula hispalis	seville	spain 	 bc	augusta raurica	augst	switzerland 	 bc	noviodunum	nyon	switzerland 	 bc	lugdunum	lyon	france 	 bc	siscia	sisak	croatia 	 bc	marsonia	slavonski brod	croatia 	 bc	augusta treverorum	trier	germany [ ] 	 – bc	castra legionis	león	spain 	 bc	augusta taurinorum	turin	italy 	 bc	augusta praetoria salassorum	aosta	italy 	 bc	emerita augusta	mérida	spain 	 bc	norba caesarina	cáceres	spain 	 bc	lucus augusta	lugo	spain 	 – bc	caesarea	caesarea	israel 	 bc	bracara augusta	braga	portugal 	 bc	novaesium	neuss	germany 	 bc	castra vetera ( bc to ad) - colonia ulpia traiana (after ad)	xanten	germany 	 bc	pons drusi	bolzano	italy 	 bc	ovilava	wels	austria 	 bc	iuvavum	salzburg	austria 	 bc	augusta vindelicorum	augsburg	germany 	 bc	turicum	zurich	switzerland 	 bc	asturica augusta	astorga	spain 	 bc	borbetomagus	worms	germany 	 bc	caesaraugusta	zaragoza	spain 	 bc	sirmium	sremska 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ad	burgodunum	leeds	uk 	 st c. ad	lentia	linz	austria 	 st c. ad	aquae granni	aachen	germany 	 st c. ad	portus victoriae iuliobrigensium	santander	spain 	 st c. ad	complutum	alcalá de henares	spain 	 st c. ad	aeminium later renamed conimbriga	coimbra	portugal 	 st c. ad	traiectum ad mosam	maastricht	netherlands 	 st c. ad	coriovallum	heerlen	netherlands 	 st c. ad	portus lemanis	lympne	uk 	 st c. ad	colonia pietas iulia pola pollentia herculanea	pula	croatia 	 st c. ad	andautonia	zagreb	croatia 	 st c. ad	salona	solin	croatia 	 st c. ad	cibalae	vinkovci	croatia 	 st c. ad	aquae helveticae	baden	switzerland 	 ad	aquincum	budapest	hungary 	 ad	apulum	alba iulia	romania 	 ad	pons aelius	newcastle upon tyne	uk 	 ad	durovigutum	godmanchester	uk 	 ad	hadrianopolis	edirne	turkey 	 ad	aelia capitolina	jerusalem (part of)	israel / state of palestine 	 ad	ala	aalen	germany 	 ad	castra regina	regensburg	germany 	 nd c. ad	theranda	prizren	kosovo 	 nd c. ad	pomaria	tlemcen	algeria 	 nd c. 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mcguire to provide "acoustical liberation of books in the public domain"[ ] and the librivox objective is "to make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet".[ ] on august , the project completed project number , .[ ][ ] and from – was producing about , items per year.[ ] most releases are in the english language, but many non-english works are also available. there are multiple affiliated projects that are providing additional content. librivox is closely affiliated with project gutenberg from where the project gets some of its texts, and the internet archive that hosts their offerings. contents 	 history 	 etymology of librivox 	 organization and funding 	 production process 	 content 	 reputation 	 quality 	 see also 	 references 	 external links history[edit] hugh mcguire, founder of librivox can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to help bring books in the public domain to life through podcasting? — hugh mcguire librivox was started in august by montreal-based writer hugh mcguire, who set up a blog, and posed the question.[ ][ ] the first recorded book[ ] was the secret agent by joseph conrad. the main features of the way librivox works have changed little since its inception, although the technology that supports it has been improved by the efforts of its volunteers with web-development skills. etymology of librivox[edit] librivox is an invented word inspired by latin words liber (book) in its genitive form libri and vox (voice), giving the meaning bookvoice (or voice of the book). the word was also coined because of other connotations: liber also means child and free, independent, unrestricted. as the librivox forum says: "we like to think librivox might be interpreted as 'child of the voice', and 'free voice'. finally, the other link we like is 'library' so you could imagine it to mean library of voice."[ ] there has been no decision or consensus by librivox founders or the community of volunteers for a single pronunciation of librivox. it is accepted that any audible pronunciation is accurate.[ ] organization and funding[edit] librivox is a volunteer-run, free content, public domain project. it has no budget or legal personality. the development of projects is managed through an internet forum, supported by an admin team, who also maintain a searchable catalogue database of completed works. in early , librivox ran a fundraising drive to raise $ , to cover hosting costs for the website of about $ , /year and improve front- and backend usability.[ ] the target was reached in days, and so the fundraising ended and librivox suggested that supporters consider making donations to its affiliates and partners, project gutenberg [ ] and the internet archive.[ ] production process[edit] volunteers can choose new projects to start, either recording on their own or inviting others to join them, or they can contribute to projects that have been started by others. once a volunteer has recorded his or her contribution, it is uploaded to the site, and proof-listened by members of the librivox community. finished audiobooks are available from the librivox website, and mp and ogg vorbis files are hosted separately by the internet archive. recordings are also available through other means, such as itunes, and, being free of copyright, they are frequently distributed independently of librivox on the internet and otherwise. content[edit] librivox works per month – librivox only records material that is in the public domain in the united states, and all librivox books are released with a public domain dedication.[ ] because of copyright restrictions, librivox produces recordings of only a limited number of contemporary books. these have included, for example, the / commission report which is a work of the us federal government therefore in the public domain. the librivox catalogue is varied. it contains much popular classic fiction, but also includes less predictable texts, such as immanuel kant's critique of pure reason and a recording of the first digits of pi. the collection also features poetry, plays, religious texts (for example, english versions of the koran and books from various translations of the bible) and non-fiction of various kinds. in january , the catalogue contained approximately percent fiction and drama, percent non-fiction and percent poetry (calculated by numbers of recordings). by the end of , the most downloaded book ( , m) was a collaborative reading of alice's adventures in wonderland.[ ] around percent of the catalogue is recorded in english, but recordings exist in languages altogether (as of february  [update]). chinese, french and german are the most popular languages other than english amongst volunteers, but recordings have also been made in languages including urdu and tagalog. reputation[edit] librivox has garnered significant interest, in particular from those interested in the promotion of volunteer-led content and alternative approaches to copyright ownership on the internet. it has received support from the internet archive and project gutenberg. intellectual freedom and commons proponent mike linksvayer described it in as "perhaps the most interesting collaborative culture project this side of wikipedia".[ ] the project has also been featured in press around the world and has been recommended by the bbc's click, msnbc's the today show, reason,[ ] wired,[ ] the us pc magazine and the uk metro and sunday times[ ] newspapers. quality[edit] a frequent concern of listeners is the site's policy of allowing any recording to be published as long as it is understandable and faithful to the source text.[ ] this means that some recordings are of lower audio fidelity; some feature background noises, non-native accents or other perceived imperfections in comparison to professionally recorded audiobooks.[ ][ ] while some listeners may object to those books with chapters read by multiple readers,[ ] others find this to be a non-issue or even a feature,[ ][ ][ ] though many books are narrated by a single reader. see also[edit] 	virtual volunteering 	voice acting references[edit] 	^ a b "the librivox free audiobook collection", the internet archive. retrieved january . 	^ "librivox author", librivox website. retrieved april . 	^ "objective librivox", librivox website. retrieved august . 	^ "another librivox milestone: , projects!", librivox.org, august . retrieved september . 	^ "offerings librivox", archive website. retrieved april . 	^ maryannspiegel (january , ). "librivox stats". librivox. retrieved january , . 	^ mcguire, hugh ( august ). "welcome to librivox". librivox.org. retrieved august . 	^ mcguire, hugh (february , ). "clarity (blog entry)". hughmcguire.net. retrieved - - . 	^ "the secret agent", librivox.org. retrieved march . 	^ "what does librivox mean?", librivox forum, retrieved september . 	^ "pronunciation of "librivox"", librivox wiki. retrieved november . 	^ "librivox needs your help", librivox blog, february . retrieved august . 	^ "gutenberg affiliates", gutenberg.org, retrieved april . 	^ "archive.org partners", archive.org, retrieved april . 	^ "public domain". librivox. retrieved november . 	^ linksvayer, mike (june , ). "librivox: public domain audio books (blog entry)". retrieved - - . 	^ "the wealth of librivox", reason.com, retrieved april . 	^ "the web will read you a story", archive.org, retrieved april . 	^ "public domain books, ready for your ipod", nytimes.com, retrieved april . 	^ "quality of delivery?", librivox forums. retrieved november . 	^ "the return of the native audiobook (librivox) archived - - at the wayback machine", review. retrieved november . 	^ "on the absence of ratings at librivox", review may . retrieved november . 	^ "librivox - free audio books", review. retrieved november . 	^ "librivox (free audio books)", review january , . retrieved november . 	^ "librivox", review october , . retrieved november . 	^ "my favorite librivox readers", review march . retrieved november . external links[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to librivox. 		wikidata has the property: 	 librivox author id (p ) (see uses) 		wikinews has related news: 	 interview with librivox founder hugh mcguire listen to this article ( .  megabytes) this audio file was created from a revision of this article dated  july   ( - - ), and does not reflect subsequent edits. 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founding of rome 	 the roman kingdom 	 . reign of romulus 	 . reign of tullus hostilius 	 the roman republic 	 . early roman republic 	 . second punic war 	 . third punic war 	 . nd century bc 	 . third servile war 	 . julius caesar 	 . cleopatra 	 the roman empire 	 . st century bc 	 . the life of jesus 	 . reigns of augustus, tiberius, caligula and claudius 	 . reign of nero 	 . boudica's revolt 	 . eruption of mount vesuvius 	 . flavian dynasty 	 . - ad 	 . reign of hadrian 	 . reign of antoninus pius 	 . reign of commodus 	 . - ad 	 . reign of diocletian 	 . - ad (age of constantine) 	 . attila the hun 	 . late empire 	 undated 	 see also the founding of rome[edit] films set during the founding of rome include: 	duel of the titans ( ) – based on the legend of romulus and remus with steve reeves as romulus and gordon scott as remus 	the avenger ( ) – based on virgil's aeneid with steve reeves as aeneas: a story of the hero leading escaped survivors of the trojan war to new land in italy. 	the first king ( ) - in archaic latin; directed by matteo rovere the roman kingdom[edit] reign of romulus[edit] 	romulus and the sabines ( ) 	the rape of the sabine women ( ) – about the rape of the sabine women (dir. by richard pottier) reign of tullus hostilius[edit] 	duel of champions ( ) – with alan ladd as horatius and robert keith as tullus hostilius the roman republic[edit] early roman republic[edit] 	le vergini di roma ( ) – french-italian film (directed by carlo luigi bragaglia and vittorio cottafavi), including characters of etruscan king porsenna and mucius scaevola 	hero of rome ( ) – with gordon scott as gaius mucius scaevola (directed by giorgio ferroni) 	coriolanus: hero without a country ( ) – with gordon scott as gaius marcius coriolanus (dir. by giorgio ferroni) 	brennus, enemy of rome ( ) – about the battle of the allia and sack of rome in bc, with gordon scott as brennus 	coriolanus ( ) – adaptation of shakespeare's play, dir. by ralph fiennes (also starring) second punic war[edit] 	cabiria ( ) – a monumental italian production (dir. by giovanni pastrone, after the screenplay by gabriele d'annunzio), touching on hannibal's campaign in italy, the siege of syracuse and battle of zama, featuring such characters as masinissa; also the first maciste film 	scipio africanus: the defeat of hannibal ( ) – about the career of scipio africanus up to his defeat of hannibal at the battle of zama 	jupiter's darling ( ) – with howard keel as hannibal and george sanders as fabius maximus 	hannibal ( ) – italian post-war production about hannibal's campaign in italy including the battle of cannae. stars victor mature. 	l'assedio di siracusa ( ) – on the siege of syracuse, with rossano brazzi as archimides 	scipio the african ( ) - about the later life of scipio; directed by luigi magni, with marcello mastroianni as scipio the african, silvana mangano as aemilia tertia and vittorio gassman as cato the elder 	hannibal ( ) – tv docudrama directed by edward bazalgette, with alexander siddig as hannibal third punic war[edit] 	cartagine in fiamme ( ) – after the novel by emilio salgari, dir. by carmine gallone nd century bc[edit] 	the centurion ( ) – about the battle of corinth ( bc), with john drew barrymore as diaeus 	revolution (ancient rome: the rise and fall of an empire – episode four) ( ) – docudrama about of the reforms of tiberius gracchus third servile war[edit] 	spartak ( ) – an early soviet production (dir. by ertugrul muhsin-bey), based on the novel by raffaello giovagnoli [now lost] 	sins of rome ( ) – dir. by riccardo freda 	spartacus ( ) – with kirk douglas as spartacus and laurence olivier as marcus licinius crassus (dir. by stanley kubrick) 	il figlio di spartacus ( ) – unofficial italian sequel to spartacus directed by sergio corbucci 	spartacus ( ) – with goran visnjic as spartacus (dir. by robert dornheim) 	spartacus: blood and sand ( ) – with andy whitfield as spartacus, manu bennett as crixus, peter mensah as oenomaus, john hannah as lentulus batiatus, and craig parker as gaius claudius glaber 	spartacus: gods of the arena ( ) – prequel to spartacus: blood and sand. the plot of gods of the arena follows lentulus batiatus's (john hannah) life as a lanista, and gannicus's (dustin clare) time as a gladiator 	spartacus: vengeance ( ) – sequel to spartacus: blood and sand, with liam mcintyre replacing andy whitfield as spartacus, after whitfield's unexpected death in 	spartacus: war of the damned ( ) – the third (final) season of the series julius caesar[edit] 	gaius julius caesar ( ) – a silent film, directed by enrico guazzoni 	caesar against the pirates ( ) – a tale of caesar being caught by pirates and asking for help to get back to rome 	caesar the conqueror ( ) – an italian film about the career of julius caesar and his gallic wars (directed by tanio boccia) 	the giants of rome ( ) – italian-french adventure film set in the roman warfare against vercingetorix (directed by antonio margheriti), with richard harrison as claudius marcellus 	julius caesar ( )(directed by david bradley). this is a film adaptation of shakespeare's play 	julius caesar ( ) – deals with the assassination of julius caesar and the liberators' civil war, with marlon brando as mark antony and john gielgud as gaius cassius longinus (directed by joseph l. mankiewicz). this is a film adaptation of shakespeare's play 	julius caesar ( ) – deals with the assassination of julius caesar and the liberators' civil war 	druids ( ) – the life and career of vercingetorix (starring christopher lambert), a gallic adversary of rome in the film of jacques dorfmann 	julius caesar ( ) 	empire ( ) 	rome ( ) – deals with the assassination of julius caesar and the liberators' civil war 	caesar (ancient rome: the rise and fall of an empire – episode one) ( ) – docudrama about the gallic wars and caesar's civil war 	roman empire: reign of blood ( ) – five episode documentary/drama series produced by netflix about the life and reign of julius caesar cleopatra[edit] 	cléopâtre ( ) – french film made by georges méliès, the earliest known version considered to be lost, retrieved 	antony and cleopatra ( ) – a film starring maurice costello and florence lawrence 	cléopâtre ( ) – french film by henri andréani and ferdinand zecca 	cléopâtre ( ) – new silent version after the play of victorien sardou (dir. by charles l. gaskill) 	marcantonio e cleopatra ( ) – italian production from the era of the silent film, directed by enrico guazzoni 	cleopatra ( ) – american film with theda bara as cleopatra (dir. by j. gordon edwards) 	cleopatra ( ) – the second american version (dir. by roy william neill) 	cleopatra ( ) – with claudette colbert as cleopatra (dir. by cecil b. demille) 	caesar and cleopatra ( ) – with vivien leigh as cleopatra and claude rains as julius caesar (dir. by gabriel pascal), after the play by g. b. shaw 	le legioni di cleopatra ( )[ ] – italian film directed by vittorio cottafavi 	serpent of the nile ( ) – directed by william castle with rhonda fleming as cleopatra 	a queen for caesar ( ) – italian film, starring pascale petit (dir. by piero pierotti and victor tourjansky) 	cleopatra ( ) – including the battle of actium and the final war of the roman republic, with elizabeth taylor as cleopatra, richard burton as mark antony and rex harrison as julius caesar (dir. by joseph l. mankiewicz) 	carry on cleo ( ) – a parody of j. mankiewicz's cleopatra with sid james as mark antony (dir. by gerald thomas), set in the reign of julius caesar 	antony and cleopatra ( ) – a film starring charlton heston and hildegarde neil 	antony and cleopatra ( ) – a television version of a royal shakespeare company production starring richard johnson and janet suzman 	antony and cleopatra ( ) – a television version produced as part of the bbc television shakespeare starring colin blakely and jane lapotaire 	cleopatra ( ) – with leonor varela as cleopatra and timothy dalton as julius caesar (dir. by franc roddam), based on the book by margaret george 	asterix and cleopatra ( ) – belgian-french animated film (dir. by rené goscinny and albert uderzo), as well as asterix & obelix: mission cleopatra ( ) a french/italian film based on the same source, goscinny and uderzo's comic-book asterix and cleopatra. 	the cleopatras ( ) – bbc tv -episode series on the latter part of the reign of the ptolemaic dynasty (dir. by john frankau) 	cleopatra ( ) – brazilian film with alessandra negrini as cleopatra and miguel falabella as julius caesar (directed by júlio bressane) the roman empire[edit] st century bc[edit] 	imperium: augustus ( ) 	empire (tv series) ( ) 	rome ( – ) – -episode tv series, a joint british-american-italian production on rome's transition from republic to empire (dir. by michael apted) the life of jesus[edit] main article: list of actors who have played jesus 	la vie et la passion de jésus-christ ( ) – the french pathé-production (dir. by ferdinand zecca) [second version ( ) as vie et passion de notre seigneur jésus-christ] 	ben-hur ( ) – the first known version ( -minute long) adapted from the famous lew wallace's novel, dir. by sidney olcott 	intolerance ( ) – silent film told in several time-periods with a segment set in ad leading to the crucifixion 	three ages ( ) – a parody of intolerance also with its own roman section 	ben-hur ( ) – silent film dir. by fred niblo, starring ramon novarro (the picture noteworthy for its color segments and for the female nudity in the parade sequence) 	king of kings ( ) 	golgotha ( ) 	ben-hur ( ) – a monumental hollywood production directed by william wyler, starring charlton heston; partly set in rome 	king of kings ( ) 	pontius pilate ( ) – with jean marais as pontius pilate 	the life of brian ( ) – dir. by terry jones 	the last temptation of christ ( ) – dir. by martin scorsese, with willem dafoe as jesus christ 	the gospel of john ( ) 	ben-hur ( ) – animated version (the fourth in all) of the novel by lew wallace 	the passion of the christ ( ) – dir. by mel gibson, with jim caviezel as jesus christ ; recorded in original languages (aramaic, hebrew, latin) 	ben hur ( ) – miniseries by steve shill 	ben-hur ( ) – new american version directed by timur bekmambetov with jack huston as ben-hur 	risen ( ) – a biblical drama dir. by kevin reynolds with cliff curtis featuring yeshua (jesus christ) reigns of augustus, tiberius, caligula and claudius[edit] 	agrippina ( ) – directed by enrico guazzoni 	messalina ( ) – directed by enrico guazzoni 	i, claudius ( , never completed) – with charles laughton as claudius. this is an adaptation of robert graves's novels "i, claudius" and "claudius the god". 	the affairs of messalina ( ) – with maría félix as messalina 	barabbas ( ) – swedish version (dir. by alf sjöberg), the first based on the novel by pär lagerkvist 	the robe ( ) – based on the novel by lloyd c. douglas, with richard burton as marcellus and jean simmons as diana (dir. by henry koster) 	demetrius and the gladiators ( ) – sequel to the robe (dir. delmer daves) 	messalina, venere imperatrice ( ) – dir. by vittorio cottafavi, with belinda lee as messalina 	barabbas ( ) – american version, dir. by richard fleischer, starring anthony quinn 	massacre in the black forest ( ) – about the battle of the teutoburg forest (dir. by ferdinando baldi) 	the caesars (tv series) ( ) – episodes: augustus; germanicus; tiberius; sejanus; caligula; claudius 	i, claudius (bbc tv series) ( ) – with derek jacobi as claudius (an adaptation of robert graves's novels "i, claudius" and "claudius the god"). 	caligula ( ) – with malcolm mcdowell as caligula (dir. by tinto brass) 	los cántabros ( ) – about the cantabrian wars with paul naschy (also director) as marcus agrippa 	the inquiry ( ) – with max von sydow as tiberius 	barabbas ( ) – the latest version based on the lagerkvist's book, dir. by roger young, starring billy zane 	britannia ( ) – british tv series of a fictional account of the roman conquest of britain. 	horrible histories: the movie - rotten romans ( ) - satiric children's film based on the boudica revolt reign of nero[edit] 	quo vadis ( ) – the earliest adaptation made by lucien nonguet and ferdinand zecca 	quo vadis ( ) – the second silent version directed by enrico guazzoni 	quo vadis ( ) – italian production directed by georg jacoby and gabriellino d'annunzio, with emil jannings as nero 	the sign of the cross ( ) – with charles laughton as nero 	fiddlers three ( ) – british production, starring tommy trinder, sonnie hale and francis l. sullivan as the emperor nero. 	quo vadis ( ) – american production with peter ustinov as nero (dir. by mervyn leroy) 	the silver chalice ( ) – starring paul newman (dir. by victor saville) 	the romans ( ) – classic doctor who season ep. 	fellini satyricon ( ) – fantasy drama loosely based on petronius's work (dir. by federico fellini) 	satyricon – fantasy drama based on petronius's work (dir. by gian luigi polidoro) 	quo vadis ( ) – tv miniseries directed by franco rossi 	quo vadis ( ) – polish superproduction directed by jerzy kawalerowicz 	quo vadis ( ) – tv six-part series following the main polish production 	nero ( ) – aka "imperium: nero", part of the imperium series. directed by paul marcus 	nero (ancient rome: the rise and fall of an empire – episode two) ( ) – docudrama about reign of nero 	horrible histories: the movie - rotten romans ( ) - satiric children's film based on the boudica revolt boudica's revolt[edit] 	the viking queen ( ) – film loosely based on the revolt of boudica 	warrior queen ( ) – tv series about the revolt of boudica 	boudica ( ) – film about the revolt of boudica 	horrible histories: the movie - rotten romans ( ) - satiric children's film based on the boudica revolt eruption of mount vesuvius[edit] 	the last days of pompeii ( ) – a silent film directed by mario caserini and elioterio rudolfi 	the last days of pompeii ( ) 	the last days of pompeii ( ) – french film (dir. by paolo moffa) 	the last days of pompeii ( ) – dir. by mario bonnard & sergio leone 	up pompeii! (bbc tv series) ( – ) 	up pompeii ( ) – set in ad, yet anachronistically shows nero still reigning years after his death ( ) 	the last days of pompeii (tv miniseries) ( ) – abc-tv miniseries 	pompeii: the last day ( ) 	imperium: pompeii ( ), part of the imperium series. 	the fires of pompeii ( ) – new doctor who series ep. 	pompeii ( ) – a romantic disaster film directed by paul w. s. anderson flavian dynasty[edit] 	masada ( ) – tv miniseries about the siege of masada in the first jewish-roman war, dir. by boris sagal 	the apocalypse ( ) – telefilm about jesus christ's last surviving disciple and his writings and visions (dir. by raffaele mertes), starring richard harris as st john of patras and bruce payne as domitian 	colosseum: rome's arena of death ( ) – bbc television docudrama which tells the true story of verus, a gladiator fighting at the colosseum of rome, during the reign of titus 	rebellion (ancient rome: the rise and fall of an empire – episode three) ( ) – docudrama about first jewish–roman war 	roman mysteries ( – ) – ten-part tv series for youngsters, directed by paul marcus - ad[edit] 	the dacians ( ) – romanian film about domitian's dacian war, with pierre brice as septimius severus (dir. by sergiu nicolaescu) 	the column ( ) – romanian film about trajan's dacian wars (dir. by mircea dragan) reign of hadrian[edit] 	the eagle of the ninth ( ) – a six-part bbc mini-series, based on the novel by rosemary sutcliff, starring anthony higgins 	centurion ( ) – an action film based on the massacre of the ninth legion, directed by neil marshall 	the eagle ( ) – adaption of the novel the eagle of the ninth by rosemary sutcliff, directed by kevin macdonald reign of antoninus pius[edit] 	androcles and the lion ( ) – set in ad, after the play by george bernard shaw reign of commodus[edit] 	the fall of the roman empire ( ) – latter half set in rome, with christopher plummer as commodus (dir. by anthony mann) 	the two gladiators ( ) – italian prequel of the next one, dir. by mario caiano 	gladiator ( ) – latter half set in rome, partly a remake of the fall of the roman empire (dir. by ridley scott) 	roman empire: reign of blood ( ) – six episode documentary/drama series produced by netflix about the life and reign of emperor commodus. - ad[edit] 	sign of the gladiator ( ) [known also as sheba and the gladiator] – about the palmyrene empire of queen zenobia (starring anita ekberg) and its re-annexation back to rome (dir. by guido brignone and michelangelo antonioni) 	the magnificent gladiator ( ) – italian film being a tale of a gladiator from the times of emperor gallienus (dir. by alfonso brescia) reign of diocletian[edit] 	sebastiane ( ) – homoerotical version of the legend of st sebastian ; remarkable also as the first film entirely recorded in latin - ad (age of constantine)[edit] 	the fighting gladiators, or fabiola ( ) – italian film with michèle morgan 	constantine and the cross ( ) – up to the battle of the milvian bridge in ad , with cornel wilde as constantine the great 	the fall of rome ( ) – an italian peplum-film, the story based on persecution of christians after the death of emperor constantine (dir. by antonio margheriti) 	constantine (ancient rome: the rise and fall of an empire – episode five) ( ) – docudrama about the rise of constantine attila the hun[edit] 	attila ( ) – with anthony quinn as attila the hun and sophia loren as justa grata honoria 	sign of the pagan ( ) – with jack palance as attila the hun 	attila ( ) – a joint american-lithuanian production with gerard butler as attila the hun (dir. by dick lowry) late empire[edit] 	revenge of the barbarians ( ) – about the sack of rome by the visigoths in ad (dir. by giuseppe vari) 	kampf um rom i ( ) – on the struggle in italy ruled by the ostrogoths, after the novel by felix dahn (dir. by robert siodmak) 	kampf um rom ii : der verrat ( ) – continuation of the (above listed) german production 	thais ( ) – polish film (dir. by ryszard ber), after a story by anatole france on an episode from the life of the th-century alexandria 	titus andronicus ( ) – fictional story of a general in the roman army, based on the tragedy by william shakespeare; bbc tv version dir. by jane howell 	titus ( ) – adaptation by julie taymor with anthony hopkins as titus andronicus 	king arthur ( ) 	the voyage home ( ) – based on the poem de reditu suo by rutilius claudius namatianus 	the fall of rome (ancient rome: the rise and fall of an empire – episode six) ( ) – docudrama about the sack of rome by alaric's visigoths 	the last legion ( ) – loosely inspired by the th-century collapse of the western roman empire and the legendary-fantastic elements from the history of britain (dir. by doug lefler), with colin firth and ben kingsley 	agora ( ) – spanish film (dir. by alejandro amenábar) with rachel weisz starring as hypatia, a female philosopher and savant from alexandria 	restless heart: the confessions of saint augustine ( ) – a biographical film about augustine of hippo, dir. by christian duguay 	decline of an empire ( ) – about "the christian saint who defied the empire" (dir. by michael redwood), with peter o'toole as cornelius gallus (his last film role) undated[edit] 	roman scandals ( ) – eddie cantor's dream sequence. 	 a funny thing happened on the way to the forum ( ) film version of the musical play – inspired by the farces of the ancient roman playwright plautus ( - b.c.), specifically pseudolus, miles gloriosus and mostellaria 	the arena ( ) [also known as naked warriors] – a story of two female gladiators from the arena of brundisium, dir. by steve carver 	history of the world, part i ( ) – the section "the roman empire" of this broad satire is set in rome 	amazons and gladiators ( ) – australian action/adventure film of roman times (dir. by zachary weintraub) see also[edit] 	fiction set in ancient rome for a comprehensive list of all works of fiction (including films set in ancient rome) 	list of historical drama films 	list of films set in ancient egypt 	list of films set in ancient greece 	list of asterix films this film, television or video-related list is incomplete; 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	Українська 	اردو 	yorùbá 	中文 		edit links 	 		 this page was last edited on august , at :  (utc). 	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 list of roman praetors - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	list of roman praetors 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		this list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. the following is a list of roman praetors as reported by ancient sources. a praetor in ancient rome was a person who held an annual office below the level of a consul but who still received a grant of imperium, allowing him to command armed forces. two praetors each year had specific duties in rome: the praetor urbanus (who presided in civil cases between citizens) and the praetor peregrinus (who administered justice among foreigners). unless otherwise noted all dates are reported in bc. contents 	 list of praetors of the roman republic 	 . th century bc 	 . rd century bc 	 . nd century bc 	 . st century bc 	 references 	 bibliography 	 external links list of praetors of the roman republic[edit] the following individuals held the position of praetor during the roman republic, starting with the creation of the office in bc. th century bc[edit] 	date (bc)	name 	 	spurius furius (m. f. l. n.) camillus[ ] 	 	publius valerius (p. f. l. n.) poplicola[ ] 	 	lucius pinarius (natta?)[ ][ ] 	 ?	marcus valerius m. f. m. n. maximus corvus[ ] 	 	titus(?) aemilius mamercinus[ ][ ] 	 	lucius papirius l. f. l. n. crassus[ ] 	 	quintus publilius philo[ ] 	 	lucius papirius (l. f. l. n. crassus?)[ ][ ] 	 	lucius plautius l. f. l. n. venno[ ] 	 	lucius furius[ ] 	 	marcus valerius m. f. m. n. maximus corvus[ ][ ] rd century bc[edit] 	date (bc)	name 	 ?	appius claudius (c. f. ap. n. caecus)[ ] 	 	publius sempronius (sophus)[ ][ ] 	 	appius claudius (c. f. ap. n. caecus)[ ] 	 	marcus atilius (m. f. m. n. regulus)[ ] 	 	lucius papirius l. f. sp. n. cursor[ ] 	 	lucius caecilius (metellus denter)[ ][ ] 	 ?	quintus marcius philippus[ ] 	 	aulus atilius a. f. c. n. caiatinus[ ] 	 	lucius postumius megellus[ ] 	 	quintus valerius falto[ ] 	 	publius cornelius[ ][ ] 	 ?	lucius postumius a. f. a. n. albinus[ ][ ] 	 	gaius flaminius[ ] 	 	marcus valerius (laevinus?)[ ] 	 ?	marcus claudius marcellus[ ] 	 ?	publius furius philus[ ] 	 ?	lucius furius bibaculus[ ][ ] 	 	marcus aemilius lepidus[ ] 	 	gaius atilius serranus[ ] 	 ?	lucius manlius vulso[ ] 	 	gaius terentius varro[ ] 	 	marcus aemilius (regulus?)[ ] 	 	aulus cornelius mammula[ ] 	 	titus otacilius crassus[ ] 	 	marcus pomponius (matho?)[ ][ ] 	 	marcus claudius marcellus[ ] 	 	publius furius philus[ ] 	 	marcus pomponius matho[ ] 	 	lucius postumius albinus[ ] 	 ?	marcus aemilius lepidus[ ][ ] 	 	appius claudius pulcher[ ] 	 	quintus fulvius flaccus[ ] 	 	quintus mucius scaevola[ ] 	 	marcus valerius laevinus[ ] 	 	publius cornelius lentulus[ ] 	 	quintus fabius maximus[ ] 	 	quintus fulvius flaccus[ ] 	 	titus otacilius crassus[ ] 	 	marcus aemilius (lepidus?)[ ][ ] 	 	marcus atilius (regulus?)[ ][ ] 	 	gnaeus fulvius centumalus[ ] 	 	publius sempronius tuditanus[ ] 	 	gaius claudius nero[ ] 	 	publius cornelius sulla[ ] 	 	gnaeus fulvius flaccus[ ] 	 	marcus iunius silanus[ ] 	 	gaius calpurnius piso[ ] 	 	marcus cornelius cethegus[ ] 	 	lucius cornelius (lentulus)[ ] 	 	gaius sulpicius[ ] 	 	lucius cincius alimentus[ ] 	 	gaius laetorius[ ] 	 	lucius manlius acidinus[ ] 	 	publius manlius vulso[ ] 	 	gaius aurunculeius[ ] 	 	gaius hostilius tubulus[ ] 	 	titus quinctius crispinus[ ] 	 	lucius veturius philo[ ] 	 	quintus claudius (flamen?)[ ][ ] 	 	sextus iulius caesar[ ] 	 	publius licinius crassus dives[ ] 	 	publius licinius varus[ ] 	 	aulus hostilius cato[ ] 	 	gaius hostilius cato[ ] 	 	gaius mamilius vitulus[ ] 	 	lucius porcius licinus[ ] 	 	marcus caecilius metellus[ ] 	 	tiberius claudius asellus[ ] 	 	quintus mamilius turrinus[ ] 	 	gaius servilius (geminus)[ ] 	 	lucius aemilius papus[ ] 	 	spurius lucretius[ ] 	 	gnaeus octavius[ ] 	 	gnaeus servilius caepio[ ] 	 	tiberius claudius nero[ ] 	 	marcus marcius ralla[ ][ ] 	 	marcus pomponius matho[ ] 	 	lucius scribonius libo[ ] 	 	publius aelius paetus[ ] 	 	publius cornelius lentulus (caudinus)[ ] 	 	publius quinctilius varus[ ] 	 	publius villius tappulus[ ] 	 	gaius aurelius cotta[ ] 	 	gaius livius salinator[ ] 	 	marcus sextius sabinus[ ] 	 	gnaeus tremellius flaccus[ ] 	 	publius aelius tubero[ ] 	 	marcus fabius buteo[ ] 	 	marcus junius pennus[ ] 	 	marcus valerius falto[ ] nd century bc[edit] 	date (bc)	names 	 [ ] 	quintus fulvius gillo 	lucius furius purpurio 	quintus minucius rufus 	gaius sergius plautus[ ] 	 [ ] 	gnaeus baebius tamphilus 	lucius quinctius flamininus 	lucius valerius flaccus 	lucius villius tappulus 	 [ ] 	marcus claudius marcellus 	lucius cornelius merula 	gaius helvius 	marcus porcius cato 	 [ ] 	lucius atilius 	marcus helvius 	lucius manlius vulso 	marcus minucius rufus 	gaius sempronius tuditanus 	marcus sergius silus 	 [ ] 	manius acilius glabrio 	lucius apustius fullo 	quintus fabius buteo 	gaius laelius 	quintus minucius thermus 	tiberius sempronius longus 	 [ ] 	gaius atinius labeo 	appius claudius nero 	gaius fabricius luscinus 	gnaeus manlius vulso 	publius manlius (vulso?) 	publius porcius laeca 	 [ ] 	gnaeus cornelius blasio 	gnaeus cornelius merenda 	publius cornelius scipio nasica 	sextus digitius 	gnaeus domitius ahenobarbus 	titus iuventius thalna 	 [ ] 	lucius cornelius scipio (asiaticus) 	gaius flaminius 	marcus fulvius nobilior 	lucius porcius licinus 	gaius scribonius (curio) 	lucius valerius messalla 	 [ ] 	aulus atilius serranus 	marcus baebius tamphilus 	marcus fulvius centumalus< 	quintus salonius sarra 	lucius scribonius libo 	lucius valerius tappo 	 [ ] 	marcus aemilius lepidus 	lucius aemilius paullus (macedonicus) 	aulus cornelius mammula 	marcus iunius brutus 	gaius livius salinator 	lucius oppius salinator 	 [ ] 	lucius aemilius regulus 	gaius atinius labeo 	lucius aurunculeius 	gnaeus fulvius 	publius iunius brutus 	marcus tuccius 	 [ ] 	lucius baebius dives 	quintus fabius labeo 	quintus fabius pictor 	lucius plautius hypsaeus 	spurius postumius albinus 	marcus sempronius tuditanus 	? aulus manlius vulso (suff.)[ ] 	 [ ] 	gaius atinius 	marcus claudius marcellus 	appius claudius pulcher[ ] 	lucius manlius acidinus fulvianus 	quintus marcius philippus 	gaius stertinius 	 [ ] 	publius claudius pulcher 	quintus fulvius flaccus 	marcus furius crassipes 	servius sulpicius galba 	quintus terentius culleo 	lucius terentius massaliota 	 [ ] 	gaius aurelius scaurus 	gaius calpurnius piso 	publius cornelius sulla 	marcus licinius lucullus 	titus maenius 	lucius quinctius crispinus 	 [ ] 	gaius afranius stellio 	gaius atilius serranus 	marcus claudius marcellus 	publius cornelius cethegus 	aulus postumius albinus luscus 	lucius postumius tempsanus 	 [ ] 	publius cornelius cethegus 	gaius decimius flavus 	quintus naevius matho 	gaius sempronius blaesus 	publius sempronius longus 	aulus terentius varro 	 [ ] 	publius cornelius sisenna 	lucius julius (caesar?) 	spurius postumius albinus 	lucius pupius 	gnaeus sicinius 	gaius valerius flaccus 	 [ ] 	lucius caecilius denter 	quintus fulvius flaccus 	publius manlius (vulso?)[ ][ ] 	marcus ogulnius gallus 	gaius terentius istra 	marcus valerius laevinus 	 [ ] 	tiberius claudius nero 	lucius duronius 	quintus fabius buteo 	quintus fabius maximus 	quintus petilius spurinus 	marcus pinarius rusca[ ] 	 [ ] 	publius cornelius mammula 	aulus hostilius mancinus 	gaius maenius 	tiberius minucius molliculus 	lucius postumius albinus 	tiberius sempronius gracchus 	gaius claudius pulcher 	 [ ] 	gnaeus cornelius scipio hispallus 	publius mucius scaevola 	quintus mucius scaevola 	gaius valerius laevinus 	 [ ] 	titus aebutius parrus 	tiberius claudius nero 	titus fonteius capito 	marcus titinius curvus 	marcus titinius 	?gaius cluvius saxula[ ] 	 [ ] 	publius aelius tubero 	lucius mummius 	gaius numisius 	gaius quinctius flamininus 	gnaeus cornelius scipio 	gaius valerius laevinus 	 [ ] 	marcus aburius 	lucius aquillius gallus 	marcus cornelius scipio maluginensis 	publius licinius crassus 	lucius papirius maso 	marcus popilius laenas 	 [ ] 	publius aelius ligus 	appius claudius centho 	gaius popilius laenas 	? quintus baebius sulca 	? servius cornelius sulla 	? gnaeus lutatius cerco 	 [ ] 	marcus atilius serranus 	gaius cassius longinus 	lucius claudius 	lucius cornelius scipio 	publius furius philus 	gnaeus servilius caepio 	 [ ] 	aulus atilius serranus 	gaius cicereius 	gaius cluvius saxula 	numerius fabius buteo 	marcus furius crassipes 	marcus matienus 	 [ ] 	spurius cluvius 	marcus iunius pennus 	gaius licinius crassus 	spurius lucretius 	gaius memmius 	gnaeus sicinius 	 [ ] 	gaius caninius rebilus 	lucius canuleius dives 	lucius furius philus 	gaius lucretius gallus 	gaius sulpicius galba 	lucius villius annalis 	 [ ] 	quintus aelius paetus 	? gnaeus domitius ahenobarbus 	lucius hortensius 	quintus maenius 	? titus manlius torquatus 	marcus raecius 	? gaius tremellius 	 [ ] 	marcus claudius marcellus 	servius cornelius lentulus 	gaius decimius 	publius fonteius capito 	gaius marcius figulus 	gaius sulpicius gallus 	 [ ] 	marcus aebutius helva 	lucius anicius gallus 	gnaeus baebius tamphilus 	publius fonteius balbus 	gnaeus octavius 	gaius papirius carbo 	 [ ] 	quintus cassius longinus 	tiberius claudius nero 	gnaeus fulvius 	manius iuventius thalna 	gaius licinius nerva 	aulus manlius torquatus 	 [ ] 	lucius appuleius saturninus 	marcus fonteius 	lucius julius caesar 	aulus licinius nerva 	publius quinctilius varus 	publius rutilius calvus 	 [ ] 	publius cornelius blasio? 	publius cornelius lentulus 	publius cornelius scipio nasica corculum 	 [ ] 	quintus minucius? 	marcus valerius messalla? 	gaius fannius strabo? 	 [ ] 	marcus cornelius cathegus? 	 [ ] 	gnaeus cornelius dolabella? 	marcus fulvius nobilior? 	 [ ] 	marcus aemilius lepidus? 	marcus pomponius 	 [ ] 	lucius aurelus orestes? 	sextus iulius caesar? 	 [ ] 	lucius cornelius cn. f. l. n. lentulus lupus 	gnaeus tremellius[ ] 	 [ ] 	manius acilius glabrio? 	quintus opimius? 	lucius postumius albinus? 	 [ ] 	titus annius luscus? 	quintus fulvius nobilior? 	 [ ] 	manius manilius? 	aulus postumius albinus 	lucius valerius flaccus? 	 [ ] 	lucius calpurnius piso caesoninus 	lucius licinius lucullus 	 [ ] 	manius acilius balbus? 	titus quinctius flamininus? 	lucius mummius 	 [ ] 	marcus atilius serranus 	lucius marcius censorinus? 	 [ ] 	spurius postumius albinus magnus? 	servius sulpicius galba 	 [ ] 	gaius livius m. aemiliani f. m. n. drusus? 	 [ ] 	quintus fabius maximus aemilianus[ ] 	gnaeus cornelius lentulus? 	publius iuventius thalna 	lucius hostilius mancinus? 	 [ ] 	quintus caecilius metellus macedonicus[ ] 	 [ ] 	lucius aurelius cotta? 	lucius licinius murena? 	gaius sempronius tuditanus? 	gaius vetilius 	 [ ] 	appius claudius pulcher? 	? claudius unimanus 	? oppius? 	gaius plautius hypsaeus 	 [ ] 	lucius caecilius metellus calvus? 	quintus fabius maximus servilianus? 	gaius laelius sapiens 	gaius nigidius? 	 [ ] 	quintus marcius rex 	quintus pompeius? 	gnaeus servilius caepio? 	 [ ] 	marcus aemilius lepidus porcina? 	aulus licinius nerva 	? quinctius ?[ ] 	quintus servilius cn. f. cn. n. caepio? 	 [ ] 	gnaeus calpurnius piso? 	lucius hostilius tubulus 	marcus popillius laenas? 	 [ ] 	publius cornelius scipio nasica serapio? 	decimus iunius brutus callaicus? 	decimus iunius silanus manlianus? 	 [ ] 	lucius cornelius lentulus? 	gaius hostilius mancinus? 	marcus iunius brutus? 	 [ ] 	sextus atilius serranus? 	gnaeus cornelius scipio hispanus 	lucius furius philus? 	lucius plautius hypsaeus? 	 [ ] 	quintus calpurnius piso? 	lucius calpurnius piso frugi? 	servius fulvius flaccus? 	 [ ] 	marcus claudius marcellus 	? cornelius lentulus? 	gaius fulvius flaccus? 	 [ ] 	manlius 	publius mucius scaevola 	lucius tremellius scrofa? 	 [ ] 	marcus cosconius 	publius popillius laenas? 	publius rupilius? 	 [ ] 	publius licinius dives crassus mucianus? 	lucius valerius flaccus? 	 [ ] 	appius claudius? 	marcus perperna? 	lucius rupilius? 	gaius popillius c. f. 	 [ ] 	gaius sempronius tuditanus 	manius aquillius? 	 [ ] 	titus annius rufus? 	gnaeus octavius? 	 [ ] 	lucius cassius longinus ravilla? 	lucius cornelius cinna? 	gaius marcius figulus? 	 [ ] 	marcus aemilius lepidus? 	lucius aurelius orestes? 	tiberius (latinius?) pandusa?[ ] 	 [ ] 	publius cornelius p. f. lentulus? 	marcus fulvius flaccus? 	marcus plautius hypsaeus? 	 [ ] 	gaius cassius longinus? 	gaius sextius calvinus? 	 [ ] 	quintus caecilius metellus balearicus? 	titus quinctius flamininus? 	gaius fannius m. f.? 	marcus licinius crassus agelastus? 	 [ ] 	gnaeus domitius ahenobarbus? 	lucius opimius 	aebutius? 	 [ ] 	quintus fabius maximus allobrogicus? 	 [ ] 	sextus iulius caesar 	publius manilius? 	gaius papirius carbo? 	 [ ] 	lucius aurelius cotta? 	lucius caecilius metellus dalmaticus? 	 [ ] 	quintus marcius rex? 	marcus porcius cato? 	gaius scribonius curio 	 [ ] 	lucius caecilius metellus diadematus? 	quintus mucius scaevola augur? 	 [ ] 	marcus aemilius scaurus? 	gnaeus cornelius sisenna? 	quintus fabius maximus eburnus 	gaius licinius geta? 	sextus pompeius? 	 [ ] 	marcus caecilius metellus? 	publius rutilius rufus? 	 [ ] 	marcus acilius balbus? 	gaius caecilius metellus caprarius? 	gaius porcius cato? 	 [ ] 	gnaeus papirius carbo? 	 [ ] 	lucius calpurnius piso caesoninus? 	publius decius 	marcus livius drusus? 	gaius marius? 	 [ ] 	lucius calpurnius bestia? 	publius cornelius scipio nasica? 	marcus papirius carbo? 	 [ ] 	marcus iunius silanus? 	lucius memmius? 	marcus minucius rufus? 	spurius postumius albinus? 	 [ ] 	quintus caecilius metellus numidicus? 	lucius calpurnius piso frugi? 	marcius iunius silanus? 	 [ ] 	marcus aemilius scaurus? 	lucius cassius longinus 	lucius (or quintus) hortensius? 	servius sulpicius galba? 	 [ ] 	gaius atilius serranus? 	quintus lutatius catulus? 	quintus servilius caepio 	gnaeus cornelius scipio? 	 [ ] 	gnaeus mallius maximus 	 [ ] 	gnaeus aufidius? 	gaius billienus? 	gaius flavius fimbria? 	 [ ] 	lucius aurelius orestes? 	 [ ] 	titus albucius? 	lucius (annius?) bellienus 	lucius ...onius[ ] 	 [ ] 	manius aquillius? 	titus flaminius? 	lucius licinius lucullus 	publius licinius nerva? 	gaius memmius? 	 [ ] 	glaucia? 	lucius valerius flaccus? 	vibius? 	 [ ] 	marcus antonius 	marcus marius? 	aulus postumius albinus? 	gaius servilius[ ][ ] 	 [ ] 	quintus caecilius metellus nepos? 	titus didius? 	lucius licinius l. f. murena? st century bc[edit] 	date (bc)	names 	 [ ] 	lucius cornelius p. f. l. n. dolabella? 	gnaeus cornelius lentulus? 	publius licinius crassus? 	gaius servilius glaucia 	tremellius? 	 [ ] 	gaius cassius longinus? 	gaius coelius caldus? 	gnaeus domitius ahenobarbus? 	 [ ] 	lucius licinius crassus? 	quintus mucius scaevola? 	 [ ] 	lucius domitius ahenobarbus? 	marcus herennius? 	 [ ] 	lucius marcius philippus? 	lucius (sempronius) asellio? 	gaius valerius flaccus? 	 [ ] 	lucius aurelius cotta? 	gaius claudius pulcher 	lucius julius caesar 	marcus perperna? 	 [ ] 	lucius gellius poplicola 	sextus julius caesar? 	gaius sentius 	 [ ] 	publius cornelius scipio nasica? 	lucius cornelius sulla (felix) 	publius rutilius lupus? 	lucius valerius flaccus? 	 [ ] 	gaius julius caesar? 	gnaeus pompeius strabo? 	lucius porcius cato? 	marcus porcius cato? 	gaius sextius calvinus? 	 [ ] 	lucius lucilius l. f.? 	gnaeus octavius (ruso?)? 	gaius perperna? 	quintus pompeius rufus 	quintus servilius 	quintus servilius caepio? 	servius sulpicius galba? 	 [ ] 	gaius caelius? 	m. (caecilius) cornutus? 	gaius cassius? 	lucius cornelius cinna? 	lucius cornelius merula? 	gnaeus octavius? 	lucius postumius 	publius servilius vatia (isauricus)? 	 [ ] 	quintus caecilius metellus pius 	appius claudius pulcher 	gaius cosconius? 	publius gabinius 	quintus oppius? 	(gnaeus papirius?) carbo? 	aulus sempronius asellio 	publius sextilius? 	 [ ] 	quintus ancharius? 	marcus iunius brutus 	lucius licinius murena? 	gaius norbanus? 	?servilius? 	publius sextilius?[ ] 	 [ ] 	lucius cornelius scipio asiagenus (asiaticus)? 	 [ ] 	marcus marius gratidianus? 	 [ ] 	marcus marius gratidianus? 	gaius fabius hadrianus 	 [ ] 	publius? burrienus 	gaius papirius carbo (arvina)? 	quintus sertorius 	 [ ] 	lucius iunius brutus damasippus 	quintus antonius balbus 	gaius carrinus 	? magius 	marcus perperna (vento) 	 [ ] 	gnaeus cornelius dolabella 	mamercus aemilius lepidus livianus ? 	marcus aemelius lepidus ? 	gaius claudius p. f. nero ? 	lucius fufidius ? 	quintus lutatius catulus ? 	marcus minucius thermus 	sextus nonius sufenas 	gaius papirius carbo ? 	 [ ] 	gaius claudius marcellus 	marcus domitius calvinus 	marcus fannius 	decimus iunius brutus ? 	gaius scribonius curio ? 	 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jstor (july ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) 	louis macneice 	macneice on the cover of selected poems, edited by michael longley ( ) 	born	frederick louis macneice ( - - ) september belfast, northern ireland 	died	 september ( - - ) (aged  ) london, england 	citizenship	british 	occupation	poet frederick louis macneice cbe ( september – september ) was an irish poet and playwright from northern ireland, and a member of the auden group, which also included w. h. auden, stephen spender and cecil day-lewis. macneice's body of work was widely appreciated by the public during his lifetime, due in part to his relaxed but socially and emotionally aware style. never as overtly or simplistically political as some of his contemporaries, he expressed a humane opposition to totalitarianism as well as an acute awareness of his roots. contents 	 life 	 . ireland, – 	 . school, – 	 . oxford, – 	 . birmingham, – 	 . london, – 	 . war and after, – 	 influence 	 archive 	 works 	 . poetry collections 	 . plays 	 . books (fiction) 	 . books (non-fiction) 	 notes 	 references 	 external links life[edit] ireland, – [edit] plaque at site of macneice's childhood home in carrickfergus louis macneice (known as freddie until his teens, when he adopted his middle name) was born in belfast, the youngest son of john frederick and elizabeth margaret ("lily") macneice.[ ] both were originally from the west of ireland. macneice's father, a protestant minister, would go on to become a bishop of the church of ireland and his mother elizabeth née cleshan, from ballymacrony, county galway, had been a schoolmistress. the family moved to carrickfergus, county antrim, soon after macneice's birth.[ ] when macneice was six, his mother was admitted to a dublin nursing home suffering from severe depression and he did not see her again. she survived uterine cancer but died of tuberculosis in december .[ ] macneice later described the cause of his mother's death as "obscure", and blamed his mother's cancer on his own difficult birth. his brother william, who had down's syndrome, had been sent to live in an institution in scotland during his mother's terminal illness. in , his father remarried to georgina greer and macneice's sister elizabeth was sent to board at a preparatory school at sherborne, england. macneice joined her at sherborne preparatory school later in the year.[ ] school, – [edit] macneice was generally happy at sherborne, which gave an education concentrating on the classics (greek and latin) and literature (including the memorising of poetry). he was an enthusiastic sportsman, something which continued when he moved to marlborough college in , having won a classical scholarship. marlborough was a less happy place, with a hierarchical and sometimes cruel social structure, but macneice's interest in ancient literature and civilisation deepened and expanded to include egyptian and norse mythology. in , he was invited to join marlborough's secret 'society of amici'[ ] where he was a contemporary of john betjeman and anthony blunt, forming a lifelong friendship with the latter. he also wrote poetry and essays for the school magazines.[ ] by the end of his time at the school, macneice was sharing a study with blunt and also sharing his aesthetic tastes, though not his sexual ones; blunt said macneice was "totally, irredeemably heterosexual". in november , macneice was awarded a postmastership to merton college, oxford,[ ] and he left marlborough in the summer of the following year. he left behind his birth name of frederick, his accent and his father's faith, although he never lost a sense of his irishness;[ ] (the bbc radio premiere of macneice's the dark tower in , was preceded by the poet's ten-minute introduction in his distinctive northern irish accent.)[ ] oxford, – [edit] it was during his first year as a student at oxford that macneice first met w. h. auden, who had gained a reputation as the university's foremost poet during the preceding year. stephen spender and cecil day-lewis were already part of auden's circle, but macneice's closest oxford friends were john hilton, christopher holme and graham shepard, who had been with him at marlborough. macneice threw himself into the aesthetic culture, publishing poetry in literary magazines the cherwell and sir galahad, organising candle-lit readings of shelley and marlowe, and visiting paris with hilton. auden would become a lifelong friend who inspired macneice to take up poetry seriously.[ ] in he was introduced to the classics don john beazley and his stepdaughter mary ezra. a year later he thought to soften the news that he had been arrested for drunkenness by telegraphing his father to say he was engaged to be married to mary. john macneice (by now archdeacon of connor, and a bishop a few years later) was horrified to discover his son was engaged to a jew, while ezra's family demanded assurances that louis's brother's down's syndrome was not hereditary. amidst this turmoil macneice published four poems in oxford poetry, and his first undergraduate collection blind fireworks ( ). published by gollancz,[ ] the volume was dedicated to "giovanna" (mary's full name was giovanna marie thérèse babette [ - ]). in the couple were married at oxford register office, neither set of parents attending the ceremony. he was awarded a first-class degree in literae humaniores, and had already gained an appointment as assistant lecturer in classics at the university of birmingham.[ ][ ] birmingham, – [edit] the newlyweds were found lodgings in birmingham by e. r. dodds and his wife, bet – dodds was professor of greek (and later to be macneice's literary executor). bet was a lecturer in the department of english. the macneices lived in a former coachman's cottage in the grounds of a house in selly park belonging to another professor, philip sargant florence. birmingham was a very different university (and city) from oxford, macneice was not a natural lecturer, and he found it difficult to write poetry. he turned instead to a semi-autobiographical novel, roundabout way, which was published in under the name of louis malone as he feared a novel by an academic would not be favourably reviewed. he felt that married life was not helping his poetry: "to write poems expressing doubt or melancholy, an anarchist conception of freedom or nostalgia for the open spaces (and these were the things that i wanted to express), seemed disloyal to mariette. instead i was disloyal to myself, wrote a novel which purported to be an idyll of domestic felicity.[ ] as we predicted, the novel was not well received."[ ] the local classical association included george augustus auden, professor of public health and father of w. h. auden, and by macneice and auden's oxford acquaintance had turned into a close friendship. auden knew many marxists, and blunt had also become a communist by this time, but macneice, although sympathetic to the left, was always sceptical of easy answers and "the armchair reformist". the strings are false (written at the time of the molotov–ribbentrop pact) describes his wish for a change in society and even revolution, but also his intellectual opposition to marxism and especially the communism embraced by many of his friends. macneice started to write poetry again, and in january he and auden led the first edition of geoffrey grigson's magazine new verse. macneice also started sending poems to t. s. eliot at around this time, and although eliot did not feel that they merited faber and faber publishing a volume of poems, several were published in eliot's journal the criterion. on may , louis and mary's son daniel john macneice was born. in september of that year, macneice travelled to dublin with dodds, who had republican sympathies, and met william butler yeats. unsuccessful attempts at playwriting and another novel were followed in september by poems, the first of his collections for faber and faber, who would remain his publishers. this helped establish macneice as one of the new poets of the s.[ ] in november, mary left macneice and their infant son for a russian-american graduate student called charles katzmann who had been staying with the family.[ ] macneice engaged a nurse to look after dan, and his sister and stepmother also helped on occasion. in early , blunt and macneice visited spain, shortly after the election of the popular front government. auden and macneice travelled to iceland in the summer of that year, which resulted in letters from iceland, a collection of poems, letters (some in verse) and essays. in october, macneice left birmingham for a lecturing post in the department of greek at bedford college for women, part of the university of london. london, – [edit] macneice was featured in two high-profile collections of modernist poetry of . the faber book of modern verse, edited by young writer and critic michael roberts, collected work published after , printing macneice's '"an eclogue for christmas", "sunday morning", "perseus", "the creditor" and "snow" towards the end of the roughly chronological book.[ ] in the book, macneice is set in amongst others of the new auden group, presenting a version of modernism in which eliot is the star. macneice and his group were also featured in oxford book of modern verse – , edited by yeats. this collection generally excluded american poets and was less well received critically, but instantaneously became a best-seller.[ ] macneice moved into geoffrey grigson's former flat in hampstead with daniel and his nurse. his translation of aeschylus's agamemnon was published in late , and produced by the group theatre.[ ] shortly afterwards his divorce from mary was finalised.[ ] they continued to write frequent affectionate letters to one another, although mary married katzmann shortly after the divorce. macneice started an affair with nancy coldstream. nancy was, like her husband bill, a painter and a friend of auden who had introduced the couple to macneice while they were in birmingham. macneice and nancy visited the hebrides in , which resulted in a book of prose and verse written by macneice with illustrations by nancy, i crossed the minch.[ ][ ] august saw the appearance of letters from iceland (which had been finished by the two authors in macneice's london home the previous year), and towards the end of the year a play called out of the picture was published and produced by the group theatre. music was written for the production by benjamin britten, as he had done previously for agamemnon.[ ] in , faber and faber published a second collection of poems, the earth compels, the oxford university press published modern poetry, and nancy once again contributed illustrations to a book about london zoo, called simply zoo. as the year – and his relationship with nancy – drew to a close, he started work on autumn journal. by christmas, nancy was in love with stephen spender's brother michael, whom she was later to marry, and at the end of the year macneice visited barcelona shortly before the city fell to franco. the poem was finished by february , and published in may. it is widely viewed as macneice's masterpiece, recording his feelings as the spanish civil war raged and the united kingdom headed towards war with germany, as well as his personal concerns and reflections over the past decade. during the easter holiday that year, macneice made a brief lecture tour of various american universities, also meeting mary and charles katzmann and giving a reading with auden and christopher isherwood in new york attended by john berryman, and at which auden met chester kallman for the first time. macneice also met the writer eleanor clark in new york, and arranged to spend the next academic year on sabbatical so that he could be with her. a lectureship at cornell university was organised, and in december macneice sailed for america, leaving his son in ireland. cornell proved a success but the relationship with eleanor did not, and macneice was back in london by the end of . faber and faber published selected poems in march , which contained poems drawn from poems , the earth compels and autumn journal. it went through six impressions by . macneice worked as a freelance journalist (he had resigned from his lecturing position at bedford college while in america) and was awaiting the publication of plant and phantom, which was dedicated to clark (the previous year, the cuala press had published the last ditch, a limited edition containing some poems that would appear in the new volume). in early , macneice was employed by the bbc. war and after, – [edit] macneice's work for the bbc initially involved writing and producing radio programmes intended to build support for the us, and later russia – cultural programmes emphasising links between the countries rather than outright propaganda. a critical work on w. b. yeats (on which he had been working since the poet's death in ) was published early in , as were plant and phantom and poems – (an american anthology). at the end of the year, macneice started a relationship with hedli anderson and they were married in july , three months after the death of his father.[ ] brigid corinna macneice (known by her second name like her parents, or as "bimba") was born a year later. by the end of the war macneice had written well over sixty scripts for the bbc and a further collection of poems, springboard. the radio play christopher columbus, produced in and later published as a book, featured music by william walton, conducted by adrian boult, and starred laurence olivier. 's he had a date (loosely based on the life and death of macneice's friend graham shepard but also semi-autobiographical) was also published, as was the dark tower ( , again with music by britten). dylan thomas acted in some of macneice's plays during this period, and the two poets, both heavy drinkers, also became social companions. in , the bbc sent macneice to report on indian independence and partition, and he continued to produce plays for the corporation, including a six-part radio adaptation of goethe's faust in . 's collection of poems, holes in the sky, met with a less favourable reception than previous books. in he was given eighteen months' leave to become director of the british institute in athens, run by the british council.[ ] patrick leigh fermor had previously been deputy director of the institute, and he and his future wife, the honourable joan elizabeth rayner (née eyres monsell), became close friends of the macneices. ten burnt offerings, poems written in greece, were broadcast by the bbc in and published the following year. the family returned to england in august , and dan (who had been at an english boarding school) left for america in early to stay with his mother, to avoid national service. dan would return to england in , but went to live permanently with his mother after a legal battle with macneice. in , macneice wrote autumn sequel, a long autobiographical poem in terza rima, which critics compared unfavourably with autumn journal. the death of dylan thomas came partway through the writing of the poem, and macneice involved himself in memorials for the poet and attempts to raise money for his family. and brought lecture and performance tours of the usa (husband and wife would present an evening of song, monologue and poetry readings), and meetings with john berryman (on the returning boat in , and later in london) and eleanor clark (by now married to robert penn warren). macneice travelled to egypt in and ghana in on lengthy assignments for the bbc. another poorly received collection of poems, visitations, was published in , and the macneices bought a holiday home on the isle of wight from j. b. priestley (an acquaintance since macneice's arrival in london twenty years earlier). however, the marriage was starting to become strained. macneice was drinking increasingly heavily, and having more or less serious affairs with other women. at this time macneice became increasingly independent of spirit, spending time with other writers, including dominic behan with whom he regularly drank to oblivion; the two men spent a particularly drunken night in the home of cecil woodham-smith during a curious meeting in ireland whilst behan was working on assignment as a writer for life magazine and macneice on assignment with the bbc. during the trip, which allegedly lasted some weeks, neither writer managed successfully to file their copy. macneice was buried at carrowdore with his mother macneice was awarded the cbe in the new year's honours list.[ ] a south african trip in was followed by the start of his final relationship, with the actress mary wimbush, who had performed in his plays since the forties. hedli asked macneice to leave the family home in late . in early , solstices was published, and in the middle of the year macneice became a half-time employee at the bbc, leaving him six months a year to work on his own projects. by this time he was "living on alcohol", and eating very little, but still writing (including a commissioned work on astrology, which he viewed as "hack-work"). in august he went caving in yorkshire to gather sound effects for his final radio play, persons from porlock. caught in a storm on the moors, he did not change out of his wet clothes until he was home in hertfordshire. bronchitis evolved into viral pneumonia, and he was admitted to hospital in london on august, dying there on september, aged .[ ][ ] he was buried in carrowdore churchyard in county down, with his mother.[ ] his final book of poems, the burning perch, was published a few days after his funeral – auden, who gave a reading at macneice's memorial service, described the poems of his last two years as "among his very best".[citation needed] influence[edit] macneice wrote in the introduction to his autumn journal, "poetry in my opinion must be honest before anything else and i refuse to be 'objective' or clear-cut at the cost of honesty."[ ] he has inspired many poets since his death, particularly those from northern ireland such as paul muldoon and michael longley.[ ] there has been a movement to reclaim him as an irish writer rather than a satellite of auden.[ ] longley has edited two selections of his work, and muldoon gives more space to macneice than to any other author in his faber book of contemporary irish poetry, which covers the period from the death of w. b. yeats until . muldoon and derek mahon have both written elegies for macneice, mahon's coming after a pilgrimage to the poet's grave in the company of longley and seamus heaney in . at the time of macneice's death, john berryman described him as "one of my best friends", and wrote an elegy in dream song # . archive[edit] louis macneice's archive was established at the harry ransom center at the university of texas at austin in , a year after macneice's death. the collection, largely coming from macneice's sister elizabeth nicholson, includes manuscripts of poetic and dramatic works, a large number of books, correspondence, and books from macneice's library.[ ] works[edit] poetry collections[edit] 	blind fireworks ( , mainly considered by macneice to be juvenilia and excluded from the collected poems) 	poems ( ) 	letters from iceland ( , with w. h. auden, poetry and prose) 	the earth compels ( ) 	autumn journal ( ) 	the last ditch ( ) 	selected poems ( ) 	plant and phantom ( ) 	springboard ( ) 	prayer before birth ( ) 	holes in the sky ( ) 	 collected poems, – ( ) 	ten burnt offerings ( ) 	autumn sequel ( ) 	visitations ( ) 	solstices ( ) 	the burning perch ( ) 	star-gazer ( ) 	selected poems ( , edited by w. h. auden) 	collected poems ( , edited by e. r. dodds) 	selected poems ( , edited by michael longley, redesigned and republished by wake forest university press, ) 	collected poems ( , edited by peter mcdonald) plays[edit] 	the agamemnon of aeschylus ( , translation) 	out of the picture ( ) 	christopher columbus ( , radio) & performed, brighton dome ( ) 	he had a date ( , radio, not published separately) 	the dark tower and other radio scripts ( ) 	goethe's faust ( , published , a translation) 	 the mad islands [ ] and the administrator [ ] ( , radio) 	persons from porlock [ ] and other plays for radio ( ) 	one for the grave: a modern morality play [ ] ( ) 	selected plays of louis macneice, ed. alan heuser and peter mcdonald ( ) macneice also wrote several plays which were never produced, and many for the bbc which were never published. books (fiction)[edit] 	roundabout way ( , as "louis malone") 	the sixpence that rolled away ( , for children) books (non-fiction)[edit] first edition dust jacket of zoo, ( ), illustrations by nancy sharp 	i crossed the minch ( , travel, prose and verse) 	modern poetry: a personal essay ( , criticism) 	zoo ( ) 	the poetry of w. b. yeats ( ) 	the strings are false ( , published , autobiography) 	meet the us army ( ) 	astrology ( ) 	varieties of parable ( , criticism) 	selected prose of louis macneice, ed. alan heuser ( ) notes[edit] 	louis macneice, collected poems, ed. by peter mcdonald, faber and faber, . 	louis macneice: selected poems, longley, michael (ed. and introduction), faber and faber. isbn  - - - ; published in the united states by wake forest university press. 	louis macneice, the strings are false (autobiography), faber and faber, . isbn  - - - 	jon stallworthy louis macneice faber and faber, . isbn  - - - references[edit] 	^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p poetry foundation profile. 	^ paths of progress: a history of marlborough college by rt hon peter brooke mp and thomas hinde 	^ a b c d "bbc ni learning - writing home website - profile of louis macneice". www.bbc.co.uk. retrieved december . 	^ a b c d levens, r.g.c., ed. ( ). merton college register - . oxford: basil blackwell. p.  . 	^ the broadcast was repeated on bbc radio may , , including macneice's introduction. 	^ a b korte, schneider and lethbridge ( ), anthologies of british poetry: critical perspectives from literary and cultural studies, faber book of modern verse ( ). editions rodopi b.v. pp.  – isbn  - - -x 	^ on p of 'i crossed the minch' macneice writes that he wrote 'leaving barra' (poems, ) sitting on a deck-chair in the stern of a ship. the closing verses and particularly the closing line of this poem, "while you are alive beyond question, like the dazzle on the sea, my darling." fits with his writing in 'the strings are false', p , about spending time in with someone "of all the people i have known she could be the most radiant." he also writes that she "could be as gloomy as to black-out london," but that "i do not regret the hours and hours of argument and melancholy, the unanswerable lamentations of someone who wanted to be happy in a way that was just not practical." 	^ mahon, derek ( december ). genet, jacqueline; hellegouarc’h, wynne (eds.). studies on louis macneice. presses universitaires de caen. pp.  – . retrieved december – via openedition books. 	^ macneice, louis ( ). autumn journal. faber & faber. p.  . isbn  . 	^ "louis macneice". poetryarchive.org. 	^ k. devine and a. j. peacock, louis macneice and his influence, isbn  - - - 	^ "louis macneice: an inventory of his collection at the harry ransom center". norman.hrc.utexas.edu. retrieved november . external links[edit] 		wikiquote has quotations related to: louis macneice 		wikimedia commons has media related to louis macneice. 	louis macneice papers at the harry ransom center 	local writing legends – louis macneice at bbc.co.uk 	profile at the poetry archive 	profile at poets.org 	profile at poetry foundation 	macneice at portraits at national portrait gallery 	arthur strain, "writer's life celebrated", bbc news, september . text and audio file. 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ancient rome, took place around bc and resulted in the expulsion of the last king of rome, lucius tarquinius superbus, and the establishment of the roman republic. the semi-legendary roman histories[ ] tell that while the king was away on campaign, his son sextus tarquinius raped a noblewoman, lucretia. afterwards she revealed the offence to various roman noblemen, and then committed suicide. the roman noblemen, led by lucius junius brutus, obtained the support of the roman aristocracy and the people to expel the king and his family and to institute a republic. the roman army supported brutus, and the king went into exile. despite a number of attempts by lucius tarquinius superbus to reinstate the monarchy, the citizens established a republic and thereafter elected two consuls annually to rule the city. contents 	 background: the kingdom 	 rape of lucretia 	 uprising 	 establishment of the republic 	 attempts to reinstate the monarchy 	 references background: the kingdom[edit] main articles: roman kingdom, king of rome, and lucius tarquinius superbus roman history held that seven kings of rome reigned from the establishment of the city in bc by romulus up to the reign of tarquinius. the accuracy of this account has been doubted by modern historians, although it appears to be accepted that there was a monarchy, and the last king tarquinius was expelled upon the founding of the republic in the late th century bc. tarquinius was the son of the fifth king, lucius tarquinius priscus. in around bc tarquinius, together with his wife tullia minor (one of the daughters of the then king servius tullius) arranged the murder of servius. tarquinius became king in his place. despite various military victories, tarquinius became an unpopular king. he refused to bury his predecessor, then put to death a number of the leading senators whom he suspected of remaining loyal to servius (one of whom was the brother of lucius junius brutus). by not replacing the slain senators, and not consulting the senate on all matters of government, he diminished both the size and authority of the senate. in another break with tradition, he judged capital criminal cases without advice of counsellors, thereby creating fear among those who might think to oppose him. he also engaged in treachery with the latin allies. rape of lucretia[edit] titian's tarquin and lucretia ( ) main article: lucretia in about bc, tarquinius went to war with the rutuli. according to livy, the rutuli were, at that time, a very wealthy people and tarquinius was keen to obtain the spoils that would come with victory over the rutuli in order, in part, to assuage the anger of his subjects.[ ] tarquinius unsuccessfully sought to take the rutulian capital ardea by storm, and subsequently began an extensive siege of the city.[ ] sextus tarquinius, the king's son, was sent on a military errand to collatia. sextus was received with great hospitality at the governor's mansion, home of lucius tarquinius collatinus, son of the king's nephew, arruns tarquinius, former governor of collatia and first of the tarquinii collatini. lucius' wife, lucretia, daughter of spurius lucretius, prefect of rome, "a man of distinction",[ ] made sure that the king's son was treated as became his rank, although her husband was away at the siege. in a variant of the story,[ ] sextus and lucius, at a wine party on furlough, were debating the virtues of wives when lucius volunteered to settle the debate by all of them riding to his home to see what lucretia was doing. she was weaving with her maids. the party awarded her the palm of victory and lucius invited them to visit, but for the time being they returned to camp. at night sextus entered her bedroom by stealth, quietly going around the slaves who were sleeping at her door. she awakened, he identified himself and offered her two choices: she could submit to his sexual advances and become his wife and future queen, or he would kill her and one of her slaves and place the bodies together, then claim he had caught her having adulterous sex (see sexuality in ancient rome). in the alternative story, he returned from camp a few days later with one companion to take collatinus up on his invitation to visit and was lodged in a guest bedroom. he entered lucretia's room while she lay naked in her bed and started to wash her belly with water, which woke her up. uprising[edit] brutus holding the knife and swearing the oath, with lucretia the next day lucretia dressed in black and went to her father's house in rome and cast herself down in the suppliant's position (embracing the knees), weeping. asked to explain herself she insisted on first summoning witnesses and after disclosing the rape, called on them for vengeance, a plea that could not be ignored, as she was speaking to the chief magistrate of rome. while they were debating she drew a concealed dagger and stabbed herself in the heart. she died in her father's arms, with the women present keening and lamenting. "this dreadful scene struck the romans who were present with so much horror and compassion that they all cried out with one voice that they would rather die a thousand deaths in defence of their liberty than suffer such outrages to be committed by the tyrants."[ ] in the alternative version, lucretia summoned lucius junius brutus (a leading citizen, and the grandson of rome's fifth king tarquinius priscus), along with her father spurius lucretius tricipitinus, another leading citizen publius valerius publicola, and her husband lucius tarquinius collatinus (also related to tarquinius priscus) to collatia after she had been raped. lucretia, believing that the rape dishonored her and her family, committed suicide by stabbing herself with a dagger after telling of what had befallen her. according to legend, brutus grabbed the dagger from lucretia's breast after her death and immediately shouted for the overthrow of the tarquins.[ ] the four men gathered the youth of collatia, then went to rome where brutus, being at that time tribunus celerum, summoned the people to the forum and exhorted them to rise up against the king. the people voted for the deposition of the king, and the banishment of the royal family.[ ] brutus summoned the comitia curiata, an organization of patrician families used mainly to ratify the decrees of the king and began to harangue them in one of the more noted and effective speeches of ancient rome. he began by revealing that his pose as fool was a sham designed to protect him against an evil king. he leveled a number of charges against the king and his family: the outrage against lucretia, whom everyone could see on the dais, the king's tyranny, the forced labor of the plebeians in the ditches and sewers of rome. he pointed out that superbus had come to rule by the murder of servius tullius, his wife's father, next-to-the-last king of rome. he "solemnly invoked the gods as the avengers of murdered parents." the king's wife, tullia, was in fact in rome and probably was a witness to the proceedings from her palace near the forum. seeing herself the target of so much animosity she fled from the palace in fear of her life and proceeded to the camp at ardea.[ ] brutus opened a debate on the form of government rome ought to have; there were many speakers (all patricians). in summation he proposed the banishment of the tarquins from all the territories of rome and appointment of an interrex to nominate new magistrates and conduct an election of ratification. they had decided on a republican form of government with two consuls in place of a king executing the will of a patrician senate. this was a temporary measure until they could consider the details more carefully. brutus renounced all right to the throne. in subsequent years the powers of the king were divided among various elected magistracies. a final vote of the curiae carried the interim constitution. spurius lucretius was swiftly elected interrex (he was prefect of the city anyway). he proposed brutus and collatinus as the first two consuls and that choice was ratified by the curiae. needing to acquire the assent of the population as a whole they paraded lucretia's body through the streets, summoning the plebeians to legal assembly in the forum. once there they heard a further speech by brutus. it began:[ ] inasmuch as tarquinius neither obtained the sovereignty in accordance with our ancestral customs and laws, nor, since he obtained it — in whatever manner he got it — has he been exercising it in an honourable or kingly manner, but has surpassed in insolence and lawlessness all the tyrants the world ever saw, we patricians met together and resolved to deprive him of his power, a thing we ought to have done long ago, but are doing now when a favourable opportunity has offered. and we have called you together, plebeians, in order to declare our own decision and then ask for your assistance in achieving liberty for our country.... a general election was held. the vote was for the republic. the monarchy was at an end, even while lucretia was still displayed in the forum. brutus, leaving lucretius in command of the city, proceeded with armed men to the roman army then camped at ardea. the king, who had been with the army, heard of developments at rome, and left the camp for the city before brutus' arrival. the army received brutus as a hero, and the king's sons were expelled from the camp. tarquinius superbus, meanwhile, was refused entry at rome, and fled with his family into exile.[ ] establishment of the republic[edit] the capitoline brutus, an ancient roman bust from the capitoline museums is traditionally identified as a portrait of lucius junius brutus that uprising resulted in the exile or regifugium, after a reign of years, of tarquinius and his family, and the establishment of the roman republic, with brutus and collatinus (both related by blood to rome's fifth king lucius tarquinius priscus) as the first consuls.[ ] tarquinius and his two eldest sons, titus and arruns, went into exile at caere.[ ] according to livy, brutus' first act after the expulsion of lucius tarquinius superbus was to bring the people to swear an oath (the oath of brutus) never to allow any man again to be king in rome.[ ] 	omnium primum avidum novae libertatis populum, ne postmodum flecti precibus aut donis regiis posset, iure iurando adegit neminem romae passuros regnare. 	first of all, by swearing an oath that they would suffer no man to rule rome, it forced the people, desirous of a new liberty, not to be thereafter swayed by the entreaties or bribes of kings. this is, fundamentally, a restatement of the "private oath" sworn by the conspirators to overthrow the monarchy:[ ] 	per hunc... castissimum ante regiam iniuriam sanguinem iuro, vosque, di, testes facio me l. tarquinium superbum cum scelerata coniuge et omni liberorum stirpe ferro igni quacumque dehinc vi possim exsecuturum, nec illos nec alium quemquam regnare romae passurum. 	by this guiltless blood before the kingly injustice i swear – you and the gods as my witnesses – i make myself the one who will prosecute, by what force i am able, lucius tarquinius superbus along with his wicked wife and the whole house of his freeborn children by sword, by fire, by any means hence, so that neither they nor any one else be suffered to rule rome. there is no scholarly agreement that the oath took place; it is reported, although differently, by plutarch (poplicola, ) and appian (b.c. . ). brutus also replenished the number of senators to from the principal men of the equites. the new consuls also created a new office of rex sacrorum to carry out the religious duties that had previously been performed by the kings.[ ] because of the roman people's revulsion at the name and family of the exiled king, the consul tarquinius collatinus was forced to resign from the office of consul and go into exile.[ ] attempts to reinstate the monarchy[edit] after his exile, tarquinius made a number of attempts to regain the throne. at first, he sent ambassadors to the senate to request the return of his family's personal effects, which had been seized in the coup. in secret, while the senate debated his request, the ambassadors met with and subverted a number of the leading men of rome to the royal cause, in the tarquinian conspiracy. the conspirators included two of brutus' brothers-in-law, and his two sons titus and tiberius. the conspiracy was discovered, and the conspirators executed.[ ] although the senate had initially agreed to tarquin's request for a return of his family's effects, the decision was reconsidered and revoked after the discovery of the conspiracy, and the royal property was given over to be plundered by the roman populace.[ ] tarquinius next attempted to regain rome by force of arms. he first gained the support of the cities of veii and tarquinii, recalling to the former their regular losses of war and land to the roman state, and to the latter his family ties. the armies of the two cities were led by tarquinius against rome in the battle of silva arsia. the king commanded the etruscan infantry. although the result initially appeared uncertain, the romans were victorious. both brutus (the consul) and arruns (the king's son) were killed in battle.[ ] another attempt by tarquinius relied on military support from lars porsenna, king of clusium. the war led to the siege of rome, and finally a peace treaty. however, tarquinius failed to achieve his aim of regaining the throne.[ ][ ] tarquinius and his family left clusium, and instead sought refuge in tusculum with his son-in-law octavius mamilius.[ ] in about bc, tarquin and his son titus fought with mamilius and the latin league against rome, but lost, at the battle of lake regillus at which mamilius perished. subsequently, tarquinius fled to take refuge with the tyrant of cumae, aristodemus and tarquin died there in bc.[ ] references[edit] 	^ gates, charles ( ) [ ]. 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creative commons attribution-sharealike license; additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 patrician (ancient rome) - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	patrician (ancient rome) 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		hereditary nobility of ancient rome romulus and his brother, remus, with the she-wolf. romulus is credited with creating the patrician class. the patricians (from latin: patricius) were originally a group of ruling class families in ancient rome. the distinction was highly significant in the roman kingdom, and the early republic, but its relevance waned after the conflict of the orders ( bc to bc). by the time of the late republic and empire, membership in the patriciate was of only nominal significance. the social structure of ancient rome revolved around the distinction between the patricians and the plebeians. the status of patricians gave them more political power than the plebeians. the relationship between the patricians and the plebeians eventually caused the conflict of the orders. this time period resulted in changing the social structure of ancient rome. after the western empire fell, the term "patrician" continued as a high honorary title in the byzantine empire. in the holy roman empire and in many medieval italian republics, medieval patrician classes were once again formally defined groups of leading grand burgher families, especially in venice and genoa. subsequently "patrician" became a vague term used to refer to aristocrats and the higher bourgeoisie in many countries. the legacy of the roman patrician and plebeian distinction lives on in modern society. contents 	 origin 	 roman republic and empire 	 . status 	 . patricians vs. plebeians 	 . marriage 	 . the conflict of the orders 	 . fading of distinction 	 . modern day 	 . patrician families 	 . . gentes maiores et minores 	 late roman and byzantine periods 	 see also 	 references 	 sources 	 further reading 	 external links origin[edit] according to livy, the first men appointed as senators by romulus were referred to as "fathers" (latin patres), and the descendants of those men became the patrician class. this fact is also included in an account by cicero.[ ] the appointment of these one hundred men into the senate gave them a noble status.[ ] this noble status is what separated the patricians from the plebeians. some accounts detail that the one hundred men were chosen because of their wisdom.[ ] this would coincide with the idea that ancient rome was founded on a merit-based ideal.[ ] according to other opinions, the patricians (patricii) were those who could point to fathers, i.e. those who were members of the clans (gentes) whose members originally comprised the whole citizen body.[ ] other noble families which came to rome during the time of the kings were also admitted to the patriciate, including several who emigrated from alba longa, after that city was destroyed by tullus hostilius. the last-known instance of a gens being admitted to the patriciate prior to the st century bc was when the claudii were added to the ranks of the patricians after coming to rome in bc, five years after the establishment of the republic.[ ][ ][ ][ ] the criteria for why romulus chose certain men for this class remains contested by academics and historians, but the importance of the patrician/ plebeian distinction is accounted by all as paramount to ancient roman society. the distinction between the noble class, the patricians, and the roman populace, the plebeians, existed from the beginning of ancient rome.[ ] this distinction became increasingly important in the society. the patricians were given noble status when named to the senate, giving them wider political influence than the plebeians, at least in the times of the early republic.[ ] the patricians in ancient rome were of the same status as aristocrats in greek society.[ ] being of the noble class meant that patricians were able to participate in government and politics, while the plebeians could not. this privilege was important in ancient roman history and ended up causing a large divide between the two classes. during the middle and late republic, as this influence gradually eroded, plebeians were granted equal rights in most areas, and even greater in some. for example, only plebeians could serve as the tribune of the plebs. there were quotas for official offices. one of the two consulships was reserved for plebeians. although being a patrician remained prestigious, it was of minimal practical importance. with the exception of some religious offices which were devoid of political power, plebeians were able to stand for all of the offices that were open to patricians. plebeians of the senatorial class were no less wealthy than patricians at the height of the republic. originally patrician, publius clodius pulcher willingly arranged to be adopted by a plebeian family in order to qualify to be appointed as the tribune of the plebs. roman republic and empire[edit] 	 	this article includes a list of general references, but it remains largely unverified because it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (april ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) status[edit] patricians historically had more privileges and rights than plebeians. this status difference was marked at the beginning of the republic: patricians were better represented in the roman assemblies, only patricians could hold high political offices, such as dictator, consul, and censor, and all priesthoods (such as pontifex maximus) were closed to non-patricians. there was a belief that patricians communicated better with the roman gods, so they alone could perform the sacred rites and take the auspices. additionally, not only were the patricians of higher status in political offices but they also had the best land in ancient rome.[ ] having the best land would allow the patrician class to have more opportunities, such as being able to produce better agriculture. this view had political consequences, since in the beginning of the year or before a military campaign, roman magistrates used to consult the gods. livy reports that the first admission of plebeians into a priestly college happened in bc with the passage of the lex ogulnia, when the college of augurs raised their number from four to nine. after that, plebeians were accepted into the other religious colleges. by the end of the republic, only priesthoods with limited political importance, such as the salii, the flamines, and the rex sacrorum, were filled exclusively by patricians. while it was not illegal for a plebeian to run for political office, a plebeian would have not have had the backing needed to win a seat.[ ] since society was organized in this way, the patrician class was essentially in complete control of ancient rome's government.[ ] in cassius' accounts of ancient rome, he details how important and advantaged the patrician class was over the plebeian class.[ ] he indicates the status difference between patricians and plebeians by detailing about the specific shoes the patricians wore. cassius states, "for the shoes worn by the patricians in the city were ornamented with laced straps and the design of the letter, to signify that they were descended from the original hundred men that had been senators."[ ] it is clear through cassius' account that these details mattered and represent the differentiation between classes. for more on ancient rome's social class distinction visit social class in ancient rome. very few plebeian names appear in lists of roman magistrates during the early republic. two laws passed during the fourth century bc began the gradual opening of magistrates to the plebeians: the lex licinia sextia of bc, which established the right of plebeians to hold the consulship; and the genucian law of bc, which required that at least one of the consuls be a plebeian (although this law was frequently violated for several decades). many of the ancient patrician gentes whose members appear in the founding legends of rome disappeared as rome acquired its empire, and new plebeian families rose to prominence. a number of patrician families such as the horatii, lucretii, verginii and menenii rarely appear in positions of importance during the later republic. many old families had both patrician and plebeian branches, of which the patrician lines frequently faded into obscurity, and were eclipsed by their plebeian namesakes. the decline accelerated toward the end of the republic, principally because of the civil wars, from the social war to the proscriptions of the triumvirs, which took a heavy toll on them. as a result, several illustrious patrician houses were on the verge of extinction during the st century bc, sometimes only surviving through adoptions, such as: 	julii caesares 	manlii torquatii 	papirii masones 	postumii albini 	servilii caepiones however, large gentes with multiple stirpes seem to have coped better; the aemilii, claudii, cornelii, fabii, sulpicii, and valerii all continued to thrive under the principate. patricians vs. plebeians[edit] the distinction between patricians and plebeians in ancient rome was based purely on birth. although modern writers often portray patricians as rich and powerful families who managed to secure power over the less-fortunate plebeian families, plebeians and patricians among the senatorial class were equally wealthy. as civil rights for plebeians increased during the middle and late roman republic, many plebeian families had attained wealth and power while some traditionally patrician families had fallen into poverty and obscurity. however, no amount of wealth could change one's class.[ ] marriage[edit] a marriage between a patrician and a plebeian was the only way to legally integrate the two classes. however, once the twelve tables were written down, a law was written which made the marriage between the two classes illegal.[ ] if a marriage was to occur between a patrician and a plebeian, the children of that marriage would then be given patrician status. this law was created to prevent the classes from mixing. in ancient rome women did not have power in the household. however, according to mathisen, having a recognized marriage, so not illegally marrying into the other class, was important.[ ] having a legally recognized marriage ensured that the children born from the marriage were given roman citizenship and any property they might inherit.[ ] the conflict of the orders[edit] eventually, the plebeians became unsatisfied with being the lower class and not having the same rights and privileges as the patricians.[ ] this time in roman history is called the conflict of the orders, which took place between - bce.[ ] due to the patricians having the political status, the plebeian class had no representation in the government to advocate for their interests.[ ] by not having anyone advocating for their interests, this also meant that the plebeians did not know the laws they had to abide by.[ ] since the patricians were of high social status, they did not want to lose this status; they were not in agreement with changing the structure of society by giving plebeians more status.[ ] eventually, the plebeian class came together and created their own governing body, the council of the plebs.[ ] another advancement that came from the conflict of the orders was the twelve tables. at this time in ancient rome, the monarchy had been over thrown.[ ] the plebeians wanted to know the laws, which resulted in the written form of laws: the twelve tables.[ ] even once these laws were written down, and the new centuriate assembly was created, the patrician class remained in power. the assembly separated citizens into classes, however, the top two class, equestrians and patricians, were able to control the majority of the vote.[ ] this meant, that while the plebeians were able to vote, if the patrician classes voted together, they could control the vote.[ ] ancient rome, according to ralph mathisen, author of ancient roman civilization: history and sources, made political reforms, such as the introduction of the council of the plebs and the tribunes of the plebs. these two political bodies were created to give the plebeians a voice. after the conflict of the orders, according to mathisen, plebeians were able to rise in politics and become members of the senate, which used to be exclusively for patricians.[ ] fading of distinction[edit] a series of laws diminished the distinction between the two classes, including lex canuleia ( bc; which allowed the marriage—ius connubii—between patricians and plebeians), leges licinae sextiae ( bc; which made restrictions on possession of public lands—ager publicus—and also made sure that one of the consuls was plebeian), lex ogulnia ( bc; plebeians received access to priest posts), and lex hortensia ( bc; verdicts of plebeian assemblies—plebiscita—now bind all people). gradually, by the late republic, most distinctions between patricians and plebeians had faded away.[ ] modern day[edit] "patrician" and "plebeian" are still used today to refer to groups of people of high and lower classes.[ ] patrician families[edit] the following gentes were regarded as patrician, although they may have had plebeian members or branches. 	aebutia 	aemilia 	aquillia 	atilia 	claudia 	cloelia 	cornelia 	curtia 	fabia 	foslia 	furia 	gegania 	genucia 	herminia 	horatia 	julia 	lartia 	lucretia 	manlia 	menenia 	metilia 	minucia 	mucia 	nautia 	numicia 	papiria 	pinaria 	pollia 	postumia 	potitia 	quinctia 	quinctilia 	romilia 	sempronia 	sergia 	servilia 	sestia 	siccia 	sulpicia 	tarpeia 	tarquinia 	tarquitia 	tullia 	valeria 	verginia 	veturia 	vitellia 	volumnia a number of other gentes originally belonged to the patricians but were known chiefly for their plebeian branches. 	antonia 	cassia 	cominia 	curiatia 	hostilia 	junia 	marcia gentes maiores et minores[edit] among the patricians, certain families were known as the gentes maiores, the greatest or perhaps the most noble houses. the other patrician families were called the gentes minores. whether this distinction had any legal significance is not known, but it has been suggested that the princeps senatus, or speaker of the senate, was traditionally chosen from the gentes maiores. no list of the gentes maiores has been discovered, and even their number is entirely unknown. it has been suggested that the aemilii, claudii, cornelii, fabii, manlii, and valerii were amongst them. the dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology suggests that the gentes maiores consisted of families that settled at rome in the time of romulus, or at least before the destruction of alba longa. the noble alban families that settled in rome in the time of tullus hostilius then formed the nucleus of the gentes minores. these included the julii, tulii, servilii, quinctii, geganii, curtii, and cloelii.[ ][ ] however, harper's dictionary of classical antiquities suggests that the alban families were also included among the gentes maiores, and that the gentes minores consisted of the families admitted to the patriciate under the tarquins and in the early years of the republic. in any case, the distinction cannot have been based entirely on priority, because the claudii did not arrive at rome until after the expulsion of the kings.[ ][ ][ ][ ] late roman and byzantine periods[edit] patrician status still carried a degree of prestige at the time of the early roman empire, and roman emperors routinely elevated their supporters to the patrician caste en masse. this prestige gradually declined further, and by the end of the rd-century crisis patrician status, as it had been known in the republic, ceased to have meaning in everyday life. the emperor constantine the great (r. – ) reintroduced the term as the empire's senior honorific title, not tied to any specific administrative position, and from the first limited to a very small number of holders.[ ][ ] the historian zosimus states that in constantine's time, the holders of the title ranked even above the praetorian prefects.[ ] in the late western roman empire, the title was sparingly used and retained its high prestige, being awarded, especially in the th century, to the powerful magistri militum who dominated the state, such as stilicho, constantius iii, flavius aetius, comes bonifacius, and ricimer.[ ] the eastern emperor zeno (r. – ) granted it to odoacer to legitimize the latter's rule in italy after his overthrow of the rebellious magister militum orestes and his son romulus augustulus in . in the eastern empire, theodosius ii (r. – ) barred eunuchs from holding it, although this restriction had been overturned by the th century. under justinian i (r. – ), the title proliferated and was consequently somewhat devalued, as the emperor opened it up to all those above illustris rank, i.e. the majority of the senate.[ ] in the th century, the title was further lowered in the court order of precedence, coming after the magistros and the anthypatos. however it remained one of the highest in the imperial hierarchy until the th century, being awarded to the most important strategoi (provincial governors and generals) of the empire.[ ] in the court hierarchy, the eunuch patrikioi enjoyed higher precedence, coming before even the anthypatoi-latn.[ ] according to the late th-century kletorologion, the insignia of the dignity were ivory inscribed tablets.[ ] during the th century, the dignity of patrikios followed the fate of other titles: extensively awarded, it lost in status, and disappeared during the komnenian period in the early th century.[ ] the title of prōtopatrikios (πρωτοπατρίκιος, "first patrician") is also evidenced in the east from to , possibly referring to the senior-most holder of the office and leader of the patrician order (taxis).[ ][ ] the feminine variant patrikia (πατρικία) denoted the spouses of patrikioi; it is not to be confused with the title of zostē patrikia ("girded patrikia"), which was a unique dignity conferred on the ladies-in-waiting of the empress.[ ] the patrician title was occasionally used in western europe after the end of the roman empire; for instance, pope stephen ii granted the title "patricius of the romans" to the frankish ruler pepin the short.[ ] the revival of patrician classes in medieval italian city-states, and also north of the alps, is covered in patricianship. see also[edit] 	nobility 	aristocracy references[edit] 	^ a b c d botsford, george willis ( ). 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( ). social struggles in archaic rome: new perspectives on the conflict of the orders. blackwell publishing. 	rosenstein, nathan and robert morstein-marx. . a companion to the roman republic. chichester, west sussex: wiley-blackwell. 	stewart, roberta. . public office in early rome: ritual procedure and political practice. ann arbor: univ. of michigan press. 	tatum, w. jeffrey. . the patrician tribune: publius clodius pulcher. chapel hill: univ. of north carolina press. 	williamson, callie. . the laws of the roman people: public law in the expansion and decline of the roman republic. ann arbor: univ. of michigan press. external links[edit] 	 texts on wikisource: 	"patricians". encyclopedia americana. . 	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	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 parody - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	parody 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		imitative work created to mock, comment on or trivialise an original work a parody, also called a spoof, a send-up, a take-off, a lampoon, a play on (something), or a caricature, is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or make fun of its subject by means of satiric or ironic imitation. often its subject is an original work or some aspect of it — theme/content, author, style, etc. but a parody can also be about a real-life person (e.g. a politician), event, or movement (e.g. the french revolution or 's counterculture). literary scholar professor simon dentith defines parody as "any cultural practice which provides a relatively polemical allusive imitation of another cultural production or practice".[ ] the literary theorist linda hutcheon said "parody ... is imitation, not always at the expense of the parodied text." parody may be found in art or culture, including literature, music (but note that the term "parody music" has a second, earlier meaning that is somewhat different than for other art forms), theater, television & film, animation, and gaming. the writer and critic john gross observes in his oxford book of parodies, that parody seems to flourish on territory somewhere between pastiche ("a composition in another artist's manner, without satirical intent") and burlesque (which "fools around with the material of high literature and adapts it to low ends").[ ] meanwhile, the encyclopédie of denis diderot distinguishes between the parody and the burlesque, "a good parody is a fine amusement, capable of amusing and instructing the most sensible and polished minds; the burlesque is a miserable buffoonery which can only please the populace."[ ] historically, when a formula grows tired, as in the case of the moralistic melodramas in the s, it retains value only as a parody, as demonstrated by the buster keaton shorts that mocked that genre.[ ] contents 	 origins 	 music 	 english term 	 modernist and post-modernist parody 	 reputation 	 film parodies 	 . copyright 	 poetic parodies 	 self-parody 	 copyright issues 	 . united states 	 . canada 	 . united kingdom 	 internet culture 	 social and political uses 	 examples 	 . historic examples 	 . modern television examples 	 . anime and manga 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links origins[edit] according to aristotle (poetics, ii. ), hegemon of thasos was the inventor of a kind of parody; by slightly altering the wording in well-known poems he transformed the sublime into the ridiculous. in ancient greek literature, a parodia was a narrative poem imitating the style and prosody of epics "but treating light, satirical or mock-heroic subjects".[ ] indeed, the components of the greek word are παρά para "beside, counter, against" and ᾠδή oide "song". thus, the original greek word παρῳδία parodia has sometimes been taken to mean "counter-song", an imitation that is set against the original. the oxford english dictionary, for example, defines parody as imitation "turned as to produce a ridiculous effect".[ ] because par- also has the non-antagonistic meaning of beside, "there is nothing in parodia to necessitate the inclusion of a concept of ridicule."[ ] in greek old comedy even the gods could be made fun of. the frogs portrays the hero-turned-god heracles as a glutton and the god of drama dionysus as cowardly and unintelligent. the traditional trip to the underworld story is parodied as dionysus dresses as heracles to go to the underworld, in an attempt to bring back a poet to save athens. the ancient greeks created satyr plays which parodied tragic plays, often with performers dressed like satyrs. parody was used in early greek philosophical texts to make philosophical points. such texts are known as spoudaiogeloion, a famous example of which is the silloi by pyrrhonist philosopher timon of phlius which parodied philosophers living and dead. the style was a rhetorical mainstay of the cynics and was the most common tone of the works made by menippus and meleager of gadara.[ ] in the nd century ce, lucian of samosata created a parody of travel texts such as indica and the odyssey. he described the authors of such accounts as liars who had never traveled, nor ever talked to any credible person who had. in his ironically named book true history lucian delivers a story which exaggerates the hyperbole and improbable claims of those stories. sometimes described as the first science fiction, the characters travel to the moon, engage in interplanetary war with the help of aliens they meet there, and then return to the earth to experience civilization inside a -mile-long creature generally interpreted as being a whale. this is a parody of ctesias' claims that india has a one-legged race of humans with a single foot so huge it can be used as an umbrella, homer's stories of one-eyed giants, and so on. music[edit] main article: parody music in classical music, as a technical term, parody refers to a reworking of one kind of composition into another (for example, a motet into a keyboard work as girolamo cavazzoni, antonio de cabezón, and alonso mudarra all did to josquin des prez motets).[ ] more commonly, a parody mass (missa parodia) or an oratorio used extensive quotation from other vocal works such as motets or cantatas; victoria, palestrina, lassus, and other composers of the th century used this technique. the term is also sometimes applied to procedures common in the baroque period, such as when bach reworks music from cantatas in his christmas oratorio. the musicological definition of the term parody has now generally been supplanted by a more general meaning of the word. in its more contemporary usage, musical parody usually has humorous, even satirical intent, in which familiar musical ideas or lyrics are lifted into a different, often incongruous, context.[ ] musical parodies may imitate or refer to the peculiar style of a composer or artist, or even a general style of music. for example, the ritz roll and rock, a song and dance number performed by fred astaire in the movie silk stockings, parodies the rock and roll genre. conversely, while the best-known work of weird al yankovic is based on particular popular songs, it also often utilises wildly incongruous elements of pop culture for comedic effect. english term[edit] allegory of the tulip omania [de], persiflage on the tulip mania, by jan brueghel the younger ( s) the first usage of the word parody in english cited in the oxford english dictionary is in ben jonson, in every man in his humour in : "a parodie, a parodie! to make it absurder than it was." the next citation comes from john dryden in , who also appended an explanation, suggesting that the word was in common use, meaning to make fun of or re-create what you are doing. modernist and post-modernist parody[edit] in the th century, parody has been heightened as the central and most representative artistic device, the catalysing agent of artistic creation and innovation.[ ][ ] this most prominently happened in the second half of the century with postmodernism, but earlier modernism and russian formalism had anticipated this perspective.[ ][ ] for the russian formalists, parody was a way of liberation from the background text that enables to produce new and autonomous artistic forms.[ ][ ] historian christopher rea writes that "in the s and s, writers in china’s entertainment market parodied anything and everything.... they parodied speeches, advertisements, confessions, petitions, orders, handbills, notices, policies, regulations, resolutions, discourses, explications, sutras, memorials to the throne, and conference minutes. we have an exchange of letters between the queue and the beard and eyebrows. we have a eulogy for a chamber pot. we have 'research on why men have beards and women don’t,' 'a telegram from the thunder god to his mother resigning his post,' and 'a public notice from the king of whoring prohibiting playboys from skipping debts.'"[ ][ ] jorge luis borges's ( ) short story "pierre menard, author of the quixote", is often regarded as predicting postmodernism and conceiving the ideal of the ultimate parody.[ ][ ] in the broader sense of greek parodia, parody can occur when whole elements of one work are lifted out of their context and reused, not necessarily to be ridiculed.[ ] traditional definitions of parody usually only discuss parody in the stricter sense of something intended to ridicule the text it parodies. there is also a broader, extended sense of parody that may not include ridicule, and may be based on many other uses and intentions.[ ][ ] the broader sense of parody, parody done with intent other than ridicule, has become prevalent in the modern parody of the th century.[ ] in the extended sense, the modern parody does not target the parodied text, but instead uses it as a weapon to target something else.[ ][ ] the reason for the prevalence of the extended, recontextualizing type of parody in the th century is that artists have sought to connect with the past while registering differences brought by modernity.[ ][page needed] major modernist examples of this recontextualizing parody include james joyce's ulysses, which incorporates elements of homer's odyssey in a th-century irish context, and t. s. eliot's the waste land,[ ] which incorporates and recontextualizes elements of a vast range of prior texts, including dante's the inferno.[citation needed] the work of andy warhol is another prominent example of the modern "recontextualizing" parody.[ ] according to french literary theorist gérard genette, the most rigorous and elegant form of parody is also the most economical, that is a minimal parody, the one that literally reprises a known text and gives it a new meaning.[ ][ ] blank parody, in which an artist takes the skeletal form of an art work and places it in a new context without ridiculing it, is common.[citation needed] pastiche is a closely related genre, and parody can also occur when characters or settings belonging to one work are used in a humorous or ironic way in another, such as the transformation of minor characters rosencrantz and guildenstern from shakespeare's drama hamlet into the principal characters in a comedic perspective on the same events in the play (and film) rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead.[citation needed] similarly, mishu hilmy's trapped in the netflix uses parody to deconstruct contemporary netflix shows like mad men providing commentary through popular characters. don draper mansplaining about mansplaining, luke danes monologizing about a lack of independence while embracing codependency.[ ] in flann o'brien's novel at swim-two-birds, for example, mad king sweeney, finn maccool, a pookah, and an assortment of cowboys all assemble in an inn in dublin: the mixture of mythic characters, characters from genre fiction, and a quotidian setting combine for a humor that is not directed at any of the characters or their authors. this combination of established and identifiable characters in a new setting is not the same as the post-modernist trope of using historical characters in fiction out of context to provide a metaphoric element.[citation needed] reputation[edit] sometimes the reputation of a parody outlasts the reputation of what is being parodied. for example, don quixote, which mocks the traditional knight errant tales, is much better known than the novel that inspired it, amadis de gaula (although amadis is mentioned in the book). another case is the novel shamela by henry fielding ( ), which was a parody of the gloomy epistolary novel pamela, or virtue rewarded ( ) by samuel richardson. many of lewis carroll's parodies of victorian didactic verse for children, such as "you are old, father william", are much better known than the (largely forgotten) originals. stella gibbons's comic novel cold comfort farm has eclipsed the pastoral novels of mary webb which largely inspired it. in more recent times, the television sitcom 'allo 'allo! is perhaps better known than the drama secret army which it parodies. some artists carve out careers by making parodies. one of the best-known examples is that of "weird al" yankovic. his career of parodying other musical acts and their songs has outlasted many of the artists or bands he has parodied. yankovic is not required under law to get permission to parody; as a personal rule, however, he does seek permission to parody a person's song before recording it. several artists, such as rapper chamillionaire and seattle-based grunge band nirvana stated that yankovic's parodies of their respective songs were excellent, and many artists have considered being parodied by him to be a badge of honor.[ ][ ] in the us legal system the point that in most cases a parody of a work constitutes fair use was upheld in the case of rick dees, who decided to use seconds of the music from the song when sonny gets blue to parody johnny mathis' singing style even after being refused permission. an appeals court upheld the trial court's decision that this type of parody represents fair use. fisher v. dees f. d ( th cir. ) film parodies[edit] main article: parody film 	 	this section possibly contains original research. please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. statements consisting only of original research should be removed. (may ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) some genre theorists, following bakhtin, see parody as a natural development in the life cycle of any genre; this idea has proven especially fruitful for genre film theorists. such theorists note that western movies, for example, after the classic stage defined the conventions of the genre, underwent a parody stage, in which those same conventions were ridiculed and critiqued. because audiences had seen these classic westerns, they had expectations for any new westerns, and when these expectations were inverted, the audience laughed. perhaps the earliest parody film was the mud and sand, a stan laurel film that made fun of rudolph valentino's film blood and sand. laurel specialized in parodies in the mid- s, writing and acting in a number of them. some were send-ups of popular films, such as dr. jekyll and mr. hyde—parodied in the comic dr. pyckle and mr. pryde ( ). others were spoofs of broadway plays, such as no, no, nanette ( ), parodied as yes, yes, nanette ( ). in charlie chaplin created a satirical comedy about adolf hitler with the film the great dictator, following the first-ever hollywood parody of the nazis, the three stooges' short subject you nazty spy!. about years later mel brooks started his career with a hitler parody as well. after his film the producers won both an academy award and a writers guild of america award for best original screenplay[ ], brooks became one of the most famous film parodists and created spoofs in multiple film genres. blazing saddles ( ) is a parody of western films, history of the world, part i ( ) is a historical parody, robin hood men in tights ( ) is brooks' take on the classic robin hood tale, and his spoofs in the horror and sci-fi genres include young frankenstein ( ), spaceballs ( , a star wars spoof), dinocroc ( , a godzilla spoof), and supergator ( , a king kong spoof). the british comedy group monty python is also famous for its parodies, for example, the king arthur spoof monty python and the holy grail ( ), and the jesus satire life of brian ( ). in the s the team of david zucker, jim abrahams and jerry zucker parodied well-established genres such as disaster, war and crime movies with the airplane!, hot shots! and naked gun series respectively. there is a film parody from spain of the tv series the a-team called el equipo aahhgg directed by josé truchado. more recently, parodies have taken on whole film genres at once. one of the first was don't be a menace to south central while drinking your juice in the hood and the scary movie franchise. other recent genre parodies include. shriek if you know what i did last friday the th, not another teen movie, date movie, epic movie, meet the spartans, superhero movie, disaster movie, vampires suck, and the -year-old virgin who knocked up sarah marshall and felt superbad about it, all of which have been critically panned.[citation needed] copyright[edit] many parody films have as their target out-of-copyright or non-copyrighted subjects (such as frankenstein or robin hood) whilst others settle for imitation which does not infringe copyright, but is clearly aimed at a popular (and usually lucrative) subject. the spy film craze of the s, fuelled by the popularity of james bond is such an example. in this genre a rare, and possibly unique, example of a parody film taking aim at a non-comedic subject over which it actually holds copyright is the james bond spoof casino royale. in this case, producer charles k. feldman initially intended to make a serious film, but decided that it would not be able to compete with the established series of bond films. hence, he decided to parody the series.[ ] poetic parodies[edit] kenneth baker considered poetic parody to take five main forms.[ ] 	the first was to use parody to attack the author parodied, as in j k stephen's mimicry of wordsworth, “two voices are there: one is of the deep....and one is of an old half-witted sheep.”[ ] 	the second was to pastiche the author's style, as with henry reed's parody of t. s. eliot, chard whitlow: “as we get older we do not get any younger....”[ ] 	the third type reversed (and so undercut) the sentiments of the poem parodied, as with monty python's all things dull and ugly. 	a fourth approach was to use the target poem as a matrix for inserting unrelated (generally humorous) material – “to have it out or not? that is the question....thus dentists do make cowards of us all.”[ ] 	finally, parody may be used to attack contemporary/topical targets by utilizing the format of a well-known piece of verse: “o rushdie, rushdie, it's a vile world” (cat stevens).[ ] a further, more constructive form of poetic parody is one that links the contemporary poet with past forms and past masters through affectionate parodying – thus sharing poetic codes while avoiding some of the anxiety of influence.[ ] more aggressive in tone are playground poetry parodies, often attacking authority, values and culture itself in a carnivalesque rebellion:[ ] “twinkle, twinkle little star,/ who the hell do you think you are?”[ ] self-parody[edit] main article: self-parody a subset of parody is self-parody in which artists parody their own work (as in ricky gervais's extras). copyright issues[edit] see also: plagiarism although a parody can be considered a derivative work of a pre-existing, copyrighted work, some countries have ruled that parodies can fall under copyright limitations such as fair dealing, or otherwise have fair dealing laws that include parody in their scope. united states[edit] parodies are protected under the fair use doctrine of united states copyright law, but the defense is more successful if the usage of an existing copyrighted work is transformative in nature, such as being a critique or commentary upon it. in campbell v. acuff-rose music, inc., the supreme court ruled that a rap parody of "oh, pretty woman" by live crew was fair use, as the parody was a distinctive, transformative work designed to ridicule the original song, and that "even if live crew's copying of the original's first line of lyrics and characteristic opening bass riff may be said to go to the original's 'heart,' that heart is what most readily conjures up the song for parody, and it is the heart at which parody takes aim." in , the eleventh circuit court of appeals, in suntrust v. houghton mifflin, upheld the right of alice randall to publish a parody of gone with the wind called the wind done gone, which told the same story from the point of view of scarlett o'hara's slaves, who were glad to be rid of her. in , the ninth circuit court of appeals denied a fair use defense in the dr. seuss enterprises v. penguin books case. citing the campbell v. acuff-rose decision, they found that a satire of the o.j. simpson murder trial and parody of the cat in the hat had infringed upon the children's book because it did not provide a commentary function upon that work.[ ][ ] canada[edit] 	 	parts of this article (those related to changes from the copyright modernization act, ) need to be updated. please update this section to reflect recent events or newly available information. (september ) under canadian law, although there is protection for fair dealing, there is no explicit protection for parody and satire. in canwest v. horizon, the publisher of the vancouver sun launched a lawsuit against a group which had published a pro-palestinian parody of the paper. alan donaldson, the judge in the case, ruled that parody is not a defence to a copyright claim.[ ] united kingdom[edit] in the gowers review of intellectual property recommended that the uk should "create an exception to copyright for the purpose of caricature, parody or pastiche by ".[ ] following the first stage of a two-part public consultation, the intellectual property office reported that the information received "was not sufficient to persuade us that the advantages of a new parody exception were sufficient to override the disadvantages to the creators and owners of the underlying work. there is therefore no proposal to change the current approach to parody, caricature and pastiche in the uk."[ ] however, following the hargreaves review in may (which made similar proposals to the gowers review) the government broadly accepted these proposals. the current law (effective from october ), namely section a[ ] of the copyright, designs and patents act , now provides an exception to infringement where there is fair dealing of the original work for the purpose of parody (or alternatively for the purpose of caricature or pastiche). the legislation does not define what is meant by "parody", but the uk ipo – the intellectual property office (united kingdom) – suggests[ ] that a "parody" is something that imitates a work for humorous or satirical effect. see also fair dealing in united kingdom law. internet culture[edit] parody is a prominent genre in online culture, thanks in part to the ease with which digital texts may be altered, appropriated, and shared. japanese kuso and chinese e'gao are emblematic of the importance of parody in online cultures in asia. video mash-ups and other parodic memes, such as humorously-altered chinese characters, have been particularly popular as a tool for political protest in the people's republic of china, the government of which maintains an extensive censorship apparatus.[ ] chinese internet slang makes extensive use of puns and parodies on how chinese characters are pronounced or written, as illustrated in the grass-mud horse lexicon. social and political uses[edit] satirical political cartoon that appeared in puck magazine, october , . caption "i did not raise my girl to be a voter" parodies the anti-world war i song "i didn't raise my boy to be a soldier". a chorus of disreputable men support a lone anti-suffrage woman. reggie brown, a voice actor and barack obama impersonator parody is often used to make a social or political statement. examples include swift's "a modest proposal", which satirized english neglect of ireland by parodying emotionally disengaged political tracts; and, recently, the daily show, the larry sanders show and the colbert report, which parody a news broadcast and a talk show to satirize political and social trends and events. on the other hand, the writer and frequent parodist vladimir nabokov made a distinction: "satire is a lesson, parody is a game."[ ] some events, such as a national tragedy, can be difficult to handle. chet clem, editorial manager of the news parody publication the onion, told wikinews in an interview the questions that are raised when addressing difficult topics: i know the september issue was an obviously very large challenge to approach. do we even put out an issue? what is funny at this time in american history? where are the jokes? do people want jokes right now? is the nation ready to laugh again? who knows. there will always be some level of division in the back room. it’s also what keeps us on our toes.[ ] parody is by no means necessarily satirical, and may sometimes be done with respect and appreciation of the subject involved, without being a heedless sarcastic attack. parody has also been used to facilitate dialogue between cultures or subcultures. sociolinguist mary louise pratt identifies parody as one of the "arts of the contact zone", through which marginalized or oppressed groups "selectively appropriate", or imitate and take over, aspects of more empowered cultures.[ ] shakespeare often uses a series of parodies to convey his meaning. in the social context of his era, an example can be seen in king lear where the fool is introduced with his coxcomb to be a parody of the king. examples[edit] historic examples[edit] 	sir thopas in canterbury tales, by geoffrey chaucer 	morgante by luigi pulci 	the nymph's reply to the shepherd by sir walter raleigh 	la secchia rapita by alessandro tassoni 	don quixote by miguel de cervantes 	beware the cat by william baldwin 	the knight of the burning pestle by francis beaumont and john fletcher 	dragon of wantley, an anonymous th century ballad 	hudibras by samuel butler 	"macflecknoe", by john dryden 	a tale of a tub by jonathan swift 	the rape of the lock by alexander pope 	namby pamby by henry carey 	northanger abbey by jane austen 	gulliver's travels by jonathan swift 	the dunciad by alexander pope 	memoirs of martinus scriblerus by john gay, alexander pope, john arbuthnot, et al. 	mozart's a musical joke (ein musikalischer spaß), k. ( ) – parody of incompetent contemporaries of mozart, as assumed by some theorists 	sartor resartus by thomas carlyle 	ways and means, or the aged, aged man, by lewis carroll. much of alice in wonderland and through the looking-glass is parodic of victorian schooling. 	batrachomyomachia (battle between frogs and mice), an iliad parody by an unknown ancient greek author modern television examples[edit] 	saturday night live parodies of hillary clinton 	saturday night live parodies of sarah palin 	saturday night live parodies of donald trump 	square one tv parodies of dragnet 	southpaw regional wrestling, wwe's parody of s territory-style professional wrestling 	on cinema and spin-off decker parody film review shows and political action thrillers, respectively. anime and manga[edit] 	attack on titan: junior high 	konosuba 	one punch man 	panty & stocking with garterbelt see also[edit] 	abridgement 	anti-barney humor 	détournement 	internet meme 	intertextuality 	joke 	literary technique 	metaparody 	parody advertisement 	parody film 	parody music 	parody religion 	parody science 	persiflage 	p. d. q. bach 	satire 	subvertising 	tom lehrer 	"weird al" yankovic notes[edit] 	^ dentith ( ) p. 	^ j.m.w. thompson (may ). 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additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 peripatetic school - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	peripatetic school 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		school of philosophy in ancient greece aristotle's school, a painting from the s by gustav adolph spangenberg the peripatetic school was a school of philosophy in ancient greece. its teachings derived from its founder, aristotle ( – bc), and peripatetic is an adjective ascribed to his followers. the school dates from around bc when aristotle began teaching in the lycaeum. it was an informal institution whose members conducted philosophical and scientific inquiries. after the middle of the rd century bc, the school fell into a decline, and it was not until the roman era that there was a revival. later members of the school concentrated on preserving and commenting on aristotle's works rather than extending them; it died out in the rd century. the study of aristotle's works continued by scholars who were called peripatetics through late antiquity, the middle ages, and the renaissance. after the fall of the western roman empire, the works of the peripatetic school were lost to the latin west, but they were preserved in byzantium and also incorporated into early islamic philosophy. western europe recovered aristotelianism from byzantium and from islamic sources in the middle ages. contents 	 background 	 doctrines 	 history of the school 	 influence 	 see also 	 notes 	 references background[edit] the term peripatetic is a transliteration of the ancient greek word περιπατητικός (peripatētikós), which means "of walking" or "given to walking about".[ ] the peripatetic school, founded by aristotle,[ ] was actually known simply as the peripatos.[ ] aristotle's school came to be so named because of the peripatoi ("walkways", some covered or with colonnades) of the lyceum where the members met.[ ] the legend that the name came from aristotle's alleged habit of walking while lecturing may have started with hermippus of smyrna.[ ] unlike plato ( / – / bc), aristotle ( – bc)[ ] was not a citizen of athens and so could not own property; he and his colleagues therefore used the grounds of the lyceum as a gathering place, just as it had been used by earlier philosophers such as socrates.[ ] aristotle and his colleagues first began to use the lyceum in this way about bc,[ ] after which aristotle left plato's academy and athens, and then returned to athens from his travels about a dozen years later.[ ] because of the school's association with the gymnasium, the school also came to be referred to simply as the lyceum.[ ] some modern scholars argue that the school did not become formally institutionalized until theophrastus took it over, at which time there was private property associated with the school.[ ] originally at least, the peripatetic gatherings were probably conducted less formally than the term "school" suggests: there was likely no set curriculum or requirements for students or even fees for membership.[ ] aristotle did teach and lecture there, but there was also philosophical and scientific research done in partnership with other members of the school.[ ] it seems likely that many of the writings that have come down to us in aristotle's name were based on lectures he gave at the school.[ ] among the members of the school in aristotle's time were theophrastus, phanias of eresus, eudemus of rhodes, clytus of miletus, aristoxenus, and dicaearchus. much like plato's academy, there were in aristotle's school junior and senior members, the junior members generally serving as pupils or assistants to the senior members who directed research and lectured. the aim of the school, at least in aristotle's time, was not to further a specific doctrine, but rather to explore philosophical and scientific theories; those who ran the school worked as equal partners.[ ] doctrines[edit] the doctrines of the peripatetic school were those laid down by aristotle and henceforth maintained by his followers. whereas plato had sought to explain things with his theory of forms, aristotle preferred to start from the facts given by experience. philosophy to him meant science, and its aim was the recognition of the "why" in all things. hence he endeavoured to attain to the ultimate grounds of things by induction; that is to say, by a posteriori conclusions from a number of facts toward a universal.[ ] logic either deals with appearances, and is then called dialectics; or of truth, and is then called analytics.[ ] all change or motion takes place in regard to substance, quantity, quality, and place. there are three kinds of substances – those alternately in motion and at rest, as the animals; those perpetually in motion, as the sky; and those eternally stationary. the last, in themselves immovable and imperishable, are the source and origin of all motion. among them, there must be one first being, unchangeable, which acts without the intervention of any other being. all that is proceeds from it; it is the most perfect intelligence – god. the immediate action of this prime mover – happy in the contemplation of itself – extends only to the heavens; the other inferior spheres are moved by other incorporeal and eternal substances, which the popular belief adores as gods. the heavens are of a more perfect and divine nature than other bodies. in the centre of the universe is the earth, round and stationary. the stars, like the sky, beings of a higher nature, but of grosser matter, move by the impulse of the prime mover.[ ] for aristotle, matter is the basis of all that exists; it comprises the potentiality of everything, but of itself is not actually anything. a determinate thing only comes into being when the potentiality in matter is converted into actuality. this is achieved by form, the idea existent not as one outside the many, but as one in the many, the completion of the potentiality latent in the matter.[ ] the soul is the principle of life in the organic body, and is inseparable from the body. as faculties of the soul, aristotle enumerates the faculty of reproduction and nutrition; of sensation, memory and recollection; the faculty of reason, or understanding; and the faculty of desiring, which is divided into appetition and volition.[ ] by the use of reason conceptions, which are formed in the soul by external sense-impressions, and may be true or false, are converted into knowledge. for reason alone can attain to truth either in understanding or action.[ ] the best and highest goal is the happiness which originates from virtuous actions.[ ] aristotle did not, with plato, regard virtue as knowledge pure and simple, but as founded on nature, habit, and reason.[ ] virtue consists in acting according to nature: that is, keeping the mean between the two extremes of the too much and the too little. thus valor, in his view the first of virtues, is a mean between cowardice and recklessness; temperance is the mean in respect to sensual enjoyments and the total avoidance of them.[ ] history of the school[edit] aristotle and his disciples – alexander, demetrius, theophrastus, and strato, in an fresco in the portico of the national university of athens the names of the first seven or eight scholarchs (leaders) of the peripatetic school are known with varying levels of certainty. a list of names with the approximate dates they headed the school is as follows (all dates bc):[ ] 	aristotle (c. – ) 	theophrastus ( – ) 	strato of lampsacus ( – c. ) 	lyco of troas (c. – ) 	aristo of ceos ( – c. ) 	critolaus (c. – ) 	diodorus of tyre (c. ) 	erymneus (c. ) there are some uncertainties in this list. it is not certain whether aristo of ceos was the head of the school, but since he was a close pupil of lyco and the most important peripatetic philosopher in the time when he lived, it is generally assumed that he was. it is not known if critolaus directly succeeded aristo, or if there were any leaders between them. erymneus is known only from a passing reference by athenaeus.[ ] other important peripatetic philosophers who lived during these centuries include eudemus of rhodes, aristoxenus, dicaearchus, and clearchus of soli. sometime shortly after the death of alexander the great in june bc, aristotle left athens to avoid persecution by anti-macedonian factions in athens, due to his ties to macedonia.[ ] after aristotle's death in bc, his colleague theophrastus succeeded him as head of the school. the most prominent member of the school after theophrastus was strato of lampsacus, who increased the naturalistic elements of aristotle's philosophy and embraced a form of atheism. after the time of strato, the peripatetic school fell into a decline. lyco was famous more for his oratory than his philosophical skills, and aristo is perhaps best known for his biographical studies;[ ] although critolaus was more philosophically active, none of the peripatetic philosophers in this period seem to have contributed anything original to philosophy.[ ] the reasons for the decline of the peripatetic school are unclear. undoubtedly, stoicism and epicureanism provided many answers for those people looking for dogmatic and comprehensive philosophical systems, and the scepticism of the middle academy may have seemed preferable to anyone who rejected dogmatism.[ ] later tradition linked the school's decline to neleus of scepsis and his descendants hiding the works of aristotle and theophrastus in a cellar until their rediscovery in the st century bc, and even though this story may be doubted, it is possible that aristotle's works were not widely read.[ ] in bc, athens was sacked by the roman general lucius cornelius sulla; all the schools of philosophy in athens were badly disrupted, and the lyceum ceased to exist as a functioning institution. ironically, this event seems to have brought new life to the peripatetic school. sulla brought the writings of aristotle and theophrastus back to rome, where they became the basis of a new collection of aristotle's writings compiled by andronicus of rhodes which forms the basis of the corpus aristotelicum which exists today.[ ] later neoplatonist writers describe andronicus, who lived around bc, as the eleventh scholarch of the peripatetic school,[ ] which would imply that he had two unnamed predecessors. there is considerable uncertainty over the issue, and andronicus' pupil boethus of sidon is also described as the eleventh scholarch.[ ] it is quite possible that andronicus set up a new school where he taught boethus. whereas the earlier peripatetics had sought to extend and develop aristotle's works, from the time of andronicus the school concentrated on preserving and defending his work.[ ] the most important figure in the roman era is alexander of aphrodisias (c. ad) who wrote commentaries on aristotle's writings. with the rise of neoplatonism (and christianity) in the rd century, peripateticism as an independent philosophy came to an end, but the neoplatonists sought to incorporate aristotle's philosophy within their own system, and produced many commentaries on aristotle's works. in the th century, olympiodorus the elder is sometimes described as a peripatetic. influence[edit] main article: aristotelianism see also: avicennism, averroism, thomism, and scholasticism the last philosophers in classical antiquity to comment on aristotle were simplicius and boethius in the th century ad.[citation needed] after this, although his works were mostly lost to the west, they were maintained in the east where they were incorporated into early islamic philosophy. some of the greatest peripatetic philosophers in the islamic philosophical tradition were al-kindi (alkindus), al-farabi (alpharabius), avicenna (ibn sina) and averroes (ibn rushd). by the th century, aristotle's works began being translated into latin during the latin translations of the th century, and gradually arose scholastic philosophy under such names as thomas aquinas, which took its tone and complexion from the writings of aristotle, the commentaries of averroes, and the book of healing of avicenna.[ ] see also[edit] 		look up peripatetic in wiktionary, the free dictionary. 	aristotelianism 	peripatetic axiom notes[edit] 	^ the entry peripatêtikos archived - - at the wayback machine in liddell, henry and robert scott, a greek-english lexicon. 	^ a b grön, arne; 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( ). lübcke, poul (ed.). filosofilexikonet (in swedish). stockholm: forum förlag. 	^ furley , p.  ; lynch , p.  	^ nussbaum , p.  ; furley , p.  ; lynch , p.  	^ furley , p.  citing diogenes laërtius, lives and opinions of eminent philosophers . . some modern scholars discredit the legend altogether; see p. & p. n. , in hegel , p.  	^ a b furley , p.  	^ bce: furley , p.  ; bce: lynch , p.  ; bce: irwin 	^ barnes , p.  	^ ostwald & lynch , p.  , citing diogenes laërtius, . & . . 	^ barnes , p.  	^ barnes , pp.  – 	^ irwin 	^ ostwald & lynch , pp.  – 	^ a b c d "greek philosophy" entry in seyffert , p.  	^ a b c d e "peripatetic philosophy" entry in lieber, wigglesworth & bradford , p.  	^ ross & ackrill , p.  	^ athenaeus, v. e 	^ barnes , p.  	^ sharples , p.  	^ a b drozdek , p.  	^ sharples , p.  	^ sharples , p.  	^ ammonius, in de int. . 	^ ammonius, in an. pr. . 	^ sharples , p.  	^ spade, paul vincent ( ). edward n. zalta (ed.). 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( ), "the peripatetic school", in furley, david (ed.), from aristotle to augustine: routledge history of philosophy, routledge, isbn  - - - . 	wehrli, fritz (ed.), die schule des aristoteles. texte und kommentare. volumes and supplements. basel – , . edition – . 	i. dikaiarchos ( ); ii. aristoxenos ( ); iii. klearchos ( ); iv. demetrios von phaleron ( ); v. straton von lampsakos ( ); vi. lykon und ariston von keos ( ); vii: herakleides pontikos ( ); viii. eudemos von rhodos ( ); ix. phainias von eresos, chamaileon, praxiphanes ( ); x. hieronymos von rhodos, kritolaos und seine schuler, rückblick: der peripatos in vorchlisticher zeit; register ( ); supplement i: hermippos der kallimacheer ( ); supplement ii: sotio ( ). 		v 	t 	e aristotelianism 	overview	 	aristotle 	lyceum 	peripatetic school 	physics 	biology 	ethics 	logic 	theology (unmoved mover) 	 	ideas and interests	 	active intellect 	antiperistasis 	arete 	category of being 	catharsis 	classical unities 	correspondence theory 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statement 		 	 	 persius - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	persius 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		roman poet and satirist (ad - ) not to be confused with perseus. persius aulus persius flaccus (/ˈpɜːrʃiəs, ˈpɜːrʃəs/; december  – november ) was a roman poet and satirist of etruscan origin. in his works, poems and satires, he shows a stoic wisdom and a strong criticism for what he considered to be the stylistic abuses of his poetic contemporaries. his works, which became very popular in the middle ages, were published after his death by his friend and mentor, the stoic philosopher lucius annaeus cornutus. contents 	 life 	 . doubts over his biography 	 work 	 . authorities 	 editions 	 notes 	 references 	 external links life[edit] according to the life contained in the manuscripts, persius was born into an equestrian family at volterra (volaterrae, in latin), a small etruscan city in the province of pisa, of good stock on both parents' side. when six years old he lost his father; his stepfather died a few years later. at the age of twelve persius came to rome, where he was taught by remmius palaemon and the rhetor verginius flavus. during the next four years he developed friendships with the stoic lucius annaeus cornutus, the lyric poet caesius bassus, and the poet lucan.[ ] lucan would become a generous admirer of all persius wrote. he also became close friends with thrasea paetus, the husband of arria, a relative of persius's; over the next ten years persius and thrasea paetus shared many travels together. later, he met seneca, but was not impressed by his genius. in his boyhood, persius wrote a tragedy dealing with an episode in roman history, and another work, probably on travel (although this would have been before the travels with thrasea paetus). reading the satires of lucilius made persius want to write like him, and he set to work on a book of his own satires. but he wrote seldom and slowly; a premature death (uitio stomachi) prevented him from completing the book. he has been described as having "a gentle disposition, girlish modesty and personal beauty", and is said to have lived a life of exemplary devotion towards his mother fulvia sisennia, his sister and his aunt. to his mother and sister he left his considerable fortune. cornutus suppressed all his work except the satires, to which he made some slight alterations before handing it over to bassus for editing. it proved an immediate success.[ ] doubts over his biography[edit] the scholia add a few details—on what authority is, as generally with such sources, very doubtful. the life itself, though not free from the suspicion of interpolation and undoubtedly corrupt and disordered in places, is probably trustworthy. the manuscripts say it came from the commentary of valerius probus, no doubt a learned edition of persius like those of virgil and horace by this same famous "grammarian" of berytus, the poet's contemporary. the only case in which it seems to conflict with the satires (saturae) themselves is in its statement as to the death of persius's father. the declaiming of a suasoria in his presence (sat. . sqq.) implies a more mature age than that of six in the performer. but pater might here mean "stepfather," or persius may have forgotten his own autobiography, may be simply reproducing one of his models. the mere fact that the life and the satires agree so closely does not of course prove the authenticity of the former. one of the points of harmony is, however, too subtle for us to believe that a forger evolved it from the works of persius: the life gives the impression of a "bookish" youth, who never strayed far from home and family. this is also the picture drawn by the satires; many of the characters that persius creates have the same names as characters found in horace.[ ] a keen observer of what occurs within his narrow horizon, persius did not shy away from describing the seamy side of life (cf. e.g. such hints as sat. iii. ), especially the relationship between excesses of consumption and moral failure; he shows little of horace's easy-going acceptance of human weaknesses. perhaps the sensitive, homebred nature of persius can also be glimpsed in his frequent references to ridicule, whether of great men by street gamins or of the cultured by philistines.[ ] montaigne mentions persius several times.[citation needed] work[edit] the chief interest of persius's work lies in its relation to roman satire, in its interpretation of roman stoicism, and in its use of the latin tongue. the influence of horace on persius can, in spite of the silence of the life, hardly have been less than that of lucilius. not only characters, as noted above, but whole phrases, thoughts and situations come direct from him. the resemblance only emphasizes the difference between the caricaturist of stoicism and its preacher. persius strikes the highest note that roman satire reached; in earnestness and moral purpose he rises far superior to the political rancour or good-natured persiflage of his predecessors and the rhetorical indignation of juvenal. from him we learn how that philosophy could work on minds that still preserved the depth and purity of the old roman gravitas. some of the parallel passages in the works of persius and seneca are very close, and cannot be explained by assuming the use of a common source. like seneca, persius censures the style of the day, and imitates it. indeed, in some of its worst failings, straining of expression, excess of detail, exaggeration, he outbids seneca, whilst the obscurity, which makes his little book of not seven hundred lines so difficult to read and is in no way due to great depth of thought, compares poorly with the terse clearness of the epistolae morales. a curious contrast to this tendency is presented by his free use of "popular" words. as of plato, so of persius, we hear that he emulated sophron; the authority is a late one (the byzantine lydus, de mag. i. ), but we can at least recognize in the scene that opens sat. kinship with such work as theocritus' adoniazusae and the mimes of herodas.[ ] persius's satires are composed in hexameters, except for the scazons of the short prologue above referred to. the first satire censures the literary tastes of the day as a reflection of the decadence of the national morals. the theme of seneca's th letter is similar. the description of the recitator and the literary twaddlers after dinner is vividly natural, but an interesting passage which cites specimens of smooth versification and the languishing style is greatly spoiled by the difficulty of appreciating the points involved and indeed of distributing the dialogue (a not uncommon crux in persius). the remaining satires handle in order ( ) the question as to what we may justly ask of the gods (cf. second alcibiades), ( ) the importance of having a definite aim in life, ( ) the necessity of self-knowledge for public men (cf. plato's first alcibiades), ( ) the stoic doctrine of liberty (introduced by generous allusions to cornutus' teaching), and ( ) the proper use of money.[ ] the life tells us that the satires were not left complete; some lines were taken (presumably by cornutus or bassus) from the end of the work so that it might be quasi finitus. this perhaps means that a sentence in which persius had left a line imperfect, or a paragraph which he had not completed, had to be omitted. the same authority says that cornutus definitely blacked out an offensive allusion to the emperor's literary taste, and that we owe to him the reading of the manuscripts in sat. i. ,—"auriculas asini quis non (for mida rex ) habet!" traces of lack of revision are, however, still visible; cf. e.g. v. (sudden transition from ambition to superstition) and vi. (where criticism of greek doctores has nothing to do with the context). the parallels to passages of horace and seneca are recorded in the commentaries: in view of what the life says about lucan, the verbal resemblance of sat. iii. to phars. x. is interesting. examples of bold language or metaphor: i. , rupto iecore exierit caprificus, , linguae quantum sitiat canis; iii. , intus palleat, , silentia rodunt; v. , ueteres auiae de pulmone reuello. passages like iii. , sqq. show elaboration carried beyond the rules of good taste. "popular" words: baro, cerdo, ebullire, glutto, lallare, mamma, muttire, obba, palpo, scloppus. fine lines, etc., in i. sqq., ii. sqq., sqq., sqq., iii. sqq.[ ] authorities[edit] the manuscripts of persius fall into two groups, one represented by two of the best of them, the other by that of petrus pithoeus, so important for the text of juvenal. since the publication of j. bieger's de persii cod. pith. recte aestimando (berlin, ) the tendency has been to prefer the tradition of the latter.[ ] the first important editions were: ( ) with explanatory notes: isaac casaubon (paris, , enlarged edition by johann friedrich dübner, leipzig, ); otto jahn (with the scholia and valuable prolegomena, leipzig, ); john conington (with translation; rd ed., oxford, ), etc.; but there are several modern editions.[ ] editions[edit] 	braund, susanna m. ( ) juvenal and persius. loeb classical library. harvard university press. notes[edit] 	^ a b c d e f g h i  one or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "persius". encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. pp.  – . references[edit] 	bartsch, shadi. persius: a study in food, philosophy, and the figural. (chicago: university of chicago press, ). 	hooley, d. m. the knotted thong: structures of mimesis in persius (ann arbor: university of michigan press, ). 	reckford, kenneth j. recognizing persius (princeton; oxford: princeton university press, ) (martin classical lectures). external links[edit] 	 media related to aulus persius flaccus at wikimedia commons 	 latin wikisource has original text related to this article: aulus persius flaccus 	 english wikisource has original text related to this article: aulus persius flaccus 	 quotations related to persius at wikiquote 	works by persius at project gutenberg 	works by or about persius at internet archive 	online galleries, history of science collections, university of oklahoma libraries high resolution images of works by persius in .jpg and .tiff format. 	auli persii flacci satirarum liber, cum scholiis antiquis, otto jahn (ed.), lipsiae, typis et impensis breitropfii er baertelii, . 	the life of aulus persius flaccus from suetonius's de 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"byron" redirects here. for the hamburger chain, see byron hamburgers. for the personal name, see byron (name). english poet and a leading figure in the romantic movement ( - ) 	the right honourable the lord byron frs 	portrait of byron by thomas phillips, c.  	 	member of the house of lords lord temporal 	in office march  – april hereditary peerage 	preceded by	the th baron byron 	succeeded by	the th baron byron 	 	personal details 	born	george gordon byron ( - - ) january london, england 	died	 april ( - - ) (aged  ) missolonghi, aetolia, ottoman empire (present-day aetolia-acarnania, greece) 	cause of death	fever 	resting place	church of st. mary magdalene, hucknall, nottinghamshire 	nationality	british 	spouse(s)	anne isabella milbanke ​ ​ (m.  ; separated  )​ 	domestic partner	claire clairmont 	children		ada lovelace 	allegra byron 	elizabeth medora leigh (presumably) 	relatives	 	capt. john "mad jack" byron (father) 	catherine gordon (mother) 	vice-admiral the hon. john byron (grandfather) 	education	harrow ( – ) 	alma mater	trinity college, cambridge ( – ) 	occupation	poet, politician 	signature	 george gordon byron, th baron byron, frs ( january  – april ), known simply as lord byron, was an english peer, who was a poet and politician.[ ] he was one of the leading figures of the romantic movement[ ][ ][ ] and is regarded as one of the greatest english poets.[ ] he remains widely read and influential. among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems don juan and childe harold's pilgrimage; many of his shorter lyrics in hebrew melodies also became popular. he travelled extensively across europe, especially in italy, where he lived for seven years in the cities of venice, ravenna, and pisa. during his stay in italy he frequently visited his friend and fellow poet percy bysshe shelley.[ ] later in life byron joined the greek war of independence fighting the ottoman empire and died of disease leading a campaign during that war, for which greeks revere him as a national hero.[ ] he died in at the age of from a fever contracted after the first and second siege of missolonghi. his only legitimate child, ada lovelace, is regarded as a foundational figure in the field of computer programming based on her notes for charles babbage's analytical engine.[ ][ ][ ] byron's illegitimate children include allegra byron, who died in childhood, and possibly elizabeth medora leigh, daughter of his half-sister augusta leigh. contents 	 family and early life 	 education 	 career 	 . early career 	 . first travels to the east 	 . england – 	 life abroad ( – ) 	 . the shelleys 	 . italy 	 . greece 	 . death 	 . . post mortem 	 personal life 	 . relationships and scandals 	 . children 	 . sea and swimming 	 . fondness for animals 	 health and appearance 	 . character and psyche 	 . deformed foot 	 . physical appearance 	 political career 	 poetic works 	 . don juan 	 . irish avatar 	 parthenon marbles 	 legacy and influence 	 . byronic hero 	 . in popular culture 	 bibliography 	 . major works 	 . selected shorter lyric poems 	 see also 	 references 	 . notes 	 . bibliography 	 further reading 	 external links family and early life[edit] main article: early life of lord byron an engraving of byron's father, captain john "mad jack" byron, date unknown george gordon byron was born on january , on holles street in london – his birthplace is now supposedly occupied by a branch of the department store john lewis. byron was the only child of captain john byron (known as 'jack') and his second wife catherine gordon, heiress of the gight estate in aberdeenshire, scotland. byron's paternal grandparents were vice-admiral john byron and sophia trevanion.[ ] having survived a shipwreck as a teenage midshipman, vice admiral john byron set a new speed record for circumnavigating the globe. after he became embroiled in a tempestous voyage during the american revolutionary war, john was nicknamed 'foul-weather jack' byron by the press.[ ] byron's father had previously been somewhat scandalously married to amelia, marchioness of carmarthen, with whom he had been having an affair – the wedding took place just weeks after her divorce from her husband, and she was around eight months pregnant.[ ] the marriage was not a happy one, and their first two children – sophia georgina, and an unnamed boy – died in infancy.[ ] amelia herself died in almost exactly a year after the birth of their third child, the poet's half-sister augusta mary.[ ] though amelia succumbed to a wasting illness, probably tuberculosis, the press reported that her heart had been broken out of remorse for leaving her husband. much later, th-century sources blamed jack's own "brutal and vicious" treatment of her.[ ] jack then married catherine gordon of gight on may , by all accounts only for her fortune.[ ] to claim his second wife's estate in scotland, byron's father took the additional surname "gordon", becoming "john byron gordon", and occasionally styled himself "john byron gordon of gight". byron's mother had to sell her land and title to pay her new husband's debts, and in the space of two years, the large estate, worth some £ , , had been squandered, leaving the former heiress with an annual income in trust of only £ .[ ] in a move to avoid his creditors, catherine accompanied her profligate husband to france in , but returned to england at the end of to give birth to her son. the boy was born on january in lodgings at holles street in london, and christened at st marylebone parish church as "george gordon byron". his father appears to have wished to call his son 'william', but as her husband remained absent, his mother named him after her own father george gordon of gight.[ ] (his grandfather was a descendant of james i of scotland, and had committed suicide in .)[ ] catherine gordon, byron's mother, by thomas stewardson catherine moved back to aberdeenshire in , where byron spent his childhood.[ ] his father soon joined them in their lodgings in queen street, but the couple quickly separated. catherine regularly experienced mood swings and bouts of melancholy,[ ] which could be partly explained by her husband's continuingly borrowing money from her. as a result, she fell even further into debt to support his demands. it was one of these importunate loans that allowed him to travel to valenciennes, france, where he died of a "long & suffering illness" – probably tuberculosis – in .[ ] when byron's great-uncle, who was posthumously labelled the "wicked" lord byron, died on may , the -year-old boy became the sixth baron byron of rochdale and inherited the ancestral home, newstead abbey, in nottinghamshire. his mother proudly took him to england, but the abbey was in an embarrassing state of disrepair and, rather than living there, she decided to lease it to lord grey de ruthyn, among others, during byron's adolescence. described as "a woman without judgment or self-command," catherine either spoiled and indulged her son or vexed him with her capricious stubbornness. her drinking disgusted him and he often mocked her for being short and corpulent, which made it difficult for her to catch him to discipline him. byron had been born with a deformed right foot; his mother once retaliated and, in a fit of temper, referred to him as "a lame brat."[ ] however, byron's biographer, doris langley-moore, in her book, accounts rendered, paints a more sympathetic view of mrs byron, showing how she was a staunch supporter of her son and sacrificed her own precarious finances to keep him in luxury at harrow and cambridge. langley-moore questions th-century biographer john galt's claim that she over-indulged in alcohol. upon the death of byron's mother-in-law judith noel, the hon. lady milbanke, in , her will required that he change his surname to "noel" so as to inherit half of her estate. he obtained a royal warrant, allowing him to "take and use the surname of noel only" and to "subscribe the said surname of noel before all titles of honour". from that point he signed himself "noel byron" (the usual signature of a peer being merely the peerage, in this case simply "byron"). it is speculated that this was so that his initials would read "n.b.", mimicking those of his hero, napoleon bonaparte. lady byron eventually succeeded to the barony of wentworth, becoming "lady wentworth". education[edit] byron received his early formal education at aberdeen grammar school, and in august entered the school of dr. william glennie, in dulwich.[ ] placed under the care of a dr. bailey, he was encouraged to exercise in moderation but could not restrain himself from "violent" bouts in an attempt to overcompensate for his deformed foot. his mother interfered with his studies, often withdrawing him from school, with the result that he lacked discipline and his classical studies were neglected. in , he was sent to harrow, where he remained until july .[ ] an undistinguished student and an unskilled cricketer, he did represent the school during the very first eton v harrow cricket match at lord's in .[ ] his lack of moderation was not restricted to physical exercise. byron fell in love with mary chaworth, whom he met while at school,[ ] and she was the reason he refused to return to harrow in september . his mother wrote, "he has no indisposition that i know of but love, desperate love, the worst of all maladies in my opinion. in short, the boy is distractedly in love with miss chaworth."[ ] in byron's later memoirs, "mary chaworth is portrayed as the first object of his adult sexual feelings."[ ] john fitzgibbon, nd earl of clare byron finally returned in january ,[ ] to a more settled period which saw the formation of a circle of emotional involvements with other harrow boys, which he recalled with great vividness: "my school friendships were with me passions (for i was always violent)."[ ] the most enduring of those was with john fitzgibbon, nd earl of clare—four years byron's junior—whom he was to meet unexpectedly many years later in italy ( ).[ ] his nostalgic poems about his harrow friendships, childish recollections ( ), express a prescient "consciousness of sexual differences that may in the end make england untenable to him."[ ] letters to byron in the john murray archive contain evidence[citation needed] of a previously unremarked if short-lived romantic relationship with a younger boy at harrow, john thomas claridge. the following autumn, he went up to trinity college, cambridge,[ ] where he met and formed a close friendship with the younger john edleston. about his "protégé" he wrote, "he has been my almost constant associate since october, , when i entered trinity college. his voice first attracted my attention, his countenance fixed it, and his manners attached me to him for ever." in his memory byron composed thyrza, a series of elegies.[ ] in later years, he described the affair as "a violent, though pure love and passion". this statement, however, needs to be read in the context of hardening public attitudes toward homosexuality in england and the severe sanctions (including public hanging) against convicted or even suspected offenders.[ ] the liaison, on the other hand, may well have been "pure" out of respect for edleston's innocence, in contrast to the (probably) more sexually overt relations experienced at harrow school.[ ] the poem "the cornelian" was written about the cornelian that byron received from edleston.[ ] byron spent three years at trinity college, engaging in sexual escapades, boxing, horse riding and gambling.[ ] also while at cambridge he formed lifelong friendships with men such as john cam hobhouse, who initiated him into the cambridge whig club, which endorsed liberal politics,[ ] and francis hodgson, a fellow at king's college, with whom he corresponded on literary and other matters until the end of his life. career[edit] early career[edit] byron's house, burgage manor, in southwell, nottinghamshire while not at school or college, byron dwelt at his mother's residence burgage manor in southwell, nottinghamshire.[ ] while there, he cultivated friendships with elizabeth bridget pigot and her brother, john, with whom he staged two plays for the entertainment of the community. during this time, with the help of elizabeth pigot, who copied many of his rough drafts, he was encouraged to write his first volumes of poetry. fugitive pieces was printed by ridge of newark, which contained poems written when byron was only .[ ] however, it was promptly recalled and burned on the advice of his friend, the reverend j. t. becher, on account of its more amorous verses, particularly the poem to mary.[ ] hours of idleness, which collected many of the previous poems, along with more recent compositions, was the culminating book. the savage, anonymous criticism this received (now known to be the work of henry peter brougham) in the edinburgh review prompted his first major satire,[ ] english bards and scotch reviewers ( ). it was put into the hands of his relation, r. c. dallas, requesting him to "...get it published without his name."[ ] alexander dallas gave a large series of changes and alterations, as well as the reasoning for some of them. he also stated that byron had originally intended to prefix an argument to this poem, and dallas quoted it.[ ] although the work was published anonymously, by april, r. c. dallas wrote that "you are already pretty generally known to be the author."[ ] the work so upset some of his critics they challenged byron to a duel; over time, in subsequent editions, it became a mark of prestige to be the target of byron's pen.[ ] autograph letter signed to john hanson, byron's lawyer and business agent. fondazione beic after his return from travels he again entrusted r. c. dallas as his literary agent to publish his poem childe harold's pilgrimage, which byron thought of little account. the first two cantos of childe harold's pilgrimage were published in and were received with acclaim.[ ][ ] in his own words, "i awoke one morning and found myself famous."[ ] he followed up his success with the poem's last two cantos, as well as four equally celebrated "oriental tales": the giaour, the bride of abydos, the corsair, and lara. about the same time, he began his intimacy with his future biographer, thomas moore. first travels to the east[edit] byron's stone in tepelenë, albania teresa makri in byron racked up numerous debts as a young man, owing to what his mother termed a "reckless disregard for money".[ ] she lived at newstead during this time, in fear of her son's creditors.[ ] he had planned to spend early cruising with his cousin, george bettesworth, who was captain of the -gun frigate hms tartar. bettesworth's death at the battle of alvøen in may made that impossible. from to ,[ ] byron went on the grand tour, then customary for a young nobleman. he travelled with hobhouse for the first year and his entourage of servants included byron's trustworthy valet, william fletcher. fletcher was often the butt of hobhouse and byron’s humour. the napoleonic wars forced him to avoid most of europe, and he instead turned to the mediterranean. the journey provided the opportunity to flee creditors, as well as a former love, mary chaworth (the subject of his poem from this time, "to a lady: on being asked my reason for quitting england in the spring").[ ] letters to byron from his friend charles skinner matthews reveal that a key motive was also the hope of homosexual experience.[ ] attraction to the levant was probably also a reason; he had read about the ottoman and persian lands as a child, was attracted to islam (especially sufi mysticism), and later wrote, "with these countries, and events connected with them, all my really poetical feelings begin and end."[ ][ ] byron began his trip in portugal from where he wrote a letter to his friend mr hodgson in which he describes his mastery of the portuguese language, consisting mainly of swearing and insults. byron particularly enjoyed his stay in sintra that is described in childe harold's pilgrimage as "glorious eden". from lisbon he travelled overland to seville, jerez de la frontera, cádiz, and gibraltar, and from there by sea on to sardinia, malta, and greece.[ ] while in athens, byron met -year-old nicolo giraud, with whom he became quite close and who taught him italian. it has been suggested that the two had an intimate relationship involving a sexual affair.[ ] byron sent giraud to school at a monastery in malta and bequeathed him a sizeable sum of £ , pounds sterling. the will, however, was later cancelled.[ ] "i am tired of pl & opt cs, the last thing i could be tired of", byron wrote to hobhouse from athens (an abbreviation of "coitum plenum et optabilem" – complete intercourse to one's heart's desire, from petronius' satyricon), which, as an earlier letter establishes, was their shared code for homosexual experience.[ ] in in athens, byron wrote "maid of athens, ere we part" for a -year-old girl, teresa makri ( – ). byron and hobhouse made their way to smyrna, where they cadged a ride to constantinople on hms salsette. while salsette was anchored awaiting ottoman permission to dock at the city, on may byron and lieutenant ekenhead, of salsette's marines, swam the hellespont. byron commemorated this feat in the second canto of don juan. he returned to england from malta in july aboard hms volage.[ ] england – [edit] portrait by richard westall byron became a celebrity with the publication of the first two cantos of childe harold's pilgrimage ( ). "he rapidly became the most brilliant star in the dazzling world of regency london. he was sought after at every society venue, elected to several exclusive clubs, and frequented the most fashionable london drawing-rooms."[ ] during this period in england he produced many works, including the giaour, the bride of abydos ( ), parisina, and the siege of corinth ( ). on the initiative of the composer isaac nathan, he produced in – the hebrew melodies (including what became some of his best-known lyrics, such as "she walks in beauty" and "the destruction of sennacherib"). involved at first in an affair with lady caroline lamb (who called him "mad, bad and dangerous to know") and with other lovers and also pressed by debt, he began to seek a suitable marriage, considering – amongst others – annabella millbanke.[ ] however, in he met for the first time in four years his half-sister, augusta leigh. rumours of incest surrounded the pair; augusta's daughter medora (b. ) was suspected to have been byron's. to escape from growing debts and rumours, byron pressed his determination to marry annabella, who was said to be the likely heiress of a rich uncle. they married on january , and their daughter, ada, was born in december of that year. however, byron's continuing obsession with augusta (and his continuing sexual escapades with actresses such as charlotte mardyn[ ][ ] and others) made their marital life a misery. annabella considered byron insane, and in january she left him, taking their daughter, and began proceedings for a legal separation. their separation was made legal in a private settlement in march . the scandal of the separation, the rumours about augusta, and ever-increasing debts forced him to leave england in april , never to return.[ ] life abroad ( – )[edit] the shelleys[edit] 	 			 			 percy bysshe shelley, 			 		 	 			 			 mary shelley, 			 		 	 			 			 claire clairmont 			 		 after this break-up of his domestic life, byron left england and never returned. (despite his dying wishes, however, his body was returned for burial in england.) he journeyed through belgium and continued up the rhine river. in the summer of he settled at the villa diodati by lake geneva, switzerland, with his personal physician, john william polidori. there byron befriended the poet percy bysshe shelley and shelley's future wife, mary godwin. he was also joined by mary's stepsister, claire clairmont, with whom he had had an affair in london.[ ] several times byron went to see germaine de staël and her coppet group, which turned out to be a valid intellectual and emotional support to byron at the time.[ ] frontispiece to a c. edition of childe harold's pilgrimage kept indoors at the villa diodati by the "incessant rain" of "that wet, ungenial summer" over three days in june, the five turned to reading fantastical stories, including fantasmagoriana, and then devising their own tales. mary shelley produced what would become frankenstein, or the modern prometheus, and polidori produced the vampyre,[ ] the progenitor of the romantic vampire genre.[ ][ ] the vampyre was the inspiration for a fragmentary story of byron's, "a fragment".[ ] byron's story fragment was published as a postscript to mazeppa; he also wrote the third canto of childe harold. byron wintered in venice, pausing his travels when he fell in love with marianna segati, in whose venice house he was lodging, and who was soon replaced by -year-old margarita cogni; both women were married.[ ] cogni could not read or write, and she left her husband to move into byron's venice house.[ ] their fighting often caused byron to spend the night in his gondola; when he asked her to leave the house, she threw herself into the venetian canal.[ ] italy[edit] byron's visit to san lazzaro as depicted by ivan aivazovsky ( ) in , byron visited san lazzaro degli armeni in venice, where he acquainted himself with armenian culture with the help of the monks belonging to the mechitarist order. with the help of father pascal aucher (harutiun avkerian), he learned the armenian language[ ] and attended many seminars about language and history. he co-authored grammar english and armenian in , an english textbook written by aucher and corrected by byron, and a grammar armenian and english in , a project he initiated of a grammar of classical armenian for english speakers, where he included quotations from classical and modern armenian.[ ] byron later participated in the compilation of the english armenian dictionary (barraran angleren yev hayeren, ) and wrote the preface, in which he explained armenian oppression by the turkish pashas and the persian satraps and the armenian struggle of liberation. his two main translations are the epistle of paul to the corinthians, two chapters of movses khorenatsi's history of armenia, and sections of nerses of lambron's orations.[ ] his fascination was so great that he even considered a replacement of the cain story of the bible with that of the legend of armenian patriarch haik.[ ] he may be credited with the birth of armenology and its propagation.[ ] his profound lyricism and ideological courage has inspired many armenian poets, the likes of ghevond alishan, smbat shahaziz, hovhannes tumanyan, ruben vorberian, and others.[ ] in , he journeyed to rome. on returning to venice, he wrote the fourth canto of childe harold. about the same time, he sold newstead and published manfred, cain, and the deformed transformed. the first five cantos of don juan were written between and . during this period he met the -year-old countess guiccioli, who found her first love in byron, and asked her to elope with him.[ ] led by love for the local aristocratic, young, and newly married teresa guiccioli, byron lived in ravenna from to . here he continued don juan and wrote the ravenna diary and my dictionary and recollections. around this time he received visits from percy bysshe shelley, as well as from thomas moore, to whom he confided his autobiography or "life and adventures", which moore, hobhouse, and byron's publisher, john murray,[ ] burned in , a month after byron's death.[ ] of byron's lifestyle in ravenna we know more from shelley, who documented some of its more colourful aspects in a letter: "lord byron gets up at two. i get up, quite contrary to my usual custom … at . after breakfast we sit talking till six. from six to eight we gallop through the pine forest which divide ravenna from the sea; we then come home and dine, and sit up gossiping till six in the morning. i don’t suppose this will kill me in a week or fortnight, but i shall not try it longer. lord b.’s establishment consists, besides servants, of ten horses, eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle, a crow, and a falcon; and all these, except the horses, walk about the house, which every now and then resounds with their unarbitrated quarrels, as if they were the masters of it… . [p.s.] i find that my enumeration of the animals in this circean palace was defective … . i have just met on the grand staircase five peacocks, two guinea hens, and an egyptian crane. i wonder who all these animals were before they were changed into these shapes."[ ] "byron's grotto" in porto venere, italy, named in his honour, because according to a local legend he meditated here and drew inspiration from this place for his literary works statue of lord byron in athens in byron left ravenna and went to live in the tuscan city of pisa, to which teresa had also relocated. from to , byron finished cantos – of don juan at pisa, and in the same year he joined with leigh hunt and shelley in starting a short-lived newspaper, the liberal, in whose first number the vision of judgment appeared. for the first time since his arrival in italy, byron found himself tempted to give dinner parties; his guests included the shelleys, edward ellerker williams, thomas medwin, john taaffe, and edward john trelawny; and "never", as shelley said, "did he display himself to more advantage than on these occasions; being at once polite and cordial, full of social hilarity and the most perfect good humour; never diverging into ungraceful merriment, and yet keeping up the spirit of liveliness throughout the evening."[ ] shelley and williams rented a house on the coast and had a schooner built. byron decided to have his own yacht, and engaged trelawny's friend, captain daniel roberts, to design and construct the boat. named the bolivar, it was later sold to charles john gardiner, st earl of blessington, and marguerite, countess of blessington, when byron left for greece in .[ ][ ] byron attended the funeral of shelley, which was orchestrated by trelawny after williams and shelley drowned in a boating accident on july . his last italian home was genoa. while living there he was accompanied by the countess guiccioli and the blessingtons. lady blessington based much of the material in her book, conversations with lord byron, on the time spent together there. this book became an important biographical text about byron’s life just prior to his death. greece[edit] further information: greek war of independence lord byron in albanian dress by thomas phillips, . venizelos mansion, athens (the british ambassador's residence). byron was living in genoa when, in , while growing bored with his life there, he accepted overtures for his support from representatives of the movement for greek independence from the ottoman empire.[ ] at first, byron did not wish to leave his -year-old mistress, countess teresa guiccioli, who had abandoned her husband to live with him; ultimately guiccioli's father, count gamba, was allowed to leave his exile in the romagna under the condition that his daughter return to him, without byron.[ ] at the same time that the philhellene edward blaquiere was attempting to recruit him, byron was confused as to what he was supposed to do in greece, writing: "blaquiere seemed to think that i might be of some use-even here;—though what he did not exactly specify".[ ] with the assistance of his banker and captain daniel roberts, byron chartered the brig hercules to take him to greece. when byron left genoa, it caused "passionate grief" from guiccioli, who wept openly as he sailed away to greece. the hercules was forced to return to port shortly afterwards. when it set sail for the final time, guiccioli had already left genoa.[ ] on july, byron left genoa, arriving at kefalonia in the ionian islands on august. his voyage is covered in detail in donald prell's sailing with byron from genoa to cephalonia.[ ] prell also wrote of a coincidence in byron's chartering the hercules. the vessel was launched only a few miles south of seaham hall, where in byron married annabella milbanke. between and the vessel was in service between england and canada. suddenly in , the ship's captain decided to sail to genoa and offer the hercules for charter. after taking byron to greece, the ship returned to england, never again to venture into the mediterranean. the hercules was aged when, on september , she went aground near hartlepool, only miles south of sunderland, where in , her keel was laid; byron's "keel was laid" nine months before his official birth date, january ; therefore in ship-years, he was aged , when he died in missolonghi.[ ] byron initially stayed on the island of kefalonia, where he was besieged by agents of the rival greek factions, all of whom wanted to recruit byron to their own cause.[ ] the ionian islands, of which kefalonia is one, were under british rule until . byron spent £ , of his own money to refit the greek fleet.[ ] when byron travelled to the mainland of greece on the night of december , byron's ship was surprised by an ottoman warship, which did not attack his ship as the ottoman captain mistook byron's boat for a fireship.[ ] to avoid the ottoman navy, which he encountered several times on his voyage, byron was forced to take a roundabout route and only reached missolonghi on january .[ ] after arriving in missolonghi, byron joined forces with alexandros mavrokordatos, a greek politician with military power. byron moved to the second floor of a two-story house and was forced to spend much of his time dealing with unruly souliotes who demanded that byron pay them the back-pay owed to them by the greek government.[ ] byron gave the souliotes some £ , pounds.[ ] byron was supposed to lead an attack on the ottoman fortress of navpaktos, whose albanian garrison were unhappy due to pay arrears and who offered to put up only token resistance if byron was willing to bribe them into surrendering. however, ottoman commander yussuf pasha executed the mutinous albanian officers who were offering to surrender navpaktos to byron and arranged to have some of the pay arrears paid out to the rest of the garrison.[ ] byron never led the attack on navpaktos because the souliotes kept demanding that byron pay them more and more money before they would march; byron grew tired of their blackmail and sent them all home on february .[ ] byron wrote in a note to himself: "having tried in vain at every expence-considerable trouble—and some danger to unite the suliotes for the good of greece-and their own—i have come to the following resolution—i will have nothing more to do with the suliotes-they may go to the turks or the devil...they may cut me into more pieces than they have dissensions among them, sooner than change my resolution".[ ] at the same time, guiccioli's brother, pietro gamba, who had followed byron to greece, exasperated byron with his incompetence as he consistently made expensive mistakes. for example, when asked to buy some cloth from corfu, gamba ordered the wrong cloth in excess, leading to the bill being times higher than what byron wanted.[ ] byron wrote about his right-hand man: "gamba—who is anything but lucky—had something to do with it—and as usual—the moment he had—matters went wrong".[ ] the reception of lord byron at missolonghi to help raise money for the revolution, byron sold his estate rochdale manor in england, which raised some £ , pound sterling; this led byron to estimate that he now had some £ , pounds at his disposal, all of which he planned to spend on the greek cause.[ ] in today's money byron would have been a millionaire many times over, and the news that a fabulously wealthy british aristocrat known for his generosity in spending money had arrived in greece made byron the object of much solicitation in a desperately poor country like greece.[ ] byron wrote to his business agent in england, "i should not like to give the greeks but a half helping hand", saying he would have wanted to spend his entire fortune on greek freedom.[ ] byron found himself besieged by various people, both greek and foreign, who tried to persuade byron to open up his pocketbook to support them. by the end of march , the so-called "byron brigade" of philhellene officers and about men had been formed, paid for entirely by byron.[ ] leadership of the greek cause in the roumeli region was divided between two rival leaders: a former klepht (bandit), odysseas androutsos; and a wealthy phanariot merchant, alexandros mavrokordatos. byron used his prestige to attempt to persuade the two rival leaders to come together to focus on defeating the ottomans.[ ] at same time, other leaders of the greek factions like petrobey mavromichalis and theodoros kolokotronis wrote letters to byron telling him to disregard all of the roumeliot leaders and to come to their respective areas in the peloponnese. this drove byron to distraction; he complained that the greeks were hopelessly disunited and spent more time feuding with each other than trying to win independence.[ ] byron's friend edward john trelawny had aligned himself with androutsos, who ruled athens, and was now pressing for byron to break with mavrokordatos in favour of backing his rival androutsos.[ ] androutsos, having won over trelawny to his cause, was now anxious to persuade byron to put his wealth behind his claim to be the leader of greece.[ ] byron wrote with disgust about how one of the greek captains, former klepht georgios karaiskakis, attacked missolonghi on april with some men supported by the souliotes as he was unhappy with mavrokordatos's leadership, leading to a brief bout of inter-greek fighting before karaiskakis was chased away by april.[ ] byron adopted a nine-year-old turkish muslim girl called hato whose parents had been killed by the greeks, whom he ultimately sent to safety in kefalonia, knowing well that religious hatred between the orthodox greeks and muslim turks was running high and that any muslim in greece, even a child, was in serious danger.[ ] until , most turks did not have surnames, so hato's lack of a surname was quite typical for a turkish family at this time. during this time, byron pursued his greek page, lukas chalandritsanos, with whom he had fallen madly in love, but the affections went unrequited.[ ][ ] byron was infatuated with the teenage chalandritsanos, whom he spoiled outrageously, spending some £ (the equivalent to about £ , in today's money) to cater to his every whim over the course of six months and writing his last poems about his passion for the greek boy, but chalandritsanos was only interested in byron's money.[ ] when the famous danish sculptor bertel thorvaldsen heard about byron's heroics in greece, he voluntarily resculpted his earlier bust of byron in greek marble.[ ] death[edit] lord byron on his deathbed, by joseph denis odevaere (c.  ). oil on canvas, × .  cm groeningemuseum, bruges. (note the sheet covering his misshapen right foot.) mavrokordatos and byron planned to attack the turkish-held fortress of lepanto, at the mouth of the gulf of corinth. byron employed a fire-master to prepare artillery, and he took part of the rebel army under his own command, despite his lack of military experience. before the expedition could sail, on february , he fell ill, and bloodletting weakened him further.[ ] he made a partial recovery, but in early april he caught a violent cold, which therapeutic bleeding, insisted on by his doctors, aggravated. this treatment, carried out with unsterilised medical instruments, may have caused him to develop sepsis. he contracted a violent fever and died in missolonghi on april.[ ] his physician at the time, julius van millingen, son of dutch–english archaeologist james millingen, was unable to prevent his death. it has been said that if byron had lived and had gone on to defeat the ottomans, he might have been declared king of greece. however, contemporary scholars have found such an outcome unlikely.[ ] the british historian david brewer wrote that in one sense, byron was a failure in greece as he failed to persuade the rival greek factions to unite, won no victories and was successful only in the humanitarian sphere, using his great wealth to help the victims of the war, muslim and christian, but this did not affect the outcome of the greek war of independence at all.[ ] brewer went on to argue, in another sense, though, byron achieved everything he could have wished. his presence in greece, and in particular his death there, drew to the greek cause not just the attention of sympathetic nations, but their increasing active participation ... despite the critics, byron is primarily remembered with admiration as a poet of genius, with something approaching veneration as a symbol of high ideals, and with great affection as a man: for his courage and his ironic slant on life, for his generosity to the grandest of causes and to the humblest of individuals, for the constant interplay of judgment and sympathy. in greece he is still revered as no other foreigner, and as very few greeks are, and like a homeric hero he is accorded an honorific standard epithet, megalos kai kalos, a great and good man.[ ] post mortem[edit] a narrative of lord byron's last journey to greece by pietro gamba ( ) alfred tennyson would later recall the shocked reaction in britain when word was received of byron's death.[ ] the greeks mourned lord byron deeply, and he became a hero.[ ][ ] the national poet of greece, dionysios solomos, wrote a poem about the unexpected loss, named to the death of lord byron.[ ] Βύρων, the greek form of "byron", continues in popularity as a masculine name in greece, and a suburb of athens is called vyronas in his honour. byron's body was embalmed, but the greeks wanted some part of their hero to stay with them. according to some sources, his heart remained at missolonghi.[ ] his other remains were sent to england (accompanied by his faithful manservant, "tita") for burial in westminster abbey, but the abbey refused for reason of "questionable morality".[ ][ ] huge crowds viewed his coffin as he lay in state for two days in london.[ ] he is buried at the church of st. mary magdalene in hucknall, nottinghamshire.[ ] a marble slab given by the king of greece is laid directly above byron's grave. his daughter, ada lovelace, was later buried beside him.[ ] byron's friends raised the sum of ,  pounds to commission a statue of the writer; thorvaldsen offered to sculpt it for that amount.[ ] however, for ten years after the statue was completed in , most british institutions turned it down, and it remained in storage. the statue was refused by the british museum, st. paul's cathedral, westminster abbey and the national gallery[ ] before trinity college, cambridge, finally placed the statue of byron in its library.[ ] in , years after byron's death, a memorial to him was finally placed in westminster abbey.[ ][ ] the memorial had been lobbied for since : the new york times wrote, "people are beginning to ask whether this ignoring of byron is not a thing of which england should be ashamed ... a bust or a tablet might be put in the poets' corner and england be relieved of ingratitude toward one of her really great sons."[ ] robert ripley had drawn a picture of boatswain's grave with the caption "lord byron's dog has a magnificent tomb while lord byron himself has none". this came as a shock to the english, particularly schoolchildren, who, ripley said, raised funds of their own accord to provide the poet with a suitable memorial.[ ] close to the centre of athens, greece, outside the national garden, is a statue depicting greece in the form of a woman crowning byron. the statue is by the french sculptors henri-michel chapu and alexandre falguière. since , the anniversary of byron's death, april, has been honoured in greece as "byron day".[ ] upon his death, the barony passed to byron's cousin george anson byron, a career naval officer.[citation needed] personal life[edit] relationships and scandals[edit] 	 			 			 lady caroline lamb 			 		 	 			 			 jane elizabeth scott "lady oxford" 			 		 	 			 			 augusta leigh 			 		 	 			 			 anne isabella milbanke in by charles hayter 			 		 	 			 			 teresa, contessa guiccioli 			 		 byron described his first intense feelings at age eight for his distant cousin, mary duff: my mother used always to rally me about this childish amour, and at last, many years after, when i was sixteen, she told me one day, 'o byron, i have had a letter from edinburgh, and your old sweetheart, mary duff, is married to mr. c***.' and what was my answer? i really cannot explain or account for my feelings at that moment, but they nearly threw me into convulsions... how the deuce did all this occur so early? where could it originate? i certainly had no sexual ideas for years afterwards; and yet my misery, my love for that girl were so violent, that i sometimes doubt if i have ever been really attached since. be that as it may, hearing of her marriage several years after was like a thunder-stroke – it nearly choked me – to the horror of my mother and the astonishment and almost incredulity of every body. and it is a phenomenon in my existence (for i was not eight years old) which has puzzled, and will puzzle me to the latest hour of it; and lately, i know not why, the recollection (not the attachment) has recurred as forcibly as ever...but, the more i reflect, the more i am bewildered to assign any cause for this precocity of affection.[ ] byron also became attached to margaret parker, another distant cousin.[ ] while his recollection of his love for mary duff is that he was ignorant of adult sexuality during this time and was bewildered as to the source of the intensity of his feelings, he would later confess that: my passions were developed very early – so early, that few would believe me – if i were to state the period – and the facts which accompanied it. perhaps this was one of the reasons that caused the anticipated melancholy of my thoughts – having anticipated life.[ ] this is the only reference byron himself makes to the event, and he is ambiguous as to how old he was when it occurred. after his death, his lawyer wrote to a mutual friend telling him a "singular fact" about byron's life which was "scarcely fit for narration". but he disclosed it nonetheless, thinking it might explain byron's sexual "propensities": when nine years old at his mother's house a free scotch girl [may, sometimes called mary, gray, one of his first caretakers] used to come to bed to him and play tricks with his person.[ ] gray later used this knowledge as a means of ensuring his silence if he were to be tempted to disclose the "low company" she kept during drinking binges.[ ] she was later dismissed, supposedly for beating byron when he was .[ ] a few years later, while he was still a child, lord grey de ruthyn (unrelated to may gray), a suitor of his mother's, also made sexual advances on him.[ ] byron's personality has been characterised as exceptionally proud and sensitive, especially when it came to his deformity.[ ] his extreme reaction to seeing his mother flirting outrageously with lord grey de ruthyn after the incident suggests this: he did not tell her of grey's conduct toward him; he simply refused to speak to him again and ignored his mother's commands to be reconciled.[ ] leslie a. marchand, one of byron's biographers, theorises that lord grey de ruthyn's advances prompted byron's later sexual liaisons with young men at harrow and cambridge.[ ][failed verification] scholars acknowledge a more or less important bisexual component in byron's very complex sentimental and sexual life. bernhard jackson asserts that "byron's sexual orientation has long been a difficult, not to say contentious, topic, and anyone who seeks to discuss it must to some degree speculate, since the evidence is nebulous, contradictory and scanty... it is not so simple to define byron as homosexual or heterosexual: he seems rather to have been both, and either."[ ][ ] crompton states: "what was not understood in byron's own century (except by a tiny circle of his associates) was that byron was bisexual".[ ] another biographer, fiona maccarthy, has posited that byron's true sexual yearnings were for adolescent males.[ ] byron used a code by which he communicated his homosexual greek adventures to john hobhouse in england: bernhard jackson recalls that "byron's early code for sex with a boy" was "plen(um). and optabil(em). -coit(um)"[ ] bullough summarizes: byron, was attached to nicolo giraud, a young french-greek lad who had been a model for the painter lusieri before byron found him. byron left him , pounds in his will. when byron returned to italy, he became involved with a number of boys in venice but eventually settled on loukas chalandritsanos, age , who was with him when he was killed [sic][ ] (crompton, ). — bullough ( ), p.  in , byron embarked on a well-publicised affair with the married lady caroline lamb that shocked the british public.[ ] she had spurned the attention of the poet on their first meeting, subsequently giving byron what became his lasting epitaph when she famously described him as "mad, bad and dangerous to know".[ ] this did not prevent her from pursuing him.[ ][ ] byron eventually broke off the relationship and moved swiftly on to others (such as that with lady oxford), but lamb never entirely recovered, pursuing him even after he tired of her. she was emotionally disturbed and lost so much weight that byron sarcastically commented to her mother-in-law, his friend lady melbourne, that he was "haunted by a skeleton".[ ] she began to call on him at home, sometimes dressed in disguise as a pageboy,[ ] at a time when such an act could ruin both of them socially. once, during such a visit, she wrote on a book at his desk, "remember me!" as a retort, byron wrote a poem entitled remember thee! remember thee! which concludes with the line "thou false to him, thou fiend to me". as a child, byron had seen little of his half-sister augusta leigh; in adulthood, he formed a close relationship with her that has been interpreted by some as incestuous,[ ] and by others as innocent.[ ] augusta (who was married) gave birth on april to her third daughter, elizabeth medora leigh, rumoured by some to be byron's. eventually byron began to court lady caroline's cousin anne isabella milbanke ("annabella"), who refused his first proposal of marriage but later accepted him. milbanke was a highly moral woman, intelligent and mathematically gifted; she was also an heiress. they married at seaham hall, county durham, on january .[ ] the marriage proved unhappy. they had a daughter, augusta ada. on january , lady byron left him, taking ada with her. that same year ( april), byron signed the deed of separation. rumours of marital violence, adultery with actresses, incest with augusta leigh, and sodomy were circulated, assisted by a jealous lady caroline.[ ] in a letter, augusta quoted him as saying: "even to have such a thing said is utter destruction and ruin to a man from which he can never recover." that same year lady caroline published her popular novel glenarvon, in which lord byron was portrayed as the seedy title character.[ ] children[edit] 	 			 			 elizabeth medora leigh ( – ) 			 		 	 			 			 ada lovelace ( – ) 			 		 	 			 			 clara allegra byron ( – ) 			 		 byron wrote a letter to john hanson from newstead abbey, dated january , that includes "you will discharge my cook, & laundry maid, the other two i shall retain to take care of the house, more especially as the youngest is pregnant (i need not tell you by whom) and i cannot have the girl on the parish."[ ] his reference to "the youngest" is understood to have been to a maid, lucy, and the parenthesised remark to indicate himself as siring a son born that year. in part of a baptismal record was uncovered which apparently said: "september george illegitimate son of lucy monk, illegitimate son of baron byron, of newstead, nottingham, newstead abbey."[ ] augusta leigh's child, elizabeth medora leigh, born , was very likely fathered by byron, who was augusta's half-brother. byron had a child, the hon. augusta ada byron ("ada", later countess of lovelace), in , by his wife annabella byron, lady byron (née anne isabella milbanke, or "annabella"), later lady wentworth. ada lovelace, notable in her own right, collaborated with charles babbage on the analytical engine, a predecessor to modern computers. she is recognised[ ] as one of[ ] the world's first computer programmers. he also had an extramarital child in , clara allegra byron, with claire clairmont, stepsister of mary shelley and stepdaughter of william godwin, writer of political justice and caleb williams. allegra is not entitled to the style "the hon." as is usually given to the daughter of barons, since she was born outside of his marriage. born in bath in , allegra lived with byron for a few months in venice; he refused to allow an englishwoman caring for the girl to adopt her and objected to her being raised in the shelleys' household.[ ] he wished for her to be brought up catholic and not marry an englishman,[ ] and he made arrangements for her to inherit , lira upon marriage or when she reached the age of , provided she did not marry a native of britain.[ ] however, the girl died aged five of a fever in bagnacavallo, italy, while byron was in pisa; he was deeply upset by the news.[ ] he had allegra's body sent back to england to be buried at his old school, harrow, because protestants could not be buried in consecrated ground in catholic countries.[ ] at one time he himself had wanted to be buried at harrow. byron was indifferent towards allegra's mother, claire clairmont.[ ] sea and swimming[edit] byron enjoyed adventure, especially relating to the sea.[ ] the first recorded notable example of open water swimming took place on may when lord byron swam from europe to asia across the hellespont strait.[ ] this is often seen as the birth of the sport and pastime, and to commemorate it, the event is recreated every year as an open water swimming event.[ ] whilst sailing from genoa to cephalonia in , every day at noon, byron and trelawny, in calm weather, jumped overboard for a swim without fear of sharks, which were not unknown in those waters. once, according to trelawny, they let the geese and ducks loose and followed them and the dogs into the water, each with an arm in the ship captain’s new scarlet waistcoat, to the annoyance of the captain and the amusement of the crew.[ ] fondness for animals[edit] byron had a great love of animals, most notably for a newfoundland dog named boatswain. when the animal contracted rabies, byron nursed him, albeit unsuccessfully, without any thought or fear of becoming bitten and infected.[ ][ ] although deep in debt at the time, byron commissioned an impressive marble funerary monument for boatswain at newstead abbey, larger than his own, and the only building work which he ever carried out on his estate. in his will, byron requested that he be buried with him.[ ] the ‐line poem "epitaph to a dog" has become one of his best-known works, but a draft of an letter by hobhouse shows him to be the author, and that byron decided to use hobhouse's lengthy epitaph instead of his own, which read: "to mark a friend's remains these stones arise/i never knew but one – and here he lies."[ ] byron also kept a tame bear while he was a student at trinity, out of resentment for rules forbidding pet dogs like his beloved boatswain. there being no mention of bears in their statutes, the college authorities had no legal basis for complaining: byron even suggested that he would apply for a college fellowship for the bear.[ ] during his lifetime, in addition to numerous cats, dogs, and horses, byron kept a fox, monkeys, an eagle, a crow, a falcon, peacocks, guinea hens, an egyptian crane, a badger, geese, a heron, and a goat.[ ] except for the horses, they all resided indoors at his homes in england, switzerland, italy, and greece.[citation needed] health and appearance[edit] byron, character and psyche[edit] i am such a strange mélange of good and evil that it would be difficult to describe me.[ ] as a boy, byron's character is described as a "mixture of affectionate sweetness and playfulness, by which it was impossible not to be attached", although he also exhibited "silent rages, moody sullenness and revenge" with a precocious bent for attachment and obsession.[ ] deformed foot[edit] from birth, byron suffered from a deformity of his right foot. although it has generally been referred to as a "club foot", some modern medical authors maintain that it was a consequence of infantile paralysis (poliomyelitis), and others that it was a dysplasia, a failure of the bones to form properly.[ ] whatever the cause, he was afflicted with a limp that caused him lifelong psychological and physical misery, aggravated by painful and pointless "medical treatment" in his childhood and the nagging suspicion that with proper care it might have been cured.[ ] he was extremely self-conscious about this from a young age, nicknaming himself le diable boîteux[ ] (french for "the limping devil", after the nickname given to asmodeus by alain-rené lesage in his novel of the same name). although he often wore specially-made shoes in an attempt to hide the deformed foot,[ ] he refused to wear any type of brace that might improve the limp.[ ] scottish novelist john galt felt his oversensitivity to the "innocent fault in his foot was unmanly and excessive" because the limp was "not greatly conspicuous". he first met byron on a voyage to sardinia and did not realise he had any deficiency for several days, and still could not tell at first if the lameness was a temporary injury or not. at the time galt met him he was an adult and had worked to develop "a mode of walking across a room by which it was scarcely at all perceptible".[ ] the motion of the ship at sea may also have helped to create a favourable first impression and hide any deficiencies in his gait, but galt's biography is also described as being "rather well-meant than well-written", so galt may be guilty of minimising a defect that was actually still noticeable.[ ] physical appearance[edit] lord byron by henry pierce bone byron's adult height was  feet .  inches ( .  m), his weight fluctuating between . stone (  lb;  kg) and stone (  lb;  kg). he was renowned for his personal beauty, which he enhanced by wearing curl-papers in his hair at night.[ ] he was athletic, being a competent boxer and horse-rider and an excellent swimmer. he attended pugilistic tuition at the bond street rooms of former prizefighting champion ‘gentleman’ john jackson, whom byron called ‘the emperor of pugilism’, and recorded these sparring sessions in his letters and journals.[ ] byron and other writers, such as his friend hobhouse, described his eating habits in detail. at the time he entered cambridge, he went on a strict diet to control his weight. he also exercised a great deal, and at that time wore a great amount of clothes to cause himself to perspire. for most of his life he was a vegetarian and often lived for days on dry biscuits and white wine. occasionally he would eat large helpings of meat and desserts, after which he would purge himself. although he is described by galt and others as having a predilection for "violent" exercise, hobhouse suggests that the pain in his deformed foot made physical activity difficult and that his weight problem was the result.[ ] trelawny who observed byron's eating habits noted that he lived on a diet of biscuits and soda-water for days at a time and then would eat a "horrid mess of cold potatoes, rice, fish, or greens, deluged in vinegar, and gobble it up like a famished dog."[ ][ ] political career[edit] byron first took his seat in the house of lords march [ ] but left london on june for the continent.[ ] byron's association with the holland house whigs provided him with a discourse of liberty rooted in the glorious revolution of .[ ] a strong advocate of social reform, he received particular praise as one of the few parliamentary defenders of the luddites: specifically, he was against a death penalty for luddite "frame breakers" in nottinghamshire, who destroyed textile machines that were putting them out of work. his first speech before the lords, on february , was loaded with sarcastic references to the "benefits" of automation, which he saw as producing inferior material as well as putting people out of work, and concluded the proposed law was only missing two things to be effective: "twelve butchers for a jury and a jeffries for a judge!". byron's speech was officially recorded and printed in hansard.[ ] he said later that he "spoke very violent sentences with a sort of modest impudence" and thought he came across as "a bit theatrical".[ ] the full text of the speech, which he had previously written out, was presented to dallas in manuscript form and he quotes it in his work.[ ] two months later, in conjunction with the other whigs, byron made another impassioned speech before the house of lords in support of catholic emancipation.[ ][ ] byron expressed opposition to the established religion because it was unfair to people of other faiths.[ ] these experiences inspired byron to write political poems such as song for the luddites ( ) and the landlords' interest, canto xiv of the age of bronze.[ ] examples of poems in which he attacked his political opponents include wellington: the best of the cut-throats ( ) and the intellectual eunuch castlereagh ( ).[ ] poetic works[edit] byron wrote prolifically.[ ] in his publisher, john murray, released the complete works in duodecimo volumes, including a life[ ] by thomas moore. subsequent editions were released in volumes, first published a year later, in . an extensive collection of his works, including early editions and annotated manuscripts, are held within the john murray archive at the national library of scotland in edinburgh. don juan[edit] main article: don juan (poem) byron's magnum opus, don juan, a poem spanning cantos, ranks as one of the most important long poems published in england since john milton's paradise lost.[ ] the poem, often called the epic of its time, has roots deep in literary tradition and, although regarded by early victorians as somewhat shocking, equally involves itself with its own contemporary world at all levels – social, political, literary and ideological. in addition to its biting satire, the poem (especially in the early cantos) is funny.[ ] byron published the first two cantos anonymously in after disputes with his regular publisher over the shocking nature of the poetry. by this time, he had been a famous poet for seven years, and when he self-published the beginning cantos, they were well received in some quarters.[ ] it was then released volume by volume through his regular publishing house.[ ] by , cautious acceptance by the public had turned to outrage, and byron's publisher refused to continue to publish the works.[ ] in canto iii of don juan, byron expresses his detestation for poets such as william wordsworth and samuel taylor coleridge.[ ][ ] in letters to francis hodgson, byron referred to wordsworth as "turdsworth".[ ] irish avatar[edit] main article: irish avatar byron wrote irish avatar in connection with the trip of the king of the united kingdom george iv to ireland. byron's official interpretation of this fact is contrasted with the indignation of british tyranny imbued with angry copyright. byron's satire is directed against both despotism and lackey. in his satire, the poet is indignant at the anguish of those who crawled before george, as before the new "god". the author reminds the irish that in the person of george iv they should see the british government, which took away all their freedoms. the lyrical hero calls on the irish to fight against british tyranny and speaks of their love for those irish who are fighting for the freedom of their country. parthenon marbles[edit] main article: elgin marbles byron was a bitter opponent of lord elgin's removal of the parthenon marbles from greece and "reacted with fury" when elgin's agent gave him a tour of the parthenon, during which he saw the spaces left by the missing friezes and metopes. he denounced elgin's actions in his poem the curse of minerva and in canto ii (stanzas xi–xv) of childe harold's pilgrimage.[ ] legacy and influence[edit] stained glass at ottawa public library features charles dickens, archibald lampman, sir walter scott, lord byron, alfred, lord tennyson, william shakespeare, thomas moore byron is considered to be the first modern-style celebrity. his image as the personification of the byronic hero fascinated the public,[ ] and his wife annabella coined the term "byromania" to refer to the commotion surrounding him.[ ] his self-awareness and personal promotion are seen as a beginning to what would become the modern rock star; he would instruct artists painting portraits of him not to paint him with pen or book in hand, but as a "man of action."[ ] while byron first welcomed fame, he later turned from it by going into voluntary exile from britain.[ ] biographies were distorted by the burning of byron's memoir in the offices of his publisher, john murray, a month after his death and the suppression of details of byron's bisexuality by subsequent heads of the firm (which held the richest byron archive). as late as the s, scholar leslie marchard was expressly forbidden by the murray company to reveal details of byron's same-sex passions.[ ] the re-founding of the byron society in reflected the fascination that many people had with byron and his work.[ ] this society became very active, publishing an annual journal. thirty-six byron societies function throughout the world, and an international conference takes place annually. byron exercised a marked influence on continental literature and art, and his reputation as a poet is higher in many european countries than in britain or america, although not as high as in his time, when he was widely thought to be the greatest poet in the world.[ ] byron's writings also inspired many composers. over forty operas have been based on his works, in addition to three operas about byron himself (including virgil thomson's lord byron). his poetry was set to music by many romantic composers, including beethoven, schubert, rossini, mendelssohn, schumann and carl loewe. among his greatest admirers was hector berlioz, whose operas and mémoires reveal byron's influence.[ ] byronic hero[edit] the figure of the byronic hero pervades much of his work, and byron himself is considered to epitomise many of the characteristics of this literary figure.[ ] the use of a byronic hero by many authors and artists of the romantic movement show byron's influence during the th century and beyond, including the brontë sisters.[ ][ ] his philosophy was more durably influential in continental europe than in england; friedrich nietzsche admired him, and the byronic hero was echoed in nietzsche's superman.[ ] the byronic hero presents an idealised, but flawed character whose attributes include: great talent; great passion; a distaste for society and social institutions; a lack of respect for rank and privilege (although possessing both); being thwarted in love by social constraint or death; rebellion; exile; an unsavory secret past; arrogance; overconfidence or lack of foresight; and, ultimately, a self-destructive manner. these types of characters have since become ubiquitous in literature and politics. in popular culture[edit] main article: lord byron in popular culture see also: cultural legacy of mazeppa bibliography[edit] the bride of abydos or selim and zuleika, an painting by eugène delacroix depicting lord byron's work see also: category:works by lord byron. 	index of titles 	index of first lines major works[edit] 	hours of idleness ( ) 	lachin y gair ( ) 	english bards and scotch reviewers ( ) 	childe harold's pilgrimage, cantos i & ii ( ) 	the giaour ( ) (text on wikisource) 	the bride of abydos ( ) 	the corsair ( ) (text on wikisource) 	lara, a tale ( ) (text on wikisource) 	hebrew melodies ( ) 	the siege of corinth ( ) (text on wikisource) 	parisina ( ) (text on wikisource) 	the prisoner of chillon ( ) (text on wikisource) 	the dream ( ) (text on wikisource) 	prometheus ( ) (text on wikisource) 	darkness ( ) (text on wikisource) 	manfred ( ) (text on wikisource) 	the lament of tasso ( ) 	beppo ( ) (text on wikisource) 	childe harold's pilgrimage ( ) (text on wikisource) 	don juan ( – ; incomplete on byron's death in ) (text on wikisource) 	mazeppa ( ) 	the prophecy of dante ( ) 	marino faliero ( ) 	sardanapalus ( ) 	the two foscari ( ) 	cain ( ) 	the vision of judgment ( ) 	heaven and earth ( ) 	werner ( ) 	the age of bronze ( ) 	the island ( ) (text on wikisource) 	the deformed transformed ( ) 	letters and journals, vol. ( ) 	letters and journals, vol. ( ) selected shorter lyric poems[edit] 	maid of athens, ere we part ( ) (text on wikisource) 	and thou art dead ( ) (text on wikisource) 	she walks in beauty ( ) (text on wikisource) 	my soul is dark ( ) (text on wikisource) 	the destruction of sennacherib ( ) (text on wikisource) 	monody on the death of the right hon. r. b. sheridan ( ) (text on wikisource) 	fare thee well ( ) (text on wikisource) 	so, we'll go no more a roving ( ) (text on wikisource) 	when we two parted ( ) (text on wikisource) 	ode on venice ( ) (text on wikisource) 	stanzas ( ) 	don leon (not by lord byron, but attributed to him; s) see also[edit] 	biography portal 	poetry portal 	arts portal 	early life of lord byron 	timeline of lord byron 	 th century in poetry 	bridge of sighs, a venice landmark byron denominated 	asteroid byron references[edit]  this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: cousin, john william ( ). a short biographical dictionary of english literature. london: j. m. dent & sons – via wikisource. notes[edit] 	^ "lord byron". the british library. retrieved october . 	^ marchand, leslie a. 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"history in adult human sexual behavior with children and adolescents in western societies". in jay r. felerman (ed.). pedophilia: biosocial dimensions. new york: springer-verlag. pp.  – . doi: . / - - - - _ . isbn  . 	christensen, jerome ( ). lord byron's strength: romantic writing and commercial society. baltimore, md: johns hopkins university press. isbn  . 	cochran, peter ( ). byron and italy. newcastle-upon-tyne: cambridge scholars. isbn  - - - - . 	crompton, louis ( ). byron and greek love: homophobia in th century england. university of california press. isbn  - - - - . 	dallas, alexander robert charles ( ). recollections of the life of lord byron, from the year to the end of . london: charles knight. 	edgcumbe, richard ( ). byron: the last phase. new york: haskell house. 	eisler, benita ( ). byron: child of passion, fool of fame. chapter one: alfred a. knopf. isbn  - - - . (online at the new york times) 	elze, karl friedrich ( ). lord byron, a biography. london: john murray. 	franklin, caroline ( ). the female romantics: nineteenth-century women novelists and byronism. routledge. isbn  - - - - . 	galt, john ( ). the life of lord byron. london: henry colburn and richard bentley. 	gamba, pietro ( ). a narrative of lord byron's last journey to greece: extracted from the journal of count peter gamba, who attended his lordship on that expedition. folcroft library editions. 	lansdown, richard ( ). the cambridge introduction to byron. cambridge university press. isbn  - - - - . 	larman, alexander ( ). byron's women. head of zeus. isbn  - . 	lovell, ernest j., ed. ( ). his very self and voice, collected conversations of lord byron. new york: macmillan. 	maccarthy, fiona ( ). byron: life and legend. john murray. isbn  - - - - . 	marchand, leslie ( ). byron: a life. alfred a. knopf. 	marchand, leslie a., ed. ( ). lord byron: selected letters and journals. cambridge, massachusetts: harvard university press. isbn  . 	mayne, ethel colburn ( ). byron. . c. scribner's sons. 	mcgann, jerome ( ) [ ]. "byron, george gordon noel ( – )". oxford dictionary of national biography (online ed.). oxford university press. doi: . /ref:odnb/ . (subscription or uk public library membership required.) 	pevsner, n. ( ). nottinghamshire. pevsner architectural guides: buildings of england. harmondsworth: penguin. 	plomer, william ( ) [ ]. the diamond of jannina. new york: taplinger publishing. isbn  - - - - . 	prell, donald b. ( a). sailing with byron from genoa to cephalonia ( ). palm springs, ca: strand publishing. isbn  - - - - . 	prell, donald b. ( b). lord byron: coincidence or destiny. palm springs, ca: strand publishing. isbn  - - - - . 	russell, bertrand ( ) [ ]. history of western philosophy. routledge classics. london: routledge. isbn  - . 	stabler, jane ( ). "george gordon, lord byron, don juan". in duncan wu (ed.). a companion to romanticism. blackwell. pp.  – . isbn  - - - - . 	taborski, bolesław ( ). james hogg (ed.). byron and the theatre. university of salzburg, institut für englische sprache und literatur. volume of poetic drama & poetic theory in "salzburg studies in english literature" 	tuite, clara ( ). lord byron and scandalous celebrity. cambridge studies in romanticism. . cambridge, uk: cambridge university press. isbn  - - - - . further reading[edit] 	accardo, peter x. let satire be my song: byron’s english bards and scotch reviewers. web exhibit, houghton library, harvard university, . 	brand, emily, the fall of the house of byron: scandal and seduction in georgian england, john murray, . 	drucker, peter. 'byron and ottoman love: orientalism, europeanization and same sex sexualities in the early nineteenth-century levant' (journal of european studies vol. no. , june , – ). 	garrett, martin: george gordon, lord byron. (british library writers' lives). london: british library, . isbn  - - - . 	garrett, martin. palgrave literary dictionary of byron. palgrave, . isbn  - - - - . 	guiccioli, teresa, contessa di, lord byron's life in italy, transl. michael rees, ed. peter cochran, , isbn  - - - . 	grosskurth, phyllis: byron: the flawed angel. hodder, . isbn  - - -x. 	marchand, leslie a., editor, byron's letters and journals, harvard university press: 	volume i, 'in my hot youth', – , ( ) 	volume ii, 'famous in my time', – , ( ) 	volume iii, 'alas! the love of women', – , ( ) 	volume iv, 'wedlock's the devil', – , ( ) 	volume v, 'so late into the night', – , ( ) 	volume vi, 'the flesh is frail', – , ( ) 	volume vii, 'between two worlds', , ( ) 	volume viii, 'born for opposition', , ( ) 	volume ix, 'in the wind's eye', – , ( ) 	volume x, 'a heart for every fate', – , ( ) 	volume xi, 'for freedom's battle', – , ( ) 	volume xii, 'the trouble of an index', index, ( ) 	lord byron: selected letters and journals, ( ) 	mcgann, jerome: byron and romanticism. cambridge: cambridge university press, . isbn  - - - . 	oueijan, naji b. a compendium of eastern elements in byron's oriental tales. new york: peter lang publishing, . 	patanè, vincenzo: l'estate di un ghiro. il mito di lord byron attraverso la vita, i viaggi, gli amori e le opere. venezia, cicero, . isbn  - - - - . 	patanè, vincenzo: i frutti acerbi. lord byron, gli amori & il sesso. venezia, cicero, . isbn  - - - - . 	patanè, vincenzo: the sour fruit. lord byron, love & sex. lanham (md), rowman & littlefield, lanham (md), , copublished by john cabot university press, rome, . isbn  - - - - . 	rosen, fred: bentham, byron and greece. clarendon press, oxford, . isbn  - - - . 	thiollet, jean-pierre: carré d'art: barbey d'aurevilly, lord byron, salvador dalí, jean-edern hallier, with texts by anne-Élisabeth blateau and françois roboth [fr], anagramme éditions, . isbn  - - - - . external links[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to george 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as a general type of navigator or guide. contents 	 palinurus in the aeneid 	 later references 	 see also 	 references palinurus in the aeneid[edit] cape palinuro: "those living near will build you a mound. through the remainder of time that site will be named palinurus" (aeneid . - ). in book , which tells of the trojans' wanderings after the fall of troy, he is singled out as an experienced navigator.[ ] in book , when the trojans have left carthage, he advises aeneas to forestall sailing to italy and to wait out a terrible storm on sicily, where they hold the funeral games honoring aeneas's father, anchises. after they leave sicily for italy, palinurus, at the helm of aeneas's ship and leading the fleet, is singled out by virgil in second person[ ] when it becomes clear that he is the one whom the gods will sacrifice to guarantee safe passage to italy for the trojans: unum pro multis dabitur caput, "one single life shall be offered to save many." drugged by the god of sleep, he falls overboard;[ ] aeneas takes over the helm and, unaware of the gods' influence, accuses palinurus of complacency: "you, palinurus, placed too much trust in the sky and the ocean's / calm. you'll lie naked and dead on the sands of an unknown seashore."[ ][ ] aeneas next encounters palinurus in the underworld, before he crosses cocytus (which the ghosts of the unburied dead cannot cross into the underworld proper), where he asks how it came to be that he died despite a prophecy from apollo, that he would reach italy unscathed. palinurus responds that he survived the plunge into the sea and washed ashore after four days near velia, and was killed there and left unburied. the cumaean sibyl, who has guided aeneas into the underworld, predicts that locals will come and build him a mound; the place will be named cape palinuro in his honor.[ ][ ] later references[edit] one of martial's epigrams ( . ) plays on palinurus's name by turning it into an obscene pun: minxisti currente semel, pauline, carina. meiere vis iterum? iam palinurus eris. ("you pissed one time, paulinus, as the ship hurried along. / do you want to piss again? then you'll be palinurus.") "palinurus" is assigned a humorous etymology, as though it were derived from πάλιν ("again") and the root of οὐρέω ("to urinate"), thus πάλιν-οὖρος ("again-pisser"). in the early thirteenth century, william the breton compared christ to palinurus in the "invocatio divini auxilii" of his epic poem, the philippide, stating "you are the path, you are my guide, you are the ship, you are my palinurus. make my passage through the rough seas safe for me."[ ] in the fifteenth century, maffeo vegio, famous for his continuations of the aeneid, published a dialogue of the dead (in the vein of lucian's dialogi mortuorum), palinurus or on happiness and misery, consisting of a dialogue between palinurus and charon, in which palinurus plays the part of the young man who bemoans his lot, while charon, an older and wiser character, expounds on stoic philosophy.[ ] since the nineteenth century, scholars have recognized that in dante's purgatorio palinurus can be identified (though he is never named) with manfred, king of sicily, whom dante and virgil meet in canto .[ ] palinurus here stands for the dead soul who cannot be at rest (in virgil's scheme, cross the river cocytus; in dante's, cross acheron) because his bones are unburied: manfred's remains, after being covered by a mound of stones, is disinterred by order of the catholic church because he had been excommunicated (by no fewer than three successive popes).[ ] canto , the canto of the "sheepfold of the excommunicates",[ ] discusses the problem of the body and the soul (dante's character casts a shadow at the foot of mount purgatory, in contrast to the bodiless souls that populate purgatory) and the concept of exclusion (from "physical burial,...safety, the sacraments of the church,...divine grace absolutely").[ ] it opens with virgil mentioning his own burial and the translation of his body from brindisi to naples, drawing a connection between virgil himself and palinurus. worse than palinurus, who can be at rest after he is reburied, virgil's soul can never be at ease since he was unbaptized and thus is eternally "suspended" in limbo.[ ] christian commentators saw "an anticipation of the sacrifice of christ" in palinurus--unum pro multis dabitur caput prefigures the biblical "that one man should die for the people" (john : ).[ ] palinurus's request to aeneas, "save me from this vile doom",[ ] "resonates with the catholic liturgy" in the latin translation of psalm , "deliver me, lord, from my enemies."[ ] palinurus is mentioned in utopia by sir thomas more as a type of careless traveler. "'then you're not quite right,' he replied, 'for his sailing has not been like that of palinurus, but more that of ulysses, or rather of plato. this man, who is named raphael.'"[ ] sir walter scott made reference to palinurus in his marmion, comparing him to william pitt the younger, who had died while scott was working on the poem.[ ] the name palinurus was the pseudonym adopted by cyril connolly for the unquiet grave.[ ] during the s the east india company had a ship named "palinurus" surveying the coast of arabia.[ ] h. p. lovecraft references palinurus, probably via dante, in the tomb. the connection is made clearer through the opening quote of the story, which is from the aeneid. in w.s. merwin's debut collection a mask for janus, there is a short, four line poem entitled "the bones of palinurus pray to the north star." peter hammill, the british singer, did a song called "palinurus (castaway)" on his album the future now, produced in . the swedish band trettioåriga kriget has a song about palinurus, titled "behold the pilot" on their album seaside air. see also[edit] 	 palinurus, jovian asteroid references[edit] 	notes 	^ virgil's aeneid . , . 	^ virgil's aeneid . . 	^ virgil's aeneid . - . 	^ virgil's aeneid . - . 	^ a b bulfinch - . 	^ virgil's aeneid . - . 	^ the oxford classical dictionary . 	^ stringer, gregory. book i of william the breton's philippide: a translation. p.  . 	^ marsh, david ( ). lucian and the latins: humor and humanism in the early renaissance. u of michigan p. p.  . isbn  - - - - . retrieved march . 	^ a b martinez . 	^ a b kirkpatrick . 	^ a b c martinez . 	^ virgil's aeneid . . 	^ more, sir thomas ( ). translated by robert m. adams (ed.). utopia ( nd ed.). p.  . 	^ orwell - . 	^ "archived copy". archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - .cs maint: archived copy as title (link) 	bibliography 	frederick ahl (trans.), ed. ( ). virgil's aeneid. oxford up. isbn  - - - - . 	bulfinch, thomas ( ). "palinurus". the age of fable; or, beauties of mythology. j.e. tilton & co. pp.  – . retrieved february . 	hornblower, simon and antony spawforth, ed. ( ). the oxford classical dictionary ( rd ed.). new york: oxford up. p.  . isbn  - - - . 	martinez, robert m. ( ). "vergil's palinurus in purgatorio and the rudderless ship of state". in robert m. durling (ed.). the divine comedy of dante alighieri: purgatorio. robert m. martinez. oxford up. pp.  – . isbn  - - - - . retrieved february . 	orwell, george ( - - ). sonia orwell (ed.). the collected essays, journalism, & letters, george orwell: as i please, - . ian angus. godine. pp.  – . isbn  - - - - . retrieved february . retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=palinurus&oldid= " 		categories: 	roman mythology 	characters in the aeneid hidden categories: 	cs maint: archived copy as title 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			article 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	edit 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		search 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigation 	 	 			main page 	contents 	current events 	random article 	about wikipedia 	contact us 	donate 		 	 	 	 		contribute 	 	 			help 	learn to edit 	community portal 	recent changes 	upload file 		 	 	 		tools 	 	 			what links here 	related changes 	upload file 	special pages 	permanent link 	page information 	cite this page 	wikidata item 		 	 	 		print/export 	 	 			download as pdf 	printable version 		 	 	 	 		languages 	 	 			català 	dansk 	deutsch 	español 	français 	galego 	italiano 	latina 	nederlands 	polski 	português 	Русский 	Українська 		edit links 	 		 this page was last edited on december , at :  (utc). 	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; 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he grew up under the tutelage of his uncle seneca the younger. born into a wealthy family, he studied rhetoric at athens and was probably provided with a philosophical and stoic education by his uncle.[ ] engraved title page of a french edition of lucan's pharsalia, his wife was polla argentaria, who is said to have assisted him with his pharsalia.[ ] he found success under nero, became one of the emperor's close friends and was rewarded with a quaestorship in advance of the legal age. in ad, he won a prize for extemporizing orpheus and laudes neronis at the quinquennial neronia, and was again rewarded when the emperor appointed him to the augurate. during this time he circulated the first three books of his epic poem, pharsalia (labelled de bello civili in the manuscripts), which told the story of the civil war between julius caesar and pompey. at some point, a feud began between nero and lucan. two very different accounts of the events have survived that both trivialize the feud. according to tacitus, nero became jealous of lucan and forbade him to publish his poems.[ ] according to suetonius, nero lost interest in lucan and lucan responded by writing insulting poems about nero that nero continued to ignore.[ ] other works, though, point to a more serious basis to the feud. works by the grammarian vacca and the poet statius may support the claim that lucan wrote insulting poems about nero. vacca mentions that one of lucan's works was entitled de incendio urbis (on the burning of the city).[ ] statius's ode to lucan mentions that lucan described how the "unspeakable flames of the criminal tyrant roamed the heights of remus."[ ] additionally, the later books of pharsalia are anti-imperial and pro-republic. this criticism of nero and office of the emperor may have been the true cause of the ban. lucan later joined the ad conspiracy of gaius calpurnius piso against nero. his treason discovered, he was obliged, at the age of , to commit suicide by opening a vein, but not before incriminating his mother, among others, in the hopes of a pardon. according to tacitus, as lucan bled to death, "(he) recalled some poetry he had composed in which he had told the story of a wounded soldier dying a similar kind of death and he recited the very lines. these were his last words."[ ] his father was involved in the proscription but his mother escaped. statius's poem about lucan was addressed to his widow, polla argentaria, upon the occasion of his birthday during the reign of domitian (silvae, ii. , the genethliacon lucani). works[edit] pharsalia, according to vacca and statius, lucan's works included: surviving work: 	pharsalia or de bello civili (on the civil war), on the wars between julius caesar and pompey often attributed to him (but to others as well): 	laus pisonis (praise of piso), a panegyric of a member of the piso family lost works: 	catachthonion 	iliacon from the trojan cycle 	epigrammata 	adlocutio ad pollam 	silvae 	saturnalia 	medea 	salticae fabulae 	laudes neronis, a praise of nero 	orpheus 	prosa oratio in octavium sagittam 	epistulae ex campania 	de incendio urbis, on the roman fire of , perhaps accusing nero of arson notes[edit] 	^ suetonius, "life of lucan" 	^ hays, mary ( ). "polla argentaria". female biography, vol . philadelphia: printed for byrch and small. p.  . retrieved october . 	^ tacitus, annals xv. 	^ suetonius, "life of lucan" 	^ vacca, life of lucan 	^ statius, silvae ii.vii 	^ tacitus, annals xv. . . scholars have vainly tried to locate lucan's last words in his work but no passage in lucan's extant poem exactly matches tacitus's description at "annals" . . . see, e.g., p. asso, "a commentary on lucan 'de bello civili iv.'" berlin: de gruyter, , p. n . references[edit] 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "lucan". encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. pp.  – . further reading[edit] 	ahl, frederick m. lucan: an introduction. cornell studies in classical philology . ithaca, new york: cornell univ. pr., . 	bartsch, shadi. ideology in cold blood: a reading of lucan's civil war. cambridge, massachusetts: harvard univ. pr., . 	braund, susanna m. ( ) lucan: civil war. oxford world's classics. oxford university press. 	braund, susanna m. ( ) a lucan reader: selections from civil war. bc latin readers. bolchazy-carducci. 	dewar, michael. "laying it on with a trowel: the proem to lucan and related texts." classical quarterly ( ), – . 	fantham, elaine. "caesar and the mutiny: lucan's reshaping of the historical tradition in de bello civili . – ." classical philology ( ), – . 	fantham, elaine ( ) de bello civili. book ii. cambridge greek and latin classics. cambridge university press. 	———. "lucan's medusa excursus: its design and purpose." materiali e discussioni ( ), – . 	fratantuono, lee. "madness triumphant: a reading of lucan's pharsalia." lanham, maryland: lexington books, . 	henderson, john g. w. "lucan: the word at war." ramus ( ), – . 	johnson, walter r. momentary monsters: lucan and his heroes. cornell studies in classical philology . ithaca, new york: cornell univ. pr., . 	lapidge, m. "lucan's imagery of cosmic dissolution." hermes ( ), – . 	leigh, matthew. lucan: spectacle and engagement. new york: oxford univ. pr., . 	marti, berthe. "the meaning of the pharsalia." american journal of philology ( ), – . 	martindale, charles a. "the politician lucan." greece and rome ( ), – . 	masters, jamie. poetry and civil war in lucan's 'bellum civile'. cambridge classical studies. new york: cambridge univ. pr., . 	———. "deceiving the reader: the political mission of lucan's bellum civile." reflections of nero: culture, history, and representation, ed. jás elsner and jamie masters. chapel hill: univ. of north carolina pr., . – . 	matthews, monica ( ) caesar and the storm: a commentary on lucan, de bello civili, book , lines - . peter lang. 	morford, m. p. o. the poet lucan. new york: oxford univ. pr., . 	o'gorman, ellen. "shifting ground: lucan, tacitus, and the landscape of civil war." hermathena ( ), – . 	rossi, andreola. "remapping the past: caesar's tale of troy (lucan bc . – )." phoenix ( ), – . 	sklenar, robert john. the taste for nothingness: a study of "virtus" and related themes in lucan's bellum civile. ann arbor: univ. of mich. pr., . 	thomas, richard f. "the stoic landscape of lucan ." lands and peoples in roman poetry: the ethnographic tradition. new york: cambridge univ. pr., . – . 	wick, claudia ( ) marcus annaeus lucanus, bellum civile, liber ix. i: einleitung, text und Übersetzung; ii: kommentar. k.g. saur. 	wilson joyce, jane ( ) lucan: pharsalia. cornell university press. external links[edit] 		wikiquote has quotations related to: marcus annaeus lucanus 		wikimedia commons has media related to lucan. 	library resources about lucan 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 by lucan 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	works by lucan at project gutenberg 	works by or about lucan at internet archive 	lucan on librivox 	marcus annaeus lucanus: text, concordances and frequency list 	text of lucan at the latin library 		v 	t 	e ancient rome topics 	 	outline 	timeline 	history	 	 	foundation 	kingdom 	overthrow 	republic 	empire	 	history 	pax romana 	principate 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-year-long period in roman history for other uses, see pax romana (disambiguation). 	ancient rome 	 	this article is part of a series on the politics and government of ancient rome 	 periods 	 	roman kingdom – bc 	roman republic – bc 	roman empire bc – ad 	principate bc – ad 	dominate ad – 	western ad – 	eastern ad – 	timeline 	 roman constitution 	 	constitution of the kingdom 	constitution of the republic 	constitution of the empire 	constitution of the late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	executive magistrates 	 precedent and law 	 	roman law 	ius 	imperium 	mos maiorum 	collegiality 	auctoritas 	roman citizenship 	cursus honorum 	senatus consultum 	senatus consultum ultimum 	 assemblies 	 	centuriate 	curiate 	plebeian 	tribal 	 ordinary magistrates 	 	consul 	praetor 	quaestor 	promagistrate 	aedile 	tribune 	censor 	governor 	 extraordinary magistrates 	 	corrector 	dictator 	magister equitum 	consular tribune 	rex 	triumviri 	decemviri 	 titles and honours 	 	emperor 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with the end of the final war of the roman republic, it is sometimes called the pax augusta. during this period of approximately two centuries,[ ] the roman empire achieved its greatest territorial extent and its population reached a maximum of up to million people.[ ] according to cassius dio, the dictatorial reign of commodus, later followed by the year of the five emperors and the crisis of the third century, marked the descent "from a kingdom of gold to one of iron and rust".[ ] contents 	 overview 	 influence on trade 	 analogous peaces 	 . in fiction 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links overview[edit] fresco of a relaxed seated woman from stabiae, st century ad the pax romana is said to have been a "miracle" because prior to it there had never been peace for so many centuries in a given period of history. however, walter goffart wrote: "the volume of the cambridge ancient history for the years ad – is called 'the imperial peace', but peace is not what one finds in its pages".[ ] arthur m. eckstein writes that the period must be seen in contrast to the much more frequent warfare in the roman republic in the th and rd centuries bc. eckstein also notes that the incipient pax romana appeared during the republic, and that its temporal span varied with geographical region as well: "although the standard textbook dates for the pax romana, the famous “roman peace” in the mediterranean, are bc to ad , the fact is that the roman peace was emerging in large regions of the mediterranean at a much earlier date: sicily after [bc], the italian peninsula after [bc]; the po valley after [bc]; most of the iberian peninsula after [bc]; north africa after [bc]; and for ever longer stretches of time in the greek east."[ ] the first known record of the term pax romana appears in a writing by seneca the younger in ad .[ ] the concept was highly influential, and the subject of theories and attempts to copy it in subsequent ages. arnaldo momigliano noted that "pax romana is a simple formula for propaganda, but a difficult subject for research."[ ] in fact, the "pax romana" was broken by the bellum batonianum (described by suetonius as the most serious roman conflict since the punic wars) of - , the first jewish–roman war, the kitos war (also in judea, – ), the bar kokhba revolt (also known as the third jewish–roman war), the roman–parthian war of – , trajan's roman–parthian war of , the dacian wars, various battles with germanic tribes, including the teutoburg forest, and boudica's war in britain in ad or .[citation needed] the pax romana began when octavian (augustus) defeated mark antony and cleopatra in the battle of actium on september bc and became roman emperor.[ ][ ][ ] he became princeps, or first citizen. lacking a good precedent of successful one-man rule, augustus created a junta of the greatest military magnates and stood as the front man. by binding together these leading magnates in a coalition, he eliminated the prospect of civil war. the pax romana was not immediate, despite the end of the civil wars, because fighting continued in hispania and in the alps. nevertheless, augustus closed the gates of janus (a ceremony indicating that rome was at peace) three times,[ ] first in bc and again in bc. the third closure is undocumented, but inez scott ryberg ( ) and gaius stern ( ) have persuasively dated the third closure to bc with the commissioning of the ara pacis.[ ][ ][ ] at the time of the ludi saeculares in bc the concept of peace was publicized, and in bc was proclaimed when augustus and agrippa jointly returned from pacifying the provinces. the order to construct the ara pacis was no doubt part of this announcement.[citation needed] augustus faced a problem making peace an acceptable mode of life for the romans, who had been at war with one power or another continuously for years.[ ] romans regarded peace, not as an absence of war, but the rare situation which existed when all opponents had been beaten down and lost the ability to resist.[ ] augustus' challenge was to persuade romans that the prosperity they could achieve in the absence of warfare was better for the empire than the potential wealth and honor acquired when fighting a risky war. augustus succeeded by means of skillful propaganda. subsequent emperors followed his lead, sometimes producing lavish ceremonies to close the gates of janus, issuing coins with pax on the reverse, and patronizing literature extolling the benefits of the pax romana.[ ] after augustus' death in ad , most of his successors as roman emperors continued his politics. the last five emperors of the pax romana were considered the "five good emperors".[ ] influence on trade[edit] roman trade in the mediterranean increased during the pax romana. romans sailed east to acquire silks, gems, onyx and spices. romans benefited from large profits and incomes in the roman empire were raised due to trade in the mediterranean.[ ][ ] as the pax romana of the western world by rome was largely contemporaneous to the pax sinica of the eastern world by han china,[ ][ ] long-distance travel and trade in eurasian history was significantly stimulated during these eras.[ ] analogous peaces[edit] see also: list of periods of regional peace the prominence of the concept of the pax romana led to historians coining variants of the term to describe other systems of relative peace that have been established, attempted, or argued to have existed. some variants include:[ ] 	pax americana 	pax britannica 	pax europaea 	pax hispanica 	pax mongolica 	pax ottomana 	pax sinica 	pax khazarica 	pax syriana 	pax islamica 	pax sovietica 	pax mafiosa more generically, the concept has been referred to as pax imperia,[ ][ ] (sometimes spelled as pax imperium[ ]) meaning imperial peace,[ ][ ] or—less literally—hegemonic peace.[ ][ ] raymond aron notes that imperial peace—peace achieved through hegemony—sometimes, but not always—can become civil peace. as an example, the german empire's imperial peace of (over its internal components like saxony) slowly evolved into the later german state. as a counter-example, the imperial peace of alexander the great's empire dissolved because the greek city states maintained their political identity and more importantly, embryos of their own armed forces. aron notes that during the pax romana, the jewish war was a reminder that the overlapping of the imperial institutions over the local ones did not erase them and the overlap was a source of tension and flare-ups. aron summarizes that, "in other words, imperial peace becomes civil peace insofar as the memory of the previously independent political units are effaced, insofar as individuals within a pacified zone feel themselves less united to the traditional or local community and more to the conquering state."[ ] the concept of pax romana was highly influential, and attempts to imitate it occurred in the byzantine empire, and in the christian west, where it morphed into the peace and truce of god (pax dei and treuga dei).[ ] a theoretician of the imperial peace during the middle ages was dante aligheri. dante's works on the topic were analyzed at the beginning of the th century by william mitchell ramsay in the book the imperial peace; an ideal in european history ( ).[ ][ ] in fiction[edit] 	isaac asimov's fictional galactic empire and foundation series refer to pax trantoria and pax imperium. 	pax soprana is the sixth episode of the hbo original series the sopranos. 	in magi: the labyrinth of magic, reim's peace is the reim empire's version of pax romana, established about years prior to the series by empress scheherazade. reim is a nation based on the roman empire. 	in the street fighter movie, antagonist m. bison's ultimate goal is to unite the world "under the grip of pax bisonica". 	in fallout: new vegas caesar aims to use his roman-style army to create a new pax romana across the wasteland. 	first episode of season of gotham is known as "pax penguina". see also[edit] 	ancient rome portal 	comparative studies of the roman and han empires: pax sinica 	mos maiorum references[edit] 	^ a b c "pax romana". britannica online encyclopedia. 	^ head, tom ( - - ). world history : from ancient mesopotamia and the viking conquests to nato and wikileaks, an essential primer on world history. simon and schuster. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ a b c "the pax romana". www.ushistory.org. retrieved - - . 	^ dio cassius . . , loeb edition translated e. cary 	^ walter goffart ( ). rome's fall and after. hambledon press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ arthur m. eckstein ( ) [ ]. 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"the procession of the ara pacis". memoirs of the american academy in rome. : , – . doi: . / . jstor  . 	^ a b c stern, gaius ( ) [ ]. women, children, and senators on the ara pacis augustae: a study of augustus' vision of a new world order in bce. isbn  - - - - . 	^ sir ronald syme had suggested a later date (but rome was then at war). 	^ temin, peter ( ). the roman market economy. princeton: princeton university press. p.  . isbn  . oclc  . 	^ goldsworthy, adrian keith ( ). pax romana : war, peace, and conquest in the roman world. new haven: yale university press. p.  . isbn  . oclc  . 	^ plott, john c. ( ). global history of philosophy. delhi: motilal banarsidass. p.  . isbn  . 	^ a b krech iii, shepard; merchant, carolyn; mcneill, john robert, eds. ( ). encyclopedia of world environmental history. : o–z, index. routledge. pp.  –. isbn  - - - - . 	^ tatah mentan ( ). the state in africa: an analysis of impacts of historical trajectories of global capitalist expansion and domination in the continent. african books collective. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ hyo-dong lee ( ). spirit, qi, and the multitude: a comparative theology for the democracy of creation. oxford university press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ stephen ross ( ). conrad and empire. university of missouri press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ a b raymond aron ( ). peace and war: a theory of international relations. transaction publishers. pp.  – . isbn  - - - - . 	^ a b c david gress ( ). peace and survival: west germany, the peace movement & european security. hoover press. pp.  – . isbn  - - - - . 	^ ali parchami ( ). hegemonic peace and empire: the pax romana, britannica and americana. routledge. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ james brown scott ( ) [ ]. law, the state, and the international community. the lawbook exchange, ltd. pp.  – . isbn  - - - - . 	^ the imperial peace; an ideal in european history. internet archive. oxford, the clarendon press. . further reading[edit] 	burton, paul. . "pax romana/pax americana: perceptions of rome in american political culture, – ." international journal of classical tradition . : – . 	cornwell, hannah. . pax and the politics of peace: republic to principate. oxford classical monographs. oxford; new york: oxford university press. 	galinsky, karl. . augustus: introduction to the life of an emperor. cambridge; new york: cambridge university press. 	goldsworthy, adrian. . pax romana: war, peace and conquest in the roman world. new haven: yale university press. 	hardwick, lorna. . “concepts of peace.” in experiencing rome: culture, identity and power in the roman empire, edited by janet huskinson, – . london: routledge. 	lopez, gennaro. . “pax romana/pax augusta.” invigilata lucernis : – . 	stern, gaius. . “the new cult of pax augusta bc–ad .” acta antiqua academiae scientiarum hungaricae . – : – . 	yannakopulos, nikos. . “preserving the pax romana: the peace functionaries in roman east.” mediterraneo antico . : – . external links[edit] 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foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 lucian - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	 	lucian 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		this article is about the second-century satirist and rhetorician. for other uses, see lucian (disambiguation). nd-century satirist and rhetorician 	lucian 	title page of a latin translation of lucian's complete works 	born	c. ad samosata, roman syria (now turkey) 	died	after ad probably egypt, roman empire 	occupation	novelist, satirist, rhetorician 	notable works	a true history, dialogues of the dead, lover of lies, dialogues of the gods, dialogues of the courtesans, alexander the false prophet, philosophies for sale, lucian of samosata[a] (c. – after ) was an assyrian[ ] satirist and rhetorician[ ] who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridiculed superstition, religious practices, and belief in the paranormal. although his native language was probably syriac, all of his extant works are written entirely in ancient greek (mostly in the attic greek popular during the second sophistic period). everything that is known about lucian's life comes from his own writings, which are often difficult to interpret because of his extensive use of sarcasm. according to his oration the dream, he was the son of a lower middle class family from the village of samosata along the banks of the euphrates in the remote roman province of syria. as a young man, he was apprenticed to his uncle to become a sculptor, but, after a failed attempt at sculpting, he ran away to pursue an education in ionia. he may have become a travelling lecturer and visited universities throughout the roman empire. after acquiring fame and wealth through his teaching, lucian finally settled down in athens for a decade, during which he wrote most of his extant works. in his fifties, he may have been appointed as a highly paid government official in egypt, after which point he disappears from the historical record. lucian's works were wildly popular in antiquity, and more than eighty writings attributed to him have survived to the present day, a considerably higher quantity than for most other classical writers. his most famous work is a true story, a tongue-in-cheek satire against authors who tell incredible tales, which is regarded by some as the earliest known work of science fiction. lucian invented the genre of the comic dialogue, a parody of the traditional socratic dialogue. his dialogue lover of lies makes fun of people who believe in the supernatural and contains the oldest known version of "the sorcerer's apprentice". lucian wrote numerous satires making fun of traditional stories about the gods including the dialogues of the gods, icaromenippus, zeus rants, zeus catechized, and the parliament of the gods. his dialogues of the dead focuses on the cynic philosophers diogenes and menippus. philosophies for sale and the banquet or lapiths make fun of various philosophical schools, and the fisherman or the dead come to life is a defense of this mockery. lucian often ridiculed public figures, such as the cynic philosopher peregrinus proteus in his letter the passing of peregrinus and the fraudulent oracle alexander of abonoteichus in his treatise alexander the false prophet. lucian's treatise on the syrian goddess satirizes cultural distinctions between greeks and syrians and is the main source of information about the cult of atargatis. lucian had an enormous, wide-ranging impact on western literature. works inspired by his writings include thomas more's utopia, the works of françois rabelais, william shakespeare's timon of athens and jonathan swift's gulliver's travels. contents 	 life 	 . biographical sources 	 . background and upbringing 	 . education and career 	 views 	 works 	 . a true story 	 . satirical dialogues 	 . treatises and letters 	 . pseudo-lucian 	 legacy 	 . renaissance and reformation 	 . early modern period 	 . modern period 	 editions 	 notes 	 references 	 . bibliography 	 external links life[edit] biographical sources[edit] lucian is not mentioned in any contemporary texts or inscriptions written by others[ ] and he is not included in philostratus's lives of the sophists.[ ] as a result of this, everything that is known about lucian comes exclusively from his own writings.[ ][ ][ ] a variety of characters with names very similar to lucian, including "lukinos," "lukianos," "lucius," and "the syrian" appear throughout lucian's writings.[ ] these have been frequently interpreted by scholars and biographers as "masks", "alter-egos", or "mouthpieces" of the author.[ ] daniel s. richter criticizes the frequent tendency to interpret such "lucian-like figures" as self-inserts by the author[ ] and argues that they are, in fact, merely fictional characters lucian uses to "think with" when satirizing conventional distinctions between greeks and syrians.[ ] he suggests that they are primarily a literary trope used by lucian to deflect accusations that he as the syrian author "has somehow outraged the purity of greek idiom or genre" through his invention of the comic dialogue.[ ] british classicist donald russell states, "a good deal of what lucian says about himself is no more to be trusted than the voyage to the moon that he recounts so persuasively in the first person in true stories"[ ] and warns that "it is foolish to treat [the information he gives about himself in his writings] as autobiography."[ ] background and upbringing[edit] samosata hierapolis antioch ephesus smyrna abonoteichos map of anatolia showing locations associated with lucian lucian was born in the town of samosata on the banks of the euphrates on the far eastern outskirts of the roman empire.[ ][ ][ ][ ] samosata had been the capital of the kingdom of commagene until ad when it was annexed by vespasian and became part of the roman province of syria.[ ][ ] the population of the town was mostly syrian[ ] and lucian's native tongue was probably syriac, a form of middle aramaic.[ ][ ][ ][ ] during the time when lucian lived, traditional greco-roman religion was in decline and its role in society had become largely ceremonial.[ ] as a substitute for traditional religion, many people in the hellenistic world joined mystery cults, such as the mysteries of isis, mithraism, the cult of cybele, and the eleusinian mysteries.[ ] superstition had always been common throughout ancient society,[ ] but it was especially prevalent during the second century.[ ][ ] most educated people of lucian's time adhered to one of the various hellenistic philosophies,[ ] of which the major ones were stoicism, platonism, peripateticism, pyrrhonism, and epicureanism.[ ] every major town had its own university[ ] and these universities often employed professional travelling lecturers,[ ] who were frequently paid high sums of money to lecture about various philosophical teachings.[ ] the most prestigious center of learning was the city of athens in greece, which had a long intellectual history.[ ] according to lucian's oration the dream, which classical scholar lionel casson states he probably delivered as an address upon returning to samosata at the age of thirty-five or forty after establishing his reputation as a great orator,[ ] lucian's parents were lower middle class and his uncles owned a local statue-making shop.[ ] lucian's parents could not afford to give him a higher education,[ ] so, after he completed his elementary schooling, lucian's uncle took him on as an apprentice and began teaching him how to sculpt.[ ] lucian, however, soon proved to be poor at sculpting and ruined the statue he had been working on.[ ] his uncle beat him, causing him to run off.[ ] lucian fell asleep and experienced a dream in which he was being fought over by the personifications of statuary and of culture.[ ][ ] he decided to listen to culture and thus sought out an education.[ ][ ] although the dream has long been treated by scholars as a truthful autobiography of lucian,[ ][ ] its historical accuracy is questionable at best.[ ][ ][ ] classicist simon swain calls it "a fine but rather apocryphal version of lucian's education"[ ] and karin schlapbach calls it "ironical".[ ] richter argues that it is not autobiographical at all, but rather a prolalia [προλᾰλιά], or playful literary work, and a "complicated meditation on a young man's acquisition of paideia" [i.e. education].[ ] russell dismisses the dream as entirely fictional, noting, "we recall that socrates too started as sculptor, and ovid's vision of elegy and tragedy (amores . ) is all too similar to lucian's."[ ] education and career[edit] speculative portrayal of lucian taken from a seventeenth-century engraving by william faithorne in lucian's double indictment, the personification of rhetoric delivers a speech in which she describes the unnamed defendant, who is described as a "syrian" author of transgressive dialogues, at the time she found him, as a young man wandering in ionia in anatolia "with no idea what he ought to do with himself".[ ][ ][ ] she describes "the syrian" at this stage in his career as "still speaking in a barbarous manner and all but wearing a caftan [kandys] in the assyrian fashion".[ ][ ] rhetoric states that she "took him in hand and... gave him paideia".[ ][ ] scholars have long interpreted the "syrian" in this work as lucian himself[ ][ ] and taken this speech to mean that lucian ran away to ionia, where he pursued his education.[ ] richter, however, argues that the "syrian" is not lucian himself, but rather a literary device lucian uses to subvert literary and ethnic norms.[ ] ionia was the center of rhetorical learning at the time[ ] the most prestigious universities of rhetoric were in ephesus and smyrna,[ ] but it is unlikely that lucian could have afforded to pay the tuition at either of these schools.[ ] it is not known how lucian obtained his education,[ ] but somehow he managed to acquire an extensive knowledge of rhetoric as well as classical literature and philosophy.[ ][ ] lucian mentions in his dialogue the fisherman that he had initially attempted to apply his knowledge of rhetoric and become a lawyer,[ ] but that he had become disillusioned by the deceitfulness of the trade and resolved to become a philosopher instead.[ ] lucian travelled across the empire, lecturing throughout greece, italy, and gaul.[ ] in gaul, lucian may have held a position as a highly paid government professor.[ ] in around , lucian returned to ionia as a wealthy celebrity.[ ] he visited samosata[ ] and stayed in the east for several years.[ ] he is recorded as having been in antioch in either or .[ ][ ] in around , he bought a house in athens and invited his parents to come live with him in the city.[ ] lucian must have married at some point during his travels, because in one of his writings he mentions having a son at this point.[ ] lucian lived in athens for around a decade, during which time he gave up lecturing and instead devoted his attention to writing.[ ] it was during this decade that lucian composed nearly all his most famous works.[ ] lucian wrote exclusively in greek,[ ][ ][ ] mainly in the attic greek popular during the second sophistic, but on the syrian goddess, which is attributed to lucian, is written in a highly successful imitation of herodotus' ionic greek, leading some scholars to believe that lucian may not be the real author.[ ] for unknown reasons, lucian stopped writing around and began travelling and lecturing again.[ ] during the reign of emperor commodus ( – ), the aging lucian may have been appointed to a lucrative government position in egypt.[ ][ ][ ] after this point, he disappears from the historical record entirely,[ ] and nothing is known about his death.[ ] views[edit] bust of epicurus, an athenian philosopher whom lucian greatly admired[ ][ ] lucian's philosophical views are difficult to categorize due to his persistent use of irony and sarcasm.[ ] in the fisherman, lucian describes himself as a champion of philosophy[ ] and throughout his other writings he characterizes philosophy as a morally constructive discipline,[ ] but he is critical of pseudo-philosophers, whom he portrays as greedy, bad-tempered, sexually immoral hypocrites.[ ][ ] lucian was not known to be a member of any of the major philosophical schools.[ ][ ] in his philosophies for sale, he makes fun of members of every school.[ ][ ] lucian was critical of stoicism and platonism, because he regarded them as encouraging of superstition.[ ] his nigrinus superficially appears to be a "eulogy of platonism",[ ] but may, in fact, be satirical, or merely an excuse to ridicule roman society.[ ] nonetheless, at other times, lucian writes approvingly of individual philosophies.[ ] according to turner, although lucian makes fun of skeptic philosophers,[ ] he displays a temperamental inclination towards that philosophy.[ ] edwyn bevan identifies lucian as a skeptic, [ ] and in his hermotimus, lucian rejects all philosophical systems as contradictory and concludes that life is too short to determine which of them comes nearest to the truth, so the best solution is to rely on common sense,[ ] which was what the pyrrhonian skeptics advocated. the maxim that "eyes are better witnesses than ears" is echoed repeatedly throughout several of lucian's dialogues.[ ] lucian was skeptical of oracles,[ ] though he was by no means the only person of his time to voice such skepticism.[ ] lucian rejected belief in the paranormal, regarding it as superstition.[ ][ ] in his dialogue the lover of lies, he probably voices some of his own opinions through his character tychiades,[ ][b] perhaps including the declaration by tychiades that he does not believe in daemones, phantoms, or ghosts because he has never seen such things.[ ] tychiades, however, still professes belief in the gods' existence: 	dinomachus: 'in other words, you do not believe in the existence of the gods, since you maintain that cures cannot be wrought by the use of holy names?' 	tychiades: 'nay, say not so, my dear dinomachus,' i answered; 'the gods may exist, and these things may yet be lies. i respect the gods: i see the cures performed by them, i see their beneficence at work in restoring the sick through the medium of the medical faculty and their drugs. asclepius, and his sons after him, compounded soothing medicines and healed the sick, – without the lion's-skin-and-field-mouse process.'[ ] according to everett ferguson, lucian was strongly influenced by the cynics.[ ] the dream or the cock, timon the misanthrope, charon or inspectors, and the downward journey or the tyrant all display cynic themes.[ ] lucian was particularly indebted to menippus, a cynic philosopher and satirist of the third century bc.[ ][ ] lucian wrote an admiring biography of the philosopher demonax, who was a philosophical eclectic, but whose ideology most closely resembled cynicism.[ ] demonax's main divergence from the cynics was that he did not disapprove of ordinary life.[ ] paul turner observes that lucian's cynicus reads as a straightforward defense of cynicism,[ ] but also remarks that lucian savagely ridicules the cynic philosopher peregrinus in his passing of peregrinus.[ ] lucian also greatly admired epicurus,[ ][ ] whom he describes in alexander the false prophet as "truly holy and prophetic".[ ] later, in the same dialogue, he praises a book written by epicurus: what blessings that book creates for its readers and what peace, tranquillity, and freedom it engenders in them, liberating them as it does from terrors and apparitions and portents, from vain hopes and extravagant cravings, developing in them intelligence and truth, and truly purifying their understanding, not with torches and squills [i. e. sea onions] and that sort of foolery, but with straight thinking, truthfulness and frankness.[ ] lucian had a generally negative opinion of herodotus and his historiography, which he viewed as faulty.[ ][ ] works[edit] main article: list of works by lucian over eighty works attributed to lucian have survived.[ ][ ][ ][ ] these works belong to a diverse variety of styles and genres,[ ][ ][ ] and include comic dialogues, rhetorical essays, and prose fiction.[ ][ ] lucian's writings were targeted towards a highly educated, upper-class greek audience[ ] and make almost constant allusions to greek cultural history,[ ] leading the classical scholar r. bracht branham to label lucian's highly sophisticated style "the comedy of tradition".[ ] by the time lucian's writings were rediscovered during the renaissance, most of the works of literature referenced in them had been lost or forgotten,[ ] making it difficult for readers of later periods to understand his works.[ ] a true story[edit] illustration from by william strang depicting a battle scene from book one of lucian's novel a true story main article: a true story lucian was one of the earliest novelists in western civilization. in a true story (Ἀληθῶν Διηγημάτων), a fictional narrative work written in prose, he parodies some of the fantastic tales told by homer in the odyssey and also the not-so-fantastic tales from the historian thucydides.[ ][ ] he anticipated modern science fiction themes including voyages to the moon and venus, extraterrestrial life, interplanetary warfare, and artificial life, nearly two millennia before jules verne and h. g. wells. the novel is often regarded as the earliest known work of science fiction.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] the novel begins with an explanation that the story is not at all "true" and that everything in it is, in fact, a complete and utter lie.[ ][ ] the narrative begins with lucian and his fellow travelers journeying out past the pillars of heracles.[ ][ ] blown off course by a storm, they come to an island with a river of wine filled with fish and bears, a marker indicating that heracles and dionysus have traveled to this point, and trees that look like women.[ ][ ] shortly after leaving the island, they are caught up by a whirlwind and taken to the moon,[ ][ ] where they find themselves embroiled in a full-scale war between the king of the moon and the king of the sun over colonization of the morning star.[ ][ ] both armies include bizarre hybrid lifeforms.[ ][ ] the armies of the sun win the war by clouding over the moon and blocking out the sun's light.[ ][ ] both parties then come to a peace agreement.[ ] lucian then describes life on the moon and how it is different from life on earth.[ ][ ] after returning to earth, the adventurers are swallowed by a -mile-long whale,[ ][ ] in whose belly they discover a variety of fish people, whom they wage war against and triumph over.[ ][ ] they kill the whale by starting a bonfire and escape by propping its mouth open.[ ][ ] next, they encounter a sea of milk, an island of cheese, and the island of the blessed.[ ][ ] there, lucian meets the heroes of the trojan war, other mythical men and animals, as well as homer and pythagoras.[ ][ ] they find sinners being punished, the worst of them being the ones who had written books with lies and fantasies, including herodotus and ctesias.[ ][ ] after leaving the island of the blessed, they deliver a letter to calypso given to them by odysseus explaining that he wishes he had stayed with her so he could have lived eternally.[ ][ ] they then discover a chasm in the ocean, but eventually sail around it, discover a far-off continent and decide to explore it.[ ][ ] the book ends abruptly with lucian stating that their future adventures will be described in the upcoming sequels,[ ][ ] a promise which a disappointed scholiast described as "the biggest lie of all".[ ] satirical dialogues[edit] in his double indictment, lucian declares that his proudest literary achievement is the invention of the "satirical dialogue",[ ] which was modeled on the earlier platonic dialogue, but was comedic in tone rather than philosophical.[ ] the prolaliai to his dialogues of the courtesans suggests that lucian acted out his dialogues himself as part of a comedic routine.[ ] lucian's dialogues of the dead (Νεκρικοὶ Διάλογοι) is a satirical work centering around the cynic philosophers diogenes of sinope and his pupil menippus, who lived modestly while they were alive and are now living comfortably in the abysmal conditions of the underworld, while those who had lived lives of luxury are in torment when faced by the same conditions.[ ] the dialogue draws on earlier literary precursors, including the nekyia in book xi of homer's odyssey,[ ] but also adds new elements not found in them.[ ] homer's nekyia describes transgressors against the gods being punished for their sins, but lucian embellished this idea by having cruel and greedy persons also be punished.[ ] hermes, the messenger of the gods, is a major recurring character throughout many of lucian's dialogues.[ ] in his dialogue the lover of lies (Φιλοψευδὴς), lucian satirizes belief in the supernatural and paranormal[ ] through a framing story in which the main narrator, a skeptic named tychiades, goes to visit an elderly friend named eukrates.[ ] at eukrates's house, he encounters a large group of guests who have recently gathered together due to eukrates suddenly falling ill.[ ] the other guests offer eukrates a variety of folk remedies to help him recover.[ ] when tychiades objects that such remedies do not work, the others all laugh at him[ ] and try to persuade him to believe in the supernatural by telling him stories, which grow increasingly ridiculous as the conversation progresses.[ ] one of the last stories they tell is "the sorcerer's apprentice", which the german playwright johann wolfgang von goethe later adapted into a famous ballad.[ ][ ] lucian frequently made fun of philosophers[ ] and no school was spared from his mockery.[ ] in the dialogue philosophies for sale, lucian creates an imaginary slave market in which zeus puts famous philosophers up for sale, including pythagoras, diogenes, heraclitus, socrates, chrysippus, and pyrrho,[ ] each of whom attempts to persuade the customers to buy his philosophy.[ ] in the banquet, or lapiths, lucian points out the hypocrisies of representatives from all the major philosophical schools.[ ] in the fisherman, or the dead come to life, lucian defends his other dialogues by comparing the venerable philosophers of ancient times with their unworthy contemporary followers.[ ] lucian was often particularly critical of people who pretended to be philosophers when they really were not[ ] and his dialogue the runaways portrays an imposter cynic as the antithesis of true philosophy.[ ] his symposium is a parody of plato's symposium in which, instead of discussing the nature of love, the philosophers get drunk, tell smutty tales, argue relentlessly over whose school is the best, and eventually break out into a full-scale brawl.[ ] in icaromenippus, the cynic philosopher menippus fashions a set of wings for himself in imitation of the mythical icarus and flies to heaven,[ ] where he receives a guided tour from zeus himself.[ ] the dialogue ends with zeus announcing his decision to destroy all philosophers, since all they do is bicker, though he agrees to grant them a temporary reprieve until spring.[ ] nektyomanteia is a dialogue written in parallel to icaromenippus in which, rather than flying to heaven, menippus descends to the underworld to consult the prophet tiresias.[ ] lucian wrote numerous dialogues making fun of traditional greek stories about the gods.[ ][ ] his dialogues of the gods (Θεῶν Διάλογοι) consists of numerous short vignettes parodying a variety of the scenes from greek mythology.[ ] the dialogues portray the gods as comically weak and prone to all the foibles of human emotion.[ ][ ] zeus in particular is shown to be a "feckless ruler" and a serial adulterer.[ ] lucian also wrote several other works in a similar vein, including zeus catechized, zeus rants, and the parliament of the gods.[ ] throughout all his dialogues, lucian displays a particular fascination with hermes, the messenger of the gods,[ ] who frequently appears as a major character in the role of an intermediary who travels between worlds.[ ] the dialogues of the courtesans is a collection of short dialogues involving various courtesans.[ ][ ] this collection is unique as one of the only surviving works of greek literature to mention female homosexuality.[ ] it is also unusual for mixing lucian's characters from other dialogues with stock characters from new comedy;[ ] over half of the men mentioned in dialogues of the courtesans are also mentioned in lucian's other dialogues,[ ] but almost all of the courtesans themselves are characters borrowed from the plays of menander and other comedic playwrights.[ ] treatises and letters[edit] statue of the snake-god glycon, invented by the oraclemonger alexander of abonoteichus, whom lucian satirizes in his treatise alexander the false prophet[ ] nabataean carving from c. ad depicting the goddess atargatis, the subject of lucian's treatise on the syrian goddess[ ] lucian's treatise alexander the false prophet describes the rise of alexander of abonoteichus, a charlatan who claimed to be the prophet of the serpent-god glycon.[ ] though the account is satirical in tone,[ ] it seems to be a largely accurate report of the glycon cult[ ] and many of lucian's statements about the cult have been confirmed through archaeological evidence, including coins, statues, and inscriptions.[ ] lucian describes his own meeting with alexander in which he posed as a friendly philosopher,[ ] but, when alexander invited him to kiss his hand, lucian bit it instead.[ ] lucian reports that, aside from himself, the only others who dared challenge alexander's reputation as a true prophet were the epicureans (whom he lauds as heroes) and the christians.[ ] lucian's treatise on the syrian goddess is a detailed description of the cult of the syrian goddess atargatis at hierapolis (now manbij).[ ] it is written in a faux-ionic greek and imitates the ethnographic methodology of the greek historian herodotus,[ ] which lucian elsewhere derides as faulty.[ ] for generations, many scholars doubted the authenticity of on the syrian goddess because it seemed too genuinely reverent to have really been written by lucian.[ ] more recently, scholars have come to recognize the book as satirical and have restored its lucianic authorship.[ ] in the treatise, lucian satirizes the arbitrary cultural distinctions between "greeks" and "assyrians" by emphasizing the manner in which syrians have adopted greek customs and thereby effectively become "greeks" themselves.[ ] the anonymous narrator of the treatise initially seems to be a greek sophist,[ ] but, as the treatise progresses, he reveals himself to actually be a native syrian.[ ] scholars dispute whether the treatise is an accurate description of syrian cultural practices because very little is known about hierapolis other than what is recorded in on the syrian goddess itself.[ ] coins minted in the late fourth century bc, municipal decrees from seleucid rulers, and a late hellenistic relief carving have confirmed lucian's statement that the city's original name was manbog and that the city was closely associated with the cults of atargatis and hadad.[ ] a jewish rabbi later listed the temple at hierapolis as one of the five most important pagan temples in the near east.[ ] macrobii ("long-livers") is an essay about famous philosophers who lived for many years.[ ] it describes how long each of them lived, and gives an account of each of their deaths.[ ] in his treatises teacher of rhetoric and on salaried posts, lucian criticizes the teachings of master rhetoricians.[ ] his treatise on dancing is a major source of information about greco-roman dance.[ ] in it, he describes dance as an act of mimesis ("imitation")[ ] and rationalizes the myth of proteus as being nothing more than an account of a highly skilled egyptian dancer.[ ] he also wrote about visual arts in portraits and on behalf of portraits.[ ] lucian's biography of the philosopher demonax eulogizes him as a great philosopher[ ] and portrays him as a hero of parrhesia ("boldness of speech").[ ] in his treatise, how to write history, lucian criticizes the historical methodology used by writers such as herodotus and ctesias,[ ] who wrote vivid and self-indulgent descriptions of events they had never actually seen.[ ] instead, lucian argues that the historian never embellish his stories and should place his commitment to accuracy above his desire to entertain his audience.[ ] he also argues the historian should remain absolutely impartial and tell the events as they really happened, even if they are likely to cause disapproval.[ ] lucian names thucydides as a specific example of a historian who models these virtues.[ ] in his satirical letter passing of peregrinus (Περὶ τῆς Περεγρίνου Τελευτῆς), lucian describes the death of the controversial cynic philosopher peregrinus proteus,[ ] who had publicly immolated himself on a pyre at the olympic games of ad .[ ] the letter is historically significant because it preserves one of the earliest pagan evaluations of christianity.[ ] in the letter, one of lucian's characters delivers a speech ridiculing christians for their perceived credulity and ignorance,[ ] but he also affords them some level of respect on account of their morality.[ ] the speaker in the letter also refers to an individual whom he calls "christ", whom he characterizes as the founder of christianity. the speaker claims that this "christ" lived in palestine just over a century prior, that he taught that his followers would attain immortality, and that he was crucified.[ ] in the letter against the ignorant book collector, lucian ridicules the common practice whereby near easterners collect massive libraries of greek texts for the sake of appearing "cultured", but without actually reading any of them.[ ][ ] pseudo-lucian[edit] some of the writings attributed to lucian, such as the amores and the ass, are usually not considered genuine works of lucian and are normally cited under the name of "pseudo-lucian".[ ][ ] the ass (Λούκιος ἢ ῎oνος) is probably a summarized version of a story by lucian, and contains largely the same basic plot elements as the golden ass (or metamorphoses) of apuleius, but with fewer inset tales and a different ending.[ ] amores is usually dated to the third or fourth centuries based on stylistic grounds.[ ] legacy[edit] renaissance and reformation[edit] the calumny of apelles by sandro botticelli, based on a description of a painting by the greek painter apelles of kos found in lucian's ekphrasis on calumny lucian's writings were mostly forgotten during the middle ages.[ ][ ] the suda, a tenth-century byzantine encyclopedia, concludes that lucian's soul is burning in hell for his negative remarks about christians in the passing of peregrinus.[ ] lucian's writings were rediscovered during the renaissance[ ][ ] and almost immediately became popular with the renaissance humanists.[ ][ ] by , there were just as many latin translations of the works of lucian as there were for the writings of plato and plutarch.[ ] by ridiculing plutocracy as absurd, lucian helped facilitate one of renaissance humanism's most basic themes.[ ] his dialogues of the dead were especially popular and were widely used for moral instruction.[ ] as a result of this popularity, lucian's writings had a profound influence on writers from the renaissance and the early modern period.[ ][ ][ ] many early modern european writers adopted lucian's lighthearted tone, his technique of relating a fantastic voyage through a familiar dialogue, and his trick of constructing proper names with deliberately humorous etymological meanings.[ ] during the protestant reformation, lucian provided literary precedent for writers making fun of catholic clergy.[ ] desiderius erasmus's encomium moriae ( ) displays lucianic influences.[ ] perhaps the most notable example of lucian's impact was on the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was on the french writer françois rabelais, particularly in his set of five novels, gargantua and pantagruel, which was first published in . rabelais also is thought to be responsible for a primary introduction of lucian to the french renaissance and beyond through his translations of lucian's works.[ ][ ][ ] lucian's true story inspired both sir thomas more's utopia ( )[ ] and jonathan swift's gulliver's travels ( ).[ ] sandro botticelli's paintings the calumny of apelles and pallas and the centaur are both based on descriptions of paintings found in lucian's works.[ ] lucian's prose narrative timon the misanthrope was the inspiration for william shakespeare's tragedy timon of athens[ ][ ] and the scene from hamlet with the gravediggers echoes several scenes from dialogues of the dead.[ ] christopher marlowe's famous verse "was this the face that launched a thousand ships/and burnt the topless towers of ilium?" is a paraphrase of a quote from lucian.[ ] francis bacon called lucian a "contemplative atheist".[ ] early modern period[edit] monument commemorating lucian of samosata from nordkirchen, germany henry fielding, the author of the history of tom jones, a foundling ( ), owned a complete set of lucian's writings in nine volumes.[ ] he deliberately imitated lucian in his journey from this world and into the next[ ] and, in the life and death of jonathan wild, the great ( ), he describes lucian as "almost... like the true father of humour"[ ] and lists him alongside miguel de cervantes and jonathan swift as a true master of satire.[ ] in the convent garden journal, fielding directly states in regard to lucian that he had modeled his style "upon that very author".[ ] nicolas boileau-despréaux, françois fénelon, bernard le bovier de fontenelle, and voltaire all wrote adaptations of lucian's dialogues of the dead.[ ] according to turner, voltaire's candide ( ) displays the characteristically lucianic theme of "refuting philosophical theory by reality".[ ] voltaire also wrote the conversation between lucian, erasmus and rabelais in the elysian fields,[ ] a dialogue in which he treats lucian as "one of his masters in the strategy of intellectual revolution".[ ] denis diderot drew inspiration from the writings of lucian in his socrates gone mad; or, the dialogues of diogenes of sinope ( )[ ] and his conversations in elysium ( ).[ ] lucian appears as one of two speakers in diderot's dialogue peregrinus proteus ( ), which was based on the passing of peregrinus.[ ] lucian's true story inspired cyrano de bergerac, whose writings later served as inspiration for jules verne.[ ] the german satirist christoph martin wieland was the first person to translate the complete works of lucian into german[ ] and he spent his entire career adapting the ideas behind lucian's writings for a contemporary german audience.[ ] david hume admired lucian as a "very moral writer"[ ] and quoted him with reverence when discussing ethics or religion.[ ] hume read lucian's kataplous or downward journey when he was on his deathbed.[ ][ ] modern period[edit] kataplous, or downward journey also served as the source for friedrich nietzsche's concept of the Übermensch or overman.[ ] nietzsche's declaration of a "new and super-human way of laughing – at the expense of everything serious!" echoes the exact wording of tiresias's final advice to the eponymous hero of lucian's dialogue menippus: "laugh a great deal and take nothing seriously."[ ] professional philosophical writers since then have generally ignored lucian,[ ] but turner comments that "perhaps his spirit is still alive in those who, like bertrand russell, are prepared to flavor philosophy with wit."[ ] in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many classicists viewed lucian's works negatively[ ] and read them with preconceived ideas in mind about the "oriental" character.[ ] many of these ideas were influenced by contemporary antisemitism, a "reflexive and genteel" form of which was common throughout english and german scholarly writings prior to world war ii.[ ] the german classicist eduard norden admitted that he had, as a foolish youth, wasted time reading the works of lucian,[ ] but, as an adult, had come to realize that lucian was nothing more than an "oriental without depth or character... who has no soul and degrades the most soulful language".[ ] rudolf helm, one of the leading scholars on lucian in the early twentieth century, labelled lucian as a "thoughtless syrian" who "possesses none of the soul of a tragedian"[ ] and compared him to the jewish german poet heinrich heine, who was known as the "mockingbird in the german poetry forest".[ ] in his publication lukian und menipp, helm argued that lucian's claims of generic originality, especially his claim of having invented the comic dialogue, were actually lies intended to cover up his almost complete dependence on menippus, whom he asserted was the true inventor of the genre.[ ] lucian's syrian identity received renewed attention in the early twenty-first century as lucian became seen as what richter calls "a sort of second sophistic answer to early twenty-first-century questions about cultural and ethnic hybridity".[ ] richter states that postcolonial critics have come to embrace lucian as "an early imperial paradigm of the 'ethno-cultural hybrid.'"[ ] editions[edit] 	lucian’s true history, with illustrations by aubrey beardsley, william strang, and j. b. clark, privately printed in an edition of copies, .[ ] 	the works of lucian of samosata. complete with exceptions specified in the preface. i. translated by fowler, h. w.; fowler, f. g. oxford: clarendon press. .; volume ii; volume iii; volume iv. 	lucian with an english translation (loeb classical library), in volumes: vols. – ed. austin morris harmon ( , , , , ); vol. ed. k. kilburn ( ); vol. – ed. matthew donald macleod ( , ). 	neil hopkinson (ed.), lucian: a selection. cambridge greek and latin texts (cambridge/new york: cambridge university press, ). 	lightfoot, jane ( ). on the syrian goddess. oxford university press. isbn  - - - - . notes[edit] 	^ /ˈljuːʃən, -siən/; ancient greek: Λουκιανὸς ὁ Σαμοσατεύς, loukianòs ho samosateús; latin: lucianus samosatensis 	^ tychiades is commonly identified as an authorial self-insertion,[ ][ ] although daniel ogden notes that this can only be true to a limited extent.[ ] references[edit] 	^ "lucian of samosata, an assyrian rhetorician who wrote in the greek language and whom they translated into latin." donskis l. 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within france 	location	lyon, france 	region	gallia lugdunensis 	coordinates	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; . coordinates: ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; . 	type	roman city 	area	 hectares 	history 	builder	lucius munatius plancus 	founded	  bc 	periods	roman republic to roman empire colonia copia claudia augusta lugdunum (modern lyon, france) was an important roman city in gaul, established on the current site of lyon. the city was founded in  bc by lucius munatius plancus. it served as the capital of the roman province of gallia lugdunensis and was an important city in the western half of the roman empire for centuries. two emperors, claudius and caracalla, were born in lugdunum. in the period  ad – the city's population may have numbered , to , , and possibly up to , inhabitants.[ ][ ][ ][ ] the original roman city was situated west of the confluence of the rhône and saône, on the fourvière heights. by the late centuries of the empire much of the population was located in the saône river valley at the foot of fourvière. contents 	 name 	 pre-roman settlements and the area before the founding of the city 	 founding of the roman city 	 attention from the emperors 	 growth and prosperity in the first centuries of the empire 	 christianity and the first martyrs 	 battle of lugdunum 	 decline of lugdunum and the empire 	 see also 	 references 	 sources 	 external links name[edit] the roman city was founded as colonia copia felix munatia, a name invoking prosperity and the blessing of the gods. the city became increasingly referred to as lugdunum (and occasionally lugudunum[ ]) by the end of the st century ad. during the middle ages, lugdunum was transformed to lyon by natural sound change. lugdunum is a latinization of the gaulish *lugudunon, meaning "fortress (or hill) of (the god) lugus" or, alternately "fortress of the champion" (if *lugus is a common noun cognate with old irish lug "warrior, hero, fighter"). the celtic god lugus was apparently popular in ireland and britain as is found in medieval irish literature as lug(h) and in medieval welsh literature as lleu (also spelled llew). according to pseudo-plutarch, lugdunum takes its name from an otherwise unattested gaulish word lugos, that he says means "raven" (κόρακα), and the gaulish word for an eminence or high ground (τόπον ἐξέχοντα), dunon.[ ] an early interpretation of gaulish lugduno as meaning "desired mountain" is recorded in a gloss in the th-century endlicher's glossary,[ ] but this may in fact reflect a native frankish speaker's folk-etymological attempt at linking the first element of the name, lugu- (which, by the time this gloss was composed, would have been pronounced lu'u, the -g- having become silent) with the similar-sounding germanic word for "love", *luβ.[ ] another early medieval folk-etymology of the name, found in gloss on the latin poet juvenal, connects the element lugu- to the latin word for "light", lux (luci- in compounds) and translates the name as "shining hill" (lucidus mons).[ ] pre-roman settlements and the area before the founding of the city[edit] archeological evidence[ ] shows lugdunum was a pre-gallic settlement as far back as the neolithic era, and a gallic settlement with continuous occupation from the th century bc. it was situated on the fourvière heights above the saône river. there was trade with campania for ceramics and wine, and use of some italic-style home furnishings before the roman conquest. gaul was conquered for the romans by julius caesar between and bc. his description, de bello gallico, is our principal written source of knowledge of pre-roman gaul, but there is no specific mention of this area. founding of the roman city[edit] in  bc, ten years after the conquest of gaul, julius caesar was assassinated and civil war erupted. according to the historian cassius dio, in  bc, the roman senate ordered munatius plancus and lepidus, governors of central and transalpine gaul respectively, to found a city for a group of roman refugees who had been expelled from vienne (a town about  km or miles to the south) by the allobroges and were encamped at the confluence of the saône and rhône rivers. dio cassius says this was to keep them from joining mark antony and bringing their armies into the developing conflict.[ ] epigraphic evidence suggests munatius plancus was the principal founder of lugdunum.[citation needed] lugdunum seems to have had a population of several thousand at the time roman foundation. the citizens were administratively assigned to the galerian tribe. the aqueduct of the monts d'or, completed around bc, was the first of at least four aqueducts supplying water to the city. within years lugdunum increased greatly in size and importance, becoming the administrative centre of roman gaul and germany. by the end of the reign of augustus, strabo described lugdunum as the junction of four major roads (the via agrippa): south to narbonensis, massilia and italy, north to the rhine river and germany, northwest to the sea (the english channel), and west to aquitania. antoninianus struck under florianus in lugdunum mint. the proximity to the frontier with germany made lugdunum strategically important for the next four centuries, as a staging ground for further roman expansion into germany, as well as the "de facto" capital city and administrative centre of the gallic provinces. its large and cosmopolitan population made it the commercial and financial heart of the northwestern provinces as well. the imperial mint established a branch in  bc, during the reign of augustus, and produced coinage for the next three centuries (see picture). attention from the emperors[edit] ancient theatre of fourvière in its st century, lugdunum was many times the object of attention or visits by the emperors or the imperial family. agrippa, drusus, tiberius, and germanicus (born himself in lugdunum) were among the gubernatorial generals who served in lugdunum. augustus is thought to have visited at least three times between and  bc. drusus lived in lugdunum between and  bc. in  bc his son claudius (the future emperor) was born there. tiberius stopped in lugdunum in –  bc, on his way to the rhine, and again in  ad, campaigning against the andecavi. caligula's visit in – was longer, stranger, and better documented by suetonius. claudius and nero also contributed to the city's importance and growth. in  bc, drusus completed an administrative census of the area and dedicated an altar to his stepfather augustus at the junction of the two rivers. perhaps to promote a policy of conciliation and integration, all the notable men of the three parts of gaul were invited. caius julius vercondaridubnus, a member of the aedui tribe, was installed as the first priest of the new imperial cult sanctuary, which was subsequently known as the junction sanctuary or the sanctuary of the three gauls. the altar, with its distinctive vertical end poles, was engraved with the names of gallic tribes, and was featured prominently on coins from the lugdunum mint for many years. the "council of the three gauls" continued to be held annually for nearly three centuries, even after gaul was divided into provinces. amphithéâtre des trois-gaules in lyon southeastern gaul became increasingly romanized. by  ad at least one temple, and the first amphitheater in gaul (now known as the amphithéâtre des trois-gaules) had been built on the slopes of the croix-rousse hill. in  ad, emperor claudius asked the senate to grant the notable men of the three gauls the right to accede to the senate. his request was granted and an engraved bronze plaque of the speech (the claudian tables) was erected in lugdunum. today, the pieces of the huge plaque are the pride of the gallo-roman museum in lyon. suetonius reported caligula's visit to lugdunum in –  ad at the beginning of his third consulate as characteristic of his reign. spectacles were staged at the amphitheater to honor and entertain him and his guest, ptolemy, king of mauretania (whom caligula later had murdered). a rhetoric contest was held in which the losers were required to expunge their work with their tongues. he auctioned furniture brought from the palace in rome, assigning prices and purchasers. when caligula wanted to get rid of herod antipas, king of judaea, he sent him to exile in lugdunum. claudius was born in lugdunum in  bc and lived there for at least two years. as emperor, he returned in  ad en route to his conquest of britain and stopped again after its victorious conclusion in . a fountain honoring his victory has been uncovered. he continued to take a supportive interest in the town, making the notables of the town eligible to serve in the roman senate, as described above. during claudius' reign, the city's strategic importance was enhanced by the bridging of the rhône river. its depth and swampy valley had been an obstacle to travel and communication to the east. the new route, termed the compendium, shortened the route south to vienne and made the roads from lugdunum to italy and germany more direct. by the end of his reign, the city's official name had become colonia copia claudia augusta lugudunenisium, abbreviated ccc avg lvg. nero also took an interest in the city. citizens of lugdunum contributed four million sesterces to the recovery after the great fire of rome in  ad. in reciprocal appreciation, nero contributed the same amount to the rebuilding of lugdunum after a similarly devastating fire a few years later. although the destructiveness of the fire is described in a letter from seneca to lucilius,[ ] archeologists have not been able to uncover a confirmatory layer of ash. the lyonnais admiration of nero was not universally shared; tyranny, extravagance, and negligence fostered resentment, and coups were planned. in march  ad, a romanized aquitainian named caius julius vindex, who was governor of gallia lugdunensis led an uprising intended to replace nero with galba, a roman governor of spain. the citizens of vienne, however, responded more enthusiastically than the lyonnais, most of whom remained loyal to nero. a small force from vienne briefly besieged lugdunum, but withdrew when vindex was defeated by the rhine legions a few weeks later at vesontio. despite the defeat of vindex, rebellion grew. nero committed suicide in june and galba was proclaimed emperor. the loyalty of lugdunum to nero was not appreciated by his successor, galba, who punished some of nero's supporters by confiscations of property. in another turnabout for lugdunum, galba's policies were immediately unpopular, and in january,  ad, the rhine legions quickly threw their support to vitellius as emperor. they arrived at friendly lugdunum, where they were persuaded by the lyonnais to punish nearby vienne. vienne quickly laid down weapons and paid a "ransom" to forestall plundering. meanwhile, vitellius arrived in lugdunum, where, according to tacitus, he formally declared himself imperator, punished unreliable soldiers, and celebrated with feasts, and with games in the amphitheater. fortunately for lugdunum, the would-be emperor and his army hurried into italy, defeated otho, and was in turn defeated by vespasian and the army of the east, bringing the chaos of the year of the four emperors to an end. despite a lack of imperial visits for most of the next century, lugdunum prospered, until septimius severus and the battle of lugdunum (see below) brought devastation in  ad. growth and prosperity in the first centuries of the empire[edit] aqueduct of the gier in the nd century, lugdunum prospered and grew to a population of , to , persons.[ ] four aqueducts brought water to the city's fountains, public baths, and wealthy homes. the aqueducts were well engineered and included several siphons. 	 	this article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in french. 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guidance, see wikipedia:translation. it continued to be a provincial capital with additional government functions and services such as the mint and customs service. lugdunum had at least two banks and became the principal manufacturing center for pottery, metal working, and weaving in gaul. lyonnais terra cotta, pottery and wine were traded throughout gaul, and many other items were crafted for export. the city itself was run by a "senate" of decurions (the ordo decurionum) and a hierarchy of magistrates: quaestors, aediles, and duumvirs. the social classes of the time consisted of the decurions at the top, who could aspire to senate status, followed by the knights (equites), and the augustales, six of whom were in charge of the municipal imperial cult. this latter status was the highest distinction to which a wealthy freedman could aspire. many of the wealthy merchants and craftsmen were freedmen. below them were the workmen and slaves. the rhône and saône rivers were navigable, as were most of the rivers of gaul, and river traffic was heavy. the lyonnais company of boatmen (nautae) was the largest and "most honored" in gaul. archeological evidence suggests the right bank of the saône had the largest concentration of wharves, quays and warehouses. lyonnais boatmen dominated the wine trade from narbonensis and italy, as well as oil from spain, to the rest of gaul. the heavy concentration of trade made lugdunum one of the most cosmopolitan cities of gaul, and inscriptions attest to a large foreign-born population, especially italians, greeks, and immigrants from the oriental provinces of asia minor and syria-palestine. there is evidence of numerous temples and shrines in lugdunum. traditional gallic gods like mallet-bearing sucellus and the mother goddesses called the matres (depicted with cornucopiae) continued to be worshiped somewhat syncretistically along with the roman gods. additional religious cults came with the oriental immigrants, who brought the eastern mystery religions to the rhône valley. a major shrine of the phrygian goddess cybele was built in nearby vienne, and she also seems to have found special favor in lugdunum in the late st century and nd century. christianity and the first martyrs[edit] the cosmopolitan hospitality to eastern religions may have allowed the first attested christian community in gaul to be established in lugdunum in the nd century, led by a bishop pothinus—who probably was greek. in it also became the first in gaul to suffer persecution and martyrdom. the event was described in a letter from the christians in lugdunum to counterparts in asia, later retrieved and preserved by eusebius. there is no record of a cause or a triggering event but mob violence against the christians in the streets culminated in a public interrogation in the forum by the tribune and town magistrates. the christians publicly confessed their faith and were imprisoned until the arrival of legate of lugdonensis, who gave his authority to the persecution. about of the christians were martyred—dying in prison, beheaded, or killed by beasts in the arena as a public spectacle. among the latter were bishop pothinus, blandina, doctor attalus, ponticus, and the deacon sanctus of vienne. their ashes were thrown into the rhône. nevertheless, the christian community either survived or was reconstituted, and under bishop irenaeus it continued to grow in size and influence. battle of lugdunum[edit] main article: battle of lugdunum the nd century ended with another struggle for imperial succession. the emperor pertinax was murdered in , and four generals again "contended for the purple". two of the rivals, clodius albinus and septimius severus, initially formed a political alliance. albinus was a former legate of britannia and commanded legions in britain and gaul. septimius severus commanded the pannonian legions, and led them successfully against didius julianus near rome in , and defeated pescennius niger in . severus consolidated his power in rome and broke his alliance with albinus. the senate supported severus and declared albinus a public enemy. clodius albinus had settled with his army near lugdunum early in . there, he had himself proclaimed augustus and made plans to counter severus. under his control, the lugdunum mint issued coins celebrating his "clemency", as well as one dedicated to the "genius of lugdunum." he was joined by an army under lucius novius rufus, the governor of hispania tarraconensis. they successfully attacked the german troops of virius lupus but were unable to deter them from supporting severus. severus brought his army from italy and germany toward the end of . the armies fought an initial, inconclusive engagement at tinurtium (tournus), about  km ( miles) up the saône from lugdunum. albinus retreated with his forces toward lugdunum. on the th of february, , severus again attacked clodius albinus to the northwest of the city. albinus' army was defeated in the bloody and decisive battle of lugdunum. dio cassius described , men involved in the battle: although this was one of the largest battles involving roman armies known, this number is assumed to be an exaggeration. albinus committed suicide in a house near the rhône; his head was sent to rome as a warning to his supporters. his defeated cohorts were dissolved and the victorious legions punished those in lugdunum who had supported albinus, by confiscation, banishment, or execution. the city was plundered or at least severely damaged by the battle. legio i minervia remained camped in lugdunum from to . decline of lugdunum and the empire[edit] historical and archeological evidence indicates that lugdunum never fully recovered from the devastation of this battle. a major reorganization of imperial administration begun at the end of the rd century during the reign of diocletian and completed a few decades later by constantine further reduced the importance of lugdunum. this reorganization standardized size and status of provinces, splitting many of the larger. the new provinces were grouped in larger administrative districts. lugdunum became the capital of a much smaller region containing only two cities besides lugdunum: autun and langres. the new governor bore the title of consularis. the mint was retained at lugdunum, as was an administrative tax office and a state-run wool clothing factory. lugdunum was no longer the chief city and administrative capital of gaul. although the city continued, there seems to have been a population shift from the fourviere heights where the original roman city was situated to the river valley below. other evidence suggests other cities surpassed lugdunum as trading centers. though the western empire persisted another century and a half, the border regions extending along the rhine river in germany to the danube river in dacia became far more important from a military and strategic standpoint. cities like augusta treverorum (trier) eclipsed lugdunum in importance. the status of the western provinces declined further when constantine made byzantium (later named constantinople after his death) the capital of the eastern part of the empire. as the western empire disintegrated in the th century, lugdunum became the principal city of the burgundian kingdom. see also[edit] 	history of lyon 	abascantus references[edit] 	^ travel lyon, france: illustrated guide, phrasebook & maps, p. , at google books. 	^ the roman remains of northern and eastern france: a guidebook, p. , at google books. 	^ roman cities, p. , at google books. 	^ roman cities, p. , at google books. 	^ a b cassius dio, roman history, . . . 	^ delattre, charles (ed.), pseudo-plutarque. de fluviorum et montium nominibus et de iis quae in illis inveniuntur, presses univ. septentrion, , pp. – (in latin). 	^ lugduno desiderato monte: dunum enim montem lugduno: "desired mountain"; because dunum is mountain" in endlicher glossary. 	^ toorians, lauran, "endlicher’s glossary, an attempt to write its history", in: garcía alonso (juan luis) (ed.), celtic and other languages in ancient europe ( ), pp. – . 	^ "lugdunum est civitas gallie quasi lucidum dunam, id est lucidus mons, dunam enim in greco mons." in andreas hofeneder, die religion der kelten in den antiken literarischen zeugnissen: sammlung, Übersetzung und kommentierung, volume , austrian academy of sciences press, , pp. – (in german). 	^ mathieu poux, hugues savay-guerraz, lyon avant lugdunum, infolio éditions, , p. (in french), isbn  - - - . 	^ epistulae ad lucilium, . 	^ l'express. no. 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(discuss) the mediterranean area c. ad as jordanes wrote his getica. the eastern roman empire, capital constantinople, is shown in pink. conquests of justinian i shown in green. jordanes (/dʒɔːrˈdeɪniːz/), also written as jordanis or jornandes,[ ] was a gothic th-century eastern roman bureaucrat[ ] who became a historian later in life. jordanes wrote romana, about the history of rome, but his best-known work is his getica, which was written in constantinople[ ] about ad.[ ] along with isidore of seville's historia gothorum, it is one of only two extant ancient works dealing with the early history of the goths. jordanes was asked by a friend to write getica as a summary of a multi-volume history of the goths by the statesman cassiodorus that existed then but has since been lost. jordanes was selected for his known interest in history and because of his own gothic background. he had been a high-level notarius, or secretary, of a small client state on the roman frontier in scythia minor, modern southeastern romania and northeastern bulgaria.[ ] other writers, such as procopius, wrote works that are extant on the later history of the goths. getica has been the object of much critical review. jordanes wrote in late latin rather than the classical ciceronian latin. according to his own introduction, he had only three days to review what cassiodorus had written, meaning that he must also have relied on his own knowledge. contents 	 life 	 works 	 controversy 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 external links life[edit] jordanes writes about himself almost in passing:[ ][ ] the sciri, moreover, and the sadagarii and certain of the alani with their leader, candac by name, received scythia minor and lower moesia. paria, the father of my father alanoviiamuth (that is to say, my grandfather), was secretary to this candac as long as he lived. to his sister's son gunthigis, also called baza, the master of the soldiery, who was the son of andag the son of andela, who was descended from the stock of the amali, i also, jordanes, although an unlearned man before my conversion, was secretary. paria was jordanes's paternal grandfather. jordanes writes that he was secretary to candac, dux alanorum, an otherwise unknown leader of the alans. jordanes was notarius, or secretary to gunthigis baza, a nephew of candac and a magister militum of the leading ostrogoth clan of the amali. this was ante conversionem meam ("before my conversion"). the nature and details of the conversion remain obscure. the goths had been converted with the assistance of ulfilas (a goth), made bishop on that account. however, the goths had adopted arianism. jordanes' conversion may have been a conversion to the trinitarian nicene creed, which may be expressed in anti-arianism in certain passages in getica.[ ] in the letter to vigilius he mentions that he was awakened vestris interrogationibus - "by your questioning". alternatively, jordanes' conversio may mean that he had become a monk, or a religiosus, or a member of the clergy. some manuscripts say that he was a bishop, some even say bishop of ravenna, but the name jordanes is not known in the lists of bishops of ravenna. works[edit] the deeds of dacians and getae (here from trajan's column) were wrongly attributed to goths by jordanes jordanes wrote his romana at the behest of a certain vigilius. although some scholars have identified this person with pope vigilius, there is nothing else to support the identification besides the name. the form of address that jordanes uses and his admonition that vigilius "turn to god" would seem to rule out this identification.[ ][ ] in the preface to his getica, jordanes writes that he is interrupting his work on the romana at the behest of a brother castalius, who apparently knew that jordanes possessed the twelve volumes of the history of the goths by cassiodorus. castalius wanted a short book about the subject, and jordanes obliged with an excerpt based on memory, possibly supplemented with other material to which he had access. the getica sets off with a geography/ethnography of the north, especially of scandza ( – ). he lets the history of the goths commence with the emigration of berig with three ships from scandza to gothiscandza ( , ), in a distant past. in the pen of jordanes, herodotus's getian demigod zalmoxis becomes a king of the goths ( ). jordanes tells how the goths sacked "troy and ilium" just after they had recovered somewhat from the war with agamemnon ( ). they are also said to have encountered the egyptian pharaoh vesosis ( ). the less fictional part of jordanes's work begins when the goths encounter roman military forces in the third century ad. the work concludes with the defeat of the goths by the byzantine general belisarius. jordanes concludes the work by stating that he writes to honour those who were victorious over the goths after a history spanning , years. controversy[edit] several romanian and american historians wrote about jordanes's error when considering that getae were goths. according to this interpretation, much of the historical data about dacians and getae were wrongly attributed to goths.[ ][ ][ ][ ] arne søby christensen and m. kulikowski[ ][ ] argue in their works that jordanes developed in getica the history of getic and dacian peoples mixed with a lot of fantastic deeds.[clarification needed] caracalla (in ) received "geticus maximus" and "quasi gothicus" titles following battles with getae and goths. see also[edit] 	history of the roman empire notes[edit] 	^ according to schanz-hosius (geschichte der römischen literatur, , vol. ( ), pp. , ) the best mss of his work present his name as jordanes, as does the 'geographus ravennas'. jordanis is a 'vulgar' form that is also used, while jornandes only appears in lesser mss. the form jornandes, however, was often used in older publications. 	^ "if jordanes was a bishop (as is frequently assumed) and if he lived in italy (also frequently assumed), those elements of his background have left no trace in his two histories" (brian croke ( ), "cassiodorus and the getica of jordanes", classical philology, : ( – )., doi: . / 	^ "constantinople is "our city" (getica ). 	^ he mentions the great plague of as having occurred "nine years ago" (getica ). still, there are some modern scholars who opt for a later date, see peter heather, goths and romans - , oxford , pp. - (year ), walter goffart, the narrators of barbarian history, princeton , p. (year ). 	^ croke . 	^ jordanes, mierow (ed.), getica 	^ jordanes, de origine actibusque getarum l, archived from the original on - - , retrieved - - 	^ getica , , , noted by croke : 	^ arne søby christensen ( ), cassiodorus, jordanes, and the history of the goths. studies in a migration myth, isbn  - - - - , archived from the original on - - , retrieved - - 	^ james j. o'donnell ( ), "the aims of jordanes", historia, : – , archived from the original on november , 	^ walter goffart, the narrators of barbarian history, princeton , p. . 	^ pârvan, vasile ( ). dacia: an outline of the early civilization of the carpatho-danubian countries. the university press 	^ oțetea, andrei ( ). the history of the romanian people. scientific pub. hoose. 	^ ioan bolovan, florin constantiniu, paul e. michelson, ioan aurel pop, christian popa, marcel popa, kurt treptow, a history of romania, intl specialized book service inc. 	^ arne søby christensen ( ), cassiodorus, jordanes, and the history of the goths. studies in a migration myth 	^ m. kulikowski, rome’s gothic wars, p. , references[edit] 	mierow, charles christopher, the gothic history of jordanes: in english with an introduction and a commentary, . reprinted . evolution publishing, isbn  - - - - . [ ] 	kulikowski, michael, rome's gothic wars, p.  . 	arne søby christensen, cassiodorus, jordanes, and the history of the goths. studies in a migration myth, , isbn  - - - - 	kai brodersen, könige im karpatenbogen: zur historischen bedeutung von jordanes' herrscherliste. in: zeitschrift für siebenbürgische landeskunde ( ) pp.  – ( issn  - ) external links[edit] 	works by jordanes at project gutenberg 	works by or about jordanes at internet archive 	jordanes, the origins and deeds of the goths, translated by charles c. mierow. alternative. 	james j. o'donell ( ), "the aims of jordanes", historia, : – , archived from the original on november , 	the origins and deeds of the goths 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: herbermann, charles, ed. ( ). 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(august ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) 	sextus julius frontinus 	born	c. ad 	died	 ad 	nationality	roman 	occupation	engineer, author, soldier & politician 	notable work 	de aquaeductu strategemata 	office	roman consul 	children	 + sextus julius frontinus (c. – ad) was a prominent roman civil engineer, author, soldier and senator of the late st century ad. he was a successful general under domitian, commanding forces in roman britain, and on the rhine and danube frontiers. a novus homo, he was consul three times. frontinus ably discharged several important administrative duties for nerva and trajan. however, he is best known to the post-classical world as an author of technical treatises, especially de aquaeductu, dealing with the aqueducts of rome. contents 	 career 	 family 	 writings 	 . aqueducts of rome 	 . . fraud and theft 	 . . distribution system 	 . . maintenance 	 . military tactics 	 selected editions and translations 	 . de aquaeductu 	 . other works 	 in fiction 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links career[edit] in ad , frontinus participated in the suppression of the rhineland revolt, and later recorded that he received the surrender of , lingones.[ ] between that date and being appointed governor of britain to succeed quintus petillius cerialis a few years later, frontinus was appointed suffect consul. while governor of britain, he subjugated the silures of south wales and is thought to have likewise campaigned against the brigantes.[ ] he was succeeded by gnaeus julius agricola, the father-in-law of the famous historian tacitus, in . birley believes it "is fair to speculate" that frontinus was with domitian during the german campaign of . an inscription at hieropolis in phrygia, as well as a number of coins of smyrna, attests that he was proconsul of asia in ad .[ ] in , he was appointed curator aquarum (supervisor of the aqueducts) by the emperor nerva, an office only conferred upon persons of very high standing. in this capacity, he followed another distinguished roman statesman, agrippa, the friend, ally and son-in-law of augustus, who organised in bc a campaign of public repairs and improvements, including renovation of the aqueduct aqua marcia and an extension of its pipes to cover more of the city. the following year frontinus held a second consulship as suffect in february, with trajan as his colleague, and two years later he was made consul ordinarius with trajan. birley notes, "this exceptional honour underlines the high regard in which he [frontinus] was held, and suggests, further, that trajan had a debt to repay."[ ] he was also a member of the college of augurs.[ ] he died in or , a date based on pliny the younger writing to his friends that he was elected to the college of augurs to fill the vacancy frontinus' death had created.[ ] family[edit] due to a lack of either a titulus honorarius or sepulcralis, there is no outline of frontinus' life, the names of his parents, or of his wife. some details can be inferred from chance mentions: he is thought to be of narbonese origins, and originally of the equestrian class.[ ] from the nomenclature of the name of publius calvisius ruso julius frontinus (consul c. ), it is likely frontinus had a sister, who was the other's mother.[ ] frontinus had at least one daughter, the wife of quintus sosius senecio (cos. , ii ) and mother of sosia polla.[ ] writings[edit] aqueducts of rome[edit] remains of aqueducts aqua claudia and aqua anio novus, integrated into the aurelian wall as a gate in ad. frontinus's chief work is de aquaeductu, in two books, an official report to the emperor on the state of the aqueducts of rome. it presents a history and description of the water-supply of rome, including the laws relating to its use and maintenance. he provides the history, sizes and discharge rates of all of the nine aqueducts of rome at the time at which he was writing at the turn of the st century ad: the aqua marcia, aqua appia, aqua alsietina, aqua tepula, anio vetus, anio novus, aqua virgo, aqua claudia and aqua augusta. frontinus describes the quality of water delivered by each, mainly depending on their source, be it river, lake, or spring. fraud and theft[edit] one of the first jobs he undertook when he was appointed water commissioner was to prepare maps of the system so that he could assess their condition before undertaking their maintenance. he says that many had been neglected and were not working at their full capacity. he was especially concerned by diversion of the supply by unscrupulous farmers and tradesmen, among many others. they would insert pipes into the channel of the aqueducts to tap the supply. he, therefore, made a meticulous survey of the intake and the supply of each line, and then investigated the discrepancies. lead pipe stamps bearing the name of the owner were also used to prevent such water theft. he was well aware of the seminal work de architectura by vitruvius, which mentions aqueduct construction and maintenance published in the previous century; frontinus refers to the possible influence of vitruvius on the plumbers.[ ] remains of aqua claudia distribution system[edit] distribution of the water depended in a complex way on its height entering the city, the quality of the water, and its rate of discharge. thus, poor-quality water would be sent for irrigation, gardens, or flushing, while only the best would be reserved for drinking water. intermediate-quality water would be used for the many baths and fountains. however, frontinus criticized the practice of mixing supplies from different sources, and one of his first decisions was to separate the waters from each system. maintenance[edit] he was very concerned by leaks in the system, especially those in the underground conduits, which were difficult to locate and mend, a problem still faced by water engineers today. the aqueducts above ground needed care to ensure that the masonry was kept in good condition, especially those running on arched superstructures. it was, he said, essential to keep trees at a distance so that their roots would not damage the structures. he reviewed the existing law governing the state aqueducts, as well as the need for enforcement of those statutes. military tactics[edit] frontinus also wrote a theoretical treatise on military science, which is lost. his extant work on military matters, the stratagems (latin: strategemata), is a collection of examples of military stratagems from greek and roman history, for the use of generals. he draws on his own experience as a general in germania under domitian, but similarities between the anecdotes he records and versions of other roman authors like valerius maximus and livy suggest that he drew mainly on literary sources. the authenticity of the fourth book has been challenged.[ ] one example he gives of control of river water during a siege reads: lucius metellus, when fighting in hither spain, diverted the course of a river and directed it from a higher level against the camp of the enemy, which was located on low ground. then, when the enemy were in a panic from the sudden flood, he had them slain by men whom he had stationed in ambush for this very purpose. selected editions and translations[edit] de aquaeductu[edit] 	the standard edition of the latin text of frontinus' major work, with extensive commentary in english, is now r.h. rodgers, frontinus: de aquaeductu urbis romae (cambridge university press, ). 	rodgers has published his english translation online [ ] 	an english translation by charles e. bennet, edited by mary b. mcelwain, has been published in the loeb classical library.[ ] 	a translation by herschel is useful for his commentary on the engineering aspects of the de aquaeductu. other works[edit] 	the latest edition of the stratagems is by r. i. ireland (teubner, isbn  - - - ) (in latin); english translation in loeb classical library (translated by charles bennet and edited by mary b. mcelwain), . isbn  	extracts from a treatise on land surveying ascribed to frontinus are preserved in b. campbell ( ), the writings of the roman land surveyors: introduction, text, translation and commentary, london. 	the stratagems and the aqueducts of rome , translated by charles e. bennett ( - ), available on librivox as an audiobook. in fiction[edit] he appears as a fictionalised character in the marcus didius falco novels the silver pigs, shadows in bronze, three hands in the fountain, and the jupiter myth. he also appears as a character in the centurions novels barbarian princess and the emperor's games. see also[edit] 	cloaca maxima 	de aquaeductu 	de architectura 	dolaucothi 	gromatici 	list of aqueducts in the city of rome 	list of aqueducts in the roman empire 	list of roman aqueducts by date 	quinaria 	roman aqueducts 	roman conquest of britain 	vitruvius 	aggenus urbicus references[edit] 	^ strategemata . . . a.r. birley, the fasti of roman britain (oxford: clarendon press, ), p. 	^ a b birley, fasti, p. 	^ a b c birley, fasti, p. 	^ william mcdermott, "stemmata quid faciunt? the descendants of frontinus", ancient society, ( ), p. 	^ ronald syme, "p. calvisius ruso. one person or two?", zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik, ( ), pp. f 	^ mcdermott, "stemmata quid faciunt?", p. 	^ [ : ] 	^ paper by rogier van der wal (amsterdam) to the classical association conference, cardiff 	^ no. l , stratagems. de aquaeductu ( ) 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "frontinus, sextus julius". encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. p.  . further reading[edit] 	ashby, thomas ( ) the aqueducts of rome, oxford. 	blackman, deane r., hodge, a. trevor ( ). frontinus' legacy: essays on frontinus' de aquis urbis romae. university of michigan press. isbn  - - - - 	dahm, murray k ( ), the career and writings of sextus julius frontinus. master's thesis, university of auckland. 	herschel, c ( ) the two books on the water supply of the city of rome of frontinus, (trans with explanatory chapters) new england water works association. 	hodge, a.t. 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sassanians in the third century. his latin appears to be consistent with the style of the second century. ronald syme, however, argues for a date around ad  , immediately before the compilation of the augustan history, and dismisses anachronisms and the archaic style as unimportant, as he asserts readers would have understood justin's phrasing to represent trogus' time, and not his own.[ ] works[edit] justin was the author of an epitome of trogus' expansive liber historiarum philippicarum, or philippic histories, a history of the kings of macedonia, compiled in the time of augustus. due to its numerous digressions, this work was retitled by one of its editors, historia philippicae et totius mundi origines et terrae situs, or philippic history and origins of the entire world and all of its lands. justin's preface explains that he aimed to collect the most important and interesting passages of that work, which has since been lost. some of trogus' original arguments (prologi) are preserved in various other authors, such as pliny the elder. trogus' main theme was the rise and history of the macedonian empire, and like him, justin permitted himself considerable freedom of digression, producing an idiosyncratic anthology rather than a strict epitome. legacy[edit] justin's history was much used in the middle ages, when its author was sometimes mistakenly conflated with justin martyr.[ ] notes[edit] 	^ justin's name is given only in manuscripts of his own history, the majority of which simply identify him as justinus. one manuscript identifies him as justinus frontinus, the other as marcus junianus justinus. the accuracy of these names is uncertain. references[edit] 	^ syme ( ). 	^ eb ( ). sfnp error: no target: citerefeb (help) bibliography[edit] 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. 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materialism 	main interests 	ethics, metaphysics, atoms[ ] 	 influences 	gaius memmius, epicurus, socrates, plato, aristotle 	 influenced 	cicero, virgil, ovid, pierre gassendi, baruch spinoza, stephen greenblatt, karl marx, sigmund freud, charles darwin, arthur schopenhauer, friedrich nietzsche, gilles deleuze, montaigne 	 titus lucretius carus (/ˈtaɪtəs luːˈkriːʃəs/ ty-təs loo-kree-shəs; latin: [ˈtɪtʊs lʊˈkreːtɪ.ʊs ˈkaː.rus]; c.  – c. bc) was a roman poet and philosopher. his only known work is the philosophical poem de rerum natura, a didactic work about the tenets and philosophy of epicureanism, and which usually is translated into english as on the nature of things. lucretius has been credited with originating the concept of the three-age system that was formalised in by c. j. thomsen. very little is known about lucretius's life; the only certain fact is, that he was either a friend or client of gaius memmius, to whom the poem was addressed and dedicated.[ ] de rerum natura was a considerable influence on the augustan poets, particularly virgil (in his aeneid and georgics, and to a lesser extent on the eclogues) and horace.[ ] the work was almost lost during the middle ages, but was rediscovered in in a monastery in germany[ ] by poggio bracciolini and it played an important role both in the development of atomism (lucretius was an important influence on pierre gassendi)[ ] and the efforts of various figures of the enlightenment era to construct a new christian humanism. lucretius's scientific poem on the nature of things (c. bc) has a remarkable description of brownian motion of dust particles in verses – from book ii. he uses this as a proof of the existence of atoms. contents 	 life 	 de rerum natura 	 . reception 	 natural philosophy 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 bibliography 	 external links life[edit] and now, good memmius, receptive ears and keen intelligence detached from cares i pray you bring to true philosophy de rerum natura (tr. melville) . if i must speak, my noble memmius, as nature's majesty now known demands de rerum natura (tr. melville) . virtually nothing is known about the life of lucretius, and there is insufficient basis for a confident assertion of the dates of lucretius's birth or death in other sources. another, yet briefer, note is found in the chronicon of donatus's pupil, jerome. writing four centuries after lucretius's death, he enters under the st olympiad: "titus lucretius the poet is born."[ ] if jerome is accurate about lucretius's age ( ) when lucretius died (discussed below), then it may be concluded he was born in or bc.[ ][ ] less specific estimates place the birth of lucretius in the s bc and his death in the s bc,[ ][ ] in agreement with the poem's many allusions to the tumultuous state of political affairs in rome and its civil strife. lucretius probably was a member of the aristocratic gens lucretia, and his work shows an intimate knowledge of the luxurious lifestyle in rome.[ ] lucretius's love of the countryside invites speculation that he inhabited family-owned rural estates, as did many wealthy roman families, and he certainly was expensively educated with a mastery of latin, greek, literature, and philosophy.[ ] a brief biographical note is found in aelius donatus's life of virgil, which seems to be derived from an earlier work by suetonius.[ ] the note reads: "the first years of his life virgil spent in cremona until the assumption of his toga virilis on his th birthday (when the same two men held the consulate as when he was born), and it so happened that on the very same day lucretius the poet passed away." however, although lucretius certainly lived and died around the time that virgil and cicero flourished, the information in this particular testimony is internally inconsistent: if virgil was born in bc, his th birthday would be in . the two consuls of bc, pompey and crassus, stood together as consuls again in , not . another yet briefer note is found in the chronicon of donatus's pupil, jerome. writing four centuries after lucretius's death, jerome contends in the aforementioned chronicon that lucretius "was driven mad by a love potion, and when, during the intervals of his insanity, he had written a number of books, which were later emended by cicero, he killed himself by his own hand in the th year of his life."[ ] the claim that he was driven mad by a love potion, although defended by such scholars as reale and catan,[ ] is often dismissed as the result of historical confusion,[ ] or anti-epicurean bias.[ ] in some accounts the administration of the toxic aphrodisiac is attributed to his wife lucilia. regardless, jerome's image of lucretius as a lovesick, mad poet continued to have significant influence on modern scholarship until quite recently, although it now is accepted that such a report is inaccurate.[ ] de rerum natura[edit] main article: de rerum natura play media latin reading of de rerum natura by lucretius a manuscript of de rerum natura in the cambridge university library collection de rerum natura ( ) his poem, de rerum natura (usually translated as "on the nature of things" or "on the nature of the universe"), transmits the ideas of epicureanism, which includes atomism and cosmology. lucretius was the first writer known to introduce roman readers to epicurean philosophy.[ ] the poem, written in some , dactylic hexameters, is divided into six untitled books, and explores epicurean physics through richly poetic language and metaphors. lucretius presents the principles of atomism, the nature of the mind and soul, explanations of sensation and thought, the development of the world and its phenomena, and explains a variety of celestial and terrestrial phenomena. the universe described in the poem operates according to these physical principles, guided by fortuna, "chance", and not the divine intervention of the traditional roman deities [ ] and the religious explanations of the natural world. within this work, lucretius makes reference to the cultural and technological development of humans in his use of available materials, tools, and weapons through prehistory to lucretius's own time. he specifies the earliest weapons as hands, nails, and teeth. these were followed by stones, branches, and, once humans could kindle and control it, fire. he then refers to "tough iron" and copper in that order, but goes on to say that copper was the primary means of tilling the soil and the basis of weaponry until, "by slow degrees", the iron sword became predominant (it still was in his day) and "the bronze sickle fell into disrepute" as iron ploughs were introduced.[ ] he had earlier envisaged a pre-technological, pre-literary kind of human whose life was lived "in the fashion of wild beasts roaming at large".[ ] from this beginning, he theorised, there followed the development in turn of crude huts, use and kindling of fire, clothing, language, family, and city-states. he believed that smelting of metal, and perhaps too, the firing of pottery, was discovered by accident: for example, the result of a forest fire. he does specify, however, that the use of copper followed the use of stones and branches and preceded the use of iron.[ ] lucretius seems to equate copper with bronze, an alloy of copper and tin that has much greater resilience than copper; both copper and bronze were superseded by iron during his millennium ( bc to bc). he may have considered bronze to be a stronger variety of copper and not necessarily a wholly individual material. lucretius is believed to be the first to put forward a theory of the successive uses of first wood and stone, then copper and bronze, and finally iron. although his theory lay dormant for many centuries, it was revived in the nineteenth century and he has been credited with originating the concept of the three-age system that was formalised from by c. j. thomsen.[ ] reception[edit] in a letter by cicero to his brother quintus in february bc, cicero said: "the poems of lucretius are as you write: they exhibit many flashes of genius, and yet show great mastership."[ ] in the work of another author in late republican rome, virgil writes in the second book of his georgics, apparently referring to lucretius,[ ] "happy is he who has discovered the causes of things and has cast beneath his feet[a] all fears, unavoidable fate, and the din of the devouring underworld."[ ] natural philosophy[edit] an early thinker in what grew to become the study of evolution, lucretius believed nature experiments endlessly across the aeons, and the organisms that adapt best to their environment have the best chance of surviving. living organisms survived because of their strength, speed, or intellect. in contrast to modern thought on the subject, he did not believe that new species evolved from previously existing ones and denied that modern animals, which dwell on land, derived from marine ancestors. lucretius challenged the assumption that humans are necessarily superior to animals, noting that mammalian mothers in the wild recognize and nurture their offspring as do human mothers.[citation needed] despite his advocacy of empiricism and his many correct conjectures about atomism and the nature of the physical world, lucretius concludes his first book stressing the absurdity of the (by then well-established) spherical earth theory.[ ] while epicurus left open the possibility for free will by arguing for the uncertainty of the paths of atoms, lucretius viewed the soul or mind as emerging from arrangements of distinct particles.[ ] see also[edit] 	the swerve: how the world became modern, a modern historiography by stephen greenblatt 	list of english translations of de rerum natura notes[edit] 	^ subiecit pedibus; cf. lucretius . : religio pedibus subiecta, "religion lies cast beneath our feet" references[edit] 	^ a b lucretius. de rerum natura, book v, around line ff. 	^ a b melville & fowler ( ), p. xii. 	^ reckford, k. j. some studies in horace's odes on love 	^ greenblatt ( ), p.  . 	^ fisher, saul ( ). 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	livy 	titus livius 	born	titus livius or bc patavium, adriatic veneti (modern padua, italy) 	died	ad or patavium, italy, roman empire 	occupation	historian 	genre	history 	subject	history, biography, oratory 	literary movement	golden age of latin titus livius[a] (/ˈlɪviəs/ liv-ee-əs, latin: [ˈtɪtʊs ˈliːwijʊs]; / bc – ad / ), known as livy (/ˈlɪvi/ liv-ee) in english, was a roman historian. he wrote a monumental history of rome and the roman people, titled ab urbe condita, ''from the founding of the city'', covering the period from the earliest legends of rome before the traditional foundation in bc through the reign of augustus in livy's own lifetime. he was on familiar terms with members of the julio-claudian dynasty and even in friendship with augustus,[ ] whose young grandnephew, the future emperor claudius, he exhorted to take up the writing of history.[ ] contents 	 life 	 works 	 reception 	 . imperial era 	 . later 	 dates 	 notes 	 references 	 bibliography 	 further reading 	 external links life[edit] livy was born in patavium in northern italy, now modern padua. there is a debate about the year of his birth – either in bc, or more likely, in bc (see below).[ ] at the time of his birth, his home city of patavium was the second wealthiest on the italian peninsula, and the largest in the province of cisalpine gaul (northern italy). cisalpine gaul was merged in italy proper during his lifetime and its inhabitants were given roman citizenship by julius caesar. in his works, livy often expressed his deep affection and pride for patavium, and the city was well known for its conservative values in morality and politics.[ ] "he was by nature a recluse, mild in temperament and averse to violence; the restorative peace of his time gave him the opportunity to turn all his imaginative passion to the legendary and historical past of the country he loved."[ ] livy's teenage years were during the s bc, when a period of numerous civil wars throughout the roman world occurred. the governor of cisalpine gaul at the time, asinius pollio, tried to sway patavium[when?] into supporting marcus antonius (mark antony), the leader of one of the warring factions. the wealthy citizens of patavium refused to contribute money and arms to asinius pollio, and went into hiding. pollio then attempted to bribe the slaves of those wealthy citizens to expose the whereabouts of their masters; his bribery did not work, and the citizens instead pledged their allegiance to the senate. it is therefore likely[citation needed] that the roman civil wars prevented livy from pursuing a higher education in rome or going on a tour of greece, which was common for adolescent males of the nobility at the time. many years later, asinius pollio derisively commented on livy's "patavinity", saying that livy's latin showed certain "provincialisms" frowned on at rome. pollio's dig may have been the result of bad feelings he harboured toward the city of patavium from his experiences there during the civil wars.[ ] livy probably went to rome in the s bc,[ ] and it is likely that he spent a large amount of time in the city after this, although it may not have been his primary home. during his time in rome, he was never a senator nor held a government position. his writings contain elementary mistakes on military matters, indicating that he probably never served in the roman army. however, he was educated in philosophy and rhetoric. it seems that livy had the financial resources and means to live an independent life, though the origin of that wealth is unknown. he devoted a large part of his life to his writings, which he was able to do because of his financial freedom.[ ] livy was known to give recitations to small audiences, but he was not heard of to engage in declamation, then a common pastime. he was familiar with the emperor augustus and the imperial family. augustus was considered by later romans to have been the greatest roman emperor, benefiting livy's reputation long after his death. suetonius described how livy encouraged the future emperor claudius, who was born in bc,[ ] to write historiographical works during his childhood.[ ] livy's most famous work was his history of rome. in it he narrates a complete history of the city of rome, from its foundation to the death of augustus. because he was writing under the reign of augustus, livy's history emphasizes the great triumphs of rome. he wrote his history with embellished accounts of roman heroism in order to promote the new type of government implemented by augustus when he became emperor.[ ] in livy's preface to his history, he said that he did not care whether his personal fame remained in darkness, as long as his work helped to "preserve the memory of the deeds of the world’s preeminent nation."[ ] because livy was mostly writing about events that had occurred hundreds of years earlier, the historical value of his work was questionable, although many romans came to believe his account to be true.[ ] livy was married and had at least one daughter and one son.[ ] he also produced other works, including an essay in the form of a letter to his son, and numerous dialogues, most likely modelled on similar works by cicero.[ ] titus livius died in his home city of patavium in either (see below) ad or ; the latter would have been three years after the death of the emperor augustus.[ ] works[edit] main article: ab urbe condita libri ab urbe condita ( ) livy's only surviving work is commonly known as "history of rome" (or ab urbe condita, ''from the founding of the city''), which was his career from his mid-life, probably , until he left rome for padua in old age, probably in the reign of tiberius after the death of augustus. when he began this work he was already past his youth; presumably, events in his life prior to that time had led to his intense activity as a historian. seneca the younger[ ] gives brief mention that he was also known as an orator and philosopher and had written some treatises in those fields from a historical point of view.[b] reception[edit] imperial era[edit] livy's history of rome was in high demand from the time it was published and remained so during the early years of the empire. pliny the younger reported that livy's celebrity was so widespread, a man from cadiz travelled to rome and back for the sole purpose of meeting him.[ ] livy's work was a source for the later works of aurelius victor, cassiodorus, eutropius, festus, florus, granius licinianus and orosius. julius obsequens used livy, or a source with access to livy, to compose his de prodigiis, an account of supernatural events in rome from the consulship of scipio and laelius to that of paulus fabius and quintus aelius.[citation needed] livy wrote during the reign of augustus, who came to power after a civil war with generals and consuls claiming to be defending the roman republic, such as pompey. patavium had been pro-pompey. to clarify his status, the victor of the civil war, octavian caesar, had wanted to take the title romulus (the first king of rome) but in the end accepted the senate proposal of augustus. rather than abolishing the republic, he adapted it and its institutions to imperial rule. the historian tacitus, writing about a century after livy's time, described the emperor augustus as his friend. describing the trial of cremutius cordus, tacitus represents him as defending himself face-to-face with the frowning tiberius as follows: i am said to have praised brutus and cassius, whose careers many have described and no one mentioned without eulogy. titus livius, pre-eminently famous for eloquence and truthfulness, extolled cn. pompeius in such a panegyric that augustus called him pompeianus, and yet this was no obstacle to their friendship.[ ] livy's reasons for returning to padua after the death of augustus (if he did) are unclear, but the circumstances of tiberius' reign certainly allow for speculation.[citation needed] later[edit] titus livius by andrea briosco (c. ) during the middle ages, interest in livy declined because western scholars were more focused on religious texts.[ ] due to the length of the work, the literate class was already reading summaries rather than the work itself, which was tedious to copy, expensive, and required a lot of storage space. it must have been during this period, if not before, that manuscripts began to be lost without replacement. the renaissance was a time of intense revival; the population discovered that livy's work was being lost and large amounts of money changed hands in the rush to collect livian manuscripts. the poet beccadelli sold a country home for funding to purchase one manuscript copied by poggio.[ ] petrarch and pope nicholas v launched a search for the now missing books. laurentius valla published an amended text initiating the field of livy scholarship. dante speaks highly of him in his poetry, and francis i of france commissioned extensive artwork treating livian themes; niccolò machiavelli's work on republics, the discourses on livy is presented as a commentary on the history of rome. respect for livy rose to lofty heights. walter scott reports in waverley ( ) as an historical fact that a scotchman involved in the first jacobite uprising of was recaptured (and executed) because, having escaped, he yet lingered near the place of his captivity in "the hope of recovering his favourite titus livius."[ ] dates[edit] livy was likely born between and bc and died sometime between ad to . he started his work sometime between and bc. st. jerome says that livy was born the same year as marcus valerius messala corvinus and died the same year as ovid.[ ] messala, however, was born earlier, in bc, and ovid's death, usually taken to be the same year as livy's, is more uncertain. as an alternative view, ronald syme argues for bc– ad as a range for livy, setting the death of ovid at .[ ] a death date of ad, however, removes livy from augustus' best years and makes him depart for padua without the good reason of the second emperor, tiberius, being not as tolerant of his republicanism. the contradiction remains. the authority supplying information from which possible vital data on livy can be deduced is eusebius of caesarea, a bishop of the early christian church. one of his works was a summary of world history in ancient greek, termed the chronikon, dating from the early th century ad. this work was lost except for fragments (mainly excerpts), but not before it had been translated in whole and in part by various authors such as st. jerome. the entire work survives in two separate manuscripts, armenian and greek (christesen and martirosova-torlone ). st. jerome wrote in latin. fragments in syriac exist.[ ] eusebius' work consists of two books: the chronographia, a summary of history in annalist form, and the chronikoi kanones, tables of years and events. st. jerome translated the tables into latin as the chronicon, probably adding some information of his own from unknown sources. livy's dates appear in jerome's chronicon. the main problem with the information given in the manuscripts is that, between them, they often give different dates for the same events or different events, do not include the same material entirely, and reformat what they do include. a date may be in ab urbe condita or in olympiads or in some other form, such as age. these variations may have occurred through scribal error or scribal license. some material has been inserted under the aegis of eusebius. the topic of manuscript variants is a large and specialized one, on which authors of works on livy seldom care to linger. as a result, standard information in a standard rendition is used, which gives the impression of a standard set of dates for livy. there are no such dates.[citation needed] a typical presumption is of a birth in the nd year of the th olympiad and a death in the first year of the th olympiad, which are coded . and . respectively.[ ] all sources use the same first olympiad, / – / bc by the modern calendar. by a complex formula (made so by the reference point not falling on the border of an olympiad), these codes correspond to bc for the birth, ad for the death. in another manuscript the birth is in . , or bc.[ ] notes[edit] 	^ titus is the praenomen (the personal name); livius is the nomen (the gentile name, i.e. "belonging to the gens livia"). therefore, titus livius did not have a cognomen (third name, i.e. family name), which was not unusual during the roman republic. about this, classical sources agree: seneca (ep. . ); tacitus (ann. iv. . ); pliny (ep. ii. . ); and suetonius (claud. . ) call him titus livius. quintilian calls him titus livius (inst. or. viii. . ; viii. . ; x. . ) or simply livius (inst. or. i. . ; x. . ). in the sepulchral inscription from patavium, which most probably concerns titus, he is named, with the patronymic, t livius c f, ''titus livius cai filius'' (cil v, ). 	^ "livy wrote both dialogues, which should be ranked as history no less than as philosophy, and works which professedly deal with philosophy" ("scripsit enim et dialogos, quos non magis philosophiae adnumerare possis quam historiae, et ex professo philosophiam continentis libros") —seneca the younger. moral letters to lucilius. . . references[edit] 	^ tacitus. annales. iv. . 	^ suetonius. claudius. the twelve caesars. . . 	^ "livy". a dictionary of world history. oxford university press. . retrieved april . 	^ a b livy , ix. 	^ livy ( ). livy: the history of early rome. translated by aubrey de sélincourt (collector's ed.). norwalk, connecticut: easton press. p. viii. 	^ livy , ix–x. 	^ hazel, john ( ). who's who in the roman world. who's who series. routledge – via ebscohost. 	^ a b livy , x. 	^ payne, robert ( ). the roman triumph. london: robert hale. p.  . 	^ suetonius. claudius. the twelve caesars. . . historiam in adulescentia hortante t. livio, sulpicio vero flavo etiam adiuvante, scribere adgressus est. ('in his youth he began to write a history under the encouragement of titus livius and with the help of sulpicius flavus.') . 	^ dudley, donald r ( ). the romans: bc – ad . new york: alfred a. knopf. p.  . 	^ feldherr, andrew ( ). spectacle and society in livy's history. london: university of california press. p. ix. 	^ heichelheim, fritz moritz ( ). a history of the roman people. upper saddle river, nj: prentice-hall. p.  . 	^ livy , xi. 	^ seneca the younger. moral letters to lucilius. . . 	^ pliny. epistlae. ii. . 	^ tacitus. annales. iv. . brutum et cassium laudavisse dicor, quorum res gestas cum plurimi composuerint nemo sine honore memoravit. ti. livius, eloquentiae ac fidei praeclarus in primis, cn. pompeium tantis laudibus tulit, ut pompeianum eum augustus appellaret: neque id amicitiae eorum offecit. 	^ a b foster , p.  . sfn error: no target: citereffoster (help) 	^ scott, walter ( ) [ ]. " ". waverley. london: adam and charles black. p.  . 	^ a b "st. jerome (hieronymus): chronological tables". attalus. february . retrieved august . 	^ livy ( ). kraus, christina shuttleworth (ed.). ab urbe condita. book vi. cambridge: cambridge university press. p.  . isbn  - - - . 	^ fotheringham , p.  . sfn error: no target: citereffotheringham (help) 	^ livius, titus ( ). seeley, john robert (ed.). livy. . oxford: clarendon press. p.  . isbn  - - - . bibliography[edit] 	livy ( ) [written – bc]. livy. i. translated by foster, b. o. boston: harvard university press. isbn  - - - . 	livy ( ) [written – bc]. the rise of rome. books – . translated by luce, t. j. oxford: oxford university press. . further reading[edit] 	chaplin, janes d. ( ). livy's exemplary history. oxford: oxford university press. 	damon, cynthia ( ). "from source to sermo: narrative technique in livy . . - ". the american journal of philology. ( ): – . doi: . /ajp. . . s cid  . 	davies, jason p. ( ). rome's religious history: livy, tacitus and ammianus on their gods. cambridge: cambridge university press. 	dorey, thomas allen, ed. ( ). livy. london: routledge. 	feldherr, andrew ( ). spectacle and society in livy's history. berkeley: university of california press. 	hornblower, simon; spawforth, antony, eds. ( ). the oxford classical dictionary. oxford university press. isbn  - - - - . 	klindienst, patricia ( ). "'ritual work on human flesh': livy's lucretia and the rape of the body politic". helios. ( ): – . 	kraus, c. s.; woodman, a. j. ( ). latin historians. oxford: oxford university press. pp.  – . 	levene, d. s. ( ). livy on the hannibalic war. oxford: oxford university press. 	linderski, jerzy. "roman religion in livy". in wolfgang schuller (ed.). livius: aspekte senes werkes. konstanz: universitätsverlag konstanz. pp.  – . 	miles, gary b. ( ). livy: reconstructing early rome. ithaca, new york: cornell university press. 	moore, timothy j. ( ). artistry and ideology: livy's vocabulary of virtue. frankfurt: athenäum. 	rossi, andreola ( ). "parallel lives: hannibal and scipio in livy's third decade". transactions of the american philological association. ( ): – . doi: . /apa. . . s cid  . 	syme, ronald ( ). "livy and augustus". harvard studies in classical philology. : – . doi: . / . jstor  . 	vandiver, elizabeth ( ). "the founding mothers of livy's rome: the sabine women and lucretia". in titchener, frances b.; moorton jr., richard f. (eds.). the eye expanded: life and the arts in greco-roman antiquity. berkeley: university of california press. pp.  – . 	walsh, patrick g. ( ). livy: his historical aims and methods. cambridge: cambridge university press. external links[edit] 		wikiquote has quotations related to: livy 		wikisource has the text of the encyclopædia britannica article livy. 		wikisource has original works written by or about: titus livius 	library resources about livy 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 by livy 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries for links to the surviving works of livy in latin and english, see ab urbe condita libri (livy). 	works by livy at perseus digital library 	works by livy at project gutenberg 	works by or about livy at internet archive 	works by livy at librivox (public domain audiobooks) 	lendering, jona ( – ). 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dramatic, and epic. contents 	 meters 	 history 	 . antiquity 	 . . greece 	 . . rome 	 . . china 	 . medieval verse 	 . th century 	 . th century 	 . th century 	 . th century 	 . th century 	 . st century 	 references 	 further reading meters[edit] much lyric poetry depends on regular meter based either on number of syllables or on stress. the most common meters are as follows: 	iambic – two syllables, with the short or unstressed syllable followed by the long or stressed syllable. 	trochaic – two syllables, with the long or stressed syllable followed by the short or unstressed syllable. in english, this metre is found almost entirely in lyric poetry.[ ] 	pyrrhic – two unstressed syllables 	anapestic – three syllables, with the first two short or unstressed and the last long or stressed. 	dactylic – three syllables, with the first one long or stressed and the other two short or unstressed. 	spondaic – two syllables, with two successive long or stressed syllables. some forms have a combination of meters, often using a different meter for the refrain. history[edit] antiquity[edit] alcaeus and sappho depicted on an attic red-figure calathus c.   bc[ ] greece[edit] main article: greek lyric for the ancient greeks, lyric poetry had a precise technical meaning: verse that was accompanied by a lyre, cithara, or barbitos. because such works were typically sung, it was also known as melic poetry. the lyric or melic poet was distinguished from the writer of plays (although athenian drama included choral odes, in lyric form), the writer of trochaic and iambic verses (which were recited), the writer of elegies (accompanied by the flute, rather than the lyre) and the writer of epic.[ ] the scholars of hellenistic alexandria created a canon of nine lyric poets deemed especially worthy of critical study. these archaic and classical musician-poets included sappho, alcaeus, anacreon and pindar. archaic lyric was characterized by strophic composition and live musical performance. some poets, like pindar extended the metrical forms in odes to a triad, including strophe, antistrophe (metrically identical to the strophe) and epode (whose form does not match that of the strophe).[ ] rome[edit] among the major surviving roman poets of the classical period, only catullus (n° , , , , , ) and horace (odes) wrote lyric poetry, which in the disputed view of some commentators[ ] was no longer meant to be sung but instead read or recited. what remained were the forms, the lyric meters of the greeks adapted to latin. catullus was influenced by both archaic and hellenistic greek verse and belonged to a group of roman poets called the neoteroi ("new poets") who spurned epic poetry following the lead of callimachus. instead, they composed brief, highly polished poems in various thematic and metrical genres. the roman love elegies of tibullus, propertius, and ovid (amores, heroides), with their personal phrasing and feeling, may be the thematic ancestor of much medieval, renaissance, romantic, and modern lyric poetry, but these works were composed in elegiac couplets and so were not lyric poetry in the ancient sense.[ ] china[edit] main article: classical chinese poetry during china's warring states period, the songs of chu collected by qu yuan and song yu defined a new form of poetry that came from the exotic yangtze valley, far from the wei and yellow river homeland of the traditional four-character verses collected in the book of songs. the varying forms of the new chu ci provided more rhythm and greater latitude of expression.[ ] medieval verse[edit] originating in th-century persian, a ghazal is a poetic form consisting of couplets that share a rhyme and a refrain. formally, it consists of a short lyric composed in a single meter with a single rhyme throughout. the central subject is love. notable authors include hafiz, amir khusro, auhadi of maragheh, alisher navoi, obeid e zakani, khaqani shirvani, anvari, farid al-din attar, omar khayyam, and rudaki. the ghazal was introduced to european poetry in the early th century by the germans schlegel, von hammer-purgstall, and goethe, who called hafiz his "twin".[ ] lyric in european literature of the medieval or renaissance period means a poem written so that it could be set to music—whether or not it actually was. a poem's particular structure, function, or theme might all vary.[ ] the lyric poetry of europe in this period was created by the pioneers of courtly poetry and courtly love largely without reference to the classical past.[ ] the troubadors, travelling composers and performers of songs, began to flourish towards the end of the th century and were often imitated in successive centuries. trouvères were poet-composers who were roughly contemporary with and influenced by the troubadours but who composed their works in the northern dialects of france. the first known trouvère was chrétien de troyes (fl.  s– s). the dominant form of german lyric poetry in the period was the minnesang, "a love lyric based essentially on a fictitious relationship between a knight and his high-born lady".[ ] initially imitating the lyrics of the french troubadours and trouvères, minnesang soon established a distinctive tradition.[ ] there was also a large body of medieval galician-portuguese lyric.[ ] hebrew singer-poets of the middle ages included yehuda halevi, solomon ibn gabirol, and abraham ibn ezra. in italy, petrarch developed the sonnet form pioneered by giacomo da lentini and dante's vita nuova. in , according to the poet, the sight of a woman called laura in the church of sainte-claire d'avignon awoke in him a lasting passion, celebrated in the rime sparse ("scattered rhymes"). later, renaissance poets who copied petrarch's style named this collection of poems il canzoniere ("the song book"). laura is in many ways both the culmination of medieval courtly love poetry and the beginning of renaissance love lyric. a bhajan or kirtan is a hindu devotional song. bhajans are often simple songs in lyrical language expressing emotions of love for the divine. notable authors include kabir, surdas, and tulsidas. chinese sanqu poetry was a chinese poetic genre popular from the th-century jin dynasty through to the early ming. early th-century playwrights like ma zhiyuan and guan hanqing were well-established writers of sanqu. against the usual tradition of using classical chinese, this poetry was composed in the vernacular.[ ] th century[edit] in th-century britain, thomas campion wrote lute songs and sir philip sidney, edmund spenser, and william shakespeare popularized the sonnet. in france, la pléiade—including pierre de ronsard, joachim du bellay, and jean-antoine de baïf—aimed to break with earlier traditions of french poetry—particularly marot and the grands rhétoriqueurs—and began imitating classical greek and roman forms such as the odes. favorite poets of the school were pindar, anacreon, alcaeus, horace, and ovid. they also produced petrarchan sonnet cycles. spanish devotional poetry adapted the lyric for religious purposes. notable examples were teresa of Ávila, john of the cross, sor juana inés de la cruz, garcilaso de la vega, and lope de vega. although better known for his epic os lusíadas, luís de camões is also considered the greatest portuguese lyric poet of the period. in japan, the naga-uta ("long song") was a lyric poem popular in this era. it alternated five and seven-syllable lines and ended with an extra seven-syllable line. th century[edit] lyrical poetry was the dominant form of th-century english poetry from john donne to andrew marvell.[ ] the poems of this period were short. rarely narrative, they tended towards intense expression.[ ] other notable poets of the era include ben jonson, robert herrick, george herbert, aphra behn, thomas carew, john suckling, richard lovelace, john milton, richard crashaw, and henry vaughan. a german lyric poet of the period is martin opitz; in japan, this was the era of the noted haiku-writer matsuo bashō. th century[edit] in the th century, lyric poetry declined in england and france. the atmosphere of literary discussion in the english coffeehouses and french salons was not congenial to lyric poetry.[ ] exceptions include the lyrics of robert burns, william cowper, thomas gray, and oliver goldsmith. german lyric poets of the period include johann wolfgang von goethe, novalis, friedrich schiller, and johann heinrich voß. kobayashi issa was a japanese lyric poet during this period. in diderot's encyclopédie, louis chevalier de jaucourt described lyric poetry of the time as "a type of poetry totally devoted to sentiment; that's its substance, its essential object".[ ] th century[edit] benjamin haydon's portrait of william wordsworth in europe, the lyric emerged as the principal poetic form of the th century and came to be seen as synonymous with poetry.[ ] romantic lyric poetry consisted of first-person accounts of the thoughts and feelings of a specific moment; the feelings were extreme but personal.[ ] the traditional sonnet was revived in britain, with william wordsworth writing more sonnets than any other british poet.[ ] other important romantic lyric writers of the period include samuel taylor coleridge, john keats, percy bysshe shelley, and lord byron. later in the century, the victorian lyric was more linguistically self-conscious and defensive than the romantic forms had been.[ ] such victorian lyric poets include alfred lord tennyson and christina rossetti. lyric poetry was popular with the german reading public between and , as shown in the number of poetry anthologies published in the period.[ ] according to georg lukács, the verse of joseph von eichendorff exemplified the german romantic revival of the folk-song tradition initiated by goethe, herder, and arnim and brentano's des knaben wunderhorn.[ ] france also saw a revival of the lyric voice during the th century.[ ] the lyric became the dominant mode of french poetry during this period.[ ] for walter benjamin, charles baudelaire was the last example of lyric poetry "successful on a mass scale" in europe.[ ] in russia, aleksandr pushkin exemplified a rise of lyric poetry during the th and early th centuries.[ ] the swedish "phosphorists" were influenced by the romantic movement and their chief poet per daniel amadeus atterbom produced many lyric poems.[ ] italian lyric poets of the period include ugo foscolo, giacomo leopardi, giovanni pascoli, and gabriele d'annunzio. spanish lyric poets include gustavo adolfo bécquer, rosalía de castro, and josé de espronceda. japanese lyric poets include taneda santoka, masaoka shiki, and ishikawa takuboku. th century[edit] further information: th century lyric poetry play media recited portuguese lyric poetry in the earlier years of the th century rhymed lyric poetry, usually expressing the feelings of the poet, was the dominant poetic form in the united states,[ ] europe, and the british colonies. the english georgian poets and their contemporaries such as a. e. housman, walter de la mare, and edmund blunden used the lyric form. the bengali poet rabindranath tagore was praised by william butler yeats for his lyric poetry; yeats compared him to the troubadour poets when the two met in .[ ] the relevance and acceptability of the lyric in the modern age was, though, called into question by modernist poets such as ezra pound, t. s. eliot, h.d., and william carlos williams, who rejected the english lyric form of the th century, feeling that it relied too heavily on melodious language, rather than complexity of thought.[ ] after world war ii, the american new criticism returned to the lyric, advocating a poetry that made conventional use of rhyme, meter and stanzas, and was modestly personal in the lyric tradition.[ ] lyric poetry dealing with relationships, sex and domestic life constituted the new mainstream of american poetry in the late th century following the confessional poets of the s and ' s such as sylvia plath and anne sexton.[ ] st century[edit] with the advancement of internet communication technology, poetry saw a surge in various online media especially podcasts. kevin young, poetry editor at the new yorker, marked that "podcasts connect poetry to a living thing".[ ][ ][ ] references[edit] 	^ scott,clive, vers libre : the emergence of free verse in france, – clarendon press, oxford isbn  	^ miller, andrew. greek lyric: an anthology in translation/books?id= mpjrofth c&pg=pr pp. xii ff]. hackett publishing (indianapolis), . isbn  - . 	^ stephen adams, poetic designs: an introduction to meters, verse forms, and figures of speech, broadview press, , p . isbn  - - - 	^ staatliche antikensammlungen (inv. ) 	^ bowra, cecil. greek lyric poetry: from alcman to simonides, p.  . oxford university press (oxford), . 	^ halporn, james & al. the meters of greek and latin poetry, p.  . hackett publishing, . isbn  - - - . 	^ s lyons 'music in the odes of horace ( ) provides 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organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 musicbrainz - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	musicbrainz 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		  (redirected from mba (identifier)) 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		online music metadata database musicbrainz	 	musicbrainz homepage 	type of site 	online music encyclopedia[ ] 	available in	english 	owner	metabrainz foundation 	created by	robert kaye 	url	musicbrainz.org 	commercial	no 	registration	optional (required for editing data) 	users	~ , active ever[ ] 	launched	july  , ;  years ago ( - - )[ ] 	current status	online 	content license 	part creative commons zero (open data) and part cc-by-nc-sa (not open); commercial licensing available 	written in	perl with postgresql database musicbrainz is a project which aims to create a collaborative music database that is similar to the freedb project. musicbrainz was founded in response to the restrictions placed on the compact disc database (cddb), a database for software applications to look up audio cd information on the internet. musicbrainz has expanded its goals to reach beyond a cd metadata (this is information about the performers, artists, songwriters, etc.) storehouse to become a structured online database for music.[ ][ ] musicbrainz captures information about artists, their recorded works, and the relationships between them. recorded works entries capture at a minimum the album title, track titles, and the length of each track. these entries are maintained by volunteer editors who follow community written style guidelines. recorded works can also store information about the release date and country, the cd id, cover art, acoustic fingerprint, free-form annotation text and other metadata. as of september  [update], musicbrainz contained information on roughly . million artists, . million releases, and million recordings.[ ] end-users can use software that communicates with musicbrainz to add metadata tags to their digital media files, such as alac, flac, mp , ogg vorbis or aac. contents 	 cover art archive 	 fingerprinting 	 . proprietary services 	 . acoustid and chromaprint 	 licensing 	 client software 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links cover art archive[edit] musicbrainz allows contributors to upload cover art images of releases to the database; these images are hosted by cover art archive (caa), a joint project between internet archive and musicbrainz started in . internet archive provides the bandwidth, storage and legal protection for hosting the images, while musicbrainz stores metadata and provides public access through the web and via an api for third parties to use. as with other contributions, the musicbrainz community is in charge of maintaining and reviewing the data.[ ] cover art is also provided for items on sale at amazon.com and some other online resources, but caa is now preferred because it gives the community more control and flexibility for managing the images. fingerprinting[edit] besides collecting metadata about music, musicbrainz also allows looking up recordings by their acoustic fingerprint. a separate application, such as musicbrainz picard, must be used for this. proprietary services[edit] in , musicbrainz started using relatable's patented trm (a recursive acronym for trm recognizes music) for acoustic fingerprint matching. this feature attracted many users and allowed the database to grow quickly. however, by trm was showing scalability issues as the number of tracks in the database had reached into the millions. this issue was resolved in may when musicbrainz partnered with musicip (now amplifind), replacing trm with musicdns.[ ] trms were phased out and replaced by musicdns in november . in october musicip was acquired by amplifind.[ ] some time after the acquisition, the musicdns service began having intermittent problems. acoustid and chromaprint[edit] since the future of the free identification service was uncertain, a replacement for it was sought. the chromaprint acoustic fingerprinting algorithm, the basis for acoustid identification service, was started in february by a long-time musicbrainz contributor lukáš lalinský.[ ] while acoustid and chromaprint are not officially musicbrainz projects, they are closely tied with each other and both are open source. chromaprint works by analyzing the first two minutes of a track, detecting the strength in each of pitch classes, storing these times per second. additional post-processing is then applied to compress this fingerprint while retaining patterns.[ ] the acoustid search server then searches from the database of fingerprints by similarity and returns the acoustid identifier along with musicbrainz recording identifiers if known. licensing[edit] since ,[ ] musicbrainz's core data (artists, recordings, releases, and so on) are in the public domain, and additional content, including moderation data (essentially every original content contributed by users and its elaborations), is placed under the creative commons cc-by-nc-sa- . license.[ ] the relational database management system is postgresql. the server software is covered by the gnu general public license. the musicbrainz client software library, libmusicbrainz, is licensed under the gnu lesser general public license, which allows use of the code by proprietary software products. in december , the musicbrainz project was turned over to the metabrainz foundation, a non-profit group, by its creator robert kaye.[ ] on january , the first commercial venture to use musicbrainz data was the barcelona, spain-based linkara in their linkara música service.[ ] on june , bbc announced that it had licensed musicbrainz's live data feed to augment their music web pages. the bbc online music editors would also join the musicbrainz community to contribute their knowledge to the database.[ ] on july , the beta of the new bbc music site was launched, which publishes a page for each musicbrainz artist.[ ][ ] client software[edit] 	amarok – kde audio player 	banshee – multi-platform audio player 	beets – automatic cli music tagger/organiser for unix-like systems 	clementine – multi-platform audio player 	cdex – microsoft windows cd ripper 	demlo – a dynamic and extensible music manager using a cli 	ieatbrainz – mac os x, deprecated 	foo_musicbrainz component for foobar – music library/pudio player 	jaikoz – java mass tag editor 	max – mac os x cd ripper and audio transcoder 	mp tag – windows metadata editor and music organizer 	musicbrainz picard – cross-platform album-oriented tag editor 	musicbrainz tagger – deprecated microsoft windows tag editor 	puddletag – a tag editor for pyqt under the gplv 	rhythmbox music player – an audio player for unix-like systems 	sound juicer – gnome cd ripper 	zortam mp media studio – windows music organizer and id tag editor freedb clients could also access musicbrainz data through the freedb protocol by using the musicbrainz to freedb gateway service, mb freedb. the gateway was shutdown on march , .[ ] see also[edit] 	list of online music databases references[edit] 	^ "about". musicbrainz. metabrainz. archived from the original on - - . retrieved may . 	^ a b "database statistics". musicbrainz. archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - . 	^ "whois lookup". icann. archived from the original on - - . retrieved march . 	^ highfield, ashley. 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( ): – . doi: . /tifs. . . s cid  . retrieved - - . 	^ "musicbrainz licenses". archived from the original on april , . retrieved - - .cs maint: bot: original-url status unknown (link) 	^ musicbrainz license as of - - . 	^ kaye, robert ( - - ). "the metabrainz foundation launches!" (press release). musicbrainz community blog. archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - . 	^ kaye, robert ( - - ). "introducing: linkara musica". musicbrainz. archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - . 	^ kaye, robert ( - - ). "the bbc partners with musicbrainz for music metadata". musicbrainz. archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - . 	^ shorter, matthew ( - - ). 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historical region of southern italy. it was the land of the lucani, an oscan people. it extended from the tyrrhenian sea to the gulf of taranto. it bordered with samnium and campania in the north, apulia in the east, and bruttium in the south-west, at the tip of the peninsula which is now called calabria. it thus comprised almost all the modern region of basilicata, the southern part of the province of salerno (the cilento area) and a northern portion of the province of cosenza. the precise limits were the river silarus in the north-west, which separated it from campania, and the bradanus, which flows into the gulf of taranto, in the east. the lower tract of the river laus, which flows from a ridge of the apennine mountains to the tyrrhenian sea in an east-west direction, marked part of the border with bruttium. contents 	 geography 	 etymology 	 history 	 cities and towns 	 later use 	 notes 	 references geography[edit] almost the whole area is occupied by the apennine mountains, which here are an irregular group of lofty masses. the main ridge approaches the western sea, and continues from the lofty knot of mountains on the frontiers of samnium, in a mostly southerly direction, to within a few miles of the gulf of policastro. from then on it is separated from the sea by only a narrow interval until it enters bruttium. just within the frontier of lucania rises monte pollino, ,  ft ( ,  m), the highest peak in the southern apennines. the mountains descend in a much more gradual slope to the coastal plain of the gulf of taranto. thus the rivers which flow to the tyrrhenian sea are of little importance compared with those that descend towards the gulf of tarentum. of these the most important are the bradanus (bradano), the casuentus (basento), the aciris (agri), and the siris (sinni). the crathis, which forms at its mouth the southern limit of the province, belongs almost wholly to the territory of the bruttii, but it receives a tributary, the sybaris (coscile), from the mountains of lucania. the only considerable stream on the western side is the silarus (sele), which constitutes the northern boundary, and has two important tributaries in the calor (calore lucano or calore salernitano) and the tanager (tanagro or negro) which joins it from the south. etymology[edit] there are several hypotheses on the origin of the name lucania, inhabited by lucani, an osco-samnite population from central italy. lucania might be derived from greek λευκός, leukos meaning "white", cognate of latin lux ("light"). according to another hypothesis, lucania might be derived from latin word lucus meaning "sacred wood" (cognate of lucere), or from greek λύκος, lykos meaning "wolf". history[edit] a mounted lucani warrior, fresco from a tomb of paestum, italy, c. bc the district of lucania was so called from the people bearing the name lucani (lucanians) by whom it was conquered about the middle of the th century bc. before that period it was included under the general name of oenotria, which was applied by the greeks to the southernmost portion of italy. the mountainous interior was occupied by the tribes known as oenotrians and choni, while the coasts on both sides were occupied by powerful greek colonies which doubtless exercised a protectorate over the interior (see magna graecia). the lucanians were a southern branch of the samnite or sabellic people, who spoke the oscan language. they had a democratic constitution save in time of war, when a dictator was chosen from among the regular magistrates. a few oscan inscriptions survive, mostly in greek characters, from the th or rd century bc, and some coins with oscan legends of the rd century.[ ] the lucanians gradually conquered the whole country (with the exception of the greek towns on the coast) from the borders of samnium and campania to the southern extremity of italy. subsequently the inhabitants of the peninsula, now known as calabria, broke into insurrection, and under the name of bruttians established their independence, after which the lucanians became confined within the limits already described. after this we find them engaged in hostilities with the tarentines, and with alexander, king of epirus, who was called in by that people to their assistance, bc. in bc (livy x. ii seq.) they made alliance with rome, and roman influence was extended by the colonies of venusia ( bc), paestum ( ), and above all tarentum ( ). subsequently they were sometimes in alliance, but more frequently engaged in hostilities, during the samnite wars. on the landing of pyrrhus in italy ( bc) they were among the first to declare in his favor, and found themselves exposed to the resentment of rome when the departure of pyrrhus left his allies at the mercy of the romans. after several campaigns they were reduced to subjection ( bc). notwithstanding this they espoused the cause of hannibal during the second punic war ( bc), and their territory during several campaigns was ravaged by both armies. the country never recovered from these disasters, and under the roman government fell into decay, to which the social war, in which the lucanians took part with the samnites against rome ( – bc) gave the finishing stroke. in the time of strabo the greek cities on the coast had fallen into insignificance, and owing to the decrease of population and cultivation the malaria began to obtain the upper hand. the few towns of the interior were of no importance. a large part of the province was given up to pasture, and the mountains were covered with forests, which abounded in wild boars, bears and wolves. there were some fifteen independent communities, but none of great importance. for administrative purposes under the roman empire, lucania was always united with the district of the bruttii, a practice continued by theodoric.[ ] the two together constituted the third region of augustus. cities and towns[edit] a lucani man riding a chariot, from a tomb in paestum, italy, th century bc the towns on the east coast were metapontum, a few miles south of the bradanus; heraclea, at the mouth of the aciris; and sins, on the river of the same name. close to its southern frontier stood sybaris, which was destroyed in bc, but subsequently replaced by thurii. on the west coast stood posidonia, known under the roman government as paestum; below that came elea (velia under the romans), pyxus, called by the romans buxentum, and laüs, near the frontier of the province towards bruttium. of the towns of the interior the most considerable was potentia, still called potenza. to the north, near the frontier of apulia, was bantia (aceruntia belonged more properly to apulia); while due south from potentia was grumentum, and still farther in that direction were nerulum and muranum. in the upland valley of the tanagrus were atina, forum popilii and consilinum (near sala consilina); eburi (eboli) and volceii (buccino), though to the north of the silarus, were also included in lucania. the via popilia traversed the district from north to south, entering it at the northwestern extremity; the via herculia, coming southwards from the via appia and passing through potentia and grumentum, joined the via popilia near the southwestern edge of the district: while another nameless road followed the east coast and other roads of less importance ran west from potentia to the via popilia, northeast to the via appia and east from grumentum to the coast at heraclea. later use[edit] see also: theme of lucania the modern name basilicata originates from the th century ad, when the area was under byzantine control. during the early th century, during the carbonari revolution of – , the region was renamed and divided into eastern and western lucania (lucania orientale and lucania occidentale). from the latter half of the th century some residents campaigned to reinstate that name. in the fascist regime changed the name to lucania, as part of its appropriation of symbols from the roman empire. after the end of the war and italy's defeat, the new government restored the name of basilicata to the province in . in the late th century, lucania was still in vernacular use as a synonym to basilicata.[ ] notes[edit] 	^ see conway, italic dialects, p. ii sqq.; mommsen, c.i.l. x. p. i; roehl, inscriptiones graecae antiquissimae, . 	^ cassiodorus: chapter , backgrounds and some dates archived - - at the wayback machine 	^ guida d'italia: basilicata, calabria. touring club italiano ( ) isbn  - - - - p. references[edit] 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. 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[w]ith all the uproar in salamis over lycidas, the athenian women soon found out what had happened; whereupon, without a word from the men, they got together, and, each one urging on her neighbor and taking her along with the crowd, flocked to lycidas' house and stoned his wife and children."[ ] the name later occurs in theocritus's idylls, where lycidas is most prominently a poet-goatherd encountered on the trip of "idyll vii." the name appears several times in virgil and is a typically doric shepherd's name, appropriate for the pastoral mode. a lycidas appears in ovid's metamorphoses as a centaur. lycidas also occurs in lucan's pharsalia, where in iii. a sailor named lycidas is ripped by an iron hook from the deck of a ship. "lycidas" as pastoral elegy[edit] by naming edward king "lycidas," milton follows "the tradition of memorializing a loved one through pastoral poetry, a practice that may be traced from ancient greek sicily through roman culture and into the christian middle ages and early renaissance."[ ] milton describes king as "selfless," even though he was of the clergy – a statement both bold and, at the time, controversial among lay people: "through allegory, the speaker accuses god of unjustly punishing the young, selfless king, whose premature death ended a career that would have unfolded in stark contrast to the majority of the ministers and bishops of the church of england, whom the speaker condemns as depraved, materialistic, and selfish."[ ] authors and poets in the renaissance used the pastoral mode in order to represent an ideal of life in a simple, rural landscape. literary critics have emphasized the artificial character of pastoral nature: "the pastoral was in its very origin a sort of toy, literature of make-believe."[citation needed] milton himself "recognized the pastoral as one of the natural modes of literary expression," employing it throughout "lycidas" in order to achieve a strange juxtaposition between death and the remembrance of a loved one.[ ] the poem itself begins with a pastoral image of laurels and myrtles, “symbols of poetic fame; as their berries are not yet ripe, the poet is not yet ready to take up his pen.”[ ] however, the speaker is so filled with sorrow for the death of lycidas that he finally begins to write an elegy. "yet the untimely death of young lycidas requires equally untimely verses from the poet. invoking the muses of poetic inspiration, the shepherd-poet takes up the task, partly, he says, in hope that his own death will not go unlamented." [ ] the speaker continues by recalling the life of the young shepherds together "in the ‘pastures’ of cambridge." milton uses the pastoral idiom to allegorize experiences he and king shared as fellow students at christ’s college, cambridge. the university is represented as the “self-same hill” upon which the speaker and lycidas were “nurst”; their studies are likened to the shepherds’ work of “dr[iving] a field” and “batt’ning… flocks”; classmates are “rough satyrs” and “fauns with clov’n heel” and the dramatic and comedic pastimes they pursued are “rural ditties… / temper’ed to th’ oaten flute"; a cambridge professor is “old damoetas [who] lov’d to hear our song.” the poet then notes the "‘heavy change’ suffered by nature now that lycidas is gone—a ‘pathetic fallacy’ in which the willows, hazel groves, woods, and caves lament lycidas's death." [ ] in the next section of the poem, "the shepherd-poet reflects… that thoughts of how lycidas might have been saved are futile… turning from lamenting lycidas’s death to lamenting the futility of all human labor." this section is followed by an interruption in the swain's monologue by the voice of phoebus, "the sun-god, an image drawn out of the mythology of classical roman poetry, [who] replies that fame is not mortal but eternal, witnessed by jove (god) himself on judgment day." at the end of the poem, king/lycidas appears as a resurrected figure, being delivered, through the resurrecting power of christ, by the waters that lead to his death: "burnished by the sun's rays at dawn, king resplendently ascends heavenward to his eternal reward." [ ] although on its surface "lycidas" reads like a straightforward pastoral elegy, a closer reading reveals its complexity. "lycidas" has been called "‘probably the most perfect piece of pure literature in existence…’ [employing] patterns of structure, prosody, and imagery to maintain a dynamic coherence. the syntax of the poem is full of ‘impertinent auxiliary assertions’ that contribute valuably to the experience of the poem."[ ] the piece itself is remarkably dynamic, enabling many different styles and patterns to overlap, so that "the loose ends of any one pattern disappear into the interweavings of the others."[ ] "lycidas" also has its detractors, including th-century literary critic and polymath samuel johnson, who infamously called the pastoral form "easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting," and said of milton's elegy: it is not to be considered as the effusion of real passion; for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions. passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy, nor calls upon arethuse and mincius, nor tells of rough satyrs and fauns with cloven heel. where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief.[ ] johnson was reacting to what he saw as the irrelevance of the pastoral idiom in milton's age and his own, and to its ineffectiveness at conveying genuine emotion. johnson said that conventional pastoral images—for instance, the representation of the speaker and the deceased as shepherds—were "long ago exhausted," and so improbable that they "always forc[e] dissatisfaction on the mind." johnson also criticized the blending of christian and pagan images and themes in "lycidas," which he saw as the poem's "grosser fault." he said "lycidas" positions the “trifling fictions” of “heathen deities—jove and phoebus, neptune and Æolus” alongside “the most awful and sacred truths, such as ought never to be polluted with such irreverend combinations.[ ] johnson concluded: "surely no man could have fancied that he read lycidas with pleasure had he not known its author."[ ] the uncouth swain[edit] though commonly considered to be a monody, ‘lycidas’ in fact features two distinct voices, the first of which belongs to the uncouth swain (or shepherd). the work opens with the swain, who finds himself grieving for the death of his friend, lycidas, in an idyllic pastoral world. in his article entitled "belief and disbelief in lycidas," lawrence w. hyman states that the swain is experiencing a "loss of faith in a world order that allows death to strike a young man."[ ] similarly, lauren shohet asserts that the swain is projecting his grief upon the classical images of the pastoral setting at this point in the elegy.[ ] throughout the poem, the swain uses both christian and pagan concepts, and mentally locates lycidas’ body in both settings, according to russel fraser.[ ] examples of this are the mention of death as an animate being, the "sisters of the sacred well," orpheus, the blind fury that struck lycidas down, and the scene in which lycidas is imagined to have become a regional deity (a "genius of the shore") after drowning. since lycidas, like king, drowned, there is no body to be found, and the absence of the corpse is of great concern to the swain.[ ] ultimately, the swain's grief and loss of faith are conquered by a "belief in immortality."[ ] many scholars have pointed out that there is very little logical basis within the poem for this conclusion, but that a reasonable process is not necessary for 'lycidas' to be effective.[ ] fraser will argue that milton's voice intrudes briefly upon the swain's to tell a crowd of fellow swains that lycidas is not in fact dead (here one sees belief in immortality). this knowledge is inconsistent with the speaker's "uncouth" character.[ ] the pilot[edit] upon entering the poem at line , the voice of the "pilot of the galilean lake," generally believed to represent st. peter, serves as a judge, condemning the multitude of unworthy members found among the clergy of the church of england. similarly, st. peter fills the position of old testament prophet when he speaks of the clergy's “moral decay” and the grave consequences of their leadership. he then compares these immoral church leaders to wolves among sheep and warns of the “two-handed engine.” according to e. s. de beer, this "two-handed engine" is thought to be a powerful weapon and an allusion to a portion of the book of zechariah.[ ] concerning st. peter's role as a "prophet," the term is meant in the biblical sense, de beer claims, and not in the more modern sense of the word. since biblical prophets more often served as god's messengers than as seers, de beer states that milton was not attempting to foretell the likely future of the church via st. peter.[ ] de beer continues on to note that st. peter's appearance in "lycidas" is likely unrelated to his position as head of the roman catholic church. neither was st. peter ascribed any particular position within the church of england. instead, de beer argues that st. peter appears simply as an apostolic authority, through whom milton might express his frustration with unworthy members of the english clergy.[ ] fraser also agrees that st. peter, indeed, serves as a vehicle for milton's voice to enter the poem.[ ] the church was so thrown off by the poem that they banned it for nearly twenty years after milton's death. the conclusion[edit] several interpretations of the ending have been proposed.[ ] jonathan post claims the poem ends with a sort of retrospective picture of the poet having "sung" the poem into being.[ ] according to critic lauren shohet, lycidas is transcendently leaving the earth, becoming immortal, rising from the pastoral plane in which he is too involved or tangled from the objects that made him.[ ] she claims that "he is diffused into, and animates, the last location of his corpse—his experience of body-as-object… neither fully immanent (since his body is lost) nor fully transcendent (since he remains on earth)."[ ] with an ambiguous ending, the poem does not just end with a death, but instead, it just begins.[ ] the monody clearly ends with a death and an absolute end but also moves forward and comes full circle because it takes a look back at the pastoral world left behind making the ambivalence of the end a mixture of creation and destruction.[ ] nonetheless "thy large recompense" also has a double meaning. as paul alpers states, lycidias' gratitude in heaven is a payment for his loss.[ ] the word "thy" is both an object and mediator of "large recompense." thus, the meaning also maintains the literal meaning which is that of a sacred higher being or the pagan genius.[ ] the final lines of the poem: 	and now the sun had stretch'd out all the hills, 	and now was dropt into the western bay; 	at last he rose, and twitch'd his mantle blew: 	to morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new may refer to milton's imminent departure to italy, and they are reminiscent of the end of virgil's th eclogue, 	surgamus; solet esse gravis cantantibus umbra; iuniperi gravis umbra; nocent et frugibus umbrae. ite domum saturae, venit hesperus, ite capellae. 	come, let us rise: the shade is wont to be baneful to singers; baneful is the shade cast by the juniper, crops sicken too in shade. now homeward, having fed your fill — eve's star is rising — go, my she-goats, go. justa edouardo king naufrago[edit] "lycidas" was originally published in a poetic miscellany alongside thirty-five other poems elegizing the death of edward king. collected at cambridge, most of the poems were written by academics at the university who were committed to the conservative church politics of archbishop laud. among the poets were john cleveland, joseph beaumont, and henry more.[ ] milton, on the other hand, who reported that he had been "church-outed by the prelates,"[ ] had failed to achieve a position at cambridge after his graduation, and his religious views were becoming more radical. the style and form of his poem also strongly contrasts from the other texts in the collection. while most of the poetry adopts a baroque aesthetic linked to the laudian ceremonialism that was in vogue in the s, milton wrote "lycidas" in the outmoded pastoral style.[ ] "lycidas" may actually be satirizing the poetic work featured throughout the justa edouardo king naufrago.[ ] reprint[edit] milton republished the poem in his collection poems of mr. john milton. to this version is added a brief prose preface: 	in this monody the author bewails a learned friend, unfortunately drowned in his passage from chester on the irish seas, . and by occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted clergy, then in their height.[ ] when milton published this version, in , the long parliament, to which milton held allegiance, was in power; thus milton could add the prophetic note—in hindsight—about the destruction of the "corrupted clergy," the "blind mouths" ( ) of the poem. influence[edit] the poem was exceedingly popular. it was hailed as milton's best poem, and by some as the greatest lyrical poem in the english language.[ ] yet it was detested for its artificiality by samuel johnson, who found "the diction is harsh, the rhymes uncertain, and the numbers unpleasing" and complained that "in this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth; there is no art, for there is nothing new."[ ] it is from a line in "lycidas" that thomas wolfe took the name of his novel look homeward, angel: 	look homeward angel now, and melt with ruth: 	and, o ye dolphins', waft the hapless youth. ( – ) the title of howard spring's political novel fame is the spur takes its title from the poem, as does the sheep look up by john brunner which is taken from line . the title of the short story "wash far away" by john berryman from the collection freedom of the poet is also taken from this poem: 	ay me! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas 	wash far away, where ere thy bones are hurld, ( – ) the song "the alphabet business concern (home of fadeless splendour)", from the album, heaven born and ever bright ( ) by cardiacs, contains the lines: comes the blind fury with th'abhorred shears and slits the thin spun life. ( – ) see also[edit] 	 in poetry, the year the poem was written 	 in poetry, the year the poem was published references[edit] 	^ encyclopædia britannica, ed. , vol. , pg. , plate iv. 	^ a b c d womack, mark ( january ). "on the value of lycidas". sel: studies in english literature – . ( ): – . doi: . / . jstor  . 	^ marincola, john (trans. and ed.) ( ). herodotus: the histories. new york: penguin classics. 	^ "milton, john". encyclopædia britannica. . encyclopædia britannica online. nov. 	^ a b c hale, james. "lycidas." masterplots ii: poetry : magillonliterature plus. ebscohost. nov 	^ a b hanford, james holly ( january ). "the pastoral elegy and milton's lycidas". pmla. ( ): – . doi: . / . jstor  . 	^ a b c johnson, samuel ( ). the lives of the most eminent english poets. london. pp.  – . 	^ hyman, lawrence w. ( january ). "belief and disbelief in lycidas". college english. ( ): – . doi: . / . jstor  . 	^ a b shohet, lauren. "subjects and objects in lycidas." texas studies in literature and language, volume , number , summer , pp. – , 	^ a b fraser, russell. "milton’s two poets." studies in english literature (rice); winter , vol. issue , p , p., 	^ hyman, 	^ hyman, – 	^ fraser, 	^ de beer, e. s. ( january ). "st. peter in 'lycidas'". the review of english studies. ( ): – . jstor  . 	^ de beer, 	^ de beer, 	^ fraser 	^ post, jonathan. "helpful contraries: carew's 'donne' and milton's lycidas." george hebert journal vol. . and (fall /spring ): – . project muse november 	^ post, jonathan. "helpful contraries: carew's 'donne' and milton's lycidas." george herbert journal vol. . and (fall /spring ): – . project muse november 	^ shohet 	^ kilgour, maggie. "heroic contradiction: samson and the death of turnus." texas studies in literature and language vol. . ( ) 	^ kilgour 	^ alpers, paul ( january ). "lycidas and modern criticism". elh. ( ): – . doi: . / . jstor  . 	^ alpers 	^ gadaleto, michael ( ). ""who would not sing for lycidas?": milton's satirical reform of the justa edouardo king". studies in philology. ( ): – . doi: . /sip. . . s cid  . 	^ cpw : 	^ gadaleto, p. 	^ gadaleto, p. 	^ homer baxter sprague, ed. ( ). milton's lycidas. ginn and heath. 	^ bloom, h. ( ) the best poems of the english language: from chaucer through frost. new york: harpercollins publishers. 	^ "clement a. price institute on ethnicity, culture, and the modern experience – rutgers sasn". sasn.rutgers.edu. further reading[edit] 	patrides, c. a. lycidas: the tradition and the poem (holt, rinehart, ) lccn 	patrides, c. a. milton's lycidas: the tradition and the poem new and revised edition, (university of missouri, ) isbn  - - - external links[edit] 	 works related to lycidas at wikisource 	full text at the milton reading room 		v 	t 	e john milton 	topics	 	poetic style 	reception history 	religion 	politics 	early life 	relationships 	 	poetry	 	poems 	on the morning of christ's nativity 	upon the circumcision 	the passion 	arcades 	comus 	"lycidas" 	"l'allegro" 	"il penseroso" 	paradise lost 	paradise regained 	samson agonistes 	poems 	antiprelatical tracts	 	of reformation 	of prelatical episcopacy 	animadversions 	the reason of church-government 	apology for smectymnuus 	divorce tracts	 	doctrine and discipline of divorce 	judgement of martin bucer concerning divorce 	tetrachordon 	colasterion 	political tracts	 	areopagitica 	the tenure of kings and magistrates 	eikonoklastes 	defensio pro populo anglicano 	defensio secunda 	a treatise of civil power 	the ready and easy way 	other writings	 	of education 	 the history of britain 	of true religion 	individual sonnets	 	"when i consider how my light is spent" 	"on the late massacre in piedmont" 	"methought i saw my late espoused saint" 	disputed	 	de doctrina christiana 	related	 	john milton (father) 	edward phillips (nephew) 	john phillips (nephew) 	milton: a poem in two books ( – ) 	neo-miltonic syllabics retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=lycidas&oldid= " 		categories: 	 poems 	 poems 	poetry by john milton hidden categories: 	cs : julian–gregorian uncertainty 	use dmy dates from february 	use british english from february 	all articles with unsourced statements 	articles with unsourced statements from august 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			article 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	edit 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		search 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigation 	 	 			main page 	contents 	current events 	random article 	about wikipedia 	contact us 	donate 		 	 	 	 		contribute 	 	 			help 	learn to edit 	community portal 	recent changes 	upload file 		 	 	 		tools 	 	 			what links here 	related changes 	upload file 	special pages 	permanent link 	page information 	cite this page 	wikidata item 		 	 	 		print/export 	 	 			download as pdf 	printable version 		 	 	 	 		languages 	 	 			deutsch 	français 	italiano 	മലയാളം 	nederlands 	Русский 	suomi 		edit links 	 		 this page was last edited on september , at :  (utc). 	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 macrobius - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	macrobius 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		for the lunar crater, see macrobius (crater). for the irish bishop, see macrobius (bishop). for the place in antarctica, see macrobius cove. macrobius, fully macrobius ambrosius theodosius, also known as theodosius (fl. c. ad), was a roman provincial who lived during the early fifth century, during late antiquity, the period of time corresponding to the late roman empire to the early middle ages, and when latin was as widespread as greek among the elite. he is primarily known for his writings, which include the widely copied and read commentarii in somnium scipionis ("commentary on the dream of scipio"), which was one of the most important sources for neoplatonism in the latin west during the middle ages; the saturnalia, a compendium of ancient roman religious and antiquarian lore; and de differentiis et societatibus graeci latinique verbi ("on the differences and similarities of the greek and latin verb"), which is now lost. contents 	 name 	 life 	 works 	 . commentary on the "dream of scipio" 	 . saturnalia 	 . editions and translations 	 legacy 	 gallery 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 . citations 	 . bibliography 	 external links name[edit] the correct order of his names is "macrobius ambrosius theodosius", which is how it appears in the earliest manuscripts of the saturnalia, and how he is addressed in the excerpts from his lost de differentiis. only in later manuscripts were his names reversed as "ambrosius theodosius macrobius", which james willis then adopted for his edition of the commentary. alan cameron notes that cassiodorus and boethius both refer to him as "macrobius theodosius", while he was known during his lifetime as "theodosius": the dedication to the de differentiis is addressed theodosius symmacho suo ("theodosius to his symmachus"), and by the dedicatory epistle to avianus's fables, where he is addressed as theodosi optime.[ ] life[edit] macrobius presenting his work to his son eustachius. from an copy of macrobius' "commentary on the «dream of scipio»". little is known for certain about macrobius, but there are many theories and speculations about him. he states at the beginning of his saturnalia that he was "born under a foreign sky" (sub alio ortos caelo), and both of his major works are dedicated to his son, eustachius.[a] his major works have led experts to assume that he was a pagan. which "foreign sky" macrobius was born under has been the subject of much speculation. terrot glover considers macrobius either an ethnic greek, or born in one of the greek-speaking parts of the roman empire, such as egypt, due to his intimate knowledge of greek literature. j. e. sandys went further and argued that macrobius was born in one of the greek provinces. however other experts, beginning with ludwig van jan, point out that despite his familiarity with greek literature macrobius was far more familiar with latin than greek—as evidenced by his enthusiasm for vergil and cicero—and favor north africa, which was part of the latin-speaking portion of the roman empire.[ ] scholars have attempted to identify him with a macrobius who is mentioned in the codex theodosianus as a praetorian prefect of spain ( – ), and a proconsul of africa ( ).[ ] the codex theodosianus also records a praepositus (or lord chamberlain) named macrobius in .[ ] a number of older authorities go so far as to identify macrobius the author with the first, and date his floruit to – . there are objections to either identification: as alan cameron notes, the complete name of the first candidate is attested in an inscription to be "flavius macrobius maximianus", while the second is excluded because "a praepositus must at this period have been a eunuch."[ ] however, since macrobius is frequently referred to as vir clarissimus et inlustris, a title which was achieved by holding public office, we can reasonably expect his name to appear in the codex theodosianus. further, cameron points out that during his lifetime macrobius was referred to as "theodosius", and looking for that name cameron found a theodosius who was praetorian prefect of italy in . "it is significant that the only surviving law addressed to this theodosius sanctions a privilege for africa proconsularis on the basis of information received concerning byzacena," cameron notes.[ ] works[edit] commentary on the "dream of scipio"[edit] macrobius's most influential book and one of the most widely cited books of the middle ages was a commentary on the book dream of scipio narrated by cicero at the end of his republic. the nature of the dream, in which the elder scipio appears to his (adopted) grandson and describes the life of the good after death and the constitution of the universe from a stoic and neo-platonic point of view, gave occasion for macrobius to discourse upon the nature of the cosmos, transmitting much classical philosophy to the later middle ages.[ ] in astronomy, this work is noted for giving the diameter of the sun as twice the diameter of the earth.[ ] of a third work on the differences and similarities of the greek and latin verb, we only possess an abstract by a certain johannes, doubtfully identified with johannes scotus eriugena ( th century).[ ] see editions by ludwig von jan ( – , with a bibliography of previous editions, and commentary), franz eyssenhardt ( , teubner text), james willis ( , new teubner), and r. a. kaster (oct and loeb, ); on the sources of the saturnalia see h. linke ( ) and georg wissowa ( ). the grammatical treatise will be found in jan's edition and heinrich keil's grammatici latini; see also georg friedrich schömann, commentatio macrobiana ( ). saturnalia[edit] main article: saturnalia (macrobius) early printed edition of macrobius's in somnium scipionis and saturnaliorum. macrobius's saturnalia (latin: saturnaliorum libri septem, "seven books of the saturnalia") consists of an account of the discussions held at the house of vettius agorius praetextatus during the holiday of the saturnalia. it contains a great variety of curious historical, mythological, critical, antiquarian and grammatical discussions. "the work takes the form of a series of dialogues among learned men at a fictional banquet."[ ] editions and translations[edit] 	robert a. kaster (ed.), macrobius: saturnalia. loeb classical library - . cambridge, ma/ london: harvard university press, . volumes. 	percival vaughan davies (trans.), macrobius: the saturnalia. new york: columbia university press, . 	william harris stahl (trans.), macrobius: commentary on the dream of scipio. new york: columbia university press, . (second printing, with revisions, ) 	macrobius, ambrosius aurelius theodosius ( s). seven books of the saturnalia: codex from the plutei collection of the biblioteca medicea laurenziana in florence (in latin). world digital library. retrieved - - . legacy[edit] a prominent lunar crater is named after macrobius.[ ] macrobius cove in antarctica is named after macrobius. gallery[edit] cicero's dream of scipio described the earth as a globe of insignificant size in comparison to the remainder of the cosmos.[ ] many early medieval manuscripts of macrobius include maps of the earth, including the antipodes, zonal maps showing the ptolemaic climates derived from the concept of a spherical earth and a diagram showing the earth (labeled as globus terrae, the sphere of the earth) at the center of the hierarchically ordered planetary spheres.[ ] (see also: flat earth). images from a th-century manuscript of macrobius's commentarii in somnium scipionis (parchment,  ff.; .  ×   cm; southern france). date: ca.  . source: copenhagen, det kongelige bibliotek, ms. nks   °. 	 			 			 initial e shaped in the form of a writing man, probably representing macrobius himself. 			 		 	 			 			 the universe, the earth in the centre, surrounded by the five planets, the sun and the moon, within the zodiacal signs. 			 		 	 			 			 the five climes of the earth. frozen climes in yellow; temperate climes in blue; torrid clime in red. 			 		 	 			 			 sketch map showing the inhabited northern region separated from the antipodes by an imagined ocean at the equator. 			 		 	 			 			 diagram showing a lunar eclipse. 			 		 	 			 			 diagram showing a solar eclipse. 			 		 see also[edit] 	allegory in the middle ages notes[edit] 	^ alan cameron notes that several of the earliest manuscripts of his works spell his son's name eustathius, then after pointing out that a certain plotinus eustathius was urban prefect in observes "plotinus would be a peculiarly appropriate name for a neoplatonist philosopher and keen admirer of the great lycopolitan (cf. comm. i, , ) to have given his son." there is also a macrobius plotinus eudoxius who collaborated with memmius symmachus over an edition of macrobius' commentary.[ ] references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ see cameron, "the date and identity of macrobius", journal of roman studies, ( ), p. and notes. 	^ cameron, "date and identity", p. . 	^ william harris stahl, macrobius: commentary on the dream of scipio (new york: columbia university, ), pp. f 	^ codex theodosianus xiv. . , viii. . , xi. . 	^ codex theodosianus vi. . 	^ cameron, "date and identity", pp. f 	^ cameron, "date and identity", pp. f 	^ a b  one or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. 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(ed), studies on the text of macrobius’s ‘saturnalia’ (new york, ) (american philological association. american classical studies, ). 	cameron, a., the last pagans of rome (oxford, ). external links[edit] 		wikiquote has quotations related to: macrobius 		wikisource has original works written by or about: macrobius 	 latin wikisource has original text related to this article: ambrosius theodosius macrobius 	macrobius: the saturnalia, the latin text of the critical edition edited by ludwig von jan (gottfried bass; quedlinburg and leipzig, ), web edition by bill thayer. 	opera quae supersunt, voll., quedlinburgi et lipsiae, typis et sumptibus godofredi bassii, - : vol. , vol. . 	iohannis (scoti) defloratio de macrobio[permanent dead link], a paraphrase of macrobius' de uerborum graeci et latini differentiis uel societatibus. also as excerpta parisina in grammatici latini, vol. , lipsiae, in aedibus b. g. teubneri, , pagg. - . 	macrobii excerpta bobiensa[permanent dead link], some 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portal 	 	v 	t 	e marcus aurelius antoninus (/ɔːˈriːliəs/ ə-ree-lee-əs,[ ] latin: [ˈmaːrkʊs̠ au̯ˈreːlijʊs̠ an̪t̪oːˈniːnʊs̠]; april – march ad) was roman emperor from to and a stoic philosopher. he was the last of the rulers known as the five good emperors (a term coined some centuries later by niccolò machiavelli), and the last emperor of the pax romana, an age of relative peace and stability for the roman empire. he served as roman consul in , , and . marcus was born during the reign of hadrian to the emperor's nephew, the praetor marcus annius verus, and the heiress domitia calvilla. his father died when he was three, and his mother and grandfather raised marcus. after hadrian's adoptive son, aelius caesar, died in , the emperor adopted marcus's uncle antoninus pius as his new heir. in turn, antoninus adopted marcus and lucius, the son of aelius. hadrian died that year and antoninus became emperor. now heir to the throne, marcus studied greek and latin under tutors such as herodes atticus and marcus cornelius fronto. he kept in close correspondence with fronto for many years afterwards. marcus married antoninus's daughter faustina in . after antoninus died in , marcus acceded to the throne alongside his adoptive brother, who took the name lucius verus. the reign of marcus aurelius was marked by military conflict. in the east, the roman empire fought successfully with a revitalized parthian empire and the rebel kingdom of armenia. marcus defeated the marcomanni, quadi, and sarmatian iazyges in the marcomannic wars; however, these and other germanic peoples began to represent a troubling reality for the empire. he modified the silver purity of the roman currency, the denarius. the persecution of christians in the roman empire appears to have increased during marcus's reign, but his involvement in this is unknown. the antonine plague broke out in or and devastated the population of the roman empire, causing the deaths of five million people. lucius verus may have died from the plague in . unlike some of his predecessors, marcus chose not to adopt an heir. his children included lucilla, who married lucius, and commodus, whose succession after marcus has been a subject of debate among both contemporary and modern historians. the column and equestrian statue of marcus aurelius still stand in rome, where they were erected in celebration of his military victories. meditations, the writings of "the philosopher" – as contemporary biographers called marcus, are a significant source of the modern understanding of ancient stoic philosophy. they have been praised by fellow writers, philosophers, monarchs, and politicians centuries after his death. contents 	 sources 	 early life and career 	 . name 	 . family origins 	 . childhood 	 . succession to hadrian 	 . heir to antoninus pius ( – ) 	 . fronto and further education 	 . births and deaths 	 . antoninus pius's last years 	 emperor 	 . accession of marcus aurelius and lucius verus ( ) 	 . early rule 	 . war with parthia ( – ) 	 . war with germanic tribes ( – ) 	 . legal and administrative work 	 . . trade with han china and outbreak of plague 	 . death and succession ( ) 	 legacy and reputation 	 attitude towards christians 	 marriage and children 	 nerva–antonine family tree 	 writings 	 equestrian statue of marcus aurelius 	 column of marcus aurelius 	 in popular culture 	 notes 	 citations 	 sources 	 . ancient 	 . modern 	 external links sources[edit] bust of marcus aurelius in the archaeological museum of istanbul, turkey the major sources depicting the life and rule of marcus are patchy and frequently unreliable. the most important group of sources, the biographies contained in the historia augusta, claimed to be written by a group of authors at the turn of the th century ad, but it is believed they were in fact written by a single author (referred to here as 'the biographer') from about ad.[ ] the later biographies and the biographies of subordinate emperors and usurpers are unreliable, but the earlier biographies, derived primarily from now-lost earlier sources (marius maximus or ignotus), are much more accurate.[ ] for marcus's life and rule, the biographies of hadrian, antoninus, marcus, and lucius are largely reliable, but those of aelius verus and avidius cassius are not.[ ] a body of correspondence between marcus's tutor fronto and various antonine officials survives in a series of patchy manuscripts, covering the period from c. to .[ ] marcus's own meditations offer a window on his inner life, but are largely undateable and make few specific references to worldly affairs.[ ] the main narrative source for the period is cassius dio, a greek senator from bithynian nicaea who wrote a history of rome from its founding to in eighty books. dio is vital for the military history of the period, but his senatorial prejudices and strong opposition to imperial expansion obscure his perspective.[ ] some other literary sources provide specific details: the writings of the physician galen on the habits of the antonine elite, the orations of aelius aristides on the temper of the times, and the constitutions preserved in the digest and codex justinianeus on marcus's legal work.[ ] inscriptions and coin finds supplement the literary sources.[ ] early life and career[edit] main article: early life of marcus aurelius a bust of young marcus aurelius (capitoline museum). anthony birley, his modern biographer, writes of the bust: 'this is certainly a grave young man.'[ ] name[edit] marcus was born in rome on april . his name at birth was supposedly marcus annius verus,[ ] but some sources assign this name to him upon his father's death and unofficial adoption by his grandfather, upon his coming of age,[ ][ ][ ] or at the time of his marriage.[ ] he may have been known as marcus annius catilius severus,[ ] at birth or some point in his youth,[ ][ ] or marcus catilius severus annius verus. upon his adoption by antoninus as heir to the throne, he was known as marcus aelius aurelius verus caesar and, upon his ascension, he was marcus aurelius antoninus augustus until his death;[ ] epiphanius of salamis, in his chronology of the roman emperors on weights and measures, calls him marcus aurelius verus.[ ] family origins[edit] marcus's paternal family was of roman italo-hispanic origins. his father was marcus annius verus (iii).[ ] the gens annia was of italian origins (with legendary claims of descendance from numa pompilius) and a branch of it moved to ucubi, a small town south east of córdoba in iberian baetica.[ ][ ] this branch of the aurelii based in roman spain, the annii veri, rose to prominence in rome in the late st century ad. marcus's great-grandfather marcus annius verus (i) was a senator and (according to the historia augusta) ex-praetor; his grandfather marcus annius verus (ii) was made patrician in – .[ ] through his grandmother rupilia, marcus was a member of the nerva-antonine dynasty; the emperor trajan's sororal niece salonia matidia was the mother of rupilia and her half-sister, hadrian's wife sabina.[ ][ ][note ] marcus's mother, domitia lucilla minor (also known as domitia calvilla), was the daughter of the roman patrician p. calvisius tullus and inherited a great fortune (described at length in one of pliny's letters) from her parents and grandparents. her inheritance included large brickworks on the outskirts of rome – a profitable enterprise in an era when the city was experiencing a construction boom – and the horti domitia calvillae (or lucillae), a villa on the caelian hill of rome.[ ][ ] marcus himself was born and raised in the horti and referred to the caelian hill as 'my caelian'.[ ][ ][ ] the adoptive family of marcus was of roman italo-gallic origins: the gens aurelia, into which marcus was adopted at the age of , was a sabine gens; antoninus pius, his adoptive father, came from the aurelii fulvi, a branch of the aurelii based in roman gaul. childhood[edit] marcus's sister, annia cornificia faustina, was probably born in or .[ ] his father probably died in , when marcus was three years old during his praetorship.[ ][note ] though he can hardly have known his father, marcus wrote in his meditations that he had learnt 'modesty and manliness' from his memories of his father and the man's posthumous reputation.[ ] his mother lucilla did not remarry[ ] and, following prevailing aristocratic customs, probably did not spend much time with her son. instead, marcus was in the care of 'nurses',[ ] and was raised after his father's death by his grandfather marcus annius verus (ii), who had always retained the legal authority of patria potestas over his son and grandson. technically this was not an adoption, the creation of a new and different patria potestas. lucius catilius severus, described as marcus's maternal great-grandfather, also participated in his upbringing; he was probably the elder domitia lucilla's stepfather.[ ] marcus was raised in his parents' home on the caelian hill, an upscale area with few public buildings but many aristocratic villas. marcus's grandfather owned a palace beside the lateran, where he would spend much of his childhood.[ ] marcus thanks his grandfather for teaching him 'good character and avoidance of bad temper'.[ ] he was less fond of the mistress his grandfather took and lived with after the death of his wife rupilia.[ ] marcus was grateful that he did not have to live with her longer than he did.[ ] marcus was educated at home, in line with contemporary aristocratic trends;[ ] he thanks catilius severus for encouraging him to avoid public schools.[ ] one of his teachers, diognetus, a painting master, proved particularly influential; he seems to have introduced marcus aurelius to the philosophic way of life.[ ] in april , at the behest of diognetus, marcus took up the dress and habits of the philosopher: he studied while wearing a rough greek cloak, and would sleep on the ground until his mother convinced him to sleep on a bed.[ ] a new set of tutors – the homeric scholar alexander of cotiaeum along with trosius aper and tuticius proculus, teachers of latin[ ][note ] – took over marcus's education in about or .[ ] marcus thanks alexander for his training in literary styling.[ ] alexander's influence – an emphasis on matter over style and careful wording, with the occasional homeric quotation – has been detected in marcus's meditations.[ ] succession to hadrian[edit] coin ( – ad) of hadrian (obverse) and his adoptive son, lucius aelius (reverse). hadrian is wearing the laurel crown. inscription: hadrianvs ... / lvcivs caesar. in late , hadrian almost died from a hemorrhage. convalescent in his villa at tivoli, he selected lucius ceionius commodus, marcus's intended father-in-law, as his successor and adopted son,[ ] according to the biographer 'against the wishes of everyone'.[ ] while his motives are not certain, it would appear that his goal was to eventually place the then-too-young marcus on the throne.[ ] as part of his adoption, commodus took the name, lucius aelius caesar. his health was so poor that, during a ceremony to mark his becoming heir to the throne, he was too weak to lift a large shield on his own.[ ] after a brief stationing on the danube frontier, aelius returned to rome to make an address to the senate on the first day of . however, the night before the speech, he grew ill and died of a hemorrhage later in the day.[ ][note ] on january , hadrian selected aurelius antoninus, the husband of marcus's aunt faustina the elder, as his new successor.[ ] as part of hadrian's terms, antoninus, in turn, adopted marcus and lucius commodus, the son of lucius aelius.[ ] marcus became m. aelius aurelius verus, and lucius became l. aelius aurelius commodus. at hadrian's request, antoninus's daughter faustina was betrothed to lucius.[ ] marcus reportedly greeted the news that hadrian had become his adoptive grandfather with sadness, instead of joy. only with reluctance did he move from his mother's house on the caelian to hadrian's private home.[ ] at some time in , hadrian requested in the senate that marcus be exempt from the law barring him from becoming quaestor before his twenty-fourth birthday. the senate complied, and marcus served under antoninus, the consul for .[ ] marcus's adoption diverted him from the typical career path of his class. if not for his adoption, he probably would have become triumvir monetalis, a highly regarded post involving token administration of the state mint; after that, he could have served as tribune with a legion, becoming the legion's nominal second-in-command. marcus probably would have opted for travel and further education instead. as it was, marcus was set apart from his fellow citizens. nonetheless, his biographer attests that his character remained unaffected: 'he still showed the same respect to his relations as he had when he was an ordinary citizen, and he was as thrifty and careful of his possessions as he had been when he lived in a private household'.[ ] after a series of suicide attempts, all thwarted by antoninus, hadrian left for baiae, a seaside resort on the campanian coast. his condition did not improve, and he abandoned the diet prescribed by his doctors, indulging himself in food and drink. he sent for antoninus, who was at his side when he died on july .[ ] his remains were buried quietly at puteoli.[ ] the succession to antoninus was peaceful and stable: antoninus kept hadrian's nominees in office and appeased the senate, respecting its privileges and commuting the death sentences of men charged in hadrian's last days.[ ] for his dutiful behaviour, antoninus was asked to accept the name 'pius'.[ ] heir to antoninus pius ( – )[edit] sestertius of antoninus pius (ad – ). it celebrates the betrothal of marcus aurelus and faustina the younger in , pictured below antoninus, who is holding a statuette of concordia and clasping hands with faustina the elder. inscription: antoninvs avg. pivs p. p., tr. p., co[n]s. iii / concordiae s.c.[ ] denarius of antoninus pius (ad ), with a portrait of marcus aurelius on the reverse. inscription: antoninvs avg. pivs p. p. / avrelivs caes. avg. pii f. co[n]s. des.[ ] immediately after hadrian's death, antoninus approached marcus and requested that his marriage arrangements be amended: marcus's betrothal to ceionia fabia would be annulled, and he would be betrothed to faustina, antoninus's daughter, instead. faustina's betrothal to ceionia's brother lucius commodus would also have to be annulled. marcus consented to antoninus's proposal.[ ] he was made consul for with antoninus as his colleague, and was appointed as a seviri, one of the knights' six commanders, at the order's annual parade on july . as the heir apparent, marcus became princeps iuventutis, head of the equestrian order. he now took the name marcus aelius aurelius verus caesar.[ ] marcus would later caution himself against taking the name too seriously: 'see that you do not turn into a caesar; do not be dipped into the purple dye – for that can happen'.[ ] at the senate's request, marcus joined all the priestly colleges (pontifices, augures, quindecimviri sacris faciundis, septemviri epulonum, etc.);[ ] direct evidence for membership, however, is available only for the arval brethren.[ ] antoninus demanded that marcus reside in the house of tiberius, the imperial palace on the palatine, and take up the habits of his new station, the aulicum fastigium or 'pomp of the court', against marcus's objections.[ ] marcus would struggle to reconcile the life of the court with his philosophic yearnings. he told himself it was an attainable goal – 'where life is possible, then it is possible to live the right life; life is possible in a palace, so it is possible to live the right life in a palace'[ ] – but he found it difficult nonetheless. he would criticize himself in the meditations for 'abusing court life' in front of company.[ ] as quaestor, marcus would have had little real administrative work to do. he would read imperial letters to the senate when antoninus was absent and would do secretarial work for the senators.[ ] but he felt drowned in paperwork and complained to his tutor, marcus cornelius fronto: 'i am so out of breath from dictating nearly thirty letters'.[ ] he was being 'fitted for ruling the state', in the words of his biographer.[ ] he was required to make a speech to the assembled senators as well, making oratorical training essential for the job.[ ] on january , marcus was made consul a second time. fronto urged him in a letter to have plenty of sleep 'so that you may come into the senate with a good colour and read your speech with a strong voice'.[ ] marcus had complained of an illness in an earlier letter: 'as far as my strength is concerned, i am beginning to get it back; and there is no trace of the pain in my chest. but that ulcer [...][note ] i am having treatment and taking care not to do anything that interferes with it'.[ ] never particularly healthy or strong, marcus was praised by cassius dio, writing of his later years, for behaving dutifully in spite of his various illnesses.[ ] in april , marcus married faustina, legally his sister, as had been planned since .[ ] little is specifically known of the ceremony, but the biographer calls it 'noteworthy'.[ ] coins were issued with the heads of the couple, and antoninus, as pontifex maximus, would have officiated. marcus makes no apparent reference to the marriage in his surviving letters, and only sparing references to faustina.[ ] fronto and further education[edit] after taking the toga virilis in , marcus probably began his training in oratory.[ ] he had three tutors in greek – aninus macer, caninius celer, and herodes atticus – and one in latin – fronto. the latter two were the most esteemed orators of their time,[ ] but probably did not become his tutors until his adoption by antoninus in . the preponderance of greek tutors indicates the importance of the greek language to the aristocracy of rome.[ ] this was the age of the second sophistic, a renaissance in greek letters. although educated in rome, in his meditations, marcus would write his inmost thoughts in greek.[ ] atticus was controversial: an enormously rich athenian (probably the richest man in the eastern half of the empire), he was quick to anger and resented by his fellow athenians for his patronizing manner.[ ] atticus was an inveterate opponent of stoicism and philosophic pretensions.[ ] he thought the stoics' desire for apatheia was foolish: they would live a 'sluggish, enervated life', he said.[ ] in spite of the influence of atticus, marcus would later become a stoic. he would not mention herodes at all in his meditations, in spite of the fact that they would come into contact many times over the following decades.[ ] fronto was highly esteemed: in the self-consciously antiquarian world of latin letters,[ ] he was thought of as second only to cicero, perhaps even an alternative to him.[ ][note ] he did not care much for atticus, though marcus was eventually to put the pair on speaking terms. fronto exercised a complete mastery of latin, capable of tracing expressions through the literature, producing obscure synonyms, and challenging minor improprieties in word choice.[ ] a significant amount of the correspondence between fronto and marcus has survived.[ ] the pair were very close, using intimate language such as 'farewell my fronto, wherever you are, my most sweet love and delight. how is it between you and me? i love you and you are not here' in their correspondence.[ ] marcus spent time with fronto's wife and daughter, both named cratia, and they enjoyed light conversation.[ ] he wrote fronto a letter on his birthday, claiming to love him as he loved himself, and calling on the gods to ensure that every word he learnt of literature, he would learn 'from the lips of fronto'.[ ] his prayers for fronto's health were more than conventional, because fronto was frequently ill; at times, he seems to be an almost constant invalid, always suffering[ ] – about one-quarter of the surviving letters deal with the man's sicknesses.[ ] marcus asks that fronto's pain be inflicted on himself, 'of my own accord with every kind of discomfort'.[ ] fronto never became marcus's full-time teacher and continued his career as an advocate. one notorious case brought him into conflict with atticus.[ ] marcus pleaded with fronto, first with 'advice', then as a 'favour', not to attack atticus; he had already asked atticus to refrain from making the first blows.[ ] fronto replied that he was surprised to discover marcus counted atticus as a friend (perhaps atticus was not yet marcus's tutor), and allowed that marcus might be correct,[ ] but nonetheless affirmed his intent to win the case by any means necessary: '[t]he charges are frightful and must be spoken of as frightful. those in particular that refer to the beating and robbing i will describe so that they savour of gall and bile. if i happen to call him an uneducated little greek it will not mean war to the death'.[ ] the outcome of the trial is unknown.[ ] by the age of twenty-five (between april and april ), marcus had grown disaffected with his studies in jurisprudence, and showed some signs of general malaise. his master, he writes to fronto, was an unpleasant blowhard, and had made 'a hit at' him: 'it is easy to sit yawning next to a judge, he says, but to be a judge is noble work'.[ ] marcus had grown tired of his exercises, of taking positions in imaginary debates. when he criticized the insincerity of conventional language, fronto took to defend it.[ ] in any case, marcus's formal education was now over. he had kept his teachers on good terms, following them devotedly. it 'affected his health adversely', his biographer writes, to have devoted so much effort to his studies. it was the only thing the biographer could find fault with in marcus's entire boyhood.[ ] fronto had warned marcus against the study of philosophy early on: 'it is better never to have touched the teaching of philosophy...than to have tasted it superficially, with the edge of the lips, as the saying is'.[ ] he disdained philosophy and philosophers and looked down on marcus's sessions with apollonius of chalcedon and others in this circle.[ ] fronto put an uncharitable interpretation of marcus's 'conversion to philosophy': 'in the fashion of the young, tired of boring work', marcus had turned to philosophy to escape the constant exercises of oratorical training.[ ] marcus kept in close touch with fronto, but would ignore fronto's scruples.[ ] apollonius may have introduced marcus to stoic philosophy, but quintus junius rusticus would have the strongest influence on the boy.[ ][note ] he was the man fronto recognized as having 'wooed marcus away' from oratory.[ ] he was older than fronto and twenty years older than marcus. as the grandson of arulenus rusticus, one of the martyrs to the tyranny of domitian (r. – ), he was heir to the tradition of 'stoic opposition' to the 'bad emperors' of the st century;[ ] the true successor of seneca (as opposed to fronto, the false one).[ ] marcus thanks rusticus for teaching him 'not to be led astray into enthusiasm for rhetoric, for writing on speculative themes, for discoursing on moralizing texts.... to avoid oratory, poetry, and 'fine writing''.[ ] philostratus describes how even when marcus was an old man, in the latter part of his reign, he studied under sextus of chaeronea: the emperor marcus was an eager disciple of sextus the boeotian philosopher, being often in his company and frequenting his house. lucius, who had just come to rome, asked the emperor, whom he met on his way, where he was going to and on what errand, and marcus answered, ' it is good even for an old man to learn; i am now on my way to sextus the philosopher to learn what i do not yet know.' and lucius, raising his hand to heaven, said, ' o zeus, the king of the romans in his old age takes up his tablets and goes to school.' [ ] births and deaths[edit] on november , faustina gave birth to a girl named domitia faustina. she was the first of at least thirteen children (including two sets of twins) that faustina would bear over the next twenty-three years. the next day, december, antoninus gave marcus the tribunician power and the imperium – authority over the armies and provinces of the emperor. as tribune, he had the right to bring one measure before the senate after the four antoninus could introduce. his tribunician powers would be renewed with antoninus's on december .[ ] the first mention of domitia in marcus's letters reveals her as a sickly infant. 'caesar to fronto. if the gods are willing we seem to have a hope of recovery. the diarrhea has stopped, the little attacks of fever have been driven away. but the emaciation is still extreme and there is still quite a bit of coughing'. he and faustina, marcus wrote, had been 'pretty occupied' with the girl's care.[ ] domitia would die in .[ ] the mausoleum of hadrian, where the children of marcus and faustina were buried in , faustina gave birth again, to twin sons. contemporary coinage commemorates the event, with crossed cornucopiae beneath portrait busts of the two small boys, and the legend temporum felicitas, 'the happiness of the times'. they did not survive long. before the end of the year, another family coin was issued: it shows only a tiny girl, domitia faustina, and one boy baby. then another: the girl alone. the infants were buried in the mausoleum of hadrian, where their epitaphs survive. they were called titus aurelius antoninus and tiberius aelius aurelius.[ ] marcus steadied himself: 'one man prays: 'how i may not lose my little child', but you must pray: 'how i may not be afraid to lose him'.[ ] he quoted from the iliad what he called the 'briefest and most familiar saying...enough to dispel sorrow and fear':[ ]  leaves, the wind scatters some on the face of the ground; like unto them are the children of men. – iliad vi. [ ] another daughter was born on march , annia aurelia galeria lucilla. at some time between and , probably soon after , marcus's mother domitia lucilla died.[ ] faustina probably had another daughter in , but the child, annia galeria aurelia faustina, might not have been born until .[ ] another son, tiberius aelius antoninus, was born in . a coin issue celebrates fecunditati augustae, 'the augusta's fertility', depicting two girls and an infant. the boy did not survive long, as evidenced by coins from , only depicting the two girls. he might have died in , the same year as marcus's sister cornificia.[ ] by march , when marcus replied, another of his children was dead. marcus thanked the temple synod, 'even though this turned out otherwise'. the child's name is unknown.[ ] in and , faustina gave birth to daughters: fadilla and cornificia, named respectively after faustina's and marcus's dead sisters.[ ] antoninus pius's last years[edit] bust of antoninus pius, british museum lucius started his political career as a quaestor in . he was consul in ,[ ] and was consul again with marcus in .[ ] lucius had no other titles, except that of 'son of augustus'. lucius had a markedly different personality from marcus: he enjoyed sports of all kinds, but especially hunting and wrestling; he took obvious pleasure in the circus games and gladiatorial fights.[ ][note ] he did not marry until .[ ] in , antoninus turned . he found it difficult to keep himself upright without stays. he started nibbling on dry bread to give him the strength to stay awake through his morning receptions. as antoninus aged, marcus would take on more administrative duties, more still when he became the praetorian prefect (an office that was as much secretarial as military) when marcus gavius maximus died in or .[ ] in , marcus and lucius were designated joint consuls for the following year. antoninus may have already been ill.[ ] two days before his death, the biographer reports, antoninus was at his ancestral estate at lorium, in etruria,[ ] about kilometres (  mi) from rome.[ ] he ate alpine cheese at dinner quite greedily. in the night he vomited; he had a fever the next day. the day after that, march ,[ ] he summoned the imperial council, and passed the state and his daughter to marcus. the emperor gave the keynote to his life in the last word that he uttered when the tribune of the night-watch came to ask the password – 'aequanimitas' (equanimity).[ ] he then turned over, as if going to sleep, and died.[ ] his death closed out the longest reign since augustus, surpassing tiberius by a couple of months.[ ] emperor[edit] main article: reign of marcus aurelius accession of marcus aurelius and lucius verus ( )[edit] busts of the co-emperors marcus aurelius (left) and lucius verus (right), british museum after antoninus died in , marcus was effectively sole ruler of the empire. the formalities of the position would follow. the senate would soon grant him the name augustus and the title imperator, and he would soon be formally elected as pontifex maximus, chief priest of the official cults. marcus made some show of resistance: the biographer writes that he was 'compelled' to take imperial power.[ ] this may have been a genuine horror imperii, 'fear of imperial power'. marcus, with his preference for the philosophic life, found the imperial office unappealing. his training as a stoic, however, had made the choice clear to him that it was his duty.[ ] although marcus showed no personal affection for hadrian (significantly, he does not thank him in the first book of his meditations), he presumably believed it his duty to enact the man's succession plans.[ ] thus, although the senate planned to confirm marcus alone, he refused to take office unless lucius received equal powers.[ ] the senate accepted, granting lucius the imperium, the tribunician power, and the name augustus.[ ] marcus became, in official titulature, imperator caesar marcus aurelius antoninus augustus; lucius, forgoing his name commodus and taking marcus's family name verus, became imperator caesar lucius aurelius verus augustus.[ ][note ] it was the first time that rome was ruled by two emperors.[ ][note ] in spite of their nominal equality, marcus held more auctoritas, or 'authority', than lucius. he had been consul once more than lucius, he had shared in antoninus's rule, and he alone was pontifex maximus. it would have been clear to the public which emperor was the more senior.[ ] as the biographer wrote, 'verus obeyed marcus...as a lieutenant obeys a proconsul or a governor obeys the emperor'.[ ] immediately after their senate confirmation, the emperors proceeded to the castra praetoria, the camp of the praetorian guard. lucius addressed the assembled troops, which then acclaimed the pair as imperatores. then, like every new emperor since claudius, lucius promised the troops a special donative.[ ] this donative, however, was twice the size of those past: , sesterces ( , denarii) per capita, with more to officers. in return for this bounty, equivalent to several years' pay, the troops swore an oath to protect the emperors.[ ] the ceremony was perhaps not entirely necessary, given that marcus's accession had been peaceful and unopposed, but it was good insurance against later military troubles.[ ] upon his accession he also devalued the roman currency. he decreased the silver purity of the denarius from . % to % – the silver weight dropping from .  g ( .  oz) to .  g ( .  oz).[ ] antoninus's funeral ceremonies were, in the words of the biographer, 'elaborate'.[ ] if his funeral followed those of his predecessors, his body would have been incinerated on a pyre at the campus martius, and his spirit would have been seen as ascending to the gods' home in the heavens. marcus and lucius nominated their father for deification. in contrast to their behaviour during antoninus's campaign to deify hadrian, the senate did not oppose the emperors' wishes. a flamen, or cultic priest, was appointed to minister the cult of the deified divus antoninus. antoninus's remains were laid to rest in hadrian's mausoleum, beside the remains of marcus's children and of hadrian himself.[ ] the temple he had dedicated to his wife, diva faustina, became the temple of antoninus and faustina. it survives as the church of san lorenzo in miranda.[ ] in accordance with his will, antoninus's fortune passed on to faustina.[ ] (marcus had little need of his wife's fortune. indeed, at his accession, marcus transferred part of his mother's estate to his nephew, ummius quadratus.[ ]) faustina was three months pregnant at her husband's accession. during the pregnancy she dreamed of giving birth to two serpents, one fiercer than the other.[ ] on august, she gave birth at lanuvium to twins: t. aurelius fulvus antoninus and lucius aurelius commodus.[ ][note ] aside from the fact that the twins shared caligula's birthday, the omens were favorable, and the astrologers drew positive horoscopes for the children.[ ] the births were celebrated on the imperial coinage.[ ] early rule[edit] soon after the emperors' accession, marcus's eleven-year-old daughter, annia lucilla, was betrothed to lucius (in spite of the fact that he was, formally, her uncle).[ ] at the ceremonies commemorating the event, new provisions were made for the support of poor children, along the lines of earlier imperial foundations.[ ] marcus and lucius proved popular with the people of rome, who strongly approved of their civiliter ('lacking pomp') behaviour. the emperors permitted free speech, evidenced by the fact that the comedy writer marullus was able to criticize them without suffering retribution. as the biographer wrote, 'no one missed the lenient ways of pius'.[ ] marcus replaced a number of the empire's major officials. the ab epistulis sextus caecilius crescens volusianus, in charge of the imperial correspondence, was replaced with titus varius clemens. clemens was from the frontier province of pannonia and had served in the war in mauretania. recently, he had served as procurator of five provinces. he was a man suited for a time of military crisis.[ ] lucius volusius maecianus, marcus's former tutor, had been prefectural governor of egypt at marcus's accession. maecianus was recalled, made senator, and appointed prefect of the treasury (aerarium saturni). he was made consul soon after.[ ] fronto's son-in-law, gaius aufidius victorinus, was appointed governor of germania superior.[ ] fronto returned to his roman townhouse at dawn on march, having left his home in cirta as soon as news of his pupils' accession reached him. he sent a note to the imperial freedman charilas, asking if he could call on the emperors. fronto would later explain that he had not dared to write the emperors directly.[ ] the tutor was immensely proud of his students. reflecting on the speech he had written on taking his consulship in , when he had praised the young marcus, fronto was ebullient: 'there was then an outstanding natural ability in you; there is now perfected excellence. there was then a crop of growing corn; there is now a ripe, gathered harvest. what i was hoping for then, i have now. the hope has become a reality.'[ ] fronto called on marcus alone; neither thought to invite lucius.[ ] lucius was less esteemed by fronto than his brother, as his interests were on a lower level. lucius asked fronto to adjudicate in a dispute he and his friend calpurnius were having on the relative merits of two actors.[ ] marcus told fronto of his reading – coelius and a little cicero – and his family. his daughters were in rome with their great-great-aunt matidia; marcus thought the evening air of the country was too cold for them. he asked fronto for 'some particularly eloquent reading matter, something of your own, or cato, or cicero, or sallust or gracchus – or some poet, for i need distraction, especially in this kind of way, by reading something that will uplift and diffuse my pressing anxieties.'[ ] marcus's early reign proceeded smoothly; he was able to give himself wholly to philosophy and the pursuit of popular affection.[ ] soon, however, he would find he had many anxieties. it would mean the end of the felicitas temporum ('happy times') that the coinage of had proclaimed.[ ] tiber island seen at a forty-year high-water mark of the tiber, december in either autumn or spring ,[note ] the tiber overflowed its banks, flooding much of rome. it drowned many animals, leaving the city in famine. marcus and lucius gave the crisis their personal attention.[ ][note ] in other times of famine, the emperors are said to have provided for the italian communities out of the roman granaries.[ ] fronto's letters continued through marcus's early reign. fronto felt that, because of marcus's prominence and public duties, lessons were more important now than they had ever been before. he believed marcus was 'beginning to feel the wish to be eloquent once more, in spite of having for a time lost interest in eloquence'.[ ] fronto would again remind his pupil of the tension between his role and his philosophic pretensions: 'suppose, caesar, that you can attain to the wisdom of cleanthes and zeno, yet, against your will, not the philosopher's woolen cape'.[ ] the early days of marcus's reign were the happiest of fronto's life: marcus was beloved by the people of rome, an excellent emperor, a fond pupil, and perhaps most importantly, as eloquent as could be wished.[ ] marcus had displayed rhetorical skill in his speech to the senate after an earthquake at cyzicus. it had conveyed the drama of the disaster, and the senate had been awed: 'not more suddenly or violently was the city stirred by the earthquake than the minds of your hearers by your speech'. fronto was hugely pleased.[ ] war with parthia ( – )[edit] main article: roman–parthian war of – see also: roman–persian wars coin of vologases iv of parthia. inscription: above ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΝ ΔΟΥ, right ΑΡΣΑΚΟΥ ΒΟΛΑΓΑΣΟΥ, left ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥΣ ΦΙΛΕΛΛΗΝΟΣ, below ΔΙΟΥ (greek inscription for king of kings – arsakis volagases – illustrius philellene). year ΔΟΥ = ΥΟΔ΄ = = – . on his deathbed, antoninus spoke of nothing but the state and the foreign kings who had wronged him.[ ] one of those kings, vologases iv of parthia, made his move in late summer or early autumn .[ ] vologases entered the kingdom of armenia (then a roman client state), expelled its king and installed his own – pacorus, an arsacid like himself.[ ] the governor of cappadocia, the frontline in all armenian conflicts, was marcus sedatius severianus, a gaul with much experience in military matters.[ ] convinced by the prophet alexander of abonutichus that he could defeat the parthians easily and win glory for himself,[ ] severianus led a legion (perhaps the ix hispana[ ]) into armenia, but was trapped by the great parthian general chosrhoes at elegeia, a town just beyond the cappadocian frontiers, high up past the headwaters of the euphrates. after severianus made some unsuccessful efforts to engage chosrhoes, he committed suicide, and his legion was massacred. the campaign had lasted only three days.[ ] there was threat of war on other frontiers as well – in britain, and in raetia and upper germany, where the chatti of the taunus mountains had recently crossed over the limes.[ ] marcus was unprepared. antoninus seems to have given him no military experience; the biographer writes that marcus spent the whole of antoninus's twenty-three-year reign at his emperor's side and not in the provinces, where most previous emperors had spent their early careers.[ ][note ] more bad news arrived: the syrian governor's army had been defeated by the parthians, and retreated in disarray.[ ] reinforcements were dispatched for the parthian frontier. p. julius geminius marcianus, an african senator commanding x gemina at vindobona (vienna), left for cappadocia with detachments from the danubian legions.[ ] three full legions were also sent east: i minervia from bonn in upper germany,[ ] ii adiutrix from aquincum,[ ] and v macedonica from troesmis.[ ] the northern frontiers were strategically weakened; frontier governors were told to avoid conflict wherever possible.[ ] m. annius libo, marcus's first cousin, was sent to replace the syrian governor. his first consulship was in , so he was probably in his early thirties,[ ] and as a patrician, he lacked military experience. marcus had chosen a reliable man rather than a talented one.[ ] aureus of marcus aurelius (ad ). on the reverse, victoria is holding a shield inscribed 'vic(toria) par(thica)', referring to his victory against the parthians. inscription: m. antoninvs avg. / tr. p. xx, imp. iiii, co[n]s. iii.[ ] marcus took a four-day public holiday at alsium, a resort town on the coast of etruria. he was too anxious to relax. writing to fronto, he declared that he would not speak about his holiday.[ ] fronto replied: 'what? do i not know that you went to alsium with the intention of devoting yourself to games, joking, and complete leisure for four whole days?'[ ] he encouraged marcus to rest, calling on the example of his predecessors (antoninus had enjoyed exercise in the palaestra, fishing, and comedy),[ ] going so far as to write up a fable about the gods' division of the day between morning and evening – marcus had apparently been spending most of his evenings on judicial matters instead of at leisure.[ ] marcus could not take fronto's advice. 'i have duties hanging over me that can hardly be begged off', he wrote back.[ ] marcus aurelius put on fronto's voice to chastise himself: ''much good has my advice done you', you will say!' he had rested, and would rest often, but 'this devotion to duty! who knows better than you how demanding it is!'[ ] the dissolute syrian army spent more time in antioch's open-air taverns than with their units.[ ] (engraving by william miller after a drawing by h. warren from a sketch by captain byam martin, r.n., ) the euphrates river near raqqa, syria fronto sent marcus a selection of reading material,[ ] and, to settle his unease over the course of the parthian war, a long and considered letter, full of historical references. in modern editions of fronto's works, it is labeled de bello parthico (on the parthian war). there had been reverses in rome's past, fronto writes,[ ] but in the end, romans had always prevailed over their enemies: 'always and everywhere [mars] has changed our troubles into successes and our terrors into triumphs'.[ ] over the winter of – , news that a rebellion was brewing in syria arrived and it was decided that lucius should direct the parthian war in person. he was stronger and healthier than marcus, the argument went, and thus more suited to military activity.[ ] lucius's biographer suggests ulterior motives: to restrain lucius's debaucheries, to make him thrifty, to reform his morals by the terror of war, and to realize that he was an emperor.[ ][note ] whatever the case, the senate gave its assent, and, in the summer of , lucius left. marcus would remain in rome, as the city 'demanded the presence of an emperor'.[ ] lucius spent most of the campaign in antioch, though he wintered at laodicea and summered at daphne, a resort just outside antioch.[ ] critics declaimed lucius's luxurious lifestyle,[ ] saying that he had taken to gambling, would 'dice the whole night through',[ ] and enjoyed the company of actors.[ ][note ] libo died early in the war; perhaps lucius had murdered him.[ ] marble statue of lucilla, – ad, bardo national museum, tunisia in the middle of the war, perhaps in autumn or early , lucius made a trip to ephesus to be married to marcus's daughter lucilla.[ ] marcus moved up the date; perhaps he had already heard of lucius's mistress panthea.[ ] lucilla's thirteenth birthday was in march ; whatever the date of her marriage, she was not yet fifteen.[ ] lucilla was accompanied by her mother faustina and lucius's uncle (his father's half-brother) m. vettulenus civica barbarus,[ ] who was made comes augusti, 'companion of the emperors'. marcus may have wanted civica to watch over lucius, the job libo had failed at.[ ] marcus may have planned to accompany them all the way to smyrna (the biographer says he told the senate he would), but this did not happen.[ ] he only accompanied the group as far as brundisium, where they boarded a ship for the east.[ ] he returned to rome immediately thereafter, and sent out special instructions to his proconsuls not to give the group any official reception.[ ] the armenian capital artaxata was captured in .[ ] at the end of the year, lucius took the title armeniacus, despite having never seen combat; marcus declined to accept the title until the following year.[ ] when lucius was hailed as imperator again, however, marcus did not hesitate to take the imperator ii with him.[ ] occupied armenia was reconstructed on roman terms. in , a new capital, kaine polis ('new city'), replaced artaxata.[ ] a new king was installed: a roman senator of consular rank and arsacid descent, gaius julius sohaemus. he may not even have been crowned in armenia; the ceremony may have taken place in antioch, or even ephesus.[ ] sohaemus was hailed on the imperial coinage of under the legend rex armeniis datus: lucius sat on a throne with his staff while sohaemus stood before him, saluting the emperor.[ ] in , the parthians intervened in osroene, a roman client in upper mesopotamia centred on edessa, and installed their own king on its throne.[ ] in response, roman forces were moved downstream, to cross the euphrates at a more southerly point.[ ] before the end of , however, roman forces had moved north to occupy dausara and nicephorium on the northern, parthian bank.[ ] soon after the conquest of the north bank of the euphrates, other roman forces moved on osroene from armenia, taking anthemusia, a town southwest of edessa.[ ] in , roman forces moved on mesopotamia. edessa was re-occupied, and mannus, the king deposed by the parthians, was re-installed.[ ] the parthians retreated to nisibis, but this too was besieged and captured. the parthian army dispersed in the tigris.[ ] a second force, under avidius cassius and the iii gallica, moved down the euphrates, and fought a major battle at dura.[ ] by the end of the year, cassius's army had reached the twin metropolises of mesopotamia: seleucia on the right bank of the tigris and ctesiphon on the left. ctesiphon was taken and its royal palace set to flame. the citizens of seleucia, still largely greek (the city had been commissioned and settled as a capital of the seleucid empire, one of alexander the great's successor kingdoms), opened its gates to the invaders. the city was sacked nonetheless, leaving a black mark on lucius's reputation. excuses were sought, or invented: the official version had it that the seleucids broke faith first.[ ] cassius's army, although suffering from a shortage of supplies and the effects of a plague contracted in seleucia, made it back to roman territory safely.[ ] lucius took the title parthicus maximus, and he and marcus were hailed as imperatores again, earning the title 'imp. iii'.[ ] cassius's army returned to the field in , crossing over the tigris into media. lucius took the title 'medicus',[ ] and the emperors were again hailed as imperatores, becoming 'imp. iv' in imperial titulature. marcus took the parthicus maximus now, after another tactful delay.[ ] on october of that year, marcus proclaimed two of his sons, annius and commodus, as his heirs.[ ] war with germanic tribes ( – )[edit] main article: marcomannic wars the roman empire at the death of marcus aurelius in , represented in purple. his annexation of lands of the marcomanni and the jazyges – perhaps to be provincially called marcomannia and sarmatia[ ] – was cut short in by the revolt of avidius cassius and by his death.[ ] the light pink territory represents roman dependencies: armenia, colchis, iberia, and albania. scenes from the marcomannic wars, – ad (bas reliefs from the arch of marcus aurelius, now in the capitoline museums) marcus aurelius receiving the submission of the vanquished, with raised vexillum standards marcus aurelius celebrating his triumph over rome's enemies in ad, riding in a quadriga chariot bronze medallion of marcus aurelius (ad ). the reverse depicts jupiter, flanked by marcus and lucius verus. inscription: m. antoninvs avg. arm. parth. max. / tr. p. xxii, imp. iiii, cos iii.[ ] aureus of marcus aurelius (ad – ). the pile of trophies on the reverse celebrates the end of the marcomannic wars. inscription: m. antoninvs avg. germ. sarm. / tr. p. xxxi, imp. viii, co[n]s. iii, p. p.[ ] during the early s, fronto's son-in-law victorinus was stationed as a legate in germany. he was there with his wife and children (another child had stayed with fronto and his wife in rome).[ ] the condition on the northern frontier looked grave. a frontier post had been destroyed, and it looked like all the peoples of central and northern europe were in turmoil. there was corruption among the officers: victorinus had to ask for the resignation of a legionary legate who was taking bribes.[ ] experienced governors had been replaced by friends and relatives of the imperial family. lucius dasumius tullius tuscus, a distant relative of hadrian, was in upper pannonia, succeeding the experienced marcus nonius macrinus. lower pannonia was under the obscure tiberius haterius saturnius. marcus servilius fabianus maximus was shuffled from lower moesia to upper moesia when marcus iallius bassus had joined lucius in antioch. lower moesia was filled by pontius laelianus's son. the dacias were still divided in three, governed by a praetorian senator and two procurators. the peace could not hold long; lower pannonia did not even have a legion.[ ] starting in the s, germanic tribes, and other nomadic people launched raids along the northern border, particularly into gaul and across the danube. this new impetus westwards was probably due to attacks from tribes further east. a first invasion of the chatti in the province of germania superior was repulsed in .[ ] far more dangerous was the invasion of , when the marcomanni of bohemia, clients of the roman empire since ad, crossed the danube together with the lombards and other germanic tribes.[ ] soon thereafter, the iranian sarmatian iazyges attacked between the danube and the theiss rivers.[ ] the costoboci, coming from the carpathian area, invaded moesia, macedonia, and greece. after a long struggle, marcus managed to push back the invaders. numerous members of germanic tribes settled in frontier regions like dacia, pannonia, germany, and italy itself. this was not a new thing, but this time the numbers of settlers required the creation of two new frontier provinces on the left shore of the danube, sarmatia and marcomannia, including today's czechia, slovakia, and hungary. some germanic tribes who settled in ravenna revolted and managed to seize possession of the city. for this reason, marcus decided not only against bringing more barbarians into italy, but even banished those who had previously been brought there.[ ] legal and administrative work[edit] bust of marcus aurelius in the liebieghaus, frankfurt. like many emperors, marcus spent most of his time addressing matters of law such as petitions and hearing disputes,[ ] but unlike many of his predecessors, he was already proficient in imperial administration when he assumed power.[ ] he took great care in the theory and practice of legislation. professional jurists called him 'an emperor most skilled in the law'[ ] and 'a most prudent and conscientiously just emperor'.[ ] he showed marked interest in three areas of the law: the manumission of slaves, the guardianship of orphans and minors, and the choice of city councillors (decuriones).[ ] marcus showed a great deal of respect to the roman senate and routinely asked them for permission to spend money even though he did not need to do so as the absolute ruler of the empire.[ ] in one speech, marcus himself reminded the senate that the imperial palace where he lived was not truly his possession but theirs.[ ] in , he revalued the denarius, increasing the silver purity from % to % – the actual silver weight increasing from . – .  g ( . – .  oz). however, two years later he reverted to the previous values because of the military crises facing the empire.[ ] trade with han china and outbreak of plague[edit] main articles: sino-roman relations and antonine plague a possible contact with han china occurred in when a roman traveller visited the han court, claiming to be an ambassador representing a certain andun (chinese: 安 敦), ruler of daqin, who can be identified either with marcus or his predecessor antoninus.[ ][ ][ ] in addition to republican-era roman glasswares found at guangzhou along the south china sea,[ ] roman golden medallions made during the reign of antoninus and perhaps even marcus have been found at Óc eo, vietnam, then part of the kingdom of funan near the chinese province of jiaozhi (in northern vietnam). this may have been the port city of kattigara, described by ptolemy (c. ) as being visited by a greek sailor named alexander and lying beyond the golden chersonese (i.e. malay peninsula).[ ][note ] roman coins from the reigns of tiberius to aurelian have been found in xi'an, china (site of the han capital chang'an), although the far greater amount of roman coins in india suggests the roman maritime trade for purchasing chinese silk was centred there, not in china or even the overland silk road running through persia.[ ] the antonine plague started in mesopotamia in or at the end of lucius's campaign against the parthians. it may have continued into the reign of commodus. galen, who was in rome when the plague spread to the city in ,[ ] mentioned that 'fever, diarrhoea, and inflammation of the pharynx, along with dry or pustular eruptions of the skin after nine days' were among the symptoms.[ ] it is believed that the plague was smallpox.[ ] in the view of historian rafe de crespigny, the plagues afflicting the eastern han empire of china during the reigns of emperor huan of han (r. – ) and emperor ling of han (r. – ), which struck in , , , , , , and , were perhaps connected to the plague in rome.[ ] raoul mclaughlin writes that the travel of roman subjects to the han chinese court in may have started a new era of roman–far east trade. however, it was also a 'harbinger of something much more ominous'. according to mclaughlin, the disease caused 'irreparable' damage to the roman maritime trade in the indian ocean as proven by the archaeological record spanning from egypt to india, as well as significantly decreased roman commercial activity in southeast asia.[ ] death and succession ( )[edit] last words of the emperor marcus aurelius ( ) by eugène delacroix marcus died at the age of on march due to unknown causes in near military quarters near the city of sirmium in pannonia (modern sremska mitrovica). he was immediately deified and his ashes were returned to rome, where they rested in hadrian's mausoleum (modern castel sant'angelo) until the visigoth sack of the city in . his campaigns against germans and sarmatians were also commemorated by a column and a temple built in rome.[ ] some scholars consider his death to be the end of the pax romana.[ ] marcus was succeeded by his son commodus, whom he had named caesar in and with whom he had jointly ruled since .[ ] biological sons of the emperor, if there were any, were considered heirs;[ ] however, it was only the second time that a "non-adoptive" son had succeeded his father, the only other having been a century earlier when vespasian was succeeded by his son titus. historians have criticized the succession to commodus, citing commodus's erratic behaviour and lack of political and military acumen.[ ] at the end of his history of marcus's reign, cassius dio wrote an encomium to the emperor, and described the transition to commodus in his own lifetime with sorrow:[ ] [marcus] did not meet with the good fortune that he deserved, for he was not strong in body and was involved in a multitude of troubles throughout practically his entire reign. but for my part, i admire him all the more for this very reason, that amid unusual and extraordinary difficulties he both survived himself and preserved the empire. just one thing prevented him from being completely happy, namely, that after rearing and educating his son in the best possible way he was vastly disappointed in him. this matter must be our next topic; for our history now descends from a kingdom of gold to one of iron and rust, as affairs did for the romans of that day. 	–dio lxxi. . – [ ] dio adds that from marcus's first days as counsellor to antoninus to his final days as emperor of rome, "he remained the same [person] and did not change in the least."[ ] michael grant, in the climax of rome, writes of commodus:[ ] the youth turned out to be very erratic, or at least so anti-traditional that disaster was inevitable. but whether or not marcus ought to have known this to be so, the rejections of his son's claims in favour of someone else would almost certainly have involved one of the civil wars which were to proliferate so disastrously around future successions.[ ] legacy and reputation[edit] marcus acquired the reputation of a philosopher king within his lifetime, and the title would remain after his death; both dio and the biographer call him 'the philosopher'.[ ][ ] christians such as justin martyr, athenagoras, and eusebius also gave him the title.[ ] the last named went so far as to call him "more philanthropic and philosophic" than antoninus and hadrian, and set him against the persecuting emperors domitian and nero to make the contrast bolder.[ ] the historian herodian wrote: "alone of the emperors, he gave proof of his learning not by mere words or knowledge of philosophical doctrines but by his blameless character and temperate way of life."[ ] iain king explains that marcus's legacy was tragic: "[the emperor's] stoic philosophy – which is about self-restraint, duty, and respect for others – was so abjectly abandoned by the imperial line he anointed on his death."[ ] attitude towards christians[edit] in the first two centuries of the christian era, it was local roman officials who were largely responsible for the persecution of christians. in the second century, the emperors treated christianity as a local problem to be dealt with by their subordinates.[ ] the number and severity of persecutions of christians in various locations of the empire seemingly increased during the reign of marcus. the extent to which marcus himself directed, encouraged, or was aware of these persecutions is unclear and much debated by historians.[ ] the early christian apologist, justin martyr, includes within his first apology (written between and a.d.) a letter from marcus aurelius to the roman senate (prior to his reign) describing a battlefield incident in which marcus believed christian prayer had saved his army from thirst when "water poured from heaven," after which, "immediately we recognized the presence of god." marcus goes on to request the senate desist from earlier courses of christian persecution by rome.[ ] marriage and children[edit] coin of commodus and annius, – . inscription: [ΝΕΩ]ΚΟΡΟΙ cΕΒΑcΤΟΥ i.e. the city (of tarsus in cilicia) had a temple of augustus. bust of vibia aurelia sabina, prado museum marcus and his cousin-wife faustina had at least children during their -year marriage,[ ][ ] including two sets of twins.[ ][ ] one son and four daughters outlived their father.[ ] their children included: 	domitia faustina ( – )[ ][ ][ ] 	titus aelius antoninus ( )[ ][ ][ ] 	titus aelius aurelius ( )[ ][ ][ ] 	annia aurelia galeria lucilla ( [ ][ ]– [ ]), married her father's co-ruler lucius verus,[ ] then tiberius claudius pompeianus, had issue from both marriages 	annia galeria aurelia faustina (born ),[ ] married gnaeus claudius severus, had a son 	tiberius aelius antoninus (born , died before )[ ] 	unknown child (died before )[ ] 	annia aurelia fadilla (born [ ][ ]),[ ] married marcus peducaeus plautius quintillus, had issue 	annia cornificia faustina minor (born [ ][ ]),[ ] married marcus petronius sura mamertinus, had a son 	titus aurelius fulvus antoninus ( – ), elder twin brother of commodus[ ] 	lucius aurelius commodus antoninus (commodus) ( – ),[ ] twin brother of titus aurelius fulvus antoninus, later emperor,[ ][ ] married bruttia crispina, no issue 	marcus annius verus caesar ( [ ]– [ ][ ])[ ] 	hadrianus[ ] 	vibia aurelia sabina ( [ ]– died before [ ]),[ ] married lucius antistius burrus, no issue nerva–antonine family tree[edit] 	 	v 	t 	e nerva–antonine family tree 	 																														 																				 	q. marcius barea soranus		q. marcius barea sura		antonia furnilla							m. cocceius nerva		sergia plautilla							p. aelius hadrianus 				 																																					 						 	 titus (r.  – )		marcia furnilla		marcia		 trajanus pater				 nerva (r.  – )				ulpia[i]		aelius hadrianus marullinus 						 																																			 															 			 julia flavia[ii]		 marciana[iii]		c. salonius matidius[iv]		 trajan (r.  – )		 plotina		p. acilius attianus		p. aelius afer[v]		paulina major[vi]				 							 																																						 	lucius mindius ( )		libo rupilius frugi ( )		 matidia[vii]		l. vibius sabinus ( )[viii]																									 																									 																																									paulina minor[vi]		l. julius ursus servianus[ix] 														 			matidia minor[vii]										suetonius?[x]		 sabina[iii]		 hadrian[v][xi][vi] (r.  – )		 antinous[xii]										 			 										julia balbilla?[xiii]																							c. fuscus salinator i		julia serviana paulina 														 	m. annius verus[xiv]		rupilia faustina[xv]						boionia procilla		cn. arrius antoninus																					 							 																																		l. ceionius commodus		appia severa		c. fuscus salinator ii	 															 						l. caesennius paetus						arria antonina		arria fadilla[xvi]			t. aurelius fulvus																							 																			 										l. caesennius antoninus																				l. commodus		fundania plautia		ignota[xvii]		c. avidius nigrinus 								 																																																	 																									 	m. annius verus[xv]		domitia calvilla[xviii]				fundania[xix]		m. annius libo[xv]		faustina[xvi]		 antoninus pius (r.  – )[xvi]				l. aelius caesar[xvii]						avidia plautia[xvii]	 											 																																																			 																																													 	cornificia[xv]		marcus aurelius (r.  – )[xx]			faustina minor[xx]		c. avidius cassius[xxi]			aurelia fadilla[xvi]		lucius verus (r.  – )[xvii] ( )			ceionia fabia[xvii]		plautius quintillus[xxii]		q. servilius pudens		ceionia plautia[xvii]		 									 																																																 																																				 	cornificia minor[xxiii]		m. petronius sura		commodus (r.  – )[xx]			fadilla[xxiii]			m. annius verus caesar[xx]		ti. claudius pompeianus ( )		lucilla[xx]					m. plautius quintillus[xvii]		junius licinius balbus		servilia ceionia 									 																																										 																 			petronius antoninus		l. aurelius agaclytus ( )		aurelia sabina[xxiii]		l. antistius burrus ( )		plautius quintillus		plautia servilla			c. furius sabinus timesitheus		antonia gordiana		junius licinius balbus? 				 																																						 		 																													furia sabina tranquillina			gordian iii (r.  – ) 		 	 	 	( ) = st spouse 	( ) = nd spouse 	( ) = rd spouse 	  reddish purple indicates emperor of the nerva-antonine dynasty   lighter purple indicates designated imperial heir of said dynasty who never reigned   grey indicates unsuccessful imperial aspirants   bluish purple indicates emperors of other dynasties 	dashed lines indicate adoption; dotted lines indicate love affairs/unmarried relationships 	 small caps = posthumously deified (augusti, augustae, or other) 	notes: except where otherwise noted, the notes below indicate that an individual's parentage is as shown in the above family tree. 	^ sister of trajan's father: giacosa ( ), p.  . 	^ giacosa ( ), p. . 	^ a b levick ( ), p. . 	^ husband of ulpia marciana: levick ( ), p. . 	^ a b giacosa ( ), p.  . 	^ a b c dir contributor (herbert w. benario, ), "hadrian". 	^ a b giacosa ( ), p. . 	^ husband of salonia matidia: levick ( ), p. . 	^ smith ( ), "julius servianus".[dead link] 	^ suetonius a possible lover of sabina: one interpretation of ha hadrianus : 	^ smith ( ), "hadrian", pp. – .[dead link] 	^ lover of hadrian: lambert ( ), p.  and passim; deification: lamber ( ), pp.  – , etc. 	^ julia balbilla a possible lover of sabina: a. r. birley ( ), hadrian, the restless emperor, p. , cited in levick ( ), p. , who is sceptical of this suggestion. 	^ husband of rupilia faustina: levick ( ), p. . 	^ a b c d levick ( ), p. . 	^ a b c d levick ( ), p. . 	^ a b c d e f g levick ( ), p. . 	^ wife of m. annius verus: giacosa ( ), p. . 	^ wife of m. annius libo: levick ( ), p. . 	^ a b c d e giacosa ( ), p. . 	^ the epitomator of cassius dio ( . ) gives the story that faustina the elder promised to marry avidius cassius. this is also echoed in ha "marcus aurelius" . 	^ husband of ceionia fabia: levick ( ), p. . 	^ a b c levick ( ), p. . 	references: 	dir contributors ( ). "de imperatoribus romanis: an online encyclopedia of roman rulers and their families". retrieved april . 	giacosa, giorgio ( ). women of the caesars: their lives and portraits on coins. translated by r. ross holloway. milan: edizioni arte e moneta. isbn  - - - . 	lambert, royston ( ). beloved and god: the story of hadrian and antinous. new york: viking. isbn  - - - . 	levick, barbara ( ). faustina i and ii: imperial women of the golden age. oxford university press. isbn  - - - - . 	william smith, ed. ( ). dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology. writings[edit] main article: meditations while on campaign between and , marcus wrote his meditations in greek as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement. the original title of this work, if it had one, is unknown. 'meditations' – as well as other titles including 'to himself' – were adopted later. he had a logical mind and his notes were representative of stoic philosophy and spirituality. meditations is still revered as a literary monument to a government of service and duty. according to hays, the book was a favourite of christina of sweden, frederick the great, john stuart mill, matthew arnold, and goethe, and is admired by modern figures such as wen jiabao and bill clinton.[ ] it has been considered by many commentators to be one of the greatest works of philosophy.[ ] it is not known how widely marcus's writings were circulated after his death. there are stray references in the ancient literature to the popularity of his precepts, and julian the apostate was well aware of his reputation as a philosopher, though he does not specifically mention meditations.[ ] it survived in the scholarly traditions of the eastern church and the first surviving quotes of the book, as well as the first known reference of it by name ('marcus's writings to himself') are from arethas of caesarea in the th century and in the byzantine suda (perhaps inserted by arethas himself). it was first published in in zurich by wilhelm xylander (ne holzmann), from a manuscript reportedly lost shortly afterwards.[ ] the oldest surviving complete manuscript copy is in the vatican library and dates to the th century.[ ] equestrian statue of marcus aurelius[edit] main article: equestrian statue of marcus aurelius aureus of marcus aurelius (ad december – june ), with his equestrian statue on the reverse. inscription: m. antoninvs avg. tr. p. xxviii / imp. vi, co[n]s iii.[ ] detailed view of the column of marcus aurelius the equestrian statue of marcus aurelius in rome is the only roman equestrian statue which has survived into the modern period.[ ] this may be due to it being wrongly identified during the middle ages as a depiction of the christian emperor constantine the great, and spared the destruction which statues of pagan figures suffered. crafted of bronze in circa , it stands .  ft ( .  m) and is now located in the capitoline museums of rome. the emperor's hand is outstretched in an act of clemency offered to a bested enemy, while his weary facial expression due to the stress of leading rome into nearly constant battles perhaps represents a break with the classical tradition of sculpture.[ ] 	 			 			 a close up view of the equestrian statue of marcus aurelius in the capitoline museums 			 		 	 			 			 a full view of the equestrian statue 			 		 	 			 			 replica of the statue, capitoline hill 			 		 	 			 			 replica of the statue, capitoline hill 			 		 column of marcus aurelius[edit] main article: column of marcus aurelius marcus's victory column, established in rome either in his last few years of life or after his reign and completed in , was built to commemorate his victory over the sarmatians and germanic tribes in . a spiral of carved reliefs wraps around the column, showing scenes from his military campaigns. a statue of marcus had stood atop the column but disappeared during the middle ages. it was replaced with a statue of saint paul in by pope sixtus v.[ ] the column of marcus and the column of trajan are often compared by scholars given how they are both doric in style, had a pedestal at the base, had sculpted friezes depicting their respective military victories, and a statue on top.[ ] 	 			 			 the column of marcus aurelius in piazza colonna. the five horizontal slits allow light into the internal spiral staircase. 			 		 	 			 			 the column, right, in the background of panini's painting of the palazzo montecitorio, with the base of the column of antoninus pius in the right foreground ( ) 			 		 in popular culture[edit] 	in the epic drama the fall of the roman empire, alec guinness portrays marcus aurelius. the film is noteworthy for using quotes from 'meditations'. 	in the british-american drama gladiator, richard harris portrays marcus aurelius in a fictionalized version. 	in the docu-drama miniseries roman empire, john bach portrays marcus aurelius. notes[edit] 	^ dio asserts that the annii were near-kin of hadrian, and that it was to these familial ties that they owed their rise to power.[ ] the precise nature of these kinship ties is nowhere stated, but is believed that rupilia faustina was the daughter of the consular senator libo rupilius frugi and matidia, who was also the mother (presumably through another marriage) of vibia sabina, hadrian's wife.[ ] 	^ farquharson dates his death to when marcus was nine.[ ] 	^ birley amends the text of the ha marcus from 'eutychius' to 'tuticius'.[ ] 	^ commodus was a known consumptive at the time of his adoption, so hadrian may have intended marcus's eventual succession anyway.[ ] 	^ the manuscript is corrupt here.[ ] 	^ modern scholars have not offered as positive an assessment. his second modern editor, niebhur, thought him stupid and frivolous; his third editor, naber, found him contemptible.[ ] historians have seen him as a 'pedant and a bore', his letters offering neither the running political analysis of a cicero or the conscientious reportage of a pliny.[ ] recent prosopographic research has rehabilitated his reputation, though not by much.[ ] 	^ champlin notes that marcus's praise of rusticus in the meditations is out of order (he is praised immediately after diognetus, who had introduced marcus to philosophy), giving him special emphasis.[ ] 	^ although part of the biographer's account of lucius is fictionalized (probably to mimic nero, whose birthday lucius shared[ ]) and another part poorly compiled from a better biographical source,[ ] scholars have accepted these biographical details as accurate.[ ] 	^ these name-swaps have proven so confusing that even the historia augusta, our main source for the period, cannot keep them straight.[ ] the th-century ecclesiastical historian eusebius of caesarea shows even more confusion.[ ] the mistaken belief that lucius had the name 'verus' before becoming emperor has proven especially popular.[ ] 	^ there was, however, much precedent. the consulate was a twin magistracy, and earlier emperors had often had a subordinate lieutenant with many imperial offices (under antoninus, the lieutenant had been marcus). many emperors had planned a joint succession in the past: augustus planned to leave gaius and lucius caesar as joint emperors on his death; tiberius wished to have gaius caligula and tiberius gemellus do so as well; claudius left the empire to nero and britannicus, imagining that they would accept equal rank. all of these arrangements had ended in failure, either through premature death (gaius and lucius caesar) or judicial murder (gemellus by caligula and britannicus by nero).[ ] 	^ the biographer relates the scurrilous (and, in the judgment of anthony birley, untrue) rumor that commodus was an illegitimate child born of a union between faustina and a gladiator.[ ] 	^ because both lucius and marcus are said to have taken active part in the recovery (ha marcus viii. – ), the flood must have happened before lucius's departure for the east in ; because it appears in the biographer's narrative after antoninus's funeral has finished and the emperors have settled into their offices, it must not have occurred in the spring of . a date in autumn or spring is probable, and, given the normal seasonal distribution of tiber flooding, the most probable date is in spring .[ ] (birley dates the flood to autumn .[ ]) 	^ since ad, the river had been administered by a tiber conservancy board, with a consular senator at its head and a permanent staff. in , the curator alevi tiberis et riparum et cloacarum urbis ('curator of the tiber bed and banks and the city sewers') was a. platorius nepos, son or grandson of the builder of hadrian's wall, whose name he shares. he probably had not been particularly incompetent. a more likely candidate for that incompetence is nepos's likely predecessor, m. statius priscus. a military man and consul for , priscus probably looked on the office as little more than 'paid leave'.[ ] 	^ alan cameron adduces the th-century writer sidonius apollinaris's comment that marcus commanded 'countless legions' vivente pio (while antoninus was alive) while contesting birley's contention that marcus had no military experience. (neither apollinaris nor the historia augusta (birley's source) are particularly reliable on nd-century history.[ ]) 	^ birley believes there is some truth in these considerations.[ ] 	^ the whole section of the vita dealing with lucius's debaucheries (ha verus iv. – . ), however, is an insertion into a narrative otherwise entirely cribbed from an earlier source. most of the details are fabricated by the biographer himself, relying on nothing better than his own imagination.[ ] 	^ for further information on Óc eo, see osborne, milton. the mekong: turbulent past, uncertain future. crows nest: allen & unwin, , revised edition, first published in . pp. – . isbn  - . citations[edit] all citations to the historia augusta are to individual biographies, and are marked with a 'ha'. citations to the works of fronto are cross-referenced to c.r. haines's loeb edition. 	^ 'marcus aurelius' archived december at the wayback machine. dictionary.com. 	^ rohrbacher, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – . the thesis of single authorship was first proposed in h. dessau's 'Über zeit und persönlichkeit der scriptoes historiae augustae' (in german), hermes ( ), pp. ff. 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. . on the ha verus, see barnes, 'hadrian and lucius verus', pp. – . 	^ beard, mary. 'was he quite ordinary?'. london review of books : , july ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – , . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ magill, p. . 	^ a b historia ma i. – 	^ van ackeren, p. . 	^ a b c birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ dio . . ; ha marcus i. ; mclynn, marcus aurelius: warrior, philosopher, emperor, p. . 	^ dio lxix. . ; ha marcus i. ; mclynn, marcus aurelius: warrior, philosopher, emperor, p. . 	^ van ackeren, p. . 	^ dean, p. . 	^ knight, charles ( ). the english cyclopædia: a new dictionary of universal knowledge. biography. bradbury & evans. p.  . marcus aurelius malennius and numa. 	^ sánchez, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. ; mclynn, marcus aurelius: warrior, philosopher, emperor, p. . 	^ ha marcus i. , ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. ; mclynn, marcus aurelius: a life, p. . 	^ giacosa, p. . 	^ levick, pp. , . 	^ dio . . , . . – ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ codex inscriptionum latinarum . "epigraphik-datenbank clauss/slaby". archived from the original on april . retrieved november . ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. ; mclynn, marcus aurelius: warrior, philosopher, emperor, pp. , n. , citing ronald syme, roman papers . . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. , citing pliny, epistulae . . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ "m. cornelius fronto: epistulae". 	^ l. richardson, jr; richardson, professor of latin (emeritus) l. (october ). a new topographical dictionary of ancient rome. jhu press. p.  . isbn  . horti domizia lucilla. 	^ ad marcum caesarem ii. . (= haines . ), qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, pp. , . 	^ a b birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ farquharson, . – . 	^ meditations . , qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ha marcus ii. and meditations v. , qtd. in birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – . 	^ meditations i. , qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ meditations i. . ; farquharson, . ; mclynn, marcus aurelius: warrior, philosopher, emperor, p. ; cf. meditations i. . ; farquharson, . . 	^ mclynn, marcus aurelius: warrior, philosopher, emperor, – . 	^ meditations . ; mclynn, marcus aurelius: warrior, philosopher, emperor, p. . 	^ ha marcus ii. , iv. ; meditations i. ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. ; mclynn, marcus aurelius: warrior, philosopher, emperor, pp. – . 	^ ha marcus ii. ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. ; mclynn, marcus aurelius: warrior, philosopher, emperor, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. , citing aristides, oratio k; mclynn, marcus aurelius: warrior, philosopher, emperor, p. . 	^ magie & birley, lives of the later caesars, pp. , n. ; marcus aurelius, pp. , n. , citing bonner historia-augusta colloquia / , pp. ff. 	^ ha marcus ii. ; birley, marcus aurelius, pp. , n. . 	^ meditations i. ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. ; mclynn, marcus aurelius: warrior, philosopher, emperor, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, pp. , n. , citing a.s.l. farquharson, the meditations of marcus antoninus (oxford, ) ii. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – . 	^ ha hadrian xiii. , qtd. in birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. . van ackeren, . on the succession to hadrian, see also: t.d. barnes, 'hadrian and lucius verus', journal of roman studies : – ( ): – ; j. vanderleest, 'hadrian, lucius verus, and the arco di portogallo', phoenix : ( ): pp. – . 	^ ha aelius vi. – 	^ ha hadrian xxiii. – ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. ; 'hadrian to the antonines', . 	^ dio, lxix. . ; ha aelius, iii. , iv. , vi. – ; birley, 'hadrian to the antonines', p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. . date: birley, 'hadrian to the antonines', p. . 	^ weigel, richard d. 'antoninus pius (a.d. – )'. roman emperors. 	^ dio . . ; ha hadrian xxiv. ; ha aelius vi. ; ha antoninus pius iv. – ; birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – . 	^ ha marcus v. ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – . 	^ ha marcus v. – , qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ dio . . ; ha hadrian xxv. – ; birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – . hadrian's suicide attempts: dio, lxix. . – ; ha hadrian xxiv. – . 	^ ha hadrian xxv. ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ha antoninus pius v. , vi. ; birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – ; 'hadrian to the antonines', p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. ; 'hadrian to the antonines', p. . 	^ mattingly & sydenham, roman imperial coinage, vol. iii, p. . 	^ mattingly & sydenham, roman imperial coinage, vol. iii, p. . 	^ ha marcus vi. ; verus ii. – ; birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – . 	^ dio . . ; ha marcus vi. ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ meditations vi. , qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. ; cf. marcus aurelius, p. n. , with notes on the translation. 	^ a b ha marcus vi. ; birley, marcus aurelius, . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, pp. , n. , citing codex inscriptionum latinarum . , . , cf. inscriptiones latinae selectae . 	^ meditations . , qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ meditations . , qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – . 	^ ad marcum caesarem iv. , qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ha marcus vi. ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ a b birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ad marcum caesarem v. , qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ad marcum caesarem . , qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ dio . . ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – . 	^ ha antoninus pius x. , qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ha marcus iii. ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ha marcus ii. ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ alan cameron, review of anthony birley's marcus aurelius, classical review : ( ): p. . 	^ vita sophistae . . ; birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – . 	^ aulus gellius, noctes atticae . . – ; birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – . 	^ aulus gellius, noctes atticae . , qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – , citing champlin, fronto and antonine rome, esp. chs. and . 	^ a b birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – . 	^ champlin, fronto, pp. – . 	^ mellor, p. . 	^ cf., e.g.: mellor, p. and passim. 	^ a b birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ad marcum caesarem iv. (= haines . ff), qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ad marcum caesarem iv. (= haines . ff); birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – . 	^ ad marcum caesarem iii. – (= haines . ff), qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ champlin, 'chronology of fronto', p. . 	^ ad marcum caesarem v. ( =haines . ff), qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. . on the date, see champlin, 'chronology of fronto', p. , who (with bowersock, greek sophists in the roman empire ( ), ff) argues for a date in the s; birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – , n. (with ameling, herodes atticus ( ), . ff, . ff) argues for . 	^ ad marcum caesarem iii. (= haines . ff), qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – . 	^ ad marcum caesarem iii. (= haines . ff); birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ad marcum caesarem iii. (= haines . ff), qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ad marcum caesarem iv. (= haines . ff), qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ad marcum caesarem iv. . (= haines . ff); birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ha marcus iii. – , qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ad marcum caesarem iv. , qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ de eloquentia iv. (= haines . ), qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . alan cameron, in his review of birley's biography (the classical review : ( ): p. ), suggests a reference to chapter of arthur darby nock's conversion (oxford: oxford university press, , rept. ): 'conversion to philosophy'. 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, pp. , . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. ; champlin, fronto, p. . 	^ champlin, fronto, p. n. . 	^ ad antoninum imperator i. . (= haines . ), qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – , . 	^ champlin, fronto, p. . 	^ meditations i. , qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – . 	^ philostratus, vitae sophistorum ii. ( ); cf. suda, markos 	^ a b c d birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ad marcum caesarem . (= haines . ff), qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. f. . 	^ a b c birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – . 	^ meditations ix. , qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ a b meditations x. , tr. farquharson, pp. , . 	^ a b birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – . 	^ a b c birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ inscriptiones graecae ad res romanas pertinentes . , qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ a b c d e birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ reed, p. . 	^ a b c d e f g h lendering, jona. 'marcus aurelius'. livius.org. 	^ ha verus . – ; . – ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ suetonius, nero . ; ha verus . ; barnes, 'hadrian and lucius verus', ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . see also: barnes, 'hadrian and lucius verus', pp. – ; pierre lambrechts, 'l'empereur lucius verus. essai de réhabilitation' (in french), antiquité classique ( ), pp. ff. 	^ barnes, 'hadrian and lucius verus', p. . poorly compiled: e.g. barnes, 'hadrian and lucius verus', p. . 	^ barnes, 'hadrian and lucius verus', pp. – . 	^ ha verus . – ; . – ; barnes, 'hadrian and lucius verus', ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ bowman, ; victor, : 	^ victor, : 	^ dio . . – ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ bury, p. . 	^ ha antoninus pius . – ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ bowman, p. . 	^ ha marcus vii. , qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. . birley takes the phrase horror imperii from ha pert. xiii. and xv. . 	^ birley, 'hadrian to the antonines', p. . 	^ ha verus iii. ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. ; 'hadrian to the antonines', p. . 	^ ha verus iv. ; marcus vii. ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. ; 'hadrian to the antonines', p. n. . 	^ birley, 'hadrian to the antonines', p. n. . 	^ a b c d birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ha verus iv. , tr. magie, cited in birley, marcus aurelius, pp. , n. . 	^ ha marcus vii. ; verus iv. ; birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – . 	^ ha marcus vii. ; verus iv. ; birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – . 'twice the size': duncan-jones, p. . 	^ a b birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ a b 'roman currency of the principate'. tulane.edu. archived february . 	^ ha marcus vii. , tr. magie, cited in birley, marcus aurelius, pp. , n. . 	^ ha marcus vii. – ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ha antoninus pius xii. ; birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – . 	^ ha marcus vii. ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ha comm. i. ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ha comm. i. ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ha marcus xix. – ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. n. . 	^ ha commodus. i. , x. ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. , citing h. mattingly, coins of the roman empire in the british museum iv: antoninus pius to commodus (london, ), marcus aurelius and lucius verus, nos. ff.; ff. 	^ ha marcus vii. ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. , citing werner eck, die organization italiens ( ), pp. ff. 	^ ha marcus viii. , qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. ; 'hadrian to the antonines', p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – , citing h.g. pfalum, les carrières procuratoriennes équestres sous le haut-empire romain i–iii (paris, – ); supplément (paris, ), nos. ; ; eric birley, roman britain and the roman army ( ), pp. ff., ff. 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. , citing h.g. pfalum, les carrières procuratoriennes équestres sous le haut-empire romain i–iii (paris, – ); supplément (paris, ), no. . 	^ ha marcus viii. ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. , citing w. eck, die satthalter der germ. provinzen ( ), pp. ff. 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. , citing ad verum imperator i. . (= haines . ff). 	^ ad antoninum imperator iv. . (= haines . ff), qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ a b birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. , citing ad verum imperator i. (= haines . ). 	^ ad antoninum imperator iv. (= haines . ff), qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ha marcus viii. – ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. , citing h. mattingly, coins of the roman empire in the british museum iv: antoninus pius to commodus (london, ), marcus aurelius and lucius verus, nos. ; . 	^ gregory s. aldrete, floods of the tiber in ancient rome (baltimore: johns hopkins university press, ), pp. – . 	^ ha marcus viii. – ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ inscriptiones latinae selectae (nepos), (priscus); birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ha marcus xi. , cited in birley, marcus aurelius, p. n. . 	^ ad antoninum imperator . . (= haines . ), qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ de eloquentia . (= haines . – ), qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ad antoninum imperator . . (= haines . ); birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – . 	^ ad antoninum imperator . . (= haines . – ), tr. haines; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ha antoninus pius xii. ; birley, marcus aurelius, pp. , . 	^ event: ha marcus viii. ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . date: jaap-jan flinterman, 'the date of lucian's visit to abonuteichos,' zeitschrift für papyrologie und epigraphik ( ): p. . 	^ ha marcus viii. ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ lucian, alexander ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ lucian, alexander ; birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – . on alexander, see: robin lane fox, pagans and christians (harmondsworth: penguin, ), pp. – . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. n. . 	^ dio . . ; lucian, historia quomodo conscribenda , , ; birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – . 	^ ha marcus viii. ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ha antoninus pius vii. ; marcus vii. ; birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – , . 	^ pan. ath. – , qtd. and tr. alan cameron, review of anthony birley's marcus aurelius, the classical review : ( ): p. . 	^ ha marcus viii. ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ corpus inscriptionum latinarum . – ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ incriptiones latinae selectae – ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ incriptiones latinae selectae ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ incriptiones latinae selectae ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ha marcus xii. ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ l'année Épigraphique . "epigraphik-datenbank clauss/slaby". archived from the original on april . retrieved november . ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ha verus . ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ mattingly & sydenham, roman imperial coinage, vol. iii, p. . 	^ de feriis alsiensibus (= haines . ); birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ de feriis alsiensibus . (= haines . ), qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ de feriis alsiensibus . (= haines . ); birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – . 	^ de feriis alsiensibus . – (= haines . – ); birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – . 	^ de feriis alsiensibus , tr. haines . ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ de feriis alsiensibus (= haines . ), qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ad verum imperator . . (= haines . ); birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ de bello parthico x. (= haines . ), qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ de bello parthico i–ii. (= haines . – ). 	^ de bello parthico i. (= haines . ), qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ dio, lxxi. . ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ha verus v. ; birley, marcus aurelius, pp. , . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ha marcus viii. , tr. magie; birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – . on lucius's voyage, see: ha verus vi. – ; ha marcus viii. – ; birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ha verus iv. ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ha verus iv. , tr. magie; cf. v. ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ha verus viii. , viii. – ; fronto, principae historia (= haines . ); birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ barnes, 'hadrian and lucius verus.', p. . 	^ ha verus ix. ; corpus inscriptionum latinarum . "epigraphik-datenbank clauss/slaby". archived from the original on april . retrieved november . ; birley, marcus aurelius, pp. – . 	^ ha verus vii. ; marcus ix. ; barnes, 'hadrian and lucius verus', p. ; birley, 'hadrian to the antonines', p. ; cf. also barnes, 'legislation against the christians', p. ; 'some persons in the historia augusta', p. , citing the vita abercii ff. 	^ ha verus . ; lucian, imagines ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . cf. lucian, imagines, pro imaginibus, passim. 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. ; 'hadrian to the antonines', p. . 	^ ha verus vii. ; marcus ix. ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, , citing année Épigraphique . . 	^ ha verus . ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ha marcus ix. ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ha marcus ix. – ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ ha marcus ix. ; birley, 'hadrian to the antonines', p. . 	^ ha marcus ix. ; ha verus vii. – ; ad verrum imperator . (= haines . ); birley, marcus aurelius, p. ; 'hadrian to the antonines', p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. ; 'hadrian to the antonines', p. , citing h. mattingly, coins of the roman empire in the british museum iv: antoninus pius to commodus (london, ), marcus aurelius and lucius verus, nos. ff. 	^ dio, lxxi. . ; birley, marcus aurelius, ; 'hadrian to the antonines', p. ; millar, near east, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. n. ; 'hadrian to the antonines', p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. ; 'hadrian to the antonines', p. , citing h. mattingly, coins of the roman empire in the british museum iv: antoninus pius to commodus (london, ), marcus aurelius and lucius verus, nos. ff.; ff. 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, pp. , n. ; 'hadrian to the antonines', p. , citing prosopographia imperii romani m ; millar, near east, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. ; 'hadrian to the antonines', p. . 	^ fronto, ad verum imperator ii. . (= haines . ); astarita, ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. ; 'hadrian to the antonines', p. . 	^ inscriptiones latinae selectae ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ birley, 'hadrian to the antonines', p. , citing prosopographia imperii romani m . 	^ lucian, historia quomodo conscribenda , ; birley, 'hadrian to the antonines', p. . 	^ lucian, historia quomodo conscribenda , ; birley, 'hadrian to the antonines', p. , citing syme, roman papers, . ff. 	^ ha verus . – ; birley, 'hadrian to the antonines', . birley cites r.h. mcdowell, coins from seleucia on the tigris (ann arbor: university of michigan press, ), pp. ff., on the date. 	^ birley, 'hadrian to the antonines', p. . 	^ birley, 'hadrian to the antonines', p. , citing h. mattingly, coins of the roman empire in the british museum iv: antoninus pius to commodus (london, ), marcus aurelius and lucius verus, nos. ff., ff., ff. 	^ birley, 'hadrian to the antonines', p. , citing p. kneissl, die siegestitulatur der römischen kaiser. untersuchungen zu den siegerbeinamen des . und . jahrhunderts (göttingen, ), pp. ff. 	^ birley, 'hadrian to the antonines', p. , citing h. mattingly, coins of the roman empire in the british museum iv: antoninus pius to commodus (london, ), marcus aurelius and lucius verus, nos. ff. 	^ a b adams, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ gnecchi, medaglioni romani, p. . 	^ mattingly & sydenham, roman imperial coinage, vol. iii, p. . 	^ dio . . – ; ad amicos . (= haines . ); birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ dio, lxxii. . – ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. , citing de nepote amisso ii (= haines . ); ad verum imperator ii. – (= haines . ff.). 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. , citing geza alföldy, konsulat und senatorenstand ( ), moesia inferior: pp. ff.; moesia superior: pp. ff.; pannonia superior: pp. ff.; dacia: pp. ff.; pannonia inferior: p. . 	^ mclynn, marcus aurelius: a life, pp. – . 	^ le bohec, p. . 	^ grant, the antonines: the roman empire in transition, p. . 	^ dio, lxxii. . – ; birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ fergus millar, the emperor in the roman world, bc – ad (london: duckworth, ), and passim. see also: idem. 'emperors at work', journal of roman studies : / ( ): – . 	^ 'thinkers at war – marcus aurelius'. military history monthly, published . (this is the conclusion of iain king's biography of marcus aurelius.) 'pius, one of longest-serving emperors, became infirm in his last years, so marcus aurelius gradually assumed the imperial duties. by the time he succeeded in ad , he was already well-practised in public administration.' 	^ codex justinianeus . . , qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, . 	^ digest . . , qtd. and tr. birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ birley, marcus aurelius, p. . 	^ irvine, pp. – . 	^ dio, lxxii. 	^ pulleyblank, leslie and gardiner, pp. – . 	^ yü, pp. – . 	^ de crespigny, p. . 	^ an, . 	^ young, pp. – . 	^ ball, p. . 	^ haas, pp. – . 	^ murphy, verity. 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poem by john milton paradise lost 	title page of the first edition ( ) 	author	john milton 	cover artist		j. b. de medina 	henry aldrich 	country	england 	language	english 	genre		epic poetry 	christian mythology 	publisher	samuel simmons (original) 	publication date 	 	media type	print 	followed by	paradise regained  	text	paradise lost at wikisource paradise lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the th-century english poet john milton ( – ). the first version, published in , consists of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. a second edition followed in , arranged into twelve books (in the manner of virgil's aeneid) with minor revisions throughout.[ ][ ] it is considered to be milton's major work, and it helped solidify his reputation as one of the greatest english poets of his time.[ ] the poem concerns the biblical story of the fall of man: the temptation of adam and eve by the fallen angel satan and their expulsion from the garden of eden. milton's purpose, as stated in book i, is to "justify the ways of god to men."[ ] contents 	 composition 	 structure 	 synopsis 	 characters 	 . satan 	 . adam 	 . eve 	 . the son of god 	 . god the father 	 . raphael 	 . michael 	 motifs 	 . marriage 	 . idolatry 	 interpretation and critique 	 iconography 	 see also 	 references 	 . footnotes 	 . bibliography 	 further reading 	 external links 	 . online text 	 . other information composition[edit] gustave doré, the heavenly hosts, c. , illustration to paradise lost. in his introduction to the penguin edition of paradise lost, the milton scholar john leonard notes, "john milton was nearly sixty when he published paradise lost in . the biographer john aubrey ( – ) tells us that the poem was begun in about and finished in about . however, parts were almost certainly written earlier, and its roots lie in milton's earliest youth."[ ] leonard speculates that the english civil war interrupted milton's earliest attempts to start his "epic [poem] that would encompass all space and time."[ ] leonard also notes that milton "did not at first plan to write a biblical epic."[ ] since epics were typically written about heroic kings and queens (and with pagan gods), milton originally envisioned his epic to be based on a legendary saxon or british king like the legend of king arthur.[ ][ ] having gone totally blind in , milton wrote paradise lost entirely through dictation with the help of amanuenses and friends. he also wrote the epic poem while he was often ill, suffering from gout, and despite suffering emotionally after the early death of his second wife, katherine woodcock, in , and the death of their infant daughter.[ ] structure[edit] in the version of paradise lost, the poem was divided into ten books. however, in the edition, the text was reorganized into twelve books.[ ] in later printing, “arguments” (brief summaries) were inserted at the beginning of each book.[ ] milton used a number of acrostics in the poem. in book , a verse describing the serpent which tempted eve to eat the forbidden fruit in the garden of eden spells out "satan" ( . ), while elsewhere in the same book, milton spells out "ffaall" and "fall". respectively, these probably represent the double fall of humanity embodied in adam and eve, as well as satan's fall from heaven.[ ] synopsis[edit] john martin, satan presiding at the infernal council, c. – gustave doré, depiction of satan, the central character of john milton's paradise lost c.  the poem follows the epic tradition of starting in medias res (in the midst of things), the background story being recounted later. milton's story has two narrative arcs, one about satan (lucifer) and the other, adam and eve. it begins after satan and the other fallen angels have been defeated and banished to hell, or, as it is also called in the poem, tartarus. in pandæmonium, the capital city of hell, satan employs his rhetorical skill to organise his followers; he is aided by mammon and beelzebub. belial and moloch are also present. at the end of the debate, satan volunteers to corrupt the newly created earth and god's new and most favoured creation, mankind. he braves the dangers of the abyss alone, in a manner reminiscent of odysseus or aeneas. after an arduous traversal of the chaos outside hell, he enters god's new material world, and later the garden of eden. at several points in the poem, an angelic war over heaven is recounted from different perspectives. satan's rebellion follows the epic convention of large-scale warfare. the battles between the faithful angels and satan's forces take place over three days. at the final battle, the son of god single-handedly defeats the entire legion of angelic rebels and banishes them from heaven. following this purge, god creates the world, culminating in his creation of adam and eve. while god gave adam and eve total freedom and power to rule over all creation, he gave them one explicit command: not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil on penalty of death. the story of adam and eve's temptation and fall is a fundamentally different, new kind of epic: a domestic one. adam and eve are presented as having a romantic and sexual relationship while still being without sin. they have passions and distinct personalities. satan, disguised in the form of a serpent, successfully tempts eve to eat from the tree by preying on her vanity and tricking her with rhetoric. adam, learning that eve has sinned, knowingly commits the same sin. he declares to eve that since she was made from his flesh, they are bound to one another – if she dies, he must also die. in this manner, milton portrays adam as an heroic figure, but also as a greater sinner than eve, as he is aware that what he is doing is wrong. after eating the fruit, adam and eve have lustful sex. at first, adam is convinced that eve was right in thinking that eating the fruit would be beneficial. however, they soon fall asleep and have terrible nightmares, and after they awake, they experience guilt and shame for the first time. realizing that they have committed a terrible act against god, they engage in mutual recrimination. meanwhile, satan returns triumphantly to hell, amid the praise of his fellow fallen angels. he tells them about how their scheme worked and mankind has fallen, giving them complete dominion over paradise. as he finishes his speech, however, the fallen angels around him become hideous snakes, and soon enough, satan himself turns into a snake, deprived of limbs and unable to talk. thus, they share the same punishment, as they shared the same guilt. eve appeals to adam for reconciliation of their actions. her encouragement enables them to approach god, and sue for grace, bowing on supplicant knee, to receive forgiveness. in a vision shown to him by the archangel michael, adam witnesses everything that will happen to mankind until the great flood. adam is very upset by this vision of the future, so michael also tells him about mankind's potential redemption from original sin through jesus christ (whom michael calls "king messiah"). adam and eve are cast out of eden, and michael says that adam may find "a paradise within thee, happier far." adam and eve now have a more distant relationship with god, who is omnipresent but invisible (unlike the tangible father in the garden of eden). characters[edit] satan[edit] satan, formerly called lucifer, is the first major character introduced in the poem. he was once the most beautiful of all angels, and is a tragic figure who famously declares: "better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." following his failed rebellion against god, he is cast out from heaven and condemned to hell. satan's desire to rebel against his creator stems from his unwillingness to be subjugated by god and his son, claiming that angels are "self-begot, self-raised,"[ ] and thereby denying god's authority over them as their creator. satan is deeply arrogant, albeit powerful and charismatic.[citation needed] satan's persuasive powers are evident throughout the book; not only is he cunning and deceptive, but he is also able to rally the fallen angels to continue in the rebellion after their agonizing defeat in the angelic war. he argues that god rules as a tyrant and that all the angels ought to rule as gods.[ ] though commonly understood to be the antagonizing force in paradise lost, satan may be best defined as a tragic or hellenic hero. according to william mccollom, one quality of the classical tragic hero is that he is not perfectly good and that his defeat is caused by a tragic flaw, as satan causes both the downfall of man and the eternal damnation of his fellow fallen angels despite his dedication to his comrades. in addition, satan's hellenic qualities, such as his immense courage and, perhaps, lack of completely defined morals compound his tragic nature.[ ] satan's status as a protagonist in the epic poem is debated. milton characterizes him as such, but satan lacks several key traits that would otherwise make him the definitive protagonist in the work. one deciding factor that insinuates his role as the protagonist in the story is that most often a protagonist is heavily characterized and far better described than the other characters, and the way the character is written is meant to make him seem more interesting or special to the reader.[ ] for that matter, satan is both well described and is depicted as being quite versatile in that he is shown as having the capacity to do evil while retaining his characteristic sympathetic qualities and thus it is this complex and relatable nature that makes him a likely candidate for the story's overarching protagonist.[ ] by some definitions a protagonist must be able to exist in and of themselves and the secondary characters in the work exist only to further the plot for the protagonist.[ ] because satan does not exist solely for himself, as without god he would not have a role to play in the story, he may not be viewed as the protagonist because of the continual shifts in perspective and relative importance of characters in each book of the work. satan's existence in the story involves his rebellion against god and his determination to corrupt the beings he creates in order to perpetuate evil so that there can be a discernible balance and justice for both himself and his fallen angels. therefore, it is more probable that he exists in order to combat god, making his status as the definitive protagonist of the work relative to each book. following this logic, satan may very well be considered as an antagonist in the poem, whereas god could be considered as the protagonist instead. satan's status as a traditional hero in the work is similarly up to debate as the term "hero" evokes different meanings depending on the time and the person giving the definition and is thus a matter of contention within the text. according to aristotle, a hero is someone who is "superhuman, godlike, and divine" but is also human.[ ] a hero would have to either be a human with god-like powers or the offspring of god. while milton gives reason to believe that satan is superhuman, as he was originally an angel, he is anything but human. however, one could argue that satan's faults make him more human than any other divine being described in milton's work.[citation needed] torquato tasso and francesco piccolomini expanded on aristotle's definition and declared that to be heroic one has to be perfectly or overly virtuous.[ ] in this regard, satan repeatedly demonstrates a lack of virtue throughout the story as he intends to tempt god's creations with evil in order to destroy the good god is trying to create. therefore, satan is not a hero according to tasso and piccolomini's expanded definition. satan goes against god's law and therefore becomes corrupt and lacking of virtue and, as piccolomini warned, "vice may be mistaken for heroic virtue."[ ] satan is very devoted to his cause, although that cause is evil but he strives to spin his sinister aspirations to appear as good ones. satan achieves this end multiple times throughout the text as he riles up his band of fallen angels during his speech by deliberately telling them to do evil to explain god's hypocrisy and again during his entreaty to eve. he makes his intentions seem pure and positive even when they are rooted in evil and, according to steadman, this is the chief reason that readers often mistake satan as a hero.[ ] although satan's army inevitably loses the war against god, satan achieves a position of power and begins his reign in hell with his band of loyal followers, composed of fallen angels, which is described to be a "third of heaven." satan's characterization as the leader of a failing cause folds into this as well and is best exemplified through his own quote, "to be weak is to be miserable; doing or suffering," as through shared solidarity espoused by empowering rhetoric, satan riles up his comrades in arms and keeps them focused towards their shared goal.[ ] similar to milton's republican sentiments of overthrowing the king of england for both better representation and parliamentary power, satan argues that his shared rebellion with the fallen angels is an effort to "explain the hypocrisy of god," and in doing so, they will be treated with the respect and acknowledgement that they deserve. as scholar wayne rebhorn argues, "satan insists that he and his fellow revolutionaries held their places by right and even leading him to claim that they were self-created and self-sustained" and thus satan's position in the rebellion is much like that of his own real world creator.[ ] adam[edit] william blake, the temptation and fall of eve, (illustration of milton's paradise lost) adam is the first human being created by god. finding himself alone, adam complains and requests a mate from god, who grants his request and creates eve to be adam's conjugal companion and spouse. god appraises adam and eve most of all his creations, and appoints them to rule over all the creatures of the world and to reside in the garden of eden. adam is more gregarious than eve, and yearns for her company. his complete infatuation with eve, while pure of itself, eventually contributes to his deciding to join her in disobedience to god. unlike the biblical adam, before milton's adam leaves paradise he is given a glimpse of the future of mankind by the archangel michael—including a synopsis of stories from the old and new testaments. eve[edit] eve is the second human created by god, who takes one of adam's ribs and shapes it into a female form of adam. not the traditional model of a good wife, milton's eve is often unwilling to be submissive towards adam. she is the more intelligent of the two and more curious about external ideas than her husband. though happy, she longs for knowledge, specifically for self-knowledge. (her first act in existence is to turn away from adam to look at and ponder her own reflection.) eve is beautiful and though she loves adam she may feel suffocated by his constant presence.[citation needed] in book ix, she convinces adam to separate for a time and work in different parts of the garden. in her solitude, she is tempted by satan to sin against god by eating of the tree of knowledge. soon thereafter, adam follows eve in support of her act. the son of god[edit] the son of god is the spirit who will become incarnate as jesus christ, though he is never named explicitly because he has not yet entered human form. milton believed in a subordinationist doctrine of christology that regarded the son as secondary to the father and as god's "great vice-regent" ( . ). milton's god in paradise lost refers to the son as "my word, my wisdom, and effectual might" ( . ). the poem is not explicitly anti-trinitarian, but it is consistent with milton's convictions. the son is the ultimate hero of the epic and is infinitely powerful—he single-handedly defeats satan and his followers and drives them into hell. after their fall, the son of god tells adam and eve about god's judgment: he, the son, volunteers to journey into the world and become a man himself; then he redeems the fall of man through his own sacrificial death and resurrection. in the final scene, a vision of salvation through the son of god is revealed to adam by michael. still, the name jesus of nazareth, and the details of jesus' story are not depicted in the poem,[ ] though they are alluded to when michael explains that "joshua, whom the gentiles jesus call," prefigures the son of god, "his name and office bearing" to "quell / the adversarie serpent, and bring back [...] long wander[e]d man / safe to eternal paradise of rest."[ ] god the father[edit] god the father is the creator of heaven, hell, the world, of everyone and everything there is, through the agency of his son. milton presents god as all-powerful and all-knowing, as an infinitely great being who cannot be overthrown by even the great army of angels satan incites against him. milton's stated purpose for the poem is to justify the ways of god to men, so he portrays god as often conversing about his plans and his motives for his actions with the son of god. the poem shows god creating the world in the way milton believed it was done, that is, god created heaven, earth, hell, and all the creatures that inhabit these separate planes from part of himself, not out of nothing.[ ] thus, according to milton, the ultimate authority of god over all things that happen derives from his being the "author" of all creation. satan tries to justify his rebellion by denying this aspect of god and claiming self-creation, but he admits to himself the truth otherwise, and that god "deserved no such return/ from me, whom he created what i was."[ ][ ] raphael[edit] raphael is the archangel whom god sends to warn adam of satan's infiltration of eden and to warn that satan will try to curse the pair. raphael also discusses at length with the curious adam some details about the creation and about events that transpired in heaven. michael[edit] michael is a mighty archangel who fought for god in the angelic war. in the first battle, he wounds satan terribly with a powerful sword that god fashioned to cut through even the substance of angels. after adam and eve disobey god by eating from the tree of knowledge, god sends the angel michael to visit them in the garden. before he escorts them out of paradise, michael shows them visions of the future that disclose an outline of bible stories from that of cain and abel in genesis through the story of christ jesus in the new testament. motifs[edit] marriage[edit] milton first presented adam and eve in book iv with impartiality. the relationship between adam and eve is one of "mutual dependence, not a relation of domination or hierarchy." while the author placed adam above eve in his intellectual knowledge and, in turn, his relation to god, he granted eve the benefit of knowledge through experience. hermine van nuis clarifies, that although there was stringency specified for the roles of male and female, adam and eve unreservedly accept their designated roles.[ ] rather than viewing these roles as forced upon them, each uses their assignment as an asset in their relationship with each other. these disitinctions can be interpreted as milton's view on the importance of mutuality between husband and wife. when examining the relationship between adam and eve, some critics apply either an adam-centered or eve-centered view of hierarchy and importance to god. david mikics argues, by contrast, these positions "overstate the independence of the characters' stances, and therefore miss the way in which adam and eve are entwined with each other."[ ] milton's narrative depicts a relationship where the husband and wife (here, adam and eve) depend on each other and, through each other's differences, thrive.[ ] still, there are several instances where adam communicates directly with god while eve must go through adam to god; thus, some have described adam as her guide.[ ] although milton does not directly mention divorce, critics posit theories on milton's view of divorce based upon their inferences from the poem and from his tracts on divorce written earlier in his life. other works by milton suggest he viewed marriage as an entity separate from the church. discussing paradise lost, biberman entertains the idea that "marriage is a contract made by both the man and the woman."[ ] these ideas imply milton may have favored that both man and woman have equal access to marriage and to divorce. idolatry[edit] milton's th-century contemporaries by and large criticised his ideas and considered him as a radical, mostly because of his protestant views on politics and religion. one of milton's most controversial arguments centred on his concept of what is idolatrous, which subject is deeply embedded in paradise lost. milton's first criticism of idolatry focused on the constructing of temples and other buildings to serve as places of worship. in book xi of paradise lost, adam tries to atone for his sins by offering to build altars to worship god. in response, the angel michael explains that adam does not need to build physical objects to experience the presence of god.[ ] joseph lyle points to this example, explaining "when milton objects to architecture, it is not a quality inherent in buildings themselves he finds offensive, but rather their tendency to act as convenient loci to which idolatry, over time, will inevitably adhere."[ ] even if the idea is pure in nature, milton thought it would unavoidably lead to idolatry simply because of the nature of humans. that is, instead of directing their thoughts towards god, humans will turn to erected objects and falsely invest their faith there. while adam attempts to build an altar to god, critics note eve is similarly guilty of idolatry, but in a different manner. harding believes eve's narcissism and obsession with herself constitutes idolatry.[ ] specifically, harding claims that "... under the serpent's influence, eve's idolatry and self-deification foreshadow the errors into which her 'sons' will stray."[ ] much like adam, eve falsely places her faith in herself, the tree of knowledge, and to some extent the serpent, all of which do not compare to the ideal nature of god. milton made his views on idolatry more explicit with the creation of pandæmonium and his allusion to solomon's temple. in the beginning of paradise lost and throughout the poem, there are several references to the rise and eventual fall of solomon's temple. critics elucidate that "solomon's temple provides an explicit demonstration of how an artefact moves from its genesis in devotional practice to an idolatrous end."[ ] this example, out of the many presented, distinctly conveys milton's views on the dangers of idolatry. even if one builds a structure in the name of god, the best of intentions can become immoral in idolatry. further, critics have drawn parallels between both pandemonium and saint peter's basilica,[citation needed] and the pantheon. the majority of these similarities revolve around a structural likeness, but as lyle explains, they play a greater role. by linking saint peter's basilica and the pantheon to pandemonium—an ideally false structure—the two famous buildings take on a false meaning.[ ] this comparison best represents milton's protestant views, as it rejects both the purely catholic perspective and the pagan perspective. in addition to rejecting catholicism, milton revolted against the idea of a monarch ruling by divine right. he saw the practice as idolatrous. barbara lewalski concludes that the theme of idolatry in paradise lost "is an exaggerated version of the idolatry milton had long associated with the stuart ideology of divine kingship."[ ] in the opinion of milton, any object, human or non-human, that receives special attention befitting of god, is considered idolatrous. interpretation and critique[edit] the creation of man, engraving from the edition, by john baptist medina. the writer and critic samuel johnson wrote that paradise lost shows off "[milton's] peculiar power to astonish" and that "[milton] seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others: the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful."[ ] milton scholar john leonard interpreted the "impious war" between heaven and hell as civil war:[ ][page needed] paradise lost is, among other things, a poem about civil war. satan raises 'impious war in heav'n' (i ) by leading a third of the angels in revolt against god. the term 'impious war' implies that civil war is impious. but milton applauded the english people for having the courage to depose and execute king charles i. in his poem, however, he takes the side of 'heav'n's awful monarch' (iv ). critics have long wrestled with the question of why an antimonarchist and defender of regicide should have chosen a subject that obliged him to defend monarchical authority. the editors at the poetry foundation argue that milton's criticism of the english monarchy was being directed specifically at the stuart monarchy and not at the monarchy system in general.[ ] in a similar vein, critic and writer c.s. lewis argued that there was no contradiction in milton's position in the poem since "milton believed that god was his 'natural superior' and that charles stuart was not." lewis interpreted the poem as a genuine christian morality tale.[ ][page needed] other critics, like william empson, view it as a more ambiguous work, with milton's complex characterization of satan playing a large part in that perceived ambiguity.[ ][page needed] empson argued that "milton deserves credit for making god wicked, since the god of christianity is 'a wicked god.'" leonard places empson's interpretation "in the [romantic interpretive] tradition of william blake and percy bysshe shelley."[ ][page needed] blake famously wrote, "the reason milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of angels & god, and at liberty when of devils & hell, is because he was a true poet and of the devil's party without knowing it."[ ] this quotation succinctly represents the way in which some th- and th-century english romantic poets viewed milton. speaking of the complexity of milton's epic are john rogers' lectures which try their best to synthesize the "advantages and limitations of a diverse range of interpretive techniques and theoretical concerns in milton scholarship and criticism."[ ] empson's view is complex. leonard points out that "empson never denies that satan's plan is wicked. what he does deny is that god is innocent of its wickedness: 'milton steadily drives home that the inmost counsel of god was the fortunate fall of man; however wicked satan's plan may be, it is god's plan too [since god in paradise lost is depicted as being both omniscient and omnipotent].'"[ ][page needed] leonard calls empson's view "a powerful argument"; he notes that this interpretation was challenged by dennis danielson in his book milton's good god ( ).[ ][page needed] iconography[edit] see also: william blake's illustrations of paradise lost in sin, death and the devil ( ), james gillray caricatured the political battle between pitt and thurlow as a scene from paradise lost. pitt is death and thurlow satan, with queen charlotte as sin in the middle. the first illustrations to accompany the text of paradise lost were added to the fourth edition of , with one engraving prefacing each book, of which up to eight of the twelve were by sir john baptist medina, one by bernard lens ii, and perhaps up to four (including books i and xii, perhaps the most memorable) by another hand.[ ] the engraver was michael burghers (given as 'burgesse' in some sources[ ]). by the same images had been re-engraved on a smaller scale by paul fourdrinier. some of the most notable illustrators of paradise lost included william blake, gustave doré and henry fuseli. however, the epic's illustrators also include john martin, edward francis burney, richard westall, francis hayman, and many others. outside of book illustrations, the epic has also inspired other visual works by well-known painters like salvador dalí who executed a set of ten colour engravings in .[ ] milton's achievement in writing paradise lost while blind (he dictated to helpers) inspired loosely biographical paintings by both fuseli[ ] and eugène delacroix.[ ] see also[edit] 	paradise lost in popular culture 	john milton's poetic style 	paradise regained 	visio tnugdali 	prince of darkness (satan) references[edit] footnotes[edit] 	^ milton, john ( ). paradise lost; a 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"introduction". paradise lost: a norton critical edition. new york: norton. pp. xxvii-xxviii. isbn  - . 	^ history, stephanie pappas-live science contributor - - t : : z. "secret message discovered in milton's epic 'paradise lost'". livescience.com. retrieved september . 	^ milton harvnb error: multiple targets ( ×): citerefmilton (help), : . 	^ milton harvnb error: multiple targets ( ×): citerefmilton (help), : – . 	^ mccollom, william g. ―the downfall of the tragic hero.‖ college english . ( ): - . 	^ a b (taha, ibrahim. "heroism in literature." the american journal of semiotics . / ( ): - . philosophy document center. web. nov. ) 	^ taha, ibrahim. "heroism in literature." the american journal of semiotics . / ( ): - . philosophy document center. web. nov. 	^ a b steadman, john m. "heroic virtue and the divine image in paradise lost. "journal of the warburg and courtauld institutes . / ( ): pp. 	^ a b steadman, john m. "heroic virtue and the divine image in paradise lost. 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( ): – . doi: . /tsl. . . s cid  – via project muse. 	^ biberman , p.  . 	^ milton harvnb error: multiple targets ( ×): citerefmilton (help), book . 	^ lyle , p.  . 	^ a b harding , p.  . 	^ lyle , p.  . 	^ lyle , p.  . 	^ lewalski , p.  . 	^ johnson, samuel. lives of the english poets. new york: octagon, . 	^ a b c d e f leonard, john. 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(march ), "paradise lost", the broadview anthology of british literature, a (concise ed.), peterborough, ontario: broadview press, pp.  – , isbn  - - - - , oclc  	blake, w. ( ), the marriage of heaven and hell , london . 	blayney, b, ed. ( ), the king james bible , oxford: oxford university press 	bradford, r (july ), paradise lost ( st ed.), philadelphia: open university press, isbn  - - - - , oclc  	broadbent, john ( ), paradise lost: introduction, cambridge university press, isbn  	butler, g (february ), "giants and fallen angels in dante and milton: the commedia and the gigantomachy in paradise lost", modern philosophy, ( ): – 	carter, r. and mcrae, j. ( ). the routledge history of literature in english: britain and ireland. ed. oxon: routledge. 	carey, j; fowler, a ( ), the poems of john milton, london 	doerksen, d (december ), "let there be peace': eve as redemptive peacemaker in paradise lost, book x", milton quarterly, ( ): – , doi: . /j. - x. .tb .x, s cid  	eliot, t.s. ( ), on poetry and poets, london: faber and faber 	eliot, t. s. ( ), "dante", selected essays, new york: faber and faber, oclc  . 	empson, w ( ), milton's god (revised ed.), london 	john milton: a short introduction ( ed., paperback by roy c. flannagan, oxford: wiley-blackwell, isbn  - - - - ; ed., ebook by roy flannagan, massachusetts: wiley-blackwell, isbn  - - - - ) 	forsyth, n ( ), the satanic epic, princeton: princeton university press, isbn  - - - - 	frye, n ( ), the return of eden: five essays on milton's epics, toronto: university of toronto press 	harding, p (january ), "milton's serpent and the birth of pagan error", sel: studies in english literature – , ( ): – , doi: . /sel. . , s cid  	hill, g ( ), lynch, jack (ed.), samuel johnson: the lives of the english poets, vols, oxford: clarendon, oclc  , archived from the original on february , retrieved december 	kermode, f, ed. ( ), the living milton: essays by various hands, london: routledge & kegan paul, isbn  - - - , oclc  	kerrigan, w, ed. ( ), the complete poetry and essential prose of john milton, new york: random house, isbn  - - - - , oclc  	lehnhof, k. (summer ), "paradise lost and the concept of creation", south central review, ( ): – , doi: . /scr. . , s cid  	leonard, john ( ), "introduction", in milton, john (ed.), paradise lost, new york: penguin, isbn  	lewalski, b. (january ), "milton and idolatry", sel: studies in english literature – , ( ): – , doi: . /sel. . , s cid  	lewis, c.s. ( ), a preface to paradise lost, london: oxford university press, oclc  	lyle, j (january ), "architecture and idolatry in paradise lost", sel: studies in english literature – , ( ): – , doi: . / , jstor  	marshall, w. h. (january ), "paradise lost: felix culpa and the problem of structure", modern language notes, ( ): – , doi: . / , jstor  	mikics, d ( ), "miltonic marriage and the challenge to history in paradise lost", texas studies in literature and language, ( ): – , doi: . /tsl. . , s cid  	miller, t.c., ed. ( ), the critical response to john milton's "paradise lost", westport: greenwood publishing group, isbn  - - - - , oclc  	milton, j ( ), paradise lost  ( nd ed.), london: s. simmons 	rajan, b ( ), paradise lost and the seventeenth century reader, london: chatto & windus, oclc  	ricks, c.b. ( ), milton's grand style, oxford: clarendon press, oclc  	stone, j.w. (may ), ""man's effeminate s(lack)ness:" androgyny and the divided unity of adam and eve", milton quarterly, ( ): – , doi: . /j. - x. .tb .x, s cid  	van nuis, h (may ), "animated eve confronting her animus: a jungian approach to the division of labor debate in paradise lost", milton quarterly, ( ): – , doi: . /j. - x. .tb .x 	walker, julia m. ( ), medusa's mirrors: spenser, shakespeare, milton, and the metamorphosis of the female self, university of delaware press, isbn  - - - - 	wheat, l ( ), philip pullman's his dark materials—a multiple allegory : attacking religious superstition in the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe and paradise lost, amherst, n.y.: prometheus books, isbn  - - - - , oclc  further reading[edit] 	patrides, c. a. approaches to paradise lost: the york tercentenary lectures (university of toronto, ) isbn  - - - 	ryan j. stark, "paradise lost as incomplete argument," — : aesthetics, ideas, and inquiries in the early modern era ( ): – . external links[edit] paradise lostat wikipedia's sister projects 	media from wikimedia commons 	quotations from wikiquote 	texts from wikisource 	data from wikidata 	gustave doré paradise lost illustrations from the university at buffalo libraries 	major online resources on paradise lost 	 paradise lost public domain audiobook at librivox online text[edit] 	paradise lost xhtml version at dartmouth's milton reading room 	project gutenberg text version 	project gutenberg text version 	paradise lost pdf/ebook version with layout and fonts inspired by th century publications. 	paradiselost.org has the original poetry side-by-side with a translation to plain (prosaic) english other information[edit] 	darkness visible – comprehensive site for students and others new to milton: contexts, plot and character summaries, reading suggestions, critical history, gallery of illustrations of paradise lost, and much more. by students at milton's cambridge college, christ's college. 	selected bibliography at the milton reading room – includes background, biography, criticism. 	paradise lost learning guide, quotes, close readings, thematic analyses, character analyses, teacher resources 		v 	t 	e john milton 	topics	 	poetic style 	reception history 	religion 	politics 	early life 	relationships 	 	poetry	 	poems 	on the morning of christ's nativity 	upon the circumcision 	the passion 	arcades 	comus 	"lycidas" 	"l'allegro" 	"il penseroso" 	paradise lost 	paradise regained 	samson agonistes 	poems 	antiprelatical tracts	 	of reformation 	of prelatical episcopacy 	animadversions 	the reason of church-government 	apology for smectymnuus 	divorce tracts	 	doctrine and discipline of divorce 	judgement of martin bucer concerning divorce 	tetrachordon 	colasterion 	political tracts	 	areopagitica 	the tenure of kings and magistrates 	eikonoklastes 	defensio pro populo anglicano 	defensio secunda 	a treatise of civil power 	the ready and easy way 	other writings	 	of education 	 the history of britain 	of true religion 	individual sonnets	 	"when i consider how my light is spent" 	"on the late massacre in piedmont" 	"methought i saw my late espoused saint" 	disputed	 	de doctrina christiana 	related	 	john milton (father) 	edward phillips (nephew) 	john phillips (nephew) 	milton: a poem in two books ( – ) 	neo-miltonic syllabics 	 	v 	t 	e john milton's paradise lost 	source	 	fall of man 	adaptations	 	william blake's illustrations of paradise lost (art) 	paradise lost (opera) 	related	 	paradise lost in popular culture 	paradise regained ( poem) 	albums	 	black aria ( ) 	damnation and a day ( ) 	rattle that lock ( ) 	characters	 	satan 	prince of darkness 	adam 	eve 	son of god 	god the father 	raphael 	michael 	places	 	pandæmonium 	 	v 	t 	e adam and eve 	source	 	genesis creation narrative in the book of genesis 	adam 	eve 	offspring	 	cain and abel 	luluwa 	seth 	awan 	azura 	related theology	 	fall of man 	original sin 	garden of eden 	tree of the knowledge of good and evil 	serpents in the bible 	forbidden fruit 	apple 	fig leaf 	figs in the bible 	adam's ale 	adamic language 	camael 	protevangelium 	rosh hashanah 	seed of the woman 	shamsiel 	lilith 	tree of life 	allegorical interpretations of genesis 	other cultures	 	adam–god doctrine 	adam and eve (lds church) 	adam in islam 	adam in rabbinic literature 	al-a'raf 	book of moses 	endowment 	manu (hinduism) 	mashya and mashyana 	serpent seed 	tree of jiva and atman 	tree of life (quran) 	our lady of endor coven 	television	 	"probe , over and out" ( ) 	film	 	mama's affair ( ) 	good morning, eve! 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[ ] very high · th of 	nuts region	itc 	website	www.regione.lombardia.it lombardy (/ˈlɒmbərdi, ˈlʌm-/ lom-bər-dee, lum-;[ ][ ] italian: lombardia [lombarˈdiːa]; lombard: lombardia, western lombard: [lũbɐ̞rˈdiːɑ], eastern lombard: [lombɐ̞rˈdiːɑ, -ˈdeːɑ]) is one of the twenty administrative regions of italy, in the northwest of the country, with an area of , square kilometres ( ,  sq mi). about million people live in lombardy, forming more than one-sixth of italy's population, and more than a fifth of italy's gdp is produced in the region, making it the most populous, richest and most productive region in the country. it is also one of the top regions in europe for the same criteria.[ ][ ] milan's metropolitan area is the largest in italy and the third most populated functional urban area in the eu.[ ] lombardy is also the italian region with most unesco world heritage sites—italy (tied with china) having the highest number of world heritage sites in the world.[ ] the region is also famous for its historical figures such as virgil, pliny the elder, ambrose, caravaggio, claudio monteverdi, antonio stradivari, cesare beccaria, alessandro volta, alessandro manzoni, and popes john xxiii and paul vi. contents 	 etymology 	 geography 	 . soils 	 . hydrography 	 . flora and fauna 	 . climate 	 history 	 . prehistory and antiquity 	 . kingdom of the lombards 	 . communes and the empire 	 . renaissance duchies of milan and mantua 	 . late-middle ages, renaissance and enlightenment 	 . modern era 	 . covid- pandemic 	 demographics 	 economy 	 government and politics 	 . administrative divisions 	 culture 	 . unesco world heritage sites 	 . museums 	 . other sights 	 . cuisine 	 . . typical dishes and products 	 . . wines 	 . music 	 . language 	 . fashion 	 sports 	 twinning and covenants 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 . guide books 	 external links etymology[edit] the word lombardy comes from lombard, which in turn is derived from late latin longobardus, langobardus ("a lombard"), derived from the proto-germanic elements *langaz + *bardaz; equivalent to long beard. some scholars suggest the second element instead derives from proto-germanic *bardǭ, *barduz ("axe"), related to german barte ("axe") or that the whole word comes from the proto-albanian *lum bardhi "white river" (compare modern albanian lum i bardhë).[ ] during the early middle ages, "lombardy" referred to the kingdom of the lombards (latin: regnum langobardorum), a kingdom ruled by the germanic lombards who had controlled most of italy since their invasion of byzantine italy in . as such "lombardy" and "italy" were almost interchangeable; by the mid- th century the lombards ruled everywhere except the papal possessions around rome (roughly modern lazio and northern umbria), venice and some byzantine possessions in the south (southern apulia and calabria; some coastal settlements including amalfi, gaeta, naples and sorrento; sicily and sardinia). the kingdom was divided between longobardia major in the north and langobardia minor in the south by the byzantine exarchate of ravenna (roughly romagna and northern marche, and initially also emilia and liguria) until the th century and later the papacy (which was initially part of the exarchate). during the late middle ages, after the fall of the northern part of the kingdom to charlemagne, the term shifted to mean northern italy. (see: kingdom of italy (holy roman empire)). the term was also used until around in the form Λογγοβαρδία (longobardia) as the name for the territory roughly covering modern apulia which the byzantines had recovered from the lombard rump duchy of benevento. geography[edit] main article: geography of lombardy with a surface of ,  km ( ,  sq mi), lombardy is the fourth-largest region of italy. it is bordered by switzerland (north: canton ticino and canton graubünden) and by the italian regions of trentino-alto adige/südtirol and veneto (east), emilia-romagna (south), and piedmont (west). three distinct natural zones can be easily distinguished in lombardy: mountains, hills, and plains—the last being divided into alta (high plains) and bassa (low plains). soils[edit] pizzo coca is the highest peak in the bergamasque alps ( , m) the orography of lombardy is characterised by the presence of three distinct belts: a northern mountainous belt constituted by the alpine relief, a central piedmont area of mostly pebbly soils of alluvial origin, and the lombard section of the padan plain in the southernmost part of the region. the most important mountainous area is the alpine zone including the lepontine and rhaetian alps (piz bernina, , m), the bergamo alps, the ortler alps and the adamello massif. it is followed by the alpine foothills zone prealpi, the main peaks of which are the grigna group ( , m), resegone ( , m), and presolana ( , m). the plains of lombardy, formed by alluvial deposits, can be divided into the alta—an upper, permeable ground zone in the north—and the bassa—a lower zone dotted by the so-called line of fontanili, spring waters rising from impermeable ground. inconsistent with the three distinctions above is the small subregion of oltrepò pavese, formed by the apennine foothills beyond the po river. hydrography[edit] po river, italy's longest, limits the southern border of the region the mighty po river marks the southern border of the region for a length of about  km (  mi). in its progress, it receives the waters of the ticino river, which rises in the bedretto valley (switzerland) and joins the po near pavia. the other streams which contribute to the great river are the olona, the lambro, the adda, the oglio and the mincio. the numerous lakes of lombardy, all of glacial origin, lie in the northern highlands. from west to east these are lake maggiore, lake lugano (both shared with switzerland), lake como, lake iseo, lake idro, and lake garda (the largest lake in italy). south of the alps lie the hills characterised by a succession of low heights of morainic origin formed during the last ice age and small barely fertile plateaux with typical heaths and conifer woods. a minor mountainous area, the oltrepò pavese, lies south of the po, in the apennines range. flora and fauna[edit] the alpine ibex (capra ibex) in the plains, intensively cultivated for centuries, little of the original environment remains. the most common trees are elm, alder, sycamore, poplar, willow and hornbeam. in the area of the foothills lakes, however, grow olive trees, cypresses and larches, as well as varieties of subtropical flora such as magnolias, azaleas, acacias. numerous species of endemic flora in the prealpine area include some kinds of saxifrage, the lombard garlic, groundsels bellflowers and the cottony bellflowers. the highlands are characterised by the typical vegetation of the whole range of the italian alps. at lower levels (up to approximately , m), oak woods or broadleafed trees grow; on the mountain slopes (up to , – , m), beech trees grow at the lowest limits, with conifer woods higher up. shrubs such as rhododendron, dwarf pine and juniper are native to the summital zone (beyond , m). lombardy counts many protected areas: the most important are the stelvio national park (the largest italian natural park), with typically alpine wildlife: red deer, roe deer, ibex, chamois, foxes, ermine and also golden eagles; and the ticino valley natural park, instituted in on the lombard side of the ticino river to protect and conserve one of the last major examples of fluvial forest in northern italy. other parks situated in the region are the campo dei fiori and the cinque vette park, both of them are located in the province of varese. climate[edit] lombardy has a wide array of climates, due to local variances in elevation, proximity to inland water basins, and large metropolitan areas. olive trees on the lake garda the climate of the region is mainly humid subtropical (köppen cfa) especially in the plains, though with significant variations to the köppen model especially regarding the winter season, which in lombardy is normally long, damp, and rather cold. in addition, there is a high seasonal temperature variation (in milan, the average temperature is .  °c ( .  °f) in january and  °c (  °f) in july). the plains are often subject to the presence of fog during the coldest months. in the alpine foothills, characterised by an oceanic climate (köppen cfb), numerous lakes exercise a mitigating influence, allowing the cultivation of typically mediterranean crops (olives, citrus fruit). in the hills and mountains, the climate is humid continental (köppen dfb). in the valleys it is relatively mild, while it can be severely cold above , m, with copious snowfalls. precipitation is more intense in the prealpine zone, up to , to ,  mm ( . to .  in) annually, but is abundant also in the plains and alpine zones, with an average of to  mm ( . to .  in) annually. the total annual rainfall is on average  mm.[ ] history[edit] prehistory and antiquity[edit] further information: cisalpine gaul the rock drawings in valcamonica are among the largest collections of prehistoric petroglyphs in the world.[ ] it is thought from the archaeological findings of ceramics, arrows, axes, and carved stones that the area of current lombardy has been settled at least since the nd millennium bc. well-preserved rock drawings left by ancient camuni in the valcamonica depicting animals, people, and symbols were made over a time period of eight thousand years preceding the iron age,[ ] based on about , records.[ ] the many artifacts (pottery, personal items and weapons) found in necropolis near the lake maggiore, and lake ticino demonstrate the presence of the golasecca bronze age culture that prospered in western lombardy between the th and the th century bc. in the following centuries it was inhabited by different peoples, among whom were the etruscans, who founded the city of mantua and spread the use of writing. it was seat of the celtic canegrate culture (starting from the th century bc) and later of the celto-ligurian golasecca culture. later, starting from the th century bc, the area was invaded by more celtic gallic tribes coming from north of the alps.. these people settled in several cities including milan, and extended their rule to the adriatic sea. their development was halted by the roman expansion in the po valley from the rd century bc onwards. after centuries of struggle, in bc the entire area of what is now lombardy became a roman province with the name of gallia cisalpina ("gaul on the inner side (with respect to rome) of the alps"). the roman culture and language overwhelmed the former civilisation in the following years, and lombardy became one of the most developed and richest areas of italy with the construction of a wide array of roads and the development of agriculture and trade. important figures were born here, like pliny the elder (in como) and virgil (in mantua). in late antiquity the strategic role of lombardy was emphasised by the temporary moving of the capital of the western empire to mediolanum (milan). here, in ad, roman emperor constantine issued the famous edict of milan that gave freedom of confession to all religions within the roman empire. kingdom of the lombards[edit] further information: lombards and kingdom of the lombards for centuries, the iron crown of lombardy was used in the coronation of the king of italy. during and after the fall of the western empire, lombardy suffered heavily from destruction brought about by a series of invasions by tribal peoples. the last and most effective was that of the germanic lombards, or longobardi, whose whole nation migrated here from the carpathian basin in fear of the conquering pannonian avars in and whose long-lasting reign (with its capital in pavia) gave the current name to the region. there was a close relationship between the frankish, bavarian and lombard nobility for many centuries. after the initial struggles, relationships between the lombard people and the latin-speaking people improved. in the end, the lombard language and culture assimilated with the latin culture, leaving evidence in many names, the legal code and laws, and other things. the genes of the lombards became quickly diluted into the italian population owing to their relatively small number and their geographic dispersal to rule and administer their kingdom.[ ] the end of lombard rule came in , when the frankish king charlemagne conquered pavia, deposed desiderius, the last lombard king, and annexed the kingdom of italy (mostly northern and central present-day italy) to his newly established holy roman empire. the former lombard dukes and nobles were replaced by other german vassals, prince-bishops or marquises. communes and the empire[edit] battle of cortenuova, . in the th century, lombardy, although formally under the rule of the holy roman empire like much of central and northern italy, was in fact divided in a multiplicity of small, autonomous city-states, the medieval communes. the th century marked a significant boom in the region's economy, due to improved trading and, most importantly, agricultural conditions, with arms manufacture a significant factor. in a similar way to other areas of italy, this led to a growing self-acknowledgement of the cities, whose increasing richness made them able to defy the traditional feudal supreme power, represented by the german emperors and their local legates. this process reached its apex in the th and th centuries, when different lombard leagues formed by allied cities of lombardy, usually led by milan, managed to defeat the hohenstaufen emperor frederick i, at legnano, and his grandson frederick ii, at parma. subsequently, among the various local city-states, a process of consolidation took place, and by the end of the th century, two signorias emerged as rival hegemons in lombardy: milan and mantua. renaissance duchies of milan and mantua[edit] further information: duchy of milan and duchy of mantua mantua as it appeared in . in the th century, the duchy of milan was a major political, economical and military force at the european level. milan and mantua became two centres of the renaissance whose culture, with men such as leonardo da vinci and mantegna, and works of art (e.g. leonardo da vinci's the last supper) were highly regarded. the enterprising class of the communes extended its trade and banking activities well into northern europe: "lombard" designated the merchant or banker coming from northern italy (e.g. lombard street in london). the name "lombardy" came to designate the whole of northern italy until the th century and sometimes later. from the th century onwards, the instability created by the unceasing internal and external struggles ended in the creation of noble seigniories, the most significant of which were those of the viscontis (later sforzas) in milan and of the gonzagas in mantua. this richness, however, attracted the now more organised armies of national powers such as france and austria, which waged a lengthy battle for lombardy in the late th to early th centuries. late-middle ages, renaissance and enlightenment[edit] the consulta of the république cisalpine receives the first consul on january after the decisive battle of pavia, the duchy of milan became a possession of the habsburgs of spain: the new rulers did little to improve the economy of lombardy, instead imposing a growing series of taxes needed to support their unending series of european wars. the eastern part of modern lombardy, with cities like bergamo and brescia, was under the republic of venice, which had begun to extend its influence in the area from the th century onwards (see also italian wars). between the middle of the th century and the battle of marignano in , the northern part of east lombardy from airolo to chiasso (modern ticino), and the valtellina valley came under possession of the old swiss confederacy. pestilences (like that of / [ ] described by alessandro manzoni in his i promessi sposi) and the generally declining conditions of italy's economy in the th and th centuries halted the further development of lombardy. in the austrians came to power and introduced some economic and social measures which granted a certain recovery. austrian rule was interrupted in the late th century by the french armies; under napoleon, lombardy became the centre of the cisalpine republic and of the kingdom of italy, both being puppet states of france's first empire, having milan as capital and napoleon as head of state. during this period lombardy took back valtellina from switzerland. modern era[edit] further information: kingdom of lombardy–venetia the five days of milan, . the restoration of austrian rule in , as the kingdom of lombardy–venetia, was characterised by the struggle with the new ideals introduced by the napoleonic era. the popular republic established by the revolution was short-lived, its suppression leading to renewed austrian rule. this came to a decisive end when lombardy was annexed to the kingdom of italy as a result of the second italian war of independence from the austrian empire. when annexed to the kingdom of italy in lombardy achieved its present-day territorial shape by adding the oltrepò pavese (formerly the southern part of novara's province) to the province of pavia. covid- pandemic[edit] further information: covid- pandemic in italy the lombardy region was severely affected by the covid- pandemic in early , in which italy was one of the worst affected countries in europe. several towns were quarantined from february after community transmission was documented in lombardy and veneto the previous day. the entire lombardy region was placed on lockdown on march,[ ] followed by all of italy the following day,[ ] making italy the first country to implement a nationwide lockdown in response to the epidemic, which was declared a pandemic by the world health organization on march. the lockdown was ultimately extended twice, and the lombardy region toughened restrictions on march, banning outdoor exercise and the use of vending machines,[ ] but from the beginning of may, following a decrease in the number of active cases, restrictions gradually began to be relaxed.[ ] demographics[edit] historical population	year	pop.	±% 	 	 , , 	—     	 	 , , 	+ . % 	 	 , , 	+ . % 	 	 , , 	+ . % 	 	 , , 	+ . % 	 	 , , 	+ . % 	 	 , , 	+ . % 	 	 , , 	+ . % 	 	 , , 	+ . % 	 	 , , 	+ . % 	 	 , , 	+ . % 	 	 , , 	+ . % 	 	 , , 	− . % 	 	 , , 	+ . % 	 	 , , 	+ . % 	 (est.) 	 , , 	+ . % 	source: istat 	the largest resident foreign-born groups on december [ ] 	nationality	population 	 romania	 , 	 morocco	 , 	 albania	 , 	 egypt	 , 	 china	 , 	 philippines	 , 	 ukraine	 , 	 india	 , 	 peru	 , 	 pakistan	 , 	 ecuador	 , 	 senegal	 , 	 sri lanka	 , 	 moldova	 , 	 bangladesh	 , 	 tunisia	 , 	 nigeria	 , 	 brazil	 , 	 el salvador	 , 	 ghana	 , 	 algeria	 , 	 bolivia	 , 	 bulgaria	 , 	 ivory coast	 , one-sixth of the italian population or about million people live in lombardy ( . % of the national population; % of the european union population), making it the second most densely populated region in italy after campania. the population is highly concentrated in the milan metropolitan area ( , inh./km ) and the alpine foothills that compose the southern section of the provinces of varese, como, lecco, monza and brianza and bergamo, ( , inh./km ). a lower average population density ( inh./km ) is found in the po valley and the lower brescia valleys; much lower densities (less than inh./km ) characterise the northern mountain areas and the southern oltrepò pavese subregion.[ ] the growth of the regional population was particularly sustained during the s– s, thanks to a prolonged economic boom, high birth rates, and strong migration inflows (especially from southern italy). since the s, lombardy has become the destination of a large number of international migrants, insomuch that today, more than a quarter of all foreign-born residents in italy live in this region. as of [update], the italian national institute of statistics (istat) estimated that , , foreign-born immigrants live in lombardy, equal to . % of the total population. the primary religion is catholicism; significant religious minorities include christian waldenses, protestants and orthodox, as well as jews, sikh and muslims. economy[edit] as of [update], the gross domestic product (gdp) of lombardy, equal to over €  billion, accounts for about % of the total gdp of italy. by inhabitant, this figure results in a value of € , , which is more than % higher than the national average of € , .[ ] gdp and gdp per capita in lombardy ( – ) 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	gdp[ ] (euro)	 . , 	 . 	 . , 	 . , 	 . , 	 . , 	 . , 	 . , 	 . , 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	gdp per capita[ ] (euro)	 . , 	 . , 	 . , 	 . , 	 . , 	 . , 	 . , 	 . , 	 . , 	 . , 	 . , 	 . , 	 . , 	 . , 	 . , 	 . , 	 . , 	 . , 	 . , lombardy's development has been marked by the growth of the services sector since the s, and in particular by the growth of innovative activities in the sector of services to enterprises and in credit and financial services. at the same time, the strong industrial vocation of the region has not suffered. lombardy remains, in fact, the main industrial area of the country. the presence, and development, of a very high number of enterprises belonging to the services sector represents a favourable situation for the improvement of the efficiency of the productive process, as well as for the growth of the regional economy. a view over the business district of milan: with a metropolitan area of . m people,[ ] it is italy's most important industrial, commercial and financial center. lombardy has cultural and economical relationships with many foreign countries including azerbaijan,[ ] austria,[ ][ ][ ] france,[ ] hungary,[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] switzerland (especially the cantons of ticino and graubünden),[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] canada (the province of quebec),[ ] germany (the states of bavaria, saxony, and saxony-anhalt),[ ][ ][ ] kuwait,[ ] the netherlands (province of zuid-holland),[ ] and russia.[ ] lombardy is a member of the four motors of europe, an intereuropean economical organization which includes baden-wurtenberg in germany, catalonia in spain, and auvergne-rhône-alpes in france.[ ] the lombardy region is also part of the eusalp, which promotes innovation, green sustainability, and economy in the alpine regions of austria, france, liechtenstein, northern italy, southern germany, switzerland, and slovenia,[ ][ ][ ] and arge alp, which gathers states located in the alpine regions of austria, northern italy, southern germany, and switzerland to discuss similar themes as in eusalp.[ ] economical and cultural relationship are also strong with neighboring italian regions friuli-venezia giulia, south tyrol, trentino, and veneto.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] the european union has developed the central europe program – to foster cooperation in several areas between the lombardy region along with other northern italian regions and several states of central europe.[ ][ ] the region can broadly be divided into three areas in regards to productive activity: milan, where the services sector makes up for . % of the employment; the provinces of varese, como, lecco, monza and brianza, bergamo and brescia, where it is highly industrialised, although in the two latter provinces, there is also a rich agricultural sector in the plains; the provinces of sondrio, pavia, cremona, mantova and lodi, where there is a consistent agricultural activity, and at the same time an above average development of the services sector. the productivity of agriculture is enhanced by a well-developed use of fertilisers and the traditional abundance of water, boosted since the middle ages by the construction (partly designed by leonardo da vinci) of a wide net of irrigation systems. lower plains are characterised by fodder crops, which are mowed up to eight times a year, cereals (rice, wheat and maize) and sugar beet. productions of the higher plains include cereals, vegetables, fruit trees and mulberries. the higher areas, up to the prealps and alps sectors of the north, produce fruit and wine. cattle (with the highest density in italy), pigs, and sheep are also raised. the unemployment rate stood at . % in . regional unemployment was one of the lowest in italy.[ ] 	year 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	unemployment rate (in %) 	 . % 	 . % 	 . % 	 . % 	 . % 	 . % 	 . % 	 . % 	 . % 	 . % 	 . % 	 . % 	 . % 	 . % government and politics[edit] main article: politics of lombardy palazzo lombardia, the main seat of the government of lombardy. politics in lombardy is framed within a system of representative democracy, where the president of the region (presidente della regione) is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. executive power is vested in the regional government (giunta regionale) and legislative power is vested in the regional council (consiglio regionale). historically, the moderate christian democrats maintained a large majority of the popular support and the control of the most important cities and provinces from the end of the second world war to the early s. the opposition italian communist party was a considerable presence only in southern lombardy and in the working class districts of milan; their base, however, was increasingly eroded by the rival centrist italian socialist party, until eventually the mani pulite corruption scandal (which spread from milan to the whole of italy) wiped away the old political class and parties almost entirely. this, together with the general disaffection towards the central government (considered as wasting resources to balance the budgets of the chronically underdeveloped regions of southern italy), led to the sudden growth of the secessionist northern league, particularly strong in the mountain and rural areas. in the last twenty years, lombardy stayed as a conservative stronghold, overwhelmingly voting for silvio berlusconi in all the six last general elections. notwithstanding, the capital city of milan elected progressive giuliano pisapia at the municipal elections and the regional elections saw a narrow victory for the center-right coalition. on october a non-binding autonomy referendum took place in lombardy. the turnout was a low . %, of which . % voted in favor. the regional government of lombardy is still under negotiation with rome for the devolution of certain competencies.[ ][ ] administrative divisions[edit] the region of lombardy is divided in administrative provinces, metropolitan city and , communes. the provinces/metropolitan cities of lombardy 	province/metropolitan city 	area (km ) 	population 	density (inh./km ) 	province of bergamo 	 , 	 , , 	 . 	province of brescia 	 , 	 , , 	 . 	province of como 	 , 	 , 	 . 	province of cremona 	 , 	 , 	 . 	province of lecco 	 	 , 	 . 	province of lodi 	 	 , 	 . 	province of mantua 	 , 	 , 	 . 	metropolitan city of milan 	 , 	 , , 	 , . 	province of monza and brianza 	 	 , 	 , . 	province of pavia 	 , 	 , 	 . 	province of sondrio 	 , 	 , 	 . 	province of varese 	 , 	 , 	 . 	  	v 	t 	e largest cities or towns in lombardy source: istat;[ ] estimates for december 		rank 	 	province 	pop. 	rank 	 	province 	pop.	 	 milan brescia 	 	milan	milan	 , , 	 	cremona	cremona	 , 	 monza bergamo 	 	brescia	brescia	 , 	 	vigevano	pavia	 , 	 	monza	monza	 , 	 	legnano	milan	 , 	 	bergamo	bergamo	 , 	 	gallarate	varese	 , 	 	como	como	 , 	 	rho	milan	 , 	 	busto arsizio	varese	 , 	 	mantua	mantua	 , 	 	sesto san giovanni	milan	 , 	 	lecco	lecco	 , 	 	varese	 varese	 , 	 	cologno monzese	milan	 , 	 	cinisello balsamo	milan	 , 	 	paderno dugnano	milan	 , 	 	pavia	pavia	 , 	 	lissone	monza	 , culture[edit] beside being an economic and industrial powerhouse, lombardy has a rich and diverse cultural heritage. the many examples range from prehistory to the present day, through the roman period and the renaissance and can be found both in museums and churches that enrich cities and towns around the region. major tourist destinations in the region include (in order of arrivals as of [update])[ ] the historic, cultural and artistic cities of milan ( , , arrivals), bergamo ( , ), brescia ( , ), como ( , ), varese ( , ), mantua ( , ), monza ( , ) and the lakes of garda ( , ), como ( , ), iseo ( , ) and maggiore ( , ). unesco world heritage sites[edit] the rock drawings in valcamonica the last supper, convent of sta. maria delle grazie, milan, italy ( ), by leonardo da vinci the fortified city of bergamo remains of roman forum in brescia there are nine unesco world heritage sites wholly or partially located in lombardy.[ ] some of these comprise several individual objects in different locations. one of the entries has been listed as natural heritage and the others are cultural heritage sites. at monte san giorgio, on the border with swiss canton ticino just south of lake lugano, a wide range of marine triassic fossils have been found. during the triassic period, some million years ago, the area was a shallow tropical lagoon. fossils include reptiles, fish and crustaceans and also some insects. two sites are of pre-historic origin. the rock drawings in valcamonica date back to a period between  bc and  bc, covering prehistoric periods from the epipaleolithic/mesolithic to the iron age. the engravings show depictions of a wide range of topics including agricultural and war scenes alongside more abstract symbols. the multi-centred heritage site prehistoric pile dwellings around the alps includes individual objects in france, switzerland, italy, germany, austria and slovenia, of which ten are located in lombardy. each of these objects consists of remnants of buildings erected on wooden piles in sub-alpine rivers, lakes and wetlands, built between  bc and  bc. in general, only the submerged wooden parts have been preserved in the alluvial sediment, although in some places pile buildings have been reconstructed. another multi-centred site, longobards in italy, places of power ( – a.d.), comprises seven locations across mainland italy which illustrate the history of the lombard period which has given the region its name. two of the individual sites are in the modern region of lombardy: the fortifications (the castrum and the torba tower) and the church of santa maria foris portas ("outside the gates") with its byzantinesque frescoes at castelseprio, and the monastic complex of san salvatore-santa giulia at brescia. the unesco site of brescia also includes the remains of its roman forum, the best-preserved in northern italy.[ ][ ] the church and dominican convent of santa maria delle grazie in milan with "the last supper" by leonardo da vinci represent architectural and painting styles of the renaissance period of the th century. the towns of mantua and sabbioneta are also listed as a combined world heritage site relating to this period, here focussing more on town planning aspects of the time than on architectural detail. while mantua was rebuilt in the th and th centuries according to renaissance principles, sabbioneta was planned as a new town in the th century. the sacri monti of piedmont and lombardy are a group of nine sites in northwest italy, of which two are in lombardy. the concept of holy mountains can also be found elsewhere in europe. these sites were created as centres of pilgrimage by placing chapels in the natural landscape and were loosely modelled on the topography of jerusalem. in lombardy, sacro monte del rosario di varese and sacro monte della beata vergine del soccorso, built in the early to mid- th century, mark the architectural transition from the late renaissance to the baroque style. crespi d'adda is a company town founded in to accommodate workers of a local textile mill. at its height, the town was home to , employees and their families. parco naturalistico-archeologico della rocca di manerba del garda, a fortress of manerba del garda. the rhaetian railway in the albula/bernina landscapes is mostly located in the swiss canton graubünden, but also extends over the border into tirano. the site is listed because of the complex railway engineering (tunnels, viaducts and avalanche galleries) necessary to take the narrow-gauge railway across the main chain of the alps. the two railway lines were opened in several stages between the years of and . the venetian works of defence between the th and th centuries: stato da terra – western stato da mar is a transnational system of fortifications built by the republic of venice on its mainland domains (stato da terra) and its territories stretching along the adriatic coast (stato da mar). this site includes the fortified city of bergamo. museums[edit] lombardy contains numerous museums (over ) of different types (e.g. ethnographic, historical, technical-scientific, artistic and naturalistic) which testify to the historical-cultural and artistic development of the region. among the most famous ones are the national museum of science and technology "leonardo da vinci" (milan), the accademia carrara (bergamo), the mille miglia, the santa giulia museum (both in brescia), the volta temple, the villa olmo (both in como), the stradivari museum (cremona), the palazzo te (mantua), the museum sacred art of the nativity, the basilica of santa maria assunta (both in gandino), and the royal villa of monza (monza). other sights[edit] lake garda lake como the floating piers by christo and jeanne-claude on lake iseo ( ) 	cathedral of milan 	castello sforzesco, milan 	basilica di sant'ambrogio, milan 	teatro alla scala, milan 	basilica of san lorenzo, milan 	basilica of sant'eustorgio, milan 	brera gallery, milan 	bellagio 	accademia carrara, bergamo 	santa maria maggiore and cappella colleoni, bergamo 	the fortified venetian walls, bergamo 	roman and longobard monuments in brescia 	duomo nuovo, brescia 	castelseprio archaeological site 	certosa di pavia 	como cathedral and basilica of sant'abbondio, como 	duomo and torrazzo, cremona 	lake como 	lake garda 	lake iseo 	tempio civico della beata vergine incoronata, lodi 	royal villa of monza 	san pietro in ciel d'oro and san michele maggiore, pavia 	villa toeplitz, varese cuisine[edit] main article: lombard cuisine rice is popular in the region, often found in soups as well as risotti, such as "risotto alla milanese", with saffron. in the city of monza, a popular recipe also adds pieces of sausages to the risotto. polenta is also common throughout the region. regional cheeses include robiola, crescenza, taleggio, gorgonzola and grana padano (the plains of central and southern lombardy allow intensive cattle-raising). butter and cream are used. single pot dishes, which take less work to prepare, are popular. common types of pasta include casoncelli in brescia and bergamo and pizzoccheri in valtellina. in mantua, festivals feature tortelli di zucca (ravioli with pumpkin filling) accompanied by melted butter and followed by turkey stuffed with chicken or other stewed meats.[ ] among typical regional desserts is nocciolini di canzo—dry biscuits. typical dishes and products[edit] grana padano dpo gorgonzola cheese takes its name from the homonymous city near milan risotto alla milanese with ossobuco tortelli di zucca with butter and sage 	casoncelli 	carpaccio di bresaola 	pizzoccheri (tagliatelle of buckwheat and wheat, laced with butter, green vegetables, potatoes, sage and garlic, topped with casera cheese) 	risotto alla milanese 	tortelli di zucca (pumpkin-filled pasta) 	polenta (eaten also in its taragna variant in the northern part of the region) 	ossobuco 	cotoletta (cutlet) alla milanese 	cassoeula 	lo spiedo bresciano – spit roast of different cuts of meat with butter and sage 	salamella (italian sausage without fennel or anise, always served grilled) 	salame d'oca di mortara (goose salami) 	gorgonzola cheese 	taleggio cheese 	stracchino cheese 	bitto cheese 	rosa camuna cheese 	grana padano cheese 	mascarpone 	panettone 	sbrisolona cake 	amaretti di saronno 	torrone 	mostarda wines[edit] main article: lombard wine 	franciacorta 	nebbiolo red 	bellavista 	santi 	nino negri 	bonarda lombardy 	inferno (valtellina) 	grumello (valtellina) 	sassella (valtellina) music[edit] main articles: music of lombardy and music of milan the auditorium of the teatro alla scala in milan. besides milan, the region of lombardy has other provinces, most of them with equally great musical traditions. bergamo is famous for being the birthplace of gaetano donizetti and home of the teatro donizetti; brescia hosts the impressive teatro grande; cremona is regarded as the birthplace of the commonly used violin and is home to several of the most prestigious luthiers in the world; and mantua was one of the founding and most important cities in th- and th-century opera and classical music. other cities such as lecco, lodi, varese and pavia also have rich musical traditions, but milan is the hub and centre of the lombard musical scene. it was the workplace of giuseppe verdi, one of the most famous and influential opera composers of the th century, and boasts a variety of acclaimed theatres, such as the piccolo teatro and the teatro arcimboldi; however, the most famous is the teatro alla scala, one of the most important and prestigious operahouses in the world. language[edit] main article: lombard language lombard is widely used in lombardy, in diglossia with italian. lombard is a language[ ] belonging to the gallo-italic group, within the romance languages.[ ] it is a cluster of homogeneous varieties used by at least , , native speakers in lombardy and some areas of neighbouring regions, notably the eastern side of piedmont and southern switzerland (cantons of ticino and graubünden).[ ] the lombard language should not be confused with that of the lombards – lombardic language, a germanic language extinct since the middle ages. fashion[edit] main article: fashion in milan dolce & gabbana is headquartered in milan. lombardy has always been an important centre for silk and textile production, notably the cities of pavia, vigevano and cremona, but milan is the region's most important centre for clothing and high fashion. in , milan was regarded as the world fashion capital, even surpassing new york, paris and london.[ ] most of the major italian fashion brands, such as valentino, versace, prada, armani and dolce & gabbana, are currently headquartered in the city. sports[edit] the most famous sport in lombardy, as in all italy, is football. in fact, lombardy is home to some of the most important football teams in the country. considering the - serie a season, lombardy hosts out of teams: a.c. milan and inter milan (both based in milan) and atalanta b.c. (based in bergamo). other big teams of the region are brescia calcio, a.c. monza and u.s. cremonese (playing in the - serie b) and calcio lecco , u.c. albinoleffe, como , aurora pro patria , a.c. renate, a.s. giana erminio, s.s.d. pro sesto and u.s. pergolettese (playing in the - serie c). the region's city milan will host the winter olympics alongside cortina d'ampezzo. the autodromo nazionale di monza, located outside of milan, hosts the formula one italian grand prix. twinning and covenants[edit] 	 nuevo león see also[edit] 	italy portal 	 lombard autonomy referendum 	covid- pandemic in italy 	list of european regions by gdp references[edit] 	^ "lombardia, lombardia, presentato l'inno della regione". corriere della sera (in italian). december . 	^ "monthly demographic balance, january–june ". demo.istat.it. retrieved november . 	^ a b "regional gdp per capita ranged from % to % of the eu average in " (press release). ec.europa.eu. retrieved september . 	^ "oecd statistics". stats.oecd.org. retrieved september . 	^ "sub-national hdi – area database – global data lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. retrieved september . 	^ "lombardy". the american heritage dictionary of the english language ( th ed.). boston: houghton mifflin harcourt. retrieved july . 	^ "lombardy". collins english dictionary. harpercollins. retrieved july . 	^ "europa press releases – regional gdp per inhabitant in the eu , gdp per inhabitant in ranged from % of the eu average in nord-est in romania to % in inner london". europa (web portal). february . retrieved may . 	^ oecd data synthesis. 	^ eurostat – functional urban areas archived april at the wayback machine. 	^ list of world heritage sites by country. 	^ partridge, eric ( ). origins: an etymological dictionary of modern english ([paperback ed.] ed.). london: routledge. isbn  - . 	^ "regional statistical yearbook: average rainfall, yearly and ten-year average, lombardy and its provinces". regione lombardia. archived from the original on september . retrieved july . 	^ "rock drawings in valcamonica – unesco world heritage centre". unesco. retrieved june . 	^ piero adorno, mesolitico e neolitico, p. . 	^ "introduzione all'arte rupestre della valcamonica". archeocamuni.it (in italian). retrieved may . 	^ maciamo hay (july ). 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"assessing the effect of official recognition on the vitality of endangered languages: a case of study from italy". policy and planning for endangered languages. cambridge, uk: cambridge university press. p.  . isbn  . lombard (lumbard, iso - lmo) is a cluster of essentially homogeneous varieties (tamburelli : ) belonging to the gallo-italic group. it is spoken in the italian region of lombardy, in the novara province of piedmont, and in switzerland. mutual intelligibility between speakers of lombard and monolingual italian speakers has been reported as very low (tamburelli ). although some lombard varieties, milanese in particular, enjoy a rather long and prestigious literary tradition, lombard is now mostly used in informal domains. according to ethnologue, piedmontese and lombard are spoken by between , , and , , speakers and around , , speakers, respectively. these are very high figures for languages that have never been recognised officially nor systematically taught in school 	^ "the global language monitor " fashion". languagemonitor.com. july . archived from the original on november . retrieved january . further reading[edit] 	cochrane, eric. historians and historiography in the italian renaissance (u of chicago press, ). 	conca messina, silvia a., and catia brilli. 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( ): - online. 	klang, daniel m. tax reform in eighteenth century lombardy ( ) online 	messina, silvia a. conca. cotton enterprises: networks and strategies: lombardy in the industrial revolution, - ( ) excerpt 	pyle, cynthia munro. milan and lombardy in the renaissance: essays in cultural history ( ). 	sella, domenico. crisis and continuity : the economy of spanish lombardy in the seventeenth century ( ) online 	soresina, marco. "images of lombardy in historiography." modern italy . ( ): - . 	storrs, christopher. "the army of lombardy and the resilience of spanish power in italy in the reign of carlos ii ( - ) (part i)." war in history . 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grammatical gender. when a law is the initiative of the two consuls, it is given the name of both, with the nomen of the senior consul first. sometimes a law is further specified by a short phrase describing the content of the law, to distinguish that law from others sponsored by members of the same gens. contents 	 roman laws 	 post-roman law codes based on roman legislation 	 general denominations 	 resolutions of the senate 	 other 	 see also 	 references 	 bibliography 	 external links roman laws[edit] 	name 	date 	passed by 	magistracy held 	description 	lex acilia calpurnia	 bc 	c. calpurnius piso & m. acilius glabrio 	consuls	permanent exclusion from office in cases of electoral corruption. 	lex acilia de intercalando 	 bc 	m. acilius glabrio 	consul 	adjustment of the calendar. 	lex acilia repetundarum 	 bc[ ] 	m. acilius glabrio (& c. sempronius gracchus) 	tribunes of the plebs 	repetundae procedures for jurors in courts overseeing senatorial class to prevent corruption abroad. 	lex aebutia de formulis 	 – bc (circa) 	aebutius[ ] 	tribune of the plebs (?) 	authorized praetor's discretion to be introduced into the court of the praetor urbanus, praetor able to remodel private law of rome. 	lex aebutia de magistratibus extraordinariis 	 – bc (circa) 	aebutius[ ] 	tribune of the plebs? 	proposer of extraordinary magistracy cannot hold it. 	lex aelia et fufia 	 bc (circa)? 	aelius & fufius[ ] 	tribunes of the plebs? 	two laws probably regulating auspices. 	lex aelia sentia 	 ad 	sex. aelius catus & c. sentius saturninus 	consuls 	manumissions of slaves. 	lex aemilia de censoribus 	 bc 	mam. aemilius mamercinus 	dictator 	reduced the terms of censors to a year and a half. 	lex ampia 	 bc 	t. ampius balbus[ ] 	tribune of the plebs 	allowed pompey to wear the crown of bay at the ludi circenses. 	lex antonia de termessibus 	 bc 	c. antonius hybrida[ ] 	tribune of the plebs 	alliance with termessus. 	lex antonia 	 bc 	mark antony 	consul 	measures of mark antony against dictatorship etc. 	lex appuleia agraria 	 – bc 	saturninus 	tribune of the plebs 	made provision for public lands taken in cisalpine gaul from the cimbri to be allocated to poor citizens. 	lex appuleia de maiestate 	 – bc 	saturninus 	tribune of the plebs 	established an equestrian court to try maiestas. 	lex aquilia de damno 	 bc (possibly) 	aquilius 	tribune of the plebs 	provided compensation to the owners of property injured by someone's fault. 	lex aternia tarpeia 	 bc 	a. aternius varus & s. tarpeius montanus capitolinus 	consuls 	allowed magistrates to fine citizens, but set maximum fines. 	lex atilia marcia 	 bc 	l. atilius & c. marcius rutilus censorinus 	tribunes of the plebs 	empowered the people to elect sixteen military tribunes for each of four legions. 	lex atinia de tribunis plebis in senatum legendis 	 bc[ ] 	atinius 	tribune of the plebs 	allowed plebeian tribunes to be automatically enrolled in the senate upon election. 	lex atinia de usucapione 	 bc 	atinius 	tribune of the plebs 	dealing with ownership. 	lex aufeia 	 bc 	aufeius 	tribune of the plebs 	settlement of asia. 	lex aufidia de ambitu 	 bc 	m. aufidius lurco 	tribune of the plebs 	if a candidate promised money to a tribe and did not pay it, he should be unpunished; but if he did pay the money, he should further pay to each tribe (annually?) sesterces as long as he lived. 	lex aurelia de tribunicia potestate 	 bc 	c. aurelius cotta 	consul 	former tribunes of the plebs can hold further magistracies (this right had been removed by sulla). 	lex aurelia iudiciaria 	 bc 	l. aurelius cotta 	praetor 	juries should be chosen from senators, equites and tribuni aerarii. 	lex baebia de praetoribus 	 bc 	m. baebius tamphilus 	consul 	set number of praetors to alternate, but was never observed. 	lex cornelia et baebia de ambitu 	 bc 	p. cornelius cethegus & m. baebius tamphilus 	consuls 	against electoral bribery. 	lex caecilia de censoria 	 bc 	q. caecilius metellus pius scipio 	consul 	repealed the lex clodia de censoribus passed by the tribune of the plebs clodius in bc, which had regulated the censors. 	lex caecilia de vectigalibus 	 bc 	q. caecilius metellus nepos iunior 	praetor 	released lands and harbors in italy from the payment of taxes. 	lex caecilia didia 	 bc 	q. caecilius metellus nepos & t. didius 	consuls 	required laws to proposed at least three market days before any vote. also forbade omnibus bills, which are bills with a large amount of unrelated material. 	lex calpurnia 	 bc 	l. calpurnius piso 	tribune of the plebs 	established a permanent extortion court. 	lex canuleia 	 bc 	c. canuleius 	tribune of the plebs 	allowed patricians and plebeians to intermarry. 	lex cassia tabellaria 	 bc 	l. cassius longinus ravilla 	tribune of the plebs 	introduced secret votes in court jury decisions. 	lex cassia de senatu 	 bc 	l. cassius longinus 	tribune of the plebs 	required any senator to be expelled from the senate if they had been convicted of a crime, or if their power (imperium) had been revoked while serving as a magistrate. 	lex cassia 	 bc 	l. cassius longinus 	tribune of the plebs 	allowed julius caesar to add new individuals to the patrician (aristocratic) class. 	lex cassia terentia frumentaria 	 bc 	c. cassius longinus & m. terentius varro lucullus 	consuls 	required the distribution of corn among the poor citizens. 	lex cincia de donis et muneribus 	 bc 	m. cincius alimentus 	tribune of the plebs 	tort reform concerning the payment of lawyers. 	lex citationis 	 ad 	valentinian iii 	emperor 	during court proceedings, only five roman lawyers could be cited. 	lex claudia 	 bc 	q. claudius 	tribune of the plebs 	prohibited senators from participating in overseas trade, obsolete by the time of cicero. 	lex clodia 	 bc 	p. clodius pulcher 	tribune of the plebs 	seven laws: ( ) lex clodia de auspiciis: repealed the leges aeliae et fufiae. ( ) lex clodia de censoribus: prescribed certain rules for the roman censors in exercising their functions as inspectors of public morals. ( ) lex clodia de civibus romanis interemptis: threatened punishment for anyone who offered fire and water to those who had executed roman citizens without a trial. ( ) lex clodia frumentaria: required the distribution of grain to rome's poor citizens for free. ( ) lex clodia de sodalitatibus: declared that certain clubs of a "semi-political nature" (i.e. armed gangs) were lawful. ( ) lex clodia de libertinorum suffragiis: attempted to extend freedmen's (i.e. ex-slaves') voting rights. ( ) lex clodia de rege ptolemaeo et de exsulibus byzantinis: pertained to several of rome's eastern provinces and vassal states. 	lex cornelia annalis 	 bc 	sulla 	dictator 	a sanction law for sulla's past acts; part of his program to strengthen the senate. 	lex cornelia de maiestate 	 bc 	sulla 	dictator 	treason law passed by sulla to regulate the activities of pro-magistrates in their provinces, especially unapproved war and unauthorised travel. 	lex cornelia de sicariis et veneficiis 	 bc 	sulla 	dictator 	dealing with injuries and deaths obtained by magic. 	lex domitia de sacerdotis 	 bc 	cn. domitius ahenobarbus 	tribune of the plebs 	established the election of the pontifex maximus and the members of the college of priests (chosen by cooptation before). 	lex fufia caninia 	 bc 	c. fufius geminus & l. caninius gallus 	consuls 	limited manumissions. 	lex gabinia 	 bc 	a. gabinius 	tribune of the plebs 	pompey has special powers in the mediterranean to fight against pirates 	lex gabinia tabellaria 	 bc 	a. gabinius 	tribune of the plebs 	introduced secret votes in election for magistrate offices. 	lex gellia cornelia 	 bc 	l. gellius publicola & cn. cornelius lentulus clodianus 	consuls 	authorised pompey to confer roman citizenship to his clientela and spaniards. 	lex genucia 	 bc 	l. genucius 	tribune of the plebs 	three laws: ( ) abolished interest on loans. ( ) required the election of at least one plebeian consul each year. ( ) prohibited a magistrate from holding two magistracies in the same year, or the same magistracy for the next ten years (until ).[ ][ ][ ] 	lex hadriana 	 – ad 	hadrian 	emperor 	enabled permanent tenants to develop land, it was an extension of the lex manciana. 	lex hieronica 	 bc 	hiero ii 	king of sicily 	taxation of sicily (the legislation of hiero ii was included in roman law). 	lex hortensia 	 bc 	q. hortensius 	dictator 	plebiscites approved by the assembly of the people gain the status of law. 	lex de imperio vespasiani 	 ad 	vespasian 	emperor 	conferring powers, privileges and exemptions to the emperor vespasian. 	lex icilia de aventino publicando 	 bc 	l. icilius 	tribune of the plebs 	gave land to plebeians. 	lex iulia de civitate latinis et sociis danda 	 bc 	lucius julius caesar 	consul 	offered citizenship to all italians who had not raised arms against rome in the social war. 	lex iulia de adulteriis coercendis 	 bc 	augustus 	emperor 	made conjugal unfaithfulness a public as well as a private offence, with banishment a possible penalty. 	lex iulia de ambitu 	 bc 	augustus 	emperor 	penalised bribery when acquiring political offices. 	lex iulia de maritandis ordinibus 	 bc 	augustus 	emperor 	marrying-age celibates and young widows that would not marry were barred from receiving inheritances and from attending public games. 	lex iulia de repetundis 	 bc 	julius caesar 	consul 	regarding extortion in the provinces. 	lex iulia de vicesima hereditatum 	 ad 	augustus 	emperor 	instituted a percent tax on testamentary inheritances, exempting close relatives. 	lex iulia municipalis 	 bc 	julius caesar 	dictator and consul 	set regulations for the italian municipalities. 	lex junia licinia 	 bc 	d. junius silanus & l. licinius murena 	consuls 	a reinforcement law passed to back up the earlier lex caecilia didia law of bc. 	lex junia norbana 	 ad 	m. junius silanus torquatus & l. norbanus balbus 	consuls 	regarding status of freedmen. 	lex licinia mucia 	 bc 	l. licinius crassus & q. mucius scaevola 	consuls 	removed latin and italian allies from rome's citizen-rolls. 	lex licinia pompeia 	 bc 	pompey and crassus 	consuls 	caesar's proconsulship in both the gauls was extended for another years. 	lex licinia sextia 	 bc 	c. licinius stolo & l. sextius lateranus 	tribunes of the plebs 	four laws: ( ) lex de consule altero ex plebe et de praetore ex patribus creando: resumed the consulship and opened it to plebeians, and created the praetorship, reserved to patricians.[ ] ( ) lex de aere alieno: provided that the interest already paid on debts should be deducted from the principal and that the payment of the rest of the principal should be in three equal annual instalments. ( ) lex de modo agrorum: restricted individual ownership of public land in excess of iugeras ( acres) and forbade the grazing of more than cattle on public land. ( ) lex de decemviri sacris faciundis: created the decemviri sacris faciundis, a college of ten priests, of whom five had to be plebeians. 	lex maenia 	 bc 	maenius[ ] 	tribune of the plebs 	carried the principle of lex pubilia to elections (approval of senate moved before the elections, not after).. 	lex menenia sestia 	 bc 	t. menenius lanatus & p. sestius capitolinus vaticanus 	consuls 	scale for fines, ox = sheep =  lb. of bronze. 	lex manciana 	 – ad 	 	 	dealt with imperial and private cases in north africa, regulated relations between cultivators and the proprietors. 	lex manilia 	 bc 	c. manilius 	tribune of the plebs 	pompey's actions against mithridates. 	lex minucia 	 bc 	m. minucius 	tribune of the plebs 	appointment of three finance commissioners. 	lex ogulnia 	 bc 	cn. & q. ogulnius 	tribune of the plebs 	created four plebeian pontiffs and five plebeian augurs. 	lex oppia 	 bc 	c. oppius 	tribune of the plebs 	limited female adornment. 	lex ovinia 	 bc (before) 	ovinius 	tribune of the plebs 	transferred the right to appoint senators from the consuls to the censors. 	lex papia de peregrinis 	 bc 	c. papius 	tribune of the plebs 	challenged false claims of citizenship and deported foreigners from rome. 	lex papia poppaea 	 ad 	m. papius mutilus & q. poppaeus secundus 	consuls 	regarding marriage. 	lex papiria de dedicationibus 	 – bc[ ] 	papirius 	tribune of the plebs 	forbade consecration of real property without approval of the popular assembly. 	lex papiria julia 	 bc 	l. papirius crassus & l. julius iulus 	consuls 	made payment of fines in bronze mandatory. 	lex de permutatione provinciae 	 bc 	mark antony 	consul 	gave himself a five-year command in cisalpine and transalpine gaul in lieu of macedon. also gave authorization to transfer caesar's legions from macedon to the new provinces. 	lex petronia 	 bc (before)[ ] 	petronius 	tribune of the plebs 	regulated appointments of municipal prefects. 	lex plautia de reditu lepidanorum 	 bc 	plautius 	tribune of the plebs 	granted a pardon to lepidus' former associates. 	lex plautia judiciaria 	 bc 	m. plautius silvanus 	tribune of the plebs 	chose jurors from other classes, not just the equites. 	lex plautia papiria 	 bc 	c. papirius carbo & m. plautius silvanus 	tribunes of the plebs 	granted citizenship to roman allies. 	lex poetelia papiria 	 bc 	c. poetelius libo & l. papirius cursor 	consuls 	abolished the contractual form of nexum, or debt bondage. 	lex pompeia de transpadanis 	 bc 	cn. pompeius strabo 	consul 	granted latin right to the populations of cisalpine gaul. 	lex de porcia capita civium 	 bc 	p. porcius laeca 	tribune of the plebs 	gave right of appeal (provocatio) in capital cases. 	lex porcia de tergo civium 	 bc 	cato the elder 	consul 	extended the right to provocatio against flogging. 	lex porcia 	 bc 	l. porcius licinus 	consul 	provided for a very severe sanction (possibly death) against magistrates who refused to grant provocatio. 	lex provincia 	 bc 	 	 	set of laws designed to regulate and organize the administration of roman provinces. 	lex publilia 	 bc 	volero publilius 	tribune of the plebs 	transferred the election of the tribunes of the plebs to the comitia tributa. 	lex publilia 	 bc 	q. publilius philo 	consul and dictator 	three laws: ( ) reserved one censorship to plebeians. ( ) made plebiscites binding on all citizens (including patricians). ( ) stated that the senate had to give its prior approval (the auctoritas patrum) to plebiscites before becoming binding on all citizens (the lex valeria horatia of had placed this approval after plebiscites). 	lex pupia 	 bc 	m. pupius piso frugi calpurnianus 	consul 	senate could not meet on comitiales dies. 	lex regia 	 – bc 	 	kings of rome 	laws enacted by the roman kings before the republic. 	lex roscia 	 bc 	l. roscius fabatus 	praetor 	caesar proposed full latin rights on the people of transalpine gaul. 	lex roscia theatralis 	 bc 	l. roscius otho 	tribune of the plebs 	allocated a place in roman theaters to the equestrian order. 	lex rubria 	 bc 	c. rubrius 	tribune of the plebs 	authorised a colony on the ruins of carthage. 	lex sacrata 	 bc 	 	 	law after first secession of the plebeians that either affirmed the sacrosanctity of the tribunes or established the plebeians as a sworn confederacy against patricians. 	lex scantinia 	 bc (circa) 	m. scantius or scantinius[ ] 	tribune of the plebs 	regulating some aspects of homosexual behaviour among citizens, primarily protecting freeborn male minors. 	lex sempronia agraria 	 bc 	ti. sempronius gracchus 	tribune of the plebs 	set of laws that redistributed land among the poor; repealed after his assassination. 	lex servilia caepio 	 bc 	q. servilius caepio 	consul 	some control of the court de rebus repentundis was handed back to senators from the equites. 	lex servilia glaucia de repetundis 	 bc 	c. servilius glaucia[ ] 	tribune of the plebs 	made juries in property court composed by equites only. 	lex terentia cassia 	 bc 	m. terentius varro lucullus & c. cassius longinus 	consuls 	safeguarded rome's grain supply and distributed grain at reduced rates. 	lex titia 	 bc 	p. titius 	tribune of the plebs 	gave octavian, mark antony and lepidus full powers to defeat the assassins of julius caesar; legalised the second triumvirate. 	lex trebonia 	 bc 	l. trebonius 	tribune of the plebs 	forbade the cooptation of additional tribunes of the plebs to fill vacant positions. 	lex trebonia 	 bc 	c. trebonius 	tribune of the plebs 	granted a five year proconsulship: in syria to crassus, in spain to pompey. 	lex tullia 	 bc 	cicero 	consul 	regulated election fraud (see ambitus). 	lex ursonensis 	 bc 	mark antony 	consul 	foundation charter of the caesarean colonia iulia genetiva. 	lex valeria 	 , , & bc 	p. valerius publicola 	consul 	granted every roman citizen legal right to appeal against a capital sentence, defined and confirmed the right of appeal (provocatio). 	lex valeria 	 bc 	lucius valerius flaccus 	interrex 	appointed sulla dictator. 	lex valeria cornelia 	 ad 	l. valerius messalla volesus & cn. cornelius cinna magnus 	consuls 	regarding voting in the comitia centuriata. 	lex valeria horatia 	 bc 	l. valerius potitus & m. horatius barbatus 	consuls 	three laws: ( ) lex valeria horatia de plebiscitis: established that the resolutions passed by the plebeian council were binding on all. ( ) lex valeria horatia de provocatione: granted the right to appeal to the people of any decision of magistrates. ( ) lex valeria horatia de tribunicia potestate: restored the potestas tribunicia, the powers of the plebeian tribunes. 	lex vatinia 	 bc 	p. vatinius 	tribune of the plebs 	gave julius caesar governorship of cisalpine gaul and of illyricum for five years. 	lex villia annalis 	 bc 	l. villius annalis 	tribune of the plebs 	established minimum ages for the cursus honorum offices; determined an interval of two years between offices. 	lex visellia 	 ce 	 	 	regulated the activities of freedmen 	lex voconia 	 bc 	q. voconius saxa 	tribune of the plebs 	disallowed women from being the main heir to a dead man's estate, including cases where there were no male relatives alive. post-roman law codes based on roman legislation[edit] 	lex romana burgundionum – one of the law tables for romans after the fall of western roman empire 	lex romana visigothorum (ad ) – one of the law tables for romans after the fall of western roman empire general denominations[edit] 	lex agraria – a law regulating distribution of public lands 	lex annalis – qualifications for magistracies 	lex ambitus – laws involving electoral bribery and corruption; see ambitus 	lex curiata – was any law passed by the comitia curiata, including the lex curiata de imperio; roman adoptions, particularly so-called "testamentary adoptions," were also recognised by a lex curiata, famously in bc when the patrician clodius pulcher was adopted into a plebeian gens in order to run for the office of tribune of the plebs. 	lex curiata de imperio – law granting imperium to senior roman magistrates under the republic; it was the traditional basis for the later lex de imperio allowing imperial succession. under the monarchy, it was also used to ratify the choice of a new king, and later confirmed octavian's adoption as caesar's son in bc 	lex frumentaria – a law regulating price of grain 	lex sumptuaria – a law regulating the use of luxury items and public manifestations of wealth resolutions of the senate[edit] 	senatus consultum – a senate decree 	senatus consultum ultimum or senatus consultum de re publica defenda  – a late republic alternative to nominating a dictator 	senatus consultum de bacchanalibus ( bc) – concerning the bacchanalia 	senatus consultum claudianum (ad ) – concerning slaves 	senatus consultum macedonianum – concerning loan/mutuum (time of vespasian) 	senatus consultum neronianum (c. ad ) – concerning legatum 	senatus consultum orphitianum (c. ad ) – concerning inheritance 	senatus consultum pegasianum (c. ad ) – concerning fideicommissum 	senatus consultum silanianum (ad ) – concerning slaves 	senatus consultum tertullianum – concerning inheritance (time of hadrian) 	senatus consultum vellaeanum (ad ) – concerning intercedere other[edit] 	constitution of the roman republic – set the separation of powers and checks and balances of the roman republic 	acceptilatio – spoken statement of debt or obligation release 	constitutio antoniniana – granted citizenship to the empire's freemen 	corpus iuris civilis – codification by emperor justinian 	stipulatio – basic oral contract 	twelve tables – the first set of roman laws published by the decemviri in bc, which would be the starting point of the elaborate roman constitution. the twelve tables covered issues of civil, criminal and military law. every roman that went to school was supposed to know them by heart. see also[edit] 	twelve tables 	constitution of the roman republic references[edit] 	^ broughton, vol. i, pp. , (note ). 	^ a b broughton, vol. ii, p. . 	^ broughton, vol. i, pp. , . 	^ broughton, vol. ii, p. . 	^ broughton, vol. ii, pp. , (note ). 	^ broughton, vol. i, pp. , . 	^ livy, vii. . 	^ a b cornell, cambridge ancient history, vol. - , p. . cornell explains that livy confused the contents of the lex licinia sextia of with the lex genucia of . 	^ brennan, the praetorship, pp. - , where he shows that the ten year rule was only temporary at this time. 	^ broughton, vol. i, pp. , . 	^ w. jeffrey tatum, "the lex papiria de dedicationibus", in classical philology, vol. , no. . (october ), pp. – . the traditional date of bc is incorrect. 	^ broughton, vol. ii, p. . 	^ broughton, vol. i, pp. , (note ). 	^ broughton, vol. i, pp. , . bibliography[edit] 	brennan, t. corey, the praetorship in the roman republic, oxford university press, . 	walbank, f. w., et al., the cambridge ancient history, vol. vii, part , the rise of rome to bc, cambridge university press ( ). external links[edit] 	the roman law library, incl. leges 	"index of roman laws". 		v 	t 	e ancient rome topics 	 	outline 	timeline 	history	 	 	foundation 	kingdom 	overthrow 	republic 	empire	 	history 	pax romana 	principate 	dominate 	western empire 	fall 	historiography of the fall 	byzantine empire 	decline 	fall 	constitution	 	history 	kingdom 	republic 	empire 	late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	curiate 	centuriate 	tribal 	plebeian 	executive magistrates 	spqr 	law	 	twelve tables 	mos maiorum 	citizenship 	auctoritas 	imperium 	status 	litigation 	government	 	curia 	forum 	cursus 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(fl. s bc) 	hipparchus (c. - bc) 	agatharchides ( nd century bc) 	posidonius (c. - bc) 	pseudo-scymnus (c. bc) 	diodorus siculus (c. - bc) 	alexander polyhistor ( st century bc) 	roman empire period th century reconstruction of ptolemy's map. 	periplus of the erythraean sea 	strabo ( bc - ad) 	pomponius mela (fl. s ad) 	isidore of charax ( st century ad) 	mucianus ( st century ad) 	pliny the elder ( - ad), natural history 	marinus of tyre (c. - )[ ] 	ptolemy ( - ), geography 	pausanias ( nd century) 	agathedaemon of alexandria ( nd century) 	dionysius of byzantium ( nd century) 	agathemerus ( rd century) 	tabula peutingeriana ( th century) 	alypius of antioch ( th century) 	marcian of heraclea ( th century) 	expositio totius mundi et gentium (ad - ) 	julius honorius (very uncertain: th, th or th century) 	byzantine empire 	hierocles (author of synecdemus) ( th century) 	cosmas indicopleustes ( th century) 	stephanus of byzantium ( th century) see also[edit] 	history of geography 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marcus junius brutus - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	marcus junius brutus 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		this article is about the assassin of julius caesar. for other people with the same name, see brutus (disambiguation). 	marcus junius brutus 	brutus in a coin issued shortly before his death 	born	late bc[ ] 	died	 october bc (aged / ) near philippi, macedonia 	cause of death	suicide 	nationality	roman 	other names	quintus servilius caepio brutus 	occupation	politician, jurist, military commander 	known for	assassination of julius caesar et tu, brute? 	office	governor of cisalpine gaul ( – bc) praetor ( bc) consul designate ( bc) 	political party	optimates 	spouse(s)		claudia 	porcia 	parent(s)	m. junius brutus and servilia 	relatives	cato of utica (uncle) quintus servilius caepio (uncle and adoptive father) marcus junius brutus (/ˈbruːtəs/; bc – october  bc), often referred to simply as brutus, was a roman senator and the most famous of the assassins of julius caesar. after being adopted by an uncle, he used the name quintus servilius caepio brutus, but subsequently returned to his birth name. brutus was close to general julius caesar, the leader of the populares faction. however, caesar's attempts to assume greater power for himself put him at greater odds with the roman elite and members of the senate. brutus eventually came to oppose caesar and fought on the side of the optimates faction, led by pompey, against caesar's forces in the civil war ( – bc). pompey was defeated at the battle of pharsalus in bc, after which brutus surrendered to caesar, who granted him amnesty. however, the underlying political tensions that led to the war had not been resolved. due to caesar's increasingly monarchical behavior, several senators, calling themselves "liberators", plotted to assassinate him. they recruited brutus, who took a leading role in the assassination, which was carried out successfully on march bc. the senate, at the request of the consul mark antony, granted amnesty to the assassins. however, a popular uprising forced brutus and his brother-in-law, fellow assassin gaius cassius longinus, to leave the city of rome. in bc octavian, caesar's adoptive son, became consul and immediately after taking office passed a resolution declaring brutus and the other conspirators murderers. this led to a second civil war, in which antony and octavian fought the liberatores led by brutus and cassius. the former decisively defeated the outnumbered armies of brutus and cassius at the battle of philippi in october bc. after the battle, brutus committed suicide. his name has since become synonymous with acts of intimate public betrayal or treason, and is perhaps only rivaled in this regard by the name of judas. contents 	 early life 	 military career 	 assassination of julius caesar 	 liberators' civil war 	 chronology 	 legacy 	 . influence 	 . fiction 	 see also 	 references 	 bibliography 	 further reading 	 external links early life[edit] marcus junius brutus belonged to the illustrious plebeian gens junia. its semi-legendary founder was lucius junius brutus, who played a pivotal role during the overthrow of tarquinius superbus, the last roman king, and was later one of the two first consuls of the new roman republic in bc. brutus' homonymous father was tribune of the plebs in , but he was put to death by pompey in for having participated in the rebellion of marcus aemilius lepidus. he had married servilia of the servilii caepiones, who was the half-sister of cato the younger, and later julius caesar's mistress.[ ] some sources refer to the possibility of caesar being brutus' real father,[ ] despite caesar being only fifteen years old when brutus was born. brutus' uncle, quintus servilius caepio, adopted him posthumously in about  bc, and brutus was known officially for a time as quintus servilius caepio brutus before he reverted to using his birth-name. following caesar's assassination in  bc, brutus revived his adoptive name in order to illustrate his links to another famous tyrannicide, gaius servilius ahala, from whom he was descended.[ ][ ] brutus held his uncle in high regard[ ] and his political career started when he became an assistant to cato, during his governorship of cyprus.[ ] during this time, he enriched himself by lending money at high rates of interest. brutus was also active in the province of cilicia, in the year before marcus tullius cicero was proconsul there; cicero documents how brutus profited from money lending to the provincials in his letters.[ ] he returned to rome a rich man, where he married claudia pulchra.[ ] from his first appearance in the senate, brutus aligned with the optimates (the conservative faction) against the first triumvirate of marcus licinius crassus, gnaeus pompeius magnus, and gaius julius caesar. marcus brutus belonged to the last generation of roman nobiles who came of age and began a political career before the collapse of the republic. his peers included mark antony, publius licinius crassus, his distant cousin decimus junius brutus albinus, and gaius cassius longinus. military career[edit] marble bust, so-called brutus, at the palazzo massimo alle terme in the national museum of rome when caesar's civil war broke out in bc between pompey and caesar, brutus followed his old enemy and the present leader of the optimates, pompey. when the battle of pharsalus began on august , caesar ordered his officers to take brutus prisoner if he gave himself up voluntarily, but to leave him alone and do him no harm if he persisted in fighting against capture.[ ] caesar's concern, given that he and brutus' mother servilia had been lovers in their youth, was that brutus might be his biological son. indeed, he and brutus enjoyed a close relationship at this time. even when brutus joined pompey the great to fight with caesar and his soldiers, caesar's main focus was pompey, but he demanded brutus be captured alive.[ ] after the defeat of the optimates at the battle of pharsalus, brutus surrendered and wrote to caesar with apologies. caesar immediately forgave him. caesar then accepted him into his inner circle and made him governor of gaul when he left for africa in pursuit of cato and metellus scipio. in  bc, caesar nominated brutus to serve as urban praetor for the following year. also, in june bc, brutus divorced his wife and married his first cousin, porcia catonis, cato's daughter.[ ][ ] according to cicero the marriage caused a semi-scandal as brutus failed to state a valid reason for his divorce from claudia other than he wished to marry porcia.[ ] the marriage also caused a rift between brutus and his mother, who was resentful of the affection brutus had for porcia.[ ] assassination of julius caesar[edit] main article: assassination of julius caesar death of caesar by vincenzo camuccini around this time many senators began to fear caesar's growing power, following his appointment as dictator in perpetuity.[ ] the other senators persuaded brutus to join the conspiracy against caesar.[ ] eventually, brutus decided to move against caesar after caesar's alleged king-like behavior prompted him to take action.[ ][ ] his wife was the only woman privy to the plot.[ ][ ] the conspirators planned to carry out their plot on the ides of march (march ) that same year. on that day, caesar was delayed going to the senate because his wife calpurnia tried to convince him not to go.[ ] the conspirators feared the plot had been found out.[ ] brutus persisted, however, waiting for caesar at the senate, and allegedly still chose to remain even when a messenger brought him news that would otherwise have caused him to leave.[ ] when caesar finally did come to the senate, he was distracted by tillius cimber, who presented caesar with a request to free his exiled brother. caesar dismissed him, and cimber subsequently grabbed his toga. "why this violence?" caesar asked.[ ] at this, the conspirators attacked caesar. publius servilius casca longus was allegedly the first to attack him, with a stab to the shoulder, which caesar blocked.[ ] however, upon seeing brutus was with the conspirators, caesar covered his face with his toga and resigned himself to his fate.[ ] the conspirators attacked in such numbers that they even wounded one another. brutus is said to have been wounded in the hand and in the legs.[ ][ ] after the assassination, the senate passed an amnesty on the assassins. this amnesty was proposed by caesar's friend and co-consul mark antony. nonetheless, uproar among the population against the assassins caused brutus and the conspirators to leave rome. brutus settled in crete from to bc.[ ][citation needed] marcus junius brutus liberators' civil war[edit] brutus and his companions after the battle of philippi main article: liberators' civil war in bc, after octavian received his consulship from the roman senate, one of his first actions was to have the people who had assassinated julius caesar declared murderers and enemies of the state.[ ] cicero, angry at octavian, wrote a letter to brutus explaining that the forces of octavian and mark antony were divided. antony had laid siege to the province of gaul, where he wanted a governorship. in response to this siege, octavian rallied his troops and fought a series of battles, culminating in the battle of mutina, in which antony was defeated.[ ] upon hearing that neither mark antony nor octavian had an army large enough to defend rome, brutus rallied his troops, which totalled about legions. when octavian heard that brutus was on his way to rome, he made peace with antony.[ ] their armies, which together totalled about legions, marched to meet brutus and his ally, fellow assassin gaius cassius longinus, thus beginning the liberators' civil war. the two sides met in two engagements known as the battle of philippi. the first was fought on october  ,  bc, in which brutus defeated octavian's forces, although cassius was defeated by antony's forces, and subsequently committed suicide. the second engagement was fought on october , and ended in brutus' defeat. eid mar ("ides of march") denarius, issued by marcus junius brutus in / bc. the obverse of the coin features a portrait of marcus brutus. the inscription reads brvt imp l plaet cest, which means brutus, imperator, lucius plaetorius cestianus. lucius plaetorius cestianus was the moneyer who actually managed the mint workers who produced the coin. the two daggers on the reverse differ to show more than one person was involved in the slaying. the cap is a pileus (liberty cap) that in roman times was given to slaves on the day of their emancipation, or freedom from slavery. in the context of the assassination, brutus is making it clear the killers were defending the republic and its people from caesar's attempt to attain kingship. a gold aureus with the same design was also minted. both coins are exceptionally rare.[ ] after the defeat, brutus fled into the nearby hills with only about four legions. knowing his army had been defeated and that he would be captured, he committed suicide by running into his own sword, which was held by two of his men. among his last words were, according to plutarch, "by all means must we fly; not with our feet, however, but with our hands". brutus also uttered the well-known verse calling down a curse upon antony (plutarch repeats this from the memoirs of publius volumnius): forget not, zeus, the author of these crimes (in the dryden translation this passage is given as punish, great jove, the author of these ills).[ ] plutarch wrote that, according to volumnius, brutus repeated two verses, but volumnius was only able to recall the one quoted. mark antony, as a show of great respect, ordered brutus' body to be wrapped in antony's most expensive purple mantle (this was later stolen, and antony had the thief executed). brutus was cremated, and his ashes were sent to his mother, servilia.[ ] his wife porcia was reported to have committed suicide upon hearing of her husband's death, although, according to plutarch (brutus para  ), there is some dispute as to whether this is the case. plutarch states that there was a letter in existence allegedly written by brutus mourning the manner of her death.[ ][ ][ ] chronology[edit] 	 bc: brutus was born in rome to marcus junius brutus the elder and servilia. 	 bc: he was made assistant to cato, governor of cyprus, which helped him start his political career. 	 bc: he was given the quaestorship in cilicia. 	 bc: brutus followed pompey to greece during the civil war against caesar. 	 bc: brutus was pardoned by caesar. 	 bc: he was made governor of gaul. 	 bc: he was made praetor. 	 bc: murdered caesar with other liberatores; went to athens and then to crete. 	 bc: battle with mark antony's forces and suicide. legacy[edit] this was the noblest roman of them all: all the conspirators save only he did that they did in envy of great caesar; he only, in a general honest thought and common good to all, made one of them. his life was gentle, and the elements so mix'd in him that nature might stand up and say to all the world "this was a man!" william shakespeare, julius caesar, act  , scene  (mark antony) influence[edit] brutus by michelangelo buonarroti the phrase sic semper tyrannis! ["thus, ever (or always), to tyrants!"] is attributed to brutus at caesar's assassination. the phrase is also the official motto of the commonwealth of virginia. in , the anti-federalist papers were written under the pseudonym "brutus" in reference to caesar's assassin who tried to preserve the republic. john wilkes booth, the assassin of abraham lincoln, claimed to be inspired by brutus. booth's father, junius brutus booth, was named for brutus, and booth (as mark antony) and his brother edwin (as brutus) had performed in a production of julius caesar in new york city just six months before the assassination. on the night of the assassination, booth is alleged to have shouted "sic semper tyrannis" while leaping to the stage of ford's theater. lamenting the negative reaction to his deed, booth wrote in his journal on april  , , while on the run, "[w]ith every man's hand against me, i am here in despair. and why; for doing what brutus was honored for ... and yet i for striking down a greater tyrant than they ever knew am looked upon as a common cutthroat." booth was also known to be greatly attracted to caesar himself, having played both brutus and caesar upon various stages.[ ] fiction[edit] 	in dante's inferno, brutus is one of three people deemed sinful enough to be chewed in one of the three mouths of satan, in the very center of hell, for all eternity. the other two are cassius, who was brutus's fellow conspirator, and judas iscariot (canto xxxiv). dante condemned these three in the afterlife for being treacherous to their benefactors. 	william shakespeare's play julius caesar depicts brutus' internal struggles, his assassination of caesar with the other conspirators, and their subsequent downfall. in the final scene, mark antony describes brutus as "the noblest roman of them all", for he was the only conspirator who acted for the good of rome. in the play, the dying caesar says "et tu, brute?" ("you too, brutus?"), although they are not his last words, and the sources describing caesar's death disagree about what his last words were. 	the italian silent film brutus portrays the life of brutus. 	the ides of march is an epistolary novel by thornton wilder dealing with characters and events leading to, and culminating in, the assassination of julius caesar. 	in the masters of rome novels of colleen mccullough, brutus is portrayed as a timid intellectual whose relationship with caesar is deeply complex. he resents caesar for breaking his marriage arrangement with caesar's daughter, julia, whom brutus deeply loved, so that she could be married instead to pompey the great. however, brutus enjoys caesar's favor after he receives a pardon for fighting with republican forces against caesar at the battle of pharsalus. in the lead-up to the ides of march, cassius and trebonius use him as a figurehead because of his family connections to the founder of the republic. he appears in fortune's favourites, caesar's women, caesar and the october horse. 	brutus is an occasional supporting character in asterix comics, most notably asterix and son in which he is the main antagonist. the character appears in the first three live asterix film adaptations – though briefly in the first two – asterix and obelix vs caesar (played by didier cauchy) and asterix at the olympic games. in the latter film, he is portrayed as a comical villain by belgian actor benoît poelvoorde: he is a central character to the film, even though he was not depicted in the original asterix at the olympic games comic book. following sources cited in plutarch, he is implied in that film to be julius caesar's biological son. 	in the tv series rome, brutus, portrayed by tobias menzies, is depicted as a young man torn between what he believes is right, and his loyalty to and love of a man who has been like a father to him. in the series, his personality and motives are somewhat inaccurate, as brutus is portrayed as an unwilling participant in politics. in the earlier episodes he is frequently inebriated and easily ruled by emotion. brutus' relationship to cato is not mentioned, and his three sisters and wife porcia are omitted from the series completely. 	the hives' song "b is for brutus" contains titular and lyrical references to junius brutus. 	red hot chili peppers song "even you brutus?" from their album i'm with you makes reference to brutus and judas iscariot. 	the video game assassin's creed: brotherhood features a small side story in the form of the "scrolls of romulus" written by brutus, which reveals that caesar was a templar, and brutus and the conspirators were members of the roman brotherhood of assassins. at the end of the side quest, the player is able to get brutus' armor and dagger. later at assassin's creed origins, brutus and cassius make an appearance as aya's earliest recruits and is the one who give the killing blow to caesar, though his armor from brotherhood does not make an appearance here. 	in tina fey's teen movie mean girls, one of the main characters delivers a monologue about brutus and how he is just as good as caesar, saying, "and when did it become okay for one person to be the boss of everybody, huh? because that's not what rome is about. we should totally just stab caesar!"[ ] see also[edit] 	junia (gens) references[edit] 	^ year given by cicero (brutus ), which agrees with brutus's cursus honorum. livy's summary ( ) gives xl ( ) and a subsequent gap in the text. velleius paterculus has brutus aged at death, but this is probably incorrect. tempest, pp.  – 	^ suetonius, the deified julius, 	^ plutarch, life of brutus, . . 	^ m. crawford ( ) roman republican coinage . shows that brutus issued coins bearing the inscription q. caepio brvtvs pro [cos] (q. caepio brutus, proconsul) in bc 	^ "coin bearing inscription q. caepio brutus". oldcoin.com.au. archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - . 	^ plutarch, life of brutus, . . 	^ plutarch, life of brutus, . . 	^ cicero, att. v 	^ cicero. ad fam. iii. . 	^ plutarch, life of brutus, . . 	^ plutarch. 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( ). the roman republic. cambridge: cambridge university press. 	parenti, michael ( ). the assassination of julius caesar. new york: new press. 	plutarch ( ). arthur h. clough (ed.). lives. london: dutton. 	syme, ronald ( ). the roman revolution. oxford: oxford university press. 	tempest, kathryn ( ). brutus: the noble conspirator. london: yale university press. isbn  - - - - . 	wistrand, erik ( ). the policy of brutus the tyrannicide. goteborg, sweden: kungl. external links[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to marcus junius brutus. 		wikiquote has quotations related to: marcus junius brutus 	marcus junius brutus at the encyclopædia britannica 	information on marcus junius brutus from www.greektext.com 	livius.org: brutus 		v 	t 	e the works of plutarch 	works	 	parallel lives 	moralia 	"de genio socratis" 	"on the malice of herodotus" 	pseudo-plutarch 	lives	 	alcibiades and coriolanus 	alexander the great and julius caesar 	aratus of sicyon / artaxerxes and galba / otho 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magister equitum and a magister peditum in place of the later overall magister militum in the command structure of the army of the western roman empire. the high command structure of the west roman army c. – , based on the notitia dignitatum. magister militum (latin for "master of soldiers", plural magistri militum) was a top-level military command used in the later roman empire, dating from the reign of constantine the great.[dubious – discuss] the term referred to the senior military officer (equivalent to a war theatre commander, the emperor remaining the supreme commander) of the empire. in greek sources, the term is translated either as strategos or as stratelates. contents 	 establishment and development of the command 	 list of magistri militum 	 . unspecified commands 	 . comes et magister utriusque militiae 	 . per gallias 	 . per hispanias 	 . per illyricum 	 . per orientem 	 . per armeniam 	 . per thracias 	 . praesentalis 	 . per africam 	 . . western empire 	 . . eastern empire 	 . magister militae in byzantine and medieval italy 	 . . venice 	 later, less formal use of the term 	 see also 	 references 	 . citations 	 . sources establishment and development of the command[edit] further information: late roman army the title of magister militum was created in the th century, when the emperor constantine the great deprived the praetorian prefects of their military functions. initially two posts were created, one as head of the infantry, as the magister peditum ("master of foot"), and one for the more prestigious cavalry, the magister equitum ("master of horse"). the latter title had existed since republican times, as the second-in-command to a roman dictator. under constantine's successors, the title was also established at a territorial level: magistri peditum and magistri equitum were appointed for every praetorian prefecture (per gallias, per italiam, per illyricum, per orientem), and, in addition, for thrace and, sometimes, africa. on occasion, the offices would be combined under a single person, then styled magister equitum et peditum or magister utriusque militiae ("master of both forces"). as such they were directly in command of the local mobile field army of the comitatenses, composed mostly of cavalry, which acted as a rapid reaction force. other magistri remained at the immediate disposal of the emperors, and were termed in praesenti ("in the presence" of the emperor). by the late th century, the regional commanders were termed simply magister militum. in the western roman empire, a "commander-in-chief" evolved with the title of magister utriusque militiae. this powerful office was often the power behind the throne and was held by stilicho, flavius aetius, ricimer, and others. in the east, there were two senior generals, who were each appointed to the office of magister militum praesentalis. during the reign of emperor justinian i, with increasing military threats and the expansion of the eastern empire, three new posts were created: the magister militum per armeniam in the armenian and caucasian provinces, formerly part of the jurisdiction of the magister militum per orientem, the magister militum per africam in the reconquered african provinces ( ), with a subordinate magister peditum, and the magister militum spaniae (c. ). in the course of the th century, internal and external crises in the provinces often necessitated the temporary union of the supreme regional civil authority with the office of the magister militum. in the establishment of the exarchates of ravenna and carthage in , this practice found its first permanent expression. indeed, after the loss of the eastern provinces to the muslim conquest in the s, the surviving field armies and their commanders formed the first themata. supreme military commanders sometimes also took this title in early medieval italy, for example in the papal states and in venice, whose doge claimed to be the successor to the exarch of ravenna. list of magistri militum[edit] 	 	part of a series on the 	military of ancient rome bc – ad 	 structural history 	 army 	 	unit types and ranks 	decorations and punishments 	legions 	auxilia 	generals 	 navy 	 	fleets 	admirals 	 campaign history 	wars and battles 	 technological history 	 military engineering 	 	castra 	siege engines 	triumphal arches 	roads 	 political history   	 strategy and tactics 	 	infantry tactics 	 frontiers and fortifications 	 	limes 	limes britannicus 	antonine wall 	hadrian's wall 	saxon shore 	limes germanicus 	alb limes 	lauter valley limes 	lower germanic limes 	main limes 	neckar-odenwald limes 	upper germanic-rhaetian limes 	wetterau limes 	danube–iller–rhine limes 	norican limes 	claustra alpium iuliarum 	pannonian limes 	limes alutanus 	limes moesiae 	trajan's wall 	anastasian wall 	limes sarmatiae 	limes arabicus 	limes tripolitanus 	limes mauretaniae 	  ancient rome portal •  war portal 		v 	t 	e unspecified commands[edit] 	 – / : flavius bauto, magister militum under valentinian ii[ ] 	 / – : arbogast, magister militum under valentinian ii and eugenius[ ] 	 – : andragathius[ ] 	?– : ovida comes et magister utriusque militiae[edit] 	 – : flavius stilicho 	 – : flavius constantius [ ] 	 – : castinus 	 – : flavius constantius felix [ ] 	 – : bonifacius [ ] 	 – : sebastianus 	 – : flavius aetius[ ] 	 – : avitus & remistus 	 – : ricimer 	 – : gundobad 	 : ecdicius avitus 	 – : orestes per gallias[edit] 	 – : claudius silvanus 	 – : flavius valerius jovinus, magister equitum under julian and jovian[ ] 	?– : gaudentius 	 – : flavius aetius 	 – : litorius 	 – : agrippinus 	 – : aegidius 	 / : agrippinus 	?– : bilimer per hispanias[edit] 	 – : astyrius[ ] 	 : merobaudes[ ] 	 : vitus[ ] per illyricum[edit] 	?– : vetranio, magister peditum under constans[ ] 	 : flavius iovinus, magister equitum under julian[ ] 	 – : aequitius, magister utriusquae militiae under valentinian i[ ] 	 –? alaric i 	 / agintheus (known from priscus of panium to have held office as the latter's embassy proceeded towards the court of attila). 	 – : julius nepos 	 – : onoulphus 	 – : sabinianus magnus 	 : ascum 	 – / : mundus ( st time) 	 – : mundus ( nd time) 	c. : justin 	c. : vitalius 	c. : john 	 – / : bonus 	 – : theognis per orientem[edit] 	c. : flavius eusebius, magister utriusquae militiae[ ] 	 – : ursicinus, magister equitum under constantius[ ] 	 – : sabinianus, magister equitum under constantius[ ] 	 – : lupicinus, magister equitum under jovian and valens[ ] 	 – : iulius, magister equitum et peditum under valens[ ] 	 : richomeres, magister equitum et peditum[ ] 	 – : ellebichus, magister equitum et peditum[ ] 	 : eutherius, magister equitum et peditum[ ] 	 – : addaeus, magister equitum et peditum[ ] 	 / : fravitta 	 – : anatolius 	 – : zeno 	 s: flavius ardabur aspar 	– : flavius iordanes 	 – : zeno 	 – : ioannes scytha 	c. – : areobindus dagalaiphus areobindus 	 – : pharesmanes 	? –? : hypatius 	? – : diogenianus 	 – / : hypatius 	 : libelarius 	 – : hypatius 	 – : belisarius 	 : mundus 	 – : belisarius 	 : buzes 	 : belisarius 	 – : martinus 	 – : belisarius 	 : amantius 	 : valerianus 	 : zemarchus 	 – : marcian 	 : theodorus 	 : eusebius 	 / – : justinian 	 – : maurice 	 – : john mystacon 	 – / : philippicus 	 : priscus 	 – : philippicus 	 – : comentiolus 	 – : narses 	 – germanus 	 – leontius 	 – domentziolus per armeniam[edit] 	peter, direct predecessor of john tzibus 	john tzibus (?– ) 	valerian 	dagisthaeus (?– ) 	bessas ( – )[ ] 	martin[ ] 	justin[ ] 	heraclius the elder (c. )[ ] per thracias[edit] 	 – : saturninus, magister equitum under valens[ ] 	 – : traianus, magister peditum under valens[ ] 	 : sebastianus, magister peditum under valens[ ] 	 – : flavius saturninus, magister peditum under theodosius i[ ] 	 – : stilicho, magister equitum et peditum[ ] 	 – : constans 	 : ioannes the vandal, magister utriusque militiae[ ] 	 – : armatus 	 : heraclius of edessa 	 : hypatius 	 : cyril 	 : vitalian 	 – : chilbudius 	 –c. : artabanes 	 : priscus ( st time) 	 : priscus ( nd time) 	 – : peter ( st time) 	 –c. : priscus ( nd time) 	 – : comentiolus 	 – : peter ( nd time) praesentalis[edit] 	 – : arbitio, magister equitum under constantius ii[ ] 	 – : nevitta, magister equitum under julian[ ] 	 – : victor, magister equitum under valens[ ] 	 – : flavius arinthaeus, magister peditum under valens[ ] 	 – : flavius iovinus, magister equitum under valentinian i[ ] 	 – : dagalaifus, magister peditum under valentinian i[ ] 	 – : severus, magister peditum under valentinian i[ ] 	 – : flavius theodosius, magister equitum under valentinian i[ ] 	 – : merobaudes, magister peditum under valentinian i, gratian and magnus maximus[ ] 	 – : timasius 	 – : stilicho, magister equitum et peditum[ ] 	 – : gainas 	 : fravitta 	 : varanes and arsacius[ ] 	 –: plinta 	 – : areobindus? 	 – : apollonius 	 – : anatolius 	 – / : armatus 	 –: longinus 	 – : john the hunchback 	 – : vitalian [ ] 	 –?: justinian [ ] 	 : leontius 	 – : phocas 	 – / : sittas 	 : germanus 	 : maxentianus 	 – : artabanes 	 / – : suartuas 	 : constantinianus (uncertain) 	 : germanus (uncertain) 	 –c. : comentiolus 	 : bonus (uncertain) per africam[edit] western empire[edit] 	 – : flavius theodosius, magister equitum [ ] 	 – : gildo, magister equitum et peditum[ ] eastern empire[edit] 	 – : solomon 	 – : germanus 	 – : solomon 	 – : sergius 	 – : areobindus 	 : artabanes 	 – : john troglita 	 – : gennadius magister militae in byzantine and medieval italy[edit] venice[edit] 	 th century: marcellus 	 : domenico leoni under leo iii the isaurian 	 : felice cornicola under leo iii the isaurian 	 : theodatus hypatus under leo iii the isaurian 	 : ioannes fabriacius under leo iii the isaurian 	 – : mauricius galba later, less formal use of the term[edit] by the th century, the term was being used to describe a man who organized the military force of a political or feudal leader on his behalf. in the gesta herwardi, the hero is several times described as magister militum by the man who translated the original old english account into medieval latin. it seems possible that the writer of the original version, now lost, thought of him as the 'hereward' (old english: here, lit. 'army' and old english: weard, lit. 'guard') – the supervisor of the military force. that this later use of these terms was based on the classical concept seems clear.[ ] see also[edit] 	structural history of the roman military references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ a b c d e f g h i j k plre i, p. 	^ plre i, p. 	^ hughes, ian: aetius: attila's nemesis, pg. 	^ hughes, ian: aetius: attila's nemesis, pg. 	^ hughes, ian: aetius: attila's nemesis, pg. 	^ hughes, ian: aetius: attila's nemesis, pg. , heather, peter: the fall of the roman empire, pg. , 	^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m plre i, p. 	^ hydatius, chronica hispania, 	^ hydatius, chronica hispania, 	^ hydatius, chronica hispania, 	^ a b c d plre i, p. 	^ plre i, p. 	^ plre i, p. 	^ jones, arnold hugh martin; martindale, j. r.; morris, j. ( ). the prosopography of the later roman empire: volume , ad - . cambridge university press. p.  . isbn  . 	^ martindale, j. r. ( ). the prosopography of the later roman empire part set: volume , ad - . cambridge university press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ greatrex, geoffrey; lieu, samuel n. c. ( ). the roman eastern frontier and the persian wars ad - . routledge. isbn  - - - - . 	^ kaegi, walter emil ( ). heraclius, emperor of byzantium. cambridge university press. p.  . isbn  . 	^ plre ii, p. 	^ plre i, pp. – 	^ plre i, p. 	^ john moorhead, justinian (london, ), p. . 	^ john moorhead, justinian (london, ), p. . 	^ plre i, p. 	^ gesta herwardi archived - - at the wayback machine the term is used in chapters xii, xiv, xxii and xxiii. see the name, hereward for details. sources[edit] 	boak, aer ( ). 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padua, italy) 	resting place	arquà petrarca 	occupation	scholar, poet 	language	italian, latin 	nationality	aretine 	alma mater	university of montpellier university of bologna 	period	early renaissance 	literary movement	renaissance humanism 	notable works	triumphs il canzoniere 	notable awards	poet laureate of padua 	partner	unknown woman or women 	children	giovanni ( – ) francesca (born in ) 	relatives	eletta canigiani (mother) ser petracco (father) santa maria della pieve in arezzo la casa del petrarca (birthplace) at vicolo dell'orto, in arezzo francesco petrarca (italian: [franˈtʃesko peˈtrarka]; july , – july / , ), commonly anglicized as petrarch (/ˈpiːtrɑːrk, ˈpɛt-/), was an aretine scholar and poet during the early italian renaissance, and one of the earliest humanists.[ ] petrarch's rediscovery of cicero's letters is often credited with initiating the th-century italian renaissance and the founding of renaissance humanism.[ ] in the th century, pietro bembo created the model for the modern italian language based on petrarch's works, as well as those of giovanni boccaccio, and, to a lesser extent, dante alighieri.[ ] petrarch would be later endorsed as a model for italian style by the accademia della crusca. petrarch's sonnets were admired and imitated throughout europe during the renaissance and became a model for lyrical poetry. he is also known for being the first to develop the concept of the "dark ages."[ ] contents 	 biography 	 . youth and early career 	 . mount ventoux 	 . later years 	 works 	 . laura and poetry 	 . sonnet 	 dante 	 philosophy 	 legacy 	 works in english translation 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links biography[edit] youth and early career[edit] petrarch was born in the tuscan city of arezzo on july . he was the son of ser petracco and his wife eletta canigiani. his given name was francesco petracco, which was latinized to petrarca. petrarch's younger brother was born in incisa in val d'arno in . dante alighieri was a friend of his father.[ ] petrarch spent his early childhood in the village of incisa, near florence. he spent much of his early life at avignon and nearby carpentras, where his family moved to follow pope clement v, who moved there in to begin the avignon papacy. petrarch studied law at the university of montpellier ( – ) and bologna ( – ) with a lifelong friend and schoolmate called guido sette. because his father was in the legal profession (a notary), he insisted that petrarch and his brother also study law. petrarch, however, was primarily interested in writing and latin literature and considered these seven years wasted. additionally, he proclaimed that through legal manipulation his guardians robbed him of his small property inheritance in florence, which only reinforced his dislike for the legal system. he protested, "i couldn't face making a merchandise of my mind," as he viewed the legal system as the art of selling justice.[ ] petrarch was a prolific letter writer and counted boccaccio among his notable friends to whom he wrote often. after the death of their parents, petrarch and his brother gherardo went back to avignon in , where he worked in numerous clerical offices. this work gave him much time to devote to his writing. with his first large-scale work, africa, an epic in latin about the great roman general scipio africanus, petrarch emerged as a european celebrity. on april , , he became the second [ ] poet laureate since antiquity and was crowned by roman senatori giordano orsini and orso dell'anguillara on the holy grounds of rome's capitol.[ ][ ][ ] he traveled widely in europe, served as an ambassador, and (because he traveled for pleasure,[ ] as with his ascent of mont ventoux), has been called "the first tourist".[ ] during his travels, he collected crumbling latin manuscripts and was a prime mover in the recovery of knowledge from writers of rome and greece. he encouraged and advised leontius pilatus's translation of homer from a manuscript purchased by boccaccio, although he was severely critical of the result. petrarch had acquired a copy, which he did not entrust to leontius,[ ] but he knew no greek; petrarch said, "homer was dumb to him, while he was deaf to homer".[ ] in he personally discovered a collection of cicero's letters not previously known to have existed, the collection epistulae ad atticum, in the chapter library (biblioteca capitolare) of verona cathedral.[ ] disdaining what he believed to be the ignorance of the centuries preceding the era in which he lived, petrarch is credited or charged with creating the concept of a historical "dark ages".[ ] mount ventoux[edit] main article: ascent of mont ventoux summit of mont ventoux petrarch recounts that on april , , with his brother and two servants, he climbed to the top of mont ventoux ( , meters ( ,  ft), a feat which he undertook for recreation rather than necessity.[ ] the exploit is described in a celebrated letter addressed to his friend and confessor, the monk dionigi di borgo san sepolcro, composed some time after the fact. in it, petrarch claimed to have been inspired by philip v of macedon's ascent of mount haemo and that an aged peasant had told him that nobody had ascended ventoux before or after himself, years before, and warned him against attempting to do so. the nineteenth-century swiss historian jacob burckhardt noted that jean buridan had climbed the same mountain a few years before, and ascents accomplished during the middle ages have been recorded, including that of anno ii, archbishop of cologne.[ ][ ] scholars[ ] note that petrarch's letter[ ][ ] to dionigi displays a strikingly "modern" attitude of aesthetic gratification in the grandeur of the scenery and is still often cited in books and journals devoted to the sport of mountaineering. in petrarch, this attitude is coupled with an aspiration for a virtuous christian life, and on reaching the summit, he took from his pocket a volume by his beloved mentor, saint augustine, that he always carried with him.[ ] for pleasure alone he climbed mont ventoux, which rises to more than six thousand feet, beyond vaucluse. it was no great feat, of course; but he was the first recorded alpinist of modern times, the first to climb a mountain merely for the delight of looking from its top. (or almost the first; for in a high pasture he met an old shepherd, who said that fifty years before he had attained the summit, and had got nothing from it save toil and repentance and torn clothing.) petrarch was dazed and stirred by the view of the alps, the mountains around lyons, the rhone, the bay of marseilles. he took augustine's confessions from his pocket and reflected that his climb was merely an allegory of aspiration toward a better life.[ ] as the book fell open, petrarch's eyes were immediately drawn to the following words: and men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.[ ] petrarch's response was to turn from the outer world of nature to the inner world of "soul": i closed the book, angry with myself that i should still be admiring earthly things who might long ago have learned from even the pagan philosophers that nothing is wonderful but the soul, which, when great itself, finds nothing great outside itself. then, in truth, i was satisfied that i had seen enough of the mountain; i turned my inward eye upon myself, and from that time not a syllable fell from my lips until we reached the bottom again. ... [w]e look about us for what is to be found only within. ... how many times, think you, did i turn back that day, to glance at the summit of the mountain which seemed scarcely a cubit high compared with the range of human contemplation[ ] james hillman argues that this rediscovery of the inner world is the real significance of the ventoux event.[ ] the renaissance begins not with the ascent of mont ventoux but with the subsequent descent—the "return [...] to the valley of soul", as hillman puts it. arguing against such a singular and hyperbolic periodization, paul james suggests a different reading: in the alternative argument that i want to make, these emotional responses, marked by the changing senses of space and time in petrarch’s writing, suggest a person caught in unsettled tension between two different but contemporaneous ontological formations: the traditional and the modern.[ ] later years[edit] petrarch spent the later part of his life journeying through northern italy as an international scholar and poet-diplomat. his career in the church did not allow him to marry, but he is believed to have fathered two children by a woman or women unknown to posterity. a son, giovanni, was born in , and a daughter, francesca, was born in . he later legitimized both.[ ] petrarch's arquà house near padua where he retired to spend his last years giovanni died of the plague in . in the same year petrarch was named canon in monselice near padua. francesca married francescuolo da brossano (who was later named executor of petrarch's will) that same year. in , shortly after the birth of a daughter, eletta (the same name as petrarch's mother), they joined petrarch in venice to flee the plague then ravaging parts of europe. a second grandchild, francesco, was born in , but died before his second birthday. francesca and her family lived with petrarch in venice for five years from to at palazzo molina; although petrarch continued to travel in those years. between and the younger boccaccio paid the older petrarch two visits. the first was in venice, the second was in padua. about petrarch and his daughter francesca (with her family) moved to the small town of arquà in the euganean hills near padua, where he passed his remaining years in religious contemplation. he died in his house in arquà early on july , —his seventieth birthday. the house hosts now a permanent exhibition of petrarchian works and curiosities; inside is the famous tomb of petrarch's beloved cat who was embalmed, among other objects. on the marble slab there is a latin inscription written by antonio quarenghi: etruscus gemino vates ardebat amore: maximus ignis ego; laura secundus erat. quid rides? divinæ illam si gratia formæ, me dignam eximio fecit amante fides. si numeros geniumque sacris dedit illa libellis causa ego ne sævis muribus esca forent. arcebam sacro vivens a limine mures, ne domini exitio scripta diserta forent; incutio trepidis eadem defuncta pavorem, et viget exanimi in corpore prisca fides.[ ] petrarch's will (dated april , ) leaves florins to boccaccio "to buy a warm winter dressing gown"; various legacies (a horse, a silver cup, a lute, a madonna) to his brother and his friends; his house in vaucluse to its caretaker; for his soul, and for the poor; and the bulk of his estate to his son-in-law, francescuolo da brossano, who is to give half of it to "the person to whom, as he knows, i wish it to go"; presumably his daughter, francesca, brossano's wife. the will mentions neither the property in arquà nor his library; petrarch's library of notable manuscripts was already promised to venice, in exchange for the palazzo molina. this arrangement was probably cancelled when he moved to padua, the enemy of venice, in . the library was seized by the lords of padua, and his books and manuscripts are now widely scattered over europe.[ ] nevertheless, the biblioteca marciana traditionally claimed this bequest as its founding, although it was in fact founded by cardinal bessarion in .[ ] works[edit] original lyrics by petrarch, found in in erfurt petrarch's virgil (title page) (c. ) illuminated manuscript by simone martini, x cm biblioteca ambrosiana, milan. the triumph of death, or the fates. flemish tapestry (probably brussels, c. – ). victoria and albert museum, london. the three fates, clotho, lachesis and atropos, who spin, draw out and cut the thread of life, represent death in this tapestry, as they triumph over the fallen body of chastity. this is the third subject in petrarch's poem "the great triumphs". first, love triumphs; then love is overcome by chastity, chastity by death, death by fame, fame by time and time by eternity petrarch is best known for his italian poetry, notably the rerum vulgarium fragmenta ("fragments of vernacular matters"), a collection of lyric poems in various genres also known as 'canzoniere' ('songbook'), and the triumphi ("triumphs"), a six-part narrative poem of dantean inspiration. however, petrarch was an enthusiastic latin scholar and did most of his writing in this language. his latin writings include scholarly works, introspective essays, letters, and more poetry. among them are secretum ("my secret book"), an intensely personal, imaginary dialogue with a figure inspired by augustine of hippo; de viris illustribus ("on famous men"), a series of moral biographies; rerum memorandarum libri, an incomplete treatise on the cardinal virtues; de otio religiosorum ("on religious leisure")[ ] and de vita solitaria ("on the solitary life"), which praise the contemplative life; de remediis utriusque fortunae ("remedies for fortune fair and foul"), a self-help book which remained popular for hundreds of years; itinerarium ("petrarch's guide to the holy land"); invectives against opponents such as doctors, scholastics, and the french; the carmen bucolicum, a collection of pastoral poems; and the unfinished epic africa. he translated seven psalms, a collection known as the penitential psalms.[ ] petrarch revived the work and letters of the ancient roman senator marcus tullius cicero petrarch also published many volumes of his letters, including a few written to his long-dead friends from history such as cicero and virgil. cicero, virgil, and seneca were his literary models. most of his latin writings are difficult to find today, but several of his works are available in english translations. several of his latin works are scheduled to appear in the harvard university press series i tatti.[ ] it is difficult to assign any precise dates to his writings because he tended to revise them throughout his life. petrarch collected his letters into two major sets of books called rerum familiarum liber ("letters on familiar matters") and seniles ("letters of old age"), both of which are available in english translation.[ ] the plan for his letters was suggested to him by knowledge of cicero's letters. these were published "without names" to protect the recipients, all of whom had close relationships to petrarch. the recipients of these letters included philippe de cabassoles, bishop of cavaillon; ildebrandino conti, bishop of padua; cola di rienzo, tribune of rome; francesco nelli, priest of the prior of the church of the holy apostles in florence; and niccolò di capoccia, a cardinal and priest of saint vitalis. his "letter to posterity" (the last letter in seniles)[ ] gives an autobiography and a synopsis of his philosophy in life. it was originally written in latin and was completed in or —the first such autobiography in a thousand years (since saint augustine).[ ][ ] while petrarch's poetry was set to music frequently after his death, especially by italian madrigal composers of the renaissance in the th century, only one musical setting composed during petrarch's lifetime survives. this is non al suo amante by jacopo da bologna, written around . laura and poetry[edit] 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (april ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) on april , ,[ ] after petrarch gave up his vocation as a priest, the sight of a woman called "laura" in the church of sainte-claire d'avignon awoke in him a lasting passion, celebrated in the rerum vulgarium fragmenta ("fragments of vernacular matters"). laura may have been laura de noves, the wife of count hugues de sade (an ancestor of the marquis de sade). there is little definite information in petrarch's work concerning laura, except that she is lovely to look at, fair-haired, with a modest, dignified bearing. laura and petrarch had little or no personal contact. according to his "secretum", she refused him because she was already married. he channeled his feelings into love poems that were exclamatory rather than persuasive, and wrote prose that showed his contempt for men who pursue women. upon her death in , the poet found that his grief was as difficult to live with as was his former despair. later in his "letter to posterity", petrarch wrote: "in my younger days i struggled constantly with an overwhelming but pure love affair—my only one, and i would have struggled with it longer had not premature death, bitter but salutary for me, extinguished the cooling flames. i certainly wish i could say that i have always been entirely free from desires of the flesh, but i would be lying if i did". laura de noves while it is possible she was an idealized or pseudonymous character—particularly since the name "laura" has a linguistic connection to the poetic "laurels" petrarch coveted—petrarch himself always denied it. his frequent use of l'aura is also remarkable: for example, the line "erano i capei d'oro a l'aura sparsi" may both mean "her hair was all over laura's body", and "the wind ("l'aura") blew through her hair". there is psychological realism in the description of laura, although petrarch draws heavily on conventionalised descriptions of love and lovers from troubadour songs and other literature of courtly love. her presence causes him unspeakable joy, but his unrequited love creates unendurable desires, inner conflicts between the ardent lover and the mystic christian, making it impossible to reconcile the two. petrarch's quest for love leads to hopelessness and irreconcilable anguish, as he expresses in the series of paradoxes in rima "pace non trovo, et non ò da far guerra;/e temo, et spero; et ardo, et son un ghiaccio": "i find no peace, and yet i make no war:/and fear, and hope: and burn, and i am ice".[ ] laura is unreachable and evanescent – descriptions of her are evocative yet fragmentary.francesco de sanctis on the powerful music of his verse in his storia della letteratura italiana. gianfranco contini, in a famous essay ("preliminari sulla lingua del petrarca". petrarca, canzoniere. turin, einaudi, ) has described petrarch's language in terms of "unilinguismo" (contrasted with dantean "plurilinguismo"). sonnet [edit] 	original italian[ ] 	english translation by a.s. kline[ ] 	 aura che quelle chiome bionde et crespe cercondi et movi, et se’ mossa da loro, soavemente, et spargi quel dolce oro, et poi ’l raccogli, e ’n bei nodi il rincrespe, tu stai nelli occhi ond’amorose vespe mi pungon sí, che ’nfin qua il sento et ploro, et vacillando cerco il mio tesoro, come animal che spesso adombre e ’ncespe: ch’or me ’l par ritrovar, et or m’accorgo ch’i’ ne son lunge, or mi sollievo or caggio, ch’or quel ch’i’ bramo, or quel ch’è vero scorgo. aër felice, col bel vivo raggio rimanti; et tu corrente et chiaro gorgo, ché non poss’io cangiar teco vïaggio? 	 breeze, blowing that blonde curling hair, stirring it, and being softly stirred in turn, scattering that sweet gold about, then gathering it, in a lovely knot of curls again, you linger around bright eyes whose loving sting pierces me so, till i feel it and weep, and i wander searching for my treasure, like a creature that often shies and kicks: now i seem to find her, now i realise she’s far away, now i’m comforted, now despair, now longing for her, now truly seeing her. happy air, remain here with your living rays: and you, clear running stream, why can’t i exchange my path for yours? dante[edit] dante alighieri, detail from a luca signorelli fresco in the chapel of san brizio, duomo, orvieto. petrarch is a world apart from dante and his divina commedia. in spite of the metaphysical subject, the commedia is deeply rooted in the cultural and social milieu of turn-of-the-century florence: dante's rise to power ( ) and exile ( ); his political passions call for a "violent" use of language, where he uses all the registers, from low and trivial to sublime and philosophical. petrarch confessed to boccaccio that he had never read the commedia, remarks contini, wondering whether this was true or petrarch wanted to distance himself from dante. dante's language evolves as he grows old, from the courtly love of his early stilnovistic rime and vita nuova to the convivio and divina commedia, where beatrice is sanctified as the goddess of philosophy—the philosophy announced by the donna gentile at the death of beatrice.[ ] in contrast, petrarch's thought and style are relatively uniform throughout his life—he spent much of it revising the songs and sonnets of the canzoniere rather than moving to new subjects or poetry. here, poetry alone provides a consolation for personal grief, much less philosophy or politics (as in dante), for petrarch fights within himself (sensuality versus mysticism, profane versus christian literature), not against anything outside of himself. the strong moral and political convictions which had inspired dante belong to the middle ages and the libertarian spirit of the commune; petrarch's moral dilemmas, his refusal to take a stand in politics, his reclusive life point to a different direction, or time. the free commune, the place that had made dante an eminent politician and scholar, was being dismantled: the signoria was taking its place. humanism and its spirit of empirical inquiry, however, were making progress—but the papacy (especially after avignon) and the empire (henry vii, the last hope of the white guelphs, died near siena in ) had lost much of their original prestige.[ ] petrarch polished and perfected the sonnet form inherited from giacomo da lentini and which dante widely used in his vita nuova to popularise the new courtly love of the dolce stil novo. the tercet benefits from dante's terza rima (compare the divina commedia), the quatrains prefer the abba–abba to the abab–abab scheme of the sicilians. the imperfect rhymes of u with closed o and i with closed e (inherited from guittone's mistaken rendering of sicilian verse) are excluded, but the rhyme of open and closed o is kept. finally, petrarch's enjambment creates longer semantic units by connecting one line to the following. the vast majority ( ) of petrarch's poems collected in the canzoniere (dedicated to laura) were sonnets, and the petrarchan sonnet still bears his name.[ ] philosophy[edit] petrarch statue of petrarch on the uffizi palace, in florence petrarch is traditionally called the father of humanism and considered by many to be the "father of the renaissance."[ ] in his work secretum meum he points out that secular achievements did not necessarily preclude an authentic relationship with god. petrarch argued instead that god had given humans their vast intellectual and creative potential to be used to their fullest.[ ] he inspired humanist philosophy which led to the intellectual flowering of the renaissance. he believed in the immense moral and practical value of the study of ancient history and literature—that is, the study of human thought and action. petrarch was a devout catholic and did not see a conflict between realizing humanity's potential and having religious faith. a highly introspective man, he shaped the nascent humanist movement a great deal because many of the internal conflicts and musings expressed in his writings were seized upon by renaissance humanist philosophers and argued continually for the next years. for example, petrarch struggled with the proper relation between the active and contemplative life, and tended to emphasize the importance of solitude and study. in a clear disagreement with dante, in petrarch argued in his de vita solitaria that pope celestine v's refusal of the papacy in was as a virtuous example of solitary life.[ ] later the politician and thinker leonardo bruni ( – ) argued for the active life, or "civic humanism". as a result, a number of political, military, and religious leaders during the renaissance were inculcated with the notion that their pursuit of personal fulfillment should be grounded in classical example and philosophical contemplation.[ ] legacy[edit] petrarch's tomb at arquà petrarca petrarch's influence is evident in the works of serafino ciminelli from aquila ( – ) and in the works of marin držić ( – ) from dubrovnik.[ ] the romantic composer franz liszt set three of petrarch's sonnets ( , , and ) to music for voice, tre sonetti del petrarca, which he later would transcribe for solo piano for inclusion in the suite années de pèlerinage. liszt also set a poem by victor hugo, " o quand je dors" in which petrarch and laura are invoked as the epitome of erotic love. while in avignon in , modernist composer elliott carter completed his solo flute piece scrivo in vento which is in part inspired by and structured by petrarch's sonnet , beato in sogno. it was premiered on petrarch's th birthday.[ ] in november , it was announced that pathological anatomists would be exhuming petrarch's body from his casket in arquà petrarca, in order to verify th-century reports that he had stood . meters (about six feet), which would have been tall for his period. the team from the university of padua also hoped to reconstruct his cranium in order to generate a computerized image of his features to coincide with his th birthday. the tomb had been opened previously in by professor giovanni canestrini, also of padua university. when the tomb was opened, the skull was discovered in fragments and a dna test revealed that the skull was not petrarch's,[ ] prompting calls for the return of petrarch's skull. the researchers are fairly certain that the body in the tomb is petrarch's due to the fact that the skeleton bears evidence of injuries mentioned by petrarch in his writings, including a kick from a donkey when he was .[ ] works in english translation[edit] 	francesco petrarch, letters on familiar matters (rerum familiarium libri), translated by aldo s. bernardo (new york: italica press, ). volume , books – ; volume , books – ; volume , books – [isbn missing] 	francesco petrarch, letters of old age (rerum senilium libri), translated by aldo s. bernardo, saul levin & reta a. bernardo (new york: italica press, ). volume , books – ; volume , books – [isbn missing] 	francesco petrarch, my secret book, (secretum), translated by nicholas mann. harvard university press[isbn missing] 	francesco petrarch, on religious leisure (de otio religioso), edited & translated by susan s. schearer, introduction by ronald g. witt (new york: italica press, )[isbn missing] 	francesco petrarch, the revolution of cola di rienzo, translated from latin and edited by mario e. cosenza; rd, revised, edition by ronald g. musto (new york; italica press, )[isbn missing] 	francesco petrarch, selected letters, vol. and , translated by elaine fantham. harvard university press[isbn missing] see also[edit] 	italy portal 	literature portal 	otium notes[edit] 	^ rico, francisco; marcozzi, luca ( ). "petrarca, francesco". dizionario biografico degli italiani (in italian). . istituto dell'enciclopedia italiana. 	^ this designation appears, for instance, in a recent review of carol quillen's rereading the renaissance. 	^ in the prose della volgar lingua, bembo proposes petrarch and boccaccio as models of italian style, while expressing reservations about emulating dante's usage. 	^ a b renaissance or prenaissance, journal of the history of ideas, vol. , no. . (jan. ), pp. – ; theodore e. mommsen, "petrarch's conception of the 'dark ages'" speculum . (april : – ); jstor link to a collection of several letters in the same issue. 	^ a b j.h. plumb, the italian renaissance, ; chapter xi by morris bishop "petrarch", pp. – ; new york, american heritage publishing, isbn  - - - 	^ after "albertino mussato" who was the first to be so crowned according to robert weiss, the renaissance discovery of classical antiquity (oxford, ) 	^ plumb, p. 	^ pietrangeli ( ), p. 	^ kirkham, victoria ( ). petrarch: a critical guide to the complete works. chicago: university of chicago press. p.  . isbn  - . 	^ bishop, morris petrarch and his world, p. , indiana university press , isbn  - - - 	^ nsa family encyclopedia, petrarch, francesco, vol. , p. , standard education corp. 	^ vittore branca, boccaccio; the man and his works, tr. richard monges, pp. – 	^ ep. fam. . § 	^ "history – biblioteca capitolare verona". 	^ nicolson, marjorie hope; mountain gloom and mountain glory: the development of the aesthetics of the infinite ( ), p. ; isbn  - - - 	^ burckhardt, jacob. the civilisation of the period of the renaissance in italy ( ). translated by s.g.c. middlemore. swan sonnenschein ( ), pp. – . 	^ lynn thorndike, renaissance or prenaissance, journal of the history of ideas, vol. , no. . (jan. ), pp. – . jstor link to a collection of several letters in the same issue. 	^ such as j.h. plumb, in his book the italian renaissance, 	^ a b c familiares . translated by morris bishop, quoted in plumb. 	^ asher, lyell ( ). "petrarch at the peak of fame". pmla. ( ): – . doi: . / . jstor  . 	^ mclaughlin, edward tompkins; studies in medieval life and literature, p. , new york: g.p. putnam's sons, 	^ plumb, j.h. ( ). the horizon book of the renaissance. new york: american heritage. p.  . 	^ hillman, james ( ). revisioning psychology. harper & row. pp.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ james, paul (spring ). "emotional ambivalence across times and spaces: mapping petrarch's intersecting worlds". exemplaria. ( ): . doi: . / z. . s cid  . retrieved august , . 	^ plumb, p. 	^ the last lay of petrarch's cat, notes and queries, vol. v, number , february , , author: various, editor: george bell 	^ bishop, pp. , . francesca and the quotes from there;[clarification needed] bishop adds that the dressing-gown was a piece of tact: "fifty florins would have bought twenty dressing-gowns". 	^ tedder, henry richard; brown, james duff ( ). "libraries § italy" . in chisholm, hugh (ed.). encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. p.  . 	^ francesco petrarch, on religious leisure (de otio religioso), edited & translated by susan s. schearer, introduction by ronald g. witt (new york: italica press, ). 	^ sturm-maddox, sara ( ). petrarch's laurels. pennsylvania state up. p.  . isbn  - . 	^ "i tatti renaissance library/forthcoming and published volumes". hup.harvard.edu. retrieved july , . 	^ letters on familiar matters (rerum familiarium libri), translated by aldo s. bernardo, vols.' and letters of old age (rerum senilium libri), translated by aldo s. bernardo, saul levin & reta a. bernardo, vols. 	^ petrarch's letter to posterity ( english translation, with notes, by james harvey robinson) 	^ wilkins ernest h ( ). "on the evolution of petrarch's letter to posterity". speculum. ( ): – . doi: . / . jstor  . s cid  . 	^ plumb, p. 	^ april , is often thought to be good friday based on poems and of petrarch's rerum vulgarium fragmenta, but in fact that date fell on monday in . the apparent explanation is that petrarch was not referring to the variable date of good friday but to the date fixed by the death of christ in absolute time, which at the time was thought to be april (mark musa, petrarch's canzoniere, indiana university press, , p. ). 	^ "petrarch ( – ). the complete canzoniere: – ". www.poetryintranslation.com. 	^ "canzoniere (rerum vulgarium fragmenta)/aura che quelle chiome bionde et crespe - wikisource". 	^ "petrarch ( – ) - the complete canzoniere: - ". 	^ "archived copy" (pdf). archived from the original (pdf) on november , . retrieved december , .cs maint: archived copy as title (link) 	^ "the oregon petrarch open book – "petrarch is again in sight"". petrarch.uoregon.edu. 	^ "movements : poetry through the ages". www.webexhibits.org. 	^ see for example rudolf pfeiffer, history of classical scholarship – , oxford university press, , p. ; gilbert highet, the classical tradition, oxford university press, , p. – . 	^ famous first facts international, h.w. wilson company, new york , isbn  - - - , p. , item . 	^ petrarca, francesco ( ). de vita solitaria (in italian). bologna: gaetano romagnoli. 	^ "edizioni ghibli, il rinascimento e petrarca" (in italian). edizionighibli.com. august , . retrieved september , . 	^ encyclopedia of the renaissance: class-furió ceriol, vol. , p. , paul f. grendler, renaissance society of america, scribner's published in association with the renaissance society of america, . isbn  - - - - 	^ spencer, patricia ( ) "regarding scrivo in vento: a conversation with elliott carter" flutest quarterly summer. 	^ caramelli d, lalueza-fox c, capelli c, et al. (november ). "genetic analysis of the skeletal remains attributed to francesco petrarch". forensic sci. int. ( ): – . doi: . /j.forsciint. . . . pmid  . 	^ "upf.edu" (pdf). archived from the original (pdf) on march , . retrieved march , . references[edit] 	bartlett, kenneth r. ( ). the civilization of the italian renaissance; a source book. lexington: d.c. heath and company. isbn  - - - 	bishop, morris ( ). "petrarch." in j. h. plumb (ed.), renaissance profiles, pp.  – . new york: harper & row. isbn  - - - . 	hanawalt, a. barbara ( ). the middle ages: an illustrated history pp.  – new york: oxford university press[isbn missing] 	james, paul ( ). "emotional ambivalence across times and spaces: mapping petrarch's intersecting worlds". exemplaria. ( ): – . doi: . / z. . s cid  . 	kallendorf, craig. "the historical petrarch," the american historical review, vol. , no. (feb. ): – . further reading[edit] 	bernardo, aldo ( ). "petrarch." in dictionary of the middle ages, volume 	celenza, christopher s. ( ). petrarch: everywhere a wanderer. london: reaktion. isbn  - 	hennigfeld, ursula ( ). der ruinierte körper. petrarkistische sonette in transkultureller perspektive. würzburg, königshausen & neumann, , isbn  - - - - 	hollway-calthrop, henry ( ). petrarch: his life and times, methuen. from google books 	kohl, benjamin g. ( ). "francesco petrarch: introduction; how a ruler ought to govern his state," in the earthly republic: italian humanists on government and society, ed. benjamin g. kohl and ronald g. witt, – . philadelphia: university of pennsylvania press. isbn  - - - 	nauert, charles g. ( ). humanism and the culture of renaissance europe: second edition. cambridge: cambridge university press. isbn  - - - 	rawski, conrad h. ( ). petrarch's remedies for fortune fair and foul a modern english translation of de remediis utriusque fortune, with a commentary. isbn  - - - 	robinson, james harvey ( ). petrarch, the first modern scholar and man of letters harvard university 	kirkham, victoria and armando maggi ( ). petrarch: a critical guide to the complete works. university of chicago press. isbn  - - - - . 	a. lee, petrarch and st. augustine: classical scholarship, christian theology and the origins of the renaissance in italy, brill, leiden, , isbn  - 	n. mann, petrarca [ediz. orig. oxford university press ( )] – ediz. ital. a cura di g. alessio e l. carlo rossi – premessa di g. velli, led edizioni universitarie, milano, , isbn  - - - 	il canzoniere» di francesco petrarca. la critica contemporanea, g. barbarisi e c. berra (edd.), led edizioni universitarie, milano, , isbn  - - - 	g. baldassari, unum in locum. strategie macrotestuali nel petrarca politico, led edizioni universitarie, milano, , isbn  - - - 	francesco petrarca, rerum vulgarium fragmenta. edizione critica di giuseppe savoca, olschki, firenze, , isbn  - - - - 	plumb, j. h., the italian renaissance, houghton mifflin, , isbn  - - - 	giuseppe savoca, il canzoniere di petrarca. tra codicologia ed ecdotica, olschki, firenze, , isbn  - - - - 	roberta antognini, il progetto autobiografico delle "familiares" di petrarca, led edizioni universitarie, milano, , isbn  - - - - 	paul geyer und kerstin thorwarth (hg), petrarca und die herausbildung des modernen subjekts (göttingen, vandenhoeck & ruprecht, ) (gründungsmythen europas in literatur, musik und kunst, ) external links[edit] petrarchat wikipedia's sister projects 	media from wikimedia commons 	quotations from wikiquote 	texts from wikisource 	petrarch and his cat muse 	petrarch from the catholic encyclopedia 	excerpts from his works and letters 	francesco petrarca (petrarch) ( - ) 	works by petrarch at project gutenberg 	works by or about francesco petrarca at internet archive 	works by or about petrarch at internet archive 	works by petrarch at librivox (public domain audiobooks) 	timeline of life of petrarch 	poems from the canzoniere, translated by tony kline. 	francesco petrarch at the online library of liberty 	de remediis utriusque fortunae, cremonae, b. de misintis ac caesaris parmensis, . 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kazimieras sarbievijus; sarbiewo, poland, february [ ] – april ,[ ] warsaw, poland), was europe's most prominent latin poet of the th century, and a renowned theoretician of poetics. contents 	 life 	 gallery 	 see also 	 notes 	 external links life[edit] poeta laureatus anonymous portrait maciej kazimierz sarbiewski was the first polish poet to become widely celebrated abroad [ ], and the most popular polish author before henryk sienkiewicz. he became known as horationis par ("the peer of horace"), "the sarmatian horace" and "the last latin poet." his european fame came from his first collection of poetry, lyricorum libri tres (three books of lyrics). an expanded edition, lyricorum libri iv (four books of lyrics), was so successful in europe that it was released in editions in different countries. during a stay in rome, sarbiewski was crowned poeta laureatus (poet laureate) by pope urban viii, who entrusted him with the task of revising the hymns of the breviary. sarbiewski was a jesuit priest at vilnius university and court preacher to polish king władysław iv vasa.[ ] sarbiewski's poetry was extremely popular in great britain and was copiously translated into english. in a collected edition of english translations was published as casimir britannicus: english translations, paraphrases and emulations of the poetry of maciej kazimierz sarbiewski, edited by krzysztof fordoński and piotr urbański. the collection was published again in in an expanded and corrected version. gallery[edit] 	 			 			 sarbiewski portrait at the church of st. johns in vilnius (by sofija veiverytė) 			 		 	 			 			 scraffito painting at the vilnius university faculty of philology (by rimantas gibavičius) 			 		 	 			 			 one of the vilnius university courtyards is named after m.k. sarbiewski 			 		 see also[edit] 	list of poles 	history of the concept of creativity notes[edit] 	^ a b (in polish) maciej kazimierz sarbiewski's biography by mirosław korolko in: sarbiewski, maciej kazimierz ( ). lyrica (liryki). warsaw: instytut wydawniczy "pax". pp. vi–xiii. isbn  - - - . 	^ "motiejus kazimieras sarbievijus – poetas laureatas?". ldkistorija.lt. retrieved october . external links[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to maciej kazimierz sarbiewski. 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: herbermann, charles, ed. 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in the earlier books the author is anonymous, the later give manilius, manlius, mallius. the poem itself implies that the writer lived under augustus or tiberius, and that he was a citizen of and resident in rome, suggesting that manilius wrote the work during the s ce. according to the early th century classicist richard bentley, he was an asiatic greek; according to the th-century classicist fridericus jacob, an african. his work is one of great learning; he had studied his subject in the best writers, and generally represents the most advanced views of the ancients on astronomy (or rather astrology).[ ] manilius frequently imitates lucretius. although his diction presents some peculiarities, the style is metrically correct, and he could write neat and witty hexameters.[ ] the astrological systems of houses, linking human affairs with the circuit of the zodiac, have evolved over the centuries, but they make their first appearance in astronomica. the earliest datable surviving horoscope that uses houses in its interpretation is slightly earlier, c. bc. claudius ptolemy (c. ad – ) almost completely ignored houses (templa as manilius calls them) in his astrological text, tetrabiblos.[ ] the work is also known for being the subject of the most salient of a. e. housman's scholarly endeavours; his annotated edition he considered his magnum opus, and when the fifth and final volume was published in , years after the first, he remarked he would now "do nothing forever and ever." he nonetheless also thought that it was an obscure pursuit; to an american correspondent he wrote, "i do not send you a copy, as it would shock you very much; it is so dull that few professed scholars can read it, probably not one in the whole united states."[ ] it remains a source of bafflement to many that housman should have elected to abandon, as they thought, a poet like propertius in favour of manilius (though in fact he completed an edition of propertius, but could not get it published). for example, the critic edmund wilson pondered the countless hours housman devoted to manilius and concluded, "certainly it is the spectacle of a mind of remarkable penetration and vigor, of uncommon sensibility and intensity, condemning itself to duties which prevent it from rising to its full height." this is, however, to misunderstand the technical task of editing a classical text.[ ] honors[edit] manilius (lunar orbiter ) an impact crater on the moon is named after him: manilius is located in the mare vaporum. references[edit] 	^ a b c chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "manilius". encyclopædia britannica eleventh edition. cambridge: cambridge university press. 	^ kermode, frank ( july ). "nothing for ever and ever". pp.  – . retrieved april – via london review of books. 	^ wilson, edmund ( ). edmund wilson: literary essays and reviews of the s & s. new york: library of america. p.  . isbn  - - - - . editions[edit] 	j. r. bram (ed), ancient astrology: theory and practice. matheseos libri viii by firmicus maternus (park ridge, ). 	manilio il poema degli astri (astronomica), testo critico a cura di e. flores, traduzione di ricardo scarcia, commento a cura di s. feraboli e r. scarcia, vols. (milano, – ). 	wolfgang hübner (ed.), manilius, astronomica, buch v ( bde) (berlin/new york: de gruyter, ) (sammlung wissenschaftlicher commentare). further reading[edit] 	colborn, robert. . "solving problems with acrostics: manilius dates germanicus." classical quarterly . : – . 	fratantuono, lee michael. . "andromeda, perseus, and the end of the astronomica." maia: rivista di letterature classiche . : – . 	glauthier, patrick. . "repurposing the stars: manilius, astronomica , and the aratean tradition." american journal of philology . : – . 	goold, g. p. . "a greek professorial circle at rome." transactions and proceedings of the american philological association : – . 	green, steven j. . disclosure and discretion in roman astrology: manilius and his augustan contemporaries. oxford; new york: oxford university press. 	green, steven j., and katharina volk, eds. . forgotten stars: rediscovering manilius’ astronomica. oxford: oxford univ. press. 	habinek, thomas n. . "probing the entrails of the universe: astrology as bodily knowledge in manilius’ astronomica." in ordering knowledge in the roman empire. edited by jason könig and tim whitmarsh, – . cambridge, uk: cambridge univ. press. 	komorowska, joanna. . "ad duo templa precor: poetry, astronomy, and the authorial persona in manilius' astronomica, i." eirene : – . 	lapidge, michael. . "stoic cosmology and roman literature, first to third centuries a.d." aufstieg und niedergang der römischen welt. edited by hildegard temporini and wolfgang haase, – . berlin: de gruyter. 	macgregor, alexander. . "which art in heaven: the sphere of manilius." illinois classical studies : – . 	neuburg, matt. . "hitch your wagon to a star: manilius and his two addressees." in mega nepios: il destinatario nell’epos didascalico/the addressee in didactic epic. edited by alessandro schiesaro, philip mitsis, and jenny strauss clay, – . materiali e discussioni per l’analisi dei testi classici . pisa: giardini. 	volk, katharina. . manilius and his intellectual background. oxford: oxford univ. press. 	volk, katharina. . the poetics of latin didactic: lucretius, vergil, ovid, manilius. oxford: oxford univ. press. external links[edit] 		wikiquote has quotations related to: marcus manilius 	library resources about marcus manilius 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 by marcus manilius 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	the astronomica of manilius at the latin library 	die astronomica of manilius at opolska biblioteka cyfrowa 	a. e. housman's introduction 	m. manilii astronomicon, vols., a. e. housman (ed.), londinii, apud grant richards, – , vol. , vol. , vol. , vol. , vol. . 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. 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(march ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) lord vestey, master of the horse (uk) – , riding to the queen's birthday parade in . the master of the horse was (and in some cases, still is) a position of varying importance in several european nations. contents 	 magister equitum (ancient rome) 	 master of the horse (united kingdom) 	 grand squire of france 	 oberststallmeister (germany) 	 caballerizo mayor (spain) 	 papal master of the horse 	 riksstallmästare/Överhovstallmästare (sweden) 	 equerry (russia) 	 koniuszy (kingdom of poland and grand duchy of lithuania) 	 georgia 	 hungary 	 asia 	 see also 	 references magister equitum (ancient rome)[edit] main article: magister equitum the original master of the horse (latin magister equitum) in the roman republic was an office appointed and dismissed by the roman dictator, as it expired with the dictator's own office, typically a term of six months in the early and mid-republic. the magister equitum served as the dictator's main lieutenant. the nomination of the magister equitum was left to the choice of the dictator, unless a senatus consultum specified, as was sometimes the case, the name of the person who was to be appointed. the dictator could not be without a magister equitum to assist him, and, consequently, if the first magister equitum either died or was dismissed during the dictator's term, another had to be nominated in his stead. the magister equitum was granted a form of imperium, but at the same level as a praetor, and thus was subject to the imperium of the dictator and was not superior to that of a consul. in the dictator's absence, the magister equitum became his representative, and exercised the same powers as the dictator. it was usually but not always necessary for the man nominated as magister equitum to have already held the office of praetor. accordingly, the magister equitum had the insignia of a praetor: the toga praetexta and an escort of six lictors. the most famous master of the horse is mark antony, who served during julius caesar's first dictatorship. after the constitutional reforms of augustus, the office of dictator fell into disuse, along with that of the magister equitum. the title magister equitum was revived in the late empire, when constantine i established it as one of the supreme military ranks, alongside the magister peditum ("master of the foot"). eventually, the two offices would be amalgamated into that of the magister militum ("master of the soldiers"). the title constable, from the latin comes stabuli or count of the stables, has a similar history. master of the horse (united kingdom)[edit] see also: list of masters of the horse and list of masters of the horse to british royal consorts dress uniform of the master of the horse. the master of the horse in the united kingdom was once an important official of the sovereign's household, though the role is largely ceremonial today. the master of the horse is the third dignitary of the court, and was always a member of the ministry (before the office was of cabinet rank), a peer and a privy councillor. all matters connected with the horses and formerly also the hounds of the sovereign, as well as the stables and coachhouses, the stud, mews and previously the kennels, are within his jurisdiction. the practical management of the royal stables and stud devolves on the chief or crown equerry, formerly called the gentleman of the horse, whose appointment was always permanent. the clerk marshal had the supervision of the accounts of the department before they are submitted to the board of green cloth, and was in waiting on the sovereign on state occasions only. exclusive of the crown equerry there were seven regular equerries, besides extra and honorary equerries, one of whom was always in attendance on the sovereign and rode at the side of the royal carriage. they were always officers of the army, and each of them was on duty for about the same time as the lords and grooms in waiting. there are still several pages of honour who are nominally in the master of the horse's department, who must not be confounded with the pages of various kinds who are in the department of the lord chamberlain. they are youths aged from twelve to sixteen, selected by the sovereign in person, to attend on him at state ceremonies. at the coronation they assisted the groom of the stole in carrying the royal train. the current master of the horse is lord de mauley.[ ] today the master of the horse has a primarily ceremonial office, and rarely appears except on state occasions, and especially when the sovereign is mounted. the crown equerry has daily oversight of the royal mews, which provides vehicular transport for the sovereign, both cars and horse-drawn carriages. train travel is arranged by the royal travel office, which also co-ordinates air transport. the pages of honour, who appear only on ceremonial occasions, and the equerries, were nominally under the authority of the master of the horse. the former are now controlled by the keeper of the privy purse. the latter are effectively independent, and are functionally closer to the private secretary's office. there are now three equerries to the sovereign, and a larger number of extra equerries - usually retired officers with some connection to the royal household. the extra equerries are rarely if ever required for duty, but the equerries are in attendance on the sovereign on a daily basis. for some years the senior equerry has also held the position of deputy master of the household. the permanent equerry is an officer of major rank or equivalent, recruited from the three armed services in turn. many previous equerries have gone on to reach high rank. the temporary equerry is a captain of the coldstream guards, who provides part-time attendance. when not required for duty he has additional regimental or staff duties. senior members of the royal family also have one or two equerries. grand squire of france[edit] main article: grand squire of france in france the master of the horse, known as the grand squire of france (grand Écuyer, or more usually monsieur le grand) was one of the seven great officers of the crown of france from . as well as the superintendence of the royal stables, he had that of the retinue of the sovereign, also the charge of the funds set aside for the religious functions of the court, coronations, etc. on the death of a sovereign he had the right to all the horses and their equipment in the royal stables. he oversaw personally the "great stable" ("grande écurie"). distinct from this officer and independent of him, was the first equerry (premier ecuyer), who had charge of the horses which the sovereign used personally (la petite écurie), and who attended on him when he rode out. the office of master of the horse existed down to the reign of louis xvi. under louis xviii and charles x the duties were discharged by the first equerry, but under napoleon i and napoleon iii the office was revived with much of its old importance. oberststallmeister (germany)[edit] in germany the master of the horse (oberststallmeister) was a high court dignitary; but his office was merely titular, the superintendence of the emperor's stables having been carried out by the oberstallmeister, an official corresponding to the crown equerry in england. caballerizo mayor (spain)[edit] main article: caballerizo mayor the caballerizo mayor was the officer of the royal household and heritage of the crown of spain in charge of the trips, the mews and the hunt of the king of spain. the office of "caballerizo mayor" was one of the main offices of the royal household in charge of the royal stables and everything related to the transportation of the monarch. when the king sorted out from the royal palace, the caballerizo had the main position behind him and the major rang over the other court officials. he managed as well the stables, the carriages and the horses. he was assisted by the "primeros caballerizos" (first equerries) who were nominated by him. he was in charge of the royal hunt as "montero mayor" (great hunter) holding, in many cases, the "alcaldías" (majorships) of the spanish royal sites. papal master of the horse[edit] the master of the horse, cavallerizzo maggiore, or hereditary superintendent of the stables of the palaces, was a hereditary position held by the marquess serlupi crescenzi. the office was a participating privy chamberlain of the sword and cape, in the papal household. it was abolished in the reforms of the papal curia of . riksstallmästare/Överhovstallmästare (sweden)[edit] the holder of the title master of the horse of the realm (riksstallmästare) in sweden was not one of the great officers of the realm, but rather one of the lesser officers of the realm. he was the superintendent of the royal stables and of the realm's stud farms. as such he was important in military matters, and often he had a tight connection with the army, and then especially with the army's cavalry units. his duties were partly taken over by the master of the horse (Överhovstallmästare). equerry (russia)[edit] konyushy (russian: Конюший) is literally translated as master of the horse or equerry. konyushy was a boyar in charge of the stables of russian rulers. it was a high title at the court of russian rulers until the th century. by the end of the th century a special equerry office (конюшенный приказ, "konyushenny prikaz") was introduced, headed by the konyushy. it was in charge of the tsar's stables, parade equipage, ceremonies of court ride-offs, and military horse breeding. at one point boris godunov was konyushy. the equerry office handled a significant amount of tsar's treasures, related to harness and horse/horseman armor, which were transferred to the kremlin armoury in . koniuszy (kingdom of poland and grand duchy of lithuania)[edit] "koniuszy" (corresponding to the english-language "equerry" or "master of the horse") was a position of nobility known in the kingdom of poland from the th century, and in the grand duchy of lithuania from the th. a koniuszy had charge of the stables and herds of a grand duke or king; in reality, it was a podkoniuszy (sub-equerry), subordinate to the koniuszy, who had the more direct responsibility. from the th to th centuries, a "koniuszy" was a dignitary (dygnitarz) in the polish kingdom and in the polish–lithuanian commonwealth. georgia[edit] in the kingdom of georgia, the similar post was known under the name of amilakhvari (amir-akhori, lit.: prince-master of the horse), derived from arabic. it was a deputy to the commander-in-chief (amir-spasalari) and a member of the royal council. from the s to the russian annexation of georgia ( ), the office was hereditary in the zevdginidze-amilakhvari family. hungary[edit] main article: master of the horse (kingdom of hungary) in the kingdom of hungary the master of the horse (hungarian: főlovászmester) was one of the high officials of the royal household. asia[edit] main article: sima (office) similar posts were common in the imperial courts of china and japan, the royal courts of korea, and elsewhere in east asia. the position, known as "sima" in chinese (司马), literally means "master of the horse". it was first created in the western zhou dynasty, with responsibility for military administration and conscription. the position was below the three grand offices and equivalent in status to the six ministers. it was often grouped with four other positions also named with the "si-" (control, administer) prefix as the "five officials" (五官). the title was used in different ways in subsequent dynasties. the han dynasty awarded "grand sima" as an additional title to high generals, in which context it is often translated into english as "marshal". "sima" also became a chinese surname, adopted by descendants of one occupant of the office. the sima family became emperors in the jin dynasty, as a result of which "sima" ceased to exist as an official position in the central bureaucracy. however, in later dynasties it was used as the name of various relatively minor positions in the military and local administration. however, "sima" was also used informally to refer to the minister of war. the siamese kingdom of ayutthaya had a master of the royal elephants. see also[edit] 	constitution of the roman republic 	constable 	equerry 	cursus honorum 	list of british ministries 	marshal references[edit] 	^ "appendix to court circular". court circular. july . retrieved july . 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "master of the horse". encyclopædia britannica. 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additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 marcellus empiricus - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	marcellus empiricus 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		marcellus empiricus, also known as marcellus burdigalensis (“marcellus of bordeaux”), was a latin medical writer from gaul at the turn of the th and th centuries. his only extant work is the de medicamentis, a compendium of pharmacological preparations drawing on the work of multiple medical and scientific writers as well as on folk remedies and magic. it is a significant if quirky text in the history of european medical writing, an infrequent subject of monographs, but regularly mined as a source for magic charms, celtic herbology and lore, and the linguistic study of gaulish and vulgar latin.[ ] bonus auctor est (“he’s a good authority”) was the judgment of j.j. scaliger,[ ] while the science historian george sarton called the de medicamentis an “extraordinary mixture of traditional knowledge, popular (celtic) medicine, and rank superstition.”[ ] marcellus is usually identified with the magister officiorum of that name who held office during the reign of theodosius i. contents 	 life and political career 	 medical background 	 religious background 	 . christian benefactor? 	 the book of medicaments 	 significance as medical writer 	 therapeutic system 	 the text 	 references life and political career[edit] little is known of the life of marcellus. the primary sources are: 		marcellus’s own preface to the de medicamentis; 	the codex theodosianus (probably referring to this marcellus); 	a letter written in by symmachus to a marcellus who is likely to have been the medical writer; 	a letter written by the antiochan scholar libanius that mentions a marcellus; 	an inscription in narbonne (his association with which would require that he not be from bordeaux; see below); 	an anecdote in orosius about an unnamed gaul (also a highly conjectural link). the gallic origin of marcellus is rarely disputed, and he is traditionally identified with the toponym burdigalensis; that is, from bordeaux (latin burdigala), within the roman province of aquitania. in his prefatory epistle, he refers to three bordelaise praetorian prefects as his countrymen: siburius, eutropius, and julius ausonius, the father of the poet decimus magnus ausonius.[ ] he is sometimes thought to have come from narbonne rather than bordeaux.[ ] there has been an attempt to make a spanish senator of him on the basis of symmachus's reference to property he owned in spain; but this inference ignores that marcellus is said explicitly to have left spain to return to living in avitis penatibus, or among the household spirits of his grandfathers — that is, at home as distinguished from spain. he probably wrote the de medicamentis liber during his retirement there.[ ] numismatic image of theodosius i the author of the de medicamentis is most likely the marcellus who was appointed magister officiorum by theodosius i. the heading of the prefatory epistle identifies him as a vir inlustris, translatable as “a distinguished man,” but a more formal designation of rank that indicates he had held imperial office. marcellus's th-century editor janus cornarius gives the unhelpful phrase ex magno officio (something like “from high office”); coupled with two references in the theodosian code to a marcellus as magister officiorum,[ ] cornarius's phrase has been taken as a mistaken expansion of the standard abbreviation mag. off. the magister officiorum was a sort of minister of the interior[ ] and the identification is consistent with what is known of the author's life and with the politics of the time.[ ] his stated connection to the ausonii makes it likely that he was among the several aristocratic gauls who benefitted politically when the emperor gratian appointed his bordelaise tutor ausonius to high office and from theodosius's extended residence in the western empire during the latter years of his reign.[ ] marcellus would have entered his office sometime after april a.d., when his predecessor is last attested,[ ] and before the emperor's death on january , . he was replaced in late november or december of , as determined by the last reference to a marcellus holding office that is dated november and by the dating of a successor.[ ] the timing of his departure suggests that he had been a supporter of rufinus, the calculating politician of gallic origin who was assassinated november of that year, having failed to resist if not facilitating the advance of alaric and the visigoths. marcellus's support may have been pragmatic or superficial; a source that condemns rufinus heartily praises marcellus as “the very soul of excellence.”[ ] given rufinus's dealings with the visigoths, however, it is conceivable that marcellus should be identified with “a certain former high-ranking official from narbonne” mentioned by orosius[ ] as present in bethlehem in a.d. while visiting jerome, orosius says he heard this gaul relate the declaration made by athaulf, king of the visigoths, at narbonne regarding his intentions toward the roman empire.[ ] john matthews argued that marcellus, who would have been about at the time, is “clearly the most eligible candidate.”[ ] since orosius identifies the gaul only as having served under theodosius, and as a “devout, cautious, and serious” person, other figures have been put forth as the likely bearer of the athaulf declaration.[ ] medical background[edit] it is not unreasonable but also not necessary to conclude that marcellus was a practicing physician. in his dissertation, the intellectual historian of magic and medicine lynn thorndike pronounced him the “court physician” of theodosius i,[ ] but the evidence is thin: libanius, if referring to this marcellus, praises his ability to cure a headache.[ ] the prevailing view is that marcellus should be categorized as a medical writer and not a physician.[ ] a translator of the medical writings of isidore of seville characterizes marcellus as a “medical amateur” and dismisses the de medicamentis as “nothing more than the usual ancient home remedies,”[ ] and the historian of botany ernst meyer seems to have considered him a dilettante.[ ] like ausonius and later sidonius apollinaris, marcellus is among those aristocratic gauls of the th and th centuries who were nominally or even devoutly christian but who fashioned themselves after the republican ideal of the roman noble: a career in politics balanced with country villas and informational or literary writing on a range of subjects, including philosophy, astronomy, agriculture, and the natural sciences.[ ] although medical writing might have been regarded as a lesser achievement, it was a resource for the pater familias who traditionally took personal responsibility for the health care of his household, both family members and slaves.[ ] prescriptions for veterinary treatments dispersed throughout the de medicamentis also suggest the interests and concerns of the author — the letter from symmachus serves mainly to inquire whether marcellus can provide thoroughbred horses for games to be sponsored by his son, who has been elected praetor — and of his intended audience, either the owners of estates or the literate workers who managed them.[ ] “do-it-yourself” manuals were popular among the landowning elite because they offered, as marcellus promises, a form of self-sufficiency and mastery.[ ] alf Önnerfors has argued that a personal element distinguishes the de medicamentis from similar medical manuals, which are in effect if not fact anonymous. in the letter to his sons, whom he addresses as dulcissimi (“my sweetest”), marcellus expresses the hope that they and their families will, in case of sickness, find support and remedies in their father's manual, without intervention by doctors (sine medicis intercessione). this emphasis on self-reliance, however, is not meant to exclude others, but to empower oneself to help others; appealing to divina misericordia (“godlike compassion”), marcellus urges his sons to extend caritas (“caring” or perhaps christian “charity”) to strangers and the poor as well as to their loved ones.[ ] the tone, Önnerfors concludes, is “humane and full of gentle humor.”[ ] religious background[edit] marcellus is usually regarded as a christian,[ ] but he also embraces magico-medical practices that draw on the traditional religions of antiquity. historian of botanical pharmacology jerry stannard believed that evidence in the de medicamentis could neither prove nor disprove marcellus's religious identity, noting that the few references to christianity are “commonplace” and that, conversely, charms with references to hellenistic magic occur widely in medieval christian texts.[ ] in his classic study the cult of the saints, peter brown describes and sets out to explain what he sees as “the exclusively pagan tone of a book whose author was possibly a christian writing for a largely christianized upper class.”[ ] historians of ancient medicine carmélia opsomer and robert halleux note that in his preface, marcellus infuses christian concerns into the ancient tradition of “doctoring without doctors.”[ ] that marcellus was at least a nominal christian is suggested by his appointment to high office by theodosius i, who exerted his will to christianize the empire by ordering the roman senate to convert en masse.[ ] the celtic god esus (aisus) the internal evidence of religion in the text is meager. the phrase divina misericordia in the preface appears also in st. augustine’s de civitate dei, where the reference to divine mercy follows immediately after a passage on barbarian incursions.[ ] marcellus and augustine are contemporaries, and the use of the phrase is less a question of influence than of the currency of a shared christian concept.[ ] elsewhere, passages sometimes cited as evidence of christianity[ ] on closer inspection only display the syncretism of the hellenistic magico-religious tradition, as stannard noted. christ, for instance, is invoked in an herb-gathering incantation,[ ] but the ritual makes use of magico-medical practices of pre-christian antiquity. a judaeo-christian reference — nomine domini iacob, in nomine domini sabaoth[ ] — appears as part of a magic charm that the practitioner is instructed to inscribe on a lamella, or metal leaf. such “magic words” often include nonsense syllables and more-or-less corrupt phrases from “exotic” languages such as celtic, aramaic, coptic, and hebrew, and are not indications of formal adherence to a religion.[ ] the first reference to any religious figure in the text is asclepius, the premier god of healing among the greeks. marcellus alludes to a roman version of the myth in which asclepius restores the dismembered virbius to wholeness; as a writer, marcellus says, he follows a similar course of gathering the disiecta … membra ("scattered body parts") of his sources into one corpus (whole body).[ ] in addition to gods from the greco-roman pantheon, one charm deciphered as a gaulish passage has been translated to invoke the celtic god aisus, or esus as it is more commonly spelled, for his aid in dispelling throat trouble.[ ] christian benefactor?[edit] an inscription[ ] dated recognizes a marcellus as the most important financial supporter in the rebuilding of the cathedral at narbonne, carried out during the bishopric of st. rusticus. john matthews has argued that this marcellus is likely to have been a son or near descendant of the medical writer, since the family of an inlustris is most likely to have possessed the wealth for such a generous contribution.[ ] the donor had served for two years as praetorian prefect of gaul. assuming that the man would have been a native, matthews weighs this piece of evidence with the athaulf anecdote from orosius to situate the author of the de medicamentis in the narbonensis,[ ] but this is a minority view. the book of medicaments[edit] marcellus begins the de medicamentis liber by acknowledging his models. the texts he draws on include the so-called medicina plinii or “medical pliny,” the herbal (herbarius) of pseudo-apuleius, and the pharmacological treatise of scribonius largus, as well as the most famous latin encyclopedia from antiquity, the historia naturalis of pliny the elder.[ ] the work is structured as follows: 	epistolary dedication, addressed to marcellus's sons, a prose preface equivalent to seven paragraphs. 	index medicalium scriptorum, or table of contents for the medical topics, listing the chapter headings. 	a short tract on metrology,[ ] with notes in latin on units of measure and a conversion chart in greek. 	epistulae diversorum de qualitate et observatione medicinae (“letters by various authors on ‘quality’ and ‘observation’ in medicine”), a series of seven epistles, each attributed to a different medical writer. the epistles serve as a literary device for discussing methodology, diagnosis, and the importance of ethical and accurate treatment.[ ] they are not, or not wholly, fictional; just as marcellus's work begins with a prefatory epistle addressed to his sons, the seven letters represent prefaces to other authors’ works, some now lost. marcellus has detached them from the works they headed and presented them collectively, translating, sometimes taking liberties, those originally in greek, as a kind of bonus for his sons.[ ] for instance, the “letter from celsus”, addressed to a callistus, deals with the physician's ethical duty in relation to the hippocratic oath.[ ] ferula gummosa, source of the ingredient galbanum 	thirty-six chapters on treatments, consisting mainly of recipes both pharmacological and magical, and arranged by convention anatomically a capite ad calcem (“from head to toe,” in the equivalent english expression) as were marcellus's sources scribonius largus and the medicina plinii.[ ] the treatment chapters run to pages in niedermann's edition. meyer lists different plant names in marcellus; allowing for synonyms, of which there are many, the number of plants mentioned would be around .[ ] about of the botanicals most frequently prescribed are “exotica”’ such as galbanum, sagapenum, and ginger; these may have been available in gaul as imports, but only to elite consumers. other ingredients likely to have been rare for marcellus’s intended audience include cinnamon, cloves, candied tragacanth, alexandrian niter, and african snails, perhaps the giant african land snail, which are prescribed live for pulping into a mélange. availability is possibly a lesser criterion of selection for marcellus than completeness and variety of interest.[ ] 	and last, the carmen de speciebus (“song of species”), a -line latin hexameter poem on pharmacology, which marcellus contrasts to his prose assemblage of prescriptions by asserting his originality in writing it.[ ] significance as medical writer[edit] marcellus was a transitional figure between ancient and medieval materia medica. although the contents of the recipes — their names, uses, and methods of treatment — derive from the medical texts of ancient greece and rome, the book also points forward to doctrines and approaches characteristic of medieval medicine. marcellus is seldom cited directly, but his influence, though perhaps not wide or pervasive, can be traced in several medieval medical texts.[ ] a major change in the approach to writing about botanical pharmacology is signalled in the de medicamentis. as texts associated with mediterranean medicine traveled west and north with the expanding borders of the roman empire, the plants required by drug recipes were no longer familiar, and the descriptions or illustrations provided by earlier herbals failed to correspond to indigenous flora. marcellus's practice of offering synonyms is one attempt to bridge this gap. he often provides a string of correspondences: the greek plant name polygonos is first glossed as sanguinaria in latin ( . ),[ ] then as "what we [in gaul?] call rubia" ( . ); in the same chapter polygonos is given as another name for millefolium ( . ), and identified elsewhere as equivalent to verbena ( . ). of the dozen or so celtic plant names, ten are provided with or as synonyms for greek or latin names. a preoccupation with naming rather than description is a characteristic also of medieval herbals.[ ] the problems of identifying plants may have been an intellectual attraction for marcellus's renaissance editor cornarius, whose botanical work emphasized the value of words over illustration.[ ] another medieval emphasis foreshadowed in marcellus is a concern for locating ingredients in their native environment, replacing the exotic flora and fauna prescribed in texts from antiquity with indigenous species. recipes in both marcellus and the medieval writers tend toward “polypharmacy,” or the use of a great number of ingredients in a single preparation. many recipes in de medicamentis contain at least ten ingredients, and one, the antidotus cosmiana ( . ), is compounded of .[ ] marcellus is one of the likely sources for anglo-saxon leechcraft,[ ] or at least drew on the shared european magico-medical tradition that also produced runic healing: a th-century wooden amulet from bergen is inscribed with a charm in runes that resembles marcellus's aisus charm.[ ] therapeutic system[edit] reliquary of st. martin of tours in the cult of the saints, peter brown contrasts the “horizontal” or environmental healing prescribed by marcellus to the “vertical,” authoritarian healing of his countryman and contemporary st. martin of tours, known for miracle cures and especially exorcism. since magic for medical purposes can be considered a form of faith healing, that is also not a distinction between the two; “rich layers of folklore and superstition,” writes brown, “lie beneath the thin veneer of hippocratic empiricism” in marcellus.[ ] nor does the difference lie in the social class of the intended beneficiaries, for both therapeutic systems encompassed “country folk and the common people”[ ] as well as senatorial landowners. at the christian shrines, however, healing required submission to “socially chartered” authority;[ ] in marcellus, the patient or practitioner, often addressed directly as “you,” becomes the agent of his own cure.[ ] while the power of a saint to offer a cure resided within a particular shrine which the patient must visit, health for marcellus lay in the interconnectivity of the patient with his environment, the use he actively made of herbs, animals, minerals, dung, language, and transformative processes such as emulsification, calcination and fermentation. in the prefatory epistle, marcellus insists on the efficacy of remedia fortuita atque simplicia (remedies that are readily available and act directly), despite the many recipes involving more than a dozen ingredients; in the concluding carmen, he celebrates ingredients from the far reaches of the empire and the known world (lines – ), emphasizing that the roman practitioner has access to a “global” marketplace.[ ] the text[edit] 	janus cornarius: marcelli ... de medicamentis empiricis, physicis ac rationabilibus liber. froben, basel (digitalisat) 	the standard text is that of maximillian niedermann, marcelli de medicamentis liber, vol. of the teubner corpus medicorum latinorum (leipzig, ). the previous teubner edition had been edited by georg helmreich in . references[edit] 	^ carmélia opsomer and robert halleux, “marcellus ou le mythe empirique,” in les écoles médicales à rome. actes du ème colloque international sur les textes médicaux latins antiques, lausanne, septembre , edited by philippe mudry and jackie pigeaud (geneva: librairie droz, ), p. . 	^ in the prima scaligerana of , cited by george w. robinson, “joseph scaliger’s estimates of greek and latin authors,” harvard studies in classical philology ( ) p. . 	^ george sarton, introduction to the history of science ( ), vol. , p. . 	^ alf Önnerfors, “marcellus, de medicamentis: latin de science, de superstition, d’humanité,” in le latin médical: la constitution d’un langage scientifique: réalités et langage de la médecine dans le monde romain, edited by guy sabbah (université de saint-Étienne, ), p. ; jerry stannard, “marcellus of bordeaux and the beginnings of the medieval materia medica,” pharmacy in history ( ), p. , note , as reprinted in pristina medicamenta: ancient and medieval medical botany, edited by katherine e. stannard and richard kay, variorum collected studies series (aldershot ). 	^ j.f. matthews, “gallic supporters of theodosius,” latomus ( ), pp. – . 	^ spanish origin argued by k.f. stroheker, spanische senatoren der spätrömischen und westgotischen zeit, in madrider mitteilungen ( ) p. , note , cited and contradicted by j.f. matthews, “gallic supporters of theodosius,” latomus ( ) p. . the de medicamentis seems to refer to theodosius ii, son of the emperor who had appointed marcellus to office, suggesting that it was not circulated until his accession in january ; see alan cameron, “a new fragment of eunapius,” classical review ( ) . 	^ codex theodosianus vi. . (may ) and xvi. . (november ). 	^ alf Önnerfors, “marcellus, de medicamentis,” in le latin médical (université de saint-Étienne, ), p. . 	^ for careful and thoroughly documented conjecture about the political career of marcellus, see j.f. matthews, “gallic supporters of theodosius,” latomus ( ) – . 	^ j.f. matthews. “gallic supporters of theodosius,” latomus ( ), p. , who points out that earlier (in the period – ) spaniards had predominated in theodosius’s court. 	^ codex theodosianus vii. . . 	^ codex theodosianus xvi. . . 	^ alan cameron, “a new fragment of eunapius,” classical review ( ) – . 	^ orosius . . : virum quendam narbonensem inlustris sub theodosio militiae, etiam religiosum prudentemque et gravem. 	^ for the text of that declaration in english translation, see article on ataulf. 	^ j.f. matthews, “gallic supporters of theodosius,” latomus ( ), pp. – . 	^ for instance, david frye, “a mutual friend of athaulf and jerome,” historia ( ) – , argues for the gaul named rusticus who is mentioned in jerome’s epistles. 	^ lynn thorndike, the place of magic in the intellectual history of europe (new york ), p. , 	^ lynn thorndike, history of magic and experimental science (columbia university press ), p. , without citing the specific letter. 	^ jerry stannard, “marcellus of bordeaux and the beginnings of the medieval materia medica,” pharmacy in history ( ), p. ; alf Önnerfors, “marcellus, de medicamentis,” in le latin médical (université de saint-Étienne, ), pp. – ; carmélia opsomer and robert halleux, “marcellus ou le mythe empirique,” in les écoles médicales à rome, (geneva: librairie droz, ). 	^ william d. sharpe, introduction to “isidore of seville: the medical writings. an english translation with an introduction and commentary,” transactions of the american philosophical society ( ), p. . 	^ e.h.f. meyer, geschichte der botanik (königsberg – ), vol. , p. , cited by Önnerfors, p. . 	^ thomas habinek, the politics of latin literature: writing, empire, and identity in ancient rome (princeton university press, ); roland mayer, “creating a literature of information in rome,” in wissensvermittlung in dichterischer gestalt (stuttgart: franz steiner, ), pp. – . 	^ elizabeth rawson, intellectual life in the late roman republic (the johns hopkins university press, ), p. ; carmélia opsomer and robert halleux, “marcellus ou le mythe empirique,” in les écoles médicales à rome (geneva: librairie droz, ), p. . 	^ literacy among farm workers at the managerial level was perhaps not meant to be surprising; according to an interlocutor in varro’s de re rustica ( . ), a master ought to require his cattleman to read veterinary excerpts from the work of mago the carthaginian, available in latin and greek translations. 	^ de medicamentis prefatory epistle , edition of maximillian niedermann, marcelli de medicamentis liber, vol. of the teubner corpus medicorum latinorum (leipzig, ), p. ; discussion of general topic in brendon reay, “agriculture, writing, and cato’s aristocratic self-fashioning,” classical antiquity ( ) – . 	^ de medicamentis prefatory epistle . 	^ alf Önnerfors, “marcellus, de medicamentis,” in le latin médical (université de saint-Étienne, ), p. – . 	^ alan cameron, “a new fragment of eunapius,” p. ; j.f. matthews, “gallic supporters of theodosius,” latomus ( ) p. . 	^ jerry stannard, “marcellus of bordeaux and the beginnings of the medieval materia medica,” pharmacy in history ( ), p. . 	^ peter brown, the cult of the saints: its rise and function in latin christianity (university of chicago press, ), p. . 	^ carmélia opsomer and robert halleux, “marcellus ou le mythe empirique,” in les écoles médicales à rome (geneva: librairie droz, ), p. . 	^ t.d. barnes and r.w. westall, “the conversion of the roman aristocracy in prudentius’ contra symmachus,” phoenix ( ) – ; prudentius, contra symmachum . – . 	^ de civitate dei . ; barbarian incursions are a subject relevant to marcellus, living in th century gaul under threat of the visigoths. 	^ on the interpenetration of christianity and traditional religion and culture in the th century, see for instance clifford ando, “pagan apologetics and christian intolerance in the ages of themistius and augustine,” journal of early christian studies ( ) – . 	^ as by j.f. matthews, “gallic supporters of theodosius,” latomus ( ) p. . 	^ in nomine christi, de medicamentis . . 	^ de medicamentis . 	^ william m. brashear, “the greek magical papyri: ‘voces magicae’,” aufstieg und niedergang der römischen welt ii, . ( ), p. ; see also david e. aune, “magic in early christianity: glossolalia and voces magicae,” reprinted in apocalypticism, prophecy and magic in early christianity: collected essays ( ). 	^ de medicamentis prefatory epistle . 	^ de medicamentis . , p. in niedermann; gustav must, “a gaulish incantation in marcellus of bordeaux,” language ( ) – ; pierre-yves lambert, “les formules de marcellus de bordeaux,” in la langue gauloise (Éditions errance ), p. , citing léon fleuriot, “sur quelques textes gaulois,” Études celtiques ( ) – . 	^ cil xii. . 	^ in the amount of , solidi. 	^ john matthews, western aristocracies and imperial court, a.d. – (oxford university press ), pp. – , and “gallic supporters of theodosius,” latomus ( ), p. . 	^ william d. sharpe, “isidore of seville: the medical writings,” transactions of the american philosophical society ( ), pp. – . 	^ jerry stannard, “marcellus of bordeaux and the beginnings of the medieval materia medica,” pharmacy in history ( ), p. . 	^ jerry stannard, “marcellus of bordeaux and the beginnings of the medieval materia medica,” pharmacy in history ( ), p. , note . 	^ d.r. langslow, “the epistula in ancient scientific and technical literature, with special reference to medicine,” in ancient letters: classical and late antique epistolography, edited by ruth morello and a.d. morrison (oxford university press, ), pp. – and . 	^ jean-marie andré, “du serment hippocratique à la déontologie de la médecine romaine,” revue des études latines ( ) – . 	^ jerry stannard, “marcellus of bordeaux and the beginnings of the medieval materia medica,” pharmacy in history ( ), p. . 	^ e.h.f. meyer, “geschichte der botanik,” vol. ( ) - (digitalisat), as cited by jerry stannard, “marcellus of bordeaux and the beginnings of the medieval materia medica,” pharmacy in history ( ), p. , note . stannard finds about plant names in all. 	^ jerry stannard, “marcellus of bordeaux and the beginnings of the medieval materia medica,” pharmacy in history ( ), p. . 	^ marco formisano, “veredelte bäume und kultivierte texte. lehrgedichte in technischen prosawerken der spätantike,” in wissensvermittlung in dichterischer gestalt (stuttgart: franz steiner, ), pp. – , with english summary. 	^ jerry stannard, “marcellus of bordeaux and the beginnings of the medieval materia medica,” pharmacy in history ( ), pp. and , also p. , notes and , for extensive references. 	^ also de medicamentis . , where herbae polygoni is equivalent to sanguinalis, reiterated at . . 	^ jerry stannard, “marcellus of bordeaux and the beginnings of the medieval materia medica,” pharmacy in history ( ), p. . 	^ sachiko kusukawa, “leonhart fuchs on the importance of pictures,” journal of the history of ideas ( ), pp. – . 	^ jerry stannard, “marcellus of bordeaux and the beginnings of the medieval materia medica,” pharmacy in history ( ), p. . 	^ wilfrid bonser, the medical background of anglo-saxon england ( ) p. . 	^ mindy lacleod and bernard mees, runic amulets and magic objects (boydell press, ), pp. online, , and . 	^ peter brown, the cult of the saints (university of chicago press, ), pp. – . 	^ de medicamentis, prefatory epistle , ab agrestibus et plebeis. 	^ peter brown, the cult of the saints (university of chicago press, ), p. . 	^ aline rousselle, “du sanctuaire au thaumaturge,” annales ( ) p. , as cited by brown, the cult of the saints, p. : “il devient sujet actif de sa guérison. … l’homme est engagé, corps et esprit, dans sa propre guérison.” 	^ peter brown, the cult of the saints (university of chicago press, ) p. ; 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additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 marriage in ancient rome - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	marriage in ancient rome 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 roman couple joining hands; the bride's belt may show the knot symbolizing that the husband was "belted and bound" to her, which he was to untie in their bed ( th century sarcophagus)[ ] marriage in ancient rome (conubium) was a strictly monogamous institution: a roman citizen by law could have only one spouse at a time. the practice of monogamy distinguished the greeks and romans from other ancient civilizations, in which elite males typically had multiple wives. greco-roman monogamy may have arisen from the egalitarianism of the democratic and republican political systems of the city-states. it is one aspect of ancient roman culture that was embraced by early christianity, which in turn perpetuated it as an ideal in later western culture.[ ] marriage had mythical precedents, starting with the abduction of the sabine women, which may reflect the archaic custom of bride abduction. romulus and his band of male immigrants were rejected conubium, the legal right to intermarriage, from the sabines. according to livy, romulus and his men abducted the sabine maidens, but promised them an honorable marriage, in which they would enjoy the benefits of property, citizenship, and children. these three benefits seem to define the purpose of marriage in ancient rome.[ ] the word matrimonium, the root for the english word "matrimony", defined the institution's main function. involving the mater (mother), it carried with it the implication of the man taking a woman in marriage to have children. this was the idea conventionally shared by romans as to the purpose of marriage, which would be to produce legitimate children; citizens producing new citizens.[ ] consortium is a word used for the sharing of property, usually used in a technical sense for the property held by heirs, but could also be used in the context of marriage. such usage was commonly seen in christian writings. however, the sharing of water and fire (aquae et ignis communiciatio) was symbolically more important. it refers to the sharing of natural resources. worldly possessions transferred automatically from the wife to the husband in archaic times, whereas the classical marriage kept the wife's property separate.[ ] in order for the union of a man and woman to be legitimate, there needed to be consent legally and morally. both parties, or their fathers had to consent to the marriage in order for the marriage to happen. during the reign of augustus the father had to give a valid reason for not consenting to the marriage.[ ] contents 	 conventions of roman marriage 	 . marriage laws 	 . wedding ceremonies 	 . dowry 	 . divorce 	 . remarriage 	 . adultery 	 same-sex marriage 	 other forms of unions 	 . concubinage 	 . contubernium 	 see also 	 references 	 bibliography 	 further reading 	 external links conventions of roman marriage[edit] detail of a gold glass medallion with a portrait of a family, from alexandria (roman egypt), rd– th century (brescia, museo di santa giulia)[ ] under early roman law, the oldest living male was the head of a family, or pater familias, and had absolute authority (patria potestas) over his children and, to a lesser extent, his wife. his household was thus understood to be under his manus (literally, "hand").[ ] he had the right and duty to seek a good and useful match for his children, and might arrange a child's betrothal long before he or she came of age.[ ] to further the interests of their birth families, sons of the elite should follow their fathers into public life.[ ] and daughters should marry into respectable families. if a daughter could prove the proposed husband to be of bad character, she could legitimately refuse the match.[ ] the age of lawful consent to a marriage was for girls and for boys.[ ] most roman women seem to have married in their late teens to early twenties, but noble women married younger than those of the lower classes, and an aristocratic girl was expected to be virgin until her first marriage.[ ] roman mores idealised a married daughter's relationship to her father as deferential and obedient, even at her husband's expense.[ ] "deference" was not always absolute. after arranging his daughter's first two marriages, marcus tullius cicero disapproved — rightly, as it turned out — of her choice to marry dolabella, but found himself unable to prevent it.[ ] a daughter kept her own birth-family name (nomen) for life; and although children usually took the father's name, some might take their mother's family name as part of theirs.[ ] in the early empire, the legal standing of daughters differed little, if at all, from that of sons; either could inherit a share of the family estate if their father died intestate.[ ] marriage laws[edit] early roman law recognised three kinds of marriage: confarreatio, symbolized by the sharing of spelt bread (panis farreus);[ ] coemptio, "by purchase"; and by usus (habitual cohabitation). patricians always married by confarreatio, while plebeians married by coemptio or usus: in the latter, a woman could avoid her husband's legal control simply by being absent from their shared home for three consecutive nights, once a year. among elite families of the early republic, manus marriage was the norm;[ ] the bride passed from the manus ("hand") of her father to the manus of her husband, remaining under one or another form of male potestas (power).[ ] manus marriage was an institutionally unequal relationship. by the time of julius caesar, it was largely abandoned in favour of "free" marriage;[ ] when a wife moved into her husband's home, she remained under her father's lawful authority; but she did not conduct her daily life under his direct scrutiny.[ ] and her husband had no legal power over her.[ ] this was one of the factors in the independence roman women enjoyed, relative to those of many other ancient cultures and up to the modern period:[ ] free marriage usually involved two citizens of equal or near-equal status, or a citizen and a person who held latin rights. in the later imperial period and with official permission, soldier-citizens and non-citizens could marry. so total was the law's separation of property that gifts between spouses were recognised as conditional loans; if a couple divorced or even lived apart, the giver could reclaim the gift.[ ] inscription (cil . ) from ostia antica recording a decree that newlyweds are to pray and sacrifice before the altar to the imperial couple antoninus pius and faustina as exemplifying concordia, marital harmony[ ] following the collapse of the republic, laws pertaining to marriage, parenting, and adultery were part of augustus' program to restore the mos maiorum (traditional social norms), while consolidating his power as princeps and paterfamilias of the roman state.[ ] marriage and remarriage had become less frequent; and the citizen birth-rate had fallen, particularly among the wealthier, more leisured classes. augustan law pertaining to marriage and family life encouraged marriage and having children, and punished adultery as a crime.[ ] the new legislation formalized and enforced what had been considered a traditional, moral duty to family and the state; all men between and years of age, and all women between and were to marry and have children, or pay extra tax in proportion to their wealth. members of the upper classes thus had most to lose. citizens who had already produced three children, and freed persons who had produced four, were exempt. marriages between senators and freed women, and slaves and citizens, were declared legally void. children born to such liaisons were illegitimate, non-citizen and unable to inherit.[ ] a married woman who bore three children or more could be granted legal independence under the ius liberorum.[ ] these laws were badly received; they were modified in ad by the lex papia poppaea;[clarification needed] eventually they were nearly all repealed or fell into disuse under constantine and later emperors, including justinian.[ ] wedding ceremonies[edit] main article: weddings in ancient rome a groom encourages his demure bride while a servant looks on (wall painting, casa della farnesina, ca. bce) a confarreatio wedding ceremony was a rare event, reserved for the highest echelons of rome's elite. the flamen dialis and pontifex maximus presided, with ten witnesses present, and the bride and bridegroom shared a cake of spelt (in latin far or panis farreus), hence the rite's name.[ ] a more typical upper-middle class wedding in the classical period was less prestigious than a confarreatio, but could be equally lavish. it would have been carefully planned. sometimes the bride and groom exchanged gifts before the wedding.[ ] the lighting of a sacred torch in honor of ceres was part of the celebration, in hopes of imparting fertility upon the couple[ ] a wedding sacrifice was also offered, with a sow being the most likely victim.[ ][ ] the day after the wedding, the husband would hold a dinner party, and the bride made an offering to the lares and other domestic deities of her new home.[ ][ ] dowry[edit] heracles and omphale, roman fresco, pompeian fourth style ( – ad), naples national archaeological museum, italy dowry (latin dos, a gift) was the payment made by a wife's family to her husband, nominally to cover the expenses of their household. it was more customary than compulsory. ancient papyrus texts show that dowries typically included land and slaves but could also include jewelry, toiletries, mirrors, and clothing. while a marriage lasted, the dowry was the husband's property but his use of it was restricted; if the marriage ended through divorce, it was returned to either the wife or her family.[ ][ ] if the husband committed offenses which led to divorce, he lost claim to any share in the dowry. if a wife was blameless for the ending of her marriage, the dowry was restored to her. if a wife or husband with children initiated a divorce, their partner could claim a share of dowry on behalf of the children, to meet their needs and later inheritance.[ ] a dowry of dos recepticia was one in which agreements were made in advance about its disposal and recovery. a dowry of dos profecticia was one given by the bride's father or her paterfamilias; it could be recovered by the donor or by the divorced woman herself. a dowry of dos adventicia was more flexible; it might be given by the wife, though it came from her father, and used to settle a debt incurred by the husband. if she divorced, a wife could reclaim this dowry; if she died, the husband kept it.[ ] divorce[edit] lawful divorce was relatively informal; the wife simply took back her dowry and left her husband's house. roman men had always held the right to divorce their wives; a pater familias could order the divorce of any couple under his manus.[ ] according to the historian valerius maximus, divorces were taking place by bce or earlier, and the early republican law code of the twelve tables provided for it. divorce was socially acceptable if carried out within social norms (mos maiorum). by the time of cicero and julius caesar, divorce was relatively common and "shame-free," the subject of gossip rather than a social disgrace.[ ] valerius says that lucius annius was disapproved of because he divorced his wife without consulting his friends; that is, he undertook the action for his own purposes and without considering its effects on his social network (amicitia and clientela). the censors of bce thus expelled him from the senate for moral turpitude. elsewhere, however, it is claimed that the first divorce took place only in bce, at which time dionysius of halicarnassus notes[ ] that "spurius carvilius, a man of distinction, was the first to divorce his wife" on grounds of infertility. this was most likely the spurius carvilius maximus ruga who was consul in and bce. the evidence is confused.[ ] a man could also divorce his wife for adultery, drunkenness, or making copies of the household keys.[ ] around the nd century, married women gained the right to divorce their husbands.[ ] divorce by either party severed the lawful family alliance that had been formed through the marriage; and remarriage might create an entirely new set of economically or politically useful alliances. among the elite, husbands and wives might remarry several times.[ ] only one spouse's will was required for any divorce, even if the divorced party was not informed. a spouse who had entered marriage sane and healthy, but became incapable of sound judgment (insane) was not competent and could not divorce their partner; they could be divorced without their knowledge or legal notice. divorce, like marriage, was considered a family affair. it was discussed and agreed in private, in an informal family gathering of the parties most affected; the husband, wife, and senior members of both families. no public record was kept of the proceedings. official registration of divorce was not required until ce.[ ] remarriage[edit] the frequency of remarriage among the elite was high. speedy remarriage was not unusual, and perhaps even customary, for aristocratic romans after the death of a spouse.[ ] while no formal waiting period was dictated for a widower, it was customary for a woman to remain in mourning for ten months before remarrying.[ ] the duration may allow for pregnancy: if a woman had become pregnant just before her husband's death, the period of ten months ensures that no question of paternity, which might affect the child's social status and inheritance, would attach to the birth.[ ] no law prohibited pregnant women from marrying, and there are well-known instances: augustus married livia when she was carrying her former husband's child, and the college of pontiffs ruled that it was permissible as long as the child's father was determined first. livia's previous husband even attended the wedding.[ ] because elite marriages often occurred for reasons of politics or property, a widow or divorcée with assets in these areas faced few obstacles to remarrying. she was far more likely to be legally emancipated than a first-time bride, and to have a say in the choice of husband. the marriages of fulvia, who commanded troops during the last civil war of the republic and who was the first roman woman to have her face on a coin, are thought to indicate her own political sympathies and ambitions: she was married first to the popularist champion clodius pulcher, who was murdered in the street after a long feud with cicero; then to scribonius curio, a figure of less ideological certitude who at the time of his death had come over to julius caesar; and finally to mark antony, the last opponent to the republican oligarchs and to rome's future first emperor. most wives were encouraged to remarry after either the death of the husband or a divorce; and a high death rate, low average life expectancy and high divorce rate meant frequent or multiple remarriages.[ ] since children were expected in marriage, each spouse usually brought at least one child to the new marriage. remarriages thus created a new blending of the family in ancient roman society, where children were influenced by stepparents and some instances where stepmothers were younger than their stepchildren.[ ] ancient physicians believed that a woman was liable to get very sick if she was deprived of sexual activity and it could even lead to a woman getting ‘'hysteric uterine constriction.’'[ ] there was even legislation passed during the rule of augustus that required widows and widowers to remarry to be able to fully inherit from people outside of their immediate family.[ ] adultery[edit] dido embracing aeneas, from a roman fresco in the house of citharist in pompeii, italy; pompeian third style ( bc – ad) adultery was a sexual offense committed by a man with a woman who was neither his wife nor a permissible partner such as a prostitute or slave.[ ] a married man committed adultery mainly when his female partner was another man's wife or unmarried daughter.[ ] the punishment varied at different periods of roman history and depending on the circumstances. although prohibitions against adultery and harsh punishments are mentioned during the republic ( – bc), historical sources suggest that they were regarded as archaic survivals, and should not be interpreted as accurate representations of behavior. adultery was normally considered a private matter for families to deal with, not a serious criminal offense requiring the attention of the courts,[ ][ ] though there were some cases when adultery and sexual transgressions by women had been brought to the aediles for judgment.[ ] according to cato ( nd century bc), a husband had an ancient right (ius) to kill his wife if he caught her in the act of adultery. the existence of this "right" has been questioned; if it did exist, it was a matter of custom and not statute law,[ ] and probably only applied to those in the manus form of marriage, which had become vanishingly rare by the late republic ( – bc), when a married woman always remained legally a part of her own family. no source records the justified killing of a woman for adultery by either a father or husband during the republic.[ ] adultery was sufficient grounds for divorce, however, and if the wife was at fault, the wronged husband got to keep a portion of her dowry, though not much more than if he had repudiated her for less serious forms of misconduct.[ ] as part of the moral legislation of augustus in bc, the lex iulia de adulteriis ("julian law concerning acts of adultery") was directed at punishing married women who engaged in extra-marital affairs. the implementation of punishment was the responsibility of the paterfamilias, the male head of household to whose legal and moral authority the adulterous party was subject. if a father discovered that his married daughter was committing adultery in either his own house or the house of his son-in-law, he was entitled to kill both the woman and her lover; if he killed only one of the adulterers, he could be charged with murder. while advertising the father's power, the extremity of the sentence seems to have led to its judicious implementation, since cases in which this sentence was carried out are infrequently recorded — most notoriously, by augustus himself against his own daughter.[ ] a wronged husband was entitled to kill his wife's lover if the man was either a slave or infamis, a person who, though perhaps technically free, was excluded from the normal legal protections extended to roman citizens. among the infames were convicted criminals, entertainers such as actors and dancers, prostitutes and pimps, and gladiators.[ ] he was not allowed to kill his wife, who was not under his legal authority.[ ] if he chose to kill the lover, however, the husband was required to divorce his wife within three days and to have her formally charged with adultery.[ ] if a husband was aware of the affair and did nothing, he himself could be charged with pandering (lenocinium, from leno, "pimp").[ ] if no death penalty was carried out and charges for adultery were brought, both the married woman and her lover were subject to criminal penalties, usually including the confiscation of one-half of the adulterer's property, along with one third of the woman's property and half her dowry; any property brought by a wife to the marriage or gained during marriage normally remained in her possession following a divorce. a woman convicted of adultery was barred from remarrying.[ ] scholars have often assumed that the lex iulia was meant to address a virulent outbreak of adultery in the late republic. an androcentric perspective in the early th century held that the lex iulia had been "a very necessary check upon the growing independence and recklessness of women."[ ] a gynocentric view in the late th to early st century saw love affairs as a way for the intelligent, independent women of the elite to form emotionally meaningful relationships outside marriages arranged for political purposes.[ ] it is possible, however, that no such epidemic of adultery even existed; the law should perhaps be understood not as addressing a real problem that threatened society, but as one of the instruments of social control exercised by augustus that cast the state, and by extension himself, in the role of paterfamilias to all rome.[ ] humiliating or violent punishments for adultery are prescribed by law and described by poets, but are absent in the works of roman historians or the letters of cicero: "the men who people the pages of cicero and tacitus do not burst into their wives' bedrooms to take violent revenge (even when license was granted by the law)."[ ] augustus himself, however, had frequent recourse to his moral laws in choosing to banish potential enemies and rivals from rome, and the effect of the legislation seems to have been primarily political.[ ][ ] same-sex marriage[edit] main article: homosexuality in ancient rome it is unknown whether or not same-sex marriages were legal in rome. the sources that refer to same-sex marriages could refer to concubinage. the emperor nero is known to have married a male slave named sporus. nero castrated sporus, and treated him like a woman. nero did legitimately marry sporus, even assigning him a dowry. nero also married a slave named pythagoras. however, sources disagree on whether or not those marriages were legitimate.[clarification needed] in juvenal's satire no. , two men have a homosexual relationship, with one man taking the role of the woman and wearing the bridal garb. however, it is uncertain whether this reflected a contemporary practice, or was merely a work of fiction.[ ] there are notable examples of same-sex relationships in rome. the emperor elagabalus is said to have married either an enslaved chariot-driver named hierocles, or a smyrnaean athlete named zoticus. elagabalus was named wife, mistress, and queen. it is unlikely elagabalus legitimately married.[clarification needed] there is evidence of same-sex marriages from the constitution of constantine and constans in the codex theodosianus. the codex states, [c]um vir nubit in feminam viro porrecturam quod cupiat, ubi sexus perdidit locum, ubi scelus est id, quod non proficit scire, ubi venus mutatur in alteram formam, ubi amor quaeritur nec videtur, iubemus insurgere leges, armari iura gladio ultore, ut exquisitis poenis subdantur infames, qui sunt vel qui futuri sunt rei. this quote refers to a man marrying in the manner of a bride. the context is unclear: it could be describing either a same-sex relationship, or a law banning same-sex relationships. other forms of unions[edit] concubinage[edit] main article: concubinatus a concubinatus (latin for "concubinage" – see also concubina, "concubine", considered milder than paelex, and concubinus, "bridegroom") was an institution of quasi-marriage between roman citizens who for various reasons did not want to enter into a full marriage.[ ][ ] the institution was often found in unbalanced couples, where one of the members belonged to a higher social class or where one of the two was freed and the other one was freeborn.[ ] however it differed from a contubernium, where at least one of the partners was a slave (see below).[ ][ ] contubernium[edit] main article: contubernium the relationship between a free citizen and a slave or between slaves was known as contubernium.[ ] the term describes a wide range of situations, from simple sexual slavery to quasi-marriage. for instance, according to suetonius, caenis, a slave and secretary of antonia minor, was vespasian's wife "in all but name", until her death in ad . it was also not uncommon for slaves to create family-like unions, allowed but not protected by the law. see also[edit] 	ancient greek wedding customs 	sexuality in ancient rome references[edit] 	^ cinctus vinctusque, according to festus (edition of lindsay); karen k. hersch, the roman wedding: ritual and meaning in antiquity (cambridge university press, ), pp. , , . 	^ scheidel, walter ( ) "population and demography," princeton/stanford working papers in classics, p. . 	^ a b c d e treggiari, susan ( ). roman marriage. new york: oxford university press. isbn  - - - 	^ johnston, harold whetstone ( ). the private life of the romans. chicago: robt. o. law co., printers and binders. 	^ jás elsner ( ). "the changing nature of roman art and the art historical problem of style," in eva r. hoffbeans (ed), late antique and medieval art of the medieval world, – . oxford, malden & carlton: blackwell publishing. isbn  - - - - , p. , figure . on p. . 	^ bruce w. frier and thomas a.j. mcginn, a casebook on roman family law (oxford university press, ), p. . 	^ frier, a casebook on roman family law, p. . 	^ beryl rawson, "the roman family," in the family in ancient rome: new perspectives (cornell university press, ), p. . 	^ rawson, "the roman family", p. . 	^ beryl rawson, "the roman family in italy" (oxford university press, ), p. . 	^ judith p. hallett, fathers and daughters in roman society: women and the elite family (princeton university press, ), . 	^ hallett, . 	^ rawson, the roman family, p. . 	^ rawson, "the roman family," p. . 	^ frier, a casebook on roman family law, pp. – . 	^ karen k. hersch ( may ). the roman wedding: ritual and meaning in antiquity. cambridge university press. pp.  –. isbn  - - - - . 	^ the late imperial roman jurist gaius writes of manus marriage as something that used to happen. frier and mcginn, casebook, p. . 	^ frier and mcginn, casebook, p. . 	^ david johnston, roman law in context (cambridge university press, ), pp. – . 	^ "if adults sons or daughters and their children had lived in the same household as the paterfamilias," notes rawson, "they may well have found the constant awareness of his powers and position a great strain" ("the roman family," p. ). 	^ frier and mcginn, casebook, pp. – . 	^ eva cantarella, pandora's daughters: the role and status of women in greek and roman antiquity (johns hopkins university press, ), pp. – 	^ frier and mcginn, casebook, pp. , , citing ulpian, d. . . . . if the donor died first, however, the gift to the surviving spouse was valid. 	^ paul zanker and björn c. ewald, living with myths: the imagery of sarcophagi (oxford university press, ), p. ; maud gleason, "making space for bicultural identity: herodes atticus commemorates regilla," in local knowledge and microidentities in the imperial greek world (cambridge university press, ), p. . 	^ edwards, pp. ff., – et passim; and "unspeakable professions: public performance and prostitution in ancient rome," in roman sexualities (princeton university press, ), pp. , – et passim. 	^ a b lefkowitz, p. . 	^ frank, richard i., "augustus' legislation on marriage and children," california studies in classical antiquity, vol. , , pp. – university of california press doi: . /  – via jstor (subscription required) 	^ thomas, "the division of the sexes," p. . 	^ goran lind ( july ). common law marriage : a legal institution for cohabitation: a legal institution for cohabitation. oxford university press, usa. pp.  –. isbn  - - - - . 	^ "the most auspicious wood for wedding torches came from the spina alba, the may tree, which bore many fruits and hence symbolised fertility": spaeth, barbette stanley, the roman goddess ceres, university of texas press, . isbn  - - - . spaeth is citing pliny the elder, historia naturalis, . . 	^ varro, rerum rusticarum, . . describes the sacrifice of a pig as "a worthy mark of weddings" because "our women, and especially nurses" call the female genitalia porcus (pig). ceres may have been included in the sacrificial dedication, because she is closely identified with tellus and, as ceres legifera (law-bearer), she "bears the laws" of marriage; see spaeth, , pp. , , – 	^ servius, on vergil's aeneid, . , "implies that ceres established the laws for weddings as well as for other aspects of civilized life." for more on roman attitudes to marriage and sexuality, ceres' role at marriages and the ideal of a "chaste married life" for roman matrons, see staples, ariadne, from good goddess to vestal virgins: sex and category in roman religion, routledge, , pp. – . 	^ orr, d. g., roman domestic religion: the evidence of the household shrines, pp. – in aufstieg und niedergang der römischen welt, ii, , , berlin, , ‑ . 	^ gardner, p. . 	^ gardner, p. . 	^ treggiari, susan. 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"divorce roman style: how easy and how frequent was it?" in marriage, divorce, and children in ancient rome, eds. beryl rawson, pp. – . oxford: oxford university press. isbn  - - - . 	^ gardner, p. . 	^ he had no power over daughters given in manus marriage to another; see treggiari, susan, "divorce roman style: how easy and how frequent was it?" in rawson, b., (editor), marriage, divorce, and children in ancient rome, oxford university press, , p. . isbn  - - - 	^ suzanne dixon, "from ceremonial to sexualities: a survey of scholarship on roman marriage" in a companion to families in the greek and roman worlds (wiley-blackwell, ), p. . 	^ dionysius of halicarnassus, antiquitates romanae, . 	^ aulus gellius (noctes atticae . . ) places the divorce in bce, but fudges the date and his sources elsewhere. 	^ a b holland, barbara and yerkes, lane (march ) "the long good-bye", smithsonian , no. : . 	^ a b treggiari, susan, "divorce roman style: how easy and how frequent was it?" in rawson, beryl (editor) marriage, divorce, and children in ancient rome, oxford university press, , pp. , , isbn  - - - 	^ susan treggiari, roman marriage: iusti coniuges from the time of cicero to the time of ulpian (oxford university press, ), pp. – , – et passim. 	^ karen k. hersch, the roman wedding: ritual and meaning in antiquity, p. . 	^ in roman inclusive counting, a pregnancy was counted as lasting ten months. 	^ eva cantarella, "marriage and sexuality in republican rome: a roman conjugal love story," in the sleep of reason: erotic experience and sexual ethics in ancient greece and rome (university of chicago press, ), p. . 	^ a b bradley, k. r. ( ) "remarriage and the structure of the upper-class roman family." in marriage, divorce, and children in ancient rome, eds. beryl rawson, pp. – . oxford: oxford university press. 	^ a b corbier, mireille ( ) "divorce and adoption as roman familial strategies." in marriage, divorce, and children in ancient rome, eds. beryl rawson, pp. – . oxford: oxford university press. 	^ a b mcginn, thomas a. j. ( ). 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(ritter . ), dig. . . , mod. . . . , ulp.; . . pr., pap." 	^ rawson , p.  : "concubinage seems to have been most frequent amongst freed persons." 	^ a b stocquart , p.  : "from matrimonium, we should distinguish; first, concubinatus, a union authorized under augustus from the leges julia et papia, between persons of unequal condition, provided the man had no uxor. the concubina was neither uxor nor pellex, but uxoris loco. the children, issue of such a union, are neither legitimi nor spurii, but naturales. (cod. , .) second, contubernium is the perfectly regular and valid relation between a free man and a slave, or between two slaves. through the civil law, it produced all the effects arising from the natural law. 	^ treggiari , p.  . bibliography[edit] 	edwards, catharine ( ). the politics of immorality in ancient rome. cambridge university press. 	gardner, jane f. ( ). women in roman law and society. indiana university press. isbn  - - - . 	lefkowitz, mary r. and fant, maureen b. 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"remarriage and the structure of the upper-class roman family", in marriage, divorce, and children in ancient rome, eds. beryl rawson, – . oxford: oxford university press. isbn  - - - 	holland, barbara, and lane yerkes. "the long good-bye." smithsonian , no. 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autronius paetus. however, torquatus and lucius aurelius cotta accused the consul designates for the following year of bribery in connection with the elections; they were condemned under the lex acilia calpurnia, and cotta and torquatus elected in their places.[ ] this led to the so-called first catilinian conspiracy where, allegedly, catiline together with gnaeus calpurnius piso, autronius, and perhaps also sulla, conspired to murder the new consuls on january bc, when they were due to enter office. autronius and sulla were to install themselves as consuls, while piso was to take possession of the provinces of hispania.[ ] the plot failed when the senate became suspicious and issued bodyguards to the incoming consuls.[ ] however, during catiline’s trial for corruption when he was governor of africa in bc, he was supported by torquatus, and an investigation undertaken by the consul into the circumstances of the aborted plot was inconclusive.[ ] in bc, torquatus obtained macedonia as his allotted proconsular province[ ] and while there was awarded the title of imperator by the senate on the recommendation of cicero when cicero reported torquatus's achievements to the senate.[ ] by the autumn of bc he was back in rome. he took an active part in suppressing the second catilinarian conspiracy late that year, and he also supported cicero when cicero was banished in bc.[ ] torquatus was married to a woman from asculum.[ ] he had at least one son, lucius manlius torquatus who died during caesar's civil war. sources[edit] 	t. robert s. broughton, the magistrates of the roman republic, vol ii ( ). 	holmes, t. rice, the roman republic and the founder of the empire, vol. i ( ) 	syme, ronald, the roman revolution, clarendon press, oxford, . 	anthon, charles & smith, william, a new classical dictionary of greek and roman biography, mythology and geography ( ). notes[edit] 	^ broughton, pg. 	^ broughton, pg. 	^ broughton, pgs. & 	^ holmes, pg. ; anthon & smith, pg. ; broughton, 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	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 medieval latin - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	medieval latin 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		form of latin used in the middle ages 	 	this article needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. find sources: "medieval latin" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · jstor (may ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) 	medieval latin 	lingva latina lingua latina lingua latina 	carmina cantabrigiensia, medieval latin manuscript 	native to	numerous small states 	region	most of europe 	era	developed from late latin between th and th centuries; replaced by renaissance latin from the th century 	language family 	indo-european 	 italic	latino-faliscan	latin	medieval latin 	early forms 	old latin 	classical latin 	late latin 	writing system 	latin alphabet  	official status 	official language in 	de facto in most catholic and/or romance-speaking states during the middle ages 	language codes 	iso - 	– 	linguist list 	lat-med 	glottolog	medi 	europe, ad medieval latin was the form of latin used in roman catholic western europe during the middle ages. in this region it served as the primary written language, though local languages were also written to varying degrees. latin functioned as the main medium of scholarly exchange, as the liturgical language of the church, and as the working language of science, literature, law, and administration. medieval latin represented a continuation of classical latin and late latin, with enhancements for new concepts as well as for the increasing integration of christianity. despite some meaningful differences from classical latin, medieval writers did not regard it as a fundamentally different language. there is no real consensus on the exact boundary where late latin ends and medieval latin begins. some scholarly surveys begin with the rise of early ecclesiastical latin in the middle of the th century, others around ,[ ] and still others with the replacement of written late latin by written romance languages starting around the year . the terms medieval latin and ecclesiastical latin are often used synonymously, though some scholars draw distinctions. ecclesiastical latin refers specifically to the form that has been used by the roman catholic church, whereas medieval latin refers more broadly to all of the (written) forms of latin used in the middle ages. the romance languages spoken in the middle ages were often referred to as latin, since the romance languages were all descended from vulgar latin itself.[ ] contents 	 influences 	 . christian latin 	 . vulgar latin 	 changes in vocabulary, syntax, and grammar 	 . syntax 	 orthography 	 medieval latin literature 	 medieval latin and everyday life 	 important medieval latin authors 	 . th– th centuries 	 . th– th centuries 	 . th century 	 . th century 	 . th century 	 . th century 	 . th century 	 . th century 	 literary movements 	 works 	 references 	 . citations 	 . sources 	 further reading 	 external links influences[edit] christian latin[edit] medieval latin had an enlarged vocabulary, which freely borrowed from other sources. it was heavily influenced by the language of the vulgate, which contained many peculiarities alien to classical latin that resulted from a more or less direct translation from greek and hebrew; the peculiarities mirrored the original not only in its vocabulary but also in its grammar and syntax. greek provided much of the technical vocabulary of christianity. the various germanic languages spoken by the germanic tribes, who invaded southern europe, were also major sources of new words. germanic leaders became the rulers of parts of the roman empire that they conquered, and words from their languages were freely imported into the vocabulary of law. other more ordinary words were replaced by coinages from vulgar latin or germanic sources because the classical words had fallen into disuse. an illuminated manuscript of a book of hours contains prayers in medieval latin. latin was also spread to areas such as ireland and germany, where romance languages were not spoken, and which had never known roman rule. works written in those lands where latin was a learned language, having no relation to the local vernacular, also influenced the vocabulary and syntax of medieval latin. since subjects like science and philosophy, including argumentation theory and ethics (pre-law), were communicated in latin, the latin vocabulary that developed for them became the source of a great many technical words in modern languages. english words like abstract, subject, communicate, matter, probable and their cognates in other european languages generally have the meanings given to them in medieval latin.[ ] vulgar latin[edit] the influence of vulgar latin was also apparent in the syntax of some medieval latin writers, although classical latin continued to be held in high esteem and studied as models for literary compositions. the high point of the development of medieval latin as a literary language came with the carolingian renaissance, a rebirth of learning kindled under the patronage of charlemagne, king of the franks. alcuin was charlemagne's latin secretary and an important writer in his own right; his influence led to a rebirth of latin literature and learning after the depressed period following the final disintegration of the authority of the western roman empire. although it was simultaneously developing into the romance languages, latin itself remained very conservative, as it was no longer a native language and there were many ancient and medieval grammar books to give one standard form. on the other hand, strictly speaking there was no single form of "medieval latin". every latin author in the medieval period spoke latin as a second language, with varying degrees of fluency and syntax. grammar and vocabulary, however, were often influenced by an author's native language. this was especially true beginning around the th century, after which the language became increasingly adulterated: late medieval latin documents written by french speakers tend to show similarities to medieval french grammar and vocabulary; those written by germans tend to show similarities to german, etc. for instance, rather than following the classical latin practice of generally placing the verb at the end, medieval writers would often follow the conventions of their own native language instead. whereas latin had no definite or indefinite articles, medieval writers sometimes used forms of unus as an indefinite article, and forms of ille (reflecting usage in the romance languages) as a definite article or even quidam (meaning "a certain one/thing" in classical latin) as something like an article. unlike classical latin, where esse ("to be") was the only auxiliary verb, medieval latin writers might use habere ("to have") as an auxiliary, similar to constructions in germanic and romance languages. the accusative and infinitive construction in classical latin was often replaced by a subordinate clause introduced by quod or quia. this is almost identical, for example, to the use of que in similar constructions in french. in every age from the late th century onwards, there were learned writers (especially within the church) who were familiar enough with classical syntax to be aware that these forms and usages were "wrong" and resisted their use. thus the latin of a theologian like st thomas aquinas or of an erudite clerical historian such as william of tyre tends to avoid most of the characteristics described above, showing its period in vocabulary and spelling alone; the features listed are much more prominent in the language of lawyers (e.g. the th-century english domesday book), physicians, technical writers and secular chroniclers. however the use of quod to introduce subordinate clauses was especially pervasive and is found at all levels.[ ] changes in vocabulary, syntax, and grammar[edit] medieval latin had ceased to be a living language and was instead a scholarly language of the minority of educated men in medieval europe, used in official documents more than for everyday communication. this resulted in two major features of medieval latin compared with classical latin, though when it is compared to the other vernacular languages, medieval latin developed very few changes.[ ] there are many prose constructions written by authors of this period that can be considered "showing off" a knowledge of classical or old latin by the use of rare or archaic forms and sequences. though they had not existed together historically, it is common that an author would use grammatical ideas of the two periods republican and archaic, placing them equally in the same sentence. as well, many undistinguished scholars had limited educations of "proper" latin, or had been influenced in their writings by vulgar latin. 	word order usually tended towards that of the vernacular language of the author, not the artificial and polished word order of classical latin. conversely, an erudite scholar might attempt to "show off" by intentionally constructing a very complicated sentence. because latin is an inflected language, it is technically possible to place related words at opposite ends of a paragraph-long sentence, and owing to the complexity of doing so, it was seen by some as a sign of great skill. 	typically, prepositions are used much more frequently (as in modern romance languages) for greater clarity, instead of using the ablative case alone. further, in classical latin the subject of a verb was often left implied, unless it was being stressed: videt = "he sees". for clarity, medieval latin more frequently includes an explicit subject: is videt = "he sees" without necessarily stressing the subject. 	various changes occurred in vocabulary, and certain words were mixed into different declensions or conjugations. many new compound verbs were formed. some words retained their original structure but drastically changed in meaning: animositas specifically means "wrath" in medieval latin while in classical latin, it generally referred to "high spirits, excited spirits" of any kind. 	owing to heavy use of biblical terms, there was a large influx of new words borrowed from greek and hebrew and even some grammatical influences. that obviously largely occurred among priests and scholars, not the laity. in general, it is difficult to express abstract concepts in latin, as many scholars admitted. for example, plato's abstract concept of "the truth" had to be expressed in latin as "what is always true". medieval scholars and theologians, translating both the bible and greek philosophers into latin out of the koine and classical greek, cobbled together many new abstract concept words in latin. syntax[edit] 	indirect discourse, which in classical latin was achieved by using a subject accusative and infinitive, was now often simply replaced by new conjunctions serving the function of english "that" such as quod, quia, or quoniam. there was a high level of overlap between the old and new constructions, even within the same author's work, and it was often a matter of preference. a particularly famous and often cited example is from the venerable bede, using both constructions within the same sentence: "dico me scire et quod sum ignobilis" = "i say that i know [accusative and infinitive] and that i am unknown [new construction]". the resulting subordinate clause often used the subjunctive mood instead of the indicative. this new syntax for indirect discourse is among the most prominent features of medieval latin, the largest syntactical change. 	several substitutions were often used instead of subjunctive clause constructions. they did not break the rules of classical latin but were an alternative way to express the same meaning, avoiding the use of a subjunctive clause. 	the present participle was frequently used adverbially in place of qui or cum clauses, such as clauses of time, cause, concession, and purpose. that was loosely similar to the use of the present participle in an ablative absolute phrase, but the participle did not need to be in the ablative case. 	habeo (i have [to]) and "debeo" (i must) would be used to express obligation more often than the gerundive. 	given that obligation inherently carries a sense of futurity ("carthage must be destroyed" at some point in the future), it anticipates how the romance languages such as french would use "habeo" as the basis for their future tenses (abandoning the latin forms of the future tense). while in latin "amare habeo" is the indirect discourse "i have to love", in the french equivalent,"aimerai" (habeo > ayyo > ai, aimer+ai), it has become the future tense, "i shall love", losing the sense of obligation. in medieval latin, however, it was still indirect discourse and not yet used as simply a future tense. 	instead of a clause introduced by ut or ne, an infinitive was often used with a verb of hoping, fearing, promising, etc. 	conversely, some authors might haphazardly switch between the subjunctive and indicative forms of verbs, with no intended difference in meaning. 	the usage of sum changed significantly: it was frequently omitted or implied. further, many medieval authors did not feel that it made sense for the perfect passive construction "laudatus sum" to use the present tense of esse in a past tense construction so they began using fui, the past perfect of sum, interchangeably with sum. 	chaos in the usage of demonstrative pronouns. hic, ille, iste, and even the intensive ipse are often used virtually interchangeably. in anticipation of romance languages, hic and ille were also frequently used simply to express the definite article "the", which classical latin did not possess. unus was also used for the indefinite article "a, an". 	use of reflexives became much looser. a reflexive pronoun in a subordinate clause might refer to the subject of the main clause. the reflexive possessive suus might be used in place of a possessive genitive such as eius. 	comparison of adjectives changed somewhat. the comparative form was sometimes used with positive or superlative meaning. also, the adverb "magis" was often used with a positive adjective to indicate a comparative meaning,and multum and nimis could be used with a positive form of adjective to give a superlative meaning. 	classical latin used the ablative absolute, but as stated above, in medieval latin examples of nominative absolute or accusative absolute may be found. this was a point of difference between the ecclesiastical latin of the clergy and the "vulgar latin" of the laity, which existed alongside it. the educated clergy mostly knew that traditional latin did not use the nominative or accusative case in such constructions, but only the ablative case. these constructions are observed in the medieval era, but they are changes that developed among the uneducated commoners. 	classical latin does not distinguish progressive action in the present tense, thus laudo can mean either "i praise" or "i am praising". in imitation of greek, medieval latin could use a present participle with sum to form a periphrastic tense equivalent to the english progressive. this "greek periphrastic tense" formation could also be done in the past and future tenses: laudans sum ("i am praising"), laudans eram ("i was praising"), laudans ero ("i shall be praising"). 	classical latin verbs had at most two voices, active and passive, but greek (the original language of the new testament) had an additional "middle voice" (or reflexive voice). one use was to express when the subject is acting upon itself: "achilles put the armor onto himself" or "jesus clothed himself in the robe" would use the middle voice. because latin had no middle voice, medieval latin expresses such sentences by putting the verb in the passive voice form, but the conceptual meaning is active (similar to latin deponent verbs). for example, the medieval latin translation of genesis states literally, "the spirit of god was moved over the waters" ("spiritus dei ferebatur super aquas", genesis : ), but it is just expressing a greek middle-voice verb: "god moved [himself] over the waters". 	overlapping with orthography differences (see below), certain diphthongs were sometimes shortened: "oe" to "e", and "ae" to "e". thus, "oecumenicus" becomes the more familiar "ecumenicus" (more familiar in this later form because religious terms such as "ecumenical" were more common in medieval latin). the "oe" diphthong is not particularly frequent in latin, but the shift from "ae" to "e" affects many common words, such as "caelum" (heaven) being shortened to "celum"; even "puellae" (girls) was shortened to "puelle". 	often, a town would lose its name to that of the tribe which was either accusative or ablative plural; two forms that were then used for all cases, or in other words, considered "indeclinable".[ ][clarification needed] orthography[edit] the prüfening dedicatory inscription from bavaria, dated to , composed in medieval latin. it was printed rather than carved. many striking differences between classical and medieval latin are found in orthography. perhaps the most striking difference is that medieval manuscripts used a wide range of abbreviations by means of superscripts, special characters etc.: for instance the letters "n" and "s" were often omitted and replaced by a diacritical mark above the preceding or following letter. apart from this, some of the most frequently occurring differences are as follows. clearly many of these would have been influenced by the spelling, and indeed pronunciation,[ ] of the vernacular language, and thus varied between different european countries. 	following the carolingian reforms of the th century, carolingian minuscule was widely adopted, leading to a clear differentiation between capital and lowercase letters. 	a partial or full differentiation between v and u, and between j and i. 	the diphthong ae is usually collapsed and simply written as e (or e caudata, ę); for example, puellae might be written puelle (or puellę). the same happens with the diphthong oe, for example in pena, edipus, from poena, oedipus. this feature is already found on coin inscriptions of the th century (e.g. reipublice for reipublicae). conversely, an original e in classical latin was often represented by ae or oe (e.g. aecclesia and coena), also reflected in english spellings such as foetus. 	because of a severe decline in the knowledge of greek, in loanwords and foreign names from or transmitted through greek, y and i might be used more or less interchangeably: ysidorus, egiptus, from isidorus, aegyptus. this is also found in pure latin words: ocius ("more swiftly") appears as ocyus and silva as sylva, this last being a form which survived into the th century and so became embedded in modern botanical latin (also cf. pennsylvania). 	h might be lost, so that habere becomes abere, or mihi becomes mi (the latter also occurred in classical latin); or mihi may be written michi, indicating that the h had come to be pronounced as k or perhaps kh. this pronunciation is not found in classical latin. 	the loss of h in pronunciation also led to the addition of h in writing where it did not previously belong, especially in the vicinity of r, such as chorona for corona, a tendency also sometimes seen in classical latin. 	-ti- before a vowel is often written as -ci- [tsi], so that divitiae becomes diviciae (or divicie), tertius becomes tercius, vitium vicium. 	the combination mn might have another plosive inserted, so that alumnus becomes alumpnus, somnus sompnus. 	single consonants were often doubled, or vice versa, so that tranquillitas becomes tranquilitas and africa becomes affrica. 	syncopation became more frequent: vi, especially in verbs in the perfect tense, might be lost, so that novisse becomes nosse (this occurred in classical latin as well but was much more frequent in medieval latin). these orthographical differences were often due to changes in pronunciation or, as in the previous example, morphology, which authors reflected in their writing. by the th century, erasmus complained that speakers from different countries were unable to understand each other's form of latin.[ ] the gradual changes in latin did not escape the notice of contemporaries. petrarch, writing in the th century, complained about this linguistic "decline", which helped fuel his general dissatisfaction with his own era. medieval latin literature[edit] the corpus of medieval latin literature encompasses a wide range of texts, including such diverse works as sermons, hymns, hagiographical texts, travel literature, histories, epics, and lyric poetry. the first half of the th century saw the literary activities of the great christian authors jerome (c. – ) and augustine of hippo ( – ), whose texts had an enormous influence on theological thought of the middle ages, and of the latter's disciple prosper of aquitaine (c. - ). of the later th century and early th century, sidonius apollinaris (c. – after ) and ennodius ( – ), both from gaul, are well known for their poems, as is venantius fortunatus (c. – ). this was also a period of transmission: the roman patrician boethius (c. – ) translated part of aristotle's logical corpus, thus preserving it for the latin west, and wrote the influential literary and philosophical treatise de consolatione philosophiae; cassiodorus (c. – ) founded an important library at the monastery of vivarium near squillace where many texts from antiquity were to be preserved. isidore of seville (c. - ) collected all scientific knowledge still available in his time into what might be called the first encyclopedia, the etymologiae. gregory of tours (c. – ) wrote a lengthy history of the frankish kings. gregory came from a gallo-roman aristocratic family, and his latin, which shows many aberrations from the classical forms, testifies to the declining significance of classical education in gaul. at the same time, good knowledge of latin and even of greek was being preserved in monastic culture in ireland and was brought to england and the european mainland by missionaries in the course of the th and th centuries, such as columbanus ( – ), who founded the monastery of bobbio in northern italy. ireland was also the birthplace of a strange poetic style known as hisperic latin. other important insular authors include the historian gildas (c. – ) and the poet aldhelm (c. – ). benedict biscop (c. – ) founded the monastery of wearmouth-jarrow and furnished it with books which he had taken home from a journey to rome and which were later used by bede (c. – ) to write his ecclesiastical history of the english people. many medieval latin works have been published in the series patrologia latina, corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum latinorum and corpus christianorum. medieval latin and everyday life[edit] medieval latin was separated from classical latin around and at this time was no longer considered part of the everyday language. spoken latin became a practice used mostly by the educated high class population. even then it was not frequently used in casual conversation. an example of these men includes the churchmen who could read latin, but could not effectively speak it. latin's use in universities was structured in lectures and debates, however, it was highly recommended that students use it in conversation. this practice was kept up only due to rules.[ ] one of latin's purposes, writing, was still in practice; the main uses being charters for property transactions and to keep track of the pleadings given in court. even then, those of the church still used latin more than the rest of the population. at this time, latin served little purpose to the regular population but was still used regularly in ecclesiastical culture.[ ] important medieval latin authors[edit] th– th centuries[edit] 	aetheria (fl. ) 	jerome (c. – ) 	augustine ( - ) th– th centuries[edit] 	boëthius (c. – ) 	cassiodorus (c. – c. ) 	gildas (d. c. ) 	flavius cresconius corippus (d. c. ) 	venantius fortunatus (c. – c. ) 	gregory of tours (c. – ) 	pope gregory i (c. – ) 	isidore of seville (c. – ) 	bede (c. – ) 	st. boniface (c. - ) 	chrodegang of metz (d. ) 	paul the deacon ( s - c. ) 	beatus of liébana (c. - ) 	peter of pisa (d. ) 	paulinus of aquileia ( s - ) 	alcuin (c. – ) th century[edit] 	einhard ( - ) 	rabanus maurus ( - ) 	paschasius radbertus ( - ) 	rudolf of fulda (d. ) 	dhuoda 	lupus of ferrieres ( - ) 	andreas agnellus (agnellus of ravenna) (c. - ?) 	hincmar ( - ) 	walafrid strabo ( - ) 	florus of lyon (d. ?) 	gottschalk (theologian) ( - ) 	sedulius scottus (fl. - ) 	anastasius bibliothecarius ( - ) 	johannes scotus eriugena ( - ) 	asser (d. ) 	notker balbulus ( - ) th century[edit] 	ratherius ( – ) 	hrotsvitha of gandersheim ( - ) 	thietmar of merseburg ( – ) th century[edit] 	marianus scotus ( – ) 	adam of bremen (fl. – ) 	anselm of canterbury ( / - ) 	marbodius of rennes (c. - ) th century[edit] 	pierre abélard ( – ) 	suger of st denis (c. – ) 	geoffrey of monmouth (c. – c. ) 	ailred of rievaulx ( – ) 	otto of freising (c. – ) 	archpoet (c. - c. ) 	william of tyre (c. - ) 	peter of blois (c. – c. ) 	walter of châtillon (fl. c. ) 	adam of st. victor th century[edit] 	giraldus cambrensis (c. – c. ) 	saxo grammaticus (c. – c. ) 	anonymous (fl. late th century – early th century) 	thomas of celano (c. – c. ) 	albertus magnus (c. – ) 	roger bacon (c. – ) 	st thomas aquinas (c. – ) 	ramon llull ( – ) 	siger of brabant (c. – s) 	duns scotus (c. – ) th century[edit] see also: renaissance latin 	ranulf higdon (c. - c. ) 	william of ockham (c. - c. ) 	jean buridan ( – ) 	henry suso (c. - ) literary movements[edit] 	goliards 	hiberno-latin 	medieval roman law 	medieval latin comedy 	riddle poems works[edit] 	carmina burana ( th - th century) 	pange lingua (ca. ) 	summa theologiae (ca. ) 	etymologiae (ca. ) 	dies irae (ca. ) 	decretum gratiani (ca. ) 	de ortu waluuanii nepotis arturi (ca. ) 	magna carta (ca. ) references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ ziolkowski, jan m. ( ), "towards a history of medieval latin literature", in mantello, f. a. c.; rigg, a. g. (eds.), medieval latin: an introduction and bibliographical guide, washington, d.c., pp.  - (pp. - ) 	^ "romance languages". encyclopedia britannica. retrieved november . 	^ j. franklin, mental furniture from the philosophers, et cetera ( ), - . 	^ a b c d mantello, f. a. c., rigg, a. g. ( ). medieval latin: an introduction and bibliographical guide. united states of america: the catholic university of america press. p.  . isbn  . 	^ a b beeson, charles henry ( ). a primer of medieval latin: an anthology of prose and poetry. washington, d.c.: catholic university of america press. isbn  . 	^ see desiderius erasmus, de recta latini graecique sermonis pronunciatione dialogus, basel (frobenius), . sources[edit] 	k.p. harrington, j. pucci, and a.g. elliott, medieval latin ( nd ed.), (univ. chicago press, ) isbn  - - - 	f.a.c. mantello and a.g. rigg, eds., medieval latin: an introduction and bibliographical guide (cua press, ) isbn  - - - 	dictionaries 	du cange et al., glossarium ad scriptores mediæ et infimæ latinitatis, niort : l. favre, – , ecole des chartes. 	thesaurus linguae latinae further reading[edit] 	chavannes-mazel, claudine a., and margaret m. smith, eds. . medieval manuscripts of the latin classics: production and use; proceedings of the seminar in the history of the book to , leiden, . los altos hills, ca: anderson-lovelace. 	lapidge, michael. . anglo-latin literature – . london and rio grande, oh: hambledon. 	--. . anglo-latin literature – . london and rio grande, oh: hambledon. 	mann, nicholas, and birger munk olsen, eds. . medieval and renaissance scholarship: proceedings of the second european science foundation workshop on the classical tradition in the middle ages and renaissance, london: warburg institute, – november . new york: brill. 	mantello, f. a. c., and george rigg. . medieval latin: an introduction and bibliographical guide. washington, dc: catholic university of american press. 	pecere, oronzo, and michael d. reeve. . formative stages of classical traditions: latin texts from antiquity to the renaissance; proceedings of a conference held at erice, – october , as the th course of international school for the study of written records. spoleto, italy: centro italiano di studi sull’alto medioevo. 	raby, f. j. e. . a history of secular latin poetry in the middle ages. vols. nd ed. oxford: clarendon. 	rigg, a. g. . a history of anglo-latin literature a.d. – . cambridge, uk: cambridge university press. 	walde, christine, ed. . brill's new pauly supplement : the reception of classical literature. leiden, the netherlands, and boston: brill. 	ziolkowski, jan m., . talking animals: medieval latin beast poetry, - . philadelphia, pa, university of pennsylvania press. 	raby, f.j.e., . the oxford book of medieval latin verse. amen house, london, oxford university press. 	harrington, karl pomeroy, . mediaeval latin. norwood, ma, usa, norwood press. 	dronke, peter, vol. , . medieval latin and the rise of european love-lyric. oxford, uk, clarendon press. 	bacci, antonii. varia latinitatis scripta ii, inscriptiones orationes epistvlae. rome, italy, societas librania stvdivm. 	beeson, charles h., . a primer of medieval latin: an anthology of prose and poetry. chicago, united states, scott, foresman and company. 	curtius, ernst roberts, . european literature and the latin middle ages. new york, new york, united states, bollingen foundation inc. 	auerbach, erich, . literary language & its public: in late latin antiquity and in the middle ages. new york, ny, usa, bollingen foundation. external links[edit] 	library resources about medieval latin 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	in-depth guides to learning latin at the uk national archives. 	the journal of medieval latin 	wright, thomas, ed. a selection of latin stories, from manuscripts of the thirteenth and founteenth centuries: a contribution to the history of fiction during the middle ages. 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		jump to navigation 		jump to search 			 	this article does not cite any sources. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. find sources: "military establishment of the roman republic" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · jstor (november ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) 	 	part of a series on the 	military of ancient rome bc – ad 	 structural history 	 army 	 	unit types and ranks 	decorations and punishments 	legions 	auxilia 	generals 	 navy 	 	fleets 	admirals 	 campaign history 	wars and battles 	 technological history 	 military engineering 	 	castra 	siege engines 	triumphal arches 	roads 	 political history   	 strategy and tactics 	 	infantry tactics 	 frontiers and fortifications 	 	limes 	limes britannicus 	antonine wall 	hadrian's wall 	saxon shore 	limes germanicus 	alb limes 	lauter valley limes 	lower germanic limes 	main limes 	neckar-odenwald limes 	upper 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arguably its height in bc. serving in the army was part of roman civic duty. to serve in the armies of rome, one had to purchase one's own equipment, and soldiers were sorted into different classes according to wealth. velites made up the lower class soldiers; it was this class which made up the majority of the heavy infantry legions characteristic to rome. the equites, or equestrians, were the higher class citizens so named because they could afford to maintain at least one horse; this class made up the roman citizen cavalry, which, through its evolution, transformed into one of the prizes of the late republic, only to disappear by the time of the empire. contents 	 pre-marian military 	 . the draft 	 . the standard legion 	 . the legion in battle 	 marian reforms 	 . problems in the military 	 . marius takes a hand 	 . professional army 	 . evaluation 	 external links pre-marian military[edit] in the late republic, the army became an instrument for successful international warfare, due to the reforms of one of rome's greatest generals, gaius marius, a man admired and imitated by julius caesar. his changes were so critical to the success of roman legions that the army is characterized in history as "pre-marian" and "post-marian" or just "marian". the draft[edit] the highest officers of the military were the two consuls for that year, who were also the leaders of the senate at rome. each of them ordinarily commanded an army group of two legions: they also had responsibility for raising these troops. in militaristic rome, the highest civilian officers were also the military chiefs of staff and the commanding generals in battle. they answered only to the roman senate. raising the legions was an annual affair. the term of service was one year, although many candidates no doubt were picked year after year. the magistrates decided who in the tribes were eligible for selection. the word we translate as "magistrate" was the title of a tribal official, a tribunus ("of the tribes"). here a basic division of the military and civilian branches applied, as well as the subjection of the military to the civilian. the working organizations of the tribe were called comitia (committees). they elected tribunes of plebs, "tribunes of the people", as well as tribune militaries — per legion — who were careerists with at least or years' service experience. a career would include both military and civilian offices. the military tribunes were to be the senior staff of the legion. on election day, the presiding tribune sent the men of the tribe to appear before the military tribunes in groups of four. the four senior staffs of the future legions observed a priority of selection, which rotated. each staff would take its pick, man by man until each had selected men, the complements of four legions. the selection of , men must have taken several days. if the circumstances of the state required it, the complement could be expanded to include more men, or the consuls could draft as many as four legions each. additional forces could be drafted under ad hoc commanders called proconsules, who served "in place of consuls." in the later republic, the relatively small number of legions commanded by the consuls ( - ) resulted in their power being overshadowed by the proconsuls, the provincial governors. provincial governors often would command more loyalty from their troops than their consular counterparts did, and governors were able to raise vast numbers of troops. while provincial armies technically were supposed to stay within the provinces over which their governors had jurisdiction, by the middle of the st century bc this rule was ignored. by the end of the republic, the various commanders participating in rome's civil wars had raised the number of legions throughout the provinces to more than fifty, many under the command of a single man. the necessity of raising legions quickly, to offset battle losses, resulted in an abbreviation of the recruitment process. the government appointed two boards, of three military tribunes each, empowered to enter any region in the roman jurisdiction for the purpose of enlisting men. these tribunes were not elected. the experience requirement was dropped in the case of aristocratic appointees. some were as young as , although this age was considered acceptable for a young aristocrat on his way up the cursus honorum, or ladder of offices. the appointed tribunes conducted an ad hoc draft, or dialects, to recruit men. they tended to select the youngest and most capable-looking. it was similar to later naval press gangs, except that roman citizens were entitled to some process, no matter how abbreviated. if they had to, the appointed tribunes drafted slaves, as they did after the battle of cannae. soldiers who had served out their time and had obtained their discharge (mission), but had voluntarily re-enlisted, were called evocati. the standard legion[edit] a standard republican legion before the reforms of gaius marius (“the early republic”) contained about men divided into the velites, the principes, and the hastati — of men each — also the triarii, of men, and the equities, of men. the first three types stood forward in battle; the triarii stood back. the velites and the equites were used mainly for various kinds of support. the class system of servius tullius already had organized society to support the military. he practically had created a "store" in which officers could "shop" for the resources they needed. officers were elected by the civilian centuries, usually from the classic, or from the patricii if the latter were not included in the classic (there is some question about how this worked). there were available centuries of wealthy classic, of young men ages to , and of men and older. these citizens could afford whatever arms and armor the officers thought they needed. the classic could go into any branch of the legion, but generally, veterans were preferred for the triarii, and young men for the velites. the rest was filled out from the young centuries. the older were kept for emergencies, which occurred frequently. these older men were roughly equivalent to the united states army reserve. if the arms requirement was less severe, or the expensive troops were in short supply, the recruiters selected from classes through , which again offered either older or younger men. class were centuries of specialists, such as carpenters. the romans preferred not to use class , but if the need was very great they were known to recruit even from slaves and the poor, who would have to be equipped with the state. the full equipage of arms and armor were the helmet with colored crest and face protectors, breastplates or chain mail (if a soldier could afford it), greaves, the parma (a round shield), the scutum (an oblong wrap-around of hiding on a wood frame, edged with metal, with the insignia of the legion painted on it), the pilum (the hasta veligers, a light javelin of about feet with a -inch metal head), and a short sword they borrowed from spanish tribes, the gladius. the gladius was both pointed for thrusting and edged for slashing. these arms could be combined in various ways, except that one battle-line had to be armed in the same way. most typical was a line of principes armed with pole and gladii and defended by the scuti. the hastati could be armed the same way, or with the hasta and parma. the velites bore the hasta veligers and depended on running to get them away after a throw, which is why only the young were chosen for that job. the basic unit of the army was the company-sized century of men commanded by a centurion. he had under him two junior officers, the options, each of whom had a standard-bearer, or vexillarius. presumably, he used the two officers to form two squads. in addition, a squad of elites was attached to the century, probably instructed ad hoc by the centurion. two centuries made up a manipulandum of men. each line of battle contained maniples, men, except that the triarii numbered only . the legion of infantry created in this way was supported by equities, or cavalry, organized in turmae (squadrons) of horse each, under a master of horse (magister equisetum), who took orders from the legion commander. cavalry was used for scouting, skirmishing and various sorts of clean-up — they also constituted another reserve that could be thrown into the battle. the republic was ignorant of armies on horseback, which, coming off the steppes of central asia in blitzkrieg operations, were to trouble the later empire. the legion in battle[edit] servius tullius, who most like originally was an etruscan soldier of fortune, identified the disadvantages of an army recruited from landowners: such an army depended heavily on a large farmer-class of citizens to provide troops. so tullius pressed for reforms that granted veterans land. although he was assassinated he did establish the precedent of granting land to veterans. the army at first was not overly successful, partly because it faced superior generals, and partly because of its inexperience. roman commanders gave up trying to defeat hannibal, the carthaginian general, by direct combat as he ravaged italy. the most successful roman general at that time, quintus vabius maximus verrucosus, surnamed cunctator (“the delayer”), camped at a distance and watched the doings of the carthaginians, while his troops harassed the carthaginian army on its fringes. later, though, the army came into the hands of a family of careerists and professional soldiers, the cornelii, a gens of the most ancient stock, patrician in the best sense of the word. they were the first real successors to servius. after much trial and error, suffering personal losses, they produced one of the best and most influential generals rome ever had, publius cornelius scipio africanus. he built the servian army into a victorious fighting machine. let the carthaginians ravage italy, scipio declared — he took the war to carthage, landing in north africa with a republican army. the strategy succeeded: hannibal was recalled at once — he came home immediately, with a disrupted army, and he was beaten by scipio at the battle of zama, in bc. using the tactics developed by scipio — now entitled africanus — plus good generalship, the army, at last, lived up to the potential imparted to it by king servius. roman army tactics worked as follows. the general first picked his ground. the roman military now understood fairly well the importance of taking the initiative and picking its own ground, with some infamous exceptions. if the terrain was not right, the army remained within its fortified camp (which was virtually unassailable) until the enemy moved on, and then followed, waiting for an opportunity to engage. the ideal terrain was a gently sloping hill with a stream at the bottom. the enemy would have to ford the stream and move up the slope. the film, spartacus, recreates this scenario. the legion was drawn up in three lines of battle, with the thermae and the velites placed as the situation required. the hastati in front and the principles behind were stationed in a line of maniples like chess pieces, per line, separated from each other. the two centuries of a maniple fought side-by-side. the line of principes was offset so as to cover the gaps in the hastati, and the triarii, somewhat more thinly-spread, covered the principes. roman soldiers fought in long thin lines. such open formations allowed the romans, often outnumbered, to outflank an enemy using a deep formation. the last thing they wanted was to be crushed together and cut down without being able to use their weapons, as they had been so many times before, and as so many armies who never studied roman warfare were to be later. for the romans, every man by regulation was allowed one square yard in which to fight, and square yards were separated by gaps of three feet. now came the moment of battle... the thermae and the bands of velites (skirmishers) made forays opportunistically, trying to disrupt the ranks of the enemy or prevent them from crossing the stream if there was one. while they were doing this, the rest of the legion advanced. at a signal, the skirmishers retired through or around roman ranks — there probably were trumpet calls, but we know little about them. picking up speed, the first and second ranks launched spears, the second rank over the heads of the first using light lance with launchers, the first rank at the last moment with pale, or javelins. on impact, the heavy iron points drove through shields and armor both, pinning men together and disrupting the line. the hastati then drew gladii and closed. so great was the impact, we hear from caesar, that sometimes the men would jump up on the enemy shields to cut downward. what happened next depended on the success of the hastati. if they were victorious, they were joined by the principles, who merged into their line to fill the gaps and make up the losses. the triarii moved to the flanks to envelop the enemy. if the hastati were not victorious, they merged backward into the principles. the third line remained in reserve unless the other two failed, in which case the front two merged into the third. as roman legions were composed primarily of heavy infantry, they displayed the advantages and drawbacks of classical heavy infantry. it is notable that three of the biggest defeats (battle of carrhae, battle of teutoburg forest, battle of ctesiphon) all came at the hands of light infantry or light cavalry forces. marian reforms[edit] problems in the military[edit] by the end of the nd century bc, the republican army was experiencing a severe manpower shortage. soldiers also were having to serve for longer periods, and fight wars further away from their homes. for more information see marian reforms marius takes a hand[edit] the gracchi had attempted to resolve the former problem by redistributing public land to the lower classes, thereby increasing the number of men eligible for military service. but they were assassinated before they could achieve this social reform. rome instead followed the opposite but logical path of making any able-bodied citizen eligible to enlist. the popular gaius marius, at the end of the nd century, used his popularity to reorganize the republican army. he took liberties with the letter of the law, to which few objected, and which later were ratified. first, he recruited men from the lower classes who did not meet the official property requirement. then he reorganized the legions into the cohort system, doing away with the manipular system. the new legions were made up of cohorts, each with centuries of men. the first cohort carried the new legionary standard, a silver or gold eagle called the aquila. this cohort contained only centuries, but each century had double the number of men in the normal centuries. altogether, each legion contained approximately , men. professional army[edit] the marian reforms had great political fallout. although the officer corps still was composed largely of roman aristocrats, the rank-and-file troops all were lower-class men — serving in the legions became less every citizen's traditional civic duty to rome, and more a means of rising in society. this trend was accelerated by rome's wars of conquest, which resulted in huge influxes of slaves. freemen with or without land could not compete with free labor. signing up with a legion allowed the possibility of loot and land enfranchisement. the reforms also meant that legions were now more-or-less permanent formations, not just temporary armies deployed according to need (the latin word 'legion' is actually their word for 'levy'). as enduring units, they were able to become more effective fighting forces; more importantly, they could form lasting loyalties to their commanders, rather than keeping loyalties to rome. the -year consular system began to break down, and generals served for longer durations. this, in turn, meant that troops were more loyal to their commanders, which served as a catalyst for the oppressive and corrupt rule that the roman military played in the later years under the emperors. evaluation[edit] on the one hand, the reforms of marius created a professional army for extended service abroad. on the other, it increased the stature of the generals and encouraged competition between them, which is what made the civil wars possible, and it is why scholars often cite the marian reforms as the beginning of the end for the roman republic. the subsequent emperors ruthlessly eliminated powerful men and potential successors. external links[edit] 	the roman army after marius' reforms - an introduction marian reforms 	 	v 	t 	e ancient rome topics 	 	outline 	timeline 	history	 	 	foundation 	kingdom 	overthrow 	republic 	empire	 	history 	pax romana 	principate 	dominate 	western empire 	fall 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	ukraine 	united kingdom 	united states 	arizona school 	classical 	modern 	uruguay 	venezuela 	zimbabwe 	 related topics 	bias in academia 	bias in the media 	 	 liberalism portal 	 politics portal 		v 	t 	e matthew arnold ( december – april ) was an english poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. he was the son of thomas arnold, the celebrated headmaster of rugby school, and brother to both tom arnold, literary professor, and william delafield arnold, novelist and colonial administrator. matthew arnold has been characterised as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues.[ ] he was also an inspector of schools for thirty-five years, and supported the concept of state-regulated secondary education.[ ] contents 	 early years 	 marriage and career 	 literary career 	 death 	 character 	 poetry 	 prose 	 . literary criticism 	 . social criticism 	 . journalistic criticism 	 . religious criticism 	 reputation 	 family 	 selected bibliography 	 . poetry 	 . prose 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 . citations 	 . sources 	 external links early years[edit] he was the eldest son of thomas arnold and his wife mary penrose arnold ( – ), born on december at laleham-on-thames, middlesex.[ ] john keble stood as godfather to matthew. in , thomas arnold was appointed headmaster of rugby school, where the family took up residence, that year. from , arnold was tutored by his clerical uncle, john buckland, in laleham. in , the arnolds occupied a holiday home, fox how, in the lake district. there william wordsworth was a neighbour and close friend. in , arnold was sent to winchester college, but in he returned to rugby school. he moved to the sixth form in and so came under the direct tutelage of his father. he wrote verse for a family magazine, and won school prizes, his prize poem, "alaric at rome", was printed at rugby. in november , aged , arnold matriculated at balliol college, oxford, where in he won an open scholarship, graduating b.a. in .[ ][ ] during his student years at oxford, his friendship became stronger with arthur hugh clough, a rugby pupil who had been one of his father's favourites. he attended john henry newman's sermons at the university church of st mary the virgin but did not join the oxford movement. his father died suddenly of heart disease in , and fox how became the family's permanent residence. his poem cromwell won the newdigate prize.[ ] he graduated in the following year with second class honours in literae humaniores. in , after a short interlude of teaching at rugby, arnold was elected fellow of oriel college, oxford. in , he became private secretary to lord lansdowne, lord president of the council. in , he published his first book of poetry, the strayed reveller. in wordsworth died; arnold published his "memorial verses" on the older poet in fraser's magazine. marriage and career[edit] wishing to marry but unable to support a family on the wages of a private secretary, arnold sought the position of and was appointed in april one of her majesty's inspectors of schools. two months later, he married frances lucy, daughter of sir william wightman, justice of the queen's bench. arnold often described his duties as a school inspector as "drudgery" although "at other times he acknowledged the benefit of regular work."[ ] the inspectorship required him, at least at first, to travel constantly and across much of england. "initially, arnold was responsible for inspecting nonconformist schools across a broad swath of central england. he spent many dreary hours during the s in railway waiting-rooms and small-town hotels, and longer hours still in listening to children reciting their lessons and parents reciting their grievances. but that also meant that he, among the first generation of the railway age, travelled across more of england than any man of letters had ever done. although his duties were later confined to a smaller area, arnold knew the society of provincial england better than most of the metropolitan authors and politicians of the day."[ ] literary career[edit] caricature by james tissot published in vanity fair in in , arnold published his second volume of poems, empedocles on etna, and other poems. in , he published poems: a new edition, a selection from the two earlier volumes famously excluding empedocles on etna, but adding new poems, sohrab and rustum and the scholar gipsy. in , poems: second series appeared; also a selection, it included the new poem, balder dead. arnold was elected professor of poetry at oxford in , and he was the first in this position to deliver his lectures in english rather than in latin.[ ] he was re-elected in . on translating homer ( ) and the initial thoughts that arnold would transform into culture and anarchy were among the fruits of the oxford lectures. in , he conducted the first of three trips to the continent at the behest of parliament to study european educational practices. he self-published the popular education of france ( ), the introduction to which was later published under the title democracy ( ).[ ] matthew arnold's grave at all saints' church, laleham, surrey. in , arnold published essays in criticism: first series. essays in criticism: second series would not appear until november , shortly after his untimely death. in , he published thyrsis, his elegy to clough who had died in . culture and anarchy, arnold's major work in social criticism (and one of the few pieces of his prose work currently in print) was published in . literature and dogma, arnold's major work in religious criticism appeared in . in and , arnold toured the united states and canada[ ] delivering lectures on education, democracy and ralph waldo emerson. he was elected a foreign honorary member of the american academy of arts and sciences in .[ ] in , he retired from school inspection and made another trip to america. an edition of poems by matthew arnold, with an introduction by a. c. benson and illustrations by henry ospovat, was published in by john lane.[ ] death[edit] arnold died suddenly in of heart failure whilst running to meet a train that would have taken him to the liverpool landing stage to see his daughter, who was visiting from the united states where she had moved after marrying an american. he was survived by his wife, who died in june .[ ] character[edit] caricature from punch, : "admit that homer sometimes nods, that poets do write trash, our bard has written "balder dead," and also balder-dash" "matthew arnold," wrote g. w. e. russell in portraits of the seventies, is "a man of the world entirely free from worldliness and a man of letters without the faintest trace of pedantry".[ ] arnold was a familiar figure at the athenaeum club, a frequent diner-out and guest at great country houses, charming, fond of fishing (but not of shooting),[ ] and a lively conversationalist, with a self-consciously cultivated air combining foppishness and olympian grandeur. he read constantly, widely, and deeply, and in the intervals of supporting himself and his family by the quiet drudgery of school inspecting, filled notebook after notebook with meditations of an almost monastic tone. in his writings, he often baffled and sometimes annoyed his contemporaries by the apparent contradiction between his urbane, even frivolous manner in controversy, and the "high seriousness" of his critical views and the melancholy, almost plaintive note of much of his poetry. "a voice poking fun in the wilderness" was t. h. warren's description of him. poetry[edit] 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. find sources: "matthew arnold" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · jstor (april ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) arnold is sometimes called the third great victorian poet, along with alfred, lord tennyson and robert browning.[ ] arnold was keenly aware of his place in poetry. in an letter to his mother, he wrote: my poems represent, on the whole, the main movement of mind of the last quarter of a century, and thus they will probably have their day as people become conscious to themselves of what that movement of mind is, and interested in the literary productions which reflect it. it might be fairly urged that i have less poetical sentiment than tennyson and less intellectual vigour and abundance than browning; yet because i have perhaps more of a fusion of the two than either of them, and have more regularly applied that fusion to the main line of modern development, i am likely enough to have my turn as they have had theirs.[ ] stefan collini regards this as "an exceptionally frank, but not unjust, self-assessment. ... arnold's poetry continues to have scholarly attention lavished upon it, in part because it seems to furnish such striking evidence for several central aspects of the intellectual history of the nineteenth century, especially the corrosion of 'faith' by 'doubt'. no poet, presumably, would wish to be summoned by later ages merely as an historical witness, but the sheer intellectual grasp of arnold's verse renders it peculiarly liable to this treatment."[ ] harold bloom echoes arnold's self-characterization in his introduction (as series editor) to the modern critical views volume on arnold: "arnold got into his poetry what tennyson and browning scarcely needed (but absorbed anyway), the main march of mind of his time." of his poetry, bloom says, whatever his achievement as a critic of literature, society, or religion, his work as a poet may not merit the reputation it has continued to hold in the twentieth century. arnold is, at his best, a very good but highly derivative poet. ... as with tennyson, hopkins, and rossetti, arnold's dominant precursor was keats, but this is an unhappy puzzle, since arnold (unlike the others) professed not to admire keats greatly, while writing his own elegiac poems in a diction, meter, imagistic procedure, that are embarrassingly close to keats.[ ] sir edmund chambers noted that "in a comparison between the best works of matthew arnold and that of his six greatest contemporaries ... the proportion of work which endures is greater in the case of matthew arnold than in any one of them."[ ] chambers judged arnold's poetic vision by its simplicity, lucidity, and straightforwardness; its literalness ... ; the sparing use of aureate words, or of far-fetched words, which are all the more effective when they come; the avoidance of inversions, and the general directness of syntax, which gives full value to the delicacies of a varied rhythm, and makes it, of all verse that i know, the easiest to read aloud.[ ] his literary career — leaving out the two prize poems — had begun in with the publication of the strayed reveller and other poems by a., which attracted little notice and was soon withdrawn. it contained what is perhaps arnold's most purely poetical poem, "the forsaken merman." empedocles on etna and other poems (among them "tristram and iseult"), published in , had a similar fate. in he published his tragedy of merope, calculated, he wrote to a friend, "rather to inaugurate my professorship with dignity than to move deeply the present race of humans," and chiefly remarkable for some experiments in unusual – and unsuccessful – metres. his poem, "dover beach," depicted a nightmarish world from which the old religious verities have receded. it is sometimes held up as an early, if not the first, example of the modern sensibility. in a famous preface to a selection of the poems of william wordsworth, arnold identified, a little ironically, as a "wordsworthian." the influence of wordsworth, both in ideas and in diction, is unmistakable in arnold's best poetry. arnold's poem, "dover beach" was included in ray bradbury's novel, fahrenheit , and is also featured prominently in the novel saturday by ian mcewan. it has also been quoted or alluded to in a variety of other contexts (see dover beach). henry james wrote that matthew arnold's poetry will appeal to those who "like their pleasures rare" and who like to hear the poet "taking breath." in his poetry he derived not only the subject matter of his narrative poems from traditional or literary sources, and much of the romantic melancholy of his earlier poems from senancour's "obermann". prose[edit] assessing the importance of arnold's prose work in , stefan collini stated, "for reasons to do with our own cultural preoccupations as much as with the merits of his writing, the best of his prose has a claim on us today that cannot be matched by his poetry."[ ] "certainly there may still be some readers who, vaguely recalling 'dover beach' or 'the scholar gipsy' from school anthologies, are surprised to find he 'also' wrote prose."[ ] george watson follows george saintsbury in dividing arnold's career as a prose writer into three phases: ) early literary criticism that begins with his preface to the edition of his poems and ends with the first series of essays in criticism ( ); ) a prolonged middle period (overlapping the first and third phases) characterised by social, political and religious writing (roughly – ); ) a return to literary criticism with the selecting and editing of collections of wordsworth's and byron's poetry and the second series of essays in criticism.[ ] both watson and saintsbury declare their preference for arnold's literary criticism over his social or religious criticism. more recent writers, such as collini, have shown a greater interest in his social writing,[ ] while over the years a significant second tier of criticism has focused on arnold's religious writing.[ ] his writing on education has not drawn a significant critical endeavour separable from the criticism of his social writings.[ ] selections from the prose work of matthew arnold[ ] literary criticism[edit] arnold's work as a literary critic began with the "preface to the poems". in it, he attempted to explain his extreme act of self-censorship in excluding the dramatic poem "empedocles on etna". with its emphasis on the importance of subject in poetry, on "clearness of arrangement, rigor of development, simplicity of style" learned from the greeks, and in the strong imprint of goethe and wordsworth, may be observed nearly all the essential elements in his critical theory. george watson described the preface, written by the thirty-one-year-old arnold, as "oddly stiff and graceless when we think of the elegance of his later prose."[ ] criticism began to take first place in arnold's writing with his appointment in to the professorship of poetry at oxford, which he held for two successive terms of five years. in his lectures on translating homer were published, to be followed in by last words on translating homer, both volumes admirable in style and full of striking judgments and suggestive remarks, but built on rather arbitrary assumptions and reaching no well-established conclusions.[citation needed] especially characteristic, both of his defects and his qualities, are on the one hand, arnold's unconvincing advocacy of english hexameters and his creation of a kind of literary absolute in the "grand style," and, on the other, his keen feeling of the need for a disinterested and intelligent criticism in england. although arnold's poetry received only mixed reviews and attention during his lifetime, his forays into literary criticism were more successful. arnold is famous for introducing a methodology of literary criticism somewhere between the historicist approach common to many critics at the time and the personal essay; he often moved quickly and easily from literary subjects to political and social issues. his essays in criticism ( , ), remains a significant influence on critics to this day, and his prefatory essay to that collection, "the function of criticism at the present time", is one of the most influential essays written on the role of the critic in identifying and elevating literature — even while admitting, "the critical power is of lower rank than the creative." comparing himself to the french liberal essayist ernest renan, who sought to inculcate morality in france, arnold saw his role as inculcating intelligence in england.[ ] in one of his most famous essays on the topic, "the study of poetry", arnold wrote that, "without poetry, our science will appear incomplete; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry". he considered the most important criteria used to judge the value of a poem were "high truth" and "high seriousness". by this standard, chaucer's canterbury tales did not merit arnold's approval. further, arnold thought the works that had been proven to possess both "high truth" and "high seriousness", such as those of shakespeare and milton, could be used as a basis of comparison to determine the merit of other works of poetry. he also sought for literary criticism to remain disinterested, and said that the appreciation should be of "the object as in itself it really is." social criticism[edit] he was led on from literary criticism to a more general critique of the spirit of his age. between and he wrote culture and anarchy, famous for the term he popularised for the middle class of the english victorian era population: "philistines", a word which derives its modern cultural meaning (in english – the german-language usage was well established) from him. culture and anarchy is also famous for its popularisation of the phrase "sweetness and light," first coined by jonathan swift.[ ] in culture and anarchy, arnold identifies himself as a liberal and "a believer in culture" and takes up what historian richard bellamy calls the "broadly gladstonian effort to transform the liberal party into a vehicle of political moralism."[ ][ ] arnold viewed with skepticism the plutocratic grasping in socioeconomic affairs, and engaged the questions which vexed many victorian liberals on the nature of power and the state's role in moral guidance.[ ] arnold vigorously attacked the nonconformists and the arrogance of "the great philistine middle-class, the master force in our politics."[ ] the philistines were "humdrum people, slaves to routine, enemies to light" who believed that england's greatness was due to her material wealth alone and took little interest in culture.[ ] liberal education was essential, and by that arnold meant a close reading and attachment to the cultural classics, coupled with critical reflection.[ ] arnold saw the "experience" and "reflection" of liberalism as naturally leading to the ethical end of "renouncement," as evoking the "best self" to suppress one's "ordinary self."[ ] despite his quarrels with the nonconformists, arnold remained a loyal liberal throughout his life, and in , william gladstone awarded him an annual pension of pounds "as a public recognition of service to the poetry and literature of england."[ ][ ][ ] many subsequent critics such as edward alexander, lionel trilling, george scialabba, and russell jacoby have emphasized the liberal character of arnold's thought.[ ][ ][ ] hugh stuart jones describes arnold's work as a "liberal critique of victorian liberalism" while alan s. kahan places arnold's critique of middle-class philistinism, materialism, and mediocrity within the tradition of 'aristocratic liberalism' as exemplified by liberal thinkers such as john stuart mill and alexis de tocqueville.[ ][ ] arnold's "want of logic and thoroughness of thought" as noted by john m. robertson in modern humanists was an aspect of the inconsistency of which arnold was accused.[ ] few of his ideas were his own, and he failed to reconcile the conflicting influences which moved him so strongly. "there are four people, in especial," he once wrote to cardinal newman, "from whom i am conscious of having learnt – a very different thing from merely receiving a strong impression – learnt habits, methods, ruling ideas, which are constantly with me; and the four are – goethe, wordsworth, sainte-beuve, and yourself." dr. arnold must be added; the son's fundamental likeness to the father was early pointed out by swinburne, and was later attested by matthew arnold's grandson, mr. arnold whitridge. others such as stefan collini suggest that much of the criticism aimed at arnold is based on "a convenient parody of what he is supposed to have stood for" rather than the genuine article.[ ] journalistic criticism[edit] in , arnold was credited with coining the phrase "new journalism", a term that went on to define an entire genre of newspaper history, particularly lord northcliffe's turn-of-the-century press empire. however, at the time, the target of arnold's irritation was not northcliffe, but the sensational journalism of pall mall gazette editor, w.t. stead.[ ] arnold had enjoyed a long and mutually beneficial association with the pall mall gazette since its inception in . as an occasional contributor, he had formed a particular friendship with its first editor, frederick greenwood and a close acquaintance with its second, john morley. but he strongly disapproved of the muck-raking stead, and declared that, under stead, "the p.m.g., whatever may be its merits, is fast ceasing to be literature."[ ] he was appalled at the shamelessness of the sensationalistic new journalism of the sort he witnessed on his tour the united states in . in his account of that tour, "civilization in the united states", he observed, "if one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the american newspapers."[ ] religious criticism[edit] his religious views were unusual for his time and caused sorrow to some of his best friends.[ ] scholars of arnold's works disagree on the nature of arnold's personal religious beliefs. under the influence of baruch spinoza and his father, dr. thomas arnold, he rejected the supernatural elements in religion,[ ] even while retaining a fascination for church rituals. in the preface to god and the bible, written in , arnold recounts a powerful sermon he attended discussing the "salvation by jesus christ", he writes: "never let us deny to this story power and pathos, or treat with hostility ideas which have entered so deep into the life of christendom. but the story is not true; it never really happened".[ ] he continues to express his concern with biblical truth explaining that "the personages of the christian heaven and their conversations are no more matter of fact than the personages of the greek olympus and their conversations."[ ] he also wrote in literature and dogma: "the word 'god' is used in most cases as by no means a term of science or exact knowledge, but a term of poetry and eloquence, a term thrown out, so to speak, as a not fully grasped object of the speaker's consciousness – a literary term, in short; and mankind mean different things by it as their consciousness differs."[ ] he defined religion as "morality touched with emotion".[ ] however, he also wrote in the same book, "to pass from a christianity relying on its miracles to a christianity relying on its natural truth is a great change. it can only be brought about by those whose attachment to christianity is such, that they cannot part with it, and yet cannot but deal with it sincerely."[ ] a london county council blue plaque for arnold at chester square, belgravia reputation[edit] harold bloom writes that "whatever his achievement as a critic of literature, society or religion, his work as a poet may not merit the reputation it has continued to hold in the twentieth century. arnold is, at his best, a very good, but highly derivative poet, unlike tennyson, browning, hopkins, swinburne and rossetti, all of whom individualized their voices." [ ] the writer john cowper powys, an admirer, wrote that, "with the possible exception of merope, matthew arnold's poetry is arresting from cover to cover – [he] is the great amateur of english poetry [he] always has the air of an ironic and urbane scholar chatting freely, perhaps a little indiscreetly, with his not very respectful pupils."[ ] family[edit] frances lucy arnold—"flu" to matthew— photograph the arnolds had six children: thomas ( – ); trevenen william ( – ); richard penrose ( – ), an inspector of factories;[note ] lucy charlotte ( – ) who married frederick w. whitridge of new york, whom she had met during arnold's american lecture tour; eleanore mary caroline ( – ) married ( ) hon. armine wodehouse (mp) in , ( ) william mansfield, st viscount sandhurst, in ; basil francis ( – ). selected bibliography[edit] poetry[edit] 	stanzas in memory of the author of "obermann" ( ) 	the strayed reveller, and other poems ( ) 	empedocles on etna, and other poems ( ) 	sohrab and rustum ( ) 	the scholar-gipsy ( ) 	stanzas from the grande chartreuse ( ) 	memorial verses to wordsworth 	rugby chapel ( ) 	thyrsis ( ) prose[edit] 	essays in criticism ( , ) 	culture and anarchy ( ) 	friendship's garland ( ) 	literature and dogma ( ) 	god and the bible ( ) see also[edit] 	english translations of homer: matthew arnold notes[edit] 	^ composer edward elgar dedicated one of the enigma variations to richard. references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ landow, george. elegant jeremiahs: the sage from carlyle to mailer. ithaca, new york: cornell university press, . 	^ oxford illustrated encyclopedia. judge, harry george., toyne, anthony. oxford [england]: oxford university press. – . p.  . isbn  - - - . oclc  .cs maint: others (link) 	^ a b collini, stefan. "arnold, matthew". oxford dictionary of national biography (online ed.). oxford university press. doi: . /ref:odnb/ . (subscription or uk public library membership required.) 	^ foster, joseph ( – ). "arnold, matthew ( )" . alumni oxonienses: the members of the university of oxford, – . oxford: parker and co – via wikisource. 	^ cromwell: a prize poem, recited in the theatre, oxford; june , at google books 	^ collini, , p. . 	^ collini, , p. 	^ "archived copy". archived from the original on july . retrieved july .cs maint: archived copy as title (link) 	^ super, cpw, ii, p. . 	^ "literary gossip". the week : a canadian journal of politics, literature, science and arts. . : . december . 	^ "book of members, – : chapter a" (pdf). american academy of arts and sciences. retrieved april . 	^ poems by matthew arnold. london: john lane. . pp. xxxiv+ ; with an introduction by a. c. benson; illustrated by henry ospovat 	^ "obituary – mrs. matthew arnold". the times ( ). london. july . p.  . 	^ russell, [page needed] 	^ andrew carnegie described him as the most charming man that he ever knew (autobiography, p ) and said, "arnold visited us in scotland in , and talking one day of sport he said he did not shoot, he could not kill anything that had wings and could soar in the clear blue sky; but, he added, he could not give up fishing — 'the accessories are so delightful.'" autobiography of andrew carnegie, the riverside press cambridge ( ), p ; https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/ 	^ collini, , p. . 	^ lang, volume , p. . 	^ collini, , p. . 	^ bloom, , pp. – . 	^ chambers, , p. . 	^ chambers, , p. . 	^ collini, , p. vii. 	^ collini, , p. . 	^ watson, , pp. – . saintsbury, , p. passim. 	^ collini, . also see the introduction to culture and anarchy and other writings, collini, . 	^ see "the critical reception of arnold's religious writings" in mazzeno, . 	^ mazzeno, . 	^ arnold, matthew ( ). william s. johnson (ed.). selections from the prose work of matthew arnold. houghton mifflin. isbn  . 	^ watson, , p. . 	^ machann, c ( ). matthew arnold: a literary life. springer. pp.  – . 	^ the new dictionary of cultural literacy, third edition. sweetness and light. houghton mifflin company. 	^ born, daniel ( ). the birth of liberal guilt in the english novel: charles dickens to h.g. wells. unc press books. p.  . 	^ a b c caufield, james walter ( ). overcoming matthew arnold: ethics in culture and criticism. routledge. pp.  – . 	^ malachuk, d. ( ). perfection, the state, and victorian liberalism. springer. pp.  – . 	^ a b brendan a. rapple ( ). matthew arnold and english education: the poet's pioneering advocacy in middle class instruction. mcfarland. pp.  – . 	^ brendan a. rapple ( ). matthew arnold and english education: the poet's pioneering advocacy in middle class instruction. mcfarland. p.  . isbn  . 	^ machann, c ( ). matthew arnold: a literary life. springer. p.  . 	^ bush, douglas ( ). matthew arnold: a survey of his poetry and prose. springer. p.  . 	^ jones, richard ( ). "arnold "at full stretch"". virginia quarterly review. ( ). 	^ jacoby, russell ( ). picture imperfect: utopian thought for an anti-utopian age. columbia university press. p.  . 	^ alexander, edward ( ). matthew arnold and john stuart mill. routledge. i have tried to show to what a considerable extent each shared the convictions of the other; how much of a liberal arnold was and how much of a humanist mill was. 	^ rodden, john ( ). lionel trilling and the critics. university of nebraska press. pp.  – . 	^ campbell, kate ( ). matthew arnold. oxford university press. p.  . 	^ kahan, alan s. ( ). "arnold, nietzsche and the aristocratic vision". history of political thought. ( ): – . 	^ robertson, john m. ( ). modern humanists. s. sonnenschein. p.  . if, then, a man come to the criticism of life as arnold did, with neither a faculty nor a training for logic ... it is impossible that he should escape frequent error or inconsistency ... 	^ we have had opportunities of observing a new journalism which a clever and energetic man has lately invented. it has much to recommend it; it is full of ability, novelty, variety, sensation, sympathy, generous instincts; its one great fault is that it is feather-brained." mathew arnold, the nineteenth century no. cxxiii. (may ) pp. – . available online at attackingthedevil.co.uk 	^ quoted in harold begbie, the life of general william booth archived march at the wayback machine, ( vols., new york, ). available [online] 	^ gurstein, rochelle ( ). the repeal of reticence: america's cultural and legal struggles over free speech, obscenity, sexual liberation, and modern art. farrar, straus and giroux. pp.  – . 	^ when visiting the grave of his godfather, bishop keble, in about with andrew carnegie, he said 'ah, dear, dear keble! i caused him much sorrow by my views upon theological subjects, which caused me sorrow also, but notwithstanding he was deeply grieved, dear friend as he was, he travelled to oxford and voted for me for professor of english poetry.' "later the subject of his theological views was referred to. he said they had caused sorrow to his best friends."mr. gladstone once gave expression to his deep disappointment, or to something like displeasure, saying i ought to have been a bishop. no doubt my writings prevented my promotion, as well as grieved my friends, but i could not help it. i had to express my views." autobiography of andrew carnegie, the riverside press cambridge ( ), p ; https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/ 	^ andrew carnegie, who knew and admired him, said arnold was a "seriously religious man ... no irreverent word ever escaped his lips ... and yet he had in one short sentence slain the supernatural. 'the case against miracles is closed. they do not happen.'". autobiography of andrew carnegie, the riverside press cambridge ( ), p ; https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/ 	^ a b super, cpw, vii, p. . 	^ super, cpw, vi, p. . 	^ super, cpw, vi, p. . 	^ super, cpw, vi, p. . 	^ poets and poems, harold bloom, p.  . 	^ the pleasures of literature, john cowper powys, pp.  – . abbreviation: cpw stands for robert h. super (editor), the complete prose works of matthew arnold, see bibliography. sources[edit] 	primary sources 	george w. e. russell (editor), letters of matthew arnold, – , vols. (london and new york: macmillan, ) 	published seven years after their author's death these letters were heavily edited by arnold's family. 	howard f. lowry (editor), the letters of matthew arnold to arthur hugh clough (new york: oxford university press, ) 	c. b. tinker and h. f. lowry (editors), the poetical works of matthew arnold, oxford university press, standard edition, oclc  	kenneth allott (editor), the poems of matthew arnold (london and new york: longman norton, ) isbn  - - - 	part of the "annotated english poets series," allott includes poems (with fragments and juvenilia) all fully annotated. 	robert h. super (editor), the complete prose works of matthew arnold in eleven volumes (ann arbor: the university of michigan press, – ) 	miriam allott and robert h. super (editors), the oxford authors: matthew arnold (oxford: oxford university press, ) 	a strong selection from miriam allot, who had (silently) assisted her husband in editing the longman norton annotated edition of arnold's poems, and robert h. super, editor of the eleven volume complete prose. 	stefan collini (editor), culture and anarchy and other writings (cambridge: cambridge university press, ) part of the cambridge texts in the history of political thought series. 	collini's introduction to this edition attempts to show that "culture and anarchy, first published in , has left a lasting impress upon subsequent debate about the relation between politics and culture" —introduction, p. ix. 	cecil y. lang (editor), the letters of matthew arnold in six volumes (charlottesville and london: the university press of virginia, – ) 	biographies (by publication date) 	george saintsbury, matthew arnold (new york: dodd, mead and company, ) 	saintsbury combines biography with critical appraisal. in his view, "arnold's greatness lies in 'his general literary position' (p.  ). neither the greatest poet nor the greatest critic, arnold was able to achieve distinction in both areas, making his contributions to literature greater than those of virtually any other writer before him." mazzeno, , p.  . 	herbert w. paul, mathew arnold (london: macmillan, ) 	g. w. e. russell, matthew arnold (new york: charles scribner's sons, ) 	lionel trilling, matthew arnold (new york: norton, ) 	trilling called his study a "biography of a mind." 	park honan, matthew arnold, a life (new york, mcgraw–hill, ) isbn  - - - 	"trilling's book challenged and delighted me but failed to take me close to matthew arnold's life. ... i decided in to write a definitive biography ... three-quarters of the biographical data in this book, i may say, has not appeared in a previous study of arnold." —preface, pp. viii–ix. 	stefan collini, arnold (oxford: oxford university press, ) 	a good starting point for those new to arnold's prose. "like many late century scholars, collini believes arnold's chief contribution to english literature is as a critic. ... collini insists arnold remains a force in literary criticism because 'he characterizes in unforgettable ways' the role that literary and cultural criticism 'can and must play in modern societies'" (p.  ). mazzeno, , pp.  – . 	nicholas murray, a life of matthew arnold (new york: st. martin's, ) 	"...focuses on the conflicts between arnold's public and private lives. a poet himself, murray believes arnold was a superb poet who turned to criticism when he realised his gift for verse was fading." mazzeno, , p.  . 	ian hamilton, a gift imprisoned: a poetic life of matthew arnold (london: bloomsbury, ) 	"choosing to concentrate on the development of arnold's talents as a poet, hamilton takes great pains to explore the biographical and literary sources of arnold's verse." mazzeno, , p.  . 	bibliography 	thomas burnett smart, the bibliography of matthew arnold , (reprinted new york: burt franklin, , burt franklin bibliography and reference series # ) 	laurence w. mazzeno, matthew arnold: the critical legacy (woodbridge: camden house, ) 	not a true bibliography, nonetheless, it provides thorough coverage and intelligent commentary for the critical writings on arnold. 	writings on matthew arnold or containing significant discussion of arnold (by publication date) 	stephen, leslie ( ). "matthew arnold". studies of a biographer. . london: duckworth and co. pp.  – . 	g. w. e. russell, portraits of the seventies (new york: charles scribner's sons, ) 	sir edmund chambers, "matthew arnold," watson lecture on english poetry, , in english critical essays: twentieth century, phyllis m. jones (editor) (london: oxford university press, ) 	t. s. eliot, "matthew arnold" in the use of poetry and the use of criticism (cambridge: harvard university press, ) 	this is eliot's second essay on matthew arnold. the title of the series consciously echoes arnold's essay, "the function of criticism at the present time" ( ). 	professors chauncey brewster tinker and howard foster lowry, the poetry of matthew arnold: a commentary (new york: oxford university press, ) alibris id 	w. f. connell, the educational thought and influence of matthew arnold (london, routledge & kegan paul, ltd, ) 	mazzeno describes this as the "definitive word" on arnold's educational thought. mazzeno, , p.  . 	george watson, "matthew arnold" in the literary critics: a study of english descriptive criticism (baltimore: penguin books, ) 	a. dwight culler, "imaginative reason: the poetry of matthew arnold" (new haven: yale university press, ). 	described by stefan collini as "the most comprehensive discussion" of the poetry in his "arnold" past masters, p.  . 	david j. delaura, "hebrew and hellene in victorian england: newman, arnold, and pater" (austin: university of texas pr, ). 	this celebrated study brilliantly situates arnold in the intellectual history of his time. 	northrop frye, the critical path: an essay on the social context of literary criticism (in "daedalus", , , pp.  – , spring ; then new york: prentice hall/harvester wheatsheaf, ) isbn  - - - 	joseph carroll, the cultural theory of matthew arnold. (berkeley: university of california press, ) 	ruth aproberts, arnold and god (berkeley: university of california press, ) 	harold bloom (editor), w. h. auden, j. hillis miller, geoffrey tillotson, g. wilson knight, william robbins, william e. buckler, ruth aproberts, a. dwight culler, and sara suleri, modern critical views: matthew arnold (new york: chelsea house publishers, ) 	david g. riede, matthew arnold and the betrayal of language (charlottesville: university press of virginia, ) 	"...explores arnold's attempts to find an authoratative language, and argues that his occasional claims for such language reveal more uneasiness than confidence in the value of 'letters.' ... riede argues that arnold's determined efforts to write with authority, combined with his deep-seated suspicion of his medium, result in an exciting if often agonised tension in his poetic language." –from the book flap. 	donald stone, communications with the future: matthew arnold in dialogue (ann arbor: university of michigan press, ) 	linda ray pratt, matthew arnold revisited, (new york: twayne publishers, ) isbn  - - -x 	francesco marroni, miti e mondi vittoriani (rome: carocci, ) 	renzo d'agnillo, the poetry of matthew arnold (rome: aracne, ) external links[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to matthew arnold. 		wikiquote has quotations related to: matthew arnold 		wikisource has original works written by or about: matthew arnold 	portraits of matthew arnold at the national portrait gallery, london 	"matthew arnold (obituary notice, tuesday, april , )". eminent persons: biographies reprinted from the times. iv ( - ). london: macmillan and co., limited. . pp.  - . retrieved march – via internet archive. 	works by matthew arnold at project gutenberg 	works by matthew arnold at faded page (canada) 	works by or about matthew arnold at internet archive 	works by matthew arnold at librivox (public domain audiobooks) 	full text of 'the function of criticism at the present time' at the fortnightly review. 	poetry of matthew arnold at poetseers 	matthew arnold, by g. w. e. russell, at project gutenberg 	the letters of matthew arnold digital edition, at the university of virginia press 	"archival material relating to matthew arnold". uk national archives. 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: cousin, john william ( ). a short biographical dictionary of english literature. london: j. m. dent & sons – via wikisource. 	a bibliography of the works of matthew arnold by tod e. jones 	plaque # on open plaques 	anonymous ( ). cartoon portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day. illustrated by frederick waddy. london: tinsley brothers. pp.  – . retrieved march . 	matthew arnold at university of toronto libraries 	literature and science ( ) 	mathew arnold letters and works at texas tech university libraries 	matthew arnold collection. general collection, beinecke rare book and manuscript library, yale university. 	 	v 	t 	e 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sample ulan record, mark rothko continued. the union list of artist names (ulan) is a free online database of the getty research institute using a controlled vocabulary, which by contained over , artists and over , names for them, as well as other information about artists.[ ] names in ulan may include given names, pseudonyms, variant spellings, names in multiple languages, and names that have changed over time (e.g., married names). among these names, one is flagged as the preferred name. although it is displayed as a list, ulan is structured as a thesaurus, compliant with iso and niso standards for thesaurus construction; it contains hierarchical, equivalence, and associative relationships. the focus of each ulan record is an artist. in the database, each artist record (also called a subject) is identified by a unique numeric id. the artist's nationality is given, as are places and dates of birth and death (if known).[ ] linked to each artist record are names, related artists, sources for the data, and notes. the temporal coverage of the ulan ranges from antiquity to the present and the scope is global. artists may be either individuals (persons) or groups of individuals working together (corporate bodies). artists in the ulan generally represent creators involved in the conception or production of visual arts and architecture. some performance artists are included (but typically not actors, dancers, or other performing artists). repositories and some donors are included as well.[ ] contents 	 history 	 design 	 see also 	 footnotes 	 external links history[edit] development of the ulan began in by the j. paul getty trust. the trust, which already managed the art and architecture thesaurus (aat), began the project in response to requests from getty projects for controlled vocabularies of artists' names.[ ] the ulan grows and changes via contributions from the user community and editorial work of the getty vocabulary program.[ ] although originally intended 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broadened to include corporate bodies such as architectural firms and repositories of art, which may have hierarchical levels. the ulan was founded under the management of eleanor fink (head of what was then called the vocabulary coordination group, and later director of the art history information program, later called the getty information institute).[ ] the ulan has been constructed over the years by numerous members of the user community and an army of dedicated editors, under the supervision of several managers. the ulan was published in in hardcopy (union list of artist names. project manager, james m. bower; senior editor, murtha baca. new york: g.k. hall, ) and machine-readable files.[ ] given the growing size and frequency of changes and additions to the ulan, by it had become evident that hard-copy publication was impractical. it is now published in automated formats only, in both a searchable online web interface and in data files available for licensing. the data for ulan 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ulan also has equivalent and associative relationships. see also[edit] 	benezit dictionary of artists the main competitor, now online via oxford art online 	art and architecture thesaurus (aat) 	categories for the description of works of art (cdwa) 	cultural objects name authority (cona) 	getty thesaurus of geographic names (tgn) 	getty vocabulary program footnotes[edit] 	^ ulan faq 	^ lerner, heidi g. ( )."resources for jewish biography and autobiography on the internet". shofar ( ), – . 	^ about ulan 	^ a b harpring, patricia ( ). "development of the getty vocabularies: aat, tgn, ulan, and cona". art documentation: journal of the art libraries society of north america ( ), – . 	^ a b austin, david l. 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royal library) is the national library of the netherlands, based in the hague, founded in .[ ][ ] the kb collects everything that is published in and concerning the netherlands, from medieval literature to today's publications. about million publications are stored in the stockrooms, including books, newspapers, magazines and maps. the kb also offers many digital services, such as the national online library (with e-books and audiobooks), delpher (millions of digitized pages) and the memory. since , the kb has played a coordinating role for the network of the public library.[ ] contents 	 history 	 collection 	 literature museum 	 research 	 see also 	 references 	 external links history[edit] the initiative to found a national library was proposed by representative albert jan verbeek on august , . the collection would be based on the confiscated book collection of william v.[ ][ ] the library was officially founded as the nationale bibliotheek on november of the same year, after a committee of representatives had advised the creation of a national library on the same day. the national library was initially only open to members of the representative body. king louis bonaparte gave the national library its name of the royal library in . napoleon bonaparte transferred the royal library to the hague as property, while also allowing the imperial library in paris to expropriate publications from the royal library. in king william i of the netherlands confirmed the name of 'royal library' (dutch: koninklijke bibliotheek) by royal resolution. it has been known as the national library of the netherlands since , when it opened new quarters.[ ] the institution became 'independent administrative body' of the state in , although it is financed by the department of education, culture and science. on november the wsob (public library facilities system act or 'library act') came into being. the act became valid on january and from this moment onwards four organizations from the library world continued under the name koninklijke bibliotheek. these organizations are sector institute public libraries (siob), the foundation bibliotheek.nl (bnl), the digital library for dutch literature (dbnl) and the koninklijke bibliotheek (kb). collection[edit] the humanities are central to the collection of the kb, with an emphasis on dutch history, language and culture. in , the kb contained , , items, equivalent to kilometers of bookshelves. most items in the collection are books. there are also pieces of "grey literature", where the author, publisher, or date may not be apparent but the document has cultural or intellectual significance.[ ] the collection contains almost the entire literature of the netherlands, from medieval manuscripts to modern scientific publications. as there was no law for depositing dutch publication the library started on january the voluntary dutch repository library. this in contrast with most other countries that have a legal deposit of publications. for a publication to be accepted, it must be from a registered dutch publisher.[ ] the royal library of the netherlands also has works of art and antiquities. one such piece of art is the madonna with the christ child by fifteenth-century french painter jean fouquet, who is regarded as one of the best painters from that era. a valuable antiquity that is housed within the library is a bound book by christopher plantin ( - ), a sixteenth-century french printer and publisher. the binding is made of brown calfskin with gold tooling. the book was made at plantin’s workshop in antwerp and was dedicated to emperor charles v ( - ). the library also has remarkable eighteenth-century brocade paper from augsburg, germany. in addition, the library holds a rare elaborately illustrated book from . the book is of the travels of jan huygen van linschoten ( - ). he traveled to spain, india, indonesia, and east asia. [ ] another valuable antiquity is the oldest depiction of ‘dutchmen’. in , count dirk and countess hildegard donated the medieval manuscript, known as egmond gospels, to the abbey of egmond. it is one of the oldest surviving church treasures and includes depictions of ‘dutch’ people and buildings. the egmond gospels were lost around the sixteenth-century, but were found in the early nineteenth-century. knowing its historical significance, the dutch government purchased the manuscript and brought it to the royal library of the netherlands.[ ] the royal library of the netherlands also has the trivulzio book of house (ca. ), a medieval manuscript that measures cm x cm, and contains wonderfully detailed flemish miniature art.[ ] the collection is accessible for members. any person aged years or older can become a member. one day passes are also available. requests for material take approximately minutes. the kb hosts several open access websites, including the "memory of the netherlands" (geheugen van nederland),[ ] digital library for dutch literature[ ] and delpher, an archive of more than million pages as of .[ ] literature museum[edit] the literature museum (in dutch: literatuurmuseum) was founded in [ ] as nederlands letterkundig museum,[ ] the museum contains a large collection of letters, manuscripts and memorabilia. the museum has three permanent and several temporary exhibitions. it also contains a special children's book museum.[ ] on february , an online museum was opened.[ ] on november , the museum was renamed to literature museum.[ ] the museum has a reading room with an extensive collection of newspaper clipping, and under certain conditions, some archival material can be consulted.[ ] research[edit] the kb's research department is engaged in internationally renowned research in the field of digital technology, sustainable preservation and accessibility of both paper and digital heritage. important topics are the applicability of artificial intelligence, the use of big data, the increasing importance of privacy & security, the changes in the publishing and publishing world and the role of public libraries in today's society. see also[edit] 	list of libraries in the netherlands 	european library 	nederlandse centrale catalogus (dutch central catalog) 	books in the netherlands references[edit] 	^ "kb in a nutshell". 	^ "koninklijke bibliotheek / royal library of the netherlands". the conference of european national librarians (cenl). retrieved - - . 	^ "dutch royal library | library, the hague, netherlands". encyclopedia britannica. retrieved - - . 	^ "the national library of the netherlands - digital preservation (library of congress)". www.digitalpreservation.gov. retrieved - - . 	^ "national library of the netherlands". preserving the world's rarest books. - - . retrieved - - . 	^ hanson, j. c. m. (april ). "review: the royal library of the netherlands". the library quarterly: information, community, policy. the university of chicago press. 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	office	triumvir ( – bc) consul ( , bc) magister equitum ( bc) 	political party	populares 	spouse(s)		 fadia	 (dates unknown) 	 antonia hybrida minor	 (?– bc) 	 fulvia	 ( – bc) 	 octavia minor	 ( – bc) 	 cleopatra	 ( – bc) 	children	 	antonia 	marcus antonius antyllus 	iullus antonius 	antonia major 	antonia minor 	alexander helios 	cleopatra selene ii 	ptolemy philadelphus 	parents		marcus antonius creticus (father) 	julia (mother) 	 	military career 	allegiance	  roman republic julius caesar populares 	branch	roman army 	years	 – bc 	battles/wars	 	gallic wars 	caesar's civil war 	battle of forum gallorum 	battle of mutina 	liberators' civil war 	antony's parthian war 	battle of actium 	battle of alexandria 	 marcus antonius (  january bc – august bc), commonly known in english as mark antony or anthony, was a roman politician and general who played a critical role in the transformation of the roman republic from a constitutional republic into the autocratic roman empire. antony was a supporter of julius caesar, and served as one of his generals during the conquest of gaul and the civil war. antony was appointed administrator of italy while caesar eliminated political opponents in greece, north africa, and spain. after caesar's death in bc, antony joined forces with marcus aemilius lepidus, another of caesar's generals, and octavian, caesar's great-nephew and adopted son, forming a three-man dictatorship known to historians as the second triumvirate. the triumvirs defeated caesar's murderers, the liberatores, at the battle of philippi in bc, and divided the government of the republic between themselves. antony was assigned rome's eastern provinces, including the client kingdom of egypt, then ruled by cleopatra vii philopator, and was given the command in rome's war against parthia. relations among the triumvirs were strained as the various members sought greater political power. civil war between antony and octavian was averted in bc, when antony married octavian's sister, octavia. despite this marriage, antony carried on a love affair with cleopatra, who bore him three children, further straining antony's relations with octavian. lepidus was expelled from the association in bc, and in bc disagreements between antony and octavian caused a split between the remaining triumvirs. their ongoing hostility erupted into civil war in bc, as the roman senate, at octavian's direction, declared war on cleopatra and proclaimed antony a traitor. later that year, antony was defeated by octavian's forces at the battle of actium. antony and cleopatra fled to egypt, where after a minor victory at the battle of alexandria they committed suicide. with antony dead, octavian became the undisputed master of the roman world. in bc, octavian was granted the title of augustus, marking the final stage in the transformation of the roman republic into an empire, with himself as the first roman emperor. contents 	 early life 	 early career 	 . military service 	 . service under caesar 	 . . gallic wars 	 . . civil war 	 . . governor of italy 	 . assassination of caesar 	 . . ides of march 	 . . leader of the caesarian party 	 . . first conflict with octavian 	 . the second triumvirate 	 . . forming the alliance 	 . . war against the liberators 	 master of the roman east 	 . division of the republic 	 . activities in the east 	 . fulvia's civil war 	 . antony's parthian war 	 . . roman–parthian relations 	 . . parthian invasion 	 . . conflict with sextus pompey 	 . . reconquest of judea 	 . . parthian campaign 	 . antony and cleopatra 	 . death 	 aftermath and legacy 	 marriages and issue 	 descendants 	 artistic portrayals 	 . novels 	 . poetry 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 . citations 	 . primary sources 	 . secondary sources 	 external links early life[edit] a member of the plebeian antonia gens, antony was born in rome on january bc.[ ][ ] his father and namesake was marcus antonius creticus, son of the noted orator by the same name who had been murdered during the marian terror of the winter of – bc.[ ] his mother was julia, a third cousin of julius caesar. antony was an infant at the time of lucius cornelius sulla's march on rome in bc.[ ][note ] antony's brother lucius, on a coin issued at ephesus during his consulship in bc according to the roman orator marcus tullius cicero, antony's father was incompetent and corrupt, and was only given power because he was incapable of using or abusing it effectively.[ ] in bc he was given military command to defeat the pirates of the mediterranean, but he died in crete in bc without making any significant progress.[ ][ ][ ] the elder antony's death left antony and his brothers, lucius and gaius, in the care of their mother, julia, who later married publius cornelius lentulus sura, an eminent member of the old patrician nobility. lentulus, despite exploiting his political success for financial gain, was constantly in debt due to the extravagance of his lifestyle. he was a major figure in the second catilinarian conspiracy and was summarily executed on the orders of the consul cicero in bc for his involvement.[ ] antony's early life was characterized by a lack of proper parental guidance. according to the historian plutarch, he spent his teenage years wandering through rome with his brothers and friends gambling, drinking, and becoming involved in scandalous love affairs.[ ] antony's contemporary and enemy, cicero, charged that he had a homosexual relationship with gaius scribonius curio.[ ] this form of slander was popular during this time in the roman republic to demean and discredit political opponents by accusing them of having an inappropriate sexual affair.[ ][ ] there is little reliable information on his political activity as a young man, although it is known that he was an associate of publius clodius pulcher and his street gang.[ ] he may also have been involved in the lupercal cult as he was referred to as a priest of this order later in life.[ ] by age twenty, antony had amassed an enormous debt. hoping to escape his creditors, antony fled to greece in bc, where he studied philosophy and rhetoric at athens. early career[edit] military service[edit] in bc, antony joined the military staff of aulus gabinius, the proconsul of syria, as chief of the cavalry.[ ] this appointment marks the beginning of his military career.[ ] as consul the previous year, gabinius had consented to the exile of cicero by antony's mentor, publius clodius pulcher. hyrcanus ii, the roman-supported hasmonean high priest of judea, fled jerusalem to gabinius to seek protection against his rival and son-in-law alexander. years earlier in bc, the roman general pompey had captured him and his father, king aristobulus ii, during his war against the remnant of the seleucid empire. pompey had deposed aristobulus and installed hyrcanus as rome's client ruler over judea.[ ] antony achieved his first military distinctions after securing important victories at alexandrium and machaerus.[ ] with the rebellion defeated by bc, gabinius restored hyrcanus to his position as high priest in judea. hellenistic bust of pharaoh ptolemy xii auletes. the following year, in bc, gabinius intervened in the political affairs of ptolemaic egypt. pharaoh ptolemy xii auletes had been deposed in a rebellion led by his daughter berenice iv in bc, forcing him to seek asylum in rome. during pompey's conquests years earlier, ptolemy had received the support of pompey, who named him an ally of rome.[ ] gabinius' invasion sought to restore ptolemy to his throne. this was done against the orders of the senate but with the approval of pompey, then rome's leading politician, and only after the deposed king provided a , talent bribe. the greek historian plutarch records it was antony who convinced gabinius to finally act.[ ] after defeating the frontier forces of the egyptian kingdom, gabinius' army proceeded to attack the palace guards but they surrendered before a battle commenced.[ ] with ptolemy xii restored as rome's client king, gabinius garrisoned two thousand roman soldiers, later known as the gabiniani, in alexandria to ensure ptolemy's authority. in return for its support, rome exercised considerable power over the kingdom's affairs, particularly control of the kingdom's revenues and crop yields.[ ] during the campaign in egypt, antony first met cleopatra, the -year-old daughter of ptolemy xii.[citation needed] while antony was serving gabinius in the east, the domestic political situation had changed in rome. in bc, a secret agreement (known as the "first triumvirate") was entered into between three men to control the republic: marcus licinius crassus, gnaeus pompey magnus, and gaius julius caesar. crassus, rome's wealthiest man, had defeated the slave rebellion of spartacus in bc; pompey conquered much of the eastern mediterranean in the 's bc; caesar was rome's pontifex maximus and a former general in spain. in bc, caesar, with funding from crassus, was elected consul to pursue legislation favourable to crassus and pompey's interests. in return, caesar was assigned the governorship of illyricum, cisalpine gaul, and transalpine gaul for five years beginning in bc. caesar used his governorship as a launching point for his conquest of free gaul. in bc, crassus and pompey served as consuls while caesar's command was extended for another five years. rome was effectively under the absolute power of these three men.[ ][ ] the triumvirate used publius clodius pulcher, antony's patron, to exile their political rivals, notably cicero[ ] and cato the younger. during his early military service, antony married his cousin antonia hybrida minor, the daughter of gaius antonius hybrida. sometime between and bc, the union produced a single known child, antonia. it is unclear if this was antony's first marriage.[note ] service under caesar[edit] gallic wars[edit] see also: gallic wars the ancient mediterranean in bc at the end of caesar's gallic wars, with the territory of rome in yellow. antony's association with publius clodius pulcher allowed him to achieve greater prominence. clodius, through the influence of his benefactor marcus licinius crassus, had developed a positive political relationship with julius caesar. clodius secured antony a position on caesar's military staff in bc, joining his conquest of gaul. serving under caesar, antony demonstrated excellent military leadership. despite a temporary alienation later in life, antony and caesar developed friendly relations which would continue until caesar's assassination in bc. caesar's influence secured greater political advancement for antony. after a year of service in gaul, caesar dispatched antony to rome to formally begin his political career, receiving election as quaestor for bc as a member of the populares faction. assigned to assist caesar, antony returned to gaul and commanded caesar's cavalry during his victory at the battle of alesia against the gallic chieftain vercingetorix. following his year in office, antony was promoted by caesar to the rank of legate and assigned command of two legions (approximately , total soldiers).[ ] meanwhile, the alliance among caesar, pompey and crassus had effectively ended. caesar's daughter julia, who had married pompey to secure the alliance, died in bc while crassus was killed at the battle of carrhae in bc. without the stability they provided, the divide between caesar and pompey grew ever larger.[ ] caesar's glory in conquering gaul had served to further strain his alliance with pompey,[ ] who, having grown jealous of his former ally, had drifted away from caesar's democratic populares party towards the oligarchic optimates faction led by cato. the supporters of caesar, led by clodius, and the supporters of pompey, led by titus annius milo, routinely clashed. in bc, milo succeeded in assassinating clodius, resulting in widespread riots and the burning of the senate meeting house, the curia hostilia, by clodius' street gang. anarchy resulted, causing the senate to look to pompey. fearing the persecutions of lucius cornelius sulla only thirty years earlier, they avoided granting pompey the dictatorship by instead naming him sole consul for the year, giving him extraordinary but limited powers. pompey ordered armed soldiers into the city to restore order and to eliminate the remnants of clodius' gang.[ ] antony remained on caesar's military staff until bc, helping mopping-up actions across gaul to secure caesar's conquest. with the war over, antony was sent back to rome to act as caesar's protector against pompey and the other optimates. with the support of caesar, who as pontifex maximus was head of the roman religion, antony was appointed the college of augurs, an important priestly office responsible for interpreting the will of the gods by studying the flight of birds. all public actions required favorable auspices, granting the college considerable influence. antony was then elected as one of the ten plebeian tribunes for bc. in this position, antony could protect caesar from his political enemies, by vetoing any actions unfavorable to his patron. civil war[edit] see also: caesar's civil war cato the younger, a member of the optimates faction, was one of the chief architects of the decree which provoked caesar into civil war. the feud between caesar and pompey erupted into open confrontation by early bc. the consuls for the year, gaius claudius marcellus maior and lucius cornelius lentulus crus, were firm optimates opposed to caesar.[ ] pompey, though remaining in rome, was then serving as the governor of spain and commanded several legions. upon assuming office in january, antony immediately summoned a meeting of the senate to resolve the conflict: he proposed both caesar and pompey lay down their commands and return to the status of mere private citizens.[ ] his proposal was well received by most of the senators but the consuls and cato vehemently opposed it. antony then made a new proposal: caesar would retain only two of his eight legions, and the governorship of illyrium if he was allowed to stand for the consulship in absentia. this arrangement ensured his immunity from suit would continue: he had needed the consulship to protect himself from prosecution by pompey. though pompey found the concession satisfactory, cato and lentulus refused to back down, with lentulus even expelling antony from the senate meeting by force. antony fled rome, fearing for his life, and returned to caesar's camp on the banks of the rubicon, the southern limit of caesar's lawful command. within days of antony's expulsion, on january bc, the senate reconvened. under the leadership of cato and with the tacit support of pompey, the senate passed a senatus consultum ultimum, a decree stripping caesar of his command and ordering him to return to rome and stand trial for war crimes. the senate further declared caesar a traitor and a public enemy if he did not immediately disband his army.[ ] with all hopes of finding a peaceful solution gone after antony's expulsion, caesar used antony as a pretext for marching on rome. as tribune, antony's person was sacrosanct, so it was unlawful to harm him or to refuse to recognize his veto. three days later, on january, caesar crossed the rubicon, initiating the civil war.[ ] during the southern march, caesar placed antony as his second in command. caesar's rapid advance surprised pompey, who, along with the other chief members of the optimates, fled italy for greece. after entering rome, instead of pursuing pompey, caesar marched to spain to defeat the pompeian loyalists there. meanwhile, antony, with the rank of propraetor—despite never having served as praetor—was installed as governor of italy and commander of the army, stationed there while marcus aemilius lepidus, one of caesar's staff officers, ran the provisional administration of rome itself.[ ][ ] though antony was well liked by his soldiers, most other citizens despised him for his lack of interest in the hardships they faced from the civil war.[ ] by the end of the year bc, caesar, already the ruler of gaul, had captured italy, spain, sicily, and sardinia out of optimates control. in early bc, he prepared to sail with seven legions to greece to face pompey. caesar had entrusted the defense of illyricum to gaius antonius, antony's younger brother, and publius cornelius dolabella. pompey's forces, however, defeated them and assumed control of the adriatic sea along with it. additionally, the two legions they commanded defected to pompey. without their fleet, caesar lacked the necessary transport ships to cross into greece with his seven legions. instead, he sailed with only two and placed antony in command of the remaining five at brundisium with instructions to join him as soon as he was able. in early bc, lucius scribonius libo was given command of pompey's fleet, comprising some fifty galleys.[ ][ ] moving off to brundisium, he blockaded antony. antony, however, managed to trick libo into pursuing some decoy ships, causing libo's squadron to be trapped and attacked. most of libo's fleet managed to escape, but several of his troops were trapped and captured.[ ][ ] with libo gone, antony joined caesar in greece by march bc. the battle of pharsalus: the decisive battle of caesar's civil war. antony commanded the left wing of caesar's army. during the greek campaign, plutarch records that antony was caesar's top general, and second only to him in reputation.[ ] antony joined caesar at the western balkan peninsula and besieged pompey's larger army at dyrrhachium. with food sources running low, caesar, in july, ordered a nocturnal assault on pompey's camp, but pompey's larger forces pushed back the assault. though an indecisive result, the victory was a tactical win for pompey. pompey, however, did not order a counterassault on caesar's camp, allowing caesar to retreat unhindered. caesar would later remark the civil war would have ended that day if only pompey had attacked him.[ ] caesar managed to retreat to thessaly, with pompey in pursuit. assuming a defensive position at the plain of pharsalus, caesar's army prepared for pitched battle with pompey's, which outnumbered his own two to one. at the battle of pharsalus on august bc, caesar commanded the right wing opposite pompey while antony commanded the left, indicating antony's status as caesar's top general.[ ] the resulting battle was a decisive victory for caesar. though the civil war had not ended at pharsulus, the battle marked the pinnacle of caesar's power and effectively ended the republic.[ ] the battle gave caesar a much needed boost in legitimacy, as prior to the battle much of the roman world outside italy supported pompey and the optimates as the legitimate government of rome. after pompey's defeat, most of the senate defected to caesar, including many of the soldiers who had fought under pompey. pompey himself fled to ptolemaic egypt, but pharaoh ptolemy xiii theos philopator feared retribution from caesar and had pompey assassinated upon his arrival. governor of italy[edit] a cameo carving of mark antony depicted as alexander the great, c. bc instead of immediately pursuing pompey and the remaining optimates, caesar returned to rome and was appointed dictator with antony as his master of the horse and second in command.[ ] caesar presided over his own election to a second consulship for bc and then, after eleven days in office, resigned this dictatorship.[ ] caesar then sailed to egypt, where he deposed ptolemy xiii in favor of his sister cleopatra in bc. the young cleopatra became caesar's mistress and bore him a son, caesarion. caesar's actions further strengthened roman control over the already roman-dominated kingdom.[ ] while caesar was away in egypt, antony remained in rome to govern italy and restore order.[ ] without caesar to guide him, however, antony quickly faced political difficulties and proved himself unpopular. the chief cause of his political challenges concerned debt forgiveness. one of the tribunes for bc, publius cornelius dolabella, a former general under pompey, proposed a law which would have canceled all outstanding debts. antony opposed the law for political and personal reasons: he believed caesar would not support such massive relief and suspected dolabella had seduced his wife antonia hybrida minor. when dolabella sought to enact the law by force and seized the roman forum, antony responded by unleashing his soldiers upon the assembled masses.[ ] the resulting instability, especially among caesar's veterans who would have benefited from the law, forced caesar to return to italy by october bc.[ ] antony's handling of the affair with dolabella caused a cooling of his relationship with caesar. antony's violent reaction had caused rome to fall into a state of anarchy. caesar sought to mend relations with the populist leader; he was elected to a third term as consul for bc, but proposed the senate should transfer the consulship to dolabella. when antony protested, caesar was forced to withdraw the motion out of shame. later, caesar sought to exercise his prerogatives as dictator and directly proclaim dolabella as consul instead.[ ] antony again protested and, in his capacity as an augur, declared the omens were unfavorable and caesar again backed down.[ ] seeing the expediency of removing dolabella from rome, caesar ultimately pardoned him for his role in the riots and took him as one of his generals in his campaigns against the remaining optimates resistance.[ ] antony, however, was stripped of all official positions and received no appointments for the year bc or bc. instead of antony, caesar appointed marcus aemilius lepidus to be his consular colleague for bc. while caesar campaigned in north africa, antony remained in rome as a mere private citizen. after returning victorious from north africa, caesar was appointed dictator for ten years and brought cleopatra and their son to rome. antony again remained in rome while caesar, in bc, sailed to spain to defeat the final opposition to his rule. when caesar returned in late bc, the civil war was over. during this time antony married his third wife, fulvia. following the scandal with dolabella, antony had divorced his second wife and quickly married fulvia. fulvia had previously been married to both publius clodius pulcher and gaius scribonius curio, having been a widow since curio's death in the battle of the bagradas in bc. though antony and fulvia were formally married in bc, cicero suggests the two had been in a relationship since at least bc.[ ][ ] the union produced two children: marcus antonius antyllus (born ) and iullus antonius (born ) assassination of caesar[edit] main article: assassination of julius caesar ides of march[edit] whatever conflicts existed between himself and caesar, antony remained faithful to caesar, ensuring their estrangement did not last long. antony reunited with caesar at narbo in bc with full reconciliation coming in bc when antony was elected consul alongside caesar. caesar planned a new invasion of parthia and desired to leave antony in italy to govern rome in his name. the reconciliation came soon after antony rejected an offer by gaius trebonius, one of caesar's generals, to join a conspiracy to assassinate caesar.[ ][ ] the death of julius caesar, as depicted by vincenzo camuccini. caesar was assassinated on the ides of march ( march) bc. soon after they assumed office together, the lupercalia festival was held on february bc. the festival was held in honor of lupa, the she-wolf who suckled the infant orphans romulus and remus, the founders of rome.[ ] the political atmosphere of rome at the time of the festival was deeply divided. caesar had enacted a number of constitutional reforms which centralized effectively all political powers within his own hands. he was granted further honors, including a form of semi-official cult, with antony as his high priest.[ ] additionally, the day before the festival, caesar had been named dictator for life, effectively granting unlimited power. caesar's political rivals feared these reforms were his attempts at transforming the republic into an open monarchy. during the festival's activities, antony publicly offered caesar a diadem, which caesar refused. the event presented a powerful message: a diadem was a symbol of a king. by refusing it, caesar demonstrated he had no intention of making himself king of rome. antony's motive for such actions is not clear and it is unknown if he acted with caesar's prior approval or on his own.[ ] "marc antony's oration at caesar's funeral" as depicted by george edward robertson a group of senators resolved to kill caesar to prevent him from seizing the throne. chief among them were marcus junius brutus and gaius cassius longinus. although cassius was "the moving spirit" in the plot, winning over the chief assassins to the cause of tyrannicide, brutus, with his family's history of deposing rome's kings, became their leader.[ ] cicero, though not personally involved in the conspiracy, later claimed antony's actions sealed caesar's fate as such an obvious display of caesar's preeminence motivated them to act.[ ] originally, the conspirators had planned to eliminate not only caesar but also many of his supporters, including antony, but brutus rejected the proposal, limiting the conspiracy to caesar alone.[ ] with caesar preparing to depart for parthia in late march, the conspirators prepared to act when caesar appeared for the senate meeting on the ides of march ( march). antony was supposed to attend with caesar, but was waylaid at the door by one of the plotters and prevented from intervening. according to the greek historian plutarch, as caesar arrived at the senate, lucius tillius cimber presented him with a petition to recall his exiled brother.[ ] the other conspirators crowded round to offer their support. within moments, the entire group, including brutus, was striking out at the dictator. caesar attempted to get away, but, blinded by blood, he tripped and fell; the men continued stabbing him as he lay defenseless on the lower steps of the portico. according to roman historian eutropius, around or more men participated in the assassination. caesar was stabbed times and died from the blood loss attributable to multiple stab wounds.[ ][ ] leader of the caesarian party[edit] in the turmoil surrounding the assassination, antony escaped rome dressed as a slave, fearing caesar's death would be the start of a bloodbath among his supporters. when this did not occur, he soon returned to rome. the conspirators, who styled themselves the liberatores ("the liberators"), had barricaded themselves on the capitoline hill for their own safety. though they believed caesar's death would restore the republic, caesar had been immensely popular with the roman middle and lower classes, who became enraged upon learning a small group of aristocrats had killed their champion. antony, as the sole consul, soon took the initiative and seized the state treasury. calpurnia, caesar's widow, presented him with caesar's personal papers and custody of his extensive property, clearly marking him as caesar's heir and leader of the caesarian faction.[ ] caesar's master of the horse marcus aemilius lepidus marched over , troops into rome on march to restore order and to act as the bodyguards of the caesarian faction. lepidus wanted to storm the capitol, but antony preferred a peaceful solution as a majority of both the liberators and caesar's own supporters preferred a settlement over civil war.[ ] on march, at antony's arrangement, the senate met to discuss a compromise, which, due to the presence of caesar's veterans in the city, was quickly reached. caesar's assassins would be pardoned of their crimes and, in return, all of caesar's actions would be ratified.[ ] in particular, the offices assigned to both brutus and cassius by caesar were likewise ratified. antony also agreed to accept the appointment of his rival dolabella as his consular colleague to replace caesar.[ ] having neither troops, money, nor popular support, the liberatores were forced to accept antony's proposal. this compromise was a great success for antony, who managed to simultaneously appease caesar's veterans, reconcile the senate majority, and appear to the liberatores as their partner and protector.[ ] octavian, julius caesar's adopted son. antony would struggle with octavian for leadership of the caesarian party following caesar's assassination. on march, caesar's will was opened and read. in it, caesar posthumously adopted his great-nephew gaius octavius and named him his principal heir. then only nineteen years old and stationed with caesar's army in macedonia, the youth became a member of caesar's julian clan, changing his name to "gaius julius caesar octavianus" (octavian) in accordance with the conventions of roman adoption. though not the chief beneficiary, antony did receive some bequests.[ ] shortly after the compromise was reached, as a sign of good faith, brutus, against the advice of cassius and cicero, agreed caesar would be given a public funeral and his will would be validated. caesar's funeral was held on march. antony, as caesar's faithful lieutenant and incumbent consul, was chosen to preside over the ceremony and to recite the elegy. during the demagogic speech, he enumerated the deeds of caesar and, publicly reading his will, detailed the donations caesar had left to the roman people. antony then seized the blood-stained toga from caesar's body and presented it to the crowd. worked into a fury by the bloody spectacle, the assembly rioted. several buildings in the forum and some houses of the conspirators were burned to the ground. panicked, many of the conspirators fled italy.[ ] under the pretext of not being able to guarantee their safety, antony relieved brutus and cassius of their judicial duties in rome and instead assigned them responsibility for procuring wheat for rome from sicily and asia. such an assignment, in addition to being unworthy of their rank, would have kept them far from rome and shifted the balance towards antony. refusing such secondary duties, the two traveled to greece instead. additionally, cleopatra left rome to return to egypt. despite the provisions of caesar's will, antony proceeded to act as leader of the caesarian faction, including appropriating for himself a portion of caesar's fortune rightfully belonging to octavian. antony enacted the lex antonia, which formally abolished the dictatorship, in an attempt to consolidate his power by gaining the support of the senatorial class. he also enacted a number of laws he claimed to have found in caesar's papers to ensure his popularity with caesar's veterans, particularly by providing land grants to them. lepidus, with antony's support, was named pontifex maximus to succeed caesar. to solidify the alliance between antony and lepidus, antony's daughter antonia prima was engaged to lepidus' son, also named lepidus. surrounding himself with a bodyguard of over six thousand of caesar's veterans, antony presented himself as caesar's true successor, largely ignoring octavian.[ ] first conflict with octavian[edit] octavian arrived in rome in may to claim his inheritance. although antony had amassed political support, octavian still had opportunity to rival him as the leading member of the caesarian faction. the senatorial republicans increasingly viewed antony as a new tyrant. antony had lost the support of many romans and supporters of caesar when he opposed the motion to elevate caesar to divine status.[ ] when antony refused to relinquish caesar's vast fortune to him, octavian borrowed heavily to fulfill the bequests in caesar's will to the roman people and to his veterans, as well as to establish his own bodyguard of veterans.[ ] this earned him the support of caesarian sympathizers who hoped to use him as a means of eliminating antony.[ ] the senate, and cicero in particular, viewed antony as the greater danger of the two. by summer bc, antony was in a difficult position due to his actions regarding his compromise with the liberatores following caesar's assassination. he could either denounce the liberatores as murderers and alienate the senate or he could maintain his support for the compromise and risk betraying the legacy of caesar, strengthening octavian's position. in either case, his situation as ruler of rome would be weakened. roman historian cassius dio later recorded that while antony, as consul, maintained the advantage in the relationship, the general affection of the roman people was shifting to octavian due to his status as caesar's son.[ ][ ] a denarius of marcus antonius struck in bc supporting the senatorial faction against antony, octavian, in september bc, encouraged the leading senator marcus tullius cicero to attack antony in a series of speeches portraying him as a threat to the republican order.[ ][ ] risk of civil war between antony and octavian grew. octavian continued to recruit caesar's veterans to his side, away from antony, with two of antony's legions defecting in november bc. at that time, octavian, only a private citizen, lacked legal authority to command the republic's armies, making his command illegal. with popular opinion in rome turning against him and his consular term nearing its end, antony attempted to secure a favorable military assignment to secure an army to protect himself. the senate, as was custom, assigned antony and dolabella the provinces of macedonia and syria, respectively, to govern in bc after their consular terms expired. antony, however, objected to the assignment, preferring to govern cisalpine gaul which had been assigned to decimus junius brutus albinus, one of caesar's assassins.[ ][ ] when decimus refused to surrender his province, antony marched north in december bc with his remaining soldiers to take the province by force, besieging decimus at mutina.[ ] the senate, led by a fiery cicero, denounced antony's actions and declared him an outlaw. ratifying octavian's extraordinary command on january bc, the senate dispatched him along with consuls hirtius and pansa to defeat antony and his five legions.[ ][ ] antony's forces were defeated at the battle of mutina in april bc, forcing antony to retreat to transalpine gaul. both consuls were killed, however, leaving octavian in sole command of their armies, some eight legions.[ ][ ] the second triumvirate[edit] main article: second triumvirate forming the alliance[edit] with antony defeated, the senate, hoping to eliminate octavian and the remainder of the caesarian party, assigned command of the republic's legions to decimus. sextus pompey, son of caesar's old rival pompey magnus, was given command of the republic's fleet from his base in sicily while brutus and cassius were granted the governorships of macedonia and syria respectively. these appointments attempted to renew the "republican" cause.[ ] however, the eight legions serving under octavian, composed largely of caesar's veterans, refused to follow one of caesar's murderers, allowing octavian to retain his command. meanwhile, antony recovered his position by joining forces with marcus aemilius lepidus, who had been assigned the governorship of transalpine gaul and nearer spain.[ ] antony sent lepidus to rome to broker a conciliation. though he was an ardent caesarian, lepidus had maintained friendly relations with the senate and with sextus pompey. his legions, however, quickly joined antony, giving him control over seventeen legions, the largest army in the west.[ ] map of the roman republic in bc after the establishment of the second triumvirate:   antony   lepidus   octavian   triumvirs collectively   sextus pompey   the liberators   rome's client kingdoms   ptolemaic egypt by mid-may, octavian began secret negotiations to form an alliance with antony to provide a united caesarian party against the liberators. remaining in cisalpine gaul, octavian dispatched emissaries to rome in july bc demanding he be appointed consul to replace hirtius and pansa and that the decree declaring antony a public enemy be rescinded.[ ] when the senate refused, octavian marched on rome with his eight legions and assumed control of the city in august bc. octavian proclaimed himself consul, rewarded his soldiers, and then set about prosecuting caesar's murderers. by the lex pedia, all of the conspirators and sextus pompey were convicted ″in absentia″ and declared public enemies. then, at the instigation of lepidus, octavian went to cisalpine gaul to meet antony. in november bc, octavian, lepidus, and antony met near bononia.[ ] after two days of discussions, the group agreed to establish a three man dictatorship to govern the republic for five years, known as the "three men for the restoration of the republic" (latin: "triumviri rei publicae constituendae"), known to modern historians as the second triumvirate. they shared military command of the republic's armies and provinces among themselves: antony received gaul, lepidus spain, and octavian (as the junior partner) africa. they jointly governed italy. the triumvirate would have to conquer the rest of rome's holdings; brutus and cassius held the eastern mediterranean, and sextus pompey held the mediterranean islands.[ ] on november bc, the triumvirate was formally established by a new law, the lex titia. octavian and antony reinforced their alliance through octavian's marriage to antony's stepdaughter, claudia. the vengeance of fulvia by francisco maura y montaner, , depicting fulvia, antony's wife, inspecting the severed head of cicero the primary objective of the triumvirate was to avenge caesar's death and to make war upon his murderers. before marching against brutus and cassius in the east, the triumvirs issued proscriptions against their enemies in rome. the dictator lucius cornelius sulla had taken similar action to purge rome of his opponents in bc. the proscribed were named on public lists, stripped of citizenship, and outlawed. their wealth and property were confiscated by the state, and rewards were offered to anyone who secured their arrest or death. with such encouragements, the proscription produced deadly results; two thousand roman knights were executed, and one third of the senate, among them cicero, who was executed on december. the confiscations helped replenish the state treasury, which had been depleted by caesar's civil war the decade before; when this seemed insufficient to fund the imminent war against brutus and cassius, the triumvirs imposed new taxes, especially on the wealthy. by january bc the proscription had ended; it had lasted two months, and though less bloody than sulla's, it traumatized roman society. a number of those named and outlawed had fled to either sextus pompey in sicily or to the liberators in the east.[ ] senators who swore loyalty to the triumvirate were allowed to keep their positions; on january bc, the senate officially deified caesar as "the divine julius", and confirmed antony's position as his high priest. war against the liberators[edit] main articles: liberators' civil war and battle of philippi due to the infighting within the triumvirate during bc, brutus and cassius had assumed control of much of rome's eastern territories, and amassed a large army. before the triumvirate could cross the adriatic sea into greece where the liberators had stationed their army, the triumvirate had to address the threat posed by sextus pompey and his fleet. from his base in sicily, sextus raided the italian coast and blockaded the triumvirs. octavian's friend and admiral quintus salvidienus rufus thwarted an attack by sextus against the southern italian mainland at rhegium, but salvidienus was then defeated in the resulting naval battle because of the inexperience of his crews. only when antony arrived with his fleet was the blockade broken. though the blockade was defeated, control of sicily remained in sextus' hand, but the defeat of the liberators was the triumvirate's first priority. first battle of philippi – october bc second battle of philippi – october bc in the summer of bc, octavian and antony sailed for macedonia to face the liberators with nineteen legions, the vast majority of their army[ ] (approximately , regular infantry plus supporting cavalry and irregular auxiliary units), leaving rome under the administration of lepidus. likewise, the army of the liberators also commanded an army of nineteen legions; their legions, however, were not at full strength while the legions of antony and octavian were.[ ] while the triumvirs commanded a larger number of infantry, the liberators commanded a larger cavalry contingent.[ ] the liberators, who controlled macedonia, did not wish to engage in a decisive battle, but rather to attain a good defensive position and then use their naval superiority to block the triumvirs' communications with their supply base in italy. they had spent the previous months plundering greek cities to swell their war-chest and had gathered in thrace with the roman legions from the eastern provinces and levies from rome's client kingdoms. brutus and cassius held a position on the high ground along both sides of the via egnatia west of the city of philippi. the south position was anchored to a supposedly impassable marsh, while the north was bordered by impervious hills. they had plenty of time to fortify their position with a rampart and a ditch. brutus put his camp on the north while cassius occupied the south of the via egnatia. antony arrived shortly and positioned his army on the south of the via egnatia, while octavian put his legions north of the road. antony offered battle several times, but the liberators were not lured to leave their defensive stand. thus, antony tried to secretly outflank the liberators' position through the marshes in the south. this provoked a pitched battle on october bc. antony commanded the triumvirate's army due to octavian's sickness on the day, with antony directly controlling the right flank opposite cassius. because of his health, octavian remained in camp while his lieutenants assumed a position on the left flank opposite brutus. in the resulting first battle of philippi, antony defeated cassius and captured his camp while brutus overran octavian's troops and penetrated into the triumvirs' camp but was unable to capture the sick octavian. the battle was a tactical draw but due to poor communications cassius believed the battle was a complete defeat and committed suicide to prevent being captured. brutus assumed sole command of the liberator army and preferred a war of attrition over open conflict. his officers, however, were dissatisfied with these defensive tactics and his caesarian veterans threatened to defect, forcing brutus to give battle at the second battle of philippi on october. while the battle was initially evenly matched, antony's leadership routed brutus' forces. brutus committed suicide the day after the defeat and the remainder of his army swore allegiance to the triumvirate. over fifty thousand romans died in the two battles. while antony treated the losers mildly, octavian dealt cruelly with his prisoners and even beheaded brutus' corpse.[ ][ ][ ] the battles of philippi ended the civil war in favor of the caesarian faction. with the defeat of the liberators, only sextus pompey and his fleet remained to challenge the triumvirate's control over the republic. master of the roman east[edit] division of the republic[edit] map of the roman republic in bc after the battle of philippi:   antony   lepidus   octavian   triumvirs collectively   sextus pompey   parthian empire   rome's client kingdoms   ptolemaic egypt the victory at philippi left the members of the triumvirate as masters of the republic, save sextus pompey in sicily. upon returning to rome, the triumvirate repartitioned rule of rome's provinces among themselves, with antony as the clear senior partner. he received the largest distribution, governing all of the eastern provinces while retaining gaul in the west. octavian's position improved, as he received spain, which was taken from lepidus. lepidus was then reduced to holding only africa, and he assumed a clearly tertiary role in the triumvirate. rule over italy remained undivided, but octavian was assigned the difficult and unpopular task of demobilizing their veterans and providing them with land distributions in italy.[ ][ ] antony assumed direct control of the east while he installed one of his lieutenants as the ruler of gaul. during his absence, several of his supporters held key positions in rome to protect his interests there. the east was in need of reorganization after the rule of the liberators in the previous years. in addition, rome contended with the parthian empire for dominance of the near east. the parthian threat to the triumvirate's rule was urgent due to the fact that the parthians supported the liberators in the recent civil war, aid which included the supply troops at philippi.[ ] as ruler of the east, antony also assumed responsibility for overseeing caesar's planned invasion of parthia to avenge the defeat of marcus licinius crassus at the battle of carrhae in bc. in bc, the roman east was composed of several directly controlled provinces and client kingdoms. the provinces included macedonia, asia, bithynia, cilicia, cyprus, syria, and cyrenaica. approximately half of the eastern territory was controlled by rome's client kingdoms, nominally independent kingdoms subject to roman direction. these kingdoms included: 	odrysian thrace in eastern europe 	the bosporan kingdom along the northern coast of the black sea 	galatia, pontus, cappadocia, armenia, and several smaller kingdoms in asia minor 	judea, commagene, and the nabataean kingdom in the middle east 	ptolemaic egypt in africa activities in the east[edit] further information: early life of cleopatra vii and reign of cleopatra vii left image: cleopatra vii bust in the altes museum, antikensammlung berlin, roman artwork, st century bc right: bust of cleopatra vii, dated – bc, vatican museums, showing her with a 'melon' hairstyle and hellenistic royal diadem worn over her head antony spent the winter of bc in athens, where he ruled generously towards the greek cities. a proclaimed philhellene ("friend of all things greek"), antony supported greek culture to win the loyalty of the inhabitants of the greek east. he attended religious festivals and ceremonies, including initiation into the eleusinian mysteries,[ ] a secret cult dedicated to the worship of the goddesses demeter and persephone. beginning in bc, he traveled across the aegean sea to anatolia, leaving his friend lucius marcius censorius as governor of macedonia and achaea. upon his arrival in ephesus in asia, antony was worshiped as the god dionysus born anew.[ ] he demanded heavy taxes from the hellenic cities in return for his pro-greek culture policies, but exempted those cities which had remained loyal to caesar during the civil war and compensated those cities which had suffered under caesar's assassins, including rhodes, lycia, and tarsus. he granted pardons to all roman nobles living in the east who had supported the optimate cause, except for caesar's assassins. ruling from ephesus, antony consolidated rome's hegemony in the east, receiving envoys from rome's client kingdoms and intervening in their dynastic affairs, extracting enormous financial "gifts" from them in the process. though king deiotarus of galatia supported brutus and cassius following caesar's assassination, antony allowed him to retain his position. he also confirmed ariarathes x as king of cappadocia after the execution of his brother ariobarzanes iii of cappadocia by cassius before the battle of philippi. in hasmonean judea, several jewish delegations complained to antony of the harsh rule of phasael and herod, the sons of rome's assassinated chief jewish minister antipater the idumaean. after herod offered him a large financial gift, antony confirmed the brothers in their positions. subsequently, influenced by the beauty and charms of glaphyra, the widow of archelaüs (formerly the high priest of comana), antony deposed ariarathes, and appointed glaphyra's son, archelaüs, to rule cappadocia.[ ] antony and cleopatra ( ) by lawrence alma-tadema depicting antony's meeting with cleopatra in bc. in october , antony requested rome's chief eastern vassal, the queen of ptolemaic egypt cleopatra, meet him at tarsus in cilicia. antony had first met a young cleopatra while campaigning in egypt in bc and again in bc when caesar had backed her as queen of egypt over the claims of her half-sister arsinoe. cleopatra would bear caesar a son, caesarion, in bc and the two living in rome as caesar's guests until his assassination in bc. after caesar's assassination, cleopatra and caesarion returned to egypt, where she named the child as her co-ruler. in bc, the triumvirate, in recognition for cleopatra's help towards publius cornelius dolabella in opposition to the liberators, granted official recognition to caesarion's position as king of egypt. arriving in tarsus aboard her magnificent ship, cleopatra invited antony to a grand banquet to solidify their alliance. [note ] as the most powerful of rome's eastern vassals, egypt was indispensable in rome's planned military invasion of the parthian empire. at cleopatra's request, antony ordered the execution of arsinoe, who, though marched in caesar's triumphal parade in bc,[ ] had been granted sanctuary at the temple of artemis in ephesus. antony and cleopatra then spent the winter of bc together in alexandria. cleopatra bore antony twin children, alexander helios and cleopatra selene ii, in bc, and a third, ptolemy philadelphus, in bc. antony also granted formal control over cyprus, which had been under egyptian control since bc during the turmoil of caesar's civil war, to cleopatra in bc as a gift for her loyalty to rome.[ ] antony, in his first months in the east, raised money, reorganized his troops, and secured the alliance of rome's client kingdoms. he also promoted himself as hellenistic ruler, which won him the affection of the greek peoples of the east but also made him the target of octavian's propaganda in rome. according to some ancient authors, antony led a carefree life of luxury in alexandria.[ ][ ] upon learning the parthian empire had invaded rome's territory in early bc, antony left egypt for syria to confront the invasion. however, after a short stay in tyre, he was forced to sail with his army to italy to confront octavian due to octavian's war against antony's wife and brother. fulvia's civil war[edit] see also: perusine war following the defeat of brutus and cassius, while antony was stationed in the east, octavian had authority over the west.[note ] octavian's chief responsibility was distributing land to tens of thousands of caesar's veterans who had fought for the triumvirate. additionally, tens of thousands of veterans who had fought for the republican cause in the war also required land grants. this was necessary to ensure they would not support a political opponent of the triumvirate.[ ] however, the triumvirs did not possess sufficient state-controlled land to allot to the veterans. this left octavian with two choices: alienating many roman citizens by confiscating their land, or alienating many roman soldiers who might back a military rebellion against the triumvirate's rule. octavian chose the former.[ ] as many as eighteen roman towns through italy were affected by the confiscations of bc, with entire populations driven out.[ ] led by fulvia, the wife of antony, the senators grew hostile towards octavian over the issue of the land confiscations. according to the ancient historian cassius dio, fulvia was the most powerful woman in rome at the time.[ ] according to dio, while publius servilius vatia and lucius antonius were the consuls for the year bc, real power was vested in fulvia. as the mother-in-law of octavian and the wife of antony, no action was taken by the senate without her support.[ ] fearing octavian's land grants would cause the loyalty of the caesarian veterans to shift away from antony, fulvia traveled constantly with her children to the new veteran settlements in order to remind the veterans of their debt to antony.[ ][ ] fulvia also attempted to delay the land settlements until antony returned to rome, so that he could share credit for the settlements. with the help of antony's brother, the consul of bc lucius antonius, fulvia encouraged the senate to oppose octavian's land policies. map of the roman republic in bc after the treaty of brundisium and the treaty of misenum:   antony   lepidus   octavian   triumvirs collectively   sextus pompey   parthian empire   rome's client kingdoms   ptolemaic egypt the conflict between octavian and fulvia caused great political and social unrest throughout italy. tensions escalated into open war, however, when octavian divorced claudia, fulvia's daughter from her first husband publius clodius pulcher. outraged, fulvia, supported by lucius, raised an army to fight for antony's rights against octavian. according to the ancient historian appian, fulvia's chief reason for the war was her jealousy of antony's affairs with cleopatra in egypt and desire to draw antony back to rome.[ ] lucius and fulvia took a political and martial gamble in opposing octavian and lepidus, however, as the roman army still depended on the triumvirs for their salaries.[ ] lucius and fulvia, supported by their army, marched on rome and promised the people an end to the triumvirate in favor of antony's sole rule. however, when octavian returned to the city with his army, the pair was forced to retreat to perusia in etruria. octavian placed the city under siege while lucius waited for antony's legions in gaul to come to his aid.[ ][ ] away in the east and embarrassed by fulvia's actions, antony gave no instructions to his legions.[ ][note ] without reinforcements, lucius and fulvia were forced to surrender in february bc. while octavian pardoned lucius for his role in the war and even granted him command in spain as his chief lieutenant there, fulvia was forced to flee to greece with her children. with the war over, octavian was left in sole control over italy. when antony's governor of gaul died, octavian took over his legions there, further strengthening his control over the west.[ ] despite the parthian empire's invasion of rome's eastern territories, fulvia's civil war forced antony to leave the east and return to rome in order to secure his position. meeting her in athens, antony rebuked fulvia for her actions before sailing on to italy with his army to face octavian, laying siege to brundisium. this new conflict proved untenable for both octavian and antony, however. their centurions, who had become important figures politically, refused to fight due to their shared service under caesar. the legions under their command followed suit.[ ][ ] meanwhile, in sicyon, fulvia died of a sudden and unknown illness.[ ] fulvia's death and the mutiny of their soldiers allowed the triumvirs to effect a reconciliation through a new power sharing agreement in september bc. the roman world was redivided, with antony receiving the eastern provinces, octavian the western provinces, and lepidus relegated to a clearly junior position as governor of africa. this agreement, known as the treaty of brundisium, reinforced the triumvirate and allowed antony to begin preparing for caesar's long-awaited campaign against the parthian empire. as a symbol of their renewed alliance, antony married octavia, octavian's sister, in october bc. antony's parthian war[edit] main article: antony's parthian war roman–parthian relations[edit] a map of the parthian empire. parthia shared its western border along the euphrates river with rome. the rise of the parthian empire in the rd century bc and rome's expansion into the eastern mediterranean during the nd century bc brought the two powers into direct contact, causing centuries of tumultuous and strained relations. though periods of peace developed cultural and commercial exchanges, war was a constant threat. influence over the buffer state of the kingdom of armenia, located to the north-east of roman syria, was often a central issue in the roman-parthian conflict. in bc, parthian shah mithridates ii, installed tigranes the great as parthian's client-king over armenia. tigranes would wage a series of three wars against rome before being ultimately defeated by pompey in bc.[ ] thereafter, with his son artavasdes ii in rome as a hostage, tigranes would rule armenia as an ally of rome until his death in bc.[ ] rome then installed artavasdes ii as king and continued its influence over armenia. in bc, rome's governor of syria, marcus licinius crassus, led an expedition across the euphrates river into parthian territory to confront the parthian shah orodes ii. artavasdes ii offered crassus the aid of nearly forty thousand troops to assist his parthian expedition on the condition that crassus invade through armenia as the safer route.[ ] crassus refused, choosing instead the more direct route by crossing the euphrates directly into desert parthian territory. crassus' actions proved disastrous as his army was defeated at the battle of carrhae by a numerically inferior parthian force. crassus' defeat forced armenia to shift its loyalty to parthia, with artavasdes ii's sister marrying orodes' son and heir pacorus.[ ] in early bc, julius caesar announced his intentions to invade parthia and restore roman power in the east. his reasons were to punish the parthians for assisting pompey in the recent civil war, to avenge crassus' defeat at carrhae, and especially to match the glory of alexander the great for himself.[ ] before caesar could launch his campaign, however, he was assassinated. as part of the compromise between antony and the republicans to restore order following caesar's murder, publius cornelius dolabella was assigned the governorship of syria and command over caesar's planned parthian campaign. the compromise did not hold, however, and the republicans were forced to flee to the east. the republicans directed quintus labienus to attract the parthians to their side in the resulting war against antony and octavian. after the republicans were defeated at the battle of philippi, labienus joined the parthians.[ ][ ] despite rome's internal turmoil during the time, the parthians did not immediately benefit from the power vacuum in the east due to orodes ii's reluctance despite labienus' urgings to the contrary.[ ] in the summer of bc, antony, to reassert roman power in the east, conquered palmyra on the roman-parthian border.[ ] antony then spent the winter of bc in alexandria with cleopatra, leaving only two legions to defend the syrian border against parthian incursions. the legions, however, were composed of former republican troops and labienus convinced orodes ii to invade. parthian invasion[edit] main article: pompeian–parthian invasion of bc roman aureus bearing the portraits of marcus antonius (left) and octavianus (right), issued in  bc to celebrate the establishment of the second triumvirate by octavianus, antonius and marcus lepidus in  bc. a denarius of both octavianus and marcus antonius struck in bc a parthian army, led by orodes ii's eldest son pacorus, invaded syria in early bc. labienus, the republican ally of brutus and cassius, accompanied him to advise him and to rally the former republican soldiers stationed in syria to the parthian cause. labienus recruited many of the former republican soldiers to the parthian campaign in opposition to antony. the joint parthian–roman force, after initial success in syria, separated to lead their offensive in two directions: pacorus marched south toward hasmonean judea while labienus crossed the taurus mountains to the north into cilicia. labienus conquered southern anatolia with little resistance. the roman governor of asia, lucius munatius plancus, a partisan of antony, was forced to flee his province, allowing labienus to recruit the roman soldiers stationed there. for his part, pacorus advanced south to phoenicia and palestine. in hasmonean judea, the exiled prince antigonus allied himself with the parthians. when his brother, rome's client king hyrcanus ii, refused to accept parthian domination, he was deposed in favor of antigonus as parthia's client king in judea. pacorus' conquest had captured much of the syrian and palestinian interior, with much of the phoenician coast occupied as well. the city of tyre remained the last major roman outpost in the region.[ ] antony, then in egypt with cleopatra, did not respond immediately to the parthian invasion. though he left alexandria for tyre in early bc, when he learned of the civil war between his wife and octavian, he was forced to return to italy with his army to secure his position in rome rather than defeat the parthians.[ ] instead, antony dispatched publius ventidius bassus to check the parthian advance. arriving in the east in spring bc, ventidius surprised labienus near the taurus mountains, claiming victory at the cilician gates. ventidius ordered labienus executed as a traitor and the formerly rebellious roman soldiers under his command were reincorporated under antony's control. he then met a parthian army at the border between cilicia and syria, defeating it and killing a large portion of the parthian soldiers at the amanus pass. ventidius' actions temporarily halted the parthian advance and restored roman authority in the east, forcing pacorus to abandon his conquests and return to parthia.[ ] in the spring of bc, the parthians resumed their offensive with pacorus leading an army across the euphrates. ventidius, in order to gain time, leaked disinformation to pacorus implying that he should cross the euphrates river at their usual ford. pacorus did not trust this information and decided to cross the river much farther downstream; this was what ventidius hoped would occur and gave him time to get his forces ready.[ ] the parthians faced no opposition and proceeded to the town of gindarus in cyrrhestica where ventidius' army was waiting. at the battle of cyrrhestica, ventidius inflicted an overwhelming defeat against the parthians which resulted in the death of pacorus. overall, the roman army had achieved a complete victory with ventidius' three successive victories forcing the parthians back across the euphrates.[ ] pacorus' death threw the parthian empire into chaos. shah orodes ii, overwhelmed by the grief of his son's death, appointed his younger son phraates iv as his successor. however, phraates iv assassinated orodes ii in late bc, succeeding him on the throne.[ ][ ] ventidius feared antony's wrath if he invaded parthian territory, thereby stealing his glory; so instead he attacked and subdued the eastern kingdoms, which had revolted against roman control following the disastrous defeat of crassus at carrhae.[ ] one such rebel was king antiochus of commagene, whom he besieged in samosata. antiochus tried to make peace with ventidius, but ventidius told him to approach antony directly. after peace was concluded, antony sent ventidius back to rome where he celebrated a triumph, the first roman to triumph over the parthians.[note ] conflict with sextus pompey[edit] antony and octavia on the obverse of a tetradrachm issued at ephesus in bc. antony and his brother-in-law, octavian, enacted a new treaty that year which redivided control over the roman world. while antony and the other triumvirs ratified the treaty of brundisium to redivide the roman world among themselves, the rebel general sextus pompey, the son of caesar's rival pompey the great, was largely ignored. from his stronghold on sicily, he continued his piratical activities across italy and blocked the shipment of grain to rome. the lack of food in rome caused the public to blame the triumvirate and shift its sympathies towards pompey. this pressure forced the triumvirs to meet with sextus in early bc.[ ] while octavian wanted an end to the ongoing blockade of italy, antony sought peace in the west in order to make the triumvirate's legions available for his service in his planned campaign against the parthians. though the triumvirs rejected sextus' initial request to replace lepidus as the third man within the triumvirate, they did grant other concessions. under the terms of the treaty of misenum, sextus was allowed to retain control over sicily and sardinia, with the provinces of corsica and greece being added to his territory. he was also promised a future position with the priestly college of augurs and the consulship for bc. in exchange, sextus agreed to end his naval blockade of italy, supply rome with grain, and halt his piracy of roman merchant ships.[ ] however, the most important provision of the treaty was the end of the proscription the trimumvirate had begun in late bc. many of the proscribed senators, rather than face death, fled to sicily seeking sextus' protection. with the exception of those responsible for caesar's assassination, all those proscribed were allowed to return to rome and promised compensation. this caused sextus to lose many valuable allies as the formerly exiled senators gradually aligned themselves with either octavian or antony. to secure the peace, octavian betrothed his three-year-old nephew and antony's stepson marcus claudius marcellus to sextus' daughter pompeia.[ ] with peace in the west secured, antony planned to retaliate against parthia by invading their territory. under an agreement with octavian, antony would be supplied with extra troops for his campaign. with this military purpose on his mind, antony sailed to greece with octavia, where he behaved in a most extravagant manner, assuming the attributes of the greek god dionysus in bc. a roman bust of mark antony, late st century ad, vatican museums the peace with sextus was short lived, however. when sextus demanded control over greece as the agreement provided, antony demanded the province's tax revenues be to fund the parthian campaign. sextus refused.[ ] meanwhile, sextus' admiral menas betrayed him, shifting his loyalty to octavian and thereby granting him control of corsica, sardinia, three of sextus' legions, and a larger naval force. these actions worked to renew sextus' blockade of italy, preventing octavian from sending the promised troops to antony for the parthian campaign. this new delay caused antony to quarrel with octavian, forcing octavia to mediate a truce between them. under the treaty of tarentum, antony provided a large naval force for octavian's use against sextus while octavian promised to raise new legions for antony to support his invasion of parthia.[ ] as the term of the triumvirate was set to expire at the end of bc, the two unilaterally extended their term of office another five years until bc without seeking approval of the senate or the popular assemblies. to seal the treaty, antony's elder son marcus antonius antyllus, then only years old, was betrothed to octavian's only daughter julia, then only an infant. with the treaty signed, antony returned to the east, leaving octavia in italy. reconquest of judea[edit] with publius ventidius bassus returned to rome in triumph for his defensive campaign against the parthians, antony appointed gaius sosius as the new governor of syria and cilicia in early bc. antony, still in the west negotiating with octavian, ordered sosius to depose antigonus, who had been installed in the recent parthian invasion as the ruler of hasmonean judea, and to make herod the new roman client king in the region. years before in bc, the roman senate had proclaimed herod "king of the jews" because herod had been a loyal supporter of hyrcanus ii, rome's previous client king before the parthian invasion, and was from a family with long standing connections to rome.[ ] the romans hoped to use herod as a bulwark against the parthians in the coming campaign.[ ] advancing south, sosius captured the island-city of aradus on the coast of phoenicia by the end of bc. the following year, the romans besieged jerusalem. after a forty-day siege, the roman soldiers stormed the city and, despite herod's pleas for restraint, acted without mercy, pillaging and killing all in their path, prompting herod to complain to antony.[ ] herod finally resorted to bribing sosius and his troops in order that they would not leave him "king of a desert".[ ] antigonus was forced to surrender to sosius, and was sent to antony for the triumphal procession in rome. herod, however, fearing that antigonus would win backing in rome, bribed antony to execute antigonus. antony, who recognized that antigonus would remain a permanent threat to herod, ordered him beheaded in antioch. now secure on his throne, herod would rule the herodian kingdom until his death in bc, and would be an ever-faithful client king of rome. parthian campaign[edit] main article: antony's parthian war 	 	this section does not cite any sources. please help 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(january ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) with the triumvirate renewed in bc, antony returned to athens in the winter with his new wife octavia, the sister of octavian. with the assassination of the parthian king orodes ii by his son phraates iv, who then seized the parthian throne, in late bc, antony prepared to invade parthia himself. a late ptolemaic or roman sculpted head of an alexandrian nobleman, perhaps a depiction of mark antony, brooklyn museum antony, however, realized octavian had no intention of sending him the additional legions he had promised under the treaty of tarentum. to supplement his own armies, antony instead looked to rome's principal vassal in the east: his lover cleopatra. in addition to significant financial resources, cleopatra's backing of his parthian campaign allowed antony to amass the largest army rome had ever assembled in the east. wintering in antioch during , antony's combined roman–egyptian army numbered some , , including sixteen legions (approximately , soldiers) plus an additional , auxiliaries.[citation needed] such a force was twice the size of marcus licinius crassus's army from his failed parthian invasion of bc and three times those of lucius licinius lucullus and lucius cornelius sulla during the mithridatic wars.[citation needed] the size of his army indicated antony's intention to conquer parthia, or at least receive its submission by capturing the parthian capital of ecbatana. antony's rear was protected by rome's client kingdoms in anatolia, syria, and judea, while the client kingdoms of cappadocia, pontus, and commagene would provide supplies along the march. antony's first target for his invasion was the kingdom of armenia. ruled by king artavasdes ii of armenia, armenia had been an ally of rome since the defeat of tigranes the great by pompey the great in bc during the third mithridatic war. however, following marcus licinius crassus's defeat at the battle of carrhae in bc, armenia was forced into an alliance with parthia due to rome's weakened position in the east. antony dispatched publius canidius crassus to armenia, receiving artavasdes ii's surrender without opposition. canidius then led an invasion into the transcaucasia, subduing iberia. there, canidius forced the iberian king pharnavaz ii into an alliance against zober, king of neighboring albania, subduing the kingdom and reducing it to a roman protectorate. with armenia and the caucasus secured, antony marched south, crossing into the parthian province of media atropatene. though antony desired a pitched battle, the parthians would not engage, allowing antony to march deep into parthian territory by mid-august of bc. this forced antony to leave his logistics train in the care of two legions (approximately , soldiers), which was then attacked and completely destroyed by the parthian army before antony could rescue them. though the armenian king artavasdes ii and his cavalry were present during the massacre, they did not intervene. despite the ambush, antony continued the campaign. however, antony was soon forced to retreat in mid-october after a failed two-month siege of the provincial capital. the retreat soon proved a disaster as antony's demoralized army faced increasing supply difficulties in the mountainous terrain during winter while constantly being harassed by the parthian army. according to the greek historian plutarch, eighteen battles were fought between the retreating romans and the parthians during the month-long march back to armenia, with approximately , infantry and , cavalry dying during the retreat alone. once in armenia, antony quickly marched back to syria to protect his interests there by late bc, losing an additional , soldiers along the way. in all, two-fifths of his original army (some , men) had died during his failed campaign.[citation needed] antony and cleopatra[edit] further information: early life of cleopatra vii and reign of cleopatra vii meanwhile, in rome, the triumvirate was no more. octavian forced lepidus to resign after the older triumvir attempted to take control of sicily after the defeat of sextus. now in sole power, octavian was occupied in wooing the traditional republican aristocracy to his side. he married livia and started to attack antony in order to raise himself to power. he argued that antony was a man of low morals to have left his faithful wife abandoned in rome with the children to be with the promiscuous queen of egypt. antony was accused of everything, but most of all, of "going native", an unforgivable crime to the proud romans. several times antony was summoned to rome, but remained in alexandria with cleopatra.[ ] a map of the donations of alexandria (by mark antony to cleopatra and her children) in bc.   unallotted roman territory   donations to cleopatra's children   cleopatra's original kingdom again with egyptian money, antony invaded armenia, this time successfully. in the return, a mock roman triumph was celebrated in the streets of alexandria. the parade through the city was a pastiche of rome's most important military celebration. for the finale, the whole city was summoned to hear a very important political statement. surrounded by cleopatra and her children, antony ended his alliance with octavian. he distributed kingdoms among his children: alexander helios was named king of armenia, media and parthia (territories which were not for the most part under the control of rome), his twin cleopatra selene got cyrenaica and libya, and the young ptolemy philadelphus was awarded syria and cilicia. as for cleopatra, she was proclaimed queen of kings and queen of egypt, to rule with caesarion (ptolemy xv caesar, son of cleopatra by julius caesar), king of kings and king of egypt. most important of all, caesarion was declared legitimate son and heir of caesar. these proclamations were known as the donations of alexandria and caused a fatal breach in antony's relations with rome. while the distribution of nations among cleopatra's children was hardly a conciliatory gesture, it did not pose an immediate threat to octavian's political position. far more dangerous was the acknowledgment of caesarion as legitimate and heir to caesar's name. octavian's base of power was his link with caesar through adoption, which granted him much-needed popularity and loyalty of the legions. to see this convenient situation attacked by a child borne by the richest woman in the world was something octavian could not accept. the triumvirate expired on the last day of bc and was not renewed. another civil war was beginning. during and bc, a propaganda war was fought in the political arena of rome, with accusations flying between sides. antony (in egypt) divorced octavia and accused octavian of being a social upstart, of usurping power, and of forging the adoption papers by caesar. octavian responded with treason charges: of illegally keeping provinces that should be given to other men by lots, as was rome's tradition, and of starting wars against foreign nations (armenia and parthia) without the consent of the senate. antony was also held responsible for sextus pompey's execution without a trial. in bc, the senate deprived him of his powers and declared war against cleopatra – not antony, because octavian had no wish to advertise his role in perpetuating rome's internecine bloodshed. both consuls, gnaeus domitius ahenobarbus and gaius sosius, and a third of the senate abandoned rome to meet antony and cleopatra in greece. the battle of actium ( ) by laureys a castro (national maritime museum, london) in bc, the war started. octavian's general marcus vipsanius agrippa captured the greek city and naval port of methone, loyal to antony. the enormous popularity of octavian with the legions secured the defection of the provinces of cyrenaica and greece to his side. on september, the naval battle of actium took place. antony and cleopatra's navy was overwhelmed, and they were forced to escape to egypt with ships. death[edit] main article: death of cleopatra further information: epaphroditus (freedman of augustus) and tomb of antony and cleopatra this mid- st-century-bc roman wall painting in pompeii, italy, showing venus holding a cupid is most likely a depiction of cleopatra vii of ptolemaic egypt as venus genetrix, with her son caesarion as the cupid, similar in appearance to the now lost statue of cleopatra erected by julius caesar in the temple of venus genetrix (within the forum of caesar). the owner of the house of marcus fabius rufus at pompeii walled off the room with this painting, most likely in immediate reaction to the execution of caesarion on orders of augustus in bc, when artistic depictions of caesarion would have been considered a sensitive issue for the ruling regime.[ ][ ] octavian, now close to absolute power, did not intend to give antony and cleopatra any rest. in august, bc, assisted by agrippa, he invaded egypt. with no other refuge to escape to, antony stabbed himself with his sword in the mistaken belief that cleopatra had already done so. when he found out that cleopatra was still alive, his friends brought him to cleopatra's monument in which she was hiding, and he died in her arms. cleopatra was allowed to conduct antony's burial rites after she had been captured by octavian. realising that she was destined for octavian's triumph in rome, she made several attempts to take her life and finally succeeded in mid-august. octavian had caesarion and antyllus killed, but he spared iullus as well as antony's children by cleopatra, who were paraded through the streets of rome. aftermath and legacy[edit] cicero's son, cicero minor, announced antony's death to the senate.[ ] antony's honours were revoked and his statues removed,[ ] but he was not subject to a complete damnatio memoriae.[ ] cicero minor also made a decree that no member of the antonii would ever bear the name marcus again.[ ] "in this way heaven entrusted the family of cicero the final acts in the punishment of antony."[ ] when antony died, octavian became uncontested ruler of rome. in the following years, octavian, who was known as augustus after bc, managed to accumulate in his person all administrative, political, and military offices. when augustus died in ad , his political powers passed to his adopted son tiberius; the roman empire had begun. the rise of caesar and the subsequent civil war between his two most powerful adherents effectively ended the credibility of the roman oligarchy as a governing power and ensured that all future power struggles would centre upon which one individual would achieve supreme control of the government, eliminating the senate and the former magisterial structure as important foci of power in these conflicts. thus, in history, antony appears as one of caesar's main adherents, he and octavian augustus being the two men around whom power coalesced following the assassination of caesar, and finally as one of the three men chiefly responsible for the demise of the roman republic.[ ] marriages and issue[edit] fragmentary portrait bust from smyrna thought to depict octavia, sister of octavian and antony's wife a tetradrachm of marcus antonius and cleopatra vii of ptolemaic egypt antony was known to have an obsession with women, and sex.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] he had many mistresses (including cytheris) and had been married in succession to fadia, antonia, fulvia, octavia and cleopatra, and left behind him a number of children.[ ][ ] through his daughters by octavia, he would be ancestor to the roman emperors caligula, claudius and nero. 	marriage to fadia, a daughter of a freedman. according to cicero, fadia bore antony several children. nothing is known about fadia or their children. cicero is the only roman source that mentions antony's first wife. 	marriage to first paternal cousin antonia hybrida minor. according to plutarch, antony threw her out of his house in rome because she slept with his friend, the tribune publius cornelius dolabella. this occurred by bc and antony divorced her. by antonia, he had a daughter: 	antonia, granddaughter of gaius antonius hybrida, married the wealthy greek pythodoros of tralles. 	marriage to fulvia, by whom he had two sons: 	marcus antonius antyllus, murdered by octavian in bc. 	iullus antonius, married claudia marcella the elder, daughter of octavia. 	marriage to octavia the younger, sister of octavian, later emperor augustus; they had two daughters: 	antonia the elder married lucius domitius ahenobarbus (consul bc); maternal grandmother of the empress valeria messalina and paternal grandmother of the emperor nero. 	antonia the younger married nero claudius drusus, the younger son of the empress livia drusilla and brother of the emperor tiberius; mother of the emperor claudius, paternal grandmother of the emperor caligula and empress agrippina the younger, and maternal great-grandmother of the emperor nero. 	children with the queen cleopatra vii of egypt, the former lover of julius caesar: 	alexander helios 	cleopatra selene ii, married king juba ii of numidia and later mauretania; the queen of syria, zenobia of palmyra, was reportedly descended from selene and juba ii. 	ptolemy philadelphus. descendants[edit] through his daughters by octavia, he would become the paternal great grandfather of roman emperor caligula, the maternal grandfather of emperor claudius, and both maternal great-great-grandfather and paternal great-great uncle of the emperor nero of the julio-claudian dynasty, the very family, as represented by octavian augustus, that he had fought to defeat. through his eldest daughter, he would become ancestor to the long line of kings and co-rulers of the bosporan kingdom, the longest-living roman client kingdom, as well as the rulers and royalty of several other roman client states. through his daughter by cleopatra, antony would become ancestor to the royal family of mauretania, another roman client kingdom, while through his sole surviving son iullus, he would be ancestor to several famous roman statesmen. descendants of mark antony 	 . antonia, born bc, had child 	a. pythodorida of pontus, bc or bc – ad, had children 	i. artaxias iii, king of armenia, bc – ad, died without issue 	ii. polemon ii, king of pontus, bc or bc – ad, died without issue 	iii. antonia tryphaena, queen of thrace, bc – ad, had children 	a. rhoemetalces ii, king of thrace, died ad, died without issue 	b. gepaepyris, queen of the bosporan kingdom, had children 	i. tiberius julius mithridates, king of the bosporan kingdom, died ad, died without issue 	ii. tiberius julius cotys i, king of the bosporan kingdom, had child 	i. tiberius julius rhescuporis i, king of the bosporan kingdom, died ad, had child 	i. tiberius julius sauromates i, king of the bosporan kingdom, had child 	i. tiberius julius cotys ii, king of the bosporan kingdom, had child 	i. rhoemetalces, king of the bosporan kingdom, died ad, had child 	i. eupator, king of the bosporan kingdom, died ad, had child 	i. tiberius julius sauromates ii, king of the bosporan kingdom, died ad or ad, had children 	i. tiberius julius rhescuporis ii, king of the bosporan kingdom, died ad, had child 	i. tiberius julius rhescuporis iii, king of the bosporan kingdom, died ad 	ii. tiberius julius cotys iii, king of the bosporan kingdom, died ad, had children 	i. tiberius julius sauromates iii, king of the bosporan kingdom, died ad 	ii. tiberius julius rhescuporis iv, king of the bosporan kingdom, died ad 	iii. tiberius julius ininthimeus, king of the bosporan kingdom, died ad, had child 	i. tiberius julius rhescuporis v, king of the bosporan kingdom, died ad, had children 	i. tiberius julius pharsanzes, king of the bosporan kingdom, died ad 	ii. synges, king of the bosporan kingdom, died ad 	iii. tiberius julius teiranes, king of the bosporan kingdom, died ad, had children 	i. tiberius julius sauromates iv, king of the bosporan kingdom, died ad 	ii. theothorses, king of the bosporan kingdom, died ad, had children 	i. tiberius julius rhescuporis vi, king of the bosporan kingdom, died ad 	ii. rhadamsades, king of the bosporan kingdom, died ad 	iii. nana, queen of caucasian iberia, died ad 	i. rev ii of iberia 	i. sauromaces ii of iberia 	ii. trdat of iberia 	ii. aspacures ii of iberia 	c. cotys ix, king of lesser armenia 	d. pythodoris ii of thrace, died without issue 	 . marcus antonius antyllus, – bc, died without issue 	 . iullus antonius, – bc, had children 	a. antonius, died young, no issue 	b. lucius antonius, bc – ad, issue unknown 	c. iulla antonia ?? born after bc, issue unknown 	 . prince alexander helios of egypt, born bc, died without issue (presumably)[ ] 	 . cleopatra selene, queen of mauretania, bc – ad, had children 	a. ptolemy, king of mauretania, bc – ad, had child 	i. drusilla, queen of emesa, – ad, had child 	a. gaius julius alexio, king of emesa, had child 	b. princess drusilla of mauretania, born ad or bc 	 . antonia major, bc – before ad, had children 	a. domitia lepida the elder, c. bc – ad, had child 	i. quintus haterius antoninus 	b. gnaeus domitius ahenobarbus, bc – ad, had child 	i. nero (lucius domitius ahenobarbus) (see line of antonia minor below) 	c. domitia lepida the younger, bc – ad, had children 	i. marcus valerius messala corvinus 	ii. valeria messalina, or – ad, had children 	a. (messalina was the mother of the two youngest children of the roman emperor claudius listed below) 	iii. faustus cornelius sulla felix, – ad, had child 	a. a son (this child and the only child of the claudia antonia listed below are the same person) 	 . antonia minor, bc – ad, had children 	a. germanicus julius caesar, or bc – ad, had children 	i. nero julius caesar germanicus, – ad, died without issue 	ii. drusus julius caesar germanicus, – ad, died without issue 	iii. gaius julius caesar augustus germanicus (caligula), – ad, had child; 	a. julia drusilla, – ad, died young 	iv. julia agrippina (agrippina the younger), – ad, had child; 	a. nero claudius caesar augustus germanicus, – ad, had child; 	i. claudia augusta, january ad – april ad, died young 	v. julia drusilla, – ad, died without issue 	vi. julia livilla, – ad, died without issue 	b. claudia livia julia (livilla), bc – ad, had three children 	i. julia livia, – ad, had children 	a. gaius rubellius plautus, – ad, had several children[ ] 	b. rubellia bassa, born between ad and ad, had at least child[ ] 	i. octavius laenas, had at least child 	i. sergius octavius laenas pontianus 	c. gaius rubellius blandus 	d. rubellius drusus 	ii. tiberius julius caesar nero gemellus, – or ad, died without issue 	iii. tiberius claudius caesar germanicus ii gemellus, – ad, died young 	c. tiberius claudius caesar augustus germanicus, bc – ad, had children 	i. tiberius claudius drusus, died young 	ii. claudia antonia, c. – ad, had child 	a. a son, died young 	iii. claudia octavia, or – ad, died without issue 	iv. tiberius claudius caesar britannicus, – ad, died without issue 	 . prince ptolemy philadelphus of egypt, – bc, died without issue (presumably)[ ] artistic portrayals[edit] antony (george coulouris) addresses the crowd in the mercury theatre production of caesar ( ), orson welles's modern-dress adaptation of shakespeare's tragedy works in which the character of mark antony plays a central role: 	william shakespeare's julius caesar 	julius caesar ( film) based on this (played by marlon brando) 	julius caesar ( film) based on this (played by charlton heston) 	antony and cleopatra, several works with that title 	john dryden's all for love 	the film cleopatra (played by henry wilcoxon) 	the film serpent of the nile (played by raymond burr) 	the film cleopatra (played by richard burton) 	the film carry on cleo (played by sid james) 	the miniseries the cleopatras (played by christopher neame) 	the tv series xena: warrior princess (played by manu bennett) 	in the age of empires: the rise of rome, mark antony featured as a short swordsman. 	the film cleopatra (played by billy zane) 	the capcom video game shadow of rome, in which he is depicted as the main antagonist 	the tv mini series empire (played by vincent regan) 	the – hbo/bbc tv series rome (played by james purefoy) 	the – tv series horrible histories (played by mathew baynton), and the reboot series of the same name (portrayed by tom stourton in ) 	the bbc one docudrama ancient rome: the rise and fall of an empire (played by alex ferns) 	as cleopatra's guardian and level boss (of lust) in the xbox game dante's inferno released by visceral games in . 	the choices: stories you play visual novel a courtesan of rome, in which he is depicted as a love interest option. 	orson welles innovative adaptation of william shakespeare at mercury theatre has george coulouris as marcus antonius[ ] novels[edit] 	in colleen mccullough's masters of rome series ( – ), antony is portrayed as a deeply flawed character, a brave warrior but sexually promiscuous, often drunk and foolish, and a monster of vanity who loves riding in a chariot drawn by lions. 	margaret george's the memoirs of cleopatra ( ) 	conn iggulden's emperor novels ( – ) 	michael livingston's the shards of heaven ( )[ ][ ] poetry[edit] 	constantine p. cavafy's poem the god abandons antony, a hymn to human dignity, depicts the imaginary last moments of mark antony while he sees his fortunes turning around. 	lytle, william haines ( – ), antony and cleopatra see also[edit] 	flamen divi julii, priest of the cult of caesar, of which mark antony was the first to serve. 	antonia gens, the ancestral gens of mark antony. notes[edit] 	^ as recorded by a calendar inscription known as the fasti verulani (c. – ad) for january = degrassi, inscriptiones italiae . . – , as cited by jerzy linderski and anna kaminska-linderski, "the quaestorship of marcus antonius," phoenix . ( ), p. , note . the religious prohibition placed by augustus on the day, marked as a dies vitiosus ("defective" day), is explained by linderski, "the augural law", aufstieg und niedergang der römischen welt ii. ( ), pp. – . january is accepted as antony's birthday also by c.b.r. pelling, plutarch: life of antony (cambridge university press, ), p. , commentary to plutarch, antony . ; nikos kokkino, antonia augusta (routledge, ), p. ; pat southern, mark antony (tempus, ), p. ii; adrian goldsworthy, antony and cleopatra (yale university press, ), n.p.. according to suetonius (claudius . ), the emperor claudius, antony's grandson through maternal lineage, evaded the prohibition on commemorating antony's birthday by calculations showing that had he been born under the julian calendar he would have shared his birthday with drusus, the emperor's father. drusus was born in late march or early april, based on a reference that he was born "within the third month" after his mother livia married augustus on january; g. radke, "der geburtstag des älteren drusus," wurzburger jahrbucher fur die altertumswissenschaft ( ), pp. – , proposed that a birth date of march for drusus would resolve the chronological difficulties. radke's proposal is summarized in english by the commentary on suetonius' sentence by donna w. hurley, suetonius: divus claudius (cambridge university press, ), p. , and by marleen b. flory, "the symbolism of laurel in cameo portraits of livia," in memoirs of the american academy in rome (university of michigan press, ), vol. , p. , note . 	^ cicero is the only ancient source to mention a first marriage to an otherwise unknown fadia (philippics, xiii, ) 	^ ancient writers (e.g. appian, civil wars . . ) place the beginning of their famous romance at this meeting with antony totally surrendering to cleopatra's beauty but modern historians reject this notion as retrospective historical propaganda on the part of augustus. 	^ lepidus, though still a member of the triumvirate, was relegated to a junior position within the three-man dictatorship as antony and octavian established themselves. 	^ it is also speculated that antony's legions, composed largely of caesarian veterans, did not wish to fight the adoptive son of their former general. 	^ after celebrating his triumph, ventidius disappears from the historical record. references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ plutarch, life of antony . . 	^ suerbaum , – . 	^ a b huzar , p. 	^ goldsworthy, , p. 	^ a b huzar , p. 	^ a b scullard , p. 	^ huzar , p. 	^ eyben , p. 	^ "in ancient rome, political discourse was sometimes like an internet fight". zme science. august . retrieved december . 	^ history, mindy weisberger - - t : : z. 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(palaeographer) 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 ludwig traube ludwig traube (june , – may , ) was a paleographer and held the first chair of medieval latin in germany (at the ludwig maximilian university of munich). he was a son of the physician ludwig traube ( – ), and the brother of the chemist margarete traube ( – ).[ ] traube was born in berlin, the son of a middle-class jewish family, and studied at the universities of munich and greifswald. in he finished his ph.d. with a dissertation entitled varia libamenta critica. he finished his habilitation in classical and medieval philology in with a part of his book on carolingian poetry (karolingische dichtungen).[ ] in he became a member of the central management of monumenta germaniae historica. in he was appointed professor of latin philology of the middle ages at munich.[ ] in he discovered that he had leukemia, from which he died two years later.[ ] selected works[edit] 	o roma nobilis : philologische untersuchungen aus dem mittelalter, – o roma nobilis: philological studies from the middle ages. 	textgeschichte der regula s. benedicti, – textual history of regula benedicti. 	die geschichte der tironischen noten bei suetonius und isidorus, ( volumes) – the history of tironian notes from suetonius and isidorus. 	jean-baptiste maugérard: ein beitrag zur bibliotheksgeschicthe, – jean-baptiste maugérard, a contribution to library history. 	bamberger fragmente der vierten dekade des livius, – bamberger fragments of the fourth decade of livy. 	nomina sacra : versuch einer geschichte der christlichen kürzung, – nomina sacra. essay on the history of christian abbreviations. 	zur paläographie und handschriftenkunde, (edited by franz boll) – on palaeography and manuscript studies. 	einleitung in die lateinische philologie des mittelalters, (edited by franz boll, paul lehmann) – introduction to latin philology of the middle ages. 	vorlesungen und abhandlungen, – ( volumes, edited by franz boll, samuel brandt) – lectures and essays.[ ][ ] references[edit] 	^ "traube mengarini margarethe (margherita) — scienza a due voci". scienzaa voci.unibo.it. retrieved - - . 	^ karolingische dichtungen hathitrust digital library 	^ thibaut - zycha, volume dictionary of german biography, edited by walther killy 	^ berlin for jews: a twenty-first-century companion by leonard barkan 	^ hathitrust digital library published works 	^ idref.fr (bibliography) external links[edit] 	works by or about ludwig traube at internet archive 	authority control 	 	bibsys: 	bnf: cb s (data) 	cantic: a 	cinii: da x 	gnd: x 	isni: 	lccn: n 	nkc: jn 	nla: 	nli: 	nsk: 	nta: 	rero: -a 	snac: w zb h 	sudoc: 	trove: 	vcba: / 	viaf: 	 worldcat identities: lccn-n 	 	this article on a german linguist is a stub. you can help wikipedia by expanding it.	v 	t 	e retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ludwig_traube_(palaeographer)&oldid= " 		categories: 	 births 	 deaths 	 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contemporary reputation of being the most learned man of his generation in italy; he was the author of a set of commentaries on the works of virgil. these works, in tria virgilii opera expositio, constituted the first incunable to be printed at florence, by bernardo cennini, . in the saturnalia of macrobius, servius appears as one of the interlocutors; allusions in that work and a letter from symmachus to servius indicate that he was not a convert to christianity. contents 	 commentary on virgil 	 other works 	 references 	 . citations 	 . sources 	 external links commentary on virgil[edit] the commentary on virgil (latin: in vergilii aeneidem commentarii) has survived in two distinct manuscript traditions.[ ] the first is a comparatively short commentary, which is attributed to servius in the superscription in the manuscripts and by other internal evidence. a second class of manuscripts, all deriving from the th and th centuries, embed the same text in a much expanded commentary. the copious additions are in contrast to the style of the original; none of these manuscripts bears the name of servius, and the commentary is known traditionally as servius auctus or servius danielis, from pierre daniel who first published it in .[ ] "the added matter is undoubtedly ancient, dating from a time but little removed from that of servius, and is founded to a large extent on historical and antiquarian literature which is now lost. the writer is anonymous and probably a christian",[ ] although not if, as is often suggested, he is aelius donatus. a third class of manuscripts, written for the most part in italy, gives the core text with interpolated scholia, which demonstrate the continued usefulness of the virgilii opera expositio. the authentic commentary of maurus servius honoratus is in effect the only complete extant edition of a classic author written before the collapse of the empire in the west. it is constructed very much on the principle of a modern edition, and is partly founded on an extensive virgilian critical literature, much of which is known only from the fragments and facts preserved in this commentary. the notices of virgil's text, though seldom or never authoritative in face of the existing manuscripts, which go back to, or even beyond, the time of servius, yet supply valuable information concerning the ancient recensions and textual criticism of virgil. in the grammatical interpretation of his author's language, servius does not rise above the stiff and overwrought subtleties of his time; while his etymologies, as is natural, violate every modern law of sound and sense in favour of creative excursus. servius set his face against the prevalent allegorical methods of exposition of text. for the antiquarian and the historian, the abiding value of his work lies in his preservation of facts in roman history, religion, antiquities and language, which but for him might have perished. not a little of the laborious erudition of varro and other ancient scholars has survived in his pages. other works[edit] besides the virgilian commentary, other works of servius are extant: a collection of notes on the grammar (ars grammatica) of aelius donatus; a treatise on metrical endings in verse (de finalibus); and a tract on the different poetic meters (de centum metris). the edition of georg thilo and hermann hagen ( – ), remains the only edition of the whole of servius' work. currently in development is the harvard servius (servianorum in vergili carmina commentariorum editio harvardiana); of the projected five volumes, two have so far appeared, i (aeneid – ), , and ii (aeneid – ), . references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ the manuscript tradition is examined by charles e. murgia, prolegomena to servius : the manuscripts (university of california classical studies ), university of california press, . 	^ (in italian) i. biffi and c. marabelli (eds.), figure del pensiero medievale. fondamenti e inizi iv-ix secolo, jaca book, , p. 	^ encyclopædia britannica : sub "servius maurus honoratus" sources[edit] 	e. k. rand, "is donatus's commentary on virgil lost?" classical quarterly ( ), – . donatus's authorship of the supplementary material. 	"the manuscripts of the commentary of servius danielis on virgil", harvard studies in classical philology ( ), – ; 	"the manuscripts of servius's commentary on virgil", harvard studies in classical philology ( ), – . 	casali, sergio and fabio stok (edd.). servio: stratificazioni esegetiche e modelli culturali / servius: exegetical stratifications and cultural models (bruxelles: Éditions latomus, ) (collection latomus, ). external links[edit] 		latin wikisource has original text related to this article: maurus servius honoratus 	commentary on the aeneid of vergil at the perseus project in latin. 	commentary on the eclogues of vergil at the perseus project in latin. 	de centum metris at intratext.com 	de centum metris at forum romanorum 	servii grammatici qui feruntur in vergilii carmina commentarii, georius thilo, hermannus hagen (ed.), vol., lipsiae in aedibus b. g. teubneri, – : vol. , vol. , vol. part , vol. part . 	authority control 	 	bibsys: 	bne: xx 	bnf: cb b (data) 	cantic: a 	gnd: 	isni: 	lccn: n 	nkc: mzk 	nsk: 	nta: 	rero: -a 	selibr: 	sudoc: 	trove: 	vcba: / 	viaf: 	 worldcat identities: lccn-n retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=maurus_servius_honoratus&oldid= " 		categories: 	grammarians of latin 	virgil 	aeneid 	 th-century latin writers 	byzantine-era pagans 	 th-century latin writers hidden categories: 	articles with italian-language sources (it) 	articles containing latin-language text 	wikipedia articles with bibsys identifiers 	wikipedia articles with bne identifiers 	wikipedia articles with bnf identifiers 	wikipedia articles with cantic identifiers 	wikipedia articles with gnd identifiers 	wikipedia articles with isni identifiers 	wikipedia articles with lccn identifiers 	wikipedia articles with nkc identifiers 	wikipedia articles with nsk identifiers 	wikipedia articles with nta identifiers 	wikipedia articles with rero identifiers 	wikipedia articles with selibr identifiers 	wikipedia articles with sudoc identifiers 	wikipedia articles with trove identifiers 	wikipedia articles with vcba identifiers 	wikipedia articles with viaf identifiers 	wikipedia articles with worldcatid identifiers 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			article 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	edit 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		search 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigation 	 	 			main page 	contents 	current events 	random article 	about wikipedia 	contact us 	donate 		 	 	 	 		contribute 	 	 			help 	learn to edit 	community portal 	recent changes 	upload file 		 	 	 		tools 	 	 			what links here 	related changes 	upload file 	special pages 	permanent link 	page information 	cite this page 	wikidata item 		 	 	 		print/export 	 	 			download as pdf 	printable version 		 	 	 		in other projects 	 	 			wikimedia commons 		 	 	 	 		languages 	 	 			asturianu 	Български 	brezhoneg 	català 	Čeština 	deutsch 	Ελληνικά 	español 	esperanto 	français 	galego 	한국어 	bahasa indonesia 	italiano 	עברית 	latina 	magyar 	nederlands 	日本語 	norsk bokmål 	polski 	português 	Русский 	srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски 	suomi 	Українська 	中文 		edit links 	 		 this page was last edited on july , at :  (utc). 	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; 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his object in his teaching was to inculcate the exact use of the latin language in place of the artificialities of such st-century authors as seneca the younger, and encourage the use of "unlooked-for and unexpected words", to be found by diligent reading of pre-ciceronian authors. he found fault with cicero for inattention to that refinement, though admiring his letters without reserve. he may well have died in the late s, as a result of the antonine plague that followed the parthian war, though conclusive proof is lacking. c.r. haines asserts he died in or .[ ] surviving works[edit] until , the only extant works ascribed (erroneously) to fronto were two grammatical treatises, de nominum verborumque differentiis and exempla elocutionum (the latter being really by arusianus messius). in that year, angelo mai discovered in the ambrosian library at milan a palimpsest manuscript, on which had been originally written some of fronto's letters to his imperial pupils and their replies; four years later mai found several more sheets from this manuscript in the vatican. these palimpsests had originally belonged to the famous convent of st columbanus at bobbio, and had been written over by the monks with the acts of the first council of chalcedon. the letters from the ambrosian palimpsest, together with the other fragments, were published at rome in . the vatican texts were added in , as well as the end of his gratiarum actio pro carthaginiensibus from another vatican manuscript. it was not until that bernhard bischoff identified a third manuscript (consisting of a single leaf) that contained fragments of fronto's correspondence with verus which overlapped the milan palimpsest; however, the actual manuscript had been first published in by dom tassin, who conjectured that it might have been the work of fronto.[ ] these fragments disappointed romantic scholars as not matching the writer's great reputation, partly because fronto's teachings, with their emphasis on studying ancient writers in search of striking words, were not in accordance with current fashion (italy, where not only mai but leopardi enthused over them, was an exception), partly because they gave no support to the assumption that fronto had been a wise counsellor to marcus aurelius (indeed, they contain no trace of political advice), partly because his frequent complaints about ill-health, especially those collected in book of ad m. caesarem, aroused more annoyance than compassion; these adverse judgements were reversed once fronto was read for what he was rather than what he was not, as already in the sympathetic treatment by dorothy brock, studies in fronto and his age (cambridge: cambridge university press, ). the bulk of the letters consist of correspondence with antoninus pius, marcus aurelius and lucius verus, in which the character of fronto's pupils appears in a very favourable light, especially in the affection they both seem to have retained for their old master[ ] there are also letters to friends, chiefly letters of recommendation, but including one (ad amicos . ) in which an out-of-sorts fronto (ego epistulas invitissime scribo, "i hate writing letters") complains of aulus gellius' attempts to procure copies of his writings for publication. (fronto appears in five chapters of the noctes atticae, though expressing tastes that sometime seem closer to gellius' own than to those evinced in the letters.) the collection also contains treatises on eloquence, some historical fragments, and literary trifles on such subjects as the praise of smoke and dust, of negligence, and a dissertation on arion. in addition, a fragment of a speech is preserved by minucius felix (octavius . - ) in which fronto accuses the christians of incestuous orgies. marcus aurelius, in his meditations, says nothing of fronto's rhetorical teaching; nor, although writing in greek, does he so much as mention his teacher of greek rhetoric and longtime friend herodes atticus. he does, however, credit fronto with teaching him about the vices of tyranny and the lack of affection in the roman upper class ( . ); since the former were commonplaces, there may be a concealed reference to life under hadrian, whom fronto retrospectively claims to have feared rather than loved,[ ] but the latter is borne out by the master's remark that there is no latin equivalent for the greek philóstorgos, meaning "affectionate".[ ] the editio princeps was by mai, as described above; the standard edition is the teubner text by m. van den hout (leipzig, ). the loeb classical library printed an edition of fronto's correspondence with a facing english translation by c. r. haines in two volumes ( – ); its text, though dated, is still of interest. van den hout also published a full-scale commentary in english (leiden, ). references[edit] 	^ werner eck, "die fasti consulares der regungszeit des antoninus pius, eine bestandsaufnahme seit géza alföldys konsulat und senatorenstand" in studia epigraphica in memoriam géza alföldy, hg. w. eck, b. feher, and p. kovács (bonn, ), p. 	^ "or a year or two earlier", c.r. haines, p.lii. see also p. xxiii: "the probable date of his birth is a.d., and in any case before a.d." 	^ ad m. caesarem . . ; cf. a. r. birley, the african emperor (london: batsford, ), . 	^ edward champlin, fronto and antonine rome (cambridge, ma: harvard university press, ), – . 	^ ballif, michelle; moran, michael g. ( ). classical rhetorics and rhetoricians: critical studies and sources. greenwood. p.  . isbn  - . 	^ hout, michel p j ( ). a commentary on the letters of m. cornelius fronto. brill. p.  . isbn  - . 	^ champlin, fronto, 	^ fronto, m. cornelius ( ). fronto: selected letters. bloomsbury academic. p.  . isbn  - . 	^ greek letters-marcus cornelius fronto 	^ aulus gellius, . 	^ w. eck and m. m. roxan in festschrift für hans lieb , p. - 	^ "there can be little doubt that he predeceased verus and died in or ". c.r. haines, p. xl. 	^ this account of fronto's rediscovery is based on l.d. reynolds (editor), texts and transmission: a survey of the latin classics (oxford: clarendon press, ), pp. f. 	^ amy richlin, marcus aurelius in love (chicago: university of chicago press, ). 	^ ad m. caesarem . . ; a certain distancing from hadrian may be observed in the actions of antoninus pius and the words of marcus aurelius. 	^ ad verum . . , ad amicos . . (margin). further reading[edit] 	champlin, e. . fronto and antonine rome. cambridge, ma: harvard univ. press. 	claassen, j. m. . "cornelius fronto: a “libyan nomad” at rome." acta classica : – . 	fleury, p. . "marcus aurelius’ letters." in a companion to marcus aurelius. edited by m. van ackeren, – . oxford and malden, ma: blackwell. 	freisenbruch, a. . "back to fronto: doctor and patient in his correspondence with an emperor." in ancient letters: classical and late antique epistolography. edited by r. morello and a. d. morrison, – . oxford: oxford univ. press. 	kemezis, a. m. . "lucian, fronto, and the absence of contemporary historiography under the antonines." american journal of philology : – . 	keulen, w. . "fronto and apuleius: two african careers in the roman empire." in apuleius and africa. edited by b. todd lee, e. finkelpearl, and l. graverini, – . london: routledge. 	mullen, a. . “in both our languages:" greek-latin code-switching in roman literature." language and literature : – . 	richlin, a. . "parallel lives: domitia lucilla and cratia, fronto and marcus." eugesta : – . 	ronnick, m. v. . "substructural elements of architectonic rhetoric and philosophical thought in fronto’s epistles." in roman eloquence: rhetoric in society and literature. edited by w. j. dominik, – . london and new york: routledge. 	wei, r. . 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and informal capital of the western roman empire. it declined under the ravages of the gothic war, its capture by the lombards in , and their decision to make ticinum the capital of their kingdom of italy. during the principate the population was , in ad ; when the city became capital of the western roman empire under emperor maximian (r. – ), the population rose to , people and thus milan became one of the largest cities in roman italy.[ ][ ][ ] contents 	 history 	 extant structures 	 legacy 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 external links history[edit] ruins of the emperor's palace ° ′ . ″n ° ′ . ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; . in milan. here constantine and licinius issued the edict of milan. arcadius solidus, from the mediolanum mint, c - . arena games: ivory cup depicting staged hunts and chariot races, found in milan, th- th century. roman columns in front of basilica di san lorenzo mediolanum appears to have been founded around bc by the celtic insubres, after whom this region of northern italy was called insubria. according to the legend reported by livy, the gaulish king ambicatus sent his nephew bellovesus into northern italy at the head of a party drawn from various gaulish tribes; this bellovesus was said to have founded mediolanum (in the time of tarquinius priscus, according to this legend).[ ] the romans, led by consul gnaeus cornelius scipio calvus, fought the insubres and captured the city in bc; the chief of the insubres submitted to rome, giving the romans control of the city.[ ] they eventually conquered the entirety of the region, calling the new province cisalpine gaul – "gaul this side of the alps" – and may have given the site its latinized celtic name: in gaulish *medio – meant "middle, center" and the name element -lanon is the celtic equivalent of latin -planum "plain", thus *mediolanon (latinized as mediolānum) meant "(settlement) in the midst of the plain."[ ][ ] mediolanum was important for its location as a hub in the road network of northern italy. polybius describes the country as abounding in wine, and every kind of grain, and in fine wool. herds of swine, both for public and private supply, were bred in its forests, and the people were well known for their generosity.[ ] during the augustan age mediolanum was famous for its schools; it possessed a theater and an amphitheatre ( . x . m[ ]). a large stone wall encircled the city in caesar's time, and later was expanded in the late third century ad, by maximian. mediolanum was made the seat of the prefect of liguria (praefectus liguriae) by hadrian, and constantine made it the seat of the vicar of italy (vicarius italiae). in the third century mediolanum possessed a mint,[ ] a horreum and imperial mausoleum. in , roman legions under the command of emperor gallienus soundly defeated the alemanni in the battle of mediolanum. in , diocletian moved the capital of the western roman empire from rome to mediolanum. he chose to reside at nicomedia in the eastern empire, leaving his colleague maximian at mediolanum. maximian built several gigantic monuments, the large circus ( x metres), the thermae or "baths of hercules", a large complex of imperial palaces and other services and buildings of which fewer visible traces remain. maximian increased the city area surrounded by a new, larger stone wall (about .  km long) encompassing an area of acres with many -sided towers. the monumental area had twin towers; one that was included in the convent of san maurizio maggiore remains , m high. it was from mediolanum that the emperor constantine issued what is now known as the edict of milan in ad , granting tolerance to all religions within the empire, thus paving the way for christianity to become the dominant religion of the empire. constantine was in mediolanum to celebrate the wedding of his sister to the eastern emperor, licinius. there were christian communities in mediolanum, which contributed its share of martyrs during the persecutions,[ ] but the first bishop of milan who has a firm historical presence is merocles, who was at the council of rome of . in the mid-fourth century, the arian controversy divided the christians of mediolanum; constantius supported arian bishops and at times there were rival bishops. auxentius of milan (died ) was a respected arian theologian. at the time of the bishop st. ambrose (bishop – ), who quelled the arians, and emperor theodosius i, mediolanum reached the height of its ancient power.[ ] the city also possessed a number of basilicas, added in the late fourth century ad. these are san simpliciano, san nazaro, san lorenzo and the chapel of san vittore, located in the basilica of sant'ambrogio. in general, the late empire encouraged the development of the applied arts in mediolanum, with ivory and silver work being common in public building projects. in the crypt of the duomo survive ruins of the ancient church of saint tecla and the baptisty where st. augustine of hippo was baptized. in , the city was besieged by the goths and the imperial residence was moved to ravenna. in , it was besieged again by attila, but the real break with its imperial past came in , during the gothic war, when mediolanum was laid to waste by uraia, a nephew of witiges, king of the goths, with great loss of life.[ ] the lombards took ticinum as their capital (renaming it ‘papia’, hence the modern pavia), and early medieval milan was left to be governed by its archbishops. extant structures[edit] some of the monuments of the roman mediolanum still to be seen in milan: 	in the basilica of s. ambrogio: 	the chapel of s. vittore, with late antique mosaics 	the so‑called "tomb of stilicho", assembled from a roman sarcophagus and other material. 	a large collection of inscriptions. 	the colonne di san lorenzo, a colonnade in front of the church of s. lorenzo. 	roman lapidary material in the archi di porta nuova. 	the scant remains of a large amphitheatre, now in an archaeological park dedicated to their preservation. 	a tower ( . m high) of the circus, now inside the convento di san maurizio maggiore. 	a bit of moenia (walls) and a tower with sides (maximian, rd century) 	the church of san lorenzo (iv-v sec.) and the san aquilino chapel. 	ruins of the imperial palace. 	some ruins from the baths of hercules; further remains of ceilings and floors are in the archaeological museum. 	the body of st. ambrose (d.  ) and those possibly of ss. gervasius and protasius — or at any rate, of earlier men, found in st. ambrose's time, are still seen in the crypt of the church of s. ambrogio. 	crypt of san giovanni in conca 	a bit of the moenia and some remnants of pavements in piazza missori and in the namesake station of milan metro. legacy[edit] the ancient city name is commemorated in the mediolanum forum at assago and the mediolanum corporate university, milan. see also[edit] 	milan#history, for the medieval and modern history of milan 	walls of milan 	diocletian notes[edit] 	^ morley, neville ( december ). metropolis and hinterland: the city of rome and the italian economy, bc-ad . cambridge university press. p.  . isbn  . 	^ a companion to latin studies. cup archive. . p.  . 	^ macadam, alta; rossiter, stuart; blanchard, paul; muirhead, findlay; bertarelli, luigi vittorio ( ). northern italy, from alps to florence. a & c black. 	^ livius, ab urbe condita . - . . 	^ polybius, histories 	^ delamarre, xavier ( ). dictionnaire de la langue gauloise (in french) ( nd ed.). paris: errance. pp.  – . isbn  - - - . 	^ compare g. quintela and v. marco '"celtic elements in northwestern spain in pre-roman times" e-keltoi: journal of interdisciplinary celtic studies, , referring to "a toponym, clearly in the second part of the composite medio-lanum (=milan), meaning 'plain' or flat area..." 	^ harry thurston peck, harpers dictionary of classical antiquities ( ): "gallia cisalpina" 	^ benario, herbert w. ( ). "amphitheatres of the roman world". the classical journal. ( ): – . jstor  . measurements as given p. ; it was not, as is sometimes claimed, the third largest in the world after the flavian amphitheatre in rome and the vast amphitheatre in capua. 	^ though trajan decius may have struck coinage at mediolanum, the sequence begins with gallienus, c ; the mint at mediolanum, transferred to ticinum by aurelian, ranked with rome and siscia (modern sisak in croatia) as one of the three great mints of the empire. mattingly, h. ( ). "the mints of the empire: vespasian to diocletian". journal of roman studies. : – [p. ]. doi: . / . jstor  . 	^ there were milanese cults of saints gervasius and protasius, st. victor maurus ( ), sts. nabor and felix, and sts. nazarius and celsus and the legendary saint sebastian. 	^ the princeton encyclopedia of classical sites (eds. richard stillwell, william l. macdonald, marian holland mcallister) 	^ according to procopius, the losses at milan amounted to , men. references[edit] 	polybius ( ). histories. london, new york: macmillan. [ ] 	thurston peck, harry ( ). harpers dictionary of classical antiquities. new york: harper and brothers. [ ] 	macdonald stillwell, richard; mcalister, william l.; holland, marian ( ). the princeton encyclopedia of classical sites. princeton: princeton university press. isbn  . 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on december , at :  (utc). 	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 mos maiorum - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	mos maiorum 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		the customs and traditions of ancient rome the roman family, or domus, was one of the ways that the mos maiorum was passed along through the generations the mos maiorum (classical latin: [ˈmoːs majˈjoːrʊ̃]; "ancestral custom"[ ] or "way of the ancestors," plural mores, cf. english "mores"; maiorum is the genitive plural of "greater" or "elder") is the unwritten code from which the ancient romans derived their social norms. it is the core concept of roman traditionalism,[ ] distinguished from but in dynamic complement to written law. the mos maiorum was collectively the time-honoured principles, behavioural models, and social practices that affected private, political, and military life in ancient rome.[ ] contents 	 family and society 	 tradition and evolution 	 values 	 . fides 	 . pietas 	 . religio and cultus 	 . disciplina 	 . gravitas and constantia 	 . virtus 	 . dignitas and auctoritas 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links family and society[edit] the roman family (the familia, better translated as "household" than "family") was hierarchical, as was roman society. these hierarchies were traditional and self-perpetuating, that is, they supported and were supported by the mos maiorum. the pater familias, or head of household, held absolute authority over his familia, which was both an autonomous unit within society and a model for the social order,[ ] but he was expected to exercise this power with moderation and to act responsibly on behalf of his family. the risk and pressure of social censure if he failed to live up to expectations was also a form of mos.[citation needed] the distinctive social relationship of ancient rome was that between patron (patronus) and client (cliens). although the obligations of this relationship were mutual, they were also hierarchical. the relationship was not a unit, but a network (clientela), as a patronus might himself be obligated to someone of higher status or greater power, and a cliens might have more than one patron, whose interests might come into conflict. if the familia was the discrete unit underlying society, these interlocking networks countered that autonomy and created the bonds that made a complex society possible.[ ] although one of the major spheres of activity within patron-client relations was the law courts, patronage was not itself a legal contract; the pressures to uphold one's obligations were moral, founded on the quality of fides, "trust" (see values below), and the mos.[ ] patronage served as a model[ ] when conquerors or governors abroad established personal ties as patron to whole communities, ties which then might be perpetuated as a family obligation. in this sense, mos becomes less a matter of unchanging tradition than precedent.[ ] tradition and evolution[edit] roman conservatism finds succinct expression in an edict of the censors from bc, as preserved by the nd-century historian suetonius: "all new that is done contrary to the usage and customs of our ancestors, seems not to be right."[ ] however, because the mos maiorum was a matter of custom, not written law, the complex norms that it embodied evolved over time. the ability to preserve a strongly-centralised sense of identity while it adapted to changing circumstances permitted the expansionism that took rome from city-state to world power.[ ] the preservation of the mos maiorum depended on consensus and moderation among the ruling elite whose competition for power and status threatened it.[ ] democratic politics, driven by the charismatic appeal of individuals (populares) to the roman people (populus), potentially undermined the conservative principle of the mos.[ ] because the higher magistracies and priesthoods were originally the prerogative of the patricians, the efforts of plebeians (the plebs) for access could be cast as a threat to tradition (see conflict of the orders). reform was accomplished by legislation, and written law replaced consensus.[ ] when plebeians gained admission to nearly all the highest offices, except for a few arcane priesthoods, the interests of plebeian families who ascended to the elite began to align with those of the patricians, creating rome's nobiles, an elite social status of nebulous definition during the republic.[ ] the plebs and their support of popular politicians continued as a threat to the mos and elite consensus into the late republic, as noted in the rhetoric of cicero.[ ] during the transition to the christian empire, quintus aurelius symmachus argued that rome's continued prosperity and stability depended on preserving the mos maiorum, and the early christian poet prudentius dismissed the blind adherence to tradition as "the superstition of old grandpas" (superstitio veterum avorum) and inferior to the new revealed truth of christianity.[ ] after the final collapse of the western roman empire in ad and ascension of the various barbarian kingdoms, the old roman mores were then either superseded by or synthesized with the traditions of the germanic elite and subsequent feudal values. values[edit] traditional roman values were essential to the mos maiorum:[citation needed] fides[edit] 	the latin word fides encompasses several english words, such as trust/trustworthiness, good faith/faithfulness, confidence, reliability and credibility.[ ] it was an important concept in roman law, as oral contracts were common.[ ] the concept of fides was personified by the goddess fides whose role in the mos maiorum is indicated by the antiquity of her cult.[ ] her temple is dated from around bc[ ] and was located on the capitoline hill in rome, near the temple of jupiter. pietas[edit] 	pietas was the roman attitude of dutiful respect towards the gods, homeland, parents and family, which required the maintenance of relationships in a moral and dutiful manner.[ ] cicero defined pietas as "justice towards the gods.”[ ] it went beyond sacrifice and correct ritual performance to inner devotion and righteousness of the individual, and it was the cardinal virtue of the roman hero aeneas in vergil's aeneid. the use of the adjectival form pius as a cognomen reflects its importance as an identifying trait. like fides, pietas was cultivated as a goddess, with a temple vowed to her in bc[ ] and dedicated ten years later. religio and cultus[edit] 	related to the latin verb religare, "to bind", religio was the bond between gods and mortals, as carried out in traditional religious practices[ ] for preserving the pax deorum (“peace of the gods”). cultus was the active observance and the correct performance of rituals.[ ] religious practice, in this sense, is to be distinguished from pietas and its inherent morality. see religion in ancient rome and imperial cult (ancient rome). disciplina[edit] 	the military character of roman society suggests the importance of disciplina, as related to education, training, discipline and self-control.[citation needed] gravitas and constantia[edit] 	gravitas was dignified self-control.[ ] constantia was steadiness or perseverance.[ ] in the face of adversity, a good roman was to display an unperturbed façade. roman myth and history reinforced this value by recounting tales of figures such as gaius mucius scaevola,[ ] who in a founding legend of the republic demonstrated his seriousness and determination to the etruscan king lars porsenna by holding his right hand in a fire. virtus[edit] 	derived from the latin word vir ("man"), virtus constituted the ideal of the true roman male.[ ] gaius lucilius discusses virtus in some of his work and says that it is virtus for a man to know what is good, evil, useless, shameful or dishonorable.[ ] dignitas and auctoritas[edit] 	dignitas and auctoritas were the end result of displaying the values of the ideal roman and the service of the state, in the forms of priesthoods, military positions and magistracies. dignitas was reputation for worth, honour and esteem. thus, a roman who displayed their gravitas, constantia, fides, pietas and other values of a roman would possess dignitas among their peers. similarly, by that path, a roman could earn auctoritas ("prestige and respect").[ ] see also[edit] 	religion in ancient rome – ancestral ethnic religion of the city of rome 	o tempora o mores ("oh what times! oh what customs!") 	roman polytheistic reconstructionism – contemporary reconstructionist movement reviving traditional roman religion notes[edit] 	^ karl-j. hölkeskamp, reconstructing the roman republic: an ancient political culture and modern research (princeton university press, ), p. online. 	^ mos maiorum, brill online. 	^ hölkeskamp, reconstructing the roman republic, pp. – . 	^ hölkeskamp, reconstructing the roman republic, p. . 	^ carlin a. barton, the sorrows of the ancient romans: the gladiator and the monster (princeton university press, ), pp. – . 	^ hölkeskamp, reconstructing the roman republic, pp. – . 	^ cicero, de officiis . . 	^ erich s. gruen, "patrocinium and clientela," in the hellenistic world and the coming of rome (university of california press, ), vol. , pp. – . 	^ suetonius, de claris rhetoribus, i. 	^ see, for instance, hölkeskamp's reference to the republic's "capacity for self-regulation", reconstructing the roman republic, p. . erich s. gruen, the last generation of the roman republic (university of california press, ), p. . 	^ hölkeskamp, reconstructing the roman republic, pp. , – et passim. 	^ hölkeskamp, reconstructing the roman republic, p. . 	^ gruen, the last generation of the roman republic, pp. , , – . 	^ the second samnite war was a crucial period in the formation of this new elite; see e.t. salmon, samnium and the samnites (cambridge university press, ), p. , and erich s. gruen, "patrocinium and clientela," in the hellenistic world and the coming of rome (university of california press, ), p. online. 	^ t.p. wiseman, clio's cosmetics (leicester university press, ), pp. – , , et passim. 	^ clifford ando, "the palladium and the pentateuch: towards a sacred topography of the later roman empire," phoenix ( ), p. . 	^ hölkeskamp, reconstructing the roman republic, p. . 	^ “bona fides,” berger. pg 	^ adkins. pg 	^ ziolkowski, “temples” 	^ adkins. p. 	^ de natura deorum. . 	^ according to livy, ab urbe condita. xxxx. 	^ adkins. pg 	^ adkins. pg 	^ ward. p. 	^ ab urbe condita. xxii. . see also ogilvie’s commentary on livy - . 	^ ab urbe condita. ii. 	^ ward. p. 	^ ward. p. 	^ ward. p. references[edit] 	adkins, l. and adkins, r. dictionary of roman religion. new york: oxford university press, . 	berger, adolph. encyclopedic dictionary of roman law. philadelphia: the american philosophical society, . 	brill's new pauly. antiquity volumes edited by: huber cancik and helmuth schneider. brill, brill online. 	oxford classical dictionary. rd revised ed. new york: oxford university press, . 	stambaugh, john e. the ancient roman city. baltimore: the johns hopkins university press, . 	ward, a., heichelheim, f., yeo, c. a history of the roman people. th ed. new jersey: prentice hall, . further reading[edit] 	fredericks, s. c. . mos maiorum in juvenal and tacitus. university of pennsylvania pr. 	hoffmann, zsuzsanna. . "the parody of the idea of mos maiorum in plautus." oikumene , iii, - . 	hölkeskamp, karl-joachim. . reconstructing the roman republic: an ancient political culture and modern research (translated by henry heitmann-gordon; revised, updated, and augmented by the author). princeton/oxford: princeton university press. 	kenty, joanna. . "congenital virtue: mos maiorum in cicero's orations." classical journal . : - 	segal, erich. . “o tempora, o mos maiorum.” in the conflict of generations in ancient greece and rome, edited by bertman, stephen s., - . amsterdam: grüner. 	tröster, manuel. . 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organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 mimnermus - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	mimnermus 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 mimnermus was one of several ancient, greek poets who composed verses about solar eclipses, and there was a total solar eclipse of his home town, smyrna, on april , bc[ ] his poetry survives only as a few fragments yet they afford us a glimpse of his "brilliantly vivid" style.[ ] mimnermus (greek: Μίμνερμος mímnermos) was a greek elegiac poet from either colophon or smyrna in ionia, who flourished about – bc. he was strongly influenced by the example of homer yet he wrote short poems suitable for performance at drinking parties and was remembered by ancient authorities chiefly as a love poet. mimnermus in turn exerted a strong influence on hellenistic poets such as callimachus and thus also on roman poets such as propertius, who even preferred him to homer for his eloquence on love themes (see comments by other poets below). his work was collected by alexandrian scholars in just two "books" (relatively few compared for example with the twenty-six books for stesichorus) and today only small fragments survive. the fragments confirm the ancient estimate of him as a "consummate poet"[ ] but also indicate that he was a "sturdier character" than the indulgent love poet he was assumed to be by various ancient commentators.[ ] almost no reliable, biographical details have been recorded. one ancient account linked him romantically with a flute girl who subsequently gave her name, nanno, to one of his two books. contents 	 life and work 	 nanno 	 poetic style 	 . comments by other poets 	 . . solon 	 . . hermesianax 	 . . callimachus 	 . . propertius 	 . . horace 	 translations 	 references 	 external links life and work[edit] the byzantine encyclopaedia suda provides a good example of the biographical uncertainties. mimnermus, son of ligyrtyades, from colophon or smyrna or astypalaea, an elegiac poet. he flourished in the th olympiad ( – bc) and so is earlier than the seven sages, although some say that he was their contemporary. he was also called ligyaistades because of his harmonious clarity. he wrote ... books.[ ] the gap indicates a corruption in the text and the original wording probably testified to two books, though the only source we have for this number was the grammarian pomponius porphyrion.[ ] the suda's mention of astypalaea, an island in the southern aegean, as a possible candidate for the poet's home town is mere fantasy.[ ] smyrna seems to be the most likely candidate.[ ] the nickname ligyaistades was probably taken by the suda from an elegy addressed to mimnermus by one of the seven sages—the athenian lawgiver and elegiac poet, solon (see comments by other poets). solon clearly admired the skills of the older poet, whom he addressed as ligyaistades, yet he objected to his hedonism and singled out this couplet for criticism: the aulos was an instrument that might accompany the singing of elegies (brygos painter, attic red-figured kylix, ca. bc) αἲ γὰρ ἄτερ νούσων τε καὶ ἀργαλέων μελεδωνέων 		ἑξηκονταέτη μοῖρα κίχοι θανάτου. would that my fated death might come at sixty, unattended by sickness and grievous cares.[ ] solon thought he should be willing to live to eighty. plutarch was another ancient author critical of the poet's self-indulgence, dismissing one poem (see fragment in poetic style below) as "the utterances of intemperate people."[ ] mimnermus however was not timid in his hedonism, as indicated by a couplet attributed to him in the palatine anthology, an exhortation to others to live intemperately: "enjoy yourself. some of the harsh citizens will speak ill of you, some better.". however, the same lines have also been attributed to theognis.[ ] a robust side to his personality is shown by his versatility as a poet. archaic elegy was often used for patriotic purposes, to screw courage to the sticking place in times of war and to celebrate national achievements, and there is ample evidence that mimnermus assumed this role as a poet. a quote recorded by the geographer strabo represents the earliest surviving account of the ionian migration, celebrating the settlement of colophon and smyrna from pylos,[ ] [ ] while another quotation, recorded by stobaeus, describes the heroic exploits of a greek warrior against the cavalry of the lydian king, gyges, early in the th century—mimnermus evidently hoped thereby to strengthen his countrymen's resolve against further lydian encroachments.[ ] the name "mimnermus" might have been chosen by his parents to commemorate a famous smyrnean victory against gyges near the hermus river (and yet names ending in -ermus were quite common in ionia).[ ] he was alive when smyrna was besieged for the final time by the lydians under alyattes of lydia and possibly he died with the town.[ ] the disappearance of smyrna for the next three hundred years might be the reason why colophon was able to claim the poet as one of its own, yet smyrna's own claim persisted and this suggests that its claim had the advantage of being true.[ ] smyrna lay near mount sipylos, one of whose rocky outcrops was traditionally imagined to be the tragic figure niobe. like other archaic poets, mimnermus adapted myths to his own artistic needs and aelian recorded that he attributed twenty children to niobe, unlike homer, for example, who attributed twelve to her.[ ] according to sallustius, mimnermus was just as creative in his poetical account of ismene, representing her as being killed by tydeus at the command of the goddess, athena, in the very act of making love to theoclymenus[ ]—an original account that was soon accepted by an international audience, being represented on an early corinthian amphora[ ] (pictured below). imaginative accounts of the sun, voyaging at night from west to east in a golden bed, and of jason the argonaut voyaging to "aeetes' city, where the rays of the swift sun lie in a golden storeroom at the edge of oceanus", survive in brief quotes by ancient authors.[ ] according to strabo, smyrna was named after an amazon and, according to a manuscript on proverbs, mimnermus once composed on the theme of the proverb "a lame man makes the best lover", illustrating the amazonian practice of maiming their men.[ ] nanno[edit] unlike epic and lyric verse, which were accompanied by stringed instruments (the cithara and barbiton respectively), elegy was accompanied by a wind instrument (the aulos) and its performance therefore required at least two people—one to sing and one to play.[ ] ancient accounts associate mimnermus with a female aulos player, nanno, and one makes him her lover (see quote from hermesianax in comments by other poets below). another ancient source indicates that mimnermus was a pederast,[ ] which is consistent with conventional sexual themes in greek elegy. however, as noted by martin litchfield west, mimnermus could have been a pederast and yet still have composed elegies about his love for nanno: "greek pederasty ... was for the most part a substitute for heterosexual love, free contacts between the sexes being restricted by society."[ ] mimnermus apparently was also capable of playing all by himself—strabo described him as "both a pipe-player and an elegiac poet".[ ] according to the poet hipponax, mimnermus when piping used the melancholy "fig-branch strain," apparently a traditional melody played while scapegoats were ritually driven from town, whipped with fig branches.[ ] weeping stone, mount sipylos—associated with the tragic figure of niobe. ancient commentators sometimes refer to a work called nanno and there is one clear reference to a work called smyrneis. modern scholars have concluded that these could be the two books mentioned by porphyrion. the nanno appears to have been a collection of short poems on a variety of themes (not just love), whereas the smyrneis appears to have been a quasi-epic about smyrna's confrontation with the lydians. a cryptic comment by the hellenistic poet callimachus (see comments by other poets below) also seems to refer to those two books, commending one for "sweetness" and distinguishing it from "the great lady". the latter seems to be a reference to smyrneis, whereas the sweet verses—apparently the slender, economical kind of verses on which callimachus modelled his own poetry—appear to refer to nanno. however, the comment is preserved as an incomplete fragment and modern scholars are not unanimous in their interpretation of it.[ ] another callimachus fragment has been interpreted as proof that mimnermus composed some iambic verse but this conjecture has also been disputed.[ ] poetic style[edit] corinthian vase depicting mimnermus's original account of ismene's death. tydeus is depicted in black (usual for a male), ismene and her fleeing lover theoclymenus are white (usual for females and appropriate for an adulterous male on the run).[ ] elegy has been described as "a variation upon the heroic hexameter, in the direction of lyric poetry,"[ ] and, in mimnermus, this takes the form of a variation on homer, as appears for example in fragment , quoted below, about which one modern scholar had this to say" mimnermus' dependence on homer is striking: it is amusing to see him express such un-homeric thoughts as those of fr. in language which is almost entirely homer's. homer's vocabulary, line-endings, formulas, similes, all reappear, but from this material mimnermus creates quite a distinctive poetry of easy grace and pleasing rhythm. — david a. campbell[ ] 						fragment 	τίς δὲ βίος, τί δὲ τερπνὸν ἄτερ χρυσῆς Ἀφροδίτης; 	τεθναίην, ὅτε μοι μηκέτι ταῦτα μέλοι, 	κρυπταδίη φιλότης καὶ μείλιχα δῶρα καὶ εὐνή· 	οἷ’ ἥβης ἄνθεα γίγνεται ἁρπαλέα 	ἀνδράσιν ἠδὲ γυναιξίν· ἐπεὶ δ’ ὀδυνηρὸν ἐπέλθῃ 	γῆρας, ὅ τ’ αἰσχρὸν ὁμῶς καὶ καλὸν ἄνδρα τιθεῖ, 	αἰεί μιν φρένας ἀμφὶ κακαὶ τείρουσι μέριμναι, 	οὐδ’ αὐγὰς προσορῶν τέρπεται ἠελίου, 	ἀλλ’ ἐχθρὸς μὲν παισίν, ἀτίμαστος δὲ γυναιξίν· 	οὕτως ἀργαλέον γῆρας ἔθηκε θεός. typically, the elegiac couplet enabled a poet to develop his ideas in brief, striking phrases, often made more memorable by internal rhyme in the shorter, pentameter line.[ ] mimnermus employs the internal rhyme in the pentameter lines (μοι... μέλοι) and (ἄνθεα...ἁρπαλέα). here is the same poem paraphrased in english to imitate the rhythms of an elegy, with half-rhymes employed in the same lines (far...for) and (youth...bloom): 		what is life, what is sweet, if it is missing golden aphrodite? 	death would be better by far than to live with no time for 	amorous assignations and the gift of tenderness and bedrooms, 	all of those things that give youth all of its covetted bloom, 	both for men and for women. but when there arrives the vexatiousness 	of old age, even good looks alter to unsightliness 	and the heart wears away under the endlessness of its anxieties: 	there is no joy anymore then in the light of the sun; 	in children there is found hate and in women there is found no respect. 	so difficult has old age been made for us all by god! commenting on the poem, maurice bowra observed that "...after the challenging, flaunting opening we are led through a swift account of youth, and then as we approach the horrors of old age, the verse becomes slower, the sentences shorter, the stops more emphatic, until the poet closes with a short, damning line of summary."[ ] of all the other early elegists, only archilochus might be compared with mimnermus for effective use of language,[ ] both being lifelong poets of outstanding skill.[ ] comments by other poets[edit] solon[edit] addressing mimnermus and criticizing him for his stated wish to die at sixty years of age, as quoted above in life and work, the athenian sage said: 	 ἀλλ᾽ εἴ μοι κἂν νῦν ἔτι πείσεαι, ἔξελε τοῦτον:— μηδὲ μέγαιρ᾽ ὅτι σεῦ λῷον ἐπεφρασάμην:— καὶ μεταποίησον, Λιγυαιστάδη, ὧδε δ᾽ ἄειδε: ὀγδωκονταέτη μοῖρα κίχοι θανάτου.[ ] 	 but if even now you will listen to me, remove this (i.e. mimnermus's objectionable verse)— and do not be offended because my thoughts are better than yours— and changing it, ligyaistades, sing as follows: may my fated death come at eighty.[ ] 	 	 hermesianax[edit] "and mimnermus who, after much suffering, discovered the sweet sound and breath given off by the soft pentameter, was on fire for nanno..."[ ] callimachus[edit] defining the kind of poetry he liked and believed best suited to his own, much later times, the alexandrian scholar-poet commended mimnermus thus [brackets indicate gaps in the text]: "of the two [types of poetry] it was his slender [verses?], not the big lady, that revealed mimnermus' sweetness. propertius[edit] 	 plus in amore valet mimnermi versus homero: :carmina mansuetus lenia quaerit amor. [ ] 	 in love the verses of mimnermus prevail over those of homer. gentle love calls for soft songs.[ ] 	 	 horace[edit] 	 si, mimnermus uti censet, sine amore iocisque nil est iucundum, vivas in amore iocisque.[ ] 	 if, as mimnermus believes, without love and jests there is no joy, may you live amid love and jests.[ ] 	 	 translations[edit] 	greek lyric: an anthology in translation by andrew m. miller 	loeb vol. lyric poetry 	several fragments translated by steve hays 	translation of fragment into elegiac couplets references[edit] 	^ plutarch de.facie.lun., cited and annotated by douglas e. gerber, greek elegiac poetry, loeb ( ), pages – 	^ j.p.barron and p.e.easterling, "early greek elegy", p.easterling and b.knox (ed.s), the cambridge history of classical literature:greek literature, cambridge university press ( ), page 	^ douglas e. gerber, greek elegiac poetry, loeb/harvard university press ( ), page isbn  	^ david a. campbell, greek lyric poetry, bristol classical press ( ), page 	^ suda, cited and translated by douglas e. gerber, greek elegiac poetry, loeb ( ), page note 	^ porph. on hor. epist. . . , cited, translated and annotated by douglas e. gerber, greek elegiac poetry, loeb ( ), page note 	^ douglas e. gerber, greek elegiac poetry, loeb ( ), page note 	^ a. allen, the fragments of mimnermus: text and commentary, (stuttgart ) page note 	^ douglas e. gerber, greek elegiac poetry, loeb ( ), page 	^ plutarch de virt.mor. . f, cited and translated by douglas e. gerber, greek elegiac poetry, loeb ( ), page 	^ anth.pal. . = theognis – , cited, translated and annotated by douglas e. gerber, greek elegiac poetry, loeb ( ), pages and 	^ j.p. barron and p.e. easterling, "early greek elegy", p. easterling and b. knox (ed.s), the cambridge history of classical literature:greek literature, cambridge university press ( ), page 	^ strabo . . and . . , cited by douglas e. gerber, greek elegiac poetry, loeb ( ), pages – 	^ stobaeus . . , cited and annotated by douglas e. gerber, greek elegiac poetry, loeb ( ), pages – 	^ martin litchfield west, studies in greek elegy and iambus, walter de gruyter and co. ( ), page 	^ stobaeus . . , cited by david a. campbell, greek lyric poetry, bristol classical press ( ), pages – 	^ david a. campbell, greek lyric poetry, bristol classical press ( ), pages 	^ aelian v.h. . , cited and annotated by douglas e. gerber, greek elegiac poetry, loeb ( ), page 	^ sallustius' preface to sophocles, antigone, cited by douglas e. gerber, greek elegiac poetry, loeb ( ), page 	^ j.p.barron and p.e.easterling, "early greek elegy", p.easterling and b.knox (ed.s), the cambridge history of classical literature:greek literature, cambridge university press ( ), page 	^ athenaeus . a, and strabo . . , cited by douglas e. gerber, greek elegiac poetry, loeb ( ), page – 	^ manuscript on proverbs, cited and annotated by douglas e. gerber, greek elegiac poetry, loeb ( ), page – 	^ j.p. barron and p.e. easterling, "early greek elegy", p. easterling and b. knox (ed.s), the cambridge history of classical literature:greek literature, cambridge university press ( ), page 	^ alexander aetolus fr. . – powell ap. ath. . b, cited by douglas e. gerber, greek elegiac poetry, loeb ( ), page 	^ martin litchfield west, studies in greek elegy and iambus, walter de gruyter and co. ( ), page 	^ strabo . . , cited by douglas e. gerber, greek elegiac poetry, loeb ( ), page 	^ pseudo-plutarch de musica . f = hipponax fr. w., cited and annotated by douglas e. gerber, greek elegiac poetry, loeb ( ), page 	^ a. allen, the fragments of mimnermus: text and commentary, (stuttgart ) pages – 	^ douglas e. gerber, a companion to greek lyric poets, brill ( ) page 	^ james i porter (ed), construction of the classical body, university of michigan press ( ), pages , google preview 	^ w.r.hardie, res metrica , cited by david a. campbell, greek lyric poetry, bristol classical press ( ), page xxiv-v 	^ david a. campbell, greek lyric poetry, bristol classical press ( ), pages - 	^ david a. campbell, greek lyric poetry, bristol press ( ), page xxv 	^ maurice bowra, e.g.e. , quoted by david a. campbell, greek lyric poetry, bristol press ( ), page 	^ douglas e. gerber, a companion to greek lyric poets, brill ( ) page 	^ j.p. barron and p.e. easterling, 'early greek elegy', p. easterling and b. knox (ed.s), the cambridge history of classical literature:greek literature, cambridge university press ( ), page - 	^ solon quoted by diogenes laertius . 	^ douglas e. gerber, greek elegiac poetry, loeb ( ), page 	^ hermesianax fr. . - powell ap. ath. . f, cited by douglas e. gerber, greek elegiac poetry, loeb ( ), page 	^ propertius . . - 	^ douglas e. gerber, greek elegiac poetry, loeb ( ), page 	^ horace, epist. . . - 	^ douglas e. gerber, greek elegiac poetry, loeb ( ), page external links[edit] 	 quotations related to mimnermus at wikiquote 	 greek wikisource has original text related to this article: Μίμνερμος 	mimnermus poems at demonax.info 	authority control 	 	bibsys: 	bne: xx 	bnf: cb z (data) 	cantic: a 	gnd: 	isni: 	lccn: n 	nta: 	rero: -a 	selibr: 	sudoc: 	vcba: / 	viaf: 	 worldcat identities: viaf- retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=mimnermus&oldid= " 		categories: 	ancient greek elegiac poets 	 th-century bc greek people 	 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	seneca the younger 	publius clodius thrasea paetus 	epictetus 	junius rusticus 	marcus aurelius 	 stoic works 	discourses of epictetus 	epistulae morales ad lucilium 	the meditations 	 similar positions 	cynicism 	aristotelianism 	middle platonism 	 contrary positions 	pyrrhonism 	academic skepticism 	epicureanism 	  philosophy portal 		v 	t 	e stoicism is a school of hellenistic philosophy founded by zeno of citium in athens in the early rd century bc. it is a philosophy of personal ethics informed by its system of logic and its views on the natural world. according to its teachings, as social beings, the path to eudaimonia (happiness, or blessedness) is found in accepting the moment as it presents itself, by not allowing oneself to be controlled by the desire for pleasure or by the fear of pain, by using one's mind to understand the world and to do one's part in nature's plan, and by working together and treating others fairly and justly. the stoics are especially known for teaching that "virtue is the only good" for human beings, and those external things—such as health, wealth, and pleasure—are not good or bad in themselves (adiaphora), but have value as "material for virtue to act upon." alongside aristotelian ethics, the stoic tradition forms one of the major founding approaches to virtue ethics.[ ] the stoics also held that certain destructive emotions resulted from errors of judgment, and they believed people should aim to maintain a will (called prohairesis) that is "in accordance with nature." because of this, the stoics thought the best indication of an individual's philosophy was not what a person said but how a person behaved.[ ] to live a good life, one had to understand the rules of the natural order since they thought everything was rooted in nature. many stoics—such as seneca and epictetus—emphasized that because "virtue is sufficient for happiness," a sage would be emotionally resilient to misfortune. this belief is similar to the meaning of the phrase "stoic calm," though the phrase does not include the "radical ethical" stoic views that only a sage can be considered truly free and that all moral corruptions are equally vicious.[ ] stoicism flourished throughout the roman and greek world until the rd century ad, and among its adherents was emperor marcus aurelius. it experienced a decline after christianity became the state religion in the th century ad. since then it has seen revivals, notably in the renaissance (neostoicism) and in the contemporary era (modern stoicism).[ ] contents 	 name 	 . origins 	 . modern usage 	 basic tenets 	 history 	 logic 	 . propositional logic 	 . categories 	 . epistemology 	 physics 	 ethics 	 . the doctrine of "things indifferent" 	 . spiritual exercise 	 social philosophy 	 influence on christianity 	 stoic philosophers 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 . primary sources 	 . studies 	 external links name[edit] origins[edit] stoicism was originally known as "zenonism", after the founder zeno of citium. however, this name was soon dropped, likely because the stoics did not consider their founders to be perfectly wise, and to avoid the risk of the philosophy becoming a cult of personality.[ ] the name "stoicism" derives from the stoa poikile (ancient greek: ἡ ποικίλη στοά), or "painted porch", a colonnade decorated with mythic and historical battle scenes, on the north side of the agora in athens, where zeno and his followers gathered to discuss their ideas.[ ][ ] sometimes stoicism is therefore referred to as "the stoa", or the philosophy of "the porch".[ ] modern usage[edit] the word "stoic" commonly refers to someone who is indifferent to pain, pleasure, grief, or joy.[ ] the modern usage as a "person who represses feelings or endures patiently" was first cited in as a noun and in as an adjective.[ ] in contrast to the term "epicurean", the stanford encyclopedia of philosophy's entry on stoicism notes, "the sense of the english adjective 'stoical' is not utterly misleading with regard to its philosophical origins."[ ] basic tenets[edit] philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. for as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life. — epictetus, discourses . . , robin hard revised translation the stoics provided a unified account of the world, constructed from ideals of logic, monistic physics and naturalistic ethics. of these, they emphasized ethics as the main focus of human knowledge, though their logical theories were of more interest for later philosophers. stoicism teaches the development of self-control and fortitude as a means of overcoming destructive emotions; the philosophy holds that becoming a clear and unbiased thinker allows one to understand the universal reason (logos). stoicism's primary aspect involves improving the individual's ethical and moral well-being: "virtue consists in a will that is in agreement with nature."[ ] this principle also applies to the realm of interpersonal relationships; "to be free from anger, envy, and jealousy,"[ ] and to accept even slaves as "equals of other men, because all men alike are products of nature".[ ] the stoic ethic espouses a deterministic perspective; in regard to those who lack stoic virtue, cleanthes once opined that the wicked man is "like a dog tied to a cart, and compelled to go wherever it goes".[ ] a stoic of virtue, by contrast, would amend his will to suit the world and remain, in the words of epictetus, "sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy,"[ ] thus positing a "completely autonomous" individual will, and at the same time a universe that is "a rigidly deterministic single whole". this viewpoint was later described as "classical pantheism" (and was adopted by dutch philosopher baruch spinoza).[ ] history[edit] antisthenes, founder of the cynic school of philosophy beginning around  bc, zeno taught philosophy at the stoa poikile ("painted porch"), from which his philosophy got its name.[ ] unlike the other schools of philosophy, such as the epicureans, zeno chose to teach his philosophy in a public space, which was a colonnade overlooking the central gathering place of athens, the agora. zeno's ideas developed from those of the cynics, whose founding father, antisthenes, had been a disciple of socrates. zeno's most influential follower was chrysippus, who was responsible for molding what is now called stoicism. later roman stoics focused on promoting a life in harmony within the universe, over which one has no direct control. bust of seneca scholars usually divide the history of stoicism into three phases: 	early stoa, from zeno's founding to antipater. 	middle stoa, including panaetius and posidonius. 	late stoa, including musonius rufus, seneca, epictetus, and marcus aurelius. no complete works survive from the first two phases of stoicism. only roman texts from the late stoa survive.[ ] stoicism became the foremost popular philosophy among the educated elite in the hellenistic world and the roman empire,[ ] to the point where, in the words of gilbert murray "nearly all the successors of alexander [...] professed themselves stoics."[ ] logic[edit] main article: stoic logic propositional logic[edit] diodorus cronus, who was one of zeno's teachers, is considered the philosopher who first introduced and developed an approach to logic now known as propositional logic, which is based on statements or propositions, rather than terms, making it very different from aristotle's term logic. later, chrysippus developed a system that became known as stoic logic and included a deductive system, stoic syllogistic, which was considered a rival to aristotle's syllogistic (see syllogism). new interest in stoic logic came in the th century, when important developments in logic were based on propositional logic. susanne bobzien wrote, "the many close similarities between chrysippus's philosophical logic and that of gottlob frege are especially striking."[ ] bobzien also notes that "chrysippus wrote over books on logic, on virtually any topic logic today concerns itself with, including speech act theory, sentence analysis, singular and plural expressions, types of predicates, indexicals, existential propositions, sentential connectives, negations, disjunctions, conditionals, logical consequence, valid argument forms, theory of deduction, propositional logic, modal logic, tense logic, epistemic logic, logic of suppositions, logic of imperatives, ambiguity and logical paradoxes."[ ] categories[edit] main article: stoic categories the stoics held that all beings (ὄντα)—though not all things (τινά)—are material.[ ] besides the existing beings they admitted four incorporeals (asomata): time, place, void, and sayable.[ ] they were held to be just 'subsisting' while such a status was denied to universals.[ ] thus, they accepted anaxagoras's idea (as did aristotle) that if an object is hot, it is because some part of a universal heat body had entered the object. but, unlike aristotle, they extended the idea to cover all accidents. thus if an object is red, it would be because some part of a universal red body had entered the object. they held that there were four categories. 	substance (ὑποκείμενον) 		the primary matter, formless substance, (ousia) that things are made of 	quality (ποιόν) 		the way matter is organized to form an individual object; in stoic physics, a physical ingredient (pneuma: air or breath), which informs the matter 	somehow disposed (πως ἔχον) 		particular characteristics, not present within the object, such as size, shape, action, and posture make for yourself a definition or description of the thing which is presented to you, so as to see distinctly what kind of a thing it is in its substance, in its nudity, in its complete entirety, and tell yourself its proper name, and the names of the things of which it has been compounded, and into which it will be resolved. for nothing is so productive of elevation of mind as to be able to examine methodically and truly every object that is presented to you in life, and always to look at things so as to see at the same time what kind of universe this is, and what kind of use everything performs in it, and what value everything has with reference to the whole. — marcus aurelius, meditations, iii. 	somehow disposed in relation to something (πρός τί πως ἔχον) 		characteristics related to other phenomena, such as the position of an object within time and space relative to other objects stoics outlined what we have control over categories of our own action, thoughts and reaction. the opening paragraph of the enchiridion states the categories as: "things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in a word, whatever are not our own actions." these suggest a space that is within our own control. epistemology[edit] the stoics propounded that knowledge can be attained through the use of reason. truth can be distinguished from fallacy—even if, in practice, only an approximation can be made. according to the stoics, the senses constantly receive sensations: pulsations that pass from objects through the senses to the mind, where they leave an impression in the imagination (phantasiai) (an impression arising from the mind was called a phantasma).[ ] the mind has the ability to judge (συγκατάθεσις, synkatathesis)—approve or reject—an impression, enabling it to distinguish a true representation of reality from one that is false. some impressions can be assented to immediately, but others can achieve only varying degrees of hesitant approval, which can be labeled belief or opinion (doxa). it is only through reason that we gain clear comprehension and conviction (katalepsis). certain and true knowledge (episteme), achievable by the stoic sage, can be attained only by verifying the conviction with the expertise of one's peers and the collective judgment of humankind. physics[edit] main article: stoic physics see also: de mundo according to the stoics, the universe is a material reasoning substance (logos),[ ] known as god or nature, which was divided into two classes: the active and the passive. the passive substance is matter, which "lies sluggish, a substance ready for any use, but sure to remain unemployed if no one sets it in motion".[ ] the active substance, which can be called fate or universal reason (logos),[ ] is an intelligent aether or primordial fire, which acts on the passive matter: the universe itself is god and the universal outpouring of its soul; it is this same world's guiding principle, operating in mind and reason, together with the common nature of things and the totality that embraces all existence; then the foreordained might and necessity of the future; then fire and the principle of aether; then those elements whose natural state is one of flux and transition, such as water, earth, and air; then the sun, the moon, the stars; and the universal existence in which all things are contained. — chrysippus, in cicero, de natura deorum, i. everything is subject to the laws of fate, for the universe acts according to its own nature, and the nature of the passive matter it governs. the souls of humans and animals are emanations from this primordial fire, and are, likewise, subject to fate: constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things that exist; observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the structure of the web. — marcus aurelius, meditations, iv. individual souls are perishable by nature, and can be "transmuted and diffused, assuming a fiery nature by being received into the seminal reason ("logos spermatikos") of the universe".[ ] since right reason is the foundation of both humanity and the universe, it follows that the goal of life is to live according to reason, that is, to live a life according to nature. stoic theology is a fatalistic and naturalistic pantheism: god is never fully transcendent but always immanent, and identified with nature. abrahamic religions personalize god as a world-creating entity, but stoicism equates god with the totality of the universe; according to stoic cosmology, which is very similar to the hindu conception of existence, there is no absolute start to time, as it is considered infinite and cyclic. similarly, the space and universe have neither start nor end, rather they are cyclical. the current universe is a phase in the present cycle, preceded by an infinite number of universes, doomed to be destroyed ("ekpyrōsis", conflagration) and re-created again,[ ] and to be followed by another infinite number of universes. stoicism considers all existence as cyclical, the cosmos as eternally self-creating and self-destroying (see also eternal return). stoicism, just like indian religions such as hinduism, buddhism, and jainism, does not posit a beginning or end to the universe.[ ] according to the stoics, the logos was the active reason[ ] or anima mundi pervading and animating the entire universe. it was conceived as material and is usually identified with god or nature. the stoics also referred to the seminal reason ("logos spermatikos"), or the law of generation in the universe, which was the principle of the active reason working in inanimate matter. humans, too, each possess a portion of the divine logos, which is the primordial fire and reason that controls and sustains the universe.[ ] the first philosophers to explicitly describe nominalist arguments were the stoics, especially chrysippus.[ ][ ] ethics[edit] ancient stoics are often misunderstood because the terms they used pertained to different concepts than today. the word "stoic" has since come to mean "unemotional" or indifferent to pain because stoic ethics taught freedom from "passion" by following "reason." the stoics did not seek to extinguish emotions; rather, they sought to transform them by a resolute "askēsis", that enables a person to develop clear judgment and inner calm.[ ] logic, reflection, and focus were the methods of such self-discipline, temperance is split into self-control, discipline, and modesty. borrowing from the cynics, the foundation of stoic ethics is that good lies in the state of the soul itself; in wisdom and self-control. stoic ethics stressed the rule: "follow where reason leads."[citation needed] one must therefore strive to be free of the passions, bearing in mind that the ancient meaning of "passion" was "anguish" or "suffering",[ ] that is, "passively" reacting to external events, which is somewhat different from the modern use of the word. a distinction was made between pathos (plural pathe) which is normally translated as passion, propathos or instinctive reaction (e.g., turning pale and trembling when confronted by physical danger) and eupathos, which is the mark of the stoic sage (sophos). the eupatheia are feelings that result from the correct judgment in the same way that passions result from incorrect judgment. the idea was to be free of suffering through apatheia (greek: ἀπάθεια; literally, "without passion") or peace of mind,[ ] where peace of mind was understood in the ancient sense—being objective or having "clear judgment" and the maintenance of equanimity in the face of life's highs and lows. for the stoics, reason meant using logic and understanding the processes of nature—the logos or universal reason, inherent in all things. according to reason and virtue, living according to reason and virtue is to live in harmony with the divine order of the universe, in recognition of the common reason and essential value of all people. the four cardinal virtues (aretai) of stoic philosophy is a classification derived from the teachings of plato (republic iv. – ): 	wisdom (greek: φρόνησις "phronesis" or σοφία "sophia", latin: prudentia or sapientia) 	courage (greek: ανδρεία "andreia", latin: fortitudo) 	justice (greek: δικαιοσύνη "dikaiosyne", latin: iustitia) 	temperance (greek: σωφροσύνη "sophrosyne", latin: temperantia) following socrates, the stoics held that unhappiness and evil are the results of human ignorance of the reason in nature. if someone is unkind, it is because they are unaware of their own universal reason, which leads to the conclusion of unkindness. the solution to evil and unhappiness then is the practice of stoic philosophy: to examine one's own judgments and behavior and determine where they diverge from the universal reason of nature. the stoics accepted that suicide was permissible for the wise person in circumstances that might prevent them from living a virtuous life.[ ] plutarch held that accepting life under tyranny would have compromised cato's self-consistency (constantia) as a stoic and impaired his freedom to make the honorable moral choices.[ ] suicide could be justified if one fell victim to severe pain or disease,[ ] but otherwise suicide would usually be seen as a rejection of one's social duty.[ ] in an article for abc news, mick mulroy the former deputy secretary of defense for the middle east under secretary jim mattis and also a retired u.s. marine, advocated for using stoicism as the philosophy for the u.s. military due to its views on controlling anger and fear as well as the stoic concept of universal brotherhood. [ ] the doctrine of "things indifferent"[edit] main article: adiaphora see also: eudaimonia in philosophical terms, things that are indifferent are outside the application of moral law—that is without tendency to either promote or obstruct moral ends. actions neither required nor forbidden by the moral law, or that do not affect morality, are called morally indifferent. the doctrine of things indifferent (ἀδιάφορα, adiaphora) arose in the stoic school as a corollary of its diametric opposition of virtue and vice (καθήκοντα kathekonta, "convenient actions", or actions in accordance with nature; and ἁμαρτήματα hamartemata, mistakes). as a result of this dichotomy, a large class of objects were left unassigned and thus regarded as indifferent. eventually three sub-classes of "things indifferent" developed: things to prefer because they assist life according to nature; things to avoid because they hinder it; and things indifferent in the narrower sense. the principle of adiaphora was also common to the cynics. philipp melanchthon revived the doctrine of things indifferent during the renaissance. spiritual exercise[edit] marcus aurelius, the stoic roman emperor philosophy for a stoic is not just a set of beliefs or ethical claims; it is a way of life involving constant practice and training (or "askēsis"). stoic philosophical and spiritual practices included logic, socratic dialogue and self-dialogue, contemplation of death, mortality salience, training attention to remain in the present moment (similar to mindfulness and some forms of buddhist meditation), and daily reflection on everyday problems and possible solutions e.g. with journaling. philosophy for a stoic is an active process of constant practice and self-reminder. in his meditations, marcus aurelius defines several such practices. for example, in book ii.i: say to yourself in the early morning: i shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. all of the ignorance of real good and ill...i can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can i be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together... prior to aurelius, epictetus in his discourses, distinguished between three types of act: judgment, desire, and inclination.[ ] according to french philosopher pierre hadot, epictetus identifies these three acts with logic, physics and ethics respectively.[ ] hadot writes that in the meditations, "each maxim develops either one of these very characteristic topoi [i.e., acts], or two of them or three of them."[ ] seamus mac suibhne has described the practices of spiritual exercises as influencing those of reflective practice.[ ] many parallels between stoic spiritual exercises and modern cognitive behavioral therapy have been identified.[ ] stoics were also known for consolatory orations, which were part of the consolatio literary tradition. three such consolations by seneca have survived. stoics commonly employ ‘the view from above’, reflecting on society and otherness in guided visualization, aiming to gain a "bigger picture", to see ourselves in context relevant to others, to see others in the context of the world, to see ourselves in the context of the world to help determine our role and the importance of happenings. marcus aurelius, meditations, in book . it is stated; a fine reflection from plato. one who would converse about human beings should look on all things earthly as though from some point far above, upon herds, armies, and agriculture, marriages and divorces, births and deaths, the clamour of law courts, deserted wastes, alien peoples of every kind, festivals, lamentations, and markets, this intermixture of everything and ordered combination of opposites. social philosophy[edit] a distinctive feature of stoicism is its cosmopolitanism; according to the stoics, all people are manifestations of the one universal spirit and should live in brotherly love and readily help one another. in the discourses, epictetus comments on man's relationship with the world: "each human being is primarily a citizen of his own commonwealth; but he is also a member of the great city of gods and men, whereof the city political is only a copy."[ ] this sentiment echoes that of diogenes of sinope, who said, "i am not an athenian or a corinthian, but a citizen of the world."[ ] they held that external differences, such as rank and wealth, are of no importance in social relationships. instead, they advocated the brotherhood of humanity and the natural equality of all human beings. stoicism became the most influential school of the greco-roman world, and produced a number of remarkable writers and personalities, such as cato the younger and epictetus. in particular, they were noted for their urging of clemency toward slaves. seneca exhorted, "kindly remember that he whom you call your slave sprang from the same stock, is smiled upon by the same skies, and on equal terms with yourself breathes, lives, and dies."[ ] influence on christianity[edit] see also: neostoicism justus lipsius, founder of neostoicism in st. ambrose of milan's duties, "the voice is the voice of a christian bishop, but the precepts are those of zeno."[ ][ ] regarding what he called "the divine spirit", stanisforth wrote: cleanthes, wishing to give more explicit meaning to zeno's 'creative fire', had been the first to hit upon the term pneuma, or 'spirit', to describe it. like fire, this intelligent 'spirit' was imagined as a tenuous substance akin to a current of air or breath, but essentially possessing the quality of warmth; it was immanent in the universe as god, and in man as the soul and life-giving principle. clearly, it is not a long step from this to the 'holy spirit' of christian theology, the 'lord and giver of life', visibly manifested as tongues of fire at pentecost and ever since associated—in the christian as in the stoic mind—with the ideas of vital fire and beneficient warmth.[ ] regarding the trinity, staniforth wrote: again in the doctrine of the trinity, the ecclesiastical conception of father, word, and spirit finds its germ in the different stoic names of the divine unity. thus seneca, writing of the supreme power which shapes the universe, states, 'this power we sometimes call the all-ruling god, sometimes the incorporeal wisdom, sometimes the holy spirit, sometimes destiny.' the church had only to reject the last of these terms to arrive at its own acceptable definition of the divine nature; while the further assertion 'these three are one', which the modern mind finds paradoxical, was no more than commonplace to those familiar with stoic notions.[ ] the apostle paul met with stoics during his stay in athens, reported in acts : – . in his letters, paul reflected heavily from his knowledge of stoic philosophy, using stoic terms and metaphors to assist his new gentile converts in their understanding of christianity.[ ] stoic influence can also be seen in the works of st. ambrose, marcus minucius felix, and tertullian.[ ] the fathers of the church regarded stoicism as a "pagan philosophy";[ ][ ] nonetheless, early christian writers employed some of the central philosophical concepts of stoicism. examples include the terms "logos", "virtue", "spirit", and "conscience".[ ] but the parallels go well beyond the sharing and borrowing of terminology. both stoicism and christianity assert an inner freedom in the face of the external world, a belief in human kinship with nature or god, a sense of the innate depravity—or "persistent evil"—of humankind,[ ] and the futility and temporary nature of worldly possessions and attachments. both encourage ascesis with respect to the passions and inferior emotions, such as lust, and envy, so that the higher possibilities of one's humanity can be awakened and developed. stoic writings such as meditations by marcus aurelius have been highly regarded by many christians throughout the centuries. the eastern orthodox church and oriental orthodox church accept the stoic ideal of dispassion to this day. middle and roman stoics taught that sex is just within marriage, for unitive and procreative purposes only.[ ][ ] this teaching is accepted by the catholic church to this day.[ ] saint ambrose of milan was known for applying stoic philosophy to his theology. stoic philosophers[edit] main article: list of stoic philosophers 	zeno of citium ( –  bc), founder of stoicism and the stoic academy (stoa) in athens 	aristo of chios (fl.  bc), pupil of zeno; 	herillus of carthage (fl. rd century bc) 	cleanthes (of assos) ( –  bc), second head of stoic academy 	chrysippus ( –  bc), third head of the academy 	diogenes of babylon ( –  bc) 	antipater of tarsus ( –  bc) 	panaetius of rhodes ( –  bc) 	posidonius of apameia (c. bc – bc) 	diodotus (c. bc – bc), teacher of cicero 	cato the younger ( –  bc) 	seneca ( bc – ad ) 	gaius musonius rufus ( st century ad) 	rubellius plautus (ad – ) 	publius clodius thrasea paetus ( st century ad) 	lucius annaeus cornutus ( st century ad) 	epictetus (ad – ) 	hierocles ( nd century ad) 	marcus aurelius (ad – ) see also[edit] 	 maccabees 	ecclesiastes 	dehellenization 	deixis 	glossary of stoic terms 	ekpyrosis, palingenesis, apocatastasis 	ekpyrotic universe (cosmological theory) 	list of stoic philosophers 	megarian school 	oikeiôsis 	paradoxa stoicorum 	plank of carneades 	pneuma 	sage (philosophy) 	stoicorum veterum fragmenta 	"stoic opposition" references[edit] 	^ sharpe, matthew. 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wall 	anastasian wall 	limes sarmatiae 	limes arabicus 	limes tripolitanus 	limes mauretaniae 	  ancient rome portal •  war portal 		v 	t 	e the military of ancient rome, according to titus livius, one of the more illustrious historians of rome over the centuries, was a key element in the rise of rome over “above seven hundred years”[ ] from a small settlement in latium to the capital of an empire governing a wide region around the shorty of the mediterranean, or, as the romans themselves said, ‘’mare nostrum’’, “our sea". livy asserts: 	”... if any people ought to be allowed to consecrate their origins and refer them to a divine source, so great is the military glory of the roman people that when they profess that their father and the father of their founder was none other than mars, the nations of the earth may well submit to this also with as good a grace as they submit to rome's dominion.” titus flavius josephus, a contemporary historian, sometime high-ranking officer in the roman army, and commander of the rebels in the jewish revolt describes the roman people as if they were "born readily armed."[ ] at the time of the two historians, roman society had already evolved an effective military and had used it to defend itself against the etruscans, the italics, the greeks, the gauls, the maritime empire of carthage, and the macedonian kingdoms. in each war, it acquired more territory until, when the civil war ended the roman republic, nothing was left for the first emperor, augustus, to do except declare it an empire and defend it.[citation needed] the role and structure of the military were then altered during the empire. it became less roman, the duties of border protection and territorial administration being more and more taken by foreign mercenaries officered by romans. when they divided at last into warring factions the empire fell, unable to keep out invading armies. during the roman republic, the function of the military was defined as service to the ‘’senatus populusque romanus’’ - an agency designated by 'spqr' on public inscriptions. its main body was the senate, which met in a building still extant in the forum of rome. its decrees were handed off to the two chief officers of the state, the consuls. they could levy from the citizens whatever military force they judged was necessary to execute such decree. this conscription was executed through a draft of male citizens assembled by age class. the officers of the legion were tasked with selecting men for the ranks. the will of the spqr was binding on the consuls and the men, with the death penalty often assigned for disobedience or failure. the men were under a rigorous code, known now for its punitive crucifixion. the consular duties were of any type whatever: military defense, police work, public hygiene, assistance in a civil disaster, health work, agriculture, and especially the construction of public roads, bridges, aqueducts, buildings, and the maintenance of such. the soldiers were kept busy doing whatever service needed to be done: soldiering, manning vessels, carpentry, blacksmithing, clerking, etc. they were trained as required, but also previous skills, such as a trade, were exploited. they brought to the task and were protected by the authority of the state. the military's campaign history stretched over years and saw roman armies campaigning as far east as parthia (modern-day iran), as far south as africa (modern-day tunisia) and aegyptus (modern-day egypt) and as far north as britannia (modern-day england, south scotland, and wales). the makeup of the roman military changed substantially over its history, from its early history as an unsalaried citizen militia to a later professional force, the imperial roman army. the equipment used by the military altered greatly in type over time, though there were very few technological improvements in weapons manufacture, in common with the rest of the classical world. for much of its history, the vast majority of rome's forces were maintained at or beyond the limits of its territory, to either expand rome's domain or protect its existing borders. expansions were infrequent, as the emperors, adopting a strategy of fixed lines of defense, had determined to maintain existing borders. for that purpose, they constructed extensive walls and created permanent stations that became cities. contents 	 personnel 	 . population base of the early empire 	 . recruitment 	 . military subculture 	 funding and expenditures 	 . private funding 	 . plunder economy 	 . taxation 	 capabilities 	 . readiness and disposition 	 . power projection 	 . sustainability 	 . policing 	 . engineering 	 international stance 	 . grand strategy 	 . campaigns 	 equipment 	 medicine 	 . need for specialized care 	 . roman hospitals 	 . physicians 	 . distinctions in practice 	 . diet 	 . scale 	 . source of knowledge 	 see also 	 references 	 . citations 	 . bibliography 	 . primary sources 	 . secondary sources 	 external links personnel[edit] see also: structural history of the roman military population base of the early empire[edit] roman soldiers on the cast of trajan's column in the victoria and albert museum, london. relief scene of roman legionaries marching, from the column of marcus aurelius, rome, italy, nd century ad. at its territorial height, the roman empire may have contained between million and million people.[ ] historian edward gibbon estimated that the size of the roman army "most probably formed a standing force of three hundred and seventy-five thousand men"[ ] at the empire's territorial peak in the time of the roman emperor hadrian ( − ce). this estimate probably included only legionary and auxiliary troops of the roman army.[ ] however, gibbon states that it is "not... easy to define the size of the roman military with any tolerable accuracy." in the late imperial period, when vast numbers of foederati were employed by the romans, antonio santosuosso estimated the combined number of men in arms of the two roman empires numbered closer to , in total (not all members of a standing army), drawing on data from the notitia dignitatum. however, he notes that these figures were probably subject to inflation due to the practice of leaving dead soldiers "on the books" to continue to draw their wages and ration. furthermore, it is irrespective of whether the troops were raised by the romans or simply hired by them to fight on their behalf.[ ] recruitment[edit] initially, rome's military consisted of an annual citizen levy performing military service as part of their duty to the state. during this period, the roman army would prosecute seasonal campaigns against largely local adversaries. as the extent of the territories falling under roman suzerainty expanded, and the size of the city's forces increased, the soldiery of ancient rome became increasingly professional and salaried. as a consequence, military service at the lower (non-staff) levels became progressively longer-term. roman military units of the period were largely homogeneous and highly regulated. the army consisted of units of citizen infantry known as legions (latin: legio) as well as non-legionary allied troops known as auxiliary. the latter were most commonly called upon to provide light infantry or cavalry support. military service in the later empire continued to be salaried yearly and professionally for rome's regular troops. however, the trend of employing allied or mercenary troops was expanded such that these troops came to represent a substantial proportion of rome's forces. at the same time, the uniformity of structure found in rome's earlier military forces disappeared. the soldiery of the era ranged from lightly armed mounted archers to heavy infantry, in regiments of varying size and quality. this was accompanied by a trend in the late empire of an increasing predominance of cavalry rather than infantry troops, as well as an emphasis on more mobile operations. military subculture[edit] the british historian peter heather describes roman military culture as being "just like the marines, but much nastier".[ ] the army did not provide much social mobility, and it also took quite some time to complete one's service. the pay was not the best for the time but could be remedied by advance in rank, loot from wars, and additional pay from emperors. also, the army did provide a guaranteed supply of food (many times soldiers had to pay for food and supplies), doctors, and stability. in the legions of the republic, discipline was fierce and training harsh, all intended to instill a group cohesion or esprit de corps that could bind the men together into effective fighting units. unlike opponents such as the gauls, who were fierce individual warriors, roman military training concentrated on instilling teamwork and maintaining a level head over individual bravery − troops were to maintain exact formations in battle and "despise wild swinging blows"[ ] in favor of sheltering behind one's shield and delivering efficient stabs when an opponent made himself vulnerable. loyalty was to the roman state but pride was based in the soldier's unit, to which was attached a military standard − in the case of the legions a legionary eagle. successful units were awarded accolades that became part of their official name, such as the th legion, which became the xx valeria victrix (the "valiant and victorious th"). of the martial culture of less valued units such as sailors, and light infantry, less is known, but it is doubtful that its training was as intense or its esprit de corps as strong as in the legions. literacy was highly valued in the roman military, and literacy rates in the military far exceeded that of the roman society as a whole.[ ] funding and expenditures[edit] see also: economics of the roman army private funding[edit] roman coins grew gradually more debased due to the demands placed on the treasury of the roman state by the military. although early in its history, troops were expected to provide much of their equipment, eventually, the roman military became almost entirely funded by the state. since soldiers of the early republican armies were also unpaid citizens, the financial burden of the army on the state was minimal. however, since the roman state did not provide services such as housing, health, education, social security, and public transport that are part and parcel of modern states, the military always represented by far the greatest expenditure of the state.[ ] plunder economy[edit] during the time of expansion in the republic and early empire, roman armies had acted as a source of revenue for the roman state, plundering conquered territories, displaying the massive wealth in triumphs upon their return and fueling the economy[ ] to the extent that historians such as toynbee and burke believe that the roman economy was essentially a plunder economy. nathan rosenstein has questioned this assumption, indicating that rome ran the majority of its campaigns in the nd century bce at a loss and relied on rare windfalls such as aemilius paullus' campaign in the east in bce to make up the cost of war.[ ] regardless, after the empire had stopped expanding in the nd century ce, this source of revenue dried up; by the end of the rd century ce, rome had "ceased to vanquish."[ ] as tax revenue was plagued by corruption and hyperinflation during the crisis of the third century, military expenditures began to become a "crushing burden"[ ] on the finances of the roman state.[ ] it now highlighted weaknesses that earlier expansion had disguised. by ce, an imperial law frankly states that the roman state has the insufficient tax revenue to fund an army of a size required by the demands placed upon it.[ ] several additional factors bloated the military expenditure of the roman empire. first, substantial rewards were paid to "barbarian" chieftains for their good conduct in the form of negotiated subsidies and the provision of allied troops.[ ] secondly, the military boosted its numbers, possibly by one third in a single century.[ ] third, the military increasingly relied on a higher ratio of cavalry units in the late empire, which were many times more expensive to maintain than infantry units.[ ] taxation[edit] as military size and costs increased, new taxes were introduced or existing tax laws reformed in the late empire to finance it, even though more inhabitants were available within the borders of the late empire, reducing the per capita costs for an increased standing army was impractical. a large number of the population could not be taxed because they were slaves or held roman citizenship, both of which exempted them from taxation.[ ] of the remaining, a large number were already impoverished by centuries of warfare and weakened by chronic malnutrition. still, they had to handle an increasing tax rate[ ] and so they often abandoned their lands to survive in a city.[ ] of the western empire's taxable population, a larger number than in the east could not be taxed because they were "primitive subsistence peasant[s]"[ ] and did not produce a great deal of goods beyond agricultural products. plunder was still made from suppressing insurgencies within the empire and on limited incursions into enemy land. legally, much of it should have returned to the imperial purse, but these goods were simply kept by the common soldiers, who demanded it of their commanders as a right. given the low wages and high inflation in the later empire, the soldiers felt that they had a right to acquire plunder.[ ][ ] capabilities[edit] readiness and disposition[edit] locations of roman legions, ce. the military capability of rome – its preparedness or readiness – was always primarily based upon the maintenance of an active fighting force acting either at or beyond its military frontiers, something that historian luttwak refers to as a "thin linear perimeter.[ ] this is best illustrated by showing the dispositions of the roman legions, the backbone of the roman army. (see right). because of these deployments, the roman military kept a central strategic reserve after the social war. such reserves were only re-established during the late empire when the army was split into a border defense force and mobile response field units. power projection[edit] the roman military was keen on the doctrine of power projection – it frequently removed foreign rulers by force or intimidation and replaced them with puppets. this was facilitated by the maintenance, for at least part of its history, of a series of client states and other subjugate and buffer entities beyond its official borders, although over which rome extended massive political and military control. on the other hand, this also could mean the payment of immense subsidies to foreign powers[ ] and opened the possibility of extortion in case military means were insufficient. sustainability[edit] the empire's system of building an extensive and well-maintained road network, as well as its absolute command of the mediterranean for much of its history, enabled a primitive form of rapid reaction, also stressed in modern military doctrine, although because there was no real strategic reserve, this often entailed the raising of fresh troops or the withdrawing of troops from other parts of the border. however, border troops were usually very capable of handling enemies before they could penetrate far into the roman hinterland. the roman military had an extensive logistical supply chain. there was no specialised branch of the military devoted to logistics and transportation, although this was to a great extent carried out by the roman navy due to the ease and low costs of transporting goods via sea and river compared to overland.[ ] there is archaeological evidence that roman armies campaigning in germania were supplied by a logistical supply chain beginning in italy and gaul, then transported by sea to the northern coast of germania, and finally penetrating germania via barges on inland waterways. forces were routinely supplied via fixed supply chains, and although roman armies in enemy territory would often supplement or replace this by foraging for food or purchasing food locally, this was often insufficient for their needs: heather states that a single legion would have required . tonnes of food per month, and that it would have proved impossible to source this locally.[ ] policing[edit] for the most part, roman cities had a civil guard used for maintaining peace. due to fear of rebellions and other uprisings, they were forbidden to be armed at militia levels. policing was split between the city guard for low-level affairs and the roman legions and auxiliary for suppressing higher-level rioting and rebellion. this civil guard created a limited strategic reserve, one that fared poorly in actual warfare. engineering[edit] see also: roman military engineering and greek and roman artillery the massive earthen ramp at masada, designed by the roman army to breach the fortress' walls. the military engineering of ancient rome's armed forces was of a scale and frequency far beyond that of any of its contemporaries. indeed, military engineering was in many ways institutionally endemic in roman military culture, as demonstrated by the fact that each roman legionary had as part of his equipment a shovel, alongside his gladius (sword) and pila (spears). heather writes that "learning to build, and build quickly, was a standard element of training".[ ] this engineering prowess was, however, only evident during the peak of roman military prowess from the mid-republic to the mid-empire. before the mid-republic period, there is little evidence of protracted or exceptional military engineering, and in the late empire likewise, there is little sign of the kind of engineering feats that were regularly carried out in the earlier empire. roman military engineering took both routine and extraordinary forms, the former a proactive part of standard military procedure, and the latter of an extraordinary or reactionary nature. proactive military engineering took the form of the regular construction of fortified camps, in road-building, and the construction of siege engines. the knowledge and experience learned through such routine engineering lent itself readily to any extraordinary engineering projects required by the army, such as the circumvallations constructed at alesia and the earthen ramp constructed at masada. this engineering expertise practiced in daily routines also served in the construction of siege equipment such as ballistae, onagers and siege towers, as well as allowing the troops to construct roads, bridges, and fortified camps. all of these led to strategic capabilities, allowing roman troops to, respectively, assault besieged settlements, move more rapidly to wherever they were needed, cross rivers to reduce march times and surprise enemies, and to camp in relative security even in enemy territory. international stance[edit] third-century roman soldiers battling barbarian troops on the ludovisi battle sarcophagus ( - ). rome was established as a nation by making aggressive use of its high military potential. from very early on in its history, it would raise two armies annually to campaign abroad. the roman military was far from being solely a defense force. for much of its history, it was a tool of aggressive expansion. the roman army had derived from a militia of main farmers and the gain of new farmlands for the growing population or later retiring soldiers was often one of the campaign's chief objectives. only in the late empire did the preservation of control over rome's territories become the roman military's primary role. the remaining major powers confronting rome were the kingdom of aksum, parthia and the hunnic empire. knowledge of china, the han dynasty at the times of mani, existed and it is believed that rome and china swapped embassies about ce.[ ] grand strategy[edit] see also: strategy of the roman military in its purest form, the concept of strategy deals solely with military issues. however, rome is offered by edward luttwak and others as an early example of a state that possessed a grand strategy which encompassed the management of the resources of an entire nation in the conduct of warfare. up to half of the funds raised by the roman state were spent on its military, and the romans displayed a strategy that was more complicated than simple knee-jerk strategic or tactical responses to individual threats. rome's strategy changed over time, implementing different systems to meet different challenges that reflected changing internal priorities. elements of rome's strategy included the use of client states, the deterrent of armed response in parallel with manipulative diplomacy, and a fixed system of troop deployments and road networks. luttwak states that there are "instructive similarities" between roman and modern military strategy.[ ] rome would rely on brute force and sheer numbers when in doubt. the soldiers were trained to memorize every step in battle, so discipline and order could not break down into chaos. they were largely successful because of this. campaigns[edit] see also: campaign history of the roman military equipment[edit] although roman iron-working was enhanced by a process known as carburizing, the romans are not thought to have developed true steel production. from the earliest history of the roman state to its downfall, roman arms were therefore uniformly produced from either bronze or, later, iron. as a result, the years of roman military technology saw little radical change at the technological level. within the bounds of classical military technology, however, roman arms and armor were developed, discarded, and adopted from other peoples based on changing methods of engagement. it included at various times stabbing daggers and swords, stabbing or thrusting swords, long thrusting spears or pikes, lances, light throwing javelins and darts, slings, and bow and arrows. roman military personal equipment was produced in large numbers to established patterns and used in an established way. it, therefore, varied little in design and quality within each historical period. according to hugh elton, roman equipment gave them "a distinct advantage over their barbarian enemies." elton, hugh, , "warfare in roman europe, ad - ", who were often, as germanic tribesmen, completely unarmoured. however, luttwak points out that whilst the uniform possession of armor gave rome an advantage, the actual standard of each item of roman equipment was of no better quality than that used by the majority of its adversaries. in luttwack, e., "the grand strategy of the roman empire", jhup, , luttwack states that "roman weapons, far from being universally more advanced, were frequently inferior to those used by enemies. the relatively low quality of roman weaponry was primarily a function of its large-scale production, and later factors such as governmental price-fixing for certain items, which gave no allowance for quality and incentivized cheap, poor-quality goods. the roman military readily adopted types of arms and armor that were effectively used against them by their enemies. initially, roman troops were armed after greek and etruscan models, using large oval shields and long pikes. on encountering the celts they adopted much celtic equipment and again later adopted items such as the "gladius" from iberian peoples. later in rome's history, it adopted practices such as arming its cavalry with bows in the parthian style and even experimented briefly with niche weaponry such as elephants and camel-troops. besides personal weaponry, the roman military adopted team weaponry such as the ballista and developed a naval weapon known as the corvus, a spiked plank used for affixing and boarding enemy ships. medicine[edit] need for specialized care[edit] showing the vast amount of land held by the romans. the expansion of the roman empire was achieved through military force in nearly every case. roman culture as a whole revolved around its military for both expansion and protection.[ ] geographic areas on the outskirts of the empire were prone to attack and required heavy military presence. the constant barrage of attacks and the increase of expansion caused casualties. due to attack there was a need for specialized medical care for these armies in order to keep them in operational status.[ ] the specialized form of care however, was not created until the time of augustus ( bc- ad).[ ] prior to this there is little information about the care of soldiers. it is assumed soldiers were self-reliant, treating their own wounds and caring for other ailments encountered.[ ] they would also turn to civilians for help throughout the villages they would come across. this was considered a custom of the time, and was quite common for households to take in wounded soldiers and tend to them.[ ] as time progressed, there was an increase in care for the wounded as hospitals appeared. the idea was held by the romans that a healed soldier was better than a dead one and a healed veteran was better than a new recruit.[ ] general set up of ancient roman military hospital. roman hospitals[edit] with the need for soldier health a growing concern, places for the sick to go in the army were starting to show up. dates ranged from ad to ad , but this is when the first evidence of hospitals was seen in archeological remains.[ ] these hospitals were specific places for only military members to go to if they were injured or fell ill. similar hospitals were set up for slaves in areas where slaves were used in large numbers. military hospitals were permanent structures set up in forts. these buildings had clear patient rooms and were designed to accommodate large numbers of soldiers.[ ] the size of these hospitals varied based on their location. some of the large facilities, such as the hospital in hod hill england, was large enough to accommodate roughly % of the force within the hospital. in more stable areas such as inchtuthil in scotland, there was room for as little as % of the force within the hospital. in areas with more conflict, there were larger medical facilities as they saw more casualties.[ ] these hospitals were solely designed for the use of the military. if a civilian fell ill or needed surgery they would likely go to the physician's home and stay, not a hospital.[ ] prior to these permanent structures there were tents set up as mobile field hospitals. soldiers suffering from severe wounds were brought to these for treatment. these were quickly assembled and disassembled as the army moved. the tents served as a precursor for the permanent structured hospitals.[ ] these permanent hospitals and mobile treatment centers were a relatively new concept in this time period. physicians[edit] doctors serving in the army were considered to be a member of the military. just like everyone else they would take the military oath and be bound by the military law. they would also start among the lower fighting ranks. even though they took the military oath and were among the lower ranks it did not mean they would be fighting among the masses.[ ] these doctors were not always professionals or career physicians. oftentimes they were slaves who were forced into that career. the medici was also a group that treated wounded soldiers on the battlefield. these men were not trained physicians even though they played the role of one. typically they were soldiers who demonstrated they had knowledge in wound treatment and even simple surgical techniques.[ ] these men were used before the actual trained doctors were largely implemented. physicians got their knowledge from experience and information being passed down from person to person. likely they never used medical texts, as it was not commonplace even in the civilian field.[ ] generals and emperors were exceptions, as they would typically have their physician with them. this was a common occurrence as emperors such as marcus aurelius employed famous physicians such as galen. there were also physicians among the ranks of the roman soldiers.[ ] distinctions in practice[edit] with any large number of people being in close quarters, there was a constant threat of disease. when one individual in a large group gets sick with a communicable disease, it spreads to others very quickly. this premise remains true even today in the modern military. the romans recognized the difference between disease and wounds, each requiring separate treatment.[ ] drainage of excess water and waste were common practices in camps as well as the permanent medical structures, which come at a later date. as the medical corps grew in size there was also specialization evolving. physicians surfaced that specialized in disease, surgery, wound dressing and even veterinary medicine. veterinary physicians were there to tend to livestock for agricultural purposes as well as combat purposes. the cavalry was known for their use of horses in combat and scouting purposes.[ ] because of the type of injuries that would have been commonly seen, surgery was a somewhat common occurrence. tools such as scissors, knives and arrow extractors have been found in remains.[ ] in fact, roman surgery was quite intuitive, in contrast to common thought of ancient surgery. the roman military surgeons used a cocktail of plants, which created a sedative similar to modern anesthesia. written documentation also showed surgeons would use oxidation from a metal such as copper and scrape it into wounds, which provided an antibacterial effect; however, this method was most likely more toxic than providing an actual benefit.[ ] doctors had the knowledge to clean their surgical instruments with hot water after each use. wounds were dressed, and dead tissue was removed when bandages were changed. honey and cobwebs were items used to cover wounds, and have even been shown today to increase healing.[ ] because of the wide array of cases, it was not uncommon for surgeons to begin their careers in the army to learn their trade. physicians such as galen and dioscorides served in the military. most major advancements in knowledge and technique came from the military rather than civil practice.[ ] diet[edit] diet was an issue that is often discussed through this time, as an aspect of medical care. since our idea of modern technology did not exist, the diet was a simple way for romans to attain a healthy life. this remains true in the roman military as the soldiers required appropriate nutrition in order to function at high activity levels.[ ] because of the number of the people requiring food, there were unique circumstances in the acquisition of food. during a campaign, the soldiers would often forage food from their enemy's land. in fact, as part of the standard kit, roman soldiers would carry a sickle, which would be used to forage food. they would carry a three-day ration of food in case they were in a situation where foraging was not available.[ ] this would largely consist of items such as wheat and barley. during a time of peace, the roman army would have had a typical diet consisting of bacon, cheese, vegetables, and beer to drink. corn is mentioned in their works as well, however; this was a common term that was applied to their use of grain. the roman use of the term corn is not to be confused with maize, which did not come to europe until the discovery of the new world. items such as poultry and fish were also likely part of the standard diet. the soldier was given a ration, which was taken from his pay.[ ] this shows that the soldiers were well-fed in times of peace. if the soldiers were well fed, they were healthier and able to maintain a high level of physical activity, as well as to stave off disease. the disease is easier to prevent rather than treat. this idea holds in the event a fort was under siege; certain food items were rationed such as poultry. the reasoning behind this was that poultry was very inexpensive to maintain and in the event of a siege, it did not require a lot of resources to maintain. it was also noted that poultry had benefits for those who were sick. this demonstrates the idea was present that the army needed to maintain the health of its members regardless of circumstances.[ ] these discoveries were made while looking at the remains of roman military sites. by excavating these sites and looking at fecal matter found, scientists were able to determine what was eaten.[ ] it is a simple fact that poor diet negatively affects a military's combat readiness. the variety of food found shows the romans were not focused on just caloric intake, as they knew a variety of food was important to health.[ ] scale[edit] shows where various roman legions were stationed by the time of trajan ( ad- ad), the medical corps was well on the way to being an organized machine. at this time, physicians were attached to nearly every army and navy unit in all the roman military. by this time the army was massive, consisting of twenty-five to thirty legions, each of which contained nearly , men. each one included both soldiers and physicians.[ ] despite these massive numbers there was still no formal requirements for being a physician.[ ] at this point all physicians were either self-taught or learned their trade through an apprenticeship. despite this, there was an attempt at organization, as the army did have a medical manual that was passed out to its physicians. the medici were used on both the front line as emergency care providers and in the rear as the main physicians. the capsarii were mainly used as the front line care providers and bandages, but also assisted the medici behind the lines.[ ] source of knowledge[edit] romans received their medical knowledge largely from the greeks that came before them. as rome started to expand, it slowly embraced the greek culture, causing an influx of medicinal information in roman society.[ ] because of this influx, it allowed this knowledge to become the foundation of all western medical tradition. the greek theories were kept alive and their practices continued well into the future.[ ] this knowledge was also the foundation used in military medicine since it contained the overarching ideas of their medical knowledge. as time progressed these medical texts would be translated into arabic and then back into latin as the flow of information changed. based on this, we can presume that some of the information in these texts has been lost in translation. despite this, we are still able to illustrate a clear picture of what military medicine was like during the reign of the roman empire. see also[edit] 	ancient rome portal 	war portal references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ ’’ history of rome’’, book . . 	^ williamson, g. (tr.), josephus, the jewish war, , p. 	^ estimates range wildly because census data was imprecise and there is some disagreement over how many federated tribes had settled permanently in roman lands during the mid to late empire. 	^ a b gibbon e., the decline and fall of the roman empire, penguin, , para. 	^ santosuosso, p. 	^ heather, p., the fall of the roman empire, macmillan, , p. 	^ heather, p., the fall of the roman empire, macmillan, , p. 	^ mattingly, david ( - - ). an imperial possession: britain in the roman empire, bc - ad . penguin. isbn  . 	^ a b heather, p., the fall of the roman empire, macmillan, , p. 	^ caesar is said to have spent "huge portions of the wealth he accumulated in his victorious wars... on celebrating triumphs... 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( - - ). notes on the history of military medicine. Рипол Классик, ch. rome. isbn  . 	^ a b c d e f vivian, nutton ( ). "roman medicine: tradition, confrontation, assimilation". rise and decline of the roman world: – . 	^ a b c byrne, eugene ( ). "medicine in the roman army". the classical journal: – . 	^ a b prioreschi, plinio ( - - ). a history of medicine: roman medicine. edwin mellen press. pp.  , . isbn  . 	^ a b c nutton, vivian ( ). "medicine and the roman army: a further reconsideration". medical history. : – . doi: . /s . pmc  . pmid  . 	^ a b john, scarborough ( ). 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attribution-sharealike license; additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 music of ancient rome - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	music of ancient rome 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		"roman music" redirects here. for music associated with the modern city of rome, see music of rome. trio of musicians playing an aulos, cymbala, and tympanum (mosaic from pompeii) the music of ancient rome was a part of roman culture from the earliest of times. songs (carmen) were an integral part of almost every social occasion.[ ] the secular ode of horace, for instance, was commissioned by augustus and performed by a mixed children's choir at the secular games in bc.[ ] music was customary at funerals, and the tibia (greek aulos), a woodwind instrument, was played at sacrifices to ward off ill influences.[ ] under the influence of ancient greek theory, music was thought to reflect the orderliness of the cosmos, and was associated particularly with mathematics and knowledge.[ ] etruscan music had an early influence on that of the romans. during the imperial period, romans carried their music to the provinces, while traditions of asia minor, north africa and gaul became a part of roman culture.[ ] music accompanied spectacles and events in the arena, and was part of the performing arts form called pantomimus, an early form of story ballet that combined expressive dancing, instrumental music and a sung libretto.[ ] contents 	 musical notation 	 instruments 	 . wind instruments 	 . string instruments 	 . organs 	 . percussion 	 music in society 	 discography 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links musical notation[edit] musicians in a detail from the zliten mosaic ( nd century ad), originally shown as accompanying gladiator combat and wild-animal events in the arena: from left, the tuba, hydraulis (water pipe organ), and two cornua the romans may have borrowed the greek method[ ][page needed] of "enchiriadic notation" to record their music, if they used any notation at all. four letters (in english notation 'a', 'g', 'f' and 'c') indicated a series of four successive tones. rhythm signs, written above the letters, indicated the duration of each note. the romans may have tuned their instruments to greek modes.[ ] instruments[edit] roman art depicts various woodwinds, "brass", percussion and stringed instruments.[ ] roman-style instruments are found in parts of the empire where they did not originate, and indicate that music was among the aspects of roman culture that spread throughout the provinces. tuba player (upper right) in a relief in rome's palazzo dei conservatori depicting marcus aurelius in triumph wind instruments[edit] 	the roman tuba was a long, straight bronze trumpet with a detachable, conical mouthpiece like that of the modern french horn. extant examples are about . metres long, and have a cylindrical bore from the mouthpiece to the point where the bell flares abruptly,[ ] similar to the modern straight trumpet seen in presentations of 'period music'. since there were no valves, the tuba was capable only of a single overtone series that would probably sound familiar to the modern ear, given the limitations of musical acoustics for instruments of this construction.[ ] in the military, it was used for "bugle calls". the tuba is also depicted in art such as mosaics accompanying games (ludi) and spectacle events. 	the cornu (latin "horn") was a long tubular metal wind instrument that curved around the musician's body, shaped rather like an uppercase g. it had a conical bore (again like a french horn) and a conical mouthpiece. it may be hard to distinguish from the buccina. the cornu was used for military signals and on parade.[ ] the cornicen was a military signal officer who translated orders into calls. like the tuba, the cornu also appears as accompaniment for public events and spectacle entertainments. 	the tibia (greek aulos - αὐλός), usually double, had two double-reed (as in a modern oboe) pipes, not joined but generally played with a mouth-band capistrum (greek phorbeiá - φορβεία) to hold both pipes steadily between the player's lips.[ ] modern changes indicate that they produced a low, clarinet-like sound. there is some confusion about the exact nature of the instrument; alternate descriptions indicate each pipe having a single reed (like a modern clarinet) instead of a double reed. 	the askaules — a bagpipe. 	versions of the modern flute and panpipes. 	 			 			 cornu at the limesmuseum in aalen, germany 			 		 	 			 			 cornicines on trajan's column ( nd century) 			 		 	 			 			 horn player on the ludovisi sarcophagus ( rd century) 			 		 	 			 			 tibia player accompanying a sacrifice led by marcus aurelius (rome's palazzo dei conservatori) 			 		 	 			 			 panpipes played by pan and aulos by a maenad (mildenhall treasure, th century) 			 		 string instruments[edit] left image:: silenus holding a lyre, detail of a fresco from the villa of the mysteries, pompeii, italy, c. bc right image: wall fresco of a seated woman with a kithara, - bc, from the villa boscoreale of p. fannius synistor; late roman republic; it most likely represents berenice ii of ptolemaic egypt wearing a stephane (i.e. royal diadem) on her head.[ ] 	the lyre, borrowed from the greeks, was not a harp, but instead had a sounding body of wood or a tortoise shell covered with skin, and arms of animal horn or wood, with strings stretched from a cross bar to the sounding body.[ ] the lyre was held or cradled in one arm and hand and plucked with the other hand.[citation needed] the romans gradually abandoned this instrument in favour of the more sophisticated cithara,[citation needed] a larger instrument with a box-type frame with strings stretched from the cross-bar at the top to the sounding box at the bottom; it was held upright and played with a plectrum.[citation needed] the strings were tuned "by adjusting sticks seen in the engraving."[ ] 	the cithara was the premier musical instrument of ancient rome and was played both in popular and elevated forms of music. larger and heavier than a lyre, the cithara was a loud, sweet and piercing instrument with precision tuning ability. it was said some players could make it cry. from cithara comes the word guitar. though the guitar more directly evolved from the lute, the same mystique surrounds the guitar idols of today as it did for the virtuoso cithara players, the citharista, and popular singers of ancient rome.[citation needed] like many other instruments, it came originally from greece, and greek images portray the most elaborately constructed citharas. 	the lute (pandura or monochord) was known by several names among the greeks and romans. in construction, the lute differs from the lyre in having fewer strings stretched over a solid neck or fret-board, on which the strings can be stopped to produce graduated notes. each lute string is thereby capable of producing a greater range of notes than a lyre string.[ ] although long-necked lutes are depicted in art from mesopotamia as early as – bc, and also occur in egyptian iconography, the lute in the greco-roman world was far less common than the lyre and cithara. the lute of the medieval west is thought to owe more to the arab oud, from which its name derives (al ʿūd).[ ] organs[edit] hydraulis and cornu on a mosaic from nennig, germany mosaics depict instruments that look like a cross between the bagpipe and the organ. the pipes were sized so as to produce many of the modes (scales) known from the greeks. it is unclear whether they were blown by the lungs or by some mechanical bellows. the hydraulic pipe organ (hydraulis), which worked by water pressure, was "one of the most significant technical and musical achievements of antiquity".[ ] essentially, the air to the pipes that produce the sound comes from a mechanism of a wind-chest connected by a pipe to a dome submerged in a tank of water. air is pumped into the top of the dome, compressing the air and forcing water out the bottom; the displace water rises in the tank. this increased hydraulic head and the compression of the air in the dome provides a steady supply of air to the pipes[ ][page needed] (also see pipe organ#history). the instrument goes back to the ancient greeks and a well-preserved model in pottery was found at carthage in .[ ][failed verification] the hydraulis accompanied gladiator contests and events in the arena, as well as stage performances. it might also be found in homes, and was among the instruments that the emperor nero played.[ ] percussion[edit] reconstruction of a scabellum 	variations of a hinged wooden or metal device called a scabellum—a "clapper"—used to beat time. also, there were various rattles, bells and tambourines. 	drum and percussion instruments like timpani and castanets, the egyptian sistrum, and brazen pans, served various musical and other purposes in ancient rome, including backgrounds for rhythmic dance, celebratory rites like those of the bacchantes, military uses, hunting (to drive out prey) and even for the control of bees in apiaries.[citation needed] some roman music was distinguished for its having a steady beat, no doubt through the use of drums and the percussive effects of clapping and stamping.[citation needed] egyptian musicians often kept time by snapping the fingers. 	the sistrum was a rattle consisting of rings strung across the cross-bars of a metal frame, which was often used for ritual purposes. 	cymbala (lat. plural of cymbalum, from the greek kymbalon) were small cymbals: metal discs with concave centres and turned rims, used in pairs which were clashed together.[ ] masked theatrical troupe around an aulos player (mosaic from the house of the tragic poet, pompeii) music in society[edit] in spite of the purported lack of musical originality on the part of the romans, they did enjoy music greatly and used it for many activities. music was also used in religious ceremonies. the romans cultivated music as a sign of education.[ ] music contests were quite common and attracted a wide range of competition, including nero himself, who performed widely as an amateur and once traveled to greece to compete.[ ] discography[edit] 	synaulia, music of ancient rome, vol. i – wind instruments - amiata records arnr , florence, . 	synaulia, music of ancient rome, vol. ii – string instruments - amiata records, arnr , rome, . 	thaleia, carmina canere music of ancient rome, vol. i –tarragona - spain . 	ludi scaenici, e tempore emergo - rome, italy - 	ludi scaenici, festina lente - rome, italy - 	ensemble kérylos, dir. annie bélis, de la pierre au son : musique de l'antiquité, k , . 	ensemble kérylos, dir. annie bélis, d'euripide aux premiers chrétiens : musique de l'antiquité, . see also[edit] 	ancient rome portal 	fibula (penile), a device used by roman singers in the belief that it would help preserve their voice notes[edit] st-century roman wall painting of a harpist 	^ naerebout, p.  . 	^ ginsberg-klar, pp.  , . 	^ habinek, passim. 	^ habinek, pp.  ff.[page needed] 	^ scott, p.  . 	^ frankin, p.  ; starks, pp.  ff.[page needed] 	^ ulrich and pisk,[page needed]. 	^ pierce, p.  . 	^ ginsberg-klar, p.  . 	^ ulrich and pisk, p.  . 	^ bonanni, plate . 	^ ginsberg-klar, p.  . 	^ pfrommer and towne-markus, – . 	^ bonanni, plate . 	^ bonanni, unnumbered plate between plates and , with commentary on the facing verso page. 	^ ginsberg-klar, p.  . 	^ williams,[page needed]. 	^ cook. 	^ scott, p.  . 	^ walter, p.  . 	^ suetonius, cited in scott, p.  . 	^ marcuse, pp.  , . 	^ scott,[page needed]. 	^ spring, p.  . 	^ higgins and winnington-ingram, pp.  – . references[edit] 	bonanni, filippo. . antique musical instruments and their players: plates from bonanni's th-century "gabinetto armonico" , with a new introduction and captions by frank ll. harrison and joan rimmer. new york: dover publications. reprint of the work, gabinetto armonico, with supplementary explanatory material. 	boethius, anicius manlius severinus. de institutione musica. (english edition as fundamentals of music, translated, with introduction and notes by calvin m. bower; edited by claude v. palisca. new haven: yale university press, .) 	cook, james h. . "organ history: origin and development through ad". james h. cook's faculty personal website, at birmingham-southern college (accessed december ). 	franklin, james l., jr. . "pantomimists at pompeii: actius anicetus and his troupe". american journal of philology , no. : - 	ginsberg-klar, maria e. . "the archaeology of musical instruments in germany during the roman period". world archaeology , no. : - 	habinek, thomas. . the world of roman song. baltimore: johns hopkins university press. 	higgins, r. a., and reginald p. winnington-ingram. . "lute-players in greek art." journal of hellenic studies : – . 	marcuse, sibyl. . musical instruments: a comprehensive dictionary, corrected edition. the norton library. new york: w. w. norton & company, inc. isbn  - - - . 	naerebout, frederick g. . "dance in the roman empire and its discontents". in ritual dynamics and religious change in the roman empire. proceedings of the eighth workshop of the international network impact of empire (heidelberg, july – , )[full citation needed]: brill. 	pfrommer, michael, and elana towne-markus. . greek gold from hellenistic egypt. los angeles: getty publications (j. paul getty trust). isbn  - - - . 	pierce, john r. . the science of musical sound, new york: scientific american books. 	scott, j. e. . 'roman music' in the new oxford history of music, vol. : 'ancient and oriental music,' oxford: oxford university press. 	smith, william. . a dictionary of greek and roman antiquities. new york: harper. 	spring, matthew. . the lute in britain: a history of the instrument and its music. oxford university press, . 	starks, john h., jr., . "pantomime actresses in latin inscriptions". in new directions in ancient pantomime[full citation needed] oxford and new york: oxford university press. 	suetonius. nero, xli, liv. 	ulrich, homer, and paul pisk. . a history of music and musical style. new york: harcourt brace jovanoich. 	walter, don c. . men and music in western culture. new york: appleton-century-crofts. isbn  - - - . 	williams, c. f. abdy. . the story of the organ. london: walter scott publishing co.; new york: charles scribner & sons. further reading[edit] 	benzing, g. m. . "'se vuoi far soldi, studia la cetra': musica e luxus nell’antica roma". in luxus: il piacere della vita nella roma imperiale: [torino, museo di antichita, settembre  – gennaio ], edited by elena fontanella,[page needed] rome: istituto poligrafico e zecca dello stato. isbn  . 	comotti, giovanni. . music in greek and roman culture, translated by rosaria v. munson. ancient society and history. baltimore: the johns hopkins university press. isbn  (cloth); isbn  x (pbk). 	hagel, stefan, and christine harrauer (eds.) ( ). ancient greek music in performance: symposion wien . sept.– . okt. . vienna: verlag der Österreichischen akademie der wissenschaften. isbn  - - - . 	landels, j. g. . music in ancient greece & rome. london and new york: routledge. 	maas, martha. . "kithara". the new grove dictionary of music and musicians, second edition, edited by stanley sadie and john tyrrell. london: macmillan publishers. 	west, m[artin] l[itchfield]. . ancient greek music. oxford: clarendon press; new york: oxford university press. isbn  - - - (cloth) isbn  - - - (pbk). 	wille, günther. . musica romana: die bedeutung der musik im leben der römer. amsterdam: p. schippers. external links[edit] 	ensemble kérylos, a music group led by scholar annie bélis and dedicated to the recreation of ancient greek and roman music. 	musica romana, musicarchaeology, scientific review of ancient roman music as well as performances, bibliography and descriptions for instruments and notations online (english and german). 	the thesaurus musicarum latinarum (tml), an evolving database of the entire corpus of latin music theory written during the middle ages and the renaissance. 	synaulia, dedicated to the reconstruction of historical musical instruments, sound theatre, dance on 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republican period 	 after the marian reforms 	 principate 	 see also 	 references early rome[edit] the word tribunus derives from tribus, "tribe".[ ] in rome's earliest history, each of the three tribes (ramnes, luceres, and tities) sent one commander when an army was mustered,[ ] since there was no standing army. the tribunes were commanders of the original legion of , . by the time of the greek historian polybius (d. bc), the tribunes numbered six, and they were appointed by the consuls.[ ] however, the process by which tribunes were chosen and assigned is complex and varies at different times. republican period[edit] in the republican period, there were six appointed to each legion. authority was given to two at a time, and command rotated among the six. tribunes were men of senatorial status appointed by the senate. to attain the position of tribune, one only needed to be a member of the ruling class. by bc the people acquired the right to elect sixteen tribunes of the soldiers, that is, four out of the six tribunes assigned to each of the four legions that formed the roman army. previously these places had been for the most part in the gift of consuls or dictators.[ ] additionally, in the early republic, another type of military tribune was sometimes chosen in place of the annually elected consuls to be the heads of the roman state. these are known in latin as tribuni militum consulari potestate, "military tribunes with consular authority". at the time only patricians could be chosen as consuls, but both patricians and plebeians could be elected as tribunes with consular authority. instead of the usual two consuls, between four and six military tribunes were elected for the year. the reasons for this choice are obscure, though livy often cast the decision according to the class struggles he saw as endemic during this period, with patricians generally favoring consuls and plebs the military tribunes. the office of "consular tribune" eventually fell out of use after bc. after the marian reforms[edit] after the marian reforms of bc (subsequently further formalised by the emperor claudius) created a professionalized military system, legions were commanded by a legionary legate (legatus). six tribunes were still posted to a legion, but their duties and responsibilities had changed, becoming more a political position than a military rank. the second-in-command to the legate was the tribunus laticlavius or 'broad-stripe' tribune (named after the width of the stripe used to demarcate him on his tunic and toga),[ ] usually a young man of senatorial rank. he was given this position to learn and watch the actions of the legate. they often found themselves leading their unit in the absence of a legate, and some legions were permanently commanded by a broad-stripe tribune, such as those stationed in egypt, as an augustan law required that no member of the senatorial order ever enter egypt.[ ] in contrast to the broad-stripe tribune, the other five 'thin stripe' tribunes were lower in rank, and were called the tribuni angusticlavii. these 'officer cadets'[ ] were men of equestrian rank who had military experience, and yet had no authority: they were allowed to sit on a court martial but they held no power in battle. most thin-stripe tribunes served the legionary legate, yet a lucky few (such as agricola) were selected to serve on the staff of the provincial governor.[ ] according to tacitus, they did not always take their appointment as seriously as they might, contrasting agricola's tribuneship to his peers by saying "[agricola did not], like many young men who convert military service into wanton pastime, avail himself licentiously or slothfully of his tribunitial title, or use his inexperience to spend his time in pleasures and absences from duty".[ ] principate[edit] further information: tres militiae under augustus, the five equestrian tribunes were sometimes promoted from the rank of centurion, and might advance to a 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virgil. during the reign of augustus, maecenas served as a quasi-culture minister to the emperor but in spite of his wealth and power he chose not to enter the senate, remaining of equestrian rank. contents 	 biography 	 reputation 	 maecenate (patronage) 	 works 	 gardens of maecenas 	 legacy 	 film and television portrayals 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 . primary sources 	 . secondary sources biography[edit] expressions in propertius[ ] seem to imply that maecenas had taken some part in the campaigns of mutina, philippi and perugia. he prided himself on his ancient etruscan lineage, and claimed descent from the princely house of the cilnii, who excited the jealousy of their townsmen by their preponderant wealth and influence at arretium in the th century bc.[ ] horace makes reference to this in his address to maecenas at the opening of his first books of odes with the expression "atavis edite regibus" (descendant of kings). tacitus[ ] refers to him as "cilnius maecenas"; it is possible that "cilnius" was his mother's nomen – or that maecenas was in fact a cognomen.[ ] the gaius maecenas mentioned in cicero[ ] as an influential member of the equestrian order in bc may have been his grandfather, or even his father. the testimony of horace[ ] and maecenas's own literary tastes imply that he had profited from the highest education of his time. his great wealth may have been in part hereditary, but he owed his position and influence to his close connection with the emperor augustus. he first appears in history in bc, when he was employed by octavian in arranging his marriage with scribonia, and afterwards in assisting to negotiate the treaty of brundisium and the reconciliation with mark antony. as a close friend and advisor he had even acted as deputy for augustus when he was abroad. it was in bc that horace was introduced to maecenas, who had before this received lucius varius rufus and virgil into his intimacy. in the "journey to brundisium,"[ ] in , maecenas and marcus cocceius nerva – great-grandfather of the future emperor nerva – are described as having been sent on an important mission, and they were successful in patching up, by the treaty of tarentum, a reconciliation between the two claimants for supreme power. during the sicilian war against sextus pompeius in , maecenas was sent back to rome, and was entrusted with supreme administrative control in the city and in italy. he was vicegerent of octavian during the campaign that led to the battle of actium, when, with great promptness and secrecy, he crushed the conspiracy of lepidus the younger; during the subsequent absences of his chief in the provinces he again held the same position. during the latter years of his life he fell somewhat out of favour with his master. suetonius[ ] attributes the loss of the imperial favour to maecenas' having indiscreetly revealed to terentia, his beautiful but difficult wife, the discovery of the conspiracy in which her brother lucius licinius varro murena[ ] was implicated, but according to cassius dio[ ] (writing in the early rd century ad) it was due to the emperor's relations with terentia. maecenas died in bc, leaving the emperor sole heir to his wealth. reputation[edit] opinions were much divided in ancient times as to his personal character; but the testimony as to his administrative and diplomatic ability was unanimous. he enjoyed the credit of sharing largely in the establishment of the new order of things, of reconciling parties, and of carrying the new empire safely through many dangers. to his influence especially was attributed the more humane policy of octavian after his first alliance with antony and lepidus. the best summary of his character as a man and a statesman, by marcus velleius paterculus,[ ] describes him as "of sleepless vigilance in critical emergencies, far-seeing and knowing how to act, but in his relaxation from business more luxurious and effeminate than a woman." expressions in the odes of horace[ ] seem to imply that maecenas was deficient in the robustness of fibre which romans liked to imagine was characteristic of their city. maecenate (patronage)[edit] stefan bakałowicz. "at maecenas' reception room" maecenas is most famous for his support of young poets, hence his name has become the eponym for a "patron of arts". he supported virgil who wrote the georgics in his honour. it was virgil, impressed with examples of horace's poetry, who introduced horace to maecenas. indeed, horace begins the first poem of his odes (odes i.i) by addressing his new patron. maecenas gave him full financial support as well as an estate in the sabine mountains. propertius and the minor poets varius rufus, plotius tucca, valgius rufus and domitius marsus also were his protégés. his character as a munificent patron of literature – which has made his name a household word – is gratefully acknowledged by the recipients of it and attested by the regrets of the men of letters of a later age, expressed by martial and juvenal. his patronage was exercised, not from vanity or a mere dilettante love of letters, but with a view to the higher interest of the state. he recognized in the genius of the poets of that time not only the truest ornament of the court, but the power of reconciling men's minds to the new order of things, and of investing the actual state of affairs with an ideal glory and majesty. the change in seriousness of purpose between the eclogues and the georgics of virgil was in a great measure the result of the direction given by the statesman to the poet's genius. a similar change between the earlier odes of horace, in which he declares his epicurean indifference to affairs of state, and the great national odes of the third book has been ascribed by some to the same guidance. however, since the organization of the odes is not entirely chronological, and their composition followed both books of satires and the epodes, this argument is plainly specious; but doubtless the milieu of maecenas's circle influenced the writing of the roman odes (iii. – ) and others such as the ode to pollio, motum ex metello (ii. ). maecenas endeavoured also to divert the less masculine genius of propertius from harping continually on his love to themes of public interest, an effort which to some extent backfired in the ironic elegies of book iii. but if the motive of his patronage had been merely political, it never could have inspired the affection which it did in its recipients. the great charm of maecenas in his relation to the men of genius who formed his circle was his simplicity, cordiality and sincerity. although not particular in the choice of some of the associates of his pleasures, he admitted none but men of worth to his intimacy, and when once admitted they were treated like equals. much of the wisdom of maecenas probably lives in the satires and epistles of horace. it has fallen to the lot of no other patron of literature to have his name associated with works of such lasting interest as the georgics of virgil, the first three books of horace's odes, and the first book of his epistles. works[edit] maecenas also wrote literature himself in both prose and verse, which consists of lost literary work. the some twenty fragments that remain show that he was less successful as an author than as a judge and patron of literature. his prose works on various subjects – prometheus, dialogues like symposium (a banquet at which virgil, horace and messalla were present), de cultu suo (on his manner of life) and a poem in octaviam ("against octavia") of which the content is unclear – were ridiculed by augustus, seneca and quintilian for their strange style, the use of rare words and awkward transpositions. according to dio cassius, maecenas was also the inventor of a system of shorthand. gardens of maecenas[edit] auditorium of maecenas, esquiline villa of maecenas in tivoli, italy, jacob philipp hackert, reconstruction of the villa maecenas in tivoli, italy, main article: gardens of maecenas maecenas sited his famous gardens, the first gardens in the hellenistic-persian garden style in rome, on the esquiline hill, atop the servian wall and its adjoining necropolis, near the gardens of lamia. it contained terraces, libraries and other aspects of roman culture. maecenas is said to have been the first to construct a swimming bath of hot water in rome,[ ] which may have been in the gardens. the luxury of his gardens and villas incurred the displeasure of seneca the younger. though the approximate site is known, it is not easy to reconcile literary indications to determine the gardens' exact location, whether or not they lay on both sides of the servian ager and both north and south of the porta esquilina. common graves of the archaic esquiline necropolis have been found near the north-west corner of the modern piazza vittorio emanuele, that is, outside the esquiline gate of antiquity and north of the via tiburtina vetus; most probably the horti maecenatiani extended north from this gate and road on both sides of the ager. the "auditorium of maecenas", a probable venue for dining and entertainment, may still be visited (upon reservation[ ]) on largo leopardi near via merulana. the gardens became imperial property after maecenas's death, and tiberius lived there after his return to rome in ad.[ ] nero connected them with the palatine hill via his domus transitoria,[ ] and viewed the burning of that from the turris maecenatiana.[ ] this turris was probably the "molem propinquam nubibus arduis" ("the pile, among the clouds") mentioned by horace.[ ] whether the horti maecenatiani bought by fronto[ ] actually were the former gardens of maecenas is unknown, and the domus frontoniana mentioned in the twelfth century by magister gregorius may also refer to the gardens of maecenas.[ ] legacy[edit] his name has become a byword in many languages[ ] for a well-connected and wealthy patron. for instance, john dewey, in his lectures art as experience, said "economic patronage by wealthy and powerful individuals has at many times played a part in the encouragement of artistic production. probably many a savage tribe had its maecenas."[ ] he is celebrated for this role in two poems, the elegiae in maecenatem, which were written after his death and collected in the appendix vergiliana. in various languages, it has even been coined into a word for (private) patronage (mainly cultural, but sometimes wider, usually perceived as more altruistic than sponsorship). a verse of the student song "gaudeamus igitur" wishes longevity upon the charity of the students' benefactors ("maecenatum", genitive plural of "maecenas"). in poland and western ukraine, a lawyer would customarily be addressed with the honorific "pan mecenas", as lawyers were considered to be philanthropists and patrons of the arts. in the great gatsby, along with midas and j. p. morgan, maecenas is one of the three famous wealthy men whose secrets narrator nick carraway hopes to find in the books he buys for his home library.[ ] film and television portrayals[edit] maecenas was portrayed by alex wyndham in the second season of the hbo television series rome. he was portrayed by russell barr in the made-for-tv movie imperium: augustus.[ ] he is also featured in one episode of the second series of plebs on itv. see also[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to gaius maecenas. 	cilnia (gens) 	maecenas-ehrung, german award to philanthropists notes[edit] 	^ ii. i, – 	^ livy x. . 	^ tacitus, annals . . 	^ varro, however, specifies that the name maecenas is a nomen based on origin like lesas, ufenas, etc: see chris j. simpson, "two small thoughts on 'cilnius maecenas'" . archived - - at the wayback machine 	^ pro cluentio, 	^ odes iii. , 	^ horace, satires, i. . 	^ augustus, 	^ murena was accused of being in a conspiracy with fannius caepio and executed in bc (kline, index to horace satires: epistles). 	^ liv. 	^ ii. 	^ ii. . a 	^ cassius dio lv. . 	^ [ ] 	^ suet. tib. 	^ tac. ann. xv. 	^ suet. nero 	^ horace's odes iii. . . 	^ fronto, ad m. caesarem . – "plane multum mihi facetiarum contulit istic horatius flaccus, memorabilis poeta mihique propter maecenatem ac maecenatianos hortos meos non alienus. is namque horatius sermonum libr(o) s(ecundo) fabulam istam polemonis inseruit, si recte memini, hisce versibus..." 	^ journal of roman studies , , . 	^ μαικήνας in greek, mecenaat in dutch, mesenaatti in finnish, mécénat in french, mäzen in german, mecenate in italian, mecenat in romanian, mecen in slovenian, mecenas in spanish, polish, and ukrainian, and меценат in russian and bulgarian. 	^ dewey, john ( ). art as experience. new york: g.p. putnam's sons. p.  . 	^ fitzgerald, f. scott ( ). the great gatsby. new york: scribner. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt / references[edit] primary sources[edit] 	dio cassius 	tacitus, annals 	suetonius, augustus 	horace, odes with scholia 	horace, satires i. . – "nunc licet esquiliis habitare salubribus atque / aggere in aprico spatiari, quo modo tristes / albis informem spectabant ossibus agrum,/cum mihi non tantum furesque feraeque suetae/hunc vexare locum curae sunt atque labori/quantum carminibus quae versant atque venenis/humanos animos: has nullo perdere possum/nec prohibere modo, simul ac vaga luna decorum/protulit os, quin ossa legant herbasque nocentis." 	acro, porphyrio, and comm. cruq. ad loc. 	topographical dictionary secondary sources[edit] 	v. gardthausen, augustus and seine zeit, i. seq. ; 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a new storage building, the central depository in hostivař, was inaugurated in .[ ] collections[edit] the most precious medieval manuscripts preserved in the national library are the codex vyssegradensis and the passional of abbes kunigunde. digitisation[edit] the national library of the czech republic began with their digitisation efforts in in collaboration with the czech company aip beroun. in these efforts, the national library conducted pioneer work on a global scale in the creation of digitization standards. later, it got involved in a number of european projects, in which it came to additional developments particularly standards regarding manuscripts and old prints. it also supported several pilot projects at the time of their creation and the first years of the unesco memory of the world programme (with the programme's first pilot project being from the national library of the czech republic in ). the library won international recognition in as it received the inaugural jikji prize from unesco's memory of the world programme for its efforts in digitising old texts.[ ][ ] in its first years since , the project accomplished the digitisation of , documents and made them publicly available.[ ] the national library makes its digital content available in the digital libraries manuscriptorium (http://www.manuscriptorium.com/en) and kramerius (http://kramerius .nkp.cz). manuscriptorium comprises more than , manuscripts and old prints, with almost , of them contributed by the national library and the remainder from partners from countries.[citation needed] since , when europeana, the european union's digital platform for cultural heritage, came into existence, manuscriptorium contributes manuscripts and old prints digitised by libraries all over the czech republic and by other partners to the europeana platform and several other specialised portals, including professional academic resource discovery services, e.g. of ebsco, proquest and exlibris. in a collaborative project with google, additional old prints and early th century books from the slavonic library have been digitised, with altogether more than , books digitised by google (as of october ).[citation needed] these books are accessible through the google books digital library as well as through the national library's catalogue of old prints and the catalogue of the slavonic library, and the old prints gradually also through manuscriptorium. the kramerius digital library contains digitised documents published after the year . so far, more than , periodical series have been digitised. the number of digitized books continues to grow, especially after mass digitization of modern prints in context of the national digital library project.[citation needed] proposed new building[edit] general reading room (former refectory of the jesuit residence in clementinum) in the czech parliament approved funding for the construction of a new library building on letna plain, between hradčanská metro station and sparta prague's football ground, letná stadium.[ ][ ] in march , following a request for tender, czech architect jan kaplický was selected by a jury to undertake the project, with a projected completion date of .[ ] later in the project was delayed following objections regarding its proposed location from government officials including prague mayor pavel bém and president václav klaus.[ ][ ] plans for the building had still not been decided in february , with the matter being referred to the office for the protection of competition in order to determine if the tender had been won fairly.[ ] later in , minister of culture václav jehlička announced the end of the project, following a ruling from the european commission that the tender process had not been carried out legally.[ ] incidents[edit] the library was affected by the european floods, with some documents moved to upper levels to avoid the excess water.[ ] over , books were removed from the library in july following flooding in parts of the main building.[ ] there was a fire at the library in december , but nobody was injured in the event.[ ] see also[edit] 	list of national and state libraries references[edit] 	^ a b c výroční zpráva národní knihovny České republiky (pdf). výroční zpráva (in czech). . isbn  - - - - . issn  - . retrieved october . 	^ "incunabula". www.nlp.cz. national library of the czech republic. retrieved june . 	^ "need for new library intensifies". the prague post. may . archived from the original on may . retrieved may . 	^ a b "national library's rare prints and manuscripts at the click of a mouse". radio prague. - - . retrieved - - . 	^ tucker, aviezer ( – february ). "opinion" (pdf). the prague post. prague. p. a . archived from the original (pdf) on may . retrieved may . 	^ "from klementinum's history". national library of the czech republic, prague. . retrieved - - . 	^ "national library wins unesco award for pioneering digitisation work". radio prague. - - . retrieved - - . 	^ " - the national library of the czech republic". unesco. retrieved - - . 	^ "national library to get major new building while clementinum will undergo extensive renovations". radio prague. march . retrieved may . 	^ a b "plans to build modern "blob" building on letna plain meet resistance from prague politicians". radio prague. october . retrieved may . 	^ "changes ahead for the czech national library". radio prague. march . retrieved may . 	^ "'octopus' library stirs up czechs". bbc news. may . retrieved may . 	^ "still no final decision on national library building". radio prague. february . retrieved may . 	^ "head of national library sacked over 'blob' dispute". radio 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sea. contents 	 a 	 b 	 c 	 d 	 f 	 g 	 h 	 j 	 l 	 m 	 n 	 o 	 p 	 q 	 r 	 s 	 t 	 u 	 v 	 notes a[edit] 	manius acilius glabrio (consul bc) [ ] 	manius acilius glabrio (consul bc)[ ] 	titus aebutius elva[ ] 	aegidius 	lucius aemilius barbula 	marcus aemilius lepidus (triumvir) 	lucius aemilius paulus macedonicus 	marcus aemilius scaurus (praetor bc) 	marcus antonius (orator)[ ] 	gaius antonius[ ] 	lucius antonius (brother of mark antony) 	marcus antonius creticus[ ] 	mark antony 	manius aquillius (consul bc) 	arrian 	lucius artorius castus 	gaius asinius pollio (consul bc) 	aulus atilius calatinus[ ] 	marcus atilius regulus[ ] 	publius attius varus[ ] 	aureolus[ ] 	graltinus maximus aurelius b[edit] 	lucius cornelius balbus (minor) – defeated the garamantes 	barbatio 	lucilius bassus 	publius ventidius bassus 	bonifacius 	bonosus (usurper) 	decimus junius brutus albinus – commanded caesar's fleet in the war against the veneti 	decimus junius brutus callaicus – led the roman legions in the conquest of western iberia 	marcus junius brutus c[edit] 	quintus caecilius metellus[ ] 	aulus caecina alienus 	marcus calpurnius bibulus 	gaius calpurnius piso (consul bc) 	gaius carrinas (praetor bc) 	gaius carrinas (consul bc) 	gaius cassius longinus 	quintus tullius cicero 	gaius julius civilis 	appius claudius caudex 	marcus claudius marcellus 	gaius claudius nero 	claudius pompeianus 	publius claudius pulcher 	lucius clodius macer 	gnaeus domitius corbulo 	gaius marcius coriolanus 	lucius cornelius cinna 	gnaeus cornelius lentulus clodianus 	publius cornelius lentulus spinther 	lucius cornelius lentulus crus 	scipio aemilianus 	scipio africanus 	scipio asiaticus 	lucius cornelius scipio barbatus 	publius cornelius scipio nasica[ ] d[edit] 	publius decius mus (consul bc) – fought pyrrhus of epirus at the battle of asculum ( bc) 	publius decius mus (consul bc) – awarded the grass crown during first samnite war 	publius decius mus (consul bc) 	dexippus 	aulus didius gallus 	titus didius 	gnaeus domitius ahenobarbus (consul bc) 	gnaeus domitius ahenobarbus (consul bc) 	gnaeus domitius calvinus 	nero claudius drusus 	drusus julius caesar 	gaius duilius f[edit] 	quintus fabius maximus rullianus[ ] 	quintus fabius maximus verrucosus[ ] 	fabius valens 	gaius flaminius 	gaius flavius fimbria 	quintus fufius calenus 	fullofaudes 	marcus fulvius flaccus (consul bc) 	marcus fulvius flaccus (consul bc) 	quintus fulvius flaccus 	quintus fulvius flaccus (consul bc) 	marcus fulvius nobilior 	marcus furius camillus 	flavius aetius 	cornelius fuscus g[edit] 	aulus gabinius[ ] 	gaius julius caesar the elder 	servius sulpicius galba (praetor bc) 	cestius gallus 	lucius gellius publicola 	germanicus 	gundobad 	gaius salvius liberalis h[edit] 	gnaeus hosidius geta – defeated sabalus, chief of the mauri j[edit] 	lucius julius caesar 	julius caesar 	lucius junius brutus founder of roman republic l[edit] 	gaius laelius 	titus larcius 	marcus aemilius lepidus (consul ) 	publius licinius crassus dives mucianus 	marcus licinius crassus 	lucius licinius lucullus 	litorius 	lucullus 	mucianus 	quintus ligarius 	marcus livius salinator 	marcus lollius 	quintus lollius urbicus 	lucius caecilius metellus denter 	lucius pinarius 	gaius lutatius catulus 	quintus lutatius catulus m[edit] 	gnaeus mallius maximus 	titus manlius torquatus (consul bc) 	titus manlius torquatus ( bc) 	lucius manlius vulso longus 	gaius marcius rutilus 	marcius turbo 	gaius marius – initiated "marian reforms" of the army 	gaius marius the younger 	lucius mummius achaicus 	marcus valerius maximianus n[edit] 	tiberius nero – commanded caesar's fleet in the alexandrian war 	gaius norbanus flaccus 	gaius norbanus 	gaius noobius o[edit] 	gaius octavius – put down a slave rebellion at thurii • 	gnaeus octavius 	odaenathus 	lucius opimius 	publius ostorius scapula – responsible for the defeat and capture of caratacus p[edit] 	gnaeus papirius carbo 	lucius papirius cursor 	tiberius claudius paulinus 	marcus perperna vento 	marcus perperna 	quintus petillius cerialis 	publius petronius turpilianus 	lucius calpurnius piso (consul bc) 	aulus plautius[ ] 	gnaeus pompeius 	pompey 	sextus pompeius 	pompeius strabo 	pomponius secundus 	marcus popillius laenas 	marcus popillius laenas (consul bc) 	lucius postumius albinus 	marcus antonius primus 	publius cornelius dolabella (consul bc) 	marcus pupius piso frugi calpurnianus q[edit] 	lusius quietus 	lucius quinctius cincinnatus – dictator 	publius quinctilius varus – lost three roman legions and his own life when attacked by germanic leader arminius in the battle of the teutoburg forest 	titus quinctius flamininus 	quintus aemilius 	quintus pedius r[edit] 	ricimer 	marcus roscius coelius 	publius rutilius lupus (consul bc) 	publius rutilius rufus s[edit] 	quintus salvidienus rufus 	gaius scribonius curio (consul bc) 	gaius scribonius curio (praetor bc) 	sejanus 	tiberius sempronius gracchus (consul bc) 	tiberius sempronius 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valerius laevinus 	manius valerius maximus corvinus messalla 	marcus valerius messalla corvinus 	flavius valila theodosius 	marcus vipsanius agrippa[ ] notes[edit] 	^ command of the war against mithridates vi of pontus 	^ defeated the seleucid ruler antiochus the great at the battle of thermopylae 	^ battle of lake regillus, roman victory over the latin league 	^ roman senate voted him a naval triumph 	^ entrusted with the defence of illyricum against the pompeians 	^ ordered to clear the mediterranean sea of piracy, but instead, plundered the provinces he was supposed to protect 	^ first to lead an army outside of the italian mainland 	^ defeated and captured at the battle of tunis 	^ fought and defeated gaius scribonius curio 	^ one of the so-called thirty tyrants 	^ twice defeated andriscus, self-proclaimed pretender to macedonian throne 	^ defeated the lusitanians at ilipa, and subjugated the boii 	^ hero of the samnite wars 	^ instigated his "fabian strategy" against hannibal 	^ 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japan, statutes and parliamentary documents, publications on japan, reference material, material on science and technology, publications of international organizations and foreign governments, children's literature and related material, asian works 	legal deposit	legal deposit 	access and use 	access requirements	eighteen years of age or older for the tokyo main library and the kansai-kan 	population served	members of the diet ( : fixed number as of feb. ) and the general public 	other information 	budget	jp¥ , m (fy ) (us$ m) 	director	sawako hanyu ( )[ ] 	staff	 	website	www.ndl.go.jp 	map 	 kansai-kan of the national diet library the national diet library (ndl) (国立国会図書館, kokuritsu kokkai toshokan) is the national library of japan and among the largest libraries in the world. it was established in for the purpose of assisting members of the national diet of japan (国会, kokkai) in researching matters of public policy. the library is similar in purpose and scope to the united states library of congress. the national diet library (ndl) consists of two main facilities in tokyo and kyoto, and several other branch libraries throughout japan. contents 	 history 	 main collection 	 important special collections 	 . modern political and constitutional history 	 . materials concerning the postwar occupation of japan 	 . laws and preliminary records 	 . science and technology 	 . maps 	 . music 	 . foreign books about japan 	 . rare books and old materials 	 the kansai-kan 	 national diet library online resources 	 . national diet library online public access catalog (ndl-opac) 	 . national diet library digital collections 	 . digital library from the meiji era 	 . rare books image database 	 . minutes of the imperial diet and national diet 	 see also 	 references 	 sources 	 external links history[edit] the national diet library is the successor of three separate libraries: the library of the house of peers, the library of the house of representatives, both of which were established at the creation of japan's imperial diet in ; and the imperial library, which had been established in under the jurisdiction of the ministry of education. the diet's power in prewar japan was limited, and its need for information was "correspondingly small". the original diet libraries "never developed either the collections or the services which might have made them vital adjuncts of genuinely responsible legislative activity". until japan's defeat, moreover, the executive had controlled all political documents, depriving the people and the diet of access to vital information. the u.s. occupation forces under general douglas macarthur deemed reform of the diet library system to be an important part of the democratization of japan after its defeat in world war ii. in , each house of the diet formed its own national diet library standing committee. hani gorō, a marxist historian who had been imprisoned during the war for thought crimes and had been elected to the house of councillors (the successor to the abolished house of peers) after the war, spearheaded the reform efforts. hani envisioned the new body as "both a 'citadel of popular sovereignty'", and the means of realizing a "peaceful revolution". the occupation officers responsible for overseeing library reforms reported that, although the occupation was a catalyst for change, local initiative pre-existed the occupation, and the successful reforms were due to dedicated japanese like hani. the national diet library opened in june in the present-day state guest-house (former akasaka detached palace) with an initial collection of , volumes. the first librarian of the diet library was the politician tokujirō kanamori.[ ] the philosopher masakazu nakai served as the first vice librarian.[ ] in , the ndl merged with the national library (previously called the imperial library) and became the only national library in japan. at this time the collection gained an additional million volumes previously housed in the former national library in ueno. in , the ndl opened at its present location[ ] in nagatachō, adjacent to the national diet. in , the ndl's annex was completed to accommodate a combined total of million books and periodicals. the kansai-kan (the kansai library), which opened in october in the kansai science city (seika town, sōraku county, kyoto prefecture), has a collection of million items. in may , the ndl opened a new branch, the international library of children's literature, in the former building of the imperial library in ueno. this branch contains some , items of children's literature from around the world. though the ndl's original mandate was to be a research library for the national diet, the general public is the largest consumer of the library's services. in the fiscal year ending march , for example, the library reported more than , reference inquiries; in contrast, it recorded only , requests for research from the national diet. main collection[edit] the national diet library main building in tokyo as japan's national library, the ndl collects copies of all publications published in japan. moreover, because the ndl serves as a research library for diet members, their staffs, and the general public, it maintains an extensive collection of materials published in foreign languages on a wide range of topics. important special collections[edit] the ndl also has eight major specialized collections: modern political and constitutional history; materials concerning the postwar occupation of japan; laws and preliminary records; science and technology; maps; music; foreign books about japan; and rare books. modern political and constitutional history[edit] the modern political and constitutional history collection comprises some , items related to japan's political and legal modernization in the th century, including the original document archives of important japanese statesmen from the latter half of the th century and the early th century like itō hirobumi, iwakura tomomi, sanjō sanetomi, mutsu munemitsu, terauchi masatake, and other influential figures from the meiji ( – ) and taishō ( – ) periods. materials concerning the postwar occupation of japan[edit] the ndl has an extensive microform collection of some million pages of documents relating to the occupation of japan after world war ii. this collection include the documents prepared by general headquarters (ghq) and the supreme commander of the allied powers (scap), the far eastern commission (fec), and the united states strategic bombing survey team. (the originals of these documents are in the possession of the united states national archives.) laws and preliminary records[edit] the laws and preliminary records collection consists of some , japanese and , foreign-language documents concerning proceedings of the national diet and the legislatures of some foreign countries, and the official gazettes, statutes, judicial opinions, and international treaties pertaining to some foreign countries. science and technology[edit] the ndl maintains a collection of some , books and booklets and million microform titles relating to the sciences. these materials include, among other things, foreign doctoral dissertations in the sciences, the proceedings and reports of academic societies, catalogues of technical standards, etc. maps[edit] the ndl has a collection of approximately , maps of japan and other countries, including the topographical, geological, and hydrological maps and charts dating back to the early meiji period ( – ) and topographical maps of foreign countries. music[edit] the ndl collects all phonographic recordings made in japan, and presently holds a collection comprising , vinyl records and , compact disks. foreign books about japan[edit] following the tradition established by the imperial library, the ndl collects foreign-language materials about japan, including rare and ancient documents, such as reports of european missionaries visiting japan in the th century. rare books and old materials[edit] the analects of confucius in the collection of the national diet library has a back flyleaf with nobukata's autograph provenance notes dated november of the th year of the tenmon era ( ) and is clearly printed; therefore this seems to be a rare first edition. a sumptuous cover made of nishijin brocade was put on the book in the edo period. the ndl houses the former imperial library's collection of japanese language materials from the edo period ( – ) and earlier periods. the major catalogues in this collection include: ( ) some , documents relating to the tokugawa shogunate ( – ), such as records of town magistrates, the shogunal supreme court, and the jisha-bugyō (commissioners of shrines and temples), as well as documents concerning the succession of shōguns; ( ) the itō bunko and shirai bunko, consisting of , handwritten and woodblock printed books dating from the edo and meiji periods and concerning japanese medicine; and ( ) the shinjo bunko, consisting of , examples of pre-modern writings on astronomy and calendars, in addition to ancient chinese works on the qing dynasty, genealogy, and local history. the kansai-kan[edit] main article: kansai-kan of the national diet library kansai-kan (kansai library), which opened in kyoto prefecture in , is the second facility of the ndl. the ndl has transferred the following collections to the kansai-kan: most western periodicals; books and other materials in non-japanese asian languages; certain scientific and technological materials (technical reports, papers of foreign academic societies, catalogs of japanese and foreign technical standards, foreign doctoral dissertations, and conference proceedings in western languages); scientific research reports compiled under grants from the ministry of education, culture, sports, science and technology; japanese doctoral dissertations; and books on tape.[ ] national diet library online resources[edit] the national diet library has in recent years compiled a detailed website in both japanese [ ] and english.[ ] its online databases consist of the national diet library online public access catalog (ndl-opac), national diet library digital collections and the minutes of the imperial diet and national diet. national diet library online public access catalog (ndl-opac)[edit] the ndl provides an online public access catalog (opac), by which users can search the ndl's entire collection from anywhere in the world in either english[ ] or japanese.[ ] using opac to identify sources and catalog numbers, overseas users may obtain certain materials from the ndl through interlibrary loan.[ ] in addition, the ndl provides a fee-based reproduction service for scholars residing overseas.[ ] as of june ndl-opac is planned to end at the end of december and new online services will be launched.[ ] national diet library digital collections[edit] ndl digital collections provinces various online materials such as rare books, audio-visual materials and the materials whose copyrights has expired. the contents consisting of digital library from the meiji era and rare books image database (to be mentioned later) are now availablable on ndl digital collections. ndl digitalized contents was renamed to be ndl digital collections in .[ ][ ] digital library from the meiji era[edit] main article: ja:近代デジタルライブラリー one of the most important features of the ndl's website is the digital library of the meiji era (近代デジタルライブラリー, kindai dejitaru raiburarii, lit. recent age digital library).[ ] the digital library is the digital descendant of the maruzen meiji microfilm, the product of an ambitious project to microfilm the ndl's entire collection of meiji era books, a collection of some , volumes. the digital library contains actual images of these works, which are divided into ten main categories based on nippon decimal classification (ndc) : ( ) general (総記, sōki); ( ) philosophy (哲学, tetsugaku); ( ) history (歴史, rekishi); ( ) social sciences (社会科学, shakai kagaku); ( ) natural sciences (自然科学, shizen kagaku); ( ) engineering and manufacturing (工学・工業, kōgaku/kōgyō); ( ) industry (産業, sangyō); ( ) arts and athletics (芸術・体育, geijutsu/taiiku); ( ) language (語学, gogaku); and ( ) literature (文学, bungaku). the images are not coded, so text searches are not possible; however, japanese-language searches for the title, author, publisher, subject, and table of contents of the works in the database are possible. meiji period periodicals are not included in this collection. digital library from the meiji era was merged into ndl digital collections in .[ ] rare books image database[edit] the ndl's website also contains the rare books image database (貴重書画像データベース, kichōsho gazō dētabēsu) a collection of digital images from , illustrated books published before the edo period. japanese-language searches by title, author, and call-number are possible in this database.[ ] rare books image database was integrated into ndl digitalized contents (now ndl digital collections) in .[ ] minutes of the imperial diet and national diet[edit] the ndl provides a database of the minutes of both the imperial diet and the national diet, the only one of the ndl's online database that is full-text searchable. all minutes from the national diet's inception in may through the present are searchable online.[ ] at present, only minutes from the last two ( st and nd) sessions of the imperial diet (november through may ) are available.[ ] see also[edit] 	authority control 	list of academic databases and search engines references[edit] 	^ "national diet library statistics". . retrieved september . 	^ "sawako hanyu appointed new librarian of the national diet library". national diet library. retrieved - - . 	^ a b "kokuritsu kokkai toshokan shōshi" (in japanese). kokuritsu kokkai toshokan. archived from the original on january . retrieved january . 	^ this was the ground of the german embassy since the meiji period. it was confiscated in and not given back. 	^ "kansai-kan of the national diet library｜national diet library". 	^ "国立国会図書館―national diet library". 	^ "national diet library". 	^ "archived copy". archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - .cs maint: archived copy as title (link) 	^ "archived copy". archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - .cs maint: archived copy as title (link) 	^ "archived copy". archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - .cs maint: archived copy as title (link) 	^ "archived copy". archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - .cs maint: archived copy as title (link) 	^ "ndl to implement a new search system in january ". national diet library. archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - . 	^ "about the national diet library digital collections". national diet library. retrieved - - . 	^ a b c "国立国会図書館デジタルコレクションの歩み" (in japanese). national diet library. retrieved - - . 	^ "archived copy". archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - .cs maint: archived copy as title (link) 	^ "archived copy". archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - .cs maint: archived copy as title (link) 	^ "国会会議録検索システム". 	^ "帝国議会会議録検索システム". sources[edit] 	this article is based on information obtained from the national diet library website. the section on the formation of the ndl under the u.s. occupation forces relies heavily on leslie pincus, "revolution in the archives of memory: the founding of the national diet library in occupied japan" in francis x. blouin and william g. rosenberg, eds., archives, 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trove 	 . membership 	 directors-general 	 funding problems 	 see also 	 references 	 . attribution 	 . bibliography 	 external links history[edit] in the commonwealth parliament library[ ] was established to serve the newly formed federal parliament of australia. from its inception the commonwealth parliamentary library was driven to development of a truly national collection. in the joint parliamentary library committee under the chairmanship of the speaker, sir frederick william holder defined the objective of the commonwealth parliamentary library in the following words:[ ] the library committee is keeping before it the ideal of building up, for the time when parliament shall be established in the federal capital, a great public library on the lines of the world-famed library of congress at washington; such a library, indeed, as shall be worthy of the australian nation; the home of the literature, not of a state, or of a period, but of the world, and of all time. from , two forms of name were used concurrently: commonwealth national library and commonwealth parliament library, to designate the national and parliamentary collections respectively.[ ] in the national library of australia was created[ ] by the national library act ,[ ] and each library became a separate entity.[ ] building[edit] the present library building was opened on august by prime minister john gorton.[ ][ ] the building was designed by the architectural firm of bunning and madden in the late twentieth century stripped classical style. the foyer is decorated in marble, with stained-glass windows by leonard french and three tapestries by mathieu matégot.[ ] the building was listed on the australian commonwealth heritage list on june .[ ] reading rooms[edit] the large national library building is home to various reading rooms and collections. on the ground floor is the main reading room — this is where the bulk of the library's internet access terminals are located, and where wireless internet access is available. services are also delivered on-site from the newspaper & family history zone on the ground floor, special collections reading room on the st floor, and asian collections on level . collections[edit] australian & general collection[edit] the library collects material produced by australians, for australians or about the australian experience in all formats—not just printed works—books, serials, newspapers, maps, posters, music and printed ephemera—but also online publications and unpublished material such as manuscripts, pictures and oral histories. hazel de berg began recording australian writers, artists, musicians and others in the arts community in . she conducted nearly interviews. together with the library, she was a pioneer in the field in australia, working together for twenty-seven years.[ ] a core australiana collection is that of john a. ferguson.[ ] the library has particular collection strengths in the performing arts, including dance. the library's considerable collections of general overseas and rare book materials, as well as world-class asian and pacific collections which augment the australiana collections. the print collections are further supported by extensive microform holdings. the library also maintains the national reserve braille collection. as a national library, the nla is required by legal deposit provisions enshrined in the copyright act to collect a copy of every australian publication in the country, which publishers must submit upon publication of the material.[ ][ ] at the end of the australian financial year of – , the national library collection comprised , , items, and an additional , metres ( ,  ft) of manuscript material.[ ] the library's collections of australiana have developed into the nation's single most important resource of materials recording the australian cultural heritage. australian writers, editors and illustrators are actively sought and well represented, whether published in australia or overseas. the library's collection includes all formats of material, from books, journals, websites and manuscripts to pictures, photographs, maps, music, oral history recordings, manuscript papers and ephemera.[ ] approximately . % of the library's collection had been catalogued by july , a total of , , items[ ] and these are discoverable through the online catalogue.[ ] digital collections[edit] the library is a world leader in digital preservation techniques,[ ] and has maintained an internet-accessible archive of selected australian websites called the pandora archive since . the australian web archive, released in march , combines records from pandora, the australian government web archive (agwa), and other websites published in australia. in the federal budget, the government allocated a$ million to the library, intended to be spread over four years to set up a digitisation fund.[ ] as of june [update], the library had digitised a total of , , images.[ ] where possible, these are delivered these directly across the internet. since a amendment to the copyright act, all born-digital content must also be deposited in the library (with varying provisions for state libraries as well). the nla has since may hosted and managed the national edeposit (ned) service. libraries act, libraries tasmania, northern territory library, state library of new south wales, state library of queensland, state library of south australia, state library victoria and the state library of western australia are the member organisations of the collaboration.[ ][ ] asian collections[edit] the library houses the largest and most actively developing research resource on asia in australia, and the largest asian language collections in the southern hemisphere, with over half a million volumes in the collection, as well as extensive online and electronic resources. the library collects resources about all asian countries in western languages extensively, and resources in the following asian languages: burmese, chinese, persian, indonesian, japanese, khmer, korean, lao, manchu, mongolian, thai, timorese, and vietnamese. the library has acquired a number of important western and asian language scholarly collections from researchers and bibliophiles. these collections include: 	australian buddhist library collection 	braga collection (portuguese in asia)[ ] 	claasz collection (sri lanka)[ ] 	coedes collection (indo-china)[ ] 	london missionary society collection (china) 	luce collection (burma) 	mclaren-human collection (korea)[ ] 	otley beyer collection (philippines) 	sakakibara collection (japan) 	sang ye collection (china) 	simon collection (east asia) 	harold s. williams collection (japan) the asian collections are searchable via the national library's catalogue.[ ] pictures and manuscripts[edit] play media discussion of the acquisition and preservation process of joan blaeu's archipelagus orientalis ( ) by the national library ( ) the national library holds an extensive collection of pictures and manuscripts. the manuscript collection contains about million separate items, covering in excess of , meters of shelf space (aca australian archival statistics, ). the collection relates predominantly to australia, but there are also important holdings relating to papua new guinea, new zealand and the pacific. the collection also holds a number of european and asian manuscript collections or single items have been received as part of formed book collections. the australian manuscript collections date from the period of maritime exploration and settlement in the th century until the present, with the greatest area of strength dating from the s onwards. the collection includes a large number of outstanding single items, such as the th century chertsey cartulary, the journal of james cook on hm bark endeavour, inscribed on the memory of the world[ ] register in , the diaries of robert o'hara burke and william john wills from the burke and wills expedition, and charles kingsford smith's and charles ulm's log of the southern cross. a wide range of individuals and families are represented in the collection, with special strength in the fields of politics, public administration, diplomacy, theatre, art, literature, the pastoral industry and religion. examples are the papers of alfred deakin, sir john latham, sir keith murdoch, sir hans heysen, sir john monash, vance palmer and nettie palmer, a.d. hope, manning clark, david williamson, w.m. hughes, sir robert menzies, sir william mcmahon, lord casey, geoffrey dutton, peter sculthorpe, daisy bates, jessie street, and eddie mabo and james cook both of whose papers were inscribed on unesco's memory of the world programme register in .[ ][ ] the library has also acquired the records of many national non-governmental organisations. they include the records of the federal secretariats of the liberal party, the a.l.p, the democrats, the r.s.l., the australian inland mission, the australian union of students, the australian ballet, the australian elizabethan theatre trust, the australian institute of urban studies, australian industries protection league, the australian conservation foundation, and the australian council of national trusts. finally, the library holds about , reels of microfilm of manuscripts and archival records, mostly acquired overseas and predominantly of australian and pacific interest. the national library's pictures collection focuses on australian people, places and events, from european exploration of the south pacific to contemporary events. art works and photographs are acquired primarily for their informational value, and for their importance as historical documents.[ ] media represented in the collection include photographs, drawings, watercolours, oils, lithographs, engravings, etchings and sculpture/busts.[ ] services[edit] the national library of australia provides a national leadership role in developing and managing collaborative online services with the australian library community, making it easier for users to find and access information resources at the national level. it provides services to libraries and publishers and the general public, with membership available to residents of australia providing access to additional services.[ ][ ] some of the components of the services are:[ ] 	for publishers: 	prepublication data service,[ ] issns and ismns for australian publishers. 	national edeposit (ned), to fulfill legal deposit obligations.[ ] nla hosts and manages the service, whereby all born-digital content published in australia, as required by legal deposit legislation under the copyright act , is deposited remotely by the publisher, stored and made accessible to member libraries and the public.[ ][ ][ ][ ] 	for librarians: 	the australian national bibliographic database (anbd)[ ] and offers free access through the libraries australia[ ] subscription-based service. it is used for reference, collection development, cataloguing and interlibrary lending. 	national libraries gateway. 	online, for the general public: 	the australian web archive, which now incorporates pandora (established ), the australian government web archive (awa) and the ".au" domain archive. 	national library of australia catalogue, a catalogue of resources in nla which are available to the general public.[ ] trove[edit] the trove logo main article: trove the online services mentioned above, and more, are accessible via the trove service, which was launched in . trove is an online library database aggregator, a centralised national service built with the collaboration of major libraries of australia.[ ] trove's most well known feature is the digitised collection of australian newspapers. most nla resource discovery services are now fully integrated with trove. the service is able to locate resources about australia and australians, which reaches many locations otherwise unavailable to external search engines.[ ] membership[edit] free registration with the library is allowed for all australian residents, with cards sent to a physical address before use is allowed. membership confers some extra benefits for users of the library, such as requesting items for use onsite in the reading rooms, and access to a select range of licensed electronic resources from offsite, such as the full text of encyclopaedia britannica.[ ] electronic copies of some items are able to be ordered, and for members who can visit the library in person, inter-library loans may be obtained to use in the reading rooms.[ ] directors-general[edit] the library seen from lake burley griffin in autumn. the following individuals have been appointed as director-general or any precedent titles: directors-general of the national library of australia 	ordinal 	officeholder 	title 	term begin 	term end 	time in office 	notes 	 	arthur wadsworth	interim commonwealth parliamentary librarian	 	 	 – years	 	 	kenneth binns cbe	commonwealth parliamentary librarian	 	 	 – years	 	 	harold leslie white cbe	national librarian	 	 	 – years	 	 	allan percy fleming cbe	 	 	 – years	 	 	george chandler	director-general	 	 	 – years	 	 	harrison bryan ao	 	 	 – years	 	 	warren horton am	 	 	 – years	 	 	jan fullerton ao	 	 	 – years	[ ][ ] 	 	anne-marie schwirtlich	 	 	 – years	[ ] 	 	dr marie-louise ayres	 	present	 years	[ ] funding problems[edit] in , with threatened funding cuts to trove, a public campaign led to a government commitment of a$ . million in december , spread over four years.[ ][ ] by early , with the surge in demand for all types of digital services, the national library was having to cope with increasingly dwindling staff resources to develop services on trove and national edeposit, and undertook a restructure of its staffing and operations.[ ] see also[edit] 	australia portal 	architecture portal 	list of national and state libraries 	national and state libraries australia 	parliamentary triangle, canberra 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- wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	list of roman emperors 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		wikipedia list article augustus, the first roman emperor the roman emperors were the rulers of the roman empire dating from the granting of the title of augustus to gaius julius caesar octavianus by the roman senate in bc, after major roles played by the populist dictator and military leader julius caesar. augustus maintained a facade of republican rule, rejecting monarchical titles but calling himself princeps senatus (first man of the council)[ ] and princeps civitatis (first citizen of the state). the title of augustus was conferred on his successors to the imperial position. the style of government instituted by augustus is called the principate and continued until reforms by diocletian. the modern word 'emperor' derives from the title imperator, which was granted by an army to a successful general; during the initial phase of the empire, the title was generally used only by the princeps. for example, augustus' official name was imperator caesar divi filius augustus. the territory under command of the emperor had developed under the period of the roman republic as it invaded and occupied most of europe and portions of northern africa and western asia. under the republic, regions of the empire were ruled by provincial governors answerable to and authorised by the senate and people of rome. during the republic, the chief magistrates of rome were two consuls elected each year; consuls continued to be elected in the imperial period, but their authority was subservient to that of the emperor, and the election was controlled by the emperor. in the late rd century, after the crisis of the third century, diocletian formalised and embellished the recent manner of imperial rule, establishing the so-called dominate period of the roman empire. this was characterised by the explicit increase of authority in the person of the emperor, and the use of the style dominus noster 'our lord'. the rise of powerful barbarian tribes along the borders of the empire and the challenge they posed to defense of far-flung borders and unstable imperial succession led diocletian to divide the administration geographically of the empire in with a co-augustus. in , constantine the great, the first christian emperor, issued the edict of milan along with licinius that granted freedom in the worship of christianity. in , he established a second capital in byzantium, which he renamed constantinople. for most of the period from to , there was more than one recognised senior emperor, with the division usually based in geographic terms. this division was consistently in place after the death of theodosius i in , which historians have dated as the division between the western roman empire and the eastern roman empire.[ ] however, formally the empire remained a single polity, with separate co-emperors in the separate courts. the fall of the western roman empire, and so the end of a separate list of emperors below, is dated either from the de facto date of when romulus augustulus was deposed by the germanic herulians led by odoacer or the de jure date of , on the death of julius nepos, when eastern emperor zeno ended recognition of a separate western court. in the period that followed, the empire is usually treated by historians as the byzantine empire governed by the byzantine emperors, although this designation is not used universally, and continues to be a subject of specialist debate today.[ ] in the th century reign of heraclius, the byzantine–sasanian war of – saw much of rome's eastern territory lost to the sasanian empire, recovered by heraclius, and then lost permanently to arab muslim conquests after the death of muhammad and establishment of islam. the sasanian empire was conquered by the rashidun caliphate, ending the byzantine-sasanian wars. the line of emperors continued until the death of constantine xi palaiologos during the fall of constantinople in , when the remaining territories were captured by the ottoman empire under mehmed ii.[ ] the ottoman dynasty carried on using the title of caesar of rome. counting all individuals to have possessed the full imperial title, including those who did not technically rule in their own right (e.g. co-emperors or minors during regencies), this list contains emperors and ruling empresses, for a total of monarchs. contents 	 legitimacy 	 . emperors after 	 the principate 	 . bc– ad: julio-claudian dynasty 	 . – : year of the four emperors and flavian dynasty 	 . – : nerva–antonine dynasty 	 . – : year of the five emperors and severan dynasty 	 . – : crisis of the third century 	 the dominate 	 . – : tetrarchy and constantinian dynasty 	 . – : valentinianic dynasty 	 western emperors 	 . – : theodosian dynasty 	 . – : last western emperors 	 eastern emperors 	 . – : theodosian dynasty 	 . – : leonid dynasty 	 . – : justinian dynasty 	 . – : heraclian dynasty 	 . – : twenty years' anarchy 	 . – : isaurian dynasty 	 . – : nikephorian dynasty 	 . – : amorian dynasty 	 . – : macedonian dynasty 	 . – : doukid dynasty 	 . – : komnenid dynasty 	 . – : angelid dynasty 	 . – : laskarid dynasty 	 . – : palaiologan dynasty 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 external links legitimacy[edit] this article is about legitimate roman emperors. for other individuals claiming the title of emperor, see list of roman usurpers. the emperors listed in this article are those generally agreed to have been 'legitimate' emperors, and who appear in published regnal lists.[ ][ ][ ] the word 'legitimate' is used by most authors, but usually without clear definition, perhaps not surprisingly, since the emperorship was itself rather vaguely defined legally. in augustus' original formulation, the princeps was selected by either the senate or "the people" of rome, but quite quickly the legions became an acknowledged stand-in for "the people." a person could be proclaimed as emperor by their troops or by "the mob" in the street, but in theory needed to be confirmed by the senate. the coercion that frequently resulted was implied in this formulation. furthermore, a sitting emperor was empowered to name a successor and take him on as apprentice in government and in that case the senate had no role to play, although it sometimes did when a successor lacked the power to inhibit bids by rival claimants. by the medieval (or byzantine) period, the very definition of the senate became vague as well, adding to the complication.[ ] lists of legitimate emperors are therefore partly influenced by the subjective views of those compiling them, and also partly by historical convention. many of the 'legitimate' emperors listed here acceded to the position by usurpation, and many 'illegitimate' claimants had a legitimate claim to the position. historically[by whom?], the following criteria have been used to derive emperor lists: 	any individual who undisputedly ruled the whole empire, at some point, is a 'legitimate emperor'( ). 	any individual who was nominated as heir or co-emperor by a legitimate emperor ( ), and who succeeded to rule in his own right, is a legitimate emperor ( ). 	where there were multiple claimants, and none were legitimate heirs, the claimant accepted by the roman senate as emperor is the legitimate emperor ( ), at least during the principate. so for instance, aurelian, though acceding to the throne by usurpation, was the sole and undisputed monarch between and , and thus was a legitimate emperor. gallienus, though not in control of the whole empire, and plagued by other claimants, was the legitimate heir of (the legitimate emperor) valerian. claudius gothicus, though acceding illegally, and not in control of the whole empire, was the only claimant accepted by the senate, and thus, for his reign, was the legitimate emperor. equally, during the year of the four emperors, all claimants, though not undisputed, were at some point accepted by the senate and are thus included; conversely, during the year of the five emperors neither pescennius niger nor clodius albinus were accepted by the senate, and are thus not included. there are a few examples where individuals were made co-emperor, but never wielded power in their own right (typically the child of an emperor); these emperors are legitimate, but are not included in regnal lists, and in this article are listed together with the senior emperor. emperors after [edit] after , the list of emperors in the east is based on the same general criteria, with the exception that the emperor only had to be in undisputed control of the eastern part of the empire, or be the legitimate heir of the eastern emperor. the situation in the west is more complex. throughout the final years of the western empire ( – ) the eastern emperor was considered the senior emperor, and a western emperor was only legitimate if recognized as such by the eastern emperor. furthermore, after the western emperor ceased to be a relevant figure and there was sometimes no claimant at all. for the sake of historical completeness, all western emperors after are included in this list, even if they were not recognized by the eastern empire;[ ] some of these technically illegitimate emperors are included in regnal lists, while others are not. for instance, romulus augustulus was technically a usurper who ruled only the italian peninsula and was never legally recognized. however, he was traditionally considered the "last roman emperor" by th and th century western scholars and his overthrow by odoacer used as the marking point between historical epochs, and as such he is usually included in regnal lists. however, modern scholarship has confirmed that romulus augustulus' predecessor, julius nepos continued to rule as emperor in the other western holdings and as a figurehead for odoacer's rule in italy until nepos' death in . since the question of what constitutes an emperor can be ambiguous, and dating the "fall of the western empire" arbitrary, this list includes details of both figures. the principate[edit] main article: principate bc– ad: julio-claudian dynasty[edit] main article: julio-claudian dynasty 	portrait 	name 	reign 	succession 	life details 	 	augustus imperator caesar augustus 	 january bc – august ad ( years, months and days) 	grandnephew and adopted son of julius caesar, became emperor as a result of settlement with the roman senate 	 september bc – august ad (aged  )[ ] died of natural causes 	 	tiberius tiberius caesar augustus 	 september – march (  years,  months and  days) 	stepson, former son-in-law and adopted son of augustus 	 november bc – march ad (aged  )[ ] died probably of natural causes, possibly murdered at the instigation of caligula 	 	caligula (formally gaius) gaius caesar augustus germanicus 	 march – january (  years,  months and  days) 	grandnephew and adoptive grandson of tiberius, great-grandson of augustus 	 august – january (aged  )[ ] murdered in a conspiracy involving the praetorian guard, senators and freedmen 	 	claudius tiberius claudius caesar augustus germanicus 	 january – october (  years,  months and  days) 	uncle of caligula, grandnephew of augustus, proclaimed emperor by the praetorian guard and accepted by the senate 	 august bc – october ad (aged  )[ ] probably poisoned by his wife agrippina, in favor of her son nero 	 	nero nero claudius caesar augustus germanicus 	 october – june (  years,  months and  days) 	grandnephew, stepson, son-in-law and adopted son of claudius, great-great-grandson of augustus 	 december – june (aged  )[ ] committed suicide after being declared a public enemy by the senate – : year of the four emperors and flavian dynasty[edit] main articles: year of the four emperors and flavian dynasty 	portrait 	name 	reign 	succession 	life details 	 	galba servius galba caesar augustus[ ] 	 june – january (  months and  days) 	revolted against nero and seized power after his suicide 	 december bc – january ad (aged  )[ ] murdered by the praetorian guard in coup led by otho 	 	otho marcus otho caesar augustus[ ] 	 january – april (  months and  day) 	seized the purple in a coup against galba 	 april – april (aged  ) committed suicide after losing the battle of bedriacum to vitellius[ ] 	 	vitellius aulus vitellius germanicus augustus 	 april – december (  months and  days) 	seized power with support of rhine legions, in opposition to galba and otho 	 september – december (aged  )[ ] tortured and murdered by vespasian's troops 	 	vespasian caesar vespasianus augustus[ ] 	 december – june (  years,  months and  days) 	seized power with the support of the eastern legions 	 november – / june (aged  ) died of natural causes[ ] 	 	titus titus caesar vespasianus augustus[ ] 	 june – september (  years,  months and  days) 	son of vespasian 	 december – september (aged  ) died of natural causes[ ] 	 	domitian caesar domitianus augustus[ ] 	 september – september (  years and  days) 	brother of titus and son of vespasian, was accepted as emperor by the praetorian guard and the senate 	 october – september (aged  ) assassinated in a palace conspiracy[ ] – : nerva–antonine dynasty[edit] main article: nerva–antonine dynasty 	portrait 	name 	reign 	succession 	life details 	 	nerva nerva caesar augustus[ ] 	 september – january (  year,  months and  days) 	proclaimed emperor after the murder of domitian. first of the "five good emperors". 	 november – january (aged  ) died after suffering a stroke[ ] 	 	trajan caesar nerva traianus augustus[ ] 	 january – august (  years,  months and  days) 	adopted son and heir of nerva. his reign marked the geographical peak of the empire. 	 september – august (aged  ) died of natural causes[ ] 	 	hadrian caesar traianus hadrianus augustus[ ] 	 august – july (  years,  months and  days) 	supposedly adopted by trajan 	 january – july (aged  ) died of natural causes[ ] 	 	antoninus pius titus aelius hadrianus antoninus augustus pius 	 july – march (  years,  months and  days) 	adopted son and heir of hadrian 	 september – march (aged  ) died of natural causes[ ] 	 	marcus aurelius marcus aurelius antoninus[ ] 	 march – march (  years and  days) 	adopted son and son-in-law of antoninus pius. adoptive brother and co-emperor of lucius verus. last of the "five good emperors". 	 april – march (aged  ) died of natural causes[ ] 	 	lucius verus lucius aurelius verus 	 march – january (  years,  months and  days) 	adopted son and heir of antoninus pius and son-in-law of marcus aurelius; co-emperor with marcus aurelius until his death 	 december – january (aged  ) died of natural causes (antonine plague)[ ] 	 	commodus lucius aelius aurelius commodus 	 march – december (  years,  months and  days) 	son of marcus aurelius 	 august – december (aged  ) strangled to death in his bath[ ] – : year of the five emperors and severan dynasty[edit] main articles: year of the five emperors and severan dynasty 	portrait 	name 	reign 	succession 	life details 	 	pertinax publius helvius pertinax 	 december – march (  months and  days) 	proclaimed emperor after the murder of commodus 	 august – march (aged  ) murdered by the praetorian guard[ ] 	 	didius julianus marcus didius severus julianus 	 march – june (  months and  days) 	won auction held by the praetorian guard for the position of emperor 	 january – june (aged ) executed on orders of the senate[ ] 	 	septimius severus lucius septimius severus pertinax 	 april – february (  years,  months and  days) 	proclaimed emperor by the pannonian legions 	 april – february (aged  ) died of natural causes[ ] 	 	caracalla (formally antoninus) marcus aurelius antoninus 	 february – april (  years,  months and  days) 	son and heir of septimius severus, ruled jointly with his brother, geta 	 april – april (aged  ) murdered by a soldier in a conspiracy possibly involving macrinus[ ] 	 	geta publius septimius geta 	 february – february (  months and  days) 	son and heir of septimius severus, ruled jointly with his brother, caracalla 	 march – february (aged  ) murdered on the orders of caracalla 	 	macrinus marcus opellius severus macrinus 	 april – june (  year,  month and  days) 	praetorian prefect to caracalla, whom he possibly conspired to have murdered, and afterwards became himself emperor with consent of the army 	 or – mid- (aged c.  ) executed in favor of elagabalus[ ] 	 	diadumenian marcus opellius antoninus diadumenianus 	late may – june 	son of macrinus, named emperor by his father after the eruption of a rebellion in favor of elagabalus 	 september – june (aged  ) caught in flight and executed in favor of elagabalus[ ] 	 	elagabalus (formally antoninus) marcus aurelius antoninus 	 may – march (  years,  months and  days) 	cousin and alleged illegitimate son of caracalla, grandnephew of septimius severus, proclaimed emperor by the army, in opposition to macrinus 	 or – march (aged around  ) murdered, thrown into the tiber[ ] 	 	severus alexander marcus aurelius severus alexander 	 march – march (  years and  days) 	cousin and adopted heir of elagabalus, grandnephew of septimius severus, proclaimed emperor by the troops 	 october – march (aged  ) lynched by mutinous troops alongside his mother[ ] – : crisis of the third century[edit] main articles: crisis of the third century and year of the six emperors 	portrait 	name 	reign 	succession 	life details 	 	maximinus thrax gaius julius verus maximinus 	 march – june (  years,  months and  days) 	proclaimed emperor by germanic legions after the murder of severus alexander 	c. – june (aged c. ) murdered by his men during the siege of aquileia[ ] 	 	gordian i marcus antonius gordianus sempronianus romanus africanus 	 march – april (  days) 	proclaimed emperor alongside his son, gordian ii, while serving as governor of africa, in a revolt against maximinus, and recognized by the senate 	committed suicide upon hearing of the death of his son, gordian ii[ ] 	 	gordian ii marcus antonius gordianus sempronianus romanus africanus 	 march – april (  days) 	proclaimed emperor alongside father gordian i, during revolt in africa against maximinus 	killed outside carthage in battle against an army loyal to maximinus[ ] 	 	pupienus marcus clodius pupienus maximus 	 april – july (  months and  days) 	proclaimed emperor jointly with balbinus by the senate after death of gordian i and ii, in opposition to maximinus 	tortured and murdered by the praetorian guard[ ] 	 	balbinus decimus caelius calvinus balbinus 	 april – july (  months and  days) 	proclaimed emperor jointly with pupienus by the senate after death of gordian i and ii, in opposition to maximinus 	tortured and murdered by the praetorian guard[ ] 	 	gordian iii marcus antonius gordianus 	 july – c. february ( ​ ⁄ years) 	grandson of gordian i, appointed as heir by pupienus and balbinus, upon whose deaths he succeeded as emperor 	 january – c. february (aged ) died during campaign against persia, possibly in a murder plot instigated by his successor, philip the arab[ ] 	 	philip the arab marcus julius philippus 	c. february – c. september ( years and months) 	praetorian prefect to gordian iii, took power after his death 	killed at the battle of verona against decius 	 	philip ii marcus julius severus philippus 	summer – c. september (  years) 	son of philip the arab, named co-emperor in 	murdered by the praetorian guard[ ] 	 	decius gaius messius quintus traianus decius 	c. september – june ( year and c. months) 	proclaimed emperor by the troops in moesia, then defeated philip the arab in battle 	c. – june (aged c. ) killed at the battle of abrittus against the goths[ ] 	 	herennius etruscus quintus herennius etruscus messius decius 	c. june 	son of decius, appointed joint emperor 	killed in battle against the goths alongside his father, decius[ ] 	 	hostilian gaius valens hostilianus messius quintus 	june – c. november (c. months) 	son and heir of decius, accepted as emperor by trebonianus gallus 	probably died of the plague, possibly killed by trebonianus gallus[ ] 	 	trebonianus gallus gaius vibius trebonianus gallus 	june – c. august ( years and months) 	proclaimed emperor by the army after decius's death 	c. – c. august murdered by his own troops, in favour of aemilian[ ] 	 	volusianus gaius vibius afinius gallus veldumnianus volusianus 	c. august – c. august ( years) 	son of trebonianus gallus, appointed joint emperor 	c. – c. august murdered by the soldiers, alongside his father[ ] 	 	aemilian marcus aemilius aemilianus 	c. july – september ( – months) 	commander of the army in moesia, proclaimed emperor by the soldiers after defeating barbarians, and in opposition to gallus 	murdered by his own troops, in favor of valerian[ ] 	 	valerian publius licinius valerianus 	september – c. june ( years and c. months) 	army commander in raetia and noricum, proclaimed emperor by the legions in opposition to aemilian 	captured at edessa by the persian king shapur i, died in captivity[ ] 	 	gallienus publius licinius egnatius gallienus 	september – c. september (  years) 	son of valerian, appointed joint emperor 	c. – c. september (aged  ) murdered in a conspiracy of army officers, involving his successors claudius and aurelian[ ] 	 	saloninus (publius licinius cornelius) saloninus valerianus 	january – fall 	son of gallienus, briefly co-emperor 	murdered in by the soldiers of postumus[ ] 	 	claudius gothicus marcus aurelius claudius 	september – c. april [ ] ( year and c. months) 	victorious general at battle of naissus, seized power after gallienus's death 	 may – (aged  ) died of disease, possibly the plague of cyprian 	 	quintillus marcus aurelius claudius quintillus 	c. april–may ( days or more) 	brother of claudius gothicus, proclaimed emperor after his death 	committed suicide or killed at the behest of aurelian[ ] 	 	aurelian lucius domitius aurelianus 	c. may – c. october ( years and c. months)[ ] 	supreme commander of the roman cavalry, proclaimed emperor by danube legions after claudius's death, in opposition to quintillus 	 september – c. october (aged ) murdered by the troops[ ] 	 	tacitus marcus claudius tacitus 	c. december – c. june ( – months) 	elected by the senate to replace aurelian 	died of an illness or killed by his own troops[ ] 	 	florianus marcus annius florianus 	c. june–september ( – months) 	likely half-brother of tacitus, proclaimed emperor by the troops after tacitus's death 	murdered by his own troops, in favour of probus[ ] 	 	probus marcus aurelius probus 	c. june – c. september ( years and c. months)[ ] 	proclaimed emperor by eastern legions, in opposition to florianus 	 august – c. september (aged  ) murdered by his troops, in favour of carus[ ] 	 	carus marcus aurelius carus 	c. september – c. july (  months)[ ] 	praetorian prefect to probus, seized power before or after probus's murder 	died during a campaign against persia, likely of illness, or possibly killed by lightning[ ] 	 	carinus marcus aurelius carinus 	 – (  years) 	eldest son of carus, who appointed him joint emperor 	probably died in battle against diocletian, likely betrayed by his men[ ] 	 	numerian marcus aurelius numerianus 	c. july – november ( year and months) 	younger son and heir of carus, reigned jointly with his older brother, carinus 	died during army march to europe, probably of disease, possibly assassinated[ ] the dominate[edit] main article: dominate – : tetrarchy and constantinian dynasty[edit] main articles: tetrarchy and constantinian dynasty note: to maintain control and improve administration, various schemes to divide the work of the roman emperor by sharing it between individuals were tried after . the "tetrarchy" proclaimed by diocletian in split the empire into two halves each to be ruled separately by two emperors, a senior "augustus", and a junior "caesar". 	portrait 	name 	reign 	succession 	life details 	 	diocletian gaius aurelius valerius diocletianus 	 november – may (  years,  months and  days) 	proclaimed emperor by army after death of numerian, and in opposition to carinus[ ] 	 december – december (aged  ) abdicated, died of natural causes in aspalatos 	 	maximian marcus aurelius valerius maximianus 	 april – may ; late - november (  years and  month) 	appointed caesar in by diocletian, and raised to rank of augustus in 	 march – july (aged ) abdicated with diocletian, later tried to regain the purple with, and then from, maxentius, twice, before being finally killed (possibly by suicide) on orders of constantine i[ ] 	 	galerius galerius valerius maximianus 	 may – may (  years) 	appointed caesar in by diocletian, upon whose abdication he succeeded as augustus 	died in may , of natural causes[ ] 	 	constantius i flavius valerius constantius 	 may – july (  year,  months and  days) 	appointed caesar to maximian in , upon whose abdication he succeeded as augustus 	 march c. – july died of natural causes[ ] 	 	constantine i flavius valerius constantinus 	 july – may (  years,  months and  days) 	son of constantius i, proclaimed emperor by his father's troops. accepted as caesar by galerius in , promoted to augustus in by maximian, refused demotion to caesar in . 	 february – may (aged  ) died of natural causes 	 	severus flavius valerius severus 	august – c. april 	appointed caesar in , raised to rank of augustus by galerius upon constantius i's death 	murdered or forced to commit suicide on september after surrendering to maximian and maxentius[ ] 	 	maxentius marcus aurelius valerius maxentius 	 october – october (  years) 	son of maximian, seized power after being initially passed over in the succession 	died on october at the battle of the milvian bridge, against constantine i[ ] 	 	licinius valerius licinianus licinius 	 november – september (  years,  months and  days) 	appointed emperor by galerius as replacement to severus, in opposition to maxentius. defeated maximinus daia in a civil war to become sole emperor of the east in . 	c. – (aged around ) defeated, deposed and put to death by constantine i[ ] 	 	maximinus daia galerius valerius maximinus 	 may – july/august (  years) 	nephew of galerius, adopted as caesar and his heir in ; succeeded as augustus (shared with licinius i) in 	 november c. – july/august defeated in civil war against licinius; probably committed suicide thereafter 	 	valerius valens aurelius valerius valens 	late – march 	appointed western augustus, in opposition to constantine, being executed within weeks 	died march 	 	martinian sextus marcius martinianus 	july – september (  months) 	appointed augustus by licinius in , in opposition to constantine 	executed by constantine in 	 	constantine ii flavius claudius constantinus 	 september – april ( years and months) 	son and heir of constantine i, whom he succeeded jointly with his brothers constantius ii and constans 	 august – april (aged  ) died in battle against his brother, constans[ ] 	 	constantius ii flavius julius constantius 	 september – november (  years,  month and  days) 	son and heir of constantine i, whom he succeeded jointly with his brothers constantine ii and constans 	 august – november (aged  ) died of natural causes[ ] 	 	constans flavius julius constans 	 september – january (  years,  months and  days) 	son and heir of constantine i, whom he succeeded jointly with his brothers constantine ii and constantius ii 	c. – (aged ) killed by the usurper magnentius[ ] 	 	vetranio 	 march – december (  months and  days) 	general of constans, proclaimed emperor against magnentius and temporarily recognized by constantius ii 	compelled by constantius ii to abdicate and retire, and died years later 	 	julian ("the apostate") flavius claudius julianus 	 november – june (  year,  months and  days) 	appointed caesar in by his cousin constantius ii. proclaimed augustus by his troops in early . sole emperor after the death of constantius. 	 – june (aged ) last non-christian emperor of rome. mortally wounded in battle against persia.[ ] 	 	jovian flavius jovianus 	 june – february (  months and  days) 	general in julian's army, proclaimed emperor by the troops upon julian's death 	 – february died of natural causes[ ] – : valentinianic dynasty[edit] main article: valentinianic dynasty 	portrait 	name 	reign 	succession 	life details 	 	valentinian i flavius valentinianus 	 february – november (  years,  months and  days) 	elected by the army to replace jovian 	 – november (aged  ) died of natural causes 	 	valens flavius valens 	 march – august (  years,  months and  days) 	brother of valentinian i, appointed emperor over the eastern provinces 	c. – august killed at the battle of adrianople against the goths 	 	gratian flavius gratianus 	 august – august (  years and  day) 	son of valentinian i, appointed junior augustus by him in , became senior augustus (for the west) after valentinian's death. 	 april or may – august (aged  ) murdered by rebellious army faction 	 	valentinian ii flavius valentinianus 	 november – may (  years,  months and  days) 	son of valentinian i, proclaimed emperor by pannonian army, accepted as co-emperor for the west by gratian 	 – may found hanged, probably committed suicide at the instigation of arbogast 	 	theodosius i flavius theodosius 	 january – january (  years,  months and  days) 	son-in-law of valentinian i, appointed as augustus for the east by gratian to replace valens 	 january – january (aged  ) died of natural causes 	 	magnus maximus 	 / – august 	usurper in the west; legitimized by theodosius i as emperor of britain and gaul 	died on august (aged ) executed by theodosius i in aquileia after the battle of the save 	 	victor flavius victor 	 or – august 	son of magnus maximus, recognized as emperor by theodosius i 	executed by arbogast at the behest of theodosius i 	 	eugenius 	 august – september (  years and  days) 	raised to the purple by the magister militum arbogast to replace valentinian ii, against the wish of theodosius i 	executed ( september ) as a criminal by theodosius i after the battle of the frigidus western emperors[edit] main article: western roman empire – : theodosian dynasty[edit] main article: theodosian dynasty note: theodosius i was the last person to rule both halves of the roman empire, dividing the administration between his sons arcadius and honorius on his death. 	portrait 	name 	reign 	succession 	life details 	 	honorius 	 january – august (  years,  months and  days) 	son of theodosius i; appointed as junior augustus for the west by theodosius on january , (after the death of valentinian ii); became senior augustus for the west after his father's death 	 september – august (aged  ) died of edema 	 	constantine iii flavius claudius constantinus 	 / - august or september years 	usurper who declared himself emperor in the west in , recognized as co-emperor by honorius in . not recognized by the eastern empire. 	died august or september executed by constantius iii 	 	constans ii 	 – 	elevated by his father, constantine iii, to rank of co-emperor in . not recognized by honorius nor the eastern empire. 	killed in 	 	constantius iii 	 february – september (  months and  days) 	married to theodosius i's daughter galla placidia, elevated to co-augustus for the west by honorius; not recognized by the eastern empire 	died on september , of natural causes 	 	joannes 	 august – may ( year and months) 	a senior civil servant under honorius, proclaimed emperor by castinus; not recognized by the eastern empire 	died in june or july defeated in battle by theodosius ii and valentinian iii, captured and executed 	 	valentinian iii placidus valentinianus 	 october – march (  years,  months and  days) 	son of constantius iii, appointed caesar for the west by theodosius ii after the death of honorius, in opposition to the regime of joannes; became augustus for the west after the defeat of joannes 	 july – march (aged  ) assassinated, possibly at the behest of petronius maximus – : last western emperors[edit] 	portrait 	name 	reign 	succession 	life details 	 	petronius maximus 	 march – may (  months and  days) 	son-in-law of theodosius ii, proclaimed himself emperor with the support of the army, after the death of valentinian iii. not recognized by the eastern empire. he appointed his son palladius as caesar. 	c. – may murdered, probably stoned to death by the roman mob 	 	avitus eparchius avitus 	 july – october (  year,  months and  days) 	magister militum under petronius maximus, proclaimed emperor by the visigoth king theoderic ii after petronius's death. not recognized by the eastern empire. 	died after october deposed by his magister militum, ricimer; became bishop of placentia; murdered at some point afterwards 	 	majorian julius valerius maiorianus 	 april – august (  years,  months and  day) 	proclaimed emperor by his troops. recognized by the eastern empire at the behest of ricimer. 	november – august (aged  ) deposed and beheaded on the orders of ricimer. 	 	libius severus 	november – august years 	appointed emperor by ricimer. not recognized by the eastern empire. 	died in august (aged ) probably poisoned by ricimer 	 	anthemius procopius anthemius 	 april – july (  years,  months and  days) 	son-in-law of marcian, appointed emperor by leo i, with the consent of ricimer. 	c. – july (aged  ) executed by ricimer or gundobad (ricimer's nephew). 	 	olybrius anicius olybrius 	july , – november , months and days 	son-in-law of valentinian iii; appointed emperor by ricimer. not recognized by the eastern empire. 	c. – november , (aged ) died of natural causes 	 	glycerius 	 / march – june ( year and months) 	appointed emperor by gundobad (ricimer's successor). not recognized by the eastern empire. 	deposed by julius nepos, who appointed him bishop of salona 	 	julius nepos 	june – august (in italy); – spring (in gaul and dalmatia) 	nephew-in-law of the eastern emperor leo i (and nephew of marcellinus) appointed emperor in opposition to glycerius 	c. – (aged ) deposed in italy by orestes, ruled in balance of western empire until assassination in . maintained as figurehead in italy by odoacer to his death in . 	 	romulus augustus ("augustulus") 	 october – september (  months and  days) 	appointed by his father, orestes. listed as an emperor by historical convention. his rule never extended beyond portions of the italian peninsula. not recognized by eastern emperor zeno. 	deposed by odoacer, who then ruled in the name of julius nepos until the latter's death in , which formally ended the separate western empire; most likely lived out his life in obscurity on a private villa. note: the classical roman empire is usually said to have ended with the deposition of romulus augustulus, with its continuation in the east referred to by modern scholars as the byzantine empire. eastern emperors[edit] main article: list of byzantine emperors – : theodosian dynasty[edit] note: theodosius i was the last person to rule both halves of the roman empire, dividing the administration between his sons arcadius and honorius on his death. 	portrait 	name 	reign 	succession 	death 	 	arcadius 	 january – may (  years,  months and  days) 	son of theodosius i; appointed as junior augustus for the east by theodosius in january ; became senior augustus for the east after his father's death 	 january – may (aged  ) died of natural causes 	 	theodosius ii 	 may – july (  years,  months and  days) 	son of arcadius; appointed as junior augustus by arcadius in ; became senior augustus for the east after his father's death 	 april – july (aged  ) died of injuries suffered during a hunting accident 	 	marcian marcianus 	 august – january (  years,  months and  day) 	nominated as successor (and husband) by pulcheria, ruled alongside her - and later alone 	c. – january died of gout – : leonid dynasty[edit] see also: house of leo 	portrait 	name 	reign 	succession 	death 	 	leo i "the thracian" 	 february – january (  years,  months and  days) 	chosen by the army 	c. – january (aged ) died of dysentery 	 	leo ii 	 january – november (  months and  days) 	grandson of leo i 	c. – november (aged ) cause unknown, possibly poisoned 	 	zeno 	 november – april ( years) 	named co-emperor by his son leo ii on february . 	c. – april (aged ) died of dysentery or epilepsy 	 	basiliscus 	 january – august ( year, months) 	seized throne from zeno 	starved to death in limnae (in cappadocia) by zeno 	 	marcus 	 – august 	son of basiliscus, appointed co-emperor at some point in 	starved to death alongside his father, basiliscus 	 	anastasius i "dicorus" 	 april – july (  years,  months and  days) 	son-in-law of leo i 	c. – july (aged ) died of natural causes – : justinian dynasty[edit] see also: byzantine empire under the justinian dynasty 	portrait 	name 	succession 	reign 	life details 	 	justin i iustinus 	elected by army 	 july – august (  years and  days) 	c. – august (aged ) natural causes 	 	justinian i flavius petrus sabbatius iustinianus 	nephew of justin i 	 april – november (  years,  months and  days) 	c. – / november (aged ) natural causes 	 	justin ii iustinus 	nephew of justinian i 	 november – october years 	c. – october (aged ) natural causes, after insanity 	 	tiberius ii constantine tiberius constantinus 	adopted son of justin ii, regent from 	 october – august years, months 	c. – august (aged ) natural causes 	 	maurice mauricius tiberius 	son-in-law of tiberius ii 	 august – november years 	 – november (aged ) executed by phocas 	 	theodosius 	son of maurice 	 – late 	born august – , died executed by supporters of phocas 	portrait 	name 	birth 	succession 	reign 	time in office 	death 	 	phocas imperator caesar flavivs focas avgvstvs 	 	seized throne 	 november – october 	 years 	 october executed – : heraclian dynasty[edit] see also: byzantine empire under the heraclian dynasty 	portrait 	name 	birth 	succession 	reign 	time in office 	death 	 	heraclius (Φλάβιος Ἡράκλειος Αὔγουστος) imperator caesar flavivs heraclivs avgvstvs 	c. , cappadocia 	revolt 	 october – february 	 years 	 february, (aged or ) natural causes 	 	constantine iii (Ἡράκλειος νέος Κωνσταντῖνος Αὔγουστος) imperator caesar heraclivs novvs constantinvs avgvstvs 	 may , constantinople 	son of heraclius 	 february – / may 	 months 	 / may (aged ) tuberculosis 	 	heraklonas (Φλάβιος Κωνσταντῖνος Ἡράκλειος Αὔγουστος) imperator caesar flavivs constantinvs heraclivs avgvstvs with tiberius (Φλάβιος Τιβέριος Αὔγουστος) flavivs tiberivs avgvstvs and martinus (Φλάβιος Μαρτίνος Αὔγουστος) flavivs martinvs avgvstvs 	 may , constantinople 	son of heraclius; his brothers tiberius and martinus briefly served as co-emperors. 	 february – september 	 months 	unknown, but probably before 	 	constans ii (Φλάβιος Κωνσταντῖνος Αὔγουστος) imperator caesar flavivs constantinvs avgvstvs 	 november 	son of constantine iii. succeeded his uncle heraklonas after he was deposed as emperor. 	september – september 	 years 	 september (aged ) assassinated 	 	constantine iv (Φλάβιος Κωνσταντῖνος Αὔγουστος) imperator caesar flavivs constantinvs avgvstvs with heraclius (Φλάβιος Ἡράκλειος Αὔγουστος) flavivs heraclivs avgvstvs and tiberius (Φλάβιος Τιβέριος Αὔγουστος) flavivs tiberivs avgvstvs 	 , constantinople 	oldest son of constans ii, co-emperor since . his brothers heraclius and tiberius, co-emperors since , served as co-emperors until they were mutilated and deposed by constantine in . 	 september – september – (heraclius & tiberius) 	 years years (heraclius & tiberius) 	 september (aged ) dysentery 	 	justinian ii (Φλάβιος Ἰουστινιανὸς Αὔγουστος) flavivs ivstinianvs avgvstvs 	 or , constantinople 	son of constantine iv, co-emperor since 	 september – 	 years ( st reign) 	 december (aged ) killed by the army – : twenty years' anarchy[edit] main article: twenty years' anarchy 	portrait 	name 	birth 	succession 	reign 	time in office 	death 	 	leontios (Λεόντιος Αὔγουστος) leontivs avgvstvs[ ] 	isauria 	revolt 	 – 	 years 	executed in february 	 	tiberios iii apsimaros (Τιβέριος Αὔγουστος) tiberivs avgvstvs 	pamphylia 	revolt 	 – 	 years 	executed in february 	 	justinian ii (Φλάβιος Ἰουστινιανὸς Αὔγουστος) flavivs ivstinianvs avgvstvs (second reign) with tiberius (Τιβέριος Αὔγουστος) tiberivs avgvstvs[ ] 	 or , constantinople 	returned on the throne with bulgar support. named son tiberius as co-emperor in . 	august – december 	 years ( nd reign) 	 december (aged ) both killed by the army 	 	philippikos bardanes (Φιλιππικὸς Αὔγουστος) filepicvs avgvstvs[ ] 	pergamon 	revolt 	december – june 	 year, months 	 	 	anastasios ii (Αρτέμιος Ἀναστάσιος Αὔγουστος) artemivs anastasivs avgvstvs[ ] 	? 	bureaucrat and secretary under philippikos, he was raised to the purple by the soldiers 	june – november 	 years, months 	 , during attempt to regain the throne 	 	theodosius iii (Θεοδόσιος Αὔγουστος) theodosivs avgvstvs[ ] 	? 	chosen by troops 	may – march 	 years 	unknown. became a monk – : isaurian dynasty[edit] see also: byzantine empire under the isaurian dynasty 	portrait 	name 	birth 	succession 	reign 	time in office 	death 	 	leo iii the isaurian (Λέων) 	c. , germanikeia, commagene 	rebellion 	 march – june 	 years 	june (age ) edema 	 	constantine v (Κωνσταντῖνος) 	july , constantinople 	son of leo iii 	 june – september 	 years 	 september (aged ) carbuncle 	 	artabasdos (Ἀρτάβασδος) with nikephoros (Νικηφόρος) 	? 	son-in-law of leo iii. usurped throne. proclaimed his son nikephoros as co-emperor in / 	june / – november 	 year, months 	unknown 	 	leo iv the khazar (Λέων) 	 , constantinople 	son of constantine v 	 september – september 	 years 	 (age ) tuberculosis 	 	constantine vi (Κωνσταντῖνος) 	 , constantinople 	son of leo iv 	 september – august 	 years 	 (age ) after blinding by irene 	 	irene of athens (Εἰρήνη) 	c. , athens 	regent during minority of constantine vi. seized throne from son in . first byzantine empress regnant. 	august – october 	 years 	 august (aged ) – : nikephorian dynasty[edit] main article: byzantine empire under the nikephorian dynasty 	portrait 	name 	birth 	succession 	reign 	time in office 	death 	 	nikephoros i (Νικηφόρος) 	? 	rebellion 	 october – july 	 years 	 july after the battle of pliska 	 	staurakios (Σταυράκιος) 	after 	son of nikephoros i 	 july – october 	 months 	january (age ~ ) gangrene 	 	michael i rangabe (Μιχαὴλ Ῥαγγαβέ) with theophylact (Θεοφύλακτος) 	c. 	son-in-law of nikephoros i, appointed his son theophylact (born c. ) as co-emperor on december 	 october – june 	 year, months 	january (age ~ ) in a monastery on prote island, theophylact died in a monastery on plate island on january 	portrait 	name 	birth 	succession 	reign 	time in office 	death 	 	leo v the armenian (Λέων) with constantine (Κωνσταντῖνος) 	c. 	rebellion, appointed his son symbatios as co-emperor under the name constantine on christmas 	 july – december 	 years 	 december (age ~ ) murdered by successor's conspirators, constantine died in exile in monastery on prote island at a later date – : amorian dynasty[edit] see also: byzantium under the amorian dynasty 	portrait 	name 	birth 	succession 	reign 	time in office 	death 	 	michael ii (Μιχαὴλ) 	c. 	chosen after murder of predecessor 	 december – october 	 years 	 october (age ~ ) 	 	theophilos (Θεόφιλος) 	 	only son of michael ii and co-emperor since 	 october – january 	 years 	 january (age ) unknown disease 	 	michael iii (Μιχαὴλ) 	 january , constantinople 	son of theophilos 	 january – september 	 years 	 september assassinated by successor – : macedonian dynasty[edit] see also: macedonian dynasty and byzantine empire under the macedonian dynasty 	portrait 	name 	birth 	succession 	reign 	time in office 	death 	 	basil i the macedonian (Βασίλειος) 	 , macedonia 	previous co-emperor, full emperor upon death of predecessor. 	 – august 	 years 	 august (age ) 	 	leo vi the wise (Λέων 	 september , constantinople 	son of basil i (potentially in reality the son of michael iii), co-emperor since . 	 – may 	 years 	 may (age ) 	 	alexander (Ἀλέξανδρος) 	 november 	son of basil i, co-emperor since . 	 may – june 	 year, month 	 june (age ) exhaustion after a game of tzykanion 	 	constantine vii (Κωνσταντῖνος) 	 / may 	son of leo vi, co-emperor since . 	 june – november 	 years 	 november (age ), constantinople possibly poisoned by his son romanos ii 	 	romanos i lekapenos (Ῥωμανὸς Λεκαπηνός) with christopher lekapenos (Χριστόφορος Λακαπηνός) and stephen lekapenos (Στέφανος Λακαπηνός) and constantine lekapenos (Κωνσταντίνος Λακαπηνός) 	c. , lakape 	regent for the young constantine vii, crowned himself senior emperor during constantine vii's minority. proclaimed his three sons christopher, stephen and constantine as co-emperors. was overthrown by stephen in , who briefly ruled as senior emperor (for a few weeks) until he himself was overthrown by constantine vii. 	 december – december may – august (christopher) – (stephen & constantine) 	 years years (christopher) years (stephen & constantine) 	 june (age - ) in a monastery as a monk after having been overthrown. christopher died in august of . both stephen and constantine died in exile as monks; stephen on easter on lesbos and constantine in - on samothrace trying to escape exile and reclaim imperial power 	 	romanos ii (Ῥωμανὸς ὁ Πορφυρογέννητος) 	c. 	son of constantine vii 	 november – march 	 years 	 march (age - ) possibly poisoned 	 	nikephoros ii phokas (Νικηφόρος Φωκᾶς) 	c. 	chosen by the army, acted as senior emperor during the regency of young emperors basil ii and constantine viii 	 august – december 	 years 	 december (age - ), constantinople assassinated by successor john i tzimiskes 	 	john i tzimiskes (Ἰωάννης Τζιμισκής) 	c. 	nephew of nikephoros ii phokas, succeeded as senior emperor and regent for the young emperors basil ii and constantine viii 	 december – january 	 years 	 january (age - ), constantinople poisoned by imperial chamberlain basil lekapenos 	 	basil ii (Βασίλειος) 	 , constantinople 	eldest son of romanos ii 	 january – december 	 years 	 december (age - ), constantinople 	 	constantine viii (Κωνσταντῖνος ὁ Πορφυρογέννητος) 	 , constantinople 	second son of romanos ii, co-emperor since . 	 december – november 	 years 	 november (age ), constantinople 	 	zoe porphyrogenita (Ζωὴ ἡ Πορφυρογέννητη) 	c. , constantinople 	daughter of constantine viii, succeeded on her father's death along with her sister theodora. her three husbands, romanos iii ( – ), michael iv ( – ) and constantine ix ( – ) ruled alongside her. 	 november – june 	 years 	june (age ), constantinople 	 	romanos iii argyros (Ῥωμανὸς Ἀργυρός) 	 	chosen by constantine viii to marry his daughter zoe and succeed him as emperor. 	 november – april 	 years 	 april (age - ), constantinople allegedly murdered 	 	michael iv the paphlagonian (Μιχαὴλ ὁ Παφλαγών) 	 	succeeded romanos iii as zoe's husband and emperor. 	 april – december 	 years 	 december (age ), constantinople died after a long illness. 	 	michael v kalaphates (Μιχαὴλ ὁ Καλαφάτης) 	 	nephew and adopted son of michael iv. 	 december – april 	 months 	 august, (age ), constantinople deposed, blinded, castrated and tonsured after attempting to sideline zoe and her sister theodora. 	 	theodora porphyrogenita (Θεοδώρα ἡ Πορφυρογέννητος) 	c. 	younger sister of zoe, raised to co-empress in . 	 april – august 	 years 	 august (age - ), constantinople died after sudden illness. 	 	constantine ix monomachos (Κωνσταντῖνος Μονομάχος) 	c. 	zoe's third husband 	 june – january 	 years 	 january (age ~ ), constantinople died after illness. 	portrait 	name 	birth 	succession 	reign 	time in office 	death 	 	michael vi bringas (Μιχαὴλ Βρίγγας) 	? 	chosen as successor by empress theodora 	september – august 	 year 	 , confined to a monastery after having been deposed by successor. 	portrait 	name 	birth 	succession 	reign 	time in office 	death 	 	isaac i komnenos (Ἰσαάκιος Κομνηνός) 	c. 	rebellion 	 june – november 	 years 	c. after having voluntarily abdicated. – : doukid dynasty[edit] see also: doukas 	portrait 	name 	birth 	succession 	reign 	time in office 	death 	 	constantine x doukas (Κωνσταντῖνος Δούκας) 	 	chosen successor of isaac i komnenos 	 november – may 	 years 	 may (aged ) 	 	michael vii doukas (Μιχαὴλ Δούκας) with andronikos doukas (Ἀνδρόνικος Δούκας) and konstantios doukas (Κωνστάντιος Δούκας) and constantine doukas (Κωνσταντίνος Δούκας) 	 	son of constantine x doukas and co-emperor since , resigned the throne in . reigned alongside his brothers andronikos and konstantios as co-emperors. andronikos died in the s while konstantios briefly succeeded michael as senior emperor before being handed over to the usurper nikephoros iii and exiled. michael's son constantine was also raised to co-emperor in . 	 may – march – s (andronikos) – (konstantios) – (constantine) 	 years years (konstantios) years (constantine) 	 (aged ~ ), constantinople, konstantios died in the battle of dyrrhachium on october , having been recalled as a general by alexios i. constantine was later raised to co-emperor again under alexios i and died in 	 	romanos iv diogenes (Ῥωμανὸς Διογένης) 	 	married to constantine x's widow and senior emperor as guardian of her sons by constantine x 	 january – october 	 years 	 (age ), after having been deposed, blinded and exiled 	 	nikephoros iii botaneiates (Νικηφόρος Βοτανειάτης) 	 	rebellion 	 march – april 	 years 	 december (age ), after having been deposed and exiled to a monastery – : komnenid dynasty[edit] see also: komnenos and byzantine empire under the komnenos dynasty 	portrait 	name 	birth 	succession 	reign 	time in office 	death 	 	alexios i komnenos (Ἀλέξιος Κομνηνός) with constantine doukas (Κωνσταντίνος Δούκας) (second co-emperorship) 	 	rebellion, nephew of isaac i komnenos, appointed constantine doukas (a previous co-emperor under michael vii) as co-emperor in . replaced constantine with his own son john ii in . 	 april – august – (constantine) 	 years years (constantine, nd co-emperorship) 	 august (age ) 	 	john ii komnenos (Ἰωάννης Κομνηνός) with alexios komnenos (Ἀλέξιος Κομνηνός) 	 september , constantinople 	son of alexios i, co-emperor since , appointed his son alexios co-emperor in 	 august – april – (alexios) 	 years years (alexios) 	 april (age ), cilicia accidentally cut himself on a poisoned arrow. alexios died in attaleia on august of a fever 	 	manuel i komnenos (Μανουὴλ Κομνηνός) 	 november, , constantinople 	son of john ii 	 – september 	 years 	 september (age ) 	 	alexios ii komnenos (Ἀλέξιος Κομνηνός) 	 september , constantinople 	son of manuel i 	 september – october 	 years 	october (age ), constantinople deposed and killed by successor 	 	andronikos i komnenos (Ἀνδρόνικος Κομνηνός) with john komnenos (Ἰωάννης Κομνηνός) 	c. 	nephew of john ii (son of his brother isaac), uncle of alexios ii, appointed his son john as co-emperor in november 	october – september 	 years 	 september (age - ), constantinople overthrown and lynched in a popular uprising, john also seized and probably killed – : angelid dynasty[edit] see also: angelos and byzantine empire under the angelos dynasty 	portrait 	name 	birth 	succession 	reign 	time in office 	death 	 	isaac ii angelos (Ἰσαάκιος Ἄγγελος) 	september 	rebellion 	 – 	 years 	 january (age ), constantinople possibly shock or poison 	 	alexios iii angelos (Ἀλέξιος Ἄγγελος) 	c. 	rebellion, elder brother of isaac ii 	 – / july 	 years 	 (age ), in captivity in the empire of nicaea 	 	isaac ii angelos (Ἰσαάκιος Ἄγγελος) (second reign) 	september 	restored to the throne by the fourth crusade alongside his son alexios iv 	 july – / january 	 months 	 january (age ), constantinople possibly shock or poison 	 	alexios iv angelos (Ἀλέξιος Ἄγγελος) 	c. 	raised to the throne by the fourth crusade alongside his father isaac ii 	 august – / january 	 months 	 february (age - ), constantinople strangled by successor 	 	alexios v doukas (Ἀλέξιος Δούκας ὁ Μούρτζουφλος) 	c. 	coup in the imperial palace, son-in-law of alexios iii 	 february – april 	 months 	december (age ), constantinople captured by crusaders of the newly founded latin empire and publicly executed – : laskarid dynasty[edit] see also: laskaris and empire of nicaea note: between and there was an interregnum when constantinople was occupied by the crusaders of the fourth crusade and the empire was divided into the empire of nicaea, the empire of trebizond and the despotate of epirus, which were all contenders for rule of the empire. the laskarid dynasty of the empire of nicaea is considered the legitimate continuation of the roman empire because they had the support of the (orthodox) patriarch of constantinople and managed to re-take constantinople. 	portrait 	name 	birth 	succession 	reign 	time in office 	death 	 	theodore i laskaris (Θεόδωρος Λάσκαρις) 	c. , constantinople 	his brother constantine laskaris was elected emperor by the citizens of constantinople on the day the city fell to the crusaders; he later fled to nicaea, where theodore organized the greek resistance to the latins. proclaimed emperor after constantine's death in , theodore was crowned only in . 	 – november 	 years 	november (age ) 	 	john iii doukas vatatzes (Ἰωάννης Δούκας Βατάτζης) 	c. , didymoteicho 	son-in-law of theodore i 	 december – november 	 years 	 november (age ), nymphaion 	 	theodore ii laskaris (Θεόδωρος Λάσκαρις) 	c. , nicaea 	son of john iii 	 november – august 	 years 	 august (age ), magnesia epilepsy 	 	john iv laskaris (Ἰωάννης Λάσκαρις) 	 december 	son of theodore ii 	 august – december 	 years 	c. (age ), constantinople blinded and imprisoned by successor in , died in captivity – : palaiologan dynasty[edit] see also: palaiologos and byzantine empire under the palaiologos dynasty 	portrait 	name 	birth 	succession 	reign 	time in office 	death 	 	michael viii palaiologos (Μιχαὴλ Παλαιολόγος) 	 	senior emperor and regent of john iv laskaris, grandnephew of john iii by marriage and great-grandson of alexios iii 	january , – december , 	 years, months 	december , (age ), pachomion, near lysimachia 	 	andronikos ii palaiologos (Ἀνδρόνικος Παλαιολόγος) 	 march , nicaea 	son of michael viii 	 december – may 	 years, months 	 february (age ), constantinople 	 	michael ix palaiologos (Μιχαήλ Παλαιολόγος) 	 april , constantinople 	son of andronikos ii, reigned alongside him as co-emperor with full imperial style 	 – october 	 years 	 october (age ), thessaloniki 	 	andronikos iii palaiologos (Ἀνδρόνικος Παλαιολόγος) 	 march , constantinople 	son of michael ix, named co-emperor in and rival emperor since . deposed his grandfather andronikos ii in and reigned as sole emperor 	 may – june 	 years 	 june (age ), constantinople possibly chronic malaria 	 	john v palaiologos (Ἰωάννης Παλαιολόγος) 	 june , didymoteicho 	son of andronikos iii 	 june – august 	 years ( st reign) 	 february (aged ), constantinople 	 	john vi kantakouzenos (Ἰωάννης Καντακουζηνός) with matthew kantakouzenos (Ματθαίος Ασάνης Καντακουζηνός) 	 , constantinople 	maternal relative of the palaiologi, declared co-emperor by john v in and recognized as senior emperor in following a civil war. appointed his son matthew as co-emperor in 	 february – december – (matthew) 	 years years (matthew) 	 june (aged or ), deposed and in exile as a monk in the peloponnese, matthew was defeated in and later served as the governor of the morea until his death on the same day as his father 	 	andronikos iv palaiologos (Ἀνδρόνικος Παλαιολόγος) 	 april , constantinople 	son of john v, co-emperor since , deposed his father john v in 	 august – july 	 years 	 june (age ), selymbria 	 	john v palaiologos (Ἰωάννης Παλαιολόγος) (second reign) 	 june , didymoteicho 	restored to the throne after overthrowing his son andronikos iv 	 july – april 	 years ( nd reign) 	 february (aged ), constantinople 	 	john vii palaiologos (Ἰωάννης Παλαιολόγος) 	 	rebellion, son and co-emperor of andronikos iv, deposed his grandfather john v 	 april – september 	 months 	 september (aged ), thessaloniki 	 	john v palaiologos (Ἰωάννης Παλαιολόγος) (third reign) 	 june , didymoteicho 	restored to the throne after overthrowing his grandson john vii 	 september – february 	 months ( rd reign) 	 february (aged ), constantinople 	 	manuel ii palaiologos (Μανουὴλ Παλαιολόγος) with john vii palaiologos (Ἰωάννης Παλαιολόγος) and andronikos v palaiologos (Ἀνδρόνικος Παλαιολόγος) 	 june , constantinople 	son of john v, co-emperor since . john vii palaiologos, who previously usurped the throne in , was proclaimed co-emperor in , keeping the title until his death in . john vii also proclaimed his son, andronikos v, co-emperor but andronikos died before his father, in . the imperial status of john and andronikos was purely honorary. 	 february – july – (john vii) – (andronikos v) 	 years years (john vii) years (andronikos v) 	 july (age ), constantinople john died september at thessaloniki, andronikos died aged on september th, . 	 	john viii palaiologos (Ἰωάννης Παλαιολόγος) 	 december 	son of manuel ii, co-emperor since 	 july – october 	 years 	 october (age ), constantinople 	 	constantine xi palaiologos (Κωνσταντῖνος Δραγάσης Παλαιολόγος) 	february , , constantinople 	son of manuel ii 	january , – may , 	 years, months, days 	may , (age ), constantinople refused to surrender constantinople to the ottoman sultan mehmed ii and died fighting during the final ottoman attack see also[edit] 	ancient rome portal 	monarchy portal 	list of byzantine emperors 	list of condemned roman emperors 	list of roman consuls 	list of roman dictators 	list of roman usurpers 	roman emperors family tree 	pretenders to the byzantine throne 	on weights and measures –- contains chronology of roman emperors notes[edit] 	^ rubicon. holland, t. abacus, - 	^ chester g. starr, a history of the ancient world, second edition. oxford university press, . pp. – . 	^ herrin, judith ( - - ). 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library	biblioteka narodowa 	 	 	type	national library 	established	august  , (  years ago) ( - - ) as załuski library february  , (  years ago) ( - - ) as national library 	location	warsaw, poland 	coordinates	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; . coordinates: ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; . 	collection 	size	 , , (as of )[ ] 	legal deposit	yes 	other information 	director	dr. tomasz makowski 	website	www.bn.org.pl 	map 	 the national library (polish: biblioteka narodowa) is the central polish library, subject directly to the ministry of culture and national heritage of the republic of poland. the library collects books, journals, electronic and audiovisual publications published in the territory of poland, as well as polonica published abroad. it is the most important humanities research library, the main archive of polish writing and the state centre of bibliographic information about books. it also plays a significant role as a research facility and is an important methodological center for other polish libraries. the national library receives a copy of every book published in poland as legal deposit. the jagiellonian library is the only other library in poland to have a national library status. contents 	 organizational structure 	 history 	 collections 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 external links organizational structure[edit] there are three general sections: 	the library 	the bibliographic institute of the national library 	the book and readership institute history[edit] special collections building: krasiński palace (palace of the commonwealth), warsaw the national library's history has origins in the th century (załuski library)[ ] including items from the collections of john iii sobieski which were obtained from his grand daughter maria karolina sobieska, duchess of bouillon. however, the załuski collection was confiscated by troops of russian tsarina catherine ii in the aftermath of the second partition of poland and sent to saint petersburg, where the books formed the mass of the imperial public library on its formation in .[ ][ ][ ] parts of the collection were damaged or destroyed as they were mishandled while being removed from the library and transported to russia, and many were stolen.[ ][ ] according to the historian joachim lelewel, the zaluskis' books, "could be bought at grodno by the basket".[ ] because of that, when poland regained her independence in , there was no central institution to serve in the capacity of a national library. on february , by the decree of president ignacy mościcki, the national library was created in its modern form.[ ] it was opened in and initially had thousand volumes. its first director general was stefan demby, succeeded in by stefan vrtel-wierczyński. the collections of the library were rapidly extended. for instance, in president mościcki donated all of the books and manuscripts from the wilanów palace museum to the library, some thousand volumes and thousand pictures from the collection of stanisław kostka potocki. initially the national library lacked a seat of its own. because of that, the collections had to be accommodated in several places. the main reading room was located in the newly built library building of the warsaw school of economics. in the potocki palace in warsaw became home for the special collections. a new, purpose-built building for the library was planned in what is now the pole mokotowskie, in a planned monumental "government district". however, its construction was hampered by the outbreak of world war ii. before world war ii, the library collections consisted of: 	 . million books and journals from th and th centuries 	 , early prints 	 , incunables 	 , manuscripts 	maps, icons and music in the nazi occupants changed the national library into municipal library of warsaw and divided it as follows: 	department of books for germans (located in the warsaw university building) 	restricted department, containing books that were not available to readers (located in the then main seat of the library—the school of economics) 	all special collections from various warsaw offices and institutions (located in the palace of the republic) in the special collections were set ablaze by the nazi occupants as a part of repressions after the warsaw uprising.[ ] this caused the destruction of , early printed books, including priceless th– th century polonica, , manuscripts, , incunables, , drawings and engravings, , pieces of sheet music and theatre materials.[ ] it is estimated that out of over six million volumes in warsaw's major libraries in , . million volumes were lost during world war ii, a large part of them belonging to the national library.[ ][ ] collections[edit] the main reading room today the collections of the national library are one of the largest in the country. among , , volumes ( ) held in the library are , objects printed before , over , manuscripts (including , music manuscripts), over , music prints and , drawings. the library collections also include photographs and other iconographic documents, more than , atlases and maps, over , , ephemera, as well as over , , books and about , copies of journals from the th to st centuries. notable items in the collection include leaves of the codex suprasliensis, which was inscribed in unesco's memory of the world programme register in in recognition for its supranational and supraregional significance.[ ] in the library signed an agreement to add . million polish library records to worldcat.[ ] see also[edit] 	digital library of the national library of poland 	list of libraries damaged during the world war ii notes[edit] 	^ zbiory—www.bn.org.pl 	^ pasztaleniec-jarzyńska , p.  harvnb error: no target: citerefpasztaleniec-jarzyńska (help) 	^ a b czechowicz, ¶ "after the fall..." 	^ a b c witt, ¶ "the dispersal of the collection" 	^ basbanes, p. 	^ pasztaleniec-jarzyńska , p.  harvnb error: no target: citerefpasztaleniec-jarzyńska (help) 	^ knuth, p. 	^ pasztaleniec-jarzyńska , p.  harvnb error: no target: citerefpasztaleniec-jarzyńska (help) 	^ mężyński, p. 	^ balcerzak, p. 	^ unesco, ¶ "the codex was written..." 	^ "national library of poland will add . million more records to worldcat". research information. november , . references[edit] 	nicholas a. basbanes ( ). a splendor of letters: the permanence of books in an impermanent world. warsaw: harpercollins. p.  . isbn  - - - . retrieved - - . zaluski library russia. 	various authors; tomasz balcerzak; lech kaczyński ( ). tomasz balcerzak (ed.). pro memoria: warszawskie biblioteki naukowe w latach okupacji - . transl. philip earl steele. warsaw: biblioteka narodowa. p.  . 	katarzyna czechowicz (august , ). "the th anniversary of opening the załuski library". eduskrypt.pl. archived from the original on august , . retrieved - - . 	rebecca knuth ( ). burning books and leveling libraries: extremist violence and cultural destruction. greenwood publishing group. p.  . isbn  - - - . 	andrzej mężyński ( ). biblioteki warszawy w latach – [warsaw's libraries in the years - ]. straty kultury polskiej (in polish). warsaw: ministry of culture and national heritage. p.  . isbn  . 	joanna pasztaleniec-jarzyńska; halina tchórzewska-kabata ( ), the national library in warsaw: tradition and the present day (in polish), warsaw: national library, isbn  - - - 	unesco (corporate author) ( ). "codex suprasliensis". portal.unesco.org. unesco. archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - . 	maria witt (september , ). 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"modern latin" redirects here. for the modern latin alphabet, see iso basic latin alphabet. form of the latin language between c. and c. s 	new latin 	latina nova 	linnaeus, st edition of systema naturae is a famous new latin text. 	region	western world 	era	evolved from renaissance latin in the th century; developed into contemporary latin between th and th centuries 	language family 	indo-european 	 italic	latino-faliscan	latin	new latin 	early form 	renaissance latin 	writing system 	latin alphabet  	language codes 	iso - 	la 	iso - 	lat 	iso - 	lat 	this article contains ipa phonetic symbols. without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of unicode characters. for an introductory guide on ipa symbols, see help:ipa. new latin (also called neo-latin[ ] or modern latin)[ ] was a revival in the use of latin in original, scholarly, and scientific works since c. or . modern scholarly and technical nomenclature, such as in zoological and botanical taxonomy and international scientific vocabulary, draws extensively from new latin vocabulary. in such use, new latin is subject to new word formation. as a language for full expression in prose or poetry, however, it is often distinguished from its successor, contemporary latin. contents 	 extent 	 history 	 . beginnings 	 . height 	 . decline 	 . crisis and transformation 	 . relics 	 pronunciation 	 orthography 	 . characters 	 . diacritics 	 notable works ( – ) 	 . literature and biography 	 . scientific works 	 . other technical subjects 	 see also 	 notes 	 further reading 	 external links extent[edit] classicists use the term "neo-latin" to describe the latin that developed in renaissance italy as a result of renewed interest in classical civilization in the th and th centuries.[ ] neo-latin also describes the use of the latin language for any purpose, scientific or literary, during and after the renaissance. the beginning of the period cannot be precisely identified; however, the spread of secular education, the acceptance of humanistic literary norms, and the wide availability of latin texts following the invention of printing, mark the transition to a new era of scholarship at the end of the th century. the end of the new latin period is likewise indeterminate, but latin as a regular vehicle of communicating ideas became rare after the first few decades of the th century, and by it survived primarily in international scientific vocabulary and taxonomy. the term "new latin" came into widespread use towards the end of the s among linguists and scientists. new latin was, at least in its early days, an international language used throughout catholic and protestant europe, as well as in the colonies of the major european powers. this area consisted of most of europe, including central europe and scandinavia; its southern border was the mediterranean sea, with the division more or less corresponding to the modern eastern borders of finland, the baltic states, poland, slovakia, hungary and croatia. russia's acquisition of kiev in the later th century introduced the study of latin to russia. nevertheless, the use of latin in orthodox eastern europe did not reach high levels due to their strong cultural links to the cultural heritage of ancient greece and byzantium, as well as greek and old church slavonic languages. though latin and new latin are considered dead (having no native speakers), large parts of their vocabulary have seeped into english and several germanic languages. in the case of english, about % of the lexicon can trace its origin to latin, thus many english speakers can recognize new latin terms with relative ease as cognates are quite common. history[edit] beginnings[edit] new latin was inaugurated by the triumph of the humanist reform of latin education, led by such writers as erasmus, more, and colet. medieval latin had been the practical working language of the roman catholic church, taught throughout europe to aspiring clerics and refined in the medieval universities. it was a flexible language, full of neologisms and often composed without reference to the grammar or style of classical (usually pre-christian) authors. the humanist reformers sought both to purify latin grammar and style, and to make latin applicable to concerns beyond the ecclesiastical, creating a body of latin literature outside the bounds of the church. attempts at reforming latin use occurred sporadically throughout the period, becoming most successful in the mid-to-late th century. height[edit] europe in the protestant reformation ( – ), though it removed latin from the liturgies of the churches of northern europe, may have advanced the cause of the new secular latin. the period during and after the reformation, coinciding with the growth of printed literature, saw the growth of an immense body of new latin literature, on all kinds of secular as well as religious subjects. the heyday of new latin was its first two centuries ( – ), when in the continuation of the medieval latin tradition, it served as the lingua franca of science, education, and to some degree diplomacy in europe. classic works such as newton's principia mathematica ( ) were written in the language. throughout this period, latin was a universal school subject, and indeed, the pre-eminent subject for elementary education in most of europe and other places of the world that shared its culture. all universities required latin proficiency (obtained in local grammar schools) to obtain admittance as a student. latin was an official language of poland—recognised and widely used[ ][ ][ ][ ] between the th and th centuries, commonly used in foreign relations and popular as a second language among some of the nobility.[ ] through most of the th century, latin was also supreme as an international language of diplomatic correspondence, used in negotiations between nations and the writing of treaties, e.g. the peace treaties of osnabrück and münster ( ). as an auxiliary language to the local vernaculars, new latin appeared in a wide variety of documents, ecclesiastical, legal, diplomatic, academic, and scientific. while a text written in english, french, or spanish at this time might be understood by a significant cross section of the learned, only a latin text could be certain of finding someone to interpret it anywhere between lisbon and helsinki. as late as the s, latin was still used conversationally, and was serviceable as an international auxiliary language between people of different countries who had no other language in common. for instance, the hanoverian king george i of great britain (reigned – ), who had no command of spoken english, communicated in latin with his prime minister robert walpole,[ ] who knew neither german nor french. decline[edit] by about , the growing movement for the use of national languages (already found earlier in literature and the protestant religious movement) had reached academia, and an example of the transition is newton's writing career, which began in new latin and ended in english (e.g. opticks, ). a much earlier example is galileo c. , some of whose scientific writings were in latin, some in italian, the latter to reach a wider audience. by contrast, while german philosopher christian wolff ( – ) popularized german as a language of scholarly instruction and research, and wrote some works in german, he continued to write primarily in latin, so that his works could more easily reach an international audience (e.g., philosophia moralis, – ). likewise, in the early th century, french replaced latin as a diplomatic language, due to the commanding presence in europe of the france of louis xiv. at the same time, some (like king frederick william i of prussia) were dismissing latin as a useless accomplishment, unfit for a man of practical affairs. the last international treaty to be written in latin was the treaty of vienna in ; after the war of the austrian succession ( – ) international diplomacy was conducted predominantly in french. a diminishing audience combined with diminishing production of latin texts pushed latin into a declining spiral from which it has not recovered. as it was gradually abandoned by various fields, and as less written material appeared in it, there was less of a practical reason for anyone to bother to learn latin; as fewer people knew latin, there was less reason for material to be written in the language. latin came to be viewed as esoteric, irrelevant, and too difficult. as languages like french, italian, german, and english became more widely known, use of a 'difficult' auxiliary language seemed unnecessary—while the argument that latin could expand readership beyond a single nation was fatally weakened if, in fact, latin readers did not compose a majority of the intended audience. as the th century progressed, the extensive literature in latin being produced at the beginning slowly contracted. by latin publications were far outnumbered, and often outclassed, by writings in the modern languages as impact of industrial revolution. latin literature lasted longest in very specific fields (e.g. botany and zoology) where it had acquired a technical character, and where a literature available only to a small number of learned individuals could remain viable. by the end of the th century, latin in some instances functioned less as a language than as a code capable of concise and exact expression, as for instance in physicians' prescriptions, or in a botanist's description of a specimen. in other fields (e.g. anatomy or law) where latin had been widely used, it survived in technical phrases and terminology. the perpetuation of ecclesiastical latin in the roman catholic church through the th century can be considered a special case of the technicalizing of latin, and the narrowing of its use to an elite class of readers. by , creative latin composition, for purely artistic purposes, had become rare. authors such as arthur rimbaud and max beerbohm wrote latin verse, but these texts were either school exercises or occasional pieces. the last survivals of new latin to convey non-technical information appear in the use of latin to cloak passages and expressions deemed too indecent (in the th century) to be read by children, the lower classes, or (most) women. such passages appear in translations of foreign texts and in works on folklore, anthropology, and psychology, e.g. krafft-ebing's psychopathia sexualis ( ). crisis and transformation[edit] 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (june ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) latin as a language held a place of educational pre-eminence until the second half of the th century. at that point its value was increasingly questioned; in the th century, educational philosophies such as that of john dewey dismissed its relevance.[citation needed] at the same time, the philological study of latin appeared to show that the traditional methods and materials for teaching latin were dangerously out of date and ineffective. in secular academic use, however, new latin declined sharply and then continuously after about . although latin texts continued to be written throughout the th and into the th century, their number and their scope diminished over time. by , very few new texts were being created in latin for practical purposes, and the production of latin texts had become little more than a hobby for latin enthusiasts. around the beginning of the th century came a renewed emphasis on the study of classical latin as the spoken language of the romans of the st centuries bc and ad. this new emphasis, similar to that of the humanists but based on broader linguistic, historical, and critical studies of latin literature, led to the exclusion of neo-latin literature from academic studies in schools and universities (except for advanced historical language studies); to the abandonment of new latin neologisms; and to an increasing interest in the reconstructed classical pronunciation, which displaced the several regional pronunciations in europe in the early th century. coincident with these changes in latin instruction, and to some degree motivating them, came a concern about lack of latin proficiency among students. latin had already lost its privileged role as the core subject of elementary instruction; and as education spread to the middle and lower classes, it tended to be dropped altogether. by the mid- th century, even the trivial acquaintance with latin typical of the th-century student was a thing of the past. relics[edit] this pocket watch made for the medical community has latin instructions for measuring a patient's pulse rate on its dial: enumeras ad xx pulsus, "you count to beats". ecclesiastical latin, the form of new latin used in the roman catholic church, remained in use throughout the period and after. until the second vatican council of – all priests were expected to have competency in it, and it was studied in catholic schools. it is today still the official language of the church, and all catholic priests of the latin liturgical rites are required by canon law to have competency in the language.[ ] use of latin in the mass, largely abandoned through the later th century, has recently seen a resurgence due in large part to pope benedict xvi's motu proprio summorum pontificum and its use by traditional catholic priests and their organizations. new latin is also the source of the biological system of binomial nomenclature and classification of living organisms devised by carl linnaeus, although the rules of the iczn allow the construction of names that deviate considerably from historical norms. (see also classical compounds.) another continuation is the use of latin names for the surface features of planets and planetary satellites (planetary nomenclature), originated in the mid- th century for selenographic toponyms. new latin has also contributed a vocabulary for specialized fields such as anatomy and law; some of these words have become part of the normal, non-technical vocabulary of various european languages. pronunciation[edit] further information: latin regional pronunciation see also: traditional english pronunciation of latin new latin had no single pronunciation, but a host of local variants or dialects, all distinct both from each other and from the historical pronunciation of latin at the time of the roman republic and roman empire. as a rule, the local pronunciation of latin used sounds identical to those of the dominant local language; the result of a concurrently evolving pronunciation in the living languages and the corresponding spoken dialects of latin. despite this variation, there are some common characteristics to nearly all of the dialects of new latin, for instance: 	the use of a sibilant fricative or affricate in place of a stop for the letters c and sometimes g, when preceding a front vowel. 	the use of a sibilant fricative or affricate for the letter t when not at the beginning of the first syllable and preceding an unstressed i followed by a vowel. 	the use of a labiodental fricative for most instances of the letter v (or consonantal u), instead of the classical labiovelar approximant /w/. 	a tendency for medial s to be voiced to [z], especially between vowels. 	the merger of æ and œ with e, and of y with i. 	the loss of the distinction between short and long vowels, with such vowel distinctions as remain being dependent upon word-stress. the regional dialects of new latin can be grouped into families, according to the extent to which they share common traits of pronunciation. the major division is between western and eastern family of new latin. the western family includes most romance-speaking regions (france, spain, portugal, italy) and the british isles; the eastern family includes central europe (germany and poland), eastern europe (russia and ukraine) and scandinavia (denmark, sweden). the western family is characterized, inter alia, by having a front variant of the letter g before the vowels æ, e, i, œ, y and also pronouncing j in the same way (except in italy). in the eastern latin family, j is always pronounced [ j ], and g had the same sound (usually [ɡ]) in front of both front and back vowels; exceptions developed later in some scandinavian countries. the following table illustrates some of the variation of new latin consonants found in various countries of europe, compared to the classical latin pronunciation of the st centuries bc to ad.[ ] in eastern europe, the pronunciation of latin was generally similar to that shown in the table below for german, but usually with [z] for z instead of [ts]. 	roman letter	pronunciation 	classical	western	central	eastern 	france	england	portugal	spain	italy	romania	germany	netherlands	scandinavia 	c before "æ", "e", "i", "œ", y	/ k /	/ s /	/ s /	/ s /	/ θ /	/ tʃ /	/ tʃ /	/ ts /	/ s /	/ s / 	cc before "æ", "e", "i", "œ", "y"	/ kː /	/ ks /	/ ks /	/ ss /	/ kθ /	/ ttʃ /	/ ktʃ /	/ kts /	/ ss /	/ ss / 	ch	/ kʰ /	/ ʃ /	/ tʃ /	/ tʃ /	/ tʃ /	/ k /	/ k /	/ k /, / x /	/ x /	/ k / 	g before "æ", "e", i", "œ", "y"	/ ɡ /	/ ʒ /	/ dʒ /	/ ʒ /	/ x /	/ dʒ /	/ dʒ /	/ ɡ /	/ ɣ / or / x /	/ j / 	j	/ j /	/ j /	/ ʒ /	/ j /	/ j / 	qu before "a", "o", "u"	/ kʷ /	/ kw /	/ kw /	/ kw /	/ kw /	/ kw /	/ kv /	/ kv /	/kw /	/ kv / 	qu before "æ", "e", "i"	/ k /	/ k /	/ k / 	s between vowels unless ss 	/ s /	/ z /	/ z /	/ z /	/ s /	/ z /	/ z /	/ z /	/ z /	/ s / 	sc before "æ", "e", "i", "œ", "y"	/ sk /	/ s /	/ s /	/ s /	/ sθ /	/ ʃ /	/ stʃ /, / sk / (earlier / ʃt /)	/ sts /	/ s /	/ s / 	t before unstressed i+vowel except initially or after "s", "t", "x"	/ t /	/ ʃ /	/ θ /	/ ts /	/ ts /	/ ts /	/ ts /	/ ts / 	v	/ w /	/ v /	/ v /	/ v /	/ b / ([β])	/ v /	/ v /	/ f / or / v /	/ v /	/ v / 	z	/ dz /	/ z /	/ z /	/ z /	/ θ /	/ dz /	/ z /	/ ts /	/ z /	/ s / orthography[edit] new latin texts are primarily found in early printed editions, which present certain features of spelling and the use of diacritics distinct from the latin of antiquity, medieval latin manuscript conventions, and representations of latin in modern printed editions. characters[edit] in spelling, new latin, in all but the earliest texts, distinguishes the letter u from v and i from j. in older texts printed down to c. , v was used in initial position (even when it represented a vowel, e.g. in vt, later printed ut) and u was used elsewhere, e.g. in nouus, later printed novus. by the mid- th century, the letter v was commonly used for the consonantal sound of roman v, which in most pronunciations of latin in the new latin period was [v] (and not [w]), as in vulnus "wound", corvus "crow". where the pronunciation remained [w], as after g, q and s, the spelling u continued to be used for the consonant, e.g. in lingua, qualis, and suadeo. the letter j generally represented a consonantal sound (pronounced in various ways in different european countries, e.g. [j], [dʒ], [ʒ], [x]). it appeared, for instance, in jam "already" or jubet "orders" (earlier spelled iam and iubet). it was also found between vowels in the words ejus, hujus, cujus (earlier spelled eius, huius, cuius), and pronounced as a consonant; likewise in such forms as major and pejor. j was also used when the last in a sequence of two or more i's, e.g. radij (now spelled radii) "rays", alijs "to others", iij, the roman numeral ; however, ij was for the most part replaced by ii by . in common with texts in other languages using the roman alphabet, latin texts down to c. used the letter-form ſ (the long s) for s in positions other than at the end of a word; e.g. ipſiſſimus. the digraphs ae and oe were rarely so written (except when part of a word in all capitals, e.g. in titles, chapter headings, or captions) ; instead the ligatures æ and œ were used, e.g. cæsar, pœna. more rarely (and usually in th- to early th-century texts) the e caudata is found substituting for either. diacritics[edit] 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (november ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) three kinds of diacritic were in common use: the acute accent ´, the grave accent `, and the circumflex accent ˆ. these were normally only marked on vowels (e.g. í, è, â); but see below regarding que. handwriting in latin from the acute accent marked a stressed syllable, but was usually confined to those where the stress was not in its normal position, as determined by vowel length and syllabic weight. in practice, it was typically found on the vowel in the syllable immediately preceding a final clitic, particularly que "and", ve "or" and ne, a question marker; e.g. idémque "and the same (thing)". some printers, however, put this acute accent over the q in the enclitic que, e.g. eorumq́ue "and their". the acute accent fell out of favor by the th century. the grave accent had various uses, none related to pronunciation or stress. it was always found on the preposition à (variant of ab "by" or "from") and likewise on the preposition è (variant of ex "from" or "out of"). it might also be found on the interjection ò "o". most frequently, it was found on the last (or only) syllable of various adverbs and conjunctions, particularly those that might be confused with prepositions or with inflected forms of nouns, verbs, or adjectives. examples include certè "certainly", verò "but", primùm "at first", pòst "afterwards", cùm "when", adeò "so far, so much", unà "together", quàm "than". in some texts the grave was found over the clitics such as que, in which case the acute accent did not appear before them. the circumflex accent represented metrical length (generally not distinctively pronounced in the new latin period) and was chiefly found over an a representing an ablative singular case, e.g. eâdem formâ "with the same shape". it might also be used to distinguish two words otherwise spelled identically, but distinct in vowel length; e.g. hîc "here" differentiated from hic "this", fugêre "they have fled" (=fūgērunt) distinguished from fugere "to flee", or senatûs "of the senate" distinct from senatus "the senate". it might also be used for vowels arising from contraction, e.g. nôsti for novisti "you know", imperâsse for imperavisse "to have commanded", or dî for dei or dii. notable works ( – )[edit] erasmus by holbein literature and biography[edit] 	 . stultitiæ laus, essay by desiderius erasmus. 	 . utopia[ ] [ ] by thomas more 	 and . hispaniola and emerita, two comedies by juan maldonado. 	 . sintra, a poem by luisa sigea de velasco. 	 . cenodoxus, a play by jacob bidermann. 	 . parthenica, two books of poetry by elizabeth jane weston. 	 . argenis, a novel by john barclay. 	 – . poems by john milton. 	 . somnium, a scientific fantasy by johannes kepler. 	 . nicolai klimii iter subterraneum[ ] [ ], a satire by ludvig holberg. 	 . slawkenbergii fabella, short parodic piece in laurence sterne's tristram shandy. 	 . apollo et hyacinthus, intermezzo by rufinus widl (with music by wolfgang amadeus mozart). 	 . georgii washingtonii, americæ septentrionalis civitatum fœderatarum præsidis primi, vita, biography of george washington by francis glass. scientific works[edit] 	 . de revolutionibus orbium cœlestium by nicolaus copernicus 	 . ars magna by hieronymus cardanus 	 – and . historia animalium by conrad gessner. 	 . de magnete, magneticisque corporibus et de magno magnete tellure by william gilbert. 	 . astronomia nova by johannes kepler. 	 . sidereus nuncius by galileo galilei. 	 . novum organum by francis bacon.[ ] 	 . exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus by william harvey. [ ] 	 . systema saturnium by christiaan huygens. 	 . horologium oscillatorium by christiaan huygens. also at gallica. 	 . philosophiæ naturalis principia mathematica by isaac newton. [ ] 	 . hortus malabaricus by hendrik van rheede.[ ] [ ] 	 . systema naturae by carl linnaeus. [ ] [ ] 	 . mechanica sive motus scientia analytice exposita by leonhard euler. 	 . hydrodynamica, sive de viribus et motibus fluidorum commentarii by daniel bernoulli. 	 . introductio in analysin infinitorum by leonhard euler. 	 . species plantarum by carl linnaeus. 	 . systema naturae ( th ed.) by carolus linnaeus. 	 . de viribus electricitatis in motu musculari by aloysius galvani. 	 . disquisitiones arithmeticae by carl gauss. 	 . prodromus florae novae hollandiae et insulae van diemen by robert brown.[ ] 	 . fundamenta nova theoriae functionum ellipticarum by carl gustav jacob jacobi. 	 . flora brasiliensis by carl friedrich philipp von martius.[ ] 	 . philosophia zoologica by jan van der hoeven. 	 . arithmetices principia, nova methodo exposita by giuseppe peano other technical subjects[edit] 	 – . de orbe novo decades by peter martyr d'anghiera. 	 . de asse et partibus by guillaume budé. 	 . de motu hispaniæ by juan maldonado. 	 . de subventione pauperum sive de humanis necessitatibus libri duo by juan luis vives. 	 . syphilis, sive, de morbo gallico by girolamo fracastoro(transcription[permanent dead link]) 	 . de disciplinis libri xx by juan luis vives. 	 . colloquium de aulica et privata vivendi ratione by luisa sigea de velasco. 	 . christianismi restitutio by michael servetus. a mainly theological treatise, where the function of pulmonary circulation was first described by a european, more than half a century before harvey. for the non-trinitarian message of this book servetus was denounced by calvin and his followers, condemned by the french inquisition, and burnt alive just outside geneva. only three copies survived. 	 . de naturæ philosophia seu de platonis et aristotelis consensione libri quinque by sebastián fox morcillo. 	 . rerum scoticarum historia by george buchanan (transcription) 	 . minerva sive de causis linguæ latinæ by francisco sánchez de las brozas. 	 . de natura novi orbis libri duo et de promulgatione euangelii apud barbaros sive de procuranda indorum salute by josé de acosta. 	 . disputationes metaphysicæ by francisco suárez. 	 . de rege et regis institutione by juan de mariana. 	 – . historia sui temporis by jacobus augustus thuanus. [ ] 	 . de legibus by francisco suárez. 	 . de christiana expeditione apud sinas by matteo ricci and nicolas trigault. 	 . de jure belli ac pacis by hugo grotius. (posner collection facsimile; gallica facsimile) 	 . meditationes de prima philosophia by rené descartes. (the latin, french and english by john veitch.) 	 - . elementa philosophica by thomas hobbes. 	 - . Œdipus Ægyptiacus by athanasius kircher. 	 . novus atlas sinensis by martino martini. 	 . flora sinensis by michael boym. 	 . orbis sensualium pictus by john amos comenius. (hoole parallel latin/english translation, ; online version in latin) 	 . tractatus theologico-politicus by baruch spinoza. 	 . ethica ordine geometrico demonstrata by baruch spinoza. 	 . gradus ad parnassum by johann joseph fux. an influential treatise on musical counterpoint. 	 . de rebus gestis caroli v imperatoris et regis hispaniæ and de rebus hispanorum gestis ad novum orbem mexicumque by juan ginés de sepúlveda. 	 . de primis socialismi germanici lineamentis apud lutherum, kant, fichte et hegel by jean jaurès see also[edit] 	languages portal 	binomial nomenclature 	botanical latin 	classical compound 	ludwig boltzmann institute for neo-latin studies 	romance languages, sometimes called neo-latin languages notes[edit] 	^ "neo-latin". the american college dictionary. random house. . 	^ oxford dictionaries, oxford dictionaries online, oxford university press. 	^ "what is neo-latin?". archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - . 	^ who only knows latin can go across the whole poland from one side to the other one just like he was at his own home, just like he was born there. so great happiness! i wish a traveler in england could travel without knowing any other language than latin!, daniel defoe, 	^ anatol lieven, the baltic revolution: estonia, latvia, lithuania and the path to independence, yale university press, , isbn  - - - , google print, p. 	^ kevin o'connor, culture and customs of the baltic states, greenwood press, , isbn  - - - , google print, p. 	^ karin friedrich et al., the other prussia: royal prussia, poland and liberty, – , cambridge university press, , isbn  - - - , google print, p. 	^ karin friedrich et al., the other prussia: royal prussia, poland and liberty, – , cambridge university press, , isbn  - - - , google print, p. 	^ "before i conclude the reign of george the first, one remarkable fact must not be omitted: as the king could not readily speak english, nor sir robert walpole french, the minister was obliged to deliver his sentiments in latin; and as neither could converse in that language with readiness and propriety, walpole was frequently heard to say, that during the reign of the first george, he governed the kingdom by means of bad latin." coxe, william ( ). memoirs of the life and administration of sir robert walpole, earl of orford. london: cadell and davies. p.  . retrieved june , . "it was perhaps still more remarkable, and an instance unparalleled, that sir robert governed george the first in latin, the king not speaking english, and his minister no german, nor even french. it was much talked of that sir robert, detecting one of the hanoverian ministers in some trick or falsehood before the king's face, had the firmness to say to the german "mentiris impudissime!"walpole, horace ( ). the letters of horace walpole, earl of orford. philadelphia: lea and blanchard. p.  . retrieved june , . 	^ this requirement is found under canon of the code of canon law. see " code of canon law". libreria editrice vaticana. . retrieved march . 	^ fisher, michael montgomery ( ). the three pronunciations of latin. boston: new england publishing company. pp.  – . further reading[edit] 	library resources about new latin 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	black, robert. . humanism and education in medieval and renaissance italy. cambridge, uk: cambridge univ. press. 	bloemendal, jan, and howard b. norland, eds. . neo-latin drama and theatre in early modern europe. leiden, the netherlands: brill. 	burnett, charles, and nicholas mann, eds. . britannia latina: latin in the culture of great britain from the middle ages to the twentieth century. warburg institute colloquia . london: warburg institute. 	butterfield, david. . "neo-latin". in a blackwell companion to the latin language. edited by james clackson, – . chichester, uk: wiley-blackwell. 	churchill, laurie j., phyllis r. brown, and jane e. jeffrey, eds. . women writing in latin: from roman antiquity to early modern europe. vol. , early modern women writing latin. new york: routledge. 	coroleu, alejandro. . "printing and reading italian neo-latin bucolic poetry in early modern europe". grazer beitrage : - . 	de beer, susanna, k. a. e. enenkel, and david rijser. . the neo-latin epigram: a learned and witty genre. supplementa lovaniensia . leuven, belgium: leuven univ. press. 	de smet, ingrid a. r. . "not for classicists? the state of neo-latin studies". journal of roman studies : – . 	ford, philip. . "twenty-five years of neo-latin studies". neulateinisches jahrbuch : – . 	ford, philip, jan bloemendal, and charles fantazzi, eds. . brill’s encyclopaedia of the neo-latin world. two vols. leiden, the netherlands: brill. 	godman, peter, and oswyn murray, eds. . latin poetry and the classical tradition: essays in medieval and renaissance literature. oxford: clarendon. 	haskell, yasmin, and juanita feros ruys, eds. . latin and alterity in the early modern period. arizona studies in the middle ages and renaissance . tempe: arizona univ. press 	helander, hans. . "neo-latin studies: significance and prospects". symbolae osloenses . : – . 	ijsewijn, jozef with dirk sacré. companion to neo-latin studies. two vols. leuven university press, – . 	knight, sarah, and stefan tilg, eds. . the oxford handbook of neo-latin. new york: oxford university press. 	miller, john f. . "ovid's fasti and the neo-latin christian calendar poem". international journal of classical tradition . : - . 	moul, victoria. . a guide to neo-latin literature. new york: cambridge university press. 	tournoy, gilbert, and terence o. tunberg. . "on the margins of latinity? neo-latin and the vernacular languages". humanistica lovaniensia : – . 	van hal, toon. . "towards meta-neo-latin studies? impetus to debate on the field of neo-latin studies and its methodology". humanistica lovaniensia : – . 	waquet, françoise, latin, or the empire of a sign: from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries (verso, ) isbn  - - - ; translated from the french by john howe. external links[edit] 		look up new latin in wiktionary, the free dictionary. 	an analytic bibliography of on-line neo-latin titles — bibliography of renaissance latin and neo-latin literature on the web. 	a lost continent of literature: the rise and fall of neo-latin, the universal language of the renaissance. — an essay on neo-latin literature by james hankins from the i tatti renaissance library website. 	camena – latin texts of early modern europe 	database of nordic neo-latin literature 	heinsius collection: dutch neo-latin poetry 	latinitas nova at bibliotheca augustana 	hofmanni, joh. jac. ( ) [ ]. lexicon universale (in german and latin). corpus automatum multiplex electorum neolatinitatis auctorum (camena), university of mannheim. 	"neo-latin" (in latin). the latin library. retrieved october . 	patzdasch, bernd ( ). "pantoia: unterhaltsame literatur und dichtung in lateinischer und griechischer Übersetzung" (in german). pantoia. retrieved october . 	"seminarium philologiae humanisticae". katholieke universiteit leuven. . retrieved october . 	"society for neo-latin studies". university of warwick, uk. . retrieved october . 	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		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		wikipedia list article 	part of a series on 	indo-european topics 	 	 languages 	list of indo-european languages 	historical 	albanian 	persian 	parthian 	armenian 	balto-slavic 	baltic 	slavic 	celtic 	germanic 	hellenic 	greek 	indo-iranian 	indo-aryan 	iranian 	italic 	romance 	extinct 	anatolian 	tocharian 	paleo-balkan 	dacian 	illyrian 	liburnian 	messapian 	mysian 	paeonian 	phrygian 	thracian 	reconstructed 	proto-indo-european language 	phonology: sound laws, accent, ablaut 	hypothetical 	daco-thracian 	graeco-armenian 	graeco-aryan 	graeco-phrygian 	indo-hittite 	italo-celtic 	thraco-illyrian 	grammar 	vocabulary 	root 	verbs 	nouns 	pronouns 	numerals 	particles 	other 	proto-albanian 	proto-anatolian 	proto-armenian 	proto-germanic (proto-norse) 	proto-celtic 	proto-italic 	proto-greek 	proto-balto-slavic (proto-slavic) 	proto-indo-iranian (proto-iranian) 	 philology 	hittite texts 	hieroglyphic luwian 	linear b 	rigveda 	avesta 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	historical 	hittite indo-aryan 	vedic 	hinduism 	buddhism 	jainism 	sikhism iranian 	persian 	zoroastrianism 	kurdish 	yazidism 	yarsanism 	scythian 	ossetian others 	armenian europe 	paleo-balkan (albanian · illyrian · thracian · dacian) 	greek 	roman 	celtic 	irish 	scottish 	breton 	welsh 	cornish 	germanic 	anglo-saxon 	continental 	norse 	baltic 	latvian 	lithuanian 	slavic 	practices 	fire sacrifice 	horse sacrifice 	sati 	winter solstice/yule 	 indo-european studies 	scholars 	marija gimbutas 	j. p. mallory 	institutes 	copenhagen studies in indo-european 	publications 	encyclopedia of indo-european culture 	the horse, the wheel and language 	journal of indo-european studies 	indogermanisches etymologisches wörterbuch 	indo-european etymological dictionary 		v 	t 	e further information on roman families: gens the gens (plural gentes) was a roman, italic, or etruscan family, consisting of all those individuals who shared the same nomen and claimed descent from a common ancestor. it was an important social and legal structure in early roman history.[ ][ ] the distinguishing characteristic of a gens was the nomen gentilicium, or gentile name. every member of a gens, whether by birth or adoption, bore this name. all nomina were based on other nouns, such as personal names, occupations, physical characteristics or behaviors, or locations. consequently, most of them ended with the adjectival termination -ius (-ia in the feminine form).[ ] nomina ending in -aius, -eius, -eus, and -aeus are typical of latin families. faliscan gentes frequently had nomina ending in -ios, while samnite and other oscan-speaking peoples of southern italy had nomina ending in -iis. umbrian nomina typically end in -as, -anas, -enas, or -inas, while nomina ending in -arna, -erna, -ena, -enna, -ina, or -inna are characteristic of etruscan families.[ ] the word gens is feminine, and the name of a gens was also feminine. marcus valerius corvus was a member of gens valeria. valerius was his nomen. his son's nomen would have been valerius, and his daughter's valeria. male members of his gens were collectively called valerii, and female members valeriae. if a member of the gens were adopted into another family, he would assume the nomen of that gens, followed by the cognomen valerianus.[ ] in the following list, "i" and "j" are treated as separate letters, as are "u" and "v". the letter "k" was rare in latin, and the few nomina occasionally spelled with this letter were usually spelled with "c". no roman gentes began with "x", and the letters "y" and "z" occurred only in names borrowed from greek. the letter "w" did not exist in classical latin. contents 	 a 	 b 	 c 	 d 	 e 	 f 	 g 	 h 	 i 	 j 	 l 	 m 	 n 	 o 	 p 	 q 	 r 	 s 	 t 	 u 	 v 	 see also 	 references 	 external links a[edit] 	abronia 	abudia 	aburia 	accia 	accoleia 	acerronia 	acilia 	aconia 	actoria 	acutia 	aebutia 	aedinia 	aelia 	aemilia 	afinia 	afrania 	agoria 	albania 	albatia 	albia 	albinia 	albucia 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	tarrutenia 	tarutia 	tarutilia 	tatia 	tattia 	tauria 	terentia 	terentilia 	tertinia 	tettia 	tettidia 	tettiedia 	tettiena 	thoria 	tigellia 	tineia 	titania 	titia 	titinia 	tituria 	tonantia 	trebatia 	trebellia 	trebia 	treblana 	trebonia 	tremellia 	tuccia 	tullia 	turallasia 	turcia 	turia 	turpilia 	turullia u[edit] 	ulpia 	umbonia 	umbria 	umbricia 	ummidia 	urgulania 	urseia v[edit] 	valeria 	varena 	varia 	varinia 	varisidia 	vatinia 	vecilia 	vedia 	velia 	velleia 	venafrania 	ventidia 	vequasia 	verania 	verecundia 	vergilia 	verginia 	verres 	verria 	vesnia 	vesonia 	vestoria 	vestricia 	vetilia 	vettia 	veturia 	vibenia 	vibia 	vibidia 	viciria 	victoria 	victorinia 	victricia 	viducia 	vigilia 	villia 	vinia 	vinicia 	vipsania 	vipstana 	viria 	viridia 	visellia 	vistilia 	vitellia 	vitrasia 	vitruvia 	voconia 	volcacia 	volturcia 	volumnia 	volusena 	volusenna 	volusia 	vorenia 	vulia see also[edit] 	roman naming conventions 	list of roman nomina 	list of roman cognomina 	roman gentes of etruscan origin 	roman gentes of hernician origin 	roman gentes of latin origin from alba longa 	roman gentes of latin origin from praeneste 	roman gentes of latin origin from tibur 	roman gentes of latin origin from tusculum 	roman gentes of picentine origin 	roman gentes of sabine origin 	roman gentes of samnite origin 	roman gentes of umbrian origin 	roman gentes of volscian origin 	prosopography of ancient rome references[edit] 	^ a b c harper's dictionary of classical literature and antiquities, second edition, harry thurston peck, editor ( ) 	^ a b oxford classical dictionary, nd ed. 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(greek: Νικόλαος Δαμασκηνός, nikolāos damaskēnos; latin: nicolaus damascenus) was a jewish historian and philosopher who lived during the augustan age of the roman empire. his name is derived from that of his birthplace, damascus. he was born around bc.[ ] nicolaus is known to have had a brother named ptolemy, who served in the court of herod as a type of book-keeper or accountant. he was an intimate friend of herod the great, whom he survived by a number of years. he was also the tutor of the children of mark antony and cleopatra (born in c. bc), according to sophronius.[ ] he went to rome with herod archelaus, to defend the young man's claim to the throne upon the death of his father herod the great.[ ] given that book of his history was on abraham, nicolaus was most likely a jew, though one who had been thoroughly hellenised. as such, he may well have known his contemporary philo of alexandria. since nicolaus wrote a work on the psyche, he may well have been, like philo, in the school of the pythagoreans or platonists and been part of the syncretisation of judaic monotheism with the monotheism (the monad/the good) of those two schools. his output was vast, but is nearly all lost. his chief work was a universal history in books. he also wrote an autobiography, a life of augustus, a life of herod, some philosophical works, and some tragedies and comedies. there is an article on him in the suda.[ ] contents 	 history 	 life of augustus 	 autobiography 	 compendium on aristotle 	 on the psyche 	 on plants 	 other works 	 the embassy of an indian king to augustus 	 references 	 sources 	 external links history[edit] towards the end of his life he composed a universal history in books,[ ] although the suda mentions only books. but references to books , , , , , ( ), , , , , , , , and are known.[ ] extensive fragments of the first seven books are preserved in quotation in the excerpta compiled at the order of constantine porphyrogenitus.[ ] these cover the history of the assyrians, medes, greeks, lydians, and persians, and are important also for biblical history. josephus probably used this work for his history of herod (ant. - ) because where nicolaus stops, in the reign of herod archelaus, the account of josephus suddenly becomes more cursory.[ ] for portions dealing with greek myth and oriental history he was dependent on other, now lost works, of variable quality. where he relied on ctesias, the value of his work is slim. robert drews has written: 	classical scholars are agreed that nicolaus's history of the east, and especially his story of cyrus, was taken from ctesias's persica, a work written early in the fourth century b.c. this work has with justification been denounced by both assyriologists and classicists as a totally unreliable guide to mesopotamian history.[ ] life of augustus[edit] we have considerable remains of two works of his old age; a life of augustus, and his own life. he wrote a life of augustus (bios kaisaros), which seems to have been completed after the death of the emperor in ad , when nicolaus was . two long chunks remain, the first concerning octavius' youth, the second caesar's assassination.[ ] autobiography[edit] he also wrote an autobiography, the date of which is uncertain. it mentions that he wanted to retire, in bc, but was persuaded to travel with herod archelaus to rome. the fragments that remain deal mainly with jewish history.[ ] compendium on aristotle[edit] he composed commentaries on aristotle. a compendium of excerpts from these is extant in a syriac manuscript discovered in cambridge in , (shelfmark gg. . ). this dates later than , was acquired by cambridge in , and is very tatty and disarranged. the majority of the manuscript is a work by dionysius bar salibi.[ ] the work was probably written in rome ca. ad , when he attracted criticism for being too involved in philosophy to court the wealthy and powerful.[ ] on the psyche[edit] porphyrius in on the faculties of the soul mentions that nicolaus of damascus wrote a book on the psyche, which stated that the division of the psyche-soul was not founded on quantity, but on quality, like the division of an art or a science. clearly, by ‘parts’ of the psyche-soul, nicolaus meant its different faculties.[ ] on plants[edit] main article: on plants an arabic translation of his work de plantis, once attributed to aristotle, was discovered in istanbul in . it also exists in a syriac manuscript at cambridge.[ ] other works[edit] he composed some tragedies and comedies, which are now lost.[ ] the embassy of an indian king to augustus[edit] one of the most famous passages is his account of an embassy sent by an indian king "named pandion (pandyan kingdom) or, according to others, porus" to augustus around ad . he met with the embassy at antioch. the embassy was bearing a diplomatic letter in greek, and one of its members was a sramana who burnt himself alive in athens to demonstrate his faith. the event made a sensation and was quoted by strabo[ ] and dio cassius.[ ] a tomb was made to the sramana, still visible in the time of plutarch, which bore the mention "ΖΑΡΜΑΝΟΧΗΓΑΣ ΙΝΔΟΣ ΑΠΟ ΒΑΡΓΟΣΗΣ" (zarmanochēgas indos apo bargosēs – zarmanochegas, indian from bargosa): 	to these accounts may be added that of nicolaus damascenus. this writer states that at antioch, near daphne, he met with ambassadors from the indians, who were sent to augustus caesar. it appeared from the letter that several persons were mentioned in it, but three only survived, whom he says he saw. the rest had died chiefly in consequence of the length of the journey. the letter was written in greek upon a skin; the import of it was, that porus was the writer, that although he was sovereign of six hundred kings, yet that he highly esteemed the friendship of cæsar; that he was willing to allow him a passage through his country, in whatever part he pleased, and to assist him in any undertaking that was just. eight naked servants, with girdles round their waists, and fragrant with perfumes, presented the gifts which were brought. the presents were a hermes (i. e. a man) born without arms, whom i have seen, large snakes, a serpent ten cubits in length, a river tortoise of three cubits in length, and a partridge larger than a vulture. they were accompanied by the person, it is said, who burnt himself to death at athens. this is the practice with persons in distress, who seek escape from existing calamities, and with others in prosperous circumstances, as was the case with this man. for as everything hitherto had succeeded with him, he thought it necessary to depart, lest some unexpected calamity should happen to him by continuing to live; with a smile, therefore, naked, anointed, and with the girdle round his waist, he leaped upon the pyre. on his tomb was this inscription: 		zarmanochegas, an indian, a native of bargosa, having immortalized himself according to the custom of his country, here lies.[ ] this accounts suggests that it may not have been impossible to encounter an indian religious man in the levant during the time of jesus. the jewish historian josephus references the fourth book of nicolaus' history concerning abram (abraham).[ ] references[edit] 	^ nicolaus, autobiography, fr. . 	^ patrologia graeca, vol. , . col. d; f.jacoby, fgrh. .t . 	^ nicolaus, autobiography, fr. . - 	^ suda ν , [ ]. 	^ athenaeus, vi. . 	^ karl wilhelm ludwig müller, et al., fragmenta historicorum graecorum, vol. , p. . 	^ a b lulofs, h. j. drossart. on the philosophy of aristotle, by nicolaus damascenus. brill, , p. f. 	^ a b c jewish encyclopedia article 	^ drews, robert, "sargon, cyrus and mesopotamian folk history" journal of near eastern studies, vol. , no. , (oct., ), pp. - . 	^ lulofs, h. j. drossart. on the philosophy of aristotle, by nicolaus damascenus. brill, , p. . 	^ lulofs, h. j. drossart. on the philosophy of aristotle, by nicolaus damascenus. brill, , p. . 	^ on the faculties of the soul by porphyrius 	^ h. j. drossaart lulofs & e. l. j. poortman, nicolaus damascenus: de plantis. five translations, amsterdam . 	^ strabo, xv, , on the immolation of the sramana in athens (paragraph ). 	^ dio cassius, liv, . 	^ strabo, xv, . . 	^ josephus, antiquities of the jews, i. 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s c across fields. this is a list of roman legions, including key facts about each legion, primarily focusing on the principate (early empire, bc – ad) legions, for which there exists substantial literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence. main articles: roman army, imperial roman army, and roman legion when augustus became sole ruler in  bc, he disbanded about half of the over legions then in existence. the remaining legions became the core of the early imperial army of the principate (  bc – ad  ), most lasting over three centuries. augustus and his immediate successors transformed legions into permanent units, staffed by entirely career soldiers on standard -year terms. during the dominate period (near the end of the empire, – ), legions were also professional, but are little understood due to scarcity of evidence compared to the principate. what is clear is that late legions were radically different in size, structure, and tactical role from their predecessors, despite several retaining early period names. this was the result of the military reforms of emperors diocletian and constantine i, and of further developments during the th century. the legions were identified by roman numerals, though the spelling sometimes differed from the modern "standard". for example, in addition to the spellings "iv", "ix", "xiv", "xviii" and "xix", the respective spellings "iiii", "viiii", "xiiii", "xiix" and "xviiii" were commonly used.[ ] contents 	 late republican legions 	 early empire legions 	 . legend 	 . . legion number and title (cognomen) 	 . . main legionary base 	 . . emblem 	 . . date disbanded 	 . . castra legionaria 	 . . notes 	 late empire legions 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 . primary sources 	 . secondary sources 	 external links late republican legions[edit] until the marian reforms of  bc, the republican legions were formed by compulsory levy of roman citizens (who met a minimum property qualification) and raised whenever it was necessary. usually they were authorized by the roman senate, and were later disbanded. gaius marius' reforms transformed legions into standing units, which could remain in being for several years, or even decades. this became necessary to garrison the republic's now far-flung territories. legionaries started large-scale recruiting of volunteer soldiers enlisted for a minimum term of six years and a fixed salary, although conscription was still practiced. the property requirements were abolished by marius, so that the bulk of recruits were henceforth from the landless citizens, who would be most attracted to the paid employment and land offered after their service. in the last century of the republic, proconsuls governing frontier provinces became increasingly powerful. their command of standing legions in distant and arduous military campaigns resulted in the allegiance of those units transferring from the roman state to themselves. these imperatores (lit: victorious generals, from the title imperator they were hailed with by their troops) frequently fell out with each other and started civil wars to seize control of the state, such as sulla, caesar, pompey, crassus, mark antony and octavian (later augustus, the first emperor himself). in this context, the imperatores raised many legions that were not authorised by the senate, sometimes having to use their own resources. as civil wars were resolved, many of these "private" units would be disbanded, only for more to be raised to fight the next civil war. by the time augustus emerged as sole ruler of rome in  bc, over legions were in existence, many of which were disbanded. the legions included in the following list had a long enough history to be somehow remarkable. most of them were levied by julius caesar and later included into octavian's army, some of them were levied by marc antony. 	legio i germanica (germanic):  bc – ad  (revolt of the batavi), julius caesar 	legio ii sabina (sabine):  bc – c. ad  , early name of the legio ii augusta 	legio iii cyrenaica (from cyrene): probably c.   bc to (at least) the th century, mark antony 	legio iii gallica (gallic): around  bc to at least early th century, julius caesar (emblem: bull) 	legio iv macedonica (macedonian):  bc – ad  (renamed by vespasian), julius caesar (emblem: bull, capricorn) 	legio iv scythica (from scythia): c.   bc to at least early th century, mark antony (emblem: capricorn) 	legio v alaudae (larks):  bc – ad  or (destroyed either during the batavian rebellion or by the dacians in first battle of tapae), julius caesar (emblem: elephant) 	legio vi ferrata (ironclad):  bc – after , julius caesar (emblem: bull, she-wolf and romulus and remus); twin legion of legio vi victrix 	legio vi victrix (victorious):  bc – after , octavian (emblem: bull) 	legio vii claudia pia fidelis (loyal and faithful to claudius):  bc –  bc, julius caesar; disbanded and re-formed by vespasian as legio vii gemina 	legio viii augusta:  bc –  bc, julius caesar, disbanded and re-enlisted by augustus as legio viii augusta 	legio ix hispana triumphalis (triumphant):  bc –  bc, julius caesar, disbanded and re-enlisted by augustus as legio ix hispana 	legio x fretensis (of the sea strait): levied by augustus in –  bc 	legio x equestris (equestrian): before  bc –  bc, julius caesar's personal legion 	legio xi claudia:  bc –  bc, julius caesar (emblem: neptune), disbanded, reconstituted by augustus 	legio xii victrix (victorious):  bc – ad  , julius caesar 	legio xii fulminata (thunderbolt): after being renamed by augustus, first reconstituted by lepidus in  bc, named by mark antony as legio xii antiqua (ancient) 	legio xiii gemina (twin):  bc –  bc: julius caesar, later (  bc) reconstituted by augustus 	legio xiv gemina (twin):  bc –  bc: julius caesar, destroyed and reconstituted in  bc. reconstituted by augustus after  bc 	legio xvii classica (of the fleet): raised by mark antony, disbanded in  bc by octavian following his victory at the battle of actium. 	legio xviii libyca (from libya): raised by mark antony, disbanded in  bc by octavian following his victory at the battle of actium. 	legio xix: raised by mark antony, disbanded in  bc by octavian following his victory at the battle of actium. 	legio xx siciliana: raised by octavian for the purpose of launching an invasion of sicily in bc, which at the time was held by sextus pompeius. 	legio xxx classica (naval):  bc –  bc, julius caesar early empire legions[edit] the roman empire and legions deployed in ad  , in the time of emperor hadrian. codes for roman provinces in the table: 		aeg	aegyptus	(egypt) 	afr	africa	(tunisia/western libya) 	aq	aquitania	(sw france) 	ar	arabia petraea	(jordan/sinai) 	brit	britannia	(england/wales) 	cap	cappadocia	(central/eastern turkey) 	dc	dacia	(romania/serbia) 	dlm	dalmatia	(bosnia/croatia/montenegro/kosovo/serbia) 	gal	galatia	(central turkey) 	gi	germania inferior	(netherlands/rhineland) 	gs	germania superior	(alsace-lorraine/rhineland) 	hisp	hispania tarraconensis	(central spain) 	it	italia	(italy) 	jud	judaea	(israel/palestine) 	maur	mauretania	(western maghreb) 	mcd	macedonia	(southern balkans/greece) 	mi	moesia inferior	(romania/bulgaria) 	ms	moesia superior	(serbia) 	nr	noricum	(austria) 	pan	pannonia	(hungary/croatia/slovenia) 	rt	raetia	(switzerland/germany) 	syr	syria	(syria/lebanon) roman legions of the early empire (units founded between  bc and ad  ) 	legion no. and title (cognomen) 	main legionary base 	emblem 	date founded/ founder 	date disbanded 	castra legionaria (legion bases)[ ] * = main base. start date  bc if unspecified 	notes 	i adiutrix 	szőny, hungary 	capricorn 	 nero 	 	 – moguntiacum (gs); – mid- th century brigetio* (pan) 	" st rescuer". was raised from marines of classis misenensis 	i germanica 	bonn, germany 	bull 	  bc caesar 	 dd 	to  bc hisp; c.   bc – ad  bonna* (gi) 	disbanded for cowardice in batavi revolt 	i italica 	svishtov, bulgaria 	boar 	 nero 	post 	 – early th century novae* (mi) 	prima italica:raised for aborted caucasus war 	i macriana 	 	 	 macer 	 dd 	(raised for mutiny against nero by macer, gov of afr) 	liberatrix: "liberator st". disbanded by galba 	i minervia 	bonn, germany 	minerva 	 domitian 	post 	 – th century bonna* (gi) 	"minerva-revering st" 	i parthica 	sinjar, iraq 	centaur 	 s. severus 	post 	 – early th century nisibis* (syr) 	raised for severus' parthian campaign in 	ii adiutrix 	budapest, hungary 	capricorn 	 vespasian 	after 	 – brit; – ms; – at least aquincum* (pan) 	" nd rescuer." was raised from marines of classis ravennatis 	ii augusta 	caerleon, wales 	capricorn 	before  bc augustus 	after 	to c. ad  hisp; – brit; – at least isca augusta* (brit) 	failed to engage boudica . c.  at rutupiae (brit) 	ii italica 	enns, austria 	she-wolf 	 m aurelius 	after 	 – c.  lauriacum* (nr) 	capitoline wolf rome's national emblem 	ii parthica 	castra albana, italy 	centaur 	 s. severus 	after 	 – castra albana (it); – apamea (syr); – c.  castra albana(it) 	 th century recorded at bezabde (syr) 	ii traiana 	alexandria, egypt 	hercules 	 trajan 	after 	 – th century nicopolis* (aeg) 	secunda fortis "trajan's valliant nd" 	iii augusta 	batna, algeria 	pegasus 	  bc augustus 	after 	to afr; – ammaedara; – after + lambaesis* (maur) 	decimated for cowardice in mauri war (ad  ) 	iii cyrenaica 	busra, syria 	 	  bc m antony 	after 	to thebes – alexandria aeg; – th century bostra* ar 	" rd from cyrene" 	iii gallica 	abila, jordan 	two bulls 	  bc caesar 	after 	  bc– th century raphana* (syr) 	tertia gallica: " rd from gaul" 	iii italica 	regensburg, germany 	stork 	 m aurelius 	after 	 – th century castra regina* (rt) 	raised for war on marcomanni 	iii parthica 	ras al-ayn, syria 	bull 	 s. severus 	after 	 – th century resaena* (syr) 	raised for severus' parthian campaign in 	legion no. and title (cognomen) 	main legionary base 	emblem 	date founded/ founder 	date disbanded 	castra legionaria (legion bases)[ ] * = main base. start date  bc if unspecified 	notes 	iv flavia felix 	belgrade, serbia 	lion 	 vespasian 	before 	 – th century singidunum* (ms) 	vespasian's lucky th. reformed iv macedon 	iv macedonica 	mainz, germany 	bull 	  bc caesar 	 dd 	to hisp; – moguntiacum* (gs) 	disbanded in batavi revolt 	iv scythica 	gaziantep, turkey 	capricorn 	  bc m antony 	after 	to ms; – th century zeugma* (syr) 	quarta scythica: "scythian-conquering th" 	v alaudae 	xanten, germany 	elephant 	  bc caesar 	 or xx 	to  bc hisp; c.   bc – ad  castra vetera* (gi) 	"larks th" feathers in helmet? xx during batavian rebellion in or at the first battle of tapae in 	v macedonica 	turda, romania 	eagle 	  bc augustus 	after 	 – oescus, – troesmis (mi); – potaissa* (dc) 	quinta macedonica: " th from macedonia" 	vi ferrata 	galilee, israel 	she-wolf 	  bc caesar 	at least uf 	to raphana (syr); – at least caparcotna* (jud) 	"ironclad th". xx at battle of edessa ? 	vi hispana 	 	 	post 	after uf 	unknown 	only record. xx at battle of abrittus ? 	vi victrix 	york, england 	bull 	  bc augustus 	after 	to castra legionis hisp; – gi; – c.  eburacum* brit 	"victorious th" built hadrian's wall – 	vii claudia 	kostolac, serbia 	bull 	  bc caesar 	c.  	to ad  gal; – dlm; – c.  viminacium* (ms) 	septima claudia: title for crushing mutiny 	vii gemina 	león, spain 	 	 galba 	c.  	 – c.  castra legionis* hisp 	raised in hispania by galba for march on rome 	viii augusta 	strasbourg, france 	bull 	  bc caesar 	after 	 - poetovium; – novae mi; – mirebeau-sur-bèze gs; – at least argentorate* gs 	octava augusta: 	ix hispana 	york, england 	bull 	  bc augustus 	 ? ? 	to  bc hisp; ad  – pan?; – eburacum* brit; – nijmegen gi? 	nona hispana: xx in judaea ( )? xx by parthians in armenia ( ) 	x fretensis 	jerusalem 	boar 	  bc augustus 	after 	to  bc jud;  bc – ad  syr; – at least c.  hierosolyma* 	fretum = strait of messina, naulochus  bc 	x gemina 	vienna, austria 	bull 	  bc lepidus 	after 	  bc – ad  petavonium hisp; – carnuntum pan; petavonium – hisp; – noviomagus gi; – c.  vindobona* pan 	was x equestris, caesar's "mounted" legion 	xi claudia 	silistra, bulgaria 	neptune 	  bc augustus 	after 	to dlm; – vindonissa rt; – c.  durostorum* mi 	undecima claudia: honoured by claudius 	xii fulminata 	malatya, turkey 	thunderbolt 	  bc lepidus 	after 	to aeg; – raphana (syr); – c.  melitene* (cap) 	thunderbolt th lost aquila in st jewish war 	legion no. and title (cognomen) 	main legionary base 	emblem 	date founded/ founder 	date disbanded 	castra legionaria (legion bases)[ ] * = main base. start date  bc if unspecified 	notes 	xiii gemina 	alba iulia, romania 	lion 	  bc caesar 	after 	 – poetovio pan; – apulum* dc; – mi 	"twinned th". crossed rubicon with caesar  bc 	xiv gemina 	petronell, austria 	capricorn 	  bc caesar 	after 	ad  – moguntiacum gs; – mancetter brit; – wroxeter brit; – balkans; – vindobona pan; – c.  carnuntum* 	defeated boudica's britons at watling street ( ) 	xv apollinaris 	saddagh, turkey 	apollo 	  bc augustus 	after 	 – carnuntum pan; – syr – carnuntum pan; – c.  satala* cap 	"apollo-revering th". fought in first jewish war 	xv primigenia 	xanten, germany 	fortuna 	 caligula 	 xx 	 – moguntiacum (gs); – castra vetera* (gi) 	primigenia goddess of fate. xx in batavi revolt 	xvi flavia firma 	samsat, turkey 	lion 	 vespasian 	post 	 – satala (cap); – at least samosata* syr 	"vespasian's steadfast th". reformed xvi gallica 	xvi gallica 	mainz, germany 	lion 	  bc augustus 	 dd 	to moguntiacum* (gs); – novaesium* (gi) 	disbanded for cowardice in batavi revolt 	xvii 	xanten, germany 	 	  bc augustus 	ad  xx 	to  bc aq?;  bc – ad  castra vetera* (gi) 	destroyed in teutoburg forest, lost aquila standard, never rebuilt 	xviii 	xanten, germany 	 	  bc augustus 	ad  xx 	to  bc aq?;  bc – ad  castra vetera* (gi) 	destroyed in teutoburg forest, lost aquila standard, never rebuilt. 	xix 	xanten, germany 	 	  bc augustus 	ad  xx 	to  bc unknown;  bc – ad  somewhere in gi 	possibly saw action in the conquest of rhaetia in  bc. destroyed in teutoburg forest, lost aquila standard, never rebuilt. 	xx valeria victrix 	chester, england 	boar 	  bc augustus 	after uf 	to ad  burnum dlm; – oppidum ubiorum gi; – camulodunum* brit; – burrium* brit; – viroconium* brit; – inchtuthil* brit; – at least deva* brit 	vigesima named for messalla? xx in allectus' fall ? 	xxi rapax 	windisch, switzerland 	capricorn 	  bc augustus 	 xx 	ad  – gi; – vindonissa* (rt); – gi; – pan 	"predator st". xx by roxolani sarmatian tribe pan 	xxii deiotariana 	alexandria, egypt 	 	  bc 	 ? ? xx 	to c.   bc gal; c.   bc – at least alexandria* (aeg) 	gal king "deiotarus's nd". xx by jewish rebels in ? or by parthians in armenia in ? 	xxii primigenia 	mainz, germany 	hercules 	 caligula 	after 	 – c.  moguntiacum* (gs) 	raised for caligula's german war 	xxx ulpia victrix 	xanten, germany 	jupiter 	 trajan 	post 	 – dc; – c.  castra vetera* (gi) 	"trajan's victorious th" (m ulpius traianus) legend[edit] legion number and title (cognomen)[edit] the numbering of the legions is confusing, since several legions shared the same number with others. augustus numbered the legions he founded himself from i, but also inherited numbers from his predecessors. each emperor normally numbered the legions he raised himself starting from i. however, even this practice was not consistently followed. for example, vespasian kept the same numbers as before for legions he raised from disbanded units. trajan's first legion was numbered xxx because there were other legions in existence at the time it was raised; but the second trajanic legion was given the sequential number ii. xvii, xviii and xix, the numbers of the legions annihilated in the teutoburg forest, were never used again. (these three legions are without titles, suggesting that in disgrace their titles may have been deliberately forgotten or left unmentioned.) as a result of this somewhat chaotic evolution, the legion's title became necessary to distinguish between legions with the same number. legions often carried several titles, awarded after successive campaigns, normally by the ruling emperor e.g. xii fulminata was also awarded: paterna (fatherly), victrix (victorious), antiqua (venerable), certa constans (reliable, steadfast) and galliena (gallienus '). pia fidelis (loyal and faithful), fidelis constans and others were titles awarded to several legions, sometimes several times to the same legion. only the most established, commonly used titles are displayed on this table. the geographical titles indicate 	the country a legion was originally recruited e.g. italica = from italy or 	peoples the legion has vanquished e.g.parthica = victorious over the parthians legions bearing the personal name of an emperor, or of his gens (clan) (e.g. augusta, flavia) were either founded by that emperor or awarded the name as a mark of special favour. the title gemina means that two diminished legions have been combined to make one new one. main legionary base[edit] this shows the castra (base) where the legion spent the longest period during the principate. legions often shared the same base with other legions. detachments of legions were often seconded for lengthy periods to other bases and provinces, as operational needs demanded. emblem[edit] legions often sported more than one emblem at the same time, and occasionally changed them. legions raised by caesar mostly carried a bull emblem originally; those of augustus mostly a capricorn date disbanded[edit] for legions that are documented into the th century and beyond, we do not know when or how they were terminated. for legions disappearing from the record before , the reason (certain or likely) is given as: 	xx = annihilated in battle 	dd = disbanded in disgrace 	uf = unknown fate castra legionaria[edit] indicates the bases (castra) and/or provinces where the legion was based during its history, with dates. notes[edit] contains points of note, including explanation of titles and details of a legion's fate. province names and borders are assumed throughout the principate period as at , during the rule of trajan, and after the annexation of dacia and arabia petraea. the map above shows provinces at the end of trajan's reign, . they are the same as in , except that armenia and mesopotamia have been annexed (they were abandoned soon after trajan's death); and pannonia has been split into two (the split occurred c.  ). in reality provincial borders were modified several times between  bc and : this explains any discrepancy with other sources, as to a legion's location at a particular date. late empire legions[edit] main article: late roman army shield pattern of the palatina legion of the ioviani seniores, according to the notitia dignitatum. diocletian reorganized the roman army, in order to better counter the threat of the germanic peoples of northern europe as well as that of the persians from the east. the army was formed by border and field units. the border (limitanei) units were to occupy the limes, the structured border fortifications, and were formed by professional soldiers with an inferior training. the field units were to stay well behind the border, and to move quickly where they were needed, with both offensive and defensive roles. field units were formed by elite soldiers with high-level training and weapons. they were further divided into: 	scholae: the personal guard of the emperor, created by constantine i to replace the praetorian guard; 	palatinae: "palace troops" were the highest ranked units, created by constantine i after he disbanded the praetorian guard, it was comprised originally of former guardsmen; 	comitatenses: regular field units, some were newly-formed, others were descended from early-empire legions; 	pseudocomitatenses: these were limitanei units diverted into the field army and often kept there; some early empire legions became pseudocomitatenses units. these units usually numbered between and , soldiers and some of them kept their original numbering schemes. the primary source for the legions of this era is the notitia dignitatum, a late th-century document containing all the civil and military offices of both halves of the roman empire (revised in c.  for the western empire). 	legio i 	i armeniaca 	i flavia constantia (reliable flavian): comitatensis unit under the command of the magister militum per orientis 	i flavia gallicana constantia (reliable flavian legion from gallia): pseudocomitatensis under the command of the magister peditum per gallias. the legion was founded by constantius i chlorus. the legions objective was to protect the armorican coast and fight the roman-british usurper, allectus.[ ][ ][ ] 	i flavia martis (flavian legion devoted to mars): pseudocomitatensis. the legion was founded by constantius chlorus to fight allectus.[ ][ ] it was stationed in gaul.[ ] 	i flavia pacis (flavian legion of peace): comitatensis under the command of the magister peditum 	i flavia theodosiana: comitatensis. 	i illyricorum (of the illyrians): stationed at the camp of diocletian in palmyra 	i iovia (devoted to jupiter): levied by diocletian, stationed in scythia minor 	i isaura sagittaria (archers from isauria): pseudocomitatensis under the command of the magister militum per orientis 	i iulia alpina: pseudocomitatensis under the command of the magister peditum in italy. it is unknown who founded the legion although it was probably crispus or constans.[ ] 	i martia possibly based near modern kaiseraugst. the legion could have had the surname victrix.[ ] the legion was probably founded by diocletian. it also may have built forts in valeria.[ ] 	i maximiana thaebanorum (the thebans of maximianus): comitatensis unit stationed near thebes, egypt, and probably fighting in the battle of adrianople 	i noricorum (of the noricans): stationed in noricum. the legion was probably founded by diocletian to help defend the danube. 	i pontica: the legion was founded by dioceltian to help defend pontus polemoniacus.[ ] the legion was stationed in trapezus.[ ] 	legio ii 	ii armeniaca 	ii britannica: comitatensis under magister peditum 	ii flavia constantia: comitatensis under the command of the magister peditum 	ii flavia virtutis: comitatensis under the command of the magister peditum 	ii herculia (devoted to hercules): levied by diocletian, stationed in scythia minor 	ii isaura 	ii iulia alpina: pseudocomitatensis under the command of the magister peditum, in comes illyricum command. it was probably founded by crispus or constans. its objective was to defend alpes cottiae 	ii felix valentis thebaeorum: comitatensis 	legio iii 	iii diocletiana 	iii flavia salutis the legio iii flacia salutis was a comitatensis legion of the late roman empire. the legion was raised by either constantius ii or diocletian. the legion was used to guard north africa. the legio iii flavia salutis was under the command of the magister militum in the west.[ ][ ][ ] 	iii herculea: comitatensis under the command of the comes illyricum 	iii isaura 	iii iulia alpina: comitatensis under the command of the magister peditum command in italy 	legio iv 	iv italica 	iv martia 	iv parthica 	legio v 	v iovia (maybe the jovians) 	v parthica 	legio vi 	vi gemella 	vi gallicana 	vi herculia (maybe the herculians) 	vi hispana 	vi parthica 	legio xii 	xii victrix see also[edit] 	ancient rome portal 	war portal 	list of roman auxiliary regiments 	roman army 	auxilia 	roman legion 	structural history of the roman military notes[edit] 	^ boyne, william ( ). a manual of roman coins. p.  . 	^ a b c "roman legionary fortresses". www.legionaryfortresses.info. archived from the original on - - . 	^ "legio i flavia gallicana constantia - livius". www.livius.org. retrieved - - . 	^ a b history of the roman legions. 	^ a b lacey, james ( ). great strategic rivalries from the classical world to the cold war. oxford university press. 	^ a b "legio i flavia martis - livius". www.livius.org. retrieved - - . 	^ "legio i iulia alpina - livius". www.livius.org. retrieved - - . 	^ a b "legio i martia - livius". www.livius.org. retrieved - - . 	^ a b "legio i pontica - livius". www.livius.org. retrieved - - . 	^ dubois, michael ( ). auxillae. lulu.com. isbn  - - - - . 	^ lenski, noel ( ). the cambridge companion to the age of constantine. cambridge university press. references[edit] primary sources[edit] 	notitia dignitatum reports the military units and their locations at the beginning of the th century. secondary sources[edit] 	oxford classical dictionary 	keppie, lawrence. the making of the roman army, pp.  – 	stephen dando-collins "legions of rome" external links[edit] 	legio x – legio x gemina (equites) – "viri clarissimi" 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you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 list of roman nomina - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	list of roman nomina 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		wikipedia list article this is a list of roman nomina. each nomen is for a gens, originally a single family, but later more of a political grouping. contents 	 a 	 b 	 c 	 d 	 e 	 f 	 g 	 h 	 i–j 	 l 	 m 	 n 	 o 	 p 	 q-r 	 s 	 t 	 u-v 	 see also 	 references a[edit] 	abronius 	abudius 	aburius 	accius 	accoleius 	acerronius 	acilius 	aconius 	actorius 	acutius 	aebutius 	aedinius — from inscriptions 	aelius 	aemilius 	afinius 	afranius or afrenius 	agorius 	albanius 	albatius 	albinius 	albius 	albucius or albutius 	alfenus 	alfius 	alienus 	allectius 	amafinius 	amatius 	ambrosius 	ampius 	ampudius — found on a tombstone of a freedman 	ancharius 	anicius 	annaeus 	anneius 	annius 	anquirinnius 	antistius 	antius 	antonius 	apisius 	aponius 	appius 	appuleius 	apronius 	apustius 	aquillius 	aquinius 	arellius 	arennius 	arminius or armenius 	arpineius 	arrecinus 	arrius 	arruntius 	arsinius 	articuleius 	artorius 	asconius 	asellius 	asinius 	ateius 	aternius 	atius 	atilius 	atinius 	atrius 	attius — see atius 	audasius 	aufeius 	aufidius 	aulius 	aurelius 	aurius 	aurunculeius 	ausonius 	autronius 	avianus 	avidius 	avienus 	avilius 	avius 	axius b[edit] 	babrius 	baebius 	balventius 	bantius 	barbatius 	barrius 	bavius 	bellicius 	bellienus 	bellius 	betilienus 	betitius 	betucius 	betuus 	blandius 	blossius 	boionius 	bruttius 	bucculeius 	burbuleius 	burrienus c[edit] 	caecilius 	caecina 	caecius 	caedicius 	caelius 	caeparius 	caepasius 	caerellius 	caesellius 	caesennius 	caesetius 	caesius 	caesonius 	caesulenus 	caetronius 	calavius 	calesterna 	calidius 	calpurnius 	calvenus 	calventius 	calvisius 	campatius 	canidius 	caninius 	canius 	cantilius 	cantius 	canuleius 	canutius 	carfulenus 	carisius 	caristanius 	carius 	carpinatius 	carrinas 	carteius 	carvilius 	casperius 	cassius 	castricius 	castrinius 	catienus 	catilius 	catius 	ceionius 	centenius 	ceppuleius 	cestius 	cicereius 	cilnius 	cincius 	cispius 	classidius 	claudius or clodius 	cloelius or cluilius 	cluentius 	clutorius 	cluvius or clovius 	cocceius 	coelius 	cominius 	condetius 	consentius 	considius 	consius 	coponius 	cordius 	corfidius 	cornelius 	cornificius 	coruncanius 	cosconius 	cossinius 	cossutius 	cotius 	cottius 	crassitius 	crepereius 	critonius 	cupiennius 	curiatius 	curius 	curtilius 	curtius 	cusinius 	cuspius d[edit] 	decentius 	decidius 	decimius 	decitius 	decius 	dellius 	desticius — at least two governors known from inscriptions 	dexsius — l. dexsius longinus mentioned in an inscription of ad[ ] 	didius 	digitius 	dillius 	domitius 	dubius 	duccius — inscriptions, notably on a tombstone of lucius duccius rufinus at york[ ] 	duilius 	durmius 	duronius e[edit] 	eggius 	egilius 	egnatius 	egnatuleius 	egrilius 	elvius 	ennius 	epidius 	eppius 	equitius 	erucius 	expentanius f[edit] 	fabius 	fabricius 	fadius 	faenius 	falcidius 	falerius 	faminius 	fannius 	farsuleius 	faucius 	favonius 	festinius[ ] — seen on a tombstone of a two-year-old child 	fidiculanius 	firmius 	flaminius 	flavinius 	flavius 	flavoleius — inscriptions 	flavonius — inscriptions 	floridius 	florius 	floronius — inscriptions 	fonteius 	foslius 	fufetius 	fuficius 	fufidius 	fufius 	fulcinius 	fulginas 	fulvius 	fundanius 	furius 	furnius g[edit] 	gabinius 	galerius 	gallius 	gargonius 	gavius 	geganius 	gellius 	geminius 	genucius 	gessius 	glicius 	granius 	gratidius 	gratius h[edit] 	haterius 	heius 	helvidius 	helvius 	herennius 	herennuleius 	herminius 	hirrius 	hirtius 	hirtuleius 	horatius 	hordeonius 	hortensius 	hosidius 	hostilius 	hostius i–j[edit] 	iccius 	icilius 	insteius 	jallius 	julius 	junius 	juventius l[edit] 	laberius 	labienus 	lacerius 	laecanius 	laelius 	laenius 	laetilius 	laetorius 	lafrenius 	lamponius 	laronius 	lartius or larcius 	latinius 	lavinius 	lemonius 	lentidius 	lepidius 	libertius 	liburnius 	licinius 	ligarius 	livinius 	livius 	lollius 	longinius 	loreius — house of loreius tiburtinus in pompeii 	lucceius 	lucienus 	lucilius 	lucius 	lucretius 	lurius 	luscius 	lusius 	lutatius m[edit] 	macrinius 	maecenas 	maecilius 	maecius 	maelius 	maenas 	maenius 	maevius 	magius 	mallius 	mamercius 	mamilius 	manilius 	manlius 	marcius 	marius 	martinius 	matienus 	matinius 	matius 	matrinius 	maximius 	memmius 	menenius 	menius 	mescinius 	messienus 	messius 	mestrius 	metilius 	mettius 	milonius 	mimesius 	minatius 	minicius 	minidius 	minius 	minucius 	modius 	mucius 	mummius 	munatius 	munius 	murrius 	mussidius 	mustius 	mutius n[edit] 	naevius 	nasennius 	nasidienus 	nasidius 	nautius 	neratius 	nerfinius 	nerius 	nigidius 	ninnius 	nipius 	nonius 	norbanus 	novellius 	novius 	numerius 	numicius 	numisius 	numitorius 	nummius 	numonius 	nymphidius o[edit] 	obellius 	obultronius 	occius 	oclatinius 	oclatius 	octavenus 	octavius 	ofanius 	ofilius 	ogulnius 	ollius 	opellius 	opetreius 	opimius 	opisius 	opiternius 	oppidius 	oppius 	opsidius 	opsilius 	opsius 	oranius 	orbicius 	orbilius 	orchius 	orcivius 	orfidius 	orfius 	orosius 	oscius 	ostorius 	otacilius 	ovidius 	ovinius p[edit] 	paccius 	pacidius 	pacilius 	paconius 	pactumeius 	pacuvius 	palfurius 	palpellius 	pantuleius 	papinius 	papirius 	papius 	pasidienus 	pasidius 	passienus 	patrobius — known only by nero's freedman 	patulcius 	pedanius 	pedius 	peducaeus 	peltrasius 	percennius 	perperna or perpenna 	persius 	pescennius 	petillius or petellius 	petreius 	petronius 	petrosidius 	pilius 	pinarius 	pinnius 	pisentius 	placidius 	plaetorius 	plaguleius 	plancius 	plarius 	plautius or plotius 	pleminius 	plinius 	poetelius 	pollius 	pompeius 	pompilius 	pomponius 	pomptinus 	pontidius 	pontificius 	pontilienus 	pontilius 	pontius 	popaedius 	popidius 	poppaeus 	porcius or portius 	postumius 	postumulenus 	potitius 	praecilius 	praeconius 	precius 	priscius 	procilius 	proculeius 	propertius 	proxinius 	publicius 	publilius 	pupius q-r[edit] 	quartinius 	quartius 	quinctilius 	quinctius 	quirinius 	rabirius 	rabonius 	rabuleius 	racilius 	raecius 	ragonius 	rammius 	ranius 	rasinius 	reginius 	remmius 	rennius 	resius 	romanius 	romilius or romulius 	romogillius 	roscius 	rubellius 	rubrenus 	rubrius 	rufinius 	rufius 	rufrius 	rullius 	rupilius 	rusonius 	rusticelius 	rustius 	rutilius s[edit] 	sabellius 	sabidius 	sabinius 	sabucius 	saenius 	safinius 	salienus 	sallustius 	salonius 	saltius 	saltorius 	salvidienus 	salvidius 	salvius 	salvienus 	sammius 	sanquinius 	sariolenus 	sarius 	satellius 	satrienus 	satrius 	sattius 	saturius 	saufeius 	scaevilius 	scaevinius 	scaevius 	scandilius 	scantinius 	scantius 	scaptius 	scoedius 	scuilius 	scutarius 	scribonius 	seccius 	secundinius 	secundius 	sedatius 	segulius 	seius 	selicius 	sellius 	sempronius 	sennius 	sentius 	seppienus 	seppius 	septicius 	septimius 	septimuleius 	septueius 	sepullius 	sepunius 	sergius 	serius 	sertorius 	servaeus 	servenius 	servilius 	servius 	sestius 	severius 	sextilius 	sextius 	sibidienus 	sicinius 	silicius 	silius 	silvius 	sinicius 	sinuleius 	sisenna 	sittius 	socellius 	sollius 	sornatius 	sosius 	sotidius 	spedioleius[ ] 	spedius 	spellius 	spurinna 	spurius 	staius 	statilius 	statius 	stertinius 	suedius 	suetonius 	suilius or suillius 	sulpicius t[edit] 	tadius 	tanicius — inscriptions, including a prefect lucius tanicius verus at cadder in britain 	tanusius 	tapsenna 	tarpeius 	tarquinius 	tarquitius 	terrasidius 	terentilius 	terentius 	tertinius — inscriptions, tertinius severus of legio viii augusta 	tettidius — inscriptions 	tettiedius 	tettienus — inscriptions, suffect consul galeo tettienus petronianus in 	tettius 	thorius 	tigellius 	tineius 	titanius 	titinius 	titius 	titurius 	tonantius 	trebatius 	trebellius 	trebius 	treblanus 	trebonius 	tremellius — quaestor lucius tremellius bc, praetor gaius tremellius scrofa bc 	tuccius 	tullius 	turallasius 	turius 	turpilius 	turullius u-v[edit] 	ulpius 	umbrius 	ummidius 	urgulanius 	urseius 	valerius 	varenus 	varinius 	varisidius 	varius 	vatinius 	vecilius 	vedius 	velius 	velleius 	ventidius 	vequasius 	veranius 	verecundius 	vergilius (virgil) or virgilius 	verginius or virginius 	verres 	verrius 	vesnius 	vesonius 	vestorius 	vestricius 	vettius 	veturius 	vibenius 	vibidius 	vibius 	vicirius 	victorinius 	victorius or vitorius 	victricius 	viducius 	vigilius 	villius 	vinicius 	vinius 	vipsanius 	vipstanus 	viridius 	virius 	visellius 	vistilius or vestilius 	vitellius 	vitrasius 	vitruvius 	voconius 	volcacius or volcatius 	volumnius 	volusenna 	volusenus 	volusius 	vorenius 	vulius see also[edit] 	list of roman gentes 	roman naming conventions 	praenomen 	list of roman cognomina 	roman victory title 	list of imperial roman victory titles 	roman tribe 	roman republic 	roman empire references[edit] 	^ "archeologhia.com". archeologhia.com. retrieved - - . 	^ http://museums.ncl.ac.uk/archive/arma/contents/iconog/tombston/cent /uk/york/duccius.htm archived june , , at the wayback machine 	^ togodumnus (kevan white). 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grammarian of the th or th century ad. his only surviving work is the de compendiosa doctrina, a dictionary or encyclopedia in books that shows his interests in antiquarianism and latin literature from plautus to apuleius. nonius may have come from africa.[ ] contents 	 life 	 works 	 literature 	 . editions 	 . studies 	 references 	 external links life[edit] little is known about nonius. the full title of his work, noni marcelli peripatetici tubursicensis de conpendiosa doctrina ad filium, indicates that he was a peripatetic philosopher from thubursicum in numidia. an inscription at thubursicum dedicated by a certain "nonius marcellus herculius" in ad indicates that his family was based in that area.[ ] since nonius does not mention christianity and calls himself a peripatetic, he seems not to have converted.[ ] nonius quotes aulus gellius and other nd-century compilers, and is himself quoted and praised three times by priscian in the th century, and so must have lived between these dates.[ ] according to the cambridge history of classical literature, he was probably active in the first half of the th century,[ ] although some scholars of the th and early th centuries thought he might have lived later in the th or even in the th century.[ ] more recently it has been argued that nonius lived in the severan period and can be dated to around a.d. – .[ ] works[edit] the de compendiosa doctrina is one of the major sources for lost works of the roman republic, including the tragedies of accius and pacuvius, the satires of lucilius, and the history of sisenna. it consists of words, a short definition, and then quotations of authors using the word.[ ] it has been printed under a number of titles, including de proprietate latini sermonis and de varia significatione verborum. it is one of three major latin dictionaries preserved from antiquity, along with that of festus, which was an epitome of verrius flaccus' work de verborum significatu, and the etymologiae of isidore of seville. the first twelve of nonius's twenty books are organized grammatically around words or forms of words, and the remaining eight by subject matter such as clothing, weapons, food, etc. each entry of either type consists of a brief definition and quotations from republican-era writers, taken from nd-century sources, including aulus gellius and fronto, rather than the original texts. "his ignorance and inattention," notes the cambridge history of classical literature, "diminish but cannot destroy the value of his compilation."[ ] the research of w. m. lindsay[ ] and later of strzelecki[ ] has shown that nonius obtained many of his lemmata (entries) and the first citation for each from earlier grammatical texts which are now lost. the remainder of the entries and the extra citations belong to books which he either owned or borrowed from a local library. for each section (either a book or a letter entry within a book), nonius worked through his lists from volumes in the same order, first to find the lead-citation, and then again in order for additional citations. based on this methodology, it can be determined whether nonius is quoting an author first-hand, or from a grammar which was full of errors.[ ] the doctrina preserves fragments from early dramatists, annalists, satirists, and antiquarian writers. in arranging quotations from authors, nonius always follows the same order, beginning with plautus and ending with varro and cato. the grammarians priscian and fulgentius borrowed largely from his book, and in the th century a certain julius tryphonianus sabinus brought out a revised and annotated edition.[ ] the doctrina was edited with notes by j. mercier in at paris under the title de varia significatione verborum.[ ] the page numbers of the mercier edition are used as a reference in later editions (e.g. m. means "page of the mercier edition"). nonius also wrote a volume of letters on the neglect of study, which is lost but to which he refers in the doctrina.[ ] literature[edit] editions[edit] 	christophe plantin ( ): (nonii marcelli compendiosa doctrina ad filium) de proprietate sermonum 	l. müller ( ): vol. , vol. . 	j. h. onions ( ) 	w. m. lindsay (teubner, , also with müller's pagination): vol. , vol. , vol. . studies[edit] 	articles in the classical review, dec. , june and july . 	j. h. onions, classical review oct. , oct. , feb. , feb. . 	w. m. lindsay, journal of philology, xvi. ( ), xviii. ( ), (jh onions), xxi. ( ). ("the printed editions of nonius," by henry nettleship) 	w. m. lindsay, article online at google books here 	paul monceaux, les africains. etude sur la littérature latine d'afrique : les païens, p., lecène, oudin & cie, v+ pp ( ) 	w. s. teuffel, history of roman literature (eng. trans.), a; 	martin schanz, geschichte der römischen literatur, iv. ( ). references[edit] 	^ matthew bunson, a dictionary of the roman empire (oxford university press, ), p. . 	^ cil viii ; w. m. lindsay, noni marcelli, vol. , teubner, , p. xiii. 	^ h. nettleship, american journal of philology vol. , no. ( ), pp. - . pp. – : "his assumption of the title peripateticus justifies us in concluding further that he was not a christian; the contents of his book prove that he was an eager student of ancient and classical latin. he may fairly therefore be classed, for literary purposes, among the non-christian scholars and antiquarians of the fourth and fifth centuries; with servius the commentator on vergil, macrobius, and the elder symmachus." 	^ w. m. lindsay, noni marcelli, vol. , teubner, , p. xiii. note lists references to nonius by priscian in inst. i, p. ; i. p. and . 	^ robert browning, "grammarians," in the cambridge history of classical literature, vol. : latin literature, , p. . 	^ w. m. lindsay, nonius marcellus, st. andrews university publications , oxford: parker ( ), p. . 	^ paul t. keyser, late authors in nonius marcellus and other evidence of his date, harvard studies in classical philology, vol. ( ), pp. – . pp. – : "the prevailing belief that nonius must belong roughly to the fourth century a.d. is based on little more than the tendency to presume that an undatable latin work associated with a roman aristocrat dates from the fourth century a.d. ... the inference that nonius is severan is ... based on ... the otherwise isolated and inexplicable cluster of quotations of authors dated to ca. a.d. - in the context of nonius' express preference for the auctoritas of republican and augustan authors. furthermore, this is supported by some items of contemporary language he records, by his heavy use of rolls rather than codices, and by his designation as a peripatetic. in the end, one can conclude that he is to be dated to ca. a.d. – ." 	^ w. m. lindsay, nonius marcellus, st. andrews university publications , oxford: parker ( ), p. . 	^ browning, cambridge history of classical literature, vol. : latin literature, p. . 	^ nonius marcellus' dictionary of republican latin, . reference from habinek. 	^ paulys real-encyclopadie . - . reference from habinek. 	^ thomas n. habinek, the colometry of latin prose ( ), pp. – . preview here. 	^ encyclopædia britannica entry. 	^ george crabb ( ), universal historical dictionary, volume , no page numbers, online here: "nonius, marcellus, (biog.) a grammarian and peripatetic philosopher and a native of tibur, whose treatise, 'de varia significatione verborum' was edited by mercer, vo, paris, ." 	^ w. m. lindsay, nonius marcellus, st. andrews university publications , oxford: parker ( ), p. : "he published a volume of letters 'on the neglect of study,' from which he quotes a pompous sentence in illustration of the word meridies (p. of mercier's edition)." external links[edit] 		wikisource has original works written by or about: nonius marcellus 	roger pearse, how the text of nonius marcellus reaches us – information on manuscripts 	 th century british library manuscript of nonius marcellus in digital form 	authority control 	 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mythology, the muses (ancient greek: Μοῦσαι, romanized: moûsai, greek: Μούσες, romanized: múses) are the inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the arts. they were considered the source of the knowledge embodied in the poetry, lyric songs, and myths that were related orally for centuries in ancient greek culture. the word "muse" can refer in general to anyone or anything which inspires an artist, musician, or writer.[ ] contents 	 etymology 	 number and names 	 mythology 	 . children 	 cult 	 emblems 	 functions 	 . in society 	 . in literature 	 . in cults and modern museums 	 . in modern art, film, literature 	 . places named after the muses 	 gallery 	 see also 	 references 	 . bibliography 	 external links etymology[edit] print of clio, made in the th- th century. preserved in the ghent university library.[ ] the word "muses" (ancient greek: Μοῦσαι, romanized: moûsai) perhaps came from the o-grade of the proto-indo-european root *men- (the basic meaning of which is "put in mind" in verb formations with transitive function and "have in mind" in those with intransitive function),[ ] or from root *men- ("to tower, mountain") since all the most important cult-centres of the muses were on mountains or hills.[ ] r. s. p. beekes rejects the latter etymology and suggests that a pre-greek origin is also possible.[ ] number and names[edit] gustave moreau: hesiod and the muse ( )—musée d'orsay, paris the earliest known records of the nine muses are from boeotia, the homeland of hesiod. some ancient authorities thought that the nine muses were of thracian origin.[ ] there, a tradition persisted that the muses had once been three in number.[ ] in the first century bc, diodorus siculus cited homer and hesiod to the contrary, observing: writers similarly disagree also concerning the number of the muses; for some say that there are three, and others that there are nine, but the number nine has prevailed since it rests upon the authority of the most distinguished men, such as homer and hesiod and others like them.[ ] diodorus states (book i. ) that osiris first recruited the nine muses, along with the satyrs, while passing through aethiopia, before embarking on a tour of all asia and europe, teaching the arts of cultivation wherever he went. according to hesiod's account (c. bc), generally followed by the writers of antiquity, the nine muses were the nine daughters of zeus and mnemosyne (i.e., "memory" personified), figuring as personifications of knowledge and the arts, especially poetry, literature, dance and music. the roman scholar varro ( – bc) relates that there are only three muses: one born from the movement of water, another who makes sound by striking the air, and a third who is embodied only in the human voice. they were called melete or "practice", mneme or "memory" and aoide or "song". three ancient muses were also reported in plutarch's ( – ad) quaestiones convivales[ ] ( .i . – ).[ ] however, the classical understanding of the muses tripled their triad and established a set of nine goddesses, who embody the arts and inspire creation with their graces through remembered and improvised song and mime, writing, traditional music, and dance. it was not until hellenistic times that the following systematic set of functions was assigned to them, and even then there was some variation in both their names and their attributes: calliope (epic poetry), clio (history), euterpe (flutes and lyric poetry), thalia (comedy and pastoral poetry), melpomene (tragedy), terpsichore (dance), erato (love poetry), polyhymnia (sacred poetry), and urania (astronomy). the nine muses on a roman sarcophagus (second century ad)—louvre, paris according to pausanias in the later second century ad,[ ] there were originally three muses, worshipped on mount helicon in boeotia: aoide ("song" or "tune"), melete ("practice" or "occasion"), and mneme ("memory").[ ] together, these three form the complete picture of the preconditions of poetic art in cult practice. in delphi three muses were worshiped as well, but with other names: nete, mese, and hypate, which are assigned as the names of the three chords of the ancient musical instrument, the lyre.[ ] alternatively, later they were called cephisso, apollonis, and borysthenis, names which characterize them as daughters of apollo.[ ] in a later tradition, a set of four muses were recognized: thelxinoë, aoide, archē, and melete, said to be daughters of zeus and plusia or of ouranos.[ ] apollo and the muses on mount parnassus, c. , by johann christoph storer. held at national gallery of art one of the people frequently associated with the muses was pierus. by some he was called the father (by a pimpleian nymph, called antiope by cicero) of a total of seven muses, called neilṓ (Νειλώ), tritṓnē (Τριτώνη), asōpṓ (Ἀσωπώ), heptápora (Ἑπτάπορα), achelōís, tipoplṓ (Τιποπλώ), and rhodía (Ῥοδία).[ ][ ] mythology[edit] thalia, muse of comedy, holding a comic mask (detail from the "muses sarcophagus") apollo and the muses on mount helicon ( ) by claude lorrain according to hesiod's theogony (seventh century bc), they were daughters of zeus, king of the gods, and mnemosyne, titan goddess of memory. hesiod in theogony narrates that the muses brought to people forgetfulness, that is, the forgetfulness of pain and the cessation of obligations.[ ] for alcman and mimnermus, they were even more primordial, springing from the early deities ouranos and gaia. gaia is mother earth, an early mother goddess who was worshipped at delphi from prehistoric times, long before the site was rededicated to apollo, possibly indicating a transfer to association with him after that time. sometimes the muses are referred to as water nymphs, associated with the springs of helicon and with pieris. it was said that the winged horse pegasus touched his hooves to the ground on helicon, causing four sacred springs to burst forth, from which the muses, also known as pegasides, were born.[ ][ ] athena later tamed the horse and presented him to the muses (compare the roman inspiring nymphs of springs, the camenae, the völva of norse mythology and also the apsaras in the mythology of classical india). classical writers set apollo as their leader, apollon mousagetēs ("apollo muse-leader").[ ] in one myth, the muses judged a contest between apollo and marsyas. they also gathered the pieces of the dead body of orpheus, son of calliope, and buried them in leivithra. in a later myth, thamyris challenged them to a singing contest. they won and punished thamyris by blinding him and robbing him of his singing ability. according to a myth from ovid's metamorphoses—alluding to the connection of pieria with the muses—pierus, king of macedon, had nine daughters he named after the nine muses, believing that their skills were a great match to the muses. he thus challenged the muses to a match, resulting in his daughters, the pierides, being turned into chattering jays (with κίσσα often erroneously translated as magpies) for their presumption.[ ] pausanias records a tradition of two generations of muses; the first are the daughters of ouranos and gaia, the second of zeus and mnemosyne. another, rarer genealogy is that they are daughters of harmonia (the daughter of aphrodite and ares), which contradicts the myth in which they were dancing at the wedding of harmonia and cadmus. children[edit] 	 	this section does not cite any sources. please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (march ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) calliope had ialemus and orpheus with apollo. but according to a variation, the father of orpheus was actually oeagrus, but apollo adopted the boy and taught him the skill of lyre. calliope trained him in singing. linus was said[by whom?] to have been the son of apollo and one of the muses, either calliope or terpsichore or urania. rhesus was the son of strymon and calliope or euterpe. the sirens were the children of achelous and melpomene or terpsichore. kleopheme was the daughter of erato and malos. hyacinthus was the son of clio, according to an unpopular account. hymenaeus was assigned as apollo's son by one of the muses, either calliope, or clio, or terpsichore, or urania. corybantes were the children of thalia and apollo. cult[edit] the muses had several temples and shrines in ancient greece, their two main cult centres being mount helikon in boiotia and pieria in makedonia. strabo wrote: 	"helikon, not far distant from parnassos, rivals it both in height and in circuit; for both are rocky and covered with snow, and their circuit comprises no large extent of territory. here are the temple of the mousai and hippukrene and the cave of the nymphai called the leibethrides; and from this fact one might infer that those who consecrated helikon to the mousai were thrakians, the same who dedicated pieris and leibethron and pimpleia [in pieria] to the same goddesses. the thrakians used to be called pieres, but, now that they have disappeared, the makedonians hold these places."[ ] the cult of the muses was also commonly connected to that of apollo. emblems[edit] polyhymnia, the muse of sacred poetry, sacred hymn and eloquence as well as agriculture and pantomime. 	muse 	domain 	emblem 	calliope 	epic poetry 	writing tablet, stylus, lyre 	clio 	history 	scrolls, books, cornett, laurel wreath 	erato 	love poetry 	cithara (an ancient greek musical instrument in the lyre family) 	euterpe 	music, song, and lyric poetry 	aulos (an ancient greek musical instrument like a flute), panpipes, laurel wreath 	melpomene 	tragedy 	tragic mask, sword (or any kind of blade), club, kothornos (boots) 	polyhymnia 	hymns 	veil, grapes (referring to her as an agricultural goddess) 	terpsichore 	dance 	lyre, plectrum 	thalia 	comedy 	comic mask, shepherd's crook (the vaudeville act of pulling someone off the stage with a hook is a reference to thalia's crook), ivy wreath 	urania 	astronomy (christian poetry in later times) 	globe and compass some greek writers give the names of the nine muses as kallichore, helike, eunike, thelxinoë, terpsichore, euterpe, eukelade, dia, and enope.[ ] in renaissance and neoclassical art, the dissemination of emblem books such as cesare ripa's iconologia ( and many further editions) helped standardize the depiction of the muses in sculpture and painting, so they could be distinguished by certain props. these props, or emblems, became readily identifiable by the viewer, enabling one immediately to recognize the muse and the art with which she had become associated. here again, calliope (epic poetry) carries a writing tablet; clio (history) carries a scroll and books; euterpe (song and elegiac poetry) carries a flute, the aulos; erato (lyric poetry) is often seen with a lyre and a crown of roses; melpomene (tragedy) is often seen with a tragic mask; polyhymnia (sacred poetry) is often seen with a pensive expression; terpsichore (choral dance and song) is often seen dancing and carrying a lyre; thalia (comedy) is often seen with a comic mask; and urania (astronomy) carries a pair of compasses and the celestial globe. functions[edit] in society[edit] the muses clio, euterpe, and thalia, by eustache le sueur, c. - the greek word mousa is a common noun as well as a type of goddess: it literally means "art" or "poetry". according to pindar, to "carry a mousa" is "to excel in the arts". the word derives from the indo-european root men-, which is also the source of greek mnemosyne and mania, english "mind", "mental" and "monitor", sanskrit mantra and avestan mazda.[ ] the muses melpomene, erato, and polyhymnia, by eustache le sueur, c. - the muses, therefore, were both the embodiments and sponsors of performed metrical speech: mousike (whence the english term "music") was just "one of the arts of the muses". others included science, geography, mathematics, philosophy, and especially art, drama, and inspiration. in the archaic period, before the widespread availability of books (scrolls), this included nearly all of learning. the first greek book on astronomy, by thales, took the form of dactylic hexameters, as did many works of pre-socratic philosophy. both plato and the pythagoreans explicitly included philosophy as a sub-species of mousike.[ ] the histories of herodotus, whose primary medium of delivery was public recitation, were divided by alexandrian editors into nine books, named after the nine muses. for poet and "law-giver" solon,[ ] the muses were "the key to the good life"; since they brought both prosperity and friendship. solon sought to perpetuate his political reforms by establishing recitations of his poetry—complete with invocations to his practical-minded muses—by athenian boys at festivals each year. he believed that the muses would help inspire people to do their best. in literature[edit] melpomene and polyhymnia, palacio de bellas artes, mexico ancient authors and their imitators invoke muses when writing poetry, hymns or epic history. the invocation occurs near the beginning of their work. it asks for help or inspiration from the muses, or simply invites the muse to sing directly through the author. originally, the invocation of the muse was an indication that the speaker was working inside the poetic tradition, according to the established formulas. for example: sing to me of the man, muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of troy. 	—homer, in book i of the odyssey (robert fagles translation, ) o muse! the causes and the crimes relate; what goddess was provok'd, and whence her hate; for what offense the queen of heav'n began to persecute so brave, so just a man; [...] 	—virgil, in book i of the aeneid (john dryden translation, ) besides homer and virgil, other famous works that included an invocation of the muse are the first of the carmina by catullus, ovid's metamorphoses and amores, dante's inferno (canto ii), chaucer's troilus and criseyde (book ii), shakespeare's henry v (act , prologue), his th sonnet, and milton's paradise lost (openings of books and ). in cults and modern museums[edit] the car of history, a chariot clock by carlo franzoni, , depicting clio (housed in the national statuary hall collection of the united states capitol) when pythagoras arrived at croton, his first advice to the crotoniates was to build a shrine to the muses at the center of the city, to promote civic harmony and learning. local cults of the muses often became associated with springs or with fountains. the muses themselves were sometimes called aganippids because of their association with a fountain called aganippe. other fountains, hippocrene and pirene, were also important locations associated with the muses. some sources occasionally referred to the muses as "corycides" (or "corycian nymphs") after a cave on mount parnassos, called the corycian cave. pausanias referred to the muses by the surnames "ardalides" or "ardaliotides", because of a sanctuary to them at troezen said to have been built by the mythical ardalus. the muses were venerated especially in boeotia, in the valley of the muses near helicon, and in delphi and the parnassus, where apollo became known as mousagetes ("muse-leader") after the sites were rededicated to his cult. often muse-worship was associated with the hero-cults of poets: the tombs of archilochus on thasos and of hesiod and thamyris in boeotia all played host to festivals in which poetic recitations accompanied sacrifices to the muses. the library of alexandria and its circle of scholars formed around a mousaion (i.e., "museum" or shrine of the muses) close to the tomb of alexander the great. many enlightenment figures sought to re-establish a "cult of the muses" in the th century. a famous masonic lodge in pre-revolutionary paris was called les neuf soeurs ("the nine sisters", that is, the nine muses); voltaire, benjamin franklin, danton, and other influential enlightenment figures attended it. as a side-effect of this movement the word "museum" (originally, "cult place of the muses") came to refer to a place for the public display of knowledge. in modern art, film, literature[edit] the muses are explicitly used in modern english to refer to an artistic inspiration, as when one cites one's own artistic muse, and also implicit in words and phrases such as "amuse", "museum" (latinised from mouseion—a place where the muses were worshipped), "music", and "musing upon".[ ] in current literature, the influential role that the muse plays has been extended to the political sphere.[ ] places named after the muses[edit] in new orleans, louisiana, there are streets named for all nine muses. it is commonly held that the local pronunciation of the names has been colorfully anglicized in an unusual manner by the "yat" dialect. the pronunciations are actually in line with the french, spanish and creole roots of the city.[ ] gallery[edit] 	 			 			 terpsichore 			 		 	 			 			 erato 			 		 	 			 			 clio 			 		 	 			 			 thalia 			 		 	 			 			 polyhymnia 			 		 	 			 			 calliope 			 		 	 			 			 apollo and the muses 			 		 	 			 			 euterpe 			 		 	 			 			 parnassus 			 		 	 			 			 urania and melpomene 			 		 see also[edit] 	apsara 	artistic inspiration 	divine inspiration 	leibethra 	pimpleia 	saraswati 	muses in popular culture references[edit] 	^ "muse". the merriam-webster online dictionary. retrieved february , . 	^ "clio". lib.ugent.be. retrieved - - . 	^ west , p.  . 	^ * a. b. cook ( ), zeus: a study in ancient religion, vol. i, p. , cambridge university press. 	^ r. s. p. beekes, etymological dictionary of greek, brill, , p. . 	^ h. munro chadwick, nora k. chadwick ( ). "the growth of literature". cambridge university press. isbn  . 	^ at least, this was reported to pausanias in the second century ad. cfr. karl kerényi: the gods of the greeks, thames & hudson, london , p. and note . 	^ diodorus siculus, . . – (on-line text) 	^ see also the italian article on this writer. 	^ diodorus, plutarch and pausanias are all noted by susan scheinberg, in reporting other hellenic maiden triads, in "the bee maidens of the homeric hymn to hermes", harvard studies in classical philology, ( : – ), p. . 	^ pausanias, description of greece . . . 	^ pausanias, description of greece . . 	^ plutarch symposium . 	^ eumelus fr. as cited from tzetzes on hesiod, 	^ cicero, de natura deorum . , epicharmis, tzetzes on hes. 	^ epicharmis, tzetzes on hes. 	^ smith, william; dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology, london ( ). "musae" . 	^ collective work by scholars and expertise ( ). Επιστήμη & Ζωή (printed edition). greece: chatziakovou s.a. pp. vol. , p. . 	^ "elysium gates - historical pegasus". archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - . 	^ ovid, heroides . : "the daughters of pegasus" in the english translation; propertius, poems . . : "pegasid muses" in the english translation. 	^ for example, plato, laws d. 	^ ovid, metamorphoses . – : "now their previous eloquence also remained in the birds, as well as their strident chattering and their great zeal for speaking." see also antoninus liberalis . 	^ strabo, geography . . (trans. jones) 	^ tzetzes, scholia in hesiodi opera , 	^ calvert watkins, ed., the american heritage dictionary of indo-european roots, d ed., p. . 	^ strabo . . . 	^ solon, fragment . 	^ oed derives "amuse" from french a- ("from") and muser, "to stare stupidly or distractedly". 	^ sorkin, adam j. ( ) politics and the muse. studies in the politics of recent american literature. bowling green state university popular press, bowling green oh. 	^ nola.com. "how to pronounce new orleans muses streets" – via youtube. bibliography[edit] 	west, martin l. ( ). indo-european poetry and myth. oxford university press. isbn  - - - - . 	chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "muses, the" . encyclopædia britannica. 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first roman emperor. for other uses, see augustus (title), augustus (disambiguation), and octavian (disambiguation). princeps civitatis 	augustus 	princeps civitatis 	augustus of prima porta, st century 	roman emperor 	reign	 january bc – august ad 	predecessor	empire established 	successor	tiberius 	 	born	gaius octavius september bc rome, italy, roman republic 	died	 august ad (aged ) nola, italy, roman empire 	burial	mausoleum of augustus, rome 	spouse	 	claudia ( – bc; divorce) 	scribonia ( – bc; divorce) 	livia ( bc–ad ; his death) 	issue		julia the elder 	gaius caesar (adopted) 	lucius caesar (adopted) 	agrippa postumus (adopted) 	tiberius (adopted) 		regnal name 	imperator caesar divi filius augustus 	dynasty	julio-claudian 	father		gaius octavius 	julius caesar (adoptive) 	mother	atia balba caesonia bust of augustus wearing the civic crown, at glyptothek, munich caesar augustus ( september bc – august ad ) was the first roman emperor, reigning from  bc until his death in ad  .[nb ] his status as the founder of the roman principate (the first phase of the roman empire) has consolidated an enduring legacy as one of the most effective and controversial leaders in human history.[ ][ ] the reign of augustus initiated an era of relative peace known as the pax romana. the roman world was largely free from large-scale conflict for more than two centuries, despite continuous wars of imperial expansion on the empire's frontiers and the year-long civil war known as the "year of the four emperors" over the imperial succession. augustus was born gaius octavius into an old and wealthy equestrian branch of the plebeian gens octavia. his maternal great-uncle julius caesar was assassinated in bc, and octavius was named in caesar's will as his adopted son and heir. afterwards, octavius took the name gaius julius caesar and was called octavianus. he, mark antony, and marcus lepidus formed the second triumvirate to defeat the assassins of caesar. following their victory at the battle of philippi ( bc), the triumvirate divided the roman republic among themselves and ruled as de facto dictators. the triumvirate was eventually torn apart by the competing ambitions of its members; lepidus was exiled in bc, and antony was defeated by octavian at the battle of actium in bc. after the demise of the second triumvirate, augustus restored the outward façade of the free republic, with governmental power vested in the roman senate, the executive magistrates, and the legislative assemblies. in reality, however, he retained his autocratic power—with the senate granting him lifetime powers of supreme military command, tribune, and censor. augustus rejected monarchical titles, and instead called himself princeps civitatis ("first citizen"). augustus dramatically enlarged the empire, annexing egypt, dalmatia, pannonia, noricum, and raetia, expanding possessions in africa, and completing the conquest of hispania, but suffered a major setback in germania. beyond the frontiers, he secured the empire with a buffer region of client states and made peace with the parthian empire through diplomacy. he reformed the roman system of taxation, developed networks of roads with an official courier system, established a standing army, established the praetorian guard, created official police and fire-fighting services for rome, and rebuilt much of the city during his reign. augustus died in ad at the age of , probably from natural causes. however, there were unconfirmed rumors that his wife livia poisoned him. he was succeeded as emperor by his adopted son tiberius (also stepson and former son-in-law). contents 	 name 	 early life 	 rise to power 	 . heir to caesar 	 . growing tensions 	 . first conflict with antony 	 . second triumvirate 	 . . proscriptions 	 . . battle of philippi and division of territory 	 . . rebellion and marriage alliances 	 . . war with pompeius 	 . . war with antony and cleopatra 	 sole ruler of rome 	 . first settlement 	 . change to augustus 	 . second settlement 	 . primary reasons for the second settlement 	 . additional powers 	 . conspiracy 	 . stability and staying power 	 war and expansion 	 death and succession 	 legacy 	 . revenue reforms 	 . month of august 	 . building projects 	 physical appearance and official images 	 see also 	 references 	 . notes 	 . citations 	 . works cited 	 further reading 	 external links 	 . primary sources 	 . secondary source material name as a consequence of roman customs, society, and personal preference, augustus (/ɔːˈɡʌstəs/)(aw-gust-əs) was known by many names throughout his life: 	gaius octavius (/ɒkˈteɪviəs/ ok-tay-vee-əs, latin: [ˈɡaː.jʊs ɔkˈtaː.wi.us]): he received his birth name, after his biological father, in bc. "gaius" was his praenomen, while "octavius" was his nomen. he did not yet receive a cognomen at birth since his father appears to have lacked or eschewed one, which would normally be inherited. 	gaius octavius thurinus: he was given the cognomen "thurinus" in bc, when he was a few years old.[ ][ ] later, after he had taken the name of caesar, his rival mark antony referred to him as "thurinus" in order to belittle him. in response, he merely said he was surprised that "using his old name was thought to be an insult".[ ][ ] 	gaius julius caesar: after he was adopted by julius caesar, he adopted caesar's name in accordance with roman naming conventions.[ ] while he dropped all references to the gens octavia, people colloquially added the epithet octavianus (latin: [ɔktaːwɪˈaːnʊs]) to his legal name, either to differentiate him from his adoptive father or to highlight his more modest origins. modern english language historians refer to him using the anglicized form "octavian" (/ɒkˈteɪviən/ ok-tay-vee-ən) to the period between bc and bc, rather than "gaius julius caesar", as he was officially called, mainly to avoid possible confusion with julius caesar.[ ] 	gaius julius caesar divi filius: two years after his adoption, he founded the temple of caesar additionally adding the title divi filius ("son of the divine") to his name in attempt to strengthen his political ties to caesar's former soldiers, following the deification of caesar.[ ] 	imperator caesar divi filius: from bc, octavian opted to use imperator, the title by which troops hailed their leader after military success. his name is roughly translated as "commander caesar, son of the divine". 	imperator caesar divi filius augustus (latin: [ɪmpɛˈraːtɔr ˈkae̯sar ˈdiːwiː ˈfiːlɪ.ʊs au̯ˈɡʊstʊs]): following his bc defeat of mark antony and cleopatra, partly on his own insistence, on january bc the roman senate granted him the additional name "augustus".[ ][ ] historians use this name to refer to him from bc until his death in ad .[ ] early life main article: early life of augustus while his paternal family was from the volscian town of velletri, approximately kilometres (  mi) to the south-east of rome, augustus was born in the city of rome on september  bc.[ ] he was born at ox head, a small property on the palatine hill, very close to the roman forum. he was given the name gaius octavius thurinus, his cognomen possibly commemorating his father's victory at thurii over a rebellious band of slaves which occurred a few years after his birth.[ ][ ] suetonius wrote: "there are many indications that the octavian family was in days of old a distinguished one at velitrae; for not only was a street in the most frequented part of town long ago called octavian, but an altar was shown there besides, consecrated by an octavius. this man was leader in a war with a neighbouring town ..." [ ] due to the crowded nature of rome at the time, octavius was taken to his father's home village at velletri to be raised. octavius mentions his father's equestrian family only briefly in his memoirs. his paternal great-grandfather gaius octavius was a military tribune in sicily during the second punic war. his grandfather had served in several local political offices. his father, also named gaius octavius, had been governor of macedonia. his mother, atia, was the niece of julius caesar.[ ][ ] a denarius from bc, showing julius caesar on the obverse and the goddess venus on the reverse of the coin. caption: caesar imp. m. / l. aemilivs bvca in  bc, when he was four years old, his father died.[ ] his mother married a former governor of syria, lucius marcius philippus.[ ] philippus claimed descent from alexander the great, and was elected consul in  bc. philippus never had much of an interest in young octavius. because of this, octavius was raised by his grandmother, julia, the sister of julius caesar. julia died in or  bc, and octavius delivered the funeral oration for his grandmother.[ ][ ] from this point, his mother and stepfather took a more active role in raising him. he donned the toga virilis four years later,[ ] and was elected to the college of pontiffs in  bc.[ ][ ] the following year he was put in charge of the greek games that were staged in honor of the temple of venus genetrix, built by julius caesar.[ ] according to nicolaus of damascus, octavius wished to join caesar's staff for his campaign in africa, but gave way when his mother protested.[ ] in  bc, she consented for him to join caesar in hispania, where he planned to fight the forces of pompey, caesar's late enemy, but octavius fell ill and was unable to travel. when he had recovered, he sailed to the front, but was shipwrecked; after coming ashore with a handful of companions, he crossed hostile territory to caesar's camp, which impressed his great-uncle considerably.[ ] velleius paterculus reports that after that time, caesar allowed the young man to share his carriage.[ ] when back in rome, caesar deposited a new will with the vestal virgins, naming octavius as the prime beneficiary.[ ] rise to power heir to caesar the death of caesar, by jean-léon gérôme ( ). on march  bc, octavius's adoptive father julius caesar was assassinated by a conspiracy led by marcus junius brutus and gaius cassius longinus. walters art museum, baltimore. octavius was studying and undergoing military training in apollonia, illyria, when julius caesar was killed on the ides of march ( march)  bc. he rejected the advice of some army officers to take refuge with the troops in macedonia and sailed to italy to ascertain whether he had any potential political fortunes or security.[ ] caesar had no living legitimate children under roman law,[nb ] and so had adopted octavius, his grand-nephew, making him his primary heir.[ ] mark antony later charged that octavian had earned his adoption by caesar through sexual favours, though suetonius describes antony's accusation as political slander.[ ] this form of slander was popular during this time in the roman republic to demean and discredit political opponents by accusing them of having an inappropriate sexual affair.[ ][ ] after landing at lupiae near brundisium, octavius learned the contents of caesar's will, and only then did he decide to become caesar's political heir as well as heir to two-thirds of his estate.[ ][ ][ ] upon his adoption, octavius assumed his great-uncle's name gaius julius caesar. roman citizens adopted into a new family usually retained their old nomen in cognomen form (e.g., octavianus for one who had been an octavius, aemilianus for one who had been an aemilius, etc.). however, though some of his contemporaries did,[ ] there is no evidence that octavius ever himself officially used the name octavianus, as it would have made his modest origins too obvious.[ ][ ][ ] historians usually refer to the new caesar as octavian during the time between his adoption and his assumption of the name augustus in  bc in order to avoid confusing the dead dictator with his heir.[ ] octavian could not rely on his limited funds to make a successful entry into the upper echelons of the roman political hierarchy.[ ] after a warm welcome by caesar's soldiers at brundisium,[ ] octavian demanded a portion of the funds that were allotted by caesar for the intended war against the parthian empire in the middle east.[ ] this amounted to  million sesterces stored at brundisium, the staging ground in italy for military operations in the east.[ ] a later senatorial investigation into the disappearance of the public funds took no action against octavian, since he subsequently used that money to raise troops against the senate's arch enemy mark antony.[ ] octavian made another bold move in  bc when, without official permission, he appropriated the annual tribute that had been sent from rome's near eastern province to italy.[ ][ ] octavian began to bolster his personal forces with caesar's veteran legionaries and with troops designated for the parthian war, gathering support by emphasizing his status as heir to caesar.[ ][ ] on his march to rome through italy, octavian's presence and newly acquired funds attracted many, winning over caesar's former veterans stationed in campania.[ ] by june, he had gathered an army of , loyal veterans, paying each a salary of denarii.[ ][ ][ ] growing tensions a reconstructed statue of augustus as a younger octavian, dated ca. bc arriving in rome on may  bc, octavian found consul mark antony, caesar's former colleague, in an uneasy truce with the dictator's assassins. they had been granted a general amnesty on march, yet antony had succeeded in driving most of them out of rome with an inflammatory eulogy at caesar's funeral, mounting public opinion against the assassins.[ ] mark antony was amassing political support, but octavian still had opportunity to rival him as the leading member of the faction supporting caesar. mark antony had lost the support of many romans and supporters of caesar when he initially opposed the motion to elevate caesar to divine status.[ ] octavian failed to persuade antony to relinquish caesar's money to him. during the summer, he managed to win support from caesarian sympathizers and also made common with the optimates, the former enemies of caesar, who saw him as the lesser evil and hoped to manipulate him.[ ] in september, the leading optimate orator marcus tullius cicero began to attack antony in a series of speeches portraying him as a threat to the republican order.[ ][ ] first conflict with antony bust of augustus in musei capitolini, rome with opinion in rome turning against him and his year of consular power nearing its end, antony attempted to pass laws that would assign him the province of cisalpine gaul.[ ][ ] octavian meanwhile built up a private army in italy by recruiting caesarian veterans and, on november, he won over two of antony's legions with the enticing offer of monetary gain.[ ][ ][ ] in the face of octavian's large and capable force, antony saw the danger of staying in rome and, to the relief of the senate, he left rome for cisalpine gaul, which was to be handed to him on january.[ ] however, the province had earlier been assigned to decimus junius brutus albinus, one of caesar's assassins, who now refused to yield to antony. antony besieged him at mutina[ ] and rejected the resolutions passed by the senate to stop the fighting. the senate had no army to enforce their resolutions. this provided an opportunity for octavian, who already was known to have armed forces.[ ] cicero also defended octavian against antony's taunts about octavian's lack of noble lineage and aping of julius caesar's name, stating "we have no more brilliant example of traditional piety among our youth."[ ] at the urging of cicero, the senate inducted octavian as senator on january  bc, yet he also was given the power to vote alongside the former consuls.[ ][ ] in addition, octavian was granted propraetor imperium (commanding power) which legalized his command of troops, sending him to relieve the siege along with hirtius and pansa (the consuls for  bc).[ ][ ] in april  bc, antony's forces were defeated at the battles of forum gallorum and mutina, forcing antony to retreat to transalpine gaul. both consuls were killed, however, leaving octavian in sole command of their armies.[ ][ ] the senate heaped many more rewards on decimus brutus than on octavian for defeating antony, then attempted to give command of the consular legions to decimus brutus.[ ] in response, octavian stayed in the po valley and refused to aid any further offensive against antony.[ ] in july, an embassy of centurions sent by octavian entered rome and demanded the consulship left vacant by hirtius and pansa[ ] and also that the decree should be rescinded which declared antony a public enemy.[ ] when this was refused, he marched on the city with eight legions.[ ] he encountered no military opposition in rome, and on august  bc was elected consul with his relative quintus pedius as co-consul.[ ][ ] meanwhile, antony formed an alliance with marcus aemilius lepidus, another leading caesarian.[ ] second triumvirate proscriptions roman aureus bearing the portraits of mark antony (left) and octavian (right), issued in  bc to celebrate the establishment of the second triumvirate by octavian, antony and marcus lepidus in  bc. both sides bear the inscription "iii vir r p c", meaning "one of three men for the regulation of the republic". caption: m. ant. imp. avg. iii vir rpc m. barbat. q. p. / caesar imp. pont. iii vir prc. the m. barbatius pollio was a moneyer[ ] in a meeting near bologna in october  bc, octavian, antony, and lepidus formed the second triumvirate.[ ] this explicit arrogation of special powers lasting five years was then legalised by law passed by the plebs, unlike the unofficial first triumvirate formed by pompey, julius caesar, and marcus licinius crassus.[ ][ ] the triumvirs then set in motion proscriptions, in which between and senators[nb ] and , equites were branded as outlaws and deprived of their property and, for those who failed to escape, their lives.[ ] this decree issued by the triumvirate was motivated in part by a need to raise money to pay the salaries of their troops for the upcoming conflict against caesar's assassins, marcus junius brutus and gaius cassius longinus.[ ] rewards for their arrest gave incentive for romans to capture those proscribed, while the assets and properties of those arrested were seized by the triumvirs.[ ] contemporary roman historians provide conflicting reports as to which triumvir was most responsible for the proscriptions and killing. however, the sources agree that enacting the proscriptions was a means by all three factions to eliminate political enemies.[ ] marcus velleius paterculus asserted that octavian tried to avoid proscribing officials whereas lepidus and antony were to blame for initiating them. cassius dio defended octavian as trying to spare as many as possible, whereas antony and lepidus, being older and involved in politics longer, had many more enemies to deal with.[ ] this claim was rejected by appian, who maintained that octavian shared an equal interest with lepidus and antony in eradicating his enemies.[ ] suetonius said that octavian was reluctant to proscribe officials, but did pursue his enemies with more vigor than the other triumvirs.[ ] plutarch described the proscriptions as a ruthless and cutthroat swapping of friends and family among antony, lepidus, and octavian. for example, octavian allowed the proscription of his ally cicero, antony the proscription of his maternal uncle lucius julius caesar (the consul of bc), and lepidus his brother paullus.[ ] a denarius minted c.  bc. obverse: caesar avgvstvs; reverse: comet of eight rays with tail upward; divvs ivliv[s] (divine julius). battle of philippi and division of territory further information: liberators' civil war on january  bc, the senate posthumously recognized julius caesar as a divinity of the roman state, divus iulius. octavian was able to further his cause by emphasizing the fact that he was divi filius, "son of the divine".[ ] antony and octavian then sent legions by sea to face the armies of brutus and cassius, who had built their base of power in greece.[ ] after two battles at philippi in macedonia in october , the caesarian army was victorious and brutus and cassius committed suicide. mark antony later used the examples of these battles as a means to belittle octavian, as both battles were decisively won with the use of antony's forces. in addition to claiming responsibility for both victories, antony also branded octavian as a coward for handing over his direct military control to marcus vipsanius agrippa instead.[ ] after philippi, a new territorial arrangement was made among the members of the second triumvirate. gaul and the province of hispania were placed in the hands of octavian. antony traveled east to egypt where he allied himself with queen cleopatra vii, the former lover of julius caesar and mother of caesar's infant son caesarion. lepidus was left with the province of africa, stymied by antony, who conceded hispania to octavian instead.[ ] octavian was left to decide where in italy to settle the tens of thousands of veterans of the macedonian campaign, whom the triumvirs had promised to discharge. the tens of thousands who had fought on the republican side with brutus and cassius could easily ally with a political opponent of octavian if not appeased, and they also required land.[ ] there was no more government-controlled land to allot as settlements for their soldiers, so octavian had to choose one of two options: alienating many roman citizens by confiscating their land, or alienating many roman soldiers who could mount a considerable opposition against him in the roman heartland. octavian chose the former.[ ] there were as many as eighteen roman towns affected by the new settlements, with entire populations driven out or at least given partial evictions.[ ] rebellion and marriage alliances there was widespread dissatisfaction with octavian over these settlements of his soldiers, and this encouraged many to rally at the side of lucius antonius, who was brother of mark antony and supported by a majority in the senate. meanwhile, octavian asked for a divorce from claudia, the daughter of fulvia (mark antony's wife) and her first husband publius clodius pulcher. he returned claudia to her mother, claiming that their marriage had never been consummated. fulvia decided to take action. together with lucius antonius, she raised an army in italy to fight for antony's rights against octavian. lucius and fulvia took a political and martial gamble in opposing octavian, however, since the roman army still depended on the triumvirs for their salaries. lucius and his allies ended up in a defensive siege at perusia (modern perugia), where octavian forced them into surrender in early  bc.[ ] fresco paintings inside the house of augustus, his residence during his reign as emperor. lucius and his army were spared, due to his kinship with antony, the strongman of the east, while fulvia was exiled to sicyon.[ ] octavian showed no mercy, however, for the mass of allies loyal to lucius; on march, the anniversary of julius caesar's assassination, he had roman senators and equestrians executed for allying with lucius.[ ] perusia also was pillaged and burned as a warning for others.[ ] this bloody event sullied octavian's reputation and was criticized by many, such as augustan poet sextus propertius.[ ] sextus pompeius, the son of pompey and still a renegade general following julius caesar's victory over his father, had established himself in sicily and sardinia as part of an agreement reached with the second triumvirate in  bc.[ ] both antony and octavian were vying for an alliance with pompeius. octavian succeeded in a temporary alliance in  bc when he married scribonia, a sister or daughter of pompeius's father-in-law lucius scribonius libo. scribonia gave birth to octavian's only natural child, julia, the same day that he divorced her to marry livia drusilla, little more than a year after their marriage.[ ] while in egypt, antony had been engaged in an affair with cleopatra and had fathered twin children with her.[nb ] aware of his deteriorating relationship with octavian, antony left cleopatra; he sailed to italy in  bc with a large force to oppose octavian, laying siege to brundisium. this new conflict proved untenable for both octavian and antony, however. their centurions, who had become important figures politically, refused to fight due to their caesarian cause, while the legions under their command followed suit. meanwhile, in sicyon, antony's wife fulvia died of a sudden illness while antony was en route to meet her. fulvia's death and the mutiny of their centurions allowed the two remaining triumvirs to effect a reconciliation.[ ][ ] a roman marble portrait bust of mark antony, made during the flavian dynasty ( – ad), vatican museums in the autumn of , octavian and antony approved the treaty of brundisium, by which lepidus would remain in africa, antony in the east, octavian in the west. the italian peninsula was left open to all for the recruitment of soldiers, but in reality, this provision was useless for antony in the east. to further cement relations of alliance with mark antony, octavian gave his sister, octavia minor, in marriage to antony in late  bc.[ ] war with pompeius further information: sicilian revolt a denarius of sextus pompeius, minted for his victory over octavian's fleet. obverse: the place where he defeated octavian, pharus of messina decorated with a statue of neptune; before that galley adorned with aquila, sceptre & trident; mag. pivs imp. iter. reverse, the monster scylla, her torso of dogs and fish tails, wielding a rudder as a club. caption: praef[ectus] clas[sis] et orae marit[imae] ex s. c. sextus pompeius threatened octavian in italy by denying shipments of grain through the mediterranean sea to the peninsula. pompeius's own son was put in charge as naval commander in the effort to cause widespread famine in italy.[ ] pompeius's control over the sea prompted him to take on the name neptuni filius, "son of neptune".[ ] a temporary peace agreement was reached in  bc with the treaty of misenum; the blockade on italy was lifted once octavian granted pompeius sardinia, corsica, sicily, and the peloponnese, and ensured him a future position as consul for  bc.[ ][ ] the territorial agreement between the triumvirate and sextus pompeius began to crumble once octavian divorced scribonia and married livia on january  bc.[ ] one of pompeius's naval commanders betrayed him and handed over corsica and sardinia to octavian. octavian lacked the resources to confront pompeius alone, however, so an agreement was reached with the second triumvirate's extension for another five-year period beginning in  bc.[ ][ ] in supporting octavian, antony expected to gain support for his own campaign against the parthian empire, desiring to avenge rome's defeat at carrhae in  bc.[ ] in an agreement reached at tarentum, antony provided ships for octavian to use against pompeius, while octavian was to send , legionaries to antony for use against parthia. octavian sent only a tenth of those promised, however, which antony viewed as an intentional provocation.[ ] octavian and lepidus launched a joint operation against sextus in sicily in  bc.[ ] despite setbacks for octavian, the naval fleet of sextus pompeius was almost entirely destroyed on september by general agrippa at the naval battle of naulochus. sextus fled to the east with his remaining forces, where he was captured and executed in miletus by one of antony's generals the following year. as lepidus and octavian accepted the surrender of pompeius's troops, lepidus attempted to claim sicily for himself, ordering octavian to leave. lepidus's troops deserted him, however, and defected to octavian since they were weary of fighting and were enticed by octavian's promises of money.[ ] lepidus surrendered to octavian and was permitted to retain the office of pontifex maximus (head of the college of priests), but was ejected from the triumvirate, his public career at an end, and effectively was exiled to a villa at cape circei in italy.[ ][ ] the roman dominions were now divided between octavian in the west and antony in the east. octavian ensured rome's citizens of their rights to property in order to maintain peace and stability in his portion of the empire. this time, he settled his discharged soldiers outside of italy, while also returning , slaves to their former roman owners—slaves who had fled to join pompeius's army and navy.[ ] octavian had the senate grant him, his wife, and his sister tribunal immunity, or sacrosanctitas, in order to ensure his own safety and that of livia and octavia once he returned to rome.[ ] war with antony and cleopatra main article: final war of the roman republic further information: early life of cleopatra, reign of cleopatra, and death of cleopatra anthony and cleopatra, by lawrence alma-tadema the battle of actium, by laureys a castro, painted , national maritime museum, london. meanwhile, antony's campaign turned disastrous against parthia, tarnishing his image as a leader, and the mere , legionaries sent by octavian to antony were hardly enough to replenish his forces.[ ] on the other hand, cleopatra could restore his army to full strength; he already was engaged in a romantic affair with her, so he decided to send octavia back to rome.[ ] octavian used this to spread propaganda implying that antony was becoming less than roman because he rejected a legitimate roman spouse for an "oriental paramour".[ ] in  bc, octavian used a political ploy to make himself look less autocratic and antony more the villain by proclaiming that the civil wars were coming to an end, and that he would step down as triumvir—if only antony would do the same. antony refused.[ ] roman troops captured the kingdom of armenia in  bc, and antony made his son alexander helios the ruler of armenia. he also awarded the title "queen of kings" to cleopatra, acts that octavian used to convince the roman senate that antony had ambitions to diminish the preeminence of rome.[ ] octavian became consul once again on january  bc, and he opened the following session in the senate with a vehement attack on antony's grants of titles and territories to his relatives and to his queen.[ ] the breach between antony and octavian prompted a large portion of the senators, as well as both of that year's consuls, to leave rome and defect to antony. however, octavian received two key deserters from antony in the autumn of  bc: munatius plancus and marcus titius.[ ] these defectors gave octavian the information that he needed to confirm with the senate all the accusations that he made against antony.[ ] octavian forcibly entered the temple of the vestal virgins and seized antony's secret will, which he promptly publicized. the will would have given away roman-conquered territories as kingdoms for his sons to rule, and designated alexandria as the site for a tomb for him and his queen.[ ][ ] in late  bc, the senate officially revoked antony's powers as consul and declared war on cleopatra's regime in egypt.[ ][ ] this mid- st-century-bc roman wall painting in pompeii, italy, showing venus holding a cupid is most likely a depiction of cleopatra vii of ptolemaic egypt as venus genetrix, with her son caesarion as the cupid, similar in appearance to the now lost statue of cleopatra erected by julius caesar in the temple of venus genetrix (within the forum of caesar). the owner of the house of marcus fabius rufus at pompeii walled off the room with this painting, most likely in immediate reaction to the execution of caesarion on orders of augustus in bc, when artistic depictions of caesarion would have been considered a sensitive issue for the ruling regime.[ ][ ] in early  bc, antony and cleopatra were temporarily stationed in greece when octavian gained a preliminary victory: the navy successfully ferried troops across the adriatic sea under the command of agrippa. agrippa cut off antony and cleopatra's main force from their supply routes at sea, while octavian landed on the mainland opposite the island of corcyra (modern corfu) and marched south. trapped on land and sea, deserters of antony's army fled to octavian's side daily while octavian's forces were comfortable enough to make preparations.[ ] antony's fleet sailed through the bay of actium on the western coast of greece in a desperate attempt to break free of the naval blockade. it was there that antony's fleet faced the much larger fleet of smaller, more maneuverable ships under commanders agrippa and gaius sosius in the battle of actium on september  bc.[ ] antony and his remaining forces were spared only due to a last-ditch effort by cleopatra's fleet that had been waiting nearby.[ ] aureus of octavian, circa  bc, british museum. octavian pursued them and defeated their forces in alexandria on august  bc—after which antony and cleopatra committed suicide. antony fell on his own sword and was taken by his soldiers back to alexandria where he died in cleopatra's arms. cleopatra died soon after, reputedly by the venomous bite of an asp or by poison.[ ] octavian had exploited his position as caesar's heir to further his own political career, and he was well aware of the dangers in allowing another person to do the same. he therefore followed the advice of arius didymus that "two caesars are one too many", ordering caesarion, julius caesar's son by cleopatra, killed, while sparing cleopatra's children by antony, with the exception of antony's older son.[ ][ ] octavian had previously shown little mercy to surrendered enemies and acted in ways that had proven unpopular with the roman people, yet he was given credit for pardoning many of his opponents after the battle of actium.[ ] sole ruler of rome main article: constitutional reforms of augustus further information: elections in the roman republic after actium and the defeat of antony and cleopatra, octavian was in a position to rule the entire republic under an unofficial principate[ ]—but he had to achieve this through incremental power gains. he did so by courting the senate and the people while upholding the republican traditions of rome, appearing that he was not aspiring to dictatorship or monarchy.[ ][ ] marching into rome, octavian and marcus agrippa were elected as consuls by the senate.[ ] years of civil war had left rome in a state of near lawlessness, but the republic was not prepared to accept the control of octavian as a despot. at the same time, octavian could not simply give up his authority without risking further civil wars among the roman generals and, even if he desired no position of authority whatsoever, his position demanded that he look to the well-being of the city of rome and the roman provinces. octavian's aims from this point forward were to return rome to a state of stability, traditional legality, and civility by lifting the overt political pressure imposed on the courts of law and ensuring free elections—in name at least.[ ] first settlement main articles: constitution of the roman empire and history of the constitution of the roman empire in bc, octavian made a show of returning full power to the roman senate and relinquishing his control of the roman provinces and their armies. under his consulship, however, the senate had little power in initiating legislation by introducing bills for senatorial debate. octavian was no longer in direct control of the provinces and their armies, but he retained the loyalty of active duty soldiers and veterans alike. the careers of many clients and adherents depended on his patronage, as his financial power was unrivaled in the roman republic.[ ] historian werner eck states: the sum of his power derived first of all from various powers of office delegated to him by the senate and people, secondly from his immense private fortune, and thirdly from numerous patron-client relationships he established with individuals and groups throughout the empire. all of them taken together formed the basis of his auctoritas, which he himself emphasized as the foundation of his political actions.[ ] to a large extent, the public were aware of the vast financial resources that octavian commanded. he failed to encourage enough senators to finance the building and maintenance of networks of roads in italy in bc, but he undertook direct responsibility for them. this was publicized on the roman currency issued in bc, after he donated vast amounts of money to the aerarium saturni, the public treasury.[ ] octavian as a magistrate. the statue's marble head was made c. –  bc, the body sculpted in the nd century ad (louvre, paris). according to h. h. scullard, however, octavian's power was based on the exercise of "a predominant military power and ... the ultimate sanction of his authority was force, however much the fact was disguised."[ ] the senate proposed to octavian, the victor of rome's civil wars, that he once again assume command of the provinces. the senate's proposal was a ratification of octavian's extra-constitutional power. through the senate, octavian was able to continue the appearance of a still-functional constitution. feigning reluctance, he accepted a ten-year responsibility of overseeing provinces that were considered chaotic.[ ][ ] the provinces ceded to augustus for that ten-year period comprised much of the conquered roman world, including all of hispania and gaul, syria, cilicia, cyprus, and egypt.[ ][ ] moreover, command of these provinces provided octavian with control over the majority of rome's legions.[ ][ ] while octavian acted as consul in rome, he dispatched senators to the provinces under his command as his representatives to manage provincial affairs and ensure that his orders were carried out. the provinces not under octavian's control were overseen by governors chosen by the roman senate.[ ] octavian became the most powerful political figure in the city of rome and in most of its provinces, but he did not have a monopoly on political and martial power.[ ] the senate still controlled north africa, an important regional producer of grain, as well as illyria and macedonia, two strategic regions with several legions.[ ] however, the senate had control of only five or six legions distributed among three senatorial proconsuls, compared to the twenty legions under the control of octavian, and their control of these regions did not amount to any political or military challenge to octavian.[ ][ ] the senate's control over some of the roman provinces helped maintain a republican façade for the autocratic principate. also, octavian's control of entire provinces followed republican-era precedents for the objective of securing peace and creating stability, in which such prominent romans as pompey had been granted similar military powers in times of crisis and instability.[ ] change to augustus on january  bc the senate gave octavian the new titles of augustus and princeps.[ ] augustus is from the latin word augere (meaning to increase) and can be translated as "the illustrious one". it was a title of religious authority rather than political authority. his new title of augustus was also more favorable than romulus, the previous one which he styled for himself in reference to the story of the legendary founder of rome, which symbolized a second founding of rome.[ ] the title of romulus was associated too strongly with notions of monarchy and kingship, an image that octavian tried to avoid.[ ] the title princeps senatus originally meant the member of the senate with the highest precedence,[ ] but in the case of augustus, it became an almost regnal title for a leader who was first in charge.[ ] augustus also styled himself as imperator caesar divi filius, "commander caesar son of the deified one". with this title, he boasted his familial link to deified julius caesar, and the use of imperator signified a permanent link to the roman tradition of victory. he transformed caesar, a cognomen for one branch of the julian family, into a new family line that began with him.[ ] the arch of augustus in rimini (ariminum), dedicated to augustus by the roman senate in bc, the oldest surviving roman triumphal arch augustus was granted the right to hang the corona civica above his door, the "civic crown" made from oak, and to have laurels drape his doorposts.[ ] however, he renounced flaunting insignia of power such as holding a scepter, wearing a diadem, or wearing the golden crown and purple toga of his predecessor julius caesar.[ ] if he refused to symbolize his power by donning and bearing these items on his person, the senate nonetheless awarded him with a golden shield displayed in the meeting hall of the curia, bearing the inscription virtus, pietas, clementia, iustitia—"valor, piety, clemency, and justice."[ ][ ] second settlement portraits of augustus show the emperor with idealized features by  bc, some of the un-republican implications were becoming apparent concerning the settlement of  bc. augustus's retention of an annual consulate drew attention to his de facto dominance over the roman political system, and cut in half the opportunities for others to achieve what was still nominally the preeminent position in the roman state.[ ] further, he was causing political problems by desiring to have his nephew marcus claudius marcellus follow in his footsteps and eventually assume the principate in his turn,[nb ] alienating his three greatest supporters – agrippa, maecenas, and livia.[ ] he appointed noted republican calpurnius piso (who had fought against julius caesar and supported cassius and brutus[ ]) as co-consul in  bc, after his choice aulus terentius varro murena died unexpectedly.[ ] in the late spring augustus suffered a severe illness, and on his supposed deathbed made arrangements that would ensure the continuation of the principate in some form,[ ] while allaying senators' suspicions of his anti-republicanism. augustus prepared to hand down his signet ring to his favored general agrippa. however, augustus handed over to his co-consul piso all of his official documents, an account of public finances, and authority over listed troops in the provinces while augustus's supposedly favored nephew marcellus came away empty-handed.[ ][ ] this was a surprise to many who believed augustus would have named an heir to his position as an unofficial emperor.[ ] augustus bestowed only properties and possessions to his designated heirs, as an obvious system of institutionalized imperial inheritance would have provoked resistance and hostility among the republican-minded romans fearful of monarchy.[ ] with regards to the principate, it was obvious to augustus that marcellus was not ready to take on his position;[ ] nonetheless, by giving his signet ring to agrippa, augustus intended to signal to the legions that agrippa was to be his successor, and that constitutional procedure notwithstanding, they should continue to obey agrippa.[ ] the blacas cameo showing augustus wearing a gorgoneion on a three layered sardonyx cameo, ad – soon after his bout of illness subsided, augustus gave up his consulship. the only other times augustus would serve as consul would be in the years and  bc,[ ][ ] both times to introduce his grandsons into public life.[ ] this was a clever ploy by augustus; ceasing to serve as one of two annually elected consuls allowed aspiring senators a better chance to attain the consular position, while allowing augustus to exercise wider patronage within the senatorial class.[ ] although augustus had resigned as consul, he desired to retain his consular imperium not just in his provinces but throughout the empire. this desire, as well as the marcus primus affair, led to a second compromise between him and the senate known as the second settlement.[ ] primary reasons for the second settlement the primary reasons for the second settlement were as follows. first, after augustus relinquished the annual consulship, he was no longer in an official position to rule the state, yet his dominant position remained unchanged over his roman, 'imperial' provinces where he was still a proconsul.[ ][ ] when he annually held the office of consul, he had the power to intervene with the affairs of the other provincial proconsuls appointed by the senate throughout the empire, when he deemed necessary.[ ] a second problem later arose showing the need for the second settlement in what became known as the "marcus primus affair".[ ] in late or early  bc, charges were brought against marcus primus, the former proconsul (governor) of macedonia, for waging a war without prior approval of the senate on the odrysian kingdom of thrace, whose king was a roman ally.[ ] he was defended by lucius lucinius varro murena, who told the trial that his client had received specific instructions from augustus, ordering him to attack the client state.[ ] later, primus testified that the orders came from the recently deceased marcellus.[ ] such orders, had they been given, would have been considered a breach of the senate's prerogative under the constitutional settlement of bc and its aftermath—i.e., before augustus was granted imperium proconsulare maius—as macedonia was a senatorial province under the senate's jurisdiction, not an imperial province under the authority of augustus. such an action would have ripped away the veneer of republican restoration as promoted by augustus, and exposed his fraud of merely being the first citizen, a first among equals.[ ] even worse, the involvement of marcellus provided some measure of proof that augustus's policy was to have the youth take his place as princeps, instituting a form of monarchy – accusations that had already played out.[ ] augustus as jove, holding a scepter and orb (first half of st century ad) the situation was so serious that augustus himself appeared at the trial, even though he had not been called as a witness. under oath, augustus declared that he gave no such order.[ ] murena disbelieved augustus's testimony and resented his attempt to subvert the trial by using his auctoritas. he rudely demanded to know why augustus had turned up to a trial to which he had not been called; augustus replied that he came in the public interest.[ ] although primus was found guilty, some jurors voted to acquit, meaning that not everybody believed augustus's testimony, an insult to the 'august one'.[ ] the second constitutional settlement was completed in part to allay confusion and formalize augustus's legal authority to intervene in senatorial provinces. the senate granted augustus a form of general imperium proconsulare, or proconsular imperium (power) that applied throughout the empire, not solely to his provinces. moreover, the senate augmented augustus's proconsular imperium into imperium proconsulare maius, or proconsular imperium applicable throughout the empire that was more (maius) or greater than that held by the other proconsuls. this in effect gave augustus constitutional power superior to all other proconsuls in the empire.[ ] augustus stayed in rome during the renewal process and provided veterans with lavish donations to gain their support, thereby ensuring that his status of proconsular imperium maius was renewed in  bc.[ ] additional powers during the second settlement, augustus was also granted the power of a tribune (tribunicia potestas) for life, though not the official title of tribune.[ ] for some years, augustus had been awarded tribunicia sacrosanctitas, the immunity given to a tribune of the plebs. now he decided to assume the full powers of the magistracy, renewed annually, in perpetuity. legally, it was closed to patricians, a status that augustus had acquired some years earlier when adopted by julius caesar.[ ] this power allowed him to convene the senate and people at will and lay business before them, to veto the actions of either the assembly or the senate, to preside over elections, and to speak first at any meeting.[ ][ ] also included in augustus's tribunician authority were powers usually reserved for the roman censor; these included the right to supervise public morals and scrutinize laws to ensure that they were in the public interest, as well as the ability to hold a census and determine the membership of the senate.[ ] with the powers of a censor, augustus appealed to virtues of roman patriotism by banning all attire but the classic toga while entering the forum.[ ] there was no precedent within the roman system for combining the powers of the tribune and the censor into a single position, nor was augustus ever elected to the office of censor.[ ] julius caesar had been granted similar powers, wherein he was charged with supervising the morals of the state. however, this position did not extend to the censor's ability to hold a census and determine the senate's roster. the office of the tribunus plebis began to lose its prestige due to augustus's amassing of tribunal powers, so he revived its importance by making it a mandatory appointment for any plebeian desiring the praetorship.[ ] head of augustus as pontifex maximus, roman artwork of the late augustan period, last decade of the st century bc augustus was granted sole imperium within the city of rome itself, in addition to being granted proconsular imperium maius and tribunician authority for life. traditionally, proconsuls (roman province governors) lost their proconsular "imperium" when they crossed the pomerium – the sacred boundary of rome – and entered the city. in these situations, augustus would have power as part of his tribunician authority but his constitutional imperium within the pomerium would be less than that of a serving consul. that would mean that, when he was in the city, he might not be the constitutional magistrate with the most authority. thanks to his prestige or auctoritas, his wishes would usually be obeyed, but there might be some difficulty. to fill this power vacuum, the senate voted that augustus's imperium proconsulare maius (superior proconsular power) should not lapse when he was inside the city walls. all armed forces in the city had formerly been under the control of the urban praetors and consuls, but this situation now placed them under the sole authority of augustus.[ ] in addition, the credit was given to augustus for each subsequent roman military victory after this time, because the majority of rome's armies were stationed in imperial provinces commanded by augustus through the legatus who were deputies of the princeps in the provinces. moreover, if a battle was fought in a senatorial province, augustus's proconsular imperium maius allowed him to take command of (or credit for) any major military victory. this meant that augustus was the only individual able to receive a triumph, a tradition that began with romulus, rome's first king and first triumphant general. lucius cornelius balbus was the last man outside augustus's family to receive this award, in  bc.[ ] tiberius, augustus's eldest stepson by livia, was the only other general to receive a triumph—for victories in germania in  bc.[ ] conspiracy a colossal statue of augustus from the augusteum of herculaneum, seated and wearing a laurel wreath. many of the political subtleties of the second settlement seem to have evaded the comprehension of the plebeian class, who were augustus's greatest supporters and clientele. this caused them to insist upon augustus's participation in imperial affairs from time to time. augustus failed to stand for election as consul in  bc, and fears arose once again that he was being forced from power by the aristocratic senate. in , , and  bc, the people rioted in response, and only allowed a single consul to be elected for each of those years, ostensibly to leave the other position open for augustus.[ ] likewise, there was a food shortage in rome in  bc which sparked panic, while many urban plebs called for augustus to take on dictatorial powers to personally oversee the crisis. after a theatrical display of refusal before the senate, augustus finally accepted authority over rome's grain supply "by virtue of his proconsular imperium", and ended the crisis almost immediately.[ ] it was not until ad that a food crisis of this sort prompted augustus to establish a praefectus annonae, a permanent prefect who was in charge of procuring food supplies for rome.[ ] there were some who were concerned by the expansion of powers granted to augustus by the second settlement, and this came to a head with the apparent conspiracy of fannius caepio.[ ] some time prior to september bc, a certain castricius provided augustus with information about a conspiracy led by fannius caepio.[ ] murena, the outspoken consul who defended primus in the marcus primus affair, was named among the conspirators. the conspirators were tried in absentia with tiberius acting as prosecutor; the jury found them guilty, but it was not a unanimous verdict.[ ] all the accused were sentenced to death for treason and executed as soon as they were captured—without ever giving testimony in their defence.[ ] augustus ensured that the facade of republican government continued with an effective cover-up of the events.[ ] in  bc, the senate granted augustus a form of 'general consular imperium', which was probably 'imperium consulare maius', like the proconsular powers that he received in bc. like his tribune authority, the consular powers were another instance of gaining power from offices that he did not actually hold.[ ] in addition, augustus was allowed to wear the consul's insignia in public and before the senate,[ ] as well as to sit in the symbolic chair between the two consuls and hold the fasces, an emblem of consular authority.[ ] this seems to have assuaged the populace; regardless of whether or not augustus was a consul, the importance was that he both appeared as one before the people and could exercise consular power if necessary. on march  bc, after the death of lepidus, he additionally took up the position of pontifex maximus, the high priest of the college of the pontiffs, the most important position in roman religion.[ ][ ] on february  bc, augustus was also given the title pater patriae, or "father of the country".[ ][ ] stability and staying power a final reason for the second settlement was to give the principate constitutional stability and staying power in case something happened to princeps augustus. his illness of early bc and the caepio conspiracy showed that the regime's existence hung by the thin thread of the life of one man, augustus himself, who suffered from several severe and dangerous illnesses throughout his life.[ ] if he were to die from natural causes or fall victim to assassination, rome could be subjected to another round of civil war. the memories of pharsalus, the ides of march, the proscriptions, philippi, and actium, barely twenty-five years distant, were still vivid in the minds of many citizens. proconsular imperium was conferred upon agrippa for five years, similar to augustus's power, in order to accomplish this constitutional stability. the exact nature of the grant is uncertain but it probably covered augustus's imperial provinces, east and west, perhaps lacking authority over the provinces of the senate. that came later, as did the jealously guarded tribunicia potestas.[ ] augustus's accumulation of powers was now complete. in fact, he dated his 'reign' from the completion of the second settlement, july bc.[ ] war and expansion main article: wars of augustus further information: roman–persian relations the victorious advance of hermann, depiction of the ad battle of the teutoburg forest, by peter janssen, augustus chose imperator ("victorious commander") to be his first name, since he wanted to make an emphatically clear connection between himself and the notion of victory, and consequently became known as imperator caesar divi filius augustus. by the year , augustus boasted occasions where his troops proclaimed "imperator" as his title after a successful battle. almost the entire fourth chapter in his publicly released memoirs of achievements known as the res gestae was devoted to his military victories and honors.[ ] augustus also promoted the ideal of a superior roman civilization with a task of ruling the world (to the extent to which the romans knew it), a sentiment embodied in words that the contemporary poet virgil attributes to a legendary ancestor of augustus: tu regere imperio populos, romane, memento—"roman, remember by your strength to rule the earth's peoples!"[ ] the impulse for expansionism was apparently prominent among all classes at rome, and it is accorded divine sanction by virgil's jupiter in book of the aeneid, where jupiter promises rome imperium sine fine, "sovereignty without end".[ ] by the end of his reign, the armies of augustus had conquered northern hispania (modern spain and portugal) and the alpine regions of raetia and noricum (modern switzerland, bavaria, austria, slovenia), illyricum and pannonia (modern albania, croatia, hungary, serbia, etc.), and had extended the borders of the africa province to the east and south. judea was added to the province of syria when augustus deposed herod archelaus, successor to client king herod the great ( –  bc). syria (like egypt after antony) was governed by a high prefect of the equestrian class rather than by a proconsul or legate of augustus.[ ] bust of tiberius, a successful military commander under augustus before he was designated as his heir and successor again, no military effort was needed in  bc when galatia (modern turkey) was converted to a roman province shortly after amyntas of galatia was killed by an avenging widow of a slain prince from homonada.[ ] the rebellious tribes of asturias and cantabria in modern-day spain were finally quelled in  bc, and the territory fell under the provinces of hispania and lusitania. this region proved to be a major asset in funding augustus's future military campaigns, as it was rich in mineral deposits that could be fostered in roman mining projects, especially the very rich gold deposits at las medulas.[ ] muziris in the chera kingdom of southern india, as shown in the tabula peutingeriana, with depiction of a "temple of augustus" ("templum augusti"), an illustration of indo-roman relations in the period conquering the peoples of the alps in  bc was another important victory for rome, since it provided a large territorial buffer between the roman citizens of italy and rome's enemies in germania to the north.[ ] horace dedicated an ode to the victory, while the monumental trophy of augustus near monaco was built to honor the occasion.[ ] the capture of the alpine region also served the next offensive in  bc, when tiberius began the offensive against the pannonian tribes of illyricum, and his brother nero claudius drusus moved against the germanic tribes of the eastern rhineland. both campaigns were successful, as drusus's forces reached the elbe river by  bc—though he died shortly after by falling off his horse.[ ] it was recorded that the pious tiberius walked in front of his brother's body all the way back to rome.[ ] a parthian returning an aquila, relief in the heroic cuirass of the augustus of prima porta statue to protect rome's eastern territories from the parthian empire, augustus relied on the client states of the east to act as territorial buffers and areas that could raise their own troops for defense. to ensure security of the empire's eastern flank, augustus stationed a roman army in syria, while his skilled stepson tiberius negotiated with the parthians as rome's diplomat to the east.[ ] tiberius was responsible for restoring tigranes v to the throne of the kingdom of armenia.[ ] yet arguably his greatest diplomatic achievement was negotiating with phraates iv of parthia ( –  bc) in  bc for the return of the battle standards lost by crassus in the battle of carrhae, a symbolic victory and great boost of morale for rome.[ ][ ][ ] werner eck claims that this was a great disappointment for romans seeking to avenge crassus's defeat by military means.[ ] however, maria brosius explains that augustus used the return of the standards as propaganda symbolizing the submission of parthia to rome. the event was celebrated in art such as the breastplate design on the statue augustus of prima porta and in monuments such as the temple of mars ultor ('mars the avenger') built to house the standards.[ ] parthia had always posed a threat to rome in the east, but the real battlefront was along the rhine and danube rivers.[ ] before the final fight with antony, octavian's campaigns against the tribes in dalmatia were the first step in expanding roman dominions to the danube.[ ] victory in battle was not always a permanent success, as newly conquered territories were constantly retaken by rome's enemies in germania.[ ] a prime example of roman loss in battle was the battle of teutoburg forest in ad , where three entire legions led by publius quinctilius varus were destroyed by arminius, leader of the cherusci, an apparent roman ally.[ ] augustus retaliated by dispatching tiberius and drusus to the rhineland to pacify it, which had some success although the battle of ad brought the end to roman expansion into germany.[ ] roman general germanicus took advantage of a cherusci civil war between arminius and segestes; they defeated arminius, who fled that battle of idistaviso in ad but was killed later in due to treachery.[ ] death and succession augustus in a late th-century copper engraving by giovanni battista cavalieri. from the book romanorum imperatorum effigies ( ), preserved in the municipal library of trento (italy) the illness of augustus in  bc brought the problem of succession to the forefront of political issues and the public. to ensure stability, he needed to designate an heir to his unique position in roman society and government. this was to be achieved in small, undramatic, and incremental ways that did not stir senatorial fears of monarchy. if someone was to succeed to augustus's unofficial position of power, he would have to earn it through his own publicly proven merits.[ ] some augustan historians argue that indications pointed toward his sister's son marcellus, who had been quickly married to augustus's daughter julia the elder.[ ] other historians dispute this due to augustus's will being read aloud to the senate while he was seriously ill in  bc,[ ] instead indicating a preference for marcus agrippa, who was augustus's second in charge and arguably the only one of his associates who could have controlled the legions and held the empire together.[ ] after the death of marcellus in  bc, augustus married his daughter to agrippa. this union produced five children, three sons and two daughters: gaius caesar, lucius caesar, vipsania julia, agrippina the elder, and postumus agrippa, so named because he was born after marcus agrippa died. shortly after the second settlement, agrippa was granted a five-year term of administering the eastern half of the empire with the imperium of a proconsul and the same tribunicia potestas granted to augustus (although not trumping augustus's authority), his seat of governance stationed at samos in the eastern aegean.[ ][ ] this granting of power showed augustus's favor for agrippa, but it was also a measure to please members of his caesarian party by allowing one of their members to share a considerable amount of power with him.[ ] the mausoleum of augustus augustus's intent became apparent to make gaius and lucius caesar his heirs when he adopted them as his own children.[ ] he took the consulship in and  bc so that he could personally usher them into their political careers,[ ] and they were nominated for the consulships of ad and .[ ] augustus also showed favor to his stepsons, livia's children from her first marriage nero claudius drusus germanicus (henceforth referred to as drusus) and tiberius claudius (henceforth tiberius), granting them military commands and public office, though seeming to favor drusus. after agrippa died in  bc, tiberius was ordered to divorce his own wife vipsania agrippina and marry agrippa's widow, augustus's daughter julia—as soon as a period of mourning for agrippa had ended.[ ] drusus's marriage to augustus's niece antonia was considered an unbreakable affair, whereas vipsania was "only" the daughter of the late agrippa from his first marriage.[ ] tiberius shared in augustus's tribune powers as of  bc, but shortly thereafter went into retirement, reportedly wanting no further role in politics while he exiled himself to rhodes.[ ][ ] no specific reason is known for his departure, though it could have been a combination of reasons, including a failing marriage with julia,[ ][ ] as well as a sense of envy and exclusion over augustus's apparent favouring of his young grandchildren-turned-sons gaius and lucius. (gaius and lucius joined the college of priests at an early age, were presented to spectators in a more favorable light, and were introduced to the army in gaul.)[ ][ ] after the early deaths of both lucius and gaius in ad and respectively, and the earlier death of his brother drusus (  bc), tiberius was recalled to rome in june ad , where he was adopted by augustus on the condition that he, in turn, adopt his nephew germanicus.[ ] this continued the tradition of presenting at least two generations of heirs.[ ] in that year, tiberius was also granted the powers of a tribune and proconsul, emissaries from foreign kings had to pay their respects to him, and by ad was awarded with his second triumph and equal level of imperium with that of augustus.[ ] the deified augustus hovers over tiberius and other julio-claudians in the great cameo of france the only other possible claimant as heir was postumus agrippa, who had been exiled by augustus in ad , his banishment made permanent by senatorial decree, and augustus officially disowned him. he certainly fell out of augustus's favor as an heir; the historian erich s. gruen notes various contemporary sources that state postumus agrippa was a "vulgar young man, brutal and brutish, and of depraved character".[ ] on august ad , augustus died while visiting nola where his father had died. both tacitus and cassius dio wrote that livia was rumored to have brought about augustus's death by poisoning fresh figs.[ ][ ] this element features in many modern works of historical fiction pertaining to augustus's life, but some historians view it as likely to have been a salacious fabrication made by those who had favoured postumus as heir, or other of tiberius's political enemies. livia had long been the target of similar rumors of poisoning on the behalf of her son, most or all of which are unlikely to have been true.[ ] alternatively, it is possible that livia did supply a poisoned fig (she did cultivate a variety of fig named for her that augustus is said to have enjoyed), but did so as a means of assisted suicide rather than murder. augustus's health had been in decline in the months immediately before his death, and he had made significant preparations for a smooth transition in power, having at last reluctantly settled on tiberius as his choice of heir.[ ] it is likely that augustus was not expected to return alive from nola, but it seems that his health improved once there; it has therefore been speculated that augustus and livia conspired to end his life at the anticipated time, having committed all political process to accepting tiberius, in order to not endanger that transition.[ ] augustus's famous last words were, "have i played the part well? then applaud as i exit" ("acta est fabula, plaudite")—referring to the play-acting and regal authority that he had put on as emperor. publicly, though, his last words were, "behold, i found rome of clay, and leave her to you of marble" ("marmoream se relinquere, quam latericiam accepisset"). an enormous funerary procession of mourners traveled with augustus's body from nola to rome, and on the day of his burial all public and private businesses closed for the day.[ ] tiberius and his son drusus delivered the eulogy while standing atop two rostra. augustus's body was coffin-bound and cremated on a pyre close to his mausoleum. it was proclaimed that augustus joined the company of the gods as a member of the roman pantheon.[ ] historian d. c. a. shotter states that augustus's policy of favoring the julian family line over the claudian might have afforded tiberius sufficient cause to show open disdain for augustus after the latter's death; instead, tiberius was always quick to rebuke those who criticized augustus.[ ] shotter suggests that augustus's deification obliged tiberius to suppress any open resentment that he might have harbored, coupled with tiberius's "extremely conservative" attitude towards religion.[ ] also, historian r. shaw-smith points to letters of augustus to tiberius which display affection towards tiberius and high regard for his military merits.[ ] shotter states that tiberius focused his anger and criticism on gaius asinius gallus (for marrying vipsania after augustus forced tiberius to divorce her), as well as toward the two young caesars, gaius and lucius—instead of augustus, the real architect of his divorce and imperial demotion.[ ] legacy further information: cultural depictions of augustus the virgin mary and child, the prophetess sibyl tivoli bottom left and the emperor augustus in the bottom right, from the très riches heures du duc de berry. the likeness of augustus is that of the byzantine emperor manuel ii palaiologos[ ] the augustus cameo at the center of the medieval cross of lothair augustus's reign laid the foundations of a regime that lasted, in one form or another, for nearly fifteen hundred years through the ultimate decline of the western roman empire and until the fall of constantinople in . both his adoptive surname, caesar, and his title augustus became the permanent titles of the rulers of the roman empire for fourteen centuries after his death, in use both at old rome and at new rome. in many languages, caesar became the word for emperor, as in the german kaiser and in the bulgarian and subsequently russian tsar (sometimes csar or czar). the cult of divus augustus continued until the state religion of the empire was changed to christianity in by theodosius i. consequently, there are many excellent statues and busts of the first emperor. he had composed an account of his achievements, the res gestae divi augusti, to be inscribed in bronze in front of his mausoleum.[ ] copies of the text were inscribed throughout the empire upon his death.[ ] the inscriptions in latin featured translations in greek beside it, and were inscribed on many public edifices, such as the temple in ankara dubbed the monumentum ancyranum, called the "queen of inscriptions" by historian theodor mommsen.[ ] the res gestae is the only work to have survived from antiquity, though augustus is also known to have composed poems entitled sicily, epiphanus, and ajax, an autobiography of books, a philosophical treatise, and a written rebuttal to brutus's eulogy of cato.[ ] historians are able to analyze excerpts of letters penned by augustus, preserved in other works, to others for additional facts or clues about his personal life.[ ][ ] many consider augustus to be rome's greatest emperor; his policies certainly extended the empire's life span and initiated the celebrated pax romana or pax augusta. the roman senate wished subsequent emperors to "be more fortunate than augustus and better than trajan". augustus was intelligent, decisive, and a shrewd politician, but he was not perhaps as charismatic as julius caesar and was influenced on occasion by livia (sometimes for the worse). nevertheless, his legacy proved more enduring. the city of rome was utterly transformed under augustus, with rome's first institutionalized police force, fire fighting force, and the establishment of the municipal prefect as a permanent office. the police force was divided into cohorts of men each, while the units of firemen ranged from to , men each, with units assigned to divided city sectors.[ ] a praefectus vigilum, or "prefect of the watch" was put in charge of the vigiles, rome's fire brigade and police.[ ] with rome's civil wars at an end, augustus was also able to create a standing army for the roman empire, fixed at a size of legions of about , soldiers.[ ] this was supported by numerous auxiliary units of non-citizen soldiers each, often recruited from recently conquered areas.[ ] with his finances securing the maintenance of roads throughout italy, augustus also installed an official courier system of relay stations overseen by a military officer known as the praefectus vehiculorum.[ ] besides the advent of swifter communication among italian polities, his extensive building of roads throughout italy also allowed rome's armies to march swiftly and at an unprecedented pace across the country.[ ] in the year augustus established the aerarium militare, donating  million sesterces to the new military treasury that provided for both active and retired soldiers.[ ] one of the most enduring institutions of augustus was the establishment of the praetorian guard in  bc, originally a personal bodyguard unit on the battlefield that evolved into an imperial guard as well as an important political force in rome.[ ] they had the power to intimidate the senate, install new emperors, and depose ones they disliked; the last emperor they served was maxentius, as it was constantine i who disbanded them in the early th century and destroyed their barracks, the castra praetoria.[ ] augustus in an egyptian-style depiction, a stone carving of the kalabsha temple in nubia although the most powerful individual in the roman empire, augustus wished to embody the spirit of republican virtue and norms. he also wanted to relate to and connect with the concerns of the plebs and lay people. he achieved this through various means of generosity and a cutting back of lavish excess. in the year  bc, augustus gave sesterces (equal to / of a roman pound of gold) each to , citizens, , sesterces each to , veterans in the colonies, and spent  million sesterces in purchasing land for his soldiers to settle upon.[ ] he also restored different temples to display his care for the roman pantheon of deities.[ ] in  bc, he melted down silver statues erected in his likeness and in honor of him, an attempt of his to appear frugal and modest.[ ] coin of kushan ruler kujula kadphises, in the style of roman emperor augustus. british museum. ae dichalkon, chach, c. first half of st. century, weight: . gm., diam: mm. caption: obcerse in greek kozoΛa kaΔaΦeΣ xopanoy zaooy; reverse in kharoshti. the longevity of augustus's reign and its legacy to the roman world should not be overlooked as a key factor in its success. as tacitus wrote, the younger generations alive in ad had never known any form of government other than the principate.[ ] had augustus died earlier (in  bc, for instance), matters might have turned out differently. the attrition of the civil wars on the old republican oligarchy and the longevity of augustus, therefore, must be seen as major contributing factors in the transformation of the roman state into a de facto monarchy in these years. augustus's own experience, his patience, his tact, and his political acumen also played their parts. he directed the future of the empire down many lasting paths, from the existence of a standing professional army stationed at or near the frontiers, to the dynastic principle so often employed in the imperial succession, to the embellishment of the capital at the emperor's expense. augustus's ultimate legacy was the peace and prosperity the empire enjoyed for the next two centuries under the system he initiated. his memory was enshrined in the political ethos of the imperial age as a paradigm of the good emperor. every emperor of rome adopted his name, caesar augustus, which gradually lost its character as a name and eventually became a title.[ ] the augustan era poets virgil and horace praised augustus as a defender of rome, an upholder of moral justice, and an individual who bore the brunt of responsibility in maintaining the empire.[ ] however, for his rule of rome and establishing the principate, augustus has also been subjected to criticism throughout the ages. the contemporary roman jurist marcus antistius labeo (d. ad / ), fond of the days of pre-augustan republican liberty in which he had been born, openly criticized the augustan regime. in the beginning of his annals, the roman historian tacitus (c. –c. ) wrote that augustus had cunningly subverted republican rome into a position of slavery. he continued to say that, with augustus's death and swearing of loyalty to tiberius, the people of rome simply traded one slaveholder for another.[ ] tacitus, however, records two contradictory but common views of augustus: intelligent people praised or criticized him in varying ways. one opinion was as follows. filial duty and a national emergency, in which there was no place for law-abiding conduct, had driven him to civil war—and this can neither be initiated nor maintained by decent methods. he had made many concessions to anthony and to lepidus for the sake of vengeance on his father's murderers. when lepidus grew old and lazy, and anthony's self-indulgence got the better of him, the only possible cure for the distracted country had been government by one man. however, augustus had put the state in order not by making himself king or dictator, but by creating the principate. the empire's frontiers were on the ocean, or distant rivers. armies, provinces, fleets, the whole system was interrelated. roman citizens were protected by the law. provincials were decently treated. rome itself had been lavishly beautified. force had been sparingly used—merely to preserve peace for the majority.[ ] fragment of a bronze equestrian statue of augustus, st century ad, national archaeological museum of athens virgil reading the aeneid to augustus and octavia, by jean-joseph taillasson, according to the second opposing opinion: filial duty and national crisis had been merely pretexts. in actual fact, the motive of octavian, the future augustus, was lust for power ... there had certainly been peace, but it was a blood-stained peace of disasters and assassinations.[ ] in a biography on augustus, anthony everitt asserts that through the centuries, judgments on augustus's reign have oscillated between these two extremes but stresses that: opposites do not have to be mutually exclusive, and we are not obliged to choose one or the other. the story of his career shows that augustus was indeed ruthless, cruel, and ambitious for himself. this was only in part a personal trait, for upper-class romans were educated to compete with one another and to excel. however, he combined an overriding concern for his personal interests with a deep-seated patriotism, based on a nostalgia of rome's antique virtues. in his capacity as princeps, selfishness and selflessness coexisted in his mind. while fighting for dominance, he paid little attention to legality or to the normal civilities of political life. he was devious, untrustworthy, and bloodthirsty. but once he had established his authority, he governed efficiently and justly, generally allowed freedom of speech, and promoted the rule of law. he was immensely hardworking and tried as hard as any democratic parliamentarian to treat his senatorial colleagues with respect and sensitivity. he suffered from no delusions of grandeur.[ ] tacitus was of the belief that nerva (r. – ) successfully "mingled two formerly alien ideas, principate and liberty".[ ] the rd-century historian cassius dio acknowledged augustus as a benign, moderate ruler, yet like most other historians after the death of augustus, dio viewed augustus as an autocrat.[ ] the poet marcus annaeus lucanus (ad – ) was of the opinion that caesar's victory over pompey and the fall of cato the younger ( bc–  bc) marked the end of traditional liberty in rome; historian chester g. starr, jr. writes of his avoidance of criticizing augustus, "perhaps augustus was too sacred a figure to accuse directly."[ ] the anglo-irish writer jonathan swift ( – ), in his discourse on the contests and dissentions in athens and rome, criticized augustus for installing tyranny over rome, and likened what he believed great britain's virtuous constitutional monarchy to rome's moral republic of the nd century bc. in his criticism of augustus, the admiral and historian thomas gordon ( – ) compared augustus to the puritanical tyrant oliver cromwell ( – ).[ ] thomas gordon and the french political philosopher montesquieu ( – ) both remarked that augustus was a coward in battle.[ ] in his memoirs of the court of augustus, the scottish scholar thomas blackwell ( – ) deemed augustus a machiavellian ruler, "a bloodthirsty vindicative usurper", "wicked and worthless", "a mean spirit", and a "tyrant".[ ] revenue reforms coin of augustus found at the pudukottai hoard, from an ancient tamil country, pandyan kingdom of present-day tamil nadu in india, a testimony to indo-roman trade. british museum. caption: avgvstvs divi f[ilivs]. augustus's public revenue reforms had a great impact on the subsequent success of the empire. augustus brought a far greater portion of the empire's expanded land base under consistent, direct taxation from rome, instead of exacting varying, intermittent, and somewhat arbitrary tributes from each local province as augustus's predecessors had done. this reform greatly increased rome's net revenue from its territorial acquisitions, stabilized its flow, and regularized the financial relationship between rome and the provinces, rather than provoking fresh resentments with each new arbitrary exaction of tribute.[ ] the measures of taxation in the reign of augustus were determined by population census, with fixed quotas for each province. citizens of rome and italy paid indirect taxes, while direct taxes were exacted from the provinces. indirect taxes included a % tax on the price of slaves, a % tax on goods sold at auction, and a % tax on the inheritance of estates valued at over , sesterces by persons other than the next of kin.[ ] st century coin of the himyarite kingdom, southern coast of the arabian peninsula. this is also an imitation of a coin of augustus. an equally important reform was the abolition of private tax farming, which was replaced by salaried civil service tax collectors. private contractors who collected taxes for the state were the norm in the republican era. some of them were powerful enough to influence the number of votes for men running for offices in rome. these tax farmers called publicans were infamous for their depredations, great private wealth, and the right to tax local areas.[ ] the use of egypt's immense land rents to finance the empire's operations resulted from augustus's conquest of egypt and the shift to a roman form of government.[ ] as it was effectively considered augustus's private property rather than a province of the empire, it became part of each succeeding emperor's patrimonium.[ ] instead of a legate or proconsul, augustus installed a prefect from the equestrian class to administer egypt and maintain its lucrative seaports; this position became the highest political achievement for any equestrian besides becoming prefect of the praetorian guard.[ ] the highly productive agricultural land of egypt yielded enormous revenues that were available to augustus and his successors to pay for public works and military expeditions.[ ] during his reign the circus games resulted in the killing of , elephants.[ ] month of august the month of august (latin: augustus) is named after augustus; until his time it was called sextilis (named so because it had been the sixth month of the original roman calendar and the latin word for six is sex). commonly repeated lore has it that august has days because augustus wanted his month to match the length of julius caesar's july, but this is an invention of the th century scholar johannes de sacrobosco. sextilis in fact had days before it was renamed, and it was not chosen for its length (see julian calendar). according to a senatus consultum quoted by macrobius, sextilis was renamed to honor augustus because several of the most significant events in his rise to power, culminating in the fall of alexandria, fell in that month.[ ] building projects main page: category:augustan building projects further information: vitruvius and de architectura close up on the sculpted detail of the ara pacis (altar of peace),  bc to bc on his deathbed, augustus boasted "i found a rome of bricks; i leave to you one of marble." although there is some truth in the literal meaning of this, cassius dio asserts that it was a metaphor for the empire's strength.[ ] marble could be found in buildings of rome before augustus, but it was not extensively used as a building material until the reign of augustus.[ ] although this did not apply to the subura slums, which were still as rickety and fire-prone as ever, he did leave a mark on the monumental topography of the centre and of the campus martius, with the ara pacis (altar of peace) and monumental sundial, whose central gnomon was an obelisk taken from egypt.[ ] the relief sculptures decorating the ara pacis visually augmented the written record of augustus's triumphs in the res gestae. its reliefs depicted the imperial pageants of the praetorians, the vestals, and the citizenry of rome.[ ] he also built the temple of caesar, the baths of agrippa, and the forum of augustus with its temple of mars ultor.[ ] other projects were either encouraged by him, such as the theatre of balbus, and agrippa's construction of the pantheon, or funded by him in the name of others, often relations (e.g. portico of octavia, theatre of marcellus). even his mausoleum of augustus was built before his death to house members of his family.[ ] to celebrate his victory at the battle of actium, the arch of augustus was built in  bc near the entrance of the temple of castor and pollux, and widened in  bc to include a triple-arch design.[ ] the temple of augustus and livia in vienne, late st century bc after the death of agrippa in  bc, a solution had to be found in maintaining rome's water supply system. this came about because it was overseen by agrippa when he served as aedile, and was even funded by him afterwards when he was a private citizen paying at his own expense. in that year, augustus arranged a system where the senate designated three of its members as prime commissioners in charge of the water supply and to ensure that rome's aqueducts did not fall into disrepair.[ ] in the late augustan era, the commission of five senators called the curatores locorum publicorum iudicandorum (translated as "supervisors of public property") was put in charge of maintaining public buildings and temples of the state cult.[ ] augustus created the senatorial group of the curatores viarum (translated as "supervisors for roads") for the upkeep of roads; this senatorial commission worked with local officials and contractors to organize regular repairs.[ ] the corinthian order of architectural style originating from ancient greece was the dominant architectural style in the age of augustus and the imperial phase of rome. suetonius once commented that rome was unworthy of its status as an imperial capital, yet augustus and agrippa set out to dismantle this sentiment by transforming the appearance of rome upon the classical greek model.[ ] physical appearance and official images the meroë head of augustus, bronze roman portraiture bust from meroë, kingdom of kush (nubia, modern sudan), – bc his biographer suetonius, writing about a century after augustus's death, described his appearance as: "... unusually handsome and exceedingly graceful at all periods of his life, though he cared nothing for personal adornment. he was so far from being particular about the dressing of his hair, that he would have several barbers working in a hurry at the same time, and as for his beard he now had it clipped and now shaved, while at the very same time he would either be reading or writing something ... he had clear, bright eyes ... his teeth were wide apart, small, and ill-kept; his hair was slightly curly and inclined to golden; his eyebrows met. his ears were of moderate size, and his nose projected a little at the top and then bent ever so slightly inward. his complexion was between dark and fair. he was short of stature, although julius marathus, his freedman and keeper of his records, says that he was five feet and nine inches (just under ft. in., or . meters, in modern height measurements), but this was concealed by the fine proportion and symmetry of his figure, and was noticeable only by comparison with some taller person standing beside him...",[ ] adding that "his shoes [were] somewhat high-soled, to make him look taller than he really was".[ ] scientific analysis of traces of paint found in his official statues show that he most likely had light brown hair and eyes (his hair and eyes were depicted as the same color).[ ] his official images were very tightly controlled and idealized, drawing from a tradition of hellenistic royal portraiture rather than the tradition of realism in roman portraiture. he first appeared on coins at the age of , and from about bc "the explosion in the number of augustan portraits attests a concerted propaganda campaign aimed at dominating all aspects of civil, religious, economic and military life with augustus's person."[ ] the early images did indeed depict a young man, but although there were gradual changes his images remained youthful until he died in his seventies, by which time they had "a distanced air of ageless majesty".[ ] among the best known of many surviving portraits are the augustus of prima porta, the image on the ara pacis, and the via labicana augustus, which shows him as a priest. several cameo portraits include the blacas cameo and gemma augustea. see also 	augustan literature (ancient rome) 	augustan poetry 	bierzo edict 	caesar's comet 	gaius maecenas 	gaius octavian (rome character) 	indo-roman trade and relations 	julio-claudian family tree 	list of biblical figures identified in extra-biblical sources 	temple of augustus references notes 	^ the dates of his rule are contemporary dates; augustus lived under two calendars, the roman republican until bc, and the julian after bc. due to departures from julius caesar's intentions, augustus finished restoring the julian calendar in march ad , and the 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( ). zig-zag-and-swirl. doi: . /j.ctt h tqz. isbn  . 	smith, r. r. r., "the public image of licinius i: portrait sculpture and imperial ideology in the early fourth century", the journal of roman studies, vol. , ( ), pp.  – , jstor 	southern, pat. ( ). augustus. london: routledge. isbn  - - - - . 	syme, ronald ( ). the roman revolution. oxford: oxford university press. isbn  - - - - . 	walker, susan, and burnett, andrew, the image of augustus, , british museum publications, isbn  - - - 	walker, susan. "cleopatra in pompeii?" in papers of the british school at rome, ( ), pp.  – and – . 	wells, colin michael, the roman empire, harvard university press, . further reading 	bleicken, jochen. 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( ). augustus caesar. lancaster pamphlets. london: routledge. 	southern, pat. augustus (roman imperial biographies). new york: routledge, (hardcover, isbn  - - - - ); (paperback, isbn  - - - - ). 	zanker, paul. the power of images in the age of augustus (thomas spencer jerome lectures). ann arbor, mi: university of michigan press, (hardcover, isbn  - - - - ); (paperback, isbn  - - - - ). external links augustusat wikipedia's sister projects 	definitions from wiktionary 	media from wikimedia commons 	news from wikinews 	quotations from wikiquote 	texts from wikisource primary sources 	works by and about augustus at perseus digital library 	cassius dio's roman history: books – , english translation 	gallery of the ancient art: august 	life of augustus by nicolaus of damascus, english translation 	suetonius's biography of augustus, latin text with english translation 	the res gestae divi augusti (the deeds of augustus, his own account: complete latin and greek texts with facing english translation) 	the via iulia augusta: road built by the romans; constructed on the orders of augustus between the – b.c. 	library resources about augustus 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries secondary source material 	augustan legionaries – augustus's legions and legionaries 	augustus – short biography at the bbc 	brown, f. the achievements of augustus caesar, clio history journal, . 	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marcellus aeserninus l. arruntius 	preceded by d. laelius balbus c. antistius vetus 	 consul of rome  bc with: l. cornelius sulla 	succeeded by c. calvisius sabinus l. passienus rufus 	preceded by l. cornelius lentulus m. valerius messalla messallinus 	 consul of rome  bc with: m. plautius silvanus 	succeeded by cossus cornelius lentulus l. calpurnius piso 	religious titles 	preceded by m. aemilius lepidus 	 pontifex maximus bc – ad 	succeeded by tiberius 		v 	t 	e roman and byzantine emperors 	principate bc – ad 	 	augustus 	tiberius 	caligula 	claudius 	nero 	galba 	otho 	vitellius 	vespasian 	titus 	domitian 	nerva 	trajan 	hadrian 	antoninus pius 	marcus aurelius 	lucius verus 	commodus 	pertinax 	didius julianus 	(pescennius niger) 	(clodius albinus) 	septimius severus 	caracalla 	geta 	macrinus 	diadumenian 	elagabalus 	severus alexander 	crisis – 	 	maximinus thrax 	gordian i 	gordian ii 	pupienus 	balbinus 	gordian iii 	philip the arab 	philip ii 	decius 	herennius etruscus 	hostilian 	trebonianus gallus 	volusianus 	aemilianus 	valerian 	gallienus 	saloninus 	claudius gothicus 	quintillus 	aurelian 	tacitus 	florian 	probus 	carus 	carinus 	numerian 	gallic emperors	 	postumus 	(laelianus) 	marius 	victorinus 	(domitianus ii) 	tetricus i with tetricus ii as caesar 	dominate – 	 	diocletian 	maximian 	galerius 	constantius chlorus 	severus 	constantine the great 	maxentius 	licinius 	maximinus daia 	(valerius valens) 	(martinian) 	constantine ii 	constantius ii 	constans 	magnentius 	vetranio 	julian 	jovian 	valentinian i (west) 	valens (east) 	gratian (west) 	valentinian ii (west) 	theodosius i 	magnus maximus 	victor 	(eugenius) 	western empire – 	 	honorius 	constantine iii with son constans ii 	constantius iii 	joannes 	valentinian iii 	petronius maximus 	avitus 	majorian 	libius severus 	anthemius 	olybrius 	glycerius 	julius nepos 	romulus augustulus 	eastern/ byzantine empire – 	 	arcadius 	theodosius ii 	marcian 	leo the thracian 	leo ii 	zeno 	basiliscus 	marcus 	anastasius i dicorus 	justin i 	justinian the great 	justin ii 	tiberius ii constantine 	maurice with son theodosius as co-emperor 	phocas 	heraclius 	constantine iii 	heraklonas 	constans ii 	constantine iv with brothers heraclius and tiberius and then justinian ii as co-emperors 	justinian ii (first reign) 	leontios 	tiberius iii 	justinian ii (second reign) with son tiberius as co-emperor 	philippikos 	anastasios ii 	theodosius iii 	leo iii the isaurian 	constantine v 	artabasdos 	leo iv the khazar 	constantine vi 	irene 	nikephoros i 	staurakios 	michael i rangabe with son theophylact as co-emperor 	leo v the armenian with symbatios-constantine as junior emperor 	michael ii the amorian 	theophilos 	michael iii 	basil i the macedonian 	leo vi the wise 	alexander 	constantine vii porphyrogennetos 	romanos i lekapenos with sons christopher, stephen and constantine as junior co-emperors 	romanos ii 	nikephoros ii phokas 	john i tzimiskes 	basil ii 	constantine viii 	zoë (first reign) and romanos iii argyros 	zoë (first reign) and michael iv the paphlagonian 	michael v kalaphates 	zoë (second reign) with theodora 	zoë (second reign) and constantine ix monomachos 	constantine ix monomachos (sole emperor) 	theodora 	michael vi bringas 	isaac i komnenos 	constantine x doukas 	romanos iv diogenes 	michael vii doukas with brothers andronikos and konstantios and son constantine 	nikephoros iii botaneiates 	alexios i komnenos 	john ii komnenos with alexios komnenos as co-emperor 	manuel i komnenos 	alexios ii komnenos 	andronikos i komnenos with john komnenos as co-emperor 	isaac ii angelos 	alexios iii angelos 	alexios iv angelos 	nicholas kanabos (chosen by the senate) 	alexios v doukas 	empire of nicaea – 	 	constantine laskaris 	theodore i laskaris 	john iii doukas vatatzes 	theodore ii laskaris 	john iv laskaris 	byzantine empire – 	 	michael viii palaiologos 	andronikos ii palaiologos with michael ix palaiologos as co-emperor 	andronikos iii palaiologos 	john v palaiologos 	john vi kantakouzenos with john v palaiologos and matthew kantakouzenos as co-emperors 	john v palaiologos 	andronikos iv palaiologos 	john vii palaiologos 	andronikos v palaiologos 	manuel ii palaiologos 	john viii palaiologos 	constantine xi palaiologos 	italics indicates a junior co-emperor, while underlining indicates a usurper. 	 	v 	t 	e ancient roman religion and mythology 	deities (dii consentes)	 	 	agenoria 	angerona 	anna perenna 	apollo 	bellona 	bona dea 	carmenta 	castor and pollux 	ceres 	cloacina 	cupid 	dea dia 	diana 	dies 	dīs pater 	egeria 	fauna 	faunus 	flora 	genius 	hercules 	janus 	juno 	jupiter 	lares 	liber 	libertas 	mars 	mercury 	minerva 	neptune 	orcus 	penates 	pluto 	pomona 	priapus 	proserpina 	quirinus 	saturn 	silvanus 	sol 	venus 	veritas 	vesta 	vulcan 	abstract deities	 	abundantia 	aequitas 	aeternitas 	africa 	annona 	averruncus 	concordia 	feronia 	fides 	fortuna 	fontus 	laverna 	pietas 	roma 	salus 	securitas 	spes 	tranquillitas 	victoria 	terra 	 	legendary figures	 	aeneas 	rhea silvia 	romulus and remus 	numa pompilius 	tullus hostilius 	servius tullius 	ancus marcius 	lucius tarquinius priscus 	lucius tarquinius superbus 	texts	 	virgil 	aeneid 	ovid 	metamorphoses 	fasti 	propertius 	apuleius 	the golden ass 	varro 	concepts and practices	 	religion in ancient rome 	festivals 	interpretatio graeca 	imperial cult 	pomerium 	temples 	philosophy	 	cynicism 	epicureanism 	neoplatonism 	peripateticism 	pythagoreanism 	stoicism 	see also	 	glossary 	greek mythology 	myth and ritual 	roman polytheism (list) 	classical mythology 	conversion to christianity 	decline of greco-roman polytheism 	 	v 	t 	e ancient roman wars 	wars of the roman republic	 	roman–etruscan wars 	roman-aequian wars 	roman–latin wars 	roman–hernician wars 	roman-volscian wars 	samnite wars 	pyrrhic war 	punic wars (first, second, third) 	illyrian wars (first, second, third) 	macedonian wars (first, second, third, fourth) 	roman–seleucid war 	aetolian war 	galatian war 	roman conquest of hispania (celtiberian wars, lusitanian war, numantine war, sertorian war, cantabrian wars) 	achaean war 	jugurthine war 	cimbrian war 	servile wars (first, second, third) 	social war 	sulla's civil wars (first, second) 	mithridatic wars (first, second, third) 	gallic wars 	invasions of britain 	caesar's civil war 	end of the republic (post-caesarian, liberators', sicilian, perusine, last) 	wars of the roman empire	 	germanic wars (teutoburg, marcomannic, alemannic, gothic, visigothic) 	wars in britain 	boudica's revolt 	armenian war 	civil war of 	jewish–roman wars 	domitian's dacian war 	trajan's dacian wars 	persian wars 	civil wars of the third century 	wars of the fall of the western roman empire 	military history of ancient rome 	 	v 	t 	e pontifices maximi 	 	 bc: numa marcius 	 bc: c. papirius 	 bc: q. furius 	 bc: a. cornelius cossus 	 bc: s. minucius 	 bc: m. fabius ambustus 	 bc: p. cornelius calussa 	 bc: p. cornelius scipio barbatus 	 bc: ti. coruncanius 	 bc: l. caecilius metellus 	 bc: l. cornelius lentulus caudinus 	 bc: m. cornelius cethegus 	 bc: p. licinius crassus dives 	 bc: m. aemilius lepidus 	 bc: p. cornelius scipio nasica corculum 	 bc: p. cornelius scipio nasica serapio 	 bc: p. licinius crassus dives mucianus 	 bc: p. mucius scaevola 	 bc: l. caecilius metellus delmaticus 	 bc: cn. domitius ahenobarbus 	 bc: q. mucius scaevola 	 bc: q. caecilius metellus pius 	 bc: c. julius caesar 	 bc: m. aemilius lepidus 	 bc: imp. caesar augustus 	 bc - ad : held by the emperors. 	 	v 	t 	e ancient greek and roman wars 	ancient greece	 	trojan war 	first messenian war 	second messenian war 	lelantine war 	greek–punic wars (sicilian wars) 	greco-persian wars 	aeginetan war 	wars of the delian league 	samian war 	peloponnesian war 	corinthian war 	first / second / third sacred war 	social war ( – bc) 	expansion of macedonia 	wars of alexander the great 	wars of the diadochi 	lamian war 	chremonidean war 	cleomenean war 	social war ( – bc) 	cretan war 	aetolian war 	war against nabis 	maccabean revolt 	roman republic	 	roman–latin wars (first latin war (battle of lake regillus) 	second latin war) 	samnite wars 	pyrrhic war 	punic wars (first 	second 	third) 	macedonian wars (illyrian 	first macedonian 	second macedonian 	seleucid 	third macedonian 	fourth macedonian) 	jugurthine war 	cimbrian war 	roman servile wars (first 	second 	third) 	social war ( – bc) 	sulla's civil wars (first 	second) 	mithridatic wars (first 	second 	third) 	gallic wars 	julius caesar's civil war 	augustus' rise to power (battle of mutina 	liberators' civil war 	sicilian revolt 	perusine war (fulvia's civil war) 	final war of the roman republic) 	roman empire	 	germanic wars (marcomannic 	alemannic 	gothic 	visigothic) 	conquest of britain 	wars of boudica 	armenian war 	four emperors 	jewish wars 	domitian's dacian war 	trajan's dacian wars 	parthian wars 	wars against persia 	third-century civil wars 	decline and fall of the western empire 	 	military history 	 	v 	t 	e empires 	ancient (colonies)	 	akkadian 	neo-sumerian 	old babylonian 	egyptian 	old kingdom 	middle kingdom 	new kingdom 	assyrian 	neo-babylonian 	carthaginian 	chinese 	shang 	qin 	han 	three kingdoms 	jin 	north and south 	hellenistic 	macedonian 	seleucid 	hittite 	indian 	nanda 	maurya 	satavahana 	shunga 	gupta 	harsha 	iranian 	median 	achaemenid 	parthian 	sasanian 	kushan 	mongol 	xianbei 	roman 	western 	eastern 	teotihuacan 	post-classical	 	aksum 	arab 	rashidun 	umayyad 	abbasid 	fatimid 	córdoba 	aragonese 	angevin 	aztec 	benin 	bornu 	bruneian 	bulgarian 	first 	second 	byzantine 	nicaea 	thessalonica 	trebizond 	calakmul 	castilian 	chinese 	sui 	tang 	liao 	song 	jīn 	yuan 	uyghur khaganate 	ethiopian 	zagwe 	solomonic 	genoese 	georgian 	holy-roman 	carolingian 	huetar 	hunnic 	hephthalite 	inca 	indian 	chola 	gurjara-pratihara 	pala 	eastern ganga dynasty 	delhi 	vijayanagara 	iranian 	samanid 	saffarid 	kanem 	khmer 	latin 	majapahit 	malaccan 	mali 	mongol 	yuan 	golden horde 	chagatai khanate 	ilkhanate 	moroccan 	idrisid 	almoravid 	almohad 	marinid 	north sea 	oyo 	serbian 	singhasari 	somali 	ajuran 	ifatite 	adalite 	mogadishan 	songhai 	srivijaya 	tibetan 	tikal 	timurid 	tiwanku 	toltec 	turko-persian 	ghaznavid 	great seljuk 	khwarezmian 	venetian 	vietnamese 	dai viet 	wagadou 	wari 	modern	 	afghan 	ashanti 	austrian 	austro-hungarian 	brazilian 	central african 	chinese 	ming 	qing 	china 	manchukuo 	ethiopian 	haitian 	first 	second 	french 	first 	second 	german 	first/old reich 	second reich 	third reich 	indian 	mughal 	mysorean 	sikh 	maratha 	british raj 	iranian 	safavid 	afsharid 	qajar 	pahlavi 	japanese 	johor 	korean 	mexican 	first 	second 	moroccan 	saadi 	alaouite 	russian 	somali 	gobroon 	majeerteen 	hobyo 	swedish 	tongan 	ottoman 	vietnamese 	dainam 	vietnam 	colonial	 	american 	belgian 	british 	english 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roman empire and the byzantine empire (eastern roman empire). dynasties of states that had claimed legal succession from the roman empire are not included in this list. contents 	 list of roman dynasties 	 graphical representation 	 see also 	 notes 	 references list of roman dynasties[edit] 	dynasty 	period of rule 	rulers[a] 	start 	end 	term 	first to rule 	last to rule 	list / family tree 	dynasties of the principate 	julio–claudian dynasty 	 bce[ ] 	 ce[ ] 	 years 	augustus 	nero 	(list) (tree) 	flavian dynasty 	 ce[ ] 	 ce[ ] 	 years 	vespasian 	domitian 	(list) (tree) 	nerva–antonine dynasty[b] 	 ce[ ] 	 ce[ ] 	 years 	nerva 	commodus 	(list) (tree) 	severan dynasty 	 ce[ ] 	 ce[ ] 	 years[c] 	septimius severus 	severus alexander 	(list) (tree) 	gordian dynasty 	 ce[ ] 	 ce[ ] 	 years 	gordian i 	gordian iii 	(list) (tree) 	decian dynasty 	 ce 	 ce 	 years 	decius 	hostilian 	(list) 	valerian dynasty 	 ce 	 ce 	 years 	valerian 	gallienus 	(list) 	caran dynasty 	 ce 	 ce 	 years 	carus 	carinus 	(list) 	dynasties of the dominate 	constantinian dynasty[d] 	 ce[ ] 	 ce[ ] 	 years 	constantius chlorus (western) constantine i (eastern) 	julian (western & eastern) 	(list) (tree) 	valentinianic dynasty 	 ce[ ] 	 ce[ ] 	 years 	valentinian i (western & eastern) 	valens (eastern) valentinian ii (western) 	(list) (tree) 	theodosian dynasty 	 ce[ ] 	 ce[ ] 	 years 	theodosius i (western & eastern) 	valentinian iii (western) marcian (eastern) 	(list w) / (list e) (tree) 	eastern (byzantine) dynasties 	leonid dynasty 	 ce[ ] 	 ce[ ] 	 years 	leo i 	anastasius i 	(list) (tree) 	justinian dynasty 	 ce[ ] 	 ce[ ] 	 years 	justin i 	maurice and theodosius[e] 	(list) (tree) 	heraclian dynasty 	 ce[ ] 	 ce[ ] 	 years[f] 	heraclius 	justinian ii and tiberius[g] 	(list) (tree) 	isaurian dynasty[h] 	 ce[ ] 	 ce[ ] 	 years 	leo iii 	irene of athens 	(list) (tree) 	nikephorian dynasty 	 ce 	 ce 	 years 	nikephoros i 	michael i rangabe and theophylact[i] 	(list) (tree) 	amorian dynasty[j] 	 ce[ ] 	 ce[ ] 	 years 	michael ii 	michael iii 	(list) (tree) 	macedonian dynasty 	 ce[ ] 	 ce[ ] 	 years 	basil i 	theodora porphyrogenita 	(list) (tree) 	komnenid dynasty[k] 	 ce[ ] 	 ce[ ] 	 years[l] 	isaac i komnenos 	andronikos i komnenos and john komnenos[m] 	(list) (tree) 	doukid dynasty 	 ce[ ] 	 ce[ ] 	 years 	constantine x doukas 	michael vii doukas 	(list) (tree) 	angelid dynasty 	 ce[ ] 	 ce[ ] 	 years 	isaac ii angelos 	alexios v doukas 	(list) (tree) 	laskarid dynasty[n] 	 ce 	 ce 	 years 	theodore i laskaris 	john iv laskaris 	(list) (tree) 	palaiologan dynasty 	 ce[ ] 	 ce[ ] 	 years 	michael viii palaiologos 	constantine xi palaiologos 	(list) (tree) graphical representation[edit] see also[edit] 	history portal 	monarchy portal 	dynasty 	history of the byzantine empire 	history of the roman empire 	list of byzantine emperors 	list of byzantine usurpers 	list of condemned roman emperors 	list of roman emperors 	list of roman usurpers 	pax romana 	succession of the roman empire notes[edit] 	^ as adoption was widely practiced by the upper classes, some roman monarchs were not directly biologically related to their predecessors despite belonging to the same dynasty. for example, the second emperor of the julio–claudian dynasty, tiberius, was in fact an adopted son of the dynastic founder, augustus. 	^ the nerva–antonine dynasty is sometimes subdivided into the nerva–trajan dynasty and the antonine dynasty. 	^ the rule of the severan dynasty was interrupted between ce and ce. caracalla was the last ruler before the interregnum. elagabalus was the first ruler after the interregnum. 	^ the constantinian dynasty is also known as the "neo-flavian dynasty". 	^ maurice and theodosius reigned as co-rulers. 	^ the rule of the heraclian dynasty was interrupted between ce and ce. justinian ii was both the last ruler before the interregnum and the first ruler after the interregnum. 	^ justinian ii and tiberius reigned as co-rulers. 	^ the isaurian dynasty is also known as the "syrian dynasty". 	^ michael i rangabe and theophylact reigned as co-rulers. 	^ the amorian dynasty is also known as the "phrygian dynasty". 	^ the komnenid dynasty ruled the empire of trebizond between ce and ce. 	^ the rule of the komnenid dynasty was interrupted between ce and ce. isaac i komnenos was the last ruler before the interregnum. alexios i komnenos was the first ruler after the interregnum. 	^ andronikos i komnenos and john komnenos reigned as co-rulers. 	^ the laskarid dynasty of the empire of nicaea during the fourth crusade is considered as the legitimate continuation of the roman empire. references[edit] 	^ a b c d kidner, frank; bucur, maria; mathisen, ralph; mckee, sally; weeks, theodore ( ). making europe: the story of the west. p.  . isbn  - . 	^ a b d'amato, raffaele; frediani, andrea ( ). strasbourg ad : the victory that saved gaul. p.  . isbn  . 	^ a b ermatinger, james ( ). the roman empire: a historical encyclopedia. p.  . isbn  . 	^ a b fomenko, anatoly ( ). history: fiction or science?. p.  . isbn  . 	^ a b cowell, frank ( ). everyday life in ancient rome. p.  . 	^ a b christ, karl ( ). the romans: an introduction to their history and civilisation. p.  . isbn  . 	^ a b grig, lucy; kelly, gavin ( ). two romes: rome and constantinople in late antiquity. p.  . isbn  . 	^ a b maas, michael ( ). the cambridge companion to the age of attila. p.  . isbn  . 	^ a b konstam, angus ( ). byzantine warship vs arab warship: th– th centuries. p.  . isbn  . 	^ a b flichy, thomas ( ). financial crises and renewal of empires. p.  . isbn  . 	^ a b lepree, james; djukic, ljudmila ( ). the byzantine empire: a historical encyclopedia. p.  . isbn  . 	^ a b c d tougher, shaun ( ). the eunuch in byzantine history and society. p.  . isbn  . 	^ a b walker, alicia ( ). the emperor and the world: exotic elements and the imaging of middle byzantine imperial power, ninth to thirteenth centuries c.e. p.  . isbn  . 	^ a b stacton, david ( ). the world on the last day: the sack of constantinople by the turks, may , : its causes and consequences. p.  . 	^ a b lepree & djukic ( ). p. . 	^ a b woodfin, warren ( ). the embodied icon: liturgical vestments and sacramental power in byzantium. p. xxv. isbn  . retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=list_of_roman_dynasties&oldid= " 		categories: 	roman imperial dynasties 	lists of dynasties hidden categories: 	pages using the easytimeline extension 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			article 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	edit 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		search 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigation 	 	 			main page 	contents 	current events 	random article 	about wikipedia 	contact us 	donate 		 	 	 	 		contribute 	 	 			help 	learn to edit 	community portal 	recent 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compiled by broughton.[ ][ ] the quaestorship was a political office in the roman cursus honorum. the authenticity of the office prior during the early republic is doubted and quaestorships prior to bc might be fabricated. there are large gaps in the lists of quaestors and only a small percentage of all who held the quaestorship is known. for those who are mentioned by ancient authors to have held the quaestorship during an unknown period, an estimate is provided in the list of the last possible date for such an questorship. this list is currently incomplete and only contain those who held the quaestorship between - bc. unless otherwise noted all information is from broughton's the magistrates of the roman republic 	date	name 	notes 	 bc 	marcus minucius augurinus gaius veturius geminus cicurinus 	 	< bc 	appius claudius sabinus inregillensis 	quaestor prior to his consulship in bc 	 bc	caeso fabius vibulanus lucius valerius potitus 	 	 bc	aulus cornelius quintus servilius priscus structus 	 	 bc	titus quinctius capitolinus barbatus marcus valerius maximus lactuca 	 	 bc 	lucius valerius potitus mamercus aemilius mamercinus 	first elected quaestors according to tacitus 	 bc 	- 	number of quaestors increased to four 	 bc 	publius sestius (or sextius) 	 	 bc 	publius aelius caeso fabius ambustus publius papius quintus silius 	plebeians are eligible to the quaestorship 	 bc 	spurius carvilius 	 	< bc 	appius claudius caecus 	latest date as argued by broughton 	 bc 	lucius opimius pansa 	 	> bc 	? 	number of quaestors increased to 	< bc 	quintus fabius maximus verrucosus 	latest date as argued by broughton 	< bc 	quintus fabius maximus verrucosus ii 	latest date as argued by broughton 	c. bc 	gnaeus octavius rufus 	 	< bc 	gaius terentius varro 	latest date as argued by broughton 	 bc 	gaius fulvius flaccus lucius lucretius 	 	 bc 	tiberius sempronius blaesus 	 	 bc 	lucius atilius lucius furius bibaculus 	 	 bc 	lucius caecilius metellus 	 	 bc 	gnaeus cornelius lentulus 	 	 bc 	gaius flaminius 	 	< bc 	gnaeus tremellius flaccus marcus valerius falto 	latest date as argued by broughton. mentioned as ex-quaestors in bc 	 bc 	marcus porcius cato 	 	 bc 	gaius laelius 	 	 bc 	publius cornelius scipio nasica 	quaestor sometime between - bc 	< bc 	titus quinctius flaminius 	mentioned as ex-quaestor in bc 	< bc 	lucius cornelius scipio asiaticus 	latest date as argued by broughton 	 bc 	lucius aurelius quintus fabius labeo 	 	< bc 	lucius aemilius paullus 	latest date as argued by broughton 	 bc 	lucius postumius tympanus 	 	 bc 	gaius furius aculeo 	 	< bc 	quintus petilius spurnius 	latest date as argued by broughton 	 bc 	quintus fabius buteo or quintus fabius maximus 	 	 bc 	lucius cornelius scipio 	 	 bc 	terentius varro 	 	 bc 	publius licinius crassus dives mucianus 	 	 bc 	gnaeus cornelius scipio hispanus 	 	 bc 	lucius fulcinnius 	 	 bc 	gaius publilius 	 	 bc 	gaius sempronius tuditanus 	 	 bc 	lucius tremellius scrofa 	 	 bc 	lucius tremellius scrofa ii 	 	 bc 	tiberius sempronius gracchus 	 	 bc 	quintus fabius maximus allobrogicus 	 	 bc 	quintus fabius maximus eburnus 	 	 bc 	gaius sempronius gracchus 	 	< bc 	gaius marius 	latest date as argued by broughton 	 bc 	publius albius 	 	 bc 	marcus annius 	 	 bc 	marcus aurelius scaurus 	conjectured date by broughton 	 bc 	marcus antonius 	 	 bc 	publius sextius 	 	< bc 	lucius licinius crassus quintus mucius scaevola gaius servilius glaucia 	latest date as argued by broughton 	 bc 	lucius cornelius sulla 	 	< bc 	gaius claudius pulcher gnaeus servilius caepio 	latest date as argued by broughton 	 bc 	gnaeus octavius ruso 	 	 bc 	lucius appuleius saturnius gnaeus pompeius strabo 	 	< bc 	marcus livius drusus lucius veturius philo or lucius publilius philo 	latest date as argued by broughton 	 bc 	gaius norbanus 	 	> bc 	gaius fundanius 	alternativly dated in bc 	 bc 	aulus gabinius 	 	 bc 	lucius cornelius lentulus lucius calpurnius piso caesoninus quintus servilius 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keats' friend charles armitage brown, under a plum tree in the garden of keats' house at wentworth place, also in hampstead. according to brown, a nightingale had built its nest near the house that he shared with keats in the spring of . inspired by the bird's song, keats composed the poem in one day. it soon became one of his odes and was first published in annals of the fine arts the following july. the poem is one of the most frequently anthologized in the english language.[ ] "ode to a nightingale" is a personal poem which describes keats's journey into the state of negative capability. the tone of the poem rejects the optimistic pursuit of pleasure found within keats's earlier poems and, instead, explores the themes of nature, transience and mortality, the latter being particularly relevant to keats. the nightingale described experiences a type of death but does not actually die. instead, the songbird is capable of living through its song, which is a fate that humans cannot expect. the poem ends with an acceptance that pleasure cannot last and that death is an inevitable part of life. in the poem, keats imagines the loss of the physical world and sees himself dead—as a "sod" over which the nightingale sings. the contrast between the immortal nightingale and mortal man sitting in his garden, is made all the more acute by an effort of the imagination. the presence of weather is noticeable in the poem, as spring came early in , bringing nightingales all over the heath.[citation needed] contents 	 background 	 structure 	 poem 	 themes 	 reception 	 . th-century criticism 	 . later critical responses 	 in fiction 	 in music 	 notes 	 references 	 external links background[edit] joseph severn's depiction of keats listening to the nightingale (c. ) of keats's six major odes of , "ode to psyche", was probably written first and "to autumn" written last. sometime between these two, he wrote "ode to a nightingale".[ ] it is possible that "ode to a nightingale" was written between april and may , based on weather conditions and similarities between images in the poem and those in a letter sent to fanny brawne on may day. the poem was composed at the hampstead house keats shared with brown, possibly while sitting beneath a plum tree in the garden.[ ] according to keats' friend brown, keats finished the ode in just one morning: "in the spring of a nightingale had built her nest near my house. keats felt a tranquil and continual joy in her song; and one morning he took his chair from the breakfast-table to the grass-plot under a plum-tree, where he sat for two or three hours. when he came into the house, i perceived he had some scraps of paper in his hand, and these he was quietly thrusting behind the books. on inquiry, i found those scraps, four or five in number, contained his poetic feelings on the song of the nightingale."[ ] brown's account is personal, as he claimed the poem was directly influenced by his house and preserved by his own doing. however, keats relied on both his own imagination and other literature as sources for his depiction of the nightingale.[ ] the exact date of "ode to a nightingale", as well as those of "ode on indolence", "ode on melancholy", and "ode on a grecian urn", is unknown, as keats dated all as 'may '. however, he worked on the four poems together, and there is a unity in both their stanza forms and their themes. the exact order the poems in which the poems were written is also unknown, but they form a sequence within their structures. while keats was writing "ode on a grecian urn" and the other poems, brown transcribed copies of the poems and submitted them to richard woodhouse.[ ] during this time, benjamin haydon, keats' friend, was given a copy of "ode to a nightingale", and he shared the poem with the editor of the annals of the fine arts, james elmes. elmes paid keats a small sum of money, and the poem was published in the july issue.[ ] the poem was later included in keats' collection of poems, lamia, isabella, the eve of st agnes, and other poems.[ ] structure[edit] "ode to a nightingale" was probably the first of the middle set of four odes that keats wrote following "ode to psyche", according to brown. this is further evidenced by the poems' structures. keats experimentally combines two different types of lyrical poetry: the odal hymn and the lyric of questioning voice that responds to the odal hymn. this combination of structures is similar to that in "ode on a grecian urn". in both poems, the dual form creates a dramatic element within the text. the stanza form of the poem is a combination of elements from petrarchan sonnets and shakespearean sonnets.[ ] keats incorporates a pattern of alternating historically "short" and "long" vowel sounds in his ode. in particular, line ("and purple-stained mouth") has the historical pattern of "short" followed by "long" followed by "short" and followed by "long". this alternation is continued in longer lines, including line ("away! away! for i will fly to thee") which contains five pairs of alternations. however, other lines, such as line ("or emptied some dull opiate to the drains") rely on a pattern of five "short" vowels followed by "long" and "short" vowel pairings until they end with a "long" vowel. these are not the only combination patterns present, and there are patterns of two "short" vowels followed by a "long" vowel in other lines, including , , and , which are repeated twice and then followed up with two sets of "short" and then "long" vowel pairs. this reliance on vowel sounds is not unique to this ode, but is common to keats's other odes and his eve of st. agnes.[ ] the poem incorporates a complex reliance on assonance—the repetition of vowel sounds—in a conscious pattern, as found in many of his poems. such a reliance on assonance is found in very few english poems. within "ode to a nightingale", an example of this pattern can be found in line ("already with thee! tender is the night"), where the "ea" of "already" connects with the "e" of "tender" and the "i" of "with" connects with the "i" of "is". this same pattern is found again in line ("i cannot see what flowers are at my feet") with the "a" of "cannot" linking with the "a" of "at" and the "ee" of "see" linking with the "ee" of "feet". this system of assonance can be found in approximately a tenth of the lines of keats's later poetry.[ ] when it comes to other sound patterns, keats relies on double or triple caesuras in approximately % of lines throughout the odes. an example from "ode to a nightingale" can be found within line ("the grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild") as the pauses after the commas are a "masculine" pause. furthermore, keats began to reduce the amount of latin-based words and syntax that he relied on in his poetry, which in turn shortened the length of the words that dominate the poem. there is also an emphasis on words beginning with consonants, especially those that begin with "b", "p" or "v". the first stanza relies heavily on these three consonants, and they are used as a syzygy to add a musical tone within the poem.[ ] compared to his earlier verse, spondees are relatively abundant in his odes and other late poems. in "ode to a nightingale" they are used in just over % of his lines (compared to a mere . % in endymion). examples include:[ ] / × / / × × / / × / cool'd a long age in the deep-delvèd earth (line ) × / × / × / / / / / where palsy shakes a few, sad, last, grey hairs (line ) to walter jackson bate, the use of spondees in lines – creates a feeling of slow flight, and "in the final stanza . . . the distinctive use of scattered spondees, together with initial inversion, lend[s] an approximate phonetic suggestion of the peculiar spring and bounce of the bird in its flight."[ ] poem[edit] holograph of keats's ode to a nightingale written in may the first and sixth stanzas exemplify the juxtaposition of rapture and morbidity in the poem: my heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains     my sense, as though of hemlock i had drunk, or emptied some dull opiate to the drains     one minute past, and lethe-wards had sunk: 'tis not through envy of thy happy lot,     but being too happy in thine happiness,—         that thou, light-winged dryad of the trees,                 in some melodious plot     of beechen green, and shadows numberless,         singest of summer in full-throated ease. ... darkling i listen; and, for many a time     i have been half in love with easeful death, call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme,     to take into the air my quiet breath;         now more than ever seems it rich to die,     to cease upon the midnight with no pain,         while thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad                 in such an ecstasy!     still wouldst thou sing, and i have ears in vain—     to thy high requiem become a sod.[ ] — stanzas and (lines - , - ) themes[edit] "ode to a nightingale" describes a series of conflicts between reality and the romantic ideal of uniting with nature. in the words of richard fogle, "the principal stress of the poem is a struggle between ideal and actual: inclusive terms which, however, contain more particular antitheses of pleasure and pain, of imagination and common sense reason, of fullness and privation, of permanence and change, of nature and the human, of art and life, freedom and bondage, waking and dream."[ ] of course, the nightingale's song is the dominant image and dominant "voice" within the ode. the nightingale is also the object of empathy and praise within the poem. however, the nightingale and the discussion of the nightingale is not simply about the bird or the song, but about human experience in general. this is not to say that the song is a simple metaphor, but it is a complex image that is formed through the interaction of the conflicting voices of praise and questioning.[ ] on this theme, david perkins summarizes the way "ode to a nightingale" and "ode on a grecian urn" perform this when he says, "we are dealing with a talent, indeed an entire approach to poetry, in which symbol, however necessary, may possibly not satisfy as the principal concern of poetry, any more than it could with shakespeare, but is rather an element in the poetry and drama of human reactions".[ ] however, there is a difference between an urn and a nightingale in that the nightingale is not an eternal entity. furthermore, in creating any aspect of the nightingale immortal during the poem the narrator separates any union that he can have with the nightingale.[ ] the nightingale's song within the poem is connected to the art of music in a way that the urn in "ode on a grecian urn" is connected to the art of sculpture. as such, the nightingale would represent an enchanting presence and, unlike the urn, is directly connected to nature. as natural music, the song is for beauty and lacks a message of truth. keats follows coleridge's belief, as found in "the nightingale", in separating from the world by losing himself in the bird's song. although keats favours a female nightingale over coleridge's masculine bird, both reject the traditional depiction of the nightingale as related to the tragedy of philomela.[ ] their songbird is a happy nightingale that lacks the melancholic feel of previous poetic depictions.[ ] the bird is only a voice within the poem, but it is a voice that compels the narrator to join with in and forget the sorrows of the world. however, there is tension in that the narrator holds keats's guilt regarding the death of tom keats, his brother. the song's conclusion represents the result of trying to escape into the realm of fancy.[ ] like percy bysshe shelley's "to a skylark", keats's narrator listens to a bird song, but listening to the song within "ode to a nightingale" is almost painful and similar to death. the narrator seeks to be with the nightingale and abandons his sense of vision in order to embrace the sound in an attempt to share in the darkness with the bird. as the poem ends, the trance caused by the nightingale is broken and the narrator is left wondering if it was a real vision or just a dream.[ ] the poem's reliance on the process of sleeping is common to keats's poems, and "ode to a nightingale" shares many of the same themes as keats' sleep and poetry and eve of st. agnes. this further separates the image of the nightingale's song from its closest comparative image, the urn as represented in "ode on a grecian urn". the nightingale is distant and mysterious, and even disappears at the end of the poem. the dream image emphasizes the shadowiness and elusiveness of the poem. these elements make it impossible for there to be a complete self-identification with the nightingale, but it also allows for self-awareness to permeate throughout the poem, albeit in an altered state.[ ] midway through the poem, there is a split between the two actions of the poem: the first attempts to identify with the nightingale and its song, and the second discusses the convergence of the past with the future while experiencing the present. this second theme is reminiscent of keats's view of human progression through the mansion of many apartments and how man develops from experiencing and wanting only pleasure to understanding truth as a mixture of both pleasure and pain. the elysian fields and the nightingale's song in the first half of the poem represent the pleasurable moments that overwhelm the individual like a drug. however, the experience does not last forever, and the body is left desiring it until the narrator feels helpless without the pleasure. instead of embracing the coming truth, the narrator clings to poetry to hide from the loss of pleasure. poetry does not bring about the pleasure that the narrator original asks for, but it does liberate him from his desire for only pleasure.[ ] responding to this emphasis on pleasure, albert guerard, jr. argues that the poem contains a "longing not for art but a free reverie of any kind. the form of the poem is that of progression by association, so that the movement of feeling is at the mercy of words evoked by chance, such words as fade and forlorn, the very words that, like a bell, toll the dreamer back to his sole self."[ ] however, fogle points out that the terms guerard emphasizes are "associational translations" and that guerard misunderstands keats's aesthetic.[ ] after all, the acceptance of the loss of pleasure by the end of the poem is an acceptance of life and, in turn, of death. death was a constant theme that permeated aspects of keats poetry because he was exposed to death of his family members throughout his life.[ ] within the poem, there are many images of death. the nightingale experiences a sort of death and even the god apollo experiences death, but his death reveals his own divine state. as perkins explains, "but, of course, the nightingale is not thought to be literally dying. the point is that the deity or the nightingale can sing without dying. but, as the ode makes clear, man cannot—or at least not in a visionary way."[ ] with this theme of a loss of pleasure and inevitable death, the poem, according to claude finney, describes "the inadequacy of the romantic escape from the world of reality to the world of ideal beauty".[ ] earl wasserman essentially agrees with finney, but he extended his summation of the poem to incorporate the themes of keats's mansion of many apartments when he says, "the core of the poem is the search for the mystery, the unsuccessful quest for light within its darkness" and this "leads only to an increasing darkness, or a growing recognition of how impenetrable the mystery is to mortals."[ ] with these views in mind, the poem recalls keats's earlier view of pleasure and an optimistic view of poetry found within his earlier poems, especially sleep and poetry, and rejects them.[ ] this loss of pleasure and incorporation of death imagery lends the poem a dark air, which connects "ode to a nightingale" with keats' other poems that discuss the demonic nature of poetic imagination, including lamia.[ ] in the poem, keats imagines the loss of the physical world and sees himself dead—he uses an abrupt, almost brutal word for it—as a "sod" over which the nightingale sings. the contrast between the immortal nightingale and mortal man, sitting in his garden, is made all the more acute by an effort of the imagination.[ ] reception[edit] contemporary critics of keats enjoyed the poem, and it was heavily quoted in their reviews.[ ] an anonymous review of keats's poetry that ran in the august and october scots magazine stated: "amongst the minor poems we prefer the 'ode to the nightingale'. indeed, we are inclined to prefer it beyond every other poem in the book; but let the reader judge. the third and seventh stanzas have a charm for us which we should find it difficult to explain. we have read this ode over and over again, and every time with increased delight."[ ] at the same time, leigh hunt wrote a review of keats's poem for the august and august the indicator: "as a specimen of the poems, which are all lyrical, we must indulge ourselves in quoting entire the 'ode to a nightingale'. there is that mixture in it of real melancholy and imaginative relief, which poetry alone presents us in her 'charmed cup,' and which some over-rational critics have undertaken to find wrong because it is not true. it does not follow that what is not true to them, is not true to others. if the relief is real, the mixture is good and sufficing."[ ] john scott, in an anonymous review for the september edition of the london magazine, argued for the greatness of keats's poetry as exemplified by poems including "ode to a nightingale": the injustice which has been done to our author's works, in estimating their poetical merit, rendered us doubly anxious, on opening his last volume, to find it likely to seize fast hold of general sympathy, and thus turn an overwhelming power against the paltry traducers of talent, more eminently promising in many respects, than any the present age has been called upon to encourage. we have not found it to be quite all that we wished in this respect—and it would have been very extraordinary if we had, for our wishes went far beyond reasonable expectations. but we have found it of a nature to present to common understandings the poetical power with which the author's mind is gifted, in a more tangible and intelligible shape than that in which it has appeared in any of his former compositions. it is, therefore, calculated to throw shame on the lying, vulgar spirit, in which this young worshipper in the temple of the muses has been cried-down; whatever questions may still leave to be settled as to the kind and degree of his poetical merits. take for instance, as proof of the justice of our praise, the following passage from an ode to the nightingale:--it is distinct, noble, pathetic, and true: the thoughts have all chords of direct communication with naturally-constituted hearts: the echoes of the strain linger bout the depths of human bosoms.[ ] in a review for the january london journal, hunt claimed that while keats wrote the poem, "the poet had then his mortal illness upon him, and knew it. never was the voice of death sweeter."[ ] david moir, in , used the eve of st agnes to claim, "we have here a specimen of descriptive power luxuriously rich and original; but the following lines, from the 'ode to a nightingale,' flow from a far more profound fountain of inspiration."[ ] at the end of the th century, robert bridges's analysis of the poem became a dominant view and would influence later interpretations of the poem. bridges, in , declared that the poem was the best of keats's odes but he thought that the poem contained too much artificial language. in particular, he emphasised the use of the word "forlorn" and the last stanza as being examples of keats's artificial language.[ ] in "two odes of keats's" ( ), william c wilkinson suggested that "ode to a nightingale" is deeply flawed because it contains too many "incoherent musings" that failed to supply a standard of logic that would allow the reader to understand the relationship between the poet and the bird.[ ] however, herbert grierson, arguing in , believed nightingale to be superior to "ode on a grecian urn", "ode on melancholy", and "ode to psyche", arguing the exact opposite of wilkinson as he stated that "nightingale", along with "to autumn", showed a greater amount of logical thought and more aptly presented the cases they were intended to make.[ ] th-century criticism[edit] at the beginning of the th century, rudyard kipling referred to lines and , alongside three lines from samuel taylor coleridge's kubla khan, when he claimed of poetry: "in all the millions permitted there are no more than five—five little lines—of which one can say, 'these are the magic. these are the vision. the rest is only poetry.'"[ ] in , alexander mackie argued: "the nightingale and the lark for long monopolised poetic idolatry—a privilege they enjoyed solely on account of their pre-eminence as song birds. keats's ode to a nightingale and shelley's ode to a skylark are two of the glories of english literature; but both were written by men who had no claim to special or exact knowledge of ornithology as such."[ ] sidney colvin, in , argued, "throughout this ode keats's genius is at its height. imagination cannot be more rich and satisfying, felicity of phrase and cadence cannot be more absolute, than in the several contrasted stanzas calling for the draft of southern vintage […] to praise the art of a passage like that in the fourth stanza […] to praise or comment on a stroke of art like this is to throw doubt on the reader's power to perceive it for himself."[ ] bridges' view of "ode to a nightingale" was taken up by h. w. garrod in his analysis of keats's poems. as albert gerard would argue later in , garrod believed that the problem within keats's poem was his emphasis on the rhythm and the language instead of the main ideas of the poem.[ ] when describing the fourth stanza of the poem, maurice ridley, in , claimed, "and so comes the stanza, with that remarkable piece of imagination at the end which feels the light as blown by the breezes, one of those characteristic sudden flashes with which keats fires the most ordinary material."[ ] he later declared of the seventh stanza: "and now for the great stanza in which the imagination is fanned to yet whiter heat, the stanza that would, i suppose, by common consent be taken, along with kubla khan, as offering us the distilled sorceries of 'romanticism'".[ ] he concluded on the stanza that "i do not believe that any reader who has watched keats at work on the more exquisitely finished of the stanzas in the eve of st. agnes, and seen this craftsman slowly elaborating and refining, will ever believe that this perfect stanza was achieved with the easy fluency with which, in the draft we have, it was obviously written down."[ ] in , f. r. leavis wrote, "one remembers the poem both as recording, and as being for the reader, an indulgence."[ ] following leavis, cleanth brooks and robert penn warren, in a essay, saw the poem as "a very rich poem. it contains some complications which we must not gloss over if we are to appreciate the depth and significance of the issues engaged."[ ] brooks would later argue in the well-wrought urn ( ) that the poem was thematically unified while contradicting many of the negative criticisms lodged against the poem.[ ] richard fogle responded to the critical attack on keats's emphasis on rhyme and language put forth by garrod, gerard, and others in . his argument was similar to brooks: that the poem was thematically coherent and that there is a poet within the poem that is different from keats the writer of the poem. as such, keats consciously chose the shift in the themes of the poem and the contrasts within the poem represent the pain felt when comparing the real world to an ideal world found within the imagination.[ ] fogle also responded directly to the claims made by leavis: "i find mr. leavis too austere, but he points out a quality which keats plainly sought for. his profusion and prodigality is, however, modified by a principle of sobriety."[ ] it is possible that fogle's statements were a defense of romanticism as a group that was both respectable in terms of thought and poetic ability.[ ] wasserman, following in , claimed that "of all keats' poems, it is probably the 'ode to a nightingale' that has most tormented the critic [...] in any reading of the 'ode to a nightingale' the turmoil will not down. forces contend wildly within the poem, not only without resolution, but without possibility of resolution; and the reader comes away from his experience with the sense that he has been in 'a wild abyss'".[ ] he then explained, "it is this turbulence, i suspect, that has led allen tate to believe the ode 'at least tries to say everything that poetry can say.' but i propose it is the 'ode on a grecian urn' that succeeds in saying what poetry can say, and that the other ode attempts to say all that the poet can."[ ] later critical responses[edit] although the poem was defended by a few critics, e. c. pettet returned to the argument that the poem lacked a structure and emphasized the word "forlorn" as evidence of his view.[ ] in his work, pettet did praise the poem as he declared, "the ode to a nightingale has a special interest in that most of us would probably regard it as the most richly representative of all keats's poems. two reasons for this quality are immediately apparent: there is its matchless evocation of that late spring and early summer season […] and there is its exceptional degree of 'distillation', of concentrated recollection".[ ] david perkins felt the need to defend the use of the word "forlorn" and claimed that it described the feeling from the impossibility of not being able to live in the world of the imagination.[ ] when praising the poem in , perkins claimed, "although the "ode to a nightingale" ranges more widely than the "ode on a grecian urn," the poem can also be regarded as the exploration or testing out of a symbol, and, compared with the urn as a symbol, the nightingale would seem to have both limitations and advantages."[ ] walter jackson bate also made a similar defense of the word "forlorn" by claiming that the world described by describing the impossibility of reaching that land.[ ] when describing the poem compared to the rest of english poetry, bate argued in , "ode to a nightingale" is among "the greatest lyrics in english" and the only one written with such speed: "we are free to doubt whether any poem in english of comparable length and quality has been composed so quickly."[ ] in , robert gittins stated, "it may not be wrong to regard [ode on indolence and ode on melancholy] as keats's earlier essays in this [ode] form, and the great nightingale and grecian urn as his more finished and later works."[ ] from the late s onward, many of the yale school of critics describe the poem as a reworking of john milton's poetic diction, but, they argued, that poem revealed that keats lacked the ability of milton as a poet. the critics, harold bloom ( ), leslie brisman ( ), paul fry ( ), john hollander ( ) and cynthia chase ( ), all focused on the poem with milton as a progenitor to "ode to a nightingale" while ignoring other possibilities, including shakespeare who was emphasised as being the source of many of keats's phrases. responding to the claims about milton and keats's shortcomings, critics like r. s. white ( ) and willard spiegelman ( ) used the shakespearean echoes to argue for a multiplicity of sources for the poem to claim that keats was not trying to respond just to milton or escape from his shadow. instead, "ode to a nightingale" was an original poem,[ ] as white claimed, "the poem is richly saturated in shakespeare, yet the assimilations are so profound that the ode is finally original, and wholly keatsian".[ ] similarly, spiegelman claimed that shakespeare's a midsummer night's dream had "flavored and ripened the later poem".[ ] this was followed in by jonathan bate claiming that keats was "left enriched by the voice of shakespeare, the 'immortal bird'".[ ] focusing on the quality of the poem, stuart sperry, argued in , "'ode to a nightingale' is the supreme expression in all keats's poetry of the impulse to imaginative escape that flies in the face of the knowledge of human limitation, the impulse fully expressed in 'away! away! for i will fly to thee.'"[ ] wolf hirst, in , described the poem as "justly celebrated" and claimed that "since this movement into an eternal realm of song is one of the most magnificent in literature, the poet's return to actuality is all the more shattering."[ ] helen vendler continued the earlier view that the poem was artificial but added that the poem was an attempt to be aesthetic and spontaneous that was later dropped.[ ] in , she argued, "in its absence of conclusiveness and its abandonment to reverie, the poem appeals to readers who prize it as the most personal, the most apparently spontaneous, the most immediately beautiful, and the most confessional of keats's odes. i believe that the 'events' of the ode, as it unfolds in time, have more logic, however, than is usually granted them, and that they are best seen in relation to keats's pursuit of the idea of music as a nonrepresentational art."[ ] in a review of contemporary criticism of "ode to a nightingale" in , james o'rouke claimed that "to judge from the volume, the variety, and the polemical force of the modern critical responses engendered, there have been few moments in english poetic history as baffling as keats's repetition of the word 'forlorn'".[ ] when referring to the reliance of the ideas of john dryden and william hazlitt within the poem, poet laureate andrew motion, in , argued "whose notion of poetry as a 'movement' from personal consciousness to an awareness of suffering humanity it perfectly illustrates."[ ] in fiction[edit] f. scott fitzgerald took the title of his novel tender is the night from the th line of the ode.[ ] according to ildikó de papp carrington, keats' wording, "when, sick for home, / she stood in tears amid the alien corn", seems to be echoed in by alice munro's save the reaper ( ),[ ] the end of which reads: "eve would lie down [...] with nothing in her head but the rustle of the deep tall corn which might have stopped growing now but still made its live noise after dark" (book version). the dutch folk band the black atlantic took the name of their ep "darkling i listen" from the start line .[ ] the poem is quoted in chapter of p. g. wodehouse's novel full moon ( ): "'coming here? freddie?'.a numbness seemed to be paining his sense, as though of hemlock he had drunk."[ ] part of the poem is quoted in an episode of penny dreadful, when lucifer appears to vanessa ives to tempt her, and quotes the poem in his conversation. the poem inspired tennessee williams to name his first play not about nightingales. in music[edit] "ode to a nightingale" is the subject matter for ben moore's piece, "darkling, i listen," a song-cycle written for baritone in , commissioned by bruce and suzie kovner. this song-cycle uses the entirety of the work with the cycles' eight songs based on the eight stanzas of the poem. nearly all the songs in the cycle have preludes, interludes and postludes, possibly hinting at a schumann-like effect, where the piano is the main voice and the sung part merely adds decoration.[ ] there is also a very fine setting by hamilton harty, set for soprano and orchestra. it was first performed at the cardiff festival in , and later magnificently recorded by heather harper. notes[edit] 	^ "hit singles by joshua weiner". poetry foundation. 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february  – september [ ]), also known as lord of montaigne, was one of the most significant philosophers of the french renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. his work is noted for its merging of casual anecdotes[ ] and autobiography with intellectual insight. his massive volume essais contains some of the most influential essays ever written. montaigne had a direct influence on western writers including francis bacon, rené descartes,[ ] blaise pascal, voltaire, jean-jacques rousseau, david hume, edward gibbon, virginia woolf, albert hirschman, william hazlitt,[ ] ralph waldo emerson, john henry newman, karl marx, sigmund freud, charles darwin, friedrich nietzsche, stefan zweig, eric hoffer,[ ] isaac asimov, and possibly, on the later works of william shakespeare. during his lifetime, montaigne was admired more as a statesman than as an author. the tendency in his essays to digress into anecdotes and personal ruminations was seen as detrimental to proper style rather than as an innovation, and his declaration that, "i am myself the matter of my book", was viewed by his contemporaries as self-indulgent. in time, however, montaigne came to be recognized as embodying, perhaps better than any other author of his time, the spirit of freely entertaining doubt that began to emerge at that time. he is most famously known for his skeptical remark, "que sçay-je?" ("what do i know?", in middle french; now rendered as que sais-je? in modern french). contents 	 life 	 essais 	 montaigne's influence on psychology 	 . child education 	 related writers and influence 	 discovery of remains 	 commemoration 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links life[edit] montaigne was born in the aquitaine region of france, on the family estate château de montaigne, in a town now called saint-michel-de-montaigne, close to bordeaux. the family was very wealthy; his great-grandfather, ramon felipe eyquem, had made a fortune as a herring merchant and had bought the estate in , thus becoming the lord of montaigne. his father, pierre eyquem, seigneur of montaigne, was a french catholic soldier in italy for a time and he also had been the mayor of bordeaux.[ ] although there were several families bearing the patronym "eyquem" in guyenne, his father's family is thought to have had some degree of marrano (spanish and portuguese jewish) origins,[ ] while his mother, antoinette lópez de villanueva, was a convert to protestantism.[ ] his maternal grandfather, pedro lopez,[ ] from zaragoza, was from a wealthy marrano (sephardic jewish) family that had converted to catholicism.[ ][ ][ ][ ] his maternal grandmother, honorette dupuy, was from a catholic family in gascony, france.[ ] during a great part of montaigne's life his mother lived near him and even survived him, but is mentioned only twice in his essays. montaigne's relationship with his father, however, is frequently reflected upon and discussed in his essays. montaigne's education began in early childhood and followed a pedagogical plan that his father had developed, refined by the advice of the latter's humanist friends. soon after his birth, montaigne was brought to a small cottage, where he lived the first three years of life in the sole company of a peasant family, in order to, according to the elder montaigne, "draw the boy close to the people, and to the life conditions of the people, who need our help".[ ] after these first spartan years, montaigne was brought back to the château. another objective was for latin to become his first language. the intellectual education of montaigne was assigned to a german tutor (a doctor named horstanus, who could not speak french). his father hired only servants who could speak latin, and they also were given strict orders always to speak to the boy in latin. the same rule applied to his mother, father, and servants, who were obliged to use only latin words he employed, and thus they acquired a knowledge of the very language his tutor taught him. montaigne's latin education was accompanied by constant intellectual and spiritual stimulation. he was familiarized with greek by a pedagogical method that employed games, conversation, and exercises of solitary meditation, rather than the more traditional books. the atmosphere of the boy's upbringing, although designed by highly refined rules taken under advisement by his father, created in the boy's life the spirit of "liberty and delight" that he later would describe as making him "relish... duty by an unforced will, and of my own voluntary motion...without any severity or constraint"; yet he would have everything to take advantage of his freedom. and so a musician woke him every morning, playing one instrument or another,[ ] and an épinettier (with a zither) was the constant companion to montaigne and his tutor, playing tunes to alleviate boredom and tiredness. around the year , montaigne was sent to study at a highly regarded boarding school in bordeaux, the college of guienne, then under the direction of the greatest latin scholar of the era, george buchanan, where he mastered the whole curriculum by his thirteenth year. he finished the first phase of his educational studies at the college of guienne in .[ ] he then began his study of law (his alma mater remains unknown since there are no certainties about his activity from to )[ ] and entered a career in the local legal system. he was a counselor of the court des aides of périgueux and, in , he was appointed counselor of the parlement in bordeaux, a high court. from to he was courtier at the court of charles ix and he was present with the king at the siege of rouen ( ). he was awarded the highest honour of the french nobility, the collar of the order of saint michael, something to which he aspired from his youth. while serving at the bordeaux parlement, he became a very close friend of the humanist poet Étienne de la boétie, whose death in deeply affected montaigne. it has been suggested by donald m. frame, in his introduction to the complete essays of montaigne that because of montaigne's "imperious need to communicate", after losing Étienne he began the essais as a new "means of communication" and that "the reader takes the place of the dead friend".[ ] montaigne married françoise de la cassaigne in , probably in an arranged marriage. she was the daughter and niece of wealthy merchants of toulouse and bordeaux. they had six daughters, but only the second-born, léonor, survived infancy.[ ] little is known about their marriage, he wrote very little about their relationship, however, he did write about of his daughter léonor, "all my children die at nurse; but léonore, our only daughter, who has escaped this misfortune, has reached the age of six and more without having been punished, the indulgence of her mother aiding, except in words, and those very gentle ones."[ ] his daughter married françois de la tour and later, charles de gamaches. she had a daughter by each.[ ] following the petition of his father, montaigne started to work on the first translation of the catalan monk raymond sebond's theologia naturalis, which he published a year after his father's death in (in , sebond's prologue was put on the index librorum prohibitorum because of its declaration that the bible is not the only source of revealed truth). after this, he inherited the family's estate, the château de montaigne, to which he moved back in , thus becoming the lord of montaigne. another literary accomplishment was montaigne's posthumous edition of the works of his friend, boétie. 	 			 			 château de montaigne, a house built on the land once owned by montaigne's family; his original family home no longer exists, although the tower in which he wrote still stands 			 		 	 			 			 the tour de montaigne (montaigne's tower), where montaigne's library was located, remains mostly unchanged since the sixteenth century 			 		 in , he retired from public life to the tower of the château, his so-called "citadel", in the dordogne, where he almost totally isolated himself from every social and family affair. locked up in his library, which contained a collection of some , works, he began work on his essais ("essays"), first published in . on the day of his th birthday, as he entered this almost ten-year period of self-imposed reclusion, he had the following inscription placed on the crown of the bookshelves of his working chamber: in the year of christ , at the age of thirty-eight, on the last day of february, his birthday, michael de montaigne, long weary of the servitude of the court and of public employments, while still entire, retired to the bosom of the learned virgins, where in calm and freedom from all cares he will spend what little remains of his life, now more than half run out. if the fates permit, he will complete this abode, this sweet ancestral retreat; and he has consecrated it to his freedom, tranquility, and leisure.[ ] during this time of the wars of religion in france, montaigne, a roman catholic, acted as a moderating force,[citation needed] respected both by the catholic king henry iii and the protestant henry of navarre. montaigne believed that a knowledge of devastating effects of vice is calculated to excite an aversion to vicious habits. 	 			 			 portrait of michel de montaigne around by dumonstier 			 		 	 			 			 portrait of by Étienne martellange 			 		 	 			 			 portrait of around by an anonymous artist 			 		 in , montaigne, whose health had always been excellent, started suffering from painful kidney stones, a tendency he inherited from his father's family. throughout this illness, he would have nothing to do with doctors or drugs.[ ] from to , montaigne traveled in france, germany, austria, switzerland, and italy, partly in search of a cure, establishing himself at bagni di lucca, where he took the waters. his journey was also a pilgrimage to the holy house of loreto, to which he presented a silver relief depicting him, his wife, and their daughter kneeling before the madonna, considering himself fortunate that it should be hung on a wall within the shrine.[ ] he kept a journal recording regional differences and customs[ ] and a variety of personal episodes, including the dimensions of the stones he succeeded in expelling. this was published much later, in , after its discovery in a trunk that is displayed in his tower.[ ] during a visit to the vatican that montaigne described in his travel journal, the essais were examined by sisto fabri, who served as master of the sacred palace under pope gregory xiii. after fabri examined montaigne's essais the text was returned to him on march . montaigne had apologized for references to the pagan notion of "fortuna" as well as for writing favorably of julian the apostate and of heretical poets, and was released to follow his own conscience in making emendations to the text.[ ] journey to italy by michel de montaigne – while in the city of lucca in , he learned that, like his father before him, he had been elected mayor of bordeaux. he returned and served as mayor. he was re-elected in and served until , again moderating between catholics and protestants. the plague broke out in bordeaux toward the end of his second term in office, in . in , the plague and the french wars of religion prompted him to leave his château for two years.[ ] montaigne continued to extend, revise, and oversee the publication of the essais. in he wrote its third book and also met marie de gournay, an author who admired his work and later edited and published it. montaigne later referred to her as his adopted daughter.[ ] king henry iii was assassinated in , and montaigne then helped to keep bordeaux loyal to henry of navarre, who would go on to become king henry iv. montaigne died of quinsy at the age of , in at the château de montaigne. in his case the disease "brought about paralysis of the tongue",[ ] especially difficult for one who once said, "the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. i find it sweeter than any other action in life; and if i were forced to choose, i think i would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice."[ ] remaining in possession of all his other faculties, he requested mass, and died during the celebration of that mass.[ ] he was buried nearby. later his remains were moved to the church of saint antoine at bordeaux. the church no longer exists: it became the convent des feuillants, which also has disappeared.[ ] the bordeaux tourist office says that montaigne is buried at the musée aquitaine, faculté des lettres, université bordeaux michel de montaigne, pessac. his heart is preserved in the parish church of saint-michel-de-montaigne. the humanities branch of the university of bordeaux is named after him: université michel de montaigne bordeaux .[ ] essais[edit] main article: essays (montaigne) his humanism finds expression in his essais, a collection of a large number of short subjective essays on various topics published in that were inspired by his studies in the classics, especially by the works of plutarch and lucretius.[ ] montaigne's stated goal was to describe humans, and especially himself, with utter frankness. montaigne's writings are studied as literature and philosophy around the world. michel de montaigne inspired by his consideration of the lives and ideals of the leading figures of his age, he finds the great variety and volatility of human nature to be its most basic features. he describes his own poor memory, his ability to solve problems and mediate conflicts without truly getting emotionally involved, his disdain for the human pursuit of lasting fame, and his attempts to detach himself from worldly things to prepare for his timely death. he writes about his disgust with the religious conflicts of his time. he believed that humans are not able to attain true certainty. the longest of his essays, apology for raymond sebond, marking his adoption of pyrrhonism,[ ] contains his famous motto, "what do i know?" montaigne considered marriage necessary for the raising of children, but disliked strong feelings of passionate love because he saw them as detrimental to freedom. in education, he favored concrete examples and experience over the teaching of abstract knowledge intended to be accepted uncritically. his essay "on the education of children" is dedicated to diana of foix. the essais exercised an important influence on both french and english literature, in thought and style.[ ] francis bacon's essays, published over a decade later, in , usually are presumed to be directly influenced by montaigne's collection, and montaigne is cited by bacon alongside other classical sources in later essays.[ ] montaigne's influence on psychology[edit] although not a scientist, montaigne made observations on topics in psychology.[ ] in his essays, he developed and explained his observations of these topics. his thoughts and ideas covered topics such as thought, motivation, fear, happiness, child education, experience, and human action. montaigne's ideas have influenced psychology and are a part of its rich history. child education[edit] child education was among the psychological topics that he wrote about.[ ] his essays on the education of children, on pedantry, and on experience explain the views he had on child education.[ ]: : : some of his views on child education are still relevant today.[ ] montaigne's views on the education of children were opposed to the common educational practices of his day.[ ]: : he found fault both with what was taught and how it was taught.[ ]: much of the education during montaigne's time was focused on the reading of the classics and learning through books.[ ]: montaigne disagreed with learning strictly through books. he believed it was necessary to educate children in a variety of ways. he also disagreed with the way information was being presented to students. it was being presented in a way that encouraged students to take the information that was taught to them as absolute truth. students were denied the chance to question the information. therefore, students could not truly learn. montaigne believed that, to learn truly, a student had to take the information and make it their own. at the foundation montaigne believed that the selection of a good tutor was important for the student to become well educated.[ ]: education by a tutor was to be conducted at the pace of the student.[ ]: he believed that a tutor should be in dialogue with the student, letting the student speak first. the tutor also should allow for discussions and debates to be had. such a dialogue was intended to create an environment in which students would teach themselves. they would be able to realize their mistakes and make corrections to them as necessary. individualized learning was integral to his theory of child education. he argued that the student combines information already known with what is learned and forms a unique perspective on the newly learned information.[ ]: montaigne also thought that tutors should encourage the natural curiosity of students and allow them to question things.[ ]: he postulated that successful students were those who were encouraged to question new information and study it for themselves, rather than simply accepting what they had heard from the authorities on any given topic. montaigne believed that a child's curiosity could serve as an important teaching tool when the child is allowed to explore the things that the child is curious about. experience also was a key element to learning for montaigne. tutors needed to teach students through experience rather than through the mere memorization of information often practised in book learning.[ ]: : he argued that students would become passive adults, blindly obeying and lacking the ability to think on their own.[ ]: nothing of importance would be retained and no abilities would be learned.[ ]: he believed that learning through experience was superior to learning through the use of books.[ ] for this reason he encouraged tutors to educate their students through practice, travel, and human interaction. in doing so, he argued that students would become active learners, who could claim knowledge for themselves. montaigne's views on child education continue to have an influence in the present. variations of montaigne's ideas on education are incorporated into modern learning in some ways. he argued against the popular way of teaching in his day, encouraging individualized learning. he believed in the importance of experience, over book learning and memorization. ultimately, montaigne postulated that the point of education was to teach a student how to have a successful life by practising an active and socially interactive lifestyle.[ ]: related writers and influence[edit] student taking notes on montaigne's essays at shimer college thinkers exploring ideas similar to montaigne include erasmus, thomas more, and guillaume budé, who all worked about fifty years before montaigne.[ ] many of montaigne's latin quotations are from erasmus' adagia, and most critically, all of his quotations from socrates. plutarch remains perhaps montaigne's strongest influence, in terms of substance and style.[ ] montaigne's quotations from plutarch in the essays number more than .[ ] ever since edward capell first made the suggestion in , scholars have suggested montaigne to be an influence on shakespeare.[ ] the latter would have had access to john florio's translation of montaigne's essais, published in english in , and a scene in the tempest "follows the wording of florio [translating of cannibals] so closely that his indebtedness is unmistakable".[ ] most parallels between the two may be explained, however, as commonplaces:[ ] as similarities with writers in other nations to the works of cervantes and shakespeare could be due simply to their own study of latin moral and philosophical writers such as seneca the younger, horace, ovid, and virgil. much of blaise pascal's skepticism in his pensées has been attributed traditionally to his reading montaigne.[ ] the english essayist william hazlitt expressed boundless admiration for montaigne, exclaiming that "he was the first who had the courage to say as an author what he felt as a man. ... he was neither a pedant nor a bigot. ... in treating of men and manners, he spoke of them as he found them, not according to preconceived notions and abstract dogmas".[ ] beginning most overtly with the essays in the "familiar" style in his own table-talk, hazlitt tried to follow montaigne's example.[ ] ralph waldo emerson chose "montaigne; or, the skeptic" as a subject of one of his series of lectures entitled, representative men, alongside other subjects such as shakespeare and plato. in "the skeptic" emerson writes of his experience reading montaigne, "it seemed to me as if i had myself written the book, in some former life, so sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience." friedrich nietzsche judged of montaigne: "that such a man wrote has truly augmented the joy of living on this earth".[ ] sainte-beuve advises us that "to restore lucidity and proportion to our judgments, let us read every evening a page of montaigne."[ ] the american philosopher eric hoffer employed montaigne both stylistically and in thought. in hoffer's memoir, truth imagined, he said of montaigne, "he was writing about me. he knew my innermost thoughts." the british novelist john cowper powys expressed his admiration for montaigne's philosophy in his books, suspended judgements ( )[ ] and the pleasures of literature ( ). judith n. shklar introduces her book ordinary vices ( ), "it is only if we step outside the divinely ruled moral universe that we can really put our minds to the common ills we inflict upon one another each day. that is what montaigne did and that is why he is the hero of this book. in spirit he is on every one of its pages..." twentieth-century literary critic erich auerbach called montaigne the first modern man. "among all his contemporaries", writes auerbach (mimesis, chapter ), "he had the clearest conception of the problem of man's self-orientation; that is, the task of making oneself at home in existence without fixed points of support".[ ] discovery of remains[edit] the musée d'aquitaine announced on november that the human remains, which had been found in the basement of the museum a year earlier, might belong to montaigne.[ ] investigation of the remains, postponed because of the covid- pandemic, resumed in september .[ ] commemoration[edit] the birthdate of montaigne served as the basis to establish national essay day in the usa. references[edit] 	^ robert p. amico, the problem of the criterion, rowman & littlefield, , p. . primary source: montaigne, essais, ii, : "pour juger des apparences que nous recevons des subjets, il nous faudroit un instrument judicatoire ; pour verifier cet instrument, il nous y faut de la demonstration ; pour verifier la demonstration, un instrument : nous voilà au rouet [to judge of the appearances that we receive of subjects, we had need have a judicatorie instrument: to verifie this instrument we should have demonstration; and to approve demonstration, an instrument; thus are we ever turning round]" (transl. by charles cotton). 	^ kurt braatz, friedrich nietzsche: eine studie zur theorie der Öffentlichen meinung, walter de gruyter, , p. . 	^ ft.com "small talk: josé saramago". 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"léonor de montaigne – monloe : montaigne à l'Œuvre". montaigne.univ-tours.fr. retrieved march . 	^ as cited by richard l. regosin, ‘montaigne and his readers', in denis hollier (ed.) a new history of french literature, harvard university press, cambridge, massachusetts, london , pp. – , p. . the latin original runs: 'an. christi aet. , pridie cal. mart., die suo natali, mich. montanus, servitii aulici et munerum publicorum jamdudum pertaesus, dum se integer in doctarum virginum recessit sinus, ubi quietus et omnium securus (quan)tillum in tandem superabit decursi multa jam plus parte spatii: si modo fata sinunt exigat istas sedes et dulces latebras, avitasque, libertati suae, tranquillitatique, et otio consecravit.' as cited in helmut pfeiffer, 'das ich als haushalt: montaignes ökonomische politik’, in rudolf behrens, roland galle (eds.) historische anthropologie und literatur: romanistische beträge zu einem neuen paradigma der literaturwissenschaft, königshausen und neumann, würzburg, pp. – p. 	^ edward chaney, the evolution of the grand tour: anglo-italian cultural relations since the renaissance, nd ed. 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"montaigne, michel de ( – )". in hamowy, ronald (ed.). montaigne, michel ( – ). the encyclopedia of libertarianism. thousand oaks, ca: sage; cato institute. pp.  – . doi: . / .n . isbn  - - - - . lccn  . oclc  . 	marvin lowenthal ( ). the autobiography of michel de montaigne: comprising the life of the wisest man of his times: his childhood, youth, and prime; his adventures in love and marriage, at court, and in office, war, revolution, and plague; his travels at home and abroad; his habits, tastes, whims, and opinions. composed, prefaced, and translated from the essays, letters, travel diary, family journal, etc., withholding no signal or curious detail. houghton mifflin. asin b reyxqg. 	charlotte c. s. thomas ( ). no greater monster nor miracle than myself. mercer university press. isbn  . 	michel de montaigne; charles henry conrad wright ( ). selections from montaigne, ed. with notes, by c.h. conrad wright. d.c. heath & co. external links[edit] 	biography portal 	philosophy portal 	france portal michel de montaigneat wikipedia's sister projects 	definitions from wiktionary 	media from wikimedia commons 	news from wikinews 	quotations from wikiquote 	texts from wikisource 	resources from wikiversity 	works by michel de montaigne at project gutenberg 	works by or about michel de montaigne at internet archive 	works by michel de montaigne at librivox (public domain audiobooks) 	contains book of the essays, lightly edited for easier reading 	facsimile and html versions of the volume essays of montaigne at the online library of liberty 	essays by montaigne at quotidiana.org 	the charles cotton translation of some of montaigne's essays: 	plain text version by project gutenberg 	essays english audio by librivox 	the complete, searchable text of the villey-saulnier edition from the arftl project at the university of chicago (in french) 	montaigne studies at the university of chicago 	michel de montaigne, entry by christopher edelman in the internet encyclopedia of philosophy 	foglia, marc. 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from latin nihil 'nothing') is a philosophy, or family of views within philosophy, expressing some form of negation towards life[ ][ ] or towards fundamental concepts such as knowledge, existence, and the meaning of life.[ ] different nihilist positions hold variously that human values are baseless, that life is meaningless, that knowledge is impossible, or that some set of entities does not exist.[ ][ ] the study of nihilism may regard it as merely a label that has been applied to various separate philosophies,[ ] or as a distinct historical concept arising out of nominalism, skepticism, and philosophical pessimism, as well as possibly out of christianity itself.[ ] contemporary understanding of the idea stems largely from the nietzschean 'crisis of nihilism', from which derives the two central concepts: the destruction of higher values and the opposition to the affirmation of life.[ ][ ] earlier forms of nihilism however, may be more selective in negating specific hegemonies of social, moral, political and aesthetic thought.[ ] beyond europe, elements of buddhist scripture have been identified as among the earliest discourses and critiques of nihilistic thought. the term is sometimes used in association with anomie to explain the general mood of despair at a perceived pointlessness of existence or arbitrariness of human principles and social institutions. nihilism has also been described as conspicuous in or constitutive of certain historical periods. for example,[ ] jean baudrillard[ ][ ] and others have characterized postmodernity as a nihilistic epoch[ ] or mode of thought.[ ] likewise, some theologians and religious figures have stated that postmodernity[ ] and many aspects of modernity[ ] represent nihilism by a negation of religious principles. nihilism has, however, been widely ascribed to both religious and irreligious viewpoints.[ ] in popular use, the term commonly refers to forms of existential nihilism, according to which life is without intrinsic value, meaning, or purpose.[ ] other prominent positions within nihilism include the rejection of all normative and ethical views (§ moral nihilism), the rejection of all social and political institutions (§ political nihilism), the stance that no knowledge can or does exist (§ epistemological nihilism), and a number of metaphysical positions, which assert that non-abstract objects do not exist (§ metaphysical nihilism), that composite objects do not exist (§ mereological nihilism), or even that life itself does not exist. contents 	 etymology, terminology and definition 	 history 	 . buddhism 	 . . nirvana and nihilism 	 . jacobi 	 . kierkegaard 	 . russian nihilism 	 . nietzsche 	 . . heideggerean interpretation of nietzsche 	 . . deleuzean interpretation of nietzsche 	 . postmodernism 	 . . derrida 	 . . lyotard 	 . . baudrillard 	 positions 	 in culture and the arts 	 . dada 	 . literature 	 see also 	 references 	 sources 	 . primary texts 	 . secondary texts 	 external links etymology, terminology and definition[edit] 	 	this section needs expansion. you can help by adding to it. (october ) the etymological origin of nihilism is the latin root word nihil, meaning 'nothing', which is similarly found in the related terms annihilate, meaning 'to bring to nothing',[ ] and nihility, meaning 'nothingness'.[ ] the term nihilism emerged in several places in europe during the th century,[ ] notably in the german form nihilismus,[ ] though was also in use during the middle ages to denote certain forms of heresy.[ ] the concept itself first took shape within russian and german philosophy, which respectively represented the two major currents of discourse on nihilism prior to the th century.[ ] the term likely entered english from either the german nihilismus, late latin nihilismus, or french nihilisme.[ ] early examples of the term's use are found in german publication. in , german writer friedrich lebrecht goetz used it as a literary term in combination with noism (german: neinismus).[ ] in the period surrounding the french revolution, the term was also a pejorative for certain value-destructive trends of modernity, namely the negation of christianity and european tradition in general.[ ] nihilism first entered philosophical study within a discourse surrounding kantian and post-kantian philosophies, notably appearing in the writings of swiss esotericist jacob hermann obereit in and german philosopher friedrich heinrich jacobi in .[ ] as early as , the term began to take on a social connotation with german journalist joseph von görres attributing it to a negation of existing social and political institutions.[ ] the russian form of the word, nigilizm (russian: нигилизм), entered publication in when nikolai nadezhdin used it synonymously with skepticism. in russian journalism the word continued to have significant social connotations.[ ] from the time of jacobi, the term almost fell completely out of use throughout europe until it was revived by russian author ivan turgenev, who brought the word into popular use with his novel fathers and sons, leading many scholars to believe he coined the term.[ ] the nihilist characters of the novel define themselves as those who "deny everything", who do "not take any principle on faith, whatever reverence that principle may be enshrined in", and who regard "at the present time, negation is the most useful of all".[ ] despite turgenev's own anti-nihilistic leanings, many of his readers likewise took up the name of nihilist, thus ascribing the russian nihilist movement its name.[ ] returning to german philosophy, nihilism was further discussed by german philosopher friedrich nietzsche, who used the term to describe the western world's disintegration of traditional morality.[ ] for nietzsche, nihilism applied to both the modern trends of value-destruction expressed in the 'death of god', as well as what he saw as the life-denying morality of christianity.[ ][ ] under nietzsche's profound influence, the term was then further treated within french philosophy and continental philosophy more broadly, while the influence of nihilism in russia arguably continued well into the soviet era.[ ] religious scholars such as altizer have stated that nihilism must necessarily be understood in relation to religion, and that the study of core elements of its character requires fundamentally theological consideration.[ ] history[edit] buddhism[edit] the concept of nihilism was discussed by the buddha ( b.c. to b.c.), as recorded in the theravada and mahayana tripiṭaka.[ ] the tripiṭaka, originally written in pali, refers to nihilism as natthikavāda and the nihilist view as micchādiṭṭhi.[ ] various sutras within it describe a multiplicity of views held by different sects of ascetics while the buddha was alive, some of which were viewed by him to be morally nihilistic. in the "doctrine of nihilism" in the apannaka sutta, the buddha describes moral nihilists as holding the following views:[ ] 	giving produces no beneficial results; 	good and bad actions produce no results; 	after death, beings are not reborn into the present world or into another world; and 	there is no one in the world who, through direct knowledge, can confirm that beings are reborn into this world or into another world the buddha further states that those who hold these views will fail to see the virtue in good mental, verbal, and bodily conduct and the corresponding dangers in misconduct, and will therefore tend towards the latter.[ ] nirvana and nihilism[edit] the culmination of the path that the buddha taught was nirvana, "a place of nothingness…nonpossession and…non-attachment…[which is] the total end of death and decay."[ ] ajahn amaro, an ordained buddhist monk of more than years, observes that in english nothingness can sound like nihilism. however, the word could be emphasized in a different way, so that it becomes no-thingness, indicating that nirvana is not a thing you can find, but rather a state where you experience the reality of non-grasping.[ ] in the alagaddupama sutta, the buddha describes how some individuals feared his teaching because they believe that their self would be destroyed if they followed it. he describes this as an anxiety caused by the false belief in an unchanging, everlasting self. all things are subject to change and taking any impermanent phenomena to be a self causes suffering. nonetheless, his critics called him a nihilist who teaches the annihilation and extermination of an existing being. the buddha's response was that he only teaches the cessation of suffering. when an individual has given up craving and the conceit of 'i am' their mind is liberated, they no longer come into any state of 'being' and are no longer born again.[ ] the aggi-vacchagotta sutta records a conversation between the buddha and an individual named vaccha that further elaborates on this. in the sutta, vaccha asks the buddha to confirm one of the following, with respect to the existence of the buddha after death:[ ] 	after death a buddha reappears somewhere else 	after death a buddha does not reappear 	after death a buddha both does and does not reappear 	after death a buddha neither does nor does not reappear to all four questions, the buddha answers that the terms "appear," "not appear," "does and does not reappear," and "neither does nor does not reappear" do not apply. when vaccha expresses puzzlement, the buddha asks vaccha a counter question to the effect of: if a fire were to go out and someone were to ask you whether the fire went north, south, east or west, how would you reply? vaccha replies that the question does not apply and that an extinguished fire can only be classified as 'out'.[ ] Ṭhānissaro bhikkhu elaborates on the classification problem around the words 'reappear,' etc. with respect to the buddha and nirvana by stating that a "person who has attained the goal [nirvana] is thus indescribable because [they have] abandoned all things by which [they] could be described."[ ] the suttas themselves describe the liberated mind as 'untraceable' or as 'consciousness without feature', making no distinction between the mind of a liberated being that is alive and the mind of one that is no longer alive.[ ][ ] despite the buddha's explanations to the contrary, buddhist practitioners may, at times, still approach buddhism in a nihilistic manner. ajahn amaro illustrates this by retelling the story of a buddhist monk, ajahn sumedho, who in his early years took a nihilistic approach to nirvana. a distinct feature of nirvana in buddhism is that an individual attaining it is no longer subject to rebirth. ajahn sumedho, during a conversation with his teacher ajahn chah, comments that he is "determined above all things to fully realize nirvana in this lifetime…deeply weary of the human condition and…[is] determined not to be born again." to this, ajahn chah replies: "what about the rest of us, sumedho? don't you care about those who'll be left behind?" ajahn amaro comments that ajahn chah could detect that his student had a nihilistic aversion to life rather than true detachment.[ ] jacobi[edit] the term nihilism was first introduced by friedrich heinrich jacobi ( – ), who used the term to characterize rationalism,[ ] and in particular the spinoza's determinism and the aufklärung, in order to carry out a reductio ad absurdum according to which all rationalism (philosophy as criticism) reduces to nihilism—and thus it should be avoided and replaced with a return to some type of faith and revelation. bret w. davis writes, for example:[ ] the first philosophical development of the idea of nihilism is generally ascribed to friedrich jacobi, who in a famous letter criticized fichte's idealism as falling into nihilism. according to jacobi, fichte's absolutization of the ego (the 'absolute i' that posits the 'not-i') is an inflation of subjectivity that denies the absolute transcendence of god. a related but oppositional concept is fideism, which sees reason as hostile and inferior to faith. kierkegaard[edit] main article: philosophy of søren kierkegaard unfinished sketch c. of søren kierkegaard by his cousin niels christian kierkegaard søren kierkegaard ( – ) posited an early form of nihilism, which he referred to as leveling.[ ] he saw leveling as the process of suppressing individuality to a point where an individual's uniqueness becomes non-existent and nothing meaningful in one's existence can be affirmed: levelling at its maximum is like the stillness of death, where one can hear one's own heartbeat, a stillness like death, into which nothing can penetrate, in which everything sinks, powerless. one person can head a rebellion, but one person cannot head this levelling process, for that would make him a leader and he would avoid being levelled. each individual can in his little circle participate in this levelling, but it is an abstract process, and levelling is abstraction conquering individuality. — the present age, translated by alexander dru, with foreword by walter kaufmann, , pp. – kierkegaard, an advocate of a philosophy of life, generally argued against levelling and its nihilistic consequences, although he believed it would be "genuinely educative to live in the age of levelling [because] people will be forced to face the judgement of [levelling] alone."[ ] george cotkin asserts kierkegaard was against "the standardization and levelling of belief, both spiritual and political, in the nineteenth century," and that kierkegaard "opposed tendencies in mass culture to reduce the individual to a cipher of conformity and deference to the dominant opinion."[ ] in his day, tabloids (like the danish magazine corsaren) and apostate christianity were instruments of levelling and contributed to the "reflective apathetic age" of th century europe.[ ] kierkegaard argues that individuals who can overcome the levelling process are stronger for it, and that it represents a step in the right direction towards "becoming a true self."[ ][ ] as we must overcome levelling,[ ] hubert dreyfus and jane rubin argue that kierkegaard's interest, "in an increasingly nihilistic age, is in how we can recover the sense that our lives are meaningful."[ ] russian nihilism[edit] main article: russian nihilist movement portrait of a nihilist student by ilya repin from the period – , russian nihilism was both a nascent form of nihilist philosophy and broad cultural movement which overlapped with certain revolutionary tendencies of the era,[ ] for which it was often wrongly characterized as a form of political terrorism.[ ] russian nihilism centered on the dissolution of existing values and ideals, incorporating theories of hard determinism, atheism, materialism, positivism, and rational egoism, while rejecting metaphysics, sentimentalism, and aestheticism.[ ] leading philosophers of this school of thought included nikolay chernyshevsky and dmitry pisarev.[ ] the intellectual origins of the russian nihilist movement can be traced back to and perhaps earlier,[ ] where it was principally a philosophy of extreme moral and epistemological skepticism.[ ] however, it was not until that the name nihilism was first popularized, when ivan turgenev used the term in his celebrated novel fathers and sons to describe the disillusionment of the younger generation towards both the progressives and traditionalists that came before them,[ ] as well as its manifestation in the view that negation and value-destruction were most necessary to the present conditions.[ ] the movement very soon adopted the name, despite the novel's initial harsh reception among both the conservatives and younger generation.[ ] though philosophically both nihilistic and skeptical, russian nihilism did not unilaterally negate ethics and knowledge as may be assumed, nor did it espouse meaninglessness unequivocally.[ ] even so, contemporary scholarship has challenged the equating of russian nihilism with mere skepticism, instead identifying it as a fundamentally promethean movement.[ ] as passionate advocates of negation, the nihilists sought to liberate the promethean might of the russian people which they saw embodied in a class of prototypal individuals, or new types in their own words.[ ] these individuals, according to pisarev, in freeing themselves from all authority become exempt from moral authority as well, and are distinguished above the rabble or common masses.[ ] later interpretations of nihilism were heavily influenced by works of anti-nihilistic literature, such as those of fyodor dostoevsky, which arose in response to russian nihilism.[ ] "in contrast to the corrupted nihilists [of the real world], who tried to numb their nihilistic sensitivity and forget themselves through self-indulgence, dostoevsky's figures voluntarily leap into nihilism and try to be themselves within its boundaries", writes contemporary scholar nishitani. "the nihility expressed in 'if there is no god, everything is permitted', or 'après moi, le déluge', provides a principle whose sincerity they try to live out to the end. they search for and experiment with ways for the self to justify itself after god has disappeared."[ ] nietzsche[edit] main article: philosophy of friedrich nietzsche friedrich wilhelm nietzsche nihilism is often associated with the german philosopher friedrich nietzsche, who provided a detailed diagnosis of nihilism as a widespread phenomenon of western culture. though the notion appears frequently throughout nietzsche's work, he uses the term in a variety of ways, with different meanings and connotations. karen l. carr describes nietzsche's characterization of nihilism "as a condition of tension, as a disproportion between what we want to value (or need) and how the world appears to operate."[ ]: when we find out that the world does not possess the objective value or meaning that we want it to have or have long since believed it to have, we find ourselves in a crisis.[ ] nietzsche asserts that with the decline of christianity and the rise of physiological decadence,[clarification needed] nihilism is in fact characteristic of the modern age,[ ] though he implies that the rise of nihilism is still incomplete and that it has yet to be overcome.[ ] though the problem of nihilism becomes especially explicit in nietzsche's notebooks (published posthumously), it is mentioned repeatedly in his published works and is closely connected to many of the problems mentioned there. nietzsche characterized nihilism as emptying the world and especially human existence of meaning, purpose, comprehensible truth, or essential value. this observation stems in part from nietzsche's perspectivism, or his notion that "knowledge" is always by someone of some thing: it is always bound by perspective, and it is never mere fact.[ ] rather, there are interpretations through which we understand the world and give it meaning. interpreting is something we can not go without; in fact, it is a condition of subjectivity. one way of interpreting the world is through morality, as one of the fundamental ways that people make sense of the world, especially in regard to their own thoughts and actions. nietzsche distinguishes a morality that is strong or healthy, meaning that the person in question is aware that he constructs it himself, from weak morality, where the interpretation is projected on to something external. nietzsche discusses christianity, one of the major topics in his work, at length in the context of the problem of nihilism in his notebooks, in a chapter entitled "european nihilism."[ ] here he states that the christian moral doctrine provides people with intrinsic value, belief in god (which justifies the evil in the world) and a basis for objective knowledge. in this sense, in constructing a world where objective knowledge is possible, christianity is an antidote against a primal form of nihilism, against the despair of meaninglessness. however, it is exactly the element of truthfulness in christian doctrine that is its undoing: in its drive towards truth, christianity eventually finds itself to be a construct, which leads to its own dissolution. it is therefore that nietzsche states that we have outgrown christianity "not because we lived too far from it, rather because we lived too close".[ ] as such, the self-dissolution of christianity constitutes yet another form of nihilism. because christianity was an interpretation that posited itself as the interpretation, nietzsche states that this dissolution leads beyond skepticism to a distrust of all meaning.[ ][ ]: – stanley rosen identifies nietzsche's concept of nihilism with a situation of meaninglessness, in which "everything is permitted." according to him, the loss of higher metaphysical values that exist in contrast to the base reality of the world, or merely human ideas, gives rise to the idea that all human ideas are therefore valueless. rejecting idealism thus results in nihilism, because only similarly transcendent ideals live up to the previous standards that the nihilist still implicitly holds.[ ] the inability for christianity to serve as a source of valuating the world is reflected in nietzsche's famous aphorism of the madman in the gay science.[ ] the death of god, in particular the statement that "we killed him", is similar to the self-dissolution of christian doctrine: due to the advances of the sciences, which for nietzsche show that man is the product of evolution, that earth has no special place among the stars and that history is not progressive, the christian notion of god can no longer serve as a basis for a morality. one such reaction to the loss of meaning is what nietzsche calls passive nihilism, which he recognizes in the pessimistic philosophy of schopenhauer. schopenhauer's doctrine, which nietzsche also refers to as western buddhism, advocates separating oneself from will and desires in order to reduce suffering. nietzsche characterizes this ascetic attitude as a "will to nothingness", whereby life turns away from itself, as there is nothing of value to be found in the world. this mowing away of all value in the world is characteristic of the nihilist, although in this, the nihilist appears inconsistent: this "will to nothingness" is still a form of valuation or willing.[ ] he describes this as "an inconsistency on the part of the nihilists:" a nihilist is a man who judges of the world as it is that it ought not to be, and of the world as it ought to be that it does not exist. according to this view, our existence (action, suffering, willing, feeling) has no meaning: the pathos of 'in vain' is the nihilists' pathos – at the same time, as pathos, an inconsistency on the part of the nihilists. — friedrich nietzsche, ksa : [ ], taken from the will to power, section , translated by walter kaufmann nietzsche's relation to the problem of nihilism is a complex one. he approaches the problem of nihilism as deeply personal, stating that this predicament of the modern world is a problem that has "become conscious" in him.[ ] according to nietzsche, it is only when nihilism is overcome that a culture can have a true foundation upon which to thrive. he wished to hasten its coming only so that he could also hasten its ultimate departure.[ ] he states that there is at least the possibility of another type of nihilist in the wake of christianity's self-dissolution, one that does not stop after the destruction of all value and meaning and succumb to the following nothingness. this alternate, 'active' nihilism on the other hand destroys to level the field for constructing something new. this form of nihilism is characterized by nietzsche as "a sign of strength,"[ ] a willful destruction of the old values to wipe the slate clean and lay down one's own beliefs and interpretations, contrary to the passive nihilism that resigns itself with the decomposition of the old values. this willful destruction of values and the overcoming of the condition of nihilism by the constructing of new meaning, this active nihilism, could be related to what nietzsche elsewhere calls a free spirit[ ]: – or the Übermensch from thus spoke zarathustra and the antichrist, the model of the strong individual who posits his own values and lives his life as if it were his own work of art. it may be questioned, though, whether "active nihilism" is indeed the correct term for this stance, and some question whether nietzsche takes the problems nihilism poses seriously enough.[ ] heideggerean interpretation of nietzsche[edit] martin heidegger's interpretation of nietzsche influenced many postmodern thinkers who investigated the problem of nihilism as put forward by nietzsche. only recently has heidegger's influence on nietzschean nihilism research faded.[ ] as early as the s, heidegger was giving lectures on nietzsche's thought.[ ] given the importance of nietzsche's contribution to the topic of nihilism, heidegger's influential interpretation of nietzsche is important for the historical development of the term nihilism. heidegger's method of researching and teaching nietzsche is explicitly his own. he does not specifically try to present nietzsche as nietzsche. he rather tries to incorporate nietzsche's thoughts into his own philosophical system of being, time and dasein.[ ] in his nihilism as determined by the history of being ( – ),[ ] heidegger tries to understand nietzsche's nihilism as trying to achieve a victory through the devaluation of the, until then, highest values. the principle of this devaluation is, according to heidegger, the will to power. the will to power is also the principle of every earlier valuation of values.[ ] how does this devaluation occur and why is this nihilistic? one of heidegger's main critiques on philosophy is that philosophy, and more specifically metaphysics, has forgotten to discriminate between investigating the notion of a being (seiende) and being (sein). according to heidegger, the history of western thought can be seen as the history of metaphysics. moreover, because metaphysics has forgotten to ask about the notion of being (what heidegger calls seinsvergessenheit), it is a history about the destruction of being. that is why heidegger calls metaphysics nihilistic.[ ] this makes nietzsche's metaphysics not a victory over nihilism, but a perfection of it.[ ] heidegger, in his interpretation of nietzsche, has been inspired by ernst jünger. many references to jünger can be found in heidegger's lectures on nietzsche. for example, in a letter to the rector of freiburg university of november , , heidegger, inspired by jünger, tries to explain the notion of "god is dead" as the "reality of the will to power." heidegger also praises jünger for defending nietzsche against a too biological or anthropological reading during the nazi era.[ ] heidegger's interpretation of nietzsche influenced a number of important postmodernist thinkers. gianni vattimo points at a back-and-forth movement in european thought, between nietzsche and heidegger. during the s, a nietzschean 'renaissance' began, culminating in the work of mazzino montinari and giorgio colli. they began work on a new and complete edition of nietzsche's collected works, making nietzsche more accessible for scholarly research. vattimo explains that with this new edition of colli and montinari, a critical reception of heidegger's interpretation of nietzsche began to take shape. like other contemporary french and italian philosophers, vattimo does not want, or only partially wants, to rely on heidegger for understanding nietzsche. on the other hand, vattimo judges heidegger's intentions authentic enough to keep pursuing them.[ ] philosophers who vattimo exemplifies as a part of this back and forth movement are french philosophers deleuze, foucault and derrida. italian philosophers of this same movement are cacciari, severino and himself.[ ] jürgen habermas, jean-françois lyotard and richard rorty are also philosophers who are influenced by heidegger's interpretation of nietzsche.[ ] deleuzean interpretation of nietzsche[edit] gilles deleuze's interpretation of nietzsche's concept of nihilism is different - in some sense diametrically opposed - to the usual definition (as outlined in the rest of this article). nihilism is one of the main topics of deleuze's early book nietzsche and philosophy ( ).[ ] there, deleuze repeatedly interprets nietzsche's nihilism as "the enterprise of denying life and depreciating existence".[ ] nihilism thus defined is therefore not the denial of higher values, or the denial of meaning, but rather the depreciation of life in the name of such higher values or meaning. deleuze therefore (with, he claims, nietzsche) says that christianity and platonism, and with them the whole of metaphysics, are intrinsically nihilist. postmodernism[edit] postmodern and poststructuralist thought has questioned the very grounds on which western cultures have based their 'truths': absolute knowledge and meaning, a 'decentralization' of authorship, the accumulation of positive knowledge, historical progress, and certain ideals and practices of humanism and the enlightenment. derrida[edit] jacques derrida, whose deconstruction is perhaps most commonly labeled nihilistic, did not himself make the nihilistic move that others have claimed. derridean deconstructionists argue that this approach rather frees texts, individuals or organizations from a restrictive truth, and that deconstruction opens up the possibility of other ways of being.[ ] gayatri chakravorty spivak, for example, uses deconstruction to create an ethics of opening up western scholarship to the voice of the subaltern and to philosophies outside of the canon of western texts.[ ] derrida himself built a philosophy based upon a 'responsibility to the other'.[ ] deconstruction can thus be seen not as a denial of truth, but as a denial of our ability to know truth. that is to say, it makes an epistemological claim, compared to nihilism's ontological claim. lyotard[edit] lyotard argues that, rather than relying on an objective truth or method to prove their claims, philosophers legitimize their truths by reference to a story about the world that can't be separated from the age and system the stories belong to—referred to by lyotard as meta-narratives. he then goes on to define the postmodern condition as characterized by a rejection both of these meta-narratives and of the process of legitimation by meta-narratives. this concept of the instability of truth and meaning leads in the direction of nihilism, though lyotard stops short of embracing the latter.[citation needed] in lieu of meta-narratives we have created new language-games in order to legitimize our claims which rely on changing relationships and mutable truths, none of which is privileged over the other to speak to ultimate truth.[citation needed] baudrillard[edit] postmodern theorist jean baudrillard wrote briefly of nihilism from the postmodern viewpoint in simulacra and simulation. he stuck mainly to topics of interpretations of the real world over the simulations of which the real world is composed. the uses of meaning were an important subject in baudrillard's discussion of nihilism: the apocalypse is finished, today it is the precession of the neutral, of forms of the neutral and of indifference...all that remains, is the fascination for desertlike and indifferent forms, for the very operation of the system that annihilates us. now, fascination (in contrast to seduction, which was attached to appearances, and to dialectical reason, which was attached to meaning) is a nihilistic passion par excellence, it is the passion proper to the mode of disappearance. we are fascinated by all forms of disappearance, of our disappearance. melancholic and fascinated, such is our general situation in an era of involuntary transparency. — jean baudrillard, simulacra and simulation, "on nihilism", trans. [page needed] positions[edit] from the th century, nihilism has encompassed a range of positions within various fields of philosophy. each of these, as the encyclopædia britannica states, "denied the existence of genuine moral truths or values, rejected the possibility of knowledge or communication, and asserted the ultimate meaninglessness or purposelessness of life or of the universe."[ ] 	cosmic nihilism is the position that reality or the cosmos is either wholly or significantly unintelligible and that it provides no foundation for human aims and principles. particularly, it may regard the cosmos as distinctly hostile or indifferent to humanity.[ ] it is often related to both epistemological and existential nihilism, as well as cosmicism. 	epistemological nihilism is a form of philosophical skepticism according to which knowledge does not exist, or, if it does exist, it is unattainable for human beings. it should not be confused with epistemological fallibilism, according to which all knowledge is uncertain. 	existential nihilism is the position that life has no intrinsic meaning or value. with respect to the universe, existential nihilism posits that a single human or even the entire human species is insignificant, without purpose, and unlikely to change in the totality of existence. the meaninglessness or meaning of life is largely explored in the philosophical school of existentialism. in popular use, "nihilism" now most commonly refers to forms of existential nihilism. 	metaphysical nihilism is the position that concrete objects and physical constructs might not exist in the possible world, or that, even if there exist possible worlds that contain some concrete objects, there is at least one that contains only abstract objects. 	extreme metaphysical nihilism, also sometimes called ontological nihilism, is the position that nothing actually exists at all.[ ][ ] the american heritage medical dictionary defines one form of nihilism as "an extreme form of skepticism that denies all existence."[ ] a similar skepticism concerning the concrete world can be found in solipsism. however, despite the fact that both views deny the certainty of objects' true existence, the nihilist would deny the existence of self, whereas the solipsist would affirm it.[ ] both of these positions are considered forms of anti-realism. 	mereological nihilism, also called compositional nihilism, is the metaphysical position that objects with proper parts do not exist. this position applies to objects in space, and also to objects existing in time, which are posited to have no temporal parts. rather, only basic building blocks without parts exist, and thus the world we see and experience, full of objects with parts, is a product of human misperception (i.e., if we could see clearly, we would not perceive compositive objects). this interpretation of existence must be based on resolution: the resolution with which humans see and perceive the "improper parts" of the world is not an objective fact of reality, but is rather an implicit trait that can only be qualitatively explored and expressed. therefore, there is no arguable way to surmise or measure the validity of mereological nihilism. for example, an ant can get lost on a large cylindrical object because the circumference of the object is so large with respect to the ant that the ant effectively feels as though the object has no curvature. thus, the resolution with which the ant views the world it exists "within" is an important determining factor in how the ant experiences this "within the world" feeling. 	moral nihilism, also called ethical nihilism, is the meta-ethical position that no morality or ethics exists whatsoever; therefore, no action is ever morally preferable to any other. moral nihilism is distinct from both moral relativism and expressivism in that it does not acknowledge socially constructed values as personal or cultural moralities. it may also differ from other moral positions within nihilism that, rather than argue there is no morality, hold that if it does exist, it is a human construction and thus artificial, wherein any and all meaning is relative for different possible outcomes. an alternative scholarly perspective is that moral nihilism is a morality in itself. cooper writes, "in the widest sense of the word 'morality', moral nihilism is a morality."[ ] 	 passive and active nihilism, the former of which is also equated to philosophical pessimism, refer to two approaches to nihilist thought; passive nihilism sees nihility as an end in itself, whereas active nihilism attempts to surpass it. for nietzsche, passive nihilism further encapsulates the "will to nothing" and the modern condition of resignation or unawareness towards the dissolution of higher values brought about by the th century.[ ][ ] 	political nihilism is the position holding no political goals whatsoever, except for the complete destruction of all existing political institutions—along with the principles, values, and social institutions that uphold them.[ ] though often related to anarchism, it may differ in that it presents no method of social organisation after a negation of the current political structure has taken place. an analysis of political nihilism is further presented by leo strauss.[ ] 	scientific nihilism is the position that scientific study and attempts to apply scientific knowledge are dubious or without merit.[ ] 	therapeutic nihilism, also called medical nihilism, is the position that the effectiveness of medical intervention is dubious or without merit.[ ] dealing with the philosophy of science as it relates to the contextualized demarcation of medical research, jacob stegenga applies bayes' theorem to medical research and argues for the premise that "even when presented with evidence for a hypothesis regarding the effectiveness of a medical intervention, we ought to have low confidence in that hypothesis."[ ][ ] in culture and the arts[edit] dada[edit] the term dada was first used by richard huelsenbeck and tristan tzara in .[ ] the movement, which lasted from approximately to , arose during world war i, an event that influenced the artists.[ ] the dada movement began in the old town of zürich, switzerland—known as the "niederdorf" or "niederdörfli"—in the café voltaire.[ ] the dadaists claimed that dada was not an art movement, but an anti-art movement, sometimes using found objects in a manner similar to found poetry. the "anti-art" drive is thought[by whom?] to have stemmed from a post-war emptiness.[citation needed] this tendency toward devaluation of art has led many[who?] to claim that dada was an essentially nihilistic movement.[citation needed] given that dada created its own means for interpreting its products, it is difficult to classify alongside most other contemporary art expressions. due to perceived ambiguity, it has been classified as a nihilistic modus vivendi.[ ] literature[edit] the term "nihilism" was actually popularized in by ivan turgenev in his novel fathers and sons, whose hero, bazarov, was a nihilist and recruited several followers to the philosophy. he found his nihilistic ways challenged upon falling in love.[ ] anton chekhov portrayed nihilism when writing three sisters. the phrase "what does it matter" or variants of this are often spoken by several characters in response to events; the significance of some of these events suggests a subscription to nihilism by said characters as a type of coping strategy. the philosophical ideas of the french author, the marquis de sade, are often noted as early examples of nihilistic principles.[ ] see also[edit] 	absurdism 	acosmism 	agnosticism 	anarchism 	anatta 	anti-art and anti-anti-art 	anti-humanism 	antinatalism 	apatheism 	apathy 	cosmicism 	cynicism (philosophy) 	dysteleology 	egoism 	eliminative materialism 	existentialism 	hedonism 	u. g. krishnamurti 	legal nihilism 	misanthropy 	misotheism 	moral nihilism 	national nihilism 	nirvana 	paradox of nihilism 	pessimism 	postmodernism 	post-structuralism 	radical skepticism 	russian nihilist movement 	solipsism 	tao te ching 	therapeutic nihilism 	trivialism 	philosophy portal 	psychology portal 	religion portal references[edit] 	^ crosby, donald a. 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"nihilism, russian". routledge encyclopedia of philosophy. taylor and francis. doi: . / -e - . isbn  . nihilism was a broad social and cultural movement as well as a doctrine. 	^ "nihilism". encyclopædia britannica. the philosophy of nihilism then began to be associated erroneously with the regicide of alexander ii ( ) and the political terror that was employed by those active at the time in clandestine organizations opposed to absolutism. 	^ 	petrov, kristian ( ). "'strike out, right and left!': a conceptual-historical analysis of s russian nihilism and its notion of negation". stud east eur thought. : – . doi: . /s - - - . 	scanlan, james p. ( ). "the case against rational egoism in dostoevsky's notes from underground". journal of the history of ideas. university of pennsylvania press. ( ): – . jstor  . 	^ lovell, stephen ( ). "nihilism, russian". routledge encyclopedia of philosophy. taylor and francis. doi: . / -e - . isbn  . the major theorists of russian nihilism were nikolai chernyshevskii and dmitrii pisarev, although their authority and influence extended well beyond the realm of theory. 	^ 	lovell, stephen ( ). "nihilism, russian". routledge encyclopedia of philosophy. taylor and francis. doi: . / -e - . isbn  . russian nihilism is perhaps best regarded as the intellectual pool of the period – out of which later radical movements emerged 	nishitani, keiji ( ). mccormick, peter j. (ed.). the self-overcoming of nihilism. translated by graham parkes; with setsuko aihara. state university of new york press. isbn  . nihilism and anarchism, which for a while would completely dominate the intelligentsia and become a major factor in the history of nineteenth-century russia, emerged in the final years of the reign of alexander i. 	^ "nihilism". encyclopædia britannica. nihilism, (from latin nihil, "nothing"), originally a philosophy of moral and epistemological skepticism that arose in th-century russia during the early years of the reign of tsar alexander ii. 	^ 	petrov, kristian ( ). "'strike out, right and left!': a conceptual-historical analysis of s russian nihilism and its notion of negation". stud east eur thought. : – . doi: . /s - - - . even so, the term nihilism did not become popular until turgenev published f&c in . turgenev, a sorokovnik (an s man), used the term to describe "the children", the new generation of students and intellectuals who, by virtue of their relation to their fathers, were considered šestidesjatniki. 	"nihilism". encyclopædia britannica. it was ivan turgenev, in his celebrated novel fathers and sons ( ), who popularized the term through the figure of bazarov the nihilist. 	"fathers and sons". encyclopædia britannica. fathers and sons concerns the inevitable conflict between generations and between the values of traditionalists and intellectuals. 	edie, james m.; scanlan, james; zeldin, mary-barbara ( ). russian philosophy volume ii: the nihilists, the populists, critics of religion and culture. university of tennessee press. p.  . the "fathers" of the novel are full of humanitarian, progressive sentiments ... but to the "sons," typified by the brusque scientifically minded bazarov, the "fathers" were concerned too much with generalities, not enough with the specific material evils of the day. 	^ frank, joseph ( ). dostoevsky: the miraculous years, – . princeton university press. isbn  - - - . for it was bazarov who had first declared himself to be a "nihilist" and who announced that, "since at the present time, negation is the most useful of all," the nihilists "deny—everything." 	^ 	"fathers and sons". encyclopædia britannica. at the novel's first appearance, the radical younger generation attacked it bitterly as a slander, and conservatives condemned it as too lenient 	"fathers and sons". novels for students. retrieved august , – via encyclopedia.com. when he returned to saint petersburg in on the same day that young radicals—calling themselves "nihilists"—were setting fire to buildings 	^ 	"nihilism". encyclopædia britannica. originally a philosophy of moral and epistemological skepticism that arose in th-century russia during the early years of the reign of tsar alexander ii. 	petrov, kristian ( ). "'strike out, right and left!': a conceptual-historical analysis of s russian nihilism and its notion of negation". stud east eur thought. : – . doi: . /s - - - . russian nihilism did not imply, as one might expect from a purely semantic viewpoint, a universal "negation" of ethical normativity, the foundations of knowledge or the meaningfulness of human existence. 	^ gillespie, michael allen ( ). nihilism before nietzsche. university of chicago press. p.  . isbn  . this nihilist movement was essentially promethean"; "it has often been argued that russian nihilism is little more than skepticism or empiricism. while there is a certain plausibility to this assertation, it ultimately fails to capture the millenarian zeal the characterized russian nihilism. these nihilists were not skeptics but passionate advocates of negation and liberation. 	^ 	gillespie, michael allen ( ). nihilism before nietzsche. university of chicago press. pp.  , – . isbn  . these nihilists were not skeptics but passionate advocates of negation and liberation."; "while the two leading nihilist groups disagreed on details, they both sought to liberate the promethean might of the russian people"; "the nihilists believed that the prototypes of this new promethean humanity already existed in the cadre of the revolutionary movement itself. 	petrov, kristian ( ). "'strike out, right and left!': a conceptual-historical analysis of s russian nihilism and its notion of negation". stud east eur thought. : – . doi: . /s - - - . these "new types", to borrow pisarev’s designation 	^ frank, joseph ( ). dostoevsky: the miraculous years, – . princeton university press. isbn  - - - . 	^ petrov, kristian ( ). "'strike out, right and left!': a conceptual-historical analysis of s russian nihilism and its notion of negation". stud east eur thought. : – . doi: . /s - - - . 	^ nishitani, keiji ( ). mccormick, peter j. (ed.). the self-overcoming of nihilism. translated by graham parkes; with setsuko aihara. state university of new york press. p.  . isbn  . 	^ f. nietzsche, ksa : [ ] 	^ a b michels, steven. . "nietzsche, nihilism, and the virtue of nature." dogma. archived from the original on - - . 	^ f. nietzsche, ksa : [ ] 	^ f. nietzsche, ksa : [ ] 	^ f. nietzsche, ksa : [ ] 	^ f. nietzsche, ksa : [ ] 	^ f. nietzsche, ksa : [ ] 	^ rosen, stanley. . nihilism: a philosophical essay. new haven: yale university press. p. xiii. 	^ f. nietzsche, the gay science: . 	^ f. nietzsche, on the genealogy of morals, iii: . 	^ f. nietzsche, ksa : [ ] 	^ f. nietzsche, ksa : [ ] 	^ doomen, j. . "consistent nihilism." journal of mind and behavior ( / ): – . 	^ "heideggers, aus-einander-setzung' mit nietzsches hat mannigfache resonanz gefunden. das verhältnis der beiden philosophen zueinander ist dabei von unterschiedlichen positionen aus diskutiert worden. inzwischen ist es nicht mehr ungewöhnlich, daß heidegger, entgegen seinem anspruch auf, verwindung' der metaphysik und des ihr zugehörigen nihilismus, in jenen nihilismus zurückgestellt wird, als dessen vollender er nietzsche angesehen hat." wolfgang müller-lauter, heidegger und nietzsche. nietzsche-interpretationen iii, berlin-new york , p. . 	^ cf. both by heidegger: vol. i, nietzsche i ( - ). translated as nietzsche i: the will to power as art by david f. krell (new york: harper & row, ); vol. ii, nietzsche ii ( - ). translated as "the eternal recurrence of the same" by david f. krell in nietzsche ii: the eternal recurrence of the same (new york, harper & row, ). 	^ "indem heidegger das von nietzsche ungesagte im hinblick auf die seinsfrage zur sprache zu bringen sucht, wird das von nietzsche gesagte in ein diesem selber fremdes licht gerückt.", müller-lauter, heidegger und nietzsche, p. . 	^ original german: die seinsgeschichtliche bestimmung des nihilismus. found in the second volume of his lectures: vol. ii, nietzsche ii ( - ). translated as "the eternal recurrence of the same" by david f. krell in nietzsche ii: the eternal recurrence of the same (new york, harper & row, ). 	^ "heidegger geht davon aus, daß nietzsche den nihilismus als entwertung der bisherigen obersten werte versteht; seine Überwindung soll durch die umwertung der werte erfolgen. das prinzip der umwertung wie auch jeder früheren wertsetzung ist der wille zur macht.", müller-lauter, heidegger und nietzsche, p. . 	^ "what remains unquestioned and forgotten in metaphysics is being; and hence, it is nihilistic.", utm.edu archived - - at the wayback machine, visited on november , . 	^ müller-lauter, heidegger und nietzsche, p. . 	^ müller-lauter, heidegger und nietzsche, pp. - . 	^ müller-lauter, heidegger und nietzsche, pp. - . 	^ "er (vattimo) konstatiert, in vielen europäischen philosophien eine hin- und herbewegung zwischen heidegger und nietzsche". dabei denkt er, wie seine späteren ausführungen zeigen, z.b. an deleuze, foucault und derrida auf französischer seite, an cacciari, severino und an sich selbst auf italienischer seite.", müller-lauter, heidegger und nietzsche, p. . 	^ müller-lauter, heidegger und nietzsche, pp. – . 	^ deleuze, gilles ( ) [ ]. nietzsche and philosophy. translated by tomlinson, hugh. london: the athlone press. isbn  - - - - . 	^ deleuze, nietzsche and philosophy, p. . 	^ borginho, jose archived - - at the wayback machine ; nihilism and affirmation. retrieved - - . 	^ spivak, chakravorty gayatri; ; can the subaltern speak?; in nelson, cary and grossberg, lawrence (eds); ; marxism and the interpretation of culture; macmillan education, basingstoke. 	^ reynolds, jack; ; the other of derridean deconstruction: levinas, phenomenology and the question of responsibility archived - - at the wayback machine; minerva - an internet journal of philosophy : – . retrieved - - . 	^ "nihilism". encyclopædia britannica. in the th century, nihilism encompassed a variety of philosophical and aesthetic stances that, in one sense or another, denied the existence of genuine moral truths or values, rejected the possibility of knowledge or communication, and asserted the ultimate meaninglessness or purposelessness of life or of the universe. 	^ crosby, donald a. 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	zazaki 	中文 		edit links 	 		 this page was last edited on december , at :  (utc). 	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 odes (horace) - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	odes (horace) 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		"carmina" redirects here. for other uses, see carmina (disambiguation). the odes (latin: carmina) are a collection in four books of latin lyric poems by horace. the horatian ode format and style has been emulated since by other poets. books to were published in bc. a fourth book, consisting of poems, was published in bc. the odes were developed as a conscious imitation of the short lyric poetry of greek originals – pindar, sappho and alcaeus are some of horace's models. his genius lay in applying these older forms to the social life of rome in the age of augustus. the odes cover a range of subjects – love, friendship, wine, religion, morality, patriotism; poems of eulogy addressed to augustus and his relations; and verses written on a miscellany of subjects and incidents, including the uncertainty of life, the cultivation of tranquility and contentment, and the observance of moderation or the "golden mean."[ ] the odes have been considered traditionally by english-speaking scholars as purely literary works. recent evidence by a horatian scholar suggests they may have been intended as performance art, a latin re-interpretation of greek lyric song.[ ] the roman writer petronius, writing less than a century after horace's death, remarked on the curiosa felicitas (studied spontaneity) of the odes (satyricon ). the english poet alfred lord tennyson declared that the odes provided "jewels five-words long, that on the stretched forefinger of all time / sparkle for ever" (the princess, part ii, l. ). contents 	 book 	 book 	 book 	 book 	 see also 	 references 	 external links book [edit] book consists of poems.[ ][ ] the phrase nunc est bibendum, "now is the time to drink!", is the opening of i. . i. , maecenas atavis edite regibus... – dedication of the first three books of the odes to maecenas (horace's patron) – every man is governed by his ruling passion: the olympian charioteer, the politician, the trader, the husbandman, the merchant, the man of pleasure, the soldier, and the hunter. to win the title of a lyric poet is all that horace desires. i. , iam satis terris nivis atque dirae... – to augustus, the deliverer and hope of the state – the subject of this ode is the overflowing of the tiber, which recalls to the poet the flood of deucalion. he imagines that the disaster is caused by the wrath of ilia (the wife of tiber), the civil wars, and the assassination of julius caesar. augustus, as mercury in human shape, is invoked to save the empire. i. , sic te diva potens cypri.. – to virgil, setting out for greece – the ode begins with a prayer for the safe voyage of virgil to athens, which suggests the daring of the earliest mariners and the boldness of men in overcoming difficulties set by nature. i. , solvitur acris hiems... – a hymn to springtime – the changing season warns us of the shortness of life. horace urges his friend sestius – vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam (the brief sum of life forbids us cling to far-off hope). i. , quis multa gracilis te puer in rosa... – to the flirt pyrrha, who is as faithless as the winds or seas, and whose fancy no lover can hold onto. i. , scriberis vario fortis et hostium victor... – horace pleads his inability to worthily sing the praises of m. vipsanius agrippa, the distinguished roman commander. i. , laudabunt alii claram rhodon aut mytilenen... – fairest of spots, o plancus, is tibur – there, or wherever you may be, drown your cares in wine. i. , lydia, dic, per omnis te deos oro... – to lydia, who has transformed sybaris from a hardy athlete into a doting lover. i. , vides ut alta stet nive candidum... – winter without bids us make merry within – (with borrowing from an original by alcaeus) – to thaliarchus. the snow is deep and the frost is keen – pile high the hearth and bring out old wine – leave all else to the gods. i. , mercuri, facunde nepos atlantis... – hymn to mercury – mercury is addressed as the god of eloquence and the promoter of the civilization of man; as the messenger of the gods and the inventor of the lyre; skilled in craft and cunning; and the conductor of souls to the underworld. i. , tu ne quaesieris... – carpe diem! – the poet seeks to dissuade leuconoe from giving heed to the false arts of astrologers and diviners. it is vain to inquire into the future – let us enjoy the present, for this is all we can command. it closes with the famous line: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero (seize the day, trusting tomorrow as little as possible). i. , quem virum aut heroa lyra... – the praises of augustus – the poet praises augustus by associating him with gods and heroes, and distinguished romans of earlier days. i. , cum tu, lydia... – jealousy – addressed to lydia – the poet contrasts the misery of jealousy with the happiness secured by constancy in love. i. , o navis, referent in mare te novi fluctus... – the ship of state – horace refers to a period during which the roman state was tossed and nearly wrecked by perpetual storms. he exhorts it to beware of fresh perils and keep safely in harbor. i. , pastor cum traheret... – the prophecy of nereus – as paris hurries from sparta to troy with helen, nereus stills the winds and prophesies – ilium's doom is inevitable. i. , o matre pulchra filia pulchrior... – an apology – the poet has offended some lady by the intemperate utterances of his verse; he now seeks forgiveness for the fault. he describes the sad effects of unbridled anger, and urges her to restrain hers. i. , velox amoenum saepe lucretilem... – an invitation to tyndaris to enjoy the delights of the country – horace invites tyndaris to his sabine farm, and describes the air of tranquility and security there, blessed as it is with favoring protection of faunus and the rural deities. i. , nullam, vare, sacra vite prius seueris arborem... – the praise of wine, and the ill effects of intemperance. i. , mater saeua cupidinum... – the poet's love for glycera i. , vile potabis modicis sabinum cantharis... – an invitation to maecenas – you will drink poor sabine wine in modest bowls when you visit the poet. i. , dianam tenerae dicite virgines... – hymn in praise of latona and her children, diana and apollo i. , integer vitae scelerisque purus... – upright of life and free from wickedness – addressed to aristius fuscus – begins as a solemn praise of honest living and ends in a mock-heroic song of love for sweetly laughing "lalage" (cf. ii. . , propertius iv. . ). i. , vitas hinnuleo me similis, chloë... – fear me not, chloe, and do not shun me. i. , quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus... – to virgil – a lament for the death of quinctilius i. , parcius iunctas quatiunt fenestras... – lydia, thy charms are past – horace taunts lydia with her approaching old age and her lack of admirers. i. , musis amicus tristitiam et metus tradam... – in praise of aelius lamia – the poet bids the muses to inspire him to sing the praises of aelius lamia, a man distinguished for his exploits in war. i. , natis in usum laetitiae scyphis... – let moderation reign – at a wine party, horace endeavors to restrain his quarrelsome companions – he asks the brother of megilla of opus to confide the object of his affections. i. , te maris et terrae numeroque... – death, the doom of all – dialogue, between a sailor and the spirit of the philosopher archytas, on death, the universal fate, and the duty of giving to the dead the rites of burial. i. , icci, beatis nunc arabum invides... – the scholar turned adventurer – a remonstrance addressed to iccius on his intention of giving up philosophy and of joining the expedition to arabia felix. i. , o venus regina cnidi paphique... – a prayer to venus – venus is invoked to abandon for a while her beloved cyprus, and to honor with her presence the temple prepared for her at the home of glycera. i. , quid dedicatum poscit apollinem vates?... – prayer to apollo on the consecration of his temple. i. , poscimur. si quid vacui sub umbra... – invocation to the lyre – the poet addresses his lyre, and blends with the address the praises of the greek poet alcaeus. i. , albi, ne doleas plus nimio memor... – the faithless glycera – a consolation to the contemporary poet tibullus over a lost love. i. , parcus deorum cultor et infrequens... – the poet's conversion from error – after hearing thunder in a cloudless sky, horace renounces his former error and declares his belief in jupiter, fortuna, and the superintending providence of the gods. i. , o diva, gratum quae regis antium... – hymn to fortuna – the poet invokes fortune as an all-powerful goddess. he implores her to preserve augustus in his distant expeditions, and to save the state from ruinous civil wars. i. , et ture et fidibus iuvat – an ode of congratulation to plotius numida, on his safe return from spain, where he had been serving under augustus in a war against the cantabrians. i. , nunc est bibendum... – now is the time to drink! – an ode of joy for augustus's victory at actium, the capture of alexandria, and the death of cleopatra. the tone of triumph over the fallen queen is tempered by a tribute of admiration to her lofty pride and resolute courage. i. , persicos odi, puer, apparatus... – away with oriental luxury! – horace directs his attendant to make the simplest preparations for his entertainment. book [edit] book consists of poems. ii. , motum ex metello consule civicum... – to asinius pollio, the writer of tragedy, who is now composing a history of the civil wars. a lament for the carnage caused by the conflicts of the romans with their fellow-citizens. ii. , nullus argento color est avaris... – the wise use of money – to sallustius crispus (nephew of the historian sallust). the love of gain grows by self-indulgence. the moderate man is the genuine king. ii. , aequam memento rebus in arduis... – the wisdom of moderation, the certainty of death – to quintus dellius. let us enjoy our life while we may, for death will soon strip us all alike of our possessions. ii. , ne sit ancillae tibi amor pudori... – to xanthias phoceus – horace encourages his friend on his love for phyllis, his slave. ii. , nondum subacta ferre iugum valet... – not yet! – to a friend on his love for lalage – the maid his friend loves is not yet marriageable and still too young to return his passion – soon it will be otherwise. ii. , septimi, gadis aditure mecum et... – fairest of all is tibur – yet tarentum, too, is fair – to horace's friend, the roman knight septimius, who would go with him to the ends of the earth. the poet prays that tibur may be the resting-place of his old age; or, if that may not be, he will choose the country which lies around tarentum. ii. , o saepe mecum tempus in ultimum... – a joyful return – an ode of congratulation to pompeius varus, once the poet's comrade in the army of brutus, on his restoration to civil rights. ii. , ulla si iuris tibi peierati... – the baleful charms of barine – on barine's utter faithlessness, which heaven will not punish – indeed, her beauty and fascination are ever-increasing. ii. , non semper imbres nubibus hispidos... – a truce to sorrow, valgius! – to c. valgius rufus on the death of his son mystes. since all troubles have their natural end, do not mourn overmuch. rather let us celebrate the latest victories of augustus. ii. , rectius vives, licini, neque altum... – the golden mean – to l. licinius murena. the moderate life is the perfect life. ii. , quid bellicosus cantaber et scythes... – enjoy life wisely! – horace in a half-playful tone advises his friend quinctius hirpinus to enjoy life wisely, and not to fret. ii. , nolis longa ferae bella numantiae... – the charms of licymnia – horace pleads the unfitness of his lyric poetry to record the wars of the romans or the battles of mythology. he advises maecenas to write in prose the history of caesar's campaigns, while he himself will sing the praises of licymnia (some commentators say that licymnia was another name for terentia, the wife of maecenas). ii. , ille et nefasto te posuit die... – a narrow escape – this ode owes its origin to horace's narrow escape from sudden death by the falling of a tree on his sabine estate. (this same event is also alluded to in odes, ii. line and iii. line .) after expressing his indignation against the person who planted the tree, he passes to a general reflection on the uncertainty of life and the realms of dark proserpine. ii. , eheu fugaces, postume... – death inevitable – addressed to postumus, a rich but avaricious friend. nothing can stay the advance of decay and death, the common doom of all on earth. men pile up wealth, only for another to waste it. ii. , iam pauca aratro iugera regiae... – against luxury – horace describes the extravagant luxury prevalent among the rich, and praises the simplicity and frugality of the old romans. ii. , otium divos rogat in patenti... – contentment with our lot the only true happiness – all men long for repose, which riches cannot buy. contentment, not wealth, makes genuine happiness. ii. , cur me querellis exanimas tuis?... – to maecenas on his recovery from illness – horace says that the same day must of necessity bring death to them both – their horoscopes are wonderfully alike and they have both been saved from extreme peril. ii. , non ebur neque aureum... – the vanity of riches – the poet, content with his own moderate fortune, inveighs against the blindness of avarice – for the same end awaits all men. ii. , bacchum in remotis carmina rupibus... – hymn to bacchus – the poet celebrates bacchus as all-powerful, all-conquering, and lord of creation; whom the earth, the sea and all nature obey; to whom men are subject, and the giants and the monsters of orcus are all brought low. ii. , non usitata nec tenui ferar... – the poet prophesies his own immortality – transformed into a swan, the poet will soar away from the abodes of men, nor will he need the empty honors of a tomb. book [edit] "justum et tenacem propositi virum" – "a man just and steadfast in purpose", from horace's odes, iii. , on the gravestone of elliot charles bovill, chief justice of the straits settlements, in fort canning green, singapore the ancient editor porphyrion read the first six odes of this book as a single sequence, one unified by a common moral purpose and addressed to all patriotic citizens of rome. these six "roman odes", as they have since been called (by ht plüss in ), share a common meter and take as a common theme the glorification of roman virtues and the attendant glory of rome under augustus. ode iii. contains the famous line "dulce et decorum est pro patria mori," (it is sweet and honorable to die for one's country). ode iii. caelo tonantem credidimus jovem makes explicit identification of augustus as a new jove destined to restore in modern rome the valor of past roman heroes like marcus atilius regulus, whose story occupies the second half of the poem. book consists of poems. iii. , odi profanum vulgus et arceo... – on happiness – philosophy is a mystery which the uninitiated crowd cannot understand. the worthlessness of riches and rank. the praise of contentment. care cannot be banished by change of scene. iii. , angustam amice pauperiem pati... – on virtue – horace extols the virtue of endurance and valor in fighting for one's country, of integrity in politics, and of religious honor. iii. , iustum et tenacem propositi virum... – on integrity and perseverance – the merit of integrity and resolution: the examples of pollux, hercules and romulus. juno's speech to the gods on the destiny of rome. iii. , descende caelo et dic age tibia... – on wise counsel and clemency – the muses have guarded and given counsel to horace since his youth. they also do so to augustus, and prompt him to clemency and kindness. the evils of violence and arrogance, on the other hand, are exemplified by the titans and giants, and others. iii. , caelo tonantem credidimus iovem... – to augustus – on virtue and fortitude – augustus will be recognized as a god on earth for his subjugation of the britons and parthians. the disgraceful actions of the troops of crassus (who married parthians after being taken prisoner) are contrasted by the noble example of regulus (who was released from carthage to negotiate a peace, but dissuaded the senate, and then returned to carthage to be tortured to death). iii. , delicta maiorum inmeritus lues... – piety & chastity – return to the old morals! – horace condemns the prevailing domestic immorality and contempt of the institutions of religion, and earnestly urges a speedy return to the simpler and purer manners of ancient times. iii. , quid fles, asterie, quem tibi candidi... – constancy, asterie! – horace consoles asterie on the absence of her lover gyges, and warns her not to be unfaithful to her own vows. iii. , martis caelebs quid agam kalendis... – a happy anniversary – horace invites maecenas to celebrate with him the festival of the calends of march (the feast of the matrons), which was also the anniversary of his narrow escape from sudden death by a falling tree. iii. , donec gratus eram tibi... – the reconciliation of two lovers – often referred to as an "amoebaean" ode (from the greek αμείβω – to exchange), it describes, in graceful dialogue, a quarrel between two lovers and their reconciliation. iii. , extremum tanain si biberes, lyce... – a lover's complaint – horace warns lyce that he cannot put up with her unkindness forever. iii. , mercuri, – nam te docilis magistro... – take warning, lyde, from the danaids! – to mercury – horace begs the god to teach him such melody as will overcome the unkindness of lyde. the ode concludes with the tale of the daughters of danaus, and their doom in the underworld. iii. , miserarum est neque amori dare ludum... – unhappy neobule – joyless is the life of neobule, ever under the watchful eye of a strict guardian. only thoughts of handsome hebrus take her mind off her troubles. iii. , o fons bandusiae splendidior vitro... – o, fountain of bandusia! – tomorrow a sacrifice will be offered to the fountain of bandusia, whose refreshing coolness is offered to the flocks and herds, and which is now immortalized in verse. iii. , herculis ritu modo dictus, o plebs... – the return of augustus – horace proclaims a festal day on the return of augustus from spain (c. bc), where he had reduced to subjection the fierce cantabri. iii. , uxor pauperis ibyci... – chloris, act your age! – horace taunts chloris with her attempts to appear young, and with her frivolous life, while she is really an old woman. iii. , inclusam danaen turris aenea... – contentment is genuine wealth – gold is all-powerful, but its possession brings care and restlessness. true contentment is to be satisfied with little, as horace is with his sabine farm. iii. , aeli vetusto nobilis ab lamo... – prepare for storms tomorrow – to aelius lamia – the crow foretells a stormy day tomorrow – gather some firewood while you may, and spend the day in festivity. iii. , faune, nympharum fugientum amator... – hymn to faunus – horace asks faunus to bless his flocks and fields, for when faunus is near, the whole countryside is glad. iii. , quantum distet ab inacho... – invitation to a banquet – horace invites telephus to give up for a time his historical researches, and join him at a banquet in honor of murena. iii. , non vides quanto moveas periclo... – the rivals – horace humorously describes a contest between pyrrhus and some maiden for the exclusive regards of nearchus. iii. , o nata mecum consule manlio... – to a wine-jar – horace, preparing to entertain his friend the orator m. valerius messala corvinus, sings of the manifold virtues of wine. iii. , montium custos nemorumque virgo – to diana – horace dedicates a pine tree to diana, and vows to the goddess a yearly sacrifice. iii. , caelo supinas si tuleris manus – humble sacrifices devoutly offered – horace assures the rustic phidyle that the favor of the gods is gained not by costly offerings, but simple sacrifices such as salted meal offered with true feeling. iii. , intactis opulentior... – the curse of mammon – boundless riches cannot banish fear or avert death. a simple life like that of the scythians is the healthiest and best. stringent laws are needed to curb the present luxury and licentiousness. iii. , quo me, bacche, rapis tui... – to bacchus in honor of augustus – horace fancies himself carried along by bacchus amid woods and wilds to celebrate, in some distant cave, the praises of augustus. iii. , vixi puellis nuper idoneus... – love's triumphs are ended – scorned by the haughty chloe, the poet, like a discharged soldier, abandons the arms of love. but he begs of venus, as a last request, that his slighted love may not go unavenged. iii. , impios parrae recinentis omen... – galatea, beware! – addressed to galatea, whom the poet seeks to dissuade from the voyage she intended to make during the stormy season of the year. he bids her to beware, lest the mild aspect of the deceitful skies lead her astray – for it was through lack of caution that europa was carried away across the sea. iii. , festo quid potius die... – in neptune's honor – an invitation to lyde to visit the poet on the festival of neptune, and join him in wine and song. iii. , tyrrhena regum progenies, tibi... – invitation to maecenas – horace invites maecenas to leave the smoke and wealth and bustle of rome, and come to visit him on his sabine farm. he bids him to remember that we must live wisely and well in the present, as the future is uncertain. iii. , exegi monumentum aere perennius... – the poet's immortal fame – in this closing poem, horace confidently predicts his enduring fame as the first and greatest of the lyric poets of rome. he asserts: exegi monumentum aere perennius (i have raised a monument more permanent than bronze). book [edit] horace published a fourth book of odes in bc consisting of poems. horace acknowledged the gap in time with the first words of the opening poem of the collection: intermissa, venus, diu / rursus bella moves (venus, you return to battles long interrupted). iv. , intermissa, venus, diu... – venus, forbear! – horace complains that in advancing age he is vexed with new desires by the cruel goddess of love: he pines for ligurinus. he bids her to turn to a more youthful and worthy subject, his friend paulus maximus. iv. , pindarum quisquis studet aemulari... – not for me to sing of augustus! – horace was asked by iulus antonius (the son of marc antony and stepson of augustus' sister octavia) to sing of augustus' victories in a pindaric ode. horace declines, alleging lack of talent, and requests iulus to compose the poem himself. iv. , quem tu, melpomene, semel... – to melpomene, muse of lyric poetry – to the muse melpomene horace ascribes his poetic inspiration and the honors which he enjoys as the lyric poet of rome. iv. , qualem ministrum fulminis alitem... – in praise of drusus, the younger stepson of augustus – (a companion to ode iv. , which praises tiberius). this ode praises drusus, the younger son of the empress livia, on his victory over the raeti and vindelici. drusus is compared to a young eagle and lion. his stepfather augustus is also praised as having trained him to greatness. iv. , divis orte bonis, optume romulae... – augustus, return! – horace begs augustus to return to rome, and describes the peace and good order of the principate under his reign. iv. , dive, quem proles niobea magnae... – invocation to apollo – in the year bc, augustus commissioned horace to write the carmen saeculare, a hymn to be sung at the saecular festival. this ode is an invocation to apollo, begging help and inspiration for this important task. iv. , diffugere nives, redeunt iam... – the lesson of spring's return – an ode on the same springtime theme as i. – addressed to his friend torquatus. though the earth renews itself, and the waning moon waxes afresh, yet death is the ending of human life. let us then make the best of our days while they last. iv. , donarem pateras grataque commodus... – in praise of poetry – this ode was written to c. marcius censorinus and probably sent as a saturnalian gift. horace would give bronze vases, or tripods, or gems of grecian art, but he does not have these. what he has to give instead is the immortality of a poem. iv. , ne forte credas interitura quae... – in praise of lollius – as in iv. , horace promises immortality through his verses, this time to lollius, a man of wisdom and integrity. iv. , o crudelis adhuc et veneris... – beauty is fleeting – an ode to a beautiful boy, ligurinus, and the inevitability of old age. iv. , est mihi nonum superantis annum... – a joyous birthday – an invitation to phyllis to celebrate the birthday of maecenas at horace's sabine farm. iv. , iam veris comites... – the delights of spring – addressed to virgil (although not necessarily the poet). the breezes and birds have returned – an invitation to a feast of spring – the poet agrees to supply the wine, if virgil will bring a box of perfumes. iv. , audivere, lyce, di mea vota... – retribution – horace taunts lyce, now growing old, on her desperate attempts to seem young and fascinating. iv. , quae cura patrum quaeve quiritium... – in praise of tiberius, the elder stepson of augustus – (a companion to ode iv. , which praises drusus.) horace honors the courage and exploits of tiberius, the elder son of the empress livia, on his victories over the tribes of the raetian alps. he then praises augustus, whom he extols as the glory of the war, the defense of roman and italy, and as the undisputed ruler of the world. iv. , phoebus volentem proelia me loqui... – the praises of augustus – horace records in song the victories of augustus – peace, good order, the establishment of public morals, the extended glory of the roman name abroad, and security and happiness at home. see also[edit] 	prosody (latin) references[edit] 	^ for a discussion of the classification of horace's odes, see the works of horace rendered into english prose by james lonsdale, m.a. and samuel lee, m.a. london: macmillan and co., , p. and horace: the complete works by charles e. bennett and john carew rolfe. boston: allyn & bacon, , pp. xvii-xxii. 	^ lyons, stuart ( ). music in the odes of horace. aris & phillips. isbn  - - - - . 	^ all latin text courtesy of thelatinlibrary.com 	^ summaries are taken from: 	the works of horace rendered into english prose by james lonsdale, m.a. and samuel lee, m.a. london: macmillan and co., ; 	horace: the complete works by charles e. bennett and john carew rolfe. boston: allyn & bacon, ; 	the works of horace, with explanatory notes by charles anthon, ll.d. london: tegg & son, ; 	the works of horace with english notes by j.l. lincoln. new york: d. appleton & co, . external links[edit] 		latin wikisource has original text related to this article: odes (horace) 	odes in english at the perseus project 	works of horace in latin at the latin library 	 odes public domain audiobook at librivox 	carmina horatiana all carmina of horace recited in latin by thomas bervoets (mp ). 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library in zagreb - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	national and university library in zagreb 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		  (redirected from nsk (identifier)) 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		national library of croatia and central library of the university of zagreb 	 	this article has multiple issues. please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. 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(august ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) (learn how and when to remove this template message) national and university library in zagreb	nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica u zagrebu 	national and university library building 	country	croatia 	established	 (  years ago) ( ) 	location	zagreb 	collection 	size	 million items 	legal deposit	yes, since 	access and use 	population served	 , ( ) , online ( ) 	members	 , 	other information 	director	dr ivanka stričević 	website	www.nsk.hr/en/ 	map 	 national and university library in zagreb (nsk) (croatian: nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica u zagrebu, nsk; formerly nacionalna i sveučilišna biblioteka u zagrebu, nsb) is the national library of croatia and central library of the university of zagreb. the library was established in .[ ] its primary mission is the development and preservation of croatian national written heritage. it holds around million items. since the nsk has been located in a purpose-built cubical building in central zagreb. contents 	 services 	 the library in numbers 	 . holdings 	 . premises 	 . user facilities 	 . user statistics ( ) 	 tasks 	 collections 	 . digital collections 	 . special collections 	 . reading rooms collections 	 historical overview 	 references 	 external links services[edit] services provided include lending and reference services (bibliographic-reference and catalogue information, subject search, science citation index search); interlibrary loan; national bibliographic database; it services (reprographic services, microfilming, digitization, use of computer equipment); and learning programmes for users. exhibitions are mounted, and parts of the library’s premises may be leased. the library in numbers[edit] holdings[edit] library’s total holdings: approximately . million items 	new items acquired in through regular acquisition and legal deposit procedures: 	croatian monographs: , items 	croatian serial publications: , items 	special book material: items 	non-book material: items 	music: , items 	electronic resources: items premises[edit] 	net floor area: , m 	gross floor area: , m 	closed stacks: , m of mobile shelving 	open access reading rooms: , m of shelving user facilities[edit] 	 , seats 	 seats in special collections reading rooms 	 audio booths 	 rooms for individual study 	 rooms for group study 	 study cubicles 	 -seat conference room 	 seats in the late hours reading room ( . – . ) user statistics ( )[edit] 	registered users: , 	active memberships: , 	library visitors: , 	visitors using late hours study services: , 	online visits: , 	unique online visitors: , 	online pages visited: , , tasks[edit] some of the principal tasks of the library are: . the assembling and organizing of the croatian national collection of library materials and the coordination of the acquisition of international scientific works at both the national and the university level, . the preservation and restoration of library materials in the context of the international preservation and conservation programme (pac), . the promotion of croatian printed and electronic publications, . the integration of the library’s bibliographic activities and information services into international programmes, . the organization of the library as the centre of the library system of the republic of croatia and the university of zagreb, . scientific research in the field of library and information sciences, . publishing and various promotional activities and the organization of exhibitions. collections[edit] digital collections[edit] 	nsk digital collections (croatian version only) 	historical newspapers 	historical journals 	croatian web archive 	croatian digital dissertations repository 	croatian digital theses repository 	sounds of the past special collections[edit] 	the manuscripts and old books collection the collection assembles, preserves, processes and makes available the items from the richest croatian collection of national manuscripts and old books, as well as the manuscripts and numerous rare and old books belonging to other cultures. the manuscripts and old books collection contains a vast legacy of manuscripts – correspondence including nearly , letters and , call numbers for individual manuscripts ( , in croatian, in latin, in german, in italian, etc.). the collection also includes the photographic collection containing items. in total the collection contains , items ( , volumes).[ ] 	the print collection valuable drawings and prints have constituted a significant part of the holdings of the national and university library in zagreb since the foundation of the library four hundred years ago, while the print collection, as a separate organizational unit of the library, was established in . apart from being the oldest croatian collection of this type, the print collection of the national and university library in zagreb is also the largest print collection in croatia. in addition to the works by many great names of the croatian visual arts, the holdings of the collection include works by numerous leading world artists. the collection includes works by the th-century artist andrija medulić, architectural drawings by johann bernhard fischer von erlach from the th century, and many more modern croatian artists.[ ] 	the map collection the collection assembles, preserves, processes and makes available all types of maps and atlases. special attention is given to older and more valuable cartographic items, national cartographic materials and the control of legal deposit procedures. the members of the collection supply users with information in the field of cartography and provide professional assistance for researchers and students in the preparation and writing of their papers, articles or theses. the collection comprises nearly , maps, almost , atlases, and approximately books in the accompanying reference library.[ ] 	the music collection the collection assembles, processes, archives and makes available sheet music, the rich legacy of croatian composers as well as a large stock of sound recordings. all materials in the collection are available to the users of the national and university library in zagreb and they include nearly , printed music scores, , manuscript scores, , gramophone records, , cassettes, and , cds.[ ] reading rooms collections[edit] 	reference collection 	lis collection 	doctoral and master’s theses collection 	homeland war book collection 	official publications collection 	foreign croatica collection (croatian version only) historical overview[edit] in the jesuit order established itself in zagreb. in addition to founding a grammar school, the jesuits founded a jesuit college with an accompanying library. by the library was housed in a special hall, it had a librarian and rules were established regarding the preservation and lending of books. in the jesuit college acquired the status of an academy by the charter of king leopold i and became academia zagrabiensis. the library and its holdings were moved into an old building of the abandoned dominican monastery in today’s st. catherine’s square in the old town of zagreb. the jesuit order was disbanded in . the college continued with its provisional activities until , when the library became part of the royal zagreb academy of sciences (regia academia zagrabiensis) as an academy of law, philosophy and theology. the following year the library received a bequest containing historical material from the clergyman adam baltazar krčelić, with a stipulation that this material be made available to the wider public. as a result of legal deposit regulations introduced in bearing on the university of pest, the library's national importance began to increase. such legal deposit regulations were extended to the whole territory of croatia and slavonia in . antun kukuljević, politician and the founder of the croatian educational system, changed the name of the library to the latin name, nationalis academica bibliotheca, highlighting the dual nature of the library’s educational and national functions, which it has jointly developed since then and symbolically preserved in its name to this day. the franz josef i royal university in zagreb was founded in , and the academy library (bibliotheca regiae academiae zagrabiensis) became part of the university and changed its name to university library, increasing its significance and role in higher education. in the library with its approximately , volumes moved from the building of the present-day rector’s office into an impressive art nouveau edifice located in marko marulić square, the first building built specifically for the purposes of the library. as it was designed to house , volumes, its premises soon become inadequate for the library’s , , volumes – books, journals, newspapers and the particularly valuable items of the library’s special collections.[ ] a new library building, the pantheon of the croatian book, was commissioned: its foundation stone was laid in and the building opened on may as part of the celebration of the fifth anniversary of croatia’s independence. this modern edifice was designed by croatian architects velimir neidhardt, marijan hržić, zvonimir krznarić and davor mance.[ ] references[edit] 	^ aleksandar stipčević ( ). the national and university library in zagreb - : on the occasion of the th anniversary. national and university library. isbn  . 	^ "manuscripts and old books collection". national and university library in zagreb web site. retrieved - - . 	^ "print collection". national and university library in zagreb web site. retrieved - - . 	^ "map collection". national and university library in zagreb web site. retrieved - - . 	^ "music collection". national and university library in zagreb web site. retrieved - - . 	^ a b david h. stam ( january ). international dictionary of library histories. routledge. p.  . isbn  - - - - . external links[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media 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he remained until his retirement in . from to he was director (head of department) of the department of classics and archaeology.[ ] after retirement rudd returned to liverpool and was appointed an honorary research fellow there. trinity college dublin awarded him an honorary doctorate in (dlitt). rudd died of melanoma after a long illness (alzheimer's) on october at st. john's hospice on the wirral. rudd worked intensively with latin literature, especially roman poetry, and its reception in english literature of the modern age. he wrote books, monographs and articles about works of cicero, and on the satires of horace and juvenal whose work he presented in english translation. this work has been published in two collections ( , ). in addition, he published, in , an autobiographical record of his childhood and youth in ireland. bibliography[edit] 	the satires of horace. a study ( ) cambridge: cambridge university press [ ] 	the satires of horace and persius. a verse translation with an introduction and notes ( ) london: harmondsworth press 	essays on classical literature, selected from arion and introduced by niall rudd ( ) cambridge: heffer press 	lines of enquiry – studies in latin poetry ( ) cambridge: cambridge university press 	with edward courtney: juvenal: satires i, iii, x ( ) bristol: bristol classical press 	t. e. page: schoolmaster extraordinary ( ) bristol: bristol classical press 	the satires of horace ( ) bristol: bristol classical press 	themes in roman satire ( ) london: duckworth press 	cicero: 'de legibus i'. ( ) bristol: bristol classical press 	horace, epistles book ii and epistle to the pisones (‘ars poetica’) ( ) cambridge: cambridge university press 	juvenal. the satires ( ) oxford: oxford university press 	the classical tradition in operation: chaucer/virgil, shakespeare/plautus, pope/horace, tennyson/lucretius, pound/propertius ( ) toronto: university of toronto press 	pale green, light orange. a portrait of bourgeois ireland - ( ) dublin: lilliput press[ ] 	with jgf powell: marcus tullius cicero: 'the republic' and 'the laws' ( ) oxford: oxford university press 	with robin g. m. nisbet: a commentary on horace, odes, book iii ( ) oxford: oxford university press 	horace, odes and epodes ( ) cambridge (massachusetts): harvard university press (loeb classical library)[ ] 	the common spring. essays on latin and english poetry. ( ) exeter: bristol phoenix press 	lines of enquiry. studies in latin poetry ( ) cambridge: cambridge university press 	samuel johnson: the latin poems ( ) lewisburg: bucknell university press 	landor’s latin poems: fifty pieces ( ) lewisburg: bucknell university press references[edit] 	^ "bristol university - news - october: niall rudd". bristol.ac.uk. 	^ a b "the lilliput press". lilliputpress.ie. 	^ "niall rudd". penguin classics uk. 	^ "review". jstor  . missing or empty |url= (help) 	^ "nicholas horsfall reviews 'horace' edited by niall rudd · lrb june ". london review of books. 	authority control 	 	bnf: cb (data) 	gnd: 	isni: 	lccn: n 	nta: 	viaf: 	 worldcat identities: lccn-n retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=niall_rudd&oldid= " 		categories: 	british classical scholars 	irish classical scholars 	 births 	 deaths hidden categories: 	pages using web citations with no url 	wikipedia articles with bnf identifiers 	wikipedia articles with gnd identifiers 	wikipedia articles with isni identifiers 	wikipedia articles with lccn identifiers 	wikipedia articles with nta identifiers 	wikipedia articles with viaf identifiers 	wikipedia articles with worldcatid identifiers 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			article 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	edit 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		search 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigation 	 	 			main page 	contents 	current events 	random article 	about wikipedia 	contact us 	donate 		 	 	 	 		contribute 	 	 			help 	learn to edit 	community portal 	recent changes 	upload file 		 	 	 		tools 	 	 			what links here 	related changes 	upload file 	special pages 	permanent link 	page information 	cite this page 	wikidata item 		 	 	 		print/export 	 	 			download as pdf 	printable version 		 	 	 	 		languages 	 	 			deutsch 		edit links 	 		 this page was last edited on august , at :  (utc). 	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; 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latin for "best ones", singular: optimas), also known as boni ("good men"), were a conservative political faction in the late roman republic. they formed in reaction against the reforms of the gracchi brothers—two tribunes of the plebs between and bc who tried to pass an agrarian law to help the urban poor, and a political reform that would have diminished the influence of the senatorial class. as the optimates were senators and large landowners, they violently opposed the gracchi, and finally murdered them, but their program was upheld by several politicians, called the populares ("favouring the people"). for about years, roman politics was marked by the confrontation of these two factions. the optimates favoured the ancestral roman laws and customs, as well as the supremacy of the senate over the popular assemblies and the tribunes of the plebs. they also rejected the massive extension of roman citizenship to rome's italian allies advocated by the populares. although suspicious of powerful generals, they sided with pompey when they came to believe that julius caesar—himself a popularis—planned a coup against the republic. they disappeared with their defeat in the subsequent civil war. while several leaders of the optimates were patricians—belonging to the oldest noble families—such as sulla or scipio nasica serapio, many were plebeians: the caecilii metelli, pompey, cato the younger, titus annius milo, etc. cicero—the most famous optimas—was even a novus homo (the first of his gens to be senator). contents 	 history 	 views 	 ideology 	 famous members 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links history[edit] john edwin sandys detects an optimates grouping at time of the death of tiberius gracchus in bc.[ ] the optimates' cause reached its peak under the dictatorship ( bc) of lucius cornelius sulla. sulla's administration stripped the assemblies of nearly all power, raised the number of members of the senate from to , executed an equally large number of populares via proscription lists and settled thousands of soldiers in northern italy. however, after sulla's withdrawal from public life ( bc) and subsequent death ( bc) many of their policies were gradually reversed. besides sulla, notable optimates included lucullus, cato the younger, titus annius milo, marcus calpurnius bibulus and marcus junius brutus the younger. though the optimates had opposed him for the entirety of his political career, pompey also found himself as the leader of the optimates' faction once their civil war with julius caesar began in bc. optimates who (along with disillusioned populares) had carried out julius caesar's assassination in bc called themselves liberatores (liberatores meaning "liberators"). views[edit] in general, the optimates favored the nobiles and opposed the ascension of novi homines into roman politics, though exceptions exist. for instance, cicero (a strong supporter of the optimates' cause) was himself a novus homo, being the first in his family to enter the senate—he was thus never fully accepted by the optimates.[ ] on the other hand, during the civil war of bc, julius caesar of a respectable old family contended against a senate championed by pompey, who was from a wealthy yet recently ennobled family. in addition to their political aims, the optimates opposed the extension of roman citizenship and sought the preservation of the mos maiorum, the ways of their forefathers, as well as the preservation of the sanctity of status quo property rights (opposing the debt reform and land distribution sought by the populares). they sought to prevent successful generals such as gaius marius, pompey and julius caesar from using their armies to accrue such power that they might be in a position to challenge the senate. they opposed marius' plan to enlist impoverished romans who were too poor to provide their own arms and supplies in the legions and the generals' attempts to settle these veterans on state-owned land. ideology[edit] robert morstein-marx, a historian of the late republic, cautions against understanding the terms populares and optimates as solid factions or as ideological groupings: our chief contemporary witnesses to the political life of the late republic, cicero and sallust, are fond of analyzing the political struggles of the period in terms of a distinction between optimates and populares, often appearing with slight variations in terminology, such as senate, nobility, or boni versus people or plebs. [...] the polarity obviously corresponds with the dual sources of institutional power in the republic – senate and people [...]. it is important to realize that references to populares in the plural do not imply a co-ordinated 'party' with a distinctive ideological character, a kind of political grouping for which there is no evidence in rome, but simply allude to a recognizable, if statistically quite rare, type of senator whose activities are scattered sporadically across late-republic history[.] [...] the 'life-long' popularis [...] was a new and worrying phenomenon at the time of julius caesar's consulship of : an underlying reason why the man inspired such profound fears.[ ] this summarizes the dominant interpretation of the populares in th-century scholarship, deriving in large part from ronald syme in the anglophone literature. in the early st century and as early as the publication of the ninth volume of the cambridge ancient history in ,[ ] the validity of examining popularist ideology in the context of roman political philosophy has been reasserted. in particular, t. p. wiseman has rehabilitated the use of the word "party" to describe the political opposition between optimates and populares, based on latin usage (partes) and pointing to the consistency of a sort of party platform based on the food supply and general welfare of the populus ("people"), making land available to those outside the senatorial elite and debt relief.[ ] famous members[edit] 	gnaeus octavius - ancestor of emperor augustus. a conservative member of the senate that opposed populares' reforms. 	marcus octavius - ancestor of emperor augustus. a major rival of tiberius gracchus. 	gnaeus pompeius strabo - father of the famous general pompey magnus. 	gnaeus pompeius magnus - one of sulla's main commanders. later became the leader of the optimates in the civil war against julius caesar. 	marcus porcius cato uticensis (cato the younger) - one of caesar's major opponents. known for his stubbornness and immunity to bribes. 	marcus licinius crassus - the richest man in rome. one of sulla's close associates. 	lucius cornelius sulla - the dictator of rome. marched into the city and killed all his political opponents. 	marcus junius brutus - assassin of julius caesar. 	gaius cassius longinus - assassin of julius caesar. 	decimus junius brutus - originally a supporter of populares, but later sided with optimates and assassinated julius caesar. 	publius cornelius scipio nasica serapio - murdered tiberius gracchus. 	marcus tullius cicero - a famous orator. 	titus annius milo - rival of publius clodius pulcher. 	the caecilii metelli - one of the most powerful families in the roman republic. a strong supporters of the optimates. 	lucius licinius lucullus - one of sulla's major supporters. 	lucius opimius - executed supporters of gaius gracchus. 	titus labienus - originally a supporter of julius caesar, but later went over to the optimates. 	marcus porcius cato (son of cato the younger) - fought against caesar in the civil war. later fought and died in battle of philippi. 	marcus calpurnius bibulus - opponent of caesar. references[edit] 	^ sandys, john edwin ( ). a companion to latin studies ( ed.). cambridge: cambridge university press. p.  . [:] tribute of ti. gracchus, his 'lex agraria' and destruction by a rabble of optimates, headed by p. scipio nasica [...]. 	^ everitt, anthony ( november ). cicero: the life and times of rome's greatest politician. random house publishing group. p.  . isbn  . 	^ morstein-marx, robert ( february ). mass oratory and political power in the late roman republic. cambridge university press. pp.  – . doi: . /cbo . isbn  . 	^ andrew lintott. "political history, – b.c." in the cambridge ancient history (cambridge university press, ). p. . 	^ though this has been a strand in wiseman's scholarship over the decades, see particularly the introduction and "roman history and the ideological vacuum" in remembering the roman people: essays on late-republican politics and literature (oxford university press, ) at p. for partes and "party". a less truncated version of "roman history and the ideological vacuum" may be found in classics in progress (oxford university press, ), p. . further reading[edit] 	parenti, michael. the assassination of julius caesar: a people's history of ancient rome. the new press, . isbn  - - - . external links[edit] 	videos of talks by michael parenti about his book the assassination of julius caesar: a people's history of ancient rome, which describes the conflict between optimates and populares, in a -minute talk (in one part and in eight parts). 	authority control 	 	gnd: - retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=optimates&oldid= " 		categories: 	optimates 	roman republic 	ancient roman society 	conservatism hidden categories: 	articles needing additional references from may 	all articles needing additional references 	articles with short description 	short description is different from wikidata 	wikipedia articles with gnd identifiers 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			article 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	edit 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		search 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigation 	 	 			main page 	contents 	current events 	random article 	about wikipedia 	contact us 	donate 		 	 	 	 		contribute 	 	 			help 	learn to edit 	community portal 	recent changes 	upload file 		 	 	 		tools 	 	 			what links here 	related changes 	upload file 	special pages 	permanent link 	page information 	cite this page 	wikidata item 		 	 	 		print/export 	 	 			download as pdf 	printable version 		 	 	 	 		languages 	 	 			العربية 	Български 	català 	Čeština 	dansk 	deutsch 	español 	euskara 	فارسی 	français 	한국어 	Հայերեն 	hrvatski 	italiano 	עברית 	Кыргызча 	latina 	lietuvių 	magyar 	മലയാളം 	nederlands 	日本語 	norsk bokmål 	polski 	português 	română 	Русский 	seeltersk 	slovenčina 	Српски / srpski 	srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски 	suomi 	svenska 	tagalog 	türkçe 	Українська 	中文 		edit links 	 		 this page was last edited on december , at :  (utc). 	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 metre (poetry) - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	metre (poetry) 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		  (redirected from meter (poetry)) 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse 	 	this article needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. find sources: "metre" poetry – news · newspapers · books · scholar · jstor (february ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) in poetry, metre (british) or meter (american; see spelling differences) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. many traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse metre, or a certain set of metres alternating in a particular order. the study and the actual use of metres and forms of versification are both known as prosody. (within linguistics, "prosody" is used in a more general sense that includes not only poetic metre but also the rhythmic aspects of prose, whether formal or informal, that vary from language to language, and sometimes between poetic traditions.) contents 	 characteristics 	 . qualitative versus quantitative metre 	 . feet 	 . . classification 	 . caesura 	 . enjambment 	 . metric variations 	 modern english 	 . metrical systems 	 . frequently used metres 	 other languages 	 . sanskrit 	 . greek and latin 	 . classical arabic 	 . . the arabic metres 	 . classical persian 	 . classical chinese 	 . old english 	 . french 	 . spanish 	 . italian 	 . turkish 	 . ottoman turkish 	 . portuguese 	 . welsh 	 history 	 dissent 	 see also 	 references 	 . citations 	 . sources characteristics[edit] an assortment of features can be identified when classifying poetry and its metre. qualitative versus quantitative metre[edit] the metre of most poetry of the western world and elsewhere is based on patterns of syllables of particular types. the familiar type of metre in english-language poetry is called qualitative metre, with stressed syllables coming at regular intervals (e.g. in iambic pentameters, usually every even-numbered syllable). many romance languages use a scheme that is somewhat similar but where the position of only one particular stressed syllable (e.g. the last) needs to be fixed. the metre of the old germanic poetry of languages such as old norse and old english was radically different, but was still based on stress patterns. some classical languages, in contrast, used a different scheme known as quantitative metre, where patterns were based on syllable weight rather than stress. in the dactylic hexameters of classical latin and classical greek, for example, each of the six feet making up the line was either a dactyl (long-short-short) or a spondee (long-long): a "long syllable" was literally one that took longer to pronounce than a short syllable: specifically, a syllable consisting of a long vowel or diphthong or followed by two consonants. the stress pattern of the words made no difference to the metre. a number of other ancient languages also used quantitative metre, such as sanskrit and classical arabic (but not biblical hebrew). finally, non-stressed languages that have little or no differentiation of syllable length, such as french or chinese, base their verses on the number of syllables only. the most common form in french is the alexandrin, with twelve syllables a verse, and in classical chinese five characters, and thus five syllables. but since each chinese character is pronounced using one syllable in a certain tone, classical chinese poetry also had more strictly defined rules, such as thematic parallelism or tonal antithesis between lines. feet[edit] in many western classical poetic traditions, the metre of a verse can be described as a sequence of feet,[ ] each foot being a specific sequence of syllable types — such as relatively unstressed/stressed (the norm for english poetry) or long/short (as in most classical latin and greek poetry). iambic pentameter, a common metre in english poetry, is based on a sequence of five iambic feet or iambs, each consisting of a relatively unstressed syllable (here represented with "-" above the syllable) followed by a relatively stressed one (here represented with "/" above the syllable) — "da-dum" = "- /" : - / - / - / - / - / so long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, - / - / - / - / - / so long lives this, and this gives life to thee. this approach to analyzing and classifying metres originates from ancient greek tragedians and poets such as homer, pindar, hesiod, and sappho. however some metres have an overall rhythmic pattern to the line that cannot easily be described using feet. this occurs in sanskrit poetry; see vedic metre and sanskrit metre. (although this poetry is in fact specified using feet, each "foot" is more or less equivalent to an entire line.) it also occurs in some western metres, such as the hendecasyllable favoured by catullus and martial, which can be described as: x x — ∪ ∪ — ∪ — ∪ — — (where "—" = long, "∪" = short, and "x x" can be realized as "— ∪" or "— —" or "∪ —") classification[edit] 	foot type 	style 	stress pattern 	syllable count 	iamb 	iambic 	unstressed + stressed 	two 	trochee 	trochaic 	stressed + unstressed 	two 	spondee 	spondaic 	stressed + stressed 	two 	anapest or anapaest 	anapestic 	unstressed + unstressed + stressed 	three 	dactyl 	dactylic 	stressed + unstressed + unstressed 	three 	amphibrach 	amphibrachic 	unstressed + stressed + unstressed 	three 	pyrrhic 	pyrrhic 	unstressed + unstressed 	two [ ] if the line has only one foot, it is called a monometer; two feet, dimeter; three is trimeter; four is tetrameter; five is pentameter; six is hexameter, seven is heptameter and eight is octameter. for example, if the feet are iambs, and if there are five feet to a line, then it is called an iambic pentameter.[ ] if the feet are primarily dactyls and there are six to a line, then it is a dactylic hexameter.[ ] caesura[edit] sometimes a natural pause occurs in the middle of a line rather than at a line-break. this is a caesura (cut). a good example is from the winter's tale by william shakespeare; the caesurae are indicated by '/': 	it is for you we speak, / not for ourselves: 	you are abused / and by some putter-on 	that will be damn'd for't; / would i knew the villain, 	i would land-damn him. / be she honour-flaw'd, 	i have three daughters; / the eldest is eleven in latin and greek poetry, a caesura is a break within a foot caused by the end of a word. each line of traditional germanic alliterative verse is divided into two half-lines by a caesura. this can be seen in piers plowman: 	a fair feeld ful of folk / fond i ther bitwene— 	of alle manere of men / the meene and the riche, 	werchynge and wandrynge / as the world asketh. 	somme putten hem to the plough / pleiden ful selde, 	in settynge and sowynge / swonken ful harde, 	and wonnen that thise wastours / with glotonye destruyeth. enjambment[edit] main article: enjambment by contrast with caesura, enjambment is incomplete syntax at the end of a line; the meaning runs over from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation. also from shakespeare's the winter's tale: 	i am not prone to weeping, as our sex 	commonly are; the want of which vain dew 	perchance shall dry your pities; but i have 	that honourable grief lodged here which burns 	worse than tears drown. metric variations[edit] poems with a well-defined overall metric pattern often have a few lines that violate that pattern. a common variation is the inversion of a foot, which turns an iamb ("da-dum") into a trochee ("dum-da"). a second variation is a headless verse, which lacks the first syllable of the first foot. a third variation is catalexis, where the end of a line is shortened by a foot, or two or part thereof – an example of this is at the end of each verse in keats' 'la belle dame sans merci': 	and on thy cheeks a fading rose ( feet) 	fast withereth too ( feet) modern english[edit] most english metre is classified according to the same system as classical metre with an important difference. english is an accentual language, and therefore beats and offbeats (stressed and unstressed syllables) take the place of the long and short syllables of classical systems. in most english verse, the metre can be considered as a sort of back beat, against which natural speech rhythms vary expressively. the most common characteristic feet of english verse are the iamb in two syllables and the anapest in three. (see foot (prosody) for a complete list of the metrical feet and their names.) metrical systems[edit] the number of metrical systems in english is not agreed upon.[ ] the four major types[ ] are: accentual verse, accentual-syllabic verse, syllabic verse and quantitative verse.[ ] the alliterative verse of old english could also be added to this list, or included as a special type of accentual verse. accentual verse focuses on the number of stresses in a line, while ignoring the number of offbeats and syllables; accentual-syllabic verse focuses on regulating both the number of stresses and the total number of syllables in a line; syllabic verse only counts the number of syllables in a line; quantitative verse regulates the patterns of long and short syllables (this sort of verse is often considered alien to english).[ ] the use of foreign metres in english is all but exceptional.[ ] frequently used metres[edit] the most frequently encountered metre of english verse is the iambic pentameter, in which the metrical norm is five iambic feet per line, though metrical substitution is common and rhythmic variations practically inexhaustible. john milton's paradise lost, most sonnets, and much else besides in english are written in iambic pentameter. lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter are commonly known as blank verse.[ ] blank verse in the english language is most famously represented in the plays of william shakespeare and the great works of milton, though tennyson (ulysses, the princess) and wordsworth (the prelude) also make notable use of it. a rhymed pair of lines of iambic pentameter make a heroic couplet,[ ] a verse form which was used so often in the th century that it is now used mostly for humorous effect (although see pale fire for a non-trivial case). the most famous writers of heroic couplets are dryden and pope. another important metre in english is the ballad metre, also called the "common metre", which is a four-line stanza, with two pairs of a line of iambic tetrameter followed by a line of iambic trimeter; the rhymes usually fall on the lines of trimeter, although in many instances the tetrameter also rhymes. this is the metre of most of the border and scots or english ballads. in hymnody it is called the "common metre", as it is the most common of the named hymn metres used to pair many hymn lyrics with melodies, such as amazing grace:[ ] 	amazing grace! how sweet the sound 	that saved a wretch like me; 	i once was lost, but now am found; 	was blind, but now i see. emily dickinson is famous for her frequent use of ballad metre: 	great streets of silence led away 	to neighborhoods of pause — 	here was no notice — no dissent — 	no universe — no laws. other languages[edit] sanskrit[edit] main articles: sanskrit prosody and vedic metre versification in classical sanskrit poetry is of three kinds. 	syllabic (akṣaravṛtta) metres depend on the number of syllables in a verse, with relative freedom in the distribution of light and heavy syllables. this style is derived from older vedic forms. an example is the anuṣṭubh metre found in the great epics, the mahabharata and the ramayana, which has exactly eight syllables in each line, of which only some are specified as to length. 	syllabo-quantitative (varṇavṛtta) metres depend on syllable count, but the light-heavy patterns are fixed. an example is the mandākrāntā metre, in which each line has syllables in a fixed pattern. 	quantitative (mātrāvṛtta) metres depend on duration, where each line has a fixed number of morae, grouped in feet with usually morae in each foot. an example is the arya metre, in which each verse has four lines of , , , and morae respectively. in each -mora foot there can be two long syllables, four short syllables, or one long and two short in any order. standard traditional works on metre are pingala's chandaḥśāstra and kedāra's vṛttaratnākara. the most exhaustive compilations, such as the modern ones by patwardhan and velankar contain over metres. this is a substantially larger repertoire than in any other metrical tradition. greek and latin[edit] main article: prosody (latin) further information: prosody (greek) the metrical "feet" in the classical languages were based on the length of time taken to pronounce each syllable, which were categorized according to their weight as either "long" syllables or "short" syllables (indicated as dum and di below). these are also called "heavy" and "light" syllables, respectively, to distinguish from long and short vowels. the foot is often compared to a musical measure and the long and short syllables to whole notes and half notes. in english poetry, feet are determined by emphasis rather than length, with stressed and unstressed syllables serving the same function as long and short syllables in classical metre. the basic unit in greek and latin prosody is a mora, which is defined as a single short syllable. a long syllable is equivalent to two morae. a long syllable contains either a long vowel, a diphthong, or a short vowel followed by two or more consonants. various rules of elision sometimes prevent a grammatical syllable from making a full syllable, and certain other lengthening and shortening rules (such as correption) can create long or short syllables in contexts where one would expect the opposite. the most important classical metre is the dactylic hexameter, the metre of homer and virgil. this form uses verses of six feet. the word dactyl comes from the greek word daktylos meaning finger, since there is one long part followed by two short stretches.[ ] the first four feet are dactyls (daa-duh-duh), but can be spondees (daa-daa). the fifth foot is almost always a dactyl. the sixth foot is either a spondee or a trochee (daa-duh). the initial syllable of either foot is called the ictus, the basic "beat" of the verse. there is usually a caesura after the ictus of the third foot. the opening line of the Æneid is a typical line of dactylic hexameter: 	armă vĭ | rumquĕ că | nō, troi | ae quī | prīmŭs ăb | ōrīs 	("i sing of arms and the man, who first from the shores of troy...") in this example, the first and second feet are dactyls; their first syllables, "ar" and "rum" respectively, contain short vowels, but count as long because the vowels are both followed by two consonants. the third and fourth feet are spondees, the first of which is divided by the main caesura of the verse. the fifth foot is a dactyl, as is nearly always the case. the final foot is a spondee. the dactylic hexameter was imitated in english by henry wadsworth longfellow in his poem evangeline: 	this is the forest primeval. the murmuring pines and the hemlocks, 	bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, 	stand like druids of old, with voices sad and prophetic, 	stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. notice how the first line: 	this is the | for-est pri | me-val. the | mur-muring | pines and the | hem-locks follows this pattern: 	dum diddy | dum diddy | dum diddy | dum diddy | dum diddy | dum dum also important in greek and latin poetry is the dactylic pentameter. this was a line of verse, made up of two equal parts, each of which contains two dactyls followed by a long syllable, which counts as a half foot. in this way, the number of feet amounts to five in total. spondees can take the place of the dactyls in the first half, but never in the second. the long syllable at the close of the first half of the verse always ends a word, giving rise to a caesura. dactylic pentameter is never used in isolation. rather, a line of dactylic pentameter follows a line of dactylic hexameter in the elegiac distich or elegiac couplet, a form of verse that was used for the composition of elegies and other tragic and solemn verse in the greek and latin world, as well as love poetry that was sometimes light and cheerful. an example from ovid's tristia: 	vergĭlĭ | um vī | dī tan | tum, nĕc ă | māră tĭ | bullō 	tempŭs ă | mīcĭtĭ | ae || fātă dĕ | dērĕ mĕ | ae. 	("virgil i merely saw, and the harsh fates gave tibullus no time for my friendship.") the greeks and romans also used a number of lyric metres, which were typically used for shorter poems than elegiacs or hexameter. in aeolic verse, one important line was called the hendecasyllabic, a line of eleven syllables. this metre was used most often in the sapphic stanza, named after the greek poet sappho, who wrote many of her poems in the form. a hendecasyllabic is a line with a never-varying structure: two trochees, followed by a dactyl, then two more trochees. in the sapphic stanza, three hendecasyllabics are followed by an "adonic" line, made up of a dactyl and a trochee. this is the form of catullus (itself an homage to sappho ): 	illĕ mī pār essĕ dĕō vĭdētur; 	illĕ, sī fās est, sŭpĕrārĕ dīvōs, 	quī sĕdēns adversŭs ĭdentĭdem tē 	spectăt ĕt audit 	("he seems to me to be like a god; if it is permitted, he seems above the gods, who sitting across from you gazes at you and hears you again and again.") the sapphic stanza was imitated in english by algernon charles swinburne in a poem he simply called sapphics: 	saw the white implacable aphrodite, 	saw the hair unbound and the feet unsandalled 	shine as fire of sunset on western waters; 	saw the reluctant... classical arabic[edit] see also: arabic prosody the metrical system of classical arabic poetry, like those of classical greek and latin, is based on the weight of syllables classified as either "long" or "short". the basic principles of arabic poetic metre arūḍ or arud (arabic: العروض‎ al-ʿarūḍ) science of poetry (arabic: علم الشعر‎ ʿilm aš-šiʿr), were put forward by al-farahidi ( - ce) who did so after noticing that poems consisted of repeated syllables in each verse. in his first book, al-ard (arabic: العرض‎ al-ʿarḍ), he described types of verse. al-akhfash described one extra, the th. a short syllable contains a short vowel with no following consonants. for example, the word kataba, which syllabifies as ka-ta-ba, contains three short vowels and is made up of three short syllables. a long syllable contains either a long vowel or a short vowel followed by a consonant as is the case in the word maktūbun which syllabifies as mak-tū-bun. these are the only syllable types possible in classical arabic phonology which, by and large, does not allow a syllable to end in more than one consonant or a consonant to occur in the same syllable after a long vowel. in other words, syllables of the type -āk- or -akr- are not found in classical arabic. each verse consists of a certain number of metrical feet (tafāʿīl or ʾaǧzāʾ) and a certain combination of possible feet constitutes a metre (baḥr). the traditional arabic practice for writing out a poem's metre is to use a concatenation of various derivations of the verbal root f-ʿ-l (فعل). thus, the following hemistich قفا نبك من ذكرى حبيبٍ ومنزلِ would be traditionally scanned as: فعولن مفاعيلن فعولن مفاعلن that is, romanized and with traditional western scansion: western: ⏑ – – ⏑ – – – ⏑ – – ⏑ – ⏑ – verse: qifā nabki min ḏikrā ḥabībin wa-manzili mnemonic: fa`ūlun mafā`īlun fa`ūlun mafā`ilun al-kʰalīl b. ˀaḫmad al-farāhīdī's contribution to the study of arabic prosody is undeniably significant: he was the first scholar to subject arabic poetry to a meticulous, painstaking metrical analysis. unfortunately, he fell short of producing a coherent theory; instead, he was content to merely gather, classify, and categorize the primary data—a first step which, though insufficient, represents no mean accomplishment. therefore al-kʰalīl has left a formulation of utmost complexity and difficulty which requires immense effort to master; even the accomplished scholar cannot utilize and apply it with ease and total confidence. dr. ˀibrāhīm ˀanīs, one of the most distinguished and celebrated pillars of arabic literature and the arabic language in the th century, states the issue clearly in his book mūsīqā al-sʰiˁr: “i am aware of no [other] branch of arabic studies which embodies as many [technical] terms as does [al-kʰalīl’s] prosody, few and distinct as the meters are: al-kʰalīl’s disciples employed a large number of infrequent items, assigning to those items certain technical denotations which—invariably—require definition and explanation. …. as to the rules of metric variation, they are numerous to the extent that they defy memory and impose a taxing course of study. …. in learning them, a student faces severe hardship which obscures all connection with an artistic genre—indeed, the most artistic of all—namely, poetry. ………. it is in this fashion that [various] authors dealt with the subject under discussion over a period of eleven centuries: none of them attempted to introduce a new approach or to simplify the rules. ………. is it not time for a new, simple presentation which avoids contrivance, displays close affinity to [the art of] poetry, and perhaps renders the science of prosody palatable as well as manageable?” in the th and the st centuries, numerous scholars have endeavored to supplement al-kʰalīl's contribution. the arabic metres[edit] main article: arabic prosody classical arabic has sixteen established metres. though each of them allows for a certain amount of variation, their basic patterns are as follows, using: 	"–" for long syllable 	"⏑" for short syllable 	"x" for a position that can contain long or short 	"o" for a position that can contain long or shorts 	"s" for a position that can contain long, shorts, or long + short 	circle 	name (romanized) 	name (arabic) 	scansion 	mnemonic 	 	Ṭawīl	الطويل	⏑ – x ⏑ – x – ⏑ – x ⏑ – ⏑ –	فعولن مفاعيلن فعولن مفاعلن 	 	madīd	المديد	x ⏑ – – x ⏑ – x ⏑ – –	فاعلاتن فاعلن فاعلاتن 	 	basīṭ	البسيط	x – ⏑ – x ⏑ – x – ⏑ – ⏑ ⏑ –	مستفعلن فاعلن مستفعلن فعلن 	 	kāmil	الكامل	o – ⏑ – o – ⏑ – o – ⏑ –	متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن 	 	wāfir	الوافر	⏑ – o – ⏑ – o – ⏑ – –	مفاعلتن مفاعلتن فعولن 	 	hazaj	الهزج	⏑ – – x ⏑ – – x	مفاعيلن مفاعيلن 	 	rajaz	الرجز	x – ⏑ – x – ⏑ – x – ⏑ –	مستفعلن مستفعلن مستفعلن 	 	ramal	الرمل	x ⏑ – – x ⏑ – – x ⏑ –	فاعلاتن فاعلاتن فاعلن 	 	sarī`	السريع	x x ⏑ – x x ⏑ – – ⏑ –	مستفعلن مستفعلن فاعلن 	 	munsariħ	المنسرح	x – ⏑ – – x – ⏑ – ⏑ ⏑ –	مستفعلن فاعلاتُ مستفعلن 	 	khafīf	الخفيف	x ⏑ – x – – ⏑ – x ⏑ – x	فاعلاتن مستفعلن فاعلاتن 	 	muḍāri`	المضارع	⏑ – x x – ⏑ – –	مفاعلن فاعلاتن 	 	muqtaḍab	المقتضب	x ⏑ – ⏑ – ⏑ ⏑ –	فاعلاتُ مفتعلن 	 	mujtathth	المجتث	x – ⏑ – x ⏑ – –	مستفعلن فاعلاتن 	 	mutadārik	المتدارك	s – s – s –	فاعلن فاعلن فاعلن فاعلن 	 	mutaqārib	المتقارب	⏑ – x ⏑ – x ⏑ – x ⏑ –	فعولن فعولن فعولن فعول classical persian[edit] further information: persian metres the terminology for metrical system used in classical and classical-style persian poetry is the same as that of classical arabic, even though these are quite different in both origin and structure. this has led to serious confusion among prosodists, both ancient and modern, as to the true source and nature of the persian metres, the most obvious error being the assumption that they were copied from arabic.[ ] persian poetry is quantitative, and the metrical patterns are made of long and short syllables, much as in classical greek, latin and arabic. anceps positions in the line, however, that is places where either a long or short syllable can be used (marked "x" in the schemes below), are not found in persian verse except in some metres at the beginning of a line. persian poetry is written in couplets, with each half-line (hemistich) being - syllables long. except in the ruba'i (quatrain), where either of two very similar metres may be used, the same metre is used for every line in the poem. rhyme is always used, sometimes with double rhyme or internal rhymes in addition. in some poems, known as masnavi, the two halves of each couplet rhyme, with a scheme aa, bb, cc and so on. in lyric poetry, the same rhyme is used throughout the poem at the end of each couplet, but except in the opening couplet, the two halves of each couplet do not rhyme; hence the scheme is aa, ba, ca, da. a ruba'i (quatrain) also usually has the rhyme aa, ba. a particular feature of classical persian prosody, not found in latin, greek or arabic, is that instead of two lengths of syllables (long and short), there are three lengths (short, long, and overlong). overlong syllables can be used anywhere in the line in place of a long + a short, or in the final position in a line or half line.[ ][ ] when a metre has a pair of short syllables (⏑ ⏑), it is common for a long syllable to be substituted, especially at the end of a line or half-line. about different metres are commonly used in persian. % of lyric poems are written in one of the following seven metres:[ ] 	⏑ – ⏑ – ⏑ ⏑ – – ⏑ – ⏑ – ⏑ ⏑ – 	– – ⏑ – ⏑ – ⏑ ⏑ – – ⏑ – ⏑ – 	– ⏑ – – – ⏑ – – – ⏑ – – – ⏑ – 	x ⏑ – – ⏑ ⏑ – – ⏑ ⏑ – – ⏑ ⏑ – 	x ⏑ – – ⏑ – ⏑ – ⏑ ⏑ – 	⏑ – – – ⏑ – – – ⏑ – – – ⏑ – – – 	– – ⏑ ⏑ – – ⏑ ⏑ – – ⏑ ⏑ – – masnavi poems (that is, long poems in rhyming couplets) are always written in one of the shorter or -syllable metres (traditionally seven in number) such as the following: 	⏑ – – ⏑ – – ⏑ – – ⏑ – (e.g. ferdowsi's shahnameh) 	⏑ – – – ⏑ – – – ⏑ – – (e.g. gorgani's vis o ramin) 	– ⏑ – – – ⏑ – – – ⏑ – (e.g. rumi's masnavi-e ma'navi) 	– – ⏑ ⏑ – ⏑ – ⏑ – – (e.g. nezami's leyli o majnun) the two metres used for ruba'iyat (quatrains), which are only used for this, are the following, of which the second is a variant of the first: 	– – ⏑ ⏑ – – ⏑ ⏑ – – ⏑ ⏑ – 	– – ⏑ ⏑ – ⏑ – ⏑ – – ⏑ ⏑ – classical chinese[edit] main article: classical chinese poetry forms classical chinese poetic metric may be divided into fixed and variable length line types, although the actual scansion of the metre is complicated by various factors, including linguistic changes and variations encountered in dealing with a tradition extending over a geographically extensive regional area for a continuous time period of over some two-and-a-half millennia. beginning with the earlier recorded forms: the classic of poetry tends toward couplets of four-character lines, grouped in rhymed quatrains; and, the chuci follows this to some extent, but moves toward variations in line length. han dynasty poetry tended towards the variable line-length forms of the folk ballads and the music bureau yuefu. jian'an poetry, six dynasties poetry, and tang dynasty poetry tend towards a poetic metre based on fixed-length lines of five, seven, (or, more rarely six) characters/verbal units tended to predominate, generally in couplet/quatrain-based forms, of various total verse lengths. the song poetry is specially known for its use of the ci, using variable line lengths which follow the specific pattern of a certain musical song's lyrics, thus ci are sometimes referred to as "fixed-rhythm" forms. yuan poetry metres continued this practice with their qu forms, similarly fixed-rhythm forms based on now obscure or perhaps completely lost original examples (or, ur-types). not that classical chinese poetry ever lost the use of the shi forms, with their metrical patterns found in the "old style poetry" (gushi) and the regulated verse forms of (lüshi or jintishi). the regulated verse forms also prescribed patterns based upon linguistic tonality. the use of caesura is important in regard to the metrical analysis of classical chinese poetry forms. old english[edit] the metric system of old english poetry was different from that of modern english, and related more to the verse forms of most of the older germanic languages such as old norse. it used alliterative verse, a metrical pattern involving varied numbers of syllables but a fixed number (usually four) of strong stresses in each line. the unstressed syllables were relatively unimportant, but the caesurae (breaks between the half-lines) played a major role in old english poetry.[ ] in place of using feet, alliterative verse divided each line into two half-lines. each half-line had to follow one of five or so patterns, each of which defined a sequence of stressed and unstressed syllables, typically with two stressed syllables per half line. unlike typical western poetry, however, the number of unstressed syllables could vary somewhat. for example, the common pattern "dum-da-dum-da" could allow between one and five unstressed syllables between the two stresses. the following is a famous example, taken from the battle of maldon, a poem written shortly after the date of that battle (ad ): hige sceal þe heardra, || heorte þe cēnre, mōd sceal þe māre, || swā ūre mægen lȳtlað ("will must be the harder, courage the bolder, spirit must be the more, as our might lessens.") in the quoted section, the stressed syllables have been underlined. (normally, the stressed syllable must be long if followed by another syllable in a word. however, by a rule known as syllable resolution, two short syllables in a single word are considered equal to a single long syllable. hence, sometimes two syllables have been underlined, as in hige and mægen.) the german philologist eduard sievers (died ) identified five different patterns of half-line in anglo-saxon alliterative poetry. the first three half-lines have the type a pattern "dum-da-(da-)dum-da", while the last one has the type c pattern "da-(da-da-)dum-dum-da", with parentheses indicating optional unstressed syllables that have been inserted. note also the pervasive pattern of alliteration, where the first and/or second stressed syllables alliterate with the third, but not with the fourth. french[edit] in french poetry, metre is determined solely by the number of syllables in a line. a silent 'e' counts as a syllable before a consonant, but is elided before a vowel (where h aspiré counts as a consonant). at the end of a line, the "e" remains unelided but is hypermetrical (outside the count of syllables, like a feminine ending in english verse), in that case, the rhyme is also called "feminine", whereas it is called "masculine" in the other cases. the most frequently encountered metre in classical french poetry is the alexandrine, composed of two hemistiches of six syllables each. two famous alexandrines are 	la fille de minos et de pasiphaë 	(jean racine) (the daughter of minos and of pasiphaë), and 	waterloo ! waterloo ! waterloo ! morne plaine! 	(victor hugo) (waterloo! waterloo! waterloo! gloomy plain!) classical french poetry also had a complex set of rules for rhymes that goes beyond how words merely sound. these are usually taken into account when describing the metre of a poem. spanish[edit] in spanish poetry the metre is determined by the number of syllables the verse has. still it is the phonetic accent in the last word of the verse that decides the final count of the line. if the accent of the final word is at the last syllable, then the poetic rule states that one syllable shall be added to the actual count of syllables in the said line, thus having a higher number of poetic syllables than the number of grammatical syllables. if the accent lies on the second to last syllable of the last word in the verse, then the final count of poetic syllables will be the same as the grammatical number of syllables. furthermore, if the accent lies on the third to last syllable, then one syllable is subtracted from the actual count, having then less poetic syllables than grammatical syllables. spanish poetry uses poetic licenses, unique to romance languages, to change the number of syllables by manipulating mainly the vowels in the line. regarding these poetic licenses one must consider three kinds of phenomena: ( ) syneresis, ( ) dieresis and ( ) hiatus 	syneresis. a diphthong is made from two consecutive vowels in a word which do not normally form one: poe-ta, leal-tad instead of the standard po-e-ta ('poet'), le-al-tad ('loyalty'). 	dieresis. the opposite of syneresis. a syllable break is inserted between two vowels which usually make a diphthong, thus eliminating it: ru-i-do, ci-e-lo for the standard rui-do ('noise'), cie-lo ('sky' or 'heaven'). this is sometimes marked by placing a dieresis sign over the vowel which would otherwise be the weak one in the diphthong: rüido, cïelo. 	synalepha (spanish sinalefa). the final vowel of a word and the initial one of the next are pronounced in one syllable. for example: cuando salí de collores, fue en una jaquita baya, por un sendero entre mayas, arropás de cundiamores... this stanza from valle de collores by luis lloréns torres, uses eight poetic syllables. given that all words at the end of each line have their phonetic accent on the second to last syllables, no syllables in the final count are added or subtracted. still, in the second and third verse the grammatical count of syllables is nine. poetic licenses permit the union of two vowels that are next to each other but in different syllables and count them as one. "fue en..." has actually two syllables, but applying this license both vowels unite and form only one, giving the final count of eight syllables. "sendero entre..." has five grammatical syllables, but uniting the "o" from "sendero" and the first "e" from "entre", gives only four syllables, permitting it to have eight syllables in the verse as well. 	hiatus. it is the opposite phenomenon to synalepha. two neighboring vowels in different words are kept in separate syllables: ca-be-llo - de - án-gel, with six poetic syllables, instead of the more common ca-be-llo - de ͜ án-gel, with five. there are many types of licenses, used either to add or subtract syllables, that may be applied when needed after taking in consideration the poetic rules of the last word. yet all have in common that they only manipulate vowels that are close to each other and not interrupted by consonants. some common metres in spanish verse are: 	septenary: a line with seven poetic syllables 	octosyllable: a line with eight poetic syllables. this metre is commonly used in romances, narrative poems similar to english ballads, and in most proverbs. 	hendecasyllable: a line with eleven poetic syllables. this metre plays a similar role to pentameter in english verse. it is commonly used in sonnets, among other things. 	alexandrine: a line consisting of fourteen syllables, commonly separated into two hemistichs of seven syllables each (in most languages, this term denotes a line of twelve or sometimes thirteen syllables, but not in spanish). italian[edit] in italian poetry, metre is determined solely by the position of the last accent in a line, the position of the other accents being however important for verse equilibrium. syllables are enumerated with respect to a verse which ends with a paroxytone, so that a septenary (having seven syllables) is defined as a verse whose last accent falls on the sixth syllable: it may so contain eight syllables (ei fu. siccome immobile) or just six (la terra al nunzio sta). moreover, when a word ends with a vowel and the next one starts with a vowel, they are considered to be in the same syllable (synalepha): so gli anni e i giorni consists of only four syllables ("gli an" "ni e i" "gior" "ni"). even-syllabic verses have a fixed stress pattern. because of the mostly trochaic nature of the italian language, verses with an even number of syllables are far easier to compose, and the novenary is usually regarded as the most difficult verse. some common metres in italian verse are: 	sexenary: a line whose last stressed syllable is on the fifth, with a fixed stress on the second one as well (al re travicello / piovuto ai ranocchi, giusti) 	septenary: a line whose last stressed syllable is the sixth one. 	octosyllable: a line whose last accent falls on the seventh syllable. more often than not, the secondary accents fall on the first, third and fifth syllable, especially in nursery rhymes for which this metre is particularly well-suited. 	hendecasyllable: a line whose last accent falls on the tenth syllable. it therefore usually consists of eleven syllables; there are various kinds of possible accentuations. it is used in sonnets, in ottava rima, and in many other types of poetry. the divine comedy, in particular, is composed entirely of hendecasyllables, whose main stress pattern is on the th and th syllable.[ ] turkish[edit] apart from ottoman poetry, which was heavily influenced by persian traditions[ ] and created a unique ottoman style, traditional turkish poetry features a system in which the number of syllables in each verse must be the same, most frequently , , , syllables. these verses are then divided into syllable groups depending on the number of total syllables in a verse: + for syllables, + or + for , + + or + for syllables. the end of each group in a verse is called a "durak" (stop), and must coincide with the last syllable of a word. the following example is by faruk nafiz Çamlıbel (died ), one of the most devoted users of traditional turkish metre: derinden derine ırmaklar ağlar, uzaktan uzağa çoban çeşmesi. ey suyun sesinden anlayan bağlar, ne söyler şu dağa çoban çeşmesi? in this poem the + metre is used, so that there is a word-break (durak = "stop" or caesura) after the sixth syllable of every line, as well as at the end of each line. ottoman turkish[edit] in the ottoman turkish language, the structures of the poetic foot (تفعل tef'ile) and of poetic metre (وزن vezin) were imitated from persian poetry. about twelve of the most common persian metres were used for writing turkish poetry. as was the case with persian, no use at all was made of the commonest metres of arabic poetry (the tawīl, basīt, kāmil, and wāfir).[ ] however, the terminology used to described the metres was indirectly borrowed from the arabic poetic tradition through the medium of the persian language. as a result, ottoman poetry, also known as dîvân poetry, was generally written in quantitative, mora-timed metre. the moras, or syllables, are divided into three basic types: 	open, or light, syllables (açık hece) consist of either a short vowel alone, or a consonant followed by a short vowel 	examples: a-dam ("man"); zir-ve ("summit, peak") 	closed, or heavy, syllables (kapalı hece) consist of either a long vowel alone, a consonant followed by a long vowel, or a short vowel followed by a consonant 	examples: Â-dem ("adam"); kâ-fir ("non-muslim"); at ("horse") 	lengthened, or superheavy, syllables (meddli hece) count as one closed plus one open syllable and consist of a vowel followed by a consonant cluster, or a long vowel followed by a consonant 	examples: kürk ("fur"); âb ("water") in writing out a poem's poetic metre, open syllables are symbolized by "." and closed syllables are symbolized by "–". from the different syllable types, a total of sixteen different types of poetic foot—the majority of which are either three or four syllables in length—are constructed, which are named and scanned as follows: 	      	fa‘ (–) 	fe ul (. –) 	fa‘ lün (– –) 	fe i lün (. . –) 	      	fâ i lün (– . –) 	fe û lün (. – –) 	mef’ û lü (– – .) 	fe i lâ tün (. . – –) 	      	fâ i lâ tün (– . – –) 	fâ i lâ tü (– . – .) 	me fâ i lün (. – . –) 	me fâ’ î lün (. – – –) 	      	me fâ î lü (. – – .) 	müf te i lün (– . . –) 	müs tef i lün (– – . –) 	mü te fâ i lün (. . – . –) these individual poetic feet are then combined in a number of different ways, most often with four feet per line, so as to give the poetic metre for a line of verse. some of the most commonly used metres are the following: 	me fâ’ î lün / me fâ’ î lün / me fâ’ î lün / me fâ’ î lün . – – – / . – – – / . – – – / . – – – 	      	ezelden şāh-ı ‘aşḳuñ bende-i fermānıyüz cānā maḥabbet mülkinüñ sulţān-ı ‘ālī-şānıyüz cānā 	oh beloved, since the origin we have been the slaves of the shah of love oh beloved, we are the famed sultan of the heart's domain[ ] 		—bâkî ( – ) 	me fâ i lün / fe i lâ tün / me fâ i lün / fe i lün . – . – / . . – – / . – . – / . . – 	      	Ḥaţā’ o nerkis-i şehlādadır sözümde degil egerçi her süḥanim bī-bedel beġendiremem 	though i may fail to please with my matchless verse the fault lies in those languid eyes and not my words 		—Şeyh gâlib ( – ) 	fâ i lâ tün / fâ i lâ tün / fâ i lâ tün / fâ i lün – . – – / – . – – / – . – – / – . – 	      	bir şeker ḥand ile bezm-i şevķa cām ettiñ beni nīm ṣun peymāneyi sāḳī tamām ettiñ beni 	at the gathering of desire you made me a wine-cup with your sugar smile oh saki, give me only half a cup of wine, you've made me drunk enough[ ] 		—nedîm ( ?– ) 	fe i lâ tün / fe i lâ tün / fe i lâ tün / fe i lün . . – – / . . – – / . . – – / . . – 	      	men ne ḥācet ki ḳılam derd-i dilüm yāra ‘ayān Ḳamu derd-i dilümi yār bilübdür bilübem 	what use in revealing my sickness of heart to my love i know my love knows the whole of my sickness of heart 		—fuzûlî ( ?– ) 	mef’ û lü / me fâ î lü / me fâ î lü / fâ û lün – – . / . – – . / . – – . / – – . 	      	Şevḳuz ki dem-i bülbül-i şeydāda nihānuz Ḥūnuz ki dil-i ġonçe-i ḥamrāda nihānuz 	we are desire hidden in the love-crazed call of the nightingale we are blood hidden in the crimson heart of the unbloomed rose[ ] 		—neşâtî (?– ) portuguese[edit] portuguese poetry uses a syllabic metre in which the verse is classified according to the last stressed syllable. the portuguese system is quite similar to those of spanish and italian, as they are closely related languages. the most commonly used verses are: 	redondilha menor: composed of syllables. 	redondilha maior: composed of syllables. 	decasyllable (decassílabo): composed of syllables. mostly used in parnassian sonnets. it is equivalent to the italian hendecasyllable. 	heroic (heróico): stresses on the sixth and tenth syllables. 	sapphic (sáfico): stresses on the fourth, eighth and tenth syllables. 	martelo: stresses on the third, sixth and tenth syllables. 	gaita galega or moinheira: stresses on the fourth, seventh and tenth syllables. 	dodecasyllable (dodecassílabo): composed of syllables. 	alexandrine (alexandrino): divided into two hemistiches, the sixth and the twelfth syllables are stressed. 	barbarian (bárbaro): composed of or more syllables. 	lucasian (lucasiano): composed of syllables, divided into two hemistiches of syllables each. welsh[edit] main article: cerdd dafod there is a continuing tradition of strict metre poetry in the welsh language that can be traced back to at least the sixth century. at the annual national eisteddfod of wales a bardic chair is awarded to the best awdl, a long poem that follows the conventions of cynghanedd regarding stress, alliteration and rhyme. history[edit] further information: history of poetry metrical texts are first attested in early indo-european languages. the earliest known unambiguously metrical texts, and at the same time the only metrical texts with a claim of dating to the late bronze age, are the hymns of the rigveda. that the texts of the ancient near east (sumerian, egyptian or semitic) should not exhibit metre is surprising, and may be partly due to the nature of bronze age writing.[citation needed] there were, in fact, attempts to reconstruct metrical qualities of the poetic portions of the hebrew bible, e.g. by gustav bickell[ ] or julius ley,[ ] but they remained inconclusive[ ] (see biblical poetry). early iron age metrical poetry is found in the iranian avesta and in the greek works attributed to homer and hesiod. latin verse survives from the old latin period (c. nd century bc), in the saturnian metre. persian poetry[ ] arises in the sassanid era. tamil poetry of the early centuries ad may be the earliest known non-indo-european medieval poetry was metrical without exception, spanning traditions as diverse as european minnesang, trouvère or bardic poetry, classical persian and sanskrit poetry, tang dynasty chinese poetry or the japanese nara period man'yōshū. renaissance and early modern poetry in europe is characterized by a return to templates of classical antiquity, a tradition begun by petrarca's generation and continued into the time of shakespeare and milton. dissent[edit] not all poets accept the idea that metre is a fundamental part of poetry. th-century american poets marianne moore, william carlos williams and robinson jeffers believed that metre was an artificial construct imposed upon poetry rather than being innate to poetry. in an essay titled "robinson jeffers, & the metric fallacy" dan schneider echoes jeffers' sentiments: "what if someone actually said to you that all music was composed of just notes? or if someone claimed that there were just colors in creation? now, ponder if such a thing were true. imagine the clunkiness & mechanicality of such music. think of the visual arts devoid of not just color, but sepia tones, & even shades of gray." jeffers called his technique "rolling stresses". moore went further than jeffers, openly declaring her poetry was written in syllabic form, and wholly denying metre. these syllabic lines from her famous poem "poetry" illustrate her contempt for metre and other poetic tools. even the syllabic pattern of this poem does not remain perfectly consistent: 				nor is it valid 		to discriminate against "business documents and 		school-books": all these phenomena are important. one must make a distinction 			however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry williams tried to form poetry whose subject matter was centered on the lives of common people. he came up with the concept of the variable foot. williams spurned traditional metre in most of his poems, preferring what he called "colloquial idioms." another poet who turned his back on traditional concepts of metre was britain's gerard manley hopkins. hopkins' major innovation was what he called sprung rhythm. he claimed most poetry was written in this older rhythmic structure inherited from the norman side of the english literary heritage,[citation needed] based on repeating groups of two or three syllables, with the stressed syllable falling in the same place on each repetition.[citation needed] sprung rhythm is structured around feet with a variable number of syllables, generally between one and four syllables per foot, with the stress always falling on the first syllable in a foot. see also[edit] 	foot (prosody) 	generative metrics 	line (poetry) 	list of classical metres 	metre (hymn) 	metre (music) 	scansion 	anisometric verse references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ a b c d michael j. cummings ( ). "metre in poetry and verse: a study guide". cummings study guides. retrieved - - . metre is determined by the type of foot and the number of feet in a line. thus, a line with three iambic feet is known as iambic trimeter. a line with six dactylic feet is known as dactylic hexameter. 	^ wallace, robert ( ), meter in english (essay) asserts that there is only one metre in english: accentual-syllabic. the essay is reprinted in baker, david, ed. ( ), meter in english, a critical engagement, university of arkansas press, isbn  - - -x . 	^ fussell, paul ( ) [ ], poetic metre and poetic form, mcgraw hill, isbn  - - - . 	^ hollander , p.  . 	^ hartman, charles o ( ), free verse: an essay on prosody, northwestern university press, , p.  , isbn  - - - , [quantitative metres] continue to resist importation in english . 	^ malcovati, leonardo ( ), prosody in england and elsewhere: a comparative approach, gival press, isbn  - - -x, [very] little of it is native . 	^ hollander , p.  . 	^ hollander , p.  . 	^ the ballad metre commonality among a wide range of song lyrics allow words and music to be interchanged seamlessly between various songs, such as "amazing grace", the "ballad of gilligan's isle", "house of the rising sun", theme from the mickey mouse club, and others. 	^ boyd, barbara weiden ( ). "vergil's aeneid". bolchazy-carducci. isbn  . retrieved - - . dactyl is one long two short syllables from dactyl, meaning "finger" (greek: daktylos). 	^ elwell-sutton, l. p. "ʿarŪŻ". encyclopaedia iranica. retrieved march . 	^ elwell-sutton, l.p. the persian metres ( ). 	^ hayes, bruce ( ) "the rhythmic sructure of persian verse" edebiyat : - , p. 	^ elwell-sutton ( ) the persian metres, p. . 	^ hollander , p.  . 	^ hardison, o.b. ( ). prosody and purpose in the english renaissance. johns hopkins university press. isbn  . 	^ [ ] 	^ deo, ashwini; kiparsky, paul ( ). "poetries in contact: arabic, persian, and urdu". in maria-kristina lotman and mihhail lotman ed. proceedings of international conference on frontiers in comparative metrics, estonia, pp. – . (see p. of the pdf). 	^ andrews, p.  . sfn error: no target: citerefandrews (help) 	^ andrews, p.  . sfn error: no target: citerefandrews (help) 	^ andrews, p.  . sfn error: no target: citerefandrews (help) 	^ "metrices biblicae regulae exemplis illustratae", , "carmina vet. test. metrice", 	^ "leitfaden der metrik der hebräischen poesie", 	^ the catholic encyclopedia s.v. hebrew poetry of the old testament calls them 'procrustean'. 	^ fereydoon motamed la metrique diatemporelle: quantitative poetic metric analysis and pursuit of reasoning on aesthetics of linguistics and poetry in indo-european languages. sources[edit] 	abdel-malek, zaki n. ( ), towards a new theory of arabic prosody, th edition (revised), posed online with free access. 	andrews, walter g ( ), ottoman lyric poetry: an anthology, isbn  - - - . 	ciardi, john ( ), how does a poem mean?, houghton mifflin, asin b ccgg o . 	deutsch, babette ( ), poetry handbook, isbn  - - - - . 	hollander, john ( ), rhyme's reason: a guide to english verse, yale university press, isbn  - - - . 		v 	t 	e poetic meters 	 	meter 	monometer 	dimeter 	trimeter 	tetrameter 	hexameter 	octameter 	iambic heptameter 	iambic pentameter 	iambic tetrameter 	dactyl 	dactylic hexameter 	trochee/trochaic 	trochaic tetrameter 	basīṭ 	hazaj 	kāmil 	mutaqārib 	madīd 	rajaz 	tawīl 	wāfir 	authority control 	 	gnd: - retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=metre_(poetry)&oldid= " 		categories: 	poetic rhythm hidden categories: 	articles containing spanish-language text 	articles containing turkish-language text 	harv and sfn no-target errors 	articles with short description 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doctors contents:  	top 	 – 	a 	b 	c 	d 	e 	f 	g 	h 	i 	j 	k 	l 	m 	n 	o 	p 	q 	r 	s 	t 	u 	v 	w 	x 	y 	z a[edit] 	titus accius - 	gaius acilius - 	claudia acte - 	claudius aelianus (aelian) - 	sextus aelius paetus catus - jurist 	lucius aelius - would-be successor to hadrian 	aemilia scaura - wife of pompey 	marcus aemilius aemilianus - emperor for three months 	flavius aetius - general 	gnaeus domitius afer - orator 	lucius afranius - two; poet and consul 	julius africanus - two; orator, christian philosopher 	sextus caecilius africanus - jurist 	claudius agathinus - physician 	gnaeus julius agricola - general in britain 	sextus calpurnius agricola - governor in britain 	marcus julius agrippa (agrippa i) - a king in judea, romanized 	marcus julius agrippa (agrippa ii) - a king in judea, romanized 	marcus vipsanius agrippa - general and geographer 	marcus vipsanius agrippa postumus - son of agrippa 	vipsania agrippina - daughter of agrippa 	agrippina major - mother of caligula 	agrippina minor - mother of nero 	gaius servilius ahala - legendary hero 	ahenobarbus, gaius domitius - politician 	aius locutius - divine 	albinovanus pedo - poet 	titus albucius - orator 	gaius albucius silus - orator and teacher of rhetoric 	alfenus varus - jurist 	alfius avitus - poet 	allectus - assassin of carausius 	gaius amafinius - philosopher 	lucius ambivius turpio - actor and director 	amelius gentilianus - philosopher 	ammianus marcellinus - writer 	lucius ampelius - writer 	lucius annius vinicianus - plotter 	lucius annius vinicianus - rebel 	gaius antistius vetus - consul bc 	gaius antistius vetus - caesar augustus' quaestor 	gaius antistius vetus - consul in 	gaius antistius vetus - consul in 	gaius antistius vetus - consul in 	lucius antistius vetus - consul 	antonia - several 	antoninus pius - emperor 	arrius antoninus - father of the emperor 	antoninus liberalis - mythographer 	gaius antonius - two 	iullus antonius - poet and consul, married claudia marcella major 	lucius antonius - consul 	marcus antonius 	marcus antonius orator - consul bc 	marcus antonius creticus - son of the orator and father of mark antony 	mark antony - triumvir 	marcus antonius antyllus - son of mark antony 	antonius castor - freedman 	antonius musa - physician 	antonius diogenes - writer 	marcus aper - advocate 	aelius festus aphthonius - grammarian 	apicius - several gourmets 	lucius apronius - suffect consul 	pontius aquila - tribune 	romanus aquila - rhetor 	manius aquillius - two consuls 	gaius aquillius gallus - jurist 	flavius arcadius - emperor 	aulus licinius archias - poet 	arellius fuscus - rhetor 	arria major - wife of caecina paetus 	arria minor - daughter of arria major 	flavius arrianus (arrian) - historian 	lucius arruntius the elder - consul 	lucius arruntius the younger - his son, also a consul 	lucius arruntius stella - poet 	arruntius celsus - miscellanist 	lucius artorius castus - general in britain, possible basis for king arthur 	quintus junius arulenus rusticus - stoic 	arusianus messius - grammarian 	quintus asconius pedianus - writer 	sempronius asellio - historian 	aemilius asper - commentator 	nonius asprenas - two rhetors 	lucius ateius praetextatus philologus - scholar 	atia - three augustan women 	aulus atilius caiatinus - consul 	aulus atilius serranus - consul 	marcus atilius - dramatist 	atilius fortunatianus - metrician 	titus quinctius atta - poet 	publius acilius attianus - adviser to hadrian 	caecilia attica - wife of agrippa 	titus pomponius atticus - businessman and writer 	julius atticus - writer on vines 	aufidius bassus - historian 	gnaeus aufidius - praetor and historian 	sentius augurinus - friend of pliny the younger 	augustus - emperor 	aurelia - mother of julius caesar 	lucius domitius aurelianus - emperor 	marcus aurelius - emperor 	lucius aurelius marcianus - soldier 	marcus aurelius antoninus (caracalla) - emperor 	sextus aurelius victor - historian 	aureolus - soldier 	decimus magnus ausonius - poet 	publius autronius paetus - consul 	titus avidius quietus - suffect consul 	gaius avidius nigrinus - possible hadrian successor 	gaius avidius cassius - general 	avienus - writer b[edit] 	gnaeus baebius tamphilus - consul 	marcus baebius tamphilus - consul 	quintus baebius tamphilus - praetor 	tiberius claudius balbilus - astrologer 	decius caelius calvinus balbinus - senator/emperor 	marcus atius balbus - praetor, married julia minor 	titus ampius balbus - tribune and proconsul 	lucius cornelius balbus (major) - consul 	lucius cornelius balbus (minor) - consul's nephew 	balbus - surveyor 	balista - praetorian prefect of valerian 	quintus marcius barea soranus - suffect consul 	quintus caecilius bassus - officer 	caesius bassus - poet 	saleius bassus - epic writer 	bavius - bad poet mentioned by virgil 	belisarius - general 	lucius calpurnius bestia - consul 	marcus furius bibaculus - poet 	marcus calpurnius bibulus - consul 	quintus junius blaesus - suffect consul 	gaius blossius - philosophy student 	anicius manlius severinus boethius (boethius) - consul, writer 	vettius bolanus - suffect consul 	bonifacius - th-century governor of north africa 	bonosus - revolted against probus 	tiberius claudius caesar britannicus (britannicus) - son of claudius 	bruttidius niger - aedile 	lucius junius brutus - traditional founder of republic 	decimus junius brutus - commander 	decimus junius brutus callaicus - consul 	lucius junius brutus damasippus - praetor 	brutus, marcus junius - two, tribune and tyrannicide 	sextus afranius burrus - procurator c[edit] 	caecilius of novum comum - poet 	gaius caecilius classicus - governor of baetica 	caecilus statius - gallic poet 	quintus caecilius epirota - man of letters 	lucius caecilius jucundus - banker in pompeii 	aulus caecina severus - friend of cicero 	aulus caecina severus - legate 	aulus caecina alienus - suffect consul 	marcus caelius rufus - aedile 	quintus servilius caepio - several 	fannius caepio - conspirator 	gaius julius caesar strabo - orator 	gaius julius caesar - dictator, historian, general, writer 	lucius julius caesar - several related 	sextus julius caesar- several related 	gaius caesar - consul 	lucius caesar - second son of agrippa 	marcus calidius - praetor 	gaius julius callistus - freedman 	calpurnia - two; daughter of piso, rd wife of pliny 	titus calpurnius siculus - writer 	calpurnius flaccus - writer 	gaius sextius calvinus - consul 	gnaeus domitius calvinus - consul 	gnaeus domitius corbulo - general, st century 	gaius calvisius sabinus - consul in bc 	gaius calvisius sabinus - consul in bc 	gaius calvisius sabinus - consul in ad 	gaius licinius calvus - orator and poet 	marcus furius camillus - heroic consul 	lucius furius camillus - two; consul and son 	publius canidius crassus - general 	gaius caninius rebilus - briefly suffect consul 	caninius rufus - neighbor of pliny 	canius rufus - poet 	gaius canuleius - plebeian tribune 	flavius caper - grammarian 	gaius ateius capito - two; tribune, jurist 	marcus aurelius maus carausius - emperor 	gaius papirius carbo - consul 	gnaeus papirius carbo - consul 	gaius papirius carbo arvina - tribune 	marcus aurelius carinus - emperor 	gaius carrinus - commander 	marcus aurelius carus - emperor 	spurius carvilius maximus - consul 	spurius carvilius ruga - freedman and teacher 	servilius casca - two conspirators 	cassiodorus - politician and writer 	spurius cassius viscellinus - early consul 	lucius cassius hemina - annalist 	lucius cassius longinus ravilla - consul 	quintus cassius longinus - quaestor 	gaius cassius longinus - tyrannicide 	lucius cassius longinus - three; two consuls, one proconsul 	cassius parmensis - two; jurist and tyrannicide 	cassius severus - orator 	cassius chaerea - centurion 	lucius artorius castus - general in britain, possible basis for king arthur 	lucius sergius catilina (catiline) - conspirator 	titus catius - writer 	cato, marcus porcius - the elder, censor 	cato, marcus porcius - the younger, politician, leader of the conservative faction 	gaius porcius cato - two; consul, tribune 	lucius porcius cato - consul 	catullus - writer and poet 	gaius lutatius catulus - consul 	quintus lutatius catulus - two; consul and son 	celsus albinovanus - friend of horace 	aulus cornelius celsus - encyclopedist 	publius juventius celsus - consul 	censorinus - grammarian 	quintus petillius cerialis - consul 	gaius cestius epulo - praetor 	gaius cestius gallus - consul 	lucius cestius pius - rhetor 	publius cornelius cethegus, politician and consul 	publius cornelius cethegus, politician and senator 	flavius sosipater charisius - grammarian 	lucius cornelius chrysogonus - freedman 	marcus tullius cicero - two; politician/writer and son 	quintus tullius cicero - two; younger brother of cicero and son 	lucius fabius cilo - governor 	lucius quinctius cincinnatus - early hero 	lucius cincius alimentus - senator and historian 	lucius cornelius cinna - two; politician and son 	gaius helvius cinna - poet 	gnaeus cornelius cinna magnus - consul 	gaius julius civilis - noble batavian 	gaius julius alpinus classicianus - procurator 	julius classicus - rebel treveri 	claudius claudianus (claudian) - poet 	claudius - emperor 	claudia procula - wife of pontius pilate 	claudius ii gothicus - emperor 	appius claudius - decemvir 	appius claudius caecus - consul 	appius claudius caudex - consul 	publius claudius pulcher - consul 	quintus claudius - plebeian tribune 	gaius claudius pulcher - consul 	appius claudius pulcher - three consuls 	marcus claudius marcellus aeserninus - orator and consul 	quintus claudius quadrigarius - annalist 	tiberius claudius - procurator 	claudius etruscus - son of above 	tiberius claudius pompeianus - consul 	claudius mamertinus - orator 	titus flavius clemens (consul) - consul 	clodia - sister of publius clodius pulcher 	clodius aesopus - tragic actor 	publius clodius pulcher - politician 	lucius clodius macer - legate 	publius clodius quirinalis - rhetor 	decimus clodius albinus - would-be emperor 	cloelia - legendary hostage 	aulus cluentius habitus - litigant 	lucius coelius antipater - jurist, rhetorician, and historian 	gaius coelius caldus - consul 	lucius junius moderatus columella = farmer 	cominianus - grammarian 	commodianus - christian latin poet 	lucius aelius aurelius commodus - emperor 	constans - emperor 	flavius valerius constantinus (constantine) - emperor 	constantine ii - emperor 	flavius claudius constantinus - emperor 	flavius valerius constantius (chlorus) - emperor 	constantius ii - emperor 	constantius iii - emperor 	gnaeus domitius corbulo - consul 	gnaeus marcius coriolanus - early hero 	cornelia africana - mother of tiberius and gaius gracchus 	cornelia - caesar's first wife 	cornelia metella - wife of pompey 	gaius cornelius - tribune 	cornelius severus - poet 	lucius cornificius - consul 	quintus cornificius - orator and poet 	lucius annaeus cornutus - freedman teacher 	gaius julius cornutus tertullus - proconsul 	gaius coruncanius - ambassador 	lucius coruncanius - ambassador 	tiberius coruncanius - consul 	titus statilius taurus corvinus - consul 	quintus conconius - scholar 	aulus cornelius cossus - consul 	gaius aurelius cotta - consul 	lucius aurelius cotta - five different 	marcus aurelius cotta - consul 	marcus julius cottius - son of a native king 	gaius calpurnius crassus frugi licinianus - suffect consul 	publius licinius crassus dives mucianus - consul 	lucius licinius crassus - consul 	marcus licinius crassus - two; politician and grandson 	publius licinius crassus - two; consul and commander 	aulus cremutius cordus - historian 	quintus terentius culleo - praetor 	curiatius maternus - senator and poet 	marcus curtius - legendary hero 	curtius montanus - poet 	thascius caecilius cyprianus (cyprian) - bishop d[edit] 	damophilus - sculptor 	lucius decidius saxa - tribune 	gaius messius quintus decius - emperor 	publius decius mus - three consuls 	publius decius subulo - praetor 	quintus dellius - soldier, writer 	sempronius densus - soldier 	lucius siccius dentatus - early hero 	manius curius dentatus - consul 	publius herennius dexippus - sophist 	lucius pollentius dexter - soldier (legio i adiutrix, centuria allii marini) 	titus didius - consul 	marcus didius julianus - short-lived emperor 	dio cassius - official and historian 	gaius aurelius valerius diocletianus (diocletian) - emperor 	dioscorides pedanius - physician 	gnaeus cornelius dolabella - two; consul and proconsul 	publius cornelius dolabella - two consuls 	titus flavius domitianus (domitian) - two; emperor and adopted son 	flavia domitilla - mother / sister / niece of domitian 	gnaeus domitius ahenobarbus - four different 	lucius domitius ahenobarbus - two 	domitius marsus - poet 	aelius donatus - grammarian 	tiberius claudius donatus - commentator 	dorotheus - framed justinian code 	blossius aemilius dracontius - poet and rhetor 	julia drusilla - daughter of caligula 	drusus julius caesar - two; son of tiberius and son of germanicus 	nero claudius drusus - general 	marcus livius drusus - two; consul and son 	marcus livius drusus claudianus - a praetor 	gaius duilius - consul e[edit] 	marcus egnatius rufus - praetor 	elagabalus - emperor 	emporius - rhetorician 	empylus - rhetorician 	sextilius ena - poet 	severus sanctus endelechius - professor 	quintus ennius - writer 	magnus felix ennodius - bishop, writer 	epagathus - politician 	titus clodius eprius marcellus - consul 	erotian - grammarian, doctor 	sextus erucius clarus - official and friend of pliny 	flavius eugenius - usurper 	eumenius - teacher of rhetoric 	eusebius of caesarea - theologian 	eutropius - historian 	iulius exsuperantius - historian f[edit] 	faberius - secretary to julius caesar 	fabianus papirius - philosopher 	marcus fabius ambustus - consul 	quintus fabius ambustus - official 	marcus fabius buteo - consul 	lucius fabius justus - consul 	paullus fabius maximus - consul 	quintus fabius maximus allobrogicus - praetor 	quintus fabius maximus aemilianus - consul 	quintus fabius maximus rullianus - consul 	quintus fabius maximus verrucosus, cunctator - consul 	quintus fabius pictor - senator, historian 	fabius rusticus - historian 	gaius fabricius luscinus - consul 	marcus fadius gallus - friend of cicero 	gaius fannius - consul 	annia galeria faustina - two; wife and daughter of antoninus pius 	marcus cetius faventinus - scholar 	eulogius favonius - rhetor 	marcus favonius - politician 	favorinus - rhetor 	marcus antonius felix - freedman procurator 	fenestella - annalist 	porcius festus - procurator 	rufius festus - writer 	sextus pompeius festus - scholar 	gaius flavius fimbria - consul 	julius firmicus maternus - astrologer 	aulus avilius flaccus - official 	quintus fulvius flaccus two; consul and son 	lucius valerius flaccus four 	marcus fulvius flaccus - consul 	verrius flaccus - freedman scholar 	lucius quinctius flamininus - consul 	titus quinctius flamininus - consul 	gaius flaminius - consul 	gnaeus flavius - writer 	flavius felix - poet 	titus flavius petro - grandfather of vespasian 	marcus annius florianus - short-lived emperor 	florus - poet 	marcus fonteius - official 	sextus julius frontinus - writer 	marcus cornelius fronto - orator 	quintus fufius calenus - consul 	fabius planciades fulgentius - writer 	fulvia - wife of mark antony 	gaius fundanius - comedian 	minicius fundanus - proconsul 	aulus furius antias - poet 	lucius furius philus - consul 	cornelius fuscus - official and general g[edit] 	aulus gabinius - two; tribune and consul 	gaius julius caesar germanicus (caligula) - emperor 	gaius - jurist 	gaius sulpicius galba - two; official, grandfather of emperor 	servius sulpicius galba - three; consul, praetor, emperor 	publius sulpicius galba maximus - consul 	gaius galerius valerius maximinianus (galerius) - emperor 	galerius trachalus - orator 	publius licinius egnatius gallienus (gallienus) - emperor 	lucius iunius gallio annaeanus - consul 	aelius gallus - official 	appius annius trebonius gallus - consul of 	appius annius trebonius gallus - consul of 	gaius asinius gallus - consul 	gaius cornelius gallus - poet and general 	aulus didius gallus - consul 	gaius lucretius gallus - praetor 	gaius sulpicius gallus - astronomer and consul 	gallus caesar - ruled in antioch 	quintus gargilius martialis - writer 	gavius bassus - writer 	gavius silo - orator 	aulus gellius - writer 	gnaeus gellius - annalist 	lucius gellius poplicola - consul 	geminus - writer 	lucius genucius - tribune 	germanicus - general, father of caligula 	gessius florus - procurator in judea 	hosidius geta - writer 	gnaeus hosidius geta - suffect consul 	publius septimius geta (geta) - emperor 	manius acilius glabrio - four 	gaius servilius glaucia - praetor 	glitius atilius agricola - general of trajan 	marcus antonius gnipho - scholar 	marcus antonius gordianus - three emperors 	gaius sempronius gracchus - nd-century bc politician 	tiberius sempronius gracchus - three politicians 	julius graecinus - praetor 	granius licinianus - writer 	flavius gratian - emperor 	grattius - poet 	grillius - grammarian h[edit] 	publius aelius hadrianus (hadrian) - emperor 	quintus haterius - orator 	helvidius priscus - praetor 	herennius etruscus - short-lived emperor 	herennius modestinus - jurist 	herennius senecio - governor 	herodes atticus - consul and writer 	aulus hirtius - consul 	honorius (emperor) - emperor 	horatius cocles - early hero 	quintus horatius flaccus (horace) - writer 	quintus hortensius - consul 	hostilian - short-lived emperor 	hostius - poet 	hyginus - three writers 	gaius julius hyginus - writer i[edit] 	lucius icilius - early hero 	irenaeus - theologian 	isidorus hispalensis - bishop and scholar 	isigonus - writer j[edit] 	januarius nepotianus - writer 	javolenus priscus - jurist 	jordanes - historian 	flavius jovian - emperor 	juba i of numidia 	juba ii of numidia 	juba of mauretania 	jugurtha - numidian king 	julia (aunt of caesar and wife of marius) 	julia (daughter of julius caesar) 	julia - several women of the julii caesares 	juliae caesares (sisters of julius caesar) 	julia flavia - daughter of titus 	vipsania julia - granddaughter of augustus 	julia (mother of mark antony) 	julia the elder, daughter of augustus 	julia domna - wife of septimius severus 	julia maesa - sister of julia domna 	julia soaemias bassiana - daughter of julia maesa 	julia avita mamaea - younger daughter of julia maesa 	flavius claudius julianus (julian) - emperor 	julianus salvius - jurist 	gaius julius bassus - governor of bithynia-pontus 	julius caesar - general and dictator 	lucius julius libo - consul and ancestor to julius caesar 	julius canus - philosopher 	julius cerealis - poet 	sextus julius gabinianus - rhetor 	julius modestus - freedman of hyginus 	julius romanus - grammarian 	julius tiro - rhetor 	julius valerius alexander polemius - writer 	gaius julius victor - writer 	junius congus - writer 	marcus junius nipsus - grammarian 	junius otho - praetor 	justin martyr - writer and martyr 	justinian i - emperor 	marcus justinianus justinus (justin) - writer 	decimus iunius iuvenalis (juvenal) - poet 	gaius vettius aquilinus juvencus - christian poet 	marcus juventius laterensis - praetor l[edit] 	attius labeo - translator 	cornelius antistius labeo - historian 	marcus antistius labeo - jurist 	quintus labienus - general 	titus labienus - two; legate for caesar, orator 	lactantius - writer 	lucius furius - tribune 	gaius laelius - consul 	gaius laelius major - consul 	laelius archelaus - friend of lucilius 	marcus valerius laevinus - consul 	laevius - writer 	gaius octavius lampadio [la] - scholar 	larcius licinus - writer 	latinus - early hero 	marcus tullius laurea - freedman of cicero 	pompeius lenaeus - freedman teacher 	gnaeus cornelius lentulus - two consuls 	lucius cornelius lentulus - consul 	lucius cornelius lentulus crus - consul 	gnaeus cornelius lentulus gaetulicus - two consuls 	gnaeus cornelius lentulus marcellinus - consul 	publius cornelius lentulus spinther - consul 	publius cornelius lentulus sura - consul 	manius aemilius lepidus - two consuls 	marcus aemilius lepidus - five 	libanius - historian 	licentius - friend of augustine 	valerius licinianus licinius - emperor 	licinius imbrex - poet 	quintus ligarius - general 	livia drusilla - wife of augustus caesar 	livilla - daughter of drusus 	marcus livius drusus - reformer 	lucius livius andronicus - dramatist 	titus livius (livy) - writer 	lollia paulina - wife of caligula 	marcus lollius - rich legate 	lollius bassus - epigrammatist 	marcus lollius palicanus - praetor 	quintus lollius urbicus - governor 	marcus annaeus lucanus (lucan) - writer 	lucius lucceius - praetor 	gaius lucilius - writer 	gaius lucilius iunior - writer 	lucilla - daughter of marcus aurelius 	lucretia - early heroine 	lucretius - philosopher 	spurius lucretius tricipitinus - early hero 	lucius licinius lucullus - six; one aedile, two consuls, two praetors, and son of the conqueror-consul 	marcus terentius varro lucullus - consul 	luscius lanuvinus - poet 	marcus lurius - admiral 	quintus lusius quietus - suffect consul 	luxorius - writer and poet 	lygdamus - poet m[edit] 	gaius licinius macer - annalist and praetor 	gaius licinius macer calvus - orator and poet 	aemilius macer - poet 	titus fulvius junius macrianus - emperor 	marcus opellius macrinus - emperor 	quintus naevius cordus sutorius macro - praetorian prefect 	macrobius ambrosius theodosius - writer 	gaius maecenas - friend of augustus 	lucius volusius maecianus - jurist 	spurius maelius - early hero 	gaius maenius - consul 	maevius - poet 	flavius magnus magnentius - emperor 	magnus maximus - emperor 	julius majorian - emperor 	mallius theodorus - writer 	octavius mamilius tusculanus - early hero 	lucius mamilius - dictator in tusculum, aided romans 	gaius mamilius limetanus - tribune 	mamurra - associate of caesar 	gaius hostilius mancinus - consul 	gaius manilius - tribune 	manius manilius - consul, jurist 	marcus manilius - writer 	marcus manlius capitolinus - saved the capitol from the gauls in bc 	gaius claudius marcellus maior, consul in bc 	gaius claudius marcellus minor, consul in bc 	marcus claudius marcellus - five 	marcus pomponius marcellus - grammarian 	ulpius marcellus - jurist 	marcia - freedwoman 	ulpia marciana - sister of trajan 	aelius marcianus - jurist 	marcius - writer 	ancus marcius - early king 	gaius marcius rutilus - consul 	marcus aemilius scaurus - princeps senatus, leader of the conservative faction 	gaius marius - general, consul seven times 	marcus marius gratidianus - praetor 	sextus marius - mine owner 	marius priscus - governor of the province of africa 	marius maximus - writer 	julius firmicus maternus - astrologer 	marcus valerius martialis (martial) - writer 	marullus - rhetor 	salonina matidia - niece of trajan 	gaius matius - friend of cicero 	gnaeus matius - writer 	mavortius - writer 	marcus aurelius valerius maxentius - emperor 	marcus aurelius valerius maximianus (maximian) - emperor 	gaius julius verus maximinus - emperor 	gaius galerius valerius maximianus - emperor 	sextus quinctilius valerius maximus - friend of pliny 	pomponius mela - geographer 	lucius annaeus mela - son of seneca 	aelius melissus - writer 	gaius melissus - freedman of maecenas 	gaius memmius - two praetors 	agrippa menenius lanatus - early consul 	flavius merobaudes - soldier, poet 	lucius cornelius merula - two consuls 	manius valerius maximus corvinus messalla - consul 	marcus valerius messalla two cousins, one a consul 	marcus valerius messalla corvinus - consul 	marcus valerius messalla messallinus - consul 	vipstanus messala - tribune 	statilia messalina - third wife of nero 	valeria messalina - claudius' wife 	caecilia metella dalmatica married marcus aemilius scaurus and sulla 	caecilia metella - six 	lucius caecilius metellus - consul 	quintus caecilius metellus - consul 	quintus caecilius metellus balearicus - consul 	quintus caecilius metellus celer - consul 	quintus caecilius metellus creticus - consul 	quintus caecilius metellus delmaticus - consul 	quintus caecilius metellus macedonicus - consul 	quintus caecilius metellus numidicus - consul 	quintus caecilius metellus pius - two consuls 	mettius pomposianus - consul 	titus annius milo - praetor 	lucius minucius esquilinus augurinus - early consul 	marcus minucius felix - writer 	marcus minucius rufus - two consuls 	gaius minucius augurinus - tribune 	mucia tertia - wife of pompey and gaius marius the younger 	gaius licinius mucianus - consul 	lucius mummius achaicus - consul 	lucius statius murcus - proconsul 	lucius licinius murena - consul 	musaeus grammaticus - poet 	gaius musonius rufus - philosopher n[edit] 	narses general 	gnaeus naevius - poet 	rutilius claudius namatianus - poet 	narcissus - freedman of claudius 	marcus aurelius olympius nemesianus - poet 	cornelius nepos - writer 	lucius neratius priscus - jurist 	nero claudius caesar augustus germanicus (nero) - emperor 	gaius claudius nero - consul 	tiberius claudius nero - praetor 	nero julius caesar - son of germanicus 	lucius cocceius nerva - diplomat 	marcus cocceius nerva - three; emperor and two consuls 	attus navius - famous augur during the reign of tarquinius priscus 	lucius septimius nestor - writer 	virius nicomachus flavianus - late politician 	publius nigidius figulus - praetor, scholar 	ninnius crassus - translator 	marcus fulvius nobilior - consul 	nonius marcellus - lexicographer, grammarian 	gaius norbanus - consul 	aulus lappius maximus norbanus - suffect consul 	quintus novius - dramatist 	numa pompilius - king 	marcus aurelius numerianus - emperor 	gaius nymphidius sabinus - son of a freedwoman, military commander o[edit] 	iulius obsequens - writer 	octavia - major and minor, two sisters of augustus 	claudia octavia - daughter of claudius 	gaius octavius - praetor, father of augustus 	gnaeus octavius - two consuls 	marcus octavius - tribune 	septimius odenathus - king in east 	quintus lucretius ofella (afella) - commander 	quintus ogulnius gallus - tribune 	olympiodorus of thebes - writer, emissary 	olympiodorus the younger - philosopher, astrologer 	aurelius opilius - freedman writer 	lucius opimius - consul 	gaius oppius - two 	publilius optatianus porfyrius - poet 	lucius orbilius pupillus - teacher, grammarian 	paulus orosius - late writer 	publius ostorius scapula - governor of britain 	titus otacilius crassus - praetor 	marcus salvius otho - emperor 	publius ovidius naso (ovid) - poet 	ovinius - tribune p[edit] 	marcus pacuvius - dramatist 	lucius caesennius paetus - consul 	quintus remmius palaemon - ex-slave writer 	palfurius sura - orator 	rutilius taurus aemilianus palladius - farmer 	aulus cornelius palma frontonianus - consul 	gaius vibius pansa caetronianus - consul 	aemilius papinianus (papinian) - jurist 	papirianus - grammarian 	lucius papirius cursor - two; heroic consul and son 	gaius papius mutilus - samnite leader 	passienus - orator 	aemilius lepidus paullus - consul 	lucius aemilius paullus (disambiguation) - several men, including three consuls 	lucius aemilius paullus macedonicus - consul 	julius paulus - jurist 	paulus alexandrinus - astrologer 	quintus pedius - consul 	sextus pedius - jurist 	marcus perperna - two consuls 	marcus perperna veiento - praetor 	aulus persius flaccus - satirist 	publius helvetius pertinax - emperor 	gaius pescennius niger justus - emperor 	quintus petillius - two cousins 	marcus petreius - governor 	petronius - courtier of nero 	publius petronius - suffect consul 	petronius arbiter - writer 	lucius petronius taurus volusianus praetorian prefect, consul, city prefect 	publius petronius turpilianus - consul 	julius verus philippus (philip the arab) - emperor 	lucius marcius philippus - three consuls 	quintus marcius philippus - consul 	calpurnius piso - writer 	gaius calpurnius piso - two consuls 	gnaeus calpurnius piso - three; two consuls and a governor 	lucius calpurnius piso - three consuls 	lucius calpurnius piso caesoninus - consul 	lucius calpurnius piso licinianus - briefly emperor 	lucius calpurnius piso frugi - consul 	marcus pupius piso frugi - consul 	galla placidia - daughter of theodosius i 	placidus - grammarian 	lactantius placidus - different grammarian 	munatia plancina - friend of livia 	gnaeus plancius - aedile 	lucius munatius plancus - consul 	titus munatius plancus bursa - tribune 	pompeius planta - prefect 	aulus platorius nepos - consul 	plautia urgulanilla - claudius' first wife 	gaius fulvius plautianus - consul 	plautius - jurist 	aulus plautius - consul 	publius plautius hypsaeus - praetor, quaestor, and aedile 	plautius lateranus - senator 	marcus plautius silvanus - two; tribune and consul 	tiberius plautius silvanus aelianus - consul 	titus maccius plautus - dramatist 	quintus pleminius - legate 	gaius plinius secundus (pliny the elder) - scholar 	gaius plinius caecilus secundus (pliny the younger) - scholar 	pompeia plotina - wife of trajan 	plotinus - philosopher 	plotius tucca - friend of virgil 	mestrius plutarchus (plutarch) - philosopher, biographer 	gaius poetelius libo visolus - consul 	gaius asinius pollio - consul, scholar 	julius pollux - scholar 	polybius - two; historian and freedman 	tiberius claudius pompeianus - consul of marcus aurelius 	pompeius grammaticus - grammarian 	cealia pompeius pulchellus, clergy member in the temple of venus 	gnaeus pompeius - son of pompey 	quintus pompeius - consul 	gnaeus pompeius magnus (pompey) - triumvir 	sextus pompeius magnus pius - son of pompey 	quintus pompeius rufus - consul 	pompeius saturninus - orator, historian, poet 	pompeius silo - rhetor 	pompeius strabo - consul 	pompilius - second king 	lucius pomponius - poet 	sextus pomponius - jurist 	marcus pomponius bassulus - writer 	titus pomponius proculus vitrasius pollio - consul 	pomponius rufus - writer 	pomponius secundus - consul 	gavius pontius - samnite general 	pontius telesinus - praetor 	pontius pilatus - prefect of judaea 	gaius popillius laenas - consul 	publius popillius laenas - consul 	poppaea sabina - wife of nero 	quintus poppaedius silo - friend of drusus 	porcia - daughter of cato 	porcius licinus - writer 	marcus porcius latro - rhetor 	pomponius porphyrion - scholar 	porsenna - semi-legendary king 	aulus postumius albinus - consul, historian 	spurius postumius albinus - consul 	lucius postumius megellus - consul 	aulus postumius tubertus - dictator 	marcus cassianus postumus - emperor 	marcus antonius primus - general 	priscianus - grammarian 	priscus - politician, historian 	marcus aurelius probus - emperor 	valerius probus - scholar 	saint procula - wife of pontius pilate 	proculus - usurper 	proculus (jurist) - jurist 	sextus propertius - writer 	aurelius clemens prudentius - christian poet 	quintus publilius philo - consul 	publilius syrus - writer 	volero publilius - early tribune 	publius pupius - tragedian q[edit] 	gaius iulius quadratus bassus - consul 	asinius quadratus - senator 	titus quinctius capitolinus barbatus - early consul 	marcus fabius quintilianus (quintilian) - rhetor 	quintus - physician 	quintus smyrnaeus - poet 	publius sulpicius quirinius - consul 	quintus marcius rufus - commander of marcus crassus r[edit] 	gaius rabirius - two; senator and poet 	gaius rabirius postumus - senator 	lucius aemilius regillus - praetor 	marcus aqilius regulus - informer 	marcus atilius regulus - consul 	publius memmius regulus - consul 	remus - mythical founder 	reposianus - poet 	quintus marcius rex - two; praetor and consul 	flavius ricimer - late patrician 	romulus - mythical founder 	romulus augustulus - last western emperor 	sextus roscius - client of cicero 	lucius roscius otho - tribune 	quintus roscius gallus - actor 	rubellius blandus - rhetor 	gaius rubellius blandus - consul 	gaius rubellius plautus - relative of nero 	rubellia bussa - sister to above, a relative to nero 	rufinus - christian writer and grammarian 	flavius rufinus - adviser to arcadius 	curtius rufus - proconsul 	quintus curtius rufus - rhetor, historian 	cluvius rufus - historian 	publius servilius rullus - tribune 	publius rupilius - consul 	gaius rutilius gallicus - consul 	publius rutilius lupus - grammarian 	publius rutilius rufus - consul s[edit] 	vibia sabina - wife of hadrian 	sabinus - friend of ovid 	titus flavius sabinus ii - elder brother of vespasian 	titus flavius sabinus iii and iv - consuls 	masurius sabinus - jurist 	marius plotius sacerdos - grammarian 	julius sacrovir - aedui noble 	saevius nicanor - grammarian 	marcus livius salinator - consul & founder of forlì 	sallustius - writer 	gaius sallustius crispus - two; historian (sallust) and his adopted son 	gaius sallustius passienus crispus - consul, grandson of sallust 	salvianus - writer 	quintus salvidienus rufus - general of octavian 	lucius antonius saturninus - usurper 	lucius appuleius saturninus - tribune 	gaius sentius saturninus - consul 	gaius mucius scaevola - legendary hero 	publius mucius scaevola - two consuls 	quintus mucius scaevola - two consuls 	cassius scaevus-centurion of julius caesar's th legion. 	marcus aemilius scaurus - three; two consuls and a praetor 	lucius cornelius scipio - two; consul and son of scipio africanus major 	publius cornelius scipio - two; son of scipio africanus major and father of scipio africanus minor 	scipio africanus - general, victor at the second punic war 	publius cornelius scipio aemilianus africanus minor - general, victor at the third punic war 	lucius cornelius scipio asiaticus - consul 	lucius cornelius scipio barbatus - consul 	gnaeus cornelius scipio calvus - consul 	publius cornelius scipio nasica - consul 	publius cornelius scipio nasica corculum - consul 	publius cornelius scipio salvito - consul 	publius cornelius scipio nasica serapio - consul 	scribonia - wife of octavian 	lucius arruntius scribonianus - two; consul and son 	lucius scribonius libo - consul 	marcus scribonius libo drusus - great-grandson of pompey 	scribonius largus - physician 	gnaeus tremellius scrofa - writer 	julius secundus - orator 	sedulius - christian latin poet 	sejanus, aelius - prefect of the praetorian guard 	lucius seius strabo - a prefect, father of sejanus 	lucius annaeus seneca - two writers, seneca the elder and seneca the younger 	publius septimius - writer 	septimius serenus - poet 	serenus sammonicus - writer 	quintus serenus - medical writer 	sergius - multiple people 	marcus sergius - tribune with iron hand 	serranus - poet 	quintus sertorius - praetor 	sulpicius lupercus servasius - writer 	lucius julius servianus - consul 	servilia - mother of marcus junius brutus 	publius servilius vatia - consul 	publius servilius isauricus - consul 	marcus servilius nonianus - consul 	servius - grammarian, commentator 	servius tullius - early king 	publius sestius - praetor 	lucius septimius severus - emperor 	marcus aurelius severus alexander - emperor 	sextus julius severus - consul 	flavius valerius severus - emperor 	sulpicius severus - historian 	quintus sextius - philosopher 	titus sextius - governor 	sextus - two; teacher and writer 	sextus empiricus - doctor and philosopher 	gnaeus sicinius - tribune 	siculus flaccus - grammarian 	gaius sollius apollinaris sidonius - official, writer 	decimus junius silanus - two; consul and adulterer 	gaius junius silanus - consul 	gaius appius junius silanus - consul 	marcus junius silanus - three consuls 	decimus junius silanus torquatus - consul 	lucius junius silanus torquatus - two; consul and victim 	marcus junius silanus torquatus - consul 	gaius silius - lover of messalina 	publius silius nerva - consul 	silius italicus - consul, poet 	lucius cornelius sisenna - praetor, historian 	publius sittius - wealthy businessman 	gaius iulius solinus - geographer 	gaius sosius - consul 	quintus sosius senecio - consul 	titus vestricius spurinna - consul 	staberius eros - ex-slave scholar 	titus statilius taurus - consul 	publius papinius statius - poet 	stertinius - writer 	flavius stilicho - general 	lucius aelius stilo praeconinus - scholar 	gaius licinius stolo - early tribune 	sueis - writer 	gaius suetonius paulinus - consul 	gaius suetonius tranquillus - writer 	publius suillius rufus - consul 	lucius cornelius sulla (sulla) - dictator 	publius cornelius sulla - consul 	faustus cornelius sulla - son of sulla 	sulpicia - two writers 	servius sulpicius - poet 	sulpicius apollinaris - scholar 	sulpicius blitho - historian 	quintus sulpicius camerinus - poet 	publius sulpicius rufus - praetor 	servius sulpicius rufus - consul 	lucius licinius sura - consul 	quintus aurelius symmachus - consul t[edit] 	cornelius tacitus - historian 	marcus claudius tacitus - emperor 	tanaquil - semi-legendary woman 	tanusius geminus - historian 	lucius tarius rufus - consul 	tarpeia - semi-legendary woman 	lucius tarquinius collatinus - semi-legendary founder 	tarquinius priscus - king 	tarquinius superbus - last king of rome 	tarquitius priscus - writer 	titus tatius - king 	publius terentius afer (terence) - dramatist 	terentia - first wife of cicero 	terentianus maurus - grammarian 	quintus terentius scaurus - grammarian 	quintus septimius florens tertullianus (tertullian) - christian writer 	gaius pius esuvius tetricus - emperor 	theodosius i - emperor 	theodosius ii - emperor 	publius clodius thrasea paetus - consul 	tiberius julius caesar augustus (tiberius) - emperor 	tiberius julius caesar gemellus - victim 	tiberius julius alexander - jewish official 	albius tibullus - poet 	gaius oponius tigellinus - official 	gaius furius sabinus aquila timesitheus - praetorian prefect 	marcus tullius tiro - freedman of cicero 	julius titianus - writer 	titinius - poet 	gnaeus octavius titinius capito - general 	gaius titius - orator 	marcus titius - consul 	titius aristo - jurist 	titus flavius vespasianus (titus) - emperor 	titus larcius - early dictator 	titus manlius torquatus - two; hero and consul 	quintus trabea - writer 	marcus ulpius traianus (trajan) - emperor 	gaius trebatius testa - jurist 	trebius niger - writer 	gaius vibius trebonianus gallus - emperor 	gaius trebonius - proconsul 	gaius valerius triarius - general 	tribonianus - jurist collaborator with justinian i 	pompeius trogus - historian 	lucius aelius tubero - friend of cicero 	quintus aelius tubero - jurist, annalist 	gaius sempronius tuditanus - consul 	publius sempronius tuditanus - consul 	tullia, villainous daughter of servius tullius, the sixth roman king 	tullia - daughter of cicero 	tullus hostilius - king 	quintus marcius turbo - official 	turia - wife of quintus lucretius vespillo, consul 	turnus - two; legendary hero and satirist 	sextus turpilius - writer 	turrianus gracilis - writer 	clodius turrinus - two rhetoricians 	tuticanus - friend of ovid u[edit] 	ulpianus of ascalon - rhetor 	domitius ulpianus - jurist 	marcus ulpius traianus - consul, father of trajan 	urbanus - scholar v[edit] 	septimius vaballathus - king under aurelian 	vagellius - poet 	valens - emperor 	fabius valens - consul 	vettius valens - astrologer 	valentinian i - emperor 	valentinian ii - emperor 	valentinian iii - emperor 	publius licinius valerianus (valerian) - emperor 	valerius aedituus - epigrammatist 	valerius antias - annalist 	decimus valerius asiaticus - consul 	publius valerius cato - scholar, poet 	marcus valerius corvus - hero 	gaius calpetanus valerius festus - consul 	gaius valerius flaccus - poet 	lucius valerius licinianus - orator 	valerius maximus - historian 	publius valerius poplicola - early consul 	lucius valerius potitus - early consul 	quintus valerius soranus - scholar 	quintus valerius orca - praetor 	valgius rufus - consul 	vallius syriacus - rhetor 	varenus rufus - governor of bithynia-pontus 	quintus vargunteius - lecturer 	quintus varius - tribune 	varius rufus - poet 	gaius terentius varro - consul 	marcus terentius varro - encyclopedist 	publius terentius varro atacinus - writer 	aulus terentius varro murena - writer 	publius attius varus - governor 	publius quinctilius varus - general 	quinctilius varus - son of general 	arrius varus - praetorian prefect 	julianus vatinius - general 	publius vatinius - consul 	publius vedius pollio - freedman's son 	flavius vegetius renatus - writer 	aulus didius gallus fabricius veiento - consul 	velius longus - scholar 	velleius paterculus - historian 	venantius honorius clementianus fortunatus - poet 	vennonius - historian 	publius ventidius - consul 	ventidius cumanus - procurator of judea 	verginia - legendary victim 	verginius flavus - teacher 	lucius verginius rufus - consul and leader of rebellion against nero 	gaius verres - proconsul 	lucius verus - emperor 	titus flavius vespasianus (vespasian) - emperor 	lucius vettius - accuser 	vettius philocomus - friend of lucilius 	lucius vettius scato - praetor 	vettius valens - astronomer/astrologer 	caelius vibenna - semi-legendary figure who gave his name to the caelian hill, but real etruscan from vulci, caile vipinas 	quintus vibius crispus - consul 	gaius vibius marsus - consul 	gaius vibius maximus - consul 	gaius vibius rufus - consul 	gaius marius victorinus - writer 	maximus victorinus - grammarian 	lucius villius annalis - tribune 	gaius julius vindex - rebel 	lucius vinicius - two; father and son, both consuls 	marcus vinicius - consul 	publius vinicius - consul 	titus vinius - consul 	vipsania julia - granddaughter of augustus 	publius vergilius maro (virgil) - writer 	viriathus - semi-legendary writer 	aulus vitellius - emperor 	lucius vitellius - consul 	vitruvius - architect 	gaius dillius vocula - legate 	volcatius sedigitus - writer 	volcacius moschus - writer 	lucius voltacilius pitholaus 	publius volumnius - philosopher, companion of brutus 	gnaeus manlius vulso 	lucius manlius vulso longus 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person who held one of a number of offices, including tribune of the plebs (a political office to represent the interests of the plebs), military tribune (a rank in the roman army), tribune of the celeres (the commander of the king's personal bodyguard), and various other positions. unless otherwise noted all dates are reported in bc. contents 	 list of tribunes of the celeres of the roman kingdom 	 list of tribunes of the plebs of the roman republic 	 . th century bc 	 . th century bc 	 . rd century bc 	 . nd century bc 	 . st century bc 	 references 	 bibliography list of tribunes of the celeres of the roman kingdom[edit] the following individuals held the position of tribune of the celeres (tribunus celerum), the captain of the king's bodyguard who had authority to preside over the curiate assembly (comitia curiata) during the period of the roman kingdom ( – ). 	date (bc)	name 	 / 	lucius junius brutus[ ] list of tribunes of the plebs of the roman republic[edit] the following individuals held the position of tribune of the plebs (tribunus plebis) during the roman republic, starting with the creation of the office in bc. th century bc[edit] 	 : lucius albinius c. f. paterculus[ ] 	 : gaius icilius (viscellius?) ruga[ ] 	 : lucius junius brutus[ ] 	 : gaius licinius[ ] 	 : publius licinius[ ] 	 : lucius sicinius l. f. vellutus (bellutus?)[ ] 	 : spurius icilius[ ] 	 : spurius sicinius bellutus (or spurius icilius?)[ ] 	 : lucius sicinius vellutus[ ] 	 : marcus decius[ ] 	 : maenius[ ] 	 : gaius rabuleius[ ] 	 : publius mucius scaevola[ ] 	 : spurius cassius[ ] 	 : gaius maenius[ ] 	 : spurius licinius (or spurius icilius?)[ ] 	 : titus pontificius[ ] 	 : titus genucius[ ] 	 : quintus considius[ ] 	 : lucius caedicius[ ] 	 : titus statius[ ] 	 : gnaeus genucius[ ] 	 : volero publilius[ ] 	 : lucius numitorius[ ] 	 : volero publilius[ ] 	 : gaius laetorius[ ] 	 : spurius icilius[ ] 	 : lucius mecilius[ ] 	 : lucius numitorius[ ] 	 : marcus duillius[ ] 	 : gaius sicinius[ ] 	 : gaius terentilius (terentilius?) arsa[ ] 	 : sextus titius[ ] 	 : marcus volscius fictor[ ] 	 : aulus verginius[ ] 	 : aulus verginius[ ] 	 : marcus volscius fictor[ ] 	 : aulus verginius[ ] 	 : marcus volscius fictor[ ] 	 : aulus verginius[ ] 	 : marcus volscius fictor[ ] 	 : aulus verginius[ ] 	 : marcus volscius fictor[ ] 	 : lucius alienus[ ] 	 : lucius icilius s. f.[ ] 	 : lucius icilius s. f.[ ] 	 : lucius siccius dentatus[ ] 	 : gaius calvius cicero[ ] 	 : gaius apronius[ ] 	 : publius numitorius[ ] 	 : gaius oppius[ ] 	 : marcus pomponius[ ] 	 : lucius verginius[ ] 	 : appius (publius?) villius[ ] 	 : lucius icilius s. f.[ ] 	 : marcuis duillius[ ] 	 : gaius sicinius[ ] 	 : marcus titinius[ ] 	 : aulus aternius varus (varus fontinalis)[ ] 	 : spurius tarpeius (montanus capitolinus)[ ] 	 : lucius trebonius asper[ ] 	 : gaius canuleius[ ] 	 : gaius furnius[ ] 	 : poetilius[ ] 	 : quintus caecilius[ ] 	 : quintus junius[ ] 	 : lucius minucius (esquilinus augurinus)[ ] 	 : sextus titinius[ ] 	 : lucius minucius augurinus[ ] 	 : spurius maelius[ ] 	 : gaius junius[ ] 	 : sextus (tiberius?) antistius[ ] 	 : marcus asellius[ ] 	 : tiberius spurillius[ ] 	 : sextus tempanius[ ] 	 : quintus hortensius[ ] 	 : aulus antistius[ ] 	 : manius canuleius[ ] 	 : marcus canuleius[ ] 	 : sextus pompilius[ ] 	 : spurius maecilius (at least four times, the fourth occasion in bc)[ ] 	 : spurius (marcus?) metilius[ ] 	 : lucius decius[ ] 	 : marcus sextius[ ] 	 : lucius icilius[ ] 	 : lucius icilius[ ] 	 : marcus menenius[ ] 	 : icilius (brother to the other two this year)[ ] 	 : icilius (brother to the other two this year)[ ] 	 : lucius icilius[ ] 	 : marcus minucius[ ] 	 : gnaeus trebonius[ ] 	 : marcus acutius[ ] 	 : gaius lacerius[ ] 	 : marcus metilius[ ] 	 : publius curatius[ ] 	 : marcus acutius[ ] th century bc[edit] 	 : quintus pomponius (l. f. l. n.) rufus[ ] 	 : aulus verginius[ ] 	 : titus sicinius[ ] 	 : quintus pomponius[ ] 	 : titus sicinius[ ] 	 : aulus verginius[ ] 	 : titus sicinius[ ] 	 : lucius apuleius[ ] 	 : numerius fabius ambustus[ ] 	 : caeso fabius ambustus[ ] 	 : quintus sulpicius longus[ ] 	 : quintus servilius[ ] 	 : publius cornelius[ ] 	 : gnaeus (gaius?) marcius[ ] 	 : lucius sicinius[ ] 	 : marcus menenius[ ] 	 : quintus publilius[ ] 	 : marcus menenius[ ] 	 : gaius licinius c. f. p. n. calvus stolo[ ] 	 : lucius sextius sex. f. n. n. sextinus lateranus[ ] 	 : gaius licinius c. f. p. n. calvus stolo[ ] 	 : lucius sextius sex. f. n. n. sextinus lateranus[ ] 	 : gaius licinius c. f. p. n. calvus stolo[ ] 	 : lucius sextius sex. f. n. n. sextinus lateranus[ ] 	 : gaius licinius c. f. p. n. calvus stolo[ ] 	 : lucius sextius sex. f. n. n. sextinus lateranus[ ] 	 : gaius licinius c. f. p. n. calvus stolo[ ] 	 : lucius sextius sex. f. n. n. sextinus lateranus[ ] 	 : gaius licinius c. f. p. n. calvus stolo[ ] 	 : lucius sextius sex. f. n. n. sextinus lateranus[ ] 	 : gaius licinius c. f. p. n. calvus stolo[ ] 	 : lucius sextius sex. f. n. n. sextinus lateranus[ ] 	 : gaius licinius c. f. p. n. calvus stolo[ ] 	 : lucius sextius sex. f. n. n. sextinus lateranus[ ] 	 : gaius licinius c. f. p. n. calvus stolo[ ] 	 : lucius sextius sex. f. n. n. sextinus lateranus[ ] 	 : gaius licinius c. f. p. n. calvus stolo[ ] 	 : lucius sextius sex. f. n. n. sextinus lateranus[ ] 	 : marcus pomponius[ ] 	 : gaius poetelius c. f. q. n. libo visolus[ ] 	 : lucius menenius[ ] 	 : marcus duilius[ ] 	 : lucius genucius aventinensis[ ] 	 : marcus flavius[ ] 	 : marcus flavius[ ] 	 : lucius livius[ ] 	 : quintus maelius[ ] 	 : tiberius numicius[ ] 	 : marcus antistius[ ] 	 : marcus antistius[ ] 	 : quintus caecilius 	 : ovinius[ ] 	 : lucius cominius[ ] 	 : lucius atilius 	 : marcus decius[ ] 	 : marcus decius[ ] 	 : gaius marcius (rutilus censorinus)[ ] 	 : publius sempronius (sophus)[ ] 	 : lucius furius[ ] 	 : gnaeus flavius c. f. (anni f.?)[ ] 	 : gnaeus flavius[ ] rd century bc[edit] 	 : quintus ogulnius (gallus)[ ] 	 : gnaeus ogulnius[ ] 	 : marcus curius dentatus[ ] 	 : marcus scantius[ ] 	 : maenius[ ] 	 : aquilius[ ] 	 : gaius aelius[ ] 	 : maenius[ ] 	 : marcus fulvius flaccus[ ] 	 : gaius fundanius fundulus[ ] 	 : pullius[ ] 	 : genucius[ ] 	 : gaius flaminius[ ] 	 : marcus metilius[ ] 	 : maenius[ ] 	 : quintus claudius[ ] 	 : quintus baebius herennius[ ] 	 : marcus metilius[ ] 	 : marcus minucius augurinus[ ] 	 : lucius scribonius libo[ ] 	 : quintus baebius herennius[ ] 	 : gaius oppius[ ] 	 : lucius caecilius l. f. l. n. metellus 	 : marcus caecilius metellus[ ] 	 : spurius carvilius[ ] 	 : lucius carvilius[ ] 	 : gaius servilius casca[ ] 	 : gaius sempronius blaesus[ ] 	 : publius aquilius[ ] 	 : gaius servilius geminus[ ] 	 : publius villius[ ] 	 : marcus lucretius[ ] 	 : gaius arrenius[ ] 	 : lucius arrenius[ ] 	 : lucius atilius[ ] 	 : marcus lucretius[ ] 	 : gaius publicius bibulus[ ] 	 : marcus cincius alimentus[ ] 	 : tiberius claudius asellus[ ] 	 : gnaeus baebius (tamphilus)[ ] 	 : marcus claudius marcellus[ ] 	 : licinius[ ] 	 : marcus silius[ ] 	 : publius silius[ ] 	 : gnaeus baebius (tamphilus)[ ] 	 : manius acilius glabrio[ ] 	 : quintus minucius thermus[ ] 	 : quintus baebius[ ] 	 : tiberius sempronius longus[ ] nd century bc[edit] unless otherwise indicated, entries are based on t.r.s. broughton, magistrates of the roman republic, vol. i ( ). 	 : p. porcius laeca 	 : m. fulvius[ ] 	 : m'. curius[ ] 	 : gaius acilius glabrio[ ] 	 : q. fulvius 	 : l. oppius (salinator) 	 : c. afranius (stellio?) 	 : c. atinius labeo (probably)[ ] 	 : c. licinius lucullus 	 : q. marcius ralla 	 : m. fundanius 	 : m. junius brutus 	 : p. junius brutus 	 : l. valerius (tappo) 	 : m. baebius (tamphilus) (uncertain)[ ] 	 : q. aelius tubero 	 : m. sempronius (tuditanus) 	 : c. titinius 	 : m. titinius (curvus?) 	before : plaetorius[ ] 	 : p. sempronius blaesus 	 : p. sempronius gracchus 	 : c. sempronius rutilus 	 : (q.) terentius culleo 	 : c. valerius tappo 	 : m. aburius 	 : l. mummius 	 : q. mummius 	 : q. petillius 	 : q. petillius (spurinus) 	c. : m. caelius 	 : c. fannius 	 : c. minucius augurinus 	 : m. naevius 	 : ti. sempronius gracchus[ ] 	 : c. orchius 	 : l. villius annalis 	 : q. aelius 	 : licinius nerva 	 : c. papirius turdus 	bef. : plaetorius[ ] 	 : m. lucretius 	 : q. marcius scilla 	 : m. marcius sermo 	 : m. claudius marcellus 	 : m. fulvius nobilior 	 : cn. aufidius 	 : m'. juventius thalna 	 : p. rutilius 	 : q. voconius saxa 	 : cn. tremellius 	 : m. antonius 	 : m. pomponius 	 : ti. sempronius 	c. : l. aurelius cotta[ ] 	c. : q. caecilius metellus (macedonicus) 	c. : aelius (probably) 	c. : fufius (probably) 	c. : atinius 	 : l. calpurnius piso frugi 	 : l. scribonius libo 	 : m. scantius (or scantinius?) (uncertain)[ ] 	 : livius 	 : c. licinius crassus 	 : (t.?) didius 	c. : c. fannius 	 : p. mucius scaevola[ ] 	 : ti. claudius asellus 	 : a. gabinius 	 : c. curiatius 	 : sp. licinius 	 : m. antius briso 	 : l. cassius longinus ravilla 	 : c. fannius strabo[ ] 	 : p. rutilius 	 : (q.?) mucius (or minucius? mummius?) 	 : m. octavius 	 : rubrius 	 : p. satureius 	 : ti. sempronius gracchus 	 : pompeius[ ] 	 : c. atinius labeo macerio 	c. : q. aelius tubero 	 (or ): c. papirius carbo[ ] 	 : m. junius pennus 	c. : aufeius[ ] 	c. : m. junius (silanus) 	 : c. sempronius gracchus 	c. : (m'.?) acilius glabrio[ ] 	 : m. fulvius flaccus 	 : m. livius drusus 	c. : cn. marcius censorinus 	 : (c.?) rubrius[ ] 	 : c. sempronius gracchus 	c. : maevius 	 : minucius rufus[ ] 	 (or ): l. calpurnius bestia[ ] 	 : p. decius 	 : c. marius 	 : sex. peducaeus 	 : c. baebius 	c. : c. licinius nerva 	 : c. memmius 	c. : sp. thorius[ ] 	 : l. annius 	 : p. licinius lucullus 	 : c. mamilius limetanus 	 : c. coelius caldus 	 : l. licinius crassus 	 : t. manlius mancinus 	 : q. mucius scaevola (pontifex) 	 : l. cassius longinus 	 : cn. domitius ahenobarbus 	c. : l. marcius philippus 	c. : clodius (possibly) 	 : l. appuleius saturninus 	 : l. aurelius cotta[ ] 	 : (m.?) baebius (tamphilus?) 	 : t. didius 	 : c. norbanus 	 : l. (antistius?) reginus 	 : a. pompeius 	 : c. servilius glaucia[ ] 	 : l. appuleius saturninus st century bc[edit] unless otherwise indicated, entries are based on t.r.s. broughton, magistrates of the roman republic, vol. ii ( ). 	 : l. equitius 	 : p. furius 	 : (q.) pompeius (rufus)[ ] 	 : m. porcius cato[ ] 	 : sex. titius 	 : c. appuleius decianus 	 : q. calidius 	 : c. canuleius 	c. : p. servilius vatia (isauricus) 	c. : m. duronius[ ] 	 : t. didius 	 : cn. papirius carbo 	 : m. livius drusus 	 : minicus (uncertain) 	 : saufeius 	c. : l. sestius 	 : p. tarquinius[ ] 	 : q. caecilius metellus celer 	 : c. papirius carbo arvina 	 : cn. pomponius (probably)[ ] 	 : c. scribonius curio 	 : q. varius severus hibrida 	 : l. calpurnius piso (frugi)[ ] 	 : l. cassius 	 : l. memmius 	 : c. papirius carbo 	 : m. plautius silvanus 	 : p. antistius 	 : p. sulpicius 	 : sex. lucilius 	 : p. magius 	 : m. marius gratidianus[ ] 	 : c. milonius (uncertain)[ ] 	 : m. verginius (vergilius?) 	 : p. popillius laenas 	 : m. junius brutus 	 : q. valerius soranus 	 : m. octavius ligur 	 : l. octavius ligur 	 : c. herennius 	 : m. terpolius 	 : gnaeus sicinius 	 : q. opimius 	 : l. quinctius 	 : c. licinius macer 	 : m. lollius palicanus[ ][ ] 	 : a. plautius (varus) 	 : q. cornificius 	 : q. manlius 	c. : c. visellius varro[ ] 	 : c. antius restio 	 : c. antonius hibrida 	 : q. caecilius (metellus celer? nepos?) 	 : cn. cornelius 	 : c. fundanius 	 : l. hostilius (dasianus?) 	 : q. marcius 	 : c. popilius 	 : m. valerius 	 : l. (volcatius?) 	 : l. roscius otho 	 : c. cornelius 	 : p. servilius globulus 	 : a. gabinius 	 : c. papirius carbo[ ] 	 : l. roscius otho[ ] 	 : l. trebellius[ ] 	 : c. manilius (crispus?)[ ] 	 : c. memmius geminus[ ] 	 : c. papius 	 : q. cornificius 	 : fabius 	 : servilius rullus[ ] 	 : t. labienus[ ] 	 : t. ampius balbus 	 : p. servilius rullus[ ] 	 : l. caecilius rufus 	 : q. caecilius metellus nepos 	 : l. calpurnius bestia 	 : l. marius 	 : m. porcius cato 	 : l. fabricus 	 : q. minucius thermus 	 : m. aufidius lurco 	 : q. fufius calenus 	 : c. caecilius cornutus 	 : l. flavius 	 : c. herennius 	 : c. cosconius 	 : c. herennius 	 : p. vatinius 	 : q. ancharius 	 : c. alfius flavus 	 : q. caecilius metellus pius scipio nasica 	 : cn. domitius calvinus 	 : cn. fannius 	 : p. nigidius figulus 	 : p. clodius pulcher 	 : m'. curius 	 : cn. manlius 	 : l. ninnius quadratus 	 : l. novius (niger?) 	 : q. terentius culleo 	 : aelius ligus 	 : l. antistus 	 : t. annius milo 	 : sex. atilius serranus gavianus 	 : c. curtius peducaeanus 	 : c. messius 	 : q. numerius rufus (gracchus) 	 : aelius ligur 	 : gratidius 	 : marcus cispius 	 : p. sestius 	 : c. cestilius 	 : m'. curtius peducaeanus 	 : q. fabricius 	 : t. fadius (gallus?) 	 : cn. plancius 	 : l. caninius gallus 	 : m. nonius sufenas 	 : a. plautius 	 : c. porcius cato 	 : l. procilius 	 : l. racilius 	 : p. rutilius lupus 	 : antistius vetus 	 : cassius 	 : p. aquillius gallus 	 : c. ateius capito 	 : l. roscius fabatus 	 : c. trebonius 	 : mamilius 	 : a. allienus 	 : sex. peducaeus 	 : c. fabius 	 : d. laelius 	 : q. mucius scaevola 	 : c. memmius 	 : terentius 	 : m. coelius vinicianus 	 : p. licinius crassus junianus 	 : c. lucilius hirrius 	 : m. caelius rufus 	 : q. manilius cumanus 	 : q. pompeius rufus 	 : t. munatius plancus byrsa 	 : c. sallustius crispus 	 : c. caelius rufus 	 : p. cornelius 	 : c. vibius pansa caetronianus 	 : l. vinicius 	 : c. scribonius curio 	 : c. furnius 	 : m. antonius 	 : l. caecilius metellus 	 : q. cassius longinus 	 : l. marcius philippus 	 : aurelius cotta 	 : c. cassius longinus 	 : rubrius 	 : a. hirtius 	 : c. asinius pollio 	 : p. cornelius dolabella 	 : l. trebellius 	 : c. antonius (uncertain) 	 : pontius aquila 	 : l. antonius 	 : l. caesetius flavus 	 : ti. canutius 	 : d. carfulenus 	 : l. cassius longinus 	 : l. decidius saxa 	 : c. epidius marullus 	 : c. helvius cinna 	 : (hostilius) saserna 	 : (nonius) asprenas 	 : servilius 	 : lucius flaminius (chilo?) 	 : l. clodius 	 : p. appuleius 	 : p. titius 	 : tullus hostilius 	 : l. cornificius 	 : salvius 	 : m. servilius 	 : p. servilius casca longus 	 : m. terentius varro gibba 	 : m. agrippa 	 : l. clodius (bithynicus?) 	 : tullus hostilius 	 : m. insteius 	 : rufrenus 	 : l. memmius[ ] 	 : falcidius 	 : p. falcidius 	 : q. cloelius 	 : nonius balbus 	 : sex. pacuvius taurus references[edit] 	^ livy, . 	^ a b c d livy, ii. . 	^ a b dionysius, vi. . 	^ dionysius, vi. , ii. , , vii. , , ix. . 	^ dionysius, vii. , . 	^ a b broughton, . p. 	^ a b livy, ii. . 	^ dionysius, viii. . 	^ a b broughton, . p. 	^ dionysius, viii. . 	^ livy, ii. . 	^ a b c d livy, ii. . 	^ livy, ii. . 	^ a b c livy, ii. . 	^ a b c livy, ii. . 	^ livy, ii. . 	^ livy, iii. , . 	^ livy, ii. , . 	^ livy, iii. . 	^ broughton, . p. 	^ broughton, . p. 	^ livy, iii. – . 	^ a b c d broughton, . p. 	^ a b broughton, . p. 	^ a b broughton, . p. 	^ broughton, . p. 	^ a b c livy, iii. , – , . 	^ livy, iii. . 	^ broughton, . p. 	^ a b c d e livy, iii. . 	^ livy, iii. , . 	^ a b c broughton, . p. 	^ livy, iii. , . 	^ a b broughton, . p. 	^ livy, iv. – . 	^ livy, iv. . 	^ broughton, . p. 	^ a b livy, iv. . 	^ livy, iv. – . 	^ broughton, . p. 	^ smith, vol. ii, p. 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th century bc 	 th century bc 	 th century bc 	 th century bc 	 th century bc 	 rd century bc 	 nd century bc 	 st century bc 	 st century 	 nd century 	 rd century 	 th century 	 th century 	 references 	 sources 	 external links 	 see also th century bc[edit] the city of rome in bc 	wars with the latins and the sabines 	war with fidenae and veii th century bc[edit] 	second war with fidenae and veii 	second sabine war 	roman–latin wars th century bc[edit] bc siege by etruscans (forces in blue) of rome (forces in red). 	pometian revolt ( – bc) 	 bc – battle of pometia – the romans put down the revolt of pometia and cora. 	roman-sabine wars 	roman-etruscan wars 	 bc – battle of silva arsia – the romans defeated the forces of tarquinii and veii led by the deposed king lucius tarquinius superbus. one of the roman consuls, lucius junius brutus, is killed in battle. 	war with the volsci 	war with gabii 	war with the rutuli th century bc[edit] 	first latin war ( – bc) 	 bc – battle of lake regillus – aulus postumius albus regillensis defeats tarquinius superbus. 	 bc – battle of aricia – consul publius servilius priscus structus defeats the aurunci. 	war with the volsci and the aequi 	 bc – battle of antium – the volsci defeat consul lucius aemilius mamercus. 	 bc – battle of longula – consul lucius aemilius mamercus defeats the volsci the day after his defeat in the battle of antium. 	 bc – battle of mount algidus – cincinnatus defeats the aequi 	 bc – battle of corbio – titus quinctius capitolinus barbatus leads roman troops to defeat the aequi and the volsci. 	 bc – battle of veii ( bc) – consuls marcus fabius vibulanus and gnaeus manlius cincinnatus win heavy battle against veians and their etruscan allies. gnaeus manlius cincinnatus and former consul quintus fabius are slain. 	 bc – 	battle of the cremera – all the fabii except quintus fabius vibulanus are killed in battle with the veii|veians 	battle of the temple of hope – consul gaius horatius pulvillus fights indecisive battle with the etruscans 	battle of colline gate ( bc) – consul gaius horatius pulvillus has indecisive victory over the etruscan civilization|etruscans soon after the battle of the temple of hope th century bc[edit] 	roman-etruscan wars 	 bc – battle of veii – romans complete conquest of etruscans 	battle of allia river ( bc) – gauls defeat the romans, then sack rome. 	first samnite war ( – bc) 	 bc – battle of mount gaurus – roman general marcus valerius corvus defeats the samnites. 	 bc – battle of suessula – roman consul marcus valerius corvus defeats the samnites once more. 	latin war ( – bc) 	 bc – battle of vesuvius – romans under p. decius mus and t. manlius imperiosus torquatus defeat the rebellious latins. 	 bc – battle of trifanum – roman general t. manlius imperiosus torquatus decisively defeats the latins. 	second samnite war ( – bc) 	 bc – battle of the caudine forks – romans under spurius postumius albinus and t. verturius calvinus are defeated by the samnites under gaius pontius. 	 bc – battle of lautulae – romans are defeated by the samnites. 	 bc – battle of bovianum – roman consuls m. fulvius and l. postumius decisively defeat the samnites. 	 bc – battle of lake vadimo – romans, led by dictator lucius papirius cursor, defeat the etruscans. rd century bc[edit] roman conquest of italy through the latin war (red), samnite wars (pink/orange), pyrrhic war (beige), and punic wars (green). 	third samnite war ( – bc) 	 bc – battle of camerinum – samnites defeat the romans under lucius cornelius scipio barbatus. 	 bc – battle of tifernum – romans under quintus fabius maximus and lucius cornelius scipio barbatus defeat the samnite army led by gellius statius 	 bc – battle of sentinum – romans under fabius rullianus and publius decimus mus defeat the samnites and their etruscan and gallic allies, forcing the etruscans, gauls, and umbrians to make peace 	 bc – battle of aquilonia – romans decisively defeat the samnites. 	wars with gauls and etruscans ( – bc) 	 bc – battle of arretium – a roman army under lucius caecilius is destroyed by the gauls. 	 bc – battle of lake vadimo – a roman army under p. cornelius dolabella defeats the etruscans and gauls. 	 bc – battle of populonia – etruscan resistance to roman domination of italy is finally crushed. 	pyrrhic war ( – bc) [ ] 	 bc – battle of heraclea – first engagement of roman and greek armies, the latter led by pyrrhus of epirus, who is victorious, but at great cost. 	 bc – battle of asculum – pyrrhus again defeats the romans but once again suffers significant casualties in the process. 	 bc – battle of beneventum – inconclusive encounter between pyrrhus and the romans under manius curius. 	first punic war ( – bc) [ ] 	 bc – battle of agrigentum – carthaginian forces under hannibal gisco and hanno are defeated by the romans, who attain control of most of sicily. 	 bc - 	battle of the lipari islands – a roman naval force is defeated by the carthaginians. 	battle of mylae – a roman naval force under c. duillius defeats the carthaginian fleet, giving rome control of the western mediterranean. 	 bc – battle of sulci – minor roman victory against the carthaginian fleet near sardinia. 	 bc – battle of tyndaris – naval victory of rome over carthage in sicilian waters. 	 bc – 	battle of cape ecnomus – a carthaginian fleet under hamilcar and hanno is defeated in an attempt to stop a roman invasion of africa by marcus atilius regulus. 	battle of adys – romans under regulus defeat the carthaginians in north africa 	 bc – battle of tunis – carthaginians under xanthippus, a greek mercenary, defeat the romans under regulus, who is captured. 	 bc – battle of panormus – carthaginian forces under hasdrubal are defeated by the romans under l. caecilius metellus. 	 bc - siege of lilybaeum - siege on the carthaginian city of lilybaeum by roman army under gaius atilius regulus serranus and lucius manlius vulso longus. carthaginian victory. 	 bc – battle of drepana – carthage under adherbal defeat the fleet of roman admiral publius claudius pulcher. 	 bc – battle of the aegates islands – roman sea victory over the carthaginians. 	first illyrian war ( – bc) [ ] 	second illyrian war ( – bc) [ ] 	second punic war ( – bc) [ ] 	 bc – 	battle of lilybaeum – first naval clash between the navies of carthage and rome during the second punic war. 	battle of cissa – romans defeat carthaginians near tarraco and gain control of the territory north of the ebro river. 	battle of the ticinus – hannibal defeats the romans under publius cornelius scipio the elder in a cavalry fight. 	battle of the trebia – hannibal defeats the romans under tiberius sempronius longus with the use of an ambush. 	 bc - 	battle of ebro river – in a surprise attack, romans defeat and capture the carthaginian fleet in hispania. 	battle of lake trasimene – in another ambush, hannibal destroys the roman army of gaius flaminius, who is killed. 	battle of ager falernus – avoiding destruction with deceit, hannibal escapes fabius' trap in this small skirmish. 	 bc – 	battle of cannae – hannibal destroys the main roman army of lucius aemilius paulus and publius terentius varro in what is considered one of the great masterpieces of the tactical art. 	first battle of nola – roman general marcus claudius marcellus holds off an attack by hannibal. 	 bc – second battle of nola – marcellus again repulses an attack by hannibal. 	 bc – third battle of nola – marcellus fights an inconclusive battle with hannibal. 	 bc – 	first battle of capua – hannibal defeats the consuls q. fulvius flaccus and appius claudius, but the roman army escapes 	battle of the silarus – hannibal destroys the army of the roman praetor m. centenius penula. 	battle of herdonia – hannibal destroys the roman army of the praetor gnaeus fulvius. 	 bc – 	battle of the upper baetis – publius and gnaeus cornelius scipio are killed in battle with the carthaginians under hasdrubal barca 	second battle of capua – hannibal is not able to break the roman siege of the city. 	 bc – 	second battle of herdonia – hannibal destroys the roman army of fulvius centumalus, who is killed. 	battle of numistro – hannibal defeats marcellus once more 	 bc – battle of asculum – hannibal once again defeats marcellus, in an indecisive battle 	 bc – battle of baecula – romans in hispania (iberia) under p. cornelius scipio the younger defeat hasdrubal barca. 	 bc – 	battle of grumentum – roman general gaius claudius nero fights an indecisive battle with hannibal. 	battle of the metaurus – hasdrubal is defeated and killed by nero's roman army. 	battle of carmona – romans under publius cornelius scipio besiege the city of carmona and take it from hasdrubal gisco 	 bc – 	battle of ilipa – scipio again decisively defeats the remaining carthaginian forces in hispania. 	battle of the guadalquivir – roman army under gaius lucius marcius séptimus defeats a carthaginian army under hannón at guadalquivir. 	battle of carteia – roman fleet under gaius laelius defeats a carthaginian fleet under adherbal 	 bc – battle of crotona – hannibal fights a drawn battle against the roman general sempronius in southern italy. 	 bc – battle of bagbrades – romans under scipio defeat the carthaginian army of hasdrubal gisco and syphax. hannibal is sent to return to africa. 	 bc, october – battle of zama – scipio africanus major decisively defeats hannibal in north africa, ending the second punic war. 	first macedonian war ( – bc) [ ] 	roman-gallic wars ( – bc) 	 bc – battle of faesulae – romans are defeated by the gauls of northern italy. 	 bc – battle of telamon – romans under aemilius papus and gaius atilius regulus defeat the gauls. 	 bc – battle of clastidium – romans under marcus claudius marcellus defeat the gauls. 	 bc – battle of cremona – roman forces defeat the gauls of cisalpine gaul [ ] expansion of rome by bc nd century bc[edit] 	second macedonian war ( – bc) 	 bc – battle of the aous – roman forces under titus quinctius flamininus defeat the macedonians under philip v 	 bc – battle of cynoscephalae – romans under flamininus decisively defeats philip in thessaly 	roman-spartan war ( bc) 	 bc – battle of gythium – with some roman assistance, philopoemen of the achaean league defeats the spartans under nabis 	battle of placentia ( bc) – roman victory over the boian gauls 	battle of mutina ( bc) – roman victory over the boii, decisively ending the boian threat. 	roman-seleucid war ( bc – bc) [ ] 	 bc – battle of thermopylae – romans under manius acilius glabrio defeat antiochus iii the great and force him to evacuate greece 	 bc – 	battle of the eurymedon – roman forces under lucius aemilius regillus defeat a seleucid fleet commanded by hannibal, fighting his last battle. 	battle of myonessus – another seleucid fleet is defeated by the romans 	december, battle of magnesia – (near smyrna) romans under lucius cornelius scipio and his brother scipio africanus major defeat antiochus iii the great in the decisive victory of the war. 	aetolian war ( – bc) 	galatian war ( bc) [ ] 	battle of mount olympus – romans under gnaeus manlius vulso allied with attalus ii of pergamum deliver a crushing defeat to an army of galatian gauls 	battle of ancyra – gnaeus manlius vulso and attalus ii defeat the galatian gauls again before ancyra, in what was an almost identical repeat of the battle of mount olympus. 	first celtiberian war ( – bc) 	 bc – battle of manlian pass – romans under fulvius flaccus defeat an army of celtiberians. 	third macedonian war ( – bc) 	 bc – battle of callicinus – perseus of macedon defeats a roman army under publius licinius crassus. 	 bc, june – battle of pydna – romans under lucius aemilius paullus macedonicus defeat and capture macedonian king perseus. 	third illyrian war ( – bc) [ ] 	lusitanian war ( – bc) 	numentine\second celtiberian war ( – bc) 	 bc - siege of numantia - roman forces under scipio aemilianus africanus defeat and raze the celtiberian city of numantia. 	fourth macedonian war ( – bc) [ ] 	 bc – second battle of pydna – the forces of the macedonian pretender andriscus are defeated by the romans under quintus caecilius metellus macedonicus. 	third punic war ( – bc) [ ] 	 bc - 	battle of the port of carthage - roman forces under lucius hostilius mancinus are defeated by the carthaginians. 	second battle of neferis - roman forces under scipio aemilianus win a decisive victory against carthage marking the turning point in the third punic war. 	 bc – battle of carthage ends: scipio africanus minor captures and destroys carthage. 	achaean war ( bc) 	 bc – battle of corinth – romans under lucius mummius defeat the achaean league forces of critolaus, who is killed. corinth is destroyed and greece comes under direct roman rule. 	first servile war ( – bc) 	cimbrian war ( – bc) 	 bc - battle of noreia - roman force under gnaeus papirius carbo are defeated by the cimbri 	 bc – battle of the rhone river – roman force under marcus junius silanus are defeated by the helvetii 	 bc – battle of burdigala – roman forces under lucius cassius longinus are defeated by the helvetii 	 bc, october – battle of arausio – cimbri inflict a major defeat on the roman army of gnaeus mallius maximus 	 bc - battle of aquae sextiae - romans under gaius marius defeat teutons, with mass suicides among the captured women. 	 bc - battle of vercellae – romans under gaius marius defeat the cimbri, who are entirely annihilated. 	jugurthine war ( – bc) 	 bc – battle of the muthul – roman forces under caecilius metellus fight indecisively against the forces of jugurtha of numidia 	second servile war ( – bc) st century bc[edit] expansion of rome from bc (green) to bc (orange). roman holdings in the east (red), clients (pink), and other nations. 	social war ( – bc)[ ] 	 bc – battle of fucine lake – roman forces under lucius porcius cato are defeated by the italian rebels. 	 bc – battle of asculum – roman army of c. pompeius strabo decisively defeats the rebels. 	first mithridatic war ( – bc) 	 bc - bc - siege of athens and piraeus - siege of athens, which had sided with the pontic invaders during the first mithridatic war by lucius cornelius sulla. roman victory. 	 bc – battle of chaeronea – roman forces of lucius cornelius sulla defeat the pontic forces of archelaus in the first mithridatic war 	 bc – battle of orchomenus – sulla again defeats archelaus in the decisive battle of the first mithridatic war. 	first marian-sullan civil war ( – bc)[ ] 	 bc – battle of mount tifata – sulla defeats the popular forces of caius norbanus. 	second mithridatic war ( – bc) 	 bc – battle of halys – roman general lucius licinius murena fights mithridates and gordius after launching several raids, to which the romans lose. 	sertorian war ( – bc) 	 bc – battle of the baetis river – rebel forces under quintus sertorius defeat the legal roman forces of lucius fulfidias in hispania. 	second marian-sullan civil war ( – bc) [ ] 	 bc – 	battle of the asio river – quintus caecilius metellus pius defeats a popular army under gaius carrinas. 	battle of sacriporto – fought between the optimates under lucius cornelius sulla felix and the populares under gaius marius the younger, optimate victory. 	first battle of clusium – fought between the optimates under lucius cornelius sulla felix and the populares under gnaeus papirius carbo, popular victory. 	battle of faventia – fought between the optimates under quintus caecilius metellus pius and the populares under gaius norbanus balbus, optimate victory. 	battle of fidentia – fought between the optimates under marcus terentius varro lucullus and the populares under lucius quincius, optimate victory. 	second battle of clusium – pompei magnus defeats a numerically superior populares army under gaius carrinas and gaius marcius censorinus. 	battle of colline gate – sulla defeats samnites allied to the popular party in rome in the decisive battle of the civil war. 	third mithridatic war ( – bc) [ ] 	 bc – battle of cyzicus – roman forces under lucius lucullus defeat the forces of mithridates vi of pontus 	 bc – battle of cabira or the rhyndacus – lucullus defeats the retreating forces of mithridates, opening way to pontus 	 bc – battle of tigranocerta – lucullus defeats the army of tigranes ii of armenia, who was harbouring his father-in-law mithridates vi of pontus 	 bc – battle of artaxata – lucullus again defeats tigranes. 	 bc – battle of the lycus – pompey the great decisively defeats mithridates vi, effectively ending the third mithridatic war 	third servile war ( – bc) 	 bc – battle of mount vesuvius – spartacus defeats gaius claudius glaber 	 bc – battle of picenum – slave revolt led by spartacus defeat a roman army led by gellius publicola and gnaeus cornelius lentulus clodianus 	 bc – battle of mutina i – slave revolt led by spartacus defeat another army of romans. 	 bc – 	battle of campania – slave revolt led by spartacus defeat a roman army. 	battle of campania ii – a roman army under marcus crassus defeats spartacus's army of slaves. 	battle of the siler river – marcus crassus defeats the army of spartacus. 	pompey's georgian campaign ( bc) 	catilinarian civil war ( – bc) 	 bc, january – battle of pistoria – the forces of the conspirator catiline are defeated by the loyal roman armies under gaius antonius. 	gallic wars ( – bc) 	 bc – 	june – battle of the arar (saône) – caesar defeats the migrating helvetii 	july – battle of bibracte – caesar again defeats the helvetians, this time decisively. 	september – battle of vosges – caesar decisively defeats the forces of the germanic chieftain ariovistus near modern belfort 	 bc – 	battle of the axona (aisne) – caesar defeats the forces of the belgae under king galba of suessiones. 	battle of the sabis (sambre) – caesar defeats the nervii. 	battle of octodurus (martigny) – servius galba defeats the seduni and veragri. 	 bc – battle of alesia – caesar defeats the gallic rebel vercingetorix, completing the roman conquest of gallia comata. 	war with the parthian empire ( bc) 	 bc - battle of carrhae – roman triumvir crassus is disastrously defeated and killed by the parthians. crassus has molten gold poured down his throat by his captors. the extent of the roman republic in bc after caesar's conquests. 	caesar's civil war ( – bc) 	 bc, june – battle of ilerda – caesar's army surround pompeian forces and cause them to surrender. 	 bc, august – battle of the bagradas river – caesar's general gaius curio is defeated in north africa by the pompeians under attius varus and king juba i of numidia. curio commits suicide. 	 bc, july – battle of dyrrhachium – caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat by pompey in macedonia 	 bc, august – battle of pharsalus – caesar decisively defeats pompey, who flees to egypt 	 bc, february – battle of the nile – caesar defeats the forces of the egyptian king ptolemy xiii 	 bc, january – battle of ruspina – caesar loses perhaps as much as a third of his army to titus labienus 	 bc, february – battle of thapsus – caesar defeats the pompeian army of metellus scipio in north africa. 	 bc, march – battle of munda – in his last victory, caesar defeats the pompeian forces of titus labienus and gnaeus pompey the younger in hispania. labienus is killed in the battle and the younger pompey captured and executed. 	war with pontus 	 bc, may – battle of zela – caesar defeats pharnaces ii of pontus. this is the battle where he famously said veni, vidi, vici. (i came, i saw, i conquered.) 	liberators' civil war ( – bc) 	 bc, april – battle of forum gallorum – antony, besieging caesar's assassin decimus brutus in mutina, defeats the forces of the consul pansa, who is killed, but is then immediately defeated by the army of the other consul, hirtius 	 bc, april – battle of mutina – antony is again defeated in battle by hirtius, who is killed. although antony fails to capture mutina, decimus brutus is murdered shortly thereafter. 	 bc, october – first battle of philippi – triumvirs mark antony and octavian fight an indecisive battle with caesar's assassins marcus brutus and cassius. although brutus defeats octavian, antony defeats cassius, who commits suicide. 	 bc, october – second battle of philippi – brutus's army is decisively defeated by antony and octavian. brutus escapes, but commits suicide soon after. 	sicilian revolt ( – bc) 	 bc – battle of naulochus – octavian's fleet, under the command of marcus vipsanius agrippa defeats the forces of the rebel sextus pompeius. 	fulvia's civil war (perusine war) ( – bc) 	 bc – battle of perugia – mark antony's brother lucius antonius and his wife fulvia are defeated by octavian. 	final war of the roman republic ( – bc) 	 bc, september – battle of actium – octavian decisively defeats antony and cleopatra in a naval battle near greece. 	cantabrian wars ( – bc) 	 bc - battle of vellica - roman forces under augustus against the cantabri people, roman victory. 	 bc - siege of aracillum - roman forces under gaius antistius vetus against the cantabri people, roman victory. 	germanic battles ( – bc) 	clades lolliana ( bc) – the troops of consul marcus lollius paulinus are defeated by west germanic warriors in gaul. 	battle of the lupia river ( bc) – roman forces under augustus's stepson drusus win a victory in germany. st century[edit] the roman empire under augustus: the republic in bc (yellow) and augustus's conquests (shades of green). client states are in pink. 	battle of the teutoburg forest ( ) – german leader arminius ambushes three roman legions under publius quinctilius varus. 	battle of the weser river ( ) - legions under germanicus defeat german tribes of arminius. 	roman conquest of britain ( – ) 	 – battle of the medway – claudius and general aulus plautius defeat a confederation of british celtic tribes. roman invasion of britain begins 	 – battle of caer caradoc – british chieftain caractacus is defeated and captured by the romans under ostorius scapula. 	 – battle of scotch corner 	 – battle of mons graupius. romans under gnaeus julius agricola defeat the caledonians. 	roman–parthian war of – 	 – sack of artaxata by gnaeus domitius corbulo during the roman–parthian war over armenia 	 – capture of tigranocerta by corbulo. 	 – battle of rhandeia – romans under lucius caesennius paetus are defeated by a parthian-armenian army under king tiridates of parthia. 	boudica's uprising ( – ) 	 – battle of camulodunum – boudica begins her uprising against the romans by capturing and then sacking camulodunum then moves on londinium. 	 – battle of watling street – boudica is defeated by suetonius paullinus 	first jewish–roman war ( – )[ ] 	 – battle of beth-horon – jewish forces led by eleazar ben simon defeat a roman punitive force led by cestius gallus, governor of syria 	 – siege of masada – the sicarii are defeated by the romans under lucius flavius silva, leading them to commit mass suicide 	roman civil war of – ad 	 – 	winter – battle of 'forum julii' – othonian forces defeat a small group of vitellianist auxiliaries in gallia narbonensis 	 april – first battle of bedriacum – vitellius, commander of the rhine armies, defeats emperor otho and seizes the throne. 	 october – second battle of bedriacum – forces under antonius primus, the commander of the danube armies, loyal to vespasian, defeat the forces of emperor vitellius. 	domitian's dacian war ( – ) 	 – dacian king decebalus crushes the roman army at tapae (today transylvania, romania), legio v alaudae and general cornelius fuscus perish in battle. 	 – the romans return and obtain a victory in the same battleground nd century[edit] the extent of the roman empire under trajan ( ) the empire is in red and dependencies are in pink.[ ] 	first dacian war ( – ) 	 – second battle of tapae – trajan defeats decebalus, with heavy losses. 	 – battle of adamclisi - roman forces led by trajan annihilate a mixed dacian-roxolano-sarmatae army, with heavy casualties on the roman side. 	second dacian war ( – ) 	 – battle of sarmisegetusa – a roman army led by trajan conquers and destroys the dacian capital. part of dacia is annexed to the roman empire. 	roman-persian wars [ ] 	 - – trajan's parthian campaign – trajan invades parthia and occupies ctesiphon. 	 - – roman–parthian war – vologases iv invades armenia, but is pushed back and ctesiphon is sacked. 	 – battle of ctesiphon – septimus severus invades, sacks ctesiphon, and acquires northern mesopotamia. 	kitos war ( – ) 	second jewish revolt ( – / ) 	marcomannic wars ( – ) 	 – battle of carnuntum – marcomannic king ballomar defeats the roman army and invade italy. 	 - – praetorian prefect teratenius paternus defeats the quadi. 	 or – battle of laugaricio – marcus valerius maximianus defeats the quadi in slovakia. 	roman civil war of – ad 	 – battle of cyzicus – septimius severus, the new emperor, defeats his eastern rival pescennius niger 	 – battle of nicaea – severus again defeats niger 	 – battle of issus – severus finally defeats niger. 	 , february – battle of lugdunum – emperor septimius severus defeats and kills his rival clodius albinus, securing full control over the empire. rd century[edit] the empires of gaul (green), rome (red), and palmyra (yellow) in . see crisis of the third century 	persian wars 	 – battle of nisibis – bloody stalemate between the parthians and the roman army under emperor macrinus. 	 - - war between ardashir i and severus alexander; resulted in humiliating roman defeat and withdrawal. 	 – battle of resaena – roman forces under gordian iii defeat the persians under shapur i. 	 – battle of edessa – emperor shapur i of persia defeats and captures the roman emperor valerian 	 or – battle of carrhae – romans under the caesar galerius are defeated by the persians under narseh. 	 – battle of satala – galerius secures a decisive victory against narseh, following a peace treaty. 	civil wars 	 , june – battle of antioch – varius avitus defeats emperor macrinus to claim the throne under the name elagabalus. 	 – battle of carthage – troops loyal to the roman emperor maximinus thrax defeat and kill his successor gordian ii. 	 – battle of châlons – aurelian defeats the gallic usurper tetricus, reestablishing central control of the whole empire. 	 – battle of the margus – the usurper diocletian defeats the army of the emperor carinus, who is killed. 	gothic and alemannic wars 	 – battle at the harzhorn - small roman army defeats a german army while retreating back to roman territory. 	 – battle of philippopolis – king cniva of the goths defeats a roman army. 	 , summer – battle of abrittus – goths defeat and kill the roman emperors decius and herennius etruscus 	 – battle of mediolanum – emperor gallienus decisively defeats the alemanni that invaded italy 	 – battle of naissus – emperor gallienus and his generals claudius and aurelian decisively defeat the goths. 	 or – battle of lake benacus – romans under emperor claudius ii defeat the alemanni 	 – 	battle of placentia – emperor aurelian is defeated by the alemanni forces invading italy 	battle of fano – aurelian defeats the alamanni, who begin to retreat from italy 	battle of pavia – aurelian destroys the retreating alemanni army. 	 – 	battle of lingones – caesar constantius chlorus defeats the alemanni 	battle of vindonissa – constantius again defeats the alamanni 	palmyrene war 	 – 	battle of immae – aurelian defeats the army of zenobia of palmyra 	battle of emesa – aurelian decisively defeats zenobia. th century[edit] the roman empire under the tetrarchy, with the territory of constantius (yellow), maximian (green), galerius (pink), and diocletian (purple) the roman empire in , showing the empire under constantine (shaded purple) and other roman dependencies (light purple). the th century begins with civil war resulting in the ascendancy of constantine i, then, after his death, wars with persia and germanic tribes, punctuated frequently with more civil wars. 	civil wars of the tetrarchy ( – ) 	 – 	battle of turin – constantine i defeats forces loyal to maxentius. 	battle of verona – constantine i defeats more forces loyal to maxentius. 	 october – battle of milvian bridge – constantine i defeats maxentius and takes control of italy. 	 , april – battle of tzirallum – in the eastern part of the empire, the forces of licinius defeat maximinus. 	 , october – battle of cibalae – constantine defeats licinius 	 or – battle of mardia – constantine again defeats licinius, who cedes illyricum to constantine. 	 – 	 july – battle of adrianople – constantine defeats licinius, who flees to byzantium 	july – battle of the hellespont – flavius julius crispus, son of constantine, defeats the naval forces of licinius 	 september – battle of chrysopolis – constantine decisively defeats licinius, establishing his sole control over the empire. 	wars with persia ( – ) 	 – battle of singara – emperor constantius ii fights an indecisive battle against king shapur ii of persia 	 – siege of amida – sassanids capture amida from romans 	 , may – battle of ctesiphon – emperor julian defeats shapur ii of persia outside the walls of the persian capital, but is unable to take the city, and his death leads to an ultimate disaster on the retreat back to roman territory. 	civil war ( – ) 	 – battle of mursa major – emperor constantius ii defeats the usurper magnentius 	 – battle of mons seleucus – final defeat of magnentius by constantius ii 	wars with alemanni ( – ) 	 – battle of reims – caesar julian is defeated by the alamanni 	 – battle of strasbourg – julian expels the alamanni from the rhineland 	 – battle of solicinium – romans under emperor valentinian i defeat yet another alamanni incursion. 	civil war – – battle of thyatira – the army of the roman emperor valens defeats the usurper procopius. 	gothic war ( – ) 	 – battle of the willows – roman troops fight an inconclusive battle against the goths 	 – 	may – battle of argentovaria – western emperor gratianus is victorious over the alamanni, yet again. 	 august – battle of adrianople – thervings under fritigern defeat and kill the eastern emperor valens 	 – battle of thessalonica – the new eastern emperor, theodosius i, is also defeated by the thervings under fritigern. 	civil war – – battle of the save – emperor theodosius i defeats the usurper magnus maximus. 	civil war – , – september – battle of the frigidus – theodosius i defeats and kills the usurper eugenius and his frankish magister militum arbogast. th century[edit] map showing the paths of invasion by various groups into eastern and western roman territory the th century involves the final fall of the western roman empire to goths, vandals, alans, huns, and franks. 	wars with gothic tribes ( – ) 	 – 	 april – battle of pollentia – stilicho defeats the visigoths under alaric. 	june – battle of verona – stilicho defeats alaric, who withdraws from italy. 	 , december – battle of mainz – franks lose to vandals, suebi and alans. 	 , august – sack of rome – visigoths under alaric sack rome. 	 – battle of the nervasos mountains – romans and suebi defeat vandals and alans. 	 – battle of cap bon - failure of the invasion of the kingdom of the vandals by the western and eastern roman empires 	civil war – – battle of ravenna – bonifacius defeats rival roman general flavius aetius, but is mortally wounded in the process. 	war with visigoths – – battle of narbonne – flavius aetius again defeats the visigoths led by theodoric. 	war with the huns ( – ) 	 – battle of the utus – the romans in the east fight an indecisive battle with huns led by attila. 	 , june – battle of the catalaunian plains – the romans with flavius aetius and the visigoths with theodoric, defend against attila the hun. 	fall of the west ( – ) 	 – sack of rome by geiseric, king of the vandals 	 – battle of orleans – gallo-roman and salian frank forces under the command of aegidius defeat a force of visigoths at orleans. 	 – odoacer defeats the remnants of the western roman army, exiles emperor romulus augustulus, and declares himself king of italy 	 – battle of soissons – clovis i defeats syagrius, last roman commander in gaul, and annexes the roman rump state into the frankish realm. 	 – battle of mons badonicus – romano-british under ambrosius aurelianus defeat anglo-saxons. references[edit] 	^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s jones, jim. "roman history timeline". courses.wcupa.edu. west chester university of pennsylvania, . retrieved march . 	^ bennett, j. trajan: optimus princeps. . fig. sources[edit] 	jones, jim, ( ). roman history timeline. west chester university of pennsylvania. http://courses.wcupa.edu/jones/roman history timeline . external links[edit] 	milites. a visual analytics tool on roman battles. 	elton, hugh and christos nüssli, "imperial battle map index". an online encyclopedia of roman emperors. 	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	cookie statement 		 	 	 national library of israel - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	national library of israel 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		  (redirected from nli (identifier)) 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 national library of israel	הספרייה הלאומית 	 	 	country	israel 	established	 ;  years ago ( ) 	reference to legal mandate	the legal deposit of generally available documents 	location	jerusalem 	coordinates	 ° ′ . ″n ° ′ . ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; . coordinates: ° ′ . ″n ° ′ . ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; . 	collection 	items collected	unique collections of manuscripts, special collections of books, music, radio and tv programmes, film, theatre, maps, posters, pictures, photographs, electronic documents and newspapers. 	size	 million volumes 	other information 	budget	approximately million nis (₪) 	director	oren weinberg 	staff	 	website	nli.org.il 	map 	 the national library of israel (nli; hebrew: הספרייה הלאומית‎, romanized: hasifria haleumit; arabic: المكتبة الوطنية في إسرائيل‎), formerly jewish national and university library (jnul; hebrew: בית הספרים הלאומי והאוניברסיטאי‎, romanized: beit ha-sfarim ha-le'umi ve-ha-universita'i), is the library dedicated to collecting the cultural treasures of israel and of jewish heritage. the library holds more than million books, and is located on the givat ram campus of the hebrew university of jerusalem. the national library owns the world's largest collections of hebraica and judaica, and is the repository of many rare and unique manuscripts, books and artifacts. in august , it closed for two weeks due to the financial and national government crisis associated with the covid- pandemic. contents 	 history 	 . b'nai brith library ( - ) 	 . hebrew university library ( - ) 	 . national library status ( ) 	 . online library ( ) 	 . new building 	 . closure ( ) 	 goals and objectives 	 special collections 	 see also 	 references 	 external links history[edit] b'nai brith library ( - )[edit] b'nai brith library, jerusalem the establishment of a jewish national library in jerusalem was the brainchild of joseph chazanovitz ( - ). his idea was creating a "home for all works in all languages and literatures which have jewish authors, even though they create in foreign cultures." chazanovitz collected some , volumes which later became the core of the library.[ ] the b'nai brith library, founded in jerusalem in , was the first public library in palestine to serve the jewish community. the library was located on b'nai brith street, between the meah shearim neighborhood and the russian compound.[ ] ten years later, the bet midrash abrabanel library, as it was then known, moved to ethiopia street.[ ] hebrew university library ( - )[edit] in , when plans were drawn up for the hebrew university, the b'nai brith collection became the basis for a university library. the books were moved to mount scopus when the university opened five years later.[ ] in , when access to the university campus on mount scopus was blocked, most of the books were moved to the university's temporary quarters in the terra sancta building in rehavia. by that time, the university collection included over one million books. for lack of space, some of the books were placed in storerooms around the city. in , they were moved to the new jnul building in givat ram.[ ] in the late s, when the new university complex on mount scopus was inaugurated and the faculties of law, humanities and social science returned there, departmental libraries opened on that campus and the number of visitors to the givat ram library dropped. in the s, the building suffered from maintenance problems such as rainwater leaks and insect infestation.[ ] national library status ( )[edit] in the library was officially recognized as the national library of the state of israel after the passage of the national library law.[ ] the law, which came into effect on july , changed the library's name to "national library of israel" and turned it temporarily to a subsidiary company of the university, later to become a fully independent community interest company, jointly owned by the government of israel ( %), the hebrew university ( %) and other organizations. online library ( )[edit] in , the library launched a website granting public access to books, periodicals, maps, photos and music from its collections.[ ] new building[edit] in , the project for a new home of the library in jerusalem was unveiled.[ ] the , square meters building, designed by the basel-based architecture firm herzog & de meuron, is scheduled for full completion in .[ ][ ] closure ( )[edit] in august, , the national library announced its immediately forthcoming closure "until further notice" due to the ongoing financial and government crisis.[ ][ ] the closure lasted for two weeks and the library subsequently re-opened.[citation needed] goals and objectives[edit] ardon windows in the library lobby the library's mission is to secure copies of all material published in israel, in any language; all publications on the subject of israel, the land of israel, judaism and the jewish people, published in any language, in any country in the world; and all material published in hebrew or any of the languages spoken in the jewish diaspora (such as yiddish and ladino). by law, two copies of all printed matter published in israel must be deposited in the national library. in , the law was amended to include audio and video recordings, and other non-print media.[ ] many manuscripts, including some of the library's unique volumes such the th century worms mahzor, have been scanned and are now available on the internet. special collections[edit] reading room among the library's special collections are the personal papers of hundreds of outstanding jewish figures, the national sound archives, the laor map collection and numerous other collections of hebraica and judaica. the library also possesses some of isaac newton's manuscripts dealing with theological subjects.[ ] the collection, donated by the family of the collector abraham yahuda, includes many works by newton about mysticism, analyses of holy books, predictions about the end of days and the appearance of the ancient temple in jerusalem. it also contains maps that newton sketched about mythical events to assist him in his end of days calculations.[ ] the library houses the personal archives of martin buber and gershom scholem.[ ] following the occupation of west jerusalem by haganah forces in may , the libraries of a number palestinians who fled the country as well as of other well-to-do palestinians were transferred to the national library.[ ] these collections included those of henry cattan, khalil beidas, khalil al-sakakini and aref hikmet nashashibi.[ ] about , books were removed from homes in west jerusalem, with another , taken from other cities in mandatory palestine. it is unclear whether the books were being kept and protected or if they were looted from the abandoned houses of their owners.[ ] about , of these books are in the library today indexed with the label ap – "abandoned property".[ ] the books are cataloged, can be viewed from the library's general catalog and are regularly consulted by the public, including arab scholars from all over the world. the national library of israel completed its collection of the max brod archive in august .[ ] see also[edit] 	list of national and state libraries 	union list of israel, combined library catalog with over million entries 	judaica archival project references[edit] 	^ melancholy pride: nation, race and gender in the german literature of cultural zionism, mark gelber 	^ a b c d e aryeh dayan. "new chapter in a sad saga". haaretz. retrieved may . 	^ "hebrew university hails 'landmark legislation' for the establishment of the national library". canadian friends of the hebrew university. november . archived from the original on september . retrieved october . 	^ israel's national library puts collection online 	^ herzog & de meuron to design the national library of israel, archdaily, april 	^ "herzog & de meuron reveals designs for national library of israel". designboom. retrieved december . 	^ herzog & de meuron share new images of the national library of israel, archdaily, april 	^ hen, yitzhak, israel's national library is closing down. how much do you care?, haaretz, august 	^ oster, marcy, national library of israel to suspend services, put workers on unpaid leave, times of israel, august 	^ jewish national & university library history archived april at the wayback machine (in english) 	^ newton collection archived july at the wayback machine (in english) 	^ israeli national library uploads trove of newton's theological tracts 	^ national library, germany partner to put papers online 	^ the looting of the palestinian books archived may at the wayback machine mitaam: a review for radical thought (december ), pp. - , by gish amit 	^ israel state archive, jerusalem, / 	^ preserving or looting palestinian books in jerusalem 	^ overdue books: returning palestine’s “abandoned property” of by hannah mermelstein, jerusalem quarterly, autumn 	^ "israel gets missing kafka papers, ending long legal battle". external links[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to national library of israel. 		wikidata has the property: 	 national library of israel id (p ) (see uses) 	official website 		v 	t 	e jews and judaism 	 	outline of judaism 	index of jewish history-related articles 	history	 	timeline 	israelites 	origins of judaism 	ancient israel and judah 	second temple period 	rabbinic judaism 	middle ages 	haskalah 	zionism 	population	 	assimilation 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rome, including "service", "(sense of) duty", "courtesy", "ceremony" and the like. it also translates the greek kathekon and was used in later latin to render more modern offices. however, this article is mainly concerned with the meaning of "an office" (the modern word office derives from it) or "bureau" in the sense of a dignitary's staff of administrative and other collaborators, each of whom was called an officialis (hence the modern official). the notitia dignitatum gives us uniquely detailed information, stemming from the very imperial chanceries, on the composition of the officia of many of the leading court, provincial, military and certain other officials of the two roman empires c. ad . while the details vary somewhat according to rank, from west (rome) to east (byzantium) and/or in particular cases, in general the leading staff would be about as follows (the english descriptions and other modern "equivalents" are approximate): 	princeps officii was the chief of staff, permanent secretary or chef de cabinet 	cornicularius was a military title, for an administrative deputy of various generals etc. 	adiutor (literally "helper") seems to have been the chief (general) assistant, or adjutant 	commentariensis was the keeper of "commentaries", an official diary 	ab actis was the keeper of records, the archivist 	numerarius ("accountant") seems to have been the receiver of taxes 	subadiuva ("under-helper") seems to have been a general assistant 	cura epistolarum was the curator of correspondence 	regerendarius may have been a registrar 	exceptor seem to have been a secretary 	singularius has been called a notary, but the word can also refer to a bodyguard below those "dignities", there were often a few hundred minor officials, often slaves or freedmen, doing the clerical drudgery, not deemed worthy of any more detailed mention. they are only referred to collectively, by various terms in the plural, such as cohortalini (apparently the diminutive of 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from the saint-epure codex. 	born	c. ad braga, gallaecia 	died	c. ad 	occupation	theologian and historian 	 	academic background 	influences	 	augustine of hippo 	livy 	jerome 	junianus justinus 	tacitus 	suetonius 	florus 	academic work 	main interests	 	providentialism 	universal history 	germanic paganism 	 paulus orosius (/ˈpɔːləs əˈroʊʒəs/; born c. , died after ad)[ ], less often paul orosius in english, was a roman priest, historian and theologian, and a student of augustine of hippo. it is possible that he was born in bracara augusta (now braga, portugal), then capital of the roman province of gallaecia, which would have been the capital of the kingdom of the suebi by his death.[ ] although there are some questions regarding his biography, such as his exact date of birth, it is known that he was a person of some prestige from a cultural point of view, as he had contact with the greatest figures of his time such as augustine of hippo and jerome of stridon. in order to meet with them orosius travelled to cities on the southern coast of the mediterranean sea, such as hippo regius, alexandria, and jerusalem. these journeys defined his life and intellectual output. orosius did not just discuss theological matters with saint augustine; he also collaborated with him on the book city of god.[ ] in addition, in he was chosen to travel to palestine in order to exchange information with other intellectuals. he was also able to participate in a church council meeting in jerusalem on the same trip and he was entrusted with transporting the relics of saint stephen. the date of his death is also unclear, although it appears to have not been earlier than , when he finished one of his books, or later than .[ ] he wrote a total of three books, of which his most important is his seven books of history against the pagans (latin: historiarum adversum paganos libri vii), considered to be one of the books with the greatest impact on historiography during the period between antiquity and the middle ages, as well as being one of the most important hispanic books of all time. part of its importance comes from the fact that the author shows his historiographical methodology. the book is a historical narration focusing on the pagan peoples from the earliest time up until the time orosius was alive.[ ] orosius was a highly influential figure both for the dissemination of information (history against the pagans was one of the main sources of information regarding antiquity that was used up to the renaissance) and for rationalising the study of history (his methodology greatly influenced later historians).[ ][ ] contents 	 biographical sources 	 questions regarding his identity 	 . name 	 . Ó corráin's conclusions 	 . birthplace 	 . date of birth 	 biography 	 . early life 	 . journey to africa 	 . journeys to palestine 	 . later years 	 . disappearance 	 his works 	 . commonitorium and liber apologeticus 	 . historiae adversus paganos 	 historical methodology 	 . universalism 	 . patriotism and universalism 	 . optimism and pessimism 	 . narrative 	 . the importance of geography 	 . sources used by orosius 	 impact of orosius’s work 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 external links biographical sources[edit] despite the importance of his books many questions remain regarding his life, hampering efforts to construct a biography with any certainty. this is particularly true for sources of information regarding his birth and death.[ ] however, his life has been widely studied and there are a number of authors who propose dates for both events. the main biographical references for orosius come from the writings of gennadius of massilia and braulio of zaragoza, although his own writings should not be overlooked.[ ] in addition, orosius is mentioned in letters written by saint augustine. questions regarding his identity[edit] name[edit] while there is no doubt regarding his surname of orosius, there are questions regarding the use of the name "paulus". basically the problem is that it is not completely certain if he used this name or if he was simply called orosius and whether paulus has been added with the passing of time. this could have happened given that the initial "p" for priest was always placed next to his name, and over time this could have led to the confusion.[ ] however, this idea is flawed as authors writing immediately after orosius's death use the name paulus. in fact, even casimiro torres rodríguez, one of the main scholars of orosius's life, indicates that paulus might be his christian name and orosius his native name, a theory that cannot be entirely dismissed.[ ] whatever the truth of the matter this subject has been widely studied and the most current theory is probably that of pedro martínez cavero, another important orosius scholar.[ ] Ó corráin's conclusions[edit] based on a careful reading of the relevant sources, irish scholar donnchadh Ó corráin concluded that: orosius, author of historiarum adversum paganos libri vii, was a briton, born at latest c. ad . taken by irish raiders, he spent years (c. ad ) as a captive, held by traders, on the south shore of the shannon estuary. he escaped and probably reached galicia before ad . ordained priest, he served at bracara (now braga in portugal). he corresponded with st augustine and moved to hippo in ad . sent to the east by augustine, he played an undistinguished role at the councils of jerusalem and diospolis (ad ). he settled at carthage, where he wrote his main work, originally at the instigation of augustine. he disappears after a voyage to the balearic islands. his is the first textual witness to christianity in ireland, observed c. ad , written up in ad – . birthplace[edit] panorama of present-day braga, the most likely birthplace for orosius.[ ] the subject of his birthplace is still disputed although a broad consensus has now been reached.[ ] basically there are four theories regarding his birthplace, that can be summarised as follows: 	born in braga: this idea is most widely accepted as it has the most evidence supporting it. if he was not born in braga, it is likely he was born in the area around the town. this idea is supported by orosius's own works and two letters written by saint augustine, the th and the th.[ ] 	born in tarragona: this theory has been put forward because in his histories orosius talks of "tarraconem nostra" (our tarragona). the th-century author teodoro de mörner[ ] held this opinion, but nowadays it does not seem reasonable to support the idea solely based on one indication.[ ] 	originated in a coruña (brigantia): this is a relatively new theory solely based on the fact that orosius twice mentioned it in the geographical section of his histories. 	originated in brittany: like the previous theory the supporting data for this theory rests on the fact that orosius had some knowledge of this area.[ ] date of birth[edit] lastly, his supposed date of birth varies between sources, however, a likely date has now been calculated. it is known for certain that in saint augustine referred to paulus orosius as "a young priest", which means that at that time he could not have been older than , as he was young, and he had to be older than , as he was a priest.[ ] therefore, his date of birth can be fixed as being between and , although the most widely accepted date is considered to be . this assumes that when orosius met saint augustine he was years old, that is, he had been an ordained priest for two years.[ ] biography[edit] early life[edit] despite the scarcity of sources, if his date of birth is accepted as that given above or at least within the window between and it can be seen that orosius grew up during a period of cultural flourishing along with hydatius and the Ávitos.[ ] priscillianism was an important doctrine at this time and it is considered likely that after entering the priesthood he took an interest in the priscillianist controversy, which was being widely debated in his native country.[ ] the classical theories suggest that orosius belonged to a family with good social standing,[ ] which would have allowed him to gain a good education. this would have developed along christian lines, although assuming that orosius was born in braga, he would also have had a good knowledge of the rural culture of that time. contemporary histories indicate that from an early age orosius was loquacious and erudite,[ ] alluding to statements to this effect made by both saint augustine and pope gelasius i. in any case, any discussion of orosius's youth is pure speculation and conjecture because, as discussed above, there is little knowledge regarding this period of his life. journey to africa[edit] schematic map showing all the journeys made by paulus orosius.[ ] it is thought that paulus orosius lived in gallaecia (northwest hispania) until , but after that time and up until , there is no concrete information regarding his life. the traditional chronology, or at least the most widespread,[ ] proposes the succession of events outlined in the following paragraphs. it appears that orosius had to leave braga as a result of the barbarian invasions of the roman empire. the date of his departure is in some doubt, however, what is known for certain is that he had to leave suddenly. this is even confirmed by orosius himself who states that he was pursued onto the beach from which he set sail.[ ] a number of dates have been suggested for his departure from braga, ranging from to , however, the best option is to stick with the two most widely accepted dates: 	 : proposed by g. fainck. this date means that orosius had a window of years for his collaboration with saint augustine before he travelled to palestine. 	 : which is the most widely accepted. in his book commonitorium, which was published in , orosius talks of his arrival, his meeting with saint augustine etc. what is certain is that once orosius had left the iberian peninsula he was certain that his destination was hippo (now annaba in algeria), and a meeting with saint augustine, who was the greatest thinker of his time. from his arrival orosius formed part of a team that worked alongside saint augustine. it is therefore possible that orosius collaborated in the writing of the city of god or at the least that he was aware of the book.[ ] in saint augustine entrusted orosius with the task of travelling to palestine to meet with the thinker saint jerome who at that time was living in bethlehem. this indicates that saint augustine had a great deal of faith in orosius as relations between saint augustine and saint jerome had not always been good. journeys to palestine[edit] the visit to palestine had a double purpose: orosius wanted to discuss a number of theological topics with saint jerome, particularly those relating to the soul's origins, and saint augustine wanted closer ties with the thinker and to gather information regarding the priscillianists, origenists and the pelagian heresy.[ ] in reality, it would seem that orosius's main task was to assist jerome and others against pelagius, who, after the synod of carthage in , had been living in palestine, and finding some acceptance there. orosius met with pelagius on saint augustine's behalf and he represented the orthodox party against the pelagians at the synod of jerusalem[ ] that was held in june . at the synod orosius communicated the decisions of the synod of carthage and read several of augustine's writings against pelagius. success, however, was not achieved among greeks who did not understand latin, and whose sense of reverence was unfased by pelagius's famous question, et quis est mihi augustinus? ("who is augustine to me?") orosius succeeded only in obtaining john's consent to send letters and deputies to pope innocent i of rome; and, after having waited long enough to learn the unfavourable decision of the synod of diospolis (lydda) in december of the same year, he returned to north africa, orosius had a confrontation with the archbishop of jerusalem, john ii at the synod, in which orosius was accused of heresy in front of the entire conclave. as his defence orosius wrote his second book liber apologeticus, in which he emphatically rejected the accusation.[ ] orosius's first act on meeting saint jerome was to hand him the correspondence that he had brought from saint augustine. this implies that the journey was always conceived of as a return journey as orosius would have to deliver the letters from saint jerome back to saint augustine. in parallel to this, the relics of saint stephen were uncovered at the end of and part of the find was given to orosius in order that he could take it back to braga.[ ] this marks both the start of his return journey and, from our current perspective, a new epoch in orosius's life that is lacking in sources of information for its study. later years[edit] given that saint stephen's relics were uncovered on december , orosius must have departed from palestine after that date. although his idea was to travel to braga, he was forced to pass through hippo as it is known that he delivered letters from jerome to saint augustine, it is also generally agreed that he passed through jerusalem and alexandria, although it is not known if he visited the latter on his outward journey, on his return journey or on both occasions.[ ] during his second stay in hippo he had a long conversation with saint augustine during which he handed over the letters he was carrying from jerome and informed saint augustine about the meetings he had had with pelagius.[ ] the idea for orosius's great work, historiae adversus paganos, was born during this reencounter with saint augustine. however, it is difficult to estimate an exact date for when the book was written and for when the book was finished. this has given rise to a number of theories regarding the writing of the book: 	the traditional theory states that the book was finished between and .[ ] support for these dates comes from the fact that the liber apologeticus does not mention orosius's work as a historian, and the prologue refers to book xi of the city of god by saint augustine, which was not published until . in order to justify how orosius managed to write seven books in such a short time it is argued that he could have written summaries that were later filled out. 	a recent theory, proposed by casimiro torres rodríguez, states that orosius briefly stayed in stridon a second time while trying to return to portugal, which he was unable to do and he wrote the book during a third stay in stridon. this would explain why orosius refers in the “histories” to events that took place in hispania in . 	a third, older, theory, posed by t. von mörner and g. fainck, says that orosius undertook the work before he travelled to palestine. in fact, this idea has recently been given a new lease of life by m. p. annaud-lindet, although with the proviso that orosius wrote the book during his return journey from palestine. disappearance[edit] very little information is available regarding the life of paulus orosius after the publication of his histories. it is known that he was in menorca where he used the remains of saint stephen in attempts to convert members of the jewish community to christianity, but the date of his death is not known. this lack of information regarding orosius could be due to cooling of relations with saint augustine, who never makes any clear unambiguous references to orosius's "histories" once they have been published. gennadius of massilia considers that orosius lived at least until the end of the roman emperor honorius’ reign, which lasted until . however, there is no news of orosius after and it seems unlikely that such an active author would go six years without publishing anything new.[ ] there are other theories, from a sudden death to a range of legends that talk of orosius's final arrival in hispania and his founding of a monastery near to cabo de palos where he ended his days, although this latter idea now seems improbable.[ ] his works[edit] commonitorium and liber apologeticus[edit] the commonitorium and the histories are a response, at least in their origins, to the direct influence that saint augustine exercised over orosius.[ ] although paulus orosius's most important book was the historiae adversus paganos, his other two surviving books must also be taken into account: commonitorium and liber apologeticus.[ ] the full name of his first book is consultatio sive commonitorium ad augustinum de errore priscillianistarum et origenistarum (in english: warnings and reminders by augustine against the errors of the priscillians and the origenists).[ ] its chronology is littered with the same grey areas as orosius's biography. in principle it is a book intended for saint augustine and therefore it must have been written before orosius arrived in africa, between and as discussed above.[ ] the second chronological limit is , which is traditionally considered to be the date when augustine's book liber ad orosium contra priscillianistas et origenistas was published, in which augustine replies to orosius's commonitorium.[ ] the book is not only aimed at saint augustine but was also preceded by conversations with the saint.[ ] it not only describes orosius journey to africa, but also summarises the beliefs of priscillianism and origenism, and it asks for saint augustine's advice regarding these theological issues, thereby exposing some of orosius's theological doubts.[ ] the full name of orosius's second book is liber apologeticus contra pelagium de arbitrii libertate.[ ] it was published at the time of orosius's participation in the council of jerusalem in .[ ] the book is the result of a theological debate during which archbishop john ii accused orosius of heresy due to his idea that man cannot remain free of sin, not even with the help of divine intervention.[ ] in order to defend himself from these accusations orosius wrote liber apologeticus, in which he describes his motives for participating in the synod, he was invited by saint jerome, and rejects the accusation of heresy made against him.[ ] however, neither of these two books are of a historical nature, despite containing elements that help in the reconstruction of orosius's life. historiae adversus paganos[edit] historiae adversus paganos, page from a manuscript of orosius's histories held in florence. paulus orosius's masterpiece is historiae adversus paganos, the only history book that he wrote, which gives insight into the historiographical methodology of the spanish priesthood. it is not possible to be certain as to when it was written as there is no single theory that is unanimously accepted by all historians. the most common estimate places the drafting of the book between and .[ ][ ] miguel Ángel rábade navarro offers a clear and concise definition on orosius's history in one of his articles on the author. in this article rábade calls the histories a "universalist history with an apologetic and providentialist character, whose main aim is to compare a pagan past with a christian present, through their followers, their actions and their geographical and temporal location".[ ] be this as it may, the book had a definite origin and a clear purpose. the book's origins were a response to saint augustine's express desire for a book that would complement his de civitate dei which is a history focused on the pagan races.[ ] the date of the book is not our main focus here, what is more important is orosius's objective in responding to saint augustine's request by writing a book aimed at proving that rome’s decadence – rome was sacked by alaric i in – had nothing at all to do with the fact that the romans had relatively recently converted to christianity.[ ] in a more general way orosius wanted to show that the world has improved since the introduction of christianity rather than declined as others had argued. in response to those who pointed to contemporary disasters, he simply argues that previous disasters occurring before christianity were much worse. the work, a universal history of the calamities that have happened to mankind was the first attempt to write the history of the world as a history of god guiding humanity. throughout the seven books that comprise the history, orosius introduces several new methods and he also uses others that pick up on the traditional methods of graeco-roman historiography.[ ] orosius never offers a negative image of the pagans, in this way he is being true to the traditions of the graeco-roman historians of that time, who always tried to give a positive impression of their "enemies".[ ] historical methodology[edit] universalism[edit] the universalist nature of orosius's work is perhaps its most notable aspect. in fact, despite the lack of agreement regarding all other aspects of orosius's life, including his biography and his works, most experts agree on the universalist nature of this work, including classicists such as marcelino menéndez y pelayo and even more modern historians such as torres rodríguez.[ ] in addition, his works are not only identified as universalist but as the first christian universalist history, or put another way, the last classical universalist history.[ ] paulus orosius is not only a widely studied author he also described his own thoughts on his historical methodology in some of the prologues to the volumes that comprise his “histories”. he was always clear in his objectives, he wanted to write the history starting with the creation and leading up to the times in which he lived, which is a clear declaration of his universalist intentions as a historian.[ ] orosius uses the so-called "succession of the four world empires theory" throughout his works,[ ] which traced world history based on the premise that out of the ruins of one great civilization another arose. therefore, his theory was based on four historical empires, babylonia, pagan rome, macedonia and carthage, with a fifth empire, that of christian rome as the inheritor of all these.[ ] in fact, during the narration of their histories the four empires develop in the same way and there are a number of striking parallels between them that are markedly different from rome, which orosius praises.[ ] orosius's basic innovation in dealing with the four empires theory was to introduce carthage between macedonia and rome, which is something that scholars such as garcía fernández point out as one of orosius's defining and definitive acts.[ ] patriotism and universalism[edit] another important characteristic of orosius's “histories” is defined as patriotism.[ ] there are two clearly defined positions regarding orosius's patriotism, a more traditional view espoused by torres rodríguez and a more novel view as recently outlined by garcía fernández. torres rodríguez’ theory refers to patriotism is the sense that orosius places special emphasis on the events that took place in hispania. this is normal given orosius's origins, but it can be thought of not only as patriotism but also as hispanism.[ ] examples of this tendency include narratives of events in the “histories”, that occurred in braga or the fact that orosius himself was charged with transporting the reliquaries of saint stephen.[ ] it is even pointed out that orosius's narrations are sometimes used by current day groups of galician nationalists.[ ] on the other hand, in garcía fernández made an explicit allusion to torres rodríguez’ theory when he stated that it was an exaggeration to characterize orosius's historical methodology as “patriotic”.[ ] this was a rejection of nearly all of the statements made by torres rodríguez on this matter.[ ] garcía fernández used the idea of “localism”, which was a fashionable idea amongst historians at the beginning of the st century.[ ] this idea argues that beyond "hispanism” orosius shows a “benevolent attitude” to hispania.[ ] optimism and pessimism[edit] another interesting point is the pessimism with which orosius deals with certain themes and the exaggerated optimism with which he refers to others. in general he is pessimistic about anything to do with paganism or the past and optimistic regarding christianity and his present, which is remarkable given the difficult times that he was living in.[ ] these characteristics infuse all the others, it is particularly noticeable in his narration when he places a special emphasis on the suffering of the defeated,[ ] and the terrors of war.[ ] this characteristic can clearly be attributed to the influence of saint augustine, as orosius is showing us the two sides of a coin in the purest style of augustinian dualism.[ ] orosius is thereby able to present the past as a series of adversities with concrete examples, from noah's flood to the shipwrecking of ships in the mediterranean sea, and the future as something positive despite the reality of the times in which he lived.[ ] in order to follow a narrative of suffering and tragedy he often concentrated on defeats, which was different from the usual roman historiography which normally gave pre-eminence to victories.[ ] however, from a historiographical point of view this approach led to some inconsistencies, as, in order to bring the reader round to his point of view, orosius sometimes described myths and legends as if they were historic fact.[ ] another traditional criticism of orosius's work relates to this dichotomy of pessimism/optimism, which often causes him to offer a narrative that in many ways lacks an objective viewpoint.[ ] this divides historians into those that view him as biased and others that reject this criticism and justify his approach by saying that orosius viewed history in the same way as christians view life.[ ] put another way, his approach is justified as being founded in the author's providentialist character.[ ] narrative[edit] the narrative ability of orosius should also not be overlooked. the author had a clear objective: that the christians be defended from the non-christian roman's accusations that the sacking of rome in was a reprimand because the christians had forsaken the city's traditional pantheon of gods.[ ] orosius's narrative abilities in forwarding this argument therefore went beyond the pessimism/optimism duality that was discussed in the previous section. his basic idea is that the past is always worse than the present, because it is always further from the true religion.[ ] the fact that he had clear objectives ensured that he wrote his stories with a definite end in mind. therefore, there are events that he narrated with little detail and others that he presents in full detail. orosius never seems lacking in sources of information, he even affirms that an historian should be selective with those he has, it rather seems that this difference in level of detail reflects the emphasis that he wants to place on reinforcing his ideas.[ ] the fact that his writing has a moral objective and apologist agenda means that he focuses on unusual events, such as the suffering of the general population during wartime.[ ] this selection of facts, in large part, enables him to write about patriotism, for example, as he always pays a lot of attention to events in hispania. the importance of geography[edit] another important aspect of orosius's work is the importance he placed on geography in his work as a historian.[ ] this is shown in his geographic description of the world in the second chapter of the first of the seven books that comprise the histories.[ ] one failing of his geographical descriptions is his imprecision, such as, for instance, when he overuses the noun "caucasus" to refer to other nearby ranges.[ ] despite this vagueness it is notable that the histories include a chapter on geography. this has lent an increased value to his work in modern historiography, mainly thanks to authors such as lucien febvre and fernand braudel. sources used by orosius[edit] the sources orosius used have been investigated by teodoro de mörner;[citation needed] besides the old and new testaments, he appears to have consulted caesar, livy, justin, tacitus, suetonius, florus and a cosmography, attaching also great value to jerome's translation of the chronicles of eusebius. impact of orosius’s work[edit] colophon from an incunabulum of the historiae adversus paganos by paulus orosius, one of the most copied books from the medieval period.[ ] the assumed falling out of paulus orosius and saint augustine at the end of the former's life does not seem to have had a negative effect on the distribution and impact of his histories.[ ] despite the previously highlighted criticisms of his work, orosius's books were considered to be successes from virtually the day of their publication. his histories was considered to be one of the main works of spanish historiography right up until the time of the reformation.[ ] this success has, to a large extent, meant that his other works have also been conserved. historiae adversus paganos has been quoted by all types of author from saint braulio of zaragoza to dante alighieri. even lope de vega made orosius a central character in his play the cardinal of bethlehem, which shows how long-lived his fame was.[ ] in fact, the book was not just widely quoted, it was one of the main scholastic books used by students of ancient history throughout the middle ages.[ ] nearly two hundred manuscripts of the “histories” have survived. an abridged, free translation into old english, known as the old english orosius, once wrongly attributed to king alfred, is still extant.[ ] the florentine judge bono giamboni translated it into the italian.[ ] a still unpublished th century aragonese translation, made by domingo de garcía martín at the request of juan fernández de heredia, comes from bono giamboni's italian translation. the “histories” was also translated into arabic as kitāb hurūshiyūsh, reputedly during the reign of al-hakam ii of córdoba. it later became one of the sources of ibn khaldun in his history.[ ]: – the printed book has been widely copied and there are at least surviving copies and incunables from the first printed editions.[ ] there are even copies still existing of editions in italian and german from the th century.[ ] there are many th century versions of the book still in existence. in fact, a version of the book edited by torres rodríguez was used in compiling this article, although there are many equally valid versions in existence, both in castilian spanish and in other languages. see also[edit] 	bobbio orosius notes[edit] 	^ david rohrbacher, "orosius," in the historians of late antiquity (routledge, ), pp. – . rohrbacher bases the date of birth on augustine's description of orosius as a "young priest" and a "son by age" in the period – , which would place his age at or younger. rohrbacher further speculates (p. ) that orosius may have died in a shipwreck while attempting to return to hispania after visiting palestine and africa since nothing is heard of him after , which is also the likely date of completion of his last book. 	^ a b c d martínez cavero, pedro, “el pensamiento…”, p. . 	^ a b martínez cavero, pedro, “el pensamiento…”, p. . 	^ a b c martínez cavero, pedro, “el pensamiento…”, p. . 	^ a b c d rábade navarro, miguel Ángel, “una interpretación...”, pp. . 	^ a b torres rodríguez, casimiro, “paulo orosio…”, p. . 	^ a b c d e f torres rodríguez, casimiro, “paulo orosio…”, p. . 	^ a b torres rodríguez, casimiro, “paulo orosio…”, p. . 	^ a b torres rodríguez, casimiro, “paulo orosio…”, p. . 	^ a b martínez cavero, pedro, “el pensamiento…”, p. . in this section he refers to the author m. p. annaud-lindet. 	^ theodor von mörner was a th-century historian who wrote de orosii vita eiusque historiarum libris septem adversus paganos. [ ] 	^ martínez cavero, pedro, “el pensamiento…”, p. . 	^ martínez cavero, pedro, “el pensamiento…”, p. . 	^ torres rodríguez, casimiro, “paulo orosio…”, p. . 	^ pedro martínez cavero refers to a discussion of this theme by j. e. lópez pereira in his “cultura y literatura latinas en el no peninsular en la latinidad tardía”. 	^ rotelle, john e. ( ). the works of saint augustine: a translation for the st century. new city press. isbn  . 	^ pedro martínez cavero this time refers to author g. fainck. 	^ both martínez cavero and torres rodríguez maintain this in books mentioned in the bibliography. 	^ drawn by the author from information contained in martínez cavero, pedro, “el pensamiento…”, torres rodríguez, casimiro, “paulo orosio…” and others. 	^ martínez cavero, pedro, “el pensamiento…”, p. . 	^ paulo orosio, “historias…”, iii , - , cited in turn by martínez cavero, pedro, “el pensamiento…”, p. . 	^ martínez cavero, pedro, “el pensamiento…”, p. . 	^ merrills, a. h., history and geography in late antiquity, cambridge studies in medieval life and thought fourth series, cambridge university press, melbourne, , p. 	^ martínez cavero, pedro, “el pensamiento…”, p. . 	^ martínez cavero, pedro, “el pensamiento…”, p. . 	^ martínez cavero, pedro, “el pensamiento…”, p. . 	^ martínez cavero, pedro, “el pensamiento…”, p. . 	^ a b martínez cavero, pedro, “el pensamiento…”, p. - . 	^ a b beltrán corbalán, domingo and others, “el commonitorium...”, p. . 	^ torres rodríguez, casimiro, “paulo orosio...”, p. . 	^ beltrán corbalán, domingo and others, “el commonitorium...”, p. . 	^ beltrán corbalán, domingo and others, “el commonitorium...”, p. . 	^ beltrán corbalán, domingo and others, “el commonitorium...”, p. . 	^ beltrán corbalán, domingo and others, “el commonitorium...”, p. . 	^ a b torres rodríguez, casimiro, “paulo orosio...”, p. . 	^ a b torres rodríguez, casimiro, “paulo orosio...”, p. . 	^ more detailed information regarding the various theories regarding the date of writing can be found in the sections “final years” and “disappearance” of this article. 	^ alonso Ñúñez, josé miguel, “la metodología...”, p. . 	^ a b garcía fernández, francisco josé, “la imagen de hispania...”, p. . 	^ a b garcía fernández, francisco josé, “la imagen de hispania...”, p. . 	^ torres rodríguez, casimiro, “paulo orosio…”, p. . 	^ alonso Ñúñez, josé miguel, “la metodología…”, p. . 	^ a b alonso Ñúñez, josé miguel, “la metodología…”, p. . 	^ rábade navarro, miguel Ángel, “una interpretación…”, pp. . 	^ rábade navarro, miguel Ángel, “una interpretación…”, pp. . 	^ a b torres rodríguez, casimiro, “paulo orosio…”, p. . 	^ a b torres rodríguez, casimiro, “paulo orosius…”, p. . 	^ garcía fernández, francisco josé, “la imagen de hispania…”, p. . 	^ garcía fernández, francisco josé, “la imagen de hispania…”, p. . 	^ a b garcía fernández, francisco josé, “la imagen de hispania…”, p. . 	^ torres rodríguez, casimiro, “paulo orosio…”, p. . 	^ a b torres rodríguez, casimiro, “paulo orosio…”, p. . 	^ a b alonso Ñúñez, josé miguel, “la metodología…”, p. . 	^ a b torres rodríguez, casimiro, “paulo orosio…”, p. . 	^ torres rodríguez, casimiro, “paulo orosio…”, p. . 	^ a b torres rodríguez, casimiro, “paulo orosio…”, p. . 	^ a b alonso Ñúñez, josé miguel, “la metodología…”, p. . 	^ a b torres rodríguez, casimiro, “paulo orosio…”, p. . 	^ torres rodríguez, casimiro, “paulo orosio…”, p. . 	^ torres rodríguez, casimiro, “paulo orosio…”, p. . 	^ old english text, with original in latin, edited by h. sweet, . 	^ ed. tassi, firenze ; partial editions are available in cesare segre’s, volgarizzamenti del due e del trecento, torino and in cesare segre’s, la prosa del duecento, milano-napoli ) 	^ ann christys, christians in al-andalus ( - ) (abingdon: routledge, ), isbn  . 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "orosius, paulus". encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. p.  . references[edit] 	spanish wikipedia has a bibliographic annex at: anexo:bibliografía sobre paulo orosio. 	books by paulus orosius 	orose: histoires contre les païens, ed. marie-pierre arnaud-lindet, vols. collection des universités de france, paris: les belles lettres, – . 	pauli orosii historiarum adversum paganos libri vii; accedit eiusdem, liber apologeticus, ed. k. zangemeister. corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum latinorum , vienna, . 	historiarum adversum paganos libri vii, ed. k. zangemeister. leipzig: teubner, . 	pacian of barcelona, orosius of braga, in iberian fathers: v. , the catholic university of america press, ; isbn  - 	orosius ( ). the seven books of history against the pagans. translated by roy j. deferrari. washington dc: catholic university of america press. oclc  . 	orosius, seven books of history against the pagans, trans. by a. t. fear. liverpool university press, isbn  - 	orosius, seven books of history against the pagans, trans. irving w. raymond. new york: columbia university press, . 	publications on orosius in english 	linstädter, marc-antoine, paulus orosius - a christian propagandist?, grin verlag, ; isbn  - 	van nuffelen, p., orosius and the rhetoric of history (oxford early christian studies), oup oxford ; isbn  - 	Ó corráin, donnchadh, "orosius, ireland, and christianity", peritia , https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/pdf/ . /j.perit. . ?download=true 	publications on orosius in spanish 	alonso nuñez, josé miguel, “la metodología histórica de paulo orosio”, en helmántica nº – , , pp.  – . 	beltrán corbalán, domingo, gonzález fernández, rafael y martínez cavero, pedro, “el commonitorium de orosio: traducción y comentario”, en faventia: revista de filología clàssica nº , , pp.  . . the complete text (in spanish) from the article can be found on https://ddd.uab.cat/record/ . consulted in october . 	fuentes de la rosa, maría luisa, orosio y su tiempo, st edition, madrid: editorial de la universidad complutense de madrid, . 	garcía fernández, francisco josé, “la imagen de hispania y los hispanos a finales de la antigüedad. las historiae adversum paganos de paulo orosio”, en conimbriga nº , , pp.  – . 	mertínez cavero, pedro, el pensamiento histórico y antropológico de orosio, st edition, murcia: universidad. Área de historia antigua, . 	rábe navarro miguel Ángel, “una interpretación de fuentes y métodos en la historia de paulo orosio”, en tabona. revista de prehistoria, arqueología y filología clásicas nº , – , pp.  – . 	torres rodríguez, casimiro, paulo orosio. su vida y sus obras, st edition, la coruña: fundación pedro barrie de la maza conde de fenosa, . external links[edit] 	orosius's historiarum adversum paganos libri vii at thelatinlibrary.com (in latin) 	orosius's historiae adversum paganos at attalus (latin text and english translation) 	orosius's history against the pagans (in english) 	orosius as a source for ibn khaldun 	a collection of links on orosius 	opera omnia by migne patrologia latina with analytical indexes 	[ ] 		v 	t 	e history of catholic theology 	key figures 	general	 	history of the catholic church 	timeline 	history of the papacy 	papal primacy 	ecumenical councils 	catholic bible 	vulgate 	biblical canon 	history of christian theology 	early church	 	paul 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	occupation	writer; playwright; poet 	language	latin 	notable works	odyssey ancient theater at syracuse, sicily, originally greek lucius livius andronicus (/ˈlɪviəs/; c. – c. bc)[ ] was a greco-roman dramatist and epic poet of the old latin period. he began as an educator in the service of a noble family at rome by translating greek works into latin, including homer's odyssey.[ ] they were meant at first as educational devices in the school he founded. he wrote works for the stage—both tragedies and comedies—which are regarded as the first dramatic works written in the latin language of ancient rome. his comedies were based on greek new comedy and featured characters in greek costume. thus, the romans referred to this new genre by the term comoedia palliata (fabula palliata). the roman biographer suetonius later coined the term "half-greek" of livius and ennius (referring to their genre, not their ethnic backgrounds).[ ] the genre was imitated by the next dramatists to follow in andronicus' footsteps and on that account he is regarded as the father of roman drama and of latin literature in general; that is, he was the first man of letters to write in latin.[ ] varro, cicero, and horace, all men of letters during the subsequent classical latin period, considered livius andronicus to have been the originator of latin literature. he is the earliest roman poet whose name is known.[ ] contents 	 biography 	 . name 	 . dates 	 . events 	 works 	 . odusia 	 . plays 	 . the hymn 	 notes 	 further reading 	 external links biography[edit] name[edit] in ancient sources, livius andronicus is either given that name or is simply called livius. andronicus is the latinization of a greek name, which was held by a number of greek historical figures of the period. it is generally considered that andronicus came from his greek name and that livius, a name originally local to latium, was the gentilicium, the family name, of his patron (patronus). his career at rome was launched from servitude and he became a freedman (libertus) by the grace of his enslaver, one of the livia gens. the praenomen lucius is given by aulus gellius[ ] and cassiodorus.[ ] dates[edit] livius' dates are based mainly on cicero[ ][ ] and livy.[ ] cicero says, "this livius exhibited his first performance at rome in the consulship of m. tuditanus, and c. clodius the son of caecus, the year before ennius was born," that is, in bc. cicero goes on to relate the point of view of accius, that livius was captured from tarentum in , and produced a play in . cicero disagrees with this view on the grounds that it would make livius younger than plautus and naevius, though he was supposed to have been the first to produce a play. livy says, "the pontiffs also decreed that three bands of maidens, each consisting of nine, should go through the city singing a hymn. this hymn [the parthenion) was composed by the poet, livius." this action was taken to expiate the gods after a series of evil portents in the consulship of "c. claudius nero for the first time, m. livius for the second;" that is, in . only the dates of and seem exempt from controversy.[ ] events[edit] jerome has some additional detail that tends to support the capture at tarentum and enslavement. his entry for the year of abraham , the second year of the th olympiad ( / bc), of his chronicon, reads titus livius tragoediarum scriptor clarus habetur, qui ob ingenii meritum a livio salinatore, cuius liberos erudiebat, libertate donatus est. titus livius, author of tragedies, is held to be outstanding. he was given liberty by livius salinator, whose children he was educating, by merit of his intelligence. jerome is the only author to name him titus. the passage is ambiguous concerning the events actually happening in olympiad ; andronicus could have been being given liberty or simply have been being honoured, having been liberated long ago. livius salinator might be gaius livius salinator, his father marcus livius salinator, or his grandfather marcus. if jerome means that the liberation took place in , then he seems to be following accius' view, which might have been presented in the missing portions of suetonius' de poetis and read by jerome.[ ] the passage is not conclusive about anything. however, the mixed name of livius and his being associated with salinator suggests that he was captured at the first fall of tarentum in , sold to the first marcus livius salinator, tutored the second and was set free to have an independent career when the task was complete. works[edit] odusia[edit] livius made a translation of the odyssey, entitled the odusia in latin, for his classes in saturnian verse. all that survives is parts of scattered lines from books of the greek -book epic. in some lines, he translates literally, though in others more freely.[ ] his translation of the odyssey had a great historical importance. livius' translation made this fundamental greek text accessible to romans, and advanced literary culture in latin. this project was one of the first examples of translation as an artistic process; the work was to be enjoyed on its own, and livius strove to preserve the artistic quality of the original. since there was no tradition of epic in italy before him[dubious – discuss], livius must have faced enormous problems. for example, he used archaising forms to make his language more solemn and intense. his innovations would be important in the history of latin poetry.[ ] in the fragments we have, it is clear that livius had a desire to remain faithful to the original and to be clear, while having to alter untranslatable phrases and ideas. for example, the phrase "equal to the gods", which would have been unacceptable to romans, was changed to "summus adprimus", "greatest and of first rank".[citation needed] also, early roman poetry made use of pathos, expressive force, and dramatic tension, so livius interprets homer with a mind to these ideas as well.[ ] in general, livius did not make arbitrary changes to the text; rather, he attempted to remain faithful to homer and to the latin language.[ ] plays[edit] roman fresco of a theatre scene livius' first play, according to cicero, was staged in . livy tells us that livius was the first to create a play with a plot. one story says that after straining his voice, livius, who was also an actor, was the first to leave the singing to singers and limited the actors to dialogue. his dramatic works were written in the iambic senarius and trochaic septenarius. they included both lyric passages (cantica) and dialogue (diverbia). his dramatic works had large element of solos for chief actor, often himself. it is not known whether he had a chorus. these dramatic works of livius andronicus were consistent with greek requirements of drama and probably had greek models, and we have no more than fragments, as quoted in other authors. the titles of his known tragedies are achilles, aegisthus, aiax mastigophorus (ajax with the whip), andromeda, antiopa, danae, equus troianus, hermiona, and tereus. two titles of his comedies are certain, gladiolus and ludius, though the third, virgo, is probably corrupt. they were all composed on the model of greek new comedy, adapting stories from the greek. the romans called this sort of adaptation of comedy by livius and his immediate successors fabulae palliatae, or comoedia palliata, named from the pallium, or short cloak, worn by the actors.[ ] of andronicus' palliata we have fragments of verse each and title, gladiolus, (little saber). the hymn[edit] according to livy,[ ] livius also composed a hymn for a chorus of girls in honour of juno to be performed in public as part of religious ceremonies in . because of the success of this hymn, livius received public honours when his professional organization, the collegium scribarum histrionumque was installed in the temple of minerva on the aventine. actors and writers would gather here and offer gifts. notes[edit] 	^ "lucius livius andronicus". encyclopædia britannica. 	^ brockett and hildy ( , ). 	^ monroe, paul ( ). "selections from the lives of eminent grammarians, by suetonius". source book of the history of education for the greek and roman period. new york, london: macmillan co. pp.  – . ...for the earliest men of learning, who were both poets and orators, may be considered as half-greek: i speak of livius and ennius, who are acknowledged to have taught both languages as well at rome as in foreign parts. 	^ livingston ( , xi). 	^ a b rose ( , ). 	^ aulus gellius. "book , chapter ". attic nights. for in the library at patrae i found a manuscript of livius andronicus .... 	^ livingston ( , xii). 	^ brutus . – . 	^ cicero, marcus tullius. "section ". de senectute. i myself [ cato the elder ] saw livius andronicus when he was an old man, who, though he brought out a play in the consulship of cento and tuditanus [ bc], six years before i was born, yet continued to live until i was a young man. 	^ a b . . 	^ a b conte ( , ). 	^ livingston, ivy j. ( ). a linguistic commentary on livius andronicus. new york: routledge taylor & francos group. p. xii. 	^ conte ( , ). 	^ von albrecht ( , ) 	^ ashmore ( , ) further reading[edit] 	albrecht, michael von. ( ). a history of roman literature: from livius andronicus to boethius. with special regard to its influence on world literature. vols. revised by gareth l. schmeling and michael von albrecht. mnemosyne supplement . leiden: brill. 	boyle, a. j., ed. ( ). roman epic. london and new york: routledge. 	brockett, oscar g.; hildy, franklin j. ( ). history of the theatre (ninth international ed.). boston: allyn and bacon. isbn  - . 	büchner, karl. ( ). "livius andronicus und die erste künstlerische Übersetzung der europäischen kultur." symbolae osloenses : – . 	conte, gian biagio; solodow, joseph b. (translator) ( ). latin literature: a history. baltimore: johns hopkins university press. 	erasmi, g. ( ). "the saturnian and livius andronicus." glotta, ( / ), – . 	farrell, joseph. ( ). "the origins and essence of roman epic." in a companion to ancient epic. edited by john miles foley, – . blackwell companions to the ancient world, literature and culture. malden: blackwell. 	fantham, elaine. ( ). "the growth of literature and criticism at rome." in the cambridge history of literary criticism. vol. , classical ccriticism. edited by george a. kennedy, – . cambridge: cambridge university press. 	horsfall, n. ( ). "the collegium poetarum." bulletin of the institute of classical studies, ( ), – . 	kearns, j. ( ). "semnoths and dialect gloss in the odussia of livius andronicus." the american journal of philology, ( ), – . 	rose, h. j. ( ). a handbook of latin literature from the earliest times to the death of st. augustine. london: methuen. 	sciarrino, e. ( ). "the introduction of epic in rome: cultural thefts and social contests." arethusa ( ), – . the johns hopkins university press. 	sheets, g. a. ( ). "the dialect gloss, hellenistic poetics and livius andronicus." the american journal of philology, ( ), – . 	waszink, j. ( ). "tradition and personal achievement in early latin literature." mnemosyne, ( ), fourth series, – . 	wright, john. 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lutetia	maps of paris (paris sous les romains) from histoire et geographie: atlas general by paul vidal de la blache 	 location within france 	location	paris, france 	coordinates	 ° ′n ° ′e /  . °n . °e / . ; . coordinates: ° ′n ° ′e /  . °n . °e / . ; . 	type	roman city 	history 	periods	roman republic to roman empire a map of gaul in the st century bc, showing the location of lutetia and relative positions of the celtic tribes. the roman city of lutetia (also lutetia parisiorum in latin, in french lutèce) was the predecessor of present-day paris. impressive monumental remains of the ancient city are visible in situ. contents 	 etymology 	 gallic origins 	 roman lutetia 	 remains 	 may findings 	 legacy 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links etymology[edit] the term lutetia [l̪ˠʊˈt̪ɛ.t̪i.a] derives from latin meaning, "place near a swamp". the name may contain the celtic root *luco-t-, which means "mouse" and -ek(t)ia, meaning "the mice" and which is contained in the breton word logod, the welsh llygod, and the irish luch.[ ] alternatively, it may derive from another celtic root, *luto- or *luteuo-, which means "marsh" or "swamp" and which survives today in the scottish gaelic lòn ("pool, meadow") and the breton loudour ("dirty").[ ] gallic origins[edit] roman city wall of paris, th century archaeological excavations between and show that the location of gallic lutetia lay in nanterre, a large area of proto-urbanisation of several main streets and hundreds of houses over hectares in the suburbs of paris, not far from the future location of lutetia.[ ] in bc, a year or so before the end of julius caesar's gallic wars, the battle of lutetia was fought with the local parisii tribe.[ ] however the garrison led by vercingetorix's lieutenant camulogenus, whose army camped on mons lutetius, fell to the roman military forces led by titus labienus, one of caesar's generals who captured and burned the stronghold. the romans also crushed the gauls at nearby melun and took control of lutetia. roman lutetia[edit] model of the "pilier des nautes" st century ad, musee cluny the roman city[ ] was centred on the hill on the south bank of the river (the montagne sainte-geneviève), as the low-lying plain near the river was easily flooded[ ] though still initially suitable for farming.[ ] the regular roman street plan of lutetia was established with the north–south axis, possibly dictated by the need to cross the marshy riverbanks in the shortest possible distance, but also aligning with the standard roman orientation for a cardo maximus. two main routes converged at the bridgehead over the seine: one road coming from spain (today's rue saint-jacques) via orléans was used as the main axis (cardo maximus), and the other road from rome (today's rue galande and further on rue mouffetard) via lyon. dendrochronological study of wooden pilings beneath the lowest stratum of the roman north–south axis date the road's construction after ad, more than fifty years after the roman pacification of the region. on the north bank the rue st-martin continues the roman main axis (cardo maximus). the street plan and the boundaries of the main monuments—the forum at the top of the hill, theatre, baths—show that the roman city was laid out with blocks or insulae of roman feet. the development of the city began under augustus and was well advanced in the early st century ad when the elaborate pilier des nautes (pillar of the boatmen) was erected by a corporation of local river merchants and sailors (nautes) and dedicated to tiberius and to several gods, showing that there was an important port on the river. major public works and monuments were constructed in the nd century ad.[ ] lutetia expanded with a population estimated at around , but did not have a great deal of political importance—the capital of its province, lugdunensis senona, was agedincum (modern sens, yonne). an aqueduct  km in length, with a flow rate estimated at , cubic metres a day, provided the city with spring water collected from several points. to bridge the bièvre valley at arcueil-cachan, a bridge was required, whose piers and ruined arches, still discernible, gave rise to the toponym arcueil. in the rd century st denis became the city's first bishop and in about ad he and two companions were arrested and decapitated on the hill of mons mercurius thereafter known as mons martyrum (martyrs' hill, or montmartre) where roman foundations have been found. after a barbarian attack in by the franks and alemanni that destroyed much of the south bank portions of the city, the population moved to the island and a surrounding wall was built on the Île de la cité from large stones taken from damaged structures.[ ] the city on the south bank along with the main public buildings including baths, the theatres and the amphitheatre were gradually abandoned. in – julian ii, as caesar of the western empire and general of the gallic legions, moved the roman capital of gaul from trier to paris which, after defeating the franks in a major battle at strasbourg in , he defended against germanic invaders coming from the north. he was proclaimed emperor by his troops in in lutetia. later valentinian i resided in lutetia for a brief period ( – ).[ ] lutetia was gradually renamed paris,[ ] taking its name from the parisii. the name had already been used for centuries as an adjective ("parisiacus"). the legend of the breton city of ys suggests a different, if less likely, origin. 	 			 			 model of forum of lutetia, musée carnavalet 			 		 	 			 			 aqueduct in paris e, rue de l'empereur-valentinien 			 		 remains[edit] remains of the ancient city are mainly buried below ground although many of these are gradually being discovered. those visible include: 	the theatre, arènes de lutèce in a small park on high ground in the latin quarter of the left bank, tucked behind apartment blocks. in the st century ad, built into the slope of the hillside outside the roman city, it was one of the largest such structures in gaul. it could once seat , people and was used also as an amphitheatre to show gladiatorial combats. 	public thermal baths, thermes de cluny. now the musée de cluny, the existing building is only a part of the original covering several hectares that stretched from boulevard saint-germain to rue des ecoles and boulevard saint-michel. built at the end of the st/beginning of the nd century ad at the corner of the cardo and decumanus. first probable destruction during the invasion by the franks and alamans in . the frigidarium, with intact vault, and the caldarium are the main remaining rooms which were originally clad internally with mosaics, marble or paintings. the northern side was occupied by two gymnasia and the centre of the facade on this side was occupied by a monumental fountain. underground is a set of cellars and vaulted galleries where the drain for emptying the frigidarium pool is visible.[ ] water flowed out through a drain that encircled the baths and ran into a main drain located under boulevard saint-michel. 	the archaeological crypt under the notre-dame forecourt including a section of the quay wall of the ancient port, a public bath with hypocaust heating, part of the city wall from the beginning of the th century. 	the aqueduct[ ] 	wall of the forum many artifacts from lutetia have been recovered and are on display at the musée carnavalet. 	 			 			 the arènes de lutèce in the th arrondissement of paris 			 		 	 			 			 model of the arènes de lutèce 			 		 	 			 			 thermes de cluny – caldarium 			 		 may findings[edit] in may , a roman road was found during expansion of the university of pierre and marie curie campus. remains of private houses dating from the reign of augustus ( bc – ad) and containing heated floors were found. everyday items like flowerpots, bronze chains, ceramics, and drawer handles were found. the owners were wealthy enough to own baths found in one of the homes, a status symbol among roman citizens. legacy[edit] several scientific discoveries have been named after lutetia. the element lutetium was named in honor of its discovery in a paris laboratory, and the characteristic building material of the city of paris—lutetian limestone—derives from the ancient name. the "lutetian" is, in the geologic timescale, a stage or age in the eocene epoch. the asteroid lutetia, discovered in by hermann goldschmidt, is named after the city. lutetia is featured in the french comic series the adventures of asterix, most notably in asterix and the golden sickle, asterix and the banquet and asterix and the laurel wreath. references[edit] 	^ la langue gauloise, pierre-yves lambert, éditions errance . 	^ dictionnaire de la langue gauloise, xavier delamarre, éditions errance . 	^ nanterre et les parisii : une capitale au temps des gaulois ?, antide viand, isbn  - 	^ julius caesar: de bello gallico, vii 	^ a b "paris, a roman city". www.paris.culture.fr. 	^ a b fleury, m., "lutetia parisiorum", the princeton encyclopedia of classical sites, (richard stillwell, william l.macdonald, and marian holland mcalister,eds.) princeton, n.j. princeton university press. 	^ roman and medieval paris, clifton ellis, phd architectural history, texas tech college of architecture - ttu college of architecture 	^ goudineau, christian, "lutetia" in dictionary of antiquity under the direction of jean leclant. puf. 	^ the city of antiquity archived - - at the wayback machine, official history of paris by the paris convention and visitors bureau 	^ alain bouet and florence saragoza, "les thermes de cluny", the archeologia files, no. , p. 	^ "roman aqueducts: paris (country)". www.romanaqueducts.info. further reading[edit] 	philippe de carbonnières, lutèce: paris ville romaine, collection découvertes gallimard (no. ), série archéologie. 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pedanius dioscorides (greek: Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης, pedánios dioskourídēs; c. – ad) was a greek physician, pharmacologist, botanist, and author of de materia medica (Περὶ ὕλης ἰατρικῆς, on medical material) —a -volume greek encyclopedia about herbal medicine and related medicinal substances (a pharmacopeia), that was widely read for more than , years. he was employed as a physician in the roman army. contents 	 life 	 de materia medica 	 images 	 translations 	 in literature 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 sources 	 external links life[edit] a native of anazarbus, cilicia, asia minor, dioscorides likely studied medicine nearby at the school in tarsus, which had a pharmacological emphasis, and he dedicated his medical books to laecanius arius, a medical practitioner there.[a][ ][ ] though he says he served in the roman army, his pharmacopeia refers almost solely to plants found in the greek-speaking eastern mediterranean, making it unlikely that he served in campaigns (or traveled) outside that region.[ ] the name pedanius is roman, suggesting that an aristocrat of that name sponsored him to become a roman citizen.[ ] de materia medica[edit] blackberry from the th-century vienna dioscurides manuscript main article: de materia medica between ad and [ ] dioscorides wrote a five-volume book in his native greek, Περὶ ὕλης ἰατρικῆς (perì hylēs íatrikēs), known in western europe more often by its latin title de materia medica ("on medical material"), which became the precursor to all modern pharmacopeias.[ ] cover of an early printed version of de materia medica, lyon, in contrast to many classical authors, dioscorides' works were not "rediscovered" in the renaissance, because his book had never left circulation; indeed, with regard to western materia medica through the early modern period, dioscorides' text eclipsed the hippocratic corpus.[ ] in the medieval period, de materia medica was circulated in greek, as well as latin and arabic translation.[ ] while being reproduced in manuscript form through the centuries, it was often supplemented with commentary and minor additions from arabic and indian sources. ibn al-baitar's commentary on dioscorides' materia medica, entitled tafsīr kitāb diāsqūrīdūs : تفسير كتاب دياسقوريدوس, has been used by scholars to identify many of the flora mentioned by dioscorides.[ ] a number of illustrated manuscripts of de materia medica survive. the most famous of these is the lavishly illustrated vienna dioscurides, produced in constantinople in / ad. densely illustrated arabic copies survive from the th and th centuries, while greek manuscripts survive today in the monasteries of mount athos.[ ] de materia medica is the prime historical source of information about the medicines used by the greeks, romans, and other cultures of antiquity. the work also records the dacian,[ ] thracian,[ ] roman, ancient egyptian and north african (carthaginian) names for some plants, which otherwise would have been lost. the work presents about plants in all,[ ] although the descriptions are sometimes obscurely phrased, leading to comments such as: "numerous individuals from the middle ages on have struggled with the identity of the recondite kinds",[ ] while some of the botanical identifications of dioscorides' plants remain merely guesses. de materia medica formed the core of the european pharmacopeia through the th century, suggesting that "the timelessness of dioscorides' work resulted from an empirical tradition based on trial and error; that it worked for generation after generation despite social and cultural changes and changes in medical theory".[ ] the plant genus dioscorea, which includes the yam, was named after him by linnaeus.[ ] images[edit] 	 			 			 dioscorides as depicted in a arabic edition of de materia medica 			 		 	 			 			 de materia medica in arabic, spain, th- th century 			 		 	 			 			 cumin and dill from an arabic book of simples (ca. ) after dioscorides (british museum) 			 		 	 			 			 byzantine de materia medica, th century 			 		 	 			 			 later representation of dioscorides 			 		 translations[edit] 	de materia medica: being an herbal with many other medicinal materials, englished by tess anne osbaldeston, year , based on the translation of john goodyer of year (see below). (publisher ibidis press: johannesburg). 	de materia medica, translated by lily y. beck ( ). (publisher hildesheim: olms-weidmann). 	the greek herbal of dioscorides... englished by john goodyer a. d. , edited by r.t. gunter ( ). 	de materia medica : libri v eiusdem de venenis libri duo. interprete iano antonio saraceno lugdunaeo, medico, translated by janus antonius saracenus ( ). in literature[edit] in voltaire's candide, the title character's injuries received at the hands of the bulgarian army, into which he had been conscripted, are healed using "emollients taught by dioscorides." see also[edit] 	materia medica notes[edit] 	^ the dedication, translated by scarborough and nutton,[ ] began "at your insistence i have assembled my material into five books, and i dedicate my compendium to you in fulfilment of a debt of gratitude for your sentiments towards me".[ ] references[edit] 	^ the editors of encyclopaedia britannica. 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"the art, the science, and the seduction of toxicology: an evolutionary development". in hayes, andrew wallace (ed.). principles and methods of toxicology ( th ed.). taylor & francis. p.  . 	^ nutton, vivian. ancient medicine. routledge, . p. 	^ tobyn, graeme; denham, alison; whitelegg, midge ( ). the western herbal tradition: years of medicinal plant knowledge (illustrated ed.). singing dragon. p.  . isbn  . 	^ "greek medicine". national institutes of health, usa. september . retrieved july . 	^ rooney, anne ( ). the history of medicine. the rosen publishing group. p.  . isbn  . 	^ a b de vos ( ) "european materia medica in historical texts: longevity of a tradition and implications for future use", journal of ethnopharmacology ( ): – 	^ some detail about medieval manuscripts of de materia medica at pages xxix–xxxi in introduction to dioscorides materia medica by ta osbaldeston, year . 	^ zohar amar, agricultural produce in the land of israel in the middle ages (hebrew title: גידולי ארץ-ישראל בימי הביניים), ben-zvi institute: jerusalem , p. isbn  - - - (hebrew); tafsīr kitāb diāsqūrīdūs - commentaire de la “materia medica” de dioscoride de abū muḥammad ʻabdallāh ibn aḥmad ibn muḥammad ibn al-bayṭār de malaga (ed. ibrahim ben mrad), beirut (arabic title: تفسير كتاب دياسقوريدوس) 	^ selin, helaine ( ). encyclopaedia of the history of science, technology, and medicine in non-western cultures. springer. p.  . isbn  . 	^ nutton, vivian ( ). ancient medicine. routledge. . page . 	^ murray, j. ( ). the academy. alexander and shephrard. . page . 	^ krebs, robert e.; krebs, carolyn a. ( ). groundbreaking scientific experiments, inventions, and discoveries of the ancient world. greenwood publishing group. . pages – . 	^ isely, duane ( ). one hundred and one botanists. iowa state university press. 	^ austin, daniel f. ( ). florida ethnobotany (illustrated ed.). crc press. p.  . isbn  . sources[edit] 	allbutt, t. clifford ( ). greek medicine in rome. london: macmillan. isbn  - - - . 	bruins: codex constantinopolitanus: palatii veteris no. [ volume set] part : reproduction of the manuscript; part : greek text; part : translation and commentary bruins, e. m. (ed.) 	forbes, andrew; henley, daniel; henley, david ( ). 'pedanius dioscorides' in: health and well being: a medieval guide. chiang mai: cognoscenti books. 	hamilton, j. s. ( ). "scribonius largus on the medical profession". bulletin of the history of medicine. ( ): – . pmid  . 	lazris, j.; stavros, v. ( ). 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outline of roman london in late antiquity, with the modern banks of the thames.[ ] discovered roads drawn as double lines; conjectural roads, single lines. londinium, also known as roman london, was the capital of roman britain during most of the period of roman rule. it was originally a settlement established on the current site of the city of london around ad  – .[ ][ ] it sat at a key crossing point over the river thames which turned the city into a road nexus and major port, serving as a major commercial centre in roman britain until its abandonment during the th century. following the foundation of the town in the mid- st century, early londinium occupied the relatively small area of .  km ( .  sq mi), roughly equivalent to the size of present-day hyde park. in the year or , the rebellion of the iceni under boudica forced the roman authorities to abandon the settlement, which was then razed. following the defeat of boudica by the roman governor gaius suetonius paulinus a military installation was established[ ] and the city was rebuilt. it had probably largely recovered within about a decade. during the later decades of the st century, londinium expanded rapidly, becoming britannia's largest city, and it was provided with large public buildings such as a forum[ ] and amphitheatre.[ ] by the turn of the century, londinium had grown to perhaps , or , people, almost certainly replacing camulodunum (colchester) as the provincial capital and by the mid- nd century, londinium was at its height. its forum-basilica was one of the largest structures north of the alps when the emperor hadrian visited londinium in . excavations have discovered evidence of a major fire that destroyed much of the city shortly thereafter, but the city was again rebuilt. by the second half of the nd century, londinium appears to have shrunk in both size and population. although londinium remained important for the rest of the roman period, no further expansion resulted. londinium supported a smaller but stable settlement population as archaeologists have found that much of the city after this date was covered in dark earth—the by-product of urban household waste, manure, ceramic tile, and non-farm debris of settlement occupation, which accumulated relatively undisturbed for centuries. sometime between and , the romans built a defensive wall around the landward side of the city. along with hadrian's wall and the road network, this wall was one of the largest construction projects carried out in roman britain. the london wall survived for another , years and broadly defined the perimeter of the old city of london. 	part of a series on the 	history of london 	 	roman london 	anglo-saxon london 	norman and medieval london 	tudor london 	stuart london 	 th-century london 	 th-century london 	london – 	london in world war ii 	modern london (from ) 	london in the s 	 see also 	 	timeline 	  london portal 		v 	t 	e contents 	 name 	 location 	 status 	 history 	 . founding 	 . roads 	 . boudica 	 . st century 	 . port 	 . nd century 	 . london wall 	 . rd century 	 . carausian revolt 	 . th century 	 . th century 	 demographics 	 excavation 	 displays 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links name[edit] main article: etymology of london the etymology of the name londinium is unknown. following geoffrey of monmouth's pseudohistorical history of the kings of britain,[ ][ ] it was long published as derived from an eponymous founder named lud, son of heli. there is no evidence such a figure ever existed. instead, the latin name was probably based on a native brittonic placename reconstructed as *londinion.[ ] morphologically, this points to a structure of two suffixes: -in-jo-. however, the roman londinium was not the immediate source of english "london" (old english: lunden), as i-mutation would have caused the name to have been lyndon. this suggests an alternative brittonic form londonion;[ ] alternatively, the local pronunciation in british latin may have changed the pronunciation of londinium to lundeiniu or lundein, which would also have avoided i-mutation in old english.[ ] the list of the cities of britain included in the th-century history of the britons precisely notes london[ ] in old welsh as cair lundem[ ] or lundein.[ ][ ] location[edit] a map of roman britain[ ] the site guarded the romans' bridgehead on the north bank of the thames and a major road nexus shortly after the invasion. it was centred on cornhill and the river walbrook, but extended west to ludgate hill and east to tower hill. just prior to the roman conquest, the area had been contested by the catuvellauni based to the west and the trinovantes based to the east; it bordered the realm of the cantiaci on the south bank of the thames. the roman city ultimately covered at least the area of the city of london, whose boundaries are largely defined by its former wall. londinium's waterfront on the thames ran from around ludgate hill in the west to the present site of the tower in the east, around . kilometres ( .  mi). the northern wall reached bishopsgate and cripplegate near the museum of london, a course now marked by the street "london wall". cemeteries and suburbs existed outside the city proper. a round temple has been located west of the city, although its dedication remains unclear. substantial suburbs existed at st martin-in-the-fields in westminster and around the southern end of the thames bridge in southwark, where inscriptions suggest a temple of isis was located.[ ] status[edit] londinium grew up as a vicus and soon became an important port for trade between britain and the roman provinces on the continent. tacitus wrote that, at the time of the uprising of boudica, "londinium... though undistinguished by the name of 'colony', was much frequented by a number of merchants and trading vessels."[ ][ ] depending on the time of its creation, the modesty of londonium's first forum may have reflected its early elevation to city (municipium) status or may have reflected an administrative concession to a low-ranking but major romano-british settlement.[ ] it had almost certainly been granted colony (colonia) status prior to the complete replanning of the city's street plan attending the erection of the great second forum around the year .[ ] by this time, britain's provincial administration had also almost certainly been moved to londinium from camulodunum (colchester in essex). the precise date of this change is unknown and no surviving source explicitly states that londinium was "the capital of britain" but there are several strong indications of this status: nd-century roofing tiles have been found marked by the "procurator" or "publican of the province of britain at londinium",[ ] the remains of a governor's palace and tombstones belonging to the governor's staff have been discovered, and the city was well defended and armed, with a new military camp erected at the beginning of the nd century in a fort on the north-western edge of the city, despite being far from any frontier.[ ] despite some corruption to the text, the list of bishops for the council of arles indicates that either restitutus or adelphius came from londinium.[ ] the city seems to have been the seat of the diocesan vicar and one of the provincial governors following the diocletian reforms around the year ; it had been renamed augusta—a common epithet of provincial capitals—by .[ ] history[edit] founding[edit] see also: roman conquest of britain unlike many cities of roman britain, londinium was not placed on the site of a celtic oppidum.[ ] prior to the arrival of the roman legions, the area was almost certainly lightly rolling open countryside traversed by numerous streams now underground. ptolemy lists it as one of the cities of the cantiacs,[ ] but durovernum (roman canterbury) was their tribal capital (civitas). it is possible that the town was preceded by a short-lived roman military camp but the evidence is limited and this topic remains a matter of debate.[ ][ ] archaeologist lacey wallace notes that "because no lpria settlements or significant domestic refuse have been found in london, despite extensive archaeological excavation, arguments for a purely roman foundation of london are now common and uncontroversial."[ ] the city's latin name seems to have derived from an originally brittonic one and significant pre-roman finds in the thames, especially the battersea shield (chelsea bridge, perhaps th-century bc) and the wandsworth shield (perhaps st-century bc), both assumed to be votive offerings deposited a couple of miles upstream of londinium, suggest the general area was busy and significant. it has been suggested that the area was where a number of territories met.[ ] there was probably a ford in that part of the river; other roman and celtic finds suggest this was perhaps where the opposed crossing julius caesar describes in bc took place. londinium grew up around the point on the river thames narrow enough for the construction of a roman bridge but still deep enough to handle the era's seagoing ships.[ ] its placement on the tideway permitted easier access for ships sailing upstream.[ ][ ] the remains of a massive pier base for such a bridge were found in close by the modern london bridge. some claudian-era camp ditches have been discovered,[ ] but archaeological excavations undertaken since the s by the department of urban archaeology at the museum of london (now molas) have suggested the early settlement was largely the product of private enterprise.[ ] a timber drain by the side of the main roman road excavated at no poultry has been dated by dendrochronology to ad  , which is likely to be the foundation date.[ ] following its foundation in the mid- st century, early roman london occupied a relatively small area, about acres ( .  km ) or roughly the area of present-day hyde park. archaeologists have uncovered numerous goods imported from across the roman empire in this period, suggesting that early roman london was a highly cosmopolitan community of merchants from across the empire and that local markets existed for such objects. roads[edit] main article: roman roads in britain a map of the known roman road network, highlighting the routes included in the antonine itinerary of the fifteen british routes recorded in the nd- or rd-century antonine itinerary, seven ran to or from londinium.[ ][ ] most of these have been shown to have been initially constructed near the time of the city's foundation around ad  .[ ] the roads are now known by welsh or old english names, as their original roman names have been entirely lost due to the lack of written and inscribed sources. (it was customary elsewhere to name roads after the emperor during whose principate they were completed, but the number and vicinity of routes completed during the time of claudius would seem to have made this impractical in britain's case.) the road from the kentish ports of rutupiae (richborough), dubris (dover), and lemanis (lympne) via durovernum (canterbury) seems to have first crossed the thames at a natural ford near westminster before being diverted north to the new bridge at london.[ ] the romans enabled the road to cross the marshy terrain without subsidence by laying down substrates of one to three layers of oak logs.[ ][ ] this route, now known as watling street, then passed through the town from the bridgehead in a straight line to reconnect with its northern extension towards viroconium (wroxeter) and the legionary base at deva victrix (chester). the great road ran northeast across old ford to camulodunum (colchester) and thence northeast along pye road to venta icenorum (caistor st edmund). ermine street ran north from the city to lindum (lincoln) and eboracum (york). the devil's highway connected londinium to calleva (silchester) and its roads to points west over the bridges near modern staines. a minor road led southwest to the city's main cemetery and the old routes to the ford at westminster. stane street to noviomagus (chichester) did not reach londinium proper but ran from the bridgehead in the southern suburb at southwark. these roads varied from –  m ( –  ft) wide.[ ] after its reconstruction in the ad  s, the streets largely adhered to a grid. the main streets were –  m ( –  ft) wide, while side streets were usually about  m (  ft) wide.[ ] boudica[edit] main article: boudica's revolt the rediscovery of tacitus's works revived english interest in boudica, particularly during the th century, when she was used as a symbol for queen victoria and the british empire. (boadicea and her daughters by thomas thornycroft, s, cast by his son in  .) in the year or , a little more than ten years after londinium was founded, the king of the iceni died. he had possibly been installed by the romans after the iceni's failed revolt against p. ostorius scapula's disarmament of the allied tribes in ad  [ ] or may have assisted the romans against his tribesmen during that revolt. his will had divided his wealth and lands between rome and his two daughters, but roman law forbade female inheritance and it had become common practice to treat allied kingdoms as life estates that were annexed upon the ruler's death, as had occurred in bithynia[ ] and galatia.[ ] roman financiers including seneca called in all the king's outstanding loans at once[ ] and the provincial procurator confiscated the property of both the king and his nobles. tacitus records that, when the king's wife boudica objected, the romans flogged her, raped her two daughters, and enslaved their nobles and kinsmen.[ ] boudica then led a failed revolt against roman rule. two hundred ill-equipped men were sent to defend the provincial capital and roman colony at camulodunum, probably from the garrison at londinium.[ ] the iceni and their allies overwhelmed them and razed the city. the th legion under q. petillius cerialis, coming south from the fosse way, was ambushed and annihilated. the procurator, meanwhile, escaped with his treasure to gaul, probably via londinium.[ ] g. suetonius paulinus had been leading the th and th legions in the invasion of anglesey now known as the menai massacre; hearing of the rising, he immediately returned along watling street with the legions' cavalry.[ ] an early historical record of london appears in tacitus's account of his actions upon arriving and finding the state of the th legion:[ ][ ] at first, [paulinus] hesitated as to whether to stand and fight there. eventually, his numerical inferiority—and the price only too clearly paid by the divisional commander's rashness—decided him to sacrifice the single city of londinium to save the province as a whole. unmoved by lamentations and appeals, suetonius gave the signal for departure. the inhabitants were allowed to accompany him. but those who stayed because they were women, or old, or attached to the place, were slaughtered by the enemy. excavation has revealed extensive evidence of destruction by fire in the form of a layer of red ash beneath the city at this date. suetonius then returned to the legions' slower infantry, who met and defeated the british army, slaughtering as many as , men and camp followers. there is a long-standing folklore belief that this battle took place at king’s cross, simply because as a mediaeval village it was known as battle bridge. suetonius's flight back to his men, the razing of verulamium (st albans), and the battle shortly thereafter at "a place with narrow jaws, backed by a forest",[ ][ ] speaks against the tradition and no supporting archaeological evidence has been yet discovered.[ ] st century[edit] a model of london in – on display in the museum of london, depicting the first bridge over the thames after being sacked, the city was rebuilt as a planned roman town, its streets generally adhering to a grid skewed by major roads passing from the bridgehead and by changes in alignment produced by crossings over the local streams.[ ] it recovered after about a decade.[citation needed] a fortified enclosure was erected at plantation place on cornhill. the first forum was constructed in the s or s[ ] and has been excavated, showing it had an open courtyard with a basilica and several shops around it, altogether measuring about  m ×   m (  ft ×   ft).[ ] the basilica would have functioned as the city's administrative heart, hearing law cases and seating the town's local senate. it formed the north side of the forum, whose south entrance was located along the north side of the intersection of the present gracechurch, lombard, and fenchurch streets.[ ] forums elsewhere typically had a civic temple constructed within the enclosed market area; british sites usually did not, instead placing a smaller shrine for roman services somewhere within the basilica. the first forum in londinium seems to have had a full temple, but placed outside just west of the forum.[ ] during the later decades of the st century, londinium expanded rapidly and quickly became roman britain's largest city, although most of its houses continued to be made of wood. by the turn of the century, londinium was perhaps as large as , people,[ ][ ] and had replaced camulodunum (colchester) as the provincial capital. a large building discovered near cannon street station has had its foundation dated to this era and is assumed to have been the governor's palace. it boasted a garden, pools, and several large halls, some of which were decorated with mosaic floors.[ ] it stood on the east bank of the now-covered walbrook, near where it joins the thames. london stone may originally have been part of the palace's main entrance. another site dating to this era is the bathhouse (thermae) at huggin hill, which remained in use prior to its demolition around the year . brothels were legal but taxed.[ ] port[edit] a diagram of the roman structures from the port of londinium (c. ad  ) excavated along the bank of the thames. the bulk of the roman port was quickly rebuilt after boudicca's rebellion[ ] when the waterfront was extended with gravel to permit a sturdy wharf to be built perpendicular to the shore. the port was built in four sections, starting upstream of the london bridge and working down towards the walbrook at the centre of londinium. expansion of the flourishing port continued into the rd century. scraps of armour, leather straps, and military stamps on building timbers suggest that the site was constructed by the city's legionaries.[ ] major imports included fine pottery, jewellery and wine.[ ] only two large warehouses are known, implying that londinium functioned as a bustling trade centre rather than a supply depot and distribution centre like ostia near rome.[ ] nd century[edit] a bronze head of hadrian found in london (british museum) emperor hadrian visited in . the impressive public buildings from around this period may have been initially constructed in preparation for his visit or during the rebuilding that followed the "hadrianic fire". the so-called 'hadrianic fire' is not mentioned in any historical sources but has been inferred by evidence of large-scale burning identified by archaeologists on a number of excavation sites around the city of london.[ ] the best dating evidence for this event(s) comes from burnt stocks of unsold terra sigilatta pottery, which can be dated to circa ad - . these were found in destroyed warehouse or shop buildings at regis house and bucklersbury.[ ] hadrianic fire horizons tend to be dated to around the ad - s but it is difficult to prove that they are precisely contemporary and there remains some uncertainty as to whether they indicate a single large fire or a series of smaller conflagrations.[ ] fire destroyed substantial areas of the city in the area north of the thames but does not seem to have damaged many major public buildings. there is very little evidence to suggest similar burning in the adjacent southwark settlement. the hadrianic fire (or fires) has normally been assumed to be accidental[ ] but it has also been suggested that it could relate to an episode of political turbulence.[ ] a model of the expanded forum at the museum of london stela mentioning the londiniensi ('londoners') reconstruction drawing of londinium c. ad during the early nd century, londinium was at its height, having recovered from the fire and again had between , and , inhabitants around the year , with many more stone houses and public buildings erected. some areas were tightly packed with townhouses (domus). the town had piped water[ ] and a "fairly-sophisticated" drainage system.[ ] the governor's palace was rebuilt[ ] and an expanded forum was built around the earlier one over a period of years from around to into an almost perfect square measuring  m ×   m (  ft ×   ft).[ ] its three-storey basilica was probably visible across the city and was the largest in the empire north of the alps;[ ][ ] the marketplace itself rivaled those in rome and was the largest in the north before augusta treverorum (trier, germany) became an imperial capital.[ ] the city's temple of jupiter was renovated,[ ] public and private bathhouses were erected, and a fort (arx) was erected around the year that maintained the city garrison northwest of town.[ ] the fort was square (with rounded corners) measuring more than  m ×   m (  ft ×   ft) and covering more than acres ( .  ha). each side had a central gatehouse and stone towers were erected at the corners and at points along each wall.[ ] londinium's amphitheatre, constructed in ad , is situated at guildhall.[ ] when the romans left in the th century the amphitheatre lay derelict for hundreds of years. in the th century the area was reoccupied and by the th century the first guildhall was built next to it. a large port complex on both banks near london bridge was discovered during the s. a temple complex with two romano-british temples was excavated at empire square, long lane, southwark in / . a large house there may have been a guesthouse. a marble slab with a dedication to the god mars was discovered in the temple complex. the inscription mentions the londoners, the earliest known reference naming the people of london.[ ] a roman mosaic floor from londinium (british museum) by the second half of the nd century, londinium had many large, well-equipped stone buildings, some of which were richly adorned with wall paintings and floor mosaics, and had subfloor hypocausts. the roman house at billingsgate was built next to the waterfront and had its own bath.[ ] in addition to such structures reducing the city's building density, however, londinium also seems to have shrunk in both size and population in the second half of the nd century. the cause is uncertain but plague is considered likely, as the antonine plague is recorded decimating other areas of western europe between and . the end of imperial expansion in britain after hadrian's decision to build his wall may have also damaged the city's economy. although londinium remained important for the rest of the roman period, no further expansion occurred. londinium remained well populated, as archaeologists have found that much of the city after this date was covered in dark earth which accumulated relatively undisturbed over centuries. london wall[edit] main article: london wall a surviving fragment of the london wall behind tower hill station ( ) some time between and , the romans built the london wall, a defensive ragstone wall around the landward side of the city. along with hadrian's wall and the road network, the london wall was one of the largest construction projects carried out in roman britain. the wall was originally about  km (  mi) long,  m (  ft) high, and .  m (  ft  in) thick.[citation needed] its dry moat (fossa) was about  m (  ft  in) deep and –  m ( . – .  ft) wide.[ ] in the th century, smith estimated its length from the tower west to ludgate at about one mile ( .  km) and its breadth from the northern wall to the bank of the thames at around half that.[citation needed] in addition to small pedestrian postern gates like the one by tower hill, it had four main gates: bishopsgate and aldgate in the northeast at the roads to eboracum (york) and to camulodunum (colchester) and newgate and ludgate in the west along at the road that divided for travel to viroconium (wroxeter) and to calleva (silchester) and at another road that ran along the thames to the city's main cemetery and the old ford at westminster. the wall partially utilized the army's existing fort, strengthening its outer wall with a second course of stone to match the rest of the course.[ ][ ] the fort had two gates of its own—cripplegate to the north and another to the west—but these were not along major roads.[ ] aldersgate was eventually added, perhaps to replace the west gate of the fort. (the names of all these gates are medieval, as they continued to be occasionally refurbished and replaced until their demolition in the th and th centuries to permit widening the roads.)[ ][ ] the wall initially left the riverbank undefended: this was corrected in the rd century. although the exact reason for the wall's construction is unknown, some historians have connected it with the pictish invasion of the s.[ ] others link it with clodius albinus, the british governor who attempted to usurp septimius severus in the s. the wall survived another , years and still roughly defines the city of london's perimeter. rd century[edit] ulpius silvanus's tauroctony depicting mithras killing the bull, discovered in the ruins of the london mithraeum. septimius severus defeated albinus in and shortly afterwards divided the province of britain into upper and lower halves, with the former controlled by a new governor in eboracum (york). despite the smaller administrative area, the economic stimulus provided by the wall and by septimius severus's campaigns in caledonia somewhat revived london's fortunes in the early rd century. the northwest fort was abandoned and dismantled[ ] but archaeological evidence points to renewed construction activity from this period. the london mithraeum rediscovered in dates from around ,[ ] when it was erected on the east bank at the head of navigation on the now-covered river walbrook about  m (  ft) from the thames.[ ] from about onwards, raiding by saxon pirates led to the construction of a riverside wall as well. it ran roughly along the course of present-day thames street, which then roughly formed the shoreline. large collapsed sections of this wall were excavated at blackfriars and the tower in the s.[ ] carausian revolt[edit] main article: carausian revolt a carausian coin from his mint at londinium. the "trier medallion" showing a woman kneeling in front of a roman soldier at the city walls, thanking him for bringing allectus's rule to an end in , the emperor maximian issued a death sentence against carausius, admiral of the roman navy's britannic fleet (classis britannica), on charges of having abetted frankish and saxon piracy and of having embezzled recovered treasure. carausius responded by consolidating his allies and territory and revolting. after fending off maximian's first assault in , he declared a new britannic empire and issued coins to that effect. constantius chlorus's sack of his gallic base at gesoriacum (boulogne), however, led his treasurer allectus to assassinate and replace him. in , chlorus mounted an invasion of britain that prompted allectus's frankish mercenaries to sack londinium. they were only stopped by the arrival of a flotilla of roman warships on the thames, which slaughtered the survivors.[ ] the event was commemorated by the golden "trier medallion", chlorus on one side and, on the other, a woman kneeling at the city wall welcoming a mounted roman soldier.[ ] another memorial to the return of londinium to roman control was the construction of a new set of forum baths around the year . the structures were modest enough that they were previously identified as parts of the forum and market but are now recognized as elaborate and luxurious baths including a frigidarium with two southern pools and an eastern swimming pool. th century[edit] see also: celtic christianity and bishops of londinium following the revolt, the diocletian reforms saw the british administration restructured. londinium is universally supposed to have been the capital of one of them, but it remains unclear where the new provinces were, whether there were initially three or four in total, and whether valentia represented a fifth province or a renaming of an older one. in the th century, gerald of wales listed "londonia" as the capital of flavia, having had britannia prima (wales) and secunda (kent) severed from the territory of upper britain.[ ][ ] modern scholars more often list londinium as the capital of maxima caesariensis on the assumption that the presence of the diocesan vicar in london would have required its provincial governor to outrank the others. the governor's palace[ ] and old large forum seem to have fallen out of use around ,[ ] but in general the first half of the th century appears to have been a prosperous time for britain, for the villa estates surrounding london appear to have flourished during this period. the london mithraeum was rededicated, probably to bacchus. a list of the "archbishops" of london was recorded by jocelyne of furness in the th century, claiming the city's christian community was founded in the nd century under the legendary king lucius and his missionary saints fagan, deruvian, elvanus, and medwin. none of that is considered credible by modern historians but, although the surviving text is problematic, either bishop restitutus or adelphius at the council of arles seems to have come from londinium.[ ] the location of londinium's original cathedral is uncertain. the present structure of st peter upon cornhill was designed by christopher wren following the great fire in but it stands upon the highest point in the area of old londinium and medieval legends tied it to the city's earliest christian community. in , however, a large and ornate th-century building on tower hill was discovered: built sometime between and , it seems to have mimicked st ambrose's cathedral in the imperial capital at milan on a still-larger scale.[ ] it was about  m (  ft) long by about  m (  ft) wide.[ ] excavations by david sankey of molas established it was constructed out of stone taken from other buildings, including a veneer of black marble.[ ][ ] it was probably dedicated to st paul.[ ] from onwards, northern britain was repeatedly attacked by picts and gaels. in , a large-scale attack forced the emperor julian the apostate to send troops to deal with the problem. large efforts were made to improve londinium's defenses around the same time. at least semi-circular towers were added to the city walls to provide platforms for ballistae[ ] and the present state of the river wall suggested hurried repair work around this time.[ ] in , the great conspiracy saw a coordinated invasion of picts, gaels, and saxons joined with a mutiny of troops along the wall. count theodosius dealt with the problem over the next few years, using londinium—then known as "augusta"—as his base.[ ] it may have been at this point that one of the existing provinces was renamed valentia, although the account of theodosius's actions describes it as a province recovered from the enemy. in , magnus maximus organized all of the british-based troops and attempted to establish himself as emperor over the west. the event was obviously important to the britons, as "macsen wledig" would remain a major figure in welsh folklore and several medieval welsh dynasties claimed descent from him. he was probably responsible for london's new church in the s or s.[ ][ ] he was initially successful but was defeated by theodosius i at the battle of the save. a new stretch of the river wall near tower hill seems to have been built further from the shore at some point over the next decade.[ ] th century[edit] see also: sub-roman britain, anglo-saxon settlement of britain, lundenwic, and lundenburh roman britain around ad  , without speculative provincial borders. with few troops left in britain, many romano-british towns—including londinium—declined drastically over the next few decades. many of london's public buildings had fallen into disrepair by this point,[citation needed] and excavations of the port show signs of rapid disuse.[ ] between and , large numbers of barbarians overran gaul and hispania, seriously weakening communication between rome and britain. trade broke down. officials went unpaid and romano-british troops elected their own leaders. constantine iii declared himself emperor over the west and crossed the channel, an act considered the roman withdrawal from britain since the emperor honorius subsequently directed the britons to look to their own defence rather than send another garrison force.[ ] surviving accounts are scanty and mixed with welsh and saxon legends concerning vortigern, hengest, horsa, and ambrosius aurelianus. even archaeological evidence of londinium during this period is minimal. despite remaining on the list of roman provinces, romano-britain seems to have dropped their remaining loyalties to rome. raiding by the irish, picts, and saxons continued but gildas records a time of luxury and plenty[ ] which is sometimes attributed to reduced taxation. archaeologists have found evidence that a small number of wealthy families continued to maintain a roman lifestyle until the middle of the th century, inhabiting villas in the southeastern corner of the city and importing luxuries.[ ] medieval accounts state that the invasions that established anglo-saxon england (the adventus saxonum) did not begin in earnest until some time in the s and s.[ ] bede recorded that the britons fled to londinium in terror after their defeat at the battle of crecganford (probably crayford),[ ][ ] but nothing further is said. by the end of the th century, the city was largely an uninhabited ruin,[ ] its large church on tower hill burnt to the ground.[ ] over the next century, angles, saxons, jutes, and frisians arrived and established tribal areas and kingdoms. the area of the roman city was administered as part of the kingdom of the east saxons – essex, although the saxon settlement of lundenwic was not within the roman walls but to the west in aldwych. it was not until the viking invasions of england that king alfred the great moved the settlement back within the safety of the roman walls, which gave it the name lundenburh. the foundations of the river wall, however, were undermined over time and had completely collapsed by the th century.[ ] memory of the earlier settlement survived: it is generally identified as the cair lundem[ ] counted among the cities of britain included in the history of the britons traditionally attributed to nennius.[ ][ ] demographics[edit] the population of londinium is estimated to have peaked around ad when it was still the capital of britannia; at this point estimates for the population vary between about , ,[ ] or about , people.[ ] but there seems to have been a large decline after about ad, possibly as the regional economic centres developed, and londinium as the main port for imported goods became less significant. the antonine plague which swept the empire from to may have had a big effect. pottery workshops outside the city in brockley hill and highgate appear to have ended production around , and the population may have fallen by as much as two thirds.[ ] londinium was an ethnically diverse city with inhabitants from across the roman empire, including those with backgrounds from britannia, continental europe, the middle east, and north africa.[ ] a genetic test of human remains in roman cemeteries states that the "presence of people born in london with african ancestry is not an unusual or atypical result for londinium."[ ] a study of the isotope analysis of bodies from various periods suggested that at least had grown up locally, with four being immigrants, and the last four unclear.[ ] excavation[edit] see also: museum of london and museum of london archaeology see also: amphitheatre (london) a romano-celtic temple being excavated at gresham street. many ruins remain buried beneath london, although understanding them can be difficult. owing to london's own geology, which consists of a taplow terrace deep bed of brickearth, sand, and gravel over clay,[ ] roman gravel roads can only be identified as such if they were repeatedly relayered or if the spans of gravel can be traced across several sites. the minimal remains from wooden structures are easy to miss and stone buildings may leave foundations, but—as with the great forum—they were often dismantled for stone during the middle ages and early modern period.[ ] the known floorplan of the presumed "governor's palace". the roman wall at st alphege gardens the first extensive archaeological review of the roman city of london was done in the th century after the great fire of . christopher wren's renovation of st paul's on ludgate hill found no evidence supporting camden's contention[ ] that it had been built over a roman temple to the goddess diana.[ ] the extensive rebuilding of london in the th century and following the german bombing campaign during world war ii also allowed for large parts of old london to be recorded and preserved while modern updates were made.[ ] the construction of the london coal exchange led to the discovery of the roman house at billingsgate in . in the s, excavations by general rivers uncovered a large number of human skulls and almost no other bones in the bed of the walbrook.[ ] the discovery recalls a passage in geoffrey of monmouth's pseudohistorical history of the kings of britain where asclepiodotus besieged the last remnants of the usurper allectus's army at "londonia". having battered the town's walls with siegeworks constructed by allied britons, asclepiodotus accepted the commander's surrender only to have the venedotians rush upon them, ritually decapitating them and throwing the heads into the river "gallemborne".[ ][ ] asclepiodotus's siege was an actual event that occurred in ad  , but further skull finds beneath the rd-century wall place at least some of the slaughter before its construction, leading most modern scholars to attribute them to boudica's forces.[ ][ ] in , the city's northwest fortress of the city garrison was discovered.[ ] in , excavations of what was thought to have been an early church instead revealed the london mithraeum, which was relocated to permit building over its original site. (the building erected at the time has since been demolished, and plans to return the temple to its former location are under way.) archaeologists began the first intensive excavation of the waterfront sites of roman london in the s. what was not found during this time has been built over making it very difficult to study or discover anything new.[ ] another phase of archaeological work followed the deregulation of the london stock exchange in , which led to extensive new construction in the city's financial district. from , many excavations were undertaken by the museum of london's archaeology service, although it was spun off into the separately-run mola in following legislation to address the rose theatre fiasco. displays[edit] a reconstructed roman kitchen (culina) at the museum of london ( ) major finds from roman london, including mosaics, wall fragments, and old buildings were formerly housed in the london and guildhall museums.[ ] these merged after [ ] into the present museum of london near the barbican centre. museum of london docklands, a separate branch dealing with the history of london's ports, opened on the isle of dogs in . other finds from roman london continue to be held by the british museum.[ ] much of the surviving wall is medieval, but roman-era stretches are visible near tower hill station, in a hotel courtyard at – coopers row, and in st alphege gardens off wood street.[ ] a section of the river wall is visible inside the tower.[ ] parts of the amphitheatre are on display at the guildhall art gallery.[ ] the southwestern tower of the roman fort northwest of town can still be seen at noble street.[ ] occasionally, roman sites are incorporated into the foundations of new buildings for future study, but these are not generally available to the public.[ ][ ] see also[edit] 	ancient rome portal 	anglo-saxon london 	elizabethan london notes[edit] 	^ note that this image includes both the garrison fort, which was demolished in the rd century, and the mithraeum, which was abandoned around the same time. the identification of the "governor's palace" remains conjectural. 	^ hingley, richard. londinium : a biography : roman london from its origins to the fifth century. london. pp.  – . isbn  - - - - . oclc  . 	^ hill, julian. and rowsome, peter ( ). roman london and the walbrook stream crossing : excavations at poultry and vicinity, city of london. rowsome, peter., museum of london archaeology. london: museum of london archaeology. pp.  – . isbn  - - - - . oclc  .cs maint: multiple names: authors list (link) 	^ dunwoodie, lesley. 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free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 nd-century ad greek geographer for the general, see pausanias (general). 	pausanias 	manuscript ( ), description of greece by pausanias at the laurentian library 	born	c.  ad lydia, asia minor 	died	c.  ad (aged ) 	occupation	traveler and geographer pausanias (/pɔːˈseɪniəs/; greek: Παυσανίας pausanías; c.   – c.  )[ ] was a greek traveler and geographer of the second century ad who lived in the time of roman emperors hadrian, antoninus pius, and marcus aurelius. he is famous for his description of greece (ancient greek: Ἑλλάδος Περιήγησις, hellados periegesis),[ ] a lengthy work that describes ancient greece from his firsthand observations. this work provides crucial information for making links between classical literature and modern archaeology. andrew stewart assesses him as: a careful, pedestrian writer ... interested not only in the grandiose or the exquisite but in unusual sights and obscure ritual. he is occasionally careless or makes unwarranted inferences, and his guides or even his own notes sometimes mislead him, yet his honesty is unquestionable, and his value without par.[ ] contents 	 biography 	 work 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links biography[edit] pausanias was born c.  ad into a greek family [ ] and was probably a native of lydia; he was certainly familiar with the western coast of asia minor, but his travels extended far beyond the limits of ionia. before visiting greece, he had been to antioch, joppa, and jerusalem, and to the banks of the river jordan. in egypt, he had seen the pyramids. while at the temple of ammon, he had been shown the hymn once sent to that shrine by pindar. in macedonia, he appears to have seen the tomb said to be that of orpheus in libethra (modern leivithra).[ ] crossing over to italy, he had seen something of the cities of campania and of the wonders of rome. he was one of the first known to write of seeing the ruins of troy, alexandria troas, and mycenae. work[edit] pausanias' description of greece is in ten books, each dedicated to some portion of greece. he begins his tour in attica (Ἀττικά), where the city of athens and its demes dominate the discussion. subsequent books describe corinthia (Κορινθιακά) (second book), laconia (Λακωνικά) (third), messenia (Μεσσηνιακά) (fourth), elis (Ἠλιακῶν) (fifth and sixth), achaea (Ἀχαικά) (seventh), arcadia (Ἀρκαδικά) (eighth), boetia (Βοιωτικά) (ninth), phocis (Φωκικά) and ozolian locris (Λοκρῶν Ὀζόλων) (tenth). the project is more than topographical; it is a cultural geography. pausanias digresses from the description of architectural and artistic objects to review the mythological and historical underpinnings of the society that produced them. as a greek writing under the auspices of the roman empire, he was in an awkward cultural space, between the glories of the greek past he was so keen to describe and the realities of a greece beholden to rome as a dominating imperial force. his work bears the marks of his attempt to navigate that space and establish an identity for roman greece.[citation needed] he is not a naturalist, although from time to time, he does comment on the physical realities of the greek landscape. he notices the pine trees on the sandy coast of elis, the deer and the wild boars in the oak woods of phelloe, and the crows amid the giant oak trees of alalcomenae. it is mainly in the last section that pausanias touches on the products of nature, such as the wild strawberries of helicon, the date palms of aulis, and the olive oil of tithorea, as well as the tortoises of arcadia and the "white blackbirds" of cyllene. pausanias is most at home in describing the religious art and architecture of olympia and of delphi. yet, even in the most secluded regions of greece, he is fascinated by all kinds of depictions of deities, holy relics, and many other sacred and mysterious objects. at thebes he views the shields of those who died at the battle of leuctra, the ruins of the house of pindar, and the statues of hesiod, arion, thamyris, and orpheus in the grove of the muses on helicon, as well as the portraits of corinna at tanagra and of polybius in the cities of arcadia. pausanias has the instincts of an antiquary. as his modern editor, christian habicht, has said, in general, he prefers the old to the new, the sacred to the profane; there is much more about classical than about contemporary greek art, more about temples, altars and images of the gods, than about public buildings and statues of politicians. some magnificent and dominating structures, such as the stoa of king attalus in the athenian agora (rebuilt by homer thompson) or the exedra of herodes atticus at olympia are not even mentioned.[ ] unlike a baedeker guide, in periegesis pausanias stops for a brief excursus on a point of ancient ritual or to tell an apposite myth, in a genre that would not become popular again until the early nineteenth century. in the topographical part of his work, pausanias is fond of digressions on the wonders of nature, the signs that herald the approach of an earthquake, the phenomena of the tides, the ice-bound seas of the north, and the noonday sun that at the summer solstice, casts no shadow at syene (aswan). while he never doubts the existence of the deities and heroes, he sometimes criticizes the myths and legends relating to them. his descriptions of monuments of art are plain and unadorned. they bear the impression of reality, and their accuracy is confirmed by the extant remains. he is perfectly frank in his confessions of ignorance. when he quotes a book at second hand he takes pains to say so. the work left faint traces in the known greek corpus. "it was not read", habicht relates; "there is not a single mention of the author, not a single quotation from it, not a whisper before stephanus byzantius in the sixth century, and only two or three references to it throughout the middle ages."[ ] the only manuscripts of pausanias are three fifteenth-century copies, full of errors and lacunae, which all appear to depend on a single manuscript that survived to be copied. niccolò niccoli had this archetype in florence in . at his death in , it went to the library of san marco, florence, then it disappeared after .[ ] until twentieth-century archaeologists concluded that pausanias was a reliable guide to the sites they were excavating,[ ] pausanias was largely dismissed by nineteenth- and early twentieth-century classicists of a purely literary bent: they tended to follow the usually authoritative wilamowitz in regarding him as little more than a purveyor of second-hand accounts, who, it was suggested, had not visited most of the places he described. habicht ( ) describes an episode in which wilamowitz was led astray by his misreading of pausanias in front of an august party of travellers in , and attributes to it wilamowitz's lifelong antipathy and distrust of pausanias. modern archaeological research, however, has tended to vindicate pausanias. see also[edit] 	travel literature 	james george frazer notes[edit] 	^ historical and ethnological society of greece, aristéa papanicolaou christensen, the panathenaic stadium – its history over the centuries ( ), p. 	^ also known in latin as graecae descriptio; see pereira, maria helena rocha (ed.), graecae descriptio, b. g. teubner, . 	^ one hundred greek sculptors: their careers and extant works, introduction. 	^ howard, michael c. ( ). transnationalism in ancient and medieval societies: the role of cross-border trade and travel. mcfarland. p.  . isbn  . pausanias was a nd century ethnic greek geographer who wrote a description of greece that is often described as being the world’s first travel guide. 	^ pausanias, description of greece: boeotia, . . : "going from dium along the road to the mountain, and advancing twenty stades, you come to a pillar on the right surmounted by a stone urn, which according to the natives contains the bones of orpheus." 	^ christian habicht, "an ancient baedeker and his critics: pausanias' 'guide to greece'" proceedings of the american philosophical society . (june : – ) p. . 	^ habicht : . 	^ aubrey diller, "the manuscripts of pausanias the manuscripts of pausanias" transactions and proceedings of the american philological association ( ): – . 	^ in this, heinrich schliemann was a maverick and forerunner: a close reading of pausanias guided him to the royal tombs at mycenae. references[edit] 	description of greece, tr. w.h.s. jones and h.a. ormerod ( ) 	description of greece, jones translation at theoi project 	bibliography (in french) 	"the oldest guide-book in the world", charles whibley in macmillan's magazine, vol. lxxvii, nov. to apr. , pp.  – . 	andrew stewart, one hundred greek sculptors, their careers and extant works 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "pausanias (traveller)". encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. 	g. hawes, rationalizing myth in antiquity. oxford: oup, isbn  contains much discussion of pausanias’ sceptical approaches to myth. further reading[edit] 	arafat, k.w. . "pausanias' attitude to antiquities." annual of the british school at athens : – . 	akujärvi, j. . researcher, traveller, narrator: studies in pausanias’ periegesis. studia graeca et latina lundensia . stockholm: almqvist & wiksell. 	alcock, s., j. cherry, and j. elsner, eds. . pausanias: travel and memory in roman greece. oxford: oxford univ. press. 	arafat, k. . pausanias’ greece: ancient artists and roman rulers. cambridge, uk: cambridge univ. press. 	diller, a. . "the manuscripts of pausanias." transactions of the american philological association : – . 	habicht, c. . 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additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 ovid - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	ovid 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 roman poet who lived during the reign of augustus for other uses, see ovid (disambiguation). 	ovid 	statue by ettore ferrari ( ) commemorating ovid's exile in tomis, romania 	born	publius ovidius naso[a] march bc sulmo, italy, roman republic 	died	 or ad (age – ) tomis, scythia minor, roman empire 	occupation	poet 	genre	elegy, epic, drama publius ovidius naso (classical latin: [ˈpuːblɪ.ʊs ɔˈwɪdɪ.ʊs ˈnaːsoː]; march bc – / ad), known as ovid (/ˈɒvɪd/ ov-id)[ ] in the english-speaking world, was a roman poet who lived during the reign of augustus. contents 	 overview 	 life 	 . birth, early life, and marriage 	 . literary success 	 . exile to tomis 	 . death 	 works 	 . heroides ("the heroines") 	 . amores ("the loves") 	 . medicamina faciei femineae ("women's facial cosmetics") 	 . ars amatoria ("the art of love") 	 . remedia amoris ("the cure for love") 	 . metamorphoses ("transformations") 	 . fasti ("the festivals") 	 . ibis ("the ibis") 	 . tristia ("sorrows") 	 . epistulae ex ponto ("letters from the black sea") 	 . lost works 	 spurious works 	 . consolatio ad liviam ("consolation to livia") 	 . halieutica ("on fishing") 	 . nux ("the walnut tree") 	 . somnium ("the dream") 	 style 	 legacy 	 . criticism 	 . ovid's influence 	 . . literary and artistic 	 . . retellings, adaptations, and translations of ovidian works 	 gallery 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 editions 	 further reading 	 external links 	 . latin and english translation 	 . original latin only 	 . english translation only overview[edit] he was the first major roman poet to begin his career during augustus' reign.[ ] ovid was a contemporary of the older poets virgil and horace. collectively, they are considered the three canonical poets of latin literature. the imperial scholar quintilian described ovid as the last of the latin love elegists.[ ] he enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime. regardless, the emperor augustus banished him to a remote province on the black sea, where he remained until his death. ovid himself attributes his exile to carmen et error ("a poem and a mistake"). his reluctance to disclosing specifics has resulted in much speculation among scholars. today, ovid is most famous for the metamorphoses, a continuous mythological narrative in fifteen books written in the meter of epic. he is also known for works in elegiac couplets such as ars amatoria ("the art of love") and fasti. his poetry was much imitated during late antiquity and the middle ages, and greatly influenced western art and literature. the metamorphoses remains one of the most important sources of classical mythology.[ ] life[edit] ovid talks more about his own life than most other roman poets. information about his biography is drawn primarily from his poetry, especially tristia . , which gives a lengthy autobiographical account of his life. other sources include seneca the elder and quintilian. birth, early life, and marriage[edit] statue of ovid by ettore ferrari in the piazza xx settembre, sulmona, italy. ovid was born in the paelignian town of sulmo (modern-day sulmona, in the province of l'aquila, abruzzo), in an apennine valley east of rome, to an important equestrian family, the gens ovidia, on march bc. that was a significant year in roman politics.[b] along with his brother, who excelled at oratory, ovid was educated in rhetoric in rome under the teachers arellius fuscus and porcius latro.[ ] his father wanted him to study rhetoric, so that he might practice law. according to seneca the elder, ovid tended to the emotional, not the argumentative pole of rhetoric. following the death of his brother at years of age, ovid renounced law and travelled to athens, asia minor, and sicily.[ ] he held minor public posts, as one of the tresviri capitales,[ ] as a member of the centumviral court[ ] and as one of the decemviri litibus iudicandis,[ ] but resigned to pursue poetry probably around – bc, a decision which his father apparently disapproved of.[ ] ovid's first recitation has been dated to around bc, when he was eighteen.[ ] he was part of the circle centred on the esteemed patron marcus valerius messalla corvinus, and likewise seems to have been a friend of poets in the circle of maecenas. in trist. . . – , ovid mentions friendships with macer, propertius, horace, ponticus and bassus. (he only barely met virgil and tibullus, a fellow member of messalla's circle, whose elegies he admired greatly). he married three times and had divorced twice by the time he was thirty. he had one daughter, who would bear him grandchildren.[ ] his last wife was connected in some way to the influential gens fabia and would help him during his exile in tomis (now constanța in romania).[ ] literary success[edit] the first years of ovid's literary career were spent primarily writing poetry in elegiac meter with erotic themes.[ ] the chronology of these early works is not secure; tentative dates, however, have been established by scholars. his earliest extant work is thought to be the heroides, letters of mythological heroines to their absent lovers, which may have been published in bc, although the date is uncertain as it depends on a notice in am. . . – that seems to describe the collection as an early published work.[ ] the authenticity of some of these poems has been challenged, but this first edition probably contained the first poems of the collection. the first five-book collection of the amores, a series of erotic poems addressed to a lover, corinna, is thought to have been published in – bc; the surviving version, redacted to three books according to an epigram prefixed to the first book, is thought to have been published c. – bc. between the publications of the two editions of the amores can be dated the premiere of his tragedy medea, which was admired in antiquity but is no longer extant. ovid's next poem, the medicamina faciei, a fragmentary work on women's beauty treatments, preceded the ars amatoria, the art of love, a parody of didactic poetry and a three-book manual about seduction and intrigue, which has been dated to ad (books – would go back to bc[ ]). ovid may identify this work in his exile poetry as the carmen, or song, which was one cause of his banishment. the ars amatoria was followed by the remedia amoris in the same year. this corpus of elegiac, erotic poetry earned ovid a place among the chief roman elegists gallus, tibullus, and propertius, of whom he saw himself as the fourth member.[ ] by ad, ovid had completed metamorphoses, his most ambitious work, a hexameter epic poem in books. here he catalogued encyclopaedically transformations in greek and roman mythology, from the emergence of the cosmos to the apotheosis of julius caesar. the stories follow each other in the telling of human beings transformed to new bodies: trees, rocks, animals, flowers, constellations etc. simultaneously, he worked on the fasti, a six-book poem in elegiac couplets on the theme of the calendar of roman festivals and astronomy. the composition of this poem was interrupted by ovid's exile,[c] and it is thought that ovid abandoned work on the piece in tomis. it is probably in this period, if they are indeed by ovid, that the double letters ( – ) in the heroides were composed. exile to tomis[edit] main article: exile of ovid in ad , ovid was banished to tomis, on the black sea, by the exclusive intervention of the emperor augustus, without any participation of the senate or of any roman judge.[ ] this event shaped all his following poetry. ovid wrote that the reason for his exile was carmen et error – "a poem and a mistake",[ ] claiming that his crime was worse than murder,[ ] more harmful than poetry.[ ] the emperor's grandchildren, julia the younger and agrippa postumus (the latter adopted by him), were also banished around the same time. julia's husband, lucius aemilius paullus, was put to death for a conspiracy against augustus, a conspiracy of which ovid potentially knew.[ ] the julian marriage laws of bc, which promoted monogamous marriage to increase the population's birth rate, were fresh in the roman mind. ovid's writing in the ars amatoria concerned the serious crime of adultery. he may have been banished for these works, which appeared subversive to the emperor's moral legislation. however, in view of the long time that elapsed between the publication of this work ( bc) and the exile (ad ), some authors suggest that augustus used the poem as a mere justification for something more personal.[ ] ovid banished from rome ( ) by j.m.w. turner. in exile, ovid wrote two poetry collections, tristia and epistulae ex ponto, which illustrated his sadness and desolation. being far from rome, he had no access to libraries, and thus might have been forced to abandon his fasti, a poem about the roman calendar, of which only the first six books exist – january through june. the five books of the elegiac tristia, a series of poems expressing the poet's despair in exile and advocating his return to rome, are dated to ad – . the ibis, an elegiac curse poem attacking an adversary at home, may also be dated to this period. the epistulae ex ponto, a series of letters to friends in rome asking them to effect his return, are thought to be his last compositions, with the first three books published in ad and the fourth book between ad and . the exile poetry is particularly emotive and personal. in the epistulae he claims friendship with the natives of tomis (in the tristia they are frightening barbarians) and to have written a poem in their language (ex p. . . – ). yet he pined for rome – and for his third wife, addressing many poems to her. some are also to the emperor augustus, yet others are to himself, to friends in rome, and sometimes to the poems themselves, expressing loneliness and hope of recall from banishment or exile.[ ] the obscure causes of ovid's exile have given rise to endless explanations from scholars. the medieval texts that mention the exile offer no credible explanations: their statements seem incorrect interpretations drawn from the works of ovid.[ ] ovid himself wrote many references to his offense, giving obscure or contradictory clues.[ ] in , scholar j. j. hartman proposed a theory that is little considered among scholars of latin civilization today: that ovid was never exiled from rome and that all of his exile works are the result of his fertile imagination. this theory was supported and rejected[clarification needed] in the s, especially by dutch authors.[ ] in , a research paper by fitton brown advanced new arguments in support of hartman's theory.[ ] brown's article was followed by a series of supports and refutations in the short space of five years.[ ] among the supporting reasons brown presents are: ovid's exile is only mentioned by his own work, except in "dubious" passages by pliny the elder[ ] and statius,[ ] but no other author until the th century;[ ] that the author of heroides was able to separate the poetic "i" of his own and real life; and that information on the geography of tomis was already known by virgil, by herodotus and by ovid himself in his metamorphoses.[d][ ] orthodox scholars, however, oppose these hypotheses.[ ] one of the main arguments of these scholars is that ovid would not let his fasti remain unfinished, mainly because this poem meant his consecration as an imperial poet.[ ] death[edit] ovid died at tomis in or ad.[ ] it is thought that the fasti, which he spent time revising, were published posthumously.[ ] works[edit] heroides ("the heroines")[edit] medea in a fresco from herculaneum. main article: heroides see also: double heroides the heroides ("heroines") or epistulae heroidum are a collection of twenty-one poems in elegiac couplets. the heroides take the form of letters addressed by famous mythological characters to their partners expressing their emotions at being separated from them, pleas for their return, and allusions to their future actions within their own mythology. the authenticity of the collection, partially or as a whole, has been questioned, although most scholars would consider the letters mentioned specifically in ovid's description of the work at am. . . – as safe from objection. the collection comprises a new type of generic composition without parallel in earlier literature.[ ] the first fourteen letters are thought to comprise the first published collection and are written by the heroines penelope, phyllis, briseis, phaedra, oenone, hypsipyle, dido, hermione, deianeira, ariadne, canace, medea, laodamia, and hypermestra to their absent male lovers. letter , from the historical sappho to phaon, seems spurious (although referred to in am. . ) because of its length, its lack of integration in the mythological theme, and its absence from medieval manuscripts.[ ] the final letters ( – ) are paired compositions comprising a letter to a lover and a reply. paris and helen, hero and leander, and acontius and cydippe are the addressees of the paired letters. these are considered a later addition to the corpus because they are never mentioned by ovid and may or may not be spurious. the heroides markedly reveal the influence of rhetorical declamation and may derive from ovid's interest in rhetorical suasoriae, persuasive speeches, and ethopoeia, the practice of speaking in another character. they also play with generic conventions; most of the letters seem to refer to works in which these characters were significant, such as the aeneid in the case of dido and catullus for ariadne, and transfer characters from the genres of epic and tragedy to the elegiac genre of the heroides.[ ] the letters have been admired for their deep psychological portrayals of mythical characters, their rhetoric, and their unique attitude to the classical tradition of mythology.[by whom?] a popular quote from the heroides anticipates machiavelli's "the end justifies the means". ovid had written "exitus acta probat" - the result justifies the means. amores ("the loves")[edit] main article: amores (ovid) the amores is a collection in three books of love poetry in elegiac meter, following the conventions of the elegiac genre developed by tibullus and propertius. elegy originates with propertius and tibullus; however, ovid is an innovator in the genre. ovid changes the leader of his elegies from the poet, to amor (love). this switch in focus from the triumphs of the poet, to the triumphs of love over people is the first of its kind for this genre of poetry. this ovidian innovation can be summarized as the use of love as a metaphor for poetry.[ ] the books describe the many aspects of love and focus on the poet's relationship with a mistress called corinna. within the various poems, several describe events in the relationship, thus presenting the reader with some vignettes and a loose narrative. book contains poems. the first tells of ovid's intention to write epic poetry, which is thwarted when cupid steals a metrical foot from him, changing his work into love elegy. poem is didactic and describes principles that ovid would develop in the ars amatoria. the fifth poem, describing a noon tryst, introduces corinna by name. poems and deal with corinna selling her love for gifts, while and describe the poet's failed attempt to arrange a meeting. poem discusses corinna's disastrous experiment in dyeing her hair and stresses the immortality of ovid and love poets. the second book has pieces; the opening poem tells of ovid's abandonment of a gigantomachy in favor of elegy. poems and are entreaties to a guardian to let the poet see corinna, poem is a lament for corinna's dead parrot; poems and deal with ovid's affair with corinna's servant and her discovery of it, and and try to prevent corinna from going on vacation. poem is a prayer to isis for corinna's illness, a poem against abortion, and a warning to unwary husbands. book has poems. the opening piece depicts personified tragedy and elegy fighting over ovid. poem describes a visit to the races, and focus on corinna's interest in other men, is a complaint to ceres because of her festival that requires abstinence, is a poem on a festival of juno, and a lament for tibullus. in poem ovid decides not to love corinna any longer and regrets the poems he has written about her. the final poem is ovid's farewell to the erotic muse. critics have seen the poems as highly self-conscious and extremely playful specimens of the elegiac genre.[ ] medicamina faciei femineae ("women's facial cosmetics")[edit] main article: medicamina faciei femineae about a hundred elegiac lines survive from this poem on beauty treatments for women's faces, which seems to parody serious didactic poetry. the poem says that women should concern themselves first with manners and then prescribes several compounds for facial treatments before breaking off. the style is not unlike the shorter hellenistic didactic works of nicander and aratus. ars amatoria ("the art of love")[edit] main article: ars amatoria       si quis in hoc artem populo non novit amandi,            hoc legat et lecto carmine doctus amet.[ ] the ars amatoria is a lehrgedicht, a didactic elegiac poem in three books that sets out to teach the arts of seduction and love. the first book addresses men and teaches them how to seduce women, the second, also to men, teaches how to keep a lover. the third addresses women and teaches seduction techniques. the first book opens with an invocation to venus, in which ovid establishes himself as a praeceptor amoris ( . ) – a teacher of love. ovid describes the places one can go to find a lover, like the theater, a triumph, which he thoroughly describes, or arena – and ways to get the girl to take notice, including seducing her covertly at a banquet. choosing the right time is significant, as is getting into her associates' confidence. ovid emphasizes care of the body for the lover. mythological digressions include a piece on the rape of the sabine women, pasiphaë, and ariadne. book invokes apollo and begins with a telling of the story of icarus. ovid advises men to avoid giving too many gifts, keep up their appearance, hide affairs, compliment their lovers, and ingratiate themselves with slaves to stay on their lover's good side. the care of venus for procreation is described as is apollo's aid in keeping a lover; ovid then digresses on the story of vulcan's trap for venus and mars. the book ends with ovid asking his "students" to spread his fame. book opens with a vindication of women's abilities and ovid's resolution to arm women against his teaching in the first two books. ovid gives women detailed instructions on appearance telling them to avoid too many adornments. he advises women to read elegiac poetry, learn to play games, sleep with people of different ages, flirt, and dissemble. throughout the book, ovid playfully interjects, criticizing himself for undoing all his didactic work to men and mythologically digresses on the story of procris and cephalus. the book ends with his wish that women will follow his advice and spread his fame saying naso magister erat, "ovid was our teacher". (ovid was known as "naso" to his contemporaries.[ ]) remedia amoris ("the cure for love")[edit] main article: remedia amoris this elegiac poem proposes a cure for the love ovid teaches in the ars amatoria, and is primarily addressed to men. the poem criticizes suicide as a means for escaping love and, invoking apollo, goes on to tell lovers not to procrastinate and be lazy in dealing with love. lovers are taught to avoid their partners, not perform magic, see their lover unprepared, take other lovers, and never be jealous. old letters should be burned and the lover's family avoided. the poem throughout presents ovid as a doctor and utilizes medical imagery. some have interpreted this poem as the close of ovid's didactic cycle of love poetry and the end of his erotic elegiac project.[ ] metamorphoses ("transformations")[edit] engraved frontispiece of george sandys’s london edition of ovid's metamorphoses englished. main article: metamorphoses the metamorphoses, ovid's most ambitious and well-known work, consists of a -book catalogue written in dactylic hexameter about transformations in greek and roman mythology set within a loose mytho-historical framework. the word "metamorphoses" is of greek origin and means "transformations". appropriately, the characters in this work undergo many different transformations. within an extent of nearly , verses, almost different myths are mentioned. each myth is set outdoors where the mortals are often vulnerable to external influences. the poem stands in the tradition of mythological and aetiological catalogue poetry such as hesiod's catalogue of women, callimachus' aetia, nicander's heteroeumena, and parthenius' metamorphoses. the first book describes the formation of the world, the ages of man, the flood, the story of daphne's rape by apollo and io's by jupiter. the second book opens with phaethon and continues describing the love of jupiter with callisto and europa. the third book focuses on the mythology of thebes with the stories of cadmus, actaeon, and pentheus. the fourth book focuses on three pairs of lovers: pyramus and thisbe, salmacis and hermaphroditus, and perseus and andromeda. the fifth book focuses on the song of the muses, which describes the rape of proserpina. the sixth book is a collection of stories about the rivalry between gods and mortals, beginning with arachne and ending with philomela. the seventh book focuses on medea, as well as cephalus and procris. the eighth book focuses on daedalus' flight, the calydonian boar hunt, and the contrast between pious baucis and philemon and the wicked erysichthon. the ninth book focuses on heracles and the incestuous byblis. the tenth book focuses on stories of doomed love, such as orpheus, who sings about hyacinthus, as well as pygmalion, myrrha, and adonis. the eleventh book compares the marriage of peleus and thetis with the love of ceyx and alcyone. the twelfth book moves from myth to history describing the exploits of achilles, the battle of the centaurs, and iphigeneia. the thirteenth book discusses the contest over achilles' arms, and polyphemus. the fourteenth moves to italy, describing the journey of aeneas, pomona and vertumnus, and romulus. the final book opens with a philosophical lecture by pythagoras and the deification of caesar. the end of the poem praises augustus and expresses ovid's belief that his poem has earned him immortality. in analyzing the metamorphoses, scholars have focused on ovid's organization of his vast body of material. the ways that stories are linked by geography, themes, or contrasts creates interesting effects and constantly forces the reader to evaluate the connections. ovid also varies his tone and material from different literary genres; g. b. conte has called the poem "a sort of gallery of these various literary genres".[ ] in this spirit, ovid engages creatively with his predecessors, alluding to the full spectrum of classical poetry. ovid's use of alexandrian epic, or elegiac couplets, shows his fusion of erotic and psychological style with traditional forms of epic. a concept drawn from the metamorphoses is the idea of the white lie or pious fraud: "pia mendacia fraude". fasti ("the festivals")[edit] main article: fasti (poem) six books in elegiacs survive of this second ambitious poem that ovid was working on when he was exiled. the six books cover the first semester of the year, with each book dedicated to a different month of the roman calendar (january to june). the project seems unprecedented in roman literature. it seems that ovid planned to cover the whole year, but was unable to finish because of his exile, although he did revise sections of the work at tomis, and he claims at trist. . – that his work was interrupted after six books. like the metamorphoses, the fasti was to be a long poem and emulated aetiological poetry by writers like callimachus and, more recently, propertius and his fourth book. the poem goes through the roman calendar, explaining the origins and customs of important roman festivals, digressing on mythical stories, and giving astronomical and agricultural information appropriate to the season. the poem was probably dedicated to augustus initially, but perhaps the death of the emperor prompted ovid to change the dedication to honor germanicus. ovid uses direct inquiry of gods and scholarly research to talk about the calendar and regularly calls himself a vates, a priest. he also seems to emphasize unsavory, popular traditions of the festivals, imbuing the poem with a popular, plebeian flavor, which some have interpreted as subversive to the augustan moral legislation.[ ] while this poem has always been invaluable to students of roman religion and culture for the wealth of antiquarian material it preserves, it recently has been seen as one of ovid's finest literary works and a unique contribution to roman elegiac poetry. ibis ("the ibis")[edit] main article: ibis (ovid) the ibis is an elegiac poem in lines, in which ovid uses a dazzling array of mythic stories to curse and attack an enemy who is harming him in exile. at the beginning of the poem, ovid claims that his poetry up to that point had been harmless, but now he is going to use his abilities to hurt his enemy. he cites callimachus' ibis as his inspiration and calls all the gods to make his curse effective. ovid uses mythical exempla to condemn his enemy in the afterlife, cites evil prodigies that attended his birth, and then in the next lines wishes that the torments of mythological characters befall his enemy. the poem ends with a prayer that the gods make his curse effective. tristia ("sorrows")[edit] main article: tristia the tristia consist of five books of elegiac poetry composed by ovid in exile in tomis. book contains poems; the first piece is an address by ovid to his book about how it should act when it arrives in rome. poem describes his final night in rome, poems and ovid's voyage to tomis, the betrayal of a friend, and and the loyalty of his friends and wife. in the final poem ovid apologizes for the quality and tone of his book, a sentiment echoed throughout the collection. book consists of one long poem in which ovid defends himself and his poetry, uses precedents to justify his work, and begs the emperor for forgiveness. book in poems focuses on ovid's life in tomis. the opening poem describes his book's arrival in rome to find ovid's works banned. poems , , and focus on the seasons spent in tomis, on the origins of the place, and , , and his emotional distress and longing for home. the final poem is again an apology for his work. the fourth book has ten poems addressed mostly to friends. poem expresses his love of poetry and the solace it brings; while describes a triumph of tiberius. poems – are to friends, a request for correspondence, and an autobiography. the final book of the tristia with poems focuses on his wife and friends. poems , , , and are addressed to his wife, and are prayers to augustus and bacchus, and are to friends, to an enemy. poem asks for letters, while and are apologies to his readers for the quality of his poetry. epistulae ex ponto ("letters from the black sea")[edit] main article: epistulae ex ponto the epistulae ex ponto is a collection in four books of further poetry from exile. the epistulae are each addressed to a different friend and focus more desperately than the tristia on securing his recall from exile. the poems mainly deal with requests for friends to speak on his behalf to members of the imperial family, discussions of writing with friends, and descriptions of life in exile. the first book has ten pieces in which ovid describes the state of his health ( ), his hopes, memories, and yearning for rome ( , , ), and his needs in exile ( ). book contains impassioned requests to germanicus ( and ) and various friends to speak on his behalf at rome while he describes his despair and life in exile. book has nine poems in which ovid addresses his wife ( ) and various friends. it includes a telling of the story of iphigenia in tauris ( ), a poem against criticism ( ), and a dream of cupid ( ). book , the final work of ovid, in poems talks to friends and describes his life as an exile further. poems and describe winter and spring at tomis, poem is halfhearted praise for tomis, describes its geography and climate, and and are congratulations on friends for their consulships and requests for help. poem is addressed to a tuticanus, whose name, ovid complains, does not fit into meter. the final poem is addressed to an enemy whom ovid implores to leave him alone. the last elegiac couplet is translated: "where’s the joy in stabbing your steel into my dead flesh?/ there’s no place left where i can be dealt fresh wounds."[ ] lost works[edit] one loss, which ovid himself described, is the first five-book edition of the amores, from which nothing has come down to us. the greatest loss is ovid's only tragedy, medea, from which only a few lines are preserved. quintilian admired the work a great deal and considered it a prime example of ovid's poetic talent.[ ] lactantius quotes from a lost translation by ovid of aratus' phaenomena, although the poem's ascription to ovid is insecure because it is never mentioned in ovid's other works.[ ] a line from a work entitled epigrammata is cited by priscian.[ ] even though it is unlikely, if the last six books of the fasti ever existed, they constitute a great loss. ovid also mentions some occasional poetry (epithalamium,[ ] dirge,[ ] even a rendering in getic[ ]) which does not survive. also lost is the final portion of the medicamina. spurious works[edit] consolatio ad liviam ("consolation to livia")[edit] the consolatio is a long elegiac poem of consolation to augustus' wife livia on the death of her son nero claudius drusus. the poem opens by advising livia not to try to hide her sad emotions and contrasts drusus' military virtue with his death. drusus' funeral and the tributes of the imperial family are described as are his final moments and livia's lament over the body, which is compared to birds. the laments of the city of rome as it greets his funeral procession and the gods are mentioned, and mars from his temple dissuades the tiber river from quenching the pyre out of grief.[ ] grief is expressed for his lost military honors, his wife, and his mother. the poet asks livia to look for consolation in tiberius. the poem ends with an address by drusus to livia assuring him of his fate in elysium. although this poem was connected to the elegiae in maecenatem, it is now thought that they are unconnected. the date of the piece is unknown, but a date in the reign of tiberius has been suggested because of that emperor's prominence in the poem.[ ] halieutica ("on fishing")[edit] the halieutica is a fragmentary didactic poem in poorly preserved hexameter lines and is considered spurious. the poem begins by describing how every animal possesses the ability to protect itself and how fish use ars to help themselves. the ability of dogs and land creatures to protect themselves is described. the poem goes on to list the best places for fishing, and which types of fish to catch. although pliny the elder mentions a halieutica by ovid, which was composed at tomis near the end of ovid's life, modern scholars believe pliny was mistaken in his attribution and that the poem is not genuine.[ ] nux ("the walnut tree")[edit] this short poem in elegiac couplets is related to aesop's fable of "the walnut tree" that was the subject of human ingratitude. in a monologue asking boys not pelt it with stones to get its fruit, the tree contrasts the formerly fruitful golden age with the present barren time, in which its fruit is violently ripped off and its branches broken. in the course of this, the tree compares itself to several mythological characters, praises the peace that the emperor provides and prays to be destroyed rather than suffer. the poem is considered spurious because it incorporates allusions to ovid's works in an uncharacteristic way, although the piece is thought to be contemporary with ovid.[ ] somnium ("the dream")[edit] this poem, traditionally placed at amores . , is considered spurious. the poet describes a dream to an interpreter, saying that he sees while escaping from the heat of noon a white heifer near a bull; when the heifer is pecked by a crow, it leaves the bull for a meadow with other bulls. the interpreter interprets the dream as a love allegory; the bull represents the poet, the heifer a girl, and the crow an old woman. the old woman spurs the girl to leave her lover and find someone else. the poem is known to have circulated independently and its lack of engagement with tibullan or propertian elegy argue in favor of its spuriousness; however, the poem does seem to be datable to the early empire.[ ] style[edit] ovid is traditionally considered the final significant love elegist in the evolution of the genre and one of the most versatile in his handling of the genre's conventions. like the other canonical elegiac poets ovid takes on a persona in his works that emphasizes subjectivity and personal emotion over traditional militaristic and public goals, a convention that some scholars link to the relative stability provided by the augustan settlement.[ ][ ] however, although catullus, tibullus and propertius may have been inspired in part by personal experience, the validity of "biographical" readings of these poets' works is a serious point of scholarly contention.[ ] ovid has been seen as taking on a persona in his poetry that is far more emotionally detached from his mistress and less involved in crafting a unique emotional realism within the text than the other elegists.[ ] this attitude, coupled with the lack of testimony that identifies ovid's corinna with a real person[ ] has led scholars to conclude that corinna was never a real person – and that ovid's relationship with her is an invention for his elegiac project.[ ] some scholars have even interpreted corinna as a metapoetic symbol for the elegiac genre itself.[ ] ovid has been considered a highly inventive love elegist who plays with traditional elegiac conventions and elaborates the themes of the genre;[ ] quintilian even calls him a "sportive" elegist.[ ] in some poems, he uses traditional conventions in new ways, such as the paraklausithyron of am. . , while other poems seem to have no elegiac precedents and appear to be ovid's own generic innovations, such as the poem on corinna's ruined hair (am. . ). ovid has been traditionally seen as far more sexually explicit in his poetry than the other elegists.[ ] his erotic elegy covers a wide spectrum of themes and viewpoints; the amores focus on ovid's relationship with corinna, the love of mythical characters is the subject of the heroides, and the ars amatoria and the other didactic love poems provide a handbook for relationships and seduction from a (mock-)"scientific" viewpoint. in his treatment of elegy, scholars have traced the influence of rhetorical education in his enumeration, in his effects of surprise, and in his transitional devices.[ ] some commentators have also noted the influence of ovid's interest in love elegy in his other works, such as the fasti, and have distinguished his "elegiac" style from his "epic" style. richard heinze in his famous ovids elegische erzählung ( ) delineated the distinction between ovid's styles by comparing the fasti and metamorphoses versions of the same legends, such as the treatment of the ceres–proserpina story in both poems. heinze demonstrated that, "whereas in the elegiac poems a sentimental and tender tone prevails, the hexameter narrative is characterized by an emphasis on solemnity and awe..."[ ] his general line of argument has been accepted by brooks otis, who wrote: the gods are "serious" in epic as they are not in elegy; the speeches in epic are long and infrequent compared to the short, truncated and frequent speeches of elegy; the epic writer conceals himself while the elegiac fills his narrative with familiar remarks to the reader or his characters; above all perhaps, epic narrative is continuous and symmetrical... whereas elegiac narrative displays a marked asymmetry ...[ ] otis wrote that in the ovidian poems of love, he "was burlesquing an old theme rather than inventing a new one".[ ] otis states that the heroides are more serious and, though some of them are "quite different from anything ovid had done before [...] he is here also treading a very well-worn path" to relate that the motif of females abandoned by or separated from their men was a "stock motif of hellenistic and neoteric poetry (the classic example for us is, of course, catullus )".[ ] otis also states that phaedra and medea, dido and hermione (also present in the poem) "are clever re-touchings of euripides and vergil".[ ] some scholars, such as kenney and clausen, have compared ovid with virgil. according to them, virgil was ambiguous and ambivalent while ovid was defined and, while ovid wrote only what he could express, virgil wrote for the use of language.[ ] legacy[edit] criticism[edit] a figure from ovide moralisé, edition by colard mansion. ovid's works have been interpreted in various ways over the centuries with attitudes that depended on the social, religious and literary contexts of different times. it is known that since his own lifetime, he was already famous and criticized. in the remedia amoris, ovid reports criticism from people who considered his books insolent.[ ] ovid responded to this criticism with the following: gluttonous envy, burst: my name’s well known already it will be more so, if only my feet travel the road they’ve started. but you’re in too much of a hurry: if i live you’ll be more than sorry: many poems, in fact, are forming in my mind.[ ] after such criticism subsided, ovid became one of the best known and most loved roman poets during the middle ages and the renaissance.[ ] writers in the middle ages used his work as a way to read and write about sex and violence without orthodox "scrutiny routinely given to commentaries on the bible".[ ] in the middle ages the voluminous ovide moralisé, a french work that moralizes books of the metamorphoses was composed. this work then influenced chaucer. ovid's poetry provided inspiration for the renaissance idea of humanism, and more specifically, for many renaissance painters and writers. likewise, arthur golding moralized his own translation of the full books, and published it in . this version was the same version used as a supplement to the original latin in the tudor-era grammar schools that influenced such major renaissance authors as christopher marlowe and william shakespeare. many non-english authors were heavily influenced by ovid's works as well. montaigne, for example, alluded to ovid several times in his essais, specifically in his comments on education of children when he says: the first taste i had for books came to me from my pleasure in the fables of the metamorphoses of ovid. for at about seven or eight years of age i would steal away from any other pleasure to read them, inasmuch as this language was my mother tongue, and it was the easiest book i knew and the best suited by its content to my tender age.[ ] miguel de cervantes also used the metamorphoses as a platform of inspiration for his prodigious novel don quixote. delacroix, ovid among the scythians, . national gallery (london). in the th century, some jesuit schools of portugal cut several passages from ovid's metamorphoses. while the jesuits saw his poems as elegant compositions worthy of being presented to students for educational purposes, they also felt his works as a whole might corrupt students.[ ] the jesuits took much of their knowledge of ovid to the portuguese colonies. according to serafim leite ( ), the ratio studiorum was in effect in colonial brazil during the early th century, and in this period brazilian students read works like the epistulae ex ponto to learn latin grammar.[ ] in spain, ovid is both praised and criticized by cervantes in his don quixote, where he warns against satires that can exile poets, as happened to ovid.[ ] in the th century, ovid's works were criticized in england. the archbishop of canterbury and the bishop of london ordered that a contemporary translation of ovid's love poems be publicly burned in . the puritans of the following century viewed ovid as pagan, thus as an immoral influence.[ ] john dryden composed a famous translation of the metamorphoses into stopped rhyming couplets during the th century, when ovid was "refashioned [...] in its own image, one kind of augustanism making over another".[ ] the romantic movement of the th century, in contrast, considered ovid and his poems "stuffy, dull, over-formalized and lacking in genuine passion".[ ] romantics might have preferred his poetry of exile.[ ] the picture ovid among the scythians, painted by delacroix, portrays the last years of the poet in exile in scythia, and was seen by baudelaire, gautier and edgar degas.[ ] baudelaire took the opportunity to write a long essay about the life of an exiled poet like ovid.[ ] this shows that the exile of ovid had some influence in th century romanticism since it makes connections with its key concepts such as wildness and the misunderstood genius.[ ] the exile poems were once viewed unfavorably in ovid's oeuvre.[ ] they have enjoyed a resurgence of scholarly interest in recent years, though critical opinion remains divided on several qualities of the poems, such as their intended audience and whether ovid was sincere in the "recantation of all that he stood for before".[ ] ovid's influence[edit] ovid as imagined in the nuremberg chronicle, . literary and artistic[edit] 	(c. – ) moduin, a poet in the court circle of charlemagne, adopts the pen name naso. 	( th century) the troubadours and the medieval courtoise literature. in particular, the passage describing the holy grail in the conte du graal by chrétien de troyes contains elements from the metamorphoses.[ ] 	( th century) the roman de la rose, dante alighieri 	( th century) petrarch, geoffrey chaucer, juan ruiz 	( th century) sandro botticelli 	( th century– th century) luís de camões, christopher marlowe, william shakespeare, john marston, thomas edwards 	( th century) john milton, gian lorenzo bernini, miguel de cervantes's don quixote, and , luis de góngora's la fábula de polifemo y galatea, , landscape with pyramus and thisbe by nicolas poussin, , stormy landscape with philemon and baucis by peter paul rubens, c. , "divine narcissus" by sor juana inés de la cruz c. .[ ] 	( s) during his odessa exile, alexander pushkin compared himself to ovid; memorably versified in the epistle to ovid ( ). the exiled ovid also features in his long poem gypsies, set in moldavia ( ), and in canto viii of eugene onegin ( – ). 	( ) james joyce's a portrait of the artist as a young man has a quotation from book of metamorphoses and introduces stephen dedalus. the ovidian reference to "daedalus" was in stephen hero, but then metamorphosed to "dedalus" in a portrait of the artist as a young man and in ulysses. 	( s) the title of the second poetry collection by osip mandelstam, tristia (berlin, ), refers to ovid's book. mandelstam's collection is about his hungry, violent years immediately after the october revolution. 	( ) six metamorphoses after ovid by benjamin britten, for solo oboe, evokes images of ovid's characters from metamorphoses. 	( ) god was born in exile, the novel by the romanian writer vintila horia about ovid's stay in exile (the novel received the prix goncourt in ). 	( s– s) bob dylan has made repeated use of ovid's wording, imagery, and themes. 	( ) his album modern times contains songs with borrowed lines from ovid's poems of exile, from peter green's translation. the songs are "workingman's blues # ", "ain't talkin'", "the levee's gonna break", and "spirit on the water". 	( ) australian author david malouf's novel an imaginary life is about ovid's exile in tomis. 	( ) in pandora, by anne rice, pandora cites ovid as a favorite poet and author of the time, quoting him to her lover marius de romanus. 	( ) the art of love by robin brooks, a comedy, emphasizing ovid's role as lover. broadcast may on bbc radio , with bill nighy and anne-marie duff (not to be confused with the radio play by the same title on radio ). 	( ) the art of love by andrew rissik, a drama, part of a trilogy, which speculates on the crime that sent ovid into exile. broadcast april on bbc radio , with stephen dillane and juliet aubrey (not to be confused with the radio play by the same title on radio ).[ ] 	( ) russian author alexander zorich's novel roman star is about the last years of ovid's life. 	( ) the play "the land of oblivion " by russian-american dramatist mikhail berman-tsikinovsky was published in russian by vagrius plus (moscow).the play was based on author's new hypothesis unrevealing the mystery of ovid's exile to tomi by augustus. 	( ) "the love song of ovid", a two-hour radio documentary by damiano pietropaolo, recorded on location in rome (the recently restored house of augustus on the roman forum), sulmona (ovid's birthplace) and constanta (modern day tomis, in romania). broadcast on the canadian broadcasting corporation, cbc radio one, and dec . 	( ) the house of rumour, a novel by british author jake arnott, opens with a passage from metamorphoses . – , and the author muses on ovid's prediction of the internet in that passage. 	( ) mikhail berman-tsikinovsky's "to ovid, years later, (a road tale)" describes the author's visits to the places of ovid's birth and death. 	( ) in the walking dead season , episode ("now"), deanna begins making a long-term plan to make her besieged community sustainable and writes on her blueprint a latin phrase attributed to ovid: "dolor hic tibi proderit olim".[ ] the phrase is an excerpt from the longer phrase, "perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim" (english translation: be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you").[ ] 	( ) canadian composer marc sabat and german poet uljana wolf collaborated on a free homophonic translation of the first lines of ovid's metamorphoseon to create the cantata seeds of skies, alibis premiered by the vocal ensemble ekmeles in new york on february .[ ] dante twice mentions him in: 	de vulgari eloquentia, along with lucan, virgil and statius as one of the four regulati poetae (ii, vi, ) 	inferno as ranking alongside homer, horace, lucan and virgil (inferno, iv, ) retellings, adaptations, and translations of ovidian works[edit] metamorphoses, 	( ) the wisdom of the ancients, a retelling and interpretation of ovidian fables by francis bacon 	( ) apollo et hyacinthus, an early opera by wolfgang amadeus mozart 	( ) daphne, an opera by richard strauss 	( ) orphée, a film by jean cocteau, retelling of the orpheus myth from the metamorphoses 	( ) ovid's metamorphoses (translation in blank verse), by brookes more 	( ) ovid's metamorphoses in european culture (commentary), by wilmon brewer 	( ) the last world by christoph ransmayr 	( ) polaroid stories by naomi iizuka, a retelling of metamorphoses, with urchins and drug addicts as the gods. 	( ) after ovid: new metamorphoses edited by michael hofmann and james lasdun is an anthology of contemporary poetry envisioning ovid's metamorphoses 	( ) tales from ovid by ted hughes is a modern poetic translation of twenty four passages from metamorphoses 	( ) ovid metamorphosed edited by phil terry, a short story collection retelling several of ovid's fables 	( ) an adaptation of metamorphoses of the same name by mary zimmerman was performed at the circle in the square theatre[ ] 	( ) patricia barber's song cycle, mythologies 	( ) tristes pontiques, translated from latin by marie darrieussecq 	( ) a stage adaptation of metamorphoses by peter bramley, entitled ovid's metamorphoses was performed by pants on fire, presented by the carol tambor theatrical foundation at the flea theater in new york city and toured the united kingdom 	( ) "the song of phaethon", a post-rock/musique concrète song written and performed by ian crause (former leader of disco inferno) in greek epic style, based on a metamorphoses tale (as recounted in hughes' tales from ovid) and drawing parallels between mythology and current affairs 	( ) clare pollard, ovid's heroines (bloodaxe), new poetic version of heroides gallery[edit] 	 			 			 ovid by anton von werner. 			 		 	 			 			 ovid by luca signorelli. 			 		 	 			 			 scythians at the tomb of ovid (c. ), by johann heinrich schönfeld. 			 		 	 			 			 bust of ovid by anonymous sculptor, uffizi gallery florence 			 		 see also[edit] 	ancient rome portal 	literature portal 	biography portal 	cultural influence of metamorphoses 	list of characters in metamorphoses 	metamorphoses ( film) 	ovid prize 	prosody (latin) 	sabinus (ovid) 	sexuality in ancient rome notes[edit] 	a. ^ the cognomen naso means "the one with the nose" (i.e. "bignose"). ovid habitually refers to himself by his nickname in his poetry because the latin name ovidius does not fit into elegiac metre. 	b. ^ it was a pivotal year in the history of rome. a year before ovid's birth, the murder of julius caesar took place, an event that precipitated the end of the republican regime. after caesar's death, a series of civil wars and alliances followed (see roman civil wars), until the victory of caesar's nephew, octavius (later called augustus) over mark antony (leading supporter of caesar), from which arose a new political order.[ ] 	c. ^ fasti is, in fact, unfinished. metamorphoses was already completed in the year of exile, missing only the final revision.[ ] in exile, ovid said he never gave a final review on the poem.[ ] 	d. ^ ovid cites scythia in i , ii , v , vii , viii , xv , , , and others. references[edit] 	^ random house webster's unabridged dictionary: "ovid" 	^ fergus millar, "ovid and the domus augusta: rome seen from tomoi", journal of roman studies ( ), p.  . 	^ a b quint. inst. . . 	^ mark p.o. morford, robert j. lenardon, classical mythology (oxford university press us, ), p. . isbn  , - 	^ seneca, cont. . . and . . 	^ trist. . . 	^ trist. . . – 	^ trist. . ff.; ex p. . ff. 	^ fast. . – 	^ trist. . . 	^ trist. . . – 	^ hornblower, simon; spawforth, antony; eidinow, esther ( ). the oxford companion to classical civilization. oxford university press. p.  . isbn  - . 	^ brill's new pauly: encyclopaedia of the ancient world s.v. ovid 	^ the most recent chart that describes the dating of ovid's works is in knox. p. "a poet's life" in a companion to ovid ed. peter knox (oxford, ) pp. xvii–xviii 	^ a b trist. . . – 	^ hornblower, simon; antony spawforth ( ). oxford classical dictionary. oxford university press. p.  . 	^ see trist. ii, – . 	^ ovid, tristia . 	^ ovid, epistulae ex ponto . . 	^ ovid, epistulae ex ponto . . 	^ norwood, frances, "the riddle of ovid's relegatio", classical philology ( ) p. 	^ josé gonzález vázquez (trans.), ov. tristes e pónticas (editorial gredos, madrid, ), p. and rafael herrera montero (trans.), ov. tristes; cartas del ponto (alianza editorial, madrid, ). the scholars also add that it was no more indecent than many publications by propertius, tibullus and horace that circulated freely in that time. 	^ the first two lines of the tristia communicate his misery:parve – nec invideo – sine me, liber, ibis in urbem; ei mihi, quod domino non licet ire tuo! 	"little book – for i don't begrudge it – go on to the city without me; alas for me, because your master is not allowed to go with you!" 	^ j. c. thibault, the mystery of ovid's exile (berkeley-l. a. ), pp. – . 	^ about mentions, according to thibault (mystery, pp. – ). 	^ a. w. j. holleman, "ovid's exile", liverpool classical monthly . ( ), p. . h. hofmann, "the unreality of ovid's tomitan exile once again", liverpool classical monthly . ( ), p. . 	^ a. d. f. brown, "the unreality of ovid's tomitan exile", liverpool classical monthly . ( ), pp. – . 	^ cf. the summary provided by a. alvar ezquerra, exilio y elegía latina entre la antigüedad y el renacimiento (huelva, ), pp. – 	^ naturalis historia, . : "his adiciemus ab ovidio posita animalia, quae apud neminem alium reperiuntur, sed fortassis in ponto nascentia, ubi id volumen supremis suis temporibus inchoavit". 	^ silvae, . , – : "nec tristis in ipsis naso tomis". 	^ short references in jerome (chronicon, , an. tiberii , an. dom. : "ovidius poeta in exilio diem obiit et iuxta oppidum tomos sepelitur") and in epitome de caesaribus (i, : "nam [augustus] poetam ovidium, qui et naso, pro eo, quod tres libellos amatoriae artis conscripsit, exilio damnavit"). 	^ a. d. f. brown, "the unreality of ovid's tomitan exile", liverpool classical monthly . ( ), pp. – . 	^ j. m. claassen, "error and the imperial household: an angry god and the exiled ovid's fate", acta classica: proceedings of the classical association of south africa ( ), pp. – . 	^ although some authors such as martin (p. m. martin, "À propos de l'exil d'ovide... et de la succession d'auguste", latomus ( ), pp. – .) and porte (d. porte, "un épisode satirique des fastes et l'exil d'ovide", latomus ( ), pp. – .) detected in a passage of the fasti ( . – ) an ovidian attitude contrary to the wishes of augustus to his succession, most researchers agree that this work is the clearest testimony of support of augustan ideals by ovid (e. fantham, ovid: fasti. book iv (cambridge ), p. .) 	^ smith, r. scott ( march ). ancient rome: an anthology of sources. hackett publishing. isbn  - . 	^ green, steven j. ( january ). ovid, fasti : a commentary. brill. p.  . isbn  - . 	^ knox, p. ovid's heroides: select epistles (cambridge, ) pp. ff. 	^ knox, p. pp. – 	^ knox, p. pp. ff. 	^ athanassaki, lucia ( ). "the triumph of love in ovid's amores , ". materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici. no. ( ): – . doi: . / . jstor  . 	^ conte, g. p. 	^ book verse , : "if you do not know the art of love, read my book, and you will be a 'doctor' of love in the future". 	^ liveley, genevieve. ( ). ovid's metamorphoses : a reader's guide. london: continuum. isbn  - - - - . oclc  . 	^ conte, g. latin literature a history trans. j. solodow (baltimore, ) p. 	^ conte, g. p. 	^ herbert-brown, g. "fasti: the poet, the prince, and the plebs" in knox, p. ( ) pp. ff. 	^ poetryintranslation.com, a translation of all of ovid's exile poetry can be found here by a. s. kline, 	^ quint. inst. . . . cfr. tacitus, dial. orat. . 	^ lact. div. inst. . . . another quotation by probus ad verg. georg. , 	^ inst. gramm. , , gramm. lat. , , keil. 	^ ex p. . . 	^ ex p. . . 	^ ex p. . . > 	^ a b knox, p. "lost and spurious works" in knox, p. ( ) p. 	^ pliny nat. . and . and knox, p. "lost" in knox, p. ( ) 	^ knox, p. "lost" in knox, p. ( ) pp. – 	^ knox, p. "lost" in knox, p. ( ) pp. – 	^ ettore bignone, historia de la literatura latina (buenos aires: losada, ), p. . 	^ a. guillemin, "l’élement humain dans l’élégie latine". in: revue des études latines (paris: les belles lettres, ), p. . 	^ in fact, it is generally accepted in most modern classical scholarship on elegy that the poems have little connection to autobiography or external reality. see wycke, m. "written women:propertius' scripta puella" in jrs and davis, j. fictus adulter: poet as auctor in the amores (amsterdam, ) and booth, j. "the amores: ovid making love" in a companion to ovid (oxford, ) pp. ff. 	^ booth, j. pp. – . she explains: "the text of the amores hints at the narrator's lack of interest in depicting unique and personal emotion." p. 	^ apuleius apology provides the real names for every elegist's mistress except ovid's. 	^ barsby, j. ovid amores (oxford, ) pp. ff. 	^ keith, a. "corpus eroticum: elegiac poetics and elegiac puellae in ovid's 'amores'" in classical world ( ) – . 	^ barsby, p. . 	^ booth, j. p. 	^ jean bayet, literatura latina (barcelona: ariel, ), p. and barsby, pp. ff. 	^ quoted by theodore f. brunner, "deinon vs. eleeinon: heinze revisited" in: the american journal of philology, vol. , no. (apr. ), pp. – . 	^ brooks otis, ovid as an epic poet (cup archive, ), p. . isbn  , - 	^ a b c brooks otis, ovid as an epic poet, p. . 	^ kenney, e. j. y clausenl, w. v. história de la literatura clásica (cambridge university), vol. ii. literatura latina. madrid: gredos, w/d, p. . 	^ ov. rem. vi, . 	^ ov. rem. vi, – . translated by a. s. kline and available in ovid: cures for love ( ). 	^ a b c see chapters ii and iv in p. gatti, ovid in antike und mittelalter. geschichte der philologischen rezeption, stuttgart , isbn  - ; peter green (trad.), the poems of exile: tristia and the black sea letters (university of california press, ), p. xiii. isbn  , - 	^ robert levine, "exploiting ovid: medieval allegorizations of the metamorphoses," medioevo romanzo xiv ( ), pp. – . 	^ michel de montaigne, the complete essays of montaigne (translated by donald m. frame), stanford university press , p. . isbn  , - 	^ agostinho de jesus domingues, os clássicos latinos nas antologias escolares dos jesuítas nos primeiros ciclos de estudos pré-elementares no século xvi em portugal (faculdade de letras da universidade do porto, ), porto, pp. – . 	^ serafim da silva leite, história da companhia de jesus no brasil. rio de janeiro, instituto nacional do livro, , pp. – – tomo vii. 	^ frederick a. de armas, ovid in the age of cervantes (toronto: university of toronto press, ), pp. – . 	^ ovid's metamorphoses, alan h. f. griffin, greece & rome, second series, vol. , no. (apr. ), pp. – . cambridge university press. 	^ peter green (trad.), the poems of exile: tristia and the black sea letters (university of california press, ), p. xiv. isbn  , - 	^ "recent acquisitions, a selection: – ," in the metropolitan museum of art bulletin, v. , no. (fall, ). 	^ timothy bell raser, the simplest of signs: victor hugo and the language of images in france, – (university of delaware press, ), p. . isbn  , - 	^ matt cartmill, a view to a death in the morning: hunting and nature through history, harvard university press, , pp. – . isbn  	^ ovid ( ). the poems of exile: tristia and the black sea letters. translated by green, peter. university of california press. p. xxxvi. isbn  - . 	^ claassen, jo-marie ( ). ovid revisited: the poet in exile. a&c black. p.  . isbn  - . 	^ peron, goulven. l'influence des metamorphoses d'ovide sur la visite de perceval au chateau du roi pecheur, journal of the international arthurian society, vol. , issue , , pp. – . 	^ tavard, george h. juana ines de la cruz and the theology of beauty: the first mexican theology, university of notre dame press, notre dame, in, , pp. – 	^ reynolds, gillian ( april ). "tune in, and turn back the clock". the daily telegraph. london. 	^ ovid. "elegy xi: weary at length of his mistress' infidelities, he swears that he will love her no longer". sacred texts. retrieved november . 	^ faherty, allanah faherty ( november ). " things you might have missed in the walking dead 'now'". moviepilot. archived from the original on november . retrieved november . 	^ "seeds of skies, alibis". 	^ talkinbroadway.com, review: metamorphoses 	^ (in portuguese) met., ovid, translation to portuguese by paulo farmhouse alberto, livros cotovia, intro, p. . 	^ carlos de miguel moura. o mistério do exílio ovidiano. in portuguese. in: Àgora. estudos clássicos em debate ( ), pp. – . 	^ tristia , , . editions[edit] 	mckeown, j. (ed), ovid: amores. text, prolegomena and commentary in four volumes, vol. i–iii (liverpool, – ) (arca, , , ). 	ryan, m. b.; perkins, c. a. (ed.), ovid's amores, book one: a commentary (norman: university of oklahoma press, ) (oklahoma series in classical culture, ). 	tarrant, r. j. (ed.), p. ovidi nasonis metamorphoses (oxford: oup, ) (oxford classical texts). 	anderson, w. s., ovid's metamorphoses, books – (norman: university of oklahoma press, ). 	anderson, w. s., ovid's metamorphoses, books – (norman: university of oklahoma press, ). 	kenney, e. j. (ed.), p. ovidi nasonis amores, medicamina faciei femineae, ars amatoria, remedia amoris (oxford: oup, ) (oxford classical texts). 	myers, k. sara ovid metamorphoses . cambridge greek and latin classics. (cambridge university press, ). 	ramírez de verger, a. (ed.), ovidius, carmina amatoria. amores. medicamina faciei femineae. ars amatoria. remedia amoris. (münchen & leipzig: saur, ) (bibliotheca teubneriana). 	dörrie, h. (ed.), epistulae heroidum / p. ovidius naso (berlin & new york: de gruyter, ) (texte und kommentare ; bd. ). 	fornaro, p. (ed.), publio ovidio nasone, heroides (alessandria: edizioni del'orso, ) 	alton, e.h.; wormell, d.e.w.; courtney, e. (eds.), p. ovidi nasonis fastorum libri sex (stuttgart & leipzig: teubner, ) (bibliotheca teubneriana). 	fantham, elaine. fasti. book iv. cambridge greek and latin classics. (cambridge university press, ). 	wiseman, anne and peter wiseman ovid: fasti. (oxford university press, ). 	goold, g.p., et alii (eds.), ovid, heroides, amores; art of love, cosmetics, remedies for love, ibis, walnut-tree, sea fishing, consolation; metamorphoses; fasti; tristia, ex ponto, vol. i-vi, (cambridge, massachusetts/london: hup, – , revised ed.) (loeb classical library) 	hall, j.b. (ed.), p. ovidi nasonis tristia (stuttgart & leipzig: teubner ) (bibliotheca teubneriana). 	ingleheart, jennifer tristia book . (oxford university press, ). 	richmond, j. a. (ed.), p. ovidi nasonis ex ponto libri quattuor (stuttgart & leipzig: teubner ) (bibliotheca teubneriana). further reading[edit] 	william turpin ( ). ovid, amores (book ). open book publishers. a free textbook for download. 	brewer, wilmon, ovid's metamorphoses in european culture (commentary), marshall jones company, francestown, nh, revised edition 	more, brookes, ovid's metamorphoses (translation in blank verse), marshall jones company, francestown, nh, revised edition 	ovid renewed: ovidian influences on literature and art from the middle ages to the twentieth century. ed. charles martindale. cambridge, . 	richard a. dwyer "ovid in the middle ages" in dictionary of the middle ages, , pp.  – 	federica bessone. p. ovidii nasonis heroidum epistula xii: medea iasoni. florence: felice le monnier, . pp.  . 	theodor heinze. p. ovidius naso. der xii. heroidenbrief: medea an jason. mit einer beilage: die fragmente der tragödie medea. einleitung, text & kommentar. mnemosyne supplement leiden: brill publishers, . pp. xi, . 	r. a. smith. poetic allusion and poetic embrace in ovid and virgil. ann arbor; the university of michigan press, . pp. ix, . 	michael simpson, the metamorphoses of ovid. amherst: university of massachusetts press, . pp.  . 	philip hardie (ed.), the cambridge companion to ovid. cambridge: cambridge university press, . pp. xvi, . 	ovid's fasti: historical readings at its bimillennium. edited by geraldine herbert-brown. oxford, oup, , pp. 	susanne gippert, joseph addison's ovid: an adaptation of the metamorphoses in the augustan age of english literature. die antike und ihr weiterleben, band . remscheid: gardez! verlag, . pp.  . 	heather van tress, poetic memory. allusion in the poetry of callimachus and the metamorphoses of ovid. mnemosyne, supplementa . leiden: brill publishers, . pp. ix, . 	ziolkowski, theodore, ovid and the moderns. ithaca: cornell university press, . pp.  . 	desmond, marilynn, ovid's art and the wife of bath: the ethics of erotic violence. ithaca: cornell university press, . pp.  . 	rimell, victoria, ovid's lovers: desire, difference, and the poetic imagination. cambridge: cambridge university press, . pp.  . 	pugh, syrithe, spenser and ovid. burlington: ashgate, . p.  . 	montuschi, claudia, il tempo in ovidio. funzioni, meccanismi, strutture. accademia la colombaria studi, . firenze: leo s. olschki, . p.  . 	pasco-pranger, molly, founding the year: ovid's fasti and the poetics of the roman calendar. mnemosyne suppl., . leiden: brill publishers, . p.  . 	martin amann, komik in den tristien ovids. (schweizerische beiträge zur altertumswissenschaft, ). basel: schwabe verlag, . pp.  . 	p. j. davis, ovid & augustus: a political reading of ovid's erotic poems. london: duckworth, . p.  . 	lee fratantuono, madness transformed: a reading of ovid's metamorphoses. lanham, maryland: lexington books, . 	peter e. knox (ed.), oxford readings in ovid. oxford: oxford university press, . p.  . 	andreas n. michalopoulos, ovid heroides and . introduction, text and commentary. (arca: classical and medieval texts, papers and monographs, ). cambridge: francis cairns, . pp. x, . 	r. gibson, s. green, s. sharrock, the art of love: bimillennial essays on ovid's ars amatoria and remedia amoris. oxford: oxford university press, . pp.  . 	johnson, patricia j. ovid before exile: art and punishment in the metamorphoses. (wisconsin studies in classics). madison, wi: the university of wisconsin press, . pp. x, . 	massimo colella, «ti trasformasti in dafne»: mythos ovidiano e metamorfosi nella poesia di eugenio montale, in «italica», , , , pp.  – . external links[edit] ovidat wikipedia's sister projects 	media from wikimedia commons 	news from wikinews 	quotations from wikiquote 	texts from wikisource 	resources from wikiversity 		latin wikisource has original text related to this article: publius ovidius naso 	library resources about ovid 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 by ovid 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	ovid at the encyclopædia britannica 	university of virginia, "ovid illustrated: the renaissance reception of ovid in image and text" 	works by ovid at project gutenberg 	works by or about ovid at internet archive 	works by ovid at librivox (public domain audiobooks) 	nihon university, "ovid metamorphoses: paris ( ) 	dickinson college commentaries: amores book 	ovid’s “metamorphoses”: a common core exemplar 	sorgll: ovid, metamorphoses viii, – , (daedalus & icarus); read by stephen daitz 	[ ] updated list of digitized medieval manuscripts and early printed editions on the internet. latin and english translation[edit] 	perseus/tufts: p. ovidius naso amores, ars amatoria, heroides (on this site called epistulae), metamorphoses, remedia amoris. enhanced brower. not downloadable. 	sacred texts archive: ovid amores, ars amatoria, medicamina faciei femineae, metamorphoses, remedia amoris. 	the metamorphoses of publius ovidius naso; elucidated by an analysis and explanation of the fables, together with english notes, historical, mythological and critical, and illustrated by pictorial embellishments: with a dictionary, giving the meaning of all the words with critical exactness. by nathan covington brooks. publisher: new york, a. s. barnes & co.; cincinnati, h. w. derby & co., (a searchable facsimile at the university of georgia libraries; djvu & layered pdf format) original latin only[edit] 	latin library: ovid amores, ars amatoria, epistulae ex ponto, fasti, heroides, ibis, metamorphoses, remedia amoris, tristia. 	works by ovid english translation only[edit] 	new translations by a. s. kline amores, ars amatoria, epistulae ex ponto, fasti, heroides, ibis, medicamina faciei femineae, metamorphoses, remedia amoris, tristia with enhanced browsing facility, downloadable in html, pdf, or ms word doc formats. site also includes wide selection of works by other authors. 	two translations from ovid's amores by jon corelis. 	english translations of ovid's amores with introductory essay and notes by jon corelis 	perseus/tufts: commentary on the heroides of ovid 		v 	t 	e poems by ovid 	 	metamorphoses 	amores 	ars amatoria 	remedia amoris 	heroides 	fasti 	tristia 	epistulae ex ponto 	ibis 	medicamina faciei femineae 	 	double heroides (authorship uncertain) 	 	 category 	associated subjects 	 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villa otium, a latin abstract term, has a variety of meanings, including leisure time in which a person can enjoy eating, playing, resting, contemplation and academic endeavors. it sometimes, but not always, relates to a time in a person's retirement after previous service to the public or private sector, opposing "active public life". otium can be a temporary time of leisure, that is sporadic. it can have intellectual, virtuous or immoral implications. it originally had the idea of withdrawing from one's daily business (negotium = neg-otium) or affairs to engage in activities that were considered to be artistically valuable or enlightening (i.e. speaking, writing, philosophy). it had particular meaning to businessmen, diplomats, philosophers and poets.[ ][ ] contents 	 etymology and origin 	 greek philosophers 	 roman republic 	 . imperial rome 	 . later writers 	 private life and public life meanings 	 other uses 	 synonyms 	 . positive sense 	 . negative sense 	 modern scholars 	 see also 	 references 	 . footnotes 	 . citations 	 . bibliography 	 further reading 	 external links etymology and origin[edit] representation of ancient roman soldiers at rest in ancient roman culture otium was a military concept as its first latin usage. this was in ennius' iphigenia.[ ] otio qui nescit uti plus negotii habet quam cum est negotium in negotio; nam cui quod agat institutum est non ullo negotio id agit, id studet, ibi mentem atque animum delectat suum: otioso in otio animus nescit quid velit hoc idem est ; em neque domi nunc nos nec militiae sumus; imus huc, hinc illuc; cum illuc ventum est, ire illinc lubet. incerte errat animus, praeterpropter vitam vivitur.[ ] he who does not know how to use leisure has more of work than when there is work in work. for to whom a task has been set, he does the work, desires it, and delights his own mind and intellect: in leisure, a mind does not know what it wants. the same is true (of us); we are neither at home nor in the battlefield; we go here and there, and wherever there is a movement, we are there too. the mind wanders unsure, except in that life is lived.[ ] — iphigenia, – according to historian carl deroux in his work studies in latin literature and roman history, the word otium appears for the first time in a chorus of ennius' iphigenia.[ ] ennius' first use of the term otium around bc showed the restlessness and boredom during a reprieve from war and was termed otium negotiosum (free time to do what one wanted) and otium otiosum (idle wasteless free time).[ ] aulus gellius, while discussing the word praeterpropter ("more or less") quotes a fragment of ennius's iphigenia, which contrasts otium with negotium repeatedly.[a] ennius imagined the emotions of agamemnon's soldiers at aulus, that while in the field and not at war and not allowed to go home, as "more or less" living.[ ] the earliest extant appearance of the word in latin literature occurs in a fragment from the soldiers' chorus in the iphigenia of ennius, where it is contrasted to negotium.[b] researches have determined the etymological and semantic use of otium was never a direct translation of the greek word "schole", but derived from specifically roman contexts. otium is an example of the usage of the term "praeterpropter", meaning more or less of leisure. it was first used in military terms related to inactivity during war.[ ] in ancient roman times soldiers were many times unoccupied, resting and bored to death when not at war (i.e., winter months, weather not permitting war).[ ] this was associated with otium otiosum (unoccupied and pointless leisure – idle leisure). the opposite of this was otium negotiosum (busy leisure) – leisure with a satisfying hobby or being able to take care of one's personal affairs or one's own estate. this was otium privatum (private leisure), equal to negotium (a type of business).[c] the oldest citation for otium is this chorus of soldiers, singing about idleness on campaign, in an otherwise lost latin tragedy by ennius.[ ] andre shows in these lines that ennius is showing the soldiers in the field would rather go home tending to their own affairs (otium) than to be idle doing nothing.[ ] its military origin meant to stop fighting in battle and laying down of the weapons[ ] – a time for peace.[ ] even though originally otium was a military concept in early roman culture of laying down one's weapons,[ ] it later became an elite prestigious time for caring for oneself.[ ] the ancient romans had a sense of obligatory work ethics in their culture and considered the idle-leisure definition of otium as a waste of time.[ ] historians of ancient roman considered otium a time of laborious leisure of much personal duties instead of public duties.[ ][ ] author almasi shows that historians jean-marie andre and brian vickers point out the only legitimate form of otium was transpired with intellectual activity.[ ] otium was thought of by the wise elite as being free from work and other obligations (negotium) and leisure time spent on productive activities, however a time that should not be wasted as was thought the non-elite did with their leisure time.[ ] greek philosophers[edit] epicurus the favorable sense of otium in ciceronian latin reflects the greek term σχολή (skholē, "leisure", a meaning retained in modern greek as σχόλη, schólē); "leisure" having a complex history in greek philosophy before being used in latin (through latin the word became the root of many education-related english terms, such as school, scholar and scholastic). in athens, leisure was one of the marks of the athenian gentleman: the time to do things right, unhurried time, time to discuss in. from there it became "discussion", and from there, philosophical and educational schools, which were both conducted by discussion. four major greek philosophical schools influenced the roman gentlemen of cicero's time. plato (and his contemporaries, if the greater hippias be not authentic) brought schole into philosophy; as often, plato can be quoted on both sides of the question whether leisure is better than the business of a citizen. in the greater hippias, it is one weakness of the title character that, although he has the education and manners of a gentleman, he has no leisure; but socrates, in the apology, has no leisure either; he is too busy as a gad-fly, keeping his fellow athenians awake to virtue.[ ] however, by the time the romans encountered plato's school, the academy, they had largely ceased to discuss anything so practical as the good life; the new academy of carneades practiced verbal agility and boundless skepticism.[ ] theophrastus and dicaearchus, students of aristotle, debated much on the contemplative life and the active life.[ ] roman epicureans used otium for the quiet bliss promised by epicurus.[ ] an epicurean proverb it is better to lie on the naked ground and be at ease, than to have a golden coach and a rich table and be worried.[ ] the phrase "to be at ease" can have the meaning "to be of good cheer" or "to be without fear" – these being interdependent. the epicurean idea of otium favors contemplation,[ ] compassion, gratitude and friendship. the epicurean view is that wisdom has as much to contribute to the benefit of the public as does that of contributions of politicians and laborers (i.e. sailors). the rustic otium concept incorporates country living into epicureanism. the active city public life of negotium and an otium of reserved country life of reflection have been much written about by cicero and seneca the younger. epicurus's philosophy was contrary to hellenistic stoicism. epicurus promised enjoyment in retirement as a concept of otium.[ ] the concept of the epicurean otium (private world of leisure) and the contemplative life were represented in epicurus' school of philosophy and his garden. the portraits of the garden of epicurus near athens represented political and cultural heroes of the time. twenty-first–century historians gregory warden and david romano have argued that the layout of the sculptures in "the garden" were designed to give the viewer contrasting viewpoints of the epicurean otium and the hellenistic stoic viewpoint of otium (i.e. private or public; contemplation or "employment"; otium or negotium).[ ] roman republic[edit] in early and colloquial latin, despite the etymological contrast, otium is often used pejoratively, in contrast rather to officium, "office, duty" than to negotium ('business"). there was a difference established in ancient roman times (second century bce and forward) developing the idea elite social status was when one fulfilled one's duties in business and then otium meant "leisure" while negotium meant "non-leisure" (work duties still needed to be done). this new time of otium was filled by greek scholarly pursuits and greek pleasures. the time environment within which a person existed had sides to it that were filled with greek customs such as pastimes, hobbies, interchanges of thoughts and ideas, and private bathing. otium and negotium was then a new social concept which has perpetuated to our own time.[ ] historian j.m. andre concludes that the original sense of otium was related to military service and the idleness that happened in the winter,[ ] as opposed to the business (negotium) of the rest of the year. the most ancient roman calendar divided the year into ten months devoted to war and farming, leaving the winter months of january and february vacant for individual otium.[ ] andre shows that the beauty of the individual otium poses rest.[ ] titus maccius plautus in his play mercator says that while you are young is the time to save up for your retirement otium so you can enjoy it later, in his claim tum in otium te conloces, dum potes, ames (then you may set yourself at your ease, drink and be amorous).[ ] cicero busy at work cicero speaks of himself, with the expression otium cum dignitate, that time spent in activities one prefers is suitable for a roman citizen who has retired from public life.[ ][ ] when he was ousted from each office, this forced an inactive period, which he used for "worthy leisure". during this time he composed tusculanae disputationes, a series of books on stoic philosophy.[ ] cicero saw free time as a time to devote to writing.[ ] cicero defines otium as leisure, avoiding active participation in politics. he further defines it as a state of security and peace (pax) – a type of "public health".[ ] it is often associated with tranquility. cicero advises in his third book on duties that when the city life becomes too much, one should retreat to the country for leisure.[ ] the term otium cum dignitate in cicero's pro sestio was to mean peace (pax) for all and distinction for some.[ ] cicero says in pro sestio, xlv., id quod est praestantissimum, maximeque optabile omnibus sanis et bonis et beatis, cum dignitate otium. that which stands first, and is most to be desired by all happy, honest and healthy-minded men, is ease with dignity.[ ] cicero explains that, while not necessarily his cup of tea, he recognized many different ways to spend leisure time and otium. in one passage of de oratore he explains that philistus spent his retirement writing history as his otium.[ ] he goes on to say in de oratore book iii that other men passed their otium of leisure due to bad weather that prevented them from doing their daily chores to playing ball, knucklebones, dice games or just games they made up. others that were "retired" from public life for whatever reason devoted their otium cum seritio (leisure with service) to poetry, mathematics, music and teaching children.[ ] german historian klaus bringmann shows in cicero's works that one can not characterize him as a hypocrite while in otium because of his sense of duty to serve the state.[ ] cicero's concept of otium does not mean selfish pursuit of pleasure. it means the well-earned leisure which is a culmination of a long career of action and achievement. it's a reward. idleness (desidia) had derogatory implications and unqualified otium was a problem for cicero's elite group of followers. its break away from civic affairs contrasted with negotia publica, participation in civic affairs of the republican aristocracy.[ ] to distinguish between plain "idleness" and aristocratic otium homestum, otium liberale or otium cum dignitate, writers of the day said that literary and philosophical pursuits were worthwhile activities and that they had benefit to res publica (the general public). these pursuits were a type of 'employment' and therefore not mere laziness.[ ][ ] cicero praises cato the elder for his respectful use of otium in his expression non-minus otii quam negotii ("no less for doing nothing than business").[ ] cicero was associating otium with writing and thinking when he admires cato for pointing out that scipio africanus claimed he was "never less idle than when he was at leisure, and never less lonely than when he was alone."[ ] cicero in his de officiis (book iii, – ) further says of scipio africanus "leisure and solitude, which serve to make others idle, in scipio's case acted as a goad." cicero's idea of otium cum dignitate ("leisure with dignity") is considerably different from today's version of the concept. in his time, this kind of "free time" was only for the few privileged elite and was mostly made possible by the toil of slaves. it was associated with an egotistic and arrogant lifestyle, compared to those who had to earn their own living with no slaves. today technology and educational systems enter into the equation on making leisure time (otium) available to almost everyone, not just the privileged elite, which enables the pursuit of hobbies.[ ] cicero has a number of different concept versions for otium. in one concept he feels that a lifetime of loyalty attending one's duty (maximos labores) should be rewarded with some form of retirement. this then promotes great sacrifices which promotes civic peace with honor within the state. he points out that the tranquillity one enjoys is due to the efforts of the majority. this concept of retirement through a lifetime of work was enjoyed only by the ruling class and the elite. the common people could only hope to enjoy a leisurely retirement with dignity as an inheritance.[ ] catullus, a late roman republic poet, in his poems shows that the significance of otium of the middle republican time of autonomy into the concept of how, why, and when a member of the patronal class might exchange political activity for literary leisure. he tended to mark otium with erotic influence.[ ] otium, catulle, tibi molestum est; otio exsultas nimiumque gestis; otium et reges prius et beatas perdidit urbes. leisure, catullus, is mischievous to you: you revel in and desire leisure too much: leisure has previously destroyed kings and bountiful cities. —  . – [ ] imperial rome[edit] a modern reconstruction of a roman villa the imperial dictatorship by augustus during the fall of the roman republic put the roman ruling classes into a state of change as their traditional role as always being in town was no longer needed. they were given much leisure time (otium) because of their wealth. the wives of wealthy men were known to write poetry in special rooms devoted to education of the entire family (except the master of the house as it would have been below his dignity).[ ] the home of choice (domus) then became the countryside villa as the rise of the roman empire made them even wealthier. they could afford almost anything they could dream up in the way of a residence, especially among the large and middle class roman landowners.[ ] greek-style architecture became their new villa otium outside of town.[ ] in ancient roman times the "otium villa " was a dionysian idealistic rural home setting that evoked peace, leisure, simplicity and serenity. often in ancient writings is found the mention of restorative powers due its natural setting (otium) in the rural country home, contrasted to the busy city life with all the businesses (negotium).[ ] the "villa with a garden" and "villa by the sea" was associated with otium.[ ] the life at the roman villa was associated with greek culture in rooms which had greek themes indicating a "superior world" of living.[ ] the imperial roman poet statius writes of a "otium villa" that he planned to retire to in naples in his work silvae: it has secure peace, an idle life of leisure, non-troubled rest and sleep. there is no madness in the market-place, no strict laws in dispute...[ ] pliny the younger exemplified the philosophy of the roman elite in otium of the time by the life he lived from his "otium villas". he would dictate letters to his secretary, read greek and latin speeches, go on walks on the villa's grounds, dine and socialize with friends, meditate, exercise, bathe, take naps and occasionally hunt.[ ] tibullus was an augustan elegiac poet who offered an alternative lifestyle to the roman ideal of the military man or the man of action. he preferred the country lifestyle. in his existing first two books of poetry he compares the lifestyle of his chief friend and patron marcus valerius messalla corvinus as a commander and soldier to that of a farmer.[ ] tibullus in his poem . rejects the work style of the rich man, adsiduus labor, and military service (militia). he shows in his poetry that originally otium was a military concept, the disuse of one's weapons.[ ] tibullus prefers the rustic agricultural landscape and a simple life. he indicates that while he would do agricultural work, he would only be interested in doing it sometimes (interdum) and therefore inserts otium (peace and leisure time) into agricultural life.[ ] he expresses in his attitude of his poetry that the qualities of the epicurean resolve to quietism (occultism – religious mysticism) and pacifism (abstention from violence) as the pursuits of ignobile otium (mean leisure) – peace of mind (peace with one's self) and detachment from worldly ambitions.[ ] seneca compares the difference in the epicurean and stoic choice of otium. he confesses that classic stoicism urges active public life while epicurus has a tendency not to advance public life unless forced to. seneca views stoicism and epicureanism as legitimate to inaction in the proper situations. he defends the stoic philosophy as leaning toward otium. the main responsibility for the stoic is to benefit the public in some manner. this could be done by the cultivation of virtue or the research of nature in retirement. this would mean a life of meditation and contemplation rather than an active political life. seneca shows that otium is not really "free time", but a study of other matters (i.e., reading, writing) other than political and career gains.[ ][ ] the increase of retirees retreating to rural villas became more attractive as writers of the day wrote that stoic ways included pursuits of reading, writing and philosophy. this meant that the work of public duties was replaced by otium liberale (liberal leisure) and was sanctified if the retiree did pursuits of reading, writing and philosophy.[ ][ ] the benefits of the simplicity of rustic country life was reinforced in the intellectual legitimacy of otium ruris (rural leisure) because it drew out the spiritual implications of horatian and vergilian images of this type of life.[ ][ ][ ] seneca's doctrine of de otio describes retirement from public life.[ ] the contemplative life that seneca revised was a roman debate on otium (a productive peaceful time) and at some point in the evolution of the term was later contrasted to negotium.[ ] these are some of the elements in seneca's doctrine of de otio: 	virtue, freedom and happiness by reasoning. 	the military metaphor. 	that the virtuous person chooses statio, a specific place for doing one's 'employment'. 	otium (leisure) is still negotium (business) even if withdrawal from public activity. 	that the virtuous person's otium, as a citizen of the universe, is the field for the performance of his duty.[ ] later writers[edit] augustine studying while seneca's doctrine appears to be close to the doctrine of athenodorus's de tranquillitate it is basically different. in de otio . seneca points out the benefits towards man in general, while in de tranquillitate the theme is peace of mind.[ ] saint augustine of hippo reminded romans of otium philosophandi, a positive element, that life was happiest when one had time to philosophize. augustine points out that otium was the prerequisite for contemplation.[ ] it was because of otium that alypius of thagaste steered augustine away from marriage. he said that they could not live a life together in the love of wisdom if he married. augustine described christianae vita otium as the christian life of leisure.[ ] many christian writers of the time interpreted the roman idea of otium as the deadly sin of acedia (sloth). some christian writers formulated otium as meaning to serve god through deep thought.[ ] christian writers encouraged biblical studies to justify otium.[ ] these same christian writers also showed otium ruris (secluded rural leisure) as a needed step to monastic propositum.[ ] augustine describes the monastic life as otium sanctum (sanctified leisure or approved leisure).[ ] in augustine's time the idea of philosophy had two poles of ambitions – one to be a worthy christian (vacation – negotium) and the other to be a worthy friend of god (devotion – otium).[ ] petrarca petrarch, th-century poet and renaissance humanist, discusses otium in his de vita solitaria as it relates to a human life of simple habits and self-restraint. like his favorite roman authors cicero, horace, seneca, ovid and livy, he sees otium not as leisure time devoted to idleness, passion, entertainment or mischievous wrongdoing; but time ideally spent on nature appreciation, serious research, meditation, contemplation, writing and friendship.[ ] petrarch considered solitude (i.e., rural setting, "villa otium", his vaucluse home) and its relationship to otium as a great possession for a chance at intellectual activity, the same philosophy as cicero and seneca.[ ] he would share such a precious commodity with his best friends in the spirit of seneca when he said "no good thing is pleasant to possess without friends to share it."[ ] historian julia bondanella translates petrarch's latin words of his own personal definition of otium: ... ought it not to be my first aim to have my leisure as remote from idleness as my life is from active affairs?[ ] petrarch stressed the idea of an active mind even in otium (leisure). he refers back to augustine's vetus itala in de otio religioso where in christianity it was associated with contemplation and vacatio (vacate – be still). he points out that this is associated with videre (to see), which in christianity is physical and mental activity aimed at moral perfection. he relates this concept of otium as vacate et videte (be still and see – a form of meditation, contemplation). petrarch points out that one should not take leisure as so relaxed as to weaken the mind, but to be active in leisure to build up strength in the view of a unique character and religion.[ ] andrew marvell's seventeenth-century poem the garden is a lyric of nine stanzas in which he rejects all forms of activity in the world in favor of solitude of the retiree in a garden. it is a type of retirement poem expressing the love of retirement – an ancient roman concept related to otium. the poem shows the high degree of pleasure of rural retirement. some critics see that he shows otium to mean peace, quiet and leisure – a goal for retirement from politics and business. others see a christianized otium with marvell showing a representation of the progress of a soul from the pursuit for the pagan promised land of the peaceful countryside and contemplation to the search for the lost heaven on earth.[ ] part of marvell's poem "the garden" below: what wondrous life is this i lead! ripe apples drop about my head; the luscious clusters of the vine upon my mouth do crush their wine; the nectarine and curious peach into my hands themselves do reach; stumbling on melons as i pass, insnared with flowers, i fall on grass. meanwhile, mind, from pleasure less, withdraws into its happiness: the mind, that ocean where each kind does straight its own resemblance find; yet it creates, transcending these, far other worlds, and other seas; annihilating all that's made to a green thought in a green shade. here at the fountain's sliding foot, or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, casting the body's vest aside, my soul into the boughs does glide: there like a bird it sits and sings, then whets and combs its silver wings; and, till prepared for longer flight, waves in its plumes the various light. such was that happy garden-state, while man there walked without a mate: after a place so pure and sweet, what other help could yet be meet! but 'twas beyond a mortal's share to wander solitary there: two paradises 'twere in one to live in paradise alone.[ ] brian vickers, a th-century british literary scholar, points out an expression made by friedrich nietzsche, a th-century german philosopher, on scholars' opinion of otium in his publication menschliches, allzumenschliches: scholars are ashamed of otium. but there is something noble about leisure and idleness.—if idleness really is the beginning of all vice, then it is at any rate in the closest proximity to all virtue; the idle man is always a better man than the active.—but when i speak of leisure and idleness, you do not think i am alluding to you, do you, you sluggards?[ ][d][e] private life and public life meanings[edit] private life meaning of otium meant personal retirement – the opposite of business. it meant leisure only for one's own pleasure with no benefit to the state or public. examples here is where one attends only his own farm or estate. another is hunting. it was the opposite of "active public life". one would not be a historian in this case.[ ] in public life otium meant public peace and relief after war.[ ] it meant freedom from the enemy with no hostilities. it was not only freedom from external assault (the enemy), it was also freedom from internal disorder (civil war).[ ] this then had the meaning of leisure, peace and safety at the homeland. this eventually became the status quo: acceptance of existing political and social conditions of the local laws, the custom of the ancestors, the powers of magistrates, authority of the senate, religions, the military, the treasury, and the praise of the empire.[ ] other uses[edit] villa otium norway us embassy residence 	the term cum dignitate otium ("leisure with dignity")[ ] is found in cicero's writings and refers to an aim and purpose of the optimates.[ ] 	"leisure without literature is death and burial for a living man." – a quote from seneca the younger.[ ] 	"leisure is a system of symbols which acts to establish a feeling of freedom and pleasure by formulating a sense of choice and desire."[ ] 	"mr. morgan was enjoying his otium in a dignified manner, surveying the evening fog, and smoking a cigar ..."[ ] 	the art nouveau or jugendstyle residence of the united states ambassador to norway is called the villa otium.[ ][f] 	otium is the name of several uscg documented yachts.[ ] synonyms[edit] otium carried with it many different meanings (including but not limited to time, chance, opportunity), depending on the time period or the philosophers involved in determining the concept.[ ] positive sense[edit] synonyms of positive connotations are: 	quies: rest, repose, relief from toil.[ ] 	requies: rest, repose, rest from labor, a hobby.[ ] 	tranquilitas: tranquility, calm, quiet.[ ] 	peace: as a state or condition of freedom from external enemies.[ ] 	pax: to pacify or appease, as the outcome of diplomatic conference and agreement with an enemy.[ ] negative sense[edit] synonyms of negative connotations are: 	inhonestum otium: dishonorable leisure, idle self-indulgence leisure.[ ] 	desidia: slackness, idleness.[ ] 	inertia: sloth, idleness, indolence.[ ] 	ignavia: sloth, idleness, faint-heartedness.[ ] 	desidiosissimum otium: a sluggard's free time, he that fears labor; a man careless to attend to his duty first.[ ] modern scholars[edit] for a comparatively recent and exhaustive authoritative study on "otium" in the history of roman culture see andré, jean-marie ( ). "l'otium dans la vie morale et intellectuelle romaine des origines à l'époque augustéenne". paris: presses universitaires de france. cite journal requires |journal= (help)[ ][ ][ ] gregory m. sadlek gives even a more recent and exhaustive study on "otium" in his book idleness working: the discourse of love's labor from ovid through chaucer and gower, isbn  - - - .[ ] see also[edit] 	italian renaissance garden 	sabbatical references[edit] footnotes[edit] 	^ aulus gellius, noctes atticae, , . for this fragment as the first instance of otium in the extant literature, see eleanor winsor leach, "otium as luxuria: economy of status in the younger pliny's letters," arethusa ( ), p. . 	^ ennius, frg. xcix in the edition of jocelyn, otio qui nescit uti | plus negoti habet quam cum est negotium in negotio, rendered by jocelyn: "the man who has no job to do and does not know how to employ the resulting leisure has more difficulty than when there is difficulty in a job on hand". for this fragment as the first instance of otium in the extant literature, see eleanor winsor leach, "otium as luxuria: economy of status in the younger pliny's letters," arethusa ( ), p. . 	^ "leisure and idleness in the renaissance: the ambivalence of otium" by brian vickers, p. the first recorded use of the term is in a fragment from a soldiers' chorus in ennius' iphigenia (c. bc), whose preservation we owe to that philologian's ragbag, the attic nights of aulus gellius (c. ad) – he cites it as an example of the usage of the word praeterpropter ( . . ). the soldiers are unoccupied, resting and bored, wanting to return home. they distinguish between otium negotiosum, leisure with a satisfying occupation, which takes place in the city, around the hearth, and otium otiosum, unoccupied and pointless leisure, such as their prolonged stay in the countryside, which they find disorientating. andre argues that otium originally had military, not pastoral associations, referring to the enforced inactivity that coincided each year with the dead months of winter (especially january and february), unsuitable for war, farming or fishing. 	^ nietzsche, menschliches, allzumenschliches. . , "zu gunsten der müssigen/[[-"}}, in friedrich nietzsche, sämtliche werke, ed. g. colli and m. montinari ( vols., berlin, ) ) ii ( ). . 	^ human, all too human, 'a book for free spirits' part i ( ), by friedrich nietzsche, translated by helen zimmern, fifth division: the signs of higher and lower culture, in favour of the idle: as a sign that the value of a contemplative life has decreased, scholars now vie with active people in a sort of hurried enjoyment, so that they appear to value this mode of enjoying more than that which really pertains to them, and which, as a matter of fact, is a far greater enjoyment. scholars are ashamed of otium. but there is one noble thing about idleness and idlers. if idleness is really the beginning of all vice, it finds itself, therefore, at least in near neighbourhood of all the virtues; the idle man is still a better man than the active. you do not suppose that in speaking of idleness and idlers i am alluding to you, you sluggards? 	^ by norwegian architect henrik bull. the building was inspired by russian architecture, and was built for hans andreas olsen, who had encountered it when he was the consul general for norway at st. petersburg, russia with his wife ester, the niece of alfred nobel. 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Квинт - до н.э. horace (roman poet, - bce) هوراس Гораций Флакк, Квинт, - e.kr. viaf id: (personal) permalink: http://viaf.org/viaf/ preferred forms 	 _ _ ‎‡a  horace‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace‏ 	 _ | ‎‡a  horace‏ ‎‡f  - av. j.-c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace‏ ‎‡g  roman poet, - bce‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace,‏ ‎‡d  - av. j.-c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horaci,‏ ‎‡d  ac- ac‏ 	 ‎‡a  horacio,‏ ‎‡d  - a.c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus‏ ‎‡b  q.‏ ‎‡g  quintus‏ ‎‡f  - до н.э.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus‏ ‎‡b  quintus‏ ‎‡f  pr.kr.- pr.kr‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, quintus‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, quintus‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, quintus‏ ‎‡d  ( - p.n.e.).‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, quintus‏ ‎‡d  - f.kr‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, quintus‏ ‎‡d  a.c.- a.c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, quintus‏ ‎‡d  b.c. -b.c. ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, quintus‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, quintus‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, quintus,‏ ‎‡d  - a.c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, quintus,‏ ‎‡d  - e.kr.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, quintus,‏ ‎‡d  - f.kr.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, quintus,‏ ‎‡d  - f.kr.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, quintus,‏ ‎‡d  - b. c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius, quintus flaccus,‏ ‎‡d  př. kr.- př. kr.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius,‏ ‎‡d  pred kr.- pred kr.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horácio,‏ ‎‡f  - a.c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horácio.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horācijs,‏ ‎‡d  - p.m.ē.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  q. horatius flaccus‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  Гораций Флакк‏ ‎‡b  К.‏ ‎‡g  Квинт‏ ‎‡f  - до н.э.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  Гораций Флакк, Квинт,‏ ‎‡d  - e.kr.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  هوراس‏         xx's: alternate name forms ( ) 	 _ ‎‡a  choracij‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flacci, q. horati‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flacco, quinto orazio‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flacco, quinto orazio‏ ‎‡d  - av. j.-c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flacco,‏ ‎‡b  q. horacio‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flacco,‏ ‎‡b  quinto horacio‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flacco‏ ‎‡c  , orazio q.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flacco‏ ‎‡c  q. horacio‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flacco‏ ‎‡c  quinto horacio‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flaccus, horatius‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flaccus, horatius‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flaccus, qu. horatius‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flaccus, qu. horatius‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flaccus, quintus h.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flaccus, quintus h.‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flaccus, quintus h.‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flaccus, quintus horatius‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flaccus, quintus horatius,‏ ‎‡d  - a.c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flaccus, quintus horatius,‏ ‎‡d  - f.kr.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flaccus, quintus horatius.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flaccus, quintus horatius‏ ‎‡d  - av. j.-c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flaccus, quintus horatius‏ ‎‡d  - a.c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flaccus, quintus horatius‏ ‎‡d  - f.kr‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flaccus, quintus horatius‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flaccus, quintus horatius‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ | ‎‡a  flaccus‏ ‎‡b  quintus horatius‏ ‎‡f  - av. j.-c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flaccvs, quintus horatius‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flaccvs, quintus horatius‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flaco, quinto horácio.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flaco,‏ ‎‡b  quinto horacio‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flaco,‏ ‎‡b  quinto orazio‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flaco‏ ‎‡c  quinto horacio‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flaco‏ ‎‡c  quinto orazio‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flacus, quintus horatius‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flak, kvint horacije‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  flakas‏ ‎‡b  kvintas horacijus‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  goracij flakk, kvint‏ ‎‡d  - v. chr‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  goracìj‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  goracìj.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  goratsiy‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  gorat̸s̶ĭ̄‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  gorat̸s̶ĭ̄‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  gorat̸s̶ĭ̄‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  gorat͡sĭ̄‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  gorat͡sĭ̄‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  gorat͡sĭ̄‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  gorat︠s︡iĭ flakk, kvint‏ 	 _ _ ‎‡a  gorat︠s︡iĭ flakk, kvint‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  gorat︠s︡iĭ flakk, kvint‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  gorat︠s︡īĭ‏ 	 _ _ ‎‡a  gorat︠s︡īĭ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  gorat︠s︡īĭ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  goraz flakk, kvint‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  goraz flakk, kvint‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  hor‏ 	 _ _ ‎‡a  hor.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  ho-la-tz'ŭ‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  ho-la-tz'ŭ‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  ho-la-tz'ŭ‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  hor‏ 	 _ _ ‎‡a  hor.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace flacce.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace, quintus horatius flaccus,‏ ‎‡d  - av. j.-c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace, quintus horatius flaccus‏ ‎‡d  - av. j.-c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace,‏ ‎‡d  ac- ac‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace,‏ ‎‡d  pred kr.- pred kr.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace,‏ ‎‡d  př. kr.- př. kr.‏ 	 ‎‡a  horace,‏ ‎‡d  - a.c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace,‏ ‎‡d  - p.m.ē.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacego‏ ‎‡d  - v. chr‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace‏ ‎‡d  ( ?- av. j.c.).‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace‏ ‎‡d  ?- av. j.c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace‏ ‎‡d  př. kr.- př. kr‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace‏ ‎‡d  - a.c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace‏ ‎‡d  - ac‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace‏ ‎‡d  - p.m.ē‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace‏ ‎‡d  - v. chr‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace‏ ‎‡f  - до н.э.‏ ‎‡   z‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace‏ ‎‡d  b.c. -b.c. ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace‏ ‎‡c  flacce‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace‏ ‎‡c  roman lyric poet‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace‏ ‎‡c  auteur latin‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace‏ ‎‡c  de venouse‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace‏ ‎‡c  poète lyrique latin‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ ‎‡c  flacce‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ ‎‡c  de venouse‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ ‎‡c  flacce‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horace‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ ‎‡c  de venouse‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horaci‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horaci‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horaci flac, q.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horaci flac, q.,‏ ‎‡d  ac- ac‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horaci flac, q.‏ ‎‡d  - ac‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horaci,‏ ‎‡d  - ac‏ 	 _ _ ‎‡a  horacij‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacij‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacije‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacije flak, kvint‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacijus‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacijus‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacij‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacij‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacio‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacio flacco, q.,‏ ‎‡d  ac- ac‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacio flacco, q.‏ ‎‡d  - ac‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacio flacco, quinto,‏ ‎‡d  ac- ac‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacio flacco, quinto,‏ ‎‡d  - a.c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacio flacco, quinto‏ ‎‡d  - a.c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacio flacco, quinto‏ ‎‡d  - ac‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacio flacco, quinto‏ ‎‡d  - v. chr‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacio flaco, q.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacio flaco, q.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacio flaco, quinto‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacio flaco, quinto,‏ ‎‡d  ac- ac‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacio flaco, quinto‏ ‎‡d  - ac‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacio flaco, quinto‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacio flaco,‏ ‎‡b  quinto‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacio flaco‏ ‎‡c  quinto‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacio flako, kvinto‏ ‎‡d  - v. chr‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacio,‏ ‎‡d  b.c.- b.c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacio,‏ ‎‡d  ac- ac‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacio,‏ ‎‡d  - b.c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacio.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacio‏ ‎‡d  b.c.- b.c.‏ 	 _ _ ‎‡a  horacio‏ ‎‡d  - b.c‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacio‏ ‎‡d  - b.c‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacio‏ ‎‡d  - b.c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacio‏ ‎‡d  - ac‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacio‏ ‎‡d  - av. j.-c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacio‏ ‎‡d  - v. chr‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacio‏ ‎‡c  poeta lírico e satírico en lingua latina‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacio‏ ‎‡c  poeta lírico y satírico en lengua latina‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacio‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacio‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacius flakus, quintus‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacius flakus, quintus‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacius,‏ ‎‡d  př. kr.- př. kr.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacius‏ ‎‡d  př. kr.- př. kr‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horaci‏ ‎‡c  poeta líric i satíric llatí‏ 	 _ _ ‎‡a  horacjusz‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacjusz‏ 	 _ _ ‎‡a  horacjusz flakkus, kwintus‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacjusz flakkus, kwintus‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacjusz flakkus, kwintus‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacjusz flakkus, kwintus‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ _ ‎‡a  horacy‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacy‏ 	 ‎‡a  horacy,‏ ‎‡d  - a.c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacy,‏ ‎‡d  - p.m.ē.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacy.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacyusz‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacyusz flakk‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacyusz flakk‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacyusz flakk.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacyusz.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacyusz‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacyusz‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacy‏ ‎‡d  - a.c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacy‏ ‎‡d  - p.m.ē‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacy‏ ‎‡c  rzymski poeta liryczny‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacy‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horacy‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horas‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horati flacci, q.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatio‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatio flacco, quinto‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatio flacco, quinto‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatio,‏ ‎‡d  - f.kr.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatios‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatio‏ ‎‡d  - f.kr‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius f, q.‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius f, q.‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius f., q.‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus quintus‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, ..‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, ..‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, q.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, q.,‏ ‎‡d  ac- ac‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, q.‏ ‎‡d  - ac‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, q.‏ ‎‡d  - v. chr‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, q.‏ ‎‡d  b.c. -b.c. ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, q.‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, q.‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, quinctus,‏ ‎‡d  ac- ac‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, quinctus‏ ‎‡d  - ac‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, quinctus‏ ‎‡d  - v. chr‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, quinctus‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, quinctus‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, quintus‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, quintus‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, quintus,‏ ‎‡d  ac- ac‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, quintus,‏ ‎‡d  pred kr.- pred kr.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, quintus,‏ ‎‡d  př. kr.- př. kr.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, quintus,‏ ‎‡d  - a.c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, quintus.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, quintus‏ ‎‡d  př. kr.- př. kr‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, quintus‏ ‎‡d  - a.c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, quintus‏ ‎‡d  - ac‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, quintus‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, quintus‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus,‏ ‎‡b  quintus‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus‏ ‎‡b  q.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus‏ ‎‡b  q.‏ ‎‡f  - до н.э.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus‏ ‎‡c  quintus‏ 	 _ | ‎‡a  horatius flaccus‏ ‎‡b  quintus‏ ‎‡f  - av. j.-c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccys, quintus‏ ‎‡d  b.c. -b.c. ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius [flaccus]‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius [poeta]‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius, flaccus quintus,‏ ‎‡d  pred kr.- pred kr.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius, quintus flaccus,‏ ‎‡d  pred kr.- pred kr.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius, quintus flaccus,‏ ‎‡d  - f.kr.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius, quintus flaccus‏ ‎‡d  - f.kr‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius, quintus h. flaccus.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius, quintus‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius, quintus‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius,‏ ‎‡d  - f.kr.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius‏ ‎‡c  , q.‏ 	 _ | ‎‡a  horatius‏ ‎‡f  - av. j.-c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius‏ ‎‡d  - f.kr‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius‏ ‎‡d  - v. chr‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius‏ ‎‡f  - до н.э.‏ ‎‡   z‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius‏ ‎‡d  b.c. -b.c. ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius‏ ‎‡b  f. q.‏ ‎‡f  - до н.э.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius‏ ‎‡c  flaccus‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius‏ ‎‡c  poeta‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius‏ ‎‡b  q. f.‏ ‎‡f  - до н.э.‏ ‎‡   z‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius‏ ‎‡c  roman şair.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius‏ ‎‡c  antiikin roomalainen runoilija‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius‏ ‎‡c  dichter uit oude rome ( v chr- v chr)‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius‏ ‎‡c  romersk författare och poet‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ ‎‡c  flaccus‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ ‎‡c  poeta‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ ‎‡c  flaccus‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ ‎‡c  poeta‏ 	 _ _ ‎‡a  horats‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horats‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horats‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horats,‏ ‎‡d  - p.m.ē.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatsi‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horats‏ ‎‡d  - p.m.ē‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horats‏ ‎‡d  - v. chr‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horats‏ ‎‡c  romersk skribent og poet‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatz‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatz, ..‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatz, ..‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatz‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatz‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horaṭiyos‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horaṭiyus‏ 	 _ _ ‎‡a  horaz‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horaz‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horaz‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horaz‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horaz,‏ ‎‡d  ac- ac‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horaz,‏ ‎‡d  - f.kr.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horaz,‏ ‎‡d  - p.m.ē.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horaz.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horazio‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horazio‏ ‎‡c  erromatar poeta‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horazius flaccus, quintus‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horazius flaccus, quintus‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horazius flakkus, quintus‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horazius flakkus, quintus‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horazius flakus, quintus‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horazius flakus, quintus‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horaz‏ ‎‡d  - ac‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horaz‏ ‎‡d  - f.kr‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horaz‏ ‎‡d  - p.m.ē‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horaz‏ ‎‡d  - v. chr‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horaz‏ ‎‡f  - до н.э.‏ ‎‡   z‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horaz‏ ‎‡c  römischer dichter‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horaz‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horaz‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ _ ‎‡a  horaṭiyos‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horaṭiyos‏ 	 _ _ ‎‡a  horaṭiyus‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horaṭiyus‏ 	 _ _ ‎‡a  horácio‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horácio‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horácio‏ ‎‡c  poeta lírico e satírico em língua latina‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horácius,‏ ‎‡d  pred kr.- pred kr.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horācijs‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horācijs flaks, kvints,‏ ‎‡d  - p.m.ē.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horācijs flaks, kvints‏ ‎‡d  - p.m.ē‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horātijs,‏ ‎‡d  - p.m.ē.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horātijs‏ ‎‡d  - p.m.ē‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  huoracėjos‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  hóras‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  hūrās‏ ‎‡d  - v. chr‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  khorat̸s̶iĭ flak, kvint‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  khorat̸s̶iĭ‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  khorat̸s̶iĭ flak, kvint‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  khorat̸s̶iĭ flak, kvint‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  khorat̸s̶iĭ‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  khorat̸s̶iĭ‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  khorat͡siĭ flak, kvint‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  khorat͡siĭ‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  khorat͡siĭ flak, kvint‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  khorat͡siĭ flak, kvint‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  khorat͡siĭ‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  khorat͡siĭ‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  khorat︠s︡iĭ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  khorat︠s︡iĭ flak, kvint‏ 	 _ _ ‎‡a  khorat︠s︡iĭ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  khorat︠s︡iĭ‏ 	 _ _ ‎‡a  khorat︠s︡iĭ flak, kvint‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  khorat︠s︡iĭ flak, kvint‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  kvint goracij flakk‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  kvint goracij flakk,‏ ‎‡d  - f.kr.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  kvint goracij flakk.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  kvint goracij flakk‏ ‎‡d  - f.kr‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  kvint horacije flak‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  kvintas horacijus flakas‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  kw. horacy flakkus.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  kwintus horacjusz flakkus‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  kwintus horacjusz flakkus,‏ ‎‡d  př. kr.- př. kr.‏ ‎‡   czepol‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  kwintus horacjusz flakkus.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  kwintus horacjusz flakkus‏ ‎‡d  př. kr.- př. kr‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  kwintus horacy flakkus.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  oracio‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  oracio‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  oracio‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  oracius flaccus‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  oracius flaccus‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orassi‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  oratio,‏ ‎‡d  ac- ac‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  oratio‏ ‎‡d  - ac‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  oratio‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  oratio‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  oratius‏ ‎‡d  - v. chr‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazi‏ 	 _ _ ‎‡a  orazio‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazio‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazio‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazio‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazio flacco, q.,‏ ‎‡d  ac- ac‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazio flacco, q.‏ ‎‡d  - ac‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazio flacco, q.‏ ‎‡d  - v. chr‏ 	 _ _ ‎‡a  orazio flacco, quinto‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazio flacco, quinto‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazio flacco, quinto,‏ ‎‡d  pred kr.- pred kr.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazio flacco, quinto,‏ ‎‡d  - f.kr.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazio flacco, quinto‏ ‎‡d  - f.kr‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazio flacco, quinto‏ ‎‡d  - v. chr‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazio flacco, quinto‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazio flacco, quinto‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazio flacco.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazio flacco‏ ‎‡c  , q.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazio flacco‏ ‎‡c  , quinto‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazio flacco‏ ‎‡d  - v. chr‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazio,‏ ‎‡d  ac- ac‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazio,‏ ‎‡d  př. kr.- př. kr.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazio,‏ ‎‡d  - a.c.‏ 	 ‎‡a  orazio,‏ ‎‡d  - a.c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazio.‏ 	 _ | ‎‡a  orazio‏ ‎‡f  - av. j.-c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazio‏ ‎‡d  - av. j.-c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazio‏ ‎‡d  př. kr.- př. kr‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazio‏ ‎‡d  - a.c.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazio‏ ‎‡d  - ac‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazio‏ ‎‡d  - v. chr‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazio‏ ‎‡c  flacco‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazio‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazio‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ ‎‡c  flacco‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazio‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazio‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ ‎‡c  flacco‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazjus flaccus, quintus‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  orazjus flaccus, quintus‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ _ ‎‡a  q. horatius flaccus‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  q. horatius flaccus‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  q. orazio flacco‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  q. orazio flacco.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  quinde orazio flacco‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  quinto horatio flacco‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  quinto horatio flacco‏ ‎‡c  poeta lyric de roma antique‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  quinto orazio flacco‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  quinto orazio flacco‏ ‎‡c  poeta romano‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  quintu orazziu flaccu‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  quintus flaccus horatius‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  quintus h. flaccus,‏ ‎‡d  pred kr.- pred kr.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  quintus horacius flakus‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  quintus horacius flakus‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  quintus horatius flaccus‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  quintus horatius flaccus‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  quintus horatius flaccus‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  quintus horatius flaccus,‏ ‎‡d  pred kr.- pred kr.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  quintus horatius flaccus.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  quintus horatius flaccus‏ ‎‡c  poet roman din „perioada de aur” a literaturii romane‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  quintus horatius flaccus‏ ‎‡c  romersk skribent og poet‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  quintus horatius flaccus‏ ‎‡d  v . . .-v . . ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  quintus horatius flaccus‏ ‎‡d  v -v ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  quintus horatius flaccus‏ ‎‡c  římský básník‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  Οράτιος‏ ‎‡c  Ρωμαίος λυρικός ποιητής‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  Гарацый‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  Гарацый‏ ‎‡c  старажытнарымскі пісьменнік‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  Гарацыюс‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  Горацiй‏ ‎‡b  Флаккъ-Квинтъ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  Гораций‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  Гораций Квинт‏ ‎‡b  Ф.‏ ‎‡f  - до н.э.‏ ‎‡   z‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  Гораций Флакк‏ ‎‡b  К.‏ ‎‡f  - до н.э.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  Гораций‏ ‎‡f  - до н.э.‏ ‎‡   z‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  Гораций‏ ‎‡b  К. Ф.‏ ‎‡f  - до н.э.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  Гораций‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  Гораций‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  Гораций Флакк, К.,‏ ‎‡d  - p.m.ē.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  Гораций Флакк, К‏ ‎‡d  - p.m.ē‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  Гораций Флакк, Квинт,‏ ‎‡d  - p.m.ē.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  Гораций Флакк, Квинт‏ ‎‡d  - p.m.ē‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  Гораций Флакк, Квинт‏ ‎‡d  - v. chr‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  Гораций,‏ ‎‡d  - p.m.ē.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  Гораций‏ ‎‡d  - p.m.ē‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  Гораций‏ ‎‡c  римский поэт‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  Горацій‏ ‎‡c  римський поет‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  Квинт Гораций Флакк‏ ‎‡f  - до н.э.‏ ‎‡   f‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  Квинт Гораций Флакк‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  Хораций‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  Хорациј‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  Хорације‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  Հորացիուս‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  הוראטיוס פלקוס, קוינטוס‏ 	 _ _ ‎‡a  הוראציו‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  הוראציו‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  הוראציוס‏ 	 _ _ ‎‡a  הורטיוס‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  הורטיוס‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  הורטיוס פלקוס, קוינטוס‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  הורטיוס‏ ‎‡c  משורר רומי‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  הורציוס פלקוס, קוינטוס‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  هوراتيوس‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  هوراس‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  هوراس‏ ‎‡c  شاعر غنائي و ناقد أدبي لاتيني روماني.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  هوراس‏ ‎‡c  شاعر و نویسنده در روم باستان‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  होरेस‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  ਹੋਰੇਸ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  ஓராசு‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  ഹൊറസ്‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  ჰორაციუსი‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  クイントゥス‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  クイントゥス‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  ホラティウス‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  ホラーティウス‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  ホラーティウス‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  贺拉斯‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  호라티우스‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  호라티우스 플라키스, 퀸투스‏ ‎‡d  b.c. -b.c. ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  호라티우스‏ ‎‡d  b.c. -b.c. ‏ xx's: related names ( ) 	 _ ‎‡a  bond, johannes‏ ‎‡d  - ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  caesarius, johannes‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  caesarius, johannes╬c‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  caesarius, johann‏ ‎‡d  - ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  caesarius, johann‏ ‎‡d  - ‏ ‎‡   beza‏ ‎‡   http://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#acquaintanceshiporfriendship‏ ‎‡e  bekanntschaft‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  campos, urbano‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  chamorro luis, bonifacio‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  cristóbal lópez, vicente‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  freire, francisco josé‏ ‎‡d  - , c.o.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  friedlieb, franz‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  friedlieb, franz╬c‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  frigell, anders‏ ‎‡d  - ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  frischlin, nicodemus‏ ‎‡d  - ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  frischlin, nicodemus‏ ‎‡d  - ‏ ‎‡   beza‏ ‎‡   http://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#acquaintanceshiporfriendship‏ ‎‡e  bekanntschaft‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  frischlin, nikodemus‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  frischlin, nikodemus╬c‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  hartung, johannes‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  hartung, johannes‏ ‎‡   beza‏ ‎‡   http://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#acquaintanceshiporfriendship‏ ‎‡e  bekanntschaft‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  hartung, johannes╬c‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  heinze, richard‏ ‎‡d  - ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  honorius, johannes‏ ‎‡d  - ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  honorius, johannes‏ ‎‡d  - ‏ ‎‡   beza‏ ‎‡   http://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#acquaintanceshiporfriendship‏ ‎‡e  bekanntschaft‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  honorius, johannes╬c‏ 	 _ _ ‎‡   z‏ ‎‡a  horace, villa d' (italie)‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  horatius flaccus, quintus,‏ ‎‡d  - e.kr.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  irenicus, franciscus‏ ‎‡d  - ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  irenicus, franciscus‏ ‎‡d  - ‏ ‎‡   beza‏ ‎‡   http://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#acquaintanceshiporfriendship‏ ‎‡e  bekanntschaft‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  joly, jaspar robert‏ ‎‡d  - ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  jouvancy, joseph de‏ ‎‡d  - ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  kiessling, adolf‏ ‎‡d  - ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  laramée, pierre de‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  lejay, paul‏ ‎‡d  - )‏ 	 _ _ ‎‡a  licenza (italie)‏ ‎‡x  villa d'horace‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  lock, margaret‏ ‎‡d  -‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  manuzio, aldo‏ ‎‡d  ?- )‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  manuzio, aldo‏ ‎‡d  el jove, - ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  moralejo, josé luis‏ ‎‡d  -‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  petschenig, michael‏ ‎‡d  - ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  pezzana, niccolò‏ ‎‡c  hereus‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  poelmann, theodor‏ ‎‡d  - ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  poelmann, theodor‏ ‎‡d  - ‏ ‎‡   beza‏ ‎‡   http://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#acquaintanceshiporfriendship‏ ‎‡e  bekanntschaft‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  poelmann, theodor╬c‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  porphyrio, pomponius‏ ‎‡d  ..- .‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  ramus, petrus‏ ‎‡d  - ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  ramus, petrus‏ ‎‡d  - ‏ ‎‡   beza‏ ‎‡   http://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#acquaintanceshiporfriendship‏ ‎‡e  bekanntschaft‏ 	 _ _ ‎‡a  rom‏ ‎‡   orts‏ ‎‡   http://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#placeofdeath‏ 	 _ _ ‎‡a  rom‏ ‎‡   ortw‏ ‎‡   http://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#placeofactivity‏ 	 _ _ ‎‡a  roma‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  sabbadini, remigio‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  sanadon, noël Étienne‏ ‎‡d  - ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  servius, maurus honoratus‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  servius, maurus honoratus╬c‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  servius‏ ‎‡d  ca. ./ . jh‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  servius‏ ‎‡d  ca. ./ . jh.‏ ‎‡   beza‏ ‎‡   http://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#acquaintanceshiporfriendship‏ ‎‡e  bekanntschaft‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  smart, christopher‏ ‎‡d  - ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  teubner, benedictus gotthelf‏ ‎‡d  - ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  treibenraiff, peter‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  treibenraiff, peter╬c‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  tritonius, petrus‏ ‎‡d  - ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  tritonius, petrus‏ ‎‡d  - ‏ ‎‡   beza‏ ‎‡   http://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#acquaintanceshiporfriendship‏ ‎‡e  bekanntschaft‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  valart, joseph‏ ‎‡d  - ‏ 	 _ _ ‎‡a  venosa‏ ‎‡   ortg‏ ‎‡   http://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#placeofbirth‏ 	 _ _ ‎‡a  venusia (apulien)‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  vergilius maro, publius‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  vettori, pietro‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  vettori, pietro‏ ‎‡d  - ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  vettori, pietro‏ ‎‡d  - ‏ ‎‡   beza‏ ‎‡   http://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#acquaintanceshiporfriendship‏ ‎‡e  bekanntschaft‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  vettori, pietro╬c‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  villeneuve, françois‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  villeneuve, françois‏ ‎‡d  ..- ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  wheeler, george b.‏ ‎‡d  - ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  wyss, bernhard‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  Гораций Флакк, Квинт,‏ ‎‡d  - e.kr.‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  בירנבאום, רחל‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  عوض، لويس،‏ ‎‡d  - ‏ 	 _ ‎‡a  松本, 仁助‏ ‎‡d  -‏ works 	title	sources 	 ad augustium 	 	 ars poetica 	 	 arte poética. 	 	 de arte poetica - 	 	 carmen saeculare 	 	 carmina 	 	 carmina 	 	 carmina 	 	 carmina 	 	 carmina 	 	 carmina 	 	 carmina 	 	 carmina 	 	 carmina 	 	 carmina 	 	 carmina 	 	 carmina 	 	 carmina lib. 	 	 carmina lib. 	 	 carmina lib. 	 	 carmina. liber 	 	 carmina. liber . 	 	 carmina. liber 	 	 carmina. liber 	 	 carmina. liber 	 	 carmina. liber . 	 	 carmina odae. lib. ii. 	 	 carmina. selections 	 	 chant séculaire 	 	 epístolas 	 	 epístolas. libro - . 	 	 epistulae 	 	 epistulae , 	 	 epistulae , 	 	 epistulae , 	 	 epistulae , 	 	 epistulae 	 	 epistulae , 	 	 epistulae lib. , 	 	 epistulae. liber 	 	 epistulae. selections 	 	 épîtres 	 	 epodae. 	 	 epode 	 	 epodi 	 	 epodi 	 	 epodi 	 	 epodi. liber 	 	 epodo 	 	 epodon liber 	 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	ie - ireland ( ) 	at - austria ( ) 	is - iceland ( ) 	ru - russian federation ( ) 	sk - slovakia ( ) 	dk - denmark ( ) 	hr - croatia ( ) 	tw - taiwan, province of china ( ) 	ua - ukraine ( ) 	mx - mexico ( ) 	pt - portugal ( ) 	au - australia ( ) 	tl - ( ) 	sv - san salvador ( ) 	co - colombia ( ) 	lv - latvia ( ) 	hu - hungary ( ) 	no - norway ( ) 	fi - finland ( ) 	ar - argentina ( ) 	sa - saudi arabia ( ) 	jp - japan ( ) 	gr - greece ( ) 	lt - lithuania ( ) 	eg - egypt ( ) 	ro - romania ( ) 	in - india ( ) 	ee - estonia ( ) 	br - brazil ( ) 	ve - venezuela ( ) 	il - israel ( ) 	ec - ecuador ( ) 	cl - chile ( ) 	ca - canada ( ) 	sc - seychelles ( ) 	rs - serbia ( ) 	cu - cuba ( ) 	by - belarus ( ) 	ba - bosnia and herzegovina ( ) publication statistics 	 publication history | | 	 identifiers 	  unique isbn's selected publishers ( ) 	b. g. teubner ‎( ) 	hachette ‎( ) 	cengage gale ‎( ) 	les belles lettres ‎( ) 	weidmann ‎( ) 	weidmannsche verlagsbuchhandlung ‎( ) 	j. delalain ‎( ) 	reclam ‎( ) 	aschendorff ‎( ) 	bange ‎( ) 	文藝出版社 ‎( ) 	officina de simao thaddeo ferreira ‎( ) 	岩波書店 ‎( ) 	oxford univ. press ‎( ) 	مكتبة النهضة المصرية، ‎( ) 	Изд-во ПетрГУ ‎( ) 	postimees ‎( ) about personal information gender: male nationality or associated country: 	it - italy 	xt - 	이탈리아(국명)[italy] - 	staroveký rím - 	xx - 	rome - 	ancient rome - 	ancient roman - field of activity: 	철학 사상 哲学 	문학 예술 㒚学 	satirist 	poezia 	poet 	literatura 	latin poet 	klasicka latinska literatura 	epistolary occupation: 	poet 	작가 사람 作傢 	시인 시 詩人 	satirist 	poets 	basnici language: 	lat - latin external links 	 wikipedia - https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/horatius 	 wikipedia - https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/ሆራቲዩስ 	 wikipedia - https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/horacio 	 wikipedia - https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/هوراس 	 wikipedia - https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/هوراتيوس 	 wikipedia - https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/horaciu 	 wikipedia - https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/هوراس 	 wikipedia - https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/Гораций 	 wikipedia - https://bat_smg.wikipedia.org/wiki/huoracėjos 	 wikipedia - https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/Гарацый 	 wikipedia - https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/Гарацыюс 	 wikipedia - https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Хораций 	 wikipedia - https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/quintus_horatius_flaccus 	 wikipedia - https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/horacije 	 wikipedia - https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/horaci 	 wikipedia - https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/quintus_horatius_flaccus 	 wikipedia - https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/horas 	 wikipedia - https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/horats 	 wikipedia - https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/horaz 	 wikipedia - https://diq.wikipedia.org/wiki/horatius 	 wikipedia - https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Οράτιος 	 wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/horace 	 wikipedia - https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/horacio 	 wikipedia - https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/horacio 	 wikipedia - https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/horatius 	 wikipedia - https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/horazio 	 wikipedia - https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/هوراس 	 wikipedia - https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/horatius 	 wikipedia - https://fiu_vro.wikipedia.org/wiki/horatius 	 wikipedia - https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/horace 	 wikipedia - https://fur.wikipedia.org/wiki/orazi 	 wikipedia - https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/quintus_horatius_flaccus 	 wikipedia - https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/horacio 	 wikipedia - https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/הורטיוס 	 wikipedia - https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/होरेस 	 wikipedia - https://hif.wikipedia.org/wiki/horace 	 wikipedia - https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/horacije 	 wikipedia - https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/quintus_horatius_flaccus 	 wikipedia - https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Հորացիոս 	 wikipedia - https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/horatio 	 wikipedia - https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/horatius 	 wikipedia - https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/horatius 	 wikipedia - https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/hóratíus 	 wikipedia - https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/quinto_orazio_flacco 	 wikipedia - https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ホラティウス 	 wikipedia - https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/ჰორაციუსი 	 wikipedia - https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Гораций 	 wikipedia - https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/호라티우스 	 wikipedia - https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/horatius 	 wikipedia - https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/horace 	 wikipedia - https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/quintus_horatius_flaccus 	 wikipedia - https://lfn.wikipedia.org/wiki/horatio 	 wikipedia - https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/horacijus 	 wikipedia - https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/horācijs 	 wikipedia - https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/horace 	 wikipedia - https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Хорациј 	 wikipedia - https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/ഹൊറസ് 	 wikipedia - https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Гораций 	 wikipedia - https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/होरेस 	 wikipedia - https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/horatius 	 wikipedia - https://nah.wikipedia.org/wiki/quintus_horatius_flaccus 	 wikipedia - https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/horatius 	 wikipedia - https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/horats 	 wikipedia - https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/horats 	 wikipedia - https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/oraci 	 wikipedia - https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/ਹੋਰਸ 	 wikipedia - https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/horacy_(poeta) 	 wikipedia - https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/orassi 	 wikipedia - https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/horácio 	 wikipedia - https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/quintus_horatius_flaccus 	 wikipedia - https://roa_tara.wikipedia.org/wiki/quinde_orazio_flacco 	 wikipedia - https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Гораций 	 wikipedia - https://sc.wikipedia.org/wiki/quinto_orazio_flacco 	 wikipedia - https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/quintu_orazziu_flaccu 	 wikipedia - https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/kvint_horacije_flak 	 wikipedia - https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/horace 	 wikipedia - https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/horatius 	 wikipedia - https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/horacij 	 wikipedia - https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Хорације 	 wikipedia - https://stq.wikipedia.org/wiki/quintus_horatius_flaccus 	 wikipedia - https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/horatius 	 wikipedia - https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/horatius 	 wikipedia - https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/ஓராசு 	 wikipedia - https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/horacio 	 wikipedia - https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/horatius 	 wikipedia - https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Гораций 	 wikipedia - https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Горацій 	 wikipedia - https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/goratsiy 	 wikipedia - https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/horace 	 wikipedia - https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/horatius 	 wikipedia - https://wa.wikipedia.org/wiki/horace 	 wikipedia - https://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/horacio 	 wikipedia - https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/贺拉斯 	 wikipedia - https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/贺拉斯 	 wikipedia - https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/賀拉斯 	 worldcat identities - lccn-n 	 isni -       record views 	 marc- record 	 viaf cluster in xml 	 rdf record 	 just 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(learn how and when to remove this template message) 	emperor of the roman empire 	imperial 	vexillum of the emperor 	 	first to command augustus january bc – august ad 	 	details 	style	imperator, augustus, caesar, princeps, dominus noster, autokrator or basileus (depending on period) 	first monarch	augustus 	last monarch	theodosius i (unified or classical), julius nepos (western), constantine xi (eastern) 	formation	 january bc 	abolition	 january ad (unified or classical), june ad (western), may ad (eastern) 	appointer	roman senate (officially) and/or roman military 	pretender(s)	none the roman emperor was the ruler of the roman empire during the imperial period (starting in bc). the emperors used a variety of different titles throughout history. often when a given roman is described as becoming "emperor" in english, it reflects his taking of the title augustus or caesar. another title often used was imperator, originally a military honorific. early emperors also used the title princeps civitatis ('first citizen'). emperors frequently amassed republican titles, notably princeps senatus, consul and pontifex maximus. the legitimacy of an emperor's rule depended on his control of the army and recognition by the senate; an emperor would normally be proclaimed by his troops, or invested with imperial titles by the senate, or both. the first emperors reigned alone; later emperors would sometimes rule with co-emperors and divide administration of the empire between them. the romans considered the office of emperor to be distinct from that of a king. the first emperor, augustus, resolutely refused recognition as a monarch.[ ] although augustus could claim that his power was authentically republican, his successors, tiberius and nero, could not convincingly make the same claim.[ ] nonetheless, for the first three hundred years of roman emperors, from augustus until diocletian, efforts were made to portray the emperors as leaders of a republic. from diocletian, whose tetrarchic reforms also divided the position into one emperor in the west and one in the east, until the end of the empire, emperors ruled in an openly monarchic style[ ] and did not preserve the nominal principle of a republic, but the contrast with "kings" was maintained: although the imperial succession was generally hereditary, it was only hereditary if there was a suitable candidate acceptable to the army and the bureaucracy,[ ] so the principle of automatic inheritance was not adopted. elements of the republican institutional framework (senate, consuls, and magistrates) were preserved even after the end of the western empire. the peaceful reign of constantine the great, the first to openly convert to christianity and allowing freedom of religion, witnessed the replacement of the caput mundi from rome to constantinople in ad. the western roman empire collapsed in the late th century after multiple invasions of imperial territory by germanic barbarian tribes. romulus augustulus is often considered to be the last emperor of the west after his forced abdication in , although julius nepos maintained a claim recognized by the eastern empire to the title until his death in . following nepos' death, the eastern emperor zeno abolished the division of the position and proclaimed himself as the sole emperor of a reunited roman empire. emperor heraclius made diplomatic relations with the companions of the prophet muhammad, but lost many territories after successful islamic conquests. the eastern imperial lineage continued to rule from constantinople ("new rome"); they continued to style themselves "emperor of the romans" (later βασιλεύς Ῥωμαίων in greek), but are often referred to in modern scholarship as byzantine emperors. constantine xi palaiologos was the last roman emperor in constantinople, dying in the fall of constantinople to the ottoman empire's mehmed ii in . the muslim rulers then claimed the title of caesar of rome. the "byzantine" emperors from heraclius in and onwards adopted the title of basileus (βασιλεύς), which had originally meant king in greek but became a title reserved solely for the roman emperor and the ruler of the sasanian empire. other kings were then referred to as rēgas.[ ] in addition to their pontifical office, some emperors were given divine status after death. with the eventual hegemony of christianity, the emperor came to be seen as god's chosen ruler, as well as a special protector and leader of the christian church on earth, although in practice an emperor's authority on church matters was subject to challenge. due to the cultural rupture of the turkish conquest, most western historians treat constantine xi as the last meaningful claimant to the title roman emperor. from , one of the titles used by the ottoman sultans was "caesar of rome" (turkish: kayser-i rum)[ ], part of their titles until the ottoman empire ended in . a byzantine group of claimant roman emperors existed in the empire of trebizond until its conquest by the ottomans in , though they had used a modified title since . eastern emperors in constantinople had been recognized and accepted as roman emperors both in the east, which they ruled, and by the papacy and germanic kingdoms of the west until the deposition of constantine vi and accession of irene of athens as empress regnant in . objecting to a woman ruling the roman empire in her own right and issues with the eastern clergy, the papacy would then create a rival lineage of roman emperors in western europe, the holy roman emperors, which ruled the holy roman empire for most of the period between and . these emperors were never recognized as roman emperors by the court in constantinople and their coronations resulted in the medieval problem of two emperors. contents 	 background and beginning 	 classical period 	 . imperator 	 . princeps 	 . evolution in late antiquity 	 titles and positions 	 . powers 	 lineages and epochs 	 . principate 	 . crisis of the third century 	 . dominate 	 . decline of the western roman empire 	 post-classical assertions to the title 	 . survival of the roman empire in the east 	 . last roman emperor 	 . new western lineage 	 see also 	 . lists 	 references 	 sources 	 further reading 	 external links background and beginning[edit] statue of augustus, c. bc– bc; this statue is located in the louvre modern historians conventionally regard augustus as the first emperor whereas julius caesar is considered the last dictator of the roman republic, a view having its origins in the roman writers plutarch, tacitus and cassius dio.[ ] however, the majority of roman writers, including josephus, pliny the younger, suetonius and appian, as well as most of the ordinary people of the empire, thought of julius caesar as the first emperor.[ ] at the end of the roman republic no new, and certainly no single, title indicated the individual who held supreme power. insofar as emperor could be seen as the english translation of imperator, then julius caesar had been an emperor, like several roman generals before him. instead, by the end of the civil wars in which julius caesar had led his armies, it became clear that there was certainly no consensus to return to the old-style monarchy, but that the period when several officials, bestowed with equal power by the senate, would fight one another had come to an end. julius caesar, and then augustus after him, accumulated offices and titles of the highest importance in the republic, making the power attached to those offices permanent, and preventing anyone with similar aspirations from accumulating or maintaining power for themselves. however, julius caesar, unlike those after him, did so without the senate's vote and approval.[citation needed] julius caesar held the republican offices of consul four times and dictator five times, was appointed dictator in perpetuity (dictator perpetuo) in bc and had been "pontifex maximus" for a long period. he gained these positions by senatorial consent and just prior to his assassination, was the most powerful man in the roman world. cameo of augustus in a quadriga drawn by tritons (kunsthistorisches museum) in his will, caesar appointed his adopted son octavian as his heir. on caesar's death, octavian inherited his adoptive father's property and lineage, the loyalty of most of his allies and – again through a formal process of senatorial consent – an increasing number of the titles and offices that had accrued to caesar. a decade after caesar's death, octavian's victory over his erstwhile ally mark antony at actium put an end to any effective opposition and confirmed octavian's supremacy. in bc, octavian appeared before the senate and offered to retire from active politics and government; the senate not only requested he remain, but increased his powers and made them lifelong, awarding him the title of augustus (the elevated or divine one, somewhat less than a god but approaching divinity). augustus stayed in office until his death; the sheer breadth of his superior powers as princeps and permanent imperator of rome's armies guaranteed the peaceful continuation of what nominally remained a republic. his "restoration" of powers to the senate and the people of rome was a demonstration of his auctoritas and pious respect for tradition. some later historians such as tacitus would say that even at augustus' death, the true restoration of the republic might have been possible. instead, augustus actively prepared his adopted son tiberius to be his successor and pleaded his case to the senate for inheritance on merit. the senate disputed the issue but eventually confirmed tiberius as princeps. once in power, tiberius took considerable pains to observe the forms and day-to-day substance of republican government. classical period[edit] 	ancient rome 	 	this article is part of a series on the politics and government of ancient rome 	 periods 	 	roman kingdom – bc 	roman republic – bc 	roman empire bc – ad 	principate bc – ad 	dominate ad – 	western ad – 	eastern ad – 	timeline 	 roman constitution 	 	constitution of the kingdom 	constitution of the republic 	constitution of the empire 	constitution of the late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	executive magistrates 	 precedent and law 	 	roman law 	ius 	imperium 	mos maiorum 	collegiality 	auctoritas 	roman citizenship 	cursus honorum 	senatus consultum 	senatus consultum ultimum 	 assemblies 	 	centuriate 	curiate 	plebeian 	tribal 	 ordinary magistrates 	 	consul 	praetor 	quaestor 	promagistrate 	aedile 	tribune 	censor 	governor 	 extraordinary magistrates 	 	corrector 	dictator 	magister equitum 	consular tribune 	rex 	triumviri 	decemviri 	 titles and honours 	 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	praeses 	praefectus 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 	 	other countries 		v 	t 	e rome had no single constitutional office, title or rank exactly equivalent to the english title "roman emperor". romans of the imperial era used several titles to denote their emperors, and all were associated with the pre-imperial, republican era. the legal authority of the emperor derived from an extraordinary concentration of individual powers and offices that were extant in the republic rather than from a new political office; emperors were regularly elected to the offices of consul and censor.[ ] among their permanent privileges were the traditional republican title of princeps senatus (leader of the senate) and the religious office of pontifex maximus (chief priest of the college of pontiffs). every emperor held the latter office and title until gratian surrendered it in ad to pope siricius; it eventually became an auxiliary honor of the bishop of rome. these titles and offices conferred great personal prestige (dignitas) but the basis of an emperor's powers derived from his auctoritas: this assumed his greater powers of command (imperium maius) and tribunician power (tribunicia potestas) as personal qualities, separate from his public office. as a result, he formally outranked provincial governors and ordinary magistrates. he had the right to enact or revoke sentences of capital punishment, was owed the obedience of private citizens (privati) and by the terms of the ius auxiliandi could save any plebeian from any patrician magistrate's decision. he could veto any act or proposal of any magistrate, including the tribunes of the people (ius intercedendi or ius intercessionis). his person was held to be sacred. roman magistrates on official business were expected to wear the form of toga associated with their office; different togas were worn by different ranks; senior magistrates had the right to togas bordered with purple. a triumphal imperator of the republic had the right to wear the toga picta (of solid purple, richly embroidered) for the duration of the triumphal rite. during the late republic, the most powerful had this right extended. pompey and caesar are both thought to have worn the triumphal toga and other triumphal dress at public functions. later emperors were distinguished by wearing togae purpurae, purple togas; hence the phrase "to don the purple" for the assumption of imperial dignity. the titles customarily associated with the imperial dignity are imperator ("commander"), which emphasizes the emperor's military supremacy and is the source of the english word emperor; caesar, which was originally a name but came to be used for the designated heir (as nobilissimus caesar, "most noble caesar") and was retained upon accession. the ruling emperor's title was the descriptive augustus ("majestic" or "venerable", which had tinges of the divine), which was adopted upon accession. in greek, these three titles were rendered as autokratōr ("Αὐτοκράτωρ"), kaisar ("Καίσαρ"), and augoustos ("Αὔγουστος") or sebastos ("Σεβαστός") respectively. in diocletian's tetrarchy, the traditional seniorities were maintained: "augustus" was reserved for the two senior emperors and "caesar" for the two junior emperors – each delegated a share of power and responsibility but each an emperor-in-waiting, should anything befall his senior. as princeps senatus (lit., "first man of the senate"), the emperor could receive foreign embassies to rome; some emperors (such as tiberius) are known to have delegated this task to the senate. in modern terms these early emperors would tend to be identified as chiefs of state. the office of princeps senatus, however, was not a magistracy and did not entail imperium. at some points in the empire's history, the emperor's power was nominal; powerful praetorian prefects, masters of the soldiers and on a few occasions, other members of the imperial household including imperial mothers and grandmothers were the true source of power. imperator[edit] main article: imperator the title imperator dates back to the roman republic, when a victorious commander could be hailed as imperator in the field by his troops. the senate could then award or withhold the extraordinary honour of a triumph; the triumphal commander retained the title until the end of his magistracy.[ ] in roman tradition, the first triumph was that of romulus, but the first attested recipient of the title imperator in a triumphal context is aemilius paulus in bc.[ ] it was a title held with great pride: pompey was hailed imperator more than once, as was sulla, but it was julius caesar who first used it permanently – according to dio, this was a singular and excessive form of flattery granted by the senate, passed to caesar's adopted heir along with his name and virtually synonymous with it.[ ] in bc agrippa refused a triumph for his victories under octavian's command, and this precedent established the rule that the princeps should assume both the salutation and title of imperator. it seems that from then on octavian (later the first emperor augustus) used imperator as a first name (praenomen): imperator caesar not caesar imperator. from this the title came to denote the supreme power and was commonly used in that sense. otho was the first to imitate augustus, but only with vespasian did imperator (emperor) become the official title by which the ruler of the roman empire was known. princeps[edit] main articles: principate and roman emperor (principate) the word princeps (plural principes), meaning "first", was a republican term used to denote the leading citizen(s) of the state. it was a purely honorific title with no attached duties or powers. it was the title most preferred by augustus as its use implies only primacy, as opposed to another of his titles, imperator, which implies dominance. princeps, because of its republican connotation, was most commonly used to refer to the emperor in latin (although the emperor's actual constitutional position was essentially "pontifex maximus with tribunician power and imperium superseding all others") as it was in keeping with the façade of the restored republic; the greek word basileus ("king") was modified to be synonymous with emperor (and primarily came into favour after the reign of heraclius) as the greeks had no republican sensibility and openly viewed the emperor as a monarch. in the era of diocletian and beyond, princeps fell into disuse and was replaced with dominus ("lord");[ ] later emperors used the formula imperator caesar nn. pius felix (invictus) augustus: nn representing the individual's personal name; pius felix meaning "pious and blest"; and invictus meaning "undefeated". the use of princeps and dominus broadly symbolise the differences in the empire's government, giving rise to the era designations "principate" and "dominate". evolution in late antiquity[edit] in , following the crisis of the third century which had severely damaged imperial administration, emperor diocletian enacted sweeping reforms that washed away many of the vestiges and façades of republicanism which had characterized the augustan order in favor of a more frank autocracy. as a result, historians distinguish the augustan period as the principate and the period from diocletian to the th-century reforms of emperor heraclius as the dominate (from the latin for "lord".) reaching back to the oldest traditions of job-sharing in the republic, however, diocletian established at the top of this new structure the tetrarchy ("rule of four") in an attempt to provide for smoother succession and greater continuity of government. under the tetrarchy, diocletian set in place a system of co-emperors, styled "augustus", and junior emperors, styled "caesar". when a co-emperor retired (as diocletian and his co-emperor maximian did in ) or died, a junior "caesar" would succeed him and the co-emperors would appoint new caesars as needed. the four members of the imperial college (as historians call the arrangement) shared military and administrative challenges by each being assigned specific geographic areas of the empire. from this innovation, often but not consistently repeated over the next years, comes the notion of an east–west partition of the empire that became popular with historians long after the practice had stopped. the two halves of empire, while often run as de facto separate entities day-to-day, were always considered and seen, legally and politically, as separate administrative divisions of a single, insoluble imperium by the romans of the time. roman coins (i.e. the tremissis) of the emperors romulus augustulus and julius nepos, the last emperors of the western roman empire, although nepos was a de jure ruler in dalmatia after the deposition of romulus augustulus when emperor theodosius i died, his sons arcadius and honorius, already proclaimed augusti, succeeded him. eighty-five years later, following germanic migrations which had reduced the empire's effective control across brittania, gaul and hispania and a series of military coup d'état which drove emperor nepos out of italy, the idea of dividing the position of emperor was formally abolished by emperor zeno ( ). the roman empire survived in the east until , but the marginalization of the former heartland of italy to the empire[clarification needed] had a profound cultural impact on the empire and the position of emperor. in , the official language was changed from latin to greek. the greek-speaking inhabitants were romaioi (Ῥωμαῖοι), and were still considered romans by themselves and the populations of eastern europe, the near east, india, and china. but many in western europe began to refer to the political entity as the "greek empire". the evolution of the church in the no-longer imperial city of rome and the church in the now supreme constantinople began to follow divergent paths, culminating in the schism between the roman catholic and eastern orthodox faiths. the position of emperor was increasingly influenced by near eastern concepts of kingship. starting with emperor heraclius, roman emperors styled themselves "king of kings" (from the imperial persian shahanshah) from and "basileus" (from the title used by alexander the great) from . the later period of the empire is today called the byzantine empire as a matter of scholarly convention.[citation needed] titles and positions[edit] although these are the most common offices, titles, and positions, not all roman emperors used them, nor were all of them used at the same time in history. the consular and censorial offices especially were not an integral part of the imperial dignity, and were usually held by persons other than the reigning emperor. 	augustus: (also "Αὔγουστος" or "Σεβαστός"), "majestic" or "venerable"; an honorific cognomen exclusive to the emperor 	autokrator: (Αὐτοκράτωρ, autokratōr), (lit. "self-ruler"); greek title equivalent to imperator or commander-in-chief 	basileus: (Βασιλεύς), greek for king, popularly used in the east to refer to the emperor; a formal title of the roman emperor beginning with heraclius 	caesar: (also "Καίσαρ"), "caesar"; initially the cognomen of julius caesar, it was transformed into a title; an honorific name later used to identify an emperor-designate 	censor: a republican office held jointly by two former consuls every five years for the purpose of conducting the lustrum that determined the role of citizens; the censor could audit all other magistrates and all state finances 	consul: the highest magistracy of the roman republic with a one-year term and one coequal officeholder; the consul was the head of state within rome. the last emperor to be bestowed the title by the senate was constans ii, who was also the last emperor to visit rome. 	dominus ("lord" or "master"): an honorific title mainly associated with the dominate 	dominus noster ("our lord"): an honorific title; the praenomen of later emperors.[citation needed] 	imperator ("commander" or "commander-in-chief"): a victory title taken on accession to the purple and after a major military victory 	imperator destinatus ("destined to be emperor"): heir apparent, used by septimius severus for caracalla 	invictus ("unconquered"), an honorific title. 	nobilissimus: (nωβελίσσιμος, nōbelissimos), ("most noble"), one of the highest imperial titles held by the emperor 	 st-century sardonyx cameo of caligula with the goddess roma in a th-century setting (kunsthistorisches museum) pater patriae ("father of the fatherland"): an honorific title 	perpetuus ("universal"): an honorific title of later emperors 	pius felix ("pious and blessed"): an honorific title 	pontifex maximus ("supreme pontiff" or "chief priest"): in the republican era, the pontifex maximus was the head of the college of pontiffs, the religious body that oversaw the ancestral public religion of the romans; julius caesar had become pontifex maximus before he was elected consul, and the precedent set by his heir augustus in consolidating supreme authority through this religious office was in general followed by his successors until the empire came under christian rule 	princeps ("first citizen" or "leading citizen"): an honorific title denoting the status of the emperor as first among equals, associated mainly with the principate 	princeps iuventutis: ("prince of youth"), an honorific title awarded to a presumptive emperor-designate 	princeps senatus: ("first man of the senate"), a republican office with a five-year term 	sebastos: (Σεβαστός), ("venerable"); the greek rendition of the imperial title augustus 	sebastokrator: (Σεβαστοκράτωρ, sebastokratōr), ("venerable ruler); a senior court title from the compound words "sebastos" ("venerable", the greek equivalent of the latin augustus) and "kratōr" ("ruler", the same element as is found in "autokratōr", "emperor") 	tribunicia potestas: ("tribunician power"); the powers of a tribune of the people, including sacrosanctity and inviolability of his person, and the veto over any decision by any other magistrate, assembly, or the senate (the emperor could not be a "tribune" because a tribune was a plebeian by definition, therefore the emperor had all the powers of a tribune without actually being one) powers[edit] when augustus established the princeps, he turned down supreme authority in exchange for a collection of various powers and offices, which in itself was a demonstration of his auctoritas ("authority"). as holding princeps senatus, the emperor declared the opening and closure of each senate session, declared the senate's agenda, imposed rules and regulation for the senate to follow, and met with foreign ambassadors in the name of the senate. being pontifex maximus made the emperor the chief administrator of religious affairs, granting him the power to conduct all religious ceremonies, consecrate temples, control the roman calendar (adding or removing days as needed), appoint the vestal virgins and some flamens, lead the collegium pontificum, and summarize the dogma of the roman religion. while these powers granted the emperor a great deal of personal pride and influence, they did not include legal authority. in bc, augustus gave the emperorship its legal power. the first was tribunicia potestas, or the powers of the tribune of the plebs without actually holding the office (which would have been impossible, since a tribune was by definition a plebeian, whereas augustus, although born into a plebeian family, had become a patrician when he was adopted into the gens julia). this endowed the emperor with inviolability (sacrosanctity) of his person, and the ability to pardon any civilian for any act, criminal or otherwise. by holding the powers of the tribune, the emperor could prosecute anyone who interfered with the performance of his duties. the emperor's tribuneship granted him the right to convene the senate at his will and lay proposals before it, as well as the ability to veto any act or proposal by any magistrate, including the actual tribune of the plebeians. also, as holder of the tribune's power, the emperor would convoke the council of the people, lay legislation before it, and served as the council's president. but his tribuneship only granted him power within rome itself. he would need another power to veto the act of governors and that of the consuls while in the provinces. to solve this problem, augustus managed to have the emperor be given the right to hold two types of imperium. the first being consular imperium while he was in rome, and imperium maius outside of rome. while inside the walls of rome, the reigning consuls and the emperor held equal authority, each being able to veto each other's proposals and acts, with the emperor holding all of the consul's powers. but outside of rome, the emperor outranked the consuls and could veto them without the same effects on himself. imperium maius also granted the emperor authority over all the provincial governors, making him the ultimate authority in provincial matters and gave him the supreme command of all of rome's legions. with imperium maius, the emperor was also granted the power to appoint governors of imperial provinces without the interference of the senate. also, imperium maius granted the emperor the right to veto the governors of the provinces and even the reigning consuls while in the provinces. lineages and epochs[edit] st-century sardonyx cameo of an eagle, a symbol of jupiter (kunsthistorisches museum) principate[edit] main article: principate the nature of the imperial office and the principate was established under julius caesar's heir and posthumously adopted son, augustus, and his own heirs, the descendants of his wife livia from her first marriage to a scion of the distinguished claudian clan. this julio-claudian dynasty came to an end when the emperor nero – a great-great-grandson of augustus through his daughter and of livia through her son – was deposed in . nero was followed by a succession of usurpers throughout , commonly called the "year of the four emperors". the last of these, vespasian, established his own flavian dynasty. nerva, who replaced the last flavian emperor, vespasian's son domitian, in , was elderly and childless, and chose therefore to adopt an heir, trajan, from outside his family. when trajan acceded to the purple he chose to follow his predecessor's example, adopting hadrian as his own heir, and the practice then became the customary manner of imperial succession for the next century, producing the "five good emperors" and the empire's period of greatest stability. the last of the good emperors, marcus aurelius, chose his natural son commodus as his successor rather than adopting an heir. a brief period of instability quickly gave way to septimius severus, who established the severan dynasty which, except for an interruption in – when macrinus was emperor, held the purple until . crisis of the third century[edit] main article: crisis of the third century the accession of maximinus thrax marks both the close and the opening of an era. it was one of the last attempts by the increasingly impotent roman senate to influence the succession. yet it was the second time that a man had achieved the purple while owing his advancement purely to his military career; both vespasian and septimius severus had come from noble or middle-class families, while thrax was born a commoner. he never visited the city of rome during his reign[ ], which marks the beginning of a series of "barracks emperors" who came from the army. between and over a dozen emperors achieved the purple, but only valerian and carus managed to secure their own sons' succession to the throne; both dynasties died out within two generations. dominate[edit] main article: dominate the accession on november , of diocletian, the lower-class, greek-speaking dalmatian commander of carus' and numerian's household cavalry (protectores domestici), marked major innovations in rome's government and constitutional theory. diocletian, a traditionalist and religious conservative, attempted to secure efficient, stable government and a peaceful succession with the establishment of the tetrarchy. the empire was divided into east and west, each ruled by an augustus assisted by a caesar as emperor-in-waiting. these divisions were further subdivided into new or reformed provinces, administered by a complex, hierarchic bureaucracy of unprecedented size and scope. diocletian's own court was based at nicomedia. his co-augustus, maximian, was based at mediolanum (modern milan). their courts were peripatetic, and imperial progressions through the provinces made much use of the impressive, theatrical adventus, or "imperial arrival" ceremony, which employed an elaborate choreography of etiquette to emphasise the emperor's elevation above other mortals. hyperinflation of imperial honours and titles served to distinguish the augusti from their caesares, and diocletian, as senior augustus, from his colleague maximian. the senior augustus in particular was made a separate and unique being, accessible only through those closest to him. the overall unity of the empire still required the highest investiture of power and status in one man.[ ] the tetrarchy ultimately degenerated into civil war, but the eventual victor, constantine the great, restored diocletian's division of empire into east and west. he kept the east for himself and founded his city of constantinople as its new capital. constantine's own dynasty was also soon swallowed up in civil war and court intrigue until it was replaced, briefly, by julian the apostate's general jovian and then, more permanently, by valentinian i and the dynasty he founded in . though a soldier from a low middle-class background, valentinian was made emperor by a conclave of senior generals and civil officials. theodosius i acceded to the purple in the east in and in the west in . he outlawed paganism and made christianity the empire's official religion. he was the last emperor to rule over a united roman empire; the distribution of the east to his son arcadius and the west to his son honorius after his death in represented a permanent division. decline of the western roman empire[edit] main article: western roman empire in the western roman empire, the office of emperor soon degenerated into being little more than a puppet of a succession of germanic tribal kings, until finally the heruli odoacer simply overthrew the child-emperor romulus augustulus in , shipped the imperial regalia to the emperor zeno in constantinople and became king of italy. though during his own lifetime odoacer maintained the legal fiction that he was actually ruling italy as the viceroy of zeno, historians mark as the traditional date of the fall of the western roman empire. large parts of italy (sicily, the south part of the peninsula, ravenna, venice etc.), however, remained under actual imperial rule from constantinople for centuries, with imperial control slipping or becoming nominal only as late as the th century. in the east, the empire continued until the fall of constantinople to the ottoman turks in . although known as the byzantine empire by contemporary historians, the empire was simply known as the roman empire to its citizens and neighboring countries. post-classical assertions to the title[edit] main article: succession of the roman empire survival of the roman empire in the east[edit] imaginary portrait of constantine xi, the last roman emperor of the eastern roman empire (until ). the line of roman emperors in the eastern roman empire continued unbroken at constantinople until the capture of constantinople in by the fourth crusade. in the wake of this action, four lines of emperors emerged, each claiming to be the legal successor: the empire of thessalonica, evolving from the despotate of epirus, which was reduced to impotence when its founder theodore komnenos doukas was defeated, captured and blinded by the bulgarian emperor ivan asen iii;[ ] the latin empire, which came to an end when the empire of nicaea recovered constantinople in ; the empire of trebizond, whose importance declined over the th century, and whose claims were simply ignored;[ ] and the empire of nicaea, whose claims based on kinship with the previous emperors, control of the patriarch of constantinople, and possession of constantinople through military prowess, prevailed. the successors of the emperors of nicaea continued until the fall of constantinople in under constantine xi palaiologos. these emperors eventually normalized the imperial dignity into the modern conception of an emperor, incorporated it into the constitutions of the state, and adopted the aforementioned title basileus kai autokratōr rhomaiōn ("emperor and autocrat of the romans"). they had also ceased to use latin as the language of state after emperor heraclius (d. ad). historians have customarily treated the state of these later eastern emperors under the name "byzantine empire". it is important to note, however, that the adjective byzantine, although historically used by eastern roman authors in a metonymic sense, was never an official term. last roman emperor[edit] main article: constantine xi palaiologos further information: deposition of romulus augustulus constantine xi palaiologos was the last reigning roman emperor. a member of the palaiologos dynasty, he ruled the remnant of the eastern roman empire from until his death in defending its capital constantinople. he was born in mystra[ ] as the eighth of ten children of manuel ii palaiologos and helena dragaš, the daughter of the serbian prince constantine dragaš of kumanovo. he spent most of his childhood in constantinople under the supervision of his parents. during the absence of his older brother in italy, constantine was regent in constantinople from to . before the beginning of the siege, mehmed the conqueror made an offer to constantine xi.[ ] in exchange for the surrender of constantinople, the emperor's life would be spared and he would continue to rule in mystra. constantine refused this offer. instead he led the defense of the city and took an active part in the fighting along the land walls. at the same time, he used his diplomatic skills to maintain the necessary unity between the genovese, venetian, and byzantine troops. as the city fell on may , , constantine is said to have remarked: "the city is fallen but i am alive." realizing that the end had come, he reportedly discarded his purple cloak and led his remaining soldiers into a final charge, in which he was killed. with his death, roman imperial succession came to an end, almost years after augustus. after the fall of constantinople, thomas palaiologos, brother of constantine xi, was elected emperor and tried to organize the remaining forces. his rule came to an end after the fall of the last major byzantine city, corinth. he then moved in italy and continued to be recognized as eastern emperor by the christian powers. his son andreas palaiologos continued claims on the byzantine throne until he sold the title to ferdinand of aragon and isabella of castile, the grandparents of holy roman emperor charles v. new western lineage[edit] charles v was the last emperor of the holy roman empire to receive a papal coronation (until abdication in ). the concept of the roman empire was renewed in the west with the coronation of the king of the franks, charlemagne (charles the great), as roman emperor by the pope on christmas day, . this coronation had its roots in the decline of influence of the pope in the affairs of the byzantine empire at the same time the byzantine empire declined in influence over politics in the west. the pope saw no advantage to be derived from working with the byzantine empire, but as george ostrogorsky points out, "an alliance with the famous conqueror of the lombards, on the other hand ... promised much".[ ] the immediate response of the eastern roman emperor was not welcoming. "at that time it was axiomatic that there could be only one empire as there could be only one church", writes ostrogorsky. "the coronation of charles the great violated all traditional ideas and struck a hard blow at byzantine interests, for hitherto byzantium, the new rome, had unquestionably been regarded as the sole empire which had taken over the inheritance of the old roman imperium. conscious of its imperial rights, byzantium could only consider the elevation of charles the great to be an act of usurpation."[ ] nikephoros i chose to ignore charlemagne's claim to the imperial title, clearly recognizing the implications of this act. according to ostrogorsky, "he even went so far as to refuse the patriarch nicephorus permission to dispatch the customary synodica to the pope."[ ] meanwhile, charlemagne's power steadily increased: he subdued istria and several dalmatian cities during the reign of irene, and his son pepin brought venice under western hegemony, despite a successful counter-attack by the byzantine fleet. unable to counter this encroachment on byzantine territory, nikephoros' successor michael i rangabe capitulated; in return for the restoration of the captured territories, michael sent byzantine delegates to aachen in who recognized charlemagne as basileus.[ ] michael did not recognize him as basileus of the romans, however, which was a title that he reserved for himself.[ ] this line of roman emperors was actually generally germanic rather than roman, but maintained their roman-ness as a matter of principle. these emperors used a variety of titles (most frequently "imperator augustus") before finally settling on imperator romanus electus ("elected roman emperor"). historians customarily assign them the title "holy roman emperor", which has a basis in actual historical usage, and treat their "holy roman empire" as a separate institution. to latin catholics of the time, the pope was the temporal authority as well as spiritual authority, and as bishop of rome he was recognized as having the power to anoint or crown a new roman emperor. the last man to be crowned by the pope (although in bologna, not rome) was charles v. all his successors bore only a title of "elected roman emperor". this line of emperors lasted until when francis ii dissolved the empire during the napoleonic wars. despite the existence of later potentates styling themselves "emperor", such as the napoleons, the habsburg emperors of austria, and the hohenzollern heads of the german reich, this marked the end of the western empire. although there is a living heir, karl von habsburg, to the habsburg dynasty, as well as a pope and pretenders to the positions of the electors, and although all the medieval coronation regalia are still preserved in austria, the legal abolition of all aristocratic prerogatives of the former electors and the imposition of republican constitutions in germany and austria render quite remote any potential for a revival of the holy roman empire. 	for rulers of italy after romulus "augustulus" and julius nepos, see list of barbarian kings. 	for the roman emperors who ruled in the east after the fall in the west, see list of byzantine emperors. 	for emperors of the holy roman empire in the west, see holy roman emperor. see also[edit] 	ancient rome portal 	imperial cult (ancient rome) 	interregnum 	justitium 	roman emperors family tree 	julio-claudian family tree 	severan dynasty family tree 	roman usurper lists[edit] 	list of byzantine emperors 	list of condemned roman emperors 	list of imperial roman victory titles 	list of roman emperors 	list of roman usurpers references[edit] 	^ galinsky , pp.  – 	^ alston , p.  	^ williams , p.  	^ heather , p.  	^ kazhdan , p.  	^ İlber ortaylı, "büyük constantin ve İstanbul", milliyet, may . 	^ barnes , pp.  – 	^ barnes , pp.  – 	^ murray, john ( ). a dictionary of greek and roman antiquities. university of chicago. pp.  – . 	^ a b the oxford classical dictionary, entry 'imperator', third edition, oxford university press, . 	^ cassius dio, . . . 	^ goldsworth , p.  	^ hekster, olivier ( ). rome and its empire, ad – . edinburgh university press. p.  . isbn  . retrieved july . 	^ rees , pp.  – , 	^ ostrogorsky , p.  	^ on the imperial claims of the grand komnenos and international response to them, see n. oikonomides, "the chancery of the grand komnenoi; imperial tradition and political reality", archeion pontou, ( ), pp. – 	^ "constantine palaeologus the last hellene emperor fall of constantinople". www.agiasofia.com. 	^ mansel, philip ( ). 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( ), oxford dictionary of byzantium, oxford university press, isbn  - - - - 	ostrogorsky, george ( ). history of the byzantine state. translated by hussey, joan. new brunswick: rutgers university press. 	rees, roger ( ). diocletian and the tetrarchy. edinburgh, uk: edinburgh university press. isbn  . 	williams, stephen ( ) [ ]. diocletian and the roman recovery. new york, ny: routledge. isbn  - - - - . retrieved - - . further reading[edit] 	scarre, chris. chronicle of the roman emperors: the reign-by-reign record of the rulers of imperial rome. london: thames & hudson, october , . isbn  - - - (hardcover). external links[edit] 	de imperatoribus romanis 	rulers of rome 	"decadence, rome and romania, and the emperors who weren't", by kelley l. ross, ph.d. 	unrv.com 	the roman law library 	list of greatest roman emperors 	 	v 	t 	e roman emperors by epoch 		list of roman emperors 	roman empire 	family tree 		early principate	crisis of the third century	dominate	western roman empire and the 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citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. find sources: "plebeians" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · jstor (february ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) the plebeians, also called plebs, were, in ancient rome, the general body of free roman citizens who were not patricians, as determined by the census, or in other words "commoners". the precise origins of the group and the term are unclear, though it may be that they began as a limited political movement in opposition to the elite (patricians) which became more widely applied and known as the conflict of orders.[ ] for more on how plebeians fit into social classes in ancient rome, see social class in ancient rome. contents 	 in ancient rome 	 . noble plebeians 	 conflict of the orders 	 . first secession ( bce) 	 . second secession ( bce) 	 . third secession 	 . fifth secession ( bce) 	 life 	 . childhood and education 	 . living quarters 	 . attire 	 . meals 	 derivatives 	 . united states military academies 	 . british empire 	 in popular culture 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links in ancient rome[edit] in latin, the word plebs is a singular collective noun, and its genitive is plebis. plebeians were not a monolithic social class. those who resided in the city and were part of the urban tribes are sometimes called the plebs urbana, while those who lived in the country and were part of the smaller rural tribes are sometimes differentiated by using the label plebs rustica.[ ] (list of roman tribes) the origin of the separation into orders is unclear, and it is disputed when the romans were divided under the early kings into patricians and plebeians, or whether the clientes (dependents) of the patricians formed a third group. certain gentes ("clans") were patrician, as identified by the nomen (family name), but a gens might have both patrician and plebeian branches that shared a nomen but were distinguished by a cognomen, as was the case with the gens claudia. the th-century historian barthold georg niebuhr held that plebeians began to appear at rome during the reign of ancus marcius and were possibly foreigners from other parts of italy settling in rome as naturalized citizens. in any case, at the outset of the roman republic, the patricians had a near monopoly on political and social institutions. plebeians were excluded from magistracies and religious colleges, and they were not permitted to know the laws by which they were governed. plebeians served in the army, but rarely became military leaders. dissatisfaction with the status quo occasionally mounted to the point that the plebeians engaged in a sort of general strike, a secessio plebis, during which they would withdraw to the mountain mons sacer as a form of protest, leaving the patricians to themselves. from to  bc, five such actions during the so-called "conflict of the orders" resulted in the establishment of plebeian offices (the tribunes and plebeian aediles), the publication of the laws (the law of the twelve tables), the establishment of the right of plebeian–patrician intermarriage (by the passage of the lex canuleia), the opening of the highest offices of government and some state priesthoods to the plebeians and passage of legislation (the lex hortensia) that made resolutions passed by the assembly of plebeians, the concilium plebis, binding on all citizens.[ ] noble plebeians[edit] during the second samnite war ( – bc), plebeians who had risen to power through these social reforms began to acquire the aura of nobilitas ("nobility", more lit. 'notability'), marking the creation of a ruling elite of nobiles that allied the interests of patricians and noble plebeians.[ ] from the mid- th century to the early rd century bc, several plebeian–patrician "tickets" for the consulship repeated joint terms, suggesting a deliberate political strategy of cooperation.[ ] although nobilitas was not a formal social rank during the republican era, in general, a plebeian who had attained the consulship was regarded as having brought nobility to his family. such a man was a novus homo ("new man"), a self-made noble, and his sons and descendants were nobiles.[ ] marius and cicero are notable examples of novi homines in the late republic, when many of rome's richest and most powerful men—such as lucullus, crassus, and pompeius—were plebeian nobles. some or perhaps many noble plebeians, including cicero and lucullus, aligned their political interests with the faction of optimates, conservatives who sought to preserve senatorial prerogatives. by contrast, the populares, which sought to champion the plebs in the sense of "common people", were sometimes led by patricians such as julius caesar and clodius pulcher.[ ][ ][ ] conflict of the orders[edit] main article: conflict of the orders in bce, plebeians decided it was time to revolt against patrician officials in a pacifist manner. the struggle was known as the conflict of the orders. this conflict lasted approximately years, finally coming to a halt in bce. even though the conflict ended, many problems continued to arise in the feud between plebs and patricians. prior to this struggle, patricians were in control of relatively any sort of power, with plebs and slaves having no status quo, plebs decided to protest their rights going through a series of secessions known as secessio plebis (secession of the plebs). first secession ( bce)[edit] main article: first secessio plebis due to the increasing tax on the working class with no benefits to show from it, the plebs decided to go on strike and flee to mons sacer. the plebs established their own assembly known as the council of plebs, from which tribunes of plebs were elected. their job was to protect the concerns for plebs against patrician officials.[ ] second secession ( bce)[edit] patricians were the only ones allowed to interpret early roman law; many unwritten laws were known more as traditions due to the fact they were not made official. the decemvirs were in charge of composing new laws which did not show more significance to plebeians but was also made available to the general public. the final composition of laws would be known as the law of twelve tables.[ ] third secession[edit] gaius canuleius proposed a law (the canuleian law) that granted plebeian and patricians to intermarry.[ ] fifth secession ( bce)[edit] the final secession brought about a new law which would truly bring some form equality between plebs and patricians in the political offices. a new law was brought about known as hortensian law, which banned the senate's veto of the plebeian council.[ ] that brought a halt to aristocracy-based offices based on wealth. rome was beginning to become like a democracy. life[edit] childhood and education[edit] childhood for plebeians was very different compared to their patrician counterparts since they were expected to enter the workforce at a much earlier age. plebeians typically belonged to a lower socio-economic class than their patrician counterparts, and therefore did not have as many household servants. as a result, plebeian children were responsible for maintaining the household and caring for their aging parents. education was limited to what their parent would teach them, which consisted of only learning the very basics of writing, reading and mathematics. wealthier plebeians were able to send their children to schools or hire a private tutor.[ ] living quarters[edit] ruins of insulae plebeians in ancient rome lived in buildings called insula, apartment buildings that housed many families. these apartments usually lacked running water and heat. not all plebeians lived in these run-down conditions, as some wealthier plebs were able to live in single-family homes, called a domus.[ ] attire[edit] plebeian men wore a tunic with a belt at the waist, and women wore a long dress called a stola.[ ] meals[edit] since meat was very expensive, animal products such as pork, beef and veal would have been considered a delicacy to plebeians. instead, a plebeian diet mainly consisted of bread and vegetables. common flavouring for their food included honey, vinegar and different herbs and spices. a well-known condiment to this day known as 'garum', which is a fish sauce was also largely consumed.[ ] derivatives[edit] united states military academies[edit] see also: plebe summer plebes (first-year students) marching in front of bancroft hall, united states naval academy in the u.s. military, plebes are freshmen at the u.s. military academy, u.s. naval academy, valley forge military academy and college, the marine military academy, the u.s. merchant marine academy, georgia military college, and california maritime academy. the term is also used for new cadets at the philippine military academy. british empire[edit] early public schools in the united kingdom would enroll pupils as "plebeians", as opposed to sons of gentry and aristocrats. in british, irish, australian, new zealand and south african english, the back-formation pleb, along with the more recently derived adjectival form plebby,[ ] is used as a derogatory term for someone considered unsophisticated or uncultured.[ ] in popular culture[edit] a british comedy show, plebs has since followed plebeians during ancient rome in a comical manner.[ ] see also[edit] 	bread and circuses – figure of speech referring to a superficial means of appeasement 	capite censi – the lowest class of citizens of ancient rome 	plebeian council – the principal assembly of the ancient roman republic 	proletariat – a class of wage-earners in an economic society whose only possession of significant material value is their labour-power 	roman republic – period of ancient roman civilization ( – bc) 	plebgate (aka plodgate or gategate), a british political scandal involving the use of the word as a slur notes[edit] 	^ see for example momigliano, arnaldo ( ). 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( ). patricians and plebeians: the origin of the roman state. ithaca: cornell university press. 	morstein-marx, robert ( ). mass oratory and political power in the late roman republic. doi: . /cbo . isbn  . 	mouritsen, henrik ( ). plebsand politics in the late roman republic. doi: . /cbo . isbn  . 	raaflaub, kurt a, ed. ( ). social struggles in archaic rome. doi: . / . isbn  . 	vanderbroeck, paul j.j. ( ). popular leadership and collective behavior in the late roman republic (ca. – b.c.). amsterdam: gieben. 	vishnia, rachel feig ( ). state, society, and popular leaders in mid-republican rome - bc. london: routledge. 	williamson, caroline ( ). the laws of the roman people. doi: . /mpub. . isbn  . external links[edit] 		look up pleb in wiktionary, the free dictionary. 	smith's dictionary of greek and roman antiquities, article plebs 	livius.org: plebs 	 texts on wikisource: 	"plebeians". collier's new encyclopedia. . 	"plebeians". encyclopedia americana. . 	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	praeses 	praefectus 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 	 	other countries 		v 	t 	e a roman governor was an official either elected or appointed to be the chief administrator of roman law throughout one or more of the many provinces constituting the roman empire. a roman governor is also known as a propraetor or proconsul. the generic term in roman legal language was rector provinciae, regardless of the specific titles, which also reflect the province's intrinsic and strategic status, and corresponding differences in authority. by the time of the early empire, there were two types of provinces—senatorial and imperial—and several types of governor would emerge. only proconsuls and propraetors fell under the classification of promagistrate. contents 	 duties of the governor 	 republican governors 	 imperial governors 	 . imperial provinces 	 . senatorial provinces 	 . equestrian procurator 	 late imperial governors 	 see also 	 sources and references 	 external links duties of the governor[edit] the governor was the province's chief judge. the governor had the sole right to impose capital punishment, and capital cases were normally tried before him. to appeal a governor's decision necessitated travelling to rome and presenting one's case before either the praetor urbanus, or even the emperor himself, an expensive, and thus rare, process. an appeal was unlikely to succeed anyway, as a governor wouldn’t generally take the chance of convicting someone contrary to the emperor's wishes. the governor was also supposed to travel across his province to administer justice in the major towns where his attention was required. finally, and most importantly, he commanded the military forces within the province. in the more important provinces, this could consist of legions, but elsewhere, there were only auxiliaries. as a part of his standing orders the governor had the authority to use his legions to stamp out organized criminal gangs or rebels in the area without need for the emperor's or senate's approval. every governor had at his disposal a diversity of advisors and staff, who were known as his comites (latin for "companions"); the number of these depended on the governor's social standing and rank. these comites would serve as the governor's executive council, with each supervising a different aspect of the province, and assisting the governor in decision making. in the provinces with a significant legionary presence, the governor's second-in-command was usually a quaestor, a man elected in rome and sent to the province to serve a mainly financial role, but who could command the military with the governor's approval. in other provinces, governors themselves appointed non-magistrate prefects or procurators to govern a small part of the province and act as their second-in-command. republican governors[edit] during the era of the roman republic, the council was in charge of appointing governors to rome's provinces. this was done by appointing promagistrates to serve, either by random casting of lots or by senatus consultum (advice of the senate); however, these appointments were not formally binding on a legal basis and could be nullified by roman assemblies. the governor's level of authority was determined by what type of imperium he possessed. most provinces were governed by propraetors who had served an annual term in the praetorship the year before. the provinces governed by propraetors were usually the more tranquil ones, where chances of revolt or invasion were small, but in some cases propraetors would be given command of more troubled provinces. provinces that lay on the empire's borders, thereby requiring a permanent military garrison, were governed by proconsuls who had served a term as consul (the highest rank of magistrate) the year before their governorship. they were given the authority to command provinces with actual roman legions, rather than just using the militia. these promagistrates held equality with other magistrates with the same level of imperium and were attended by the same number of lictors. generally speaking, they had autocratic power within their provinces. a provincial governor almost possessed unlimited authority and often extorted vast amounts of money from the provincial population—but, though he retained immunity from prosecution as long as he held his imperium, once he left office he became vulnerable to prosecution for his actions during his term. imperial governors[edit] imperial provinces[edit] after augustus established the principate, the emperor himself was the direct governor of rome's most important provinces (called imperial provinces) and even in the provinces he did not directly govern, was senior to other provincial governors through holding imperium maius, or supreme imperium. in imperial provinces, the emperor would appoint legates to govern in his name. the emperor had sole say in the appointing of these legates, who were lower in rank than other provincial governors, as officially they were only representatives of the province's true governor, the emperor. the principate did not totally do away with the system of selecting proconsuls and propraetors. in provinces with one legion, a legate bearing praetorian imperium, thus being a propraetor, not only governed the province in the emperor's name, but also controlled the legion himself. however, in provinces with more than one legion, each legion was commanded by its own legate with praetorian imperium, while the province as a whole was commanded by a legate with consular imperium, who had general command over the entire army stationed there, as well as administering the province as a proconsul. appointment to these governorships was completely at the whim of the emperor and could last anywhere from to years. senatorial provinces[edit] while the emperor had sole authority in provinces with legions, senatorial provinces were provinces where the senate had the right to appoint governors. these provinces were away from the empire's borders and free from the likelihood of rebellion, and so had few, if any, legions stationed in them (thus lessening the chance the senate might try to seize power from the emperor). these provinces were under the authority of proconsular or propraetorian senators invariably styled 'proconsul', with little need for intervention by the emperor (although the emperor had the power to appoint these governors if he wished). most senatorial provinces, since they were not under the direct authority of the emperor, did not grant the governor legions to command. there was one exception to this rule, the province of africa, where there was always at least a single legion to protect the province from berber tribes. augustus decreed that at least ten provinces would be held by the authority of the roman people through the agency of the senate. though all ten were "proconsular", only two of these provinces (asia and africa), were actually governed by senators with proconsular imperium, the remaining eight being governed by propraetors. the two proconsular governors served for one year, while the eight praetors served typically for up to years. each of these men had six lictors who served as bodyguards and also as a symbol of authority and a mark of their position. equestrian procurator[edit] the emperor also had under his control a number of smaller, but potentially difficult provinces that did not need an entire legion. these provinces were put under the control of governors of equestrian status. new conquests generally fell into this equestrian category, but most were later changed in status to reflect the changing conditions of rome's growing empire. thus, on conquest a province would become a procuratorial province until it was decided that it should become either an imperial or senatorial province and thus governed by either a propraetor or proconsul. like the other imperial provinces, the equestrian governors could serve any length of time up to years, or even longer. much like the senatorial province of africa, the equestrian province of aegyptus (egypt) was an exception to the general rule of legions only being stationed in imperial provinces. egypt was not a normal province; it was considered the personal possession of the emperor, and its governor, the praefectus aegypti, was considered the hold the highest ranking equestrian post during the early empire. later, the post would fall second to that of the praetorian command, but its position remained highly prestigious. though the practice of appointing equestrians to help manage provinces officially began with augustus, governors from years before had appointed procurators to help them govern. however, it was not until the reign of claudius that these procurators received the powers of a governor. procurators were civilian officials, unlike prefects. it is important to note that procurators were not magistrates, so did not possess imperium, and merely exercised the emperor’s, or governor's, authority with his approval. late imperial governors[edit] the provincial governors were the most important officials in the roman administration for it was they who were responsible for tax collection, justice in the first instance and public order in the first instance. they received, from the prefectures, the tax demands three times a year, which they circulated to the municipalities. under the dominate, i.e. the late roman empire, the emperor diocletian began in ad reforms of the provincial administration that were completed under the emperor constantine the great in . diocletian set up dioceses (later several were split; see under roman province), originally two to four for each of the four co-emperors under the short-lived tetrarchy (two senior augusti, each above a caesar), each governed by a vicarius ('vicar') who acted on behalf of the praetorian prefect. each diocese comprised several roman provinces (known in greek as eparchies), each under the authority of a provincial governor, whose title varied from province to province (the range of titles includes republican relics such as proconsul, as well as novelties such as corrector provinciae, moderator provinciae, and praeses provinciae). although the vicar's authority was supreme within his diocese, he was under the authority of praetorian prefect whose power he partook of (see below) or the emperor himself. constantine completely removed the governors' military commands, a process begun under diocletian. in those provinces where soldiers were stationed, the dux (latin for leader) commanded border military units. some duces commanded units in several provinces: they were watched by the diocesan vicars. field units were commanded by a comes ('companion', whence count) and later by supreme military commanders, the magistri militum. constantine, again following diocletian's lead, organized the roman empire into three praetorian prefectures late in his reign. these were based on the territories controlled by the four co-emperors of the tetrarchy, two of whom, the senior augusti, had been served by a praetorian prefect as something like a chief of staff. the three prefectures thus created were the prefecture of gaul, the prefecture of italy, africa, and illyricum (later divided by constans in or perhaps in / ), and the prefecture of the east, each being administered by an imperially-appointed praetorian prefect. the prefect of each prefecture was the highest civilian officer, being subordinate only to the emperor(s). the prefect was the superior of the vicars and governors. he was the chief appellate judge, head of the administration of the prefecture, chief finance officer, and chief tax collector (though the collection was actually done at municipal and village levels). 	a list of the provinces within the dioceses and the dioceses within the prefectures can be 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inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 platonic academy - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	platonic academy 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		ancient philosophical, research and educative center, founded by plato this article is about the academy founded by plato. for the th-century school in florence, see platonic academy (florence). for the raphael painting, see the school of athens. "akademia" redirects here. for the french early music ensemble, see akadêmia. coordinates: ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; . 	part of a series on 	platonism 	plato from raphael's the school of athens ( – ) 	 	early life 	works 	epistemology 	idealism / realism 	demiurge 	theory of forms 	theory of soul 	transcendentals 	form of the good 	third man argument 	euthyphro dilemma 	five regimes 	philosopher king 	plato's unwritten doctrines 	political philosophy 	 allegories and metaphors 	 	atlantis 	ring of gyges 	the cave 	the divided line 	the sun 	ship of state 	myth of er 	the chariot 	 related articles 	 	commentaries 	the academy in athens 	socratic problem 	academic skepticism 	middle platonism 	neoplatonism 	and christianity 	allegorical interpretations of plato 	 related categories 	 ► plato 	 	 philosophy portal 		v 	t 	e plato's academy mosaic — from the villa of t. siminius stephanus in pompeii. the academy (ancient greek: Ἀκαδημία) was founded by plato in c. bc in athens. aristotle studied there for twenty years ( – bc) before founding his own school, the lyceum. the academy persisted throughout the hellenistic period as a skeptical school, until coming to an end after the death of philo of larissa in bc. the platonic academy was destroyed by the roman dictator sulla in bc.[ ] contents 	 site 	 . today 	 history 	 . the three platonic eras 	 . . old academy 	 . . middle academy 	 . . new academy 	 . destruction of the academy 	 neoplatonic academy 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 external links site[edit] ancient road to the academy. map of ancient athens. the academy is north of athens. the akademia was a school outside the city walls of ancient athens. it was located in or beside a grove of olive trees dedicated to the goddess athena,[ ] which was on the site even before cimon enclosed the precincts with a wall.[ ] the archaic name for the site was Ἑκαδήμεια (hekademia), which by classical times evolved into Ἀκαδημία (akademia), which was explained, at least as early as the beginning of the th century bc, by linking it to "akademos", a legendary athenian hero. the site of the academy was sacred to athena; it had sheltered her religious cult since the bronze age. the site was perhaps also associated with the twin hero-gods castor and polydeuces (the dioscuri), since the hero akademos associated with the site was credited with revealing to the brothers where the abductor theseus had hidden their sister helen. out of respect for its long tradition and its association with the dioscuri – who were patron gods of sparta – the spartan army would not ravage these original "groves of academe" when they invaded attica.[ ] their piety was not shared by the roman sulla, who had the sacred olive trees of athena cut down in  bc to build siege engines. among the religious observances that took place at the akademeia was a torchlit night race from altars within the city to prometheus' altar in the akademeia. the road to akademeia was lined with the gravestones of athenians, and funeral games also took place in the area as well as a dionysiac procession from athens to the hekademeia and then back to the city.[ ][ ] the site of the academy[ ] is located near colonus, approximately . kilometres ( .  mi) north of athens' dipylon gates.[ ] today[edit] the site was rediscovered in the th century, in the modern akadimia platonos neighbourhood; considerable excavation has been accomplished and visiting the site is free.[ ] visitors today can visit the archaeological site of the academy located on either side of the cratylus street in the area of colonos and plato's academy (postal code gr  ). on either side of the cratylus street are important monuments, including the sacred house geometric era, the gymnasium ( st century bc – st century ad), the proto-helladic vaulted house and the peristyle building ( th century bc), which is perhaps the only major building that belonged to the actual academy of plato. history[edit] the area to be plato's academy appears to be named after academus, an attic hero in greek mythology. academus was said to have saved athens from attack by troy, revealing where helen of troy was hidden, when she had been kidnapped by king theseus years before the incidents of the later trojan war. having thus spared athens a war (or at least delayed it), academus was seen as a savior of athens. his land, six stadia (a total of about one kilometer, or a half mile, the exact length of a stadion varied) north of athens, became revered even by neighboring city-states, escaping destruction during the many local wars. this piece of land was in historic greek times adorned with oriental plane and olive plantations[ ] and was called academia after its original owner.[ ] what was later to be known as plato's school appears to have been part of academia. plato inherited the property at the age of thirty, with informal gatherings which included theaetetus of sunium, archytas of tarentum, leodamas of thasos, and neoclides.[ ] according to debra nails, speusippus "joined the group in about bc". she claims, "it is not until eudoxus of cnidos arrives in the mid- s bc that eudemus recognizes a formal academy." there is no historical record of the exact time the school was officially founded, but modern scholars generally agree that the time was the mid- s, probably sometime after bc, when plato is thought to have returned from his first visit to italy and sicily.[ ] originally, the meetings were held on plato's property as often as they were at the nearby academy gymnasium; this remained so throughout the fourth century.[ ] though the academy was open to the public, the main participants were upper class men.[ ][ ] it did not, at least during plato's time, charge fees for membership.[ ][ ] therefore, there was probably not at that time a "school" in the sense of a clear distinction between teachers and students, or even a formal curriculum.[ ] there was, however, a distinction between senior and junior members.[ ] two women are known to have studied with plato at the academy, axiothea of phlius and lasthenia of mantinea.[ ] in at least plato's time, the school did not have any particular doctrine to teach; rather, plato (and probably other associates of his) posed problems to be studied and solved by the others.[ ] there is evidence of lectures given, most notably plato's lecture "on the good"; but probably the use of dialectic was more common.[ ] according to an unverifiable story, dated of some years after the founding of the school, above the entrance to the academy was inscribed the phrase "let none but geometers enter here."[ ] many have imagined that the academic curriculum would have closely resembled the one canvassed in plato's republic.[ ] others, however, have argued that such a picture ignores the obvious peculiar arrangements of the ideal society envisioned in that dialogue.[ ] the subjects of study almost certainly included mathematics as well as the philosophical topics with which the platonic dialogues deal, but there is little reliable evidence.[ ] there is some evidence for what today would be considered strictly scientific research: simplicius reports that plato had instructed the other members to discover the simplest explanation of the observable, irregular motion of heavenly bodies: "by hypothesizing what uniform and ordered motions is it possible to save the appearances relating to planetary motions."[ ] (according to simplicius, plato's colleague eudoxus was the first to have worked on this problem.) plato's academy is often said to have been a school for would-be politicians in the ancient world, and to have had many illustrious alumni.[ ] in a recent survey of the evidence, malcolm schofield, however, has argued that it is difficult to know to what extent the academy was interested in practical (i.e., non-theoretical) politics since much of our evidence "reflects ancient polemic for or against plato".[ ] the three platonic eras[edit] the school of athens by raphael ( – ), fresco at the apostolic palace, vatican city. diogenes laërtius divided the history of the academy into three: the old, the middle, and the new. at the head of the old he put plato, at the head of the middle academy, arcesilaus, and of the new, lacydes. sextus empiricus enumerated five divisions of the followers of plato. he made plato founder of the first academy; arcesilaus of the second; carneades of the third; philo and charmadas of the fourth; and antiochus of the fifth. cicero recognised only two academies, the old and new, and had the latter commence with arcesilaus.[ ] old academy[edit] "old academy" redirects here. for the building in munich, see old academy (munich). plato's immediate successors as "scholarch" of the academy were speusippus ( – bc), xenocrates ( – bc), polemon ( – bc), and crates (c. – bc). other notable members of the academy include aristotle, heraclides, eudoxus, philip of opus, and crantor. middle academy[edit] around bc arcesilaus became scholarch. under arcesilaus (c. – bc), the academy strongly emphasized a version of academic skepticism closely similar to pyrrhonism.[ ] arcesilaus was followed by lacydes of cyrene ( – bc), evander and telecles (jointly) (  – c. bc), and hegesinus (c. bc). new academy[edit] the new or third academy begins with carneades, in bc, the fourth scholarch in succession from arcesilaus. it was still largely skeptical, denying the possibility of knowing an absolute truth. carneades was followed by clitomachus ( – c. bc) and philo of larissa ("the last undisputed head of the academy," c. – bc).[ ][ ] according to jonathan barnes, "it seems likely that philo was the last platonist geographically connected to the academy."[ ] around bc, philo's student antiochus of ascalon began teaching his own rival version of platonism rejecting skepticism and advocating stoicism, which began a new phase known as middle platonism. destruction of the academy[edit] the archaeological site of plato's academy. when the first mithridatic war began in bc, philo of larissa left athens and took refuge in rome, where he seems to have remained until his death.[ ] in bc, lucius cornelius sulla laid siege to athens and conquered the city, causing much destruction. it was during the siege that he laid waste to the academy, as plutarch relates: "he laid hands upon the sacred groves and ravaged the academy, which was the most wooded of the city's suburbs, as well as the lyceum."[ ] the destruction of the academy seems to have been so severe as to make the reconstruction and re-opening of the academy impossible.[ ] when antiochus returned to athens from alexandria, c. bc, he resumed his teaching but not in the academy. cicero, who studied under him in / bc, refers to antiochus teaching in a gymnasium called ptolemy. cicero describes a visit to the site of the academy one afternoon, which was "quiet and deserted at that hour of the day".[ ] neoplatonic academy[edit] further information: decline of greco-roman polytheism despite the platonic academy being destroyed in the first century bc, the philosophers continued to teach platonism in athens during the roman era, but it was not until the early th century (c. ) that a revived academy (which had no connection with the original academy) was established by some leading neoplatonists.[ ] the origins of neoplatonist teaching in athens are uncertain, but when proclus arrived in athens in the early s, he found plutarch of athens and his colleague syrianus teaching in an academy there. the neoplatonists in athens called themselves "successors" (diadochoi, but of plato) and presented themselves as an uninterrupted tradition reaching back to plato, but there cannot have actually been any geographical, institutional, economic or personal continuity with the original academy.[ ] the school seems to have been a private foundation, conducted in a large house which proclus eventually inherited from plutarch and syrianus.[ ] the heads of the neoplatonic academy were plutarch of athens, syrianus, proclus, marinus, isidore, and finally damascius. the neoplatonic academy reached its apex under proclus (died ). severianus studied under him. the last "greek" philosophers of the revived neoplatonic academy in the th century were drawn from various parts of the hellenistic cultural world and suggest the broad syncretism of the common culture (see koine): five of the seven academy philosophers mentioned by agathias were syriac in their cultural origin: hermias and diogenes (both from phoenicia), isidorus of gaza, damascius of syria, iamblichus of coele-syria and perhaps even simplicius of cilicia.[ ] in the emperor justinian ended the funding of the revived neoplatonic academy. however, other philosophical schools continued in constantinople, antioch, and alexandria, which were the centres of justinian's empire.[ ] the last scholarch of the neoplatonic academy was damascius (d. ). according to agathias, its remaining members looked for protection under the rule of sassanid king khosrau i in his capital at ctesiphon, carrying with them precious scrolls of literature and philosophy, and to a lesser degree of science. after a peace treaty between the persian and the byzantine empire in , their personal security (an early document in the history of freedom of religion) was guaranteed. it has been speculated that the neoplatonic academy did not altogether disappear.[ ][ ] after his exile, simplicius (and perhaps some others) may have travelled to harran, near edessa. from there, the students of an academy-in-exile could have survived into the th century, long enough to facilitate an arabic revival of the neoplatonist commentary tradition in baghdad,[ ] beginning with the foundation of the house of wisdom in . one of the major centers of learning in the intervening period ( th to th centuries) was the academy of gundishapur in sassanid persia.[clarification needed] 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emperor acting as the supreme authority. contents 	 history 	 . under the republic 	 . under the empire 	 powers and responsibilities 	 . republican duties 	 . . civil sphere 	 . . military sphere 	 . . abuse prevention 	 . . governorship 	 . . appointment of the dictator 	 . imperial duties 	 consular dating 	 epigraphy 	 lists of roman consuls 	 see also 	 references 	 bibliography history[edit] under the republic[edit] after the legendary expulsion of the last king, tarquin the proud, a harsh ruler at the end of the roman kingdom, most of the powers and authority of the king were ostensibly given to the newly instituted consulship. this change in leadership came about when the king's son, sextus tarquinius, raped the wives and daughters of powerful roman nobles. a group of nobles led by lucius junius brutus, with the support of the roman army, expelled tarquinius and his family from rome in bc. originally, consuls were called praetors ("leader"), referring to their duties as the chief military commanders. by at least bc the title of consul became commonly used.[ ] ancient writers usually derive the title consul from the latin verb consulere, "to take counsel", but this is most likely a later gloss of the term,[ ] which probably derives—in view of the joint nature of the office—from con- and sal-, "get together" or from con- and sell-/sedl-, "sit down together with" or "next to".[ ] in greek, the title was originally rendered as στρατηγὸς ὕπατος, strategos hypatos ("the supreme general"), and later simply as ὕπατος.[ ] the consul was believed by the romans to date back to the traditional establishment of the republic in bc, but the succession of consuls was not continuous in the th century bc. during the s, the office was quite often replaced with the establishment of the consular tribunes, who were elected whenever the military needs of the state were significant enough to warrant the election of more than the two usual consuls.[ ] these remained in place until the office was abolished in / bc and the consulship was reintroduced.[ ] consuls had extensive powers in peacetime (administrative, legislative and judicial), and in wartime often held the highest military command. additional religious duties included certain rites which, as a sign of their formal importance, could only be carried out by the highest state officials. consuls also read auguries, an essential step before leading armies into the field. two consuls were elected each year, serving together, each with veto power over the other's actions, a normal principle for magistracies. they were elected by the comitia centuriata, which had an aristocratic bias in its voting structure which only increased over the years from its foundation.[citation needed] however, they formally assumed powers only after the ratification of their election in the older comitia curiata, which granted the consuls their imperium by enacting a law, the "lex curiata de imperio". if a consul died during his term (not uncommon when consuls were in the forefront of battle) or was removed from office, another would be elected by the comitia centuriata to serve the remainder of the term as consul suffectus ("suffect consul"). a consul elected to start the year—called a consul ordinarius ("ordinary consul")—held more prestige than a suffect consul, partly because the year would be named for ordinary consuls (see consular dating). according to tradition, the consulship was initially reserved for patricians and only in bc did plebeians win the right to stand for this supreme office, when the lex licinia sextia provided that at least one consul each year should be plebeian. the first plebeian consul, lucius sextius, was elected the following year. nevertheless, the office remained largely in the hands of a few families as, according to gelzer[who?], only fifteen novi homines - "new men" with no consular background - were elected to the consulship until the election of cicero in bc.[ ] modern historians have questioned the traditional account of plebeian emancipation during the early republic (see conflict of the orders), noting for instance that about thirty percent of the consuls prior to sextius had plebeian, not patrician, names. it is possible that only the chronology has been distorted, but it seems that one of the first consuls, lucius junius brutus, came from a plebeian family.[ ] another possible explanation is that during the th century social struggles, the office of consul was gradually monopolized by a patrician elite.[ ] during times of war, the primary qualification for consul was military skill and reputation, but at all times the selection was politically charged. with the passage of time, the consulship became the normal endpoint of the cursus honorum, the sequence of offices pursued by the ambitious roman who chose to pursue political power and influence. when lucius cornelius sulla regulated the cursus by law, the minimum age of election to consul became, in effect, years of age.[ ] beginning in the late republic, after finishing a consular year, a former consul would usually serve a lucrative term as a proconsul, the roman governor of one of the (senatorial) provinces. the most commonly chosen province for the proconsulship was cisalpine gaul. it would not be uncommon for the patrician consulars of the early republic to intersperse public office with agricultural labour.[ ] in cicero’s words: in agris erant tum senatores, id est senes:[ ] ‘in those days senators—that is, seniors—would live on their farms’. this practice was obsolete by the nd century. under the empire[edit] flavius anastasius (consul of the eastern roman empire for ad ) in consular garb, holding a sceptre and the mappa, a piece of cloth used to signal the start of chariot races at the hippodrome. ivory panel from his consular diptych. on the left: emperor honorius on the consular diptych of anicius petronius probus ( ) on the right: consular diptych of constantius iii (a co-emperor with honorius in ), produced for his consulate of the western roman empire in or although throughout the early years of the principate, the consuls were still formally elected by the comitia centuriata, they were de facto nominated by the princeps.[ ] as the years progressed, the distinction between the comitia centuriata and the comitia tributa (which elected the lower magisterial positions) appears to have disappeared, and so for the purposes of the consular elections, there came to be just a single "assembly of the people" which elected all the magisterial positions of the state, while the consuls continued to be nominated by the princeps.[ ] the imperial consulate during the period of the high empire (until the rd century) was an important position, albeit as the method through which the roman aristocracy could progress through to the higher levels of imperial administration – only former consuls could become consular legates, the proconsuls of africa and asia, or the urban prefect of rome.[ ] it was a post that would be occupied by a man halfway through his career, in his early thirties for a patrician, or in his early forties for most others.[ ] emperors frequently appointed themselves, or their protégés or relatives, consuls, even without regard to the age requirements. for example, emperor honorius was given the consulship at birth. cassius dio states that caligula intended to make his horse incitatus consul, but was assassinated before he could do so.[ ] the need for a pool of men to fill the consular positions forced augustus to remodel the suffect consulate, allowing more than the two elected for the ordinary consulate.[ ] during the reigns of the julio-claudians, the ordinary consuls who began the year usually relinquished their office mid-year, with the election for the suffect consuls occurring at the same time as that for the ordinary consuls. during reigns of the flavian and antonine emperors, the ordinary consuls tended to resign after a period of four months, and the elections were moved to january of the year in which they were to hold office. election of the consuls were transferred to the senate during the flavian or antonine periods, although through to the rd century, the people were still called on to ratify the senate's selections.[ ] the proliferation of suffect consuls through this process, and the allocation of this office to homines novi tended, over time, to devalue the office.[ ] however, the high regard placed upon the ordinary consulate remained intact, as it was one of the few offices that one could share with the emperor, and during this period it was filled mostly by patricians or by individuals who had consular ancestors.[ ] if they were especially skilled or valued, they may even have achieved a second (or rarely, a third) consulate. prior to achieving the consulate, these individuals already had a significant career behind them, and would expect to continue serving the state, filling in the post upon which the state functioned.[ ] consequently, holding the ordinary consulship was a great honor and the office was the major symbol of the still relatively republican constitution. probably as part of seeking formal legitimacy, the break-away gallic empire had its own pairs of consuls during its existence ( – ). the list of consuls for this state is incomplete, drawn from inscriptions and coins. by the end of the rd century, much had changed. the loss of many pre-consular functions and the gradual encroachment of the equites into the traditional senatorial administrative and military functions, meant that senatorial careers virtually vanished prior to their appointment as consuls.[ ] this had the effect of seeing a suffect consulship granted at an earlier age, to the point that by the th century, it was being held by men in their early twenties, and possibly younger, without the significant political careers behind them that was normal previously.[ ] as time progressed, second consulates, usually ordinary, became far more common than had been the case during the first two centuries, while the first consulship was usually a suffect consulate. also, the consulate during this period was no longer just the province of senators – the automatic awarding of a suffect consulship to the equestrian praetorian prefects (who were given the ornamenta consularia upon achieving their office) allowed them to style themselves cos. ii when they were later granted an ordinary consulship by the emperor.[ ] all this had the effect of further devaluing the office of consul, to the point that by the final years of the rd century, holding an ordinary consulate was occasionally left out of the cursus inscriptions, while suffect consulships were hardly ever recorded by the first decades of the th century.[ ] one of the reforms of constantine i (r. – ) was to assign one of the consuls to the city of rome, and the other to constantinople. therefore, when the roman empire was divided into two halves on the death of theodosius i (r. – ), the emperor of each half acquired the right of appointing one of the consuls—although on occasion an emperor did allow his colleague to appoint both consuls for various reasons. the consulship, bereft of any real power, continued to be a great honor, but the celebrations attending it – above all the chariot races – had come to involve considerable expense, which only a few citizens could afford, to the extent that part of the expense had to be covered by the state.[ ] in the th century, the consulship was increasingly sparsely given, until it was allowed to lapse under justinian i (r. – ): the western consulship lapsed in , with decius paulinus the last holder, and the consulship of the east in , with anicius faustus albinus basilius. consular dating had already been abolished in , when justinian introduced dating by the emperor's regnal year and the indiction.[ ] in the eastern court, the appointment to consulship became a part of the rite of proclamation of a new emperor from justin ii (r. – ) on, and is last attested in the proclamation of the future constans ii (r. – ) as consul in .[ ] in the late th century, emperor leo the wise (r. – ) finally abolished consular dating with novel . by that time, the greek titles for consul and ex-consul, "hypatos" and "apo hypaton", had been transformed to relatively lowly honorary dignities.[ ] in the west, the rank of consul was occasionally bestowed upon individuals by the papacy. in , the title of roman consul was offered by the pope to charles martel, although he refused it.[ ] about , alfred the great, then a child aged four or five, was made a roman consul by the pope. powers and responsibilities[edit] republican duties[edit] after the expulsion of the kings and the establishment of the republic, all the powers that had belonged to the kings were transferred to two offices: that of the consuls and the rex sacrorum. while the rex sacrorum inherited the kings’ position as high priest of the state, the consuls were given the civil and military responsibilities (imperium). however, to prevent abuse of the kingly power, the imperium was shared by two consuls, each of whom could veto the other's actions. the consuls were invested with the executive power of the state and headed the government of the republic. initially, the consuls held vast executive and judicial power. in the gradual development of the roman legal system, however, some important functions were detached from the consulship and assigned to new officers. thus, in bc, the responsibility to conduct the census was taken from the consuls and given to the censors. the second function taken from the consulship was their judicial power. their position as chief judges was transferred to the praetors in bc. after this time, the consul would only serve as judges in extraordinary criminal cases and only when called upon by decree of the senate. civil sphere[edit] for the most part, power was divided between civil and military spheres. as long as the consuls were in the pomerium (the city of rome), they were at the head of government, and all the other magistrates, with the exception of the tribunes of the plebeians, were subordinate to them, but retained independence of office. the internal machinery of the republic was under the consuls’ supervision. in order to allow the consuls greater authority in executing laws, the consuls had the right of summons and arrest, which was limited only by the right of appeal from their judgment. this power of punishment even extended to inferior magistrates. as part of their executive functions, the consuls were responsible for carrying into effect the decrees of the senate and the laws of the assemblies. sometimes, in great emergencies, they might even act on their own authority and responsibility. the consuls also served as the chief diplomat of the roman state. before any foreign ambassadors reached the senate, they met with the consuls. the consul would introduce ambassadors to the senate, and they alone carried on the negotiations between the senate and foreign states. the consuls could convene the senate, and presided over its meetings. each consul served as president of the senate for a month. they could also summon any of the three roman assemblies (curiate, centuriate, and tribal) and presided over them. thus, the consuls conducted the elections and put legislative measures to the vote. when neither consul was within the city, their civic duties were assumed by the praetor urbanus. each consul was accompanied in every public appearance by twelve lictors, who displayed the magnificence of the office and served as his bodyguards. each lictor held a fasces, a bundle of rods that contained an axe. the rods symbolized the power of scourging, and the axe the power of capital punishment[citation needed]. when inside the pomerium, the lictors removed the axes from the fasces to show that a citizen could not be executed without a trial. upon entering the comitia centuriata, the lictors would lower the fasces to show that the powers of the consuls derive from the people (populus romanus). military sphere[edit] outside the walls of rome, the powers of the consuls were far more extensive in their role as commanders-in-chief of all roman legions. it was in this function that the consuls were vested with full imperium. when legions were ordered by a decree of the senate, the consuls conducted the levy in the campus martius. upon entering the army, all soldiers had to take their oath of allegiance to the consuls. the consuls also oversaw the gathering of troops provided by rome's allies.[ ] within the city a consul could punish and arrest a citizen, but had no power to inflict capital punishment. when on campaign, however, a consul could inflict any punishment he saw fit on any soldier, officer, citizen, or ally. each consul commanded an army, usually two legions strong, with the help of military tribunes and a quaestor who had financial duties. in the rare case that both consuls marched together, each one held the command for a day respectively. a typical consular army was about , men strong and consisted of two citizen and two allied legions. in the early years of the republic, rome's enemies were located in central italy, so campaigns lasted a few months. as rome's frontiers expanded, in the nd century bc, the campaigns became lengthier. rome was a warlike society, and very seldom did not wage war.[ ] so the consul upon entering office was expected by the senate and the people to march his army against rome's enemies, and expand the roman frontiers. his soldiers expected to return to their homes after the campaign with spoils. if the consul won an overwhelming victory, he was hailed as imperator by his troops, and could request to be granted a triumph. the consul could conduct the campaign as he saw fit, and had unlimited powers. however, after the campaign, he could be prosecuted for his misdeeds (for example for abusing the provinces, or wasting public money, as scipio africanus was accused by cato in bc). abuse prevention[edit] abuse of power by consuls was prevented with each consul given the power to veto his colleague. therefore, except in the provinces as commanders-in-chief where each consul's power was supreme, the consuls could only act not against each other's determined will. against the sentence of one consul, an appeal could be brought before his colleague, which, if successful, would see the sentence overturned. in order to avoid unnecessary conflicts, only one consul would actually perform the office's duties every month and could act without direct interference. in the next month, the consuls would switch roles with one another. this would continue until the end of the consular term. another point which acted as a check against consuls was the certainty that after the end of their term they would be called to account for their actions while in office. there were also three other restrictions on consular power. their term in office was short (one year); their duties were pre-decided by the senate; and they could not stand again for election immediately after the end of their office. usually a period of ten years was expected between consulships. governorship[edit] main article: roman governor after leaving office, the consuls were assigned by the senate to a province to administer as governor. the provinces to which each consul was assigned were drawn by lot and determined before the end of his consulship. transferring his consular imperium to proconsular imperium, the consul would become a proconsul and governor of one (or several) of rome's many provinces. as a proconsul, his imperium was limited to only a specified province and not the entire republic. any exercise of proconsular imperium in any other province was illegal. also, a proconsul was not allowed to leave his province before his term was complete or before the arrival of his successor. exceptions were given only on special permission of the senate. most terms as governor lasted between one and five years. appointment of the dictator[edit] in times of crisis, when rome's territory was in immediate danger, a dictator was appointed by the consuls for a period of no more than six months, after the proposition of the senate.[ ] while the dictator held office, the imperium of the consuls was subordinate to the dictator. imperial duties[edit] after augustus became the first roman emperor in bc with the establishment of the principate, the consuls lost most of their powers and responsibilities under the roman empire. though still officially the highest office of the state, with the emperor's superior imperium they were merely a symbol of rome's republican heritage. one of the two consular positions was often occupied by emperors themselves and eventually became reserved solely for the emperor. however, the imperial consuls still maintained the right to preside at meetings of the senate, exercising this right at the pleasure of the emperor[citation needed]. they partially administered justice in extraordinary cases, and presented games in the circus maximus and all public solemnities in honor of the emperor at their own expense. after the expiration of their offices, the ex-consuls (proconsuls) went on to govern one of the provinces that were administered by the senate. they usually served proconsular terms of three to five years[citation needed]. consular dating[edit] roman dates were customarily kept according to the names of the two consuls who took office that year, much like a regnal year in a monarchy. for instance, the year bc in the modern calendar was called by the romans "the consulship of caesar and bibulus", since the two colleagues in the consulship were gaius julius caesar and marcus calpurnius bibulus — although caesar dominated the consulship so thoroughly that year that it was jokingly referred to as "the consulship of julius and caesar".[ ] the date the consuls took office varied: from bc to bc they took office march, and from bc onwards it was on january.[ ] the practice of dating years ab urbe condita (from the supposed foundation date of rome) was less frequently used. in latin, the ablative absolute construction is frequently used to express the date, such as "m. messalla et m. pupio pisone consulibus", translated literally as "marcus messalla and marcus pupius piso being the consuls", which appears in caesar's de bello gallico. consular dating key 	 – bc: september– august (august had only days in ancient rome) 	 – bc: august– july 	 – bc: december– december 	 – bc: october– september (september had days) 	 – bc: july– june ( days) 	 – bc: march– march 	 – bc: january– december ( days) [ ] epigraphy[edit] an antoninianus commemorating the third consulate ("cos iii") of the emperor philip ( ad). the word consul is abbreviated as cos.[ ] the disappearance of the n is explained by the fact that in classical latin an n before a fricative is pronounced as a nasalization of the previous vowel (meaning consul is pronounced /kõːsul/). also, consul is pronounced [ko:sul], as shown in ancient writing, "cosol", whereas the classical spelling (consul) seems like an etymological reminder of the nasal consonant.[ ] if a senator held the consulship twice then: cos becomes cos ii; thrice becomes cos iii, etc. lists of roman consuls[edit] for a complete list of roman consuls, see: 	list of roman consuls 	list of undated roman consuls 	list of consuls designate see also[edit] 		look up consul in wiktionary, the free dictionary. 	constitution of the roman republic – the norms, customs, and written laws, which guided the government of the roman republic 	french consulate references[edit] 	^ lintott, andrew ( ). the constitution of the roman republic. oxford university press. p.  . isbn  . 	^ a b kübler, b. 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to navigation 		jump to search 		"martialis" redirects here. for the roman writer on horticulture, see quintus gargilius martialis. for the ant, see martialis heureka. for other uses, see martial (disambiguation). st-century latin poet from hispania 	martial 	 	born	march, between and ad augusta bilbilis (now calatayud, spain) 	died	between and ad augusta bilbilis 	occupation	author 	nationality	roman 	genre	satire 	notable works	epigrams marcus valerius martialis (known in english as martial /ˈmɑːrʃəl/) (march, between and ad – between and ad) was a roman poet from hispania (modern spain) best known for his twelve books of epigrams, published in rome between ad and , during the reigns of the emperors domitian, nerva and trajan. in these short, witty poems he cheerfully satirises city life and the scandalous activities of his acquaintances, and romanticises his provincial upbringing. he wrote a total of , epigrams, of which , are in elegiac couplets. martial was famously deaf in his left ear, an attribute most likely arising from a birth defect.[ ] martial has been called the greatest latin epigrammatist,[ ][ ] and is considered the creator of the modern epigram. contents 	 early life 	 life in rome 	 martial and his patrons 	 martial's character 	 martial's epigrams 	 reception 	 notes 	 references 	 external links 	 . works 	 . other links early life[edit] knowledge of his origins and early life are derived almost entirely from his works, which can be more or less dated according to the well-known events to which they refer. in book x of his epigrams, composed between and , he mentions celebrating his fifty-seventh birthday; hence he was born during march , , or ad (x. , ),[ ] under caligula or claudius. his place of birth was augusta bilbilis (now calatayud) in hispania tarraconensis. his parents, fronto and flaccilla, appear to have died in his youth. his name seems to imply that he was born a roman citizen, but he speaks of himself as "sprung from the celts and iberians, and a countryman of the tagus"; and, in contrasting his own masculine appearance with that of an effeminate greek, he draws particular attention to "his stiff hispanian hair" (x. , ). his home was evidently one of rude comfort and plenty, sufficiently in the country to afford him the amusements of hunting and fishing, which he often recalls with keen pleasure, and sufficiently near the town to afford him the companionship of many comrades, the few survivors of whom he looks forward to meeting again after his thirty-four years' absence (x. ). the memories of this old home, and of other spots, the rough names and local associations which he delights to introduce into his verse, attest to the simple pleasures of his early life and were among the influences which kept his spirit alive in the stultifying routines of upper-crust social life in rome. he was educated in hispania, a part of the roman empire which in the st century produced several notable latin writers, including seneca the elder and seneca the younger, lucan and quintilian, and martial's contemporaries licinianus of bilbilis, decianus of emerita and canius of gades. martial professes to be of the school of catullus, pedo, and marsus. the epigram bears to this day the form impressed upon it by his unrivalled skill in wordsmithing. life in rome[edit] the success of his countrymen may have been what motivated martial to move to rome, from hispania, once he had completed his education. this move occurred in ad . seneca the younger and lucan may have served as his first patrons, but this is not known for sure. not much is known of the details of his life for the first twenty years or so after he came to rome. he published some juvenile poems of which he thought very little in his later years, and he chuckles at a foolish bookseller who would not allow them to die a natural death (i. ). his faculty ripened with experience and with the knowledge of that social life which was both his theme and his inspiration; many of his best epigrams are among those written in his last years. from many answers which he makes to the remonstrances of friends—among others to those of quintilian—it may be inferred that he was urged to practice at the bar, but that he preferred his own lazy, some would say bohemian kind of life. he made many influential friends and patrons and secured the favor of both titus and domitian. from them he obtained various privileges, among others the semestris tribunatus, which conferred on him equestrian rank. martial failed, however, in his application to domitian for more substantial advantages, although he commemorates the glory of having been invited to dinner by him, and also the fact that he procured the privilege of citizenship for many persons on whose behalf he appealed to him. the earliest of his extant works, known as liber spectaculorum, was first published at the opening of the colosseum in the reign of titus. it relates to the theatrical performances given by him, but the book as it now stands was published about the first year of domitian, i.e. about the year . the favour of the emperor procured him the countenance of some of the worst creatures at the imperial court—among them of the notorious crispinus, and probably of paris, the supposed author of juvenal's exile, for whose monument martial afterwards wrote a eulogistic epitaph. the two books, numbered by editors xiii and xiv, known by the names of xenia and apophoreta—inscriptions in two lines each for presents—were published at the saturnalia of . in he produced the first two of the twelve books on which his reputation rests. from that time till his return to hispania in he published a volume almost every year. the first nine books and the first edition of book x appeared in the reign of domitian; book xi. appeared at the end of , shortly after the accession of nerva. a revised edition of book x, that which we now possess, appeared in , about the time of trajan's entrance into rome. the last book was written after three years' absence in hispania, shortly before his death about the year or . these twelve books bring martial's ordinary mode of life between the age of forty-five and sixty before us. his regular home for thirty-five years was the bustle of metropolitan rome. he lived at first up three flights of stairs, and his "garret" overlooked the laurels in front of the portico of agrippa. he had a small villa and unproductive farm near nomentum, in the sabine territory, to which he occasionally retired from the pestilence, boors and noises of the city (ii. , xii. ). in his later years he had also a small house on the quirinal, near the temple of quirinus. at the time when his third book was brought out he had retired for a short time to cisalpine gaul, in weariness, as he tells us, of his unprofitable attendance to the bigwigs of rome. for a time he seems to have felt the charm of the new scenes which he visited, and in a later book (iv. ) he contemplates the prospect of retiring to the neighbourhood of aquileia and the timavus. but the spell exercised over him by rome and roman society was too great; even the epigrams sent from forum corneli and the aemilian way ring much more of the roman forum, and of the streets, baths, porticos, brothels, market stalls, public houses, and clubs of rome, than of the places from which they are dated. his final departure from rome was motivated by a weariness of the burdens imposed on him by his social position, and apparently the difficulties of meeting the ordinary expenses of living in the metropolis (x. ); and he looks forward to a return to the scenes familiar to his youth. the well-known epigram addressed to juvenal (xii. i ) shows that for a time his ideal was happily realized; but the evidence of the prose epistle prefixed to book xii proves and that he could not live happily away from the literary and social pleasures of rome for long. the one consolation of his exile was a lady, marcella, of whom he writes rather platonically as if she were his patroness—and it seems to have been a necessity of his life to always have a patron or patroness—rather than his wife or mistress. during his life at rome, although he never rose to a position of real independence, he seems to have known many writers of the time. in addition to lucan and quintilian, he numbered among his friends silius italicus, juvenal and pliny the younger. the silence which he and statius, although authors writing at the same time, having common friends, maintain in regard to one another may be explained by mutual dislike. martial in many places shows an undisguised contempt for the artificial kind of epic on which statius's reputation chiefly rests; and it is possible that the respectable author of the thebaid and the silvae felt little admiration for the life or the works of the bohemian epigrammatist. martial and his patrons[edit] martial was dependent on his wealthy friends and patrons for gifts of money, for his dinner, and even for his dress, but the relation of client to patron had been recognized as an honourable one by the best roman traditions. no blame had attached to virgil or horace on account of the favours which they received from augustus and maecenas, or of the return which they made for these favours in their verse. that old honourable relationship, however, greatly changed between augustus and domitian. men of good birth and education, and sometimes even of high official position (juv. i. ), accepted the dole (sportula). martial was merely following a general fashion in paying his court to "a lord," and he made the best of the custom. in his earlier career he used to accompany his patrons to their villas at baiae or tibur, and to attend their morning levees. later on, he went to his own small country house, near nomentum, and sent a poem, or a small volume of his poems, as his representative at the early visit. martial's character[edit] pliny the younger, in the short tribute which he pays to him on hearing of his death, wrote, "he had as much good-nature as wit and pungency in his writings".[ ] martial professes to avoid personalities in his satire, and honour and sincerity (fides and simplicitas) seem to have been the qualities which he most admires in his friends. some have found distasteful his apparent servile flattery to the worst of the many bad emperors of rome in the st century. these were emperors martial would later censure immediately after their death (xii. ). however, he seems to have disliked hypocrisy in its many forms, and seems to be free from cant, pedantry, or affectation of any kind. though many of his epigrams indicate a cynical disbelief in the character of women, yet others prove that he could respect and almost revere a refined and courteous lady. his own life in rome afforded him no experience of domestic virtue; but his epigrams show that, even in the age which is known to modern readers chiefly from the satires of juvenal, virtue was recognized as the purest source of happiness. the tenderest element in martial's nature seems, however, to have been his affection for children and for his dependents. martial's epigrams[edit] martial's keen curiosity and power of observation are manifested in his epigrams. the enduring literary interest of martial's epigrams arises as much from their literary quality as from the colorful references to human life that they contain. martial's epigrams bring to life the spectacle and brutality of daily life in imperial rome, with which he was intimately connected. from martial, for example, we have a glimpse of living conditions in the city of rome: 	"i live in a little cell, with a window that won't even close, 	in which boreas himself would not want to live." book viii, no. . – . as jo-ann shelton has written, "fire was a constant threat in ancient cities because wood was a common building material and people often used open fires and oil lamps. however, some people may have deliberately set fire to their property in order to collect insurance money."[ ] martial makes this accusation in one of his epigrams: 	"tongilianus, you paid two hundred for your house; 	an accident too common in this city destroyed it. 	you collected ten times more. doesn't it seem, i pray, 	that you set fire to your own house, tongilianus?" book iii, no. martial also pours scorn on the doctors of his day: 	"i felt a little ill and called dr. symmachus. 	well, you came, symmachus, but you brought medical students with you. 	one hundred ice-cold hands poked and jabbed me. 	i didn't have a fever, symmachus, when i called you –but now i do. book v, no. martial's epigrams also refer to the extreme cruelty shown to slaves in roman society. below, he chides a man named rufus for flogging his cook for a minor mistake: 	"you say that the hare isn't cooked, and ask for the whip; 	rufus, you prefer to carve up your cook than your hare." book iii, no. martial's epigrams are also characterized by their biting and often scathing sense of wit as well as for their lewdness; this has earned him a place in literary history as the original insult comic. below is a sample of his more insulting work: 	"you feign youth, laetinus, with your dyed hair so suddenly you are a raven, but just now you were a swan. you do not deceive everyone. proserpina knows you are grey-haired; she will remove the mask from your head." book iii, no. 	"rumor tells, chiona, that you are a virgin, and that nothing is purer than your fleshy delights. nevertheless, you do not bathe with the correct part covered: if you have the decency, move your panties onto your face." book iii, no. 	"'you are a frank man', you are always telling me, cerylus. anyone who speaks against you, cerylus, is a frank man." book i, no. 	"eat lettuce and soft apples eat: for you, phoebus, have the harsh face of a defecating man." book iii, no. or the following two examples (in translations by mark ynys-mon): 	fabullus' wife bassa frequently totes 	a friend's baby, on which she loudly dotes. 	why does she take on this childcare duty? 	it explains farts that are somewhat fruity. book iv, no. 	with your giant nose and cock 	i bet you can with ease 	when you get excited 	check the end for cheese. book vi, no. along with roman graffiti, the epigrams are important sources for latin obscene words. reception[edit] the works of martial became highly valued on their discovery by the renaissance, whose writers often saw them as sharing an eye for the urban vices of their own times. the poet's influence is seen in juvenal, late classical literature, the carolingian revival, the renaissance in france and italy, the siglo de oro, and early modern english and german poetry, until he became unfashionable with the growth of the romantic movement. the st century has seen a resurgence of scholarly attention to martial's work.[ ] notes[edit] 	^ "martial". 	^ czigány, lóránt. "janus pannonius". library of hungarian studies. retrieved january , . 	^ johnston, patricia a. "epigrams and satire in latin poetry". oxford university press. retrieved january , . 	^ not necessarily march , on account of the habit of celebrating one's birthday on that day if one had been born during that month: d. r. shackleton bailey, martial. epigrams. edited and translated by d. r. s. b. (cambridge (mass.): harvard university press, ), vol. i, p. n. . 	^ pliny the younger, letters, . 	^ jo-ann shelton, as the romans did: a sourcebook in roman social history (new york: oxford university press, ), . 	^ lucci, joseph m. ( ). "hidden in plain sight: martial and the greek epigrammatic tradition". university of pennsylvania. retrieved january , . references[edit] 	coleman, kathleen m. ( ). "the identity of caesar." in m. valerii martialis liber spectaculorum. edited by kathleen coleman, xlv–lxiv. new york: oxford univ. press. 	fagan, garrett g. ( ). "a visit to the baths with martial" in bathing in public in the roman world. ann arbor: university of michigan press. 	fitzgerald, william. ( ). martial: the world of the epigram. chicago: univ. of chicago press. 	howell, peter. ( ). martial. ancients in action. london: bristol classical press. 	leary, timothy john. ( ). "modifying martial in nineteenth-century britain." in expurgating the classics: editing out in greek and latin. edited by stephen harrison and christopher stray. london: bristol classical press. 	nisbet, gideon. ( ). greek epigram in the roman empire: martial’s forgotten rivals. oxford: oxford univ. press. 	rimell, victoria. ( ). martial’s rome: empire and the ideology of epigram. cambridge, uk: cambridge univ. press. 	sapsford, francesca may ( ). the 'epic' of martial. university of birmingham phd thesis. 	stanley, farland. ( ). "observations on martial's imagery of provincial spain." glotta, , - . 	sullivan, john p. ( ). martial: the unexpected classic: a literary and historical study. cambridge, uk: cambridge univ. press. 	sullivan, john p. ( ). "martial’s “witty conceits”: some technical observations." illinois classical studies . / : – . external links[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to marcus valerius martialis. 		wikiquote has quotations related to: martial 		wikisource has original works written by or about: martial 		latin wikisource has original text related to this article: marcus valerius martialis 	library resources about martial 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 by martial 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries works[edit] 	works by martial at perseus digital library 	epigrammaton libri (in latin) at the latin library. 	complete epigrams (in english, edition) at the tertullian project—actually incomplete: scatological and sexually explicit material is left untranslated. 	martial blog—translations from much of the first three books of epigrams 	selected epigrams translated by a. s. kline 	selected epigrams translated by elizabeth duke 	selected epigrams in translation at theatre of pompey: : ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : 	some of martial's more risqué epigrams translated by joseph s salemi 	translations from martial by franklin p adams other links[edit] 	poems by martial at poemhunter.com 	martial quotations at the quotations page 	sorgll: martial i. , v. , and x. ; read by wakefield foster 	court poet & pornographer glen bowersock on martial from the new york review of books 	* this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. 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required to take, whether legal or moral 	patria 	pietas – an ancient roman virtue 	potestas – a latin word meaning power or faculty 	responsa – body of written legal decisions and rulings 	provincia – major roman administrative territorial entity outside of italy 	ratio – relationship between two numbers of the same kind 	senatus consultum 	stipulatio 	first triumvirate – political alliance between caesar, crassus and pompey during the late roman republic 	second triumvirate – ancient roman political alliance miscellaneous[edit] 	tarpeian rock notes[edit] 	^ cf., history of rome (disambiguation). 	^ a. berger, encyclopedic dictionary of roman law (philadelphia: american philosophical society ). 	^ patricians versus plebs. 	 	v 	t 	e ancient rome topics 	 	outline 	timeline 	history	 	 	foundation 	kingdom 	overthrow 	republic 	empire	 	history 	pax romana 	principate 	dominate 	western empire 	fall 	historiography of the fall 	byzantine empire 	decline 	fall 	constitution	 	history 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present and perfects 	 see also 	 references 	 bibliography 	 further reading 	 external links philological constructs[edit] the old-time language[edit] the concept of old latin (prisca latinitas) is as old as the concept of classical latin, both dating to at least as early as the late roman republic. in that period cicero, along with others, noted that the language he used every day, presumably the upper-class city latin, included lexical items and phrases that were heirlooms from a previous time, which he called verborum vetustas prisca,[ ] translated as "the old age/time of language". during the classical period, prisca latinitas, prisca latina and other idioms using the adjective always meant these remnants of a previous language, which, in the roman philology, was taken to be much older in fact than it really was. viri prisci, "old-time men", were the population of latium before the founding of rome. the four latins of isidore[edit] in the late latin period, when classical latin was behind them, the latin- and greek-speaking grammarians were faced with multiple phases, or styles, within the language. isidore of seville reports a classification scheme that had come into existence in or before his time: "the four latins" ("moreover, some people have said that there are four latin languages"; "latinas autem linguas quattuor esse quidam dixerunt").[ ] they were prisca, spoken before the founding of rome, when janus and saturn ruled latium, to which he dated the carmen saliare; latina, dated from the time of king latinus, in which period he placed the laws of the twelve tables; romana, essentially equal to classical latin; and mixta, "mixed" classical latin and vulgar latin, which is known today as late latin. the scheme persisted with little change for some thousand years after isidore. old latin[edit] in , john wordsworth used this definition: "by early latin i understand latin of the whole period of the republic, which is separated very strikingly, both in tone and in outward form, from that of the empire."[ ] although the differences are striking and can be easily identified by latin readers, they are not such as to cause a language barrier. latin speakers of the empire had no reported trouble understanding old latin, except for the few texts that must date from the time of the kings, mainly songs. thus, the laws of the twelve tables from the early republic were comprehensible, but the carmen saliare, probably written under numa pompilius, was not entirely clear (and remains thus). an opinion concerning old latin, of a roman man of letters in the middle republic, survives: the historian, polybius,[ ] read "the first treaty between rome and carthage", which he says "dates from the consulship of lucius junius brutus and marcus horatius, the first consuls after the expulsion of the kings". knowledge of the early consuls is somewhat obscure, but polybius also states that the treaty was formulated years before xerxes i crossed into greece; that is, in bc, about the time of the putative date of the founding of the roman republic. polybius says of the language of the treaty "the ancient roman language differs so much from the modern that it can only be partially made out, and that after much application by the most intelligent men". there is no sharp distinction between old latin, as it was spoken for most of the republic, and classical latin, but the earlier grades into the later. the end of the republic was too late a termination for compilers after wordsworth; charles edwin bennett said, "'early latin' is necessarily a somewhat vague term ... bell, de locativi in prisca latinitate vi et usu, breslau, ,[ ] sets the later limit at bc. a definite date is really impossible, since archaic latin does not terminate abruptly, but continues even down to imperial times."[ ] bennett's own date of bc did not prevail but rather bell's bc became the standard as expressed in the four-volume loeb library and other major compendia. over the years from to bc, old latin evolved from being partially comprehensible by classicists with study to being easily read by scholars. corpus[edit] the praeneste fibula, the earliest known specimen of the latin language and dated to the first half of the seventh century bc. the forum inscription (lapis niger, "black stone"), one of the oldest known latin inscriptions, from the th century bc; it is written boustrophedon, albeit irregularly; from a rubbing by domenico comparetti. old latin authored works began in the rd century bc. these are complete or nearly complete works under their own name surviving as manuscripts copied from other manuscripts in whatever script was current at the time. in addition are fragments of works quoted in other authors. numerous inscriptions placed by various methods (painting, engraving, embossing) on their original media survive just as they were except for the ravages of time. some of these were copied from other inscriptions. no inscription can be earlier than the introduction of the greek alphabet into italy but none survive from that early date. the imprecision of archaeological dating makes it impossible to assign a year to any one inscription, but the earliest survivals are probably from the th century bc. some texts, however, that survive as fragments in the works of classical authors, had to have been composed earlier than the republic, in the time of the monarchy. these are listed below. fragments and inscriptions[edit] notable old latin fragments with estimated dates include: 	the carmen saliare (chant put forward in classical times as having been sung by the salian brotherhood formed by numa pompilius, approximate date bc) 	the praeneste fibula (date from first half of the seventh century bc.) 	the forum inscription (see illustration, c. bc under the monarchy) 	the duenos inscription (c. bc) 	the castor-pollux dedication (c. bc) 	the garigliano bowl (c. bc) 	the lapis satricanus (early th century bc) 	the preserved fragments of the laws of the twelve tables (traditionally, bc, attested much later) 	the tibur pedestal (c. bc) 	the scipionum elogia 	epitaph of lucius cornelius scipio barbatus (c. bc) 	epitaph of lucius cornelius scipio (consul bc) 	epitaph of publius cornelius scipio p.f. p.n. africanus (died about bc) 	the senatus consultum de bacchanalibus ( bc) 	the vase inscription from ardea 	the corcolle altar fragments 	the carmen arvale 	altar to the unknown divinity ( bc) works of literature[edit] the authors are as follows: 	lucius livius andronicus (c. / bc – c. bc), translator, founder of roman drama 	gnaeus naevius (c. – bc), dramatist, epic poet 	titus maccius plautus (c. – bc), dramatist, composer of comedies 	quintus ennius ( – c. bc), poet 	marcus pacuvius (c. – bc), tragic dramatist, poet 	statius caecilius ( – / bc), comic dramatist 	publius terentius afer ( / – bc), comic dramatist 	quintus fabius pictor ( rd century bc), historian 	lucius cincius alimentus ( rd century bc), military historian 	marcus porcius cato ( – bc), generalist, topical writer 	gaius acilius ( nd century bc), historian 	lucius accius ( – c. bc), tragic dramatist, philologist 	gaius lucilius (c. s – / bc), satirist 	quintus lutatius catulus ( nd century bc), public officer, epigrammatist 	aulus furius antias ( nd century bc), poet 	gaius julius caesar strabo vopiscus ( – bc), public officer, tragic dramatist 	lucius pomponius bononiensis ( nd century bc), comic dramatist, satirist 	lucius cassius hemina ( nd century bc), historian 	lucius calpurnius piso frugi ( nd century bc), historian 	manius manilius ( nd century bc), public officer, jurist 	lucius coelius antipater ( nd century bc), jurist, historian 	publius sempronius asellio ( bc – after bc), military officer, historian 	gaius sempronius tuditanus ( nd century bc), jurist 	lucius afranius ( nd and st centuries bc), comic dramatist 	titus albucius ( nd and st centuries bc), orator 	publius rutilius rufus ( bc – after bc), jurist 	lucius aelius stilo praeconinus ( – bc), philologist 	quintus claudius quadrigarius ( nd and st centuries bc), historian 	valerius antias ( nd and st centuries bc), historian 	lucius cornelius sisenna ( – bc), soldier, historian 	quintus cornificius ( nd and st centuries bc), rhetorician script[edit] main articles: history of the latin alphabet, latin alphabet, and old italic alphabet old latin surviving in inscriptions is written in various forms of the etruscan alphabet as it evolved into the latin alphabet. the writing conventions varied by time and place until classical conventions prevailed. apart of old inscriptions, texts in the original writing system have been lost or transcribed by later copyists. orthography[edit] some differences between old and classical latin were of spelling only; pronunciation is thought to be essentially the same as in classical latin:[ ] 	single for double consonants: marcelus for marcellus 	double vowels for long vowels: aara for āra 	q for c before u: pequnia for pecunia 	c for g: caius for gaius these differences did not necessarily run concurrently with each other and were not universal; that is, c was used for both c and g. phonology[edit] see also: history of latin diphthong changes from old latin (left) to classical latin (right)[ ] stress[edit] old latin is thought to have had a strong stress on the first syllable of a word until about bc. all syllables other than the first were unstressed and were subjected to greater amounts of phonological weakening. starting around that year, the classical latin stress system began to develop. it passed through at least one intermediate stage, found in plautus, in which the stress occurred on the fourth last syllable in four-syllable words with all short syllables. vowels and diphthongs[edit] most original pie (proto-indo-european) diphthongs were preserved in stressed syllables, including /ai/ (later ae); /ei/ (later ī); /oi/ (later ū, or sometimes oe); /ou/ (from pie /eu/ and /ou/; later ū). the old latin diphthong ei evolves in stages: ei > ẹ̄ > ī. the intermediate sound ẹ̄ was simply written e but must have been distinct from the normal long vowel ē because ẹ̄ subsequently merged with ī while ē did not. it is generally thought that ẹ̄ was a higher sound than e (e.g. perhaps [eː] vs. [ɛː] during the time when both sounds existed). even after the original vowel /ei/ had merged with ī, the old spelling ei continued to be used for a while, with the result that ei came to stand for ī and began to be used in the spelling of original occurrences of ī that did not evolve from ei (e.g. in the genitive singular -ī, which is always spelled -i in the oldest inscriptions but later on can be spelled either -i or -ei). in unstressed syllables, *oi and *ai had already merged into ei by historic times (except for one possible occurrence of poploe for populī "people" in a late manuscript of one of the early songs). this eventually evolved to ī according to the process described above. old latin often had different short vowels from classical latin, reflecting sound changes that had not yet taken place. for example, the very early duenos inscription has the form duenos "good", later found as duonos and still later bonus. a countervailing change wo > we occurred around bc in certain contexts, and many earlier forms are found (e.g. earlier votō, voster, vorsus vs. later vetō, vester, versus). old latin frequently preserves original pie thematic case endings -os and -om (later -us and -um). consonants[edit] intervocalic /s/ (pronounced [z]) was preserved up through bc or so, at which point it changed into /r/ (called rhotacism). this rhotacism had implications for declension: early classical latin, honos, honoris (from honos, honoses); later classical (by analogy) honor, honoris ("honor"). some old latin texts preserve /s/ in this position, such as the carmen arvale's lases for lares. later instances of single /s/ between vowels are mostly due either to reduction of early /ss/ after long vowels or diphthongs; borrowings; or late reconstructions. there are many unreduced clusters, e.g. iouxmentom (later iūmentum, "beast of burden"); losna (later lūna, "moon") < *lousna < */leuksnā/; cosmis (later cōmis, "courteous"); stlocum, acc. (later locum, "place"). early du /dw/ becomes later b: duenos > duonos > bonus "good"; duis > bis "twice"; duellom > bellum "war". final /d/ occurred in ablatives, such as puellād "from the girl" or campōd "from the field", later puellā and campō. in verb conjugation, the third-person ending -d later became -t, e.g. old latin faced > classical facit. morphology[edit] nouns[edit] latin nouns are distinguished by grammatical case, with a termination, or suffix, determining its use in the sentence: subject, predicate, etc. a case for a given word is formed by suffixing a case ending to a part of the word common to all its cases called a stem. stems are classified by their last letters as vowel or consonant. vowel stems are formed by adding a suffix to a shorter and more ancient segment called a root. consonant stems are the root (roots end in consonants). the combination of the last letter of the stem and the case ending often results in an ending also called a case ending or termination. for example, the stem puella- receives a case ending -m to form the accusative case puellam in which the termination -am is evident.[ ] in classical latin textbooks the declensions are named from the letter ending the stem or first, second, etc. to fifth. a declension may be illustrated by a paradigm, or listing of all the cases of a typical word. this method is less frequently applied to old latin, and with less validity. in contrast to classical latin, old latin reflects the evolution of the language from an unknown hypothetical ancestor spoken in latium. the endings are multiple. their use depends on time and locality. any paradigm selected would be subject to these constraints and if applied to the language universally would result in false constructs, hypothetical words not attested in the old latin corpus. nevertheless, the endings are illustrated below by quasi-classical paradigms. alternative endings from different stages of development are given, but they may not be attested for the word of the paradigm. for example, in the second declension, *campoe "fields" is unattested, but poploe "peoples" is attested. the locative was a separate case in old latin but gradually became reduced in function, and the locative singular form eventually merged with the genitive singular by regular sound change. in the plural, the locative was captured by the ablative case in all italic languages before old latin.[ ] first declension (a)[edit] the 'a-stem' declension. the stems of nouns of this declension usually end in -ā and are typically feminine.[ ] 	 	puellā, –ās girl, maiden f. 	singular 	plural 	nominative 	puellā, puellă	puellāī 	vocative 	puella	puellai 	accusative 	puellam	puellās 	genitive 	puellās, puellāī, puellais	puellom, puellāsōm 	dative 	puellāi	puelleis, puellabos 	ablative 	puellād 	locative 	(rōmai)	(syrācūseis) a nominative case ending of -s in a few masculines indicates the nominative singular case ending may have been originally -s: paricidas for later parricida, but the -s tended to get lost.[ ] in the nominative plural, -ī replaced original -s as in the genitive singular.[ ] in the genitive singular, the -s was replaced with -ī from the second declension, the resulting diphthong shortening to -ai subsequently becoming -ae.[ ] the original form is maintained in some formulae, e.g. pater familiās. the genitive plural ending -āsōm (classical -ārum following rhotacism), borrowed from the pronouns, began to overtake original -om.[ ] in the dative singular the final i is either long[ ] or short.[ ] the ending becomes -ae, -a (feronia) or -e (fortune).[ ] in the accusative singular, latin regularly shortens a vowel before final m.[ ] in the ablative singular, -d was regularly lost after a long vowel.[ ] in the dative and ablative plural, the -abos descending from indo-european *-ābhos[ ] is used for feminines only (deabus). *-ais > -eis > -īs is adapted from -ois of the o-declension.[ ] the vocative singular had inherited short -a. this later merged with the nominative singular when -ā was shortened to -ă.[ ] the locative case would not apply to such a meaning as puella, so roma, which is singular, and syracusae, which is plural, have been substituted. the locative plural has already merged with the -eis form of the ablative. second declension (o)[edit] 	 	campos, –ī field, plain m. 	saxom, –ī rock, stone n. 	singular	plural 	singular	plural 	nominative 	campos	campei < campoi	saxom	saxā, saxă 	vocative 	campe	saxă 	accusative 	campom	campōs	saxom	saxā, saxă 	genitive 	campī	campōm	saxī	saxōm 	dative 	campō	campeis < campois	saxō	saxeis < saxois 	ablative 	campōd	saxōd 	locative 	campei	saxei the stems of the nouns of the o-declension end in ŏ deriving from the o-grade of indo-european ablaut.[ ] classical latin evidences the development ŏ > ŭ. nouns of this declension are either masculine or neuter. nominative singulars ending in -ros or -ris syncopate the ending:[ ] *agros > *agrs > *agers > *agerr > ager. (the form terr "three times" for later ter < *tris appears in plautus.) many alternative spellings occur: 	as mentioned above, the sound change -ei > -ẹ̄ > -ī leads to numerous variations, including the reverse spelling ei for ī. this spelling eventually appears in the genitive singular as well, although -ī is earliest and the true ending; cf. populi romanei, "of the roman people."[ ], which both spellings in the same inscription. 	likewise, the sound change -os > -us and -ōm > -om > -um affect the nominative and accusative singular, and the genitive plural. 	one very early text has genitive -osio (the proto-indo-european ending) rather than -ī (an ending appearing only in italo-celtic).[citation needed]. this form also appears in the closely related faliscan language. 	in the genitive plural, -um (from indo-european *-ōm) survived in classical latin "words for coins and measures";[ ] otherwise it was eventually replaced by -ōrum by analogy with st declension -ārum. 	the nominative/vocative plural masculine -ei comes from the proto-indo-european (pie) pronominal ending *-oi. the original ending -oi appears in a late spelling in the word poploe (i.e. "poploi" = populī "people") in sextus pompeius festus.[ ] 	the dative/ablative/locative plural -eis comes from earlier -ois, a merger of pie instrumental plural *-ōis and locative plural *-oisu. the form -ois appears in sextus pompeius festus and a few early inscriptions. 	the praeneste fibula has dative singular numasioi, representing proto-indo-european *-ōi. 	a number of "provincial texts" have nominative plural -eis (later -īs from bc on[ ]), with an added s, by some sort of analogy with other declensions. sihler ( )[ ] notes that this form appears in literature only in pronouns and suggests that inscriptional examples added to nouns may be artificial (i.e. not reflecting actual pronunciation). 	in the vocative singular, some nouns lose the -e (i.e. have a zero ending) but not necessarily the same as in classical latin.[ ] the -e alternates regularly with -us.[ ] third declension (consonant/i)[edit] the 'consonant-stem' and 'i-stem' declension. this declension contains nouns that are masculine, feminine, and neuter. the stem ends in the root consonant, except in the special case where it ends in -i (i-stem declension). the i-stem, which is a vowel-stem, partially fused with the consonant-stem in the pre-latin period and went further in old latin.[ ] i/y and u/w can be treated either as consonants or as vowels; hence their classification as semi-vowels. mixed-stem declensions are partly like consonant-stem and partly like i-stem. consonant-stem declensions vary slightly depending on which consonant is root-final: stop-, r-, n-, s-, etc.[ ] the paradigms below include a stop-stem (reg-) and an i-stem (igni-). 	 	rēx, rēges king m. 	ignis -is fire m. 	singular 	plural 	singular 	plural 	nominative 	rēx	rēgeīs, rēgīs, rēgēs, rēgĕs 	ignis, ignes	igneīs, ignēs, ignīs, ignĕs 	vocative 	accusative 	rēgem	rēgeīs, rēgīs, rēgēs 	ignim	igneīs, ignēs, ignīs 	genitive 	rēges, regis, regos, regus	rēgom, rēgum, rēgerum 	ignis	igniom, ignium 	dative 	rēgei, rēgī, rēgē, rēgě	rēgebus, rēgebūs, rēgibos, rēgibus 	igni, igneī, ignē	ignebus, ignebūs, ignibos, ignibus 	ablative 	rēgīd, rēgĭd, rēgī, rēgē, rēgĕ 	ignīd, ignĭd, ignī, ignē, ignĕ 	locative 	rēgī	rēgebos 	ignī	ignibos for the consonant declension, in the nominative singular, the -s was affixed directly to the stem consonant, but the combination of the two consonants produced modified nominatives over the old latin period. the case appears in different stages of modification in different words diachronically.[ ] the latin neuter form (not shown) is the indo-european nominative without stem ending; for example, cor < *cord "heart."[ ] the genitive singular endings include -is < -es and -us < *-os.[ ] in the genitive plural, some forms appear to affix the case ending to the genitive singular rather than the stem: regerum < *reg-is-um.[ ] in the dative singular, -ī succeeded -eī and -ē after bc. in the accusative singular, -em < *-ṃ after a consonant.[ ] in the ablative singular, the -d was lost after bc.[ ] in the dative and ablative plural, the early poets sometimes used -būs.[ ] in the locative singular, the earliest form is like the dative but over the period assimilated to the ablative.[ ] fourth declension (u)[edit] the 'u-stem' declension. the stems of the nouns of the u-declension end in ŭ and are masculine, feminine and neuter. in addition there is a ū-stem declension, which contains only a few "isolated" words, such as sūs, "pig", and is not presented here.[ ] 	 	senātus, –uos senate m. 	singular 	plural 	nominative 	senātus	senātūs 	vocative 	accusative 	senātum 	genitive 	senātuos, senātuis, senātī, senātous, senātūs	senātuom, senātum 	dative 	senātuī	senātubus, senātibus 	ablative 	senātūd, senātud 	locative 	senāti	 fifth declension (e)[edit] the 'e-stem' declension. its morphology matches the classical language very nearly. 	 	rēs, reis thing f. 	singular 	plural 	nominative 	rēs, reis	rēs 	vocative 	rēs 	accusative 	rem 	genitive 	rēis, rēs	rēsom 	dative 	reī	rēbos 	ablative 	rēd 	locative 		 personal pronouns[edit] personal pronouns are among the most common thing found in old latin inscriptions. in all three persons, the ablative singular ending is identical to the accusative singular. 	 	ego, i 	tu, you 	suī, himself, herself (etc.) 	singular 	nominative 	ego 	tu 	— 	accusative 	mēd 	tēd 	sēd 	genitive 	mis 	tis 	sei 	dative 	mihei, mehei 	tibei 	sibei 	ablative 	mēd 	tēd 	sēd 	plural 	nominative 	nōs 	vōs 	— 	accusative 	sēd 	genitive 	nostrōm, -ōrum, -i 	vostrōm, -ōrum, -i 	sei 	dative 	nōbeis, nis 	vōbeis 	sibei 	ablative 	sēd relative pronoun[edit] in old latin, the relative pronoun is also another common concept, especially in inscriptions. the forms are quite inconsistent and leave much to be reconstructed by scholars. 	queī, quaī, quod who, what 	singular 	 	masculine 	feminine 	neuter 	nominative 	queī 	quaī 	quod 	accusative 	quem 	quam 	genitive 	quoius, quoios, -a, -um/om (according to gender of whatever is owned) 	dative 	quoī, queī, quoieī, queī 	ablative 	quī, quōd 	quād 	quōd 	plural 	 	masculine 	feminine 	neuter 	nominative 	ques, queis 	quaī 	qua 	accusative 	quōs 	quās 	genitive 	quōm, quōrom 	quōm, quārom 	quōm, quōrom 	dative 	queis, quīs 	ablative verbs[edit] old present and perfects[edit] there is little evidence of the inflection of old latin verb forms and the few surviving inscriptions hold many inconsistencies between forms.[dubious – discuss] therefore, the forms below are ones that are both proved by scholars through old latin inscriptions, and recreated by scholars based on other early indo-european languages such as greek and italic dialects such as oscan and umbrian. 	 	indicative present: sum 	indicative present: facio 	old 	classical 	old 	classical 	singular	plural	singular	plural	singular	plural	singular	plural 	first person 	(e)som	somos, sumos	sum	sumus	fac(e/ī)ō	fac(e)imos	faciō	facimus 	second person 	es	esteīs	es	estis	fac(e/ī)s	fac(e/ī)teis	facis	facitis 	third person 	est	sont	est	sunt	fac(e/ī)d/-(e/i)t	fac(e/ī)ont	facit	faciunt 	 	indicative perfect: sum 	indicative perfect: facio 	old 	classical 	old 	classical 	singular	plural	singular	plural	singular	plural	singular	plural 	first person 	fuei	fuemos	fuī	fuimus	(fe)fecei	(fe)fecemos	fēcī	fēcimus 	second person 	fuistei	fuisteīs	fuistī	fuistis	(fe)fecistei	(fe)fecisteis	fēcistī	fēcistis 	third person 	fued/fuit	fueront/-erom	fuit	fuērunt	(fe)feced/-et	(fe)feceront/-erom	fēcit	fēcērunt/-ēre see also[edit] 	italic languages 	saturnian (poetry) references[edit] 	^ hammarström, harald; 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navigation 		jump to search 		 denarius of marcus aurelius. legend: imp. m. antoninvs avg. tr. p. xxv. 	numismatics 	 	 currency 	 	coins 	banknotes 	forgery 	list 	iso 	 circulating currencies 	 	africa 	the americas 	europe 	asia 	oceania 	 local currencies 	 	company scrip 	lets 	time dollars 	 fictional currencies proposed currencies 	 history 	 historical currencies 	 	greek 	roman 	china 	india 	persian 	tibetan 	thai 	filipino 	malay 	 byzantine 	 medieval currencies 	 production 	 	mint 	designers 	coining 	 milling 	hammering 	cast 	 exonumia 	 	credit cards 	medals 	tokens 	cheques 	 notaphily 	 	banknotes 	 scripophily 	 	stocks 	bonds 	 	glossary of numismatics  numismatics portal  money portal 		v 	t 	e roman currency for most of roman history consisted of gold, silver, bronze, orichalcum and copper coinage[ ] (see: roman metallurgy). from its introduction to the republic, during the third century bc, well into imperial times, roman currency saw many changes in form, denomination, and composition. a persistent feature was the inflationary debasement and replacement of coins over the centuries. notable examples of this followed the reforms of diocletian. this trend continued into byzantine times. due to the economic power and longevity of the roman state, roman currency was widely used throughout western eurasia and northern africa from classical times into the middle ages. it served as a model for the currencies of the muslim caliphates and the european states during the middle ages and the modern era. roman currency names survive today in many countries (e.g., the arabic dinar (from the denarius coin), the british pound and mexican peso (both translations of the roman libra)). contents 	 authority to mint coins 	 . roman republic: c. – bc 	 iconography and design 	 . imperial iconography 	 value and composition 	 . debasement 	 . equivalences 	 see also 	 references 	 . footnotes 	 . bibliography 	 external links authority to mint coins[edit] the manufacture of coins in the roman culture, dating from about the th century bc, significantly influenced later development of coin minting in europe. the origin of the word "mint" is ascribed to the manufacture of silver coin at rome in bc near the temple of juno moneta. this goddess became the personification of money, and her name was applied both to money and to its place of manufacture. roman mints were spread widely across the empire, and were sometimes used for propaganda purposes. the populace often learned of a new roman emperor when coins appeared with the new emperor's portrait. some of the emperors who ruled only for a short time made sure that a coin bore their image[citation needed]; quietus, for example, ruled only part of the roman empire from to ad, and yet he issued two coins bearing his image. the romans cast their larger copper coins in clay moulds carrying distinctive markings, not because they did not know about striking, but because it was not suitable for such large masses of metal. roman republic: c. – bc[edit] main article: roman republican currency bronze aes signatum produced by the roman republic after bc. roman adoption of metallic commodity money was a late development in monetary history. bullion bars and ingots were used as money in mesopotamia since the th millennium bc; and greeks in asia minor had pioneered the use of coinage (which they employed in addition to other more primitive, monetary mediums of exchange) as early as the th century bc.[ ] coinage proper was only introduced by the roman republican government c. bc. the greatest city of the magna graecia region in southern italy, and several other italian cities, already had a long tradition of using coinage by this time and produced them in large quantities during the th century bc to pay for their wars against the inland italian groups encroaching on their territory. for these reasons, the romans would have certainly known about coinage systems long before their government actually introduced them. the reason behind rome's adoption of coinage was likely cultural. the romans had no pressing economic need, but they wanted to emulate greek culture; they considered the institution of minted money a significant feature of that culture. however, roman coinage initially saw very limited use.[ ] the type of money introduced by rome was unlike that found elsewhere in the ancient mediterranean. it combined a number of uncommon elements. one example is the large bronze bullion, the aes signatum (latin for signed bronze). it measured about by millimetres ( . by .  in) and weighed around , to , grams ( to  oz), being made out of a highly leaded tin bronze. although similar metal currency bars had been produced in italy and northern etruscan areas, these had been made of aes grave, an unrefined metal with a high iron content.[ ] along with the aes signatum, the roman state also issued a series of bronze and silver coins that emulated the styles of those produced in greek cities.[ ] produced using the manner of manufacture then utilised in greek naples, the designs of these early coins were also heavily influenced by greek designs.[ ] the designs on the coinage of the republican period displayed a "solid conservatism", usually illustrating mythical scenes or personifications of various gods and goddesses.[ ] iconography and design[edit] imperial iconography[edit] the most commonly used coin denominations and their relative sizes during roman times. coins of the roman republic and empire - from cassell's history of england, vol. i - anonymous author and artists the imagery on coins took an important step when julius caesar issued coins bearing his own portrait. while moneyers had earlier issued coins with portraits of ancestors, caesar's was the first roman coinage to feature the portrait of a living individual. the tradition continued following caesar's assassination, although the imperators from time to time also produced coins featuring the traditional deities and personifications found on earlier coins. the image of the roman emperor took on a special importance in the centuries that followed, because during the empire, the emperor embodied the state and its policies. the names of moneyers continued to appear on the coins until the middle of augustus' reign. although the duty of moneyers during the empire is not known, since the position was not abolished, it is believed that they still had some influence over the imagery of the coins. the main focus of the imagery during the empire was on the portrait of the emperor. coins were an important means of disseminating this image throughout the empire. coins often attempted to make the emperor appear god-like through associating the emperor with attributes normally seen in divinities, or emphasizing the special relationship between the emperor and a particular deity by producing a preponderance of coins depicting that deity. during his campaign against pompey, caesar issued a variety of types that featured images of either venus or aeneas, attempting to associate himself with his divine ancestors. an example of an emperor who went to an extreme in proclaiming divine status was commodus. in a.d., he issued a series of coins depicting his bust clad in a lion-skin (the usual depiction of hercules) on the obverse, and an inscription proclaiming that he was the roman incarnation of hercules on the reverse. although commodus was excessive in his depiction of his image, this extreme case is indicative of the objective of many emperors in the exploitation of their portraits. while the emperor is by far the most frequent portrait on the obverse of coins, heirs apparent, predecessors, and other family members, such as empresses, were also featured. to aid in succession, the legitimacy of an heir was affirmed by producing coins for that successor. this was done from the time of augustus till the end of the empire. featuring the portrait of an individual on a coin, which became legal in bc, caused the coin to be viewed as embodying the attributes of the individual portrayed. dio wrote that following the death of caligula the senate demonetized his coinage, and ordered that they be melted. regardless of whether or not this actually occurred, it demonstrates the importance and meaning that was attached to the imagery on a coin. the philosopher epictetus jokingly wrote: "whose image does this sestertius carry? trajan's? give it to me. nero's? throw it away, it is unacceptable, it is rotten." although the writer did not seriously expect people to get rid of their coins, this quotation demonstrates that the romans attached a moral value to the images on their coins. unlike the obverse, which during the imperial period almost always featured a portrait, the reverse was far more varied in its depiction. during the late republic there were often political messages to the imagery, especially during the periods of civil war. however, by the middle of the empire, although there were types that made important statements, and some that were overtly political or propagandistic in nature, the majority of the types were stock images of personifications or deities. while some images can be related to the policy or actions of a particular emperor, many of the choices seem arbitrary and the personifications and deities were so prosaic that their names were often omitted, as they were readily recognizable by their appearance and attributes alone. it can be argued that within this backdrop of mostly indistinguishable types, exceptions would be far more pronounced. atypical reverses are usually seen during and after periods of war, at which time emperors make various claims of liberation, subjugation, and pacification. some of these reverse images can clearly be classified as propaganda. an example struck by emperor philip in features a legend proclaiming the establishment of peace with persia; in truth, rome had been forced to pay large sums in tribute to the persians. although it is difficult to make accurate generalizations about reverse imagery, as this was something that varied by emperor, some trends do exist. an example is reverse types of the military emperors during the second half of the third century, where virtually all of the types were the common and standard personifications and deities. a possible explanation for the lack of originality is that these emperors were attempting to present conservative images to establish their legitimacy, something that many of these emperors lacked. although these emperors relied on traditional reverse types, their portraits often emphasized their authority through stern gazes,[ ][citation needed] and even featured the bust of the emperor clad in armor.[ ] value and composition[edit] unlike most modern coins, roman coins had (at least in the early centuries) significant intrinsic value. however, while the gold and silver issues contained precious metals, the value of a coin could be slightly higher than its precious metal content, so they were not, strictly speaking, equivalent to bullion. also, over the course of time the purity and weight of the silver coins were reduced. estimates of the value of the denarius range from . to . times its metal content,[citation needed] thought to equal the purchasing power of modern british pound sterling at the beginning of the roman empire to around pound sterling by its end (comparing bread, wine and meat prices) and, over the same period, around one to three days' pay for a legionary.[ ] the coinage system that existed in egypt until the time of diocletian's monetary reform was a closed system based upon the heavily debased tetradrachm. although the value of these tetradrachms can be reckoned as being equivalent to that of the denarius, their precious metal content was always much lower. elsewhere also, not all coins that circulated contained precious metals, as the value of these coins was too great to be convenient for everyday purchases. a dichotomy existed between the coins with an intrinsic value and those with only a token value. this is reflected in the infrequent and inadequate production of bronze coinage during the republic, where from the time of sulla till the time of augustus no bronze coins were minted at all; even during the periods when bronze coins were produced, their workmanship was sometimes very crude and of low quality. debasement[edit] the rapid decline in silver purity of the antoninianus the type of coins issued changed under the coinage reform of diocletian, the heavily debased antoninianus (double denarius) was replaced with a variety of new denominations, and a new range of imagery was introduced that attempted to convey different ideas. the new government set up by diocletian was a tetrarchy, or rule by four, with each emperor receiving a separate territory to rule. the new imagery includes a large, stern portrait that is representative of the emperor. this image was not meant to show the actual portrait of a particular emperor, but was instead a character that embodied the power that the emperor possessed. the reverse type was equally universal, featuring the spirit (or genius) of the romans. the introduction of a new type of government and a new system of coinage represents an attempt by diocletian to return peace and security to rome, after the previous century of constant warfare and uncertainty. diocletian characterizes the emperor as an interchangeable authority figure by depicting him with a generalized image. he tries to emphasize unity amongst the romans by featuring the spirit of romans (sutherland ). the reverse types of coins of the late empire emphasized general themes, and discontinued the more specific personifications depicted previously. the reverse types featured legends that proclaimed the glory of rome, the glory of the army, victory against the "barbarians", the restoration of happy times, and the greatness of the emperor. these general types persisted even after the adoption of christianity as the state religion of the roman empire. muted christian imagery, such as standards that featured christograms (the chi-rho monogram for jesus christ's name in greek) were introduced, but with a few rare exceptions, there were no explicitly christian themes. from the time of constantine until the "end" of the roman empire, coins featured almost indistinguishable idealized portraits and general proclamations of greatness. although the denarius remained the backbone of the roman economy from its introduction in bc until it ceased to be normally minted in the middle of the third century, the purity and weight of the coin slowly, but inexorably, decreased. the problem of debasement in the roman economy appears to be pervasive, although the severity of the debasement often paralleled the strength or weakness of the empire. while it is not clear why debasement was such a common occurrence for the romans, it's believed that it was caused by several factors, including a lack of precious metals and inadequacies in state finances. when introduced, the denarius contained nearly pure silver at a theoretical weight of approximately . grams, but from the time of nero onwards the tendency was nearly always for its purity to be decreased. the theoretical standard, although not usually met in practice, remained fairly stable throughout the republic, with the notable exception of times of war. the large number of coins required to raise an army and pay for supplies often necessitated the debasement of the coinage. an example of this is the denarii that were struck by mark antony to pay his army during his battles against octavian. these coins, slightly smaller in diameter than a normal denarius, were made of noticeably debased silver. the obverse features a galley and the name antony, while the reverse features the name of the particular legion that each issue was intended for (hoard evidence shows that these coins remained in circulation over years after they were minted, due to their lower silver content). the coinage of the julio-claudians remained stable at  grams of silver, until the debasement of nero in , when the silver content was reduced to .  grams, perhaps due to the cost of rebuilding the city after fire consumed a considerable portion of rome. the denarius continued to decline slowly in purity, with a notable reduction instituted by septimius severus. this was followed by the introduction of a double denarius piece, differentiated from the denarius by the radiate crown worn by the emperor. the coin is commonly called the antoninianus by numismatists after the emperor caracalla, who introduced the coin in early . although nominally valued at two denarii, the antoninianus never contained more than . times the amount of silver of the denarius. the profit of minting a coin valued at two denarii, but weighing only about one and a half times as much is obvious; the reaction to these coins by the public is unknown. as the number of antoniniani minted increased, the number of denarii minted decreased, until the denarius ceased to be minted in significant quantities by the middle of the third century. again, coinage saw its greatest debasement during times of war and uncertainty. the second half of the third century was rife with this war and uncertainty, and the silver content of the antonianus fell to only %, losing almost any appearance of being silver. during this time the aureus remained slightly more stable, before it too became smaller and more base (lower gold content and higher base metal content) before diocletian's reform. the decline in the silver content to the point where coins contained virtually no silver at all was countered by the monetary reform of aurelian in . the standard for silver in the antonianus was set at twenty parts copper to one part silver, and the coins were noticeably marked as containing that amount (xxi in latin or ka in greek). despite the reform of aurelian, silver content continued to decline, until the monetary reform of diocletian. in addition to establishing the tetrarchy, diocletian devised the following system of denominations: an aureus struck at the standard of to the pound, a new silver coin struck at the old neronian standard known as the argenteus, and a new large bronze coin that contained two percent silver. diocletian issued an edict on maximum prices in , which attempted to establish the legal maximum prices that could be charged for goods and services. the attempt to establish maximum prices was an exercise in futility as maximum prices were impossible to enforce. the edict was reckoned in terms of denarii, although no such coin had been struck for over years (it is believed that the bronze follis was valued at ​   ⁄ denarii). like earlier reforms, this too eroded and was replaced by an uncertain coinage consisting mostly of gold and bronze. the exact relationship and denomination of the bronze issues of a variety of sizes is not known, and is believed to have fluctuated heavily on the market. the exact reason that roman coinage sustained constant debasement is not known, but the most common theories involve inflation, trade with india, which drained silver from the mediterranean world, and inadequacies in state finances. it is clear from papyri that the pay of the roman soldier increased from sestertii a year under augustus to sestertii a year under septimius severus and the price of grain more than tripled indicating that fall in real wages and a moderate inflation occurred during this time.[ ] another reason for debasement was lack of raw metal with which to produce coins. italy itself contains no large or reliable mines for precious metals; therefore the precious metals for coinage had to be obtained elsewhere. the majority of the precious metals that rome obtained during its period of expansion arrived in the form of war booty from defeated territories, and subsequent tribute and taxes by new-conquered lands. when rome ceased to expand, the precious metals for coinage then came from newly mined silver, such as from greece and spain, and from melting older coins. without a constant influx of precious metals from an outside source, and with the expense of continual wars, it would seem reasonable that coins might be debased to increase the amount that the government could spend. this explanation for the debasement of coinage is that it allowed the state to spend more than it had. by decreasing the amount of silver in its coins, rome could produce more coins and "stretch" its budget. as time progressed, the trade deficit of the west, because of its buying of grain and other commodities, led to a currency drainage in rome. equivalences[edit] the first rows show the values of each boldface coin in the first column in relation to the coins in the following columns: early republic values[ ][ ] (after bc) 		denarius	sestertius	dupondius	as	semis	quincunx	triens	quadrans	uncia 	denarius 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	sestertius 	​ ⁄ 	 	​   ⁄ 	​   ⁄ 	 	 	​   ⁄ 	 	 	dupondius 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	 	 	​   ⁄ 	 	 	 	as 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	 	​   ⁄ 	 	 	 	semis 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	​   ⁄ 	​   ⁄ 	 	 	quincunx 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	​   ⁄ 	​   ⁄ 	 	triens 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	​   ⁄ 	 	quadrans 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	 	uncia 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 augustan values ( bc – ad ) 		aureus	quinarius aureus	denarius	quinarius	sestertius	dupondius	as	semis	quadrans 	aureus 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	quinarius aureus 	​ ⁄ 	 	​   ⁄ 	 	 	 	 	 	 	denarius 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	quinarius argenteus 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	 	 	 	 	 	sestertius 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	 	 	 	 	dupondius 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	 	 	 	as 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	 	 	semis 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	 	quadrans 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 diocletian values ( – ) 		solidus	argenteus	nummus	radiate	laureate	denarius 	solidus 	 	 	 	 	 	 	argenteus 	​ ⁄ 	 	 	 	 	 	nummus 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	 	​   ⁄ 	 	radiate 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	​   ⁄ 	 	laureate 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	 	denarius 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 late empire coin values ( – ) 		solidus	miliarense	siliqua	follis	nummus 	solidus 	 	 	 	 	 	miliarense 	​ ⁄ 	 	 	 	 	siliqua 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	​   ⁄ 	 	follis 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	 	nummus 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 see also[edit] 	numismatics portal 	money portal 	cupellation 	list of historical currencies 	roman economy 	roman republican coinage 	roman provincial currency 	byzantine coinage 	visigothic coinage 	sasanian coinage 	roman republican moneyers 	tessera 	spintria 	ancient symbols (unicode block) references[edit] footnotes[edit] 	^ "blanchard and company, inc. - the twelve caesars". retrieved february , . 	^ metcalf , p.  . 	^ burnett . pp. – . 	^ burnett . p. . 	^ burnett . pp. – . 	^ burnett . p. . 	^ reece . p. . 	^ trentinella, rosemarie (october ). "roman portrait sculpture: the stylistic cycle". www.metmuseum.org. retrieved - - . 	^ "probus". www.forumancientcoins.com. retrieved - - . 	^ "buying power of ancient coins". archived from the original on february , . retrieved - - . 	^ ancientcoins.biz 	^ w.g. sayles, ancient coin collecting iii: the roman world-politics and propaganda, iola, , p. . 	^ william boyne, a manual of roman coins: from the earliest period to the extinction of the empire, w. h. johnston, , p. . available online. bibliography[edit] 	burnett, andrew ( ). coinage in the roman world. london: seaby. isbn  - - - - . 	cohen, henry, description historiques des monnaies frappées sous l'empire romain, paris, , vols. there exists online version of this cohen's catalogue 	greene, kevin. archaeology of the roman economy. berkeley, california: university of california press, . 	howgego, christopher. ancient history from coins. london: routledge, . 	jones, a. h. m. the roman economy: studies in ancient economic and administrative history. oxford: basil blackwell, . 	melville jones, john r., 'a dictionary of ancient roman coins', london, spink . 	metcalf, william e. 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(also published by barrie and jenkins in london in with isbn  - - - ) 	van meter, david. the handbook of roman imperial coins. laurion press, . 	vecchi, italo. italian cast coinage. a descriptive catalogue of the cast coinage of rome and italy. london ancient coins, london . hard bound in quarto format, pages, plates. isbn  - - - - external links[edit] a collection of flavian coins 		wikimedia commons has media related to roman currency. 	library resources about roman currency 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 	v 	t 	e ancient rome topics 	 	outline 	timeline 	history	 	 	foundation 	kingdom 	overthrow 	republic 	empire	 	history 	pax romana 	principate 	dominate 	western empire 	fall 	historiography of the fall 	byzantine empire 	decline 	fall 	constitution	 	history 	kingdom 	republic 	empire 	late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	curiate 	centuriate 	tribal 	plebeian 	executive magistrates 	spqr 	law	 	twelve tables 	mos maiorum 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and financial institutions which extended credit for personal use and public infrastructure, were established primarily through inter-family wealth.[ ] in times of agricultural and cash shortfall, roman officials and moneyers tended to respond by coining money; this happened during the prolonged crisis of the first punic war, and created economic distortion and difficulties. beginning in the early roman empire, the economy, in the sense of using money to express prices and debts, and a basic banking system was formed.[ ] emperors issued coinage stamped with their portraits to disseminate propaganda, to create public goodwill, and to symbolize their wealth and power.[ ] the roman imperial economy was often unstable, inflated in part by emperors who issued money to fund high-profile imperial projects such as public building works, or costly wars that offered opportunities for propaganda, but little or no material gain.[ ] solidus issued under constantine ii, and on the reverse victoria, one of the last deities to appear on roman coins, gradually transforming into an angel under christian rule[ ] the setup of the banking system under the empire allowed the exchange of extremely large sums without the physical transfer of coins, which led to fiat money. with no central bank, a professional deposit banker (argentarius, coactor argentarius, or later nummularius) received and held deposits for a fixed or indefinite term, and lent money to third parties.[ ] generally, available capital exceeded the amount needed by borrowers, so loans were made and credit was extended on risky terms.[ ] [ ] the senatorial elite were involved heavily in private lending, both as creditors and borrowers, making loans from their personal fortunes on the basis of social connections.[ ] banks of classical antiquity typically kept less in reserves than the full total of customers' deposits, as they had no incentive to ensure that customers' deposits would be insured in the event of a bank run.[ ] it was common consensus among romans at the time, especially due to seneca's ideologies, that anyone involved in commerce should have access to credit.[ ] this tendency toward fiat money caused the money supply to fluctuate consistently.[ ] emperors of the antonine and severan dynasties overall debased the currency, particularly the denarius, under the pressures of meeting military payrolls.[ ] sudden inflation during the reign of commodus damaged the credit market.[ ] in the mid- s, the supply of specie contracted sharply.[ ] conditions during the crisis of the third century—such as reductions in long-distance trade, disruption of mining operations, and the physical transfer of gold coinage outside the empire by invading enemies—greatly diminished the money supply and the banking sector by the year .[ ] although roman coinage had long been fiat money or fiduciary currency, general economic anxieties came to a head under aurelian, and bankers lost confidence in coins legitimately issued by the central government. despite diocletian's introduction of the gold solidus and monetary reforms, the credit market of the empire never recovered its former robustness.[ ] contents 	 mining and metallurgy 	 transportation and communication 	 trade and commodities 	 labour and occupations 	 gdp and income distribution 	 . regional breakdown 	 . taxation 	 state revenues 	 historical financial crises 	 . the financial crisis of a.d. 	 see also 	 notes and references 	 sources 	 further reading 	 external links mining and metallurgy[edit] main article: roman metallurgy see also: mining in roman britain landscape resulting from the ruina montium mining technique at las médulas, roman spain, one of the most important gold mines in the roman empire the main mining regions of the empire were spain (gold, silver, copper, tin, lead); gaul (gold, silver, iron); britain (mainly iron, lead, tin), the danubian provinces (gold, iron); macedonia and thrace (gold, silver); and asia minor (gold, silver, iron, tin). intensive large-scale mining—of alluvial deposits, and by means of open-cast mining and underground mining—took place from the reign of augustus up to the early rd century ad, when the instability of the empire disrupted production. the gold mines of dacia, for instance, were no longer available for roman exploitation after the province was surrendered in . mining seems to have resumed to some extent during the th century.[ ] world production of lead, estimated from greenland ice cores, peaked in the st century ad, and strongly declined thereafter.[ ] world production would only surpass roman levels in the middle of the th century. hydraulic mining, which pliny referred to as ruina montium ("ruin of the mountains"), allowed base and precious metals to be extracted on a proto-industrial scale.[ ] the total annual iron output is estimated at ,  tonnes,.[ ] copper was produced at an annual rate of ,  t,[ ] and lead at ,  t,[ ] both production levels unmatched until the industrial revolution;[ ] spain alone had a percent share in world lead production.[ ] the high lead output was a by-product of extensive silver mining which reached  t per annum.[ ] at its peak around the mid- nd century ad, the roman silver stock is estimated at ,  t, five to ten times larger than the combined silver mass of medieval europe and the caliphate around  ad.[ ] as an indication of the scale of roman metal production, lead pollution in the greenland ice sheet quadrupled over its prehistoric levels during the imperial era, and dropped again thereafter.[ ] the invention and widespread application of hydraulic mining, namely hushing and ground-sluicing, aided by the ability of the romans to plan and execute mining operations on a large scale, allowed various base and precious metals to be extracted on a proto-industrial scale only rarely, if ever, matched until the industrial revolution.[ ] the most common fuel by far for smelting and forging operations, as well as heating purposes, was wood and particularly charcoal, which is nearly twice as efficient.[ ] in addition, coal was mined in some regions to a fairly large extent: almost all major coalfields in roman britain were exploited by the late nd century ad, and a lively trade along the english north sea coast developed, which extended to the continental rhineland, where bituminous coal was already used for the smelting of iron ore.[ ] annual metal production in metric tons 	 	output per annum 	comment 	iron 	 , t[ ] 	based on estimate of iron production at . kg per head in roman britain, extrapolated to population size of million for entire empire[ ] 	copper 	 , t[ ] 	largest preindustrial producer[ ] 	lead 	 , t[ ] 	largest preindustrial producer[ ] 	silver 	 , t[ ] 	at its peak around the mid- nd century ad, roman stock is estimated at , t, five to ten times larger than the combined silver mass of medieval europe and the caliphate around ad.[ ] 	gold 	 , t[ ] 	production in asturia, callaecia, and lusitania (all iberian peninsula) alone transportation and communication[edit] see also: roman roads the roman empire completely encircled the mediterranean, which they called "our sea" (mare nostrum).[ ] roman sailing vessels navigated the mediterranean as well as the major rivers of the empire, including the guadalquivir, ebro, rhône, rhine, tiber and nile.[ ] transport by water was preferred where possible, as moving commodities by land was more difficult.[ ] vehicles, wheels, and ships indicate the existence of a great number of skilled woodworkers.[ ] land transport utilized the advanced system of roman roads. the in-kind taxes paid by communities included the provision of personnel, animals, or vehicles for the cursus publicus, the state mail and transport service established by augustus. relay stations were located along the roads every seven to twelve roman miles, and tended to grow into a village or trading post.[ ] a mansio (plural mansiones) was a privately run service station franchised by the imperial bureaucracy for the cursus publicus. the support staff at such a facility included muleteers, secretaries, blacksmiths, cartwrights, a veterinarian, and a few military police and couriers. the distance between mansiones was determined by how far a wagon could travel in a day.[ ] mules were the animal most often used for pulling carts, travelling about  mph.[ ] as an example of the pace of communication, it took a messenger a minimum of nine days to travel to rome from mainz in the province of germania superior, even on a matter of urgency.[ ] in addition to the mansiones, some taverns offered accommodations as well as food and drink; one recorded tab for a stay showed charges for wine, bread, mule feed, and the services of a prostitute.[ ] trade and commodities[edit] see also: roman commerce, indo-roman trade and relations, and sino-roman relations green roman glass cup unearthed from an eastern han dynasty ( - ad) tomb, guangxi, china; the first roman glassware discovered in china, dating to the early st century bc, was excavated from a western han tomb in the southern port city of guangzhou, most likely arriving via the indian ocean and south china sea.[ ] roman provinces traded among themselves, but trade extended outside the frontiers to regions as far away as china and india.[ ] the main commodity was grain.[ ] chinese trade was mostly conducted overland through middle men along the silk road; indian trade, however, also occurred by sea from egyptian ports on the red sea. also traded were olive oil, various foodstuffs, garum (fish sauce), slaves, ore and manufactured metal objects, fibres and textiles, timber, pottery, glassware, marble, papyrus, spices and materia medica, ivory, pearls, and gemstones.[ ] though most provinces were capable of producing wine, regional varietals were desirable and wine was a central item of trade. shortages of vin ordinaire were rare.[ ] the major suppliers for the city of rome were the west coast of italy, southern gaul, the tarraconensis region of spain, and crete. alexandria, the second-largest city, imported wine from laodicea in syria and the aegean.[ ] at the retail level, taverns or specialty wine shops (vinaria) sold wine by the jug for carryout and by the drink on premises, with price ranges reflecting quality.[ ] trade in the early roman empire allowed rome to become as vast and great as it did. emperor augustus, despite his intense public and private spending, took control of trade from the government and expanded roman influence by opening new trading markets in overseas areas such as britain, germany, and africa.[ ] rome dominated trade and influence over the world in the age of the roman empire but could not advance in their industrial and manufacturing processes.[ ] this ultimately threatened the expanding trading and commerce industries that augustus brought about, as well as the strong standing of the empire in the eyes of the romans and the world. whereas the roman economy was able to thrive in the first few centuries ad thanks to its advanced trade and commerce, the boom was tempered as their ways of conducting business changed drastically. due to augustus and the aristocracy holding the large majority of land and wealth in rome,[ ] trade and commerce in the basic everyday commodities began to decline. trade began to only take place for the more luxurious commodities, effectively excluding the majority of romans due to their poverty.[ ] foreign trade was also incredibly significant to the rise and complexity of the roman economy, and the romans traded commodities such as wine, oil, grain, salt, arms, and iron to countries primarily in the west.[ ][ ] when those countries came under decline in around nd century ad, and respective trade between them and the roman empire had to cease as a result, this put a dent in the strength of the roman economy as foreign trade was a major factor of economic growth for the superfluously resourced roman empire.[ ] compounded with their inability to make proper production advancements to keep up with their growing and evolving economy, these events hindered roman trade, limited their array of commodities and harmed the economy. labour and occupations[edit] workers at a cloth-processing shop, in a painting from the fullonica of veranius hypsaeus in pompeii inscriptions record different occupations in the city of rome, and in pompeii.[ ] professional associations or trade guilds (collegia) are attested for a wide range of occupations, including fishermen (piscatores), salt merchants (salinatores), olive oil dealers (olivarii), entertainers (scaenici), cattle dealers (pecuarii), goldsmiths (aurifices), teamsters (asinarii or muliones), and stonecutters (lapidarii).[ ] these are sometimes quite specialized: one collegium at rome was strictly limited to craftsmen who worked in ivory and citrus wood.[ ] work performed by slaves falls into five general categories: domestic, with epitaphs recording at least different household jobs; imperial or public service; urban crafts and services; agriculture; and mining.[ ] convicts provided much of the labour in the mines or quarries, where conditions were notoriously brutal.[ ] in practice, there was little division of labour between slave and free,[ ] and most workers were illiterate and without special skills.[ ] the greatest number of common labourers were employed in agriculture: in the italian system of industrial farming (latifundia), these may have been mostly slaves, but throughout the empire, slave farm labour was probably less important than other forms of dependent labour by people who were technically not enslaved.[ ] textile and clothing production was a major source of employment. both textiles and finished garments were traded among the peoples of the empire, whose products were often named for them or a particular town, rather like a fashion "label".[ ] better ready-to-wear was exported by businessmen (negotiatores or mercatores) who were often well-to-do residents of the production centres.[ ] finished garments might be retailed by their sales agents, who travelled to potential customers, or by vestiarii, clothing dealers who were mostly freedmen; or they might be peddled by itinerant merchants.[ ] in egypt, textile producers could run prosperous small businesses employing apprentices, free workers earning wages, and slaves.[ ] the fullers (fullones) and dye workers (coloratores) had their own guilds.[ ] centonarii were guild workers who specialized in textile production and the recycling of old clothes into pieced goods.[ ] gdp and income distribution[edit] further information: roman economy § gross domestic product economic historians vary in their calculations of the gross domestic product of the roman economy during the principate.[ ] in the sample years of , , and ad, estimates of per capita gdp range from to sestertii. the gdp per capita of italy is estimated as [ ] to percent[ ] higher than in the rest of the empire, due to a more advanced level of urbanization and trade, as well as tax transfers from the provinces and the concentration of elite income in the heartland. in the scheidel–friesen economic model, the total annual income generated by the empire is placed at nearly billion sestertii, with about percent extracted by central and local government. households in the top . percent of income distribution captured about percent of income. another percent went to about percent of the population who can be characterized as a non-elite middle. the remaining "vast majority" produced more than half of the total income, but lived near subsistence.[ ] all cited economic historians stress the point that any estimate can only be regarded as a rough approximation to the realities of the ancient economy, given the general paucity of surviving pertinent data. estimates of roman per-capita and total gdp[a] 	unit 	goldsmith [ ] 	hopkins / [ ] 	temin [ ] 	maddison [ ] 	bang [ ] 	scheidel/friesen [ ] 	lo cascio/malanima [ ] 	gdp per capita in 	sestertii 	 	 	 	 	 	 	– 	wheat equivalent (kg) 	 	 	 	 	 	 	– 	 dollars 	– 	– 	– 	 , 	– 	 , 	 , 	population (approx. year) 	 million ( ad) 	 million ( ad) 	 million ( ad) 	 million ( ad) 	 million ( ad) 	 million ( ad) 	– ( ad) 	total gdp in 	sestertii 	 . billion 	 . billion 	- 	 . billion 	 . billion 	 - billion 	– 	wheat equivalent (mt) 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 	 	– 	 dollars 	– 	– 	– 	$ billion 	– 	$ billion 	– 	"–" indicates unknown value. a ^ decimal fractions rounded to the nearest tenth. italic numbers not directly given by the authors; they are obtained by multiplying the respective value of gdp per capita by estimated population size. regional breakdown[edit] maddison's breakdown per region ( ad)[ ] 	region 	population (thousands) 	ndi per capita ( dollars) 	total ndi (millions of dollars) 	roman europe (including italy) 	 , 	 , 	 , 	roman europe (excluding italy) 	 , 	 	 , 	roman asia 	 , 	 , 	 , 	roman africa 	 , 	 , 	 , 	total roman empire 	 , 	 , 	 , angus maddison is the only economist cited who offers a detailed breakdown of the national disposable income (ndi) of the various parts of the roman empire. his "highly provisional" estimate (see right) relies on a low-count of the roman population of only million at the time of the death of augustus in ad. italia is considered to have been the richest region, due to tax transfers from the provinces and the concentration of elite income in the heartland; its ndi per capita is estimated at having been between %[ ] and %[ ] higher than in the rest of the empire. besides italy, the wealthiest province was egypt, in terms of ndi per capita.[ ] the european ndi per capita was higher than in the asian and african provinces if italy is included, but without it, the rest of europe had a lower ndi per capita than the asian and african provinces.[ ] the hellenistic eastern provinces (greece, asia minor, syria, egypt) were about % wealthier than their mostly latin-speaking western counterparts, with egypt alone being about % wealthier. however, italia, which was not administered as a province, enjoyed a higher per capita income than any one of them.[ ] taxation[edit] taxation under the empire amounted to about % of the empire's gross product.[ ] the typical tax rate paid by individuals ranged from to %.[ ] the tax code was "bewildering" in its complicated system of direct and indirect taxes, some paid in cash and some in kind. taxes might be specific to a province, or kinds of properties such as fisheries or salt evaporation ponds; they might be in effect for a limited time.[ ] tax collection was justified by the need to maintain the military,[ ][ ] and taxpayers sometimes got a refund if the army captured a surplus of booty.[ ] in-kind taxes were accepted from less-monetized areas, particularly those who could supply grain or goods to army camps.[ ] personification of the river nile and his children, from the temple of serapis and isis in rome ( st century ad) the primary source of direct tax revenue was individuals, who paid a poll tax and a tax on their land, construed as a tax on its produce or productive capacity.[ ] supplemental forms could be filed by those eligible for certain exemptions; for example, egyptian farmers could register fields as fallow and tax-exempt depending on flood patterns of the nile.[ ] tax obligations were determined by the census, which required each head of household to appear before the presiding official and provide a head count of his household, as well as an accounting of property he owned that was suitable for agriculture or habitation.[ ] a major source of indirect-tax revenue was the portoria, customs and tolls on imports and exports, including among provinces.[ ] special taxes were levied on the slave trade. towards the end of his reign, augustus instituted a % tax on the sale of slaves,[ ] which nero shifted from the purchaser to the dealers, who responded by raising their prices.[ ] an owner who manumitted a slave paid a "freedom tax", calculated at % of value.[ ] an inheritance tax of % was assessed when roman citizens above a certain net worth left property to anyone but members of their immediate family. revenues from the estate tax and from a % sales tax on auctions went towards the veterans' pension fund (aerarium militare).[ ] low taxes helped the roman aristocracy increase their wealth, which equalled or exceeded the revenues of the central government. an emperor sometimes replenished his treasury by confiscating the estates of the "super-rich", but in the later period, the resistance of the wealthy to paying taxes was one of the factors contributing to the collapse of the empire.[ ] state revenues[edit] with the conclusion of the third mithridatic war in bc, the roman republic now incorporated the kingdom of pontus, cilicia, most of syria, and the island of crete into its growing dominion, as well as turning the kingdom of judea into a client state.[ ] the roman historian plutarch records that after pompey's return to rome as a renowned conqueror of the east, tablets were presented showing that state revenues had increased from million denarii to million, an increase from to million sesterces from new taxes levied.[ ] yet this was apparently roughly the size of the entire state budget of the ptolemaic kingdom of hellenistic egypt. both cicero and strabo related how at the beginning of the reign of ptolemy xii auletes ( - bc) his kingdom received an annual revenue of , talents, the equivalent of million denarii, or million sesterces.[ ] hence, with the roman conquest of egypt in the final war of the roman republic ( - bc) and transformation of egypt into a roman province, one would readily assume a considerable increase in state revenues was made. the revenues garnered in egypt in bc alone was seven times the amount of tax money contemporary roman gaul offered to the roman coffers following its conquest by julius caesar, a mere million sesterces.[ ] yet this was roughly the same amount of taxes rome was able to levy from egypt (i.e. million sesterces) after its conquest by octavian, bringing the total figure for state revenues up to million (which included million from newly conquered egypt, million from gaul, and million from all other provinces).[ ] the whole of roman britain after its conquest produced only about million sesterces in revenues whereas the city of alexandria in egypt alone generated roughly million sesterces.[ ] gold mining from the roman provinces of hispania on the iberian peninsula produced roughly million sesterces every year.[ ] during the st century ad, the total value of imported goods form the maritime trade coming from the indian ocean region (including the silk and spice trade) was roughly , million sesterces, allowing the roman state to garner million sesterces of that figure in tax revenue.[ ] even after the reduction in the number of roman legions from about fifty to twenty-eight ( , down to , full-time soldiers and auxiliaries) the roman state under augustus still spent million sesterces on military costs alone per annum (with total state expenses hovering around , million).[ ] raoul mclaughlin stresses that "as long as international commerce thrived, the roman empire could meet these high-level military costs."[ ] a further million sesterces in state revenues was gathered by taxing the roman exported goods loaded on ships destined for arabia and india (worth roughly million in total).[ ] historical financial crises[edit] the financial crisis of a.d.[edit] the financial crisis of a.d. is largely considered to be caused by policies that tiberius took in order to limit the aristocrats' wealth and land-ownership, and done in response to augustus's massive private and public expenditures. augustus engaged in lavish spending in the public and private sector, while greatly encouraging land ownership and investment in real estate.[ ][ ] augustus thought that all citizens should have access to land and money. as a result, he aggressively engaged in a massive extension of credit into the real estate and public sector, and engaged in riskier and riskier loans.[ ] due to his policies, land and real estate prices rose dramatically, benefitting his wealthy and noble land-owner friends who owned large amounts of property and invested heavily in real estate.[ ] tiberius noticed such collusion, and looked to curb the amount of land that the wealthy and elites owned, as well as control the rapidly inflating money supply. he engaged in heavy austerity policies such as ordering for all loans be paid off immediately, and began confiscating property from the wealthy land-owners.[ ] by restricting loans for land purchasing, and the demand to pay loans in full, debtors were forced to sell off their property and real estate, which drastically dropped real estate and land prices.[ ] tiberius' credit restriction policies 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search 		 marble bust 'matidia ' c. ad roman statue of a woman with elaborate hairstyle (aphrodisias, nd century ad) hairstyle fashion in rome was ever changing, and particularly in the roman imperial period there were a number of different ways to style hair. as with clothes, there were several hairstyles that were limited to certain people in ancient society. styles are so distinctive they allow scholars today to create a chronology of roman portraiture and art; we are able to date pictures of the empresses on coins, or identify busts depending on their hairstyles. contents 	 significance 	 headgear 	 . veils 	 . wigs 	 . detachable marble wigs 	 tools of the trade 	 . dyes 	 . curling irons, pins and hairnets 	 styles over time 	 . tutulus 	 . republican period and augustan era styles 	 . flavian and antonine hairstyles 	 . severan dynasty 	 men's hairstyles 	 see also 	 references 	 external links significance[edit] a young woman sits while a servant fixes her hair with the help of a cupid, who holds up a mirror to offer a reflection, detail of a fresco from the villa of the mysteries, pompeii, c. bc much like today, hair for the romans was as much an expression of personal identity as clothes. hairstyles were determined by a number of factors, namely gender, age, social status, wealth and profession. a woman's hairstyle expressed her individuality in the ancient roman world. how one dressed one's hair was an indication of a person's status and role in society. hair was a very erotic area of the female body for the romans, and attractiveness of a woman was tied to the presentation of her hair. as a result, it was seen as appropriate for a woman to spend time on her hair in order to create a flattering appearance. hairdressing and its necessary accompaniment, mirror gazing, were seen as distinctly feminine activities. lengthy grooming sessions for women were tolerated, despite writers such as tertullian and pliny commenting on their abhorrence for time and energy women dedicate to their hair.[ ] however, the numerous depictions of women hairdressing and mirror-gazing in tomb reliefs and portraiture is a testament to how much hairdressing was seen as part of the female domain.[ ] for more than just attractiveness, hairstyling was the leisure pursuit of the cultured, elegant female. hair was seen as much as an indication of wealth and social status as it was of taste and fashion. but unlike modern-day hairstyles, comfort and naturalism for the romans took a back-seat to hairstyles that displayed the wearer's wealth to a maximum. in other words, having a complex and unnatural hairstyle would be preferred to a simple one, because it would illustrate the wealth of the wearer in being able to afford to take the time to style their hair.[ ] for women to have a fashionable hairstyle showed they were part of the elegant roman culture. a 'natural' style was associated with barbarians, who the romans believed had neither the money nor the culture to create these styles. "natural" showed a lack of culture, and grooming of the hair went hand-in-hand with being part of a sophisticated civilization. the association with barbarians was why roman men kept their hair cut short.[ ] it was the job of slave hairdressers, called ornatrices, to create their master's hairstyle new each day, as well as pulling out any grey hairs.[ ] apart from society, hair was used symbolically to mark rites of passage; for instance, loosened hair was common at a funeral, and the seni crines was the hairstyle worn by brides and vestal virgins; divided and plaited into six braids, and in the case of the bride, it was parted with a spear.[ ] a bride's hair was parted with a hasta recurva or hasta caelibaris, a bent iron spearhead and crowned with flowers. in addition to ceremonies hairstyle defined the age of a woman.[ ] there was a marked difference in hair acceptable for preadolescent girls and sexually mature women. preadolescent girls would often have long hair cascading down the back where as women would have equally long hair but it would be controlled through wrapping and braiding. headgear[edit] statue showing palla drawn over head. this hairstyle is that of the antonine period. veils[edit] perhaps due to its erotic association, hair was often linked with roman ideas of female modesty and honour. we know that veils were important in this case, as they protected against (or encouraged, according to seneca the elder) solicitations by men.[ ] the palla was the mark of a married, respectable woman. it was a piece of cloth wrapped around the body with one end over the shoulder. there is significant evidence for the palla being draped over the back of the head as a veil.[ ] the palla supposedly signified the dignity and sexual modesty of a married woman, but due to its encumbering nature as a veil, there has been much debate whether it was only worn in public by the aristocracy, or if at all by working women of lower classes.[ ] vittae were woollen fillets that bound a married woman's hair. they were another indication of a wife's modesty and purity and were seen as part of the clothing and presentation of a matron.[ ] vittae could be inset with precious stones, or in the case of the flaminicae, they would be purple in colour. wigs[edit] fresco showing a woman looking in a mirror as she dresses (or undresses) her hair, from the villa of arianna at stabiae (castellammare di stabia), st century ad due to the nature of hair and the relatively wet climate in the upper reaches of the roman empire, there are very few examples of wigs that survive to this day. women wore wigs whether they were bald or not. so too did men; emperor otho wore a wig, as did domitian.[ ] wigs allowed women to better achieve the kind of 'tall' styles that particularly punctuated the flavian and trajanic eras (e.g. the periods of – and – ad). so tall were these hairstyles, that ancient writer juvenal likens them to multi-storey buildings. so important is the business of beautification; so numerous are the tiers and storeys piled one upon another on her head! — juvenal, satires[ ] wigs were made from human hair; blonde hair from germany and black from india were particularly prized, especially if the hair came from the head of a person from a conquered civilisation.[ ] the blond hair of various germanic peoples symbolized the spoils of war. in cases where wigs were used to hide baldness, a natural look was preferred, therefore a wig with a hair colour similar to the wearer's original was worn. but in instances where a wig was worn for the purpose of showing off, naturalism did not play much of a part. obviously fake wigs were preferred, sometimes intertwined with two contrasting hair colours with blonde hair from germany and black from india.[ ] gold dust also gave the appearance of blond hair and enhanced already blond hair. emperor lucius verus (r. – ad), who had natural blond hair, was said to sprinkle gold dust on his head to make himself even blonder.[ ] a convenience of wigs used by romans is that they could be directly pinned onto the head of the wearer, meaning a style could be achieved much faster than if it had been done with the wearer's own hair. further, it would lessen the inconvenience of having to grow one's own hair too long. it has been suggested that the necessary length to be able to create these hairstyles daily would be well below the shoulder, perhaps to the waist.[ ] there were two types of wig in roman times: the full wig, called the capillamentum, and the half wig, called the galerus.[ ] the galerus could be in the form of a fillet of woolen hair used as padding to build an elaborate style, or as a toupee on the back or front of the head. toupees were attached by pins, or by sewing the it onto a piece of leather and attaching it as a wig. further, glue could be used to affix it to the scalp or alternatively, as a bust from the british museum illustrates, the toupee could be braided into the existing hair.[ ] janet stephens is an amateur archaeologist and hairdresser who has reconstructed some of the hairstyles of ancient rome, attempting to prove that they were not done with wigs, as commonly believed, but with the person's own hair.[ ] detachable marble wigs[edit] busts themselves could have detachable wigs. there have been many suggestions as to why some busts have been created with detachable wigs and some without. perhaps the main reason was to keep the bust looking up-to-date. it would have been too expensive to commission a new bust every time hair fashion changed, so a mix-and-match bust would have been preferable for women with less money.[ ] perhaps another reason was to accommodate the syrian ritual of anointing the skull of the bust with oil.[ ] or further, in cases where the bust was a funerary commission, it can be safely assumed that the subject of the bust would not have had an opportunity to sit for another portrait after their death.[ ] although exactly how these marble wigs were attached is unknown, the likely difficulty of changing the 'wigs' effectively would have probably put many women off choosing a detachable and reattachable bust in the first place.[ ] tools of the trade[edit] dyes[edit] dyeing hair was popular among women, although frequent dyeing often made it weaker. tertullian discusses a hair dye that burnt the scalp and was harmful for the head.[ ] artificial colours were applied as powders and gels. henna or animal fat could be applied to make the hair more manageable.[ ] to prevent graying, some romans wore a paste at night made from herbs and earthworms; in addition, pigeon dung was used to lighten hair. in order to dye hair black, pliny the elder suggests applying leeches that have rotted in red wine for days.[ ] dyeing hair red involved a mixture of animal fat and beechwood ashes[ ] whilst saffron was used for golden tones.[ ] ovid mentions several vegetable dyes.[ ] to cure diseases such as hair loss, pliny suggests the application of a sow's gall bladder, mixed with bull's urine, or the ashes of an ass's genitals, or other mixtures such as the ashes of a deer's antlers mixed with wine. further, goat's milk or goat's dung is said to cure head lice.[ ] gold hairnet, imperial period, pompeii curling irons, pins and hairnets[edit] the calamistrum was the name for the roman curling iron. it consisted of a hollow metal outer cylinder and a smaller solid cylinder inside it. the hair would be wrapped around the solid cylinder and inserted into the metal outer. the metal outer would be heated in a fire, making the hair curly. it has been reported that because of the frequency and temperature that hair was curled at, thinning and damaged hair was common amongst women.[ ] while gel and henna, as mentioned above, were used to manage hair, hairnets and pins were in common usage too. poorer women would have used wooden pins, while the aristocracy used gold, ivory, crystal, silver or painted bone. the pins were decorated with carvings of the gods, or beads and pendants.[ ] styles over time[edit] roman hairstyles changed, but there were several constant hairstyles that were used continuously, such as the tutulus, or the bun. the beehive, helmet, hairbouquet or pillbox are modern day names given to roman hairstyles. tutulus[edit] the tutulus was originally an etruscan style worn commonly in the late th and early th century bc[ ] was a hairstyle worn primarily by the materfamilias, the mother of the family.[ ] it remained in constant use even when fashion changed. to achieve it, the hair was divided and piled high and shaped into a bun, after which it was tied with purple fillets of wool. by the end, the hair would be conical in shape. it was also the hairstyle worn by the flaminicae.[ ] portrait of a woman of the flavian period, marble // portrait bust of a young woman (julia, daughter of titus?). marble. s— s ce. shows the extremely elaborate hair styles worn by upper-class roman women of the time. rome, capitoline museums, palazzo nuovo, hall of the emperors. republican period and augustan era styles[edit] the republican period and the nodus style was particularly common. in imperial iconography the nodus coiffure was associated predominately with the women of augustus' household. the nodus style saw the hair parted in three, with the hair from the sides of the head tied in a bun at the back while the middle section is looped back on itself, creating an effect not unlike the (comparably modern) pompadour style.[ ] livia, wife of augustus, and octavia, sister of augustus, particularly favoured the nodus style, both continuing to use it well into the imperial period.[ ] other styles in the julio-claudian era were designed to be simple, with hair parted in two and tied in a bun at the back. this was perhaps done in order to juxtapose roman modesty against cleopatra and her flamboyance.[ ] flavian and antonine hairstyles[edit] portrait of a roman woman, flavian period rome, musei capitolini flavian and antonine hairstyles differed greatly between men and women in real life and in the physical appearance of hair for male and female sculptures. in ancient rome hair was a major determinant of a woman's physical attractiveness, women preferred to be presented as young, and beautiful. therefore, female sculptures were known to have dramatic curls carved with strong chiaroscuro effects. on the other hand, most men in the flavian period of late first century ad have their hair trimmed short on the crown like the portrait of domitian for example (pictured) that implied an active role in society, while a woman's connoted passivity. flavian and antonine hairstyles are perhaps the most famous, and extravagant, of imperial rome's styles. during this time the aristocratic women's style became the most flamboyant (cypriote curls). the styles were lofty, with masses of shaped curls and braids. the high arching crowns on the front were made using fillets of wool and toupees, and could be attached to the back of the head as well as the front. typically, as in the case of the famous fonseca bust (pictured), this particular hairstyle appears to have been popular during the flavian period. the hair was combed into two parts; the front section was combed forwards and built with curls, while the back was plaited and coiled into an elaborate bun (orbis comarum).[ ] this fashion was described by the writer juvenal as the hairstyles that made women appear tall from the front but quite the opposite from the back. the later antonine period saw curls at the front of the head brought to a lower level than the flavian period. the braids coiled at the back of the head were brought further forward, instead often resting on the top of the head. another style of the antonine period saw the hair separated into rivets and tied at the back[ ] furthermore, whether roman portraits faithfully translate the actual hairstyles worn by the sitters is problematic because of the scarcity of surviving hair which leaves little basis of comparison. the second problem is the physical accuracy of the roman portraits itself. however, as a result of the many sculptures that have some reference to hair, ethnographers and anthropologists have recognized hair to play a key role in identifying gender and determining societies in which individuals belonged.[ ] severan dynasty[edit] julia domna, wife of septimius severus, had a particularly notable hairstyle. julia domna was the wig's most influential patron. she wore a heavy, globular wig with simple finger-sized waves with a simple center parting. julia domna was the daughter of a high-ranking priest from syria, and it has been suggested that her style was indicative of her foreign origins.[ ] despite being from the east, she adopted a wig to project a familiar roman guise and particularly in order to imitate her predecessor, faustina the younger.[ ] in janet stephens's video julia domna: forensic hairdressing, a recreation of a later hairstyle of the roman empress, was presented at the archaeological institute of america’s annual meeting in philadelphia. bust of domitian foreign women often wore their hair differently from roman women, and women from palmyra typically wore their hair waved in a simple center-parting, accompanied by diadems and turbans according to local customs. women from the east were not known to commonly wear wigs, preferring to create elaborate hairstyles from their own hair instead.[ ] as time progressed, severan hairstyles switched from the finger-waved center parting style, to one with more curls and ringlets at the front and back of the head, often accompanied by a wig.[ ] men's hairstyles[edit] boys with short-cropped fair hair hunting rabbit in a mosaic from the villa romana del casale, roman sicily, th century ad roman hairstyles for men would change throughout ancient times. while men's hair may have required no less daily attention than women's, the styling as well as the social response it engendered were radically different. lengthy grooming sessions for men would be looked at as taboo. throughout the period as well, women's hair was carved according to different techniques based on the sex. for example, one of the primary features that is seen in many women but never in men is long hair divided by a center part. it is apparent men never wore this, since there is no biological difference in hair between sexes this is a practice determined solely by culture. eyebrows of both sexes were tended to be treated in the same manner.[ ] in early times, it is most likely roman men wore their hair long. with the introduction of barbers called tonsors in about bc it became customary to wear hair short. in ancient rome, household slaves would perform hairdressing functions for wealthy men. however, men who lacked access to private hairdressing and shaving services or those who preferred a more social atmosphere went to a barbershop (tonstrina). barbershops were places of social gatherings and a young man's first shave was often even celebrated as a passage to manhood in the community. the barbers usually shaved the customers faces with iron razors and applied an aftershave with ointments that may have contained spider webs. trimming a head of hair and shaving would be the rule in rome in the second century bc. roman men who wore beards would not be admitted into the senate unless they shaved.[ ] in ancient rome it was desirable for men to have a full head of hair. this was a problem for julius caesar. being bald was considered a deformity at the time, so caesar went to great pains to hiding his thinning hair. and because of it he used to comb his thin locks forward over the crown of his head. suetonius wrote: "his baldness was something that greatly bothered him." caesar was allowed by the senate to wear a laurel crown with which he was able to mask his receding hairline. during the roman times it is easy to know how the emperors wore their hair. for example, one constant feature of augustus's portraits is his hairstyle, with its distinctive forked locks of hair on his forehead.[ ] the emperor was most often looked at as the trendsetter during these times. this is shown by the emperor nero ( – ad) who adopted elaborate hairstyles with curls and even had sideburns. men began to curl their hair more and nero started the trend. following in the flavian period most men have hair trimmed short on the crown and lacking strong plasticity.[ ] during the next few decades a straight hair cut with forehead bangs was popular with trajanic men. another trend that was started by emperor hadrian ( – ad). he was the first emperor to wear a beard, and after him many of the emperors continued the trend.[ ] this has usually been seen as a mark of his devotion to greece and greek culture. one literary source, the historia augusta, claims that hadrian wore a beard to hide blemishes on his face.[ ] see also[edit] 	greco-roman hairstyle 	clothing in ancient greece 	clothing in ancient rome 	women in ancient rome 	stola 	janet stephens references[edit] 	^ tertullian., de culti feminarum, : 	^ kampman ( ), – 	^ a b bartman ( ), 	^ carcopino ( ), 	^ bartman ( ), 	^ "roman wedding clothing". www.tribunesandtriumphs.org. retrieved - - . 	^ seneca the elder., controversiae . . 	^ olson ( ), 	^ fantham ( ), - ; olsen ( ), - both offer discussion on this 	^ olson ( ), 	^ suetonius., life of otho, [ ]; morgan ( ), 	^ juvenal., satire book , - 	^ ovid, amores, : : - [ ]; bartman ( ), [ ] 	^ bartman ( ), 	^ michael grant ( ). the antonines: the roman empire in transition. london & new york: routledge. isbn  - - - , pp - . 	^ olson ( ), ; bartman ( ), 	^ olson ( ), 	^ bust of matidia, london, the british museum . - . ; bartman ( ), 	^ pesta, abigail ( - - ). "on pins and needles: stylist turns ancient hairdo debate on its head". wall street journal. retrieved - - . 	^ a b kleiner and matheson ( ), 	^ fittschen and zanker ( ), 	^ bartman ( ), 	^ tertullian, de culti feminarum, : 	^ bartman ( ), hair and the artifice of roman female adornmentdoi: . / ; allason-jones ( ), - 	^ pliny the elder., natural history, : 	^ pliny the elder., natural history, : 	^ tertullian, de culti feminarum, : : 	^ ovid., ars amatoria, : - 	^ pliny the elder., natural history, : 	^ olson ( ), 	^ kleiner and matheson ( ), ; olson ( ), - 	^ sebesta, judith lynn ( ). world of roman costume. madison: university of wisconsin. 	^ a b olson ( ), 	^ [ ]examples of the nodus style 	^ further examples of the nodus [ ] and [ ] 	^ kleiner and matheson ( ), 	^ bartman ( ), 	^ a b examples of the antonine styles [ ] and riveted [ ] 	^ bartman ( ), 	^ a b bartman ( ), - 	^ example of severan style, finger waves underneath palla 	^ a b bartman, elizabeth. "artifice of roman female adornment". american journal of archaeology. 	^ sherrow, victoria ( ). encyclopedia of hair: a cultural history. westport, ct: greenwood. p.  . 	^ "portrait head of augustus". getty museum. retrieved august . 	^ alchin, linda. 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class of loose and irregular odes greatly in fashion in england during the close of the th and the beginning of the th century.[ ] abraham cowley, who published fifteen pindarique odes in , was the poet most identified with the form though many others had composed irregular verses before him.[ ] the term is derived from the name of a greek archaic poet, pindar, but is based on a misconception since pindar's odes were in fact very formal, obeying a triadic structure, in which the form of the first stanza (strophe) was repeated in the second stanza (antistrophe), followed by a third stanza (epode) that introduced variations but whose form was repeated by other epodes in subsequent triads. cowley's resurrection, which was considered in the th century to be a model of the 'pindaric' style, is a formless poem of sixty-four lines, arbitrarily divided, not into triads, but into four stanzas of unequal volume and structure; the lines which form these stanzas are of lengths varying from three feet to seven feet, with rhymes repeated in no order.[ ] it was the looseness of these 'pindarics' that appealed to many poets at the close of the th century, including john dryden and alexander pope, and many lesser poets, such as john oldham, aphra behn, thomas otway, thomas sprat, john hughes and thomas flatman. john milton employed 'pindarics' for the chorus of his lyrical tragedy, samson agonistes, published in / (and probably composed in the s) but he was a classical scholar and he termed them more appropriately: 	"the measure of verse used in the chorus is of all sorts, called by the greeks 'monostrophic', or rather 'apolelymenon', without regard had to strophe, antistrophe or epode, which were a kind of stanzas framed only for the music, then used with the chorus that sung; not essential to the poem and therefore not material; or, being divided into stanzas or pauses, they may be called 'alloeostropha'."[nb ] the form in this sense can be thought to be modelled on the works of the tragic poet aeschylus, as noted by milton's nephew, edward phillips: 	"...that which we call the pindaric hath a nearer affinity with the monostrophic or apolelymenon used in the chorus's of aeschylus's tragedies."[ ] phillips was one of his uncle's pupils and his views may have been shaped by milton's theories as early as the s yet he also reproduced some of the great poet's later views and his reactions to the literary fashions of the restoration.[ ] thus he contrasts 'pindarics' with rhyming couplets as a verse form suited to tragedy: 	"...that way of versifying which bears the name of pindaric and which hath no necessity of being divided into strophs or stanzas would be much more suitable for tragedy than the continued rhapsody of rhyming couplets, which whoever shall mark it well will find it appear too stiff and of too much constraint for the liberty of conversation and the interlocution of several persons."[ ] in discourse on the pindarique ode, , the dramatist william congreve, reviled pindarics as "bundles of rambling incoherent thoughts" and "uncertain and perplexed verses and rhymes".[ ] joseph addison dismissed them in in the journal the spectator as monstrous compositions.[ ] richard steele in an entry in the spectator the following year underscored the difference between english pindarics and the verse of pindar by imagining the greek poet in cowley's company—but not for long: 	"i saw pindar walking all alone, no one daring to accost him till cowley joyn'd himself to him, but, growing weary of one who almost walk'd him out of breath, he left him for horace and anacreon, with whom he seemed infinitely delighted."[ ] the pindaric came to be commonly used for complimentary poems on births, weddings and funerals. although the vogue of these forms hardly survived the age of queen anne, something of the tradition still remained, and even in the odes of wordsworth, shelley and coleridge the broken versification of cowley's pindarics occasionally survives. tennyson's ode on the death of the duke of wellington ( ) may be considered another specimen of a pindaric in english literature,[ ] as seen for example in the opening and closing lines: 	bury the great duke 	with an empire's lamentation, 	let us bury the great duke 	to the noise of the mourning of a mighty nation, 	mourning when their leaders fall, 	warriors carry the warrior's pall, 	and sorrow darkens hamlet and hall... 	ashes to ashes, dust to dust; 	he is gone who seem'd so great. 	gone; but nothing can bereave him 	of the force he made his own 	being here, and we believe him 	something far advanced in state, 	and that he wears a truer crown 	than any wreath that man can weave him. 	speak no more of his renown, 	lay your earthly fancies down, 	and in the vast cathedral leave him, 	god accept him, christ receive him. notes[edit] 	^ milton's preface to samson agonistes, where apolelymenon denotes verses free from stanzaic patterns, and alloeostropha denotes strophes or stanzas of varying form—see douglas bush (ed), milton: poetical works, oxford university press ( ), page references[edit] 	^ a b c d  one or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: gosse, edmund william ( ). 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additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 roman dictator - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	roman dictator 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		extraordinary magistrate of the roman republic 	ancient rome 	 	this article is part of a series on the politics and government of ancient rome 	 periods 	 	roman kingdom – bc 	roman republic – bc 	roman empire bc – ad 	principate bc – ad 	dominate ad – 	western ad – 	eastern ad – 	timeline 	 roman constitution 	 	constitution of the kingdom 	constitution of the republic 	constitution of the empire 	constitution of the late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	executive magistrates 	 precedent and law 	 	roman law 	ius 	imperium 	mos maiorum 	collegiality 	auctoritas 	roman citizenship 	cursus honorum 	senatus consultum 	senatus consultum ultimum 	 assemblies 	 	centuriate 	curiate 	plebeian 	tribal 	 ordinary magistrates 	 	consul 	praetor 	quaestor 	promagistrate 	aedile 	tribune 	censor 	governor 	 extraordinary magistrates 	 	corrector 	dictator 	magister equitum 	consular tribune 	rex 	triumviri 	decemviri 	 titles and honours 	 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	praeses 	praefectus 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 	 	other countries 		v 	t 	e a dictator was a magistrate of the roman republic, entrusted with the full authority of the state to deal with a military emergency or to undertake a specific duty. all other magistrates were subordinate to his imperium, and the right of the plebeian tribunes to veto his actions or of the people to appeal from them was extremely limited. in order to prevent the dictatorship from threatening the state itself, severe limitations were placed upon its powers, as a dictator could only act within his intended sphere of authority, and was obliged to resign his office once his appointed task had been accomplished, or at the expiration of six months. dictators were frequently appointed from the earliest period of the republic down to the second punic war ( – bc), but the magistracy then went into abeyance for over a century, until it was revived in a significantly modified form, first by sulla between and bc, and then by julius caesar between and bc. the office was formally abolished after the death of caesar, and not revived under the empire.[ ][ ][ ] contents 	 origin 	 nomination 	 insignia 	 powers and limitations 	 magister equitum 	 decline and disappearance 	 . dictatorship revived 	 . abolition 	 list of roman dictators 	 see also 	 footnotes 	 references 	 bibliography origin[edit] with the abolition of the roman monarchy in bc, the imperium, or executive power, of the king was divided between two annually-elected magistrates, known as praetors. in time they would come to be known as consuls, although probably not until the creation of a third, junior praetor in bc.[ ] neither consul was superior to the other, and the decisions of one could be appealed to the other (provocatio). their insignia were the toga praetexta and the sella curulis, and each was attended by an escort of twelve lictors, each of whom bore the fasces, a bundle of rods topped by an axe; but by custom the lictors had to remove the axes from their fasces within the pomerium, the sacred boundary of rome, to signify that the people, and not the consuls, were sovereign.[ ] after several years,[i] the fear of impending war with both the sabines and the latin league, combined with widespread suspicion that one or both of the consuls favoured the restoration of the monarchy, led to the call for a praetor maximus, or dictator ("one who gives orders"), akin to the supreme magistrate of other latin towns.[ ][ ] according to most authorities, the first dictator was titus lartius in bc, who appointed spurius cassius his magister equitum.[ ][ii] although there are indications that the term praetor maximus may have been used in the earliest period,[iii] the official title of the dictator throughout the history of the republic was magister populi, or "master of the infantry". his lieutenant, the magister equitum, was the "master of the horse" (that is, of the cavalry[iv]). however, the use of dictator to refer to the magister populi seems to have been widespread from a very early period.[ ][ ] nomination[edit] the appointment of a dictator involved three steps: first, the senate would issue a decree known as a senatus consultum, authorizing one of the consuls to nominate a dictator. technically, a senatus consultum was advisory, and did not have the force of law, but in practice it was nearly always followed.[v] either consul could nominate a dictator. if both consuls were available, the dictator was chosen by agreement; if they could not agree, the consuls would draw lots for the responsibility.[ ] finally, the comitia curiata would be called upon to confer imperium on the dictator through the passage of a law known as a lex curiata de imperio.[ ][ ][ ] a dictator could be nominated for different reasons, or causa. the three most common were rei gerundae causa, "for the matter to be done", used in the case of dictators appointed to hold a military command against a specific enemy; comitiorum habendorum causa, for holding the comitia, or elections, when the consuls were unable to do so; and clavi figendi causa, an important religious rite involving the driving of a nail into the wall of the temple of jupiter optimus maximus, as a protection against pestilence.[vi][ ][ ] other reasons included seditionis sedandae causa ("to quell sedition"); ferarium constituendarum causa (to establish a religious holiday in response to a dreadful portent[vii]); ludorum faciendorum causa (to hold the ludi romani, or "roman games", an ancient religious festival); quaestionibus exercendis, (to investigate certain actions);[ ] and in one extraordinary case, senatus legendi causa, to fill up the ranks of the senate after the battle of cannae.[ ][ ] these reasons could be combined (seditionis sedandae et rei gerundae causa), but are not always recorded or clearly stated in ancient authorities, and must instead be inferred.[ ] in the earlier period it was customary to nominate someone whom the consul considered the best available military commander; often this was a former consul, but this was never required. however, from bc onward, the dictators were usually consulares.[ ][viii] normally there was only one dictator at a time, although a new dictator could be appointed following the resignation of another.[ix] a dictator could be compelled to resign his office without accomplishing his task or serving out his term if there were found to be a fault in the auspices under which he had been nominated.[ ][ ] insignia[edit] like other curule magistrates, the dictator was entitled to the toga praetexta and the sella curulis. he received a ceremonial bodyguard that was unique in roman tradition: "[t]wenty-four lictors indicated his quasi-regal power, which, however, was rather a concentration of the consular authority than a limited revival of the kingship."[ ][x] in a notable exception to the roman reluctance to reconstitute the symbols of the kings, the lictors of the dictator never removed the axes from their fasces, even within the pomerium. symbolizing their power over life and death, the axes of a dictator's lictors set him apart from all other magistrates.[ ] in an extraordinary sign of deference, the lictors of other magistrates could not bear fasces at all when appearing before the dictator.[ ] as the kings had been accustomed to appear on horseback, this right was forbidden to the dictator, unless he first received permission from the comitia.[ ][ ][ ] powers and limitations[edit] roman dictator quintus fabius maximus verrucosus in addition to holding a military command and carrying out the actions decreed by the senate, a dictator could summon the senate or convene one of the legislative assemblies of the roman people. the full extent of the dictatorial power was considerable, but not unlimited. it was circumscribed by the conditions of a dictator's appointment, as well as by the evolving traditions of roman law, and to a considerable degree depended on the dictator's ability to work together with other magistrates. the precise limitations of this power were not sharply defined, but subject to debate, contention, and speculation throughout roman history.[ ] in the pursuit of his causa, the dictator's authority was nearly absolute. however, as a rule he could not exceed the mandate for which he was appointed; a dictator nominated to hold the comitia could not then take up a military command against the wishes of the senate.[xi][xii] some dictators appointed to a military command also performed other duties, such as holding the comitia, or driving a nail into the wall of the temple of jupiter optimus maximus; but presumably they did so with the senate's consent.[ ][ ] the imperium of the other magistrates was not vacated by the nomination of a dictator. they continued to perform the duties of their office, although subject to the dictator's authority, and continued in office until the expiration of their year, by which time the dictator had typically resigned.[ ][ ] it is uncertain whether a dictator's imperium could extend beyond that of the consul by whom he was nominated; mommsen believed that his imperium would cease together with that of the nominating magistrate, but others have suggested that it could continue beyond the end of the civil year; and in fact there are several examples in which a dictator appears to have entered a new year without any consuls at all, although some scholars doubt the authenticity of these dictator years.[ ][ ][ ] initially a dictator's power was not subject to either provocatio, the right to appeal from the decision of a magistrate, or intercessio, the veto of the tribunes of the plebs.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] however, the lex valeria, establishing the right of appeal, was not abrogated by the appointment of a dictator, and by bc even the dictator was subject to provocatio, at least within the city of rome.[ ][ ][ ] there is also evidence that the power of the plebeian tribunes was not vitiated by the dictator's commands, and bc, the tribunes threatened to prevent elections held by the dictator, quintus fulvius flaccus, unless he agreed to withdraw his name from the list of candidates for the consulship.[ ][ ][ ][xiii] a dictator was expected to resign his office upon the successful completion of the task for which he was appointed, or at the expiration of six months.[ ][ ] these sharp limitations were intended to prevent the dictatorship from too closely resembling the absolute power of the roman kings.[ ] but the six month limitation may have been dispensed with when the senate deemed it expedient; no consuls are known for the years , , , and , and it is reported that the dictator and magister equitum continued in office without any consuls.[ ] most authorities hold that a dictator could not be held to account for his actions after resigning his office, the prosecution of marcus furius camillus for misappropriating the spoils of veii being exceptional, as perhaps was that of lucius manlius capitolinus in ,[xiv] which was dropped only because his son, titus,[xv] threatened the life of the tribune who had undertaken the prosecution.[ ][ ] however, some scholars suggest that the dictator was only immune from prosecution during his term of office, and could theoretically be called to answer charges of corruption.[ ] magister equitum[edit] main article: magister equitum the dictator's lieutenant was the magister equitum, or "master of the horse". he would be nominated by the dictator immediately upon his own appointment, and unless the senatus consultum specified the name of the person to be appointed, the dictator was free to choose whomever he wished.[ ][ ] it was customary for the dictator to nominate a magister equitum even if he were appointed for a non-military reason. before the time of caesar, the only dictator who refused to nominate a magister equitum was marcus fabius buteo in bc, and he strenuously objected to his own nomination, because there was already a dictator in the field.[ ] like the dictator, the magister equitum was a curule magistrate, entitled to the toga praetexta and the sella curulis. his imperium was equivalent to that of a praetor (in the later use of the term), in that he was accompanied by six lictors, half the number accorded to the consuls. but like the dictator, he could summon the senate, and probably also the popular assemblies. his authority was not subject to recall, although if the dictator were compelled to resign due to a fault in the auspices, the magister equitum was also expected to resign, and when the dictator laid down his imperium, so would the magister equitum.[ ] in theory, the magister equitum was commander of the cavalry, but he was not limited to that role. the dictator and magister equitum did not always take the field together; in some instances the magister equitum was assigned the defense of the city while the dictator took an army into the field, while on other occasions the dictator remained at rome to see to some important duty, and entrusted the magister equitum with an army in the field.[ ] the magister equitum was necessarily subordinate to the dictator, although this did not always prevent the two from disagreeing.[ ][xvi] decline and disappearance[edit] during the first two centuries of the republic, the dictatorship served as an expedient means by which a powerful magistracy could be created quickly in order to deal with extraordinary situations.[ ] created for military emergencies, the office could also be used to suppress sedition and prevent the growing number of plebeians from obtaining greater political power.[ ] in the conflict of the orders, the dictator could generally be counted upon to support the patrician aristocracy, since he was always a patrician, and was nominated by consuls who were exclusively patrician. after the lex licinia sextia gave plebeians the right to hold one of the annual consulships, a series of dictators were appointed in order to hold elections, with the apparent goal of electing two patrician consuls, in violation of the licinian law.[ ][xvii] after the second samnite war, the dictatorship was relegated almost exclusively to domestic activities. no dictator was nominated during the third samnite war, and the six-month limitation on its powers made the dictatorship impractical for campaigns beyond the italian peninsula.[ ][ ] in bc, aulus atilius calatinus became the only dictator to lead an army outside italy, when he invaded sicily, and he was the only dictator to hold a military command during the first punic war.[ ] the last dictators to lead an army in the field were quintus fabius maximus verrucosus in , and marcus junius pera the following year, during the early stages of the second punic war.[ ] all of the other dictators appointed during that conflict remained at rome in order to hold the comitia;[xviii] the last dictator named in the traditional manner was gaius servilius geminus, in bc.[ ][ ][xix] dictatorship revived[edit] bust presumed to be that of roman dictator lucius cornelius sulla for the next century, rome's ordinary magistrates and promagistrates successfully carried on all roman campaigns, without the need for a dictator, and the office fell into abeyance. then, in bc, the dictatorship was suddenly revived by sulla. sulla, already a successful general, had previously marched on rome and taken the city from his political opponents six years earlier; but after he permitted the election of magistrates for , and departed to campaign in the east, his enemies returned. in he turned his attention to regaining rome, and after defeating his opponents decisively the next year, the senate and the people named him dictator legibus faciendis et rei publicae constituendae, giving sulla the power to rewrite the roman constitution, without any time limit.[ ][xx] sulla's reforms of the constitution doubled the size of the senate from to , filling its ranks with his supporters. he then placed severe limits on the tribunician power, limiting the veto and forbidding ex-tribunes from holding higher magistracies. although he resigned the dictatorship in , and held the consulship in , before returning to private life, sulla's actions had weakened the roman state and set a precedent for the concentration of power without effective limitation.[ ] the dictatorial power was then granted to caesar in bc, when he returned to rome from his campaigns in gaul, and put the forces of pompeius ("pompey the great") to flight. he resigned the dictatorship after only eleven days, having held the comitia at which he himself was elected consul for the following year. late in , caesar was named dictator rei gerundae causa with a term of one year, and granted the tribunician power for an indefinite period. he saw to the impeachment of two tribunes who had tried to obstruct him, and having been granted censorial powers, he filled the depleted numbers of the senate with his supporters, raising the number of senators to . in , he was named dictator for a term of ten years. shortly before his assassination in bc , caesar was named dictator perpetuo rei publicae constituendae, and given the power to appoint magistrates at will.[ ][ ][ ] abolition[edit] caesar's murder came at the hands of conspirators who presented themselves as saviours of the republic. in order to maintain popular support, caesar's followers took great care to show their own commitment to preserving the roman state. the month after the assassination, mark antony, who had been caesar's magister equitum in bc , proposed a series of laws, confirming caesar's actions, but allowing appeals and formally abolishing the dictatorship. these were passed, as the leges antoniae.[ ] in bc, when caesar's nephew and heir augustus had attained full control of the state, the senate offered to appoint him dictator, but he declined, while at the same time accepting proconsular imperium and the tribunician power for life. thus, augustus preserved the appearance of respecting republican forms, even as he arrogated most of the powers of the roman state.[ ] following his example, none of the emperors who succeeded him ever adopted the title of dictator. when constantine chose to revive the ancient concept of the infantry commander, he pointedly gave the office the name of magister peditum, "master of the foot", rather than magister populi, the official style of a dictator.[ ] list of roman dictators[edit] main article: list of roman dictators see also[edit] 	constitution of the roman republic – the norms, customs, and written laws, which guided the government of the roman republic 	constitutional dictatorship 	dictator – political leader who possesses absolute power footnotes[edit] 	^ the exact date is uncertain, as are many of the details of this event, but bc is the date generally favoured by historians.[ ] 	^ an alternative tradition mentioned by livy is that the first dictator was manius valerius maximus, although livy thought this improbable, as dictators were supposed to be consulares, that is, men who had already served as consul; and had a valerius been desired, manius' brother, marcus (described by livy as either the uncle or father of manius), consul in bc, would have been chosen instead.[ ] modern historians generally share livy's view, notwithstanding the fact that manius valerius was appointed dictator in bc , without having first held the consulship.[ ] 	^ lintott considers the evidence for praetor maximus as the original name of the magistracy inconclusive, as it depends on the interpretation of an ancient law calling for an official of this title to drive a nail into the wall of the temple of jupiter optimus maximus; the law seems to have dated from the period of the monarchy, and under the republic was interpreted to mean that this duty should be undertaken by a dictator, as the highest-ranking magistrate; but the first to perform it after the expulsion of the tarquins was a consul, marcus horatius pulvillus. nevertheless, the law seems to confirm the existence of such a magistracy in the time of the kings, which might be considered the forerunner of the later magister populi.[ ][ ] 	^ literally, of the equites, sometimes translated as "knights". 	^ a notable exception occurred in bc , when the consuls titus quinctius cincinnatus and gaius julius mento were directed to nominate a dictator, probably after having been defeated in an attempt to dislodge the aequi and volsci from their fortifications on mount algidus. the consuls, who still felt themselves able to hold the military command, refused, until the tribunes of the plebs threatened to have them imprisoned if they did not nominate a dictator.[ ] 	^ as this was an annual ritual, it must generally have been observed by the consuls; but livy mentions an ancient law calling for it to be performed by the praetor maximus, apparently a magistrate in the time of the kings; and on at least one occasion when there was a dictator, it was interpreted to mean that the rite must be performed by the dictator, as the magistrate then holding the greatest imperium.[ ] 	^ in bc, "a shower of stones rained down and darkness spread over the sky in the daytime."[ ] this appeared to be a repetition of an omen that occurred during the reign of tullus hostilius, the third king of rome, when a shower of stones fell on the alban mount after the war in which hostilius had destroyed the ancient latin city of alba longa, and transferred its people to rome. in a response, a nine-day religious festival was decreed, with the intention that it be repeated should such an omen occur again.[ ] 	^ the major exception was the ill-starred marcus claudius glicia, freedman of publius claudius pulcher, who nominated him dictator in a fit of pique, when the senate deprived him of his command after he had ignored ill omens and been defeated in the battle of drepana. the senate compelled glicia to abdicate the office, even before he could name a magister equitum.[ ][ ] 	^ the chief exception occurred in bc, when marcus fabius buteo was nominated dictator in order to fill up the ranks of the senate following the battle of cannae, even as the dictator marcus junius pera held the military command against hannibal.[ ] 	^ lintott suggests only twelve fasces were displayed when the dictator was within the city.[ ] 	^ for instance, lucius manlius capitolinus was appointed clavi figendi causa, but wished to lead an army against the hernici. he proceeded to levy troops, but was compelled to resign before he could take the field, and was prosecuted the following year.[ ] 	^ however, the senate might request a dictator for a reason other than the one publicly announced; for example gaius julius iulus was ostensibly nominated in bc in order to carry on a war against the etruscans, but in fact there was no threat from the etruscans; he was appointed in order to procure the election of two patrician consuls, in violation of the lex licinia sextia.[ ] 	^ in this instance, the parties were deadlocked, and agreed to submit the matter to the senate for resolution. the senate decided that it would be better to allow fulvius to stand for election, given his vast experience (before his dictatorship, he had been consul three times, praetor, censor, and magister equitum).[ ] 	^ the precise nature of the charges differs according to source; broughton lists four reasons given by ancient authorities: " . remaining dictator when his religious duty was done; . remaining in office beyond his legal term; . raising a levy with too great severity; . mistreatment of his son, the future t. manlius torquatus..."[ ] 	^ the future titus manlius torquatus would himself become dictator three times; in bc , , and , and consul twice, in and . this was the manlius who won his surname from having defeated a giant gaul in single combat, and taking his torque. despite his ill-treatment at the hands of his father, so powerful was his respect for paternal discipline, that when his eldest son disobeyed orders by engaging in single combat with the leader of the latin cavalry (whom he defeated and slew), the consul commanded that his victorious son be scourged and beheaded. 	^ in bc, the dictator lucius papirius cursor was so furious when the magister equitum engaged the enemy in battle against his express orders, that he intended to have young quintus fabius maximus rullianus scourged and perhaps beheaded, notwithstanding the fact that fabius had won a famous victory; he was restrained only when fabius escaped and made his way to rome, where the entire roman people interceded on his behalf and begged the dictator to show mercy. a century later, when fabius' grandson, quintus fabius maximus verrucosus was dictator, his magister equitum, marcus minucius rufus, defied him openly, and likewise fled to rome in fear for his life, where he convinced the senate to grant him imperium equal to that of the dictator's. but in this case, it was the dictator who came to the rescue of his rebellious magister equitum, when minucius improvidently offered battle and came near to destruction.[ ] 	^ for example, in bc , the dictator gaius julius iulus was nominated, ostensibly to fight a war against the etruscans, although there was no actual threat from etruria; however he failed to prevent the election of a plebeian consul. two years later, the dictator lucius furius camillus succeeded in procuring the election of two patricians.[ ] 	^ titus manlius torquatus also held the roman games in bc.[ ][ ] 	^ despite the impending end of the war, there was a series of unwelcome prodigies in italy; in cumae the skies darkened at mid-day, and a shower of stones fell there and on the palatine hill at rome. a similar omen in the time of tullus hostilius, the third king of rome, had led to a nine-day religious festival, and in bc, publius valerius poplicola had been nominated dictator in response to a second occurrence; he also organized a religious festival. for the third occurrence in , a nine-day religious festival was held before the dictator servilius was nominated, since his chief purpose was to hold the comitia.[ ] 	^ the legislation was introduced by lucius valerius flaccus, who had been appointed interrex at sulla's request, as both consuls were dead. in turn, sulla named flaccus his magister equitum.[ ] references[edit] 	^ a b c d e f g harper's dictionary of classical antiquities, p. . 	^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o oxford classical dictionary, p. 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Übersetzt von johann heinrich voß ( - ), veröffentlichung dieser ausgabe horaz, eigentlich quintus horatius flaccus, ist neben vergil einer der bedeutendsten römischen dichter der „augusteischen zeit. epoden als epoden werden die gedichte eines schmalen buches bezeichnet. epoden deshalb, weil jeweils ein langvers mit einem... topics: librivox, audio book, hörbuch, literature, literatur, poetry, gedichte, german, deutsch, epoden... source: librivox recording of a public-domain text american libraries the american conflict: a history of great rebellion in the united states of america, -[' ] feb , / by greeley, horace, - . 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Übersetzt von johann heinrich voß ( - ), veröffentlichung dieser ausgabe horaz, eigentlich quintus horatius flaccus, ist neben vergil einer der bedeutendsten römischen dichter der „augusteischen zeit“, das heißt der zeit zwischen v. chr. und n. chr., also vom tod ciceros bis zum tod des augustus. die zwei bücher... 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	died	after ad (aged – ) delphi, phocis 	occupation	biographer, essayist, philosopher, priest, ambassador, magistrate 	subject	biography, various 	literary movement	middle platonism, hellenistic literature plutarch (/ˈpluːtɑːrk/; greek: Πλούταρχος, ploútarchos; koine greek: [ˈplutarkʰos]; ad –after )[ ] was a greek middle platonist philosopher,[ ] biographer, essayist, and priest at the temple of apollo. he is known primarily for his parallel lives, a series of biographies of illustrious greeks and romans, and moralia, a collection of essays and speeches.[ ] upon becoming a roman citizen, he was named lucius mestrius plutarchus (Λούκιος Μέστριος Πλούταρχος).[a] contents 	 life 	 . early life 	 . work as magistrate and ambassador 	 . late period: priest at delphi 	 works 	 . lives of the roman emperors 	 . parallel lives 	 . . life of alexander 	 . . life of caesar 	 . . life of pyrrhus 	 . moralia 	 . . spartan lives and sayings 	 . . questions 	 . . on the malice of herodotus 	 . other works 	 . lost works 	 philosophy 	 influence 	 translations of lives and moralia 	 . french translations 	 . english translations 	 . italian translations 	 . latin translations 	 . german translations 	 . . hieronymus emser 	 . . gottlob benedict von schirach 	 . . johann friedrich salomon kaltwasser 	 . . subsequent german translations 	 . hebrew translations 	 pseudo-plutarch 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 sources 	 further reading 	 external links life[edit] early life[edit] ruins of the temple of apollo at delphi, where plutarch served as one of the priests responsible for interpreting the predictions of the pythia plutarch was born to a prominent family in the small town of chaeronea, about kilometres (  mi) east of delphi, in the greek region of boeotia. his family was wealthy. the name of plutarch's father has not been preserved, but based on the common greek custom of repeating a name in alternate generations, it was probably nikarchus (nίκαρχoς). the name of plutarch's grandfather was lamprias, as he attested in moralia[ ] and in his life of antony. his brothers, timon and lamprias, are frequently mentioned in his essays and dialogues, which speak of timon in particular in the most affectionate terms. rualdus, in his work life of plutarchus, recovered the name of plutarch's wife, timoxena, from internal evidence afforded by his writings. a letter is still extant, addressed by plutarch to his wife, bidding her not to grieve too much at the death of their two-year-old daughter, who was named timoxena after her mother. he hinted at a belief in reincarnation in that letter of consolation.[ ] the exact number of his sons is not certain, although two of them, autobulus and the second plutarch, are often mentioned. plutarch's treatise de animae procreatione in timaeo is dedicated to them, and the marriage of his son autobulus is the occasion of one of the dinner parties recorded in the "table talk". another person, soklarus, is spoken of in terms which seem to imply that he was plutarch's son, but this is nowhere definitely stated. his treatise on marriage questions, addressed to eurydice and pollianus, seems to speak of the latter as having been recently an inmate of his house, but without any clear evidence on whether she was his daughter or not.[ ] plutarch was the uncle of sextus of chaeronea, who was one of the teachers of marcus aurelius, and who may have been the same person as the philosopher sextus empiricus. plutarch studied mathematics and philosophy in athens under ammonius from to .[ ] plutarch was a vegetarian, though how long and how strictly he adhered to this diet is unclear.[ ][ ] he wrote about the ethics of meat-eating in two discourses in moralia.[ ] at some point, plutarch received roman citizenship. as evidenced by his new name, lucius mestrius plutarchus, his sponsor for citizenship was lucius mestrius florus, a roman of consular status whom plutarch also used as a historical source for his life of otho.[ ] he lived most of his life at chaeronea, and was initiated into the mysteries of the greek god apollo. for many years plutarch served as one of the two priests at the temple of apollo at delphi, the site of the famous delphic oracle, twenty miles from his home. he probably took part in the eleusinian mysteries.[ ] by his writings and lectures plutarch became a celebrity in the roman empire, yet he continued to reside where he was born, and actively participated in local affairs, even serving as mayor. at his country estate, guests from all over the empire congregated for serious conversation, presided over by plutarch in his marble chair. many of these dialogues were recorded and published, and the essays and other works which have survived are now known collectively as the moralia.[ ] work as magistrate and ambassador[edit] in addition to his duties as a priest of the delphic temple, plutarch was also a magistrate at chaeronea and he represented his home town on various missions to foreign countries during his early adult years. plutarch held the office of archon in his native municipality, probably only an annual one which he likely served more than once. he busied himself with all the little matters of the town and undertook the humblest of duties.[ ] the suda, a medieval greek encyclopedia, states that emperor trajan made plutarch procurator of illyria. however, most historians consider this unlikely, since illyria was not a procuratorial province, and plutarch probably did not speak illyrian.[ ] according to the th/ th-century historian george syncellus, late in plutarch's life, emperor hadrian appointed him nominal procurator of achaea – which entitled him to wear the vestments and ornaments of a consul.[ ] late period: priest at delphi[edit] portrait of a philosopher and hermaic stele at delphi museum plutarch spent the last thirty years of his life serving as a priest in delphi. he thus connected part of his literary work with the sanctuary of apollo, the processes of oracle-giving and the personalities who lived or traveled there. one of his most important works is the "why pythia does not give oracles in verse" (moralia ) ( "Περὶ τοῦ μὴ χρᾶν ἔμμετρα νῦν τὴν Πυθίαν").[ ] even more important is the dialogue "on the e in delphi" ("Περὶ τοῦ Εἶ τοῦ ἐν Δελφοῖς"),[ ] which features ammonius, a platonic philosopher and teacher of plutarch, and lambrias, plutarch's brother. according to ammonius, the letter e written on the temple of apollo in delphi originated from the following fact: the wise men of antiquity, whose maxims were also written on the walls of the vestibule of the temple, were not seven but actually five: chilon, solon, thales, bias and pittakos. however, the tyrants cleobulos and periandros used their political power in order to be incorporated in the list. thus, the e, which corresponds to number , constituted an acknowledgment that the delphic maxims actually originated from the five real wise men. the portrait of a philosopher exhibited at the exit of the archaeological museum of delphi, dating to the nd century ad, had been in the past identified with plutarch. the man, although bearded, is depicted at a relatively young age. his hair and beard are rendered in coarse volumes and thin incisions. the gaze is deep, due to the heavy eyelids and the incised pupils. the portrait is no longer thought to represent plutarch. but a fragmentary hermaic stele next to the portrait probably did once bear a portrait of plutarch, since it is inscribed, "the delphians along with the chaeroneans dedicated this (image of) plutarch, following the precepts of the amphictyony" ("Δελφοὶ Χαιρωνεῦσιν ὁμοῦ Πλούταρχον ἔθηκαν | τοῖς Ἀμφικτυόνων δόγμασι πειθόμενοι" syll. =cid , no. ). works[edit] plutarch's surviving works were intended for greek speakers throughout the roman empire, not just greeks.[ ] lives of the roman emperors[edit] plutarch in the nuremberg chronicle plutarch's first biographical works were the lives of the roman emperors from augustus to vitellius. of these, only the lives of galba and otho survive. the lives of tiberius and nero are extant only as fragments, provided by damascius (life of tiberius, cf. his life of isidore)[ ] and plutarch himself (life of nero, cf. galba . ), respectively. these early emperors’ biographies were probably published under the flavian dynasty or during the reign of nerva (ad – ). there is reason to believe that the two lives still extant, those of galba and otho, "ought to be considered as a single work."[ ] therefore, they do not form a part of the plutarchian canon of single biographies – as represented by the life of aratus of sicyon and the life of artaxerxes ii (the biographies of hesiod, pindar, crates and daiphantus were lost). unlike in these biographies, in galba-otho the individual characters of the persons portrayed are not depicted for their own sake but instead serve as an illustration of an abstract principle; namely the adherence or non-adherence to plutarch's morally founded ideal of governing as a princeps (cf. galba . ; moralia d–e).[ ] arguing from the perspective of platonic political philosophy (cf. republic e, d-e, e- a, b-c), in galba-otho plutarch reveals the constitutional principles of the principate in the time of the civil war after nero's death. while morally questioning the behavior of the autocrats, he also gives an impression of their tragic destinies, ruthlessly competing for the throne and finally destroying each other.[ ] "the caesars' house in rome, the palatium, received in a shorter space of time no less than four emperors", plutarch writes, "passing, as it were, across the stage, and one making room for another to enter" (galba ).[ ] galba-otho was handed down through different channels. it can be found in the appendix to plutarch's parallel lives as well as in various moralia manuscripts, most prominently in maximus planudes' edition where galba and otho appear as opera xxv and xxvi. thus it seems reasonable to maintain that galba-otho was from early on considered as an illustration of a moral-ethical approach, possibly even by plutarch himself.[ ] parallel lives[edit] a page from the ulrich han printing of plutarch's parallel lives main article: parallel lives plutarch's best-known work is the parallel lives, a series of biographies of illustrious greeks and romans, arranged in pairs to illuminate their common moral virtues and vices, thus it being more of an insight into human nature than a historical account.[ ] the surviving lives contain pairs, each with one greek life and one roman life, as well as four unpaired single lives. as is explained in the opening paragraph of his life of alexander, plutarch was not concerned with history so much as the influence of character, good or bad, on the lives and destinies of men. whereas sometimes he barely touched on epoch-making events, he devoted much space to charming anecdote and incidental triviality, reasoning that this often said far more for his subjects than even their most famous accomplishments. he sought to provide rounded portraits, likening his craft to that of a painter; indeed, he went to tremendous lengths (often leading to tenuous comparisons) to draw parallels between physical appearance and moral character. in many ways, he must be counted amongst the earliest moral philosophers. some of the lives, such as those of heracles, philip ii of macedon, epaminondas, scipio africanus, scipio aemilianus and possibly quintus caecilius metellus numidicus no longer exist; many of the remaining lives are truncated, contain obvious lacunae or have been tampered with by later writers. extant lives include those on solon, themistocles, aristides, agesilaus ii, pericles, alcibiades, nicias, demosthenes, pelopidas, philopoemen, timoleon, dion of syracuse, eumenes, alexander the great, pyrrhus of epirus, romulus, numa pompilius, coriolanus, theseus, aemilius paullus, tiberius gracchus, gaius gracchus, gaius marius, sulla, sertorius, lucullus, pompey, julius caesar, cicero, cato the elder, mark antony, and marcus junius brutus. life of alexander[edit] plutarch's life of alexander, written as a parallel to that of julius caesar, is one of only five extant tertiary sources on the macedonian conqueror alexander the great. it includes anecdotes and descriptions of events that appear in no other source, just as plutarch's portrait of numa pompilius, the putative second king of rome, holds much that is unique on the early roman calendar. plutarch devotes a great deal of space to alexander's drive and desire, and strives to determine how much of it was presaged in his youth. he also draws extensively on the work of lysippus, alexander's favourite sculptor, to provide what is probably the fullest and most accurate description of the conqueror's physical appearance. when it comes to his character, plutarch emphasizes his unusual degree of self-control and scorn for luxury: "he desired not pleasure or wealth, but only excellence and glory." as the narrative progresses, however, the subject incurs less admiration from his biographer and the deeds that it recounts become less savoury. the murder of cleitus the black, which alexander instantly and deeply regretted, is commonly cited to this end. life of caesar[edit] together with suetonius's the twelve caesars, and caesar's own works de bello gallico and de bello civili, this life is the main account of julius caesar's feats by ancient historians. plutarch starts by telling of the audacity of caesar and his refusal to dismiss cinna's daughter, cornelia. other important parts are those containing his military deeds, accounts of battles and caesar's capacity of inspiring the soldiers. his soldiers showed such good will and zeal in his service that those who in their previous campaigns had been in no way superior to others were invincible and irresistible in confronting every danger to enhance caesar's fame. such a man, for instance, was acilius, who, in the sea-fight at massalia, boarded a hostile ship and had his right hand cut off with a sword, but clung with the other hand to his shield, and dashing it into the faces of his foes, routed them all and got possession of the vessel. such a man, again, was cassius scaeva, who, in the battle at dyrrhachium, had his eye struck out with an arrow, his shoulder transfixed with one javelin and his thigh with another, and received on his shield the blows of one hundred and thirty missiles. in this plight, he called the enemy to him as though he would surrender. two of them, accordingly, coming up, he lopped off the shoulder of one with his sword, smote the other in the face and put him to flight, and came off safely himself with the aid of his comrades. again, in britain, when the enemy had fallen upon the foremost centurions, who had plunged into a watery marsh, a soldier, while caesar in person was watching the battle, dashed into the midst of the fight, displayed many conspicuous deeds of daring, and rescued the centurions, after the barbarians had been routed. then he himself, making his way with difficulty after all the rest, plunged into the muddy current, and at last, without his shield, partly swimming and partly wading, got across. caesar and his company were amazed and came to meet the soldier with cries of joy; but he, in great dejection, and with a burst of tears, cast himself at caesar's feet, begging pardon for the loss of his shield. again, in africa, scipio captured a ship of caesar's in which granius petro, who had been appointed quaestor, was sailing. of the rest of the passengers scipio made booty, but told the quaestor that he offered him his life. granius, however, remarking that it was the custom with caesar's soldiers not to receive but to offer mercy, killed himself with a blow of his sword. — life of caesar, xvi however, this life shows few differences between suetonius' work and caesar's own works (see de bello gallico and de bello civili). sometimes, plutarch quotes directly from the de bello gallico and even tells us of the moments when caesar was dictating his works. in the final part of this life, plutarch recounts details of caesar's assassination. the book ends by telling the destiny of his murderers, just after his detailed account of the scene when a phantom appeared to brutus at night.[ ] life of pyrrhus[edit] plutarch's life of pyrrhus is a key text because it is the main historical account on roman history for the period from to bc, for which neither dionysius nor livy have surviving texts.[ ] 	"it is not histories i am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die." 	 moralia[edit] moralia, main article: moralia the remainder of plutarch's surviving work is collected under the title of the moralia (loosely translated as customs and mores). it is an eclectic collection of seventy-eight essays and transcribed speeches, including on fraternal affection—a discourse on honour and affection of siblings toward each other, on the fortune or the virtue of alexander the great—an important adjunct to his life of the great king, on the worship of isis and osiris (a crucial source of information on egyptian religious rites),[ ] along with more philosophical treatises, such as on the decline of the oracles, on the delays of the divine vengeance, on peace of mind and lighter fare, such as odysseus and gryllus, a humorous dialogue between homer's odysseus and one of circe's enchanted pigs. the moralia was composed first, while writing the lives occupied much of the last two decades of plutarch's own life. spartan lives and sayings[edit] since spartans wrote no history prior to the hellenistic period — their only extant literature is fragments of th-century lyrics — plutarch's five spartan lives and sayings of spartans and sayings of spartan women, rooted in sources that have since disappeared, are some of the richest sources for historians of lacedaemonia.[ ] but while they are important, they are also controversial. plutarch lived centuries after the sparta he writes about (and a full millennium separates him from the earliest events he records) and even though he visited sparta, many of the ancient customs he reports had been long abandoned, so he never actually saw of what he wrote.[ ] plutarch's sources themselves can be problematic. as the historians sarah pomeroy, stanley burstein, walter donlan, and jennifer tolbert roberts have written, "plutarch was influenced by histories written after the decline of sparta and marked by nostalgia for a happier past, real or imagined."[ ] turning to plutarch himself, they write, "the admiration writers like plutarch and xenophon felt for spartan society led them to exaggerate its monolithic nature, minimizing departures from ideals of equality and obscuring patterns of historical change."[ ] thus the spartan egalitarianism and superhuman immunity to pain that have seized the popular imagination are likely myths, and their main architect is plutarch. while flawed, plutarch is nonetheless indispensable as one of the only ancient sources of information on spartan life. pomeroy et al. conclude that plutarch's works on sparta, while they must be treated with skepticism, remain valuable for their "large quantities of information" and these historians concede that "plutarch's writings on sparta, more than those of any other ancient author, have shaped later views of sparta", despite their potential to misinform. he was also referenced in saying unto sparta, “the beast will feed again.”[ ] questions[edit] book iv of the moralia contains the roman and greek questions (Αἰτίαι Ῥωμαϊκαί and Αἰτίαι Ἑλλήνων). the customs of romans and greeks are illuminated in little essays that pose questions such as 'why were patricians not permitted to live on the capitoline?' (no. )[ ] and then suggests answers to them. on the malice of herodotus[edit] a bust of the early greek historian herodotus, whom plutarch criticized in on the malice of herodotus in on the malice of herodotus plutarch criticizes the historian herodotus for all manner of prejudice and misrepresentation. it has been called the "first instance in literature of the slashing review."[ ] the th-century english historian george grote considered this essay a serious attack upon the works of herodotus, and speaks of the "honourable frankness which plutarch calls his malignity."[ ] plutarch makes some palpable hits, catching herodotus out in various errors, but it is also probable that it was merely a rhetorical exercise, in which plutarch plays devil's advocate to see what could be said against so favourite and well-known a writer.[ ] according to plutarch scholar r. h. barrow, herodotus’ real failing in plutarch's eyes was to advance any criticism at all of those states that saved greece from persia. “plutarch”, he concluded, “is fanatically biased in favor of the greek cities; they can do no wrong.”[ ] other works[edit] symposiacs[ ] (Συμποσιακά); convivium septem sapientium. dialogue on love (Ερωτικος); latin name = amatorius. lost works[edit] the lost works of plutarch are determined by references in his own texts to them and from other authors' references over time. parts of the lives and what would be considered parts of the moralia have been lost. the 'catalogue of lamprias', an ancient list of works attributed to plutarch, lists works, of which have come down to us.[ ] the romans loved the lives. enough copies were written out over the centuries so that a copy of most of the lives has survived to the present day, but there are traces of twelve more lives that are now lost.[ ] plutarch's general procedure for the lives was to write the life of a prominent greek, then cast about for a suitable roman parallel, and end with a brief comparison of the greek and roman lives. currently, only of the parallel lives end with a comparison, while possibly they all did at one time. also missing are many of his lives which appear in a list of his writings: those of hercules, the first pair of parallel lives, scipio africanus and epaminondas, and the companions to the four solo biographies. even the lives of such important figures as augustus, claudius and nero have not been found and may be lost forever.[ ][ ] lost works that would have been part of the moralia include "whether one who suspends judgment on everything is condemned to inaction", "on pyrrho’s ten modes", and "on the difference between the pyrrhonians and the academics".[ ] philosophy[edit] 	"the soul, being eternal, after death is like a caged bird that has been released. if it has been a long time in the body, and has become tame by many affairs and long habit, the soul will immediately take another body and once again become involved in the troubles of the world. the worst thing about old age is that the soul's memory of the other world grows dim, while at the same time its attachment to things of this world becomes so strong that the soul tends to retain the form that it had in the body. but that soul which remains only a short time within a body, until liberated by the higher powers, quickly recovers its fire and goes on to higher things." 	plutarch (the consolation, moralia) plutarch was a platonist, but was open to the influence of the peripatetics, and in some details even to stoicism despite his criticism of their principles.[ ] he rejected only epicureanism absolutely.[ ] he attached little importance to theoretical questions and doubted the possibility of ever solving them.[ ] he was more interested in moral and religious questions.[ ] in opposition to stoic materialism and epicurean atheism he cherished a pure idea of god that was more in accordance with plato.[ ] he adopted a second principle (dyad) in order to explain the phenomenal world.[ ] this principle he sought, however, not in any indeterminate matter but in the evil world-soul which has from the beginning been bound up with matter, but in the creation was filled with reason and arranged by it.[ ] thus it was transformed into the divine soul of the world, but continued to operate as the source of all evil.[ ] he elevated god above the finite world, and thus daemons became for him agents of god's influence on the world. he strongly defends freedom of the will, and the immortality of the soul.[ ] platonic-peripatetic ethics were upheld by plutarch against the opposing theories of the stoics and epicureans.[ ] the most characteristic feature of plutarch's ethics is, however, its close connection with religion.[ ] however pure plutarch's idea of god is, and however vivid his description of the vice and corruption which superstition causes, his warm religious feelings and his distrust of human powers of knowledge led him to believe that god comes to our aid by direct revelations, which we perceive the more clearly the more completely that we refrain in "enthusiasm" from all action; this made it possible for him to justify popular belief in divination in the way which had long been usual among the stoics.[ ] his attitude to popular religion was similar. the gods of different peoples are merely different names for one and the same divine being and the powers that serve it.[ ] the myths contain philosophical truths which can be interpreted allegorically.[ ] thus plutarch sought to combine the philosophical and religious conception of things and to remain as close as possible to tradition.[ ] plutarch was the teacher of favorinus. influence[edit] 	external video 	 	 shakespeare: metamorphosis – plutarch’s “lives” ( ), senate house library[ ] plutarch's writings had an enormous influence on english and french literature. shakespeare paraphrased parts of thomas north's translation of selected lives in his plays, and occasionally quoted from them verbatim.[ ] jean-jacques rousseau quotes from plutarch in the emile, or on education, a treatise on the education of the whole person for citizenship. rousseau introduces a passage from plutarch in support of his position against eating meat: "'you ask me,' said plutarch, 'why pythagoras abstained from eating the flesh of beasts...'"[ ] ralph waldo emerson and the transcendentalists were greatly influenced by the moralia and in his glowing introduction to the five-volume, th-century edition, he called the lives "a bible for heroes".[ ] he also opined that it was impossible to "read plutarch without a tingling of the blood; and i accept the saying of the chinese mencius: 'a sage is the instructor of a hundred ages. when the manners of loo are heard of, the stupid become intelligent, and the wavering, determined.'"[ ] montaigne's essays draw extensively on plutarch's moralia and are consciously modelled on the greek's easygoing and discursive inquiries into science, manners, customs and beliefs. essays contains more than references to plutarch and his works.[ ] james boswell quoted plutarch on writing lives, rather than biographies, in the introduction to his own life of samuel johnson. other admirers included ben jonson, john dryden, alexander hamilton, john milton, louis l'amour, and francis bacon, as well as such disparate figures as cotton mather and robert browning. plutarch's influence declined in the th and th centuries, but it remains embedded in the popular ideas of greek and roman history. one of his most famous quotes was one that he included in one of his earliest works. "the world of man is best captured through the lives of the men who created history." translations of lives and moralia[edit] there are translations, from the original greek, in latin, english, french, german, italian, polish and hebrew. british classical scholar h. j. rose writes “one advantage to a modern reader who is not well acquainted with greek is, that being but a moderate stylist, plutarch is almost as good in a translation as in the original.”[ ] french translations[edit] jacques amyot's translations brought plutarch's works to western europe. he went to italy and studied the vatican text of plutarch, from which he published a french translation of the lives in and moralia in , which were widely read by educated europe.[ ] amyot's translations had as deep an impression in england as france, because thomas north later published his english translation of the lives in based on amyot's french translation instead of the original greek. english translations[edit] plutarch's lives were translated into english, from amyot's version, by sir thomas north in . the complete moralia was first translated into english from the original greek by philemon holland in . in , john dryden began a life of plutarch and oversaw a translation of the lives by several hands and based on the original greek. this translation has been reworked and revised several times, most recently in the th century by the english poet and classicist arthur hugh clough (first published in ). one contemporary publisher of this version is modern library. another is encyclopædia britannica in association with the university of chicago, isbn  - - - , , lccn  - . in , english brothers john and william langhorne published "plutarch's lives from the original greek, with notes critical and historical, and a new life of plutarch" in volumes and dedicated to lord folkestone. their translation was re-edited by archdeacon wrangham in the year . from to , an american classicist, bernadotte perrin,[ ] produced a new translation of the lives for the loeb classical library. the moralia is also included in the loeb series, translated by various authors. penguin classics began a series of translations by various scholars in with the fall of the roman republic, which contained six lives and was translated by rex warner.[ ] penguin continues to revise the volumes. italian translations[edit] note: just main translations from the second half of th century.[ ] 	battista alessandro iaconelli, vite di plutarcho traducte de latino in vulgare in aquila, l’aquila, . 	dario tiberti, le vite di plutarco ridotte in compendio, per m. dario tiberto da cesena, e tradotte alla commune utilità di ciascuno per l. fauno, in buona lingua volgare, venice, . 	lodovico domenichi, vite di plutarco. tradotte da m. lodouico domenichi, con gli suoi sommarii posti dinanzi a ciascuna vita..., venice, . 	francesco sansovino, le vite de gli huomini illustri greci e romani, di plutarco cheroneo sommo filosofo et historico, tradotte nuovamente da m. francesco sansovino..., venice, . 	marcello adriani il giovane, opuscoli morali di plutarco volgarizzati da marcello adriani il giovane, florence, – . 	girolamo pompei, le vite di plutarco, verona, – . latin translations[edit] there are multiple translations of parallel lives into latin, most notably the one titled "pour le dauphin" (french for "for the prince") written by a scribe in the court of louis xv of france and a ulrich han translation. german translations[edit] hieronymus emser[edit] in , hieronymus emser translated de capienda ex inimicis utilitate (wie ym eyner seinen veyndt nutz machen kan, leipzig). gottlob benedict von schirach[edit] the biographies were translated by gottlob benedict von schirach ( – ) and printed in vienna by franz haas, – . johann friedrich salomon kaltwasser[edit] plutarch's lives and moralia were translated into german by johann friedrich salomon kaltwasser: 	vitae parallelae. vergleichende lebensbeschreibungen. bände. magdeburg – . 	moralia. moralische abhandlungen. bde. frankfurt a.m. – . subsequent german translations[edit] 	biographies 	konrat ziegler [de] (hrsg.): große griechen und römer. bde. zürich – . (bibliothek der alten welt). 	moralia 	konrat ziegler (hrsg.):plutarch. Über gott und vorsehung, dämonen und weissagung, zürich . (bibliothek der alten welt) 	bruno snell (hrsg.):plutarch. von der ruhe des gemüts – und andere schriften, zürich . (bibliothek der alten welt) 	hans-josef klauck (hrsg.): plutarch. moralphilosophische schriften, stuttgart . (reclams universal-bibliothek) 	herwig görgemanns (hrsg.):plutarch. drei religionsphilosophische schriften, düsseldorf . (tusculum) hebrew translations[edit] following some hebrew translations of selections from plutarch's parallel lives published in the s and the s, a complete translation was published in three volumes by the bialik institute in , and . the first volume, roman lives, first published in , presents the translations of joseph g. liebes to the biographies of coriolanus, fabius maximus, tiberius gracchus and gaius gracchus, cato the elder and cato the younger, gaius marius, sulla, sertorius, lucullus, pompey, crassus, cicero, julius caesar, brutus and mark anthony. the second volume, greek lives, first published in presents a. a. halevy's translations of the biographies of lycurgus, aristides, cimon, pericles, nicias, lysander, agesilaus, pelopidas, dion, timoleon, demosthenes, alexander the great, eumenes and phocion. three more biographies presented in this volume, those of solon, themistocles and alcibiades were translated by m. h. ben-shamai. the third volume, greek and roman lives, published in , presented the remaining biographies and parallels as translated by halevy. included are the biographies of demetrius, pyrrhus, agis and cleomenes, aratus and artaxerxes, philopoemen, camillus, marcellus, flamininus, aemilius paulus, galba and otho, theseus, romulus, numa pompilius and poplicola. it completes the translation of the known remaining biographies. in the introduction to the third volume halevy explains that originally the bialik institute intended to publish only a selection of biographies, leaving out mythological figures and biographies that had no parallels. thus, to match the first volume in scope the second volume followed the same path and the third volume was required.[citation needed] pseudo-plutarch[edit] main article: pseudo-plutarch some editions of the moralia include several works now known to have been falsely attributed to plutarch. among these are the lives of the ten orators, a series of biographies of the attic orators based on caecilius of calacte; on the opinions of the philosophers, on fate, and on music.[ ] these works are all attributed to a single, unknown author, referred to as "pseudo-plutarch".[ ] pseudo-plutarch lived sometime between the third and fourth centuries ad. despite being falsely attributed, the works are still considered to possess historical value.[ ] see also[edit] 	middle platonism 	numenius of apamea 	 plutarchos notes[edit] 	^ the name mestrius or lucius mestrius was taken by plutarch, as was common roman practice, from his patron for citizenship in the empire; in this case lucius mestrius florus, a roman consul. references[edit] 	^ "plutarch", encyclopædia britannica, retrieved march 	^ dillon, john m. middle platonists: bc to ad . cornell university press, . pp. ff. 	^ "plutarch". oxford dictionary of philosophy. 	^ symposiacs, book ix, questions ii & iii 	^ "plutarch • consolatio ad uxorem". penelope.uchicago.edu. retrieved march . 	^ a b aubrey stewart, george long. 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"anecdote and the representation of plutarch’s ethos." in rhetorical theory and praxis in plutarch: acta of the ivth international congress of the international plutarch society, leuven, july – , . edited by luc van der stockt, – . collection d’Études classiques . leuven, belgium: peeters. 	--, ed. . a companion to plutarch. blackwell companions to the ancient world. malden, ma, and oxford: blackwell. 	beneker, jeffrey. . the passionate statesman: eros and politics in plutarch’s lives. oxford: oxford univ. press. 	duff, timothy e. . plutarch’s lives: exploring virtues and vice. oxford: oxford univ. press. 	georgiadou, aristoula. . 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"mimesis and the (plu)past in plutarch’s lives." in time and narrative in ancient historiography: the “plupast” from herodotus to appian. edited by jonas grethlein and christopher b. krebs, – . cambridge, uk: cambridge univ. press. external links[edit] 		wikiquote has quotations related to: plutarch 		wikisource has original works written by or about: plutarch 		wikimedia commons has media related to plutarch. 	library resources about plutarch 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 by plutarch 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	plutarch's works 	works by plutarch at project gutenberg 	works by or about plutarch at internet archive 	works by plutarch at librivox (public domain audiobooks) 	perseus project: many texts of plutarch and pseudo-plutarch in greek and english 	didot edition of plutarch's works in greek, with latin translation ( – ): vol. (lives, pt. ), vol. (lives, pt. ), vol. (moralia, pt. ), vol. 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	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 populares - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	populares 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		political faction of the roman republic 	populares 	main leaders	tiberius gracchus gaius gracchus gaius marius cinna saturninus m. aemilius lepidus clodius pulcher julius caesar mark antony octavian 	founded	c.  bc 	dissolved	c.  bc 	ideology	populism plebeians' interests debt relief expansionism grain dole land reform direct democracy 		politics of ancient rome 	part of a series on 	populism 	 variants 	right-wing 	left-wing 	narodniks 	poporanism 	black 	neo- 	chauvinism 	techno- 	völkisch 	welfare 	penal 	 concepts 	anti-establishment 	anti-intellectualism 	common people 	demagogy 	egalitarianism 	elitism 	ochlocracy 	popular democracy 	pluralism 	social justice 	third position 	 national variants 	american 	canadian 	new zealand 	 related topics 	agrarianism 	alt-right 	authoritarianism 	berlusconism 	chavismo 	communism 	fascism 	gaullism 	janism 	kirchnerism (relato k) 	nationalism 	new left 	new right 	peronism 	pink tide 	putinism 	radical centrism 	socialism 	trumpism 	 	politics portal 		v 	t 	e the populares (/ˌpɒpjʊˈlɛəriːz, -jə-, -ˈleɪriːz/; latin for "favoring the people", singular popularis) were a political faction in the late roman republic who favoured the cause of the plebeians (the commoners). the populares emerged as a political group with the reforms of the gracchi brothers, who were tribunes of the plebs between and bc. although the gracchi belonged to the highest roman aristocracy since they were the grandsons of scipio africanus, they were concerned for the urban poor, whose dire condition increased the risk of a social crisis at rome. they tried to implement a vast social program comprising a grain dole, new colonies, and a redistribution of the ager publicus in order to alleviate their situation. they also drafted laws to grant roman citizenship to italian allies and reform the judicial system to tackle corruption. both brothers were murdered by their opponents, the optimates, the conservative faction representing the interests of the landed aristocracy, which dominated the senate. several tribunes of the plebs later tried to pass the gracchi's program by using plebiscites to bypass senatorial opposition, but saturninus and clodius pulcher suffered the same fate as the gracchi. furthermore, many politicians of the late republic postured as populares to enhance their popularity among the plebs, notably julius caesar and octavian (later augustus), who finally enacted most of the populares' agenda during their rule. the populares counted a number of patricians, the most ancient roman aristocrats, such as appius claudius pulcher, lucius cornelius cinna, and julius caesar among their number. they were allied to politicians of lesser status, especially "new men" like gaius marius, or gaius norbanus, who might have even been a new roman citizen. contents 	 history 	 members 	 ideology 	 famous members 	 footnotes 	 notes 	 references 	 external links history[edit] denarius of the popularis lucius farsuleius mensor, minted in bc. the obverse depicts libertas and a pileus, a probable reference to the restoration of the tribunate of the plebs that year. on the reverse, mars helps a man in a toga into a biga, perhaps an allegory of the populares' campaign for enrolling into the electoral rolls the italians who had received the citizenship after the social war.[ ][ ][i] the plebeian tribunes (the representatives of the plebeians) and the plebeian council (the assembly of the plebeians) at times clashed with the senate over the mentioned reforms and over the power relationship between the plebeian institutions and the senate. the optimates among the senators spearheaded the senatorial opposition. these tribunes were supported by populares politicians such as gaius marius and julius caesar, who were often patricians, or equites. their conflicts also played a part in some of the civil wars of the late roman republic: sulla's first civil war ( – bc), sulla's second civil war ( – bc), the sertorian war ( – bc), lepidus' rebellion ( bc), caesar's civil war ( – bc), the post-caesarian civil war ( – bc), the liberators' civil war ( – bc) and the sicilian revolt ( – bc). the populares reached the height of their ascendancy four times. the first one was with the gracchi brothers, who mobilized the plebeians in support of their land reform and their challenge to senatorial supremacy ( bc and bc). this almost was not the issue because the populares had help from the italians and they had to offer more land to the italians than they wanted to. the land was meant to go to the poor.[ ] the second time was with gaius marius and his son gaius marius the younger, when the marians (the supporters of marius, who were populares) seized power and held rome from bc to bc. they were defeated in sulla's second civil war. this was caused by the deteriorating relationship between sulla and marius as they started to fall apart from the consul stand point and lost view of what was important [what does this mean?].[ ] the third time was when julius caesar was elected as consul in bc with the support of marcus licinius crassus and pompey, who formed an informal alliance with caesar which historians call the first triumvirate ( – bc). these three helped bring rome back to order from the scene it was when sulla had left. the first triumvirate gave each of the men their own land to watch over so parts of rome were equally distributed among themselves so none of them would have too much to rule over.[ ] caesar managed to pass an agrarian law for a land reform, which had not been achieved since the agrarian law of tiberius sempronius gracchus of bc as all subsequent attempts at agrarian legislation had been thwarted by the opposition and obstructionism of the optimates. tensions between populares and optimates had increased with the catiline conspiracy ( bc) against the consulship of marcus tullius cicero (an optimate) during which cicero, supported by a final decree (senatus consultum ultimum) of the senate, had some of the conspirators executed without trial. there were demonstrations against these summary executions and this display of arbitrary senatorial power. there were two attempts to counter senatorial dominance which failed, but they were popular. the proponents were quintus caecilius metellus nepos iunior, a plebeian tribune; and julius caesar, who at the time was a praetor.[ ][ ] this enhanced caesar's popularity and was a help for his creation of the first triumvirate three years later. the fourth time was with caesar's civil war, when caesar held power from bc to when he was assassinated in bc. caesar relied on the support of the people for his power.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] after the defeat of sextus pompey (the son of pompey) in the sicilian revolt by the second triumvirate in bc, the populares ceased to be a relevant political label. members[edit] notable populares included men who held the plebeian tribunate such as the gracchi brothers, lucius appuleius saturninus, marcus livius drusus, publius sulpicius rufus, servilius rullus and publius clodius pulcher; and men who held the consulship such as appius claudius pulcher, publius mucius scaevola, marcus fulvius flaccus (who also became a plebeian tribune), gaius marius, gaius marius the younger, lucius cornelius cinna, gnaeus papirius carbo, marcus aemilius lepidus and julius caesar. there were other notable populares such as quintus sertorius, who participated in the capture of rome by the marians in bc and fought the sertorian war, marcus aemilius lepidus and marc antony, who fought for caesar, were given a consulship by him and later became members of the second triumvirate. although marcus licinius crassus did not play a prominent part in roman politics apart from his consulship in bc, prior to being part of the first triumvirate he was known as a supporter of the populares.[ ] pompey was also a member of the first triumvirate. the optimates in the senate side-lined him and frustrated his attempts to have his settlements in the east after his victory in the third mithridatic war ratified and to promote an agrarian reform to redistribute land to his veterans. pompey's attacks pushed back mithridates and pompey even managed to get mithridates's son to become an ally of rome.[ ] as a result, he joined forces with caesar and crassus. after the death of crassus, pompey drifted towards the optimates.[ ] these shifting allegiances are reminders that the designation populares refers as much to political tactics as to any perceived policy. holland notes that republican politicians "had always been more divided on issues of style than of policy".[ ] ideology[edit] denarius of gaius minucius augurinus, bc. roma is portrayed on the obverse, while the reverse depicts the columna minucia, with at the top a statue of his ancestor lucius minucius augurinus, who as praefectus annonae in bc organised a corn distribution. this coin participates to the popularis propaganda in favour of the grain dole.[ ] a historian of the late republic cautions against understanding the terms populares and optimates as formally organized factions with an ideological basis: our chief contemporary witnesses to the political life of the late republic, cicero and sallust, are fond of analyzing the political struggles of the period in terms of a distinction between optimates and populares, often appearing with slight variations in terminology, such as senate, nobility, or boni versus people or plebs. but what precisely is denoted and connoted by this polarity? clear enough, one who is designated in these sources as popularis was at least at that moment acting as 'the people's man,' that is a politician — for all practical purposes, a senator — advocating the rights and privileges of the people, implicitly in contrast to the leadership of the senate; an 'optimate' (optimas), by contrast, was one upholding the special custodial and leadership role of the senate, implicitly against the efforts of some popularis or other. the polarity obviously corresponds with the dual sources of institutional power in the republic — senate and people — and was realized in practice through contrasting political methods [...] and distinctive types of rhetorico-ideological appeals suited to tapping those alternative sources of power [...]. it is important to realize that references to populares in the plural do not imply a co-ordinated 'party' with a distinctive ideological character, a kind of political grouping for which there is no evidence in rome, but simply allude to a recognizable, if statistically quite rare, type of senator whose activities are scattered sporadically across late-republic history[.] [...] the 'life-long' popularis [...] was a new and worrying phenomenon at the time of julius caesar's consulship of : an underlying reason why the man inspired such profound fears.[ ] this summarizes the dominant interpretation of the populares in th-century scholarship, deriving in large part from ronald syme in the anglophone literature. in the early st century and as early as the publication of the ninth volume of the cambridge ancient history in ,[ ] the validity of examining popularist ideology in the context of roman political philosophy has been reasserted. in particular, t. p. wiseman has rehabilitated the use of the word "party" to describe the political opposition between optimates and populares, based on latin usage (partes) and pointing to the consistency of a sort of party platform based on the food supply and general welfare of the populus ("people"), making land available to those outside the senatorial elite and debt relief.[ ] politicians adhering to popularist rhetoric or implementing popularist policies usually did so not out of genuine belief in the cause or out of altruism, but rather to ingratiate themselves with the masses in order to achieve their own goals or those of patrons. julius caesar exemplified this once he became roman dictator, involving himself in attracting teachers and doctors and the replacement of slaves on farms (important issues to the poor), but also disbanding clubs fellow popularist publius clodius pulcher used to maintain his own influence, seeing him as a threat to his rule. those in the populares tradition also tended to oppose the use of the death penalty. a true distinction between the populares and optimates usually only showed intermittently, however, mainly in relation to some contentious measure. famous members[edit] 	tiberius gracchus, elected tribune in bc. 	appius claudius pulcher, consul in , then princeps senatus, and father-in-law of tiberius gracchus. 	marcus fulvius flaccus, consul in . 	gaius gracchus, tribune of the plebs in and . he tried to continue his brother's reforms but was murdered. 	gaius marius, seven times consul in , – and . 	lucius appuleius saturninus, a radical tribune of the plebs in , and . 	gaius servilius glaucia, saturninus' lieutenant, murdered with him in . 	publius sulpicius rufus, tribune of the plebs in . 	lucius cornelius cinna, consul between and , he died during a mutiny of his troops. 	gnaeus papirius carbo, consul in , and . 	lucius cornelius scipio asiaticus, consul in . 	gaius marius the younger, consul in . 	gaius marcius censorinus, general who died against sulla at the battle of the colline gate in . 	gaius carrinas, general who died against sulla at the battle of the colline gate in . 	quintus sertorius, a former lieutenant of marius, he led a rebellion in hispania between and . 	marcus aemilius lepidus, consul in , he attempted to cancel sulla's reforms in a rebellion that failed. 	julius caesar, elected consul in , , and between and , as well as dictator between and . 	publius clodius pulcher, tribune of the plebs in , he passed several popular laws. 	mark antony, consul in and , then triumvir in . 	marcus aemilius lepidus, consul in and , then triumvir in . footnotes[edit] 	^ the cognomen mensor, referring to a land surveyor, further links the moneyer to the populares and the agrarian reform they advocated. notes[edit] 	^ t. p. wiseman, "the census in the first century b.c.", p. . 	^ crawford, roman republican coinage, pp. , . 	^ de ligt, luuk and northwood, simon j. people, land, and politics: demographic developments and the transformation of roman italy bc-ad ( ). leiden. brill nv. 	^ santangelo, federico ( ). sulla, the elites and the empire a study of roman policies in italy and the greek east. brill leiden. pp.  – . 	^ sheppard, p. (producer). ( ). rome: part two: from the late republic to the fall of the roman empire: bc to ad ( , audio video file). phil sheppard productions. retrieved from world history in video database. 	^ sumner, g. v. cicero, pompeius, and rullus ( ). transactions and proceedings of the american philological association. vol. . pp. . 	^ mitchell, t. n. cicero, pompey and the rise of the first triumvirate ( ). traditio. vol. . pp. – . 	^ pelling, christopher. "plutarch and roman politics" in past perspectives: studies in greek and roman historical writing. papers presented at a conference in leeds, – april (cambridge university press, ). pp. – , – . 	^ plutarch (parallel lives, the life of caesar) is very concerned to explain julius caesar's rise to tyranny. from the beginning, caesar is the champion and the favorite of the roman demos. when they support him, he rises, but when he loses their favor he falls too. 	^ cassius dio ( . . ) noted that julius caesar "courted the good-will of the multitude, observing how much stronger they were than the senate". 	^ millar, fergus. the crowd in rome in the late republic (university of michigan press, ). pp. – et passim. 	^ taylor, lily ross. party politics in the age of caesar (university of california press, ). p. et passim. 	^ brunt, peter. the fall of the roman republic and related essays (oxford university press, ). pp. – . 	^ yavetz, zvi. "the popularity of julius caesar" in plebs and princeps (transaction, ). pp. – ; ("such was caesar's policy: consolidation based on a body of supporters as heterogenous in class as possible, among them the plebs urbana"). 	^ mouritsen, henrik. plebs and politics in the late roman republic (cambridge university press, ). pp. , , et passim. 	^ baehr, petter r. caesar and the fading of the roman world: a study in republicanism and caesarism. (transaction publishers, ).on the paradox of "caesarism" (i.e. the combination of popular support and tyranny), 	^ sumner, g. v. cicero, pompeius, and rullus ( ). transactions and proceedings of the american philological association. vol. . p. . 	^ mayor, adrienne. the poison king : the life and legend of mithradates, rome's deadliest enemy ( , e-book). princeton, new jersey. princeton university press. available from ebook collection (ebscohost) in ipswich, massachusetts. retrieved november . 	^ boatwright, gargola ( ). p. . 	^ holland, t. rubicon: the last years of the roman republic ( ). london. abacus. p. . 	^ crawford, roman republican coinage, pp. – . 	^ robert morstein-marx, mass oratory and political power in the late roman republic (cambridge university press, ), pp. – . 	^ andrew lintott. "political history, – b.c." in the cambridge ancient history (cambridge university press, ). p. . 	^ though this has been a strand in wiseman's scholarship over the decades, see particularly the introduction and "roman history and the ideological vacuum" in remembering the roman people: essays on late-republican politics and literature (oxford university press, ) at p. for partes and "party". a less truncated version of "roman history and the ideological vacuum" may be found in classics in progress (oxford university press, ), p. . references[edit] 	brunt, peter. "the roman mob" ( ). past and present. vol. . pp.  – . 	michael crawford, roman republican coinage, cambridge university press ( , ). 	holland, tom. rubicon: the last years of the roman republic ( ). london. abacus. 	hölkeskamp, karl-j. "conquest, competition and consensus: roman expansion in italy and the rise of the nobilitas" ( ). historia. vol. . pp.  – . 	millar, fergus. "politics, persuasion and the people before the social war ( – b.c.)" ( ). journal of roman studies. vol. . pp.  – . 	millar, fergus. "political power in the mid-republic: curia or comitium?" ( ). journal of roman studies. vol. . pp.  – . 	millar, fergus. "popular politics at rome in the late republic" ( ). leaders and masses in the roman world: studies in honor of zvi yavetz. edited by i. malkin and z. w. rubinsohn. leiden. e.j. brill. 	millar, fergus. the crowd in rome in the late republic ( ). university of michigan press. 	parenti, michael. the assassination of julius caesar: a people's history of ancient rome ( ). the new press. isbn  - - - . 	seager, robin. "cicero and the word popularis" ( ). classical quarterly. vol. . pp.  – . 	sherwin-white, a. n. "the lex repetundarum and the political ideas of gaius gracchus" ( ). journal of roman studies. vol. . pp.  – . 	taylor, lily ross. party politics in the age of caesar ( ). berkeley, california. university of california press. 	t. p. wiseman, "the census in the first century b.c.", in the journal of roman studies, vol. , no. / ( ), pp.  – . 	yakobson, alexander. "petitio et largitio: popular participation in the centuriate assembly of the late republic" ( ). journal of roman studies. vol. . pp.  – . external links[edit] 	oxford classical dictionary 	videos of talks by michael parenti about his book the assassination of julius caesar: a people's history of ancient rome, which describes the conflict between optimates and populares (in a minute talk in one part and in eight parts). retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=populares&oldid= " 		categories: 	populares 	ancient roman society 	populism 	roman republic hidden categories: 	articles with short description 	short description is different from wikidata 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			article 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	edit 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		search 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 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	roman citizenship 	cursus honorum 	senatus consultum 	senatus consultum ultimum 	 assemblies 	 	centuriate 	curiate 	plebeian 	tribal 	 ordinary magistrates 	 	consul 	praetor 	quaestor 	promagistrate 	aedile 	tribune 	censor 	governor 	 extraordinary magistrates 	 	corrector 	dictator 	magister equitum 	consular tribune 	rex 	triumviri 	decemviri 	 titles and honours 	 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	praeses 	praefectus 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 	 	other countries 		v 	t 	e the roman magistrates were elected officials in ancient rome. during the period of the roman kingdom, the king of rome was the principal executive magistrate.[ ] his power, in practice, was absolute. he was the chief priest, lawgiver, judge, and the sole commander of the army.[ ][ ] when the king died, his power reverted to the roman senate, which then chose an interrex to facilitate the election of a new king. during the transition from monarchy to republic, the constitutional balance of power shifted from the executive (the roman king) to the roman senate. when the roman republic was founded in bc, the powers that had been held by the king were transferred to the roman consuls, of which two were to be elected each year. magistrates of the republic were elected by the people of rome, and were each vested with a degree of power called "major powers" (maior potestas).[ ] dictators had more "major powers" than any other magistrate, and after the dictator was the censor, and then the consul, and then the praetor, and then the curule aedile, and then the quaestor. any magistrate could obstruct ("veto") an action that was being taken by a magistrate with an equal or lower degree of magisterial powers.[ ] by definition, plebeian tribunes and plebeian aediles were technically not magistrates[ ] since they were elected only by the plebeians,[ ] and as such, they were independent of all other powerful magistrates[clarify]. during the transition from republic to the roman empire, the constitutional balance of power shifted from the roman senate back to the executive (the roman emperor). theoretically, the senate elected each new emperor; in practice each emperor chose his own successor, though the choice was often overruled by the army or civil war. the powers of an emperor (his imperium) existed, in theory at least, by virtue of his legal standing. the two most significant components to an emperor's imperium were the "tribunician powers" and the "proconsular powers".[ ] in theory at least, the tribunician powers (which were similar to those of the plebeian tribunes under the old republic) gave the emperor authority over rome's civil government, while the proconsular powers (similar to those of military governors, or proconsuls, under the old republic) gave him authority over the roman army. while these distinctions were clearly defined during the early empire, eventually they were lost, and the emperor's powers became less constitutional and more monarchical.[ ] the traditional magistracies that survived the fall of the republic were the consulship, praetorship, plebeian tribunate, aedileship, quaestorship, and military tribunate.[ ] mark antony abolished the offices of dictator and master of the horse during his consulship in bc, while the offices of interrex and roman censor were abolished shortly thereafter. contents 	 executive magistrates of the roman kingdom 	 executive magistrates of the roman republic 	 executive magistrates of the roman empire 	 see also 	 references 	 notes 	 further reading 	 . primary sources 	 . secondary source material executive magistrates of the roman kingdom[edit] main articles: constitution of the roman kingdom and executive magistrates of the roman kingdom the executive magistrates of the roman kingdom were elected officials of the ancient roman kingdom. during the period of the roman kingdom, the roman king was the principal executive magistrate.[ ] he was the chief executive, chief priest, chief lawgiver, chief judge, and the sole commander-in-chief of the army.[ ][ ] his powers rested on law and legal precedent, and he could only receive these powers through the political process of an election. in practice, he had no real restrictions on his power. when war broke out, he had the sole power to organize and levy troops, to select leaders for the army, and to conduct the campaign as he saw fit.[ ] he controlled all property held by the state, had the sole power to divide land and war spoils, was the chief representative of the city during dealings with either the gods or leaders of other communities, and could unilaterally decree any new law.[ ] sometimes he submitted his decrees to either the popular assembly or to the senate for a ceremonial ratification, but a rejection did not prevent the enactment of a decree. the king chose several officers to assist him,[ ] and unilaterally granted them their powers. when the king left the city, an urban prefect presided over the city in place of the absent king.[ ] the king also had two quaestors as general assistants, while several other officers assisted the king during treason cases. in war, the king occasionally commanded only the infantry, and delegated command over the cavalry to the commander of his personal bodyguards, the tribune of the celeres.[ ] the king sometimes deferred to precedent, often simply out of practical necessity. while the king could unilaterally declare war, for example, he typically wanted to have such declarations ratified by the popular assembly.[ ][ ] the period between the death of a king, and the election of a new king, was known as the interregnum.[ ] during the interregnum, the senate elected a senator to the office of interrex[ ] to facilitate the election of a new king. once the interrex found a suitable nominee for the kingship, he presented this nominee to the senate for an initial approval. if the senate voted in favor of the nominee, that person stood for formal election before the people of rome in the curiate assembly (the popular assembly).[ ] after the nominee was elected by the popular assembly, the senate ratified the election by passing a decree.[ ] the interrex then formally declared the nominee to be king. the new king then took the auspices (a ritual search for omens from the gods), and was vested with legal authority (imperium) by the popular assembly.[ ] executive magistrates of the roman republic[edit] main articles: constitution of the roman republic and executive magistrates of the roman republic gaius gracchus, tribune of the people, presiding over the plebeian council the roman magistrates were elected officials of the roman republic. each roman magistrate was vested with a degree of power.[ ] dictators (a temporary position for emergencies) had the highest level of power. after the dictator was the consul (the highest position if not an emergency), and then the praetor, and then the censor, and then the curule aedile, and finally the quaestor. each magistrate could only veto an action that was taken by a magistrate with an equal or lower degree of power. since plebeian tribunes (as well as plebeian aediles) were technically not magistrates,[ ] they relied on the sacrosanctity of their person to obstruct.[ ] if one did not comply with the orders of a plebeian tribune, the tribune could interpose the sacrosanctity of his person[ ] (intercessio) to physically stop that particular action. any resistance against the tribune was considered to be a capital offense. the most significant constitutional power that a magistrate could hold was that of "command" (imperium), which was held only by consuls and praetors. this gave a magistrate the constitutional authority to issue commands (military or otherwise). once a magistrate's annual term in office expired, he had to wait ten years before serving in that office again. since this did create problems for some magistrates, these magistrates occasionally had their command powers extended, which, in effect, allowed them to retain the powers of their office as a promagistrate.[ ] the consul of the roman republic was the highest ranking ordinary magistrate.[ ][ ] two consuls were elected every year, and they had supreme power in both civil and military matters. throughout the year, one consul was superior in rank to the other consul, and this ranking flipped every month, between the two consuls.[ ] praetors administered civil law, presided over the courts, and commanded provincial armies.[ ] another magistrate, the censor, conducted a census, during which time they could appoint people to the senate.[ ] aediles were officers elected to conduct domestic affairs in rome, and were vested with powers over the markets, and over public games and shows.[ ] quaestors usually assisted the consuls in rome, and the governors in the provinces with financial tasks.[ ] though they technically were not magistrates, the plebeian tribunes and the plebeian aediles were considered to be the representatives of the people. thus, they acted as a popular check over the senate (through their veto powers), and safeguarded the civil liberties of all roman citizens. in times of military emergency, a roman dictator was appointed for a term of six months.[ ] constitutional government dissolved, and the dictator became the absolute master of the state.[ ] the dictator then appointed a master of the horse to serve as his most senior lieutenant.[ ] often the dictator resigned his office as soon as the matter that caused his appointment was resolved.[ ] when the dictator's term ended, constitutional government was restored. the last ordinary dictator was appointed in bc. after bc, extreme emergencies were addressed through the passage of the decree senatus consultum ultimum ("ultimate decree of the senate"). this suspended civil government, declared martial law,[ ] and vested the consuls with dictatorial powers. executive magistrates of the roman empire[edit] main articles: constitution of the roman empire and executive magistrates of the roman empire augustus, the first roman emperor. the executive magistrates of the roman empire were elected individuals of the ancient roman empire. the powers of an emperor (his imperium) existed, in theory at least, by virtue of his legal standing. the two most significant components to an emperor's imperium were the "tribunician powers" (potestas tribunicia) and the "proconsular powers" (imperium proconsulare).[ ] in theory at least, the tribunician powers (which were similar to those of the plebeian tribunes under the old republic) gave the emperor authority over rome's civil government, while the proconsular powers (similar to those of military governors, or proconsuls, under the old republic) gave him authority over the roman army. while these distinctions were clearly defined during the early empire, eventually they were lost, and the emperor's powers became less constitutional and more monarchical.[ ] by virtue of his proconsular powers, the emperor held the same grade of military command authority as did the chief magistrates (the roman consuls and proconsuls) under the republic. however, the emperor was not subject to the constitutional restrictions that the old consuls and proconsuls had been subject to.[ ] eventually, he was given powers that, under the republic, had been reserved for the roman senate and the roman assemblies including the right to declare war, to ratify treaties, and to negotiate with foreign leaders.[ ] the emperor's degree of proconsular power gave him authority over all of rome's military governors, and thus, over most of the roman army. the emperor's tribunician powers gave him power over rome's civil apparatus,[ ][ ] as well as the power to preside over, and thus to dominate, the assemblies and the senate.[ ] when an emperor was vested with the tribunician powers, his office and his person became sacrosanct,[ ] and thus it became a capital offense to harm or to obstruct the emperor.[ ] the emperor also had the authority to carry out a range of duties that, under the republic, had been performed by the roman censors. such duties included the authority to regulate public morality (censorship) and to conduct a census. as part of the census, the emperor had the power to assign individuals to a new social class, including the senatorial class, which gave the emperor unchallenged control over senate membership.[ ] the emperor also had the power to interpret laws and to set precedents.[ ] in addition, the emperor controlled the religious institutions, since, as emperor, he was always pontifex maximus, and a member of each of the four major priesthoods.[ ] under the empire, the citizens were divided into three classes, and for members of each class, a distinct career path was available (known as the cursus honorum).[ ] the traditional magistracies were only available to citizens of the senatorial class. the magistracies that survived the fall of the republic were (by their order of rank per the cursus honorum) the consulship, praetorship, plebeian tribunate, aedileship, quaestorship, and military tribunate.[ ] if an individual was not of the senatorial class, he could run for one of these offices if he was allowed to run by the emperor, or otherwise, he could be appointed to one of these offices by the emperor. during the transition from republic to empire, no office lost more power or prestige than the consulship, which was due, in part, to the fact that the substantive powers of republican consuls were all transferred to the emperor. imperial consuls could preside over the senate, could act as judges in certain criminal trials, and had control over public games and shows.[ ] the praetors also lost a great deal of power, and ultimately had little authority outside of the city.[ ] the chief praetor in rome, the urban praetor, outranked all other praetors, and for a brief time, they were given power over the treasury.[ ] under the empire, the plebeian tribunes remained sacrosanct,[ ] and, in theory at least, retained the power to summon, or to veto, the senate and the assemblies.[ ] augustus divided the college of quaestors into two divisions, and assigned one division the task of serving in the senatorial provinces, and the other the task of managing civil administration in rome.[ ] under augustus, the aediles lost control over the grain supply to a board of commissioners. it wasn't until after they lost the power to maintain order in the city, however, that they truly became powerless, and the office disappeared entirely during the rd century.[ ] see also[edit] ‹ the template below (columns) is being considered for deletion. see templates for discussion to help reach a consensus. › 	 	ancient rome 	roman republic 	roman empire 	roman law 	plebeian council 	centuria 		 	curia 	roman consul 	praetor 	roman censor 	quaestor 	aedile 		 	roman dictator 	master of the horse 	roman senate 	cursus honorum 	byzantine senate 	pontifex maximus 		 	princeps senatus 	interrex 	procurator (roman) 	acta senatus references[edit] 	abbott, frank frost ( ). a history and description of roman political institutions. elibron classics (isbn  - - - ). 	byrd, robert ( ). the senate of the roman republic. u.s. government printing office, senate document - . 	cicero, marcus tullius ( ). the political works of marcus tullius cicero: comprising his treatise on the commonwealth; and his treatise on the laws. translated from the original, with dissertations and notes in two volumes. by francis barham, esq. london: edmund spettigue. vol. . 	lintott, andrew ( ). the constitution of the roman republic. oxford university press ( isbn  - - - ). 	polybius ( ). the general history of polybius: translated from the greek. by james hampton. oxford: printed by w. baxter. fifth edition, vol . 	taylor, lily ross ( ). roman voting assemblies: from the hannibalic war to the dictatorship of caesar. the university of michigan press ( isbn  - - -x). notes[edit] 	^ a b c d abbott, 	^ a b c d abbott, 	^ a b c abbott, 	^ abbott, 	^ a b abbott, 	^ a b abbott, 	^ a b abbott, 	^ a b c abbott, 	^ a b c d abbott, 	^ abbott, 	^ abbott, 	^ a b c d abbott, 	^ holland, 	^ polybius, 	^ lintott, 	^ polybius, 	^ byrd, 	^ cicero, 	^ byrd, 	^ lintott, 	^ a b byrd, 	^ a b byrd, 	^ cicero, 	^ byrd, 	^ abbott, 	^ abbott, 	^ a b abbott, 	^ a b c d abbott, 	^ abbott, 	^ abbott, 	^ abbott, 	^ abbott, 	^ a b abbott, 	^ a b c abbott, 	^ abbott, further reading[edit] 	ihne, wilhelm. researches into the history of the roman constitution. william pickering. . 	johnston, harold whetstone. orations and letters of cicero: with historical introduction, an outline of the roman constitution, notes, vocabulary and index. scott, foresman and company. . 	mommsen, theodor. roman constitutional law. - 	tighe, ambrose. the development of the roman constitution. d. apple & co. . 	von fritz, kurt. the theory of the mixed constitution in antiquity. columbia university press, new york. . 	the histories by polybius 	cambridge ancient history, volumes – . 	a. cameron, the later roman empire (fontana press, ). 	m. crawford, the roman republic (fontana press, ). 	e. s. gruen, "the last generation of the roman republic" (u california press, ) 	f. millar, the emperor in the roman world (duckworth, , ). 	a. lintott, "the constitution of the roman republic" (oxford university press, ) primary sources[edit] 	cicero's de re publica, book two 	rome at the end of the punic wars: an analysis of the roman government; by polybius secondary source material[edit] 	considerations on the causes of the greatness of the romans and their decline, by montesquieu 	the roman constitution to the time of cicero 	what a terrorist incident in ancient rome can teach us 	 	v 	t 	e roman constitution 	ancient rome	 	history 	constitution 	senate 	assemblies 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(full article...) refresh with new selections below (purge) selected biographies – show different entries 	 			 			 atticus ross (left) and trent reznor (right) performing in october nine inch nails, commonly abbreviated as nin and stylized as niИ, is an american industrial rock band formed in in cleveland, ohio. singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer trent reznor was the only permanent member of the band until the official addition of english musician atticus ross in . the band's debut album, pretty hate machine ( ), was released via tvt records. after feuding with tvt about how to promote the album, reznor signed with interscope records and released the ep broken ( ). the following nine inch nails albums, the downward spiral ( ) and the fragile ( ), were released to critical acclaim and commercial success. following a hiatus, nine inch nails resumed touring in and released their fourth album, with teeth ( ). following the release of year zero ( ), reznor left interscope after a feud. nine inch nails continued touring and independently released ghosts i–iv ( ) and the slip ( ) before a second hiatus. their eighth album, hesitation marks ( ), was followed by a trilogy consisting of the eps not the actual events ( ) and add violence ( ) and their ninth album bad witch ( ). in , nine inch nails released two further installments in the ghosts series, ghosts v: together and ghosts vi: locusts. (full article...) 			 		 	 			 			 lewis (first name unknown; fl. ) was a professional baseball player who played in one career game with the buffalo bisons of the players' league (pl) on july , . after asking the bisons manager for a tryout and pitching three innings, his earned run average (era) of . and walks plus hits per inning pitched (whip) rate of . became the highest in the history of the pl. as of august [update], lewis's first name, date of birth, and batting and pitching stances are unknown. the pl was formed by the brotherhood of professional base ball players in november , after a dispute over pay with the national league (nl) and american association (aa).  the nl had implemented a reserve clause in , which limited the ability of players to negotiate across teams for their salaries, and both the aa and nl had passed a salary cap of us$ , per player in , equivalent to $ , in ; the owners of the nl had agreed to remove the salary cap in but failed to do so. major league baseball (mlb) considers the pl a "major" league for official statistical purposes. (full article...) 			 		 	 			 			 sir thomas playford gcmg ( july – june ) was an australian politician from the state of south australia. he served continuously as premier of south australia and leader of the liberal and country league from november to march . though controversial, it was the longest term of any elected government leader in australian history. his tenure as premier was marked by a period of population and economic growth unmatched by any other australian state. he was known for his parochial style in pushing south australia's interests, and was known for his ability to secure a disproportionate share of federal funding for the state as well as his shameless haranguing of federal leaders. his string of election wins was enabled by a system of a malapportionment gerrymander that bore his name, the 'playmander' − which saw the labor party win clear majorities of the statewide two-party vote whilst failing to form government in , , and . born into an old political family, playford was the fifth thomas playford and the fourth to have lived in south australia; his grandfather thomas playford ii had served as premier in the th century. he grew up on the family farm in norton summit before enlisting in the australian imperial force in world war i, fighting in gallipoli and western europe. after serving, he continued farming until his election as a liberal and country league (lcl) representative for murray at the state election. in his early years in politics, playford was an outspoken backbencher who often lambasted lcl colleagues and ministers and their policies, and had a maverick strategy, often defying party norms and advocating unadulterated laissez faire economics and opposing protectionism and government investment, in stark contrast to his later actions as premier. with the resignation of the lcl's leader, richard layton butler, playford ascended to the premiership in , having been made a minister just months earlier in an attempt to dampen his insubordination. playford inherited a minority government and many independents to deal with, and instability was expected; playford was seen as a transitional leader. however, playford dealt with the independents adroitly and went on to secure a one-seat majority at the next election. (full article...) 			 		 	 			 			 tyrone anthony wheatley sr. (born january , ) is an american football coach and former player who is the head coach at morgan state university. he played professionally as a running back for  seasons in the national football league (nfl) and was one of the most successful high school and collegiate athletes in metropolitan detroit history. in high school, he was a member of state-champion teams in both track and field and football, and he was named michigan's track and field athlete of the year and football athlete of the year in the same academic year. he earned all-america track honors in both high school and college. following his graduation as one of michigan's best high school athletes, he attended the university of michigan on an athletic scholarship and earned first-team all-big ten conference honors on big ten champion football and track teams. he ranks among the wolverines' all-time rushing leaders in numerous categories, and his name appears in several places in the big ten football record book. he was named to all-big ten teams in football and track and field a total of four times, and he earned portions of seven big ten championships (two team awards for football, one team award for indoor track, one award for meter hurdles, and three awards for individual football statistical performances). following his graduation from the university of michigan, wheatley was selected by the new york giants of the nfl in the first round of the nfl draft. as a running back for the giants, he was the team's all-purpose yards leader in and their leading ballcarrier in . despite his success on the field, he developed a reputation for indolence. he was traded to the miami dolphins, but cut before the season began. he signed with the oakland raiders and flourished, leading the team in rushing three times and twice finishing among the nfl's top ten players in rushing touchdowns. during his nfl career ( – ), he totaled over ,  all-purpose yards as a running back and kickoff returner. (full article...) 			 		 	 			 			 drawing of spitzeder from the book die gartenlaube, based on a photograph adelheid luise "adele" spitzeder ([ˈaːdl̩haɪt ʔaˈdeːlə ˈʃpɪtˌtseːdɐ]; february – or october ), also known by her stage name adele vio, was a german actress, folk singer, and con artist. initially a promising young actress, spitzeder became a well-known private banker in th-century munich when her theatrical success dwindled. running what was possibly the first recorded ponzi scheme, she offered large returns on investments by continually using the money of new investors to pay back the previous ones. at the height of her success, contemporary sources considered her the wealthiest woman in bavaria. opening her bank in , spitzeder managed to fend off attempts to discredit her for a few years before authorities were able to bring her to trial in . because ponzi schemes were not yet illegal, she was convicted instead of bad accounting and mishandling customers' money and sentenced to three years in prison. her bank was closed and , people lost million gulden, the equivalent of almost million euros in money, causing a wave of suicides. her personal fortune in art and cash was stripped from her. (full article...) 			 		 	 			 			 lorde performing in june ella marija lani yelich-o'connor (born november ), known professionally as lorde (pronounced "lord"), is a new zealand singer and songwriter. taking inspiration from aristocracy for her stage name, she is known for employing unconventional musical styles and introspective songwriting. lorde's music is primarily electropop and contains elements of subgenres such as dream pop and indie-electro. born in the auckland suburb of takapuna and raised in neighbouring devonport, lorde expressed interest in performing at local venues in her early teens. she signed with universal music group (umg) in and collaborated with producer joel little in to start recording material. initially self-released in for free download on soundcloud, umg commercially released the pair's first collaborative effort, an extended play (ep) titled the love club, in . the ep's international chart-topping single "royals" helped lorde rise to prominence. (full article...) 			 		 	 			 			 william henry bury ( may – april ) was suspected of being the notorious serial killer "jack the ripper". he was hanged for the murder of his wife ellen in , and was the last person executed in dundee, scotland. bury was orphaned at an early age and was educated at a charitable school in the english midlands. after a few years in regular employment, he fell into financial difficulty, was dismissed for theft, and became a street peddler. in he moved to london, where he married ellen elliot, who was probably a prostitute. during their stormy marriage, which lasted just over a year, they faced increasing financial hardship. in january , they moved to dundee. the following month, bury strangled his wife with a rope, stabbed her dead body with a penknife, and hid the corpse in a box in their room. a few days later, he presented himself to the local police and was arrested for her murder. tried and convicted, he was sentenced to death by hanging. shortly before his execution, he confessed to the crime. although bury's guilt was not in doubt, dundee had a history of opposition to the death penalty and the dundee courier printed an editorial the day after his execution decrying the "judicial butcheries" of capital punishment. (full article...) 			 		 	 			 			 e. w. hornung ernest william hornung ( june  – march ) was an english author and poet known for writing the a. j. raffles series of stories about a gentleman thief in late th-century london. hornung was educated at uppingham school; as a result of poor health he left the school in december to travel to sydney, where he stayed for two years. he drew on his australian experiences as a background when he began writing, initially short stories and later novels. in he wrote "in the chains of crime", which introduced raffles and his sidekick, bunny manders; the characters were based partly on his friends oscar wilde and his lover, lord alfred douglas, and also on the characters of sherlock holmes and dr. watson, created by his brother-in-law, arthur conan doyle. the series of raffles short stories were collected for sale in book form in , and two further books of raffles short stories followed, as well as a poorly received novel. aside from his raffles stories, hornung was a prodigious writer of fiction, publishing numerous books from , with a bride from the bush to his novel the crime doctor. (full article...) 			 		 	 			 			 khalid muhammad abdallah al-mihdhar (arabic: خالد المحضار‎, khālid al-miḥḍār; also transliterated as almihdhar) (may , – september , ) was a saudi arabian hijacker. he was one of the five hijackers of american airlines flight , which was flown into the pentagon as part of the september attacks. mihdhar was born in saudi arabia and fought with the bosnian mujahideen during the bosnian war of the s. in early , he traveled to afghanistan where, as an experienced and respected jihadist, he was selected by osama bin laden to participate in the attacks. mihdhar arrived in california with fellow hijacker nawaf al-hazmi in january , after traveling to malaysia for the kuala lumpur al-qaeda summit. at this point, the cia was aware of mihdhar, and he was photographed in malaysia with another al-qaeda member who was involved in the uss cole bombing. the cia did not inform the fbi when it learned that mihdhar and hazmi had entered the united states, and mihdhar was not placed on any watchlists until late august . (full article...) 			 		 	 			 			 enid mary blyton ( august  – november ) was an english children's writer whose books have been among the world's best-sellers since the s, selling more than million copies. blyton's books are still enormously popular, and have been translated into languages. as of june , blyton is in the th place for the most translated author. she wrote on a wide range of topics including education, natural history, fantasy, mystery, and biblical narratives and is best remembered today for her noddy, famous five, secret seven, and malory towers. her first book, child whispers, a -page collection of poems, was published in . following the commercial success of her early novels such as adventures of the wishing-chair ( ) and the enchanted wood ( ), blyton went on to build a literary empire, sometimes producing fifty books a year in addition to her prolific magazine and newspaper contributions. her writing was unplanned and sprang largely from her unconscious mind: she typed her stories as events unfolded before her. the sheer volume of her work and the speed with which it was produced led to rumours that blyton employed an army of ghost writers, a charge she vigorously denied. (full article...) 			 		 	 			 			 the fitzwalter coat of arms: d'or ung fece entre deux cheverons de goules ('or, a fess gules between two chevrons of the last'). the arms are a differenced version of those of de clare, the senior branch of the family. john fitzwalter, nd baron fitzwalter (fitzwalter or fitz wauter; c.  – october ) was a prominent essex landowner best known for his criminal activities, particularly around colchester. his family was of a noble and ancient lineage, with connections to the powerful de clare family, who had arrived in england at the time of the norman conquest of england. the fitzwalters held estates across essex, as well as properties in london and norfolk. john fitzwalter played a prominent role during the early years of king edward iii's wars in france, and at some point fitzwalter was married to eleanor percy, the daughter of henry, lord percy. fitzwalter built a strong affinity around him, mainly from among leading members of the county's gentry, but also including men from elsewhere, such as a norfolk parson. at their head, fitzwalter waged an armed campaign against the neighbouring town of colchester, almost from the moment he reached adulthood. the townsmen seem to have exacerbated the dispute by illegally entering fitzwalter's park in lexden; in return, fitzwalter banned them from one of their own watermills and then, in , he besieged the town, preventing anyone entering or leaving for some weeks, as well as ransacking much property and destroying the market. one historian has described him, in his activities, as the medieval equivalent of a th-century american racketeer. other victims of his essex gang were local jurors, royal officials, a man forced to abjure the realm, and the prior of little dunmow abbey. (full article...) 			 		 	 			 			 shepseskare or shepseskara (egyptian for "noble is the soul of ra") was an ancient egyptian pharaoh, the fourth or fifth ruler of the fifth dynasty ( – bc) during the old kingdom period. shepseskare lived in the mid- th century bc and was probably the owner of an unfinished pyramid in abusir, which was abandoned after a few weeks of work in the earliest stages of its construction. following historical sources, shepseskare was traditionally believed to have reigned for seven years, succeeding neferirkare kakai and preceding neferefre on the throne, making him the fourth ruler of the dynasty. he is the most obscure ruler of this dynasty and the egyptologist miroslav verner has strongly argued that shepseskare's reign lasted only a few months at the most, after that of neferefre. this conclusion is based upon the state and location of shepseskare's unfinished pyramid in abusir as well as the very small number of artefacts attributable to this king. verner's arguments have now convinced several egyptologists such as darrell baker and erik hornung. (full article...) 			 		 	 			 			 neferefre isi (fl.  th century bc; also known as raneferef, ranefer and in greek as Χέρης, cherês) was an ancient egyptian pharaoh of the fifth dynasty during the old kingdom period. he was most likely the eldest son of pharaoh neferirkare kakai and queen khentkaus ii. he was known as prince ranefer before he ascended to the throne. neferefre started a pyramid for himself in the royal necropolis of abusir called netjeribau raneferef, which means "the bas of neferefre are divine". the pyramid was never finished, with a mason's inscription showing that works on the stone structure were abandoned during or shortly after the king's second year of reign. together with the sparsity of attestations contemporaneous with his reign, this is taken by egyptologists as evidence that neferefre died unexpectedly after two to three years on the throne. neferefre was nonetheless buried in his pyramid, hastily completed in the form of a mastaba by his second successor and presumably younger brother, pharaoh nyuserre ini. fragments of his mummy were uncovered there, showing that he died in his early twenties. (full article...) 			 		 	 			 			 pixies in . left to right: joey santiago, black francis, david lovering, and kim deal the pixies are an american alternative rock band formed in in boston, massachusetts. the original lineup comprised black francis (vocals, rhythm guitar), joey santiago (lead guitar), kim deal (bass, backing vocals) and david lovering (drums). the band disbanded acrimoniously in , but reunited in . after deal left in , the pixies hired kim shattuck as a touring bassist; she was replaced the same year by paz lenchantin, who became a permanent member in . the pixies are associated with the s alternative rock boom, and draw on elements including punk rock and surf rock. their music is known for its dynamic "loud-quiet" shifts and song structures. francis is the pixies' primary songwriter; his often surreal lyrics cover offbeat subjects such as extraterrestrials, incest, and biblical violence. they achieved modest popularity in the us, but were more successful in europe. their jarring pop sound influenced acts such as nirvana, radiohead, the smashing pumpkins and weezer. their popularity grew in the years after their break-up, leading to sold-out world tours following their reunion in . (full article...) 			 		 	 			 			 a statue of phan Đình phùng located in center of the traffic circle facing the cho lon general post office, district , ho chi minh city. phan Đình phùng (vietnamese: [faːn ɗîŋ̟ fûŋm];  – january , ) was a vietnamese revolutionary who led rebel armies against french colonial forces in vietnam. he was the most prominent of the confucian court scholars involved in anti-french military campaigns in the th century and was cited after his death by th-century nationalists as a national hero. he was renowned for his uncompromising will and principles—on one occasion, he refused to surrender even after the french had desecrated his ancestral tombs and had arrested and threatened to kill his family. born into a family of mandarins from hà tĩnh province, phan continued his ancestors' traditions by placing first in the metropolitan imperial examinations in . phan quickly rose through the ranks under emperor tự Đức of the nguyễn dynasty, gaining a reputation for his integrity and uncompromising stance against corruption. phan was appointed as the imperial censor, a position that allowed him to criticise his fellow mandarins and even the emperor. as the head of the censorate, phan's investigations led to the removal of many incompetent or corrupt mandarins. (full article...) 			 		 did you know... - show different entries 	... that laguna pueblo educator susie rayos marmon was the inspiration for a character in her grandniece leslie marmon silko's book storyteller? 	... that julia azari has shown that u.s. presidents increasingly defend their legitimacy by claiming to have a political mandate? 	... that the isma'ili leader ibn hawshab had to surrender his son as hostage to a rival, who returned him after a year with a golden necklace as a gift? 	... that two-spirit artist storme webber has used various media to retell her family's experience at the casino, one of the oldest gay bars on the west coast? 	... that after ruth darrow's son died from hemolytic disease of the newborn, she was inspired to study the disease, and became the first person to identify its cause? 	... that edris allan, the first telephone operator for the jamaica all island telephone service, married sir harold allan, the first afro-jamaican to be knighted? 	... that actor erik knudsen worked with kevin drew from broken social scene, his favorite band, in a fictional band based on them for the soundtrack of scott pilgrim vs. the world? 	... that english scientist nicola curtin donated to charity the £ , she received for helping develop the cancer drug rubraca? 	... that licett morillo closing prada's fashion show was compared to an actor winning an oscar? 	... that musician finneas made a cameo appearance as an uber driver in the music video for tove lo's song "bikini porn"? 	... that my lonesome cowboy, a sculpture created by artist takashi murakami as a companion to his earlier hiropon, sold at auction for us$ .  million – nearly four times the amount at which it had been valued? 	... that a business-firm party is a political party created and run by one person to further their own interests? general images the following are images from various biography-related articles on wikipedia. 	 			 			 eminent victorians set the standard for th century biographical writing, when it was published in . 			 		 	 			 			 john foxe's the book of martyrs, was one of the earliest english-language biographies. 			 		 	 			 			 einhard as scribe 			 		 	 			 			 saint augustine of hippo wrote confessions, the first western autobiography ever written, around . portrait by philippe de champaigne, th century. 			 		 	 			 			 james boswell wrote what many consider to be the first modern biography, the life of samuel johnson, in . 			 		 	 			 			 a scene from the baburnama 			 		 	 			 			 cover of the first english edition of benjamin franklin's autobiography, 			 		 	 			 			 third volume of a edition of plutarch's lives of the noble greeks and romans printed by jacob tonson 			 		 need help? do you have a question about wikipedia biographical content that you can't find the answer to? consider asking it at the wikipedia reference desk. get involved for editor resources and to collaborate with other editors on improving wikipedia's biography-related articles, see wikiproject biography. selected portrait 	 			 			 horatio nelson, st viscount nelson painting: lemuel francis abbott horatio nelson, st viscount nelson, ( – ) was a british flag officer who served in the royal navy, particularly during the napoleonic wars. born in norfolk, nelson entered the navy at age , and in he obtained his own command. during his career he suffered from seasickness, and by the time of the trafalgar campaign he had already lost his right arm and sight in an eye in battles in santa cruz de tenerife and corsica, respectively. in he took over the cádiz blockade, and on october of that year nelson's fleet engaged the franco-spanish one at the battle of trafalgar. the battle was a british victory, but during the action nelson was fatally wounded by a french sharpshooter. numerous monuments, such as nelson's column, have been created in his memory, and his signal "england expects that every man will do his duty" has been widely quoted, paraphrased and referenced. more selected portraits 			 		 	 			 			 jeff dunham photograph: richard mclaren american ventriloquist and stand-up comedian jeff dunham with his puppet "achmed the dead terrorist". dunham, whose puppets time magazine has described as "politically incorrect, gratuitously insulting and ill tempered", uses achmed to satirize terrorists. more selected portraits 			 		 	 			 			 ada lovelace painting: alfred edward chalon ada lovelace ( – ) was an english mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on using charles babbage's planned mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine. her notes include what is recognised as the first algorithm intended to be carried out by a machine, and as such she is often regarded as the first computer programmer. more selected portraits 			 		 	 			 			 peter oliver (painter) portrait: peter oliver an . -centimetre ( .  in) tall self-portrait of the english miniaturist peter oliver ( – ). he often worked with watercolours. more selected portraits 			 		 	 			 			 lies noor photograph credit: djakartawood studio; restored by chris woodrich lies noor (c.   – ) was an indonesian actress. she first appeared on film in pulang (homecoming) in , while she was still at school. she rose in popularity with a string of successful films, and was able to command high fees for her roles. in the mid- s, having married and had a child, she took a break from her career to care full-time for her son. after returning to acting in , however, she developed encephalitis the next year and died in hospital two days later. this photograph of noor was taken around . more selected portraits 			 		 	 			 			 john henry newman painting: john everett millais john henry newman ( – ) was a british cleric and leader in the oxford movement, a group of anglicans who wished to return the church of england to many catholic beliefs and forms of worship traditional in the medieval times. in newman converted to catholicism, eventually rising to cardinal. more selected portraits 			 		 	 			 			 malcolm x photo credit: ed ford, new york world-telegram and sun malcolm x was an american black muslim minister and a spokesman for the nation of islam. born malcolm little, he changed his surname to "x" as a rejection of his "slave name". tensions between him and the nation of islam caused him to break from the group in . he claimed to have received daily death threats and his house was burned to the ground in february . one week later, malcolm x was assassinated, having been shot in the chest by a sawed-off shotgun and times with handguns. three members of the nation of islam were convicted. more selected portraits 			 		 	 			 			 moshe ya'alon photograph: reuven kapuscinski moshe ya'alon (b. ) is an israeli politician and current defense minister. ya'alon was called up as a reserve during the yom kippur war in . after the war, he rejoined the army as an officer and rose through the ranks, leading the sayeret matkal commando unit, the paratroopers brigade, and military intelligence. in he was appointed chief of staff of the israel defense forces, resigning in . since he has served as the country's defense minister. more selected portraits 			 		 	 			 			 dilma rousseff photo: agência brasil dilma rousseff is the th and current president of brazil, in office since january . she is the first woman to hold the office. previously she was chief of staff to the president of brazil, serving under president luiz inácio lula da silva, from to . the daughter of a bulgarian entrepreneur, she is an economist by training and co-founder of the democratic labour party. she served as da silva's minister of energy and became chief of staff after josé dirceu's resignation amidst scandal. she was elected the presidency in a run-off election on october . more selected portraits 			 		 	 			 			 peter levy photo credit: john byford peter levy (b. ) is a british television and radio presenter, currently host of the bbc regional news programme look north, broadcast from hull to east yorkshire and lincolnshire. he also hosts the peter levy show on bbc radio humberside. born in south west england, levy moved to yorkshire in his teens. after a stint in london as an actor, during which time he appeared on man about the house, he returned to yorkshire in to become a disc jockey before joining look north in . more selected portraits 			 		 	 			 			 rory kennedy photograph credit: lyndie benson rory kennedy (born december  , ) is an american documentary filmmaker and the youngest child of u.s. senator robert kennedy and ethel skakel. born six months after the assassination of her father, her life has seen many tragedies. as a director and producer, she has made documentary films that center on social issues such as addiction, nuclear radiation, the treatment of prisoners of war, and the politics of the mexican border fence. her films have been featured on many tv networks, and her documentary last days in vietnam was nominated for an academy award. more selected portraits 			 		 	 			 			 fyodor dostoevsky painting: vasily perov fyodor dostoevsky ( – ; depicted in ) was a russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and philosopher. after publishing his first novel, poor folk, at age , dostoyevsky wrote (among others) eleven novels, three novellas, and seventeen short novels, including crime and punishment ( ), the idiot ( ), and the brothers karamazov ( ). more selected portraits 			 		 	 			 			 theodore roosevelt and john muir photo credit: underwood and underwood u.s. president theodore roosevelt (left) and nature preservationist john muir, founder of the sierra club, stand together on glacier point in yosemite national park. in the background can be seen upper and lower yosemite falls. during this trip in , muir convinced roosevelt to add yosemite valley and mariposa grove to the park, which had been established in . more selected portraits 			 		 	 			 			 george iv artist: sir thomas lawrence an oil on canvas portrait of george iv of the united kingdom as the prince regent, by sir thomas lawrence. in , lord stewart, who had been appointed ambassador in vienna and was a previous client of thomas lawrence, wanted to commission a portrait by him of the prince regent. he arranged that lawrence should be presented to the prince regent at a levée. soon after, the prince visited lawrence at his studio in russell square. lawrence wrote to his brother that: to crown this honour, [he] engag'd to sit to me at one today and after a successful sitting of two hours, has just left me and comes again tomorrow and the next day. more selected portraits 			 		 	 			 			 brian nankervis photo: john o'neill; edit: jj harrison brian nankervis (b.  ), an australian comedian and writer, shown here during a live performance. nankervis rose to popularity while playing raymond j. bartholomeuz on hey hey it's saturday; since he has been a host of the gameshow rockwiz. more selected portraits 			 		 edit  on this day – december births 	 - woodrow wilson, th president of the united states, recipient of the nobel peace prize (d. ) (pictured) 	 - stan lee, american comic book writer 	 - denzel washington, american actor 	 - john legend, american singer, songwriter, and pianist 	 - sienna miller, british actress deaths 	 - queen mary ii of england (b. ) 	 - robert roy macgregor, scottish folk hero (b. ) 	 - theodore dreiser, american author (b. ) 	 - jerry orbach, american actor (b. ) 	 - debbie reynolds, american actress (b. ) more of today's anniversaries... in the news 	 december – covid- pandemic 	malian opposition leader soumaila cissé dies from covid- in france two months after he was released by jihadist militants in a prisoner swap. (france ) 	 december – covid- pandemic 	serbia officially begins its vaccination programme against covid- , with prime minister ana brnabić becoming the first person to receive the pfizer-biontech vaccine. (anadolu agency) 	 december – poisoning of alexei navalny 	a report surfaces that a federal security service agent allegedly involved in the plot to poison the russian opposition leader was "duped" by navalny into admitting that the poison was planted in navalny's underpants. (cnn) 	 december – tigray conflict 	ethiopia offers a reward of million birr (about us$ , ) for information leading to the capture of tigray people's liberation front officials, including leader debretsion gebremichael, who are currently in hiding following the fall of mekelle. (france ) 	 december – belarus–european union relations 	belarusian opposition leader sviatlana tsikhanouskaya calls for the european union to support protesters in her country as she is awarded the sakharov prize. (abc news) 	 december – covid- pandemic 	argentine president alberto fernández announces the purchase of million doses of the russian sputnik v vaccine, and says that he will be the first person to receive the vaccine in order to prove that it is safe. an initial shipment of , doses will be received before the end of the year. 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	pliny the younger 	gaius plinius caecilius secundus 	statue of pliny the younger on the facade of cathedral of s. maria maggiore in como 	born	gaius caecilius cilo ad como 	died	c. ad (aged approx. ) bithynia 	occupation	politician, judge, author 	parents		lucius caecilius cilo (father) 	plinia marcella (mother) gaius plinius caecilius secundus, born gaius caecilius or gaius caecilius cilo ( – c. ), better known as pliny the younger (/ˈplɪni/),[ ] was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of ancient rome. pliny's uncle, pliny the elder, helped raise and educate him. pliny the younger wrote hundreds of letters, of which survive, and which are of great historical value. some are addressed to reigning emperors or to notables such as the historian tacitus. pliny served as an imperial magistrate under trajan (reigned – ),[ ] and his letters to trajan provide one of the few surviving records of the relationship between the imperial office and provincial governors.[ ] pliny rose through a series of civil and military offices, the cursus honorum. he was a friend of the historian tacitus and might have employed the biographer suetonius on his staff. pliny also came into contact with other well-known men of the period, including the philosophers artemidorus and euphrates the stoic, during his time in syria.[ ] contents 	 background 	 . childhood 	 . marriages 	 . death 	 career 	 . career summary 	 writings 	 . epistulae 	 . . epistles concerning the eruption of mount vesuvius 	 . . epistle concerning the christian religion 	 . manuscripts 	 villas, farms and estates 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links background[edit] childhood[edit] como and lake como in , painted by jean-baptiste-camille corot pliny the younger was born in novum comum (como, northern italy) around ad, the son of lucius caecilius cilo, born there, and his wife plinia marcella, a sister of pliny the elder.[ ] he was the grandson of senator and landowner gaius caecilius, revered his uncle, pliny the elder (who at this time was extremely famous around the roman empire), and provided sketches of how his uncle worked on the naturalis historia.[ ] cilo died at an early age, when pliny was still young. as a result, the boy probably lived with his mother. his guardian and preceptor in charge of his education was lucius verginius rufus,[citation needed] famed for quelling a revolt against nero in ad. after being first tutored at home, pliny went to rome for further education. there he was taught rhetoric by quintilian, a great teacher and author, and nicetes sacerdos of smyrna. it was at this time that pliny became closer to his uncle pliny the elder. when pliny the younger was or , his uncle pliny the elder died attempting to rescue victims of the vesuvius eruption, and the terms of the elder pliny's will passed his estate to his nephew. in the same document, the younger pliny was adopted by his uncle. as a result, pliny the younger changed his name from gaius caecilius cilo to gaius plinius caecilius secundus (his official title was gaius plinius luci filius caecilius secundus).[ ] the younger pliny reproved, colourized copperplate print by thomas burke ( – ) there is some evidence that pliny had a sibling. a memorial erected in como (now cil v, ) repeats the terms of a will by which the aedile lucius caecilius cilo, son of lucius, established a fund, the interest of which was to buy oil (used for soap) for the baths of the people of como. the trustees are apparently named in the inscription: "l. caecilius valens and p. caecilius secundus, sons of lucius, and the contubernalis lutulla." the word contubernalis describing lutulla is the military term meaning "tent-mate", which can only mean that she was living with lucius, not as his wife. the first man mentioned, l. caecilius valens, is probably the older son. pliny the younger confirms[ ] that he was a trustee for the largesse "of my ancestors". it seems unknown to pliny the elder, so valens' mother was probably not his sister plinia; perhaps valens was lutulla's son from an earlier relationship.[citation needed] marriages[edit] pliny the younger married three times, firstly, when he was very young (about ), to a stepdaughter of veccius proculus, who died at age ; secondly, at an unknown date, to the daughter of pompeia celerina; and thirdly to calpurnia, daughter of calpurnius and granddaughter of calpurnius fabatus of comum. letters survive in which pliny recorded this last marriage taking place, his attachment to calpurnia, and his sadness when she miscarried their child.[ ] death[edit] pliny is thought to have died suddenly during his convention in bithynia-pontus, around ad, since no events referred to in his letters date later than that.[ ] career[edit] pliny was by birth of equestrian rank, that is, a member of the aristocratic order of equites (knights), the lower (beneath the senatorial order) of the two roman aristocratic orders that monopolised senior civil and military offices during the early empire. his career began at the age of and initially followed a normal equestrian route. but, unlike most equestrians, he achieved entry into the upper order by being elected quaestor in his late twenties.[ ] (see career summary below.) pliny was active in the roman legal system, especially in the sphere of the roman centumviral court, which dealt with inheritance cases. later, he was a well-known prosecutor and defender at the trials of a series of provincial governors, including baebius massa, governor of baetica; marius priscus, governor of africa; gaius caecilius classicus, governor of baetica; and most ironically in light of his later appointment to this province, gaius julius bassus and varenus rufus, both governors of bithynia and pontus.[ ] pliny's career is commonly considered as a summary of the main roman public charges and is the best-documented example from this period, offering proof for many aspects of imperial culture. effectively, pliny crossed all the principal fields of the organization of the early roman empire. it is an achievement for a man to have not only survived the reigns of several disparate emperors, especially the much-detested domitian, but also to have risen in rank throughout.[ ] career summary[edit] 	c. 	one of the presiding judges in the centumviral court (decemvir litibus iudicandis) 	c. 	tribunus militum (staff officer) of legio iii gallica in syria, probably for six months 	 s	officer of the noble order of knights (sevir equitum romanorum) 	later s	entered the senate 	 or 	quaestor attached to the emperor's staff (quaestor imperatoris) 	 	tribune of the people (tribunus plebis) 	 	praetor 	 – 	prefect of the military treasury (praefectus aerarii militaris) 	 – 	prefect of the treasury of saturn (praefectus aerari saturni) 	 	suffect consul with cornutus tertullus 	 – 	publicly elected augur 	 – 	superintendent for the banks of the tiber (curator alvei tiberis) 	 – 	three times a member of trajan's judicial council. 	 	the imperial governor (legatus augusti) of bithynia et pontus province writings[edit] pliny wrote his first work, a tragedy in greek, at age .[ ] additionally, in the course of his life, he wrote numerous poems, most of which are lost. he was also known as a notable orator; though he professed himself a follower of cicero, pliny's prose was more magniloquent and less direct than cicero's. pliny's only oration that now survives is the panegyricus traiani. this was delivered in the senate in and is a description of trajan's figure and actions in an adulatory and emphatic form, especially contrasting him with the emperor domitian. it is, however, a relevant document that reveals many details about the emperor's actions in several fields of his administrative power such as taxes, justice, military discipline, and commerce. recalling the speech in one of his letters, pliny shrewdly defines his own motives thus: i hoped in the first place to encourage our emperor in his virtues by a sincere tribute and, secondly, to show his successors what path to follow to win the same renown, not by offering instruction but by setting his example before them. to proffer advice on an emperor's duties might be a noble enterprise, but it would be a heavy responsibility verging on insolence, whereas to praise an excellent ruler (optimum principem) and thereby shine a beacon on the path posterity should follow would be equally effective without appearing presumptuous.[ ] epistulae[edit] main article: epistulae (pliny) eruption of vesuvius, painting by i.c. dahl the largest surviving body of pliny's work is his epistulae (letters), a series of personal missives directed to his friends and associates. these letters are a unique testimony of roman administrative history and everyday life in the st century ad. especially noteworthy among the letters are two in which he describes the eruption of mount vesuvius in october , during which his uncle pliny the elder died (epistulae vi. , vi. ), and one in which he asks the emperor for instructions regarding official policy concerning christians (epistulae x. ). epistles concerning the eruption of mount vesuvius[edit] pliny wrote the two letters describing the eruption of mount vesuvius approximately years after the event, and both were sent in response to the request of his friend, the historian tacitus, who wanted to know more about pliny the elder's death. the two letters have great historical value due to their accurate description of the vesuvius eruption; pliny's attention to detail in the letters about vesuvius is so keen that modern volcanologists describe those types of eruptions as "plinian eruptions".[ ] epistle concerning the christian religion[edit] main article: pliny the younger on christians as the roman governor of bithynia-pontus (now in modern turkey) pliny wrote a letter to emperor trajan around ad and asked for counsel on dealing with christians. in the letter (epistulae x. ), pliny detailed an account of how he conducted trials of suspected christians who appeared before him as a result of anonymous accusations and asked for the emperor's guidance on how they should be treated.[ ] pliny had never performed a legal investigation of christians and thus consulted trajan in order to be on solid ground regarding his actions. pliny saved his letters and trajan's replies[ ] and these are the earliest surviving roman documents to refer to early christians.[ ] manuscripts[edit] the first – incomplete – edition of pliny's epistles was published in italy in . sometime between and giovanni giocondo discovered a manuscript in paris of pliny's tenth book of letters, containing his correspondence with trajan, and published it in paris, dedicating the work to louis xii. the first complete edition was produced by the press of aldus manutius in .[ ] (see editio princeps for details.) villas, farms and estates[edit] view of bellagio in lake como. the institution on the hill is villa serbelloni, believed to have been constructed on the site of pliny's villa "tragedy." pliny loved villas. being wealthy, he owned many, and wrote in detail about his villa near ostia, at laurentium.[ ] others were the one in lake como named "tragedy" because of its location high on a hill,[clarification needed] and, on the shore of the lake, "comedy," so called because it was sited low down.[ ] pliny's main estate in italy was in the north of umbria, by tifernum tiberinum, under the passes of bocca trabaria and bocca serriola, where wood was harvested for roman ships and sent to rome via the tiber.[ ] according to g. e. m. de ste. croix, as a response to "declining returns from his north italian farms", pliny begins to contemplate switching the administration of his estate to a sharecropping system called colonia partiaria. under the sharecropping system pliny's slaves would act as overseers. ste. croix speculated this may have been an intermediary period before serfdom fully replaces slavery in later centuries.[ ] see also[edit] 	herculaneum 	misenum 	pompeii 	stabiae references[edit] 	^ melvyn bragg (december , ). "pliny the younger". in our time (podcast). bbc radio . retrieved january , . 	^ bennett, julian ( ). trajan: optimus princeps: a life and times. new york & london: routledge. pp.  – . 	^ john w. roberts, ed. ( ). "pliny the younger". the oxford dictionary of the classical world. oxford: oxford university press. isbn  . retrieved march , . the tenth bk. of letters contains all of pliny's correspondence with trajan. [...] the provincial letters are the only such dossier surviving entire, and are a major source for understanding roman provincial government. (subscription required) 	^ shelton, jo-ann ( ). the women of pliny's letters. women of the ancient world series. new york, ny: rutledge. pp.  – . isbn  - - - - . 	^ salway, b. ( ). journal of roman studies. . pp.  – . 	^ pliny letters . . – . see english translation (plinius the elder ( )) and latin text (c. plinii caecilii secvndi epistvlarvm liber tertivs). 	^ radice, betty ( ). the letters of the younger pliny. penguin classics. p.  . 	^ "i. , to saturninus". letters. i am compelled to the discourse of my own largesse, as well as those of my ancestors. 	^ pliny. letters. p.  . . 	^ hurley, donna.w ( ). suetonius the caesars. indianapolis/cambridge: hackett publishing company. pp. x. isbn  - - - - . 	^ cf. pliny: a self-portrait in letters, the folio society, london ( ), intro. pp. – 	^ cf. pliny: a self-portrait in letters, intro. pp. – 	^ cf. op. cit., intro. p. - 	^ "quin etiam quattuordecim natus annos graecam tragoediam scripsi.": epistulae vii. iv 	^ epistulae iii. xviii, here translated by betty radice, the letters of the younger pliny, penguin classics ( ), p. 	^ "vhp photo glossary: plinian eruption". united states geological survey. retrieved june , . 	^ the early christian church volume by philip carrington ( ) isbn  cambridge univ press p. 	^ pagan rome and the early christians by stephen benko ( ) isbn  pp. – 	^ st. croix, g.e.m (november ). "why were the early christians persecuted?". past & present. ( ): – . doi: . /past/ . . . jstor  . 	^ "iohannem iucundum architectum illum veronensem, quem annos – in gallia egisse novimus, codicem decem librorum parisiis invenisse testis est gulielmus budaeus...eodem ferme tempore venetias ad aldum manutium editionem suam parantem, quae anno proditura erat, epistulas ex eodem vetustissimo codice descriptas misit ipse iucundus." (r.a.b. mynors, c. plini caecili secundi epistularum libri decem, oxford university press ( ), praefatio xviii–xix 	^ letter . 	^ de la ruffinière du prey, pierre ( ). the villas of pliny from antiquity to posterity (illustrated ed.). university of chicago press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ letter . 	^ byres, t. j. ( ). sharecropping and sharecroppers. /pl: frank cass. p.  . isbn  . retrieved august , . further reading[edit] 	bell, albert a. ( ). "a note on revision and authenticity in pliny's letters". american journal of philology. ( ): – . doi: . / . jstor  . 	bell, albert a. ( ). all roads lead to murder: a case from the notebooks of pliny the younger. high country publishers. isbn  - - - - . 	dobson, e.s. ( ). "pliny the younger's depiction of women". classical bulletin. : – . 	simon hornblower and anthony spawforth, ed. ( ) [ ]. oxford classical dictionary ( rd ed.). oxford university press. isbn  - - - . 	radice, betty ( ). the letters of the younger pliny. london: penguin classics. isbn  - - - - . 	radice, betty ( ). "pliny and the panegyricus". greece & rome. ( ): – . doi: . /s . jstor  . 	sands, john edwin ( ). "pliny the younger". in chisholm, hugh (ed.). encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. pp.  – . 	sherwin-white, a.n. ( ). the letters of pliny: a social and historical commentary. oxford: clarendon press. isbn  - - - . 	sherwin-white, a.n. ( ). "pliny, the man and his letters". greece & rome. cambridge university press. ( ): – . doi: . /s . jstor  . 	stadler, thiago david ( ). o império romano em cartas: glórias romanas em papel e tinta (plínio, o jovem e trajano / d.c.). curitiba: juruá editora. 	stout, selatie edgar ( ). plinius, epistulae: a critical edition. bloomington: indiana university press. 	syme, ronald ( ). "people in pliny". journal of roman studies. society for the promotion of roman studies. ( & ): – . doi: . / . jstor  . 	wilken, robert l. ( ). 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		jump to search 		wikipedia list article this page lists english translations of notable latin phrases, such as veni vidi vici and et cetera. some of the phrases are themselves translations of greek phrases, as greek rhetoric and literature reached its peak centuries before the rise of ancient rome. 	this list covers the letter n. see list of latin phrases for the main list. list of latin phrases 	a 	b 	c 	d 	e 	f 	g 	h 	i 	j 	k 	l 	m 	n 	o 	p 	q 	r 	s 	t 	u 	v 	w 	x 	y 	z 	full references 	latin	translation	notes 	nanos gigantum humeris insidentes	dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants	first recorded by john of salisbury in the twelfth century and attributed to bernard of chartres. also commonly known by the letters of isaac newton: "if i have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants". 	 nascentes morimur finisque ab origine pendet	when we are born we die, our end is but the pendant of our beginning	 	nasciturus pro iam nato habetur, quotiens de commodis eius agitur	the unborn is deemed to have been born to the extent that his own inheritance is concerned	refers to a situation where an unborn child is deemed to be entitled to certain inheritance rights. 	natura abhorret a vacuo	nature abhors vacuum	pseudo-explanation for why a liquid will climb up a tube to fill a vacuum, often given before the discovery of atmospheric pressure. 	natura artis magistra	nature is the teacher of art	the name of the zoo in the centre of amsterdam; short: "artis". 	natura nihil frustra facit	nature does nothing in vain	cf. aristotle: "οὐθὲν γάρ, ὡς φαμέν, μάτην ἡ φύσις ποιεῖ" (politics i , a ) and leucippus: "everything that happens does so for a reason and of necessity." 	natura non contristatur	nature is not saddened	that is, the natural world is not sentimental or compassionate. derived by arthur schopenhauer from an earlier source. 	natura non facit saltum ita nec lex	nature does not make a leap, thus neither does the law	shortened form of "sicut natura nil facit per saltum ita nec lex" (just as nature does nothing by a leap, so neither does the law), referring to both nature and the legal system moving gradually. 	natura non facit saltus	nature makes no leaps	a famous aphorism of carl linnaeus stating that all organisms bear relationships on all sides, their forms changing gradually from one species to the next. from philosophia botanica ( ). 	natura valde simplex est et sibi consona	nature is exceedingly simple and harmonious with itself	sir isaac newton's famous quote, defining foundation of all modern sciences. can be found in his unpublished scientific papers of isaac newton: a selection from the portsmouth collection in the university library, cambridge, edition[ ] 	naturalia non sunt turpia	what is natural is not dirty	based on servius' commentary on virgil's georgics ( : ): "turpis non est quia per naturam venit." 	naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret.	you may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back	you must take the basic nature of something into account. – horace, epistles, book i, epistle x, line . 	navigare necesse est, vivere non est necesse	to sail is necessary; to live is not necessary	attributed by plutarch to gnaeus pompeius magnus, who, during a severe storm, commanded sailors to bring food from africa to rome. translated from plutarch's greek "πλεῖν ἀνάγκη, ζῆν οὐκ ἀνάγκη". 	ne plus ultra	nothing more beyond	also nec plus ultra or non plus ultra. a descriptive phrase meaning the best or most extreme example of something. the pillars of hercules, for example, were literally the nec plus ultra of the ancient mediterranean world. holy roman emperor charles v's heraldic emblem reversed this idea, using a depiction of this phrase inscribed on the pillars – as plus ultra, without the negation. the boston musical instrument company engraved ne plus ultra on its instruments from to to signify that none were better. non plus ultra is the motto of the spanish exclave melilla. 	ne puero gladium	do not give a sword to a boy	never give dangerous tools to someone who is untrained to use them or too immature to understand the damage they can do. 	ne supra crepidam sutor iudicaret	a shoemaker should not judge beyond the shoe	see sutor, ne ultra crepidam 	ne te quaesiveris extra	do not seek outside yourself	line from the roman satirist persius inscribed on the boulder to the right of sir john suckling in the painting of the aforementioned subject by sir anthony van dyck (ca. ) and invoked by ralph waldo emerson at the opening of his essay self-reliance ( ) 	nec aspera terrent	they are not terrified of the rough things	they are not afraid of difficulties. less literally "difficulties be damned." motto for th infantry regiment (united states) and the duke of lancaster's regiment. nec = not; aspera = rough ones/things; terrent = they terrify / do terrify / are terrifying. 	nec deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus (inciderit)	that a god not intervene, unless a knot show up that be worthy of such an untangler	"when the miraculous power of god is necessary, let it be resorted to: when it is not necessary, let the ordinary means be used." from horace's ars poetica as a caution against deus ex machina. 	nec dextrorsum, nec sinistrorsum	neither to the right nor to the left	do not get distracted. motto for bishop cotton boys' school and the bishop cotton girls' school, both located in bangalore, india. 	nec spe, nec metu	without hope, without fear	 	nec tamen consumebatur	and yet it was not consumed	refers to the burning bush of exodus : . motto of many presbyterian churches throughout the world. 	nec temere nec timide	neither reckless nor timid	motto of the dutch th air manoeuvre brigade and the city of gdańsk, poland 	nec vi, nec clam, nec precario	without permission, without secrecy, without interruption	the law of adverse possession 	neca eos omnes, deus suos agnoscet	kill them all, god will know his own	alternate rendition of caedite eos. novit enim dominus qui sunt eius. by arnaud amalric 	necesse est aut imiteris aut oderis	you must either imitate or loathe the world	seneca the younger, epistulae morales ad lucilium, : 	necessitas etiam timidos fortes facit	need makes even the timid brave	sallust, the conspiracy of catiline, : 	nemine contradicente (nem. con., n.c.d.)	with no one speaking against	less literally, "without dissent". used especially in committees, where a matter may be passed nem. con., or unanimously, or with unanimous consent. 	nemo contra deum nisi deus ipse	no one against god except god himself	from goethe's autobiography from my life: poetry and truth, p. 	nemo dat quod non habet	no one gives what he does not have	thus, "none can pass better title than they have" 	nemo est supra legem	nobody is above the law; or nemo est supra leges, nobody is above the laws	 	nemo igitur vir magnus sine aliquo adflatu divino umquam fuit	no great man ever existed who did not enjoy some portion of divine inspiration	from cicero's de natura deorum, book , chapter lxvi, [ ] 	nemo iudex in causa sua	no man shall be a judge in his own cause	legal principle that no individual can preside over a hearing in which he holds a specific interest or bias 	nemo malus felix	peace visits not the guilty mind	also translated to "no rest for the wicked." refers to the inherent psychological issues that plague bad/guilty people. 	nemo me impune lacessit	no one provokes me with impunity	motto of the order of the thistle, and consequently of scotland, found stamped on the milled edge of certain british pound sterling coins. it is the motto of the montressors in the edgar allan poe short story "the cask of amontillado". motto of the san beda college beta sigma fraternity. 	nemo mortalium omnibus horis sapit	no mortal is wise at all times	the wisest may make mistakes. 	nemo nisi per amicitiam cognoscitur	no one learns except by friendship	used to imply that one must like a subject in order to study it. 	nemo propheta in patria (sua)	no man is a prophet in his own land	concept present in all four gospels (matthew : ; mark : ; luke : ; john : ). 	nemo saltat sobrius	nobody dances sober	the short and more common form of nemo enim fere saltat sobrius, nisi forte insanit, "nobody dances sober, unless he happens to be insane," a quote from cicero (from the speech pro murena). 	nemo tenetur se ipsum accusare	no one is bound to accuse himself (the right to silence)	a maxim banning mandatory self-incrimination. near-synonymous with accusare nemo se debet nisi coram deo. similar phrases include: nemo tenetur armare adversarium contra se (no one is bound to arm an opponent against himself), meaning that a defendant is not obligated to in any way assist the prosecutor to his own detriment; nemo tenetur edere instrumenta contra se (no one is bound to produce documents against himself, meaning that a defendant is not obligated to provide materials to be used against himself (this is true in roman law and has survived in modern criminal law, but no longer applies in modern civil law); and nemo tenere prodere se ipsum (no one is bound to betray himself), meaning that a defendant is not obligated to testify against himself. 	neque semper arcum tendit apollo	nor does apollo always keep his bow drawn	horace, carmina / : - . the same image appears in a fable of phaedrus. 	ne quid nimis	nothing in excess 	nervos belli, pecuniam infinitam	endless money forms the sinews of war	in war, it is essential to be able to purchase supplies and to pay troops (as napoleon put it, "an army marches on its stomach"). 	nihil ad rem	nothing to do with the point	that is, in law, irrelevant and/or inconsequential. 	nihil boni sine labore	nothing achieved without hard work	motto of palmerston north boys' high school 	nihil dicit	he says nothing	in law, a declination by a defendant to answer charges or put in a plea. 	nihil enim lacrima citius arescit	nothing dries sooner than a tear	pseudo-cicero, ad herrenium, / : 	nihil humanum mihi alienum	nothing human is alien to me	adapted from terence's heauton timorumenos (the self-tormentor), homo sum humani a me nihil alienum puto ("i am a human being; nothing human is strange to me"). sometimes ending in est. 	nihil in intellectu nisi prius in sensu	nothing in the intellect unless first in sense	the guiding principle of empiricism, and accepted in some form by aristotle, aquinas, locke, berkeley, and hume. leibniz, however, added nisi intellectus ipse (except the intellect itself). 	nihil nimis	nothing too	or nothing to excess. latin translation of the inscription of the temple of apollo at delphi. 	nihil novi	nothing of the new	or just "nothing new". the phrase exists in two versions: as nihil novi sub sole (nothing new under the sun), from the vulgate, and as nihil novi nisi commune consensu (nothing new unless by the common consensus), a law of the polish–lithuanian commonwealth and one of the cornerstones of its golden liberty. 	nihil obstat	nothing prevents	a notation, usually on a title page, indicating that a roman catholic censor has reviewed the book and found nothing objectionable to faith or morals in its content. see also imprimatur. 	nihil sine deo	nothing without god	motto of the kingdom of romania, while ruled by the hohenzollern-sigmaringen dynasty ( – ). 	nihil ultra	nothing beyond	motto of st. xavier's college, calcutta 	nil admirari	be surprised at nothing	or "nihil admirari". cicero, tusculanae disputationes ( , ), horace, epistulae ( , , ), and seneca, epistulae morales ad lucilium, ( , ). motto of the fitzgibbon family. see john fitzgibbon, st earl of clare 	nil desperandum	nothing must be despaired at	that is, "never despair". 	nil igitur fieri de nilo posse fatendumst	nothing, therefore, we must confess, can be made from nothing	from lucretius' de rerum natura (on the nature of things), i. 	nil igitur mors est ad nos	death, therefore, is nothing to us	from lucretius' de rerum natura (on the nature of things), iii. 	nil mortalibus ardui est	nothing is impossible for humankind	from horace's odes. motto of rathkeale college, new zealand and brunts school, england. 	nil nisi bonum	(about the dead say) nothing unless (it is) good	short for nil nisi bonum de mortuis dicere. that is, "don't speak ill of anyone who has died". also "nil magnum nisi bonum" (nothing is great unless good), motto of st catherine's school, toorak, pennant hills high school and petit seminaire higher secondary school. 	nil nisi malis terrori	no terror, except to the bad	motto of the king's school, macclesfield 	nil per os, rarely non per os (n.p.o.)	nothing through the mouth	medical shorthand indicating that oral foods and fluids should be withheld from the patient. 	nil satis nisi optimum	nothing [is] enough unless [it is] the best	motto of everton f.c., residents of goodison park, liverpool. 	nil sine labore	nothing without labour	motto of many schools 	nil sine numine	nothing without the divine will	or "nothing without providence". state motto of colorado, adopted in . probably derived from virgil's aeneid book ii, line , "non haec sine numine divum eveniunt" (these things do not come to pass without the will of heaven). see also numen. 	nil volentibus arduum	nothing [is] arduous for the willing	nothing is impossible for the willing 	nisi dominus frustra	if not the lord, [it is] in vain	that is, "everything is in vain without god". summarized from psalm ( vulgate), nisi dominus aedificaverit domum in vanum laboraverunt qui aedificant eam nisi dominus custodierit civitatem frustra vigilavit qui custodit (unless the lord builds the house, they work on a useless thing who build it; unless the lord guards the community, he keeps watch in vain who guards it); widely used motto. 	nisi paria non pugnant	it takes two to make a fight	irascetur aliquis: tu contra beneficiis prouoca; cadit statim simultas ab altera parte deserta; nisi paria non pugnant. (if any one is angry with you, meet his anger by returning benefits for it: a quarrel which is only taken up on one side falls to the ground: it takes two men to fight.) seneca the younger, de ira (on anger): book , cap. , line . 	nisi prius	unless previously	in england, a direction that a case be brought up to westminster for trial before a single judge and jury. in the united states, a court where civil actions are tried by a single judge sitting with a jury, as distinguished from an appellate court. 	nitimur in vetitum	we strive for the forbidden	from ovid's amores, iii. : . it means that when we are denied of something, we will eagerly pursue the denied thing. used by friedrich nietzsche in his ecce homo to indicate that his philosophy pursues what is forbidden to other philosophers. 	nobis bene, nemini male	good for us, bad for no one	inscription on the old nobistor [de] gatepost that divided altona and st. pauli 	nolens volens	unwilling, willing	that is, "whether unwillingly or willingly". sometimes rendered volens nolens, aut nolens aut volens or nolentis volentis. similar to willy-nilly, though that word is derived from old english will-he nil-he ([whether] he will or [whether] he will not). 	noli me tangere	do not touch me	commonly translated "touch me not". according to the gospel of john, this was said by jesus to mary magdalene after his resurrection. 	noli turbare circulos meos	do not disturb my circles!	that is, "don't upset my calculations!" said by archimedes to a roman soldier who, despite having been given orders not to, killed archimedes at the conquest of syracuse, sicily. 	nolite te bastardes carborundorum (dog latin)	don't let the bastards grind you down	from the handmaid's tale by margaret atwood – the protagonist (offred) finds the phrase inscribed on the inside of her wardrobe. one of many variants of illegitimi non carborundum. 	nolle prosequi	to be unwilling to prosecute	a legal motion by a prosecutor or other plaintiff to drop legal charges, usually in exchange for a diversion program or out-of-court settlement. 	nolo contendere	i do not wish to contend	that is, "no contest". a plea that can be entered on behalf of a defendant in a court that states that the accused doesn't admit guilt, but will accept punishment for a crime. nolo contendere pleas cannot be used as evidence in another trial. 	nomen amicitiae sic, quatenus expedit, haeret	the name of friendship lasts just so long as it is profitable	petronius, satyricon, . 	nomen dubium	doubtful name	a scientific name of unknown or doubtful application. 	nomen est omen	the name is a sign	thus, "true to its name". 	nomen nescio (n.n.)	i do not know the name	thus, the name or person in question is unknown. 	nomen nudum	naked name	a purported scientific name that does not fulfill the proper formal criteria and therefore cannot be used unless it is subsequently proposed correctly. 	non auro, sed ferro, recuperanda est patria	not gold, but iron redeems the native land	according to some roman this sentence was said by marcus furius camillus to brennus, the chief of the gauls, after he demanded more gold from the citizens of the recently sacked rome in bc. 	non bene pro toto libertas venditur auro	liberty is not well sold for all the gold	motto of republic of ragusa, inscribed over the gates of st. lawrence fortress. from gualterus anglicus's version of aesop's fable "the dog and the wolf". 	non bis in idem	not twice in the same thing	a legal principle forbidding double jeopardy. 	non canimus surdis, respondent omnia silvae	we sing not to the deaf; the trees echo every word	virgil, eclogues : 	non causa pro causa	not the cause for the cause	also known as the "questionable cause" or "false cause". refers to any logical fallacy where a cause is incorrectly identified. 	non compos mentis	not in control of the mind	see compos mentis. also rendered non compos sui (not in control of himself). samuel johnson, author of the first english dictionary, theorized that the word nincompoop may derive from this phrase. 	non constat	it is not certain	used to explain scientific phenomena and religious advocations, for example in medieval history, for rulers to issue a 'non constat' decree, banning the worship of a holy figure. in legal context, occasionally a backing for nulling information that was presented by an attorney. without any tangible proof, non constat information is difficult to argue for. 	non ducor, duco	i am not led; i lead	motto of são paulo city, brazil. see also pro brasilia fiant eximia. 	non est factum	it is not [my] deed	a doctrine in contract law that allows a signing party to escape performance of the agreement. a claim of "non est factum" means that the signature on the contract was signed by mistake, without knowledge of its meaning, but was not done so negligently. a successful plea would make the contract void ab initio. 	non est princeps super leges, sed leges supra principem	the prince is not above the laws, but the law is above the prince.	pliny the younger, panegyricus : . 	non extinguetur	shall not be extinguished	motto of the society of antiquaries of london accompanying their lamp of knowledge emblem 	non facias malum ut inde fiat bonum	you should not make evil in order that good may be made from it	more simply, "don't do wrong to do right". the direct opposite of the phrase "the ends justify the means". 	non hos quaesitum munus in usus	a gift sought for no such purpose	virgil, aeneid, : , of the sword with which dido will commit suicide. "not for so dire an enterprise design’d." (dryden trans.; )[ ] "a gift asked for no use like this." (mackail trans.; ).[ ] "ne'er given for an end so dire." (taylor trans.; )[ ] "a gift not asked for use like this!" (williams trans.; ).[ ] quoted by francis bacon of the civil law, "not made for the countries it governeth". 	non impediti ratione cogitationis	unencumbered by the thought process	motto of radio show car talk 	non in legendo sed in intelligendo leges consistunt	the laws depend not on being read, but on being understood	 	non liquet	it is not proven	also "it is not clear" or "it is not evident". a sometimes controversial decision handed down by a judge when they feel that the law is not complete. 	non loqui sed facere	not talk but action	motto of the university of western australia's engineering faculty student society. 	non mihi solum	not for myself alone	motto of anderson junior college, singapore. 	non ministrari sed ministrare	not to be served, but to serve	motto of wellesley college and shimer college (from matthew : in the vulgate). 	non multa sed multum	not quantity but quality	motto of the daniel pearl magnet high school. 	non nobis domine	not to us (oh) lord	christian hymn based on psalm . 	non nobis nati	'born not for ourselves'	motto of st albans school (hertfordshire) 	non nobis solum	not for ourselves alone	appears in cicero's de officiis book : in the form non nobis solum nati sumus (we are not born for ourselves alone). motto of lower canada college, montreal and university college, durham university, and willamette university. 	non numerantur, sed ponderantur	they are not counted, but weighed	old saying. paul erdős ( – ), in the man who loved only numbers by paul hoffman[ ] 	non obstante veredicto	not standing in the way of a verdict	a judgment notwithstanding verdict, a legal motion asking the court to reverse the jury's verdict on the grounds that the jury could not have reached such a verdict reasonably. 	non olet	it doesn't smell	see pecunia non olet. 	non omnia possumus omnest	not everyone can do everything	virgil, eclogues : (and others). 	non omnis moriar	i shall not all die	horace, carmina / : . "not all of me will die", a phrase expressing the belief that a part of the speaker will survive beyond death. 	non plus ultra	nothing further beyond	the ultimate. see also 'ne plus ultra' 	non possumus	not possible	 	non possunt primi esse omnes omni in tempore	not everyone can occupy the first rank forever	(it is impossible always to excel) decimus laberius. 	non progredi est regredi	to not go forward is to go backward	 	non prosequitur	he does not proceed	a judgment in favor of a defendant when the plaintiff failed to take the necessary steps in an action within the time allowed. 	non scholae sed vitae	[we learn] not for school but for life	an inversion of non vitae sed scholae now used as a school motto 	non qui parum habet, set qui plus cupit, pauper est	it is not he who has little, but he who wants more, who is the pauper.	seneca the younger, epistulae morales ad lucilium, : . 	non quis sed quid	not who but what	used in the sense "what matters is not who says it but what he says" – a warning against ad hominem arguments; frequently used as motto, including that of southwestern university. 	non sequitur	it does not follow	in general, a comment which is absurd due to not making sense in its context (rather than due to being inherently nonsensical or internally inconsistent), often used in humor. as a logical fallacy, a conclusion that does not follow from a premise. 	non serviam	i will not serve	possibly derived from a vulgate mistranslation of the book of jeremiah. commonly used in literature as satan's statement of disobedience to god, though in the original context the quote is attributed to israel, not satan. 	non sibi	not for self	a slogan used by many schools and universities. 	non sibi, sed patriae	not for self, but for country	engraved on the doors of the united states naval academy chapel; motto of the uss halyburton (ffg- ). 	non sibi, sed suis	not for one's self but for one's own	a slogan used by many schools and universities. 	non sibi, sed omnibus	not for one's self but for all	a slogan used by many schools and universities. 	non sic dormit, sed vigilat	sleeps not but is awake	martin luther on mortality of the soul. 	non silba, sed anthar; deo vindice	not for self, but for others; god will vindicate	a slogan used by the ku klux klan 	non sum qualis eram	i am not such as i was	or "i am not the kind of person i once was". expresses a change in the speaker. horace, odes / : . 	non teneas aurum totum quod splendet ut aurum	do not hold as gold all that shines as gold	also, "all that glitters is not gold." shakespeare in the merchant of venice. 	non timebo mala	i will fear no evil	it is possibly a reference to psalm . printed on the colt in supernatural. 	non vestra sed vos	not yours but you	motto of st chad's college, durham. 	non vitae sed scholae	[we learn] not for life but for schooltime	from a passage of occupatio in seneca the younger's moral letters to lucilius,[ ] wherein lucilius is given the argument that too much literature fails to prepare students for life 	non vi, sed verbo	not by force, but by the word [of god]	from martin luther's "invocavit sermons" preached in march, , against the zwickau prophets unrest in wittenberg;[ ] later echoed in the augsburg confession as ...sine vi humana, sed verbo: bishops should act "without human force, but through the word".[ ] 	nosce te ipsum	know thyself	from cicero, based on the greek γνῶθι σεαυτόν (gnothi seauton), inscribed on the pronaos of the temple of apollo at delphi, according to the greek periegetic writer pausanias ( . . ). a non-traditional latin rendering, temet nosce (thine own self know), is translated in the matrix as "know thyself". 	noscitur a sociis	a word is known by the company it keeps	in statutory interpretation, when a word is ambiguous, its meaning may be determined by reference to the rest of the statute. 	noster nostri	literally "our ours"	approximately "our hearts beat as one." 	nota bene	mark well	that is, "please note" or "note it well". 	novus ordo seclorum	new order of the ages	from virgil. motto on the great seal of the united states. similar to novus ordo mundi (new world order). 	nulla dies sine linea	not a day without a line drawn	pliny the elder attributes this maxim to apelles, an ancient greek artist. 	nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo	no day shall erase you from the memory of time	from virgil's aeneid, book ix, line , on the episode of nisus and euryalus. 	nulla poena sine lege	no penalty without a law	refers to the legal principle that one cannot be punished for doing something that is not prohibited by law, and is related to nullum crimen, nulla poena sine praevia lege poenali. 	nulla quaestio	there is no question, there is no issue 	nulla tenaci invia est via	for the tenacious, no road is impassable	motto of the dutch car builder spyker. 	nullam rem natam	no thing born	that is, "nothing". it has been theorized that this expression is the origin of italian nulla, french rien, and spanish and portuguese nada, all with the same meaning. 	nulli secundus	second to none	motto of the coldstream guards and nine squadron royal australian corps of transport and the pretoria regiment. 	nullius in verba	on the word of no man	motto of the royal society. 	nullum crimen, nulla poena sine praevia lege poenali	no crime, no punishment without a previous penal law	legal principle meaning that one cannot be penalised for doing something that is not prohibited by law; penal law cannot be enacted retroactively. 	nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit	there has been no great wisdom without an element of madness	 	numen lumen	god our light	the motto of the university of wisconsin-madison. the motto of elon university. 	numerus clausus	closed number	a method to limit the number of students who may study at a university. 	nunc aut nunquam	now or never	motto of the korps commandotroepen, dutch elite special forces. 	nunc dimittis	now you send	beginning of the song of simeon, from the gospel of luke. 	nunc est bibendum	now is the time to drink	carpe-diem-type phrase from the odes of horace, nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero pulsanda tellus (now is the time to drink, now the time to dance footloose upon the earth). 	nunc pro tunc	now for then	something that has retroactive effect, is effective from an earlier date. 	nunc scio quid sit amor	now i know what love is	from virgil, eclogues viii. 	nunquam minus solus quam cum solus	never less alone than when alone	 	nunquam non paratus	never unprepared, ever ready, always ready	frequently used as motto 	nunquam obliviscar	never forget	 references[edit] 	^ hall, a. rupert. unpublished scientific papers of isaac newton: a selection from the portsmouth collection in the university library, cambridge. isbn  . 	^ "lxvi". de natura deorum. cambridge university press. – via internet archive. 	^ virgil's aeneid translated by john dryden ( ). 	^ the aeneid of virgil translated into english by john william mackail ( ), book fourth: the love of dido, and her end. 	^ the aeneid of vergil translated into english by e. fairfax taylor [ ] ( ), book four, lxxxv. 	^ aeneid translated by theodore c. williams ( ). 	^ paul hoffman ( ). the man who loved only numbers. p.  . 	^ seneca the younger. moral letters to lucilius, . hosted at wikisource. 	^ the cambridge companion to martin luther, p.  . cambridge university press (cambridge), . 	^ "confessio augustana", § . . hosted at christian classics ethereal library. additional references 	adeleye, gabriel g. 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encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 this article is about the classical roman city. for the modern italian city, see pompei. for the classical roman leader, see pompey. for the roman family, see pompeia gens. for the pacific island, see pohnpei. for other uses, see pompeii (disambiguation). ancient roman city near modern naples, italy pompeii	view of pompeii and mount vesuvius 	 shown within italy 	location	pompei, province of naples, campania, italy 	coordinates	 ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; . coordinates: ° ′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; . 	type	settlement 	area	 to  ha ( acres) 	history 	founded	 th– th century bc 	abandoned	ad 	site notes 	website	www.pompeiisites.org 	 	 unesco world heritage site 	official name	archaeological areas of pompeii, herculaneum, and torre annunziata 	type	cultural 	criteria	iii, iv, v 	designated	 ( st session) 	reference no.	 	region	europe 	 	 pompeii (/pɒmˈpeɪ(i)/, latin: [pɔmˈpeːjjiː]) was an ancient city located in what is now the comune of pompei near naples in the campania region of italy. pompeii, along with herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area (e.g. at boscoreale, stabiae), was buried under to  m ( to  ft) of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of mount vesuvius in ad . largely preserved under the ash, the excavated city offered a unique snapshot of roman life, frozen at the moment it was buried,[ ] and an extraordinarily detailed insight into the everyday life of its inhabitants, although much of the evidence was lost in the early excavations. it was a wealthy town, enjoying many fine public buildings and luxurious private houses with lavish decorations, furnishings and works of art which were the main attractions for the early excavators. organic remains, including wooden objects and human bodies, were entombed in the ash. over time, they decayed, leaving voids which archaeologists found could be used as moulds to make plaster casts of unique — and often gruesome — figures in their final moments of life. the numerous graffiti carved on the walls and inside rooms provide a wealth of examples of the largely lost vulgar latin spoken colloquially at the time, contrasting with the formal language of the classical writers. pompeii is a unesco world heritage site and is one of the most popular tourist attractions in italy, with approximately .  million visitors annually.[ ] after many excavations prior to that had uncovered most of the city but left it in decay,[ ] further major excavations were banned and instead they were limited to targeted, prioritised areas. in , these led to new discoveries in some previously unexplored areas of the city.[ ][ ][ ][ ] contents 	 name 	 geography 	 history 	 . early history 	 . the samnite period 	 . the roman period 	 . . ad – 	 . eruption of vesuvius 	 . rediscovery and excavations 	 . modern archaeology 	 . conservation 	 . . house of the gladiators collapse 	 roman city development 	 . buildings 	 . erotic art 	 tourism 	 in popular culture 	 documentaries 	 gallery 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links name pompeii (pronounced [pɔmˈpɛjjiː]) in latin is a second declension plural noun (pompeiī, -ōrum). according to theodor kraus, "the root of the word pompeii would appear to be the oscan word for the number five, pompe, which suggests that either the community consisted of five hamlets or perhaps it was settled by a family group (gens pompeia)."[ ] the forum with vesuvius in the distance geography pompeii was built about metres (  ft) above sea level on a coastal lava plateau created by earlier eruptions of mount vesuvius, (  km ( .  mi) distant). the plateau fell steeply to the south and partly the west and into the sea. three sheets of sediment from large landslides lie on top of the lava, perhaps triggered by extended rainfall.[ ] the city bordered the coastline, though today it is metres ( ,  ft) away. the mouth of the navigable sarno river, adjacent to the city, was protected by lagoons and served early greek and phoenician sailors as a safe haven and port which was developed further by the romans. pompeii covered a total of to hectares ( to acres) and was home to , to , people, based on household counts.[ ] history although best known for its roman remains visible today dating from ad , it was built upon a substantial city dating from much earlier times. expansion of the city from an early nucleus (the old town) accelerated already from bc under the greeks after the battle of cumae.[ ] early history settlement phases of pompeii red: st (samnite) town blue: st expansion, th c. bc green: nd expansion yellow: roman expansion, from bc the first stable settlements on the site date back to the th century bc when the oscans,[ ] a people of central italy, founded five villages in the area. with the arrival of the greeks in campania from around bc, pompeii entered the orbit of the hellenic people and the most important building of this period is the doric temple, built away from the centre in what would later become the triangular forum.[ ]: at the same time the cult of apollo was introduced.[ ] greek and phoenician sailors used the location as a safe port. in the early th century bc, the settlement merged into a single community centred on the important crossroad between cumae, nola, and stabiae and was surrounded by a tufa city wall (the pappamonte wall).[ ][ ] the first wall (which was also used as a base for the later wall) unusually enclosed a much greater area than the early town together with much agricultural land.[ ] that such an impressive wall was built at this time indicates that the settlement was already important and wealthy. the city began to flourish and maritime trade started with the construction of a small port near the mouth of the river.[ ] the earliest settlement was focused in regions vii and viii of the town (the old town) as identified from stratigraphy below the samnite and roman buildings, as well as from the different and irregular street plan. in bc, the etruscans arrived and settled in the area, including pompeii, finding in the river sarno a communication route between the sea and the interior. like the greeks, the etruscans did not conquer the city militarily, but simply controlled it and pompeii enjoyed a sort of autonomy.[ ]: nevertheless, pompeii became a member of the etruscan league of cities.[ ] excavations in – have shown the presence of etruscan inscriptions and a th-century bc necropolis.[ ] under the etruscans a primitive forum or simple market square was built, as well as the temple of apollo, in both of which objects including fragments of bucchero were found by maiuri.[ ] several houses were built with the so-called tuscan atrium, typical of this people.[ ]: the city wall was strengthened in the early- th century bc with two façades of relatively thin, vertically set, slabs of sarno limestone some four metres apart filled with earth (the orthostate wall).[ ] in bc the greek city of cumae, allied with syracuse, defeated the etruscans at the battle of cumae and gained control of the area. the samnite period city walls south of the nocera gate the period between about – bc witnessed large areas of the city being abandoned while important sanctuaries such as the temple of apollo show a sudden lack of votive material remains.[ ] the samnites, people from the areas of abruzzo and molise, and allies of the romans, conquered greek cumae between and bc and it is likely that all the surrounding territory, including pompeii, was already conquered around bc. the new rulers gradually imposed their architecture and enlarged the town. from – bc in the samnite wars, the first roman army entered the campanian plain bringing with it the customs and traditions of rome, and in the roman latin war from bc the samnites were faithful to rome. pompeii, although governed by the samnites, entered the roman orbit, to which it remained faithful even during the third samnite war and in the war against pyrrhus. in the late th century bc the city began to expand from its nucleus and into the open walled area. the street plan of the new areas was more regular and more conformal to hippodamus's street plan. the city walls were reinforced in sarno stone in the early rd century bc (the limestone enceinte, or the "first samnite wall"). it formed the basis for the currently visible walls with an outer wall of rectangular limestone blocks as a terrace wall supporting a large agger, or earth embankment, behind it. after the samnite wars from bc, pompeii was forced to accept the status of socii of rome, maintaining, however, linguistic and administrative autonomy. the temple of jupiter from the outbreak of the second punic war ( – bc) in which pompeii remained faithful to rome, an additional internal wall was built of tufa and the internal agger and outer façade raised resulting in a double parapet with wider wall-walk.[ ] despite the political uncertainty of these events and the progressive migration of wealthy men to quieter cities in the eastern mediterranean, pompeii continued to flourish due to the production and trade of wine and oil with places like provence and spain,[ ] as well as to intensive agriculture on farms around the city. in the nd century bc, pompeii enriched itself by taking part in rome's conquest of the east as shown by a statue of apollo in the forum erected by lucius mummius in gratitude for their support in the sack of corinth and the eastern campaigns. these riches enabled pompeii to bloom and expand to its ultimate limits. the forum and many public and private buildings of high architectural quality were built, including teatro grande, the temple of jupiter, the basilica, the comitium, the stabian baths and a new two-story portico.[ ] the roman period annotated map of pompeii pompeii was one of the towns of campania that rebelled against rome in the social wars and in bc it was besieged by sulla, who targeted the strategically vulnerable porta ercolano with his artillery as can still be seen by the impact craters of thousands of ballista shots in the walls. many nearby buildings inside the walls were also destroyed.[ ] although the battle-hardened troops of the social league, headed by lucius cluentius, helped in resisting the romans, pompeii was forced to surrender after the conquest of nola. the result was that pompeii became a roman colony with the name of colonia cornelia veneria pompeianorum. many of sulla's veterans were given land and property in and around the city, while many of those who opposed rome were dispossessed of their property. despite this, the pompeians were granted roman citizenship and they were quickly assimilated into the roman world. the main language in the city became latin,[ ] and many of pompeii's old aristocratic families latinized their names as a sign of assimilation.[ ] fresco depicting the fight in the amphitheatre between pompeians and nucerians the city became an important passage for goods that arrived by sea and had to be sent toward rome or southern italy along the nearby appian way. many public buildings were built or refurbished and improved under the new order; new buildings included the amphitheatre of pompeii in bc, the forum baths, and the odeon, while the forum was embellished with the colonnade of popidius before bc.[ ] these buildings raised the status of pompeii as a cultural centre in the region as it outshone its neighbours in the number of places for entertainment which significantly enhanced the social and economic development of the city. under augustus, from about bc a major expansion in new public buildings, as in the rest of the empire, included the eumachia building, the sanctuary of augustus and the macellum. from about bc, pompeii was fed with running water by a spur from the serino aqueduct, built by marcus vipsanius agrippa. in ad , there was a serious riot and bloodshed in the amphitheatre between pompeians and nucerians (which is recorded in a fresco) and which led the roman senate to send the praetorian guard to restore order and to ban further events for a period of ten years.[ ][ ] ad – the inhabitants of pompeii had long been used to minor earthquakes (indeed, the writer pliny the younger wrote that earth tremors "were not particularly alarming because they are frequent in campania"), but on february [ ] a severe earthquake did considerable damage around the bay, and particularly to pompeii. it is believed that the earthquake would have registered between about and on the richter magnitude scale.[ ] on that day in pompeii, there were to be two sacrifices, as it was the anniversary of augustus being named "father of the nation" and also a feast day to honour the guardian spirits of the city. chaos followed the earthquake; fires caused by oil lamps that had fallen during the quake added to the panic. the nearby cities of herculaneum and nuceria were also affected.[ ] between and the eruption in most rebuilding was done in the private sector and older, damaged frescoes were often covered with newer ones, for example. in the public sector the opportunity was taken to improve buildings and the city plan e.g. in the forum.[ ] an important field of current research concerns structures that were restored between the earthquake of and the eruption. it was thought until recently that some of the damage had still not been repaired at the time of the eruption but this has been shown to be doubtful as the evidence of missing forum statues and marble wall-veneers are most likely due to robbers after the city's burial.[ ][ ] the public buildings on the east side of the forum were largely restored and were even enhanced by beautiful marble veneers and other modifications to the architecture.[ ] some buildings like the central baths were only started after the earthquake and were built to enhance the city with modern developments in their architecture, as had been done in rome, in terms of wall-heating and window glass, and with well-lit spacious rooms. the new baths took over a whole insula by demolishing houses, which may have been made easier by the earthquake that had damaged these houses. this shows that the city was still flourishing rather than struggling to recover from the earthquake.[ ] in about , nero and his wife poppaea visited pompeii and made gifts to the temple of venus (the city's patron deity),[ ] probably when he performed in the theatre of naples.[ ] by , pompeii had a population of , ,[ ] which had prospered from the region's renowned agricultural fertility and favourable location. eruption of vesuvius main article: eruption of mount vesuvius in ad pompeii and other cities affected by the eruption of mount vesuvius. the black cloud represents the general distribution of ash and cinder. modern coast lines are shown. illustrated reconstruction, from a cyark/university of ferrara research partnership, of how the temple of apollo may have looked before mt. vesuvius erupted the same location today. the eruption lasted for two days.[ ] the first phase was of pumice rain (lapilli) lasting about hours, allowing most inhabitants to escape. that only approximately , bodies[ ] have so far been found on site seems to confirm this theory and most escapees probably managed to salvage some of their most valuable belongings; many skeletons were found with jewellery, coins and silverware. at some time in the night or early the next day, pyroclastic flows began near the volcano, consisting of high speed, dense, and very hot ash clouds, knocking down wholly or partly all structures in their path, incinerating or suffocating the remaining population and altering the landscape, including the coastline. by evening of the second day, the eruption was over, leaving only haze in the atmosphere through which the sun shone weakly. a multidisciplinary volcanological and bio-anthropological study[ ] of the eruption products and victims, merged with numerical simulations and experiments, indicates that at pompeii and surrounding towns heat was the main cause of death of people, previously believed to have died by ash suffocation. the results of the study, published in , show that exposure to at least  °c (  °f) hot pyroclastic flows at a distance of kilometres ( miles) from the vent was sufficient to cause instant death, even if people were sheltered within buildings. the people and buildings of pompeii were covered in up to twelve different layers of tephra, in total up to metres ( .  ft) deep. pliny the younger provided a first-hand account of the eruption of mount vesuvius from his position across the bay of naples at misenum but written years after the event.[ ] his uncle, pliny the elder, with whom he had a close relationship, died while attempting to rescue stranded victims. as admiral of the fleet, pliny the elder had ordered the ships of the imperial navy stationed at misenum to cross the bay to assist evacuation attempts. volcanologists have recognised the importance of pliny the younger's account of the eruption by calling similar events "plinian". it had long been thought that the eruption was an august event based on one version of the letter but another version[ ] gives a date of the eruption as late as november. a later date is consistent with a charcoal inscription at the site, discovered in , which includes the date of october and which must have been recently written.[ ] clear support for an october/november eruption is found in the fact that people buried in the ash appear to have been wearing heavier clothing than the light summer clothes typical of august. the fresh fruit and vegetables in the shops are typical of october – and conversely the summer fruit typical of august was already being sold in dried, or conserved form. nuts from chestnut trees were found at oplontis which would not have been mature before mid-september.[ ] wine fermenting jars had been sealed, which would have happened around the end of october. coins found in the purse of a woman buried in the ash include one with a th imperatorial acclamation among the emperor's titles. these coins could not have been minted before the second week of september.[ ] rediscovery and excavations periods/areas of excavations titus appointed two ex-consuls to organise a relief effort, while donating large amounts of money from the imperial treasury to aid the victims of the volcano.[ ] he visited pompeii once after the eruption and again the following year[ ] but no work was done on recovery. soon after the burial of the city, survivors and possibly thieves came to salvage valuables, including the marble statues from the forum and other precious materials from buildings. there is wide evidence of post-eruption disturbance, including holes made through walls. the city was not completely buried, and tops of larger buildings would have been above the ash making it obvious where to dig or salvage building material.[ ] the robbers left traces of their passage, as in a house where modern archaeologists found a wall graffito saying "house dug".[ ] over the following centuries, its name and location were forgotten, though it still appeared on the tabula peutingeriana of the th century. further eruptions particularly in – and covered the remains more deeply. the area became known as the la civita (the city) due to the features in the ground.[ ] plan of fontana's aqueduct through pompeii the next known date that any part was unearthed was in , when architect domenico fontana while digging an underground aqueduct to the mills of torre annunziata ran into ancient walls covered with paintings and inscriptions. his aqueduct passed through and under a large part of the city[ ] and would have had to pass though many buildings and foundations, as still can be seen in many places today, but he kept quiet and nothing more came of the discovery. in , francesco picchetti saw a wall inscription mentioning decurio pompeiis ("town councillor of pompeii"), but he associated it with a villa of pompey. franceso bianchini pointed out the true meaning and he was supported by giuseppe macrini, who in excavated some walls and wrote that pompeii lay beneath la civita.[ ] herculaneum itself was rediscovered in by workmen digging for the foundations of a summer palace for the king of naples, charles of bourbon. due to the spectacular quality of the finds, the spanish military engineer rocque joaquin de alcubierre made excavations to find further remains at the site of pompeii in , even if the city was not identified.[ ] charles of bourbon took great interest in the finds, even after leaving to become king of spain, because the display of antiquities reinforced the political and cultural prestige of naples.[ ] on august , an inscription [...] rei publicae pompeianorum [...] was found and the city was identified as pompeii.[ ] "garden of the fugitives". plaster casts of victims still in situ; many casts are in the archaeological museum of naples. karl weber directed the first scientific excavations.[ ] he was followed in by military engineer franscisco la vega, who was succeeded by his brother, pietro, in .[ ] there was much progress in exploration when the french occupied naples in and ruled over italy from to . the land on which pompeii lies was expropriated and up to workers were used in the excavations. the excavated areas in the north and south were connected. parts of the via dell'abbondanza were also exposed in west–east direction and for the first time an impression of the size and appearance of the ancient town could be appreciated. in the following years, the excavators struggled with lack of money and excavations progressed slowly, but with significant finds such as the houses of the faun, of menandro, of the tragic poet and of the surgeon. giuseppe fiorelli took charge of the excavations in and made greater progress.[ ] during early excavations of the site, occasional voids in the ash layer had been found that contained human remains. it was fiorelli who realised these were spaces left by the decomposed bodies and so devised the technique of injecting plaster into them to recreate the forms of vesuvius's victims. this technique is still in use today, with a clear resin now used instead of plaster because it is more durable, and does not destroy the bones, allowing further analysis.[ ] fiorelli also introduced scientific documentation. he divided the city into the present nine areas (regiones) and blocks (insulae) and numbered the entrances of the individual houses (domus), so that each is identified by these three numbers. fiorelli also published the first periodical with excavation reports. under fiorelli's successors the entire west of the city was exposed. modern archaeology via dell'abbondanza, the main street in pompeii. excavations conducted by gennaro matrone at torre annunziata between july and february uncovered a portion of pompeii which had been situated on the seashore. discoveries included a row of shops, a large amount of jewelry, vases, statuettes, coins of gold, silver, and bronze, and more than skeletons.[ ] antonio sogliano was director of archeological works at pompeii from until .[ ] during this time, he was also curator at the national archaeological museum of naples and professor of antiquities at the university of naples federico ii. he oversaw the restoration of the house of the vettii during that time. in the s, amedeo maiuri excavated for the first time in older layers than that of ad in order to learn about the settlement history. maiuri made the last excavations on a grand scale in the s, and the area south of the via dell'abbondanza and the city wall was almost completely uncovered, but they were poorly documented scientifically. preservation was haphazard and presents today's archaeologists with great difficulty. questionable reconstruction was done in the s and s after the severe earthquake of , which caused great destruction. since then, except for targeted soundings and excavations, work was confined to the excavated areas. further excavations on a large scale are not planned and today archaeologists are engaged in reconstructing, documenting and slowing the decay of the ruins. under the 'great pompeii project' over .  km of ancient walls are being relieved of danger of collapse by treating the unexcavated areas behind the street fronts in order to increase drainage and reduce the pressure of groundwater and earth on the walls, a problem especially in the rainy season. as of august , these excavations have resumed on unexcavated areas of regio v.[ ] archaeological park officials said on november that the remains of two men — thought to be a rich man and his slave — were found in a -meter thick layer of ash. they appeared to have escaped the first eruption but were killed by a second blast the next day. a study of the bones showed that one was younger and appeared to have done manual labour, and the other was older.[ ] conservation main article: conservation issues of pompeii and herculaneum see also: conservation and restoration of pompeian frescoes objects buried beneath pompeii were well-preserved for almost , years as the lack of air and moisture allowed little to no deterioration. however, once exposed, pompeii has been subject to both natural and man-made forces, which have rapidly increased deterioration. the buildings on the left show signs of decay due to the infestation of various plants, while the debris accumulating on the footpath indicates erosion of the infrastructure. the footpaths and road have also been worn down by pedestrian activity since excavation. weathering, erosion, light exposure, water damage, poor methods of excavation and reconstruction, introduced plants and animals, tourism, vandalism and theft have all damaged the site in some way. the lack of adequate weather protection of all but the most interesting and important buildings has allowed original interior decoration to fade or be lost. two-thirds of the city has been excavated, but the remnants of the city are rapidly deteriorating.[ ] furthermore, during world war ii many buildings were badly damaged or destroyed by bombs dropped in several raids by the allied forces.[ ] the concern for conservation has continually troubled archaeologists. the ancient city was included in the world monuments watch by the world monuments fund, and again in and in . in the organisation claimed that pompeii "desperately need[ed] repair" and called for the drafting of a general plan of restoration and interpretation.[ ] the organisation supported conservation at pompeii with funding from american express and the samuel h. kress foundation.[ ] today, funding is mostly directed into conservation of the site; however, due to the expanse of pompeii and the scale of the problems, this is inadequate in halting the slow decay of the materials. a study recommended an improved strategy for interpretation and presentation of the site as a cost-effective method of improving its conservation and preservation in the short term.[ ] in june , unesco declared: if restoration and preservation works "fail to deliver substantial progress in the next two years," pompeii could be placed on the list of world heritage in danger.[ ] house of the gladiators collapse the , -year-old schola armatorum ('house of the gladiators') collapsed on november . the structure was not open to visitors, but the outside was visible to tourists. there was no immediate determination as to what caused the building to collapse, although reports suggested water infiltration following heavy rains might have been responsible. there has been fierce controversy after the collapse, with accusations of neglect.[ ][ ] roman city development the macellum under the romans after the conquest by sulla in bc, pompeii underwent a process of urban development which accelerated in the augustan period from about bc. new public buildings include the amphitheatre with palaestra or gymnasium with a central natatorium (cella natatoria) or swimming pool, two theatres, the eumachia building and at least four public baths. the amphitheatre has been cited by scholars as a model of sophisticated design, particularly in the area of crowd control.[ ] other service buildings were the macellum ("meat market"); the pistrinum ("mill"); the thermopolium (a fast food place that served hot and cold dishes and beverages), and cauponae ("cafes" or "dives" with a seedy reputation as hangouts for thieves and prostitutes). at least one building, the lupanar, was dedicated to prostitution.[ ] a large hotel or hospitium (of , square metres) was found at murecine, a short distance from pompeii, when the naples-salerno motorway was being built, and the murecine silver treasure and the tablets providing a unique record of business transactions were discovered.[ ][ ] an aqueduct provided water to the public baths, to more than street fountains, and to many private houses (domūs) and businesses. the aqueduct was a branch of the great serino aqueduct built to serve the other large towns in the bay of naples region and the important naval base at misenum. the castellum aquae is well preserved, and includes many details of the distribution network and its controls.[ ] view of the forum modern archaeologists have excavated garden sites and urban domains to reveal the agricultural staples of pompeii's economy. pompeii was fortunate to have had fertile soil for crop cultivation. the soils surrounding mount vesuvius preceding its eruption have been revealed to have had good water-retention capabilities, implying productive agriculture. the tyrrhenian sea's airflow provided hydration to the soil despite the hot, dry climate.[ ] barley, wheat, and millet were all produced along with wine and olive oil, in abundance for export to other regions.[ ] evidence of wine imported nationally from pompeii in its most prosperous years can be found from recovered artefacts such as wine bottles in rome.[ ] for this reason, vineyards were of utmost importance to pompeii's economy. agricultural policymaker columella suggested that each vineyard in rome produced a quota of three cullei of wine per jugerum, otherwise the vineyard would be uprooted. the nutrient-rich lands near pompeii were extremely efficient at this and were often able to exceed these requirements by a steep margin, therefore providing the incentive for local wineries to establish themselves.[ ] while wine was exported for pompeii's economy, the majority of the other agricultural goods were likely produced in quantities sufficient for the city's consumption. remains of large formations of constructed wineries were found in the forum boarium, covered by cemented casts from the eruption of vesuvius.[ ] it is speculated that these historical vineyards are strikingly similar in structure to the modern day vineyards across italy. carbonised food plant remains, roots, seeds and pollens, have been found from gardens in pompeii, herculaneum, and from the roman villa at torre annunziata. they revealed that emmer wheat, italian millet, common millet, walnuts, pine nuts, chestnuts, hazel nuts, chickpeas, bitter vetch, broad beans, olives, figs, pears, onions, garlic, peaches, carob, grapes, and dates were consumed. all but the dates could have been produced locally.[ ] buildings public buildings: 	amphitheatre of pompeii 	eumachia building 	macellum of pompeii 	suburban baths (pompeii) 	temple of apollo (pompeii) 	temple of isis (pompeii) 	temple of jupiter (pompeii) 	theatre area of pompeii town houses: 	house of the centenary 	house of the faun 	house of julia felix 	house of loreius tiburtinus 	house of menander 	house of the prince of naples 	house of sallust 	house of the silver wedding 	house of the surgeon 	house of the tragic poet 	house of the vettii exterior villas: 	villa of diomedes 	villa of the mysteries other: 	lupanar (pompeii) erotic art fresco from the casa del centenario bedroom the discovery of erotic art in pompeii and herculaneum left the archaeologists with a dilemma stemming from the clash of cultures between the mores of sexuality in ancient rome and in counter-reformation europe. an unknown number of discoveries were hidden away again. a wall fresco depicting priapus, the ancient god of sex and fertility, with his grotesquely enlarged penis, was covered with plaster. an older reproduction was locked away "out of prudishness" and opened only on request – and only rediscovered in due to rainfall.[ ] in , an ancient fresco depicting an erotic scene of "leda and the swan" was discovered at pompeii.[ ] many artefacts from the buried cities are preserved in the naples national archaeological museum. in , when king francis visited the pompeii exhibition there with his wife and daughter, he was so embarrassed by the erotic artwork that he had it locked away in a "secret cabinet" (gabinetto segreto), a gallery within the museum accessible only to "people of mature age and respected morals". re-opened, closed, re-opened again and then closed again for nearly years, the naples "secret museum" was briefly made accessible again at the end of the s (the time of the sexual revolution) and was finally re-opened for viewing in . minors are still allowed entry only in the presence of a guardian or with written permission.[ ] tourism the forum pompeii has been a popular tourist destination for over years;[ ] it was on the grand tour. by , it was attracting almost .  million visitors per year, making it one of the most popular tourist sites in italy.[ ] it is part of a larger vesuvius national park and was declared a world heritage site by unesco in . to combat problems associated with tourism, the governing body for pompeii, the 'soprintendenza archeologica di pompei', have begun issuing new tickets that allow tourists to visit cities such as herculaneum and stabiae as well as the villa poppaea, to encourage visitors to see these sites and reduce pressure on pompeii. pompeii is a driving force behind the economy of the nearby town of pompei. many residents are employed in the tourism and hospitality industry, serving as taxi or bus drivers, waiters, or hotel staff.[citation needed] excavations at the site have generally ceased due to a moratorium imposed by the superintendent of the site, professor pietro giovanni guzzo. the site is generally less accessible to tourists than in the past, with less than a third of all buildings open in the s being available for public viewing today. in popular culture main article: pompeii in popular culture karl brullov, the last day of pompeii ( – ) the film journey to italy, starring george sanders and ingrid bergman, includes a scene at pompeii in which they witness the excavation of a cast of a couple who perished in the eruption. pompeii was the setting for the british comedy television series up pompeii! and the movie of the series. pompeii also featured in the second episode of the fourth season of revived bbc science fiction series doctor who, named "the fires of pompeii",[ ] which featured caecilius as a character. the rock band pink floyd filmed a live concert, pink floyd: live at pompeii, in which they performed six songs in the city's ancient roman amphitheatre. the audience consisted only of the film's production crew and some local children. siouxsie and the banshees wrote and recorded the punk-inflected dance song "cities in dust", which describes the disaster that befell pompeii and herculaneum in ad . the song appears on their album tinderbox. the jacket of the single remix of the song features the plaster cast of a chained dog killed in pompeii. pompeii is a robert harris novel featuring an account of the aquarius's race to fix the broken aqueduct in the days before the eruption of vesuvius. the novel was inspired by actual events and people. "pompeii" is a song by the british band bastille. the lyrics refer to the city and the eruption of mount vesuvius. pompeii is a german-canadian historical disaster film produced and directed by paul w. s. anderson.[ ] years after the pink floyd recordings, guitarist david gilmour returned to the pompeii amphitheatre in to perform a live concert for his rattle that lock tour. this event was considered the first in the amphitheatre to feature an audience since the ad eruption of vesuvius.[ ][ ] documentaries 	in search of...'s episode no. focuses entirely on pompeii; it premiered on november , . 	the national geographic special in the shadow of vesuvius ( ) explores the sites of pompeii and herculaneum, interviews (then) leading archaeologists, and examines the events leading up to the eruption of vesuvius.[ ] 	ancient mysteries: pompeii: buried alive ( ), an a&e television documentary narrated by leonard nimoy.[ ] 	pompeii: the last day ( ), an hour-long drama produced for the bbc that portrays several characters (with historically attested names, but fictional life-stories) living in pompeii, herculaneum and around the bay of naples, and their last hours, including a fuller and his wife, two gladiators, and pliny the elder. it also portrays the facts of the eruption. 	pompeii and the ad eruption ( ), a two-hour tokyo broadcasting system documentary. 	pompeii live (june , ), a channel production featuring a live archaeological dig at pompeii and herculaneum[ ][ ] 	pompeii: the mystery of the people frozen in time ( ), a bbc one drama documentary presented by dr. margaret mountford.[ ] 	the riddle of pompeii (may , ), discovery channel.[ ] 	pompeii: the dead speak (august , ), smithsonian channel.[ ] 	pompeii's people (september , ), a cbc gem documentary presented by david suzuki.[ ] gallery 	 			 			 the basilica 			 		 	 			 			 fresco from the villa dei misteri 			 		 	 			 			 the forum 			 		 	 			 			 the temple of apollo 			 		 	 			 			 the house of the faun 			 		 	 			 			 the forum 			 		 see also 	mastroberardino, a project with the italian winery mastroberardino to replant the vineyards of pompeii 	robert rive, s photographer of pompeii 	luigi bazzani: watercolours of pompeii when first excavated. 	volcanic destruction 	armero tragedy, a city in colombia that suffered a similar fate in 	akrotiri, in santorini, greece, excavated ruins of a city that suffered a similar fate to pompeii more than years ago 	joya de cerén, a pre-columbian farming village in el salvador known as the "pompeii of the americas" 	plymouth, montserrat, former capital city buried by volcanic ash from the soufrière hills volcano in the s 	saint-pierre, martinique, town similarly destroyed by the volcanic eruption of mount pelee, in 	other 	dura-europos, also known as the "pompeii of the desert" 	aeclanum 	cumae references 	^ de carolis & patricelli , p.  	^ "dossier musei " (pdf). touring club italiano (in italian). archived from the original (pdf) on march , . retrieved september , . 	^ giovanni longobardi, sustainable pompeii, rome, l'erma di bretschneider, . isbn  - - - 	^ "homepage – pompeii sites portale ufficiale parco archeologico di pompei". pompeii sites. 	^ "pompeii victim crushed by boulder while fleeing eruption". bbc. may , . retrieved june , . 	^ squires, nick (april , ). 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"lethal thermal impact at periphery of pyroclastic surges: evidences at pompeii". plos one. ( ): e . bibcode: ploso... m. doi: . /journal.pone. . pmc  . pmid  . 	ozgenel, lalo ( april ). "a tale of two cities: in search of ancient pompeii and herculaneum" (pdf). journal of the faculty of archaeology. ankara: middle east technical university. ( ): – . retrieved january . 	pagano, mario ( ). i diari di scavo di pompeii, ercolano e stabiae di francesco e pietro la vega ( – ) (in italian). l'erma di bretschneidein. isbn  - - - . 	parslow, christopher ( ). rediscovering antiquity: karl weber and the excavation of herculaneum, pompeii, and stabiae. cambridge university press. isbn  - - - . 	perring, stefania ( ). pompeii: the wonders of the ancient world brought to life in vivid see-through reconstructions: then and now. macmillan books. isbn  - - - . 	rodríguez, cristina ( ). les mystères de pompéi (in french). Éditions du masque. isbn  - - - - . 	rowland, ingrid d. ( ). from pompeii: the afterlife of a roman town. cambridge, ma: belknap press. isbn  - . 	senatore, maria; stanley, jean-daniel; pescatore, tullio (november – , ). "avalanche-associated mass flows damaged pompeii several times before the vesuvius catastrophic eruption in the ce". denver annual meeting. cite journal requires |journal= (help) 	stefani, grete (october ). la vera data dell'eruzione. archeo. 	steven, ellis ( ). "the distribution of bars at pompeii: archaeological, spatial and viewshed analyses". journal of roman archaeology. ( ). issn  - . 	zarmati, louise ( ). heinemann ancient and medieval history: pompeii and herculaneum. heinemann. isbn  - - -x. external links pompeiiat wikipedia's sister projects 	definitions from wiktionary 	media from wikimedia commons 	news from wikinews 	quotations from wikiquote 	texts from wikisource 	textbooks from wikibooks 	travel guide from wikivoyage 	resources from wikiversity 	library resources about pompeii 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	official website 	pompeii at curlie 	data on new excavations from the international association for classical archaeology (aiac) 	ancient history encyclopedia – pompeii 	archaeological park of pompeii on google arts and culture platform 	forum of pompeii digital media archive (creative commons-licensed photos, laser scans, panoramas), data from a university of ferrara/cyark research partnership 	n. purcell; r. talbert; t. elliott; s. gillies. "places: (pompeii)". pleiades. retrieved march , . 		v 	t 	e archaeological sites in campania 	province of avellino	 	aeclanum 	aequum tuticum 	compsa 	 	province of benevento	 	benevento 	arch of trajan 	roman theatre 	caudium 	ligures baebiani 	saticula 	province of caserta	 	allifae 	ausona 	calatia 	cales 	santa maria capua vetere 	arch of hadrian (capua) 	amphitheatre of capua 	casilinum 	sant'angelo in formis 	sinuessa 	trebula balliensis 	vescia 	province of naples	 	atella 	baiae 	cumae 	grotta di cocceio 	herculaneum 	villa of the papyri 	liternum 	miseno 	piscina mirabilis 	naples 	aqua augusta 	bourbon tunnel 	catacombs of san gaudioso 	catacombs of san gennaro 	crypta neapolitana 	virgil's tomb 	macellum of naples 	oplontis 	villa poppaea 	palazzo a mare 	pompeii 	pozzuoli 	flavian amphitheater (pozzuoli) 	lucrinus lacus 	lake avernus 	macellum of pozzuoli 	portus julius 	stabiae 	suessula 	castello barbarossa 	villa jovis 	villa boscoreale 	province of salerno	 	monte 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republic 	constitution of the empire 	constitution of the late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	executive magistrates 	 precedent and law 	 	roman law 	ius 	imperium 	mos maiorum 	collegiality 	auctoritas 	roman citizenship 	cursus honorum 	senatus consultum 	senatus consultum ultimum 	 assemblies 	 	centuriate 	curiate 	plebeian 	tribal 	 ordinary magistrates 	 	consul 	praetor 	quaestor 	promagistrate 	aedile 	tribune 	censor 	governor 	 extraordinary magistrates 	 	corrector 	dictator 	magister equitum 	consular tribune 	rex 	triumviri 	decemviri 	 titles and honours 	 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	praeses 	praefectus 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 	 	other countries 		v 	t 	e roman law is the legal system of ancient rome, including the legal developments spanning over a thousand years of jurisprudence, from the twelve tables (c. bc), to the corpus juris civilis (ad ) ordered by eastern roman emperor justinian i. roman law forms the basic framework for civil law, the most widely used legal system today, and the terms are sometimes used synonymously. the historical importance of roman law is reflected by the continued use of latin legal terminology in many legal systems influenced by it, including common law. after the dissolution of the western roman empire, the roman law remained in effect in the eastern roman empire. from the th century onward, the legal language in the east was greek. roman law also denoted the legal system applied in most of western europe until the end of the th century. in germany, roman law practice remained in place longer under the holy roman empire ( – ). roman law thus served as a basis for legal practice throughout western continental europe, as well as in most former colonies of these european nations, including latin america, and also in ethiopia. english and anglo-american common law were influenced also by roman law, notably in their latinate legal glossary (for example, stare decisis, culpa in contrahendo, pacta sunt servanda).[ ] eastern europe was also influenced by the jurisprudence of the corpus juris civilis, especially in countries such as medieval romania (wallachia, moldavia, and some other medieval provinces/historical regions) which created a new system, a mixture of roman and local law. also, eastern european law was influenced by the "farmer's law" of the medieval byzantine legal system. contents 	 development 	 . twelve tables 	 . early law and jurisprudence 	 . pre-classical period 	 . classical roman law 	 . post-classical law 	 substance 	 . concept of laws 	 . public law 	 . private law 	 . status 	 . litigation 	 legacy 	 . in the east 	 . in the west 	 . today 	 see also 	 references 	 sources 	 further reading 	 external links development before the twelve tables ( – bc), private law comprised the roman civil law (ius civile quiritium) that applied only to roman citizens, and was bonded to religion; undeveloped, with attributes of strict formalism, symbolism, and conservatism, e.g. the ritual practice of mancipatio (a form of sale). the jurist sextus pomponius said, "at the beginning of our city, the people began their first activities without any fixed law, and without any fixed rights: all things were ruled despotically, by kings".[ ] it is believed that roman law is rooted in the etruscan religion, emphasizing ritual.[ ] twelve tables main article: twelve tables the first legal text is the law of the twelve tables, dating from the mid- th century bc. the plebeian tribune, c. terentilius arsa, proposed that the law should be written in order to prevent magistrates from applying the law arbitrarily.[ ] after eight years of political struggle, the plebeian social class convinced the patricians to send a delegation to athens to copy the laws of solon; they also dispatched delegations to other greek cities for like reason.[ ] in bc, according to the traditional story (as livy tells it), ten roman citizens were chosen to record the laws, known as the decemviri legibus scribundis. while they were performing this task, they were given supreme political power (imperium), whereas the power of the magistrates was restricted.[ ] in bc, the decemviri produced the laws on ten tablets (tabulae), but these laws were regarded as unsatisfactory by the plebeians. a second decemvirate is said to have added two further tablets in bc. the new law of the twelve tables was approved by the people's assembly.[ ] modern scholars tend to challenge the accuracy of roman historians. they generally do not believe that a second decemvirate ever took place. the decemvirate of is believed to have included the most controversial points of customary law, and to have assumed the leading functions in rome.[ ] furthermore, questions concerning greek influence on early roman law are still much discussed. many scholars consider it unlikely that the patricians sent an official delegation to greece, as the roman historians believed. instead, those scholars suggest, the romans acquired greek legislations from the greek cities of magna graecia, the main portal between the roman and greek worlds.[ ] the original text of the twelve tables has not been preserved. the tablets were probably destroyed when rome was conquered and burned by the gauls in bc.[ ] the fragments which did survive show that it was not a law code in the modern sense. it did not provide a complete and coherent system of all applicable rules or give legal solutions for all possible cases. rather, the tables contained specific provisions designed to change the then-existing customary law. although the provisions pertain to all areas of law, the largest part is dedicated to private law and civil procedure. early law and jurisprudence main articles: lex canuleia, lex hortensia, and lex aquilia many laws include lex canuleia ( bc; which allowed the marriage—ius connubii—between patricians and plebeians), leges licinae sextiae ( bc; which made restrictions on possession of public lands—ager publicus—and also made sure that one of the consuls was plebeian), lex ogulnia ( bc; plebeians received access to priest posts), and lex hortensia ( bc; verdicts of plebeian assemblies—plebiscita—now bind all people). another important statute from the republican era is the lex aquilia of bc, which may be regarded as the root of modern tort law. however, rome's most important contribution to european legal culture was not the enactment of well-drafted statutes, but the emergence of a class of professional jurists (prudentes, sing. prudens, or jurisprudentes) and of a legal science. this was achieved in a gradual process of applying the scientific methods of greek philosophy to the subject of law, a subject which the greeks themselves never treated as a science. traditionally, the origins of roman legal science are connected to gnaeus flavius. flavius is said to have published around the year bc the formularies containing the words which had to be spoken in court to begin a legal action. before the time of flavius, these formularies are said to have been secret and known only to the priests. their publication made it possible for non-priests to explore the meaning of these legal texts. whether or not this story is credible, jurists were active and legal treatises were written in larger numbers before the nd century bc. among the famous jurists of the republican period are quintus mucius scaevola who wrote a voluminous treatise on all aspects of the law, which was very influential in later times, and servius sulpicius rufus, a friend of marcus tullius cicero. thus, rome had developed a very sophisticated legal system and a refined legal culture when the roman republic was replaced by the monarchical system of the principate in bc. pre-classical period in the period between about to bc, we can see the development of more flexible laws to match the needs of the time. in addition to the old and formal ius civile a new juridical class is created: the ius honorarium, which can be defined as "the law introduced by the magistrates who had the right to promulgate edicts in order to support, supplement or correct the existing law."[ ] with this new law the old formalism is being abandoned and new more flexible principles of ius gentium are used. the adaptation of law to new needs was given over to juridical practice, to magistrates, and especially to the praetors. a praetor was not a legislator and did not technically create new law when he issued his edicts (magistratuum edicta). in fact, the results of his rulings enjoyed legal protection (actionem dare) and were in effect often the source of new legal rules. a praetor's successor was not bound by the edicts of his predecessor; however, he did take rules from edicts of his predecessor that had proved to be useful. in this way a constant content was created that proceeded from edict to edict (edictum traslatitium). thus, over the course of time, parallel to the civil law and supplementing and correcting it, a new body of praetoric law emerged. in fact, praetoric law was so defined by the famous roman jurist papinian ( – ad): "ius praetorium est quod praetores introduxerunt adiuvandi vel supplendi vel corrigendi iuris civilis gratia propter utilitatem publicam" ("praetoric law is that law introduced by praetors to supplement or correct civil law for public benefit"). ultimately, civil law and praetoric law were fused in the corpus juris civilis. classical roman law main articles: gaius (jurist), ulpian, papinian, julius paulus prudentissimus, and herennius modestinus the first years of the current era are the period during which roman law and roman legal science reached its greatest degree of sophistication. the law of this period is often referred to as the classical period of roman law. the literary and practical achievements of the jurists of this period gave roman law its unique shape. the jurists worked in different functions: they gave legal opinions at the request of private parties. they advised the magistrates who were entrusted with the administration of justice, most importantly the praetors. they helped the praetors draft their edicts, in which they publicly announced at the beginning of their tenure, how they would handle their duties, and the formularies, according to which specific proceedings were conducted. some jurists also held high judicial and administrative offices themselves. the jurists also produced all kinds of legal punishments. around ad the jurist salvius iulianus drafted a standard form of the praetor's edict, which was used by all praetors from that time onwards. this edict contained detailed descriptions of all cases, in which the praetor would allow a legal action and in which he would grant a defense. the standard edict thus functioned like a comprehensive law code, even though it did not formally have the force of law. it indicated the requirements for a successful legal claim. the edict therefore became the basis for extensive legal commentaries by later classical jurists like paulus and ulpian. the new concepts and legal institutions developed by pre-classical and classical jurists are too numerous to mention here. only a few examples are given here: 	roman jurists clearly separated the legal right to use a thing (ownership) from the factual ability to use and manipulate the thing (possession). they also established the distinction between contract and tort as sources of legal obligations. 	the standard types of contract (sale, contract for work, hire, contract for services) regulated in most continental codes and the characteristics of each of these contracts were developed by roman jurisprudence. 	the classical jurist gaius (around ) invented a system of private law based on the division of all material into personae (persons), res (things) and actiones (legal actions). this system was used for many centuries. it can be recognized in legal treatises like william blackstone's commentaries on the laws of england and enactments like the french code civil or the german bgb. the roman republic had three different branches: 	assemblies 	senate 	consuls the assemblies could decide whether war or peace. the senate had complete control over the treasury, and the consuls had the highest juridical power.[ ] post-classical law by the middle of the rd century, the conditions for the flourishing of a refined legal culture had become less favourable. the general political and economic situation deteriorated as the emperors assumed more direct control of all aspects of political life. the political system of the principate, which had retained some features of the republican constitution, began to transform itself into the absolute monarchy of the dominate. the existence of a legal science and of jurists who regarded law as a science, not as an instrument to achieve the political goals set by the absolute monarch, did not fit well into the new order of things. the literary production all but ended. few jurists after the mid- rd century are known by name. while legal science and legal education persisted to some extent in the eastern part of the empire, most of the subtleties of classical law came to be disregarded and finally forgotten in the west. classical law was replaced by so-called vulgar law. substance play media the basics of roman law concept of laws 	ius civile, ius gentium, and ius naturale – the ius civile ("citizen law", originally ius civile quiritium) was the body of common laws that applied to roman citizens and the praetores urbani, the individuals who had jurisdiction over cases involving citizens. the ius gentium ("law of peoples") was the body of common laws that applied to foreigners, and their dealings with roman citizens. the praetores peregrini were the individuals who had jurisdiction over cases involving citizens and foreigners. jus naturale was a concept the jurists developed to explain why all people seemed to obey some laws. their answer was that a "natural law" instilled in all beings a common sense. 	ius scriptum and ius non-scriptum – meaning written and unwritten law, respectively. in practice, the two differed by the means of their creation and not necessarily whether or not they were written down. the ius scriptum was the body of statute laws made by the legislature. the laws were known as leges (lit. "laws") and plebiscita (lit. "plebiscites," originating in the plebeian council). roman lawyers would also include in the ius scriptum the edicts of magistrates (magistratuum edicta), the advice of the senate (senatus consulta), the responses and thoughts of jurists (responsa prudentium), and the proclamations and beliefs of the emperor (principum placita). ius non-scriptum was the body of common laws that arose from customary practice and had become binding over time. 	ius commune and ius singulare – ius singulare (singular law) is special law for certain groups of people, things, or legal relations (because of which it is an exception from the general rules of the legal system), unlike general, ordinary, law (ius commune). an example of this is the law about wills written by people in the military during a campaign, which are exempt of the solemnities generally required for citizens when writing wills in normal circumstances. 	ius publicum and ius privatum – ius publicum means public law and ius privatum means private law, where public law is to protect the interests of the roman state while private law should protect individuals. in the roman law ius privatum included personal, property, civil and criminal law; judicial proceeding was private process (iudicium privatum); and crimes were private (except the most severe ones that were prosecuted by the state). public law will only include some areas of private law close to the end of the roman state. ius publicum was also used to describe obligatory legal regulations (today called ius cogens—this term is applied in modern international law to indicate peremptory norms that cannot be derogated from). these are regulations that cannot be changed or excluded by party agreement. those regulations that can be changed are called today ius dispositivum, and they are not used when party shares something and are in contrary. public law main articles: ius publicum, constitution of the roman republic, and res publica cicero, author of the classic book the laws, attacks catiline for attempting a coup in the roman senate. the roman republic's constitution or mos maiorum ("custom of the ancestors") was an unwritten set of guidelines and principles passed down mainly through precedent. concepts that originated in the roman constitution live on in constitutions to this day. examples include checks and balances, the separation of powers, vetoes, filibusters, quorum requirements, term limits, impeachments, the powers of the purse, and regularly scheduled elections. even some lesser used modern constitutional concepts, such as the block voting found in the electoral college of the united states, originate from ideas found in the roman constitution. the constitution of the roman republic was not formal or even official. its constitution was largely unwritten, and was constantly evolving throughout the life of the republic. throughout the st century bc, the power and legitimacy of the roman constitution was progressively eroding. even roman constitutionalists, such as the senator cicero, lost a willingness to remain faithful to it towards the end of the republic. when the roman republic ultimately fell in the years following the battle of actium and mark antony's suicide, what was left of the roman constitution died along with the republic. the first roman emperor, augustus, attempted to manufacture the appearance of a constitution that still governed the empire, by utilising that constitution's institutions to lend legitimacy to the principate, e.g. reusing prior grants of greater imperium to substantiate augustus' greater imperium over the imperial provinces and the prorogation of different magistracies to justify augustus' receipt of tribunician power. the belief in a surviving constitution lasted well into the life of the roman empire. private law main articles: ius privatum, stipulatio, and rei vindicatio stipulatio was the basic form of contract in roman law. it was made in the format of question and answer. the precise nature of the contract was disputed, as can be seen below. rei vindicatio is a legal action by which the plaintiff demands that the defendant return a thing that belongs to the plaintiff. it may only be used when plaintiff owns the thing, and the defendant is somehow impeding the plaintiff's possession of the thing. the plaintiff could also institute an actio furti (a personal action) to punish the defendant. if the thing could not be recovered, the plaintiff could claim damages from the defendant with the aid of the condictio furtiva (a personal action). with the aid of the actio legis aquiliae (a personal action), the plaintiff could claim damages from the defendant. rei vindicatio was derived from the ius civile, therefore was only available to roman citizens. status main article: status in roman legal system to describe a person's position in the legal system, romans mostly used the expression togeus. the individual could have been a roman citizen (status civitatis) unlike foreigners, or he could have been free (status libertatis) unlike slaves, or he could have had a certain position in a roman family (status familiae) either as the head of the family (pater familias), or some lower member—alieni iuris—which lives by someone else's law. two status types were senator and emperor. litigation main article: roman litigation the history of roman law can be divided into three systems of procedure: that of legis actiones, the formulary system, and cognitio extra ordinem. the periods in which these systems were in use overlapped one another and did not have definitive breaks, but it can be stated that the legis actio system prevailed from the time of the xii tables (c. bc) until about the end of the nd century bc, that the formulary procedure was primarily used from the last century of the republic until the end of the classical period (c. ad ), and that of cognitio extra ordinem was in use in post-classical times. again, these dates are meant as a tool to help understand the types of procedure in use, not as a rigid boundary where one system stopped and another began.[ ] during the republic and until the bureaucratization of roman judicial procedure, the judge was usually a private person (iudex privatus). he had to be a roman male citizen. the parties could agree on a judge, or they could appoint one from a list, called album iudicum. they went down the list until they found a judge agreeable to both parties, or if none could be found they had to take the last one on the list. no one had a legal obligation to judge a case. the judge had great latitude in the way he conducted the litigation. he considered all the evidence and ruled in the way that seemed just. because the judge was not a jurist or a legal technician, he often consulted a jurist about the technical aspects of the case, but he was not bound by the jurist's reply. at the end of the litigation, if things were not clear to him, he could refuse to give a judgment, by swearing that it wasn't clear. also, there was a maximum time to issue a judgment, which depended on some technical issues (type of action, etc.). later on, with the bureaucratization, this procedure disappeared, and was substituted by the so-called "extra ordinem" procedure, also known as cognitory. the whole case was reviewed before a magistrate, in a single phase. the magistrate had obligation to judge and to issue a decision, and the decision could be appealed to a higher magistrate. legacy german legal theorist rudolf von jhering famously remarked that ancient rome had conquered the world three times: the first through its armies, the second through its religion, the third through its laws. he might have added: each time more thoroughly. — david graeber, debt: the first , years in the east main articles: corpus juris civilis and byzantine law title page of a late th-century edition of the digesta, part of emperor justinian's corpus juris civilis when the centre of the empire was moved to the greek east in the th century, many legal concepts of greek origin appeared in the official roman legislation.[ ] the influence is visible even in the law of persons or of the family, which is traditionally the part of the law that changes least. for example, constantine started putting restrictions on the ancient roman concept of patria potestas, the power held by the male head of a family over his descendants, by acknowledging that persons in potestate, the descendants, could have proprietary rights. he was apparently making concessions to the much stricter concept of paternal authority under greek-hellenistic law.[ ] the codex theodosianus ( ad) was a codification of constantian laws. later emperors went even further, until justinian finally decreed that a child in potestate became owner of everything it acquired, except when it acquired something from its father.[ ] the codes of justinian, particularly the corpus juris civilis ( – ) continued to be the basis of legal practice in the empire throughout its so-called byzantine history. leo iii the isaurian issued a new code, the ecloga,[ ] in the early th century. in the th century, the emperors basil i and leo vi the wise commissioned a combined translation of the code and the digest, parts of justinian's codes, into greek, which became known as the basilica. roman law as preserved in the codes of justinian and in the basilica remained the basis of legal practice in greece and in the courts of the eastern orthodox church even after the fall of the byzantine empire and the conquest by the turks, and, along with the syro-roman law book, also formed the basis for much of the fetha negest, which remained in force in ethiopia until . in the west main articles: early germanic law, anglo-saxon law, and medieval roman law in the west, justinian's political authority never went any farther than certain portions of the italian and hispanic peninsulas. in law codes were issued by the germanic kings, however, the influence of early eastern roman codes on some of these is quite discernible. in many early germanic states, roman citizens continued to be governed by roman laws for quite some time, even while members of the various germanic tribes were governed by their own respective codes. the codex justinianus and the institutes of justinian were known in western europe, and along with the earlier code of theodosius ii, served as models for a few of the germanic law codes; however, the digest portion was largely ignored for several centuries until around , when a manuscript of the digest was rediscovered in italy. this was done mainly through the works of glossars who wrote their comments between lines (glossa interlinearis), or in the form of marginal notes (glossa marginalis). from that time, scholars began to study the ancient roman legal texts, and to teach others what they learned from their studies. the center of these studies was bologna. the law school there gradually developed into europe's first university. the students who were taught roman law in bologna (and later in many other places) found that many rules of roman law were better suited to regulate complex economic transactions than were the customary rules, which were applicable throughout europe. for this reason, roman law, or at least some provisions borrowed from it, began to be re-introduced into legal practice, centuries after the end of the roman empire. this process was actively supported by many kings and princes who employed university-trained jurists as counselors and court officials and sought to benefit from rules like the famous princeps legibus solutus est ("the sovereign is not bound by the laws", a phrase initially coined by ulpian, a roman jurist). there are several reasons that roman law was favored in the middle ages. roman law regulated the legal protection of property and the equality of legal subjects and their wills, and it prescribed the possibility that the legal subjects could dispose their property through testament. by the middle of the th century, the rediscovered roman law dominated the legal practice of many european countries. a legal system, in which roman law was mixed with elements of canon law and of germanic custom, especially feudal law, had emerged. this legal system, which was common to all of continental europe (and scotland) was known as ius commune. this ius commune and the legal systems based on it are usually referred to as civil law in english-speaking countries. only england and the nordic countries did not take part in the wholesale reception of roman law. one reason for this is that the english legal system was more developed than its continental counterparts by the time roman law was rediscovered. therefore, the practical advantages of roman law were less obvious to english practitioners than to continental lawyers. as a result, the english system of common law developed in parallel to roman-based civil law, with its practitioners being trained at the inns of court in london rather than receiving degrees in canon or civil law at the universities of oxford or cambridge. elements of romano-canon law were present in england in the ecclesiastical courts and, less directly, through the development of the equity system. in addition, some concepts from roman law made their way into the common law. especially in the early th century, english lawyers and judges were willing to borrow rules and ideas from continental jurists and directly from roman law. the practical application of roman law, and the era of the european ius commune, came to an end when national codifications were made. in , the french civil code came into force. in the course of the th century, many european states either adopted the french model or drafted their own codes. in germany, the political situation made the creation of a national code of laws impossible. from the th century, roman law in germany had been heavily influenced by domestic (customary) law, and it was called usus modernus pandectarum. in some parts of germany, roman law continued to be applied until the german civil code (bürgerliches gesetzbuch, bgb) went into effect in .[ ] colonial expansion spread the civil law system.[ ] today today, roman law is no longer applied in legal practice, even though the legal systems of some countries like south africa and san marino are still based on the old jus commune. however, even where the legal practice is based on a code, many rules deriving from roman law apply: no code completely broke with the roman tradition. rather, the provisions of the roman law were fitted into a more coherent system and expressed in the national language. for this reason, knowledge of the roman law is indispensable to understand the legal systems of today. thus, roman law is often still a mandatory subject for law students in civil law jurisdictions. as steps towards a unification of the private law in the member states of the european union are being taken, 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"janus in the roman law of urban lease." historia . : – . 	gardner, jane f. . women in roman law and society. london: croom helm. 	gardner, jane f. . family and familia in roman law and life. clarendon press. 	harries, jill. . law and empire in late antiquity. cambridge; new york: cambridge university press. 	nicholas, barry. . an introduction to roman law. oxford: clarendon press. 	nicholas, barry, and peter birks, eds. . new perspectives in the roman law of property. oxford: oxford univ. press. 	powell, jonathan, and jeremy paterson, eds. . cicero the advocate. oxford: oxford univ. press. 	rives, james b. . "magic in roman law: the reconstruction of a crime." classical antiquity . : – . 	schulz, fritz. . history of roman legal science. oxford: clarendon press. 	stein, peter. . roman law in european history. new york: cambridge univ. press. 	tellegen-couperus, olga e. . a short history of roman law. london: routledge. 	wenger, leopold. . die quellen des römischen rechts. vienna: Österreichische akademie der wissenschaften. external links 		wikimedia commons has media related to roman law. 	library resources about roman law 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	a collection of resources maintained by professor ernest metzger 	the roman law library by professor yves lassard and alexandr koptev 	the roman law articles of smith's dictionary 	roman legal tradition: open access journal devoted to roman law 	"roman law" . encyclopædia britannica ( th ed.). . 	 	v 	t 	e roman constitution 	ancient rome	 	history 	constitution 	senate 	assemblies 	curiate 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		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		the principal assembly of the ancient roman republic 	ancient rome 	 	this article is part of a series on the politics and government of ancient rome 	 periods 	 	roman kingdom – bc 	roman republic – bc 	roman empire bc – ad 	principate bc – ad 	dominate ad – 	western ad – 	eastern ad – 	timeline 	 roman constitution 	 	constitution of the kingdom 	constitution of the republic 	constitution of the empire 	constitution of the late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	executive magistrates 	 precedent and law 	 	roman law 	ius 	imperium 	mos maiorum 	collegiality 	auctoritas 	roman citizenship 	cursus honorum 	senatus consultum 	senatus consultum ultimum 	 assemblies 	 	centuriate 	curiate 	plebeian 	tribal 	 ordinary magistrates 	 	consul 	praetor 	quaestor 	promagistrate 	aedile 	tribune 	censor 	governor 	 extraordinary magistrates 	 	corrector 	dictator 	magister equitum 	consular tribune 	rex 	triumviri 	decemviri 	 titles and honours 	 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	praeses 	praefectus 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 	 	other countries 		v 	t 	e the concilium plebis (english: plebeian council, plebeian assembly, people's assembly or council of the plebs) was the principal assembly of the common people of the ancient roman republic. it functioned as a legislative/judicial assembly,[ ] through which the plebeians (commoners) could pass legislation (called plebiscites), elect plebeian tribunes and plebeian aediles, and try judicial cases. the plebeian council was originally organized on the basis of the curia but in bc adopted an organizational system based on residential districts or tribes.[ ] the plebeian council usually met in the well of the comitium and could only be convoked by the tribune of the plebs. the patricians were excluded from the council. contents 	 history 	 . from to bc 	 . from to bc 	 . after bc 	 the plebeian council and the conflict of the orders 	 function 	 . organization of the plebeian council 	 . . tribune of the plebs 	 . . comitia tributa populi 	 . legislation & legislative actions 	 . . rogationes 	 . . plebiscitas 	 . . leges 	 . . . legislative actions 	 see also 	 references 	 notes 	 further reading 	 . primary sources 	 . secondary source material 	 external links history[edit] from to bc[edit] when the roman republic was founded in bc, the roman people were divided into a total of thirty curiae. plutarch and dionysus of helicarnassus believed that these curiae were subdivisions of the three romulean tribes.[ ] the curiae were organized on the basis of the family, and thus the ethnic structure of early rome. each curia even had its own festivals, gods, and religious rites. the thirty curiae gathered into a legislative assembly known as the comitia curiata or curiate assembly. this assembly was created shortly after the legendary founding of the city in bc, and it formally elected new roman kings. during this time, plebeians had no political rights and were unable to influence roman law. each plebeian family was dependent on a particular patrician family. accordingly, each plebeian family belonged to the same curia as did its patrician patron. while the plebeians each belonged to a particular curia, only patricians could actually vote in the curiate assembly. the plebeian council was originally organized around the office of the tribunes of the plebs in bc. plebeians probably met in their own assembly prior to the establishment of the office of the tribune of the plebs, but this assembly would have had no political role. the offices of the plebeian tribune and plebeian aedile were created in bc following the first plebeian secession. in bc, the plebeians held nightly meetings in some districts, with their earliest attempts at organization focusing on matters relating to their class.[ ] some of these issues included debt, civil and land rights, and military service.[ ] tribunes of the plebs were also charged with protecting the plebeian interests against the patrician oligarchy.[ ] in bc, the office of tribune was acknowledged by the patricians, thereby creating a legitimate assembly of plebeians (concilium plebis).[ ] after bc, a plebeian tribune always presided over the plebeian curiate assembly. this "plebeian curiate assembly" was the original plebeian council,[ ] which elected the plebeian tribunes and aediles,[ ] and passed legislation (plebiscita) that applied only to the plebeians. from to bc[edit] during the later years of the roman kingdom, king servius tullius enacted a series of constitutional reforms. one of these reforms resulted in the creation of a new organizational unit, the tribe, to assist in the reorganization of the army.[ ] its divisions were not ethnic (as the divisions of the curia were), but rather geographical. tullius divided the city into four geographical districts, each encompassing a single tribe. between the reign of tullius and the late rd century bc, the number of tribes expanded from to . by bc, the plebeians decided that organization by tribe granted them a level of political independence from their patrician patrons[ ] that the curiae did not. therefore, around bc,[ ] a law was passed to allow the plebeians to begin organizing by tribe. thus, the "plebeian curiate assembly" began to use tribes, rather than curiae, as its basis for organization. as such, the plebeian council changed from a "plebeian curiate assembly" to a "plebeian tribal assembly".[ ] the only difference between the plebeian council after bc and the ordinary tribal assembly (which also organized on the basis of the tribes) was that the tribes of the plebeian council included only plebeians, whereas the tribes of the tribal assembly included both plebeians and patricians. however, most romans were plebeians. therefore, the principal differences between the plebeian council and the tribal assembly were mostly legal rather than demographic. these legal differences derived from the fact that roman law did not recognize an assembly consisting only of one group of people (plebeians in this case) from an assembly consisting of all of the people of rome. over time, however, these legal differences were mitigated with legislation.the plebeian council elected two plebeian officers, the tribunes and the aediles, and thus roman law classified these two officers as the elected representatives of the plebeians.[ ] as such, they acted as the presiding officers of this assembly. the plebeians, through the plebeian council, began to gain power during this time. two secessions in bc and bc brought about increased authority for the plebeian assembly and its leaders, and it was greatly due to concessions made by dictators and consuls that the now mobilized and angry plebeian population began to develop power.[ ] in bc, the lex publilia made plebiscites (plebeian legislation) law,[ ] however this was not widely accepted by patricians until the bc lex hortensia, which definitively gave the council the power to create laws to which both plebeians and patricians would be subject.[ ] additionally, between and bc, the lex maenia required the senate to approve any bill put forward by the plebeian council.[ ] in bc, sulla introduced measures which transferred all voting power to the comitia centuriata from tribal assemblies, therefore rendering the council of the plebs virtually powerless.[ ] after bc[edit] although the plebeian council survived the fall of the roman republic,[ ] it quickly lost its legislative, judicial and electoral powers to the senate. by virtue of their status as perpetual tribunes, both julius caesar and the emperor augustus always had absolute control over the plebeian council.[ ] the plebeian council disappeared shortly after the reign of tiberius. the plebeian council and the conflict of the orders[edit] chart showing the checks and balances of the constitution of the roman republic. the creation of the office of plebeian tribune and plebeian aedile marked the end of the first phase of the struggle between the plebeians and the patricians (the conflict of the orders). the next major development in this conflict occurred through the plebeian council. during a modification of the original valerian law in bc, plebiscites acquired the full force of law, and thus applied to all romans. before this time, plebiscites had applied only to plebeians. by the early th century bc, the plebeians, who still lacked any real political power,[ ] had become exhausted and bitter. in bc they facilitated the passage of a law (the lex publilia), which brought the conflict of the orders closer to a conclusion. before this time, a bill passed by any assembly could become law only after the patrician senators gave their approval, which came in the form of a decree called the auctoritas patrum ("authority of the fathers" or "authority of the patrician senators"). the lex publilia required the auctoritas patrum to be passed before a law could be voted on by one of the assemblies, rather than afterward.[ ] this modification seems to have made the auctoritas patrum irrelevant.[ ] thus, the plebeian council became independent of the patrician aristocracy in everything but name. by bc, the economic condition of the average plebeian had deteriorated further. the problem appears to have centered on widespread indebtedness.[ ] the plebeians demanded relief, but the senators, most of whom belonged to the creditor class, refused to abide by the plebeians' demands. the plebeians withdrew en masse to the janiculum hill, resulting in the final plebeian secession. to end this movement, a plebeian dictator (quintus hortensius) was appointed, who ultimately passed a law called the "hortensian law" (lex hortensia). the most significant component of this law was its termination of the requirement that auctoritas patrum be obtained before any bill could be considered by the plebeian council.[ ] in this way the law removed from the patrician senators their final check over the plebeian council.[ ] the lex hortensia, however, should not be viewed as the final triumph of democracy over aristocracy.[ ] close relations between the plebeian tribunes and the senate meant that the senate could still exercise a great degree of control over the plebeian council. thus, the ultimate significance of this law was that it robbed the patricians of their final weapon over the plebeians.[ ] this ended the conflict of the orders, and brought the plebeians to a level of full political equality with the patricians. function[edit] organization of the plebeian council[edit] at its formation, the plebeian council was organized by curiae and served as an electoral council wherein plebeian citizens could vote to pass laws. the plebeian council would elect tribunes of the plebs to preside over their meetings.[ ] it is unlikely, however, that the council had any constitutional recognition before the creation of the twelve tables between and bc.[ ] at the meetings of the plebeian council, they would pass resolutions, conduct trials, and discuss matters pertaining to the condition of the plebeians. their ability to perform political prosecutions was later restricted by the twelve tables.[ ] the tribal unit organizational system was adopted by the council in bc, although the exact relationship between the tribunes and tribes is unclear, as the number of tribunes was not equal to the number of tribes. additionally, most tribes were located outside of the city, whereas the plebeian tribunes were exclusive to the city.[ ] image depicting the engraving of the twelve tables in the tribal system, the council of the plebeians elected tribunes of the plebs, who acted as spokespeople for the plebeian citizens. the tribunes were revered, and plebeians swore an oath to take vengeance on anyone who would bring them harm.[ ] over time, the concilium plebis became the most effective medium of legislation in the republic, until the introduction of sulla’s measures in bc.[ ] tribune of the plebs[edit] the tribunes of the plebs were elected by the plebeian council. at first, only to tribunes were elected until the college of was introduced in bc.[ ] they served as spokespeople for the plebeians of rome, with a purpose of protecting the interests of the plebeians against patrician supremacy.[ ] the tribunes could call meetings of the council over which they presided.[ ] since plebeians were not able to take political actions themselves, the tribunes had the opportunity to make lasting impacts through their political office.[ ] tribunes were responsible for organizing support for legislation, organizing contiones, a form of discourse or assembly, as well as prosecute criminals before the council.[ ] their position as leaders of the plebeian council gave the tribunes great control over the city in their ability to organize the plebeians into a political weapon.[ ] comitia tributa populi[edit] the comitia tributa was a tribal assembly which organized citizens by place of residence.[ ] there is confusion concerning the difference between the plebeian council and the comitia tributa. some scholars have found reason in believing that the concilium plebis became the comitia tributa in or bc.[ ] de martino and von fritz believe that after the lex hortensia of bc, patricians must not have been excluded from the plebeian council, as the laws created by the council were now applicable to the patricians.[ ] however, others believe that they were separate assemblies. stavely introduced the possibility that livy may not have recorded the emergence of the comitia tributa due to a lack of importance in terminological differences. stavely therefore has proposed that the comitia tributa were established in bc.[ ] laelius felix and g.w. botsford have proposed theories attempting to distinguish the terms concilium and comitia.[ ] felix’s theory, although widely followed, is also heavily contested. his theory supposes that a concilium denotes an exclusive assembly which included only a part of the universus populus, whereas a comitia designates a meeting of a whole universus populus.[ ] the principal arguments against his theory are ( ) his definition depends on a distinction between assemblies of the populus and of the plebeians, despite the routine denial of the existence of an assembly consisting solely of plebeians after bc; and ( ) there are passages from roman authors which refer to plebeian assemblies as comitia, as opposed to concilium plebis.[ ] this then weakens felix’s proposal that a comitia designates an assembly of the universus populus. g. w. botsford distinguishes these two types of assemblies in terms of their function. in his theory, a comitia refers to an electoral assembly, and a concilium would then be a legislative or judicial assembly.[ ] although the theories put forth by botsford and felix are different, passages from cicero and livy can be found to support both.[ ] a comitia appears to designate organized voting assemblies, and a concilium often indicates a meeting of a certain group which is exclusive in some sense. the concilium plebis is definitively a political assembly.[ ] legislation & legislative actions[edit] three distinct forms of legislative actions undertaken by the roman republic exist. these are: rogationes, plebescitas and leges. it is important to distinguish between these forms of legislation as it creates a deeper understanding of roman political structure, and the role of the plebeian council. rogationes[edit] rogationes (sing. rogatio) are proposals for legislation that are created by the tribunes of the plebs. rogationes are incomplete legislation that are not applicable by law, as they are legislation that has been subject to tribunician veto or rejected by the senate. it is unclear whether rogationes were presented in a formal meeting or not, however they are valuable because they demonstrate the matters which were of importance to the tribunes.[ ] plebiscitas[edit] plebiscita (sing. plebiscitum) were proposals brought forward by the tribunes of the plebs that were approved by majority vote of the tribes of the concilium plebis. after the lex hortensia was introduced in bc, plebiscitas became law for the entire roman population, including patricians. plebiscitas no longer required senatorial or magisterial approval, and were demonstrative of the will of the plebeian class.[ ] leges[edit] leges (sing. lex) were legislation brought forth by a magistrate and presented to the roman population in either the comitia tributa or comitia centuriata. a plebiscitum could become a lex if it was adopted by a magistrate and approved by a majority of tribes or centuries.[ ] some examples of leges introduced which pertained to the plebeian council include: 	lex genucia ( bc), which required that one annual consulship be given to a plebeian.[ ] 	lex ogulnia ( bc), which entitled plebeian citizens to one half of the priesthoods in the pontifices and augures colleges.[ ] 	lex hortensia ( bc), which made all roman citizens subject to the laws created by the plebeian council.[ ] 	lex maenia (between and bc), which required the senate to approve all bills approved by the plebeian council.[ ] legislative actions[edit] legislative actions by the concilium plebis can be categorized into four principal categories based on their purpose. these categories are: ( ) equality, ( ) broadening of participation, ( ) protection and ( ) mutually binding consultation. specifically, legislative actions that fall under the 'equality' category are actions which move to create equality between different groups of people. 'broadening of participation' is indicative of actions which aim to increase the political participation of groups which had previously been denied. the category of 'protection' includes legislative actions seeking to place limits on arbitrary action of the state, as well as seeking rights (personal rights, rights to property). finally, legislative actions under the category of 'mutually binding consultation' are those which aim to solidify and increase the power and authority of the council of the plebs.[ ] these categories are based on tilly's dimensions of democratization. see also[edit] 	roman kingdom – period of roman history when the city and its territory were ruled by kings (c. –c. bc) 	roman republic – period of ancient roman civilization ( – bc) 	roman empire – period of imperial rome following the roman republic ( bc– ad) 	roman law – legal system of ancient rome (c. bc – ad ) 	centuria 	curia 	roman consul – political office in ancient rome 	praetor – official of the roman republic 	roman censor – roman magistrate responsible for the census and monitoring public morality 	quaestor 	aedile – office of the roman republic 	roman dictator – extraordinary magistrate of the roman republic 	master of the horse 	roman senate – political institution in ancient rome 	cursus honorum – the sequential order of public offices held by politicians in ancient rome 	byzantine senate 	pontifex maximus – chief high priest in ancient rome 	princeps senatus 	interrex 	procurator 	acta senatus references[edit] 	abbott, frank frost ( ). a history and description of roman political institutions. elibron classics (isbn  - - - ). 	byrd, robert ( ). the senate of the roman republic. u.s. government printing office, senate document - . 	cicero, marcus tullius ( ). the political works of marcus tullius cicero: comprising his treatise on the commonwealth; and his treatise on the laws. translated from the original, with dissertations and notes in two volumes. by francis barham, esq. london: edmund spettigue. vol. . 	develin, r ( ). 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"plebeian tribunes and the government of early rome". antichthon. : . doi: . /ann. . . 	^ the constitution of the roman republic. lintott, andrew. oxford university press. . isbn  - - - . oclc  .cs maint: others (link) 	^ a b abbott, 	^ abbott, 	^ abbott, 	^ abbott, 	^ a b abbott, 	^ a b c abbott, 	^ a b drogula, fred k ( ). "plebeian tribunes and the government of early rome". antichthon. : . doi: . /ann. . . 	^ a b c d the constitution of the roman republic. lintott, andrew. oxford university press. . isbn  - - - . oclc  .cs maint: others (link) 	^ a b the constitution of the roman republic. lintott, andrew. oxford university press. . isbn  - - - . oclc  .cs maint: others (link) 	^ farrell, joseph ( - - ). "the distinction between comitia and concilium". athenaeum: – . 	^ a b c drogula, fred k ( ). "plebeian tribunes and the government of early rome". antichthon. : . doi: . /ann. . . 	^ wolters, eric ( - - ). "leges, plebiscita, et rogationes: democratization and legislative action, - bc". graduate theses and dissertations. 	^ a b c develin, r ( ). "comitia tributa plebis". athenaeum; pavia. : – – via proquest. 	^ a b c d e f farrell, joseph ( - - ). "the distinction between comitia and concilium". athenaeum: – . 	^ a b c d wolters, eric ( - - ). "leges, plebiscita, et rogationes: democratization and legislative action, - bc". graduate theses and dissertations. 	^ a b c d drogula, fred k ( ). "plebeian tribunes and the government of early rome". antichthon. : . doi: . /ann. . . further reading[edit] 	ihne, wilhelm. researches into the history of the roman constitution. william pickering. . 	johnston, harold whetstone. orations and letters of cicero: with historical introduction, an outline of the roman constitution, notes, vocabulary and index. scott, foresman and company. . 	mommsen, theodor. roman constitutional law. - 	tighe, ambrose. the development of the roman constitution. d. apple & co. . 	von fritz, kurt. the theory of the mixed constitution in antiquity. columbia university press, new york. . 	the histories by polybius 	cambridge ancient history, volumes – . 	a. cameron, the later roman empire, (fontana press, ). 	m. crawford, the roman republic, (fontana press, ). 	e. s. gruen, "the last generation of the roman republic" (u california press, ) 	f. millar, the emperor in the roman world, (duckworth, , ). 	a. lintott, "the constitution of the roman republic" 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		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		for other uses, see polyaenus (disambiguation). polyaenus or polyenus (/ˌpɒliˈiːnəs/ pol-ee-ee-nəs; see ae (æ) vs. e; greek: Πoλύαινoς, translit. polyainos, "much-praised") was a nd-century ce macedonian author, known best for his stratagems in war (greek: Στρατηγήματα, translit. strategemata), which has been preserved. the suda[ ] calls him a rhetorician, and polyaenus himself writes that he was accustomed to plead causes before the roman emperor.[ ] polyaenus dedicated stratagems in war to the two emperors marcus aurelius (r.  – ) and lucius verus (r.  – ), while they were engaged in the roman–parthian war of – , about , at which time he was too old to accompany them in their campaigns.[ ] polyaenus, stratagems in war, contents 	 stratagems 	 other works 	 notes 	 further reading 	 external links stratagems[edit] this work is divided into eight books: the first six contain accounts of the stratagems of the most celebrated greek generals, the seventh book contains stratagems of non greeks and romans, and the eighth book those of the romans and of illustrious women. parts, however, of the sixth and seventh books are lost, so that of the stratagems which polyaenus described, have survived. the book has survived in a single copy made in the th century, although there exist five abridged versions, which will be discussed below. the full copy once belonged to michel apostolios and is now in the laurentian library in florence. the work is written in a clear and pleasing style[citation needed], though somewhat tinged with the artificial rhetoric of the age[clarification needed]. it contains a vast number of anecdotes respecting many of the most celebrated men in antiquity, and has uniquely preserved many historical facts. there are no less than five byzantine abridgments of this work, the most important one of which is held in the same library of the original, the laurentian. this compendium, titled Ὑπoθέσεις ἐκ τῶν στρατηγικῶν πράξεων, contains chapters and stratagems, and is useful to elucidate and explain many passages of the original, lost or not. despite the existence of the abridgements, polyaenus' treatise was not popular in the middle ages. the original is rarely cited by byzantine sources, which suggests that it had ceased to circulate, and that the abridgements had replaced it. to this it must be added that only the Ὑπoθέσεις derives directly from the original, while the other four versions seem to be summaries of the first. polyaenus was first printed in a latin translation, executed by justus vulteius, at basel, . the first edition of the greek text was published by isaac casaubon, lyon, ; the next by pancratius maasvicius, leyden, ; the third by samuel mursinna, berlin, ; the fourth by adamantios korais, paris, .[ ] the work has been translated into english by r. shepherd, london, ; into german by seybold, frankfurt, – , and by blume, stuttgart, . other works[edit] polyaenus also wrote several other works, all of which have perished. the suda has preserved the titles of two, on thebes (Περὶ Θηβῶν) and tactics, in three books (Τακτικά). stobaeus makes a quotation from a work of polyaenus, Ὑπὲρ τoῦ κoινoῦ τῶν mακεδόνων[ ] (for the koinon of macedonians), and from another entitled Ὑπὲρ τoῦ Συνεδρίoυ[ ] (for the synedrion). polyaenus likewise mentions his intention of writing a work on the memorable actions of m. aurelius and l. verus.[ ] notes[edit] 	^ suda π , Πολύαινος 	^ polyaenus, praef. lib. ii, praef. lib. viii 	^ polyaenus, praef. lib. i 	^ polyaenus’ stratagems, elinepa, 	^ stobaeus, xlviii. 	^ stobaeus, xlviii. 	^ polyaenus, praef. lib. vi further reading[edit] 	bayle, pierre ( ). "polyænus". dictionnaire historique et critique. amsterdam.[permanent dead link] 	brodersen, kai, ed. ( ). polyainos. neue studien. polyaenus. new studies. berlin: verlag antike. isbn  - - - - . 	brodersen, kai ( ). polyainos: strategika (in greek and german). berlin & boston: de gruyter. isbn  - - - - . 	chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "polyaenus" . encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. p.  . 	dain, a. "les cinq adaptations byzantines de les stratagèmes de polyen". revue des études anciennes: – . 	"polyen: ruses de guerre". site de philippe remacle (in french). retrieved october . — gui-alexis lobineau (traducteur), paris, ( ) 	seyffert, oskar ( ). "polyænus". dictionary of classical antiquities. 	 smith, william, ed. ( ). 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but the text is here corrupt). the date of his writing may be approximately fixed by his allusion (iii. § ) to a proposed british expedition of the reigning emperor, almost certainly that of claudius in ad . that this passage cannot refer to julius caesar is evidenced by several references to events of augustus's reign; especially to certain new names given to spanish towns. it has been conjectured that pomponius mela may have been related in some way to marcus annaeus mela, who was the son of seneca the elder and father of lucan.[ ][ ][ ] geographical knowledge[edit] the general views of the de situ orbis mainly agree with those current among greek writers from eratosthenes to strabo; the latter was probably unknown to mela. but pomponius is unique among ancient geographers in that, after dividing the earth into five zones, of which two only were habitable, he asserts the existence of antichthones, inhabiting the southern temperate zone inaccessible to the folk of the northern temperate regions from the unbearable heat of the intervening torrid belt. on the divisions and boundaries of europe, asia and africa, he repeats eratosthenes; like all classical geographers from alexander the great (except ptolemy) he regards the caspian sea as an inlet of the northern ocean, corresponding to the persian and arabian (red sea) gulfs on the south. the shores of codanus sinus (southwestern baltic sea) in red with its many islands in green. his indian conceptions are inferior to those of some earlier greek writers; he follows eratosthenes in supposing that country to occupy the south-eastern angle of asia, whence the coast trended northwards to scythia, and then swept round westward to the caspian sea. as usual, he places the rhipaean mountains and the hyperboreans near the scythian ocean. in western europe his knowledge (as was natural in a spanish subject of imperial rome) was somewhat in advance of the greek geographers. he defines the western coast-line of spain and gaul and its indentation by the bay of biscay more accurately than eratosthenes or strabo, his ideas of the british isles and their position are also clearer than his predecessors. he is the first to name the orcades or orkney islands, which he defines and locates pretty correctly. of northern europe his knowledge was imperfect, but he speaks of a great bay ("codanus sinus") to the north of germany, among whose many islands was one, "codanovia", of pre-eminent size; this name reappears in pliny the elder's work as scatinavia. codanovia and scatinavia were both latin renderings of the proto-germanic *skaðinawio, the germanic name for scandinavia.[citation needed] descriptive method[edit] mela's descriptive method follows ocean coasts, in the manner of a periplus, probably because it was derived from the accounts of navigators. he begins at the straits of gibraltar, and describes the countries adjoining the south coast of the mediterranean; then he moves round by syria and asia minor to the black sea, and so returns to spain along the north shore of the euxine, propontis, etc. after treating the mediterranean islands, he next takes the ocean littoral—to west, north, east and south successively—from spain and gaul round to india, from india to persia, arabia and ethiopia; and so again works back to spain round south africa. like most classical geographers he conceives of the continent as surrounded by sea and not extending very far south. editions[edit] cover of a edition the editio princeps of mela was published at milan in ; the first critical edition was by vadianus (basel, ), superseded by those of johann heinrich voss ( ), johann friedrich gronovius ( and ), a. gronovius ( and ), and tzschucke ( – ), in seven parts (leipzig; the most elaborate of all); g. paithey's (berlin, ) for its text. the english translation by arthur golding ( ) was celebrated; see also edward bunbury, ancient geography, ii. – , and d. detlefsen, quellen und forschungen zur alten gesch. und geog. ( ).[ ] a recent english translation is that of f. e. romer, originally published in . references[edit] 	^ tegg, thomas ( ). chronology, or the historian's companion ( rd ed.). london: thomas tegg. p.  . 	^ kish, george ( ). a source book in geography. harvard university press. p.  . isbn  . retrieved may . 	^ a b  this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "mela, pomponius". encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. 	^ walter c. a. ker ( ). martial's epigrams. london: william heinemann. [by 'seneca's house illustrious for its triple names'] m. means seneca, the philosopher and tutor of nero, his brother gallio, and annaeus pomponius mela, the writer on geography. j. wight duff characterizes this as "a serious confusion between annaeus mela, who was seneca's brother, and pomponius mela, the geographer." 	^ j. wight duff (november–december ). "martial: epigrams (review)". the classical review. london: john murray. ( – ): . 	^ romer , "introduction", p. . sources[edit] 	romer, frank e. ( ). pomponius mela's description of the world. ann arbor: university of michigan press. isbn  . 	attribution  this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). 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(october ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) 	 roman chronology 	context for metallurgy (shepard ) 	circa bc 	first settlement in the iron age; see also founding of rome. 	 – bc 	etruscans control italy. 	 – bc 	carthaginian occupation of parts of sardinia and sicily. 	 bc 	creation of the roman republic. 	 – bc 	roman republic and beginning of rome's expansion. 	 bc 	etruria becomes part of rome. 	 – bc 	punic wars. 	 bc 	iberia becomes a roman province. 	 bc 	athens becomes a roman province. 	 bc 	carthage becomes a roman province. 	 bc 	asia minor becomes a roman province. 	 – bc 	roman conquest of gaul. 	 bc 	egypt becomes a roman province. 	 bc 	the institution of the roman empire begins with emperor augustus. 	 ad 	britannia becomes a roman province. 	 ad 	dacia becomes a roman province. metals and metal working had been known to the people of modern italy since the bronze age. by bc, rome had expanded to control an immense expanse of the mediterranean. this included italy and its islands, spain, macedonia, africa, asia minor, syria and greece; by the end of the emperor trajan's reign, the roman empire had grown further to encompass parts of britain, egypt, all of modern germany west of the rhine, dacia, noricum, judea, armenia, illyria, and thrace (shepard ). as the empire grew, so did its need for metals. central italy itself was not rich in metal ores, leading to necessary trade networks in order to meet the demand for metal. early italians had some access to metals in the northern regions of the peninsula in tuscany and cisalpine gaul, as well as the islands elba and sardinia. with the conquest of etruria in bc and the subsequent acquisitions due to the punic wars, rome had the ability to stretch further into transalpine gaul and iberia, both areas rich in minerals. at the height of the empire, rome exploited mineral resources from tingitana in north western africa to egypt, arabia to north armenia, galatia to germania, and britannia to iberia, encompassing all of the mediterranean coast. britannia, iberia, dacia, and noricum were of special significance, as they were very rich in deposits and became major sites of resource exploitation (shepard, ). there is evidence that after the middle years of the empire there was a sudden and steep decline in mineral extraction. this was mirrored in other trades and industries. one of the most important roman sources of information is the naturalis historia of pliny the elder. several books (xxxiii–xxxvii) of his encyclopedia cover metals and metal ores, their occurrence, importance and development. contents 	 types of metal used 	 sources of ore 	 technology 	 mechanisation 	 output 	 production of objects 	 social ramifications 	 . slavery 	 . economy 	 see also 	 references 	 sources 	 further reading types of metal used[edit] many of the first metal artifacts that archaeologists have identified have been tools or weapons, as well as objects used as ornaments such as jewellery. these early metal objects were made of the softer metals; copper, gold, and lead in particular, as the metals either as native metal or by thermal extraction from minerals, and softened by minimal heat (craddock, ). while technology did advance to the point of creating surprisingly pure copper, most ancient metals are in fact alloys, the most important being bronze, an alloy of copper and tin. as metallurgical technology developed (hammering, melting, smelting, roasting, cupellation, moulding, smithing, etc.), more metals were intentionally included in the metallurgical repertoire. by the height of the roman empire, metals in use included: silver, zinc, iron, mercury, arsenic, antimony, lead, gold, copper, tin (healy ). as in the bronze age, metals were used based on many physical properties: aesthetics, hardness, colour, taste/smell (for cooking wares), timbre (instruments), aversion to corrosion, weight, and other factors. many alloys were also possible, and were intentionally made in order to change the properties of the metal e.g. the alloy of predominately tin with lead would harden the soft tin, to create pewter, which would prove its utility as cooking and tableware. sources of ore[edit] las médulas, remains of the most important gold mine in the roman empire. the spectacular landscape resulted from the ruina montium mining technique 	 sources of ore 	ores and origin (healy ) 	gold 	iberia, gaul, cisalpine gaul, britannia, noricum, dalmatia, moesia superior, arabia, india, africa 	silver 	iberia, gaul, laurion (greece), asia minor, carmania, midian, india, bactria, britannia, cyprus 	copper 	iberia, gaul, cisthene, cyprus, carmania, arabia, aleppo, sinai, meroe, masaesyi, india, britannia. 	tin 	iberia, persia, britannia 	lead 	iberia, gaul, sardinia, sicily, britannia 	iron 	iberia, elba, sardinia, hallstatt, noricum, illyria, macedonia, dacia, sinai, meroe, britannia 	zinc 	gaul, gallia transpadana, campania, germania, andeira (in asia minor), cyprus 	mercury 	iberia, armani, ethiopia 	arsenic 	phalagonia, carmania 	antimony 	hypothesised: mytilene, chios, around smyrna, transcaucasia, persia, tehran, punjab, britannia iberia or modern spain and portugal, was one of if not the richest roman province in the case of mineral ore from around the first century bc (healy ). containing deposits of gold, silver, copper, tin, lead, iron, and mercury), it was very rich in resources. from its acquisition during the punic wars to the fall of rome, iberia continued to produce a significant amount of roman metals (healy , shepard ). similarly, britannia was also very rich in metals. gold was mined at dolaucothi in wales, copper and tin in cornwall, and lead in the pennines, mendip hills and wales. significant studies have been made on the iron production of roman britain; iron use in europe was intensified by the romans, and was part of the exchange of ideas between the cultures through roman occupation (aitchison, ). it was the importance placed on iron by the romans throughout the empire which completed the shift from the few cultures still using primarily bronze into the iron age.[citation needed] noricum is the ancient site of modern austria. exceedingly rich in gold and iron, pliny, strabo, and ovid all lauded its bountiful deposits. iron was its main commodity, but alluvial gold was also prospected. by bc, noricum was officially made a province of the empire, and the metal trade saw prosperity well into the fifth century ad (shepard , healy ). some scholars believe that the art of iron forging was not necessarily created, but well developed in this area and it was the population of noricum which reminded romans of the usefulness of iron (aitchison, ). for example, of the three forms of iron (wrought iron, steel, and soft), the forms which were exported were of the wrought iron (containing a small percentage of uniformly distributed slag material) and steel (carbonised iron) categories, as pure iron is too soft to function like wrought or steel iron (sim , aitchison ). dacia, located in the area of transylvania, was conquered in ad in order to capture the resources of the region for rome. the amount of gold that came into roman possession actually brought down the value of gold. iron was also of importance to the region. the difference between the mines of noricum and dacia was the presence of a slave population as a workforce (shepard ). technology[edit] roman ingots of lead from the mines of cartagena, spain, archaeological municipal museum of cartagena the earliest metal manipulation was probably hammering (craddock , ), where copper ore was pounded into thin sheets. beneficiation, or the process of ’making better’ could be carried out on the ore (if there were large enough pieces of metal separate from mineral) or after melting, where the prills of metal could be hand picked from the cooled slag. melting beneficiated metal also allowed early metallurgists to use moulds and casts to form shapes of molten metal (craddock ). many of the metallurgical skills developed in the bronze age were still in use during roman times. melting—the process of using heat to separate slag and metal, smelting—using a reduced oxygen heated environment to separate metal oxides into metal and carbon dioxide, roasting—process of using an oxygen rich environment to isolate sulphur oxide from metal oxide which can then be smelted, casting—pouring liquid metal into a mould to make an object, hammering—using blunt force to make a thin sheet which can be annealed or shaped, and cupellation—separating metal alloys to isolate a specific metal—were all techniques which were well understood (zwicker , tylecote , craddock ). however, the romans provided few new technological advances other than the use of iron and the cupellation and granulation in the separation of gold alloys (tylecote ). while native gold is common, the ore will sometimes contain small amounts of silver and copper. the romans utilised a sophisticated system to separate these precious metals. the use of cupellation, a process developed before the rise of rome, would extract copper from gold and silver, or an alloy called electrum. in order to separate the gold and silver, however, the romans would granulate the alloy by pouring the liquid, molten metal into cold water, and then smelt the granules with salt, separating the gold from the chemically altered silver chloride (tylecote ). they used a similar method to extract silver from lead. while roman production became standardised in many ways, the evidence for distinct unity of furnace types is not strong, alluding to a tendency of the peripheries continuing with their own past furnace technologies. in order to complete some of the more complex metallurgical techniques, there is a bare minimum of necessary components for roman metallurgy: metallic ore, furnace of unspecified type with a form of oxygen source (assumed by tylecote to be bellows) and a method of restricting said oxygen (a lid or cover), a source of fuel (charcoal from wood or occasionally peat), moulds and/or hammers and anvils for shaping, the use of crucibles for isolating metals (zwicker ), and likewise cupellation hearths (tylecote ). mechanisation[edit] drainage wheel from rio tinto mines there is direct evidence that the romans mechanised at least part of the extraction processes. they used water power from water wheels for grinding grains and sawing timber or stone, for example. a set of sixteen such overshot wheels is still visible at barbegal near arles dating from the st century ad or possibly earlier, the water being supplied by the main aqueduct to arles. it is likely that the mills supplied flour for arles and other towns locally. multiple grain mills also existed on the janiculum hill in rome. ausonius attests the use of a water mill for sawing stone in his poem mosella from the th century ad. they could easily have adapted the technology to crush ore using tilt hammers, and just such is mentioned by pliny the elder in his naturalis historia dating to about ad, and there is evidence for the method from dolaucothi in south wales. the roman gold mines developed from c. ad. the methods survived into the medieval period, as described and illustrated by georgius agricola in his de re metallica. they also used reverse overshot water-wheel for draining mines, the parts being prefabricated and numbered for ease of assembly. multiple set of such wheels have been found in spain at the rio tinto copper mines and a fragment of a wheel at dolaucothi. an incomplete wheel from spain is now on public show in the british museum. output[edit] the invention and widespread application of hydraulic mining, namely hushing and ground-sluicing, aided by the ability of the romans to plan and execute mining operations on a large scale, allowed various base and precious metals to be extracted on a proto-industrial scale only rarely matched until the industrial revolution.[ ] the most common fuel by far for smelting and forging operations, as well as heating purposes, was wood and particularly charcoal, which is nearly twice as efficient.[ ] in addition, coal was mined in some regions to a fairly large extent: almost all major coalfields in roman britain were exploited by the late nd century ad, and a lively trade along the english north sea coast developed, which extended to the continental rhineland, where bituminous coal was already used for the smelting of iron ore.[ ] the annual iron production at populonia alone accounted for an estimated , [ ] to , tons.[ ] annual metal production in metric tons 	 	output per annum 	comment 	iron 	 , t[ ] 	based on estimate of iron production at . kg per head in roman britain, extrapolated to population size of million for entire empire[ ] 	copper 	 , t[ ] 	largest preindustrial producer.[ ] 	lead 	 , t[ ] 	largest preindustrial producer.[ ] 	silver 	 , t[ ] 	at its peak around the mid- nd century ad, roman stock is estimated at , t, five to ten times larger than the combined silver mass of medieval europe and the caliphate around ad.[ ] 	gold 	 , t[ ] 	production in asturia, callaecia, and lusitania (all iberian peninsula) alone. production of objects[edit] romans used many methods to create metal objects. like samian ware, moulds were created by making a model of the desired shape (whether through wood, wax, or metal), which would then be pressed into a clay mould. in the case of a metal or wax model, once dry, the ceramic could be heated and the wax or metal melted until it could be poured from the mould (this process utilising wax is called the “lost wax“ technique). by pouring metal into the aperture, exact copies of an object could be cast. this process made the creation of a line of objects quite uniform. this is not to suggest that the creativity of individual artisans did not continue; rather, unique handcrafted pieces were normally the work of small, rural metalworkers on the peripheries of rome using local techniques (tylecote ). there is archaeological evidence throughout the empire demonstrating the large scale excavations, smelting, and trade routes concerning metals. with the romans came the concept of mass production; this is arguably the most important aspect of roman influence in the study of metallurgy. three particular objects produced en masse and seen in the archaeological record throughout the roman empire are brooches called fibulae, worn by both men and women (bayley ), coins, and ingots (hughes ). these cast objects can allow archaeologists to trace years of communication, trade, and even historic/stylistic changes throughout the centuries of roman power. social ramifications[edit] slavery[edit] when the cost of producing slaves became too high to justify slave labourers for the many mines throughout the empire around the second century, a system of indentured servitude was introduced for convicts. in ad a law was reinstated due to the closure of many deep mines; the emperor hadrian had previously given the control of mines to private employers, so that workers were hired rather than working out of force. through the institution of this system profits increased (shepard ). in the case of noricum, there is archaeological evidence of freemen labour in the metal trade and extraction through graffiti on mine walls. in this province, many men were given roman citizenship for their efforts contributing to the procurement of metal for the empire. both privately owned and government run mines were in operation simultaneously (shepard ). economy[edit] from the formation of the roman empire, rome was an almost completely closed economy, not reliant on imports although exotic goods from india and china (such as gems, silk and spices) were highly prized (shepard ). through the recovery of roman coins and ingots throughout the ancient world (hughes ), metallurgy has supplied the archaeologist with material culture through which to see the expanse of the roman world. see also[edit] 	de re metallica 	georgius agricola 	mining in roman britain 	naturalis historia 	pliny the elder 	roman engineering 	roman technology 	malvesa references[edit] 	^ wilson , pp. – , , 	^ cech , p. 	^ smith , pp. – 	^ ian morris, francoise audouze, cyprian broodbank ( ): classical greece: ancient histories and modern archaeologies, cambridge university press, p. isbn  - - - - 	^ wertime, theodore a. ( ): "the furnace versus the goat: the pyrotechnologic industries and mediterranean deforestation in antiquity", journal of field archaeology, vol. , no. , pp. – ( ); williams, joey ( ): "the environmental effects of populonia's metallurgical industry: current evidence and future directions", etruscan and italic studies, vol. , no. , pp. – ( f.) 	^ craddock , p. ; sim, ridge , p. ; healy , p. 	^ sim, ridge , p. ; healy , p. 	^ world output, the large bulk of which is attributed to roman mining and smelting activities (mainly in spain, cyprus and central europe): hong, candelone, patterson, boutron , p. ; callataÿ , pp. – ; cf. also wilson , pp. – 	^ hong, candelone, patterson, boutron , p. , fig. & ; , table ; callataÿ , pp. – 	^ world output, the large bulk of which is attributed to roman silver mining and smelting activities (in central europe, britain, the balkans, greece, asia minor and, above all, spain, with a % share in world production alone): hong, candelone, patterson, boutron , p. – ; callataÿ , pp. – ; settle, patterson , pp. f.; cf. also wilson , pp. – 	^ hong, candelone, patterson, boutron , p. – ; settle, patterson , pp. f.; callataÿ , pp. – follows the aforementioned authors, but cautions that the greco-roman levels may have already been surpassed by the end of the middle ages (p. ). 	^ patterson , p. , table ; callataÿ , pp. f.; cf. also wilson , pp. – 	^ patterson , p. , table ; callataÿ , pp. f. 	^ pliny: naturalis historia, . . , in: wilson , p. sources[edit] 	general 	aitchison, leslie. . a history of metals. london: macdonald & evans ltd. 	bayley, justine; butcher, sarnia. . roman brooches in britain: a technological and typological study based on the richborough collection. london: the society of antiquaries of london. 	craddock, paul t. . early metal mining and production. edinburgh: edinburgh university press. 	craddock, paul t. . paradigms of metallurgical innovation in prehistoric europe in hauptmann, a., ernst, p., rehren, t., yalcin, u. 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( ): "provenance of coals from roman sites in england and wales", britannia, vol. , pp.  – 	wilson, andrew ( ): "machines, power and the ancient economy", the journal of roman studies, vol. , pp.  – further reading[edit] 	library resources about roman metallurgy 	 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	butcher, kevin, matthew ponting, jane evans, vanessa pashley, and christopher somerfield. the metallurgy of roman silver coinage: from the reform of nero to the reform of trajan. cambridge: cambridge university press, . 	corretti,benvenuti. "beginning of iron metallurgy in tuscany, with special reference to etruria mineraria." mediterranean archaeology ( ): – . 	healy, john f. mining and metallurgy in the greek and roman world. london: thames and hudson, . 	hobbs, richard. late roman precious metal deposits, c. ad - : changes over time and space. oxford: archaeopress, . 	montagu, jennifer. gold, silver, and bronze: metal sculpture of the roman baroque. princeton: princeton university press, . 	papi, emanuele., and michel bonifay. supplying rome and the empire: the proceedings of an international seminar held at siena-certosa di pontignano on may - , , on rome, the provinces, production and distribution. portsmouth, ri: journal of roman archaeology, . 	rihll, t. e. technology and society in the ancient greek and roman worlds. washington, d.c.: american historical association, society for the history of technology, . 	schrüfer-kolb, irene. roman iron production in britain: technological and socio-economic landscape 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for other uses, see poet (disambiguation). "poetess" redirects here. for the american rapper, see the poetess. victor hugo was a french poet, novelist, and dramatist. hugo is renowned for works such as les contemplations (the contemplations) and la légende des siècles (the legend of the ages). poet	occupation 	names	poet, troubador, bard 	occupation type 	vocation 	activity sectors 	literary 	description 	competencies	writing 	related jobs 	novelist, writer, lyricist 	literature 	 	 major forms 	 	novel 	poetry 	drama 	short story 	novella 	 genres 	 	adventure 	comedy 	drama 	epic 	erotic 	nonsense 	lyric 	mythopoeia 	rogue 	romance 	satire 	speculative fiction 	tragedy 	tragicomedy 	 media 	 	performance 	play 	books 	 techniques 	 	prose 	poetry 	 history and lists 	 	history 	modern 	outline 	glossary of terms 	books 	writers 	literary awards 	poetry 	 discussion 	 	criticism 	theory (critical theory) 	sociology 	magazines 	  literature portal 		v 	t 	e a poet is a person who creates poetry. poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. a poet may simply be a writer of poetry, or may perform their art to an audience. postmortal fictional portrait of slovak poet janko kráľ ( – ) – an idealized romanticized picture of "how a real poet should look" in western culture. the work of a poet is essentially one of communication, either expressing ideas in a literal sense, such as writing about a specific event or place, or metaphorically. poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary greatly in different cultures and periods.[ ] throughout each civilization and language, poets have used various styles that have changed through the course of literary history, resulting in a history of poets as diverse as the literature they have produced. many ancient poets may not have achieved fame in their lifetime, but there are exceptions; johan ludvig runeberg ( – ), who later also rose to the position of a "national poet of finland", was a well-respected person when lived in his home country. the italian giacomo leopardi was mentioned by the university of birmingham as "one of the most radical and challenging of nineteenth-century thinkers".[ ] contents 	 history 	 education 	 poets of sacred verse 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links history[edit] this is about the history of the poet profession. for a history of poetry, see history of poetry in ancient rome, professional poets were generally sponsored by patrons, wealthy supporters including nobility and military officials.[ ] for instance, gaius cilnius maecenas, friend to caesar augustus, was an important patron for the augustan poets, including both horace and virgil. while ovid , a well established poet, was banished from rome by the first augustus. poets held an important position in pre-islamic arabic society with the poet or sha'ir filling the role of historian, soothsayer and propagandist. words in praise of the tribe (qit'ah) and lampoons denigrating other tribes (hija') seem to have been some of the most popular forms of early poetry. the sha'ir represented an individual tribe's prestige and importance in the arabian peninsula, and mock battles in poetry or zajal would stand in lieu of real wars. 'ukaz, a market town not far from mecca, would play host to a regular poetry festival where the craft of the sha'irs would be exhibited. in the high middle ages, troubadors were an important class of poets and came from a variety of backgrounds. they lived and travelled in many different places and were looked upon as actors or musicians as much as poets. they were often under patronage, but many travelled extensively. the renaissance period saw a continuation of patronage of poets by royalty. many poets, however, had other sources of income, including italians like dante aligheri, giovanni boccaccio and petrarch's works in a pharmacist's guild and william shakespeare's work in the theater. in the romantic period and onwards, many poets were independent writers who made their living through their work, often supplemented by income from other occupations or from family.[ ] this included poets such as william wordsworth and robert burns. poets such as virgil in the aeneid and john milton in paradise lost invoked the aid of a muse. education[edit] poets of earlier times were often well read and highly educated people while others were to a large extent self-educated. a few poets such as john gower and john milton were able to write poetry in more than one language. some portuguese poets, as francisco de sá de miranda, wrote not only in portuguese but also in spanish.[ ] jan kochanowski wrote in polish and in latin,[ ] france prešeren and karel hynek mácha[ ] wrote some poems in german, although they were poets of slovenian and czech respectively. adam mickiewicz, the greatest poet of polish language, wrote a latin ode for emperor napoleon iii. another example is jerzy pietrkiewicz, a polish poet. when he moved to great britain, he ceased to write poetry in polish, but started writing novel in english.[ ] he also translated poetry from english and into english. many universities offer degrees in creative writing though these only came into existence in the th century. while these courses are not necessary for a career as a poet, they can be helpful as training, and for giving the student several years of time focused on their writing.[ ] poets of sacred verse[edit] main article: lyricist lyrical poets who write sacred poetry ("hymnographers") differ from the usual image of poets in a number of ways. a hymnographer such as isaac watts who wrote poems in his lifetime, may have their lyrics sung by millions of people every sunday morning, but are not always included in anthologies of poetry. because hymns are perceived of as "worship" rather than "poetry," the term "artistic kenosis" is sometimes used to describe the hymnographer's success in "emptying out" the instinct to succeed as a poet. a singer in the pew might have several of watts's stanzas memorized, without ever knowing his name or thinking of him as a poet. see also[edit] 	list of poets 	bard 	lyricist references[edit] 	^ orban, clara elizabeth ( ). the culture of fragments: word and images in futurism and surrealism. rodopi. p.  . isbn  - - - . 	^ the zibaldone project, university of birmingham 	^ barbara k. gold, ( ) literary and artistic patronage in ancient rome", university of texas press 	^ peter t. murphy ( ) "poetry as an occupation and an art in britain" cambridge university press 	^ encyclopaedia britanncia. 	^ jan kochanowski at catholic encyclopaedia. 	^ karel hynek mácha: a leading poet of czech romanticism. 	^ independent. 	^ nikki moustaki ( ), the complete idiot's guide to writing poetry, penguin. further reading[edit] 	reginald gibbons (ed), the poet's work: poets on the origins and practice of their art. university of chicago press ( ). isbn  at google books external links[edit] 		look up poet or poetess in wiktionary, the free dictionary. 		wikiquote has quotations related to: poets 		wikimedia commons has media related to poets. 	 	v 	t 	e lists of poets 	by language	 	afrikaans 	albanian 	arabic 	armenian 	azerbaijani 	assamese 	awadhi 	belarusian 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please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. find sources: "polybius" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · jstor (may ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) 	polybius 	the stele of kleitor depicting polybius, hellenistic art, nd century bc, museum of roman civilization.[ ] 	born	c. bc megalopolis, arcadia 	died	c. bc roman greece 	nationality	greek 	occupation	historian 	notable work 	the histories, events of the roman republic, – bc polybius (/pəˈlɪbiəs/; greek: Πολύβιος, polýbios; c.  – c.   bc[ ]) was a greek historian of the hellenistic period noted for his work the histories, which covered the period of – bc in detail. the work describes the rise of the roman republic to the status of dominance in the ancient mediterranean world. it includes his eyewitness account of the sack of carthage and corinth in bc, and the roman annexation of mainland greece after the achaean war. polybius is important for his analysis of the mixed constitution or the separation of powers in government, which was influential on montesquieu's the spirit of the laws and the framers of the united states constitution. he was also noted for witnessing the events that he recorded.[ ] the leading expert on polybius was f. w. walbank ( – ), who for years published studies related to him, including a long commentary of his histories and a biography.[ ] contents 	 origins 	 personal experiences 	 at rome 	 the histories 	 . sources 	 as historian 	 cryptography 	 influence 	 editions and translations 	 see also 	 notes and references 	 sources 	 . ancient sources 	 . modern sources 	 further reading 	 external links origins[edit] polybius was born around bc in megalopolis, arcadia,[ ] when it was an active member of the achaean league. the town was revived, along with other achaean states, a century before he was born.[ ] polybius' father, lycortas, was a prominent, land-owning politician and member of the governing class who became strategos (commanding general) of the achaean league.[ ] consequently, polybius was able to observe first hand during his first years the political and military affairs of megalopolis, gaining experience as a statesman.[ ] in his early years, he accompanied his father while travelling as ambassador.[ ] he developed an interest in horse riding and hunting, diversions that later commended him to his roman captors. in bc, he was given quite an honor when he was chosen to carry the funeral urn of philopoemen, one of the most eminent achaean politicians of his generation. in either bc or bc, polybius was elected hipparchus (cavalry officer) with the intention of fighting for rome during the third macedonian war.[ ] this event often presaged election to the annual strategia (chief generalship). his early political career was devoted largely towards maintaining the independence of megalopolis.[citation needed] personal experiences[edit] polybius’ father, lycortas, was a prominent advocate of neutrality during the roman war against perseus of macedon. lycortas attracted the suspicion of the romans, and polybius subsequently was one of the , achaean nobles who were transported to rome as hostages in bc, and was detained there for years. in rome, by virtue of his high culture, polybius was admitted to the most distinguished houses, in particular to that of lucius aemilius paullus macedonicus, the conqueror in the third macedonian war, who entrusted polybius with the education of his sons, fabius and scipio aemilianus (who had been adopted by the eldest son of scipio africanus). polybius remained on cordial terms with his former pupil scipio aemilianus and was among the members of the scipionic circle. when scipio defeated the carthaginians in the third punic war, polybius remained his counsellor. the achaean hostages were released in bc, and polybius was granted leave to return home, but the next year he went on campaign with scipio aemilianus to africa, and was present at the sack of carthage in , which he later described. following the destruction of carthage, polybius likely journeyed along the atlantic coast of africa, as well as spain. after the destruction of corinth in the same year, polybius returned to greece, making use of his roman connections to lighten the conditions there. polybius was charged with the difficult task of organizing the new form of government in the greek cities, and in this office he gained great recognition. at rome[edit] in the succeeding years, polybius resided in rome, completing his historical work while occasionally undertaking long journeys through the mediterranean countries in the furtherance of his history, in particular with the aim of obtaining firsthand knowledge of historical sites. he apparently interviewed veterans to clarify details of the events he was recording and was similarly given access to archival material. little is known of polybius' later life; he most likely accompanied scipio to spain, acting as his military advisor during the numantine war. he later wrote about this war in a lost monograph. polybius probably returned to greece later in his life, as evidenced by the many existent inscriptions and statues of him there. the last event mentioned in his histories seems to be the construction of the via domitia in southern france in bc, which suggests the writings of pseudo-lucian may have some grounding in fact when they state, "[polybius] fell from his horse while riding up from the country, fell ill as a result and died at the age of eighty-two". the histories[edit] main article: the histories (polybius) polybius’ histories cover the period from bc to bc. its main focus is the period from bc to bc, describing rome's efforts in subduing its arch-enemy, carthage, and thereby becoming the dominant mediterranean force. books i through v of the histories are the introduction for the years during his lifetime, describing the politics in leading mediterranean states, including ancient greece and egypt, and culminating in their ultimate συμπλοκή or interconnectedness. in book vi, polybius describes the political, military, and moral institutions that allowed the romans to succeed. he describes the first and second punic wars. polybius concludes the romans are the pre-eminent power because they have customs and institutions which promote a deep desire for noble acts, a love of virtue, piety towards parents and elders, and a fear of the gods (deisidaimonia). he also chronicled the conflicts between hannibal and publius cornelius scipio africanus such as the battle of ticinus, the battle of the trebia, the siege of saguntum, the battle of lilybaeum, and the battle of rhone crossing. in book xii, polybius discusses the worth of timaeus’ account of the same period of history. he asserts timaeus' point of view is inaccurate, invalid, and biased in favor of rome. therefore, polybius's histories is also useful in analyzing the different hellenistic versions of history and of use as a credible illustration of actual events during the hellenistic period. sources[edit] in the twelfth volume of his histories, polybius defines the historian's job as the analysis of documentation, the review of relevant geographical information, and political experience. polybius held that historians should only chronicle events whose participants the historian was able to interview,[ ] and was among the first to champion the notion of factual integrity in historical writing. in polybius' time, the profession of a historian required political experience (which aided in differentiating between fact and fiction) and familiarity with the geography surrounding one's subject matter to supply an accurate version of events. polybius himself exemplified these principles as he was well travelled and possessed political and military experience. he did not neglect written sources that provided essential material for his histories of the period from bc to bc. when addressing events after bc, he examined the writings of greek and roman historians to acquire credible sources of information, but rarely did he name those sources. as historian[edit] polybius wrote several works, the majority of which are lost. his earliest work was a biography of the greek statesman philopoemen; this work was later used as a source by plutarch when composing his parallel lives, however the original polybian text is lost. in addition, polybius wrote an extensive treatise entitled tactics, which may have detailed roman and greek military tactics. small parts of this work may survive in his major histories, but the work itself is lost, as well. another missing work was a historical monograph on the events of the numantine war. the largest polybian work was, of course, his histories, of which only the first five books survive entirely intact, along with a large portion of the sixth book and fragments of the rest. along with cato the elder ( – bc), he can be considered one of the founding fathers of roman historiography. livy made reference to and uses polybius' histories as source material in his own narrative. polybius was among the first historians to attempt to present history as a sequence of causes and effects, based upon a careful examination and criticism of tradition. he narrated his history based upon first-hand knowledge. the histories capture the varied elements of the story of human behavior: nationalism, xenophobia, duplicitous politics, war, brutality, loyalty, valour, intelligence, reason, and resourcefulness. aside from the narrative of the historical events, polybius also included three books of digressions. book was entirely devoted to questions of geography and included some trenchant criticisms of eratosthenes, whom he accused of passing on popular preconceptions or laodogmatika. book was a disquisition on the writing of history, citing extensive passages of lost historians, such as callisthenes and theopompus. most influential was book , which describes roman political, military, and moral institutions, which he considered key to rome's success; it presented rome as having a mixed constitution in which monarchical, aristocratic, and popular elements existed in stable equilibrium. this enabled rome to escape, for the time being, the cycle of eternal revolutions (anacyclosis). while polybius was not the first to advance this view, his account provides the most cogent illustration of the ideal for later political theorists. a key theme of the histories is the good statesman as virtuous and composed. the character of the polybian statesman is exemplified in that of philip ii. his beliefs about philip's character led polybius to reject historian theopompus' description of philip's private, drunken debauchery. for polybius, it was inconceivable that such an able and effective statesman could have had an immoral and unrestrained private life as described by theopompus.[ ] in recounting the roman republic, polybius stated that "the senate stands in awe of the multitude, and cannot neglect the feelings of the people".[ ] other important themes running through the histories are the role of fortune in the affairs of nations, his insistence that history should be demonstratory, or apodeiktike, providing lessons for statesmen, and that historians should be "men of action" (pragmatikoi). polybius is considered by some to be the successor of thucydides in terms of objectivity and critical reasoning, and the forefather of scholarly, painstaking historical research in the modern scientific sense. according to this view, his work sets forth the course of history's occurrences with clearness, penetration, sound judgment, and, among the circumstances affecting the outcomes, he lays special emphasis on geographical conditions. modern historians are especially impressed with the manner in which polybius used his sources, particularly documentary evidence as well as his citation and quotation of sources. furthermore, there is some admiration of polybius's meditation on the nature of historiography in book . his work belongs, therefore, amongst the greatest productions of ancient historical writing. the writer of the oxford companion to classical literature ( ) praises him for his "earnest devotion to truth" and his systematic pursuit of causation. it has long been acknowledged that polybius's writings are prone to a certain hagiographic tone when writing of his friends, such as scipio, and subject to a vindictive tone when detailing the exploits of his enemies, such as callicrates, the achaean statesman responsible for his roman exile.[ ] as a hostage in rome, then as client to the scipios, and after bc, a collaborator with roman rule, polybius was probably in no position to freely express any negative opinions of rome. peter green advises that polybius was chronicling roman history for a greek audience, to justify what he believed to be the inevitability of roman rule. nonetheless, green considers polybius's histories the best source for the era they cover. for ronald mellor, polybius was a loyal partisan of scipio, intent on vilifying his patron's opponents.[ ] adrian goldsworthy, while using polybius as a source for scipio's generalship, notes polybius' underlying and overt bias in scipio's favour. h. ormerod considers that polybius cannot be regarded as an 'altogether unprejudiced witness' in relation to his betes noires; the aetolians, the carthaginians, and the cretans.[ ] other historians perceive considerable negative bias in polybius' account of crete;[ ] on the other hand, hansen notes that the same work, along with passages from strabo and scylax,[ ] proved a reliable guide in the eventual rediscovery of the lost city of kydonia.[ ] cryptography[edit] polybius was responsible for a useful tool in telegraphy that allowed letters to be easily signaled using a numerical system, called "the polybius square". (mentioned in hist. x. .  ff.). this idea also lends itself to cryptographic manipulation and steganography. 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	a	b	c	d	e 	 	f	g	h	i/j	k 	 	l	m	n	o	p 	 	q	r	s	t	u 	 	v	w	x	y	z this was known as the "polybius square", where the letters of the alphabet were arranged left to right, top to bottom in a x square, (when used with the modern letter alphabet, the letters "i" and "j" are combined). five numbers were then aligned on the outside top of the square, and five numbers on the left side of the square vertically. usually these numbers were arranged through . by cross-referencing the two numbers along the grid of the square, a letter could be deduced. in the histories, he specifies how this cypher could be used in fire signals, where long-range messages could be sent by means of torches raised and lowered to signify the column and row of each letter. this was a great leap forward from previous fire signaling, which could send prearranged codes only (such as, 'if we light the fire, it means that the enemy has arrived'). other writings of scientific interest include detailed discussions of the machines archimedes created for the defense of syracuse against the romans, where he praises the 'old man' and his engineering in the highest terms, and an analysis of the usefulness of astronomy to generals (both in the histories). influence[edit] 	part of the politics series on 	republicanism 	 central concepts 	anti-monarchism 	liberty as non-domination 	popular sovereignty 	republic 	res publica 	social contract 	 schools 	classical 	federal 	kemalism 	nasserism 	neo-republicanism 	venizelism 	 types of republics 	autonomous 	capitalist 	christian 	corporate 	democratic 	federal 	federal parliamentary 	islamic 	parliamentary 	people's 	revolutionary 	sister 	soviet 	 important thinkers 	hannah arendt 	cicero 	james harrington 	thomas jefferson 	john locke 	james madison 	montesquieu 	polybius 	jean-jacques rousseau 	algernon sidney 	mary wollstonecraft 	 history 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considered a poor stylist by dionysius of halicarnassus, writing of polybius' history that "no one has the endurance to reach [its] end".[ ] nevertheless, clearly he was widely read by romans and greeks alike. he is quoted extensively by strabo writing in the st century bc and athenaeus in the rd century ad. his emphasis on explaining causes of events, rather than just recounting events, influenced the historian sempronius asellio. polybius is mentioned by cicero and mined for information by diodorus, livy, plutarch and arrian. much of the text that survives today from the later books of the histories was preserved in byzantine anthologies. montesquieu his works reappeared in the west first in renaissance florence. polybius gained a following in italy, and although poor latin translations hampered proper scholarship on his works, they contributed to the city's historical and political discourse. niccolò machiavelli in his discourses on livy evinces familiarity with polybius. vernacular translations in french, german, italian and english first appeared during the th century.[ ] consequently, in the late th century, polybius's works found a greater reading audience among the learned public. study of the correspondence of such men as isaac casaubon, jacques auguste de thou, william camden, and paolo sarpi reveals a growing interest in polybius' works and thought during the period. despite the existence of both printed editions in the vernacular and increased scholarly interest, however, polybius remained an "historian's historian", not much read by the public at large.[ ] printings of his work in the vernacular remained few in number — seven in french, five in english,(john dryden provided an enthusiastic preface to sir henry sheers' edition of ) and five in italian.[ ] polybius' political analysis has influenced republican thinkers from cicero to charles de montesquieu to the founding fathers of the united states.[ ] john adams, for example, considered him one of the most important teachers of constitutional theory. since the age of enlightenment, polybius has in general held appeal to those interested in hellenistic greece and early republican rome, while his political and military writings have lost influence in academia. more recently, thorough work on the greek text of polybius, and his historical technique, has increased the academic understanding and appreciation of him as a historian. according to edward tufte, he was also a major source for charles joseph minard's figurative map of hannibal's overland journey into italy during the second punic war.[ ] in his meditations on hunting, spanish philosopher josé ortega y gasset calls polybius "one of the few great minds that the turbid human species has managed to produce", and says the damage to the histories is "without question one of the gravest losses that we have suffered in our greco-roman heritage". the italian version of his name, polibio, was used as a male first name - for example, the composer polibio fumagalli - though it never became very common. the university of pennsylvania has an intellectual society, the polybian society, which is named in his honor and serves as a non-partisan forum for discussing societal issues and policy. editions and translations[edit] 	dionysius of halicarnassus, usher, s. (ed. and trans.) critical essays, volume ii. cambridge, ma: harvard university press, . 	polybii historiae, editionem a ludovico dindorfi curatam, retractavit theodorus büttner-wobst, lipsiae in aedibus b. g. teubneri, vol. , vol. , vol. , vol. , vol. , - . 	polybius ( – ). polybius: the histories. the loeb classical library (in ancient greek, english, and latin). translated by paton, w.r. london; new york: william heinemann; g.p. putnam's sone. 	—— ( a). polybius. volume i. isbn  - - - . loeb number l ; books i-ii. 	—— ( b). polybius. volume ii. isbn  - - - . loeb number l ; books iii-iv. 	—— ( ). polybius. volume iii. isbn  - - - . loeb number l ; books v-viii. 	—— ( ). polybius. volume iv. isbn  - - - . loeb number l ; books ix-xv. 	—— ( ). polybius. volume v. isbn  - - - . loeb number l ; books xvi-xxvii. 	—— ( ). polybius. volume vi. isbn  - - - . loeb number l ; books xxviii-xxxix. 	polybius ( ). polybius: the histories. the loeb classical library (in ancient greek, english, and latin). translated by paton, w.r. chicago: university of chicago (lacuscurtius). 	the histories or the rise of the roman empire by polybius: 	at perseus project: english & greek version 	at "lacuscurtius": short introduction to the life and work of polybius 	 edition of polybius' works vol. at the internet archive 	 edition of polybius' works vol. at the internet archive 	polybius: "the rise of the roman empire", penguin, . 	"books – of history. ethiopian story. book : from the departure of the divine marcus" featuring book i-v of the histories, digitized, from the world digital library see also[edit] 	anacyclosis 	kyklos 	the histories 	polybius square 	polybius (urban legend) 	mixed government notes and references[edit] 	^ john ma. ( ). statues and cities: honorific portraits and civic identity in the hellenistic world. oxford: oxford university press. isbn  - - - - , pp - . 	^ derow . 	^ brunschwig, jacques; lloyd, geoffrey ernest richard; lloyd, geoffrey e. r.; pellegrin, pierre ( ). a guide to greek thought: major figures and trends. london: harvard university press. p.  . isbn  - - - . 	^ gibson & harrison: polybius, pp. – . 	^ a b walbank, f. w. ( ). philip v of macedon. new york: cambridge university press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ on writing history from herodotus to herodian. penguin uk. - - . isbn  - - - - . 	^ "titus livius (livy), the history of rome, book , chapter ". www.perseus.tufts.edu. retrieved - - . 	^ a b sorek, susan ( ). ancient historians: a student handbook. london: continuum. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ farrington, scott thomas (february ). "a likely story: rhetoric and the determination of truth in polybius’ histories." histos : - . (p. ): "polybius begins his history proper with the th olympiad because accounts of the remote past amount to hearsay and do not allow for safe judgements (διαλήψεις) and assertions (ἀποφάσεις) regarding the course of events.... he can relate events he saw himself, or he can use the testimony of eyewitnesses. ([footnote ]: pol. . . : ἐξ οὗ συµβαίνει τοῖς µὲν αὐτοὺς ἡµᾶς παραγεγονέναι, τὰ δὲ παρὰ τῶν ἑωρακότων ἀκηκοέναι.)" [archive urls: (full text), (abstract & journal citation)] 	^ hannibal at new carthage: polybius . and the power of irrationality author: a. m. eckstein, classical philology, vol. , no. (january ), pp. - 	^ polybius on the senate and people ( . ) from perseus digital library at tufts university 	^ peter green, alexander to actium 	^ the historians of ancient rome, ronald j. mellor 	^ piracy in the ancient world, p h ormerod 	^ mogens herman hansen , sources for the ancient greek city-state: symposium, august – , , kgl. danske, videnskabernes selskab, pages isbn  - - - 	^ robert pashley, travels in crete, , j. murray 	^ "c. michael hogan, cydonia, modern antiquarian, january , ". themodernantiquarian.com. retrieved - - . 	^ comp. 	^ polybius; frank w. walbank; ian scott-kilvert ( ). the rise of the roman empire. penguin classics. isbn  - - - . 	^ burke, peter ( ). "a survey of the popularity of ancient historians, - ". history and theory. history and theory, vol. , no. . ( ): – [ ]. doi: . / . jstor  . 	^ burke, peter ( ). "a survey of the popularity of ancient historians, - ". history and theory. history and theory, vol. , no. . ( ): – [ ]. doi: . / . jstor  . 	^ marshall davies lloyd, polybius and the founding fathers: the separation of powers, sept. , . 	^ "minard's figurative map of hannibal's war". edwardtufte.com. retrieved - - . sources[edit] ancient sources[edit] 	titus livius of patavium (livy), libri xxi — xlv 	pseudo-lucian makrobioi 	paulus orosius libri vii of histories against pagans modern sources[edit] 	davidson, james: 'polybius' in feldherr, andrew ed. the cambridge companion to the roman historians (cambridge university press, ) 	derow, peter s. ( ). "polybius ( ), greek historian, c. –c. bce". oxford research encyclopedia of classics. doi: . /acrefore/ . . (inactive - - ).cs maint: doi inactive as of october (link) 	gibson, bruce & harrison, thomas (editors): polybius and his world: essays in memory of f.w. walbank, (oxford, ). 	momigliano, arnaldo m.: sesto contributo alla storia degli studi classici e del mondo antico (rome, ) 	—— vol. v ( ) "the historian's skin”, – (momigliano bibliography no. ) 	—— vol. vi ( ) “polibio, posidonio e l'imperialismo romano”, (momigliano bibliography no. ) (original publication: atti della accademia delle scienze di torino, , – , – ) 	moore, john m: the manuscript tradition of polybius (cambridge university press, ) 	walbank, frank w: 	—— philip v of macedon, the hare prize essay (cambridge university press, ) 	—— a historical commentary on polybius (oxford university press) 	vol. i ( ) commentary on books i–vi 	vol. ii ( ) commentary on books vii–xviii 	vol. iii ( ) commentary on books xix–xl 	—— polybius (university of california press, ) further reading[edit] 	champion, craige b. . cultural politics in polybius’s histories. berkeley: univ. of california press. 	derow, peter s. . "polybius, rome, and the east." journal of roman studies : – . 	eckstein, arthur m. . moral vision in the histories of polybius. berkeley: univ. of california press. 	farrington, scott thomas. . "a likely story: rhetoric and the determination of truth in polybius’ histories. histos: the on-line journal of ancient historiography : - . 	mcging, brian c. . polybius: the histories. oxford approaches to classical literature. oxford: oxford univ. press. 	moore, daniel walker. . "learning from experience: polybius and the progress of rome." classical quarterly . : - . 	pausch, dennis. . "livy reading polybius: adapting greek narrative to roman history." in defining greek narrative. edited by douglas l. cairns and ruth scodel, - . edinburgh : edinburgh university press. 	sacks, kenneth s. . polybius on the writing of history. berkeley: univ. of california press. 	schepens, guido, and jan bollansée, eds. . the shadow of polybius: intertextuality as a research tool in greek historiography. leuven, belgium: peeters. 	walbank, frank w. . polybius, rome and the hellenistic world: essays and reflections. cambridge, uk: cambridge univ. press. external links[edit] 		greek wikisource has original text related to this article: Ἱστορίαι 	library resources about polybius 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 by polybius 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 quotations related to polybius at wikiquote 	 works written by or about polybius at wikisource 	works by polybius at project gutenberg 	works by polybius 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is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 pontifex maximus - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	pontifex maximus 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		  (redirected from pontifex maximus) 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		chief high priest in ancient rome augustus as pontifex maximus (via labicana augustus) the pontifex maximus (latin, "greatest priest"[ ][ ][ ]) was the chief high priest of the college of pontiffs (collegium pontificum) in ancient rome. this was the most important position in the ancient roman religion, open only to patricians until  bc, when a plebeian first occupied this post. although in fact the most powerful office of roman priesthood, the pontifex maximus was officially ranked fifth in the ranking of the highest roman priests (ordo sacerdotum), behind the rex sacrorum and the flamines maiores (flamen dialis, flamen martialis, flamen quirinalis).[ ] a distinctly religious office under the early roman republic, it gradually became politicized until, beginning with augustus (r.  bc –  ad), it was subsumed into the position of emperor in the roman imperial period. subsequent emperors were styled pontifex maximus well into late antiquity, including gratian (r.  – ), but during gratian's reign the phrase was replaced in imperial titulature with the latin phrase: pontifex inclytus, an example followed by gratian's junior co-emperor theodosius the great and which was used by emperors thereafter including the co-augusti valentinian iii (r.  – ) and marcian (r.  – ) and the augustus anastasius dicorus (r.  – ). the first to adopt the inclytus alternative to maximus may have been the rebel augustus magnus maximus (r.  – ). the word pontifex and its derivative "pontiff" became terms used for christian bishops,[ ] including the bishop of rome,[ ][ ] and the title of pontifex maximus was applied to the catholic church for the pope as its chief bishop and appears on buildings, monuments and coins of popes of renaissance and modern times. the official list of titles of the pope given in the annuario pontificio includes "supreme pontiff" (latin: summus pontifex) as the fourth title, the first being "bishop of rome".[ ] contents 	 etymology 	 origins in the regal period 	 roman republic 	 . election and number 	 . extraordinary appointment of dictators 	 . . duties 	 roman empire 	 . late antiquity 	 . . pontifex inclytus 	 middle ages 	 catholic church use of the title 	 see also 	 references 	 bibliography 	 external links etymology[edit] 	priesthoods of ancient rome 	flamen ( – ce) 	 major colleges 	 pontifices · augures · septemviri epulonum quindecimviri sacris faciundis 	 other colleges or sodalities 	 fetiales · fratres arvales · salii titii · luperci · sodales augustales 	 priests 	 pontifex maximus · rex sacrorum flamen dialis · flamen martialis flamen quirinalis · rex nemorensis curio maximus 	 priestesses 	 virgo vestalis maxima flaminica dialis · regina sacrorum 	 related topics 	 religion in ancient rome · imperial cult glossary of ancient roman religion gallo-roman religion 		v 	t 	e the etymology of "pontifex" is uncertain, but the word has been used since roman times. the word appears to consist of the latin word for "bridge" and the suffix for "maker". however, there is a possibility that this definition is a folk etymology for an etruscan term,[ ] since roman religion was heavily influenced by etruscan religion, and very little is known about the etruscan language, which is not indo-european. according to the common interpretation, the term pontifex means "bridge-builder" (pons + facere); "maximus" means "greatest". this was perhaps originally meant in a literal sense: the position of bridge-builder was indeed an important one in rome, where the major bridges were over the tiber, the sacred river (and a deity): only prestigious authorities with sacral functions could be allowed to "disturb" it with mechanical additions. however, it was always understood in its symbolic sense as well: the pontifices were the ones who smoothed the "bridge" between gods and men.[ ] the interpretation of the word pontifex as "bridge-builder" was that of dionysius of halicarnassus and marcus terentius varro. plutarch pointed out that the term existed before there were any bridges in rome and derived the word from old latin pontis (sic) meaning a powerful or absolute master, while others derived it from potis facere in the sense of "able to sacrifice".[ ] the last derivation is mentioned also by varro, who rejected it,[ ] but it was the view of pontifex maximus quintus scaevola.[ ] others have held that the word was originally pompifex (leader of public processions).[ ] the word pons originally meant "way" and pontifex would thus mean "maker of roads and bridges".[ ] another opinion is that the word is a corruption of a similar-sounding but etymologically unrelated etruscan word.[ ] yet another hypothesis[ ] considers the word as a loan from the sabine language, in which it would mean a member of a college of five, from osco-umbrian ponte, five.[ ] this explanation takes into account the fact that the college was established by sabine king numa pompilius and the institution is italic: the expressions pontis and pomperias found in the iguvine tablets may denote a group or division of five or by five. the pontifex would thence be a member of a sacrificial college known as pomperia (latin quinio).[ ] the roman title pontifex maximus was rendered in greek inscriptions and literature of the time as koinē greek: ἀρχιερεύς, romanized: archiereús, lit. 'archpriest'[ ] or by a more literal translation and order of words as koinē greek: ἀρχιερεὺς μέγιστος, romanized: archireús mégistos, lit. 'greatest archpriest'.[ ] the term ἀρχιερεύς is used in the greek septuagint text of the old testament and in the new testament to refer to the high priest of israel, including in maccabees ( maccabees : ). the word pontifex, latin for "pontiff", was used in ancient rome to designate a member of the college of pontiffs. in the latin vulgate translation of the new testament, it is sometimes used to designate the jewish high priest, as in the gospel of john and epistle to the hebrews (john : ; hebrews : ). from perhaps as early as the rd century, it has been used to denote a christian bishop. in the vulgate, the term summus pontifex was originally applied to the high priest of israel, as in the book of judith (judith : ), whose place, each in his own diocese, the christian bishops were regarded as holding, based on an interpretation of the first epistle of clement (i clement ).[ ] origins in the regal period[edit] the collegium pontificum (college of pontiffs) was the most important priesthood of ancient rome. the foundation of this sacred college and the office of pontifex maximus is attributed to the second king of rome, numa pompilius.[ ] much of what is known about the regal period in roman history is semi-legendary or mythical. the collegium presumably acted as advisers to the rex (king) in religious matters. the collegium was headed by the pontifex maximus, and all the pontifices held their office for life. but the pontifical records of early rome were most likely destroyed when the city was sacked by the gauls in  bce, and the earliest accounts of archaic rome come from the literature of the republic, most of it from the st century bc and later. according to the augustan-era historian livy, numa pompilius, a sabine, devised rome's system of religious rites, including the manner and timing of sacrifices, the supervision of religious funds, authority over all public and private religious institutions, instruction of the populace in the celestial and funerary rites including appeasing the dead, and expiation of prodigies. numa is said to have founded roman religion after dedicating an altar on the aventine hill to jupiter elicius and consulting the gods by means of augury.[ ] numa wrote down and sealed these religious instructions, and gave them to the first pontifex maximus, numa marcius. roman republic[edit] see also: list of pontifices maximi and college of pontiffs in the roman republic, the pontifex maximus was the highest office in the state religion of ancient rome and directed the college of pontiffs. according to livy, after the overthrow of the monarchy, the romans created the priesthood of the rex sacrorum, or "king of sacred rites," to carry out certain religious duties and rituals previously performed by the king. the rex sacrorum was explicitly deprived of military and political power, but the pontifices were permitted to hold both magistracies and military commands.[ ] the official residence of the pontifex maximus was the domus publica ("state house") which stood between the house of the vestal virgins and the via sacra, close to the regia, in the roman forum. his religious duties were carried out from the regia. unless the pontifex maximus was also a magistrate, he was not allowed to wear the toga praetexta, i.e. toga with the purple border. in artistic representations, he can be recognized by his holding an iron knife (secespita)[ ] or the patera,[ ] and the distinctive robes or toga with part of the mantle covering the head (capite velato), in keeping with roman practice. the pontifex was not simply a priest. he had both political and religious authority. it is not clear which of the two came first or had the most importance. in practice, particularly during the late republic, the office of pontifex maximus was generally held by a member of a politically prominent family. it was a coveted position mainly for the great prestige it conferred on the holder; julius caesar became pontifex in  bc and pontifex maximus in  bce. the major republican source on the pontiffs would have been the theological writings of varro, which survive only in fragments preserved by later authors such as aulus gellius and nonius marcellus. other sources are cicero, livy, dionysius of halicarnassus, valerius maximus, plutarch's life of numa pompilius, festus's summaries of verrius flaccus, and in later writers, including several of the church fathers. some of these sources present an extensive list of everyday prohibitions for the pontifex maximus; it seems difficult to reconcile these lists with evidence that many pontifices maximi were prominent members of society who lived normal, non-restricted lives. election and number[edit] the number of pontifices, elected by co-optatio (i.e. the remaining members nominate their new colleague) for life, was originally five, including the pontifex maximus.[ ][ ] the pontifices, moreover, could only come from the old nobility, the patricians. however, in –  bce the lex ogulnia opened the office of pontifex maximus to public election and permitted the plebs (plebeians) to be co-opted as priests, so that part of the exclusivity of the title was lost. but it was only in  bce that tiberius coruncanius became the first plebeian pontifex maximus.[ ] the lex ogulnia also increased the number of pontiffs to nine (the pontifex maximus included). in  bce the lex domitia prescribed that the election of all pontiffs would henceforward be voted by the comitia tributa (an assembly of the people divided into voting districts); by the same law only  tribes, chosen by lot from the  tribes of the city, could vote. the law's promulgator, l[ucius] domitius ahenobarbus, was shortly afterwards elected pontifex maximus after the death of the incumbent metellus dalmaticus: something of a personal revenge because, the previous year, he had expected to be co-opted as a pontiff to replace his late father, but the pontifical college had appointed another candidate in his place. the office's next holder, q[uintus] mucius scaevola, was also elected under the same law, though without controversy or opposition since he was a former consul and long-serving pontiff. this law was abolished in  bce by sulla in his dictatorship, in the lex cornelia de sacerdotiis, which restored to the great priestly colleges their full right of co-optatio.[ ][ ][ ] also under sulla, the number of pontifices was increased to fifteen, the pontifex maximus included, and sulla nominated quintus caecilius metellus pius as the next holder of the office – the only truly unelected pontifex maximus in history, since even the other pontiffs did not get a vote in the matter. in  bc, the law of sulla was abolished by the tribune titus labienus, and a modified form of the lex domitia was reinstated providing for election by comitia tributa once again: gaius julius caesar followed ahenobarbus's precedent by being elected by public vote, although caesar at least had previously been a pontiff. marcus antonius later restored the right of co-optatio to the college[ ], in time for the election of marcus aemilius lepidus. also under julius caesar, the number of pontifices were increased to sixteen, the pontifex maximus included. (possibly because caesar's own long absences from rome necessitated the appointment of a deputy pontiff for those occasions when fifteen needed to be present.) the number of pontifices varied during the empire but is believed to have been regular at fifteen.[ ] extraordinary appointment of dictators[edit] the office came into its own with the abolition of the monarchy, when most sacral powers previously vested in the king were transferred either to the pontifex maximus or to the rex sacrorum, though traditionally a (non-political) dictator[ ] was formally mandated by the senate for one day, to perform a specific rite. according to livy in his "history of rome", an ancient instruction written in archaic letters commands: "let him who is the praetor maximus fasten a nail on the ides of september." this notice was fastened up on the right side of the temple of jupiter optimus maximus, next to the chapel of minerva. this nail is said to have marked the number of the year. it was in accordance with this direction that the consul horatius dedicated the temple of jupiter optimus maximus in the year following the expulsion of the kings; from the consuls the ceremony of fastening the nails passed to the dictators, because they possessed greater authority. as the custom had been subsequently dropped, it was felt to be of sufficient importance to require the appointment of a dictator. l[ucius] manlius was accordingly nominated but his appointment was due to political rather than religious reasons. he was eager to command in the war with the hernici. he caused a very angry feeling among the men liable to serve by the inconsiderate way in which he conducted the enrolment. at last, in consequence of the unanimous resistance offered by the tribunes of the plebs, he gave way, either voluntarily or through compulsion, and laid down his dictatorship. since then, this rite has been performed by the rex sacrorum.[ ] duties[edit] the main duty of the pontifices was to maintain the pax deorum or "peace of the gods."[ ][ ][ ] the immense authority of the sacred college of pontiffs was centered on the pontifex maximus, the other pontifices forming his consilium or advising body. his functions were partly sacrificial or ritualistic, but these were the least important. his real power lay in the administration of ius divinum or divine law;[ ] the information collected by the pontifices related to the roman religious tradition was bound in a corpus which summarized dogma and other concepts. the chief departments of jus divinum may be described as follows: denarius depicting julius caesar as pontifex maximus 	the regulation of all expiatory ceremonials needed as a result of pestilence, lightning, etc. 	the consecration of all temples and other sacred places and objects dedicated to the gods. 	the regulation of the calendar; both astronomically and in detailed application to the public life of the state. 	the administration of the law relating to burials and burying-places, and the worship of the manes or dead ancestors. 	the superintendence of all marriages by conferratio, i.e. originally of all legal patrician marriages. 	the administration of the law of adoption and of testamentary succession. 	the regulation of the public morals, and fining and punishing offending parties. the pontifices had many relevant and prestigious functions such as being in charge of caring for the state archives, the keeping the official minutes of elected magistrates[ ] and list of magistrates, and they kept the records of their own decisions (commentarii) and of the chief events of each year, the so-called "public diaries", the annales maximi.[ ] the pontifex maximus was also subject to several taboos. among them was the prohibition to leave italy. plutarch described publius cornelius scipio nasica serapio ( –  bce) as the first to leave italy, after being forced by the senate to do so, and thus break the sacred taboo. publius licinius crassus dives mucianus ( –  bce) was the first to leave italy voluntarily. afterwards it became common and no longer against the law for the pontifex maximus to leave italy. among the most notable of those who did was julius caesar ( –  bce). the pontifices were in charge of the roman calendar and determined when intercalary months needed to be added to synchronize the calendar to the seasons. since the pontifices were often politicians, and because a roman magistrate's term of office corresponded with a calendar year, this power was prone to abuse: a pontifex could lengthen a year in which he or one of his political allies was in office, or refuse to lengthen one in which his opponents were in power. this caused the calendar to become out of step with the seasons; for example, caesar's crossing of the rubicon in january  bce actually took place in mid-autumn. under his authority as pontifex maximus, julius caesar introduced the calendar reform that created the julian calendar, with a fault of less than a day per century, and which remained the standard till the gregorian reform in the th century. pontifex maximus and augustus marcus aurelius (r.  – ) performing sacrifice in a relief from the arch of marcus aurelius (capitoline museums) roman empire[edit] after julius caesar's assassination in  bce, his ally marcus aemilius lepidus was selected as pontifex maximus. though lepidus eventually fell out of political favor and was sent into exile as augustus consolidated power, he retained the priestly office until his death in  bce, at which point augustus was selected to succeed him and given the right to appoint other pontifices. thus, from the time of augustus, the election of pontifices ended and membership in the sacred college was deemed a sign of imperial favour.[ ] with this attribution, the new office of emperor was given a religious dignity and the responsibility for the entire roman state cult. most authors contend that the power of naming the pontifices was not really used as an instrumentum regni, an enforcing power. from this point on, pontifex maximus was one of the many titles of the emperor, slowly losing its specific and historical powers and becoming simply a referent for the sacral aspect of imperial duties and powers. during the imperial period, a promagister (vice-master) performed the duties of the pontifex maximus in lieu of the emperors whenever they were absent.[ ] in post-severan times (after  ce), the small number of pagan senators interested in becoming pontiffs led to a change in the pattern of office holding. in republican and imperial times no more than one family member of a gens was member of the college of pontiffs, nor did one person hold more than one priesthood in this collegium. however, these rules were obviously loosened in the later part of the rd century a.d. in periods of joint rule, at first only one of the emperors bore this title, as it occurred for the first time during the reign of marcus aurelius and lucius verus, when only marcus aurelius was pontifex maximus, but later two pontifices maximi could serve together, as pupienus and balbinus did in  ad—a situation unthinkable in republican times. late antiquity[edit] when tertullian, a montanist, furiously applied the term to some bishop with whom he was at odds (either pope callixtus i or agrippinus of carthage),[ ][ ] c , over a relaxation of the church's penitential discipline allowing repentant adulterers and fornicators back into the church, it was in bitter irony: in opposition to this [modesty], could i not have acted the dissembler? i hear that there has even been an edict sent forth, and a peremptory one too. the "pontifex maximus," that is the "bishop of bishops," issues an edict: "i remit, to such as have discharged [the requirements of] repentance, the sins both of adultery and of fornication." o edict, on which cannot be inscribed, "good deed!"... far, far from christ's betrothed be such a proclamation! — tertullian, on modesty ch. in the crisis of the third century, emperors continued to assume the title pontifex maximus. the early christian emperors, including constantine the great (r.  – ) and the rest of the constantinian dynasty, continued to use it; it was only relinquished by gratian, possibly in at the time of his visit to rome,[ ] or more probably in when a delegation of pagan senators implored him to restore the altar of victory in roman senate's curia julia.[ ] its last use with reference to the emperors is in inscriptions of gratian.[ ][ ][ ] the edict of thessalonica of february was enacted in thessalonica (thessaloniki) and published in constantinople (istanbul) for the whole empire. by it, theodosius i established nicene christianity as the state church of the roman empire. the latin text refers to the bishop of rome, damasus, as a pontifex, and the bishop of alexandria, peter, as an episcopus:[ ] ... the profession of that religion which was delivered to the romans by the divine apostle peter, as it has been preserved by faithful tradition and which is now professed by the pontiff damasus and by peter, bishop of alexandria ... we authorize the followers of this law to assume the title catholic christians ...[ ] various forms of summus pontifex ('highest pontiff' or bishop) were for centuries used not only of the bishop of rome but of other bishops also.[ ] hilary of arles (d. ) is styled summus pontifex by eucherius of lyon (p. l., vol. l, col. ) pontifex inclytus[edit] during gratian's reign or immediately afterwards the phrase pontifex maximus – which had unwelcome associations with traditional roman religion during the christianization of the roman empire – was replaced in imperial titulature with the phrase: pontifex inclytus.[ ] the first to adopt the inclytus alternative to maximus may have been the rebel augustus and devout christian close to bishop martin of tours, magnus maximus (r.  – ), who killed gratian in august .[ ] this practice was followed by gratian's junior co-emperor theodosius the great and was used by emperors thereafter, including the co-augusti valentinian iii (r.  – ) and marcian (r.  – ) and the augustus anastasius dicorus (r.  – ), for whom examples of official usage survive.[ ] another inscription dedicated to justin ii (r.  – ) and naming him pontifex has long been recognized as a forgery, though there is no evidence to suggest the title could not have been used by justinian the great (r.  – ) or even by constantine iv (r.  – ).[ ] middle ages[edit] lanfranc is termed primas et pontifex summus by his biographer, milo crispin (p. l., vol. cl, ). but from the th century it appears to be applied only to the pope.[ ] engraving by christoph weigel the elder of pope clement xi, giving him the title pontifex maximus catholic church use of the title[edit] papal coin of pius vi from , marked on the reverse: 	 ·pivs· ·sextus· pontifex maximus mdccxcv 	 pius the sixth pontifex maximus 	 	 inscription of pope pius ix (r.  – ) on the colosseum describing him as pivs ix pont· max· and commemorating the th-century restoration gate to the vatican inscribed benedictus xvi pont[ifex] max[imus] anno domini mmv pont[ificatus] i ("benedict xvi, supreme pontiff, in the year of our lord , in the first year of his pontificate") see also: pontiff § catholicism in the th century, when the renaissance stirred up new interest in ancient rome, pontifex maximus became a regular title of honour for popes.[ ] after the fall of the eastern roman empire with the fall of constantinople to the ottoman empire and the death of the final roman emperor constantine xi in , pontifex maximus became part of the papacy's official titulature of the bishop of rome.[ ] the name given to the book containing the liturgical rites to be performed by any bishop, the roman pontifical, and to the form of liturgy known as pontifical high mass witness to the continued use of pontifex to refer to bishops in general. while the title pontifex maximus has for some centuries been used in inscriptions referring to the popes, it has never been included in the official list of papal titles published in the annuario pontificio. the official list of titles of the pope given in the annuario pontificio includes "supreme pontiff of the whole church" (in latin, summus pontifex ecclesiae universalis) as the fourth title, the first being "bishop of rome". the title pontifex maximus appears in inscriptions on buildings and on coins and medallions. in december pope benedict xvi adopted @pontifex as his twitter handle,[ ] prompting users to pose questions with the #askpontifex hashtag.[ ][ ] this has been maintained by his successor pope francis, who now uses it as his twitter handle.[ ] see also[edit] 	college of pontiffs – high priests of ancient rome 	pontiff references[edit] 	^ peck, harry thurston ( ). 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( ). gratian's repudiation of the pontifical robe. the journal of roman studies, : – . the confusion in dates arises from zosimus, who writes that it was repudiated at gratian's accession, impossible from epigraphic and literary references 	^ tikkanen, amy (february , ). "gratian". encyclopædia britannica. encyclopædia britannica, inc. retrieved june , – via encyclopædia britannica online. 	^ unlike episcopus (from greek ἐπίσκοπος), the word used for the bishop from the greek-speaking east, pontifex is a word of purely latin derivation. 	^ theodosian code xvi. . ; and sozomen, "ecclesiastical history", vii, iv. emperor theodosius i. "imperatoris theodosiani codex liber decimus sextus" (web). ancientrome.ru. retrieved december , . 	^ a b c d cameron, alan ( ). "the imperial pontifex". harvard studies in classical philology. : – . issn  - . jstor  . 	^ oxford dictionary of the christian church (oxford university press isbn  - - - - ), article pontifex maximus 	^ nicholson, oliver; gwynn, david ( ), nicholson, oliver (ed.), "pontifex maximus", the oxford dictionary of late antiquity, oxford university press, doi: . /acref/ . . , isbn  - - - - , retrieved november , 	^ winfield, nicole (december , ). "pope joins tweeting masses with pontifex handle". ap. retrieved december , . 	^ ask the pope @pontifex: with twitter account, benedict xvi just a tweet away, michelle boorstein, washington post december , 	^ pope benedict to launch new twitter account, vatican radio, december , . 	^ the official twitter page of pope francis bibliography[edit] 	cameron, alan ( ). "pontifex maximus: from augustus to gratian – and beyond" (pdf). collegium: – . 	dijkstra, roald; espelo, dorine van ( ). "anchoring pontifical authority: a reconsideration of the papal employment of the title pontifex maximus". journal of religious history. ( ): – . doi: . / - . . external links[edit] 	article pontifex in smith's dictionary of greek and roman antiquities 	annotated pontifex maximus list 	list of roman consuls (fasti consulares)  bce –  ce at http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/egypt/ptolemies/chron/chronology.htm – in the list of consuls the column on the right (pontifex maximus) lists those that are known in this period. 	joyce, george hayward ( ). 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	collegiality 	auctoritas 	roman citizenship 	cursus honorum 	senatus consultum 	senatus consultum ultimum 	 assemblies 	 	centuriate 	curiate 	plebeian 	tribal 	 ordinary magistrates 	 	consul 	praetor 	quaestor 	promagistrate 	aedile 	tribune 	censor 	governor 	 extraordinary magistrates 	 	corrector 	dictator 	magister equitum 	consular tribune 	rex 	triumviri 	decemviri 	 titles and honours 	 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	praeses 	praefectus 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 	 	other countries 		v 	t 	e praetor (/ˈpriːtər/ pree-tər, classical latin: [ˈprae̯tɔr]), also spelled prætor or pretor in english, was a title granted by the government of ancient rome to men acting in one of two official capacities: the commander of an army (in the field or, less often, before the army had been mustered); and as an elected magistratus (magistrate), assigned various duties (which varied at different periods in rome's history). the functions of the magistracy, the praetura (praetorship), are described by the adjective:[ ] the praetoria potestas (praetorian power), the praetorium imperium (praetorian authority), and the praetorium ius (praetorian law), the legal precedents established by the praetores (praetors). praetorium, as a substantive, denoted the location from which the praetor exercised his authority, either the headquarters of his castra, the courthouse (tribunal) of his judiciary, or the city hall of his provincial governorship.[ ] contents 	 history of the title 	 praetura 	 praetors and their duties 	 . republican 	 . . praetor peregrinus 	 . . praetor urbanus 	 . . additional praetors 	 . imperial 	 praetors as judges 	 . actions 	 . quaestiones perpetuae 	 outdoor actions 	 later roman era 	 byzantine empire 	 modern era 	 . in popular culture 	 see also 	 references 	 sources 	 external links history of the title[edit] the classical-era authors do not describe the events leading to the origin of the title praetor, but the writings of the late republican statesman and attorney cicero explored the philosophy and uses of the term praetor. the prefix prae provides a good indication that the title-holder was prior, in some way, in society. livy mentions that the latini were led and governed in warfare by two of them[ ] and the samnites by one.[ ] a dictator was called the praetor maximus. the use of the adjectives (praetorius, praetoricius, praetorianus) in a large number of circumstances testify to a general sense. the leadership functions of any corporate body at rome might be termed[by whom?] praetorial. the praetoria potestas in republican rome was at first held by the consuls. these two officials, elected on an annual basis, inherited the power formerly held by the kings of rome.[ ] very likely, the king himself was the first praetor. the best explanation available is that of cicero in de legibus, in which he proposes ideal laws based on roman constitutional theory:[ ] regio imperio duo sunto, iique praeeundo iudicando consulendo praetores iudices consules appellamino. militiae summum ius habento, ... let there be two with the authority of the king, and let them be called praetors, judges and consuls from their going before, judging and consulting. let them have the supreme right of command of the military... this etymology of praetor became and remains the standard.[ ][ ] cicero considers the word to contain the same elemental parts as the verb praeire (praeeo: "to go before, to precede, to lead the way"). in exactly what way a praetor goes before did not survive. livy explains[ ] that in the year bc the praetura was set up to relieve the consuls of their judicial duties. the first man to be elected to the new praetura was the patrician spurius furius, the son of marcus furius camillus,[ ] in exchange for the election of lucius sextius, plebeian leader, as one of the consuls for the year. partisan politics greatly influenced the outcome of elections. the praetor was, in an english sense, the chief justice, and yet more than that. the consuls were his peers; he was elected by the same electorate and sworn in on the same day with the same oath. (the comitia centuriata elected consuls and praetors.) until bc the praetor was chosen only from among the patricians. in that year eligibility for the praetura was opened to the plebeians, and one of them, quintus publilius philo, won the office.[ ] from then on, praetors appear frequently in roman history, first as generals and judges, then as provincial governors. beginning in the late republic, a former praetor could serve as a propraetor ("in place of the praetor") and act as the governor of one of rome's provinces. praetura[edit] the elected praetor was a magistratus curulis, exercised imperium, and consequently was one of the magistratus majores. he had the right to sit in the sella curulis and wear the toga praetexta.[ ] he was attended by six lictors. a praetor was a magistrate with imperium within his own sphere, subject only to the veto of the consuls (who outranked him).[ ] the potestas and imperium (power and authority) of the consuls and the praetors under the republic should not be exaggerated. they did not use independent judgment in resolving matters of state. unlike today's executive branches, they were assigned high-level tasks directly by senatorial decree under the authority of the spqr. livy describes the assignments given to either consuls or praetors in some detail. as magistrates, they had standing duties to perform, especially of a religious nature. however, a consul or praetor could be taken away from his current duties at any time to head a task force, and there were many, especially military. livy mentions that, among other tasks, these executive officers were told to lead troops against perceived threats (domestic or foreign), investigate possible subversion, raise troops, conduct special sacrifices, distribute windfall money, appoint commissioners and even exterminate locusts. praetors could delegate at will. the one principle that limited what could be assigned to them was that their duties must not concern them with minima, "little things". they were by definition doers of maxima. this principle of roman law became a principle of later european law: non curat minima praetor, that is, the details do not need to be legislated, they can be left up to the courts. praetors and their duties[edit] republican[edit] in bc, the senate created a second praetura. there were two reasons for this: to relieve the weight of judicial business and to give the republic a magistrate with imperium who could field an army in an emergency when both consuls were fighting a far-off war. praetor peregrinus[edit] by the end of the first punic war, a fourth magistrate entitled to hold imperium appears, the praetor qui inter peregrinos ius dicit ("the praetor who administers justice among foreigners"). although in the later empire the office was titled praetor inter cives et peregrinos ("among citizens and foreigners", that is, having jurisdiction in disputes between citizens and noncitizens), by the time of the rd century bc, rome's territorial annexations and foreign populations were unlikely to require a new office dedicated solely to this task. t. corey brennan, in his two-volume study of the praetorship, argues that during the military crisis of the s the second praetorship was created to make another holder of imperium available for command and provincial administration inter peregrinos. during the hannibalic war, the praetor peregrinus was frequently absent from rome on special missions. the urban praetor more often remained in the city to administer the judicial system.[ ] praetor urbanus[edit] the praetor urbanus presided in civil cases between citizens. the senate required that some senior officer remain in rome at all times. this duty now fell to the praetor urbanus. in the absence of the consuls, he was the senior magistrate of the city, with the power to summon the senate and to organize the defense of the city in the event of an attack.[ ] he was allowed to leave the city for no more than ten days at a time. he was therefore given appropriate duties in rome. he superintended the ludi apollinares and was also the chief magistrate for the administration of justice and promulgated the praetor's edict. these edicts were statements of praetor's policy as to judicial decisions to be made during his term of office. the praetor had substantial discretion regarding his edict, but could not legislate. in a sense the continuing edicts came to form a corpus of precedents. the development and improvement of roman law owes much to the wise use of this praetorial discretion.[ ] additional praetors[edit] see also: prorogatio the expansion of roman authority over other lands required the addition of praetors. two were created in bc, for the administration of sicily and sardinia, and two more when the two hispanic provinces were formed in bc. the dictator lucius cornelius sulla transferred administration of the provinces to former consuls and praetors, simultaneously increasing the number of praetors elected each year to eight, as part of his constitutional reforms. julius caesar raised the number to ten, then fourteen, and finally to sixteen.[ ] imperial[edit] augustus made changes that were designed to reduce the praetor to being an imperial administrator rather than a magistrate. the electoral body was changed to the senate, which was now an instrument of imperial ratification. to take a very simplistic view, the establishment of the principate can be seen as the restoration of monarchy under another name. the emperor therefore assumed the powers once held by the kings, but he used the apparatus of the republic to exercise them. for example, the emperor presided over the highest courts of appeal. the need for administrators remained just as acute. after several changes, augustus fixed the number at twelve. under tiberius, there were sixteen. as imperial administrators, their duties extended to matters that the republic would have considered minima. two praetors were appointed by claudius for matters relating to fideicommissa (trusts), when the business in that department of the law had become considerable, but titus reduced the number to one; and nerva added a praetor for the decision of matters between the fiscus (treasury) and individuals. marcus aurelius[ ] appointed a praetor for matters relating to tutela (guardianship). praetors as judges[edit] roman court cases fell into the two broad categories of civil or criminal trials. the involvement of a praetor in either was as follows. actions[edit] in an actio, which was civil, the praetor could either issue an interdictum (interdict) forbidding some circumstance or appoint a iudex (judge). proceedings before the praetor were technically said to be in iure. at this stage, the praetor would establish a formula directing the iudex as to the remedy to be given if he found that certain circumstances were satisfied; for instance, "let x be iudex. if it appears that the defendant ought to pay , sesterces to the plaintiff, let the iudex condemn the defendant to pay , sesterces to the plaintiff. if it does not so appear, let the plaintiff absolve him."[ ] after they were handed over to the iudex, they were no longer in iure before the praetor, but apud iudicem. the iudicium of the iudex was binding. by the time of diocletian, however, this two-stage process had largely disappeared, and the praetor would either hear the whole case in person or appoint a delegate (a iudex pedaneus), taking steps for the enforcement of the decision; the formula was replaced by an informal system of pleadings.[ ] during the time of the roman republic, the urban praetor allegedly issued an annual edict, usually on the advice of jurists (since the praetor himself was not necessarily educated in the law), setting out the circumstances under which he would grant remedies. the legal provisions arising from the praetor's edict were known as ius honorarium; in theory the praetor did not have power to alter the law, but in practice the edict altered the rights and duties of individuals and was effectively a legislative document. in the reign of hadrian, however, the terms of the edict were made permanent and the praetor's de facto legislative role was abolished.[ ] quaestiones perpetuae[edit] the praetors also presided at the quaestiones perpetuae (which were criminal proceedings), so-called because they were of certain types, with a praetor being assigned to one type on a permanent basis. the praetors appointed judges who acted as jurors in voting for guilt or innocence. the verdict was either acquittal or condemnation. these quaestiones looked into crimina publica, "crimes against the public", such as were worthy of the attention of a praetor. the penalty on conviction was usually death, but sometimes other severe penalties were used. in the late republic, the public crimes were: 	repetundae[ ] 	ambitus[ ] 	majestas[ ] 	peculatus[ ] 	falsum[ ] 	de sicariis et veneficis[ ] 	de patricidis[ ] the last three were added by the dictator sulla in the early st century bc. outdoor actions[edit] when the praetor administered justice in a tribunal, he sat on a sella curulis, which was that part of the court reserved for the praetor and his assessors and friends, as opposed to the subsellia, the part occupied by the iudices (judges) and others who were present. in court, the praetor was referred to as acting e tribunali or ex superiore loco (lit. from a raised platform or from a higher place) but he could also perform ministerial acts out of court, in which case he was said to be acting e plano or ex aequo loco (lit. from the flat ground or from an equal or level place). for instance, he could in certain cases give validity to the act of manumission when he was out-of-doors, such as on his way to the bath or to the theatre. later roman era[edit] by ad, the praetors' responsibilities had been reduced to a purely municipal role.[ ] their sole duty was to manage the spending of money on the exhibition of games or on public works. however, with the decline of the other traditional roman offices such as that of tribune the praetorship remained an important portal through which aristocrats could gain access to either the western or eastern senates. the praetorship was a costly position to hold as praetors were expected to possess a treasury from which they could draw funds for their municipal duties. byzantine empire[edit] like many other roman institutions, the praetor (greek: πραίτωρ, praitōr) survived in the eastern roman (byzantine) empire. emperor justinian i (r. – ) undertook a major administrative reform beginning in , which involved the reunification of civil and military authority in the hands of the governor in certain provinces, and the abolition of the dioceses. the diocese of thrace had already been abolished by the end of the th century by anastasius, and its vicarius became the new praetor justinianus of thrace, with authority over all the former thracian provinces except for lower moesia and scythia minor, which became part of the quaestura exercitus. similarly, the governors of pisidia and lycaonia, as well as paphlagonia (enlarged by merging it with honorias) were upgraded to praetores justiniani, and received the rank of vir spectabilis.[ ][ ] in addition, in constantinople he replaced the praefectus vigilum, who was hitherto responsible for security, by a praetor populi (in greek πραίτωρ [τῶν] δήμων, praitōr [tōn] dēmōn), with wide-ranging police powers.[ ][ ] in the early th century, the praitōr was a junior administrative official in the themata, subordinate to the governing stratēgos. gradually however, the civil functionaries assumed greater power, and by the late th century, the praitores (or kritai, "judges") were placed at the head of the civil administration of a thema.[ ] this division of civil and military duties was often abandoned in the th century, when the posts of civil praitōr and military doux were frequently held in tandem. the provincial post fell out of use after the collapse of the empire in .[ ] according to helene ahrweiler, emperor nikephoros ii (r. – ) reinstituted a praetor in constantinople, as a high-ranking judge. he is possibly identical to the palaiologan-era post of the praitōr tou demōu, whose holders are attested until .[ ] according to the book of offices of pseudo-kodinos, compiled around the same time, the praitōr tou demōu occupied the th place in the imperial hierarchy, between the megas tzaousios and the logothetēs tōn oikeiakōn,[ ] but held no official function.[ ] his court uniform consisted of a gold-brocaded hat (skiadion), a plain silk kabbadion tunic, and a plain, smooth wooden staff (dikanikion).[ ] modern era[edit] classical latin praetor became medieval latin pretor; praetura, pretura, etc. during the interwar period the counties of romania were divided into a various numbers of plăși (singular: plasă), headed by a pretor, appointed by the prefect. the institution headed by the pretor was called pretură. currently, this office has survived only in the republic of moldova, where praetors are the heads of chişinău's five sectors. in italy, until , praetor was a magistrate with particular duty (especially in civil branch). the italian-speaking swiss canton of ticino has preturi (singular: preture) which is the chief magistrate (civil branch) of a district, heading a pretura (a court).[ ] the preturi are appointed by the canton's parliament.[ ] in popular culture[edit] in the “star trek” franchise, praetor is the usual title of the leader of the romulan empire. in the new phyrexia expansion of the magic: the gathering collectible card game, the five phyrexian rulers were labeled as praetors. in the game “doom”, the armor worn by the protagonist is called the praetor suit. in the game “xenoblade chronicles ”, one of the central antagonists amalthus holds the title of praetor in the praetorium of indol. in the popular book series by rick riordan, “the heroes of olympus”, there is a senate with two praetors, one male and one female. see also[edit] 	praetor's edict 	constitution of the roman republic 	list of topics related to ancient rome 	political institutions of rome 	list of praetors of the roman republic 	category:roman praetors references[edit]  this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: smith, william, ed. 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he received 	grass crown – (latin: corona obsidionalis or corona graminea), was the highest and rarest of all military decorations. it was presented only to a general, commander, or officer whose actions saved the legion or the entire army. 	civic crown – (latin: corona civica), was a chaplet of common oak leaves woven to form a crown. during the roman republic, and the subsequent principate, it was regarded as the second highest military decoration a citizen could aspire to (the grass crown being held in higher regard) and was rewarded for saving the lives of fellow roman citizens (cives)or stand ground in war. since augustus, only the princeps was eligible for this decoration. it may have been identical to the crown of the preserver mentioned below. 	naval crown – (latin: corona navalis), was a gold crown awarded to the first man who boarded an enemy ship during a naval engagement. in style, the crown was made of gold and surmounted with the beaks of ships. 	gold crown – (latin: corona aurea), awarded to both centurions and apparently some principales, for killing an enemy in single combat and holding the ground to the end of the battle. 	battlement crowns – these were made of gold and decorated with the uprights (valli) of an entrenchment or turrets of a city. it was awarded to the first soldier or centurion to mount the wall or palisade of an enemy town or camp.[ ] 	mural crown – (latin: corona muralis), also referred to as the "walled crown", this was a golden crown, or circle of gold intended to resemble a battlement, bestowed upon the first soldier who climbed the wall of a besieged city and to successfully place the standard of the attacking army upon it. 	camp crown – (latin: corona vallaris or corona castrensis), a golden crown which was ornamented with the palisades used in forming an entrenchment. 	crown of the preserver – awarded to "those who have shielded and saved any of the citizens or allies"[ ] – polybius relates that the crown is presented by those civilians the soldier saved and adds that "the man thus preserved also reverences his preserver as a father all through his life, and must treat him in every way like a parent."[ ] imperial titles[edit] synonyms for "emperor"[edit] 	augustus (also "Αὔγουστος" or "Σεβαστός"), "majestic" or "venerable"; an honorific cognomen exclusive to the emperor 	Αὐτοκράτωρ, (lit. "self-ruler"); greek title equivalent to imperator i.e. commander-in-chief 	Βασιλεύς (basileus), greek title meaning sovereign, popularly used in the east to refer to the emperor; a formal title of the roman emperor beginning with heraclius 	caesar (also "Καίσαρ" or "nobilissimus caesar"), "caesar" or "most noble caesar"; an honorific name later used to identify an emperor-designate 	censor, a republican office with a five-year term and one coequal officeholder 	consul, the highest magistracy of the roman republic with a one-year term and one coequal officeholder 	dominus, "lord" or "master"; an honorific title popular in the empire's middle history 	imperator, "commander" or "commander-in-chief"; a victory title taken on accession to the purple and after a major military victory; the praenomen of most roman emperors 	imperator destinatus, "destined to be emperor"; heir apparent, used by septimius severus for caracalla. 	imperium maius, "greater imperium"; absolute power to a degree greater than any other, including power of enacting capital punishment 	invictus, "unconquered"; an honorific title 	pater patriae, "father of the fatherland"; an honorific title 	pius felix, "pious and blessed" (lit. "dutiful and happy"); an honorific title 	pontifex maximus, "supreme pontiff" or "chief priest" (lit. "greatest bridgemaker"); a title and office of republican origin – could not be used by christian emperors, while by that time only the pope had a claim on the title of highest religious authority. 	princeps, "first citizen" or "leading citizen"; an honorific title denoting the status of the emperor as first among equals 	princeps iuventatis, "first of youth"; an honorific title awarded to a presumptive emperor-designate 	princeps senatus, "first man of the senate" a republican office with a five-year term 	restitor orbis, "restorer of the world"; a title granted to aurelian for his role in helping to end the crisis of the third century. 	tribunicia potestas, "tribunician power"; the powers of a tribune of the people including sacrosanctity and the veto victory titles[edit] main article: list of roman imperial victory titles victory titles were treated as latin cognomina and were usually the name of the enemy defeated by the commander. hence, names like africanus ("the african"), numidicus ("the numidian"), isauricus ("the isaurian"), creticus ("the cretan"), gothicus ("the goth"), germanicus ("the german") and parthicus ("the parthian"), seemingly out of place for ardently patriotic romans, are in fact expressions of roman superiority over these peoples. the most famous grantee of republican victory title was publius cornelius scipio, who for his great victories in the second punic war was awarded by the roman senate the title "africanus" and is thus known to history as "scipio africanus". the practice continued in the roman empire, although it was subsequently amended by some roman emperors who desired to emphasise the totality of their victories by adding maximus ("the greatest") to the victory title (e.g., parthicus maximus, "the greatest parthian"). decorations (medal equivalents)[edit] polybius writes that "after a battle in which some of them have distinguished themselves, the general calls an assembly of the troops, and bringing forward those whom he considers to have displayed conspicuous valour, first of all speaks in laudatory terms of the courageous deeds of each and of anything else in their previous conduct which deserves commendation".[ ] only after this are the military decorations presented: 	torc – gold necklet 	armillae – gold armbands 	phalerae – gold, silver, or bronze sculpted disks worn on the breastplate during parades 	hasta pura or arrow without a head- a ceremonial silver spear awarded to "the man who has wounded an enemy".[ ] the use of this decoration is not clear.[ ] 	a small silver replica of a standard or flag (the vexillum). 	a cup – presented to an infantryman "who has slain and stripped an enemy"[ ] not in the normal melee of battle but voluntarily in single combat after throwing themselves into danger 	"horse trappings" – presented to a cavalryman "who has slain and stripped an enemy"[ ] not in the normal melee of battle but voluntarily in single combat after throwing themselves into danger financial awards[edit] 	monetary bonuses 	part of the loot and spoils after a conquest including slaves service awards[edit] 	missio honesta – honorable discharge imperial parades[edit] 	triumph – a civil ceremony and religious rite of ancient rome, held to publicly honour the military commander (dux) of a notably successful foreign war or campaign and to display the glories of roman victory. 	ovation – a less-honored form of the roman triumph. ovations were granted when war was not declared between enemies on the level of states, when an enemy was considered basely inferior (slaves, pirates), and when the general conflict was resolved with little to no bloodshed or danger to the army itself. punishments[edit] when the roman soldier enrolled in service to the state, he swore a military oath known as the sacramentum: originally to the senate and roman people, later to the general and the emperor. the sacramentum stated that he would fulfill his conditions of service on pain of punishment up to and inclusive of death. discipline in the army was extremely rigorous by modern standards, and the general had the power to summarily execute any soldier under his command. polybius divides the punishments inflicted by a commander on one or more troops into punishments for military crimes, and punishments for "unmanly acts", although there seems to be little difference in the harsh nature of the punishment between the two classes. punishments for crimes[edit] 	fustuarium or bastinado — following a court-martial sentence for desertion or dereliction of duty, the soldier would be stoned, or beaten to death by cudgels, in front of the assembled troops, by his fellow soldiers, whose lives had been put in danger. soldiers under sentence of fustuarium who escaped were not pursued, but lived under sentence of banishment from rome.[ ] polybius writes that the fustuarium is "also inflicted on those who steal anything from the camp; on those who give false evidence; on young men who have abused their persons; and finally on anyone who has been punished thrice for the same fault." 	pecunaria multa – fines or deductions from the pay allowance. 	flogging in front of the century, cohort or legion. 	"demanding sureties", including the re-taking of the military oath known as the sacramentum. 	for treason or theft, the punishment would most probably be being placed in a sack of snakes and thrown into a nearby river or lake. another punishment in the roman military only applied to people involved in the prison system; this rule was that if a prisoner died due to the punishment inflicted by roman legionaries, unless he was given the death penalty, then the leader of the troops would be given the same punishment.[citation needed] it would seem that in the later empire independent commanders were given considerable latitude in the crimes they chose to punish and the penalties they inflicted. according to the historia augusta [ ] the future emperor aurelian once ordered a man who was convicted of raping the wife of the man on whom he had been billeted to be attached to two trees drawn together so that when the restraining ropes were cut, they sprang apart and the unfortunate victim was torn asunder. the author of the vita aureliani comments that aurelian rarely punished twice for the same offence. however, even by roman standards his justice was considered particularly harsh. as always with the historia augusta, one takes this story with a pinch of salt and either wonders what fourth century point the author was attempting to make of a third-century incident or whether he merely attributed to aurelian a good story that seemed appropriate to that man's reputation. on the other hand, the imposition of cruel and unusual penalties to maintain discipline among the brutalised soldiery in the chaotic conditions of the north european provinces in the mid-third century was a necessity for the maintenance of effective command.[ ] punishments for unmanly acts[edit] 	decimatio – a form of extreme military discipline used by officers in the roman army to punish mutinous or cowardly soldiers in exceptional cases. a cohort selected for punishment by decimation was divided into groups of ten; each group cast lots, and the soldier on whom the lot fell was executed by his nine comrades, often by stoning or clubbing. the remaining soldiers were given rations of barley instead of wheat and forced to sleep outside of the roman encampment. this punishment was forgotten over time since the early republic, but the ancient punishment was resurrected by marcus crassus during the spartacus gladiator rebellion in bc, when two of his legions disobeyed his direct orders not to engage the enemy. as a result, they suffered a terrible defeat. crassus's response to the disobedience was brutal. he assembled the two legions and pulled out every th man as he walked across the ranks. each man who was pulled out was to be beaten to death by his preceding nine comrades. some scholars say that julius caesar joined these two legions to form his legendary "legio x equitata". 	according to cassius dio as re-told by matthew dennison, the newly-appointed emperor galba revived this punishment to deal with a contingent of rebellious soldiers who confronted him as he entered rome at the milvian bridge in autumn of ad.[ ] dio states that galba ordered this punishment because "he did not believe that an emperor should submit to compulsion in anything."[ ] 	castigatio – being hit by the centurion with his staff or animadversio fustium 	reduction of rations, or to be forced to eat barley instead of the usual grain ration 	whipping with the flagrum (flagellum, flagella), or "short whip" — a much more brutal punishment than simple flogging. the "short whip" was used for slave volunteers, volones. 	gradus deiectio – a reduction in rank 	loss of advantages gained from length of service. 	militiae mutatio – relegation to inferior service or duties. 	summary execution. 	munerum indictio – additional duties see also[edit] 	spolia opima 	tropaion notes[edit] 	^ a b c d e f g polybius, the histories, iii. 	^ some sources call it a civilian award. see the main article. 	^ 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registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 political history of the roman military - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	political history of the roman military 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 			 	part of a series on the 	military of ancient rome bc – ad 	 structural history 	 army 	 	unit types and ranks 	decorations and punishments 	legions 	auxilia 	generals 	 navy 	 	fleets 	admirals 	 campaign history 	wars and battles 	 technological history 	 military engineering 	 	castra 	siege engines 	triumphal arches 	roads 	 political history   	 strategy and tactics 	 	infantry tactics 	 frontiers and fortifications 	 	limes 	limes britannicus 	antonine wall 	hadrian's wall 	saxon shore 	limes germanicus 	alb limes 	lauter valley limes 	lower germanic limes 	main limes 	neckar-odenwald limes 	upper germanic-rhaetian limes 	wetterau limes 	danube–iller–rhine limes 	norican limes 	claustra alpium iuliarum 	pannonian limes 	limes alutanus 	limes moesiae 	trajan's wall 	anastasian wall 	limes sarmatiae 	limes arabicus 	limes tripolitanus 	limes mauretaniae 	  ancient rome portal •  war portal 		v 	t 	e rome's military was always tightly keyed to its political system. in the roman kingdom the social standing of a person impacted both his political and military roles, which were often organised into familial clans such as the julia. these clans often wielded a large amount of power and were huge influences through the roman kingdom into the republic. the political system was from an early date based upon competition within the ruling elite, the patricians. senators in the republic competed fiercely for public office, the most coveted of which was the post of consul.[ ] two were elected each year to head the government of the state, and would be assigned a consular army and an area in which to campaign.[ ] from gaius marius and sulla onwards, control of the army began to be tied into the political ambitions of individuals, leading to the first triumvirate of the st century bc and the resulting caesar’s civil war. the late republic and empire was increasingly plagued by usurpations led by or supported by the military, leading to the crisis of the third century in the late empire. contents 	 roman kingdom 	 roman republic 	 from late republic to mid-roman empire 	 middle roman empire 	 late roman empire 	 political economy of the roman military 	 references roman kingdom[edit] under the etruscan king servius tullius, a person's social standing and wealth determined both their political and military role: following his reforms, a rich man would have had greater voting rights, and greater standing within the military, than a poor man. a further politicization of the military involved officers for a unit not belonging to and being drawn from the class of the military unit he commanded but being selected often through voting.[ ] roman republic[edit] in the republic, the tradition of social class determining military duty continued, despite structural changes - the rich equestrians continued to serve together in the equites for instance - but the lower ranks became less politicized and based upon a mix of social class, age and military experience rather than social class alone. for non-citizens, years in the army was a guaranteed way of gaining citizenship for them and their family.[ ] despite these changes on the bottom rungs of the military, amongst the army's commanders a process began of politicizing military command. in the republic, military service made a person of the equestrian class eligible for a wide range of profitable postings: military triumphs boosted a person's career, and military service became a pre-requirement for a number of political posts. intended initially to ensure that all political leaders had shown dedication and duty serving in the military, the effect was to cause military experience to become of paramount importance to a roman's political career, with the eventual consequence that armies would become tools for the political goals of their generals, rather than neutrally aligned forces of the state. at the highest level, two consuls were elected each year to head the government of the state and simultaneously were appointed the commanders-in-chief of the roman army, and would be assigned a consular army and an area in which to campaign.[ ] from late republic to mid-roman empire[edit] in bc, lucius appuleius saturninus was tribune and advocated several social reforms, among which was a bill that gave colonial lands to war veterans, a suggestion that was radical and displeasing to the patrician senate, which opposed the measures. violence broke out and the senate ordered gaius marius, as consul for that year, to put down the revolt. marius, although he was generally allied with the radicals, complied with the request and put down the revolt in the interest of public order.[ ] the political issue of land allocation for rome's military veterans would return several times to haunt the state including ad when an army in central europe mutinied over the failure of the state to provide land plots for soldiers. after the conclusion of the social war, certain of rome's eastern provinces became under threat of invasion and it was necessary to raise an army to counter the threat. the choice before the senate was to put either consul marius or consul sulla in command of an army. there was already a fierce rivalry between the two, in part due to a competitive instinct amongst the two as successful generals, but more importantly distrust on sulla's part that marius held unhealthy ambitions.[ ] the roman republic was always on guard against any citizen gaining too much prominence, lest he seize power and restore rome as a kingdom; thus a series of checks and balances existed, such as consuls having to be re-elected annually.[ ] marius had already served five consulships and enjoyed widespread popularity. the senate made its decision and sulla was given the job but a short time later the decision was reversed by the assembly, and marius placed in command. already wary of marius' prominence and previous five terms as consul, and (rightly) suspecting bribery in the securing of the position to command the army (marius had promised to erase the debts of publius sulpicius rufus), sulla refused to acknowledge the validity of the assembly's action.[ ] sulla left rome and traveled to reach the army waiting in nola, the army the senate had asked him to lead against mithridates. sulla urged his legions to defy the assembly's orders and accept him as their rightful leader. sulla was successful and the legions stoned the representatives from the assembly when they arrived, defying the state's orders. sulla then commanded six legions to march with him to rome. this was a momentous event, and was unforeseen by marius, as no roman army had ever marched upon rome - it was forbidden by law and ancient tradition. marius fled with no great loss of life and sulla later disbanded his legions and re-established consular government, but the military had been shown to be able to be used as a political tool of individuals. it was a pattern to be repeated more famously later by caesar.[ ] during the first triumvirate of julius caesar, pompey and crassus, each of the triumvires used military success to enhance their own political and public status. the incredibly wealthy consul crassus, who had earlier displayed his wealth by entertaining the populace of rome at a huge party with , tables, personally raised and funded six legions from his personal wealth. whilst he did not at this time use them for marching on rome in direct furtherance of his own career, his desperation to rival the military campaigns of pompey that led to recognition in the public eye means that his motives are unlikely to have been entirely selfless. rather, it was another step in the severance of the direct connection between state and troops that saw armies increasingly become tied to their generals' political careers.[ ] when the triumvirate collapsed, caesar crossed the rubicon river and marched his armies upon rome itself. this turning of an army loyal to its general against the state had occurred before under sulla, but the circumstances were different this time: sulla felt at least partly justified in his march on rome by the alleged and probably real corruption of the political system by marius, and by marius' own quest for primacy as a political figure against a political backdrop that sought to prevent any person becoming too prominent. caesar, on the other hand, marched his army against rome purely for his own purposes. it is true that the political maneuverings of pompey, which made it possible for caesar to be prosecuted on his return to rome, pushed caesar into marching on rome, but the fact that almost the entire senate fled alongside pompey shows that caesar's actions were at least perceived to be an act against the state itself rather than the person of pompey: caesar's power base was built almost exclusively on the loyalty of the soldiers who had served under him campaigning several years.[ ] unlike sulla, caesar also failed to revert power to the state when the threat of pompey had been removed, not just keeping his position as de facto ruler of the state but, immediately on his return from defeating pompey, naming his grand-nephew gaius octavius (octavian) as the heir to his title, a wholly unconstitutional act. in everything but name, the army had placed the first emperor on the throne of rome.[ ] the years following the fall of the republic were peaceful and relatively benign with the military not involving itself greatly in political affairs - such that the term pax augusti is often used - perhaps because the military was expending most of its energy in territorial expansion of the empire.[ ] the roman senate and emperors were not blind to the possibility of rebellion by its troops as generals could gain the loyalty of his officers through a mixture of personal charisma, promises and simple bribes: once the general and officers had a unity of purpose the rigid discipline of the military meant that the troops would normally follow. only later seemingly did the situation reverse and the soldiers began to dictate action to the officers and generals, raising generals to emperors even when the generals themselves were completely lacking such ambition or wishes. however, the state saw itself as relatively safe from such rebellions in the early imperial period. the reason for this safety from rebellion is that for a rebellion to be successful it was necessary for an usurper to gain control of a certain percentage of the army in order to stand some chance of success. sulla and caesar had managed such actions because the consular system of that period had concentrated in their hands a large proportion of the small number of armies in service of the state at the time. in the expanding empire, legions under generals were spread out across the extent of the roman borders and it was not easy for one man to seize control of a great part of them, perhaps only commonly being in control of two or so legions. however, later larger-scale wars necessitated the concentration of greater military power in the hands of generals. there is evidence of emperors holding some members of generals' families as hostage to ensure their loyalty.[ ] middle roman empire[edit] by the mid empire the military's involvement in politics had increased to the degree such that ad saw no less than five emperors as armies heralded their generals as emperors or even, as after the death of pertinax, murdered the emperor and then sold the empire at auction to the highest bidder. likewise, from to the accession of diocletian and the establishment of the tetrarchy in , rome saw emperors of which only two had a natural death (from the plague). however, there were also usurpers who raised revolts across the empire. successful usurpers were usually either provincial governors, commanders of a large grouping of roman legions, or prefects of the praetorian guard, which had control of rome, where the imperial palace still lay. the problem of usurpation seems to have lain at least partially in the lack of a clear tradition enshrined in law and popular will of an agreed method of ensuring succession, and also in the maintenance of large standing armies. the former problem was evident from the very first emperor augustus and meant that those claiming imperial power via various means, and whether they went on to become emperor or be denounced as usurpers, could all claim some form of legitimacy. the latter problem meant that there were always men remote from their duties and loyalties in rome and in command or large armies marching under their discipline and command.[ ] the usurpation mania of the rd century had profound effects in the military organization of the empire. one of the most striking changes was the division and multiplication of the roman provinces. the greater the manpower a provincial governor had under his command, the greater the temptation to make a bid to the throne. thus, provinces were slowly[citation needed] divided into smaller units to avoid concentration of power and military capacity in the hands of one man.[ ] late roman empire[edit] see also: late roman empire, tetrarchy, and late roman army the beginning of the end of the roman empire did not start in a way that foreshadowed the downfall of a great power. the latter part of the roman reign began when diocletian (r. - ad) emerged. diocletian was a strong and able leader but by creating smaller provinces, he effectively split the empire into two parts - east and west. the maintenance of legions in a "strategic reserve" some distance behind the frontier and close to the emperors must also have been partially attributable to a need to preserve against rebellion by roman border armies as much as against external invasion by an enemy. he also established the tetrarchy in ad by appointing maximian, who played the role of a co-emperor, as well as galerius and constantius chlorus, who were subordinate but powerful nonetheless.[ ] constantius' son constantine would reunite the halves years later and founded a new capital at constantinople in ad. ultimately, the empire itself was destroyed because of the eventual loyalty of its troops to their commanders over their state. in , odoacer was appointed leader of the foederati troops of rome, and deposed the emperor, proclaiming himself king of italy.[ ] political economy of the roman military[edit] there is evidence that starvation among roman troops could induce them to mutiny. these mutinies, in turn, could then lead to political instability, including the 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philosopher 	porphyry of tyre 	porphire sophiste, in a french th-century engraving 	born	c.  ad tyre, roman empire 	died	 (aged  – ) rome, roman empire 	notable work 	 list 	introduction to categories (Εἰσαγωγή; introductio in praedicamenta or isagoge et in aristotelis categorias commentarium), the life of pythagoras (Πυθαγόρου βίος; vita pythagorae), on abstinence from animal food (Περὶ ἀποχῆς ἐμψύχων; de abstinentia ab esu animalium), on the cave of the nymphs (Περὶ τοῦ ἐν Ὀδυσσείᾳ τῶν Νυμφῶν Ἄντρου; de antro nympharum), introduction to ptolemy's tetrabiblos (Εἰσαγωγὴ εἰς τὴν Ἀποτελεσματικὴν τοῦ Πτολεμαίου), commentary on ptolemy's harmonics (Εἰς τὰ ἁρμονικὰ Πτολεμαίου ὑπόμνημα), on the life of plotinus and the arrangement of his work (Περὶ τοῦ Πλωτίνου βίου καὶ τῆς τάξεως τῶν βιβλίων αὐτοῦ; vita plotini), starting-points leading to the intelligibles (Ἀφορμαὶ πρὸς τὰ νοητά; sententiae ad intelligibilia ducentes), philosophy from oracles (Περὶ τῆς ἐκ λογίων φιλοσοφίας; de philosophia ex oraculis haurienda), against the christians (Κατὰ Χριστιανῶν; adversus christianos) 	 	era	ancient philosophy 	region	western philosophy 	school	neoplatonism 	main interests 	metaphysics, astrology 	notable ideas 	porphyrian tree, criticism of christianity, vegetarianism 	 influences 	plotinus, middle platonism, plato, aristotle 	 influenced 	sossianus hierocles, boethius, scholasticism and arabic aristotelianism (through the isagoge), later neoplatonism 	 porphyry of tyre (/ˈpɔːrfɪri/; greek: Πορφύριος, porphýrios; arabic: فرفوريوس‎, furfūriyūs; c.  – c.  ad) was a phoenician[ ] neoplatonic philosopher born in tyre, roman syria[ ] during roman rule.[a] he edited and published the enneads, the only collection of the work of plotinus, his teacher. his commentary on euclid's elements was used as a source by pappus of alexandria.[ ] he wrote original works on a wide variety of topics, ranging from music to homer to vegetarianism.[b] his isagoge, or introduction, an introduction to logic and philosophy,[c] was the standard textbook on logic throughout the middle ages in its latin and arabic translations.[ ] through works such as philosophy from oracles and against the christians (which was banned by constantine the great),[ ] he was involved in a controversy with early christians.[ ] contents 	 biography 	 introduction (isagoge) 	 philosophy from oracles (de philosophia ex oraculis haurienda) 	 against the christians (adversus christianos) 	 other subjects 	 extant works 	 lost works 	 works of uncertain attribution 	 editions and translations of multiple works 	 see also 	 references 	 . footnotes 	 . citations 	 . sources 	 . further reading 	 external links biography[edit] the suda (a th century byzantine encyclopedia based on many sources now lost) reports that porphyry was born in phoenician city of tyre.[ ] his parents named him malchus ("king" in the semitic languages)[d] but his teacher in athens, cassius longinus, gave him the name porphyrius ("clad in purple"), possibly a reference to his phoenician heritage, or a punning allusion to his name and the color of royal robes. under longinus he studied grammar and rhetoric. in he went to rome, attracted by the reputation of plotinus, and for six years devoted himself to the practice of neoplatonism, during which time he severely modified his diet. at one point he became suicidal.[ ] on the advice of plotinus he went to live in sicily for five years to recover his mental health. on returning to rome, he lectured on philosophy and completed an edition of the writings of plotinus (who had died in the meantime) together with a biography of his teacher. iamblichus is mentioned in ancient neoplatonic writings as his pupil, but this most likely means only that he was the dominant figure in the next generation of philosophers. the two men differed publicly on the issue of theurgy. in his later years, he married marcella, a widow with seven children and an enthusiastic student of philosophy. little more is known of his life, and the date of his death is uncertain. introduction (isagoge)[edit] imaginary debate between averroes ( – ad) and porphyry ( –c. ad). monfredo de monte imperiali liber de herbis, th century.[ ] porphyry is best known for his contributions to philosophy. apart from writing the aids to the study of the intelligibles (Ἀφορμαὶ πρὸς τὰ νοητά; sententiae ad intelligibilia ducentes), a basic summary of neoplatonism, he is especially appreciated for his introduction to categories (introductio in praedicamenta or isagoge et in aristotelis categorias commentarium), a very short work often considered to be a commentary on aristotle's categories, hence the title.[e] according to barnes , however, the correct title is simply introduction (Εἰσαγωγή isagoge), and the book is an introduction not to the categories in particular, but to logic in general, comprising as it does the theories of predication, definition, and proof. the introduction describes how qualities attributed to things may be classified, famously breaking down the philosophical concept of substance into the five components genus, species, difference, property, accident. as porphyry's most influential contribution to philosophy, the introduction to categories incorporated aristotle's logic into neoplatonism, in particular the doctrine of the categories of being interpreted in terms of entities (in later philosophy, "universal"). boethius' isagoge, a latin translation of porphyry's "introduction", became a standard medieval textbook in european schools and universities, which set the stage for medieval philosophical-theological developments of logic and the problem of universals. in medieval textbooks, the all-important arbor porphyriana ("porphyrian tree") illustrates his logical classification of substance. to this day, taxonomy benefits from concepts in porphyry's tree, in classifying living organisms (see cladistics). the introduction was translated into arabic by abd-allāh ibn al-muqaffaʿ from a syriac version. with the arabicized name isāghūjī (إيساغوجي) it long remained the standard introductory logic text in the muslim world and influenced the study of theology, philosophy, grammar, and jurisprudence. besides the adaptations and epitomes of this work, many independent works on logic by muslim philosophers have been entitled isāghūjī. porphyry's discussion of accident sparked a long-running debate on the application of accident and essence.[ ] philosophy from oracles (de philosophia ex oraculis haurienda)[edit] porphyry is also known as an opponent of christianity and defender of paganism; his precise contribution to the philosophical approach to traditional religion may be discovered in the fragments of philosophy from oracles (Περὶ τῆς ἐκ λογίων φιλοσοφίας; de philosophia ex oraculis haurienda), which was originally three books in length. there is debate as to whether it was written in his youth (as eunapius reports[ ]) or closer in time to the persecutions of christians under diocletian and galerius.[f] whether or not porphyry was the pagan philosopher opponent in lactantius' divine institutes, written at the time of the persecutions, has long been discussed. the fragments of the philosophy from oracles are only quoted by christians, especially eusebius, theodoret, augustine, and john philoponus. the fragments contain oracles identifying proper sacrificial procedure, the nature of astrological fate, and other topics relevant for greek and roman religion in the third century. whether this work contradicts his treatise defending vegetarianism, which also warned the philosopher to avoid animal sacrifice, is disputed among scholars.[ ] against the christians (adversus christianos)[edit] main article: against the christians see also: celsus porphyry, a detail of the tree of jesse, , sucevița monastery. during his retirement in sicily, porphyry wrote against the christians (Κατὰ Χριστιανῶν; adversus christianos) which consisted of fifteen books. some thirty christian apologists, such as methodius, eusebius, apollinaris, augustine, jerome, etc., responded to his challenge. in fact, everything known about porphyry's arguments is found in these refutations, largely because theodosius ii ordered every copy burned in a.d. and again in .[ ][ ][ ][ ] porphyry became one of the most able pagan adversaries of christianity of his day. his aim was not to disprove the substance of christianity's teachings but rather the records within which the teachings are communicated.[ ] augustine and the th-century ecclesiastical historian socrates of constantinople, assert that porphyry was once a christian.[ ] other subjects[edit] porphyry was opposed to the theurgy of his disciple iamblichus. much of iamblichus' mysteries is dedicated to the defense of mystic theurgic divine possession against the critiques of porphyry. french philosopher pierre hadot maintains that for porphyry, spiritual exercises are an essential part of spiritual development.[ ] porphyry was, like pythagoras, an advocate of vegetarianism on spiritual and ethical grounds. these two philosophers are perhaps the most famous vegetarians of classical antiquity. he wrote the on abstinence from animal food (Περὶ ἀποχῆς ἐμψύχων; de abstinentia ab esu animalium), advocating against the consumption of animals, and he is cited with approval in vegetarian literature up to the present day. porphyry also wrote widely on astrology, religion, philosophy, and musical theory. he produced a history of philosophy (philosophos historia) with vitae of philosophers that included a life of his teacher, plotinus. his life of plato from book iv exists only in quotes by cyril of alexandria. [g] his book vita pythagorae on the life of pythagoras is not to be confused with the book of the same name by iamblichus. his commentary on ptolemy's harmonics[ ] (eis ta harmonika ptolemaiou hypomnēma) is an important source for the history of ancient harmonic theory. porphyry also wrote about homer. apart from several lost texts known only from quotes by other authors, two texts survive at least in large parts: the homerian questions (homēriká zētḗmata, largely a philological comment on the iliad and odyssey) and about the cave of the nymphs in the odyssey (peri tou en odysseia tōn nymphōn antrou). extant works[edit] 	life of plotinus. editions: luc brisson, la vie de plotin. histoire de l'antiquité classique & , paris: librairie philosophique j. vrin: – , vols; a. h. armstrong, plotinus, loeb classical library, cambridge, massachusetts: harvard university press, , pp. - . translation: neoplatonic saints: the lives of plotinus and proclus. translated texts for historians (liverpool: liverpool university press, ). 	life of pythagoras. edition: e. des places, vie de pythagore, lettre à marcella, paris: les belles lettre, . 	introduction to aristotle's categories (isagoge). translations: e. warren, isagoge, mediaeval sources in translation , toronto: pontifical institute of mediaeval studies, ; j. barnes, porphyry's introduction. translation of the 'isagoge' with a commentary, oxford, ; steven k. strange, porphyry. on aristotle's categories, ithaca, new york, ; octavius freire owen, the organon or logical treatises of aristotle with the introduction of porphyry. bohn's classical library – , london: g. bell, – , vols; paul vincent spade, five texts on the mediaeval problem of universals: porphyry, boethius, abelard, duns scotus, ockham,indianapolis: hackett, . 	introduction to the tetrabiblos of ptolemy. editions: stefan weinstock, in: franz cumont (ed.), catalogus codicum astrologorum graecorum, (brussels, ): v. , - ; kommentar zur harmonielehre des ptolemaios ingemar düring. ed. (göteborg: elanders, ). translation: james herschel holden, porphyry the philosopher, introduction to the tetrabiblos and serapio of alexandria, astrological definitions, tempe, az.: a.f.a., inc., . 	against the christians (contra christianos). editions: a. ramos jurado, j. ritoré ponce, a. carmona vázquez, i. rodríguez moreno, j. ortolá salas, j. m. zamora calvo (eds), contra los cristianos: recopilación de fragmentos, traducción, introducción y notas – (cádiz: servicio de publicaciones de la universidad de cádiz ); adolf von harnack, porphyrius, "gegen die christen," bücher: zeugnisse, fragmente und referate. abhandlungen der königlich preussischen akademie der wissenschaften: jahrgang : philosoph.-hist. klasse: nr. (berlin: ). translations: r. m. berchman, porphyry against the christians, ancient mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts , leiden: brill, ; r. joseph hoffmann, porphyry’s against the christians: the literary remains, amherst: prometheus books, . 	commentary on plato's timaeus. edition: a. r. sodano, porphyrii in platonis timaeum commentarium fragmenta, napoli: . 	homeric questions. edition: the homeric questions: a bilingual edition – lang classical studies , r. r. schlunk, trans. (frankfurt-am-main: lang, ). 	on the caves of the nymphs (de antro nympharum). edition: the cave of the nymphs in the odyssey. a revised text with translation by seminar classics , state university of new york at buffalo, arethusa monograph (buffalo: dept. of classics, state university of new york at buffalo, ). translation: robert lamberton, on the cave of the nymphs, barrytown, n. y.: station hill press, . 	on the abstinence of eating animals (de abstinentia ab esu animalium). edition: jean bouffartigue, m. patillon, and alain-philippe segonds, edd., vols., budé (paris, – ). translation: gilliam clark, on abstinence from killing animals, ithaca: cornell university press, . 	on philosophy from oracles (de philosophia ex oraculis haurienda). edition: g. wolf, berlin: . 	aids to the study of the intelligibles (sententiae ad intelligibilia ducentes). edition: e. lamberz, leipzig: teubner, . translation: k. guthrie, launching-points to the realm of mind, grand rapids, michigan, . 	letter to marcella. edition: kathleen o’brien wicker, porphyry, the philosopher, to marcella: text and translation with introduction and notes , text and translations ; graeco-roman religion series (atlanata: scholars press, ); pros markellan griechischer text, herausgegeben, übersetzt, eingeleitet und erklärt von w. pötscher (leiden: e. j. brill, ). translation: alice zimmern, porphyry's letter to his wife marcella concerning the life of philosophy and the ascent to the gods, grand rapids, michigan, . 	letter to anebo (epistula ad anebonem). edition: a. r. sodano, naples: l'arte tipografia: . lost works[edit] 	ad gedalium, a lost commentary on aristotle's categories in seven books.[ ] the testimonia are published in andrew smith (ed.), porphyrius, porphyrii philosophi fragmenta. fragmenta arabica david wasserstein interpretante, berlin: walter de gruyter, . works of uncertain attribution[edit] 	ad gaurum (of uncertain attribution)[ ]. edition: k. kalbfleisch. abhandlungen der preussischen akadamie der wissenschaft. phil.-hist. kl. ( ): - . translation: j. wilberding, to gaurus on how embryos are ensouled, and on what is in our power. ancient commentators on aristotle series, r. sorabji (ed.), bristol: classical press, . 	# and # in corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini iii: commentari – (florence: leo s. olschki, ) may or may not be by porphyry. editions and translations of multiple works[edit] 	fragments: andrew smith, stvtgardiae et lipsiae: b. g. tevbneri, . 	opuscula selecta augusts nauck, ed. (lipsiae: b. g. tevbneri, ) (online at archive.org). 	select works of porphyry. translated by t. taylor (guildford, ). contains abstinence from eating animal food, the sententiae and the cave of the nymphs. 	translations of several fragments are contained in appendix of religion and identity in porphyry of tyre by aaron johnson (cambridge, ). see also[edit] 	basilides of tyre 	macarius magnes – his work apocriticus contains a series of excerpts from porphyry's against the christians references[edit] footnotes[edit] 	^ for porphyry's dates, place of birth and philosophical school, see barker , pp.  – . sarton , pp.  – identifies transjordania as porphyry's place of birth. 	^ for a comprehensive list see beutler ( – ); guthrie , p.  provides another list 	^ barnes , p. xv clarifies that the isagoge "[was] not an introduction to the categories, rather "[since it was] an introduction to the study of logic, [it] was... an introduction to philosophy--and hence accidentally an introduction to the categories." 	^ for connotations of west semitic m-l-k, see moloch and malik; compare theophoric names like abimelech. 	^ barnes , p. xiv outlines the history of the opinion that porphyry meant for his isagoge to be an introductory work to the categories. 	^ the christian apologist eusebius states that "some greek" might say "how can these people be thought worthy of forbearance? they have not only turned away from those who from earliest time have been thought of as divine among all greeks and barbarians... but by emperors, law-givers and philosophers— all of a given mind... and to what sort of penalties might they not be subjected who... are fugitives from the things of their fathers?" this material, once thought to be part of against the christians, but reassigned by wilken to philosophy from oracles, is quoted in digeser , p.  . however, it may not have been by porphyry at all.[ ] 	^ notopoulos , pp.  – attempted a reconstruction from apuleius' use of it. citations[edit] 	^ aaron p. johnson, religion and identity in porphyry of tyre: the limits of hellenism in late antiquity (greek culture in the roman world) cambridge university press, may , , p. "...at the very least, we can affirm that all external evidence points to his being a tyrian from phoencia." https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=mm n_v xcmqc&oi=fnd&pg=pr &dq=porphyry+of+tyre+phoenicia&ots=fe jhbygg &sig= oipv fuejzm csw hoanhoyrce#v=onepage&q=phoenicia&f=false 	^ schott, jeremy m. ( - - ). christianity, empire, and the making of religion in late antiquity. university of pennsylvania press. isbn  - - - - . 	^ o'connor, john j.; robertson, edmund f., "porphyry malchus", mactutor history of mathematics archive, university of st andrews . 	^ barnes , p. ix. 	^ clarke , p.  . 	^ digeser . 	^ suda, porphyry 	^ a b eunapius ( ). "lives of the philosophers and sophists". tertullian.org. pp.  – . retrieved september . 	^ sadaune , p.  . 	^ rahman , pp.  - . 	^ johnson , p.  - . 	^ johnson , p.  . 	^ digeser , p.  : "constantine and other emperors banned and burned porphyry's work". 	^ socrates scholasticus , pp. book i, ch , pp. - , letter of constantine proscribing the works of porphyry and arius. 	^ stevenson : gelasius, historia ecclesiastica, ii. 	^ froom , p.  . 	^ froom , p.  . 	^ socrates scholasticus b, pp. book iii, ch . 	^ hadot , p.  . 	^ "Τοξόλυρος - Εἰς τὰ ἁρμονικὰ Πτολεμαίου ὑπόμνημα - φιλοσοφικό Ακαδημίας" [in ptolemy's harmonized memoirs – philosophical academy] (in greek). archived from the original on - - . 	^ simplicius, in aristotelis categorias commentarium, . - v 	^ barnes , p.  , n. . sources[edit] 	barker, a. ( ). "porphyry". in hornblower, s.; spawforth, a. 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( ). vie de porphyre. ghent. 	clark, gillian, "porphyry of tyre on the new barbarians," in r. miles (ed), constructing identities in late antiquity (london: routledge, ), – ; = in eadem, body and gender, soul and reason in late antiquity (farnham; burlington, vt, ashgate, ) (variorum collected studies series, cs ), art. xiv. 	clark, gillian, "philosophic lives and the philosophic life: porphyry and iamblichus," in t. hägg and p. rousseau (eds), greek biography and panegyric in late antiquity (berkeley and los angeles, university of california press, ), – ; = in eadem, body and gender, soul and reason in late antiquity (farnham; burlington, vt, ashgate, ) (variorum collected studies series, cs ), art. xv. 	clark, gillian, "fattening the soul: christian asceticism and porphyry on abstinence," studia patristica, , , - ; = in eadem, body and gender, soul and reason in late antiquity (farnham; burlington, vt, ashgate, ) (variorum collected studies series, cs ), art. xvi. 	emilsson, e., "porphyry". retrieved april , . 	iamblichus: de mysteriis. translated with an introduction and notes by emma c. clarke, john m. dillon and jackson p. hershbell (society of biblical literature; ) isbn  - - -x. 	girgenti, g. ( ) porfirio negli ultimi cinquant'anni: bibliografia sistematica e ragionata della letteratura primaria e secondaria riguardante il pensiero porfiriano e i suoi influssi storici milan. 	smith, andrew ( ) porphyrian studies since , in w. haase, ed., aufstieg und niedergang der römischen welt ii. . , pp.  – . 	smith, andrew ( ) porphyry's place in the neoplatonic tradition. a study in post-plotinian neoplatonism, the hague, nijhoff. 	zuiddam, b. a. 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Εἰσαγωγὴ εἰς τὴν Ἀποτελεσματικὴν τοῦ Πτολεμαίου (introduction to ptolemy's tetrabiblos), original greek text. 	porphyry, on abstinence from animal food, book i, translated by thomas taylor. 	porphyry, on abstinence from animal food, book ii, translated by thomas taylor. 	porphyry, on abstinence from animal food, book iii, translated by thomas taylor. 	porphyry, on abstinence from animal food, book iv, translated by thomas taylor. 	porphyry, on the cave of nymphs, translated by thomas taylor. 	porphyry, auxiliaries to the perception of intelligible natures, translated by thomas taylor. 	porphyry, isagoge, translated by octavius freire owen. 	the isagoge, or introduction of porphyry, translated by thomas taylor with an extensive preface by the translator. 	porphyry, on the life of plotinus 	porphyry, comments on the book of daniel. 	additional texts, edited by roger pearse 	works by porphyry at librivox (public domain audiobooks) 		v 	t 	e platonists 	academic	 	old	 	plato 	aristotle 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broadly is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. in recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed. literature is a method of recording, preserving, and transmitting knowledge and entertainment. literature, as an art form, can also include works in various non-fiction genres, such as autobiography, diaries, memoir, letters, and the essay. within its broad definition, literature includes non-fictional books, articles or other printed information on a particular subject. (full article...) 	outline 	index refresh with new selections below (purge) selected work z. marcas is a novelette by french author honoré de balzac first published in . set in contemporary paris, it describes the rise and fall of a brilliant political strategist who is abandoned by the politicians he helps into power. destitute and forgotten, he befriends a pair of students who live next door to him in a boarding-house. the story follows their many discussions about the political situation in france. although z. marcas features characters from other balzac stories and elements of literary realism – both hallmarks of balzac's style – it is remembered primarily for its political themes. balzac, a legitimist, believed that france's lack of bold leadership had led to mediocrity and ruin, and that men of quality were being ignored or worse. he maintained that the youth of france were in danger of being abandoned by the government, and predicted unrest in the years to come. the story also explores balzac's conviction that a person's name is a powerful indicator of his or her destiny, an idea he drew from the work of laurence sterne. the title character, with his keen intellect, is based on balzac's conception of himself: a visionary genius who fails to achieve his true potential because of less talented individuals with more social power. 	more selected works... 	 read more... selected figure jorge mario pedro vargas llosa, st marquis of vargas llosa (born march , ), more commonly known as mario vargas llosa (/ˈvɑːrɡəs ˈjoʊsə/; spanish: [ˈmaɾjo ˈbaɾɣas ˈʎosa]), is a peruvian writer, journalist, essayist, college professor, and a former politician. vargas llosa is one of latin america's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading writers of his generation. some critics consider him to have had a larger international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the latin american boom. in he won the nobel prize in literature, "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." vargas llosa rose to international fame in the s with novels such as the time of the hero (la ciudad y los perros, literally the city and the dogs, / ), the green house (la casa verde, / ), and the monumental conversation in the cathedral (conversación en la catedral, / ). he writes prolifically across an array of literary genres, including literary criticism and journalism. his novels include comedies, murder mysteries, historical novels, and political thrillers. several, such as captain pantoja and the special service ( / ) and aunt julia and the scriptwriter ( / ), have been adapted as feature films. many of vargas llosa's works are influenced by the writer's perception of peruvian society and his own experiences as a native peruvian. increasingly, however, he has expanded his range, and tackled themes that arise from other parts of the world. in his essays, vargas llosa has made many criticisms of nationalism in different parts of the world. another change over the course of his career has been a shift from a style and approach associated with literary modernism, to a sometimes playful postmodernism. (full article...) 	more selected figures... 	 read more... selected excerpt 	“ 	something incomprehensible, vexatious and hopeless takes possession of the man's whole being. he forgets his comrade who is awaiting him, forgets the work that is to be accomplished that night, and with his whole excited spirit abandons himself to the dumb dog. he cannot convince himself that the dog does not comprehend either the danger, or his words, or the necessity of going home at once. he lifts him angrily by the skin of his neck and so carries him ten steps nearer to the house. there he deposits him carefully on the snow and commands: "away with you, go home!" 	” 	— leonid andreyev, the burglar 	more excerpts... 	 read at wikisource... subcategories click [+] or ► to view subcategories ► literature selected illustration 	 			 			 ivanhoe engraver: j. cooper; restoration: adam cuerden "le noir faineant in the hermit's cell", an illustration from an edition of sir walter scott's novel ivanhoe. here, we see le noir faineant, or the black knight (richard the lionheart in disguise) with friar tuck. scott was an early pioneer in the development of the modern novel, and largely created the genre of historical fiction by weaving together legends and characters into his own creations. ivanhoe, the story of one of the remaining saxon noble families at a time when the english nobility was overwhelmingly norman, was greatly influential on the modern view of the english folk hero robin hood, and has inspired many adaptations around the world in theatre, opera, film, and television. more selected pictures 			 		 	 			 			 "the queen of hearts" restoration: lise broer william wallace denslow's illustration of the poem "the queen of hearts" from a issue of mother goose. the poem was originally published in as part of a set of four playing card based poems, but proved to be far more popular than the others. by it had been set to music, and it forms the basis of the plot of lewis carroll's alice in wonderland, chapter xi: "who stole the tarts?" although it was originally published in a magazine for adults, it is now best known as a nursery rhyme. more selected pictures 			 		 	 			 			 the sleeping beauty illustration: w. e. f. britten; restoration: adam cuerden "the sleeping beauty" is a poem written by alfred, lord tennyson, and published in ; it was later expanded and published in as "the day-dream". based on the fairy tale sleeping beauty, the poem (as with many of tennyson's adaptations of existing literary works) focuses on a single aspect of the story, the appearance of the eponymous character as she sleeps. this illustration by w. e. f. britten was published in to accompany a reprinting of "the sleeping beauty". it accompanies the poem's final lines: "she sleeps, nor dreams, but ever dwells / a perfect form in perfect rest." more selected pictures 			 		 	 			 			 "the canterville ghost" artist: wallace goldsmith; restoration: adam cuerden a scene from "the canterville ghost", oscar wilde's first published story, which is about an american family that moves into a haunted house in england. however, instead of being frightened of the eponymous ghost, they turn the tables and prank him, such as in this scene, where the twin boys have set up a butter-slide, causing the ghost to slip down the staircase. the story satirises both the unrefined tastes of americans and the determination of the british to guard their traditions. more selected pictures 			 		 	 			 			 dan'l druce, blacksmith artist: francis s. walker; engraving: brothers dalziel restoration: adam cuerden hermann vezin in the title role of dan'l druce, blacksmith, an play by w. s. gilbert. in the story, druce begins as a miser and drunkard whose wife has left him. two army deserters find shelter at his house, but they rob him and abandon a baby girl there. many years later, druce has become a blacksmith, and the two men return to try to claim the girl. the play was a success, running for about performances and enjoying tours and several revivals. more selected pictures 			 		 	 			 			 the last of the mohicans illustration: frank t. merrill; restoration: chris woodrich an illustration from edition of james fenimore cooper's the last of the mohicans. set during the french and indian war, the novel details the transport of two young women to fort william henry. among the caravan guarding the women are the frontiersman natty bumppo, the major duncan heyward, and the indians chingachgook and uncas. in this scene, bumppo (disguised as a bear) fights against the novel's villain, magua, as two of his compatriots look on. more selected pictures 			 		 	 			 			 scientific romance artist: albert robida a typical th-century aerial rotating house, as drawn by albert robida. the drawing shows a dwelling structure in the scientific romance style elevated above rooftops and designed to revolve and adjust in various directions. an occupant in the lower right points to an airship with a fish-shaped balloon in the sky, while a woman rides a bucket elevator on the left. meanwhile, children fly a kite from the balcony as a dog watches from its rooftop doghouse. more selected pictures 			 		 	 			 			 pride and prejudice artist: george pickering, engraver: william greatbatch; restoration: adam cuerden one of the two earliest illustrations of jane austen's novel pride and prejudice, which was first published on january , . this engraving comes from the first illustrated edition, published twenty years later, and depicts elizabeth bennet (the main protagonist, right) and her father, in fashions that were common in the s, not the story's original time setting. the novel is told from bennet's point of view and deals with issues of manners, upbringing, moral rightness, education and marriage in the aristocratic society of early th century england. the novel retains a fascination for modern readers, having sold some million copies worldwide and continuing near the top of lists of 'most loved books'. more selected pictures 			 		 	 			 			 the song of los illustration: william blake the song of los is an epic poem by william blake first published in and considered part of his prophetic books. the poem consists of two sections, "africa" and "asia": in the first section blake catalogues the decline of morality in europe, which he blames on both the african slave trade and enlightenment philosophers, whereas in the second section he describes a worldwide revolution, urged by the eponymous los. the illustration here is from the book's frontispiece and shows urizen presiding over the decline of morality. more selected pictures 			 		 	 			 			 divine comedy restoration: adam cuerden an engraving of charon, in greek mythology the ferryman of hades who carried souls of the newly deceased across the river styx that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead. this illustration is from french engraver gustave doré's set of illustrations for dante alighieri's divine comedy, an italian epic poem depicting an allegorical vision of the christian afterlife. here, charon is shown coming to ferry souls across the river acheron to hell. the caption is from henry francis cary's translation, from which this particular copy is taken: and, lo! toward us in a bark comes on an old man, hoary white with eld, crying "woe to you, wicked spirits!" more selected pictures 			 		 	 			 			 childe harold's pilgrimage engraving: i. h. jones; restoration: adam cuerden the frontispiece to a c. edition of childe harold's pilgrimage, a lengthy narrative poem by lord byron. the poem describes the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man who, disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry, looks for distraction in foreign lands. in a wider sense, it is an expression of the melancholy and disillusionment felt by a generation weary of the wars of the post-revolutionary and napoleonic eras. this poem proved to be quite popular upon its publication in . byron himself said of this, "i awoke one morning and found myself famous." more selected pictures 			 		 	 			 			 auld lang syne engraving: john masey wright (artist) and john rogers (engraver); restoration: adam cuerden a mid- th century illustration for "auld lang syne", a scots poem written by robert burns in and set to a traditional melody. it is traditionally used in the english-speaking world to bid farewell to the old year at the stroke of midnight on new year's eve; this has led to the song being used to close other activities as well. more selected pictures 			 		 	 			 			 suikoden woodblock artist: utagawa kuniyoshi this woodblock print, titled kinhyōshi yōrin, hero of the suikoden, is one of a series created by the japanese artist utagawa kuniyoshi between and illustrating the suikoden ("water margin"). the publication of the series catapulted kuniyoshi to fame. the story of the suikoden is an adaptation of the chinese shuǐhǔ zhuàn; during the s, the publication of this woodblock series and other translations of the novel created a suikoden craze in japan. following the great commercial success of the kuniyoshi series, other ukiyo-e artists were commissioned to produce prints of the suikoden heroes, which began to be shown as japanese heroes rather than the original chinese personages. the hero portrayed in this print is yang lin. more selected pictures 			 		 	 			 			 the water-babies, a fairy tale for a land baby artist: jessie willcox smith; restoration: erikthebikeman mrs. bedonebyasyoudid, a character named after the golden rule, from the water-babies, a fairy tale for a land baby, a children's novel by charles kingsley. published in , the book was extremely popular in england, and was a mainstay of british children's literature for many decades. the book had been intended in part as a satire, a tract against child labour, as well as a serious critique of the closed-minded approaches of many scientists of the day in their response to charles darwin's ideas on evolution. more selected pictures 			 		 	 			 			 caterpillar, alice's adventures in wonderland artist: sir john tenniel sir john tenniel's illustration of the caterpillar for lewis carroll's classic children's book, alice's adventures in wonderland. the illustration is noted for its ambiguous central figure, which can be viewed as having either a human male's face with pointed nose and protruding lower lip or as the head end of an actual caterpillar, with the right three "true" legs visible. the small symbol in the lower left is composed of tenniel's initials, which was how he signed most of his work for the book. the partially obscured word in the lower left-center is the last name of edward dalziel, the engraver of the piece. more selected pictures 			 		 did you know 	... that the john steinbeck play adaptation of mice and men debuted on broadway while the novel of the same name was still on the best seller lists? 	... that samuel taylor coleridge's eminent characters series includes: a lawyer, a speaker, a unitarian, a general, a rebel, a betrayer, a poet, an actress, a philosopher, a friend, a playwright and a lord? 	... that the insider, a roman à clef, was prime minister p v narasimha rao's first novel? 	... that a possible source for the poem the fox, the wolf and the husbandman, by the th-century scottish poet robert henryson, was aesop's fables as published by william caxton? 	... that maria konopnicka's poem rota became so popular it was seen as an unofficial anthem of poland? today in literature december 	 - antoine furetière, french writer born 	 - thomas macaulay, british poet died 	 - nikolai alekseevich nekrasov, russian poet died 	 - shen congwen, chinese writer born 	 - olavo bilac, brazilian poet died 	 - stan lee, american comic book writer born 	 - guy debord, french writer born 	 - manuel puig, argentine writer born 	 - theodore dreiser, american author died 	 - william x. kienzle, american novelist 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(reuters) 	aftermath of the nagorno-karabakh war 	an azerbaijani soldier is killed and another injured during a shooting attack in nagorno-karabakh. azerbaijan blames the attack on "an armenian armed group"; all the six attackers are shot dead. (al jazeera) disasters and accidents 	the russian-flagged fishing trawler onega capsizes near the novaya zemlya archipelago in the barents sea with fishermen missing and are feared dead, while two have been rescued. search and rescue operations in the area have been suspended due to strong winds and low temperatures. (afp via the moscow times) health and environment 	covid- pandemic 	covid- pandemic in asia 	covid- pandemic in indonesia 	foreign minister retno marsudi announces that the country will ban all international visitors for two weeks from january to , citing concerns over new variants of sars-cov- . government officials are exempt. (merdeka.com) 	covid- pandemic in japan 	transport minister yuichiro hata, who died yesterday, tested positive for covid- . he is the first japanese lawmaker to die from the disease. (the asahi shimbun) 	covid- pandemic in saudi arabia, variant of concern / 	saudi arabia extends the suspension of all international commercial flights, as well as entry through land and sea ports for another week due to concern over the new sars-cov- variant. (gulf news) 	covid- pandemic in south korea, variant of concern / 	south korea reports its first cases of a more infectious variant of sars-cov- , after south korean nationals who arrived from the united kingdom tested positive for covid- , including an elderly man who has since died. (yonhap news agency) 	covid- pandemic in europe 	covid- pandemic in finland, variant of concern / 	finland reports its first case of a new variant of sars-cov- , after a person who travelled from western europe test positive for covid- . (yle) international relations 	european union–united kingdom relations, trade negotiation between the uk and the eu 	european union ambassadors unanimously approve the eu–uk trade and cooperation agreement with the united kingdom. (bbc) law and crime 	covid- pandemic in mainland china 	a court in china sentences a citizen journalist to four years in prison for "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" for reporting during the peak of the covid- pandemic last year in wuhan. her lawyer says they will "probably" appeal the verdict. (reuters) 	a court in saudi arabia sentences women's rights activist loujain al-hathloul to five years and eight months in prison on grounds of "various activities prohibited by the anti-terrorism law". the verdict comes despite pressure from international organizations to release her. (dw) current events of december  ,   ( - - ) (sunday) edithistorywatch armed conflicts and attacks 	boko haram insurgency 	boko haram militants storms a village jear gamboru, nigeria, killing three people and abducting more than others. it is the second mass abducting by the group this month. (al jazeera) 	spillover of the syrian civil war in lebanon 	hundreds of syrian refugees flee a makeshift camp in north governorate, lebanon, after local youths storm the camp and torch tents, wounding three people, according to the united nations high commissioner for refugees. (reuters) 	war in darfur 	sudan says it will deploy troops to south darfur "in large numbers" following recent tribal violence between the masalit and fula. (reuters) business and economy 	economic impact of the covid- pandemic in the united states, cares act 	president donald trump signs the consolidated appropriations act, , which contains a $ billion covid- relief package, before monday's deadline, in order to avert a government shutdown. this comes after trump called the bill a "disgrace" last week. (the washington post) (politico) disasters and accidents 	in cameroon, a bus travelling from douala, to the capital yaoundé collides with a truck and plunges into a ravine, killing at least people and injuring others. (afp via the economic times) health and environment 	covid- pandemic 	covid- pandemic in north america 	covid- pandemic in canada 	covid- pandemic in british columbia, variant of concern / 	british columbia reports their first case of the new variant of sars-cov- from a man in island health who returned from the united kingdom on december and tested positive on december . (cbc) 	covid- pandemic in quebec 	quebec reports , cases and deaths between and december, bringing the total number of cases to , and deaths to , . (toronto star) 	covid- pandemic in the united states 	the u.s. surpasses million cases of covid- , having averaged , daily cases over the past week. (the hill) 	covid- pandemic in asia 	covid- pandemic in oman 	oman officially begins a vaccination campaign against covid- using the pfizer-biontech vaccine. the country is the last gulf cooperation council member state to begin vaccinations. health minister ahmed al-saidi is one of the first citizens to receive a dose of the vaccine. (arab news) 	the supreme committee decides to reopen oman's land, sea, and air borders on december after closing them on december due to fears of a new variant of sars-cov- . all travellers must show a negative pcr test within hours before entering the country and must have valid health insurance. in addition, all travellers must quarantine for seven days and take another test after completing their quarantine. (hindustan times) 	covid- pandemic in indonesia 	indonesia reports a record , recoveries in the past hours, bringing the nationwide total of recoveries to , . (kompas) 	covid- pandemic in jordan, variant of concern / 	jordan reports their first two cases of a new variant of sars-cov- in a couple who travelled from the united kingdom. (medical xpress) 	covid- pandemic in saudi arabia 	saudi arabia announces that they will lift their flight ban on non-saudis leaving the country. (al arabiya) 	covid- pandemic in south korea 	south korea extends its current social distancing measures aimed at reducing the spread of covid- until january , as record numbers of new cases are being reported. (the straits times) 	covid- pandemic in europe 	covid- pandemic in austria 	austria begins administering the pfizer-biontech vaccine tozinameran to its citizens. an -year-old woman becomes the first austrian to be vaccinated against covid- at the medical university of vienna. (orf) 	covid- pandemic in the czech republic 	the czech republic begins a vaccination campaign against covid- using the pfizer-biontech vaccine tozinameran, with prime minister andrej babiš and world war ii veteran emilie Řepíková among the first people to get vaccinated. (expats.cz) 	covid- pandemic in greece 	greece officially begins a vaccination programme against covid- , with icu nurse efstathia kambissiouli, president katerina sakellaropoulou and prime minister kyriakos mitsotakis among the first people to get vaccinated. (the national herald) 	covid- pandemic in norway, variant of concern / 	norway reports its first cases of a new variant of sars-cov- , after two people who travelled from the united kingdom earlier in december test positive for covid- . (reuters) 	covid- pandemic in portugal, variant of concern / 	portugal reports their first case of a new variant of sars-cov- from the united kingdom in madeira. (publico) 	covid- pandemic in romania 	romania begins a vaccination campaign against covid- using the pfizer-biontech vaccine tozinameran. the first person vaccinated is a -year-old doctor from bucharest. (digi ) 	the european union begins a mass vaccination campaign against covid- . (nbc news) 	covid- pandemic in south america 	covid- pandemic in brazil 	brazilian vice president hamilton mourão tests positive for covid- . (diário do nordeste) 	covid- pandemic in uruguay 	uruguay reported a record of deaths in the past hours, bringing the nationwide death toll to . (el país) 	covid- pandemic in south africa 	south africa surpasses one million cases of covid- , becoming the first african country to reach this milestone. (voice of america) law and crime 	kaiyuan stabbing attack 	seven people are killed and seven others injured in a mass stabbing in kaiyuan, liaoning, china. the attacker has been arrested. (bbc) 	 nashville bombing 	authorities officially identify the perpetrator of friday's suicide bombing in nashville, tennessee, as -year-old anthony quinn warner and conclude that he had been acting alone. (the tennessean) politics and elections 	 nigerien general election 	citizens in niger head to the polls to elect their president in their first democratic power transfer since the country's independence from france. the election comes amidst a growing islamist insurgency as mohamed bazoum is the favourite to succeed incumbent mahamadou issoufou, who is stepping down after serving two five-year terms. (dw) 	 central african general election 	elections in the central african republic are underway, after a campaign marred by violence between government and rebel forces. (bbc) science and technology 	the solar orbiter spacecraft makes its closest approach to venus. (space.com) current events of december  ,   ( - - ) (saturday) edithistorywatch armed conflicts and attacks 	israeli–palestinian conflict 	the israeli military (idf) carries out several airstrikes in the gaza strip, in response to overnight rocket attacks in israel. idf says it targeted a rocket manufacturing site, underground infrastructure and a military post. two minor injuries are reported. the attacks caused power outages in the eastern part of the strip. hamas claims the strikes damaged a children's hospital, a centre for disabled people, and damaged the windows of several residential buildings. idf claims that the damage was due to detonations of ground munitions. (al jazeera) (the times of israel) 	kashmir conflict 	india arrests kashmiri political leaders and activists for "preventive custody" due to recent violence following local elections. (al jazeera) disasters and accidents 	twelve climbers die during avalanches and blizzards on mountains north of tehran, iran. fourteen others went missing but are rescued alive. (the guardian) 	a fire inside an intensive care unit for covid- patients at a hospital in obour, egypt, kills seven people and injures five others. (abc news) health and environment 	covid- pandemic 	covid- pandemic in europe 	covid- pandemic in spain 	covid- vaccine 	spain receives its first shipment of the pfizer-biontech vaccine tozinameran in guadalajara, a day before the country begins its vaccination programme. (euro weekly news) 	covid- pandemic in the community of madrid, variant of concern / 	madrid reports the nation's first four cases of a new variant of sars-cov- . (the guardian) 	covid- pandemic in the united kingdom 	covid- pandemic in northern ireland 	northern ireland enters a six-week lockdown in an effort to reduce the number of covid- infections. all "non-essential" shops and businesses will be closed, while "essential" shops must close each day by : gmt during the first week of the lockdown. no gatherings will be allowed between : and : each day, and anyone travelling to northern ireland must self-isolate for at least days. (bbc) 	covid- pandemic in belarus, belarusian protests 	two men jailed for protesting against president alexander lukashenko say they tested positive for covid- , after developing symptoms in jail and not receiving treatment. (ap) 	covid- pandemic in germany 	the german state of saxony-anhalt begins a vaccination campaign against covid- , which also began nationwide. a -year-old woman in a nursing home become one of first people in the country to get vaccinated. (dw) 	covid- pandemic in hungary 	hungary begins a vaccination campaign against covid- using the pfizer-biontech vaccine tozinameran. the first vaccinations are being delivered at two hospitals in budapest. (reuters) 	covid- pandemic in russia 	russia surpasses three million cases of covid- , becoming the fourth country to do so after the united states, india, and brazil. (arab news) (mint) 	covid- pandemic in sweden, variant of concern / 	sweden reports their first case of a new variant of sars-cov- after a traveller from the united kingdom tested positive for covid- . (the hill) 	covid- pandemic in north america 	covid- pandemic in canada 	covid- pandemic in ontario, variant of concern / 	ontario reports its first two cases of a new sars-cov- variant in a couple from durham region with no known travel history, exposure, or high-risk contacts. ontario is the first province in canada to identify a case of this new variant. (cbc) 	covid- pandemic in the united states 	the centers for disease control and prevention issues guidelines stating that people with underlying health conditions can receive the vaccine. (the hill) 	one out of every , americans have died from covid- , according to a comparison of census and death toll estimates. (cnn) 	covid- pandemic in asia 	covid- pandemic in japan 	tokyo reports a record new cases in the past hours, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the prefecture to , . (the japan times) 	the japanese foreign ministry will ban non-resident foreign nationals from entering japan from december until the end of january after several cases of a more infectious variant of sars-cov- were reported in the country. japanese citizens and foreign residents will be required to self-quarantine for days when they enter the country. (cnn) 	covid- pandemic in indonesia 	indonesia reports a record , recoveries in the past hours, bringing the nationwide total of recoveries to , . (detiknews) 	covid- pandemic in iran 	iran extends a nighttime traffic curfew that runs from : p.m. to : a.m. local time to lower-risk "yellow" cities in an effort to sustain a recent decrease in the numbers of new cases and deaths. (hindustan times) 	covid- pandemic in malaysia 	malaysia reports a record , new confirmed cases in the past hours, bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to , . (cna) law and crime 	 nashville bombing 	federal investigators identify a person of interest in yesterday's bombing in downtown nashville, tennessee, and join local police in raiding his home. (ap) 	authorities announce that they suspect the incident was a suicide bombing, following the discovery of human remains at the blast site. (cnn) 	crime in germany 	four men are seriously injured in a mass shooting in kreuzberg, berlin. the city's attorney said that rival gangs may have been responsible for the shooting. (bbc) 	crime in china 	china lowers the age of criminal responsibility to years old for "abominable" crimes such as murder or causing injury that leads to death or severe disabilities by extremely cruel means. the measure was passed by the national people's congress standing committee. (al arabiya) 	don carter lanes shooting 	three people are killed, and three others are injured, during a mass shooting at a bowling alley in rockford, illinois. police believe the suspect, in custody, identified as a soldier from florida, randomly selected his victims. (al jazeera) politics and elections 	 ethiopian general election 	the government sets june as the date for the parliamentary elections. the elections were delayed to in response to the covid- pandemic with the delay being a cause of the ongoing tigray conflict. (reuters) sports 	impact of the covid- pandemic on sports, nfl season 	the cleveland browns announce that they will close their facility and delay their flight to new jersey for an upcoming matchup with the new york jets after a player on the team tested positive for covid- . (reuters) current events of december  ,   ( - - ) (friday) edithistorywatch armed conflicts and attacks 	central african republic civil war 	three united nations peacekeepers from burundi are killed and two others injured in the central african republic during two attacks by unknown gunmen. the shootings are carried out two days before the general election in the country. (bbc) disasters and accidents 	a boat overturns and sinks due to strong winds on the ugandan side of lake albert, killing people. (bbc) health and environment 	covid- pandemic 	covid- pandemic in asia 	covid- pandemic in hong kong 	the authorities extends the compulsory quarantine in designed hotels to days for visitors from outside china, macau, and taiwan beginning tomorrow and also ban all people who stayed in south africa over the past days from entering hong kong in order to prevent the spread of new variants of sars-cov- . (the straits times) 	covid- pandemic in indonesia 	indonesia reports a record deaths and , recoveries in the past hours, bringing the nationwide totals to , deaths and , recoveries. (cnn indonesia) 	covid- pandemic in japan 	japan reports their first cases of the new variant of sars-cov- in five people who arrived from the united kingdom. (the japan times) 	covid- pandemic in kyrgyzstan 	kyrgyzstan surpasses , cases of covid- . (xinhua news agency) 	covid- pandemic in lebanon, variant of concern / 	lebanon reports their first case of a new variant of sars-cov- in a passenger on a middle east airlines flight from london on december . (the national) 	covid- pandemic in saudi arabia, covid- vaccine 	crown prince mohammed bin salman receives a covid- vaccine. (the hill) 	covid- pandemic in south korea 	south korea reports a record , new confirmed cases in the past hours, bringing the nationwide total to , cases. (yonhap news agency) 	covid- pandemic in europe 	covid- pandemic in france, variant of concern / 	france reports their first case of the new variant of sars-cov- in a french citizen who travelled from london to tours, france on december . (sky news) 	covid- pandemic in the republic of ireland, variant of concern / 	chief medical officer tony holohan confirms that the republic has detected the new variant of sars-cov- from the united kingdom as the country reports more than , for the first time in two months. (independent.ie) 	covid- pandemic in russia, variant of concern / 	rospotrebnadzor orders a -day quarantine for anyone who travels from the united kingdom, with the exception of aircraft crew members, beginning tomorrow due to the spread of a more contagious variant of sars-cov- . (the moscow times) 	covid- pandemic in turkey 	turkey signs a deal with biontech to receive up to million doses of their vaccine. (daily sabah) 	covid- pandemic in the united kingdom 	the united kingdom exceeds , deaths from covid- . (the independent) (bbc) 	covid- pandemic in africa 	covid- pandemic in mali, covid- pandemic in france 	malian opposition leader soumaila cissé dies from covid- in france two months after he was released by jihadist militants in a prisoner swap. (france ) 	covid- pandemic in morocco, covid- vaccine 	morocco is expected to acquire million vaccine doses from astrazeneca and sinopharm. (abc news) 	covid- pandemic in south africa 	south africa reports a record , new cases in the past hours, bringing the nationwide total to , cases. (the citizens) law and crime 	 nashville bombing 	an explosion occurs in a recreational vehicle in downtown nashville, tennessee, u.s., causing structural damage and injuring three people. police believe the explosion was an "intentional act". (cnn) (the tennessean) 	the explosion also results in at&t service outages across the u.s. due to infrastructure damage to a service facility located near the blast site. cellular, wireline telephone, internet, and u-verse television service, as well as multiple local - - and non-emergency phone networks, are among the services affected. (wkrn-tv) (the tennessean) 	 puebla helicopter crash 	four people are arrested for a helicopter crash in puebla, mexico, that killed governor martha Érika alonso, her husband, and former governor rafael moreno valle rosas. (abc news) 	a court in russia sentences prominent historian oleg sokolov to and a half years in prison for the murder and dismemberment of his student lover. sokolov, a former history professor at st. petersburg state university, pled guilty to the murder. (reuters) sports 	impact of the covid- pandemic on sports 	greg norman, australian former world number one champion of the and open championships, tests positive for covid- and is hospitalized in the united states due to having symptoms. (bbc) current events of december  ,   ( - - ) (thursday) edithistorywatch armed conflicts and attacks 	metekel conflict 	metekel massacre 	the ethiopian national defense force clashes with armed bandits involved in yesterday's massacre, killing of them and seizing weapons. (al arabiya english) 	boko haram insurgency 	pemi attack 	boko haram jihadists storm pemi, a christian village in borno state, nigeria, shooting people and burning down a church and a hospital, killing at least civilians. a priest is kidnapped. (bbc) 	insurgency in the maghreb 	niger says seven troops and islamist militants have been killed in clashes in tillabéri, ahead of sunday's general election. (arab news) 	war in afghanistan 	december afghanistan attacks 	gunmen on a motorbike shoot dead a women’s rights activist and her brother near their home in kohistan, afghanistan. (al jazeera) business and economy 	economic impact of the covid- pandemic in the united states, cares act 	republicans in the house block an attempt by democrats, empowered by a veto threat from president donald trump if not amended, to pass a $ , relief bill for americans. however, house speaker nancy pelosi announces that the house will still hold a vote on the bill on monday. (cnbc) (nbc news) disasters and accidents 	european migrant crisis 	at least african migrants die when their boat sinks off the coast of tunisia as they tried to cross the mediterranean sea to the italian island of lampedusa. the coast guard confirmed they had rescued people and were searching for others who were on the boat, which was carrying a total of people. (reuters) health and environment 	covid- pandemic 	covid- pandemic in north america 	covid- pandemic in the united states 	travel restrictions related to the covid- pandemic, voc- / 	the centers for disease control and prevention announces that american passengers traveling from the united kingdom will be required to test negative for covid- within hours due to the emergence of a new variant of sars-cov- . the order is expected to take effect on december . (marketwatch) 	united airlines and delta air lines will require passengers from the united kingdom to test negative for covid- due to the emergence of a new variant of sars-cov- . (reuters) 	covid- pandemic in california 	california surpasses two million cases of covid- , becoming the first u.s. state to do so. (cbs news) 	covid- pandemic in arkansas 	arkansas reports , new cases on christmas eve, a new single-day record. (arkansas democrat-gazette) 	covid- pandemic in mexico, covid- vaccine 	mexico begins vaccinations with the pfizer-biontech vaccine. an intensive care unit nurse in mexico city becomes the first person in the country to receive the vaccine. (the washington post) 	covid- pandemic in canada 	covid- pandemic in ontario 	ontario reports , cases on christmas eve, a new single-day record. (the chronicle-journal) 	covid- pandemic in quebec 	quebec reports , cases over the past hours, a new single-day record. (montreal gazette) 	covid- pandemic in asia 	covid- pandemic in japan 	tokyo reports a record new cases in the past hours, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the prefecture to , . (nhk world) 	nationwide, a record , new cases are reported in japan in the past hours. (the japan times) 	covid- pandemic in mainland china, voc- / , travel restrictions related to the covid- pandemic 	china says it will suspend all direct flights to and from the united kingdom indefinitely due to the new variant of sars-cov- . (cna) 	covid- pandemic in indonesia, voc- / 	indonesia issues a ban on travellers from the united kingdom and restricts entry to people from mainland europe and australia to prevent the spread of the new variant of sars-cov- . covid- task force chief doni monardo says that these measures will remain in place until january . (reuters) 	covid- pandemic in israel 	prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the health ministry announce that a third nationwide lockdown will begin from december at : p.m. local time for at least two weeks in order to curb the resurgence of covid- . (the times of israel) 	covid- pandemic in malaysia 	malaysia surpasses , cases of covid- . (cna) 	covid- pandemic in europe 	covid- pandemic in germany 	germany reports the first case of a new variant of sars-cov- from the united kingdom after a woman who flew from london to frankfurt this weekend tested positive for covid- . (dw) 	covid- pandemic in italy 	italy surpasses two million cases of covid- . (ansa) 	covid- pandemic in russia 	russia reports a record , new cases and deaths in the past hours, thus bringing the nationwide totals to , , confirmed cases and , deaths. (arab news) 	covid- pandemic in serbia, covid- vaccine 	serbia officially begins its vaccination programme against covid- , with prime minister ana brnabić becoming the first person to receive the pfizer-biontech vaccine. (anadolu agency) 	covid- pandemic in turkey, covid- vaccine 	turkey announces that coronavac is . % effective in preventing covid- based on data in interim studies. these initial results follow phase iii trials that involved , volunteers. (daily sabah) 	covid- pandemic in ukraine 	ukraine surpasses one million cases of covid- . (kyiv post) 	covid- pandemic in south america 	covid- pandemic in argentina, covid- vaccine 	over , doses of russia's sputnik v vaccine arrive in argentina. (livemint) 	covid- pandemic in chile, covid- vaccine 	chile begins its vaccination campaign against covid- after the arrival of , doses of pfizer-biontech vaccine to the country. (prensa latina) international relations 	european union–united kingdom relations, trade negotiation between the uk and the eu 	the united kingdom and the european union agree on a post-brexit trade deal. (bbc) law and crime 	in pakistan, the sindh high court orders the release of ahmed omar saeed sheikh, initially sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of american journalist daniel pearl in karachi in . the government opposes his release on the basis of public safety; both the government and pearl's family will appeal the decision. (al jazeera) 	a -year-old man is charged with murder and hate crimes in los angeles, california, u.s., after killing a -year-old man in a hospital room for praying. both men were in the hospital after testing positive for covid- . (bbc) 	the president of burundi, Évariste ndayishimiye, pardons four journalists jailed since for offences related to "undermining state security" following a petition by human rights groups and the journalists themselves. (reuters) politics and elections 	 moldovan presidential election 	maia sandu is sworn in as the first female president of moldova. (radio free europe/radio liberty) current events of december  ,   ( - - ) (wednesday) edithistorywatch armed conflicts and attacks 	central african republic civil war 	a coalition of rebel groups briefly seize the city of bambari from the central african republic government and united nations before being driven off in a un counter-offensive. (france ) 	war in afghanistan 	december afghanistan attacks 	yousuf rasheed, ceo of the free and fair election forum of afghanistan, is killed by unknown gunmen in kabul. his driver is also shot and later died of his wounds. it is the latest targeted killing of a prominent afghan figure. (tolo news) 	metekel conflict 	metekel massacre 	more than people are killed and at least others wounded in a massacre in metekel, benishangul-gumuz, ethiopia. (bbc) business and economy 	shortages related to the covid- pandemic, economic impact of the covid- pandemic in the united kingdom 	lufthansa ships tonnes of fresh food to the united kingdom to prevent shortages amid fears that the lifting of the french blockade of the france–uk border will not prevent shortages in some supermarkets. the airline says "additional special cargo flights" are planned to meet demand. thousands of trucks remain outside of dover. (the guardian) health and environment 	covid- pandemic 	covid- pandemic in north america 	covid- pandemic in the united states 	covid- pandemic in new york (state) 	covid- pandemic in new york city, voc- / 	mayor bill de blasio orders people traveling from the united kingdom to quarantine or face fines due to the discovery of a new variant of sars-cov- , the virus that causes covid- . (cbs news) 	the centers for disease control and prevention says that million americans have received the vaccines. (politico) 	covid- pandemic in canada 	health canada approves the moderna covid- vaccine and expects that up to , doses will arrive in canada by the end of the year. (cbc) 	covid- pandemic in asia 	covid- pandemic in india 	covid- pandemic in karnataka, voc- / 	karnataka imposes a night curfew from : p.m. to : a.m. ist until january due to fears of a mutant version of sars-cov- that was found in the united kingdom. it becomes the second indian state to do so after maharashtra. (ndtv) 	covid- pandemic in indonesia 	the number of recovered patients in indonesia increases by a record , in the past hours, bringing the nationwide total of recovered patients to , . (detiknews) 	covid- pandemic in japan, voc- / 	japan bans the entry of non-japanese citizens from the united kingdom beginning tomorrow, following the emergence of a more infectious strain of sars-cov- . (the straits times) 	covid- pandemic in malaysia 	malaysia discovers a new variant of sars-cov- named a b in sabah. it has been deemed to be more infectious. (the star) 	covid- pandemic in the philippines, voc- / 	president rodrigo duterte approves the suspension of flights from the philippines to the united kingdom from tomorrow at : a.m. local time until december due to concerns about the new strain of sars-cov- . (abs-cbn news) 	covid- pandemic in qatar 	qatar begins administering the pfizer-biontech vaccine tozinameran to its citizens at designated health centers in the country. those aged over , adults with chronic health conditions and healthcare personnel are to be prioritised for the vaccine. (the peninsula qatar) 	covid- pandemic in singapore, voc- / 	singapore reports the first case of a mutated variant of sars-cov- from the united kingdom when -year-old girl who had studied in the united kingdom tested positive for covid- . (the straits times) 	covid- pandemic in south korea, voc- / 	south korea suspends flights to and from the united kingdom until december over concerns about the new strain of sars-cov- . (kbs world) 	covid- pandemic in europe 	covid- pandemic in the united kingdom 	the united kingdom reports a record , new cases in the past hours. in addition, the country also reports deaths, the highest single-day total since april . (itv) 	health secretary matt hancock announces a ban on travel from south africa due to the discovery of a mutated variant of sars-cov- in south africa. (business standard) 	hancock also announces that more locations in england will be placed in tier restrictions beginning on boxing day, including oxfordshire, west sussex, and the remainder of east sussex. (the guardian) 	covid- pandemic in the czech republic 	the government announces that the czech republic will be moving to the highest level of pes measures beginning on december . this means that all non-essential shops will be closed and a curfew between : p.m. to : a.m. local time on sunday will be enforced. there will also be no exceptions on new year's eve. (expats.cz) 	covid- pandemic in germany 	germany reports a record deaths in the past hours, according to data from the robert koch institute, bringing the nationwide death toll to , . (dpa international) 	covid- pandemic in italy 	italy surpasses , deaths from covid- . (huffington post) 	covid- pandemic in switzerland 	switzerland begins a mass vaccination campaign against covid- using the pfizer-biontech vaccine tozinameran. a ninety-year-old woman in lucerne is the first swiss citizen to receive the vaccine. (reuters) international relations 	belarus–united states relations, international reactions to the belarusian presidential election and protests 	the trump administration imposes additional sanctions against belarusian officials and four offices for human rights abuses that occurred during protests against president alexander lukashenko. (the hill) law and crime 	 saint-just shooting 	three police officers are killed and a fourth wounded after they responded to a domestic violence incident in saint-just, puy-de-dôme, france. the gunman, who set his house on fire, is later found dead. the gunman's partner was rescued. (bbc) 	travel restrictions related to the covid- pandemic 	stranded lorry drivers clash with police in kent, england, amid frustrations over ongoing delays at the border with france. at least one person has been arrested for obstructing a highway, according to the police. (the guardian) politics and elections 	elections in israel 	parliament is dissolved as the deadline to approve the state budget expires without an agreement, requiring elections within days, for the fourth time in less than two years. (the times of israel) 	presidency of donald trump 	u.s. president donald trump pardons former presidential campaign manager paul manafort, former adviser roger stone, and real estate developer charles kushner. manafort was convicted of tax fraud and obstructing an investigation; stone of lying to congress; kushner of tax evasion, campaign finance offences and witness tampering. (bbc) 	moldovan prime minister ion chicu announces that he will resign ahead of president-elect maia sandu's inauguration. (al jazeera) science and technology 	a ~ metres (  ft) asteroid falls over nangqên, in western china on the qinghai-tibet border. this was the largest asteroid to hit earth since the kamchatka meteor in , and the largest to fall over land since the chelyabinsk meteor in . (daily mail) (jpl center for neo studies) current events of december  ,   ( - - ) (tuesday) edithistorywatch armed conflicts and attacks 	war in afghanistan 	december afghanistan attacks 	four prison doctors are killed after a magnetic bomb attached to their vehicle exploded in kabul. a civilian passerby also died in the attack. the bombing follows a series of recent assassination attempts and targeted killings of prominent afghan figures. (channel news asia) 	war in darfur 	the united nations security council votes to end the united nations–african union mission in darfur on december , beginning a complete withdrawal of peacekeeping forces by june , . (middle east monitor) business and economy 	economic impact of the covid- pandemic in the united states, cares act 	president donald trump says that he might not sign the $ billion relief bill, which was passed by both the house and senate. he also calls for congress to amend the bill and increase stimulus checks to americans earning under $ , per year from $ to $ , . house speaker nancy pelosi agrees to work with congress to increase the payout amount. (the washington post) (bbc) (wfla-tv) health and environment 	covid- pandemic 	covid- pandemic in north america 	travel restrictions related to the covid- pandemic, voc- / 	covid- pandemic in guatemala 	guatemala announces a mandatory two-week quarantine for anyone who has recently visited the united kingdom or south africa in an effort to prevent the spread of a new variant of sars-cov- . the restrictions will last for two months. (reuters) 	covid- pandemic in the united states 	covid- pandemic in maryland 	niaid director dr. anthony fauci receives the moderna vaccine at the national institutes of health in bethesda, maryland. (abc news) 	covid- pandemic in mississippi 	mississippi governor tate reeves announces that he has extended the mask mandate to counties in the state. (ap) 	covid- pandemic in new york (state), voc- / 	new york governor andrew cuomo orders hospitals in the state to begin testing for the new sars-cov- variant from the united kingdom. (wnbc) 	covid- pandemic in washington, d.c. 	white house coronavirus task force director deborah birx says that she will retire after president-elect joe biden's transition is completed. (npr) 	overall deaths in the u.s. for this year are projected to surpass three million mainly due to the covid- pandemic, thus making the deadliest year in u.s. history. the numbers also represent an approximate percent increase compared to the previous year, which is the largest single-year percentage increase since . (ap) 	covid- pandemic in canada 	covid- pandemic in quebec 	quebec reports , cases, a new-single day record. (the globe and mail) 	covid- pandemic in asia 	covid- vaccine 	covid- pandemic in iraq 	iraq signs a preliminary deal to receive . million doses of the pfizer-biontech vaccine tozinameran. ministry of health spokesman seif al-badr says troops and the elderly will be prioritized for vaccinations. (france ) 	covid- pandemic in malaysia 	malaysia signs a deal to receive . million doses of the astrazeneca vaccine. (the star) 	covid- pandemic in united arab emirates 	the united arab emirates announces that they will roll out the sinopharm vaccine to all adult uae citizens. (financial times) 	abu dhabi is expected to lift restrictions in the city beginning december . (al arabiya) 	covid- pandemic in singapore, voc- / 	singapore bans all long-term passport holders and short-term visitors who had travel history to the united kingdom within the last days to enter the country beginning tomorrow at : p.m. local time due to the emergence of a new strain of sars-cov- . (the straits times) 	covid- pandemic in south korea 	prime minister chung sye-kyun announces that the country will ban gatherings of more than five people and order all ski resorts and tourist attractions to close from december until january in order to contain the third wave of covid- . (al jazeera) 	covid- pandemic in sri lanka, voc- / 	sri lanka's civil aviation authority bans all flights to and from the united kingdom beginning on december to prevent a new strain of sars-cov- from spreading to the country. (adaderana) 	covid- pandemic in taiwan 	taiwan reports their first locally transmitted case since april after an unidentified patient tested positive for covid- . (bloomberg) 	covid- pandemic in europe 	covid- pandemic in france, voc- / 	france agrees to reopen its border with the united kingdom after it was closed for hours due to the spread of a new variant of the virus in england. planes, boats, and eurostar trains will resume services tomorrow but only british, french, and eu citizens or residents who show a negative covid- test result from the previous hours will be allowed to travel until january . (bbc) 	covid- pandemic in the republic of ireland 	taoiseach micheál martin announces a return of "level " lockdown in the country with specific adjustments from christmas eve until at least january . (the journal) 	covid- pandemic in slovakia 	finance minister eduard heger tests positive for covid- . (tv noviny) 	covid- pandemic in the united kingdom 	the united kingdom reports a record , new cases in the past hours. in addition, the country also reports new deaths, the highest daily total in nearly a month. (sky news) 	covid- pandemic in peru 	peru surpasses one million cases of covid- , becoming the fifth latin american country to surpass the milestone after brazil, argentina, colombia, and mexico. (ap) 	covid- pandemic in fiji, voc- / 	fiji announces it will close its borders from thursday until next monday to review border quarantine processes after a new variant of the virus was found in the united kingdom. (rnz) 	covid- pandemic in malawi 	malawi closes its borders for days and restricts public gatherings to no more than people due to an increase in covid- cases. (malawi ) international relations 	israel–morocco relations 	israel–morocco normalization agreement 	el al operates the first direct commercial flight between israel and morocco following the normalization agreement between the two countries on december . senior advisor to the u.s. president jared kushner and israel's national security advisor meir ben-shabbat are among the high-level officials on board the flight. (afp via barron's) 	colombia–russia relations 	migración colombia confirms the expulsion of two russian diplomats accused of espionage. (reuters) 	cayman islands–united states relations, covid- pandemic in the cayman islands 	the appeals court of the cayman islands reduces the prison sentence of georgia teenager skylar mack from months to months. mack was arrested on november for breaching quarantine rules. (cbs news) 	china–south korea relations, russia–south korea relations 	south korea says it has scrambled fighter jets after four chinese and fifteen russian military aircraft entered its air defense identification zone. south korea's joint chiefs of staff says that it was notified in advance by china of a joint military exercise between china and russia. (reuters) politics and elections 	cabinet of indonesia 	president joko widodo announces a year-end reshuffle of the onward indonesia cabinet with the replacement of six ministers who had been in the cabinet since october , including two ministers who were arrested by the corruption eradication commission due to separate bribery cases. (the jakarta post) 	sandiaga uno, businessman and former candidate of the presidential election, is appointed as the new tourism and creative economy minister. it is the first time in indonesian history that all candidates who previously ran in a presidential election serve together in the same cabinet. (jakarta globe) 	 israeli legislative election 	the knesset fails to pass legislation to avert a dispersal of the current legislative session, triggering new elections in march. (jpost) science and technology 	chinese space program 	the maiden flight of the long march orbital launch vehicle is launched from wenchang spacecraft launch site at : utc, carrying five satellites. 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muhammad rizieq shihab 	kosovo: hashim thaçi, kadri veseli 	lesotho: maesiah thabane 	rwanda: paul rusesabagina 	spain: jordi pujol 	united states: khalid sheikh mohammed, elizabeth holmes, meng wanzhou, r. kelly, ghislaine maxwell, steve bannon 	vanuatu: charlot salwai 	zimbabwe: ignatius chombo edit section sport 	association football 	 – premier league 	 campeonato brasileiro série a 	 – uefa nations league 	 copa libertadores 	 – uefa champions league group stage 	 – uefa europa league group stage 	women's association football 	 – champions league 	 – division féminine 	 – fa wsl 	american football 	 nfl season 	 ncaa division i fbs 	baseball 	 mlb season 	basketball 	 – nba season 	 – ncaa division i men's basketball season 	 – ncaa division i women's basketball season 	golf 	 – pga tour 	ice hockey 	 – khl season 	 – nhl season 	motorsport 	 formula one championship 	 rally championship 	rugby union 	 – premiership rugby 	 – pro 	 – top 	other sports seasons 	 – international 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poetaster was entered into the stationers' register on december , and was first published in quarto in by the bookseller matthew lownes. the title page of the first edition states that the play was performed by the children of the chapel, one of the companies of boy actors popular at the time. the play was next published in the first folio collection of jonson's works ( ). a prefatory note to the folio text identifies the main actors in the production as nathan field, john underwood, salomon pavy, william ostler, thomas day, and thomas marton. the quarto and folio texts both supply subtitles, with slight variants: in the quarto, the title is poetaster or the arraignment, and in the folio, poetaster, or his arraignment. the principal character in the play is ovid. it is widely accepted among scholars and critics that the character of horace in poetaster represents jonson himself, while crispinus, who vomits up a pretentious and bombastic vocabulary, is marston, and demetrius fannius is dekker. individual commentators have attempted to identify other characters in the play with historical and literary figures of the era, including george chapman and shakespeare — though these arguments have not been accepted by the scholarly consensus.[ ] it is generally argued that the play is more than a mere venting of personal spleen against two rivals; rather, jonson attempted in poetaster to express his views on "the poet's moral duties in society."[ ] the play has been considered "an attempt to combine undramatic, philosophical material on good poets with satire on bad poets."[ ] scholars have also traced out a broad range of particular connections between poetaster, other jonson works, and plays by other authors in the first years of the th century.[ ] the term poetaster, meaning an inferior poet with pretensions to artistic value, had been coined by erasmus in . it was used by jonson in and then popularised with this play a year later. references[edit] 	^ james loxley, the complete critical guide to ben jonson. london, routledge, . 	^ e. k. chambers the elizabethan stage, volumes, oxford, clarendon press, ; vol. , p. . 	^ terence p. logan and denzell s. smith, eds., the new intellectuals: a survey and bibliography of recent studies in english renaissance drama, lincoln, ne, university of nebraska press, ; pp. - . 	^ logan and smith, p. . 	^ logan and smith, pp. , - , - , . external links[edit] 	the poetaster online. 		v 	t 	e ben jonson (works) 	plays	 	a tale of a tub 	the case is altered 	the isle of dogs 	every man in his humour 	every man out of his humour 	cynthia's revels 	poetaster 	sejanus his fall 	eastward hoe 	volpone 	epicœne, or the silent woman 	the alchemist 	catiline his conspiracy 	bartholomew fair 	the devil is an ass 	the staple of news 	the new inn 	the magnetic lady 	rollo duke of normandy 	the sad shepherd 	mortimer his fall (fragment) 	masques	 	the coronation triumph 	a private entertainment of the king and queen on may-day 	the 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(full article...) view new selections below (purge) edit  selected article - show another the roman empire (latin: imperium romanum [ɪmˈpɛri.ũː roːˈmaːnũː]; koinē greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, romanized: basileía tōn rhōmaíōn) was the post-republican period of ancient rome. as a polity it included large territorial holdings around the mediterranean sea in europe, northern africa, and western asia ruled by emperors. from the accession of caesar augustus to the military anarchy of the rd century, it was a principate with italy as metropole of the provinces and the city of rome as sole capital ( bc – ad). after the military crisis, the empire was ruled by multiple emperors who shared rule over the western roman empire and over the eastern roman empire (also known as the byzantine empire). rome remained the nominal capital of both parts until ad, when the imperial insignia were sent to constantinople, following the capture of ravenna by the barbarians of odoacer and the subsequent deposition of romulus augustulus. the fall of the western roman empire to germanic kings, along with the hellenization of the eastern roman empire into the byzantine empire, conventionally marks the end of ancient rome and the beginning of the middle ages. the predecessor state of the roman empire, the roman republic (which had replaced rome's monarchy in the th century bc) became severely destabilized in a series of civil wars and political conflicts. in the mid- st century bc, julius caesar was appointed as perpetual dictator and then assassinated in bc. civil wars and proscriptions continued, culminating in the victory of octavian, caesar's adopted son, over mark antony and cleopatra at the battle of actium in bc. the following year octavian conquered ptolemaic egypt, ending the hellenistic period that had begun with the conquests of alexander the great of macedon in the th century bc. octavian's power then became unassailable, and in bc the roman senate formally granted him overarching power and the new title augustus, effectively making him the first roman emperor. 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six pairs of gladiators with two referees; four beast fighters; and three convicts condemned to the beasts 			 		 	 			 			 roman hunters during the preparations, set-up of traps, and in-action hunting near tarraco 			 		 	 			 			 circus maximus, a mass entertainment venue located in rome 			 		 	 			 			 the roman empire in ad at its greatest extent, at the time of trajan's death (with its vassals in pink) 			 		 	 			 			 forum of gerasa (jerash in present-day jordan), with columns marking a covered walkway (stoa) for vendor stalls, and a semicircular space for public speaking 			 		 	 			 			 statuettes representing roman and gallic deities, for personal devotion at private shrines 			 		 	 			 			 head of constantine the great, part of a colossal statue. bronze, th century, musei capitolini, rome. 			 		 	 			 			 mosaic from pompeii depicting the academy of plato 			 		 	 			 			 fresco of a seated woman from stabiae, st century ad 			 		 	 			 			 birds and fountain within a garden setting, with oscilla (hanging masks) above, in a painting from pompeii 			 		 	 			 			 the primavera of stabiae, perhaps the goddess flora 			 		 	 			 			 so-called "bikini girls" mosaic from the villa del casale, roman sicily, th century 			 		 	 			 			 on the ludovisi sarcophagus, an example of the battle scenes favoured during the crisis of the third century, the "writhing and highly emotive" romans and goths fill the surface in a packed, anti-classical composition 			 		 	 			 			 cityscape from the villa boscoreale ( s ad) 			 		 	 			 			 reconstructed peristyle garden based on the house of the vettii 			 		 	 			 			 a teacher with two students, as a third arrives with his loculus, a writing case that would contain pens, ink pot, and a sponge to correct errors 			 		 	 			 			 a fresco from herculaneum depicting heracles and achelous from greco-roman mythology, st century ce 			 		 	 			 			 relief panel from trajan's column showing the building of a fort and the reception of a dacian embassy 			 		 	 			 			 relief from the arch of titus in rome depicting a menorah and other spoils from the temple of jerusalem carried in roman triumph. 			 		 	 			 			 statue in constanța, romania (the ancient colony tomis), commemorating ovid's exile 			 		 	 			 			 the colosseum in rome 			 		 	 			 			 a victor in his four-horse chariot 			 		 	 			 			 aeneas flees burning troy, federico barocci, . galleria borghese, rome. 			 		 	 			 			 bilingual latin-punic inscription at the theatre in leptis magna, roman africa (present-day libya) 			 		 	 			 			 bread stall, from a pompeiian wall painting 			 		 	 			 			 eggs, thrushes, napkin, and vessels (wall painting from the house of julia felix, pompeii) 			 		 	 			 			 a roman priest, his head ritually covered with a fold of his toga, extends a patera in a gesture of libation ( nd– rd century) 			 		 	 			 			 solidus issued under constantine ii, and on the reverse victoria, one of the last deities to appear on roman coins, gradually transforming into an angel under christian rule 			 		 	 			 			 this funerary stele from the rd century is among the earliest christian inscriptions, written in both greek and latin: the abbreviation d.m. at the top refers to the di manes, the traditional roman spirits of the dead, but accompanies christian fish symbolism. 			 		 	 			 			 wall painting depicting a sports riot at the amphitheatre of pompeii, which led to the banning of gladiator combat in the town 			 		 	 			 			 a multigenerational banquet depicted on a wall painting from pompeii ( st century ad) 			 		 	 			 			 a green roman glass cup unearthed from an eastern han dynasty ( – ad) tomb in guangxi, southern china; the earliest roman glassware found in china was discovered in a western han tomb in guangzhou, dated to the early st century bc, and ostensibly came via the maritime route through the south china sea 			 		 	 			 			 the barbarian invasions consisted of the movement of (mainly) ancient germanic peoples into roman territory. even though northern invasions took place throughout the life of the empire, this period officially began in the th century and lasted for many centuries, during which the western territory was under the dominion of foreign northern rulers, a notable one being charlemagne. historically, this event marked the transition between classical antiquity and the middle ages. 			 		 	 			 			 the augustus of prima porta (early st century ad) 			 		 	 			 			 aquae sulis in bath, england: architectural features above the level of the pillar bases are a later reconstruction. 			 		 	 			 			 glass cage cup from the rhineland, th century 			 		 	 			 			 an ostian taberna for eating and drinking; the faded painting over the counter pictured eggs, olives, fruit and radishes. 			 		 	 			 			 capitoline wolf, sculpture of the she-wolf feeding the twins romulus and remus, the most famous image associated with the founding of rome 			 		 	 			 			 the pula arena in croatia is one of the largest and most intact of the remaining roman amphitheatres. 			 		 	 			 			 musicians playing a roman tuba, a water organ (hydraulis), and a pair of cornua, detail from the zliten mosaic, nd century ad 			 		 	 			 			 cinerary urn for the freedman tiberius claudius chryseros and two women, probably his wife and daughter 			 		 	 			 			 mosaic depicting a theatrical troupe preparing for a performance 			 		 	 			 			 a fresco portrait of a man holding a papyrus roll, pompeii, italy, st century ad 			 		 	 			 			 still life on a nd-century roman mosaic 			 		 	 			 			 antoninus pius (reigned – ), wearing a toga (hermitage museum) 			 		 	 			 			 personification of the river nile and his children, from the temple of serapis and isis in rome ( st century ad) 			 		 	 			 			 a late republican banquet scene in a fresco from herculaneum, italy, c. bc; the woman wears a transparent silk gown while the man to the left raises a rhyton drinking vessel 			 		 	 			 			 all-male theatrical troupe preparing for a masked performance, on a mosaic from the house of the tragic poet 			 		 	 			 			 the so-called primavera of stabiae, perhaps the goddess flora 			 		 	 			 			 boys and girls playing ball games ( nd century relief from the louvre) 			 		 	 			 			 stone game board from aphrodisias: boards could also be made of wood, with deluxe versions in costly materials such as ivory; game pieces or counters were bone, glass, or polished stone, and might be coloured or have markings or images 			 		 	 			 			 the pont du gard aqueduct, which crosses the gardon river in southern france, is on unesco's list of world heritage sites. 			 		 	 			 			 condemned man attacked by a leopard in the arena ( rd-century mosaic from tunisia) 			 		 	 			 			 gold earrings with gemstones, rd century 			 		 	 			 			 the roman siege and destruction of jerusalem, from a western religious manuscript, c. 			 		 	 			 			 landscape resulting from the ruina montium mining technique at las médulas, spain, one of the most important gold mines in the roman empire 			 		 	 			 			 plato's academy mosaic from pompeii 			 		 	 			 			 the triumph of neptune floor mosaic from africa proconsularis (present-day tunisia), celebrating agricultural success with allegories of the seasons, vegetation, workers and animals viewable from multiple perspectives in the room (latter nd century) 			 		 	 			 			 wall painting ( st century ad) from pompeii depicting a multigenerational banquet 			 		 	 			 			 citizen of roman egypt (fayum mummy portrait) 			 		 	 			 			 romulus and remus on the house of the she-wolf at the grand place of brussels. 			 		 	 			 			 a bust of cicero, capitoline museums, rome 			 		 	 			 			 reconstructed statue of augustus as jove, holding scepter and orb (first half of st century ad). the imperial cult of ancient rome identified emperors and some members of their families with the divinely sanctioned authority (auctoritas) of the roman state. the rite of apotheosis (also called consecratio) signified the deceased emperor's deification and acknowledged his role as father of the people similar to the concept of a pater familias' soul or manes being honoured by his sons. 			 		 	 			 			 construction on the flavian amphitheatre, more commonly known as the colosseum (italy), began during the reign of vespasian. 			 		 	 			 			 roman portraiture fresco of a young man with a papyrus scroll, from herculaneum, st century ad 			 		 	 			 			 silver cup, from the boscoreale treasure (early st century ad) 			 		 	 			 			 slave holding writing tablets for his master (relief from a th-century sarcophagus) 			 		 	 			 			 toga-clad statue, restored with the head of the emperor nerva 			 		 	 			 			 marble relief of mithras slaying the bull ( nd century, louvre-lens); mithraism was among the most widespread mystery religions of the roman empire. 			 		 	 			 			 spread of seuso at lacus pelso (lake balaton) 			 		 	 			 			 fragmentary military diploma from carnuntum; latin was the language of the military throughout the empire 			 		 	 			 			 the wedding of zephyrus and chloris ( – ad, pompeian fourth style) within painted architectural panels from the casa del naviglio 			 		 	 			 			 portrait of a literary woman from pompeii (ca. ad) 			 		 	 			 			 public toilets (latrinae) from ostia antica 			 		 	 			 			 a segment of the ruins of hadrian's wall in northern england 			 		 	 			 			 amphitheatres of the roman empire 			 		 	 			 			 the bronze drunken satyr, excavated at herculaneum and exhibited in the th century, inspired an interest among later sculptors in similar "carefree" subjects. 			 		 	 			 			 the cities of the roman world in the imperial period. data source: hanson, j. w. 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(link). 			 		 edit  selected biography - show another modern statue representing tacitus outside the austrian parliament building publius (or gaius) cornelius tacitus (/ˈtæsɪtəs/ tass-it-əs, latin: [ˈtakɪtʊs]; c. ad – c.  ) was a roman historian and politician. tacitus is considered by modern scholars to be one of the greatest roman historians. he lived in what has been called the silver age of latin literature, and has a reputation for the brevity and compactness of his latin prose, as well as for his penetrating insights into the psychology of power politics. the surviving portions of his two major works—the annals and the histories—examine the reigns of the emperors tiberius, claudius, nero, and those who reigned in the year of the four emperors ( ad). these two works span the history of the roman empire from the death of augustus, in ad, to ad in the first jewish–roman war of – . there are substantial lacunae in the surviving texts, including a gap in the annals that is four books long. 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(september ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) in a more limited and precise chronological sense, the term principate is applied either to the entire empire (in the sense of the post-republican roman state), or specifically to the earlier of the two phases of "imperial" government in the ancient roman empire before rome's military collapse in the west (fall of rome) in left the byzantine empire as sole heir. this early, 'principate' phase began when augustus claimed auctoritas for himself as princeps; and continued (depending on the source) up to the rule of commodus, of maximinus thrax or of diocletian. afterwards, imperial rule in the empire is designated as the dominate, which is subjectively more like an (absolute) monarchy while the earlier principate is still more 'republican'. history[edit] the title, in full, of princeps senatus / princeps civitatis ("first amongst the senators" / "first amongst the citizens") was first adopted by octavian caesar augustus ( bc–ad ), the first roman "emperor" who chose, like the assassinated julius caesar, not to reintroduce a legal monarchy. augustus's purpose was probably to establish the political stability desperately needed after the exhausting civil wars by a de facto dictatorial regime within the constitutional framework of the roman republic - what gibbon called "an absolute monarchy disguised by the forms of a commonwealth"[ ] - as a more acceptable alternative to, for example, the early roman kingdom. although dynastic pretences crept in from the start, formalizing this in a monarchic style remained politically perilous;[ ] and octavian was undoubtedly correct to work through established republican forms to consolidate his power.[ ] he began with the powers of a roman consul, combined with those of a tribune of the plebs; later added the role of the censor; and finally became pontifex maximus as well.[ ] tiberius too acquired his powers piecemeal, and was proud to emphasise his place as first citizen: "a good and healthful princeps, whom you have invested with such great discretionary power, ought to be the servant of the senate, and often of the whole citizen body".[ ] thereafter however the role of princeps became more institutionalised: as dio cassius put it, caligula was "voted in a single day all the prerogatives which augustus over so long a span of time had been voted gradually and piecemeal".[ ] nevertheless, under this "principate stricto sensu", the political reality of autocratic rule by the emperor was still scrupulously masked by forms and conventions of oligarchic self-rule inherited from the political period of the 'uncrowned' roman republic ( bc– bc) under the motto senatus populusque romanus ("the senate and people of rome") or spqr. initially, the theory implied the 'first citizen' had to earn his extraordinary position (de facto evolving to nearly absolute monarchy) by merit in the style that augustus himself had gained the position of auctoritas. imperial propaganda developed a paternalistic ideology, presenting the princeps as the very incarnation of all virtues attributed to the ideal ruler (much like a greek tyrannos earlier), such as clemency and justice, and military leadership,[ ] in turn placing the onus on the princeps to play this designated role within roman society, as his political insurance as well as a moral duty. what specifically was expected of the princeps seems to have varied according to the times, and the observers:[ ] tiberius, who amassed a huge surplus for the city of rome, was criticized as a miser, but caligula was criticized for his lavish spending on games and spectacles. generally speaking, it was expected of the emperor to be generous but not frivolous, not just as a good ruler but also with his personal fortune (as in the proverbial "bread and circuses" – panem et circenses) providing occasional public games, gladiators, horse races and artistic shows. large distributions of food for the public and charitable institutions were also means that served as popularity boosters while the construction of public works provided paid employment for the poor. principate under augustus[ ] redefinition under vespasian[edit] with the fall of the julio-claudian dynasty in ad , the principate became more formalised under the emperor vespasian from ad onwards.[ ] the position of princeps became a distinct entity within the broader – formally still republican – roman constitution. while many of the same cultural and political expectations remained, the civilian aspect of the augustan ideal of the princeps gradually gave way to the military role of the imperator.[ ] rule was no longer a position (even notionally) extended on the basis of merit, or auctoritas, but on a firmer basis, allowing vespasian and future emperors to designate their own heir without those heirs having to earn the position through years of success and public favor. under the antonine dynasty, it was the norm for the emperor to appoint a successful and politically promising individual as his successor. in modern historical analysis, this is treated by many authors as an "ideal" situation: the individual who was most capable was promoted to the position of princeps. of the antonine dynasty, edward gibbon famously wrote that this was the happiest and most productive period in human history, and credited the system of succession as the key factor. dominate[edit] the autocratic elements in the principate tended to increase over time, with the style of dominus ("lord", "master", suggesting the citizens became servi, servants or slaves) gradually becoming current for the emperor.[ ] there was however no clear constitutional turning point, with septimius severus and the severan dynasty beginning to use the terminology of the dominate in reference to the emperor, and the various emperors and their usurpers throughout the rd century appealing to the people as both military dominus and political princeps. it was after the crisis of the third century almost resulted in the roman empire's political collapse that diocletian firmly consolidated the trend to autocracy.[ ] he replaced the one-headed principate with the tetrarchy (c. ad , two augusti ranking above two caesares),[ ] in which the vestigial pretence of the old republican forms was largely abandoned. the title of princeps disappeared – like the territorial unity of the empire – in favor of dominus; and new forms of pomp and awe, along the lines of an oriental absolute monarchy, were deliberately used in an attempt to insulate the emperor and the civil authority from the unbridled and mutinous soldiery of the mid-century.[ ] the political role of the senate went into final eclipse,[ ] no more being heard of the division by the augustan principate of the provinces between imperial (militarised) provinces and senatorial provinces.[ ] lawyers developed a theory of the total delegation of authority into the hands of the emperor;[ ] and the dominate developed more and more, especially in the eastern roman empire, where the subjects, and even diplomatic allies, could be termed servus or the corresponding greek term doulos, ("servant/slave") so as to express the exalted position of the emperor as second only to god, and on earth to none.[citation needed] see also[edit] 	constitution of the late roman empire references[edit] 	^ k lowenstein, the governance of rome ( ) p. 	^ "principate - government". britannica.com. archived from the original on - - . 	^ a history of rome, m. cary & h.h. scullard, isbn  	^ spqr; mary beard, isbn  	^ o seyffeert, a dictionary of classical antiquities (london ) p. 	^ h j rose, a handbook of latin literature (methuen ) p. and p. 	^ d wormersley ed, abridged decline and fall (penguin ) p. 	^ j burrow, a history of histories (penguin ) p. - 	^ j boardman ed. the oxford history of the classical world ( ) p. 	^ d wormersley ed, abridged decline and fall (penguin ) p. - 	^ quoted in j boardman ed. the oxford history of the classical world ( ) p. 	^ j boardman ed. the oxford history of the classical world ( ) p. 	^ c edwards intro, lives of the caesars (oup ) p. xxi 	^ c edwards intro, lives of the caesars (oup ) p. xxiii-v 	^ digital reproduction of diagram found in the anchor atlas of world history, vol. 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dominat. gedanken zur periodisierung der römischen kaiserzeit. wiesbaden: fr. stein. 	flaig, egon. . “the transition from republic to principate: loss of legitimacy, revolution, and acceptance.” in the roman empire in context: historical and comparative perspectives, edited by jóhann páll arnason and kurt a. raaflaub. ancient world, - . chichester: wiley-blackwell. 	gallia, andrew b. . remembering the roman republic: culture, politics and history under the principate. cambridge; new york: cambridge university press. 	gibson, a. g. g., ed. . the julio-claudian succession: reality and perception of the augustan model. mnemosyne. supplements; . leiden: brill. 	harlow, mary and laurence, ray. . “augustus senex: old age and the remaking of the principate.” greece and rome . : - . 	kousser, rachel meredith. . “from conquest to civilization: the rhetoric of imperialism in the early principate.” in a tall order: writing the social history of the ancient world: essays in honor of william v. 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navigation 		jump to search 		this article is about the latin elegiac poet. for other people named propertius, see propertia gens. for the butterfly genus, see propertius (skipper). auguste vinchon, propertius and cynthia at tivoli sextus propertius was a latin elegiac poet of the augustan age. he was born around – bc in assisium and died shortly after bc.[ ] propertius' surviving work comprises four books of elegies (elegiae). he was a friend of the poets gallus and virgil and, with them, had as his patron maecenas and, through maecenas, the emperor augustus. although propertius was not as renowned in his own time as other latin elegists,[ ] he is today regarded by scholars as a major poet.[ ][ ] contents 	 life 	 poetry 	 textual problems 	 influence 	 modern assessment 	 latin editions 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links life[edit] very little information is known about propertius outside of his own writing. his praenomen "sextus" is mentioned by aelius donatus,[ ] a few manuscripts list him as "sextus propertius", but the rest of his name is unknown. from numerous references in his poetry[ ] it is clear he was born and raised in umbria. his birthplace is generally regarded as modern assisi, where tourists can view the excavated remains of a house thought to have belonged at least to the poet's family, if not to the poet himself.[ ] during propertius' childhood, his father died and the family lost land as part of a confiscation,[ ] probably the same one which reduced virgil's estates when octavian allotted lands to his veterans in bc. along with cryptic references in ovid[ ] that imply that he was younger than his contemporary tibullus, this suggests a birthdate after bc. after his father's death, propertius' mother set him on course for a public career,[ ] indicating his family still had some wealth, while the abundance of obscure mythology present in his poetry indicates he received a good education. frequent mention of friends like tullus,[ ] the nephew of lucius volcatius tullus, consul in bc, plus the fact that he lived on rome's esquiline hill[ ] indicate he moved among the children of the rich and politically connected during the early part of the s bc. it was during this time that he met cynthia, the older woman[ ] who would inspire him to express his poetic genius. propertius published a first book of love elegies in bc, with cynthia herself as the main theme; the book's complete devotion gave it the natural title cynthia monobiblos. the monobiblos must have attracted the attention of maecenas, a patron of the arts who took propertius into his circle of court poets. a second, larger book of elegies was published perhaps a year later, one that includes poems addressed directly to his patron and (as expected) praises for augustus. the th century classics scholar karl lachmann argued, based on the unusually large number of poems in this book and propertius' mention of tres libelli,[ ] that the single book ii actually comprises two separate books of poetry conflated in the manuscript tradition, an idea supported by the state of the manuscript tradition of "book ii." an editor of propertius, paul fedeli, accepts this hypothesis, as does g.p. goold, editor of the loeb edition. the publication of a third book came sometime after bc.[ ] its content shows the poet beginning to move beyond simple love themes, as some poems (e.g. iii. ) use amor merely as a starting point for other topics. the book also shows the poet growing tired of the demanding yet fickle cynthia,[ ] and implies a bitter end to their torrid love affair. book iv, published sometime after bc, displays more of the poet's ambitious agenda, and includes several aetiological poems explaining the origin of various roman rites and landmarks. book iv, the last propertius wrote, has only half the number of poems as book i. given the change in direction apparent in his poetry, scholars assume only his death a short time after publication prevented him from further exploration; the collection may in fact have been published posthumously. it is also possible that propertius had children, either with cynthia or a later liaison.[ ] an elegy of ovid dated to bc makes it clear that propertius was dead by this time. poetry[edit] propertius' fame rests on his four books of elegies, totaling around poems (the exact number cannot be known as over the intervening years, scholars have divided and regrouped the poems, creating doubt as to the precise number). all his poems are written using the elegiac couplet, a form in vogue among the roman social set during the late st century bc. like the work of nearly all the elegists, propertius' work is dominated by the figure of a single woman, one he refers to throughout his poetry by the pseudonym cynthia. she is named in over half the elegies of the first book and appears indirectly in several others, right from the first word of the first poem in the monobiblos: 	 cynthia prima suis miserum me cepit ocellis, contactum nullis ante cupidinibus. 	 cynthia first captivated wretched me with her eyes, i who had never before been touched by cupid. 	—(i. . - ) 	 apuleius[ ] identifies her as a woman named hostia, and propertius suggests[ ] she is a descendant of the roman poet hostius. scholars guess that she was probably a courtesan. propertius frequently compliments her as docta puella 'learned girl',[ ] and, like sulpicia, she herself was a writer of verse.[ ] their affair veers wildly between emotional extremes, and as a lover she clearly dominates his life at least through the publication of the third book: 	 cuncta tuus sepelivit amor, nec femina post te ulla dedit collo dulcia vincla meo. 	 thy love has buried all others, nor has any woman after thee put sweet fetters upon my neck. 	—(iii. . - ) 	 it is difficult to precisely date many of propertius' poems, but they chronicle the kind of declarations, passions, jealousies, quarrels, and lamentations that were commonplace subjects among the latin elegists. the last two poems in book iii seem to indicate a final break with her (versibus insignem te pudet esse meis - "it is a shame that my verses have made you famous"[ ]), and cynthia died some time before the publication of the final book iv. in this last book cynthia is the subject of only two poems, best regarded as a postscript. the bi-polar complexity of the relationship is amply demonstrated in a poignant, if amusing, poem from the final book. cynthia's ghost addresses propertius from beyond the grave with criticism (among other things) that her funeral was not lavish enough, yet the longing of the poet remains in the final line inter complexus excidit umbra meos. - "her shade then slipped away from my embrace."[ ] book iv strongly indicates propertius was planning a new direction for his poetry. the book includes several aetiological poems which, in reviewing the mythological origins of rome and its landmarks, can also be read as critical—even vaguely subversive—of augustus and his agenda for the new rome. the position is currently a subject of debate among modern classicists.[ ] the final poem[ ] is a touching address by the recently deceased cornelia consoling her husband lucius aemilius lepidus paullus and their three children. although the poem (given cornelia's connection to augustus' family) was most likely an imperial commission, its dignity, nobility, and pathos have led critics to call it the "queen of the elegies", and it is commonly considered the best in the collection. propertius' style is marked by seemingly abrupt transitions (in the manner of latin neoteric poetry) and a high and imaginative allusion, often to the more obscure passages of greek and roman myth and legend. his idiosyncratic use of language, together with the corrupted state of the text, have made his elegies a challenge to edit; among the more famous names who have offered criticism of and emendations to the text have been the classicist john percival postgate and the english classicist and poet a. e. housman. textual problems[edit] the text contains many syntactic, organizational and logical problems as it has survived. some of these are no doubt exacerbated by propertius' bold and occasionally unconventional use of latin. others have led scholars to alter and sometimes rearrange the text as preserved in the manuscripts. a total of propertius manuscripts survive, the oldest of which dates from the th century. however, some of the poems in these manuscripts appear disjointed, such as i. , which begins as a plea for cynthia to abandon a planned sea voyage, then closes with sudden joy that the voyage has been called off. this poem has therefore been split by most scholars into a i. a (comprising the first lines) and i. b (lines - ). more complicated organizational problems are presented by poems like ii. , a confusing piece in which propertius first ( ) dreams of cynthia being shipwrecked, and then ( ) praises cynthia's faithfulness. following this, he ( ) declares that she plans to sail and he will come along, ( ) shifts to the couple together on the shore, and then ( ) quickly has them back on-board ship, ready to face the potential dangers of the sea. the images seem to conflict logically and chronologically, and have led different commentators to rearrange the lines or assume some lacuna in the text. more modern critics[ ] have pointed out that all the proposed rearrangements assume propertius' original poetry adhered strictly to the classical literary principles as set down by aristotle, and so the apparent jumble is a result of manuscript corruptions. another possibility is that propertius was deliberately presenting disjointed images in violation of principles such as the classical unities, a theory which argues for different unifying structures in propertius' elegies. this interpretation also implies that propertius' style represented a mild reaction against the orthodoxy of classical literary theory. however, although these theories may have some bearing on issues of continuity in the other three surviving books of propertius, modern philological scholarship tends toward a consensus that the extant text "book two" in fact represents the conflated remains of what were originally two books of poems. influence[edit] propertius himself says he was popular and even scandalous in his own day.[ ] horace, however, says that he would have to "endure much" and "stop up his ears" if he had to listen to "callimachus...to please the sensitive stock of poets";[ ] postgate and others see this as a veiled attack on propertius, who considered himself the roman heir to callimachus.[ ] this judgement also seems to be upheld by quintilian, who ranks the elegies of tibullus higher and is somewhat dismissive of the poet, but propertius' popularity is attested by the presence of his verses in the graffiti preserved at pompeii. propertius fell into obscurity in the middle ages, but was rediscovered during the italian renaissance along with the other elegists. petrarch's love sonnets certainly show the influence of his writing, and aeneas silvius (the future pope pius ii) titled a collection of his youthful elegies "cinthia". there are also a set of "propertian elegies" attributed to the english writer ben jonson, though the authorship of these is disputed. johann wolfgang von goethe's collection of "elegies" also shows some familiarity with propertius' poetry. propertius is the lyrical protagonist of joseph brodsky's poem "anno domini" ( ), originally written in russian. his relationship with cynthia is also addressed in robert lowell's poem, "the ghost. after sextus propertius", which is a free translation of propertius' elegy iv . modern assessment[edit] in the th century ezra pound's poem "homage to sextus propertius" cast propertius as something of a satirist and political dissident,[ ] and his translation/interpretation of the elegies presented them as ancient examples of pound's own imagist theory of art. pound identified in propertius an example of what he called (in "how to read") 'logopoeia', "the dance of the intellect among words." gilbert highet, in poets in a landscape, attributed this to propertius' use of mythic allusions and circumlocution, which pound mimics to more comic effect in his homage. the imagist interpretation, the poet's tendency to sustain an interior monologue, and the deeply personal nature of his poetry have made propertius a favorite in the modern age. three modern english translations of his work have appeared since ,[ ] and the playwright tom stoppard suggests in his best-known work the invention of love that the poet was responsible for much of what the west regards today as "romantic love". the most recent translation appeared in september from carcanet press, and was a poetry book society autumn recommended translation. the collection entitled poems is edited by patrick worsnip with a foreword by peter heslin. latin editions[edit] 	emil baehrens, bibliotheca teubneriana, 	john percival postgate, cambridge, 	e.a. barber, oxford classical text, ( nd ed., ) 	w.a. camps, book , cambridge, 	l. richardson, jr., lawrence, okla., 	rudolf hanslik, bibliotheca teubneriana, 	paolo fedeli, bibliotheca teubneriana, 	paolo fedeli, book , bari, 	g.p. goold, loeb classical library, 	robert j. baker, book , warminster, 	paolo fedeli, book , cambridge, 	giancarlo giardina, rome, 	simone viarre, collection budé, 	gregory hutchinson, book , cambridge, 	s. j. heyworth, oxford classical text, notes[edit] 	^ john lemprière's classical dictionary 	^ thorsen, thea s. ( ). the cambridge companion to latin love elegy. cambridge university press. p.  . isbn  - . 	^ tarrant, richard ( ). texts, editors, and readers: methods and problems in latin textual criticism. cambridge university press. isbn  - . 	^ fain, gordon l. ( ). ancient greek epigrams: major poets in verse translation. university of california press. p.  . isbn  - . 	^ vita vergiliana, v 	^ e.g. i. . - ; iv. . - and - ; unless otherwise noted numerical references refer to propertius' collections 	^ http://www.keytoumbria.com/assisi/roman_monuments.html 	^ iv. . 	^ e.g. tristia iv. . - 	^ iv. . 	^ e.g. i. . , . , . , and . 	^ iii. . 	^ cf. ii. . 	^ ii. . 	^ see iii. , a poem which mentions the death of marcellus in bc 	^ see e.g. iii. and iii. 	^ cf. pliny epistles vi. , where pliny says a roman knight passennus paulus scribit elegos ... atque etiam inter maiores suos propertium numerat. (writes elegies ... and even numbers among his ancestors propertius); though this may be nothing more than a tall tale 	^ apologia, ch. x 	^ iii. . 	^ i. . ; ii. . ; ii. . 	^ i. . - : cum tibi praesertim phoebus sua carmina donet/aoniamque libens calliopea lyram - "while apollo grants you above all his power of song, and calliope willingly an aonian lyre" 	^ iii. . 	^ iv. . 	^ micaela janan, the politics of desire: propertius iv (berkeley: university of california press, ), p.  . isbn  - - - 	^ iv. 	^ e.g. d. thomas benediktson - "propertius: modernist poet of antiquity", southern illinois university press ( ) 	^ ii. a. - 	^ for his complete criticism, v. epistles ii. . - 	^ cf. e.g. iii. . - 	^ slavitt, p. 	^ slavitt's translation appeared in , katz's translation was a winner of the national translation award, american literary translators association. references[edit] 	propertius, the poems (oxford world's classics) - see especially lyne's introduction 	david slavitt, propertius in love: the elegies university of cal. press ( ) 	vincent katz, the complete elegies of sextus propertius princeton university press ( ) 	d.feeney, literature and religion at rome: cultures, contexts, and beliefs 	m.beard, j. north & s.price, religions of rome 	j.north, 'religion and politics: from republic to principate' in journal of roman studies 	j.hallett, 'queens, princeps and women of the augustan elite: propertius' cornelia elegy and the res gestae divi augusti' in r. winkes (ed.) 'the age of augustus' 	max turiel, propertivs: algunas elegías y variaciones, spanish edition, ( ediciones rie, ), isbn  - - - - . 	syndikus, h. p. . die elegien des properz: eine interpretation. darmstadt: wbg, wissenschaftliche buchgesellschaft. 	robert karacsony, properzens vertumnus-elegie ( , ) und das dichtungsprogramm des vierten buches. ein intertextueller kommentar. hamburger studien zu gesellschaften und kulturen der vormoderne. band . . isbn  - - - - further reading[edit] 	breed, b. ( ). "propertius on not writing about civil wars." in citizens of discord: rome and its civil wars. oxford: oxford university press. 	debrohun, j. b. ( ). roman propertius and the reinvention of elegy. ann arbor: university of michigan press. 	hubbard, m. ( ). propertius. bristol: bristol classical press. 	janan, m. ( ). the politics of desire: propertius iv. berkeley: university of california press. 	lindheim, s. ( ). "what's love got to do with it?: mapping cynthia in propertius' paired elegies . a-b and . - ." the american journal of philology, . : - . 	maltby, r. ( ). "major themes and motifs in propertius’s love poetry." in brill’s companion to propertius. edited by h. c. günther, – . leiden: brill. 	newman, j. k. ( ). augustan propertius: the recapitulation of a genre. spudasmata . hildesheim: g. olms. 	racette-campbell, m. ( ). "marriage contracts, fides, and gender roles in propertius . ." the classical journal, . : - . 	syndikus, h. p. ( ). die elegien des properz: eine interpretation. darmstadt: wbg, wissenschaftliche buchgesellschaft. 	welch, t. s. ( ). the elegiac cityscape. propertius and the meaning of roman monuments. columbus, oh: the ohio state university press. 	worsnip, p. 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magistrates 	 precedent and law 	 	roman law 	ius 	imperium 	mos maiorum 	collegiality 	auctoritas 	roman citizenship 	cursus honorum 	senatus consultum 	senatus consultum ultimum 	 assemblies 	 	centuriate 	curiate 	plebeian 	tribal 	 ordinary magistrates 	 	consul 	praetor 	quaestor 	promagistrate 	aedile 	tribune 	censor 	governor 	 extraordinary magistrates 	 	corrector 	dictator 	magister equitum 	consular tribune 	rex 	triumviri 	decemviri 	 titles and honours 	 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	praeses 	praefectus 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 	 	other countries 		v 	t 	e in ancient rome a promagistrate (latin: pro magistratu) was an ex-consul or ex-praetor whose imperium (the power to command an army) was extended at the end of his annual term of office or later. they were called proconsuls and propraetors. this was an innovation created during the roman republic. initially it was intended to provide additional military commanders to support the armies of the consuls (the two annually elected heads of the republic and its army) or to lead an additional army. with the acquisitions of territories outside italy which were annexed as provinces, proconsuls and propraetors became provincial governors or administrators. a third type of promagistrate were the proquaestors. contents 	 history 	 . rd century bc 	 . st century bc 	 quaestors 	 praefecti 	 non-roman usage 	 usage in the roman catholic church 	 see also 	 notes history[edit] the first type of promagistrate was the proconsul. in the early days of the roman republic, when roman territory was small, rome had only two legions, each commanded by one of the two consuls. rome was continually under attack by neighboring peoples (the etruscans in the north, the sabines in the east and the volsci and aequi in the south). dionysius of halicarnassus recorded five instances when a proconsul was appointed between bc and bc. in bc a proconsul led the left wing of an army which combined the two consular legions while the consuls led the centre and the other wing. in bc two proconsuls are mentioned. one served under the consul who went to fight the etruscans in the north. another one commanded a third legion. an extra legion was deployed so that two enemies in the south (the volsci and aequi) could be confronted individually with two armies. in bc a proconsul led an irregular force of volunteers and reservists to support a consul whose army was insufficient to match the combined forces of two enemies. dionysius did not specify the role of the proconsuls on the other occasion. dionysius described these men as 'legates and proconsuls,' which implied proconsular imperium was directly delegated by the incumbent consul and that the proconsul acted as a sort of deputy of the consul in the military action.[ ] it was a temporary measure adopted to deal with an immediate military emergency. in the last of the mentioned occasions, the proconsul was appointed by a decree of the senate and livy noted that this "form of a decree has ever been deemed to be one of extreme exigency."[ ] it seems that in these instances an extra commander was drawn from men who had previously been consuls because they had prior experience of commanding an army. the concept of promagistracy originally involved the notion of the promagistrate acting on behalf of a magistrate: pro consule (on behalf of the consul), pro preaetore (on behalf of the praetor). however, in practice this changed when there was a more regular need to create additional military commanders. in bc the office of the praetor was created. this was the city's chief justice. he also had the power to command an army. during the second samnite war ( – bc) rome increased the number of its legions. several proconsuls were appointed to conduct specific operations. proconsular imperium became an extension (prorogatio) of the imperium of a consul. during the third samnite war ( – bc) the propraetors were also created. these were praetors whose imperium was extended and who were given the task of commanding reserve armies. prorogatio was the extension of imperium beyond the one-year term of the consul or praetor. it was a dispensation from the limit of the existing term of office which applied only outside the city walls of rome. it did not have effect within the city walls. therefore, it was an exertion of the military command of the consul or praetor, but not of his public office. it was an exclusively military measure. rd century bc[edit] as rome acquired territories beyond italy which she annexed as provinces there was a need to send governors there. in bc, after the annexation of the first two roman provinces, (sicilia in bc and corsica et sardinia in bc), two praetors were added to the two praetors who acted as chief justices in the city of rome and were assigned the administration of these two provinces. two more praetors were added when the provinces of hispania citerior and hispania ulterior were created in bc. after this no new praetors were added even though the number of provinces increased. the romans began to extend the imperium of the consuls and the praetors in rome at the end of their annual term. the provinces were assigned by lot to the proconsuls and propraetors. the proconsuls were given the provinces which required a larger number of troops.[ ] a promagistrate held equal formal status to the equivalent magistrate and was attended by the same number of lictors. st century bc[edit] in bc lucius cornelius sulla added two new praetors so that two proconsuls and six propraetors could be created to govern the ten provinces rome had acquired by then. the praetors who had previously governed the first four provinces were reassigned to judicial affairs in rome as the judicial load in the city had increased. sulla made the governorships annual and required the holder to leave the province within thirty days after the arrival of his successor.[ ] in bc pompey introduced a law which provided that the promagitracies were to be assigned five years after the term of office of the consuls and praetors. julius caesar repealed it.[ ] pompey's provision was re-enacted by augustus.[ ] the concept of delegated authority was sometimes used to confer proconsular imperium on someone who had never held consular power before. during the second punic war ( – bc) publius cornelius scipio africanus volunteered to lead the second roman expedition against the carthaginians in hispania. he was too young to have been a consul. therefore, proconsular imperium was bestowed on him by a vote of the people. this was an extraordinary measure, but it set a precedent. when scipio left hispania after his victory in bc, lucius cornelius lentulus and lucius manlius acidinus were sent there with proconsular power "without magistracy" ("sine magistratus", without holding public office). neither of them had been a consul before. therefore, they were sent to hispania without having held consular public office, but they were given proconsular power so that they could command armies there. this was a constitutional oddity. it gave the roman territory in hispania a somewhat unofficial status.[ ] this situation continued until bc when it was decided to create two new provinces: hispania citerior and hispania ulterior (they were instituted in bc). in bc pompey the great was sent to hispania to support quintus caecilius metellus pius to fight against quintus sertorius in the sertorian war ( – bc). for this purpose the senate gave him proconsular imperium even through he had never been a consul.[ ] the term provincia referred to a field of responsibility, rather than a geographical administrative area. for example, the judicial responsibility of the urban praetor, who was a chief justice, was called provincia. the term often applied to military responsibility and was used to refer to the areas of military responsibility assigned to the consuls to deal with rebellions or threats of invasions; in other words, the area where imperium was exercised. it was in the late republic that the term provincia also referred to an administrative area outside italy. when provinces in the modern sense of the word were established, they were originally the areas where the promagistrates exercised their military power. these governors performed judicial roles in arbitrating disputes between romans and locals and between the local themselves. they gave the final pronouncements in cases where the laws of the locals did not apply or when there was an appeal. the foundation of this was the governor's ability to enforce his rulings through his military power.[ ] in theory, the senate was meant to supervise the governors, but the distance of many provinces from rome made this impracticable. like the magistrates, the promagistrates were accountable for their actions while in office and liable to prosecution after their term of office was over. however, prosecution would occur post facto and there was a reluctance to convict members of the elites. impunity was the general rule. alternatively, the defendants could go into self-imposed exile in other cities to escape punishment. in bc envoys from the provinces of hispania citerior and hispania ulterior presented complaints about extortion against three former propraetors in the two provinces. they were put on trial. the trial of one of them was adjourned twice and on the third session he was acquitted. the other two cases were also adjourned and the other two men went into exile outside roman territory before the new trial. one of the charges was unjust valuation of grain received as tribute. the senate decreed that no roman official was to be allowed to set the price of grain or force the locals to sell the levied % quota at the price he wished. the senate appointed the recuperatores (recuperators) to investigate extortion and maladministration by the propraetors and to recover damages for provincial plaintiffs.[ ] in bc the calpurnian law established the standing court of recovery of property (quaestio de pecuniis repetundis) which was instituted to deal with cases of extortion.[ ] the lex de rebus repetundis passed by gaius gracchus in bc transferred the judges of these courts from the senatorial order (from which the promagistrates were drawn) to the equestrian order. this was the main means by which the provincials could prosecute former governors. if an ex governor was found guilty, he would have to restore twice the value of what he had misappropriated and face disgrace. however, such persecutions were to be undertaken in rome and it was expensive for provincials to travel there and stay there. moreover, there still was the possibility of the accused leaving rome to escape prosecution. verres, who had been governor in sicily between and bc, was prosecuted by cicero when he returned to rome for maladministration, fraud and extortion. when he realised that he stood no chance of acquittal, he fled to marseilles, where he lived off the money he misappropriated in sicily.[ ] quaestors[edit] the quaestors also served in a provincial administration. when a quaestor died in his province, the governors appointed a proquaestor in his stead.[ ] in rome the quaestors were the treasurers. in the provinces they were in charge of the finances of the province. originally there were only two quaestors who supervised the aerarium in rome. in bc their number was doubled. from then on when the consuls undertook a military campaign they were accompanied by one quaestor each. the quaestors who remained in rome came to be called quaestores urbani. initially the role of these travelling quaestors was to oversee the sale of the war booty, part of which was given to the troops and part of which was given to the aerarium.[ ] later they kept the treasury's fund from the army and gave the soldiers their pay.[ ] in bc the number of quaestors was increased to eight.[ ] one quaestor became the quaestor ostiensis. he was based at ostia, rome's port, and was in charge of the grain provisions for the city. three other quaestors were sent to towns in italy to raise those parts of the revenue which were not farmed by the publicani (see below) and to control them. two were sent to sicily.[ ] lucius cornelius sulla increased their number to twenty and julius caesar to forty.[ ][ ] the quaestors who were seconded to the proconsuls or propraetors in the provinces most probably performed the same functions as those who accompanied the consuls on their campaigns. an important part of their role was paying the soldiers and procuring provisions for the army. like the quaestors in italian cities, they also levied those parts of the public revenue in the province which were not farmed by the publicani controlled them. they had to send the raised revenues and their account to the aerarium. when the governor was absent from the province the quaestor took his place in an acting capacity and was then attended by lictors.[ ] the quaestor in the provinces also performed the duties of the curule aedile.[ ] the relationship between governor and quaestor was according to ancient custom regarded as resembling that between a father and his son. sicily, the first roman province, had two quaestors owing to the presence of carthaginian and greek territories when it was annexed. one was based in syracuse and one in lilybaeum.[ ] in the period of rule by emperors the quaestors continued to serve in the senatorial provinces. in the imperial provinces they were replaced by the procuratores augusti (see below). in bc, when augustus established rule by emperors, the provinces of the roman empire were divided into imperial provinces and senatorial provinces. augustus professed that the senate would keep the finest portion of the empire while he would take on the hardship and danger of defending precarious provinces which were vulnerable to internal rebellions or to external attacks (in the case of provinces along the borders of the empire). in reality he kept the provinces where the bulk of the legions were stationed and left the senators provinces which would be unarmed and unprepared for battle. among the senatorial provinces, asia and africa were assigned to ex-consuls, and the others to ex-praetors. it was established that only this class of senators could pronounce a death sentence. the propraetors chose their provincial assessors from their peers or from their inferiors. the proconsuls chose three assessors form those of equal rank, subject to the emperor's approval. in the imperial provinces which had more than one legion, the governors, the legati augusti pro praetore, were lieutenants of the emperor appointed by him and were usually propraetors, although sometimes they were ex-quaestors or men who had held other offices below the praetorship.[ ] with the propraetors in the imperial provinces being subordinates of the emperor, the latter could exercise better control over the administration of their governors. many of the letters written by pliny the younger have survived. book of this collection contains the correspondence he had with the emperor trajan during his governorship in bithynia et pontus in – . in these letters pliny informed the emperor about affairs in his province and often asked for instructions on specific matters. trajan provided them in his replies.[ ] during the period of the roman republic tax collection was tendered to private companies owned by the publicani (singular publicanus). these extracted money form the provincials unscrupulously to line their pockets. livy wrote: "wherever there is a publicanus either public law is disregarded or the liberty of the allies is reduced to nothing." [ ] julius caesar abolished this system of tax collection and restored the custom of assigning this task to the cities in the provinces. augustus handed this task to his own officials. in the imperial provinces the quaestors were replaced by the procuratores augusti (imperial procurators) as the chief financial officers, who took direct charge of financial matters, including tax collection. these financial procurators were appointed by the emperor and were the agents of the emperor. the term procurator originally applied to agents, especially those who went away for rome for some time on state business. they were direct subordinates of the emperor and therefore worked independently from the governors. they were responsible for the collection of rent in the imperial estates (augustus has acquired large amounts of land from previous local rulers and potentates), tax collection, the supervision of mines and from paying civil servants and the soldiers. thus, the financial system operated as an independent executive system. good collaboration between legati augusti pro praetore and procurators was advisable as the latter were the paymasters to the army. the building of fortifications was also supervised by the procurators. they belonged to the equestrian order or were freedmen who had been imperial slaves and thus they were not connected with the senatorial order. with the procurators the emperors gained direct control over finances in the imperial province. these men were also a source of independent information for the emperor. there were also procurators in the senatorial provinces to supervise the imperial estates in those provinces as well.[ ][ ] tacitus wrote that augustus conferred judicial power to the equestrian governors of the province of egypt and that later a large number of judicial cases which had been presided over by the praetors both in rome and in the other provinces were similarly transferred. the emperor claudius (reigned – ) remarked that the judgement of his procurators ought to have the same validity as the rulings of the emperor and handed the judicial power over to them in full.[ ] in this manner the emperor gained direct control over judicial matters via their procuratorial agents in rome. the role of the praetors in rome was reduced to organising public games. with regard to the provinces, tacitus did not specify whether this applied to both imperial and senatorial provinces. he did not use the term propraetor either. given that in the senatorial provinces the role of the procurators was restricted to supervising the imperial estates, it is unlikely that they took on judicial roles there. the mentioned correspondence between pliny the younger and trajan, who reigned later ( – ), indicates that the governor of bithynia et pontus, a senatorial province, did preside over judicial cases. in ad constantius ii (the son of constantine the great) tried to revive the old judicial role of the praetors in constantinople by assigning cases regarding guardianship, the emancipation of sons from the legal authority of their fathers (patria potestas) and the manumission of slaves to them.[ ] praefecti[edit] 		this section needs expansion. you can help by adding to it. (october ) procurators were also appointed as governors of small provinces. under augustus and tiberius they were called praefecti (singular praefectus).[ ] non-roman usage[edit] the power of a promagistrate in the roman provinces has led to the term proconsul being used to designate any high-ranking and authoritative official appointed from above (or from without) to govern a territory without regard for local political institutions (i.e., one who is not elected and whose authority supersedes that of local officials). one of the most prominent examples of this is douglas macarthur, who was given vast powers to implement reform and recovery efforts in japan after world war ii, and has been described occasionally as "the american proconsul of japan". usage in the roman catholic church[edit] it was formerly the rule that the heads of all curial congregations must be cardinals, and until the later th century they were titled pro-prefects until they were raised to that dignity. on their appointment, nuncios are also appointed bishops. in the time of pope pius xii, some priests were appointed nuncios without being raised to the status of bishop. they were not called "pro-nuncios", a title that historically was given to nuncios from the moment their appointment as cardinals was announced until their departure for rome, and that was revived for some twenty years (ending in ) as a distinct title for nuncios accredited to those countries that did not follow the tradition of considering the nuncio as dean of the diplomatic corps from the moment he presented his credentials. see also[edit] 	constitution of the roman republic notes[edit] 	^ dionysius of halicarnassus, roman antiquities, . . , . , . .- , . 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	 princeps senatus - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	princeps senatus 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 			ancient rome 	 	this article is part of a series on the politics and government of ancient rome 	 periods 	 	roman kingdom – bc 	roman republic – bc 	roman empire bc – ad 	principate bc – ad 	dominate ad – 	western ad – 	eastern ad – 	timeline 	 roman constitution 	 	constitution of the kingdom 	constitution of the republic 	constitution of the empire 	constitution of the late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	executive magistrates 	 precedent and law 	 	roman law 	ius 	imperium 	mos maiorum 	collegiality 	auctoritas 	roman citizenship 	cursus honorum 	senatus consultum 	senatus consultum ultimum 	 assemblies 	 	centuriate 	curiate 	plebeian 	tribal 	 ordinary magistrates 	 	consul 	praetor 	quaestor 	promagistrate 	aedile 	tribune 	censor 	governor 	 extraordinary magistrates 	 	corrector 	dictator 	magister equitum 	consular 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by his fellow senators. the office was established around the year bc.[ ] originally, the position of the princeps was one of honor: he had the privilege of speaking first on the topic presented by the presiding magistrate. this gave the position great dignitas as it allowed the princeps to set the tone of the debate in the senate. across the rd and nd centuries bc, the office gained the prerogatives of the presiding magistrates and additional privileges, namely: 	summoning and adjourning the senate; 	deciding its agenda; 	deciding where the session should take place; 	imposing order and other rules of the session; 	meeting, in the name of the senate, with embassies of foreign countries; and 	writing, in the name of the senate, letters and dispatches. by bc, it is believed that the status and function of the office was changed by the constitutional reforms of lucius cornelius sulla. although the term remained, reflecting the senator who was named first in the roll of the senate issued by the censors, the prerogatives of the office were restricted. in particular, the honor of speaking first on any topic debated in the senate, a measure of their political clout, was removed from them and transported to the consul designate.[ ] after the fall of the roman republic, the princeps senatus was the roman emperor, and during the period of the principate, no other individual is believed to have held the office (see also: princeps). however, in the emperor's absence, it is possible that a senator was granted the privilege of holding this role when the senate met; the notoriously unreliable historia augusta claimed that during the crisis of the third century, some others held the position; in particular, it stated that the future emperor valerian held the office in , during the reigns of maximinus thrax and gordian i, and he continued to hold it through to the reign of decius.[ ] the same source also makes the same claim about tacitus when the senate acclaimed him emperor in ad .[ ] list of known principes senatus[edit] 	manius valerius maximus.[ ] 	marcus fabius ambustus.[ ] 	c. / bc: quintus fabius maximus rullianus.[ ] 	c. / bc: gaius marcius rutilus censorinus?[ ] 	in or after bc: quintus fabius maximus gurges, son of rullianus[ ] 	c. / bc: gnaeus cornelius blasio?[ ] 	c. / bc: gaius duilius?[ ] 	c. bc: manius valerius maximus messalla?[ ] 	c. bc: aulus manlius torquatus atticus?[ ] 	by bc: marcus fabius buteo.[ ] 	 – bc: quintus fabius maximus verrucosus.[ ] 	 – / bc: publius cornelius scipio africanus.[ ] 	 / – bc: lucius valerius flaccus.[ ] 	 – / bc: marcus aemilius lepidus.[ ] 	 / – c. bc: position vacant. 	c. – bc: publius cornelius scipio nasica corculum.[ ] 	publius cornelius scipio nasica serapio?[ ] 	c. – bc?: appius claudius pulcher.[ ] 	 bc?: lucius cornelius lentulus lupus.[ ] 	c. bc: publius cornelius lentulus.[ ] 	 – c. bc: marcus aemilius scaurus.[ ] 	by bc: lucius valerius flaccus.[ ] 	c. bc: mamercus aemilius lepidus livianus.[ ] 	 - bc?: quintus lutatius catulus (capitolinus).[ ] 	 - bc:publius servilius vatia isauricus.[ ] 	 – bc: marcus tullius cicero. (not a patrician)[ ] 	 – bc: unknown. 	 bc – augustus, title cohered with that of roman emperor until beginning of the dominate. 	ad – : valerian. 	ad : pomponius bassus - described as "pomponius bassus, who then was the first man".[ ] 	ad : tacitus - the historia augusta states that tacitus was "the consular whose right it was to speak his opinion first".[ ] citations[edit] 	^ roberts, john ( ). "princeps senatus". oxford dictionary of the classical world. oxford reference. p.  . doi: . /acref/ . . . isbn  . 	^ ryan ( ), p. . 	^ broughton, t. robert s. ( ). the magistrates of the roman republic. ii. p.  . 	^ historia augusta, the three gordians, . ; the two valerians, . 	^ historia augusta, tacitus, . 	^ a b mommsen, willems, and suolahti. rejected by ryan ( ), p. . 	^ a b c d e f g h i j mommsen, willems, suolahti, and ryan. 	^ a b c d e ryan. 	^ said also to have succeeded his father as princeps senatus in bc. 	^ a b willems, suolahti, and ryan. 	^ a b willems. rejected by suolahti and ryan. 	^ mommsen. rejected by willems, suolahti, and ryan. 	^ broughton, pg. 	^ willems and ryan. rejected by suolahti. 	^ epitome de caesaribus, . 	^ historia augusta, tacitus, . references[edit] 	broughton, t. robert s., the magistrates of the roman republic, vol ii ( ). 	 mommsen, theodor ( ). römische forschungen. i. and mommsen, theodor ( ). "Über den princeps senatus". rhm. : – . 	 ryan, francis x. ( ). rank and participation in the republican senate. 	 suolahti, jaakko ( ). 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	 	 	prefect 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		magisterial title for other uses, see prefect (disambiguation). 	 	this article needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. find sources: "prefect" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · jstor (august ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) a french prefect prefect (from the latin praefectus, substantive adjectival[ ] form of praeficere: "put in front", i.e., in charge) is a magisterial title of varying definition, but essentially refers to the leader of an administrative area. a prefect's office, department, or area of control is called a prefecture, but in various post-roman empire cases there is a prefect without a prefecture or vice versa. the words "prefect" and "prefecture" are also used, more or less conventionally, to render analogous 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general's guard company in the field, then grew in importance as the praetorian guard became a potential kingmaker during the empire. from the emperor diocletian's tetrarchy (c. ) they became the administrators of the four praetorian prefectures, the government level above the (newly created) dioceses and (multiplied) provinces. police and civil prefects[edit] 	praefectus urbi, or praefectus urbanus: city prefect, in charge of the administration of rome. 	praefectus vigilum: commander of the vigiles (firemen and police). 	praefectus aerarii: nobles appointed guardians of the state treasury. 	praefectus aerarii militaris: prefect of the military treasury. 	praefectus annonae: official charged with the supervision of the grain supply to the city of rome. military prefects[edit] 	praefectus alae: commander of a cavalry unit. 	praefectus castrorum: camp commandant.[ ] 	praefectus cohortis: commander of a cohort (constituent unit of a legion, or analogous unit). 	praefectus classis: fleet commander.[ ] 	praefectus equitatus: cavalry commander. 	praefectus equitum: cavalry commander. 	praefectus fabrum: officer in charge of fabri, i.e. well-trained engineers and artisans.[ ] 	praefectus legionis: equestrian legionary commander.[ ] 	praefectus legionis agens vice legati: equestrian acting legionary commander. 	praefectus orae maritimae: official in charge with the control and defense of an important sector of sea coast.[ ] 	praefectus socium (sociorum): roman officer appointed to a command function in an ala sociorum (unit recruited among the socii, italic peoples of a privileged status within the empire). for some auxiliary troops, specific titles could even refer to their peoples: 	praefectus laetorum (germanic, notably in gaul) 	praefectus sarmatarum gentilium (from the steppes, notably in italy) prefects as provincial governors[edit] roman provinces were usually ruled by high-rank officials. less important provinces though were entrusted to prefects, military men who would otherwise only govern parts of larger provinces. the most famous example is pontius pilate, who governed judaea at a time when it was administered as an annex of syria. as egypt was a special imperial domain, a rich and strategic granary, where the emperor enjoyed an almost pharaonic position unlike any other province or diocese, its head was styled uniquely praefectus augustalis, indicating that he governed in the personal name of the emperor, the "augustus". septimius severus, after conquering mesopotamia, introduced the same system there too. after the mid- st century, as a result of the pax romana, the governorship was gradually shifted from the military prefects to civilian fiscal officials called procurators, egypt remaining the exception.[ ] religious prefects[edit] 	praefectus urbi: a prefect of the republican era who guarded the city during the annual sacrifice of the feriae latinae on mount alban in which the consuls participated. his former title was "custos urbi" ("guardian of the city").[ ] feudal times[edit] especially in medieval latin, præfectus was used to refer to various officers—administrative, military, judicial, etc.—usually alongside a more precise term in the vernacular (such as burggraf, which literally means count of the castle in the german language). ecclesiastical[edit] saint margaret attracts the attention of the roman prefect, by jean fouquet from an illuminated manuscript 	 	part of a series on the 	hierarchy of the catholic church 	saint peter 	 ecclesiastical titles (order of precedence) 	 	pope 	cardinal 	cardinal vicar 	moderator of the curia 	chaplain of his holiness 	papal legate 	papal majordomo 	apostolic nuncio 	apostolic delegate 	apostolic syndic 	apostolic visitor 	vicar apostolic 	apostolic exarch 	apostolic prefect 	assistant at the pontifical throne 	eparch 	metropolitan 	patriarch 	bishop 	archbishop 	bishop emeritus 	diocesan bishop 	major archbishop 	primate 	suffragan bishop 	titular bishop 	coadjutor 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prefect. for example, the president of the pontifical council for interreligious dialogue is also the prefect of the commission for religious relations with muslims. 	traditionally these curial officials are cardinals, hence often called "cardinal-prefect" or "cardinal-president". there was a custom that those who were not cardinals when they were appointed were titled "pro-prefect" or "pro-president". then these officials would be appointed prefect or president after their elevation to the sacred college. however, since , this custom has fallen into disuse.[citation needed] 	a prefect apostolic is a cleric (sometimes a titular bishop, but normally a priest) in charge of an apostolic prefecture, a type of roman catholic territorial jurisdiction fulfilling the functions of a diocese, usually in a missionary area or in a country that is anti-religious, such as the people's republic of china, but that is not yet given the status of regular diocese. it is usually destined to become one in time. academic[edit] 	in the context of schools, a prefect is a pupil who has been given certain responsibilities in the school, similar to the responsibilities given to a hall monitor or safety patrol members. 	in some british, irish and commonwealth schools (especially but not exclusively independent schools), prefects, usually students in fifth to seventh years (depending on how many years the school in question has), have considerable power; in some cases they effectively run the school outside the classroom. they were once allowed to administer school corporal punishment in some schools (now abolished in the uk and several other countries). they usually answer to a senior prefect known as the head of school (though in canada, head of school is more often seen as a gender-neutral term for headmaster or headmistress) or head prefect or head boy or head girl or senior prefect. larger schools may have a hierarchical structure with a team of prefects, a team of senior prefects, and a head boy and girl. the head prefect may also be the school captain if that is an appointed position in the school. however, due to health and safety laws the staff have tended to become stricter about what responsibilities prefects may hold, for fear of being held responsible in case of litigation.[citation needed] this system is also practised in hong kong, a former british colony. today, prefect roles in the u.k. are largely perfunctory and are mostly used to reward the better students in the year groups that qualify for prefect roles. duties tend to be limited to door monitoring during recess and representing the school at various extra-curricular events. 	in india, pakistan, sri lanka, singapore and malaysia, prefects are student leaders in primary and secondary schools, often along the lines of other commonwealth schools, but with superior powers. the prefect systems in these countries have changed little from when they were under the british, as the present governments have seen them as effective.[citation needed] 	in bangladesh, prefects are the leaders in army based educational institutions namely cadet colleges. 	in mexico, prefects (in spanish, prefecta/prefecto) is an adult head of a grade of a school, a us equivalent would be a dean. 	in sweden, a prefect (prefekt) is the head of a university department. 	in jesuit and other catholic schools this title was given formerly to members of the faculty, a prefect of discipline in charge of student attendance, general order and such, and a prefect of studies in charge of academic issues. many college preparatory boarding schools utilize the position of prefect as a high student leadership position. modern sub-national administration[edit] 	in albania a prefect (prefekti) is the state's representative in a region (qark). his agency is called the prefektura. albania has prefects in prefectures, appointed by the prime minister of albania and the government. 	in france the préfet (prefect) is a top ranking public servant who belongs to the so-called corps préfectoral. the function was created on february by napoléon bonaparte after his successful coup d'état of november which made him head of state with the title premier consul. the prefect's role at that time (until the reform of the function in the s) was to be the top representative of the central government as well as the chief administrator in a département (which can be compared to a county in most english-speaking nations) . his agency services as well as his circumscription (=territory in which he is in charge) are called préfecture. sub-prefects (sous-préfets, sous-préfecture) operate as assistants in the arrondissements (subdivisions of a département) under his authority and control. in the s, under the presidency of françois mitterrand ( – ), a fundamental change in the role of the prefect (and sub-prefect) took place. the previously extremely centralized french (fifth) republic was gradually decentralized by the creation of the regions and the devolution of central state powers towards the régions, départements and communes (municipalities). new elected authorities were created (e.g. the conseils régionaux) in order to administrate the subdivisional entities (collectivités territoriales) of the nation (law from march ). the changes have gradually altered the function of the prefect. he is still the supreme representative of the state in a département, but has lost his omnipotent function of chief administrator. instead, he has acquired the roles of chief controller (not a title) of regional, departemental and communal public accounts and of chief inspector (not a title) of good (i.e. law-abiding) governance of the authorities of the respective territorial entities.[ ] a préfet maritime is a french admiral (amiral) who is commissioned to be the chief commander of a zone maritime (i.e. a section of the french territorial waters and the respective shores). in paris, the préfet de police (prefect of police) is the head of the city's police under the direct authority of the ministre de l'intérieur (minister of the interior), which makes him unique as usually in french towns and cities the chief of the local police is subordinated to the maire (mayor), who is the local representative of the minister in police matters. 	 in italy, a prefect (prefetto) is a high-ranking public servant who belongs to the so-called corpo prefettizio and is the state's representative in a province. his office is called prefettura – ufficio territoriale del governo. the prefects have political responsibility and coordinate the local head of the state police (questore), who has technical responsibility, to enforce laws when public safety is threatened. similar offices already existed under various names before the italian unification ( ) (e.g., in the kingdom of two sicilies it was named "intendente"); in northern italy, it was imported from france during the napoleonic occupation ( ). its current form dates back to , when the government of bettino ricasoli extended the kingdom of sardinia's administrative system to the entire country. in the early years the job entailed a more vigorous and vigilant application of central state authority, by enforcing regulations and dispositions in the fields of education, public works, public health, and the nomination of mayors and provincial deputies. he also plays the role of intermediary between the government and municipalities and other local governments. 	in some spanish-speaking states in latin america, following a french-type model introduced in spain itself, prefects were installed as governors; remarkably, in some republics (like peru) two levels were constructed from the french model: a prefecture and a department, the one being only part of the other. 	in greece a prefect (nomarhis, νομάρχης) used to be the elected head of one of the prefectures (nomarhies, νομαρχίες), which were second-level administrative divisions, between the first-level peripheries (periferies, περιφέρειες) and the third-level municipalities (demoi, δήμοι), until their abolition with the kallikratis reform in . the prefectural elections (popular ballot) would be held every four years along with the municipal elections. the last prefectural elections in greece were held in october . 	in romania, a prefect (prefect) is the appointed governmental representative in a county (judeţ) and in the municipality of bucharest, in an agency called prefectură. the prefect's role is to represent the national government at local level, acting as a liaison and facilitating the implementation of national development plans and governing programmes at local level. 	in québec, a prefect (préfet) is the head of a regional county municipality. 	in brazil, a prefect (prefeito) is the elected head of the executive branch in a municipality. larger cities, such as são paulo, rio de janeiro, curitiba, etc., also have sub-prefects, appointed to their offices by the elected prefect. 	in georgia, the nation in the caucasus region, a prefect (პრეფექტი) was the head of the executive branch in a municipality, appointed by the president of georgia from to . 	in iran, a prefect (بخشدار) is responsible for the administration of a sector in iran's political and administrative system. police[edit] the prefect of police (préfet de police) is the officer in charge of co-ordinating police forces in paris (see above under "france"). the local police in japan are divided among prefectures too. see also[edit] 	pauly-wissowa 	praefectus palatii 	préfet references[edit] 	^ adam's latin grammar 	^ a b c d e berger, adolf ( ). encyclopedic dictionary of roman law. the lawbook exchange. p.  . isbn  - - - . 	^ "provincial governors (roman)". livius.org. jona lendering. retrieved - - . 	^ smith, william ( ). praefectus urbi - in a dictionary of greek and roman antiquities. london: john murray. pp.  – . retrieved july , . 	^ le petit larousse pp and external links[edit] 		look 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the last two, which form from a fourth to a third of the whole work, deal with syntax.[ ] priscian's grammar is based on the earlier works of herodian and apollonius. the examples it includes to illustrate the rules preserve numerous fragments from latin authors which would otherwise have been lost, including ennius, pacuvius, accius, lucilius, cato and varro. but the authors whom he quotes most frequently are virgil, and, next to him, terence, cicero, plautus; then lucan, horace, juvenal, sallust, statius, ovid, livy and persius.[ ] the grammar was quoted by several writers in britain of the th century - aldhelm, bede, alcuin - and was abridged or largely used in the next century by hrabanus maurus of fulda and servatus lupus of ferrières. about a thousand manuscripts exist, all ultimately derived from the copy made by theodorus. most copies contain only books i—xvi; these are sometimes known as the priscianus major ("greater priscian"). others contain only books xvii and xviii along with the three books to symmachus; these are known as his work on construction (de constructione) or the priscianus minor ("lesser priscian"). a few copies contain both parts. the earliest manuscripts are from the th century, though a few fragments are somewhat earlier.[ ] priscian's minor works include:[ ] 	three treatises dedicated to symmachus (the father-in-law of anicius manlius severinus boethius): on weights and measures; on the metres of terence; and the praeexercitamina, a translation into latin of greek rhetorical exercises from hermogenes. 	de nomine, pronomine, et verbo ("on noun, pronoun, and verb"), an abridgment of part of his institutes for teaching grammar in schools 	partitiones xii. versuum aeneidos principalium: another teaching aid, using question and answer to dissect the first lines of each of the twelve books of the aeneid. the metre is discussed first, each verse is scanned, and each word thoroughly and instructively examined. 	the poem on anastasius mentioned above, in hexameters with a short iambic introduction 	a translation in hexameters of the verse-form geographical survey by dionysius periegetes. legacy[edit] books xvii & xviii of the institutes, his work on construction, was part of the core curriculum of the university of paris in the th century and roger bacon's lectures for the class were the probable origin of his own overview of grammar, one of the first expositions on the idea of a universal grammar. dante places priscian in hell among sodomites.[ ] editions and translations[edit] editions 	prisciani caesariensis grammatici opera ... edited by augvst krehl. lipsiae: weidmann, - . 	prisciani institutionum grammaticalium librorum i-xvi, indices et concordantiae. curantibus cirilo garcia roman, marco a. gutierrez galindo. hildesheim, new york: olms-weidmann, , isbn  	prisciani institutionum grammaticalium librorum xvii et xviii, indices et concordantiae. curantibus cirilo garcia roman, marco a. gutierrez galindo, maria del carmen diaz de alda carlos. hildesheim, new york: olms-weidmann, . 	prisciani caesariensis opuscula. critical edition edited by marina passalacqua with commentary in italian. roma: edizioni di storia e letteratura, (vol. i: de figuris numerorum. de metris terentii. praeexercitamina; vol. ii: institutio de nomine et pronomine et verbo partitiones duodecim versuum aeneidos principalium) german translations 	schönberger, a. . priscians darstellung der lateinischen pronomina: lateinischer text und kommentierte deutsche Übersetzung des . und . buches der institutiones grammaticae, frankfurt am main: valentia. isbn  - - - - (books xii-xiii; first translation into a modern language.) 	schönberger, a. . priscians darstellung der lateinischen präpositionen: lateinischer text und kommentierte deutsche Übersetzung des . buches der institutiones grammaticae, frankfurt am main: valentia, , isbn  - - - - (book xiv; first translation into a modern language.) 	schönberger, a. . priscians darstellung der lateinischen konjunktionen: lateinischer text und kommentierte deutsche Übersetzung des . buches der institutiones grammaticae, frankfurt am main: valentia. isbn  - - - - (of book xvi; first translation into a modern language.) 	schönberger, a. . priscians darstellung der lateinischen syntax (i): lateinischer text und kommentierte deutsche Übersetzung des . buches der institutiones grammaticae, frankfurt am main: valentia. isbn  - - - - (book xvii = first book of the "priscianus minor"; first translation into a modern language.) 	schönberger, a. . priscians darstellung des silbisch gebundenen tonhöhenmorenakzents des lateinischen: lateinischer text und kommentierte deutsche Übersetzung des buches über den lateinischen akzent, frankfurt am main: valentia. isbn  - - - - (de accentibus; first translation into a modern language). 	schönberger, a. : zur lautlehre, prosodie und phonotaktik des lateinischen gemäß der beschreibung priscians. in: millennium. vol. , pp.  – . french translations 	priscien, grammaire. livre xiv - xv - xvi, paris: vrin . 	priscien, grammaire. livre xvii – syntaxe i, paris: vrin . notes[edit] 	^ keil, gr. lat. vii. 	^ jones , p.  . 	^ lejay . 	^ a b c d e chisholm , p.  . 	^ dante, inf., canto xv, l. . references[edit] 	jones, a.h.m. ( ), the later roman empire - : a social, economic, and administrative survey, ii, oxford: basil blackwell, p.  , isbn  	lejay, paul ( ), "priscianus" , in herbermann, charles (ed.), catholic encyclopedia, , new york: robert appleton company attribution 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ), "priscian", encyclopædia britannica, ( th ed.), cambridge university press, p.  further reading[edit] 	m. baratin, b. colombat, l. holtz, (eds). . priscien. transmission et refondation de la grammaire, de l'antiquité aux modernes, brepols publishers. isbn  - - - - . 	luhtala, anneli. . grammar and philosophy in late antiquity. a study of priscian's sources. john benjamins. series: studies in the history of the language sciences; . preview available at google books as of february . external links[edit] 	corpus grammaticorum latinorum: complete texts and full bibliography 	rhetores latini minores, carl halm (ed.), lipsiae in aedibus b. g. teubneri, , pp. - . 	authority control 	 	bibsys: 	bne: xx 	bnf: cb k (data) 	cinii: da 	gnd: 	isni: 	lccn: n 	nkc: jn 	nlg: 	nli: 	nlp: a 	nta: 	rero: -a 	selibr: 	sudoc: 	vcba: / 	viaf: 	 worldcat identities: lccn-n retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=priscian&oldid= " 		categories: 	ancient linguists 	grammarians of latin 	 th-century latin writers 	ancient roman rhetoricians 	quotation collectors 	 th-century byzantine writers hidden categories: 	articles containing latin-language text 	articles incorporating a citation from the catholic encyclopedia with wikisource reference 	wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the encyclopaedia britannica with wikisource reference 	wikipedia articles incorporating text from the encyclopædia britannica 	wikipedia articles with bibsys identifiers 	wikipedia articles with bne identifiers 	wikipedia articles with bnf identifiers 	wikipedia articles with cinii identifiers 	wikipedia articles with gnd identifiers 	wikipedia articles with isni identifiers 	wikipedia articles with lccn identifiers 	wikipedia articles with nkc identifiers 	wikipedia articles with nlg identifiers 	wikipedia articles with nli identifiers 	wikipedia articles with nlp identifiers 	wikipedia articles with nta identifiers 	wikipedia articles with rero identifiers 	wikipedia articles with selibr identifiers 	wikipedia articles with sudoc identifiers 	wikipedia articles with vcba identifiers 	wikipedia articles with viaf identifiers 	wikipedia articles with worldcatid identifiers 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			article 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	edit 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		search 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigation 	 	 			main page 	contents 	current events 	random article 	about wikipedia 	contact us 	donate 		 	 	 	 		contribute 	 	 			help 	learn to edit 	community portal 	recent changes 	upload file 		 	 	 		tools 	 	 			what links here 	related changes 	upload file 	special pages 	permanent link 	page information 	cite this page 	wikidata item 		 	 	 		print/export 	 	 			download as pdf 	printable version 		 	 	 		in other projects 	 	 			wikimedia commons 	wikisource 		 	 	 	 		languages 	 	 			asturianu 	Български 	català 	Čeština 	deutsch 	español 	esperanto 	français 	gaeilge 	galego 	hrvatski 	italiano 	latina 	magyar 	mirandés 	nederlands 	日本語 	polski 	português 	Русский 	slovenčina 	srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски 	svenska 	Українська 	中文 		edit links 	 		 this page was last edited on december , at :  (utc). 	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 pomponius porphyrion - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	pomponius porphyrion 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		  (redirected from pomponius porphyrio) 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		pomponius porphyrion (or porphyrio)[citation needed] was a latin grammarian and commentator on horace. contents 	 biography 	 works 	 editions 	 references 	 external links biography[edit] he was possibly a native of africa, and flourished during the nd century a.d. (according to some, much later). works[edit] his scholia on horace, which are still extant, mainly consist of rhetorical and grammatical explanations. we probably do not possess the original work, which must have suffered from alterations and interpolations at the hands of the copyists of the middle ages, but on the whole the scholia form a valuable aid to the student of horace. editions[edit] 	acronis et porphyrionis commentarii in q. horatium flaccum. edidit ferdinandus hauthal, vol. , vol. , berolini sumptibus julii springeri, . 	pomponii porhyrionis commentarii in q. horatium flaccum, recensuit gulielmus meyer spirensis, lipsiae in aedibus b. g. teubneri, . 	pomponi porfyrionis commentum in horatium flaccum, a. holder, ed., arno press, . see also c. f. urba, meletemata porphyrionea ( ). references[edit] 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). 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dactylic meters 	 . . dactylic hexameter 	 . . dactylic pentameter 	 . . . elegiac couplet 	 . . . first archilochian 	 . . dactylic tetrameter catalectic 	 . . . alcmanian strophe 	 . iambic meters 	 . . iambic trimeter and senarius 	 . . iambic dimeter 	 . . . iambic distich 	 . . . second archilochian 	 . . . third archilochian 	 . . . pythiambics 	 . . iambic tetrameter catalectic 	 . . choliambics 	 . hendecasyllables 	 post-classical poetry 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 bibliography latin verse: a greek gift[edit] a brief history[edit] the start of latin literature is usually dated to the first performance of a play by livius andronicus in rome in  bc.[ ] livius, a greek slave, translated greek new comedy for roman audiences. he not only established the genre fabula palliata, but also adapted meters from greek drama to meet the needs of latin. he set a precedent followed by all later writers of the genre, notably plautus and terence.[ ] the principles of scansion observed by plautus and terence (i.e. the rules for identifying short and long syllables, the basis of greek and latin meter) are mostly the same as for classical latin verses.[nb ] livius, a versatile author, also translated homer's odyssey into a rugged native meter known as saturnian, but it was his near contemporary, ennius ( –  bc), who introduced the traditional meter of greek epic, the dactylic hexameter, into latin literature. ennius employed a poetic diction and style well suited to the greek model, thus providing a foundation for later poets such as lucretius and virgil to build on.[ ] the late republic saw the emergence of neoteric poets. they were rich young men from the italian provinces, conscious of metropolitan sophistication. they, and especially catullus, looked to the scholarly alexandrian poet callimachus for inspiration.[ ] the alexandrians' preference for short poems influenced catullus to experiment with a variety of meters borrowed from greece, including aeolian forms such as hendecasyllabic verse, the sapphic stanza and greater asclepiad, as well as iambic verses such as the choliamb and the iambic tetrameter catalectic (a dialogue meter borrowed from old comedy).[ ] horace, whose career spanned both republic and empire, followed catullus' lead in employing greek lyrical forms, though he calls himself the first to bring aeolic verse to rome.[ ] he identified with, among others, sappho and alcaeus of mytilene, composing sapphic and alcaic stanzas, and with archilochus, composing poetic invectives in the iambus tradition (in which he adopted the metrical form of the epode or "iambic distich"). horace also wrote verses in dactylic hexameter, employing a conversational and epistolary style. virgil, his contemporary, composed dactylic hexameters on light and serious themes and his verses are generally regarded as "the supreme metrical system of latin literature".[ ] modern scholars have developed different theories about how latin prosody was influenced by these adaptations from greek models. two rhythms[edit] english meter is said to be stress timed: the regular alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables produces an "accentual rhythm." classical greek meter is said to be mora timed: the alternation of long and short syllables produces a "quantitative rhythm." classical latin meter obeyed rules of syllable length, like the greek, even though latin has a strong word accent like english. modern scholars have had differing opinions about how these different influences affect the way latin verse was sounded out. accentual rhythm in latin may have been observed in pre-classical verse (in saturnian meter) and in some medieval verse,[ ] but otherwise the rhythm of latin verse appears ambivalent and complex. latin, like english, was characterized by a stress accent, whereas ancient greek was characterized by a pitch accent. in english poetry, accent governs the stress-timed rhythm. in ancient greek poetry, on the other hand, pitch accent rose and fell independently of the mora timed rhythm, just as musical pitch is not governed by the duration of musical notes. some modern scholars have suggested that the stress accent in latin turned into a pitch accent under the greek influence and thus latin verse could have functioned in the melodic manner of greek verse,[ ] yet most scholars today reject such a theory as unrealistic.[ ] latin poets might instead have recited long and short syllables as if they were stressed and unstressed, or, more probably, they gave words their natural stress, so that the quantitative metrical pattern acted like an orderly undercurrent to natural speech.[ ] here, for example, is dactylic verse from virgil's georgics when the words are given their natural stress: 	quíd fáciat laétas ségetes, quó sídere térram, and here is the same verse when the metrical pattern is allowed to determine the stress: 	quíd faciát laetás segetés, quo sídere térram. possibly the rhythm was held in suspense until stress and meter happened to coincide (as in "sídere térram" above).[ ] english-speaking, as opposed to e.g. german-speaking, readers of latin tend to observe the natural word stress, an approach to latin verse that was also practised in ancient times (a th-century ad papyrus shows hexameter verse with accents recorded separately from the meter), yet there is also an ancient precedent for letting the meter produce an artificial stress accent.[ ] in the hands of a master poet such as vergil, however, the natural stress accent may be thought to function as a second rhythm, whose interplay with the quantitative rhythm can even be regarded as a source of unique aesthetic effects.[ ] prosody[edit] quantity[edit] generally a syllable in latin verse is long "by nature" when 	it has a long vowel or diphthong (scrī-bae) or 	it ends in two consonants or a compound consonant (dant, dux) and long "by position" when 	it ends in a consonant and is followed by a syllable that begins with a consonant (mul-tos; dat sonitum) or 	it is the final syllable in a line of verse i.e. brevis in longo. otherwise syllables are counted as short. syllables ending in a vowel are called open syllables, and those ending in a consonant are called closed syllables. only the nucleus and coda of the syllable are relevant for metrical purposes: the quantity of a syllable is not affected by consonants preceding the vowel. long syllables are sometimes called heavy and short ones light, using terminology borrowed from sanskrit. for the above rules to apply 	the digraphs ch, th, ph, representing single greek letters, count as one consonant; 	h at the beginning of a word is ignored; 	qu counts as one consonant; 	the consonants x [ks] and z [zz] count as two consonants; 	a plosive (p, b, t, d, c, g) plus a liquid (r, l) can count as either one consonant or two, at the poet's discretion. thus the first syllable of words like agrum or patris can be long (ag-rum, pat-ris) or short (a-grum, pa-tris). this choice is not permitted, as a rule, in compound words (e.g. ab-rumpo begins with a long syllable and will not be resyllabified *a-brumpo), nor is it available for all plosive-liquid combinations. 	if a final short open vowel stands before a plosive followed by a liquid in the same line, it remains short, save for some very rare occurrences such as virgil's "lappaeque tribolique", where the first -que is scanned as long. a short open final vowel may not stand before other double consonants, including x and z, in the same line, again with rare exceptions such as ovid's "alta zacynthus", where the short final a remains short. in the comedies of plautus and terence some other exceptions to these rules are found, most notably the phenomenon called brevis brevians (see metres of roman comedy#brevis brevians (iambic shortening)), in which a theoretically long syllable, if unstressed, can be shortened after a short one, e.g. vidēn hanc? ("do you see this woman?"), which is scanned u u –.[ ] another exception found in early poetry (including lucretius) is that a final -is or -us can sometimes count as short (as in omnibu(s) rēbu(s) profundant, lucretius . , scanned – u u – u u – –).[ ] feet[edit] verses were divided into "feet" by ancient grammarians and poets, such as ovid himself, who called the elegiac couplet "eleven-footed poetry" (amores . ). this practice is followed by traditionalists among modern scholars, especially, perhaps, those who compose latin verses. in foot-based analysis, the "metrically dominant" part of the foot is sometimes called the "rise" and the other is called the "fall," the greek terms for which are arsis and thesis. in greek, these terms were applied to the movement of human feet in dancing and/or marching, arsis signifying the lifting of a foot, and thesis its placement. in the greek scheme thesis was the dominant part of the meter, but the romans applied the terms to the voice rather than to the feet, so that arsis came to signify the lifting of the voice and thus the dominant part of the meter (william w. goodwin, greek grammar, macmillan education ( ), page ). this caused confusion, as some authors followed the greek custom and others the latin; thus these terms are no longer generally used. sometimes the dominant part of the foot, in either quantitative or stressed verse, is called the ictus. long and short syllables are marked (-) and (u) respectively. the main feet in latin are: 	iamb: short + long syllable (cărō) 	trochee: long + short (mēnsă) 	dactyl: long + shorts (lītŏră) 	anapaest: shorts + long (pătŭlaē) 	spondee: longs (fātō) 	tribrach: shorts (tĕmĕrĕ) according to the laws of quantity, long = shorts. thus a tribrach, iamb and trochee all equate to the same durations or morae: each of them comprises morae. similarly a dactyl, an anapaest and a spondee are quantitatively equal, each being morae. these equivalences allow for easy substitutions of one foot by another e.g. a spondee can be substituted for a dactyl. in certain circumstances, however, unequal substitutions are also permitted. it is often more convenient to consider iambics, trochaics and anapests in terms of metra rather than feet; for each of these families, a metron is two feet. thus the iambic metron is u-u-, the trochaic -u-u and the anapestic uu-uu-. cola: a different way to look at it[edit] the division into feet is a tradition that produces arbitrary metrical rules, because it does not follow the actual metrical structure of the verse (see for example the listed variations in the tables below). in particular, though a long syllable and two short ones have the same number of morae, they are not always interchangeable: some metres permit substitutions where others do not. thus a more straightforward analysis, favoured by recent scholarship, is by cola, considered to be the actual building blocks of the verse. a colon (from the greek for "limb") is a unit of (typically) to syllables that can be re-used in various metrical forms.[ ] standard cola include the hemiepes, the glyconic, and the lekythion. elision[edit] a vowel at the end of a word does not count as a syllable if the following word begins with a vowel or h: thus phyllida amo ante alias reads as phyllid' am' ant' alias. this is called elision. at the (rare) discretion of the poet, however, the vowel can be retained, and is said to be in hiatus. an example of this, in virgil's fémineó ululátú the "o" is not elided. a word ending in vowel + m is similarly elided (sometimes this is called ecthlipsis): thus nec durum in pectore ferrum reads as nec dur' in pectore ferrum.[ ] caesura[edit] the last syllable of a foot might or might not coincide with the ending of a word. a too frequent repetition of this coincidence apparently grated on the roman ear, as in the following example of a poorly composed dactylic hexameter, where each of the first four feet consists of a spondaic word (the feet are marked out by vertical lines): 	spārsīs | hāstīs | lōngīs| cāmpūs | splēndĕt ĕt | hōrrĕt.[ ] the ending of a word and foot together, as in this line, is termed diaeresis. to avoid such lines, caesuras, or "cuttings", were employed, a caesura being a place where a word ends within a foot, here marked ||. for convenience, in the following two examples from virgil the foot endings are marked -|- when they occur within words and | when they occur between words. 	tīty̆rĕ | tū || pătŭ-|-laē || rĕcŭ-|-bāns || sūb | tēgmĭnĕ | fāgī 	nōn om-|-nīs || ar-|-busta || iu-|-vant, || humi-|-lēsque || myr-|-īcae there are two kinds of caesura: 	strong caesura, when the caesura occurs after a long syllable; 	weak caesura, when the caesura occurs after a short syllable (none in the first line above, two in the second). meters[edit] the dividing of verse into long and short syllables and analysis of the metrical family or pattern is called 'scanning' or 'scansion.' the names of the metrical families come from the names of the cola or feet in use, such as iambic, trochaic, dactylic and anapaestic meters. sometimes meter is named after the subject matter (as in epic or heroic meter), sometimes after the musical instrument that accompanied the poetry (such as lyric meter, accompanied by the lyre), and sometimes according to the verse form (such as sapphic, alcaic and elegiac meter). guide to symbols used[edit] 	— for long syllable or long element 	u for short syllable or short element 	ῡ for brevis in longo 	| for end of foot 	‖ main caesura notes: 		words are hyphenated wherever they include the end of a foot e.g trō-iae below; 	long and short vowels are marked with - and u directly above them e.g. Ā, ă, ĭ, ī, ō, ŏ, ŭ, ū (these don't indicate syllable lengths) there are four basic families of verse: dactylic, iambic (and trochaic), aeolic, and anapestic. in the dactylic family short syllables come in pairs, and these pairs may be contracted (two short replaced by one long). in the iambic/trochaic family short syllables come one at a time, and some long elements may be resolved (one long replaced by two short). in the anapestic family short syllables come in pairs, and both contraction and resolution are allowed. in the aeolic family there are both paired and single short syllables, and neither contraction nor resolution is allowed. other important metres are hendecasyllabics and the asclepiads, and catullus composed important poetry in glyconics. there are individual wikipedia entries on various metres. a would-be composer in any metre, however, would need a more detailed knowledge than can be found here. dactylic meters[edit] the "dactyl," as a foot, is — u u; the name comes from the greek for "finger," because it looks like the three bones of a finger, going outward from the palm. the principal colon of dactylic verse is the "hemiepes" or "half-epic" colon, — u u — u u — (sometimes abbreviated d). the two short syllables (called a biceps element) may generally be contracted, but never in the second half of a pentameter, and only rarely in the fifth foot of a hexameter. the long syllable (the princeps element) may never be resolved. roman poets use two dactylic forms, the hexameter and the elegiac couplet. dactylic hexameter[edit] dactylic hexameter was used for the most serious latin verse. influenced by homer's greek epics, it was considered the best meter for weighty and important matters, and long narrative or discursive poems generally. thus it was used in ennius's annals, lucretius's on the nature of things, virgil's "aeneid" and ovid's "metamorphoses"; also in juvenal's caustic satires and horace's genial talks and letters. a dactylic hexameter consists of a hemiepes, a biceps, a second hemiepes, and a final long element, so duud—. this is conventionally re-analyzed into six "feet," all dactyls with the last one either catalectic or necessarily contracted. roman poets rarely contract the fifth foot.[nb ] since latin was richer in long syllables than was greek, contraction of biceps elements (producing the so-called spondee) was more common among roman poets. neoteric poets of the late republic, such as catullus, sometimes employed a spondee in the fifth foot, a practice greek poets generally avoided and which became rare among later roman poets.[ ] 			variations 	 st 	 nd 	 rd 	 th 	 th 	 th[nb ] 	dactyls 	— u u 	— u u 	— u u 	— u u 	— u u 	— — 	spondees 	— — 	— — 	— — 	— — 	 	 there will be a caesura in the third or fourth foot (or in both). if there is a weak caesura, or none, in the third foot, there will usually be a strong one in the fourth, as in these two examples from virgil: 	sī nescīs, meus ille caper fuit, et mihi dāmōn ... 	et nōbīs īdem alcimedōn duo pōcula fēcit ... but here is a line from virgil with only one caesura, a weak one: 	frangeret indēprēnsus et irremeābilis error. variations are common, and are used to avoid monotony. their absence would be a definite fault of versification. various positions for caesura (in the foot-based analysis) have traditional names: the caesura "in the third foot" is called penthemimeral, that in the fourth hephthemimeral, and that in the second trihemimeral. these names refer to the number of half-feet before the position of the caesura.[ ] dactylic hexameter often has a bucolic diaeresis (a diaeresis between the fourth and fifth feet of a line), as in the first of the following lines from the introduction to virgil's epic poem, the aeneid. - u u| - u u| -|| -| - -| - u u |- - Ărmă vĭ-rŭmquĕ că-nō, trō-iae quī prīmŭs ăb ōrīs - u u|- -| - || u u| - -| - u u| - - Ītălĭ-ǎm fā-tō prŏfŭ-gŭs lā-vīniăquĕ vēnĭt - u u | - - | - - | - || - | - u u |- - lītŏră, mŭlt(um) ĭl-l(e) ĕt tĕr-rīs iăc-tātŭs ĕt ăltō - u u| - || - | - u u| - -| - u u |- - vī sŭpĕ-rŭm, sae-vae mĕmŏ-rĕm iū-nōnĭs ŏb īrăm; there are two elisions in line and a bucolic diaeresis in line (quī | prīmus ). venit and iram at the ends of lines and count as spondees by brevis in longo, despite their naturally short second syllables. the 'i' in 'troiae' and 'iactatus', the first 'i' in 'iunonis' and the second 'i' in 'laviniaque' are all treated as consonants. bucolic diaeresis has this name because it is common in bucolic or pastoral verse. (nb, however, that this term is sometimes, or even usually, reserved for lines where the fourth foot is a dactyl, as in 	forte sub argūtā cōnsīdĕrăt īlice daphnis.) dactylic hexameters regularly end with a disyllabic or a trisyllabic word. exceptions tend to be greek words. dactylic pentameter[edit] the name "pentameter" comes from the fact that it consists of two separate parts, with a word-break between them, with each part, or hemiepes, having two and a half feet, summing to five (thus giving ovid his count of eleven feet in a couplet). the first hemiepes may have contraction, the second may not. by ovid's time there was a rule, with very few exceptions, that the last word should be of two syllables, and it was almost always a noun, verb, personal pronoun (mihi, tibi or sibi) or pronominal adjective (meus etc.). the last syllable would either be closed, or a long open vowel or a diphthong: very seldom an open short vowel. 			variations 	 st 	 nd 	½ 	 rd 	 th 	½ 	 	— u u 	— u u 	— 	— u u 	— u u 	— 	spondees 	— — 	— — 	 	 	 	 there is a strong danger of monotony in this rigid structure, which poets were able to alleviate, up to a point, by keeping the first half of a line out of conformity with the stricter rules governing the second half, and by varying as much as possible the word-pattern of the second half. elegiac couplet[edit] an elegiac couplet is a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic pentameter. the sense of the hexameter frequently runs into the pentameter, an effect known as enjambement, but a pentameter comparatively seldom runs on into a following hexameter. the pentameter came into latin usage later than the hexameter and therefore it was not always handled with rigour by catullus, compared for example with the later poets, especially ovid. catullus used elisions very freely, and sometimes he even allowed an elision to span the central diaeresis (e.g. carmina . ). the following is from one of his most famous elegies, mourning for a lost brother (carmina ).[ ] - - | - - | - ||- | - u u | - u u| - - mŭltās pĕr gĕn-tēs ĕt mŭltă pĕr aequŏră vĕctŭs - u u | - u u |- || - u u |- u u|- ădvĕnĭ(o) hās mĭsĕr-ās, frātĕr, ăd īnfĕrĭ-ās - -| - -| -||- |- - | - u u| - - ŭt tē pŏstrē-mō dōn-ārĕm mūnĕrĕ mŏrtĭs - -| - -| - || - u u| - u u| - ĕt mū-tăm nē-quīqu-(am) adlŏquĕ-rĕr cĭnĕ-rĕm, note: the diaeresis after the first hemiepes is marked here like a caesura (a conventional practice.)[ ] observe the elisions in line (o) and line (am). the latter elision spans the diaeresis in the last line. first archilochian[edit] if only one hemiepes is employed, instead of a full pentameter, the elegiac couplet takes the form known as the first archilochian, named after the greek poet archilochus. an example is found in the fourth book of horace's odes (carmina . ), which a. e. housman once described as "the most beautiful poem in ancient literature",[ ] introduced with these two lines: - -| - u u| - || uu| - - | - u u | - - dīffū-gērĕ nĭ-vēs, rĕdĕ-ŭnt iăm grāmĭnă cămpīs - u u| - u u | - ărbŏrĭ-bŭsquĕ cŏm-ae; dactylic tetrameter catalectic[edit] most extant examples of this meter are found in lyric poetry, such as horace's carmina . and . , but also in iambi. 			variations 	 st 	 nd 	 rd 	 th 	 	— u u 	— u u 	— u u 	— — 	spondees 	 	— — 	 	 note: the final syllable in the th foot is marked long or short in some schemes to indicate natural syllable length but it is always long by position. alcmanian strophe[edit] a dactylic tetrameter catalectic is sometimes joined to the dactylic hexameter to form a couplet termed the alcmanian strophe, named after the lyric poet alcman (some scholars however refer to the alcmanian strophe as the first archilochian, as indeed there is a strong likeness between the two forms). examples of the form are found in horace's odes (carmina) and epodes, as here in his epode .[ ] - u u | - - |- || - | - u u |- u u | - - Ō ĕgŏ | nōn fēl-īx, quăm tū fŭgĭs ŭt păvĕt ācrīs - u u| - u u| - u u|- - ăgnă lŭ-pōs căprĕ-aēquĕ lĕ-ōnēs note that the plosive + liquid combination pr in 'capreaeque', syllabified ca.pre.ae.que, leaves the first open syllable (ca) metrically short. iambic meters[edit] the iambic family has short syllables one at a time, not in pairs like the dactylic family, and it allows resolution of long elements. in this family there may also be anceps positions, that is, positions in which either a long or a short syllable is allowed. iambic trimeter and senarius[edit] further information: metres of roman comedy used for the theatre by poets such as plautus and terence, an iambic line of six feet allowed for numerous variations and it is known as an iambic senarius ('senarius' = 'grouped in sixes'). poets such as horace and catullus however employed iambic feet in pairs, each called a metron, in which fewer variations were allowed. such a line of verse has three metra and the meter in that case is called 'iambic trimeter'. here is the list of variations found in horace,[ ] which are more numerous than those in catullus.[ ] some variations are due to resolution (replacing a long with two shorts) and some are due to anceps (when a syllable may be either long or short—see following note and the article iambic trimeter). others are the result of outright substitution (prosody), such as the anapaest in the first foot below. 			variations 	 a 	 b 	 a 	 b 	 a 	 b 	 	u — 	u — 	u — 	u — 	u — 	u — 	spondees 	— — 	 	— — 	 	— — 	 	tribrachs 	uuu 	uuu 	uuu 	uuu 	 	 	dactyls 	—uu 	 	—uu 	 	 	 	anapests 	uu— 	 	 	 	 	 note: 	the caesura usually follows the first syllable of the third foot ( a), and sometimes the first syllable of the fourth foot ( b). 	a short syllable can be replaced by a long syllable in certain positions, here marked bold: i.e. the first short syllable in feet a, a, a may be long. these short/long syllables are said to be in anceps. 	some variations never appear; thus for example there is no resolution in foot a and therefore no tribrach or dactyl in that foot. the following example of iambic trimeter is from horace's epode : - u u |u u u| u|| - | u - |u - |u - | cānĭdĭ-ă brĕvi-bus ĭmp-lĭcāt-ă vīp-ĕrīs note that the first syllable ca- in canidia is long and it is thus in anceps, while -idi- is the equivalent of a long syllable and it is said to be resolved into two shorts—thus the first foot appears as if a dactyl has been substituted for an iamb. long syllables are resolved into two shorts (uu) in the first metron ( a- b), an effect that may have been intended to suggest the quick movement of tiny snakes that canidia has tied to her hair.[ ] the second foot ( b) is read as a tribrach (uuu) since 'br' in 'brevibus' can be taken as a single consonant, making the preceding 'a' short. iambic dimeter[edit] iambic verse of four feet, paired to make two metra, hence the name 'iambic dimeter'. it is constituted like the first and third metra of the iambic trimeter ( a, b, a, b), with which it is often joined to form couplets known as iambic distich. 			variations 	 a 	 b 	 a 	 b 	 	u — 	u — 	u — 	u — 	spondees 	— — 	 	— — 	 	tribrachs 	uuu 	uuu 	 	 	dactyls 	—uu 	 	 	 	anapests 	uu— 	 	 	 note: 	the short syllables in a and a (marked bold) are in anceps and can be replaced by long syllables. iambic distich[edit] the iambic distich—a couplet comprising an iambic trimeter and iambic dimeter—is the basis of many poems of a genre known as iambus, in which the poet abuses and censures individuals or even communities, whether real or imaginary. iambic rhythms were felt to be especially suited to this role. the greek poet archilochus was one of the main exponents of the iambic distich and he provided a model for horace's epodes - . the following couplet forms the first two lines of epode . - - | u - | - uu| u || - | - - | u - quo quo sceles-ti rui-tis? aut cur dex-teris - - | u - | - - | u - aptan-tur en-ses con-diti? note that the first syllables in both lines (quo and ap) are in anceps and thus a spondee appears to have been substituted for an iamb in both the initial feet. also ti in scelesti is long by nature and it too is in anceps; the third foot would otherwise be a tribrach (uuu) thanks to the resolution of a long syllable into the two shorts in rui. as a result of all these variations, the rd foot instead resembles a dactyl (-uu). second archilochian[edit] an iambic dimeter may be followed by a hemiepes to form the second line of a couplet, in which the first line is dactylic hexameter. this combination is called the second archilochian. the iambic dimeter functions like an independent line, however, since it keeps the elements of a line-end i.e. it is marked off from the hemiepes by a pause through brevis in longo, or through a hiatus. an example of this system is found in horace's epode , lines – - - | - - | - u u | - u u | - -| - - pěrfun-dī nār-dō iuvǎt ět fĭdě cyllē-naeā u - | u -| - - | u ῡ|| - u u | - u u| - lĕvār-ĕ dī-rīs pĕc-tǒră sǒllĭcĭ-tūdĭnĭ-bŭs note that the th foot in this example is a spondee—this is rare for horace and it is meant to evoke the affectation of neoteric poets like catullus, thus complementing the sense of being suffused with perfume while listening to the lyre at a drinking party (the greek word cyllenaea, which creates the double spondee, adds to the exotic aura).[ ] observe also that the iambic dimeter ends with brevis in longo, the short syllable a in pectora becoming long by the addition of a pause. the hemiepes also ends with brevis in longo. third archilochian[edit] here an iambic trimeter forms the first line of the couplet, and the positions of the iambic dimeter and hemiepes are reversed to form the second line, the hemiepes now coming before the iambic dimeter. the hemiepes still functions as if it were independent, retaining the pause of a line-end through brevis in longo or hiatus. an example has survived in horace's epode , as in lines - here: - - | u- | - -| u ||- | - - |u - hīc těr-tĭŭs dēcĕm-bĕr, ĕx quō dēs-tĭtī - u u |- u u |ῡ || - - | u -| - - | u - iānăchĭ-ā fŭrĕr-ĕ, sĭlvīs hŏnō-rĕm dē-cŭtĭt. pythiambics[edit] another couplet is formed when a line of dactylic hexameter is followed by a line of iambic dimeter, and this is called the first pythiambic. the greek poet archilochus composed in this form but only fragments remain. two of horace's epodes ( and ) provide complete examples in latin. the following couplet introduces his epode : - u u |- - |- || - | - - | - u u |- - nŏx ĕrăt ĕt cae-lō fŭl-gē-băt lūnă sĕ-rēnō - - | u -| u - |u ῡ ĭntĕr mĭnō-ră sīd-ĕră the second pythiambic features an iambic trimeter instead of iambic dimeter in the second line. horace's epode is an example. iambic tetrameter catalectic[edit] usually associated with the comic theatre, it consists of seven feet with an extra syllable at the end instead of a full iambic foot. in that case it is called iambic septenarius ('septenarius' means grouped in sevens). used outside the theatre, the feet are paired and then it is called iambic tetrameter catalectic (catalectic means that the meter is incomplete). the stage allowed many variations but poets were quite strict in their use of it and catullus allowed variations only in the first and fifth feet:[ ] 			variations 	 a 	 b 	 a 	 b 	 a 	 b 	 a 	 b 	 	u — 	u — 	u — 	u — 	u — 	u — 	u — 	— 	spondees 	— — 	 	 	 	— — 	 	 	 an example is found in catullus' carmina , beginning with these two lines: u - | u - | u - | u -| u -| u - |u - | - cĭnae-dĕ thăl-lĕ, mŏl-lĭŏr cŭnī-cŭlī căpĭl-lō u - | u - | u - | u -| u -| u - |u - | - vĕl ān-sĕrĭs mĕdŭl-lŭlā vĕl ī-mŭl(ā) ōr-ĭcĭl-lā catullus uses no variations at all here and he employs diminutives (cuniculi, medullula, imula, oricila) contemptuously in a description of the 'soft' thallus. note that doubling of the consonant l lengthens several syllables that are naturally short, thus enabling a strict iambic rhythm. choliambics[edit] this meter was originated by the greek iambic poet, hipponax. the name choliambics means lame iambics and sometimes it is called scazons or limpers. ("lame trochaics" exist as well, being a trochaic tetrameter catalectic with the same ending as the iambic.) it is intended to be graceless and awkward "...in order to mirror in symbolically appropriate fashion the vices and crippled perversions of mankind."[ ] it was taken up by the neoteric poets catullus and his friend calvus but with fewer variations than hipponax had employed. it is basically an iambic trimeter but with a surprise ending in the last foot, featuring a trochee or spondee that cripples the iambic rhythm. as used by catullus, the variations are as follows: 			variations 	 a 	 b 	 a 	 b 	 a 	 b 	 	u — 	u — 	u — 	u — 	u — 	— — 	spondees 	— — 	 	— — 	— — 	 	 	tribrachs 	 	uuu 	 	 	 	 	dactyls 	—uu 	 	—uu 	 	 	 caesuras are found after the first syllable either in the third or fourth feet, sometimes in both. lines and of catullus' carmina about the grave-robbing wife of menenius offer a good example: - -| u -|- || - | u - | u - | - - ŭxŏr mĕnē-nī, sae-pĕ qu(ăm) ĭn sĕpŭl-crētīs - - | u - | -||u u |u - | u -| - - vīdĭs-tĭs ĭp-sō răpĕr-ĕ dē rŏgō cēnăm the dactyl in the third foot of the second line reinforces the meaning, as she greedily reaches for food from the funeral pyre without regard for taboos. martial used more variations, such as an anapaest in the fourth foot and a tribrach in the third. hendecasyllables[edit] the hendecasyllable is an -syllable line used extensively by catullus and martial, for example in catullus's famous poem (catullus ), which begins: - -|- uu| - u |- u|- - vīvāmus mea lesbi(a) atqu(e) amēmus - -|- u u|- u|- u|- - rūmōrēsque senum sevēriōrum - - |- uu | - u|- u |- - omnēs ūnius aestimēmus assis! 	"let us live, my lesbia, and let us love, 	and as for the mutterings of over-strict old men 	let us count them all as worth one dime!" poems in hendecasyllables all run on in the same meter, namely spondee (but see below), dactyl, trochee, trochee, spondee. catullus is rather freer than martial, in that he will occasionally start a line with a trochee or iambus, as in lines and respectively of the opening poem of his book, whereas martial keeps to a spondaic opening. post-classical poetry[edit] after the classical period, the pronunciation of latin changed and the distinction between long and short vowels was lost in the popular language. some authors continued writing verse in the classical meters, but this way of pronouncing long and short vowels was not natural to them; they used it only in poetry. popular poetry, including the bulk of christian latin poetry, continued to be written in accentual meters (sometimes incorporating rhyme, which was never systematically used in classical verse) just like modern european languages. this accentual latin verse was called sequentia, especially when used for a christian sacred subject. see also[edit] 	metres of roman comedy 	brevis in longo 	anceps 	biceps (prosody) 	resolution (meter) 	clausula (rhetoric) 	golden line 	latin spelling and pronunciation notes[edit] 	^ two significant differences are that word-final s may not be counted as making a heavy syllable, and mute-plus-liquid combinations never make a syllable heavy. r. h. martin, terence: adelphoe, cambridge university press ( ), page 	^ according to the stress-timed theory of latin prosody, there is a strong tendency to harmonize word-stress and verse-ictus in the final two feet of a hexameter. the fifth foot, therefore, is almost always a dactyl whereas the sixth foot always consists of a spondee; this line ending is perhaps the most notable feature of the meter. in classical times, it was the only readily audible metrical feature, and romans unfamiliar with greek literature and versification often heard no sound pattern at all save in the stress-pattern of the last two feet (william sidney allen, vox latina: a guide to the pronunciation of classical latin, nd edition, cambridge university press ( ) isbn  - - - , pages , ). 	^ in some schemes, the final syllable in the th foot is marked either long or short to reflect the natural syllable length, but it is always long by position and it is therefore only marked long in this table. references[edit] 	^ b. h. kennedy and james mountford, the revised latin primer, longman ( ), page 	^ see goldberg for details. 	^ r. h. martin, terence: adelphoe, cambridge university press ( ), page 	^ p. g. mcbrown, 'the first roman literature' in the oxford history of the classical world, j.boardman, j.griffin and o.murray (eds), oxford university press ( ) page - 	^ robin nisbet, 'the poets of the late republic' in the oxford history of the classical world, j.boardman, j.griffin and o.murray (eds), oxford university press ( ) page - 	^ peter green, the poems of catullus, university of california press ( ), pages - 	^ "princeps aeolium carmen ad italum," odes . . ; for horace's engagement with catullus see putnam ( ). 	^ richard f. thomas, virgil: georgics vol. i, cambridge university press ( ), page 	^ for the contrast between stress-based and quantitative verse, and for developments after the classical period, see especially gasparov. for saturnians, halporn et al. say "most saturnians make some kind of sense if we assume that the natural word accent alone carries the rhythm" (p. - ). see also parsons, freeman, cole, mahoney. 	^ r.g. kent, the alleged conflict of accents in latin verse, t.a.p.a. ( ), pages - ) 	^ richard f. thomas, virgil: georgics vol. i, cambridge university press ( ), pages 	^ l.p. wilkinson, golden latin artistry, cambridge ( ), page 	^ william sidney allen, vox latina: a guide to the pronunciation of classical latin, nd edition, cambridge university press ( ) isbn  - - - , pages - 	^ richard f. thomas, virgil: georgics vol. i, cambridge university press ( ), pages - 	^ r. d. williams, the aeneid of virgil, books i-vi, macmillan ( ), introduction page xxvii; w. f. jackson knight, accentual symmetry in virgil, basil blackwell ( ) 	^ article "brevis brevians", oxford classical dictionary, nd edition. 	^ bailey, c. ( ) titi lucreti cari de rerum natura libri sex, vol . pp. - . 	^ see halporn, ostwald, rosenmeyer ( ). 	^ b. h. kennedy and james mountford, the revised latin primer, longman ( ), page 	^ b. h. kennedy and james mountford, the revised latin primer, longman ( ), page 	^ peter green, the poems of catullus, university of california press ( ), pages 	^ b. h. kennedy and james mountford, the revised latin primer, longman ( ), pages - ) 	^ peter green, the poems of catullus, university of california press ( ), pages - 	^ see for example peter green, the poems of catullus, university of california press ( ), page 	^ william flesch, the facts on file companion to british poetry, th century, facts on file, inc. ( ), page ; see google preview 	^ david mankin, horace: epodes, cambridge university press ( ), pages - 	^ b. h. kennedy and james mountford, the revised latin primer, longman ( ), pages ) 	^ peter green, the poems of catullus, university of california press ( ), pages 	^ david mankin, horace: epodes, cambridge university press ( ), note page 	^ david mankin, horace: epodes, cambridge university press ( ), pages - 	^ peter green, the poems of catullus, university of california press ( ), pages - 	^ peter green, the poems of catullus, university of california press ( ), pages bibliography[edit] 	allen, william sidney ( ). vox latina — a guide to the pronunciation of classical latin ( nd ed.). cambridge university press. isbn  - - - . 	cole, thomas ( ). "the saturnian verse". yale classical studies. : – . 	fortson, benjamin w. . "latin prosody and metrics." in a companion to the latin language. edited by james clackson, – . malden, ma: wiley-blackwell 	freeman, philip ( ). 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	tetrarch 	 	other countries 		v 	t 	e a quaestor (/ˈkwiːstər/ kwee-stər, latin: [ˈkʷae̯stɔr]; "investigator")[ ] was a public official in ancient rome. the position served different functions depending on the period. in the roman kingdom, quaestores parricidii (quaestors with judicial powers) were appointed by the king to investigate and handle murders. in the roman republic, quaestors (lat. quaestores) were elected officials who supervised the state treasury and conducted audits. it was the lowest ranking position in the cursus honorum (course of offices). however, this means that in the political environment of rome, it was quite common for many aspiring politicians to take the position of quaestor as an early rung on the political ladder. in the roman empire, the position, which was initially replaced by the praefectus (prefect), reemerged during the late empire as quaestor intra palatium, a position appointed by the emperor to lead the imperial council and respond to petitioners.[ ] contents 	 etymology 	 history 	 . origins 	 . roman republic 	 . late antiquity 	 powers and responsibilities 	 . roman republic 	 . roman empire 	 . byzantine empire 	 notable quaestors 	 . gaius gracchus 	 . marcus antonius 	 . gaius julius caesar 	 . marcus tullius cicero 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links etymology[edit] quaestor derives from the latin verb quaero, quaerere, meaning "to inquire". the job title has traditionally been understood as deriving from the original investigative function of the quaestores parricidii.[ ][ ] ancient authors, perhaps influenced by etymology, reasoned that the investigative role of the quaestores parricidii had evolved to include financial matters, giving rise to the similarly-named later offices. however, this connection has been questioned by modern scholars.[ ][ ] history[edit] origins[edit] the earliest quaestors were quaestores parricidii (quaestors with judicial power), an office dating back to the kingdom of rome. quaestores parricidii were chosen to investigate capital crimes, and may have been appointed as needed rather than holding a permanent position. ancient authors disagree on the exact manner of selection for this office as well as on its earliest institution, with some dating it to the mythical reign of romulus.[ ] roman republic[edit] in the roman republic, quaestors were elected officials who supervised the treasury and financial accounts of the state, its armies and its officers. the quaestors tasked with financial supervision were also called quaestores aerarii, because they oversaw the aerarium (public treasury) in the temple of saturn.[ ] the earliest origins of the office is obscure, but by about bc there were four quaestors elected each year by the comitia tributa (assembly of the people). after bc, the number was expanded to ten. the office of quaestor, usually a former broad-striped tribune, was adopted as the first official post of the cursus honorum (lit. course of offices), the standard sequence that made up a career in public service. once elected as quaestor, a roman man earned the right to sit in the senate and began progressing through the cursus honorum. quaestors were not provided any lictors (civil servant bodyguards) while in the city of rome, but while in the provinces, they were allowed to have the fasces (a bound bundle of wooden rods symbolizing a magistrate's authority and jurisdiction).[ ] every roman consul, the highest elected official in the cursus honorum, and every provincial governor was appointed a quaestor. some quaestors were assigned to work in the city and others in the provinces where their responsibilities could include being recruited into the military. some provincial quaestors were assigned as staff to military generals or served as second-in-command to governors in the roman provinces. still others were assigned to oversee military finances. lucius cornelius sulla's reforms in bc raised the number of quaestors to and the minimum age for a quaestorship was for patricians (members of ruling class families) and for plebeians (commoners). additionally, the reforms granted quaestors automatic membership in the senate upon being elected, whereas previously, membership in the senate was granted only after censors revised the senate rolls, which occurred less frequently than the annual induction of quaestors. there were at that time (b.c. ) twenty quæstors elected annually, some of whom remained in rome; but most of the number were stationed about the empire, there being always one as assistant to each proconsul. when a consul took the field with an army, he always had a quæstor with him. this had become the case so generally that the quæstor became, as it were, something between a private secretary and a senior lieutenant to a governor. the arrangement came to have a certain sanctity attached to it, as though there was something in the connection warmer and closer than that of mere official life; so that a quæstor has been called a proconsul’s son for the time, and was supposed to feel that reverence and attachment that a son entertains for his father. — anthony trollope, the life of cicero this relationship between a consul and a quaestor was similar to that between a patron and a client. the quaestor was essentially a client to their superior. there was some level of mutual respect between the two individuals, but a defined sense of place and knowledge of each other's roles. this relationship often continued past the designated terms of either individual, and the quaestor could be called upon for assistance or other needs by the consul. breaking this pact or doing harm by a former superior would make the quaestor seem dishonorable or even treasonous.[ ] late antiquity[edit] see also: quaestor sacri palatii, quaesitor, and quaestura exercitus constantine the great created the office quaestor sacri palatii (quaestor of the sacred place) which functioned as the roman empire's senior legal official. emperor justinian i also created the offices quaesitor, a judicial and police official for constantinople, and quaestor exercitus (quaestor of the army), a short-lived joint military-administrative post covering the border of the lower danube. the quaestor sacri palatii survived long into the byzantine empire, although its duties were altered to match the quaesitor. the term is last attested in th century byzantium as a purely honorific title. powers and responsibilities[edit] roman republic[edit] in the early republic, there were two quaestors, and their duties were maintaining the public treasury, both taking in funds and deciding whom to pay them to. this continued until bce when the number of quaestors was doubled to . while two continued with the same duties of those that had come before, the other two had additional responsibilities, each being in service to the one of the consuls.[ ] when consuls went to war, each was assigned a quaestor. the quaestor's main responsibilities involved the distribution of war spoils between the aerarium, or public treasury, and the army. the key responsibility of the quaestor was the administration of public funds to higher-ranking officials in order to pursue their goals, whether those involve military conquests which require funding for armies or public works projects.[ ] the office of quaestor was a position bound to their superior, whether that be a consul, governor, or other magistrate, and the duties would often reflect their superiors. for example, gaius gracchus was quaestor under the consul orestes in sardinia, and many of his responsibilities involved leading military forces. while not in direct command of the army, the quaestor would be in charge of organizational and lesser duties that were a necessary part of the war machine.[ ] roman empire[edit] see also: quaestor sacri palatii during the reign of the emperor constantine i, the office of quaestor was reorganized into a judicial position known as the quaestor sacri palatii. the office functioned as the primary legal adviser to the emperor, and was charged with the creation of laws as well as answers petitions to the emperor.[ ] from onward, the office of the quaestor worked in conjunction with the praetorian prefect of the east to oversee the supreme tribunal, or supreme court, at constantinople. there they heard appeals from the various subordinate courts and governors. byzantine empire[edit] under the emperor justinian i, an additional office named quaestor was created to control police and judicial matters in constantinople. in this new position, a quaestor was responsible for wills, as well as supervision of complaints by tenants regarding their landlords, and finally over the homeless.[ ] notable quaestors[edit] see also category: roman quaestors. gaius gracchus[edit] see also: gaius gracchus following the death of his brother tiberius gracchus, gaius gracchus stayed out of the political spotlight for a period until he was forced to defend a good friend of his named vettius in court. hearing his vocal abilities, the senate began to fear that gaius would arouse the people in the same manner as his brother and appointed him quaestor to gnaeus aufidius orestes in sardinia to prevent him from becoming a tribune. gaius used his position as quaestor to successfully defeat his enemies as well as gain a large amount of loyalty among his troops. following an incident where gaius won the support of a local village to provide for his troops, the senate attempted to keep gaius in sardinia indefinitely by reappointing orestes to stay in sardinia. gaius was not pleased by this and returned to rome demanding an explanation, actions which eventually led to his election as a tribune of the people.[ ] marcus antonius[edit] see also: mark antony marcus antonius, or mark antony, who is most well known for his civil war with octavian, started off his political career in the position of quaestor after being a prefect in syria and then one of julius caesar's legates in gaul. through a combination of caesar's favor and his oratory skills defending the legacy of publius clodius, antony was able to win the quaestorship in bce. this then led to antony's election as augur and tribune of the people in bc due to caesar's efforts to reward his ally.[ ] gaius julius caesar[edit] while julius caesar served as quaestor to the governor or proconsul/propraetor in hispania ulterior he took major military action against the rebellious tribes of the region. his time as quaestor was uneventful although when he became governor there, he settled the disputes. marcus tullius cicero[edit] marcus tullius cicero was the quaestor to the propraetor/proconsul of sicily. he fixed major agricultural problems in the region and improved on the purchase and selling of grain. the farmers after this loved cicero and began to travel to rome to vote for him in elections every year. see also[edit] 	constitution of the roman 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organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 prudentius - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	prudentius 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		roman writer for the ninth-century writer and bishop, see prudentius of troyes. aurelius prudentius clemens (/pruːˈdɛnʃiəs, -ʃəs/) was a roman christian poet, born in the roman province of tarraconensis (now northern spain) in .[ ] he probably died in the iberian peninsula some time after , possibly around . the place of his birth is uncertain, but it may have been caesaraugusta (saragossa), tarraco (tarragona), or calagurris (calahorra). contents 	 life 	 poetry 	 influence 	 works 	 . editions 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links life[edit] prudentius practiced law with some success, and was twice provincial governor, perhaps in his native country, before the emperor theodosius i summoned him to court. towards the end of his life (possibly around ) prudentius retired from public life to become an ascetic, fasting until evening and abstaining entirely from animal food; and writing poems, hymns, and controversial works in defence of christianity.[ ] prudentius later collected the christian poems written during this period and added a preface, which he himself dated . poetry[edit] the poetry of prudentius is influenced by early christian authors, such as tertullian and st. ambrose, as well as the bible and the acts of the martyrs. his hymn da, puer, plectrum (including "corde natus ex parentis": "of the father's love begotten") and the hymn for epiphany o sola magnarum urbium ("earth has many a noble city"), both from the cathemerinon, are still in use today.[ ] the allegorical psychomachia, however, is his most influential work, incorporating as it did elements of both hellenic epic and inner psychological conflict.[ ] it became the inspiration and wellspring of medieval allegorical literature, its influence (according to c. s. lewis) exceeding its intrinsic artistic merit.[ ] in the battle between virtue and vice, full weight is given to the power of luxuria, “flowershod and swaying from the wine cup, every step a fragrance”.[ ] with her attendants beauty and pleasure, and her weapons of rose-petals and violets, she succeeds in swaying the army of virtue “in surrender to love”,[ ] before succumbing to ultimate defeat. influence[edit] with his merger of christianity with classical culture,[ ] prudentius was one of the most popular medieval authors,[ ] being aligned as late as the th century alongside such figures as horace and statius in henri d'andeli's battle of the seven arts between grammar (poetry) and logic.[ ] works[edit] the list of prudentius's works given in the preface to his autobiography mentions the hymns, poems against the priscillianists and against symmachus and peristephanon. the diptychon is not mentioned. the twelve hymns of the cathemerinon liber ("daily round") consist of six for daily use, five for festivals, and one intended for every hour of the day.[ ] the specific works include: 	liber cathemerinon -- ("book in accordance with the hours") comprises lyric poems on various times of the day and on church festivals. 	liber peristephanon -- ("crowns of martyrdom") contains lyric poems on spanish and roman martyrs. some were suggested to prudentius by sacred images in churches or by the inscriptions of pope damasus i.[ ] 	apotheosis -- ("deification") attacks disclaimers of the trinity and the divinity of jesus. 	hamartigenia -- ("the origin of sin") attacks the gnostic dualism of marcion and his followers. in this and the apotheosis, tertullian is the source of inspiration.[ ] 	psychomachia -- ("battle of souls") describes the struggle of faith, supported by the cardinal virtues, against idolatry and the corresponding vices. 	libri contra symmachum -- ("books against symmachus") oppose the pagan senator symmachus's requests that the altar of victory, which had been removed by gratian,[ ] be restored to the senate house. 	dittochæon -- ("the double testament") contains quatrains intended as captions for the murals of a basilica in rome.[ ] editions[edit] 	bergman, j. (ed.). aurelii prudenti clementis carmina. vienna: hölder-pichler-tempsky, . (corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum latinorum, ). 	cunningham, m.p. (ed.). aurelii prudentii clementis carmina. turnhout: brepols, (corpus christianorum. series latina, ). 	thomson, h.j. (ed. and trans.). prudentius. vols. cambridge, massachusetts: harvard university press, - (loeb classical library). 	tränkle, h. (ed.). prudentius, contra symmachum - gegen symmachus. turnhout: brepols, . p. (fontes christiani, ). see also[edit] 	allegory in the middle ages 	ausonius 	of the father's heart begotten 	paulinus of nola 	sidonius apollinaris 	quicumque christum quærtis references[edit] 	^ a b h. j. rose, a handbook of classical literature ( ) p. 	^ h. j. rose, a handbook of classical literature ( ) p. - 	^ gilbert highet, juvenal the satirist ( ) p. 	^ c. s. lewis, the allegory of love ( ) p. 	^ helen waddell, the wandering scholars ( ) p. 	^ quoted in b. machosky, structures of appearing ( ) p. 	^ j. m. wallace-hadrill, the barbarian west ( ) p. 	^ j. broussard, the civilisation of charlemagne ( ) p. 	^ helen waddell, the wandering scholars ( ) p. - 	^ a b c  one or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "prudentius, aurelius clemens". encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. p.  . 	^ a b chisholm . further reading[edit] 	albrecht, m. von. . "prudentius." in a history of roman literature: from livius andronicus to boethius with special regard to its influence on world literature. vol. . by m. von albrecht. leiden, the netherlands: brill. 	cameron, a. . the last pagans of rome. new york: oxford univ. press. 	conybeare, c. . "sanctum, lector, percense volumen: snakes, readers, and the whole text in prudentius’s hamartigenia." in the early christian book. edited by w. e. klingshirn and l. safran, – . washington, dc: catholic univ. of america press. 	deferrari, roy j., and james marshall campbell. . a concordance of prudentius. cambridge, mass.: the mediaeval academy of america. 	dykes, a. . reading sin in the world: the hamartigenia of prudentius and the vocation of the responsible reader. cambridge, uk: cambridge univ. press. 	fux, p.-y. . les sept passions de prudence (peristephanon . . . – ): introduction générale et commentaire. fribourg, switzerland: Éditions univ. fribourg suisse. 	fux, pierre-yves. . prudence et les martyrs: hymnes et tragédie (peristephanon . - . - . ). commentaire , paradosis , fribourg. 	krollpfeifer, lydia . rom bei prudentius. dichtung und weltanschauung in »contra orationem symmachi« (=vertumnus. berliner beiträge zur klassischen philologie und zu ihren nachbargebieten. vol. ). goettingen: edition ruprecht. 	lease, emory b. . a syntactic, stylistic and metrical study of prudentius. baltimore: the friedenwald company. 	malamud, m. . a poetics of transformation: prudentius and classical mythology. ithaca, ny, and london: cornell univ. press. 	malamud, m. a. . "making a virtue of perversity: the poetry of prudentius." in the imperial muse: ramus essays on roman literature of the empire. edited by a. j. boyle, – . bendigo, australia: aureal. 	mastrangelo, m. . the roman self in late antiquity: prudentius and the poetics of the soul. baltimore: johns hopkins univ. press 	o’daly, g. . "choosing to be a christian poet: prudentius, praefatio and cathemerinon . – ." in noctes sinenses: festschrift für fritz-heiner mutschler zum . geburtstag. edited by a. heil, m. korn, and j. sauer, – . heidelberg, germany: winter. 	palmer, a.m. . prudentius on the martyrs. oxford: clarendon. 	pucci, j. . "prudentius’ readings of horace in the cathemerinon." latomus : – . 	roberts, m. . poetry and the cult of the martyrs: the liber peristephanon of prudentius. ann arbor: univ. of michigan press. 	roberts, m. . "rome personified, rome epitomized: representations of rome in the poetry of the early fifth century." american journal of philology : – . 	witke, c. . 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in the transmission of the fables. contents 	 biography 	 work 	 editions 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links biography[edit] a recent statement of the few facts that past scholars have tried to deduce from autobiographical hints given by phaedrus in his poems has summarised them as follows: he was born in macedonia, probably in pydna, about bce, came to rome as a slave and was freed by augustus. he probably had some teaching function between then and the time of tiberius, under whom the first book of his poems appeared. envious competitors interpreted the morals of some fables as being critical of the regime and he was tried by sejanus, probably at the time of the latter’s fall. in the prologue to his third book, we find phaedrus pleading with a certain eutychus to intercede on his behalf. surviving the turbulent times into old age, possibly under caligula and claudius, he produced two more books and died towards the middle of the first century ce. there is, however, no evidence to support any of this and certain facts conflict with the traditional account. what phaedrus had to say about himself might as plausibly be reinterpreted to prove that he was born in rome and spent the whole of his life there as a free citizen.[ ] work[edit] phaedrus is now recognized as the first writer to compile entire books of fables in latin, retelling the aesopic tales in senarii, a loose iambic metre.[ ] the dates of composition and publication are unknown. however, seneca the younger, writing between and ce, recommended in a letter to claudius' freedman polybius that he turn his hand to latinising aesop, ‘a task hitherto not attempted by roman genius’ (ad polybium . ). this suggests that nothing was known of phaedrus’ work at that date. by the mid- s martial was imitating him and mentions his mischievous humour (improbi jocos phaedri). the next reference is a homage by his fellow fabulist avianus near the start of the th century, who claims the five books of fables as one of his sources in the dedication of his own work.[ ] a th century manuscript of the fables of phaedrus was only discovered in france towards the end of the th century. this was published in by pierre pithou as fabularum aesopiarum libri quinque and was followed by two more editions before century’s end. near the beginning of the th century, a manuscript of the th-century bishop niccolò perotti was discovered at parma containing sixty-four fables of phaedrus, of which some thirty were previously unknown. these new fables were first published in , and their versions were afterwards superseded by the discovery of a much better preserved manuscript of perotti in the vatican library, published in . scholars realised that phaedrus’ work had also served as the basis for mediaeval fable collections that went by the name of romulus and at the start of the th century the swedish scholar carl magnus zander ( – ) reconstructed additional fables from their prose recensions there.[ ] what had survived of phaedrus’ five books in pithou's manuscript was of unequal length and seemed to indicate that material has been lost. this was supported by the apology in the prologue to the first book for including talking trees, of which there are no examples in the text that survives although there was one in the perotti appendix. in fact only out of in the pithou manuscript were even animal fables. the author’s aim at the start was to follow aesop in creating a work that “moves one to mirth and warns with wise advice”.[ ] as the work progressed, however, he widened his focus and now claimed to be “refining” aesopic material and even adding to it. in later books we find tales of roman events well after the time of aesop such as “tiberius and the slave” (ii. ) and “augustus and the accused wife” (iii. ), as well as the poet’s personal reply to envious detractors (iv. ); there are also anecdotes in which aesop figures from the later biographical tradition (ii. ; iii. ; iv. ; and items and in perotti’s appendix). finally he makes a distinction between matter and manner in the epilogue to the fifth book, commenting that 		i write in esop’s style, not in his name, 	and for the most part i the subject claim. 	tho’ some brief portion esop might indite, 	the more i from my own invention write, 	the style is ancient but the matter’s new.[ ] he also claims a place in the latin literary tradition by echoing well-known and respected writers. it is to be noticed, however, that where phaedrus and the slightly earlier poet horace adapted the same fable to satirical themes, they often used different versions of it. in horace a crow (cornicula) is the subject of the bird in borrowed feathers; in phaedrus it is a jackdaw (graculus). in the case of the horse that lost its liberty, phaedrus has it disputing with a boar and horace with a stag. neither do they agree in their account of the frog and the ox. horace follows the story found in greek sources; the frog’s motivation is different in phaedrus, and it is his version that martial follows later.[ ] moreover, in following the model of aesop, the enfranchised slave, phaedrus' satire is sharper and restores “the ancient function of the fable as a popular expression against the dominant classes”.[ ] another commentator points out that “the aesopian fable has been a political creature from its earliest origins, and phaedrus, (who was la fontaine’s model), though more openly subversive, has claims to be the first proletarian satiric poet”.[ ] editions[edit] the fables of phaedrus soon began to be published as school editions, both in the original latin and in prose translation.[ ][ ] since the th century there have also been four complete translations into english verse. the first was by christopher smart into octosyllabic couplets (london ).[ ] brooke boothby’s “the esopean fables of phedrus” were included in his fables and satires (edinburgh, )[ ] and also used octosyllables but in a more condensed manner: 		what esop taught his beasts in greek, 	phedrus in latin made them speak: 	in english, i from him translate, 	and his brief manner imitate.[ ] it was followed by the reverend frederick toller’s a poetical version of the fables of phædrus (london, ).[ ] these were translated more diffusely into irregular verses of five metrical feet and each fable was followed by a prose commentary. the most recent translation by p. f. widdows also includes the fables in the perotti appendix and all are rendered into a free version of anglo-saxon alliterative verse.[ ] phaedrus versions were translated individually by a variety of other poets into different languages. a small selection in various poetic forms appeared in the poems & translations (london ) of ashley cowper ( – ).[ ] there were many more poems distinctively styled in la fontaine's fables; others followed by ivan krylov in russian; gregory skovoroda and leonid hlibov in ukrainian; and a more complete collection by volodymyr lytvynov in .[ ] references[edit] 	^ edward champlin ( ), pp. – 	^ charles anthon, a classical dictionary, new york , p. 	^ michael von albrecht, a history of roman literature, brill , pp. - 	^ hanna vámos, "the mediaeval tradition of the fables of romulus", graeco-latina brunensia . , , pp. - 	^ text online 	^ frederick toller's translation (see below), p. 	^ champlin , pp. - 	^ francisco rodríguez adrados, history of the graeco-latin fable brill , ii, p. 	^ anne becher, “phaedrus, a new found yet ancient author”, paradigm (july, ) 	^ Æsops fables, with the fables of phaedrus moralized, london 	^ the fables of phaedrus translated into english prose, london 	^ gutenberg 	^ google books 	^ "prologue", p. 	^ google books 	^ the fables of phaedrus, university of texas 	^ pp. - 	^ osnovy publishing further reading[edit] 	the fables of phædrus, with a literal english translation, london 	champlin, edward. “phaedrus the fabulous.” the journal of roman studies , , pp. – . 	glauthier, patrick. “phaedrus, callimachus and the recusatio to success.” classical antiquity, . , , pp. – . 	henderson, john. “phaedrus' "fables:" the original corpus.” mnemosyne, . , , pp. – . 	henderson, john. telling tales on caesar: roman stories from phaedrus. oxford university press, . 	jennings, victoria. "borrowed plumes: phaedrus' fables, phaedrus' failures." writing politics in imperial rome. leiden/boston: brill, . 	lefkowitz, jeremy b. "grand allusions: vergil in phaedrus." ajph . , , pp. - . 	lefkowitz, jeremy b. "innovation and artistry in phaedrus' morals." mnemosyne . , , pp. - . 	libby, brigitte b. “the intersection of poetic and imperial authority in phaedrus' fables.” the classical quarterly, . , , pp. – . 	polt, christopher b. “polity across the pond: democracy, republic and empire in phaedrus' fables . .” the classical journal, . , , pp. – . external links[edit] 		wikiquote has quotations related to: phaedrus (fabulist) 	pithou's editio princeps (troyes: jean oudot, ) 	works by phaedrus at librivox (public domain audiobooks) 	authority control 	 	bibsys: 	bne: xx 	bnf: cb x (data) 	cantic: a 	cinii: da 	gnd: 	isni: 	lccn: n 	lnb: 	ndl: 	nkc: jn 	nsk: 	nta: 	rero: -a 	selibr: 	snac: w z v 	sudoc: 	viaf: 	 worldcat identities: lccn-n retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=phaedrus_(fabulist)&oldid= " 		categories: 	 st-century romans 	fabulists 	latin-language writers 	silver age latin writers 	roman imperial era slaves and freedmen hidden categories: 	use dmy dates from june 	articles containing ancient greek (to )-language text 	articles with librivox links 	wikipedia articles with bibsys identifiers 	wikipedia articles with bne identifiers 	wikipedia articles with bnf identifiers 	wikipedia articles with cantic identifiers 	wikipedia articles with cinii identifiers 	wikipedia articles with gnd identifiers 	wikipedia articles with isni identifiers 	wikipedia articles with lccn identifiers 	wikipedia articles with lnb identifiers 	wikipedia articles with ndl identifiers 	wikipedia articles with nkc identifiers 	wikipedia articles with nsk identifiers 	wikipedia articles with nta identifiers 	wikipedia articles with rero identifiers 	wikipedia articles with selibr identifiers 	wikipedia articles with snac-id identifiers 	wikipedia articles with sudoc identifiers 	wikipedia articles with viaf identifiers 	wikipedia articles with worldcatid identifiers 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			article 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	edit 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		search 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigation 	 	 			main page 	contents 	current events 	random article 	about wikipedia 	contact us 	donate 		 	 	 	 		contribute 	 	 			help 	learn to edit 	community portal 	recent changes 	upload file 		 	 	 		tools 	 	 			what links here 	related changes 	upload file 	special pages 	permanent link 	page information 	cite this page 	wikidata item 		 	 	 		print/export 	 	 			download as pdf 	printable version 		 	 	 		in other projects 	 	 			wikimedia commons 	wikiquote 	wikisource 		 	 	 	 		languages 	 	 			brezhoneg 	català 	Čeština 	deutsch 	Ελληνικά 	español 	esperanto 	euskara 	français 	furlan 	galego 	Հայերեն 	italiano 	latina 	magyar 	nederlands 	piemontèis 	polski 	português 	română 	Русский 	seeltersk 	sicilianu 	slovenčina 	slovenščina 	Српски / srpski 	srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски 	svenska 	tagalog 	türkçe 	Українська 		edit links 	 		 this page was last edited on november , at :  (utc). 	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; 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was for a time ejected for political reasons), and dean of lismore, and was born in . he was sent to trinity college, dublin, taking the degree of b.a. in , and was ordained, according to his father's wish, in the church of ireland. he held for some time the curacy of st. peter's parish, dublin, and while resident in that city published his translation of horace, besides writing in the interests of ‘the castle.’ soon after the death of his wife, elizabeth rowe, whom he married in , he crossed to england, and in obtained the rectory of skeyton in norfolk. he shortly was residing for the sake of literature and society in london. in january , when edward gibbon became an inmate of his house, francis was keeping or supposed to be keeping a school at esher; but the boys' friends quickly found that the nominal instructor preferred the pleasures of london to the instruction of his pupils and in a month or two gibbon was removed. to maintain himself in the social life of london, francis tried many expedients, but most of them were failures. two plays of his were produced on the stage, each time without success. he tried translation, but, except in his rendering of the works of horace, he was sidelined by other writers. his fortune was made when he secured, through the kindness of miss bellamy, who recommended him, the post of private chaplain to lady caroline fox, and lived in her family, where he taught lady sarah lennox to declaim and charles james fox to read. at the end of fox was sent to eton, and francis accompanied him to assist the boy in his studies. the father, henry fox found francis a useful ally. it has sometimes been said that he was the chief writer in the paper called ‘the con-test,’ which lived from november to august , but the accuracy of this statement is doubted. he is also said to have contributed to the ‘gazette’ daily newspaper on behalf of the court interest. when william pitt the elder resigned, in , francis wrote a libel against him under the title of ‘mr. pitt's letter versified,’ the notes to which, according to horace walpole, were supplied by henry fox (now lord holland), and he followed this with ‘a letter from the anonymous author of “mr. pitt's letter versified,”’ in which he reflected on pitt's indifference to the truculent language of colonel isaac barré. in he attacked pitt and john wilkes with great bitterness in the ‘political theatre.’ on june he was inducted to the vicarage of chilham in kent, but resigned in the summer of , and through lord holland's influence he held from may to the chaplaincy at chelsea hospital, and the rectory of barrow, suffolk, to which he was instituted on february , and which he retained until his death. he was also recommended in january by george grenville for a crown pension. francis was still unsatisfied. he quarrelled with lord holland because he had not been made an irish bishop, and threatened to expose his patron's villainy. in june he was seized by a paralytic stroke, and after lingering for some years died at bath march . he was fond of his son sir philip francis, and numerous letters to and from him are in the son's memoir; he resented his son's marriage, but they were later reconciled. works[edit] of his rendering of horace, samuel johnson said: ‘the lyrical part of horace never can be perfectly translated. francis has done it the best. i'll take his five out of six against them all.’ the first part, consisting of the ‘odes, epodes, and carmen seculare of horace in latin and english,’ in which he was assisted by william dunkin, was issued at dublin in two volumes in . it was republished in london in the next year, and in two more volumes, containing the ‘satires, epistles, and art of poetry,’ appeared with a dedication in prose to robert jocelyn, lord chancellor of ireland. the whole version was reissued in , and it ran into many subsequent editions, that edited by edward dubois being the best. it was also included in the set of poets edited by alexander chalmers, the ‘british poets,’ vols. xcvii–viii., and in charles whittingham's ‘greek and roman poets,’ vol. xii. francis worked in on his play of ‘eugenia,’ an adaptation of the french tragedy of ‘cenie,’ and it was acted at drury lane theatre on february , but was unsuccessful; lord chesterfield attributed its failure to the fact that pit and gallery did not like a tragedy without bloodshed. a similar failure attended his play of ‘constantine,’ which was produced at covent garden on february , and expired on the fourth night. genest styles it ‘a cold and uninteresting play, the plot avowedly taken in part from a french piece.’ both pieces were printed, the former being dedicated to the countess of lincoln, and the latter to lord chesterfield. for eight years he was employed in studying the ‘orations’ of demosthenes, and his translation appeared in two volumes in – , but it was thought inferior to that by thomas leland. an anonymous volume by john taylor was printed in with the title of a discovery of the author of the “letters of junius,” founded on evidence and illustrations. it attributed the authorship of the letters of junius to francis and his son, sir philip francis, and claimed that all the peculiarities of language in the writings of the elder francis are discernible in some parts of junius. contemporary scholarly consensus is that the son was the author. references[edit] 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "francis, philip ( ?- )". dictionary of national biography. london: smith, elder & co. – . 	authority control 	 	bne: xx 	bnf: cb s (data) 	gnd: 	isni: x 	lccn: n 	nli: 	nta: 	selibr: 	snac: w vt dn 	sudoc: 	trove: 	viaf: 	 worldcat identities: lccn-n retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=philip_francis_(translator)&oldid= " 		categories: 	 births 	 deaths 	 th-century irish anglican priests 	irish translators 	latin–english translators hidden categories: 	articles with short description 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	region	emilia-romagna 	province	ravenna (ra) 	frazioni	 (subdivisions) 	casalborsetti, lido di savio, lido di classe, lido di dante, lido adriano, marina di ravenna, punta marina terme, porto corsini, porto fuori, marina romea, ammonite, camerlona, mandriole, savarna, grattacoppa, conventello, torri, mezzano, sant'antonio, san romualdo, sant'alberto, borgo montone, fornace zarattini, piangipane, san marco, san michele, santerno, villanova di ravenna, borgo sisa, bastia, borgo faina, carraie, campiano, casemurate, caserma, castiglione di ravenna, classe, coccolia, ducenta, durazzano, filetto, fosso ghiaia, gambellara, ghibullo, longana, madonna dell'albero, massa castello, mensa matellica, osteria, pilastro, roncalceci, ragone, santo stefano, san bartolo, san zaccaria, savio, s. pietro in trento, san pietro in vincoli, san pietro in campiano 	government 	 • mayor	michele de pascale (pd) 	area[ ] 	 • total	 .  km ( .  sq mi) 	elevation 	  m (  ft) 	population ( january )[ ] 	 • total	 , 	 • density	 /km ( /sq mi) 	demonym(s)	ravennate, ravennese[ ] 	time zone	utc+ (cet) 	 • summer (dst)	utc+ (cest) 	postal code	 	dialing code	 	patron saint	saint apollinaris 	saint day	july 	website	official website early christian monuments of ravenna	unesco world heritage site 	mosaic of the emperor justinian from the basilica of san vitale. 	criteria	cultural: i, ii, iii, iv 	reference	 	inscription	 ( th session) 	area	 . ha ravenna (/rəˈvɛnə/ rə-ven-ə, italian: [raˈvenna], also locally [raˈvɛnna] (listen); romagnol: ravèna) is the capital city of the province of ravenna, in the emilia-romagna region of northern italy. it was the capital city of the western roman empire from until that empire collapsed in . it then served as the capital of the ostrogothic kingdom until it was re-conquered in by the byzantine empire. afterwards, the city formed the centre of the byzantine exarchate of ravenna until the invasion of the lombards in . although it is an inland city, ravenna is connected to the adriatic sea by the candiano canal. it is known for its well-preserved late roman and byzantine architecture, with eight buildings comprising the unesco world heritage site "early christian monuments of ravenna".[ ] contents 	 history 	 . ancient era 	 . ostrogothic kingdom 	 . exarchate of ravenna 	 . middle ages and renaissance 	 . modern age 	 government 	 architecture 	 music 	 ravenna in literature 	 ravenna in film 	 transport 	 amusement parks 	 twin towns - sister cities 	 sports 	 notable people 	 references 	 sources and further reading 	 external links history[edit] see also: timeline of ravenna the origin of the name ravenna is unclear. some have speculated that "ravenna" is related to "rasenna" (or "rasna"), the term that the etruscans used for themselves, but there is no agreement on this point.[citation needed][ ] ancient era[edit] the origins of ravenna are uncertain.[ ] the first settlement is variously attributed to (and then has seen the copresence of) the thessalians, the etruscans and the umbrians. afterwards its territory was settled also by the senones, especially the southern countryside of the city (that wasn't part of the lagoon), the ager decimanus. ravenna consisted of houses built on piles on a series of small islands in a marshy lagoon – a situation similar to venice several centuries later. the romans ignored it during their conquest of the po river delta, but later accepted it into the roman republic as a federated town in bc. in bc, it was where julius caesar gathered his forces before crossing the rubicon. later octavian, after his battle against mark antony in bc, founded the military harbor of classis.[ ] this harbor, protected at first by its own walls, was an important station of the roman imperial fleet. nowadays the city is landlocked, but ravenna remained an important seaport on the adriatic until the early middle ages. during the germanic campaigns, thusnelda, widow of arminius, and marbod, king of the marcomanni, were confined at ravenna. the city of ravenna in the th century as shown on the peutinger map ravenna greatly prospered under roman rule. emperor trajan built a  km ( .  mi) long aqueduct at the beginning of the nd century. during the marcomannic wars, germanic settlers in ravenna revolted and managed to seize possession of the city. for this reason, marcus aurelius decided not only against bringing more barbarians into italy, but even banished those who had previously been brought there.[ ] in ad , emperor honorius transferred the capital of the western roman empire from milan to ravenna. at that time it was home to , people.[ ] the transfer was made partly for defensive purposes: ravenna was surrounded by swamps and marshes, and was perceived to be easily defensible (although in fact the city fell to opposing forces numerous times in its history); it is also likely that the move to ravenna was due to the city's port and good sea-borne connections to the eastern roman empire. however, in , king alaric i of the visigoths simply bypassed ravenna, and went on to sack rome in and to take galla placidia, daughter of emperor theodosius i, hostage. after many vicissitudes, galla placidia returned to ravenna with her son, emperor valentinian iii, due to the support of her nephew theodosius ii. ravenna enjoyed a period of peace, during which time the christian religion was favoured by the imperial court, and the city gained some of its most famous monuments, including the orthodox baptistery, the misnamed mausoleum of galla placidia (she was not actually buried there), and san giovanni evangelista. ostrogothic kingdom[edit] see also: ostrogothic ravenna the late th century saw the dissolution of roman authority in the west, and the last person to hold the title of emperor in the west was deposed in by the general odoacer. odoacer ruled as king of italy for years, but in the eastern emperor zeno sent the ostrogoth king theodoric the great to re-take the italian peninsula. after losing the battle of verona, odoacer retreated to ravenna, where he withstood a siege of three years by theodoric, until the taking of rimini deprived ravenna of supplies. theodoric took ravenna in , supposedly slew odoacer with his own hands, and ravenna became the capital of the ostrogothic kingdom of italy. theodoric, following his imperial predecessors, also built many splendid buildings in and around ravenna, including his palace church sant'apollinare nuovo, an arian cathedral (now santo spirito) and baptistery, and his own mausoleum just outside the walls. the mausoleum of theodoric both odoacer and theodoric and their followers were arian christians, but co-existed peacefully with the latins, who were largely catholic orthodox. ravenna's orthodox bishops carried out notable building projects, of which the sole surviving one is the capella arcivescovile. theodoric allowed roman citizens within his kingdom to be subject to roman law and the roman judicial system. the goths, meanwhile, lived under their own laws and customs. in , when a mob had burned down the synagogues of ravenna, theodoric ordered the town to rebuild them at its own expense. theodoric died in and was succeeded by his young grandson athalaric under the authority of his daughter amalasunta, but by both were dead and theodoric's line was represented only by amalasuntha's daughter matasuntha. various ostrogothic military leaders took the kingdom of italy, but none were as successful as theodoric had been. meanwhile, the orthodox christian byzantine emperor justinian i opposed both ostrogoth rule and the arian variety of christianity. in his general belisarius invaded italy and in conquered ravenna. after the conquest of italy was completed in , ravenna became the seat of byzantine government in italy. from to , ravenna's bishops embarked upon a notable building program of churches in ravenna and in and around the port city of classe. surviving monuments include the basilica of san vitale and the basilica of sant'apollinare in classe, as well as the partially surviving san michele in africisco. exarchate of ravenna[edit] transfiguration of jesus. allegorical image with crux gemmata and lambs represent apostles, – , apse of basilica of sant'apollinare in classe main article: exarchate of ravenna following the conquests of belisarius for eastern roman emperor justinian i in the th century, ravenna became the seat of the byzantine governor of italy, the exarch, and was known as the exarchate of ravenna. it was at this time that the ravenna cosmography was written. under byzantine rule, the archbishop of the archdiocese of ravenna was temporarily granted autocephaly from the roman church by the emperor, in , but this was soon revoked. nevertheless, the archbishop of ravenna held the second place in italy after the pope, and played an important role in many theological controversies during this period. middle ages and renaissance[edit] the lombards, under king liutprand, occupied ravenna in , but were forced to return it to the byzantines.[ ] however, in the lombard king, aistulf, succeeded in conquering ravenna, thus ending byzantine rule in northern italy. king pepin of the franks attacked the lombards under orders of pope stephen ii. ravenna then gradually came under the direct authority of the popes, although this was contested by the archbishops at various times. pope adrian i authorized charlemagne to take away anything from ravenna that he liked, and an unknown quantity of roman columns, mosaics, statues, and other portable items were taken north to enrich his capital of aachen. in ravenna led a league of romagna cities against the emperor, and the pope was able to subdue it. after the war of the traversari family was able to impose its rule in the city, which lasted until . after a short period under an imperial vicar, ravenna was returned to the papal states in and again to the traversari until, in , the da polenta established their long-lasting seigniory. one of the most illustrious residents of ravenna at this time was the exiled poet dante. the last of the da polenta, ostasio iii, was ousted by the republic of venice in february , and the city was annexed to the venetian territories in the treaty of cremona. ravenna was ruled by venice until , when the area was invaded in the course of the italian wars. in , during the holy league wars, ravenna was sacked by the french following the battle of ravenna. ravenna was also known during the renaissance as the birthplace of the monster of ravenna. after the venetian withdrawal, ravenna was again ruled by legates of the pope as part of the papal states. the city was damaged in a tremendous flood in may . over the next years, a network of canals diverted nearby rivers and drained nearby swamps, thus reducing the possibility of flooding and creating a large belt of agricultural land around the city. modern age[edit] apart from another short occupation by venice ( – ), ravenna was part of the papal states until , when it was annexed to the french puppet state of the cisalpine republic, (italian republic from , and kingdom of italy from ). it was returned to the papal states in . occupied by piedmontese troops in , ravenna and the surrounding romagna area became part of the new unified kingdom of italy in . during world war ii, troops of th princess louise dragoon guards - th canadian armoured division and the british th lancers entered and occupied ravenna on december . a total of commonwealth soldiers who died in the winter of - are buried in ravenna war cemetery, including canadians.[ ] the town suffered very little damage. government[edit] see also: list of mayors of ravenna architecture[edit] basilica of san vitale - triumphal arch mosaics. garden of eden mosaic in mausoleum of galla placidia. th century ce. arian baptistry ceiling mosaic. th-century mosaic in sant'apollinare nuovo, ravenna portrays jesus long-haired and bearded, dressed in byzantinian style. the arian baptistry. dante's tomb exterior and interior, built in the so-called "mausoleum of galla placidia" in ravenna. mosaic of the palace of theodoric in sant'apollinare nuovo. eight early christian monuments of ravenna are inscribed on the world heritage list. these are 	orthodox baptistry also called baptistry of neon (c. ) 	mausoleum of galla placidia (c. ) 	arian baptistry (c. ) 	archiepiscopal chapel (c. ) 	basilica of sant'apollinare nuovo (c. ) 	mausoleum of theodoric ( ) 	basilica of san vitale ( ) 	basilica of sant'apollinare in classe ( ) other attractions include: 	the church of san giovanni evangelista is from the th century, erected by galla placidia after she survived a storm at sea. it was restored after the world war ii bombings. the belltower contains four bells, the two majors dating back to . 	the th-century church of the spirito santo, which has been quite drastically altered since the th century. it was originally the arian cathedral. the façade has a th-century portico with five arcades. 	the basilica of san francesco, rebuilt in the th– th centuries over a precedent edifice dedicated to the apostles and later to st. peter. behind the humble brick façade, it has a nave and two aisles. fragments of mosaics from the first church are visible on the floor, which is usually covered by water after heavy rains (together with the crypt). here the funeral ceremony of dante alighieri was held in . the poet is buried in a tomb annexed to the church, the local authorities having resisted for centuries all demands by florence for return of the remains of its most famous exile. 	the baroque church of santa maria maggiore ( – , rebuilt in ). it houses a picture by luca longhi. 	the church of san giovanni battista ( ), also in baroque style, with a middle ages campanile. 	the basilica of santa maria in porto ( th century), with a rich façade from the th century. it has a nave and two aisles, with a high cupola. it houses the image of famous greek madonna, which was allegedly brought to ravenna from constantinople. 	the nearby communal gallery has various works from romagnoli painters. 	the rocca brancaleone ("brancaleone castle"), built by the venetians in . once part of the city walls, it is now a public park. it is divided into two parts: the true castle and the citadel, the latter having an extent of ,  m ( , .  sq ft). 	the "so-called palace of theodoric", in fact the entrance to the former church of san salvatore. it includes mosaics from the true palace of the ostrogoth king. 	the church of sant'eufemia ( th century), gives access to the so-called stone carpets domus ( th– th century): this houses splendid mosaics from a byzantine palace. 	the national museum. 	the archiepiscopal museum music[edit] the city annually hosts the ravenna festival, one of italy's prominent classical music gatherings. opera performances are held at the teatro alighieri while concerts take place at the palazzo mauro de andré as well as in the ancient basilica of san vitale and basilica of sant'apollinare in classe. chicago symphony orchestra music director riccardo muti, a longtime resident of the city, regularly participates in the festival, which invites orchestras and other performers from around the world. ravenna in literature[edit] 	pre- 	the city is mentioned in canto v in dante's inferno. 	also in the th century, nostradamus provides four prophecies: 	"the magnavacca (canal) at ravenna in great trouble, canals by fifteen shut up at fornase", in reference to fifteen french saboteurs.[ ] 	as the place of a battle extending to perugia and a sacred escape in its aftermath, leaving rotting horses left to eat 	in relation to the snatching of a lady "near ravenna" and then the legate of lisbon seizing souls at sea 	ravenna is one of three-similarly named contenders for the birth of the third and final antichrist who enslaves slovenia (see ravne na koroškem)[ ] 	ravenna is the setting for the witch, a play by thomas middleton ( – ) 	post- 	lord byron lived in ravenna between and , led by the love for a local aristocratic and married young woman, teresa guiccioli. here he continued don juan and wrote: 	ravenna diary, my dictionary and recollections.[ ] 	ravenna is the location where lionel, the protagonist of mary shelley's post-apocalyptic novel the last man, comes ashore after losing his companions to a howling storm in the aegean sea. 	oscar wilde ( – ) wrote a poem ravenna in .[ ] 	symbolist, lyrical poet alexander blok ( – ) wrote a poem entitled ravenna (may–june ) inspired by his italian journey (spring ). 	during his travels, german poet and philosopher hermann hesse ( – ) came across ravenna and was inspired to write two poems of the city. they are entitled ravenna ( ) and ravenna ( ). 	t. s. eliot's ( – ) poem "lune de miel" (written in french) describes a honeymooning couple from indiana sleeping not far from the ancient basilica of sant' apollinare in classe (just outside ravenna), famous for the carved capitals of its columns, which depict acanthus leaves buffeted by the wind, unlike the leaves in repose on similar columns elsewhere. 	j.r.r. tolkien ( - ) may have based his city of minas tirith at least in part on ravenna.[ ] ravenna in film[edit] michelangelo antonioni filmed his movie red desert (deserto rosso) within the industrialised areas of the pialassa valley within the city limits. transport[edit] ravenna has an important commercial and tourist port. ravenna railway station has direct trenitalia service to bologna, ferrara, lecce, milan, parma, rimini, and verona. ravenna airport is located in ravenna. the nearest commercial airports are those of forlì, rimini and bologna. freeways crossing ravenna include: a -bis from the hub of bologna; on the north–south axis of eu routes e (from rome) and e (ss- "romea" from venice); and on the regional ferrara-rimini axis of ss- (partially called "adriatica"). amusement parks[edit] 	mirabilandia 	safari ravenna twin towns - sister cities[edit] see also: list of twin towns and sister cities in italy ravenna is twinned with:[ ] 	 chichester, united kingdom 	 speyer, germany, since 	 chartres, france, since sports[edit] the historical italian football of the city is ravenna f.c. currently it plays in the third league of italian football, commonly known as "serie c". a.p.d. ribelle is the italian football of castiglione di ravenna, a fraction of ravenna and was founded in . currently it plays in italy's serie d after promotion from eccellenza emilia-romagna girone b in the – season. the president is marcello missiroli and the manager is enrico zaccaroni. its home ground is stadio massimo sbrighi of the fraction with , seats. the team's colors are white and blue. the beaches of ravenna hosted the fifa beach soccer world cup, in september . notable people[edit] 	valentinian iii, roman emperor 	matteo plazzi, italian sailor 	laura pausini, italian pop singer-songwriter, record producer and television personality 	raul gardini, italian businessman 	franco manzecchi, jazz drummer 	andrea montanari, italian sprinter 	arcangelo corelli, baroque violinist and composer 	luigi legnani, guitarist and luthier 	tullio bassi, italian violin maker 	peter damian, catholic saint and cardinal 	francesco ingoli, theatine scientist, lawyer, and disputer of galileo 	francesca da rimini, historical person 	guido i da polenta, lord of ravenna 	francesco baracca, italy's top fighter ace of world war i 	federico caricasulo, motorcycle road racer 	marco melandri, motorcycle road racer 	davide tardozzi, superbike racer and team manager 	ivano marescotti, actor 	amadeus (presenter), presenter 	romolo gessi, explorer 	romuald, abbot 	marco dente, engraver 	paolo roversi, fashion photographer 	angelo mariani (conductor), conductor 	giuseppe vitali, mathematician 	evangelista torricelli, physicist and mathematician 	federico marchetti (businessman), founder of yoox references[edit] 	notes 	^ "superficie di comuni province e regioni italiane al ottobre ". istat. retrieved march . 	^ "popolazione residente al ° gennaio ". istat. retrieved march . 	^ geodemo - istat.it 	^ generally speaking, adjectival "ravenna" and "ravennate" are more common for most adjectival uses—the ravenna cosmography, ravenna grass, the ravennate fleet—while "ravennese" is more common in reference to people. the neologism "ravennan" is also encountered. the italian form is ravennate; in latin, ravennatus, ravennatis, and ravennatensis are all encountered. 	^ https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/ 	^ tourism in ravenna – official site – history. turismo.ravenna.it ( - - ). retrieved on - - . 	^ deborah m. deliyannis, ravenna in late antiquity (cambridge university press, ), for this and much of the information that follows 	^ from the latin for "fleet". 	^ dio . . - ; birley, marcus aurelius 	^ https://www.academia.edu/ /_the_fall_and_decline_of_the_roman_urban_mind_ 	^ noble, thomas f. x. ( ). the republic of st. peter: the birth of the papal state, – . philadelphia, pennsylvania: university of pennsylvania press. isbn  - - - . 	^ https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/second-world-war/canada-italy- -to- 	^ jones, tom ( ). nostradamus. pittsburgh, pa: dorrance publishing. isbn  . 	^ reading, mario ( ). the complete prophesies of nostradamus. london: watkins publishing. isbn  . 	^ "sito ufficiale – ufficio turismo del comune di ravenna – i grandi scrittori". turismo.ra.it. retrieved - - . 	^ ravenna 	^ https://www.theguardian.com/books/ /oct/ /jrr-tolkien-middle-earth-annotated-map-blackwells-lord-of-the-rings?cmp=fb_gu 	^ "città gemellate". comune.ra.it (in italian). ravenna. retrieved - - . sources and further reading[edit] see also: bibliography of the history of ravenna 	cameron, averil. "ravenna: capital of empire, crucible of europe." history today (sept ( # pp – . covers to . online. 	janet nelson, judith herrin, ravenna: its role in earlier medieval change and exchange, london, institute of historical research, , isbn  external links[edit] 	ravenna - catholic encyclopedia 	tourism and culture official website (in italian and english) 	ravenna, a study ( ) by edward hutton, from project gutenberg 	ravenna's early history and its monuments - catholic encyclopedia 	deborah m. deliyannis, ravenna in late antiquity (cambridge university press, ) 	find out more on wikipedia's sister projects		media from commons 	travel guides from wikivoyage 	definitions from wiktionary 	source texts from wikisource 		v 	t 	e emilia-romagna · comuni of the province of ravenna 	 	alfonsine 	bagnacavallo 	bagnara di romagna 	brisighella 	casola valsenio 	castel bolognese 	cervia 	conselice 	cotignola 	faenza 	fusignano 	lugo 	massa lombarda 	ravenna 	riolo terme 	russi 	sant'agata sul 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библиотека 	 	main building of the library 	established	 (  years ago) ( )[ ] 	location	moscow, russia 	branches	 	collection 	size	 , , ( ) 	access and use 	population served	 , ( ) 	other information 	budget	 , , , ( ) 	director	alexander i. visly (general director), vladimir i. gnezdilov (executive director), viktor v. fiodorov (president) [ ] 	staff	 ( ) 	website	www.rsl.ru/en 	map 	 the russian state library (russian: Российская государственная библиотека) is the national library of russia, located in moscow. it is the largest in the country and the fifth largest in the world for its collection of books ( . million).[ ] it was named the v. i. lenin state library of the ussr from until it was renamed in as the russian state library. the library has over  km of shelves with more than million items,[ ] including over million books and serial volumes, million journals, thousand music scores and sound records, , maps and others. there are items in languages of the world, the foreign part representing about percent of the entire collection. between and at least one copy of every book published in the ussr was deposited with the library, a practice which continues in a similar method today, with the library designated by law as a legal deposit library. contents 	 history 	 footnotes 	 further reading 	 external links history[edit] see also: rumyantsev museum the library was founded on july , , as moscow's first free public library named the library of the moscow public museum and rumiantsev museum, or the rumiantsev library. it is nicknamed the "leninka."[ ] rumyantsev museum part of the complex was moscow's first public museum, and housed the art collection of count nikolai petrovich rumyantsev, which had been given to the russian people and transferred from st. petersburg to moscow. its donation covered above all books and manuscripts as well as an extensive numismatic and an ethnographic collection. these, as well as approximately paintings and more than , prints, which had been selected from the collection of the hermitage in st. petersburg, could be seen in the so-called pashkov house (a palace, established between and , in the proximity of the kremlin). tsar alexander ii of russia donated the painting the appearance of christ before the people by alexander andreyevich ivanov for the opening of the museum. th-century postcard of pashkov house, old building of the russian state library, overlooking the kremlin the citizens of moscow, deeply impressed by the count's altruistic donation, named the new museum after its founder and had the inscription "from count rumyantsev for the good enlightenment" carved above its entrance. in the subsequent years, the collection of the museum grew by numerous further donations of objects and money, so that the museum soon housed a yet more important collection of western european paintings, an extensive antique collection and a large collection of icons. indeed, the collection grew so much that soon the premises of the pashkov house became insufficient, and a second building was built beside the museum shortly after the turn of the th century to house the paintings in particular. after the october revolution the contents again grew enormously, and again lack of space became an urgent problem. acute financial problems also arose, for most of the money to finance the museum flowed into the pushkin museum, which had only been finished a few years before and was assuming the rumyantsev museum's role. therefore, it was decided in to dissolve the rumyantsev museum and to spread its collections over other museums and institutions in the country. part of the collections, in particular the western european art and antiques, were thus transferred to the pushkin museum. pashkov house (at mokhovaya street) was renamed the old building of the russian state library. the old state archive building on the corner of mokhovaya and vozdvizhenka streets was razed and replaced by the new buildings. main building of the library, in front is the monument to dostoevsky construction of the first stage, designed by vladimir shchuko and vladimir gelfreikh in – , was authorized in and commenced in .[ ] the first stage was largely complete in . in the process, the building acquired the modernized neoclassicism exterior features of the palace of soviets (co-designed by shchuko and gelfreikh), departing from the stern modernism of the drafts.[ ] the last component of shchuko's plan, a -seat reading hall, was opened in ; further additions continued until .[ ] in the building reached its capacity, and the library launched construction of a new depository in khimki, earmarked for storing newspapers, scientific works and low-demand books from the main storage areas. the first stage of khimki library was complete in .[ ] in the complex was renamed the v. i. lenin state library of the ussr. in , it was renamed the russian state library by order of a decree from president boris yeltsin.[ ] 	 			 			 entrance hall 			 		 	 			 			 one of the reading rooms 			 		 	 			 			 one of the reading rooms 			 		 	 			 			 statue of dostoevsky in front of the library 			 		 	 			 			 the postage stamp ( ) 			 		 	 			 			 russian state library stamp (soviet times) 			 		 	 			 			 the wedding of tsar michael i 			 		 	 			 			 tver manuscript of george hamartolus 			 		 footnotes[edit] 	^ a b c "russian state library". official library website. retrieved november . 	^ http://leninka.ru/index.php?doc= 	^ "russian state library". retrieved april . 	^ "history of the russian state library (in russian). – , p. ". archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - . 	^ ikonnikov, a. v. ( ). architecture of moscow, th century. [arkhitektura moskvy. xx vek] (in russian). moskovsky rabochy. pp.  – . 	^ a b "history of the russian state library (in russian). – , p. ". archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - . 	^ stuart, mary (april ). "creating a national library for the workers' state: the public library in petrograd and the rumiantsev library under bolshevik rule". the slavonic and east european review. ( ): – . jstor  . further reading[edit] 	edward kasinec, "a soviet research library remembered," libraries & culture, vol. , no. 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	subject	life and times of alexander the great 	literary movement	silver age of latin literature 	notable work	histories of alexander the great qui. curse en la vie alexand. le grand, illumination from manuscript located at the laurentian library of florence quintus curtius rufus (/ˈkwɪntəs ˈkɜːrʃiəs ˈruːfəs/) was a roman historian, probably of the st century, author of his only known and only surviving work, historiae alexandri magni, "histories of alexander the great", or more fully historiarum alexandri magni macedonis libri qui supersunt, "all the books that survive of the histories of alexander the great of macedon." much of it is missing. apart from his name on the manuscripts, nothing else certain is known of him. this fact alone has led philologists to believe that he had another historical identity, to which, due to the accidents of time, the link has been broken. a few theories exist. they are treated with varying degrees of credibility by various authors. meanwhile, the identity of quintus curtius rufus, historian, is maintained separately. contents 	 the historical alter ego 	 . most credible date 	 . most credible identity 	 the historiae 	 . manuscripts and editions 	 . the vulgate authors 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 external links the historical alter ego[edit] curtius' work is uniquely isolated. no other ancient work refers to it, or as far as is known, to him.[ ] peter pratt[ ] pointing out that the senate and emperors frequently proscribed or censored works, suggests that curtius had not published the manuscript before his death, but left it in care of the emperor. the emperors intended to publish it posthumously but did not find a political opportunity. they had adopted the identity of alexander for themselves. the provinces fashioned from the macedonian empire were difficult to govern, always on the point of rebellion. the work of curtius, pratt conjectures, was not politically appropriate because it would have encouraged independence. the earliest opportune moment was the year , when the campaign of the emperor marcus aurelius against the parthian empire had failed, and the returning troops were in bad morale and infected with the antonine plague. the emperor attempted to build national pride among the former macedonian states. avidius cassius, commandant of legio iii gallica, returning veterans, was promoted to consul. he claimed descent from the seleucids of macedonia. new coins and medals were issued in macedonia on alexandrian themes. pratt conjectures that the manuscript in storage, by this time damaged and partly destroyed, was published finally, accounting for the previous lack of references to it. it is also possible books i and ii along with other loci were censored out. as the emperors probably had surmised, it was immediately popular. most credible date[edit] claudius the dating available relies entirely on internal evidence, which is not certain, but offers some degree of preponderance. in book x curtius digresses to give an encomium on blessings of peace under empire, citing the roman empire with the implication of contemporaneity.[ ] in essence he reasserts the policy of augustus, which casts the empire as the restoration of monarchy for the suppression of the civil wars fomented by the contention of powerful noblemen vying for control of the republic. curtius' glowing endorsement of the policy dates him to the roman empire. he also mentions the parthian empire. it was formed by the eastern satrapies recusing themselves from macedonian overlordship and restoring a purely iranian empire. it defended itself successfully against rome, even though rome absorbed what was left of the macedonian kingdoms. the dates of the parthian empire are bc through ad. although curtius may have been writing about an empire vanished in his own day, the most straightforward approach assumes that he wrote in a window, bc (start of the roman empire) through ad.[ ] for further localization, the same imperial purple passage contrasts the civil wars of the macedonians (diadochi wars) due to failure to obtain a stable emperor, with an incident of the roman empire in which the risk of civil war was avoided by the appointment of a new emperor in a single night. not very many incidents fit the description. baynham summarizes the argument of julius nützell that the crisis might be the night of january / , ad, following the assassination of caligula on that day. the senate met on an emergency basis to debate whether the roman republic should be restored. the praetorian guard forced its way in to insist on the appointment of caligula's uncle, claudius. his reign concentrated on the restoration of the rule of law. a lawyer, he issued up to imperial edicts per day, re-establishing the pax romana. if this argument is correct, curtius' work must be dated to after ad.[ ] the upper limit is provided by a passage that mentions the "continued prosperity of tyre under roman dominion."[ ] the peace of the empire came to an end in ad when claudius invaded britain. none of these dates are certain, but the union of all the ranges presents a credible view of curtius' date. baynham says: "many modern scholars now accept a date in the middle to late part of the first century a.d. as a likely floruit for curtius."[ ] most credible identity[edit] by his name, quintus curtius rufus was a member of the curtii rufi branch of the curtii family, one of the original nobility of rome. due to the frequently used institution of adoption, people of the name curtius (or female curtia) might not be consanguineous. moreover, the same name tended to be repeated, typically from grandfather to grandson. after centuries of curtii, a curtius might turn up in history at any location or in any period. the candidates for the historical identity of the author are but few. given the time frame of the mid- st century, however, there is a credible candidate. he is a certain curtius rufus (the praenomen has been omitted. presumably it is quintus.) in the list of roman consuls he served as consul suffectus for october through december, ad under the emperor claudius. he had been a protégé of tiberius.[ ] he must have written the histories in the year or two before the consulship. tacitus says that he was on the staff of the quaestor of africa during that time, which would have given him the opportunity to use the library of alexandria.[ ] tiberius had died in ; caligula was emperor then. curtius’ relations with caligula are not mentioned. but caligula was not in his vicinity. on curtius’ return, a book such as the historiae unless politically incorrect would have impressed the scholarly claudius. tiberius already had been an admirer before the book: he said that curtius rufus was his own ancestor; i.e., a self-made man. tacitus hints that curtius was of low birth, possibly the son of a gladiator. the story is only compatible with the name if one assumes adoption, which tiberius could easily have arranged, if curtius took office at the minimum age of , and tiberius made his comment in the year of his own death, curtius would have been or younger when described as a self-made man. in an age when alexander had become regent of macedon at , a rise to fame at , and consulship at , would not have been incredible. tiberius would have been a senior emperor when curtius came to his attention. what his qualifications were for the patronage remain obscure. if, on the other hand, quintus curtius rufus is to be identified with curtius rufus, consul suffect of , then the most likely circumstantial evidence places his birth in the early years of the st century, in the reign of augustus.[ ] the historiae[edit] main article: histories of alexander the great manuscripts and editions[edit] historiae survives in codices, or bound manuscripts, all deriving from an original in the th century. as it was a partial text, already missing large pieces, they are partial as well. they vary in condition. some are more partial than others, with lacunae that developed since the th century. the original contained ten libri, "books," equivalent to our chapters. book i and ii are missing, along with any introduction that might have been expected according to ancient custom. there are gaps in v, vi, and x. many loci, or "places," throughout are obscure, subject to interpretation or emendation in the name of restoration.[ ] the work enjoyed popularity in the high middle ages. it is the main source for a genre of tales termed the alexander romance (some say romances); for example, walter of chatillon's epic poem alexandreis, which was written in the style of virgil's aeneid. these romances spilled over into the renaissance, especially of italy, where curtius was idolized.[ ] painters, such as paolo veronese and charles le brun, painted scenes from curtius. the editio princeps, or first printed edition, was published in or at venice by vindelinus spirensis. a slow but steady stream of editions appeared subsequently until more of a need for standardization was perceived. in edmund hedicke instigated a convention that persists yet. he based his edition of that year on the five best manuscripts.[ ] the vulgate authors[edit] in what remains of his work, curtius mainly does not identify sources. they were, perhaps, stated in the missing books. speculations of what they were based on thorough analysis of the content and style vary widely. yardley and heckel say: "the internal evidence for curtius' sources is disappointing."[ ] he does, however, mention cleitarchus, a historian in camp, twice,[ ] ptolemy once, and timagenes once. these men were participants in the alexander story and therefore are counted as eyewitnesses, or primary sources. all accounts based on them are by analogy also termed "primary."[ ] these works are also called "the vulgate." see also[edit] 	curtius rufus notes[edit] 	^ baynham , p.  	^ pratt , pp. xvi-xxi the lesser known pratt was a clerk in the library of east india house. his employment was to research and publish documents on the east indies trade. he expanded that process into writing universal history books, such as the history of japan. he did some writing to gratify his own interests, such as the translation of curtius, which reveals the depth of his education and research. he remained so unself-confident that he did not put his name on the work. in the preface he begins one footnote with “as a stranger to antiquarian studies, i hesitate to point out ....” he was certainly no stranger. the book received professional reviews, becoming popular. 	^ chapter , - . 	^ baynham , p.  	^ baynham , pp.  – 	^ curtius , p. xii on book iv, chapter , . 	^ baynham , p.  	^ yardley & atkinson , pp.  – . 	^ annales, book xi, section . 	^ hamilton 	^ baynham , p.  	^ baynham , p.  	^ baynham , pp.  – . they are b for bernensis, f for florentinus, l for leidensis, p for parisinus, and v for vosianus. 	^ yardley & heckel , introduction: c. curtius' sources and models. 	^ . . , . . . 	^ yardely & atkinson , p.  harvnb error: no target: citerefyardelyatkinson (help) identifies five: curtius, diodorus siculus book ; gnaeus pompeius trogus, "philippic history," books - (in epitome by justin); arrian, anabasis alexandri, and plutarch, "life of alexander." references[edit] 	baynham, elizabeth ( ). alexander the great: the unique history of quintus curtius. ann arbor: university of michigan press. 	curtius, rufus quintus ( ). humphreys, willard (ed.). selections from the history of alexander the great. boston: ginn & co. 	hamilton, j.r. ( ). "the date of quintus curtius rufus". zeitschrift für alte geschichte. bd. : – . 	lucarini, carlo m. ( ). q. curtius rufus: historiae. bibliotheca scriptorum graecorum et romanorum teubneriana (in latin). berolini [berlin]; novi eboraci [new york]: walter de gruyter. 	pratt, p. ( ). the history of the life and reign of alexander the great. volume i. london: samuel bagster. 	rolfe, john c. 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themselves as highly religious, and attributed their success as a world power to their collective piety (pietas) in maintaining good relations with the gods. the romans are known for the great number of deities they honored, a capacity that earned the mockery of early christian polemicists.[ ] the presence of greeks on the italian peninsula from the beginning of the historical period influenced roman culture, introducing some religious practices that became as fundamental as the cult of apollo. the romans looked for common ground between their major gods and those of the greeks (interpretatio graeca), adapting greek myths and iconography for latin literature and roman art, as the etruscans had. etruscan religion was also a major influence, particularly on the practice of augury. according to legends, most of rome's religious institutions could be traced to its founders, particularly numa pompilius, the sabine second king of rome, who negotiated directly with the gods. this archaic religion was the foundation of the mos maiorum, "the way of the ancestors" or simply "tradition", viewed as central to roman identity. cybele enthroned, with lion, cornucopia and mural crown. roman marble, c. ad. getty museum roman religion was practical and contractual, based on the principle of do ut des, "i give that you might give". religion depended on knowledge and the correct practice of prayer, ritual, and sacrifice, not on faith or dogma, although latin literature preserves learned speculation on the nature of the divine and its relation to human affairs. even the most skeptical among rome's intellectual elite such as cicero, who was an augur, saw religion as a source of social order. as the roman empire expanded, migrants to the capital brought their local cults, many of which became popular among italians. christianity was in the end the most successful of these, and in became the official state religion. for ordinary romans, religion was a part of daily life.[ ] each home had a household shrine at which prayers and libations to the family's domestic deities were offered. neighborhood shrines and sacred places such as springs and groves dotted the city.[ ] the roman calendar was structured around religious observances. women, slaves, and children all participated in a range of religious activities. some public rituals could be conducted only by women, and women formed what is perhaps rome's most famous priesthood, the state-supported vestals, who tended rome's sacred hearth for centuries, until disbanded under christian domination. contents 	 overview 	 founding myths and divine destiny 	 roman deities 	 greco-roman mystery cults 	 holidays and festivals 	 temples and shrines 	 religious practice 	 . prayers, vows, and oaths 	 . sacrifice 	 . . animal sacrifice 	 . . human sacrifice 	 . domestic and private cult 	 religio and the state 	 . public priesthoods and religious law 	 . . the vestals 	 . augury 	 . . haruspicy 	 . . omens and prodigies 	 funerals and the afterlife 	 religion and the military 	 women and religion 	 superstitio and magic 	 history of roman religion 	 . religion and politics 	 . early republic 	 . later republic to principate 	 . roman empire 	 . . eastern influence 	 . . absorption of cults 	 . . imperial cult 	 . . jews and roman religion 	 . . christianity in the roman empire 	 . . emperor constantine and christianity 	 . . transition to christian hegemony 	 see also 	 references 	 . citations 	 . sources 	 external links overview[edit] the priesthoods of public religion were held by members of the elite classes. there was no principle analogous to separation of church and state in ancient rome. during the roman republic ( – bc), the same men who were elected public officials might also serve as augurs and pontiffs. priests married, raised families, and led politically active lives. julius caesar became pontifex maximus before he was elected consul. the augurs read the will of the gods and supervised the marking of boundaries as a reflection of universal order, thus sanctioning roman expansionism as a matter of divine destiny. the roman triumph was at its core a religious procession in which the victorious general displayed his piety and his willingness to serve the public good by dedicating a portion of his spoils to the gods, especially jupiter, who embodied just rule. as a result of the punic wars ( – bc), when rome struggled to establish itself as a dominant power, many new temples were built by magistrates in fulfillment of a vow to a deity for assuring their military success. as the romans extended their dominance throughout the mediterranean world, their policy in general was to absorb the deities and cults of other peoples rather than try to eradicate them,[ ] since they believed that preserving tradition promoted social stability.[ ] one way that rome incorporated diverse peoples was by supporting their religious heritage, building temples to local deities that framed their theology within the hierarchy of roman religion. inscriptions throughout the empire record the side-by-side worship of local and roman deities, including dedications made by romans to local gods.[ ] by the height of the empire, numerous international deities were cultivated at rome and had been carried to even the most remote provinces, among them cybele, isis, epona, and gods of solar monism such as mithras and sol invictus, found as far north as roman britain. foreign religions increasingly attracted devotees among romans, who increasingly had ancestry from elsewhere in the empire. imported mystery religions, which offered initiates salvation in the afterlife, were a matter of personal choice for an individual, practiced in addition to carrying on one's family rites and participating in public religion. the mysteries, however, involved exclusive oaths and secrecy, conditions that conservative romans viewed with suspicion as characteristic of "magic", conspiratorial (coniuratio), or subversive activity. sporadic and sometimes brutal attempts were made to suppress religionists who seemed to threaten traditional morality and unity, as with the senate's efforts to restrict the bacchanals in bc. because romans had never been obligated to cultivate one god or one cult only, religious tolerance was not an issue in the sense that it is for monotheistic systems.[ ] the monotheistic rigor of judaism posed difficulties for roman policy that led at times to compromise and the granting of special exemptions, but sometimes to intractable conflict. for example, religious disputes helped cause the first jewish–roman war and the bar kokhba revolt. in the wake of the republic's collapse, state religion had adapted to support the new regime of the emperors. augustus, the first roman emperor, justified the novelty of one-man rule with a vast program of religious revivalism and reform. public vows formerly made for the security of the republic now were directed at the well-being of the emperor. so-called "emperor worship" expanded on a grand scale the traditional roman veneration of the ancestral dead and of the genius, the divine tutelary of every individual. the imperial cult became one of the major ways in which rome advertised its presence in the provinces and cultivated shared cultural identity and loyalty throughout the empire. rejection of the state religion was tantamount to treason. this was the context for rome's conflict with christianity, which romans variously regarded as a form of atheism and novel superstitio, while christians considered roman religion to be paganism. ultimately, roman polytheism was brought to an end with the adoption of christianity as the official religion of the empire. founding myths and divine destiny[edit] relief panel from an altar to venus and mars depicting romulus and remus suckling the she-wolf, and gods representing roman topography such as the tiber and palatine hill see also: roman mythology and founding of rome the roman mythological tradition is particularly rich in historical myths, or legends, concerning the foundation and rise of the city. these narratives focus on human actors, with only occasional intervention from deities but a pervasive sense of divinely ordered destiny. for rome's earliest period, history and myth are difficult to distinguish.[ ] according to mythology, rome had a semi-divine ancestor in the trojan refugee aeneas, son of venus, who was said to have established the nucleus of roman religion when he brought the palladium, lares and penates from troy to italy. these objects were believed in historical times to remain in the keeping of the vestals, rome's female priesthood. aeneas, according to classical authors, had been given refuge by king evander, a greek exile from arcadia, to whom were attributed other religious foundations: he established the ara maxima, "greatest altar", to hercules at the site that would become the forum boarium, and, so the legend went, he was the first to celebrate the lupercalia, an archaic festival in february that was celebrated as late as the th century of the christian era.[ ] the myth of a trojan founding with greek influence was reconciled through an elaborate genealogy (the latin kings of alba longa) with the well-known legend of rome's founding by romulus and remus. the most common version of the twins' story displays several aspects of hero myth. their mother, rhea silvia, had been ordered by her uncle the king to remain a virgin, in order to preserve the throne he had usurped from her father. through divine intervention, the rightful line was restored when rhea silvia was impregnated by the god mars. she gave birth to twins, who were duly exposed by order of the king but saved through a series of miraculous events. romulus and remus regained their grandfather's throne and set out to build a new city, consulting with the gods through augury, a characteristic religious institution of rome that is portrayed as existing from earliest times. the brothers quarrel while building the city walls, and romulus kills remus, an act that is sometimes seen as sacrificial. fratricide thus became an integral part of rome's founding myth.[ ] romulus was credited with several religious institutions. he founded the consualia festival, inviting the neighbouring sabines to participate; the ensuing rape of the sabine women by romulus's men further embedded both violence and cultural assimilation in rome's myth of origins. as a successful general, romulus is also supposed to have founded rome's first temple to jupiter feretrius and offered the spolia opima, the prime spoils taken in war, in the celebration of the first roman triumph. spared a mortal's death, romulus was mysteriously spirited away and deified.[ ] aeneas urged by the penates to continue his journey to found rome ( th century ad illustration)[ ] his sabine successor numa was pious and peaceable, and credited with numerous political and religious foundations, including the first roman calendar; the priesthoods of the salii, flamines, and vestals; the cults of jupiter, mars, and quirinus; and the temple of janus, whose doors stayed open in times of war but in numa's time remained closed. after numa's death, the doors to the temple of janus were supposed to have remained open until the reign of augustus.[ ] each of rome's legendary or semi-legendary kings was associated with one or more religious institutions still known to the later republic. tullus hostilius and ancus marcius instituted the fetial priests. the first "outsider" etruscan king, lucius tarquinius priscus, founded a capitoline temple to the triad jupiter, juno and minerva which served as the model for the highest official cult throughout the roman world. the benevolent, divinely fathered servius tullius established the latin league, its aventine temple to diana, and the compitalia to mark his social reforms. servius tullius was murdered and succeeded by the arrogant tarquinius superbus, whose expulsion marked the beginning of rome as a republic with annually elected magistrates.[ ] roman historians[ ] regarded the essentials of republican religion as complete by the end of numa's reign, and confirmed as right and lawful by the senate and people of rome: the sacred topography of the city, its monuments and temples, the histories of rome's leading families, and oral and ritual traditions.[ ] according to cicero, the romans considered themselves the most religious of all peoples, and their rise to dominance was proof they received divine favor in return.[ ] roman deities[edit] twelve principal deities (di consentes) corresponding to those honored at the lectisternium of bc, represented on a st-century altar from gabii that is rimmed by the zodiac. see also: list of roman deities rome offers no native creation myth, and little mythography to explain the character of its deities, their mutual relationships or their interactions with the human world, but roman theology acknowledged that di immortales (immortal gods) ruled all realms of the heavens and earth. there were gods of the upper heavens, gods of the underworld and a myriad of lesser deities between. some evidently favoured rome because rome honoured them, but none were intrinsically, irredeemably foreign or alien. the political, cultural and religious coherence of an emergent roman super-state required a broad, inclusive and flexible network of lawful cults. at different times and in different places, the sphere of influence, character and functions of a divine being could expand, overlap with those of others, and be redefined as roman. change was embedded within existing traditions.[ ] several versions of a semi-official, structured pantheon were developed during the political, social and religious instability of the late republican era. jupiter, the most powerful of all gods and "the fount of the auspices upon which the relationship of the city with the gods rested", consistently personified the divine authority of rome's highest offices, internal organization and external relations. during the archaic and early republican eras, he shared his temple, some aspects of cult and several divine characteristics with mars and quirinus, who were later replaced by juno and minerva.[ ] three goddesses on a panel of the augustan ara pacis, consecrated in bc; the iconography is open to multiple interpretations a conceptual tendency toward triads may be indicated by the later agricultural or plebeian triad of ceres, liber and libera, and by some of the complementary threefold deity-groupings of imperial cult.[ ] other major and minor deities could be single, coupled, or linked retrospectively through myths of divine marriage and sexual adventure. these later roman pantheistic hierarchies are part literary and mythographic, part philosophical creations, and often greek in origin. the hellenization of latin literature and culture supplied literary and artistic models for reinterpreting roman deities in light of the greek olympians, and promoted a sense that the two cultures had a shared heritage.[ ] the impressive, costly, and centralised rites to the deities of the roman state were vastly outnumbered in everyday life by commonplace religious observances pertaining to an individual's domestic and personal deities, the patron divinities of rome's various neighborhoods and communities, and the often idiosyncratic blends of official, unofficial, local and personal cults that characterised lawful roman religion.[ ] in this spirit, a provincial roman citizen who made the long journey from bordeaux to italy to consult the sibyl at tibur did not neglect his devotion to his own goddess from home: i wander, never ceasing to pass through the whole world, but i am first and foremost a faithful worshiper of onuava. i am at the ends of the earth, but the distance cannot tempt me to make my vows to another goddess. love of the truth brought me to tibur, but onuava's favorable powers came with me. thus, divine mother, far from my home-land, exiled in italy, i address my vows and prayers to you no less.[ ] greco-roman mystery cults[edit] main article: greco-roman mysteries throughout the life of rome, a numerous array of "mystery cults" appeared. these cults were generally founded upon legends or sacred stories, such as the tale of orpheus. several had a basis in other cultures, such as the cult of isis, an egyptian goddess. the members generally knew the stories were pure legend, but they provided a model for their followers to obey. these cults had often expensive, long, or trying initiation processes, which differed between cults, but prospective members were promised with a path to a better atmosphere and an atmosphere that fostered social bonds, known as mystai. these bonds were generated due to the fact that most of these cults regularly practiced common meals among members, dances, ceremonies and rituals, and the aforementioned initiations. the focus of the cult, such as the focus on orpheus among orphic cults, did not necessarily dictate the theology of its members. the legendary tales were meant to guide members, but the deities involved tended to be a lesser focus. mystery cults were present and generally accepted throughout much of rome and provided a unique theological experience for their members.[ ][ ] holidays and festivals[edit] see also: roman festivals, fasti, roman calendar, ludi, and roman triumph roman calendars show roughly forty annual religious festivals. some lasted several days, others a single day or less: sacred days (dies fasti) outnumbered "non-sacred" days (dies nefasti).[ ] a comparison of surviving roman religious calendars suggests that official festivals were organized according to broad seasonal groups that allowed for different local traditions. some of the most ancient and popular festivals incorporated ludi ("games", such as chariot races and theatrical performances), with examples including those held at palestrina in honour of fortuna primigenia during compitalia, and the ludi romani in honour of liber.[ ] other festivals may have required only the presence and rites of their priests and acolytes,[ ] or particular groups, such as women at the bona dea rites.[ ] this fresco from outside pompeii shows roman men celebrating a religious festival, probably the compitalia other public festivals were not required by the calendar, but occasioned by events. the triumph of a roman general was celebrated as the fulfillment of religious vows, though these tended to be overshadowed by the political and social significance of the event. during the late republic, the political elite competed to outdo each other in public display, and the ludi attendant on a triumph were expanded to include gladiator contests. under the principate, all such spectacular displays came under imperial control: the most lavish were subsidised by emperors, and lesser events were provided by magistrates as a sacred duty and privilege of office. additional festivals and games celebrated imperial accessions and anniversaries. others, such as the traditional republican secular games to mark a new era (saeculum), became imperially funded to maintain traditional values and a common roman identity. that the spectacles retained something of their sacral aura even in late antiquity is indicated by the admonitions of the church fathers that christians should not take part.[ ] the meaning and origin of many archaic festivals baffled even rome's intellectual elite, but the more obscure they were, the greater the opportunity for reinvention and reinterpretation – a fact lost neither on augustus in his program of religious reform, which often cloaked autocratic innovation, nor on his only rival as mythmaker of the era, ovid. in his fasti, a long-form poem covering roman holidays from january to june, ovid presents a unique look at roman antiquarian lore, popular customs, and religious practice that is by turns imaginative, entertaining, high-minded, and scurrilous;[ ] not a priestly account, despite the speaker's pose as a vates or inspired poet-prophet, but a work of description, imagination and poetic etymology that reflects the broad humor and burlesque spirit of such venerable festivals as the saturnalia, consualia, and feast of anna perenna on the ides of march, where ovid treats the assassination of the newly deified julius caesar as utterly incidental to the festivities among the roman people.[ ] but official calendars preserved from different times and places also show a flexibility in omitting or expanding events, indicating that there was no single static and authoritative calendar of required observances. in the later empire under christian rule, the new christian festivals were incorporated into the existing framework of the roman calendar, alongside at least some of the traditional festivals.[ ] temples and shrines[edit] portico of the temple of antoninus and faustina, later incorporated into a church main article: roman temple public religious ceremonies of the official roman religion took place outdoors, and not within the temple building. some ceremonies were processions that started at, visited, or ended with a temple or shrine, where a ritual object might be stored and brought out for use, or where an offering would be deposited. sacrifices, chiefly of animals, would take place at an open-air altar within the templum or precinct, often to the side of the steps leading up to the raised portico. the main room (cella) inside a temple housed the cult image of the deity to whom the temple was dedicated, and often a small altar for incense or libations. it might also display art works looted in war and rededicated to the gods. it is not clear how accessible the interiors of temples were to the general public. the latin word templum originally referred not to the temple building itself, but to a sacred space surveyed and plotted ritually through augury: "the architecture of the ancient romans was, from first to last, an art of shaping space around ritual."[ ] the roman architect vitruvius always uses the word templum to refer to this sacred precinct, and the more common latin words aedes, delubrum, or fanum for a temple or shrine as a building. the ruins of temples are among the most visible monuments of ancient roman culture. temple buildings and shrines within the city commemorated significant political settlements in its development: the aventine temple of diana supposedly marked the founding of the latin league under servius tullius.[ ] many temples in the republican era were built as the fulfillment of a vow made by a general in exchange for a victory. religious practice[edit] prayers, vows, and oaths[edit] all sacrifices and offerings required an accompanying prayer to be effective. pliny the elder declared that "a sacrifice without prayer is thought to be useless and not a proper consultation of the gods."[ ] prayer by itself, however, had independent power. the spoken word was thus the single most potent religious action, and knowledge of the correct verbal formulas the key to efficacy.[ ] accurate naming was vital for tapping into the desired powers of the deity invoked, hence the proliferation of cult epithets among roman deities.[ ] public prayers (prex) were offered loudly and clearly by a priest on behalf of the community. public religious ritual had to be enacted by specialists and professionals faultlessly; a mistake might require that the action, or even the entire festival, be repeated from the start.[ ] the historian livy reports an occasion when the presiding magistrate at the latin festival forgot to include the "roman people" among the list of beneficiaries in his prayer; the festival had to be started over.[ ] even private prayer by an individual was formulaic, a recitation rather than a personal expression, though selected by the individual for a particular purpose or occasion.[ ] oaths—sworn for the purposes of business, clientage and service, patronage and protection, state office, treaty and loyalty—appealed to the witness and sanction of deities. refusal to swear a lawful oath (sacramentum) and breaking a sworn oath carried much the same penalty: both repudiated the fundamental bonds between the human and divine.[ ] a votum or vow was a promise made to a deity, usually an offer of sacrifices or a votive offering in exchange for benefits received. sacrifice[edit] roman relief depicting a scene of sacrifice, with libations at a flaming altar and the victimarius carrying the sacrificial axe in latin, the word sacrificium means the performance of an act that renders something sacer, sacred. sacrifice reinforced the powers and attributes of divine beings, and inclined them to render benefits in return (the principle of do ut des). offerings to household deities were part of daily life. lares might be offered spelt wheat and grain-garlands, grapes and first fruits in due season, honey cakes and honeycombs, wine and incense,[ ] food that fell to the floor during any family meal,[ ] or at their compitalia festival, honey-cakes and a pig on behalf of the community.[ ] their supposed underworld relatives, the malicious and vagrant lemures, might be placated with midnight offerings of black beans and spring water.[ ] animal sacrifice[edit] further information: october horse, tauromachy, taurobolium, and haruspicy the most potent offering was animal sacrifice, typically of domesticated animals such as cattle, sheep and pigs. each was the best specimen of its kind, cleansed, clad in sacrificial regalia and garlanded; the horns of oxen might be gilded. sacrifice sought the harmonisation of the earthly and divine, so the victim must seem willing to offer its own life on behalf of the community; it must remain calm and be quickly and cleanly dispatched.[ ] sacrifice to deities of the heavens (di superi, "gods above") was performed in daylight, and under the public gaze. deities of the upper heavens required white, infertile victims of their own sex: juno a white heifer (possibly a white cow); jupiter a white, castrated ox (bos mas) for the annual oath-taking by the consuls. di superi with strong connections to the earth, such as mars, janus, neptune and various genii – including the emperor's – were offered fertile victims. after the sacrifice, a banquet was held; in state cults, the images of honoured deities took pride of place on banqueting couches and by means of the sacrificial fire consumed their proper portion (exta, the innards). rome's officials and priests reclined in order of precedence alongside and ate the meat; lesser citizens may have had to provide their own.[ ] denarius issued under augustus, with a bust of venus on the obverse, and ritual implements on the reverse: clockwise from top right, the augur's staff (lituus), libation bowl (patera), tripod, and ladle (simpulum) chthonic gods such as dis pater, the di inferi ("gods below"), and the collective shades of the departed (di manes) were given dark, fertile victims in nighttime rituals. animal sacrifice usually took the form of a holocaust or burnt offering, and there was no shared banquet, as "the living cannot share a meal with the dead".[ ] ceres and other underworld goddesses of fruitfulness were sometimes offered pregnant female animals; tellus was given a pregnant cow at the fordicidia festival. color had a general symbolic value for sacrifices. demigods and heroes, who belonged to the heavens and the underworld, were sometimes given black-and-white victims. robigo (or robigus) was given red dogs and libations of red wine at the robigalia for the protection of crops from blight and red mildew.[ ] a sacrifice might be made in thanksgiving or as an expiation of a sacrilege or potential sacrilege (piaculum);[ ] a piaculum might also be offered as a sort of advance payment; the arval brethren, for instance, offered a piaculum before entering their sacred grove with an iron implement, which was forbidden, as well as after.[ ] the pig was a common victim for a piaculum.[ ] the same divine agencies who caused disease or harm also had the power to avert it, and so might be placated in advance. divine consideration might be sought to avoid the inconvenient delays of a journey, or encounters with banditry, piracy and shipwreck, with due gratitude to be rendered on safe arrival or return. in times of great crisis, the senate could decree collective public rites, in which rome's citizens, including women and children, moved in procession from one temple to the next, supplicating the gods.[ ] extraordinary circumstances called for extraordinary sacrifice: in one of the many crises of the second punic war, jupiter capitolinus was promised every animal born that spring (see ver sacrum), to be rendered after five more years of protection from hannibal and his allies.[ ] the "contract" with jupiter is exceptionally detailed. all due care would be taken of the animals. if any died or were stolen before the scheduled sacrifice, they would count as already sacrificed, since they had already been consecrated. normally, if the gods failed to keep their side of the bargain, the offered sacrifice would be withheld. in the imperial period, sacrifice was withheld following trajan's death because the gods had not kept the emperor safe for the stipulated period.[ ] in pompeii, the genius of the living emperor was offered a bull: presumably a standard practise in imperial cult, though minor offerings (incense and wine) were also made.[ ] the exta were the entrails of a sacrificed animal, comprising in cicero's enumeration the gall bladder (fel), liver (iecur), heart (cor), and lungs (pulmones).[ ] the exta were exposed for litatio (divine approval) as part of roman liturgy, but were "read" in the context of the disciplina etrusca. as a product of roman sacrifice, the exta and blood are reserved for the gods, while the meat (viscera) is shared among human beings in a communal meal. the exta of bovine victims were usually stewed in a pot (olla or aula), while those of sheep or pigs were grilled on skewers. when the deity's portion was cooked, it was sprinkled with mola salsa (ritually prepared salted flour) and wine, then placed in the fire on the altar for the offering; the technical verb for this action was porricere.[ ] human sacrifice[edit] human sacrifice in ancient rome was rare but documented. after the roman defeat at cannae two gauls and two greeks were buried under the forum boarium, in a stone chamber "which had on a previous occasion [ bc] also been polluted by human victims, a practice most repulsive to roman feelings".[ ] livy avoids the word "sacrifice" in connection with this bloodless human life-offering; plutarch does not. the rite was apparently repeated in bc, preparatory to an invasion of gaul. its religious dimensions and purpose remain uncertain.[ ] in the early stages of the first punic war ( bc) the first known roman gladiatorial munus was held, described as a funeral blood-rite to the manes of a roman military aristocrat.[ ] the gladiator munus was never explicitly acknowledged as a human sacrifice, probably because death was not its inevitable outcome or purpose. even so, the gladiators swore their lives to the gods, and the combat was dedicated as an offering to the di manes or the revered souls of deceased human beings. the event was therefore a sacrificium in the strict sense of the term, and christian writers later condemned it as human sacrifice.[ ] the small woollen dolls called maniae, hung on the compitalia shrines, were thought a symbolic replacement for child-sacrifice to mania, as mother of the lares. the junii took credit for its abolition by their ancestor l. junius brutus, traditionally rome's republican founder and first consul.[ ] political or military executions were sometimes conducted in such a way that they evoked human sacrifice, whether deliberately or in the perception of witnesses; marcus marius gratidianus was a gruesome example. officially, human sacrifice was obnoxious "to the laws of gods and men". the practice was a mark of the barbarians, attributed to rome's traditional enemies such as the carthaginians and gauls. rome banned it on several occasions under extreme penalty. a law passed in bc characterised human sacrifice as murder committed for magical purposes. pliny saw the ending of human sacrifice conducted by the druids as a positive consequence of the conquest of gaul and britain. despite an empire-wide ban under hadrian, human sacrifice may have continued covertly in north africa and elsewhere.[ ] domestic and private cult[edit] small bronze statues of gods for a lararium ( st to rd century ad, vindobona) the mos maiorum established the dynastic authority and obligations of the citizen-paterfamilias ("the father of the family" or the "owner of the family estate"). he had priestly duties to his lares, domestic penates, ancestral genius and any other deities with whom he or his family held an interdependent relationship. his own dependents, who included his slaves and freedmen, owed cult to his genius.[ ][ ] genius was the essential spirit and generative power – depicted as a serpent or as a perennial youth, often winged – within an individual and their clan (gens (pl. gentes). a paterfamilias could confer his name, a measure of his genius and a role in his household rites, obligations and honours upon those he fathered or adopted. his freed slaves owed him similar obligations.[ ] a pater familias was the senior priest of his household. he offered daily cult to his lares and penates, and to his di parentes/divi parentes at his domestic shrines and in the fires of the household hearth.[ ] his wife (mater familias) was responsible for the household's cult to vesta. in rural estates, bailiffs seem to have been responsible for at least some of the household shrines (lararia) and their deities. household cults had state counterparts. in vergil's aeneid, aeneas brought the trojan cult of the lares and penates from troy, along with the palladium which was later installed in the temple of vesta.[ ] religio and the state[edit] portrait of the emperor antoninus pius (reigned – ad) in ritual attire as an arval brother roman religio (religion) was an everyday and vital affair, a cornerstone of the mos maiorum, roman tradition or ancestral custom. care for the gods, the very meaning of religio, had therefore to go through life, and one might thus understand why cicero wrote that religion was "necessary". religious behavior – pietas in latin, eusebeia in greek – belonged to action and not to contemplation. consequently religious acts took place wherever the faithful were: in houses, boroughs, associations, cities, military camps, cemeteries, in the country, on boats. 'when pious travelers happen to pass by a sacred grove or a cult place on their way, they are used to make a vow, or a fruit offering, or to sit down for a while' (apuleius, florides . ).[ ] religious law centered on the ritualised system of honours and sacrifice that brought divine blessings, according to the principle do ut des ("i give, that you might give"). proper, respectful religio brought social harmony and prosperity. religious neglect was a form of atheism: impure sacrifice and incorrect ritual were vitia (impious errors). excessive devotion, fearful grovelling to deities and the improper use or seeking of divine knowledge were superstitio. any of these moral deviations could cause divine anger (ira deorum) and therefore harm the state.[ ] the official deities of the state were identified with its lawful offices and institutions, and romans of every class were expected to honour the beneficence and protection of mortal and divine superiors. participation in public rites showed a personal commitment to their community and its values.[ ] official cults were state funded as a "matter of public interest" (res publica). non-official but lawful cults were funded by private individuals for the benefit of their own communities. the difference between public and private cult is often unclear. individuals or collegial associations could offer funds and cult to state deities. the public vestals prepared ritual substances for use in public and private cults, and held the state-funded (thus public) opening ceremony for the parentalia festival, which was otherwise a private rite to household ancestors. some rites of the domus (household) were held in public places but were legally defined as privata in part or whole. all cults were ultimately subject to the approval and regulation of the censor and pontifices.[ ] public priesthoods and religious law[edit] flamines wearing their distinctive pointed headgear (grouped to the left), in a panel from the ara pacis rome had no separate priestly caste or class. the highest authority within a community usually sponsored its cults and sacrifices, officiated as its priest and promoted its assistants and acolytes. specialists from the religious colleges and professionals such as haruspices and oracles were available for consultation. in household cult, the paterfamilias functioned as priest, and members of his familia as acolytes and assistants. public cults required greater knowledge and expertise. the earliest public priesthoods were probably the flamines (the singular is flamen), attributed to king numa: the major flamines, dedicated to jupiter, mars and quirinus, were traditionally drawn from patrician families. twelve lesser flamines were each dedicated to a single deity, whose archaic nature is indicated by the relative obscurity of some. flamines were constrained by the requirements of ritual purity; jupiter's flamen in particular had virtually no simultaneous capacity for a political or military career.[ ] in the regal era, a rex sacrorum (king of the sacred rites) supervised regal and state rites in conjunction with the king (rex) or in his absence, and announced the public festivals. he had little or no civil authority. with the abolition of monarchy, the collegial power and influence of the republican pontifices increased. by the late republican era, the flamines were supervised by the pontifical collegia. the rex sacrorum had become a relatively obscure priesthood with an entirely symbolic title: his religious duties still included the daily, ritual announcement of festivals and priestly duties within two or three of the latter but his most important priestly role – the supervision of the vestals and their rites – fell to the more politically powerful and influential pontifex maximus.[ ] public priests were appointed by the collegia. once elected, a priest held permanent religious authority from the eternal divine, which offered him lifetime influence, privilege and immunity. therefore, civil and religious law limited the number and kind of religious offices allowed an individual and his family. religious law was collegial and traditional; it informed political decisions, could overturn them, and was difficult to exploit for personal gain.[ ] priesthood was a costly honour: in traditional roman practice, a priest drew no stipend. cult donations were the property of the deity, whose priest must provide cult regardless of shortfalls in public funding – this could mean subsidy of acolytes and all other cult maintenance from personal funds.[ ] for those who had reached their goal in the cursus honorum, permanent priesthood was best sought or granted after a lifetime's service in military or political life, or preferably both: it was a particularly honourable and active form of retirement which fulfilled an essential public duty. for a freedman or slave, promotion as one of the compitalia seviri offered a high local profile, and opportunities in local politics; and therefore business.[ ] during the imperial era, priesthood of the imperial cult offered provincial elites full roman citizenship and public prominence beyond their single year in religious office; in effect, it was the first step in a provincial cursus honorum. in rome, the same imperial cult role was performed by the arval brethren, once an obscure republican priesthood dedicated to several deities, then co-opted by augustus as part of his religious reforms. the arvals offered prayer and sacrifice to roman state gods at various temples for the continued welfare of the imperial family on their birthdays, accession anniversaries and to mark extraordinary events such as the quashing of conspiracy or revolt. every january they consecrated the annual vows and rendered any sacrifice promised in the previous year, provided the gods had kept the imperial family safe for the contracted time.[ ] the vestals[edit] a roman sculpture depicting a vestal the vestals were a public priesthood of six women devoted to the cultivation of vesta, goddess of the hearth of the roman state and its vital flame. a girl chosen to be a vestal achieved unique religious distinction, public status and privileges, and could exercise considerable political influence. upon entering her office, a vestal was emancipated from her father's authority. in archaic roman society, these priestesses were the only women not required to be under the legal guardianship of a man, instead answering directly to the pontifex maximus.[ ] a vestal's dress represented her status outside the usual categories that defined roman women, with elements of both virgin bride and daughter, and roman matron and wife.[ ] unlike male priests, vestals were freed of the traditional obligations of marrying and producing children, and were required to take a vow of chastity that was strictly enforced: a vestal polluted by the loss of her chastity while in office was buried alive.[ ] thus the exceptional honor accorded a vestal was religious rather than personal or social; her privileges required her to be fully devoted to the performance of her duties, which were considered essential to the security of rome.[ ] the vestals embody the profound connection between domestic cult and the religious life of the community.[ ] any householder could rekindle their own household fire from vesta's flame. the vestals cared for the lares and penates of the state that were the equivalent of those enshrined in each home. besides their own festival of vestalia, they participated directly in the rites of parilia, parentalia and fordicidia. indirectly, they played a role in every official sacrifice; among their duties was the preparation of the mola salsa, the salted flour that was sprinkled on every sacrificial victim as part of its immolation.[ ] one mythological tradition held that the mother of romulus and remus was a vestal virgin of royal blood. a tale of miraculous birth also attended on servius tullius, sixth king of rome, son of a virgin slave-girl impregnated by a disembodied phallus arising mysteriously on the royal hearth; the story was connected to the fascinus that was among the cult objects under the guardianship of the vestals. augustus' religious reformations raised the funding and public profile of the vestals. they were given high-status seating at games and theatres. the emperor claudius appointed them as priestesses to the cult of the deified livia, wife of augustus.[ ] they seem to have retained their religious and social distinctions well into the th century, after political power within the empire had shifted to the christians. when the christian emperor gratian refused the office of pontifex maximus, he took steps toward the dissolution of the order. his successor theodosius i extinguished vesta's sacred fire and vacated her temple. augury[edit] main article: augur public religion took place within a sacred precinct that had been marked out ritually by an augur. the original meaning of the latin word templum was this sacred space, and only later referred to a building.[ ] rome itself was an intrinsically sacred space; its ancient boundary (pomerium) had been marked by romulus himself with oxen and plough; what lay within was the earthly home and protectorate of the gods of the state. in rome, the central references for the establishment of an augural templum appear to have been the via sacra (sacred way) and the pomerium.[ ] magistrates sought divine opinion of proposed official acts through an augur, who read the divine will through observations made within the templum before, during and after an act of sacrifice.[ ] divine disapproval could arise through unfit sacrifice, errant rites (vitium) or an unacceptable plan of action. if an unfavourable sign was given, the magistrate could repeat the sacrifice until favourable signs were seen, consult with his augural colleagues, or abandon the project. magistrates could use their right of augury (ius augurum) to adjourn and overturn the process of law, but were obliged to base their decision on the augur's observations and advice. for cicero, himself an augur, this made the augur the most powerful authority in the late republic.[ ] by his time (mid st century bc) augury was supervised by the college of pontifices, whose powers were increasingly woven into the magistracies of the cursus honorum.[ ] haruspicy[edit] main article: haruspex the bronze liver of piacenza is an etruscan artifact that probably served as an instructional model for the haruspex haruspicy was also used in public cult, under the supervision of the augur or presiding magistrate. the haruspices divined the will of the gods through examination of entrails after sacrifice, particularly the liver. they also interpreted omens, prodigies and portents, and formulated their expiation. most roman authors describe haruspicy as an ancient, ethnically etruscan "outsider" religious profession, separate from rome's internal and largely unpaid priestly hierarchy, essential but never quite respectable.[ ] during the mid-to-late republic, the reformist gaius gracchus, the populist politician-general gaius marius and his antagonist sulla, and the "notorious verres" justified their very different policies by the divinely inspired utterances of private diviners. the senate and armies used the public haruspices: at some time during the late republic, the senate decreed that roman boys of noble family be sent to etruria for training in haruspicy and divination. being of independent means, they would be better motivated to maintain a pure, religious practice for the public good.[ ] the motives of private haruspices – especially females – and their clients were officially suspect: none of this seems to have troubled marius, who employed a syrian prophetess.[ ] omens and prodigies[edit] omens observed within or from a divine augural templum – especially the flight of birds – were sent by the gods in response to official queries. a magistrate with ius augurium (the right of augury) could declare the suspension of all official business for the day (obnuntiato) if he deemed the omens unfavourable.[ ] conversely, an apparently negative omen could be re-interpreted as positive, or deliberately blocked from sight.[ ] prodigies were transgressions in the natural, predictable order of the cosmos – signs of divine anger that portended conflict and misfortune. the senate decided whether a reported prodigy was false, or genuine and in the public interest, in which case it was referred to the public priests, augurs and haruspices for ritual expiation.[ ] in bc, during one of the punic wars' worst crises, the senate dealt with an unprecedented number of confirmed prodigies whose expiation would have involved "at least twenty days" of dedicated rites.[ ] livy presents these as signs of widespread failure in roman religio. the major prodigies included the spontaneous combustion of weapons, the apparent shrinking of the sun's disc, two moons in a daylit sky, a cosmic battle between sun and moon, a rain of red-hot stones, a bloody sweat on statues, and blood in fountains and on ears of corn: all were expiated by sacrifice of "greater victims". the minor prodigies were less warlike but equally unnatural; sheep become goats, a hen become a cock (and vice versa) – these were expiated with "lesser victims". the discovery of an androgynous four-year-old child was expiated by its drowning[ ] and the holy procession of virgins to the temple of juno regina, singing a hymn to avert disaster: a lightning strike during the hymn rehearsals required further expiation.[ ] religious restitution is proved only by rome's victory.[ ][ ] in the wider context of graeco-roman religious culture, rome's earliest reported portents and prodigies stand out as atypically dire. whereas for romans, a comet presaged misfortune, for greeks it might equally signal a divine or exceptionally fortunate birth.[ ] in the late republic, a daytime comet at the murdered julius caesar's funeral games confirmed his deification; a discernible greek influence on roman interpretation.[ ] funerals and the afterlife[edit] main article: roman funerals and burial roman beliefs about an afterlife varied, and are known mostly for the educated elite who expressed their views in terms of their chosen philosophy. the traditional care of the dead, however, and the perpetuation after death of their status in life were part of the most archaic practices of roman religion. ancient votive deposits to the noble dead of latium and rome suggest elaborate and costly funeral offerings and banquets in the company of the deceased, an expectation of afterlife and their association with the gods.[ ] as roman society developed, its republican nobility tended to invest less in spectacular funerals and extravagant housing for their dead, and more on monumental endowments to the community, such as the donation of a temple or public building whose donor was commemorated by his statue and inscribed name.[ ] persons of low or negligible status might receive simple burial, with such grave goods as relatives could afford. this funerary stele, one of the earliest christian inscriptions ( rd century), combines the traditional abbreviation d. m., for dis manibus, "to the manes," with the christian motto ikhthus zōntōn ("fish of the living") in greek; the deceased's name is in latin. funeral and commemorative rites varied according to wealth, status and religious context. in cicero's time, the better-off sacrificed a sow at the funeral pyre before cremation. the dead consumed their portion in the flames of the pyre, ceres her portion through the flame of her altar, and the family at the site of the cremation. for the less well-off, inhumation with "a libation of wine, incense, and fruit or crops was sufficient". ceres functioned as an intermediary between the realms of the living and the dead: the deceased had not yet fully passed to the world of the dead and could share a last meal with the living. the ashes (or body) were entombed or buried. on the eighth day of mourning, the family offered further sacrifice, this time on the ground; the shade of the departed was assumed to have passed entirely into the underworld. they had become one of the di manes, who were collectively celebrated and appeased at the parentalia, a multi-day festival of remembrance in february.[ ] a standard roman funerary inscription is dis manibus (to the manes-gods). regional variations include its greek equivalent, theoîs katachthoníois[ ] and lugdunum's commonplace but mysterious "dedicated under the trowel" (sub ascia dedicare).[ ] in the later imperial era, the burial and commemorative practises of christian and non-christians overlapped. tombs were shared by christian and non-christian family members, and the traditional funeral rites and feast of novemdialis found a part-match in the christian constitutio apostolica.[ ] the customary offers of wine and food to the dead continued; st augustine (following st ambrose) feared that this invited the "drunken" practices of parentalia but commended funeral feasts as a christian opportunity to give alms of food to the poor. christians attended parentalia and its accompanying feralia and caristia in sufficient numbers for the council of tours to forbid them in ad . other funerary and commemorative practices were very different. traditional roman practice spurned the corpse as a ritual pollution; inscriptions noted the day of birth and duration of life. the christian church fostered the veneration of saintly relics, and inscriptions marked the day of death as a transition to "new life".[ ] religion and the military[edit] a genius of the legion ( nd– rd century ce) military success was achieved through a combination of personal and collective virtus (roughly, "manly virtue") and the divine will: lack of virtus, civic or private negligence in religio and the growth of superstitio provoked divine wrath and led to military disaster. military success was the touchstone of a special relationship with the gods, and to jupiter capitolinus in particular; triumphal generals were dressed as jupiter, and laid their victor's laurels at his feet.[ ][ ] roman commanders offered vows to be fulfilled after success in battle or siege; and further vows to expiate their failures. camillus promised veii's goddess juno a temple in rome as incentive for her desertion (evocatio), conquered the city in her name, brought her cult statue to rome "with miraculous ease" and dedicated a temple to her on the aventine hill.[ ] roman camps followed a standard pattern for defense and religious ritual; in effect they were rome in miniature. the commander's headquarters stood at the centre; he took the auspices on a dais in front. a small building behind housed the legionary standards, the divine images used in religious rites and in the imperial era, the image of the ruling emperor. in one camp, this shrine is even called capitolium. the most important camp-offering appears to have been the suovetaurilia performed before a major, set battle. a ram, a boar and a bull were ritually garlanded, led around the outer perimeter of the camp (a lustratio exercitus) and in through a gate, then sacrificed: trajan's column shows three such events from his dacian wars. the perimeter procession and sacrifice suggest the entire camp as a divine templum; all within are purified and protected.[ ] panel from trajan's column depicting the lustral procession of the suovetaurilia victims under military standards each camp had its own religious personnel; standard bearers, priestly officers and their assistants, including a haruspex, and housekeepers of shrines and images. a senior magistrate-commander (sometimes even a consul) headed it, his chain of subordinates ran it and a ferocious system of training and discipline ensured that every citizen-soldier knew his duty. as in rome, whatever gods he served in his own time seem to have been his own business; legionary forts and vici included shrines to household gods, personal deities and deities otherwise unknown.[ ] from the earliest imperial era, citizen legionaries and provincial auxiliaries gave cult to the emperor and his familia on imperial accessions, anniversaries and their renewal of annual vows. they celebrated rome's official festivals in absentia, and had the official triads appropriate to their function – in the empire, jupiter, victoria and concordia were typical. by the early severan era, the military also offered cult to the imperial divi, the current emperor's numen, genius and domus (or familia), and special cult to the empress as "mother of the camp". the near ubiquitous legionary shrines to mithras of the later imperial era were not part of official cult until mithras was absorbed into solar and stoic monism as a focus of military concordia and imperial loyalty.[ ][ ][ ] a votive statue of jupiter dolichenus dedicated by a centurion for the wellbeing of the emperor (carnuntum, rd century) the devotio was the most extreme offering a roman general could make, promising to offer his own life in battle along with the enemy as an offering to the underworld gods. livy offers a detailed account of the devotio carried out by decius mus; family tradition maintained that his son and grandson, all bearing the same name, also devoted themselves. before the battle, decius is granted a prescient dream that reveals his fate. when he offers sacrifice, the victim's liver appears "damaged where it refers to his own fortunes". otherwise, the haruspex tells him, the sacrifice is entirely acceptable to the gods. in a prayer recorded by livy, decius commits himself and the enemy to the dii manes and tellus, charges alone and headlong into the enemy ranks, and is killed; his action cleanses the sacrificial offering. had he failed to die, his sacrificial offering would have been tainted and therefore void, with possibly disastrous consequences.[ ] the act of devotio is a link between military ethics and those of the roman gladiator. the efforts of military commanders to channel the divine will were on occasion less successful. in the early days of rome's war against carthage, the commander publius claudius pulcher (consul bc) launched a sea campaign "though the sacred chickens would not eat when he took the auspices". in defiance of the omen, he threw them into the sea, "saying that they might drink, since they would not eat. he was defeated, and on being bidden by the senate to appoint a dictator, he appointed his messenger glycias, as if again making a jest of his country's peril." his impiety not only lost the battle but ruined his career.[ ] women and religion[edit] see also: women in ancient rome § religious life roman women were present at most festivals and cult observances. some rituals specifically required the presence of women, but their active participation was limited. as a rule women did not perform animal sacrifice, the central rite of most major public ceremonies.[ ] in addition to the public priesthood of the vestals, some cult practices were reserved for women only. the rites of the bona dea excluded men entirely.[ ] because women enter the public record less frequently than men, their religious practices are less known, and even family cults were headed by the paterfamilias. a host of deities, however, are associated with motherhood. juno, diana, lucina, and specialized divine attendants presided over the life-threatening act of giving birth and the perils of caring for a baby at a time when the infant mortality rate was as high as percent. literary sources vary in their depiction of women's religiosity: some represent women as paragons of roman virtue and devotion, but also inclined by temperament to self-indulgent religious enthusiasms, novelties and the seductions of superstitio.[ ] superstitio and magic[edit] see also: magic in the greco-roman world mosaic from pompeii depicting masked characters in a scene from a play: two women consult a witch excessive devotion and enthusiasm in religious observance were superstitio, in the sense of "doing or believing more than was necessary",[ ] to which women and foreigners were considered particularly prone.[ ] the boundary between religio and superstitio is not clearly defined. the famous tirade of lucretius, the epicurean rationalist, against what is usually translated as "superstition" was in fact aimed at excessive religio. roman religion was based on knowledge rather than faith,[ ] but superstitio was viewed as an "inappropriate desire for knowledge"; in effect, an abuse of religio.[ ] in the everyday world, many individuals sought to divine the future, influence it through magic, or seek vengeance with help from "private" diviners. the state-sanctioned taking of auspices was a form of public divination with the intent of ascertaining the will of the gods, not foretelling the future. secretive consultations between private diviners and their clients were thus suspect. so were divinatory techniques such as astrology when used for illicit, subversive or magical purposes. astrologers and magicians were officially expelled from rome at various times, notably in bc and bc. in bc tiberius expelled them under extreme penalty because an astrologer had predicted his death. "egyptian rites" were particularly suspect: augustus banned them within the pomerium to doubtful effect; tiberius repeated and extended the ban with extreme force in ad .[ ] despite several imperial bans, magic and astrology persisted among all social classes. in the late st century ad, tacitus observed that astrologers "would always be banned and always retained at rome".[ ][ ][ ] in the graeco-roman world, practitioners of magic were known as magi (singular magus), a "foreign" title of persian priests. apuleius, defending himself against accusations of casting magic spells, defined the magician as "in popular tradition (more vulgari)... someone who, because of his community of speech with the immortal gods, has an incredible power of spells (vi cantaminum) for everything he wishes to."[ ] pliny the elder offers a thoroughly skeptical "history of magical arts" from their supposed persian origins to nero's vast and futile expenditure on research into magical practices in an attempt to control the gods.[ ] philostratus takes pains to point out that the celebrated apollonius of tyana was definitely not a magus, "despite his special knowledge of the future, his miraculous cures, and his ability to vanish into thin air".[ ] lucan depicts sextus pompeius, the doomed son of pompey the great, as convinced "the gods of heaven knew too little" and awaiting the battle of pharsalus by consulting with the thessalian witch erichtho, who practices necromancy and inhabits deserted graves, feeding on rotting corpses. erichtho, it is said, can arrest "the rotation of the heavens and the flow of rivers" and make "austere old men blaze with illicit passions". she and her clients are portrayed as undermining the natural order of gods, mankind and destiny. a female foreigner from thessaly, notorious for witchcraft, erichtho is the stereotypical witch of latin literature,[ ] along with horace's canidia. bound tablets with magic inscriptions from late antiquity the twelve tables forbade any harmful incantation (malum carmen, or 'noisome metrical charm'); this included the "charming of crops from one field to another" (excantatio frugum) and any rite that sought harm or death to others. chthonic deities functioned at the margins of rome's divine and human communities; although sometimes the recipients of public rites, these were conducted outside the sacred boundary of the pomerium. individuals seeking their aid did so away from the public gaze, during the hours of darkness. burial grounds and isolated crossroads were among the likely portals.[ ] the barrier between private religious practices and "magic" is permeable, and ovid gives a vivid account of rites at the fringes of the public feralia festival that are indistinguishable from magic: an old woman squats among a circle of younger women, sews up a fish-head, smears it with pitch, then pierces and roasts it to "bind hostile tongues to silence". by this she invokes tacita, the "silent one" of the underworld. archaeology confirms the widespread use of binding spells (defixiones), magical papyri and so-called "voodoo dolls" from a very early era. around defixiones have been recovered just from roman britain, in both urban and rural settings. some seek straightforward, usually gruesome revenge, often for a lover's offense or rejection. others appeal for divine redress of wrongs, in terms familiar to any roman magistrate, and promise a portion of the value (usually small) of lost or stolen property in return for its restoration. none of these defixiones seem produced by, or on behalf of the elite, who had more immediate recourse to human law and justice. similar traditions existed throughout the empire, persisting until around the th century ad, well into the christian era.[ ] history of roman religion[edit] religion and politics[edit] temple of bacchus ("temple of the sun"), c. ad a fresco from herculaneum depicting heracles and achelous from greco-roman mythology, st century ad rome's government, politics and religion were dominated by an educated, male, landowning military aristocracy. approximately half rome's population were slave or free non-citizens. most others were plebeians, the lowest class of roman citizens. less than a quarter of adult males had voting rights; far fewer could actually exercise them. women had no vote.[ ] however, all official business was conducted under the divine gaze and auspices, in the name of the senate and people of rome. "in a very real sense the senate was the caretaker of the romans’ relationship with the divine, just as it was the caretaker of their relationship with other humans".[ ] the links between religious and political life were vital to rome's internal governance, diplomacy and development from kingdom, to republic and to empire. post-regal politics dispersed the civil and religious authority of the kings more or less equitably among the patrician elite: kingship was replaced by two annually elected consular offices. in the early republic, as presumably in the regal era, plebeians were excluded from high religious and civil office, and could be punished for offenses against laws of which they had no knowledge.[ ] they resorted to strikes and violence to break the oppressive patrician monopolies of high office, public priesthood, and knowledge of civil and religious law. the senate appointed camillus as dictator to handle the emergency; he negotiated a settlement, and sanctified it by the dedication of a temple to concordia.[ ] the religious calendars and laws were eventually made public. plebeian tribunes were appointed, with sacrosanct status and the right of veto in legislative debate. in principle, the augural and pontifical colleges were now open to plebeians.[ ] in reality, the patrician and to a lesser extent, plebeian nobility dominated religious and civil office throughout the republican era and beyond.[ ] while the new plebeian nobility made social, political and religious inroads on traditionally patrician preserves, their electorate maintained their distinctive political traditions and religious cults.[ ] during the punic crisis, popular cult to dionysus emerged from southern italy; dionysus was equated with father liber, the inventor of plebeian augury and personification of plebeian freedoms, and with roman bacchus. official consternation at these enthusiastic, unofficial bacchanalia cults was expressed as moral outrage at their supposed subversion, and was followed by ferocious suppression. much later, a statue of marsyas, the silen of dionysus flayed by apollo, became a focus of brief symbolic resistance to augustus' censorship. augustus himself claimed the patronage of venus and apollo; but his settlement appealed to all classes. where loyalty was implicit, no divine hierarchy need be politically enforced; liber's festival continued.[ ][ ] the augustan settlement built upon a cultural shift in roman society. in the middle republican era, even scipio's tentative hints that he might be jupiter's special protege sat ill with his colleagues.[ ] politicians of the later republic were less equivocal; both sulla and pompey claimed special relationships with venus. julius caesar went further; he claimed her as his ancestress, and thus an intimate source of divine inspiration for his personal character and policies. in bc, his appointment as pontifex maximus "signaled his emergence as a major player in roman politics".[ ] likewise, political candidates could sponsor temples, priesthoods and the immensely popular, spectacular public ludi and munera whose provision became increasingly indispensable to the factional politics of the late republic.[ ] under the principate, such opportunities were limited by law; priestly and political power were consolidated in the person of the princeps ("first citizen"). "because of you we are living, because of you we can travel the seas, because of you we enjoy liberty and wealth." a thanksgiving prayer offered in naples' harbour to the princeps augustus, on his return from alexandria in ad, shortly before his death.[ ] early republic[edit] a fresco depicting theseus, from herculaneum (ercolano), italy, - ad by the end of the regal period rome had developed into a city-state, with a large plebeian, artisan class excluded from the old patrician gentes and from the state priesthoods. the city had commercial and political treaties with its neighbours; according to tradition, rome's etruscan connections established a temple to minerva on the predominantly plebeian aventine; she became part of a new capitoline triad of jupiter, juno and minerva, installed in a capitoline temple, built in an etruscan style and dedicated in a new september festival, epulum jovis.[ ] these are supposedly the first roman deities whose images were adorned, as if noble guests, at their own inaugural banquet. rome's diplomatic agreement with its neighbours of latium confirmed the latin league and brought the cult of diana from aricia to the aventine.[ ] and established on the aventine in the "commune latinorum dianae templum":[ ] at about the same time, the temple of jupiter latiaris was built on the alban mount, its stylistic resemblance to the new capitoline temple pointing to rome's inclusive hegemony. rome's affinity to the latins allowed two latin cults within the pomoerium:[ ] and the cult to hercules at the ara maxima in the forum boarium was established through commercial connections with tibur.[ ] and the tusculan cult of castor as the patron of cavalry found a home close to the forum romanum:[ ] juno sospita and juno regina were brought from italy, and fortuna primigenia from praeneste. in , venus was brought from sicily and installed in a temple on the capitoline hill.[ ] later republic to principate[edit] livy attributed the disasters of the early part of rome's second punic war to a growth of superstitious cults, errors in augury and the neglect of rome's traditional gods, whose anger was expressed directly in rome's defeat at cannae ( bc). the sibilline books were consulted. they recommended a general vowing of the ver sacrum[ ] and in the following year, the burial of two greeks and two gauls; not the first nor the last of its kind, according to livy. the introduction of new or equivalent deities coincided with rome's most significant aggressive and defensive military forays. in bc the sibylline books commended the introduction of a cult to the aniconic magna mater (great mother) from pessinus, installed on the palatine in bc. the mystery cult to bacchus followed; it was suppressed as subversive and unruly by decree of the senate in bc.[ ] greek deities were brought within the sacred pomerium: temples were dedicated to juventas (hebe) in bc,[ ] diana (artemis) in bc, mars (ares) in bc), and to bona dea, equivalent to fauna, the female counterpart of the rural faunus, supplemented by the greek goddess damia. further greek influences on cult images and types represented the roman penates as forms of the greek dioscuri. the military-political adventurers of the later republic introduced the phrygian goddess ma (identified with the roman bellona, the egyptian mystery-goddess isis and the persian mithras.) a rd-century roman pallas athena mosaic from tusculum, now in the vatican museums the spread of greek literature, mythology and philosophy offered roman poets and antiquarians a model for the interpretation of rome's festivals and rituals, and the embellishment of its mythology. ennius translated the work of graeco-sicilian euhemerus, who explained the genesis of the gods as apotheosized mortals. in the last century of the republic, epicurean and particularly stoic interpretations were a preoccupation of the literate elite, most of whom held – or had held – high office and traditional roman priesthoods; notably, scaevola and the polymath varro. for varro – well versed in euhemerus' theory – popular religious observance was based on a necessary fiction; what the people believed was not itself the truth, but their observance led them to as much higher truth as their limited capacity could deal with. whereas in popular belief deities held power over mortal lives, the skeptic might say that mortal devotion had made gods of mortals, and these same gods were only sustained by devotion and cult. just as rome itself claimed the favour of the gods, so did some individual romans. in the mid-to-late republican era, and probably much earlier, many of rome's leading clans acknowledged a divine or semi-divine ancestor and laid personal claim to their favour and cult, along with a share of their divinity. most notably in the very late republic, the julii claimed venus genetrix as an ancestor; this would be one of many foundations for the imperial cult. the claim was further elaborated and justified in vergil's poetic, imperial vision of the past.[ ] polyphemus hears of the arrival of galatea; roman fresco painted in the "fourth style" of pompeii ( - ad) in the late republic, the marian reforms lowered an existing property bar on conscription and increased the efficiency of rome's armies but made them available as instruments of political ambition and factional conflict.[ ] the consequent civil wars led to changes at every level of roman society. augustus' principate established peace and subtly transformed rome's religious life – or, in the new ideology of empire, restored it (see below). towards the end of the republic, religious and political offices became more closely intertwined; the office of pontifex maximus became a de facto consular prerogative.[ ] augustus was personally vested with an extraordinary breadth of political, military and priestly powers; at first temporarily, then for his lifetime. he acquired or was granted an unprecedented number of rome's major priesthoods, including that of pontifex maximus; as he invented none, he could claim them as traditional honours. his reforms were represented as adaptive, restorative and regulatory, rather than innovative; most notably his elevation (and membership) of the ancient arvales, his timely promotion of the plebeian compitalia shortly before his election and his patronage of the vestals as a visible restoration of roman morality.[ ] augustus obtained the pax deorum, maintained it for the rest of his reign and adopted a successor to ensure its continuation. this remained a primary religious and social duty of emperors. roman empire[edit] eastern influence[edit] under the rule of augustus, there existed a deliberate campaign to reinstate previously held belief systems amongst the roman population. these once held ideals had been eroded and met with cynicism by this time.[ ] the imperial order emphasized commemoration of great men and events which led to the concept and practice of divine kingship. emperors postceding augustus subsequently held the office of chief priest (pontifex maximus) combining both political and religious supremacy under one title.[ ] another result of eastern influence in the roman empire was the emergence of the mystery cults with ideals originating from the east which operated through a hierarchy consisting of transference of knowledge, virtues and powers to those initiated through secret rites of passage. the cult of mithras was the most notable among these, particularly popular among soldiers, which was based upon the zoroastrian deity, mithra.[ ] a common theme among the eastern mystery religions present in rome became disillusionment with material possessions, a focus on death and a preoccupation with regards to the afterlife. these attributes later led to the appeal to christianity, which in its early stages was often viewed as mystery religion itself.[ ] absorption of cults[edit] mithras in a roman wall painting the roman empire expanded to include different peoples and cultures; in principle, rome followed the same inclusionist policies that had recognised latin, etruscan and other italian peoples, cults and deities as roman. those who acknowledged rome's hegemony retained their own cult and religious calendars, independent of roman religious law.[ ] newly municipal sabratha built a capitolium near its existing temple to liber pater and serapis. autonomy and concord were official policy, but new foundations by roman citizens or their romanised allies were likely to follow roman cultic models.[ ] romanisation offered distinct political and practical advantages, especially to local elites. all the known effigies from the nd century ad forum at cuicul are of emperors or concordia. by the middle of the st century ad, gaulish vertault seems to have abandoned its native cultic sacrifice of horses and dogs in favour of a newly established, romanised cult nearby: by the end of that century, sabratha's so-called tophet was no longer in use.[ ] colonial and later imperial provincial dedications to rome's capitoline triad were a logical choice, not a centralised legal requirement.[ ] major cult centres to "non-roman" deities continued to prosper: notable examples include the magnificent alexandrian serapium, the temple of aesculapeus at pergamum and apollo's sacred wood at antioch.[ ] the overall scarcity of evidence for smaller or local cults does not always imply their neglect; votive inscriptions are inconsistently scattered throughout rome's geography and history. inscribed dedications were an expensive public declaration, one to be expected within the graeco-roman cultural ambit but by no means universal. innumerable smaller, personal or more secretive cults would have persisted and left no trace.[ ] military settlement within the empire and at its borders broadened the context of romanitas. rome's citizen-soldiers set up altars to multiple deities, including their traditional gods, the imperial genius and local deities – sometimes with the usefully open-ended dedication to the diis deabusque omnibus (all the gods and goddesses). they also brought roman "domestic" deities and cult practices with them.[ ] by the same token, the later granting of citizenship to provincials and their conscription into the legions brought their new cults into the roman military.[ ] traders, legions and other travellers brought home cults originating from egypt, greece, iberia, india and persia. the cults of cybele, isis, mithras, and sol invictus were particularly important. some of those were initiatory religions of intense personal significance, similar to christianity in those respects. imperial cult[edit] the maison carrée in nîmes, one of the best-preserved roman temples. it is a mid-sized augustan provincial temple of the imperial cult. main article: imperial cult of ancient rome in the early imperial era, the princeps (lit. "first" or "foremost" among citizens) was offered genius-cult as the symbolic paterfamilias of rome. his cult had further precedents: popular, unofficial cult offered to powerful benefactors in rome: the kingly, god-like honours granted a roman general on the day of his triumph; and in the divine honours paid to roman magnates in the greek east from at least bc.[ ][ ] the deification of deceased emperors had precedent in roman domestic cult to the dii parentes (deified ancestors) and the mythic apotheosis of rome's founders. a deceased emperor granted apotheosis by his successor and the senate became an official state divus (divinity). members of the imperial family could be granted similar honours and cult; an emperor's deceased wife, sister or daughter could be promoted to diva (female divinity). the first and last roman known as a living divus was julius caesar, who seems to have aspired to divine monarchy; he was murdered soon after. greek allies had their own traditional cults to rulers as divine benefactors, and offered similar cult to caesar's successor, augustus, who accepted with the cautious proviso that expatriate roman citizens refrain from such worship; it might prove fatal.[ ] by the end of his reign, augustus had appropriated rome's political apparatus – and most of its religious cults – within his "reformed" and thoroughly integrated system of government. towards the end of his life, he cautiously allowed cult to his numen. by then the imperial cult apparatus was fully developed, first in the eastern provinces, then in the west.[ ] provincial cult centres offered the amenities and opportunities of a major roman town within a local context; bathhouses, shrines and temples to roman and local deities, amphitheatres and festivals. in the early imperial period, the promotion of local elites to imperial priesthood gave them roman citizenship.[ ] in an empire of great religious and cultural diversity, the imperial cult offered a common roman identity and dynastic stability. in rome, the framework of government was recognisably republican. in the provinces, this would not have mattered; in greece, the emperor was "not only endowed with special, super-human abilities, but... he was indeed a visible god" and the little greek town of akraiphia could offer official cult to "liberating zeus nero for all eternity".[ ] in rome, state cult to a living emperor acknowledged his rule as divinely approved and constitutional. as princeps (first citizen) he must respect traditional republican mores; given virtually monarchic powers, he must restrain them. he was not a living divus but father of his country (pater patriae), its pontifex maximus (greatest priest) and at least notionally, its leading republican. when he died, his ascent to heaven, or his descent to join the dii manes was decided by a vote in the senate. as a divus, he could receive much the same honours as any other state deity – libations of wine, garlands, incense, hymns and sacrificial oxen at games and festivals. what he did in return for these favours is unknown, but literary hints and the later adoption of divus as a title for christian saints suggest him as a heavenly intercessor.[ ] in rome, official cult to a living emperor was directed to his genius; a small number refused this honour and there is no evidence of any emperor receiving more than that. in the crises leading up to the dominate, imperial titles and honours multiplied, reaching a peak under diocletian. emperors before him had attempted to guarantee traditional cults as the core of roman identity and well-being; refusal of cult undermined the state and was treasonous.[ ] jews and roman religion[edit] jewish ritual objects in nd-century gold glass from rome see also: fiscus judaicus, religio licita, and history of the jews in the roman empire for at least a century before the establishment of the augustan principate, jews and judaism were tolerated in rome by diplomatic treaty with judaea's hellenised elite. diaspora jews had much in common with the overwhelmingly hellenic or hellenised communities that surrounded them. early italian synagogues have left few traces; but one was dedicated in ostia around the mid- st century bc and several more are attested during the imperial period. judaea's enrollment as a client kingdom in bc increased the jewish diaspora; in rome, this led to closer official scrutiny of their religion. their synagogues were recognised as legitimate collegia by julius caesar. by the augustan era, the city of rome was home to several thousand jews.[ ][ ] in some periods under roman rule, jews were legally exempt from official sacrifice, under certain conditions. judaism was a superstitio to cicero, but the church father tertullian described it as religio licita (an officially permitted religion) in contrast to christianity.[ ] christianity in the roman empire[edit] see also: pentarchy, history of christianity, persecution of religion in ancient rome, and state church of the roman empire roman investigations into early christianity found it an irreligious, novel, disobedient, even atheistic sub-sect of judaism: it appeared to deny all forms of religion and was therefore superstitio. by the end of the imperial era, nicene christianity was the one permitted roman religio; all other cults were heretical or pagan superstitiones.[ ] after the great fire of rome in ad, emperor nero accused the christians as convenient scapegoats, who were later persecuted and killed. from that point on, roman official policy towards christianity tended towards persecution. during the various imperial crises of the rd century, "contemporaries were predisposed to decode any crisis in religious terms", regardless of their allegiance to particular practices or belief systems. christianity drew its traditional base of support from the powerless, who seemed to have no religious stake in the well-being of the roman state, and therefore threatened its existence.[ ] the majority of rome's elite continued to observe various forms of inclusive hellenistic monism; neoplatonism in particular accommodated the miraculous and the ascetic within a traditional graeco-roman cultic framework. christians saw these practices as ungodly, and a primary cause of economic and political crisis. in the wake of religious riots in egypt, the emperor decius decreed that all subjects of the empire must actively seek to benefit the state through witnessed and certified sacrifice to "ancestral gods" or suffer a penalty: only jews were exempt.[ ] decius' edict appealed to whatever common mos maiores might reunite a politically and socially fractured empire and its multitude of cults; no ancestral gods were specified by name. the fulfillment of sacrificial obligation by loyal subjects would define them and their gods as roman.[ ][ ] apostasy was sought, rather than capital punishment.[ ] a year after its due deadline, the edict expired.[ ] valerian singled out christianity as a particularly self-interested and subversive foreign cult, outlawed its assemblies and urged christians to sacrifice to rome's traditional gods.[ ][ ] in another edict, he described christianity as a threat to empire – not yet at its heart but close to it, among rome's equites and senators. christian apologists interpreted his eventual fate – a disgraceful capture and death – as divine judgement. the next forty years were peaceful; the christian church grew stronger and its literature and theology gained a higher social and intellectual profile, due in part to its own search for political toleration and theological coherence. origen discussed theological issues with traditionalist elites in a common neoplatonist frame of reference – he had written to decius' predecessor philip the arab in similar vein – and hippolytus recognised a "pagan" basis in christian heresies.[ ] the christian churches were disunited; paul of samosata, bishop of antioch was deposed by a synod of both for his doctrines, and for his unworthy, indulgent, elite lifestyle.[ ] meanwhile, aurelian ( - ) appealed for harmony among his soldiers (concordia militum), stabilised the empire and its borders and successfully established an official, hellenic form of unitary cult to the palmyrene sol invictus in rome's campus martius.[ ] in , maximilian of tebessa refused military service; in marcellus renounced his military oath. both were executed for treason; both were christians.[ ] at some time around , a report of ominous haruspicy in diocletian's domus and a subsequent (but undated) dictat of placatory sacrifice by the entire military triggered a series of edicts against christianity.[ ] the first ( ad) "ordered the destruction of church buildings and christian texts, forbade services to be held, degraded officials who were christians, re-enslaved imperial freedmen who were christians, and reduced the legal rights of all christians... [physical] or capital punishments were not imposed on them" but soon after, several christians suspected of attempted arson in the palace were executed.[ ] the second edict threatened christian priests with imprisonment and the third offered them freedom if they performed sacrifice.[ ] an edict of enjoined universal sacrifice to traditional gods, in terms that recall the decian edict. in some cases and in some places the edicts were strictly enforced: some christians resisted and were imprisoned or martyred. others complied. some local communities were not only pre-dominantly christian, but powerful and influential; and some provincial authorities were lenient, notably the caesar in gaul, constantius chlorus, the father of constantine i. diocletian's successor galerius maintained anti-christian policy until his deathbed revocation in , when he asked christians to pray for him. "this meant an official recognition of their importance in the religious world of the roman empire, although one of the tetrarchs, maximinus daia, still oppressed christians in his part of the empire up to ."[ ] emperor constantine and christianity[edit] the aula palatina of trier, germany (then part of the roman province of gallia belgica), built during the reign of constantine i (r. - ad) the conversion of constantine i ended the christian persecutions. constantine successfully balanced his own role as an instrument of the pax deorum with the power of the christian priesthoods in determining what was (in traditional roman terms) auspicious – or in christian terms, what was orthodox. the edict of milan ( ) redefined imperial ideology as one of mutual toleration. constantine had triumphed under the signum (sign) of the christ: christianity was therefore officially embraced along with traditional religions and from his new eastern capital, constantine could be seen to embody both christian and hellenic religious interests. he passed laws to protect christians from persecution;[ ] he also funded the building of churches, including saint peter's basilica. he may have officially ended – or attempted to end – blood sacrifices to the genius of living emperors, though his imperial iconography and court ceremonial outstripped diocletian's in their supra-human elevation of the imperial hierarch.[ ] constantine promoted orthodoxy in christian doctrine, so that christianity might become a unitary force, rather than divisive. he summoned christian bishops to a meeting, later known as the first council of nicaea, at which some bishops (mostly easterners) debated and decided what was orthodox, and what was heresy. the meeting reached consensus on the nicene creed.[ ][ ] at constantine's death, he was honored as a christian and as an imperial "divus".[ ] later, philostorgius would criticize those christians who offered sacrifice at statues of the divus constantine.[ ] transition to christian hegemony[edit] main article: decline of greco-roman polytheism see also: persecution of pagans in the late roman empire monogramme of christ (the chi rho) on a plaque of a sarcophagus, th century ce, marble, musei vaticani, on display in a temporary exhibition at the colosseum in rome, italy christianity and traditional roman religion proved incompatible. from the nd century onward, the church fathers had condemned the diverse non-christian religions practiced throughout the empire as "pagan".[ ] constantine's actions have been regarded by some scholars as causing the rapid growth of christianity,[ ] though revisionist scholars disagree.[ ][ ] constantine's unique form of imperial orthodoxy did not outlast him. after his death in , two of his sons, constantius ii and constans, took over the leadership of the empire and re-divided their imperial inheritance. constantius was an arian and his brothers were nicene christians. constantine's nephew julian rejected the "galilean madness" of his upbringing for an idiosyncratic synthesis of neo-platonism, stoic asceticism and universal solar cult. julian became augustus in and actively but fostered a religious and cultural pluralism, attempting a restitution of non-christian practices and rights.[ ] he proposed the rebuilding of jerusalem's temple as an imperial project and argued against the "irrational impieties" of christian doctrine.[ ] his attempt to restore an augustan form of principate, with himself as primus inter pares ended with his death in in persia, after which his reforms were reversed or abandoned. the empire once again fell under christian control, this time permanently. in , under theodosius i, nicene christianity became the official state religion of the roman empire. christian heretics as well as non-christians were subject to exclusion from public life or persecution, though rome's original religious hierarchy and many aspects of its ritual influenced christian forms,[ ] and many pre-christian beliefs and practices survived in christian festivals and local traditions. the western emperor gratian refused the office of pontifex maximus, and against the protests of the senate, removed the altar of victory from the senate house and began the disestablishment of the vestals. theodosius i briefly re-united the empire: in he officially adopted nicene christianity as the imperial religion and ended official support for all other creeds and cults. he not only refused to restore victory to the senate-house, but extinguished the sacred fire of the vestals and vacated their temple: the senatorial protest was expressed in a letter by quintus aurelius symmachus to the western and eastern emperors. ambrose, the influential bishop of milan and future saint, wrote urging the rejection of symmachus's request for tolerance.[ ] yet theodosius accepted comparison with hercules and jupiter as a living divinity in the panegyric of pacatus, and despite his active dismantling of rome's traditional cults and priesthoods could commend his heirs to its overwhelmingly hellenic senate in traditional hellenic terms.[clarification needed] he was the last emperor of both east and west.[ ][ ] see also[edit] 	hellenistic religion 	italo-roman neopaganism 	sibylline oracles references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ for an overview of the representation of roman religion in early christian authors, see r.p.c. hanson, "the christian attitude to pagan religions up to the time of constantine the great" and carlos a. contreras, "christian views of paganism" in aufstieg und niedergang der römischen welt ii. . ( ) – . 	^ jörg rüpke, "roman religion – religions of rome" in a companion to roman religion (blackwell, ), p. . 	^ apuleius, florides . ; john scheid, "sacrifices for gods and ancestors" in a companion to roman religion (blackwell, ), p. . 	^ "this mentality," notes john t. koch, "lay at the core of the genius of cultural assimilation which made the roman empire possible"; entry on "interpretatio romana" in celtic culture: a historical encyclopedia (abc-clio, ), p. . 	^ rüpke, "roman religion – religions of rome", p. ; benjamin h. isaac, the invention of racism in classical antiquity (princeton university press, , ), p. ; w.h.c. frend, martyrdom and persecution in the early church: a study of conflict from the maccabees to donatus (doubleday, ), p. . 	^ janet huskinson, experiencing rome: culture, identity and power in the roman empire (routledge, ), p. . see, for instance, the altar dedicated by a roman citizen and depicting a sacrifice conducted in the roman manner for the germanic goddess vagdavercustis in the nd century ce. 	^ a classic essay on this topic is arnaldo momigliano, "the disadvantages of monotheism for a universal state", classical philology . ( ) – . 	^ alexandre grandazzi, the foundation of rome: myth and history (cornell university press, ), pp. – . 	^ a b beard et al., vol. , ; – (aeneas and vesta): – (aeneas and venus as julian ancestors). see also vergil, aeneid. 	^ t.p. wiseman, remus: a roman myth (cambridge university press, ), passim. 	^ or else was murdered by his resentful senate, who successfully concealed their crime. see beard et al., vol. , ; vol. , . a for livy, . & – (sabines and temple to jupiter) and plutarch, romulus, , – . 	^ illustration of vergil, aeneid . ; ms vat. lat. , folio recto 	^ beard et al., vol. , – & vol. : . , (livy, . . ): . a (plutarch, numa, ). for augustus' closure of janus's temple doors, see augustus, res gestae, . festus connects numa to the triumphal spolia opima and jupiter feretrius. 	^ beard et al., vol. , , and footnotes & . 	^ the augustan historian livy places rome's foundation more than years before his own time. his near contemporary dionysius of halicarnassus appear to share some common sources, including an earlier history by quintus fabius pictor, of which only a terse summary survives. see also diocles of peparethus, romulus and remus and plutarch, the parallel lives, life of romulus, . loeb edn. available at thayer's site: [ ]. fragments of an important earlier work (now lost) of quintus ennius are cited by various later roman authors. on the chronological problems of the kings' list, see cornell, pp. – , and – . 	^ beard et al., vol. , - ; cornell, pp. – ; feeney, in rüpke (ed), – , on religious themes in roman historiography and epic; smith, in rüpke (ed), – for broad discussion of sources, modern schools of thought and divergent interpretations. 	^ cicero, on the responses of the haruspices, . 	^ rüpke, in rüpke (ed) and beard et al., vol. , – ; in particular, – . 	^ the reasons for this change remain unclear, though they are attributed to etruscan influence. for a summary of jupiter's complex development from the regal to republican eras, see beard et al.,, vol. , – . jupiter's image in the republican and imperial capitol bore regalia associated with rome's ancient kings and the highest consular and imperial honours. jupiter, mars and quirinus were collectively and individually associated with rome's agricultural economy, social organisation and success in war. 	^ beard et al., vol. , – , – . 	^ orlin, in rüpke (ed), . for related conceptual and interpretive difficulties offered by roman deities and their cults, see rüpke, in rüpke (ed) – . 	^ rüpke, in rüpke (ed), – . 	^ cil . , quotation from van andringa, in rüpke (ed), . 	^ https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/myst/hd_myst.htm 	^ "mystery religion | greco-roman religion". 	^ beard et al., – ; those titled in capital letters on roman calendars were probably more important and ancient than those titled in small letters: it is not known how ancient they were, nor to whom they were important. their attribution to numa or romulus is doubtful. the oldest surviving religious calendars date to the late republic; the most detailed are augustan and later. beard et al., vol. , : a selection of festivals is given in vol. , . – . for a list of fasti, with bibliography and sources, see degrassi, inscriptiones italiae, vol. xiii – fasti et elogia, fasc. ii – fasti anni numani et iuliani, rome, . see also scullard, . 	^ beard et al, vol. , – , – : citing cicero. 	^ rüpke, in rüpke (ed), . 	^ beard et al., vol. , – , . 	^ beard et al., religions of rome, p. . 	^ beard et al., vol. , . a; vol. , – & – . 	^ carole e. newlands, playing with time: ovid and the fasti (cornell university press, ), passim; "transgressive acts: ovid's treatment of the ides of march", classical philology . ( ) - . 	^ see the calendar of filocalus (ad ), cited in beard et al., vol. , , and that of polemius silvius. see also early and later christian festivals in beard et al., vol. , – , – . 	^ clarke, , citing frank e. brown, roman architecture, (new york) , . 	^ beard, et al., vol. , – 	^ pliny, natural history . . 	^ halm, in rüpke (ed), – et passim. the roman belief in the power of the word may be reflected also in the importance of persuasive speech, formally oratory, in political life and the law courts. 	^ a b halm, in rüpke (ed), – . 	^ hahn, in rüpke (ed), – . 	^ livy, . . . 	^ hahn, in rüpke (ed), – . 	^ orr, . 	^ pliny the elder, natural history, , . 	^ lott, : dionysius of halicarnassus claims the compitalia contribution of honey-cakes as a servian institution. 	^ ovid, fasti, . – . see also thaniel, g., lemures and larvae, the american journal of philology, . , ( ) – : the offering of black beans is distinctively chthonic. beans were considered seeds of life. lemures may have been the restless dead who had not passed into the underworld, and still craved the life they had lost. beans were a ritual pollution for jupiter's priesthood, possibly because his offerings must be emasculated and thus devoid of generative power. 	^ halm, in rüpke (ed), . 	^ a b c scheid, in rüpke (ed), – . 	^ though the household lares do just that, and at least some romans understood them to be ancestral spirits. sacrifices to the spirits of deceased mortals are discussed below in funerals and the afterlife. 	^ jörg rüpke, religion of the romans (polity press, , originally published in german ), p. online. 	^ william warde fowler, the religious experience of the roman people (london, ), p. . 	^ robert e.a. palmer, "the deconstruction of mommsen on festus / l, or the hazards of interpretation", in imperium sine fine: t. robert s. broughton and the roman republic (franz steiner, ), p. , note online; roger d. woodard, indo-european sacred space: vedic and roman cult (university of illinois press, ), p. online. the augustan historian livy ( . . – ) says p. decius mus is "like" a piaculum when he makes his vow to sacrifice himself in battle (devotio). 	^ hahn, in rüpke (ed), . 	^ beard et al., vol , - . 	^ gradel, : but this need not imply sacrifice as a mutual contract, breached in this instance. evidently the gods had the greater power and freedom of choice in the matter. see beard et al., : "the gods would accept as sufficient exactly what they were offered – no more, no less." human error in the previous annual vows and sacrifice remains a possibility. 	^ gradel, , 	^ cicero, de divinatione . . . according to pliny (natural history . ), before bc the heart was not included among the exta. 	^ robert schilling, "the roman religion", in historia religionum: religions of the past (brill, ), vol. , pp. – , and "roman sacrifice", roman and european mythologies (university of chicago press, ), p. ; john scheid, an introduction to roman religion (indiana university press, , originally published in french ), p. . 	^ livy . - 	^ livy, . . ; plutarch, roman questions, & marcellus, . for further context and interpretive difficulties, see beard et al., vol. , : the live burial superficially resembles the punishment of vestals who broke their vows. a living entombment assuages the blood-guilt of the living: the guilty are consigned to earth deities. but the vestals are entombed outside the city limits, not its centre; no sacrificial victims are burned in either case, and the gauls and greeks appear to be personally guiltless. 	^ welch, - : citing livy, summary . 	^ for example, prudentius, contra symmachum . – ; see donald g. kyle, spectacles of death in ancient rome (routledge, , ), p. . 	^ the sacrifice was demanded by an oracle during the reign of the last king, the etruscan tarquinius superbus. see macrobius, saturnalia, . & lilly ross taylor, "the mother of the lares", american journal of archaeology, . , (july – september ), pp – . 	^ beard et al., vol. , – , . 	^ gradel, - : the paterfamilias held – in theory at least, and through ancient right – powers of life and death over every member of his extended familia, including children, slaves and freedmen. in practice, the extreme form of this right was seldom exercised, and was eventually limited by law. 	^ see also severy, - for interpretation of the social, economic and religious role of the paterfamilias within the immediate and extended family and the broader community. 	^ beard et al., vol , - . 	^ brent, - . 	^ beard et al., , - , citing vergil, aeneid, , - . 	^ belayche, (verbatim) in rüpke (ed), . 	^ beard et al., vol. , . 	^ gradel, , . 	^ gradel, - : citing legal definitions from festus (epitome of verrius flaccus) "de verborum significatu" p. l: in wissowa, , ff: and geiger, ): see also beard et al., vol. , . 	^ smith, in rüpke (ed), – . 	^ beard et al., vol. , – , – : "[the underlying purpose being that] whoever bore the title rex should never again be in a position to threaten the city with tyranny." see also religion and politics in this article. 	^ beard et al., vol. , – : there can be no doubt that politicians attempted to manipulate religious law and priesthoods for gain; but were compelled to do so lawfully, and often failed. 	^ horster, in rüpke (ed), – . 	^ see gradel, - . 	^ gradel, . 	^ gary forsythe, a critical history of early rome: from prehistory to the first punic war (university of california press, , ), p. . 	^ beard et al., vol. , – . 	^ beard et al., vol. , – , – , . for comparison of vestal constraints to those of jupiter's flamen, see smith, in rüpke (ed), – 	^ forsythe, a critical history of early rome, p. . 	^ beard et al., vol. , – . 	^ ariadne staples, from good goddess to vestal virgins: sex and category in roman religion (routledge, ), pp. – . 	^ beard et al., vol. , - . 	^ smith, in rüpke (ed), . 	^ beard et al., vol , - . 	^ brent, - : citing cicero, de natura deorum, . . 	^ a b brent, - . 	^ beard et al., vol , - . see also scheid, in rüpke (ed), . 	^ horster, in rüpke (ed) – . 	^ cicero finds all forms of divination false, except those used in state rituals; most romans were less skeptical. see rosenberger, in rüpke (ed), , and orlin, in rüpke (ed), . 	^ caesar used his ius augurium to declare obnuntiato to cicero's disadvantage: and vice versa. 	^ orlin, in rüpke (ed), – . 	^ orlin, in rüpke (ed), . 	^ rosenberger, in rüpke (ed), . 	^ rosenberger, in rüpke (ed), – : the task fell to the haruspex, who set the child to drown in the sea. the survival of such a child for four years after its birth would have between regarded as extreme dereliction of religious duty. 	^ livy, . . – ; the hymn was composed by the poet livius andronicus. cited by halm, in rüpke (ed) . for remainder, see rosenberger, in rüpke (ed), . 	^ see livy, . ff: the expiatory burial of living human victims in the forum boarium followed rome's defeat at cannae in the same wars. in livy's account, rome's victory follows its discharge of religious duties to the gods. 	^ for livy's use of prodigies and portents as markers of roman impiety and military failure, see feeney, in rüpke (ed), – . for prodigies in the context of political decision-making, see rosenberger, in rüpke (ed), – . 	^ rosenberger, in rüpke (ed), . 	^ hertz, in rüpke (ed), . 	^ smith, in rüpke (ed), – : rome's latin neighbours significantly influenced the development of its domestic and funerary architecture. 	^ smith, in rüpke (ed), – . 	^ scheid, in rüpke (ed), , – . 	^ from a romano-athenian veteran's tomb; cagnat, rené, inscriptiones graecae ad res romanas pertinentes. paris – , . . 	^ haensch, in rüpke, (ed) – . 	^ this recommended christian commemorative rites on the rd, th & th days after death. 	^ saltzman, in rüpke, (ed), – . 	^ orlin, in rüpke (ed), . 	^ beard et al., vol. , , – , . 	^ cornell, t., in walbank et al., , citing livy . - and . - . livy describes this as evocatio (a "calling forth") initiated by roman soldiers who snatched the goddess's sacrificial portion during her veiian rites; the veiian priest had announced that whoever possessed the sacred entrails would win the coming battle. preview via googlebooks [ ] 	^ moede, in rüpke (ed), , & beard et al., vol. , – . 	^ beard et al., vol. , – . 	^ brent, - . 	^ books.google.co.uk, le bohec, : limited preview available via google books 	^ books.google.co.uk, dixon, : limited preview available from google books 	^ livy, . . ., & . . ; beard et al., vol , – ; hertz, in rüpke (ed), ; halm, in rüpke (ed), . 	^ rosenberger, in rüpke (ed), oo, citing suetonius, tiberius, . . 	^ beard et al., vol. , . 	^ beard et al., vol. , – . this exclusion prompted prurient speculation on the part of men, and a scandalous, impious intrusion by publius clodius pulcher. 	^ beard et al., vol. , . ibid , citing the obituary of a woman whose virtues included "religio without superstitio" (ils . - of "turia"). 	^ a b rüpke, in rüpke (ed), . 	^ see beard et al., vol. , . 	^ clifford ando, the matter of the gods: religion and the roman empire (university of california press, ), p. . 	^ beard et al., – . 	^ phillips, in rüpke (ed), . 	^ ogden, in flint et al., : citing pliny, natural history, . – ; seneca, natural questions, . . . 	^ beard et al., vol. , – , citing tacitus, histories, . . tacitus' prediction was accurate: in the late rd century, diocletian issued a general ban on astrology. 	^ apuleius, apologia, . . 	^ pliny the elder, natural history, . – ; see also beard et al., vol. , . 	^ beard et al., vol. , – & , citing philostratus, life of apollonius, i. , iv. , v. , vii. , , - , , viii. , , , . 	^ beard et al., vol. , – , citing lucan, pharsalia,vi. – . 	^ scheid, in rüpke (ed), . 	^ haensch, in rüpke (ed), : about of these british defixiones are from sulla-minerva's spring in urban bath and the remainder from a shrine to a celtic deity (nodens), at rural uley. for defixiones as direct appeals to divine justice, see belayche, in rüpke (ed), . for the widespread persistence of curse-tablet rituals, see ogden, in flint et al., – . 	^ during the augustan era, the city of rome probably housed around a million people, including an unknown number of provincials: by mouritsen's estimate, around , roman citizens were eligible to vote in rome itself during the late republican era but during major elections, the influx of rural voters and the bottleneck of the city's ancient electoral apparatus meant that perhaps % of eligible citizens actually voted. this nevertheless represents a substantial increase from the estimated % adult male enfranchisement rights of bc. at any time, the overwhelming majority of citizens – meaning the plebs – had minimal direct involvement in central government. see henrik mouritsen, plebs and politics in the late roman republic (cambridge, u.k., cambridge university press, ), ff. 	^ orlin, in rüpke (ed), . 	^ orlin, in rüpke (ed), – . 	^ belayche, in rüpke (ed), : citing plutarch, camillus, . belayche describes this as a votive offering (uotum), which "offered a supernatural legitimacy for decisions or actions... [and] entailed being assisted and reassured, through the forwarding of hopes or dis- appointments, anger or contentment, to superior powers." see also versnel, henrik s., (ed), "religious mentality in ancient prayer," in versnel, henrik s., faith, hope and worship: aspects of religious mentality in the ancient world, leyden, , pp – . 	^ the collegia were opened to plebs by the lex ogulnia of bc. 	^ "the change that comes about at the end of the republic and solidifies under augustus is not political, but cultural". galinsky, in rüpke (ed), : citing habinek, t., and schiesaro, a., (eds.) the roman cultural revolution. princeton, new jersey, & wallace-hadrill, a., "mutatas formas: the augustan transformation of roman knowledge", in: galinsky, k., (ed.) the cambridge companion to the age of augustus, cambridge, , pp – : contra syme, r., the roman revolution, . 	^ smith, in rüpke (ed), . 	^ galinsky, in rüpke (ed), : "...the change that comes about at the end of the republic and solidifies under augustus is not political, but cultural. most of the members of the priestly colleges in augustus’ time continued to be aristocrats, but the real power and control over religion and the calendar now flowed from professional experts, such as the polymath varro, because they had the power of knowledge. 	^ two centuries later, when decius and diocletian required universal sacrifice to roman gods as a test of loyalty, any traditional gods served the purpose: loyal compliance with imperial dictat made them roman. 	^ scipio did not claim personal connections with jupiter; but he did not deny rumours to that effect. contrary to usual practice, his imago (funeral mask) was stored in the temple of jupiter. 	^ orlin, in rüpke (ed), . 	^ otherwise, electoral bribery (ambitus): see cicero, letters to friends, . : see also beard et al., vol. , – . 	^ hertz, in rüpke (ed), . 	^ "from etruria the romans derived the idea of housing a deity in a temple and of providing him with a cult statue. ... the most famous... dedicated in the first year of the republic to the etruscan triad, tinia, uni and minerva. of these deities, however, two were italian, juno and minerva, while tinia was identified with jupiter." howard hayes scullard, ( ), a history of the roman world, to bc, page . routledge 	^ "her cult at aricia was first attested in latin literature by cato the elder, in a surviving quote by the late grammarian priscian. supposed greek origins for the aricia cult are strictly a literary topos." arthur e. gordon, "on the origin of diana", transactions and proceedings of the american philological association ( , pp. - ) page note, and page . 	^ varro, ling. lat. v. 	^ pomoerium, a dictionary of greek and roman antiquities, page - . london, . 	^ ara maxima herculis, a topographical dictionary of ancient rome, page - . oxford university press, . 	^ "traditionally in , the cult of castor and pollux was introduced from tusculum and temple was erected in the forum." howard hayes scullard, ( ), a history of the roman world, to bc, page . routledge 	^ livy, . . 	^ ver sacrum, a dictionary of greek and roman antiquities, page , london, . 	^ dionysius and the bacchanalia, b.c. from livy: history of rome. 	^ hebe entry in a dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology. 	^ orlin, in rüpke, (ed), 	^ galinsky, in rüpke (ed), . see also res gestae. 	^ mclaughlin, raoul ( ). rome and the distant east : trade routes to the ancient lands of arabia, india and china. london: continuum. isbn  - - - - . oclc  . 	^ a b c roberts, j. m. 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( ). history of the world. new york: oxford university press. isbn  - - - . oclc  .cs maint: multiple names: authors list (link) 	^ pliny the younger, epistles, . . 	^ as at narbonne and salona. see andringa, in rüpke (ed), . 	^ van andringa, in rüpke (ed), . 	^ beard et al. 	^ van andringa, in rüpke (ed), . 	^ haensch, in rüpke (ed), – . 	^ kaufmann-heinimann, in rüpke (ed), . 	^ haensch, in rüpke (ed), . 	^ gradel, - . 	^ beard, - . 	^ fishwick, vol , part , : citing cassius dio, , , - 	^ fishwick, vol , book , & - . 	^ fishwick, vol , book , - . 	^ hertz, in rüpke (ed), . 	^ gradel, - , . 	^ rees, - , - . 	^ beard et al., vol. , – , . 	^ smallwood, - , - : the presence of practicing jews in rome is attested "at least a century" before bc. smallwood describes the preamble to judaea's clientage as the hellenising of ruling jewish dynasties, their claims to kingly messianism and their popular, traditionalist rejection in the maccabaean revolt. in rome, the more "characteristically jewish" beliefs and customs were subjects of scorn and mockery.books.google.co.uk ibid, - for early roman responses to judaistic practice; but see also tessa rajack, "was there a roman charter for the jews?" journal of roman studies, , ( ) - ; no "roman charter" for judaism should be inferred from local, ad hoc attempts to suppress anti-jewish acts (as in josephus' account); judaism as religio licita is only found later, in tertullian. cicero, pro flacco, , refers to judaism as superstitio. 	^ smallwood, - , - : superstitio in cicero, pro flacco, , but legislation by julius caesar recognised the synagogues in rome as legitimate collegia and augustus maintained their status. josephus infers an early "charter" offering protection to jews, but tessa rajack, "was there a roman charter for the jews?" journal of roman studies, , ( ) - , finds evidence only for rome's official suppression of anti-jewish activities. religio licita is first found much later than this, in tertullian. 	^ beard et al., vol. , : citing pliny the younger, letters, . . , & beard et al., vol. , . a: citing tacitus, annals, . . . 	^ leppin, in rüpke (ed), . 	^ potter, - : see for decian "libellus" (certificate) of oath and sacrifice on papyrus, dated to ad. 	^ beard et al., vol. , . 	^ roman oaths of loyalty were traditionally collective; the decian oath has been interpreted as a design to root out individual subversives and suppress their cults: see leppin, in rüpke, (ed), . 	^ books.google.co.uk, rees, . limited preview available at google books 	^ bowman et al., - . books.google.co.uk, limited preview available at google books 	^ a b rees, . 	^ beard et al., . 	^ see leppin, in rüpke (ed), – ; citing eusebius, historia ecclesiastica . . ; . – ; . 	^ leppin, in rüpke (ed), ; citing eusebius, historia ecclesiastica, . – : paul actually remained in office until "aurelian's victory over palmyra in , when he was forced to leave the 'building of the church'... political conflicts, local rivalry, and theological debates converged in this quarrel." 	^ cascio, in bowman et al. 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philosopher, founder of platonism 	plato 	roman copy of a portrait bust by silanion for the academia in athens (c.   bc) 	born	 / or / bc athens, greece 	died	 / bc (age c.  ) athens, greece 	notable work 	 	apology 	crito 	euthyphro 	meno 	parmenides 	phaedo 	phaedrus 	republic 	symposium 	timaeus 	 	era	ancient greek philosophy 	region	western philosophy 	school	platonism 	notable students	 	aristotle 	eudoxus of cnidus 	main interests 	 	metaphysics 	ethics 	politics 	epistemology 	aesthetics 	soul 	love 	mathematics 	language 	education 	cosmology 	eschatology 	notable ideas 	 	platonic philosophy 	innatism 	theory of forms 	idealism 	 influences 	 	socrates 	pythagoras 	parmenides 	heraclitus 	cratylus 	the sophists 	eleusinian mysteries 	orphism 	diotima[ ] 	theaetetus 	theodorus 	homer 	hesiod 	 influenced 	virtually all subsequent western philosophy (and religion), especially platonism, including aristotle, speusippus and xenocrates, academic skepticism, middle platonism, 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pronounced [plá.tɔːn] in classical attic; / or / – / bc) was an athenian philosopher during the classical period in ancient greece, founder of the platonist school of thought, and the academy, the first institution of higher learning in the western world. he is widely considered the pivotal figure in the history of ancient greek and western philosophy, along with his teacher, socrates, and his most famous student, aristotle.[a] plato has also often been cited as one of the founders of western religion and spirituality.[ ] the so-called neoplatonism of philosophers like plotinus and porphyry greatly influenced christianity through church fathers such as augustine. alfred north whitehead once noted: "the safest general characterization of the european philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to plato."[ ] plato was the innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms in philosophy. plato is also considered the founder of western political philosophy. his most famous contribution is the theory of forms known by pure reason, in which plato presents a solution to the problem of universals known as platonism (also ambiguously called either platonic realism or platonic idealism). he is also the namesake of platonic love and the platonic solids. his own most decisive philosophical influences are usually thought to have been along with socrates, the pre-socratics pythagoras, heraclitus and parmenides, although few of his predecessors' works remain extant and much of what we know about these figures today derives from plato himself.[b] unlike the work of nearly all of his contemporaries, plato's entire body of work is believed to have survived intact for over , years.[ ] although their popularity has fluctuated over the years, plato's works have never been without readers since the time they were written.[ ] contents 	 biography 	 . early life 	 . . birth and family 	 . . name 	 . . education 	 . later life and death 	 influences 	 . pythagoras 	 . . plato and mathematics 	 . heraclitus and parmenides 	 . socrates 	 philosophy 	 . metaphysics 	 . . the forms 	 . . the soul 	 . epistemology 	 . . recollection 	 . . justified true belief 	 . ethics 	 . . justice 	 . politics 	 . art and poetry 	 . unwritten doctrines 	 themes of plato's dialogues 	 . trial of socrates 	 . . the trial in other dialogues 	 . allegories 	 . . the cave 	 . . ring of gyges 	 . . chariot 	 . dialectic 	 . family 	 . narration 	 history of plato's dialogues 	 . chronology 	 . . writings of doubted authenticity 	 . . spurious writings 	 . textual sources and history 	 . . modern editions 	 criticism 	 legacy 	 . in the arts 	 . in philosophy 	 see also 	 . philosophy 	 . ancient scholars 	 . modern scholars 	 . other 	 notes 	 references 	 . works cited 	 further reading 	 external links biography early life main article: early life of plato birth and family diogenes laertius is a principal source for the history of ancient greek philosophy. due to a lack of surviving accounts, little is known about plato's early life and education. plato belonged to an aristocratic and influential family. according to a disputed tradition, reported by doxographer diogenes laërtius, plato's father ariston traced his descent from the king of athens, codrus, and the king of messenia, melanthus.[ ] according to the ancient hellenic tradition, codrus was said to have been descended from the mythological deity poseidon.[ ][ ] through his mother, plato was related to solon. plato's mother was perictione, whose family boasted of a relationship with the famous athenian lawmaker and lyric poet solon, one of the seven sages, who repealed the laws of draco (except for the death penalty for homicide).[ ] perictione was sister of charmides and niece of critias, both prominent figures of the thirty tyrants, known as the thirty, the brief oligarchic regime ( – bc), which followed on the collapse of athens at the end of the peloponnesian war ( – bc).[ ] according to some accounts, ariston tried to force his attentions on perictione, but failed in his purpose; then the god apollo appeared to him in a vision, and as a result, ariston left perictione unmolested.[ ] the exact time and place of plato's birth are unknown. based on ancient sources, most modern scholars believe that he was born in athens or aegina[c] between and bc, not long after the start of the peloponnesian war.[d] the traditional date of plato's birth during the th or th olympiad, or bc, is based on a dubious interpretation of diogenes laërtius, who says, "when [socrates] was gone, [plato] joined cratylus the heracleitean and hermogenes, who philosophized in the manner of parmenides. then, at twenty-eight, hermodorus says, [plato] went to euclides in megara." however, as debra nails argues, the text does not state that plato left for megara immediately after joining cratylus and hermogenes.[ ] in his seventh letter, plato notes that his coming of age coincided with the taking of power by the thirty, remarking, "but a youth under the age of twenty made himself a laughingstock if he attempted to enter the political arena." thus, nails dates plato's birth to / .[ ] according to neanthes, plato was six years younger than isocrates, and therefore was born the same year the prominent athenian statesman pericles died ( bc).[ ] jonathan barnes regards bc as the year of plato's birth.[ ][ ] the grammarian apollodorus of athens in his chronicles argues that plato was born in the th olympiad.[ ] both the suda and sir thomas browne also claimed he was born during the th olympiad.[ ][ ] another legend related that, when plato was an infant, bees settled on his lips while he was sleeping: an augury of the sweetness of style in which he would discourse about philosophy.[ ] speusippus was plato's nephew. besides plato himself, ariston and perictione had three other children; two sons, adeimantus and glaucon, and a daughter potone, the mother of speusippus (the nephew and successor of plato as head of the academy).[ ] the brothers adeimantus and glaucon are mentioned in the republic as sons of ariston,[ ] and presumably brothers of plato, though some have argued they were uncles.[e] in a scenario in the memorabilia, xenophon confused the issue by presenting a glaucon much younger than plato.[ ] ariston appears to have died in plato's childhood, although the precise dating of his death is difficult.[ ] perictione then married pyrilampes, her mother's brother,[ ] who had served many times as an ambassador to the persian court and was a friend of pericles, the leader of the democratic faction in athens.[ ] pyrilampes had a son from a previous marriage, demus, who was famous for his beauty.[ ] perictione gave birth to pyrilampes' second son, antiphon, the half-brother of plato, who appears in parmenides.[ ] in contrast to his reticence about himself, plato often introduced his distinguished relatives into his dialogues or referred to them with some precision. in addition to adeimantus and glaucon in the republic, charmides has a dialogue named after him; and critias speaks in both charmides and protagoras.[ ] these and other references suggest a considerable amount of family pride and enable us to reconstruct plato's family tree. according to burnet, "the opening scene of the charmides is a glorification of the whole [family] connection ... plato's dialogues are not only a memorial to socrates but also the happier days of his own family."[ ] name the fact that the philosopher in his maturity called himself platon is indisputable, but the origin of this name remains mysterious. platon is a nickname from the adjective platýs (πλατύς) 'broad'. although platon was a fairly common name ( instances are known from athens alone),[ ] the name does not occur in plato's known family line.[ ] the sources of diogenes laërtius account for this by claiming that his wrestling coach, ariston of argos, dubbed him "broad" on account of his chest and shoulders, or that plato derived his name from the breadth of his eloquence, or his wide forehead.[ ][ ] while recalling a moral lesson about frugal living seneca mentions the meaning of plato's name: "his very name was given him because of his broad chest."[ ] plato was a wrestler his true name was supposedly aristocles (Ἀριστοκλῆς), meaning 'best reputation'.[f] according to diogenes laërtius, he was named after his grandfather, as was common in athenian society.[ ] but there is only one inscription of an aristocles, an early archon of athens in / bc. there is no record of a line from aristocles to plato's father, ariston. recently a scholar has argued that even the name aristocles for plato was a much later invention.[ ] however, another scholar claims that "there is good reason for not dismissing [the idea that aristocles was plato's given name] as a mere invention of his biographers", noting how prevalent that account is in our sources.[ ] education ancient sources describe him as a bright though modest boy who excelled in his studies. apuleius informs us that speusippus praised plato's quickness of mind and modesty as a boy, and the "first fruits of his youth infused with hard work and love of study".[ ] his father contributed all which was necessary to give to his son a good education, and, therefore, plato must have been instructed in grammar, music, and gymnastics by the most distinguished teachers of his time.[ ] plato invokes damon many times in the republic. plato was a wrestler, and dicaearchus went so far as to say that plato wrestled at the isthmian games.[ ] plato had also attended courses of philosophy; before meeting socrates, he first became acquainted with cratylus and the heraclitean doctrines.[ ] ambrose believed that plato met jeremiah in egypt and was influenced by his ideas. augustine initially accepted this claim, but later rejected it, arguing in the city of god that "plato was born a hundred years after jeremiah prophesied."[ ][need quotation to verify] later life and death plato in his academy, drawing after a painting by swedish painter carl johan wahlbom plato may have travelled in italy, sicily, egypt and cyrene.[ ]plato's own statement was that he visited italy and sicily at the age of forty and was disgusted by the sensuality of life there. said to have returned to athens at the age of forty, plato founded one of the earliest known organized schools in western civilization on a plot of land in the grove of hecademus or academus.[ ] this land was named after academus, an attic hero in greek mythology. in historic greek times it was adorned with oriental plane and olive plantations[ ][ ] the academy was a large enclosure of ground about six stadia (a total of between a kilometer and a half mile) outside of athens proper. one story is that the name of the academy comes from the ancient hero, academus; still another story is that the name came from a supposed former owner of the plot of land, an athenian citizen whose name was (also) academus; while yet another account is that it was named after a member of the army of castor and pollux, an arcadian named echedemus.[ ] the academy operated until it was destroyed by lucius cornelius sulla in bc. many intellectuals were schooled in the academy, the most prominent one being aristotle.[ ][ ] throughout his later life, plato became entangled with the politics of the city of syracuse. according to diogenes laërtius, plato initially visited syracuse while it was under the rule of dionysius.[ ] during this first trip dionysius's brother-in-law, dion of syracuse, became one of plato's disciples, but the tyrant himself turned against plato. plato almost faced death, but he was sold into slavery.[g] anniceris, a cyrenaic philosopher, subsequently bought plato's freedom for twenty minas,[ ] and sent him home. after dionysius's death, according to plato's seventh letter, dion requested plato return to syracuse to tutor dionysius ii and guide him to become a philosopher king. dionysius ii seemed to accept plato's teachings, but he became suspicious of dion, his uncle. dionysius expelled dion and kept plato against his will. eventually plato left syracuse. dion would return to overthrow dionysius and ruled syracuse for a short time before being usurped by calippus, a fellow disciple of plato. according to seneca, plato died at the age of on the same day he was born.[ ] the suda indicates that he lived to years,[ ] while neanthes claims an age of .[ ] a variety of sources have given accounts of his death. one story, based on a mutilated manuscript,[ ] suggests plato died in his bed, whilst a young thracian girl played the flute to him.[ ] another tradition suggests plato died at a wedding feast. the account is based on diogenes laërtius's reference to an account by hermippus, a third-century alexandrian.[ ] according to tertullian, plato simply died in his sleep.[ ] plato owned an estate at iphistiadae, which by will he left to a certain youth named adeimantus, presumably a younger relative, as plato had an elder brother or uncle by this name. influences pythagoras bust of pythagoras in rome. although socrates influenced plato directly as related in the dialogues, the influence of pythagoras upon plato, or in a broader sense, the pythagoreans, such as archytas also appears to have been significant. aristotle claimed that the philosophy of plato closely followed the teachings of the pythagoreans,[ ] and cicero repeats this claim: "they say plato learned all things pythagorean."[ ] it is probable that both were influenced by orphism, and both believed in metempsychosis, transmigration of the soul. pythagoras held that all things are number, and the cosmos comes from numerical principles. he introduced the concept of form as distinct from matter, and that the physical world is an imitation of an eternal mathematical world. these ideas were very influential on heraclitus, parmenides and plato.[ ] george karamanolis notes that numenius accepted both pythagoras and plato as the two authorities one should follow in philosophy, but he regarded plato's authority as subordinate to that of pythagoras, whom he considered to be the source of all true philosophy—including plato's own. for numenius it is just that plato wrote so many philosophical works, whereas pythagoras' views were originally passed on only orally.[ ] according to r. m. hare, this influence consists of three points: 	the platonic republic might be related to the idea of "a tightly organized community of like-minded thinkers", like the one established by pythagoras in croton. 	the idea that mathematics and, generally speaking, abstract thinking is a secure basis for philosophical thinking as well as "for substantial theses in science and morals". 	they shared a "mystical approach to the soul and its place in the material world".[ ][ ] plato and mathematics plato may have studied under the mathematician theodorus of cyrene, and has a dialogue named for and whose central character is the mathematician theaetetus. while not a mathematician, plato was considered an accomplished teacher of mathematics. eudoxus of cnidus, the greatest mathematician in classical greece, who contributed much of what is found in euclid's elements, was taught by archytas and plato. plato helped to distinguish between pure and applied mathematics by widening the gap between "arithmetic", now called number theory and "logistic", now called arithmetic.[h] assignment to the elements in kepler's mysterium cosmographicum in the dialogue timaeus plato associated each of the four classical elements (earth, air, water, and fire) with a regular solid (cube, octahedron, icosahedron, and tetrahedron respectively) due to their shape, the so-called platonic solids. the fifth regular solid, the dodecahedron, was supposed to be the element which made up the heavens. heraclitus and parmenides the two philosophers heraclitus and parmenides, following the way initiated by pre-socratic greek philosophers like pythagoras, depart from mythology and begin the metaphysical tradition that strongly influenced plato and continues today.[ ] heraclitus ( ) by hendrick ter brugghen bust of parmenides from velia the surviving fragments written by heraclitus suggest the view that all things are continuously changing, or becoming. his image of the river, with ever-changing waters, is well known. according to some ancient traditions like that of diogenes laërtius, plato received these ideas through heraclitus' disciple cratylus, who held the more radical view that continuous change warrants scepticism because we cannot define a thing that does not have a permanent nature.[ ] parmenides adopted an altogether contrary vision, arguing for the idea of changeless being and the view that change is an illusion.[ ] john palmer notes "parmenides' distinction among the principal modes of being and his derivation of the attributes that must belong to what must be, simply as such, qualify him to be seen as the founder of metaphysics or ontology as a domain of inquiry distinct from theology."[ ] these ideas about change and permanence, or becoming and being, influenced plato in formulating his theory of forms.[ ] plato's most self-critical dialogue is called parmenides, featuring parmenides and his student zeno, who following parmenides' denial of change argued forcefully with his paradoxes to deny the existence of motion. plato's sophist dialogue includes an eleatic stranger, a follower of parmenides, as a foil for his arguments against parmenides. in the dialogue plato distinguishes nouns and verbs, providing some of the earliest treatment of subject and predicate. he also argues that motion and rest both "are", against followers of parmenides who say rest is but motion is not. socrates see also: socratic problem bust of socrates at the louvre. plato was one of the devoted young followers of socrates. the precise relationship between plato and socrates remains an area of contention among scholars. plato never speaks in his own voice in his dialogues, and speaks as socrates in all but the laws. in the second letter, it says, "no writing of plato exists or ever will exist, but those now said to be his are those of a socrates become beautiful and new";[ ] if the letter is plato's, the final qualification seems to call into question the dialogues' historical fidelity. in any case, xenophon's memorabilia and aristophanes's the clouds seem to present a somewhat different portrait of socrates from the one plato paints. the socratic problem asks how to reconcile these various accounts. leo strauss notes that socrates' reputation for irony casts doubt on whether plato's socrates is expressing sincere beliefs.[ ] aristotle attributes a different doctrine with respect to forms to plato and socrates.[ ] aristotle suggests that socrates' idea of forms can be discovered through investigation of the natural world, unlike plato's forms that exist beyond and outside the ordinary range of human understanding. in the dialogues of plato though, socrates sometimes seems to support a mystical side, discussing reincarnation and the mystery religions, this is generally attributed to plato.[clarification needed][ ] regardless, this view of socrates cannot be dismissed out of hand, as we cannot be sure of the differences between the views of plato and socrates. in the meno plato refers to the eleusinian mysteries, telling meno he would understand socrates's answers better if he could stay for the initiations next week. it is possible that plato and socrates took part in the eleusinian mysteries.[ ] philosophy metaphysics in plato's dialogues, socrates and his company of disputants had something to say on many subjects, including several aspects of metaphysics. these include religion and science, human nature, love, and sexuality. more than one dialogue contrasts perception and reality, nature and custom, and body and soul. the forms the "windmill proof" of the pythagorean theorem found in euclid's elements. "platonism" and its theory of forms (or theory of ideas) denies the reality of the material world, considering it only an image or copy of the real world. the theory of forms is first introduced in the phaedo dialogue (also known as on the soul), wherein socrates refutes the pluralism of the likes of anaxagoras, then the most popular response to heraclitus and parmenides, while giving the "opposites argument" in support of the forms. according to this theory of forms there are at least two worlds: the apparent world of concrete objects, grasped by the senses, which constantly changes, and an unchanging and unseen world of forms or abstract objects, grasped by pure reason (λογική). which ground what is apparent. it can also be said there are three worlds, with the apparent world consisting of both the world of material objects and of mental images, with the "third realm" consisting of the forms. thus, though there is the term "platonic idealism", this refers to platonic ideas or the forms, and not to some platonic kind of idealism, an th-century view which sees matter as unreal in favour of mind. for plato, though grasped by the mind, only the forms are truly real. plato's forms thus represent types of things, as well as properties, patterns, and relations, to which we refer as objects. just as individual tables, chairs, and cars refer to objects in this world, 'tableness', 'chairness', and 'carness', as well as e. g. justice, truth, and beauty refer to objects in another world. one of plato's most cited examples for the forms were the truths of geometry, such as the pythagorean theorem. in other words, the forms are universals given as a solution to the problem of universals, or the problem of "the one and the many", e. g. how one predicate "red" can apply to many red objects. for plato this is because there is one abstract object or form of red, redness itself, in which the several red things "participate". as plato's solution is that universals are forms and that forms are real if anything is, plato's philosophy is unambiguously called platonic realism. according to aristotle, plato's best known argument in support of the forms was the "one over many" argument.[ ] what is justice? aside from being immutable, timeless, changeless, and one over many, the forms also provide definitions and the standard against which all instances are measured. in the dialogues socrates regularly asks for the meaning – in the sense of intensional definitions – of a general term (e. g. justice, truth, beauty), and criticizes those who instead give him particular, extensional examples, rather than the quality shared by all examples. there is thus a world of perfect, eternal, and changeless meanings of predicates, the forms, existing in the realm of being outside of space and time; and the imperfect sensible world of becoming, subjects somehow in a state between being and nothing, that partakes of the qualities of the forms, and is its instantiation. the soul plato advocates a belief in the immortality of the soul, and several dialogues end with long speeches imagining the afterlife. in the timaeus, socrates locates the parts of the soul within the human body: reason is located in the head, spirit in the top third of the torso, and the appetite in the middle third of the torso, down to the navel.[ ][ ] epistemology socrates, such as wisdom also discuss several aspects of epistemology. more than one dialogue contrasts knowledge and opinion. plato's epistemology involves socrates arguing that knowledge is not empirical, and that it comes from divine insight. the forms are also responsible for both knowledge or certainty, and are grasped by pure reason. in several dialogues, socrates inverts the common man's intuition about what is knowable and what is real. reality is unavailable to those who use their senses. socrates says that he who sees with his eyes is blind. while most people take the objects of their senses to be real if anything is, socrates is contemptuous of people who think that something has to be graspable in the hands to be real. in the theaetetus, he says such people are eu amousoi (εὖ ἄμουσοι), an expression that means literally, "happily without the muses".[ ] in other words, such people are willingly ignorant, living without divine inspiration and access to higher insights about reality. in plato's dialogues, socrates always insists on his ignorance and humility, that he knows nothing, so called socratic irony. several dialogues refute a series of viewpoints, but offer no positive position of its own, ending in aporia. recollection in several of plato's dialogues, socrates promulgates the idea that knowledge is a matter of recollection of the state before one is born, and not of observation or study.[ ] keeping with the theme of admitting his own ignorance, socrates regularly complains of his forgetfulness. in the meno, socrates uses a geometrical example to expound plato's view that knowledge in this latter sense is acquired by recollection. socrates elicits a fact concerning a geometrical construction from a slave boy, who could not have otherwise known the fact (due to the slave boy's lack of education). the knowledge must be present, socrates concludes, in an eternal, non-experiential form. in other dialogues, the sophist, statesman, republic, and the parmenides, plato himself associates knowledge with the apprehension of unchanging forms and their relationships to one another (which he calls "expertise" in dialectic), including through the processes of collection and division.[ ] more explicitly, plato himself argues in the timaeus that knowledge is always proportionate to the realm from which it is gained. in other words, if one derives one's account of something experientially, because the world of sense is in flux, the views therein attained will be mere opinions. and opinions are characterized by a lack of necessity and stability. on the other hand, if one derives one's account of something by way of the non-sensible forms, because these forms are unchanging, so too is the account derived from them. that apprehension of forms is required for knowledge may be taken to cohere with plato's theory in the theaetetus and meno.[ ] indeed, the apprehension of forms may be at the base of the "account" required for justification, in that it offers foundational knowledge which itself needs no account, thereby avoiding an infinite regression.[ ] justified true belief a venn diagram illustrating the classical theory of knowledge. many have interpreted plato as stating—even having been the first to write—that knowledge is justified true belief, an influential view that informed future developments in epistemology.[ ] this interpretation is partly based on a reading of the theaetetus wherein plato argues that knowledge is distinguished from mere true belief by the knower having an "account" of the object of their true belief.[ ] and this theory may again be seen in the meno, where it is suggested that true belief can be raised to the level of knowledge if it is bound with an account as to the question of "why" the object of the true belief is so.[ ][ ] many years later, edmund gettier famously demonstrated the problems of the justified true belief account of knowledge. that the modern theory of justified true belief as knowledge which gettier addresses is equivalent to plato's is accepted by some scholars but rejected by others.[ ] plato himself also identified problems with the justified true belief definition in the theaetetus, concluding that justification (or an "account") would require knowledge of difference, meaning that the definition of knowledge is circular.[ ][ ] ethics several dialogues discuss ethics including virtue and vice, pleasure and pain, crime and punishment, and justice and medicine. plato views "the good" as the supreme form, somehow existing even "beyond being". socrates propounded a moral intellectualism which claimed nobody does bad on purpose, and to know what is good results in doing what is good; that knowledge is virtue. in the protagoras dialogue it is argued that virtue is innate and cannot be learned. socrates presents the famous euthyphro dilemma in the dialogue of the same name: "is the pious (τὸ ὅσιον) loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?" ( a) justice as above, in the republic, plato asks the question, “what is justice?” by means of the greek term dikaiosune – a term for “justice” that captures both individual justice and the justice that informs societies, plato is able not only to inform metaphysics, but also ethics and politics with the question: “what is the basis of moral and social obligation?” plato's well-known answer rests upon the fundamental responsibility to seek wisdom, wisdom which leads to an understanding of the form of the good. plato further argues that such understanding of forms produces and ensures the good communal life when ideally structured under a philosopher king in a society with three classes (philosophers kings, guardians and workers) that neatly mirror his triadic view of the individual soul (reason, spirit and appetite). in this manner, justice is obtained when knowledge of how to fulfill one's moral and political function in society is put into practice.[ ] politics oxyrhynchus papyri, with fragment of plato's republic the dialogues also discuss politics. some of plato's most famous doctrines are contained in the republic as well as in the laws and the statesman. because these doctrines are not spoken directly by plato and vary between dialogues, they cannot be straightforwardly assumed as representing plato's own views. socrates asserts that societies have a tripartite class structure corresponding to the appetite/spirit/reason structure of the individual soul. the appetite/spirit/reason are analogous to the castes of society.[ ] 	productive (workers) – the labourers, carpenters, plumbers, masons, merchants, farmers, ranchers, etc. these correspond to the "appetite" part of the soul. 	protective (warriors or guardians) – those who are adventurous, strong and brave; in the armed forces. these correspond to the "spirit" part of the soul. 	governing (rulers or philosopher kings) – those who are intelligent, rational, self-controlled, in love with wisdom, well suited to make decisions for the community. these correspond to the "reason" part of the soul and are very few. according to this model, the principles of athenian democracy (as it existed in his day) are rejected as only a few are fit to rule. instead of rhetoric and persuasion, socrates says reason and wisdom should govern. as socrates puts it: 	"until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophize, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincide, while the many natures who at present pursue either one exclusively are forcibly prevented from doing so, cities will have no rest from evils,... nor, i think, will the human race."[ ] socrates describes these "philosopher kings" as "those who love the sight of truth"[ ] and supports the idea with the analogy of a captain and his ship or a doctor and his medicine. according to him, sailing and health are not things that everyone is qualified to practice by nature. a large part of the republic then addresses how the educational system should be set up to produce these philosopher kings. in addition, the ideal city is used as an image to illuminate the state of one's soul, or the will, reason, and desires combined in the human body. socrates is attempting to make an image of a rightly ordered human, and then later goes on to describe the different kinds of humans that can be observed, from tyrants to lovers of money in various kinds of cities. the ideal city is not promoted, but only used to magnify the different kinds of individual humans and the state of their soul. however, the philosopher king image was used by many after plato to justify their personal political beliefs. the philosophic soul according to socrates has reason, will, and desires united in virtuous harmony. a philosopher has the moderate love for wisdom and the courage to act according to wisdom. wisdom is knowledge about the good or the right relations between all that exists. wherein it concerns states and rulers, socrates asks which is better—a bad democracy or a country reigned by a tyrant. he argues that it is better to be ruled by a bad tyrant, than by a bad democracy (since here all the people are now responsible for such actions, rather than one individual committing many bad deeds.) this is emphasised within the republic as socrates describes the event of mutiny on board a ship.[ ] socrates suggests the ship's crew to be in line with the democratic rule of many and the captain, although inhibited through ailments, the tyrant. socrates' description of this event is parallel to that of democracy within the state and the inherent problems that arise. according to socrates, a state made up of different kinds of souls will, overall, decline from an aristocracy (rule by the best) to a timocracy (rule by the honourable), then to an oligarchy (rule by the few), then to a democracy (rule by the people), and finally to tyranny (rule by one person, rule by a tyrant).[ ] aristocracy in the sense of government (politeia) is advocated in plato's republic. this regime is ruled by a philosopher king, and thus is grounded on wisdom and reason. the aristocratic state, and the man whose nature corresponds to it, are the objects of plato's analyses throughout much of the republic, as opposed to the other four types of states/men, who are discussed later in his work. in book viii, socrates states in order the other four imperfect societies with a description of the state's structure and individual character. in timocracy the ruling class is made up primarily of those with a warrior-like character.[ ] oligarchy is made up of a society in which wealth is the criterion of merit and the wealthy are in control.[ ] in democracy, the state bears resemblance to ancient athens with traits such as equality of political opportunity and freedom for the individual to do as he likes.[ ] democracy then degenerates into tyranny from the conflict of rich and poor. it is characterized by an undisciplined society existing in chaos, where the tyrant rises as popular champion leading to the formation of his private army and the growth of oppression.[ ][ ][ ] art and poetry several dialogues tackle questions about art, including rhetoric and rhapsody. socrates says that poetry is inspired by the muses, and is not rational. he speaks approvingly of this, and other forms of divine madness (drunkenness, eroticism, and dreaming) in the phaedrus,[ ] and yet in the republic wants to outlaw homer's great poetry, and laughter as well. in ion, socrates gives no hint of the disapproval of homer that he expresses in the republic. the dialogue ion suggests that homer's iliad functioned in the ancient greek world as the bible does today in the modern christian world: as divinely inspired literature that can provide moral guidance, if only it can be properly interpreted. unwritten doctrines bust excavated at the villa of the papyri, possibly of dionysus, plato or poseidon. for a long time, plato's unwritten doctrines[ ][ ][ ] had been controversial. many modern books on plato seem to diminish its importance; nevertheless, the first important witness who mentions its existence is aristotle, who in his physics writes: "it is true, indeed, that the account he gives there [i.e. in timaeus] of the participant is different from what he says in his so-called unwritten teachings (ἄγραφα δόγματα)."[ ] the term "ἄγραφα δόγματα" literally means unwritten doctrines or unwritten dogmas and it stands for the most fundamental metaphysical teaching of plato, which he disclosed only orally, and some say only to his most trusted fellows, and which he may have kept secret from the public. the importance of the unwritten doctrines does not seem to have been seriously questioned before the th century. a reason for not revealing it to everyone is partially discussed in phaedrus where plato criticizes the written transmission of knowledge as faulty, favouring instead the spoken logos: "he who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink, sowing them through a pen with words, which cannot defend themselves by argument and cannot teach the truth effectually."[ ] the same argument is repeated in plato's seventh letter: "every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing."[ ] in the same letter he writes: "i can certainly declare concerning all these writers who claim to know the subjects that i seriously study ... there does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any treatise of mine dealing therewith."[ ] such secrecy is necessary in order not "to expose them to unseemly and degrading treatment".[ ] it is, however, said that plato once disclosed this knowledge to the public in his lecture on the good (Περὶ τἀγαθοῦ), in which the good (τὸ ἀγαθόν) is identified with the one (the unity, τὸ ἕν), the fundamental ontological principle. the content of this lecture has been transmitted by several witnesses. aristoxenus describes the event in the following words: "each came expecting to learn something about the things that are generally considered good for men, such as wealth, good health, physical strength, and altogether a kind of wonderful happiness. but when the mathematical demonstrations came, including numbers, geometrical figures and astronomy, and finally the statement good is one seemed to them, i imagine, utterly unexpected and strange; hence some belittled the matter, while others rejected it."[ ] simplicius quotes alexander of aphrodisias, who states that "according to plato, the first principles of everything, including the forms themselves are one and indefinite duality (ἡ ἀόριστος δυάς), which he called large and small (τὸ μέγα καὶ τὸ μικρόν)", and simplicius reports as well that "one might also learn this from speusippus and xenocrates and the others who were present at plato's lecture on the good".[ ] their account is in full agreement with aristotle's description of plato's metaphysical doctrine. in metaphysics he writes: "now since the forms are the causes of everything else, he [i.e. plato] supposed that their elements are the elements of all things. accordingly the material principle is the great and small [i.e. the dyad], and the essence is the one (τὸ ἕν), since the numbers are derived from the great and small by participation in the one".[ ] "from this account it is clear that he only employed two causes: that of the essence, and the material cause; for the forms are the cause of the essence in everything else, and the one is the cause of it in the forms. he also tells us what the material substrate is of which the forms are predicated in the case of sensible things, and the one in that of the forms—that it is this the duality (the dyad, ἡ δυάς), the great and small (τὸ μέγα καὶ τὸ μικρόν). further, he assigned to these two elements respectively the causation of good and of evil".[ ] the most important aspect of this interpretation of plato's metaphysics is the continuity between his teaching and the neoplatonic interpretation of plotinus[i] or ficino[j] which has been considered erroneous by many but may in fact have been directly influenced by oral transmission of plato's doctrine. a modern scholar who recognized the importance of the unwritten doctrine of plato was heinrich gomperz who described it in his speech during the th international congress of philosophy in .[ ] all the sources related to the ἄγραφα δόγματα have been collected by konrad gaiser and published as testimonia platonica.[ ] these sources have subsequently been interpreted by scholars from the german tübingen school of interpretation such as hans joachim krämer or thomas a. szlezák.[k] themes of plato's dialogues trial of socrates the death of socrates ( ), by jacques-louis david the trial of socrates and his death sentence is the central, unifying event of plato's dialogues. it is relayed in the dialogues apology, crito, and phaedo. apology is socrates' defence speech, and crito and phaedo take place in prison after the conviction. apology is among the most frequently read of plato's works. in the apology, socrates tries to dismiss rumours that he is a sophist and defends himself against charges of disbelief in the gods and corruption of the young. socrates insists that long-standing slander will be the real cause of his demise, and says the legal charges are essentially false. socrates famously denies being wise, and explains how his life as a philosopher was launched by the oracle at delphi. he says that his quest to resolve the riddle of the oracle put him at odds with his fellow man, and that this is the reason he has been mistaken for a menace to the city-state of athens. in apology, socrates is presented as mentioning plato by name as one of those youths close enough to him to have been corrupted, if he were in fact guilty of corrupting the youth, and questioning why their fathers and brothers did not step forward to testify against him if he was indeed guilty of such a crime.[ ] later, plato is mentioned along with crito, critobolus, and apollodorus as offering to pay a fine of minas on socrates' behalf, in lieu of the death penalty proposed by meletus.[ ] in the phaedo, the title character lists those who were in attendance at the prison on socrates' last day, explaining plato's absence by saying, "plato was ill".[ ] the trial in other dialogues see also: list of speakers in plato's dialogues if plato's important dialogues do not refer to socrates' execution explicitly, they allude to it, or use characters or themes that play a part in it. five dialogues foreshadow the trial: in the theaetetus and the euthyphro socrates tells people that he is about to face corruption charges.[ ][ ] in the meno, one of the men who brings legal charges against socrates, anytus, warns him about the trouble he may get into if he does not stop criticizing important people.[ ] in the gorgias, socrates says that his trial will be like a doctor prosecuted by a cook who asks a jury of children to choose between the doctor's bitter medicine and the cook's tasty treats.[ ] in the republic, socrates explains why an enlightened man (presumably himself) will stumble in a courtroom situation.[ ] plato's support of aristocracy and distrust of democracy is also taken to be partly rooted in a democracy having killed socrates. in the protagoras, socrates is a guest at the home of callias, son of hipponicus, a man whom socrates disparages in the apology as having wasted a great amount of money on sophists' fees. two other important dialogues, the symposium and the phaedrus, are linked to the main storyline by characters. in the apology, socrates says aristophanes slandered him in a comic play, and blames him for causing his bad reputation, and ultimately, his death.[ ] in the symposium, the two of them are drinking together with other friends. the character phaedrus is linked to the main story line by character (phaedrus is also a participant in the symposium and the protagoras) and by theme (the philosopher as divine emissary, etc.) the protagoras is also strongly linked to the symposium by characters: all of the formal speakers at the symposium (with the exception of aristophanes) are present at the home of callias in that dialogue. charmides and his guardian critias are present for the discussion in the protagoras. examples of characters crossing between dialogues can be further multiplied. the protagoras contains the largest gathering of socratic associates. in the dialogues plato is most celebrated and admired for, socrates is concerned with human and political virtue, has a distinctive personality, and friends and enemies who "travel" with him from dialogue to dialogue. this is not to say that socrates is consistent: a man who is his friend in one dialogue may be an adversary or subject of his mockery in another. for example, socrates praises the wisdom of euthyphro many times in the cratylus, but makes him look like a fool in the euthyphro. he disparages sophists generally, and prodicus specifically in the apology, whom he also slyly jabs in the cratylus for charging the hefty fee of fifty drachmas for a course on language and grammar. however, socrates tells theaetetus in his namesake dialogue that he admires prodicus and has directed many pupils to him. socrates' ideas are also not consistent within or between or among dialogues. allegories main article: allegorical interpretations of plato mythos and logos are terms that evolved along classical greek history. in the times of homer and hesiod ( th century bc) they were essentially synonyms, and contained the meaning of 'tale' or 'history'. later came historians like herodotus and thucydides, as well as philosophers like heraclitus and parmenides and other presocratics who introduced a distinction between both terms; mythos became more a nonverifiable account, and logos a rational account.[ ] it may seem that plato, being a disciple of socrates and a strong partisan of philosophy based on logos, should have avoided the use of myth-telling. instead he made an abundant use of it. this fact has produced analytical and interpretative work, in order to clarify the reasons and purposes for that use. plato, in general, distinguished between three types of myth.[l] first there were the false myths, like those based on stories of gods subject to passions and sufferings, because reason teaches that god is perfect. then came the myths based on true reasoning, and therefore also true. finally there were those non verifiable because beyond of human reason, but containing some truth in them. regarding the subjects of plato's myths they are of two types, those dealing with the origin of the universe, and those about morals and the origin and fate of the soul.[ ] it is generally agreed that the main purpose for plato in using myths was didactic. he considered that only a few people were capable or interested in following a reasoned philosophical discourse, but men in general are attracted by stories and tales. consequently, then, he used the myth to convey the conclusions of the philosophical reasoning. some of plato's myths were based in traditional ones, others were modifications of them, and finally he also invented altogether new myths.[ ] notable examples include the story of atlantis, the myth of er, and the allegory of the cave. the cave plato's allegory of the cave by jan saenredam, according to cornelis van haarlem, , albertina, vienna the theory of forms is most famously captured in his allegory of the cave, and more explicitly in his analogy of the sun and the divided line. the allegory of the cave is a paradoxical analogy wherein socrates argues that the invisible world is the most intelligible ('noeton') and that the visible world ((h)oraton) is the least knowable, and the most obscure. socrates says in the republic that people who take the sun-lit world of the senses to be good and real are living pitifully in a den of evil and ignorance. socrates admits that few climb out of the den, or cave of ignorance, and those who do, not only have a terrible struggle to attain the heights, but when they go back down for a visit or to help other people up, they find themselves objects of scorn and ridicule. according to socrates, physical objects and physical events are "shadows" of their ideal or perfect forms, and exist only to the extent that they instantiate the perfect versions of themselves. just as shadows are temporary, inconsequential epiphenomena produced by physical objects, physical objects are themselves fleeting phenomena caused by more substantial causes, the ideals of which they are mere instances. for example, socrates thinks that perfect justice exists (although it is not clear where) and his own trial would be a cheap copy of it. the allegory of the cave is intimately connected to his political ideology, that only people who have climbed out of the cave and cast their eyes on a vision of goodness are fit to rule. socrates claims that the enlightened men of society must be forced from their divine contemplation and be compelled to run the city according to their lofty insights. thus is born the idea of the "philosopher-king", the wise person who accepts the power thrust upon him by the people who are wise enough to choose a good master. this is the main thesis of socrates in the republic, that the most wisdom the masses can muster is the wise choice of a ruler.[ ] ring of gyges a ring which could make one invisible, the ring of gyges is proposed in the republic by the character of glaucon, and considered by the rest of characters for its ethical consequences, whether an individual possessing it would be most happy abstaining or doing injustice. chariot he also compares the soul (psyche) to a chariot. in this allegory he introduces a triple soul which composed of a charioteer and two horses. the charioteer is a symbol of intellectual and logical part of the soul (logistikon), and two horses represents the moral virtues (thymoeides) and passionate instincts (epithymetikon), respectively, to illustrate the conflict between them. dialectic socrates employs a dialectic method which proceeds by questioning. the role of dialectic in plato's thought is contested but there are two main interpretations: a type of reasoning and a method of intuition.[ ] simon blackburn adopts the first, saying that plato's dialectic is "the process of eliciting the truth by means of questions aimed at opening out what is already implicitly known, or at exposing the contradictions and muddles of an opponent's position."[ ] a similar interpretation has been put forth by louis hartz, who suggests that elements of the dialectic are borrowed from hegel.[ ] according to this view, opposing arguments improve upon each other, and prevailing opinion is shaped by the synthesis of many conflicting ideas over time. each new idea exposes a flaw in the accepted model, and the epistemological substance of the debate continually approaches the truth. hartz's is a teleological interpretation at the core, in which philosophers will ultimately exhaust the available body of knowledge and thus reach "the end of history." karl popper, on the other hand, claims that dialectic is the art of intuition for "visualising the divine originals, the forms or ideas, of unveiling the great mystery behind the common man's everyday world of appearances."[ ] family plato often discusses the father-son relationship and the question of whether a father's interest in his sons has much to do with how well his sons turn out. in ancient athens, a boy was socially located by his family identity, and plato often refers to his characters in terms of their paternal and fraternal relationships. socrates was not a family man, and saw himself as the son of his mother, who was apparently a midwife. a divine fatalist, socrates mocks men who spent exorbitant fees on tutors and trainers for their sons, and repeatedly ventures the idea that good character is a gift from the gods. plato's dialogue crito reminds socrates that orphans are at the mercy of chance, but socrates is unconcerned. in the theaetetus, he is found recruiting as a disciple a young man whose inheritance has been squandered. socrates twice compares the relationship of the older man and his boy lover to the father-son relationship,[ ][ ] and in the phaedo, socrates' disciples, towards whom he displays more concern than his biological sons, say they will feel "fatherless" when he is gone. though plato agreed with aristotle that women were inferior to men, in the fourth book of the republic the character of socrates says this was only because of nomos or custom and not because of nature, and thus women needed paidia, rearing or education to be equal to men. in the "merely probable tale" of the eponymous character in the timaeus, unjust men who live corrupted lives would be reincarnated as women or various animal kinds. narration plato never presents himself as a participant in any of the dialogues, and with the exception of the apology, there is no suggestion that he heard any of the dialogues firsthand. some dialogues have no narrator but have a pure "dramatic" form (examples: meno, gorgias, phaedrus, crito, euthyphro), some dialogues are narrated by socrates, wherein he speaks in first person (examples: lysis, charmides, republic). one dialogue, protagoras, begins in dramatic form but quickly proceeds to socrates' narration of a conversation he had previously with the sophist for whom the dialogue is named; this narration continues uninterrupted till the dialogue's end. painting of a scene from plato's symposium (anselm feuerbach, ) two dialogues phaedo and symposium also begin in dramatic form but then proceed to virtually uninterrupted narration by followers of socrates. phaedo, an account of socrates' final conversation and hemlock drinking, is narrated by phaedo to echecrates in a foreign city not long after the execution took place.[m] the symposium is narrated by apollodorus, a socratic disciple, apparently to glaucon. apollodorus assures his listener that he is recounting the story, which took place when he himself was an infant, not from his own memory, but as remembered by aristodemus, who told him the story years ago. the theaetetus is a peculiar case: a dialogue in dramatic form embedded within another dialogue in dramatic form. in the beginning of the theaetetus,[ ] euclides says that he compiled the conversation from notes he took based on what socrates told him of his conversation with the title character. the rest of the theaetetus is presented as a "book" written in dramatic form and read by one of euclides' slaves.[ ] some scholars take this as an indication that plato had by this date wearied of the narrated form.[ ] with the exception of the theaetetus, plato gives no explicit indication as to how these orally transmitted conversations came to be written down. history of plato's dialogues volume , pp. – , of the stephanus edition of plato, showing a passage of timaeus with the latin translation and notes of jean de serres thirty-five dialogues and thirteen letters (the epistles) have traditionally been ascribed to plato, though modern scholarship doubts the authenticity of at least some of these. plato's writings have been published in several fashions; this has led to several conventions regarding the naming and referencing of plato's texts. the usual system for making unique references to sections of the text by plato derives from a th-century edition of plato's works by henricus stephanus known as stephanus pagination. one tradition regarding the arrangement of plato's texts is according to tetralogies. this scheme is ascribed by diogenes laërtius to an ancient scholar and court astrologer to tiberius named thrasyllus. chronology no one knows the exact order plato's dialogues were written in, nor the extent to which some might have been later revised and rewritten. the works are usually grouped into early (sometimes by some into transitional), middle, and late period.[ ][ ] this choice to group chronologically is thought worthy of criticism by some (cooper et al),[ ] given that it is recognized that there is no absolute agreement as to the true chronology, since the facts of the temporal order of writing are not confidently ascertained.[ ] chronology was not a consideration in ancient times, in that groupings of this nature are virtually absent (tarrant) in the extant writings of ancient platonists.[ ] whereas those classified as "early dialogues" often conclude in aporia, the so-called "middle dialogues" provide more clearly stated positive teachings that are often ascribed to plato such as the theory of forms. the remaining dialogues are classified as "late" and are generally agreed to be difficult and challenging pieces of philosophy. this grouping is the only one proven by stylometric analysis.[ ] among those who classify the dialogues into periods of composition, socrates figures in all of the "early dialogues" and they are considered the most faithful representations of the historical socrates.[ ] the following represents one relatively common division.[ ] it should, however, be kept in mind that many of the positions in the ordering are still highly disputed, and also that the very notion that plato's dialogues can or should be "ordered" is by no means universally accepted. increasingly in the most recent plato scholarship, writers are sceptical of the notion that the order of plato's writings can be established with any precision,[ ] though plato's works are still often characterized as falling at least roughly into three groups.[ ] early: apology, charmides, crito, euthyphro, gorgias, (lesser) hippias (minor), (greater) hippias (major), ion, laches, lysis, protagoras middle: cratylus, euthydemus, meno, parmenides, phaedo, phaedrus, republic, symposium, theaetetus late: critias, sophist, statesman / politicus, timaeus, philebus, laws.[ ] a significant distinction of the early plato and the later plato has been offered by scholars such as e.r. dodds and has been summarized by harold bloom in his book titled agon: "e.r. dodds is the classical scholar whose writings most illuminated the hellenic descent (in) the greeks and the irrational ... in his chapter on plato and the irrational soul ... dodds traces plato's spiritual evolution from the pure rationalist of the protagoras to the transcendental psychologist, influenced by the pythagoreans and orphics, of the later works culminating in the laws."[ ] lewis campbell was the first[ ] to make exhaustive use of stylometry to prove the great probability that the critias, timaeus, laws, philebus, sophist, and statesman were all clustered together as a group, while the parmenides, phaedrus, republic, and theaetetus belong to a separate group, which must be earlier (given aristotle's statement in his politics[ ] that the laws was written after the republic; cf. diogenes laërtius lives . ). what is remarkable about campbell's conclusions is that, in spite of all the stylometric studies that have been conducted since his time, perhaps the only chronological fact about plato's works that can now be said to be proven by stylometry is the fact that critias, timaeus, laws, philebus, sophist, and statesman are the latest of plato's dialogues, the others earlier.[ ] protagoras is often considered one of the last of the "early dialogues". three dialogues are often considered "transitional" or "pre-middle": euthydemus, gorgias, and meno. proponents of dividing the dialogues into periods often consider the parmenides and theaetetus to come late in the middle period and be transitional to the next, as they seem to treat the theory of forms critically (parmenides) or only indirectly (theaetetus).[ ] ritter's stylometric analysis places phaedrus as probably after theaetetus and parmenides,[ ] although it does not relate to the theory of forms in the same way. the first book of the republic is often thought to have been written significantly earlier than the rest of the work, although possibly having undergone revisions when the later books were attached to it.[ ] while looked to for plato's "mature" answers to the questions posed by his earlier works, those answers are difficult to discern. some scholars[ ] indicate that the theory of forms is absent from the late dialogues, its having been refuted in the parmenides, but there isn't total consensus that the parmenides actually refutes the theory of forms.[ ] writings of doubted authenticity jowett mentions in his appendix to menexenus, that works which bore the character of a writer were attributed to that writer even when the actual author was unknown.[ ] for below: (*) if there is no consensus among scholars as to whether plato is the author, and (‡) if most scholars agree that plato is not the author of the work.[ ] first alcibiades (*), second alcibiades (‡), clitophon (*), epinomis (‡), epistles (*), hipparchus (‡), menexenus (*), minos (‡), (rival) lovers (‡), theages (‡) spurious writings the following works were transmitted under plato's name, most of them already considered spurious in antiquity, and so were not included by thrasyllus in his tetralogical arrangement. these works are labelled as notheuomenoi ("spurious") or apocrypha. 	axiochus, definitions, demodocus, epigrams, eryxias, halcyon, on justice, on virtue, sisyphus. textual sources and history first page of the euthyphro, from the clarke plato (codex oxoniensis clarkianus ), ad. the text is greek minuscule. see also: list of manuscripts of plato's dialogues some known manuscripts of plato survive.[ ] the texts of plato as received today apparently represent the complete written philosophical work of plato and are generally good by the standards of textual criticism.[ ] no modern edition of plato in the original greek represents a single source, but rather it is reconstructed from multiple sources which are compared with each other. these sources are medieval manuscripts written on vellum (mainly from th to th century ad byzantium), papyri (mainly from late antiquity in egypt), and from the independent testimonia of other authors who quote various segments of the works (which come from a variety of sources). the text as presented is usually not much different from what appears in the byzantine manuscripts, and papyri and testimonia just confirm the manuscript tradition. in some editions however the readings in the papyri or testimonia are favoured in some places by the editing critic of the text. reviewing editions of papyri for the republic in , slings suggests that the use of papyri is hampered due to some poor editing practices.[ ] in the first century ad, thrasyllus of mendes had compiled and published the works of plato in the original greek, both genuine and spurious. while it has not survived to the present day, all the extant medieval greek manuscripts are based on his edition.[ ] the oldest surviving complete manuscript for many of the dialogues is the clarke plato (codex oxoniensis clarkianus , or codex boleianus ms e.d. clarke ), which was written in constantinople in and acquired by oxford university in .[ ] the clarke is given the siglum b in modern editions. b contains the first six tetralogies and is described internally as being written by "john the calligrapher" on behalf of arethas of caesarea. it appears to have undergone corrections by arethas himself.[ ] for the last two tetralogies and the apocrypha, the oldest surviving complete manuscript is codex parisinus graecus , designated a, which was written nearly contemporaneously to b, circa ad.[ ] a must be a copy of the edition edited by the patriarch, photios, teacher of arethas.[ ][ ][ ]a probably had an initial volume containing the first tetralogies which is now lost, but of which a copy was made, codex venetus append. class. , , which has the siglum t. the oldest manuscript for the seventh tetralogy is codex vindobonensis . suppl. phil. gr. , with siglum w, with a supposed date in the twelfth century.[ ] in total there are fifty-one such byzantine manuscripts known, while others may yet be found.[ ] to help establish the text, the older evidence of papyri and the independent evidence of the testimony of commentators and other authors (i.e., those who quote and refer to an old text of plato which is no longer extant) are also used. many papyri which contain fragments of plato's texts are among the oxyrhynchus papyri. the oxford classical texts edition by slings even cites the coptic translation of a fragment of the republic in the nag hammadi library as evidence.[ ] important authors for testimony include olympiodorus the younger, plutarch, proclus, iamblichus, eusebius, and stobaeus. during the early renaissance, the greek language and, along with it, plato's texts were reintroduced to western europe by byzantine scholars. in september or october filippo valori and francesco berlinghieri printed copies of ficino's translation, using the printing press at the dominican convent s.jacopo di ripoli.[ ][ ] cosimo had been influenced toward studying plato by the many byzantine platonists in florence during his day, including george gemistus plethon. the edition[ ] of plato's complete works published by henricus stephanus (henri estienne) in geneva also included parallel latin translation and running commentary by joannes serranus (jean de serres). it was this edition which established standard stephanus pagination, still in use today.[ ] modern editions the oxford classical texts offers the current standard complete greek text of plato's complete works. in five volumes edited by john burnet, its first edition was published – , and it is still available from the publisher, having last been printed in .[ ][ ] the second edition is still in progress with only the first volume, printed in , and the republic, printed in , available. the cambridge greek and latin texts and cambridge classical texts and commentaries series includes greek editions of the protagoras, symposium, phaedrus, alcibiades, and clitophon, with english philological, literary, and, to an extent, philosophical commentary.[ ][ ] one distinguished edition of the greek text is e. r. dodds' of the gorgias, which includes extensive english commentary.[ ][ ] the modern standard complete english edition is the hackett plato, complete works, edited by john m. cooper.[ ][ ] for many of these translations hackett offers separate volumes which include more by way of commentary, notes, and introductory material. there is also the clarendon plato series by oxford university press which offers english translations and thorough philosophical commentary by leading scholars on a few of plato's works, including john mcdowell's version of the theaetetus.[ ] cornell university press has also begun the agora series of english translations of classical and medieval philosophical texts, including a few of plato's.[ ] criticism the most famous criticism of the theory of forms is the third man argument by aristotle in the metaphysics. plato had actually already considered this objection with the idea of "large" rather than "man" in the dialogue parmenides, using the elderly elean philosophers parmenides and zeno characters anachronistically to criticize the character of the younger socrates who proposed the idea. the dialogue ends in aporia. many recent philosophers have diverged from what some would describe as the ontological models and moral ideals characteristic of traditional platonism. a number of these postmodern philosophers have thus appeared to disparage platonism from more or less informed perspectives. friedrich nietzsche notoriously attacked plato's "idea of the good itself" along with many fundamentals of christian morality, which he interpreted as "platonism for the masses" in one of his most important works, beyond good and evil ( ). martin heidegger argued against plato's alleged obfuscation of being in his incomplete tome, being and time ( ), and the philosopher of science karl popper argued in the open society and its enemies ( ) that plato's alleged proposal for a utopian political regime in the republic was prototypically totalitarian. the dutch historian of science eduard jan dijksterhuis criticizes plato, stating that he was guilty of "constructing an imaginary nature by reasoning from preconceived principles and forcing reality more or less to adapt itself to this construction."[ ] dijksterhuis adds that one of the errors into which plato had "fallen in an almost grotesque manner, consisted in an over-estimation of what unaided thought, i.e. without recourse to experience, could achieve in the field of natural science."[ ] legacy in the arts plato (left) and aristotle (right) a detail of the school of athens, a fresco by raphael. aristotle gestures to the earth while holding a copy of his nicomachean ethics in his hand. plato holds his timaeus and gestures to the heavens. plato's academy mosaic was created in the villa of t. siminius stephanus in pompeii, around bc to ce. the school of athens fresco by raphael features plato also as a central figure. the nuremberg chronicle depicts plato and other as anachronistic schoolmen. in philosophy plato's thought is often compared with that of his most famous student, aristotle, whose reputation during the western middle ages so completely eclipsed that of plato that the scholastic philosophers referred to aristotle as "the philosopher". however, in the byzantine empire, the study of plato continued. the only platonic work known to western scholarship was timaeus, until translations were made after the fall of constantinople, which occurred during .[ ] george gemistos plethon brought plato's original writings from constantinople in the century of its fall. it is believed that plethon passed a copy of the dialogues to cosimo de' medici when in the council of ferrara, called to unify the greek and latin churches, was adjourned to florence, where plethon then lectured on the relation and differences of plato and aristotle, and fired cosimo with his enthusiasm;[ ] cosimo would supply marsilio ficino with plato's text for translation to latin. during the early islamic era, persian and arab scholars translated much of plato into arabic and wrote commentaries and interpretations on plato's, aristotle's and other platonist philosophers' works (see al-farabi, avicenna, averroes, hunayn ibn ishaq). many of these commentaries on plato were translated from arabic into latin and as such influenced medieval scholastic philosophers.[ ] during the renaissance, with the general resurgence of interest in classical civilization, knowledge of plato's philosophy would become widespread again in the west. many of the greatest early modern scientists and artists who broke with scholasticism and fostered the flowering of the renaissance, with the support of the plato-inspired lorenzo (grandson of cosimo), saw plato's philosophy as the basis for progress in the arts and sciences. more problematic was plato's belief in metempsychosis as well as his ethical views (on polyamory and euthanasia in particular), which did not match those of christianity. it was plethon's student bessarion who reconciled plato with christian theology, arguing that plato's views were only ideals, unattainable due to the fall of man.[ ] the cambridge platonists were around in the th century. by the th century, plato's reputation was restored, and at least on par with aristotle's. notable western philosophers have continued to draw upon plato's work since that time. plato's influence has been especially strong in mathematics and the sciences. plato's resurgence further inspired some of the greatest advances in logic since aristotle, primarily through gottlob frege and his followers kurt gödel, alonzo church, and alfred tarski. albert einstein suggested that the scientist who takes philosophy seriously would have to avoid systematization and take on many different roles, and possibly appear as a platonist or pythagorean, in that such a one would have "the viewpoint of logical simplicity as an indispensable and effective tool of his research."[ ] "the safest general characterization of the european philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to plato." (alfred north whitehead, process and reality, ). the political philosopher and professor leo strauss is considered by some as the prime thinker involved in the recovery of platonic thought in its more political, and less metaphysical, form. strauss' political approach was in part inspired by the appropriation of plato and aristotle by medieval jewish and islamic political philosophers, especially maimonides and al-farabi, as opposed to the christian metaphysical tradition that developed from neoplatonism. deeply influenced by nietzsche and heidegger, strauss nonetheless rejects their condemnation of plato and looks to the dialogues for a solution to what all three latter day thinkers acknowledge as 'the crisis of the west.[citation needed] w. v. o. quine dubbed the problem of negative existentials "plato's beard". noam chomsky dubbed the problem of knowledge plato's problem. one author calls the definist fallacy the socratic fallacy[ ].[relevant? – discuss] more broadly, platonism (sometimes distinguished from plato's particular view by the lowercase) refers to the view that there are many abstract objects. still to this day, platonists take number and the truths of mathematics as the best support in favour of this view. most mathematicians think, like platonists, that numbers and the truths of mathematics are perceived by reason rather than the senses yet exist independently of minds and people, that is to say, they are discovered rather than invented.[citation needed] contemporary platonism is also more open to the idea of there being infinitely many abstract objects, as numbers or propositions might qualify as abstract objects, while ancient platonism seemed to resist this view, possibly because of the need to overcome the problem of "the one and the many". thus e. g. in the parmenides dialogue, plato denies there are forms for more mundane things like hair and mud. however, he repeatedly does support the idea that there are forms of artifacts, e. g. the form of bed. contemporary platonism also tends to view abstract objects as unable to cause anything, but it is unclear whether the ancient platonists felt this way.[citation needed] see also 	library resources about plato 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 by plato 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	philosophy portal philosophy 	socratic problem 	platonic academy 	plato's unwritten doctrines 	list of speakers in plato's dialogues 	commentaries on plato 	neoplatonism 	academic skepticism ancient scholars 	philip of opus, plato's amanuensis 	speusippus, plato's nephew and the second scholarch of the academy 	menedemus of pyrrha 	xenocrates 	crantor 	polemon 	crates of athens 	arcesilaus 	carneades 	plotinus, founder of neoplatonism, although he had no connection to the previous academy of plato 	proclus 	ammonius saccas 	yahya ibn al-batriq, syrian scholar and associate of al-kindi who translated timaeus into arabic 	hunayn ibn ishaq, arab scholar who either amended or surpassed the timaeus of al-batriq and translated plato's republic and laws into arabic 	ishaq ibn hunayn, translated plato's sophist with the commentary of olympiodorus the younger 	yahya ibn adi, translated laws into arabic 	al-farabi, author of a commentary on plato's political philosophy 	averroes, author of a commentary on the republic 	marsilio ficino, italian scholar and first translator of plato's complete works into latin 	stephanus pagination, the standard reference numbering in platonic scholarship, based on the complete latin translation by jean de serres, and published by henri estienne modern scholars 	johann gottfried stallbaum, major plato scholar and commentator in latin 	eduard zeller, scholar and classicist 	john alexander stewart, major plato scholar and classicist 	victor cousin, scholar and the first translator plato's complete works into french 	Émile saisset, scholar and a translator plato's complete works into french 	Émile chambry, scholar and a translator plato's complete works into french 	otto apelt, scholar and the first translator plato's complete works into german 	benjamin jowett, scholar and the first translated plato's complete works into english 	james adam, major plato scholar and author of the authoritative critical edition of the republic 	john burnet, major plato scholar and translator 	francis macdonald cornford, translator of republic and author of commentaries 	william keith chambers guthrie, classical scholar and historian 	e. r. dodds, classical scholar and author of commentaries on plato 	allan bloom, major plato scholar and translator of republic in english 	myles burnyeat, major plato scholar 	harold f. cherniss, major plato scholar 	guy cromwell field, plato scholar 	paul friedländer, plato scholar 	terence irwin, major plato scholar 	richard kraut, major plato scholar 	ellen francis mason, translator of plato 	eric havelock, plato scholar 	debra nails, plato scholar 	alexander nehamas, major plato scholar 	thomas pangle, major plato scholar and translator of laws in english 	friedrich schleiermacher, commentator 	paul shorey, major plato scholar and translator of republic 	john madison cooper, major plato scholar and translator of several works of plato, and editor of the hackett edition of the complete works of plato in english 	leo strauss, major plato scholar 	seth benardete, major plato scholar 	gregory vlastos, major plato scholar 	hans-georg gadamer, major plato scholar 	paul woodruff, major plato scholar 	catherine zuckert, plato scholar and political philosopher 	julia annas, plato scholar and moral philosopher 	john mcdowell, translated theaetetus in english 	robin waterfield, plato scholar and translator in english 	léon robin, scholar of ancient greek philosophy, translator of the complete works of plato in french 	alain badiou, french philosopher, loosely translated republic in french 	chen chung-hwan, scholar and commentator, translated parmenides in chinese 	liu xiaofeng, scholar and commentator, translated symposium in chinese 	michitaro tanaka and norio fujisawa, translators of the complete works of plato in japanese 	joseph gerhard liebes, major scholar and commentator, the first to translate plato's complete works in hebrew 	margalit finkelberg, scholar and commentator, translated symposium in hebrew 	virgilio s. almario, translated republic to filipino 	mahatma gandhi, translated apology in gujarati 	zakir husain, indian politician and academic, translated republic in urdu[ ] 	pierre hadot, scholar and author of commentaries of plato in french 	luc brisson, translator and author of commentaries on several works of plato, and editor of the complete french translations; widely considered to be the most important contemporary scholar of plato[ ] other 	oxyrhynchus papyri, including the papyrus oxyrhynchus , containing the oldest fragment of the laches, and papyrus oxyrhynchus , that of the book x of the republic 	plato, a lunar impact crater on the moon aged . billion years, named after the greek philosopher notes 	^ "...the subject of philosophy, as it is often conceived—a rigorous and systematic examination of ethical, political, metaphysical, and epistemological issues, armed with a distinctive method—can be called his invention."[ ] 	^ "though influenced primarily by socrates, to the extent that socrates is usually the main character in many of plato's writings, he was also influenced by heraclitus, parmenides, and the pythagoreans"[ ] 	^ diogenes laërtius mentions that plato "was born, according to some writers, in aegina in the house of phidiades, the son of thales." diogenes mentions as one of his sources the universal history of favorinus. according to favorinus, ariston, plato's family, and his family were sent by athens to settle as cleruchs (colonists retaining their athenian citizenship), on the island of aegina, from which the spartans expelled them after plato's birth there.[ ] nails points out, however, that there is no record of any spartan expulsion of athenians from aegina between – bc.[ ] on the other hand, at the peace of nicias, aegina was silently left under athens' control, and it was not until the summer of that the spartans overran the island.[ ] therefore, nails concludes that "perhaps ariston was a cleruch, perhaps he went to aegina in , and perhaps plato was born on aegina, but none of this enables a precise dating of ariston's death (or plato's birth).[ ] aegina is regarded as plato's place of birth by the suda as well.[ ] 	^ apollodorus of athens said plato was born on the seventh day of the month thargelion; according to this tradition the god apollo was born this day.[ ] renaissance platonists celebrated plato's birth on november .[ ] ulrich von wilamowitz-moellendorff estimates that plato was born when diotimos was archon eponymous, namely between july , bc and july , bc.[ ] greek philologist ioannis kalitsounakis believes that he was born on may or , bc.[ ][ ] 	^ according to james adam, some have held that "glaucon and adeimantus were uncles of plato, but zeller decides for the usual view that they were brothers."[ ] 	^ from aristos and kleos 	^ a scroll by philodemus analysed in may suggest that plato was enslaved earlier than was previously believed.[ ] 	^ he regarded "logistic" as appropriate for business men and men of war who "must learn the art of numbers or he will not know how to array his troops," while "arithmetic" was appropriate for philosophers "because he has to arise out of the sea of change and lay hold of true being."[ ] 	^ plotinus describes this in the last part of his final ennead (vi, ) entitled on the good, or the one (Περὶ τἀγαθοῦ ἢ τοῦ ἑνός). jens halfwassen states in der aufstieg zum einen' ( ) that "plotinus' ontology—which should be called plotinus' henology—is a rather accurate philosophical renewal and continuation of plato's unwritten doctrine, i.e. the doctrine rediscovered by krämer and gaiser." 	^ in one of his letters (epistolae ) ficino writes: "the main goal of the divine plato ... is to show one principle of things, which he called the one (τὸ ἕν)", cf. montoriola , p.  . 	^ for a brief description of the problem see for example gaiser . a more detailed analysis is given by krämer . another description is by reale and reale . a thorough analysis of the consequences of such an approach is given by szlezak . another supporter of this interpretation is the german philosopher karl albert, cf. albert or albert . hans-georg gadamer is also sympathetic towards it, cf. grondin and gadamer . gadamer's final position on the subject is stated in gadamer . 	^ some use the term allegory instead of myth. this is in accordance with the practice in the specialized literature, in which it is common to find that the terms allegory and myth are used as synonyms. nevertheless, there is a trend among modern scholars to use the term myth and avoid the term 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( ). studies in plato's metaphysics ii. taylor & francis. isbn  - - - 	ambuel, david ( ). image and paradigm in plato's sophist. parmenides publishing. isbn  - - - - 	anderson, mark; osborn, ginger ( ). approaching plato: a guide to the early and middle dialogues (pdf). nashville: belmont university. 	arieti, james a. interpreting plato: the dialogues as drama, rowman & littlefield publishers, inc. isbn  - - - 	bakalis, nikolaos ( ). handbook of greek philosophy: from thales to the stoics analysis and fragments, trafford publishing isbn  - - - 	barrow, robin ( ). plato: continuum library of educational thought. continuum. isbn  - - - - . 	cadame, claude ( ). indigenous and modern perspectives on tribal initiation rites: education according to plato, pp.  – , in padilla, mark william (editor), "rites of passage in ancient greece: literature, religion, society", bucknell university press, . isbn  - - -x 	cooper, john m.; hutchinson, d.s., eds. ( ). plato: complete works. hackett publishing company, inc. isbn  - - - - . 	corlett, j. angelo ( ). interpreting plato's dialogues. parmenides publishing. isbn  - - - - 	durant, will ( ). the story of philosophy. simon & schuster. isbn  - - - - . 	derrida, jacques ( ). la dissémination, paris: seuil. (esp. cap.: la pharmacie de platon, – ) isbn  - - - 	field, g.c. ( ). the philosophy of plato ( nd ed. with an appendix by cross, r.c. ed.). london: oxford university press. isbn  - - - - . 	fine, gail ( ). plato : metaphysics and epistemology oxford university press, us, isbn  - - - 	finley, m.i. ( ). aspects of antiquity: discoveries and controversies the viking press, inc., us 	garvey, james ( ). twenty greatest philosophy books. continuum. isbn  - - - - . 	guthrie, w.k.c. ( ). a history of greek philosophy (plato – the man & his dialogues – earlier period), cambridge university press, isbn  - - - 	guthrie, w.k.c. ( ). a history of greek philosophy (later plato & the academy) cambridge university press, isbn  - - - 	havelock, eric ( ). preface to plato (history of the greek mind), belknap press, isbn  - - - 	hamilton, edith; cairns, huntington, eds. ( ). the collected dialogues of plato, including the letters. princeton univ. press. isbn  - - - - . 	harvard university press publishes the hardbound series loeb classical library, containing plato's works in greek, with english translations on facing pages. 	irvine, andrew david ( ). socrates on trial: a play based on aristophanes' clouds and plato's apology, crito, and phaedo, adapted for modern performance. toronto: university of toronto press. isbn  - - - - , - - - - 	hermann, arnold ( ). plato's parmenides: text, translation & introductory essay, parmenides publishing, isbn  - - - - 	irwin, terence ( ). plato's ethics, oxford university press, us, isbn  - - - 	jackson, roy ( ). plato: a beginner's guide. london: hoder & stroughton. isbn  - - - - . 	jowett, benjamin ( ). [the dialogues of plato. translated into english with analyses and introductions by b. jowett.], oxford clarendon press, uk, uin:bll 	kochin, michael s. ( ). gender and rhetoric in plato's political thought. cambridge univ. press. isbn  - - - - . 	kraut, richard, ed. ( ). the cambridge companion to plato. cambridge university press. isbn  - - - - . 	lemoine, rebecca ( ). plato's caves: the liberating sting of cultural diversity. new york: oxford university press. isbn  - . 	lilar, suzanne ( ), journal de l'analogiste, paris, Éditions julliard; reedited , paris, grasset. foreword by julien gracq 	lilar, suzanne ( ), le couple, paris, grasset. translated as aspects of love in western society in , with a foreword by jonathan griffin london, thames and hudson. 	lilar, suzanne ( ) a propos de sartre et de l'amour , paris, grasset. 	lundberg, phillip ( ). tallyho – the hunt for virtue: beauty, truth and goodness nine dialogues by plato: pheadrus, lysis, protagoras, charmides, parmenides, gorgias, theaetetus, meno & sophist. authorhouse. isbn  - - - - . 	márquez, xavier ( ) a stranger's knowledge: statesmanship, philosophy & law in plato's statesman, parmenides publishing. isbn  - - - - 	melchert, norman ( ). the great conversation: a historical introduction to philosophy. mcgraw hill. isbn  - - - - . 	miller, mitchell ( ). the philosopher in plato's statesman. parmenides publishing. isbn  - - - - 	mohr, richard d. ( ). god and forms in plato – and other essays in plato's metaphysics. parmenides publishing. isbn  - - - - 	mohr, richard d. (ed.), sattler, barbara m. (ed.) ( ) one book, the whole universe: plato's timaeus today, parmenides publishing. isbn  - - - - 	moore, edward ( ). plato. philosophy insights series. tirril, humanities-ebooks. isbn  - - - - 	nightingale, andrea wilson. ( ). "genres in dialogue: plato and the construct of philosophy", cambridge university press. isbn  - - -x 	oxford university press publishes scholarly editions of plato's greek texts in the oxford classical texts series, and some translations in the clarendon plato series. 	patterson, richard (ed.), karasmanis, vassilis (ed.), hermann, arnold (ed.) ( ) presocratics & plato: festschrift at delphi in honor of charles kahn, parmenides publishing. isbn  - - - - 	piechowiak, marek ( ). plato's conception of justice and the question of human dignity. peter lang: berlin. isbn  - - - - . 	sallis, john ( ). being and logos: reading the platonic dialogues. indiana university press. isbn  - - - - . 	sallis, john ( ). chorology: on beginning in plato's "timaeus". indiana university press. isbn  - - - - . 	sayre, kenneth m. ( ). plato's late ontology: a riddle resolved. parmenides publishing. isbn  - - - - 	seung, t.k. ( ). plato rediscovered: human value and social order. rowman and littlefield. isbn  - - - 	smith, william. ( ). dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology. university of michigan/online version. 	stewart, john. ( ). kierkegaard and the greek world – socrates and plato. ashgate. isbn  - - - - 	thesleff, holger ( ). platonic patterns: a collection of studies by holger thesleff, parmenides publishing, isbn  - - - - 	thomas taylor has translated plato's complete works. 	thomas taylor ( ). the works of plato, viz. his fifty-five dialogues and twelve epistles vols 	vlastos, gregory ( ). platonic studies, princeton university press, isbn  - - - 	vlastos, gregory ( ). plato's universe – with a new introduction by luc brisson, parmenides publishing. isbn  - - - - 	zuckert, catherine ( ). plato's philosophers: the coherence of the dialogues, the university of chicago press, isbn  - - - - external links platoat wikipedia's sister projects 	definitions from wiktionary 	media from wikimedia commons 	quotations from wikiquote 	texts from wikisource 	textbooks from wikibooks 	resources from wikiversity 	data from wikidata 		greek wikisource has original text related to this article: platon 	works available 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		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		this article is about the form of government. for the political ideology, see republicanism. for other uses, see republic (disambiguation). form of government where the head of state is elected 	part of the politics series 	basic forms of government 	 power source 	 	 democracy (rule by many) 	demarchy 	direct 	liberal 	representative 	social 	socialist 	others 	 oligarchy (rule by few) 	anocracy 	aristocracy 	ergatocracy 	gerontocracy 	kleptocracy 	kritarchy 	noocracy 	particracy 	plutocracy 	stratocracy 	technocracy 	 autocracy (rule by one) 	despotism 	dictatorship 	military dictatorship 	tyranny 	 anarchism (rule by none) 	anarchy 	free association 	stateless 	 power ideology 	 	 monarchy vs. republic (socio-political ideologies) 	absolute 	constitutional 	confucianist 	directorial 	legalist 	parliamentary 	presidential 	semi-presidential 	socialist 	 authoritarian vs. libertarian (socio-economic ideologies) 	anarchism 	colonialism 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is appointed by the president and accountable to the legislature   parliamentary republics with a ceremonial and non-executive president, where a separate head of government leads the executive and is dependent on the confidence of the legislature   republics in which a combined head of state and government is elected by, or nominated by, the legislature and may or may not be subject to parliamentary confidence 	monarchical forms of government: 	   constitutional monarchies with a ceremonial and non-executive monarch, where a separate head of government leads the executive   semi-constitutional monarchies with a ceremonial monarch, but where royalty still hold significant executive or legislative power   absolute monarchies where the monarch leads the executive 	   one-party states (in principle republics)   military governments   countries which do not fit any of the above systems (e.g. transitional government or unclear political situations) a republic (latin: res publica, meaning "public affair") is a form of government in which the country is considered a "public matter", not the private concern or property of the rulers. the primary positions of power within a republic are attained through democracy or a mix of democracy with oligarchy or autocracy rather than being unalterably occupied by any given family lineage or group. it has become the opposing form of government to a monarchy and therefore has no monarch as head of state.[ ][ ][ ] as of [update], of the world's sovereign states use the word "republic" as part of their official names – not all of these are republics in the sense of having elected governments, nor is the word "republic" used in the names of all nations with elected governments. the word republic comes from the latin term res publica, which literally means "public thing", "public matter", or "public affair" and was used to refer to the state as a whole. the term developed its modern meaning in reference to the constitution of the ancient roman republic, lasting from the overthrow of the kings in bc to the establishment of the empire in bc. this constitution was characterized by a senate composed of wealthy aristocrats wielding significant influence; several popular assemblies of all free citizens, possessing the power to elect magistrates and pass laws; and a series of magistracies with varying types of civil and political authority. most often a republic is a single sovereign state, but there are also sub-sovereign state entities that are referred to as republics, or that have governments that are described as "republican" in nature. for instance, article iv of the united states constitution "guarantee[s] to every state in this union a republican form of government".[ ] another example is the soviet union which described itself as being a group of "soviet socialist republics", in reference to the individually federal, multinational, top-level subdivisions or republics. contents 	 etymology 	 history 	 . classical republics 	 . other ancient republics 	 . indian subcontinent 	 . icelandic commonwealth 	 . mercantile republics 	 . . mercantile republics outside europe 	 . calvinist republics 	 . liberal republics 	 . decolonization 	 . socialist republics 	 . islamic republics 	 head of state 	 . structure 	 . elections 	 . ambiguities 	 . sub-national republics 	 other meanings 	 . political philosophy 	 . united states 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links etymology[edit] see also: res publica the term originates from the latin translation of greek word politeia. cicero, among other latin writers, translated politeia as res publica and it was in turn translated by renaissance scholars as "republic" (or similar terms in various western european languages).[ ] the term politeia can be translated as form of government, polity, or regime and is therefore not always a word for a specific type of regime as the modern word republic is. one of plato's major works on political science was titled politeia and in english it is thus known as the republic. however, apart from the title, in modern translations of the republic, alternative translations of politeia are also used.[ ] however, in book iii of his politics, aristotle was apparently the first classical writer to state that the term politeia can be used to refer more specifically to one type of politeia: "when the citizens at large govern for the public good, it is called by the name common to all governments (to koinon onoma pasōn tōn politeiōn), government (politeia)". also amongst classical latin, the term "republic" can be used in a general way to refer to any regime, or in a specific way to refer to governments which work for the public good.[ ] in medieval northern italy, a number of city states had commune or signoria based governments. in the late middle ages, writers such as giovanni villani began writing about the nature of these states and the differences from other types of regime. they used terms such as libertas populi, a free people, to describe the states. the terminology changed in the th century as the renewed interest in the writings of ancient rome caused writers to prefer using classical terminology. to describe non-monarchical states writers, most importantly leonardo bruni, adopted the latin phrase res publica.[ ] while bruni and machiavelli used the term to describe the states of northern italy, which were not monarchies, the term res publica has a set of interrelated meanings in the original latin. the term can quite literally be translated as "public matter".[ ] it was most often used by roman writers to refer to the state and government, even during the period of the roman empire.[ ] in subsequent centuries, the english word "commonwealth" came to be used as a translation of res publica, and its use in english was comparable to how the romans used the term res publica.[ ] notably, during the protectorate of oliver cromwell the word commonwealth was the most common term to call the new monarchless state, but the word republic was also in common use.[ ] likewise, in polish the term was translated as rzeczpospolita, although the translation is now only used with respect to poland. presently, the term "republic" commonly means a system of government which derives its power from the people rather than from another basis, such as heredity or divine right.[ ] history[edit] while the philosophical terminology developed in classical greece and rome, as already noted by aristotle there was already a long history of city states with a wide variety of constitutions, not only in greece but also in the middle east. after the classical period, during the middle ages, many free cities developed again, such as venice. classical republics[edit] main article: classical republic a map of the roman republic the modern type of "republic" itself is different from any type of state found in the classical world.[ ][ ] nevertheless, there are a number of states of the classical era that are today still called republics. this includes ancient athens and the roman republic. while the structure and governance of these states was different from that of any modern republic, there is debate about the extent to which classical, medieval, and modern republics form a historical continuum. j. g. a. pocock has argued that a distinct republican tradition stretches from the classical world to the present.[ ][ ] other scholars disagree.[ ] paul rahe, for instance, argues that the classical republics had a form of government with few links to those in any modern country.[ ] the political philosophy of the classical republics has in any case had an influence on republican thought throughout the subsequent centuries. philosophers and politicians advocating republics, such as machiavelli, montesquieu, adams, and madison, relied heavily on classical greek and roman sources which described various types of regimes. aristotle's politics discusses various forms of government. one form aristotle named politeia, which consisted of a mixture of the other forms. he argued that this was one of the ideal forms of government. polybius expanded on many of these ideas, again focusing on the idea of mixed government. the most important roman work in this tradition is cicero's de re publica. over time, the classical republics were either conquered by empires or became ones themselves. most of the greek republics were annexed to the macedonian empire of alexander. the roman republic expanded dramatically conquering the other states of the mediterranean that could be considered republics, such as carthage. the roman republic itself then became the roman empire. other ancient republics[edit] the term "republic" is not commonly used to refer to pre-classical city-states, especially if outside europe and the area which was under graeco-roman influence.[ ] however some early states outside europe had governments that are sometimes today considered similar to republics. in the ancient near east, a number of cities of the eastern mediterranean achieved collective rule. arwad has been cited as one of the earliest known examples of a republic, in which the people, rather than a monarch, are described as sovereign.[ ][unreliable source?] the israelite confederation of the era of the judges[ ] before the united monarchy has also been considered a type of republic.[ ][ ][ ] in africa the axum empire was organized as a confederation ruled similarly to a royal republic.[ ] similarly the igbo nation in what is now nigeria.[ ] indian subcontinent[edit] main article: gaṇa sangha early republican institutions comes from the independent gaṇa sanghas - gana means "tribe" and sangha means "assembly" - which may have existed as early as the th century bc and persisted in some areas until the th century in india. the evidence for this is scattered, however, and no pure historical source exists for that period. diodorus, a greek historian who wrote two centuries after the time of alexander the great's invasion of india (now pakistan and northwest india) mentions, without offering any detail, that independent and democratic states existed in india.[ ] modern scholars note the word democracy at the time of the rd century bc and later suffered from degradation and could mean any autonomous state, no matter how oligarchic in nature.[ ][ ] the mahajanapadas were the sixteen most powerful and vast kingdoms and republics of the era, there were also a number of smaller kingdoms stretching the length and breadth of ancient india. among the mahajanapadas and smaller states, the shakyas, koliyas, mallas, and licchavis followed republican government. key characteristics of the gana seem to include a monarch, usually known by the name raja, and a deliberative assembly. the assembly met regularly. it discussed all major state decisions. at least in some states, attendance was open to all free men. this body also had full financial, administrative, and judicial authority. other officers, who rarely receive any mention, obeyed the decisions of the assembly. elected by the gana, the monarch apparently always belonged to a family of the noble class of kshatriya varna. the monarch coordinated his activities with the assembly; in some states, he did so with a council of other nobles.[ ] the licchavis had a primary governing body of , rajas, the heads of the most important families. on the other hand, the shakyas, koliyas, mallas, and licchavis, during the period around gautama buddha, had the assembly open to all men, rich and poor.[ ] early "republics" or gaṇa sangha,[ ] such as mallas, centered in the city of kusinagara, and the vajji (or vriji) confederation, centered in the city of vaishali, existed as early as the th century bc and persisted in some areas until the th century ad.[ ] the most famous clan amongst the ruling confederate clans of the vajji mahajanapada were the licchavis.[ ] the magadha kingdom included republican communities such as the community of rajakumara. villages had their own assemblies under their local chiefs called gramakas. their administrations were divided into executive, judicial, and military functions. scholars differ over how best to describe these governments, and the vague, sporadic quality of the evidence allows for wide disagreements. some emphasize the central role of the assemblies and thus tout them as democracies; other scholars focus on the upper-class domination of the leadership and possible control of the assembly and see an oligarchy or an aristocracy.[ ][ ] despite the assembly's obvious power, it has not yet been established whether the composition and participation were truly popular. this is reflected in the arthashastra, an ancient handbook for monarchs on how to rule efficiently. it contains a chapter on how to deal with the sanghas, which includes injunctions on manipulating the noble leaders, yet it does not mention how to influence the mass of the citizens, indicating that the "gaṇa sanghas" are more of an aristocratic rule, or oligarchic republic, than "democracy".[ ] icelandic commonwealth[edit] the icelandic commonwealth was established in ad by refugees from norway who had fled the unification of that country under king harald fairhair. the commonwealth consisted of a number of clans run by chieftains, and the althing was a combination of parliament and supreme court where disputes appealed from lower courts were settled, laws were decided, and decisions of national importance were taken. one such example was the christianisation of iceland in , where the althing decreed, in order to prevent an invasion, that all icelanders must be baptized, and forbade celebration of pagan rituals. contrary to most states, the icelandic commonwealth had no official leader. in the early th century, the age of the sturlungs, the commonwealth began to suffer from long conflicts between warring clans. this, combined with pressure from the norwegian king haakon iv for the icelanders to rejoin the norwegian "family", led the icelandic chieftains to accept haakon iv as king by the signing of the gamli sáttmáli ("old covenant") in . this effectively brought the commonwealth to an end. the althing, however, is still iceland's parliament, almost years later.[ ] mercantile republics[edit] giovanni battista tiepolo, neptune offers the wealth of the sea to venice, – . this painting is an allegory of the power of the republic of venice. in europe new republics appeared in the late middle ages when a number of small states embraced republican systems of government. these were generally small, but wealthy, trading states, like the italian city-states and the hanseatic league, in which the merchant class had risen to prominence. knud haakonssen has noted that, by the renaissance, europe was divided with those states controlled by a landed elite being monarchies and those controlled by a commercial elite being republics.[ ] across europe a wealthy merchant class developed in the important trading cities. despite their wealth they had little power in the feudal system dominated by the rural land owners, and across europe began to advocate for their own privileges and powers. the more centralized states, such as france and england, granted limited city charters. beginning of the republic of metz. election of the first head-alderman in , by auguste migette. metz was then a free imperial city of the holy roman emperor. in the more loosely governed holy roman empire, of the largest towns became free imperial cities. while still under the dominion of the holy roman emperor most power was held locally and many adopted republican forms of government.[ ] the same rights to imperial immediacy were secured by the major trading cities of switzerland. the towns and villages of alpine switzerland had, courtesy of geography, also been largely excluded from central control. unlike italy and germany, much of the rural area was thus not controlled by feudal barons, but by independent farmers who also used communal forms of government. when the habsburgs tried to reassert control over the region both rural farmers and town merchants joined the rebellion. the swiss were victorious, and the swiss confederacy was proclaimed, and switzerland has retained a republican form of government to the present.[ ] italy was the most densely populated area of europe, and also one with the weakest central government. many of the towns thus gained considerable independence and adopted commune forms of government. completely free of feudal control, the italian city-states expanded, gaining control of the rural hinterland.[ ] the two most powerful were the republic of venice and its rival the republic of genoa. each were large trading ports, and further expanded by using naval power to control large parts of the mediterranean. it was in italy that an ideology advocating for republics first developed. writers such as bartholomew of lucca, brunetto latini, marsilius of padua, and leonardo bruni saw the medieval city-states as heirs to the legacy of greece and rome. two russian cities with a powerful merchant class—novgorod and pskov—also adopted republican forms of government in th and th centuries, respectively, which ended when the republics were conquered by muscovy/russia at the end of th – beginning of th century.[ ] the dominant form of government for these early republics was control by a limited council of elite patricians. in those areas that held elections, property qualifications or guild membership limited both who could vote and who could run. in many states no direct elections were held and council members were hereditary or appointed by the existing council. this left the great majority of the population without political power, and riots and revolts by the lower classes were common. the late middle ages saw more than such risings in the towns of the holy roman empire.[ ] similar revolts occurred in italy, notably the ciompi revolt in florence. mercantile republics outside europe[edit] following the collapse of the seljuk sultanate of rum and establishment of the turkish anatolian beyliks, the ahiler merchant fraternities established a state centered on ankara that is sometimes compared to the italian mercantile republics. calvinist republics[edit] see also: european wars of religion while the classical writers had been the primary ideological source for the republics of italy, in northern europe, the protestant reformation would be used as justification for establishing new republics.[ ] most important was calvinist theology, which developed in the swiss confederacy, one of the largest and most powerful of the medieval republics. john calvin did not call for the abolition of monarchy, but he advanced the doctrine that the faithful had the duty to overthrow irreligious monarchs.[ ] advocacy for republics appeared in the writings of the huguenots during the french wars of religion.[ ] calvinism played an important role in the republican revolts in england and the netherlands. like the city-states of italy and the hanseatic league, both were important trading centres, with a large merchant class prospering from the trade with the new world. large parts of the population of both areas also embraced calvinism. during the dutch revolt (beginning in ), the dutch republic emerged from rejection of spanish habsburg rule. however, the country did not adopt the republican form of government immediately: in the formal declaration of independence (act of abjuration, ), the throne of king philip was only declared vacant, and the dutch magistrates asked the duke of anjou, queen elizabeth of england and prince william of orange, one after another, to replace philip. it took until before the estates (the staten, the representative assembly at the time) decided to vest the sovereignty of the country in themselves. in the english civil war began. spearheaded by the puritans and funded by the merchants of london, the revolt was a success, and king charles i was executed. in england james harrington, algernon sidney, and john milton became some of the first writers to argue for rejecting monarchy and embracing a republican form of government. the english commonwealth was short lived, and the monarchy was soon restored. the dutch republic continued in name until , but by the mid- th century the stadtholder had become a de facto monarch. calvinists were also some of the earliest settlers of the british and dutch colonies of north america. liberal republics[edit] liberal republics in early modern europe an allegory of the french republic in paris septinsular republic flag from the early s a revolutionary republican hand-written bill from the stockholm riots during the revolutions of , reading: "dethrone oscar he is not fit to be a king: long live the republic! the reform! down with the royal house, long live aftonbladet! death to the king / republic republic the people. brunkeberg this evening". the writer's identity is unknown. along with these initial republican revolts, early modern europe also saw a great increase in monarchical power. the era of absolute monarchy replaced the limited and decentralized monarchies that had existed in most of the middle ages. it also saw a reaction against the total control of the monarch as a series of writers created the ideology known as liberalism. most of these enlightenment thinkers were far more interested in ideas of constitutional monarchy than in republics. the cromwell regime had discredited republicanism, and most thinkers felt that republics ended in either anarchy or tyranny.[ ] thus philosophers like voltaire opposed absolutism while at the same time being strongly pro-monarchy. jean-jacques rousseau and montesquieu praised republics, and looked on the city-states of greece as a model. however, both also felt that a nation-state like france, with million people, would be impossible to govern as a republic. rousseau admired the republican experiment in corsica ( – ) and described his ideal political structure of small, self-governing communes. montesquieu felt that a city-state should ideally be a republic, but maintained that a limited monarchy was better suited to a large nation. the american revolution began as a rejection only of the authority of the british parliament over the colonies, not of the monarchy. the failure of the british monarch to protect the colonies from what they considered the infringement of their rights to representative government, the monarch's branding of those requesting redress as traitors, and his support for sending combat troops to demonstrate authority resulted in widespread perception of the british monarchy as tyrannical. with the united states declaration of independence the leaders of the revolt firmly rejected the monarchy and embraced republicanism. the leaders of the revolution were well versed in the writings of the french liberal thinkers, and also in history of the classical republics. john adams had notably written a book on republics throughout history. in addition, the widely distributed and popularly read-aloud tract common sense, by thomas paine, succinctly and eloquently laid out the case for republican ideals and independence to the larger public. the constitution of the united states, ratified in , created a relatively strong federal republic to replace the relatively weak confederation under the first attempt at a national government with the articles of confederation and perpetual union ratified in . the first ten amendments to the constitution, called the united states bill of rights, guaranteed certain natural rights fundamental to republican ideals that justified the revolution. the french revolution was also not republican at its outset. only after the flight to varennes removed most of the remaining sympathy for the king was a republic declared and louis xvi sent to the guillotine. the stunning success of france in the french revolutionary wars saw republics spread by force of arms across much of europe as a series of client republics were set up across the continent. the rise of napoleon saw the end of the french first republic and her sister republics, each replaced by "popular monarchies". throughout the napoleonic period, the victors extinguished many of the oldest republics on the continent, including the republic of venice, the republic of genoa, and the dutch republic. they were eventually transformed into monarchies or absorbed into neighbouring monarchies. outside europe another group of republics was created as the napoleonic wars allowed the states of latin america to gain their independence. liberal ideology had only a limited impact on these new republics. the main impetus was the local european descended creole population in conflict with the peninsulares—governors sent from overseas. the majority of the population in most of latin america was of either african or amerindian descent, and the creole elite had little interest in giving these groups power and broad-based popular sovereignty. simón bolívar, both the main instigator of the revolts and one of its most important theorists, was sympathetic to liberal ideals but felt that latin america lacked the social cohesion for such a system to function and advocated autocracy as necessary. in mexico this autocracy briefly took the form of a monarchy in the first mexican empire. due to the peninsular war, the portuguese court was relocated to brazil in . brazil gained independence as a monarchy on september , , and the empire of brazil lasted until . in the other states various forms of autocratic republic existed until most were liberalized at the end of the th century.[ ] 	 	 	 	 	 	european states in [ ]   monarchies ( )   republics ( ) 	european states in [ ]   monarchies ( )   republics ( ) 	european states in [ ]   monarchies ( )   republics ( ) 	european states in [ ]   monarchies ( )   republics ( ) 	european states in [ ]   monarchies ( )   republics ( ) the french second republic was created in , but abolished by napoleon iii who proclaimed himself emperor in . the french third republic was established in , when a civil revolutionary committee refused to accept napoleon iii's surrender during the franco-prussian war. spain briefly became the first spanish republic in – , but the monarchy was soon restored. by the start of the th century france, switzerland and san marino remained the only republics in europe. this changed when, after the lisbon regicide, the october revolution established the portuguese republic. a s poster that commemorates the permanent president of the republic of china yuan shikai and the provisional president of the republic sun yat-sen in east asia, china had seen considerable anti-qing sentiment during the th century, and a number of protest movements developed calling for constitutional monarchy. the most important leader of these efforts was sun yat-sen, whose three principles of the people combined american, european, and chinese ideas. under his leadership the republic of china was proclaimed on january , . republicanism expanded significantly in the aftermath of world war i, when several of the largest european empires collapsed: the russian empire ( ), german empire ( ), austro-hungarian empire ( ), and ottoman empire ( ) were all replaced by republics. new states gained independence during this turmoil, and many of these, such as ireland, poland, finland and czechoslovakia, chose republican forms of government. following greece's defeat in the greco-turkish war ( – ), the monarchy was briefly replaced by the second hellenic republic ( – ). in , the proclamation of the second spanish republic ( – ) resulted in the spanish civil war that would be the prelude of world war ii. republican ideas were spreading, especially in asia. the united states began to have considerable influence in east asia in the later part of the th century, with protestant missionaries playing a central role. the liberal and republican writers of the west also exerted influence. these combined with native confucian inspired political philosophy that had long argued that the populace had the right to reject unjust government that had lost the mandate of heaven. two short-lived republics were proclaimed in east asia, the republic of formosa and the first philippine republic. decolonization[edit] a map of the commonwealth republics in the years following world war ii, most of the remaining european colonies gained their independence, and most became republics. the two largest colonial powers were france and the united kingdom. republican france encouraged the establishment of republics in its former colonies. the united kingdom attempted to follow the model it had for its earlier settler colonies of creating independent commonwealth realms still linked under the same monarchy. while most of the settler colonies and the smaller states of the caribbean retained this system, it was rejected by the newly independent countries in africa and asia, which revised their constitutions and became republics. britain followed a different model in the middle east; it installed local monarchies in several colonies and mandates including iraq, jordan, kuwait, bahrain, oman, yemen and libya. in subsequent decades revolutions and coups overthrew a number of monarchs and installed republics. several monarchies remain, and the middle east is the only part of the world where several large states are ruled by monarchs with almost complete political control.[ ] socialist republics[edit] see also: people's republic and socialist state in the wake of the first world war, the russian monarchy fell during the russian revolution. the russian provisional government was established in its place on the lines of a liberal republic, but this was overthrown by the bolsheviks who went on to establish the union of soviet socialist republics. this was the first republic established under marxist-leninist ideology. communism was wholly opposed to monarchy, and became an important element of many republican movements during the th century. the russian revolution spread into mongolia, and overthrew its theocratic monarchy in . in the aftermath of the second world war the communists gradually gained control of romania, bulgaria, yugoslavia, hungary and albania, ensuring that the states were reestablished as socialist republics rather than monarchies. communism also intermingled with other ideologies. it was embraced by many national liberation movements during decolonization. in vietnam, communist republicans pushed aside the nguyễn dynasty, and monarchies in neighbouring laos and cambodia were overthrown by communist movements in the s. arab socialism contributed to a series of revolts and coups that saw the monarchies of egypt, iraq, libya, and yemen ousted. in africa marxist-leninism and african socialism led to the end of monarchy and the proclamation of republics in states such as burundi and ethiopia. islamic republics[edit] main article: islamic republic islamic political philosophy has a long history of opposition to absolute monarchy, notably in the work of al-farabi. sharia law took precedence over the will of the ruler, and electing rulers by means of the shura was an important doctrine. while the early caliphate maintained the principles of an elected ruler, later states became hereditary or military dictatorships though many maintained some pretense of a consultative shura. none of these states are typically referred to as republics. the current usage of republic in muslim countries is borrowed from the western meaning, adopted into the language in the late th century.[ ] the th century saw republicanism become an important idea in much of the middle east, as monarchies were removed in many states of the region. iraq became a secular state. some nations, such as indonesia and azerbaijan, began as secular. in iran, the revolution overthrew the monarchy and created an islamic republic based on the ideas of islamic democracy. head of state[edit] structure[edit] with no monarch, most modern republics use the title president for the head of state. originally used to refer to the presiding officer of a committee or governing body in great britain the usage was also applied to political leaders, including the leaders of some of the thirteen colonies (originally virginia in ); in full, the "president of the council".[ ] the first republic to adopt the title was the united states of america. keeping its usage as the head of a committee the president of the continental congress was the leader of the original congress. when the new constitution was written the title of president of the united states was conferred on the head of the new executive branch. if the head of state of a republic is also the head of government, this is called a presidential system. there are a number of forms of presidential government. a full-presidential system has a president with substantial authority and a central political role. in other states the legislature is dominant and the presidential role is almost purely ceremonial and apolitical, such as in germany, india, and trinidad and tobago. these states are parliamentary republics and operate similarly to constitutional monarchies with parliamentary systems where the power of the monarch is also greatly circumscribed. in parliamentary systems the head of government, most often titled prime minister, exercises the most real political power. semi-presidential systems have a president as an active head of state with important powers, but they also have a prime minister as a head of government with important powers. the rules for appointing the president and the leader of the government, in some republics permit the appointment of a president and a prime minister who have opposing political convictions: in france, when the members of the ruling cabinet and the president come from opposing political factions, this situation is called cohabitation. in some countries, like bosnia and herzegovina, san marino, and switzerland, the head of state is not a single person but a committee (council) of several persons holding that office. the roman republic had two consuls, elected for a one-year term by the comitia centuriata, consisting of all adult, freeborn males who could prove citizenship. elections[edit] in liberal democracies, presidents are elected, either directly by the people or indirectly by a parliament or council. typically in presidential and semi-presidential systems the president is directly elected by the people, or is indirectly elected as done in the united states. in that country the president is officially elected by an electoral college, chosen by the states, all of which do so by direct election of the electors. the indirect election of the president through the electoral college conforms to the concept of republic as one with a system of indirect election. in the opinion of some, direct election confers legitimacy upon the president and gives the office much of its political power.[ ] however, this concept of legitimacy differs from that expressed in the united states constitution which established the legitimacy of the united states president as resulting from the signing of the constitution by nine states.[ ] the idea that direct election is required for legitimacy also contradicts the spirit of the great compromise, whose actual result was manifest in the clause[ ] that provides voters in smaller states with more representation in presidential selection than those in large states; for example citizens of wyoming in had . times as much electoral vote representation as citizens of california.[ ] in states with a parliamentary system the president is usually elected by the parliament. this indirect election subordinates the president to the parliament, and also gives the president limited legitimacy and turns most presidential powers into reserve powers that can only be exercised under rare circumstance. there are exceptions where elected presidents have only ceremonial powers, such as in ireland. ambiguities[edit] the distinction between a republic and a monarchy is not always clear. the constitutional monarchies of the former british empire and western europe today have almost all real political power vested in the elected representatives, with the monarchs only holding either theoretical powers, no powers or rarely used reserve powers. real legitimacy for political decisions comes from the elected representatives and is derived from the will of the people. while hereditary monarchies remain in place, political power is derived from the people as in a republic. these states are thus sometimes referred to as crowned republics.[ ] terms such as "liberal republic" are also used to describe all of the modern liberal democracies.[ ] there are also self-proclaimed republics that act similarly to monarchies with absolute power vested in the leader and passed down from father to son. north korea and syria are two notable examples where a son has inherited political control. neither of these states are officially monarchies. there is no constitutional requirement that power be passed down within one family, but it has occurred in practice. there are also elective monarchies where ultimate power is vested in a monarch, but the monarch is chosen by some manner of election. a current example of such a state is malaysia where the yang di-pertuan agong is elected every five years by the conference of rulers composed of the nine hereditary rulers of the malay states, and the vatican city-state, where the pope is selected by cardinal-electors, currently all cardinals under a specific age. while rare today, elective monarchs were common in the past. the holy roman empire is an important example, where each new emperor was chosen by a group of electors. islamic states also rarely employed primogeniture, instead relying on various forms of election to choose a monarch's successor. the polish–lithuanian commonwealth had an elective monarchy, with a wide suffrage of some , nobles. the system, known as the golden liberty, had developed as a method for powerful landowners to control the crown. the proponents of this system looked to classical examples, and the writings of the italian renaissance, and called their elective monarchy a rzeczpospolita, based on res publica. sub-national republics[edit] 	 	this section does not cite any sources. please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (june ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) flag of the us state of california, a sub-national entity. in general being a republic also implies sovereignty as for the state to be ruled by the people it cannot be controlled by a foreign power. there are important exceptions to this, for example, republics in the soviet union were member states which had to meet three criteria to be named republics: 	be on the periphery of the soviet union so as to be able to take advantage of their theoretical right to secede; 	be economically strong enough to be self-sufficient upon secession; and 	be named after at least one million people of the ethnic group which should make up the majority population of said republic. it is sometimes argued that the former soviet union was also a supra-national republic, based on the claim that the member states were different nations. a map of the republic of karelia, one of the automical federal subjects ("republics of russia") of the russian federation socialist federal republic of yugoslavia was a federal entity composed of six republics (socialist republic of bosnia and herzegovina, croatia, macedonia, montenegro, serbia, and slovenia). each republic had its parliament, government, institute of citizenship, constitution, etc., but certain functions were delegated to the federation (army, monetary matters). each republic also had a right of self-determination according to the conclusions of the second session of the avnoj and according to the federal constitution. states of the united states are required, like the federal government, to be republican in form, with final authority resting with the people. this was required because the states were intended to create and enforce most domestic laws, with the exception of areas delegated to the federal government and prohibited to the states. the founding fathers of the country intended most domestic laws to be handled by the states. requiring the states to be a republic in form was seen as protecting the citizens' rights and preventing a state from becoming a dictatorship or monarchy, and reflected unwillingness on the part of the original states (all independent republics) to unite with other states that were not republics. additionally, this requirement ensured that only other republics could join the union. in the example of the united states, the original british colonies became independent states after the american revolution, each having a republican form of government. these independent states initially formed a loose confederation called the united states and then later formed the current united states by ratifying the current u.s. constitution, creating a union that was a republic. any state joining the union later was also required to be a republic. other meanings[edit] political philosophy[edit] main article: republicanism the term republic originated from the writers of the renaissance as a descriptive term for states that were not monarchies. these writers, such as machiavelli, also wrote important prescriptive works describing how such governments should function. these ideas of how a government and society should be structured is the basis for an ideology known as classical republicanism or civic humanism. this ideology is based on the roman republic and the city states of ancient greece and focuses on ideals such as civic virtue, rule of law and mixed government.[ ] this understanding of a republic as a distinct form of government from a liberal democracy is one of the main theses of the cambridge school of historical analysis.[ ] this grew out of the work of j. g. a. pocock who in argued that a series of scholars had expressed a consistent set of republican ideals. these writers included machiavelli, milton, montesquieu and the founders of the united states of america. pocock argued that this was an ideology with a history and principles distinct from liberalism.[ ] these ideas were embraced by a number of different writers, including quentin skinner, philip pettit[ ] and cass sunstein. these subsequent writers have further explored the history of the idea, and also outlined how a modern republic should function. united states[edit] main article: republicanism in the united states a distinct set of definitions of the term "republic" evolved in the united states, where the term is often equated with "representative democracy." this narrower understanding of the term was originally developed by james madison[citation needed] and notably employed in federalist paper no. . this meaning was widely adopted early in the history of the united states, including in noah webster's dictionary of .[citation needed] it was a novel meaning to the term; representative democracy was not an idea mentioned by machiavelli and did not exist in the classical republics.[ ] there is also evidence that contemporaries of madison considered the meaning of "republic" to reflect the broader definition found elsewhere, as is the case with a quotation of benjamin franklin taken from the notes of james mchenry where the question is put forth, "a republic or a monarchy?".[ ] the term republic does not appear in the declaration of independence, but it does appear in article iv of the constitution, which "guarantee[s] to every state in this union a republican form of government." what exactly the writers of the constitution felt this should mean is uncertain. the supreme court, in luther v. borden ( ), declared that the definition of republic was a "political question" in which it would not intervene. in two later cases, it did establish a basic definition. in united states v. cruikshank ( ), the court ruled that the "equal rights of citizens" were inherent to the idea of a republic. however, the term republic is not synonymous with the republican form. the republican form is defined as one in which the powers of sovereignty are vested in the people and are exercised by the people, either directly, or through representatives chosen by the people, to whom those powers are specially delegated.[ ][ ][better source needed] beyond these basic definitions, the word republic has a number of other connotations. w. paul adams observes that republic is most often used in the united states as a synonym for "state" or "government," but with more positive connotations than either of those terms.[ ] republicanism is often referred to as the founding ideology of the united states.[citation needed] traditionally scholars believed this american republicanism was a derivation of the classical liberal ideologies of john locke and others developed in europe.[citation needed] a political philosophy of republicanism that formed during the renaissance period and initiated by machiavelli was thought to have had little impact on the founders of the united states.[citation needed] in the s and s, a revisionist school[citation needed] led by the likes of bernard bailyn began to argue that republicanism was just as or even more important than liberalism in the creation of the united states.[ ] this issue is still much disputed and scholars like isaac kramnick completely reject this view.[ ] see also[edit] 	commonwealth 	democracy 	democratic republic 	free state 	list of republics 	index: republics 	republicanism 	republics of russia 	guarantee clause of the u.s. constitution references[edit] 	^ bohn, h. g. ( ). the standard library cyclopedia of political, constitutional, statistical and forensic knowledge. p.  . a republic, according to the modern usage of the word, signifies a political community which is not under monarchical government ... in which one person does not possess the entire sovereign power. 	^ "definition of republic". merriam-webster dictionary. retrieved - - . a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch ... a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law 	^ "the definition of republic". dictionary.com. retrieved - - . a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them. ... a state in which the head of government is not a monarch or other hereditary head of state. 	^ "transcript of the constitution of the united states – official text". - - . 	^ "republic". merriam webster. merrium-webster inc. retrieved june . 	^ bloom, allan. the republic. basic books, . pp. – 	^ "republic | encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. retrieved - - . 	^ rubinstein, nicolai. "machiavelli and florentine republican experience" in machiavelli and republicanism cambridge university press, . 	^ a b c d e "republic"j, new dictionary of the history of ideas. ed. maryanne cline horowitz. vol. . detroit: charles scribner's sons, . p. 	^ lewis, charlton t.; charles short ( ). "res, ii.k". a latin dictionary. oxford: oxford university press. retrieved august , . 	^ a b haakonssen, knud. "republicanism." a companion to contemporary political philosophy. robert e. goodin and philip pettit. eds. cambridge: blackwell, . 	^ everdell ( ) p. xxiii. 	^ "encyclopedia britannica". 	^ nippel, wilfried. "ancient and modern republicanism." the invention of the modern republic ed. biancamaria fontana. cambridge university press, p. 	^ reno, jeffrey. "republic." international encyclopedia of the social sciences p. 	^ pocock, j.g.a. the machiavellian moment: florentine political thought and the atlantic republican tradition ( ; new ed. ) 	^ paul a. rahe, republics, ancient and modern, three volumes, university of north carolina press, chapel hill, . 	^ martin bernal, black athena writes back (durham: duke university press, ), p. . 	^ clarke, adam ( ). "preface to the book of judges". the holy bible containing the old and new testaments: the text printed from the most correct copies of the present authorized translation including the marginal readings and parallel texts with a commentary and critical notes designed as a help to a better understanding of the sacred writings. . new-york: n. bangs and j. emory. p.  . retrieved june . the persons called judges [...] were the heads or chiefs of the israelites who governed the hebrew republic from the days of moses and joshua, till the time of saul. 	^ everdell, william romeyn ( ). "samuel and solon: the origins of the republic in tribalism". the end of kings: a history of republics and republicans ( ed.). chicago: university of chicago press (published ). p.  . isbn  . retrieved june . [...] samuel [...] has the distinction of being the first self-conscious republican in his society of whom we have nearly contemporary written record and of whose actual existence we can be reasonably sure. 	^ a b everdell ( ) 	^ unesco world heritage centre. "aksum". 	^ "concepts of democracy and democratization in africa revisited". paper presented at the fourth annual kent state university symposium on democracy by apollos o. nwauwa. 	^ diodorus . 	^ larsen, , pp. – 	^ de sainte, , pp. – 	^ robinson, , p. 	^ robinson, , p. 	^ thapar, romila ( ). early india: from the origins to ad . university of california. pp.  – . isbn  . retrieved october . 	^ raychaudhuri hemchandra ( ), political history of ancient india, calcutta: university of calcutta, p. 	^ republics in ancient india. brill archive. pp.  –. ggkey:hyy lt cft . 	^ bongard-levin, , pp. – 	^ sharma , pp. – 	^ trautmann t. r., kautilya and the arthashastra, leiden 	^ chu, henry (april , ). "iceland seeks to become sanctuary for free speech". los angeles times. 	^ a b finer, samuel. the history of government from the earliest times oxford university press, . pp. – . 	^ ferdinand joseph maria feldbrugge. law in medieval russia, idc publishers, 	^ finer, pp. – . 	^ finer, samuel. the history of government from the earliest times. oxford university press, . p. . 	^ "republicanism." encyclopedia of the enlightenment p. 	^ "introduction." republicanism: a shared european heritage. by martin van gelderen and quentin skinner. cambridge university press, p. 	^ "republicanism." encyclopedia of the enlightenment p. 	^ "latin american republicanism" new dictionary of the history of ideas. ed. maryanne cline horowitz. vol. . detroit: charles scribner's sons, . 	^ the ottoman empire and russian empire are counted amongst europe. counted as republics are the swiss confederation, the free cities of hamburg, bremen, lübeck and frankfurt, the most serene republic of san marino, the republic of cospaia, the septinsular republic and the german confederation; however, member states of the german confederation are also separately counted ( monarchies). 	^ the ottoman empire and russian empire are counted amongst europe. 	^ the republic of turkey is counted amongst europe, the union of soviet socialist republics as a single republic, the irish free state as an independent monarchy (see also irish head of state from to ), vatican city as an elective monarchy, the kingdom of hungary as a nominal monarchy. 	^ the republic of turkey is counted amongst europe, the union of soviet socialist republics as a single republic, the free territory of trieste as an independent republic, vatican city as an elective monarchy, the spanish state as a nominal monarchy. 	^ the republic of turkey is counted amongst europe, the russian federation as a single republic, the republic of kosovo (recognised by most other european states) as an independent republic, vatican city as an elective monarchy. the republic of azerbaijan, georgia, armenia and kazakhstan are not shown on this map and excluded from the count. the turkish republic of northern cyprus (recognised only by turkey) and all other unrecognised states are excluded from the count. 	^ anderson, lisa. "absolutism and the resilience of monarchy in the middle east." political science quarterly, vol. , no. (spring, ), pp. – 	^ bernard lewis. "the concept of an islamic republic" die welt des islams, new series, vol. , issue ( ), pp. – 	^ oed, s. v. 	^ "presidential systems" governments of the world: a global guide to citizens' rights and responsibilities. ed. c. neal tate. vol. . detroit: macmillan reference usa, . pp. – . 	^ article vii, constitution of the united states 	^ article ii, para , constitution of the united states 	^ petrocelli, william ( november ). "voters in wyoming have . times the voting power that i have. it's time to end the electoral college". huffingtonpost.com. 	^ the novelist and essayist h. g. wells regularly used the term crowned republic to describe the united kingdom, for instance in his work a short history of the world. alfred, lord tennyson in his poem idylls of the king. 	^ dunn, john. "the identity of the bourgeois liberal republic." the invention of the modern republic. cambridge: cambridge university press, . 	^ "republicanism" stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. jun , 	^ mccormick, john p. "machiavelli against republicanism: on the cambridge school's 'guicciardinian moments'" political theory, vol. , no. (oct., ), pp. – 	^ pocock, j. g. a the machiavellian moment: florentine political thought and the atlantic republican tradition princeton: , 	^ philip pettit, republicanism: a theory of freedom and government, ny: oxford u.p., , isbn  - - - ; oxford: clarendon press, . 	^ everdell ( ) p. 	^ " . benjamin franklin ( – ). respectfully quoted: a dictionary of quotations. ". 	^ in re duncan, u.s. , s.ct. , l.ed. ; minor v. happersett, u.s. ( wall.) , l.ed. . 	^ government (republican form of government) – one in which the powers of sovereignty are vested in the people and are exercised by the people ... directly ... black's law dictionary, sixth edition, p. 	^ w. paul adams "republicanism in political rhetoric before ." political science quarterly, vol. , no. (sep., ), pp. – 	^ bailyn, bernard. the ideological origins of the american revolution. cambridge: belknap press of harvard university press, . 	^ kramnick, isaac. republicanism and bourgeois radicalism: political ideology in late eighteenth-century england and america. ithaca: cornell university press, . further reading[edit] speech of u.s. senator against the mexican–american war characterizing it as imperialist and presidential. 	martin van gelderen & quentin skinner, eds., republicanism: a shared european heritage, v. , republicanism and constitutionalism in early modern europe, cambridge: cambridge university press., 	martin van gelderen & quentin skinner, eds., republicanism: a shared european heritage, v. , the values of republicanism in early modern europe, cambridge: cambridge u.p., 	willi paul adams, "republicanism in political rhetoric before ", political science quarterly ( ), pp.  – . 	joyce appleby, "republicanism in old and new contexts", in william & mary quarterly, rd series, (january, ), pp.  – . 	joyce appleby, ed., "republicanism" issue of american quarterly (fall, ). 	sarah barber, regicide and republicanism: politics and ethics in the english republic, – , edinburgh: edinburgh university press, . 	gisela bock, quentin skinner & maurizio viroli, eds., machiavelli and republicanism, cambridge: cambridge u.p., . 	everdell, william r. ( ), the end of kings: a history of republics and republicans ( nd ed.), chicago: university of chicago press 	eric gojosso, le concept de république en france (xvie – xviiie siècle), aix/marseille, , pp.  – . 	james hankins, "exclusivist republicanism and the non-monarchical republic", political theory . (august ), – . 	frédéric monera, l'idée de république et la jurisprudence du conseil constitutionnel – paris: l.g.d.j., fnac, lgdj.fr 	philip pettit, republicanism: a theory of freedom and government, oxford: clarendon press, , pp. x and . 	j. g. a. pocock, the machiavellian moment: florentine political thought and the atlantic republican tradition, princeton: princeton university press, 	j. g. a. pocock, "between gog and magog: the republican thesis and the ideologia americana", journal of the history of ideas ( ), p.  	j. g. a. pocock, "the machiavellian moment revisited: a study in history and ideology" journal of modern history ( ) 	paul a. rahe, republics ancient and modern: classical republicanism and the american revolution, v., chapel hill: u. of north carolina press , . 	jagdish p. sharma, republics in ancient india, c. b.c.– b.c., 	david wootton, ed., republicanism, liberty, and commercial society, – (the making of modern freedom series), stanford, ca: stanford university 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offices of governor of proconsular africa in , urban prefect of rome in and , and consul in . symmachus sought to preserve the traditional religions of rome at a time when the aristocracy was converting to christianity, and led an unsuccessful delegation of protest against gratian, when he ordered the altar of victory removed from the curia, the principal meeting place of the roman senate in the forum romanum. two years later he made a famous appeal to gratian's successor, valentinian ii, in a dispatch that was rebutted by ambrose, the bishop of milan. symmachus's career was temporarily derailed when he supported the short-lived usurper magnus maximus, but he was rehabilitated and three years later appointed consul. after the death of theodosius i, he became an ally of stilicho, the guardian of emperor honorius. in collaboration with stilicho he was able to restore some of the legislative powers of the senate. much of his writing has survived: nine books of letters; a collection of relationes or official dispatches; and fragments of various orations. contents 	 life 	 writings 	 family 	 see also 	 notes 	 further reading 	 external links life[edit] symmachus was the son of a prominent aristocrat, lucius aurelius avianius symmachus, who was a member of the patrician gens aurelia, and the daughter of fabius titianus, who had been twice urban prefect of rome.[ ] symmachus was educated in gaul,[ ] apparently at bordeaux or toulouse. in early life he became devoted to literature. in he met ausonius; their friendship proved mutually beneficial.[ ] having discharged the functions of quaestor and praetor, he was appointed corrector of lucania and the bruttii in ;[ ] in [ ] he was proconsul of africa, and became, probably about the same time, a member of the pontifical college. as a representative of the political cursus honorum, symmachus sought to preserve the ancient religion of rome at a time when the senatorial aristocracy was converting to christianity. probable depiction of symmachus arriving in heaven following his apotheosis. the genii who bear him skyward, as well as the sun god and zodiacal signs, attest to symmachus' pagan convictions. in , the emperor gratian, a christian, ordered the altar of victory removed from the curia, the roman senate house in the forum, and curtailed the sums annually allowed for the maintenance of the vestal virgins, and for the public celebration of sacred rites. symmachus was chosen by the senate on account of his eloquence to lead a delegation of protest, which the emperor refused to receive. two years later, gratian was assassinated in lugdunum, and symmachus, now urban prefect of rome, addressed an elaborate epistle to gratian's successor, valentinian ii, in a famous dispatch that was rebutted by ambrose, the bishop of milan. in an age when all religious communities credited the divine power with direct involvement in human affairs, symmachus argues that the removal of the altar had caused a famine and its restoration would be beneficial in other ways. subtly he pleads for tolerance for traditional cult practices and beliefs that christianity was poised to suppress in the theodosian edicts of . it was natural for symmachus to sympathise with magnus maximus who had defeated gratian. when maximus was threatening to invade italy in , his cause was openly advocated by symmachus, who upon the arrival of theodosius i was impeached for treason, and forced to take refuge in a sanctuary. having been pardoned through the intervention of numerous and powerful friends he expressed his contrition and gratitude in an apologetic address to theodosius, by whom he was not only forgiven, but was received into favour and elevated to the consulship in , and during the remainder of his life he appears to have taken an active part in public affairs. the date of his death is unknown, but one of his letters[ ] was written as late as . his leisure hours were devoted exclusively to literary pursuits, as is evident from the numerous allusions in his letters to the studies in which he was engaged. his friendship with ausonius and other distinguished authors of the era proves that he delighted in associating and corresponding with the learned. his wealth must have been prodigious, for in addition to his town mansion on the caelian hill,[ ] and several houses in the city which he lent to his friends, he possessed upwards of a dozen villas in italy, many detached farms, together with estates in sicily and mauritania. symmachus, and his real-life associates vettius agorius praetextatus and virius nicomachus flavianus, are the main characters of the saturnalia of macrobius ambrosius theodosius, which was written in the th century but set in . these three aristocratic intellectuals lead nine others, consisting of fellow noble and non-noble intellectuals, in a discussion of learned topics, dominated by the many-sided erudition of the poet vergil. writings[edit] the symmachus family monogram. of his many writings, the following have survived: 	nine or ten books of letters, published by his son. many of the letters are notes extending to a few lines only, addressed to a wide circle of relations, friends, and acquaintances. they relate for the most part to matters of little importance. the most famous letter is the most highly finished and important piece in the collection, the celebrated epistle to "valentinian, theodosius, and arcadius" entreating them to restore the altar of victory to its ancient position in the senate house. 	a collection of relationes or official dispatches, which is chiefly composed of the letters written by him when prefect of rome to the emperors under whom he served. 	panegyrics, written in his youth, two on valentinian i and one on the youthful gratian. 	fragments of various orations, discovered by angelo mai in palimpsests in the ambrosian library and the vatican. according to one of his letters (dated to ), symmachus also engaged in the preparation of an edition of livy's ab urbe condita.[ ] seven manuscripts of the first decade of livy's extensive work (books - ) bear subscriptions including symmachus' name along with tascius victorianus, appius nicomachus dexter, and nicomachus flavianus; j.e.g. zetzel has identified some of their effects to this tradition of the transmission of this portion of livy's work.[ ] in other letters, symmachus describes preparations for his shows in the arena. he managed to procure antelopes, gazelles, leopards, lions, bears, bear-cubs, and even some crocodiles. symmachus also purchased saxon slaves to fight and die in the games. he was annoyed when twenty-nine of the saxons strangled each other in their cells on the night before their final scheduled appearance.[ ] one quote of symmachus from "the memorial of symmachus, prefect of the city" reads (in translation), "we gaze up at the same stars; the sky covers us all; the same universe encompasses us. does it matter what practical system we adopt in our search for the truth? the heart of so great a mystery cannot be reached by following one road only."[ ] the style of symmachus was widely admired in his own time and into the early middle ages, but modern scholars have been frustrated by the lack of solid information about the events of his times to be found in these writings. as a consequence, little of his work has been translated into english. family[edit] symmachi–nicomachi diptych; the left leaf is at the musée national du moyen Âge, paris, the right leaf is at the victoria and albert museum in london. it is possible that this diptych, honouring the bond between the two aristocratic and pagan families of the symmachi and nicomachi, was issued in occasion of memmius' marriage with a woman of the nicomachi in . symmachus married rusticana, the daughter of memmius vitrasius orfitus, twice urban prefect of rome ( - ; - ). their children included: 	galla, their oldest child who married symmachus' friend nicomachus flavianus 	quintus fabius memmius symmachus, aristocrat see also[edit] 	symmachi–nicomachi diptych 	quintus fabius memmius symmachus, his son, who edited aurelius' letters for publication notes[edit] 	^ alan cameron, "the antiquity of the symmachi", historia: zeitschrift für alte geschichte, , ( ), p.  	^ symmachus, ep. ix. 	^ trout, dennis e., paulinus of nola: life, letters, and poems, university of california press, , p. isbn  	^ cod. theod. viii. . 	^ cod. theod. xii. . ; compare symmachus, ep. viii. , x. 	^ symmachus, ep. vii. 	^ symmachus, ep. iii. , , vii. 	^ epistulae . 	^ zetzel, "the subscriptions in the manuscripts of livy and fronto and the meaning of emendatio", classical philology, ( ), pp. - 	^ keith hopkins (june ). "murderous games: gladiatorial contests in ancient rome". history today. ( ). retrieved - - . 	^ q. aurelius symmachus ( ). "memorial of symmachus ". the altar of victory controversy: symmachus and ambrose. retrieved - - . further reading[edit] 	q. aurelii symmachi quae supersunt, ed. by otto seeck (berlin, ; reprinted munich, ), isbn  - - - . all surviving writings of symmachus: letters, speeches and official reports, in the original latin. this volume is volume of the series monumenta germaniae historica. the letters are also published in a supplementary volume xiii in the patrologia latina. more recently, symmaque: lettres, ed. by jean-pierre callu in four volumes (paris, – ) published by les belles lettres contains the letters of symmachus in latin with facing-page french translation. this has the fullest text and translation. 	r.h. barrow, prefect and emperor; the relationes of symmachus, a.d. , with translation and notes by r.h. barrow (parallel latin text and english translation), oxford: clarendon press, . 	richard klein, symmachus. eine tragische gestalt des ausgehenden heidentums. darmstadt (wissenschaftliche buchgesellschaft [impulse der forschung, band ]) , isbn  - - - . 	richard klein, der streit um den victoriaaltar. darmstadt (wbg [texte zur forschung band ]) , isbn  - - - . 	j.f. matthews, "the letters of symmachus" in latin literature of the fourth century (edited by j.w. binns), pp.  – . london: routledge and kegan paul, , discusses them. 	j.f. matthews, western aristocracies and imperial court, ad - . oxford: clarendon press, . isbn  - - - 	jillian m. mitchell, "the case of the strangled saxons" (regarding a letter in which symmachus complains that gladiators strangled each other rather than fight at games held for symmachus' son) 	cristiana sogno, q. aurelius symmachus: a political biography. ann arbor: university of michigan press, . isbn  - - - - external links[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to quintus aurelius symmachus. 	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died  )​ 	children	 	 	signature	 robert lee frost (march  ,  – january  , ) was an american poet. his work was initially published in england before it was published in the united states. known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of american colloquial speech,[ ] frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in new england in the early th century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes. frost was honored frequently during his lifetime and is the only poet to receive four pulitzer prizes for poetry. he became one of america's rare "public literary figures, almost an artistic institution."[ ] he was awarded the congressional gold medal in for his poetic works. on july , , frost was named poet laureate of vermont. contents 	 biography 	 . early years 	 . adult years 	 . personal life 	 work 	 . style and critical response 	 . themes 	 . influenced by 	 . influenced 	 awards and recognition 	 . pulitzer prizes 	 legacy and cultural influence 	 selected works 	 . poetry collections 	 . plays 	 . letters 	 . other 	 see also 	 citations 	 general sources 	 external links biography early years robert frost, circa robert frost was born in san francisco, california, to journalist william prescott frost, jr., and isabelle moodie.[ ] his mother was a scottish immigrant, and his father descended from nicholas frost of tiverton, devon, england, who had sailed to new hampshire in on the wolfrana. frost was a descendant of samuel appleton, one of the early settlers of ipswich, massachusetts, and rev. george phillips, one of the early settlers of watertown, massachusetts.[ ] frost's father was a teacher and later an editor of the san francisco evening bulletin (which later merged with the san francisco examiner), and an unsuccessful candidate for city tax collector. after his death on may , , the family moved across the country to lawrence, massachusetts, under the patronage of robert's grandfather william frost, sr., who was an overseer at a new england mill. frost graduated from lawrence high school in .[ ] frost's mother joined the swedenborgian church and had him baptized in it, but he left it as an adult. although known for his later association with rural life, frost grew up in the city, and he published his first poem in his high school's magazine. he attended dartmouth college for two months, long enough to be accepted into the theta delta chi fraternity. frost returned home to teach and to work at various jobs, including helping his mother teach her class of unruly boys, delivering newspapers, and working in a factory maintaining carbon arc lamps. he did not enjoy these jobs, feeling his true calling was poetry. adult years robert frost's th birthday in in , he sold his first poem, "my butterfly. an elegy" (published in the november , , edition of the new york independent) for $ ($ today). proud of his accomplishment, he proposed marriage to elinor miriam white, but she demurred, wanting to finish college (at st. lawrence university) before they married. frost then went on an excursion to the great dismal swamp in virginia and asked elinor again upon his return. having graduated, she agreed, and they were married at lawrence, massachusetts on december , . frost attended harvard university from to , but he left voluntarily due to illness.[ ][ ][ ] shortly before his death, frost's grandfather purchased a farm for robert and elinor in derry, new hampshire; frost worked the farm for nine years while writing early in the mornings and producing many of the poems that would later become famous. ultimately his farming proved unsuccessful and he returned to the field of education as an english teacher at new hampshire's pinkerton academy from to , then at the new hampshire normal school (now plymouth state university) in plymouth, new hampshire. in , frost sailed with his family to great britain, settling first in beaconsfield, a small town outside london. his first book of poetry, a boy's will, was published the next year. in england he made some important acquaintances, including edward thomas (a member of the group known as the dymock poets and frost's inspiration for "the road not taken"[ ]), t. e. hulme, and ezra pound. although pound would become the first american to write a favorable review of frost's work, frost later resented pound's attempts to manipulate his american prosody.[ ] frost met or befriended many contemporary poets in england, especially after his first two poetry volumes were published in london in (a boy's will) and (north of boston). the robert frost farm in derry, new hampshire, where he wrote many of his poems, including "tree at my window" and "mending wall." in , during world war i, frost returned to america, where holt's american edition of a boy's will had recently been published, and bought a farm in franconia, new hampshire, where he launched a career of writing, teaching, and lecturing. this family homestead served as the frosts' summer home until . it is maintained today as the frost place, a museum and poetry conference site. he was made an honorary member of phi beta kappa at harvard[ ] in . during the years – , – , and, on a more informal basis, – , frost taught english at amherst college in massachusetts, notably encouraging his students to account for the myriad sounds and intonations of the spoken english language in their writing. he called his colloquial approach to language "the sound of sense."[ ] in , he won the first of four pulitzer prizes for the book new hampshire: a poem with notes and grace notes.[ ] he would win additional pulitzers for collected poems in ,[ ] a further range in ,[ ] and a witness tree in .[ ] for forty-two years – from to  – frost spent almost every summer and fall teaching at the bread loaf school of english of middlebury college, at its mountain campus at ripton, vermont. he is credited as a major influence upon the development of the school and its writing programs. the college now owns and maintains his former ripton farmstead, a national historic landmark, near the bread loaf campus.[ ] in , frost accepted a fellowship teaching post at the university of michigan, ann arbor, where he resided until when he returned to teach at amherst. while teaching at the university of michigan, he was awarded a lifetime appointment at the university as a fellow in letters.[ ] the robert frost ann arbor home was purchased by the henry ford museum in dearborn, michigan and relocated to the museum's greenfield village site for public tours. throughout the s, frost also lived in his colonial era home in shaftsbury, vermont. the home opened as the robert frost stone house museum[ ] in and was given to bennington college in .[ ] in , frost began to spend winter months in florida.[ ] in march , he gave a talk at the university of miami.[ ] in , he bought a -acre ( .  ha) plot in south miami, florida, naming it pencil pines; he spent his winters there for the rest of his life.[ ] in her memoir about frost's time in florida, helen muir writes, "frost had called his five acres pencil pines because he said he had never made a penny from anything that did not involve the use of a pencil."[ ] his properties also included a house on brewster street in cambridge, massachusetts. harvard's alumni directory indicates frost received an honorary degree there. although he never graduated from college, frost received over honorary degrees, including ones from princeton, oxford and cambridge universities, and was the only person to receive two honorary degrees from dartmouth college. during his lifetime, the robert frost middle school in fairfax, virginia, the robert l. frost school in lawrence, massachusetts, and the main library of amherst college were named after him. "i had a lover's quarrel with the world." the epitaph engraved on his tomb is an excerpt from his poem "the lesson for today." in , frost was awarded a united states congressional gold medal, "in recognition of his poetry, which has enriched the culture of the united states and the philosophy of the world,"[ ] which was finally bestowed by president kennedy in march .[ ] also in , he was awarded the edward macdowell medal for outstanding contribution to the arts by the macdowell colony.[ ] frost was when he read at the inauguration of john f. kennedy on january , . frost originally attempted to read his poem "dedication", which was written for the occasion, but was unable to read it due to the brightness of the sunlight, so he recited his poem "the gift outright" from memory instead.[ ] in the summer of , frost accompanied interior secretary stewart udall on a visit to the soviet union in hopes of meeting nikita khrushchev to lobby for peaceful relations between the two cold war powers.[ ][ ][ ][ ] frost died in boston on january , of complications from prostate surgery. he was buried at the old bennington cemetery in bennington, vermont. his epitaph quotes the last line from his poem, "the lesson for today" ( ): "i had a lover's quarrel with the world." one of the original collections of frost materials, to which he himself contributed, is found in the special collections department of the jones library in amherst, massachusetts. the collection consists of approximately twelve thousand items, including original manuscript poems and letters, correspondence and photographs, as well as audio and visual recordings.[ ] the archives and special collections at amherst college holds a small collection of his papers. the university of michigan library holds the robert frost family collection of manuscripts, photographs, printed items, and artwork. the most significant collection of frost's working manuscripts is held by dartmouth. personal life the frost family grave in bennington old cemetery robert frost's personal life was plagued by grief and loss. in when he was , his father died of tuberculosis, leaving the family with just eight dollars. frost's mother died of cancer in . in , he had to commit his younger sister jeanie to a mental hospital, where she died nine years later. mental illness apparently ran in frost's family, as both he and his mother suffered from depression, and his daughter irma was committed to a mental hospital in . frost's wife, elinor, also experienced bouts of depression.[ ] elinor and robert frost had six children: son elliot ( – , died of cholera); daughter lesley frost ballantine ( – ); son carol ( – , committed suicide); daughter irma ( – ); daughter marjorie ( – , died as a result of puerperal fever after childbirth); and daughter elinor bettina (died just one day after her birth in ). only lesley and irma outlived their father. frost's wife, who had heart problems throughout her life, developed breast cancer in , and died of heart failure in .[ ] work style and critical response the poet and critic randall jarrell often praised frost's poetry and wrote "robert frost, along with stevens and eliot, seems to me the greatest of the american poets of this century. frost's virtues are extraordinary. no other living poet has written so well about the actions of ordinary men; his wonderful dramatic monologues or dramatic scenes come out of a knowledge of people that few poets have had, and they are written in a verse that uses, sometimes with absolute mastery, the rhythms of actual speech". he also praised "frost's seriousness and honesty", stating that frost was particularly skilled at representing a wide range of human experience in his poems.[ ] jarrell's notable and influential essays on frost include the essays "robert frost's 'home burial'" ( ), which consisted of an extended close reading of that particular poem,[ ] and "to the laodiceans" ( ) in which jarrell defended frost against critics who had accused frost of being too "traditional" and out of touch with modern or modernist poetry. u.s stamp, in frost's defense, jarrell wrote "the regular ways of looking at frost's poetry are grotesque simplifications, distortions, falsifications—coming to know his poetry well ought to be enough, in itself, to dispel any of them, and to make plain the necessity of finding some other way of talking about his work." and jarrell's close readings of poems like "neither out too far nor in too deep" led readers and critics to perceive more of the complexities in frost's poetry.[ ][ ] in an introduction to jarrell's book of essays, brad leithauser notes that "the 'other' frost that jarrell discerned behind the genial, homespun new england rustic—the 'dark' frost who was desperate, frightened, and brave—has become the frost we've all learned to recognize, and the little-known poems jarrell singled out as central to the frost canon are now to be found in most anthologies".[ ][ ] jarrell lists a selection of the frost poems he considers the most masterful, including "the witch of coös", "home burial", "a servant to servants", "directive", "neither out too far nor in too deep", "provide, provide", "acquainted with the night", "after apple picking", "mending wall", "the most of it", "an old man's winter night", "to earthward", "stopping by woods on a snowy evening", "spring pools", "the lovely shall be choosers", "design", and "desert places".[ ] from "birches"[ ] i'd like to get away from earth awhile and then come back to it and begin over. may no fate willfully misunderstand me and half grant what i wish and snatch me away not to return. earth's the right place for love: i don't know where it's likely to go better. i'd like to go by climbing a birch tree, and climb black branches up a snow-white trunk toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, but dipped its top and set me down again. that would be good both going and coming back. one could do worse than be a swinger of birches. robert frost in , the critic charles mcgrath noted that critical views on frost's poetry have changed over the years (as has his public image). in an article called "the vicissitudes of literary reputation," mcgrath wrote, "robert frost ... at the time of his death in was generally considered to be a new england folkie ... in , the third volume of lawrance thompson's biography suggested that frost was a much nastier piece of work than anyone had imagined; a few years later, thanks to the reappraisal of critics like william h. pritchard and harold bloom and of younger poets like joseph brodsky, he bounced back again, this time as a bleak and unforgiving modernist."[ ] in the norton anthology of modern poetry, editors richard ellmann and robert o'clair compared and contrasted frost's unique style to the work of the poet edwin arlington robinson since they both frequently used new england settings for their poems. however, they state that frost's poetry was "less [consciously] literary" and that this was possibly due to the influence of english and irish writers like thomas hardy and w.b. yeats. they note that frost's poems "show a successful striving for utter colloquialism" and always try to remain down to earth, while at the same time using traditional forms despite the trend of american poetry towards free verse which frost famously said was "'like playing tennis without a net.'"[ ][ ] in providing an overview of frost's style, the poetry foundation makes the same point, placing frost's work "at the crossroads of nineteenth-century american poetry [with regard to his use of traditional forms] and modernism [with his use of idiomatic language and ordinary, every day subject matter]." they also note that frost believed that "the self-imposed restrictions of meter in form" was more helpful than harmful because he could focus on the content of his poems instead of concerning himself with creating "innovative" new verse forms.[ ] an earlier study by the poet james radcliffe squires spoke to the distinction of frost as a poet whose verse soars more for the difficulty and skill by which he attains his final visions, than for the philosophical purity of the visions themselves. "he has written at a time when the choice for the poet seemed to lie among the forms of despair: science, solipsism, or the religion of the past century ... frost has refused all of these and in the refusal has long seemed less dramatically committed than others ... but no, he must be seen as dramatically uncommitted to the single solution ... insofar as frost allows to both fact and intuition a bright kingdom, he speaks for many of us. insofar as he speaks through an amalgam of senses and sure experience so that his poetry seems a nostalgic memory with overtones touching some conceivable future, he speaks better than most of us. that is to say, as a poet must."[ ] the classicist helen h. bacon has proposed that frost's deep knowledge of greek and roman classics influenced much of his work. frost's education at lawrence high school, dartmouth, and harvard "was based mainly on the classics". as examples, she links imagery and action in frost's early poems "birches" ( ) and "wild grapes" ( ) with euripides' bacchae. she cites the certain motifs, including that of the tree bent down to earth, as evidence of his "very attentive reading of bacchae, almost certainly in greek". in a later poem, "one more brevity" ( ), bacon compares the poetic techniques used by frost to those of virgil in the aeneid. she notes that "this sampling of the ways frost drew on the literature and concepts of the greek and roman world at every stage of his life indicates how imbued with it he was".[ ] themes in contemporary literary criticism, the editors state that "frost's best work explores fundamental questions of existence, depicting with chilling starkness the loneliness of the individual in an indifferent universe."[ ] the critic t. k. whipple focused on this bleakness in frost's work, stating that "in much of his work, particularly in north of boston, his harshest book, he emphasizes the dark background of life in rural new england, with its degeneration often sinking into total madness."[ ] in sharp contrast, the founding publisher and editor of poetry, harriet monroe, emphasized the folksy new england persona and characters in frost's work, writing that "perhaps no other poet in our history has put the best of the yankee spirit into a book so completely."[ ] she notes his frequent use of rural settings and farm life, and she likes that in these poems, frost is most interested in "showing the human reaction to nature's processes." she also notes that while frost's narrative, character-based poems are often satirical, frost always has a "sympathetic humor" towards his subjects.[ ] influenced by 	robert graves 	rupert brooke 	thomas hardy[ ] 	william butler yeats[ ] 	john keats influenced 	robert francis 	seamus heaney[ ] 	richard wilbur[ ] 	edward thomas[ ] 	james wright awards and recognition frost was nominated for the nobel prize in literature times.[ ] in june , the vermont state league of women's clubs elected frost as poet laureate of vermont. when a new york times editorial strongly criticised the decision of the women's clubs, sarah cleghorn and other women wrote to the newspaper defending frost.[ ] on july , , frost was named poet laureate of vermont by the state legislature through joint resolution r- of the acts of , which also created the position.[ ][ ][ ][ ] pulitzer prizes 	 for new hampshire: a poem with notes and grace notes 	 for collected poems 	 for a further range 	 for a witness tree legacy and cultural influence robert frost hall at southern new hampshire university 	robert frost hall is an academic building at southern new hampshire university in manchester, new hampshire.[ ] 	in the early morning of november , , westinghouse broadcasting's sid davis reported the arrival of president john f. kennedy's casket at the white house. since frost was one of the president's favorite poets, davis concluded his report with a passage from "stopping by woods on a snowy evening", but was overcome with emotion as he signed off.[ ][ ] 	jawaharlal nehru ( – ), the first prime minister of india, had kept a book of robert frost's close to him towards his later years, even at his bedside table as he lay dying.[ ] 	the poem "nothing gold can stay" is featured in both the novel the outsiders by s. e. hinton and the film adaptation, first recited aloud by the character ponyboy to his friend johnny. in a subsequent scene johnny quotes a stanza from the poem back to ponyboy by means of a letter which was read after he passes away. 	his poem "fire and ice" influenced the title and other aspects of george r. r. martin's fantasy series a song of ice and fire.[ ][ ] 	nothing gold can stay is the name of the debut studio album by american pop-punk band new found glory, released on october , .[ ] 	at the funeral of former canadian prime minister pierre trudeau, on october , , his eldest son justin rephrased the last stanza of the poem "stopping by woods on a snowy evening" in his eulogy: "the woods are lovely, dark and deep. he has kept his promises and earned his sleep."[ ] 	a garfield comic strip published in october , originally featured the titular character reciting "nothing gold can stay".[ ] however, this was replaced in book collections and online edition,[ ] likely due to the poem being still under copyright when the comic ran (the poem has since lapsed into public domain, in ).[ ] 	the poem "fire and ice" is the epigraph of stephenie meyers' book, eclipse, of the twilight saga. it is also read by kristen stewart's character, bella swan, at the beginning of the eclipse film. 	"nothing gold can stay" is referenced in first aid kit's album stay gold: "but just as the moon it shall stray / so dawn goes down today / no gold can stay / no gold can stay."[ ] 	"nothing gold can stay" (february , ) is the title given to the tenth episode of the seventh season of the mentalist in which a character is killed. 	the character of baron quinn recites "fire and ice" in an episode of amc's into the badlands. 	verses of "fire and ice" are referenced and recited throughout the episodic video game life is strange: before the storm. 	the line "nothing gold can stay" is featured in the single "venice bitch" by american singer lana del rey.[ ] del rey also previously used this line in her single "music to watch boys to".[ ] selected works "the road not taken", as featured in mountain interval ( ) poetry collections 	 . a boy's will. london: david nutt (new york: holt, )[ ] 	 . north of boston. london: david nutt (new york: holt, ) 	"after apple-picking" 	"the death of the hired man" 	"mending wall" 	 . mountain interval. new york: holt 	"birches" 	"out, out" 	"the oven bird" 	"the road not taken" 	 . selected poems. new york: holt. 	"the runaway" 	also includes poems from first three volumes 	 . new hampshire. new york: holt (london: grant richards, ) 	"fire and ice" 	"nothing gold can stay" 	"stopping by woods on a snowy evening" 	 . several short poems. new york: holt[ ] 	 . selected poems. new york: holt. 	 . west-running brook. new york: holt 	"acquainted with the night" 	 . the lovely shall be choosers, the poetry quartos, printed and illustrated by paul johnston. random house. 	 . collected poems of robert frost. new york: holt (uk: longmans green, ) 	 . the lone striker. us: knopf 	 . selected poems: third edition. new york: holt 	 . three poems. hanover, nh: baker library, dartmouth college. 	 . the gold hesperidee. bibliophile press. 	 . from snow to snow. new york: holt. 	 . a further range. new york: holt (cape, ) 	 . collected poems of robert frost. new york: holt (uk: longmans, green, ) 	 . a witness tree. new york: holt (cape, ) 	"the gift outright" 	"a question" 	"the silken tent" 	 . come in, and other poems. new york: holt. 	 . steeple bush. new york: holt 	 . complete poems of robert frost. new york: holt (cape, ) 	 . hard not to be king. house of books. 	 . aforesaid. new york: holt. 	 . a remembrance collection of new poems. new york: holt. 	 . you come too. new york: holt (uk: bodley head, ) 	 . in the clearing. new york: holt rinehart & winston 	 . the poetry of robert frost. new york: holt rinehart & winston. plays 	 . a way out: a one act play (harbor press). 	 . the cow's in the corn: a one act irish play in rhyme (slide mountain press). 	 . a masque of reason (holt). 	 . a masque of mercy (holt). letters 	 . the letters of robert frost to louis untermeyer (holt, rinehart & winston; cape, ). 	 . robert frost and john bartlett: the record of a friendship, by margaret bartlett anderson (holt, rinehart & winston). 	 . selected letters of robert frost (holt, rinehart & winston). 	 . family letters of robert and elinor frost (state university of new york press). 	 . robert frost and sidney cox: forty years of friendship (university press of new england). 	 . the letters of robert frost, volume , – , edited by donald sheehy, mark richardson, and robert faggen. belknap press. isbn  - . ( pages; first volume, of five, of the scholarly edition of the poet's correspondence, including many previously unpublished letters.) 	 . the letters of robert frost, volume , – , edited by donald sheehy, mark richardson, robert bernard hass, and henry atmore. belknap press. isbn  - . ( pages; second volume of the series.) other 	 . robert frost reads his poetry. caedmon records, tc . (spoken word) 	 . interviews with robert frost (holt, rinehart & winston; cape, ). 	 . collected poems, prose and plays, edited by richard poirier. library of america. isbn  - - - - . (omnibus volume.) 	 . the notebooks of robert frost, edited by robert faggen. harvard university press.[ ] see also 	biography portal 	poetry portal 	list of poems by robert frost 	frostiana 	new hampshire historical marker no. : robert frost – citations 	^ "robert frost". the poetry foundation. retrieved february . 	^ a b "robert frost". encyclopædia britannica (online ed.). . retrieved - - . 	^ contemporary literary criticism. ed. jean c. stine, bridget broderick, and daniel g. marowski. vol. . detroit: gale research, . p 	^ watson, marsten. royal families - americans of royal and noble ancestry. volume three: samuel appleton and his wife judith everard and five generations of their descendants. 	^ ehrlich, eugene; carruth, gorton ( ). the oxford illustrated literary guide to the united states. vol. . new york: oxford university press. isbn  - - - . 	^ nancy lewis tuten; john zubizarreta ( ). the robert frost encyclopedia. greenwood publishing group. p.  . isbn  - - - - . halfway through the spring semester of his second year, dean briggs released him from harvard without prejudice, lamenting the loss of so good a student. 	^ jay parini ( ). robert frost: a life. macmillan. pp.  – . isbn  - - - - . 	^ jeffrey meyers ( ). robert frost: a biography. houghton mifflin. frost remained at harvard until march of his sophomore year, when he decamped in the middle of a term ... 	^ orr, david ( - - ). the road not taken: finding america in the poem everyone loves and almost everyone gets wrong. penguin. isbn  . 	^ meyers, jeffrey ( ). robert frost: a biography. boston: houghton mifflin. pp.  – . isbn  . 	^ "phi beta kappa authors". the phi beta kappa key. 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"edward thomas". poetry foundation. 	^ "nomination archive". nobelprize.org. 	^ robert frost ( ). the collected prose of robert frost. harvard university press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ nancy lewis tuten; john zubizarreta ( ). the robert frost encyclopedia. greenwood publishing group. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ deirdre j. fagan ( january ). critical companion to robert frost: a literary reference to his life and work. infobase publishing. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ vermont. office of secretary of state ( ). vermont legislative directory and state manual: biennial session. p.  . joint resolution r- of the acts of l l named robert lee frost as vermont's poet laureate. while not a native vermonter, this eminent american poet resided here throughout much of his adult ... 	^ vermont legislative directory and state manual. secretary of state. . p.  . the position was created by joint resolution r- of the acts of , which designated robert frost state poet laureate. 	^ "history". southern new hampshire university. retrieved september , . 	^ "my brush with history - "we heard the shots …": aboard the press bus in dallas years ago" (pdf). med.navy.mil. archived from the original (pdf) on september , . retrieved june , . 	^ davis, sid; bennett, susan; trost, catherine ‘cathy’; rather, daniel ‘dan’ irvin jr ( ). 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with constitution (roman law). 	ancient rome 	 	this article is part of a series on the politics and government of ancient rome 	 periods 	 	roman kingdom – bc 	roman republic – bc 	roman empire bc – ad 	principate bc – ad 	dominate ad – 	western ad – 	eastern ad – 	timeline 	 roman constitution 	 	constitution of the kingdom 	constitution of the republic 	constitution of the empire 	constitution of the late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	executive magistrates 	 precedent and law 	 	roman law 	ius 	imperium 	mos maiorum 	collegiality 	auctoritas 	roman citizenship 	cursus honorum 	senatus consultum 	senatus consultum ultimum 	 assemblies 	 	centuriate 	curiate 	plebeian 	tribal 	 ordinary magistrates 	 	consul 	praetor 	quaestor 	promagistrate 	aedile 	tribune 	censor 	governor 	 extraordinary magistrates 	 	corrector 	dictator 	magister equitum 	consular tribune 	rex 	triumviri 	decemviri 	 titles and honours 	 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	praeses 	praefectus 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 	 	other countries 		v 	t 	e the roman constitution was an uncodified set of guidelines and principles passed down mainly through precedent.[ ] the roman constitution was not formal or even official, largely unwritten and constantly evolving. having those characteristics, it was therefore more like the british and united states common law system than a sovereign law system like the english constitutions of clarendon and great charter or the united states constitution, even though the constitution's evolution through the years was often directed by passage of new laws and repeal of older ones. concepts that originated in the roman constitution live on in both forms of government to this day. examples include checks and balances, the separation of powers, vetoes, filibusters, quorum requirements, term limits, impeachments, the powers of the purse, and regularly scheduled elections. even some lesser used modern constitutional concepts, such as the bloc voting found in the electoral college of the united states, originate from ideas found in the roman constitution. over the years, the roman constitution continuously evolved. by the late th century bc, the constitution of the roman kingdom had given way to the constitution of the roman republic. by bc, the constitution of the roman republic had transformed into the constitution of the roman empire. by ad, the constitution of the roman empire had been reformed into the constitution of the late roman empire. the actual changes, however, were quite gradual. together, these four constitutions formed four epochs in the continuous evolution of one master constitution. contents 	 legislative assemblies 	 senate 	 executive magistrates 	 legacy 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 . primary sources 	 . secondary source material legislative assemblies[edit] see also: roman assemblies, legislative assemblies of the roman kingdom, legislative assemblies of the roman republic, and legislative assemblies of the roman empire the first roman assembly, the 'comitia curiata', was founded during the early kingdom.[ ] its only political role was to elect new kings. sometimes, the king would submit his decrees to it for ratification. in the early years of the republic, the comitia curiata was the only legislative assembly with any power. shortly after the founding of the republic, however, the comitia centuriata and the comitia tributa became the predominant elective and legislative assemblies. most modern legislative assemblies are bodies consisting of elected representatives. their members typically propose and debate bills. these modern assemblies use a form of representative democracy. in contrast, the assemblies of the roman republic used a form of direct democracy. the roman assemblies were bodies of ordinary citizens, rather than elected representatives. in this regard, bills voted on (called plebiscites) were similar to modern popular referenda. unlike many modern assemblies, roman assemblies were not bicameral. that is to say that bills did not have to pass both major assemblies in order to be enacted into law. in addition, no other branch had to ratify a bill (rogatio) in order for it to become law (lex). members also had no authority to introduce bills for consideration; only executive magistrates could introduce new bills. this arrangement is also similar to what is found in many modern countries. usually, ordinary citizens cannot propose new laws for their enactment by a popular election. unlike many modern assemblies, in the early republic, the roman assemblies also had judicial functions. after the founding of the empire, the vast majority of the powers of the assemblies were transferred to the senate. when the senate elected magistrates, the results of those elections would be read to the assemblies. occasionally, the emperor would submit laws to the comitia tributa for ratification. the assemblies ratified laws up until the reign of the emperor domitian. after this point, the assemblies simply served as vehicles through which citizens would organize. senate[edit] see also: roman senate, senate of the roman kingdom, senate of the roman republic, and senate of the roman empire the roman senate was the most permanent of all of rome's political institutions. it was probably founded before the first king of rome ascended the throne. it survived the fall of the roman kingdom in the late th century bc, the fall of the roman republic in bc, and the fall of the roman empire in ad. it was, in contrast to many modern institutions named 'senate', not a legislative body, but rather, an advisory one. the power of the senate waxed and waned throughout its history. during the days of the kingdom, it was little more than an advisory council to the king, though in the interregnum between monarchs, it elected the next king.[ ] the last king of rome, lucius tarquinius superbus, was overthrown following a coup d'état that was planned in the senate. during the early republic, the senate was politically weak. during these early years, the executive magistrates were quite powerful. the transition from monarchy to constitutional rule was probably more gradual than the legends suggest. thus, it took a prolonged weakening of these executive magistrates before the senate was able to assert its authority over those magistrates. by the middle republic, the senate reached the apex of its republican power. this occurred because of the convergence of two factors. the plebeians had recently achieved full political enfranchisement. therefore, they were not as aggressive as they had been during the early republic in pushing for radical reforms. in addition, the period was marked by prolonged warfare against foreign enemies. the result was that both the popular assemblies and the executive magistrates deferred to the collective wisdom of the senate. the late republic saw a decline in the senate's power. this decline began following the reforms of the radical tribunes tiberius and gaius gracchus. the declining influence of the senate during this era, in large part, was caused by the class struggles that had dominated the early republic.[dubious – discuss] the end result was the overthrow of the republic, and the creation of the roman empire. the senate of the very early roman empire was as weak as it had been during the late republic. however, after the transition from republic to empire was complete, the senate arguably held more power than it had held at any previous point. all constitutional powers (legislative, executive and judicial) had been transferred to the senate. however, unlike the senate of the republic, the senate of the empire was dominated by the emperor. it was through the senate that the emperor exercised his autocratic powers, and by the late principate, the senate's power had declined into near-irrelevance. it never again regained the power that it had held in the middle republic. much of the surviving literature from the imperial period was written by senators. to a large degree, this demonstrates the strong cultural influence of the senate, even during the late empire. the institution survived the fall of the empire in the west, and even enjoyed a modest revival as imperial power was reduced to a government of italy only. the senatorial class was severely affected by the gothic wars. executive magistrates[edit] see also: roman magistrates, executive magistrates of the roman kingdom, executive magistrates of the roman republic, and executive magistrates of the roman empire during the years of the roman kingdom, the king (rex) was the only executive magistrate with any power. he was assisted by two quaestors, whom he appointed. he would often appoint other assistants for other tasks. when he died, an interrex would preside over the senate and assemblies until a new king was elected. under the constitution of the roman republic, the "executive branch" was composed of both ordinary as well as extraordinary magistrates. each ordinary magistrate would be elected by one of the two major legislative assemblies of the roman republic. the principal extraordinary magistrate, the dictator, would be appointed upon authorization by the senate of the roman republic. most magistrates were elected annually for a term of one year. the terms for all annual offices would begin on new year's day, and end on the last day of december. the two highest ranking ordinary magistrates, the consuls and praetors, held a type of authority called imperium (latin for "command"). imperium allowed a magistrate to command a military force. consuls held a higher grade of imperium than praetors. consuls and praetors, as well as censors and curule aediles, were regarded as "curule magistrates". they would sit on a curule chair, which was a symbol of state power. consuls and praetors where attended by bodyguards called lictors. the lictors would carry fasces. the fasces, which consisted of a rod with an embedded axe, were symbols of the coercive power of the state. quaestors were not curule magistrates, but rather, administrators and had little real power. plebeian tribunes were not officially "magistrates", since they were elected only by the plebeians. since they were considered to be the embodiment of the people of rome, their office and their person were considered sacrosanct. it was considered to be a capital offense to harm a tribune, to attempt to harm a tribune, or to attempt to obstruct a tribune in any way. all other powers of the tribunate derived from this sacrosanctity, with two rights: intercession between magistrates and advocacy for the people. the tribunes were assisted by plebeian aediles. in an emergency, a dictator would be selected by the senate. a newly appointed dictator would usually select a deputy, known as the "magister equitum" ("master of the horse"). both the dictator and his master of the horse were extraordinary magistrates, and they both held imperium. in practice, the dictator functioned as a consul without any constitutional checks on his power. after bc, the dictatorship fell into disuse, and during emergencies, the senate would pass the senatus consultum ultimum ("ultimate decree of the senate") which suspended civil government, and declared (something analogous to) martial law. it would declare "videant consules ne res publica detrimenti capiat" ("let the consuls see to it that the state suffer no harm"). in effect, the consuls would be vested with dictatorial powers. after the establishment of the principate, the old magistracies (consuls, praetors, censors, aediles, quaestors and tribunes) lost the majority of their actual powers, effectively being reduced to municipal officers in charge of various games and holidays. the vast majority of actual political and administrative work was transferred into the emperor. the founding of the empire was tantamount to a restoration of the old monarchy. the chief executive became the unchallenged power in the state, with overwhelming dominance of the senate, which, while it as a body gained practically all authorities formerly held by the assemblies, also became nothing more than a rubber stamp for the emperor. legacy[edit] the roman constitution was one of the few constitutions to exist before the th century. although the constitutions of sparta and carthage were drafted and utilised either on paper or by nature much of their existence is only known through secondary sources, and such constitutions are questioned in the book ii of aristotle's "the politics." none of the others are as well known to us today, and none of the others governed such a vast empire for so long. therefore, the roman constitution was used as a template, often the only one, when the first constitutions of the modern era were being drafted. because of this, many modern constitutions have superstrictures which are similar, or even identical (such as a separation of powers and checks and balances) to the roman constitution. see also[edit] ‹ the template below (columns) is being considered for deletion. see templates for discussion to help reach a consensus. › 	 	roman kingdom 	american constitution 	roman republic 	roman empire 	roman law 	plebeian council 	centuria 		 	curia 	roman consul 	praetor 	roman censor 	quaestor 	aedile 		 	roman dictator 	master of the horse 	roman senate 	cursus honorum 	byzantine senate 	pontifex maximus 		 	princeps senatus 	interrex 	procurator (roman) 	acta senatus notes[edit] 	^ byrd, 	^ abbott, frank frost ( ). a history and descriptions of roman political institutions ( ed.). new york: noble offset printers inc. p.  .cs maint: ref=harv (link) 	^ abbott , p.  . references[edit] 	abbott, frank frost ( ). a history and description of roman political institutions. elibron classics ( isbn  - - - ). 	byrd, robert ( ). the senate of the roman republic. u.s. government printing office, senate document - . 	cicero, marcus tullius ( ). the political works of marcus tullius cicero: comprising his treatise on the commonwealth; and his treatise on the laws. translated from the original, with dissertations and notes in two volumes. by francis barham, esq. london: edmund spettigue. vol. . 	lintott, andrew ( ). the constitution of the roman republic. oxford university press ( isbn  - - - ). 	polybius ( ). the general history of polybius: translated from the greek. by james hampton. oxford: printed by w. baxter. fifth edition, vol . 	taylor, lily ross ( ). roman voting assemblies: from the hannibalic war to the dictatorship of caesar. the university of michigan press ( isbn  - - -x). further reading[edit] 	ihne, wilhelm. researches into the history of the roman constitution. william pickering. . 	johnston, harold whetstone. orations and letters of cicero: with historical introduction, an outline of the roman constitution, notes, vocabulary and index. scott, foresman and company. . 	mommsen, theodor. roman constitutional law. - 	tighe, ambrose. the development of the roman constitution. d. apple & co. . 	von fritz, kurt. the theory of the mixed constitution in antiquity. columbia university press, new york. . 	the histories by polybius 	cambridge ancient history, volumes – . 	a. cameron, the later roman empire, (fontana press, ). 	m. crawford, the roman republic, (fontana press, ). 	e. s. gruen, "the last generation of the roman republic" (u california press, ) 	f. millar, the emperor in the roman world, (duckworth, , ). 	a. lintott, "the constitution of the roman republic" (oxford university press, ) primary sources[edit] 	cicero's de re publica, book two 	rome at the end of the punic wars: an analysis of the roman government; by polybius secondary source material[edit] 	considerations on the causes of the greatness of the romans and their decline, by montesquieu 	the roman constitution to the time of 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	designers 	coining 	 milling 	hammering 	cast 	 exonumia 	 	credit cards 	medals 	tokens 	cheques 	 notaphily 	 	banknotes 	 scripophily 	 	stocks 	bonds 	 	glossary of numismatics  numismatics portal  money portal 		v 	t 	e roman currency for most of roman history consisted of gold, silver, bronze, orichalcum and copper coinage[ ] (see: roman metallurgy). from its introduction to the republic, during the third century bc, well into imperial times, roman currency saw many changes in form, denomination, and composition. a persistent feature was the inflationary debasement and replacement of coins over the centuries. notable examples of this followed the reforms of diocletian. this trend continued into byzantine times. due to the economic power and longevity of the roman state, roman currency was widely used throughout western eurasia and northern africa from classical times into the middle ages. it served as a model for the currencies of the muslim caliphates and the european states during the middle ages and the modern era. roman currency names survive today in many countries (e.g., the arabic dinar (from the denarius coin), the british pound and mexican peso (both translations of the roman libra)). contents 	 authority to mint coins 	 . roman republic: c. – bc 	 iconography and design 	 . imperial iconography 	 value and composition 	 . debasement 	 . equivalences 	 see also 	 references 	 . footnotes 	 . bibliography 	 external links authority to mint coins[edit] the manufacture of coins in the roman culture, dating from about the th century bc, significantly influenced later development of coin minting in europe. the origin of the word "mint" is ascribed to the manufacture of silver coin at rome in bc near the temple of juno moneta. this goddess became the personification of money, and her name was applied both to money and to its place of manufacture. roman mints were spread widely across the empire, and were sometimes used for propaganda purposes. the populace often learned of a new roman emperor when coins appeared with the new emperor's portrait. some of the emperors who ruled only for a short time made sure that a coin bore their image[citation needed]; quietus, for example, ruled only part of the roman empire from to ad, and yet he issued two coins bearing his image. the romans cast their larger copper coins in clay moulds carrying distinctive markings, not because they did not know about striking, but because it was not suitable for such large masses of metal. roman republic: c. – bc[edit] main article: roman republican currency bronze aes signatum produced by the roman republic after bc. roman adoption of metallic commodity money was a late development in monetary history. bullion bars and ingots were used as money in mesopotamia since the th millennium bc; and greeks in asia minor had pioneered the use of coinage (which they employed in addition to other more primitive, monetary mediums of exchange) as early as the th century bc.[ ] coinage proper was only introduced by the roman republican government c. bc. the greatest city of the magna graecia region in southern italy, and several other italian cities, already had a long tradition of using coinage by this time and produced them in large quantities during the th century bc to pay for their wars against the inland italian groups encroaching on their territory. for these reasons, the romans would have certainly known about coinage systems long before their government actually introduced them. the reason behind rome's adoption of coinage was likely cultural. the romans had no pressing economic need, but they wanted to emulate greek culture; they considered the institution of minted money a significant feature of that culture. however, roman coinage initially saw very limited use.[ ] the type of money introduced by rome was unlike that found elsewhere in the ancient mediterranean. it combined a number of uncommon elements. one example is the large bronze bullion, the aes signatum (latin for signed bronze). it measured about by millimetres ( . by .  in) and weighed around , to , grams ( to  oz), being made out of a highly leaded tin bronze. although similar metal currency bars had been produced in italy and northern etruscan areas, these had been made of aes grave, an unrefined metal with a high iron content.[ ] along with the aes signatum, the roman state also issued a series of bronze and silver coins that emulated the styles of those produced in greek cities.[ ] produced using the manner of manufacture then utilised in greek naples, the designs of these early coins were also heavily influenced by greek designs.[ ] the designs on the coinage of the republican period displayed a "solid conservatism", usually illustrating mythical scenes or personifications of various gods and goddesses.[ ] iconography and design[edit] imperial iconography[edit] the most commonly used coin denominations and their relative sizes during roman times. coins of the roman republic and empire - from cassell's history of england, vol. i - anonymous author and artists the imagery on coins took an important step when julius caesar issued coins bearing his own portrait. while moneyers had earlier issued coins with portraits of ancestors, caesar's was the first roman coinage to feature the portrait of a living individual. the tradition continued following caesar's assassination, although the imperators from time to time also produced coins featuring the traditional deities and personifications found on earlier coins. the image of the roman emperor took on a special importance in the centuries that followed, because during the empire, the emperor embodied the state and its policies. the names of moneyers continued to appear on the coins until the middle of augustus' reign. although the duty of moneyers during the empire is not known, since the position was not abolished, it is believed that they still had some influence over the imagery of the coins. the main focus of the imagery during the empire was on the portrait of the emperor. coins were an important means of disseminating this image throughout the empire. coins often attempted to make the emperor appear god-like through associating the emperor with attributes normally seen in divinities, or emphasizing the special relationship between the emperor and a particular deity by producing a preponderance of coins depicting that deity. during his campaign against pompey, caesar issued a variety of types that featured images of either venus or aeneas, attempting to associate himself with his divine ancestors. an example of an emperor who went to an extreme in proclaiming divine status was commodus. in a.d., he issued a series of coins depicting his bust clad in a lion-skin (the usual depiction of hercules) on the obverse, and an inscription proclaiming that he was the roman incarnation of hercules on the reverse. although commodus was excessive in his depiction of his image, this extreme case is indicative of the objective of many emperors in the exploitation of their portraits. while the emperor is by far the most frequent portrait on the obverse of coins, heirs apparent, predecessors, and other family members, such as empresses, were also featured. to aid in succession, the legitimacy of an heir was affirmed by producing coins for that successor. this was done from the time of augustus till the end of the empire. featuring the portrait of an individual on a coin, which became legal in bc, caused the coin to be viewed as embodying the attributes of the individual portrayed. dio wrote that following the death of caligula the senate demonetized his coinage, and ordered that they be melted. regardless of whether or not this actually occurred, it demonstrates the importance and meaning that was attached to the imagery on a coin. the philosopher epictetus jokingly wrote: "whose image does this sestertius carry? trajan's? give it to me. nero's? throw it away, it is unacceptable, it is rotten." although the writer did not seriously expect people to get rid of their coins, this quotation demonstrates that the romans attached a moral value to the images on their coins. unlike the obverse, which during the imperial period almost always featured a portrait, the reverse was far more varied in its depiction. during the late republic there were often political messages to the imagery, especially during the periods of civil war. however, by the middle of the empire, although there were types that made important statements, and some that were overtly political or propagandistic in nature, the majority of the types were stock images of personifications or deities. while some images can be related to the policy or actions of a particular emperor, many of the choices seem arbitrary and the personifications and deities were so prosaic that their names were often omitted, as they were readily recognizable by their appearance and attributes alone. it can be argued that within this backdrop of mostly indistinguishable types, exceptions would be far more pronounced. atypical reverses are usually seen during and after periods of war, at which time emperors make various claims of liberation, subjugation, and pacification. some of these reverse images can clearly be classified as propaganda. an example struck by emperor philip in features a legend proclaiming the establishment of peace with persia; in truth, rome had been forced to pay large sums in tribute to the persians. although it is difficult to make accurate generalizations about reverse imagery, as this was something that varied by emperor, some trends do exist. an example is reverse types of the military emperors during the second half of the third century, where virtually all of the types were the common and standard personifications and deities. a possible explanation for the lack of originality is that these emperors were attempting to present conservative images to establish their legitimacy, something that many of these emperors lacked. although these emperors relied on traditional reverse types, their portraits often emphasized their authority through stern gazes,[ ][citation needed] and even featured the bust of the emperor clad in armor.[ ] value and composition[edit] unlike most modern coins, roman coins had (at least in the early centuries) significant intrinsic value. however, while the gold and silver issues contained precious metals, the value of a coin could be slightly higher than its precious metal content, so they were not, strictly speaking, equivalent to bullion. also, over the course of time the purity and weight of the silver coins were reduced. estimates of the value of the denarius range from . to . times its metal content,[citation needed] thought to equal the purchasing power of modern british pound sterling at the beginning of the roman empire to around pound sterling by its end (comparing bread, wine and meat prices) and, over the same period, around one to three days' pay for a legionary.[ ] the coinage system that existed in egypt until the time of diocletian's monetary reform was a closed system based upon the heavily debased tetradrachm. although the value of these tetradrachms can be reckoned as being equivalent to that of the denarius, their precious metal content was always much lower. elsewhere also, not all coins that circulated contained precious metals, as the value of these coins was too great to be convenient for everyday purchases. a dichotomy existed between the coins with an intrinsic value and those with only a token value. this is reflected in the infrequent and inadequate production of bronze coinage during the republic, where from the time of sulla till the time of augustus no bronze coins were minted at all; even during the periods when bronze coins were produced, their workmanship was sometimes very crude and of low quality. debasement[edit] the rapid decline in silver purity of the antoninianus the type of coins issued changed under the coinage reform of diocletian, the heavily debased antoninianus (double denarius) was replaced with a variety of new denominations, and a new range of imagery was introduced that attempted to convey different ideas. the new government set up by diocletian was a tetrarchy, or rule by four, with each emperor receiving a separate territory to rule. the new imagery includes a large, stern portrait that is representative of the emperor. this image was not meant to show the actual portrait of a particular emperor, but was instead a character that embodied the power that the emperor possessed. the reverse type was equally universal, featuring the spirit (or genius) of the romans. the introduction of a new type of government and a new system of coinage represents an attempt by diocletian to return peace and security to rome, after the previous century of constant warfare and uncertainty. diocletian characterizes the emperor as an interchangeable authority figure by depicting him with a generalized image. he tries to emphasize unity amongst the romans by featuring the spirit of romans (sutherland ). the reverse types of coins of the late empire emphasized general themes, and discontinued the more specific personifications depicted previously. the reverse types featured legends that proclaimed the glory of rome, the glory of the army, victory against the "barbarians", the restoration of happy times, and the greatness of the emperor. these general types persisted even after the adoption of christianity as the state religion of the roman empire. muted christian imagery, such as standards that featured christograms (the chi-rho monogram for jesus christ's name in greek) were introduced, but with a few rare exceptions, there were no explicitly christian themes. from the time of constantine until the "end" of the roman empire, coins featured almost indistinguishable idealized portraits and general proclamations of greatness. although the denarius remained the backbone of the roman economy from its introduction in bc until it ceased to be normally minted in the middle of the third century, the purity and weight of the coin slowly, but inexorably, decreased. the problem of debasement in the roman economy appears to be pervasive, although the severity of the debasement often paralleled the strength or weakness of the empire. while it is not clear why debasement was such a common occurrence for the romans, it's believed that it was caused by several factors, including a lack of precious metals and inadequacies in state finances. when introduced, the denarius contained nearly pure silver at a theoretical weight of approximately . grams, but from the time of nero onwards the tendency was nearly always for its purity to be decreased. the theoretical standard, although not usually met in practice, remained fairly stable throughout the republic, with the notable exception of times of war. the large number of coins required to raise an army and pay for supplies often necessitated the debasement of the coinage. an example of this is the denarii that were struck by mark antony to pay his army during his battles against octavian. these coins, slightly smaller in diameter than a normal denarius, were made of noticeably debased silver. the obverse features a galley and the name antony, while the reverse features the name of the particular legion that each issue was intended for (hoard evidence shows that these coins remained in circulation over years after they were minted, due to their lower silver content). the coinage of the julio-claudians remained stable at  grams of silver, until the debasement of nero in , when the silver content was reduced to .  grams, perhaps due to the cost of rebuilding the city after fire consumed a considerable portion of rome. the denarius continued to decline slowly in purity, with a notable reduction instituted by septimius severus. this was followed by the introduction of a double denarius piece, differentiated from the denarius by the radiate crown worn by the emperor. the coin is commonly called the antoninianus by numismatists after the emperor caracalla, who introduced the coin in early . although nominally valued at two denarii, the antoninianus never contained more than . times the amount of silver of the denarius. the profit of minting a coin valued at two denarii, but weighing only about one and a half times as much is obvious; the reaction to these coins by the public is unknown. as the number of antoniniani minted increased, the number of denarii minted decreased, until the denarius ceased to be minted in significant quantities by the middle of the third century. again, coinage saw its greatest debasement during times of war and uncertainty. the second half of the third century was rife with this war and uncertainty, and the silver content of the antonianus fell to only %, losing almost any appearance of being silver. during this time the aureus remained slightly more stable, before it too became smaller and more base (lower gold content and higher base metal content) before diocletian's reform. the decline in the silver content to the point where coins contained virtually no silver at all was countered by the monetary reform of aurelian in . the standard for silver in the antonianus was set at twenty parts copper to one part silver, and the coins were noticeably marked as containing that amount (xxi in latin or ka in greek). despite the reform of aurelian, silver content continued to decline, until the monetary reform of diocletian. in addition to establishing the tetrarchy, diocletian devised the following system of denominations: an aureus struck at the standard of to the pound, a new silver coin struck at the old neronian standard known as the argenteus, and a new large bronze coin that contained two percent silver. diocletian issued an edict on maximum prices in , which attempted to establish the legal maximum prices that could be charged for goods and services. the attempt to establish maximum prices was an exercise in futility as maximum prices were impossible to enforce. the edict was reckoned in terms of denarii, although no such coin had been struck for over years (it is believed that the bronze follis was valued at ​   ⁄ denarii). like earlier reforms, this too eroded and was replaced by an uncertain coinage consisting mostly of gold and bronze. the exact relationship and denomination of the bronze issues of a variety of sizes is not known, and is believed to have fluctuated heavily on the market. the exact reason that roman coinage sustained constant debasement is not known, but the most common theories involve inflation, trade with india, which drained silver from the mediterranean world, and inadequacies in state finances. it is clear from papyri that the pay of the roman soldier increased from sestertii a year under augustus to sestertii a year under septimius severus and the price of grain more than tripled indicating that fall in real wages and a moderate inflation occurred during this time.[ ] another reason for debasement was lack of raw metal with which to produce coins. italy itself contains no large or reliable mines for precious metals; therefore the precious metals for coinage had to be obtained elsewhere. the majority of the precious metals that rome obtained during its period of expansion arrived in the form of war booty from defeated territories, and subsequent tribute and taxes by new-conquered lands. when rome ceased to expand, the precious metals for coinage then came from newly mined silver, such as from greece and spain, and from melting older coins. without a constant influx of precious metals from an outside source, and with the expense of continual wars, it would seem reasonable that coins might be debased to increase the amount that the government could spend. this explanation for the debasement of coinage is that it allowed the state to spend more than it had. by decreasing the amount of silver in its coins, rome could produce more coins and "stretch" its budget. as time progressed, the trade deficit of the west, because of its buying of grain and other commodities, led to a currency drainage in rome. equivalences[edit] the first rows show the values of each boldface coin in the first column in relation to the coins in the following columns: early republic values[ ][ ] (after bc) 		denarius	sestertius	dupondius	as	semis	quincunx	triens	quadrans	uncia 	denarius 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	sestertius 	​ ⁄ 	 	​   ⁄ 	​   ⁄ 	 	 	​   ⁄ 	 	 	dupondius 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	 	 	​   ⁄ 	 	 	 	as 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	 	​   ⁄ 	 	 	 	semis 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	​   ⁄ 	​   ⁄ 	 	 	quincunx 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	​   ⁄ 	​   ⁄ 	 	triens 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	​   ⁄ 	 	quadrans 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	 	uncia 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 augustan values ( bc – ad ) 		aureus	quinarius aureus	denarius	quinarius	sestertius	dupondius	as	semis	quadrans 	aureus 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	quinarius aureus 	​ ⁄ 	 	​   ⁄ 	 	 	 	 	 	 	denarius 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	quinarius argenteus 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	 	 	 	 	 	sestertius 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	 	 	 	 	dupondius 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	 	 	 	as 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	 	 	semis 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	 	quadrans 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 diocletian values ( – ) 		solidus	argenteus	nummus	radiate	laureate	denarius 	solidus 	 	 	 	 	 	 	argenteus 	​ ⁄ 	 	 	 	 	 	nummus 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	 	​   ⁄ 	 	radiate 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	​   ⁄ 	 	laureate 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	 	denarius 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 late empire coin values ( – ) 		solidus	miliarense	siliqua	follis	nummus 	solidus 	 	 	 	 	 	miliarense 	​ ⁄ 	 	 	 	 	siliqua 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	​   ⁄ 	 	follis 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 	 	nummus 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	​ ⁄ 	 see also[edit] 	numismatics portal 	money portal 	cupellation 	list of historical currencies 	roman economy 	roman republican coinage 	roman provincial currency 	byzantine coinage 	visigothic coinage 	sasanian coinage 	roman republican moneyers 	tessera 	spintria 	ancient symbols (unicode block) references[edit] footnotes[edit] 	^ "blanchard and company, inc. - the twelve caesars". retrieved february , . 	^ metcalf , p.  . 	^ burnett . pp. – . 	^ burnett . p. . 	^ burnett . pp. – . 	^ burnett . p. . 	^ reece . p. . 	^ trentinella, rosemarie (october ). 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Ῥωμαίων (ancient greek) basileía rhōmaíōn 	 bc – ad (traditional dates)[ ][ ] ad – / (western) ad – (eastern) 	 vexillum with the imperial aquila imperial aquila 	the roman empire in ad at its greatest extent, at the time of trajan's death (with its vassals in pink)[ ] 	capital	 	rome (de facto and de jure from bc to ad, only de jure from to ) 	mediolanum ( – , western) 	ravenna ( – , western) 	nicomedia ( – , eastern) 	constantinople ( – , eastern)[n ] 	common languages	 	latin (official until ad) 	greek (official after ad) 	regional / local languages 	religion 	 	imperial cult-driven polytheism (before ad) 	joined by the henotheistic solar cult of sol invictus (before ad ) 	nicene christianity (officially, from ) 	government	semi-elective, functionally absolute monarchy 	emperor	  	 	•  bc – ad 	augustus (first) 	•  – 	trajan 	•  – 	aurelian 	•  – 	diocletian 	•  – 	constantine i 	•  – 	theodosius i[n ] 	•  – 	julius nepos[n ] 	•  – 	romulus augustus 	•  – 	justinian i 	•  – 	heraclius 	•  – 	constantine vi[n ] 	•  – 	basil ii 	•  – 	constantine xi[n ] 	 	legislature	senate 	historical era	classical era to late middle ages 	 	• final war of the roman republic 	 – bc 	• empire established 	 – bc 	• constantinople becomes capital 	 may 	• final east-west divide 	 jan 	• deposition of romulus augustus 	 sep 	• murder of julius nepos 	 apr 	• fourth crusade 	 apr 	• reconquest of constantinople 	 jul 	• fall of constantinople 	 may 	• fall of trebizond 	 august 	 	area 	 bc[ ]	 , ,  km ( , ,  sq mi) 	 ad[ ][ ]	 , ,  km ( , ,  sq mi) 	 ad[ ]	 , ,  km ( , ,  sq mi) 	population 	 	•  bc[ ] 	 , , 	 	currency	sestertius,[n ] aureus, solidus, nomisma 	 	 preceded by	succeeded by 	 	 	roman republic 	 	western roman empire 	 	eastern roman empire 	 the roman empire (latin: imperium romanum [ɪmˈpɛri.ũː roːˈmaːnũː]; koinē greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, romanized: basileía tōn rhōmaíōn) was the post-republican period of ancient rome. as a polity it included large territorial holdings around the mediterranean sea in europe, northern africa, and western asia ruled by emperors. from the accession of caesar augustus to the military anarchy of the rd century, it was a principate with italy as metropole of the provinces and the city of rome as sole capital ( bc – ad). after the military crisis, the empire was ruled by multiple emperors who shared rule over the western roman empire and over the eastern roman empire (also known as the byzantine empire). rome remained the nominal capital of both parts until ad, when the imperial insignia were sent to constantinople, following the capture of ravenna by the barbarians of odoacer and the subsequent deposition of romulus augustulus. the fall of the western roman empire to germanic kings, along with the hellenization of the eastern roman empire into the byzantine empire, conventionally marks the end of ancient rome and the beginning of the middle ages. the predecessor state of the roman empire, the roman republic (which had replaced rome's monarchy in the th century bc) became severely destabilized in a series of civil wars and political conflicts. in the mid- st century bc, julius caesar was appointed as perpetual dictator and then assassinated in bc. civil wars and proscriptions continued, culminating in the victory of octavian, caesar's adopted son, over mark antony and cleopatra at the battle of actium in bc. the following year octavian conquered ptolemaic egypt, ending the hellenistic period that had begun with the conquests of alexander the great of macedon in the th century bc. octavian's power then became unassailable, and in bc the roman senate formally granted him overarching power and the new title augustus, effectively making him the first roman emperor. the first two centuries of the empire saw a period of unprecedented stability and prosperity known as the pax romana ("roman peace"). rome reached its greatest territorial expanse during the reign of trajan ( – ad). a period of increasing trouble and decline began with the reign of commodus ( – ). in the rd century the empire underwent a crisis that threatened its existence, as the gallic empire and palmyrene empire broke away from the roman state, and a series of short-lived emperors, often from the legions, led the empire. the empire was reunified under aurelian (r.  – ). in an effort to stabilize it, diocletian set up two different imperial courts in the greek east and latin west in . christians rose to positions of power in the th century following the edict of milan of . shortly after, the migration period, involving large invasions by germanic peoples and by the huns of attila, led to the decline of the western roman empire. with the fall of ravenna to the germanic herulians and the deposition of romulus augustus in ad by odoacer, the western roman empire finally collapsed; the eastern roman emperor zeno formally abolished it in ad. nonetheless, some states in the territories of the former western roman empire would later claim to have inherited the supreme power of the emperors of rome, most notably the holy roman empire. the eastern roman empire survived for another millennium, until constantinople fell to the ottoman turks of sultan mehmed ii in .[n ] due to the roman empire's vast extent and long endurance, the institutions and culture of rome had a profound and lasting influence on the development of language, religion, art, architecture, philosophy, law, and forms of government in the territory it governed, and far beyond. the latin language of the romans evolved into the romance languages of the medieval and modern world, while medieval greek became the language of the eastern roman empire. the empire's adoption of christianity led to the formation of medieval christendom. greek and roman art had a profound impact on the italian renaissance. rome's architectural tradition served as the basis for romanesque, renaissance and neoclassical architecture, and also had a strong influence on islamic architecture. the corpus of roman law has its descendants in many legal systems of the world today, such as the napoleonic code, while rome's republican institutions have left an enduring legacy, influencing the italian city-state republics of the medieval period, as well as the early united states and other modern democratic republics. contents 	 history 	 . transition from republic to empire 	 . the pax romana 	 . fall in the west and survival in the east 	 geography and demography 	 languages 	 . local languages and linguistic legacy 	 society 	 . legal status 	 . . women in roman law 	 . . slaves and the law 	 . . freedmen 	 . census rank 	 . . unequal justice 	 government and military 	 . central government 	 . military 	 . provincial government 	 . roman law 	 . taxation 	 economy 	 . currency and banking 	 . mining and metallurgy 	 . transportation and communication 	 . trade and commodities 	 . labour and occupations 	 . gdp and income distribution 	 architecture and engineering 	 daily life 	 . city and country 	 . food and dining 	 . recreation and spectacles 	 . . personal training and play 	 . clothing 	 arts 	 . portraiture 	 . sculpture 	 . . sarcophagi 	 . painting 	 . mosaic 	 . decorative arts 	 . performing arts 	 literacy, books, and education 	 . primary education 	 . secondary education 	 . educated women 	 . shape of literacy 	 literature 	 religion 	 political legacy 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 . citations 	 . cited sources 	 external links history main article: history of the roman empire see also: campaign history of the roman military and roman kingdom transition from republic to empire main article: roman republic the augustus of prima porta (early st century ad) rome had begun expanding shortly after the founding of the republic in the th century bc, though it did not expand outside the italian peninsula until the rd century bc. then, it was an "empire" long before it had an emperor.[ ][ ][ ][ ] the roman republic was not a nation-state in the modern sense, but a network of towns left to rule themselves (though with varying degrees of independence from the roman senate) and provinces administered by military commanders. it was ruled, not by emperors, but by annually elected magistrates (roman consuls above all) in conjunction with the senate.[ ] for various reasons, the st century bc was a time of political and military upheaval, which ultimately led to rule by emperors.[ ][ ][ ][ ] the consuls' military power rested in the roman legal concept of imperium, which literally means "command" (though typically in a military sense).[ ] occasionally, successful consuls were given the honorary title imperator (commander), and this is the origin of the word emperor (and empire) since this title (among others) was always bestowed to the early emperors upon their accession.[ ] rome suffered a long series of internal conflicts, conspiracies and civil wars from the late second century bc onward, while greatly extending its power beyond italy. this was the period of the crisis of the roman republic. towards the end of this era, in bc, julius caesar was briefly perpetual dictator before being assassinated. the faction of his assassins was driven from rome and defeated at the battle of philippi in bc by an army led by mark antony and caesar's adopted son octavian. antony and octavian's division of the roman world between themselves did not last and octavian's forces defeated those of mark antony and cleopatra at the battle of actium in bc, ending the final war of the roman republic. in bc the senate and people of rome made octavian princeps ("first citizen") with proconsular imperium, thus beginning the principate (the first epoch of roman imperial history, usually dated from bc to ad), and gave him the name "augustus" ("the venerated"). though the old constitutional machinery remained in place, augustus came to predominate it. although the republic stood in name, contemporaries of augustus knew it was just a veil and that augustus had all meaningful authority in rome.[ ] since his rule ended a century of civil wars and began an unprecedented period of peace and prosperity, he was so loved that he came to hold the power of a monarch de facto if not de jure. during the years of his rule, a new constitutional order emerged (in part organically and in part by design), so that, upon his death, this new constitutional order operated as before when tiberius was accepted as the new emperor. the pax romana main article: pax romana the so-called five good emperors (from left to right): nerva, trajan, hadrian, antoninus pius and marcus aurelius the years that began with augustus's rule is traditionally regarded as the pax romana ("roman peace"). during this period, the cohesion of the empire was furthered by a degree of social stability and economic prosperity that rome had never before experienced. uprisings in the provinces were infrequent, but put down "mercilessly and swiftly" when they occurred.[ ] the success of augustus in establishing principles of dynastic succession was limited by his outliving a number of talented potential heirs. the julio-claudian dynasty lasted for four more emperors—tiberius, caligula, claudius and nero—before it yielded in ad to the strife-torn year of four emperors, from which vespasian emerged as victor. vespasian became the founder of the brief flavian dynasty, to be followed by the nerva–antonine dynasty which produced the "five good emperors": nerva, trajan, hadrian, antoninus pius and the philosophically-inclined marcus aurelius. fall in the west and survival in the east main article: fall of the western roman empire see also: barbarian kingdoms and byzantine empire the barbarian invasions consisted of the movement of (mainly) ancient germanic peoples into roman territory. even though northern invasions took place throughout the life of the empire, this period officially began in the th century and lasted for many centuries, during which the western territory was under the dominion of foreign northern rulers, a notable one being charlemagne. historically, this event marked the transition between classical antiquity and the middle ages. in the view of the greek historian dio cassius, a contemporary observer, the accession of the emperor commodus in ad marked the descent "from a kingdom of gold to one of rust and iron"[ ]—a famous comment which has led some historians, notably edward gibbon, to take commodus' reign as the beginning of the decline of the roman empire.[ ][ ] in ad, during the reign of caracalla, roman citizenship was granted to all freeborn inhabitants of the empire. but despite this gesture of universality, the severan dynasty was tumultuous—an emperor's reign was ended routinely by his murder or execution—and, following its collapse, the roman empire was engulfed by the crisis of the third century, a period of invasions, civil strife, economic disorder, and plague.[ ] in defining historical epochs, this crisis is sometimes viewed as marking the transition from classical antiquity to late antiquity. aurelian (reigned – ) brought the empire back from the brink and stabilized it. diocletian completed the work of fully restoring the empire, but declined the role of princeps and became the first emperor to be addressed regularly as domine, "master" or "lord".[ ] diocletian's reign also brought the empire's most concerted effort against the perceived threat of christianity, the "great persecution". diocletian divided the empire into four regions, each ruled by a separate emperor, the tetrarchy.[ ] confident that he fixed the disorders that were plaguing rome, he abdicated along with his co-emperor, and the tetrarchy soon collapsed. order was eventually restored by constantine the great, who became the first emperor to convert to christianity, and who established constantinople as the new capital of the eastern empire. during the decades of the constantinian and valentinian dynasties, the empire was divided along an east–west axis, with dual power centres in constantinople and rome. the reign of julian, who under the influence of his adviser mardonius attempted to restore classical roman and hellenistic religion, only briefly interrupted the succession of christian emperors. theodosius i, the last emperor to rule over both east and west, died in ad after making christianity the official religion of the empire.[ ] the roman empire by the western roman empire began to disintegrate in the early th century as germanic migrations and invasions overwhelmed the capacity of the empire to assimilate the migrants and fight off the invaders. the romans were successful in fighting off all invaders, most famously attila,[ ] though the empire had assimilated so many germanic peoples of dubious loyalty to rome that the empire started to dismember itself.[ ] most chronologies place the end of the western roman empire in , when romulus augustulus was forced to abdicate to the germanic warlord odoacer.[ ][ ][ ] by placing himself under the rule of the eastern emperor, rather than naming a puppet emperor of his own, odoacer ended the western empire. he did this by sending the imperial regalia to the eastern emperor zeno, in effect declaring zeno sole emperor, and placing himself as his nominal subordinate. in reality italy was now ruled by odoacer alone.[ ][ ][ ] the eastern roman empire, also called the byzantine empire by later historians, continued to exist until the reign of constantine xi palaiologos. the last roman emperor, he died in battle on may against mehmed ii "the conqueror" and his ottoman forces in the final stages of the siege of constantinople. mehmed ii would himself also claim the title of caesar or kayser-i rum in an attempt to claim a connection to the roman empire.[ ][ ] geography and demography main articles: demography of the roman empire and borders of the roman empire further information: classical demography the roman empire was one of the largest in history, with contiguous territories throughout europe, north africa, and the middle east.[ ] the latin phrase imperium sine fine ("empire without end"[ ]) expressed the ideology that neither time nor space limited the empire. in vergil's epic poem the aeneid, limitless empire is said to be granted to the romans by their supreme deity jupiter.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] this claim of universal dominion was renewed and perpetuated when the empire came under christian rule in the th century.[n ] in addition to annexing large regions in their quest for empire-building, the romans were also very large sculptors of their environment who directly altered their geography. for instance, entire forests were cut down to provide enough wood resources for an expanding empire. in his book critias, plato described that deforestation: where there was once "an abundance of wood in the mountains," he could now only see "the mere skeleton of the land."[ ] in reality, roman expansion was mostly accomplished under the republic, though parts of northern europe were conquered in the st century ad, when roman control in europe, africa, and asia was strengthened. during the reign of augustus, a "global map of the known world" was displayed for the first time in public at rome, coinciding with the composition of the most comprehensive work on political geography that survives from antiquity, the geography of the pontic greek writer strabo.[ ] when augustus died, the commemorative account of his achievements (res gestae) prominently featured the geographical cataloguing of peoples and places within the empire.[ ] geography, the census, and the meticulous keeping of written records were central concerns of roman imperial administration.[ ] the cities of the roman world in the imperial period. data source: hanson, j. w. ( ), cities database, (oxrep databases). version . . (link). a segment of the ruins of hadrian's wall in northern england the empire reached its largest expanse under trajan (reigned – ),[ ] encompassing an area of million square kilometres.[ ][ ] the traditional population estimate of – million inhabitants[ ] accounted for between one-sixth and one-fourth of the world's total population[ ] and made it the largest population of any unified political entity in the west until the mid- th century.[ ] recent demographic studies have argued for a population peak ranging from million to more than million.[ ][ ] each of the three largest cities in the empire—rome, alexandria, and antioch—was almost twice the size of any european city at the beginning of the th century.[ ] as the historian christopher kelly has described it: then the empire stretched from hadrian's wall in drizzle-soaked northern england to the sun-baked banks of the euphrates in syria; from the great rhine–danube river system, which snaked across the fertile, flat lands of europe from the low countries to the black sea, to the rich plains of the north african coast and the luxuriant gash of the nile valley in egypt. the empire completely circled the mediterranean ... referred to by its conquerors as mare nostrum—'our sea'.[ ] trajan's successor hadrian adopted a policy of maintaining rather than expanding the empire. borders (fines) were marked, and the frontiers (limites) patrolled.[ ] the most heavily fortified borders were the most unstable.[ ] hadrian's wall, which separated the roman world from what was perceived as an ever-present barbarian threat, is the primary surviving monument of this effort.[ ][ ][ ] languages 	 	this section may contain misleading parts. please help clarify this article according to any suggestions provided on the talk page. (september ) main article: languages of the roman empire the language of the romans was latin, which virgil emphasizes as a source of roman unity and tradition.[ ][ ][ ] until the time of alexander severus (reigned – ), the birth certificates and wills of roman citizens had to be written in latin.[ ] latin was the language of the law courts in the west and of the military throughout the empire,[ ] but was not imposed officially on peoples brought under roman rule.[ ][ ] this policy contrasts with that of alexander the great, who aimed to impose greek throughout his empire as the official language.[ ] as a consequence of alexander's conquests, koine greek had become the shared language around the eastern mediterranean and into asia minor.[ ][ ] the "linguistic frontier" dividing the latin west and the greek east passed through the balkan peninsula.[ ] a th-century papyrus showing a parallel latin-greek text of a speech by cicero[ ] romans who received an elite education studied greek as a literary language, and most men of the governing classes could speak greek.[ ] the julio-claudian emperors encouraged high standards of correct latin (latinitas), a linguistic movement identified in modern terms as classical latin, and favoured latin for conducting official business.[ ] claudius tried to limit the use of greek, and on occasion revoked the citizenship of those who lacked latin, but even in the senate he drew on his own bilingualism in communicating with greek-speaking ambassadors.[ ] suetonius quotes him as referring to "our two languages".[ ] in the eastern empire, laws and official documents were regularly translated into greek from latin.[ ] the everyday interpenetration of the two languages is indicated by bilingual inscriptions, which sometimes even switch back and forth between greek and latin.[ ][ ] after all freeborn inhabitants of the empire were universally enfranchised in ad, a great number of roman citizens would have lacked latin, though latin remained a marker of "romanness."[ ] among other reforms, the emperor diocletian (reigned – ) sought to renew the authority of latin, and the greek expression hē kratousa dialektos attests to the continuing status of latin as "the language of power."[ ] in the early th century, the emperor justinian engaged in a quixotic effort to reassert the status of latin as the language of law, even though in his time latin no longer held any currency as a living language in the east.[ ] local languages and linguistic legacy bilingual latin-punic inscription at the theatre in leptis magna, roman africa (present-day libya) references to interpreters indicate the continuing use of local languages other than greek and latin, particularly in egypt, where coptic predominated, and in military settings along the rhine and danube. roman jurists also show a concern for local languages such as punic, gaulish, and aramaic in assuring the correct understanding and application of laws and oaths.[ ] in the province of africa, libyco-berber and punic were used in inscriptions and for legends on coins during the time of tiberius ( st century ad). libyco-berber and punic inscriptions appear on public buildings into the nd century, some bilingual with latin.[ ] in syria, palmyrene soldiers even used their dialect of aramaic for inscriptions, in a striking exception to the rule that latin was the language of the military.[ ] the babatha archive is a suggestive example of multilingualism in the empire. these papyri, named for a jewish woman in the province of arabia and dating from to ad, mostly employ aramaic, the local language, written in greek characters with semitic and latin influences; a petition to the roman governor, however, was written in greek.[ ] the dominance of latin among the literate elite may obscure the continuity of spoken languages, since all cultures within the roman empire were predominantly oral.[ ] in the west, latin, referred to in its spoken form as vulgar latin, gradually replaced celtic and italic languages that were related to it by a shared indo-european origin. commonalities in syntax and vocabulary facilitated the adoption of latin.[ ][ ][ ] after the decentralization of political power in late antiquity, latin developed locally into branches that became the romance languages, such as spanish, portuguese, french, italian, catalan and romanian, and a large number of minor languages and dialects. today, more than million people are native speakers worldwide.[ ] as an international language of learning and literature, latin itself continued as an active medium of expression for diplomacy and for intellectual developments identified with renaissance humanism up to the th century, and for law and the roman catholic church to the present.[ ][ ] "gate of domitian and trajan" at the northern entrance of the temple of hathor, and roman emperor domitian as pharaoh of egypt on the same gate, together with egyptian hieroglyphs. dendera, egypt.[ ][ ] although greek continued as the language of the byzantine empire, linguistic distribution in the east was more complex. a greek-speaking majority lived in the greek peninsula and islands, western anatolia, major cities, and some coastal areas.[ ] like greek and latin, the thracian language was of indo-european origin, as were several now-extinct languages in anatolia attested by imperial-era inscriptions.[ ][ ] albanian is often seen as the descendant of illyrian, although this hypothesis has been challenged by some linguists, who maintain that it derives from dacian or thracian.[ ] (illyrian, dacian, and thracian, however, may have formed a subgroup or a sprachbund; see thraco-illyrian.) various afroasiatic languages—primarily coptic in egypt, and aramaic in syria and mesopotamia—were never replaced by greek. the international use of greek, however, was one factor enabling the spread of christianity, as indicated for example by the use of greek for the epistles of paul.[ ] several references to gaulish in late antiquity may indicate that it continued to be spoken. in the second century ad there was explicit recognition of its usage in some legal manners,[ ] soothsaying[ ] and pharmacology.[ ] sulpicius severus, writing in the th century ad in gallia aquitania, noted bilingualism with gaulish as the first language.[ ] the survival of the galatian dialect in anatolia akin to that spoken by the treveri near trier was attested by jerome ( – ), who had first-hand knowledge.[ ] much of historical linguistics scholarship postulates that gaulish was indeed still spoken as late as the mid to late th century in france.[ ] despite considerable romanization of the local material culture, the gaulish language is held to have survived and had coexisted with spoken latin during the centuries of roman rule of gaul.[ ] the last reference to galatian was made by cyril of scythopolis, claiming that an evil spirit had possessed a monk and rendered him able to speak only in galatian,[ ] while the last reference to gaulish in france was made by gregory of tours between and , noting that a shrine in auvergne which "is called vasso galatae in the gallic tongue" was destroyed and burnt to the ground.[ ][ ] after the long period of bilingualism, the emergent gallo-romance languages including french were shaped by gaulish in a number of ways; in the case of french these include loanwords and calques (including oui,[ ] the word for "yes"),[ ][ ] sound changes,[ ][ ] and influences in conjugation and word order.[ ][ ][ ] society further information: ancient roman society a multigenerational banquet depicted on a wall painting from pompeii ( st century ad) spread of seuso at lacus pelso (lake balaton) the roman empire was remarkably multicultural, with "a rather astonishing cohesive capacity" to create a sense of shared identity while encompassing diverse peoples within its political system over a long span of time.[ ] the roman attention to creating public monuments and communal spaces open to all—such as forums, amphitheatres, racetracks and baths—helped foster a sense of "romanness".[ ] roman society had multiple, overlapping social hierarchies that modern concepts of "class" in english may not represent accurately.[ ] the two decades of civil war from which augustus rose to sole power left traditional society in rome in a state of confusion and upheaval,[ ] but did not effect an immediate redistribution of wealth and social power. from the perspective of the lower classes, a peak was merely added to the social pyramid.[ ] personal relationships—patronage, friendship (amicitia), family, marriage—continued to influence the workings of politics and government, as they had in the republic.[ ] by the time of nero, however, it was not unusual to find a former slave who was richer than a freeborn citizen, or an equestrian who exercised greater power than a senator.[ ] the blurring or diffusion of the republic's more rigid hierarchies led to increased social mobility under the empire,[ ][ ] both upward and downward, to an extent that exceeded that of all other well-documented ancient societies.[ ] women, freedmen, and slaves had opportunities to profit and exercise influence in ways previously less available to them.[ ] social life in the empire, particularly for those whose personal resources were limited, was further fostered by a proliferation of voluntary associations and confraternities (collegia and sodalitates) formed for various purposes: professional and trade guilds, veterans' groups, religious sodalities, drinking and dining clubs,[ ] performing arts troupes,[ ] and burial societies.[ ] legal status main articles: status in roman legal system and roman citizenship citizen of roman egypt (fayum mummy portrait) according to the jurist gaius, the essential distinction in the roman "law of persons" was that all human beings were either free (liberi) or slaves (servi).[ ][ ] the legal status of free persons might be further defined by their citizenship. most citizens held limited rights (such as the ius latinum, "latin right"), but were entitled to legal protections and privileges not enjoyed by those who lacked citizenship. free people not considered citizens, but living within the roman world, held status as peregrini, non-romans.[ ] in ad, by means of the edict known as the constitutio antoniniana, the emperor caracalla extended citizenship to all freeborn inhabitants of the empire. this legal egalitarianism would have required a far-reaching revision of existing laws that had distinguished between citizens and non-citizens.[ ] women in roman law main article: women in ancient rome freeborn roman women were considered citizens throughout the republic and empire, but did not vote, hold political office, or serve in the military. a mother's citizen status determined that of her children, as indicated by the phrase ex duobus civibus romanis natos ("children born of two roman citizens").[n ] a roman woman kept her own family name (nomen) for life. children most often took the father's name, but in the imperial period sometimes made their mother's name part of theirs, or even used it instead.[ ] left image: roman fresco of a blond maiden reading a text, pompeian fourth style ( – ad), pompeii, italy right image: bronze statuette ( st century ad) of a young woman reading, based on a hellenistic original the archaic form of manus marriage in which the woman had been subject to her husband's authority was largely abandoned by the imperial era, and a married woman retained ownership of any property she brought into the marriage. technically she remained under her father's legal authority, even though she moved into her husband's home, but when her father died she became legally emancipated.[ ] this arrangement was one of the factors in the degree of independence roman women enjoyed relative to those of many other ancient cultures and up to the modern period:[ ][ ] although she had to answer to her father in legal matters, she was free of his direct scrutiny in her daily life,[ ] and her husband had no legal power over her.[ ] although it was a point of pride to be a "one-man woman" (univira) who had married only once, there was little stigma attached to divorce, nor to speedy remarriage after the loss of a husband through death or divorce.[ ] girls had equal inheritance rights with boys if their father died without leaving a will.[ ][ ][ ] a roman mother's right to own property and to dispose of it as she saw fit, including setting the terms of her own will, gave her enormous influence over her sons even when they were adults.[ ] as part of the augustan programme to restore traditional morality and social order, moral legislation attempted to regulate the conduct of men and women as a means of promoting "family values". adultery, which had been a private family matter under the republic, was criminalized,[ ] and defined broadly as an illicit sex act (stuprum) that occurred between a male citizen and a married woman, or between a married woman and any man other than her husband.[n ] childbearing was encouraged by the state: a woman who had given birth to three children was granted symbolic honours and greater legal freedom (the ius trium liberorum). because of their legal status as citizens and the degree to which they could become emancipated, women could own property, enter contracts, and engage in business,[ ][ ] including shipping, manufacturing, and lending money. inscriptions throughout the empire honour women as benefactors in funding public works, an indication they could acquire and dispose of considerable fortunes; for instance, the arch of the sergii was funded by salvia postuma, a female member of the family honoured, and the largest building in the forum at pompeii was funded by eumachia, a priestess of venus.[ ] slaves and the law main article: slavery in ancient rome at the time of augustus, as many as % of the people in italy were slaves,[ ] making rome one of five historical "slave societies" in which slaves constituted at least a fifth of the population and played a major role in the economy.[ ] slavery was a complex institution that supported traditional roman social structures as well as contributing economic utility.[ ] in urban settings, slaves might be professionals such as teachers, physicians, chefs, and accountants, in addition to the majority of slaves who provided trained or unskilled labour in households or workplaces. agriculture and industry, such as milling and mining, relied on the exploitation of slaves. outside italy, slaves made up on average an estimated to % of the population, sparse in roman egypt but more concentrated in some greek areas. expanding roman ownership of arable land and industries would have affected preexisting practices of slavery in the provinces.[ ][ ] although the institution of slavery has often been regarded as waning in the rd and th centuries, it remained an integral part of roman society until the th century. slavery ceased gradually in the th and th centuries along with the decline of urban centres in the west and the disintegration of the complex imperial economy that had created the demand for it.[ ] slave holding writing tablets for his master (relief from a th-century sarcophagus) laws pertaining to slavery were "extremely intricate".[ ] under roman law, slaves were considered property and had no legal personhood. they could be subjected to forms of corporal punishment not normally exercised on citizens, sexual exploitation, torture, and summary execution. a slave could not as a matter of law be raped since rape could be committed only against people who were free; a slave's rapist had to be prosecuted by the owner for property damage under the aquilian law.[ ][ ] slaves had no right to the form of legal marriage called conubium, but their unions were sometimes recognized, and if both were freed they could marry.[ ] following the servile wars of the republic, legislation under augustus and his successors shows a driving concern for controlling the threat of rebellions through limiting the size of work groups, and for hunting down fugitive slaves.[ ] technically, a slave could not own property,[ ] but a slave who conducted business might be given access to an individual account or fund (peculium) that he could use as if it were his own. the terms of this account varied depending on the degree of trust and co-operation between owner and slave: a slave with an aptitude for business could be given considerable leeway to generate profit and might be allowed to bequeath the peculium he managed to other slaves of his household.[ ] within a household or workplace, a hierarchy of slaves might exist, with one slave in effect acting as the master of other slaves.[ ] over time slaves gained increased legal protection, including the right to file complaints against their masters. a bill of sale might contain a clause stipulating that the slave could not be employed for prostitution, as prostitutes in ancient rome were often slaves.[ ] the burgeoning trade in eunuch slaves in the late st century ad prompted legislation that prohibited the castration of a slave against his will "for lust or gain."[ ][ ] roman slavery was not based on race.[ ][ ] slaves were drawn from all over europe and the mediterranean, including gaul, hispania, germany, britannia, the balkans, greece... generally, slaves in italy were indigenous italians,[ ] with a minority of foreigners (including both slaves and freedmen) born outside of italy estimated at % of the total in the capital at its peak, where their number was largest. those from outside of europe were predominantly of greek descent, while the jewish ones never fully assimilated into roman society, remaining an identifiable minority. these slaves (especially the foreigners) had higher mortality rates and lower birth rates than natives, and were sometimes even subjected to mass expulsions.[ ] the average recorded age at death for the slaves of the city of rome was extraordinarily low: seventeen and a half years ( . for males; . for females).[ ] during the period of republican expansionism when slavery had become pervasive, war captives were a main source of slaves. the range of ethnicities among slaves to some extent reflected that of the armies rome defeated in war, and the conquest of greece brought a number of highly skilled and educated slaves into rome. slaves were also traded in markets and sometimes sold by pirates. infant abandonment and self-enslavement among the poor were other sources.[ ] vernae, by contrast, were "homegrown" slaves born to female slaves within the urban household or on a country estate or farm. although they had no special legal status, an owner who mistreated or failed to care for his vernae faced social disapproval, as they were considered part of his familia, the family household, and in some cases might actually be the children of free males in the family.[ ][ ] talented slaves with a knack for business might accumulate a large enough peculium to justify their freedom, or be manumitted for services rendered. manumission had become frequent enough that in bc a law (lex fufia caninia) limited the number of slaves an owner was allowed to free in his will.[ ] freedmen cinerary urn for the freedman tiberius claudius chryseros and two women, probably his wife and daughter rome differed from greek city-states in allowing freed slaves to become citizens. after manumission, a slave who had belonged to a roman citizen enjoyed not only passive freedom from ownership, but active political freedom (libertas), including the right to vote.[ ] a slave who had acquired libertas was a libertus ("freed person," feminine liberta) in relation to his former master, who then became his patron (patronus): the two parties continued to have customary and legal obligations to each other. as a social class generally, freed slaves were libertini, though later writers used the terms libertus and libertinus interchangeably.[ ][ ] a libertinus was not entitled to hold public office or the highest state priesthoods, but he could play a priestly role in the cult of the emperor. he could not marry a woman from a family of senatorial rank, nor achieve legitimate senatorial rank himself, but during the early empire, freedmen held key positions in the government bureaucracy, so much so that hadrian limited their participation by law.[ ] any future children of a freedman would be born free, with full rights of citizenship. the rise of successful freedmen—through either political influence in imperial service or wealth—is a characteristic of early imperial society. the prosperity of a high-achieving group of freedmen is attested by inscriptions throughout the empire, and by their ownership of some of the most lavish houses at pompeii, such as the house of the vettii. the excesses of nouveau riche freedmen were satirized in the character of trimalchio in the satyricon by petronius, who wrote in the time of nero. such individuals, while exceptional, are indicative of the upward social mobility possible in the empire. census rank see also: senate of the roman empire, equestrian order, and decurion (administrative) the latin word ordo (plural ordines) refers to a social distinction that is translated variously into english as "class, order, rank," none of which is exact. one purpose of the roman census was to determine the ordo to which an individual belonged. the two highest ordines in rome were the senatorial and equestrian. outside rome, the decurions, also known as curiales (greek bouleutai), were the top governing ordo of an individual city. fragment of a sarcophagus depicting gordian iii and senators ( rd century) "senator" was not itself an elected office in ancient rome; an individual gained admission to the senate after he had been elected to and served at least one term as an executive magistrate. a senator also had to meet a minimum property requirement of million sestertii, as determined by the census.[ ][ ] nero made large gifts of money to a number of senators from old families who had become too impoverished to qualify. not all men who qualified for the ordo senatorius chose to take a senate seat, which required legal domicile at rome. emperors often filled vacancies in the -member body by appointment.[ ][ ] a senator's son belonged to the ordo senatorius, but he had to qualify on his own merits for admission to the senate itself. a senator could be removed for violating moral standards: he was prohibited, for instance, from marrying a freedwoman or fighting in the arena.[ ] in the time of nero, senators were still primarily from rome and other parts of italy, with some from the iberian peninsula and southern france; men from the greek-speaking provinces of the east began to be added under vespasian.[ ] the first senator from the most eastern province, cappadocia, was admitted under marcus aurelius.[ ] by the time of the severan dynasty ( – ), italians made up less than half the senate.[ ] during the rd century, domicile at rome became impractical, and inscriptions attest to senators who were active in politics and munificence in their homeland (patria).[ ] senators had an aura of prestige and were the traditional governing class who rose through the cursus honorum, the political career track, but equestrians of the empire often possessed greater wealth and political power. membership in the equestrian order was based on property; in rome's early days, equites or knights had been distinguished by their ability to serve as mounted warriors (the "public horse"), but cavalry service was a separate function in the empire.[n ] a census valuation of , sesterces and three generations of free birth qualified a man as an equestrian.[ ] the census of bc uncovered large numbers of men who qualified, and in ad, a thousand equestrians were registered at cadiz and padua alone.[n ][ ] equestrians rose through a military career track (tres militiae) to become highly placed prefects and procurators within the imperial administration.[ ][ ] the rise of provincial men to the senatorial and equestrian orders is an aspect of social mobility in the first three centuries of the empire. roman aristocracy was based on competition, and unlike later european nobility, a roman family could not maintain its position merely through hereditary succession or having title to lands.[ ][ ] admission to the higher ordines brought distinction and privileges, but also a number of responsibilities. in antiquity, a city depended on its leading citizens to fund public works, events, and services (munera), rather than on tax revenues, which primarily supported the military. maintaining one's rank required massive personal expenditures.[ ] decurions were so vital for the functioning of cities that in the later empire, as the ranks of the town councils became depleted, those who had risen to the senate were encouraged by the central government to give up their seats and return to their hometowns, in an effort to sustain civic life.[ ] in the later empire, the dignitas ("worth, esteem") that attended on senatorial or equestrian rank was refined further with titles such as vir illustris, "illustrious man".[ ] the appellation clarissimus (greek lamprotatos) was used to designate the dignitas of certain senators and their immediate family, including women.[ ] "grades" of equestrian status proliferated. those in imperial service were ranked by pay grade (sexagenarius, , sesterces per annum; centenarius, , ; ducenarius, , ). the title eminentissimus, "most eminent" (greek exochôtatos) was reserved for equestrians who had been praetorian prefects. the higher equestrian officials in general were perfectissimi, "most distinguished" (greek diasêmotatoi), the lower merely egregii, "outstanding" (greek kratistos).[ ] unequal justice condemned man attacked by a leopard in the arena ( rd-century mosaic from tunisia) as the republican principle of citizens' equality under the law faded, the symbolic and social privileges of the upper classes led to an informal division of roman society into those who had acquired greater honours (honestiores) and those who were humbler folk (humiliores). in general, honestiores were the members of the three higher "orders," along with certain military officers.[ ][ ] the granting of universal citizenship in seems to have increased the competitive urge among the upper classes to have their superiority over other citizens affirmed, particularly within the justice system.[ ][ ][ ] sentencing depended on the judgment of the presiding official as to the relative "worth" (dignitas) of the defendant: an honestior could pay a fine when convicted of a crime for which an humilior might receive a scourging.[ ] execution, which had been an infrequent legal penalty for free men under the republic even in a capital case,[ ][ ] could be quick and relatively painless for the imperial citizen considered "more honourable", while those deemed inferior might suffer the kinds of torture and prolonged death previously reserved for slaves, such as crucifixion and condemnation to the beasts as a spectacle in the arena.[ ] in the early empire, those who converted to christianity could lose their standing as honestiores, especially if they declined to fulfill the religious aspects of their civic responsibilities, and thus became subject to punishments that created the conditions of martyrdom.[ ][ ] government and military main article: constitution of the roman empire reconstructed statue of augustus as jove, holding scepter and orb (first half of st century ad).[ ] the imperial cult of ancient rome identified emperors and some members of their families with the divinely sanctioned authority (auctoritas) of the roman state. the rite of apotheosis (also called consecratio) signified the deceased emperor's deification and acknowledged his role as father of the people similar to the concept of a pater familias' soul or manes being honoured by his sons.[ ] forum of gerasa (jerash in present-day jordan), with columns marking a covered walkway (stoa) for vendor stalls, and a semicircular space for public speaking the three major elements of the imperial roman state were the central government, the military, and provincial government.[ ] the military established control of a territory through war, but after a city or people was brought under treaty, the military mission turned to policing: protecting roman citizens (after ad, all freeborn inhabitants of the empire), the agricultural fields that fed them, and religious sites.[ ] without modern instruments of either mass communication or mass destruction, the romans lacked sufficient manpower or resources to impose their rule through force alone. cooperation with local power elites was necessary to maintain order, collect information, and extract revenue. the romans often exploited internal political divisions by supporting one faction over another: in the view of plutarch, "it was discord between factions within cities that led to the loss of self-governance".[ ][ ][ ] communities with demonstrated loyalty to rome retained their own laws, could collect their own taxes locally, and in exceptional cases were exempt from roman taxation. legal privileges and relative independence were an incentive to remain in good standing with rome.[ ] roman government was thus limited, but efficient in its use of the resources available to it.[ ] central government see also: roman emperor and senate of the roman empire the dominance of the emperor was based on the consolidation of certain powers from several republican offices, including the inviolability of the tribunes of the people and the authority of the censors to manipulate the hierarchy of roman society.[ ] the emperor also made himself the central religious authority as pontifex maximus, and centralized the right to declare war, ratify treaties, and negotiate with foreign leaders.[ ] while these functions were clearly defined during the principate, the emperor's powers over time became less constitutional and more monarchical, culminating in the dominate.[ ] antoninus pius (reigned – ), wearing a toga (hermitage museum) the emperor was the ultimate authority in policy- and decision-making, but in the early principate he was expected to be accessible to individuals from all walks of life, and to deal personally with official business and petitions. a bureaucracy formed around him only gradually.[ ] the julio-claudian emperors relied on an informal body of advisors that included not only senators and equestrians, but trusted slaves and freedmen.[ ] after nero, the unofficial influence of the latter was regarded with suspicion, and the emperor's council (consilium) became subject to official appointment for the sake of greater transparency.[ ] though the senate took a lead in policy discussions until the end of the antonine dynasty, equestrians played an increasingly important role in the consilium.[ ] the women of the emperor's family often intervened directly in his decisions. plotina exercised influence on both her husband trajan and his successor hadrian. her influence was advertised by having her letters on official matters published, as a sign that the emperor was reasonable in his exercise of authority and listened to his people.[ ] access to the emperor by others might be gained at the daily reception (salutatio), a development of the traditional homage a client paid to his patron; public banquets hosted at the palace; and religious ceremonies. the common people who lacked this access could manifest their general approval or displeasure as a group at the games held in large venues.[ ] by the th century, as urban centres decayed, the christian emperors became remote figureheads who issued general rulings, no longer responding to individual petitions.[ ] although the senate could do little short of assassination and open rebellion to contravene the will of the emperor, it survived the augustan restoration and the turbulent year of four emperors to retain its symbolic political centrality during the principate.[ ] the senate legitimated the emperor's rule, and the emperor needed the experience of senators as legates (legati) to serve as generals, diplomats, and administrators.[ ][ ] a successful career required competence as an administrator and remaining in favour with the emperor, or over time perhaps multiple emperors.[ ] the practical source of an emperor's power and authority was the military. the legionaries were paid by the imperial treasury, and swore an annual military oath of loyalty to the emperor (sacramentum).[ ] the death of an emperor led to a crucial period of uncertainty and crisis. most emperors indicated their choice of successor, usually a close family member or adopted heir. the new emperor had to seek a swift acknowledgement of his status and authority to stabilize the political landscape. no emperor could hope to survive, much less to reign, without the allegiance and loyalty of the praetorian guard and of the legions. to secure their loyalty, several emperors paid the donativum, a monetary reward. in theory, the senate was entitled to choose the new emperor, but did so mindful of acclamation by the army or praetorians.[ ] military the roman empire under hadrian (ruled – ) showing the location of the roman legions deployed in ad main articles: imperial roman army and structural history of the roman military after the punic wars, the imperial roman army was composed of professional soldiers who volunteered for years of active duty and five as reserves. the transition to a professional military had begun during the late republic, and was one of the many profound shifts away from republicanism, under which an army of conscripts had exercised their responsibilities as citizens in defending the homeland in a campaign against a specific threat. for imperial rome, the military was a full-time career in itself.[ ] the romans expanded their war machine by "organizing the communities that they conquered in italy into a system that generated huge reservoirs of manpower for their army... their main demand of all defeated enemies was they provide men for the roman army every year."[ ] the primary mission of the roman military of the early empire was to preserve the pax romana.[ ] the three major divisions of the military were: 	the garrison at rome, which includes both the praetorians and the vigiles who functioned as police and firefighters; 	the provincial army, comprising the roman legions and the auxiliaries provided by the provinces (auxilia); 	the navy. the pervasiveness of military garrisons throughout the empire was a major influence in the process of cultural exchange and assimilation known as "romanization," particularly in regard to politics, the economy, and religion.[ ] knowledge of the roman military comes from a wide range of sources: greek and roman literary texts; coins with military themes; papyri preserving military documents; monuments such as trajan's column and triumphal arches, which feature artistic depictions of both fighting men and military machines; the archeology of military burials, battle sites, and camps; and inscriptions, including military diplomas, epitaphs, and dedications.[ ] through his military reforms, which included consolidating or disbanding units of questionable loyalty, augustus changed and regularized the legion, down to the hobnail pattern on the soles of army boots. a legion was organized into ten cohorts, each of which comprised six centuries, with a century further made up of ten squads (contubernia); the exact size of the imperial legion, which is most likely to have been determined by logistics, has been estimated to range from , to , .[ ] relief panel from trajan's column showing the building of a fort and the reception of a dacian embassy in ad, germanic tribes wiped out three full legions in the battle of the teutoburg forest. this disastrous event reduced the number of the legions to . the total of the legions would later be increased again and for the next years always be a little above or below .[ ] the army had about , soldiers in the st century, and under , in the nd, "significantly smaller" than the collective armed forces of the territories it conquered. no more than % of adult males living in the empire served in the imperial army.[ ] augustus also created the praetorian guard: nine cohorts, ostensibly to maintain the public peace, which were garrisoned in italy. better paid than the legionaries, the praetorians served only sixteen years.[ ] the auxilia were recruited from among the non-citizens. organized in smaller units of roughly cohort strength, they were paid less than the legionaries, and after years of service were rewarded with roman citizenship, also extended to their sons. according to tacitus[ ] there were roughly as many auxiliaries as there were legionaries. the auxilia thus amounted to around , men, implying approximately auxiliary regiments.[ ] the roman cavalry of the earliest empire were primarily from celtic, hispanic or germanic areas. several aspects of training and equipment, such as the four-horned saddle, derived from the celts, as noted by arrian and indicated by archeology.[ ][ ] the roman navy (latin: classis, "fleet") not only aided in the supply and transport of the legions, but also helped in the protection of the frontiers along the rivers rhine and danube. another of its duties was the protection of the crucial maritime trade routes against the threat of pirates. it patrolled the whole of the mediterranean, parts of the north atlantic coasts, and the black sea. nevertheless, the army was considered the senior and more prestigious branch.[ ] provincial government the pula arena in croatia is one of the largest and most intact of the remaining roman amphitheatres. an annexed territory became a province in a three-step process: making a register of cities, taking a census of the population, and surveying the land.[ ] further government recordkeeping included births and deaths, real estate transactions, taxes, and juridical proceedings.[ ] in the st and nd centuries, the central government sent out around officials each year to govern outside italy.[ ] among these officials were the "roman governors", as they are called in english: either magistrates elected at rome who in the name of the roman people governed senatorial provinces; or governors, usually of equestrian rank, who held their imperium on behalf of the emperor in provinces excluded from senatorial control, most notably roman egypt.[ ] a governor had to make himself accessible to the people he governed, but he could delegate various duties.[ ] his staff, however, was minimal: his official attendants (apparitores), including lictors, heralds, messengers, scribes, and bodyguards; legates, both civil and military, usually of equestrian rank; and friends, ranging in age and experience, who accompanied him unofficially.[ ] other officials were appointed as supervisors of government finances.[ ] separating fiscal responsibility from justice and administration was a reform of the imperial era. under the republic, provincial governors and tax farmers could exploit local populations for personal gain more freely.[ ] equestrian procurators, whose authority was originally "extra-judicial and extra-constitutional," managed both state-owned property and the vast personal property of the emperor (res privata).[ ] because roman government officials were few in number, a provincial who needed help with a legal dispute or criminal case might seek out any roman perceived to have some official capacity, such as a procurator or a military officer, including centurions down to the lowly stationarii or military police.[ ][ ] roman law main article: roman law roman portraiture frescos from pompeii, st century ad, depicting two different men wearing laurel wreaths, one holding the rotulus (blondish figure, left), the other a volumen (brunet figure, right), both made of papyrus roman courts held original jurisdiction over cases involving roman citizens throughout the empire, but there were too few judicial functionaries to impose roman law uniformly in the provinces. most parts of the eastern empire already had well-established law codes and juridical procedures.[ ] in general, it was roman policy to respect the mos regionis ("regional tradition" or "law of the land") and to regard local laws as a source of legal precedent and social stability.[ ][ ] the compatibility of roman and local law was thought to reflect an underlying ius gentium, the "law of nations" or international law regarded as common and customary among all human communities.[ ] if the particulars of provincial law conflicted with roman law or custom, roman courts heard appeals, and the emperor held final authority to render a decision.[ ][ ][ ] in the west, law had been administered on a highly localized or tribal basis, and private property rights may have been a novelty of the roman era, particularly among celtic peoples. roman law facilitated the acquisition of wealth by a pro-roman elite who found their new privileges as citizens to be advantageous.[ ] the extension of universal citizenship to all free inhabitants of the empire in required the uniform application of roman law, replacing the local law codes that had applied to non-citizens. diocletian's efforts to stabilize the empire after the crisis of the third century included two major compilations of law in four years, the codex gregorianus and the codex hermogenianus, to guide provincial administrators in setting consistent legal standards.[ ] the pervasive exercise of roman law throughout western europe led to its enormous influence on the western legal tradition, reflected by the continued use of latin legal terminology in modern law. taxation taxation under the empire amounted to about % of the empire's gross product.[ ] the typical tax rate paid by individuals ranged from to %.[ ] the tax code was "bewildering" in its complicated system of direct and indirect taxes, some paid in cash and some in kind. taxes might be specific to a province, or kinds of properties such as fisheries or salt evaporation ponds; they might be in effect for a limited time.[ ] tax collection was justified by the need to maintain the military,[ ][ ] and taxpayers sometimes got a refund if the army captured a surplus of booty.[ ] in-kind taxes were accepted from less-monetized areas, particularly those who could supply grain or goods to army camps.[ ] personification of the river nile and his children, from the temple of serapis and isis in rome ( st century ad) the primary source of direct tax revenue was individuals, who paid a poll tax and a tax on their land, construed as a tax on its produce or productive capacity.[ ] supplemental forms could be filed by those eligible for certain exemptions; for example, egyptian farmers could register fields as fallow and tax-exempt depending on flood patterns of the nile.[ ] tax obligations were determined by the census, which required each head of household to appear before the presiding official and provide a head count of his household, as well as an accounting of property he owned that was suitable for agriculture or habitation.[ ] a major source of indirect-tax revenue was the portoria, customs and tolls on imports and exports, including among provinces.[ ] special taxes were levied on the slave trade. towards the end of his reign, augustus instituted a % tax on the sale of slaves,[ ] which nero shifted from the purchaser to the dealers, who responded by raising their prices.[ ] an owner who manumitted a slave paid a "freedom tax", calculated at % of value.[ ] an inheritance tax of % was assessed when roman citizens above a certain net worth left property to anyone but members of their immediate family. revenues from the estate tax and from a % sales tax on auctions went towards the veterans' pension fund (aerarium militare).[ ] low taxes helped the roman aristocracy increase their wealth, which equalled or exceeded the revenues of the central government. an emperor sometimes replenished his treasury by confiscating the estates of the "super-rich", but in the later period, the resistance of the wealthy to paying taxes was one of the factors contributing to the collapse of the empire.[ ] economy main article: roman economy a green roman glass cup unearthed from an eastern han dynasty ( – ad) tomb in guangxi, southern china; the earliest roman glassware found in china was discovered in a western han tomb in guangzhou, dated to the early st century bc, and ostensibly came via the maritime route through the south china sea[ ] moses finley was the chief proponent of the primitivist view that the roman economy was "underdeveloped and underachieving," characterized by subsistence agriculture; urban centres that consumed more than they produced in terms of trade and industry; low-status artisans; slowly developing technology; and a "lack of economic rationality."[ ] current views are more complex. territorial conquests permitted a large-scale reorganization of land use that resulted in agricultural surplus and specialization, particularly in north africa.[ ] some cities were known for particular industries or commercial activities, and the scale of building in urban areas indicates a significant construction industry.[ ] papyri preserve complex accounting methods that suggest elements of economic rationalism,[ ] and the empire was highly monetized.[ ] although the means of communication and transport were limited in antiquity, transportation in the st and nd centuries expanded greatly, and trade routes connected regional economies.[ ] the supply contracts for the army, which pervaded every part of the empire, drew on local suppliers near the base (castrum), throughout the province, and across provincial borders.[ ] the empire is perhaps best thought of as a network of regional economies, based on a form of "political capitalism" in which the state monitored and regulated commerce to assure its own revenues.[ ] economic growth, though not comparable to modern economies, was greater than that of most other societies prior to industrialization.[ ] socially, economic dynamism opened up one of the avenues of social mobility in the roman empire. social advancement was thus not dependent solely on birth, patronage, good luck, or even extraordinary ability. although aristocratic values permeated traditional elite society, a strong tendency towards plutocracy is indicated by the wealth requirements for census rank. prestige could be obtained through investing one's wealth in ways that advertised it appropriately: grand country estates or townhouses, durable luxury items such as jewels and silverware, public entertainments, funerary monuments for family members or coworkers, and religious dedications such as altars. guilds (collegia) and corporations (corpora) provided support for individuals to succeed through networking, sharing sound business practices, and a willingness to work.[ ] currency and banking see also: roman currency and roman finance the early empire was monetized to a near-universal extent, in the sense of using money as a way to express prices and debts.[ ] the sestertius (plural sestertii, english "sesterces", symbolized as hs) was the basic unit of reckoning value into the th century,[ ] though the silver denarius, worth four sesterces, was used also for accounting beginning in the severan dynasty.[ ] the smallest coin commonly circulated was the bronze as (plural asses), one-fourth sestertius.[ ] bullion and ingots seem not to have counted as pecunia, "money," and were used only on the frontiers for transacting business or buying property. romans in the st and nd centuries counted coins, rather than weighing them—an indication that the coin was valued on its face, not for its metal content. this tendency towards fiat money led eventually to the debasement of roman coinage, with consequences in the later empire.[ ] the standardization of money throughout the empire promoted trade and market integration.[ ] the high amount of metal coinage in circulation increased the money supply for trading or saving.[ ] currency denominations[ ] 	 bc 	 ad 	 - ad 	denarius = asses 	aureus = denarii 	aurei = per pound of gold 	sesterce = asses 	denarii = asses 	silver coins (contemporary name unknown) = to a pound of silver 	sestertius = . asses 	sesterces = asses 	bronze coins (contemporary name unknown) = value unknown 	asses = 	asses = 	 rome had no central bank, and regulation of the banking system was minimal. banks of classical antiquity typically kept less in reserves than the full total of customers' deposits. a typical bank had fairly limited capital, and often only one principal, though a bank might have as many as six to fifteen principals. seneca assumes that anyone involved in commerce needs access to credit.[ ] solidus issued under constantine ii, and on the reverse victoria, one of the last deities to appear on roman coins, gradually transforming into an angel under christian rule[ ] a professional deposit banker (argentarius, coactor argentarius, or later nummularius) received and held deposits for a fixed or indefinite term, and lent money to third parties. the senatorial elite were involved heavily in private lending, both as creditors and borrowers, making loans from their personal fortunes on the basis of social connections.[ ][ ] the holder of a debt could use it as a means of payment by transferring it to another party, without cash changing hands. although it has sometimes been thought that ancient rome lacked "paper" or documentary transactions, the system of banks throughout the empire also permitted the exchange of very large sums without the physical transfer of coins, in part because of the risks of moving large amounts of cash, particularly by sea. only one serious credit shortage is known to have occurred in the early empire, a credit crisis in ad that put a number of senators at risk; the central government rescued the market through a loan of million hs made by the emperor tiberius to the banks (mensae).[ ] generally, available capital exceeded the amount needed by borrowers.[ ] the central government itself did not borrow money, and without public debt had to fund deficits from cash reserves.[ ] emperors of the antonine and severan dynasties overall debased the currency, particularly the denarius, under the pressures of meeting military payrolls.[ ] sudden inflation during the reign of commodus damaged the credit market.[ ] in the mid- s, the supply of specie contracted sharply.[ ] conditions during the crisis of the third century—such as reductions in long-distance trade, disruption of mining operations, and the physical transfer of gold coinage outside the empire by invading enemies—greatly diminished the money supply and the banking sector by the year .[ ][ ] although roman coinage had long been fiat money or fiduciary currency, general economic anxieties came to a head under aurelian, and bankers lost confidence in coins legitimately issued by the central government. despite diocletian's introduction of the gold solidus and monetary reforms, the credit market of the empire never recovered its former robustness.[ ] mining and metallurgy main article: roman metallurgy see also: mining in roman britain landscape resulting from the ruina montium mining technique at las médulas, spain, one of the most important gold mines in the roman empire the main mining regions of the empire were the iberian peninsula (gold, silver, copper, tin, lead); gaul (gold, silver, iron); britain (mainly iron, lead, tin), the danubian provinces (gold, iron); macedonia and thrace (gold, silver); and asia minor (gold, silver, iron, tin). intensive large-scale mining—of alluvial deposits, and by means of open-cast mining and underground mining—took place from the reign of augustus up to the early rd century ad, when the instability of the empire disrupted production. the gold mines of dacia, for instance, were no longer available for roman exploitation after the province was surrendered in . mining seems to have resumed to some extent during the th century.[ ] hydraulic mining, which pliny referred to as ruina montium ("ruin of the mountains"), allowed base and precious metals to be extracted on a proto-industrial scale.[ ] the total annual iron output is estimated at ,  tonnes.[ ][ ][ ] copper was produced at an annual rate of ,  t,[ ][ ] and lead at ,  t,[ ][ ][ ] both production levels unmatched until the industrial revolution;[ ][ ][ ][ ] hispania alone had a % share in world lead production.[ ] the high lead output was a by-product of extensive silver mining which reached  t per annum. at its peak around the mid- nd century ad, the roman silver stock is estimated at ,  t, five to ten times larger than the combined silver mass of medieval europe and the caliphate around  ad.[ ][ ] as an indication of the scale of roman metal production, lead pollution in the greenland ice sheet quadrupled over its prehistoric levels during the imperial era and dropped again thereafter.[ ] transportation and communication see also: cursus publicus the tabula peutingeriana (latin for "the peutinger map") an itinerarium, often assumed to be based on the roman cursus publicus, the network of state-maintained roads. the roman empire completely encircled the mediterranean, which they called "our sea" (mare nostrum).[ ] roman sailing vessels navigated the mediterranean as well as the major rivers of the empire, including the guadalquivir, ebro, rhône, rhine, tiber and nile.[ ] transport by water was preferred where possible, and moving commodities by land was more difficult.[ ] vehicles, wheels, and ships indicate the existence of a great number of skilled woodworkers.[ ] land transport utilized the advanced system of roman roads, which were called "viae". these roads were primarily built for military purposes,[ ] but also served commercial ends. the in-kind taxes paid by communities included the provision of personnel, animals, or vehicles for the cursus publicus, the state mail and transport service established by augustus.[ ] relay stations were located along the roads every seven to twelve roman miles, and tended to grow into a village or trading post.[ ] a mansio (plural mansiones) was a privately run service station franchised by the imperial bureaucracy for the cursus publicus. the support staff at such a facility included muleteers, secretaries, blacksmiths, cartwrights, a veterinarian, and a few military police and couriers. the distance between mansiones was determined by how far a wagon could travel in a day.[ ] mules were the animal most often used for pulling carts, travelling about  mph.[ ] as an example of the pace of communication, it took a messenger a minimum of nine days to travel to rome from mainz in the province of germania superior, even on a matter of urgency.[ ] in addition to the mansiones, some taverns offered accommodations as well as food and drink; one recorded tab for a stay showed charges for wine, bread, mule feed, and the services of a prostitute.[ ] trade and commodities see also: roman commerce, indo-roman trade and relations, and sino-roman relations a map of the periplus of the erythraean sea, a greco-roman periplus roman provinces traded among themselves, but trade extended outside the frontiers to regions as far away as china and india.[ ] the main commodity was grain.[ ] chinese trade was mostly conducted overland through middle men along the silk road; indian trade, however, also occurred by sea from egyptian ports on the red sea. along these trade paths, the horse, upon which roman expansion and commerce depended, was one of the main channels through which disease spread.[ ] also in transit for trade were olive oil, various foodstuffs, garum (fish sauce), slaves, ore and manufactured metal objects, fibres and textiles, timber, pottery, glassware, marble, papyrus, spices and materia medica, ivory, pearls, and gemstones.[ ] though most provinces were capable of producing wine, regional varietals were desirable and wine was a central item of trade. shortages of vin ordinaire were rare.[ ][ ] the major suppliers for the city of rome were the west coast of italy, southern gaul, the tarraconensis region of hispania, and crete. alexandria, the second-largest city, imported wine from laodicea in syria and the aegean.[ ] at the retail level, taverns or specialty wine shops (vinaria) sold wine by the jug for carryout and by the drink on premises, with price ranges reflecting quality.[ ] labour and occupations workers at a cloth-processing shop, in a painting from the fullonica of veranius hypsaeus in pompeii inscriptions record different occupations in the city of rome, and in pompeii.[ ] professional associations or trade guilds (collegia) are attested for a wide range of occupations, including fishermen (piscatores), salt merchants (salinatores), olive oil dealers (olivarii), entertainers (scaenici), cattle dealers (pecuarii), goldsmiths (aurifices), teamsters (asinarii or muliones), and stonecutters (lapidarii). these are sometimes quite specialized: one collegium at rome was strictly limited to craftsmen who worked in ivory and citrus wood.[ ] work performed by slaves falls into five general categories: domestic, with epitaphs recording at least different household jobs; imperial or public service; urban crafts and services; agriculture; and mining. convicts provided much of the labour in the mines or quarries, where conditions were notoriously brutal.[ ] in practice, there was little division of labour between slave and free,[ ] and most workers were illiterate and without special skills.[ ] the greatest number of common labourers were employed in agriculture: in the italian system of industrial farming (latifundia), these may have been mostly slaves, but throughout the empire, slave farm labour was probably less important than other forms of dependent labour by people who were technically not enslaved.[ ] textile and clothing production was a major source of employment. both textiles and finished garments were traded among the peoples of the empire, whose products were often named for them or a particular town, rather like a fashion "label".[ ] better ready-to-wear was exported by businessmen (negotiatores or mercatores) who were often well-to-do residents of the production centres.[ ] finished garments might be retailed by their sales agents, who travelled to potential customers, or by vestiarii, clothing dealers who were mostly freedmen; or they might be peddled by itinerant merchants.[ ] in egypt, textile producers could run prosperous small businesses employing apprentices, free workers earning wages, and slaves.[ ] the fullers (fullones) and dye workers (coloratores) had their own guilds.[ ] centonarii were guild workers who specialized in textile production and the recycling of old clothes into pieced goods.[n ] roman hunters during the preparations, set-up of traps, and in-action hunting near tarraco gdp and income distribution further information: roman economy § gross domestic product economic historians vary in their calculations of the gross domestic product of the roman economy during the principate.[ ] in the sample years of , , and ad, estimates of per capita gdp range from to hs. the gdp per capita of italy is estimated as [ ] to %[ ] higher than in the rest of the empire, due to tax transfers from the provinces and the concentration of elite income in the heartland. in regard to italy, "there can be little doubt that the lower classes of pompeii, herculaneum and other provincial towns of the roman empire enjoyed a high standard of living not equaled again in western europe until the th century ad".[ ] in the scheidel–friesen economic model, the total annual income generated by the empire is placed at nearly  billion hs, with about % extracted by central and local government. households in the top . % of income distribution captured about % of income. another % went to about % of the population who can be characterized as a non-elite middle. the remaining "vast majority" produced more than half of the total income, but lived near subsistence.[ ] the elite were . – . % and the middling "who enjoyed modest, comfortable levels of existence but not extreme wealth amounted to – % (...) while the vast majority lived around subsistence".[ ] architecture and engineering main articles: ancient roman architecture, roman engineering, and roman technology amphitheatres of the roman empire construction on the flavian amphitheatre, more commonly known as the colosseum (italy), began during the reign of vespasian. the chief roman contributions to architecture were the arch, vault and the dome. even after more than , years some roman structures still stand, due in part to sophisticated methods of making cements and concrete.[ ][ ] roman roads are considered the most advanced roads built until the early th century. the system of roadways facilitated military policing, communications, and trade. the roads were resistant to floods and other environmental hazards. even after the collapse of the central government, some roads remained usable for more than a thousand years. roman bridges were among the first large and lasting bridges, built from stone with the arch as the basic structure. most utilized concrete as well. the largest roman bridge was trajan's bridge over the lower danube, constructed by apollodorus of damascus, which remained for over a millennium the longest bridge to have been built both in terms of overall span and length.[ ][ ][ ] the romans built many dams and reservoirs for water collection, such as the subiaco dams, two of which fed the anio novus, one of the largest aqueducts of rome.[ ][ ][ ] they built dams just on the iberian peninsula, and many more are known across the empire, some still in use. several earthen dams are known from roman britain, including a well-preserved example from longovicium (lanchester). the pont du gard aqueduct, which crosses the gardon river in southern france, is on unesco's list of world heritage sites. the romans constructed numerous aqueducts. a surviving treatise by frontinus, who served as curator aquarum (water commissioner) under nerva, reflects the administrative importance placed on ensuring the water supply. masonry channels carried water from distant springs and reservoirs along a precise gradient, using gravity alone. after the water passed through the aqueduct, it was collected in tanks and fed through pipes to public fountains, baths, toilets, or industrial sites.[ ] the main aqueducts in the city of rome were the aqua claudia and the aqua marcia.[ ] the complex system built to supply constantinople had its most distant supply drawn from over  km away along a sinuous route of more than  km.[ ] roman aqueducts were built to remarkably fine tolerance, and to a technological standard that was not to be equalled until modern times.[ ] the romans also made use of aqueducts in their extensive mining operations across the empire, at sites such as las medulas and dolaucothi in south wales.[ ] insulated glazing (or "double glazing") was used in the construction of public baths. elite housing in cooler climates might have hypocausts, a form of central heating. the romans were the first culture to assemble all essential components of the much later steam engine, when hero built the aeolipile. with the crank and connecting rod system, all elements for constructing a steam engine (invented in )—hero's aeolipile (generating steam power), the cylinder and piston (in metal force pumps), non-return valves (in water pumps), gearing (in water mills and clocks)—were known in roman times.[ ] daily life main articles: culture of ancient rome and agriculture in ancient rome cityscape from the villa boscoreale ( s ad) city and country in the ancient world, a city was viewed as a place that fostered civilization by being "properly designed, ordered, and adorned."[ ] augustus undertook a vast building programme in rome, supported public displays of art that expressed the new imperial ideology, and reorganized the city into neighbourhoods (vici) administered at the local level with police and firefighting services.[ ] a focus of augustan monumental architecture was the campus martius, an open area outside the city centre that in early times had been devoted to equestrian sports and physical training for youth. the altar of augustan peace (ara pacis augustae) was located there, as was an obelisk imported from egypt that formed the pointer (gnomon) of a horologium. with its public gardens, the campus became one of the most attractive places in the city to visit.[ ] city planning and urban lifestyles had been influenced by the greeks from an early period,[ ] and in the eastern empire, roman rule accelerated and shaped the local development of cities that already had a strong hellenistic character. cities such as athens, aphrodisias, ephesus and gerasa altered some aspects of city planning and architecture to conform to imperial ideals, while also expressing their individual identity and regional preeminence.[ ][ ] in the areas of the western empire inhabited by celtic-speaking peoples, rome encouraged the development of urban centres with stone temples, forums, monumental fountains, and amphitheatres, often on or near the sites of the preexisting walled settlements known as oppida.[ ][ ][n ] urbanization in roman africa expanded on greek and punic cities along the coast.[ ] aquae sulis in bath, england: architectural features above the level of the pillar bases are a later reconstruction. the network of cities throughout the empire (coloniae, municipia, civitates or in greek terms poleis) was a primary cohesive force during the pax romana.[ ] romans of the st and nd centuries ad were encouraged by imperial propaganda to "inculcate the habits of peacetime".[ ][ ] as the classicist clifford ando has noted: most of the cultural appurtenances popularly associated with imperial culture—public cult and its games and civic banquets, competitions for artists, speakers, and athletes, as well as the funding of the great majority of public buildings and public display of art—were financed by private individuals, whose expenditures in this regard helped to justify their economic power and legal and provincial privileges.[ ] even the christian polemicist tertullian declared that the world of the late nd century was more orderly and well-cultivated than in earlier times: "everywhere there are houses, everywhere people, everywhere the res publica, the commonwealth, everywhere life."[ ] the decline of cities and civic life in the th century, when the wealthy classes were unable or disinclined to support public works, was one sign of the empire's imminent dissolution.[ ] public toilets (latrinae) from ostia antica in the city of rome, most people lived in multistory apartment buildings (insulae) that were often squalid firetraps. public facilities—such as baths (thermae), toilets that were flushed with running water (latrinae), conveniently located basins or elaborate fountains (nymphea) delivering fresh water,[ ] and large-scale entertainments such as chariot races and gladiator combat—were aimed primarily at the common people who lived in the insulae.[ ] similar facilities were constructed in cities throughout the empire, and some of the best-preserved roman structures are in spain, southern france, and northern africa. the public baths served hygienic, social and cultural functions.[ ] bathing was the focus of daily socializing in the late afternoon before dinner.[ ] roman baths were distinguished by a series of rooms that offered communal bathing in three temperatures, with varying amenities that might include an exercise and weight-training room, sauna, exfoliation spa (where oils were massaged into the skin and scraped from the body with a strigil), ball court, or outdoor swimming pool. baths had hypocaust heating: the floors were suspended over hot-air channels that circulated warmth.[ ] mixed nude bathing was not unusual in the early empire, though some baths may have offered separate facilities or hours for men and women. public baths were a part of urban culture throughout the provinces, but in the late th century, individual tubs began to replace communal bathing. christians were advised to go to the baths for health and cleanliness, not pleasure, but to avoid the games (ludi), which were part of religious festivals they considered "pagan". tertullian says that otherwise christians not only availed themselves of the baths, but participated fully in commerce and society.[ ] reconstructed peristyle garden based on the house of the vettii rich families from rome usually had two or more houses, a townhouse (domus, plural domūs) and at least one luxury home (villa) outside the city. the domus was a privately owned single-family house, and might be furnished with a private bath (balneum),[ ] but it was not a place to retreat from public life.[ ] although some neighbourhoods of rome show a higher concentration of well-to-do houses, the rich did not live in segregated enclaves. their houses were meant to be visible and accessible. the atrium served as a reception hall in which the paterfamilias (head of household) met with clients every morning, from wealthy friends to poorer dependents who received charity.[ ] it was also a centre of family religious rites, containing a shrine and the images of family ancestors.[ ] the houses were located on busy public roads, and ground-level spaces facing the street were often rented out as shops (tabernae).[ ] in addition to a kitchen garden—windowboxes might substitute in the insulae—townhouses typically enclosed a peristyle garden that brought a tract of nature, made orderly, within walls.[ ][ ] birds and fountain within a garden setting, with oscilla (hanging masks)[ ] above, in a painting from pompeii the villa by contrast was an escape from the bustle of the city, and in literature represents a lifestyle that balances the civilized pursuit of intellectual and artistic interests (otium) with an appreciation of nature and the agricultural cycle.[ ] ideally a villa commanded a view or vista, carefully framed by the architectural design.[ ] it might be located on a working estate, or in a "resort town" situated on the seacoast, such as pompeii and herculaneum. the programme of urban renewal under augustus, and the growth of rome's population to as many as million people, was accompanied by a nostalgia for rural life expressed in the arts. poetry praised the idealized lives of farmers and shepherds. the interiors of houses were often decorated with painted gardens, fountains, landscapes, vegetative ornament,[ ] and animals, especially birds and marine life, rendered accurately enough that modern scholars can sometimes identify them by species.[ ] the augustan poet horace gently satirized the dichotomy of urban and rural values in his fable of the city mouse and the country mouse, which has often been retold as a children's story.[ ][ ][ ] on a more practical level, the central government took an active interest in supporting agriculture.[ ] producing food was the top priority of land use.[ ] larger farms (latifundia) achieved an economy of scale that sustained urban life and its more specialized division of labour.[ ] small farmers benefited from the development of local markets in towns and trade centres. agricultural techniques such as crop rotation and selective breeding were disseminated throughout the empire, and new crops were introduced from one province to another, such as peas and cabbage to britain.[ ] maintaining an affordable food supply to the city of rome had become a major political issue in the late republic, when the state began to provide a grain dole (cura annonae) to citizens who registered for it.[ ] about , – , adult males in rome received the dole, amounting to about  kg. per month, for a per annum total of about , tons of wheat primarily from sicily, north africa, and egypt.[ ] the dole cost at least % of state revenues,[ ] but improved living conditions and family life among the lower classes,[ ] and subsidized the rich by allowing workers to spend more of their earnings on the wine and olive oil produced on the estates of the landowning class.[ ] bread stall, from a pompeiian wall painting the grain dole also had symbolic value: it affirmed both the emperor's position as universal benefactor, and the right of all citizens to share in "the fruits of conquest".[ ] the annona, public facilities, and spectacular entertainments mitigated the otherwise dreary living conditions of lower-class romans, and kept social unrest in check. the satirist juvenal, however, saw "bread and circuses" (panem et circenses) as emblematic of the loss of republican political liberty:[ ][ ] the public has long since cast off its cares: the people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses.[ ] food and dining main article: food and dining in the roman empire see also: grain supply to the city of rome and ancient rome and wine most apartments in rome lacked kitchens, though a charcoal brazier could be used for rudimentary cookery.[ ][ ] prepared food was sold at pubs and bars, inns, and food stalls (tabernae, cauponae, popinae, thermopolia).[ ] carryout and restaurant dining were for the lower classes; fine dining could be sought only at private dinner parties in well-to-do houses with a chef (archimagirus) and trained kitchen staff,[ ] or at banquets hosted by social clubs (collegia).[ ] most people would have consumed at least % of their daily calories in the form of cereals and legumes.[ ] puls (pottage) was considered the aboriginal food of the romans.[ ][ ] the basic grain pottage could be elaborated with chopped vegetables, bits of meat, cheese, or herbs to produce dishes similar to polenta or risotto.[ ] an ostian taberna for eating and drinking; the faded painting over the counter pictured eggs, olives, fruit and radishes.[ ] urban populations and the military preferred to consume their grain in the form of bread.[ ] mills and commercial ovens were usually combined in a bakery complex.[ ] by the reign of aurelian, the state had begun to distribute the annona as a daily ration of bread baked in state factories, and added olive oil, wine, and pork to the dole.[ ][ ][ ] the importance of a good diet to health was recognized by medical writers such as galen ( nd century ad), whose treatises included one on barley soup. views on nutrition were influenced by schools of thought such as humoral theory.[ ] roman literature focuses on the dining habits of the upper classes,[ ] for whom the evening meal (cena) had important social functions.[ ] guests were entertained in a finely decorated dining room (triclinium), often with a view of the peristyle garden. diners lounged on couches, leaning on the left elbow. by the late republic, if not earlier, women dined, reclined, and drank wine along with men.[ ] the most famous description of a roman meal is probably trimalchio's dinner party in the satyricon, a fictional extravaganza that bears little resemblance to reality even among the most wealthy.[ ] the poet martial describes serving a more plausible dinner, beginning with the gustatio ("tasting" or "appetizer"), which was a salad composed of mallow leaves, lettuce, chopped leeks, mint, arugula, mackerel garnished with rue, sliced eggs, and marinated sow udder. the main course was succulent cuts of kid, beans, greens, a chicken, and leftover ham, followed by a dessert of fresh fruit and vintage wine.[ ] the latin expression for a full-course dinner was ab ovo usque mala, "from the egg to the apples," equivalent to the english "from soup to nuts."[ ] still life on a nd-century roman mosaic a book-length collection of roman recipes is attributed to apicius, a name for several figures in antiquity that became synonymous with "gourmet."[ ] roman "foodies" indulged in wild game, fowl such as peacock and flamingo, large fish (mullet was especially prized), and shellfish. luxury ingredients were brought by the fleet from the far reaches of empire, from the parthian frontier to the straits of gibraltar.[ ] refined cuisine could be moralized as a sign of either civilized progress or decadent decline.[ ] the early imperial historian tacitus contrasted the indulgent luxuries of the roman table in his day with the simplicity of the germanic diet of fresh wild meat, foraged fruit, and cheese, unadulterated by imported seasonings and elaborate sauces.[ ] most often, because of the importance of landowning in roman culture, produce—cereals, legumes, vegetables, and fruit—was considered a more civilized form of food than meat. the mediterranean staples of bread, wine, and oil were sacralized by roman christianity, while germanic meat consumption became a mark of paganism,[ ] as it might be the product of animal sacrifice. some philosophers and christians resisted the demands of the body and the pleasures of food, and adopted fasting as an ideal.[ ] food became simpler in general as urban life in the west diminished, trade routes were disrupted,[ ] and the rich retreated to the more limited self-sufficiency of their country estates. as an urban lifestyle came to be associated with decadence, the church formally discouraged gluttony,[ ] and hunting and pastoralism were seen as simple, virtuous ways of life.[ ] recreation and spectacles see also: ludi, chariot racing, and gladiator wall painting depicting a sports riot at the amphitheatre of pompeii, which led to the banning of gladiator combat in the town[ ][ ] when juvenal complained that the roman people had exchanged their political liberty for "bread and circuses", he was referring to the state-provided grain dole and the circenses, events held in the entertainment venue called a circus in latin. the largest such venue in rome was the circus maximus, the setting of horse races, chariot races, the equestrian troy game, staged beast hunts (venationes), athletic contests, gladiator combat, and historical re-enactments. from earliest times, several religious festivals had featured games (ludi), primarily horse and chariot races (ludi circenses).[ ] although their entertainment value tended to overshadow ritual significance, the races remained part of archaic religious observances that pertained to agriculture, initiation, and the cycle of birth and death.[n ] under augustus, public entertainments were presented on days of the year; by the reign of marcus aurelius, the number of days had expanded to .[ ] circus games were preceded by an elaborate parade (pompa circensis) that ended at the venue.[ ] competitive events were held also in smaller venues such as the amphitheatre, which became the characteristic roman spectacle venue, and stadium. greek-style athletics included footraces, boxing, wrestling, and the pancratium.[ ] aquatic displays, such as the mock sea battle (naumachia) and a form of "water ballet", were presented in engineered pools.[ ] state-supported theatrical events (ludi scaenici) took place on temple steps or in grand stone theatres, or in the smaller enclosed theatre called an odeum.[ ] a victor in his four-horse chariot circuses were the largest structure regularly built in the roman world,[ ] though the greeks had their own architectural traditions for the similarly purposed hippodrome. the flavian amphitheatre, better known as the colosseum, became the regular arena for blood sports in rome after it opened in ad.[ ] the circus races continued to be held more frequently.[ ] the circus maximus could seat around , spectators, and the colosseum about , with standing room for about , more.[ ] many roman amphitheatres, circuses and theatres built in cities outside italy are visible as ruins today.[ ] the local ruling elite were responsible for sponsoring spectacles and arena events, which both enhanced their status and drained their resources.[ ] the physical arrangement of the amphitheatre represented the order of roman society: the emperor presiding in his opulent box; senators and equestrians watching from the advantageous seats reserved for them; women seated at a remove from the action; slaves given the worst places, and everybody else packed in-between.[ ][ ][ ] the crowd could call for an outcome by booing or cheering, but the emperor had the final say. spectacles could quickly become sites of social and political protest, and emperors sometimes had to deploy force to put down crowd unrest, most notoriously at the nika riots in the year , when troops under justinian slaughtered thousands.[ ][ ][ ][ ] the zliten mosaic, from a dining room in present-day libya, depicts a series of arena scenes: from top, musicians playing a roman tuba, a water pipe organ and two horns; six pairs of gladiators with two referees; four beast fighters; and three convicts condemned to the beasts[ ] the chariot teams were known by the colours they wore, with the blues and greens the most popular. fan loyalty was fierce and at times erupted into sports riots.[ ][ ][ ] racing was perilous, but charioteers were among the most celebrated and well-compensated athletes.[ ] one star of the sport was diocles, from lusitania (present-day portugal), who raced chariots for years and had career earnings of million sesterces.[ ][ ] horses had their fans too, and were commemorated in art and inscriptions, sometimes by name.[ ][ ] the design of roman circuses was developed to assure that no team had an unfair advantage and to minimize collisions (naufragia, "shipwrecks"),[ ][ ] which were nonetheless frequent and spectacularly satisfying to the crowd.[ ][ ] the races retained a magical aura through their early association with chthonic rituals: circus images were considered protective or lucky, curse tablets have been found buried at the site of racetracks, and charioteers were often suspected of sorcery.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] chariot racing continued into the byzantine period under imperial sponsorship, but the decline of cities in the th and th centuries led to its eventual demise.[ ] the romans thought gladiator contests had originated with funeral games and sacrifices in which select captive warriors were forced to fight to expiate the deaths of noble romans. some of the earliest styles of gladiator fighting had ethnic designations such as "thracian" or "gallic".[ ][ ][ ] the staged combats were considered munera, "services, offerings, benefactions", initially distinct from the festival games (ludi).[ ][ ] throughout his -year reign, augustus presented eight gladiator shows in which a total of , men fought, as well as staged beast hunts that resulted in the deaths of , animals.[ ][ ][ ] to mark the opening of the colosseum, the emperor titus presented days of arena events, with , gladiators competing on a single day.[ ][ ][ ] roman fascination with gladiators is indicated by how widely they are depicted on mosaics, wall paintings, lamps, and even graffiti drawings.[ ] gladiators were trained combatants who might be slaves, convicts, or free volunteers.[ ] death was not a necessary or even desirable outcome in matches between these highly skilled fighters, whose training represented a costly and time-consuming investment.[ ][ ][ ] by contrast, noxii were convicts sentenced to the arena with little or no training, often unarmed, and with no expectation of survival. physical suffering and humiliation were considered appropriate retributive justice for the crimes they had committed.[ ] these executions were sometimes staged or ritualized as re-enactments of myths, and amphitheatres were equipped with elaborate stage machinery to create special effects.[ ][ ][ ] tertullian considered deaths in the arena to be nothing more than a dressed-up form of human sacrifice.[ ][ ][ ] modern scholars have found the pleasure romans took in the "theatre of life and death"[ ] to be one of the more difficult aspects of their civilization to understand and explain.[ ][ ] the younger pliny rationalized gladiator spectacles as good for the people, a way "to inspire them to face honourable wounds and despise death, by exhibiting love of glory and desire for victory even in the bodies of slaves and criminals".[ ][ ] some romans such as seneca were critical of the brutal spectacles, but found virtue in the courage and dignity of the defeated fighter rather than in victory[ ]—an attitude that finds its fullest expression with the christians martyred in the arena. even martyr literature, however, offers "detailed, indeed luxuriant, descriptions of bodily suffering",[ ] and became a popular genre at times indistinguishable from fiction.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] personal training and play boys and girls playing ball games ( nd century relief from the louvre) in the plural, ludi almost always refers to the large-scale spectator games. the singular ludus, "play, game, sport, training," had a wide range of meanings such as "word play," "theatrical performance," "board game," "primary school," and even "gladiator training school" (as in ludus magnus, the largest such training camp at rome).[ ][ ] activities for children and young people included hoop rolling and knucklebones (astragali or "jacks"). the sarcophagi of children often show them playing games. girls had dolls, typically –  cm tall with jointed limbs, made of materials such as wood, terracotta, and especially bone and ivory.[ ] ball games include trigon, which required dexterity, and harpastum, a rougher sport.[ ] pets appear often on children's memorials and in literature, including birds, dogs, cats, goats, sheep, rabbits and geese.[ ] so-called "bikini girls" mosaic from the villa del casale, roman sicily, th century after adolescence, most physical training for males was of a military nature. the campus martius originally was an exercise field where young men developed the skills of horsemanship and warfare. hunting was also considered an appropriate pastime. according to plutarch, conservative romans disapproved of greek-style athletics that promoted a fine body for its own sake, and condemned nero's efforts to encourage gymnastic games in the greek manner.[ ] some women trained as gymnasts and dancers, and a rare few as female gladiators. the famous "bikini girls" mosaic shows young women engaging in apparatus routines that might be compared to rhythmic gymnastics.[n ][ ] women in general were encouraged to maintain their health through activities such as playing ball, swimming, walking, reading aloud (as a breathing exercise), riding in vehicles, and travel.[ ] stone game board from aphrodisias: boards could also be made of wood, with deluxe versions in costly materials such as ivory; game pieces or counters were bone, glass, or polished stone, and might be coloured or have markings or images[ ] people of all ages played board games pitting two players against each other, including latrunculi ("raiders"), a game of strategy in which opponents coordinated the movements and capture of multiple game pieces, and xii scripta ("twelve marks"), involving dice and arranging pieces on a grid of letters or words.[ ] a game referred to as alea (dice) or tabula (the board), to which the emperor claudius was notoriously addicted, may have been similar to backgammon, using a dice-cup (pyrgus).[ ] playing with dice as a form of gambling was disapproved of, but was a popular pastime during the december festival of the saturnalia with its carnival, norms-overturned atmosphere. clothing main article: clothing in ancient rome in a status-conscious society like that of the romans, clothing and personal adornment gave immediate visual clues about the etiquette of interacting with the wearer.[ ] wearing the correct clothing was supposed to reflect a society in good order.[ ] the toga was the distinctive national garment of the roman male citizen, but it was heavy and impractical, worn mainly for conducting political business and religious rites, and for going to court.[ ][ ] the clothing romans wore ordinarily was dark or colourful, and the most common male attire seen daily throughout the provinces would have been tunics, cloaks, and in some regions trousers.[ ] the study of how romans dressed in daily life is complicated by a lack of direct evidence, since portraiture may show the subject in clothing with symbolic value, and surviving textiles from the period are rare.[ ][ ][ ] women from the wall painting at the villa of the mysteries, pompeii the basic garment for all romans, regardless of gender or wealth, was the simple sleeved tunic. the length differed by wearer: a man's reached mid-calf, but a soldier's was somewhat shorter; a woman's fell to her feet, and a child's to its knees.[ ] the tunics of poor people and labouring slaves were made from coarse wool in natural, dull shades, with the length determined by the type of work they did. finer tunics were made of lightweight wool or linen. a man who belonged to the senatorial or equestrian order wore a tunic with two purple stripes (clavi) woven vertically into the fabric: the wider the stripe, the higher the wearer's status.[ ] other garments could be layered over the tunic. the imperial toga was a "vast expanse" of semi-circular white wool that could not be put on and draped correctly without assistance.[ ] in his work on oratory, quintilian describes in detail how the public speaker ought to orchestrate his gestures in relation to his toga.[ ][ ][ ] in art, the toga is shown with the long end dipping between the feet, a deep curved fold in front, and a bulbous flap at the midsection.[ ] the drapery became more intricate and structured over time, with the cloth forming a tight roll across the chest in later periods.[ ] the toga praetexta, with a purple or purplish-red stripe representing inviolability, was worn by children who had not come of age, curule magistrates, and state priests. only the emperor could wear an all-purple toga (toga picta).[ ] claudius wearing an early imperial toga (see a later, more structured toga above), and the pallium as worn by a priest of serapis,[ ] sometimes identified as the emperor julian in the nd century, emperors and men of status are often portrayed wearing the pallium, an originally greek mantle (himation) folded tightly around the body. women are also portrayed in the pallium. tertullian considered the pallium an appropriate garment both for christians, in contrast to the toga, and for educated people, since it was associated with philosophers.[ ][ ][ ] by the th century, the toga had been more or less replaced by the pallium as a garment that embodied social unity.[ ] roman clothing styles changed over time, though not as rapidly as fashions today.[ ] in the dominate, clothing worn by both soldiers and government bureaucrats became highly decorated, with woven or embroidered stripes (clavi) and circular roundels (orbiculi) applied to tunics and cloaks. these decorative elements consisted of geometrical patterns, stylized plant motifs, and in more elaborate examples, human or animal figures.[ ] the use of silk increased, and courtiers of the later empire wore elaborate silk robes. the militarization of roman society, and the waning of cultural life based on urban ideals, affected habits of dress: heavy military-style belts were worn by bureaucrats as well as soldiers, and the toga was abandoned.[ ] arts main article: roman art the wedding of zephyrus and chloris ( – ad, pompeian fourth style) within painted architectural panels from the casa del naviglio people visiting or living in rome or the cities throughout the empire would have seen art in a range of styles and media on a daily basis. public or official art—including sculpture, monuments such as victory columns or triumphal arches, and the iconography on coins—is often analysed for its historical significance or as an expression of imperial ideology.[ ][ ] at imperial public baths, a person of humble means could view wall paintings, mosaics, statues, and interior decoration often of high quality.[ ] in the private sphere, objects made for religious dedications, funerary commemoration, domestic use, and commerce can show varying degrees of esthetic quality and artistic skill.[ ] a wealthy person might advertise his appreciation of culture through painting, sculpture, and decorative arts at his home—though some efforts strike modern viewers and some ancient connoisseurs as strenuous rather than tasteful.[ ] greek art had a profound influence on the roman tradition, and some of the most famous examples of greek statues are known only from roman imperial versions and the occasional description in a greek or latin literary source.[ ] despite the high value placed on works of art, even famous artists were of low social status among the greeks and romans, who regarded artists, artisans, and craftsmen alike as manual labourers. at the same time, the level of skill required to produce quality work was recognized, and even considered a divine gift.[ ] portraiture main article: roman portraiture two portraits circa ad: the empress vibia sabina (left); and the antinous mondragone, one of the abundant likenesses of hadrian's famously beautiful male companion antinous portraiture, which survives mainly in the medium of sculpture, was the most copious form of imperial art. portraits during the augustan period utilize youthful and classical proportions, evolving later into a mixture of realism and idealism.[ ] republican portraits had been characterized by a "warts and all" verism, but as early as the nd century bc, the greek convention of heroic nudity was adopted sometimes for portraying conquering generals.[ ] imperial portrait sculptures may model the head as mature, even craggy, atop a nude or seminude body that is smooth and youthful with perfect musculature; a portrait head might even be added to a body created for another purpose.[ ] clothed in the toga or military regalia, the body communicates rank or sphere of activity, not the characteristics of the individual.[ ] women of the emperor's family were often depicted dressed as goddesses or divine personifications such as pax ("peace"). portraiture in painting is represented primarily by the fayum mummy portraits, which evoke egyptian and roman traditions of commemorating the dead with the realistic painting techniques of the empire. marble portrait sculpture would have been painted, and while traces of paint have only rarely survived the centuries, the fayum portraits indicate why ancient literary sources marvelled at how lifelike artistic representations could be.[ ] the bronze drunken satyr, excavated at herculaneum and exhibited in the th century, inspired an interest among later sculptors in similar "carefree" subjects.[ ] sculpture main article: roman sculpture examples of roman sculpture survive abundantly, though often in damaged or fragmentary condition, including freestanding statues and statuettes in marble, bronze and terracotta, and reliefs from public buildings, temples, and monuments such as the ara pacis, trajan's column, and the arch of titus. niches in amphitheatres such as the colosseum were originally filled with statues,[ ][ ] and no formal garden was complete without statuary.[ ] temples housed the cult images of deities, often by famed sculptors.[ ] the religiosity of the romans encouraged the production of decorated altars, small representations of deities for the household shrine or votive offerings, and other pieces for dedicating at temples. divine and mythological figures were also given secular, humorous, and even obscene depictions.[citation needed] on the ludovisi sarcophagus, an example of the battle scenes favoured during the crisis of the third century, the "writhing and highly emotive" romans and goths fill the surface in a packed, anti-classical composition[ ] sarcophagi main article: ancient roman sarcophagi elaborately carved marble and limestone sarcophagi are characteristic of the nd to the th centuries[ ] with at least , examples surviving.[ ] although mythological scenes have been most widely studied,[ ] sarcophagus relief has been called the "richest single source of roman iconography,"[ ] and may also depict the deceased's occupation or life course, military scenes, and other subject matter. the same workshops produced sarcophagi with jewish or christian imagery.[ ] the primavera of stabiae, perhaps the goddess flora painting much of what is known of roman painting is based on the interior decoration of private homes, particularly as preserved at pompeii and herculaneum by the eruption of vesuvius in ad. in addition to decorative borders and panels with geometric or vegetative motifs, wall painting depicts scenes from mythology and the theatre, landscapes and gardens, recreation and spectacles, work and everyday life, and frank pornography. birds, animals, and marine life are often depicted with careful attention to realistic detail.[citation needed] a unique source for jewish figurative painting under the empire is the dura-europos synagogue, dubbed "the pompeii of the syrian desert,"[n ] buried and preserved in the mid- rd century after the city was destroyed by persians.[ ][ ] mosaic main article: roman mosaic the triumph of neptune floor mosaic from africa proconsularis (present-day tunisia), celebrating agricultural success with allegories of the seasons, vegetation, workers and animals viewable from multiple perspectives in the room (latter nd century)[ ] mosaics are among the most enduring of roman decorative arts, and are found on the surfaces of floors and other architectural features such as walls, vaulted ceilings, and columns. the most common form is the tessellated mosaic, formed from uniform pieces (tesserae) of materials such as stone and glass.[ ] mosaics were usually crafted on site, but sometimes assembled and shipped as ready-made panels. a mosaic workshop was led by the master artist (pictor) who worked with two grades of assistants.[ ] figurative mosaics share many themes with painting, and in some cases portray subject matter in almost identical compositions. although geometric patterns and mythological scenes occur throughout the empire, regional preferences also find expression. in north africa, a particularly rich source of mosaics, homeowners often chose scenes of life on their estates, hunting, agriculture, and local wildlife.[ ] plentiful and major examples of roman mosaics come also from present-day turkey, italy, southern france, spain, and portugal. more than antioch mosaics from the rd century are known.[ ] opus sectile is a related technique in which flat stone, usually coloured marble, is cut precisely into shapes from which geometric or figurative patterns are formed. this more difficult technique was highly prized, and became especially popular for luxury surfaces in the th century, an abundant example of which is the basilica of junius bassus.[ ] decorative arts see also: ancient roman pottery and roman glass decorative arts for luxury consumers included fine pottery, silver and bronze vessels and implements, and glassware. the manufacture of pottery in a wide range of quality was important to trade and employment, as were the glass and metalworking industries. imports stimulated new regional centres of production. southern gaul became a leading producer of the finer red-gloss pottery (terra sigillata) that was a major item of trade in st-century europe.[ ] glassblowing was regarded by the romans as originating in syria in the st century bc, and by the rd century egypt and the rhineland had become noted for fine glass.[ ][ ] 	 			 			 silver cup, from the boscoreale treasure (early st century ad) 			 		 	 			 			 finely decorated gallo-roman terra sigillata bowl 			 		 	 			 			 gold earrings with gemstones, rd century 			 		 	 			 			 glass cage cup from the rhineland, th century 			 		 performing arts main articles: theatre of ancient rome and music of ancient rome in roman tradition, borrowed from the greeks, literary theatre was performed by all-male troupes that used face masks with exaggerated facial expressions that allowed audiences to "see" how a character was feeling. such masks were occasionally also specific to a particular role, and an actor could then play multiple roles merely by switching masks. female roles were played by men in drag (travesti). roman literary theatre tradition is particularly well represented in latin literature by the tragedies of seneca. the circumstances under which seneca's tragedies were performed are however unclear; scholarly conjectures range from minimally staged readings to full production pageants. more popular than literary theatre was the genre-defying mimus theatre, which featured scripted scenarios with free improvization, risqué language and jokes, sex scenes, action sequences, and political satire, along with dance numbers, juggling, acrobatics, tightrope walking, striptease, and dancing bears.[ ][ ][ ] unlike literary theatre, mimus was played without masks, and encouraged stylistic realism in acting. female roles were performed by women, not by men.[ ] mimus was related to the genre called pantomimus, an early form of story ballet that contained no spoken dialogue. pantomimus combined expressive dancing, instrumental music and a sung libretto, often mythological, that could be either tragic or comic.[ ][ ] all-male theatrical troupe preparing for a masked performance, on a mosaic from the house of the tragic poet although sometimes regarded as foreign elements in roman culture, music and dance had existed in rome from earliest times.[ ] music was customary at funerals, and the tibia (greek aulos), a woodwind instrument, was played at sacrifices to ward off ill influences.[ ] song (carmen) was an integral part of almost every social occasion. the secular ode of horace, commissioned by augustus, was performed publicly in bc by a mixed children's choir. music was thought to reflect the orderliness of the cosmos, and was associated particularly with mathematics and knowledge.[ ] various woodwinds and "brass" instruments were played, as were stringed instruments such as the cithara, and percussion.[ ] the cornu, a long tubular metal wind instrument that curved around the musician's body, was used for military signals and on parade.[ ] these instruments are found in parts of the empire where they did not originate, and indicate that music was among the aspects of roman culture that spread throughout the provinces. instruments are widely depicted in roman art.[ ] the hydraulic pipe organ (hydraulis) was "one of the most significant technical and musical achievements of antiquity", and accompanied gladiator games and events in the amphitheatre, as well as stage performances. it was among the instruments that the emperor nero played.[ ] although certain forms of dance were disapproved of at times as non-roman or unmanly, dancing was embedded in religious rituals of archaic rome, such as those of the dancing armed salian priests and of the arval brothers, priesthoods which underwent a revival during the principate.[ ] ecstatic dancing was a feature of the international mystery religions, particularly the cult of cybele as practiced by her eunuch priests the galli[ ] and of isis. in the secular realm, dancing girls from syria and cadiz were extremely popular.[ ] like gladiators, entertainers were infames in the eyes of the law, little better than slaves even if they were technically free. "stars", however, could enjoy considerable wealth and celebrity, and mingled socially and often sexually with the upper classes, including emperors.[ ] performers supported each other by forming guilds, and several memorials for members of the theatre community survive.[ ] theatre and dance were often condemned by christian polemicists in the later empire,[ ] and christians who integrated dance traditions and music into their worship practices were regarded by the church fathers as shockingly "pagan."[ ] st. augustine is supposed to have said that bringing clowns, actors, and dancers into a house was like inviting in a gang of unclean spirits.[ ][ ] literacy, books, and education 	 	this article is missing information about the use of papyrus or parchment scrolls, which were very common before the invention of the codex. please expand the article to include this information. further details may exist on the talk page. (april ) main article: education in ancient rome pride in literacy was displayed in portraiture through emblems of reading and writing, as in this example of a couple from pompeii (portrait of paquius proculo). estimates of the average literacy rate in the empire range from to % or higher, depending in part on the definition of "literacy".[ ][ ][ ][ ] the roman obsession with documents and public inscriptions indicates the high value placed on the written word.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] the imperial bureaucracy was so dependent on writing that the babylonian talmud declared "if all seas were ink, all reeds were pen, all skies parchment, and all men scribes, they would be unable to set down the full scope of the roman government's concerns."[ ] laws and edicts were posted in writing as well as read out. illiterate roman subjects would have someone such as a government scribe (scriba) read or write their official documents for them.[ ][ ] public art and religious ceremonies were ways to communicate imperial ideology regardless of ability to read.[ ] the romans had an extensive priestly archive, and inscriptions appear throughout the empire in connection with statues and small votives dedicated by ordinary people to divinities, as well as on binding tablets and other "magic spells", with hundreds of examples collected in the greek magical papyri.[ ][ ][ ][ ] the military produced a vast amount of written reports and service records,[ ] and literacy in the army was "strikingly high".[ ] urban graffiti, which include literary quotations, and low-quality inscriptions with misspellings and solecisms indicate casual literacy among non-elites.[ ][ ][n ][ ] in addition, numeracy was necessary for any form of commerce.[ ][ ] slaves were numerate and literate in significant numbers, and some were highly educated.[ ] books were expensive, since each copy had to be written out individually on a roll of papyrus (volumen) by scribes who had apprenticed to the trade.[ ] the codex—a book with pages bound to a spine—was still a novelty in the time of the poet martial ( st century ad),[ ][ ] but by the end of the rd century was replacing the volumen[ ][ ] and was the regular form for books with christian content.[ ] commercial production of books had been established by the late republic,[ ] and by the st century ad certain neighbourhoods of rome were known for their bookshops (tabernae librariae), which were found also in western provincial cities such as lugdunum (present-day lyon, france).[ ][ ] the quality of editing varied wildly, and some ancient authors complain about error-ridden copies,[ ][ ] as well as plagiarism or forgery, since there was no copyright law.[ ] a skilled slave copyist (servus litteratus) could be valued as highly as , sesterces.[ ][ ] reconstruction of a writing tablet: the stylus was used to inscribe letters into the wax surface for drafts, casual letterwriting, and schoolwork, while texts meant to be permanent were copied onto papyrus. collectors amassed personal libraries,[ ] such as that of the villa of the papyri in herculaneum, and a fine library was part of the cultivated leisure (otium) associated with the villa lifestyle.[ ] significant collections might attract "in-house" scholars; lucian mocked mercenary greek intellectuals who attached themselves to philistine roman patrons.[ ] an individual benefactor might endow a community with a library: pliny the younger gave the city of comum a library valued at million sesterces, along with another , to maintain it.[ ][ ] imperial libraries housed in state buildings were open to users as a privilege on a limited basis, and represented a literary canon from which disreputable writers could be excluded.[ ][ ] books considered subversive might be publicly burned,[ ] and domitian crucified copyists for reproducing works deemed treasonous.[ ][ ] literary texts were often shared aloud at meals or with reading groups.[ ][ ] scholars such as pliny the elder engaged in "multitasking" by having works read aloud to them while they dined, bathed or travelled, times during which they might also dictate drafts or notes to their secretaries.[ ] the multivolume attic nights of aulus gellius is an extended exploration of how romans constructed their literary culture.[ ] the reading public expanded from the st through the rd century, and while those who read for pleasure remained a minority, they were no longer confined to a sophisticated ruling elite, reflecting the social fluidity of the empire as a whole and giving rise to "consumer literature" meant for entertainment.[ ] illustrated books, including erotica, were popular, but are poorly represented by extant fragments.[ ] primary education a teacher with two students, as a third arrives with his loculus, a writing case that would contain pens, ink pot, and a sponge to correct errors[ ] traditional roman education was moral and practical. stories about great men and women, or cautionary tales about individual failures, were meant to instil roman values (mores maiorum). parents and family members were expected to act as role models, and parents who worked for a living passed their skills on to their children, who might also enter apprenticeships for more advanced training in crafts or trades.[ ] formal education was available only to children from families who could pay for it, and the lack of state intervention in access to education contributed to the low rate of literacy.[ ][ ] young children were attended by a pedagogus, or less frequently a female pedagoga, usually a greek slave or former slave.[ ] the pedagogue kept the child safe, taught self-discipline and public behaviour, attended class and helped with tutoring.[ ] the emperor julian recalled his pedagogue mardonius, a gothic eunuch slave who reared him from the age of to , with affection and gratitude. usually, however, pedagogues received little respect.[ ] primary education in reading, writing, and arithmetic might take place at home for privileged children whose parents hired or bought a teacher.[ ] others attended a school that was "public," though not state-supported, organized by an individual schoolmaster (ludimagister) who accepted fees from multiple parents.[ ] vernae (homeborn slave children) might share in home- or public-schooling.[ ] schools became more numerous during the empire, and increased the opportunities for children to acquire an education.[ ] school could be held regularly in a rented space, or in any available public niche, even outdoors. boys and girls received primary education generally from ages to , but classes were not segregated by grade or age.[ ] for the socially ambitious, bilingual education in greek as well as latin was a must.[ ] quintilian provides the most extensive theory of primary education in latin literature. according to quintilian, each child has in-born ingenium, a talent for learning or linguistic intelligence that is ready to be cultivated and sharpened, as evidenced by the young child's ability to memorize and imitate. the child incapable of learning was rare. to quintilian, ingenium represented a potential best realized in the social setting of school, and he argued against homeschooling. he also recognized the importance of play in child development,[n ] and disapproved of corporal punishment because it discouraged love of learning—in contrast to the practice in most roman primary schools of routinely striking children with a cane (ferula) or birch rod for being slow or disruptive.[ ] secondary education mosaic from pompeii depicting the academy of plato at the age of , upperclass males made their rite of passage into adulthood, and began to learn leadership roles in political, religious, and military life through mentoring from a senior member of their family or a family friend.[ ] higher education was provided by grammatici or rhetores.[ ] the grammaticus or "grammarian" taught mainly greek and latin literature, with history, geography, philosophy or mathematics treated as explications of the text.[ ] with the rise of augustus, contemporary latin authors such as vergil and livy also became part of the curriculum.[ ] the rhetor was a teacher of oratory or public speaking. the art of speaking (ars dicendi) was highly prized as a marker of social and intellectual superiority, and eloquentia ("speaking ability, eloquence") was considered the "glue" of a civilized society.[ ] rhetoric was not so much a body of knowledge (though it required a command of references to the literary canon[ ]) as it was a mode of expression and decorum that distinguished those who held social power.[ ] the ancient model of rhetorical training—"restraint, coolness under pressure, modesty, and good humour"[ ]—endured into the th century as a western educational ideal.[ ] in latin, illiteratus (greek agrammatos) could mean both "unable to read and write" and "lacking in cultural awareness or sophistication."[ ] higher education promoted career advancement, particularly for an equestrian in imperial service: "eloquence and learning were considered marks of a well-bred man and worthy of reward".[ ] the poet horace, for instance, was given a top-notch education by his father, a prosperous former slave.[ ][ ][ ] urban elites throughout the empire shared a literary culture embued with greek educational ideals (paideia).[ ] hellenistic cities sponsored schools of higher learning as an expression of cultural achievement.[ ] young men from rome who wished to pursue the highest levels of education often went abroad to study rhetoric and philosophy, mostly to one of several greek schools in athens. the curriculum in the east was more likely to include music and physical training along with literacy and numeracy.[ ] on the hellenistic model, vespasian endowed chairs of grammar, latin and greek rhetoric, and philosophy at rome, and gave teachers special exemptions from taxes and legal penalties, though primary schoolmasters did not receive these benefits. quintilian held the first chair of grammar.[ ][ ] in the eastern empire, berytus (present-day beirut) was unusual in offering a latin education, and became famous for its school of roman law.[ ] the cultural movement known as the second sophistic ( st– rd century ad) promoted the assimilation of greek and roman social, educational, and esthetic values, and the greek proclivities for which nero had been criticized were regarded from the time of hadrian onward as integral to imperial culture.[ ] educated women portrait of a literary woman from pompeii (ca. ad) literate women ranged from cultured aristocrats to girls trained to be calligraphers and scribes.[ ][ ] the "girlfriends" addressed in augustan love poetry, although fictional, represent an ideal that a desirable woman should be educated, well-versed in the arts, and independent to a frustrating degree.[ ][ ] education seems to have been standard for daughters of the senatorial and equestrian orders during the empire.[ ] a highly educated wife was an asset for the socially ambitious household, but one that martial regards as an unnecessary luxury.[ ] the woman who achieved the greatest prominence in the ancient world for her learning was hypatia of alexandria, who educated young men in mathematics, philosophy, and astronomy, and advised the roman prefect of egypt on politics. her influence put her into conflict with the bishop of alexandria, cyril, who may have been implicated in her violent death in at the hands of a christian mob.[ ] shape of literacy literacy began to decline, perhaps dramatically, during the socio-political crisis of the third century.[ ] after the christianization of the roman empire the christians and church fathers adopted and used latin and greek pagan literature, philosophy and natural science with a vengeance to biblical interpretation.[ ] edward grant writes that: with the total triumph of christianity at the end of the fourth century, the church might have reacted against greek pagan learning in general, and greek philosophy in particular, finding much in the latter that was unacceptable or perhaps even offensive. they might have launched a major effort to suppress pagan learning as a danger to the church and its doctrines. but they did not. why not? perhaps it was in the slow dissemination of christianity. after four centuries as members of a distinct religion, christians had learned to live with greek secular learning and to utilize it for their own benefit. their education was heavily infiltrated by latin and greek pagan literature and philosophy... although christians found certain aspects of pagan culture and learning unacceptable, they did not view them as a cancer to be cut out of the christian body.[ ] julian, the only emperor after the conversion of constantine to reject christianity, banned christians from teaching the classical curriculum, on the grounds that they might corrupt the minds of youth.[ ] while the book roll had emphasized the continuity of the text, the codex format encouraged a "piecemeal" approach to reading by means of citation, fragmented interpretation, and the extraction of maxims.[ ] in the th and th centuries, due to the gradual decline and fall of the western roman empire, reading became rarer even for those within the church hierarchy.[ ] however, in the eastern roman empire, also known as byzantine empire, reading continued throughout the middle ages as reading was of primary importance as an instrument of the byzantine civilization.[ ] literature main article: latin literature see also: roman historiography, church fathers, and latin poetry statue in constanța, romania (the ancient colony tomis), commemorating ovid's exile in the traditional literary canon, literature under augustus, along with that of the late republic, has been viewed as the "golden age" of latin literature, embodying the classical ideals of "unity of the whole, the proportion of the parts, and the careful articulation of an apparently seamless composition."[ ] the three most influential classical latin poets—vergil, horace, and ovid—belong to this period. vergil wrote the aeneid, creating a national epic for rome in the manner of the homeric epics of greece. horace perfected the use of greek lyric metres in latin verse. ovid's erotic poetry was enormously popular, but ran afoul of the augustan moral programme; it was one of the ostensible causes for which the emperor exiled him to tomis (present-day constanța, romania), where he remained to the end of his life. ovid's metamorphoses was a continuous poem of fifteen books weaving together greco-roman mythology from the creation of the universe to the deification of julius caesar. ovid's versions of greek myths became one of the primary sources of later classical mythology, and his work was so influential in the middle ages that the th and th centuries have been called the "age of ovid."[ ] the principal latin prose author of the augustan age is the historian livy, whose account of rome's founding and early history became the most familiar version in modern-era literature. vitruvius's book de architectura, the only complete work on architecture to survive from antiquity, also belongs to this period. latin writers were immersed in the greek literary tradition, and adapted its forms and much of its content, but romans regarded satire as a genre in which they surpassed the greeks. horace wrote verse satires before fashioning himself as an augustan court poet, and the early principate also produced the satirists persius and juvenal. the poetry of juvenal offers a lively curmudgeon's perspective on urban society. the period from the mid- st century through the mid- nd century has conventionally been called the "silver age" of latin literature. under nero, disillusioned writers reacted to augustanism.[ ] the three leading writers—seneca the philosopher, dramatist, and tutor of nero; lucan, his nephew, who turned caesar's civil war into an epic poem; and the novelist petronius (satyricon)—all committed suicide after incurring the emperor's displeasure. seneca and lucan were from hispania, as was the later epigrammatist and keen social observer martial, who expressed his pride in his celtiberian heritage.[ ] martial and the epic poet statius, whose poetry collection silvae had a far-reaching influence on renaissance literature,[ ] wrote during the reign of domitian. the so-called "silver age" produced several distinguished writers, including the encyclopedist pliny the elder; his nephew, known as pliny the younger; and the historian tacitus. the natural history of the elder pliny, who died during disaster relief efforts in the wake of the eruption of vesuvius, is a vast collection on flora and fauna, gems and minerals, climate, medicine, freaks of nature, works of art, and antiquarian lore. tacitus's reputation as a literary artist matches or exceeds his value as a historian;[ ] his stylistic experimentation produced "one of the most powerful of latin prose styles."[ ] the twelve caesars by his contemporary suetonius is one of the primary sources for imperial biography. among imperial historians who wrote in greek are dionysius of halicarnassus, the jewish historian josephus, and the senator cassius dio. other major greek authors of the empire include the biographer and antiquarian plutarch, the geographer strabo, and the rhetorician and satirist lucian. popular greek romance novels were part of the development of long-form fiction works, represented in latin by the satyricon of petronius and the golden ass of apuleius. from the nd to the th centuries, the christian authors who would become the latin church fathers were in active dialogue with the classical tradition, within which they had been educated. tertullian, a convert to christianity from roman africa, was the contemporary of apuleius and one of the earliest prose authors to establish a distinctly christian voice. after the conversion of constantine, latin literature is dominated by the christian perspective.[ ] when the orator symmachus argued for the preservation of rome's religious traditions, he was effectively opposed by ambrose, the bishop of milan and future saint—a debate preserved by their missives.[ ] brescia casket, an ivory box with biblical imagery (late th century) in the late th century, jerome produced the latin translation of the bible that became authoritative as the vulgate. augustine, another of the church fathers from the province of africa, has been called "one of the most influential writers of western culture", and his confessions is sometimes considered the first autobiography of western literature. in the city of god against the pagans, augustine builds a vision of an eternal, spiritual rome, a new imperium sine fine that will outlast the collapsing empire. in contrast to the unity of classical latin, the literary esthetic of late antiquity has a tessellated quality that has been compared to the mosaics characteristic of the period.[ ] a continuing interest in the religious traditions of rome prior to christian dominion is found into the th century, with the saturnalia of macrobius and the marriage of philology and mercury of martianus capella. prominent latin poets of late antiquity include ausonius, prudentius, claudian, and sidonius apollinaris. ausonius (d. ca. ), the bordelaise tutor of the emperor gratian, was at least nominally a christian, though throughout his occasionally obscene mixed-genre poems, he retains a literary interest in the greco-roman gods and even druidism. the imperial panegyrist claudian (d. ) was a vir illustris who appears never to have converted. prudentius (d. ca. ), born in hispania tarraconensis and a fervent christian, was thoroughly versed in the poets of the classical tradition,[ ] and transforms their vision of poetry as a monument of immortality into an expression of the poet's quest for eternal life culminating in christian salvation.[ ] sidonius (d. ), a native of lugdunum, was a roman senator and bishop of clermont who cultivated a traditional villa lifestyle as he watched the western empire succumb to barbarian incursions. his poetry and collected letters offer a unique view of life in late roman gaul from the perspective of a man who "survived the end of his world".[ ][ ] religion a roman priest, his head ritually covered with a fold of his toga, extends a patera in a gesture of libation ( nd– rd century) main articles: religion in ancient rome and imperial cult (ancient rome) see also: history of the jews in the roman empire, early christianity, and religious persecution in the roman empire the roman siege and destruction of jerusalem, from a western religious manuscript, c. religion in the roman empire encompassed the practices and beliefs the romans regarded as their own, as well as the many cults imported to rome or practiced by peoples throughout the provinces. the romans thought of themselves as highly religious, and attributed their success as a world power to their collective piety (pietas) in maintaining good relations with the gods (pax deorum). the archaic religion believed to have been handed down from the earliest kings of rome was the foundation of the mos maiorum, "the way of the ancestors" or "tradition", viewed as central to roman identity. there was no principle analogous to "separation of church and state". the priesthoods of the state religion were filled from the same social pool of men who held public office, and in the imperial era, the pontifex maximus was the emperor. roman religion was practical and contractual, based on the principle of do ut des, "i give that you might give." religion depended on knowledge and the correct practice of prayer, ritual, and sacrifice, not on faith or dogma, although latin literature preserves learned speculation on the nature of the divine and its relation to human affairs. for ordinary romans, religion was a part of daily life.[ ] each home had a household shrine at which prayers and libations to the family's domestic deities were offered. neighbourhood shrines and sacred places such as springs and groves dotted the city. apuleius ( nd century) described the everyday quality of religion in observing how people who passed a cult place might make a vow or a fruit offering, or merely sit for a while.[ ][ ] the roman calendar was structured around religious observances. in the imperial era, as many as days of the year were devoted to religious festivals and games (ludi).[ ] women, slaves, and children all participated in a range of religious activities. in the wake of the republic's collapse, state religion had adapted to support the new regime of the emperors. as the first roman emperor, augustus justified the novelty of one-man rule with a vast programme of religious revivalism and reform. public vows formerly made for the security of the republic now were directed at the wellbeing of the emperor. so-called "emperor worship" expanded on a grand scale the traditional roman veneration of the ancestral dead and of the genius, the divine tutelary of every individual. upon death, an emperor could be made a state divinity (divus) by vote of the senate. imperial cult, influenced by hellenistic ruler cult, became one of the major ways rome advertised its presence in the provinces and cultivated shared cultural identity and loyalty throughout the empire. cultural precedent in the eastern provinces facilitated a rapid dissemination of imperial cult, extending as far as the augustan military settlement at najran, in present-day saudi arabia.[ ] rejection of the state religion became tantamount to treason against the emperor. this was the context for rome's conflict with christianity, which romans variously regarded as a form of atheism and novel superstitio. statuettes representing roman and gallic deities, for personal devotion at private shrines the romans are known for the great number of deities they honoured, a capacity that earned the mockery of early christian polemicists.[n ] as the romans extended their dominance throughout the mediterranean world, their policy in general was to absorb the deities and cults of other peoples rather than try to eradicate them.[n ] one way that rome promoted stability among diverse peoples was by supporting their religious heritage, building temples to local deities that framed their theology within the hierarchy of roman religion. inscriptions throughout the empire record the side-by-side worship of local and roman deities, including dedications made by romans to local gods.[ ][ ][ ][ ] by the height of the empire, numerous cults of pseudo-foreign gods (roman reinventions of foreign gods) were cultivated at rome and in the provinces, among them cults of cybele, isis, epona, and of solar gods such as mithras and sol invictus, found as far north as roman britain. because romans had never been obligated to cultivate one god or one cult only, religious tolerance was not an issue in the sense that it is for competing monotheistic systems.[ ] the pompeii lakshmi, an ivory statuette from the indian subcontinent found in the ruins of pompeii mystery religions, which offered initiates salvation in the afterlife, were a matter of personal choice for an individual, practiced in addition to carrying on one's family rites and participating in public religion. the mysteries, however, involved exclusive oaths and secrecy, conditions that conservative romans viewed with suspicion as characteristic of "magic", conspiracy (coniuratio), and subversive activity. sporadic and sometimes brutal attempts were made to suppress religionists who seemed to threaten traditional morality and unity. in gaul, the power of the druids was checked, first by forbidding roman citizens to belong to the order, and then by banning druidism altogether. at the same time, however, celtic traditions were reinterpreted (interpretatio romana) within the context of imperial theology, and a new gallo-roman religion coalesced, with its capital at the sanctuary of the three gauls in lugdunum (present-day lyon, france). the sanctuary established precedent for western cult as a form of roman-provincial identity.[ ] this funerary stele from the rd century is among the earliest christian inscriptions, written in both greek and latin: the abbreviation d.m. at the top refers to the di manes, the traditional roman spirits of the dead, but accompanies christian fish symbolism. relief from the arch of titus in rome depicting a menorah and other spoils from the temple of jerusalem carried in roman triumph. the monotheistic rigour of judaism posed difficulties for roman policy that led at times to compromise and the granting of special exemptions. tertullian noted that the jewish religion, unlike that of the christians, was considered a religio licita, "legitimate religion." wars between the romans and the jews occurred when conflict, political as well as religious, became intractable. when caligula wanted to place a golden statue of his deified self in the temple in jerusalem, the potential sacrilege and likely war were prevented only by his timely death.[ ] the siege of jerusalem in ad led to the sacking of the temple and the dispersal of jewish political power (see jewish diaspora). christianity emerged in roman judea as a jewish religious sect in the st century ad. the religion gradually spread out of jerusalem, initially establishing major bases in first antioch, then alexandria, and over time throughout the empire as well as beyond. imperially authorized persecutions were limited and sporadic, with martyrdoms occurring most often under the authority of local officials.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] the first persecution by an emperor occurred under nero, and was confined to the city of rome. tacitus reports that after the great fire of rome in ad  , some among the population held nero responsible and that the emperor attempted to deflect blame onto the christians.[ ] after nero, a major persecution occurred under the emperor domitian[ ][ ] and a persecution in took place at lugdunum, the gallo-roman religious capital. a surviving letter from pliny the younger, governor of bithynia, to the emperor trajan describes his persecution and executions of christians.[ ] the decian persecution of – was a serious threat to the church, but ultimately strengthened christian defiance.[ ] diocletian undertook what was to be the most severe persecution of christians, lasting from to . in the early th century, constantine i became the first emperor to convert to christianity. during the rest of the fourth century christianity became the dominant religion of the empire. the emperor julian, under the influence of his adviser mardonius made a short-lived attempt to revive traditional and hellenistic religion and to affirm the special status of judaism, but in (edict of thessalonica), under theodosius i christianity became the official state church of the roman empire, to the exclusion of all others. from the nd century onward, the church fathers had begun to condemn the diverse religions practiced throughout the empire collectively as "pagan."[ ] pleas for religious tolerance from traditionalists such as the senator symmachus (d. ) were rejected by the efforts of pope damasus i and ambrose – roman administrator turned bishop of milan ( - ); christian monotheism became a feature of imperial domination. christian heretics as well as non-christians were subject to exclusion from public life or persecution, but rome's original religious hierarchy and many aspects of its ritual influenced christian forms,[ ][ ] and many pre-christian beliefs and practices survived in christian festivals and local traditions. political legacy main article: legacy of the roman empire several states claimed to be the roman empire's successors after the fall of the western roman empire. the holy roman empire, an attempt to resurrect the empire in the west, was established in when pope leo iii crowned frankish king charlemagne as roman emperor on christmas day, though the empire and the imperial office did not become formalized for some decades. after the fall of constantinople, the russian tsardom, as inheritor of the byzantine empire's orthodox christian tradition, counted itself the third rome (constantinople having been the second). these concepts are known as translatio imperii.[ ] when the ottomans, who based their state on the byzantine model, took constantinople in , mehmed ii established his capital there and claimed to sit on the throne of the roman empire.[ ] he even went so far as to launch an invasion of italy with the purpose of re-uniting the empire and invited european artists to his capital, including gentile bellini.[ ] in the medieval west, "roman" came to mean the church and the pope of rome. the greek form romaioi remained attached to the greek-speaking christian population of the eastern roman empire, and is still used by greeks in addition to their common appellation.[ ] the roman empire's territorial legacy of controlling the italian peninsula would influence italian nationalism and the unification of italy (risorgimento) in .[ ] further roman imperialism was claimed by fascist ideology, particularly by the italian empire and nazi germany. the virginia state capitol (left), built in the late s, was modelled after the maison carrée, a gallo-roman temple built around bc under augustus. in the united states, the founders were educated in the classical tradition,[ ] and used classical models for landmarks and buildings in washington, d.c., to avoid the feudal and religious connotations of european architecture such as castles and cathedrals.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] in forming their theory of the mixed constitution, the founders looked to athenian democracy and roman republicanism for models, but regarded the roman emperor as a figure of tyranny.[ ][ ] they nonetheless adopted roman imperial forms such as the dome, as represented by the us capitol and numerous state capitol buildings, to express classical ideals through architecture.[ ][ ] thomas jefferson saw the empire as a negative political lesson, but was a chief proponent of its architectural models. jefferson's design for the virginia state capitol, for instance, is modelled directly from the maison carrée, a gallo-roman temple built under augustus.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] the renovations of the national mall at the beginning of the th century have been viewed as expressing a more overt imperialist kinship with rome.[ ][ ][ ] see also 	ancient rome portal 	history portal 	asia portal 	daqin ("great qin"), the ancient chinese name for the roman empire; see also sino-roman relations 	fall of the western roman empire 	imperial italy 	list of roman dynasties notes 	^ other ways of referring to the "roman empire" among the romans and greeks themselves included res publica romana or imperium romanorum (also in greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων – basileía tôn rhōmaíōn – ["dominion (literally 'kingdom' but also interpreted as 'empire') of the romans"]) and romania. res publica means roman "commonwealth" and can refer to both the republican and the imperial eras. imperium romanum (or "romanorum") refers to the territorial extent of roman authority. populus romanus ("the roman people") was/is often used to indicate the roman state in matters involving other nations. the term romania, initially a colloquial term for the empire's territory as well as a collective name for its inhabitants, appears in greek and latin sources from the th century onward and was eventually carried over to the eastern roman empire (see r. l. wolff, "romania: the latin empire of constantinople" in speculum ( ), pp. – and especially pp. – ). 	^ between and there was an interregnum when the empire was divided into the empire of nicaea, the empire of trebizond and the despotate of epirus – all contenders for rule of the empire. the empire of nicaea is considered[by whom?] the legitimate continuation of the roman empire because it managed to re-take constantinople. 	^ the final emperor to rule over all of the roman empire's territories before its conversion to a diarchy. 	^ officially the final emperor of the western empire. 	^ final ruler to be universally recognized as roman emperor, including by the surviving empire in the east, the papacy, and by kingdoms in western europe. 	^ last emperor of the eastern (byzantine) empire. 	^ abbreviated "hs". prices and values are usually expressed in sesterces; see #currency and banking for currency denominations by period. 	^ the ottomans sometimes called their state the "empire of rûm" (ottoman turkish: دولت علنإه روم‎, lit. 'exalted state of rome'). in this sense, it could be argued that a "roman" empire survived until the early th century. see the following: roy, kaushik ( ). military transition in early modern asia, - : cavalry, guns, government and ships. bloomsbury studies in military history. london: bloomsbury publishing. p.  . isbn  - - - - . retrieved january . after the capture of constantinople, the capital of the byzantine empire became the capital of the ottoman empire. the osmanli turks called their empire the empire of rum (rome).) 	^ prudentius ( – ) in particular christianizes the theme in his poetry, as noted by marc mastrangelo, the roman self in late antiquity: prudentius and the poetics of the soul (johns hopkins university press, ), pp. , . st. augustine, however, distinguished between the secular and eternal "rome" in the city of god. see also j. rufus fears, "the cult of jupiter and roman imperial ideology," aufstieg und niedergang der römischen welt ii. . ( ), p. , on how classical roman ideology influenced christian imperial doctrine; bang, peter fibiger ( ) "the king of kings: universal hegemony, imperial power, and a new comparative history of rome," in the roman empire in context: historical and comparative perspectives. john wiley & sons; and the greek concept of globalism (oikouménē). 	^ the civis ("citizen") stands in explicit contrast to a peregrina, a foreign or non-roman woman: a.n. sherwin-white ( ) roman citizenship. oxford university press. pp. and ; frier, pp. – , . in the form of legal marriage called conubium, the father's legal status determined the child's, but conubium required that both spouses be free citizens. a soldier, for instance, was banned from marrying while in service, but if he formed a long-term union with a local woman while stationed in the provinces, he could marry her legally after he was discharged, and any children they had would be considered the offspring of citizens—in effect granting the woman retroactive citizenship. the ban was in place from the time of augustus until it was rescinded by septimius severus in ad. see sara elise phang, the marriage of roman soldiers ( b.c.–a.d. ): law and family in the imperial army (brill, ), p. , and pat southern, the roman army: a social and institutional history (oxford university press, ), p. . 	^ that is, a double standard was in place: a married woman could have sex only with her husband, but a married man did not commit adultery if he had sex with a prostitute, slave, or person of marginalized status. see mcginn, thomas a. j. ( ). "concubinage and the lex iulia on adultery". transactions of the american philological association. : – ( ). doi: . / . jstor  . ; martha c. nussbaum ( ) "the incomplete feminism of musonius rufus, platonist, stoic, and roman," in the sleep of reason: erotic experience and sexual ethics in ancient greece and rome. university of chicago press. p. , noting that custom "allowed much latitude for personal negotiation and gradual social change"; elaine fantham, "stuprum: public attitudes and penalties for sexual offences in republican rome," in roman readings: roman response to greek literature from plautus to statius and quintilian (walter de gruyter, ), p. , citing papinian, de adulteriis i and modestinus, liber regularum i. eva cantarella, bisexuality in the ancient world (yale university press, , , originally published in italian), p. ; edwards, pp. – . 	^ the relation of the equestrian order to the "public horse" and roman cavalry parades and demonstrations (such as the lusus troiae) is complex, but those who participated in the latter seem, for instance, to have been the equites who were accorded the high-status (and quite limited) seating at the theatre by the lex roscia theatralis. senators could not possess the "public horse." see wiseman, pp. – . 	^ ancient gades, in roman spain, and patavium, in the celtic north of italy, were atypically wealthy cities, and having equestrians in one city was unusual. strabo . , . 	^ vout, p. . the college of centonarii is an elusive topic in scholarship, since they are also widely attested as urban firefighters; see jinyu liu ( ) collegia centonariorum: the guilds of textile dealers in the roman west. brill. liu sees them as "primarily tradesmen and/or manufacturers engaged in the production and distribution of low- or medium-quality woolen textiles and clothing, including felt and its products." 	^ julius caesar first applied the latin word oppidum to this type of settlement, and even called avaricum (bourges, france), a center of the bituriges, an urbs, "city." archaeology indicates that oppida were centers of religion, trade (including import/export), and industrial production, walled for the purposes of defense, but they may not have been inhabited by concentrated populations year-round: see harding, d.w. ( ) the archaeology of celtic art. routledge. pp. – . isbn  x; collis, john ( ) "'celtic' oppida," in a comparative study of thirty city-state cultures. danske videnskabernes selskab. pp. – ; celtic chiefdom, celtic state: the evolution of complex social systems. cambridge university press, , , p. . 	^ such as the consualia and the october horse sacrifice: humphrey, pp. , ; auguste bouché-leclercq, manuel des institutions romaines (hachette, ), p. ; "purificazione," in thesaurus cultus et rituum antiquorum (limc, ), p. . 	^ scholars are divided in their relative emphasis on the athletic and dance elements of these exercises: lee, h. ( ). 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this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 roman–iranian relations - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	roman–iranian relations 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		roman-iranian relations	 	 	 spqr	parthia 	 relations between the roman and iranian states were established c. bc. it was in bc that the two states clashed for the first time; the political rivalry between the two empires would dominate much of western asia and europe until . initially commencing as a rivalry between the parthians and rome, from the rd to mid- th centuries the roman empire (later the byzantine empire) and its rival sassanid persia were recognized as two of the leading powers in the world.[ ][ ] parthia's greatest extent. the roman empire's greatest extent. sassanid persia's territorial extent (and maximum extent). the byzantine empire's greatest extent under justinian. contents 	 relations during the republic 	 relations during the julio-claudian dynasty 	 relations during the flavian dynasty 	 relations in late antiquity 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading relations during the republic[edit] the first direct contact between the roman republic and the parthians was c. bce, when lucius cornelius sulla, while proconsul in cilicia, met the parthian ambassador orobazus.[ ] plutarch reports that he managed to take the central seat between the parthian ambassador and an ambassador from pontus, and concluded a treaty that set the euphrates as the boundary between the two powers. orobazus was executed on his return to parthia for allowing sulla to outmaneuver him, and sulla himself later came under criticism for being too high-handed in his treatment of such a powerful nation. the first time the romans came into direct military contact with parthia came when lucullus invaded armenia in bce, leading to diplomatic friction and clashes on the frontier between armenia and parthia. over the following decades both empires became entangled in each other's civil wars, perhaps beginning with crassus’s disastrous invasion of parthia. parthia was later involved in the civil war after the assassination of julius caesar. in bce, when antony placed a legion in syria, cassius’ envoy labienus joined forces with king orodes of parthia and, led by pacorus, attacked the levant and the asia minor. however, this was not to last as antony successfully sent his general publius ventidius bassus to recover the lost territory. after some difficulty dealing with local parthian appointee kings, the romans finally subdued the regained province and installed herod the great as king. antony’s forces attempted a crossing of the euphrates at the city of zeugma but were held back by parthian defences and had to settle for annexing the armenian kingdom after deposing its king. relations during the julio-claudian dynasty[edit] a parthian warrior as depicted on trajan's column augustus was loath to seek further conflict with parthia. however, the coveted standards were still held by the parthians and this was of great concern to augustus, forcing him to regain them through a less conventional method. in bce, phraates iv usurped the throne of tiridates who fled to syria under the protection of the romans, whence he launched an attack on his native land. although this failed, an agreement was made whereby he could live under the romans as a king in exile if he brokered the return of the roman standards. the standards were returned to the future emperor tiberius, who received them on an island in the euphrates. the next half century saw relations between the two nations antagonistic but not overtly hostile, with the romans unsuccessfully supporting a series of pretender kings, including claudius in ce, indicating the extent to which rome was attempting to influence parthian politics for its own ends. however, during the reign of nero, vologases i invaded armenia and installed his own brother on the throne, disrupting the balance of influence which had hitherto existed there. the ensuing war was ended by a compromise which allowed the parthian prince tiridates and his descendants to reign in armenia on condition that he and his successors received their crown from the roman emperor and ruled as his clients. strabo described the parthian empire as the only rival existing to rome.[ ] relations during the flavian dynasty[edit] during vespasian’s rule parthia seemed to make some attempts to strengthening the ties between the two powers, such as asking to form an alliance at the caucasus against belligerent sarmatian tribes and offering assistance to vespasian against the short lived emperor vitellius once it became clear that vespasian would rule. however, both of these vespasian refused. parthian belt bucket featuring roman cultural influences. relations in late antiquity[edit] sasanian embassy to byzantine empire, stone relief in istanbul archaeological museums, turkey in the nd century ce, the balance of power shifted emphatically in favour of the romans. a series of invasions repeatedly overran mesopotamia and sacked the parthian capital of ctesiphon, made substantial territorial gains in northern mesopotamia and benefited from the manipulation of frequent parthian dynastic civil wars, which eventually undermined the parthian state. under caracalla, an interesting twist in parthian relations occurred. after submitting a request to marry the daughter of persian king artabanus v (potentially allowing an heir to assume control of both empires) caracalla massacred the diplomatic party sent to arrange the marriage and attempted an invasion of persia in . this was eventually unsuccessful and the persians soon retaliated, inflicting heavy losses upon the romans. the replacement of the parthian empire by that of the sassanids in ce, which was more stable and effectively organised, shifted the balance of power against the romans. the neighboring rivaling sasanian empire and the roman-byzantine empire were recognized as the two leading world powers, for a period of more than years.[ ][ ][ ] frequent persian aggression during the rd century placed roman defences under severe strain, but the romans were eventually successful in warding these off and avoiding any territorial losses. indeed, they eventually made significant gains towards the end of the century, although these were reversed in the mid- th century. by that time conflicts attained an added religious dimension. it is in this context that the future of roman–persian relations would be played out over the remaining centuries, continuing into the byzantine era. neither side was able to inflict a decisive and convincing military victory against the other, and the movement between hostilities and diplomacy would continue to play out between each power. according to some sources, two years before his death, shapur i married a daughter of aurelian, and attempted to further romanize the city of gundeshapur, which was mainly populated by the roman prisoners-of-war back then.[ ] in the th century, romans provided a subsidy as the sassanians requested, to construct defenses in derbent, through which incursions from tribes of the northern steppes endangered both empires.[ ] in ad, , roman populations of sophene, armenia, mesopotamia, syria, and cappadocia were captured and deported by the "huns". the prisoners were freed by the persians as they reached persia, and were settled in slōk (wēh ardashīr) and kōkbā (kōkhē). the author of the text liber calipharum has praised the king yazdegerd i ( – ) for his treatment of the deportees, who also allowed some to return.[ ] see also[edit] 	italy-iran relations 	parthia 	romans in persia 	roman empire 	byzantine empire 	roman-persian wars 	roman-parthian wars 	roman–sassanid wars 	byzantine–sassanid wars 	sassanid dynasty 	acacius of amida 	roman-parthian wars 	mithraic mysteries notes[edit] 	^ norman a. stillman the jews of arab lands pp. jewish publication society, isbn  	^ a b international congress of byzantine studies proceedings of the st international congress of byzantine studies, london, – august , volumes - pp . ashgate pub co, sep. isbn  x 	^ keaveney, arthur (summer ). "roman treaties with parthia circa -circa bc". american journal of philology. : – – via jstor. 	^ anthony pagden. worlds at war: the , -year struggle between east and west random house publishing group, mrt. isbn  p 	^ (shapur shahbazi ) harv error: no target: citerefshapur_shahbazi (help) 	^ norman a. stillman the jews of arab lands pp jewish publication society, isbn  	^ elgood, cyril ( ). a medical history of persia and the eastern caliphate from the earliest times until the year a.d. . university press. p.  . 	^ http://tourajdaryaee.com/wp-content/uploads/ -if_these_walls_could_speak_the_barrier.pdf 	^ "deportations – encyclopaedia iranica". www.iranicaonline.org. references[edit] 	k. butcher, roman syria and the near east, getty publications, los angeles, isbn  - - - 	r. c. brockley, east roman foreign policy, francis cairns publications, leeds, isbn  - - - further reading[edit] 	full historical overview of byzantine-iranian relations 		v 	t 	e parthian empire 	origins	 	parni 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	auctoritas 	roman citizenship 	cursus honorum 	senatus consultum 	senatus consultum ultimum 	 assemblies 	 	centuriate 	curiate 	plebeian 	tribal 	 ordinary magistrates 	 	consul 	praetor 	quaestor 	promagistrate 	aedile 	tribune 	censor 	governor 	 extraordinary magistrates 	 	corrector 	dictator 	magister equitum 	consular tribune 	rex 	triumviri 	decemviri 	 titles and honours 	 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	praeses 	praefectus 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 	 	other countries 		v 	t 	e the roman senate (latin: senātus rōmānus) was a governing and advisory assembly in ancient rome. it was one of the most enduring institutions in roman history, being established in the first days of the city of rome (traditionally founded in bc). it survived the overthrow of the roman monarchy in bc; the fall of the roman republic in the st century bc; the division of the roman empire in ad ; and the fall of the western roman empire in ; justinian's attempted reconquest of the west in the th century, and lasted well into the eastern roman empire's history. during the days of the roman kingdom, most of the time the senate was little more than an advisory council to the king, but it also elected new roman kings. the last king of rome, lucius tarquinius superbus, was overthrown following a coup d'état led by lucius junius brutus, who founded the roman republic. during the early republic, the senate was politically weak, while the various executive magistrates were quite powerful. since the transition from monarchy to constitutional rule was most likely gradual, it took several generations before the senate was able to assert itself over the executive magistrates. by the middle republic, the senate had reached the apex of its republican power. the late republic saw a decline in the senate's power, which began following the reforms of the tribunes tiberius and gaius gracchus. after the transition of the republic into the principate, the senate lost much of its political power as well as its prestige. following the constitutional reforms of emperor diocletian, the senate became politically irrelevant. when the seat of government was transferred out of rome, the senate was reduced to a purely-municipal body. that decline in status was reinforced when the emperor constantine the great created an additional senate in constantinople. after romulus augustulus was deposed in , the senate in the west empire functioned under the rule of odoacer ( – ) and during ostrogothic rule ( – ). it was restored to its official status after the reconquest of italy by justinian i but ultimately disappeared after , the date of its last recorded public act. the title "senator" continued into the middle ages as a largely-meaningless honorific. the eastern senate survived in constantinople through the th century. contents 	 history 	 . senate of the roman kingdom 	 . senate of the roman republic 	 . senate of the roman empire 	 . post-imperial senate in rome 	 . . senate in the west 	 . . senate in the east 	 see also 	 references 	 bibliography 	 . primary sources 	 . secondary sources 	 further reading history[edit] senate of the roman kingdom[edit] main articles: senate of the roman kingdom and constitution of the roman kingdom the senate was a political institution in the ancient roman kingdom. the word senate derives from the latin word senex, which means "old man"; the word thus means "assembly of elders". the prehistoric indo-europeans who settled italy in the centuries before the legendary founding of rome in bc[ ] were structured into tribal communities,[ ] and these communities often included an aristocratic board of tribal elders.[ ] the early roman family was called a gens or "clan",[ ] and each clan was an aggregation of families under a common living male patriarch, called a pater (the latin word for "father").[ ] when the early roman gentes were aggregating to form a common community, the patres from the leading clans were selected[ ] for the confederated board of elders that would become the roman senate.[ ] over time, the patres came to recognize the need for a single leader, and so they elected a king (rex),[ ] and vested in him their sovereign power.[ ] when the king died, that sovereign power naturally reverted to the patres.[ ] the senate is said to have been created by rome's first king, romulus, initially consisting of men. the descendants of those men subsequently became the patrician class.[ ] rome's fifth king, lucius tarquinius priscus, chose a further senators. they were chosen from the minor leading families, and were accordingly called the patres minorum gentium.[ ] rome's seventh and final king, lucius tarquinius superbus, executed many of the leading men in the senate, and did not replace them, thereby diminishing their number. however, in bc rome's first and third consuls, lucius junius brutus and publius valerius publicola chose from amongst the leading equites new men for the senate, these being called conscripti, and thus increased the size of the senate to .[ ] the senate of the roman kingdom held three principal responsibilities: it functioned as the ultimate repository for the executive power,[ ] it served as the king's council, and it functioned as a legislative body in concert with the people of rome.[ ] during the years of the monarchy, the senate's most important function was to elect new kings. while the king was nominally elected by the people, it was actually the senate who chose each new king.[ ] the period between the death of one king and the election of a new king was called the interregnum,[ ] during which time the interrex nominated a candidate to replace the king.[ ] after the senate gave its initial approval to the nominee, he was then formally elected by the people,[ ] and then received the senate's final approval.[ ] at least one king, servius tullius, was elected by the senate alone, and not by the people.[ ] the senate's most significant task, outside regal elections, was to function as the king's council, and while the king could ignore any advice it offered, its growing prestige helped make the advice that it offered increasingly difficult to ignore. only the king could make new laws, although he often involved both the senate and the curiate assembly (the popular assembly) in the process.[ ] senate of the roman republic[edit] main articles: constitution of the roman republic and senate of the roman republic representation of a sitting of the roman senate: cicero attacks catiline, from a th-century fresco in palazzo madama, rome, house of the italian senate. it is worth noting that idealistic medieval and subsequent artistic depictions of the senate in session are almost uniformly inaccurate. illustrations commonly show the senators arranged in a semicircle around an open space where orators were deemed to stand; in reality the structure of the existing curia julia building, which dates in its current form from the emperor diocletian, shows that the senators sat in straight and parallel lines on either side of the interior of the building. in current media depictions in film this is shown correctly in the fall of the roman empire, and incorrectly in, for example, spartacus. the so-called "togatus barberini", a statue depicting a roman senator holding the imagines (effigies) of deceased ancestors in his hands; marble, late st century bc; head (not belonging): mid- st century bc. when the republic began, the senate functioned as an advisory council. it consisted of – senators who served for life. only patricians were members in the early period, but plebeians were also admitted before long, although they were denied the senior magistracies for a longer period. senators were entitled to wear a toga with a broad purple stripe, maroon shoes, and an iron (later gold) ring. the senate of the roman republic passed decrees called senatus consulta, which in form constituted "advice" from the senate to a magistrate. while these decrees did not hold legal force, they usually were obeyed in practice.[ ] if a senatus consultum conflicted with a law (lex) that was passed by an assembly, the law overrode the senatus consultum because the senatus consultum had its authority based in precedent and not in law. a senatus consultum, however, could serve to interpret a law.[ ] through these decrees, the senate directed the magistrates, especially the roman consuls (the chief magistrates) in their prosecution of military conflicts. the senate also had an enormous degree of power over the civil government in rome. this was especially the case with regard to its management of state finances, as only it could authorize the disbursal of public funds from the treasury. as the roman republic grew, the senate also supervised the administration of the provinces, which were governed by former consuls and praetors, in that it decided which magistrate should govern which province. since the rd century bc the senate also played a pivotal role in cases of emergency. it could call for the appointment of a dictator (a right resting with each consul with or without the senate's involvement). however, after bc, the office of dictator fell out of use (and was revived only two more times) and was replaced with the senatus consultum ultimum ("ultimate decree of the senate"), a senatorial decree which authorised the consuls to employ any means necessary to solve the crisis.[ ] while senate meetings could take place either inside or outside the formal boundary of the city (the pomerium), no meeting could take place more than a mile (  km) outside it.[ ] the senate operated while under various religious restrictions. for example, before any meeting could begin, a sacrifice to the gods was made, and a search for divine omens (the auspices) was taken.[ ] the senate was only allowed to assemble in places dedicated to the gods. meetings usually began at dawn, and a magistrate who wished to summon the senate had to issue a compulsory order.[ ] the senate meetings were public[ ] and directed by a presiding magistrate (usually a consul).[ ] while in session, the senate had the power to act on its own, and even against the will of the presiding magistrate if it wished. the presiding magistrate began each meeting with a speech,[ ] then referred an issue to the senators, who would discuss it in order of seniority.[ ] senators had several other ways in which they could influence (or frustrate) a presiding magistrate. for example, every senator was permitted to speak before a vote could be held, and since all meetings had to end by nightfall,[ ] a dedicated group or even a single senator could talk a proposal to death (a filibuster or diem consumere).[ ] when it was time to call a vote, the presiding magistrate could bring up whatever proposals he wished, and every vote was between a proposal and its negative.[ ] with a dictator as well as a senate, the senate could veto any of the dictator's decisions. at any point before a motion passed, the proposed motion could be vetoed, usually by a tribune. if there was no veto, and the matter was of minor importance, it could be put to either a voice vote or a show of hands. if there was no veto and no obvious majority, and the matter was of a significant nature, there was usually a physical division of the house,[ ] with senators voting by taking a place on either side of the chamber. senate membership was controlled by the censors. by the time of augustus, ownership of property worth at least one million sesterces was required for membership. the ethical requirements of senators were significant. in contrast to members of the equestrian order, senators could not engage in banking or any form of public contract. they could not own a ship that was large enough to participate in foreign commerce,[ ] they could not leave italy without permission from the rest of the senate and they were not paid a salary. election to magisterial office resulted in automatic senate membership.[ ] senate of the roman empire[edit] main articles: constitution of the roman empire, senate of the roman empire, and constitution of the late roman empire after the fall of the roman republic, the constitutional balance of power shifted from the roman senate to the roman emperor. though retaining its legal position as under the republic, in practice, however, the actual authority of the imperial senate was negligible, as the emperor held the true power in the state. as such, membership in the senate became sought after by individuals seeking prestige and social standing, rather than actual authority. during the reigns of the first emperors, legislative, judicial, and electoral powers were all transferred from the roman assemblies to the senate. however, since the emperor held control over the senate, the senate acted as a vehicle through which he exercised his autocratic powers. the curia julia in the roman forum, the seat of the imperial senate. the first emperor, augustus, reduced the size of the senate from members to , even though there were only about to active senators at one time. after this point, the size of the senate was never again drastically altered. under the empire, as was the case during the late republic, one could become a senator by being elected quaestor (a magistrate with financial duties), but only if one were already of senatorial rank.[ ] in addition to quaestors, elected officials holding a range of senior positions were routinely granted senatorial rank by virtue of the offices that they held.[ ] if an individual was not of senatorial rank, there were two ways for him to become a senator. under the first method, the emperor manually granted that individual the authority to stand for election to the quaestorship,[ ] while under the second method, the emperor appointed that individual to the senate by issuing a decree.[ ] under the empire, the power that the emperor held over the senate was absolute.[ ] the two consuls were a part of the senate, but had more power than the senators. during senate meetings, the emperor sat between the two consuls,[ ] and usually acted as the presiding officer. senators of the early empire could ask extraneous questions or request that a certain action be taken by the senate. higher ranking senators spoke before those of lower rank, although the emperor could speak at any time.[ ] besides the emperor, consuls and praetors could also preside over the senate. since no senator could stand for election to a magisterial office without the emperor's approval, senators usually did not vote against bills that had been presented by the emperor. if a senator disapproved of a bill, he usually showed his disapproval by not attending the senate meeting on the day that the bill was to be voted on.[ ] while the roman assemblies continued to meet after the founding of the empire, their powers were all transferred to the senate, and so senatorial decrees (senatus consulta) acquired the full force of law.[ ] the legislative powers of the imperial senate were principally of a financial and an administrative nature, although the senate did retain a range of powers over the provinces.[ ] during the early roman empire, all judicial powers that had been held by the roman assemblies were also transferred to the senate. for example, the senate now held jurisdiction over criminal trials. in these cases, a consul presided, the senators constituted the jury, and the verdict was handed down in the form of a decree (senatus consultum),[ ][ ] and, while a verdict could not be appealed, the emperor could pardon a convicted individual through a veto. the emperor tiberius transferred all electoral powers from the assemblies to the senate,[ ] and, while theoretically the senate elected new magistrates, the approval of the emperor was always needed before an election could be finalized. around ad, the emperor diocletian enacted a series of constitutional reforms. in one such reform, he asserted the right of the emperor to take power without the theoretical consent of the senate, thus depriving the senate of its status as the ultimate repository of supreme power. diocletian's reforms also ended whatever illusion had remained that the senate had independent legislative, judicial, or electoral powers. the senate did, however, retain its legislative powers over public games in rome, and over the senatorial order. the senate also retained the power to try treason cases, and to elect some magistrates, but only with the permission of the emperor. in the final years of the western empire, the senate would sometimes try to appoint their own emperor, such as in the case of eugenius, who was later defeated by forces loyal to theodosius i. the senate remained the last stronghold of the traditional roman religion in the face of the spreading christianity, and several times attempted to facilitate the return of the altar of victory (first removed by constantius ii) to the senatorial curia. according to the historia augusta (elagabalus . and . ) emperor elagabalus had his mother or grandmother take part in senate proceedings. "and elagabalus was the only one of all the emperors under whom a woman attended the senate like a man, just as though she belonged to the senatorial order" (david magie's translation). according to the same work, elagabalus also established a women's senate called the senaculum, which enacted rules to be applied to matrons regarding clothing, chariot riding, the wearing of jewelry, etc. (elagabalus . and aurelian . ). before this, agrippina the younger, mother of nero, had been listening to senate proceedings, concealed behind a curtain, according to tacitus (annales, . ). post-imperial senate in rome[edit] senate in the west[edit] after the fall of the western roman empire, the senate continued to function under the germanic chieftain odoacer, and then under ostrogothic rule. the authority of the senate rose considerably under barbarian leaders, who sought to protect the institution. this period was characterized by the rise of prominent roman senatorial families, such as the anicii, while the senate's leader, the princeps senatus, often served as the right hand of the barbarian leader. it is known that the senate successfully installed laurentius as pope in , despite the fact that both king theodoric and emperor anastasius supported the other candidate, symmachus.[ ] the peaceful coexistence of senatorial and barbarian rule continued until the ostrogothic leader theodahad found himself at war with emperor justinian i and took the senators as hostages. several senators were executed in as revenge for the death of the ostrogothic king, totila. after rome was recaptured by the imperial (byzantine) army, the senate was restored, but the institution (like classical rome itself) had been mortally weakened by the long war. many senators had been killed and many of those who had fled to the east chose to remain there, thanks to favorable legislation passed by emperor justinian, who, however, abolished virtually all senatorial offices in italy. the importance of the roman senate thus declined rapidly.[ ] in and again in , the senate sent envoys to constantinople. they delivered pounds (= , kilograms) of gold as a gift to the new emperor, tiberius ii constantinus, along with a plea for help against the lombards, who had invaded italy ten years earlier. pope gregory i, in a sermon from , lamented the almost complete disappearance of the senatorial order and the decline of the prestigious institution.[ ][ ] it is not clearly known when the roman senate disappeared in the west, but it is known from the gregorian register that the senate acclaimed new statues of emperor phocas and empress leontia in ,[ ][ ] and that was also the last time the senate was mentioned.[ ] in , the house of the senate, curia julia, was transformed into a church by pope honorius i, probably with the permission of the emperor heraclius.[ ] in later medieval times[when?], the title "senator" was still in occasional use, but it had become a meaningless adjunct title of nobility and no longer implied membership in an organized governing body.[citation needed] in , the commune of rome attempted to establish a government modeled on the old roman republic in opposition to the temporal power of the higher nobles and the pope. this included setting up a senate along the lines of the ancient one. the revolutionaries divided rome into fourteen regions, each electing four senators for a total of (although one source,[which?][according to whom?] often repeated, gives a total of ). these senators elected as their leader giordano pierleoni, son of the roman consul pier leoni, with the title patrician, since consul was also a deprecated noble styling.[citation needed] this renovated form of government was constantly embattled. by the end of the th century, it had undergone a radical transformation, with the reduction of the number of senators to a single one – summus senator – being thereafter the title of the head of the civil government of rome. in modern terms, for example, this is comparable to the reduction of a board of commissioners to a single commissioner, such as the political head of the police department of new york city. between and , this was a certain benedetto called carus homo or carissimo.[citation needed] senate in the east[edit] main article: byzantine senate the senate continued to exist in constantinople, although it evolved into an institution that differed in some fundamental forms from its predecessor. designated in greek as synkletos, or assembly, the senate of constantinople was made up of all current or former holders of senior ranks and official positions, plus their descendants. at its height during the th and th centuries, the senate represented the collective wealth and power of the empire, on occasion nominating and dominating individual emperors.[ ] in the second half of the th century a new office, proëdrus (greek: πρόεδρος), was created as head of the senate by emperor nicephorus phocas. up to the mid- th century, only eunuchs could become proëdrus, but later this restriction was lifted and several proëdri could be appointed, of which the senior proëdrus, or protoproëdrus (greek: πρωτοπρόεδρος), served as the head of the senate. there were two types of meetings practised: silentium, in which only magistrates currently in office participated and conventus, in which all syncletics (greek: συγκλητικοί, senators) could participate. the senate in constantinople existed until at least the beginning of the th century, its last known act being the election of nicolas canabus as emperor in during the fourth crusade.[ ] see also[edit] 	acta senatus 	aedile 	centuria 	curia 	comitia curiata 	gerousia 	spqr 	cursus honorum 	interrex 	master of the horse 	pontifex maximus 	princeps senatus 	promagistrate 	roman law 	plebeian council 	praetor references[edit] 	^ abbott, 	^ a b abbott, 	^ abbott, 	^ a b c d abbott, 	^ abbott, 	^ a b byrd, 	^ livy, ab urbe condita, : 	^ livy, ab urbe condita, : 	^ livy, ab urbe condita, . 	^ a b c abbott, 	^ a b abbott, 	^ a b abbott, 	^ byrd, 	^ livy, ab urbe condita, . 	^ a b byrd, 	^ abbott, 	^ abbott, 	^ a b c d e byrd, 	^ lintott, 	^ lintott, 	^ a b lintott, 	^ lintott, 	^ byrd, 	^ a b abbott, 	^ metz, , 	^ abbott, 	^ a b c d abbott, 	^ a b abbott, 	^ abbott, 	^ a b abbott, 	^ levillain, 	^ schnurer, 	^ bronwen, . "for since the senate has failed, the people have perished, and the sufferings and groans of the few who remain are multiplied each day. rome, now empty, is burning!" 	^ cooper, 	^ a b levillain 	^ richards, 	^ kaegi, 	^ runciman, . 	^ phillips, – . bibliography[edit] primary sources[edit] 	cicero, marcus tullius de re publica, book two 	cicero, marcus tullius ( ). the political works of marcus tullius cicero: comprising his treatise on the commonwealth; and his treatise on the laws. translated from the original, with dissertations and notes in two volumes. by francis barham, esq. london: edmund spettigue. vol. . 	livy, ab urbe condita 	polybius ( ). the general history of polybius: translated from the greek. by james hampton. oxford: printed by w. baxter. fifth edition, vol . 	polybius, rome at the end of the punic wars: an analysis of the roman government secondary sources[edit] 	abbott, frank frost ( ). a history and description of roman political institutions. elibron classics, isbn  - - - . 	brewer, e. cobham; dictionary of phrase and fable ( ). 	byrd, robert ( ). the senate of the roman republic. u.s. government printing office, senate document - . 	cooper, kate; julia hillner ( september ). religion, dynasty, and patronage in early christian rome, – . cambridge university press. isbn  - - - - . 	hooke, nathaniel; the roman history, from the building of rome to the ruin of the commonwealth, f. rivington (rome). original in new york public library 	kaegi, walter emil ( march ). heraclius, emperor of byzantium. cambridge university press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	levillain, philippe ( ). the papacy: gaius-proxies. psychology press. isbn  - - - - . 	lintott, andrew ( ). the constitution of the roman republic. oxford university press ( isbn  - - - ). 	metz, david ( ). daily life of the ancient romans. pp.  & . isbn  - - - - . 	neil, bronwen; matthew j. dal santo ( september ). a companion to gregory the great. brill. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	phillips, jonathan ( ). the fourth crusade and the siege of constantinople. penguin. isbn  . 	richards, jeffrey ( ). the popes and the papacy in the early middle ages, – . routledge. isbn  . 	runciman, steven ( ). byzantine civilisation. meridian. 	taylor, lily ross ( ). roman voting assemblies: from the hannibalic war to the dictatorship of caesar. the university of michigan press ( isbn  - - -x). 	schnurer, gustov ( ). church and culture in the middle ages – . kessinger publishing ( isbn  - - - - ). 	wood, reverend james, the nuttall encyclopædia ( ) – a work now in public domain. further reading[edit] 		wikisource has the text of the encyclopædia britannica article senate. 	cameron, a. the later roman empire, (fontana press, ). 	crawford, m. the roman republic, (fontana press, ). 	eck, werner. monument und inschrift. gesammelte aufsätze zur senatorischen repräsentation in der kaiserzeit (berlin/new york: w. de gruyter, ). 	gruen, erich, the last generation of the roman republic (u california press, ). 	hoеlkeskamp, karl-joachim, senatus populusque romanus. die politische kultur der republik – dimensionen und deutungen (stuttgart: franz steiner verlag, ). 	ihne, wilhelm. researches into the history of the roman constitution. william pickering. . 	johnston, harold whetstone. orations and letters of cicero: with historical introduction, an outline of the roman constitution, notes, vocabulary and index. scott, foresman and company. . 	krieckhaus, andreas, senatorische familien und ihre patriae ( ./ . jahrhundert n. chr.) (hamburg: verlag dr. kovac, ) (studien zur geschichtesforschung des altertums, ). 	millar, fergus, the emperor in the roman world, (london, duckworth, , ). 	mommsen, theodor. roman constitutional law. – 	talbert, richard a. the senate of imperial rome (princeton, princeton univerversity press, ). 	tighe, ambrose. the development of the roman constitution. d. apple & co. . 	von fritz, kurt. the theory of the mixed constitution in antiquity. columbia university press, new york. . 	 	v 	t 	e roman constitution 	ancient rome	 	history 	constitution 	senate 	assemblies 	curiate 	century 	tribal 	plebeian 	magistrates 	roman kingdom	 	history 	constitution 	senate 	assemblies 	magistrates 	roman republic	 	history 	constitution (reforms of sulla • reforms of caesar • reforms of augustus) 	senate 	assemblies 	magistrates 	roman empire	 	history 	(post diocletian) 	constitution 	(post diocletian) 	senate 	assemblies 	magistrates 	miscellaneous	 	sulla's constitutional reforms 	caesar's 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	philostratus 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		lucius flavius philostratus, greek sophist of roman imperial period for other people named philostratus, see philostratus (disambiguation). philostratus or lucius flavius philostratus (/fɪˈlɒstrətəs/; greek: Φλάβιος Φιλόστρατος;[ ] c. – / ad), called "the athenian", was a greek sophist of the roman imperial period. his father was a minor sophist of the same name. he was born probably around , and is said by the suda to have been living in the reign of emperor philip the arab ( – ). his death possibly occurred in tyre c. ad. contents 	 name and identity 	 works attributed to philostratus 	 translations 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links name and identity[edit] some ambiguity surrounds his name. the praenomen flavius is given in the lives of the sophists and tzetzes. eunapius and synesius call him a lemnian; photius a tyrian; his letters refer to him as an athenian. it is probable that he was born in lemnos, studied and taught at athens, and then settled in rome (where he would naturally be called atheniensis) as a member of the learned circle with which empress julia domna surrounded herself. works attributed to philostratus[edit] historians agree that philostratus authored at least five works: life of apollonius of tyana (Τὰ ἐς τὸν Τυανέα Ἀπολλώνιον; latin: vita apollonii), lives of the sophists (Βίοι Σοφιστῶν), gymnasticus (Γυμναστικός), heroicus (Ἡρωικός) and epistolae (Ἐπιστολαί). another work, imagines (Εἰκόνες), is usually assigned to his son-in-law philostratus of lemnos. heroicus (on heroes, – ad) is in the form of a dialogue between a phoenician traveler and a vine-tender or groundskeeper (ἀμπελουργός ampelourgos), regarding protesilaus (or "protosilaos"), the first achaean warrior to be killed at the siege of troy, as described in the iliad. the dialogue extends into a discussion and critique of homer's presentation of heroes and gods, based on the greater authority of the dead protosileus, who lives after death and communicates with the ampelourgos. heroicus includes achilles' "ode to echo".[ ] life of apollonius of tyana, written between and ad, tells the story of apollonius of tyana (c. – c. ad), a pythagorean philosopher and teacher. philostratus wrote the book for julia domna, wife of septimius severus and mother of caracalla. the book was completed after her death. lives of the sophists, written between and ad, is a semi-biographical history of the greek sophists. the book is dedicated to a consul antonius gordianus, perhaps one of the two gordians who were killed in . the work is divided into two parts: the first dealing with the ancient sophists, e.g. gorgias, the second with the later school, e.g. herodes atticus. the lives are not in the true sense biographical, but rather picturesque impressions of leading representatives of an attitude of mind full of curiosity, alert and versatile, but lacking scientific method, preferring the external excellence of style and manner to the solid achievements of serious writing. the philosopher, as he says, investigates truth; the sophist embellishes it, and takes it for granted. gymnasticus, written after ad, contains accounts concerning the olympic games and athletic contests in general. epistolae, or love letters, breathe the spirit of the new comedy and the alexandrine poets; portions of letter are almost literally translated in ben jonson's song to celia, "drink to me only with thine eyes." the letters are mainly of an erotic character. their publication date is unknown. internal evidence confirms that the authors of life of apollonius and lives of the sophists are one and the same.[citation needed] the lives of the sophists was to have an enormous impact upon later writers, particularly neoplatonists.[citation needed] translations[edit] 	alciphron, aelian, and philostratus, the letters. translated by a. r. benner, f. h. fobes. . loeb classical library. isbn  - - - - 	philostratus, lives of the sophists. eunapius, lives of the philosophers and sophists. translated by wilmer c. wright. . loeb classical library. isbn  - - - - 	philostratus, apollonius of tyana. volumes. translated by christopher p. jones. - . loeb classical library. isbn  - - - - , isbn  - - - - , and isbn  - - - - 	philostratus, heroicus; gymnasticus; discourses and . edited and translated by jeffrey rusten and jason könig. loeb classical library. (cambridge, massachusetts and london, england, ). 	philostratos, leben der sophisten. greek and german by kai brodersen. wiesbaden: marix , isbn  - - - - 	philostratos, sport in der antike (peri gymnastikes). greek and german by kai brodersen. wiesbaden: marix, , isbn  - - - - . notes[edit] 	^ flavius philostratus, phlauiu philostratu bioi sophistōn, mohr, , p. xxv. 	^ sophia papaioannou, redesigning achilles: 'recycling' the epic cycle in the 'little iliad' (ovid, metamorphoses . - . ). berlin/new york. paul, george m. ( ) - page "nagy's article comments on an interesting but little known literary reception of achilles, namely his representation as a lyric poet and lyre-player, singing a song to echo (a code name for the muse) in the company of helen of troy. ... and the two heroes, now souls distanced from their epic lives/roles, have become bards who sing of their own deeds. cf. maclean and aitken above for a translation of the heroicus, including achilles' 'ode to echo'." references[edit] 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "philostratus". encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. p.  . further reading[edit] 	aitken, ellen bradshaw, and jennifer kay berenson maclean, eds. . philostratus’s “heroikos”: religion and cultural identity in the third century c.e. atlanta: society of biblical literature. 	bowie, ewen l., and jaś elsner, eds. . philostratus. cambridge, uk: cambridge univ. press. 	bryson, norman. . "philostratus and the imaginary museum." in art and text in ancient greek culture. edited by simon goldhill and robin osborne, – . cambridge, uk: cambridge univ. press. 	elsner, jaś. . "beyond compare: pagan saint and christian god in late antiquity." critical inquiry : – . 	eshleman, kendra joy. . "defining the circle of sophists: philostratus and the construction of the second sophistic." classical philology : – . 	demoen, k., and danny praet, eds. . theios sophistes: essays on flavius philostratus’ “vita apollonii.” leiden, the netherlands: brill. 	kemezis, adam m. . greek narratives of the roman empire under the severans: cassius dio, philostratus and herodian. cambridge, uk: cambridge univ. press. 	könig, jason. . "images of elite communities in philostratus: re-reading the preface to the “lives of the sophists.”" in roman rule in greek and latin writing: double vision. edited by jesper majbom madsen and roger rees, – . leiden, the netherlands: brill. 	potter, david. . the victor’s crown: a history of ancient sport from homer to byzantium. oxford: oxford univ. press. 	walker, andrew. . "eros and the eye in the love-letters of philostratus." proceedings of the cambridge philological society : – . external links[edit] 		wikisource has original works written by or about: philostratus 		wikiquote has quotations related to: philostratus 	library resources about philostratus 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 by philostratus 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	livius, philostratus updates the subsequent article with some ninety years of more recent research. 	online text: philostratus, on heroes (heroicus) translated by ellen bradshaw aitken and jennifer k. berenson maclean. 	online text: philostratus, life of apollonius of tyana translated by f. c. conybeare 	flavius philostratus entry in historical sourcebook with fresh translations of excerpts from the life of apollonius by mahlon h. smith 	imagines in national széchényi library, budapest 	works by or about philostratus at internet archive 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	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 	 	other countries 		v 	t 	e the roman kingdom, also referred to as the roman monarchy, or the regal period of ancient rome, was the earliest period of roman history, when the city and its territory were ruled by kings. little is certain about the kingdom's history, as no records and few inscriptions from the time of the kings survive, and the accounts of this period written during the republic and the empire are thought to be based on oral tradition. according to these legends, the roman kingdom began with the city's founding c. bc, with settlements around the palatine hill along the river tiber in central italy, and ended with the overthrow of the kings and the establishment of the republic c. bc. contents 	 origin 	 monarchy 	 . chief executive 	 . chief priest 	 . chief legislator 	 . chief judge 	 . election of the kings 	 . senate 	 kings of rome 	 . romulus 	 . numa pompilius 	 . tullus hostilius 	 . ancus marcius 	 . lucius tarquinius priscus 	 . servius tullius 	 . lucius tarquinius superbus 	 public offices after the monarchy 	 notes and references 	 sources 	 further reading 	 external links origin[edit] main article: founding of rome shards of terracotta decorative plaques, th century bc (roman kingdom and etruscan period), found in the roman forum, now in the diocletian baths museum, rome the site of the founding of the roman kingdom (and eventual republic and empire) had a ford where one could cross the river tiber in central italy. the palatine hill and hills surrounding it provided easily defensible positions in the wide fertile plain surrounding them. each of these features contributed to the success of the city. the traditional version of roman history, which has come down to us principally through livy ( or bc – ad or ), plutarch ( – ), and dionysius of halicarnassus (c. bc – after bc), recounts that a series of seven kings ruled the settlement in rome's first centuries. the traditional chronology, as codified by varro ( bc – bc) and fabius pictor (c. – c. bc), allows years for their combined reigns, an average of almost years. since the work of barthold georg niebuhr, modern scholarship has generally discounted this schema. the gauls destroyed many of rome's historical records when they sacked the city after the battle of the allia in bc (according to varro; according to polybius, the battle occurred in / ), and what remained eventually fell prey to time or to theft. with no contemporary records of the kingdom surviving, all accounts of the roman kings must be carefully questioned.[ ][ ] monarchy[edit] main articles: constitution of the roman kingdom, executive magistrates of the roman kingdom, and king of rome the kings, excluding romulus, who according to legend held office by virtue of being the city's founder, were all elected by the people of rome to serve for life, with none of the kings relying on military force to gain or keep the throne. the insignia of the kings of rome were twelve lictors wielding the fasces bearing axes, the right to sit upon a curule chair, the purple toga picta, red shoes, and a white diadem around the head. of all these insignia, the most important was the purple toga. chief executive[edit] the king was invested with supreme military, executive, and judicial authority through the use of imperium, formally granted to the king by the comitia curiata with the passing of the lex curiata de imperio at the beginning of each king's reign. the imperium of the king was held for life and protected him from ever being brought to trial for his actions. as the king was the sole owner of imperium in rome at the time, he possessed ultimate executive power and unchecked military authority as the commander-in-chief of all rome's legions. also, the laws that kept citizens safe from magistrates' misuse of imperium did not exist during the monarchical period. another power of the king was the power to either appoint or nominate all officials to offices. the king would appoint a tribunus celerum to serve as both the tribune of the ramnes tribe in rome and as the commander of the king's personal bodyguard, the celeres. the king was required to appoint the tribune upon entering office and the tribune left office upon the king's death. the tribune was second in rank to the king and also possessed the power to convene the curiate assembly and lay legislation before it. another officer appointed by the king was the praefectus urbi, who acted as the warden of the city. when the king was absent from the city, the prefect held all of the king's powers and abilities, even to the point of being bestowed with imperium while inside the city. the king even received the right to be the only person to appoint patricians to the senate. chief priest[edit] what is known for certain is that the king alone possessed the right to the auspice on behalf of rome as its chief augur, and no public business could be performed without the will of the gods made known through auspices. the people knew the king as a mediator between them and the gods (cf. latin pontifex, "bridge-builder", in this sense, between men and the gods) and thus viewed the king with religious awe. this made the king the head of the national religion and its chief executive. having the power to control the roman calendar, he conducted all religious ceremonies and appointed lower religious offices and officers. it is said that romulus himself instituted the augurs and was believed to have been the best augur of all. likewise, king numa pompilius instituted the pontiffs and through them developed the foundations of the religious dogma of rome. chief legislator[edit] main article: leges regiae under the kings, the senate and curiate assembly had very little power and authority. they were not independent since they lacked the right to meet together and discuss questions of state at their own will. they could be called together only by the king and could discuss only the matters that the king laid before them. while the curiate assembly had the power to pass laws that had been submitted by the king, the senate was effectively an honorary council. it could advise the king on his action but by no means could prevent him from acting. the only thing that the king could not do without the approval of the senate and the curiate assembly was to declare war against a foreign nation. chief judge[edit] the king's imperium both granted him military powers and qualified him to pronounce legal judgment in all cases as the chief justice of rome. though he could assign pontiffs to act as minor judges in some cases, he had supreme authority in all cases brought before him, both civil and criminal. this made the king supreme in times of both war and peace. while some writers believed there was no appeal from the king's decisions, others believed that a proposal for appeal could be brought before the king by any patrician during a meeting of the curiate assembly. to assist the king, a council advised him during all trials, but this council had no power to control his decisions. also, two criminal detectives (quaestores parricidi) were appointed by him as well as a two-man criminal court (duumviri perduellionis) which oversaw cases of treason. according to livy, lucius tarquinius superbus, the seventh and final king of rome, judged capital criminal cases without the advice of counsellors, thereby creating fear amongst those who might think to oppose him.[ ] election of the kings[edit] whenever a king died, rome entered a period of interregnum. supreme power of the state would devolve to the senate, which was responsible for finding a new king. the senate would assemble and appoint one of its own members—the interrex—to serve for a period of five days with the sole purpose of nominating the next king of rome. if no king were nominated at the end of five days, with the senate's consent the interrex would appoint another senator to succeed him for another five-day term. this process would continue until a new king was elected. once the interrex found a suitable nominee to the kingship, he would bring the nominee before the senate and the senate would review him. if the senate passed the nominee, the interrex would convene the curiate assembly and preside over it during the election of the king. once proposed to the curiate assembly, the people of rome could either accept or reject him. if accepted, the king-elect did not immediately enter office. two other acts still had to take place before he was invested with the full regal authority and power. first, it was necessary to obtain the divine will of the gods respecting his appointment by means of the auspices, since the king would serve as high priest of rome. this ceremony was performed by an augur, who conducted the king-elect to the citadel where he was placed on a stone seat as the people waited below. if found worthy of the kingship, the augur announced that the gods had given favourable tokens, thus confirming the king's priestly character. the second act which had to be performed was the conferral of the imperium upon the king. the curiate assembly's previous vote only determined who was to be king, and had not by that act bestowed the necessary power of the king upon him. accordingly, the king himself proposed to the curiate assembly a law granting him imperium, and the curiate assembly by voting in favor of the law would grant it. in theory, the people of rome elected their leader, but the senate had most of the control over the process. senate[edit] main articles: senate of the roman kingdom and legislative assemblies of the roman kingdom according to legend, romulus established the senate after he founded rome by personally selecting the most noble men (wealthy men with legitimate wives and children) to serve as a council for the city. as such, the senate was the king's advisory council as the council of state. the senate was composed of senators, with senators representing each of the three ancient tribes of rome: the ramnes (latins), tities (sabines), and luceres (etruscans) tribes. within each tribe, a senator was selected from each of the tribe's ten curiae. the king had the sole authority to appoint the senators, but this selection was done in accordance with ancient custom. under the monarchy, the senate possessed very little power and authority as the king held most of the political power of the state and could exercise those powers without the senate's consent. the chief function of the senate was to serve as the king's council and be his legislative coordinator. once legislation proposed by the king passed the comitia curiata, the senate could either veto it or accept it as law. the king was, by custom, to seek the advice of the senate on major issues. however, it was left to him to decide what issues, if any, were brought before them and he was free to accept or reject their advice as he saw fit. only the king possessed the power to convene the senate, except during the interregnum, during which the senate possessed the authority to convene itself. kings of rome[edit] 	years bc 			dates are approximate, consult particular article for details 	year	king	other notable information 	 – bc	romulus	myth of romulus and remus; founder of rome; established roman senate, army, first religious institutions. 	 – bc	numa pompilius	established many of rome's most important religious and political institutions; introduced twelve-month solar calendar. 	 – bc	tullus hostilius	defeated and destroyed alba longa; integrated the noble alban families into the roman aristocracy. 	 – bc	ancus marcius	established port of ostia; defeated the sabines. 	 – bc	tarquinius priscus	expanded roman hegemony over latium; doubled membership in the senate to ; drained the roman forum, and constructed the cloaca maxima and the circus maximus. 	 – bc	servius tullius	established the servian tribes and the centuries; built the temple of diana and a new wall around the city; instituted the compitalia. 	 – bc	tarquinius superbus	last king of rome; overthrew servius; conquered various latin cities and established colonies; built the temple of jupiter optimus maximus; deposed and roman republic established. romulus[edit] a map of rome in bc. colours show topography, with green lowlands and brown highlands. the latin names of hills are included in all caps. son of the vestal virgin rhea silvia, ostensibly by the god mars, the legendary romulus was rome's founder and first king. after he and his twin brother remus had deposed king amulius of alba and reinstated the king's brother and their grandfather numitor to the throne, they decided to build a city in the area where they had been abandoned as infants. after remus was killed in a dispute, romulus began building the city on the palatine hill. his work began with fortifications. he permitted men of all classes to come to rome as citizens, including slaves and freemen without distinction.[ ] he is credited with establishing the city's religious, legal and political institutions. the kingdom was established by unanimous acclaim with him at the helm when romulus called the citizenry to a council for the purposes of determining their government.[ ][ ][ ][ ] romulus established the senate as an advisory council with the appointment of of the most noble men in the community. these men he called patres (from pater, father, head), and their descendants became the patricians. to project command, he surrounded himself with attendants, in particular the twelve lictors.[ ][ ] he created three divisions of horsemen (equites), called centuries: ramnes (romans), tities (after the sabine king) and luceres (etruscans). he also divided the populace into curiae, named after of the sabine women who had intervened to end the war between romulus and tatius. the curiae formed the voting units in the popular assemblies (comitia curiata).[ ] growth of the city region during the kingdom romulus was behind one of the most notorious acts in roman history, the incident commonly known as the rape of the sabine women. to provide his citizens with wives, romulus invited the neighbouring tribes to a festival in rome where the romans committed a mass abduction of young women from among the attendees. the account vary from to women taken, a significant number for a population of , latins (and presumably for the sabines a well). war broke out when romulus refused to return the captives. after the sabines made three unsuccessful attempts to invade the hill settlements of rome, the women themselves intervened during the battle of the lacus curtius to end the war. the two peoples were united in a joint kingdom, with romulus and the sabine king titus tatius sharing the throne.[ ][ ][ ] in addition to the war with the sabines, romulus waged war with the fidenates and veientes and others.[ ] he reigned for thirty-seven[ ] or thirty-eight[ ] years. according to the legend, romulus vanished at age fifty-four[ ] while reviewing his troops on the campus martius. he was reported to have been taken up to mt. olympus in a whirlwind and made a god. after initial acceptance by the public, rumours and suspicions of foul play by the patricians began to grow. in particular, some thought that members of the nobility had murdered him, dismembered his body, and buried the pieces on their land.[ ] these were set aside after an esteemed nobleman testified that romulus had come to him in a vision and told him that he was the god quirinus.[ ] he became, not only one of the three major gods of rome, but the very likeness of the city itself.[ ][ ] a replica of romulus' hut was maintained in the centre of rome until the end of the roman empire.[ ] numa pompilius[edit] after romulus died, there was an interregnum for one year, during which ten men chosen from the senate governed rome as successive interreges. under popular pressure, the senate finally chose the sabine numa pompilius to succeed romulus, on account of his reputation for justice and piety. the choice was accepted by the curiate assembly.[ ][ ][ ] numa's reign was marked by peace and religious reform. he constructed a new temple to janus and, after establishing peace with rome's neighbours, closed the doors of the temple to indicate a state of peace. they remained closed for the rest of his reign.[ ] he established the vestal virgins at rome, as well as the salii, and the flamines for jupiter, mars and quirinus. he also established the office and duties of pontifex maximus. numa reigned for years.[ ][ ] he reformed the roman calendar by adjusting it for the solar and lunar year, as well as by adding the months of january and february to bring the total number of months to twelve.[ ] tullus hostilius[edit] tullus hostilius was as warlike as romulus had been and completely unlike numa as he lacked any respect for the gods. tullus waged war against alba longa, fidenae and veii and the sabines. during tullus's reign, the city of alba longa was completely destroyed and tullus integrated its population into rome.[ ] tullus is attributed with constructing a new home for the senate, the curia hostilia, which survived for years after his death. according to livy, tullus neglected the worship of the gods until, towards the end of his reign, he fell ill and became superstitious. however, when tullus called upon jupiter and begged assistance, jupiter responded with a bolt of lightning that burned the king and his house to ashes.[ ][ ] his reign lasted for years. ancus marcius[edit] following the mysterious death of tullus, the romans elected a peaceful and religious king in his place, numa's grandson, ancus marcius. much like his grandfather, ancus did little to expand the borders of rome and only fought wars to defend the territory. he also built rome's first prison on the capitoline hill.[ ] ancus further fortified the janiculum hill on the western bank, and built the first bridge across the tiber river. he also founded the port of ostia on the tyrrhenian sea and established rome's first salt works, as well as the city's first aqueduct. rome grew, as ancus used diplomacy to peacefully unite smaller surrounding cities into alliance with rome. thus, he completed the conquest of the latins and relocated them to the aventine hill, thus forming the plebeian class of romans.[ ] he died a natural death, like his grandfather, after years as king, marking the end of rome's latin-sabine kings. lucius tarquinius priscus[edit] lucius tarquinius priscus was the fifth king of rome and the first of etruscan birth. after immigrating to rome, he gained favor with ancus, who later adopted him as son. upon ascending the throne, he waged wars against the sabines and etruscans, doubling the size of rome and bringing great treasures to the city. to accommodate the influx of population, the aventine and caelian hills were populated.[ ] one of his first reforms was to add new members to the senate from the conquered etruscan tribes, bringing the total number of senators to . he used the treasures rome had acquired from the conquests to build great monuments for rome. among these were rome's great sewer systems, the cloaca maxima, which he used to drain the swamp-like area between the seven hills of rome. in its place, he began construction on the roman forum. he also founded the roman games. priscus initiated great building projects, including the city's first bridge, the pons sublicius.[ ] the most famous is the circus maximus, a giant stadium for chariot races. after that, he started the building of the temple-fortress to the god jupiter on the capitoline hill. however, before it was completed, he was killed by a son of ancus marcius, after years as king. his reign is best remembered for introducing the roman symbols of military and civil offices, and the roman triumph, being the first roman to celebrate one.[ ] servius tullius[edit] a map of the city of the four regions, roughly corresponding to the city limits during the later kingdom. the division is traditionally, though probably incorrectly, attributed to servius tullius. the seven hills of rome are shown in green, with latin names. priscus was succeeded by his son-in-law servius tullius, rome's second king of etruscan birth, and the son of a slave. like his father-in-law, servius fought successful wars against the etruscans. he used the booty to build the first wall all around the seven hills of rome, the pomerium. he also reorganized the army. servius tullius instituted a new constitution, further developing the citizen classes. he instituted rome's first census which divided the population into five economic classes, and formed the centuriate assembly. he used the census to divide the population into four urban tribes based on location, thus establishing the tribal assembly. he also oversaw the construction of the temple to diana on the aventine hill. servius’ reforms made a big change in roman life: voting rights based on socio-economic status, favouring elites. however, over time, servius increasingly favoured the poor in order to gain support from plebs, often at the expense of patricians. after a -year reign, servius was killed in a conspiracy by his daughter tullia and her husband lucius tarquinius superbus.[ ] lucius tarquinius superbus[edit] the seventh and final king of rome was lucius tarquinius superbus. he was the son of priscus and the son-in-law of servius whom he and his wife had killed.[ ] tarquinius waged a number of wars against rome's neighbours, including against the volsci, gabii and the rutuli. he also secured rome's position as head of the latin cities. he also engaged in a series of public works, notably the completion of the temple of jupiter optimus maximus, and works on the cloaca maxima and the circus maximus. however, tarquin's reign is remembered for his use of violence and intimidation to control rome, and his disrespect of roman custom and the roman senate.[ ] tensions came to a head when the king's son, sextus tarquinius, raped lucretia, wife and daughter to powerful roman nobles. lucretia told her relatives about the attack, and committed suicide to avoid the dishonour of the episode. four men, led by lucius junius brutus, and including lucius tarquinius collatinus, publius valerius poplicola, and spurius lucretius tricipitinus incited a revolution that deposed and expelled tarquinius and his family from rome in bc.[ ] tarquin was viewed so negatively that the word for king, rex, held a negative connotation in latin language until the fall of the roman empire.[citation needed] brutus and collatinus became rome's first consuls, marking the beginning of the roman republic. this new government would survive for the next years until the rise of julius caesar and caesar augustus, and would cover a period during which rome's authority and area of control extended to cover great areas of europe, north africa, and the west asia.[ ] public offices after the monarchy[edit] main article: roman republic the capitoline brutus, an ancient roman bust from the capitoline museums is traditionally identified as a portrait of lucius junius brutus in order to replace the leadership of the kings, a new office was created with the title of consul. initially, the consuls possessed all of the king's powers in the form of two men, elected for a one-year term, who could veto each other's actions. later, the consuls’ powers were broken down further by adding other magistrates that each held a small portion of the king's original powers. first among these was the praetor, which removed the consuls’ judicial authority from them. next came the censor, which stripped from the consuls the power to conduct the census. the romans instituted the idea of a dictatorship. a dictator would have complete authority over civil and military matters within the roman imperium. since he was not legally responsible for his actions as a dictator, he was unquestionable. however, the power of the dictator was so absolute that ancient romans were hesitant in electing one, reserving this decision only to times of severe emergencies. although this seems similar to the roles of a king, dictators of rome were limited to serving a maximum six-month term limit. contrary to the modern notion of a dictator as a usurper, roman dictators were freely chosen, usually from the ranks of consuls, during turbulent periods when one-man rule proved more efficient. the king's religious powers were given to two new offices: the rex sacrorum and the pontifex maximus. the rex sacrorum was the de jure highest religious official for the republic. his sole task was to make the annual sacrifice to jupiter, a privilege that had been previously reserved for the king. the pontifex maximus, however, was the de facto highest religious official and held most of the king's religious authority. he had the power to appoint all vestal virgins, flamens, pontiffs, and even the rex sacrorum himself. by the beginning of the st century bc, the rex sacrorum was all but forgotten, and the pontifex maximus given almost complete religious authority over the roman religion. notes and references[edit] 	^ asimov, isaac ( ). asimov's chronology of the world. new york: harpercollins. p.  . isbn  - - - . 	^ matyszak , p. . 	^ livy, ab urbe condita, . 	^ livy, ab urbe condita, : 	^ a b "titus livius (livy), the history of rome, book , chapter ". www.perseus.tufts.edu. retrieved - - . 	^ everitt , p. . 	^ everitt , p. - . 	^ matyszak , p. . 	^ he may have chosen this number from the number of the birds who foretold his sovereignty 	^ livy, ab urbe condita, : , 	^ livy, ab urbe condita, : – 	^ matyszak , p. - . 	^ everitt , p. - . 	^ livy, ab urbe condita, : – 	^ livy, ab urbe condita, . 	^ a b plutarch life of romulus . 	^ livy ab urbe book i ch. 	^ plutarch life of romulus book i ch. 	^ everitt , p. - . 	^ matyszak , p. - . 	^ le 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( ). a history of rome. wiley-blackwell. isbn  - - - - . oclc  . 	^ livy, ab urbe condita, : – 	^ everitt , p. - . 	^ matyszak , p. . 	^ a b livy, ab urbe condita, : 	^ livy, ab urbe condita, : 	^ matyszak , p. . 	^ matyszak , p. - . 	^ livy, ab urbe condita, : 	^ matyszak , p. . 	^ matyszak , p. . 	^ matyszak , p. . 	^ everitt , p. 	^ everitt , p. 	^ matyszak , p. . 	^ matyszak , p. - . 	^ matyszak , p. . 	^ matyszak , p. . 	^ matyszak , p. . 	^ matyszak , p. - . sources[edit] 	livy, ab urbe condita. 	everitt, anthony ( ). the rise of rome: the making of the world's greatest empire. new york: random house. isbn  . 	matyszak, philip ( ). chronicle of the roman republic. london: thames & hudson. isbn  . further reading[edit] 	forsythe, gary. a critical history of early rome: from prehistory to the first punic war. berkeley: university of california press, . 	livy, aubrey de sélincourt, r. m ogilvie, and s. p oakley. the early history of rome: books i-v of the history of rome from its foundations. london: penguin books, . 	miles, gary b. livy: reconstructing early rome. ithaca: cornell university press, . 	neel, jaclyn. early rome: myth and society: a sourcebook. hoboken: wiley blackwell, . 	ogilvie, r. m. early rome and the etruscans. atlantic highlands, n.j.: humanities press, . external links[edit] 	library resources about roman kingdom 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	frank, tenney: an economic history of rome. . 	patria potestas: a view of suppressed matrilineality in the early legends of rome 	nova roma – educational organization about "all things roman" 	history of rome podcasts history of rome podcasts 	 	v 	t 	e ancient rome topics 	 	outline 	timeline 	history	 	 	foundation 	kingdom 	overthrow 	republic 	empire	 	history 	pax romana 	principate 	dominate 	western empire 	fall 	historiography of the fall 	byzantine empire 	decline 	fall 	constitution	 	history 	kingdom 	republic 	empire 	late empire 	senate 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wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 phlegon of tralles - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	phlegon of tralles 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 			 	this article needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. find sources: "phlegon of tralles" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · jstor (april ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) 	phlegon of tralles 	born	early second century ad tralles, roman empire (modern-day turkey) 	died	late second century ad unknown 	occupation	chronicler and historian 	notable works	olympiads, on marvels, on long-lived persons, phlegon of tralles (ancient greek: Φλέγων ὁ Τραλλιανός) was a greek writer and freedman of the emperor hadrian, who lived in the nd century ad. contents 	 works 	 reference to jesus 	 references 	 bibliography 	 external links works[edit] his chief work was the olympiads, an historical compendium in sixteen books, from the st down to the th olympiad ( bc to ad ), of which several chapters are preserved in eusebius' chronicle, photius and george syncellus. two short works by him are extant. on marvels consists of "anecdotes culled from sources as diverse as the greek poet hesiod and the roman natural historian pliny the elder. each... recounts a fantastical or paranormal event."[ ] on long-lived persons contains a list of italians who had passed the age of , taken from the censuses of the roman empire. other works ascribed to phlegon in the suda are a description of sicily, a work on the roman festivals in three books, and a topography of rome: 		"phlegon of tralles, freedman of augustus caesar, but some say of hadrian: historian. he wrote olympiads in books. up to the th olympiad they contain what was done everywhere. and these in books: description of sicily; on long-lived and marvelous persons, on the feasts of the romans books, on the places in rome and by what names they are called, epitome of olympic victors in books, and other things. 		"of this phlegon, as philostorgius says, to relate fully in detail what befell with the jews, while phlegon and dio mentioned [these events] briefly and made them an appendix to their own narrative. since this man does not exhibit at all prudently those who would lead to piety and other virtues, as those others do not either. josephus, on the contrary, is like one who fears and takes care not to offend the [sc.pagan] greeks."[clarification needed] reference to jesus[edit] origen of alexandria ( - ad), in against celsus (book ii, chap. xiv), wrote that phlegon, in his "chronicles", mentions jesus: "now phlegon, in the thirteenth or fourteenth book, i think, of his chronicles, not only ascribed to jesus a knowledge of future events (although falling into confusion about some things which refer to peter, as if they referred to jesus), but also testified that the result corresponded to his predictions." he referred to a description by phlegon of an eclipse accompanied by earthquakes during the reign of tiberius: that there was "the greatest eclipse of the sun" and that "it became night in the sixth hour of the day [i. e., noon] so that stars even appeared in the heavens. there was a great earthquake in bithynia, and many things were overturned in nicaea." [ ] references[edit] 	^ emma southon: "fantastic beasts and where to find them". history today, june , p. . 	^ roberts, donaldson & coxe ( ), volume iv, "contra celsum", book ii, chapter , , p. . sfnp error: no target: citerefrobertsdonaldsoncoxe (help) 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "phlegon". encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. p.  . bibliography[edit] 	karl wilhelm ludwig müller, frag. hist. graec., iii 	o keller, rerum naturalium scriptores, i. ( ) 	h diels, "phlegons androgynenorakel" in sibyllinische bücher ( ). 	phlegon of tralles' book of marvels. translated with an introduction and commentary by william hansen. university of exeter press ( ) pp.xvi + . review. external links[edit] 	photius, "bibliotheca" codex - the entry on phlegon's chronicles and list of olympic victors. 	the suda entry for phlegon - greek, english and commentary. 	fragments of phlegon on the passion phenomena - greek/latin and english. 	william smith, "dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology" ( ) v. , page - bitmap and scanned text with list of works 	authority control 	 	bibsys: 	bne: xx 	bnf: cb (data) 	cinii: da 	gnd: 	isni: 	lccn: no 	nlg: 	nsk: 	nta: 	rero: -a 	selibr: 	sudoc: 	vcba: / 	viaf: 	 worldcat identities: lccn-no retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=phlegon_of_tralles&oldid= " 		categories: 	ancient greek writers 	 nd-century greek people 	 nd-century romans 	 nd-century writers 	historians from roman anatolia 	emperor's slaves and freedmen 	ancient olympic games 	people from tralles hidden categories: 	harv and sfn no-target errors 	articles needing additional references from april 	all articles needing additional references 	articles containing ancient greek (to )-language text 	wikipedia articles needing clarification from may 	wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the encyclopaedia britannica with wikisource reference 	wikipedia articles incorporating text from the encyclopædia britannica 	wikipedia articles with bibsys identifiers 	wikipedia articles with bne identifiers 	wikipedia articles with bnf identifiers 	wikipedia articles with cinii identifiers 	wikipedia articles with gnd identifiers 	wikipedia articles with isni identifiers 	wikipedia articles with lccn identifiers 	wikipedia articles with nlg identifiers 	wikipedia articles with nsk identifiers 	wikipedia articles with nta identifiers 	wikipedia articles with rero identifiers 	wikipedia articles with selibr identifiers 	wikipedia articles with sudoc identifiers 	wikipedia articles with vcba identifiers 	wikipedia articles with viaf identifiers 	wikipedia articles with worldcatid identifiers 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			article 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	edit 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		search 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigation 	 	 			main page 	contents 	current events 	random article 	about wikipedia 	contact us 	donate 		 	 	 	 		contribute 	 	 			help 	learn to edit 	community portal 	recent changes 	upload file 		 	 	 		tools 	 	 			what links here 	related changes 	upload file 	special pages 	permanent link 	page information 	cite this page 	wikidata item 		 	 	 		print/export 	 	 			download as pdf 	printable version 		 	 	 	 		languages 	 	 			asturianu 	català 	deutsch 	Ελληνικά 	español 	français 	galego 	bahasa indonesia 	italiano 	עברית 	latina 	magyar 	nederlands 	polski 	português 	Русский 	slovenčina 	suomi 		edit links 	 		 this page was last edited on may , at :  (utc). 	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; 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most of the messages on these coins can still be understood today. contents 	 before coinage 	 cast bronze coinage 	 introduction of greek-style silver coinage 	 the denarius system 	 . as introduced 	 . evolution: weights and fineness 	 . evolution: silver vs bronze 	 . evolution: gold 	 coinage and political messages 	 sources of evidence 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links before coinage[edit] before the introduction of coinage in italy the two important forms of value in the economy were sheep (pecus), from which the latin word for money (pecunia) is believed by some to have been derived, and irregularly shaped pieces of bronze known as aes rude (rough bronze) which needed to be weighed for each transaction. it is unclear when money became commonly used, but roman tradition recorded that pay of the army began during the siege of veii in bc and it appears that aes rude was the currency well before this. toward the end of the th century bc bronze began to be cast in flat bars which are known today, without any historical authority, as aes signatum (signed bronze). these bars were heavily leaded, of varying weights although generally on the order of five roman pounds, and usually had a design on one and later both sides. the actual function of aes signatum has been variously interpreted; although a form of currency they were not coins since they did not adhere to a weight standard. rome produced its own aes signatum around bc which are distinguished by the inscription "romanom" (of the romans) and production continued to about the end of the first punic war in bc,[ ] overlapping some of the developments described below. cast bronze coinage[edit] 	 	o: bearded head of janus, i horizontally below; on a raised disk. 	r: prow of galley right; i above; all on a raised disk. 	anonymous Æ aes grave as ( . g). c - bc. rrc / ; vecchi according to pomponius, a lawyer who lived during the nd century ad, the group of three mint magistrates tresviri monetales was established in bc, but this date seems to be far too early, and if they did not come into existence during the second punic war, the formation of a formal college may not have occurred until some time after bc. the three members of this committee were officially known as the "tres viri aere argento auro flando feriundo" ("the three men responsible for casting and striking bronze, silver and gold"), a lengthy title that was almost always abbreviated to "iii.v.a.a.a.f.f.". julius caesar briefly raised their number to four. according to suidas, the mint was located in (or at least near) the temple of juno moneta on the capitoline hill. by this time rome was familiar with coinage, as it had been introduced to italy in the greek colonies of metapontum, croton, and sybaris before bc and neapolis ca bc.[ ] rome had conquered a large portion of central italy, giving it large quantities of bronze, but little silver. a system of heavy cast leaded bronze coinage was introduced; these issues are known as aes grave (heavy bronze) by numismatists. stylistically the coins were distinctly roman and, due to both their size and their being cast rather than struck, crude compared to the coinage elsewhere around the mediterranean at the time. the standard coin was the as; the word as referred to a coin and also to a unit of weight – in fact, as could also mean any unit – of length, area, and sometimes just the number one.[ ] the bronze coinage was initially a more or less full value currency rather than a token currency, based on the "libral standard" where the as weighed one roman pound (libra) with fractions in units of roman ounces (unciae), with unciae in a libra. the "uncia" was thus also both a weight and a coin of the same weight. this changed when the weight of the aes grave was decreased to approximately unciae ca bc (the "light libral standard", remaining at that level until bc, then suddenly to unciae (the "semi-libral standard") c. the start of the second punic war in bc, finally falling to . – unciae around bc.[ ] in addition to the as and its fractions, multiples of the as were also produced. fractions were much more common than asses and their multiples during the period of aes grave.[ ] by the time of the semi-libral standard, the smaller denominations such as the uncia and semuncia were struck rather than cast. a variety of less common denominations were minted over time; those found in crawford ( ) are listed here. 	bronze denominations in crawford ( ) 	coin 	mark 	earliest example 	date 	value (asses) 	value (unciae) 	decussis 	x 	rrc / 	 – bc 	   	 	quincussis 	v 	rrc / 	 – bc 	   	 	tressis 	iii 	rrc / 	 – bc 	 	 	dupondius 	ii 	rrc / 	 – bc 	 	 	as 	i 	rrc / 	 – bc 	 	 	dextans 	s𐆐𐆐 	rrc / 	 – bc 	 / 	 	dodrans 	s𐆐𐆑 	rrc / 	 bc 	 / 	 	bes 	s𐆐 	rrc / 	 bc 	 / 	 	semis 	s 	rrc / 	 – bc 	 / 	 	quincunx 	𐆐𐆐𐆑 	rrc / 	 – bc 	 / 	 	triens 	𐆐𐆐 	rrc / 	 – bc 	 / 	 	quadrans 	𐆐𐆑 	rrc / 	 – bc 	 / 	 	sextans 	𐆐 	rrc / 	 – bc 	 / 	 	uncia 	𐆑 	rrc / 	 – bc 	 / 	 	semuncia 	𐆒 	rrc / 	 – bc 	 / 	 / 	quartuncia 	𐅀 	rrc / 	 – bc 	 / 	 / introduction of greek-style silver coinage[edit] greek-style struck bronze coins were produced in small quantity with the inscription ΡΩΜΑΙΩΝ around bc; only a handful of examples exist today. they are believed to have been produced on behalf of rome by neapolis, based on the similar style and weight with neapolis' own coinage, and used to facilitate trade in the wake of the construction of the appian way, started in bc. 	 	o: bearded head of mars with corinthian helmet left. 	r: horse head right, grain ear behind. 	the first roman silver coin, bc. rrc / rome entered into a war against tarentum in bc; the tarentines enlisted the support of pyrrhus of epirus. it was in this context that rome produced its first greek-style silver didrachm (rrc / ) with the head of mars wearing a corinthian helmet on one side and the head of a horse with the inscription romano (worn off on the example shown) and a grain ear behind. this coinage may have predated the aes grave discussed above, but was minted and used largely in magna graecia and campania. it was clearly part of a broader trend; payment of roman and allied troops fighting in the pyrrhic war appears to have been crucial in spreading the use of greek-style coinage throughout the southern apennine areas of italy.[ ] this issue is today thought to have been minted in neapolis because it was minted on that weight standard ( . g), not that of metapontum, tarentum, and other south italian cities (which was . g at the start of the war but fell to . g during its course).[ ] this issue was thought earlier to have been minted in metapontum because the grain-ear is the most common type on metapontine coins and the mars head is very similar to the head of leucippus (a local hero, the messenian king who re-founded metapontum, not the philosopher) on an earlier coin produced there.[ ] 	 	o: diademed head hercules right, club on shoulder. 	r: wolf suckling twins, romano in. ex. 	the first roman silver coin minted at rome, bc. rrc / a number of different coins were minted in increasing volumes over the next few years, but the first silver coin now thought to have been minted in rome itself is the hercules/she-wolf didrachm (crawford / ). the date of this issue is likely bc, as the devices on this coin refer to that year's consuls q. ogulnius l.f a.n. gallus and c. fabius c.f. m.n. pictor. hercules, shown on the obverse his club (shown undersized above his shoulder) and a lion skin tied around his neck, was the divine patron of the fabii.[ ] quintus and his brother cnaeus ogulnius had, as curule aediles, prosecuted moneylenders; part of the proceeds were used to set up near the ficus ruminalis a statue of romulus and remus being suckled by the she-wolf as shown on the reverse.[ ] some historians believe that these coins were valued at asses making them denarii, this assertion is based on the account of pliny in the st century ad, where he states that the denarius was introduced in bc. most historians today, however, do not see this as a denarius, but another didrachm. this last and most other roman coins were produced in small numbers until the introduction of the didrachm we refer to as the quadrigatus. the quadrigatus, produced in large quantity starting around bc, was named after the reverse image of victory driving a quadriga and was produced for about decades, becoming more and more debased (to as little as % silver) during the second punic war. the denarius system[edit] as introduced[edit] 	 	o: head roma right. iis 	r: caped dioscuri riding right with couched lances, stars above. 	sestertius, anonymous, rome, bc. rrc / the denarius, which became the main silver coin of rome for over four centuries, was introduced in bc or a few years earlier, and produced in enormous quantity from the silver captured in the sack of syracuse. the denarius (rrc / ), valued at asses as indicated by the mark x and weighing about .  grams ( to a roman pound), was introduced as part of a complex multi-metallic coinage. also in silver was the half denarius, the quinarius (rrc / , marked v), and the quarter denarius, the sestertius (rrc / , marked iis and shown on the left), all bearing a head of roma on the obverse and a reverse of the dioscuri riding with their capes behind (a reference to their supposed assistance to rome at the battle of lake regillus). bronze asses and their fractions (all now struck rather than cast) continued to be produced to a standard of about  grams; this was very quickly reduced to a sextantal standard and finally an uncial standard of roughly gms. by this time, asses outnumbered their fractions, perhaps because legionary pay was increased to the point where the as could become the principal component.[ ] in gold, there were three pieces worth asses (rrc / , marked ↆx), asses (rrc / , marked xxxx) and asses (rrc / , marked xx). all featured a head of mars on the obverse and an eagle with outspread wings standing on a thunderbolt on the reverse.[ ] the eagle is somewhat reminiscent of the eagle that had consistently been a symbol on ptolemaic coinage since the very beginning of the century, and it has been suggested that ptolemy iv philopator may have provided gold for this issue to act as a counterweight to the involvement of philip v of macedon on the side of carthage.[ ] the victoriatus, another silver coin (rrc / ), was also introduced in large quantity at the same time. it seems to have been quite separate from the denarius system proper as x-ray fluorescence spectrometry has shown that these were produced to an entirely different standard of fineness. while an analysis of early denarii, quinarii, and sestertii showed a silver concentration of . ± . %, victoriati from the same period have highly variable fineness ranging from to %.[ ] early finds of victoriati are primarily in southern italy and sicily and it is thought that the victoriati with a weight of / of a denarius were used to pay non-citizens with experience of the greek coinage system in the drachma format to which they were accustomed, but with debased/overvalued coins. the quadrigatus didrachm, which had been retariffed to asses ( . denarii), was removed from circulation almost immediately. evolution: weights and fineness[edit] over the next years, the denarius slowly lost weight. the reason for this is unclear, but in the early days it may have been the ongoing pressure of the second punic war. afterwards the roman state had a debt equivalent to years direct taxation on roman citizens (~ million denarii); this was not fully repaid until cn. manlius vulso returned with the spoils of asia after the treaty of apamea, ( bc).[ ] the weight was officially changed from to the pound ( scruples) to to the pound at that time; it remained relatively stable thereafter.[ ] 	 	o: ant avg iii vir r p c, galley right. 	r: leg iii, aquila and two legionary standards. 	legionary denarius of mark anthony, bc. rrc / 	date 	weight 	 	 . g 	 	 . g 	 – 	 . g 	 – 	 . g the silver content during republican times remained well above %, usually above % with the exception of marcus antonius's later coinage, especially the massive "legionary" issue of coinage of – bc just prior to the battle of actium (an example is shown on the right), rumored to be silver from egypt provided by cleopatra.[ ] evolution: silver vs bronze[edit] 	 	obverse, rrc / , bc. 	obverse, rrc / , bc. 	two denarius obverses showing alternate indications they were worth asses. by about bc (the exact date is unclear) the denarius was retariffed to asses, indicated by xvi on the obverse of the denarius. this appears first on the coinage marked l.ivli (rrc / ), commonly dated to bc. the clear marking with the number xvi was soon again replaced with an x, but often now with a horizontal bar through the centre as shown in the second example on the left (rrc / ); this is sometimes read as a monogram of xvi with all the letters superimposed. the re-tariffing is thought to have been a recognition of a relationship that had developed because of decreased as weights, both due to wear of old asses and to decreasing mint weights of newer ones. this meant that the quinarius was worth eight asses, and the sestertius four asses. the new denarius-to-as ratio lasted for hundreds of years. at about the same time the unit of account changed from asses to sestertii (hs). this may well be an indicator of inflation.[ ] the victoriatus continued to circulate well into the nd century bc. victoriati were later popular in places such as cisalpine gaul where they circulated alongside drachmae of massalia (marseille). evolution: gold[edit] the gold , , and as coins were only minted for a few years; gold in general appears to have been used at first only as an emergency coinage. gold coins reappeared in bc when sulla was gathering funds for the war against mithridates vi of pontus immediately after the financial strains of the social war. sulla's coinage is commonly considered the first for which the name (denarius) aureus was used. aureii were minted in large numbers by julius caesar in preparation for a proposed war against parthia and issuing of the aureus continued to increase after the fall of the republic. coinage and political messages[edit] new denarius reverse design: luna driving a biga, – bc. rrc / eventually a new reverse appeared, first luna driving a biga (two horse chariot) in – bc, and then victory driving a biga in bc – thought to refer to the final defeat of perseus of macedon at the battle of pydna by lucius aemilius paulus in bc.[ ] these victory "bigati" became the most common type of denarius. denarii were marked with special symbols (such as a star or an anchor) from very shortly after their introduction and soon monograms indicating the tresviri monetales (mint masters, often called moneyers, that were responsible for the issue) were on the coins. in some cases the symbols are "punning". the example reverse shown to the left (rrc / showing luna driving a biga) is one such; a shell symbol appears above the horses along with the letters "pvr" below. the shell is thought to be a murex shell; this was the source of tyrian purple (in latin: purpureo) and this, along with the letters, is thought to refer to a furius purpureo.[ ] this type of reference to the moneyers became more and more explicit, and eventually developed into self-advertising to further the political career of the moneyers. denarius reverse celebrating ancestor of n. fabius pictor, rrc / b families who had already had members in the senate were more likely to have further family members elected to political office (and thus become senators). this was so much more likely that only a few consular novi homines (new men) are known to history. advertising on coins was thus often about the moneyer's family. in the coin reverse shown on the right (rrc / b), the legend around the outside indicates that moneyer was n. fabius pictor. the seated individual is wearing a cuirass, holding a spear in his left hand and an apex, the characteristic hat worn by the flamines, in his right. at his side there is a shield inscribed quirin. this is taken to refer to q. fabius pictor (probably the son of quintus fabius pictor the annalist) who was elected praetor in bc and assigned the province of sardinia by lot (livy . . ). he was also the flamen quirinalis and because of this, p. licinius crassus, the pontifex maximus of the day did not allow him to take the sardinian office because of various taboos surrounding the flamen's person, and the need for the flamen to perform certain rites in rome (livy . . – ).[ ] the sardinian praetorship was exchanged for both the urban and peregrine praetorships, and n. fabius pictor remained in rome.[ ][ ] the entire incident was part of the political manoeuvring of scipio africanus against his attackers, which included the fabii.[ ] 	 	o: head lucius junius brutus right, brvtvs. 	r: head gaius servilius ahala right, ahala. 	denarius of marcus junius brutus celebrating his ancestors, bc. rrc / over time, the politics of the day became more and more visible in the coinage. in bc, the first triumvirate had control of rome, and pompey was its preeminent member. there were rumours that pompey was to be made dictator. in this context, the coin on the left (crawford / ) was a powerful political message. the moneyer, marcus junius brutus, placed on the coin two figures from roman history that he claimed as ancestors: 		lucius junius brutus of the junius gens, who was made the first consul of the republic of rome in bc after he expelled lucius tarquinius superbus, the last of the roman kings, and 	gaius servilius ahala, who killed spurius maelius – a knight who endeared himself to the populace of rome by providing free grain during a famine – reputedly in a bid for seeking kingship – in bc. marcus brutus was also known as quintus servilius caepio brutus, as he had been adopted into the gens servilia, from which he was descended on his mother's side. in the face of famine in bc pompey had been made a special commissioner to control the supply of grain; this included the control of all ports and trading centres for five years. there was earlier bad blood between them; pompey had put down an earlier insurrection by marcus aurelius lepidus in which brutus's father had been involved; pompey had had him executed. it was the opposition of cato the younger, brutus's half brother on his adopted family's side, to pompey's requests for land for his veterans of the war against mithradates that gave pompey the incentive to be part of the triumvirate. m. brutus was clearly making a pointed, uncompromising statement of opposition to pompey and the triumvirate while praising his ancestors.[ ] 	 	o: head caesar right, caesar. im p m 	r: venus standing holding victory in right hand and sceptre in left. l. aemilivs bvc. 	denarius minted in the name of caesar by l. aemilius buca bc. rrc / in bc, julius caesar was preparing for war with parthia to avenge the defeat inflicted by the parthians on crassus at the battle of carrhae. to this end, an enormous variety of denarii and aureii were being minted in large numbers. the coin on the right is from january–february bc. the venus holding victory and a sceptre on the reverse was a reference to the claim of the gens julia to descend from aeneas and thus anchises and the goddess venus. this was innocuous to romans, but the obverse showing caesar himself wearing the gold laurel wreath that the senate had voted for him was an enormous departure from tradition and deeply offensive. while the coinage had been used to show ancestors, this is the first time that the head of a living roman had been displayed on roman coinage. it was widely perceived as part of a larger series of moves by caesar to make himself king – and kings were anathema in rome ever since the foundation of the republic. other coins minted at the same time bore the text "dict qvart", indicating that caesar had been dictator for four years running. a later version (rrc / , february–march bc) showed "dict perpet"; caesar had been made dictator for life.[ ][ ] he was assassinated, by brutus among others, on the ides of march, bc. 	 	head brutus right. brvt imp, l.plaet.cest 	two daggers flanking pileus. eid.mar 	modern forgery of denarius of l. plaetorius cestianus celebrating brutus and his action on the ides of march. – bc. rrc / the assassination could not revive the republic. two years later, just prior to the battle of philippi, brutus produced a coin (rrc / , modern forgery shown to the left) celebrating the freeing of the republic from caesar's tyranny. the reverse showed two daggers flanking a pileus (a cap used in the ceremony freeing slaves) and the legend "eid mar". on the obverse, brutus, the "noblest roman", had placed his own head. the republic survived, by convention more than reality, until octavian, caesar's nephew and heir was declared augustus in bc. sources of evidence[edit] the dates on all the coins mentioned above can not be known with absolute certainty. sometimes particular coins can be linked to a well defined event in history, e.g. the "dict perpet" denarii of caesar can be dated very closely to his assassination, but this is rarely the case. much dating of the coinage is based on evidence from coin hoards. the hoarding of coins, especially by burial, was a "banking system" often used in ancient times, particularly in times of crisis; hoarding during the civil war between caesar and pompey was so extensive that it resulted in a liquidity crisis.[ ] hoards can present evidence in several ways 	the location of the hoard can speak to where the coins in question circulated. 	the archaeological context of a coin hoard can set an approximate date for the production of the coinage. as an example, excavations of the temple of artemis in ephesus uncovered coins beneath the temple; the date the temple was built is known and so a terminus ante quem for the period of their production can be deduced. 	the differential wear of coins in a hoard can be used to establish a relative chronology. coins that had circulated longer prior to burial should show more wear. 	the composition of the hoard in terms of coin types can speak to what sorts of coins circulated in the same place at the same time and their relative abundance. from this, relative chronologies can sometimes be extracted. 	comparison of multiple coin hoards can help to establish relative chronologies; if a series of coins is well represented in one large coin hoard and some are missing from a second large hoard, it is likely that they were minted after that hoard was buried. despite all of this, the evidence remains unclear. in this case, numismatic scholars attempt to make their best estimate of the absolute and relative chronology. in english, the current standard work is crawford which built on and superseded the work of sydenham , grueber , babelon , and mommsen .[ ] the chronology used by this article and the identification of coins by the label rrc xx/yy identifies a particular item in that catalogue. there is however newer evidence, particularly in the period – bc, where analysis of the recently discovered mesagne hoard has led to the alternate chronologies of hersh & walker , and harlan . an alternate naming of the coinage of the form "gens ##" (e.g. "fabia " for the th coin minted by a moneyer of the gens fabia; i.e. rrc / ) is also sometimes still used. this was devised by babelon and used by grueber, sydenham, and many newer books. see also[edit] 	list of historical currencies 	roman republic 	roman currency 	roman provincial coins 	list of roman moneyers during the republic notes[edit] 	^ thurlow-vecchi : , , plates – 	^ rutter : , 	^ willis 	^ crawford : – 	^ crawford : , 	^ crawford : 	^ rutter : , 	^ rutter : 	^ thomsen :iii: 	^ thomsen :iii: , 	^ crawford : 	^ crawford : 	^ meadows 	^ walker 	^ harris : 	^ crawford : – 	^ crawford : – 	^ crawford : – 	^ burnett : 	^ crawford : 	^ smith :flamen 	^ feig vishnia : – 	^ broughton :i: 	^ scullard : – 	^ harlan 	^ sear : – 	^ alföldi 	^ burnett : 	^ kroh references[edit] 	alföldi, andreas ( ). caesar in v. chr. volumes, das zeugnis der münzen, vol , isbn  - - - and studien zu caesar's monarchie und ihren würzeln, vol , , dr. rudolph habelt verlag gmbh, bonn. isbn  - - - 	babelon, ernest ( – ). description historique et chronologique des monnaies de la république romaine, volumes 	broughton, t. robert s. ( ). the magistrates of the roman republic, american philological association, volumes. volume i ( b.c. - b.c.) isbn  - - - . volume ii ( b.c. – b.c.) philological monographs number xv, . volume iii (supplement) isbn  - - - . 	burnett, andrew ( ). coinage in the roman world, seaby, isbn  - - - 	burnett, andrew & wartenberg, ute & witschonke, richard eds, ( ), coins of macedonia and rome: essays in honour of charles hersh, spink & son ltd. isbn  - - - 	crawford, michael h. ( ). roman republican coinage, cambridge university press, volumes. isbn  - - - 	crawford, michael h. ( ). coinage and money under the roman republic, methuen & co. isbn  - - - 	feig vishnia, rachel ( ). state, society, and popular leaders in mid-republican rome – b.c., routledge. isbn  - - - 	grueber, h.a. ( ). coins of the roman republic in the british museum, volumes, the trustees of the british museum. 	harl, kenneth w. ( ). coinage in the roman economy, b.c. to a.d. , johns hopkins university press. isbn  - - - 	harlan, michael ( ). roman republican moneyers and their coins bc– bc, seaby. isbn  - - - 	harris, william v. ( ). war and imperialism in republican rome – b.c. oxford university press. isbn  - - - 	hersh, charles & walker, alan ( ) the mesagne hoard, museum notes, american numismatic society pp.  – 	kroh, dennis j. ( ), ancient coin reference reviews, empire coins, florida. isbn  - - - 	meadows, a.r. ( ). the mars/eagle and thunderbolt gold and ptolemaic involvement in the second punic war in burnett : – , plate 	melville jones, john r., 'a dictionary of ancient roman coins', london, spink 	metcalf, d.m. & oddy, w.a. ( ). eds, metallurgy in numismatics, volume , royal numismatic society special publication no. , london. isbn  - - - 	mommsen, theodore ( ). das römische münzwesen, leipzig 	rutter, n.k. ( ). the greek coinages of southern italy and sicily, spink. isbn  - - - 	rutter, n.k. ( ). ed historia numorum: italy, the trustees of the british museum. isbn  - - -x 	sear, david r. ( ). the history and coinage of the roman imperators – b.c., spink & son. isbn  - - - 	scullard, h.h. ( ). roman politics - b.c., second edition. oxford at the clarendon press. isbn  - - -x 	smith, william ( ). dictionary of greek and roman antiquities 	sutherland, c.h.v. ( ). roman coins, g.p. putnam's sons. isbn  - - - 	sydenham, edward a. ( ). the coinage of the roman republic, spink & son ltd 	thomsen, rudi ( ). early roman coinage, a study of the chronology, volumes, , , , nationalmuseet, stockholm. isbn  - - - 	vecchi, italo ( ). italian cast coinage. a descriptive catalogue of the cast coinage of rome and italy. london ancient coins, london . hard bound in quarto format, pages, plates. isbn  - - - - 	walker, d.r. ( ). the silver contents of roman republican coinage, in metcalf : – 	willis, james a. ( ). the multiples of the as. harvard studies in classical philology : – further reading[edit] 	collectors price guides: 	fernández molina, josé & fernández carrera, manuel & calico estivill, xavier ( ). a guide to the denarii of the roman republic to augustus, isbn  - - - 	sear, david r. ( ). roman coins and their values; the millennium edition. volume i, the republic and the twelve caesars. spink isbn  - - -x 	politics, economics, and coinage: 	crawford, michael h. ( ). coinage and money under the roman republic, methuen & co. isbn  - - - 	harlan, michael ( ). roman republican moneyers and their coins bc- bc, seaby. isbn  - - - 	harlan, michael ( ). roman republican moneyers and their coins bce- bce, moneta publications. isbn  - - - - 	sear, david r. ( ). the history and coinage of the roman imperators – b.c., spink & son. isbn  - - - 	vecchi, italo ( ). italian cast coinage. a descriptive catalogue of the cast coinage of rome and italy. london ancient coins. isbn  - - - - 	wiercinska, janina ( ). coins of the roman republic: catalogue of ancient coins in the national museum in warsaw, national museum in warsaw. isbn  - - - external links[edit] 	university of saskatchewan roman coins 	doug smith's ancient greek and roman coins: 	roman coins database complete description of republican coinage with the most beautiful coins on the web 	 	v 	t 	e ancient rome topics 	 	outline 	timeline 	history	 	 	foundation 	kingdom 	overthrow 	republic 	empire	 	history 	pax romana 	principate 	dominate 	western empire 	fall 	historiography of the fall 	byzantine empire 	decline 	fall 	constitution	 	history 	kingdom 	republic 	empire 	late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	curiate 	centuriate 	tribal 	plebeian 	executive magistrates 	spqr 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wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 agriculture in ancient rome - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	agriculture in ancient rome 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		  (redirected from roman agriculture) 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 relief depicting a gallo-roman harvester roman agriculture describes the farming practices of ancient rome, during a period of over years. from humble beginnings, the roman republic ( bce to bce) and empire ( bce to ce) expanded to rule much of europe, northern africa, and the middle east and thus comprised many agricultural environments of which the mediterranean climate of dry, hot summers and cool, rainy winters was the most common. within the mediterranean area, a triad of crops were most important: grains, olives, and grapes. the great majority of the people ruled by rome were engaged in agriculture. from a beginning of small, largely self-sufficient landowners, rural society became dominated by latifundium, large estates owned by the wealthy and utilizing mostly slave labor. the growth in the urban population, especially of the city of rome, required the development of commercial markets and long-distance trade in agricultural products, especially grain, to supply the people in the cities with food. contents 	 background 	 the "delightful" life 	 crops 	 . grains 	 . legumes 	 . olives 	 . grapes 	 . fodder 	 . other crops 	 storage 	 land 	 farming practices 	 trade 	 economics 	 mechanization 	 acquiring a farm 	 aristocracy and the land 	 running a farm in rome 	 problems for farmers 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 . modern sources 	 . primary sources 	 external links background[edit] the main texts of the greco-roman agricultural tradition are mostly from the roman agronomists: cato the elder's de agri cultura, columella's de re rustica, marcus terentius varro and palladius. attributed to mago the carthaginian, the agricultural treatise rusticatio, originally written in punic and later translated into greek and latin, is now lost. scholars speculate whether this text may have been an early source for agricultural traditions in the near east and classical world. [ ] the "delightful" life[edit] agriculture in ancient rome was not only a necessity, but was idealized among the social elite as a way of life. cicero considered farming the best of all roman occupations. in his treatise on duties, he declared that "of all the occupations by which gain is secured, none is better than agriculture, none more profitable, none more delightful, none more becoming to a free man." when one of his clients was derided in court for preferring a rural lifestyle, cicero defended country life as "the teacher of economy, of industry, and of justice" (parsimonia, diligentia, iustitia).[ ] cato, columella, varro and palladius wrote handbooks on farming practice. in his treatise de agricultura ("on farming", nd century bc), cato wrote that the best farms contained a vineyard, followed by an irrigated garden, willow plantation, olive orchard, meadow, grain land, forest trees, vineyard trained on trees, and lastly acorn woodlands.[ ] though rome relied on resources from its many provinces acquired through conquest and warfare, wealthy romans developed the land in italy to produce a variety of crops. "the people living in the city of rome constituted a huge market for the purchase of food produced on italian farms."[ ] land ownership was a dominant factor in distinguishing the aristocracy from the common person, and the more land a roman owned, the more important he would be in the city. soldiers were often rewarded with land from the commander they served. though farms depended on slave labor, free men and citizens were hired at farms to oversee the slaves and ensure that the farms ran smoothly.[ ] crops[edit] grains[edit] staple crops in early rome were millet, and emmer and spelt which are species of wheat. according to the roman scholar varro, common wheat and durum wheat were introduced to italy as crops about bce.[ ][ ] durum (hard) wheat became the preferred grain of urban romans, because it could be baked into leavened bread and was easier to grow in the mediterranean region than common (soft) wheat.[ ][ ] grains, especially baked into bread, were the staple of the roman diet, providing to percent of the calories in an average diet.[ ] barley was also grown extensively, dominating grain production in greece and on poorer soils where it was more productive than wheat. wheat was the preferred grain, but barley was widely eaten and also important as animal feed.[ ] in de re rustica columella wrote that emmer was more resistant to moisture than wheat. according to columella four types of emmer were cultivated, including one variety that he calls clusian (named for the town clusium).[ ] cato wrote that if sowing grain in humid or dewy soils was unavoidable, they should be sown alongside turnips, panic grass, millet and rape.[ ] despite listing panicum and millet among the legumes columella says they should be considered grain crops "for in many countries the peasants subsist on food made from them".[ ] legumes[edit] of legumes, columella lists some that are preferred for cultivation: lentils, peas, lupinus, beans, cowpeas, and chickpeas (also listing sesame, panicum, cannabis, barley, and millet as legumes).[ ] he writes the following about lupinus:[ ] "...it requires the least labour, costs least, and of all crops that are sown is most beneficial to the land. for it affords an excellent fertilizer for worn out vineyards and ploughlands; it flourishes even in exhausted soil; and it endures age when laid away in the granary. when softened by boiling it is good fodder for cattle during the winter; in the case of humans, too, it serves to warn off famine if years of crop failures come upon them." olives[edit] the romans grew olive trees in poor, rocky soils, and often in areas with sparse precipitation. the tree is sensitive to freezing temperatures and intolerant of the colder weather of northern europe and high, cooler elevations. the olive was grown mostly near the mediterranean sea. the consumption of olive oil provided about percent of the calories and about percent of necessary fats in the diet of the average roman.[ ] grapes[edit] viticulture was probably brought to southern italy and sicily by greek colonists, but the phoenicians of carthage in northern africa gave the romans much of their knowledge of growing grapes and making wine. by bce, the cultivation of grapes on large estates using slave labor was common in italy and wine was becoming a universal drink in the roman empire. to protect their wine industry, the romans attempted to prohibit the cultivation of grapes outside italy,[ ] but by the st century ce, provinces such as spain and gaul (modern-day france) were exporting wine to italy.[ ] fodder[edit] columella mentions turnips as important, high-yielding food crop, especially in gaul where they were used as winter fodder for cattle.[ ] as other "fodder crops" he lists medic clover, vetch, barley, cytisus, oats, chickpea and fenugreek.[ ] of medic clover, he says it improves the soil, fattens lean cattle and is a high-yielding fodder crop.[ ] cato the elder wrote that leaves from poplar, elm and oak leaves should be gathered in the fall before they have dried completely and stored for use as fodder. turnips, lupines and forage crops were to be sown after the rainy season.[ ] other crops[edit] the romans also grew artichoke, mustard, coriander, rocket, chives, leeks, celery, basil, parsnip, mint, rue, thyme 'from overseas', beets, poppy, dill, asparagus, radish, cucumber, gourd, fennel, capers, onions, saffron, parsley, marjoram, cabbage, lettuce, cumin, garlic, figs, 'armenian' apricots, plums, mulberries, and peaches.[ ] storage[edit] columella describes how produce is stored and gives advice to prevent spoilage. liquids produced for market like oil and wine were stored on the ground floor and grain was stored in lofts with hay and other fodder. he instructs that granaries be well venilated, cool, with minimal humidity, to prolong freshness. he describes certain methods of construction to avoid buildings developing cracks that would give animals and weevils access to the grains.[ ] press rooms, he advised, should be warm receiving light from the south to prevent the oil from freezing, which makes oil spoil faster. [ ] land[edit] columella describes land as being classified into three types of terrain which he calls champaign (sloping plains), hills with a gradual but gentle rise, and wooded, verdant mountain highlands. of soil, he says there are six qualities: fat or lean, loose or compact, moist or dry. the permutations of these qualities producing many varieties of soils.[ ] columella quotes vergil's comment that loose soil is "what we rival when we plough". of the most preferred types of soil he says the best is fat and loose soil that is the least costly and most productive, then fat and dense which is productive though requiring more effort, and after these are the moist soils.[ ] farming practices[edit] roman hoe blade, from the field museum in chicago in the th century bc, farms in rome were small and family-owned. the greeks of this period, however, had started using crop rotation and had large estates. rome's contact with carthage, greece, and the hellenistic east in the rd and nd centuries improved rome's agricultural methods. roman agriculture reached its height in productivity and efficiency during the late republic and early empire.[ ] farm sizes in rome can be divided into three categories. small farms were from – iugera. (one iugerum was equal to about . acres or a quarter of a hectare). medium-sized farms were from – iugera. large estates (called latifundia) were over iugera.[ ] in the late republican era, the number of latifundia increased. wealthy romans bought land from peasant farmers who could no longer make a living. starting in bc, the punic wars called peasant farmers away to fight for longer periods of time.[ ] this is now disputed; some scholars now believe that large-scale agriculture did not dominate italian agriculture until the st century bc.[ ][ ] cows provided milk while oxen and mules did the heavy work on the farm. sheep and goats were cheese producers and were prized for their hides. horses were not widely used in farming, but were raised by the rich for racing or war. sugar production centered on beekeeping, and some romans raised snails as luxury food.[ ] the romans had four systems of farm management: direct work by owner and his family; tenant farming or sharecropping in which the owner and a tenant divide up a farm's produce; forced labour by slaves owned by aristocrats and supervised by slave managers; and other arrangements in which a farm was leased to a tenant.[ ] cato the elder (also known as "cato the censor") was a politician and statesman in the mid- to late roman republic and described his view of a farm of iugera in the de agricultura. he claimed such a farm should have "a foreman, a foreman's wife, ten laborers, one ox driver, one donkey driver, one man in charge of the willow grove, one swineherd, in all sixteen persons; two oxen, two donkeys for wagon work, one donkey for the mill work." he also said that such a farm should have "three presses fully equipped, storage jars in which five vintages amounting to eight hundred cullei can be stored, twenty storage jars for wine-press refuse, twenty for grain, separate coverings for the jars, six fiber-covered half amphorae, four fiber-covered amphorae, two funnels, three basketwork strainers, [and] three strainers to dip up the flower, ten jars for [handling] the wine juice..."[ ] it is important to note that cato's description is not indicative of the majority of farms in the early nd century bc. the de agricultura is a political document designed to show off cato's character as much as it is a practical guide.[ ] trade[edit] there was much commerce between the provinces of the empire, and all regions of the empire were largely economically interdependent. some provinces specialized in the production of grains including wheat, emmer, spelt, barley, and millet; others in wine and others in olive oil, depending on the soil type. columella writes in his res rustica, "soil that is heavy, chalky, and wet is not unsuited to the growing for winter wheat and spelt. barley tolerates no place except one that is loose and dry."[ ] pliny the elder wrote extensively about agriculture in his naturalis historia from books xii to xix, including chapter xviii, the natural history of grain.[ ] greek geographer strabo considered the po valley (northern italy) to be the most important economically because "all cereals do well, but the yield from millet is exceptional, because the soil is so well watered." the province of etruria had heavy soil good for wheat. volcanic soil in campania made it well-suited for wine production. in addition to knowledge of different soil categories, the romans also took interest in what type of manure was best for the soil. the best was poultry manure, and cow manure one of the worst. sheep and goat manure were also good. donkey manure was best for immediate use, while horse manure wasn't good for grain crops, but according to marcus terentius varro, it was very good for meadows because "it promotes a heavy growth of grass plants like grass."[ ] economics[edit] in the grain-growing area of north africa, centered on the ancient city of carthage, a family of six people needed to cultivate iugera/ hectares of land to meet minimum food requirements (without animals).[ ] if a family owned animals to help cultivate land, then iugera was needed. more land would be required to meet subsistence levels if the family farmed as sharecroppers. in africa proconsularis in the nd century ad, one-third of the total crop went to the landowner as rent[ ] (see lex manciana). such figures detail only the subsistence level. it is clear that large scale surplus production was undertaken in some provinces, such as to supply the cities, especially rome, with grain, a process known as the cura annonae. egypt, northern africa, and sicily were the principal sources of grain to feed the population of rome, estimated at one million people at its peak.[ ] for yields of wheat, the number varies depending on the ancient source. varro mentions : seed-yield ratio for wheat as normal for wealthy landowners.[ ] in some areas of etruria, yield may have been as high as : . cicero indicates in verrem a yield of : as normal, and : in exceptionally good harvest. paul erdkamp mentions in his book the grain market in the roman empire, that columella was probably biased when he mentions a much lower yield of : . according to erdkamp, columella wanted to make the point that "grain offers little profit compared to wine. his argument induces him to exaggerate the profitability of vineyards and at the same time to diminish the yields that were obtained in grain cultivation. at best columella provides a trustworthy figure for poor soils; at worst, his estimate is not reliable at all."[page needed] average wheat yields per year in the rd decade of the century, sowing  kg/ha of seed, were around ,  kg/ha in italy and sicily, ,  kg/ha in egypt,  kg/ha in cyrenaica, tunisia at  kg/ha, and algeria at  kg/ha, greece at  kg/ha.[ ] this makes the mediterranean very difficult to average over all. an agricultural unit was known as a latus fundus mentioned by varro as a great estate.[ ] which can be interpreted as a latifundia or at iugera or around hectares because this is the land limit imposed by tiberius sempronius gracchus as tribune in bce.[ ] with the incorporation of egypt into the roman empire and the rule of the emperor augustus ( bce- ce), egypt became the main source of supply of grain for rome.[ ] by the s ce, the historian josephus was claiming that africa fed rome for eight months of the year and egypt only four. although that statement may ignore grain from sicily, and overestimate the importance of africa, there is little doubt among historians that africa and egypt were the most important sources of grain for rome.[ ] to help assure that the grain supply would be adequate for rome, in the second century bce, gracchus settled , colonists near carthage, giving them about hectares ( acres) each to grow grain.[ ] grain made into bread was, by far, the most important element in the roman diet. several scholars have attempted to compute the total amount of grain needed to supply the city of rome. rickman estimated that rome needed million modii ( , tonnes) of grain per year to feed its population.[ ] erdkamp estimated that the amount needed would be at least , tonnes, calculating that each resident of the city consumed kilograms (  lb) of grain per year.[ ] the total population of rome assumed in calculating these estimates was between , and one million people. david mattingly and gregory aldrete [ ] estimated the amount of imported grain at , tonnes for million inhabitants;[ ] this amount of grain would provide , calories daily per person not including other foods such as meats, seafood, fruit, legumes, vegetable and dairy. in the historia augusta, it is stated severus left million modii in storage - considered to be a figure for the canon at the end of the th century and enough for , inhabitants at lbs of bread per person per annum[ ] pliny the younger painted a picture that rome was able to survive without egyptian wheat in his speech the panegyricus in  ad.[citation needed] in there was an egyptian crisis due to inadequate flooding.[ ] pliny the younger stated that for "long it was generally believed that rome could only be fed and maintained with egyptian aid". however, he argued that "now [that] we have returned the nile its riches... her business is not to allow us food but to pay a proper tribute.[ ] mechanization[edit] arles aqueduct mills below rock-cut channel the romans improved crop growing by irrigating plants using aqueducts to transport water. mechanical devices aided agriculture and the production of food. for example, extensive sets of mills existed in gaul and rome at an early date to grind wheat into flour. the most impressive extant remains occur at barbegal in southern france, near arles. sixteen overshot water wheels arranged in two columns were fed by the main aqueduct to arles, the outflow from one being the supply to the next one down in the series. the mills apparently operated from the end of the st century ad until about the end of the rd century.[ ] the capacity of the mills has been estimated at . tons of flour per day, sufficient to supply enough bread for the , inhabitants occupying the town of arelate at that time.[ ] vertical water wheels were well known to the romans, described by vitruvius in his de architectura of bc, and mentioned by pliny the elder in his naturalis historia of ad . there are also later references to floating water mills from byzantium and to sawmills on the river moselle by the poet ausonius. the use of multiple stacked sequences of reverse overshot water-wheels was widespread in roman mines. there is evidence from bas-reliefs that farmers in northern gaul (present day france) used a kind of automatic harvester or reaper when collecting ripe grain crops. the machine, called the "vallus" or "gallic vallus", was apparently invented and used by the treveri[ ] people. it cut the ears of grain without the straw and was pushed by oxen or horses. pliny the elder mentions the device in the naturalis historia xviii, . possibly because the vallus was cumbersome and expensive, its adoption never became widespread and it fell into disuse after the th century ce.[ ] scythes and sickles were the usual tools for harvesting crops. acquiring a farm[edit] gallo-roman harvesting machine aristocrats and common people could acquire land for a farm in one of three ways. the most common way to gain land was to purchase the land. though some lower-class citizens did own small pieces of land, they often found it too difficult and expensive to maintain. because of the many difficulties of owning land, they would sell it to someone in the aristocracy who had the financial backing to support a farm. though there were some public lands available to the common person for use, aristocrats also tended to purchase those pieces of land, which caused a great deal of tension between the two classes. “mass eviction of the poor by the rich underlay the political tensions and civil wars of the last century of the roman republic.”[ ] another way to acquire land was as a reward for going to war. high-ranking soldiers returning from war would often be given small pieces of public land or land in provinces as a way of paying them for their services. the last way to obtain land was through inheritance. a father could leave his land to his family, usually to his son, in the event of his death. wills were drawn out that specified who would receive the land as a way of ensuring that other citizens did not try to take the land from the family of the deceased. aristocracy and the land[edit] cato the elder, author of a book on roman agriculture though some small farms were owned by lower-class citizens and soldiers, much of the land was controlled by the noble class of rome. land ownership was just one of many distinctions that set the aristocracy apart from the lower classes. aristocracy would "reorganize small holdings into larger more profitable farms in order to compete with other nobles."[ ] it was considered a point of pride to own not just the largest piece of land, but also to have land that grew high quality produce. as marcus cato wrote "when they would praise a worthy man their praise took this form: 'good husband good farmer'; it is from the farming class that the bravest men and the sturdiest soldiers come."[ ] the farms would produce a variety of crops depending on the season, and focused on trying to acquire the best possible farm under the best possible conditions. cato discusses many of the primary focuses of the farmer and how to distinguish a great piece of land. he notes that a good farmer must take precious time to examine the land, looking over every detail. not only did the land need to be perfect for purchase, but the neighbors must maintain their farms as well because "if the district was good, they should be well kept." individuals looking to buy a piece of land had to also take into consideration the weather of the area, the condition of the soil, and how close the farm would be to a town or port. careful planning went into every detail of owning and maintaining a farm in roman culture.[ ] running a farm in rome[edit] while the aristocracy owned most of the land in rome, they often were not present at the farms. with obligations as senators, generals, and soldiers at war, many of the actual landowners spent very little time working on their farms. the farms instead were maintained by slaves and freedmen paid to oversee those slaves.[ ] the overseer of the farm had many responsibilities that coincided with maintaining the land. he was responsible for ensuring that the slaves were kept busy and for resolving conflicts between them. an overseer had to be dependable and trustworthy in that the land owner had to know that the person he hired to run the farm was not going to try to steal any of the produce from the farm. overseers were also responsible for ensuring that both servants and slaves were properly fed and housed, and that they were assigned work fairly and efficiently. they had to ensure that any orders given by the owner of the land were followed diligently and that everyone on the farm honored the gods completely and respectfully, which romans believed was necessary to ensure a bountiful harvest. good inscription evidence of how the system was organized is visible in the lex manciana. the majority of the work was done by servants and slaves. slaves were the main source of labor. in roman society, there were three main ways to obtain a slave. the first and possibly most common way to gain a slave was to buy one on the market. slaves were purchased at auctions and slaves markets from dealers or were traded between individual slave owners. another way slaves were acquired was through conquest in warfare. as keith hopkins explains in his writings, many landowners would go to war and bring back captives. these captives were then taken back to roman territory and either sold to another citizen or made to work on the capturer's farm. the final way a slave could be obtained was through birth: if a female slave gave birth to a child, that child became property of the slave's owner. extramarital relations with women who were not citizens was not considered to be adultery under roman law (and roman wives were expected to tolerate such behavior), so there was no legal or moral impediment to having children being fathered by a slave's owner or overseer. slaves were relatively cheap to use because they were property;[ ] their treatment depended on the humanity of their owners, who met the needs of their slaves on what they cared to spend, not what they had to. overseers motivated slaves by imposing punishments and by giving rewards. "if the overseer sets his face against wrongdoing, they will not do it; if he allows it, the master must not let him go unpunished."[ ] although outright cruelty to slaves was considered a mark of bad character in roman culture, there were few limits on the punishments an overseer or slave-owner could inflict.[citation needed] problems for farmers[edit] roman farmers faced many of the problems which have historically affected farmers, including the unpredictability of weather, rainfall, and pests. farmers also had to be wary of purchasing land too far away from a city or port because of war and land conflicts. as rome was a vast empire that conquered many lands, it created enemies with individuals whose land had been taken. they would often lose their farms to the invaders who would take over and try to run the farms themselves.[ ] though roman soldiers would often come to the aid of the farmers and try to regain the land, these fights often resulted in damaged or destroyed property. land owners also faced problems with slave rebellions at times. 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( ). the ancient economy. berkeley: university of california. p.  . isbn  - . a slave is property, subject to the rules and procedures of property, with respect to sale, lease, theft, natural increase and so on. further reading[edit] modern sources[edit] 	buck, robert j. agriculture and agricultural practice in roman law. wiesbaden: f. steiner, . 	erdkamp, paul. the grain market in the roman empire: a social, political and economic study. cambridge, uk: cambridge university press, . 	hollander, d. b., "farmers and agriculture in the roman economy", routledge, , 	horden, p., and n. purcell. the corrupting sea: a study of mediterranean history. oxford: blackwell, . 	kehoe, d. p. investment, profit, and tenancy: the jurists and the roman agrarian economy. ann arbor: univ. of michigan press, . 	reynolds, p. hispania and the roman mediterranean ad – : ceramics and trade. london: duckworth, . 	spurr, m. s. "arable cultivation in roman italy: c. b.c.–c. a.d. ." journal of roman studies monographs . london: society for the promotion of roman studies, . 	white, k. d. roman farming. ithaca, ny: cornell university press, . 	--. farm equipment of the roman world. cambridge, uk: cambridge university press, . primary sources[edit] 	cato, marcus porcius. cato, the censor, on farming. translated by ernest brehaut. new york: columbia university press, . 	columella, lucius junius moderatus. on agriculture. translated by harrison boyd ash. cambridge, ma: harvard university press, . external links[edit] 	library resources about roman agriculture 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	cato the elder's de agri cultura (on agriculture) in latin and english 	columella's res rustica in latin complete text in latin at the latin library 	columella's res rustica in english books i‑iv in english translation at lacuscurtius 	latin text of varro rerum rusticarum de agri cultura 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(reverse) soldier bearing standard holding kneeling barbarian captive by the hair, legend and myth virtus exercitus romanorum ("valour of roman army"). gold solidus. sirmium mint. the roman army (latin: exercitus romanus) was the armed forces deployed by the romans throughout the duration of ancient rome, from the roman kingdom (to c. bc) to the roman republic ( – bc) and the roman empire ( bc– ad), and its medieval continuation, the eastern roman empire. it is thus a term that may span approximately , years ( bc– ad), during which the roman armed forces underwent numerous permutations in composition, organisation, equipment and tactics, while conserving a core of lasting traditions.[ ][ ][ ] contents 	 historical overview 	 . early roman army (c. bc to c. bc) 	 . roman army of the mid-republic (c. – bc) 	 . roman army of the late republic ( – bc) 	 . imperial roman army ( bc–ad ) 	 . later roman army ( – ad) continuing as east roman army ( – ad) 	 . middle byzantine army ( – ad) 	 . komnenian byzantine army ( – ) 	 . palaiologan byzantine army ( – ) 	 early roman army (c. to c. bc) 	 roman army of the mid-republic (c. – bc) 	 imperial roman army ( bc – ad ) 	 late roman army/east roman army ( – ) 	 byzantine army ( – ) 	 komnenian byzantine army ( – ) 	 palaiologan byzantine army ( – ) 	 see also 	 references 	 external links historical overview[edit] further information: military of ancient rome early roman army (c. bc to c. bc)[edit] the early roman army was the armed force of the roman kingdom and of the early roman republic. during this period, when warfare chiefly consisted of small-scale plundering raids, it has been suggested that the army followed etruscan or greek models of organisation and equipment. the early roman army was based on an annual levy. the army consisted of , infantrymen and cavalrymen. all of which were equites. the latins, sabines, and etruscans under the roman state would each provide an extra , soldiers and cavalrymen. king servius of rome would institute the servian reforms. these would divide the population into five classes. each of which would have different roles in the military. the first class could afford to have a cuirass, greaves, a shield, a sword, and a spear. the second class had greaves, a shield, a sword, and a spear. the third class could only afford to have the shield, a sword, and a spear. the fourth class had a shield and a spear. the fifth class would only be slingers. any poorer citizen, called capite censi would have no weapons. the capite censi would not serve in the army unless it was an emergency.[ ] the infantry ranks were filled with the lower classes while the cavalry (equites or celeres) were left to the patricians, because the wealthier could afford horses. moreover, the commanding authority during the regal period was the king. when the army of rome would be brought together on the campus martius it was called the comitia curiata.[ ] until the establishment of the roman republic and the office of consul, the king assumed the role of commander-in-chief.[ ] however, from about bc rome no longer had a king. the commanding position of the army was given to the consuls, "who were charged both singly and jointly to take care to preserve the republic from danger".[ ] the term legion is derived from the latin word legio; which ultimately means draft or levy. at first there were only four roman legions. these legions were numbered "i" to "iiii", with the fourth being written as such and not "iv". the first legion was seen as the most prestigious. the bulk of the army was made up of citizens. these citizens could not choose the legion to which they were allocated. any man "from ages – were selected by ballot" and assigned to a legion.[ ] until the roman military disaster of bc at the battle of the allia, rome's army was organised similarly to the greek phalanx. this was due to greek influence in italy "by way of their colonies". patricia southern quotes ancient historians livy and dionysius in saying that the "phalanx consisted of , infantry and cavalry".[ ] each man had to provide their equipment in battle; the military equipment which they could afford determined which position they took in the battle. politically they shared the same ranking system in the comitia centuriata. roman army of the mid-republic (c. – bc)[edit] the roman army of the mid-republic was also known as the "manipular army" or the "polybian army" after the greek historian polybius, who provides the most detailed extant description of this phase. the roman army started to have a full-time strength of , at all times and / of the rest were levied. during this period, the romans, while maintaining the levy system, adopted the samnite manipular organisation for their legions and also bound all the other peninsular italian states into a permanent military alliance (see socii). the latter were required to supply (collectively) roughly the same number of troops to joint forces as the romans to serve under roman command. legions in this phase were always accompanied on campaign by the same number of allied alae (roman non-citizen auxiliaries), units of roughly the same size as legions. after the second punic war ( – bc), the romans acquired an overseas empire, which necessitated standing forces to fight lengthy wars of conquest and to garrison the newly gained provinces. thus the army's character mutated from a temporary force based entirely on short-term conscription to a standing army in which the conscripts were supplemented by a large number of volunteers willing to serve for much longer than the legal six-year limit. these volunteers were mainly from the poorest social class, who did not have plots to tend at home and were attracted by the modest military pay and the prospect of a share of war booty. the minimum property requirement for service in the legions, which had been suspended during the second punic war, was effectively ignored from bc onward in order to recruit sufficient volunteers. between bc and bc, the manipular structure was gradually phased out, and the much larger cohort became the main tactical unit. in addition, from the second punic war onward, roman armies were always accompanied by units of non-italian mercenaries, such as numidian cavalry, cretan archers, and balearic slingers, who provided specialist functions that roman armies had previously lacked. roman army of the late republic ( – bc)[edit] imperial roman legionaries in tight formation, a relief from glanum, a roman town in what is now southern france that was inhabited from bc to ad (when it was sacked by invading alemanni) the roman army of the late republic ( – bc) marks the continued transition between the conscription-based citizen levy of the mid-republic and the mainly volunteer, professional standing forces of the imperial era. the main literary sources for the army's organisation and tactics in this phase are the works of julius caesar, the most notable of a series of warlords who contested for power in this period. as a result of the social war ( – bc), all italians were granted roman citizenship, the old allied alae were abolished and their members integrated into the legions. regular annual conscription remained in force and continued to provide the core of legionary recruitment, but an ever-increasing proportion of recruits were volunteers, who signed up for -year terms as opposed to the maximum years for conscripts. the loss of ala cavalry reduced roman/italian cavalry by %, and legions became dependent on allied native horse for cavalry cover. this period saw the large-scale expansion of native forces employed to complement the legions, made up of numeri ("units") recruited from tribes within rome's overseas empire and neighbouring allied tribes. large numbers of heavy infantry and cavalry were recruited in spain, gaul and thrace, and archers in thrace, anatolia and syria. however, these native units were not integrated with the legions, but retained their own traditional leadership, organisation, armour and weapons. imperial roman army ( bc–ad )[edit] main article: imperial roman army god bes as a roman soldier. sword in right hand and spear and shield in left hand. limestone slab, in relief. roman period. from egypt. the petrie museum of egyptian archaeology, london during this period, the republican system of citizen conscription was replaced by a standing professional army of mainly volunteers serving standard -year terms (plus five years as reservists), although many in the service of the roman empire would serve as many as to years on active duty, as established by the first roman emperor, augustus (sole ruler bc– ad). regular annual conscription of citizens was abandoned and only decreed in emergencies (e.g. during the illyrian revolt of – ad). under augustus, there were legions, consisting almost entirely of heavy infantry, with about , men each (total , ). this had increased to a peak of legions of about , men each (c. , men in total) by ad under septimius severus. legions continued to recruit roman citizens, mainly the inhabitants of italy and roman colonies, until . legions were flanked by the auxilia, a corps of regular troops recruited mainly from peregrini, imperial subjects who did not hold roman citizenship (the great majority of the empire's inhabitants until , when all were granted citizenship). auxiliaries, who served a minimum term of years, were also mainly volunteers, but regular conscription of peregrini was employed for most of the st century ad. under augustus, the auxilia consisted of about regiments of roughly cohort size, that is, about men (in total , men, or % of the total army). under septimius severus, the number of regiments increased to about , of which about % were double-strength ( , men, or % of total army). auxilia contained heavy infantry equipped similarly to legionaries, almost all of the army's cavalry (both armoured and light), archers and slingers. later roman army ( – ad) continuing as east roman army ( – ad)[edit] main article: late roman army main article: byzantine army boxwood relief depicting the liberation of a besieged city by a relief force, with those defending the walls making a sortie (i.e. a sudden attack against a besieging enemy from within the besieged town); western roman empire, early th century ad the late roman army period stretches from ( – ad and its continuation, in the surviving eastern half of the empire, as the east roman army to ). in this phase, crystallised by the reforms of the emperor diocletian (ruled – ad), the roman army returned to regular annual conscription of citizens, while admitting large numbers of non-citizen barbarian volunteers. however, soldiers remained -year professionals and did not return to the short-term levies of the republic. the old dual organisation of legions and auxilia was abandoned, with citizens and non-citizens now serving in the same units. the old legions were broken up into cohorts or even smaller units. at the same time, a substantial proportion of the army's effectives were stationed in the interior of the empire, in the form of comitatus praesentales, armies that escorted the emperors. middle byzantine army ( – ad)[edit] the middle byzantine army ( – ad) was the army of the byzantine state in its classical form (i.e. after the permanent loss of its near eastern and north african territories to the arab conquests after ad). this army was largely composed of semi-professional troops (soldier-farmers) based on the themata military provinces, supplemented by a small core of professional regiments known as the tagmata. ibn al-fakih estimated the strength of the themata forces in the east c. at , and kodama c. at , .[ ] this structure pertained when the empire was on the defensive, in the th century the empire was increasingly involved in territorial expansion, and the themata troops became progressively more irrelevant, being gradually replaced by 'provincial tagmata' units and an increased use of mercenaries. komnenian byzantine army ( – )[edit] the komnenian byzantine army was named after the komnenos dynasty, which ruled from to . this was an army built virtually from scratch after the permanent loss of half of byzantium's traditional main recruiting ground of anatolia to the turks following the battle of manzikert in , and the destruction of the last regiments of the old army in the wars against the normans in the early s. it survived until the fall of constantinople to the western crusaders in . this army had a large number of mercenary regiments composed of troops of foreign origin such as the varangian guard, and the pronoia system was introduced. palaiologan byzantine army ( – )[edit] the palaiologan byzantine army was named after the palaiologos dynasty ( – ), which ruled byzantium from the recovery of constantinople from the crusaders until its fall to the turks in . initially, it continued some practices inherited from the komnenian era and retained a strong native element until the late th century. during the last century of its existence, however, the empire was little more than a city-state that hired foreign mercenary bands for its defence. thus the byzantine army finally lost any meaningful connection with the standing imperial roman army.[citation needed] this article contains the summaries of the detailed linked articles on the historical phases above, readers seeking discussion of the roman army by theme, rather than by chronological phase, should consult the following articles: history 	campaign history of the roman military 	structural history of the roman military corps 	praetorian guard 	roman legion 	roman auxiliaries 	roman cavalry strategy and tactics 	defence-in-depth (roman military) 	roman infantry tactics equipment & other 	roman military equipment 	roman military decorations and punishments some of the roman army's many tactics are still used in modern-day armies today. early roman army (c. to c. bc)[edit] main article: early roman army until c. bc, there was no "national" roman army, but a series of clan-based war-bands which only coalesced into a united force in periods of serious external threat. around bc, during the period conventionally known as the rule of king servius tullius, it appears that a universal levy of eligible adult male citizens was instituted. this development apparently coincided with the introduction of heavy armour for most of the infantry. although originally low in numbers the roman infantry was extremely tactical and developed some of the most influential battle strategies to date. the early roman army was based on a compulsory levy from adult male citizens which was held at the start of each campaigning season, in those years that war was declared. there were no standing or professional forces. during the regal era (to c. bc), the standard levy was probably of , men, consisting of , heavily armed infantry (probably greek-style hoplites), plus , light-armed infantry (rorarii, later called velites) and light cavalry (equites celeres). when the kings were replaced by two annually elected praetores in c. bc, the standard levy remained of the same size, but was now divided equally between the praetors, each commanding one legion of , men. it is likely that the hoplite element was deployed in a greek-style phalanx formation in large set-piece battles. however, these were relatively rare, with most fighting consisting of small-scale border-raids and skirmishing. in these, the romans would fight in their basic tactical unit, the centuria of men. in addition, separate clan-based forces remained in existence until c. bc at least, although they would operate under the praetors' authority, at least nominally. in bc, shortly after the establishment of the roman republic, rome concluded a perpetual treaty of military alliance (the foedus cassianum), with the combined other latin city-states. the treaty, probably motivated by the need for the latins to deploy a united defence against incursions by neighbouring hill-tribes, provided for each party to provide an equal force for campaigns under unified command. it remained in force until bc. roman army of the mid-republic (c. – bc)[edit] main article: roman army of the mid-republic levy of the army, detail of the carved relief on the altar of domitius ahenobarbus, - bc. the central feature of the roman army of the mid-republic, or the polybian army, was the manipular organization of its battle-line. instead of a single, large mass (the phalanx) as in the early roman army, the romans now drew up in three lines consisting of small units (maniples) of men, arrayed in chessboard fashion, giving much greater tactical strength and flexibility. this structure was probably introduced in c. bc during the samnite wars. also probably dating from this period was the regular accompaniment of each legion by a non-citizen formation of roughly equal size, the ala, recruited from rome's italian allies, or socii. the latter were approximately autonomous states which were bound by a treaty of perpetual military alliance with rome. their sole obligation was to supply to the roman army, on demand, a number of fully equipped troops up to a specified maximum each year. the second punic war ( – bc) saw the addition of a third element to the existing dual roman/italian structure: non-italian mercenaries with specialist skills lacking in the legions and alae: numidian light cavalry, cretan archers, and slingers from the balearic islands. from this time, these units always accompanied roman armies. the republican army of this period, like its earlier forebear, did not maintain standing or professional military forces, but levied them, by compulsory conscription, as required for each campaigning season and disbanded thereafter (although formations could be kept in being over winter during major wars). the standard levy was doubled during the samnite wars to legions ( per consul), for a total of c. , roman troops and allied alae of similar size. service in the legions was limited to property-owning roman citizens, normally those known as iuniores (age – ). the army's senior officers, including its commanders-in-chief, the roman consuls, were all elected annually at the people's assembly. only equites (members of the roman knightly order) were eligible to serve as senior officers. iuniores of the highest social classes (equites and the first class of commoners) provided the legion's cavalry, the other classes the legionary infantry. the proletarii (those assessed at under drachmae wealth) were ineligible for legionary service and were assigned to the fleets as oarsmen. elders, vagrants, freedmen, slaves and convicts were excluded from the military levy, save in emergencies. bronze bust of a young commander recovered from the villa dei papyri in herculaneum st century bce- st century ce the legionary cavalry also changed, probably around bc onwards from the light, unarmoured horse of the early army to a heavy force with metal armour (bronze cuirasses and, later, chain-mail shirts). contrary to a long-held view, the cavalry of the mid-republic was a highly effective force that generally prevailed against strong enemy cavalry forces (both gallic and greek) until it was decisively beaten by the carthaginian general hannibal's horsemen during the second punic war. this was due to hannibal's greater operational flexibility owing to his numidian light cavalry. the polybian army's operations during its existence can be divided into three broad phases. ( ) the struggle for hegemony over italy, especially against the samnite league ( – bc); ( ) the struggle with carthage for hegemony in the western mediterranean sea ( – bc); and ( ) the struggle against the hellenistic monarchies for control of the eastern mediterranean ( – bc). during the earlier phase, the normal size of the levy (including allies) was in the region of , men ( consular armies of c. , men each). during the latter phase, with lengthy wars of conquest followed by permanent military occupation of overseas provinces, the character of the army necessarily changed from a temporary force based entirely on short-term conscription to a standing army in which the conscripts, whose service was in this period limited by law to consecutive years, were complemented by large numbers of volunteers who were willing to serve for much longer periods. many of the volunteers were drawn from the poorest social class, which until the nd punic war had been excluded from service in the legions by the minimum property requirement: during that war, extreme manpower needs had forced the army to ignore the requirement, and this practice continued thereafter. maniples were gradually phased out as the main tactical unit, and replaced by the larger cohorts used in the allied alae, a process probably complete by the time the general marius assumed command in bc. (the "marian reforms" of the army hypothesised by some scholars are today seen by other scholars as having evolved earlier and more gradually.) in the period after the defeat of carthage in bc, the army was campaigning exclusively outside italy, resulting in its men being away from their home plots of land for many years at a stretch. they were assuaged by the large amounts of booty that they shared after victories in the rich eastern theatre. but in italy, the ever-increasing concentration of public lands in the hands of big landowners, and the consequent displacement of the soldiers' families, led to great unrest and demands for land redistribution. this was successfully achieved, but resulted in the disaffection of rome's italian allies, who as non-citizens were excluded from the redistribution. this led to the mass revolt of the socii and the social war ( - bc). the result was the grant of roman citizenship to all italians and the end of the polybian army's dual structure: the alae were abolished and the socii recruited into the legions. imperial roman army ( bc – ad )[edit] main article: imperial roman army god bes as a roman soldier. sword in right hand and spear and shield in left hand. limestone slab, in relief. roman period. from egypt. the petrie museum of egyptian archaeology, london recreation of a roman soldier wearing plate armour (lorica segmentata), national military museum, romania. roman relief fragment depicting the praetorian guard, c. ad ancient roman statue fragment of either a general or an emperor wearing a corselet decorated with selene, and two nereids. found at èmegara, dating from to ad. relief scene of roman legionaries marching, from the column of marcus aurelius, rome, italy, nd century ad under the founder–emperor augustus (ruled  bc –  ad), the legions, c. , -strong all-heavy infantry formations recruited from roman citizens only, were transformed from a mixed conscript and volunteer corps serving an average of years, to all-volunteer units of long-term professionals serving a standard -year term (conscription was only decreed in emergencies). in the later st century, the size of a legion's first cohort was doubled, increasing legionary personnel to c. , . alongside the legions, augustus established the auxilia, a regular corps of similar numbers to the legions, recruited from the peregrini (non-citizen inhabitants of the empire – about % of the empire's population in the st century). as well as comprising large numbers of extra heavy infantry equipped in a similar manner to legionaries, the auxilia provided virtually all the army's cavalry (heavy and light), light infantry, archers and other specialists. the auxilia were organised in c. -strong units called cohortes (all-infantry), alae (all-cavalry) and cohortes equitatae (infantry with a cavalry contingent attached). around ad, a minority of auxiliary regiments were doubled in size. until about ad, the auxilia were recruited by a mix of conscription and voluntary enlistment. after that time, the auxilia became largely a volunteer corps, with conscription resorted to only in emergencies. auxiliaries were required to serve a minimum of years, although many served for longer periods. on completion of their minimum term, auxiliaries were awarded roman citizenship, which carried important legal, fiscal and social advantages. alongside the regular forces, the army of the principate employed allied native units (called numeri) from outside the empire on a mercenary basis. these were led by their own aristocrats and equipped in traditional fashion. numbers fluctuated according to circumstances and are largely unknown. as all-citizen formations, and symbolic guarantors of the dominance of the italian hegemony,[citation needed] legions enjoyed greater social prestige than the auxilia. this was reflected in better pay and benefits. in addition, legionaries were equipped with more expensive and protective armour than auxiliaries. however, in , the emperor caracalla granted roman citizenship to all the empire's inhabitants. at this point, the distinction between legions and auxilia became moot, the latter becoming all-citizen units also. the change was reflected in the disappearance, during the rd century, of legionaries' special equipment, and the progressive break-up of legions into cohort-sized units like the auxilia. by the end of augustus' reign, the imperial army numbered some , men, equally split between legionaries and auxiliaries ( legions and c. auxiliary regiments). the numbers grew to a peak of about , by ( legions and c. auxiliary regiments). by then, auxiliaries outnumbered legionaries substantially. from the peak, numbers probably underwent a steep decline by due to plague and losses during multiple major barbarian invasions. numbers were restored to their early nd-century level of c. , (but probably not to their peak) under diocletian (r. – ). after the empire's borders became settled (on the rhine-danube line in europe) by , virtually all military units (except the praetorian guard) were stationed on or near the borders, in roughly of the provinces of the empire in the reign of hadrian (r. – ). the military chain of command was relatively uniform across the empire. in each province, the deployed legions' legati (legion commanders, who also controlled the auxiliary regiments attached to their legion) reported to the legatus augusti pro praetore (provincial governor), who also headed the civil administration. the governor in turn reported direct to the emperor in rome. there was no army general staff in rome, but the leading praefectus praetorio (commander of the praetorian guard) often acted as the emperor's de facto military chief-of-staff. legionary rankers were relatively well-paid, compared to contemporary common labourers. compared with their subsistence-level peasant families, they enjoyed considerable disposable income, enhanced by periodic cash bonuses on special occasions such as the accession of a new emperor. in addition, on completion of their term of service, they were given a generous discharge bonus equivalent to years' salary. auxiliaries were paid much less in the early st century, but by ad, the differential had virtually disappeared. similarly, in the earlier period, auxiliaries appear not to have received cash and discharge bonuses, but probably did so from hadrian onwards. junior officers (principales), the equivalent of non-commissioned officers in modern armies, could expect to earn up to twice basic pay. legionary centurions, the equivalent of mid-level commissioned officers, were organised in an elaborate hierarchy. usually risen from the ranks, they commanded the legion's tactical sub-units of centuriae (c. men) and cohorts (c. men). they were paid several multiples of basic pay. the most senior centurion, the primus pilus, was elevated to equestrian rank upon completion of his single-year term of office. the senior officers of the army, the legati legionis (legion commanders), tribuni militum (legion staff officers) and the praefecti (commanders of auxiliary regiments) were all of at least equestrian rank. in the st and early nd centuries, they were mainly italian aristocrats performing the military component of their cursus honorum (conventional career-path). later, provincial career officers became predominant. senior officers were paid enormous salaries, multiples of at least times basic. a typical roman army during this period consisted of five to six legions. one legion was made up of cohorts. the first cohort had five centuria each of soldiers. in the second through tenth cohorts there were six centuria of men each. these do not include archers, cavalry or officers. soldiers spent only a fraction of their lives on campaign. most of their time was spent on routine military duties such as training, patrolling, and maintenance of equipment etc. soldiers also played an important role outside the military sphere. they performed the function of a provincial governor's police force. as a large, disciplined and skilled force of fit men, they played a crucial role in the construction of a province's roman military and civil infrastructure: in addition to constructing forts and fortified defences such as hadrian's wall, they built roads, bridges, ports, public buildings, entire new cities (roman colonies), and also engaged in large-scale forest clearance and marsh drainage to expand the province's available arable land. soldiers, mostly drawn from polytheistic societies, enjoyed wide freedom of worship in the polytheistic roman system. they revered their own native deities, roman deities and the local deities of the provinces in which they served. only a few religions were banned by the roman authorities, as being incompatible with the official roman religion and/or politically subversive, notably druidism and christianity. the later principate saw the rise in popularity among the military of eastern mystery cults, generally centred on one deity, and involving secret rituals divulged only to initiates. by far the most popular in the army was mithraism, an apparently syncretist religion which mainly originated in asia minor. late roman army/east roman army ( – )[edit] main article: late roman army main article: east roman army the late roman army is the term used to denote the military forces of the roman empire from the accession of emperor diocletian in until the empire's definitive division into eastern and western halves in . a few decades afterwards, the western army disintegrated as the western empire collapsed. the east roman army, on the other hand, continued intact and essentially unchanged until its reorganization by themes and transformation into the byzantine army in the th century. the term "late roman army" is often used to include the east roman army. the army of the principate underwent a significant transformation, as a result of the chaotic rd century. unlike the principate army, the army of the th century was heavily dependent on conscription and its soldiers were more poorly remunerated than in the nd century. barbarians from outside the empire probably supplied a much larger proportion of the late army's recruits than in the army of the st and nd centuries. the size of the th-century army is controversial. more dated scholars (e.g. a.h.m. jones, writing in the s) estimated the late army as much larger than the principate army, half the size again or even as much as twice the size. with the benefit of archaeological discoveries of recent decades, many contemporary historians view the late army as no larger than its predecessor: under diocletian c. , (the same as under hadrian almost two centuries earlier) and under constantine no greater, and probably somewhat smaller, than the principate peak of c. , . the main change in structure was the establishment of large armies that accompanied the emperors (comitatus praesentales) and were generally based away from the frontiers. their primary function was to deter usurpations. the legions were split up into smaller units comparable in size to the auxiliary regiments of the principate. in parallel, legionary armour and equipment were abandoned in favour of auxiliary equipment. infantry adopted the more protective equipment of the principate cavalry. the role of cavalry in the late army does not appear to have been enhanced as compared with the army of the principate. the evidence is that cavalry was much the same proportion of overall army numbers as in the nd century and that its tactical role and prestige remained similar. indeed, the cavalry acquired a reputation for incompetence and cowardice for their role in three major battles in mid- th century. in contrast, the infantry retained its traditional reputation for excellence. the rd and th centuries saw the upgrading of many existing border forts to make them more defensible, as well as the construction of new forts with much higher defensive specifications. the interpretation of this trend has fuelled an ongoing debate whether the army adopted a defence-in-depth strategy or continued the same posture of "forward defence" as in the early principate. many elements of the late army's defence posture were similar to those associated with forward defence, such as a looser forward location of forts, frequent cross-border operations, and external buffer-zones of allied barbarian tribes. whatever the defence strategy, it was apparently less successful in preventing barbarian incursions than in the st and nd centuries. this may have been due to heavier barbarian pressure, and/or to the practice of keeping large armies of the best troops in the interior, depriving the border forces of sufficient support. byzantine army ( – )[edit] main article: byzantine army komnenian byzantine army ( – )[edit] emperor john ii komnenos, the most successful commander of the komnenian army. the komnenian period marked a rebirth of the byzantine army. at the beginning of the komnenian period in , the byzantine empire had been reduced to the smallest territorial extent. surrounded by enemies, and financially ruined by a long period of civil war, the empire's prospects looked grim. at the beginning of the komnenian period, the byzantine army was reduced to a shadow of its former self: during the th century, decades of peace and neglect had reduced the old thematic forces, and the battle of manzikert in had destroyed the professional tagmata, the core of the byzantine army. at manzikert and later at dyrrhachium, units tracing their lineage for centuries back to late roman army were wiped out, and the subsequent loss of asia minor deprived the empire of its main recruiting ground. in the balkans, at the same time, the empire was exposed to invasions by the norman kingdom of sicily, and by pecheneg raids across the danube. the byzantine army's nadir was reached in , when alexios i could manage to field only soldiers from the empire's professional forces. these formed the nucleus of the army, with the addition of the armed retainers of alexios' relatives and the nobles enrolled in the army and the substantial aid of a large force of allied cumans, which won the battle of levounion against the pechenegs (petcheneks or patzinaks).[ ] yet, through a combination of skill, determination and years of campaigning, alexios, john and manuel komnenos managed to restore the power of the byzantine empire by constructing a new army from scratch. this process should not, however, at least in its earlier phases, be seen as a planned exercise in military restructuring. in particular, alexios i was often reduced to reacting to events rather than controlling them; the changes he made to the byzantine army were largely done out of immediate necessity and were pragmatic in nature. the new force had a core of units which were both professional and disciplined. it contained formidable guards units such as the varangians, the athanatoi, a unit of heavy cavalry stationed in constantinople, the vardariotai and the archontopouloi, recruited by alexios from the sons of dead byzantine officers, foreign mercenary regiments, and also units of professional soldiers recruited from the provinces. these provincial troops included kataphraktoi cavalry from macedonia, thessaly and thrace, and various other provincial forces such as trebizond archers from the black sea coast of anatolia. alongside troops raised and paid for directly by the state the komnenian army included the armed followers of members of the wider imperial family and its extensive connections. in this can be seen the beginnings of the feudalisation of the byzantine military. the granting of pronoia holdings, where land, or more accurately rights to revenue from land, was held in return for military obligations, was beginning to become a notable element in the military infrastructure towards the end of the komnenian period, though it became much more important subsequently. in , the byzantine army numbered around , men altogether.[ ] by and the death of manuel komnenos, whose frequent campaigns had been on a grand scale, the army was probably considerably larger. during the reign of alexios i, the field army numbered around , men which was increased to about , men in john ii's reign.[ ] by the end of manuel i's reign the byzantine field army had risen to , men. palaiologan byzantine army ( – )[edit] the palaiologan army refers to the military forces of the byzantine empire from the late th century to its final collapse in the mid th century, under the house of the palaiologoi. the army was a direct continuation of the forces of the nicaean army, which itself was a fractured component of the formidable komnenian army. under the first palaiologan emperor, michael viii, the army's role took an increasingly offensive role whilst the naval forces of the empire, weakened since the days of andronikos i komnenos, were boosted to include thousands of skilled sailors and some ships. due to the lack of land to support the army, the empire required the use of large numbers of mercenaries. after andronikos ii took to the throne, the army fell apart and the byzantines suffered regular defeats at the hands of their eastern opponents, although they would continue to enjoy success against the crusader territories in greece. by c. , following a destructive civil war and the outbreak of the black death, the empire was no longer capable of raising troops and the supplies to maintain them. the empire came to rely upon troops provided by serbs, bulgarians, venetians, latins, genoans and ottoman turks to fight the civil wars that lasted for the greater part of the th century, with the latter foe being the most successful in establishing a foothold in thrace. the ottomans swiftly expanded through the balkans and cut off constantinople, the capital of the byzantine empire, from the surrounding land. the last decisive battle was fought by the palaiologan army in , when constantinople was besieged and fell on may. the last isolated remnants of the byzantine state were conquered by . see also[edit] 	ancient rome portal 	military of ancient rome 	roman legion 	roman auxiliaries 	equestrian order 	list of roman legions 	list of roman auxiliary regiments 	late roman army 	byzantine army 	east roman army references[edit] 	^ the complete roman army, adrian goldsworthy thames & hudson, 	^ companion to the roman army, paul erdkamp, john wiley & sons, march 	^ a b c southern, pat ( ). the roman army: a social and institutional history. oxford university press. isbn  - - - - . 	^ rostovtzeff, michael. rome. oxford, england: oxford university press, 	^ vegetius, the military institutions of the romans (j. clark, transl.) harrisburg penn.; . 	^ dando-collins, stephen. legions of rome. new york: st. martin's press, . 	^ southern, pat. the roman army: a social and institutional history. oxford, england: oxford university press, . 	^ heath, ian ( ). byzantine armies, - . osprey. p.  . isbn  - . 	^ angold, p. 	^ konstam, p. . 	^ w. treadgold, a history of the byzantine state and society, external links[edit] 	diocletian and the roman army 	life of roman legionary 		v 	t 	e ancient rome topics 	 	outline 	timeline 	history	 	 	foundation 	kingdom 	overthrow 	republic 	empire	 	history 	pax romana 	principate 	dominate 	western empire 	fall 	historiography of the fall 	byzantine empire 	decline 	fall 	constitution	 	history 	kingdom 	republic 	empire 	late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	curiate 	centuriate 	tribal 	plebeian 	executive magistrates 	spqr 	law	 	twelve tables 	mos maiorum 	citizenship 	auctoritas 	imperium 	status 	litigation 	government	 	curia 	forum 	cursus honorum 	collegiality 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	prefect 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 	optimates 	populares 	province 	magistrates	 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executions. about roman amphitheatres have been found across the area of the roman empire. early amphitheatres date from the republican period,[ ] though they became more monumental during the imperial era.[ ] amphitheatres are distinguished from circuses and hippodromes, which were usually rectangular and built mainly for racing events, and stadia, built for athletics, but several of these terms have at times been used for one and the same venue. the word amphitheatrum means "theatre all around". thus, an amphitheatre is distinguished from the traditional semicircular roman theatres by being circular or oval in shape.[ ] contents 	 components 	 history 	 . early amphitheatres 	 . imperial era 	 . the late empire and the decline of the amphitheatre tradition 	 important roman amphitheatres 	 . the colosseum 	 . amphitheatre of pompeii 	 . faleria 	 . capua 	 . julia caesarea 	 . italica 	 see also 	 references 	 footnotes 	 external links components[edit] vomitorium of the amphitheatre of el jem, tunisia the roman amphitheatre consists of three main parts: the cavea, the arena, and the vomitorium. the seating area is called the cavea (latin for "enclosure"). the cavea is formed of concentric rows of stands which are either supported by arches built into the framework of the building, or simply dug out of the hillside or built up using excavated material extracted during the excavation of the fighting area (the arena). the cavea is traditionally organised in three horizontal sections, corresponding to the social class of the spectators:[ ] 	the ima cavea is the lowest part of the cavea and the one directly surrounding the arena. it was usually reserved for the upper echelons of society. 	the media cavea directly follows the ima cavea and was open to the general public, though mostly reserved for men. 	the summa cavea is the highest section and was usually open to women and children. similarly, the front row was called the prima cavea and the last row was called the cavea ultima. the cavea was further divided vertically into cunei. a cuneus (latin for "wedge"; plural, cunei) was a wedge-shaped division separated by the scalae or stairways. the arched entrances both at the arena level and within the cavea are called the vomitoria (latin "to spew forth"; singular, vomitorium) and were designed to allow rapid dispersal of large crowds. history[edit] early amphitheatres[edit] the amphitheatre of pompeii in the s, one of the earliest known roman amphitheatres it is uncertain when and where the first amphitheatres were built. there are records attesting to temporary wooden amphitheatres built in the forum romanum for gladiatorial games from the second century bc onwards, and these may be the origin of the architectural form later expressed in stone.[ ] in his historia naturalis, pliny the elder claims that the amphitheatre was invented during the spectacles of gaius scribonius curio in bc, where two wooden semicircular theatres were rotated towards each other to form one circular amphitheatre, while spectators were still seated in the two halves.[ ] but while this may be the origin of the architectural term amphitheatrum, it cannot be the origin of the architectural concept, since earlier stone amphitheatres, known as spectacula or amphitheatera, have been found.[ ] according to jean-claude golvin, the earliest known stone amphitheatres are found in campania, at capua, cumae and liternum, where such venues were built towards the end of the second century bc.[ ] the next-oldest amphitheatre known, as well as one of the best-researched, is the amphitheatre of pompeii, securely dated to be built shortly after bc.[ ] there are relatively few other known early amphitheatres: those at abella, teanum and cales date to the sullan era (until bc), those at puteoli and telesia from the augustan ( bc– ad). the amphitheatres at sutrium, carmo and ucubi were built around – bc, those at antioch and phaestum (phase i) in the mid-first century bc.[ ] imperial era[edit] in the imperial era, amphitheatres became an integral part of the roman urban landscape. as cities vied with each other for preeminence in civic buildings, amphitheatres became ever more monumental in scale and ornamentation.[ ] imperial amphitheatres comfortably accommodated , – , spectators, or up to , in the largest venues, and were only outdone by the hippodromes in seating capacity. they featured multi-storeyed, arcaded façades and were elaborately decorated with marble and stucco cladding, statues and reliefs, or even partially made of marble.[ ] as the empire grew, most of its amphitheatres remained concentrated in the latin-speaking western half, while in the east spectacles were mostly staged in other venues such as theatres or stadia.[ ] in the west, amphitheatres were built as part of romanization efforts by providing a focus for the imperial cult, by private benefactors, or by the local government of colonies or provincial capitals as an attribute of roman municipal status. a large number of modest arenas were built in roman north africa,[ ] where most of the architectural expertise was provided by the roman military.[ ] the late empire and the decline of the amphitheatre tradition[edit] the arles amphitheatre as a fortified settlement, th-century engraving several factors caused the eventual extinction of the tradition of amphitheatre construction. gladiatorial munera began to disappear from public life during the rd century, due to economic pressure, philosophical disapproval and opposition by the increasingly predominant new religion of christianity, whose adherents considered such games an abomination and a waste of money.[ ] spectacles involving animals, venationes, survived until the sixth century, but became costlier and rarer. the spread of christianity also changed the patterns of public beneficence: where a pagan roman would often have seen himself as a homo civicus, who gave benefits to the public in exchange for status and honor, a christian would more often be a new type of citizen, a homo interior, who sought to attain a divine reward in heaven and directed his beneficence to alms and charity rather than public works and games.[ ] these changes meant that there were ever fewer uses for amphitheatres, and ever fewer funds to build and maintain them. the last construction of an amphitheatre is recorded in in pavia under theoderic.[ ] after the end of venationes, the only remaining purpose of amphitheatres was to be the place of public executions and punishments. after even this purpose dwindled away, many amphitheatres fell into disrepair and were gradually dismantled for building material, razed to make way for newer buildings, or vandalized.[ ] others were transformed into fortifications or fortified settlements, such as at leptis magna, sabratha, arles and pola, and in the th century the frangipani fortified even the colosseum to help them in roman power struggles.[ ] yet others were repurposed as christian churches, including the arenas at arles, nîmes, tarragona and salona; the colosseum became a christian shrine in the th century.[ ] of the surviving amphitheatres, many are now protected as historic monuments; several are tourist attractions. important roman amphitheatres[edit] main article: list of roman amphitheatres this list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. the colosseum[edit] the flavian amphitheatre in rome, more generally known as the colosseum, is the archetypal and the largest amphitheatre. built from to ad, it remains as an icon of ancient rome. its building and arena dimensions are × and × meters respectively. it was commissioned by the emperor vespasian for the capital city of the ancient roman empire from – ad but was not completed and opened until ad by his son titus, as a gift for the people of rome.[ ] amphitheatre of pompeii[edit] cavea of the amphitheatre of pompeii the amphitheatre of pompeii is the oldest surviving roman amphitheatre. it is located in the roman city of pompeii, and was buried by the eruption of vesuvius in ad, that also buried pompeii itself and the neighboring town of herculaneum. it is also the oldest surviving roman amphitheatre built with stone. faleria[edit] the second-largest roman amphitheatre was the faleria, built a.d.[ ] it was located in picenum (now falerone), italy. its building dimensions were . × . meters, and it had an arena shaped like an ellipse.[ ] it had twelve entrances, four of which led to the arena and had eight rows of seats divided into three sections.[ ] only the outside wall of the amphitheatre remains and the arena is covered in grass all the way to the podium.[ ] capua[edit] the third-largest roman amphitheatre was the amphitheatre of capua, with building dimensions of . × . meters. it was located in the city of capua (modern santa maria capua vetere), italy. it was erected by augustus in the first century b.c. and could hold up to , spectators.[ ] it is known as the arena that spartacus fought in in b.c.[ ] the theatre was eventually destroyed by the vandals in their invasion of rome in ad.[ ] julia caesarea[edit] the fourth-largest roman amphitheatre, the julia caesarea, was erected after the time of julius caesar. it was built in mauretania between the times of bc and ad by the roman-appointed ruler juba ii and his son ptolemy,[ ] which is now considered to be modern day cherchell, algeria. although it has not endured, its building dimensions are known to have been × meters with an arena dimension of . × . meters.[ ] the roman amphitheatre of italica italica[edit] the fifth-largest roman amphitheatre is found in the province of sevilla, spain. its building dimensions are . × meters and its arena dimensions are . × . meters.[ ] built in the reign of emperor hadrian, – ad, the italica amphitheatre could hold up to , people and still stands today.[ ] see also[edit] 	list of roman amphitheatres 	roman architectural revolution 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of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 roman aqueduct - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	 	roman aqueduct 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 this is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on december . 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 the multiple arches of the pont du gard in roman gaul (modern-day southern france). the upper tier encloses an aqueduct that carried water to nimes in roman times; its lower tier was expanded in the s to carry a wide road across the river. play media aerial footage of a roman provincial aqueduct at mória (lesbos) the romans constructed aqueducts throughout their republic and later empire, to bring water from outside sources into cities and towns. aqueduct water supplied public baths, latrines, fountains, and private households; it also supported mining operations, milling, farms, and gardens. aqueducts moved water through gravity alone, along a slight overall downward gradient within conduits of stone, brick, or concrete; the steeper the gradient, the faster the flow. most conduits were buried beneath the ground and followed the contours of the terrain; obstructing peaks were circumvented or, less often, tunneled through. where valleys or lowlands intervened, the conduit was carried on bridgework, or its contents fed into high-pressure lead, ceramic, or stone pipes and siphoned across. most aqueduct systems included sedimentation tanks, which helped to reduce any water-borne debris. sluices and castella aquae (distribution tanks) regulated the supply to individual destinations. in cities and towns, the run-off water from aqueducts scoured the drains and sewers. rome's first aqueduct was built in bc, and supplied a water fountain at the city's cattle market. by the rd century ad, the city had eleven aqueducts, sustaining a population of over a million in a water-extravagant economy; most of the water supplied the city's many public baths. cities and towns throughout the roman empire emulated this model, and funded aqueducts as objects of public interest and civic pride, "an expensive yet necessary luxury to which all could, and did, aspire".[ ] most roman aqueducts proved reliable and durable; some were maintained into the early modern era, and a few are still partly in use. methods of aqueduct surveying and construction are noted by vitruvius in his work de architectura ( st century bc). the general frontinus gives more detail in his official report on the problems, uses and abuses of imperial rome's public water supply. notable examples of aqueduct architecture include the supporting piers of the aqueduct of segovia, and the aqueduct-fed cisterns of constantinople. contents 	 background 	 . aqueducts in the roman empire 	 . rome's aqueducts 	 . . timeline 	 planning, surveying and construction 	 . planning 	 . sources and surveying 	 . health issues 	 . conduits and gradients 	 . bridgework and siphons 	 . inspection and maintenance 	 . distribution 	 uses 	 . civic and domestic 	 . farming 	 . industrial 	 decline in use 	 see also 	 references 	 bibliography 	 external links background[edit] "the extraordinary greatness of the roman empire manifests itself above all in three things: the aqueducts, the paved roads, and the construction of the drains." dionysius of halicarnassus, roman antiquities[ ] before the development of aqueduct technology, romans, like most of their contemporaries in the ancient world, relied on local water sources such as springs and streams, supplemented by groundwater from privately or publicly owned wells, and by seasonal rain-water drained from rooftops into storage jars and cisterns.[ ] the reliance of ancient communities upon such water resources restricted their potential growth. rome's aqueducts were not strictly roman inventions – their engineers would have been familiar with the water-management technologies of rome's etruscan and greek allies – but they proved conspicuously successful. by the early imperial era, the city's aqueducts supported a population of over a million, and an extravagant water supply for public amenities had become a fundamental part of roman life.[ ] the run-off of aqueduct water scoured the sewers of cities and towns. water from aqueducts was also used to supply villas, ornamental urban and suburban gardens, market gardens, farms, and agricultural estates, the latter being the core of rome's economy and wealth.[ ] aqueducts in the roman empire[edit] see also: list of aqueducts in the roman empire hundreds of similar aqueducts were built throughout the roman empire. many of them have since collapsed or been destroyed, but a number of intact portions remain. the zaghouan aqueduct is .  km ( .  mi) in length. it was built in the nd century to supply carthage (in modern tunisia). surviving aqueduct bridges include the pont du gard in france and the aqueduct of segovia in spain. the longest single conduit, at over  km, is associated with the valens aqueduct of constantinople (mango ). "the known system is at least two and half times the length of the longest recorded roman aqueducts at carthage and cologne, but perhaps more significantly it represents one of the most outstanding surveying achievements of any pre-industrial society".[ ] rivalling this in terms of length and possibly equaling or exceeding it in cost and complexity, is the provincial aqua augusta that supplied an entire region, which contained at least eight cities, including the major ports at naples and misenum; sea voyages by traders and the roman navy required copious supplies of fresh water.[ ] rome's aqueducts[edit] see also: list of aqueducts in the city of rome map of rome's aqueducts map showing aqueducts' sources rome had several springs within its perimeter walls but its groundwater was notoriously unpalatable; water from the river tiber was badly affected by pollution and waterborne diseases. the city's demand for water had probably long exceeded its local supplies by bc, when the city's first aqueduct, the aqua appia, was commissioned by the censor appius claudius caecus. the aqua appia was one of two major public projects of the time; the other was a military road between rome and capua, the first leg of the so-called appian way. both projects had significant strategic value, as the third samnite war had been under way for some thirty years by that point. the road allowed rapid troop movements; and by design or fortunate coincidence, most of the aqua appia ran within a buried conduit, relatively secure from attack. it was fed by a spring .  km from rome, and dropped metres over its length to discharge approximately , cubic metres of water each day into a fountain at rome's cattle market, the forum boarium, one of the city's lowest-lying public spaces.[ ] a second aqueduct, the aqua anio vetus, was commissioned some forty years later, funded by treasures seized from pyrrhus of epirus. its flow was more than twice that of the aqua appia, and it entered the city on raised arches, supplying water to higher elevations of the city.[ ] by bc, the city had again outgrown its combined supplies. an official commission found the aqueduct conduits decayed, their water depleted by leakage and illegal tapping. the praetor quintus marcius rex restored them, and introduced a third, "more wholesome" supply, the aqua marcia, rome's longest aqueduct and high enough to supply the capitoline hill. the works cost , , sesterces, and took two years to complete.[ ] as demand grew still further, more aqueducts were built, including the aqua tepula in bc and the aqua julia in bc. aqueduct-building programmes reached a peak in the imperial era. augustus' reign saw the building of the aqua virgo, and the short aqua alsietina that supplied trastevere with large quantities of non-potable water for its gardens and to create an artificial lake for staged sea-fights to entertain the populace. another short augustan aqueduct supplemented the aqua marcia with water of "excellent quality".[ ] the emperor caligula added or began two aqueducts completed by his successor claudius; the  km ( . mile) aqua claudia, which gave good quality water but failed on several occasions; and the anio novus, highest of all rome's aqueducts and one of the most reliable but prone to muddy, discoloured waters, particularly after rain, despite its use of settling tanks.[ ] parco degli acquedotti, a park in rome named after the aqueducts that run through it most of rome's aqueducts drew on various springs in the valley and highlands of the anio, the modern river aniene, east of the tiber. a complex system of aqueduct junctions, tributary feeds and distribution tanks supplied every part of the city.[ ] trastevere, the city region west of the tiber, was primarily served by extensions of several of the city's eastern aqueducts, carried across the river by lead pipes buried in the roadbed of the river bridges, thus forming an inverted siphon.[ ] whenever this cross-river supply had to be shut down for routine repair and maintenance works, the "positively unwholesome" waters of the aqua alsietina were used to supply trastevere's public fountains.[ ] the situation was finally ameliorated when the emperor trajan built the aqua traiana in ad, bringing clean water directly to trastavere from aquifers around lake bracciano.[ ] by the late rd century ad, the city was supplied with water by state-funded aqueducts. their combined conduit length is estimated between and a little over kilometres, of which approximately  km (  mi) were carried above ground level, on masonry supports. they supplied around million cubic metres ( million gallons) a day: a capacity % of the current[when?] water supply of the city of bangalore,[citation needed] which has a population of million. timeline[edit] see also: list of roman aqueducts by date 	 bc aqua appia, rome's first aqueduct is built by appius claudius caecus, the aqueduct is nearly all underground. 	 bc aqua anio vetus 	 bc aqua marcia,  km ( miles) in length, construction starts. 	 bc aqua julia is built by octavian (emperor augustus) 	 bc aqua virgo is built to supply the thermal baths in the campus martius. 	 - ad aqua claudia built 	 ad aqua traiana brings water from lake bracciano to supply rome’s suburbs, now called trastevere.[ ] galería de los espejos (gallery of mirrors), a tunnelled part of a  km roman aqueduct built during the st century ad near albarracín (spain) planning, surveying and construction[edit] planning[edit] whether state-funded or privately built, aqueducts were protected and regulated by law. any proposed aqueduct had to be submitted to the scrutiny of civil authorities. permission (from the senate or local authorities) was granted only if the proposal respected the water rights of other citizens; on the whole, roman communities took care to allocate shared water resources according to need.[ ] the land on which a state-funded aqueduct was built might be state land (ager publicus) or privately owned, but in either case was subject to restrictions on usage and encroachment that might damage the fabric of the aqueduct. to this end, state funded aqueducts reserved a wide corridor of land, up to feet each side of the aqueduct's outer fabric. ploughing, planting and building were prohibited within this boundary. such regulation was necessary to the aqueduct's long-term integrity and maintenance but was not always readily accepted or easily enforced at a local level, particularly when ager publicus was understood to be common property. some privately built or smaller municipal aqueducts may have required less stringent and formal arrangements.[ ] sources and surveying[edit] springs were by far the most common sources for aqueduct water; for example, most of rome's supply came from various springs in the anio valley and its uplands. spring-water was fed into a stone or concrete springhouse, then entered the aqueduct conduit. scattered springs would require several branch conduits feeding into a main channel. some systems drew water from open, purpose-built, dammed reservoirs, such as the two (still in use) that supplied the aqueduct at the provincial city of emerita augusta.[ ] the territory over which the aqueduct ran had to be carefully surveyed to ensure the water would flow at an acceptable gradient for the entire distance.[ ] roman engineers used various surveying tools to plot the course of aqueducts across the landscape. they checked horizontal levels with a chorobates, a flatbedded wooden frame fitted with a water level. they plotted courses and angles could be plotted and checked using a groma, a relatively simple apparatus that was probably displaced by the more sophisticated dioptra, precursor of the modern theodolite. in book of his de architectura, vitruvius describes the need to ensure a constant supply, methods of prospecting, and tests for potable water. health issues[edit] see also: sanitation in ancient rome greek and roman physicians knew the association between stagnant or tainted waters and water-borne disease. they also knew the adverse health effects of lead on those who mined and processed it, and for this reason, ceramic pipes were preferred over lead. where lead pipes were used, a continuous water-flow and the inevitable deposition of water-borne minerals within the pipes somewhat reduced the water's contamination by soluble lead.[ ] nevertheless, the level of lead in this water was times higher than in local spring waters.[ ] conduits and gradients[edit] the water conduit of the tarragona aqueduct, spain. most roman aqueducts were flat-bottomed, arch-section conduits that ran . to  m beneath the ground surface, with inspection-and-access covers at regular intervals.[ ] conduits above ground level were usually slab-topped. early conduits were ashlar-built but from around the late republican era, brick-faced concrete was often used instead. the concrete used for conduit linings was usually waterproof. the flow of water depended on gravity alone. the volume of water transported within the conduit depended on the catchment hydrology – rainfall, absorption, and runoff – the cross section of the conduit, and its gradient; most conduits ran about two-thirds full. the conduit's cross section was also determined by maintenance requirements; workmen must be able to enter and access the whole, with minimal disruption to its fabric.[ ] vitruvius recommends a low gradient of not less than in for the channel, presumably to prevent damage to the structure through erosion and water pressure. this value agrees well with the measured gradients of surviving masonry aqueducts. the gradient of the pont du gard is only  cm per km, descending only  m vertically in its entire length of  km (  mi): it could transport up to , cubic metres a day. the gradients of temporary aqueducts used for hydraulic mining could be considerably greater, as at dolaucothi in wales (with a maximum gradient of about : ) and las medulas in northern spain. where sharp gradients were unavoidable in permanent conduits, the channel could be stepped downwards, widened or discharged into a receiving tank to disperse the flow of water and reduce its abrasive force.[ ] the use of stepped cascades and drops also helped re-oxygenate and thus "freshen" the water.[ ] bridgework and siphons[edit] the arches of an elevated section of the roman provincial aqueduct of segovia, in modern spain. some aqueduct conduits were supported across valleys or hollows on arches of masonry, brick or concrete; the pont du gard, one of the most impressive surviving examples of a massive masonry multiple-piered conduit, spanned the gardon river-valley some .  m ( ft) above the gardon itself. where particularly deep or lengthy depressions had to be crossed, inverted siphons could be used, instead of arched supports; the conduit fed water into a header tank, which fed it into pipes. the pipes crossed the valley at lower level, supported by a low "venter" bridge, then rose to a receiving tank at a slightly lower elevation. this discharged into another conduit; the overall gradient was maintained. siphon pipes were usually made of soldered lead, sometimes reinforced by concrete encasements or stone sleeves. less often, the pipes themselves were stone or ceramic, jointed as male-female and sealed with lead.[ ] vitruvius describes the construction of siphons and the problems of blockage, blow-outs and venting at their lowest levels, where the pressures were greatest. nonetheless, siphons were versatile and effective if well-built and well-maintained. a horizontal section of high-pressure siphon tubing in the aqueduct of the gier was ramped up on bridgework to clear a navigable river, using nine lead pipes in parallel, cased in concrete.[ ][ ] modern hydraulic engineers use similar techniques to enable sewers and water pipes to cross depressions. at arles, a minor branch of the main aqueduct supplied a local suburb via a lead siphon whose "belly" was laid across a riverbed, eliminating any need for supporting bridgework.[ ] inspection and maintenance[edit] catchment basin of the aqueduct of metz, france. the single arched cover protects two channels; either one could be closed off, allowing repair while the other continued to provide at least partial supply roman aqueducts required a comprehensive system of regular maintenance. the "clear corridors" created to protect the fabric of underground and overground conduits were regularly patrolled for unlawful ploughing, planting, roadways and buildings. in de aquaeductu, frontinus describes the penetration of conduits by tree-roots as particularly damaging.[ ] the aqueducts conduits would have been regularly inspected and maintained by working patrols, to reduce algal fouling, repair accidental breaches, to clear the conduits of gravel and other loose debris, and to remove channel-narrowing accretions of calcium carbonate in systems fed by hard water sources. inspection and access points were provided at regular intervals on the standard, buried conduits. accretions within syphons could drastically reduce flow rates, due to the already narrow diameter of their pipes. some had sealed openings that might have been used as rodding eyes, possibly using a pull-through device. in rome, where a hard-water supply was the norm, main pipework was shallowly buried beneath road kerbs, for ease of access; the accumulation of calcium carbonate in these pipes would have necessitated their frequent replacement.[ ] the aqueducts were under the overall care and governance of a water commissioner (curator aquarum). it was a high status, high-profile appointment. in , frontinus served both as consul and as curator aquarum, under the emperor nerva.[ ] little is known of the day-to-day business of aqueduct maintenance teams (aquarii). under the emperor claudius, rome's contingent of imperial aquarii comprised a familia aquarum of people both slave and free, funded through a combination of imperial largesse and water taxes. they were supervised by an imperial freedman, who held office as procurator aquarium.[ ] theirs was probably a never-ending routine of patrol, inspection and cleaning, punctuated by occasional emergencies. full closure of any aqueduct for servicing would have been a rare event, kept as brief as possible, with repairs preferably made when water demand was lowest, which was presumably at night.[ ] the water supply could be shut off at its aqueduct outlet when small or local repairs were needed, but substantial maintenance and repairs to the aqueduct conduit itself required the complete diversion of water at any point upstream or at the spring-head itself. urban distribution tank at nîmes, france. circular section pipes radiate from a central reservoir, fed by a square-sectioned aqueduct. distribution[edit] aqueduct mains could be directly tapped, but they more usually fed into public distribution terminals, known as castellum aquae, which supplied various branches and spurs, usually via large-bore lead or ceramic pipes. thereafter, the supply could be further subdivided. licensed, fee-paying private users would have been registered, along with the bore of pipe that led from the public water supply to their private property – the wider the pipe, the greater the flow and the higher the fee. tampering and fraud to avoid or reduce payment were commonplace; methods included the fitting of unlicensed outlets, additional outlets, and the illegal widening of lead pipes; any of which might involve the bribery or connivance of unscrupulous aqueduct officials or workers. official lead pipes carried inscriptions with information on the pipe's manufacturer, its fitter, and probably on its subscriber and their entitlement.[ ] during the imperial era, lead production became an imperial monopoly, and the granting of rights to draw water for private use from state-funded aqueducts was made an imperial privilege.[ ][ ] uses[edit] civic and domestic[edit] the ruins of the aqua marcia near tivoli, built in – bc during the roman republic rome's first aqueduct ( bc) discharged at very low pressure and at a more-or-less constant rate in the city's main trading centre and cattle-market, probably into a low-level, cascaded series of troughs or basins; the upper for household use, the lower for watering the livestock traded there. most romans would have filled buckets and storage jars at the basins and carried the water to their apartments; the better-off would have sent slaves to perform the same task. the outlet's elevation was too low to offer any city household or building a direct supply; the overflow drained into rome's main sewer, and from there into the tiber. at this time, rome had no public baths. the first were probably built in the next century, based on precursors in neighboring campania; a limited number of private baths and small, street-corner public baths would have had a private water supply, but once aqueduct water was brought to the city's higher elevations, large and well-appointed public baths were built throughout the city, and drinking water was delivered to public fountains at high pressure. public baths and fountains became distinctive features of roman civilization, and the baths in particular became important social centres.[ ][ ] the majority of urban romans lived in multi-storeyed blocks of flats (insulae). some blocks offered water services, but only to tenants on the more expensive, lower floors; the rest would have drawn their water gratis from public fountains.[ ] farming[edit] between and % of the roman empire's population was involved in some form of agricultural work. farmers whose villas or estates were near a public aqueduct could draw, under license, a specified quantity of aqueduct water for summer irrigation at a predetermined time; this was intended to limit the depletion of water supply to users further down the gradient, and help ensure a fair distribution among competitors at the time when water was most needed and scarce. water was possibly the most important variable in the agricultural economy of the mediterranean world. roman italy's natural water sources – springs, streams, rivers and lakes – were unevenly distributed across the landscape, and water tended to scarcity when most needed, during the warm, dry summer growing season. columella recommends that any farm should contain a spring, stream or river;[ ] but acknowledges that not every farm did. aqueduct near belgrade in ottoman serbia, painted by luigi mayer farmland without a reliable summer water-source was virtually worthless. during the growing season, the water demand of a "modest local" irrigation system might consume as much water as the city of rome; and the livestock whose manure fertilised the fields must be fed and watered all year round. at least some roman landowners and farmers relied in part or whole on aqueduct water to raise crops as their primary or sole source of income but the fraction of aqueduct water involved can only be guessed at. more certainly, the creation of municipal and city aqueducts brought a growth in the intensive and efficient suburban market-farming of fragile, perishable commodities such as flowers (for perfumes, and for festival garlands), grapes, vegetables and orchard fruits; and of small livestock such as pigs and chickens, close to the municipal and urban markets.[ ] a licensed right to aqueduct water on farmland could lead to increased productivity, a cash income through the sale of surplus foodstuffs, and an increase in the value of the land itself. in the countryside, permissions to draw aqueduct water for irrigation were particularly hard to get; the exercise and abuse of such rights were subject to various known legal disputes and judgements, and at least one political campaign; in the early nd century bc cato tried to block all unlawful rural outlets, especially those owned by the landed elite - "look how much he bought the land for, where he is channeling the water!" - during his censorship. his attempted reform proved impermanent at best. though illegal tapping could be punished by seizure of assets, including the illegally watered land and its produce, this law seems never to have been used, and was probably impracticable; food surpluses kept prices low. grain shortages in particular could lead to famine and social unrest. any practical solution must strike a balance between the water-needs of urban populations and grain producers, tax the latter's profits, and secure sufficient grain at reasonable cost for the roman poor (the so-called "corn dole") and the army. rather than seek to impose unproductive and probably unenforcable bans, the authorities issued individual water grants (though seldom in rural areas) and licenses, and regulated water outlets, with variable success. in the st century ad, pliny the elder, like cato, could fulminate against grain producers who continued to wax fat on profits from public water and public land.[ ] some landholders avoided such restrictions and entanglements by buying water access rights to distant springs, not necessarily on their own land. a few, of high wealth and status, built their own aqueducts to transport such water from source to field or villa; mumius niger valerius vegetus bought the rights to a spring and its water from his neighbour, and access rights to a corridor of intervening land, then built an aqueduct of just under kilometres, connecting the springhead to his own villa. the senatorial permission for this "aqua vegetiana" was given only when the project seemed not to impinge on the water rights of other citizens.[ ] industrial[edit] rock-cut aqueduct feeding water to the mining site at las médulas some aqueducts supplied water to industrial sites, usually via an open channel cut into the ground, clay lined or wood-shuttered to reduce water loss. most such leats were designed to operate at the steep gradients that could deliver the high water volumes needed in mining operations. water was used in hydraulic mining to strip the overburden and expose the ore by hushing, to fracture and wash away metal-bearing rock already heated and weakened by fire-setting, and to power water-wheel driven stamps and trip-hammers that crushed ore for processing. evidence of such leats and machines has been found at dolaucothi in south-west wales.[ ][ ] mining sites such as dolaucothi and las medulas in northwest spain show multiple aqueducts that fed water from local rivers to the mine head. the channels may have deteriorated rapidly, or become redundant as the nearby ore was exhausted. las medulas shows at least seven such leats, and dolaucothi at least five. at dolaucothi, the miners used holding reservoirs as well as hushing tanks, and sluice gates to control flow, as well as drop chutes for diversion of water supplies. the remaining traces (see palimpsest) of such channels allows the mining sequence to be inferred. map of the gold mine at dolaucothi, showing its aqueducts a number of other sites fed by several aqueducts have not yet been thoroughly explored or excavated, such as those at longovicium near lanchester south of hadrian's wall, in which the water supplies may have been used to power trip-hammers for forging iron. at barbegal in roman gaul, a reservoir fed an aqueduct that drove a cascaded series of or overshot water mills, grinding flour for the arles region. similar arrangements, though on a lesser scale, have been found in caesarea, venafrum and roman-era athens. rome's aqua traiana drove a flour-mill at the janiculum, west of the tiber. a mill in the basement of the baths of caracalla was driven by aqueduct overspill; this was but one of many city mills driven by aqueduct water, with or without official permission. a law of the th century forbade the illicit use of aqueduct water for milling.[ ] decline in use[edit] a portion of the eifel aqueduct, germany, built in ad. its channel is narrowed by an accretion of calcium carbonate, accumulated through lack of maintenance. during the fall of the roman empire, some aqueducts were deliberately cut by enemies but more fell into disuse because of deteriorating roman infrastructure and lack of maintenance, such as the eifel aqueduct (pictured right). observations made by the spaniard pedro tafur, who visited rome in , reveal misunderstandings of the very nature of the roman aqueducts: through the middle of the city runs a river, which the romans brought there with great labour and set in their midst, and this is the tiber. they made a new bed for the river, so it is said, of lead, and channels at one and the other end of the city for its entrances and exits, both for watering horses and for other services convenient to the people, and anyone entering it at any other spot would be drowned.[ ] during the renaissance, the standing remains of the city's massive masonry aqueducts inspired architects, engineers and their patrons; pope nicholas v renovated the main channels of the roman aqua virgo in .[ ] many aqueducts in rome's former empire were kept in good repair. the th-century rebuilding of an aqueduct at segovia in spain shows advances on the pont du gard by using fewer arches of greater height, and so greater economy in its use of the raw materials. the skill in building aqueducts was not lost, especially of the smaller, more modest channels used to supply water wheels. most such mills in britain were developed in the medieval period for bread production, and used similar methods as that developed by the romans with leats tapping local rivers and streams. see also[edit] 	list of roman aqueduct bridges 	roman architectural revolution 	roman architecture 	roman engineering 	roman technology references[edit] 	^ gargarin, m. and fantham, e. 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(editors). the oxford encyclopedia of ancient greece and rome, volume . oxford university press. . pp. – . 	^ cynthia bannon, gardens and neighbors: private water rights in roman italy. university of michigan press, , pp. – . 	^ historical and archaeological context constantinople and the longest roman aqueduct accessed august , . 	^ da feo, g., and napoli, r. m. a., "historical development of the augustan aqueduct in southern italy: twenty centuries of works from serino to naples", water science & technology water supply, march 	^ the roman general and hydraulic engineer frontinus later calculated its delivery at quinariae ( , cubic meters) in hours; see samuel ball platner ( , as completed and revised by thomas ashby): a topographical dictionary of ancient rome. london: oxford university. p. . 	^ sextus julius frontinus. the aqueducts of rome. pp. , – . 	^ "at that time the decemvirs, on consulting the sibylline books for another purpose, are said to have discovered that it was not right for the marcian water, or rather the anio (for tradition more regularly mentions this) to be brought to the capitol. the matter is said to have been debated in the senate, in the consulship of appius claudius and quintus caecilius, marcus lepidus acting as spokesman for the board of decemvirs; and three years later the matter is said to have been brought up again by lucius lentulus, in the consulship of gaius laelius and quintus servilius, but on both occasions the influence of marcius rex carried the day; and thus the water was brought to the capitol." sextus julius frontinus, the aqueducts of rome, – , [ ] 	^ a b the aqua alsietina was also known as "aqua augusta"; frontinus distinguishes its "unwholesome" supply from the "sweet waters" of the aqua augusta that fed into the aqua marcia. on the one hand, he says the naumachia's supply is "nowhere delivered for consumption by the people... 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statement 		 	 	 petronius - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	petronius 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 st century ad roman courtier and author of the satyricon this article is about the roman author. for other uses, see petronius (disambiguation). 	petronius 	 	born	c. ad massalia (ancient marseille) 	died	c. ad cumae 	occupation	novelist 	notable works	the satyricon gaius petronius arbiter[ ] (/pɪˈtroʊniəs/, classical latin: [ˈɡaː.i.ʊs peːˈt̪roː.ni.ʊs ˈar.bɪ.t̪ɛr]; c. ad – ; sometimes titus petronius niger)[ ] was a roman courtier during the reign of nero. he is generally believed to be the author of the satyricon, a satirical novel believed to have been written during the neronian era ( – ad). contents 	 life 	 . as a writer 	 . death 	 apocryphal quotation 	 see also 	 notes 	 further reading 	 external links life[edit] tacitus, plutarch and pliny the elder describe petronius as the elegantiae arbiter (also phrased arbiter elegantiarum), "judge of elegance", in the court of the emperor nero. he served as suffect consul in .[ ] later, he became a member of the senatorial class who devoted themselves to a life of pleasure. his relationship to nero was apparently akin to that of a fashion advisor. tacitus gives this account of petronius in his historical work the annals (xvi. ): he spent his days in sleep, his nights in attending to his official duties or in amusement, that by his dissolute life he had become as famous as other men by a life of energy, and that he was regarded as no ordinary profligate, but as an accomplished voluptuary. his reckless freedom of speech, being regarded as frankness, procured him popularity. yet during his provincial government, and later when he held the office of consul, he had shown vigour and capacity for affairs. afterwards returning to his life of vicious indulgence, he became one of the chosen circle of nero's intimates, and was looked upon as an absolute authority on questions of taste [elegantiae arbiter; note the pun on petronius' cognomen] in connection with the science of luxurious living.[ ] none of the ancient sources give any further detail about his life, or mention that he was a writer. however, a medieval manuscript written around of the satyricon credited a "titus petronius" as the author of the original work. traditionally, this reference is linked with petronius arbiter, since the novel appears to have been written or at least set during his lifetime. the link, however, remains speculative and disputed. as a writer[edit] petronius' development of his characters in the satyricon, namely trimalchio, transcends the traditional style of writing of ancient literature. in the literature written during petronius' lifetime, the emphasis was always on the typical considerations of plot, which had been laid down by classical rules.[citation needed] the character, which was hardly known in ancient literature, was secondary. petronius goes beyond these literary limitations in his exact portrayals of detailed speech, behaviour, surroundings, and appearance of the characters. another literary device petronius employs in his novel is a collection of specific allusions. the allusions to certain people and events are evidence that the satyricon was written during nero's time. these also suggest that it was aimed at a contemporary audience which consisted in part of nero's courtiers and even nero himself. one such allusion, found in chapter , refers to the story of the good wife lucretia which was well known at the time: "if you're a lucretia," he said, "you've found a tarquin". the message petronius tries to convey in his work is far from moral and does not intend to produce reform, but is written above all to entertain and should be considered artistically. nevertheless, his writings can be a valuable tool to better comprehend the customs and ways of life of roman society at that particular time, since the author strives to preserve the plausibility of his representation, as can be noted by the frequent use of allusions and detailed descriptions of characters and behaviours. as the title implies, the satyricon is a satire, specifically a menippean satire, in which petronius satirizes nearly anything, using his taste as the only standard. it is speculated that petronius' depiction of trimalchio mirrors that of nero. although the author's own opinion is never alluded to, the opinions of the characters involved in the story are evident, as is how encolpius criticizes trimalchio. death[edit] petronius' high position soon made him the object of envy for those around him. having attracted the jealousy of tigellinus, the commander of the emperor's guard, he was accused of treason.[ ] he was arrested at cumae in ad but did not wait for a sentence. instead, he chose to take his own life. tacitus again records his elegant suicide in the sixteenth book of the annals: yet he did not fling away life with precipitate haste, but having made an incision in his veins and then, according to his humour, bound them up, he again opened them, while he conversed with his friends, not in a serious strain or on topics that might win for him the glory of courage. and he listened to them as they repeated, not thoughts on the immortality of the soul or on the theories of philosophers, but light poetry and playful verses. to some of his slaves he gave liberal presents, a flogging to others. he dined, indulged himself in sleep, that death, though forced on him, might have a natural appearance. even in his will he did not, as did many in their last moments, flatter nero or tigellinus or any other of the men in power. on the contrary, he described fully the prince's shameful excesses, with the names of his male and female companions and their novelties in debauchery, and sent the account under seal to nero. then he broke his signet-ring, that it might not be subsequently available for imperilling others. according to pliny the elder: "t. petronius, a consular, when he was going to die through nero's jealousy and envy, broke his fluorspar wine-dipper so that the emperor's table would not inherit it. it had cost , sesterces". t. petronius and g. petronius have been said to have been the same man.[ ] apocryphal quotation[edit] in recent times, a popular quotation, actually written by charlton ogburn in ,[ ] on reorganization is often spuriously[ ][ ] attributed to a gaius petronius. in one version it reads: we trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. i was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. see also[edit] 	see also … 	 works at domínio público 	 works at dominio público 	asteroid petronius, named after the satirist 	supplements to the satyricon notes[edit] 	^ a b "gaius petronius arbiter". britannica.com. 	^ paul gallivan, "some comments on the fasti for the reign of nero", classical quarterly, ( ), p.  	^  one or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "petronius". encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. pp.  – . 	^ romm, james ( march ). dying every day: seneca at the court of nero (paperback) (first ed.). new york: vintage books. p.  . isbn  - - - - . retrieved may . 	^ rudich, vasily ( march ). dissidence and literature under nero: the price of rhetoricization. routledge. isbn  - . retrieved july . 	^ "the quotations page". retrieved september . 	^ "petronius arbiter, time traveller". archived from the original on july . retrieved january . 	^ "articles from the petronian society newsletter". retrieved may . further reading[edit] 	breitenstein, natalie, petronius, satyrica – . text, Übersetzung, kommentar ( . berlin – new york: de gruyter) (texte und kommentare, ). 	conte, gian biagio, the hidden author: an interpretation of petronius' satyricon ( . berkeley: university of california press). 	connors, catherine, petronius the poet: verse and literary tradition in the satyricon ( . cambridge: cambridge university press). 	habermehl, peter, petronius, satyrica – . ein philologisch–literarischer kommentar. band i : satyrica – . berlin : de gruyter . 	habermehl, peter, petronius, satyrica – . ein philologisch–literarischer kommentar. band ii : satyrica – . berlin : de gruyter . 	jensson, gottskalk, the recollections of encolpius. the satyrica of petronius as milesian fiction ( . groningen: barkhuis publishing and groningen university library) (ancient narrative suppl. ). 	prag, jonathan and ian repath (eds), petronius: a handbook ( . oxford: wiley-blackwell). 	reeve, michael d. . petronius. in texts and transmission: a survey of the latin classics. edited by leighton d. reynolds, – . oxford: clarendon. 	repath, ian. . "plato in petronius: petronius in platanona". the classical quarterly, ( ), new series, – . 	rose, kenneth f. c. . "the date and author of the satyricon". mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica batava, supplementum . leiden, the netherlands: e. j. brill. 	schmeling, gareth. . a commentary on the satyrica of petronius. oxford: oxford univ. press. 	slater, niall w. . reading petronius. baltimore and london: the johns hopkins university press. 	sullivan, john p. . "petronius’ satyricon and its neronian context". in aufstieg und niedergang der römischen welt: geschichte und kultur roms im spiegel der neuren forschung, vol. ii, part . . edited by hildegard temporini and wolfgang haase, – . berlin: walter de gruyter. 	vannini, giulio, petronius – : bilancio critico e nuove proposte ( . goettingen: vandenhoeck & ruprecht) (lustrum, ). 	vannini, giulio, petronii arbitri satyricon – . edizione critica e commento ( . berlin – new york: de gruyter) (beiträge zur altertumskunde, ). external links[edit] 	library resources about petronius 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 by petronius 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 media related to petronius arbiter at wikimedia commons 	 works written by or about petronius at wikisource 	 quotations related to petronius at wikiquote 	works by petronius at perseus digital library 	works by petronius at project gutenberg 	works by or about 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	cookie statement 		 	 	 pindar - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	pindar 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		for other uses, see pindar (disambiguation). ancient greek lyric poet from thebes 	pindar 	pindar, roman copy of greek th century bc bust (museo archeologico nazionale, naples) 	native name	Πίνδαρος 	born	c.  [ ] cynoscephalae, boiotia 	died	c.  (aged approx ) argos 	occupation	lyric poet 	genre	poetry pindar (/ˈpɪndər/; greek: Πίνδαρος pindaros, [píndaros]; latin: pindarus; c. – bc) was an ancient greek lyric poet from thebes. of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient greece, his work is the best preserved. quintilian wrote, "of the nine lyric poets, pindar is by far the greatest, in virtue of his inspired magnificence, the beauty of his thoughts and figures, the rich exuberance of his language and matter, and his rolling flood of eloquence, characteristics which, as horace rightly held, make him inimitable."[ ] his poems can also, however, seem difficult and even peculiar. the athenian comic playwright eupolis once remarked that they "are already reduced to silence by the disinclination of the multitude for elegant learning".[ ] some scholars in the modern age also found his poetry perplexing, at least until the discovery of some poems by his rival bacchylides; comparisons of their work showed that many of pindar's idiosyncrasies are typical of archaic genres rather than of only the poet himself. his poetry, while admired by critics, still challenges the casual reader and his work is largely unread among the general public.[ ] pindar was the first greek poet to reflect on the nature of poetry and on the poet's role.[ ] like other poets of the archaic age, he has a profound sense of the vicissitudes of life, but he also articulates a passionate faith in what men can achieve by the grace of the gods, most famously expressed in the conclusion to one of his victory odes:[ ] creatures of a day! what is anyone? what is anyone not? a dream of a shadow is our mortal being. but when there comes to men a gleam of splendour given of heaven, then rests on them a light of glory and blessed are their days. (pythian )[ ][ ] his poetry illustrates the beliefs and values of archaic greece at the dawn of the classical period.[ ] contents 	 biography 	 . sources 	 . life 	 . . infancy to adulthood 	 . . middle age 	 . . old age and death 	 . . post mortem 	 . values and beliefs 	 works 	 . victory odes 	 . . style 	 . . structure 	 . . chronological order 	 . manuscripts, shreds and quotes 	 influence and legacy 	 . horace's tribute 	 . bowra's tribute 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 sources 	 further reading 	 external links biography[edit] sources[edit] five ancient sources contain all the recorded details of pindar's life. one of them is a short biography discovered in on an egyptian papyrus dating from at least ad (p.oxy. ).[ ] the other four are collections that weren't finalized until some years after his death: 	commentaries on pindar by eustathius of thessalonica; 	vita vratislavensis, found in a manuscript at breslau, author unknown; 	a text by thomas magister; 	some meagre writings attributed to the lexicographer suidas. although these sources are based on a much older literary tradition, going as far back as chamaeleon of heraclea in the th century bc, they are generally viewed with scepticism today: much of the material is clearly fanciful.[ ][ ] scholars both ancient and modern have turned to pindar's own work – his victory odes in particular – as a source of biographical information: some of the poems touch on historic events and can be accurately dated. the publication of elroy bundy's ground-breaking work studia pindarica[ ] led to a change in scholarly opinion—the odes were no longer seen as expressions of pindar's personal thoughts and feelings, but rather as public statements "dedicated to the single purpose of eulogizing men and communities."[ ] it has been claimed that biographical interpretations of the poems are due to a "fatal conjunction" of historicism and romanticism.[ ] in other words, we know almost nothing about pindar's life based on either traditional sources or his own poems. however, the pendulum of intellectual fashion has begun to change direction again, and cautious use of the poems for some biographical purposes is considered acceptable once more.[ ][ ][ ][ ] 	 	 	 πολλὰ γὰρ πολλᾷ λέλεκται: νεαρὰ δ᾽ ἐξευ- ρόντα δόμεν βασάνῳ ἐς ἔλεγχον, ἅπας κίνδυνος.[ ][ ] 	 story is vast in range: new ways to find and test upon the touchstone, here danger lies.[nb ][ ] life[edit] infancy to adulthood[edit] pindar was born in circa bc (the th olympiad) in cynoscephalae, a village in boeotia, not far from thebes. his father's name is variously given as daiphantus, pagondas or scopelinus, and his mother's name was cleodice.[ ] it is told that he was stung on the mouth by a bee in his youth and this was the reason he became a poet of honey-like verses (an identical fate has been ascribed to other poets of the archaic period). pindar was about twenty years old in bc when he was commissioned by the ruling family in thessaly to compose his first victory ode (pythian ). he studied the art of lyric poetry in athens, where his tutor was lasos of hermione, and he is also said to have received some helpful criticism from corinna. the early-to-middle years of pindar's career coincided with the greco-persian wars during the reigns of darius and xerxes. this period included the first persian invasion of greece, which ending at the battle of marathon in bc, and second persian invasion of greece ( - bc).[ ][ ] during the second invasion, when pindar was almost forty years old, thebes was occupied by xerxes' general, mardonius, who with many theban aristocrats subsequently perished at the battle of plataea. it is possible that pindar spent much of this time at aegina. his choice of residence during the earlier invasion in bc is not known, but he was able to attend the pythian games for that year, where he first met the sicilian prince, thrasybulus, nephew of theron of acragas. thrasybulus had driven the winning chariot and he and pindar were to form a lasting friendship, paving the way for his subsequent visit to sicily. middle age[edit] pindar seems to have used his odes to advance his, and his friends', personal interests.[ ] in bc he composed two odes in honour of arcesilas, king of cyrene, (pythians and ), pleading for the return from exile of a friend, demophilus. in the latter ode pindar proudly mentions his own ancestry, which he shared with the king, as an aegeid or descendant of aegeus, the legendary king of athens. the clan was influential in many parts of the greek world, having intermarried with ruling families in thebes, in lacedaemonia, and in cities that claimed lacedaemonian descent, such as cyrene and thera. the historian herodotus considered the clan important enough to deserve mention (histories iv. ). membership of this clan possibly contributed to pindar's success as a poet, and it informed his political views, which are marked by a conservative preference for oligarchic governments of the doric kind. "pindar might not actually claim to be an aegeid since his 'i' statements do not necessarily refer to himself. the aegeid clan did however have a branch in thebes, and his reference to 'my ancestors' in pythian could have been spoken on behalf of both arcesilas and himself – he may have used this ambivalence to establish a personal link with his patrons."[ ] he was possibly the theban proxenos or consul for aegina and/or molossia, as indicated in another of his odes, nemean ,[ ][ ][ ][ ] in which he glorifies neoptolemus, a national hero of aegina and molossia. according to tradition, neoptolemus died disgracefully in a fight with priests at the temple in delphi over their share of some sacrificial meat. pindar diplomatically glosses over this and concludes mysteriously with an earnest protestation of innocence – "but shall my heart never admit that i with words none can redeem dishonoured neoptolemus".[clarification needed] possibly he was responding to anger among aeginetans and/or molossians over his portrayal of neoptolemus in an earlier poem, paean , which had been commissioned by the priests at delphi and which depicted the hero's death in traditional terms, as divine retribution for his crimes. "some doubt this biographical interpretation of nemean since it is largely based on marginal comments by scholiasts and pindaric scholiasts are often unreliable. the fact that pindar gave different versions of the myth may simply reflect the needs of different genres, and does not necessarily indicate a personal dilemma.[ ] nemean in fact is the most controversial and obscure of pindar's victory odes, and scholars ancient and modern have been ingenious and imaginative in their attempts to explain it, so far with no agreed success."[ ] in his first pythian ode, composed in bc in honour of the sicilian tyrant hieron, pindar celebrated a series of victories by greeks against foreign invaders: athenian and spartan-led victories against persia at salamis and plataea, and victories by the western greeks led by theron of acragas and hieron against the carthaginians and etruscans at the battles of himera and cumae. such celebrations were not appreciated by his fellow thebans: they had sided with the persians and had incurred many losses and privations as a result of their defeat. his praise of athens with such epithets as bulwark of hellas (fragment ) and city of noble name and sunlit splendour (nemean ) induced the authorities in thebes to fine him drachmae, to which the athenians are said to have responded with a gift of drachmae. according to another account,[ ] the athenians even made him their proxenus or consul in thebes. his association with the fabulously rich hieron was another source of annoyance at home. it was probably in response to theban sensitivities over this issue that he denounced the rule of tyrants (i.e. rulers like hieron) in an ode composed shortly after a visit to hieron's sumptuous court in – bc (pythian ).[ ] "pindar's actual phrasing in pythian was "i deplore the lot of tyrants" and though this was traditionally interpreted as an apology for his dealings with sicilian tyrants like hieron, an alternative date for the ode has led some scholars to conclude that it was in fact a covert reference to the tyrannical behaviour of the athenians, although this interpretation is ruled out if we accept the earlier note about covert references. according to yet another interpretation pindar is simply delivering a formulaic warning to the successful athlete to avoid hubris.[ ] it is highly unlikely that pindar ever acted for athenians as their proxenus or consul in thebes."[ ] lyric verse was conventionally accompanied by music and dance, and pindar himself wrote the music and choreographed the dances for his victory odes. sometimes he trained the performers at his home in thebes, and sometimes he trained them at the venue where they performed. commissions took him to all parts of the greek world – to the panhellenic festivals in mainland greece (olympia, delphi, corinth and nemea), westwards to sicily, eastwards to the seaboard of asia minor, north to macedonia and abdera (paean ) and south to cyrene on the african coast. other poets at the same venues vied with him for the favours of patrons. his poetry sometimes reflects this rivalry. for example, olympian and pythian , composed in honour of the sicilian tyrants theron and hieron following his visit to their courts in – bc, refer respectively to ravens and an ape, apparently signifying rivals who were engaged in a campaign of smears against him – possibly the poets simonides and his nephew bacchylides.[ ] pindar's original treatment of narrative myth, often relating events in reverse chronological order, is said to have been a favourite target for criticism.[ ] simonides was known to charge high fees for his work and pindar is said to have alluded to this in isthmian , where he refers to the muse as "a hireling journeyman". he appeared in many poetry competitions and was defeated five times by his compatriot, the poet corinna, in revenge of which he called her boeotian sow in one of his odes (olympian . f.). "it was assumed by ancient sources that pindar's odes were performed by a chorus, but this has been challenged by some modern scholars, who argue that the odes were in fact performed solo.[ ] it is not known how commissions were arranged, nor if the poet travelled widely: even when poems include statements like "i have come" it is not certain that this was meant literally.[ ] uncomplimentary references to bacchylides and simonides were found by scholiasts but there is no reason to accept their interpretation of the odes.[ ] in fact, some scholars have interpreted the allusions to fees in isthmian as a request by pindar for payment of fees owed to himself.[ ] his defeats by corinna were probably invented by ancient commentators to account for the boeotian sow remark, a phrase moreover that was completely misunderstood by scholiasts, since pindar was scoffing at a reputation that all boeotians had for stupidity."[ ] old age and death[edit] his fame as a poet drew pindar into greek politics. athens, the most important city in greece throughout his poetic career, was a rival of his home city, thebes, and also of the island state aegina, whose leading citizens commissioned about a quarter of his victory odes. there is no open condemnation of the athenians in any of his poems but criticism is implied. for example, the victory ode mentioned above (pythian ) describes the downfall of the giants porphyrion and typhon and this might be pindar's way of covertly celebrating a recent defeat of athens by thebes at the battle of coronea ( bc).[ ] the poem ends with a prayer for aegina's freedom, long threatened by athenian ambitions. covert criticism of athens (traditionally located in odes such as pythian , nemean and isthmian ) is now dismissed as highly unlikely, even by scholars who allow some biographical and historical interpretations of the poems.[ ] one of his last odes (pythian ) indicates that he lived near a shrine to the oracle alcmaeon and that he stored some of his wealth there. in the same ode he says that he had recently received a prophecy from alcmaeon during a journey to delphi ("...he met me and proved the skills of prophecy that all his race inherit")[ ] but he does not reveal what the long-dead prophet said to him nor in what form he appeared.[nb ] the ode was written to commemorate a victory by an athlete from aegina. "pindar doesn't necessarily mean himself when he uses the first person singular. many of his 'i' statements are generic, indicating somebody engaged in the role of a singer i.e. a 'bardic' i. other 'i' statements articulate values typical of the audience, and some are spoken on behalf of the subjects celebrated in the poems.[ ] the 'i' that received the prophecy in pythian therefore might have been the athlete from aegina, not pindar. in that case the prophecy must have been about his performance at the pythian games, and the property stored at the shrine was just a votive offering."[ ] nothing is recorded about pindar's wife and son except their names, megacleia and daiphantus. about ten days before he died, the goddess persephone appeared to him and complained that she was the only divinity to whom he had never composed a hymn. she said he would come to her soon and compose one then. pindar lived to about eighty years of age. he died around bc while attending a festival at argos. his ashes were taken back home to thebes by his musically-gifted daughters, eumetis and protomache. post mortem[edit] one of pindar's female relatives claimed that he dictated some verses to her in honour of persephone after he had been dead for several days. some of pindar's verses were inscribed in letters of gold on a temple wall in lindos, rhodes. at delphi, where he had been elected a priest of apollo, the priests exhibited an iron chair on which he used to sit during the festival of the theoxenia. every night, while closing the temple doors, they intoned: "let pindar the poet go unto the supper of the gods!" pindar's house in thebes became one of the city's landmarks. when alexander the great demolished thebes in  bc, as punishment for its resistance to macedonian expansionism, he ordered the house be left intact out of gratitude for verses praising his ancestor, alexander i of macedon.[ ] values and beliefs[edit] pindar's values and beliefs have been inferred from his poetry. no other ancient greek poet has left so many comments about the nature of his art. he justified and exalted choral poetry at a time when society was turning away from it. it "...had for two centuries reflected and shaped the sentiments, the outlook, and the convictions of the greek aristocracies...and pindar spoke up for it with passionate assurance".[ ] his poetry is a meeting ground for gods, heroes and men – even the dead are spoken of as participants: "deep in the earth their heart listens".[ ] his view of the gods is traditional but more self-consistent than homer's and more reverent. he never depicts gods in a demeaning role. he seems indifferent to the intellectual reforms that were shaping the theology of the times. thus an eclipse is not a mere physical effect, as contemplated by early thinkers such as thales, anaximander and heraclitus, nor was it even a subject for bold wonder, as it was for an earlier poet, archilochus;[ ] instead pindar treated an eclipse as a portent of evil.[nb ][ ][ ] gods are the embodiment of power, uncompromisingly proud of their nature and violent in defense of their privileges.[ ][ ] there is some rationalization of religious belief, but it is within a tradition at least as old as hesiod, where abstractions are personified, such as "truth the daughter of zeus".[ ] sometimes the wording suggests a belief in 'god' rather than 'a god' (e.g. "what is god? everything"),[nb ] but the implications are not given full expression and the poems are not examples of monotheism.[citation needed] nor do they vocalize a belief in fate as the background to the gods, unlike the plays of aeschylus for example. pindar subjects both fortune and fate to divine will (e.g. "child of zeus...fortune").[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] a short heracles: pindar once ignored the traditional image of heracles, the supreme example of the heroic physique, and described him as short in order to compare him with a short patron. he selects and revises traditional myths so as not to diminish the dignity and majesty of the gods. such revisionism was not unique. xenophanes had castigated homer and hesiod for the misdeeds they ascribed to gods, such as theft, adultery and deception, and pythagoras had envisioned those two poets being punished in hades for blasphemy. a subtle example of pindar's approach can be found in his treatment of the myth of apollo's rape of the nymph cyrene.[ ] as the god of the delphic oracle, apollo is all-knowing, yet in keeping with his anthropomorphic nature he seeks information about the nymph from a third party, in this case the centaur chiron. chiron however affirms the god's omniscience with an elegant compliment, as if apollo had only pretended to be ignorant: "you, sire, who know the appointed end of all, and all paths..."[nb ][ ] apollo's abduction of the nymph is not presented as a shameful act. pindar's gods are above such ethical issues and it is not for men to judge them by ordinary human standards. indeed, the finest breeds of men resulted from divine passions: "for pindar a mortal woman who is loved by a god is an outstanding lesson in divine favours handsomely bestowed".[ ][ ] being descendants of divine unions with privileged mortals, mythical heroes are an intermediate group between gods and men, and they are sympathetic to human ambitions. thus, for example, pindar not only invokes zeus for help on behalf of the island of aegina but also its national heroes aeacus, peleus and telamon.[ ] unlike the gods, however, heroes can be judged according to ordinary human standards and they are sometimes shown in the poems to demean themselves. even in that case, they receive special consideration. thus pindar refers obliquely to the murder of phocus by his brothers peleus and telamon ("i am shy of speaking of a huge risk, hazarded not in right"), telling the audience that he will not talk of it ("silence is a man's wisest counsel").[nb ][ ][ ] the theban hero heracles was a favourite subject but in one poem he is depicted as small in order to be compared with a small theban patron who had won the pankration at the isthmian games:[ ] a unique example of pindar's readiness to shape traditional myths to fit the occasion, even if not always flattering to the mythical hero. a hero's status is not diminished by an occasional blemish but rests on a summary view of his heroic exploits.[ ][ ][ ] some of his patrons claimed divine descent, such as diagoras of rhodes, but pindar makes all men akin to gods if they realize their full potential: their innate gifts are divinely bestowed, and even then success still depends on the gods' active favour. in honouring such men, therefore, pindar was honouring the gods too.[ ][ ][ ] his statements about life after death were not self-consistent but that was typical for the times. traditional ambivalence, as expressed by homer, had been complicated by a growth of religious sects, such as the eleusinian mysteries and pythagoreanism, representing various schemes of rewards and punishments in the next life. however, for the poet, glory and lasting fame were men's greatest assurance of a life well-lived.[ ] he presents no theory of history apart from the view that fortune is variable even for the best men, an outlook suited to moderation in success, courage in adversity. notions of 'good' and 'bad' in human nature were not analysed by him in any depth nor did he arrive at anything like the compassionate ethics of his near contemporary, simonides of ceos.[ ][ ][ ] his poems are indifferent to the ordinary mass of people. they are dismissed with phrases such as "the brute multitude" (pythian ode . ). nor are the poems concerned with the fate of rich and powerful men once they lose their wealth and social status (compared for example with the bitter and disillusioned poems of theognis of megara). they are more interested in what successful men do with their good fortune: success brings obligations, and religious and artistic activities need patrons.[ ][ ][ ][ ] whereas the muses inspired homer with relevant information and with the language to express it, pindar seems to receive only their inspiration: his role is to shape that inspiration with his own wisdom and skill. like his patrons, whom he immortalizes in verse, he owes his success to hard work as well as to innate gifts; though he hires himself out, he has a vocation. the muses are to him as an oracle is to a prophet, and lesser poets are to him as ravens are to an eagle; the art of such men is as hackneyed as garland-making; his is magical:[ ][ ][ ][ ] 	 	 	 εἴρειν στεφάνους ἐλαφρόν: ἀναβάλεο: Μοῖσά τοι κολλᾷ χρυσὸν ἔν τε λευκὸν ἐλέφανθ᾽ ἁμᾷ καὶ λείριον ἄνθεμον ποντίας ὑφελοῖσ᾽ ἐέρσας. 	 to plait garlands is easy. strike up! the muse welds together gold and white ivory and the lily-flower snatched from the sea's dew.[ ][ ] works[edit] pindar's strongly individual genius is apparent in all his extant compositions but, unlike simonides and stesichorus for example, he created no new lyrical genres.[ ] he was however innovative in his use of the genres he inherited – for example, in one of his victory odes (olympian ), he announces his invention of a new type of musical accompaniment, combining lyre, flute and human voice (though our knowledge of greek music is too sketchy to allow us to understand the full nature of this innovation).[ ] although he probably spoke boeotian greek he composed in a literary language that tended to rely more on the doric dialect than his rival bacchylides, but less insistently than alcman. there is an admixture of other dialects, especially aeolic and epic forms, and an occasional use of some boeotian words.[ ] he composed 'choral' songs yet it is by no means certain that they were all sung by choirs – the use of choirs is testified only by the generally unreliable scholiasts.[ ] scholars at the library of alexandria collected his compositions in seventeen books organized according to genre:[ ] 	 book of hymnoi – "hymns" 	 book of paianes – "paeans" 	 books of dithyramboi – "dithyrambs" 	 books of prosodia – "processionals" 	 books of parthenia – "songs for maidens" 	 books of hyporchemata – "songs for light dances" 	 book of enkomia – "songs of praise" 	 book of threnoi – "laments" 	 books of epinikia – "victory odes" of this vast and varied corpus, only the epinikia – odes written to commemorate athletic victories – survive in complete form; the rest survive only by quotations in other ancient authors or from papyrus scraps unearthed in egypt. even in fragmentary form however they reveal the same complexity of thought and language that are found in the victory odes.[ ] dionysius of halicarnassus singled out pindar's work as an outstanding example of austere style (αὐστηρὰ ἁρμονία) but he noted its absence in the maiden songs or parthenia. one surviving fragment of a maiden song does seem to be different in tone, due however to the fact that it is spoken in the character of a girl:[ ][ ][ ] 	 	 	 	 ἐμὲ δὲ πρέπει παρθενήια μὲν φρονεῖν γλώσσᾳ τε λέγεσθαι. 	 emè dè prépei parthenḗia mèn phroneîn glṓssāi te légesthai. 	 i must think maidenly thoughts and utter them with my tongue.[ ][ ][ ][ ] enough of his dithyrambic poetry survives for comparison with that of bacchylides, who used it for narrative. pindar's dithyrambs are an exuberant display of religious feeling, capturing the wild spirit of dionysus and pointing forward to the ecstatic songs of euripides' bacchae. in one of these, dedicated to the athenians and written to be sung in spring, he depicts the divine energy of the revitalized world.[ ][ ] 	 	 	 	 φοινικοεάνων ὁπότ' οἰχθέντος Ὡρᾶν θαλάμου εὔοδμον ἐπάγοισιν ἐάρ φυτὰ νεκτάρεα. τότε βάλλεται, τότ' ἐπ' ἀμβρόταν χθόν' ἐραταί ἴων φόβαι, ῥόδα τε κόμαισι μείγνυται, ἀχεῖ τ' ὀμφαὶ μελέων σὺν αὐλοῖς οἰχνεῖ τε Σεμέλαν ἑλικάμπυκα χοροί. 	 phoinikoeánōn hopót' oikhthéntos hōrân thalámou eúodmon epágoisin eár phutà nektárea. tóte bálletai, tót' ep' ambrótan khthón' erataí íōn phóbai, rhóda te kómaisi meígnutai, akheî t' omphaì meléōn sùn auloîs oikhneî te semélan helikámpuka khoroí. 	 when the chamber of the scarlet-clothed hours is opened and the nectareous flowers usher in the fragrant spring, then are scattered, then, on the immortal ground the lovely petals of violets; roses are wound in our hair; loudly echo the voices of songs to the flutes, and choirs step in procession to dark-ribboned semele.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] victory odes[edit] the so-called 'farnese diadumenos' is a roman copy of a greek original attributed to polykleitos c. bc, depicting an athlete tying a victory ribbon round his head. almost all pindar's victory odes are celebrations of triumphs gained by competitors in panhellenic festivals such as the olympian games. the establishment of these athletic and musical festivals was among the greatest achievements of the greek aristocracies. even in the th century bc, when there was an increased tendency towards professionalism, they were predominantly aristocratic assemblies, reflecting the expense and leisure needed to attend such events either as a competitor or spectator. attendance was an opportunity for display and self-promotion, and the prestige of victory, requiring commitment in time and/or wealth, went far beyond anything that accrues to athletic victories today, even in spite of the modern preoccupation with sport.[ ] pindar's odes capture something of the prestige and the aristocratic grandeur of the moment of victory, as in this stanza from one of his isthmian odes, here translated by geoffrey s. conway: 					if ever a man strives 	with all his soul's endeavour, sparing himself 	neither expense nor labour to attain 	true excellence, then must we give to those 	who have achieved the goal, a proud tribute 		of lordly praise, and shun 	all thoughts of envious jealousy. 	to a poet's mind the gift is slight, to speak 	a kind word for unnumbered toils, and build 	for all to share a monument of beauty. (isthmian i, antistrophe )[ ] his victory odes are grouped into four books named after the olympian, pythian, isthmian, and nemean games – panhellenic festivals held respectively at olympia, delphi, corinth and nemea. this reflects the fact that most of the odes were composed in honour of boys, youths, and men who had recently enjoyed victories in athletic (and sometimes musical) contests at those festivals. in a few odes however much older victories, and even victories in lesser games, are celebrated, often as a pretext for addressing other issues or achievements. for example, pythian , composed in honour of hieron of syracuse, briefly mentions a victory he had once enjoyed at the pythian games, but it is actually intended to console him for his chronic illness (similarly, pythian is like a private letter in its intimacy).[ ] nemean and nemean celebrate victories in games at sicyon and argos, and nemean celebrates a victory in a municipal election on tenedos (though it also mentions some obscure athletic victories). these three odes are the final odes in the nemean book of odes, and there is a reason for their inclusion. in the original manuscripts, the four books of odes were arranged in the order of importance assigned to the festivals, with the nemean festival, considered least important, coming last. victory odes that lacked a panhellenic subject were then bundled together at the end of the book of nemean odes.[ ] style[edit] pindar's poetic style is very distinctive, even when the peculiarities of the genre are set aside. the odes typically feature a grand and arresting opening, often with an architectural metaphor or a resounding invocation to a place or goddess. he makes rich use of decorative language and florid compound adjectives.[ ] sentences are compressed to the point of obscurity, unusual words and periphrases give the language an esoteric quality, and transitions in meaning often seem erratic, the images seem to burst out – it is a style that sometimes baffles but also makes his poetry vivid and unforgettable.[ ] pindar's power does not lie in the pedigrees of ... athletes ... it lies in a splendour of phrase and imagery that suggests the gold and purple of a sunset sky. – f. l. lucas[ ] he has that force of imagination which can bring clear-cut and dramatic figures of gods and heroes into vivid relief...he has that peculiar and inimitable splendour of style which, though sometimes aided by magnificent novelties of diction, is not dependent on them, but can work magical effects with simple words; he has also, at frequent moments, a marvellous swiftness, alike in the succession of images, and in the transitions from thought to thought; and his tone is that of a prophet who can speak with a voice as of delphi. – richard claverhouse jebb[ ] his odes were animated by... one burning glow which darted out a shower of brilliant images, leapt in a white-hot spark across gaps unbridgeable by thought, passed through a commonplace leaving it luminous and transparent, melted a group of heterogeneous ideas into a shortlived unity and, as suddenly as a flame, died. – gilbert highet[ ] some of these qualities can be found, for example, in this stanza from pythian , composed in honour of hieron: 	 	 	 θεὸς ἅπαν ἐπὶ ἐλπίδεσσι τέκμαρ ἀνύεται, θεός, ὃ καὶ πτερόεντ᾽ αἰετὸν κίχε, καὶ θαλασ- :σαῖον παραμείβεται δελφῖνα, καὶ ὑψιφρόνων τιν᾽ ἔκαμψε βροτῶν, ἑτέροισι δὲ κῦδος ἀγήραον παρέδωκ᾽. ἐμὲ δὲ χρεὼν φεύγειν δάκος ἀδινὸν κακαγοριᾶν. εἶδον γὰρ ἑκὰς ἐὼν τὰ πόλλ᾽ ἐν ἀμαχανίᾳ ψογερὸν Ἀρχίλοχον βαρυλόγοις ἔχθεσιν πιαινόμενον: τὸ πλουτεῖν δὲ σὺν τύχᾳ πό- :τμου σοφίας ἄριστον. [ ] 	 god achieves all his purpose and fulfills his every hope, god who can overtake the winged eagle, or upon the sea 	outstrip the dolphin; and he bends the arrogant heart of many a man, but gives to others eternal glory that will never fade. now for me is it needful that i shun the fierce and biting tooth of slanderous words. for from old have i seen sharp-tongued archilochus in want and struggling, grown fat on the harsh words of hate. the best that fate can bring is wealth 	joined with the happy gift of wisdom.[ ] the stanza begins with a celebration of divine power, and then abruptly shifts to a darker, more allusive train of thought, featuring condemnation of a renowned poet, archilochus, grown fat on the harsh words of hate. archilochus was an iambic poet, working within a genre that licensed abusive and scurrilous verse – a regrettable tendency from the viewpoint of pindar, whose own persona is intensely earnest, preaching to hieron the need for moderation (wealth with wisdom) and submission to the divine will. the reference to the embittered poet appears to be pindar's meditative response to some intrigues at hieron's court, possibly by his rivals, condemned elsewhere as a pair of ravens (olympian ). the intensity of the stanza suggests that it is the culmination and climax of the poem. in fact, the stanza occupies the middle of pythian and the intensity is sustained throughout the poem from beginning to end. it is the sustained intensity of his poetry that quintilian refers to above as a rolling flood of eloquence and horace below refers to as the uncontrollable momentum of a river that has burst its banks. longinus likens him to a vast fire[ ] and athenaeus refers to him as the great-voiced pindar.[ ] pindar's treatment of myth is another unique aspect of his style, often involving variations on the traditional stories,[ ] since his original audience was familiar with the myths and this allowed him to concentrate on unique and surprising effects. reversing the chronological order was one such effect, as in olympian vii dedicated to diagoras of rhodes, but this could also resemble a circular pattern, beginning with a culminating event, followed by scenes leading up to it, and ending with its restatement, as in his account of the dioscuri in nemean .[ ] myths enabled him to develop the themes and lessons that pre-occupy him – in particular mankind's exulted relation with the gods via heroic ancestors and, in contrast, the limitations and uncertainties of human existence – but sometimes the traditional stories were an embarrassment and were carefully edited, as for example: "be still my tongue: here profits not / to tell the whole truth with clear face unveiled," (nemean , epode ); "away, away this story! / let no such tale fall from my lips! / for to insult the gods is a fool's wisdom," (olympian , strophe ); "senseless, i hold it, for a man to say / the gods eat mortal flesh. / i spurn the thought," (olympian , epode ).[ ] his mythical accounts are edited for dramatic and graphic effects, usually unfolding through a few grand gestures against a background of large, often symbolic elements such as sea, sky, darkness, fire or mountain.[ ] structure[edit] pindar's odes typically begin with an invocation to a god or the muses, followed by praise of the victor and often of his family, ancestors and home-town. then follows a narrated myth, usually occupying the central and longest section of the poem, which exemplify a moral, while aligning the poet and his audience with the world of gods and heroes.[ ] the ode usually ends in more eulogies, for example of trainers (if the victor is a boy), and of relatives who have won past events, as well as with prayers or expressions of hope for future success.[ ] the event where the victory was gained is never described in detail, but there is often some mention of the hard work needed to bring the victory about. a lot of modern criticism tries to find hidden structure or some unifying principle within the odes. th century criticism favoured 'gnomic unity' i.e. that each ode is bound together by the kind of moralizing or philosophic vision typical of archaic gnomic poetry. later critics sought unity in the way certain words or images are repeated and developed within a particular ode. for others, the odes are just celebrations of men and their communities, in which the elements such as myths, piety, and ethics are stock themes that the poet introduces without much real thought. some conclude that the requirement for unity is too modern to have informed pindar's ancient approach to a traditional craft.[ ] the great majority of the odes are triadic in structure – i.e., stanzas are grouped together in three's as a lyrical unit. each triad comprises two stanzas identical in length and meter (called 'strophe' and 'antistrophe') and a third stanza (called an 'epode'), differing in length and meter but rounding off the lyrical movement in some way. the shortest odes comprise a single triad, the largest (pythian ) comprises thirteen triads. seven of the odes however are monostrophic (i.e., each stanza in the ode is identical in length and meter). the monostrophic odes seem to have been composed for victory marches or processions, whereas the triadic odes appear suited to choral dances.[ ] pindar's metrical rhythms are nothing like the simple, repetitive rhythms familiar to readers of english verse – typically the rhythm of any given line recurs infrequently (for example, only once every ten, fifteen or twenty lines). this adds to the aura of complexity that surrounds pindar's work. in terms of meter, the odes fall roughly into two categories – about half are in dactylo-epitrites (a meter found for example in the works of stesichorus, simonides and bacchylides) and the other half are in aeolic metres based on iambs and choriambs.[ ] chronological order[edit] modern editors (e.g., snell and maehler in their teubner edition), have assigned dates, securely or tentatively, to pindar's victory odes, based on ancient sources and other grounds. the date of an athletic victory is not always the date of composition but often serves merely as a terminus post quem. many dates are based on comments by ancient sources who had access to published lists of victors, such as the olympic list compiled by hippias of elis, and lists of pythian victors made by aristotle and callisthenes. there were however no such lists for the isthmian and nemean games[ ] – pausanias ( . . ) complained that the corinthians and argives never kept proper records. the resulting uncertainty is reflected in the chronology below, with question marks clustered around nemean and isthmian entries, and yet it still represents a fairly clear general timeline of pindar's career as an epinician poet. the code m denotes monostrophic odes (odes in which all stanzas are metrically identical) and the rest are triadic (i.e. featuring strophes, antistrophes, epodes): estimated chronological order 	date bc 	ode 	victor 	event 	focusing myth 	 	pythian 	hippocles of thessaly 	boy's long foot-race 	perseus, hyperboreans 	 	pythian (m) 	xenocrates of acragas 	chariot-race 	antilochus, nestor 	 	pythian (m) 	midas of acragas 	flute-playing 	perseus, medusa 	 (?) 	olympian (m) 	asopichus of orchomenus 	boys' foot-race 	none 	 	pythian 	megacles of athens 	chariot-race 	none 	 (?) 	nemean (m) 	timodemus of acharnae 	pancration 	none 	 (?) 	nemean 	sogenes of aegina 	boys' pentathlon 	neoptolemus 	 (?) 	nemean 	pythias of aegina 	youth's pancration 	peleus, hippolyta, thetis 	 	isthmian 	phylacides of aegina 	pancration 	heracles, telamon 	 (?) 	isthmian 	phylacides of aegina 	pancration 	aeacids, achilles 	 	isthmian (m) 	cleandrus of aegina 	pancration 	zeus, poseidon, thetis 	 	 olympian 	hieron of syracuse 	horse-race 	pelops 	 	olympians & 	theron of acragas 	chariot-race 	 .isles of the blessed .heracles, hyperboreans 	 	olympian 	agesidamus of epizephyrian locris 	boys' boxing match 	heracles, founding of olympian games 	 (?) 	nemean 	chromius of aetna 	chariot-race 	infant heracles 	 (?) 	pythian 	hieron of syracuse 	chariot-race 	ixion 	 (?) 	nemean 	aristocleides of aegina 	pancration 	aeacides, achilles 	 (?) 	olympian 	agesidamus of epizephyrian locris 	boys' boxing match 	none 	 (?) 	pythian 	hieron of syracuse 	horse-race 	asclepius 	 	pythian 	telesicrates of cyrene 	foot-race in armour 	apollo, cyrene 	 	pythian 	thrasydaeus of thebes 	boys' short foot-race 	orestes, clytemnestra 	 (?) 	nemean (m) 	chromius of aetna 	chariot-race 	seven against thebes 	 / (?) 	isthmian & 	melissus of thebes 	chariot race & pancration 	 .none .heracles, antaeus 	 (?) 	nemean (m) 	timisarchus of aegina 	boys' wrestling match 	aeacids, peleus, thetis 	 	pythian 	hieron of aetna 	chariot-race 	typhon 	 (?) 	isthmian 	xenocrates of acragas 	chariot-race 	none 	 	olympian 	agesias of syracuse 	chariot-race with mules 	iamus 	 	olympian 	epharmus of opous 	wrestling-match 	deucalion, pyrrha 	 	olympian 	ergoteles of himera 	long foot-race 	fortune 	 (?) 	nemean 	alcimidas of aegina 	boys' wrestling match 	aeacides, achilles, memnon 	 	olympian 	diagoras of rhodes 	boxing-match 	tlepolemus 	 	olympian 	xenophon of corinth 	short foot-race & pentathlon 	bellerophon, pegasus 	 / 	pythian & 	arcesilas of cyrene 	chariot-race 	 .argonauts .battus 	 	olympian 	alcimidas of aegina 	boys' wrestling-match 	aeacus, troy 	 (?) 	nemean 	deinis of aegina 	foot-race 	ajax 	 (?) 	isthmian 	herodotus of thebes 	chariot-race 	castor, iolaus 	 or (?) 	olympian & 	psaumis of camarina 	chariot-race with mules 	 .erginus .none 	 (?) 	isthmian 	strepsiades of thebes 	pancration 	none 	 	pythian 	aristomenes of aegina 	wrestling-match 	amphiaraus 	 (?) 	nemean 	aristagoras of tenedos 	inauguration as prytanis 	none 	 (?) 	nemean 	theaius of argos 	wrestling-match 	castor, pollux manuscripts, shreds and quotes[edit] pindar's verses have come down to us in a variety of ways. some are only preserved as fragments via quotes by ancient sources and papyri unearthed by archeologists, as at oxyrhynchus – in fact the extant works of most of the other canonic lyric poets have survived only in this tattered form. pindar's extant verses are unique in that the bulk of them – the victory odes – have been preserved in a manuscript tradition, i.e., generations of scribes copying from earlier copies, possibly originating in a single archetypal copy and sometimes graphically demonstrated by modern scholars in the form of a stemma codicum, resembling a 'family tree'. pindar's victory odes are preserved in just two manuscripts, but incomplete collections are located in many others, and all date from the mediaeval period. some scholars have traced a stemma through these manuscripts, for example ulrich von wilamowitz-moellendorff, who inferred from them the existence of a common source or archetype dated no earlier than the nd century ad, while others, such as c.m. bowra, have argued that there are too many discrepancies between manuscripts to identify a specific lineage, even while accepting the existence of an archetype. otto schroeder identified two families of manuscripts but, following on the work of polish-born classicist, alexander turyn,[ ] bowra rejected this also.[ ] different scholars interpret the extant manuscripts differently. bowra for example singled out seven manuscripts as his primary sources (see below), all featuring errors and/or gaps due to loss of folios and careless copying, and one arguably characterized by the dubious interpolations of byzantine scholars. these he cross-referenced and then supplemented or verified by reference to other, still more doubtful manuscripts, and some papyrus fragments – a combination of sources on which he based his own edition of the odes and fragments. his general method of selection he defined as follows: where all the codices agree, there perhaps the true reading shines out. where however they differ, the preferred reading is that which best fits the sense, meter, scholia and grammatic conventions. wherever moreover two or more readings of equal weight are found in the codices, i have chosen that which smacks most of pindar. yet this difficulty rarely occurs, and in many places the true reading will be found if you examine and compare the language of the codices with that of other greek poets and especially of pindar himself.[ ] 				selected manuscripts – a sample of preferred sources (bowra's choice, ) 	code 	source 	format 	date 	comments 	a 	codex ambrosianus c inf. 	paper × .  cm 	 – th century 	comprises olympian odes – , with some unique readings that bowra considered reliable, and including scholia. 	b 	codex vaticanus graeca 	silk . × .  cm 	 th century 	comprises odes olympian to isthmian (entire corpus), but with some leaves and verses missing, and includes scholia; zacharias callierges based his roman edition on it, possibly with access to the now missing material. 	c 	codex parisinus graecus 	silk ×  cm 	 th century 	comprises odes olympian to pythian , including some unique readings but also with many byzantine interpolations/conjectures (turyn rejected this codex accordingly), and written in a careless hand. 	d 	codex laurentianus , 	silk ×  cm 	 th century 	comprises odes olympian to isthmian (entire corpus), including a fragment (frag. ) and scholia, written in a careless hand. 	e 	codex laurentianus , 	silk ×  cm 	 th century 	comprises odes olympian to pythian , largely in agreement with b, including scholia but with last page removed and replaced with paper in a later hand. 	g 	codex gottingensis philologus 	silk ×  cm 	 th century 	comprises odes olympian to pythian , largely in agreement with b (thus useful for comparisons), including olympian added in the th century. 	v 	codex parisinus graecus 	silk ×  cm 	 th century 	comprises odes olympian to nemean , including some verses from nemean ; like g, useful for supporting and verifying b. influence and legacy[edit] 	the influential alexandrian poet callimachus was fascinated by pindar's originality. his masterpiece aetia (callimachus)aetia included an elegy in honour of queen berenice, celebrating a chariot victory at the nemean games, composed in a style and presented in a manner that recall pindar.[ ] 	the hellenistic epic argonautica, by apollonius rhodius, was influenced by some aspects of pindar's style and his use of episodic vignettes in narrative. the epic concerns the adventures of jason, also touched on by pindar in pythian , and both poems link the myth to a greek audience in africa.[ ] 	there seems to have been a vogue for pindaric-style lyrics following the 'publication' of horace's odes –  – horace had mastered other styles such as sapphic and alcaeic, which had discouraged his contemporaries from attempting anything in the same form, but he had not composed anything in triadic stanzas in the manner of pindar.[ ] 	pindar was much read, quoted, and copied during the byzantine era. for example, christophoros mytilenaios of the th century parodied a chariot race in his sixth poem employing explicit allusions to pindar.[ ] 	during the th and th centuries, literary theorists in europe distinguished between two types of lyric poetry, loosely associated with horace and pindar. regular verses in four line stanzas were associated with horace's odes, which did in fact inspire and influence poets of the period. irregular verses in longer stanzas were termed pindarics though the association with pindar was largely fanciful. abraham cowley was considered the main exponent of english pindarics. in fact, the two styles were not always easy to distinguish and many 'pindaric' odes were quite horatian in content, as in some poems by thomas gray.[ ] 	a 'pindaric ode' was composed for the revived olympic games in athens by the oxford scholar george stuart robinson, and similar compositions were commissioned from and composed by classicist armand d'angour for the athens olympics in and the london olympics in . horace's tribute[edit] the latin poet, quintus horatius flaccus, was an admirer of pindar's style. he described it in one of his sapphic poems, addressed to a friend, iullus antonius: 	 	 	 pindarum quisquis studet aemulari, iule, ceratis ope daedalea nititur pennis vitreo daturus nomina ponto. monte decurrens velut amnis, imbres quem super notas aluere ripas, fervet immensusque ruit profundo pindarus ore. (c.iv.ii) 	 julus, whoever tries to rival pindar, flutters on wings of wax, a rude contriver doomed like the son of daedalus to christen somewhere a shining sea. a river bursts its banks and rushes down a mountain with uncontrollable momentum, rain-saturated, churning, chanting thunder – there you have pindar's style.[ ] bowra's tribute[edit] c. m. bowra, the leading pindaric scholar of his generation, and the editor of the o.u.p edition of his poems, summarized pindar's qualities in the following words: "his innate, unquestioning pride in his poetical mission means that he gives to it all his gifts and all his efforts. the result is a poetry that by any standards deserves the name because it is based on a radiant vision of reality and fashioned with so subtle, so adventurous, and so dedicated an art that it is worthy to be an earthly counterpart of the songs which pindar regards as the archetype of music on those lofty occasions when all discords are resolved and all misgivings obliterated by the power of the life-giving word."[ ] see also[edit] 	john wolcot notes[edit] 	^ pindar ( ) p. . the three lines here, and in bowra's greek, are actually two lines or stichoi in greek prosody. stichoi however are often too long to be preserved as single lines in published form, and they are then broken into metrical units, or cola, the break indicated by indentation. this practice is observed both in greek and in translations, but it is a modern convenience or preference and it has no historical authority: "...nullam habet apud codices auctoritatem neque veri simile est pindarum ita carmina manu propria conscripsisse." 	^ there are several other accounts of supernatural visitations relating to pindar (see for example c.m. bowra, pindar, pages - ). according to a scholium, he and a pupil, olympichus, once saw a mysterious flame on a mountain, attended by strange noises. pindar then beheld rhea, the mother of the gods, advancing in the form of a wooden image. pausanias ( . . ) reported that he set up a monument near his home, dedicated conjointly to pan and the mother of the gods (Δινδυμήνη). according to eustathius (proem. , p. . dr) and vit. ambr. (p. . dr.), pan was once heard between cithaeron and helicon singing a paean composed to him by pindar (fr. ). 	^ paean . - ). the eclipse is mentioned in a fragment quoted by stobaeus, addressed to the thebans: is it some sign of war you bring? / or blight on crops, or snow-fall's strength / beyond all telling, or murderous strife at home, / or emptying of the sea on land, / or frost binding the earth, or south-wind in summer / with a flood of furious rain, / or will you drown the land and raise / a new breed of men from the beginning? 	^ fr. : τί θεός; τὸ πάν 	^ chiron's compliment to apollo: "you, sire, who know / the appointed end of all, and all paths: / how many leaves in april the earth puts forth, / how many grains of sand / in the sea and rivers / are troubled by the waves and the swirling winds, / and what shall be, and whence it shall come / you see with clear eyes." 	^ nemean odes . – : i am shy of speaking of a huge risk / hazarded not in right, / how they left the famous island, / and what fate drove strong men from the vineland. / i shall halt. truth does not always / gain more if unflinching / she reveals her face; / and silence is often a man's wisest counsel. references[edit] 	^ the greek and roman critics: "the odes of pindar ( - b.c.), written for the most part to celebrate victories in athletic contests, are interspersed with moral and philosophical reflections" 	^ quintilian . . ; cf. pseudo-longinus . archived - - at the wayback machine. 	^ eupolis f kock, k/a, from athenaeus a, (deipnosophistae, epitome of book i) 	^ lawrence henry baker ( ). 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	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 prosody (latin) - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	prosody (latin) 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		latin prosody (from middle french prosodie, from latin prosōdia, from ancient greek προσῳδία prosōidía, "song sung to music, pronunciation of syllable") is the study of latin poetry and its laws of meter.[ ] the following article provides an overview of those laws as practised by latin poets in the late roman republic and early roman empire, with verses by catullus, horace, virgil and ovid as models. except for the early saturnian poetry, which may have been accentual, latin poets borrowed all their verse forms from the greeks, despite significant differences between the two languages. contents 	 latin verse: a greek gift 	 . a brief history 	 . two rhythms 	 prosody 	 . quantity 	 . feet 	 . . cola: a different way to look at it 	 . elision 	 . caesura 	 meters 	 . guide to symbols used 	 . dactylic meters 	 . . dactylic hexameter 	 . . dactylic pentameter 	 . . . elegiac couplet 	 . . . first archilochian 	 . . dactylic tetrameter catalectic 	 . . . alcmanian strophe 	 . iambic meters 	 . . iambic trimeter and senarius 	 . . iambic dimeter 	 . . . iambic distich 	 . . . second archilochian 	 . . . third archilochian 	 . . . pythiambics 	 . . iambic tetrameter catalectic 	 . . choliambics 	 . hendecasyllables 	 post-classical poetry 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 bibliography latin verse: a greek gift[edit] a brief history[edit] the start of latin literature is usually dated to the first performance of a play by livius andronicus in rome in  bc.[ ] livius, a greek slave, translated greek new comedy for roman audiences. he not only established the genre fabula palliata, but also adapted meters from greek drama to meet the needs of latin. he set a precedent followed by all later writers of the genre, notably plautus and terence.[ ] the principles of scansion observed by plautus and terence (i.e. the rules for identifying short and long syllables, the basis of greek and latin meter) are mostly the same as for classical latin verses.[nb ] livius, a versatile author, also translated homer's odyssey into a rugged native meter known as saturnian, but it was his near contemporary, ennius ( –  bc), who introduced the traditional meter of greek epic, the dactylic hexameter, into latin literature. ennius employed a poetic diction and style well suited to the greek model, thus providing a foundation for later poets such as lucretius and virgil to build on.[ ] the late republic saw the emergence of neoteric poets. they were rich young men from the italian provinces, conscious of metropolitan sophistication. they, and especially catullus, looked to the scholarly alexandrian poet callimachus for inspiration.[ ] the alexandrians' preference for short poems influenced catullus to experiment with a variety of meters borrowed from greece, including aeolian forms such as hendecasyllabic verse, the sapphic stanza and greater asclepiad, as well as iambic verses such as the choliamb and the iambic tetrameter catalectic (a dialogue meter borrowed from old comedy).[ ] horace, whose career spanned both republic and empire, followed catullus' lead in employing greek lyrical forms, though he calls himself the first to bring aeolic verse to rome.[ ] he identified with, among others, sappho and alcaeus of mytilene, composing sapphic and alcaic stanzas, and with archilochus, composing poetic invectives in the iambus tradition (in which he adopted the metrical form of the epode or "iambic distich"). horace also wrote verses in dactylic hexameter, employing a conversational and epistolary style. virgil, his contemporary, composed dactylic hexameters on light and serious themes and his verses are generally regarded as "the supreme metrical system of latin literature".[ ] modern scholars have developed different theories about how latin prosody was influenced by these adaptations from greek models. two rhythms[edit] english meter is said to be stress timed: the regular alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables produces an "accentual rhythm." classical greek meter is said to be mora timed: the alternation of long and short syllables produces a "quantitative rhythm." classical latin meter obeyed rules of syllable length, like the greek, even though latin has a strong word accent like english. modern scholars have had differing opinions about how these different influences affect the way latin verse was sounded out. accentual rhythm in latin may have been observed in pre-classical verse (in saturnian meter) and in some medieval verse,[ ] but otherwise the rhythm of latin verse appears ambivalent and complex. latin, like english, was characterized by a stress accent, whereas ancient greek was characterized by a pitch accent. in english poetry, accent governs the stress-timed rhythm. in ancient greek poetry, on the other hand, pitch accent rose and fell independently of the mora timed rhythm, just as musical pitch is not governed by the duration of musical notes. some modern scholars have suggested that the stress accent in latin turned into a pitch accent under the greek influence and thus latin verse could have functioned in the melodic manner of greek verse,[ ] yet most scholars today reject such a theory as unrealistic.[ ] latin poets might instead have recited long and short syllables as if they were stressed and unstressed, or, more probably, they gave words their natural stress, so that the quantitative metrical pattern acted like an orderly undercurrent to natural speech.[ ] here, for example, is dactylic verse from virgil's georgics when the words are given their natural stress: 	quíd fáciat laétas ségetes, quó sídere térram, and here is the same verse when the metrical pattern is allowed to determine the stress: 	quíd faciát laetás segetés, quo sídere térram. possibly the rhythm was held in suspense until stress and meter happened to coincide (as in "sídere térram" above).[ ] english-speaking, as opposed to e.g. german-speaking, readers of latin tend to observe the natural word stress, an approach to latin verse that was also practised in ancient times (a th-century ad papyrus shows hexameter verse with accents recorded separately from the meter), yet there is also an ancient precedent for letting the meter produce an artificial stress accent.[ ] in the hands of a master poet such as vergil, however, the natural stress accent may be thought to function as a second rhythm, whose interplay with the quantitative rhythm can even be regarded as a source of unique aesthetic effects.[ ] prosody[edit] quantity[edit] generally a syllable in latin verse is long "by nature" when 	it has a long vowel or diphthong (scrī-bae) or 	it ends in two consonants or a compound consonant (dant, dux) and long "by position" when 	it ends in a consonant and is followed by a syllable that begins with a consonant (mul-tos; dat sonitum) or 	it is the final syllable in a line of verse i.e. brevis in longo. otherwise syllables are counted as short. syllables ending in a vowel are called open syllables, and those ending in a consonant are called closed syllables. only the nucleus and coda of the syllable are relevant for metrical purposes: the quantity of a syllable is not affected by consonants preceding the vowel. long syllables are sometimes called heavy and short ones light, using terminology borrowed from sanskrit. for the above rules to apply 	the digraphs ch, th, ph, representing single greek letters, count as one consonant; 	h at the beginning of a word is ignored; 	qu counts as one consonant; 	the consonants x [ks] and z [zz] count as two consonants; 	a plosive (p, b, t, d, c, g) plus a liquid (r, l) can count as either one consonant or two, at the poet's discretion. thus the first syllable of words like agrum or patris can be long (ag-rum, pat-ris) or short (a-grum, pa-tris). this choice is not permitted, as a rule, in compound words (e.g. ab-rumpo begins with a long syllable and will not be resyllabified *a-brumpo), nor is it available for all plosive-liquid combinations. 	if a final short open vowel stands before a plosive followed by a liquid in the same line, it remains short, save for some very rare occurrences such as virgil's "lappaeque tribolique", where the first -que is scanned as long. a short open final vowel may not stand before other double consonants, including x and z, in the same line, again with rare exceptions such as ovid's "alta zacynthus", where the short final a remains short. in the comedies of plautus and terence some other exceptions to these rules are found, most notably the phenomenon called brevis brevians (see metres of roman comedy#brevis brevians (iambic shortening)), in which a theoretically long syllable, if unstressed, can be shortened after a short one, e.g. vidēn hanc? ("do you see this woman?"), which is scanned u u –.[ ] another exception found in early poetry (including lucretius) is that a final -is or -us can sometimes count as short (as in omnibu(s) rēbu(s) profundant, lucretius . , scanned – u u – u u – –).[ ] feet[edit] verses were divided into "feet" by ancient grammarians and poets, such as ovid himself, who called the elegiac couplet "eleven-footed poetry" (amores . ). this practice is followed by traditionalists among modern scholars, especially, perhaps, those who compose latin verses. in foot-based analysis, the "metrically dominant" part of the foot is sometimes called the "rise" and the other is called the "fall," the greek terms for which are arsis and thesis. in greek, these terms were applied to the movement of human feet in dancing and/or marching, arsis signifying the lifting of a foot, and thesis its placement. in the greek scheme thesis was the dominant part of the meter, but the romans applied the terms to the voice rather than to the feet, so that arsis came to signify the lifting of the voice and thus the dominant part of the meter (william w. goodwin, greek grammar, macmillan education ( ), page ). this caused confusion, as some authors followed the greek custom and others the latin; thus these terms are no longer generally used. sometimes the dominant part of the foot, in either quantitative or stressed verse, is called the ictus. long and short syllables are marked (-) and (u) respectively. the main feet in latin are: 	iamb: short + long syllable (cărō) 	trochee: long + short (mēnsă) 	dactyl: long + shorts (lītŏră) 	anapaest: shorts + long (pătŭlaē) 	spondee: longs (fātō) 	tribrach: shorts (tĕmĕrĕ) according to the laws of quantity, long = shorts. thus a tribrach, iamb and trochee all equate to the same durations or morae: each of them comprises morae. similarly a dactyl, an anapaest and a spondee are quantitatively equal, each being morae. these equivalences allow for easy substitutions of one foot by another e.g. a spondee can be substituted for a dactyl. in certain circumstances, however, unequal substitutions are also permitted. it is often more convenient to consider iambics, trochaics and anapests in terms of metra rather than feet; for each of these families, a metron is two feet. thus the iambic metron is u-u-, the trochaic -u-u and the anapestic uu-uu-. cola: a different way to look at it[edit] the division into feet is a tradition that produces arbitrary metrical rules, because it does not follow the actual metrical structure of the verse (see for example the listed variations in the tables below). in particular, though a long syllable and two short ones have the same number of morae, they are not always interchangeable: some metres permit substitutions where others do not. thus a more straightforward analysis, favoured by recent scholarship, is by cola, considered to be the actual building blocks of the verse. a colon (from the greek for "limb") is a unit of (typically) to syllables that can be re-used in various metrical forms.[ ] standard cola include the hemiepes, the glyconic, and the lekythion. elision[edit] a vowel at the end of a word does not count as a syllable if the following word begins with a vowel or h: thus phyllida amo ante alias reads as phyllid' am' ant' alias. this is called elision. at the (rare) discretion of the poet, however, the vowel can be retained, and is said to be in hiatus. an example of this, in virgil's fémineó ululátú the "o" is not elided. a word ending in vowel + m is similarly elided (sometimes this is called ecthlipsis): thus nec durum in pectore ferrum reads as nec dur' in pectore ferrum.[ ] caesura[edit] the last syllable of a foot might or might not coincide with the ending of a word. a too frequent repetition of this coincidence apparently grated on the roman ear, as in the following example of a poorly composed dactylic hexameter, where each of the first four feet consists of a spondaic word (the feet are marked out by vertical lines): 	spārsīs | hāstīs | lōngīs| cāmpūs | splēndĕt ĕt | hōrrĕt.[ ] the ending of a word and foot together, as in this line, is termed diaeresis. to avoid such lines, caesuras, or "cuttings", were employed, a caesura being a place where a word ends within a foot, here marked ||. for convenience, in the following two examples from virgil the foot endings are marked -|- when they occur within words and | when they occur between words. 	tīty̆rĕ | tū || pătŭ-|-laē || rĕcŭ-|-bāns || sūb | tēgmĭnĕ | fāgī 	nōn om-|-nīs || ar-|-busta || iu-|-vant, || humi-|-lēsque || myr-|-īcae there are two kinds of caesura: 	strong caesura, when the caesura occurs after a long syllable; 	weak caesura, when the caesura occurs after a short syllable (none in the first line above, two in the second). meters[edit] the dividing of verse into long and short syllables and analysis of the metrical family or pattern is called 'scanning' or 'scansion.' the names of the metrical families come from the names of the cola or feet in use, such as iambic, trochaic, dactylic and anapaestic meters. sometimes meter is named after the subject matter (as in epic or heroic meter), sometimes after the musical instrument that accompanied the poetry (such as lyric meter, accompanied by the lyre), and sometimes according to the verse form (such as sapphic, alcaic and elegiac meter). guide to symbols used[edit] 	— for long syllable or long element 	u for short syllable or short element 	ῡ for brevis in longo 	| for end of foot 	‖ main caesura notes: 		words are hyphenated wherever they include the end of a foot e.g trō-iae below; 	long and short vowels are marked with - and u directly above them e.g. Ā, ă, ĭ, ī, ō, ŏ, ŭ, ū (these don't indicate syllable lengths) there are four basic families of verse: dactylic, iambic (and trochaic), aeolic, and anapestic. in the dactylic family short syllables come in pairs, and these pairs may be contracted (two short replaced by one long). in the iambic/trochaic family short syllables come one at a time, and some long elements may be resolved (one long replaced by two short). in the anapestic family short syllables come in pairs, and both contraction and resolution are allowed. in the aeolic family there are both paired and single short syllables, and neither contraction nor resolution is allowed. other important metres are hendecasyllabics and the asclepiads, and catullus composed important poetry in glyconics. there are individual wikipedia entries on various metres. a would-be composer in any metre, however, would need a more detailed knowledge than can be found here. dactylic meters[edit] the "dactyl," as a foot, is — u u; the name comes from the greek for "finger," because it looks like the three bones of a finger, going outward from the palm. the principal colon of dactylic verse is the "hemiepes" or "half-epic" colon, — u u — u u — (sometimes abbreviated d). the two short syllables (called a biceps element) may generally be contracted, but never in the second half of a pentameter, and only rarely in the fifth foot of a hexameter. the long syllable (the princeps element) may never be resolved. roman poets use two dactylic forms, the hexameter and the elegiac couplet. dactylic hexameter[edit] dactylic hexameter was used for the most serious latin verse. influenced by homer's greek epics, it was considered the best meter for weighty and important matters, and long narrative or discursive poems generally. thus it was used in ennius's annals, lucretius's on the nature of things, virgil's "aeneid" and ovid's "metamorphoses"; also in juvenal's caustic satires and horace's genial talks and letters. a dactylic hexameter consists of a hemiepes, a biceps, a second hemiepes, and a final long element, so duud—. this is conventionally re-analyzed into six "feet," all dactyls with the last one either catalectic or necessarily contracted. roman poets rarely contract the fifth foot.[nb ] since latin was richer in long syllables than was greek, contraction of biceps elements (producing the so-called spondee) was more common among roman poets. neoteric poets of the late republic, such as catullus, sometimes employed a spondee in the fifth foot, a practice greek poets generally avoided and which became rare among later roman poets.[ ] 			variations 	 st 	 nd 	 rd 	 th 	 th 	 th[nb ] 	dactyls 	— u u 	— u u 	— u u 	— u u 	— u u 	— — 	spondees 	— — 	— — 	— — 	— — 	 	 there will be a caesura in the third or fourth foot (or in both). if there is a weak caesura, or none, in the third foot, there will usually be a strong one in the fourth, as in these two examples from virgil: 	sī nescīs, meus ille caper fuit, et mihi dāmōn ... 	et nōbīs īdem alcimedōn duo pōcula fēcit ... but here is a line from virgil with only one caesura, a weak one: 	frangeret indēprēnsus et irremeābilis error. variations are common, and are used to avoid monotony. their absence would be a definite fault of versification. various positions for caesura (in the foot-based analysis) have traditional names: the caesura "in the third foot" is called penthemimeral, that in the fourth hephthemimeral, and that in the second trihemimeral. these names refer to the number of half-feet before the position of the caesura.[ ] dactylic hexameter often has a bucolic diaeresis (a diaeresis between the fourth and fifth feet of a line), as in the first of the following lines from the introduction to virgil's epic poem, the aeneid. - u u| - u u| -|| -| - -| - u u |- - Ărmă vĭ-rŭmquĕ că-nō, trō-iae quī prīmŭs ăb ōrīs - u u|- -| - || u u| - -| - u u| - - Ītălĭ-ǎm fā-tō prŏfŭ-gŭs lā-vīniăquĕ vēnĭt - u u | - - | - - | - || - | - u u |- - lītŏră, mŭlt(um) ĭl-l(e) ĕt tĕr-rīs iăc-tātŭs ĕt ăltō - u u| - || - | - u u| - -| - u u |- - vī sŭpĕ-rŭm, sae-vae mĕmŏ-rĕm iū-nōnĭs ŏb īrăm; there are two elisions in line and a bucolic diaeresis in line (quī | prīmus ). venit and iram at the ends of lines and count as spondees by brevis in longo, despite their naturally short second syllables. the 'i' in 'troiae' and 'iactatus', the first 'i' in 'iunonis' and the second 'i' in 'laviniaque' are all treated as consonants. bucolic diaeresis has this name because it is common in bucolic or pastoral verse. (nb, however, that this term is sometimes, or even usually, reserved for lines where the fourth foot is a dactyl, as in 	forte sub argūtā cōnsīdĕrăt īlice daphnis.) dactylic hexameters regularly end with a disyllabic or a trisyllabic word. exceptions tend to be greek words. dactylic pentameter[edit] the name "pentameter" comes from the fact that it consists of two separate parts, with a word-break between them, with each part, or hemiepes, having two and a half feet, summing to five (thus giving ovid his count of eleven feet in a couplet). the first hemiepes may have contraction, the second may not. by ovid's time there was a rule, with very few exceptions, that the last word should be of two syllables, and it was almost always a noun, verb, personal pronoun (mihi, tibi or sibi) or pronominal adjective (meus etc.). the last syllable would either be closed, or a long open vowel or a diphthong: very seldom an open short vowel. 			variations 	 st 	 nd 	½ 	 rd 	 th 	½ 	 	— u u 	— u u 	— 	— u u 	— u u 	— 	spondees 	— — 	— — 	 	 	 	 there is a strong danger of monotony in this rigid structure, which poets were able to alleviate, up to a point, by keeping the first half of a line out of conformity with the stricter rules governing the second half, and by varying as much as possible the word-pattern of the second half. elegiac couplet[edit] an elegiac couplet is a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic pentameter. the sense of the hexameter frequently runs into the pentameter, an effect known as enjambement, but a pentameter comparatively seldom runs on into a following hexameter. the pentameter came into latin usage later than the hexameter and therefore it was not always handled with rigour by catullus, compared for example with the later poets, especially ovid. catullus used elisions very freely, and sometimes he even allowed an elision to span the central diaeresis (e.g. carmina . ). the following is from one of his most famous elegies, mourning for a lost brother (carmina ).[ ] - - | - - | - ||- | - u u | - u u| - - mŭltās pĕr gĕn-tēs ĕt mŭltă pĕr aequŏră vĕctŭs - u u | - u u |- || - u u |- u u|- ădvĕnĭ(o) hās mĭsĕr-ās, frātĕr, ăd īnfĕrĭ-ās - -| - -| -||- |- - | - u u| - - ŭt tē pŏstrē-mō dōn-ārĕm mūnĕrĕ mŏrtĭs - -| - -| - || - u u| - u u| - ĕt mū-tăm nē-quīqu-(am) adlŏquĕ-rĕr cĭnĕ-rĕm, note: the diaeresis after the first hemiepes is marked here like a caesura (a conventional practice.)[ ] observe the elisions in line (o) and line (am). the latter elision spans the diaeresis in the last line. first archilochian[edit] if only one hemiepes is employed, instead of a full pentameter, the elegiac couplet takes the form known as the first archilochian, named after the greek poet archilochus. an example is found in the fourth book of horace's odes (carmina . ), which a. e. housman once described as "the most beautiful poem in ancient literature",[ ] introduced with these two lines: - -| - u u| - || uu| - - | - u u | - - dīffū-gērĕ nĭ-vēs, rĕdĕ-ŭnt iăm grāmĭnă cămpīs - u u| - u u | - ărbŏrĭ-bŭsquĕ cŏm-ae; dactylic tetrameter catalectic[edit] most extant examples of this meter are found in lyric poetry, such as horace's carmina . and . , but also in iambi. 			variations 	 st 	 nd 	 rd 	 th 	 	— u u 	— u u 	— u u 	— — 	spondees 	 	— — 	 	 note: the final syllable in the th foot is marked long or short in some schemes to indicate natural syllable length but it is always long by position. alcmanian strophe[edit] a dactylic tetrameter catalectic is sometimes joined to the dactylic hexameter to form a couplet termed the alcmanian strophe, named after the lyric poet alcman (some scholars however refer to the alcmanian strophe as the first archilochian, as indeed there is a strong likeness between the two forms). examples of the form are found in horace's odes (carmina) and epodes, as here in his epode .[ ] - u u | - - |- || - | - u u |- u u | - - Ō ĕgŏ | nōn fēl-īx, quăm tū fŭgĭs ŭt păvĕt ācrīs - u u| - u u| - u u|- - ăgnă lŭ-pōs căprĕ-aēquĕ lĕ-ōnēs note that the plosive + liquid combination pr in 'capreaeque', syllabified ca.pre.ae.que, leaves the first open syllable (ca) metrically short. iambic meters[edit] the iambic family has short syllables one at a time, not in pairs like the dactylic family, and it allows resolution of long elements. in this family there may also be anceps positions, that is, positions in which either a long or a short syllable is allowed. iambic trimeter and senarius[edit] further information: metres of roman comedy used for the theatre by poets such as plautus and terence, an iambic line of six feet allowed for numerous variations and it is known as an iambic senarius ('senarius' = 'grouped in sixes'). poets such as horace and catullus however employed iambic feet in pairs, each called a metron, in which fewer variations were allowed. such a line of verse has three metra and the meter in that case is called 'iambic trimeter'. here is the list of variations found in horace,[ ] which are more numerous than those in catullus.[ ] some variations are due to resolution (replacing a long with two shorts) and some are due to anceps (when a syllable may be either long or short—see following note and the article iambic trimeter). others are the result of outright substitution (prosody), such as the anapaest in the first foot below. 			variations 	 a 	 b 	 a 	 b 	 a 	 b 	 	u — 	u — 	u — 	u — 	u — 	u — 	spondees 	— — 	 	— — 	 	— — 	 	tribrachs 	uuu 	uuu 	uuu 	uuu 	 	 	dactyls 	—uu 	 	—uu 	 	 	 	anapests 	uu— 	 	 	 	 	 note: 	the caesura usually follows the first syllable of the third foot ( a), and sometimes the first syllable of the fourth foot ( b). 	a short syllable can be replaced by a long syllable in certain positions, here marked bold: i.e. the first short syllable in feet a, a, a may be long. these short/long syllables are said to be in anceps. 	some variations never appear; thus for example there is no resolution in foot a and therefore no tribrach or dactyl in that foot. the following example of iambic trimeter is from horace's epode : - u u |u u u| u|| - | u - |u - |u - | cānĭdĭ-ă brĕvi-bus ĭmp-lĭcāt-ă vīp-ĕrīs note that the first syllable ca- in canidia is long and it is thus in anceps, while -idi- is the equivalent of a long syllable and it is said to be resolved into two shorts—thus the first foot appears as if a dactyl has been substituted for an iamb. long syllables are resolved into two shorts (uu) in the first metron ( a- b), an effect that may have been intended to suggest the quick movement of tiny snakes that canidia has tied to her hair.[ ] the second foot ( b) is read as a tribrach (uuu) since 'br' in 'brevibus' can be taken as a single consonant, making the preceding 'a' short. iambic dimeter[edit] iambic verse of four feet, paired to make two metra, hence the name 'iambic dimeter'. it is constituted like the first and third metra of the iambic trimeter ( a, b, a, b), with which it is often joined to form couplets known as iambic distich. 			variations 	 a 	 b 	 a 	 b 	 	u — 	u — 	u — 	u — 	spondees 	— — 	 	— — 	 	tribrachs 	uuu 	uuu 	 	 	dactyls 	—uu 	 	 	 	anapests 	uu— 	 	 	 note: 	the short syllables in a and a (marked bold) are in anceps and can be replaced by long syllables. iambic distich[edit] the iambic distich—a couplet comprising an iambic trimeter and iambic dimeter—is the basis of many poems of a genre known as iambus, in which the poet abuses and censures individuals or even communities, whether real or imaginary. iambic rhythms were felt to be especially suited to this role. the greek poet archilochus was one of the main exponents of the iambic distich and he provided a model for horace's epodes - . the following couplet forms the first two lines of epode . - - | u - | - uu| u || - | - - | u - quo quo sceles-ti rui-tis? aut cur dex-teris - - | u - | - - | u - aptan-tur en-ses con-diti? note that the first syllables in both lines (quo and ap) are in anceps and thus a spondee appears to have been substituted for an iamb in both the initial feet. also ti in scelesti is long by nature and it too is in anceps; the third foot would otherwise be a tribrach (uuu) thanks to the resolution of a long syllable into the two shorts in rui. as a result of all these variations, the rd foot instead resembles a dactyl (-uu). second archilochian[edit] an iambic dimeter may be followed by a hemiepes to form the second line of a couplet, in which the first line is dactylic hexameter. this combination is called the second archilochian. the iambic dimeter functions like an independent line, however, since it keeps the elements of a line-end i.e. it is marked off from the hemiepes by a pause through brevis in longo, or through a hiatus. an example of this system is found in horace's epode , lines – - - | - - | - u u | - u u | - -| - - pěrfun-dī nār-dō iuvǎt ět fĭdě cyllē-naeā u - | u -| - - | u ῡ|| - u u | - u u| - lĕvār-ĕ dī-rīs pĕc-tǒră sǒllĭcĭ-tūdĭnĭ-bŭs note that the th foot in this example is a spondee—this is rare for horace and it is meant to evoke the affectation of neoteric poets like catullus, thus complementing the sense of being suffused with perfume while listening to the lyre at a drinking party (the greek word cyllenaea, which creates the double spondee, adds to the exotic aura).[ ] observe also that the iambic dimeter ends with brevis in longo, the short syllable a in pectora becoming long by the addition of a pause. the hemiepes also ends with brevis in longo. third archilochian[edit] here an iambic trimeter forms the first line of the couplet, and the positions of the iambic dimeter and hemiepes are reversed to form the second line, the hemiepes now coming before the iambic dimeter. the hemiepes still functions as if it were independent, retaining the pause of a line-end through brevis in longo or hiatus. an example has survived in horace's epode , as in lines - here: - - | u- | - -| u ||- | - - |u - hīc těr-tĭŭs dēcĕm-bĕr, ĕx quō dēs-tĭtī - u u |- u u |ῡ || - - | u -| - - | u - iānăchĭ-ā fŭrĕr-ĕ, sĭlvīs hŏnō-rĕm dē-cŭtĭt. pythiambics[edit] another couplet is formed when a line of dactylic hexameter is followed by a line of iambic dimeter, and this is called the first pythiambic. the greek poet archilochus composed in this form but only fragments remain. two of horace's epodes ( and ) provide complete examples in latin. the following couplet introduces his epode : - u u |- - |- || - | - - | - u u |- - nŏx ĕrăt ĕt cae-lō fŭl-gē-băt lūnă sĕ-rēnō - - | u -| u - |u ῡ ĭntĕr mĭnō-ră sīd-ĕră the second pythiambic features an iambic trimeter instead of iambic dimeter in the second line. horace's epode is an example. iambic tetrameter catalectic[edit] usually associated with the comic theatre, it consists of seven feet with an extra syllable at the end instead of a full iambic foot. in that case it is called iambic septenarius ('septenarius' means grouped in sevens). used outside the theatre, the feet are paired and then it is called iambic tetrameter catalectic (catalectic means that the meter is incomplete). the stage allowed many variations but poets were quite strict in their use of it and catullus allowed variations only in the first and fifth feet:[ ] 			variations 	 a 	 b 	 a 	 b 	 a 	 b 	 a 	 b 	 	u — 	u — 	u — 	u — 	u — 	u — 	u — 	— 	spondees 	— — 	 	 	 	— — 	 	 	 an example is found in catullus' carmina , beginning with these two lines: u - | u - | u - | u -| u -| u - |u - | - cĭnae-dĕ thăl-lĕ, mŏl-lĭŏr cŭnī-cŭlī căpĭl-lō u - | u - | u - | u -| u -| u - |u - | - vĕl ān-sĕrĭs mĕdŭl-lŭlā vĕl ī-mŭl(ā) ōr-ĭcĭl-lā catullus uses no variations at all here and he employs diminutives (cuniculi, medullula, imula, oricila) contemptuously in a description of the 'soft' thallus. note that doubling of the consonant l lengthens several syllables that are naturally short, thus enabling a strict iambic rhythm. choliambics[edit] this meter was originated by the greek iambic poet, hipponax. the name choliambics means lame iambics and sometimes it is called scazons or limpers. ("lame trochaics" exist as well, being a trochaic tetrameter catalectic with the same ending as the iambic.) it is intended to be graceless and awkward "...in order to mirror in symbolically appropriate fashion the vices and crippled perversions of mankind."[ ] it was taken up by the neoteric poets catullus and his friend calvus but with fewer variations than hipponax had employed. it is basically an iambic trimeter but with a surprise ending in the last foot, featuring a trochee or spondee that cripples the iambic rhythm. as used by catullus, the variations are as follows: 			variations 	 a 	 b 	 a 	 b 	 a 	 b 	 	u — 	u — 	u — 	u — 	u — 	— — 	spondees 	— — 	 	— — 	— — 	 	 	tribrachs 	 	uuu 	 	 	 	 	dactyls 	—uu 	 	—uu 	 	 	 caesuras are found after the first syllable either in the third or fourth feet, sometimes in both. lines and of catullus' carmina about the grave-robbing wife of menenius offer a good example: - -| u -|- || - | u - | u - | - - ŭxŏr mĕnē-nī, sae-pĕ qu(ăm) ĭn sĕpŭl-crētīs - - | u - | -||u u |u - | u -| - - vīdĭs-tĭs ĭp-sō răpĕr-ĕ dē rŏgō cēnăm the dactyl in the third foot of the second line reinforces the meaning, as she greedily reaches for food from the funeral pyre without regard for taboos. martial used more variations, such as an anapaest in the fourth foot and a tribrach in the third. hendecasyllables[edit] the hendecasyllable is an -syllable line used extensively by catullus and martial, for example in catullus's famous poem (catullus ), which begins: - -|- uu| - u |- u|- - vīvāmus mea lesbi(a) atqu(e) amēmus - -|- u u|- u|- u|- - rūmōrēsque senum sevēriōrum - - |- uu | - u|- u |- - omnēs ūnius aestimēmus assis! 	"let us live, my lesbia, and let us love, 	and as for the mutterings of over-strict old men 	let us count them all as worth one dime!" poems in hendecasyllables all run on in the same meter, namely spondee (but see below), dactyl, trochee, trochee, spondee. catullus is rather freer than martial, in that he will occasionally start a line with a trochee or iambus, as in lines and respectively of the opening poem of his book, whereas martial keeps to a spondaic opening. post-classical poetry[edit] after the classical period, the pronunciation of latin changed and the distinction between long and short vowels was lost in the popular language. some authors continued writing verse in the classical meters, but this way of pronouncing long and short vowels was not natural to them; they used it only in poetry. popular poetry, including the bulk of christian latin poetry, continued to be written in accentual meters (sometimes incorporating rhyme, which was never systematically used in classical verse) just like modern european languages. this accentual latin verse was called sequentia, especially when used for a christian sacred subject. see also[edit] 	metres of roman comedy 	brevis in longo 	anceps 	biceps (prosody) 	resolution (meter) 	clausula (rhetoric) 	golden line 	latin spelling and pronunciation notes[edit] 	^ two significant differences are that word-final s may not be counted as making a heavy syllable, and mute-plus-liquid combinations never make a syllable heavy. r. h. martin, terence: adelphoe, cambridge university press ( ), page 	^ according to the stress-timed theory of latin prosody, there is a strong tendency to harmonize word-stress and verse-ictus in the final two feet of a hexameter. the fifth foot, therefore, is almost always a dactyl whereas the sixth foot always consists of a spondee; this line ending is perhaps the most notable feature of the meter. in classical times, it was the only readily audible metrical feature, and romans unfamiliar with greek literature and versification often heard no sound pattern at all save in the stress-pattern of the last two feet (william sidney allen, vox latina: a guide to the pronunciation of classical latin, nd edition, cambridge university press ( ) isbn  - - - , pages , ). 	^ in some schemes, the final syllable in the th foot is marked either long or short to reflect the natural syllable length, but it is always long by position and it is therefore only marked long in this table. references[edit] 	^ b. h. kennedy and james mountford, the revised latin primer, longman ( ), page 	^ see goldberg for details. 	^ r. h. martin, terence: adelphoe, cambridge university press ( ), page 	^ p. g. mcbrown, 'the first roman literature' in the oxford history of the classical world, j.boardman, j.griffin and o.murray (eds), oxford university press ( ) page - 	^ robin nisbet, 'the poets of the late republic' in the oxford history of the classical world, j.boardman, j.griffin and o.murray (eds), oxford university press ( ) page - 	^ peter green, the poems of catullus, university of california press ( ), pages - 	^ "princeps aeolium carmen ad italum," odes . . ; for horace's engagement with catullus see putnam ( ). 	^ richard f. thomas, virgil: georgics vol. i, cambridge university press ( ), page 	^ for the contrast between stress-based and quantitative verse, and for developments after the classical period, see especially gasparov. for saturnians, halporn et al. say "most saturnians make some kind of sense if we assume that the natural word accent alone carries the rhythm" (p. - ). see also parsons, freeman, cole, mahoney. 	^ r.g. kent, the alleged conflict of accents in latin verse, t.a.p.a. ( ), pages - ) 	^ richard f. thomas, virgil: georgics vol. i, cambridge university press ( ), pages 	^ l.p. wilkinson, golden latin artistry, cambridge ( ), page 	^ william sidney allen, vox latina: a guide to the pronunciation of classical latin, nd edition, cambridge university press ( ) isbn  - - - , pages - 	^ richard f. thomas, virgil: georgics vol. i, cambridge university press ( ), pages - 	^ r. d. williams, the aeneid of virgil, books i-vi, macmillan ( ), introduction page xxvii; w. f. jackson knight, accentual symmetry in virgil, basil blackwell ( ) 	^ article "brevis brevians", oxford classical dictionary, nd edition. 	^ bailey, c. ( ) titi lucreti cari de rerum natura libri sex, vol . pp. - . 	^ see halporn, ostwald, rosenmeyer ( ). 	^ b. h. kennedy and james mountford, the revised latin primer, longman ( ), page 	^ b. h. kennedy and james mountford, the revised latin primer, longman ( ), page 	^ peter green, the poems of catullus, university of california press ( ), pages 	^ b. h. kennedy and james mountford, the revised latin primer, longman ( ), pages - ) 	^ peter green, the poems of catullus, university of california press ( ), pages - 	^ see for example peter green, the poems of catullus, university of california press ( ), page 	^ william flesch, the facts on file companion to british poetry, th century, facts on file, inc. 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of latin poetry and its laws of meter.[ ] the following article provides an overview of those laws as practised by latin poets in the late roman republic and early roman empire, with verses by catullus, horace, virgil and ovid as models. except for the early saturnian poetry, which may have been accentual, latin poets borrowed all their verse forms from the greeks, despite significant differences between the two languages. contents 	 latin verse: a greek gift 	 . a brief history 	 . two rhythms 	 prosody 	 . quantity 	 . feet 	 . . cola: a different way to look at it 	 . elision 	 . caesura 	 meters 	 . guide to symbols used 	 . dactylic meters 	 . . dactylic hexameter 	 . . dactylic pentameter 	 . . . elegiac couplet 	 . . . first archilochian 	 . . dactylic tetrameter catalectic 	 . . . alcmanian strophe 	 . iambic meters 	 . . iambic trimeter and senarius 	 . . iambic dimeter 	 . . . iambic distich 	 . . . second archilochian 	 . . . third archilochian 	 . . . pythiambics 	 . . iambic tetrameter catalectic 	 . . choliambics 	 . hendecasyllables 	 post-classical poetry 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 bibliography latin verse: a greek gift[edit] a brief history[edit] the start of latin literature is usually dated to the first performance of a play by livius andronicus in rome in  bc.[ ] livius, a greek slave, translated greek new comedy for roman audiences. he not only established the genre fabula palliata, but also adapted meters from greek drama to meet the needs of latin. he set a precedent followed by all later writers of the genre, notably plautus and terence.[ ] the principles of scansion observed by plautus and terence (i.e. the rules for identifying short and long syllables, the basis of greek and latin meter) are mostly the same as for classical latin verses.[nb ] livius, a versatile author, also translated homer's odyssey into a rugged native meter known as saturnian, but it was his near contemporary, ennius ( –  bc), who introduced the traditional meter of greek epic, the dactylic hexameter, into latin literature. ennius employed a poetic diction and style well suited to the greek model, thus providing a foundation for later poets such as lucretius and virgil to build on.[ ] the late republic saw the emergence of neoteric poets. they were rich young men from the italian provinces, conscious of metropolitan sophistication. they, and especially catullus, looked to the scholarly alexandrian poet callimachus for inspiration.[ ] the alexandrians' preference for short poems influenced catullus to experiment with a variety of meters borrowed from greece, including aeolian forms such as hendecasyllabic verse, the sapphic stanza and greater asclepiad, as well as iambic verses such as the choliamb and the iambic tetrameter catalectic (a dialogue meter borrowed from old comedy).[ ] horace, whose career spanned both republic and empire, followed catullus' lead in employing greek lyrical forms, though he calls himself the first to bring aeolic verse to rome.[ ] he identified with, among others, sappho and alcaeus of mytilene, composing sapphic and alcaic stanzas, and with archilochus, composing poetic invectives in the iambus tradition (in which he adopted the metrical form of the epode or "iambic distich"). horace also wrote verses in dactylic hexameter, employing a conversational and epistolary style. virgil, his contemporary, composed dactylic hexameters on light and serious themes and his verses are generally regarded as "the supreme metrical system of latin literature".[ ] modern scholars have developed different theories about how latin prosody was influenced by these adaptations from greek models. two rhythms[edit] english meter is said to be stress timed: the regular alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables produces an "accentual rhythm." classical greek meter is said to be mora timed: the alternation of long and short syllables produces a "quantitative rhythm." classical latin meter obeyed rules of syllable length, like the greek, even though latin has a strong word accent like english. modern scholars have had differing opinions about how these different influences affect the way latin verse was sounded out. accentual rhythm in latin may have been observed in pre-classical verse (in saturnian meter) and in some medieval verse,[ ] but otherwise the rhythm of latin verse appears ambivalent and complex. latin, like english, was characterized by a stress accent, whereas ancient greek was characterized by a pitch accent. in english poetry, accent governs the stress-timed rhythm. in ancient greek poetry, on the other hand, pitch accent rose and fell independently of the mora timed rhythm, just as musical pitch is not governed by the duration of musical notes. some modern scholars have suggested that the stress accent in latin turned into a pitch accent under the greek influence and thus latin verse could have functioned in the melodic manner of greek verse,[ ] yet most scholars today reject such a theory as unrealistic.[ ] latin poets might instead have recited long and short syllables as if they were stressed and unstressed, or, more probably, they gave words their natural stress, so that the quantitative metrical pattern acted like an orderly undercurrent to natural speech.[ ] here, for example, is dactylic verse from virgil's georgics when the words are given their natural stress: 	quíd fáciat laétas ségetes, quó sídere térram, and here is the same verse when the metrical pattern is allowed to determine the stress: 	quíd faciát laetás segetés, quo sídere térram. possibly the rhythm was held in suspense until stress and meter happened to coincide (as in "sídere térram" above).[ ] english-speaking, as opposed to e.g. german-speaking, readers of latin tend to observe the natural word stress, an approach to latin verse that was also practised in ancient times (a th-century ad papyrus shows hexameter verse with accents recorded separately from the meter), yet there is also an ancient precedent for letting the meter produce an artificial stress accent.[ ] in the hands of a master poet such as vergil, however, the natural stress accent may be thought to function as a second rhythm, whose interplay with the quantitative rhythm can even be regarded as a source of unique aesthetic effects.[ ] prosody[edit] quantity[edit] generally a syllable in latin verse is long "by nature" when 	it has a long vowel or diphthong (scrī-bae) or 	it ends in two consonants or a compound consonant (dant, dux) and long "by position" when 	it ends in a consonant and is followed by a syllable that begins with a consonant (mul-tos; dat sonitum) or 	it is the final syllable in a line of verse i.e. brevis in longo. otherwise syllables are counted as short. syllables ending in a vowel are called open syllables, and those ending in a consonant are called closed syllables. only the nucleus and coda of the syllable are relevant for metrical purposes: the quantity of a syllable is not affected by consonants preceding the vowel. long syllables are sometimes called heavy and short ones light, using terminology borrowed from sanskrit. for the above rules to apply 	the digraphs ch, th, ph, representing single greek letters, count as one consonant; 	h at the beginning of a word is ignored; 	qu counts as one consonant; 	the consonants x [ks] and z [zz] count as two consonants; 	a plosive (p, b, t, d, c, g) plus a liquid (r, l) can count as either one consonant or two, at the poet's discretion. thus the first syllable of words like agrum or patris can be long (ag-rum, pat-ris) or short (a-grum, pa-tris). this choice is not permitted, as a rule, in compound words (e.g. ab-rumpo begins with a long syllable and will not be resyllabified *a-brumpo), nor is it available for all plosive-liquid combinations. 	if a final short open vowel stands before a plosive followed by a liquid in the same line, it remains short, save for some very rare occurrences such as virgil's "lappaeque tribolique", where the first -que is scanned as long. a short open final vowel may not stand before other double consonants, including x and z, in the same line, again with rare exceptions such as ovid's "alta zacynthus", where the short final a remains short. in the comedies of plautus and terence some other exceptions to these rules are found, most notably the phenomenon called brevis brevians (see metres of roman comedy#brevis brevians (iambic shortening)), in which a theoretically long syllable, if unstressed, can be shortened after a short one, e.g. vidēn hanc? ("do you see this woman?"), which is scanned u u –.[ ] another exception found in early poetry (including lucretius) is that a final -is or -us can sometimes count as short (as in omnibu(s) rēbu(s) profundant, lucretius . , scanned – u u – u u – –).[ ] feet[edit] verses were divided into "feet" by ancient grammarians and poets, such as ovid himself, who called the elegiac couplet "eleven-footed poetry" (amores . ). this practice is followed by traditionalists among modern scholars, especially, perhaps, those who compose latin verses. in foot-based analysis, the "metrically dominant" part of the foot is sometimes called the "rise" and the other is called the "fall," the greek terms for which are arsis and thesis. in greek, these terms were applied to the movement of human feet in dancing and/or marching, arsis signifying the lifting of a foot, and thesis its placement. in the greek scheme thesis was the dominant part of the meter, but the romans applied the terms to the voice rather than to the feet, so that arsis came to signify the lifting of the voice and thus the dominant part of the meter (william w. goodwin, greek grammar, macmillan education ( ), page ). this caused confusion, as some authors followed the greek custom and others the latin; thus these terms are no longer generally used. sometimes the dominant part of the foot, in either quantitative or stressed verse, is called the ictus. long and short syllables are marked (-) and (u) respectively. the main feet in latin are: 	iamb: short + long syllable (cărō) 	trochee: long + short (mēnsă) 	dactyl: long + shorts (lītŏră) 	anapaest: shorts + long (pătŭlaē) 	spondee: longs (fātō) 	tribrach: shorts (tĕmĕrĕ) according to the laws of quantity, long = shorts. thus a tribrach, iamb and trochee all equate to the same durations or morae: each of them comprises morae. similarly a dactyl, an anapaest and a spondee are quantitatively equal, each being morae. these equivalences allow for easy substitutions of one foot by another e.g. a spondee can be substituted for a dactyl. in certain circumstances, however, unequal substitutions are also permitted. it is often more convenient to consider iambics, trochaics and anapests in terms of metra rather than feet; for each of these families, a metron is two feet. thus the iambic metron is u-u-, the trochaic -u-u and the anapestic uu-uu-. cola: a different way to look at it[edit] the division into feet is a tradition that produces arbitrary metrical rules, because it does not follow the actual metrical structure of the verse (see for example the listed variations in the tables below). in particular, though a long syllable and two short ones have the same number of morae, they are not always interchangeable: some metres permit substitutions where others do not. thus a more straightforward analysis, favoured by recent scholarship, is by cola, considered to be the actual building blocks of the verse. a colon (from the greek for "limb") is a unit of (typically) to syllables that can be re-used in various metrical forms.[ ] standard cola include the hemiepes, the glyconic, and the lekythion. elision[edit] a vowel at the end of a word does not count as a syllable if the following word begins with a vowel or h: thus phyllida amo ante alias reads as phyllid' am' ant' alias. this is called elision. at the (rare) discretion of the poet, however, the vowel can be retained, and is said to be in hiatus. an example of this, in virgil's fémineó ululátú the "o" is not elided. a word ending in vowel + m is similarly elided (sometimes this is called ecthlipsis): thus nec durum in pectore ferrum reads as nec dur' in pectore ferrum.[ ] caesura[edit] the last syllable of a foot might or might not coincide with the ending of a word. a too frequent repetition of this coincidence apparently grated on the roman ear, as in the following example of a poorly composed dactylic hexameter, where each of the first four feet consists of a spondaic word (the feet are marked out by vertical lines): 	spārsīs | hāstīs | lōngīs| cāmpūs | splēndĕt ĕt | hōrrĕt.[ ] the ending of a word and foot together, as in this line, is termed diaeresis. to avoid such lines, caesuras, or "cuttings", were employed, a caesura being a place where a word ends within a foot, here marked ||. for convenience, in the following two examples from virgil the foot endings are marked -|- when they occur within words and | when they occur between words. 	tīty̆rĕ | tū || pătŭ-|-laē || rĕcŭ-|-bāns || sūb | tēgmĭnĕ | fāgī 	nōn om-|-nīs || ar-|-busta || iu-|-vant, || humi-|-lēsque || myr-|-īcae there are two kinds of caesura: 	strong caesura, when the caesura occurs after a long syllable; 	weak caesura, when the caesura occurs after a short syllable (none in the first line above, two in the second). meters[edit] the dividing of verse into long and short syllables and analysis of the metrical family or pattern is called 'scanning' or 'scansion.' the names of the metrical families come from the names of the cola or feet in use, such as iambic, trochaic, dactylic and anapaestic meters. sometimes meter is named after the subject matter (as in epic or heroic meter), sometimes after the musical instrument that accompanied the poetry (such as lyric meter, accompanied by the lyre), and sometimes according to the verse form (such as sapphic, alcaic and elegiac meter). guide to symbols used[edit] 	— for long syllable or long element 	u for short syllable or short element 	ῡ for brevis in longo 	| for end of foot 	‖ main caesura notes: 		words are hyphenated wherever they include the end of a foot e.g trō-iae below; 	long and short vowels are marked with - and u directly above them e.g. Ā, ă, ĭ, ī, ō, ŏ, ŭ, ū (these don't indicate syllable lengths) there are four basic families of verse: dactylic, iambic (and trochaic), aeolic, and anapestic. in the dactylic family short syllables come in pairs, and these pairs may be contracted (two short replaced by one long). in the iambic/trochaic family short syllables come one at a time, and some long elements may be resolved (one long replaced by two short). in the anapestic family short syllables come in pairs, and both contraction and resolution are allowed. in the aeolic family there are both paired and single short syllables, and neither contraction nor resolution is allowed. other important metres are hendecasyllabics and the asclepiads, and catullus composed important poetry in glyconics. there are individual wikipedia entries on various metres. a would-be composer in any metre, however, would need a more detailed knowledge than can be found here. dactylic meters[edit] the "dactyl," as a foot, is — u u; the name comes from the greek for "finger," because it looks like the three bones of a finger, going outward from the palm. the principal colon of dactylic verse is the "hemiepes" or "half-epic" colon, — u u — u u — (sometimes abbreviated d). the two short syllables (called a biceps element) may generally be contracted, but never in the second half of a pentameter, and only rarely in the fifth foot of a hexameter. the long syllable (the princeps element) may never be resolved. roman poets use two dactylic forms, the hexameter and the elegiac couplet. dactylic hexameter[edit] dactylic hexameter was used for the most serious latin verse. influenced by homer's greek epics, it was considered the best meter for weighty and important matters, and long narrative or discursive poems generally. thus it was used in ennius's annals, lucretius's on the nature of things, virgil's "aeneid" and ovid's "metamorphoses"; also in juvenal's caustic satires and horace's genial talks and letters. a dactylic hexameter consists of a hemiepes, a biceps, a second hemiepes, and a final long element, so duud—. this is conventionally re-analyzed into six "feet," all dactyls with the last one either catalectic or necessarily contracted. roman poets rarely contract the fifth foot.[nb ] since latin was richer in long syllables than was greek, contraction of biceps elements (producing the so-called spondee) was more common among roman poets. neoteric poets of the late republic, such as catullus, sometimes employed a spondee in the fifth foot, a practice greek poets generally avoided and which became rare among later roman poets.[ ] 			variations 	 st 	 nd 	 rd 	 th 	 th 	 th[nb ] 	dactyls 	— u u 	— u u 	— u u 	— u u 	— u u 	— — 	spondees 	— — 	— — 	— — 	— — 	 	 there will be a caesura in the third or fourth foot (or in both). if there is a weak caesura, or none, in the third foot, there will usually be a strong one in the fourth, as in these two examples from virgil: 	sī nescīs, meus ille caper fuit, et mihi dāmōn ... 	et nōbīs īdem alcimedōn duo pōcula fēcit ... but here is a line from virgil with only one caesura, a weak one: 	frangeret indēprēnsus et irremeābilis error. variations are common, and are used to avoid monotony. their absence would be a definite fault of versification. various positions for caesura (in the foot-based analysis) have traditional names: the caesura "in the third foot" is called penthemimeral, that in the fourth hephthemimeral, and that in the second trihemimeral. these names refer to the number of half-feet before the position of the caesura.[ ] dactylic hexameter often has a bucolic diaeresis (a diaeresis between the fourth and fifth feet of a line), as in the first of the following lines from the introduction to virgil's epic poem, the aeneid. - u u| - u u| -|| -| - -| - u u |- - Ărmă vĭ-rŭmquĕ că-nō, trō-iae quī prīmŭs ăb ōrīs - u u|- -| - || u u| - -| - u u| - - Ītălĭ-ǎm fā-tō prŏfŭ-gŭs lā-vīniăquĕ vēnĭt - u u | - - | - - | - || - | - u u |- - lītŏră, mŭlt(um) ĭl-l(e) ĕt tĕr-rīs iăc-tātŭs ĕt ăltō - u u| - || - | - u u| - -| - u u |- - vī sŭpĕ-rŭm, sae-vae mĕmŏ-rĕm iū-nōnĭs ŏb īrăm; there are two elisions in line and a bucolic diaeresis in line (quī | prīmus ). venit and iram at the ends of lines and count as spondees by brevis in longo, despite their naturally short second syllables. the 'i' in 'troiae' and 'iactatus', the first 'i' in 'iunonis' and the second 'i' in 'laviniaque' are all treated as consonants. bucolic diaeresis has this name because it is common in bucolic or pastoral verse. (nb, however, that this term is sometimes, or even usually, reserved for lines where the fourth foot is a dactyl, as in 	forte sub argūtā cōnsīdĕrăt īlice daphnis.) dactylic hexameters regularly end with a disyllabic or a trisyllabic word. exceptions tend to be greek words. dactylic pentameter[edit] the name "pentameter" comes from the fact that it consists of two separate parts, with a word-break between them, with each part, or hemiepes, having two and a half feet, summing to five (thus giving ovid his count of eleven feet in a couplet). the first hemiepes may have contraction, the second may not. by ovid's time there was a rule, with very few exceptions, that the last word should be of two syllables, and it was almost always a noun, verb, personal pronoun (mihi, tibi or sibi) or pronominal adjective (meus etc.). the last syllable would either be closed, or a long open vowel or a diphthong: very seldom an open short vowel. 			variations 	 st 	 nd 	½ 	 rd 	 th 	½ 	 	— u u 	— u u 	— 	— u u 	— u u 	— 	spondees 	— — 	— — 	 	 	 	 there is a strong danger of monotony in this rigid structure, which poets were able to alleviate, up to a point, by keeping the first half of a line out of conformity with the stricter rules governing the second half, and by varying as much as possible the word-pattern of the second half. elegiac couplet[edit] an elegiac couplet is a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic pentameter. the sense of the hexameter frequently runs into the pentameter, an effect known as enjambement, but a pentameter comparatively seldom runs on into a following hexameter. the pentameter came into latin usage later than the hexameter and therefore it was not always handled with rigour by catullus, compared for example with the later poets, especially ovid. catullus used elisions very freely, and sometimes he even allowed an elision to span the central diaeresis (e.g. carmina . ). the following is from one of his most famous elegies, mourning for a lost brother (carmina ).[ ] - - | - - | - ||- | - u u | - u u| - - mŭltās pĕr gĕn-tēs ĕt mŭltă pĕr aequŏră vĕctŭs - u u | - u u |- || - u u |- u u|- ădvĕnĭ(o) hās mĭsĕr-ās, frātĕr, ăd īnfĕrĭ-ās - -| - -| -||- |- - | - u u| - - ŭt tē pŏstrē-mō dōn-ārĕm mūnĕrĕ mŏrtĭs - -| - -| - || - u u| - u u| - ĕt mū-tăm nē-quīqu-(am) adlŏquĕ-rĕr cĭnĕ-rĕm, note: the diaeresis after the first hemiepes is marked here like a caesura (a conventional practice.)[ ] observe the elisions in line (o) and line (am). the latter elision spans the diaeresis in the last line. first archilochian[edit] if only one hemiepes is employed, instead of a full pentameter, the elegiac couplet takes the form known as the first archilochian, named after the greek poet archilochus. an example is found in the fourth book of horace's odes (carmina . ), which a. e. housman once described as "the most beautiful poem in ancient literature",[ ] introduced with these two lines: - -| - u u| - || uu| - - | - u u | - - dīffū-gērĕ nĭ-vēs, rĕdĕ-ŭnt iăm grāmĭnă cămpīs - u u| - u u | - ărbŏrĭ-bŭsquĕ cŏm-ae; dactylic tetrameter catalectic[edit] most extant examples of this meter are found in lyric poetry, such as horace's carmina . and . , but also in iambi. 			variations 	 st 	 nd 	 rd 	 th 	 	— u u 	— u u 	— u u 	— — 	spondees 	 	— — 	 	 note: the final syllable in the th foot is marked long or short in some schemes to indicate natural syllable length but it is always long by position. alcmanian strophe[edit] a dactylic tetrameter catalectic is sometimes joined to the dactylic hexameter to form a couplet termed the alcmanian strophe, named after the lyric poet alcman (some scholars however refer to the alcmanian strophe as the first archilochian, as indeed there is a strong likeness between the two forms). examples of the form are found in horace's odes (carmina) and epodes, as here in his epode .[ ] - u u | - - |- || - | - u u |- u u | - - Ō ĕgŏ | nōn fēl-īx, quăm tū fŭgĭs ŭt păvĕt ācrīs - u u| - u u| - u u|- - ăgnă lŭ-pōs căprĕ-aēquĕ lĕ-ōnēs note that the plosive + liquid combination pr in 'capreaeque', syllabified ca.pre.ae.que, leaves the first open syllable (ca) metrically short. iambic meters[edit] the iambic family has short syllables one at a time, not in pairs like the dactylic family, and it allows resolution of long elements. in this family there may also be anceps positions, that is, positions in which either a long or a short syllable is allowed. iambic trimeter and senarius[edit] further information: metres of roman comedy used for the theatre by poets such as plautus and terence, an iambic line of six feet allowed for numerous variations and it is known as an iambic senarius ('senarius' = 'grouped in sixes'). poets such as horace and catullus however employed iambic feet in pairs, each called a metron, in which fewer variations were allowed. such a line of verse has three metra and the meter in that case is called 'iambic trimeter'. here is the list of variations found in horace,[ ] which are more numerous than those in catullus.[ ] some variations are due to resolution (replacing a long with two shorts) and some are due to anceps (when a syllable may be either long or short—see following note and the article iambic trimeter). others are the result of outright substitution (prosody), such as the anapaest in the first foot below. 			variations 	 a 	 b 	 a 	 b 	 a 	 b 	 	u — 	u — 	u — 	u — 	u — 	u — 	spondees 	— — 	 	— — 	 	— — 	 	tribrachs 	uuu 	uuu 	uuu 	uuu 	 	 	dactyls 	—uu 	 	—uu 	 	 	 	anapests 	uu— 	 	 	 	 	 note: 	the caesura usually follows the first syllable of the third foot ( a), and sometimes the first syllable of the fourth foot ( b). 	a short syllable can be replaced by a long syllable in certain positions, here marked bold: i.e. the first short syllable in feet a, a, a may be long. these short/long syllables are said to be in anceps. 	some variations never appear; thus for example there is no resolution in foot a and therefore no tribrach or dactyl in that foot. the following example of iambic trimeter is from horace's epode : - u u |u u u| u|| - | u - |u - |u - | cānĭdĭ-ă brĕvi-bus ĭmp-lĭcāt-ă vīp-ĕrīs note that the first syllable ca- in canidia is long and it is thus in anceps, while -idi- is the equivalent of a long syllable and it is said to be resolved into two shorts—thus the first foot appears as if a dactyl has been substituted for an iamb. long syllables are resolved into two shorts (uu) in the first metron ( a- b), an effect that may have been intended to suggest the quick movement of tiny snakes that canidia has tied to her hair.[ ] the second foot ( b) is read as a tribrach (uuu) since 'br' in 'brevibus' can be taken as a single consonant, making the preceding 'a' short. iambic dimeter[edit] iambic verse of four feet, paired to make two metra, hence the name 'iambic dimeter'. it is constituted like the first and third metra of the iambic trimeter ( a, b, a, b), with which it is often joined to form couplets known as iambic distich. 			variations 	 a 	 b 	 a 	 b 	 	u — 	u — 	u — 	u — 	spondees 	— — 	 	— — 	 	tribrachs 	uuu 	uuu 	 	 	dactyls 	—uu 	 	 	 	anapests 	uu— 	 	 	 note: 	the short syllables in a and a (marked bold) are in anceps and can be replaced by long syllables. iambic distich[edit] the iambic distich—a couplet comprising an iambic trimeter and iambic dimeter—is the basis of many poems of a genre known as iambus, in which the poet abuses and censures individuals or even communities, whether real or imaginary. iambic rhythms were felt to be especially suited to this role. the greek poet archilochus was one of the main exponents of the iambic distich and he provided a model for horace's epodes - . the following couplet forms the first two lines of epode . - - | u - | - uu| u || - | - - | u - quo quo sceles-ti rui-tis? aut cur dex-teris - - | u - | - - | u - aptan-tur en-ses con-diti? note that the first syllables in both lines (quo and ap) are in anceps and thus a spondee appears to have been substituted for an iamb in both the initial feet. also ti in scelesti is long by nature and it too is in anceps; the third foot would otherwise be a tribrach (uuu) thanks to the resolution of a long syllable into the two shorts in rui. as a result of all these variations, the rd foot instead resembles a dactyl (-uu). second archilochian[edit] an iambic dimeter may be followed by a hemiepes to form the second line of a couplet, in which the first line is dactylic hexameter. this combination is called the second archilochian. the iambic dimeter functions like an independent line, however, since it keeps the elements of a line-end i.e. it is marked off from the hemiepes by a pause through brevis in longo, or through a hiatus. an example of this system is found in horace's epode , lines – - - | - - | - u u | - u u | - -| - - pěrfun-dī nār-dō iuvǎt ět fĭdě cyllē-naeā u - | u -| - - | u ῡ|| - u u | - u u| - lĕvār-ĕ dī-rīs pĕc-tǒră sǒllĭcĭ-tūdĭnĭ-bŭs note that the th foot in this example is a spondee—this is rare for horace and it is meant to evoke the affectation of neoteric poets like catullus, thus complementing the sense of being suffused with perfume while listening to the lyre at a drinking party (the greek word cyllenaea, which creates the double spondee, adds to the exotic aura).[ ] observe also that the iambic dimeter ends with brevis in longo, the short syllable a in pectora becoming long by the addition of a pause. the hemiepes also ends with brevis in longo. third archilochian[edit] here an iambic trimeter forms the first line of the couplet, and the positions of the iambic dimeter and hemiepes are reversed to form the second line, the hemiepes now coming before the iambic dimeter. the hemiepes still functions as if it were independent, retaining the pause of a line-end through brevis in longo or hiatus. an example has survived in horace's epode , as in lines - here: - - | u- | - -| u ||- | - - |u - hīc těr-tĭŭs dēcĕm-bĕr, ĕx quō dēs-tĭtī - u u |- u u |ῡ || - - | u -| - - | u - iānăchĭ-ā fŭrĕr-ĕ, sĭlvīs hŏnō-rĕm dē-cŭtĭt. pythiambics[edit] another couplet is formed when a line of dactylic hexameter is followed by a line of iambic dimeter, and this is called the first pythiambic. the greek poet archilochus composed in this form but only fragments remain. two of horace's epodes ( and ) provide complete examples in latin. the following couplet introduces his epode : - u u |- - |- || - | - - | - u u |- - nŏx ĕrăt ĕt cae-lō fŭl-gē-băt lūnă sĕ-rēnō - - | u -| u - |u ῡ ĭntĕr mĭnō-ră sīd-ĕră the second pythiambic features an iambic trimeter instead of iambic dimeter in the second line. horace's epode is an example. iambic tetrameter catalectic[edit] usually associated with the comic theatre, it consists of seven feet with an extra syllable at the end instead of a full iambic foot. in that case it is called iambic septenarius ('septenarius' means grouped in sevens). used outside the theatre, the feet are paired and then it is called iambic tetrameter catalectic (catalectic means that the meter is incomplete). the stage allowed many variations but poets were quite strict in their use of it and catullus allowed variations only in the first and fifth feet:[ ] 			variations 	 a 	 b 	 a 	 b 	 a 	 b 	 a 	 b 	 	u — 	u — 	u — 	u — 	u — 	u — 	u — 	— 	spondees 	— — 	 	 	 	— — 	 	 	 an example is found in catullus' carmina , beginning with these two lines: u - | u - | u - | u -| u -| u - |u - | - cĭnae-dĕ thăl-lĕ, mŏl-lĭŏr cŭnī-cŭlī căpĭl-lō u - | u - | u - | u -| u -| u - |u - | - vĕl ān-sĕrĭs mĕdŭl-lŭlā vĕl ī-mŭl(ā) ōr-ĭcĭl-lā catullus uses no variations at all here and he employs diminutives (cuniculi, medullula, imula, oricila) contemptuously in a description of the 'soft' thallus. note that doubling of the consonant l lengthens several syllables that are naturally short, thus enabling a strict iambic rhythm. choliambics[edit] this meter was originated by the greek iambic poet, hipponax. the name choliambics means lame iambics and sometimes it is called scazons or limpers. ("lame trochaics" exist as well, being a trochaic tetrameter catalectic with the same ending as the iambic.) it is intended to be graceless and awkward "...in order to mirror in symbolically appropriate fashion the vices and crippled perversions of mankind."[ ] it was taken up by the neoteric poets catullus and his friend calvus but with fewer variations than hipponax had employed. it is basically an iambic trimeter but with a surprise ending in the last foot, featuring a trochee or spondee that cripples the iambic rhythm. as used by catullus, the variations are as follows: 			variations 	 a 	 b 	 a 	 b 	 a 	 b 	 	u — 	u — 	u — 	u — 	u — 	— — 	spondees 	— — 	 	— — 	— — 	 	 	tribrachs 	 	uuu 	 	 	 	 	dactyls 	—uu 	 	—uu 	 	 	 caesuras are found after the first syllable either in the third or fourth feet, sometimes in both. lines and of catullus' carmina about the grave-robbing wife of menenius offer a good example: - -| u -|- || - | u - | u - | - - ŭxŏr mĕnē-nī, sae-pĕ qu(ăm) ĭn sĕpŭl-crētīs - - | u - | -||u u |u - | u -| - - vīdĭs-tĭs ĭp-sō răpĕr-ĕ dē rŏgō cēnăm the dactyl in the third foot of the second line reinforces the meaning, as she greedily reaches for food from the funeral pyre without regard for taboos. martial used more variations, such as an anapaest in the fourth foot and a tribrach in the third. hendecasyllables[edit] the hendecasyllable is an -syllable line used extensively by catullus and martial, for example in catullus's famous poem (catullus ), which begins: - -|- uu| - u |- u|- - vīvāmus mea lesbi(a) atqu(e) amēmus - -|- u u|- u|- u|- - rūmōrēsque senum sevēriōrum - - |- uu | - u|- u |- - omnēs ūnius aestimēmus assis! 	"let us live, my lesbia, and let us love, 	and as for the mutterings of over-strict old men 	let us count them all as worth one dime!" poems in hendecasyllables all run on in the same meter, namely spondee (but see below), dactyl, trochee, trochee, spondee. catullus is rather freer than martial, in that he will occasionally start a line with a trochee or iambus, as in lines and respectively of the opening poem of his book, whereas martial keeps to a spondaic opening. post-classical poetry[edit] after the classical period, the pronunciation of latin changed and the distinction between long and short vowels was lost in the popular language. some authors continued writing verse in the classical meters, but this way of pronouncing long and short vowels was not natural to them; they used it only in poetry. popular poetry, including the bulk of christian latin poetry, continued to be written in accentual meters (sometimes incorporating rhyme, which was never systematically used in classical verse) just like modern european languages. this accentual latin verse was called sequentia, especially when used for a christian sacred subject. see also[edit] 	metres of roman comedy 	brevis in longo 	anceps 	biceps (prosody) 	resolution (meter) 	clausula (rhetoric) 	golden line 	latin spelling and pronunciation notes[edit] 	^ two significant differences are that word-final s may not be counted as making a heavy syllable, and mute-plus-liquid combinations never make a syllable heavy. r. h. martin, terence: adelphoe, cambridge university press ( ), page 	^ according to the stress-timed theory of latin prosody, there is a strong tendency to harmonize word-stress and verse-ictus in the final two feet of a hexameter. the fifth foot, therefore, is almost always a dactyl whereas the sixth foot always consists of a spondee; this line ending is perhaps the most notable feature of the meter. in classical times, it was the only readily audible metrical feature, and romans unfamiliar with greek literature and versification often heard no sound pattern at all save in the stress-pattern of the last two feet (william sidney allen, vox latina: a guide to the pronunciation of classical latin, nd edition, cambridge university press ( ) isbn  - - - , pages , ). 	^ in some schemes, the final syllable in the th foot is marked either long or short to reflect the natural syllable length, but it is always long by position and it is therefore only marked long in this table. references[edit] 	^ b. h. kennedy and james mountford, the revised latin primer, longman ( ), page 	^ see goldberg for details. 	^ r. h. martin, terence: adelphoe, cambridge university press ( ), page 	^ p. g. mcbrown, 'the first roman literature' in the oxford history of the classical world, j.boardman, j.griffin and o.murray (eds), oxford university press ( ) page - 	^ robin nisbet, 'the poets of the late republic' in the oxford history of the classical world, j.boardman, j.griffin and o.murray (eds), oxford university press ( ) page - 	^ peter green, the poems of catullus, university of california press ( ), pages - 	^ "princeps aeolium carmen ad italum," odes . . ; for horace's engagement with catullus see putnam ( ). 	^ richard f. thomas, virgil: georgics vol. i, cambridge university press ( ), page 	^ for the contrast between stress-based and quantitative verse, and for developments after the classical period, see especially gasparov. for saturnians, halporn et al. say "most saturnians make some kind of sense if we assume that the natural word accent alone carries the rhythm" (p. - ). see also parsons, freeman, cole, mahoney. 	^ r.g. kent, the alleged conflict of accents in latin verse, t.a.p.a. ( ), pages - ) 	^ richard f. thomas, virgil: georgics vol. i, cambridge university press ( ), pages 	^ l.p. wilkinson, golden latin artistry, cambridge ( ), page 	^ william sidney allen, vox latina: a guide to the pronunciation of classical latin, nd edition, cambridge university press ( ) isbn  - - - , pages - 	^ richard f. thomas, virgil: georgics vol. i, cambridge university press ( ), pages - 	^ r. d. williams, the aeneid of virgil, books i-vi, macmillan ( ), introduction page xxvii; w. f. jackson knight, accentual symmetry in virgil, basil blackwell ( ) 	^ article "brevis brevians", oxford classical dictionary, nd edition. 	^ bailey, c. ( ) titi lucreti cari de rerum natura libri sex, vol . pp. - . 	^ see halporn, ostwald, rosenmeyer ( ). 	^ b. h. kennedy and james mountford, the revised latin primer, longman ( ), page 	^ b. h. kennedy and james mountford, the revised latin primer, longman ( ), page 	^ peter green, the poems of catullus, university of california press ( ), pages 	^ b. h. kennedy and james mountford, the revised latin primer, longman ( ), pages - ) 	^ peter green, the poems of catullus, university of california press ( ), pages - 	^ see for example peter green, the poems of catullus, university of california press ( ), page 	^ william flesch, the facts on file companion to british poetry, th century, facts on file, inc. ( ), page ; see google preview 	^ david mankin, horace: epodes, cambridge university press ( ), pages - 	^ b. h. kennedy and james mountford, the revised latin primer, longman ( ), pages ) 	^ peter green, the poems of catullus, university of california press ( ), pages 	^ david mankin, horace: epodes, cambridge university press ( ), note page 	^ david mankin, horace: epodes, cambridge university press ( ), pages - 	^ peter green, the poems of catullus, university of california press ( ), pages - 	^ peter green, the poems of catullus, university of california press ( ), pages bibliography[edit] 	allen, william sidney ( ). vox latina — a guide to the pronunciation of classical latin ( nd ed.). cambridge university press. isbn  - - - . 	cole, thomas ( ). "the saturnian verse". yale classical studies. : – . 	fortson, benjamin w. . "latin prosody and metrics." in a companion to the latin language. edited by james clackson, – . malden, ma: wiley-blackwell 	freeman, philip ( ). 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rome. they functioned as the machinery of the roman legislative branch, and thus (theoretically at least) passed all legislation. since the assemblies operated on the basis of a direct democracy, ordinary citizens, and not elected representatives, would cast all ballots. the assemblies were subject to strong checks on their power by the executive branch and by the roman senate. laws were passed (and magistrates elected) by curia (in the curiate assembly), tribes (in the tribal assembly), and century. when the city of rome was founded (traditionally dated at bc), a senate and an assembly, the curiate assembly, were both created. the curiate assembly was the principal legislative assembly during the era of the roman kingdom. while its primary purpose was to elect new kings, it also possessed rudimentary legislative powers. shortly after the founding of the roman republic (traditionally dated to bc), the principal legislative authority shifted to two new assemblies, the tribal assembly ("citizen's assembly") and the centuriate assembly. eventually, most legislative powers were transferred to another assembly, the plebeian council ("assembly of the commoners"). ultimately, it was the plebeian council that disrupted the balance between the senate, the legislative branch, and the executive branch[citation needed]. this led to the collapse of the republic, and the founding of the roman empire in bc. under the empire, the powers that had been held by the assemblies were transferred to the senate. while the assemblies eventually lost their last semblance of political power, citizens continued to gather into them for organizational purposes. eventually, however, the assemblies were abandoned. contents 	 legislative assemblies of the roman kingdom 	 legislative assemblies of the roman republic 	 legislative assemblies of the roman empire 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 . primary sources 	 . secondary source material 	 external links legislative assemblies of the roman kingdom[edit] main articles: constitution of the roman kingdom and legislative assemblies of the roman kingdom the legislative assemblies of the roman kingdom were political institutions in the ancient roman kingdom. while one assembly, the curiate assembly, had some legislative powers,[ ] these powers involved nothing more than a right to symbolically ratify decrees issued by the roman king.[ ] the functions of the other assembly, the calate assembly, were purely religious. during the years of the kingdom, the people of rome were organized on the basis of units called curia.[ ] all of the people of rome were divided amongst a total of thirty curiae.[ ] these curiae were the basic units of division in the two popular assemblies.[ ] the members in each curia would vote, and the majority in each curia would determine how that curia voted before the assembly. thus, a majority of the curiae (sixteen out of the thirty total curiae) were needed during any vote before either the curiate assembly or the calculate assembly. they functioned as the roman legislative branch. growth of the city region during the kingdom the king presided over the assembly, and submitted decrees to it for ratification.[ ] after a king died, the interrex selected a candidate to replace the king.[ ] after the nominee received the approval of the roman senate, the interrex held the formal election before the curiate assembly. after the curiate assembly elected the new king, and the senate ratified that election, the interrex then presided over the assembly as it voted on the law which granted the king his legal powers (the lex curiata de imperio).[ ] on the calends (the first day of the month), and the nones (around the fifth day of the month), this assembly met to hear announcements.[ ] appeals heard by this assembly often had to deal with questions concerning roman family law.[ ] during two fixed days in the spring, the assembly was to always meet to witness wills and adoptions.[ ] the assembly also had jurisdiction over the admission of new families to a curia, the transfer of families between two curiae, and the transfer of individuals from plebeian (commoner) to patrician (aristocratic) status (or vice versa).[ ] legislative assemblies of the roman republic[edit] main articles: constitution of the roman republic, legislative assemblies of the roman republic, and plebeian council the legislative assemblies of the roman republic were political institutions in the ancient roman republic. there were two types of roman assembly. the first was the comitia,[ ] which was an assembly of roman citizens.[ ] here, roman citizens gathered to enact laws, elect magistrates, and try judicial cases. the second type of assembly was the council (concilium), which was an assembly of a specific group of citizens.[ ] for example, the "plebeian council" was an assembly where plebeians gathered to elect plebeian magistrates, pass laws that applied only to plebeians, and try judicial cases concerning plebeians.[ ] a convention (conventio), in contrast, was an unofficial forum for communication, where citizens gathered to debate bills, campaign for office, and decide judicial cases.[ ] the voters first assembled into conventions to deliberate, and then they assembled into committees or councils to actually vote.[ ] in addition to the curiae (familial groupings), roman citizens were also organized into centuries (for military purposes) and tribes (for civil purposes). each gathered into an assembly for legislative, electoral, and judicial purposes. the centuriate assembly was the assembly of the centuries, while the tribal assembly was the assembly of the tribes. only a block of voters (century, tribe or curia), and not the individual electors, cast the formal vote (one vote per block) before the assembly.[ ] the majority of votes in any century, tribe, or curia decided how that century, tribe, or curia voted. the centuriate assembly was divided into (later ) centuries, with each century belonging to one of three classes: the officer class, the infantry, and the unarmed adjuncts.[ ][ ] during a vote, the centuries voted, one at a time, by order of seniority. the president of the centuriate assembly was usually a roman consul (the chief magistrate of the republic).[ ] only the centuriate assembly could elect consuls, praetors and censors, only it could declare war,[ ] and only it could ratify the results of a census.[ ] while it had the power to pass ordinary laws (leges), it rarely did so. gaius gracchus, tribune of the people, presiding over the plebeian council the organization of the tribal assembly was much simpler than was that of the centuriate assembly, in contrast, since its organization was based on only thirty-five tribes. the tribes were not ethnic or kinship groups, but rather geographical divisions (similar to modern u.s. congressional districts or commonwealth parliamentary constituencies).[ ] the president of the tribal assembly was usually a consul,[ ] and under his presidency, the assembly elected quaestors, curule aediles, and military tribunes.[ ] while it had the power to pass ordinary laws (leges), it rarely did so. the assembly known as the plebeian council was identical to the tribal assembly with one key exception: only plebeians (the commoners) had the power to vote before it. members of the aristocratic patrician class were excluded from this assembly. in contrast, both classes were entitled to a vote in the tribal assembly. under the presidency of a plebeian tribune (the chief representative of the people), the plebeian council elected plebeian tribunes and plebeian aediles (the plebeian tribune's assistant), enacted laws called plebiscites, and presided over judicial cases involving plebeians. originally, laws passed by the plebeian council only applied to plebeians.[ ] however, by bc, laws passed by the plebeian council had acquired the full force of law, and from that point on, most legislation came from the council. legislative assemblies of the roman empire[edit] see also: constitution of the roman empire and legislative assemblies of the roman empire the legislative assemblies of the roman empire were political institutions in the ancient roman empire. during the reign of the second roman emperor, tiberius, the powers that had been held by the roman assemblies were transferred to the senate. the neutering of the assemblies had become inevitable for reasons beyond the fact that they were composed of the rabble of rome. the electors were, in general, ignorant as to the merits of the important questions that were laid before them,[ ] and often willing to sell their votes to the highest bidder. after the founding of the roman empire, the people of rome continued to organize by centuries and by tribes, but by this point, these divisions had lost most of their relevance.[ ] while the machinery of the centuriate assembly continued to exist well into the life of the empire,[ ] the assembly lost all of its practical relevance. under the empire, all gatherings of the centuriate assembly were in the form of an unsorted convention. legislation was never submitted to the imperial centuriate assembly, and the one major legislative power that this assembly had held under the republic, the right to declare war, was now held exclusively by the emperor.[ ] all judicial powers that had been held by the republican centuriate assembly were transferred to independent jury courts, and under the emperor tiberius, all of its former electoral powers were transferred to the senate.[ ] after it had lost all of these powers, it had no remaining authority. its only remaining function was, after the senate had 'elected' the magistrates, to hear the renuntiatio,[ ] the renuntiatio had no legal purpose, but instead was a ceremony in which the results of the election were read to the electors. this allowed the emperor to claim that the magistrates had been "elected" by a sovereign people. after the founding of the empire, the tribal divisions of citizens and freedmen continued, but the only political purpose of the tribal divisions was such that they better enabled the senate to maintain a list of citizens.[ ] tribal divisions also simplified the process by which grain was distributed.[ ] eventually, most freedmen belonged to one of the four urban tribes, while most freemen belonged to one of the thirty-one rural tribes.[ ] under the emperor tiberius, the electoral powers of the tribal assembly were transferred to the senate. each year, after the senate had elected the annual magistrates, the tribal assembly also heard the renuntiatio.[ ] any legislation that the emperor submitted to the assemblies for ratification were submitted to the tribal assembly.[ ] the assembly ratified imperial decrees, starting with the emperor augustus, and continuing until the emperor domitian. the ratification of legislation by the assembly, however, had no legal importance as the emperor could make any decree into law, even without the acquiescence of the assemblies. thus, under the empire, the chief executive again became the chief lawgiver, which was a power he had not held since the days of the early republic.[ ] the plebeian council also survived the fall of the republic,[ ] and it also lost its legislative, judicial and electoral powers to the senate. by virtue of his tribunician powers, the emperor had absolute control over the council.[ ] see also[edit] ‹ the template below (columns) is being considered for deletion. see templates for discussion to help reach a consensus. › 	 	roman kingdom 	roman republic 	roman empire 	roman law 	plebeian council 	centuria 		 	curia 	roman consul 	praetor 	roman censor 	quaestor 	aedile 		 	roman dictator 	master of the horse 	roman senate 	cursus honorum 	byzantine senate 	pontifex maximus 		 	princeps senatus 	interrex 	promagistrate 	acta senatus notes[edit] 	^ a b c abbott, 	^ a b c d e abbott, 	^ byrd, 	^ a b abbott, 	^ abbott, 	^ a b lintott, 	^ a b abbott, 	^ lintott, 	^ taylor, 	^ taylor, 	^ taylor, 	^ cicero, 	^ a b polybius, 	^ abbott, 	^ taylor, , 	^ lintott, 	^ taylor, 	^ byrd, 	^ abbott, 	^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m abbott, references[edit] 	abbott, frank frost ( ). a history and description of roman political institutions. elibron classics (isbn  - - - ). 	byrd, robert ( ). the senate of the roman republic. u.s. government printing office, senate document - . 	cicero, marcus tullius ( ). the political works of marcus tullius cicero: comprising his treatise on the commonwealth; and his treatise on the laws. translated from the original, with dissertations and notes in two volumes. by francis barham, esq. london: edmund spettigue. vol. . 	lintott, andrew ( ). the constitution of the roman republic. oxford university press ( isbn  - - - ). 	polybius ( ). the general history of polybius: translated from the greek. by james hampton. oxford: printed by w. baxter. fifth edition, vol . 	taylor, lily ross ( ). roman voting assemblies: from the hannibalic war to the dictatorship of caesar. the university of michigan press ( isbn  - - -x). further reading[edit] 	ihne, wilhelm. researches into the history of the roman constitution. william pickering. . 	johnston, harold whetstone. orations and letters of cicero: with historical introduction, an outline of the roman constitution, notes, vocabulary and index. scott, foresman and company. . 	mommsen, theodor. roman constitutional law. – 	tighe, ambrose. the development of the roman constitution. d. apple & co. . 	von fritz, kurt. the theory of the mixed constitution in antiquity. columbia university press, new york. . 	the histories by polybius 	cambridge ancient history, volumes – . 	a. cameron, the later roman empire, (fontana press, ). 	m. crawford, the roman republic, (fontana press, ). 	e. s. gruen, the last generation of the roman republic (u california press, ) 	f. millar, the emperor in the roman world, (duckworth, , ). 	a. lintott, the constitution of the roman republic (oxford university press, ) primary sources[edit] 	cicero's de re publica, book two 	rome at the end of the punic wars: an analysis of the roman government; by polybius secondary source material[edit] 	considerations on the causes of the greatness of the romans and their decline, by montesquieu 	the roman constitution to the time of cicero 	what a terrorist incident in ancient rome can teach us 	an extensive collection of digital books and articles on roman law and history, in various languages. by professor luiz gustavo kaercher external links[edit] 	library resources about roman assemblies 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 	v 	t 	e roman constitution 	ancient rome	 	history 	constitution 	senate 	assemblies 	curiate 	century 	tribal 	plebeian 	magistrates 	roman kingdom	 	history 	constitution 	senate 	assemblies 	magistrates 	roman republic	 	history 	constitution 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february ), [a] also spelled photius[ ] (/ˈfoʊʃəs/) or fotios, was the ecumenical patriarch of constantinople from to and from to .[ ] he is recognized in the eastern orthodox church as saint photios the great. photios is widely regarded as the most powerful and influential church leader of constantinople subsequent to john chrysostom's archbishopric around the turn of the fifth century. he is also viewed as the most important intellectual of his time – "the leading light of the ninth-century renaissance".[ ] he was a central figure in both the conversion of the slavs to christianity and the photian schism,[ ] and is considered "[t]he great systematic compiler of the eastern church, who occupies a similar position to that of gratian in the west," and whose "collection in two parts...formed and still forms the classic source of ancient church law for the greek church."[ ] photios was a well-educated man from a noble constantinopolitan family. photius's great uncle was a previous patriarch of constantinople, saint tarasius.[ ] he intended to be a monk, but chose to be a scholar and statesman instead. in , emperor michael iii (r. – ) decided to confine patriarch ignatius in order to force him into resignation, and photios, still a layman, was appointed to replace him.[ ] amid power struggles between the pope and the byzantine emperor, ignatius was reinstated. photios resumed the position when ignatius died ( ), by order of the byzantine emperor.[ ] the new pope, john viii, approved photios's reinstatement.[ ] catholics regard as legitimate a fourth council of constantinople (roman catholic) anathematizing photios,[ ] while eastern orthodox regard as legitimate a subsequent fourth council of constantinople (eastern orthodox), reversing the former.[ ] the contested councils mark the end of unity represented by the first seven ecumenical councils. studies show that photios was venerated as a saint as early as the th century, and by the roman church as late as the th century.[ ] nonetheless, photios was formally canonized by the orthodox church in . contents 	 secular life 	 patriarch of constantinople 	 assessments 	 writings 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 . citations 	 . sources 	 external links secular life[edit] most of the primary sources treating photios's life are written by persons hostile to him. modern scholars are thus cautious when assessing the accuracy of the information these sources provide.[b] little is known of photios's origin and early years. it is known that he was born into a notable family and that his uncle saint tarasius had been the patriarch of constantinople from – under both empress irene (r. – ) and emperor nikephoros i (r. – ).[ ] during the second iconoclasm, which began in , his family suffered persecution since his father, sergios, was a prominent iconophile. sergios's family returned to favor only after the restoration of the icons in .[ ] certain scholars assert that photios was, at least in part, of armenian descent[c] while other scholars merely refer to him as a "greek byzantine".[ ] byzantine writers also report that emperor michael iii (r. – ) once angrily called photios "khazar-faced", but whether this was a generic insult or a reference to his ethnicity is unclear.[ ] although photios had an excellent education, we have no information about how he received this education. the famous library he possessed attests to his enormous erudition (theology, history, grammar, philosophy, law, the natural sciences, and medicine).[ ] most scholars believe that he never taught at magnaura or at any other university;[ ] vasileios n. tatakes asserts that, even while he was patriarch, photios taught "young students passionately eager for knowledge" at his home, which "was a center of learning".[ ] he was a friend of the renowned byzantine scholar and teacher leo the mathematician.[ ] photios says that, when he was young, he had an inclination for the monastic life, but instead he started a secular career. the way to public life was probably opened for him by (according to one account) the marriage of his brother sergios to irene, a sister of empress theodora, who upon the death of her husband emperor theophilos (r. – ) in , had assumed the regency of the byzantine empire.[ ] photios became a captain of the guard (prōtospatharios) and subsequently chief imperial secretary (protasēkrētis). at an uncertain date, photios participated in an embassy to the abbasids of baghdad.[ ] patriarch of constantinople[edit] photios's ecclesiastical career took off spectacularly after caesar bardas and his nephew, the youthful emperor michael, put an end to the administration of the regent theodora and the logothete of the drome theoktistos in . in , bardas found himself opposed by the then patriarch ignatios, who refused to admit him into hagia sophia, since it was believed that he was having an affair with his widowed daughter-in-law. in response, bardas and michael engineered ignatios's confinement and removal on the charge of treason, thus leaving the patriarchal throne empty. the throne was soon filled with a kinsman of bardas, photios himself, who was tonsured a monk on december , , and on the four following days was successively ordained lector, sub-deacon, deacon and priest, and then on christmas day, the patronal feast[ ] of constantinople's cathedral, hagia sophia, photius was consecrated a bishop and installed as patriarch.[ ] the confinement and removal of ignatios and the speedy promotion of photios at first caused only internal controversy within the church of constantinople, and in a local council was held, examining the issue and confirming the removal of ignatios and election of photios.[ ] in the same time, partisans of ignatios decided to appeal to the church of rome, thus initiating ecclesiastical controversy on an ecumenical scale as the pope and the rest of the western bishops took up the cause of ignatios. the latter's confinement and removal without a formal ecclesiastical trial meant that photios's election was uncanonical, and eventually pope nicholas i sought to involve himself in determining the legitimacy of the succession. his legates were dispatched to constantinople with instructions to investigate, but finding photios well ensconced, they acquiesced in the confirmation of his election at a synod in .[ ] on their return to rome, they discovered that this was not at all what nicholas had intended, and in at a synod in rome the pope deposed photios, and reappointed ignatius as the rightful patriarch, triggering a schism. four years later, photios was to respond on his own part by calling a council and excommunicating the pope on grounds of heresy – over the question of the double procession of the holy spirit.[ ] the situation was additionally complicated by the question of papal authority over the entire church and by disputed jurisdiction over newly converted bulgaria.[ ] this state of affairs changed with the murder of photios's patron bardas in and of emperor michael iii in , by his colleague basil the macedonian, who now usurped the throne. photios was deposed as patriarch, not so much because he was a protégé of bardas and michael, but because basil i was seeking an alliance with the pope and the western emperor. photios was removed from his office and banished about the end of september ,[ ] and ignatios was reinstated on november . photios was condemned by the council of – , thus putting an end to the schism. during his second patriarchate, however, ignatios followed a policy not very different from that of photios. not long after his condemnation, photios had reingratiated himself with basil, and became tutor to the byzantine emperor's children. from surviving letters of photios written during his exile at the skepi monastery, it appears that the ex-patriarch brought pressure to bear on the byzantine emperor to restore him. ignatios's biographer argues that photios forged a document relating to the genealogy and rule of basil's family, and had it placed in the imperial library where a friend of his was a librarian. according to this document, the byzantine emperor's ancestors were not mere peasants as everyone believed but descendants of the arsacid dynasty of armenia.[ ] true or not, this story does reveal basil's dependence on photios for literary and ideological matters. following photios's recall, ignatios and the ex-patriarch met, and publicly expressed their reconciliation. when ignatios died on october , , it was a matter of course that his old opponent replaced him on the patriarchal throne three days later. shaun tougher asserts that from this point on basil no longer simply depended on photios, but in fact he was dominated by him.[ ] a fresco of st. photius as patriarch of constantinople photios now obtained the formal recognition of the christian world in a council convened at constantinople in november . the legates of pope john viii attended, prepared to acknowledge photios as legitimate patriarch, a concession for which the pope was much censured by latin opinion. the patriarch stood firm on the main points contested between the eastern and western churches: the demand of an apology to the pope, the ecclesiastical jurisdiction over bulgaria, and the addition of the filioque to the nicene creed by the western church.[ ] eventually, photios refused to apologize or accept the filioque, and the papal legates made do with his return of bulgaria to rome. this concession, however, was purely nominal, as bulgaria's return to the byzantine rite in had already secured for it an autocephalous church. without the consent of boris i of bulgaria (r. – ), the papacy was unable to enforce its claims. during the altercations between emperor basil i and his heir leo vi, photios took the side of the byzantine emperor. in , basil accused leo of conspiracy and confined the prince to the palace; he would have even have leo blinded had he not been dissuaded by photios and stylianos zaoutzes, the father of zoe zaoutzaina, leo's mistress.[ ] in , basil discovered and punished a conspiracy by the domestic of the hikanatoi john kourkouas the elder and many other officials. in this conspiracy, leo was not implicated, but photios was possibly one of the conspirators against basil's authority.[ ] basil died in injured while hunting, according to the official story. warren t. treadgold believes that this time the evidence points to a plot on behalf of leo vi, who became emperor, and deposed photios, although the latter had been his tutor.[ ] photios was replaced by the byzantine emperor's brother stephen, and sent into exile to the monastery of bordi in armenia. it is confirmed from letters to and from pope stephen that leo extracted a resignation from photios. in , photios and his protégé, theodore santabarenos, were put on trial for treason before a tribunal headed by senior officials, headed by andrew the scythian. although the sources sympathetic to photios give the impression that the trial ended without a conviction, the chronicle of pseudo-symeon clearly states that photios was banished to the monastery of gordon, where he later died. latin sources confirm that he died in a state of complete excommunication by pope john viii. [ ] yet it appears that he did not remain reviled for the remainder of his life.[ ] photios continued his career as a writer throughout his exile, and leo probably rehabilitated his reputation within the next few years; in his epitaphios on his brothers, a text probably written in , the emperor presents photios favorably, portraying him as the legitimate archbishop, and the instrument of ultimate unity, an image that jars with his attitude to the patriarch in the previous year.[ ] confirmation that photios was rehabilitated comes upon his death: according to some chronicles, his body was permitted to be buried in constantinople. in addition, according to the anti-photian biographer of ignatius, partisans of the ex-patriarch after his death endeavored to claim for him the "honor of sainthood". furthermore, a leading member of leo's court, leo choirosphaktes, wrote poems commemorating the memory of several prominent contemporary figures, such as leo the mathematician and the patriarch stephen, and he also wrote one on photios.[ ] shaun tougher notes, however, that "yet photios's passing does seem rather muted for a great figure of byzantine history [...] leo [...] certainly did not allow him back into the sphere of politics, and it is surely his absence from this arena that accounts for his quiet passing."[ ] the eastern orthodox church venerates photios as a saint, his feast day being february ; ignatius is also venerated as a saint both in eastern orthodox church, his feast day being october , and in the roman catholic church. assessments[edit] photios is one of the most famous figures not only of th-century byzantium but of the entire history of the byzantine empire. one of the most learned men of his age, and revered – even by some of his opponents and detractors – as the most prolific theologian of his time, he has earned his fame due to his part in ecclesiastical conflicts, and also for his intellect and literary works.[ ][ ] analyzing his intellectual work, tatakes regards photios as "mind turned more to practice than to theory". he believes that, thanks to photios, humanism was added to orthodoxy as a basic element of the national consciousness of the medieval byzantines, returning it to the place it had had in the late roman (early byzantine) period. tatakes also argues that, having understood this national consciousness, photios emerged as a defender of the greek nation and its spiritual independence in his debates with the western church.[ ] adrian fortescue regards him as "one of the most wonderful men of all the middle ages", and stresses that "had [he] not given his name to the great schism, he would always be remembered as the greatest scholar of his time".[ ] yet, fortescue is equally adamant of his condemnation of photios' involvement in the schism: "and yet the other side of his character is no less evident. his insatiable ambition, his determination to obtain and keep the patriarchal see, led him to the extreme of dishonesty. his claim was worthless. that ignatius was the rightful patriarch as long as he lived, and photius an intruder, cannot be denied by any one who does not conceive the church as merely the slave of a civil government. and to keep this place photius descended to the lowest depth of deceit."[ ] writings[edit] the most important of the works of photios is his renowned bibliotheca or myriobiblon, a collection of extracts and abridgements of volumes of classical authors (usually cited as codices), the originals of which are now to a great extent lost. the work is especially rich in extracts from historical writers.[ ] some older scholarship speculated that the bibliotheca was in fact compiled in baghdad at the time of photius's embassy to the abbasid court, since many of the mentioned works were rarely cited during the so-called byzantine dark ages c. – c. , and it was known that the abbasids were interested in works of greek science and philosophy.[ ] however, specialists of this period of byzantine history, such as paul lemerle, have shown that photios could not have compiled his bibliotheca in baghdad because he clearly states in both his introduction and his postscript that when he learned of his appointment to the embassy, he sent his brother a summary of books that he read previously, "since the time i learned how to understand and evaluate literature" i.e. since his youth.[ ] moreover, the abbasids were interested only in greek science, philosophy and medicine; they did not have greek history, rhetoric, or other literary works translated; nor did they have christian patristic writers translated.[ ] yet the majority of works in bibliotheca are by christian patristic authors, and most of the secular texts in bibliotheca are histories, grammars or literary works, usually rhetoric, rather than science, medicine or philosophy. this further indicates that the majority of the works cannot have been read while photios was in the abbasid empire. to photios, we are indebted for almost all we possess of ctesias, memnon of heraclea, conon, the lost books of diodorus siculus, and the lost writings of arrian. theology and ecclesiastical history are also very fully represented, but poetry and ancient philosophy are almost entirely ignored. it seems that he did not think it necessary to deal with those authors with whom every well-educated man would naturally be familiar. the literary criticisms, generally distinguished by keen and independent judgment, and the excerpts vary considerably in length. the numerous biographical notes are probably taken from the work of hesychius of miletus.[ ] the lexicon (Λέξεων Συναγωγή), published later than the bibliotheca, was probably in the main the work of some of his pupils. it was intended as a book of reference to facilitate the reading of old classical and sacred authors, whose language and vocabulary were out of date. for a long time, the only manuscripts of the lexicon were the codex galeanus, which passed into the library of trinity college, cambridge[ ] and berolinensis graec. oct. , both of which were incomplete. but in , linos politis of the university of thessaloniki discovered a complete manuscript, codex zavordensis , in the zavorda monastery (greek: Ζάβορδα) in grevena, greece, where it still resides.[ ] his most important theological work is the amphilochia, a collection of some questions and answers on difficult points in scripture, addressed to amphilochius, archbishop of cyzicus. other similar works are his treatise in four books against the manichaeans and paulicians, and his controversy with the latins on the procession of the holy spirit.[ ] photios also addressed a long letter of theological advice to the newly converted boris i of bulgaria. numerous other epistles also survive. photios is also the writer of two "mirrors of princes", addressed to boris-michael of bulgaria (epistula , ed. terzaghi) and to leo vi the wise (admonitory chapters of basil i).[ ] the chief contemporary authority for the life of photios is his bitter enemy, nicetas the paphlagonian, the biographer of his rival ignatios.[ ] the first english translation, by holy transfiguration monastery, of the "mystagogy of the holy spirit" by photios was published in .[ ] another translation was published in with a preface by archimandrite (now archbishop) chrysostomos of etna.[ ] see also[edit] 	byzantine philosophy 	filioque clause 	university of magnaura 	bibliotheca (photius) 	bibliotheca (pseudo-apollodorus) notes[edit] ^ a: the exact dates of photios's birth and death are not known. most sources list circa and others circa as his year of birth. he died some time between and (probably or ).[ ] ^ b: the case of pseudo-simeon's chronicle is characteristic: the author argues that photios was educated after an agreement he concluded with a jewish magician who offered him knowledge and secular recognition, in case he renounced his faith.[ ] ^ c: david marshall lang argues that "photius [...] was only one of many byzantine scholars of armenian descent".[ ] peter charanis notes that "john the grammarian, photius, caesar bardas and leo the philosopher seem to have been the prime movers. all four were, at least in part, of armenian descent [...] as for photius, the fact is that his mother irene, was the sister of arshavir, the arshavir who had married calomaria the sister of bardas and the empress theodora."[ ] nicholas adontz stresses that "arshavir, photius' uncle, must not be confused with arshavir, the brother of john the grammarian".[ ] ^ d: g. n. wilson regards leo the mathematician as photios's teacher, but paul lemerle notes that leo was not one of the persons with whom photios had a correspondence.[ ] references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ "photius the great, patriarch of constantinople". online chapel. the greek orthodox archdiocese of america. retrieved june . 	^ a b fr. justin taylor, essay "canon law in the age of the fathers" (published in jordan hite, t.o.r., & daniel j. ward, o.s.b., "readings, cases, materials in canon law: a textbook for ministerial students, revised edition" [collegeville, mn: the liturgical press, ]), p. 	^ white, despina stratoudaki ( ). the life of patriarch photios. patriarch photios of constantinople, his life, scholarly contributions, and correspondence, together with a translation of fifty-two of his letters. isbn  - - - . retrieved - - . 	^ louth , chapter seven: "renaissance of learning: east and west", p. ; 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page was last edited on december , at :  (utc). 	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 pindar - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	pindar 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		for other uses, see pindar (disambiguation). ancient greek lyric poet from thebes 	pindar 	pindar, roman copy of greek th century bc bust (museo archeologico nazionale, naples) 	native name	Πίνδαρος 	born	c.  [ ] cynoscephalae, boiotia 	died	c.  (aged approx ) argos 	occupation	lyric poet 	genre	poetry pindar (/ˈpɪndər/; greek: Πίνδαρος pindaros, [píndaros]; latin: pindarus; c. – bc) was an ancient greek lyric poet from thebes. of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient greece, his work is the best preserved. quintilian wrote, "of the nine lyric poets, pindar is by far the greatest, in virtue of his inspired magnificence, the beauty of his thoughts and figures, the rich exuberance of his language and matter, and his rolling flood of eloquence, characteristics which, as horace rightly held, make him inimitable."[ ] his poems can also, however, seem difficult and even peculiar. the athenian comic playwright eupolis once remarked that they "are already reduced to silence by the disinclination of the multitude for elegant learning".[ ] some scholars in the modern age also found his poetry perplexing, at least until the discovery of some poems by his rival bacchylides; comparisons of their work showed that many of pindar's idiosyncrasies are typical of archaic genres rather than of only the poet himself. his poetry, while admired by critics, still challenges the casual reader and his work is largely unread among the general public.[ ] pindar was the first greek poet to reflect on the nature of poetry and on the poet's role.[ ] like other poets of the archaic age, he has a profound sense of the vicissitudes of life, but he also articulates a passionate faith in what men can achieve by the grace of the gods, most famously expressed in the conclusion to one of his victory odes:[ ] creatures of a day! what is anyone? what is anyone not? a dream of a shadow is our mortal being. but when there comes to men a gleam of splendour given of heaven, then rests on them a light of glory and blessed are their days. (pythian )[ ][ ] his poetry illustrates the beliefs and values of archaic greece at the dawn of the classical period.[ ] contents 	 biography 	 . sources 	 . life 	 . . infancy to adulthood 	 . . middle age 	 . . old age and death 	 . . post mortem 	 . values and beliefs 	 works 	 . victory odes 	 . . style 	 . . structure 	 . . chronological order 	 . manuscripts, shreds and quotes 	 influence and legacy 	 . horace's tribute 	 . bowra's tribute 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 sources 	 further reading 	 external links biography[edit] sources[edit] five ancient sources contain all the recorded details of pindar's life. one of them is a short biography discovered in on an egyptian papyrus dating from at least ad (p.oxy. ).[ ] the other four are collections that weren't finalized until some years after his death: 	commentaries on pindar by eustathius of thessalonica; 	vita vratislavensis, found in a manuscript at breslau, author unknown; 	a text by thomas magister; 	some meagre writings attributed to the lexicographer suidas. although these sources are based on a much older literary tradition, going as far back as chamaeleon of heraclea in the th century bc, they are generally viewed with scepticism today: much of the material is clearly fanciful.[ ][ ] scholars both ancient and modern have turned to pindar's own work – his victory odes in particular – as a source of biographical information: some of the poems touch on historic events and can be accurately dated. the publication of elroy bundy's ground-breaking work studia pindarica[ ] led to a change in scholarly opinion—the odes were no longer seen as expressions of pindar's personal thoughts and feelings, but rather as public statements "dedicated to the single purpose of eulogizing men and communities."[ ] it has been claimed that biographical interpretations of the poems are due to a "fatal conjunction" of historicism and romanticism.[ ] in other words, we know almost nothing about pindar's life based on either traditional sources or his own poems. however, the pendulum of intellectual fashion has begun to change direction again, and cautious use of the poems for some biographical purposes is considered acceptable once more.[ ][ ][ ][ ] 	 	 	 πολλὰ γὰρ πολλᾷ λέλεκται: νεαρὰ δ᾽ ἐξευ- ρόντα δόμεν βασάνῳ ἐς ἔλεγχον, ἅπας κίνδυνος.[ ][ ] 	 story is vast in range: new ways to find and test upon the touchstone, here danger lies.[nb ][ ] life[edit] infancy to adulthood[edit] pindar was born in circa bc (the th olympiad) in cynoscephalae, a village in boeotia, not far from thebes. his father's name is variously given as daiphantus, pagondas or scopelinus, and his mother's name was cleodice.[ ] it is told that he was stung on the mouth by a bee in his youth and this was the reason he became a poet of honey-like verses (an identical fate has been ascribed to other poets of the archaic period). pindar was about twenty years old in bc when he was commissioned by the ruling family in thessaly to compose his first victory ode (pythian ). he studied the art of lyric poetry in athens, where his tutor was lasos of hermione, and he is also said to have received some helpful criticism from corinna. the early-to-middle years of pindar's career coincided with the greco-persian wars during the reigns of darius and xerxes. this period included the first persian invasion of greece, which ending at the battle of marathon in bc, and second persian invasion of greece ( - bc).[ ][ ] during the second invasion, when pindar was almost forty years old, thebes was occupied by xerxes' general, mardonius, who with many theban aristocrats subsequently perished at the battle of plataea. it is possible that pindar spent much of this time at aegina. his choice of residence during the earlier invasion in bc is not known, but he was able to attend the pythian games for that year, where he first met the sicilian prince, thrasybulus, nephew of theron of acragas. thrasybulus had driven the winning chariot and he and pindar were to form a lasting friendship, paving the way for his subsequent visit to sicily. middle age[edit] pindar seems to have used his odes to advance his, and his friends', personal interests.[ ] in bc he composed two odes in honour of arcesilas, king of cyrene, (pythians and ), pleading for the return from exile of a friend, demophilus. in the latter ode pindar proudly mentions his own ancestry, which he shared with the king, as an aegeid or descendant of aegeus, the legendary king of athens. the clan was influential in many parts of the greek world, having intermarried with ruling families in thebes, in lacedaemonia, and in cities that claimed lacedaemonian descent, such as cyrene and thera. the historian herodotus considered the clan important enough to deserve mention (histories iv. ). membership of this clan possibly contributed to pindar's success as a poet, and it informed his political views, which are marked by a conservative preference for oligarchic governments of the doric kind. "pindar might not actually claim to be an aegeid since his 'i' statements do not necessarily refer to himself. the aegeid clan did however have a branch in thebes, and his reference to 'my ancestors' in pythian could have been spoken on behalf of both arcesilas and himself – he may have used this ambivalence to establish a personal link with his patrons."[ ] he was possibly the theban proxenos or consul for aegina and/or molossia, as indicated in another of his odes, nemean ,[ ][ ][ ][ ] in which he glorifies neoptolemus, a national hero of aegina and molossia. according to tradition, neoptolemus died disgracefully in a fight with priests at the temple in delphi over their share of some sacrificial meat. pindar diplomatically glosses over this and concludes mysteriously with an earnest protestation of innocence – "but shall my heart never admit that i with words none can redeem dishonoured neoptolemus".[clarification needed] possibly he was responding to anger among aeginetans and/or molossians over his portrayal of neoptolemus in an earlier poem, paean , which had been commissioned by the priests at delphi and which depicted the hero's death in traditional terms, as divine retribution for his crimes. "some doubt this biographical interpretation of nemean since it is largely based on marginal comments by scholiasts and pindaric scholiasts are often unreliable. the fact that pindar gave different versions of the myth may simply reflect the needs of different genres, and does not necessarily indicate a personal dilemma.[ ] nemean in fact is the most controversial and obscure of pindar's victory odes, and scholars ancient and modern have been ingenious and imaginative in their attempts to explain it, so far with no agreed success."[ ] in his first pythian ode, composed in bc in honour of the sicilian tyrant hieron, pindar celebrated a series of victories by greeks against foreign invaders: athenian and spartan-led victories against persia at salamis and plataea, and victories by the western greeks led by theron of acragas and hieron against the carthaginians and etruscans at the battles of himera and cumae. such celebrations were not appreciated by his fellow thebans: they had sided with the persians and had incurred many losses and privations as a result of their defeat. his praise of athens with such epithets as bulwark of hellas (fragment ) and city of noble name and sunlit splendour (nemean ) induced the authorities in thebes to fine him drachmae, to which the athenians are said to have responded with a gift of drachmae. according to another account,[ ] the athenians even made him their proxenus or consul in thebes. his association with the fabulously rich hieron was another source of annoyance at home. it was probably in response to theban sensitivities over this issue that he denounced the rule of tyrants (i.e. rulers like hieron) in an ode composed shortly after a visit to hieron's sumptuous court in – bc (pythian ).[ ] "pindar's actual phrasing in pythian was "i deplore the lot of tyrants" and though this was traditionally interpreted as an apology for his dealings with sicilian tyrants like hieron, an alternative date for the ode has led some scholars to conclude that it was in fact a covert reference to the tyrannical behaviour of the athenians, although this interpretation is ruled out if we accept the earlier note about covert references. according to yet another interpretation pindar is simply delivering a formulaic warning to the successful athlete to avoid hubris.[ ] it is highly unlikely that pindar ever acted for athenians as their proxenus or consul in thebes."[ ] lyric verse was conventionally accompanied by music and dance, and pindar himself wrote the music and choreographed the dances for his victory odes. sometimes he trained the performers at his home in thebes, and sometimes he trained them at the venue where they performed. commissions took him to all parts of the greek world – to the panhellenic festivals in mainland greece (olympia, delphi, corinth and nemea), westwards to sicily, eastwards to the seaboard of asia minor, north to macedonia and abdera (paean ) and south to cyrene on the african coast. other poets at the same venues vied with him for the favours of patrons. his poetry sometimes reflects this rivalry. for example, olympian and pythian , composed in honour of the sicilian tyrants theron and hieron following his visit to their courts in – bc, refer respectively to ravens and an ape, apparently signifying rivals who were engaged in a campaign of smears against him – possibly the poets simonides and his nephew bacchylides.[ ] pindar's original treatment of narrative myth, often relating events in reverse chronological order, is said to have been a favourite target for criticism.[ ] simonides was known to charge high fees for his work and pindar is said to have alluded to this in isthmian , where he refers to the muse as "a hireling journeyman". he appeared in many poetry competitions and was defeated five times by his compatriot, the poet corinna, in revenge of which he called her boeotian sow in one of his odes (olympian . f.). "it was assumed by ancient sources that pindar's odes were performed by a chorus, but this has been challenged by some modern scholars, who argue that the odes were in fact performed solo.[ ] it is not known how commissions were arranged, nor if the poet travelled widely: even when poems include statements like "i have come" it is not certain that this was meant literally.[ ] uncomplimentary references to bacchylides and simonides were found by scholiasts but there is no reason to accept their interpretation of the odes.[ ] in fact, some scholars have interpreted the allusions to fees in isthmian as a request by pindar for payment of fees owed to himself.[ ] his defeats by corinna were probably invented by ancient commentators to account for the boeotian sow remark, a phrase moreover that was completely misunderstood by scholiasts, since pindar was scoffing at a reputation that all boeotians had for stupidity."[ ] old age and death[edit] his fame as a poet drew pindar into greek politics. athens, the most important city in greece throughout his poetic career, was a rival of his home city, thebes, and also of the island state aegina, whose leading citizens commissioned about a quarter of his victory odes. there is no open condemnation of the athenians in any of his poems but criticism is implied. for example, the victory ode mentioned above (pythian ) describes the downfall of the giants porphyrion and typhon and this might be pindar's way of covertly celebrating a recent defeat of athens by thebes at the battle of coronea ( bc).[ ] the poem ends with a prayer for aegina's freedom, long threatened by athenian ambitions. covert criticism of athens (traditionally located in odes such as pythian , nemean and isthmian ) is now dismissed as highly unlikely, even by scholars who allow some biographical and historical interpretations of the poems.[ ] one of his last odes (pythian ) indicates that he lived near a shrine to the oracle alcmaeon and that he stored some of his wealth there. in the same ode he says that he had recently received a prophecy from alcmaeon during a journey to delphi ("...he met me and proved the skills of prophecy that all his race inherit")[ ] but he does not reveal what the long-dead prophet said to him nor in what form he appeared.[nb ] the ode was written to commemorate a victory by an athlete from aegina. "pindar doesn't necessarily mean himself when he uses the first person singular. many of his 'i' statements are generic, indicating somebody engaged in the role of a singer i.e. a 'bardic' i. other 'i' statements articulate values typical of the audience, and some are spoken on behalf of the subjects celebrated in the poems.[ ] the 'i' that received the prophecy in pythian therefore might have been the athlete from aegina, not pindar. in that case the prophecy must have been about his performance at the pythian games, and the property stored at the shrine was just a votive offering."[ ] nothing is recorded about pindar's wife and son except their names, megacleia and daiphantus. about ten days before he died, the goddess persephone appeared to him and complained that she was the only divinity to whom he had never composed a hymn. she said he would come to her soon and compose one then. pindar lived to about eighty years of age. he died around bc while attending a festival at argos. his ashes were taken back home to thebes by his musically-gifted daughters, eumetis and protomache. post mortem[edit] one of pindar's female relatives claimed that he dictated some verses to her in honour of persephone after he had been dead for several days. some of pindar's verses were inscribed in letters of gold on a temple wall in lindos, rhodes. at delphi, where he had been elected a priest of apollo, the priests exhibited an iron chair on which he used to sit during the festival of the theoxenia. every night, while closing the temple doors, they intoned: "let pindar the poet go unto the supper of the gods!" pindar's house in thebes became one of the city's landmarks. when alexander the great demolished thebes in  bc, as punishment for its resistance to macedonian expansionism, he ordered the house be left intact out of gratitude for verses praising his ancestor, alexander i of macedon.[ ] values and beliefs[edit] pindar's values and beliefs have been inferred from his poetry. no other ancient greek poet has left so many comments about the nature of his art. he justified and exalted choral poetry at a time when society was turning away from it. it "...had for two centuries reflected and shaped the sentiments, the outlook, and the convictions of the greek aristocracies...and pindar spoke up for it with passionate assurance".[ ] his poetry is a meeting ground for gods, heroes and men – even the dead are spoken of as participants: "deep in the earth their heart listens".[ ] his view of the gods is traditional but more self-consistent than homer's and more reverent. he never depicts gods in a demeaning role. he seems indifferent to the intellectual reforms that were shaping the theology of the times. thus an eclipse is not a mere physical effect, as contemplated by early thinkers such as thales, anaximander and heraclitus, nor was it even a subject for bold wonder, as it was for an earlier poet, archilochus;[ ] instead pindar treated an eclipse as a portent of evil.[nb ][ ][ ] gods are the embodiment of power, uncompromisingly proud of their nature and violent in defense of their privileges.[ ][ ] there is some rationalization of religious belief, but it is within a tradition at least as old as hesiod, where abstractions are personified, such as "truth the daughter of zeus".[ ] sometimes the wording suggests a belief in 'god' rather than 'a god' (e.g. "what is god? everything"),[nb ] but the implications are not given full expression and the poems are not examples of monotheism.[citation needed] nor do they vocalize a belief in fate as the background to the gods, unlike the plays of aeschylus for example. pindar subjects both fortune and fate to divine will (e.g. "child of zeus...fortune").[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] a short heracles: pindar once ignored the traditional image of heracles, the supreme example of the heroic physique, and described him as short in order to compare him with a short patron. he selects and revises traditional myths so as not to diminish the dignity and majesty of the gods. such revisionism was not unique. xenophanes had castigated homer and hesiod for the misdeeds they ascribed to gods, such as theft, adultery and deception, and pythagoras had envisioned those two poets being punished in hades for blasphemy. a subtle example of pindar's approach can be found in his treatment of the myth of apollo's rape of the nymph cyrene.[ ] as the god of the delphic oracle, apollo is all-knowing, yet in keeping with his anthropomorphic nature he seeks information about the nymph from a third party, in this case the centaur chiron. chiron however affirms the god's omniscience with an elegant compliment, as if apollo had only pretended to be ignorant: "you, sire, who know the appointed end of all, and all paths..."[nb ][ ] apollo's abduction of the nymph is not presented as a shameful act. pindar's gods are above such ethical issues and it is not for men to judge them by ordinary human standards. indeed, the finest breeds of men resulted from divine passions: "for pindar a mortal woman who is loved by a god is an outstanding lesson in divine favours handsomely bestowed".[ ][ ] being descendants of divine unions with privileged mortals, mythical heroes are an intermediate group between gods and men, and they are sympathetic to human ambitions. thus, for example, pindar not only invokes zeus for help on behalf of the island of aegina but also its national heroes aeacus, peleus and telamon.[ ] unlike the gods, however, heroes can be judged according to ordinary human standards and they are sometimes shown in the poems to demean themselves. even in that case, they receive special consideration. thus pindar refers obliquely to the murder of phocus by his brothers peleus and telamon ("i am shy of speaking of a huge risk, hazarded not in right"), telling the audience that he will not talk of it ("silence is a man's wisest counsel").[nb ][ ][ ] the theban hero heracles was a favourite subject but in one poem he is depicted as small in order to be compared with a small theban patron who had won the pankration at the isthmian games:[ ] a unique example of pindar's readiness to shape traditional myths to fit the occasion, even if not always flattering to the mythical hero. a hero's status is not diminished by an occasional blemish but rests on a summary view of his heroic exploits.[ ][ ][ ] some of his patrons claimed divine descent, such as diagoras of rhodes, but pindar makes all men akin to gods if they realize their full potential: their innate gifts are divinely bestowed, and even then success still depends on the gods' active favour. in honouring such men, therefore, pindar was honouring the gods too.[ ][ ][ ] his statements about life after death were not self-consistent but that was typical for the times. traditional ambivalence, as expressed by homer, had been complicated by a growth of religious sects, such as the eleusinian mysteries and pythagoreanism, representing various schemes of rewards and punishments in the next life. however, for the poet, glory and lasting fame were men's greatest assurance of a life well-lived.[ ] he presents no theory of history apart from the view that fortune is variable even for the best men, an outlook suited to moderation in success, courage in adversity. notions of 'good' and 'bad' in human nature were not analysed by him in any depth nor did he arrive at anything like the compassionate ethics of his near contemporary, simonides of ceos.[ ][ ][ ] his poems are indifferent to the ordinary mass of people. they are dismissed with phrases such as "the brute multitude" (pythian ode . ). nor are the poems concerned with the fate of rich and powerful men once they lose their wealth and social status (compared for example with the bitter and disillusioned poems of theognis of megara). they are more interested in what successful men do with their good fortune: success brings obligations, and religious and artistic activities need patrons.[ ][ ][ ][ ] whereas the muses inspired homer with relevant information and with the language to express it, pindar seems to receive only their inspiration: his role is to shape that inspiration with his own wisdom and skill. like his patrons, whom he immortalizes in verse, he owes his success to hard work as well as to innate gifts; though he hires himself out, he has a vocation. the muses are to him as an oracle is to a prophet, and lesser poets are to him as ravens are to an eagle; the art of such men is as hackneyed as garland-making; his is magical:[ ][ ][ ][ ] 	 	 	 εἴρειν στεφάνους ἐλαφρόν: ἀναβάλεο: Μοῖσά τοι κολλᾷ χρυσὸν ἔν τε λευκὸν ἐλέφανθ᾽ ἁμᾷ καὶ λείριον ἄνθεμον ποντίας ὑφελοῖσ᾽ ἐέρσας. 	 to plait garlands is easy. strike up! the muse welds together gold and white ivory and the lily-flower snatched from the sea's dew.[ ][ ] works[edit] pindar's strongly individual genius is apparent in all his extant compositions but, unlike simonides and stesichorus for example, he created no new lyrical genres.[ ] he was however innovative in his use of the genres he inherited – for example, in one of his victory odes (olympian ), he announces his invention of a new type of musical accompaniment, combining lyre, flute and human voice (though our knowledge of greek music is too sketchy to allow us to understand the full nature of this innovation).[ ] although he probably spoke boeotian greek he composed in a literary language that tended to rely more on the doric dialect than his rival bacchylides, but less insistently than alcman. there is an admixture of other dialects, especially aeolic and epic forms, and an occasional use of some boeotian words.[ ] he composed 'choral' songs yet it is by no means certain that they were all sung by choirs – the use of choirs is testified only by the generally unreliable scholiasts.[ ] scholars at the library of alexandria collected his compositions in seventeen books organized according to genre:[ ] 	 book of hymnoi – "hymns" 	 book of paianes – "paeans" 	 books of dithyramboi – "dithyrambs" 	 books of prosodia – "processionals" 	 books of parthenia – "songs for maidens" 	 books of hyporchemata – "songs for light dances" 	 book of enkomia – "songs of praise" 	 book of threnoi – "laments" 	 books of epinikia – "victory odes" of this vast and varied corpus, only the epinikia – odes written to commemorate athletic victories – survive in complete form; the rest survive only by quotations in other ancient authors or from papyrus scraps unearthed in egypt. even in fragmentary form however they reveal the same complexity of thought and language that are found in the victory odes.[ ] dionysius of halicarnassus singled out pindar's work as an outstanding example of austere style (αὐστηρὰ ἁρμονία) but he noted its absence in the maiden songs or parthenia. one surviving fragment of a maiden song does seem to be different in tone, due however to the fact that it is spoken in the character of a girl:[ ][ ][ ] 	 	 	 	 ἐμὲ δὲ πρέπει παρθενήια μὲν φρονεῖν γλώσσᾳ τε λέγεσθαι. 	 emè dè prépei parthenḗia mèn phroneîn glṓssāi te légesthai. 	 i must think maidenly thoughts and utter them with my tongue.[ ][ ][ ][ ] enough of his dithyrambic poetry survives for comparison with that of bacchylides, who used it for narrative. pindar's dithyrambs are an exuberant display of religious feeling, capturing the wild spirit of dionysus and pointing forward to the ecstatic songs of euripides' bacchae. in one of these, dedicated to the athenians and written to be sung in spring, he depicts the divine energy of the revitalized world.[ ][ ] 	 	 	 	 φοινικοεάνων ὁπότ' οἰχθέντος Ὡρᾶν θαλάμου εὔοδμον ἐπάγοισιν ἐάρ φυτὰ νεκτάρεα. τότε βάλλεται, τότ' ἐπ' ἀμβρόταν χθόν' ἐραταί ἴων φόβαι, ῥόδα τε κόμαισι μείγνυται, ἀχεῖ τ' ὀμφαὶ μελέων σὺν αὐλοῖς οἰχνεῖ τε Σεμέλαν ἑλικάμπυκα χοροί. 	 phoinikoeánōn hopót' oikhthéntos hōrân thalámou eúodmon epágoisin eár phutà nektárea. tóte bálletai, tót' ep' ambrótan khthón' erataí íōn phóbai, rhóda te kómaisi meígnutai, akheî t' omphaì meléōn sùn auloîs oikhneî te semélan helikámpuka khoroí. 	 when the chamber of the scarlet-clothed hours is opened and the nectareous flowers usher in the fragrant spring, then are scattered, then, on the immortal ground the lovely petals of violets; roses are wound in our hair; loudly echo the voices of songs to the flutes, and choirs step in procession to dark-ribboned semele.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] victory odes[edit] the so-called 'farnese diadumenos' is a roman copy of a greek original attributed to polykleitos c. bc, depicting an athlete tying a victory ribbon round his head. almost all pindar's victory odes are celebrations of triumphs gained by competitors in panhellenic festivals such as the olympian games. the establishment of these athletic and musical festivals was among the greatest achievements of the greek aristocracies. even in the th century bc, when there was an increased tendency towards professionalism, they were predominantly aristocratic assemblies, reflecting the expense and leisure needed to attend such events either as a competitor or spectator. attendance was an opportunity for display and self-promotion, and the prestige of victory, requiring commitment in time and/or wealth, went far beyond anything that accrues to athletic victories today, even in spite of the modern preoccupation with sport.[ ] pindar's odes capture something of the prestige and the aristocratic grandeur of the moment of victory, as in this stanza from one of his isthmian odes, here translated by geoffrey s. conway: 					if ever a man strives 	with all his soul's endeavour, sparing himself 	neither expense nor labour to attain 	true excellence, then must we give to those 	who have achieved the goal, a proud tribute 		of lordly praise, and shun 	all thoughts of envious jealousy. 	to a poet's mind the gift is slight, to speak 	a kind word for unnumbered toils, and build 	for all to share a monument of beauty. (isthmian i, antistrophe )[ ] his victory odes are grouped into four books named after the olympian, pythian, isthmian, and nemean games – panhellenic festivals held respectively at olympia, delphi, corinth and nemea. this reflects the fact that most of the odes were composed in honour of boys, youths, and men who had recently enjoyed victories in athletic (and sometimes musical) contests at those festivals. in a few odes however much older victories, and even victories in lesser games, are celebrated, often as a pretext for addressing other issues or achievements. for example, pythian , composed in honour of hieron of syracuse, briefly mentions a victory he had once enjoyed at the pythian games, but it is actually intended to console him for his chronic illness (similarly, pythian is like a private letter in its intimacy).[ ] nemean and nemean celebrate victories in games at sicyon and argos, and nemean celebrates a victory in a municipal election on tenedos (though it also mentions some obscure athletic victories). these three odes are the final odes in the nemean book of odes, and there is a reason for their inclusion. in the original manuscripts, the four books of odes were arranged in the order of importance assigned to the festivals, with the nemean festival, considered least important, coming last. victory odes that lacked a panhellenic subject were then bundled together at the end of the book of nemean odes.[ ] style[edit] pindar's poetic style is very distinctive, even when the peculiarities of the genre are set aside. the odes typically feature a grand and arresting opening, often with an architectural metaphor or a resounding invocation to a place or goddess. he makes rich use of decorative language and florid compound adjectives.[ ] sentences are compressed to the point of obscurity, unusual words and periphrases give the language an esoteric quality, and transitions in meaning often seem erratic, the images seem to burst out – it is a style that sometimes baffles but also makes his poetry vivid and unforgettable.[ ] pindar's power does not lie in the pedigrees of ... athletes ... it lies in a splendour of phrase and imagery that suggests the gold and purple of a sunset sky. – f. l. lucas[ ] he has that force of imagination which can bring clear-cut and dramatic figures of gods and heroes into vivid relief...he has that peculiar and inimitable splendour of style which, though sometimes aided by magnificent novelties of diction, is not dependent on them, but can work magical effects with simple words; he has also, at frequent moments, a marvellous swiftness, alike in the succession of images, and in the transitions from thought to thought; and his tone is that of a prophet who can speak with a voice as of delphi. – richard claverhouse jebb[ ] his odes were animated by... one burning glow which darted out a shower of brilliant images, leapt in a white-hot spark across gaps unbridgeable by thought, passed through a commonplace leaving it luminous and transparent, melted a group of heterogeneous ideas into a shortlived unity and, as suddenly as a flame, died. – gilbert highet[ ] some of these qualities can be found, for example, in this stanza from pythian , composed in honour of hieron: 	 	 	 θεὸς ἅπαν ἐπὶ ἐλπίδεσσι τέκμαρ ἀνύεται, θεός, ὃ καὶ πτερόεντ᾽ αἰετὸν κίχε, καὶ θαλασ- :σαῖον παραμείβεται δελφῖνα, καὶ ὑψιφρόνων τιν᾽ ἔκαμψε βροτῶν, ἑτέροισι δὲ κῦδος ἀγήραον παρέδωκ᾽. ἐμὲ δὲ χρεὼν φεύγειν δάκος ἀδινὸν κακαγοριᾶν. εἶδον γὰρ ἑκὰς ἐὼν τὰ πόλλ᾽ ἐν ἀμαχανίᾳ ψογερὸν Ἀρχίλοχον βαρυλόγοις ἔχθεσιν πιαινόμενον: τὸ πλουτεῖν δὲ σὺν τύχᾳ πό- :τμου σοφίας ἄριστον. [ ] 	 god achieves all his purpose and fulfills his every hope, god who can overtake the winged eagle, or upon the sea 	outstrip the dolphin; and he bends the arrogant heart of many a man, but gives to others eternal glory that will never fade. now for me is it needful that i shun the fierce and biting tooth of slanderous words. for from old have i seen sharp-tongued archilochus in want and struggling, grown fat on the harsh words of hate. the best that fate can bring is wealth 	joined with the happy gift of wisdom.[ ] the stanza begins with a celebration of divine power, and then abruptly shifts to a darker, more allusive train of thought, featuring condemnation of a renowned poet, archilochus, grown fat on the harsh words of hate. archilochus was an iambic poet, working within a genre that licensed abusive and scurrilous verse – a regrettable tendency from the viewpoint of pindar, whose own persona is intensely earnest, preaching to hieron the need for moderation (wealth with wisdom) and submission to the divine will. the reference to the embittered poet appears to be pindar's meditative response to some intrigues at hieron's court, possibly by his rivals, condemned elsewhere as a pair of ravens (olympian ). the intensity of the stanza suggests that it is the culmination and climax of the poem. in fact, the stanza occupies the middle of pythian and the intensity is sustained throughout the poem from beginning to end. it is the sustained intensity of his poetry that quintilian refers to above as a rolling flood of eloquence and horace below refers to as the uncontrollable momentum of a river that has burst its banks. longinus likens him to a vast fire[ ] and athenaeus refers to him as the great-voiced pindar.[ ] pindar's treatment of myth is another unique aspect of his style, often involving variations on the traditional stories,[ ] since his original audience was familiar with the myths and this allowed him to concentrate on unique and surprising effects. reversing the chronological order was one such effect, as in olympian vii dedicated to diagoras of rhodes, but this could also resemble a circular pattern, beginning with a culminating event, followed by scenes leading up to it, and ending with its restatement, as in his account of the dioscuri in nemean .[ ] myths enabled him to develop the themes and lessons that pre-occupy him – in particular mankind's exulted relation with the gods via heroic ancestors and, in contrast, the limitations and uncertainties of human existence – but sometimes the traditional stories were an embarrassment and were carefully edited, as for example: "be still my tongue: here profits not / to tell the whole truth with clear face unveiled," (nemean , epode ); "away, away this story! / let no such tale fall from my lips! / for to insult the gods is a fool's wisdom," (olympian , strophe ); "senseless, i hold it, for a man to say / the gods eat mortal flesh. / i spurn the thought," (olympian , epode ).[ ] his mythical accounts are edited for dramatic and graphic effects, usually unfolding through a few grand gestures against a background of large, often symbolic elements such as sea, sky, darkness, fire or mountain.[ ] structure[edit] pindar's odes typically begin with an invocation to a god or the muses, followed by praise of the victor and often of his family, ancestors and home-town. then follows a narrated myth, usually occupying the central and longest section of the poem, which exemplify a moral, while aligning the poet and his audience with the world of gods and heroes.[ ] the ode usually ends in more eulogies, for example of trainers (if the victor is a boy), and of relatives who have won past events, as well as with prayers or expressions of hope for future success.[ ] the event where the victory was gained is never described in detail, but there is often some mention of the hard work needed to bring the victory about. a lot of modern criticism tries to find hidden structure or some unifying principle within the odes. th century criticism favoured 'gnomic unity' i.e. that each ode is bound together by the kind of moralizing or philosophic vision typical of archaic gnomic poetry. later critics sought unity in the way certain words or images are repeated and developed within a particular ode. for others, the odes are just celebrations of men and their communities, in which the elements such as myths, piety, and ethics are stock themes that the poet introduces without much real thought. some conclude that the requirement for unity is too modern to have informed pindar's ancient approach to a traditional craft.[ ] the great majority of the odes are triadic in structure – i.e., stanzas are grouped together in three's as a lyrical unit. each triad comprises two stanzas identical in length and meter (called 'strophe' and 'antistrophe') and a third stanza (called an 'epode'), differing in length and meter but rounding off the lyrical movement in some way. the shortest odes comprise a single triad, the largest (pythian ) comprises thirteen triads. seven of the odes however are monostrophic (i.e., each stanza in the ode is identical in length and meter). the monostrophic odes seem to have been composed for victory marches or processions, whereas the triadic odes appear suited to choral dances.[ ] pindar's metrical rhythms are nothing like the simple, repetitive rhythms familiar to readers of english verse – typically the rhythm of any given line recurs infrequently (for example, only once every ten, fifteen or twenty lines). this adds to the aura of complexity that surrounds pindar's work. in terms of meter, the odes fall roughly into two categories – about half are in dactylo-epitrites (a meter found for example in the works of stesichorus, simonides and bacchylides) and the other half are in aeolic metres based on iambs and choriambs.[ ] chronological order[edit] modern editors (e.g., snell and maehler in their teubner edition), have assigned dates, securely or tentatively, to pindar's victory odes, based on ancient sources and other grounds. the date of an athletic victory is not always the date of composition but often serves merely as a terminus post quem. many dates are based on comments by ancient sources who had access to published lists of victors, such as the olympic list compiled by hippias of elis, and lists of pythian victors made by aristotle and callisthenes. there were however no such lists for the isthmian and nemean games[ ] – pausanias ( . . ) complained that the corinthians and argives never kept proper records. the resulting uncertainty is reflected in the chronology below, with question marks clustered around nemean and isthmian entries, and yet it still represents a fairly clear general timeline of pindar's career as an epinician poet. the code m denotes monostrophic odes (odes in which all stanzas are metrically identical) and the rest are triadic (i.e. featuring strophes, antistrophes, epodes): estimated chronological order 	date bc 	ode 	victor 	event 	focusing myth 	 	pythian 	hippocles of thessaly 	boy's long foot-race 	perseus, hyperboreans 	 	pythian (m) 	xenocrates of acragas 	chariot-race 	antilochus, nestor 	 	pythian (m) 	midas of acragas 	flute-playing 	perseus, medusa 	 (?) 	olympian (m) 	asopichus of orchomenus 	boys' foot-race 	none 	 	pythian 	megacles of athens 	chariot-race 	none 	 (?) 	nemean (m) 	timodemus of acharnae 	pancration 	none 	 (?) 	nemean 	sogenes of aegina 	boys' pentathlon 	neoptolemus 	 (?) 	nemean 	pythias of aegina 	youth's pancration 	peleus, hippolyta, thetis 	 	isthmian 	phylacides of aegina 	pancration 	heracles, telamon 	 (?) 	isthmian 	phylacides of aegina 	pancration 	aeacids, achilles 	 	isthmian (m) 	cleandrus of aegina 	pancration 	zeus, poseidon, thetis 	 	 olympian 	hieron of syracuse 	horse-race 	pelops 	 	olympians & 	theron of acragas 	chariot-race 	 .isles of the blessed .heracles, hyperboreans 	 	olympian 	agesidamus of epizephyrian locris 	boys' boxing match 	heracles, founding of olympian games 	 (?) 	nemean 	chromius of aetna 	chariot-race 	infant heracles 	 (?) 	pythian 	hieron of syracuse 	chariot-race 	ixion 	 (?) 	nemean 	aristocleides of aegina 	pancration 	aeacides, achilles 	 (?) 	olympian 	agesidamus of epizephyrian locris 	boys' boxing match 	none 	 (?) 	pythian 	hieron of syracuse 	horse-race 	asclepius 	 	pythian 	telesicrates of cyrene 	foot-race in armour 	apollo, cyrene 	 	pythian 	thrasydaeus of thebes 	boys' short foot-race 	orestes, clytemnestra 	 (?) 	nemean (m) 	chromius of aetna 	chariot-race 	seven against thebes 	 / (?) 	isthmian & 	melissus of thebes 	chariot race & pancration 	 .none .heracles, antaeus 	 (?) 	nemean (m) 	timisarchus of aegina 	boys' wrestling match 	aeacids, peleus, thetis 	 	pythian 	hieron of aetna 	chariot-race 	typhon 	 (?) 	isthmian 	xenocrates of acragas 	chariot-race 	none 	 	olympian 	agesias of syracuse 	chariot-race with mules 	iamus 	 	olympian 	epharmus of opous 	wrestling-match 	deucalion, pyrrha 	 	olympian 	ergoteles of himera 	long foot-race 	fortune 	 (?) 	nemean 	alcimidas of aegina 	boys' wrestling match 	aeacides, achilles, memnon 	 	olympian 	diagoras of rhodes 	boxing-match 	tlepolemus 	 	olympian 	xenophon of corinth 	short foot-race & pentathlon 	bellerophon, pegasus 	 / 	pythian & 	arcesilas of cyrene 	chariot-race 	 .argonauts .battus 	 	olympian 	alcimidas of aegina 	boys' wrestling-match 	aeacus, troy 	 (?) 	nemean 	deinis of aegina 	foot-race 	ajax 	 (?) 	isthmian 	herodotus of thebes 	chariot-race 	castor, iolaus 	 or (?) 	olympian & 	psaumis of camarina 	chariot-race with mules 	 .erginus .none 	 (?) 	isthmian 	strepsiades of thebes 	pancration 	none 	 	pythian 	aristomenes of aegina 	wrestling-match 	amphiaraus 	 (?) 	nemean 	aristagoras of tenedos 	inauguration as prytanis 	none 	 (?) 	nemean 	theaius of argos 	wrestling-match 	castor, pollux manuscripts, shreds and quotes[edit] pindar's verses have come down to us in a variety of ways. some are only preserved as fragments via quotes by ancient sources and papyri unearthed by archeologists, as at oxyrhynchus – in fact the extant works of most of the other canonic lyric poets have survived only in this tattered form. pindar's extant verses are unique in that the bulk of them – the victory odes – have been preserved in a manuscript tradition, i.e., generations of scribes copying from earlier copies, possibly originating in a single archetypal copy and sometimes graphically demonstrated by modern scholars in the form of a stemma codicum, resembling a 'family tree'. pindar's victory odes are preserved in just two manuscripts, but incomplete collections are located in many others, and all date from the mediaeval period. some scholars have traced a stemma through these manuscripts, for example ulrich von wilamowitz-moellendorff, who inferred from them the existence of a common source or archetype dated no earlier than the nd century ad, while others, such as c.m. bowra, have argued that there are too many discrepancies between manuscripts to identify a specific lineage, even while accepting the existence of an archetype. otto schroeder identified two families of manuscripts but, following on the work of polish-born classicist, alexander turyn,[ ] bowra rejected this also.[ ] different scholars interpret the extant manuscripts differently. bowra for example singled out seven manuscripts as his primary sources (see below), all featuring errors and/or gaps due to loss of folios and careless copying, and one arguably characterized by the dubious interpolations of byzantine scholars. these he cross-referenced and then supplemented or verified by reference to other, still more doubtful manuscripts, and some papyrus fragments – a combination of sources on which he based his own edition of the odes and fragments. his general method of selection he defined as follows: where all the codices agree, there perhaps the true reading shines out. where however they differ, the preferred reading is that which best fits the sense, meter, scholia and grammatic conventions. wherever moreover two or more readings of equal weight are found in the codices, i have chosen that which smacks most of pindar. yet this difficulty rarely occurs, and in many places the true reading will be found if you examine and compare the language of the codices with that of other greek poets and especially of pindar himself.[ ] 				selected manuscripts – a sample of preferred sources (bowra's choice, ) 	code 	source 	format 	date 	comments 	a 	codex ambrosianus c inf. 	paper × .  cm 	 – th century 	comprises olympian odes – , with some unique readings that bowra considered reliable, and including scholia. 	b 	codex vaticanus graeca 	silk . × .  cm 	 th century 	comprises odes olympian to isthmian (entire corpus), but with some leaves and verses missing, and includes scholia; zacharias callierges based his roman edition on it, possibly with access to the now missing material. 	c 	codex parisinus graecus 	silk ×  cm 	 th century 	comprises odes olympian to pythian , including some unique readings but also with many byzantine interpolations/conjectures (turyn rejected this codex accordingly), and written in a careless hand. 	d 	codex laurentianus , 	silk ×  cm 	 th century 	comprises odes olympian to isthmian (entire corpus), including a fragment (frag. ) and scholia, written in a careless hand. 	e 	codex laurentianus , 	silk ×  cm 	 th century 	comprises odes olympian to pythian , largely in agreement with b, including scholia but with last page removed and replaced with paper in a later hand. 	g 	codex gottingensis philologus 	silk ×  cm 	 th century 	comprises odes olympian to pythian , largely in agreement with b (thus useful for comparisons), including olympian added in the th century. 	v 	codex parisinus graecus 	silk ×  cm 	 th century 	comprises odes olympian to nemean , including some verses from nemean ; like g, useful for supporting and verifying b. influence and legacy[edit] 	the influential alexandrian poet callimachus was fascinated by pindar's originality. his masterpiece aetia (callimachus)aetia included an elegy in honour of queen berenice, celebrating a chariot victory at the nemean games, composed in a style and presented in a manner that recall pindar.[ ] 	the hellenistic epic argonautica, by apollonius rhodius, was influenced by some aspects of pindar's style and his use of episodic vignettes in narrative. the epic concerns the adventures of jason, also touched on by pindar in pythian , and both poems link the myth to a greek audience in africa.[ ] 	there seems to have been a vogue for pindaric-style lyrics following the 'publication' of horace's odes –  – horace had mastered other styles such as sapphic and alcaeic, which had discouraged his contemporaries from attempting anything in the same form, but he had not composed anything in triadic stanzas in the manner of pindar.[ ] 	pindar was much read, quoted, and copied during the byzantine era. for example, christophoros mytilenaios of the th century parodied a chariot race in his sixth poem employing explicit allusions to pindar.[ ] 	during the th and th centuries, literary theorists in europe distinguished between two types of lyric poetry, loosely associated with horace and pindar. regular verses in four line stanzas were associated with horace's odes, which did in fact inspire and influence poets of the period. irregular verses in longer stanzas were termed pindarics though the association with pindar was largely fanciful. abraham cowley was considered the main exponent of english pindarics. in fact, the two styles were not always easy to distinguish and many 'pindaric' odes were quite horatian in content, as in some poems by thomas gray.[ ] 	a 'pindaric ode' was composed for the revived olympic games in athens by the oxford scholar george stuart robinson, and similar compositions were commissioned from and composed by classicist armand d'angour for the athens olympics in and the london olympics in . horace's tribute[edit] the latin poet, quintus horatius flaccus, was an admirer of pindar's style. he described it in one of his sapphic poems, addressed to a friend, iullus antonius: 	 	 	 pindarum quisquis studet aemulari, iule, ceratis ope daedalea nititur pennis vitreo daturus nomina ponto. monte decurrens velut amnis, imbres quem super notas aluere ripas, fervet immensusque ruit profundo pindarus ore. (c.iv.ii) 	 julus, whoever tries to rival pindar, flutters on wings of wax, a rude contriver doomed like the son of daedalus to christen somewhere a shining sea. a river bursts its banks and rushes down a mountain with uncontrollable momentum, rain-saturated, churning, chanting thunder – there you have pindar's style.[ ] bowra's tribute[edit] c. m. bowra, the leading pindaric scholar of his generation, and the editor of the o.u.p edition of his poems, summarized pindar's qualities in the following words: "his innate, unquestioning pride in his poetical mission means that he gives to it all his gifts and all his efforts. the result is a poetry that by any standards deserves the name because it is based on a radiant vision of reality and fashioned with so subtle, so adventurous, and so dedicated an art that it is worthy to be an earthly counterpart of the songs which pindar regards as the archetype of music on those lofty occasions when all discords are resolved and all misgivings obliterated by the power of the life-giving word."[ ] see also[edit] 	john wolcot notes[edit] 	^ pindar ( ) p. . the three lines here, and in bowra's greek, are actually two lines or stichoi in greek prosody. stichoi however are often too long to be preserved as single lines in published form, and they are then broken into metrical units, or cola, the break indicated by indentation. this practice is observed both in greek and in translations, but it is a modern convenience or preference and it has no historical authority: "...nullam habet apud codices auctoritatem neque veri simile est pindarum ita carmina manu propria conscripsisse." 	^ there are several other accounts of supernatural visitations relating to pindar (see for example c.m. bowra, pindar, pages - ). according to a scholium, he and a pupil, olympichus, once saw a mysterious flame on a mountain, attended by strange noises. pindar then beheld rhea, the mother of the gods, advancing in the form of a wooden image. pausanias ( . . ) reported that he set up a monument near his home, dedicated conjointly to pan and the mother of the gods (Δινδυμήνη). according to eustathius (proem. , p. . dr) and vit. ambr. (p. . dr.), pan was once heard between cithaeron and helicon singing a paean composed to him by pindar (fr. ). 	^ paean . - ). the eclipse is mentioned in a fragment quoted by stobaeus, addressed to the thebans: is it some sign of war you bring? / or blight on crops, or snow-fall's strength / beyond all telling, or murderous strife at home, / or emptying of the sea on land, / or frost binding the earth, or south-wind in summer / with a flood of furious rain, / or will you drown the land and raise / a new breed of men from the beginning? 	^ fr. : τί θεός; τὸ πάν 	^ chiron's compliment to apollo: "you, sire, who know / the appointed end of all, and all paths: / how many leaves in april the earth puts forth, / how many grains of sand / in the sea and rivers / are troubled by the waves and the swirling winds, / and what shall be, and whence it shall come / you see with clear eyes." 	^ nemean odes . – : i am shy of speaking of a huge risk / hazarded not in right, / how they left the famous island, / and what fate drove strong men from the vineland. / i shall halt. truth does not always / gain more if unflinching / she reveals her face; / and silence is often a man's wisest counsel. references[edit] 	^ the greek and roman critics: "the odes of pindar ( - b.c.), written for the most part to celebrate victories in athletic contests, are interspersed with moral and philosophical reflections" 	^ quintilian . . ; cf. pseudo-longinus . archived - - at the wayback machine. 	^ eupolis f kock, k/a, from athenaeus a, (deipnosophistae, epitome of book i) 	^ lawrence henry baker ( ). 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however, the itineraries to the graves of the roman martyrs do not mention him.[ ] his legend was later connected with tegernsee abbey in bavaria, where his relics had been translated in the eighth century, during the reign of king pippin and pope zacharias.[ ] however, quirinus' relics may have been translated instead during the papacy of pope paul i (term - ), around .[ ] veneration[edit] chapel of st quirinus, tegernsee his feast is celebrated on march . perhaps this quirinus is meant by the expression "romæ sancti cyri" found in the "martyrologium hieronymianum" of march (cf. "acta ss.", iii, march, sqq.; dufourcq "les gesta martyrum romains", i, ). quirinus' cult flourished from its center at tegernsee, and a larger stone church was built in to house his coffin. references[edit]  this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: herbermann, charles, ed. ( ). "sts. quirinus". catholic encyclopedia. new york: robert appleton company. 	^ a b c d e quirinus vom tegernsee 	^ catholic encyclopedia: sts. quirinus 	"den hellige quirinus av tegernsee (d. )". katolsk.no (in norwegian). february . retrieved august . external links[edit] 	catholic encyclopedia 	walter troxler ( ). 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for various purposes, and various banking models arose to serve different lending needs.[ ] contents 	 private finance 	 . pooling capital 	 . private loans 	 . deferred payment 	 public finance 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading private finance[edit] pooling capital[edit] before banks were established in rome there was little ability to mobilize large amounts of capital, leaving romans to operate within the constraints of the wealth of their households. when household wealth was exhausted, the elites in roman society would often extend loans amongst themselves.[ ] the value of these loans to the lender was not always derived from interest payments, but rather from the social obligations that were an implication of being a lender.[ ][ ] the formation of societas allowed for the utilization of pooled capital. societas were groups who could combine their resources to place a bid for a government contract and then share in the resulting profit or loss.[ ][ ] the publicani (public contractors) were an early incarnation of societas who would bid for the right to collect taxes from the roman provinces. senators were not allowed to engage in trade, so it fell to the knights (equites) to bid on these contracts issued by the censors every five years.[ ] banks were established in rome that modeled their greek counterparts and introduced formalized financial intermediation. livy is the first writer to acknowledge the rise of formal roman banks in bce.[ ] ancient roman banks operated under private law, which did not have clear guidance on how to decide cases concerning financial matters, which forced roman banks to operate entirely on their word and character. bankers congregated around the arch of janus to conduct their business and despite their informal location, were clearly professional in their dealings.[ ][ ] private loans[edit] up until the dawn of the empire, it was common for loans to be negotiated as oral contracts. in the early empire, lenders and borrowers began to adopt the usage of a chirographum (“handwritten record”) to record these contracts and use them for evidence of the agreed terms.[ ] one copy of the contract was presented on the exterior of the chirographum, while a second copy was kept sealed within two waxed tablets of the document in the presence of a witness.[ ][ ] informal methods of maintaining records of loans made and received existed, as well as formal incarnations adopted by frequent lenders. these serial lenders used a kalendarium to document the loans that they issued to assist in tabulating interest accrued at the beginning of each month (kalends).[ ] parties to contracts were supposed to be roman citizens, but there is evidence of this boundary being broken.[ ] loans to citizens were also originated from public or governmental positions. for example, the temple of apollo is believed to have engaged in secured loans with citizens’ homes being used as collateral.[ ] loans were more rarely extended to citizens from the government, as in the case of tiberius who allowed for three-year, interest-free loans to be issued to senators in order to avert a looming credit crisis.[ ] deferred payment[edit] there is sufficient evidence of deferred payments and financing arrangements to be negotiated for large purchases. deferred payments were used in the auction of wine or oil that was “on the tree” (not yet harvested or produced), requiring payment from the winning bidder long after the auction had ended. roman peasants who needed money to pay their taxes would use an inverted form of this process by selling the right to a portion of their harvest in the future in exchange for cash in the present.[ ] the sulpicii arose as professional bankers in the first century ad, and among other forms of financial intermediation, they offered financing for speculators in grain markets.[ ][ ] public finance[edit] for centuries the monetary affairs of the roman republic had rested in the hands of the senate. these elite liked to present themselves as steady and fiscally conservative, but as the th-century historian of rome wilhelm ihne remarked: though individually the romans were exceedingly economical and careful in the management of their private property, the state as such was extravagant and careless with the state revenue. it was found impossible to protect the public property from being plundered by private individuals, and the feeling of powerlessness resulted in reckless indifference. it was felt that revenues which could not be preserved intact and devoted to the common good were of no value to the state and might as well be abandoned.[ ] the aerarium (state treasury) was supervised by members of the government rising in power and prestige, the quaestors, praetors, and eventually the prefects. with the dawn of the roman empire, a major change took place, as the emperors assumed the reins of financial control. augustus adopted a system that was, on the surface, fair to the senate. just as the world was divided in provinces designated as imperial or senatorial, so was the treasury. all tribute brought in from senatorially controlled provinces was given to the aerarium, while that of the imperial territories went to the treasury of the emperor, the fiscus. initially, this process of distribution seemed to work, although the legal technicality did not disguise the supremacy of the emperor or his often used right to transfer funds back and forth regularly from the aerarium to the fiscus. the fiscus actually took shape after the reign of augustus and tiberius. it began as a private fund (fiscus meaning purse or basket) but grew to include all imperial monies, not only the private estates but also all public lands and finances under the imperial eye. the property of the rulers grew to such an extent that changes had to be made starting sometime in the rd century, most certainly under septimius severus. henceforth the imperial treasury was divided. the fiscus was retained to handle actual government revenue, while a patrimonium was created to hold the private fortune, the inheritance of the royal house. there is a considerable question as to the exact nature of this evaluation, involving possibly a res privata so common in the late empire. just as the senate had its own finance officers, so did the emperors. the head of the fiscus in the first years was the rationalis, originally a freedman due to augustus' desire to place the office in the hands of a servant free of the class demands of the traditional society. in succeeding years the corruption and reputation of the freedman forced new and more reliable administrators. from the time of hadrian ( - ), any rationalis hailed from the equestrian order (equites) and remained so through the chaos of the rd century and into the age of diocletian. with diocletian came a series of massive reforms, and total control over the finances of the empire fell to the now stronger central government. tax reforms made possible a real budget in the modern sense for the first time. previously it had issued the tax demands to the cities and allowed them to allocate the burden. from now on the imperial government driven by fiscal needs dictated the entire process down to the civic level. under constantine this aggrandizement continued with the emergence of an appointed minister of finance, the comes sacrarum largitionum (count of the sacred largesses). he maintained the general treasury and the intake of all revenue until constantine divided the treasury into three giving the prefect, count and the manager of the res privata their own treasuries. the treasury of the prefect was called the 'arca.' his powers were directed toward control of the new sacrum aerarium, the result of the combination of the aerarium and the fiscus. the comes sacrarum largitionum was a figure of tremendous influence. he was responsible for all money taxes, examined banks, ran the mints and mines everywhere, weaving mills and dye works, paid the salaries and expenses of many departments of the state, the upkeep of imperial palaces and other public buildings, supplied the courts with clothing and other items. to accomplish these many tasks, he was aided by a large central staff, a regional field force and small staffs in larger cities and towns. just below the comes sacrarum were the rationales, comptrollers, positioned in each diocese. they supervised the collection of all tribute, taxes, or fees. they were everywhere and omnipotent until constantine demoted them after his reorganization of the palatine level ministries' competencies in the years - by restricting their activity to supervision of the collection of taxes collected in gold and silver performed by the governors under the general supervision of the vicars. the rationales lost the last of their provincial field force of procurators between - . only the praetorian prefects were more powerful. his office, as vice-regent to the emperors, took precedence over all other civilian officials and military officers. they were chief finance officers of the empire. they composed the global budget and set the tax rates across the board. before constantine's reforms they were directly responsible for the supply of the army, the annona militaris which was a separate tax form the time of diocletian in place of arbitrary requsititions. the annona civilis, the general in kind taxes were turned over to the prefects alone. to their care was entrusted the supply of food stuffs to the capitals, the imperial armament factories, the maintenance of the state post. the magister officiorum who was a kind of minister of the interior and state security and the comes rerum privatarum could counter the political the comes sacrarum largitionum. the magister officiorum (master of offices) made all the major decisions concerning intelligence matters was not a fiscal officer and could not interfere with the operation of the sacrae largitiones and the res privata. the comes sacrarum largitionum gradually lost power to the prefects as more and more in kind taxes of his department were converted to gold. by the th century their diocesan level staff were no longer of much importance, although they continued in their duties. however the heads of the office continued to have power into the s in part because appellate jurisdiction in fiscal cases had been returned to them in . the imperial estates and holdings were huge. they res privata was directly under the management of the rp. the patromonium', or imperial inheritance were lands leased to indivivuals. both were under the jurisdiction of the comes rerum privatarum. in the west the rents and tax income was shared with the sacrae largitionum but not in the east. in the east the palace administration took over gradually post- and the rp was finally dissolved by justinian's successors. see also[edit] 	agentes in rebus 	comes 	congiarium 	donativum 	fiscus 	rationibus 	roman commerce 	roman economy 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( ): – . doi: . /s x . jstor  . 	^ temin, peter ( ). the roman market economy. princeton, new jersey: princeton university press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ scheidel, walter ( - - ). the cambridge companion to the roman economy. cambridge university press. p.  . isbn  . 	^ a b scheidel, walter ( - - ). the cambridge companion to the roman economy. cambridge university press. p.  . isbn  . 	^ wilhelm ihne ( ). the history of rome. longmans, green, and company. pp.  – . 	^ temin , p. 	^ temin , p. 	^ scheidel, walter ( ). cambridge companion to the roman economy. cambridge, uk: cambridge university press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ a b temin , p. 	^ scheidel, walter ( - - ). the cambridge companion to the roman economy. cambridge university press. pp.  – . isbn  . 	^ a b temin , p. 	^ temin , p. 	^ temin , p. 	^ temin , p. 	^ wilhelm ihne, the history of rome (london, ), vol. , p. , full text online. further reading[edit] 	jean andreau: banking and business in the roman world, translated by 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archaeological museum; silks came from the han dynasty of china along the silk road, a valuable trade commodity in the roman world, whereas roman glasswares made their way to han china via land and sea.[ ] the commerce of the roman empire was a major sector of the roman economy during the early republic and throughout most of the imperial period. fashions and trends in historiography and in popular culture have tended to neglect the economic basis of the empire in favor of the lingua franca of latin and the exploits of the roman legions. the language and the legions were supported by trade while being at the same time part of its backbone. romans were businessmen and the longevity of their empire was due to their commercial trade. whereas in theory members of the roman senate and their sons were restricted when engaging in trade,[ ] the members of the equestrian order were involved in businesses, despite their upper class values that laid the emphasis on military pursuits and leisure activities. plebeians and freedmen held shop or manned stalls at markets, while vast quantities of slaves did most of the hard work. the slaves were themselves also the subject of commercial transactions. probably due to their high proportion in society (compared to that in classical greece), and the reality of runaways; as well as, the servile wars and minor uprisings, they gave a distinct flavor to roman commerce. the intricate, complex, and extensive accounting of roman trade was conducted with counting boards and the roman abacus. the abacus, using roman numerals, was ideally suited to the counting of roman currency and tallying of roman measures. contents 	 negotiatores, mercatores and pedlars 	 commercial infrastructure 	 . land routes 	 . sea routes 	 . standard weights and measures 	 contacts with india and china 	 . india 	 . china 	 commerce and religion 	 the elite and a dual mentality on trade 	 commercial classes 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links negotiatores, mercatores and pedlars[edit] roman -wheeled wagon the negotiatores were in part bankers because they lent money on interest. they also bought and sold staples in bulk or did commerce in wholesale quantities of goods. the argentarii acted as agents in public or private auctions, kept deposits of money for individuals, cashed cheques (prescriptiones) and served as moneychangers. they kept strict books, or tabulae, which were considered as legal proof by the courts. in some instances the argentarii are considered as a subset of the negotiatores and in others as a group apart. the argentarii sometimes did the same kind of work as the mensarii, who were public bankers appointed by the state. the mercatores were usually plebeians or freedmen. they were present in all the open-air markets or covered shops, manning stalls or hawking goods by the side of the road. they were also present near roman military camps during campaigns, where they sold food and clothing to the soldiers and paid cash for any booty coming from military activities. there is some information on the economy of roman palestine from jewish sources of around the rd century ad. itinerant pedlars (rochel) took spices and perfumes to the rural population.[ ] this suggests that the economic benefits of the empire did reach, at least, the upper levels of the peasantry. commercial infrastructure[edit] further information: roman economy principal roman trade routes, internal and external in ad the forum cuppedinis in ancient rome was a market which offered general goods. at least four other large markets specialized in specific goods such as cattle, wine, fish and herbs and vegetables, but the roman forum drew the bulk of the traffic. all new cities, like timgad, were laid out according to an orthogonal grid plan which facilitated transportation and commerce. the cities were connected by good roads. navigable rivers were extensively used and some canals were dug but neither leave such clear archaeology as roads and consequently they tend to be underestimated. maintaining peace was a major factor in the expansion of trade. all settlements, especially the smaller ones, could be located in economically rational positions. before and after the roman empire, hilltop defensive positions were preferred for small settlements and piracy made coastal settlement particularly hazardous for all but the largest cities. river vessel carrying barrels, assumed to be wine by the st century, the provinces of the roman empire were trading huge volumes of commodities to one another by sea routes. there was an increasing tendency for specialization, particularly in manufacturing, agriculture and mining. some provinces specialized in producing certain types of goods, such as grain in egypt and north africa and wine and olive oil in italy, hispania, and greece. knowledge of the roman economy is extremely patchy. the vast bulk of traded goods, being agricultural, normally leave no direct remains. very exceptionally, as at berenice, there is evidence of long distance trade in pepper, almonds, hazelnuts, stone pine cones, walnuts, coconuts, apricots and peaches besides the more expected figs, raisins and dates (cappers). the wine, olive oil and garum (fermented fish sauce) trades were exceptional in leaving amphorae behind. there is a single reference of the syrian export of kipi stiff quince jam or marmalade to rome.[ ][ ] land routes[edit] see also: sino-roman relations even before the republic, the roman kingdom was engaged in regular commerce using the river tiber. before the punic wars completely changed the nature of commerce in the mediterranean, the roman republic had important commercial exchanges with carthage. it entered into several commercial and political agreements with its rival city in addition to engaging in simple retail trading. the roman empire traded with the chinese (via parthian and other intermediaries) over the silk road. sea routes[edit] further information: indo-roman trade relations maritime archeology and ancient manuscripts from classical antiquity show evidence of vast roman commercial fleets. the most substantial remains from this commerce are the infrastructure remains of harbors, moles, warehouses and lighthouses at ports such as civitavecchia, ostia, portus, leptis magna and caesarea maritima. at rome itself, monte testaccio is a tribute to the scale of this commerce. as with most roman technology, the roman seagoing commercial ships had no significant advances over greek ships of the previous centuries, though the lead sheeting of hulls for protection seems to have been more common. the romans used round hulled sailing ships. continuous mediterranean "police" protection over several centuries was one of the main factors of success of roman commerce, given that roman roads were designed more for feet or hooves--with most land trade moving by pack mule--than for wheels, and could not support the economical transport of goods over long distances. the roman ships used would have been easy prey for pirates had it not been for the fleets of liburna galleys and triremes of the roman navy. a small coaster bulky, low-value commodities, like grain and construction materials, were traded only by sea routes, since the cost of sea transportation was times lower than land.[ ] staple goods and commodities like cereals for making bread and papyrus scrolls for book production were imported from ptolemaic egypt to italy in a continuous fashion. the trade over the indian ocean blossomed in the st and nd century ad. the sailors made use of the monsoon to cross the ocean from the ports of berenice, leukos limen[ ] and myos hormos on the red sea coast of roman egypt to the ports of muziris and nelkynda in the malabar coast. the main trading partners in southern india were the tamil dynasties of the pandyas, cholas and cheras. many roman artifacts have been found in india; for example, at the archaeological site of arikamedu, in puducherry. meticulous descriptions of the ports and items of trade around the indian ocean can be found in the greek work periplus of the erythraean sea (see article on indo-roman trade). standard weights and measures[edit] main article: ancient roman units of measurement a standard amphora, the amphora capitolina, was kept in the temple of jupiter on the capitoline hill in rome, so that others could be compared to it. the roman system of measurement was built on the greek system with egyptian influences. much of it was based on weight. the roman units were accurate and well documented. distances were measured, and systematically inscribed on stone by agents of the government. a fairly standard and fairly stable and abundant currency, at least up to circa ad, did much to facilitate trade. (egypt had its own currency in this period and some provincial cities also issued their own coins.) contacts with india and china[edit] alexander the great had conquered as far as india, and the roman god bacchus was also said to have journeyed there. the far east, like sub-saharan africa, was a mysterious land to the romans. india[edit] main article: roman trade with india gold coin of claudius ( - ce) excavated in south india. there was an indian in augustus's retinue (plut. alex. . ), and he received embassies from india (res gestae, ); one which met him in spain in bc, and one at samos in bc. the trade over the indian ocean blossomed in the st and nd century ad. the sailors made use of the monsoon to cross the ocean from the ports of berenice, leulos limen and myos hormos on the red sea coast of roman egypt to the ports of muziris and nelkynda in malabar coast[ ] and.[ ] the main trading partners in southern india were the tamil dynasties of the pandyas, cholas and cheras. meticulous descriptions of the ports and items of trade around the indian ocean can be found in the greek periplus of the erythraean sea. in latin texts, the term indians (indi) designated all asians, indian and beyond. the main articles imported from india were spices such as pepper, cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, sandal wood and gems such as pearls, rubies, diamonds, emeralds and ivory. in exchange the romans traded silver and gold. hoards of roman coins have been found in southern india during the history of roman-india trade. roman objects have been found in india in the seaside port city of arikamedu, which was one of the trade centers.[ ] pomponius mela argued for the existence of northeast passage through the northward strait out of the caspian sea (which in antiquity was usually thought to be open to oceanus in the north). [ ] china[edit] see also: romano-chinese relations, roman glass, and smuggling of silkworm eggs into the byzantine empire left image: a roman gilded silver plate with a relief image of dionysus, dated nd- rd century ad and originally made in the eastern mediterranean, found at an archaeological site in jingyuan county, gansu, china[ ] right image: bronze coin of constantius ii ( – ), found in karghalik, modern china green roman glass cup unearthed from an eastern han dynasty ( - ad) tomb, guangxi, china; the first roman glassware discovered in china, dated early st century bc, was excavated from a western han tomb in the southern port city of guangzhou, most likely arriving via the indian ocean and south china sea.[ ] there is suggestive archaeological evidence that roman traders were present in southeast asia, which was roughly mapped out by ptolemy in his geography where he labelled the land bordering the magnus sinus (i.e. the gulf of thailand and south china sea) as the sinae.[ ] their port city of "cattigara", lying beyond the golden chersonese (malay peninsula) where a greek sailor named alexander allegedly visited, was quite possibly the ancient settlement at oc eo, vietnam, where roman artefacts from the antonine period such as medallions from the reigns of antoninus pius (r. - ) and marcus aurelius (r. - ) have been found.[ ] an event recorded in the chinese weilue and book of later han for the year seems directly connected to this activity, since these texts claim that an embassy from "daqin" (i.e. the roman empire) sent by their ruler "an dun" (chinese: 安敦; i.e. either antoninus pius or marcus aurelius antoninus) landed in the southern province of jiaozhi (i.e. northern vietnam) and presented tributary gifts to the chinese ruler emperor huan of han.[ ] rafe de crespigny and warwick ball contend that these were most likely roman merchants, not official diplomats sent by marcus aurelius (given the absence of this event in roman sources).[ ][ ] despite two other roman embassies recorded in chinese sources for the rd century and several more by the later byzantine empire (chinese: 拂菻; pinyin: fú lǐn),[ ][ ] only sixteen roman coins from the reigns of tiberius (r. - ad) to aurelian (r. - ad) have been found in china at xi'an that predate the greater amount of eastern roman (i.e. byzantine) coins from the th century onwards.[ ][ ] yet this is also dwarfed by the amount of roman coins found in india, which would suggest that this was the region where the romans purchased most of their chinese silk.[ ] for that matter, the spice trade remained more important to the roman economy than the silk one.[ ] from the rd century a chinese text, the weilüe, describes the products of the roman empire and the routes to it.[ ] commerce and religion[edit] mercury, who was originally only the god of the mercatores and the grain trade[citation needed] eventually became the god of all who were involved in commercial activities. on the mercuralia on may , a roman merchant would do the proper rituals of devotion to mercury and beseech the god to remove from him and from his belongings the guilt coming from all the cheating he had done to his customers and suppliers. the elite and a dual mentality on trade[edit] while livy makes reference to the lex claudia ( bc) restricting senators and sons of senators from owning a ship with greater than amphorae capacity (about seven tons), they were still undoubtedly partaking in trade as cicero mentions this law when attacking verres, although he makes no move to charge him.[ ] senators were still allowed to own and make use of ships under the size restriction, cato when advising where to build a farm specifically mentions to have it built near an accessible river, road or port to allow transport of goods[ ] which is in direct conflict to livy’s assertion that all profit made through trade by a senator was dishonorable.[ ] senators often utilized free and enslaved agents as a loophole to legal restrictions, thereby allowing themselves to diversify their sources of income.[ ] that is not to say that the acquisition of wealth was not to be desired, pliny notes that a roman man should by honorable means acquire a large fortune[ ] and polybius draws a comparison between the attitudes of carthage and rome towards profit from trade.[ ] thus starts the confusion in the role of the elite in trade as terrence writes that there is nothing wrong with large scale trade, it is in fact completely honorable and legitimate to import large quantities of product from around the world especially if it happens to lead to a successful trader buying land and investing in roman agriculture; what is dishonorable is trade on a small scale.[ ] small trade is again shown as vulgar by tacitus as he describes the involvement of sempronius gracchus in petty trade.[ ] cato himself was involved with trade, although he himself cautioned against it as it was a risky occupation,[ ] perhaps this was part of the reasoning to keep senators excluded from the trade business, as if they had a severe misfortune with trading they could fall below the financial threshold of being a senator, whereas comparatively land owning was a far safer investment. plutarch describes cato’s involvement in trade in great detail, depicting how he would use a proxy (a freedman by the name of quintio) to run his business through a group of fifty other men.[ ] the restriction on senators trading was itself passed initially through the tribune of the plebeians, a class of people who the restrictions would not apply to. it is suspected that this reform could have been the equites and other wealthy merchants trying to muscle the senators out from the rapidly expanding trade business. commercial classes[edit] the majority of the people of the roman empire were living in rural areas, with a small part of the population engaged in commerce being much poorer than the elite. the industrial output was quite low, due to the fact that the poor majority could not pay for the products. technological advance was hampered by this fact. urbanization in the western part of the empire was also limited. slaves accounting for most of the means of industrial output, rather than technology.[ ] see also[edit] 	roman britain: trade 	roman currency 	roman finance 	roman glass references[edit] 	^ an, jiayao. ( ), "when glass was treasured in china," in annette l. juliano and judith a. lerner (eds), silk road studies vii: nomads, traders, and holy men along china's silk road, – , turnhout: brepols publishers, isbn  , pp - . 	^ livy, the history of rome . [dead link] 	^ safrai, ze'ev ( ). the economy of roman palestine. london: routledge. p.  . isbn  . 	^ grant, mark ( ). galen on food and diet. london: routledge. p.  . isbn  . 	^ cappers, r. t. j. ( ). foodprints at berenike: archaeobotanical evidence of subsistence and trade in the eastern desert of egypt. monograph. . los angeles: cotsen institute of archaeology ucla. isbn  . 	^ hopkins, keith ( ). sociological studies in roman history. cambridge university press. p.  . isbn  . 	^ young, gary k. - "rome's eastern trade: international commerce and imperial policy bc - ad " - ed. routledge, ( ) isbn  , p. - 	^ "radio - unearthing mysteries". bbc. retrieved - - . 	^ "south asia | search for india's ancient city". bbc news. - - . retrieved - - . 	^ haywood, john ( ). historical atlas of the classical world, bc–ad . barnes & noble books. p.  . isbn  - - -x. arikamedu was a trading port in the st century ad: many roman artifacts have been excavated there. 	^ book iii, chapter archived - - at the wayback machine, copied by pliny the elder. 	^ harper, p.o. ( ), "iranian luxury vessels in china from the late first millennium b.c.e. to the second half of the first millennium c.e.," in annette l. juliano and judith a. lerner (eds), silk road studies vii: nomads, traders, and holy men along china's silk road, – , turnhout: brepols publishers, isbn  , pp - . 	^ an, jiayao. ( ), "when glass was treasured in china," in annette l. juliano and judith a. lerner (eds), silk road studies vii: nomads, traders, and holy men along china's silk road, – , turnhout: brepols publishers, isbn  , p. . 	^ raoul mclaughlin ( ), rome and the distant east: trade routes to the ancient lands of arabia, india, and china, london & new york: continuum, isbn  , pp - . 	^ gary k. young ( ), rome's eastern trade: international commerce and imperial policy, bc - ad , london & new york: routledge, isbn  - - - , p. . 	^ a b friedrich hirth ( ) [ ]. jerome s. arkenberg (ed.). "east asian history sourcebook: chinese accounts of rome, byzantium and the middle east, c. b.c.e. - c.e." fordham.edu. fordham university. retrieved - - . 	^ de crespigny, rafe ( ), a biographical dictionary of later han to the three kingdoms ( - ad), leiden: koninklijke brill, isbn  - - - - , p. , 	^ a b warwick ball ( ), rome in the east: transformation of an empire, nd edition, london & new york: routledge, isbn  - - - - , p. . 	^ a b warwick ball ( ), rome in the east: transformation of an empire, nd edition, london & new york: routledge, isbn  - - - - , p. . 	^ the following source, although printed in , is outdated compared to ball ( : ) in regards to the principate-era coins found at xi'an: valerie hansen ( ), the silk road: a new history, oxford: oxford university press, pp - , isbn  - - - - . 	^ warwick ball ( ), rome in the east: transformation of an empire, nd edition, london & new york: routledge, isbn  - - - - , pp , . 	^ "weilue: the peoples of the west". depts.washington.edu. - - . retrieved - - . 	^ ii verr.v 	^ cato de.agr . 	^ . . - 	^ john h. d’arms, commerce and social standing in ancient rome, harvard university press, , chapter 	^ pliny nh . 	^ . . - ) 	^ terrence 	^ tacitus annas . . 	^ de.agr. praefatio 	^ plutarch cato the elder . ff 	^ haywood, john ( ). historical atlas of the classical world, bc–ad . barnes & noble books. p.  . isbn  - - -x. the empire's commercial classes remained small and enjoyed neither wealth nor the status of the landowning aristocracy...most production in the empire was small scale and under-capitalized, the rich preferring to invest in land. it is in any case doubtful, in view of the poverty of most of the empire's population, whether the markets existed to support a greater degree of industrial production. this is probably one of the factors behind the surprising lack of technological innovation in the empire...the ready availability of cheap slave labor may also have deterred investment in expensive machinery....but most of the west was too poor and under-populated to support this level of urbanization and towns remained primarily administrative or military centers. further reading[edit] 	bowman, alan k., and andrew wilson. quantifying the roman economy: methods and problems. oxford: oxford university press, . 	callataÿ, françois de. quantifying the greco-roman economy and beyond. bari: edipuglia, . 	duncan-jones, richard. structure and scale in the roman economy. cambridge: cambridge university press, . 	garnsey, peter, and richard p. saller. the roman empire: economy, society and culture. nd edition. oakland, ca: university of california press, . 	greene, kevin. the archaeology of the roman economy. berkeley: university of california press, . 	jones, a. h. m. the roman economy: studies in ancient economic and administrative history. oxford: blackwell, . 	lewit, tamara. agricultural production in the roman economy, a.d. - . oxford: tempus reparatum, . 	peacock, d. p. s., and d. f. williams. amphorae and the roman economy: an introductory guide. london: longman, . 	russell, ben. the economics of the roman stone trade. st edition. new york: oxford university press, . 	scheidel, walter. the cambridge companion to the roman economy. cambridge: cambridge university press, . 	scheidel, walter, richard p. saller, and ian morris. the cambridge economic history of the greco-roman world. cambridge: cambridge university press, . 	temin, peter. the roman market economy. princeton: princeton university press, . 	tomber, r. indo-roman trade: from pots to pepper. london: duckworth, . 	vrba, eric michael. ancient german identity in the shadow of the roman empire: the impact of roman trade and contact along the middle danube frontier, bc - ad . oxford: archaeopress, . external links[edit] 	library resources about roman commerce 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	the romano-british amphora trade to a.d. an overview 	ancient 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free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 reconstruction of a .  m (  ft) high roman polyspastos in germany the ancient romans were famous for their advanced engineering accomplishments. technology for bringing running water into cities was developed in the east, but transformed by the romans into a technology inconceivable in greece. the architecture used in rome was strongly influenced by greek and etruscan sources. roads were common at that time, but the romans improved their design and perfected the construction to the extent that many of their roads are still in use today. their accomplishments surpassed most other civilizations of their time, and after their time, and many of their structures have withstood the test of time to inspire others, especially during the renaissance. moreover, their contributions were described in some detail by authors such as and pliny the elder, so there is a printed record of their many inventions and achievements. contents 	 aqueducts 	 bridges 	 dams 	 architecture 	 materials 	 roads 	 mining 	 military engineering 	 power technology 	 see also 	 references 	 bibliography 	 further reading aqueducts[edit] main article: roman aqueduct aqueduct of segovia, spain. , cubic metres ( ,  us gal) of water were brought into rome by different aqueducts each day. per capita water usage in ancient rome matched that of modern-day cities like new york city or modern rome. most water was for public use, such as baths and sewers. de aquaeductu is the definitive two volume treatise on st century aqueducts of rome, written by frontinus. the aqueducts could stretch from –  km ( –  mi) long, and typically descended from an elevation of  m ( ,  ft) above sea level at the source, to  m (  ft) when they reached the reservoirs around the city. roman engineers used inverted siphons to move water across a valley if they judged it impractical to build a raised aqueduct. the roman legions were largely responsible for building the aqueducts. maintenance was often done by slaves.[ ] the romans were among the first civilizations to harness the power of water. they built some of the first watermills outside of greece for grinding flour and spread the technology for constructing watermills throughout the mediterranean region. a famous example occurs at barbegal in southern france, where no fewer than overshot mills built into the side of a hill were worked by a single aqueduct, the outlet from one feeding the mill below in a cascade. they were also skilled in mining, building aqueducts needed to supply equipment used in extracting metal ores, e.g. hydraulic mining, and the building of reservoirs to hold the water needed at the minehead. it is known that they were also capable of building and operating mining equipment such as crushing mills and dewatering machines. large diameter vertical wheels of roman vintage, for raising water, have been excavated from the rio tinto mines in southwestern spain. they were closely involved in exploiting gold resources such as those at dolaucothi in south west wales and in north-west spain, a country where gold mining developed on a very large scale in the early part of the first century ad, such as at las medulas. bridges[edit] alcántara bridge, spain main article: roman bridge roman bridges were among the first large and lasting bridges ever built. they were built with stone, employing the arch as basic structure. most utilized concrete as well. built in bc, the pons aemilius, later named ponte rotto (broken bridge) is the oldest roman stone bridge in rome, italy. the biggest roman bridge was trajan's bridge over the lower danube, constructed by apollodorus of damascus, which remained for over a millennium; the longest bridge to have been built both in terms of overall and span length. they were normally at least meters above the body of water. an example of temporary military bridge construction is the two caesar's rhine bridges. dams[edit] the romans built many dams for water collection, such as the subiaco dams, two of which fed anio novus, the largest aqueduct supplying rome. one of the subiaco dams was reputedly the highest ever found or inferred. they built dams in spain, such as those at mérida, and many more are known across the empire. at one site, montefurado in galicia, they appear to have built a dam across the river sil to expose alluvial gold deposits in the bed of the river. the site is near the spectacular roman gold mine of las medulas. several earthen dams are known from britain, including a well-preserved example from roman lanchester, longovicium, where it may have been used in industrial-scale smithing or smelting, judging by the piles of slag found at this site in northern england. tanks for holding water are also common along aqueduct systems, and numerous examples are known from just one site, the gold mines at dolaucothi in west wales. masonry dams were common in north africa for providing a reliable water supply from the wadis behind many settlements. architecture[edit] the colosseum in rome. main article: roman architecture the buildings and architecture of ancient rome was impressive even by modern standards. the circus maximus, for example, was large enough to be used as a stadium. the colosseum also provides an example of roman architecture at its finest. one of many stadiums built by the romans, the colosseum exhibits the arches and curves commonly associated with roman buildings. the pantheon in rome still stands a monument and tomb, and the baths of diocletian and the baths of caracalla are remarkable for their state of preservation, the former still possessing intact domes. such massive public buildings were copied in numerous provincial capitals and towns across the empire, and the general principles behind their design and construction are described by vitruvius writing at the turn of millennium in his monumental work de architectura. the technology developed for the baths was especially impressive, especially the widespread use of the hypocaust for one of the first types of central heating developed anywhere. that invention was used not just in the large public buildings, but spread to domestic buildings such as the many villas which were built across the empire. materials[edit] the most common materials used were brick, stone or masonry, cement, concrete and marble. brick came in many different shapes. curved bricks were used to build columns, and triangular bricks were used to build walls. marble was mainly a decorative material. augustus caesar once boasted that he had turned rome from a city of bricks to a city of marble. the romans had originally brought marble over from greece, but later found their own quarries in northern italy. cement was made of hydrated lime (calcium oxide) mixed with sand and water. the romans discovered that substituting or supplementing the sand with a pozzolanic additive, such as volcanic ash, would produce a very hard cement, known as hydraulic mortar or hydraulic cement. they used it widely in structures such as buildings, public baths and aqueducts, ensuring their survival into the modern era. roads[edit] diagram of roman road construction [ ] main article: roman roads roman roads were constructed to be immune to floods and other environmental hazards. some roads built by the romans are still in use today. there were several variations on a standard roman road. most of the higher quality roads were composed of five layers. the bottom layer, called pavimentum, was one inch thick and made of mortar. above this were four strata of masonry. the layer directly above the pavimentum was called the statumen. it was one foot thick, and was made of stones bound together by cement or clay. above that, there were the rudens, which were made of ten inches of rammed concrete. the next layer, the nucleus, was made of twelve to eighteen inches of successively laid and rolled layers of concrete. summa crusta of silex or lava polygonal slabs, one to three feet in diameter and eight to twelve inches thick, were laid on top of the rudens. the final upper surface was made of concrete or well smoothed and fitted flint. generally, when a road encountered an obstacle, the romans preferred to engineer a solution to the obstacle rather than redirecting the road around it: bridges were constructed over all sizes of waterway; marshy ground was handled by the construction of raised causeways with firm foundations; hills and outcroppings were frequently cut or tunneled through rather than avoided (the tunnels were made with square hard rock block). mining[edit] drainage wheel from rio tinto mines. the romans were the first to exploit mineral deposits using advanced technology, especially the use of aqueducts to bring water from great distances to help operations at the pithead. their technology is most visible at sites in britain such as dolaucothi where they exploited gold deposits with at least long aqueducts tapping adjacent rivers and streams. they used the water to prospect for ore by unleashing a wave of water from a tank to scour away the soil and so reveal the bedrock with any veins exposed to sight. they used the same method (known as hushing) to remove waste rock, and then to quench hot rocks weakened by fire-setting. such methods could be very effective in opencast mining, but fire-setting was very dangerous when used in underground workings. they were made redundant with the introduction of explosives, although hydraulic mining is still used on alluvial tin ores. they were also used to produce a controlled supply to wash the crushed ore. it is highly likely that they also developed water-powered stamp mills to crush hard ore, which could be washed to collect the heavy gold dust. at alluvial mines, they applied their hydraulic mining methods on a vast scale, such as las medulas in north-west spain. traces of tanks and aqueducts can be found at many other early roman mines. the methods are described in great detail by pliny the elder in his naturalis historia. he also described deep mining underground, and mentions the need to dewater the workings using reverse overshot water-wheels, and actual examples have been found in many roman mines exposed during later mining attempts. the copper mines at rio tinto were one source of such artifacts, where a set of was found in the s. they also used archimedean screws to remove water in a similar way. military engineering[edit] main article: roman military engineering engineering was also institutionally ingrained in the roman military, who constructed forts, camps, bridges, roads, ramps, palisades, and siege equipment amongst others. one of the most notable examples of military bridge-building in the roman republic was julius caesar's bridge over the rhine river. this bridge was completed in only ten days by a dedicated team of engineers. their exploits in the dacian wars under trajan in the early nd century ad are recorded on trajan's column in rome. the army was also closely involved in gold mining and probably built the extensive complex of leats and cisterns at the roman gold mine of dolaucothi in wales shortly after conquest of the region in ad. power technology[edit] arles aqueduct mills below aqueduct water wheel technology was developed to a high level during the roman period, a fact attested both by vitruvius (in de architectura) and by pliny the elder (in naturalis historia). the largest complex of water wheels existed at barbegal near arles, where the site was fed by a channel from the main aqueduct feeding the town. it is estimated that the site comprised separate overshot water wheels arranged in two parallel lines down the hillside. the outflow from one wheel became the input to the next one down in the sequence. twelve kilometers north of arles, at barbegal, near fontvieille, where the aqueduct arrived at a steep hill, the aqueduct fed a series of parallel water wheels to power a flourmill. there are two aqueducts which join just north of the mill complex, and a sluice which enabled the operators to control the water supply to the complex. there are substantial masonry remains of the water channels and foundations of the individual mills, together with a staircase rising up the hill upon which the mills are built. the mills apparently operated from the end of the st century until about the end of the rd century.[ ] the capacity of the mills has been estimated at . tons of flour per day, sufficient to supply enough bread for the , inhabitants occupying the town of arelate at that time.[ ] scheme of the water-driven roman sawmill at hierapolis, asia minor. the hierapolis sawmill was a roman water-powered stone saw mill at hierapolis, asia minor (modern-day turkey). dating to the second half of the rd century ad,[ ] the sawmill is the earliest known machine to combine a crank with a connecting rod.[ ] the watermill is shown on a raised relief on the sarcophagus of marcus aurelius ammianos, a local miller. a waterwheel fed by a mill race is shown powering two frame saws via a gear train cutting rectangular blocks.[ ] further crank and connecting rod mechanisms, without gear train, are archaeologically attested for the th century ad water-powered stone sawmills at gerasa, jordan, and ephesus, turkey.[ ] literary references to water-powered marble saws in trier, now germany, can be found in ausonius' late th century ad poem mosella. they attest a diversified use of water-power in many parts of the roman empire.[ ] a complex of mills also existed on the janiculum in rome fed by the aqua traiana. the aurelian walls were carried up the hill apparently to include the water mills used to grind grain towards providing bread flour for the city. the mill was thus probably built at the same time as or before the walls were built by the emperor aurelian (reigned – ad). the mills were supplied from an aqueduct, where it plunged down a steep hill.[ ] the site thus resembles barbegal, although excavations in the late s suggest that they may have been undershot rather than overshot in design. the mills were in use in ad when the goths besieging the city cut off their water supply. however they were subsequently restored and may have remained in operation until at least the time of pope gregory iv ( – ).[ ] many other sites are reported from across the roman empire, although many remain unexcavated. see also[edit] 	de architectura 	de aquaeductu 	frontinus 	list of roman watermills 	naturalis historia 	pliny the elder 	roman agriculture 	roman aqueducts 	roman metallurgy 	roman mining 	roman technology 	vitruvius references[edit] 	^ vinati, simona and piaggi, marco de. “roman aqueducts, aqueducts in rome.” rome.info. web. / / 	^ duruy, victor, and j. p. mahaffy. history of rome and the roman people: from its origin to the establishment of the christian empire. london: k. paul, trench & co, . page 	^ ville d'histoire et de patrimonie archived - - at the wayback machine 	^ la meunerie de barbegal 	^ ritti, grewe & kessener , p.  	^ ritti, grewe & kessener , p.  	^ ritti, grewe & kessener , pp.  – 	^ ritti, grewe & kessener , pp.  – 	^ wilson , p.  harvnb error: no target: citerefwilson (help) 	^ Örjan wikander, 'water-mills in ancient rome' opuscula romana xii ( ), – . 	^ Örjan wikander, 'water-mills in ancient rome' opuscula romana xii ( ), – . bibliography[edit] 	davies, oliver ( ). roman mines in europe. oxford. 	healy, a.f. ( ). pliny the elder on science and technology. oxford: clarendon. 	hodge, t. ( ). roman aqueducts and water supply ( nd ed.). duckworth. 	ritti, tullia; grewe, klaus; kessener, paul ( ), "a relief of a water-powered stone saw mill on a sarcophagus at hierapolis and its implications", journal of roman archaeology, : – 	smith, norman ( ). a history of dams. citadel press. further reading[edit] 	library resources about roman engineering 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	cuomo, serafina. . "ancient written sources for engineering and technology." in the oxford handbook of engineering and technology in the classical world. edited by john p. oleson, – . new york: oxford univ. press. 	greene, kevin. . "archaeology and technology." in a companion to archaeology. edited by john l. bintliff, – . oxford: blackwell. 	humphrey, john w. . ancient technology. westport, ct: greenwood. 	mcneil, ian, ed. . an encyclopedia of the history of technology. london: routledge. 	oleson, john p., ed. . the oxford handbook of engineering and technology in the classical world. new york: oxford univ. press. 	rihll, tracey e. . technology and society in the ancient greek and roman worlds. washington, dc: american historical society. 	white, kenneth d. . greek and roman technology. ithaca, ny: cornell univ. press. 		v 	t 	e ancient rome topics 	 	outline 	timeline 	history	 	 	foundation 	kingdom 	overthrow 	republic 	empire	 	history 	pax romana 	principate 	dominate 	western empire 	fall 	historiography of the fall 	byzantine empire 	decline 	fall 	constitution	 	history 	kingdom 	republic 	empire 	late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	curiate 	centuriate 	tribal 	plebeian 	executive magistrates 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using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 procopius - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	procopius 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		this article is about the historian and author of the secret history. for other uses, see procopius (disambiguation). 	procopius of caesarea 	born	c. ad caesarea, palaestina prima (eastern roman empire) 	died	c. ad 	occupation	barrister and legal adviser 	subject	secular history 	notable works	 	history of the wars 	buildings 	secret history procopius of caesarea (greek: Προκόπιος ὁ Καισαρεύς prokópios ho kaisareús; latin: procopius caesariensis; c.   – c. after ) was a prominent late antique byzantine scholar from palaestina prima.[a] accompanying the byzantine general belisarius in emperor justinian's wars, procopius became the principal byzantine historian of the th century, writing the history of the wars, the buildings, and the secret history. he is commonly classified as the last major historian of the ancient western world. contents 	 life 	 writings 	 . history of the wars 	 . secret history 	 . the buildings 	 style 	 legacy 	 list of selected works 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links 	 . texts of procopius 	 . secondary material life[edit] apart from his own writings, the main source for procopius's life was an entry in the suda,[ ] a byzantine greek encyclopaedia written sometime after , which discusses his early life. he was a native of caesarea in the province of palaestina prima.[ ] he would have received a conventional elite education in the greek classics and rhetoric,[ ] perhaps at the famous school at gaza.[ ] he may have attended law school, possibly at berytus (present-day beirut) or constantinople (now istanbul),[ ][b] and became a lawyer (rhetor).[ ] he evidently knew latin, as was natural for a man with legal training.[c] in , the first year of the reign of the emperor justinian i, he became the legal adviser (adsessor) for belisarius, a general whom justinian made his chief military commander in a great attempt to restore control over the lost western provinces of the empire.[d] procopius was with belisarius on the eastern front until the latter was defeated at the battle of callinicum in [ ] and recalled to constantinople.[ ] procopius witnessed the nika riots of january, , which belisarius and his fellow general mundus repressed with a massacre in the hippodrome.[ ] in , he accompanied belisarius on his victorious expedition against the vandal kingdom in north africa, took part in the capture of carthage, and remained in africa with belisarius's successor solomon the eunuch when belisarius returned east to the capital. procopius recorded a few of the extreme weather events of – , although these were presented as a backdrop to byzantine military activities, such as a mutiny in and around carthage.[ ][e] he rejoined belisarius for his campaign against the ostrogothic kingdom in italy and experienced the gothic siege of rome that lasted a year and nine days, ending in mid-march . he witnessed belisarius's entry into the gothic capital, ravenna, in . both the wars[ ] and the secret history suggest that his relationship with belisarius cooled thereafter. when belisarius was sent back to italy in to cope with a renewal of the war with the goths, now led by the able king totila, procopius appears to have no longer been on belisarius's staff. as magister militum, belisarius was an "illustrious man" (latin: vir illustris; greek: ἰλλούστριος, illoústrios); being his adsessor, procopius must therefore have had at least the rank of a "visible man" (vir spectabilis). he thus belonged to the mid-ranking group of the senatorial order (ordo senatorius). however, the suda, which is usually well informed in such matters, also describes procopius himself as one of the illustres. should this information be correct, procopius would have had a seat in constantinople's senate, which was restricted to the illustres under justinian. he also wrote that under justinian's reign in , a major christian church dedicated the virgin mary was built on the site of the temple mount.[ ] it is not certain when procopius died. many historians—including howard-johnson, cameron, and greatrex—date his death to , but there was an urban prefect of constantinople (praefectus urbi constantinopolitanae) called procopius in . in that year, belisarius was implicated in a conspiracy and was brought before this urban prefect. in fact, some scholars have argued that procopius died at least a few years after as he unequivocally states in the beginning of his secret history that he planned to publish it after the death of justinian for fear he would be tortured and killed by the emperor (or even by general belisarius) if the emperor (or the general) learned about what procopius wrote (his scathing criticism of the emperor, of his wife, of belisarius, of the general's wife, antonia: calling the former "demons in human form" and the latter incompetent and treacherous) in this later history. however, most scholars believe that the secret history was written in and remained unpublished during procopius' lifetime. writings[edit] emperor justinian the writings of procopius are the primary source of information for the rule of the emperor justinian i. procopius was the author of a history in eight books on the wars prosecuted by justinian, a panegyric on the emperor's public works projects throughout the empire, and a book known as the secret history that claims to report the scandals that procopius could not include in his officially sanctioned history for fear of angering the emperor, his wife, belisarius, and the general's wife and had to wait until all of them were dead to avoid retaliation. history of the wars[edit] procopius's wars or history of the wars (greek: Ὑπὲρ τῶν Πολέμων Λόγοι, hypèr tōn polémon lógoi, "words on the wars"; latin: de bellis, "on the wars") is his most important work, although less well known than the secret history. the first seven books seem to have been largely completed by and may have been published as a unit. they were, however, updated to mid-century before publication, with the latest mentioned event occurring in early . the eighth and final book brings the history to . the first two books—often known as the persian war (latin: de bello persico)—deal with the conflict between the romans and sassanid persia in mesopotamia, syria, armenia, lazica, and iberia (present-day georgia).[f] it details the campaigns of the sassanid shah kavadh i, the 'nika' revolt, the war by kavadh's successor khosrau i in , his destruction of antioch and deportation of its inhabitants to mesopotamia, and the great plague that devastated the empire from . the persian war also covers the early career of procopius's patron belisarius in some detail. the wars’ next two books—known as the vandal war or vandalic war (latin: de bello vandalico)—cover belisarius's successful campaign against the vandal kingdom that had occupied rome's provinces in northwest africa for the last century. the final four books—known as the gothic war (latin: de bello gothico)—cover the italian campaigns by belisarius and others against the ostrogoths. procopius includes accounts of the st and nd sieges of naples and the st, nd, and rd sieges of rome. he also includes an account of the rise of the franks (see arborychoi). the last book describes the eunuch narses's successful conclusion of the italian campaign and includes some coverage of campaigns along the empire's eastern borders as well. the wars proved influential on later byzantine historiography.[ ] in the s agathias wrote histories, a continuation of procopius's work in a similar style. secret history[edit] belisarius may be this bearded figure on the right of emperor justinian i in the mosaic in the church of san vitale, ravenna, which celebrates the reconquest of italy by the roman army under the skillful leadership of belisarius. procopius's now famous anecdota also known as secret history (greek: Ἀπόκρυφη Ἱστορία, apókryphe historía; latin: historia arcana) was discovered centuries later at the vatican library in rome[ ] and published in lyon by niccolò alamanni in . its existence was already known from the suda, which referred to it as procopius's "unpublished works" containing "comedy" and "invective" of justinian, theodora, belisarius and antonina. the secret history covers roughly the same years as the first seven books of the history of the wars and appears to have been written after they were published. current consensus generally dates it to , or less commonly, . in the eyes of many scholars, the secret history reveals an author who had become deeply disillusioned with emperor justinian, his wife theodora, the general belisarius, and his wife antonina. the work claims to expose the secret springs of their public actions, as well as the private lives of the emperor and his entourage. justinian is portrayed as cruel, venal, prodigal, and incompetent. in one passage, it is even claimed that he was possessed by demonic spirits or was himself a demon: and some of those who have been with justinian at the palace late at night, men who were pure of spirit, have thought they saw a strange demoniac form taking his place. one man said that the emperor suddenly rose from his throne and walked about, and indeed he was never wont to remain sitting for long, and immediately justinian's head vanished, while the rest of his body seemed to ebb and flow; whereat the beholder stood aghast and fearful, wondering if his eyes were deceiving him. but presently he perceived the vanished head filling out and joining the body again as strangely as it had left it.[ ] similarly, the theodora of the secret history is a garish portrait of vulgarity and insatiable lust juxtaposed with cold-blooded self-interest, shrewishness, and envious and fearful mean-spiritedness. among the more titillating (and dubious) revelations in the secret history is procopius's account of theodora's thespian accomplishments: often, even in the theatre, in the sight of all the people, she removed her costume and stood nude in their midst, except for a girdle about the groin: not that she was abashed at revealing that, too, to the audience, but because there was a law against appearing altogether naked on the stage, without at least this much of a fig-leaf. covered thus with a ribbon, she would sink down to the stage floor and recline on her back. slaves to whom the duty was entrusted would then scatter grains of barley from above into the calyx of this passion flower, whence geese, trained for the purpose, would next pick the grains one by one with their bills and eat.[ ] furthermore, secret history portrays belisarius as a weak man completely emasculated by his wife, antonina, who is portrayed in very similar terms to theodora. they are both said to be former actresses and close friends. procopius claimed antonina worked as an agent for theodora against belisarius, and had an ongoing affair with belisarius' godson, theodosius. on the other hand, it has been argued that procopius prepared the secret history as an exaggerated document out of fear that a conspiracy might overthrow justinian's regime, which—as a kind of court historian—might be reckoned to include him. the unpublished manuscript would then have been a kind of insurance, which could be offered to the new ruler as a way to avoid execution or exile after the coup. if this hypothesis were correct, the secret history would not be proof that procopius hated justinian or theodora.[ ] the buildings[edit] triumphal arch at the entrance to the sangarius bridge the buildings (greek: Περὶ Κτισμάτων, perì ktismáton; latin: de aedificiis, "on buildings") is a panegyric on justinian's public works projects throughout the empire.[ ] the first book may date to before the collapse of the first dome of hagia sophia in , but some scholars think that it is possible that the work postdates the building of the bridge over the sangarius in the late s.[ ] historians consider buildings to be an incomplete work due to evidence of the surviving version being a draft with two possible redactions.[ ][ ] buildings was likely written at justinian's behest, and it is doubtful that its sentiments expressed are sincere. it tells us nothing further about belisarius, and it takes a sharply different attitude towards justinian. he is presented as an idealised christian emperor who built churches for the glory of god and defenses for the safety of his subjects. he is depicted showing particular concern for the water supply, building new aqueducts and restoring those that had fallen into disuse. theodora, who was dead when this panegyric was written, is mentioned only briefly, but procopius's praise of her beauty is fulsome. due to the panegyrical nature of procopius's buildings, historians have discovered several discrepancies between claims made by procopius and accounts in other primary sources. a prime example is procopius's starting the reign of justinian in , which was actually the start of the reign of his uncle and predecessor justin i. by treating the uncle's reign as part of his nephew's, procopius was able to credit justinian with buildings erected or begun under justin's administration. such works include renovation of the walls of edessa after its flood and consecration of several churches in the region. similarly, procopius falsely credits justinian for the extensive refortification of the cities of tomis and histria in scythia minor. this had actually been carried out under anastasius i, who reigned before justin.[ ] style[edit] procopius belongs to the school of late antique historians who continued the traditions of the second sophistic. they wrote in attic greek; their models were herodotus, polybius and—particularly—thucydides; and their subject matter was secular history. they avoided vocabulary unknown to attic greek and inserted an explanation when they had to use contemporary words. thus procopius includes glosses of monks ("the most temperate of christians") and churches (as equivalent to a "temple" or "shrine"), since monasticism was unknown to the ancient athenians and their ekklesía had been a popular assembly.[ ] the secular historians eschewed the history of the christian church; ecclesiastical history was left to a separate genre after eusebius. however, cameron has argued convincingly that procopius's works reflect the tensions between the classical and christian models of history in th-century constantinople. this is supported by whitby's analysis of procopius's depiction of the capital and its cathedral in comparison to contemporary pagan panegyrics.[ ] procopius can be seen as depicting justinian as essentially god's vicegerent, making the case for buildings being a primarily religious panegyric.[ ] procopius indicates that he planned to write an ecclesiastical history himself[ ] and, if he had, he would probably have followed the rules of that genre. as far as known, however, such an ecclesiastical history was never written. legacy[edit] a number of historical novels based on procopius's works (along with other sources) have been written. count belisarius was written by poet and novelist robert graves in . procopius himself appears as a minor character in felix dahn's a struggle for rome and in l. sprague de camp's alternate history novel lest darkness fall. the novel's main character, archaeologist martin padway, derives most of his knowledge of historical events from the secret history.[ ] the narrator in herman melville's novel moby dick cites procopius's description of a captured sea monster as evidence of the narrative's feasibility.[ ] list of selected works[edit] 	procopii caesariensis opera omnia. edited by j. haury; revised by g. wirth. vols. leipzig: teubner, – . greek text. 	procopius. edited by h. b. dewing. vols. loeb classical library. cambridge, mass.: harvard university press and london, hutchinson, – . greek text and english translation. 	procopius, the secret history, translated by g. a. williamson. harmondsworth: penguin books, . a readable and accessible english translation of the anecdota. recently re-issued by penguin ( ) with an updated and livelier translation by peter sarris, who has also provided a new commentary and notes. 	prokopios, the secret history, translated by anthony kaldellis. indianapolis: hackett publishing, . this edition includes related texts, an introductory essay, notes, maps, a timeline, a guide to the main sources from the period and a guide to scholarship in english. the translator uses blunt and precise english prose in order to adhere to the style of the original text. notes[edit] 	^ "like many byzantine scholars, procopius affected a remarkable traditional form of writing".[ ] 	^ for an alternative reading of procopius as a trained engineer, see howard-johnson.[ ] 	^ procopius uses and translates a number of latin words in his wars. börm suggests a possible acquaintance with vergil and sallust.[ ] 	^ procopius speaks of becoming belisarius's advisor (symboulos) in that year.[ ] 	^ before modern times, european and mediterranean historians, as far as weather is concerned, typically recorded only the extreme or major weather events for a year or a multi-year period, preferring to focus on the human activities of policy makers and warriors instead. 	^ börm provides a detailed analysis.[ ] references[edit] 	^ "procopius", john moorhead, encyclopedia of historians and historical writing: m–z, vol. ii, kelly boyd, (fitzroy dearborn publishers, ), . 	^ a b suda pi. . see under 'procopius' on suda on line. 	^ procopius, wars of justinian i. . ; suda pi. . see under 'procopius' on suda on line. 	^ cameron, averil: procopius and the sixth century, london: duckworth, , p. . 	^ evans, james a. s.: procopius. new york: twayne publishers, , p. . 	^ cameron, procopius and the sixth century, p. . 	^ howard-johnson, james: 'the education and expertise of procopius'; in antiquité tardive ( ), – . 	^ börm, henning ( ) prokop und die perser, p. . franz steiner verlag, stuttgart. isbn  - - - - 	^ procopius, wars, . . . 	^ wars, i. . - 	^ wars, i. . 	^ wars, i. . - 	^ . 	^ wars, viii. 	^ dolphin, lambert. "visiting the temple mount". temple mount.org. retrieved february , . 	^ börm, henning. prokop und die perser. stuttgart: franz steiner verlag, . 	^ cresci, lia raffaella. "procopio al confine tra due tradizioni storiografiche". rivista di filologia e di istruzione classica . ( ) – . 	^ https://www.newyorker.com/reporting/ / / / fa_fact_mendelsohn 	^ procopius, secret history . – , trans. atwater. 	^ procopius secret history . – , trans. atwater. 	^ cf. börm ( ). 	^ a b downey, glanville: "the composition of procopius, de aedificiis", in transactions and proceedings of the american philological association : pp.  – ; abstract from jstor 	^ whitby, michael: "procopian polemics: a review of a. kaldellis procopius of caesarea. tyranny, history, and philosophy at the end of antiquity", in the classical review ( ), pp.  – 	^ cameron, averil. procopius and the sixth century. london: routledge, . 	^ croke, brian and james crow: "procopius and dara", in the journal of roman studies ( ), – . 	^ wars, . . and . . . 	^ buildings, book i. 	^ whitby, mary: "procopius' buildings book i: a panegyrical perspective", in antiquité tardive ( ), – . 	^ secret history, . . 	^ de camp, l. sprague ( ). lest darkness fall. ballantine books. p.  . 	^ melville, herman ( ). moby-dick, or, the whale. london: harper & brothers. doi: . /bhl.title. . 	this article is based on an earlier version by james allan evans, originally posted at nupedia. further reading[edit] 	adshead, katherine: procopius' poliorcetica: continuities and discontinuities, in: g. clarke et al. (eds.): reading the past in late antiquity, australian national up, rushcutters bay , pp.  – 	alonso-núñez, j. m.: jordanes and procopius on northern europe, in: nottingham medieval studies ( ), – . 	amitay, ory: procopius of caesarea and the girgashite diaspora, in: journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha ( ), – . 	anagnostakis, ilias: procopius's dream before the campaign against libya: a reading of wars . . - , in: c. angelidi and g. calofonos (eds.), dreaming in byzantium and beyond, farnham: ashgate publishing , – . 	bachrach, bernard s.: procopius, agathias and the frankish military, in: speculum ( ), – . 	bachrach, bernard s.: procopius and the chronology of clovis's reign, in: viator ( ), – . 	baldwin, barry: an aphorism in procopius, in: rheinisches museum für philologie ( ), – . 	baldwin, barry: sexual rhetoric in procopius, in: mnemosyne ( ), pp.  – 	belke, klaus: prokops de aedificiis, buch v, zu kleinasien, in: antiquité tardive ( ), – . 	börm, henning: prokop und die perser. stuttgart: franz steiner verlag, . (review in english by g. greatrex and review in english by a. kaldellis) 	börm, henning: procopius of caesarea, in encyclopaedia iranica online, new york . 	börm, henning: procopius, his predecessors, and the genesis of the anecdota: antimonarchic discourse in late antique historiography, in: h. börm (ed.): antimonarchic discourse in antiquity. stuttgart: franz steiner verlag , – . 	braund, david: procopius on the economy of lazica, in: the classical quarterly ( ), – . 	brodka, dariusz: die geschichtsphilosophie in der spätantiken historiographie. studien zu prokopios von kaisareia, agathias von myrina und theophylaktos simokattes. frankfurt am main: peter lang, . 	burn, a. r.: procopius and the island of ghosts, in: english historical review ( ), – . 	cameron, averil: procopius and the sixth century. berkeley: university of california press, . 	cameron, averil: the scepticism of procopius, in: historia ( ), – . 	colvin, ian: reporting battles and understanding campaigns in procopius and agathias: classicising historians' use of archived documents as sources, in: a. sarantis (ed.): war and warfare in late antiquity. current perspectives, leiden: brill , – . 	cresci, lia raffaella: procopio al confine tra due tradizioni storiografiche, in: rivista di filologia e di istruzione classica ( ), – . 	cristini, marco: il seguito ostrogoto di amalafrida: confutazione di procopio, bellum vandalicum . . , in: klio ( ), – . 	croke, brian and james crow: procopius and dara, in: the journal of roman studies ( ), – . 	downey, glanville: the composition of procopius, de aedificiis, in: transactions and proceedings of the american philological association ( ), – . 	evans, james a. s.: justinian and the historian procopius, in: greece & rome ( ), – . 	evans, james a. s.: procopius. new york: twayne publishers, . 	gordon, c. d.: procopius and justinian's financial policies, in: phoenix ( ), – . 	greatrex, geoffrey: procopius and the persian wars, d. phil. thesis, oxford, . 	greatrex, geoffrey: the dates of procopius' works, in: bmgs ( ), – . 	greatrex, geoffrey: the composition of procopius' persian wars and john the cappadocian, in: prudentia ( ), – . 	greatrex, geoffrey: rome and persia at war, – . london: francis cairns, . 	greatrex, geoffrey: recent work on procopius and the composition of wars viii, in: bmgs ( ), – . 	greatrex, geoffrey: perceptions of procopius in recent scholarship, in: histos ( ), – and a–e (addenda). 	howard-johnson, james: the education and expertise of procopius, in: antiquité tardive ( ), – 	kaegi, walter: procopius the military historian, in: byzantinische forschungen. , , issn  - , – (online (pdf; kb)). 	kaldellis, anthony: classicism, barbarism, and warfare: prokopios and the conservative reaction to later roman military policy, american journal of ancient history, n.s. - ( - [ ]), – . 	kaldellis, anthony: identifying dissident circles in sixth-century byzantium: the friendship of prokopios and ioannes lydos, florilegium, vol. ( ), - . 	kaldellis, anthony: procopius of caesarea: tyranny, history and philosophy at the end of antiquity. philadelphia: university of pennsylvania press, . 	kaldellis, anthony: prokopios’ persian war: a thematic and literary analysis, in: r. macrides, ed., history as literature in byzantium, aldershot: ashgate, , – . 	kaldellis, anthony: prokopios’ vandal war: thematic trajectories and hidden transcripts, in: s. t. stevens & j. conant, eds., north africa under byzantium and early islam, washington, d.c: dumbarton oaks, , – . 	kaldellis, anthony: the date and structure of prokopios’ secret history and his projected work on church history, in: greek, roman, and byzantine studies, vol. ( ), – . 	kruse, marion: the speech of the armenians in procopius: justinian's foreign policy and the transition between books and of the wars, in: the classical quarterly ( ), – . 	kovács, tamás: "procopius's sibyl - the fall of vitigis and the ostrogoths", graeco-latina brunensia . 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(eds.): from rome to constantinople. studies in honour of averil cameron, leuven: peeters, , – . 	martindale, john: the prosopography of the later roman empire iii, cambridge , – . 	meier, mischa: prokop, agathias, die pest und das ′ende′ der antiken historiographie, in historische zeitschrift ( ), – . 	pazdernik, charles f.: xenophon’s hellenica in procopius’ wars: pharnabazus and belisarius, in: greek, roman and byzantine studies ( ) – . 	rance, philip: narses and the battle of taginae ( ad): procopius and sixth-century warfare, in: historia. zeitschrift für alte geschichte . ( ) – . 	rubin, berthold: prokopios, in realencyclopädie der classischen altertumswissenschaft / ( ), – . earlier published (with index) as prokopios von kaisareia, stuttgart: druckenmüller, . 	stewart, michael, contests of andreia in procopius’ gothic wars, Παρεκβολαι ( ), pp.  – . 	stewart, michael, the andreios eunuch-commander narses: sign of a decoupling of martial virtues and hegemonic masculinity in the early byzantine empire?, cerae ( ), pp.  – . 	stewart, michael, masculinity, identity, and power politics in the age of justinian: a study of procopius, amsterdam: amsterdam university press, :https://www.aup.nl/en/book/ /masculinity-identity-and-power-politics-in-the-age-of-justinian 	treadgold, warren: the early byzantine historians, basingstoke: macmillan , – . 	the secret history of art by noah charney on the vatican library and procopius. an article by art historian noah charney about the vatican library and its famous manuscript, historia arcana by procopius. 	whately, conor, battles and generals: combat, culture, and didacticism in procopius' wars. leiden, . 	whitby, l. m. "procopius and the development of roman defences in upper mesopotamia", in p. freeman and d. kennedy (ed.), the defence of the roman and byzantine east, oxford, , – . external links[edit] 		wikisource has original works written by or about: procopius texts of procopius[edit] 	complete works, greek text (migne patrologia graeca) with analytical indexes 	the secret history, english translation (atwater, ) at the internet medieval sourcebook 	the secret history, english translation (dewing, ) at lacuscurtius 	the buildings, english translation (dewing, ) at lacuscurtius 	the buildings, book iv greek text with commentaries, index nominum, etc. at sorin olteanu's ltdm project 	works by procopius at project gutenberg 	works by or about procopius at internet archive 	procopius on librivox 	h. b. dewing's loeb edition of the works of procopius: vols. i–vi at the internet archive (history of the wars, secret history) 	palestine pilgrims' text society ( ): of the buildings of justinian by procopius, (ca a.d) 	complete works , greek ed. by k. w. dindorf, latin trans. by claude maltret in corpus scriptorum historiae byzantinae pars ii vol. , . (persian wars i–ii, vandal wars i–ii) 	complete works , greek ed. by k. w. dindorf, latin trans. by claude maltret in corpus scriptorum historiae byzantinae pars ii vol. , . (gothic wars i–iv) 	complete works , greek ed. by k. w. dindorf, latin trans. by claude maltret in corpus scriptorum historiae byzantinae pars ii vol. , . (secret history, buildings of justinian) secondary material[edit] 	herbermann, charles, ed. ( ). 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be minor forms of roman art,[ ] although they were not considered as such at the time. sculpture was perhaps considered as the highest form of art by romans, but figure painting was also highly regarded. a very large body of sculpture has survived from about the st century bc onward, though very little from before, but very little painting remains, and probably nothing that a contemporary would have considered to be of the highest quality. ancient roman pottery was not a luxury product, but a vast production of "fine wares" in terra sigillata were decorated with reliefs that reflected the latest taste, and provided a large group in society with stylish objects at what was evidently an affordable price. roman coins were an important means of propaganda, and have survived in enormous numbers. contents 	 introduction 	 painting 	 . variety of subjects 	 . landscape and vistas 	 . still life 	 . portraits 	 . gold glass 	 . genre scenes 	 . triumphal paintings 	 sculpture 	 . narrative reliefs 	 minor arts 	 . pottery and terracottas 	 . glass 	 . mosaic 	 . metalwork 	 . coins and medals 	 architecture 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links introduction[edit] left image: a roman fresco from pompeii showing a maenad in silk dress, st century ad right image: a fresco of a young man from the villa di arianna, stabiae, st century ad. further information: roman republican art while the traditional view of the ancient roman artists is that they often borrowed from, and copied greek precedents (much of the greek sculptures known today are in the form of roman marble copies), more of recent analysis has indicated that roman art is a highly creative pastiche relying heavily on greek models but also encompassing etruscan, native italic, and even egyptian visual culture. stylistic eclecticism and practical application are the hallmarks of much roman art. pliny, ancient rome's most important historian concerning the arts, recorded that nearly all the forms of art – sculpture, landscape, portrait painting, even genre painting – were advanced in greek times, and in some cases, more advanced than in rome. though very little remains of greek wall art and portraiture, certainly greek sculpture and vase painting bears this out. these forms were not likely surpassed by roman artists in fineness of design or execution. as another example of the lost "golden age", he singled out peiraikos, "whose artistry is surpassed by only a very few ... he painted barbershops and shoemakers’ stalls, donkeys, vegetables, and such, and for that reason came to be called the 'painter of vulgar subjects'; yet these works are altogether delightful, and they were sold at higher prices than the greatest paintings of many other artists.”[ ] the adjective "vulgar" is used here in its original definition, which means "common". the greek antecedents of roman art were legendary. in the mid- th century bc, the most famous greek artists were polygnotos, noted for his wall murals, and apollodoros, the originator of chiaroscuro. the development of realistic technique is credited to zeuxis and parrhasius, who according to ancient greek legend, are said to have once competed in a bravura display of their talents, history's earliest descriptions of trompe-l'œil painting.[ ] in sculpture, skopas, praxiteles, phidias, and lysippos were the foremost sculptors. it appears that roman artists had much ancient greek art to copy from, as trade in art was brisk throughout the empire, and much of the greek artistic heritage found its way into roman art through books and teaching. ancient greek treatises on the arts are known to have existed in roman times, though are now lost.[ ] many roman artists came from greek colonies and provinces.[ ] preparation of an animal sacrifice; marble, fragment of an architectural relief, first quarter of the nd century ce; from rome, italy the high number of roman copies of greek art also speaks of the esteem roman artists had for greek art, and perhaps of its rarer and higher quality.[ ] many of the art forms and methods used by the romans – such as high and low relief, free-standing sculpture, bronze casting, vase art, mosaic, cameo, coin art, fine jewelry and metalwork, funerary sculpture, perspective drawing, caricature, genre and portrait painting, landscape painting, architectural sculpture, and trompe-l'œil painting – all were developed or refined by ancient greek artists.[ ] one exception is the roman bust, which did not include the shoulders. the traditional head-and-shoulders bust may have been an etruscan or early roman form.[ ] virtually every artistic technique and method used by renaissance artists , years later, had been demonstrated by ancient greek artists, with the notable exceptions of oil colors and mathematically accurate perspective.[ ] where greek artists were highly revered in their society, most roman artists were anonymous and considered tradesmen. there is no recording, as in ancient greece, of the great masters of roman art, and practically no signed works. where greeks worshipped the aesthetic qualities of great art, and wrote extensively on artistic theory, roman art was more decorative and indicative of status and wealth, and apparently not the subject of scholars or philosophers.[ ] owing in part to the fact that the roman cities were far larger than the greek city-states in power and population, and generally less provincial, art in ancient rome took on a wider, and sometimes more utilitarian, purpose. roman culture assimilated many cultures and was for the most part tolerant of the ways of conquered peoples.[ ] roman art was commissioned, displayed, and owned in far greater quantities, and adapted to more uses than in greek times. wealthy romans were more materialistic; they decorated their walls with art, their home with decorative objects, and themselves with fine jewelry. in the christian era of the late empire, from to ce, wall painting, mosaic ceiling and floor work, and funerary sculpture thrived, while full-sized sculpture in the round and panel painting died out, most likely for religious reasons.[ ] when constantine moved the capital of the empire to byzantium (renamed constantinople), roman art incorporated eastern influences to produce the byzantine style of the late empire. when rome was sacked in the th century, artisans moved to and found work in the eastern capital. the church of hagia sophia in constantinople employed nearly , workmen and artisans, in a final burst of roman art under emperor justinian ( – ce), who also ordered the creation of the famous mosaics of basilica of san vitale in the city of ravenna.[ ] painting[edit] main article: pompeian styles further information: encaustic painting painter with painted statue and framed painting, pompeii of the vast body of roman painting we now have only a very few pockets of survivals, with many documented types not surviving at all, or doing so only from the very end of the period. the best known and most important pocket is the wall paintings from pompeii, herculaneum and other sites nearby, which show how residents of a wealthy seaside resort decorated their walls in the century or so before the fatal eruption of mount vesuvius in  ad. a succession of dated styles have been defined and analysed by modern art historians beginning with august mau, showing increasing elaboration and sophistication. heracles and omphale, roman fresco pompeian fourth style ( -  ad), naples national archaeological museum, italy starting in the rd century ad and finishing by about we have a large body of paintings from the catacombs of rome, by no means all christian, showing the later continuation of the domestic decorative tradition in a version adapted - probably not greatly adapted - for use in burial chambers, in what was probably a rather humbler social milieu than the largest houses in pompeii. much of nero's palace in rome, the domus aurea, survived as grottos and gives us examples which we can be sure represent the very finest quality of wall-painting in its style, and which may well have represented significant innovation in style. there are a number of other parts of painted rooms surviving from rome and elsewhere, which somewhat help to fill in the gaps of our knowledge of wall-painting. from roman egypt there are a large number of what are known as fayum mummy portraits, bust portraits on wood added to the outside of mummies by a romanized middle class; despite their very distinct local character they are probably broadly representative of roman style in painted portraits, which are otherwise entirely lost. nothing remains of the greek paintings imported to rome during the th and th centuries, or of the painting on wood done in italy during that period.[ ] in sum, the range of samples is confined to only about years out of the about years of roman history,[ ] and of provincial and decorative painting. most of this wall painting was done using the a secco (dry) method, but some fresco paintings also existed in roman times. there is evidence from mosaics and a few inscriptions that some roman paintings were adaptations or copies of earlier greek works.[ ] however, adding to the confusion is the fact that inscriptions may be recording the names of immigrant greek artists from roman times, not from ancient greek originals that were copied.[ ] the romans entirely lacked a tradition of figurative vase-painting comparable to that of the ancient greeks, which the etruscans had emulated. variety of subjects[edit] the wedding of zephyrus and chloris ( – ad, pompeian fourth style) within painted architectural panels from the casa del naviglio roman painting provides a wide variety of themes: animals, still life, scenes from everyday life, portraits, and some mythological subjects. during the hellenistic period, it evoked the pleasures of the countryside and represented scenes of shepherds, herds, rustic temples, rural mountainous landscapes and country houses.[ ] erotic scenes are also relatively common. in the late empire, after ad, early christian themes mixed with pagan imagery survive on catacomb walls.[ ] landscape and vistas[edit] boscotrecase, pompeii. third style the main innovation of roman painting compared to greek art was the development of landscapes, in particular incorporating techniques of perspective, though true mathematical perspective developed , years later. surface textures, shading, and coloration are well applied but scale and spatial depth was still not rendered accurately. some landscapes were pure scenes of nature, particularly gardens with flowers and trees, while others were architectural vistas depicting urban buildings. other landscapes show episodes from mythology, the most famous demonstrating scenes from the odyssey.[ ] in the cultural point of view, the art of the ancient east would have known landscape painting only as the backdrop to civil or military narrative scenes.[ ] this theory is defended by franz wickhoff, is debatable. it is possible to see evidence of greek knowledge of landscape portrayal in plato's critias ( b– b): ... and if we look at the portraiture of divine and of human bodies as executed by painters, in respect of the ease or difficulty with which they succeed in imitating their subjects in the opinion of onlookers, we shall notice in the first place that as regards the earth and mountains and rivers and woods and the whole of heaven, with the things that exist and move therein, we are content if a man is able to represent them with even a small degree of likeness ...[ ] still life[edit] roman still life subjects are often placed in illusionist niches or shelves and depict a variety of everyday objects including fruit, live and dead animals, seafood, and shells. examples of the theme of the glass jar filled with water were skillfully painted and later served as models for the same subject often painted during the renaissance and baroque periods.[ ] portraits[edit] further information: roman portraiture the severan tondo, a panel painting of the imperial family, c. ad; antikensammlung, berlin fayum mummy portrait of a woman from roman egypt with a ringlet hairstyle. royal museum of scotland. pliny complained of the declining state of roman portrait art, "the painting of portraits which used to transmit through the ages the accurate likenesses of people, has entirely gone out ... indolence has destroyed the arts."[ ][ ] in greece and rome, wall painting was not considered as high art. the most prestigious form of art besides sculpture was panel painting, i.e. tempera or encaustic painting on wooden panels. unfortunately, since wood is a perishable material, only a very few examples of such paintings have survived, namely the severan tondo from c.  ad, a very routine official portrait from some provincial government office, and the well-known fayum mummy portraits, all from roman egypt, and almost certainly not of the highest contemporary quality. the portraits were attached to burial mummies at the face, from which almost all have now been detached. they usually depict a single person, showing the head, or head and upper chest, viewed frontally. the background is always monochrome, sometimes with decorative elements.[ ] in terms of artistic tradition, the images clearly derive more from greco-roman traditions than egyptian ones. they are remarkably realistic, though variable in artistic quality, and may indicate that similar art which was widespread elsewhere but did not survive. a few portraits painted on glass and medals from the later empire have survived, as have coin portraits, some of which are considered very realistic as well.[ ] gold glass[edit] main article: gold glass further information: list of gold-glass portraits detail of the gold glass medallion in brescia (museo di santa giulia), most likely alexandrian, rd century ad[ ] gold glass, or gold sandwich glass, was a technique for fixing a layer of gold leaf with a design between two fused layers of glass, developed in hellenistic glass and revived in the rd century ad. there are a very few large designs, including a very fine group of portraits from the rd century with added paint, but the great majority of the around survivals are roundels that are the cut-off bottoms of wine cups or glasses used to mark and decorate graves in the catacombs of rome by pressing them into the mortar. they predominantly date from the th and th centuries. most are christian, though there are many pagan and a few jewish examples. it is likely that they were originally given as gifts on marriage, or festive occasions such as new year. their iconography has been much studied, although artistically they are relatively unsophisticated.[ ] their subjects are similar to the catacomb paintings, but with a difference balance including more portraiture. as time went on there was an increase in the depiction of saints.[ ] the same technique began to be used for gold tesserae for mosaics in the mid- st century in rome, and by the th century these had become the standard background for religious mosaics. the earlier group are "among the most vivid portraits to survive from early christian times. they stare out at us with an extraordinary stern and melancholy intensity",[ ] and represent the best surviving indications of what high quality roman portraiture could achieve in paint. the gennadios medallion in the metropolitan museum of art in new york, is a fine example of an alexandrian portrait on blue glass, using a rather more complex technique and naturalistic style than most late roman examples, including painting onto the gold to create shading, and with the greek inscription showing local dialect features. he had perhaps been given or commissioned the piece to celebrate victory in a musical competition.[ ] one of the most famous alexandrian-style portrait medallions, with an inscription in egyptian greek, was later mounted in an early medieval crux gemmata in brescia, in the mistaken belief that it showed the pious empress and gothic queen galla placida and her children;[ ] in fact the knot in the central figure's dress may mark a devotee of isis.[ ] this is one of a group of pieces dating to the rd century ad, all individualized secular portraits of high quality.[ ] the inscription on the medallion is written in the alexandrian dialect of greek and hence most likely depicts a family from roman egypt.[ ] the medallion has also been compared to other works of contemporaneous roman-egyptian artwork, such as the fayum mummy portraits.[ ] it is thought that the tiny detail of pieces such as these can only have been achieved using lenses.[ ] the later glasses from the catacombs have a level of portraiture that is rudimentary, with features, hairstyles and clothes all following stereotypical styles.[ ] genre scenes[edit] roman genre scenes generally depict romans at leisure and include gambling, music and sexual encounters.[citation needed] some scenes depict gods and goddesses at leisure.[ ][ ] triumphal paintings[edit] roman fresco from the villa boscoreale, – bc, metropolitan museum of art roman fresco with a banquet scene from the casa dei casti amanti, pompeii from the rd century bc, a specific genre known as triumphal paintings appeared, as indicated by pliny (xxxv, ).[ ] these were paintings which showed triumphal entries after military victories, represented episodes from the war, and conquered regions and cities. summary maps were drawn to highlight key points of the campaign. josephus describes the painting executed on the occasion of vespasian and titus's sack of jerusalem: there was also wrought gold and ivory fastened about them all; and many resemblances of the war, and those in several ways, and variety of contrivances, affording a most lively portraiture of itself. for there was to be seen a happy country laid waste, and entire squadrons of enemies slain; while some of them ran away, and some were carried into captivity; with walls of great altitude and magnitude overthrown and ruined by machines; with the strongest fortifications taken, and the walls of most populous cities upon the tops of hills seized on, and an army pouring itself within the walls; as also every place full of slaughter, and supplications of the enemies, when they were no longer able to lift up their hands in way of opposition. fire also sent upon temples was here represented, and houses overthrown, and falling upon their owners: rivers also, after they came out of a large and melancholy desert, ran down, not into a land cultivated, nor as drink for men, or for cattle, but through a land still on fire upon every side; for the jews related that such a thing they had undergone during this war. now the workmanship of these representations was so magnificent and lively in the construction of the things, that it exhibited what had been done to such as did not see it, as if they had been there really present. on the top of every one of these pageants was placed the commander of the city that was taken, and the manner wherein he was taken.[ ] these paintings have disappeared, but they likely influenced the composition of the historical reliefs carved on military sarcophagi, the arch of titus, and trajan's column. this evidence underscores the significance of landscape painting, which sometimes tended towards being perspective plans. ranuccio also describes the oldest painting to be found in rome, in a tomb on the esquiline hill: it describes a historical scene, on a clear background, painted in four superimposed sections. several people are identified, such marcus fannius and marcus fabius. these are larger than the other figures ... in the second zone, to the left, is a city encircled with crenellated walls, in front of which is a large warrior equipped with an oval buckler and a feathered helmet; near him is a man in a short tunic, armed with a spear...around these two are smaller soldiers in short tunics, armed with spears...in the lower zone a battle is taking place, where a warrior with oval buckler and a feathered helmet is shown larger than the others, whose weapons allow to assume that these are probably samnites. this episode is difficult to pinpoint. one of ranuccio's hypotheses is that it refers to a victory of the consul fabius maximus rullianus during the second war against samnites in bc. the presentation of the figures with sizes proportional to their importance is typically roman, and finds itself in plebeian reliefs. this painting is in the infancy of triumphal painting, and would have been accomplished by the beginning of the rd century bc to decorate the tomb. sculpture[edit] main articles: roman sculpture and roman portraiture detail from the ahenobarbus relief showing two roman soldiers, c. bc section of trajan's column, ad, with scenes from the dacian wars early roman art was influenced by the art of greece and that of the neighbouring etruscans, themselves greatly influenced by their greek trading partners. an etruscan speciality was near life size tomb effigies in terracotta, usually lying on top of a sarcophagus lid propped up on one elbow in the pose of a diner in that period. as the expanding roman republic began to conquer greek territory, at first in southern italy and then the entire hellenistic world except for the parthian far east, official and patrician sculpture became largely an extension of the hellenistic style, from which specifically roman elements are hard to disentangle, especially as so much greek sculpture survives only in copies of the roman period.[ ] by the nd century bc, "most of the sculptors working in rome" were greek,[ ] often enslaved in conquests such as that of corinth ( bc), and sculptors continued to be mostly greeks, often slaves, whose names are very rarely recorded. vast numbers of greek statues were imported to rome, whether as booty or the result of extortion or commerce, and temples were often decorated with re-used greek works.[ ] a native italian style can be seen in the tomb monuments of prosperous middle-class romans, which very often featured portrait busts, and portraiture is arguably the main strength of roman sculpture. there are no survivals from the tradition of masks of ancestors that were worn in processions at the funerals of the great families and otherwise displayed in the home, but many of the busts that survive must represent ancestral figures, perhaps from the large family tombs like the tomb of the scipios or the later mausolea outside the city. the famous bronze head supposedly of lucius junius brutus is very variously dated, but taken as a very rare survival of italic style under the republic, in the preferred medium of bronze.[ ] similarly stern and forceful heads are seen in the coins of the consuls, and in the imperial period coins as well as busts sent around the empire to be placed in the basilicas of provincial cities were the main visual form of imperial propaganda; even londinium had a near-colossal statue of nero, though far smaller than the -metre-high colossus of nero in rome, now lost.[ ] the tomb of eurysaces the baker, a successful freedman (c. - bc) has a frieze that is an unusually large example of the "plebeian" style.[ ] imperial portraiture was initially hellenized and highly idealized, as in the blacas cameo and other portraits of augustus. arch of constantine, : hadrian lion-hunting (left) and sacrificing (right), above a section of the constantinian frieze, showing the contrast of styles. the romans did not generally attempt to compete with free-standing greek works of heroic exploits from history or mythology, but from early on produced historical works in relief, culminating in the great roman triumphal columns with continuous narrative reliefs winding around them, of which those commemorating trajan ( ad) and marcus aurelius (by ) survive in rome, where the ara pacis ("altar of peace", bc) represents the official greco-roman style at its most classical and refined, and the sperlonga sculptures it at its most baroque. some late roman public sculptures developed a massive, simplified style that sometimes anticipates soviet socialist realism. among other major examples are the earlier re-used reliefs on the arch of constantine and the base of the column of antoninus pius ( ),[ ] campana reliefs were cheaper pottery versions of marble reliefs and the taste for relief was from the imperial period expanded to the sarcophagus. all forms of luxury small sculpture continued to be patronized, and quality could be extremely high, as in the silver warren cup, glass lycurgus cup, and large cameos like the gemma augustea, gonzaga cameo and the "great cameo of france".[ ] for a much wider section of the population, moulded relief decoration of pottery vessels and small figurines were produced in great quantity and often considerable quality.[ ] after moving through a late nd century "baroque" phase,[ ] in the rd century, roman art largely abandoned, or simply became unable to produce, sculpture in the classical tradition, a change whose causes remain much discussed. even the most important imperial monuments now showed stumpy, large-eyed figures in a harsh frontal style, in simple compositions emphasizing power at the expense of grace. the contrast is famously illustrated in the arch of constantine of in rome, which combines sections in the new style with roundels in the earlier full greco-roman style taken from elsewhere, and the four tetrarchs (c. ) from the new capital of constantinople, now in venice. ernst kitzinger found in both monuments the same "stubby proportions, angular movements, an ordering of parts through symmetry and repetition and a rendering of features and drapery folds through incisions rather than modelling... the hallmark of the style wherever it appears consists of an emphatic hardness, heaviness and angularity – in short, an almost complete rejection of the classical tradition".[ ] this revolution in style shortly preceded the period in which christianity was adopted by the roman state and the great majority of the people, leading to the end of large religious sculpture, with large statues now only used for emperors, as in the famous fragments of a colossal acrolithic statue of constantine, and the th or th century colossus of barletta. however rich christians continued to commission reliefs for sarcophagi, as in the sarcophagus of junius bassus, and very small sculpture, especially in ivory, was continued by christians, building on the style of the consular diptych.[ ] 	 			 			 etruscan sarcophagus, rd century bc 			 		 	 			 			 the "capitoline brutus", dated to the th to rd centuries bc 			 		 	 			 			 a roman naval bireme depicted in a relief from the temple of fortuna primigenia in praeneste (palastrina),[ ] which was built c. bc;[ ] exhibited in the pius-clementine museum (museo pio-clementino) in the vatican museums. 			 		 	 			 			 the orator, c. bc, an etrusco-roman bronze statue depicting aule metele (latin: aulus metellus), an etruscan man wearing a roman toga while engaged in rhetoric; the statue features an inscription in the etruscan alphabet 			 		 	 			 			 the grave relief of publius aiedius and aiedia, bc, pergamon museum (berlin) 			 		 	 			 			 augustus of prima porta, statue of the emperor augustus, st century ad, vatican museums 			 		 	 			 			 tomb relief of the decii, – ad 			 		 	 			 			 bust of emperor claudius, c. ce, (reworked from a bust of emperor caligula), vatican museums 			 		 	 			 			 commodus dressed as hercules, c. ce, in the late imperial "baroque" style; capitoline museum, rome. 			 		 	 			 			 the four tetrarchs, c. , showing the new anti-classical style, in porphyry, now san marco, venice 			 		 	 			 			 the cameo gem known as the "great cameo of france", c. ad, with an allegory of augustus and his family 			 		 	 			 			 portrait bust of a man, ancient rome, bc 			 		 	 			 			 roman portraiture is characterized by its "warts and all" realism. 			 		 	 			 			 veristic portrait bust of an old man, head covered (capite velato), either a priest or paterfamilias (marble, mid- st century bc) 			 		 bust of antinous, c. ad traditional roman sculpture is divided into five categories: portraiture, historical relief, funerary reliefs, sarcophagi, and copies of ancient greek works.[ ] contrary to the belief of early archaeologists, many of these sculptures were large polychrome terra-cotta images, such as the apollo of veii (villa givlia, rome), but the painted surface of many of them has worn away with time. narrative reliefs[edit] while greek sculptors traditionally illustrated military exploits through the use of mythological allegory, the romans used a more documentary style. roman reliefs of battle scenes, like those on the column of trajan, were created for the glorification of roman might, but also provide first-hand representation of military costumes and military equipment. trajan's column records the various dacian wars conducted by trajan in what is modern day romania. it is the foremost example of roman historical relief and one of the great artistic treasures of the ancient world. this unprecedented achievement, over foot of spiraling length, presents not just realistically rendered individuals (over , of them), but landscapes, animals, ships, and other elements in a continuous visual history – in effect an ancient precursor of a documentary movie. it survived destruction when it was adapted as a base for christian sculpture.[ ] during the christian era after ad, the decoration of door panels and sarcophagi continued but full-sized sculpture died out and did not appear to be an important element in early churches.[ ] minor arts[edit] the blacas cameo of augustus, from his last years or soon after pottery and terracottas[edit] main articles: ancient roman pottery and campana relief the romans inherited a tradition of art in a wide range of the so-called "minor arts" or decorative art. most of these flourished most impressively at the luxury level, but large numbers of terracotta figurines, both religious and secular, continued to be produced cheaply, as well as some larger campana reliefs in terracotta.[ ] roman art did not use vase-painting in the way of the ancient greeks, but vessels in ancient roman pottery were often stylishly decorated in moulded relief.[ ] producers of the millions of small oil lamps sold seem to have relied on attractive decoration to beat competitors and every subject of roman art except landscape and portraiture is found on them in miniature.[ ] glass[edit] main article: roman glass various roman glasswares on display at the metropolitan museum of art luxury arts included fancy roman glass in a great range of techniques, many smaller types of which were probably affordable to a good proportion of the roman public. this was certainly not the case for the most extravagant types of glass, such as the cage cups or diatreta, of which the lycurgus cup in the british museum is a near-unique figurative example in glass that changes colour when seen with light passing through it. the augustan portland vase is the masterpiece of roman cameo glass,[ ] and imitated the style of the large engraved gems (blacas cameo, gemma augustea, great cameo of france) and other hardstone carvings that were also most popular around this time.[ ] mosaic[edit] main article: roman mosaic roman mosaic of female athletes playing ball at the villa romana del casale of piazza armerina, roman sicily, th century ad roman mosaic was a minor art, though often on a very large scale, until the very end of the period, when late- th-century christians began to use it for large religious images on walls in their new large churches; in earlier roman art mosaic was mainly used for floors, curved ceilings, and inside and outside walls that were going to get wet. the famous copy of a hellenistic painting in the alexander mosaic in naples was originally placed in a floor in pompeii; this is much higher quality work than most roman mosaic, though very fine panels, often of still life subjects in small or micromosaic tesserae have also survived. the romans distinguished between normal opus tessellatum with tesserae mostly over  mm across, which was laid down on site, and finer opus vermiculatum for small panels, which is thought to have been produced offsite in a workshop, and brought to the site as a finished panel. the latter was a hellenistic genre which is found in italy between about bc and ad. most signed mosaics have greek names, suggesting the artists remained mostly greek, though probably often slaves trained up in workshops. the late nd century bc nile mosaic of palestrina is a very large example of the popular genre of nilotic landscape, while the th century gladiator mosaic in rome shows several large figures in combat.[ ] orpheus mosaics, often very large, were another favourite subject for villas, with several ferocious animals tamed by orpheus's playing music. in the transition to byzantine art, hunting scenes tended to take over large animal scenes. metalwork[edit] metalwork was highly developed, and clearly an essential part of the homes of the rich, who dined off silver, while often drinking from glass, and had elaborate cast fittings on their furniture, jewellery, and small figurines. a number of important hoards found in the last years, mostly from the more violent edges of the late empire, have given us a much clearer idea of roman silver plate. the mildenhall treasure and hoxne hoard are both from east anglia in england.[ ] there are few survivals of upmarket ancient roman furniture, but these show refined and elegant design and execution. coins and medals[edit] hadrian, with "restitvtori achaiae" on the reverse, celebrating his spending in achaia (greece), and showing the quality of ordinary bronze coins that were used by the mass population, hence the wear on higher areas. few roman coins reach the artistic peaks of the best greek coins, but they survive in vast numbers and their iconography and inscriptions form a crucial source for the study of roman history, and the development of imperial iconography, as well as containing many fine examples of portraiture. they penetrated to the rural population of the whole empire and beyond, with barbarians on the fringes of the empire making their own copies. in the empire medallions in precious metals began to be produced in small editions as imperial gifts, which are similar to coins, though larger and usually finer in execution. images in coins initially followed greek styles, with gods and symbols, but in the death throes of the republic first pompey and then julius caesar appeared on coins, and portraits of the emperor or members of his family became standard on imperial coinage. the inscriptions were used for propaganda, and in the later empire the army joined the emperor as the beneficiary. architecture[edit] main article: roman architecture aqueduct of segovia. it was in the area of architecture that roman art produced its greatest innovations. because the roman empire extended over so great of an area and included so many urbanized areas, roman engineers developed methods for citybuilding on a grand scale, including the use of concrete. massive buildings like the pantheon and the colosseum could never have been constructed with previous materials and methods. though concrete had been invented a thousand years earlier in the near east, the romans extended its use from fortifications to their most impressive buildings and monuments, capitalizing on the material's strength and low cost.[ ] the concrete core was covered with a plaster, brick, stone, or marble veneer, and decorative polychrome and gold-gilded sculpture was often added to produce a dazzling effect of power and wealth.[ ] because of these methods, roman architecture is legendary for the durability of its construction; with many buildings still standing, and some still in use, mostly buildings converted to churches during the christian era. many ruins, however, have been stripped of their marble veneer and are left with their concrete core exposed, thus appearing somewhat reduced in size and grandeur from their original appearance, such as with the basilica of constantine.[ ] during the republican era, roman architecture combined greek and etruscan elements, and produced innovations such as the round temple and the curved arch.[ ] as roman power grew in the early empire, the first emperors inaugurated wholesale leveling of slums to build grand palaces on the palatine hill and nearby areas, which required advances in engineering methods and large scale design. roman buildings were then built in the commercial, political, and social grouping known as a forum, that of julius caesar being the first and several added later, with the forum romanum being the most famous. the greatest arena in the roman world, the colosseum, was completed around ad at the far end of that forum. it held over , spectators, had retractable fabric coverings for shade, and could stage massive spectacles including huge gladiatorial contests and mock naval battles. this masterpiece of roman architecture epitomizes roman engineering efficiency and incorporates all three architectural orders – doric, ionic, and corinthian.[ ] less celebrated but just as important if not more so for most roman citizens, was the five-story insula or city block, the roman equivalent of an apartment building, which housed tens of thousands of romans.[ ] roman theatre in mérida it was during the reign of trajan ( – ad) and hadrian ( – ad) that the roman empire reached its greatest extent and that rome itself was at the peak of its artistic glory – achieved through massive building programs of monuments, meeting houses, gardens, aqueducts, baths, palaces, pavilions, sarcophagi, and temples.[ ] the roman use of the arch, the use of concrete building methods, the use of the dome all permitted construction of vaulted ceilings and enabled the building of these public spaces and complexes, including the palaces, public baths and basilicas of the "golden age" of the empire. outstanding examples of dome construction include the pantheon, the baths of diocletian, and the baths of caracalla. the pantheon (dedicated to all the planetary gods) is the best preserved temple of ancient times with an intact ceiling featuring an open "eye" in the center. the height of the ceiling exactly equals the interior diameter of the building, creating an enclosure that could contain a giant sphere.[ ] these grand buildings later served as inspirational models for architects of the italian renaissance, such as brunelleschi. by the age of constantine ( - ad), the last great building programs in rome took place, including the erection of the arch of constantine built near the colosseum, which recycled some stone work from the forum nearby, to produce an eclectic mix of styles.[ ] roman aqueducts, also based on the arch, were commonplace in the empire and essential transporters of water to large urban areas. their standing masonry remains are especially impressive, such as the pont du gard (featuring three tiers of arches) and the aqueduct of segovia, serving as mute testimony to their quality of their design and construction.[ ] see also[edit] 	ancient rome portal 	bacchic art 	byzantine art 	erotic art in pompeii and herculaneum 	latin literature 	music of ancient rome 	neoclassicism 	pompeian styles 	roman graffiti notes[edit] 	^ toynbee, j. m. c. ( ). "roman art". the classical review. ( ): – . doi: . /s x . jstor  . 	^ sybille ebert-schifferer, still life: a history, harry n. abrams, new york, , p. , isbn  - - - 	^ ebert-schifferer, p. 	^ a b piper, p. 	^ a b c janson, p. 	^ piper, p. – 	^ piper, p. 	^ a b c d piper, p. 	^ piper, p. 	^ a b piper, p. 	^ piper, p. 	^ a b c janson, p. 	^ a b piper, p. 	^ janson, p. 	^ according to ernst gombrich. 	^ plato. critias ( b– b), trans w.r.m. lamb . at the perseus project accessed june 	^ janson, p. 	^ john hope-hennessy, the portrait in the renaissance, bollingen foundation, new york, , pp. – 	^ pliny the elder, natural history xxxv: trans h. rackham . loeb classical library 	^ janson, p. 	^ janson, p. 	^ a b daniel thomas howells ( ). "a catalogue of the late antique gold glass in the british museum (pdf)." london: the british museum (arts and humanities research council). accessed october , p. : "other important contributions to scholarship included the publication of an extensive summary of gold glass scholarship under the entry ‘fonds de coupes’ in fernand cabrol and henri leclercq’s comprehensive dictionnaire d’archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie in . leclercq updated vopel’s catalogue, recording gold glasses considered to be genuine, and developed a typological series consisting of eleven iconographic subjects: biblical subjects; christ and the saints; various legends; inscriptions; pagan deities; secular subjects; male portraits; female portraits; portraits of couples and families; animals; and jewish symbols. in a article devoted to the brushed technique gold glass known as the brescia medallion (pl. ), fernand de mély challenged the deeply ingrained opinion of garrucci and vopel that all examples of brushed technique gold glass were in fact forgeries. the following year, de mély’s hypothesis was supported and further elaborated upon in two articles by different scholars. a case for the brescia medallion’s authenticity was argued for, not on the basis of its iconographic and orthographic similarity with pieces from rome (a key reason for garrucci's dismissal), but instead for its close similarity to the fayoum mummy portraits from egypt. indeed, this comparison was given further credence by walter crum’s assertion that the greek inscription on the medallion was written in the alexandrian dialect of egypt. de mély noted that the medallion and its inscription had been reported as early as , far too early for the idiosyncrasies of graeco-egyptian word endings to have been understood by forgers." "comparing the iconography of the brescia medallion with other more closely dated objects from egypt, hayford peirce then proposed that brushed technique medallions were produced in the early rd century, whilst de mély himself advocated a more general rd-century date. with the authenticity of the medallion more firmly established, joseph breck was prepared to propose a late rd to early th century date for all of the brushed technique cobalt blue-backed portrait medallions, some of which also had greek inscriptions in the alexandrian dialect. although considered genuine by the majority of scholars by this point, the unequivocal authenticity of these glasses was not fully established until when gerhart ladner discovered and published a photograph of one such medallion still in situ, where it remains to this day, impressed into the plaster sealing in an individual loculus in the catacomb of panfilo in rome (pl. ). shortly after in , morey used the phrase ‘brushed technique’ to categorize this gold glass type, the iconography being produced through a series of small incisions undertaken with a gem cutter’s precision and lending themselves to a chiaroscuro-like effect similar to that of a fine steel engraving simulating brush strokes." 	^ beckwith, - , 	^ grig, throughout 	^ honour and fleming, pt , "the catacombs" at illustration . 	^ weitzmann, no. , entry by j.d.b.; see also no. ; medallion with a portrait of gennadios, metropolitan museum of art, with better image. 	^ boardman, - ; beckwith, 	^ vickers, 	^ grig, 	^ jás elsner ( ). "the changing nature of roman art and the art historical problem of style," in eva r. hoffman (ed), late antique and medieval art of the medieval world, - . oxford, malden & carlton: blackwell publishing. isbn  - - - - , p. , figure . on p. . 	^ sines and sakellarakis, - 	^ grig, ; lutraan, - goes into considerable detail 	^ natural history (pliny) online at the perseus project 	^ josephus, the jewish wars vii, - (ch para ). trans. william whiston online accessed june 	^ strong, – ; henig, - 	^ henig, 	^ henig, – ; strong, – , ; at the trial of verres, former governor of sicily, cicero's prosecution details his depredations of art collections at great length. 	^ henig, – 	^ henig, – 	^ henig, ; strong, 	^ henig, – ;strong, – , – , – , – , – , – , – 	^ henig, chapter ; strong, – 	^ henig, chapter 	^ strong, – , – 	^ kitzinger, (both quotes), more generally his ch ; strong, – , – , – 	^ strong, – , – , – ; henig, – 	^ d.b. saddington ( ) [ ]. "the evolution of the roman imperial fleets," in paul erdkamp (ed), a companion to the roman army, - . malden, oxford, chichester: wiley-blackwell. isbn  - - - - . plate . on p. . 	^ coarelli, filippo ( ), i santuari del lazio in età repubblicana. nis, rome, pp - . 	^ gazda, elaine k. ( ). "roman sculpture and the ethos of emulation: reconsidering repetition". harvard studies in classical philology. department of the classics, harvard university. 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material used in construction during the late roman republic and empire the pantheon in rome is an example of roman concrete construction. roman concrete, also called opus caementicium, was a material used in construction in ancient rome. roman concrete was based on a hydraulic-setting cement. it is durable due to its incorporation of pozzolanic ash, which prevents cracks from spreading. by the middle of the st century, the material was used frequently, often brick-faced, although variations in aggregate allowed different arrangements of materials. further innovative developments in the material, called the concrete revolution, contributed to structurally complicated forms, such as the pantheon dome, the world's largest and oldest unreinforced concrete dome.[ ] roman concrete was normally faced with stone or brick, and interiors might be further decorated by stucco, fresco paintings, or thin slabs of fancy colored marbles. made up of aggregate and cement, like modern concrete, it differed in that the aggregate pieces were typically far larger than in modern concrete, often amounting to rubble, and as a result it was laid rather than poured.[ ] some roman concretes were able to be set underwater, which was useful for bridges and other waterside construction. it is uncertain when roman concrete was developed, but it was clearly in widespread and customary use from about bc; some scholars believe it was developed a century before that.[ ] contents 	 historic references 	 material properties 	 seismic technology 	 modern use 	 see also 	 literature 	 references 	 external links historic references[edit] caesarea is the earliest known example to have used underwater roman concrete technology on such a large scale. vitruvius, writing around bc in his ten books on architecture, distinguished types of aggregate appropriate for the preparation of lime mortars. for structural mortars, he recommended pozzolana (pulvis puteolanus in latin), the volcanic sand from the beds of pozzuoli, which are brownish-yellow-gray in color in that area around naples, and reddish-brown near rome. vitruvius specifies a ratio of part lime to parts pozzolana for cement used in buildings and a : ratio of lime to pozzolana for underwater work, essentially the same ratio mixed today for concrete used in marine locations.[ ] by the middle of the first century, the principles of underwater construction in concrete were well known to roman builders. the city of caesarea was the earliest known example to have made use of underwater roman concrete technology on such a large scale.[ ] for rebuilding rome after the fire in ad, which destroyed large portions of the city, nero's new building code largely called for brick-faced concrete. this appears to have encouraged the development of the brick and concrete industries.[ ] example of opus caementicium on a tomb on the ancient appian way in rome. the original covering has been removed. material properties[edit] roman concrete, like any concrete, consists of an aggregate and hydraulic mortar – a binder mixed with water that hardens over time. the aggregate varied, and included pieces of rock, ceramic tile, and brick rubble from the remains of previously demolished buildings. gypsum and quicklime were used as binders. volcanic dusts, called pozzolana or "pit sand", were favored where they could be obtained. pozzolana makes the concrete more resistant to salt water than modern-day concrete.[ ] the pozzolanic mortar used had a high content of alumina and silica. tuff was often used as an aggregate.[ ] concrete, and in particular, the hydraulic mortar responsible for its cohesion, was a type of structural ceramic whose utility derived largely from its rheological plasticity in the paste state. the setting and hardening of hydraulic cements derived from hydration of materials and the subsequent chemical and physical interaction of these hydration products. this differed from the setting of slaked lime mortars, the most common cements of the pre-roman world. once set, roman concrete exhibited little plasticity, although it retained some resistance to tensile stresses. the setting of pozzolanic cements has much in common with setting of their modern counterpart, portland cement. the high silica composition of roman pozzolana cements is very close to that of modern cement to which blast furnace slag, fly ash, or silica fume have been added. the strength and longevity of roman marine concrete is understood to benefit from a reaction of seawater with a mixture of volcanic ash and quicklime to create a rare crystal called tobermorite, which may resist fracturing. as seawater percolated within the tiny cracks in the roman concrete, it reacted with phillipsite naturally found in the volcanic rock and created aluminous tobermorite crystals. the result is a candidate for "the most durable building material in human history". in contrast, modern concrete exposed to saltwater deteriorates within decades.[ ][ ][ ] crystal structure of tobermorite: elementary unit cell compressive strengths for modern portland cements are typically at the megapascals ( ,  psi) level and have improved almost ten-fold since .[ ][ ] there are no comparable mechanical data for ancient mortars, although some information about tensile strength may be inferred from the cracking of roman concrete domes. these tensile strengths vary substantially from the water/cement ratio used in the initial mix. at present, there is no way of ascertaining what water/cement ratios the romans used, nor are there extensive data for the effects of this ratio on the strengths of pozzolanic cements.[ ][ ] seismic technology[edit] for an environment as prone to earthquakes as the italian peninsula, interruptions and internal constructions within walls and domes created discontinuities in the concrete mass. portions of the building could then shift slightly when there was movement of the earth to accommodate such stresses, enhancing the overall strength of the structure. it was in this sense that bricks and concrete were flexible. it may have been precisely for this reason that, although many buildings sustained serious cracking from a variety of causes, they continue to stand to this day.[ ] another technology used to improve the strength and stability of concrete was its gradation in domes. one example is the pantheon, where the aggregate of the upper dome region consists of alternating layers of light tuff and pumice, giving the concrete a density of , kilograms per cubic metre (  lb/cu ft). the foundation of the structure used travertine as an aggregate, having a much higher density of , kilograms per cubic metre (  lb/cu ft).[ ] modern use[edit] recent scientific breakthroughs examining roman concrete have been gathering media and industry attention.[ ] because of its unusual durability, longevity and lessened environmental footprint, corporations and municipalities are starting to explore the use of roman-style concrete in north america, replacing the coal fly ash with volcanic ash that has similar properties. proponents claim that concrete made with volcanic ash can cost up to % less because it requires less cement, and that it has a smaller environmental footprint due to its lower cooking temperature and much longer lifespan.[ ] usable examples of roman concrete exposed to harsh marine environments have been found to be years old with little or no wear.[ ] see also[edit] 	energetically modified cement (emc) – class of cements, mechanically processed to transform reactivity 	geopolymer 	roman brick – a style of brick used in ancient roman architecture 	pozzolanic reaction 	tobermorite – inosilicate alteration mineral in metamorphosed limestone and in skarn literature[edit] 	jean-pierre adam, anthony mathews, roman building, 	lynne c. lancaster, concrete vaulted construction in imperial rome, cambridge university press, 	heather n. lechtman & linn w. hobbs, "roman concrete and the roman architectural revolution", ceramics and civilization volume : high technology ceramics: past, present, future, edited by w. d. kingery and published by the american ceramics society, 	w. l. macdonald, the architecture of the roman empire, rev. ed. yale university press, new haven, references[edit] 	^ moore, david (february ). 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trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 plautus - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	plautus 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		for the roman noble, see rubellius plautus. for the genus also known as pinguinus, see great auk. roman comic playwright of the old latin period roman comic playwright of the old latin period 	plautus 	bust of plautus 	born	c. bc sarsina, roman republic 	died	 bc rome, roman republic 	nationality	roman 	period	ancient rome 	genre	comedy titus maccius plautus (/ˈplɔːtəs/; c. – bc), commonly known as plautus, was a roman playwright of the old latin period. his comedies are the earliest latin literary works to have survived in their entirety. he wrote palliata comoedia, the genre devised by the innovator of latin literature, livius andronicus. the word plautine /ˈplɔːtaɪn/ refers to both plautus's own works and works similar to or influenced by his. contents 	 biography 	 manuscript tradition 	 surviving plays 	 fragmentary plays 	 historical context 	 . roman society deities 	 . second punic war and macedonian war 	 influences 	 . greek old comedy 	 . greek new comedy 	 . father–son relationships 	 . farce 	 . prologues 	 . character 	 . . the clever slave 	 . understanding of greek by plautus' audience 	 . disputed originality 	 . contaminatio 	 stagecraft 	 . the importance of the ludi 	 . geography of the stage 	 . relationship with the audience 	 . stock characters 	 . . the clever slave 	 . . the lustful old man 	 . female characters 	 . unnamed characters 	 language and style 	 . overview 	 . archaic features 	 . means of expression 	 . poetic devices 	 . jokes and wordplay 	 . meter 	 . vigor and immediacy 	 influence 	 . the middle ages and early renaissance 	 . shakespeare 	 . later periods 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links biography[edit] not much is known about titus maccius plautus' early life. it is believed that he was born in sarsina, a small town in emilia romagna in northern italy, around bc.[ ] according to morris marples, plautus worked as a stage-carpenter or scene-shifter in his early years.[ ] it is from this work, perhaps, that his love of the theater originated. his acting talent was eventually discovered; and he adopted the names "maccius" (a clownish stock-character in popular farces) and "plautus" (a term meaning either "flat-footed" or "flat-eared", like the ears of a hound).[ ] tradition holds that he made enough money to go into the nautical business, but that the venture collapsed. he is then said to have worked as a manual laborer and to have studied greek drama—particularly the new comedy of menander—in his leisure. his studies allowed him to produce his plays, which were released between c. and bc. plautus attained such a popularity that his name alone became a hallmark of theatrical success. plautus's comedies are mostly adapted from greek models for a roman audience, and are often based directly on the works of the greek playwrights. he reworked the greek texts to give them a flavour that would appeal to the local roman audiences. they are the earliest surviving intact works in latin literature. plautus's epitaph read: postquam est mortem aptus plautus, comoedia luget, scaena est deserta, dein risus, ludus iocusque et numeri innumeri simul omnes conlacrimarunt. since plautus is dead, comedy mourns, the stage is deserted; then laughter, jest and wit, and all melody's countless numbers wept together. manuscript tradition[edit] plautus wrote around plays,[ ] of which have survived intact, making him the most prolific ancient dramatist in terms of surviving work. only short fragments, mostly quotations by later writers of antiquity, survive from other plays. despite this, the manuscript tradition of plautus is poorer than that of any other ancient dramatist, something not helped by the failure of scholia on plautus to survive. the chief manuscript of plautus is a palimpsest, known as the ambrosian palimpsest (a), in which plautus' plays had been scrubbed out to make way for augustine's commentary on the psalms. the monk who performed this was more successful in some places than others. he seems to have begun furiously, scrubbing out plautus' alphabetically arranged plays with zest before growing lazy, then finally regaining his vigor at the end of the manuscript to ensure not a word of plautus was legible. although modern technology has allowed classicists to view much of the effaced material, plays beginning in letters early in the alphabet have very poor texts (e.g. the end of aulularia and start of bacchides are lost), plays with letters in the middle of the alphabet have decent texts, while only traces survive of the play vidularia. a second manuscript tradition is represented by manuscripts of the palatine family, so called because two of its most important manuscripts were once kept in the library of the elector palatine in heidelberg in germany.[ ] the archetype of this family is now lost but it can be reconstructed from various later manuscripts, some of them containing either only the first half or the second half of the plays. the most important manuscript of this group is "b", of the th or early th century, now kept in the vatican library. surviving plays[edit] 	amphitryon (missing large segments towards end) 	asinaria 	aulularia (missing ending) 	bacchides (twenty large fragments) 	captivi 	casina 	cistellaria (missing large segments) 	curculio 	epidicus 	menaechmi 	mercator 	miles gloriosus 	mostellaria 	persa 	poenulus 	pseudolus 	rudens 	stichus 	trinummus 	truculentus fragmentary plays[edit] only the titles and various fragments of these plays have survived. 	acharistio 	addictus 	ambroicus, or agroicus ("the rustic man") 	artamo ("the mainsail") 	astraba 	baccharia 	bis compressa ("the twice-seduced woman") 	boeotia 	caecus ("the blind man"), or praedones ("plunderers") 	calceolus ("the little shoe") 	carbonaria ("the female charcoal-burner") 	clitellaria, or astraba 	colax ("the flatterer") 	commorientes ("those dying together") 	condalium ("the slave ring") 	cornicularia 	dyscolus ("the grouch") 	foeneratrix ("the lady moneylender") 	fretum ("the strait", or "channel") 	frivolaria ("trifles") 	fugitivi ("the runaways"—possibly by turpilius [la]) 	gastrion, or gastron 	hortulus ("little garden") 	kakistus (possibly by accius) 	lenones gemini ("the twin pimps") 	nervolaria 	parasitus medicus ("the parasite physician") 	parasitus piger ("the lazy parasite"), or lipargus 	phagon ("the glutton") 	plociona 	saturio 	scytha liturgus 	sitellitergus ("the toilet cleaner") 	trigemini ("triplets") 	vidularia historical context[edit] the historical context within which plautus wrote can be seen, to some extent, in his comments on contemporary events and persons. plautus was a popular comedic playwright while roman theatre was still in its infancy and still largely undeveloped. at the same time, the roman republic was expanding in power and influence.[citation needed] roman society deities[edit] plautus was sometimes accused of teaching the public indifference and mockery of the gods. any character in his plays could be compared to a god. whether to honour a character or to mock him, these references were demeaning to the gods. these references to the gods include a character comparing a mortal woman to a god, or saying he would rather be loved by a woman than by the gods. pyrgopolynices from miles gloriosus (vs. ), in bragging about his long life, says he was born one day later than jupiter. in curculio, phaedrome says "i am a god" when he first meets with planesium. in pseudolus, jupiter is compared to ballio the pimp. it is not uncommon, too, for a character to scorn the gods, as seen in poenulus and rudens. however, when a character scorns a god, it is usually a character of low standing, such as a pimp. plautus perhaps does this to demoralize the characters.[original research?] soldiers often bring ridicule among the gods. young men, meant to represent the upper social class, often belittle the gods in their remarks. parasites, pimps, and courtesans often praise the gods with scant ceremony. tolliver argues that drama both reflects and foreshadows social change. it is likely that there was already much skepticism about the gods in plautus' era. plautus did not make up or encourage irreverence to the gods, but reflected ideas of his time. the state controlled stage productions, and plautus' plays would have been banned, had they been too risqué.[ ] second punic war and macedonian war[edit] the second punic war occurred from – bc; its central event was hannibal's invasion of italy. m. leigh has devoted an extensive chapter about plautus and hannibal in his book, comedy and the rise of rome. he says that "the plays themselves contain occasional references to the fact that the state is at arms...".[ ] one good example is a piece of verse from the miles gloriosus, the composition date of which is not clear but which is often placed in the last decade of the rd century bc.[ ] a. f. west believes that this is inserted commentary on the second punic war. in his article "on a patriotic passage in the miles gloriosus of plautus", he states that the war "engrossed the romans more than all other public interests combined".[ ] the passage seems intended to rile up the audience, beginning with hostis tibi adesse, or "the foe is near at hand".[ ] at the time, the general scipio africanus wanted to confront hannibal, a plan "strongly favored by the plebs".[ ] plautus apparently pushes for the plan to be approved by the senate, working his audience up with the thought of an enemy in close proximity and a call to outmaneuver him. therefore, it is reasonable to say that plautus, according to p. b. harvey, was "willing to insert [into his plays] highly specific allusions comprehensible to the audience".[ ] m. leigh writes in his chapter on plautus and hannibal that "the plautus who emerges from this investigation is one whose comedies persistently touch the rawest nerves in the audience for whom he writes".[ ] later, coming off the heels of the conflict with hannibal, rome was preparing to embark on another military mission, this time in greece. while they would eventually move on philip v in the second macedonian war, there was considerable debate beforehand about the course rome should take in this conflict. but starting this war would not be an easy task considering those recent struggles with carthage—many romans were too tired of conflict to think of embarking on another campaign. as w. m. owens writes in his article "plautus' stichus and the political crisis of b.c.", "there is evidence that antiwar feeling ran deep and persisted even after the war was approved."[ ] owens contends that plautus was attempting to match the complex mood of the roman audience riding the victory of the second punic war but facing the beginning of a new conflict.[ ] for instance, the characters of the dutiful daughters and their father seem obsessed over the idea of officium, the duty one has to do what is right. their speech is littered with words such as pietas and aequus, and they struggle to make their father fulfill his proper role.[ ] the stock parasite in this play, gelasimus, has a patron-client relationship with this family and offers to do any job in order to make ends meet; owens puts forward that plautus is portraying the economic hardship many roman citizens were experiencing due to the cost of war.[ ] with the repetition of responsibility to the desperation of the lower class, plautus establishes himself firmly on the side of the average roman citizen. while he makes no specific reference to the possible war with greece or the previous war (that might be too dangerous), he does seem to push the message that the government should take care of its own people before attempting any other military actions. influences[edit] greek old comedy[edit] in order to understand the greek new comedy of menander and its similarities to plautus, it is necessary to discuss, in juxtaposition with it, the days of greek old comedy and its evolution into new comedy. the ancient greek playwright who best embodies old comedy is aristophanes. a playwright of th century athens, he wrote works of political satire such as the wasps and the clouds. aristophanes' work is noted for its critical commentary on politics and societal values,[ ] which is the key component of old comedy: consciousness of the world in which it is written, and analysis of this world. comedy and theater were means for the political commentary of the time—the public conscience. unlike aristophanes, plautus avoided discussion of current events (in a narrow sense of the term) in his comedies.[ ] greek new comedy[edit] greek new comedy greatly differs from those plays of aristophanes. the most notable difference, according to dana f. sutton, is that new comedy, in comparison to old comedy, is "devoid of a serious political, social or intellectual content" and "could be performed in any number of social and political settings without risk of giving offense".[ ] the risk-taking for which aristophanes is known is noticeably lacking in the new comedy plays of menander. instead, there is much more of a focus on the home and the family unit—something that the romans, including plautus, could easily understand and adopt for themselves later in history. father–son relationships[edit] one main theme of greek new comedy is the father–son relationship. for example, in menander's dis exapaton there is a focus on the betrayal between age groups and friends. the father-son relationship is very strong and the son remains loyal to the father. the relationship is always a focus, even if it's not the focus of every action taken by the main characters. in plautus, on the other hand, the focus is still on the relationship between father and son, but we see betrayal between the two men that wasn't seen in menander. there is a focus on the proper conduct between a father and son that, apparently, was so important to roman society at the time of plautus. this becomes the main difference and, also, similarity between menander and plautus. they both address "situations that tend to develop in the bosom of the family".[ ] both authors, through their plays, reflect a patriarchal society in which the father-son relationship is essential to proper function and development of the household.[ ] it is no longer a political statement, as in old comedy, but a statement about household relations and proper behavior between a father and his son. but the attitudes on these relationships seem much different—a reflection of how the worlds of menander and plautus differed. farce[edit] for the italian tradition of farce, see atellan farce. there are differences not just in how the father-son relationship is presented, but also in the way in which menander and plautus write their poetry. william s. anderson discusses the believability of menander versus the believability of plautus and, in essence, says that plautus' plays are much less believable than those plays of menander because they seem to be such a farce in comparison. he addresses them as a reflection of menander with some of plautus' own contributions. anderson claims that there is unevenness in the poetry of plautus that results in "incredulity and refusal of sympathy of the audience."[ ] prologues[edit] the poetry of menander and plautus is best juxtaposed in their prologues. robert b. lloyd makes the point that "albeit the two prologues introduce plays whose plots are of essentially different types, they are almost identical in form..."[ ] he goes on to address the specific style of plautus that differs so greatly from menander. he says that the "verbosity of the plautine prologues has often been commented upon and generally excused by the necessity of the roman playwright to win his audience."[ ] however, in both menander and plautus, word play is essential to their comedy. plautus might seem more verbose, but where he lacks in physical comedy he makes up for it with words, alliteration and paronomasia (punning).[ ] see also "jokes and wordplay" below. plautus is well known for his devotion to puns, especially when it comes to the names of his characters. in miles gloriosus, for instance, the female concubine's name, philocomasium, translates to "lover of a good party"—which is quite apt when we learn about the tricks and wild ways of this prostitute. character[edit] plautus' characters—many of which seem to crop up in quite a few of his plays—also came from greek stock, though they too received some plautine innovations. indeed, since plautus was adapting these plays it would be difficult not to have the same kinds of characters—roles such as slaves, concubines, soldiers, and old men. by working with the characters that were already there but injecting his own creativity, as j.c.b. lowe wrote in his article "aspects of plautus' originality in the asinaria", "plautus could substantially modify the characterization, and thus the whole emphasis of a play."[ ] the clever slave[edit] one of the best examples of this method is the plautine slave, a form that plays a major role in quite a few of plautus' works. the "clever slave" in particular is a very strong character; he not only provides exposition and humor, but also often drives the plot in plautus' plays. c. stace argues that plautus took the stock slave character from new comedy in greece and altered it for his own purposes. in new comedy, he writes, "the slave is often not much more than a comedic turn, with the added purpose, perhaps, of exposition".[ ] this shows that there was precedent for this slave archetype, and obviously some of its old role continues in plautus (the expository monologues, for instance). however, because plautus found humor in slaves tricking their masters or comparing themselves to great heroes, he took the character a step further and created something distinct.[ ] understanding of greek by plautus' audience[edit] of the approximate proper names in the surviving plays of plautus, about names are greek.[ ] william m. seaman proposes that these greek names would have delivered a comic punch to the audience because of its basic understanding of the greek language.[ ] this previous understanding of greek language, seaman suggests, comes from the "experience of roman soldiers during the first and second punic wars. not only did men billeted in greek areas have opportunity to learn sufficient greek for the purpose of everyday conversation, but they were also able to see plays in the foreign tongue."[ ] having an audience with knowledge of the greek language, whether limited or more expanded, allowed plautus more freedom to use greek references and words. also, by using his many greek references and showing that his plays were originally greek, "it is possible that plautus was in a way a teacher of greek literature, myth, art and philosophy; so too was he teaching something of the nature of greek words to people, who, like himself, had recently come into closer contact with that foreign tongue and all its riches."[ ] at the time of plautus, rome was expanding, and having much success in greece. w.s. anderson has commented that plautus "is using and abusing greek comedy to imply the superiority of rome, in all its crude vitality, over the greek world, which was now the political dependent of rome, whose effete comic plots helped explain why the greeks proved inadequate in the real world of the third and second centuries, in which the romans exercised mastery".[ ] disputed originality[edit] plautus was known for the use of greek style in his plays, as part of the tradition of the variation on a theme. this has been a point of contention among modern scholars. one argument states that plautus writes with originality and creativity—the other, that plautus is a copycat of greek new comedy and that he makes no original contribution to playwriting.[citation needed] a single reading of the miles gloriosus leaves the reader with the notion that the names, place, and play are all greek, but one must look beyond these superficial interpretations. w.s. anderson would steer any reader away from the idea that plautus' plays are somehow not his own or at least only his interpretation. anderson says that, "plautus homogenizes all the plays as vehicles for his special exploitation. against the spirit of the greek original, he engineers events at the end... or alter[s] the situation to fit his expectations."[ ] anderson's vehement reaction to the co-opting of greek plays by plautus seems to suggest that they are in no way like their originals were. it seems more likely that plautus was just experimenting putting roman ideas in greek forms. contaminatio[edit] one idea that is important to recognize is that of contaminatio, which refers to the mixing of elements of two or more source plays. plautus, it seems, is quite open to this method of adaptation, and quite a few of his plots seem stitched together from different stories. one excellent example is his bacchides and its supposed greek predecessor, menander's dis exapaton. the original greek title translates as "the man deceiving twice", yet the plautine version has three tricks.[ ] v. castellani commented that: plautus' attack on the genre whose material he pirated was, as already stated, fourfold. he deconstructed many of the greek plays' finely constructed plots; he reduced some, exaggerated others of the nicely drawn characters of menander and of menander's contemporaries and followers into caricatures; he substituted for or superimposed upon the elegant humor of his models his own more vigorous, more simply ridiculous foolery in action, in statement, even in language.[ ] by exploring ideas about roman loyalty, greek deceit, and differences in ethnicity, "plautus in a sense surpassed his model."[ ] he was not content to rest solely on a loyal adaptation that, while amusing, was not new or engaging for rome. plautus took what he found but again made sure to expand, subtract, and modify. he seems to have followed the same path that horace did, though horace is much later, in that he is putting roman ideas in greek forms. he not only imitated the greeks, but in fact distorted, cut up, and transformed the plays into something entirely roman. in essence it is greek theater colonized by rome and its playwrights. stagecraft[edit] in ancient greece during the time of new comedy, from which plautus drew so much of his inspiration, there were permanent theaters that catered to the audience as well as the actor. the greatest playwrights of the day had quality facilities in which to present their work and, in a general sense, there was always enough public support to keep the theater running and successful. however, this was not the case in rome during the time of the republic, when plautus wrote his plays. while there was public support for theater and people came to enjoy tragedy and comedy alike, no permanent theater existed in rome until pompey dedicated one in bc in the campus martius.[ ] the lack of a permanent space was a key factor in roman theater and plautine stagecraft. in their introduction to the miles gloriosus, hammond, mack and moskalew say that "the romans were acquainted with the greek stone theater, but, because they believed drama to be a demoralizing influence, they had a strong aversion to the erection of permanent theaters".[ ] this worry rings true when considering the subject matter of plautus' plays. the unreal becomes reality on stage in his work. t. j. moore notes that, "all distinction between the play, production, and 'real life' has been obliterated [plautus' play curculio]".[ ] a place where social norms were upended was inherently suspect. the aristocracy was afraid of the power of the theater. it was merely by their good graces and unlimited resources that a temporary stage would have been built during specific festivals. the importance of the ludi[edit] main article: ludi roman drama, specifically plautine comedy, was acted out on stage during the ludi or festival games. in his discussion of the importance of the ludi megalenses in early roman theater, john arthur hanson says that this particular festival "provided more days for dramatic representations than any of the other regular festivals, and it is in connection with these ludi that the most definite and secure literary evidence for the site of scenic games has come down to us".[ ] because the ludi were religious in nature, it was appropriate for the romans to set up this temporary stage close to the temple of the deity being celebrated. s.m. goldberg notes that "ludi were generally held within the precinct of the particular god being honored."[ ] t. j. moore notes that "seating in the temporary theaters where plautus' plays were first performed was often insufficient for all those who wished to see the play, that the primary criterion for determining who was to stand and who could sit was social status".[ ] this is not to say that the lower classes did not see the plays; but they probably had to stand while watching. plays were performed in public, for the public, with the most prominent members of the society in the forefront. the wooden stages on which plautus' plays appeared were shallow and long with three openings in respect to the scene-house. the stages were significantly smaller than any greek structure familiar to modern scholars. because theater was not a priority during plautus' time, the structures were built and dismantled within a day. even more practically, they were dismantled quickly due to their potential as fire-hazards.[ ] geography of the stage[edit] often the geography of the stage and more importantly the play matched the geography of the city so that the audience would be well oriented to the locale of the play. moore says that, "references to roman locales must have been stunning for they are not merely references to things roman, but the most blatant possible reminders that the production occurs in the city of rome".[ ] so, plautus seems to have choreographed his plays somewhat true-to-life. to do this, he needed his characters to exit and enter to or from whatever area their social standing would befit. two scholars, v. j. rosivach and n. e. andrews, have made interesting observations about stagecraft in plautus: v. j. rosivach writes about identifying the side of the stage with both social status and geography. he says that, for example, "the house of the medicus lies offstage to the right. it would be in the forum or thereabouts that one would expect to find a medicus."[ ] moreover, he says that characters that oppose one another always have to exit in opposite directions. in a slightly different vein, n.e. andrews discusses the spatial semantics of plautus; she has observed that even the different spaces of the stage are thematically charged. she states: plautus' casina employs these conventional tragic correlations between male/outside and female/inside, but then inverts them in order to establish an even more complex relationship among genre, gender and dramatic space. in the casina, the struggle for control between men and women... is articulated by characters' efforts to control stage movement into and out of the house.[ ] andrews makes note of the fact that power struggle in the casina is evident in the verbal comings and goings. the words of action and the way that they are said are important to stagecraft. the words denoting direction or action such as abeo ("i go off"), transeo ("i go over"), fores crepuerunt ("the doors creak"), or intus ("inside"), which signal any character's departure or entrance, are standard in the dialogue of plautus' plays. these verbs of motion or phrases can be taken as plautine stage directions since no overt stage directions are apparent. often, though, in these interchanges of characters, there occurs the need to move on to the next act. plautus then might use what is known as a "cover monologue". about this s.m. goldberg notes that, "it marks the passage of time less by its length than by its direct and immediate address to the audience and by its switch from senarii in the dialogue to iambic septenarii. the resulting shift of mood distracts and distorts our sense of passing time."[ ] relationship with the audience[edit] the small stages had a significant effect on the stagecraft of ancient roman theater. because of this limited space, there was also limited movement. greek theater allowed for grand gestures and extensive action to reach the audience members who were in the very back of the theater. however the romans would have had to depend more on their voices than large physicality. there was not an orchestra available as there was for the greeks and this is reflected in the notable lack of a chorus in roman drama. the replacement character that acts as the chorus would in greek drama is often called the "prologue".[ ] goldberg says that "these changes fostered a different relationship between actors and the space in which they performed and also between them and their audiences".[ ] actors were thrust into much closer audience interaction. because of this, a certain acting style became required that is more familiar to modern audiences. because they would have been in such close proximity to the actors, ancient roman audiences would have wanted attention and direct acknowledgement from the actors.[ ] because there was no orchestra, there was no space separating the audience from the stage. the audience could stand directly in front of the elevated wooden platform. this gave them the opportunity to look at the actors from a much different perspective. they would have seen every detail of the actor and hear every word he said. the audience member would have wanted that actor to speak directly to them. it was a part of the thrill of the performance, as it is to this day.[ ] stock characters[edit] plautus' range of characters was created through his use of various techniques, but probably the most important is his use of stock characters and situations in his various plays. he incorporates the same stock characters constantly, especially when the character type is amusing to the audience. as walter juniper wrote, "everything, including artistic characterization and consistency of characterization, were sacrificed to humor, and character portrayal remained only where it was necessary for the success of the plot and humor to have a persona who stayed in character, and where the persona by his portrayal contributed to humor."[ ] for example, in miles gloriosus, the titular "braggart soldier" pyrgopolynices only shows his vain and immodest side in the first act, while the parasite artotrogus exaggerates pyrgopolynices' achievements, creating more and more ludicrous claims that pyrgopolynices agrees to without question. these two are perfect examples of the stock characters of the pompous soldier and the desperate parasite that appeared in plautine comedies. in disposing of highly complex individuals, plautus was supplying his audience with what it wanted, since "the audience to whose tastes plautus catered was not interested in the character play,"[ ] but instead wanted the broad and accessible humor offered by stock set-ups. the humor plautus offered, such as "puns, word plays, distortions of meaning, or other forms of verbal humor he usually puts them in the mouths of characters belonging to the lower social ranks, to whose language and position these varieties of humorous technique are most suitable,"[ ] matched well with the stable of characters. the clever slave[edit] in his article "the intriguing slave in greek comedy," philip harsh gives evidence to show that the clever slave is not an invention of plautus. while previous critics such as a. w. gomme believed that the slave was "[a] truly comic character, the devisor of ingenious schemes, the controller of events, the commanding officer of his young master and friends, is a creation of latin comedy," and that greek dramatists such as menander did not use slaves in such a way that plautus later did, harsh refutes these beliefs by giving concrete examples of instances where a clever slave appeared in greek comedy.[ ] for instance, in the works of athenaeus, alciphron, and lucian there are deceptions that involve the aid of a slave, and in menander's dis exapaton there was an elaborate deception executed by a clever slave that plautus mirrors in his bacchides. evidence of clever slaves also appears in menander's thalis, hypobolimaios, and from the papyrus fragment of his perinthia. harsh acknowledges that gomme's statement was probably made before the discovery of many of the papyri that we now have. while it was not necessarily a roman invention, plautus did develop his own style of depicting the clever slave. with larger, more active roles, more verbal exaggeration and exuberance, the slave was moved by plautus further into the front of the action.[ ] because of the inversion of order created by a devious or witty slave, this stock character was perfect for achieving a humorous response and the traits of the character worked well for driving the plot forward. the lustful old man[edit] another important plautine stock character, discussed by k.c. ryder, is the senex amator. a senex amator is classified as an old man who contracts a passion for a young girl and who, in varying degrees, attempts to satisfy this passion. in plautus these men are demaenetus (asinaria), philoxenus and nicobulus (bacchides), demipho (cistellaria), lysidamus (casina), demipho (mercator), and antipho (stichus). periplectomenos (miles gloriosus) and daemones (rudens) are regarded as senes lepidi because they usually keep their feelings within a respectable limit. all of these characters have the same goal, to be with a younger woman, but all go about it in different ways, as plautus could not be too redundant with his characters despite their already obvious similarities. what they have in common is the ridicule with which their attempts are viewed, the imagery that suggests that they are motivated largely by animal passion, the childish behavior, and the reversion to the love-language of their youth.[ ] female characters[edit] in examining the female role designations of plautus's plays, z.m. packman found that they are not as stable as their male counterparts: a senex will usually remain a senex for the duration of the play but designations like matrona, mulier, or uxor at times seem interchangeable. most free adult women, married or widowed, appear in scene headings as mulier, simply translated as "woman". but in plautus' stichus the two young women are referred to as sorores, later mulieres, and then matronae, all of which have different meanings and connotations. although there are these discrepancies, packman tries to give a pattern to the female role designations of plautus. mulier is typically given to a woman of citizen class and of marriageable age or who has already been married. unmarried citizen-class girls, regardless of sexual experience, were designated virgo. ancilla was the term used for female household slaves, with anus reserved for the elderly household slaves. a young woman who is unwed due to social status is usually referred to as meretrix or "courtesan". a lena, or adoptive mother, may be a woman who owns these girls.[ ] unnamed characters[edit] like packman, george duckworth uses the scene headings in the manuscripts to support his theory about unnamed plautine characters. there are approximately characters in the plays of plautus. thirty are unnamed in both the scene headings and the text and there are about nine characters who are named in the ancient text but not in any modern one. this means that about % of the total number of characters in plautus are nameless. most of the very important characters have names while most of the unnamed characters are of less importance. however, there are some abnormalities—the main character in casina is not mentioned by name anywhere in the text. in other instances, plautus will give a name to a character that only has a few words or lines. one explanation is that some of the names have been lost over the years; and for the most part, major characters do have names.[ ] language and style[edit] overview[edit] the language and style of plautus are not easy or simple. he wrote in a colloquial style far from the codified form of latin that is found in ovid or virgil. this colloquial style is the everyday speech that plautus would have been familiar with, yet that means that most students of latin are unfamiliar with it. adding to the unfamiliarity of plautine language is the inconsistency of the irregularities that occur in the texts. in one of his prolific word-studies, a.w. hodgman noted that: the statements that one meets with, that this or that form is "common," or "regular," in plautus, are frequently misleading, or even incorrect, and are usually unsatisfying.... i have gained an increasing respect for the manuscript tradition, a growing belief that the irregularities are, after all, in a certain sense regular. the whole system of inflexion—and, i suspect, of syntax also and of versification—was less fixed and stable in plautus' time than it became later.[ ] archaic features[edit] the diction of plautus, who used the colloquial speech of his own day, is distinctive and non-standard from the point of view of the later, classical period. m. hammond, a.h. mack, and w. moskalew have noted in the introduction to their edition of the miles gloriosus that plautus was "free from convention... [and] sought to reproduce the easy tone of daily speech rather than the formal regularity of oratory or poetry. hence, many of the irregularities which have troubled scribes and scholars perhaps merely reflect the everyday usages of the careless and untrained tongues which plautus heard about him."[ ] looking at the overall use of archaic forms in plautus, one notes that they commonly occur in promises, agreements, threats, prologues, or speeches. plautus's archaic forms are metrically convenient, but may also have had a stylistic effect on his original audience. these forms are frequent and of too great a number for a complete list here,[ ] but some of the most noteworthy features which from the classical perspective will be considered irregular or obsolete are: 	the use of uncontracted forms of some verbs such as mavolo ("prefer") for later malo[ ] 	the emendation of the final -e of singular imperatives 	the retention of -u- in place of the later -i- in words such as maxumus, proxumus, lacrumare etc. (see latin spelling and pronunciation §sonus medius), and of -vo- before r, s or t, where the use after ca. bc[ ] would favor -ve- (as vostrum for later vestrum) 	the use of the -ier ending for the present passive and deponent infinitive (e.g. exsurgier for exsurgī) 	the forms of sum often joined to the preceding word, which is called prodelision (as bonumst "it's good" for bonum est "it is good") 	the dropping of the final -s of nd-singular verb forms and the final -e of the question-particle -ne when the two are joined (as viden? for videsne? "you see? you get it?") 	the retention of short -ǒ in noun endings in the second declension for later -ŭ 	the retention in many words of qu- instead of later c- (as in quom instead of cum) 	the use of the -āī genitive singular ending, disyllabic, besides -ae 	the retention of final -d after long vowel in the pronouns mēd, tēd, sēd (accusative and ablative, forms without -d also occur) 	the occasional addition of a final -pte, -te, or -met to pronouns 	the use of -īs as an accusative plural and occasionally nominative plural ending.[ ] these are the most common linguistic peculiarities (from the later perspective) in the plays of plautus, some of them being also found in terence, and noting them helps in the reading of his works and gives insight into early roman language and interaction. means of expression[edit] there are certain ways in which plautus expressed himself in his plays, and these individual means of expression give a certain flair to his style of writing. the means of expression are not always specific to the writer, i.e., idiosyncratic, yet they are characteristic of the writer. two examples of these characteristic means of expression are the use of proverbs and the use of greek language in the plays of plautus. plautus employed the use of proverbs in many of his plays. proverbs would address a certain genre such as law, religion, medicine, trades, crafts, and seafaring. plautus' proverbs and proverbial expressions number into the hundreds. they sometimes appear alone or interwoven within a speech. the most common appearance of proverbs in plautus appears to be at the end of a soliloquy. plautus does this for dramatic effect to emphasize a point. further interwoven into the plays of plautus and just as common as the use of proverbs is the use of greek within the texts of the plays. j. n. hough suggests that plautus's use of greek is for artistic purposes and not simply because a latin phrase will not fit the meter. greek words are used when describing foods, oils, perfumes, etc. this is similar to the use of french terms in the english language such as garçon or rendezvous. these words give the language a french flair just as greek did to the latin-speaking romans. slaves or characters of low standing speak much of the greek. one possible explanation for this is that many roman slaves were foreigners of greek origin. plautus would sometimes incorporate passages in other languages as well in places where it would suit his characters. a noteworthy example is the use of two prayers in punic in poenulus, spoken by the carthaginian elder hanno, which are significant to semitic linguistics because they preserve the carthaginian pronunciation of the vowels. unlike greek, plautus most probably did not speak punic himself, nor was the audience likely to understand it. the text of the prayers themselves was probably provided by a carthaginian informant, and plautus incorporated it to emphasize the authenticity and foreignness of hanno's character.[ ] poetic devices[edit] plautus also used more technical means of expression in his plays. one tool that plautus used for the expression of his servus callidus stock character was alliteration. alliteration is the repetition of sounds in a sentence or clause; those sounds usually come at the beginning of words. in the miles gloriosus, the servus callidus is palaestrio. as he speaks with the character, periplectomenus, he uses a significant amount of alliteration in order to assert his cleverness and, therefore, his authority. plautus uses phrases such as "falsiloquom, falsicum, falsiiurium" (mg l. ). these words express the deep and respectable knowledge that palaestrio has of the latin language. alliteration can also happen at the endings of words as well. for example, palaestrio says, "linguam, perfidiam, malitiam atque audaciam, confidentiam, confirmitatem, fraudulentiam" (mg ll. - ). also used, as seen above, is the technique of assonance, which is the repetition of similar-sounding syllables. jokes and wordplay[edit] plautus' comedies abound in puns and word play, which is an important component of his poetry. one well known instance in the miles gloriosus is sceledre, scelus. some examples stand in the text in order to accentuate and emphasize whatever is being said, and others to elevate the artistry of the language. but a great number are made for jokes, especially riddle jokes, which feature a "knock knock - who's there?" pattern. plautus is especially fond of making up and changing the meaning of words, as shakespeare does later.[ ] meter[edit] further information: metres of roman comedy further emphasizing and elevating the artistry of the language of the plays of plautus is the use of meter, which simply put is the rhythm of the play. there seems to be great debate over whether plautus found favor in strong word accent or verse ictus, stress. plautus did not follow the meter of the greek originals that he adapted for the roman audience. plautus used a great number of meters, but most frequently he used the trochaic septenarius. iambic words, though common in latin, are difficult to fit in this meter, and naturally occur at the end of verses. g.b. conte has noted that plautus favors the use of cantica instead of greek meters. this vacillation between meter and word stress highlights the fact that latin literature was still in its infancy, and that there was not yet a standard way to write verse. vigor and immediacy[edit] the servus callidus functions as the exposition in many of plautus' plays. according to c. stace, "slaves in plautus account for almost twice as much monologue as any other character... [and] this is a significant statistic; most of the monologues being, as they are, for purposes of humor, moralizing, or exposition of some kind, we can now begin to see the true nature of the slave's importance."[ ] because humor, vulgarity,[ ] and "incongruity" are so much a part of the plautine comedies, the slave becomes the essential tool to connect the audience to the joke through his monologue and direct connection to the audience. he is, then, not only a source for exposition and understanding, but connection—specifically, connection to the humor of the play, the playfulness of the play. the servus callidus is a character that, as mccarthy says, "draws the complete attention of the audience, and, according to c. stace, 'despite his lies and abuse, claims our complete sympathy'".[ ] he does this, according to some scholarship, using monologue, the imperative mood and alliteration—all of which are specific and effective linguistic tools in both writing and speaking. the specific type of monologue (or soliloquy) in which a plautine slave engages is the prologue. as opposed to simple exposition, according to n.w. slater, "these...prologues...have a far more important function than merely to provide information."[ ] another way in which the servus callidus asserts his power over the play—specifically the other characters in the play—is through his use of the imperative mood. this type of language is used, according to e. segal, for "the forceful inversion, the reduction of the master to an abject position of supplication ... the master-as-suppliant is thus an extremely important feature of the plautine comic finale".[ ] the imperative mood is therefore used in the complete role-reversal of the normal relationship between slave and master, and "those who enjoy authority and respect in the ordinary roman world are unseated, ridiculed, while the lowliest members of society mount to their pedestals...the humble are in face exalted".[ ] influence[edit] intellectual and academic critics have often judged plautus's work as crude; yet his influence on later literature is impressive—especially on two literary giants, shakespeare and molière. playwrights throughout history have looked to plautus for character, plot, humor, and other elements of comedy. his influence ranges from similarities in idea to full literal translations woven into plays. the playwright's apparent familiarity with the absurdity of humanity and both the comedy and tragedy that stem from this absurdity have inspired succeeding playwrights centuries after his death. the most famous of these successors is shakespeare—plautus had a major influence on the bard's early comedies. the middle ages and early renaissance[edit] plautus was apparently read in the th century. his form was too complex to be fully understood, however, and, as indicated by the terentius et delusor, it was unknown at the time if plautus was writing in prose or verse. w. b. sedgwick has provided a record of the amphitruo, perennially one of plautus' most famous works. it was the most popular plautine play in the middle ages, and publicly performed at the renaissance; it was the first plautine play to be translated into english. the influence of plautus's plays was felt in the early th century. limited records suggest that the first known university production of plautus in england was of miles gloriosus at oxford in – . the magnum jornale of queens college contains a reference to a comoedia plauti in either or . this fits directly with comments made in the poems of leland about the date of the production. the next production of miles gloriosus that is known from limited records was given by the westminster school in .[ ] other records also tell us about performances of the menaechmi. from our knowledge, performances were given in the house of cardinal wolsey by boys of st. paul's school as early as .[ ] shakespeare[edit] shakespeare borrowed from plautus as plautus borrowed from his greek models. c.l. barber says that "shakespeare feeds elizabethan life into the mill of roman farce, life realized with his distinctively generous creativity, very different from plautus' tough, narrow, resinous genius."[ ] the plautine and shakespearean plays that most parallel each other are, respectively, the menaechmi and the comedy of errors. according to marples, shakespeare drew directly from plautus "parallels in plot, in incident, and in character,"[ ] and was undeniably influenced by the classical playwright's work. h. a. watt stresses the importance of recognizing the fact that the "two plays were written under conditions entirely different and served audiences as remote as the poles."[ ] the differences between the menaechmi and the comedy of errors are clear. in the menaechmi, plautus uses only one set of twins—twin brothers. shakespeare, on the other hand, uses two sets of twins, which, according to william connolly, "dilutes the force of [shakespeare's] situations".[ ] one suggestion is that shakespeare got this idea from plautus' amphitruo, in which both twin masters and twin slaves appear. it can be noted that the doubling is a stock situation of elizabethan comedy. on the fusion between elizabethan and plautine techniques, t. w. baldwin writes, "...errors does not have the miniature unity of menaechmi, which is characteristic of classic structure for comedy".[ ] baldwin notes that shakespeare covers a much greater area in the structure of the play than plautus does. shakespeare was writing for an audience whose minds weren't restricted to house and home, but looked toward the greater world beyond and the role that they might play in that world. another difference between the audiences of shakespeare and plautus is that shakespeare's audience was christian. at the end of errors, the world of the play is returned to normal when a christian abbess interferes with the feuding. menaechmi, on the other hand, "is almost completely lacking in a supernatural dimension".[ ] a character in plautus' play would never blame an inconvenient situation on witchcraft—something that is quite common in shakespeare. the relationship between a master and a clever servant is also a common element in elizabethan comedy. shakespeare often includes foils for his characters to have one set off the other. in elizabethan romantic comedy, it is common for the plays to end with multiple marriages and couplings of pairs. this is something that is not seen in plautine comedy. in the comedy of errors, aegeon and aemilia are separated, antipholus and adriana are at odds, and antipholus and luciana have not yet met. at the end, all the couples are happily together. by writing his comedies in a combination of elizabethan and plautine styles, shakespeare helps to create his own brand of comedy, one that uses both styles.[ ] also, shakespeare uses the same kind of opening monologue so common in plautus's plays. he even uses a "villain" in the comedy of errors of the same type as the one in menaechmi, switching the character from a doctor to a teacher but keeping the character a shrewd, educated man.[ ] watt also notes that some of these elements appear in many of his works, such as twelfth night or a midsummer night's dream, and had a deep impact on shakespeare's writing.[ ] later playwrights also borrowed plautus's stock characters. one of the most important echoes of plautus is the stock character of the parasite. certainly the best example of this is falstaff, shakespeare's portly and cowardly knight. as j. w. draper notes, the gluttonous falstaff shares many characteristics with a parasite such as artotrogus from miles gloriosus. both characters seem fixated on food and where their next meal is coming from. but they also rely on flattery in order to gain these gifts, and both characters are willing to bury their patrons in empty praise.[ ] of course, draper notes that falstaff is also something of a boastful military man, but notes, "falstaff is so complex a character that he may well be, in effect, a combination of interlocking types."[ ] as well as appearing in shakespearean comedy, the plautine parasite appears in one of the first english comedies. in ralph roister doister, the character of matthew merrygreeke follows in the tradition of both plautine parasite and plautine slave, as he both searches and grovels for food and also attempts to achieve his master's desires.[ ] indeed, the play itself is often seen as borrowing heavily from or even being based on the plautine comedy miles gloriosus.[ ] h. w. cole discusses the influence of plautus and terence on the stonyhurst pageants. the stonyhurst pageants are manuscripts of old testament plays that were probably composed after in lancashire. cole focuses on plautus' influence on the particular pageant of naaman. the playwright of this pageant breaks away from the traditional style of religious medieval drama and relies heavily on the works of plautus. overall, the playwright cross-references eighteen of the twenty surviving plays of plautus and five of the six extant plays by terence. it is clear that the author of the stonyhurst pageant of naaman had a great knowledge of plautus and was significantly influenced by this.[ ] there is evidence of plautine imitation in edwardes' damon and pythias and heywood's silver age as well as in shakespeare's errors. heywood sometimes translated whole passages of plautus. by being translated as well as imitated, plautus was a major influence on comedy of the elizabethan era. in terms of plot, or perhaps more accurately plot device, plautus served as a source of inspiration and also provided the possibility of adaptation for later playwrights. the many deceits that plautus layered his plays with, giving the audience the feeling of a genre bordering on farce, appear in much of the comedy written by shakespeare and molière. for instance, the clever slave has important roles in both l'avare and l'etourdi, two plays by molière, and in both drives the plot and creates the ruse just like palaestrio in miles gloriosus.[ ] these similar characters set up the same kind of deceptions in which many of plautus' plays find their driving force, which is not a simple coincidence. later periods[edit] th century musicals based on plautus include a funny thing happened on the way to the forum (larry gelbart and burt shevelove, book, stephen sondheim, music and lyrics). roman laughter: the comedy of plautus, a book by erich segal, is a scholarly study of plautus' work. the british tv sitcom up pompeii uses situations and stock characters from plautus's plays. in the first series willie rushton plays plautus who pops up on occasion to provide comic comments on what is going on in the episode. see also[edit] 	a funny thing happened on the way to the forum 	history of theater 	menander 	molière 	prosody (latin) 	second punic war 	shakespeare 	terence 	theatre of ancient rome notes[edit] 	^ the concise oxford 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natural philosopher, a naval and army commander of the early roman empire, and a friend of emperor vespasian. he wrote the encyclopedic naturalis historia ("natural history"), which became an editorial model for encyclopedias. he spent most of his spare time studying, writing, and investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field. his nephew, pliny the younger, wrote of him in a letter to the historian tacitus: for my part i deem those blessed to whom, by favour of the gods, it has been granted either to do what is worth writing of, or to write what is worth reading; above measure blessed those on whom both gifts have been conferred. in the latter number will be my uncle, by virtue of his own and of your compositions.[ ] among pliny's greatest works was the twenty-volume work, bella germaniae ("the history of the german wars"), which is no longer extant. bella germaniae, which began where aufidius bassus' libri belli germanici ("the war with the germans") left off, was used as a source by other prominent roman historians, including plutarch, tacitus and suetonius. tacitus — who most scholars agree had never travelled in germania — used bella germaniae as the primary source for his work, de origine et situ germanorum ("on the origin and situation of the germans").[ ] pliny the elder died in ad in stabiae while attempting the rescue of a friend and his family by ship from the eruption of mount vesuvius, which had already destroyed the cities of pompeii and herculaneum.[ ] the wind caused by the sixth and largest pyroclastic surge of the volcano's eruption did not allow his ship to leave port, and pliny died during that event, probably by exposure to volcanic fallout.[ ] contents 	 life and times 	 . background 	 . student and lawyer 	 . junior officer 	 . literary interlude 	 . senior officer 	 . noted author 	 "natural history" 	 death 	 see also 	 references 	 sources 	 . secondary material 	 external links life and times[edit] background[edit] one of the xanten horse-phalerae located in the british museum, measuring .  cm ( .  in).[ ] it bears an inscription formed from punched dots: plinio praef eq; i.e. plinio praefecto equitum, "pliny prefect of cavalry". it was perhaps issued to every man in pliny's unit. the figure is the bust of the emperor. pliny's dates are pinned to the eruption of mount vesuvius in ad and a statement by his nephew that he died in his th year, which would put his birth in ad or . pliny was the son of an equestrian gaius plinius celer and his wife marcella. neither the younger nor the elder pliny mention the names. their ultimate source is a fragmentary inscription (cil v ) found in a field in verona and recorded by the th-century augustinian monk onofrio panvinio. the form is an elegy. the most commonly accepted reconstruction is plinivs secvndvs avgv. leri. patri. matri. marcellae. testamento fieri ivsso the vs represent us. it should say plinius secundus augur ordered this to be made as a testament to his father [ce]ler and his mother [grania] marcella the actual words are fragmentary. the reading of the inscription depends on the reconstruction,[ ] but in all cases the names come through. whether he was an augur and whether she was named grania marcella are less certain.[ ] jean hardouin presents a statement from an unknown source that he claims was ancient, that pliny was from verona and that his parents were celer and marcella.[ ] hardouin also cites the conterraneity (see below) of catullus.[ ] city and lake of como, painted by jean-baptiste-camille corot, how the inscription got to verona is unknown, but it could have arrived by dispersal of property from pliny the younger's then tuscan (now umbrian) estate at colle plinio, north of città di castello, identified with certainty by his initials in the roof tiles. he kept statues of his ancestors there. pliny the elder was born at como, not at verona: it is only as a native of old gallia transpadana that he calls catullus of verona his conterraneus, or fellow-countryman, not his municeps, or fellow-townsman.[ ][ ] a statue of pliny on the façade of the como cathedral celebrates him as a native son. he had a sister, plinia, who married into the caecilii and was the mother of his nephew, pliny the younger, whose letters describe his work and study regimen in detail. in one of his letters to tacitus (avunculus meus), pliny the younger details how his uncle's breakfasts would be light and simple (levis et facilis) following the customs of our forefathers (veterum more interdiu). pliny the younger wanted to convey that pliny the elder was a "good roman", which means that he maintained the customs of the great roman forefathers. this statement would have pleased tacitus. two inscriptions identifying the hometown of pliny the younger as como take precedence over the verona theory. one (cil v ) commemorates the younger's career as the imperial magistrate and details his considerable charitable and municipal expenses on behalf of the people of como. another (cil v ) identifies his father lucius' village as present-day fecchio (tribe oufentina), a hamlet of cantù, near como. therefore, plinia likely was a local girl and pliny the elder, her brother, was from como.[ ] gaius was a member of the plinia gens: the insubric root plina still persists, with rhotacism, in the local surname "prina". he did not take his father's cognomen, celer, but assumed his own, secundus. as his adopted son took the same cognomen, pliny founded a branch, the plinii secundi. the family was prosperous; pliny the younger's combined inherited estates made him so wealthy that he could found a school and a library, endow a fund to feed the women and children of como, and own multiple estates around rome and lake como, as well as enrich some of his friends as a personal favor. no earlier instances of the plinii are known. in bc, only about years before pliny's birth, julius caesar founded novum comum (reverting to comum) as a colonia to secure the region against the alpine tribes, whom he had been unable to defeat. he imported a population of , from other provinces to be placed in comasco and aristocratic greeks to found novum comum itself.[ ] the community was thus multi-ethnic and the plinies could have come from anywhere. whether any conclusions can be drawn from pliny's preference for greek words, or julius pokorny's derivation of the name from north italic as "bald"[ ] is a matter of speculative opinion. no record of any ethnic distinctions in pliny's time is apparent — the population considered themselves to be roman citizens. pliny the elder did not marry and had no children. in his will, he adopted his nephew, which entitled the latter to inherit the entire estate. the adoption is called a "testamental adoption" by writers on the topic, who assert that it applied to the name change only, but roman jurisprudence recognizes no such category. pliny the younger thus became the adopted son of pliny the elder after the latter's death.[ ] for at least some of the time, however, pliny the elder resided in the same house in misenum with his sister and nephew (whose husband and father, respectively, had died young); they were living there when pliny the elder decided to investigate the eruption of mount vesuvius, and was sidetracked by the need for rescue operations and a messenger from his friend asking for assistance. student and lawyer[edit] pliny's father took him to rome to be educated in lawmaking.[ ] pliny relates that he saw marcus servilius nonianus. junior officer[edit] in ad , at about age , pliny entered the army as a junior officer, as was the custom for young men of equestrian rank. ronald syme, plinian scholar, reconstructs three periods at three ranks.[ ][ ] pliny's interest in roman literature attracted the attention and friendship of other men of letters in the higher ranks, with whom he formed lasting friendships. later, these friendships assisted his entry into the upper echelons of the state; however, he was trusted for his knowledge and ability, as well. according to syme, he began as a praefectus cohortis, a "commander of a cohort" (an infantry cohort, as junior officers began in the infantry), under gnaeus domitius corbulo, himself a writer (whose works did not survive) in germania inferior. in ad , he took part in the roman conquest of the chauci and the construction of the canal between the rivers maas and rhine.[ ] his description of the roman ships anchored in the stream overnight having to ward off floating trees has the stamp of an eyewitness account.[ ] map of castra vetera, a large permanent base (castra stativa) of germania inferior, where pliny spent the last of his -year term as a cavalry commander: the proximity of a naval base there means that he trained also in ships, as the romans customarily trained all soldiers in all arms whenever possible. the location is on the lower rhine river. at some uncertain date, pliny was transferred to the command of germania superior under publius pomponius secundus with a promotion to military tribune,[ ] which was a staff position, with duties assigned by the district commander. pomponius was a half-brother of corbulo.[ ] they had the same mother, vistilia, a powerful matron of the roman upper classes, who had seven children by six husbands, some of whom had imperial connections, including a future empress. pliny's assignments are not clear, but he must have participated in the campaign against the chatti of ad , at age , in his fourth year of service. associated with the commander in the praetorium, he became a familiar and close friend of pomponius, who also was a man of letters. at another uncertain date, pliny was transferred back to germania inferior. corbulo had moved on, assuming command in the east. this time, pliny was promoted to praefectus alae, "commander of a wing", responsible for a cavalry battalion of about men.[ ] he spent the rest of his military service there. a decorative phalera, or piece of harness, with his name on it has been found at castra vetera, modern xanten, then a large roman army and naval base on the lower rhine.[ ] pliny's last commander there, apparently neither a man of letters nor a close friend of his, was pompeius paullinus, governor of germania inferior ad – .[ ] pliny relates that he personally knew paulinus to have carried around , pounds of silver service on which to dine on campaign against the germans (a practice which would not have endeared him to the disciplined pliny).[ ] according to his nephew,[ ] during this period, he wrote his first book (perhaps in winter quarters when more spare time was available), a work on the use of missiles on horseback, de jaculatione equestri ("on the use of the dart by cavalry").[ ] it has not survived, but in "natural history", he seems to reveal at least part of its content, using the movements of the horse to assist the javelin-man in throwing missiles while astride its back.[ ] during this period, he also dreamed that the spirit of drusus nero begged him to save his memory from oblivion.[ ] the dream prompted pliny to begin forthwith a history of all the wars between the romans and the germans,[ ] which he did not complete for some years. colossal head of titus, son of vespasian. glyptothek, munich literary interlude[edit] at the earliest time pliny could have left the service, nero, the last of the julio-claudian dynasty, had been emperor for two years. he did not leave office until ad , when pliny was years old. during that time, pliny did not hold any high office or work in the service of the state. in the subsequent flavian dynasty, his services were in such demand that he had to give up his law practice, which suggests that he had been trying not to attract the attention of nero, who was a dangerous acquaintance. under nero, pliny lived mainly in rome. he mentions the map of armenia and the neighbourhood of the caspian sea, which was sent to rome by the staff of corbulo in .[ ][ ] he also witnessed the construction of nero's domus aurea or "golden house" after the great fire of rome in .[ ] besides pleading law cases, pliny wrote, researched, and studied. his second published work was "the life of pomponius secundus," a two-volume biography of his old commander, pomponius secundus.[ ] meanwhile, he was completing his monumental work bella germaniae, the only authority expressly quoted in the first six books of the annales of tacitus,[ ] and probably one of the principal authorities for the same author's germania.[ ] it disappeared in favor of the writings of tacitus (which are far shorter), and, early in the fifth century, symmachus had little hope of finding a copy.[ ] like caligula, nero seemed to grow gradually more insane as his reign progressed. pliny devoted much of his time to writing on the comparatively safe subjects of grammar and rhetoric.[ ] he published a three-book, six-volume educational manual on rhetoric, entitled studiosus, "the student". pliny the younger says of it: "the orator is trained from his very cradle and perfected."[ ] it was followed by eight books entitled dubii sermonis,[ ] "of doubtful phraseology". these are both now lost works. his nephew relates: "he wrote this under nero, in the last years of his reign, when every kind of literary pursuit which was in the least independent or elevated had been rendered dangerous by servitude." in , nero no longer had any friends and supporters. he committed suicide, and the reign of terror was at an end, as was the interlude in pliny's obligation to the state. senior officer[edit] bust of vespasian, pushkin museum, moscow at the end of ad , after a year of civil war consequent on the death of nero, vespasian, a successful general, became emperor. like pliny, he had come from the equestrian class, rising through the ranks of the army and public offices and defeating the other contenders for the highest office. his main tasks were to re-establish peace under imperial control and to place the economy on a sound footing. he needed in his administration all the loyalty and assistance he could find. pliny, apparently trusted without question, perhaps (reading between the lines) recommended by vespasian's son titus, was put to work immediately and was kept in a continuous succession of the most distinguished procuratorships, according to suetonius.[ ] a procurator was generally a governor of an imperial province. the empire was perpetually short of, and was always seeking, officeholders for its numerous offices. throughout the latter stages of pliny's life, he maintained good relations with emperor vespasian. as is written in the first line of pliny the younger's avunculus meus: ante lucem ibat ad vespasianum imperatorem (nam ille quoque noctibus utebatur), deinde ad officium sibi delegatum. before dawn he was going to emperor vespasian (for he also made use of the night), then he did the other duties assigned to him. in this passage, pliny the younger conveys to tacitus that his uncle was ever the academic, always working. the word ibat (imperfect, "he used to go") gives a sense of repeated or customary action. in the subsequent text, he mentions again how most of his uncle's day was spent working, reading, and writing. he notes that pliny "was indeed a very ready sleeper, sometimes dropping off in the middle of his studies and then waking up again."[ ] a definitive study of the procuratorships of pliny was compiled by the classical scholar friedrich münzer, which was reasserted by ronald syme and became a standard reference point. münzer hypothesized four procuratorships, of which two are certainly attested and two are probable but not certain. however, two does not satisfy suetonius' description of a continuous succession.[ ] consequently, plinian scholars present two to four procuratorships, the four comprising (i) gallia narbonensis in , (ii) africa in – , (iii) hispania tarraconensis in – , and (iv) gallia belgica in – . according to syme, pliny may have been "successor to valerius paulinus", procurator of gallia narbonensis (southeastern france), early in ad . he seems to have a "familiarity with the provincia", which, however, might otherwise be explained.[ ] for example, he says[ ] in the cultivation of the soil, the manners and civilization of the inhabitants, and the extent of its wealth, it is surpassed by none of the provinces, and, in short, might be more truthfully described as a part of italy than as a province. denoting a general popular familiarity with the region. oasis at gabès pliny certainly spent some time in africa province, most likely as a procurator.[ ] among other events or features that he saw are the provoking of rubetae, poisonous toads (bufonidae), by the psylli;[ ] the buildings made with molded earthen walls, "superior in solidity to any cement;"[ ] and the unusual, fertile seaside oasis of gabès (then tacape), tunisia, currently a world heritage site.[ ] syme assigns the african procuratorship to ad  - . the procuratorship of hispania tarraconensis was next. a statement by pliny the younger that his uncle was offered , sesterces for his manuscripts by larcius licinius while he (pliny the elder) was procurator of hispania makes it the most certain of the three.[ ] pliny lists the peoples of "hither hispania", including population statistics and civic rights (modern asturias and gallaecia). he stops short of mentioning them all for fear of "wearying the reader".[ ] as this is the only geographic region for which he gives this information, syme hypothesizes that pliny contributed to the census of hither hispania conducted in / by vibius crispus, legate from the emperor, thus dating pliny's procuratorship there.[ ] las médulas, spain, site of a large roman mine during his stay in hispania, he became familiar with the agriculture and especially the gold mines of the north and west of the country.[ ] his descriptions of the various methods of mining appear to be eyewitness judging by the discussion of gold mining methods in his "natural history". he might have visited the mine excavated at las médulas. the porta nigra roman gate, trier, germany the last position of procurator, an uncertain one, was of gallia belgica, based on pliny's familiarity with it. the capital of the province was augusta treverorum (trier), named for the treveri surrounding it. pliny says that in "the year but one before this" a severe winter killed the first crops planted by the treviri; they sowed again in march and had "a most abundant harvest."[ ] the problem is to identify "this", the year in which the passage was written. using as the date of composition syme[ ] arrives at ad - as the date of the procuratorship, when pliny is presumed to have witnessed these events. the argument is based entirely on presumptions; nevertheless, this date is required to achieve suetonius' continuity of procuratorships, if the one in gallia belgica occurred. pliny was allowed home (rome) at some time in ad – . he was presumably at home for the first official release of "natural history" in . whether he was in rome for the dedication of vespasian's temple of peace in the forum in , which was in essence a museum for display of art works plundered by nero and formerly adorning the domus aurea, is uncertain, as is his possible command of the vigiles (night watchmen), a lesser post. no actual post is discernible for this period. on the bare circumstances, he was an official agent of the emperor in a quasiprivate capacity. perhaps he was between posts. in any case, his appointment as commander of the imperial fleet at misenum[ ] took him there, where he resided with his sister and nephew. vespasian died of disease on june , . pliny outlived him by two months. noted author[edit] during nero's reign of terror, pliny avoided working on any writing that would attract attention to himself. his works on oratory in the last years of nero's reign ( , ) focused on form rather than on content. he began working on content again probably after vespasian's rule began in ad , when the terror clearly was over and would not be resumed. it was to some degree reinstituted (and later cancelled by his son titus) when vespasian suppressed the philosophers at rome, but not pliny, who was not among them, representing, as he says, something new in rome, an encyclopedist (certainly, a venerable tradition outside italy). in his next work, bella germaniae, pliny completed the history which aufidius bassus left unfinished. pliny's continuation of bassus's history was one of the authorities followed by suetonius and plutarch.[ ] tacitus also cites pliny as a source. he is mentioned concerning the loyalty of burrus, commander of the praetorian guard, whom nero removed for disloyalty.[ ] tacitus portrays parts of pliny's view of the pisonian conspiracy to kill nero and make piso emperor as "absurd"[ ] and mentions that he could not decide whether pliny's account or that of messalla was more accurate concerning some of the details of the year of the four emperors.[ ] evidently pliny's extension of bassus extended at least from the reign of nero to that of vespasian. pliny seems to have known it was going to be controversial, as he deliberately reserved it for publication after his death:[ ] it has been long completed and its accuracy confirmed; but i have determined to commit the charge of it to my heirs, lest i should have been suspected, during my lifetime, of having been unduly influenced by ambition. by this means i confer an obligation on those who occupy the same ground with myself; and also on posterity, who, i am aware, will contend with me, as i have done with my predecessors.[ ] "natural history"[edit] main article: natural history (pliny) pliny's last work, according to his nephew, was the naturalis historia ("natural history"), an encyclopedia into which he collected much of the knowledge of his time.[ ] it comprised books. his sources were personal experience, his own prior works (such as the work on germania), and extracts from other works. these extracts were collected in the following manner: one servant would read aloud, and another would write the extract as dictated by pliny. he is said to have dictated extracts while taking a bath. in winter, he furnished the copier with gloves and long sleeves so his writing hand would not stiffen with cold (pliny the younger in avunculus meus). his extract collection finally reached about volumes, which larcius licinius, the praetorian legate of hispania tarraconensis, vainly offered to purchase for , sesterces.[ ] that would have been in / (see above). pliny bequeathed the extracts to his nephew. when composition of "natural history" began is unknown. since he was preoccupied with his other works under nero and then had to finish the history of his times, he is unlikely to have begun before . the procuratorships offered the ideal opportunity for an encyclopedic frame of mind. the date of an overall composition cannot be assigned to any one year. the dates of different parts must be determined, if they can, by philological analysis (the post mortem of the scholars). laocoon and his sons, a sculpture admired by pliny the closest known event to a single publication date, that is, when the manuscript was probably released to the public for borrowing and copying, and was probably sent to the flavians, is the date of the dedication in the first of the books. it is to the imperator titus. as titus and vespasian had the same name, titus flavius vespasianus, earlier writers hypothesized a dedication to vespasian. pliny's mention of a brother (domitian) and joint offices with a father, calling that father "great", points certainly to titus.[ ] pliny also says that titus had been consul six times.[ ] the first six consulships of titus were in , , , , , and , all conjointly with vespasian, and the seventh was in . this brings the date of the dedication probably to . in that year, vespasian was . he had been ruling conjointly with titus for some years.[ ] the title imperator does not indicate that titus was sole emperor, but was awarded for a military victory, in this case that in jerusalem in .[ ] aside from minor finishing touches, the work in books was completed in ad .[ ] that it was written entirely in or that pliny was finished with it then cannot be proved. moreover, the dedication could have been written before publication, and it could have been published either privately or publicly earlier without the dedication. the only certain fact is that pliny did no further work on it after ad . "natural history" is one of the largest single works to have survived from the roman empire and purports to cover the entire field of ancient knowledge, based on the best authorities available to pliny. he claims to be the only roman ever to have undertaken such a work. it encompasses the fields of botany, zoology, astronomy, geology, and mineralogy, as well as the exploitation of those resources. it remains a standard work for the roman period and the advances in technology and understanding of natural phenomena at the time. his discussions of some technical advances are the only sources for those inventions, such as hushing in mining technology or the use of water mills for crushing or grinding grain. much of what he wrote about has been confirmed by archaeology. it is virtually the only work that describes the work of artists of the time, and is a reference work for the history of art. as such, pliny's approach to describing the work of artists was to inform lorenzo ghiberti in writing his commentaries and giorgio vasari who wrote the celebrated lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors, and architects. the work became a model for all later encyclopedias in terms of the breadth of subject matter examined, the need to reference original authors, and a comprehensive index list of the contents. it is the only work by pliny to have survived, and the last that he published, lacking a final revision at his sudden and unexpected death in the ad eruption of mount vesuvius. death[edit] plaster casts of the casualties from pyroclastic surges, whose remains vanished, leaving cavities in the pumice at pompeii pliny, who had been appointed praefectus classis in the roman navy by vespasian, was stationed with the fleet at misenum at the time of the eruption of mount vesuvius.[ ] he organized and led a rescue mission upon receiving a message from his friend rectina, who had been left stranded in stabiae during the eruption. pliny boarded one of several galleys that he dispatched across the gulf of naples to stabiae.[ ] as pliny's vessel approached the shore near herculaneum, cinders and pumice began to fall on it. the helmsman advised turning back, to which pliny replied, "fortune favours the bold; steer to where pomponianus is." upon reaching stabiae, they found senator pomponianus, but the same winds that brought them there prevented them from leaving. the group waited for the wind to abate, but they decided to leave later that evening for fear their houses would collapse. the group fled when a plume of hot toxic gases engulfed them. pliny (a corpulent man who suffered from a chronic respiratory condition, possibly asthma) however was left behind, as he had died from asphyxiation caused by the toxic gases. upon the group's return three days later after the plume had dispersed, pliny's body was found, with no apparent external injuries.[ ] years later, upon a request from tacitus, pliny the younger provided an account (obtained from the survivors from stabiae) of his uncle's death.[ ][ ][ ] suetonius wrote that pliny approached the shore only from scientific interest and then asked a slave to kill him to avoid heat from the volcano.[ ] jacob bigelow, after summarizing the information about pliny's death contained in pliny the younger's letter to tacitus, concluded that pliny had died from apoplexy or heart disease.[ ] in , science historian conway zirkle similarly stated that "there is widespread and persisting misinformation" about pliny's death. he suggested that despite his rescue attempt, pliny never came within miles of mount vesuvius and no evidence has been found that shows he died from breathing in fumes, and like bigelow, concluded that he died of a heart attack.[ ] see also[edit] 	plinian eruption 	plinius, lunar crater references[edit] 	^ melvyn bragg ( jul ). 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". natural history. many is the time that these trees have struck our fleets with alarm, when the waves have driven them, almost purposely it would seem, against their prows as they stood at anchor in the night; and the men, destitute of all remedy and resource, have had to engage in naval combat with a forest of trees! 	^ levick, barbara ( ). tiberius the politician ( , revised, illustrated ed.). routledge. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ a b c d e f g h i pliny the younger. "iii. to baebius macer". letters. 	^ griffin ( ), p. . 	^ "xxxiii. ". natural history. to my own knowledge, pompeius paulinus... had with him, when serving with the army, and that, too, in a war against the most savage nations, a service of silver plate that weighed twelve thousand pounds! 	^ "viii. ". natural history. those who have to use the javelin are well aware how the horse, by its exertions and the supple movements of its body, aids the rider in any difficulty he may have in throwing his weapon. 	^ "vi. 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	 	 pierre de ronsard - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	pierre de ronsard 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		french poet for the main-belt asteroid, see ronsard. for the rose cultivar, see pierre de ronsard (rose). not to be confused with the painter hans zatzka. 	 	 	born	 september couture-sur-loir, kingdom of france 	died	 december ( - - ) (aged  ) la riche, kingdom of france 	occupation	poet 	language	middle french 	nationality	french 	education	collège de navarre 	literary movement	la pléiade 	notable works	les odes, les amours, sonnets pour hélène, discours 	 french literature 	 by category 	 french literary history 	 	medieval 	renaissance 	 th 	 th 	 th 	 th century 	contemporary 	 french writers 	 	chronological list 	writers by category 	essayists 	novelists 	playwrights 	poets 	short story writers 	children's writers 	 portals 	 	france 	literature 		v 	t 	e pierre de ronsard ( september – december ) was a french poet or, as his own generation in france called him, a "prince of poets". contents 	 early life 	 studies 	 fame 	 final years 	 works 	 bibliography 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 . general 	 . criticism 	 external links early life[edit] manoir de la possonnière, ronsard's home pierre de ronsard was born at the manoir de la possonnière, in the village of couture-sur-loir, vendômois (in present-day loir-et-cher). baudouin de ronsard or rossart was the founder of the french branch of the house, and made his mark in the early stages of the hundred years' war. the poet's father was louis de ronsard, and his mother was jeanne de chaudrier, of a family both noble and well connected. pierre was the youngest son. louis de ronsard was maître d'hôtel du roi to francis i, whose captivity after pavia had just been softened by treaty, and he had to quit his home shortly after pierre's birth. the future poet was educated at home in his earliest years and sent to the collège de navarre in paris at the age of nine. when madeleine of france was married to james v of scotland, ronsard was attached as a page in the scottish court, where he was encouraged in the idea of making french vernacular translations of classical authors.[ ] a year after the death of the queen, he returned to france, travelling back through england. further travel took him to flanders, holland, and again, for a short time, scotland, on diplomatic missions under claude d'humières, seigneur de lassigny,[ ] until he was attached as secretary to the suite of lazare de baïf, the father of his future colleague in the pléiade and his companion on this occasion, antoine de baïf, at the diet of speyer. afterwards he was attached in the same way to the suite of the cardinal du bellay-langey, and his mythical quarrel with françois rabelais dates from this period. studies[edit] his apparently promising diplomatic career was, however, cut short by an attack of deafness following a visit, as part of legation to alsace, that no physician could cure; he would subsequently determine to devote himself to study. the institution he chose for the purpose among the numerous schools and colleges of paris was the collège coqueret, the principal of which was jean daurat — afterwards the "dark star" (as he has been called from his silence in french) of the pléiade, and already an acquaintance of ronsard's from having held the office of tutor in the baïf household. antoine de baïf, daurat's pupil, accompanied ronsard; belleau shortly followed; joachim du bellay, the second of the seven, joined not much later. muretus (marc antoine de muret), a great scholar and by means of his latin plays a great influence in the creation of french tragedy, was also a student here. ronsard's period of study occupied seven years, and the first manifesto of the new literary movement, which was to apply to the vernacular the principles of criticism and scholarship learnt from the classics, came not from him but from du bellay. the défense et illustration de la langue française of the latter appeared in , and the pléiade (or brigade, as it was first called) may be said to have been then launched. it consisted, as its name implies, of seven writers whose names are sometimes differently enumerated, though the orthodox canon is beyond doubt composed of ronsard, du bellay, baïf, remy belleau, pontus de tyard (a man of rank and position who had exemplified the principles of the friends earlier), jodelle the dramatist, and daurat. ronsard's own work came a little later, and a rather idle story is told of a trick of du bellay's which at last determined him to publish. some single and minor pieces, an epithalamium on antoine de bourbon and jeanne de navarre ( ), a "hymne de la france" ( ), an "ode a la paix," preceded the publication in of the four first books ("first" is characteristic and noteworthy) of the odes of pierre de ronsard. this was followed in by the publication of his amours de cassandre with the fifth book of odes, dedicated to the -year-old cassandre salviati, whom he had met at blois and followed to her father's château de talcy. these books excited a violent literary quarrel. marot was dead, but he left numerous followers, some of whom saw in the stricter literary critique of the pléiade, in its outspoken contempt of merely vernacular and medieval forms, in its strenuous advice to french poetry to "follow the ancients," and so forth, an insult to the author of the adolescence clémentine and his school.[ ] fame[edit] pierre de ronsard his popularity in his own time was overwhelming and immediate, and his prosperity was unbroken. he published his hymns, dedicated to margaret de valois, in ; the conclusion of the amours, addressed to another heroine, in ; and then a collection of Œuvres completes, said to be due to the invitation of mary stuart, queen of francis ii, in ; with elégies, mascarades et bergeries in . to this same year belongs his most important and interesting abrégé de l'art poétique français. the rapid change of sovereigns did ronsard no harm. charles ix, king of france, who succeeded his brother after a very short time, was even better inclined to him than henry and francis. he gave him rooms in the palace; he bestowed upon him diverse abbacies and priories; and he called him and regarded him constantly as his master in poetry. neither was charles ix a bad poet. this royal patronage, however, had its disagreeable side. it excited violent dislike to ronsard on the part of the huguenots, who wrote constant pasquinades against him, strove (by a ridiculous exaggeration of the dionysiac festival at arcueil, in which the friends had indulged to celebrate the success of the first french tragedy, jodelle's cleopatre) to represent him as a libertine and an atheist, and (which seems to have annoyed him more than anything else) set up his follower du bartas as his rival. according to some words of his own, they were not contented with this variety of argument, but attempted to have him assassinated. during this period, ronsard began writing the epic poem the franciade ( ), a work that was never finished and is generally considered a failure due to its versification—a decasyllabic metre of rimes plates that corresponds poorly with the genre of epic poetry. the metre (the decasyllable) could not but contrast unfavourably with the magnificent alexandrines that du bartas and agrippa d'aubigné were shortly to produce; the general plan is feebly classical, and the very language has little or nothing of that racy mixture of scholarliness and love of natural beauty which distinguishes the best work of the pléiade. the poem could never have had an abiding success, but at its appearance it had the singular bad luck almost to coincide with the massacre of st bartholomew, which had occurred about a fortnight before its publication. one party in the state were certain to look coldly on the work of a minion of the court at such a juncture, the other had something else to think of. the death of charles made little difference in the court favour which ronsard enjoyed, but, combined with his increasing infirmities, it seems to have determined him to quit court life. during his last days he lived chiefly at a house which he possessed in vendôme, the capital of his native province, at his abbey at croix-val in the same neighbourhood, or else at paris, where he was usually the guest of jean galland, well known as a scholar, at the college de boncourt. it seems also that he had a town house of his own in the fauhourg saint-marcel. at any rate his preferments made him in perfectly easy circumstances, and he seems neither to have derived nor wished for any profit from his books. a half-jocular suggestion that his publishers should give him money to buy "du bois pour se chauffer" in return for his last revision of his Œuvres complètes is the only trace of any desire of the kind. on the other hand, he received not merely gifts and endowments from his own sovereign but presents from many others, including elizabeth i of england. mary, queen of scots addressed him from her prison, and tasso consulted him on the gerusalemme. final years[edit] his last years were saddened not merely by the death of many of his closest friends, but by increasing ill health. this did not interfere with the quality of his literary work; he was rarely idle, and some of his final verse is among his best. but he indulged the temptation to alter his work repeatedly, and many of his later alterations are not improvements. towards the end of his health deteriorated, and he seems to have moved restlessly from one of his houses to another for some months. when the end came—which, though in great pain, he met in a resolute and religious manner—he was at his priory of saint-cosme in touraine, and he was buried in the church of that name on friday, december . works[edit] a book of ronsard's works the character and fortunes of ronsard's works are among the most remarkable in literary history, and supply in themselves a kind of illustration of the progress of french literature during the last three centuries. it was long his fortune to be almost always extravagantly admired or violently attacked. at first, as has been said, the enmity, not altogether unprovoked, of the friends and followers of marot fell to his lot, then the still fiercer antagonism of the huguenot faction, who, happening to possess a poet of great merit in du bartas, were able to attack ronsard at his tenderest point. but fate had by no means done its worst with him in his lifetime. after his death the classical reaction set in under the auspices of malherbe, who seems to have been animated with a sort of personal hatred of ronsard, though it is not clear that they ever met. after malherbe, the rising glory of corneille and his contemporaries obscured the tentative and unequal work of the pléiade, which was, moreover, directly attacked by boileau himself, the dictator of french criticism in the last half of the th century. then ronsard was, except by a few men of taste, such as jean de la bruyère and fénelon, forgotten when he was not sneered at. in this condition he remained during the whole th century and the first quarter of the th. the romantic revival, seeing in him a victim of its special bête noire boileau, and attracted by his splendid diction, rich metrical faculty, and combination of classical and medieval peculiarities, adopted his name as a kind of battle-cry, and for the moment exaggerated his merits somewhat. the critical work of sainte-beuve in his tableau de la littérature francaise au ème siècle, and later of other authors, has established ronsard's reputation. ronsard was the acknowledged chief of the pléiade and its most voluminous poet. he was probably also its best, though a few isolated pieces of belleau excel him in airy lightness of touch. several sonnets of du bellay exhibit the melancholy of the renaissance more perfectly than anything of his, and the finest passages of the tragiques and the divine sep'maine surpass his work in command of the alexandrine and in power of turning it to the purposes of satirical invective and descriptive narration. but that work is very extensive (we possess at a rough guess not much short of a hundred thousand lines of his), and it is extraordinarily varied in form. he did not introduce the sonnet into france, but he practised it soon after its introduction and with skill - the famous "quand vous serez bien vieille" being one of the acknowledged gems of french literature. rose cultivar 'pierre de ronsard', named in reference to ronsard's poem ode à cassandre (mignonne, allons voir si la rose...) his many odes are interesting, and at best are fine compositions. he began by imitating the strophic arrangement of the ancients, but very soon had the wisdom to desert this for a kind of adjustment of the horatian ode to rhyme, instead of exact quantitative metre. in this latter kind he devised some exquisitely melodious rhythms of which, till our own day, the secret died with the th century. his more sustained work sometimes displays a bad selection of measure; and his occasional poetry—epistles, eclogues, elegies, etc.--is injured by its vast volume. but the preface to the franciade is a fine piece of verse, superior (it is in alexandrines) to the poem itself. in general, ronsard is best in his amatory verse (the long series of sonnets and odes to cassandre, pikles, marie, genévre, héléne—héléne de surgeres, a later and mainly "literary" love—etc.), and in his descriptions of the country (the famous "ode à cassandre[ ]," the "fontaine bellerie," the "forêt de gastine," and so forth), which are graceful and fresh. he used the graceful diminutives which his school set in fashion. he knew well too how to manage the gorgeous adjectives ("marbrine," "cinabrine," "ivoirine" and the like) which were another fancy of the pléiade. in short, ronsard shows eminently the two great attractions of french th-century poetry as compared with that of the two following ages - magnificence of language and imagery and graceful variety of metre. bibliography[edit] bust and inscription of pierre de ronsard at the château de blois. the chief separately published works of ronsard are noted above. he produced, however, during his life a vast number of separate publications, some of them mere pamphlets or broadsheets, which from time to time he collected, often striking out others at the same time, in the successive editions of his works. of these he himself published seven - the first in , the last in . between his death and the year ten more complete editions were published, the most famous of which is the folio of . a copy of this presented by sainte-beuve to victor hugo, and later in the possession of maxime du camp, has a place of its own in french literary history. the work of claude binet in , discours de la vie de pierre de ronsard, is very important for early information, and the author seems to have revised some of ronsard's work under the poet's own direction. from ronsard was not again reprinted for more than two centuries. just before the close of the second, however, sainte-beuve printed a selection of his poems to accompany the above-mentioned tableau ( ). there are also selections, choix de poésies - publiées par a. noël (in the collection didot) and becq de fouquières. in prosper blanchemain, who had previously published a volume of Œuvres inédites de ronsard, undertook a complete edition for the bibliothèque elzévirienne, in eight volumes. it is practically complete; a few pieces of a somewhat free character which are ascribed with some certainty to the poet are, however, excluded. a later and better edition still is that of marty-laveaux ( – ), and another that of benjamin pifteau ( ). notes[edit] 	^ this was under the tutelage of a certain "le seigneur paul" who read passages to ronsard daily from homer and virgil. see charles graves, lyrics of ronsard, london: oliver and boyd, . p. . 	^ charles graves, lyrics of ronsard, london: oliver and boyd, , p. . 	^ the french court, and indeed all french society, was just then much interested in literary questions, and a curious story is told of the rivalry that ensued. mellin de saint-gelais, it is said, the chief of the "École marotique" and a poet of no small merit, took up ronsard's book and read part of it in a more or less designedly burlesque fashion before the king. it may be observed that if he did so it was a distinctly rash and uncourtier-like act, inasmuch as, from ronsard's father's position in the royal household, the poet was personally known and liked both by henry and by his family." at any rate, marguerite de valois, the king's sister, afterwards duchess of savoy, is said to have snatched the book from saint-gelais and insisted on reading it herself, with the result of general applause. henceforward, if not before, his acceptance as a poet was not doubtful, and indeed the tradition of his having to fight his way against cabals is almost entirely unsupported. references[edit] 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "ronsard, pierre de". encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. pp.  – . further reading[edit] general[edit] 	hennigfeld, ursula: der ruinierte körper: petrarkistische sonette in transkultureller perspektive würzburg: königshausen & neumann, . criticism[edit] 	sainte-beuve, articles in the causeries du lundi. 	f. l. lucas, "the prince of court-poets", an essay on ronsard in studies french and english (london, ), pp.  – . 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astronomer-poet of persia. rendered into english verse 	front cover of the first american edition ( ) 	author	omar khayyam 	translator	edward fitzgerald 	genre	poetry 	publisher	bernard quaritch 	publication date 	 rubaiyat of omar khayyam by m. v. dhurandhar rubáiyát of omar khayyám is the title that edward fitzgerald gave to his translation from persian to english of a selection of quatrains (rubāʿiyāt) attributed to omar khayyam ( – ), dubbed "the astronomer-poet of persia". although commercially unsuccessful at first, fitzgerald's work was popularised from onward by whitley stokes, and the work came to be greatly admired by the pre-raphaelites in england. fitzgerald had a third edition printed in , which increased interest in the work in the united states. by the s, the book was extremely popular throughout the english-speaking world, to the extent that numerous "omar khayyam clubs" were formed and there was a "fin de siècle cult of the rubaiyat".[ ] fitzgerald's work has been published in several hundred editions and has inspired similar translation efforts in english and in many other languages. contents 	 sources 	 skepticism vs. sufism debate 	 editions 	 character of translation 	 other translations 	 . english 	 . german 	 . french 	 . russian 	 . other languages 	 influence 	 . literature 	 . cinema 	 . music 	 . television 	 . other media 	 . other 	 . anniversary events 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links sources[edit] further information: omar khayyam § poetry calligraphic manuscript page with three of fitzgerald's rubaiyat written by william morris, illustration by edward burne-jones ( s). illustration by adelaide hanscom (c. ). the authenticity of the poetry attributed to omar khayyam is highly uncertain. khayyam was famous during his lifetime not as a poet but as an astronomer and mathematician. the earliest reference to his having written poetry is found in his biography by al-isfahani, written years after his death. this view is reinforced by other medieval historians such as shahrazuri ( ) and al-qifti ( ). parts of the rubaiyat appear as incidental quotations from omar in early works of biography and in anthologies. these include works of razi (ca. – ), daya ( ), juvayni (ca. – ), and jajarmi ( ).[ ]: [ ]: also, five quatrains assigned to khayyam in somewhat later sources appear in zahiri samarqandi's sindbad-nameh (before ) without attribution.[ ]: the number of quatrains attributed to him in more recent collections varies from about , (according to saeed nafisi) to more than , . skeptical scholars point out that the entire tradition may be pseudepigraphic.[ ]: the extant manuscripts containing collections attributed to omar are dated much too late to enable a reconstruction of a body of authentic verses. in the s, iranian scholars, notably mohammad-ali foroughi, attempted to reconstruct a core of authentic verses from scattered quotes by authors of the th and th centuries, ignoring the younger manuscript tradition. after world war ii, reconstruction efforts were significantly delayed by two clever forgeries. de blois ( ) is pessimistic, suggesting that contemporary scholarship has not advanced beyond the situation of the s, when hans heinrich schaeder commented that the name of omar khayyam "is to be struck out from the history of persian literature".[ ] a feature of the more recent collections is the lack of linguistic homogeneity and continuity of ideas. sadegh hedayat commented that "if a man had lived for a hundred years and had changed his religion, philosophy, and beliefs twice a day, he could scarcely have given expression to such a range of ideas".[ ]: hedayat's final verdict was that quatrains could be attributed to khayyam with certainty.[ ] various tests have been employed to reduce the quatrains attributable to omar to about .[ ]: arthur christensen states that "of more than , ruba'is known to be ascribed to omar, only could be regarded as reasonably authentic".[ ]: foroughi accepts quatrains as authentic, while ali dashti accepts of them.[ ]: fitzgerald's source was transcripts sent to him in – , by his friend and teacher edward b. cowell, of two manuscripts, a bodleian manuscript with quatrains[ ] and a "calcutta manuscript". fitzgerald completed his first draft in and sent it to fraser's magazine in january . he made a revised draft in january , of which he privately printed copies. this first edition became extremely sought after by the s, when "more than two million copies ha[d] been sold in two hundred editions".[ ] skepticism vs. sufism debate[edit] the extreme popularity of fitzgerald's work led to a prolonged debate on the correct interpretation of the philosophy behind the poems. fitzgerald emphasized the religious skepticism he found in omar khayyam.[ ] in his preface to the rubáiyát, he describes omar's philosophy as epicurean and claims that omar was "hated and dreaded by the sufis, whose practice he ridiculed and whose faith amounts to little more than his own, when stripped of the mysticism and formal recognition of islamism under which omar would not hide".[ ] richard nelson frye also emphasizes that khayyam was despised by a number of prominent contemporary sufis. these include figures such as shams tabrizi, najm al-din daya, al-ghazali, and attar, who "viewed khayyam not as a fellow-mystic, but a free-thinking scientist".[ ]: – the skeptic interpretation is supported by the medieval historian al-qifti (ca. – ), who in his the history of learned men reports that omar's poems were only outwardly in the sufi style but were written with an anti-religious agenda. he also mentions that khayyam was indicted for impiety and went on a pilgrimage to avoid punishment.[ ] critics of fitzgerald, on the other hand, have accused the translator of misrepresenting the mysticism of sufi poetry by an overly literal interpretation. thus, the view of omar khayyam as a sufi was defended by bjerregaard ( ).[ ] dougan ( ) likewise says that attributing hedonism to omar is due to the failings of fitzgerald's translation, arguing that the poetry is to be understood as "deeply esoteric".[ ] idries shah ( ) similarly says that fitzgerald misunderstood omar's poetry.[ ] the sufi interpretation is the view of a minority of scholars.[ ] henry beveridge states that "the sufis have unaccountably pressed this writer [khayyam] into their service; they explain away some of his blasphemies by forced interpretations, and others they represent as innocent freedoms and reproaches".[ ] aminrazavi ( ) states that "sufi interpretation of khayyam is possible only by reading into his rubaiyat extensively and by stretching the content to fit the classical sufi doctrine".[ ]: fitzgerald's "skepticist" reading of the poetry is still defended by modern scholars. sadegh hedayat (the blind owl ) was the most notable modern proponent of khayyam's philosophy as agnostic skepticism. in his introductory essay to his second edition of the quatrains of the philosopher omar khayyam ( ), hedayat states that "while khayyam believes in the transmutation and transformation of the human body, he does not believe in a separate soul; if we are lucky, our bodily particles would be used in the making of a jug of wine".[ ] he concludes that "religion has proved incapable of surmounting his inherent fears; thus khayyam finds himself alone and insecure in a universe about which his knowledge is nil". in his later work (khayyam's quatrains, ), hedayat further maintains that khayyam's usage of sufic terminology such as "wine" is literal, and that "khayyam took refuge in wine to ward off bitterness and to blunt the cutting edge of his thoughts."[ ] editions[edit] illustration by edmund joseph sullivan for quatrain of fitzgerald's first version. illustration by edmund joseph sullivan for quatrain of fitzgerald's first version. illustration by edmund joseph sullivan for quatrain of fitzgerald's first version. fitzgerald's text was published in five editions, with substantial revisions: 	 st edition – [ quatrains] 	 nd edition – [ quatrains] 	 rd edition – [ quatrains] 	 , "first american edition", reprint of the rd ed. 	 th edition – [ quatrains] 	 th edition – [ quatrains] of the five editions published, four were published under the authorial control of fitzgerald. the fifth edition, which contained only minor changes from the fourth, was edited posthumously on the basis of manuscript revisions fitzgerald had left. numerous later editions were published after , notably an edition with illustrations by willy pogany first published in (george g. harrap, london). it was issued in numerous revised editions. this edition combined fitzgerald's texts of the st and th editions and was subtitled "the first and fourth renderings in english verse". a bibliography of editions compiled in listed more than separate editions.[ ] many more have been published since.[ ] notable editions of the late th and early th centuries include: houghton, mifflin & co. ( , , ); doxey, at the sign of the lark ( , ), illustrations by florence lundborg; the macmillan company ( ); methuen ( ) with a commentary by h.m. batson, and a biographical introduction by e.d. ross; little, brown, and company ( ), with the versions of e.h. whinfield and justin huntly mccart; bell ( ); routledge ( ); foulis ( , ); essex house press ( ); dodge publishing company ( ); duckworth & co. ( ); hodder and stoughton ( ), illustrations by edmund dulac; tauchnitz ( ); east anglian daily times ( ), centenary celebrations souvenir; warner ( ); the roycrofters ( ); hodder & stoughton ( ), illustrations by rené bull; dodge publishing company ( ), illustrations by adelaide hanscom. sully and kleinteich ( ). critical editions have been published by decker ( )[ ] and by arberry ( ).[ ] character of translation[edit] fitzgerald's translation is rhyming and metrical, and rather free. many of the verses are paraphrased, and some of them cannot be confidently traced to his source material at all.[ ] michael kearney claimed that fitzgerald described his work as "transmogrification".[ ] to a large extent, the rubaiyat can be considered original poetry by fitzgerald loosely based on omar's quatrains rather than a "translation" in the narrow sense. fitzgerald was open about the liberties he had taken with his source material: my translation will interest you from its form, and also in many respects in its detail: very un-literal as it is. many quatrains are mashed together: and something lost, i doubt, of omar's simplicity, which is so much a virtue in him. (letter to e. b. cowell, / / ) i suppose very few people have ever taken such pains in translation as i have: though certainly not to be literal. but at all cost, a thing must live: with a transfusion of one's own worse life if one can’t retain the original's better. better a live sparrow than a stuffed eagle. (letter to e. b. cowell, / / ) for comparison, here are two versions of the same quatrain by fitzgerald, from the and editions: 	quatrain xi ( ) here with a loaf of bread beneath the bough, a flask of wine, a book of verse—and thou beside me singing in the wilderness— and wilderness is paradise enow. 	quatrain xii ( )[ ] a book of verses underneath the bough, a jug of wine, a loaf of bread—and thou beside me singing in the wilderness— oh, wilderness were paradise enow! this quatrain has a close correspondence in two of the quatrains in the bodleian library ms., numbers and . in the literal prose translation of edward heron-allen ( ):[ ] 	no. i desire a little ruby wine and a book of verses, just enough to keep me alive, and half a loaf is needful; and then, that i and thou should sit in a desolate place is better than the kingdom of a sultan. 	no. if a loaf of wheaten-bread be forthcoming, a gourd of wine, and a thigh-bone of mutton, and then, if thou and i be sitting in the wilderness, — that would be a joy to which no sultan can set bounds. other translations[edit] 	 	this section may require cleanup to meet wikipedia's quality standards. the specific problem is: should become more systematic, perhaps in table form, with fewer random quotations please help improve this section if you can. (september ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) english[edit] multilingual edition, published in by tahrir iran co./kashani bros. two english editions by edward henry whinfield ( – ) consisted of quatrains in and in . this translation was fully revised and some cases fully translated anew by ali salami and published by mehrandish books. whinfield's translation is, if possible, even more free than fitzgerald's[dubious – discuss]; quatrain (equivalent of fitzgerald's quatrain xi in his st edition, as above) reads: in the sweet spring a grassy bank i sought and thither wine and a fair houri brought; and, though the people called me graceless dog, gave not to paradise another thought! john leslie garner published an english translation of quatrains in . his was also a free, rhyming translation. quatrain i. (equivalent of fitzgerald's quatrain xi in his st edition, as above): yes, loved one, when the laughing spring is blowing, with thee beside me and the cup o’erflowing, i pass the day upon this waving meadow, and dream the while, no thought on heaven bestowing. justin huntly mccarthy ( – ) (member of parliament for newry) published prose translations of quatrains in .[ ] quatrain (equivalent of fitzgerald's quatrain xi in his st edition, as above): in spring time i love to sit in the meadow with a paramour perfect as a houri and goodly jar of wine, and though i may be blamed for this, yet hold me lower than a dog if ever i dream of paradise. richard le gallienne ( – ) produced a verse translation, subtitled "a paraphrase from several literal translations", in . in his introductory note to the reader, le gallienne cites mccarthy's "charming prose" as the chief influence on his version. some example quatrains follow: look not above, there is no answer there; pray not, for no one listens to your prayer; near is as near to god as any far, and here is just the same deceit as there. (# , on p. ) and do you think that unto such as you; a maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew: god gave the secret, and denied it me?— well, well, what matters it! believe that, too. (# , p. ) "did god set grapes a-growing, do you think, and at the same time make it sin to drink? give thanks to him who foreordained it thus— surely he loves to hear the glasses clink!" (# , p. ) edward heron-allen ( – ) published a prose translation in . he also wrote an introduction to an edition of the translation by frederick rolfe (baron corvo) into english from nicolas's french translation. below is quatrain translated by e. h. into english:[ ] this worn caravanserai which is called the world is the resting-place of the piebald horse of night and day; it is a pavilion which has been abandoned by a hundred jamshyds; it is a palace that is the resting-place of a hundred bahrams. the english novelist and orientalist jessie cadell ( – ) consulted various manuscripts of the rubaiyat with the intention of producing an authoritative edition. her translation of quatrains was published posthumously in .[ ] a. j. arberry in attempted a scholarly edition of khayyam, based on thirteenth-century manuscripts. however, his manuscripts were subsequently exposed as twentieth-century forgeries.[ ] while arberry's work had been misguided, it was published in good faith. the translation of the rubáiyat by robert graves and omar ali-shah, however, created a scandal. the authors claimed it was based on a twelfth-century manuscript located in afghanistan, where it was allegedly utilized as a sufi teaching document. but the manuscript was never produced, and british experts in persian literature were easily able to prove that the translation was in fact based on edward heron allen's analysis of possible sources for fitzgerald's work.[ ][ ]: quatrains and (equivalent of fitzgerald's quatrain xi in his st edition, as above): should our day's portion be one mancel loaf, a haunch of mutton and a gourd of wine set for us two alone on the wide plain, no sultan's bounty could evoke such joy. a gourd of red wine and a sheaf of poems — a bare subsistence, half a loaf, not more — supplied us two alone in the free desert: what sultan could we envy on his throne? john charles edward bowen ( – ) was a british poet and translator of persian poetry. he is best known for his translation of the rubaiyat, titled a new selection from the rubaiyat of omar khayyam. bowen is also credited as being one of the first scholars to question robert graves' and omar ali-shah's translation of the rubaiyat.[ ] a modern version of quatrains, claiming to be "as literal an english version of the persian originals as readability and intelligibility permit", was published in by peter avery and john heath-stubbs. their edition provides two versions of the thematic quatrain, the first ( ) considered by the persian writer sadeq hedayat to be a spurious attribution.[citation needed] . i need a jug of wine and a book of poetry, half a loaf for a bite to eat, then you and i, seated in a deserted spot, will have more wealth than a sultan's realm. . if chance supplied a loaf of white bread, two casks of wine and a leg of mutton, in the corner of a garden with a tulip-cheeked girl, there'd be enjoyment no sultan could outdo. in , the rubaiyat was translated by an iranian for the first time.[ ] karim emami's translation of the rubaiyat was published under the title the wine of nishapour in paris. the wine of nishapour is the collection of khayyam's poetry by shahrokh golestan, including golestan's pictures in front of each poem.[ ] example quatrain (equivalent[dubious – discuss] to fitzgerald's quatrain xi in his first edition, as above): in spring if a houri-like sweetheart gives me a cup of wine on the edge of a green cornfield, though to the vulgar this would be blasphemy, if i mentioned any other paradise, i'd be worse than a dog. in , ahmad saidi ( – ) produced an english translation of quatrains grouped into themes. born and raised in iran, saidi went to the united states in and attended college there. he served as the head of the persian publication desk at the u.s. office of war information during world war ii, inaugurated the voice of america in iran, and prepared an english-persian military dictionary for the department of defense. his quatrains include the original persian verses for reference alongside his english translations. his focus was to faithfully convey, with less poetic license, khayyam's original religious, mystical, and historic persian themes, through the verses as well as his extensive annotations. two example quatrains follow: quatrain (equivalent to fitzgerald's quatrain xii in his th edition, as above): ah, would there were a loaf of bread as fare, a joint of lamb, a jug of vintage rare, and you and i in wilderness encamped— no sultan's pleasure could with ours compare. quatrain : the sphere upon which mortals come and go, has no end nor beginning that we know; and none there is to tell us in plain truth: whence do we come and whither do we go. german[edit] adolf friedrich von schack ( – ) published a german translation in . quatrain (equivalent of fitzgerald's quatrain xi in his st edition, as above): gönnt mir, mit dem liebchen im gartenrund zu weilen bei süßem rebengetränke, und nennt mich schlimmer als einen hund, wenn ferner an's paradies ich denke! friedrich martinus von bodenstedt ( – ) published a german translation in . the translation eventually consisted of quatrains. quatrain ix, (equivalent of fitzgerald's quatrain xi in his st edition, as above): im frühling mag ich gern im grüne weilen und einsamkeit mit einer freundin teilen und einem kruge wein. mag man mich schelten: ich lasse keinen andern himmel gelten. french[edit] the first french translation, of quatrains in prose, was made by j. b. nicolas, chief interpreter at the french embassy in persia in . prose stanza (equivalent of fitzgerald's quatrain xi in his st edition, as above): au printemps j’aime à m’asseoir au bord d’une prairie, avec une idole semblable à une houri et une cruche de vin, s’il y en a, et bien que tout cela soit généralement blâmé, je veux être pire qu’un chien si jamais je songe au paradis. the best-known version in french is the free verse edition by franz toussaint ( – ) published in . this translation consisting of quatrains was done from the original persian text, while most of the other french translations were themselves translations of fitzgerald's work. the Éditions d'art henri piazza published the book almost unchanged between and . toussaint's translation has served as the basis of subsequent translations into other languages, but toussaint did not live to witness the influence his translation has had. quatrain xxv (equivalent of fitzgerald's quatrain xi in his st edition, as above): au printemps, je vais quelquefois m’asseoir à la lisière d’un champ fleuri. lorsqu’une belle jeune fille m’apporte une coupe de vin, je ne pense guère à mon salut. si j’avais cette préoccupation, je vaudrais moins qu’un chien. russian[edit] many russian-language translations have been undertaken, reflecting the popularity of the rubaiyat in russia since the late th century and the increasingly popular tradition of using it for the purposes of bibliomancy. the earliest verse translation (by vasily velichko) was published in . the version by osip rumer published in is a translation of fitzgerald's version. rumer later published a version of rubaiyat translated directly from persian. a lot of poetic translations (some based on verbatim translations into prose by others) were also written by german plisetsky, konstantin bal'mont, cecilia banu, i. i. tkhorzhevsky (ru), l. pen'kovsky, and others. other languages[edit] 	in polish, several collections of rubaiyat have appeared, including ones by professor andrzej gawroński ( , ), regarded as the best. 	the first translation of nine short poems into serbo-croatian was published in , and was the work of safvet beg bašagić. in , jelena skerlić-Ćorović re-published these nine, alongside more poems. in , noted orientalist fehim bajraktarević published his translation of the rubaiyat.[ ] 	in icelandic magnús Ásgeirsson translated the rubaiyat in . there was an earlier translation by einar benediktsson in . jochum m. eggertsson (skuggi) published a translation in . all translations are of fitzgerald's version. 	first czech translator is josef Štýbr. at first he translated from english (from fitzgerald's "translations") ( ), after that from original language ( ). translation from the original can be found on czech wikisource ( poems). subsequent translators are mentioned here. 	the poet j. h. leopold ( – ) rendered a number of rubaiyat into dutch. 	eric hermelin translated the rubaiyat into swedish in . 	sir john morris-jones translated direct from persian into welsh in . 	in finnish, the first translations were made by toivo lyy in . more recently jaakko hämeen-anttila ( and ) and kiamars baghban with leevi lehto ( ) have translated khayyam into finnish. 	g. sankara kurup produced a translation into malayalam ( ). 	duvvoori ramireddy translated the rubaiyat into telugu in . 	thomas ifor rees produced a welsh translation, published in mexico city in . 	kantichandra ghosh, muhammad shahidullah (in ), kazi nazrul islam (in ) and shakti chattopadhyay (in ) produced translations into bengali. 	the earliest translation in hungarian consisted of a few stanzas taken from the french version of nicolas, by béla erődi in – . lőrinc szabó finalized his translation of the fitzgerald version in . 	fraînque le maistre produced a jèrriais version (based on fitzgerald's st edition) during the german occupation of the channel islands ( – ). 	srimadajjada adibhatla narayana das ( – ) translated the original persian quatrains and edward fitzgerald's english translations into sanskrit and pure-telugu. pandit narayana das claimed his translation was more literal than that of fitzgerald. (see ajjada adibhatla narayana dasu.) 	poet cornelis jacobus langenhoven ( – , author of "die stem van suid-afrika") produced the first translation in afrikaans. herman charles bosman wrote a translation into afrikaans published in . 	in japan, until , more than poets and/or scholars made translations into japanese.[ ] the first complete translation from persian into the modern japanese language was made by ryosaku ogawa in , which is still popular and has been published from iwanami shoten (it is now in the public domain and also freely available from aozora bunko).[ ] historically, the first attempt was six poems translated by kambara ariake in .[ ] in , kakise hikozo translated poems from the th edition of fitzgerald's translation.[ ] the first translation from persian into the classical japanese language was made by a linguist, shigeru araki, in .[ ] among various other translations, ogawa highly evaluates ryo mori's (ja:森亮), produced in .[ ] 	d. v. gundappa translated the work into kannada as a collection of poems titled "umarana osage" in . 	robert bin shaaban produced a version in swahili (dated , published ). 	gopal chandra kanungo illustrated and translated the book into odia in . 	devdas chhotray adapted edward fitzgerald's work into oriya and recorded it in musical form in . 	the first translator into slovene was alojz gradnik, his translation being published in . it was translated again by slovene translator and poet bert pribac in from the french toussaint edition.[ ] 	maithili sharan gupt and harivanshrai bachchan translated the book into hindi in . 	francesco gabrieli produced an italian translation (le rubaiyyàt di omar khayyàm) in . alessandro bausani produced another translation in . 	it was translated into latvian by andrejs kurcijs in . 	christos marketis translated rubaiyat into greek in . 	 rubaiyat were translated into belarusian by ryhor baradulin in . 	thirunalloor karunakaran translated the rubaiyat into malayalam in . 	in , jowann richards produced a cornish translation. 	scottish poet rab wilson published a version in scots in . 	in it was translated into romanian for the first time by orientalist philologist gheorghe iorga. 	kerson huang based a chinese version on fitzgerald's version.[year needed] 	fan noli produced an albanian translation in , the melody and poetics of which are highly regarded. 	at least four versions exist in the thai language. these translations were made from the text of fitzgerald. their respective authors are hrh prince narathip prapanpong, rainan aroonrungsee (pen name: naan gitirungsi), pimarn jamjarus (pen name: kaen sungkeet), and suriyachat chaimongkol.[citation needed] 	haljand udam produced an estonian translation.[year needed] 	ahmed rami, a famous late egyptian poet, translated the work into arabic.[year needed] his translation was sung by umm kulthum. 	the kurdish poet hajar translated the rubaiyat in his chwar parchakani xayam.[year needed] 	armenian poet kevork emin has translated several verses of the rubaiyat.[year needed] 	the assyrian journalist and poet naum faiq translated the rubaiyat into the syriac language.[year needed] 	the assyrian author eshaya elisha khinno translated the rubaiyat into sureth (assyrian neo-aramaic) in [ ][ ] 	hồ thượng tuy translated from english into vietnamese (from fitzgerald's st edition) in . 	nguyễn viết thắng produced a vietnamese translation of rubaiyat, translated from english and russian in , published in hanoi in . 	xabier correa corredoira published a galician translation in .[ ] 	hemendra kumar roy translated the rubaiyat into bengali.[year needed] 	radha mohan gadanayak translated the rubaiyat into odia[year needed][ ] 	tadhg Ó donnchadha (torna) translated the rubaiyat from english into irish in . 	the filipino poet and linguist ildefonso santos published his tagalog translation in . influence[edit] fitzgerald rendered omar's name as "omar the tentmaker",[dubious – discuss] and this name resonated in english-speaking popular culture for a while. thus, nathan haskell dole published a novel called omar, the tentmaker: a romance of old persia in . omar the tentmaker of naishapur is a historical novel by john smith clarke, published in . "omar the tentmaker" is a play in an oriental setting by richard walton tully, adapted as a silent film in . us general omar bradley was given the nickname "omar the tent-maker" in world war ii,[ ] and the name has been recorded as a slang expression for "penis".[ ] fitzgerald's translations also reintroduced khayyam to iranians, "who had long ignored the neishapouri poet".[ ] literature[edit] 	 	this article contains a list of miscellaneous information. please relocate any relevant information into other sections or articles. (september ) 	the title of rex stout's nero wolfe novel some buried caesar comes from one of the tentmaker's quatrains (fitzgerald's xviii), for example. 	eugene o'neill's drama ah, wilderness! derives its title from the first quoted quatrain above. 	agatha christie used the moving finger as a story title, as did stephen king. see also and having writ…. 	lan wright used dawn's left hand as the title of a science fiction story serialized in new worlds science fiction (january–march ). 	the title of allen drury's science fiction novel the throne of saturn comes from a quatrain which appears as the book's epigraph. 	the title of nevil shute norway's novel the chequer board is taken from stanza lxix, and that stanza appears as the book's epigraph. equally noteworthy are these works likewise influenced: 	the satirist and short story writer hector hugh munro took his pen name of 'saki' from edward fitzgerald's translation of the rubaiyat. 	the american author o. henry humorously referred to a book by "homer km" with the character "ruby ott" in his short story "the handbook of hymen.[ ] " o. henry also quoted a quatrain from the rubaiyat of omar khayyam in "the rubaiyat of a scotch highball". 	oliver herford released a parody of the rubaiyat called "the rubaiyat of a persian kitten" in , which is notable for its charming illustrations of the kitten in question on his philosophical adventures.[ ] 	the artist/illustrator edmund dulac produced some much-beloved illustrations[ ] for the rubaiyat, . 	the play the shadow of a gunman ( ) by seán o'casey contains a reference to the rubaiyat as the character donal davoren quotes "grasp this sorry scheme of things entire, and mould life nearer to the heart's desire". 	the argentinian writer jorge luis borges discusses the rubaiyat and its history in an essay, "the enigma of edward fitzgerald" ("el enigma de edward fitzgerald") in his book "other inquisitions" ("otras inquisiciones", ). he also references it in some of his poems, including "rubaiyat" in "the praise of the shadow" ("elogio de la sombra", ), and "chess" ("ajedrez") in "the maker" ("el hacedor", ). borges' father jorge guillermo borges was the author of a spanish translation of the fitzgerald version of the rubaiyat. 	science fiction author paul marlowe's story "resurrection and life" featured a character who could only communicate using lines from the rubaiyat. 	science fiction author isaac asimov quotes the moving finger in his time-travel novel the end of eternity when a character discusses whether history could be changed. 	charles schultz wrote a strip in which lucy reads the jug of wine passage, and linus asks "no blanket?". 	wendy cope's poem "strugnell's rubiyat" is a close parody of the fitzgerald translation, relocated to modern day tulse hill. 	one of the title pages of principia discordia ( ), a co-author of which went by the pen-name omar khayyam ravenhurst, features its own spin on the quatrain most quoted above: 			a jug of wine, 	a leg of lamb 	and thou! 	beside me, 	whistling in 	the darkness.[ ] 	the lebanese writer amin maalouf based his novel samarkand ( ) on the life of omar khayyam, and the creation of the rubaiyat. it details the assassin sect as well, and includes a fictional telling of how the (non-existent) original manuscript came to be on the rms titanic. 	in the opening chapter of his book god is not great ( ), christopher hitchens quotes from richard le gallienne's translation of khayyam's famous quatrain: 			and do you think that unto such as you 	a maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew 	god gave the secret, and denied it me? 	well, well—what matters it? believe that, too! 	the title of daphne du maurier's memoir myself when young is a quote from quatrain of fitzgerald's translation: 			myself when young did eagerly frequent 	doctor and saint, and heard great argument 	about it and about: but evermore 	came out by the same door as in i went. cinema[edit] 	filmmaker d.w. griffith planned a film based on the poems as a follow-up to intolerance in . it was to star miriam cooper, but when she left the griffith company the plans were dropped;[ ] he would ultimately film broken blossoms instead. 	text from the rubaiyat appeared in intertitles of the lost film a lover's oath ( ) 	the lines "when time lets slip a little perfect hour, o take it—for it will not come again." appear in the intertitles of torrent, the film starring greta garbo and ricardo cortez. 	part of the quatrain beginning "the moving finger writes ... " was quoted in algiers, the movie starring charles boyer and hedy lamarr. 	a canto was quoted and used as an underlying theme of the screen adaptation of the picture of dorian gray: "i sent my soul through the invisible, some letters of that after-life to spell, and by and by my soul did return, and answered, 'i myself am heaven and hell.'" 	the rubaiyat was quoted in the king vidor western film duel in the sun, which starred gregory peck and jennifer jones: "oh threats of hell and hopes of paradise! one thing at least is certain: this life flies. one thing is certain and the rest is lies; the flower that once is blown for ever dies." 	the film pandora and the flying dutchman, starring james mason and ava gardner, opens with an illuminated manuscript of the quatrain beginning "the moving finger writes...". 	in the film the music man (based on the musical), town librarian marian paroo draws down the wrath of the mayor's wife for encouraging the woman's daughter to read a book of "dirty persian poetry". summarizing what she calls the "ruby hat of omar kayayayayay...i am appalled!!", the mayor's wife paraphrases fitzgerald's quatrain xii from his th edition: "people lying out in the woods eating sandwiches, and drinking directly out of jugs with innocent young girls." 	the film omar khayyam, also known as the loves of omar khayyam, was released in by paramount pictures and includes excerpts from the rubaiyat. 	in back to the future the character lorraine baines, played by lea thompson, is holding a copy of the book in at the high school when her son marty mcfly is trying to introduce her to his father. 	the rubaiyat was quoted in the film monkeys ( ) around minutes in. 	in adrian lyne's unfaithful a copy of the text in french is quoted in english: "drink wine, this is life eternal //this, all that youth will give to you//it is the season for wine, roses//and drunken friends//be happy for this moment//this moment is your life." the book is a gift given flirtatiously to diane lane's character by olivier martinez who plays rare book dealer paul martel in the film. music[edit] 	the british composer granville bantock produced a choral setting of fitzgerald's translation – . 	using fitzgerald's translation, the armenian-american composer alan hovhaness set a dozen of the quatrains to music. this work, the rubaiyat of omar khayyam, op. , calls for narrator, orchestra, and solo accordion. 	the rubaiyat have also influenced arabic music. in the egyptian singer umm kulthum recorded a song entitled "rubaiyat al-khayyam". 	the comedian harmonists in "wochenend und sonnenschein". 	woody guthrie recorded an excerpt of the rubaiyat set to music that was released on hard travelin' (the asch recordings vol. ). 	the human instinct's album pins in it ( ) opens with a track called "pinzinet", the lyrics of which are based on the rubaiyat. 	elektra records released a compilation album named rubáiyát in to commemorate the th anniversary of the elektra records record label. 	coldcut produced an album with a song called "rubaiyat" on their album let us play! ( ). this song contains what appears to be some words from the english translation.[ ] 	jazz-soul harpist dorothy ashby's album the rubaiyat of dorothy ashby quotes from several of the poem's verses. 	the famed "skull and roses" poster for a grateful dead show at the avalon ballroom done by alton kelley and stanley mouse was adapted from edmund j. sullivan's illustrations for the rubaiyat of omar khayyam.[ ] 	the work influenced the concept album the rubaiyyat of omar khayyam by the italian group milagro acustico [it].[ ] 	the song "beautiful feeling" by australian singer-songwriter paul kelly, on album ways and means, includes the lyrics "a jug of wine, a loaf of bread and thee, lying on a blanket underneath that big old spreading tree." this song was used as the theme song in the australian television drama, fireflies. 	the robert wright-george forrest musical kismet, adapted from a play by edward knoblock, contains a non-singing character, omar (it is implied that he is the poet himself), who recites some of the couplets in the fitzgerald translation. 	the record label ruby yacht gets its namesake, in part, from the rubáiyát of omar khayyám. 	milo's album budding ornithologists are weary of tired analogies features a couple of references to the rubaiyat. television[edit] 	in one -episode story arc of the rocky and bullwinkle show, bullwinkle finds the "ruby yacht of omar khayyam" in the town of frostbite falls (on the shores of veronica lake). this pun is deemed so bad, the characters groan, and narrator william conrad quips, "well, you don't come up with an awful thing like that, and not hit the front page!" 	in the american television drama, have gun - will travel, the sixth episode of the sixth season is titled "the bird of time". the last lines are the main character, paladin, quoting from quatrain vii, "the bird of time has but a little way to flutter—and the bird is on the wing." 	a copy of the rubaiyat plays a role in an episode of the tv series new amsterdam and is shown to be the inspiration for the name of one of the lead character's children, omar york. 	in the australian television drama, anzac girls, lieutenant harry moffitt reads from the rubaiyat to his sweetheart, nurse sister alice ross-king. 	in "the moving finger" episode of 'i dream of jeannie' jeannie tries out to be a movie star and her screen test is her reciting the rubaiyat other media[edit] 	in cyberflix's pc game titanic: adventure out of time, the object is to save three important items, the rubaiyat of omar khayyam, one of adolf hitler's paintings, and a notebook that proves german officials were attempting to gain geo-political advantage by instigating communist revolution. finding the rubaiyat will prevent world war i, as the book is used to fund the assassination of archduke franz ferdinand. two passages from the book are also included in the game as clues to progress the narrative. 	some versions of the computer game colossal cave adventure feature a ruby-covered yacht called "omar khayyam" (a pun – the "ruby yacht" of omar khayyam). other[edit] 	in australia, a copy of fitzgerald's translation and its closing words, tamam shud ("ended") were major components of the unsolved tamam shud case. 	the supreme court of the philippines, through a unanimous opinion written in by associate justice leonardo quisumbing, quoted "the moving finger" when it ruled that the widow of defeated presidential candidate fernando poe jr. could not substitute her late husband in his pending election protest against president gloria macapagal arroyo, thus leading to the dismissal of the protest. 	there was a real jewel-encrusted copy of the book on the titanic. it had been crafted in by the firm of sangorski & sutcliffe in london. it was won at a sotheby's auction in london on march for £ (a bit over $ , in ) to gabriel weis, an american, and was being shipped to new york. the book remains lost at the bottom of the atlantic to this day. anniversary events[edit] marked the th anniversary of fitzgerald's translation, and the th anniversary of fitzgerald's birth. events marking these anniversaries included: 	the smithsonian's traveling exhibition elihu vedder's drawings for the rubaiyat at the phoenix art museum, november – february 	the exhibition edward fitzgerald & the rubaiyat from the collection of nicholas b. scheetz at the grolier club, january – march . 	the exhibition omar khayyám. een boek in de woestijn. jaar in engelse vertaling at the museum meermanno, the hague, january – april 	the exhibition the persian sensation: the rubaiyat of omar khayyam in the west at the harry ransom humanities research center at the university of texas at austin, february – august 	an exhibition at the cleveland public library special collections, opening february 	the joint conference, omar khayyam, edward fitzgerald and the rubaiyat, held at cambridge university and leiden university, – july 	the folio society published a limited edition ( , copies) of the rubáiyát to mark the th anniversary.[ ] see also[edit] 	tamam shud case 	ubi sunt § in persian poetry references[edit] 	^ yohannan, john d. ( ). persian poetry in england and america. caravan books. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ a b c mehdi, aminrazavi ( ). the wine of wisdom: the life, poetry and philosophy of omar khayyam. oneworld publications. isbn  - - - - . 	^ a b c edward denison ross, "omar khayyam", bulletin of the school of oriental studies, london institution ( ) 	^ a b c ali dashti (translated by l. p. elwell-sutton), in search of omar khayyam, routledge library editions: iran ( ) 	^ francois de blois, persian literature – a bio-bibliographical survey: poetry of the pre-mongol period ( ), p. . 	^ a b bashiri, iraj. "sadeq hedayat's learning". blind owl. retrieved november . 	^ a b the cambridge history of iran, volume . cambridge university press ( ): richard nelson frye 	^ ms. ouseley , copied in in shiraz, persia, folia. this is the oldest securely dated manuscript of omar khayyam's poetry. it belonged to william ouseley ( – ) and was purchased by the bodleian library in 	^ preface to a facsimile of the first edition (no year [c. ], "from the fine copy owned by charles dana burrage" [ – ]). 	^ davis, dick. "fitzgerald, edward". encyclopædia iranica. retrieved january . 	^ fitzgerald, e. ( ). rubaiyat of omar khayyam (p. ). champaign, ill.: project gutenberg 	^ "sufis understood his poems outwardly and considered them to be part of their mystical tradition. in their sessions and gatherings, khayyam's poems became the subject of conversation and discussion. his poems, however, are inwardly like snakes who bite the sharia [islamic law] and are chains and handcuffs placed on religion. once the people of his time had a taste of his faith, his secrets were revealed. khayyam was frightened for his life, withdrew from writing, speaking and such like and traveled to mecca. once he arrived in baghdad, members of a sufi tradition and believers in primary sciences came to him and courted him. he did not accept them and after performing the pilgrimage returned to his native land, kept his secrets to himself and propagated worshiping and following the people of faith." cited after aminrazavi ( )[page needed] 	^ "the writings of omar khayyam are good specimens of sufism, but are not valued in the west as they ought to be, and the mass of english-speaking people know him only through the poems of edward fitzgerald. it is unfortunate because fitzgerald is not faithful to his master and model, and at times he lays words upon the tongue of the sufi which are blasphemous. such outrageous language is that of the eighty-first quatrain for instance. fitzgerald is doubly guilty because he was more of a sufi than he was willing to admit." c. h. a. bjerregaard, sufism: omar khayyam and e. fitzgerald, the sufi publishing society ( ), p. 	^ "every line of the rubaiyat has more meaning than almost anything you could read in sufi literature". abdullah dougan, who is the potter?, gnostic press isbn  - - -x 	^ "fitzgerald himself was confused about omar. sometimes he thought that he was a sufi, sometimes not." idries shah, the sufis, octagon press ( ), pp. – 	^ aminrazavi, mehdi. 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bridges built.[ ] roman bridges were built with stone and had the arch as the basic structure (see arch bridge). most utilized concrete as well, which the romans were the first to use for bridges. contents 	 typology 	 . arch shapes 	 . typical characteristics 	 opus pontis 	 examples 	 . large river bridging 	 gallery 	 see also 	 footnotes 	 references 	 external links typology[edit] known roman bridges[ ] 	country 	number 	 	europe 	 	italian base 	 	spain 	 	france 	 	germany 	 	great britain 	 	portugal 	 	yugoslavia 	 	switzerland 	 	greece 	 	netherlands 	 	bulgaria 	 	luxemburg 	 	albania 	 	austria 	 	belgium 	 	romania 	 	hungary 	 	 	asia 	 	turkey 	 	syria 	 	jordan 	 	lebanon 	 	israel 	 	iraq 	 	 	africa 	 	tunisia 	 	algeria 	 	libya 	 	total 	 as with the vault and the dome, the romans were the first to fully realize the potential of arches for bridge construction.[ ] roman pontoon bridge across the lower danube a list of roman bridges compiled by the engineer colin o'connor features roman stone bridges for traffic, roman timber bridges and roman aqueduct bridges, a substantial part still standing and even used to carry vehicles.[ ] a more complete survey by the italian scholar vittorio galliazzo found roman bridges, mostly of stone, in as many as different countries (including former yugoslavia; see right table).[ ] roman arch bridges were usually semicircular, although a few were segmental (such as alconétar bridge). a segmental arch is an arch that is less than a semicircle.[ ] the advantages of the segmental arch bridge were that it allowed great amounts of flood water to pass under it, which would prevent the bridge from being swept away during floods and the bridge itself could be more lightweight. generally, roman bridges featured wedge-shaped primary arch stones (voussoirs) of the same in size and shape. the romans built both single spans and lengthy multiple arch aqueducts, such as the pont du gard and segovia aqueduct. their bridges featured from an early time onwards flood openings in the piers, e.g. in the pons fabricius in rome ( bc), one of the world's oldest major bridges still standing. roman engineers were the first and until the industrial revolution the only ones to construct bridges with concrete, which they called opus caementicium. the outside was usually covered with brick or ashlar, as in the alcántara bridge. the romans also introduced segmental arch bridges into bridge construction. the m long limyra bridge in southwestern turkey features segmental arches with an average span-to-rise ratio of . : ,[ ] giving the bridge an unusually flat profile unsurpassed for more than a millennium. trajan's bridge over the danube featured open-spandrel segmental arches made of wood (standing on m high concrete piers). this was to be the longest arch bridge for a thousand years both in terms of overall and individual span length, while the longest extant roman bridge is the m long puente romano at mérida. the late roman karamagara bridge in cappadocia may represent the earliest surviving bridge featuring a pointed arch.[ ] arch shapes[edit] pons fabricius in rome, italy early roman arch bridges, influenced by the ancient notion of the ideal form of the circle, often describe a full circle, with the stone arch continuing underground. a typical example is the pons fabricius in rome. later, roman masonry bridges rested mostly on semi-circular arches, or, to a lesser extent, on segmental arches.[ ][ ] for the later design, which shows an early, local concentration in north-eastern italy, but can be found scattered throughout the whole empire, the limyra bridge, the alconétar bridge and the ponte san lorenzo are prime examples. in addition, a number of other arch forms make rare appearances, in some cases of which later deformations cannot be ruled out. the late antique karamagara bridge represents an early example for the use of pointed arches typical characteristics[edit] puente romano, mérida, spain. with an overall length of m and still in use, is the largest surviving roman bridge 	many are more than metres wide 	most of them slope slightly 	many have rustic work 	the stonework has alternating stretcher and header courses ; i.e. one layer of rectangular stones is laid lengthwise, and the next layer has the ends facing outwards 	stones linked with dovetail joints or metal bars 	indents in the stones for gripping tools to hold on to (source traianus – an endeavour to identify roman bridges built in former hispania) opus pontis[edit] the costs of building and repairing bridges, known as opus pontis ("bridge work"), were the responsibility of multiple local municipalities. their shared costs prove roman bridges belonged to the region overall, and not to any one town (or two, if on a border). the alcántara bridge in lusitania, for example, was built at the expense of local municipalities, whose names were added on an inscription.[ ] later, in the roman empire, the local lords of the land had to pay tithes to the empire for opus pontis.[ ][ ] the anglo-saxons continued this practice with bricg-geworc, a literal translation of opus pontis.[ ] examples[edit] 	for outstanding achievements of roman bridge building, see list of ancient architectural records. the remaining arch of the pons aemilius, located in the middle of the tiber built in bc, the pons aemilius, later named ponte rotto (broken bridge), is the oldest roman stone bridge in rome, italy. the largest roman bridge was trajan's bridge over the lower danube, constructed by apollodorus of damascus, which remained for over a millennium the longest bridge to have been built both in terms of overall and span length. they were most of the time at least metres above the body of water. an example of temporary military bridge construction are the two caesar's rhine bridges. large river bridging[edit] roman engineers built stone arch or stone pillar bridges over all major rivers of their imperium, save two: the euphrates which lay at the frontier to the rival persian empires, and the nile, the longest river in the world, which was 'bridged' as late as by the british old aswan dam.[ ] the largest rivers to be spanned by solid bridges by the romans were the danube and the rhine, the two largest european rivers west of the eurasian steppe. the lower danube was crossed by least two (trajan's bridge, constantine's bridge) and the middle and lower rhine by four different bridges (roman bridge at mainz, caesar's rhine bridges, roman bridge at koblenz, roman bridge at cologne). for rivers with strong currents and to allow swift army movements, pontoon bridges were also routinely employed.[ ] going from the distinct lack of records of pre-modern solid bridges spanning larger rivers,[ ] the roman feat appears to be unsurpassed anywhere in the world until into the th century. gallery[edit] 	 			 			 römerbrücke in trier, germany 			 		 	 			 			 pont julien in apt, france 			 		 	 			 			 the roman bridge in vaison-la-romaine, france 			 		 	 			 			 pont ambroix, france 			 		 	 			 			 ponte sant'angelo in rome, italy 			 		 	 			 			 ponte milvio in rome, italy 			 		 	 			 			 ponte pietra in verona, italy 			 		 	 			 			 puente de alconétar, spain 			 		 	 			 			 taşköprü, in adana, cilicia region, turkey 			 		 	 			 			 eurymedon bridge at selge, turkey 			 		 	 			 			 limyra bridge, turkey 			 		 	 			 			 pont de pierre (aosta), aosta valley, italy 			 		 	 			 			 severan bridge, turkey 			 		 	 			 			 bermaña bridge, in caldas de reis, spain 			 		 	 			 			 pira delal, in zakho, kurdistan region, iraq 			 		 see also[edit] 	list of roman bridges 	bridges in rome 	record-holding bridges in antiquity 	roman architecture 	roman architectural revolution footnotes[edit] 	^ o’connor , p.  	^ galliazzo , p.  (indice). galliazzo's survey excludes late roman or byzantine structures. 	^ robertson, d.s.: greek and roman architecture, nd edn., cambridge , p. : "the romans 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( ). le beau dieu. holy fire publishing. p.  . isbn  . retrieved july . 	^ bosworth, joseph ( ). an anglo-saxon dictionary: based on the manuscript collections of the late joseph bosworth ... clarendon press. p.  . retrieved july . 	^ o’connor , pp.  – (appendices a and b) 	^ o’connor , pp.  – 	^ fernández troyano references[edit] 	fuentes, manuel durán: la construcción de puentes romanos en hispania, xunta de galicia, santiago de compostela , isbn  - - - - 	fernández troyano, leonardo ( ), bridge engineering. a global perspective, london: thomas telford publishing, isbn  - - - 	galliazzo, vittorio ( ), i ponti romani, vol. , treviso: edizioni canova, isbn  - - - 	galliazzo, vittorio ( ), i ponti romani. catalogo generale, vol. , treviso: edizioni canova, isbn  - - - 	gazzola, piero ( ), ponti romani. contributo ad un indice sistematico con studio critico bibliografico, florence 	o’connor, colin ( ), roman bridges, cambridge university press, isbn  - - - external links[edit] 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context	producer	social networks and archival context (united states) 	history	 to present 	access 	cost	free 	coverage 	disciplines	history 	format coverage	finding aids 	links 	website	http://snaccooperative.org/ social networks and archival context (snac) is an online project for discovering, locating, and using distributed historical records in regard to individual people, families, and organizations.[ ] contents 	 history 	 data gathering 	 see also 	 references 	 external links history[edit] snac was established in , with funding from the national endowment for the humanities (neh) by the national archives and records administration (nara),[ ] california digital library (cdl), institute for advanced technology in the humanities (iath) at the university of virginia and the university of california, berkeley school of information.[ ][ ][ ] the andrew w. mellon foundation funded the second phase of the project from to .[ ] one of the project's tools is a radial-graph feature which helps identify a social network of a subject's connections to related historical individuals.[ ] snac is used alongside other digital archives to connect related historical records.[ ] snac is a digital research project that focuses on obtaining records data from various archives, libraries, and museums, so the biographical history of individuals, ancestry, or institutions are incorporated into a single file as opposed to the data being spread throughout different associations, thereby lessen the task of searching various memory organizations to locate the knowledge one seeks.[ ] the institute for advanced technology in the humanities (iath), university of virginia; the school of information, university of california, berkeley (si/ucb), and the california digital library (cdl), university of california are the three primary organizations responsible for processing the different elements of the project.[ ] iath conducts the project and also collect sourcing data from participating institutions, compile record descriptions from marc catalogs and ead finding aids, and turned them into eac-cpf files. si/ucb manages the process of identifying and pairing similar eac-cpf records to create a unifying file that searchable. cdl utilizes the extensible text framework (xtf) which connects the different sources that make up a single eac-cpf file back to its primary resources.[ ] with a variety of organizations such as the library of congress, smithsonian institution, and british library contributing data to the project, it allows the snac team to collect a substantial amount of information available on a subject.[ ] with the u.s. national endowment for humanities supplying financing, the first half of the project began, enabling the developers of snac to explore data extraction from the file creator and develop a model of the record description system. by gathering the contents found within the record creator, it helps to broaden the knowledge available on the entity biographical history.[ ][ ][ ] with the tremendous progress made in the initial stage, planning for the second half of the project centered on adding more contributors to continue to build a dissimilar of information. to help the snac team with the second portion of the project, funding was received the u.s institution for museum and library services while global initiatives was managed by u.s. national archives and records administration (nara).[ ][ ] data gathering[edit] in the encoded archival context-corporate bodies, persons, and families (eac-cpf) was introduced. the new schema allowed each description to live independently from the record creator it was associated with. with the launch of eac-cpf, the archival field had a universal standard allowing them to use archival authority records differently.[ ] by using a few archival practices, the descriptions of the creator are isolated from the file itself. permitting the gathering of information and building connections between varies entities. helping to increase access to additional knowledge. below are the integrated rational elements used to create relationships. authority control - allows you to locate information related to a subject with multiple or alternate spelling associated with its name through various applications. biographical/historical resources – details all events, dates, and places associated with the file creator. cooperative authority control - permits libraries to preserve, share, and distribute authority information with other libraries. flexible descriptions – incorporates a list of multiple institutions associated with a collection connecting the record creator to it. integrated access to cultural heritage - through authority records they act as a unifying folder for all of the descriptions tied to the subject. the authority records help lessen the issue of trying to retain and connect each institution description standard to a family, association, or individual. social/historical 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other related records. links to where the data originated from is also included in the entity file. by both national and international institutions providing source data, it increases the amount of information tied to one entity while linking it to other relevant subjects. with contributions from various organizations, it helps researchers, librarians, archivists, scholars, and none scholars locate an array of data available on associations, individuals, and families reducing the amount of time spent searching through an assortment of resources. see also[edit] 	archival resource key (ark) references[edit] 	^ bromley, anne (november , ). "digital social network linking the living and the dead expands". uva today. retrieved january . 	^ ferriero, david (august , ). "introducing snac". national archives - aotus blog. retrieved may , . 	^ "snac: social networks and archival context". socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu. archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - . 	^ larson, ray r.; pitti, daniel; turner, adrian ( ). "snac: the social networks and archival context project - towards an archival authority cooperative". ieee/acm joint conference on digital libraries. jcdl . pp.  – . doi: . /jcdl. . . 	^ a b pitti, daniel, social networks and archival context project (pdf), university of virginia, p.  , retrieved january . 	^ howard, jennifer (may , ). "projects aims to build online hub for archival materials". the chronicle of higher education. retrieved january . 	^ bromley, anne (october , ). "uva library to enhance national digital archive of african-american leaders". uva today. retrieved january . 	^ a b c d e f g pitti, daniel. "social networks and archival context project (archival authority control)" (pdf). retrieved april . 	^ a b pitti, daniel; hu, rachael; larson, ray; tingle, brian; turner, adrian ( - - ). "social networks and archival context: from project to cooperative archival program". journal of archival organization. ( – ): – . doi: . / . . . issn  - . 	^ a b crowe, katherine; clair, kevin ( - - ). "developing a tool for publishing linked local authority data". journal of library metadata. ( – ): – . doi: . / . . . issn  - . 	^ a b "about snac | snac cooperative". portal.snaccooperative.org. retrieved - - . 	^ a b c pitti, daniel; larson, ray; janakiraman, krishna; tingle, brian ( - - ). 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opponents over time. it does not attempt detailed coverage of things like army structure or equipment. various battles are summarized to illustrate roman methods with links to detailed articles on individual encounters. the original roman army was made up of hoplites. their main strategy was forming into a phalanx. eventually the roman army would switch to the maniple system. the maniple system would divide the roman army into three units called hastati, principes, and triarii. later roman statesmen marius would institute the marian reforms, creating the roman legion of popular imagination. eventually, roman emperor diocletian would create the comitatenses and limatanei units in order to better defend the roman empire. roman legionaries had armor, a gladius, a shield, two pila, and food rations. they also carried around tools such as dolabra, wooden stave, shallow wicker, and a basket. these tools would be used for building the castrum. sometimes roman soldiers would have mules that carried equipment. legions also carried onagers, ballistas, and scorpios. roman soldiers would train for four months.they learned marching skills first, followed by learning how to use their weapons. then they began to spar with other soldiers. during the training exercise roman legionaries would also be taught to obey their commanders and either the republic or the emperor. roman legions were divided into units called cohorts. each cohort was divided into three maniples. each maniple was divided into centuries. several legions made up field armies. during the republic consuls, proconsuls, praetors, propraetors, or dictators were the only officials that could command an army. a legatus assisted the magistrate in commanding the legion. tribunes oversaw the logistics of the army. centurions commanded the centuries. the roman army would be supplied by purchasing agents that would by provisions. local peasants or farmers might have their supplies taken from them in order to supply the roman legion. roman soldiers would build infrastructure such as roads or supply caches well on march. some equipment was moved by pack animals and carts. traders, hucksters, prostitutes, and other miscellaneous service providers. while marching the legion would deploy in several columns with a vanguard behind them. this formation would be surrounded by soldiers on the flanks. afterwards the soldiers would construct a fortified camp. after staying in the camp for some time, the army would destroy the camp to prevent its use by the enemy, and then continue moving. the commanders of the roman army might try to gather intelligence on the enemy. the commander would try to boost the morale of his soldiers during the march. before a battle the commander would try to maneuver his army in a way that granted him the advantage. if the battle was fought when the maniple system was in place, the army would have the hastati in the front, the principes in the middle, and the triarii in the back. skirmishers called velites would be placed in front of the army in order to throw javelins at the enemy. once the marian reforms were enacted, the same formations and strategies continued to be used. however instead of hastati, principes, and triarii they used cohorts. when conducting a siege the army would begin by building a military camp. then they would use siege weapons and the soldiers to assault the city an take it. when defending a city they built palisades, assault roads,moles, breakwaters and double walls. the legions also would build a camp. contents 	 evolution 	 . roman infantry of the roman kingdom and republic 	 . roman infantry of the late republic and early empire 	 . roman infantry of the late empire 	 manpower 	 equipment and training 	 . equipment 	 . . individual weapons, personal equipment and haulage 	 . . artillery package 	 . training 	 organization, leadership and logistics 	 . command, control and structure 	 . . military structure and ranks 	 . . . force structure 	 . . . rank summary 	 . logistics 	 battle 	 . initial preparations and movement for battle 	 . deployment for combat 	 . . layout of the triple line 	 . . maneuvering 	 . . formations 	 . combat 	 . -line system advantages 	 . . flexibility 	 . . mixing of a continuous front with interval fighting 	 . . line spacing and combat stamina 	 . post-deployment commands 	 siegecraft and fortifications 	 . besieging cities 	 . field fortifications 	 infantry effectiveness 	 . roman infantry versus the macedonian phalanx 	 . . versus pyrrhus 	 . . notable triumphs 	 . . . battle of cynoscephalae 	 . . . battle of pydna 	 . . other anti-phalanx tactics 	 . . versus hannibal's carthage 	 . roman infantry versus gallic and the germanic tribes 	 . . barbarian armies 	 . . early gallic victories 	 . . tactical performance versus gallic and germanic opponents 	 . . . gallic and germanic strengths 	 . . . gallic and germanic weaknesses 	 . . . gallic and germanic chariots 	 . . . superior tactical organization: victory of caesar at the sambre river 	 . . . persisting logistics strategy: gallic victory at gergovia 	 . . roman infantry versus mobile and guerilla warfare in hispania 	 . victory through attrition 	 . . resource tactics 	 . roman infantry versus cavalry 	 . . tactical problems of fighting cavalry 	 . . successful tactics 	 . decline 	 . . "barbarization" of the heavy infantry 	 . . changes in the legions 	 . . the mobile forces approach 	 . twilight of the hard-core infantry 	 . assessment of the roman infantry 	 . . central factors in roman success 	 see also 	 references 	 . citations 	 sources 	 external links evolution[edit] roman military tactics evolved from the type of a small tribal host-seeking local hegemony to massive operations encompassing a world empire.this advance was affected by changing trends in roman political, social and economic life, and that of the larger mediterranean world, but it was also undergirded by a distinctive "roman way" of war. this approach included a tendency towards standardization and systematization, practical borrowing, copying and adapting from outsiders, flexibility in tactics and methods, a strong sense of discipline, a ruthless persistence that sought comprehensive victory, and a cohesion brought about by the idea of roman citizenship under arms – embodied in the legion.[ ] these elements waxed and waned over time, but they form a distinct basis underlying rome's rise. some key phases of this evolution throughout rome's military history include:[ ] 	military forces based primarily on heavy citizen infantry with tribal beginnings and early use of phalanx-type elements (see military establishment of the roman kingdom) 	growing sophistication as roman hegemony expanded outside italy into north africa, greece and the middle east (see military establishment of the roman republic) 	continued refinement, standardization and streamlining in the period associated with gaius marius including broader-based incorporation of more citizenry into the army, and more professionalism and permanence in army service 	continued expansion, flexibility and sophistication from the end of the republic into the time of the caesars (see military establishment of the roman empire) 	growing barbarization, turmoil and weakening of the heavy infantry units in favour of cavalry and lighter troops (see foederati) 	demise of the western empire and fragmentation into smaller, weaker local forces. this included the reversal of status of cavalry and infantry in the eastern empire. cataphract forces formed an elite, with infantry being reduced to auxiliaries. roman infantry of the roman kingdom and republic[edit] a phalanx a depiction of the maniple formation the earliest soldiers of the roman army were hoplites. census data from the roman kingdom shows that the soldiers were hoplites in a phalanx. cavalrymen went into battle with their torso's bare.[ ]the legion of the early roman republic was divided into - men strong maniples organized into lines of maniples. in front of the main infantrymen were skirmishers called velites. the velites would fight in a swarm of uncoordinated soldiers. they would have no commander. the velites purpose on the battlefield was using javelins to disrupt the enemy formation. the first line was made up of hastati, the second princeps, and the third triarii. each maniple was commanded by two centurions and the whole legion was commanded by six tribunes. each maniple had a trumpeteer. the trumpeteer would use music to convey orders between maniples.[ ]the soldiers in the manipular legions would be heavily spaced apart, allowing greater flexibility on the battlefield. the maniple units would be spaced yards apart, and yards from the next line of manipular soldiers. aside from improving the flexibility of the legion, the space between each unit meant that if a line was routed, they could retreat through the gaps. the next line could then attack the enemy. this maneuver could be repeated indefinitely, the enemy would always be facing fresh units of romans. the maniples in the army could act totally independently, allowing commanders to use the element of surprise to its maximum.[ ][ ]livy states that soldiers would "open" the maniple in order to let the soldiers fight well. it is unknown how the soldiers opened the maniple but it was probably by ordering one soldier in every second line to take a step forward. this maneuver would result in soldiers having a checkerboard formation. cassius dio and other historians believe that the maniples would expand laterally, this movement would fill in the gaps in the formation and expand the space between each soldier. such a maneuver may be feasible during a lull in the fighting during a battle, however during the heat of battle the maneuver would be difficult to manage and time-consuming. a coin depicting two soldiers fighting polybius described the swordsmanship of the roman army as: in their manner of fighting, however, each man undertakes movement on his own, protecting his body with his long shield, parrying a blow, and fighting hand to hand with the cut and thrust of his sword. they therefore clearly require a space and flexibility between each other, so that each soldier must have three feet from the men to their flank and rear, if they are to be effective. it is unclear whether polybius meant the "three feet" counts the space occupied by the roman soldier and his equipment. if polybius meant this, then each roman soldier would have nine feet between them and the other soldiers. it is also possible polybius included the area the soldier occupied, which meant the soldier had six feet of space between them and the other soldiers. vegetius talked about roman soldiers having three feet between them. depictions of roman soldiers in art suggest that the gap between soldiers is - centimeters. modern scholars such as michael j taylor state that the gaps between the maniples were - meters.[ ] roman infantry of the late republic and early empire[edit] roman legionaries the legions would form into a close-defensive formation to resist a barrage of arrow fire or an enemy charge. this formation was called the testudo, the romans would continue to use the testudo throughout the entire history of their civilization. when in battle, the legions would be separated into their cohorts. four of the cohorts would line up on the battle line and lead. the other six would follow behind the first four as reserves should many men fall in battle. if cavalry is involved, they would be placed on the sides of the main cohorts. like the early republican armies, the legions would still be organized into the same checkerboard formation. the soldiers would march forward until they met the enemy, and proceed to attack. the initial formation of soldiers is dictated by the enemy's formation, the terrain of the battlefield[ ], and the troops of which the legion is made up. to soften up the enemy before the main infantry, the soldiers would throw pilum, or shoot arrows. on occasion, a legion would have ballista, or a piece of field artillery that threw large arrows. to instill fear into their enemy, the soldiers of a legion would march onto an enemy completely silent until they were close enough to attack. at that point, the entire army would utter a battle cry to frighten their enemy. when their tactics did not initially work, commanders would often mold their strategy to what was necessary.[ ] roman infantry of the late empire[edit] the army of the late roman empire would consist of the limitanei and comitatenses armies. the germanic tribes would contribute paramilitary units called foederati to the roman army. the limitanei would defend the borders of the empire from small attacks by the germanic peoples. the limitanei would also hold against a larger invasion long enough for the comitatenses legions to arrive. the limitanei would be stationed in their own forts throughout the empire. usually these forts would be in or near cities and villages. this meant that the soldiers were in constant interaction with civilians. often times the soldiers families would live in the cities or villages near the fort. occasionally villages and town would grow around these forts in order to suit the needs of the limitanei.[ ] this strategy has been described as "defense in depth."the comitatenses were grouped into field armies. the emperor would have his own personal comitatenses army to help fight rebellions. roman generals of the late empire would try to avoid pitched battles in order to conserve manpower. during a battle the comitatenses legions would wait in a defensive formation while performing a shield wall. the romans would then try to use their superior superior coordination to repulse the enemy attack and inflict heavy casualties. skirmishers would be placed in front of the roman line in order to inflict casualties on the enemy and reduce the amount of comitatenses killed in battle. after attila's invasion of the western roman empire the romans started to use mounted archers.[ ] manpower[edit] numerous scholarly histories of the roman military machine note the huge numbers of men that could be mobilized, more than any other mediterranean power. this bounty of military resources enabled rome to apply crushing pressure to its enemies, and stay in the field and replace losses, even after suffering setbacks. one historian of the second punic war states: according to polybius ( . ), the total number of roman and allied men capable of bearing arms in  bc exceeded , infantry and , cavalries. brunt adjusted polybius’ figures and estimated that the population of italy, not including greeks and bruttians, exceeded , free adult males, from whom the romans could levy troops. rome not only had the potential to levy vast numbers of troops but did in fact field large armies in the opening stages of the war. brunt estimates that rome mobilized , men for service in the legions between  bc and  bc, while at the height of the war effort (  bc to  bc) [against hannibal] rome was able to mobilize approximately , men. against these mighty resources hannibal led from spain an army of approximately , infantry and , cavalry ... rome's manpower reserves allowed it to absorb staggering losses yet still continue to field large armies. for example, according to brunt, as many as , men were lost between  bc and  bc, but rome continued to place between and legions in the field for the duration of the war. moreover, as will be discussed below, roman manpower allowed for the adoption of the so-called "fabian strategy", which proved to be an effective response to hannibal's apparent battlefield superiority. put simply, the relative disparity in the number of available troops at the outset of the conflict meant that hannibal had a much narrower margin for error than the romans.[ ] equipment and training[edit] further information: roman military personal equipment and roman legion equipment[edit] individual weapons, personal equipment and haulage[edit] a legionary typically carried around kilograms ( pounds) of armour, weapons, and equipment. this load consisted of armour, a sword, called a gladius, a shield, two pila (one heavy, one light) and days' food rations. there were also tools for digging and constructing a castrum, the legions' fortified base camp. one writer recreates the following as to caesar's army in gaul:[ ] each soldier arranged his heavy pack on a t or y-shaped rod, borne on his left shoulder. shields were protected on the march with a hide cover. each legionary carried about days' worth of wheat, pulses or chickpeas, a flask of oil, and a mess kit with a dish, cup, and utensil. personal items might include a dyed horsehair crest for the helmet, a semi-water-resistant oiled woollen cloak, socks and breeches for cold weather and a blanket. entrenchment equipment included a shallow wicker basket for moving earth, a spade and/or pick-axe like dolabra or turf cutter, and two wooden staves to construct the next camp palisade. all these were arranged in the marching pack toted by each infantryman. fighters travelled in groups of eight, and each octet was sometimes assigned a mule. the mule carried a variety of equipment and supplies, including a mill for grinding grain, a small clay oven for baking bread, cooking pots, spare weapons, waterskins, and tents. a roman century had a complement of mules, each attended by two non-combatants who handled foraging and water supply. a century might be supported by wagons in the rear, each drawn by six mules, and carrying tools, nails, water barrels, extra food and the tent and possessions of the centurion- commanding officer of the unit. artillery package[edit] the legion also carried an artillery detachment with pieces of artillery. this consisted of stone-throwing onagers and bolt-shooting ballistas; in addition, each of the legion's centuries had its own scorpio bolt thrower ( total), together with supporting wagons to carry ammunition and spare parts. bolts were used for targeted fire on human opponents, while stones were used against fortifications or as an area saturation weapon. the catapults were powered by rope and sinew, tightened by a ratchet and released, powered by the stored torsion energy. caesar was to mount these in boats on some operations in britain, striking fear in the heart of the native opponents according to his writings. his placement of siege engines and bolt throwers in the towers and along the wall of his enclosing fortifications at alesia were critical to turning back the enormous tide of gauls. these defensive measures, used in concert with the cavalry charge led by caesar himself, broke the gauls and won the battle—and therefore the war—for good. bolt-throwers like the scorpio were mobile and could be deployed in defence of camps, field entrenchments and even in the open field by no more than two or three men.[ ] training[edit] over time the military system changed its equipment and roles, but throughout the course of roman history, it always remained a disciplined and professional war machine. soldiers carried out training common to every organized army, from initial muster, arms and weapons drill, formation marching and tactical exercises. according to vegetius, during the four-month initial training of a roman legionary, marching skills were taught before recruits ever handled a weapon, since any formation would be split up by stragglers at the back or soldiers trundling along at differing speeds.[ ] standards varied over time, but normally recruits were first required to complete roman miles ( .  km or . modern miles) with .  kg in five summer hours (the roman day was divided into hours regardless of season, as was the night), which was known as "the regular step" or "military pace".[ ] they then progressed to the "faster step" or "full pace"[ ] and were required to complete roman miles ( .  km or . modern miles) in five summer hours loaded with . kilograms (  lb). the typical conditioning regime also included gymnastics and swimming to build physical strength and fitness.[ ] after conditioning, the recruits underwent weapons training; this was deemed of such importance that weapons instructors generally received double rations.[ ] legionaries were trained to thrust with their gladii because they could defend themselves behind their large shields (scuta) while stabbing the enemy. these training exercises began with thrusting a wooden gladius and throwing wooden pila into a quintain (wooden dummy or stake) while wearing full armor. their wooden swords and pila were designed to be twice as heavy as their metal counterparts so that the soldiers could wield a true gladius with ease. next, soldiers progressed to armatura, a term for sparring that was also used to describe the similar one-on-one training of gladiators. unlike earlier training, the wooden weapons used for armatura were the same weight as the weapons they emulated. vegetius notes that roofed halls were built to allow for these drills to continue throughout the winter.[ ] other training exercises taught the legionary to obey commands and assume battle formations.[ ] at the end of training the legionary had to swear an oath of loyalty to the spqr (senatus populusque romanus, the senate and the roman people) or later to the emperor. the soldier was then given a diploma and sent off to fight for his living and the glory and honour of rome.[ ] organization, leadership and logistics[edit] command, control and structure[edit] once the soldier had finished his training he was typically assigned to a legion, the basic mass fighting force. the legion was split into ten sub-units called cohorts, roughly comparable to a modern infantry battalion. the cohorts were further sub-divided into three maniples, which in turn were split into two centuries of about – men each. the first cohort in a legion was usually the strongest, with the fullest personnel complement and with the most skilled, experienced men. several legions grouped together made up a distinctive field force or "army".[ ] fighting strength could vary but generally a legion was made up of , soldiers, centurions, artillerymen, and engineers and artificers, and , non-combatants. each legion was supported by a unit of cavalries, the equites. supreme command of either legion or army was by consul or proconsul or a praetor, or in cases of emergency in the republican era, a dictator. a praetor or a propraetor could only command a single legion and not a consular army, which normally consisted of two legions plus the allies. in the early republican period, it was customary for an army to have dual commands, with different consuls holding the office on alternate days. in later centuries this was phased out in favour of one overall army commander. the legati were officers of senatorial rank who assisted the supreme commander. tribunes were young men of aristocratic rank who often supervised administrative tasks like camp construction. centurions (roughly equivalent in rank to today's non-commissioned or junior officers, but functioning as modern captains in field operations) commanded cohorts, maniples and centuries. specialist groups like engineers and artificers were also used. military structure and ranks[edit] for an in-depth analysis of ranks, types, and historical units, see structural history of the roman military and roman legion for a detailed breakdown. below is a very basic summary of the legion's structure and ranks.[ ] force structure[edit] 	contubernium: "tent unit" of eight men 	centuria: men commanded by a centurion 	cohort: six centuries or a total of fighting men. added to these were officers. the first cohort was double strength in terms of manpower and generally held the best fighting men. 	legion: made up of cohorts 	field army: a grouping of several legions and auxiliary cohorts 	equites: each legion was supported by cavalry (equites), sub-divided into ten turmae 	auxilia and velites: allied contingents, often providing light infantry and specialist fighting services, like archers, slingers or javelin-men. they were usually formed into the light infantry or velites. auxilia in the republican period also formed allied heavy legions to complement roman citizen formations. 	non-combatant support: generally the men who tended the mules, forage, watering and sundries of the baggage train 	 , – , men in a legion rank summary[edit] 	consul – an elected official with military and civic duties; like a co-president (there were two), but also a major military commander 	praetor – appointed military commander of a legion or grouping of legions, also a government official 	legatus legionis – the legate or overall legion commander, usually filled by a senator 	tribune – young officer, second in command of the legion. other lesser tribunes served as junior officers. 	prefect – third in command of the legion. there were various types. the prefectus equitarius commanded a unit of cavalry 	primus pilus – commanding centurion for the first cohort – the senior centurion of the entire legion 	centurion – basic commander of the century. prestige varied based on the cohort they supervised. 	decurio – commander of the cavalry unit or turma 	aquilifer – standard bearer of each legion – a position of much prestige 	signifer – one for each century, handled financial matters and decorations 	optio – equivalent to a sergeant, second in command for the centurion 	cornicen – hornblower or signaler 	imaginifer – carried standard bearing the emperor's image 	decanus – equivalent to a corporal, commanded an eight-man tent party 	munifex – basic legionary – the lowest of the trained rank and file 	tirones – new recruit to the legions, a novice logistics[edit] roman logistics were among some of the best in the ancient world over the centuries, from the deployment of purchasing agents to systematically buy provisions during a campaign, to the construction of roads and supply caches, to the rental of shipping if the troops had to move by water. heavy equipment and material (tents, artillery, extra weapons and equipment, millstones etc.) were moved by pack animal and cart, while troops carried weighty individual packs with them, including staves and shovels for constructing the fortified camps. typical of all armies, local opportunities were also exploited by troops on the spot, and the fields of peasant farmers who were near the zone of conflict might be stripped to meet army needs. as with most armed forces, a variety of traders, hucksters, prostitutes and other miscellaneous service providers trailed in the wake of the roman fighting men.[ ] battle[edit] initial preparations and movement for battle[edit] the approach march. once the legion was deployed on an operation, the marching began. the approach to the battlefield was made in several columns, enhancing manoeuvrability. typically a strong vanguard preceded the main body and included scouts, cavalry and light troops. a tribune or other officer often accompanied the vanguard to survey the terrain for possible camp locations. flank and reconnaissance elements were also deployed to provide the usual covering security. behind the vanguard came the main body of heavy infantry. each legion marched as a distinct formation and was accompanied by its own baggage train. the last legion usually provided the rear force, although several recently raised units might occupy this final echelon. construction of fortified camps. legions on a campaign typically established a strong field camp, complete with palisade and a deep ditch, providing a basis for supply storage, troop marshalling and defence. camps were recreated each time the army moved and were constructed with a view to both military necessity and religious symbolism. there were always four gateways, connected by two main crisscrossing streets, with the intersection at a concentration of command tents in the centre. space was also made for an altar and religious gathering area. everything was standardized, from the positioning of baggage, equipment and specific army units, to the duties of officers who were to set up sentries, pickets and orders for the next day's march. construction could take between and hours with part of the army labouring, while the rest stood guard, depending on the tactical situation. the shape of the camp was generally rectangular but could vary based on the terrain or tactical situation. a distance of about meters was left clear between the entrenchments and the first row of troop tents. this gap provided space for marshalling the legionnaires for battle and kept the troop area out of enemy missile range.[ ] no other ancient army persisted over such a long period in systematic camp construction like the romans, even if the army rested for only a single day.[ ] breaking camp and marching. after a regimented breakfast at the allocated time, trumpets were sounded and the camp's tents and huts were dismantled and preparations made for departure. the trumpet then sounded again with the signal for "stand by to march". mules and wagons of the baggage train would be loaded and units formed up. the camp would then be burned to the ground to prevent its later occupation and use by the enemy. the trumpets would then be sounded for a final time and then the troops were asked three times whether they were ready, to which they were expected to shout together "ready!", before marching off.[ ] intelligence. good roman commanders did not hesitate to exploit useful intelligence, particularly where a siege situation or impending clash in the field was developing. information was gathered from spies, collaborators, diplomats and envoys, and allies. intercepted messages during the second punic war for example were an intelligence coup for the romans, and enabled them to dispatch two armies to find and destroy hasdrubal's carthaginian force, preventing his reinforcement of hannibal. commanders also kept an eye on the situation in rome since political enemies and rivals could use an unsuccessful campaign to inflict painful career and personal damage. during this initial phase, the usual field reconnaissance was also conducted - patrols might be sent out, raids mounted to probe for weaknesses, prisoners snatched, and local inhabitants intimidated.[ ] morale. if the field of potential battle were near, the movement became more careful and more tentative. several days might be spent in a location studying the terrain and opposition, while the troops were prepared mentally and physically for battle. pep talks, sacrifices to the gods and the announcements of good omens might be carried out. a number of practical demonstrations might also be undertaken to test enemy reaction as well as to build troop morale. part of the army might be led out of the camp and drawn up in battle array towards the enemy. if the enemy refused to come out and at least make a demonstration, the commander could claim a moral advantage for his men, contrasting the timidity of the opposition with the resolution of his fighting forces.[ ] historian adrian goldsworthy notes that such tentative pre-battle manoeuvring was typical of ancient armies as each side sought to gain the maximum advantage before the encounter.[ ] during this period, some ancient writers paint a picture of meetings between opposing commanders for negotiation or general discussion, as with the famous pre-clash conversation between hannibal and scipio at zama. it's unknown if the recorded flowery speeches are non-fiction, but these encounters don't show a record of resolving the conflict by means other than the anticipated battle. deployment for combat[edit] pre-battle manoeuvre gave the competing commanders a feel for the impending clash, but final outcomes could be unpredictable, even after the start of hostilities. skirmishing could get out of hand, launching both main forces towards one another. political considerations, exhaustion of supplies, or even rivalry between commanders for glory could also spark a forward launch, as at the battle of the trebia river.[ ] the roman army after the marian reforms was also unique in the ancient world because when lined up opposite an enemy readying for battle it was completely silent except for the orders of officers and the sound of trumpets signalling orders. the reason for this was because the soldiers needed to be able to hear such instruction, the optios of the legions would patrol behind the century and anyone who was talking or failing to obey orders immediately was struck with the stick of the optio. this silence also had the unintended consequence of being very intimidating to its enemies because they recognized this took immense discipline to achieve before a battle. layout of the triple line[edit] once the machinery was in motion however, the roman infantry typically was deployed, as the main body, facing the enemy. during deployment in the republican era, the maniples were commonly arranged in triplex acies (triple battle order): that is, in three ranks, with the hastati in the first rank (that nearest the enemy), the principes in the second rank, and the veteran triarii in the third and final rank as barrier troops, or sometimes even further back as a strategic reserve. when in danger of imminent defeat, the first and second lines, the hastati and principes, ordinarily fell back on the triarii to reform the line to allow for either a counter-attack or an orderly withdrawal. because falling back on the triarii was an act of desperation, to mention "returning to the triarii" ("ad triarios rediisse") became a common roman phrase indicating one to be in a desperate situation.[ ] within this triplex acies system, contemporary roman writers talk of the maniples adopting a checkered formation called quincunx when deployed for battle but not yet engaged. in the first line, the hastati left modest gaps between each maniple. the second line consisting of principes followed in a similar manner, lining up behind the gaps left by the first line.[ ] this was also done by the third line, standing behind the gaps in the second line. the velites were deployed in front of this line in a continuous, loose-formation line.[ ] the roman manoeuvre was a complex one, filled with the dust of thousands of soldiers wheeling into place, and the shouting of officers moving to and from as they attempted to maintain order. several thousand men had to be positioned from column into line, with each unit taking its designated place, along with light troops and cavalry. the fortified camps were laid out and organized to facilitate deployment. it might take some time for the final array of the host, but when accomplished the army's grouping of legions represented a formidable fighting force, typically arranged in three lines with a frontage as long as one mile (about .  km).[ ] a general three-line deployment was to remain over the centuries, although the marian reforms phased out most divisions based on age and class, standardized weapons and reorganized the legions into bigger manoeuvre units like cohorts. the overall size of the legion and length of the soldier's service also increased on a more permanent basis.[ ] maneuvering[edit] as the army approached its enemy, the velites in front would throw their javelins at the enemy and then retreat through the gaps in the lines. this was an important innovation since in other armies of the period skirmishers would have to either retreat through their own army's ranks, causing confusion or else to flee around either flank of their own army. after the velites had retreated through the hastati, the 'posterior' century would march to the left and then forward so that they presented a solid line, creating a solid line of soldiers. the same procedure would be employed as they passed through the second and third ranks or turned to the side to channel down the gap between the first and second rows on route to help guard the legion's flanks.[ ] at this point, the legion then presented a solid line to the enemy and the legion was in the correct formation for engagement. when the enemy closed, the hastati would charge. if they were losing the fight, the 'posterior' century returned to its position creating gaps again. then the maniples would fall back through the gaps in the principes, who followed the same procedure to form a battle line and charge. if the principes could not break the enemy, they would retreat behind the triarii and the whole army would leave the battlefield in good order. according to some writers, the triarii formed a continuous line when they deployed, and their forward movement allowed scattered or discomfited units to rest and reform, to later rejoin the struggle.[ ] the manipular system allowed engaging every kind of enemy even in rough terrain, because the legion had both flexibility and toughness according to the deployment of its lines. lack of a strong cavalry corps, however, was a major flaw of the roman forces. in the later imperial army, the general deployment was very similar, with the cohorts deploying in quincunx pattern. in a reflection of the earlier placement of the veteran triarii in the rear, the less experienced cohorts - usually the nd, rd, th, th, and th - were in the front; the more experienced cohorts - st, th, th, th, and th - were placed behind.[ ] formations[edit] the above is only standard procedure and was often modified; for example, at zama, scipio deployed his entire legion in a single line to envelop hannibal's army just as hannibal had done at cannae. a brief summary of alternative formations known to have been used is shown below: combat[edit] hand-to-hand engagement after the release of missile weapons: once the deployment and initial skirmishing described above took place, the main body of heavy infantry closed the gap and attacked the double. the front ranks usually cast their pila, and the following ranks hurled theirs over the heads of the front-line fighters. after the pila were cast, the soldiers then drew their swords and engaged the enemy. emphasis was on using the shield to provide maximum body coverage, and for pushing enemies, while attacking with their gladius in thrusts and short cuts in clinch, minimizing exposure to the enemy. in the combat that ensued, roman discipline, heavy shield, armour and training were to give them important advantages in combat. the acute shock of combat: some scholars of the roman infantry maintain that the intense trauma and stress of hand-to-hand combat meant that the contenders did not simply hack at one another continuously until one dropped. instead, there were short periods of intense, vicious fighting. if indecisive, the contenders might fall back a short distance to recuperate, and then surge forward to renew the struggle. others behind them would be stepping up into the fray meanwhile, engaging new foes or covering their colleagues. the individual warrior could thus count on temporary relief, rather than endless fighting until death or crippling injury. as the battle progressed, the massive physical and mental stress intensified. the stamina and willpower demanded to make yet one more charge, to make yet one more surge grew even greater.[ ] eventually one side began to break down, and it is then that the greatest slaughter began. use of war machines and covering fire: many roman battles, especially during the late empire, were fought with the preparatory fire from catapults, ballistas and onagers. these war machines, a form of ancient artillery, fired arrows and large stones towards the enemy (although many historians question the battlefield effectiveness of such weapons). following this barrage, the roman infantry advanced, in four lines, until they came within meters of the enemy, then they halted, hurled their pila and charged. if the first line was repelled by the enemy, another line would rapidly resume the attack. often this rapid sequence of deadly attacks proved the key to victory. another common tactic was to taunt the enemy with feigned charges and rapid arrow fire by the auxiliares equites (auxiliary cavalry), forcing the enemy into pursuing them, and then leading the enemy into an ambush where they would be counterattacked by roman heavy infantry and cavalry. -line system advantages[edit] flexibility[edit] some ancient sources such as polybius seem to imply that the legions could fight with gaps in their lines. yet, most sources seem to admit that more usually a line would form into a solid front. various approaches have been taken to reconcile these possibilities with the ancient writings.[ ] the advantages of gaps are obvious when a formation is on the move- it can more easily flow around obstacles and manoeuvre and control are enhanced and, as the romans did in the pre-marius republic, place baggage between the lines meaning that the cargo cannot be easily captured and that the army can quickly get ready for a battle by using it as cover. after the approach marching was complete, it would be extremely difficult to deploy an unbroken army of men for combat across any but the flattest ground without some sort of intervals. many ancient armies used gaps of some sort, even the carthaginians, who typically withdrew their initial skirmishing troops between the spaces before the main event. even more loosely organized enemies like the germanic hosts typically charged in distinct groups with small gaps between them, rather than marching up in a neat line.[ ] fighting with gaps is thus feasible as writers like polybius assert. according to those who support the quincunx formation view, what made the roman approach stand out is that their intervals were generally larger and more systematically organized than those of other ancient armies. each gap was covered by maniples or cohorts from lines farther back. penetration of any significance could not just slip in unmolested. it would not only be mauled as it fought past the gauntlet of the first line but would also clash with aggressive units moving up to plug the space.[ ] from a larger standpoint, as the battle waxed and waned, fresh units might be deployed through the intervals to relieve the men of the first line, allowing continual pressure to be brought forward. mixing of a continuous front with interval fighting[edit] one scenario for not using gaps is deployment in a limited space, such as the top of a hill or ravine, where extensive spreading out would not be feasible. another is a particular attack formation, such as the wedge discussed above, or an encirclement as at the battle of ilipa. yet another is a closing phase manoeuvre when a solid line is constructed to make a last, final push as in the battle of zama. during the maelstrom of battle, it is also possible that as the units merged into line, the general checkerboard spacing became more compressed or even disappeared, and the fighting would see a more or less solid line engaged with the enemy. thus gaps at the beginning of the struggle might tend to vanish in the closing phases.[ ] some historians view the intervals as primarily useful in maneuver. before the legionaries closed with the enemy each echelon would form a solid line to engage. if things went badly for the first line, it would retreat through the gaps and the second echelon moved up- again forming a continuous front. should they be discomfited, there still remained the veterans of the triarii who let the survivors retreat through the preset gaps. the veterans then formed a continuous front to engage the enemy or provided cover for the retreat of the army as a whole. the same procedure was followed when the triarii was phased out - intervals for manoeuvre, reforming and recovery- solid line to engage.[ ] some writers maintain that in caesar's armies the use of the quincunx and its gaps seems to have declined, and his legions generally deployed in three unbroken lines as shown above, with four cohorts in front, and three apiece in the echeloned order. the relief was provided by the second and third lines 'filtering' forward to relieve their comrades in small groups, while the exhausted and wounded eased back from the front.[ ] the romans still remained flexible however, using gaps and deploying four or sometimes two lines based on the tactical situation.[ ] line spacing and combat stamina[edit] another unique feature of the roman infantry was the depth of its spacing. most ancient armies deployed in shallower formations, particularly phalanx-type forces. phalanxes might deepen their ranks heavily to add both stamina and shock power, but their general approach still favoured one massive line, as opposed to the deep three-layer roman arrangement. the advantage of the roman system is that it allowed the continual funnelling or metering of combat power forward over a longer period—massive, steadily renewed pressure to the front—until the enemy broke. deployment of the second and third lines required careful consideration by the roman commander. deployed too early, and they might get entangled in the frontal fighting and become exhausted. deployed too late, and they might be swept away in a rout if the first line began to break. tight control had to be maintained, hence the rd line triarii were sometimes made to squat or kneel, effectively discouraging premature movement to the front. the roman commander was thus generally mobile, constantly moving from spot to spot, and often riding back in person to fetch reserves if there was no time for standard messenger service. a large number of officers in the typical roman army, and the flexible breakdown into sub-units like cohorts or maniples greatly aided coordination of such moves.[ ] whatever the actual formation took however, the ominous funnelling or surge of combat power up to the front remained constant: 	when the first line as a whole had done its best and become weakened and exhausted by losses, it gave way to the relief of freshmen from the second line who, passing through it gradually, pressed forward one by one, or in single file, and worked their way into the fight in the same way. meanwhile the tired men of the original first line, when sufficiently rested, reformed and re-entered the fight. this continued until all men of the first and second lines had been engaged. this does not presuppose an actual withdrawal of the first line, but rather a merging, a blending or a coalescing of both lines. thus the enemy was given no rest and was continually opposed by fresh troops until, exhausted and demoralized, he yielded to repeated attacks.[ ] post-deployment commands[edit] roman re-enactors demonstrate a variant of the roman testudo formation whatever the deployment, the roman army was marked both by flexibility and strong discipline and cohesion. different formations were assumed according to different tactical situations. 	repellere equites ("repel horsemen/knights") was the formation used to resist cavalry. the legionaries would assume a square formation, holding their pila as spears in the space between their shields and strung together shoulder to shoulder. 	at the command iacite pila, the legionaries hurled their pila at the enemy. 	at the command cuneum formate, the infantry formed a wedge to charge and break enemy lines. this formation was used as a shock tactic. 	at the command contendite vestra sponte, the legionaries assumed an aggressive stance and attacked every opponent they faced. 	at the command orbem formate, the legionaries assumed a circle-like formation with the archers placed in the midst of and behind the legionaries providing missile fire support. this tactic was used mainly when a small number of legionaries had to hold a position and were surrounded by enemies. 	at the command ciringite frontem, the legionaries held their position. 	at the command frontem allargate, a scattered formation was adopted. 	at the command testudinem formate, the legionaries assumed the testudo (tortoise) formation. this was slow-moving but almost impenetrable to enemy fire, and thus very effective during sieges and/or when facing off against enemy archers. however, the testudo formation didn't allow for effective close combat and therefore it was used when the enemy were far enough away so as the legionaries could get into another formation before being attacked. 	at the command tecombre, the legionaries would break the testudo formation and revert to their previous formation. 	at the command agmen formate, the legionaries assumed a square formation, which was also the typical shape of a century in battle. siegecraft and fortifications[edit] besieging cities[edit] oppidum expugnare was the roman term for besieging cities. it was divided into three phases: modern reconstruction of a scorpio. 	in the first phase, engineers (the cohors fabrorum) built a fortified camp near the city with walls of circumvallation and at the command 'turres extruere' built watch towers to prevent the enemy from bringing in reinforcements. siege towers were built, trenches were dug and traps set all around the city. also second, exterior line of walls (contravallation) was built around the city facing the enemy, as caesar did at the battle of alesia. sometimes the romans would mine the enemy's walls. 	the second phase began with onager and ballista fire to cover the approach of the siege towers, which were full of legionaries ready to assault the wall's defenders. meanwhile, other cohorts approached the city's wall in testudo formation, bringing up battering rams and ladders to breach the gates and scale the walls. 	the third phase included the opening of the city's main gate by the cohorts which had managed to break through or scale the walls, provided the rams had not knocked the gate open. once the main gate was opened or the walls breached, the cavalry and other cohorts entered the city to finish off the remaining defenders. field fortifications[edit] while strong cities/forts and elaborate sieges to capture them were common throughout the ancient world, the romans were unique among ancient armies in their extensive use of field fortifications. in campaign after campaign, enormous effort was expended to dig—a job done by the ordinary legionary. his field pack included a shovel, a dolabra or pickaxe, and a wicker basket for hauling dirt. some soldiers also carried a type of turf cutter. with these, they dug trenches, built walls and palisades and constructed assault roads. the operations of julius caesar at alesia are well known. the gallic city was surrounded by massive double walls penning in defenders, and keeping out relieving attackers. a network of camps and forts were included in these works. the inner trench alone was feet ( .  m) deep, and caesar diverted a river to fill it with water. the ground was also sown with caltrops of iron barbs at various places to discourage assault. surprisingly for such an infantry centred battle, caesar relied heavily on cavalry forces to counter gallic sorties. ironically, many of these were from germanic tribes who had come to terms earlier.[ ] the power of roman field camps has been noted earlier, but in other actions, the romans sometimes used trenches to secure their flanks against envelopment when they were outnumbered, as caesar did during operations in belgaic gaul. in the brittany region of france, moles and breakwaters were constructed at enormous effort to assault the estuarine strongholds of the gauls. internal roman fighting between caesar and pompey also saw the frequent employment of trenches, counter-trenches, dug-in strong points, and other works as the contenders manoeuvred against each other in field combat.[ ] in the latter stages of the empire, the extensive use of such field fortifications declined as the heavy infantry itself was phased down. nevertheless, they were an integral part of the relentless roman rise to dominance over large parts of the ancient world.[ ] infantry effectiveness[edit] roman infantry versus the macedonian phalanx[edit] strengths of the macedonian phalanx. prior to the rise of rome, the macedonian phalanx was the premiere infantry force in the western world. it had proven itself on the battlefields of mediterranean europe, from sparta to macedonia, and had met and overcome several strong non-european armies from persia to pakistan/northwest india. packed into a dense armoured mass, and equipped with massive pikes to feet ( .  m) in length, the phalanx was a formidable force. while defensive configurations were sometimes used, the phalanx was most effective when it was moving forward in attack, either in a frontal charge or in "oblique" or echeloned order against an opposing flank, as the victories of alexander the great and theban innovator epaminondas attest. when working with other formations—light infantry and cavalry—it was, at its height under alexander, without peer.[ ] weaknesses of the macedonian phalanx. nevertheless, the macedonian phalanx had key weaknesses. it had some manoeuvrability, but once a clash was joined this decreased, particularly on rough ground. its "dense pack" approach also made it rigid. compressed in the heat of battle, its troops could only primarily fight facing forward. the diversity of troops gave the phalanx great flexibility, but this diversity was a double-edged sword, relying on a mix of units that was complicated to control and position. these included not only the usual heavy infantrymen, cavalry and light infantry but also various elite units, medium armed groups, foreign contingents with their own styles and shock units of war-elephants.[ ] such "mixed" forces presented additional command and control problems. if properly organized and fighting together a long time under capable leaders, they could be very proficient. the campaigns of alexander and pyrrhus (a hellenic-style formation of mixed contingents) show this. without such long-term cohesion and leadership, however, their performance was uneven. by the time the romans were engaging against hellenistic armies, the greeks had ceased to use strong flank guards and cavalry contingents, and their system had degenerated into a mere clash of phalanxes. this was the formation overcome by the romans at the battle of cynoscephalae. advantages of roman infantry. the romans themselves had retained some aspects of the classical phalanx (not to be confused with the macedonian phalanx) in their early legions, most notably the final line of fighters in the classic "triple line", the spearmen of the triarii. the long pikes of the triarii were to eventually disappear, and all hands were uniformly equipped with short sword, shield and pilum, and deployed in the distinctive roman tactical system, which provided more standardization and cohesion in the long run over the hellenic type formations. phalanxes facing the legion were vulnerable to the more flexible roman "checkerboard" deployment, which provided each fighting man a good chunk of personal space to engage in close order fighting. the manipular system also allowed entire roman sub-units to manoeuvre more widely, freed from the need to always remain tightly packed in rigid formation. the deep three-line deployment of the romans allowed combat pressure to be steadily applied forward. most phalanxes favoured one huge line several ranks deep. this might do well in the initial stages, but as the battle entangled more and more men, the stacked roman formation allowed fresh pressure to be imposed over a more extended time. as combat lengthened and the battlefield compressed, the phalanx might thus become exhausted or rendered immobile, while the romans still had enough left to not only manoeuvre but to make the final surges forward.[ ] hannibal's deployment at zama appears to recognize this—hence the carthaginian also used a deep three-layer approach, sacrificing his first two lower quality lines and holding back his combat-hardened veterans of italy for the final encounter. hannibal's arrangement had much to recommend it given his weakness in cavalry and infantry, but he made no provision for one line relieving the other as the romans did. each line fought its own lonely battle and the last ultimately perished when the romans reorganized for a final surge. the legions also drilled and trained together over a more extended time, and were more uniform and streamlined, (unlike hannibal's final force and others) enabling even less than brilliant army commanders to manoeuvre and position their forces proficiently. these qualities, among others, made them more than a match for the phalanx, when they met in combat.[ ] according to polybius, in his comparison of the phalanx versus the roman system: 	".. whereas the phalanx requires one time and one type of ground. its use requires flat and level ground which is unencumbered by any obstacles.. if the enemy refuses to come down to [meet it on the level ground].. what purpose can the phalanx serve?.. [also] the phalanx soldier cannot operate in either smaller units or singly, whereas the roman formation is highly flexible. every roman soldier.. can adapt himself equally well to any place of time and meet an attack from any quarter.. accordingly, since the effective use of parts of the roman army is so much superior, their plans are much more likely to achieve success."[ ] versus pyrrhus[edit] see also: pyrrhus of epirus the greek king pyrrhus' phalangical system was to prove a tough trial for the romans. despite several defeats, the romans inflicted such losses on the epirote army that the phrase "pyrrhic victory" has become a byword for a victory won at a terrible cost. a skilful and experienced commander, pyrrhus deployed a typically mixed phalanx system, including shock units of war-elephants, and formations of light infantry (peltasts), elite units, and cavalry to support his infantry. using these he was able to defeat the romans twice, with a third battle deemed inconclusive or a limited roman tactical success by many scholars. the battles below (see individual articles for detailed accounts) illustrate the difficulties of fighting against phalanx forces. if well-led and deployed (compare pyrrhus to the fleeing perseus at pydna below), they presented a credible infantry alternative to the heavy legion. the romans, however, were to learn from their mistakes. in subsequent battles after the pyrrhic wars, they showed themselves masters of the hellenic phalanx. 	battle of heraclea 	battle of asculum 	battle of beneventum notable triumphs[edit] battle of cynoscephalae[edit] main article: battle of cynoscephalae in this battle the macedonian phalanx originally held the high ground but all of its units had not been properly positioned due to earlier skirmishing. nevertheless, an advance by its left-wing drove back the romans, who counterattacked on the right flank and made some progress against a somewhat disorganized macedonian left. however, the issue was still in doubt until an unknown tribune (officer) detached maniples from the roman line and made an encircling attack against the macedonian rear. this caused the enemy phalanx to collapse, securing a route for the romans. the more flexible, streamlined legionary organization had exploited the weaknesses of the densely packed phalanx. such triumphs secured roman hegemony in greece and adjoining lands. battle of pydna[edit] main article: battle of pydna at pydna the contenders deployed on a relatively flat plain, and the macedonians had augmented the infantry with a sizeable cavalry contingent. at the hour of decision, the enemy phalanx advanced in formidable array against the roman line and made some initial progress. however, the ground it had to advance over was rough, and the powerful phalangial formation lost its tight cohesion. the romans absorbed the initial shock and came on into the fray, where their more spacious formation and continuously applied pressure proved decisive in hand-to-hand combat on the rough ground. shield and sword at close quarters on such terrain neutralized the long pike, and supplementary macedonian weapons (lighter armour and a dagger-like short sword) made an indifferent showing against the skilful and aggressive assault of the heavy roman infantrymen. the opposition also failed to deploy supporting forces effectively to help the phalanx at its time of dire need. indeed, the macedonian commander, perseus, seeing the situation deteriorating, seems to have fled without even bringing his cavalry into the engagement. the affair was decided in less than two hours, with a comprehensive defeat for the macedonians. other anti-phalanx tactics[edit] "breaking phalanxes" illustrates more of the roman army's flexibility. when the romans faced phalangite armies, the legions often deployed the velites in front of the enemy with the command to contendite vestra sponte (attack), presumably with their javelins, to cause confusion and panic in the solid blocks of phalanxes. meanwhile, auxilia archers were deployed on the wings of the legion in front of the cavalry, in order to defend their withdrawal. these archers were ordered to eiaculare flammas, fire incendiary arrows into the enemy. the cohorts then advanced in a wedge formation, supported by the velites' and auxiliaries' fire, and charged into the phalanx at a single point, breaking it, then flanking it with the cavalry to seal the victory. see the battle of beneventum for evidence of fire-arrows being used. versus hannibal's carthage[edit] tactical superiority of hannibal's forces. while not a classic phalanx force, hannibal's army was composed of "mixed" contingents and elements common to hellenic formations, and it is told that towards the end of his life, hannibal reportedly named pyrrhus as the commander of the past that he most admired[ ] rome however had blunted pyrrhus' hosts prior to the rise of hannibal, and given their advantages in organization, discipline, and resource mobilization, why did they not make a better showing in the field against the carthaginian, who throughout most of his campaign in italy suffered from numerical inferiority and lack of support from his homeland? hannibal's individual genius, the steadiness of his core troops (forged over several years of fighting together in spain, and later in italy) and his cavalry arm seem to be the decisive factors. time after time hannibal exploited the tendencies of the romans, particularly their eagerness to close and achieve a decisive victory. the cold, tired, wet legionnaires that slogged out of the trebia river to form up on the river bank are but one example of how hannibal forced or manipulated the romans into fighting on his terms, and on the ground of his own choosing. the later debacles at lake trasimene and cannae, forced the proud romans to avoid battle, shadowing the carthaginians from the high ground of the apennines, unwilling to risk a significant engagement on the plains where the enemy cavalry held sway.[ ] growing roman tactical sophistication and ability to adapt overcome earlier disasters. but while the case of hannibal underscored that the romans were far from invincible, it also demonstrated their long-term strengths. rome had a vast manpower surplus far outnumbering hannibal that gave them more options and flexibility. they isolated and eventually bottled up the carthaginians and hastened their withdrawal from italy with the constant manoeuvre. more importantly, they used their manpower resources to launch an offensive into spain and africa. they were willing to absorb the humiliation in italy and remain on the strategic defensive, but with typical relentless persistence they struck elsewhere, to finally crush their foes.[ ] they also learned from those enemies. the operations of scipio were an improvement on some of those who had previously faced hannibal, showing a higher level of advance thinking, preparation and organization. (compare with sempronius at the battle of the trebia river for example). scipio's contribution was in part to implement more flexible manoeuvre of tactical units, instead of the straight-ahead, three-line grind favoured by some contemporaries. he also made better use of cavalry, traditionally an arm in which the romans were lacking. his operations also included pincer movements, a consolidated battle line, and "reverse cannae" formations and cavalry movements. his victories in spain and the african campaign demonstrated a new sophistication in roman warfare and reaffirmed the roman capacity to adapt, persist and overcome.[ ] see detailed battles: 	battle of baecula 	battle of ilipa 	battle of zama roman infantry versus gallic and the germanic tribes[edit] barbarian armies[edit] views of the gallic enemies of rome have varied widely. some older histories consider them to be backward savages, ruthlessly destroying the civilization and "grandeur that was rome." some modernist views see them in a proto-nationalist light, ancient freedom fighters resisting the iron boot of empire. often their bravery is celebrated as worthy adversaries of rome. see the dying gaul for an example. the gallic opposition was also composed of a large number of different peoples and tribes, geographically ranging from the mountains of switzerland to the lowlands of france and thus are not easy to categorize. the term "gaul" has also been used interchangeably to describe celtic peoples farther afield in britain adding even more to the diversity of peoples lumped together under this name. from a military standpoint, however, they seem to have shared certain general characteristics: tribal polities with a relatively small and lesser elaborated state structure, light weaponry, fairly unsophisticated tactics and organization, a high degree of mobility, and inability to sustain combat power in their field forces over a lengthy period.[ ] roman sources reflect on the prejudices of their times, but nevertheless testify to the gauls' fierceness and bravery. 	"their chief weapons were long, two-edged swords of soft iron. for defence, they carried small wicker shields. their armies were undisciplined mobs, greedy for plunder.. brave to the point of recklessness, they were formidable warriors, and the ferocity of their first assault inspired terror even in the ranks of veteran armies."[ ] early gallic victories[edit] though popular accounts celebrate the legions and an assortment of charismatic commanders quickly vanquishing massive hosts of "wild barbarians",[ ] rome suffered a number of early defeats against such tribal armies. as early as the republican period (circa – bc), they had sacked rome under brennus, and had won several other victories such as the battle of noreia and the battle of arausio. the foremost gallic triumph in this early period was "the day of allia"- july - when roman troops were routed and driven into the allia river. henceforth, july was considered an unlucky date on the roman calendar.[ ] some writers suggest that as a result of such debacles, the expanding roman power began to adjust to this vigorous, fast-moving new enemy.[ ] the romans began to phase out the monolithic phalanx they formerly fought in and adopted the more flexible manipular formation. the circular hoplite shield was also enlarged and eventually replaced with the rectangular scutum for better protection. the heavy phalanx spear was replaced by the pila, suitable for throwing. only the veterans of the triarii retained the long spear- vestige of the former phalanx. such early reforms also aided the romans in their conquest of the rest of italy over such foes as the samnites, latins and greeks.[ ] as time went on roman arms saw increasing triumph over the gallics, particularly in the campaigns of caesar. in the early imperial period, however, germanic warbands inflicted one of rome's greatest military defeats, (the battle of the teutoburg forest) which saw the destruction of three imperial legions and was to place a limit on roman expansion in the west. and it was these germanic tribes in part (most having some familiarity with rome and its culture, and becoming more romanized themselves) that were to eventually bring about the roman military's final demise in the west. ironically, in the final days, the bulk of the fighting was between forces composed mostly of barbarians on either side.[ ] tactical performance versus gallic and germanic opponents[edit] gallic and germanic strengths[edit] whatever their particular culture, the gallic and germanic tribes generally proved themselves to be tough opponents, racking up several victories over their enemies. some historians show that they sometimes used massed fighting in tightly packed phalanx-type formations with overlapping shields, and employed shield coverage during sieges. in open battle, they sometimes used a triangular "wedge" style formation in attack. their greatest hope of success lay in factors: (a) numerical superiority, (b) surprising the romans (via an ambush for example) or in (c) advancing quickly to the fight, or (d) engaging the romans over heavily covered or difficult terrain where units of the fighting horde could shelter within striking distance until the hour of decision, or if possible, withdraw and regroup between successive charges.[ ] most significant gallic and germanic victories show two or more of these characteristics. the battle of the teutoburg forest contains all four: numerical superiority, surprise, quick charges to close rapidly, and favorable terrain and environmental conditions (thick forest and pounding rainstorms) that hindered roman movement and gave the warriors enough cover to conceal their movements and mount successive attacks against the roman line. another factor in the romans' defeat was a treacherous defection by arminius and his contingent.[ ] gallic and germanic weaknesses[edit] weaknesses in organization and equipment. against the fighting men from the legion however, the gauls, iberians and germanic forces faced a daunting task. the barbarians' rudimentary organization and tactics fared poorly against the well-oiled machinery that was the legion. the fierceness of the gallic and germanic charges is often commented upon by some writers, and in certain circumstances, they could overwhelm roman lines. nevertheless, the in-depth roman formation allowed adjustments to be made, and the continual application of forwarding pressure made long-term combat a hazardous proposition for the gauls. flank attacks were always possible, but the legion was flexible enough to pivot to meet this, either through sub-unit manoeuvre or through the deployment of lines farther back. the cavalry screen on the flanks also added another layer of security, as did nightly regrouping in fortified camps. the gauls and germans also fought with little or no armour and with weaker shields, putting them at a disadvantage against the legion. other items of roman equipment from studded sandals, to body armour, to metal helmets added to roman advantages. generally speaking, the gauls and germans needed to get into good initial position against the romans and to overwhelm them in the early phases of the battle. an extended set-piece slogging match between the lightly armed tribesmen and the well-organized heavy legionaries usually spelt doom for the tribal fighters.[ ] caesar's slaughter of the helvetii near the saône river is just one example of tribal disadvantage against the well-organized romans,[ ] as is the victory of germanicus at the weser river and agricola against the celtic tribesmen of caledonia (scotland) circa a.d.[ ] weaknesses in logistics. roman logistics also provided a trump card against germanic foes as it had against so many previous foes. tacitus in his annals reports that the roman commander germanicus recognized that continued operations in gaul would require long trains of men and material to come overland, where they would be subject to attack as they traversed the forests and swamps. he, therefore, opened sea and river routes, moving large quantities of supplies and reinforcements relatively close to the zone of battle, bypassing the dangerous land routes. in addition, the roman fortified camps provided secure staging areas for offensive, defensive and logistical operations, once their troops were deployed. assault roads and causeways were constructed on the marshy ground to facilitate manoeuvre, sometimes under direct gallic attack. these roman techniques repeatedly defeated their germanic adversaries.[ ] while germanic leaders and fighters influenced by roman methods sometimes adapted them, most tribes did not have the strong organization of the romans. as german scholar hans delbruck notes in his "history of the art of war": 	".. the superiority of the roman art of warfare was based on the army organization.. a system that permitted very large masses of men to be concentrated at a given point, to move in an orderly fashion, to be fed, to be kept together. the gauls could do none of these things."[ ] gallic and germanic chariots[edit] the gallic also demonstrated a high level of tactical prowess in some areas. gallic chariot warfare, for example, showed a high degree of integration and coordination with infantry, and gallic horse and chariot assaults sometimes threatened roman forces in the field with annihilation. at the battle of sentinum for example, c. bc, the roman and campanian cavalry encountered gallic war-chariots and were routed in confusion—driven back from the roman infantry by the unexpected appearance of the fast-moving gallic assault. the discipline of the roman infantry restored the line, however, and a counterattack eventually defeated the gallic forces and their allies.[ ] the accounts of polybius leading up to the battle of telamon, c. bc mention chariot warfare, but it was ultimately unsuccessful. the gauls met comprehensive defeat by the roman legions under papus and regulus. chariot forces also attacked the legions as they were disembarking from ships during caesar's invasion of britain, but the roman commander drove off the fast-moving assailants using covering fire (slings, arrows and engines of war) from his ships and reinforcing his shore party of infantry to charge and drive off the attack. in the open field against caesar, the gallic/celtics apparently deployed chariots with a driver and an infantry fighter armed with javelins. during the clash, the chariots would drop off their warriors to attack the enemy and retire a short distance away, massed in reserve. from this position, they could retrieve the assault troops if the engagement was going badly, or apparently, pick them up and deploy elsewhere. caesar's troops were discomfited by one such attack, and he met it by withdrawing into his fortified redoubt. a later gallic attack against the roman camp was routed.[ ] superb as the gallic fighters were, chariots were already declining as an effective weapon of war in the ancient world with the rise of mounted cavalry.[ ] at the battle of mons grapius in caledonia (circa ad), celtic chariots made an appearance. however, they were no longer used in an offensive role but primarily for the pre-battle show - riding back and forth and hurling insults. the main encounter was decided by infantry and mounted cavalry.[ ] superior tactical organization: victory of caesar at the sambre river[edit] superior gallic mobility and numbers often troubled roman arms, whether deployed in decades-long mobile or guerrilla warfare or in decisive field engagement. the near-defeat of caesar in his gallic campaign confirms this latter pattern but also shows the strengths of roman tactical organization and discipline. at the battle of the sabis river, (see more detailed article) contingents of the nervii, atrebates, veromandui and aduatuci tribes massed secretly in the surrounding forests as the main roman force was busy making camp on the opposite side of the river. some distance away behind them slogged two slow-moving legions with the baggage train. engaged in foraging and camp construction the roman forces were somewhat scattered. as camp building commenced, the barbarian forces launched a ferocious attack, streaming across the shallow water and quickly assaulting the distracted romans. this incident is discussed in caesar's gallic war commentaries.[ ] so far the situation looked promising for the warrior host.[ ] the conditions above were in their favour: (a) numerical superiority, (b) the element of surprise, (c) a quick advance/assault, and (d) favourable terrain that masked their movements until the last minute. early progress was spectacular as the initial roman dispositions were driven back. a rout looked possible. caesar himself rallied sections of his endangered army, impressing resolve upon the troops. with their customary discipline and cohesion, the romans then began to drive back the barbarian assault. a charge by the nervi tribe through a gap between the legions however almost turned the tide again, as the onrushing warriors seized the roman camp and tried to outflank the other army units engaged with the rest of the tribal host. the initial phase of the clash had passed however and a slogging match ensued. the arrival of the two rear legions that had been guarding the baggage reinforced the roman lines. led by the th legion, a counterattack was mounted with these reinforcements that broke the back of the barbarian effort and sent the tribesmen reeling in retreat. it was a close-run thing, illustrating both the fighting prowess of the tribal forces and the steady, disciplined cohesion of the romans. ultimately, the latter was to prove decisive in rome's long fought conquest of gaul. persisting logistics strategy: gallic victory at gergovia[edit] as noted above, the fierce charge of the gauls and their individual prowess is frequently acknowledged by several ancient roman writers.[ ] the battle of gergovia however demonstrates that the gallic were capable of a level of strategic insight and operation beyond merely mustering warriors for an open field clash. under their war leader vercingetorix, the gallic pursued what some modern historians have termed a "persisting" or "logistics strategy" - a mobile approach relying not on direct open field clashes, but avoidance of major battle, "scorched earth" denial of resources, and the isolation and piecemeal destruction of roman detachments and smaller unit groupings.[ ] when implemented consistently, this strategy saw some success against roman operations. according to caesar himself, during the siege of the town of bourges, the lurking warbands of gauls were: 	"on the watch for our foraging and grain-gatherer parties, when necessarily scattered far afield he attacked them and inflicted serious losses... this imposed such scarcity upon the army that for several days they were without grain and staved off starvation only by driving cattle from remote villages."[ ] caesar countered with a strategy of enticing the gallic forces out into open battle, or of blockading them into submission. at the town of gergovia, resource denial was combined with a concentration of superior force and multiple threats from more than one direction. this caused the opposing roman forces to divide and ultimately fail. gergovia was situated on the high ground of a tall hill, and vercingetorix carefully drew up the bulk of his force on the slope, positioning allied tribes in designated places. he drilled his men and skirmished daily with the romans, who had overrun a hilltop position and had created a small camp some distance from caesar's larger main camp. a rallying of about , disenchanted aeudan tribesmen (engineered by vercingetorix's agents) created a threat in caesar's rear, including a threat to a supply convoy promised by the allied aeudans, and he diverted four legions to meet this danger.[ ] this, however, gave vercingetorix's forces the chance to concentrate in superior strength against the smaller two-legion force left behind at gergovia, and desperate fighting ensued. caesar dealt with the real threat, turned around and by ruthlessly forced marching once again consolidated his forces at the town. a feint using bogus cavalry by the romans drew off part of the gallic assault, and the romans advanced to capture three more enemy outposts on the slope, and proceeded towards the walls of the stronghold. the diverted gallic forces returned however and in frantic fighting outside the town walls, the romans lost men, including centurions. caesar commenced a retreat from the town with the victorious gallic warriors in pursuit. the roman commander, however, mobilized his th legion as a blocking force to cover his withdrawal and after some fighting, the tribesmen themselves withdrew back to gergovia, taking several captured legion standards. the vicious fighting around gergovia was the first time caesar had suffered a military reverse, demonstrating the gallic martial valor noted by the ancient chroniclers. the hard battle is referenced by the roman historian plutarch, who writes of the averni people showing visitors a sword in one of their temples, a weapon that reputedly belonged to caesar himself. according to plutarch, the roman general was shown the sword in the temple at gergovia some years after the battle, but he refused to reclaim it, saying that it was consecrated, and to leave it where it was.[ ] the gallic were unable to sustain their strategy, however, and vercingetorix was to become trapped in alesia, facing not divided sections or detachments of the roman army but caesar's full force of approximately , men ( , legionnaires plus numerous additional auxiliary cavalry and infantry). this massive concentration of romans was able to besiege the fortress in detail and repulse gallic relief forces, and it fell in little more than a month.[ ] vercingetorix overall persisting logistics policy, however, demonstrates a significant level of strategic thinking. as historian a. goldsworthy ( ) notes: "his [vercingetorix's] strategy was considerably more sophisticated than that employed by caesar's earlier opponents.."[ ] at alesia this mobile approach became overly static. the gauls gave battle at a place where they were inadequately provisioned for an extended siege, and where caesar could bring his entire field force to bear on a single point without them being dissipated, and where his lines of supply were not effectively interdicted.[ ] at gergovia by contrast, caesar's strength was divided by the appearance of another gallic force in his rear (the aeudans)- threatening his sources and lines of supply. together with a strong defensive anvil, (the town) supported by an offensive hammer (the open field forces), and coupled with previous resource denial pressure over time, the romans were forced to retreat, and the gallic secured a victory. as one historian notes about the persisting strategy: 	"but before the defeat at alesia, vercingetorix's strategy had driven cesar from central gaul.. in finding and overwhelming roman foragers as fabius had done to hannibal's men, the gauls concentrated against weakness to win many small victories. their strength in cavalry helped them concentrate rapidly, facilitating the application of the combat element in their strategy, though attacking foragers and grain gatherers were also intrinsic to the logistic aspect of their campaign."[ ] roman infantry versus mobile and guerilla warfare in hispania[edit] 	the iberian zone of struggle. the gallic-celtic-iberian peoples, like many other tribes, descended from the general "celtic" race, put up an obstinate fight against roman hegemony. based in hispania (what is now spain and portugal), they fought continuously, with varying levels of intensity, for almost two centuries, beginning around bc. the initial hegemons of hispania were the carthaginians who struggled against various tribes to carve out colonies and a commercial empire, primarily in coastal enclaves. carthaginian defeats by rome brought struggle against a new imperium. tribes such as the celtiberi carried out a strong resistance, a struggle later continued by other groups such as the lusitani, under viriathus. the lusitanian war and the numantine war are but a few examples of the prolonged conflict, which cut across decades of roman history. full conquest was not achieved until the time of augustus. the vicious long-term fighting made hispania a place of dread for the roman soldier. historian sir edward creasy, in his "the fifteen decisive battles of the world" had this to say about the iberian conflicts.[ ] 		"the war against the spaniards, who, of all the nations subdued by the romans, defended their liberty with the greatest obstinacy... the romans in both provinces were so often beaten, that nothing was more dreaded by the soldiers at home than to be sent there... 	roman tactics. rome deployed its standard methods, with greater emphasis on blended units of light troops, cavalry and heavy infantry when confronting the guerrilla or mobile tactics used by the iberians. roman fortified camps were also valuable in protecting the troops and providing bases of operation. while combat results were mixed in the open field, the romans did comparatively well when besieging iberian cities, systematically eliminating enemy leaders, supply bases and centres of resistance. destruction of iberian resources by burning grain fields or demolishing villages also put the native resistance under greater pressure. the operations of scipio during the numantine war illustrate these methods, including a crackdown on lax practices and tightening of legionary discipline.[ ] other roman tactics touched on the political sphere such as the "pacification" treaties of gracchus, and treachery and trickery, as in the massacres of tribal leaders by lucullus and galba under guise of negotiation. rome frequently capitalized on divisions among the tribes. a "divide and conquer" policy was in use, with competing (and sometimes insincere) treaties being negotiated to isolate targeted groups, and allied tribes being used to subdue others.[ ] 	celtic-iberian tactics. fighting for their independence and survival, the iberian tribes used fortified cities or strongpoints to defend against their enemies and mixed this with mobile warfare in formations ranging from small guerrilla bands to large units numbering thousands of men. the celtic/iberian horsemen, in particular, appear to be more than a match for those of rome, a fact proved in earlier years by the key role such allied cavalry played in hannibal's victories. favourable mobility and knowledge of the local terrain were to help the tribes immensely. one of the most successful ambushes was pulled off by a chieftain named carus, who liquidated around , romans in a combined cavalry-infantry strike. another was executed by caesarus, who took advantage of a disorderly roman pursuit under mummius, to lay a trap that resulted in roman losses of around , men. a similar iberian "turn and fight" gambit is also recorded as being successful against galba. roman arms however triumphed over two grinding centuries of conflict. see "appian's history of rome: the spanish wars" for a more detailed discussion of individual battles, leaders and engagements.[ ] victory through attrition[edit] in their battles against a wide variety of opponents, rome's ruthless persistence, greater resources and stronger organization wore down their opponents over time.[ ] rome's massive manpower supply was the foundation of this approach. opponents could be relentlessly weakened and exhausted over the long run.[ ] in spain, resources were thrown at the problem until it yielded over years later—a slow, harsh grind of endless marching, constant sieges and fighting, broken treaties, burning villages and enslaved captives. as long as the roman senate and its successors were willing to replace and expend more men and material decade after decade, victory could be bought through a strategy of exhaustion.[ ] the systematic wastage and destruction of enemy economic and human resources were called vastatio by the romans. crops and animals were destroyed or carried off, and local populaces were massacred or enslaved. sometimes these tactics were also used to conduct punitive raids on barbarian tribes which had performed raids across the border. in the campaigns of germanicus, roman troops in the combat area carried out a "scorched earth" approach against their germanic foes, devastating the land they depended on for supplies. "the country was wasted by fire and sword fifty miles round, nor sex nor age found mercy; places sacred and profane had the equal lot of destruction, all razed to the ground.." (tacitus, annals). the roman "grind down" approach is also seen in the bar kokba jewish revolt against the romans. the roman commander severus avoided meeting the hard-fighting jewish rebels in the open field. instead, he relied on attacking their fortified strongpoints and devastating the zone of conflict in a methodical campaign.[ ] this "attritional" aspect of the roman approach to combat contrasts with the notion of brilliant generalship or tactics sometimes seen in popular depictions of the roman infantry. some historians note however that rome often balanced brutal attrition with shrewd diplomacy, as demonstrated by caesar's harsh treatment of gallic tribes that opposed him, but his sometimes conciliatory handling of those that submitted. rome also used a variety of incentives to encourage cooperation by the elites of conquered peoples, co-opting opposition and incorporating them into the structure of the empire. this carrot and stick approach forms an integral part of "the roman way" of war.[ ] resource tactics[edit] as with any military organization, training soldiers/armies requires a number of things and could prove to be quite costly in the long run. the romans understood this concept very well and realized that training soldiers could include paying for his rations [food], his salary, his armour, his armaments [weapons], and a soldier's honorarium [which was paid to those who received honourable discharges]. with all this in perspective, they realized each individual soldier was a far too valuable resource to waste. they knew the costs they were incurring for each soldier had to be quite similar on their enemy's side. so they developed a tactic that could cause a significant setback or even defeat for their enemy while only creating a limited risk for their own soldiers. this was known as “resource tactics.” standing armies run on their stomachs and their equipment, and both require regular supplies. "resource tactics" cut off their opponents from resources in one of three ways: 	attack resource locations: once they conquered territory, the romans would secure as many resources as they could handle. this allowed them to restock their own supply and prevent the available resources from falling into their opponents' hands.[ ] 	intercept supplies while in transit: the romans would identify their enemies' main supply routes and create a stopping point. once the enemy was stopped, the romans would ransack the supply, which would drastically reduce the supplies reaching the enemy.[ ] 	conduct a “siege” [siege - a military operation in which troops surround a place and cut off all outside access to force surrender]: the romans would typically build a wall around the existing city to help control the enemy. this wall would be built out of reach of the archers and would prevent the enemy from escaping. once the romans completed the wall, they would use catapults, ballistas and onagers to hurl rocks, spears, and other objects from safe distances. the ongoing siege would eventually cause the city/fort to run out of resources, thus causing the opponents to die off or surrender.[ ] the basic principle behind these tactics was to disrupt their enemies' resources while increasing roman resources. without a regular supply of food, water, and other commodities, armies would begin to starve or dehydrate, resulting in low morale or killing of fellow soldiers.[ ] roman infantry versus cavalry[edit] tactical problems of fighting cavalry[edit] cavalry opponents were one of the toughest challenges faced by the roman infantry. combining both missile and shock capability with extensive mobility, cavalry exploited the inherent weakness of the legion—its relatively slow movement and deployment. defeat by strong cavalry forces is a recurring event in roman military history. the campaigns of hannibal illustrate this well, as numidian and spanish/gallic horsemen repeatedly outflanked roman formations, dealing devastating blows in the sides and rear. hannibal's great victory at cannae (considered one of the greatest roman defeats ever) was primarily an infantry struggle, but the key role was played by his cavalry, as in his other victories. an even more dramatic demonstration of roman vulnerability is shown in the numerous wars against parthian heavy cavalry. the parthians and their successors used large numbers of fast-moving light riders to harass and skirmish, and delivered the coup de grâce with heavily armoured lancers called "cataphracts". both types of troops used powerful composite bows that shot arrows of sufficient strength to penetrate roman armour. the cataphracts extended combat power by serving as shock troops, engaging opposing forces with their heavy lances in thundering charges after they had been "softened up" by swarms of arrows. the parthians also conducted a "scorched earth" policy against the romans, refusing major set-piece encounters, while luring them deeper on to the unfavorable ground, where they would lack water supplies and a secure line of retreat. the debacle of the battle of carrhae saw a devastating defeat of roman arms by the parthian cavalry.[ ] crassus' force was systematically dismembered by the smaller parthians army, who surprised roman expectations that they would run out of arrows, by arranging for a supply train of ammunition borne by thousands of camels. roman casualties were approximately , killed and , captured making the battle one of the costliest defeats in roman history. parthian casualties were minimal.[ ] successful tactics[edit] clues exist in the earlier campaigns of alexander the great against mounted asiatic warriors—engaging the horsemen with strong detachments of light infantry and missile troops and driving them off with charges by alexander's heavy cavalry units. the roman variant, with its large manpower resources, continued the same "combined arms" approach, with a larger role for cavalry as the empire went on. the eastern half of the roman empire, particularly, was ultimately to rely mostly on cavalry forces. adjustments of ventidius. the operations of the roman commander publius ventidius bassus illustrate three general tactics used by the infantry to fight their mounted foes. these drew on caesar's veteran legions and made ventidius one of the roman generals to celebrate a triumph against the parthians. in three separate battles, he not only managed to defeat the parthian armies and drive them out of the roman territory but also managed to kill parthia's three top military commanders during the battles.[ ] the adjustments of ventidius were as follows:[ ] 	increase in firepower. ventidius sought to neutralize the parthian advantage in firepower, by adding his own, and provided his legions with numerous slingers whose furious fire was instrumental in checking the parthian horsemen during several battles. in subsequent engagements, other roman commanders increased cavalry units and slingers, with the latter being supplied with leaden bullets which gave more range and killing power.[ ] 	securing the high ground and other terrain features. during movement against the horsemen, special care had to be taken when crossing a mountain, ravine or bridge. in such cases, sub-sections of the legion had to be redeployed to provide covering and blocking forces until the army had safely navigated the route.[ ] in his three victories over the horsemen, ventidius had his infantry secure the high ground, bolstering defensive positions and manoeuvres with withering covering fire by the slingers. seizure of hilly terrain features hindered sweeping enemy cavalry movements, obstructed avenues of attack and provided anchor points that allowed manoeuvring detachments to counterattack, or to fall back if unfavourable conditions developed. against the horsemen, heavy infantry units had to work closely with cavalry and light troops, and be mutually supporting, or they could be quickly isolated and destroyed.[ ] 	quick counterattack from a stable base. once entering the zone of battle, ventidius generally operated from a defensive base and did not prematurely venture on to flat terrain or allow his forces to lose cohesion as at carrhae. he let the parthian forces come to him after taking a strong position, and aggressively and quickly counterattacked. in two victories the parthians were induced to attack the army camp, where they were mauled by the corps of slingers. the legions then counterattacked from this defensive anvil, light and heavy units working together to smash opposition.[ ] in one victory, ventidius took a position on the high ground, and then dispatched a strong vanguard of cavalry against a parthian concentration at the syrian gates, or narrow pass over mount amanus, leading from cilicia into syria. this vanguard was a decoy to lure the opposition forward. as the parthians moved in for the kill, the romans ambushed them from the flank with a detachment of slingers and infantry. rather than wait for reinforcements by the allied force of labenieus in the area, the parthians decided to mount a full-scale attach on the main roman position at dawn. ventidius held back his forces until most of the parthians were on the steep slope, then made a fast counterattack - his infantry covered by the slingers. the parthians were defeated in detail and pharnapates the parthian commander was killed.[ ] in his third triumph, ventidius again secured the high ground, the pivot of his tactics, and did not oppose a parthian crossing of the euphrates. he held back his forces and let the parthians advance to his position until they were close, then ordered a rapid counterattack- the slingers blanketing the enemy with fire, and the infantry surging forward. this quick "combined arms counter-punch" caught the parthians on unfavorable terrain under a furious hail of slingstones and leaden pellets, and prevented them from destroying the legions with arrow barrages from a distance. forced to fight at close quarters with the quickly advancing legionaries, the parthians faltered and their leader pacorus and his body guard were killed. the rest of their army eventually broke and retreated.[ ] combined arms and quick advance in later eras. in the later roman empire, cavalry forces played a larger role, with the infantry in support. the campaign of the emperor julian ii against the persians is instructive in this regard. on june , a large-scale clash occurred near the town of maranga. facing an enemy that threatened to blanket his troops with a hail of arrows, and in danger of envelopment, julian deployed his force in a crescent formation, and ordered an advance by both infantry and cavalry on the double, thwarting both dangers by closing quickly. the gambit was successful. after a long battle, the persians withdrew- a tactical victory (albeit a costly one for the romans according to some historians).[ ] the work of roman historian ammianus marcellinus offers a detailed description of the persian campaign, including the quick charge by the heavy roman infantry under julian. 	"to prevent the preliminary volleys of the archers from disrupting our ranks he (julian) advanced at the double and so ruined the effect of their fire... roman foot in close order made a mighty push and drove the serried ranks of the enemy before them..." marcellinus's commentary also sharply contrasts the fighting spirit of the persian infantrymen with those of rome, stating that they had "aversion to pitched infantry battles."[ ] in an earlier engagement outside the walls of ctesiphon, marcellinus again notes the value of the quick advance by the infantry: 	"both sides fought hand-to-hand with spears and drawn swords; the quicker our men forced themselves into the enemy's line the less they were exposed to danger from arrows."[ ] mixed results against major cavalry enemies. rome's overall record against the parthians was favourable, although the parthian horsemen offered stiff resistance, as it was against the horsemen of hannibal, and some gallic opponents. subsequent roman leaders like antony invaded parthian territory but had to withdraw after severe losses. others like severus and trajan saw great success in their invasions of mesopotamia, defeating parthian armies through combined arms tactics.[ ] thus, the battles of ventidius and julian show that the roman infantry, when properly handled and manoeuvred, and when working in conjunction with other supporting arms like slingers, could certainly meet the challenge of an enemy cavalryman.[ ] decline[edit] any history of the roman infantry must grapple with the factors that led to the decline of the heavy legions that once dominated the western world. such decline, of course, is closely linked with the decay of other facets of rome's economy, society and political scene. nevertheless, some historians emphasize that the final demise of rome was due to military defeat, however plausible (or implausible) the plethora of theories advanced by some scholars, ranging from declining tax bases, to class struggle, to mass lead poisoning.[ ] two of the major factors that have occupied scholars of the military will be discussed here: barbarization and the adaptation of a "mobile reserve" strategy. there are a number of controversies in this area with duelling scholars advancing competing theories. "barbarization" of the heavy infantry[edit] "barbarization" is a common theme in many works on rome (see gibbon, mommsen, delbrück, et al.), and thus cannot be excluded from any analysis of its infantry forces. essentially it is argued that the increasing barbarization of the heavy legions weakened weaponry, training, morale and military effectiveness in the long run. the weapons changes described above are but one example.[ ] it could be argued that the use of barbarian personnel was nothing new. this is accurate, however, such use was clearly governed by "the roman way." it was the barbarian personnel who had to adapt to roman standards and organization, not the other way around. in the twilight of the empire, this was not the case. such practices as permitting the settlement of massive, armed barbarian populations on roman territory, the watering down of the privilege of citizenship, increasing use of alien contingents, and relaxation or removal of traditionally thorough and severe roman discipline, organization and control, contributed to the decline of the heavy infantry.[ ] the settlement of the foederati for example, saw large barbarian contingents ushered on to roman territory, with their own organization, under their own leaders. such groupings showed a tendency to neglect "the roman way" in organization, training, logistics etc., in favour of their own ideas, practices and agendas. these settlements may have bought short-term political peace for imperial elites, but their long-term effect was negative, weakening the traditional strengths of the heavy infantry in discipline, training and deployment. they also seemed to have lessened the incentive for remaining "old guard" troops to adhere to such strengths, since the barbarians received equal or more favour with less effort. indeed, such "allied" barbarian contingents were at times to turn on the romans, devastating wide areas with sack and pillage and even attacking imperial army formations.[ ] other writers argue that while some ancient romans did view the world in terms of barbarians versus civilized romans (epitomized in hadrian's wall of separation), the reality of roman frontiers was a fuzzy set of interlocking zones - political, military, judicial and financial, rather than a neat linear boundary. changes to the roman forces that moved away from the old fighting organization order were thus the outcome of several influences, rather than simply the appearance of more, allegedly uncivilized non-romans.[ ] changes in the legions[edit] to combat the more frequent raids and advances of their hostile neighbours the legions were changed from slow and heavy to much lighter troops, and cavalry was introduced as a serious concept. state-controlled factories produced vast quantities of less specialist arms such as chainmail armour and spears as opposed to the gladius and lorica segmentata more prevalent in the early empire. the difference between auxiliaries and legionaries began to become negligible from an equipment point of view. this meant that the new subdivided infantry lost the awesome power that the earlier legions had, meaning that whilst they were more likely to see a battle they were less likely to win it. that legion size was at an all-time low was also a factor. on the other hand, legions in the late empire were used far more flexibly as accounts by authors like ammianus marcellinus make clear. smaller detachments waged more personal and smaller scale, yet intense operations against tribal foes on the rhine and danubian frontiers. instead of vast formations of thousands of troops, smaller units would engage smaller-scale incursions by raiders. roman horsemen, while fast, were actually much too weak to cope with the very cavalry based invasions of the huns, goths, vandals and sassanids. their ineffectiveness was demonstrated at cannae and adrianople; in both instances, the cavalry was completely destroyed by a vastly more powerful enemy horse. advances in roman tactical thinking led to the adoption of eastern-style cataphracts and mass-use of auxiliary forces as cavalry, both of which were used to address previous shortcomings of the roman army. the later roman army was more cavalry-orientated than it had been before and as a result, detachments were able to be moved around the empire at will, ending the previous doctrine of keeping all forces on the frontiers at the edge of the empire. the mobile forces approach[edit] the "mobile reserve" strategy, traditionally identified with constantine i, saw a reversal of the traditional "forward" policy of strong frontier fortifications backed by legions stationed near likely zones of conflict. instead, it is argued that the best troops were pulled back into a type of "mobile reserve" closer to the centre that could be deployed to trouble areas throughout the empire. some scholars claim this was a positive development, (luttwak, delbruck, et al.) given growing difficulties with governing the vast empire, where political turmoil and severe financial difficulties had made the old preclusive security system untenable. some writers such as luttwak condemn the old-style "forward" policy as indicating a "maginot line" mentality in the troubled latter centuries of the empire.[ ] disadvantages of the mobile reserve strategy versus the "forward" policy ancient writers like zosimus in the th century ad condemned the "reserve" policy as a major weakening of the military force. other modern scholars (ferrill et al.) also see the pullback as a strategic mistake, arguing that it left lower quality "second string" limitanei forces to stop an enemy until the distant mobile reserve arrived. while the drop in quality did not happen immediately, it is argued that over time, the limitanei declined into lightly armed, static watchman type troops that were of dubious value against increasing barbarian marauders on the frontiers. the pullback of the best infantry was based more on political reasons (shoring up the power bases of the emperors and various elites) rather than on military reality. in addition, it is claimed, the "forward" policy was not at all a static "maginot" approach, but that traditional heavy legions and supporting cavalry could still move to a trouble spot by redeploying them from fortifications elsewhere along a particular frontier. some scholars challenge the notion that a "mobile reserve" in the modern military sense existed in the roman empire, and instead argue that the shifts in an organization represent a series of field armies deployed in various areas as needed, particularly in the east. others point to the heavy fiscal difficulties and political turmoil of the later empire that made it difficult to continue a traditional policy.[ ] twilight of the hard-core infantry[edit] there are numerous other facets to the controversy, but whatever the school of thought, all agree that the traditional strengths and weaponry of the heavy infantry legion declined from the standards of earlier eras. the th-century writer vegetius, in one of the most influential western military works de re militari, highlighted this decline as the key factor in military weakness, noting that the core legions always fought as part of an integrated team of cavalry and light foot. in the latter years, this formula that had brought so much success petered out. caught between the growth of lighter armed/less organized foot soldiers, and the increasing cavalry formations of the mobile forces, the "heavies" as the dominant force, withered on the vine. this does not mean that heavy units disappeared entirely, but that their mass recruitment, formation, organization and deployment as the dominant part of the roman military was greatly reduced. ironically, in rome's final battles (the western half of the empire) the defeats suffered were substantially inflicted by infantry forces (many fighting dismounted).[ ] speaking of the decline of the heavy infantry, the roman historian vegetius lauded the old fighting units, and lamented how the heavy armour of the early days had been discarded by the weaker, less disciplined, barbarized forces: 	"those who find the old arms so burdensome, must either receive wounds upon their naked bodies and die, or what is worse still, run the risk of being made prisoners, or of betraying the country by their flight. thus, to avoid fatigue, they allow themselves to be butchered shamefully, like cattle."[ ] historian arther ferrill notes that even towards the end, some of the old infantry formations were still in use. such grouping was increasingly ineffective, however, without the severe close order discipline, drill and organization of old times.[ ] at the battle of châlons (circa ad) attila the hun rallied his troops by mocking the once-vaunted roman infantry, alleging that they merely huddled under a screen of protective shields in close formation. he ordered his troops to ignore them and to attack the powerful alans and visigoths instead. it was a sad commentary on the force that had once dominated europe, the mediterranean and much of the middle east. it is true that at châlons, the roman infantry contributed to the victory by seizing part of the battlefield's high ground. nevertheless, its day had already passed in favour of the mass levies of the barbarian federates.[ ] assessment of the roman infantry[edit] central factors in roman success[edit] some elements that made the romans an effective military force, both tactically and at higher levels, were: the romans were able to copy and adapt the weapons and methods of their opponents more effectively. some weapons, such as the gladius, were adopted outright by the legionaries. publius asserts that the pilum was of samnite origin, and the shield was based on greek design.[ ] in other cases, especially formidable units of enemy forces were invited to serve in the roman army as auxiliaries after peace was made. in the naval sphere, the romans followed some of the same methods they used with the infantry, dropping their ineffective designs and copying, adapting and improving on punic warships, and introducing heavier marine contingents (infantry fighters) on to their ships.[ ] roman organization was more flexible than those of many opponents. compared to the tightly packed spearmen of the phalanx, the roman heavy infantry, through their training and discipline, and operating in conjunction with light foot and cavalry, could quickly adopt a number of methods and formations depending on the situation. these range from the testudo formation during siege warfare, to a hollow square against cavalry attack, to mixed units of heavy foot, horse and light infantry against guerrillas in spain, to the classic "triple line" or checkerboard patterns. against more sophisticated opponents the romans also showed great flexibility at times, such as the brilliant adjustments scipio made against hannibal at zama. these included leaving huge gaps in the ranks to trap the charging elephants, and the recall, reposition and consolidation of a single battle line that advanced to the final death struggle against the carthaginian veterans of italy.[ ] roman discipline, organization and logistical systemization sustained combat effectiveness over a longer period. notably, the roman system of castra, or fortified camps, allowed the army to stay in the field on favourable ground and be rested and resupplied for battle. well organized roman logistics also sustained combat power, from routine resupply and storage to the construction of military roads, to state-run arsenals and weapons factories, to well organized naval convoys that helped stave off defeat by carthage. the death of a leader generally did not cause the legions to lose heart in battle. others stepped to the fore and carried on. in the defeat by hannibal at the river trebia, , romans cut their way through the debacle to safety, maintaining unit cohesion when all around was rout, a testimony to their tactical organization and discipline.[ ] the romans were more persistent and more willing to absorb and replace losses over time than their opponents. unlike other civilizations, the romans kept going relentlessly until typically their enemies had been completely crushed or neutralized. the army acted to implement policy and were not allowed to stop unless they received a command from the emperor or a decree from the senate. against the tribal polities of europe, particularly in hispania, roman tenacity and material weight eventually wore down most opposition. the tribes of europe did not have a state or economic structure able to support lengthy campaigns and therefore could often (but not always) be made to change their minds about opposing roman hegemony. the defeat in the teutoburg forest might seem like an exception, but even here, the romans were back on the warpath years later with major forces against their germanic opponents. that their persistence was not actually endless does not negate the general pattern. where the romans faced another large state structure, such as the parthian empire, they found the military road rocky indeed and were sometimes forced to an impasse. nevertheless, the distinct pattern of roman tenacity holds. rome suffered its greatest defeats against sophisticated carthage, notably at cannae, and was forced to avoid a battle for a lengthy period. yet in time, it rebuilt its forces on land and at sea, and persisted in the struggle, astonishing the punics who expected it to sue for peace. against the parthians, crushing defeats did not stop the romans from inflicting serious defeats on the parthians themselves, for they invaded parthian territory several times afterwards, and though parthia proper was never totally conquered, rome ultimately secured a rough hegemony in the area and managed to successfully destroy parthian forces in mesopotamia on numerous occasions. roman leadership was mixed, but over time it was often effective in securing roman military success. leadership debacles are common in roman military history, from the routs against hannibal to the demise of the unlucky crassus against the parthians. the roman polity's structuring, however, produced a steady supply of men willing and able to lead troops in battle- men that were held accountable for defeat or malfeasance. it was not unusual for a losing general to be prosecuted by political enemies in rome, with some having their property confiscated and barely escaping death. the senatorial oligarchy, for all its political manoeuvring, interference and other faults, provided the functions of oversight and audit over military matters, that over the course of time, shaped final results. the record is a mixed one, but whether under boisterous republic or imperial emperor, rome produced enough competent leaders to secure its military dominance for over a millennium. some of the best leaders come from both eras, including marius, sulla, scipio, caesar, trajan and others. note should be taken here of a large number of junior officers the romans typically used to assure coordination and guidance. the initiative of such men played a key part in roman success. effective leadership was also bound up with the famous roman centurions, the backbone of the legionary organization. while not all such men could be considered models of perfection, they commanded with substantial respect. rome's massive manpower supply enabled it to stay in the field and continue fighting after defeats and to launch new campaigns. against hannibal for example, rome suffered huge losses, but still vastly outnumbered hannibal's forces. this meant not only defensive operations under fabius but the aggressive deployment of new armies under scipio to take the battle to the carthaginians in africa. other enemies of rome came up against this massive manpower reserve and faltered over time - from small tribes, city-states or kingdoms fighting to maintain their independence, to major empires that confronted the romans. the huge pool of fighting men gave the romans much more room for errors or setbacks, compared to their opponents.[ ] the influence of the roman military and civic culture, as embodied particularly in the heavy infantry legion, gave the roman military consistent motivation and cohesion. such culture included but was not limited to: (a) the valuing of roman citizenship, (b) the broad-based muster of free males into mass infantry units (as opposed to widespread use of foreign contingents, slaves or mercenaries), and (c) loyalty to those fighting units (the legion) which remained characteristically roman in outlook and discipline. citizenship conveyed certain valuable rights in roman society, and was another element that helped to promote the standardization and integration of the infantry.[ ] the citizen under arms - the legion soldier - was supposed to reflect and practice the roman ideal of virtus, pietas, fides, - self-discipline, respect and faithfulness to engagements. implementation of such ideals could be mixed according to some writers, but it was "a trilogy [driving] every aspect of military, domestic, economic and social life."[ ] as such it was a strong force for cohesion among rome's infantrymen. see also[edit] 	ancient rome portal 	war portal 	campaign history of the roman military 	castra 	list of ancient rome-related topics 	military history of ancient rome 	roman legion 	roman military personal equipment 	structure of the roman military references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ john warry, warfare in the ancient world, (st. martin's, ), pp. – 	^ adrian goldsworthy, in the name of rome: the men who won the roman empire, weidenfeld & nicolson, pp. – 	^ lendon, j. e. 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(penguin, ). see also chris cornuelle, an overview of the sassanian persian military, (n.d.) retrieved from may from iran chamber society http://www.iranchamber.com/history/articles/overview_sassanian_persian_military .php 	^ marcellinus, op. cit. 	^ arther ferrill, the fall of the roman empire, pp. - 	^ arther ferrill, the fall of the roman empire: the military explanation, op. cit. 	^ ferrill, fall of the roman empire - 	^ ferrill, fall of the roman empire.. - 	^ hugh elton, , frontiers of the roman empire, pg - 	^ edward luttwak, grand strategy of the roman empire, (the johns hopkins university press ) 	^ a b c ferrill, op. cit 	^ quoted in denison, p. 	^ grimal, op. cit 	^ a b goldsworthy, the punic wars, - 	^ goldsworthy, op. cit 	^ michael fronda ( ) between rome and carthage.. p. 	^ grimal, the civilization of rome, p. - 	^ grimal, p. sources[edit] 	primary sources 	caesar's commentarii de bello gallico 	vegetius's de re militari 	notitia dignitatum 	secondary sources 	'later roman battle tactics' in c. koepfer, f.w. himmler and j. löffl (eds), die römische armee im experiment (region im umbruch, band ). frank & timme, berlin , – . — an essay on roman infantry and cavalry tactics from ad to . 	ross cowan, roman battle tactics, bc - ad . osprey, oxford . — the book clearly explains and illustrates the mechanics of how roman commanders — at every level — drew up and committed their different types of troops for open-field battles. 	adrian goldsworthy ( ), the punic wars, cassell — a detailed breakdown of roman strategy, methods, tactics and those of their opponents. analyzes strengths and weaknesses of the roman military and how they were able to beat a sophisticated carthage 	arther ferrill ( ), the fall of the roman empire: the military explanation, thames & hudson — focuses on military issues leading to the fall of rome as opposed to a plethora of theories such as overpopulation, shrinking tax bases, "class struggle", etc. reemphasizes the military factors in rome's final demise. compares the "mobile reserve" strategy of later decades o the earlier "forward" policy of keeping the heavy fighting legions near likely combat zones. ferrill also tackles the weakening effect of "barbarization", particularly on the core heavy infantry legions. many historians have argued […] that the fall of rome was not primarily a military phenomenon. in fact, it was exactly that. after the emperor in the west could no longer project military power to the frontiers. — the fall of the roman empire: the military explanation, p. 	adrian goldsworthy ( ), the complete roman army, thames & hudson — one volume history covering the roman army, which was the biggest most important part of its military. goldsworthy covers the early republican days down to the final imperial era demise, tracing changes in tactics, equipment, strategy, organization etc. he notes the details of the military system such as training and battlefield tactics, as well as bigger picture strategy, and changes that impacted roman arms. he assesses what made the romans effective, and ineffective in each of the various eras. 	edward luttwak ( ), grand strategy of the roman empire, thames & hudson — prominent advocate of the mobile or central reserve theory. 	hans delbrück ( ), history of the art of war: warfare in antiquity, university of nebraska — prominent advocate of the mobile or central reserve theory. isbn  - - -x 	xenophon ( ), anabasis, loeb classical library — see this classic work for a detailed discussion of anti-cavalry problems by another heavy infantry formation- the hellenic phalanx, including the weaknesses of the hollow square formation. external links[edit] 	later roman battle tactics 	c hanging formations and specialists: aspects of later roman battle tactics 	 	v 	t 	e ancient rome topics 	 	outline 	timeline 	history	 	 	foundation 	kingdom 	overthrow 	republic 	empire	 	history 	pax romana 	principate 	dominate 	western empire 	fall 	historiography 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	renaissance latin 	mural of dante in the uffizi gallery, by andrea del castagno, c. . 	native to	no native speakers, used by the administrations and universities of numerous countries 	region	europe 	era	evolved from medieval latin in the th century; developed into new latin by the th century 	language family 	indo-european 	 italic	latino-faliscan	latin	renaissance latin 	early forms 	old latin 	classical latin 	late latin 	medieval latin 	writing system 	latin alphabet  	official status 	official language in 	most roman catholic countries 	regulated by	the community of scholars at the earliest universities 	language codes 	iso - 	– 	glottolog	none renaissance latin is a name given to the distinctive form of latin style developed during the european renaissance of the fourteenth to fifteenth centuries, particularly by the renaissance humanism movement. contents 	 ad fontes 	 renaissance latin works and authors 	 . th century 	 . th century 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links ad fontes[edit] ad fontes ("to the sources") was the general cry of the renaissance humanists, and as such their latin style sought to purge latin of the medieval latin vocabulary and stylistic accretions that it had acquired in the centuries after the fall of the roman empire. they looked to golden age latin literature, and especially to cicero in prose and virgil in poetry, as the arbiters of latin style. they abandoned the use of the sequence and other accentual forms of metre, and sought instead to revive the greek formats that were used in latin poetry during the roman period. the humanists condemned the large body of medieval latin literature as "gothic"—for them, a term of abuse—and believed instead that only ancient latin from the roman period was "real latin". some th-century ciceronian humanists also sought to purge written latin of medieval developments in its orthography. they insisted, for example, that ae be written out in full wherever it occurred in classical latin; medieval scribes often wrote e instead of ae. they were much more zealous than medieval latin writers that t and c be distinguished; because the effects of palatalization made them homophones, medieval scribes often wrote, for example, eciam for etiam. their reforms even affected handwriting; humanists usually wrote latin in a humanist minuscule script derived from carolingian minuscule, the ultimate ancestor of most contemporary lower-case typefaces, avoiding the black-letter scripts used in the middle ages. this sort of writing was particularly vigilant in edited works, so that international colleagues could read them more easily, while in their own handwritten documents the latin is usually written as it is pronounced in the vernacular. therefore, the first generations of humanists did not dedicate much care to the orthography till the late sixteenth and seventeenth century. erasmus proposed that the then-traditional pronunciations of latin be abolished in favour of his reconstructed version of classical latin pronunciation, even though one can deduce from his works that he himself used the ecclesiastical pronunciation. the humanist plan to remake latin was largely successful, at least in education. schools taught the humanistic spellings, and encouraged the study of the texts selected by the humanists, to the large exclusion of later latin literature. on the other hand, while humanist latin was an elegant literary language, it became much harder to write books about law, medicine, science or contemporary politics in latin while observing all of the humanists' norms about vocabulary purging and classical usage.[citation needed] renaissance latin gradually developed into the new latin of the th– th centuries, used as the language of choice for authors discussing subjects considered sufficiently important to merit an international (i.e., pan-european) audience. renaissance latin works and authors[edit] th century[edit] for th-century works and authors that are still medieval in outlook (practically all non-italians), see medieval latin. 	 . epistolæ familiares by petrarch ( – ) 	 . genealogia deorum gentilium by giovanni boccaccio ( – ) th century[edit] incunables by language.[ ] latin dominated printed book production in the th century by a wide margin. 	 . flos duellatorum by fiore dei liberi 	 . hermaphroditus by antonio beccadelli ( – ) 	 . de elegantiis latinæ linguæ by lorenzo valla ( – ) 	 . historia florentini populi by leonardo bruni (c. – ) 	 . historia de duobus amantibus by Æneas sylvius piccolomini, pope pius ii ( – ) 	 . de re ædificatoria by leone battista alberti ( – ) 	 . contra amores by bartolomeo platina ( – ) 	 . de inventione dialectica by rodolphus agricola ( – ) 	 . introductiones latinæ by antonio de nebrija ( – ) 	 . de hominis dignitate by giovanni pico della mirandola ( – ) 	 . nutricia by poliziano ( – ) 	theologia platonica de immortalitate animæ by marsilio ficino ( – ) 	francesco filelfo ( – ) references[edit] 	^ "incunabula short title catalogue". british library. retrieved march . further reading[edit] 	cranz, f. edward, virginia brown, and paul oslar kristeller, eds. – . catalogus translationum et commentariorum: medieval and renaissance latin translations and commentaries; annotated lists and guides. vols. washington, dc: catholic university of america press. 	d’amico, john f. . “the progress of renaissance latin prose: the case of apuleianism.” renaissance quarterly : – . 	deitz, luc. . "the tools of the trade: a few remarks on editing renaissance latin texts." humanistica lovaniensia : - . 	hardie, philip. . “shepherds’ songs: generic variation in renaissance latin epic.” in generic interfaces in latin literature: encounters, interactions and transformations. edited by theodore d. paphanghelis, stephen j. harrison, and stavros frangoulidis, – . berlin: de gruyter. 	houghton, l. b. t. . “renaissance latin love elegy.” in the cambridge companion to latin love elegy. edited by thea s. thorsen, – . cambridge, uk: cambridge university press. 	lohr, c. h. . “renaissance latin aristotle commentaries: authors a–b.” studies in the renaissance : – . 	mcfarlane, i. d., ed. and trans. . renaissance latin poetry. manchester, uk: manchester university press. 	parker, holt. . “renaissance latin elegy.” in a companion to roman love elegy. edited by barbara k. gold, – . malden, ma: wiley-blackwell. 	perosa, alessandro, and john sparrow, eds. . renaissance latin verse: an anthology. 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greek philosophy zeno of citium, the founder of stoicism, in the farnese collection, naples – photo by paolo monti, . 	part of a series on 	stoicism 	epictetus, seneca, and marcus aurelius 	 background 	socrates 	plato 	aristotle 	crates of thebes 	 philosophy 	apatheia 	ekpyrosis 	katalepsis 	kathekon 	logos 	stoic logic 	stoic categories 	stoic passions 	stoic physics 	virtue ethics 	 stoics 	zeno of citium 	cleanthes 	chrysippus 	panaetius 	posidonius 	seneca the younger 	publius clodius thrasea paetus 	epictetus 	junius rusticus 	marcus aurelius 	 stoic works 	discourses of epictetus 	epistulae morales ad lucilium 	the meditations 	 similar positions 	cynicism 	aristotelianism 	middle platonism 	 contrary positions 	pyrrhonism 	academic skepticism 	epicureanism 	  philosophy portal 		v 	t 	e stoicism is a school of hellenistic philosophy founded by zeno of citium in athens in the early rd century bc. it is a philosophy of personal ethics informed by its system of logic and its views on the natural world. according to its teachings, as social beings, the path to eudaimonia (happiness, or blessedness) is found in accepting the moment as it presents itself, by not allowing oneself to be controlled by the desire for pleasure or by the fear of pain, by using one's mind to understand the world and to do one's part in nature's plan, and by working together and treating others fairly and justly. the stoics are especially known for teaching that "virtue is the only good" for human beings, and those external things—such as health, wealth, and pleasure—are not good or bad in themselves (adiaphora), but have value as "material for virtue to act upon." alongside aristotelian ethics, the stoic tradition forms one of the major founding approaches to virtue ethics.[ ] the stoics also held that certain destructive emotions resulted from errors of judgment, and they believed people should aim to maintain a will (called prohairesis) that is "in accordance with nature." because of this, the stoics thought the best indication of an individual's philosophy was not what a person said but how a person behaved.[ ] to live a good life, one had to understand the rules of the natural order since they thought everything was rooted in nature. many stoics—such as seneca and epictetus—emphasized that because "virtue is sufficient for happiness," a sage would be emotionally resilient to misfortune. this belief is similar to the meaning of the phrase "stoic calm," though the phrase does not include the "radical ethical" stoic views that only a sage can be considered truly free and that all moral corruptions are equally vicious.[ ] stoicism flourished throughout the roman and greek world until the rd century ad, and among its adherents was emperor marcus aurelius. it experienced a decline after christianity became the state religion in the th century ad. since then it has seen revivals, notably in the renaissance (neostoicism) and in the contemporary era (modern stoicism).[ ] contents 	 name 	 . origins 	 . modern usage 	 basic tenets 	 history 	 logic 	 . propositional logic 	 . categories 	 . epistemology 	 physics 	 ethics 	 . the doctrine of "things indifferent" 	 . spiritual exercise 	 social philosophy 	 influence on christianity 	 stoic philosophers 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 . primary sources 	 . studies 	 external links name[edit] origins[edit] stoicism was originally known as "zenonism", after the founder zeno of citium. however, this name was soon dropped, likely because the stoics did not consider their founders to be perfectly wise, and to avoid the risk of the philosophy becoming a cult of personality.[ ] the name "stoicism" derives from the stoa poikile (ancient greek: ἡ ποικίλη στοά), or "painted porch", a colonnade decorated with mythic and historical battle scenes, on the north side of the agora in athens, where zeno and his followers gathered to discuss their ideas.[ ][ ] sometimes stoicism is therefore referred to as "the stoa", or the philosophy of "the porch".[ ] modern usage[edit] the word "stoic" commonly refers to someone who is indifferent to pain, pleasure, grief, or joy.[ ] the modern usage as a "person who represses feelings or endures patiently" was first cited in as a noun and in as an adjective.[ ] in contrast to the term "epicurean", the stanford encyclopedia of philosophy's entry on stoicism notes, "the sense of the english adjective 'stoical' is not utterly misleading with regard to its philosophical origins."[ ] basic tenets[edit] philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. for as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life. — epictetus, discourses . . , robin hard revised translation the stoics provided a unified account of the world, constructed from ideals of logic, monistic physics and naturalistic ethics. of these, they emphasized ethics as the main focus of human knowledge, though their logical theories were of more interest for later philosophers. stoicism teaches the development of self-control and fortitude as a means of overcoming destructive emotions; the philosophy holds that becoming a clear and unbiased thinker allows one to understand the universal reason (logos). stoicism's primary aspect involves improving the individual's ethical and moral well-being: "virtue consists in a will that is in agreement with nature."[ ] this principle also applies to the realm of interpersonal relationships; "to be free from anger, envy, and jealousy,"[ ] and to accept even slaves as "equals of other men, because all men alike are products of nature".[ ] the stoic ethic espouses a deterministic perspective; in regard to those who lack stoic virtue, cleanthes once opined that the wicked man is "like a dog tied to a cart, and compelled to go wherever it goes".[ ] a stoic of virtue, by contrast, would amend his will to suit the world and remain, in the words of epictetus, "sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy,"[ ] thus positing a "completely autonomous" individual will, and at the same time a universe that is "a rigidly deterministic single whole". this viewpoint was later described as "classical pantheism" (and was adopted by dutch philosopher baruch spinoza).[ ] history[edit] antisthenes, founder of the cynic school of philosophy beginning around  bc, zeno taught philosophy at the stoa poikile ("painted porch"), from which his philosophy got its name.[ ] unlike the other schools of philosophy, such as the epicureans, zeno chose to teach his philosophy in a public space, which was a colonnade overlooking the central gathering place of athens, the agora. zeno's ideas developed from those of the cynics, whose founding father, antisthenes, had been a disciple of socrates. zeno's most influential follower was chrysippus, who was responsible for molding what is now called stoicism. later roman stoics focused on promoting a life in harmony within the universe, over which one has no direct control. bust of seneca scholars usually divide the history of stoicism into three phases: 	early stoa, from zeno's founding to antipater. 	middle stoa, including panaetius and posidonius. 	late stoa, including musonius rufus, seneca, epictetus, and marcus aurelius. no complete works survive from the first two phases of stoicism. only roman texts from the late stoa survive.[ ] stoicism became the foremost popular philosophy among the educated elite in the hellenistic world and the roman empire,[ ] to the point where, in the words of gilbert murray "nearly all the successors of alexander [...] professed themselves stoics."[ ] logic[edit] main article: stoic logic propositional logic[edit] diodorus cronus, who was one of zeno's teachers, is considered the philosopher who first introduced and developed an approach to logic now known as propositional logic, which is based on statements or propositions, rather than terms, making it very different from aristotle's term logic. later, chrysippus developed a system that became known as stoic logic and included a deductive system, stoic syllogistic, which was considered a rival to aristotle's syllogistic (see syllogism). new interest in stoic logic came in the th century, when important developments in logic were based on propositional logic. susanne bobzien wrote, "the many close similarities between chrysippus's philosophical logic and that of gottlob frege are especially striking."[ ] bobzien also notes that "chrysippus wrote over books on logic, on virtually any topic logic today concerns itself with, including speech act theory, sentence analysis, singular and plural expressions, types of predicates, indexicals, existential propositions, sentential connectives, negations, disjunctions, conditionals, logical consequence, valid argument forms, theory of deduction, propositional logic, modal logic, tense logic, epistemic logic, logic of suppositions, logic of imperatives, ambiguity and logical paradoxes."[ ] categories[edit] main article: stoic categories the stoics held that all beings (ὄντα)—though not all things (τινά)—are material.[ ] besides the existing beings they admitted four incorporeals (asomata): time, place, void, and sayable.[ ] they were held to be just 'subsisting' while such a status was denied to universals.[ ] thus, they accepted anaxagoras's idea (as did aristotle) that if an object is hot, it is because some part of a universal heat body had entered the object. but, unlike aristotle, they extended the idea to cover all accidents. thus if an object is red, it would be because some part of a universal red body had entered the object. they held that there were four categories. 	substance (ὑποκείμενον) 		the primary matter, formless substance, (ousia) that things are made of 	quality (ποιόν) 		the way matter is organized to form an individual object; in stoic physics, a physical ingredient (pneuma: air or breath), which informs the matter 	somehow disposed (πως ἔχον) 		particular characteristics, not present within the object, such as size, shape, action, and posture make for yourself a definition or description of the thing which is presented to you, so as to see distinctly what kind of a thing it is in its substance, in its nudity, in its complete entirety, and tell yourself its proper name, and the names of the things of which it has been compounded, and into which it will be resolved. for nothing is so productive of elevation of mind as to be able to examine methodically and truly every object that is presented to you in life, and always to look at things so as to see at the same time what kind of universe this is, and what kind of use everything performs in it, and what value everything has with reference to the whole. — marcus aurelius, meditations, iii. 	somehow disposed in relation to something (πρός τί πως ἔχον) 		characteristics related to other phenomena, such as the position of an object within time and space relative to other objects stoics outlined what we have control over categories of our own action, thoughts and reaction. the opening paragraph of the enchiridion states the categories as: "things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in a word, whatever are not our own actions." these suggest a space that is within our own control. epistemology[edit] the stoics propounded that knowledge can be attained through the use of reason. truth can be distinguished from fallacy—even if, in practice, only an approximation can be made. according to the stoics, the senses constantly receive sensations: pulsations that pass from objects through the senses to the mind, where they leave an impression in the imagination (phantasiai) (an impression arising from the mind was called a phantasma).[ ] the mind has the ability to judge (συγκατάθεσις, synkatathesis)—approve or reject—an impression, enabling it to distinguish a true representation of reality from one that is false. some impressions can be assented to immediately, but others can achieve only varying degrees of hesitant approval, which can be labeled belief or opinion (doxa). it is only through reason that we gain clear comprehension and conviction (katalepsis). certain and true knowledge (episteme), achievable by the stoic sage, can be attained only by verifying the conviction with the expertise of one's peers and the collective judgment of humankind. physics[edit] main article: stoic physics see also: de mundo according to the stoics, the universe is a material reasoning substance (logos),[ ] known as god or nature, which was divided into two classes: the active and the passive. the passive substance is matter, which "lies sluggish, a substance ready for any use, but sure to remain unemployed if no one sets it in motion".[ ] the active substance, which can be called fate or universal reason (logos),[ ] is an intelligent aether or primordial fire, which acts on the passive matter: the universe itself is god and the universal outpouring of its soul; it is this same world's guiding principle, operating in mind and reason, together with the common nature of things and the totality that embraces all existence; then the foreordained might and necessity of the future; then fire and the principle of aether; then those elements whose natural state is one of flux and transition, such as water, earth, and air; then the sun, the moon, the stars; and the universal existence in which all things are contained. — chrysippus, in cicero, de natura deorum, i. everything is subject to the laws of fate, for the universe acts according to its own nature, and the nature of the passive matter it governs. the souls of humans and animals are emanations from this primordial fire, and are, likewise, subject to fate: constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things that exist; observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the structure of the web. — marcus aurelius, meditations, iv. individual souls are perishable by nature, and can be "transmuted and diffused, assuming a fiery nature by being received into the seminal reason ("logos spermatikos") of the universe".[ ] since right reason is the foundation of both humanity and the universe, it follows that the goal of life is to live according to reason, that is, to live a life according to nature. stoic theology is a fatalistic and naturalistic pantheism: god is never fully transcendent but always immanent, and identified with nature. abrahamic religions personalize god as a world-creating entity, but stoicism equates god with the totality of the universe; according to stoic cosmology, which is very similar to the hindu conception of existence, there is no absolute start to time, as it is considered infinite and cyclic. similarly, the space and universe have neither start nor end, rather they are cyclical. the current universe is a phase in the present cycle, preceded by an infinite number of universes, doomed to be destroyed ("ekpyrōsis", conflagration) and re-created again,[ ] and to be followed by another infinite number of universes. stoicism considers all existence as cyclical, the cosmos as eternally self-creating and self-destroying (see also eternal return). stoicism, just like indian religions such as hinduism, buddhism, and jainism, does not posit a beginning or end to the universe.[ ] according to the stoics, the logos was the active reason[ ] or anima mundi pervading and animating the entire universe. it was conceived as material and is usually identified with god or nature. the stoics also referred to the seminal reason ("logos spermatikos"), or the law of generation in the universe, which was the principle of the active reason working in inanimate matter. humans, too, each possess a portion of the divine logos, which is the primordial fire and reason that controls and sustains the universe.[ ] the first philosophers to explicitly describe nominalist arguments were the stoics, especially chrysippus.[ ][ ] ethics[edit] ancient stoics are often misunderstood because the terms they used pertained to different concepts than today. the word "stoic" has since come to mean "unemotional" or indifferent to pain because stoic ethics taught freedom from "passion" by following "reason." the stoics did not seek to extinguish emotions; rather, they sought to transform them by a resolute "askēsis", that enables a person to develop clear judgment and inner calm.[ ] logic, reflection, and focus were the methods of such self-discipline, temperance is split into self-control, discipline, and modesty. borrowing from the cynics, the foundation of stoic ethics is that good lies in the state of the soul itself; in wisdom and self-control. stoic ethics stressed the rule: "follow where reason leads."[citation needed] one must therefore strive to be free of the passions, bearing in mind that the ancient meaning of "passion" was "anguish" or "suffering",[ ] that is, "passively" reacting to external events, which is somewhat different from the modern use of the word. a distinction was made between pathos (plural pathe) which is normally translated as passion, propathos or instinctive reaction (e.g., turning pale and trembling when confronted by physical danger) and eupathos, which is the mark of the stoic sage (sophos). the eupatheia are feelings that result from the correct judgment in the same way that passions result from incorrect judgment. the idea was to be free of suffering through apatheia (greek: ἀπάθεια; literally, "without passion") or peace of mind,[ ] where peace of mind was understood in the ancient sense—being objective or having "clear judgment" and the maintenance of equanimity in the face of life's highs and lows. for the stoics, reason meant using logic and understanding the processes of nature—the logos or universal reason, inherent in all things. according to reason and virtue, living according to reason and virtue is to live in harmony with the divine order of the universe, in recognition of the common reason and essential value of all people. the four cardinal virtues (aretai) of stoic philosophy is a classification derived from the teachings of plato (republic iv. – ): 	wisdom (greek: φρόνησις "phronesis" or σοφία "sophia", latin: prudentia or sapientia) 	courage (greek: ανδρεία "andreia", latin: fortitudo) 	justice (greek: δικαιοσύνη "dikaiosyne", latin: iustitia) 	temperance (greek: σωφροσύνη "sophrosyne", latin: temperantia) following socrates, the stoics held that unhappiness and evil are the results of human ignorance of the reason in nature. if someone is unkind, it is because they are unaware of their own universal reason, which leads to the conclusion of unkindness. the solution to evil and unhappiness then is the practice of stoic philosophy: to examine one's own judgments and behavior and determine where they diverge from the universal reason of nature. the stoics accepted that suicide was permissible for the wise person in circumstances that might prevent them from living a virtuous life.[ ] plutarch held that accepting life under tyranny would have compromised cato's self-consistency (constantia) as a stoic and impaired his freedom to make the honorable moral choices.[ ] suicide could be justified if one fell victim to severe pain or disease,[ ] but otherwise suicide would usually be seen as a rejection of one's social duty.[ ] in an article for abc news, mick mulroy the former deputy secretary of defense for the middle east under secretary jim mattis and also a retired u.s. marine, advocated for using stoicism as the philosophy for the u.s. military due to its views on controlling anger and fear as well as the stoic concept of universal brotherhood. [ ] the doctrine of "things indifferent"[edit] main article: adiaphora see also: eudaimonia in philosophical terms, things that are indifferent are outside the application of moral law—that is without tendency to either promote or obstruct moral ends. actions neither required nor forbidden by the moral law, or that do not affect morality, are called morally indifferent. the doctrine of things indifferent (ἀδιάφορα, adiaphora) arose in the stoic school as a corollary of its diametric opposition of virtue and vice (καθήκοντα kathekonta, "convenient actions", or actions in accordance with nature; and ἁμαρτήματα hamartemata, mistakes). as a result of this dichotomy, a large class of objects were left unassigned and thus regarded as indifferent. eventually three sub-classes of "things indifferent" developed: things to prefer because they assist life according to nature; things to avoid because they hinder it; and things indifferent in the narrower sense. the principle of adiaphora was also common to the cynics. philipp melanchthon revived the doctrine of things indifferent during the renaissance. spiritual exercise[edit] marcus aurelius, the stoic roman emperor philosophy for a stoic is not just a set of beliefs or ethical claims; it is a way of life involving constant practice and training (or "askēsis"). stoic philosophical and spiritual practices included logic, socratic dialogue and self-dialogue, contemplation of death, mortality salience, training attention to remain in the present moment (similar to mindfulness and some forms of buddhist meditation), and daily reflection on everyday problems and possible solutions e.g. with journaling. philosophy for a stoic is an active process of constant practice and self-reminder. in his meditations, marcus aurelius defines several such practices. for example, in book ii.i: say to yourself in the early morning: i shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. all of the ignorance of real good and ill...i can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can i be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together... prior to aurelius, epictetus in his discourses, distinguished between three types of act: judgment, desire, and inclination.[ ] according to french philosopher pierre hadot, epictetus identifies these three acts with logic, physics and ethics respectively.[ ] hadot writes that in the meditations, "each maxim develops either one of these very characteristic topoi [i.e., acts], or two of them or three of them."[ ] seamus mac suibhne has described the practices of spiritual exercises as influencing those of reflective practice.[ ] many parallels between stoic spiritual exercises and modern cognitive behavioral therapy have been identified.[ ] stoics were also known for consolatory orations, which were part of the consolatio literary tradition. three such consolations by seneca have survived. stoics commonly employ ‘the view from above’, reflecting on society and otherness in guided visualization, aiming to gain a "bigger picture", to see ourselves in context relevant to others, to see others in the context of the world, to see ourselves in the context of the world to help determine our role and the importance of happenings. marcus aurelius, meditations, in book . it is stated; a fine reflection from plato. one who would converse about human beings should look on all things earthly as though from some point far above, upon herds, armies, and agriculture, marriages and divorces, births and deaths, the clamour of law courts, deserted wastes, alien peoples of every kind, festivals, lamentations, and markets, this intermixture of everything and ordered combination of opposites. social philosophy[edit] a distinctive feature of stoicism is its cosmopolitanism; according to the stoics, all people are manifestations of the one universal spirit and should live in brotherly love and readily help one another. in the discourses, epictetus comments on man's relationship with the world: "each human being is primarily a citizen of his own commonwealth; but he is also a member of the great city of gods and men, whereof the city political is only a copy."[ ] this sentiment echoes that of diogenes of sinope, who said, "i am not an athenian or a corinthian, but a citizen of the world."[ ] they held that external differences, such as rank and wealth, are of no importance in social relationships. instead, they advocated the brotherhood of humanity and the natural equality of all human beings. stoicism became the most influential school of the greco-roman world, and produced a number of remarkable writers and personalities, such as cato the younger and epictetus. in particular, they were noted for their urging of clemency toward slaves. seneca exhorted, "kindly remember that he whom you call your slave sprang from the same stock, is smiled upon by the same skies, and on equal terms with yourself breathes, lives, and dies."[ ] influence on christianity[edit] see also: neostoicism justus lipsius, founder of neostoicism in st. ambrose of milan's duties, "the voice is the voice of a christian bishop, but the precepts are those of zeno."[ ][ ] regarding what he called "the divine spirit", stanisforth wrote: cleanthes, wishing to give more explicit meaning to zeno's 'creative fire', had been the first to hit upon the term pneuma, or 'spirit', to describe it. like fire, this intelligent 'spirit' was imagined as a tenuous substance akin to a current of air or breath, but essentially possessing the quality of warmth; it was immanent in the universe as god, and in man as the soul and life-giving principle. clearly, it is not a long step from this to the 'holy spirit' of christian theology, the 'lord and giver of life', visibly manifested as tongues of fire at pentecost and ever since associated—in the christian as in the stoic mind—with the ideas of vital fire and beneficient warmth.[ ] regarding the trinity, staniforth wrote: again in the doctrine of the trinity, the ecclesiastical conception of father, word, and spirit finds its germ in the different stoic names of the divine unity. thus seneca, writing of the supreme power which shapes the universe, states, 'this power we sometimes call the all-ruling god, sometimes the incorporeal wisdom, sometimes the holy spirit, sometimes destiny.' the church had only to reject the last of these terms to arrive at its own acceptable definition of the divine nature; while the further assertion 'these three are one', which the modern mind finds paradoxical, was no more than commonplace to those familiar with stoic notions.[ ] the apostle paul met with stoics during his stay in athens, reported in acts : – . in his letters, paul reflected heavily from his knowledge of stoic philosophy, using stoic terms and metaphors to assist his new gentile converts in their understanding of christianity.[ ] stoic influence can also be seen in the works of st. ambrose, marcus minucius felix, and tertullian.[ ] the fathers of the church regarded stoicism as a "pagan philosophy";[ ][ ] nonetheless, early christian writers employed some of the central philosophical concepts of stoicism. examples include the terms "logos", "virtue", "spirit", and "conscience".[ ] but the parallels go well beyond the sharing and borrowing of terminology. both stoicism and christianity assert an inner freedom in the face of the external world, a belief in human kinship with nature or god, a sense of the innate depravity—or "persistent evil"—of humankind,[ ] and the futility and temporary nature of worldly possessions and attachments. both encourage ascesis with respect to the passions and inferior emotions, such as lust, and envy, so that the higher possibilities of one's humanity can be awakened and developed. stoic writings such as meditations by marcus aurelius have been highly regarded by many christians throughout the centuries. the eastern orthodox church and oriental orthodox church accept the stoic ideal of dispassion to this day. middle and roman stoics taught that sex is just within marriage, for unitive and procreative purposes only.[ ][ ] this teaching is accepted by the catholic church to this day.[ ] saint ambrose of milan was known for applying stoic philosophy to his theology. stoic philosophers[edit] main article: list of stoic philosophers 	zeno of citium ( –  bc), founder of stoicism and the stoic academy (stoa) in athens 	aristo of chios (fl.  bc), pupil of zeno; 	herillus of carthage (fl. rd century bc) 	cleanthes (of assos) ( –  bc), second head of stoic academy 	chrysippus ( –  bc), third head of the academy 	diogenes of babylon ( –  bc) 	antipater of tarsus ( –  bc) 	panaetius of rhodes ( –  bc) 	posidonius of apameia (c. bc – bc) 	diodotus (c. bc – bc), teacher of cicero 	cato the younger ( –  bc) 	seneca ( bc – ad ) 	gaius musonius rufus ( st century ad) 	rubellius plautus (ad – ) 	publius clodius thrasea paetus ( st century ad) 	lucius annaeus cornutus ( st century ad) 	epictetus (ad – ) 	hierocles ( nd century ad) 	marcus aurelius (ad – ) see also[edit] 	 maccabees 	ecclesiastes 	dehellenization 	deixis 	glossary of stoic terms 	ekpyrosis, palingenesis, apocatastasis 	ekpyrotic universe (cosmological theory) 	list of stoic philosophers 	megarian school 	oikeiôsis 	paradoxa stoicorum 	plank of carneades 	pneuma 	sage (philosophy) 	stoicorum veterum fragmenta 	"stoic opposition" references[edit] 	^ sharpe, matthew. 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view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 plato - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	 	plato 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		for other uses, see plato (disambiguation) and platon (disambiguation). classical greek athenian philosopher, founder of platonism 	plato 	roman copy of a portrait bust by silanion for the academia in athens (c.   bc) 	born	 / or / bc athens, greece 	died	 / bc (age c.  ) athens, greece 	notable work 	 	apology 	crito 	euthyphro 	meno 	parmenides 	phaedo 	phaedrus 	republic 	symposium 	timaeus 	 	era	ancient greek philosophy 	region	western philosophy 	school	platonism 	notable students	 	aristotle 	eudoxus of cnidus 	main interests 	 	metaphysics 	ethics 	politics 	epistemology 	aesthetics 	soul 	love 	mathematics 	language 	education 	cosmology 	eschatology 	notable ideas 	 	platonic philosophy 	innatism 	theory of forms 	idealism 	 influences 	 	socrates 	pythagoras 	parmenides 	heraclitus 	cratylus 	the sophists 	eleusinian mysteries 	orphism 	diotima[ ] 	theaetetus 	theodorus 	homer 	hesiod 	 influenced 	virtually all subsequent western philosophy (and religion), especially platonism, including aristotle, speusippus and xenocrates, academic skepticism, middle platonism, philo, plotinus and neoplatonism, augustine and christian platonism, boethius, islamic platonism and isma'ilism, gemistus pletho, florentine academy and renaissance platonism, cambridge platonism, modern platonism 	 	part of a series on 	platonism 	plato from raphael's the school of athens ( – ) 	 	early life 	works 	epistemology 	idealism / realism 	demiurge 	theory of forms 	theory of soul 	transcendentals 	form of the good 	third man argument 	euthyphro dilemma 	five regimes 	philosopher king 	plato's unwritten doctrines 	political philosophy 	 allegories and metaphors 	 	atlantis 	ring of gyges 	the cave 	the divided line 	the sun 	ship of state 	myth of er 	the chariot 	 related articles 	 	commentaries 	the academy in athens 	socratic problem 	academic skepticism 	middle platonism 	neoplatonism 	and christianity 	allegorical interpretations of plato 	 related categories 	 ► plato 	 	 philosophy portal 		v 	t 	e plato (/ˈpleɪtoʊ/ play-toe;[ ] greek: Πλάτων plátōn, pronounced [plá.tɔːn] in classical attic; / or / – / bc) was an athenian philosopher during the classical period in ancient greece, founder of the platonist school of thought, and the academy, the first institution of higher learning in the western world. he is widely considered the pivotal figure in the history of ancient greek and western philosophy, along with his teacher, socrates, and his most famous student, aristotle.[a] plato has also often been cited as one of the founders of western religion and spirituality.[ ] the so-called neoplatonism of philosophers like plotinus and porphyry greatly influenced christianity through church fathers such as augustine. alfred north whitehead once noted: "the safest general characterization of the european philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to plato."[ ] plato was the innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms in philosophy. plato is also considered the founder of western political philosophy. his most famous contribution is the theory of forms known by pure reason, in which plato presents a solution to the problem of universals known as platonism (also ambiguously called either platonic realism or platonic idealism). he is also the namesake of platonic love and the platonic solids. his own most decisive philosophical influences are usually thought to have been along with socrates, the pre-socratics pythagoras, heraclitus and parmenides, although few of his predecessors' works remain extant and much of what we know about these figures today derives from plato himself.[b] unlike the work of nearly all of his contemporaries, plato's entire body of work is believed to have survived intact for over , years.[ ] although their popularity has fluctuated over the years, plato's works have never been without readers since the time they were written.[ ] contents 	 biography 	 . early life 	 . . birth and family 	 . . name 	 . . education 	 . later life and death 	 influences 	 . pythagoras 	 . . plato and mathematics 	 . heraclitus and parmenides 	 . socrates 	 philosophy 	 . metaphysics 	 . . the forms 	 . . the soul 	 . epistemology 	 . . recollection 	 . . justified true belief 	 . ethics 	 . . justice 	 . politics 	 . art and poetry 	 . unwritten doctrines 	 themes of plato's dialogues 	 . trial of socrates 	 . . the trial in other dialogues 	 . allegories 	 . . the cave 	 . . ring of gyges 	 . . chariot 	 . dialectic 	 . family 	 . narration 	 history of plato's dialogues 	 . chronology 	 . . writings of doubted authenticity 	 . . spurious writings 	 . textual sources and history 	 . . modern editions 	 criticism 	 legacy 	 . in the arts 	 . in philosophy 	 see also 	 . philosophy 	 . ancient scholars 	 . modern scholars 	 . other 	 notes 	 references 	 . works cited 	 further reading 	 external links biography early life main article: early life of plato birth and family diogenes laertius is a principal source for the history of ancient greek philosophy. due to a lack of surviving accounts, little is known about plato's early life and education. plato belonged to an aristocratic and influential family. according to a disputed tradition, reported by doxographer diogenes laërtius, plato's father ariston traced his descent from the king of athens, codrus, and the king of messenia, melanthus.[ ] according to the ancient hellenic tradition, codrus was said to have been descended from the mythological deity poseidon.[ ][ ] through his mother, plato was related to solon. plato's mother was perictione, whose family boasted of a relationship with the famous athenian lawmaker and lyric poet solon, one of the seven sages, who repealed the laws of draco (except for the death penalty for homicide).[ ] perictione was sister of charmides and niece of critias, both prominent figures of the thirty tyrants, known as the thirty, the brief oligarchic regime ( – bc), which followed on the collapse of athens at the end of the peloponnesian war ( – bc).[ ] according to some accounts, ariston tried to force his attentions on perictione, but failed in his purpose; then the god apollo appeared to him in a vision, and as a result, ariston left perictione unmolested.[ ] the exact time and place of plato's birth are unknown. based on ancient sources, most modern scholars believe that he was born in athens or aegina[c] between and bc, not long after the start of the peloponnesian war.[d] the traditional date of plato's birth during the th or th olympiad, or bc, is based on a dubious interpretation of diogenes laërtius, who says, "when [socrates] was gone, [plato] joined cratylus the heracleitean and hermogenes, who philosophized in the manner of parmenides. then, at twenty-eight, hermodorus says, [plato] went to euclides in megara." however, as debra nails argues, the text does not state that plato left for megara immediately after joining cratylus and hermogenes.[ ] in his seventh letter, plato notes that his coming of age coincided with the taking of power by the thirty, remarking, "but a youth under the age of twenty made himself a laughingstock if he attempted to enter the political arena." thus, nails dates plato's birth to / .[ ] according to neanthes, plato was six years younger than isocrates, and therefore was born the same year the prominent athenian statesman pericles died ( bc).[ ] jonathan barnes regards bc as the year of plato's birth.[ ][ ] the grammarian apollodorus of athens in his chronicles argues that plato was born in the th olympiad.[ ] both the suda and sir thomas browne also claimed he was born during the th olympiad.[ ][ ] another legend related that, when plato was an infant, bees settled on his lips while he was sleeping: an augury of the sweetness of style in which he would discourse about philosophy.[ ] speusippus was plato's nephew. besides plato himself, ariston and perictione had three other children; two sons, adeimantus and glaucon, and a daughter potone, the mother of speusippus (the nephew and successor of plato as head of the academy).[ ] the brothers adeimantus and glaucon are mentioned in the republic as sons of ariston,[ ] and presumably brothers of plato, though some have argued they were uncles.[e] in a scenario in the memorabilia, xenophon confused the issue by presenting a glaucon much younger than plato.[ ] ariston appears to have died in plato's childhood, although the precise dating of his death is difficult.[ ] perictione then married pyrilampes, her mother's brother,[ ] who had served many times as an ambassador to the persian court and was a friend of pericles, the leader of the democratic faction in athens.[ ] pyrilampes had a son from a previous marriage, demus, who was famous for his beauty.[ ] perictione gave birth to pyrilampes' second son, antiphon, the half-brother of plato, who appears in parmenides.[ ] in contrast to his reticence about himself, plato often introduced his distinguished relatives into his dialogues or referred to them with some precision. in addition to adeimantus and glaucon in the republic, charmides has a dialogue named after him; and critias speaks in both charmides and protagoras.[ ] these and other references suggest a considerable amount of family pride and enable us to reconstruct plato's family tree. according to burnet, "the opening scene of the charmides is a glorification of the whole [family] connection ... plato's dialogues are not only a memorial to socrates but also the happier days of his own family."[ ] name the fact that the philosopher in his maturity called himself platon is indisputable, but the origin of this name remains mysterious. platon is a nickname from the adjective platýs (πλατύς) 'broad'. although platon was a fairly common name ( instances are known from athens alone),[ ] the name does not occur in plato's known family line.[ ] the sources of diogenes laërtius account for this by claiming that his wrestling coach, ariston of argos, dubbed him "broad" on account of his chest and shoulders, or that plato derived his name from the breadth of his eloquence, or his wide forehead.[ ][ ] while recalling a moral lesson about frugal living seneca mentions the meaning of plato's name: "his very name was given him because of his broad chest."[ ] plato was a wrestler his true name was supposedly aristocles (Ἀριστοκλῆς), meaning 'best reputation'.[f] according to diogenes laërtius, he was named after his grandfather, as was common in athenian society.[ ] but there is only one inscription of an aristocles, an early archon of athens in / bc. there is no record of a line from aristocles to plato's father, ariston. recently a scholar has argued that even the name aristocles for plato was a much later invention.[ ] however, another scholar claims that "there is good reason for not dismissing [the idea that aristocles was plato's given name] as a mere invention of his biographers", noting how prevalent that account is in our sources.[ ] education ancient sources describe him as a bright though modest boy who excelled in his studies. apuleius informs us that speusippus praised plato's quickness of mind and modesty as a boy, and the "first fruits of his youth infused with hard work and love of study".[ ] his father contributed all which was necessary to give to his son a good education, and, therefore, plato must have been instructed in grammar, music, and gymnastics by the most distinguished teachers of his time.[ ] plato invokes damon many times in the republic. plato was a wrestler, and dicaearchus went so far as to say that plato wrestled at the isthmian games.[ ] plato had also attended courses of philosophy; before meeting socrates, he first became acquainted with cratylus and the heraclitean doctrines.[ ] ambrose believed that plato met jeremiah in egypt and was influenced by his ideas. augustine initially accepted this claim, but later rejected it, arguing in the city of god that "plato was born a hundred years after jeremiah prophesied."[ ][need quotation to verify] later life and death plato in his academy, drawing after a painting by swedish painter carl johan wahlbom plato may have travelled in italy, sicily, egypt and cyrene.[ ]plato's own statement was that he visited italy and sicily at the age of forty and was disgusted by the sensuality of life there. said to have returned to athens at the age of forty, plato founded one of the earliest known organized schools in western civilization on a plot of land in the grove of hecademus or academus.[ ] this land was named after academus, an attic hero in greek mythology. in historic greek times it was adorned with oriental plane and olive plantations[ ][ ] the academy was a large enclosure of ground about six stadia (a total of between a kilometer and a half mile) outside of athens proper. one story is that the name of the academy comes from the ancient hero, academus; still another story is that the name came from a supposed former owner of the plot of land, an athenian citizen whose name was (also) academus; while yet another account is that it was named after a member of the army of castor and pollux, an arcadian named echedemus.[ ] the academy operated until it was destroyed by lucius cornelius sulla in bc. many intellectuals were schooled in the academy, the most prominent one being aristotle.[ ][ ] throughout his later life, plato became entangled with the politics of the city of syracuse. according to diogenes laërtius, plato initially visited syracuse while it was under the rule of dionysius.[ ] during this first trip dionysius's brother-in-law, dion of syracuse, became one of plato's disciples, but the tyrant himself turned against plato. plato almost faced death, but he was sold into slavery.[g] anniceris, a cyrenaic philosopher, subsequently bought plato's freedom for twenty minas,[ ] and sent him home. after dionysius's death, according to plato's seventh letter, dion requested plato return to syracuse to tutor dionysius ii and guide him to become a philosopher king. dionysius ii seemed to accept plato's teachings, but he became suspicious of dion, his uncle. dionysius expelled dion and kept plato against his will. eventually plato left syracuse. dion would return to overthrow dionysius and ruled syracuse for a short time before being usurped by calippus, a fellow disciple of plato. according to seneca, plato died at the age of on the same day he was born.[ ] the suda indicates that he lived to years,[ ] while neanthes claims an age of .[ ] a variety of sources have given accounts of his death. one story, based on a mutilated manuscript,[ ] suggests plato died in his bed, whilst a young thracian girl played the flute to him.[ ] another tradition suggests plato died at a wedding feast. the account is based on diogenes laërtius's reference to an account by hermippus, a third-century alexandrian.[ ] according to tertullian, plato simply died in his sleep.[ ] plato owned an estate at iphistiadae, which by will he left to a certain youth named adeimantus, presumably a younger relative, as plato had an elder brother or uncle by this name. influences pythagoras bust of pythagoras in rome. although socrates influenced plato directly as related in the dialogues, the influence of pythagoras upon plato, or in a broader sense, the pythagoreans, such as archytas also appears to have been significant. aristotle claimed that the philosophy of plato closely followed the teachings of the pythagoreans,[ ] and cicero repeats this claim: "they say plato learned all things pythagorean."[ ] it is probable that both were influenced by orphism, and both believed in metempsychosis, transmigration of the soul. pythagoras held that all things are number, and the cosmos comes from numerical principles. he introduced the concept of form as distinct from matter, and that the physical world is an imitation of an eternal mathematical world. these ideas were very influential on heraclitus, parmenides and plato.[ ] george karamanolis notes that numenius accepted both pythagoras and plato as the two authorities one should follow in philosophy, but he regarded plato's authority as subordinate to that of pythagoras, whom he considered to be the source of all true philosophy—including plato's own. for numenius it is just that plato wrote so many philosophical works, whereas pythagoras' views were originally passed on only orally.[ ] according to r. m. hare, this influence consists of three points: 	the platonic republic might be related to the idea of "a tightly organized community of like-minded thinkers", like the one established by pythagoras in croton. 	the idea that mathematics and, generally speaking, abstract thinking is a secure basis for philosophical thinking as well as "for substantial theses in science and morals". 	they shared a "mystical approach to the soul and its place in the material world".[ ][ ] plato and mathematics plato may have studied under the mathematician theodorus of cyrene, and has a dialogue named for and whose central character is the mathematician theaetetus. while not a mathematician, plato was considered an accomplished teacher of mathematics. eudoxus of cnidus, the greatest mathematician in classical greece, who contributed much of what is found in euclid's elements, was taught by archytas and plato. plato helped to distinguish between pure and applied mathematics by widening the gap between "arithmetic", now called number theory and "logistic", now called arithmetic.[h] assignment to the elements in kepler's mysterium cosmographicum in the dialogue timaeus plato associated each of the four classical elements (earth, air, water, and fire) with a regular solid (cube, octahedron, icosahedron, and tetrahedron respectively) due to their shape, the so-called platonic solids. the fifth regular solid, the dodecahedron, was supposed to be the element which made up the heavens. heraclitus and parmenides the two philosophers heraclitus and parmenides, following the way initiated by pre-socratic greek philosophers like pythagoras, depart from mythology and begin the metaphysical tradition that strongly influenced plato and continues today.[ ] heraclitus ( ) by hendrick ter brugghen bust of parmenides from velia the surviving fragments written by heraclitus suggest the view that all things are continuously changing, or becoming. his image of the river, with ever-changing waters, is well known. according to some ancient traditions like that of diogenes laërtius, plato received these ideas through heraclitus' disciple cratylus, who held the more radical view that continuous change warrants scepticism because we cannot define a thing that does not have a permanent nature.[ ] parmenides adopted an altogether contrary vision, arguing for the idea of changeless being and the view that change is an illusion.[ ] john palmer notes "parmenides' distinction among the principal modes of being and his derivation of the attributes that must belong to what must be, simply as such, qualify him to be seen as the founder of metaphysics or ontology as a domain of inquiry distinct from theology."[ ] these ideas about change and permanence, or becoming and being, influenced plato in formulating his theory of forms.[ ] plato's most self-critical dialogue is called parmenides, featuring parmenides and his student zeno, who following parmenides' denial of change argued forcefully with his paradoxes to deny the existence of motion. plato's sophist dialogue includes an eleatic stranger, a follower of parmenides, as a foil for his arguments against parmenides. in the dialogue plato distinguishes nouns and verbs, providing some of the earliest treatment of subject and predicate. he also argues that motion and rest both "are", against followers of parmenides who say rest is but motion is not. socrates see also: socratic problem bust of socrates at the louvre. plato was one of the devoted young followers of socrates. the precise relationship between plato and socrates remains an area of contention among scholars. plato never speaks in his own voice in his dialogues, and speaks as socrates in all but the laws. in the second letter, it says, "no writing of plato exists or ever will exist, but those now said to be his are those of a socrates become beautiful and new";[ ] if the letter is plato's, the final qualification seems to call into question the dialogues' historical fidelity. in any case, xenophon's memorabilia and aristophanes's the clouds seem to present a somewhat different portrait of socrates from the one plato paints. the socratic problem asks how to reconcile these various accounts. leo strauss notes that socrates' reputation for irony casts doubt on whether plato's socrates is expressing sincere beliefs.[ ] aristotle attributes a different doctrine with respect to forms to plato and socrates.[ ] aristotle suggests that socrates' idea of forms can be discovered through investigation of the natural world, unlike plato's forms that exist beyond and outside the ordinary range of human understanding. in the dialogues of plato though, socrates sometimes seems to support a mystical side, discussing reincarnation and the mystery religions, this is generally attributed to plato.[clarification needed][ ] regardless, this view of socrates cannot be dismissed out of hand, as we cannot be sure of the differences between the views of plato and socrates. in the meno plato refers to the eleusinian mysteries, telling meno he would understand socrates's answers better if he could stay for the initiations next week. it is possible that plato and socrates took part in the eleusinian mysteries.[ ] philosophy metaphysics in plato's dialogues, socrates and his company of disputants had something to say on many subjects, including several aspects of metaphysics. these include religion and science, human nature, love, and sexuality. more than one dialogue contrasts perception and reality, nature and custom, and body and soul. the forms the "windmill proof" of the pythagorean theorem found in euclid's elements. "platonism" and its theory of forms (or theory of ideas) denies the reality of the material world, considering it only an image or copy of the real world. the theory of forms is first introduced in the phaedo dialogue (also known as on the soul), wherein socrates refutes the pluralism of the likes of anaxagoras, then the most popular response to heraclitus and parmenides, while giving the "opposites argument" in support of the forms. according to this theory of forms there are at least two worlds: the apparent world of concrete objects, grasped by the senses, which constantly changes, and an unchanging and unseen world of forms or abstract objects, grasped by pure reason (λογική). which ground what is apparent. it can also be said there are three worlds, with the apparent world consisting of both the world of material objects and of mental images, with the "third realm" consisting of the forms. thus, though there is the term "platonic idealism", this refers to platonic ideas or the forms, and not to some platonic kind of idealism, an th-century view which sees matter as unreal in favour of mind. for plato, though grasped by the mind, only the forms are truly real. plato's forms thus represent types of things, as well as properties, patterns, and relations, to which we refer as objects. just as individual tables, chairs, and cars refer to objects in this world, 'tableness', 'chairness', and 'carness', as well as e. g. justice, truth, and beauty refer to objects in another world. one of plato's most cited examples for the forms were the truths of geometry, such as the pythagorean theorem. in other words, the forms are universals given as a solution to the problem of universals, or the problem of "the one and the many", e. g. how one predicate "red" can apply to many red objects. for plato this is because there is one abstract object or form of red, redness itself, in which the several red things "participate". as plato's solution is that universals are forms and that forms are real if anything is, plato's philosophy is unambiguously called platonic realism. according to aristotle, plato's best known argument in support of the forms was the "one over many" argument.[ ] what is justice? aside from being immutable, timeless, changeless, and one over many, the forms also provide definitions and the standard against which all instances are measured. in the dialogues socrates regularly asks for the meaning – in the sense of intensional definitions – of a general term (e. g. justice, truth, beauty), and criticizes those who instead give him particular, extensional examples, rather than the quality shared by all examples. there is thus a world of perfect, eternal, and changeless meanings of predicates, the forms, existing in the realm of being outside of space and time; and the imperfect sensible world of becoming, subjects somehow in a state between being and nothing, that partakes of the qualities of the forms, and is its instantiation. the soul plato advocates a belief in the immortality of the soul, and several dialogues end with long speeches imagining the afterlife. in the timaeus, socrates locates the parts of the soul within the human body: reason is located in the head, spirit in the top third of the torso, and the appetite in the middle third of the torso, down to the navel.[ ][ ] epistemology socrates, such as wisdom also discuss several aspects of epistemology. more than one dialogue contrasts knowledge and opinion. plato's epistemology involves socrates arguing that knowledge is not empirical, and that it comes from divine insight. the forms are also responsible for both knowledge or certainty, and are grasped by pure reason. in several dialogues, socrates inverts the common man's intuition about what is knowable and what is real. reality is unavailable to those who use their senses. socrates says that he who sees with his eyes is blind. while most people take the objects of their senses to be real if anything is, socrates is contemptuous of people who think that something has to be graspable in the hands to be real. in the theaetetus, he says such people are eu amousoi (εὖ ἄμουσοι), an expression that means literally, "happily without the muses".[ ] in other words, such people are willingly ignorant, living without divine inspiration and access to higher insights about reality. in plato's dialogues, socrates always insists on his ignorance and humility, that he knows nothing, so called socratic irony. several dialogues refute a series of viewpoints, but offer no positive position of its own, ending in aporia. recollection in several of plato's dialogues, socrates promulgates the idea that knowledge is a matter of recollection of the state before one is born, and not of observation or study.[ ] keeping with the theme of admitting his own ignorance, socrates regularly complains of his forgetfulness. in the meno, socrates uses a geometrical example to expound plato's view that knowledge in this latter sense is acquired by recollection. socrates elicits a fact concerning a geometrical construction from a slave boy, who could not have otherwise known the fact (due to the slave boy's lack of education). the knowledge must be present, socrates concludes, in an eternal, non-experiential form. in other dialogues, the sophist, statesman, republic, and the parmenides, plato himself associates knowledge with the apprehension of unchanging forms and their relationships to one another (which he calls "expertise" in dialectic), including through the processes of collection and division.[ ] more explicitly, plato himself argues in the timaeus that knowledge is always proportionate to the realm from which it is gained. in other words, if one derives one's account of something experientially, because the world of sense is in flux, the views therein attained will be mere opinions. and opinions are characterized by a lack of necessity and stability. on the other hand, if one derives one's account of something by way of the non-sensible forms, because these forms are unchanging, so too is the account derived from them. that apprehension of forms is required for knowledge may be taken to cohere with plato's theory in the theaetetus and meno.[ ] indeed, the apprehension of forms may be at the base of the "account" required for justification, in that it offers foundational knowledge which itself needs no account, thereby avoiding an infinite regression.[ ] justified true belief a venn diagram illustrating the classical theory of knowledge. many have interpreted plato as stating—even having been the first to write—that knowledge is justified true belief, an influential view that informed future developments in epistemology.[ ] this interpretation is partly based on a reading of the theaetetus wherein plato argues that knowledge is distinguished from mere true belief by the knower having an "account" of the object of their true belief.[ ] and this theory may again be seen in the meno, where it is suggested that true belief can be raised to the level of knowledge if it is bound with an account as to the question of "why" the object of the true belief is so.[ ][ ] many years later, edmund gettier famously demonstrated the problems of the justified true belief account of knowledge. that the modern theory of justified true belief as knowledge which gettier addresses is equivalent to plato's is accepted by some scholars but rejected by others.[ ] plato himself also identified problems with the justified true belief definition in the theaetetus, concluding that justification (or an "account") would require knowledge of difference, meaning that the definition of knowledge is circular.[ ][ ] ethics several dialogues discuss ethics including virtue and vice, pleasure and pain, crime and punishment, and justice and medicine. plato views "the good" as the supreme form, somehow existing even "beyond being". socrates propounded a moral intellectualism which claimed nobody does bad on purpose, and to know what is good results in doing what is good; that knowledge is virtue. in the protagoras dialogue it is argued that virtue is innate and cannot be learned. socrates presents the famous euthyphro dilemma in the dialogue of the same name: "is the pious (τὸ ὅσιον) loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?" ( a) justice as above, in the republic, plato asks the question, “what is justice?” by means of the greek term dikaiosune – a term for “justice” that captures both individual justice and the justice that informs societies, plato is able not only to inform metaphysics, but also ethics and politics with the question: “what is the basis of moral and social obligation?” plato's well-known answer rests upon the fundamental responsibility to seek wisdom, wisdom which leads to an understanding of the form of the good. plato further argues that such understanding of forms produces and ensures the good communal life when ideally structured under a philosopher king in a society with three classes (philosophers kings, guardians and workers) that neatly mirror his triadic view of the individual soul (reason, spirit and appetite). in this manner, justice is obtained when knowledge of how to fulfill one's moral and political function in society is put into practice.[ ] politics oxyrhynchus papyri, with fragment of plato's republic the dialogues also discuss politics. some of plato's most famous doctrines are contained in the republic as well as in the laws and the statesman. because these doctrines are not spoken directly by plato and vary between dialogues, they cannot be straightforwardly assumed as representing plato's own views. socrates asserts that societies have a tripartite class structure corresponding to the appetite/spirit/reason structure of the individual soul. the appetite/spirit/reason are analogous to the castes of society.[ ] 	productive (workers) – the labourers, carpenters, plumbers, masons, merchants, farmers, ranchers, etc. these correspond to the "appetite" part of the soul. 	protective (warriors or guardians) – those who are adventurous, strong and brave; in the armed forces. these correspond to the "spirit" part of the soul. 	governing (rulers or philosopher kings) – those who are intelligent, rational, self-controlled, in love with wisdom, well suited to make decisions for the community. these correspond to the "reason" part of the soul and are very few. according to this model, the principles of athenian democracy (as it existed in his day) are rejected as only a few are fit to rule. instead of rhetoric and persuasion, socrates says reason and wisdom should govern. as socrates puts it: 	"until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophize, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincide, while the many natures who at present pursue either one exclusively are forcibly prevented from doing so, cities will have no rest from evils,... nor, i think, will the human race."[ ] socrates describes these "philosopher kings" as "those who love the sight of truth"[ ] and supports the idea with the analogy of a captain and his ship or a doctor and his medicine. according to him, sailing and health are not things that everyone is qualified to practice by nature. a large part of the republic then addresses how the educational system should be set up to produce these philosopher kings. in addition, the ideal city is used as an image to illuminate the state of one's soul, or the will, reason, and desires combined in the human body. socrates is attempting to make an image of a rightly ordered human, and then later goes on to describe the different kinds of humans that can be observed, from tyrants to lovers of money in various kinds of cities. the ideal city is not promoted, but only used to magnify the different kinds of individual humans and the state of their soul. however, the philosopher king image was used by many after plato to justify their personal political beliefs. the philosophic soul according to socrates has reason, will, and desires united in virtuous harmony. a philosopher has the moderate love for wisdom and the courage to act according to wisdom. wisdom is knowledge about the good or the right relations between all that exists. wherein it concerns states and rulers, socrates asks which is better—a bad democracy or a country reigned by a tyrant. he argues that it is better to be ruled by a bad tyrant, than by a bad democracy (since here all the people are now responsible for such actions, rather than one individual committing many bad deeds.) this is emphasised within the republic as socrates describes the event of mutiny on board a ship.[ ] socrates suggests the ship's crew to be in line with the democratic rule of many and the captain, although inhibited through ailments, the tyrant. socrates' description of this event is parallel to that of democracy within the state and the inherent problems that arise. according to socrates, a state made up of different kinds of souls will, overall, decline from an aristocracy (rule by the best) to a timocracy (rule by the honourable), then to an oligarchy (rule by the few), then to a democracy (rule by the people), and finally to tyranny (rule by one person, rule by a tyrant).[ ] aristocracy in the sense of government (politeia) is advocated in plato's republic. this regime is ruled by a philosopher king, and thus is grounded on wisdom and reason. the aristocratic state, and the man whose nature corresponds to it, are the objects of plato's analyses throughout much of the republic, as opposed to the other four types of states/men, who are discussed later in his work. in book viii, socrates states in order the other four imperfect societies with a description of the state's structure and individual character. in timocracy the ruling class is made up primarily of those with a warrior-like character.[ ] oligarchy is made up of a society in which wealth is the criterion of merit and the wealthy are in control.[ ] in democracy, the state bears resemblance to ancient athens with traits such as equality of political opportunity and freedom for the individual to do as he likes.[ ] democracy then degenerates into tyranny from the conflict of rich and poor. it is characterized by an undisciplined society existing in chaos, where the tyrant rises as popular champion leading to the formation of his private army and the growth of oppression.[ ][ ][ ] art and poetry several dialogues tackle questions about art, including rhetoric and rhapsody. socrates says that poetry is inspired by the muses, and is not rational. he speaks approvingly of this, and other forms of divine madness (drunkenness, eroticism, and dreaming) in the phaedrus,[ ] and yet in the republic wants to outlaw homer's great poetry, and laughter as well. in ion, socrates gives no hint of the disapproval of homer that he expresses in the republic. the dialogue ion suggests that homer's iliad functioned in the ancient greek world as the bible does today in the modern christian world: as divinely inspired literature that can provide moral guidance, if only it can be properly interpreted. unwritten doctrines bust excavated at the villa of the papyri, possibly of dionysus, plato or poseidon. for a long time, plato's unwritten doctrines[ ][ ][ ] had been controversial. many modern books on plato seem to diminish its importance; nevertheless, the first important witness who mentions its existence is aristotle, who in his physics writes: "it is true, indeed, that the account he gives there [i.e. in timaeus] of the participant is different from what he says in his so-called unwritten teachings (ἄγραφα δόγματα)."[ ] the term "ἄγραφα δόγματα" literally means unwritten doctrines or unwritten dogmas and it stands for the most fundamental metaphysical teaching of plato, which he disclosed only orally, and some say only to his most trusted fellows, and which he may have kept secret from the public. the importance of the unwritten doctrines does not seem to have been seriously questioned before the th century. a reason for not revealing it to everyone is partially discussed in phaedrus where plato criticizes the written transmission of knowledge as faulty, favouring instead the spoken logos: "he who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink, sowing them through a pen with words, which cannot defend themselves by argument and cannot teach the truth effectually."[ ] the same argument is repeated in plato's seventh letter: "every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing."[ ] in the same letter he writes: "i can certainly declare concerning all these writers who claim to know the subjects that i seriously study ... there does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any treatise of mine dealing therewith."[ ] such secrecy is necessary in order not "to expose them to unseemly and degrading treatment".[ ] it is, however, said that plato once disclosed this knowledge to the public in his lecture on the good (Περὶ τἀγαθοῦ), in which the good (τὸ ἀγαθόν) is identified with the one (the unity, τὸ ἕν), the fundamental ontological principle. the content of this lecture has been transmitted by several witnesses. aristoxenus describes the event in the following words: "each came expecting to learn something about the things that are generally considered good for men, such as wealth, good health, physical strength, and altogether a kind of wonderful happiness. but when the mathematical demonstrations came, including numbers, geometrical figures and astronomy, and finally the statement good is one seemed to them, i imagine, utterly unexpected and strange; hence some belittled the matter, while others rejected it."[ ] simplicius quotes alexander of aphrodisias, who states that "according to plato, the first principles of everything, including the forms themselves are one and indefinite duality (ἡ ἀόριστος δυάς), which he called large and small (τὸ μέγα καὶ τὸ μικρόν)", and simplicius reports as well that "one might also learn this from speusippus and xenocrates and the others who were present at plato's lecture on the good".[ ] their account is in full agreement with aristotle's description of plato's metaphysical doctrine. in metaphysics he writes: "now since the forms are the causes of everything else, he [i.e. plato] supposed that their elements are the elements of all things. accordingly the material principle is the great and small [i.e. the dyad], and the essence is the one (τὸ ἕν), since the numbers are derived from the great and small by participation in the one".[ ] "from this account it is clear that he only employed two causes: that of the essence, and the material cause; for the forms are the cause of the essence in everything else, and the one is the cause of it in the forms. he also tells us what the material substrate is of which the forms are predicated in the case of sensible things, and the one in that of the forms—that it is this the duality (the dyad, ἡ δυάς), the great and small (τὸ μέγα καὶ τὸ μικρόν). further, he assigned to these two elements respectively the causation of good and of evil".[ ] the most important aspect of this interpretation of plato's metaphysics is the continuity between his teaching and the neoplatonic interpretation of plotinus[i] or ficino[j] which has been considered erroneous by many but may in fact have been directly influenced by oral transmission of plato's doctrine. a modern scholar who recognized the importance of the unwritten doctrine of plato was heinrich gomperz who described it in his speech during the th international congress of philosophy in .[ ] all the sources related to the ἄγραφα δόγματα have been collected by konrad gaiser and published as testimonia platonica.[ ] these sources have subsequently been interpreted by scholars from the german tübingen school of interpretation such as hans joachim krämer or thomas a. szlezák.[k] themes of plato's dialogues trial of socrates the death of socrates ( ), by jacques-louis david the trial of socrates and his death sentence is the central, unifying event of plato's dialogues. it is relayed in the dialogues apology, crito, and phaedo. apology is socrates' defence speech, and crito and phaedo take place in prison after the conviction. apology is among the most frequently read of plato's works. in the apology, socrates tries to dismiss rumours that he is a sophist and defends himself against charges of disbelief in the gods and corruption of the young. socrates insists that long-standing slander will be the real cause of his demise, and says the legal charges are essentially false. socrates famously denies being wise, and explains how his life as a philosopher was launched by the oracle at delphi. he says that his quest to resolve the riddle of the oracle put him at odds with his fellow man, and that this is the reason he has been mistaken for a menace to the city-state of athens. in apology, socrates is presented as mentioning plato by name as one of those youths close enough to him to have been corrupted, if he were in fact guilty of corrupting the youth, and questioning why their fathers and brothers did not step forward to testify against him if he was indeed guilty of such a crime.[ ] later, plato is mentioned along with crito, critobolus, and apollodorus as offering to pay a fine of minas on socrates' behalf, in lieu of the death penalty proposed by meletus.[ ] in the phaedo, the title character lists those who were in attendance at the prison on socrates' last day, explaining plato's absence by saying, "plato was ill".[ ] the trial in other dialogues see also: list of speakers in plato's dialogues if plato's important dialogues do not refer to socrates' execution explicitly, they allude to it, or use characters or themes that play a part in it. five dialogues foreshadow the trial: in the theaetetus and the euthyphro socrates tells people that he is about to face corruption charges.[ ][ ] in the meno, one of the men who brings legal charges against socrates, anytus, warns him about the trouble he may get into if he does not stop criticizing important people.[ ] in the gorgias, socrates says that his trial will be like a doctor prosecuted by a cook who asks a jury of children to choose between the doctor's bitter medicine and the cook's tasty treats.[ ] in the republic, socrates explains why an enlightened man (presumably himself) will stumble in a courtroom situation.[ ] plato's support of aristocracy and distrust of democracy is also taken to be partly rooted in a democracy having killed socrates. in the protagoras, socrates is a guest at the home of callias, son of hipponicus, a man whom socrates disparages in the apology as having wasted a great amount of money on sophists' fees. two other important dialogues, the symposium and the phaedrus, are linked to the main storyline by characters. in the apology, socrates says aristophanes slandered him in a comic play, and blames him for causing his bad reputation, and ultimately, his death.[ ] in the symposium, the two of them are drinking together with other friends. the character phaedrus is linked to the main story line by character (phaedrus is also a participant in the symposium and the protagoras) and by theme (the philosopher as divine emissary, etc.) the protagoras is also strongly linked to the symposium by characters: all of the formal speakers at the symposium (with the exception of aristophanes) are present at the home of callias in that dialogue. charmides and his guardian critias are present for the discussion in the protagoras. examples of characters crossing between dialogues can be further multiplied. the protagoras contains the largest gathering of socratic associates. in the dialogues plato is most celebrated and admired for, socrates is concerned with human and political virtue, has a distinctive personality, and friends and enemies who "travel" with him from dialogue to dialogue. this is not to say that socrates is consistent: a man who is his friend in one dialogue may be an adversary or subject of his mockery in another. for example, socrates praises the wisdom of euthyphro many times in the cratylus, but makes him look like a fool in the euthyphro. he disparages sophists generally, and prodicus specifically in the apology, whom he also slyly jabs in the cratylus for charging the hefty fee of fifty drachmas for a course on language and grammar. however, socrates tells theaetetus in his namesake dialogue that he admires prodicus and has directed many pupils to him. socrates' ideas are also not consistent within or between or among dialogues. allegories main article: allegorical interpretations of plato mythos and logos are terms that evolved along classical greek history. in the times of homer and hesiod ( th century bc) they were essentially synonyms, and contained the meaning of 'tale' or 'history'. later came historians like herodotus and thucydides, as well as philosophers like heraclitus and parmenides and other presocratics who introduced a distinction between both terms; mythos became more a nonverifiable account, and logos a rational account.[ ] it may seem that plato, being a disciple of socrates and a strong partisan of philosophy based on logos, should have avoided the use of myth-telling. instead he made an abundant use of it. this fact has produced analytical and interpretative work, in order to clarify the reasons and purposes for that use. plato, in general, distinguished between three types of myth.[l] first there were the false myths, like those based on stories of gods subject to passions and sufferings, because reason teaches that god is perfect. then came the myths based on true reasoning, and therefore also true. finally there were those non verifiable because beyond of human reason, but containing some truth in them. regarding the subjects of plato's myths they are of two types, those dealing with the origin of the universe, and those about morals and the origin and fate of the soul.[ ] it is generally agreed that the main purpose for plato in using myths was didactic. he considered that only a few people were capable or interested in following a reasoned philosophical discourse, but men in general are attracted by stories and tales. consequently, then, he used the myth to convey the conclusions of the philosophical reasoning. some of plato's myths were based in traditional ones, others were modifications of them, and finally he also invented altogether new myths.[ ] notable examples include the story of atlantis, the myth of er, and the allegory of the cave. the cave plato's allegory of the cave by jan saenredam, according to cornelis van haarlem, , albertina, vienna the theory of forms is most famously captured in his allegory of the cave, and more explicitly in his analogy of the sun and the divided line. the allegory of the cave is a paradoxical analogy wherein socrates argues that the invisible world is the most intelligible ('noeton') and that the visible world ((h)oraton) is the least knowable, and the most obscure. socrates says in the republic that people who take the sun-lit world of the senses to be good and real are living pitifully in a den of evil and ignorance. socrates admits that few climb out of the den, or cave of ignorance, and those who do, not only have a terrible struggle to attain the heights, but when they go back down for a visit or to help other people up, they find themselves objects of scorn and ridicule. according to socrates, physical objects and physical events are "shadows" of their ideal or perfect forms, and exist only to the extent that they instantiate the perfect versions of themselves. just as shadows are temporary, inconsequential epiphenomena produced by physical objects, physical objects are themselves fleeting phenomena caused by more substantial causes, the ideals of which they are mere instances. for example, socrates thinks that perfect justice exists (although it is not clear where) and his own trial would be a cheap copy of it. the allegory of the cave is intimately connected to his political ideology, that only people who have climbed out of the cave and cast their eyes on a vision of goodness are fit to rule. socrates claims that the enlightened men of society must be forced from their divine contemplation and be compelled to run the city according to their lofty insights. thus is born the idea of the "philosopher-king", the wise person who accepts the power thrust upon him by the people who are wise enough to choose a good master. this is the main thesis of socrates in the republic, that the most wisdom the masses can muster is the wise choice of a ruler.[ ] ring of gyges a ring which could make one invisible, the ring of gyges is proposed in the republic by the character of glaucon, and considered by the rest of characters for its ethical consequences, whether an individual possessing it would be most happy abstaining or doing injustice. chariot he also compares the soul (psyche) to a chariot. in this allegory he introduces a triple soul which composed of a charioteer and two horses. the charioteer is a symbol of intellectual and logical part of the soul (logistikon), and two horses represents the moral virtues (thymoeides) and passionate instincts (epithymetikon), respectively, to illustrate the conflict between them. dialectic socrates employs a dialectic method which proceeds by questioning. the role of dialectic in plato's thought is contested but there are two main interpretations: a type of reasoning and a method of intuition.[ ] simon blackburn adopts the first, saying that plato's dialectic is "the process of eliciting the truth by means of questions aimed at opening out what is already implicitly known, or at exposing the contradictions and muddles of an opponent's position."[ ] a similar interpretation has been put forth by louis hartz, who suggests that elements of the dialectic are borrowed from hegel.[ ] according to this view, opposing arguments improve upon each other, and prevailing opinion is shaped by the synthesis of many conflicting ideas over time. each new idea exposes a flaw in the accepted model, and the epistemological substance of the debate continually approaches the truth. hartz's is a teleological interpretation at the core, in which philosophers will ultimately exhaust the available body of knowledge and thus reach "the end of history." karl popper, on the other hand, claims that dialectic is the art of intuition for "visualising the divine originals, the forms or ideas, of unveiling the great mystery behind the common man's everyday world of appearances."[ ] family plato often discusses the father-son relationship and the question of whether a father's interest in his sons has much to do with how well his sons turn out. in ancient athens, a boy was socially located by his family identity, and plato often refers to his characters in terms of their paternal and fraternal relationships. socrates was not a family man, and saw himself as the son of his mother, who was apparently a midwife. a divine fatalist, socrates mocks men who spent exorbitant fees on tutors and trainers for their sons, and repeatedly ventures the idea that good character is a gift from the gods. plato's dialogue crito reminds socrates that orphans are at the mercy of chance, but socrates is unconcerned. in the theaetetus, he is found recruiting as a disciple a young man whose inheritance has been squandered. socrates twice compares the relationship of the older man and his boy lover to the father-son relationship,[ ][ ] and in the phaedo, socrates' disciples, towards whom he displays more concern than his biological sons, say they will feel "fatherless" when he is gone. though plato agreed with aristotle that women were inferior to men, in the fourth book of the republic the character of socrates says this was only because of nomos or custom and not because of nature, and thus women needed paidia, rearing or education to be equal to men. in the "merely probable tale" of the eponymous character in the timaeus, unjust men who live corrupted lives would be reincarnated as women or various animal kinds. narration plato never presents himself as a participant in any of the dialogues, and with the exception of the apology, there is no suggestion that he heard any of the dialogues firsthand. some dialogues have no narrator but have a pure "dramatic" form (examples: meno, gorgias, phaedrus, crito, euthyphro), some dialogues are narrated by socrates, wherein he speaks in first person (examples: lysis, charmides, republic). one dialogue, protagoras, begins in dramatic form but quickly proceeds to socrates' narration of a conversation he had previously with the sophist for whom the dialogue is named; this narration continues uninterrupted till the dialogue's end. painting of a scene from plato's symposium (anselm feuerbach, ) two dialogues phaedo and symposium also begin in dramatic form but then proceed to virtually uninterrupted narration by followers of socrates. phaedo, an account of socrates' final conversation and hemlock drinking, is narrated by phaedo to echecrates in a foreign city not long after the execution took place.[m] the symposium is narrated by apollodorus, a socratic disciple, apparently to glaucon. apollodorus assures his listener that he is recounting the story, which took place when he himself was an infant, not from his own memory, but as remembered by aristodemus, who told him the story years ago. the theaetetus is a peculiar case: a dialogue in dramatic form embedded within another dialogue in dramatic form. in the beginning of the theaetetus,[ ] euclides says that he compiled the conversation from notes he took based on what socrates told him of his conversation with the title character. the rest of the theaetetus is presented as a "book" written in dramatic form and read by one of euclides' slaves.[ ] some scholars take this as an indication that plato had by this date wearied of the narrated form.[ ] with the exception of the theaetetus, plato gives no explicit indication as to how these orally transmitted conversations came to be written down. history of plato's dialogues volume , pp. – , of the stephanus edition of plato, showing a passage of timaeus with the latin translation and notes of jean de serres thirty-five dialogues and thirteen letters (the epistles) have traditionally been ascribed to plato, though modern scholarship doubts the authenticity of at least some of these. plato's writings have been published in several fashions; this has led to several conventions regarding the naming and referencing of plato's texts. the usual system for making unique references to sections of the text by plato derives from a th-century edition of plato's works by henricus stephanus known as stephanus pagination. one tradition regarding the arrangement of plato's texts is according to tetralogies. this scheme is ascribed by diogenes laërtius to an ancient scholar and court astrologer to tiberius named thrasyllus. chronology no one knows the exact order plato's dialogues were written in, nor the extent to which some might have been later revised and rewritten. the works are usually grouped into early (sometimes by some into transitional), middle, and late period.[ ][ ] this choice to group chronologically is thought worthy of criticism by some (cooper et al),[ ] given that it is recognized that there is no absolute agreement as to the true chronology, since the facts of the temporal order of writing are not confidently ascertained.[ ] chronology was not a consideration in ancient times, in that groupings of this nature are virtually absent (tarrant) in the extant writings of ancient platonists.[ ] whereas those classified as "early dialogues" often conclude in aporia, the so-called "middle dialogues" provide more clearly stated positive teachings that are often ascribed to plato such as the theory of forms. the remaining dialogues are classified as "late" and are generally agreed to be difficult and challenging pieces of philosophy. this grouping is the only one proven by stylometric analysis.[ ] among those who classify the dialogues into periods of composition, socrates figures in all of the "early dialogues" and they are considered the most faithful representations of the historical socrates.[ ] the following represents one relatively common division.[ ] it should, however, be kept in mind that many of the positions in the ordering are still highly disputed, and also that the very notion that plato's dialogues can or should be "ordered" is by no means universally accepted. increasingly in the most recent plato scholarship, writers are sceptical of the notion that the order of plato's writings can be established with any precision,[ ] though plato's works are still often characterized as falling at least roughly into three groups.[ ] early: apology, charmides, crito, euthyphro, gorgias, (lesser) hippias (minor), (greater) hippias (major), ion, laches, lysis, protagoras middle: cratylus, euthydemus, meno, parmenides, phaedo, phaedrus, republic, symposium, theaetetus late: critias, sophist, statesman / politicus, timaeus, philebus, laws.[ ] a significant distinction of the early plato and the later plato has been offered by scholars such as e.r. dodds and has been summarized by harold bloom in his book titled agon: "e.r. dodds is the classical scholar whose writings most illuminated the hellenic descent (in) the greeks and the irrational ... in his chapter on plato and the irrational soul ... dodds traces plato's spiritual evolution from the pure rationalist of the protagoras to the transcendental psychologist, influenced by the pythagoreans and orphics, of the later works culminating in the laws."[ ] lewis campbell was the first[ ] to make exhaustive use of stylometry to prove the great probability that the critias, timaeus, laws, philebus, sophist, and statesman were all clustered together as a group, while the parmenides, phaedrus, republic, and theaetetus belong to a separate group, which must be earlier (given aristotle's statement in his politics[ ] that the laws was written after the republic; cf. diogenes laërtius lives . ). what is remarkable about campbell's conclusions is that, in spite of all the stylometric studies that have been conducted since his time, perhaps the only chronological fact about plato's works that can now be said to be proven by stylometry is the fact that critias, timaeus, laws, philebus, sophist, and statesman are the latest of plato's dialogues, the others earlier.[ ] protagoras is often considered one of the last of the "early dialogues". three dialogues are often considered "transitional" or "pre-middle": euthydemus, gorgias, and meno. proponents of dividing the dialogues into periods often consider the parmenides and theaetetus to come late in the middle period and be transitional to the next, as they seem to treat the theory of forms critically (parmenides) or only indirectly (theaetetus).[ ] ritter's stylometric analysis places phaedrus as probably after theaetetus and parmenides,[ ] although it does not relate to the theory of forms in the same way. the first book of the republic is often thought to have been written significantly earlier than the rest of the work, although possibly having undergone revisions when the later books were attached to it.[ ] while looked to for plato's "mature" answers to the questions posed by his earlier works, those answers are difficult to discern. some scholars[ ] indicate that the theory of forms is absent from the late dialogues, its having been refuted in the parmenides, but there isn't total consensus that the parmenides actually refutes the theory of forms.[ ] writings of doubted authenticity jowett mentions in his appendix to menexenus, that works which bore the character of a writer were attributed to that writer even when the actual author was unknown.[ ] for below: (*) if there is no consensus among scholars as to whether plato is the author, and (‡) if most scholars agree that plato is not the author of the work.[ ] first alcibiades (*), second alcibiades (‡), clitophon (*), epinomis (‡), epistles (*), hipparchus (‡), menexenus (*), minos (‡), (rival) lovers (‡), theages (‡) spurious writings the following works were transmitted under plato's name, most of them already considered spurious in antiquity, and so were not included by thrasyllus in his tetralogical arrangement. these works are labelled as notheuomenoi ("spurious") or apocrypha. 	axiochus, definitions, demodocus, epigrams, eryxias, halcyon, on justice, on virtue, sisyphus. textual sources and history first page of the euthyphro, from the clarke plato (codex oxoniensis clarkianus ), ad. the text is greek minuscule. see also: list of manuscripts of plato's dialogues some known manuscripts of plato survive.[ ] the texts of plato as received today apparently represent the complete written philosophical work of plato and are generally good by the standards of textual criticism.[ ] no modern edition of plato in the original greek represents a single source, but rather it is reconstructed from multiple sources which are compared with each other. these sources are medieval manuscripts written on vellum (mainly from th to th century ad byzantium), papyri (mainly from late antiquity in egypt), and from the independent testimonia of other authors who quote various segments of the works (which come from a variety of sources). the text as presented is usually not much different from what appears in the byzantine manuscripts, and papyri and testimonia just confirm the manuscript tradition. in some editions however the readings in the papyri or testimonia are favoured in some places by the editing critic of the text. reviewing editions of papyri for the republic in , slings suggests that the use of papyri is hampered due to some poor editing practices.[ ] in the first century ad, thrasyllus of mendes had compiled and published the works of plato in the original greek, both genuine and spurious. while it has not survived to the present day, all the extant medieval greek manuscripts are based on his edition.[ ] the oldest surviving complete manuscript for many of the dialogues is the clarke plato (codex oxoniensis clarkianus , or codex boleianus ms e.d. clarke ), which was written in constantinople in and acquired by oxford university in .[ ] the clarke is given the siglum b in modern editions. b contains the first six tetralogies and is described internally as being written by "john the calligrapher" on behalf of arethas of caesarea. it appears to have undergone corrections by arethas himself.[ ] for the last two tetralogies and the apocrypha, the oldest surviving complete manuscript is codex parisinus graecus , designated a, which was written nearly contemporaneously to b, circa ad.[ ] a must be a copy of the edition edited by the patriarch, photios, teacher of arethas.[ ][ ][ ]a probably had an initial volume containing the first tetralogies which is now lost, but of which a copy was made, codex venetus append. class. , , which has the siglum t. the oldest manuscript for the seventh tetralogy is codex vindobonensis . suppl. phil. gr. , with siglum w, with a supposed date in the twelfth century.[ ] in total there are fifty-one such byzantine manuscripts known, while others may yet be found.[ ] to help establish the text, the older evidence of papyri and the independent evidence of the testimony of commentators and other authors (i.e., those who quote and refer to an old text of plato which is no longer extant) are also used. many papyri which contain fragments of plato's texts are among the oxyrhynchus papyri. the oxford classical texts edition by slings even cites the coptic translation of a fragment of the republic in the nag hammadi library as evidence.[ ] important authors for testimony include olympiodorus the younger, plutarch, proclus, iamblichus, eusebius, and stobaeus. during the early renaissance, the greek language and, along with it, plato's texts were reintroduced to western europe by byzantine scholars. in september or october filippo valori and francesco berlinghieri printed copies of ficino's translation, using the printing press at the dominican convent s.jacopo di ripoli.[ ][ ] cosimo had been influenced toward studying plato by the many byzantine platonists in florence during his day, including george gemistus plethon. the edition[ ] of plato's complete works published by henricus stephanus (henri estienne) in geneva also included parallel latin translation and running commentary by joannes serranus (jean de serres). it was this edition which established standard stephanus pagination, still in use today.[ ] modern editions the oxford classical texts offers the current standard complete greek text of plato's complete works. in five volumes edited by john burnet, its first edition was published – , and it is still available from the publisher, having last been printed in .[ ][ ] the second edition is still in progress with only the first volume, printed in , and the republic, printed in , available. the cambridge greek and latin texts and cambridge classical texts and commentaries series includes greek editions of the protagoras, symposium, phaedrus, alcibiades, and clitophon, with english philological, literary, and, to an extent, philosophical commentary.[ ][ ] one distinguished edition of the greek text is e. r. dodds' of the gorgias, which includes extensive english commentary.[ ][ ] the modern standard complete english edition is the hackett plato, complete works, edited by john m. cooper.[ ][ ] for many of these translations hackett offers separate volumes which include more by way of commentary, notes, and introductory material. there is also the clarendon plato series by oxford university press which offers english translations and thorough philosophical commentary by leading scholars on a few of plato's works, including john mcdowell's version of the theaetetus.[ ] cornell university press has also begun the agora series of english translations of classical and medieval philosophical texts, including a few of plato's.[ ] criticism the most famous criticism of the theory of forms is the third man argument by aristotle in the metaphysics. plato had actually already considered this objection with the idea of "large" rather than "man" in the dialogue parmenides, using the elderly elean philosophers parmenides and zeno characters anachronistically to criticize the character of the younger socrates who proposed the idea. the dialogue ends in aporia. many recent philosophers have diverged from what some would describe as the ontological models and moral ideals characteristic of traditional platonism. a number of these postmodern philosophers have thus appeared to disparage platonism from more or less informed perspectives. friedrich nietzsche notoriously attacked plato's "idea of the good itself" along with many fundamentals of christian morality, which he interpreted as "platonism for the masses" in one of his most important works, beyond good and evil ( ). martin heidegger argued against plato's alleged obfuscation of being in his incomplete tome, being and time ( ), and the philosopher of science karl popper argued in the open society and its enemies ( ) that plato's alleged proposal for a utopian political regime in the republic was prototypically totalitarian. the dutch historian of science eduard jan dijksterhuis criticizes plato, stating that he was guilty of "constructing an imaginary nature by reasoning from preconceived principles and forcing reality more or less to adapt itself to this construction."[ ] dijksterhuis adds that one of the errors into which plato had "fallen in an almost grotesque manner, consisted in an over-estimation of what unaided thought, i.e. without recourse to experience, could achieve in the field of natural science."[ ] legacy in the arts plato (left) and aristotle (right) a detail of the school of athens, a fresco by raphael. aristotle gestures to the earth while holding a copy of his nicomachean ethics in his hand. plato holds his timaeus and gestures to the heavens. plato's academy mosaic was created in the villa of t. siminius stephanus in pompeii, around bc to ce. the school of athens fresco by raphael features plato also as a central figure. the nuremberg chronicle depicts plato and other as anachronistic schoolmen. in philosophy plato's thought is often compared with that of his most famous student, aristotle, whose reputation during the western middle ages so completely eclipsed that of plato that the scholastic philosophers referred to aristotle as "the philosopher". however, in the byzantine empire, the study of plato continued. the only platonic work known to western scholarship was timaeus, until translations were made after the fall of constantinople, which occurred during .[ ] george gemistos plethon brought plato's original writings from constantinople in the century of its fall. it is believed that plethon passed a copy of the dialogues to cosimo de' medici when in the council of ferrara, called to unify the greek and latin churches, was adjourned to florence, where plethon then lectured on the relation and differences of plato and aristotle, and fired cosimo with his enthusiasm;[ ] cosimo would supply marsilio ficino with plato's text for translation to latin. during the early islamic era, persian and arab scholars translated much of plato into arabic and wrote commentaries and interpretations on plato's, aristotle's and other platonist philosophers' works (see al-farabi, avicenna, averroes, hunayn ibn ishaq). many of these commentaries on plato were translated from arabic into latin and as such influenced medieval scholastic philosophers.[ ] during the renaissance, with the general resurgence of interest in classical civilization, knowledge of plato's philosophy would become widespread again in the west. many of the greatest early modern scientists and artists who broke with scholasticism and fostered the flowering of the renaissance, with the support of the plato-inspired lorenzo (grandson of cosimo), saw plato's philosophy as the basis for progress in the arts and sciences. more problematic was plato's belief in metempsychosis as well as his ethical views (on polyamory and euthanasia in particular), which did not match those of christianity. it was plethon's student bessarion who reconciled plato with christian theology, arguing that plato's views were only ideals, unattainable due to the fall of man.[ ] the cambridge platonists were around in the th century. by the th century, plato's reputation was restored, and at least on par with aristotle's. notable western philosophers have continued to draw upon plato's work since that time. plato's influence has been especially strong in mathematics and the sciences. plato's resurgence further inspired some of the greatest advances in logic since aristotle, primarily through gottlob frege and his followers kurt gödel, alonzo church, and alfred tarski. albert einstein suggested that the scientist who takes philosophy seriously would have to avoid systematization and take on many different roles, and possibly appear as a platonist or pythagorean, in that such a one would have "the viewpoint of logical simplicity as an indispensable and effective tool of his research."[ ] "the safest general characterization of the european philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to plato." (alfred north whitehead, process and reality, ). the political philosopher and professor leo strauss is considered by some as the prime thinker involved in the recovery of platonic thought in its more political, and less metaphysical, form. strauss' political approach was in part inspired by the appropriation of plato and aristotle by medieval jewish and islamic political philosophers, especially maimonides and al-farabi, as opposed to the christian metaphysical tradition that developed from neoplatonism. deeply influenced by nietzsche and heidegger, strauss nonetheless rejects their condemnation of plato and looks to the dialogues for a solution to what all three latter day thinkers acknowledge as 'the crisis of the west.[citation needed] w. v. o. quine dubbed the problem of negative existentials "plato's beard". noam chomsky dubbed the problem of knowledge plato's problem. one author calls the definist fallacy the socratic fallacy[ ].[relevant? – discuss] more broadly, platonism (sometimes distinguished from plato's particular view by the lowercase) refers to the view that there are many abstract objects. still to this day, platonists take number and the truths of mathematics as the best support in favour of this view. most mathematicians think, like platonists, that numbers and the truths of mathematics are perceived by reason rather than the senses yet exist independently of minds and people, that is to say, they are discovered rather than invented.[citation needed] contemporary platonism is also more open to the idea of there being infinitely many abstract objects, as numbers or propositions might qualify as abstract objects, while ancient platonism seemed to resist this view, possibly because of the need to overcome the problem of "the one and the many". thus e. g. in the parmenides dialogue, plato denies there are forms for more mundane things like hair and mud. however, he repeatedly does support the idea that there are forms of artifacts, e. g. the form of bed. contemporary platonism also tends to view abstract objects as unable to cause anything, but it is unclear whether the ancient platonists felt this way.[citation needed] see also 	library resources about plato 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 by plato 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	philosophy portal philosophy 	socratic problem 	platonic academy 	plato's unwritten doctrines 	list of speakers in plato's dialogues 	commentaries on plato 	neoplatonism 	academic skepticism ancient scholars 	philip of opus, plato's amanuensis 	speusippus, plato's nephew and the second scholarch of the academy 	menedemus of pyrrha 	xenocrates 	crantor 	polemon 	crates of athens 	arcesilaus 	carneades 	plotinus, founder of neoplatonism, although he had no connection to the previous academy of plato 	proclus 	ammonius saccas 	yahya ibn al-batriq, syrian scholar and associate of al-kindi who translated timaeus into arabic 	hunayn ibn ishaq, arab scholar who either amended or surpassed the timaeus of al-batriq and translated plato's republic and laws into arabic 	ishaq ibn hunayn, translated plato's sophist with the commentary of olympiodorus the younger 	yahya ibn adi, translated laws into arabic 	al-farabi, author of a commentary on plato's political philosophy 	averroes, author of a commentary on the republic 	marsilio ficino, italian scholar and first translator of plato's complete works into latin 	stephanus pagination, the standard reference numbering in platonic scholarship, based on the complete latin translation by jean de serres, and published by henri estienne modern scholars 	johann gottfried stallbaum, major plato scholar and commentator in latin 	eduard zeller, scholar and classicist 	john alexander stewart, major plato scholar and classicist 	victor cousin, scholar and the first translator plato's complete works into french 	Émile saisset, scholar and a translator plato's complete works into french 	Émile chambry, scholar and a translator plato's complete works into french 	otto apelt, scholar and the first translator plato's complete works into german 	benjamin jowett, scholar and the first translated plato's complete works into english 	james adam, major plato scholar and author of the authoritative critical edition of the republic 	john burnet, major plato scholar and translator 	francis macdonald cornford, translator of republic and author of commentaries 	william keith chambers guthrie, classical scholar and historian 	e. r. dodds, classical scholar and author of commentaries on plato 	allan bloom, major plato scholar and translator of republic in english 	myles burnyeat, major plato scholar 	harold f. cherniss, major plato scholar 	guy cromwell field, plato scholar 	paul friedländer, plato scholar 	terence irwin, major plato scholar 	richard kraut, major plato scholar 	ellen francis mason, translator of plato 	eric havelock, plato scholar 	debra nails, plato scholar 	alexander nehamas, major plato scholar 	thomas pangle, major plato scholar and translator of laws in english 	friedrich schleiermacher, commentator 	paul shorey, major plato scholar and translator of republic 	john madison cooper, major plato scholar and translator of several works of plato, and editor of the hackett edition of the complete works of plato in english 	leo strauss, major plato scholar 	seth benardete, major plato scholar 	gregory vlastos, major plato scholar 	hans-georg gadamer, major plato scholar 	paul woodruff, major plato scholar 	catherine zuckert, plato scholar and political philosopher 	julia annas, plato scholar and moral philosopher 	john mcdowell, translated theaetetus in english 	robin waterfield, plato scholar and translator in english 	léon robin, scholar of ancient greek philosophy, translator of the complete works of plato in french 	alain badiou, french philosopher, loosely translated republic in french 	chen chung-hwan, scholar and commentator, translated parmenides in chinese 	liu xiaofeng, scholar and commentator, translated symposium in chinese 	michitaro tanaka and norio fujisawa, translators of the complete works of plato in japanese 	joseph gerhard liebes, major scholar and commentator, the first to translate plato's complete works in hebrew 	margalit finkelberg, scholar and commentator, translated symposium in hebrew 	virgilio s. almario, translated republic to filipino 	mahatma gandhi, translated apology in gujarati 	zakir husain, indian politician and academic, translated republic in urdu[ ] 	pierre hadot, scholar and author of commentaries of plato in french 	luc brisson, translator and author of commentaries on several works of plato, and editor of the complete french translations; widely considered to be the most important contemporary scholar of plato[ ] other 	oxyrhynchus papyri, including the papyrus oxyrhynchus , containing the oldest fragment of the laches, and papyrus oxyrhynchus , that of the book x of the republic 	plato, a lunar impact crater on the moon aged . billion years, named after the greek philosopher notes 	^ "...the subject of philosophy, as it is often conceived—a rigorous and systematic examination of ethical, political, metaphysical, and epistemological issues, armed with a distinctive method—can be called his invention."[ ] 	^ "though influenced primarily by socrates, to the extent that socrates is usually the main character in many of plato's writings, he was also influenced by heraclitus, parmenides, and the pythagoreans"[ ] 	^ diogenes laërtius mentions that plato "was born, according to some writers, in aegina in the house of phidiades, the son of thales." diogenes mentions as one of his sources the universal history of favorinus. according to favorinus, ariston, plato's family, and his family were sent by athens to settle as cleruchs (colonists retaining their athenian citizenship), on the island of aegina, from which the spartans expelled them after plato's birth there.[ ] nails points out, however, that there is no record of any spartan expulsion of athenians from aegina between – bc.[ ] on the other hand, at the peace of nicias, aegina was silently left under athens' control, and it was not until the summer of that the spartans overran the island.[ ] therefore, nails concludes that "perhaps ariston was a cleruch, perhaps he went to aegina in , and perhaps plato was born on aegina, but none of this enables a precise dating of ariston's death (or plato's birth).[ ] aegina is regarded as plato's place of birth by the suda as well.[ ] 	^ apollodorus of athens said plato was born on the seventh day of the month thargelion; according to this tradition the god apollo was born this day.[ ] renaissance platonists celebrated plato's birth on november .[ ] ulrich von wilamowitz-moellendorff estimates that plato was born when diotimos was archon eponymous, namely between july , bc and july , bc.[ ] greek philologist ioannis kalitsounakis believes that he was born on may or , bc.[ ][ ] 	^ according to james adam, some have held that "glaucon and adeimantus were uncles of plato, but zeller decides for the usual view that they were brothers."[ ] 	^ from aristos and kleos 	^ a scroll by philodemus analysed in may suggest that plato was enslaved earlier than was previously believed.[ ] 	^ he regarded "logistic" as appropriate for business men and men of war who "must learn the art of numbers or he will not know how to array his troops," while "arithmetic" was appropriate for philosophers "because he has to arise out of the sea of change and lay hold of true being."[ ] 	^ plotinus describes this in the last part of his final ennead (vi, ) entitled on the good, or the one (Περὶ τἀγαθοῦ ἢ τοῦ ἑνός). jens halfwassen states in der aufstieg zum einen' ( ) that "plotinus' ontology—which should be called plotinus' henology—is a rather accurate philosophical renewal and continuation of plato's unwritten doctrine, i.e. the doctrine rediscovered by krämer and gaiser." 	^ in one of his letters (epistolae ) ficino writes: "the main goal of the divine plato ... is to show one principle of things, which he called the one (τὸ ἕν)", cf. montoriola , p.  . 	^ for a brief description of the problem see for example gaiser . a more detailed analysis is given by krämer . another description is by reale and reale . a thorough analysis of the consequences of such an approach is given by szlezak . another supporter of this interpretation is the german philosopher karl albert, cf. albert or albert . hans-georg gadamer is also sympathetic towards it, cf. grondin and gadamer . gadamer's final position on the subject is stated in gadamer . 	^ some use the term allegory instead of myth. this is in accordance with the practice in the specialized literature, in which it is common to find that the terms allegory and myth are used as synonyms. nevertheless, there is a trend among modern scholars to use the term myth and avoid the term allegory, as it is considered more appropriate to modern interpretation of plato's writings. one of the first to initiate this trend was the oxford university professor john alexander stewart, in his work the myths of plato. 	^ "the time is not long after the death of socrates; for the pythagoreans [echecrates & co.] have not heard any details yet".[ ] references 	^ ragland-sullivan, ellie (fall ). 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( ). studies in plato's metaphysics ii. taylor & francis. isbn  - - - 	ambuel, david ( ). image and paradigm in plato's sophist. parmenides publishing. isbn  - - - - 	anderson, mark; osborn, ginger ( ). approaching plato: a guide to the early and middle dialogues (pdf). nashville: belmont university. 	arieti, james a. interpreting plato: the dialogues as drama, rowman & littlefield publishers, inc. isbn  - - - 	bakalis, nikolaos ( ). handbook of greek philosophy: from thales to the stoics analysis and fragments, trafford publishing isbn  - - - 	barrow, robin ( ). plato: continuum library of educational thought. continuum. isbn  - - - - . 	cadame, claude ( ). indigenous and modern perspectives on tribal initiation rites: education according to plato, pp.  – , in padilla, mark william (editor), "rites of passage in ancient greece: literature, religion, society", bucknell university press, . isbn  - - -x 	cooper, john m.; hutchinson, d.s., eds. ( ). plato: complete works. hackett publishing company, inc. isbn  - - - - . 	corlett, j. angelo ( ). interpreting plato's dialogues. parmenides publishing. isbn  - - - - 	durant, will ( ). the story of philosophy. simon & schuster. isbn  - - - - . 	derrida, jacques ( ). la dissémination, paris: seuil. (esp. cap.: la pharmacie de platon, – ) isbn  - - - 	field, g.c. ( ). the philosophy of plato ( nd ed. with an appendix by cross, r.c. ed.). london: oxford university press. isbn  - - - - . 	fine, gail ( ). plato : metaphysics and epistemology oxford university press, us, isbn  - - - 	finley, m.i. ( ). aspects of antiquity: discoveries and controversies the viking press, inc., us 	garvey, james ( ). twenty greatest philosophy books. continuum. isbn  - - - - . 	guthrie, w.k.c. ( ). a history of greek philosophy (plato – the man & his dialogues – earlier period), cambridge university press, isbn  - - - 	guthrie, w.k.c. ( ). a history of greek philosophy (later plato & the academy) cambridge university press, isbn  - - - 	havelock, eric ( ). preface to plato (history of the greek mind), belknap press, isbn  - - - 	hamilton, edith; cairns, huntington, eds. ( ). the collected dialogues of plato, including the letters. princeton univ. press. isbn  - - - - . 	harvard university press publishes the hardbound series loeb classical library, containing plato's works in greek, with english translations on facing pages. 	irvine, andrew david ( ). socrates on trial: a play based on aristophanes' clouds and plato's apology, crito, and phaedo, adapted for modern performance. toronto: university of toronto press. isbn  - - - - , - - - - 	hermann, arnold ( ). plato's parmenides: text, translation & introductory essay, parmenides publishing, isbn  - - - - 	irwin, terence ( ). plato's ethics, oxford university press, us, isbn  - - - 	jackson, roy ( ). plato: a beginner's guide. london: hoder & stroughton. isbn  - - - - . 	jowett, benjamin ( ). [the dialogues of plato. translated into english with analyses and introductions by b. jowett.], oxford clarendon press, uk, uin:bll 	kochin, michael s. ( ). gender and rhetoric in plato's political thought. cambridge univ. press. isbn  - - - - . 	kraut, richard, ed. ( ). the cambridge companion to plato. cambridge university press. isbn  - - - - . 	lemoine, rebecca ( ). plato's caves: the liberating sting of cultural diversity. new york: oxford university press. isbn  - . 	lilar, suzanne ( ), journal de l'analogiste, paris, Éditions julliard; reedited , paris, grasset. foreword by julien gracq 	lilar, suzanne ( ), le couple, paris, grasset. translated as aspects of love in western society in , with a foreword by jonathan griffin london, thames and hudson. 	lilar, suzanne ( ) a propos de sartre et de l'amour , paris, grasset. 	lundberg, phillip ( ). tallyho – the hunt for virtue: beauty, truth and goodness nine dialogues by plato: pheadrus, lysis, protagoras, charmides, parmenides, gorgias, theaetetus, meno & sophist. authorhouse. isbn  - - - - . 	márquez, xavier ( ) a stranger's knowledge: statesmanship, philosophy & law in plato's statesman, parmenides publishing. isbn  - - - - 	melchert, norman ( ). the great conversation: a historical introduction to philosophy. mcgraw hill. isbn  - - - - . 	miller, mitchell ( ). the philosopher in plato's statesman. parmenides publishing. isbn  - - - - 	mohr, richard d. ( ). god and forms in plato – and other essays in plato's metaphysics. parmenides publishing. isbn  - - - - 	mohr, richard d. (ed.), sattler, barbara m. (ed.) ( ) one book, the whole universe: plato's timaeus today, parmenides publishing. isbn  - - - - 	moore, edward ( ). plato. philosophy insights series. tirril, humanities-ebooks. isbn  - - - - 	nightingale, andrea wilson. ( ). "genres in dialogue: plato and the construct of philosophy", cambridge university press. isbn  - - -x 	oxford university press publishes scholarly editions of plato's greek texts in the oxford classical texts series, and some translations in the clarendon plato series. 	patterson, richard (ed.), karasmanis, vassilis (ed.), hermann, arnold (ed.) ( ) presocratics & plato: festschrift at delphi in honor of charles kahn, parmenides publishing. isbn  - - - - 	piechowiak, marek ( ). plato's conception of justice and the question of human dignity. peter lang: berlin. isbn  - - - - . 	sallis, john ( ). being and logos: reading the platonic dialogues. indiana university press. isbn  - - - - . 	sallis, john ( ). chorology: on beginning in plato's "timaeus". indiana university press. isbn  - - - - . 	sayre, kenneth m. ( ). plato's late ontology: a riddle resolved. parmenides publishing. isbn  - - - - 	seung, t.k. ( ). plato rediscovered: human value and social order. rowman and littlefield. isbn  - - - 	smith, william. ( ). dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology. university of michigan/online version. 	stewart, john. ( ). kierkegaard and the greek world – socrates and plato. ashgate. isbn  - - - - 	thesleff, holger ( ). platonic patterns: a collection of studies by holger thesleff, parmenides publishing, isbn  - - - - 	thomas taylor has translated plato's complete works. 	thomas taylor ( ). the works of plato, viz. his fifty-five dialogues and twelve epistles vols 	vlastos, gregory ( ). platonic studies, princeton university press, isbn  - - - 	vlastos, gregory ( ). plato's universe – with a new introduction by luc brisson, parmenides publishing. isbn  - - - - 	zuckert, catherine ( ). plato's philosophers: the coherence of the dialogues, the university of chicago press, isbn  - - - - external links platoat wikipedia's sister projects 	definitions from wiktionary 	media from wikimedia commons 	quotations from wikiquote 	texts from wikisource 	textbooks from wikibooks 	resources from wikiversity 	data from wikidata 		greek wikisource has original text related to this article: platon 	works available 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	aristonymus 	coriscus 	erastus of scepsis 	demetrius of amphipolis 	euaeon of lampsacus 	heraclides 	python of aenus 	hestiaeus of perinthus 	lastheneia of mantinea 	timolaus of cyzicus 	speusippus 	axiothea of phlius 	heraclides ponticus 	menedemus of pyrrha 	xenocrates 	crantor 	polemon 	crates of athens 	hellenistic	 	academic skeptic	 	middle	 	arcesilaus 	diocles of cnidus 	lacydes 	telecles 	evander 	hegesinus 	new	 	carneades 	hagnon of tarsus 	metrodorus of stratonicea 	clitomachus 	charmadas 	aeschines of neapolis 	philo of larissa 	cicero 	dio of alexandria 	epicurean	 	epicurus 	polyaenus 	metrodorus 	batis 	leontion 	carneiscus 	idomeneus 	hermarchus 	colotes 	themista 	leonteus 	polystratus 	dionysius of lamptrai 	basilides 	philonides 	diogenes of tarsus 	alcaeus and philiscus 	apollodorus 	demetrius lacon 	zeno of sidon 	amafinius 	rabirius 	titus albucius 	phaedrus 	philodemus 	lucretius 	patro 	catius 	siro 	diogenes of oenoanda 	middle platonic	 	antiochus 	philo of alexandria 	plutarch 	justin martyr 	gaius 	albinus 	alcinous 	apuleius 	atticus 	maximus of tyre 	numenius of apamea 	longinus 	clement of alexandria 	origen the pagan 	calcidius 	neoplatonist	 	ammonius saccas 	plotinus 	disciples 	origen 	amelius 	porphyry 	iamblichus 	sopater 	eustathius of cappadocia 	sosipatra 	aedesius 	dexippus 	chrysanthius 	theodorus of asine 	julian 	sallustius 	maximus of ephesus 	eusebius of myndus 	priscus of epirus 	antoninus 	gregory of nyssa 	hypatia 	augustine 	macrobius 	plutarch of athens 	hierius 	asclepigenia 	hierocles 	syrianus 	hermias 	aedesia 	proclus 	ammonius hermiae 	asclepiodotus 	hegias 	zenodotus 	marinus 	agapius 	isidore 	damascius 	simplicius 	priscian 	neopythagorean	 	nigidius figulus 	apollonius of tyana 	moderatus of gades 	nicomachus 	alexicrates 	anaxilaus 	bolus of mendes 	cronius 	damis 	numenius of apamea 	secundus the silent 	quintus sextius 	sotion 	theon of smyrna 	pyrrhonist	 	pyrrho 	aenesidemus 	agrippa the skeptic 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(february ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) 	ancient rome 	 	this article is part of a series on the politics and government of ancient rome 	 periods 	 	roman kingdom – bc 	roman republic – bc 	roman empire bc – ad 	principate bc – ad 	dominate ad – 	western ad – 	eastern ad – 	timeline 	 roman constitution 	 	constitution of the kingdom 	constitution of the republic 	constitution of the empire 	constitution of the late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	executive magistrates 	 precedent and law 	 	roman law 	ius 	imperium 	mos maiorum 	collegiality 	auctoritas 	roman citizenship 	cursus honorum 	senatus consultum 	senatus consultum ultimum 	 assemblies 	 	centuriate 	curiate 	plebeian 	tribal 	 ordinary magistrates 	 	consul 	praetor 	quaestor 	promagistrate 	aedile 	tribune 	censor 	governor 	 extraordinary magistrates 	 	corrector 	dictator 	magister equitum 	consular tribune 	rex 	triumviri 	decemviri 	 titles and honours 	 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	praeses 	praefectus 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 	 	other countries 		v 	t 	e the censor (at any time, there were two) was a magistrate in ancient rome who was responsible for maintaining the census, supervising public morality, and overseeing certain aspects of the government's finances.[ ] the power of the censor was absolute: no magistrate could oppose his decisions, and only another censor who succeeded him could cancel those decisions. the censor's regulation of public morality is the origin of the modern meaning of the words censor and censorship.[ ] contents 	 early history of the magistracy 	 election 	 attributes 	 abolition 	 duties 	 . census 	 . . census beyond rome 	 . . other uses of census 	 . regimen morum 	 . . punishments 	 . administration of the finances of the state 	 . . overseeing public works 	 . lustrum 	 census statistics 	 . sources 	 see also 	 references 	 external links early history of the magistracy[edit] the census was first instituted by servius tullius, sixth king of rome, c. – bc. after the abolition of the monarchy and the founding of the republic in bc, the consuls had responsibility for the census until bc.[citation needed] in bc, no consuls were elected, but tribunes with consular power were appointed instead. this was a move by the plebeians to try to attain higher magistracies:[citation needed] only patricians could be elected consuls, while some military tribunes were plebeians. to prevent the possibility of plebeians obtaining control of the census, the patricians removed the right to take the census from the consuls and tribunes, and appointed for this duty two magistrates, called censores (censors), elected exclusively from the patricians in rome.[citation needed] the magistracy continued to be controlled by patricians until bc, when gaius marcius rutilus was appointed the first plebeian censor.[ ] twelve years later, in bc, one of the publilian laws required that one censor had to be a plebeian.[ ] despite this, no plebeian censor performed the solemn purification of the people (the "lustrum"; livy periochae ) until bc. in bc, for the first time, both censors were plebeians.[ ] the reason for having two censors was that the two consuls had previously taken the census together. if one of the censors died during his term of office, another was chosen to replace him, just as with consuls. this happened only once, in bc. however, the gauls captured rome in that lustrum (five-year period), and the romans thereafter regarded such replacement as "an offense against religion".[ ] from then on, if one of the censors died, his colleague resigned, and two new censors were chosen to replace them.[ ] initially the office of censor was limited to eighteen months by a law of the dictator mamercus aemilius mamercinus;[ ] and the office therefore was of less importance in the th and th centuries bc. however, during the censorship of appius claudius caecus ( – bc) the prestige of the censorship massively increased: caecus built the first-ever roman road (the via appia) and the first roman aqueduct (the aqua appia), both named after him;[ ] he changed the organisation of the roman tribes and was the first censor to draw the list of senators; and he also advocated the founding of roman colonies (colonia) throughout latium and campania to support the roman war effort in the second samnite war. with these efforts and reforms, appius claudius caecus was able to hold the censorship for a whole lustrum (five-year period); and the office of censor, subsequently entrusted with various important duties, eventually attained one of the highest political statuses in the roman republic, second only to that of the consuls. election[edit] the censors were elected in the centuriate assembly, which met under the presidency of a consul.[ ] barthold niebuhr suggests that the censors were at first elected by the curiate assembly, and that the assembly's selections were confirmed by the centuriate, but william smith believes that "there is no authority for this supposition, and the truth of it depends entirely upon the correctness of [niebuhr's] views respecting the election of the consuls". both censors had to be elected on the same day, and accordingly if the voting for the second was not finished in the same day, the election of the first was invalidated, and a new assembly had to be held.[ ] the assembly for the election of the censors was held under different auspices from those at the election of the consuls and praetors, so the censors were not regarded as their colleagues, although they likewise possessed the maxima auspicia.[ ] the assembly was held by the new consuls shortly after they began their term of office;[ ] and the censors, as soon as they were elected and the censorial power had been granted to them by a decree of the centuriate assembly (lex centuriata), were fully installed in their office.[ ] as a general principle, the only ones eligible for the office of censor were those who had previously been consuls, but there were a few exceptions. at first, there was no law to prevent a person being censor twice, but the only person who was elected to the office twice was gaius marcius rutilus in bc. in that year, he originated a law stating that no one could be elected censor twice. in consequence of this, he received the cognomen of censorinus.[ ] attributes[edit] the censorship differed from all other roman magistracies in the length of office. the censors were originally chosen for a whole lustrum (the period of five years), but as early as ten years after its institution ( bc) their office was limited to eighteen months by a law of the dictator mamercus aemilius mamercinus.[ ] the censors were also unique with respect to rank and dignity. they had no imperium, and accordingly no lictors.[ ] their rank was granted to them by the centuriate assembly, and not by the curiae, and in that respect they were inferior in power to the consuls and praetors.[ ] notwithstanding this, the censorship was regarded as the highest dignity in the state, with the exception of the dictatorship; it was a "sacred magistracy" (sanctus magistratus), to which the deepest reverence was due.[ ] the high rank and dignity which the censorship obtained was due to the various important duties gradually entrusted to it, and especially to its possessing the regimen morum, or general control over the conduct and the morals of the citizens. in the exercise of this power, they were regulated solely by their own views of duty, and were not responsible to any other power in the state.[ ] the censors possessed the official stool called a "curule chair" (sella curulis),[ ] but some doubt exists with respect to their official dress. a well-known passage of polybius[ ] describes the use of the imagines at funerals; we may conclude that a consul or praetor wore the purple-bordered toga praetexta, one who triumphed the embroidered toga picta, and the censor a purple toga peculiar to him, but other writers speak of their official dress as being the same as that of the other higher magistrates.[ ] the funeral of a censor was always conducted with great pomp and splendour, and hence a "censorial funeral" (funus censorium) was voted even to the emperors.[ ] abolition[edit] the censorship continued in existence for years, from bc to bc, but during this period, many lustra passed by without any censor being chosen at all. according to one statement, the office was abolished by lucius cornelius sulla.[ ] although the authority on which this statement rests is not of much weight, the fact itself is probable, since there was no census during the two lustra which elapsed from sulla's dictatorship to gnaeus pompeius magnus (pompey)'s first consulship ( – bc), and any strict "imposition of morals" would have been found inconvenient to the aristocracy that supported sulla.[citation needed] if the censorship had been done away with by sulla, it was at any rate restored in the consulship of pompey and marcus licinius crassus. its power was limited by one of the laws of the tribune publius clodius pulcher ( bc), which prescribed certain regular forms of proceeding before the censors in expelling a person from the roman senate, and required that the censors be in agreement to exact this punishment.[ ] this law, however, was repealed in the third consulship of pompey in bc, on the urging of his colleague q. caecilius metellus scipio,[ ] but the office of the censorship never recovered its former power and influence.[citation needed] during the civil wars which followed soon afterwards, no censors were elected; it was only after a long interval that they were again appointed, namely in bc, when augustus caused lucius munatius plancus and aemilius lepidus paullus to fill the office.[ ] this was the last time that such magistrates were appointed; the emperors in future discharged the duties of their office under the name of praefectura morum ("prefect of the morals").[citation needed] some of the emperors sometimes took the name of censor when they held a census of the roman people; this was the case with claudius, who appointed the elder lucius vitellius as his colleague,[ ] and with vespasian, who likewise had a colleague in his son titus.[ ] domitian assumed the title of "perpetual censor" (censor perpetuus),[ ] but this example was not imitated by succeeding emperors. in the reign of decius, we find the elder valerian nominated to the censorship,[ ] but valerian was never actually elected censor.[citation needed] duties[edit] the duties of the censors may be divided into three classes, all of which were closely connected with one another: 	the census, or register of the citizens and of their property, in which were included the reading of the senate's lists (lectio senatus) and the recognition of who qualified for equestrian rank (recognitio equitum); 	the regimen morum, or keeping of the public morals; and 	the administration of the finances of the state, under which were classed the superintendence of the public buildings and the erection of all new public works.[ ] the original business of the censorship was at first of a much more limited kind, and was restricted almost entirely to taking the census,[ ] but the possession of this power gradually brought with it fresh power and new duties, as is shown below. a general view of these duties is briefly expressed in the following passage of cicero:[ ] "censores populi aevitates, soboles, familias pecuniasque censento: urbis templa, vias, aquas, aerarium, vectigalia tuento: populique partes in tribus distribunto: exin pecunias, aevitates, ordines patiunto: equitum, peditumque prolem describunto: caelibes esse prohibento: mores populi regunto: probrum in senatu ne relinquunto." this can be translated as: "the censors are to determine the generations, origins, families, and properties of the people; they are to (watch over/protect) the city's temples, roads, waters, treasury, and taxes; they are to divide the people into three parts; next, they are to (allow/approve) the properties, generations, and ranks [of the people]; they are to describe the offspring of knights and footsoldiers; they are to forbid being unmarried; they are to guide the behavior of the people; they are not to overlook abuse in the senate." census[edit] the census, the first and principal duty of the censors, was always held in the campus martius, and from the year bc onwards, in a special building called villa publica, which was erected for that purpose by the second pair of censors, gaius furius pacilus fusus and marcus geganius macerinus.[ ] an account of the formalities with which the census was opened is given in a fragment of the tabulae censoriae, preserved by varro.[ ] after the auspices had been taken, the citizens were summoned by a public crier to appear before the censors. each tribe was called up separately,[ ] and the names in each tribe were probably taken according to the lists previously made out by the tribunes of the tribes. every paterfamilias had to appear in person before the censors, who were seated in their curule chairs, and those names were taken first which were considered to be of good omen, such as valerius, salvius, statorius, etc.[ ] the census was conducted according to the judgment of the censor (ad arbitrium censoris), but the censors laid down certain rules,[ ] sometimes called leges censui censendo,[ ] in which mention was made of the different kinds of property subject to the census, and in what way their value was to be estimated. according to these laws, each citizen had to give an account of himself, of his family, and of his property upon oath, "declared from the heart".[ ] first he had to give his full name (praenomen, nomen, and cognomen) and that of his father, or if he were a libertus ("freedman") that of his patron, and he was likewise obliged to state his age. he was then asked, "you, declaring from your heart, do you have a wife?" and if married he had to give the name of his wife, and likewise the number, names, and ages of his children, if any.[ ] single women and orphans were represented by their guardians; their names were entered in separate lists, and they were not included in the sum total of heads.[ ] after a citizen had stated his name, age, family, etc., he then had to give an account of all his property, so far as it was subject to the census. only such things were liable to the census (censui censendo) as were property according to the quiritarian law. at first, each citizen appears to have merely given the value of his whole property in general without entering into details;[ ] but it soon became the practice to give a minute specification of each article, as well as the general value of the whole.[ ] land formed the most important article of the census, but public land, the possession of which only belonged to a citizen, was excluded as not being quiritarian property. if we may judge from the practice of the imperial period, it was the custom to give a most minute specification of all such land as a citizen held according to the quiritarian law. he had to state the name and location of the land, and to specify what portion of it was arable, what meadow, what vineyard, and what olive-ground: and of the land thus described, he had to give his assessment of its value.[ ] slaves and cattle formed the next most important item. the censors also possessed the right of calling for a return of such objects as had not usually been given in, such as clothing, jewels, and carriages.[ ] it has been doubted by some modern writers whether the censors possessed the power of setting a higher valuation on the property than the citizens themselves gave, but when we recollect the discretionary nature of the censors' powers, and the necessity almost that existed, in order to prevent fraud, that the right of making a surcharge should be vested in somebody's hands, we can hardly doubt that the censors had this power. it is moreover expressly stated that on one occasion they made an extravagant surcharge on articles of luxury;[ ] and even if they did not enter in their books the property of a person at a higher value than he returned it, they accomplished the same end by compelling him to pay a tax upon the property at a higher rate than others. the tax was usually one per thousand upon the property entered in the books of the censors, but on one occasion the censors compelled a person to pay eight per thousand as a punishment.[ ] a person who voluntarily absented himself from the census was considered incensus and subject to the severest punishment. servius tullius is said to have threatened such individuals with imprisonment and death,[ ] and in the republican period he might be sold by the state as a slave.[ ] in the later period of the republic, a person who was absent from the census might be represented by another, and be thus registered by the censors.[ ] whether the soldiers who were absent on service had to appoint a representative is uncertain. in ancient times, the sudden outbreaks of war prevented the census from being taken,[ ] because a large number of the citizens would necessarily be absent. it is supposed from a passage in livy[ ] that in later times the censors sent commissioners into the provinces with full powers to take the census of the roman soldiers there, but this seems to have been a special case. it is, on the contrary, probable from the way in which cicero pleads the absence of archias from rome with the army under lucullus, as a sufficient reason for his not having been enrolled in the census,[ ] that service in the army was a valid excuse for absence. after the censors had received the names of all the citizens with the amount of their property, they then had to make out the lists of the tribes, and also of the classes and centuries; for by the legislation of servius tullius the position of each citizen in the state was determined by the amount of his property (comitia centuriata). these lists formed a most important part of the tabulae censoriae, under which name were included all the documents connected in any way with the discharge of the censors' duties.[ ] these lists, insofar as they were connected with the finances of the state, were deposited in the aerarium, which was the temple of saturn;[ ] but the regular depository for all the archives of the censors was in earlier times the atrium libertatis, near the villa publica,[ ] and in later times the temple of the nymphs.[ ] besides the division of the citizens into tribes, centuries, and classes, the censors had also to make out the lists of the senators for the ensuing five years, or until new censors were appointed; striking out the names of such as they considered unworthy, and making additions to the body from those who were qualified. in the same manner they held a review of the equestrians who received a horse from public funds (equites equo publico), and added and removed names as they judged proper. they also confirmed the princeps senatus, or appointed a new one. the princeps himself had to be a former censor. after the lists had been completed, the number of citizens was counted up, and the sum total announced. accordingly, we find that in the account of a census, the number of citizens is likewise usually given. they are in such cases spoken of as capita ("heads"), sometimes with the addition of the word civium ("of the citizens"), and sometimes not. hence, to be registered in the census was the same thing as "having a head" (caput habere). census beyond rome[edit] a census was sometimes taken in the provinces, even under the republic.[ ] the emperor sent into the provinces special officers called censitores to take the census;[ ] but the duty was sometimes discharged by the imperial legati.[ ] the censitores were assisted by subordinate officers, called censuales, who made out the lists, etc.[ ] in rome, the census was still taken under the empire, but the old ceremonies connected with it were no longer performed, and the ceremony of the lustration was not performed after the time of vespasian. the jurists paulus and ulpian each wrote works on the census in the imperial period; and several extracts from these works are given in a chapter in the digest ( ). other uses of census[edit] the word census, besides the conventional meaning of "valuation" of a person's estate, has other meaning in rome; it could refer to: 	the amount of a person's property (hence we read of census senatorius, the estate of a senator; census equestris, the estate of an eques). 	the lists of the censors. 	the tax which depended upon the valuation in the census. the lexicons will supply examples of these meanings. regimen morum[edit] keeping the public morals (regimen morum, or in the empire cura morum or praefectura morum) was the second most important branch of the censors' duties, and the one which caused their office to be one of the most revered and the most dreaded in the roman state; hence they were also known as castigatores ("chastisers"). it naturally grew out of the right which they possessed of excluding persons from the lists of citizens; for, as has been well remarked, "they would, in the first place, be the sole judges of many questions of fact, such as whether a citizen had the qualifications required by law or custom for the rank which he claimed, or whether he had ever incurred any judicial sentence, which rendered him infamous: but from thence the transition was easy, according to roman notions, to the decisions of questions of right; such as whether a citizen was really worthy of retaining his rank, whether he had not committed some act as justly degrading as those which incurred the sentence of the law." in this manner, the censors gradually assumed at least nominal complete superintendence over the whole public and private life of every citizen. they were constituted as the conservators of public morality; they were not simply to prevent crime or particular acts of immorality, but rather to maintain the traditional roman character, ethics, and habits (mos majorum)—regimen morum also encompassed this protection of traditional ways,[ ] which was called in the times of the empire cura ("supervision") or praefectura ("command"). the punishment inflicted by the censors in the exercise of this branch of their duties was called nota ("mark, letter") or notatio, or animadversio censoria ("censorial reproach"). in inflicting it, they were guided only by their conscientious convictions of duty; they had to take an oath that they would act biased by neither partiality nor favour; and, in addition to this, they were bound in every case to state in their lists, opposite the name of the guilty citizen, the cause of the punishment inflicted on him, subscriptio censoria.[ ] this part of the censors' office invested them with a peculiar kind of jurisdiction, which in many respects resembled the exercise of public opinion in modern times; for there are innumerable actions which, though acknowledged by everyone to be prejudicial and immoral, still do not come within the reach of the positive laws of a country; as often said, "immorality does not equal illegality". even in cases of real crimes, the positive laws frequently punish only the particular offence, while in public opinion the offender, even after he has undergone punishment, is still incapacitated for certain honours and distinctions which are granted only to persons of unblemished character. hence the roman censors might brand a man with their "censorial mark" (nota censoria) in case he had been convicted of a crime in an ordinary court of justice, and had already suffered punishment for it. the consequence of such a nota was only ignominia and not infamia.[ ] infamia and the censorial verdict was not a judicium or res judicata,[ ] for its effects were not lasting, but might be removed by the following censors, or by a lex (roughly "law"). a censorial mark was moreover not valid unless both censors agreed. the ignominia was thus only a transitory reduction of status, which does not even appear to have deprived a magistrate of his office,[ ] and certainly did not disqualify persons labouring under it for obtaining a magistracy, for being appointed as judices by the praetor, or for serving in the roman armies. mamercus aemilius mamercinus was thus, notwithstanding the reproach of the censors (animadversio censoria), made dictator.[ ] a person might be branded with a censorial mark in a variety of cases, which it would be impossible to specify, as in a great many instances it depended upon the discretion of the censors and the view they took of a case; and sometimes even one set of censors would overlook an offence which was severely chastised by their successors.[ ] but the offences which are recorded to have been punished by the censors are of a threefold nature. 	such as occurred in the private life of individuals, e.g. 	living in celibacy at a time when a person ought to be married to provide the state with citizens.[ ] the obligation of marrying was frequently impressed upon the citizens by the censors, and the refusal to fulfil it was punished with a fine (aes uxorium). 	the dissolution of matrimony or betrothment in an improper way, or for insufficient reasons.[ ] 	improper conduct towards one's wife or children, as well as harshness or too great indulgence towards children, and disobedience of the latter towards their parents.[ ] 	inordinate and luxurious mode of living, or an extravagant expenditure of money. a great many instances of this kind are recorded.[ ] at a later time the leges sumptuariae were made to check the growing love of luxuries. 	neglect and carelessness in cultivating one's fields.[ ] 	cruelty towards slaves or clients.[ ] 	the carrying on of a disreputable trade or occupation,[ ] such as acting in theatres.[ ] 	legacy-hunting, defrauding orphans, etc. 	offences committed in public life, either in the capacity of a public officer or against magistrates, 	if a magistrate acted in a manner not befitting his dignity as an officer, if he was accessible to bribes, or forged auspices.[ ] 	improper conduct towards a magistrate, or the attempt to limit his power or to abrogate a law which the censors thought necessary.[ ] 	perjury.[ ] 	neglect, disobedience, and cowardice of soldiers in the army.[ ] 	the keeping of the equus publicus (a horse kept by patrician equestrian militia at public expense) in bad condition. 	a variety of actions or pursuits which were thought to be injurious to public morality, might be forbidden by an edict,[ ] and those who acted contrary to such edicts were branded with the nota and degraded. for an enumeration of the offences that might be punished by the censors with ignominia, see niebuhr.[ ] a person who had been branded with a nota censoria, might, if he considered himself wronged, endeavour to prove his innocence to the censors,[ ] and if he did not succeed, he might try to gain the protection of one of the censors, that he might intercede on his behalf. punishments[edit] the punishments inflicted by the censors generally differed according to the station which a man occupied, though sometimes a person of the highest rank might suffer all the punishments at once, by being degraded to the lowest class of citizens. but they are generally divided into four classes: 	motio ("removal") or ejectio e senatu ("ejection from the senate"), or the exclusion of a man from the ranks of senators. this punishment might either be a simple exclusion from the list of senators, or the person might at the same time be excluded from the tribes and degraded to the rank of an aerarian.[ ] the latter course seems to have been seldom adopted; the ordinary mode of inflicting the punishment was simply this: the censors in their new lists omitted the names of such senators as they wished to exclude, and in reading these new lists in public, quietly omitted the names of those who were no longer to be senators. hence the expression praeteriti senatores ("senators passed over") is equivalent to e senatu ejecti (those removed from the senate).[ ] in some cases, however, the censors did not acquiesce to this simple mode of proceeding, but addressed the senator whom they had noted, and publicly reprimanded him for his conduct.[ ] as, however, in ordinary cases an ex-senator was not disqualified by his ignominia for holding any of the magistracies which opened the way to the senate, he might at the next census again become a senator.[ ] 	the ademptio equi, or the taking away the publicly funded horse from an equestrian. this punishment might likewise be simple, or combined with the exclusion from the tribes and the degradation to the rank of an aerarian.[ ] 	the motio e tribu, or the exclusion of a person from his tribe. this punishment and the degradation to the rank of an aerarian were originally the same; but when in the course of time a distinction was made between the rural or rustic tribes and the urban tribes, the motio e tribu transferred a person from the rustic tribes to the less respectable city tribes, and if the further degradation to the rank of an aerarian was combined with the motio e tribu, it was always expressly stated.[ ] 	the fourth punishment was called referre in aerarios[ ] or facere aliquem aerarium,[ ] and might be inflicted on any person who was thought by the censors to deserve it. this degradation, properly speaking, included all the other punishments, for an equestrian could not be made an aerarius unless he was previously deprived of his horse, nor could a member of a rustic tribe be made an aerarius unless he was previously excluded from it.[ ] it was this authority of the roman censors which eventually developed into the modern meaning of "censor" and "censorship"—i.e., officials who review published material and forbid the publication of material judged to be contrary to "public morality" as the term is interpreted in a given political and social environment. administration of the finances of the state[edit] the administration of the state's finances was another part of the censors' office. in the first place the tributum, or property-tax, had to be paid by each citizen according to the amount of his property registered in the census, and, accordingly, the regulation of this tax naturally fell under the jurisdiction of the censors.[ ] they also had the superintendence of all the other revenues of the state, the vectigalia, such as the tithes paid for the public lands, the salt works, the mines, the customs, etc. the censors typically auctioned off to the highest bidder for the space of a lustrum the collection of the tithes and taxes (tax farming). this auctioning was called venditio or locatio, and seems to have taken place in the month of march,[ ] in a public place in rome[ ] the terms on which they were let, together with the rights and duties of the purchasers, were all specified in the leges censoriae, which the censors published in every case before the bidding commenced.[ ] for further particulars see publicani. the censors also possessed the right, though probably not without the assent of the senate, of imposing new vectigalia,[ ] and even of selling the land belonging to the state.[ ] it would thus appear that it was the duty of the censors to bring forward a budget for a five-year period, and to take care that the income of the state was sufficient for its expenditure during that time. in part, their duties resembled those of a modern minister of finance. the censors, however, did not receive the revenues of the state. all the public money was paid into the aerarium, which was entirely under the jurisdiction of the senate; and all disbursements were made by order of this body, which employed the quaestors as its officers. overseeing public works[edit] in one important department, the public works, the censors were entrusted with the expenditure of the public money (though the actual payments were no doubt made by the quaestors). the censors had the general superintendence of all the public buildings and works (opera publica), and to meet the expenses connected with this part of their duties, the senate voted them a certain sum of money or certain revenues, to which they were restricted, but which they might at the same time employ according to their discretion.[ ] they had to see that the temples and all other public buildings were in a good state of repair,[ ] that no public places were encroached upon by the occupation of private persons,[ ] and that the aqueduct, roads, drains, etc. were properly attended to. the repairs of the public works and the keeping of them in proper condition were let out by the censors by public auction to the lowest bidder, just as the vectigalia were let out to the highest bidder. these expenses were called ultrotributa, and hence we frequently find vectigalia and ultrotributa contrasted with one another.[ ] the persons who undertook the contract were called conductores, mancipes, redemptores, susceptores, etc.; and the duties they had to discharge were specified in the leges censoriae. the censors had also to superintend the expenses connected with the worship of the gods, even for instance the feeding of the sacred geese in the capitol; these various tasks were also let out on contract.[ ] it was ordinary for censors to expend large amounts of money (“by far the largest and most extensive” of the state)[ ] in their public works. besides keeping existing public buildings and facilities in a proper state of repair, the censors were also in charge of constructing new ones, either for ornament or utility, both in rome and in other parts of italy, such as temples, basilicae, theatres, porticoes, fora, walls of towns, aqueducts, harbours, bridges, cloacae, roads, etc. these works were either performed by them jointly, or they divided between them the money, which had been granted to them by the senate.[ ] they were let out to contractors, like the other works mentioned above, and when they were completed, the censors had to see that the work was performed in accordance with the contract: this was called opus probare or in acceptum referre.[ ] the first ever roman road, the via appia, and the first roman aqueduct, the aqua appia, were all constructed under the censorship of appius claudius caecus, one of the most influential censors. the aediles had likewise a superintendence over the public buildings, and it is not easy to define with accuracy the respective duties of the censors and aediles, but it may be remarked in general that the superintendence of the aediles had more of a police character, while that of the censors were more financial in subject matter. lustrum[edit] after the censors had performed their various duties and taken the five-yearly census, the lustrum, a solemn purification of the people, followed. when the censors entered upon their office, they drew lots to see which of them should perform this purification;[ ] but both censors were of course obliged to be present at the ceremony. long after the roman census was no longer taken, the latin word lustrum has survived, and been adopted in some modern languages, in the derived sense of a period of five years, i.e. half a decennium. census statistics[edit] 	census 	number of roman citizens 	economic crises 	wars 	epidemics 	 bc 	 , 			 			 – bc		 	 bc 	 , 			 			 or bc		 	 bc 	 , 			 	 bc 	 , 			 			 – bc		 			 bc		 	 bc 	 , 	 bc	 bc	 	 bc 	 , 			 	 bc 	 , 			 			 bc		 			 bc		 bc 			 – bc		 			 bc		 bc 			 bc		 bc 			 bc		 bc 				 bc	 				 bc	 	 bc 	 , 	 bc		 bc 	 bc		 bc		 				 bc	 			 bc		 bc 				 – bc	 	 bc 	 , 		 – bc	 				 – bc	 	 bc 	 , 			 			 bc		 				 – bc	 	 bc 	 , 			 					 / bc 	 bc 	 , 			 				 bc	 	 bc 	 , 		 – bc	 	 bc 	 , 			 bc? 	 bc 	 , 			 				 – bc	 	 bc 	 , 			 			 bc	 bc	 	 bc 	 , 			 	 bc 	 , 			 	 bc 	 , 			 			 bc	 bc	 			 – bc	 – bc	 	 bc 	 , 			 	 bc 	 , 	 bc		 			 bc		 			 bc		 			 bc	 – bc	 	 bc 	 , 			 				 – bc	 	 bc 	 , 			 					 bc 					 – bc 	 bc 	 , 			 					 – bc 	 bc 	 , 			 				 – bc	 	 bc 	 , 			 					 bc 	 bc 	 , 			 	 bc 	 , 			 	 bc 	 , 			 			 bc		 	 bc 	 , 			 	 bc 	 , 			 bc 			 bc		 	 bc 	 , 			 	 bc 	 , 			 	 bc 	 , 			 			 bc		 	 bc 	 , 			 			 bc		 					 bc 	 bc 	 , 			 				 bc	 	 bc 	 , 			 			 bc		 			 bc		 				 bc	 				 – bc	 			 bc		 	 bc 	 , , 			 			 – 	 – 	 	 bc 	 , , 			 				 – 	 				 	 	 ad 	 , , 			 sources[edit] 	brunt, p. a. italian manpower bc – ad . oxford, ; 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range of executive, legislative, judicial, military, and religious powers. even though a small number of powerful families (called gentes) monopolised the main magistracies, the roman republic is generally considered one of the earliest examples of representative democracy.[ ][ ][ ] roman institutions underwent considerable changes throughout the republic to adapt to the difficulties it faced, such as the creation of promagistracies to rule its conquered provinces, or the composition of the senate. unlike the pax romana of the roman empire, the republic was in a state of quasi-perpetual war throughout its existence. its first enemies were its latin and etruscan neighbours as well as the gauls, who even sacked the city in bc. the republic nonetheless demonstrated extreme resilience and always managed to overcome its losses, however catastrophic. after the gallic sack, rome conquered the whole italian peninsula in a century, which turned the republic into a major power in the mediterranean. the republic's greatest enemy was doubtless carthage, against which it waged three wars. the punic general hannibal famously invaded italy by crossing the alps and inflicted on rome two devastating defeats at lake trasimene and cannae, but the republic once again recovered and won the war thanks to scipio africanus at the battle of zama in bc. with carthage defeated, rome became the dominant power of the ancient mediterranean world. it then embarked on a long series of difficult conquests, after having notably defeated philip v and perseus of macedon, antiochus iii of the seleucid empire, the lusitanian viriathus, the numidian jugurtha, the pontic king mithridates vi, the gaul vercingetorix, and the egyptian queen cleopatra. at home, the republic similarly experienced a long streak of social and political crises, which ended in several violent civil wars. at first, the conflict of the orders opposed the patricians, the closed oligarchic elite, to the far more numerous plebs, who finally achieved political equality in several steps during the th century bc. later, the vast conquests of the republic disrupted its society, as the immense influx of slaves they brought enriched the aristocracy, but ruined the peasantry and urban workers. in order to solve this issue, several social reformers, known as the populares, tried to pass agrarian laws, but the gracchi brothers, saturninus, or clodius pulcher were all murdered by their opponents, the optimates, keepers of the traditional aristocratic order. mass slavery also caused three servile wars; the last of them was led by spartacus, a skilful gladiator who ravaged italy and left rome powerless until his defeat in bc. in this context, the last decades of the republic were marked by the rise of great generals, who exploited their military conquests and the factional situation in rome to gain control of the political system. marius (between and bc), then sulla (between and bc) dominated in turn the republic; both used extraordinary powers to purge their opponents. these multiple tensions led to a series of civil wars; the first between the two generals julius caesar and pompey. despite his victory and appointment as dictator for life, caesar was murdered in bc. caesar's heir octavian and lieutenant mark antony defeated caesar's assassins brutus and cassius in bc, but then turned against each other. the final defeat of mark antony alongside his ally and lover cleopatra at the battle of actium in bc, and the senate's grant of extraordinary powers to octavian as augustus in bc – which effectively made him the first roman emperor – thus ended the republic. contents 	 history 	 . foundation ( bc) 	 . rome in latium ( – bc) 	 . . early campaigns 	 . . plebeians and patricians 	 . . celtic invasion of italy ( – bc) 	 . roman expansion in italy ( – bc) 	 . . wars against italian neighbours 	 . . rise of the plebeian nobility 	 . . pyrrhic war ( – bc) 	 . punic wars and expansion in the mediterranean ( – bc) 	 . . first punic war ( – bc) 	 . . second punic war ( – bc) 	 . . roman supremacy in the greek east ( – bc) 	 . . conquest of greece ( – bc) 	 . . third punic war ( – bc) 	 . social troubles and first civil war ( – bc) 	 . . the gracchi ( – bc) 	 . . rise of marius 	 . . sulla's civil wars 	 . . pompey's dominance 	 . triumvirates and end of the republic ( – bc) 	 . . first triumvirate ( – bc) 	 . . caesar's civil war and dictatorship ( – bc) 	 . . second triumvirate 	 constitutional system 	 . senate 	 . legislative assemblies 	 . magistrates 	 military 	 . hoplite armies ( –c. bc) 	 . manipular legion (c. – bc) 	 . legion after the reforms of gaius marius ( – bc) 	 social structure 	 trade and economy 	 . farming 	 religion 	 . priesthoods 	 . temples and festivals 	 . in the military 	 cities, towns and villas 	 . city of rome 	 culture 	 . clothing 	 . food and dining 	 . education and language 	 . arts 	 . literature 	 . sports and entertainment 	 see also 	 footnotes 	 references 	 ancient sources 	 works cited 	 . general history of the roman republic (ordered chronologically) 	 . specific subjects 	 external links history[edit] foundation ( bc)[edit] main article: overthrow of the roman monarchy since the foundation of rome, its rulers had been monarchs, elected for life by the patrician noblemen who made up the roman senate. the last roman king was lucius tarquinius superbus ("tarquin the proud"). in the traditional histories, tarquin was expelled in because his son sextus tarquinius had raped the noblewoman lucretia, who afterwards took her own life. lucretia's father, her husband lucius tarquinius collatinus, and tarquin's nephew lucius junius brutus mustered support from the senate and army, and forced tarquin into exile in etruria.[ ][ ][ ] the senate agreed to abolish kingship. most of the king's former functions were transferred to two consuls, who were elected to office for a term of one year. each consul had the capacity to act as a check on his colleague, if necessary through the same power of veto that the kings had held. if a consul abused his powers in office, he could be prosecuted when his term expired. brutus and collatinus became republican rome's first consuls. despite collatinus' role in the creation of the republic, he belonged to the same family as the former king, and was forced to abdicate his office and leave rome. he was replaced as co-consul by publius valerius publicola.[ ] most modern scholarship describes these events as the quasi-mythological detailing of an aristocratic coup within tarquin's own family, not a popular revolution. they fit a narrative of a personal vengeance against a tyrant leading to his overthrow, which was common among greek cities and even theorised by aristotle.[ ][ ][ ] rome in latium ( – bc)[edit] early campaigns[edit] according to rome's traditional histories, tarquin made several attempts to retake the throne, including the tarquinian conspiracy, which involved brutus' own sons, the war with veii and tarquinii and finally the war between rome and clusium; but none succeeded.[ ] the "capitoline brutus", a bust possibly depicting lucius junius brutus, who led the revolt against rome's last king and was a founder of the republic the first roman republican wars were wars of both expansion and defence, aimed at protecting rome itself from neighbouring cities and nations and establishing its territory in the region.[ ] initially, rome's immediate neighbours were either latin towns and villages, or else tribal sabines from the apennine hills beyond. one by one rome defeated both the persistent sabines and the local cities, both those under etruscan control and those that had cast off their etruscan rulers. rome defeated the latin cities in the battle of lake regillus in , the battle of mount algidus in , the battle of corbio in , the battle of aricia, however it suffered a significant defeat at the battle of the cremera in wherein it fought against the most important etruscan city of veii.[ ][ ] 	 	v 	t 	e rome's early italian campaigns 	 	lake regillus 	the cremera 	mount algidus 	corbio 	fidenae 	veii by the end of this period, rome had effectively completed the conquest of their immediate etruscan and latin neighbours, and also secured their position against the immediate threat posed by the nearby apennine hill tribes.[ ] plebeians and patricians[edit] main article: conflict of the orders beginning with their revolt against tarquin, and continuing through the early years of the republic, rome's patrician aristocrats were the dominant force in politics and society. they initially formed a closed group of about large families, called gentes, who monopolised rome's magistracies, state priesthoods and senior military posts. the most prominent of these families were the cornelii,[i] followed by the aemilii, claudii, fabii, and valerii. the power, privilege and influence of leading families derived from their wealth, in particular from their landholdings, their position as patrons, and their numerous clients.[ ] the vast majority of roman citizens were commoners of various social degrees. they formed the backbone of rome's economy, as smallholding farmers, managers, artisans, traders, and tenants. in times of war, they could be summoned for military service. most had little direct political influence over the senate's decisions or the laws it passed, including the abolition of the monarchy and the creation of the consular system. during the early republic, the plebs (or plebeians) emerged as a self-organised, culturally distinct group of commoners, with their own internal hierarchy, laws, customs, and interests.[ ] plebeians had no access to high religious and civil office,[ii] and could be punished for offences against laws of which they had no knowledge.[ ] for the poorest, one of the few effective political tools was their withdrawal of labour and services, in a "secessio plebis"; they would leave the city en masse, and allow their social superiors to fend for themselves. the first such secession occurred in , in protest at the abusive treatment of plebeian debtors by the wealthy during a famine.[ ] the senate was compelled to give them direct access to the written civil and religious laws, and to the electoral and political process. to represent their interests, the plebs elected tribunes, who were personally sacrosanct, immune to arbitrary arrest by any magistrate, and had veto power over the passage of legislation.[ ] celtic invasion of italy ( – bc)[edit] 	 	v 	t 	e roman–gallic wars 	 	allia river 	anio river 	pedum 	arretium 	lake vadimo 	faesulae 	telamon 	clastidium 	silva litana 	cremona 	placentia 	mutina by , several gallic tribes were invading italy from the north. the romans were alerted to this when a particularly warlike tribe, the senones,[ ] invaded two etruscan towns close to rome's sphere of influence. these towns, overwhelmed by the enemy's numbers and ferocity, called on rome for help. the romans met the gauls in pitched battle at the battle of allia river around – bc. the gauls, led by the chieftain brennus, defeated the roman army of approximately , troops, pursued the fleeing romans back to rome, and sacked the city before being either driven off or bought off. roman expansion in italy ( – bc)[edit] wars against italian neighbours[edit] map showing roman expansion in italy 	 	v 	t 	e ancient unification of italy 	 	roman–etruscan wars 	roman–latin wars 	roman–volscian wars 	roman conquest of the hernici 	samnite wars 	pyrrhic war 	social war 	 	v 	t 	e samnite wars 	first samnite war 	mons gaurus 	saticula 	suessula second samnite war 	neapolis 	imbrinium 	caudine forks 	lautulae 	lake vadimo 	bovianum third samnite war 	camerinum 	tifernum 	sentinum 	aquilonia from to , rome won two battles against their samnite neighbours, but were unable to consolidate their gains, due to the outbreak of war with former latin allies. in the latin war ( – ), rome defeated a coalition of latins at the battles of vesuvius and the trifanum. the latins submitted to roman rule.[ ] a second samnite war began in .[ ] the fortunes of the two sides fluctuated, but from , rome was dominant, and offered progressively unfavourable terms for peace. the war ended with samnite defeat at the battle of bovianum ( ). by the following year, rome had annexed most samnite territory and began to establish colonies there; but in the samnites rebelled, and defeated a roman army, in a third samnite war. following this success they built a coalition of several previous enemies of rome.[ ] at the battle of populonia in rome finished off the last vestiges of etruscan power in the region. rise of the plebeian nobility[edit] in the th century, plebeians gradually obtained political equality with patricians. the starting point was in , when the first plebeian consular tribunes were elected; likewise, several subsequent consular colleges counted plebeians (in , , , , and ). the reason behind this sudden gain is unknown,[ ] but it was limited as patrician tribunes retained preeminence over their plebeian colleagues.[ ] in , the former consul and saviour of the besieged capitol marcus manlius capitolinus is said to have sided with the plebeians, ruined by the sack and largely indebted to patricians. the issue of debt relief for the plebs remained indeed pressing throughout the century. livy tells that capitolinus sold his estate to repay the debt of many of them, and even went over to the plebs, the first patrician to do so. nevertheless, the growing unrest he had caused led to his trial for seeking kingly power; he was sentenced to death and thrown from the tarpeian rock.[ ][ ] between and , the tribunes of the plebs gaius licinius stolo and lucius sextius lateranus continued the plebeian agitation and pushed for an ambitious legislation, known as the leges liciniae sextiae. two of their bills attacked patricians' economic supremacy, by creating legal protection against indebtedness and forbidding excessive use of public land, as the ager publicus was monopolised by large landowners. the most important bill opened the consulship to plebeians.[ ] other tribunes controlled by the patricians vetoed the bills, but stolo and lateranus retaliated by vetoing the elections for five years while being continuously re-elected by the plebs, resulting in a stalemate.[ ] in , they carried a bill creating the decemviri sacris faciundis, a college of ten priests, of whom five had to be plebeians, therefore breaking patricians' monopoly on priesthoods. finally, the resolution of the crisis came from the dictator camillus, who made a compromise with the tribunes; he agreed to their bills, while they in return consented to the creation of the offices of praetor and curule aediles, both reserved to patricians. lateranus also became the first plebeian consul in ; stolo followed in .[ ][ ][ ] soon after, plebeians were able to hold both the dictatorship and the censorship, since former consuls normally filled these senior magistracies. the four time consul gaius marcius rutilus became the first plebeian dictator in and censor in . in , the tribune of the plebs lucius genucius passed his leges genuciae, which abolished interest on loans, in a renewed effort to tackle indebtedness, required the election of at least one plebeian consul each year, and prohibited a magistrate from holding the same magistracy for the next ten years or two magistracies in the same year.[ ][ ][ ] in , the plebeian consul and dictator quintus publilius philo passed three laws extending the powers of the plebeians. his first law followed the lex genucia by reserving one censorship to plebeians, the second made plebiscites binding on all citizens (including patricians), and the third stated that the senate had to give its prior approval to plebiscites before becoming binding on all citizens (the lex valeria-horatia of had placed this approval after the vote).[ ] two years later, publilius ran for the praetorship, probably in a bid to take the last senior magistracy closed to plebeians, which he won.[ ] the temple of hercules victor, rome, built in the mid nd century bc, most likely by lucius mummius achaicus, who won the achaean war during the early republic, senators were chosen by the consuls among their supporters. shortly before , the lex ovinia transferred this power to the censors, who could only remove senators for misconduct, thus appointing them for life. this law strongly increased the power of the senate, which was by now protected from the influence of the consuls and became the central organ of government.[ ][ ] in , following this law, the patrician censor appius claudius caecus appointed many more senators to fill the new limit of , including descendants of freedmen, which was deemed scandalous. he also incorporated these freedmen in the rural tribes.[iii][iv] his tribal reforms were nonetheless cancelled by the next censors, quintus fabius maximus and publius decius mus, his political enemies.[ ] caecus also launched a vast construction program, building the first aqueduct (aqua appia), and the first roman road (via appia).[ ] in , the two tribunes of the plebs gnaeus and quintus ogulnius passed the lex ogulnia, which created four plebeian pontiffs, therefore equalling the number of patrician pontiffs, and five plebeian augurs, outnumbering the four patricians in the college.[ ] eventually the conflict of the orders ended with the last secession of the plebs in about . the details are not known precisely as livy's books on the period are lost. debt is once again mentioned by ancient authors, but it seems that the plebs revolted over the distribution of the land conquered on the samnites.[ ] a dictator named quintus hortensius was appointed to negotiate with the plebeians, who had retreated to the janiculum hill, perhaps to dodge the draft in the war against the lucanians. hortensius passed the lex hortensia which re-enacted the law of , making plebiscites binding on all citizens, but also removed the senate's prior approval to plebiscites. popular assemblies were by now sovereign; this put an end to the crisis, and to plebeian agitation for years.[ ] these events were a political victory of the wealthy plebeian elite who exploited the economic difficulties of the plebs for their own gain, hence why stolo, lateranus, and genucius bound their bills attacking patricians' political supremacy with debt-relief measures. they had indeed little in common with the mass of plebeians; stolo was noteworthy fined for having exceeded the limit on land occupation he had fixed in his own law.[ ] as a result of the end of the patrician monopoly on senior magistracies, many small patrician gentes faded into history during the th and rd centuries due to the lack of available positions; the verginii, horatii, menenii, cloelii all disappear, even the julii entered a long eclipse. they were replaced by plebeian aristocrats, of whom the most emblematic were the caecilii metelli, who received consulships until the end of the republic; the domitii, fulvii, licinii, marcii, or sempronii were as successful. about a dozen remaining patrician gentes and twenty plebeian ones thus formed a new elite, called the nobiles, or nobilitas.[ ] pyrrhic war ( – bc)[edit] route of pyrrhus in italy and sicily bust of pyrrhus, found in the villa of the papyri at herculaneum, now in the naples archaeological museum. pyrrhus was a brave and chivalrous general who fascinated the romans, hence his presence in a roman house.[ ] by the beginning of the rd century, rome had established itself as the major power in italy, but had not yet come into conflict with the dominant military powers of the mediterranean: carthage and the greek kingdoms.[ ] in , several roman warships entered the harbour of tarentum, thus breaking a treaty between the republic and the greek city, which forbade the gulf to roman navy. it triggered a violent reaction from the tarentine democrats, who sank some of the ships; they were in fact worried that rome could favour the oligarchs in the city, as it had done with the other greek cities under its control. the roman embassy sent to investigate the affair was insulted and war was promptly declared.[ ] facing a hopeless situation, the tarentines (together with the lucanians and samnites) appealed for military aid to pyrrhus, the very ambitious king of epirus. a cousin of alexander the great, he was eager to build an empire for himself in the western mediterranean, and saw tarentum's plea as a perfect opportunity towards this goal.[ ][ ] 	 	v 	t 	e pyrrhic war 	 	heraclea 	asculum 	venusia 	rhegium 	syracuse 	eryx 	cranita 	lilybaeum 	messina 	beneventum pyrrhus and his army of , men (and war elephants) landed in italy in ; he was immediately named strategos autokrator by the tarentines. publius valerius laevinus, the consul sent to face him, rejected the king's negotiation offer, as he had more troops and hoped to cut the invasion short. the romans were nevertheless defeated at heraclea, as their cavalry were afraid of the elephants of pyrrhus, who lost a large portion of his army. pyrrhus then marched on rome, but could not take any roman city on his way; facing the prospect of being flanked by the two consular armies, he moved back to tarentum. his adviser, the orator cineas, made a peace offer before the roman senate, asking rome to return the land it took from the samnites and lucanians, and liberate the greek cities under its control. the offer was rejected after appius caecus (the old censor of ) spoke against it in a celebrated speech, which was the earliest recorded by the time of cicero.[ ][ ][ ] in , pyrrhus met the consuls publius decius mus and publius sulpicius saverrio at the battle of asculum, which remained undecided for two days, as the romans had prepared some special chariots to counter his elephants. finally, pyrrhus personally charged into the melee and won the battle, but at the cost of an important part of his troops; he allegedly said "if we are victorious in one more battle with the romans, we shall be utterly ruined."[ ][ ][ ][v] he escaped the italian deadlock by answering a call for help from syracuse, which tyrant thoenon was desperately fighting an invasion from carthage. pyrrhus could not let them take the whole island as it would have compromised his ambitions in the western mediterranean and so declared war on them. at first, his sicilian campaign was an easy triumph; he was welcomed as a liberator in every greek city on his way, even receiving the title of king (basileus) of sicily. the carthaginians lifted the siege of syracuse before his arrival, but he could not entirely oust them from the island as he failed to take their fortress of lilybaeum.[ ] his harsh rule, especially the murder of thoenon, whom he did not trust, soon led to a widespread antipathy among the sicilians; some cities even defected to carthage. in , pyrrhus left the island before he had to face a full-scale rebellion.[ ] he returned to italy, where his samnite allies were on the verge of losing the war, despite their earlier victory at the cranita hills. pyrrhus again met the romans at the battle of beneventum; this time the consul manius dentatus was victorious, and even captured eight elephants. pyrrhus then withdrew from italy, but left a garrison in tarentum, and waged a new campaign in greece against antigonos gonatas. his death in battle at argos in forced tarentum to surrender to rome. since it was the last independent city of italy, rome now dominated the entire italian peninsula, and won an international military reputation.[ ] punic wars and expansion in the mediterranean ( – bc)[edit] first punic war ( – bc)[edit] main article: punic wars 	 	v 	t 	e first punic war 	 	treaties 	messana 	agrigentum 	 st mytistratus 	lipari islands 	mylae 	thermae 	 nd mytistratus 	sulci 	tyndaris 	cape ecnomus 	aspis 	adys 	bagradas (tunis) 	cape hermaeum 	panormus 	lilybaeum 	drepana 	phintias 	drepana (siege) 	 st mt eryx 	 nd mt eryx 	aegates islands 	treaty of lutatius coin of hiero ii of syracuse rome and carthage were initially on friendly terms; polybius details three treaties between them, the first dating from the first year of the republic, the second from . the last one was an alliance against pyrrhus.[ ][ ][ ] however, tensions rapidly built on after the departure of the epirote king. between and , messina in sicily was taken by the mamertines, a band of mercenaries formerly employed by agathocles. they plundered the surroundings until hiero ii, the new tyrant of syracuse, defeated them (in either or ). carthage could not let him take messina, as he would have controlled its strait, and garrisoned the city. in effect under a carthaginian protectorate, the remaining mamertines appealed to rome to regain their independence. senators were divided on whether to help them or not, as it would have meant war with carthage, since sicily was in its sphere of influence (the treaties furthermore forbade the island to rome), and also syracuse. a supporter of the war, the consul appius claudius caudex (caecus' brother) turned to the tribal assembly to get a favourable vote, by notably promising booty to voters.[ ] caudex first secured control of the city with ease. however, syracuse and carthage, at war for centuries, made an alliance to counter the invasion and blockaded messina, but caudex defeated hiero and carthage separately.[ ][ ] his successor manius valerius corvinus messalla landed with a strong , men army that conquered eastern sicily, which prompted hiero to shift his allegiance and forge a long lasting alliance with rome. in , the romans moved to the southern coast and besieged akragas. in order to raise the siege, carthage sent reinforcements, including elephants – the first time they used them, but still lost the battle.[ ] nevertheless, as pyrrhus before, rome could not take all of sicily because carthage's naval superiority prevented them from effectively besieging coastal cities, which could receive supplies from the sea. using a captured carthaginian ship as blueprint, rome therefore launched a massive construction program and built quinqueremes in only two months, perhaps through an assembly line organisation. they also invented a new device, the corvus, a grappling engine which enabled a crew to board on an enemy ship.[ ] the consul for scipio asina lost the first naval skirmish of the war against hannibal gisco at lipara, but his colleague gaius dullius won a great victory at mylae. he destroyed or captured ships, and was the first roman to receive a naval triumph, which also included captive carthaginians for the first time.[ ] although carthage was victorious on land at thermae in sicily, the corvus made rome invincible on the waters. the consul lucius cornelius scipio (asina's brother) captured corsica in ; his successors won the naval battles of sulci in , tyndaris in , and cape ecnomus in .[ ] diagram of a corvus in order to hasten the end of the war, the consuls for decided to carry the operations to africa, on carthage's homeland. the consul marcus atilius regulus landed on the cap bon peninsula with about , soldiers. he captured the city of aspis, then repulsed carthage's counter-attack at adys, and took tunis. the carthaginians supposedly sued him for peace, but his conditions were so harsh that they continued the war instead. they hired spartan mercenaries, led by xanthippus, to command their troops.[ ] in , the spartan general marched on regulus, still encamped at tunis, who accepted the battle to avoid sharing the glory with his successor. however, the flat land near tunis favoured the punic elephants, which crushed the roman infantry on the bagradas plain; only , soldiers escaped, and regulus was captured. the consuls for nonetheless won a new sounding naval victory at cape hermaeum, where they captured warships. this success was spoilt by a storm that annihilated the victorious navy: ships of sank, , soldiers and , rowers drowned. the corvus considerably hindered ships' navigation, and made them vulnerable during tempest. it was abandoned after another similar catastrophe took place in ( ships sank with their crew). these disasters prevented any significant campaign between and .[ ] denarius of c. caecilius metellus caprarius, bc. the reverse depicts the triumph of his great-grandfather lucius, with the elephants he had captured at panormos. the elephant had thence become the emblem of the powerful caecilii metelli.[ ] hostilities in sicily resumed in , with the taking of thermae by rome. carthage countered the following year, by besieging lucius caecilius metellus, who held panormos (now palermo). the consul had dug trenches to counter the elephants, which once hurt by missiles turned back on their own army, resulting in a great victory for metellus, who exhibited some captured beasts in the circus. rome then besieged the last carthaginian strongholds in sicily, lilybaeum and drepana, but these cities were impregnable by land. publius claudius pulcher, the consul of , recklessly tried to take the latter from the sea, but he suffered a terrible defeat; his colleague lucius junius pullus likewise lost his fleet off lilybaeum. without the corvus, roman warships had lost their advantage. by now, both sides were drained and could not undertake large scale operations; the number of roman citizens who were being called up for war had been reduced by % in two decades, a result of the massive bloodshed. the only military activity during this period was the landing in sicily of hamilcar barca in , who harassed the romans with a mercenary army from a citadel he built on mt. eryx.[ ] finally, unable to take the punic fortresses in sicily, rome tried to win the decision at sea and built a new navy, thanks to a forced borrowing on the rich. in , the quinqueremes of the consul gaius lutatius catulus blockaded drepana. the rescue fleet from carthage arrived the next year, but was largely undermanned and soundly defeated by catulus. exhausted and unable to bring supplies to sicily, carthage sued for peace. catulus and hamilcar negotiated a treaty, which was somewhat lenient to carthage, but the roman people rejected it and imposed harsher terms: carthage had to pay talents immediately and over ten years, and evacuate sicily. the fine was so high that carthage could not pay hamilcar's mercenaries, who had been shipped back to africa. they revolted during the mercenary war, which carthage had enormous difficulties to suppress. meanwhile, rome took advantage of a similar revolt in sardinia to seize the island from carthage, in violation of the peace treaty. this stab-in-the-back led to permanent bitterness in carthage, and revanchism.[ ] second punic war ( – bc)[edit] 	 	v 	t 	e second punic war 	 	prelude 	saguntum 	rhone 	crossing of the alps 	italy 	ticinus 	trebia 	lake trasimene 	umbrian lake 	ager falernus 	geronium 	cannae 	silva litana 	 st nola 	 st casilinum 	hamae 	 st petelia 	 nd nola 	 rd nola 	 st beneventum 	 nd casilinum 	lucania 	arpi 	 st tarentum 	 nd beneventum 	campi veteres 	 st capua 	silarus 	 st herdonia 	 nd capua 	sapriportis 	 nd herdonia 	numistro 	canusium 	manduria 	caulonia 	 nd tarentum 	 nd petelia 	venusia 	grumentum 	metaurus 	crotona 	insubria 	iberia 	cissa 	ebro river 	ibera 	upper baetis 	 st new carthage 	baecula 	carmona 	ilipa 	sucro 	carteia 	 nd new carthage 	sicily and sardinia 	lilybaeum 	malta 	decimomannu 	leontini 	syracuse 	himera 	agrigentum 	north africa 	clupea 	 st utica 	 nd utica 	great plains (bagradas) 	cirta 	zama after its victory, the republic shifted its attention to its northern border as the insubres and boii were threatening italy.[ ] meanwhile, carthage compensated the loss of sicily and sardinia with the conquest of southern hispania (up to salamanca), and its rich silver mines.[ ] this enterprise was the work of the barcid family, headed by hamilcar, the former commander in sicily. hamilcar nonetheless died against the oretani in ; his son-in-law hasdrubal the fair – the founder of carthago nova – and his three sons hannibal, hasdrubal, and mago, succeeded him.[ ] this rapid expansion worried rome, which concluded a treaty with hasdrubal in , stating that carthage could not cross the ebro river.[ ][ ] however, the city of saguntum, located in the south of the ebro, appealed to rome in to act as arbitrator during a stasis. hannibal dismissed roman rights on the city, and took it in .[ ] at rome, the cornelii and the aemilii considered the capture of saguntum a casus belli,[ ] and won the debate against fabius maximus verrucosus, who wanted to negotiate. an embassy carrying an ultimatum was sent to carthage, asking its senate to condemn hannibal's deeds. the carthaginian refusal started the second punic war.[ ] principal offensives of the war: rome (red), hannibal (green), hasdrubal (purple) initially, the plan of the republic was to carry war outside italy, by sending the consuls publius cornelius scipio to hispania, and sempronius longus to africa, while their naval superiority prevented carthage from attacking from the sea.[ ] this plan was thwarted by hannibal's bold move to italy. in may , he indeed crossed the ebro with a large army of about , soldiers and elephants.[ ] he passed in gaul, crossed the rhone, then the alps, possibly through the col de clapier ( , meters high).[ ] this famous exploit cost him almost half of his troops,[ ] but he could now rely on the boii and insubres, still at war with rome.[ ] publius scipio, who had failed to block hannibal on the rhone, sent his elder brother gnaeus with the main part of his army in hispania according to the initial plan, and went back to italy with the rest to resist hannibal in italy, but he was defeated and wounded near pavia. hannibal then marched south and won three outstanding victories. the first one was on the banks of the trebia in december , where he defeated the other consul sempronius longus thanks to his brother mago, who had concealed some elite troops behind the legions and attacked them from the rear once fighting hannibal. more than half of the roman army was lost. hannibal then ravaged the country around arretium to lure the new consul gaius flaminius into a trap, at the lake trasimene. he had hidden his troops in the hills surrounding the lake and attacked flaminius when he was cornered on the shore. this clever ambush resulted in the death of the consul and the complete destruction of his army of , men. in , the new consuls aemilius paullus and terentius varro mustered the biggest army possible, with eight legions (more than , soldiers) – twice as many as the punic army – and confronted hannibal, who was encamped at cannae, in apulia. despite his numerical disadvantage, hannibal used his heavier cavalry to rout the roman wings and envelop their infantry, whom he annihilated. in terms of casualties, the battle of cannae was the worst defeat in the history of rome: only , soldiers escaped; paullus was killed as well as senators.[ ] soon after, the boii ambushed the army of the consul-elect for , postumius albinus, who died with all his army of , men in the forest of litana. a quarter shekel of carthage, perhaps minted in spain. the obverse may depict hannibal under the traits of young melqart. the reverse features one of his famous war elephants.[ ] these disasters triggered a wave of defection among roman allies, with the rebellions of the samnites, oscans, lucanians, and greek cities of southern italy.[ ] in macedonia, philip v also made an alliance with hannibal in order to take illyria and the area around epidamnus, occupied by rome. his attack on apollonia started the first macedonian war. in , hiero ii of syracuse died of old age, and his young grandson hieronymus broke the long alliance with rome to side with carthage. at this desperate point, the aggressive strategy against hannibal advocated by the scipiones was abandoned in favour of delaying tactics that avoided direct confrontation with him. its main proponents were the consuls fabius maximus verrucosus, nicknamed cunctator ("the delayer"), claudius marcellus, and fulvius flaccus. the "fabian strategy" favoured a slow reconquest of the lost territories, since hannibal could not be everywhere to defend them.[ ] although he remained invincible on the battlefield, defeating all the roman armies on his way, he could not prevent claudius marcellus from taking syracuse in after a long siege, nor the fall of his bases of capua and tarentum in and . however, in the consuls claudius marcellus and quinctius crispinus were ambushed and killed near venusia. in hispania, the situation was overall much better for rome. this theatre was mostly commanded by the brothers publius and gnaeus scipio, who won the battles of cissa in , soon after hannibal's departure, and dertosa against his brother hasdrubal in , which enabled them to conquer the eastern coast of hispania. in however, hasdrubal and mago barca successfully returned the celtiberian tribes that supported the scipiones, and attacked them simultaneously at the battle of the upper baetis, in which the scipiones brothers died.[ ] publius' son, the future scipio africanus, was then elected with a special proconsulship to lead the hispanic campaign. he soon showed outstanding skills as a commander, by winning a series of battles with ingenious tactics. in , he took carthago nova, the main punic base in hispania, then defeated hasdrubal at the battle of baecula ( ).[ ] after his defeat, hasdrubal was ordered by carthage to move to italy. since he could not use ships, he followed the same route as his brother through the alps, but this time the surprise effect was gone. the consuls livius salinator and claudius nero were awaiting him and won the battle of the metaurus, where hasdrubal died.[ ] it was the turning point of the war. the attrition campaign had indeed worked well: hannibal's troops were now depleted; he only had one elephant left (surus) and retreated to bruttium, on the defensive. in greece, rome contained philip v without devoting too many forces, by setting an alliance with the aetolian league, sparta, and pergamon, which also prevented philip from aiding hannibal. the war resulted in a stalemate, with the treaty of phoenice signed in . 	 	v 	t 	e first macedonian war 	 	apollonia 	 st lamia 	 nd lamia 	mantinea in hispania, scipio continued his triumphal campaign at the battles of carmona in , and ilipa (now seville) in , which ended the punic threat on the peninsula.[ ] elected consul in , he convinced the senate to cancel the fabian strategy, and instead to invade africa by using the support of the numidian king massinissa, who had defected to rome. scipio landed in africa in . he took utica, then won the battle of the great plains, which prompted carthage to recall hannibal from italy and open peace negotiations with rome. the talks nevertheless failed because scipio wanted to impose harsher terms on carthage, in order to avoid it from rising again as a threat to rome. hannibal was therefore sent to face scipio at zama. scipio could now use the heavy numidian cavalry of massinissa – which had hitherto been so successful against rome – to rout the punic wings, then flank the infantry, as hannibal had done at cannae. defeated for the first time, hannibal convinced the carthaginian senate to pay the war indemnity, which was even harsher than that of : , talents in instalments. carthage furthermore had to give up all its elephants, all its fleet but ten triremes, all its possessions outside its core territory in africa (what is now tunisia), and could not declare war without the authorisation of rome. in effect, carthage was condemned to be a minor power, while rome recovered from a desperate situation to dominate the western mediterranean. roman supremacy in the greek east ( – bc)[edit] 	macedonian wars 	 macedonia, greece and asia at the outbreak of the second macedonian war, bc 		 	v 	t 	e macedonian wars 	 	first 	second 	third 	fourth 	 	v 	t 	e second macedonian war 	 	aous 	cynoscephalae 	 	v 	t 	e roman–seleucid war 	 	thermopylae 	corycus 	eurymedon 	myonessus 	magnesia 	 	v 	t 	e third macedonian war 	 	callinicus 	pydna 	 	v 	t 	e fourth macedonian war 	 	pydna ( bc) rome's preoccupation with its war with carthage provided an opportunity for philip v of the kingdom of macedonia, located in the north of the greek peninsula, to attempt to extend his power westward. philip sent ambassadors to hannibal's camp in italy, to negotiate an alliance as common enemies of rome.[ ][ ] however, rome discovered the agreement when philip's emissaries were captured by a roman fleet.[ ] the first macedonian war saw the romans involved directly in only limited land operations, but they ultimately achieved their objective of preoccupying philip and preventing him from aiding hannibal. the past century had seen the greek world dominated by the three primary successor kingdoms of alexander the great's empire: ptolemaic egypt, macedonia and the seleucid empire. in , internal problems led to a weakening of egypt's position, thereby disrupting the power balance among the successor states. macedonia and the seleucid empire agreed to an alliance to conquer and divide egypt.[ ] fearing this increasingly unstable situation, several small greek kingdoms sent delegations to rome to seek an alliance.[ ] the delegation succeeded, even though prior greek attempts to involve rome in greek affairs had been met with roman apathy. our primary source about these events, the surviving works of polybius, do not state rome's reason for getting involved. rome gave philip an ultimatum to cease his campaigns against rome's new greek allies. doubting rome's strength (a reasonable doubt, given rome's performance in the first macedonian war) philip ignored the request, and rome sent an army of romans and greek allies, beginning the second macedonian war.[ ] despite his recent successes against the greeks and earlier successes against rome, philip's army buckled under the pressure from the roman-greek army. in , the romans decisively defeated philip at the battle of cynoscephalae, and philip was forced to give up his recent greek conquests.[ ] the romans declared the "peace of the greeks", believing that philip's defeat now meant that greece would be stable. they pulled out of greece entirely, maintaining minimal contacts with their greek allies.[ ] with egypt and macedonia weakened, the seleucid empire made increasingly aggressive and successful attempts to conquer the entire greek world.[ ] now not only rome's allies against philip, but even philip himself, sought a roman alliance against the seleucids.[ ] the situation was made worse by the fact that hannibal was now a chief military advisor to the seleucid emperor, and the two were believed to be planning an outright conquest not just of greece, but of rome itself.[ ] the seleucids were much stronger than the macedonians had ever been, because they controlled much of the former persian empire, and by now had almost entirely reassembled alexander the great's former empire.[ ] roman bronze bust of scipio africanus, dated mid st century bc, and found in the villa of the papyri at herculaneum[ ] fearing the worst, the romans began a major mobilization, all but pulling out of recently pacified spain and gaul.[ ] they even established a major garrison in sicily in case the seleucids ever got to italy.[ ] this fear was shared by rome's greek allies, who had largely ignored rome in the years after the second macedonian war, but now followed rome again for the first time since that war.[ ] a major roman-greek force was mobilized under the command of the great hero of the second punic war, scipio africanus, and set out for greece, beginning the roman-syrian war. after initial fighting that revealed serious seleucid weaknesses, the seleucids tried to turn the roman strength against them at the battle of thermopylae (as they believed the spartans had done centuries earlier).[ ] like the spartans, the seleucids lost the battle, and were forced to evacuate greece.[ ] the romans pursued the seleucids by crossing the hellespont, which marked the first time a roman army had ever entered asia.[ ] the decisive engagement was fought at the battle of magnesia, resulting in a complete roman victory.[ ][ ] the seleucids sued for peace, and rome forced them to give up their recent greek conquests. although they still controlled a great deal of territory, this defeat marked the decline of their empire, as they were to begin facing increasingly aggressive subjects in the east (the parthians) and the west (the greeks). their empire disintegrated into a rump over the course of the next century, when it was eclipsed by pontus. following magnesia, rome again withdrew from greece, assuming (or hoping) that the lack of a major greek power would ensure a stable peace. in fact, it did the opposite.[ ] conquest of greece ( – bc)[edit] scene of the battle of corinth ( bc): last day before the roman legions looted and burned the greek city of corinth. the last day on corinth, tony robert-fleury, in philip died.[ ] his talented and ambitious son, perseus, took the throne and showed a renewed interest in conquering greece.[ ] with her greek allies facing a major new threat, rome declared war on macedonia again, starting the third macedonian war. perseus initially had some success against the romans. however, rome responded by sending a stronger army. this second consular army decisively defeated the macedonians at the battle of pydna in [ ][ ] and the macedonians duly capitulated, ending the war.[ ] convinced now that the greeks (and therefore the rest of the region) would not have peace if left alone, rome decided to establish its first permanent foothold in the greek world, and divided the kingdom of macedonia into four client republics. yet, macedonian agitation continued. the fourth macedonian war, to bc, was fought against a macedonian pretender to the throne who was again destabilizing greece by trying to re-establish the old kingdom. the romans swiftly defeated the macedonians at the second battle of pydna. the achaean league chose this moment to fight rome but was swiftly defeated. in (the same year as the destruction of carthage), corinth was besieged and destroyed in the battle of corinth ( bc), which led to the league's surrender.[ ] after nearly a century of constant crisis management in greece, which always led back to internal instability and war when she withdrew, rome decided to divide macedonia into two new roman provinces, achaea and macedonia. third punic war ( – bc)[edit] 	 	v 	t 	e third punic war 	 	lake tunis 	 st nepheris 	port of carthage 	 nd nepheris 	carthage carthage never recovered militarily after the second punic war,[ ] but quickly did so economically and the third punic war that followed was in reality a simple punitive mission after the neighbouring numidians allied to rome robbed/attacked carthaginian merchants. treaties had forbidden any war with roman allies, and defence against robbing/pirates was considered as "war action": rome decided to annihilate the city of carthage.[ ] carthage was almost defenceless, and submitted when besieged.[ ] however, the romans demanded complete surrender and removal of the city into the (desert) inland far off any coastal or harbour region, and the carthaginians refused. the city was besieged, stormed, and completely destroyed. ultimately, all of carthage's north african and iberian territories were acquired by rome. note that "carthage" was not an 'empire', but a league of punic colonies (port cities in the western mediterranean) like the st and nd athenian ("attic") leagues, under leadership of carthage. punic carthage was gone, but the other punic cities in the western mediterranean flourished under roman rule. social troubles and first civil war ( – bc)[edit] rome's rapid expansion destabilized its social organization and triggered unrest in the heart of the republic, which ultimately led to political violence, unrest in the provinces, and ultimately a breakdown in the traditional social relations of rome that created the augustan empire. the period is marked by the rise of strongmen (marius, sulla, pompey, crassus, and julius caesar), who turned military success into political power. the gracchi ( – bc)[edit] 	 	v 	t 	e roman servile wars 	 	first 	second 	third main article: gracchi in , the first slave uprising, known as the first servile war, broke out in sicily. after initial successes, the slaves led by eunus and cleon were annihilated by the consul publius rupilius in bc. in this context, tiberius gracchus was elected tribune in bc. he attempted to enact a law which would have limited the amount of land that any individual could own. the aristocrats, who stood to lose an enormous amount of money, were bitterly opposed to this proposal. tiberius submitted this law to the plebeian council, but the law was vetoed by a tribune named marcus octavius. tiberius then used the plebeian council to impeach octavius. the theory, that a representative of the people ceases to be one when he acts against the wishes of the people, was counter to roman constitutional theory. if carried to its logical end, this theory would remove all constitutional restraints on the popular will, and put the state under the absolute control of a temporary popular majority.[ ] his law was enacted, but tiberius was murdered with of his associates[ ] when he stood for reelection to the tribunate. tiberius' brother gaius was elected tribune in . gaius gracchus' ultimate goal was to weaken the senate and to strengthen the democratic forces.[ ] in the past, for example, the senate would eliminate political rivals either by establishing special judicial commissions or by passing a senatus consultum ultimum ("ultimate decree of the senate"). both devices would allow the senate to bypass the ordinary due process rights that all citizens had. gaius outlawed the judicial commissions, and declared the senatus consultum ultimum to be unconstitutional. gaius then proposed a law which would grant citizenship rights to rome's italian allies. this last proposal was not popular with the plebeians and he lost much of his support.[ ] he stood for election to a third term in , but was defeated and then murdered by representatives of the senate with , of his supporters on capitoline hill in rome.[ ] in , the province of gallia narbonensis was established after the victory of quintus fabius maximus over a coalition of arverni and allobroges in southern gaul in . the city of narbo was founded there in by lucius licinius crassus. rise of marius[edit] 	 	v 	t 	e jugurthine war 	 	cirta 	suthul 	muthul 	zama 	thala 	muluccha 	 nd cirta bust of gaius marius, instigator of the marian reforms the jugurthine war of – was fought between rome and jugurtha of the north african kingdom of numidia. it constituted the final roman pacification of northern africa,[ ] after which rome largely ceased expansion on the continent after reaching natural barriers of desert and mountain. following jugurtha's usurpation of the throne of numidia,[ ] a loyal ally of rome since the punic wars,[ ] rome felt compelled to intervene. jugurtha impudently bribed the romans into accepting his usurpation. jugurtha was finally captured not in battle but by treachery. denarius of faustus cornelius sulla, bc. it shows diana on the obverse, while the reverse depicts sulla being offered an olive branch by his ally bocchus i. jugurtha is shown captive on the right.[ ] in , king micipsa of numidia (current-day algeria and tunisia) died. he was succeeded by two legitimate sons, adherbal and hiempsal, and an illegitimate son, jugurtha. micipsa divided his kingdom between these three sons. jugurtha, however, turned on his brothers, killing hiempsal and driving adherbal out of numidia. adherbal fled to rome for assistance, and initially rome mediated a division of the country between the two brothers. eventually, jugurtha renewed his offensive, leading to a long and inconclusive war with rome. he also bribed several roman commanders, and at least two tribunes, before and during the war. his nemesis, gaius marius, a legate from a virtually unknown provincial family, returned from the war in numidia and was elected consul in over the objections of the aristocratic senators. marius invaded numidia and brought the war to a quick end, capturing jugurtha in the process. the apparent incompetence of the senate, and the brilliance of marius, had been put on full display.[ ] the populares party took full advantage of this opportunity by allying itself with marius. 	 	v 	t 	e cimbrian war 	 	noreia 	burdigala 	arausio 	tridentum 	aquae sextiae 	vercellae the cimbrian war ( – ) was a far more serious affair than the earlier clashes of . the germanic tribes of the cimbri and the teutons[ ] migrated from northern europe into rome's northern territories,[ ] and clashed with rome and her allies.[ ] at the battle of aquae sextiae and the battle of vercellae both tribes were virtually annihilated, which ended the threat. sulla's civil wars[edit] 	 	v 	t 	e ancient unification of italy 	 	roman–etruscan wars 	roman–latin wars 	roman–volscian wars 	roman conquest of the hernici 	samnite wars 	pyrrhic war 	social war 	 	v 	t 	e first mithridatic war 	 	amnias 	protopachium 	mount scorobas 	rhodes 	athens and piraeus 	chaeronea 	tenedos 	orchomenus 	 	v 	t 	e sulla's second civil war 	 	mount tifata 	asio river 	sacriporto 	sena gálica 	saturnia 	glanis river 	espolecio 	clusium 	espolecio 	faventia 	fidentia 	clusium 	colline gate 	praeneste 	neápolis 	utica 	norba caesarina 	nola 	volterras in the social war broke out between rome and its former allies in italy when the allies complained that they shared the risk of rome's military campaigns, but not its rewards. although they lost militarily, the allies achieved their objectives with legal proclamations which granted citizenship to more than , italians. the internal unrest reached its most serious state, however, in the two civil wars that were caused by the clash between generals gaius marius and lucius cornelius sulla starting from . in the battle of the colline gate[ ] at the very door of the city of rome, a roman army under sulla bested an army of the marius supporters and entered the city. sulla's actions marked a watershed in the willingness of roman troops to wage war against one another that was to pave the way for the wars which ultimately overthrew the republic, and caused the founding of the roman empire. several years later, in , a roman army was sent to put down an emerging asian power, king mithridates of pontus. the army, however, was not defeated and won. one of marius' old quaestors, lucius cornelius sulla, had been elected consul for the year, and was ordered by the senate to assume command of the war against mithridates. marius, a member of the "populares" party, had a tribune revoke sulla's command of the war against mithridates. sulla, a member of the aristocratic ("optimates") party, brought his army back to italy and marched on rome. sulla was so angry at marius' tribune that he passed a law intended to permanently weaken the tribunate.[ ] he then returned to his war against mithridates. with sulla gone, the populares under marius and lucius cornelius cinna soon took control of the city. during the period in which the populares party controlled the city, they flouted convention by re-electing marius consul several times without observing the customary ten-year interval between offices.[ ] they also transgressed the established oligarchy by advancing unelected individuals to magisterial office, and by substituting magisterial edicts for popular legislation. sulla soon made peace with mithridates. in , he returned to rome, overcame all resistance, and recaptured the city. sulla and his supporters then slaughtered most of marius' supporters. sulla, having observed the violent results of radical popular reforms, was naturally conservative. as such, he sought to strengthen the aristocracy, and by extension the senate.[ ] sulla made himself dictator, passed a series of constitutional reforms, resigned the dictatorship, and served one last term as consul. he died in . 	 	v 	t 	e second mithridatic war 	 	magnesia on the maeander 	amasra 	halys 	 	v 	t 	e roman–parthian wars 	 	carrhae campaign ( bc) 	caesar's planned invasion ( bc) 	pompeian–parthian invasion ( – bc) 	antony's parthian war ( – bc) 	war over armenia ( – ) 	trajan's parthian campaign ( – ) 	war of – 	campaign of septimius severus ( ) 	caracalla's parthian war ( – ) pompey's dominance[edit] see also: second catilinarian conspiracy the third and final slave uprising was the most serious,[ ] involving ultimately between , [ ] and , [ ] slaves under the command of the gladiator spartacus. 	 	v 	t 	e third mithridatic war 	 	chalcedon 	cyzicus 	rhyndacus 	lemnos 	heraclea 	cabira 	tigranocerta 	artaxata 	zela 	lycus 	pelorus 	abas 	jerusalem mithridates the great was the ruler of pontus,[ ] a large kingdom in asia minor (modern turkey), from to . mithridates antagonised rome by seeking to expand his kingdom,[ ] and rome for its part seemed equally eager for war and the spoils and prestige that it might bring.[ ][ ] in , mithridates ordered the killing of a majority of the , romans living in his kingdom.[ ] the massacre was the official reason given for the commencement of hostilities in the first mithridatic war. the roman general lucius cornelius sulla forced mithridates out of greece proper, but then had to return to italy to answer the internal threat posed by his rival, gaius marius. a peace was made between rome and pontus, but this proved only a temporary lull. the second mithridatic war began when rome tried to annex a province that mithridates claimed as his own. in the third mithridatic war, first lucius licinius lucullus and then pompey the great were sent against mithridates and his armenian ally tigranes the great.[ ] mithridates was finally defeated by pompey in the night-time battle of the lycus.[ ] 	 	v 	t 	e rome against the cilician pirates 	 	korakesion the mediterranean had at this time fallen into the hands of pirates,[ ] largely from cilicia.[ ] the pirates not only strangled shipping lanes but also plundered many cities on the coasts of greece and asia. pompey was nominated as commander of a special naval task force to campaign against the pirates.[ ][ ] it took pompey just forty days to clear the western portion of the sea of pirates and restore communication between iberia (spain), africa, and italy. in , the senate sent one of sulla's former lieutenants, gnaeus pompeius magnus ("pompey the great"), to put down an uprising in hispania. by , pompey returned to rome after having completed his mission. around the same time, another of sulla's former lieutenants, marcus licinius crassus, had just put down the spartacus-led gladiator/slave revolt in italy. upon their return, pompey and crassus found the populares party fiercely attacking sulla's constitution.[ ] they attempted to forge an agreement with the populares party. if both pompey and crassus were elected consul in , they would dismantle the more obnoxious components of sulla's constitution. the two were soon elected, and quickly dismantled most of sulla's constitution.[ ] a roman marble bust of marcus tullius cicero, musei capitolini, rome around , a movement to use constitutional, or at least peaceful, means to address the plight of various classes began.[ ] after several failures, the movement's leaders decided to use any means that were necessary to accomplish their goals. the movement coalesced under an aristocrat named lucius sergius catilina. the movement was based in the town of faesulae, which was a natural hotbed of agrarian agitation.[ ] the rural malcontents were to advance on rome,[ ] and be aided by an uprising within the city. after assassinating the consuls and most of the senators, catiline would be free to enact his reforms. the conspiracy was set in motion in . the consul for the year, marcus tullius cicero, intercepted messages that catiline had sent in an attempt to recruit more members. as a result, the top conspirators in rome (including at least one former consul) were executed by authorisation (of dubious constitutionality) of the senate, and the planned uprising was disrupted. cicero then sent an army, which cut catiline's forces to pieces. the most important result of the catilinarian conspiracy was that the populares party became discredited. the prior years had witnessed a gradual erosion in senatorial powers. the violent nature of the conspiracy, in conjunction with the senate's skill in disrupting it, did a great deal to repair the senate's image.[ ] triumvirates and end of the republic ( – bc)[edit] first triumvirate ( – bc)[edit] 	 	part of a series on 	ancient rome and the fall of the republic 	 people 	mark antony 	augustus 	brutus 	cato 	cicero 	cleopatra 	clodius pulcher 	crassus 	lepidus 	pompey 	sextus pompey events 	first triumvirate 	caesar's civil war 	assassination of caesar 	second triumvirate 	liberators' civil war 	sicilian revolt 	final war of the roman republic places 	caesareum 	comitium 	curia julia 	curia hostilia 	rostra 	theatre of pompey 	 	v 	t 	e main article: first triumvirate a roman marble head of pompey (now in the ny carlsberg glyptotek) in , pompey returned victorious from asia. the senate, elated by its successes against catiline, refused to ratify the arrangements that pompey had made. pompey, in effect, became powerless. thus, when julius caesar returned from a governorship in spain in , he found it easy to make an arrangement with pompey. caesar and pompey, along with marcus licinius crassus, established a private agreement, now known as the first triumvirate. under the agreement, pompey's arrangements would be ratified. caesar would be elected consul in , and would then serve as governor of gaul for five years. crassus was promised a future consulship.[ ][ ] caesar's consular colleague in , marcus calpurnius bibulus, was an extreme aristocrat. caesar submitted the laws that he had promised pompey to the assemblies. bibulus attempted to obstruct the enactment of these laws, and so caesar used violent means to ensure their passage.[ ] caesar was then made governor of three provinces. he facilitated the election of the former patrician publius clodius pulcher to the tribunate for . clodius set about depriving caesar's senatorial enemies of two of their more obstinate leaders in cato and cicero. clodius was a bitter opponent of cicero because cicero had testified against him in a sacrilege case. clodius attempted to try cicero for executing citizens without a trial during the catiline conspiracy, resulting in cicero going into self-imposed exile and his house in rome being burnt down. clodius also passed a bill that forced cato to lead the invasion of cyprus which would keep him away from rome for some years. clodius also passed a law to expand the previous partial grain subsidy to a fully free grain dole for citizens.[ ] map of the gallic wars 	 	v 	t 	e gallic wars 	 	magetobriga ( bc) 	arar ( bc) 	bibracte ( bc) 	vosges ( bc) 	axona ( bc) 	sabis ( bc) 	atuatuci ( bc) 	octodurus ( – bc) 	britain ( - bc) 	ambiorix's revolt ( – bc) 	avaricum ( bc) 	gergovia ( bc) 	lutetia ( bc) 	alesia ( bc) 	uxellodunum ( bc) during his term as praetor in the iberian peninsula (modern portugal and spain), pompey's contemporary julius caesar defeated two local tribes in battle.[ ] after his term as consul in , he was appointed to a five-year term as the proconsular governor of cisalpine gaul (part of current northern italy), transalpine gaul (current southern france) and illyria (part of the modern balkans).[ ][ ] not content with an idle governorship, caesar strove to find reason to invade gaul (modern france and belgium), which would give him the dramatic military success he sought. when two local tribes began to migrate on a route that would take them near (not into) the roman province of transalpine gaul, caesar had the barely sufficient excuse he needed for his gallic wars, fought between and . caesar defeated large armies at major battles and . in and he made two expeditions into britain, the first roman to do so. caesar then defeated a union of gauls at the battle of alesia,[ ] completing the roman conquest of transalpine gaul. by , all of gaul lay in roman hands. clodius formed armed gangs that terrorised the city and eventually began to attack pompey's followers, who in response funded counter-gangs formed by titus annius milo. the political alliance of the triumvirate was crumbling. domitius ahenobarbus ran for the consulship in promising to take caesar's command from him. eventually, the triumvirate was renewed at lucca. pompey and crassus were promised the consulship in , and caesar's term as governor was extended for five years. beginning in the summer of , a wave of political corruption and violence swept rome.[ ] this chaos reached a climax in january of bc, when clodius was murdered in a gang war by milo. in , crassus launched a roman invasion of the parthian empire (modern iraq and iran). after initial successes,[ ] he marched his army deep into the desert;[ ] but here his army was cut off deep in enemy territory, surrounded and slaughtered at the battle of carrhae in which crassus himself perished. the death of crassus removed some of the balance in the triumvirate and, consequently, caesar and pompey began to move apart. while caesar was fighting in gaul, pompey proceeded with a legislative agenda for rome that revealed that he was at best ambivalent towards caesar[ ] and perhaps now covertly allied with caesar's political enemies. pompey's wife, julia, who was caesar's daughter, died in childbirth. this event severed the last remaining bond between pompey and caesar. in , some roman senators demanded that caesar not be permitted to stand for consul unless he turned over control of his armies to the state, which would have left caesar defenceless before his enemies. caesar chose civil war over laying down his command and facing trial. caesar's civil war and dictatorship ( – bc)[edit] 	 	v 	t 	e caesar's civil war 	 	corfinium 	brundisium 	curicta 	massilia (land) 	ilerda 	massilia (naval) 	tauroento 	utica 	bagradas 	salona 	dyrrhachium 	gomphi 	pharsalus 	nicopolis 	alexandria 	tauris 	nile 	zela 	ruspina 	thapsus 	hippo regius 	carteia 	munda 	corduba 	lauro 	apamea 	baetis the curia julia, the roman senate house established by julius caesar in bc and completed by octavian in bc, replacing the curia cornelia as the meeting place of the senate main article: assassination of julius caesar on january , an agent of caesar presented an ultimatum to the senate. the ultimatum was rejected, and the senate then passed a resolution which declared that if caesar did not lay down his arms by july of that year, he would be considered an enemy of the republic.[ ] meanwhile, the senators adopted pompey as their new champion against caesar. on january of , the senate passed a senatus consultum ultimum, which vested pompey with dictatorial powers. pompey's army, however, was composed largely of untested conscripts. on january, caesar with his veteran army crossed the river rubicon, the legal boundary of roman italy beyond which no commander might bring his army, in violation of roman laws, and by the spring of swept down the italian peninsula towards rome. caesar's rapid advance forced pompey, the consuls and the senate to abandon rome for greece. caesar entered the city unopposed. afterwards caesar turned his attention to the pompeian stronghold of hispania (modern spain)[ ] but decided to tackle pompey himself in greece.[ ] pompey initially defeated caesar, but failed to follow up on the victory, and was decisively defeated at the battle of pharsalus in ,[ ] despite outnumbering caesar's forces two to one, albeit with inferior quality troops.[ ] pompey fled again, this time to egypt, where he was murdered. pompey's death did not end the civil war, as caesar's many enemies fought on. in caesar lost perhaps as much as a third of his army, but ultimately came back to defeat the pompeian army of metellus scipio in the battle of thapsus, after which the pompeians retreated yet again to hispania. caesar then defeated the combined pompeian forces at the battle of munda. the tusculum portrait, a roman sculpture of julius caesar, archaeological museum of turin, italy with pompey defeated and order restored, caesar wanted to achieve undisputed control over the government. the powers which he gave himself were later assumed by his imperial successors.[ ] his assumption of these powers decreased the authority of rome's other political institutions. caesar held both the dictatorship and the tribunate, and alternated between the consulship and the proconsulship.[ ] in , caesar was given permanent tribunician powers. this made his person sacrosanct, gave him the power to veto the senate, and allowed him to dominate the plebeian council. in , caesar was given censorial powers,[ ] which he used to fill the senate with his own partisans. caesar then raised the membership of the senate to .[ ] this robbed the senatorial aristocracy of its prestige, and made it increasingly subservient to him. while the assemblies continued to meet, he submitted all candidates to them for election, as well as all bills for enactment. thus, the group became powerless and were unable to oppose him.[clarification needed][ ] near the end of his life, caesar began to prepare for a war against the parthian empire. since his absence from rome would limit his ability to install his own consuls, he passed a law before his death which allowed him to appoint all magistrates, and later all consuls and tribunes. this transformed the magistrates from representatives of the people to representatives of the dictator.[ ] caesar was now the primary figure of the roman state, enforcing and entrenching his powers. his enemies feared that he had ambitions to become an autocratic ruler. arguing that the roman republic was in danger, a group of senators led by gaius cassius and marcus brutus hatched a conspiracy and assassinated caesar at a meeting of the senate on march .[ ] most of the conspirators were senators, who had a variety of economic, political, or personal motivations for carrying out the assassination. many were afraid that caesar would soon resurrect the monarchy and declare himself king. others feared loss of property or prestige as caesar carried out his land reforms in favor of the landless classes. virtually all the conspirators fled the city after caesar's death in fear of retaliation. the civil war that followed destroyed what was left of the republic.[ ] second triumvirate[edit] this mid- st-century-bc roman wall painting in pompeii is probably a depiction of cleopatra vii as venus genetrix, with her son caesarion as cupid. its owner marcus fabius rufus most likely ordered its concealment behind a wall in reaction to the execution of caesarion on orders of octavian in bc.[ ][ ] after the assassination, marcus antonius (mark antony) formed an alliance with caesar's adopted son and great-nephew, gaius octavianus (octavian), along with marcus lepidus. known as the second triumvirate,[ ] they held powers that were nearly identical to the powers that caesar had held under his constitution. as such, the senate and assemblies remained powerless, even after caesar had been assassinated. the conspirators were then defeated at the battle of philippi in . although brutus defeated octavian, antony defeated cassius, who committed suicide. brutus did likewise soon afterwards. however, civil war flared again when the alliance failed. the ambitious octavian built a power base of patronage and then launched a campaign against mark antony.[ ] at the naval battle of actium in off the coast of greece, octavian decisively defeated antony and cleopatra of ptolemaic egypt. octavian was granted a series of special powers including sole "imperium" within the city of rome, permanent consular powers and credit for every roman military victory, since all future generals were assumed to be acting under his command. in octavian was granted the use of the names "augustus", indicating his primary status above all other romans, "princeps", which he used to refer to himself as in public, and he adopted the title "imperator caesar" making him the first roman emperor.[ ] constitutional system[edit] main article: constitution of the roman republic main article: history of the constitution of the roman republic further information: elections in the roman republic the constitutional history of the roman republic began with the revolution which overthrew the monarchy in bc, and ended with constitutional reforms that transformed the republic into what would effectively be the roman empire, in bc. the constitution of the roman republic was a constantly-evolving, unwritten set of guidelines and principles passed down mainly through precedent, by which the government and its politics operated.[ ] throughout the history of the republic, changes in the constitution were driven by conflicts of interest between the aristocracy and ordinary citizens. senate[edit] main article: senate of the roman republic the senate's ultimate authority derived from the esteem and prestige of the senators.[ ] this esteem and prestige was based on both precedent and custom, as well as the caliber and reputation of the senators. the senate passed decrees, which were called senatus consulta. these were officially "advice" from the senate to a magistrate. in practice, however, they were usually followed by the magistrates.[ ] the focus of the roman senate was usually directed towards foreign policy. though it technically had no official role in the management of military conflict, the senate ultimately was the force that oversaw such affairs. this was due to the senate's explicit power over the state's budget and in military affairs.[ ] the power of the senate expanded over time as the power of the legislative assemblies declined, and the senate took a greater role in ordinary law-making. its members were usually appointed by roman censors, who ordinarily selected newly elected magistrates for membership in the senate, making the senate a partially elected body. during times of military emergency, such as the civil wars of the st century, this practice became less prevalent, as the roman dictator, triumvir or the senate itself would select its members. towards the end of the republic, the senate could enact a senatus consultus ultimum in times of emergency, instead of appointing a dictator.[citation needed] legislative assemblies[edit] the roman forum, the commercial, cultural, religious, and political center of the city and the republic which housed the various offices and meeting places of the government main article: legislative assemblies of the roman republic the legal status of roman citizenship was limited and was a vital prerequisite to possessing many important legal rights such as the right to trial and appeal, to marry, to vote, to hold office, to enter binding contracts, and to special tax exemptions. an adult male citizen with the full complement of legal and political rights was called "optimo jure." the optimo jure elected their assemblies, whereupon the assemblies elected magistrates, enacted legislation, presided over trials in capital cases, declared war and peace, and forged or dissolved treaties. there were two types of legislative assemblies. the first was the comitia ("committees"),[ ] which were assemblies of all optimo jure. the second was the concilia ("councils"), which were assemblies of specific groups of optimo jure.[ ] citizens were organized on the basis of centuries and tribes, which would each gather into their own assemblies. the comitia centuriata ("centuriate assembly") was the assembly of the centuries (i.e., soldiers). the president of the comitia centuriata was usually a consul. the centuries would vote, one at a time, until a measure received support from a majority of the centuries. the comitia centuriata would elect magistrates who had the imperium powers (consuls and praetors). it also elected censors. only the comitia centuriata could declare war, and ratify the results of a census.[ ] it also served as the highest court of appeal in certain judicial cases. the assembly of the tribes (i.e., the citizens of rome), the comitia tributa, was presided over by a consul, and was composed of tribes. the tribes were not ethnic or kinship groups, but rather geographical subdivisions.[ ] the order that the thirty-five tribes would vote in was selected randomly by lot.[ ] once a measure received support from a majority of the tribes, the voting would end. while it did not pass many laws, the comitia tributa did elect quaestors, curule aediles, and military tribunes.[ ] the plebeian council[ ] was identical to the assembly of the tribes, but excluded the patricians. they elected their own officers, plebeian tribunes and plebeian aediles. usually a plebeian tribune would preside over the assembly. this assembly passed most laws, and could also act as a court of appeal. magistrates[edit] main article: executive magistrates of the roman republic each republican magistrate held certain constitutional powers. each was assigned a provincia by the senate. this was the scope of that particular office holder's authority. it could apply to a geographic area or to a particular responsibility or task.[ ] the powers of a magistrate came from the people of rome (both plebeians and patricians).[ ] the imperium was held by both consuls and praetors. strictly speaking, it was the authority to command a military force. in reality, however, it carried broad authority in the other public spheres such as diplomacy, and the justice system. in extreme cases, those with the imperium power were able to sentence roman citizens to death. all magistrates also had the power of coercitio (coercion). this was used by magistrates to maintain public order by imposing punishment for crimes.[ ] magistrates also had both the power and the duty to look for omens. this power could also be used to obstruct political opponents. one check on a magistrate's power was called collega (collegiality). each magisterial office would be held concurrently by at least two people. another such check was provocatio. while in rome, all citizens were protected from coercion, by provocatio, which was an early form of due process. it was a precursor to habeas corpus. if any magistrate tried to use the powers of the state against a citizen, that citizen could appeal the decision of the magistrate to a tribune. in addition, once a magistrate's one-year term of office expired, he would have to wait ten years before serving in that office again. this created problems for some consuls and praetors, and these magistrates would occasionally have their imperium extended. in effect, they would retain the powers of the office (as a promagistrate), without officially holding that office.[ ] the consuls of the roman republic were the highest ranking ordinary magistrates. each served for one year.[ ] they retained several elements of the former kingly regalia, such as the toga praetexta, and the fasces, which represented the power to inflict physical punishment. consular powers included the kings' former "power to command" (imperium) and appointment of new senators. consuls had supreme power in both civil and military matters. while in the city of rome, the consuls were the head of the roman government. they would preside over the senate and the assemblies. while abroad, each consul would command an army.[ ] his authority abroad would be nearly absolute. praetors administered civil law[ ] and commanded provincial armies. every five years, two censors were elected for an -month term, during which they would conduct a census. during the census, they could enroll citizens in the senate, or purge them from the senate.[ ] aediles were officers elected to conduct domestic affairs in rome, such as managing public games and shows. the quaestors would usually assist the consuls in rome, and the governors in the provinces. their duties were often financial. since the tribunes were considered to be the embodiment of the plebeians, they were sacrosanct. their sacrosanctity was enforced by a pledge, taken by the plebeians, to kill any person who harmed or interfered with a tribune during his term of office. it was a capital offense to harm a tribune, to disregard his veto, or to otherwise interfere with him.[ ] in times of military emergency, a dictator would be appointed for a term of six months.[ ] constitutional government would be dissolved, and the dictator would be the absolute master of the state. when the dictator's term ended, constitutional government would be restored. military[edit] 	 	part of a series on the 	military of ancient rome bc – ad 	 structural history 	 army 	 	unit types and ranks 	decorations and punishments 	legions 	auxilia 	generals 	 navy 	 	fleets 	admirals 	 campaign history 	wars and battles 	 technological history 	 military engineering 	 	castra 	siege engines 	triumphal arches 	roads 	 political history   	 strategy and tactics 	 	infantry tactics 	 frontiers and fortifications 	 	limes 	limes britannicus 	antonine wall 	hadrian's wall 	saxon shore 	limes germanicus 	alb limes 	lauter valley limes 	lower germanic limes 	main limes 	neckar-odenwald limes 	upper germanic-rhaetian limes 	wetterau limes 	danube–iller–rhine limes 	norican limes 	claustra alpium iuliarum 	pannonian limes 	limes alutanus 	limes moesiae 	trajan's wall 	anastasian wall 	limes sarmatiae 	limes arabicus 	limes tripolitanus 	limes mauretaniae 	  ancient rome portal •  war portal 	 	v 	t 	e main article: structural history of the roman military rome's military secured rome's territory and borders, and helped to impose tribute on conquered peoples. rome's armies had a formidable reputation; but rome also "produced [its] share of incompetents"[ ] and catastrophic defeats. nevertheless, it was generally the fate of rome's greatest enemies, such as pyrrhus and hannibal,[ ] to win early battles but lose the war. hoplite armies ( –c. bc)[edit] main article: phalanx during this period, roman soldiers seem to have been modelled after those of the etruscans to the north,[ ] who themselves are believed to have copied their style of warfare from the greeks. traditionally, the introduction of the phalanx formation into the roman army is ascribed to the city's penultimate king, servius tullius (ruled – ).[ ] according to livy[ ] and dionysius of halicarnassus,[ ] the front rank was composed of the wealthiest citizens, who were able to purchase the best equipment. each subsequent rank consisted of those with less wealth and poorer equipment than the one before it. the phalanx was effective in large, open spaces, but not on the hilly terrain of the central italian peninsula. in the th century, the romans replaced it with the more flexible manipular formation. this change is sometimes attributed to marcus furius camillus and placed shortly after the gallic invasion of ; more likely, it was copied from rome's samnite enemies to the south,[ ] following the second samnite war ( – ).[ ] manipular legion (c. – bc)[edit] detail from the ahenobarbus relief showing (centre-right) two roman foot-soldiers c. bc. note the montefortino-style helmets with horsehair plume, chain mail cuirasses with shoulder reinforcement, oval shields with calfskin covers, gladius and pilum. during this period, an army formation of around , men (of both heavy and light infantry) was known as a legion. the manipular army was based upon social class, age and military experience.[ ] maniples were units of men each drawn from a single infantry class. they were typically deployed into three discrete lines based on the three heavy infantry types: 	the first line maniple were the hastati, leather-armoured infantry soldiers who wore a bronze breastplate and a bronze helmet adorned with feathers approximately  cm (  in) in height and carried an iron-clad wooden shield. they were armed with a sword and two throwing spears. 	the second line were the principes. they were armed and armoured in the same manner as the hastati, but wore a lighter coat of mail rather than a solid brass breastplate. 	the triarii formed the third line. they were the last remnant of the hoplite-style troops in the roman army. they were armed and armoured like the principes, with the exception that they carried a lighter spear.[ ] the three infantry classes[ ] may have retained some slight parallel to social divisions within roman society, but at least officially the three lines were based upon age and experience rather than social class. young, unproven men would serve in the first line, older men with some military experience would serve in the second line, and veteran troops of advanced age and experience would serve in the third line. the heavy infantry of the maniples were supported by a number of light infantry and cavalry troops, typically horsemen per manipular legion.[ ] the cavalry was drawn primarily from the richest class of equestrians. there was an additional class of troops who followed the army without specific martial roles and were deployed to the rear of the third line. their role in accompanying the army was primarily to supply any vacancies that might occur in the maniples. the light infantry consisted of , unarmoured skirmishing troops drawn from the youngest and lower social classes. they were armed with a sword and a small shield, as well as several light javelins. rome's military confederation with the other peoples of the italian peninsula meant that half of rome's army was provided by the socii, such as the etruscans, umbrians, apulians, campanians, samnites, lucani, bruttii, and the various southern greek cities. polybius states that rome could draw on , men at the beginning of the second punic war, of which , were infantry and , met the requirements for cavalry. rome's italian allies would be organized in alae, or wings, roughly equal in manpower to the roman legions, though with cavalry instead of . the "togatus barberini", depicting a roman senator holding the imagines (effigies) of deceased ancestors in his hands; marble, late st century bc; head (not belonging): mid st century bc a small navy had operated at a fairly low level after about , but it was massively upgraded about forty years later, during the first punic war. after a period of frenetic construction, the navy mushroomed to a size of more than ships on the carthaginian ("punic") pattern. once completed, it could accommodate up to , sailors and embarked troops for battle. the navy thereafter declined in size.[ ] the extraordinary demands of the punic wars, in addition to a shortage of manpower, exposed the tactical weaknesses of the manipular legion, at least in the short term.[ ] in , near the beginning of the second punic war, rome was forced to effectively ignore its long-standing principle that its soldiers must be both citizens and property owners. during the nd century, roman territory saw an overall decline in population,[ ] partially due to the huge losses incurred during various wars. this was accompanied by severe social stresses and the greater collapse of the middle classes. as a result, the roman state was forced to arm its soldiers at the expense of the state, which it did not have to do in the past. the distinction between the heavy infantry types began to blur, perhaps because the state was now assuming the responsibility of providing standard-issue equipment. in addition, the shortage of available manpower led to a greater burden being placed upon rome's allies for the provision of allied troops.[ ] eventually, the romans were forced to begin hiring mercenaries to fight alongside the legions.[ ] legion after the reforms of gaius marius ( – bc)[edit] main article: roman army of the late republic in a process known as the marian reforms, roman consul gaius marius carried out a programme of reform of the roman military.[ ] in , all citizens, regardless of their wealth or social class, were made eligible for entry into the roman army. this move formalised and concluded a gradual process that had been growing for centuries, of removing property requirements for military service.[ ] the distinction among the three heavy infantry classes, which had already become blurred, had collapsed into a single class of heavy legionary infantry. the heavy infantry legionaries were drawn from citizen stock, while non-citizens came to dominate the ranks of the light infantry. the army's higher-level officers and commanders were still drawn exclusively from the roman aristocracy.[ ] unlike earlier in the republic, legionaries were no longer fighting on a seasonal basis to protect their land. instead, they received standard pay, and were employed by the state on a fixed-term basis. as a consequence, military duty began to appeal most to the poorest sections of society, to whom a salaried pay was attractive. a destabilising consequence of this development was that the proletariat "acquired a stronger and more elevated position"[ ] within the state. the legions of the late republic were almost entirely heavy infantry. the main legionary sub-unit was a cohort of approximately infantrymen, further divided into six centuries of men each.[ ] each century comprised "tent groups" of men. cavalry were used as scouts and dispatch riders, rather than as battlefield forces.[ ] legions also contained a dedicated group of artillery crew of perhaps men. each legion was normally partnered with an approximately equal number of allied (non-roman) troops.[ ] the army's most obvious deficiency lay in its shortage of cavalry, especially heavy cavalry.[ ] particularly in the east, rome's slow-moving infantry legions were often confronted by fast-moving cavalry-troops, and found themselves at a tactical disadvantage. a roman naval bireme depicted in a relief from the temple of fortuna primigenia in praeneste,[ ] c. bc;[ ] now in the museo pio-clementino in the vatican museums temple of janus as seen in the present church of san nicola in carcere, in the forum holitorium of rome, italy, dedicated by gaius duilius after his naval victory at the battle of mylae in bc[ ] following rome's subjugation of the mediterranean, its navy declined in size although it would undergo short-term upgrading and revitalisation in the late republic to meet several new demands. julius caesar assembled a fleet to cross the english channel and invade britannia. pompey raised a fleet to deal with the cilician pirates who threatened rome's mediterranean trading routes. during the civil war that followed, as many as a thousand ships were either constructed or pressed into service from greek cities.[ ] social structure[edit] main article: social class in ancient rome citizen families were headed by the family's oldest male, the pater familias, who was lawfully entitled to exercise complete authority (patria potestas) over family property and all family members. brutus, co-founder of the republic, is supposed to have exercised the extreme form of this right when he executed his own sons for treachery.[ ] citizenship offered legal protection and rights, but citizens who offended rome's traditional moral code could be declared infamous, and lose certain legal and social privileges.[ ] citizenship was also taxable, and undischarged debt was potentially a capital offence. a form of limited, theoretically voluntary slavery (debt bondage, or nexum) allowed wealthy creditors to negotiate payment of debt through bonded service. poor, landless citizens of the lowest class (proletarii) might contract their sons to a creditor, patron or third party employer to obtain an income, or to pay off family debts. nexum was only abolished when slave labour became more readily available, most notably during the punic wars.[ ][ ][ ] an inscribed funerary relief of aurelius hermia and his wife aurelia philematum, former slaves who married after their manumission, bc, from a tomb along the via nomentana in rome slaves were simultaneously family members and family property. they could be bought, sold, acquired through warfare, or born and raised within their master's household,. they could also buy their freedom with money saved or the offer of future services as a freedman or woman, and their sons could be eligible for citizenship; this degree of social mobility was unusual in the ancient world. freed slaves and the master who freed them retained certain legal and moral mutual obligations. this was the bottom rung of one of rome's fundamental social and economic institutions, the client-patron relationship. at the top rung were the senatorial families of the landowning nobility, both patrician and plebeian, bound by shifting allegiances and mutual competition. a plebiscite of forbade senators and their sons to engage in substantial trade or money-lending.[ ][ ] a wealthy equestrian class emerged, not subject to the same trading constraints as the senate.[ ] citizen men and citizen women were expected to marry, produce as many children as possible, and improve – or at worst, conserve – their family's wealth, fortune, and public profile. marriage offered opportunities for political alliance and social advancement. patricians usually married in a form known as confarreatio, which transferred the bride from her father's absolute control or "hand" (manus) to that of her husband.[ ] patrician status could only be inherited through birth; an early law, introduced by the reactionary decemviri but rescinded in , sought to prevent marriages between patricians and plebeians; any resulting offspring may not have been legally recognised.[ ] among ordinary plebeians, different marriage forms offered married women considerable more freedom than their patrician counterparts, until manus marriage was replaced by free marriage, in which the wife remained under the legal authority of her absent father, not her husband.[ ] infant mortality was high. towards the end of the republic, the birthrate began to fall among the elite. some wealthy, childless citizens resorted to adoption to provide male heirs for their estates, and to forge political alliances. adoption was subject to the senate's approval; the notoriously unconventional patrician politician publius clodius pulcher had himself and his family adopted into a plebeian clan, so that he could hold a plebeian tribunate. trade and economy[edit] farming[edit] main article: roman agriculture the republic was created during a time of warfare, economic recession, food shortages, and plebeian debt. in wartime, plebeian farmers were liable to conscription. in peacetime, most depended on whatever cereal crops they could produce on small farming plots, allotted to them by the state, or by patrons. soil fertility varied from place to place, and natural water sources were unevenly distributed throughout the landscape. in good years, a pleb small-holder might trade a small surplus, to meet his family's needs, or to buy the armatures required for his military service. in other years, crop failure through soil exhaustion, adverse weather, disease or military incursions could lead to poverty, unsupported borrowing, and debt. nobles invested much of their wealth in ever-larger, more efficient farming units, exploiting a range of soil conditions though mixed farming techniques. as farming was labour-intensive, and military conscription reduced the pool of available manpower, over time the wealthy became ever more reliant upon the increasingly plentiful slave-labour provided by successful military campaigns.[ ][ ][ ] well managed agricultural estates helped provide for clients and dependents, support an urban family home, and fund the owner's public and military career. large estates yielded cash for bribes, and security for borrowing. later roman moralists idealised farming as an intrinsically noble occupation: cincinnatus left off his ploughing reluctantly, to serve as dictator, and returned once his state duties were done.[ ][ ][ ] in law, land taken by conquest was ager publicus (public land). in practise, much of it was exploited by the nobility, using slaves rather than free labour. rome's expansionist wars and colonisations were at least partly driven by the land-hunger of displaced peasants, who must otherwise join the swelling, dependent population of urban plebs.[ ] at the end of the second punic war, rome added the fertile ager campanus, suitable for intense cultivation of vines, olives and cereals. like the grain-fields of sicily – seized after the same conflict – it was likely farmed extra-legally by leading landowners, using slave-gangs. a portion of sicily's grain harvest was sent to rome as tribute, for redistribution by the aediles.[ ][ ] the urban plebs increasingly relied on firstly subsidised, then free grain.[ ] ruins of the aqua anio vetus, a roman aqueduct built in bc with the introduction of aqueducts (from ), suburban market-farms could be supplied with run-off or waste aqueduct water. perishable commodities such as flowers (for perfumes, and festival garlands), fresh grapes, vegetables and orchard fruits, and small livestock such as pigs and chickens, could be farmed close to municipal and urban markets.[ ] in the early nd century cato the elder tried to block the illicit tapping of rural aqueducts by the elite, who thus exploited the increased productivity of cheaply bought, formerly "dry" farmland; a law was duly passed, but fines for abuses, and taxes on profits, proved more realistic solutions than an outright ban. food surpluses, no matter how obtained, kept prices low.[ ][ ] faced with increasing competition from provincial and allied grain suppliers, many roman farmers turned to more profitable crops, especially grapes for wine production. by the late republican era, roman wine had been transformed from an indifferent local product for local consumption, to a major domestic and export commodity.[ ][ ] roman writers have little to say about large-scale stock-breeding, but make passing references to its profitability. drummond speculates that this might reflect elite preoccupations with historical grain famines, or long-standing competition between agriculturalists and pastoralists. while agriculture was a seasonal practise, pasturage was a year-round requirement. some of republican rome's early agricultural legislation sought to balance the competing public grazing rights of small farmers, the farming elite, and transhumant pastoralists, who maintained an ancient right to herd, graze and water their animals between low-lying winter pastures and upland summer pastures. from the early second century, transhumance was practised on a vast scale, as an investment opportunity.[ ][ ] though meat and hides were valuable by products of stock-raising, cattle were primarily reared to pull carts and ploughs, and sheep were bred for their wool, the mainstay of the roman clothing industry. horses, mules and donkeys were bred as civil and military transport. pigs bred prolifically, and could be raised at little cost by any small farmer with rights to pannage. their central dietary role is reflected by their use as sacrificial victims in domestic cults, funerals, and cults to agricultural deities.[ ] religion[edit] main article: religion in ancient rome further information: list of ancient roman deities and list of roman agricultural deities the temple of portunus, god of grain storage, keys, livestock and ports.[ ] rome, built between and bc the tomb of the flavii, a necropolis outside the nucerian gate (porta nocera) of pompeii, italy, constructed – bc republican rome's religious practises harked back to rome's quasi-mythical history.[ ][ ] romulus, a son of mars, founded rome after jupiter granted him favourable bird-signs regarding the site.[ ] numa pompilius, second king of rome, had established rome's basic religious and political institutions after direct instructions from the gods, given through augury, dreams and oracle. each king thereafter was credited with some form of divinely approved innovation, adaptation or reform.[ ] an imperial-era source claims that the republic's first consul, brutus, effectively abolished human sacrifice to the goddess mania, instituted by the last king, tarquinius.[ ] romans acknowledged the existence of innumerable deities who controlled the natural world and human affairs. every individual, occupation and location had a protective tutelary deity, or sometimes several. each was associated with a particular, highly prescriptive form of prayer and sacrifice. piety (pietas) was the correct, dutiful and timely performance of such actions. the well-being of each roman household was thought to depend on daily cult to its lares and penates (guardian deities, or spirits), ancestors, and the divine generative essence embodied within its pater familias. a family which neglected its religious responsibilities could not expect to prosper.[ ] the well-being of the roman state depended on its state deities, whose opinions and will could be discerned by priests and magistrates, trained in augury, haruspicy, oracles and the interpretation of omens. impieties in state religion could produce expressions of divine wrath such as social unrest, wars, famines and epidemics, vitiate the political process, render elections null and void, and lead to the abandonment of planned treaties, wars and any government business. accidental errors could be remedied by repeating the rite correctly, or by an additional sacrifice; outright sacrilege threatened the bonds between the human and divine, and carried the death penalty. as divine retribution was invoked in the lawful swearing of oaths and vows, oath-breakers forfeited their right to divine protection, and might be killed with impunity.[ ] roman religious authorities were unconcerned with personal beliefs or privately funded cults, unless they offended natural or divine laws, or undermined the mos maiorum (roughly, "the way of the ancestors"); the relationship between gods and mortals should be sober, contractual, and of mutual benefit. undignified grovelling, excessive enthusiasm (superstitio) and secretive practises were "weak minded" and morally suspect.[ ] magical practises were officially banned, as attempts to subvert the will of the gods for personal gain, but were probably common among all classes. private cult organisations that seemed to threaten rome's political and priestly hierarchy were investigated by the senate, with advice from the priestly colleges. the republic's most notable religious suppression was that of the bacchanalia, a widespread, unofficial, enthusiastic cult to the greek wine-god bacchus. the cult organisation was ferociously suppressed, and its deity was absorbed within the official cult to rome's own wine-god, liber.[ ] the official recognition, adoption and supervision of foreign deities and practices, whether etruscan, sabine, latin or colonial greek, had been an important unitary feature in rome's territorial expansion and dominance since the days of the kings. for example, king servius tullius had established an aventine temple to diana as a roman focus for the latin league.[ ][ ] the gods were thought to communicate their wrath (ira deorum) through prodigies (unnatural or aberrant phenomena). during the crisis of the second punic war an unprecedented number of reported prodigies were expiated, in more than twenty days of public ritual and sacrifices. in the same period, rome recruited the "trojan" magna mater (great mother of the gods) to the roman cause, "hellenised" the native roman cult to ceres; and took control of the bacchanalia festival in rome and its allied territories. following rome's disastrous defeat at cannae, the state's most prominent written oracle recommended the living burial of human victims in the forum boarium to placate the gods.[ ][ ] livy describes this "bloodless" human sacrifice as an abhorrent but pious necessity; rome's eventual victory confirmed the gods' approval.[ ] starting in the mid-republican era, some leading romans publicly displayed special, sometimes even intimate relationships with particular deities. for instance, scipio africanus claimed jupiter as a personal mentor. some gentes claimed a divine descent, often thanks to a false etymology of their name; the caecilii metelli pretended to descend from vulcan through his son caeculus, the mamilii from circe through her granddaughter mamilia, the julii caesares and the aemilii from venus through her grandsons iulus and aemylos. in the st century, sulla, pompey, and caesar made competing claims for venus' favour.[ ][ ][ ] priesthoods[edit] with the abolition of monarchy, some of its sacral duties were shared by the consuls, while others passed to a republican rex sacrorum (king of the sacred rites"), a patrician "king", elected for life, with great prestige but no executive or kingly powers.[ ] rome had no specifically priestly class or caste. as every family's pater familias was responsible for his family's cult activities, he was effectively the senior priest of his own household. likewise, most priests of public cult were expected to marry, produce children, and support their families.[ ] in the early republic the patricians, as "fathers" to the roman people, claimed the right of seniority to lead and control the state's relationship with the divine. patrician families, in particular the cornelii, postumii and valerii, monopolised the leading state priesthoods: the flamines of jupiter, mars and quirinus, as well as the pontifices. the patrician flamen dialis employed the "greater auspices" (auspicia maiora) to consult with jupiter on significant matters of state. twelve "lesser flaminates" (flamines minores), were open to plebeians, or reserved to them. they included a flamen cerealis in service of ceres, goddess of grain and growth, and protector of plebeian laws and tribunes.[ ] the plebs had their own forms of augury, which they credited to marsyas, a satyr or silen in the entourage of liber, plebeian god of grapes, wine, freedom and male fertility.[ ] the priesthoods of local urban and rustic compitalia street-festivals, dedicated to the lares of local communities, were open to freedmen and slaves, to whom "even the heavy-handed cato recommended liberality during the festival"; so that the slaves, "being softened by this instance of humanity, which has something great and solemn about it, may make themselves more agreeable to their masters and be less sensible of the severity of their condition".[ ] denarius of lucius caesius, – bc. on the obverse is apollo, as written on the monogram behind his head, who also wears the attributes of vejovis, an obscure deity. the obverse depicts a group of statues representing the lares praestites, which was described by ovid.[ ][ ] the lex ogulnia ( ) gave patricians and plebeians more-or-less equal representation in the augural and pontifical colleges;[ ] other important priesthoods, such as the quindecimviri ("the fifteen"), and the epulones[ ] were opened to any member of the senatorial class.[ ] to restrain the accumulation and potential abuse of priestly powers, each gens was permitted one priesthood at any given time, and the religious activities of senators were monitored by the censors.[ ] magistrates who held an augurate could claim divine authority for their position and policies.[ ][ ] in the late republic, augury came under the control of the pontifices, whose powers were increasingly woven into the civil and military cursus honorum. eventually, the office of pontifex maximus became a de facto consular prerogative.[ ] some cults may have been exclusively female; for example, the rites of the good goddess (bona dea). towards the end of the second punic war, rome rewarded priestesses of demeter from graeca magna with roman citizenship for training respectable, leading matrons assacerdotes of "greek rites" to ceres.[ ] every matron of a family (the wife of its pater familias) had a religious duty to maintain the household fire, which was considered an extension of vesta's sacred fire, tended in perpetuity by the chaste vestal virgins. the vestals also made the sacrificial mola salsa employed in many state rituals, and represent an essential link between domestic and state religion. rome's survival was thought to depend on their sacred status and ritual purity. vestals found guilty of inchastity were "willingly" buried alive, to expiate their offence and avoid the imposition of blood-guilt on those who inflicted the punishment.[ ][ ] temples and festivals[edit] further information: roman temple, roman festival, roman calendar, and fasti inside the "temple of mercury" or temple of echo at baiae, containing one of the largest domes in the world before the building of the pantheon, rome in the nd century ad rome's major public temples were contained within the city's sacred, augural boundary (pomerium), which had supposedly been marked out by romulus, with jupiter's approval. the temple of jupiter optimus maximus ("jupiter, best and greatest") stood on the capitoline hill. among the settled areas outside the pomerium was the nearby aventine hill. it was traditionally associated with romulus' unfortunate twin, remus, and in later history with the latins, and the roman plebs. the aventine seems to have functioned as a place for the introduction of "foreign" deities.[ ] in , camillus established a temple there to juno regina, etruscan veii's protective goddess. later introductions include summanus, c. , vortumnus c. , and at some time before the end of the rd century, minerva.[ ] while ceres' aventine temple was most likely built at patrician expense, to mollify the plebs, the patricians brought the magna mater ("great mother of the gods") to rome as their own "trojan" ancestral goddess, and installed her on the palatine, along with her distinctively "un-roman" galli priesthood.[ ] romulus was said to have pitched his augural tent atop the palatine. beneath its southern slopes ran the sacred way, next to the former palace of the kings (regia), the house of the vestals and temple of vesta. close by were the lupercal shrine and the cave where romulus and remus were said to have been suckled by the she-wolf. on the flat area between the aventine and palatine was the circus maximus, which hosted chariot races and religious games. its several shrines and temples included those to rome's indigenous sun god, sol, the moon-goddess luna, the grain-storage god, consus, and the obscure goddess murcia. a temple to hercules stood in the forum boarium, near the circus starting gate. every district (vicus) of the city had a crossroads shrine to its own protective lares. whereas republican (and thereafter, imperial) romans marked the passage of years with the names of their ruling consuls, their calendars marked the anniversaries of religious foundations to particular deities, the days when official business was permitted (fas), and those when it was not (nefas). the romans observed an eight-day week; markets were held on the ninth day. each month was presided over by a particular, usually major deity. the oldest calendars were lunar, structured around the most significant periods in the agricultural cycle, and the religious duties required to yield a good harvest. in the military[edit] denarius of caesar, minted just before his murder, in bc. it was the first roman coin bearing the portrait of a living person. the lituus and culullus depicted behind his head refer to his augurate and pontificate. the reverse with venus alludes to his claimed descent from the goddess.[ ] before any campaign or battle, roman commanders took auspices, or haruspices, to seek the gods' opinion regarding the likely outcome. military success was achieved through a combination of personal and collective virtus (roughly, "manly virtue") and divine will. triumphal generals dressed as jupiter capitolinus, and laid their victor's laurels at his feet. religious negligence, or lack of virtus, provoked divine wrath and led to military disaster.[ ][ ] military oaths dedicated the oath-takers life to rome's gods and people; defeated soldiers were expected to take their own lives, rather than survive as captives. examples of devotio, as performed by the decii mures, in which soldiers offered and gave their lives to the di inferi (gods of the underworld) in exchange for roman victory were celebrated as the highest good. some of republican rome's leading deities were acquired through military actions. in the earliest years of the republic, camillus promised veii's goddess juno a temple in rome as incentive for her desertion (evocatio). he conquered the city in her name, brought her cult statue to rome "with miraculous ease" and dedicated a temple to her on the aventine hill.[ ] the first known temple to venus was built to fulfil a vow made by q. fabius gurges during battle against the samnites.[ ][ ] following rome's disastrous defeat by carthage in the battle of lake trasimene ( ), rome laid siege to eryx, a sicillian ally of carthage. the city's patron deity, whom the romans recognised as a warlike version of venus, was "persuaded" to change her allegiance and was rewarded with a magnificent temple on the capitoline hill, as one of rome's twelve dii consentes. venus victrix was thought to grant her favourites a relatively easy victory, worthy of an ovation and myrtle crown.[ ][ ] cities, towns and villas[edit] city of rome[edit] the ruins of the servian wall, built during the th century bc, one of the earliest ancient roman defensive walls life in the roman republic revolved around the city of rome, and its seven hills. the most important governing, administrative and religious institutions were concentrated at its heart, on and around the capitoline and palatine hills. the city rapidly outgrew its original sacred boundary (pomerium), and its first city walls. further growth was constrained by an inadequate fresh-water supply. rome's first aqueduct ( ) built during the punic wars crisis, provided a plentiful, clean supply. the building of further aqueducts led to the city's expansion and the establishment of public baths (thermae) as a central feature of roman culture.[ ][ ] the city also had several theatres,[ ] gymnasiums, and many taverns and brothels. living space was at a premium. some ordinary citizens and freedmen of middling income might live in modest houses but most of the population lived in apartment blocks (insulae, literally "islands"), where the better-off might rent an entire ground floor, and the poorest a single, possibly windowless room at the top, with few or no amenities. nobles and rich patrons lived in spacious, well-appointed town houses; they were expected to keep "open house" for their peers and clients. a semi-public atrium typically functioned as a meeting-space, and a vehicle for display of wealth, artistic taste, and religious piety. noble atria were also display areas for ancestor-masks (imagines).[ ] most roman towns and cities had a forum and temples, as did the city of rome itself. aqueducts brought water to urban centres.[ ] landlords generally resided in cities and left their estates in the care of farm managers. culture[edit] clothing[edit] main article: clothing in ancient rome the orator, c. bc, an etrusco-roman statue of a republican senator, wearing toga praetexta and senatorial shoes; compared to the voluminous, costly, impractical togas of the imperial era, the republican-era type is frugal and "skimpy" (exigua).[ ] the basic roman garment was the greek-style tunic, worn knee-length and short-sleeved (or sleeveless) for men and boys, and ankle-length and long-sleeved for women and girls. the toga was distinctively roman. it was thought to have begun during the early roman kingdom, as a plain woolen "shepherd's wrap", worn by both sexes, all classes, and all occupations, including the military.[ ] by the middle to late republic, citizen women had abandoned it for the less bulky, greek-style stola, and the military used it only for off-duty ceremonies.[ ] the toga became a mark of male citizenship, a statement of social degree.[ ] convention also dictated the type, colour and style of calcei (ankle-boots) appropriate to each level of male citizenship; red for senators, brown with crescent-shaped buckles for equites, and plain tanned for plebs. the whitest, most voluminous togas were worn by the senatorial class. high ranking magistrates, priests and citizen's children were entitled to a purple-bordered toga praetexta. triumphal generals wore an all-purple, gold-embroidered toga picta, associated with the image of jupiter and rome's former kings – but only for a single day; republican mores simultaneously fostered competitive display and attempted its containment, to preserve at least a notional equality between peers, and reduce the potential threats of class envy.[ ] togas, however, were impractical for physical activities other than sitting in the theatre, public oratory, and attending the salutiones ("greeting sessions") of rich patrons. most roman citizens, particularly the lower class of plebs, seem to have opted for more comfortable and practical garments, such as tunics and cloaks. luxurious and highly coloured clothing had always been available to those who could afford it, particularly women of the leisured classes. there is material evidence for cloth-of-gold (lamé) as early as the th century.[ ] by the rd century, significant quantities of raw silk was being imported from china.[ ] the lex oppia ( ), which restricted personal expenditure on such luxuries as purple clothing, was repealed in , after a mass public protest by wealthy roman matrons.[ ] tyrian purple, as a quasi-sacred colour, was officially reserved for the border of the toga praetexta and for the solid purple toga picta;[ ][ ] but towards the end of the republic, the notorious verres was wearing a purple pallium at all-night parties, not long before his trial, disgrace and exile for corruption.[ ] for most romans, even the simplest, cheapest linen or woolen clothing represented a major expense. worn clothing was passed down the social scale until it fell to rags, and these in turn were used for patchwork.[ ] wool and linen were the mainstays of roman clothing, idealised by roman moralists as simple and frugal.[ ] landowners were advised that female slaves not otherwise occupied should be producing homespun woolen cloth, good enough for clothing the better class of slave or supervisor. cato the elder recommended that slaves be given a new cloak and tunic every two years; coarse rustic homespun would likely be "too good" for the lowest class of slave, but not good enough for their masters.[ ] for most women, the carding, combing, spinning and weaving of wool were part of daily housekeeping, either for family use or for sale. in traditionalist, wealthy households, the family's wool-baskets, spindles and looms were positioned in the semi-public reception area (atrium), where the mater familias and her familia could thus demonstrate their industry and frugality; a largely symbolic and moral activity for those of their class, rather than practical necessity.[ ] as the republic wore on, its trade, territories and wealth increased. roman conservatives deplored the apparent erosion of traditional, class-based dress distinctions, and an increasing roman appetite for luxurious fabrics and exotic "foreign" styles among all classes, including their own. towards the end of the republic, the ultra-traditionalist cato the younger publicly protested the self-indulgent greed and ambition of his peers, and the loss of republican "manly virtues", by wearing a "skimpy" dark woolen toga, without tunic or footwear.[ ][ ] food and dining[edit] main article: ancient roman cuisine banquet scene, fresco, herculaneum, italy, c. bc modern study of the dietary habits during the republic are hampered by various factors. few writings have survived, and because different components of their diet are more or less likely to be preserved, the archaeological record cannot be relied on.[ ] cato the elder's de agri cultura includes several recipes and his suggested "rations for the hands". the list of ingredients includes cheese, honey, poppy seeds, coriander, fennel, cumin, egg, olives, bay leaves, laurel twig, and anise. he gives instructions for kneading bread, making porridge, placenta cake, brine, various wines, preserving lentils, planting asparagus, curing ham, and fattening geese and squab.[ ] the roman poet horace mentions another roman favorite, the olive, in reference to his own diet, which he describes as very simple: "as for me, olives, endives, and smooth mallows provide sustenance."[ ] meat, fish and produce were a part of the roman diet at all levels of society.[ ] romans valued fresh fruit, and had a diverse variety available to them.[ ] wine was considered the basic drink,[ ] consumed at all meals and occasions by all classes and was quite inexpensive. cato once advised cutting his rations in half to conserve wine for the workforce.[ ] many types of drinks involving grapes and honey were consumed as well. drinking on an empty stomach was regarded as boorish and a sure sign for alcoholism, the debilitating physical and psychological effects of which were known to the romans. accusations of alcoholism were used to discredit political rivals. prominent roman alcoholics included marcus antonius,[ ] and cicero's own son marcus (cicero minor). even cato the younger was known to be a heavy drinker.[ ] education and language[edit] main articles: roman school and latin rome's original native language was early latin, the language of the italic latins. most surviving latin literature is written in classical latin, a highly stylised and polished literary language which developed from early and vernacular spoken latin, from the st century. most latin speakers used vulgar latin, which significantly differed from classical latin in grammar, vocabulary, and eventually pronunciation.[citation needed] following various military conquests in the greek east, romans adapted a number of greek educational precepts to their own fledgling system.[ ] strenuous, disciplined physical training helped prepare boys of citizen class for their eventual citizenship and a military career. girls generally received instruction[ ] from their mothers in the art of spinning, weaving, and sewing. schooling in a more formal sense was begun around . education began at the age of around six, and in the next six to seven years, boys and girls were expected to learn the basics of reading, writing and counting. by the age of twelve, they would be learning latin, greek, grammar and literature, followed by training for public speaking. effective oratory and good latin were highly valued among the elite, and were essential to a career in law or politics.[ ] arts[edit] main articles: roman republican art, latin literature, and music of ancient rome in the rd century, greek art taken as the spoils of war became popular, and many roman homes were decorated with landscapes by greek artists.[ ] over time, roman architecture was modified as their urban requirements changed, and the civil engineering and building construction technology became developed and refined. the architectural style of the capital city was emulated by other urban centers under roman control and influence.[citation needed] literature[edit] main articles: classical latin § republican, and latin literature § the age of cicero early roman literature was influenced heavily by greek authors. from the mid-republic, roman authors followed greek models, to produce free-verse and verse-form plays and other in latin; for example, livius andronicus wrote tragedies and comedies. the earliest latin works to have survived intact are the comedies of plautus, written during the mid-republic. works of well-known, popular playwrights were sometimes commissioned for performance at religious festivals; many of these were satyr plays, based on greek models and greek myths. the poet naevius may be said to have written the first roman epic poem, although ennius was the first roman poet to write an epic in an adapted latin hexameter. however, only fragments of ennius' epic, the annales, have survived, yet both naevius and ennius influenced later latin epic, especially virgil's aeneid. lucretius, in his on the nature of things explicated the tenets of epicurean philosophy. the politician, poet and philosopher cicero's literary output was remarkably prolific and so influential on contemporary and later literature that the period from bc to bc has been called the 'age of cicero'. his oratory set new standards for centuries, and continue to influence modern speakers, while his philosophical works, which were, for the most part, cicero's latin adaptations of greek platonic and epicurean works influenced many later philosophers.[ ][ ] other prominent writers of this period include the grammarian and historian of religion varro, the politician, general and military commentator julius caesar, the historian sallust and the love poet catullus. sports and entertainment[edit] the amphitheatre of pompeii, built around bc and buried by the eruption of mount vesuvius ad, once hosted spectacles with gladiators. the city of rome had a place called the campus martius ("field of mars"), which was a sort of drill ground for roman soldiers. later, the campus became rome's track and field playground. in the campus, the youth assembled to play and exercise, which included jumping, wrestling, boxing and racing.[citation needed] equestrian sports, throwing, and swimming were also preferred physical activities.[citation needed] in the countryside, pastimes included fishing and hunting.[citation needed] board games played in rome included dice (tesserae or tali), roman chess (latrunculi), roman checkers (calculi), tic-tac-toe (terni lapilli), and ludus duodecim scriptorum and tabula, predecessors of backgammon.[ ] other activities included chariot races, and musical and theatrical performances.[citation needed] see also[edit] 	democratic empire 	history of the roman empire – occurrences and people in the roman empire 	roman commerce 	roman conceptions of citizenship – aspect of history 	roman economy footnotes[edit] 	^ throughout the republic, the cornelii held consulships and consular tribuneships, almost % of all the consulships of the period. 	^ several historians, notably tim cornell, have challenged this view, saying that in the early republic the fasti consulares bear names that are distinctively plebeian. therefore, they claim that the plebeians were only excluded from higher offices by the decemvirate in bc. more recently, corey brennan has dismissed this theory, arguing that the consular plebeians would not have let the decemvirs take their power away that easily (cf. the praetorship, pp. , ). he explains the "plebeian" names in the fasti by some patrician gentes who later died out, or lost their status. consequently, this article follows the traditional narrative that the plebeians were excluded from the start. 	^ the urban poor were registered in the four urban tribes, whilst the other tribes were composed of landowners, who therefore had the majority in the tribal assembly. humm thinks that caecus actually did not appointed "freedmen" in the senate, but chose new roman citizens from the recently conquered cities in italy. 	^ appius caecus is a complex character whose reforms are difficult to interpret. for example, mommsen considered he was a revolutionary, but was puzzled by his opposition to the lex ogulnia, which contradicts his previous "democratic" policies. taylor on the contrary thought he defended patricians' interests, as freedmen remained in the clientele of their patrons. more recently, humm described his activity as the continuation of the reforms undertaken since stolo and lateranus. 	^ there are significant differences between the accounts of cassius dio, dionysius, and plutarch, but the latter's is traditionally followed in the academic literature. references[edit] 	^ crawford, roman republican coinage, pp. , . 	^ "latin league". encyclopaedia britannica. 	^ a b taagepera, rein ( ). 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( ), pp. – . 	^ nicolet, cambridge ancient history, vol. , pp. – : up to this time, the roman elite had favoured greek imported wine over any of rome's homegrown versions. 	^ a b drummond, cambridge ancient history, vol. , part , pp. – . 	^ gabba, cambridge ancient history, vol. , pp. – . 	^ fowler, w. warde ( ). roman festivals of the period of the republic. port washington, ny: kennikat press. pp.  – . 	^ a b rüpke, companion to roman religion, p. . 	^ a b beard, north, price, religions of rome, vol. i, pp. – . 	^ robert schilling, "the decline and survival of roman religion", roman and european mythologies university of chicago press, , p. 	^ king numa pompilius was also said to have consorted with the nymph egeria. the myths surrounding king servius tullius include his divine fathering by a lar of the royal household, or by vulcan, god of fire; and his love-affair with the goddess fortuna. 	^ macrobius describes the woolen figurines (maniae) hung at crossroad shrines during the popular compitalia festival as substitutions for ancient human sacrifice once held at the same festival and suppressed by rome's first consul, l. junius brutus. whatever the truth regarding this sacrifice and its abolition, the junii celebrated their ancestor cult during larentalia rather than the usual parentalia even in the st century bc; see taylor, lilly ross, "the mother of the lares", in american journal of archaeology, vol. , , (july–sept. ), pp. ff. 	^ orr, d. g., roman domestic religion: the evidence of the household shrines, aufstieg und niedergang der römischen welt, ii, , , berlin, , – . 	^ halm, companion to roman religion, pp. , . 	^ rüpke, companion to roman religion, p. . 	^ erich s. gruen, erich s., "the bacchanalia affair", in studies in greek culture and roman policy, university of california press, , pp. ff. 	^ rosenberger, companion to roman religion, pp. – ; the discovery of a hermaphroditic four-year-old child was expiated by the state haruspex, who set the child to drown in the sea. its survival for four years after its birth would have been regarded as extreme dereliction of religious duty. 	^ livy, xxvii. , cited by halm, companion to roman religion, p. ; see also rosenberger, p. . 	^ for livy's use of prodigies and portents as markers of roman impiety and military failure, see feeney, companion to roman religion, pp. , . for prodigies in the context of political decision-making, see rosenberger, pp. – . 	^ festus, "caeculus", "aemilia" and others. 	^ t. p. wiseman, "legendary genealogies in late-republican rome", greece & rome, second series, vol. , no. (oct. ), pp. – . 	^ orlin, companion to roman religion, pp. – . 	^ jörg rüpke, religion of the romans (polity press, , originally published in german ), p. . 	^ the vestal virgins were the major exception. the galli, mendicant eunuch priets of the magna mater, were forbidden roman citizenship. 	^ cornell, the beginnings of rome, p. . 	^ barbette stanley spaeth, "the goddess ceres and the death of tiberius gracchus", historia: zeitschrift für alte geschichte, vol. , no. ( ), pp. – . 	^ lott, john. b., the neighborhoods of augustan rome, cambridge, cambridge university press, , isbn  - - - , pp. , , citing cato, on agriculture, . ., and dionysius of halicarnassus, . . – (excerpt), trans. cary, loeb, cambridge, . 	^ ovid, fasti, v, – 	^ crawford, roman republican coinage, p. . 	^ cornell, the beginnings of rome, p. 	^ established in to take over the running of a growing number of ludi and festivals from the pontifices 	^ a b lipka, m., roman gods: a conceptual approach, versnel, h., s., frankfurter, d., hahn, j., (editors), religions in the graeco-roman world, brill, , pp. – 	^ rosenberger, companion to roman religion, p. . 	^ auctoritas (authority) is etymologically linked to augur: see cornell, the beginnings of rome, p. 	^ brent, a. the imperial cult and the development of church order: concepts and images of authority in paganism and early christianity before the age of cyprian, brill, , pp. – , – : citing cicero, de natura deorum, . . 	^ spaeth, barbette stanley, the roman goddess ceres, university of texas press, , pp. , – . isbn  - - - 	^ cunham, cambridge companion to the roman republic, p. . 	^ beard, mary, "the sexual status of vestal virgins," the journal of roman studies, vol. , ( ), pp.  – ; and parker, holt n. 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( ), pp. – . for camillus and juno, see stephen benko, the virgin goddess: studies in the pagan and christian roots of mariology, brill, , p. . 	^ roller, lynn emrich ( ). in search of god the mother: the cult of anatolian cybele, berkeley and los angeles, california: university of california press, pp. – . isbn  - - - 	^ crawford, roman republican coinage, pp. – . 	^ orlin, companion to roman religion, p. . 	^ beard, north, price, religions of rome, vol. i, pp. , , , . 	^ cornell, cambridge ancient history, vol. , part , p. , citing livy xxi. – and xxii. – . livy describes this as evocatio (a "calling forth") initiated by roman soldiers who snatched the goddess's sacrificial portion during her veiian rites; the veiian priest had announced that whoever possessed the sacred entrails would win the coming battle. 	^ eden, p. t., "venus and the cabbage" hermes, , ( ) p. . 	^ schilling, r. la religion romaine de venus, befar, paris, , p. , suggests that venus began as an abstraction of personal qualities, later assuming aphrodite's attributes. 	^ see mary beard, the roman triumph, the belknap press, , pp. – . 	^ brouwer, henrik h. j., bona dea, the sources and a description of the cult, Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'empire romain, , brill, : citing pliny the elder, natural history, book , – , and book , . 	^ gargarin, m. and fantham, e. 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(disambiguation). 	strabo 	strabo as depicted in a th-century engraving 	born	 or bc amaseia, pontus (modern-day amasya, turkey) 	died	c. ad  (aged about ) 	occupation		geographer 	philosopher 	historian strabo[n ] (/ˈstreɪboʊ/; greek: Στράβων strábōn; or bc – c. ad  ) was a greek geographer, philosopher, and historian who lived in asia minor during the transitional period of the roman republic into the roman empire. contents 	 life 	 education 	 geographica 	 geology 	 . fossil formation 	 . volcanism 	 editions 	 references 	 . notes 	 . citations 	 . bibliography 	 . further reading 	 external links life[edit] title page from isaac casaubon's edition of geographica strabo was born to an affluent family from amaseia in pontus (in present-day turkey) in around  bc.[ ] his family had been involved in politics since at least the reign of mithridates v.[ ] strabo was related to dorylaeus on his mother's side. several other family members, including his paternal grandfather had served mithridates vi during the mithridatic wars. as the war drew to a close, strabo's grandfather had turned several pontic fortresses over to the romans.[ ] strabo wrote that "great promises were made in exchange for these services", and as persian culture endured in amaseia even after mithridates and tigranes were defeated, scholars have speculated about how the family's support for rome might have affected their position in the local community, and whether they might have been granted roman citizenship as a reward.[ ] strabo as depicted in the nuremberg chronicle strabo's life was characterized by extensive travels. he journeyed to egypt and kush, as far west as coastal tuscany and as far south as ethiopia in addition to his travels in asia minor and the time he spent in rome. travel throughout the mediterranean and near east, especially for scholarly purposes, was popular during this era and was facilitated by the relative peace enjoyed throughout the reign of augustus (  bc – ad  ). he moved to rome in  bc, and stayed there, studying and writing, until at least  bc. in  bc, on his way to corinth (where augustus was at the time), he visited the island of gyaros in the aegean sea. around  bc, he sailed up the nile until he reached philae,[n ] after which point there is little record of his travels until ad . statue of strabo in his hometown (modern-day amasya, turkey), beside the iris (yeşilırmak) river it is not known precisely when strabo's geography was written, though comments within the work itself place the finished version within the reign of emperor tiberius. some place its first drafts around  bc,[ ] others around ad  [ ] or ad .[ ] the latest passage to which a date can be assigned is his reference to the death in ad  of juba ii, king of maurousia (mauretania), who is said to have died "just recently".[ ] he probably worked on the geography for many years and revised it steadily, but not always consistently. it is an encyclopaedic chronicle and consists of political, economic, social, cultural, geographic description covering almost all of europe and the mediterranean: british isles, iberian peninsula, gaul, germania, the alps, italy, greece, northern black sea region, anatolia, middle east, central asia and north africa. the geography is the only extant work providing information about both greek and roman peoples and countries during the reign of augustus.[ ] on the presumption that "recently" means within a year, strabo stopped writing that year or the next (ad  ), at which time he is thought to have died. he was influenced by homer, hecataeus and aristotle.[ ] the first of strabo's major works, historical sketches (historica hypomnemata), written while he was in rome (c.  bc), is nearly completely lost. meant to cover the history of the known world from the conquest of greece by the romans, strabo quotes it himself and other classical authors mention that it existed, although the only surviving document is a fragment of papyrus now in the possession of the university of milan (renumbered [papyrus]  ). education[edit] strabo studied under several prominent teachers of various specialities throughout his early life[n ] at different stops during his mediterranean travels. the first chapter of his education took place in nysa (modern sultanhisar, turkey) under the master of rhetoric aristodemus, who had formerly taught the sons of the roman general who had taken over pontus.[n ] aristodemus was the head of two schools of rhetoric and grammar, one in nysa and one in rhodes. the school in nysa possessed a distinct intellectual curiosity in homeric literature and the interpretation of the ancient greek epics. strabo was an admirer of homer's poetry, perhaps as a consequence of his time spent in nysa with aristodemus.[n ] at around the age of , strabo moved to rome, where he studied philosophy with the peripatetic xenarchus, a highly respected tutor in augustus's court. despite xenarchus's aristotelian leanings, strabo later gives evidence to have formed his own stoic inclinations.[n ] in rome, he also learned grammar under the rich and famous scholar tyrannion of amisus.[n ] although tyrannion was also a peripatetic, he was more relevantly a respected authority on geography, a fact of some significance considering strabo's future contributions to the field. the final noteworthy mentor to strabo was athenodorus cananites, a philosopher who had spent his life since  bc in rome forging relationships with the roman elite. athenodorus passed onto strabo his philosophy, his knowledge and his contacts. unlike the aristotelian xenarchus and tyrannion who preceded him in teaching strabo, athenodorus was a stoic and almost certainly the source of strabo's diversion from the philosophy of his former mentors. moreover, from his own first-hand experience, athenodorus provided strabo with information about regions of the empire which strabo would not otherwise have known about. geographica[edit] main article: geographica map of the world according to strabo. strabo is best known for his work geographica ("geography"), which presented a descriptive history of people and places from different regions of the world known during his lifetime.[ ] map of europe according to strabo. although the geographica was rarely utilized by contemporary writers, a multitude of copies survived throughout the byzantine empire. it first appeared in western europe in rome as a latin translation issued around . the first greek edition was published in in venice.[ ] isaac casaubon, classical scholar and editor of greek texts, provided the first critical edition in . although strabo cited the classical greek astronomers eratosthenes and hipparchus, acknowledging their astronomical and mathematical efforts covering geography, he claimed that a descriptive approach was more practical, such that his works were designed for statesmen who were more anthropologically than numerically concerned with the character of countries and regions.[citation needed] as such, geographica provides a valuable source of information on the ancient world of his day, especially when this information is corroborated by other sources. he travelled extensively, as he says: "westward i have journeyed to the parts of etruria opposite sardinia; towards the south from the euxine to the borders of ethiopia; and perhaps not one of those who have written geographies has visited more places than i have between those limits."[citation needed] it is not known when he wrote geographica, but he spent much time in the famous library in alexandria taking notes from "the works of his predecessors". a first edition was published in bc and a final edition no later than ad, in what may have been the last year of strabo's life. it took some time for geographica to be recognized by scholars and for geographica to become a standard.[ ] in his last book of geographica, he wrote quite extensively about the thriving port city of alexandria suggesting a highly developed local economy at that time.[ ] strabo also describes the city of alexandria noting that there were many beautiful public parks and the city was reticulated with streets wide enough for chariots and horsemen. "two of these are exceeding broad, over a plethron in breadth, and cut one another at right angles ... all the buildings are connected one with another, and these also with what are beyond it."[ ] lawrence kim observes that strabo is [ ] "... pro-roman throughout the geography. but while he acknowledges and even praises roman ascendancy in the political and military sphere, he also makes a significant effort to establish greek primacy over rome in other contexts." in europe, strabo was the first to connect the danube -- danouios and the istros --with the change of names occurring at "the cataracts," the modern iron gates on the romanian/serbian border.[ ] in india, a country he never visited, strabo described small flying reptiles that were long with a snake-like body and bat-like wings, winged scorpions, and other mythical creatures along with those that were factual.[ ] other historians, such as herodotus, aristotle, and flavius josephus, mentioned similar creatures.[citation needed] geology[edit] charles lyell, in his principles of geology, wrote of strabo:[ ] strabo…enters largely, in the second book of his geography, into the opinions of eratosthenes and other greeks on one of the most difficult problems in geology, viz., by what causes marine shells came to be plentifully buried in the earth at such great elevations and distances from the sea. he notices, amongst others, the explanation of xanthus the lydian, who said that the seas had once been more extensive, and that they had afterwards been partially dried up, as in his own time many lakes, rivers, and wells in asia had failed during a season of drought. treating this conjecture with merited disregard, strabo passes on to the hypothesis of strato, the natural philosopher, who had observed that the quantity of mud brought down by rivers into the euxine was so great, that its bed must be gradually raised, while the rivers still continued to pour in an undiminished quantity of water. he therefore conceived that, originally, when the euxine was an inland sea, its level had by this means become so much elevated that it burst its barrier near byzantium, and formed a communication with the propontis, and this partial drainage had already, he supposed, converted the left side into marshy ground, and that, at last, the whole would be choked up with soil. so, it was argued, the mediterranean had once opened a passage for itself by the columns of hercules into the atlantic, and perhaps the abundance of sea-shells in africa, near the temple of jupiter ammon, might also be the deposit of some former inland sea, which had at length forced a passage and escaped. but strabo rejects this theory as insufficient to account for all the phenomena, and he proposes one of his own, the profoundness of which modern geologists are only beginning to appreciate. 'it is not,' he says, 'because the lands covered by seas were originally at different altitudes, that the waters have risen, or subsided, or receded from some parts and inundated others. but the reason is, that the same land is sometimes raised up and sometimes depressed, and the sea also is simultaneously raised and depressed so that it either overflows or returns into its own place again. we must, therefore, ascribe the cause to the ground, either to that ground which is under the sea, or to that which becomes flooded by it, but rather to that which lies beneath the sea, for this is more moveable, and, on account of its humidity, can be altered with great celerity. it is proper,' he observes in continuation, 'to derive our explanations from things which are obvious, and in some measure of daily occurrences, such as deluges, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and sudden swellings of the land beneath the sea; for the last raise up the sea also, and when the same lands subside again, they occasion the sea to be let down. and it is not merely the small, but the large islands also, and not merely the islands, but the continents, which can be lifted up together with the sea; and both large and small tracts may subside, for habitations and cities, like bure, bizona, and many others, have been engulfed by earthquakes.' in another place, this learned geographer [strabo], in alluding to the tradition that sicily had been separated by a convulsion from italy, remarks, that at present the land near the sea in those parts was rarely shaken by earthquakes, since there were now open orifices whereby fire and ignited matters and waters escaped; but formerly, when the volcanoes of etna, the lipari islands, ischia, and others, were closed up, the imprisoned fire and wind might have produced far more vehement movements. the doctrine, therefore, that volcanoes are safety valves, and that the subterranean convulsions are probably most violent when first the volcanic energy shifts itself to a new quarter, is not modern. fossil formation[edit] strabo commented on fossil formation mentioning nummulite (quoted from celâl Şengör):[ ] one extraordinary thing which i saw at the pyramids must not be omitted. heaps of stones from the quarries lie in front of the pyramids. among these are found pieces which in shape and size resemble lentils. some contain substances like grains half peeled. these, it is said, are the remnants of the workmen's food converted into stone; which is not probable. for at home in our country (amaseia), there is a long hill in a plain, which abounds with pebbles of a porous stone, resembling lentils. the pebbles of the sea-shore and of rivers suggest somewhat of the same difficulty [respecting their origin]; some explanation may indeed be found in the motion [to which these are subject] in flowing waters, but the investigation of the above fact presents more difficulty. i have said elsewhere, that in sight of the pyramids, on the other side in arabia, and near the stone quarries from which they are built, is a very rocky mountain, called the trojan mountain; beneath it there are caves, and near the caves and the river a village called troy, an ancient settlement of the captive trojans who had accompanied menelaus and settled there. volcanism[edit] strabo commented on volcanism (effusive eruption) which he observed at katakekaumene (modern kula, western turkey). strabo observations predated pliny the younger who witnessed the eruption of mount vesuvius on august ad  in pompeii:[ ] …there are no trees here, but only the vineyards where they produce the katakekaumene wines which are by no means inferior from any of the wines famous for their quality. the soil is covered with ashes, and black in colour as if the mountainous and rocky country was made up of fires. some assume that these ashes were the result of thunderbolts and subterranean explosions, and do not doubt that the legendary story of typhon takes place in this region. ksanthos adds that the king of this region was a man called arimus. however, it is not reasonable to accept that the whole country was burned down at a time as a result of such an event rather than as a result of a fire bursting from underground whose source has now died out. three pits are called "physas" and separated by forty stadia from each other. above these pits, there are hills formed by the hot masses burst out from the ground as estimated by a logical reasoning. such type of soil is very convenient for viniculture, just like the katanasoil which is covered with ashes and where the best wines are still produced abundantly. some writers concluded by looking at these places that there is a good reason for calling dionysus by the name ("phrygenes"). editions[edit] 	meineke, augustus, ed. ( ). strabonis geographica. lipsiae: b.g. teubneri. 	strabo ( ). gustav kramer (ed.). strabonis geographica. recens. g. kramer. ed. minor. 	stefan radt, ed. ( – ). strabons geographika : mit Übersetzung und kommentar. göttingen: vandenhoeck & ruprecht. 	jones, h. l., transl. ( ). the geography of strabo. london: heinemann.[ ] 	strabo's geography in three volumes as translated by h.c. hamilton, ed. h.g. bohn, – references[edit] notes[edit] 	^ strabo (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed. the father of pompey was called "pompeius strabo". a native of sicily so clear-sighted that he could see things at great distance as if they were nearby was also called "strabo." 	^ accompanied by prefect of egypt aelius gallus, who had been sent on a military mission to arabia. 	^ he mentions all or most of his teachers as prominent citizens of their own respective cities. 	^ this also highlights the international trend of the era that greek intellectuals would often instruct the roman elite. 	^ aristodemus was also the grandson of the famous posidonius, whose influence is manifest in strabo's geography. 	^ largely due to his future teacher athenodorus, tutor of augustus. 	^ thus completing his traditional greek aristocratic education in rhetoric, grammar, and philosophy. tyrannion was known to have befriended cicero and taught his nephew, quintus. citations[edit] 	^ purcell, nicholas ( ). "strabo". in hornblower, simon; spawforth, antony; eidinow, esther (eds.). the oxford companion to classical civilization. oxford university press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ a b bianchetti, serena; cataudella, michele; gehrke, hans-joachim ( december ). brill's companion to ancient geography: the inhabited world in greek and roman tradition. leiden: brill. isbn  - - - - . 	^ adrienne mayor (march ). the poison king: the life and legend of mithradates, rome's deadliest enemy. princeton university press. pp.  –. isbn  - - - - . 	^ a b strabo ( ). geography. vol. i. translated by horace leonard jones. london: william heinemann. p. xxv-xxvi. 	^ sarah pothecary, when was the geography written? 	^ a b c strabo ( ). " ". geography. vol. viii book xvii. translated by horace leonard jones. london: william heinemann. p.  . 	^ "strabo, geography, volume i: books - ". loeb classical library. n.d. retrieved september . 	^ "strabo | greek geographer and historian". encyclopedia britannica. 	^ geographie, band , strabo, s. , strabo, karl kärcher, gottlieb lukas friedrich tafel, christian nathanael osiander, gustav schwab, verlag metzler, . 	^ "strabo critical essays - enotes.com". enotes. 	^ strabo, geography . . , , , ; translated by brent shaw. attained from: e.a. pollard, c. rosenberg, and r.l. tignor, et al. worlds together, worlds apart, concise, volume one: beginnings through the fifteenth century (w.w. norton, ) pg. 	^ davis, william stearns ( ). reading in ancient history. vol. i: greece and the east. boston: allyn and bacon. pp.  – . 	^ kim, lawrence ( ). homer between history and fiction in imperial greek literature. cambridge university press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ roller, duane w. ( august ). ancient geography: the discovery of the world in classical greece and rome. isbn  . 	^ https://www.ibiblio.org/britishraj/jackson /chapter .html 	^ lyell, charles ( ). principles of geology. john murray. pp.  – . 	^ strabo ( ). " ". geography. vol. vi book xiii. translated by horace leonard jones. london: william heinemann. p.  . 	^ jones, h. l., transl. ( ). the geography of strabo. london: heinemann. in eight volumes: vol ; vol ; vol ; vol ; vol ; vol ; vol ; vol . bibliography[edit] 	"biography of strabo". tufts. 	"strabo". encyclopædia britannica ( th ed.). . pp.  – . 	diller, a. ( ). the textual tradition of strabo's geography. amsterdam. 	dueck, daniela ( ). strabo of amasia: greek man of letters in augustan rome. new york: routledge. 	dueck, d.; h. lindsay; s. pothecary, eds. ( ). strabo's cultural geography: the making of a kolossourgia. cambridge: cambridge university press. 	lindberg, david c. ( ). the beginnings of western science the european scientific tradition in philosophical, religious, and institutional context, prehistory a.d. ( nd ed.). chicago: university of chicago press. 	roller, duane ( ). the geography of strabo: an english translation, with introduction and notes. cambridge. further reading[edit] 	bowersock, glen w. . "la patria di strabone." in strabone e l’asia minore. edited by anna maria biraschi and giovanni salmieri, – . studi di storia e di storiografia. göttingen, germany: edizione scientifiche italiane. 	braund, david. . "greek geography and roman empire: the transformation of tradition in strabo’s euxine." in strabo’s cultural geography: the making of a kolossourgia. edited by daniela dueck, hugh lindsay, and sarah pothecary, – . cambridge, uk: cambridge univ. press. 	clarke, katherine. . "in search of the author of strabo’s geography." journal of roman studies : – . 	diller, aubrey. . the textual tradition of strabo’s geography. amsterdam: hakkert. 	irby, georgia l. . "mapping the world: greek initiatives from homer to eratosthenes." in ancient perspectives: maps and their place in mesopotamia, egypt, greece, and rome. edited by richard j. a. talbert, – . kenneth nebenzahl jr. lectures in the history of cartography. chicago: univ. of chicago press. 	kim, lawrence. . "the portrait of homer in strabo’s geography." classical philology . : – . 	kuin, inger n.i. . "rewriting family history: strabo and the mithridatic wars." phoenix . - : - . 	pfuntner, laura. . "death and birth in the urban landscape: strabo on troy and rome." classical antiquity . : - . 	pothecary, sarah. . "strabo the geographer: his name and its meaning." mnemosyne, th ser. . : – 	richards, g. c. . 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lost and the roof later. roman temple of alcántara, in spain, a tiny votive temple built with an important bridge under trajan temple of augustus in pula, croatia, an early temple of the imperial cult ancient roman temples were among the most important buildings in roman culture, and some of the richest buildings in roman architecture, though only a few survive in any sort of complete state. today they remain "the most obvious symbol of roman architecture".[ ] their construction and maintenance was a major part of ancient roman religion, and all towns of any importance had at least one main temple, as well as smaller shrines. the main room (cella) housed the cult image of the deity to whom the temple was dedicated, and often a table for supplementary offerings or libations and a small altar for incense. behind the cella was a room or rooms used by temple attendants for storage of equipment and offerings. the ordinary worshiper rarely entered the cella, and most public ceremonies were performed outside where the sacrificial altar was located, on the portico, with a crowd gathered in the temple precinct.[ ][ ] the most common architectural plan had a rectangular temple raised on a high podium, with a clear front with a portico at the top of steps, and a triangular pediment above columns. the sides and rear of the building had much less architectural emphasis, and typically no entrances. there were also circular plans, generally with columns all round, and outside italy there were many compromises with traditional local styles. the roman form of temple developed initially from etruscan temples, themselves influenced by the greeks, with subsequent heavy direct influence from greece. public religious ceremonies of the official roman religion took place outdoors and not within the temple building. some ceremonies were processions that started at, visited, or ended with a temple or shrine, where a ritual object might be stored and brought out for use, or where an offering would be deposited. sacrifices, chiefly of animals, would take place at an open-air altar within the templum; often on one of the narrow extensions of the podium to the side of the steps. especially under the empire, exotic foreign cults gained followers in rome, and were the local religions in large parts of the expanded empire. these often had very different practices, some preferring underground places of worship, while others, like early christians, worshiped in houses.[ ] some remains of many roman temples still survive, above all in rome itself, but the relatively few near-complete examples were nearly all converted into christian churches (and sometimes subsequently to mosques), usually a considerable time after the initial triumph of christianity under constantine. the decline of roman religion was relatively slow, and the temples themselves were not appropriated by the government until a decree of the emperor honorius in . santi cosma e damiano, in the roman forum, originally the temple of romulus, was not dedicated as a church until . the best known is the pantheon, rome, which, however, is highly untypical, being a very large circular temple with a magnificent concrete roof, behind a conventional portico front.[ ] contents 	 terms 	 architecture 	 circular plans 	 caesareum 	 influence 	 temple of jupiter optimus maximus 	 substantial survivals 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links terms[edit] the english word "temple" derives from the latin templum, which was originally not the building itself, but a sacred space surveyed and plotted ritually.[ ] the roman architect vitruvius always uses the word templum to refer to the sacred precinct, and not to the building. the more common latin words for a temple or shrine were sacellum (a small shrine or chapel), aedes, delubrum, and fanum (in this article, the english word "temple" refers to any of these buildings, and the latin templum to the sacred precinct). architecture[edit] the form of the roman temple was mainly derived from the etruscan model, but in the late republic there was a switch to using greek classical and hellenistic styles, without much change in the key features of the form. the etruscans were a people of northern italy, whose civilization was at its peak in the seventh century bc. the etruscans were already influenced by early greek architecture, so roman temples were distinctive but with both etruscan and greek features.[ ][ ] surviving temples (both greek and roman) lack the extensive painted statuary that decorated the rooflines, and the elaborate revetments and antefixes, in colourful terracotta in earlier examples, that enlivened the entablature. etruscan and roman temples emphasised the front of the building, which followed greek temple models and typically consisted of wide steps leading to a portico with columns, a pronaos, and usually a triangular pediment above, which was filled with statuary in the most grand examples; this was as often in terracotta as stone, and no examples have survived except as fragments. especially in the earlier periods, further statuary might be placed on the roof, and the entablature decorated with antefixes and other elements, all of this being brightly painted. however, unlike the greek models, which generally gave equal treatment to all sides of the temple, which could be viewed and approached from all directions, the side and rear walls of roman temples might be largely undecorated (as in the pantheon, rome and vic), inaccessible by steps (as in the maison carrée and vic), and even back on to other buildings. as in the maison carrée, columns at the side might be half columns, emerging from ("engaged with" in architectural terminology) the wall.[ ] the platform on which the temple sat was typically raised higher in etruscan and roman examples than greek, with up to ten, twelve or more steps rather than the three typical in greek temples; the temple of claudius was raised twenty steps. these steps were normally only at the front, and typically not the whole width of that. it might or might not be possible to walk around the temple exterior inside (temple of hadrian) or outside the colonnade, or at least down the sides.[ ] the description of the greek models used here is a generalization of classical greek ideals, and later hellenistic buildings often do not reflect them. for example, the "temple of dionysus" on the terrace by the theatre at pergamon (ionic, nd century bc, on a hillside), had many steps in front, and no columns beyond the portico.[ ] the parthenon, also approached up a hill, probably had many wide steps at the approach to the main front, followed by a flat area before the final few steps.[ ] after the eclipse of the etruscan models, the greek classical orders in all their details were closely followed in the façades of roman temples, as in other prestigious buildings, with the direct adoption of greek models apparently beginning around bc, under the late republic. but the distinctive differences in the general arrangement of temples between the etruscan-roman style and the greek, as outlined above, were retained. however the idealized proportions between the different elements in the orders set out by the only significant roman writer on architecture to survive, vitruvius, and subsequent italian renaissance writers, do not reflect actual roman practice, which could be very variable, though always aiming at balance and harmony. following a hellenistic trend, the corinthian order and its variant the composite order were most common in surviving roman temples, but for small temples like that at alcántara, a simple tuscan order could be used. vitruvius does not recognise the composite order in his writings, and covers the tuscan order only as etruscan; renaissance writers formalized them from observing surviving buildings.[ ] a roman mammisi or chapel added to dendera temple, using the traditional egyptian temple style. the front of the temple typically carried an inscription saying who had built it, cut into the stone with a "v" section. this was filled with brightly coloured paint, usually scarlet or vermilion. in major imperial monuments the letters were cast in lead and held in by pegs, then also painted or gilded. these have usually long vanished, but archaeologists can generally reconstruct them from the peg-holes, and some have been re-created and set in place.[ ] there was considerable local variation in style, as roman architects often tried to incorporate elements the population expected in its sacred architecture. this was especially the case in egypt and the near east, where different traditions of large stone temples were already millennia old. the romano-celtic temple was a simple style, usually with little use of stone, for small temples found in the western empire, and by far the most common type in roman britain, where they were usually square, with an ambulatory. it often lacked any of the distinctive classical features, and may have had considerable continuity with pre-roman temples of the celtic religion.[ ] circular plans[edit] "temple of venus", baalbek, from the rear romano-celtic temples were often circular, and circular temples of various kinds were built by the romans. greek models were available in tholos shrines and some other buildings, as assembly halls and various other functions. temples of the goddess vesta, which were usually small, typically had this shape, as in those at rome and tivoli (see list), which survive in part. like the temple of hercules victor in rome, which was perhaps by a greek architect, these survivors had an unbroken colonnade encircling the building, and a low, greek-style podium.[ ] different formulae were followed in the pantheon, rome and a small temple at baalbek (usually called the "temple of venus"), where the door is behind a full portico, though very different ways of doing this are used. in the pantheon only the portico has columns, and the "thoroughly uncomfortable" exterior meeting of the portico and circular cella are often criticised. at baalbek, a wide portico with a broken pediment is matched by four other columns round the building, with the architrave in scooped curving sections, each ending in a projection supported by a column.[ ] at praeneste (modern palestrina) near rome, a huge pilgrimage complex of the st century bc led visitors up several levels with large buildings on a steep hillside, before they eventually reached the sanctuary itself, a much smaller circular building.[ ] caesareum[edit] temple of the imperial cult at vienne a caesareum was a temple devoted to the imperial cult. caesarea were located throughout the roman empire, and often funded by the imperial government, tending to replace state spending on new temples to other gods, and becoming the main or only large temple in new roman towns in the provinces. this was the case at Évora, vienne and nîmes, which were all expanded by the romans as coloniae from celtic oppida soon after their conquest. imperial temples paid for by the government usually used conventional roman styles all over the empire, regardless of the local styles seen in smaller temples. in newly planned roman cities the temple was normally centrally placed at one end of the forum, often facing the basilica at the other.[ ] in the city of rome, a caesareum was located within the religious precinct of the arval brothers. in , it was documented as still containing nine statues of roman emperors in architectural niches.[ ] most of the earlier emperors had their own very large temples in rome,[ ] but a faltering economy meant that the building of new imperial temples mostly ceased after the reign of marcus aurelius (d. ), though the temple of romulus on the roman forum was built and dedicated by the emperor maxentius to his son valerius romulus, who died in childhood in and was deified. one of the earliest and most prominent of the caesarea was the caesareum of alexandria, located on the harbor. it was begun by cleopatra vii of the ptolemaic dynasty, the last pharaoh of ancient egypt, to honour her dead lover julius caesar, then converted by augustus to his own cult. during the th century, after the empire had come under christian rule, it was converted to a church.[ ] influence[edit] st martin-in-the-fields, london ( ), james gibbs the etruscan-roman adaptation of the greek temple model to place the main emphasis on the front façade and let the other sides of the building harmonize with it only as much as circumstances and budget allow has generally been adopted in neoclassical architecture, and other classically derived styles. in these temple fronts with columns and a pediment are very common for the main entrance of grand buildings, but often flanked by large wings or set in courtyards. this flexibility has allowed the roman temple front to be used in buildings made for a wide variety of purposes. the colonnade may no longer be pushed forward with a pronaus porch, and it may not be raised above the ground, but the essential shape remains the same. among thousands of examples are the white house, buckingham palace, and st peters, rome; in recent years the temple front has become fashionable in china.[ ] renaissance and later architects worked out ways of harmoniously adding high raised domes, towers and spires above a colonnaded temple portico front, something the romans would have found odd. the roman temple front remains a familiar feature of subsequent early modern architecture in the western tradition, but although very commonly used for churches, it has lost the specific association with religion that it had for the romans.[ ] generally, later adaptions lack the colour of the original, and though there may be sculpture filling the pediment in grand examples, the full roman complement of sculpture above the roofline is rarely emulated. variations on the theme, mostly italian in origin, include: san andrea, mantua, by leon battista alberti, which took a four-columned roman triumphal arch and added a pediment above; san giorgio maggiore, venice, begun , by andrea palladio, which has two superimposed temple fronts, one low and wide, the other tall and narrow; the villa capra "la rotonda", on, also by palladio, with four isolated temple fronts on each side of a rectangle, with a large central dome. in baroque architecture two temple fronts, often of different orders, superimposed one above the other, became extremely common for catholic churches, often with the uppermost one supported by huge volutes to each side. this can be seen developing in the gesù, rome ( ), santa susanna, rome ( ), santi vincenzo e anastasio a trevi ( ) and val-de-grâce, paris ( on).[ ] the palladian villas of the veneto include numerous ingenious and influential variations on the theme of the roman temple front. an archetypical pattern for churches in georgian architecture was set by st martin-in-the-fields in london ( ), by james gibbs, who boldly added to the classical temple façade at the west end a large steeple on top of a tower, set back slightly from the main frontage. this formula shocked purists and foreigners, but became accepted and was very widely copied, at home and in the colonies,[ ] for example at st andrew's church, chennai in india and st. paul's chapel in new york city ( ). la madeleine, paris ( ), now a church examples of modern buildings that stick more faithfully to the ancient rectangular temple form are only found from the th century onwards.[ ] versions of the roman temple as a discrete block include la madeleine, paris ( ), now a church but built by napoleon as a temple de la gloire de la grande armée ("temple to the glory of the great army"), the virginia state capitol as originally built in – , and birmingham town hall ( – ).[ ] small roman circular temples with colonnades have often been used as models, either for single buildings, large or small, or elements such as domes raised on drums, in buildings on another plan such as st peters, rome, st paul's cathedral in london and the united states capitol. the great progenitor of these is the tempietto of donato bramante in the courtyard of san pietro in montorio in rome, c. , which has been widely admired ever since.[ ] though the pantheon's large circular domed cella, with a conventional portico front, is "unique" in roman architecture, it has been copied many times by modern architects. versions include the church of santa maria assunta in ariccia by gian lorenzo bernini ( ), which followed his work restoring the roman original,[ ] belle isle house ( ) in england, and thomas jefferson's library at the university of virginia, the rotunda ( – ).[ ] the pantheon was much the largest and most accessible complete classical temple front known to the italian renaissance, and was the standard exemplar when these were revived. temple of jupiter optimus maximus[edit] relief of marcus aurelius sacrificing at the th temple (left) the temple of jupiter optimus maximus on the capitoline hill was the oldest large temple in rome, dedicated to the capitoline triad consisting of jupiter and his companion deities, juno and minerva, and had a cathedral-like position in the official religion of rome. it was destroyed by fire three times, and rapidly rebuilt in contemporary styles. the first building, traditionally dedicated in bc,[ ] has been claimed to have been almost  m ×   m (  ft ×   ft), much larger than other roman temples for centuries after, although its size is heavily disputed by specialists. whatever its size, its influence on other early roman temples was significant and long-lasting.[ ] the same may have been true for the later rebuildings, though here the influence is harder to trace. for the first temple etruscan specialists were brought in for various aspects of the building, including making and painting the extensive terracotta elements of the entablature or upper parts, such as antefixes.[ ] but for the second building they were summoned from greece. rebuildings after destruction by fire were completed in bc, ad, and in the s ad, under domitian – the third building only lasted five years before burning down again. after a major sacking by vandals in , and comprehensive removal of stone in the renaissance, only foundations can now be seen, in the basement of the capitoline museums.[ ] the sculptor flaminio vacca (d ) claimed that the life-size medici lion he carved to match a roman survival, now in florence, was made from a single capital from the temple.[ ] substantial survivals[edit] further information: list of ancient roman temples temple of bacchus at baalbek, lebanon view of the temple of romulus, from the palatine hill. the temple of apollo in pompeii. mount vesuvius is to the far left. roman temple of vic, part original, with parts restored ceiling of temple of jupiter, diocletian's palace, split reconstruction of pagans hill roman temple, somerset, a romano-celtic temple temple of saturn, roman forum, impressive columns and architrave remain standing capitoleum of dougga, tunisia most of the best survivals had been converted to churches (and sometimes later mosques), which some remain. often the porticos were walled in between the columns, and the original cella front and side walls largely removed to create a large single space in the interior. rural areas in the islamic world have some good remains, which had been left largely undisturbed. in spain some remarkable discoveries (vic, cordoba, barcelona) were made in the th century when old buildings being reconstructed or demolished were found to contain major remains encased in later buildings. in rome, pula, and elsewhere some walls incorporated in later buildings have always been evident. the squared-off blocks of temple walls have always been attractive for later builders to reuse, while the large pieces of massive columns were less easy to remove and make use of; hence the podium, minus facing, and some columns are often all that remain. in most cases loose pieces of stone have been removed from the site, and some such as capitals may be found in local museums, along with non-architectural items excavated, such as terracotta votive statuettes or amulets, which are often found in large numbers.[ ] very little indeed survives in place from the significant quantities of large sculpture that originally decorated temples.[ ] 	rome 	pantheon or temple to all the gods, unique among roman temples, but later much imitated. easily the most impressive and complete interior to survive. 	temple of hercules victor, early circular temple, largely complete 	temple of portunus or "temple of fortuna virilis" – very complete ionic exterior, near santa maria in cosmedin and the temple of romulus 	temple of romulus – very complete circular exterior, early th century, roman forum 	temple of antoninus and faustina – the core of the building survives as a church, including parts of the frieze, roman forum 	temple of hadrian – campus martius – a huge wall with columns, now incorporated in a later building 	temple of vesta – small circular temple, part complete, roman forum 	temple of saturn – impressive columns and architrave remain standing, west end of the roman forum 	temple of bellona (ostia) – small back-street all-brick temple at the port. 	elsewhere 	palestrina, sanctuary of fortuna primigenia, (see above) a large complex leading to a small shrine 	temple of apollo (pompeii), unusually, it is the smaller elements that are best preserved, and the surrounding forum 	temple of vesta – tivoli, so-called, circular 	capitolium of brixia, brescia, buried by a landslide and partly reconstructed 	maison carrée – nîmes, southern france, one of the most complete survivals 	temple of augustus and livia – vienne, france, exterior largely complete 	temple of augustus (pula) – pula, croatia, largely complete (illustrated above); a large wall from another temple forms part of the town hall next door. 	roman temple of Évora – Évora, portugal, impressive partial remains of a small temple; podium and columns, but no cella. 	temple of jupiter in diocletian's palace, split, croatia. small but very complete, amid other roman buildings, c. . most unusually, the barrel ceiling is intact. 	roman temple of alcántara, spain, tiny but complete 	roman temple of vic, spain. substantially rebuilt, after it was found covered by a castle. 	roman temple of córdoba, spain. base and corinthian columns, found inside later buildings. 	temple of bacchus, baalbek, lebanon, a famous exotic "baroque" pilgrimage destination, very largely preserved, including the interior.[ ] 	temples of jupiter and venus, baalbek 	temple of artemis (jerash), jordan; partial remains of two other temples 	sbeitla, tunisia, three small temples in a row on the forum, many other city ruins. 	dougga, tunisia, several temples in extensive city ruins, two with substantial remains. see also[edit] 	list of ancient greek temples 	temple for other religious traditions notes[edit] 	^ a b summerson ( ), 	^ sarah iles johnston ( ). religions of the ancient world: a guide. harvard university press. p.  . isbn  . 	^ hans-josef klauck ( ). religious context of early christianity: a guide to graeco-roman religions (reprint ed.). a&c black. p.  . isbn  . 	^ a b sear 	^ wheeler, – ; sear 	^ stamper, 	^ campbell, jonathan. roman art and architecture – from augustus to constantine. pearson education new zealand. isbn  - - - - . 	^ boardman, ; henig, 	^ wheeler, ; henig, 	^ henig, , wheeler, 	^ cook, r.m., greek art, plate and caption, penguin, (reprint of ), isbn  	^ in a reconstruction drawing by g. stephens, p. in the acropolis: monuments and museum, by g. papathanassopoulos, krene editions, 	^ summerson ( ), – 	^ henig, 	^ henig, – ; wheeler, – : sear 	^ wheeler, – ; sear 	^ wheeler, – , quoted. originally, the "uncomfortable" junction was screened by a wall and less apparent. 	^ boardman, – 	^ henig, ; sear 	^ the statues are all lost, but the base for the statue of marcus aurelius survives, and the inscriptions of seven of the nine are recorded in volume of the corpus inscriptionum latinarum. jane fejfer, roman portraits in context (walter de gruyter, ), p. . 	^ david m. gwynn, "archaeology and the 'arian controversy' in the fourth century," in religious diversity in late antiquity (brill, ), p. . 	^ heathcote, edwin, review of original copies: architectural mimicry in contemporary china, by bianca bosker, university of hawaii press, the financial times, january , 	^ anthony grafton, glenn w most, salvatore settis, eds., the classical tradition, , , harvard university press, isbn  , , google books 	^ summerson ( ), captions to illustrations , , , – 	^ summerson ( ), – 	^ summerson ( ), . the virginia state capitol is specifically based on the maison carre, but in a cheaper ionic rather than corinthian. 	^ summerson ( ), , – , – 	^ summerson ( ), – , quoted 	^ summerson ( ), – 	^ ab urbe condita, . 	^ stamper, and all chapters and . stamper is a leading protagonist of a smaller size, rejecting the larger size proposed by the late einar gjerstad. 	^ stamper, – 	^ stamper, – , and all chapters and ; rykwert, joseph, the dancing column: on order in architecture, – , , mit press, isbn  , , google books; entry on "aedes iovis optimi maximi capitolini" from a topographical dictionary of ancient rome, by samuel ball platner (as completed and revised by thomas ashby), oxford university press, 	^ stamper, 	^ vickers, michael, ancient rome, preface, , elsevier-phaidon; henig, – 	^ strong, 	^ wheeler, – references[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to ancient roman temples. 	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"dating the pantheon." journal of roman archaeology : – . 	johnson, peter and ian haynes eds. . architecture in roman britain. papers presented at a conference organized by the roman research trust and held at the museum of london in november . york, uk: council for british archaeology. 	macdonald, w. l. . the pantheon: design, meaning, and progeny. cambridge, ma: harvard univ. press. 	--. . the architecture of the roman empire: an introductory study. d rev. ed. new haven, ct: yale univ. press. 	mierse, william e. . temples and towns in roman iberia: the social and architectural dynamics of sanctuary designs from the third century b.c. to the third century a.d. berkeley and los angeles: univ. of california press. 	north, john a. . roman religion. oxford: oxford university press for the classical association. 	sear, frank. . roman architecture. london: batsford. 	thomas, edmund v. . monumentality and the roman empire: architecture in the antonine age. oxford: oxford univ. press. 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according to tradition, the first three tribes were established by romulus; each was divided into ten curiae, or wards, which were the voting units of the comitia curiata. although the curiae continued throughout roman history, the three original tribes that they constituted gradually vanished from history.[i][ ][ ] perhaps influenced by the original division of the people into tribes, as well as the number of thirty wards, servius tullius established thirty new tribes, which later constituted the comitia tributa. this number was reduced to twenty at the beginning of the roman republic; but as the roman population and its territory grew, fifteen additional tribes were enrolled, the last in bc.[ ][ ] all roman citizens were enrolled in one of these tribes, through which they were entitled to vote on the election of certain magistrates, religious officials, judicial decisions in certain suits affecting the plebs, and pass resolutions on various proposals made by the tribunes of the plebs and the higher magistrates. although the comitia tributa lost most of its legislative functions under the empire, enrollment in a tribe remained an important part of roman citizenship until at least the third century ad.[ ] contents 	 the romulean tribes 	 . the curiae 	 . the comitia curiata 	 the servian tribes 	 . later tribes 	 . the comitia tributa 	 . . powers 	 . . procedures 	 . . decline 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 bibliography the romulean tribes[edit] the first three tribes are said to have been established by romulus, the founder and first king of rome, shortly after the foundation of the city. following the rape of the sabine women, the sabines under titus tatius attacked rome, and successfully entered the city. after fierce fighting, the sabine women themselves interceded, stepping between their husbands and their fathers to prevent further bloodshed. peace was concluded, with romulus and tatius ruling jointly, and a large sabine population relocating to rome; the nascent city was thus evenly divided between latins and sabines. at this time (traditionally bc), romulus divided the people into three tribes, known as the ramnes or ramnenses, named after himself; the tities or titienses, named after titus tatius; and the luceres or lucerenses, whose name and origin were obscure even to the ancient historians.[ ][ ] known as the three romulean tribes, these first tribes have often been supposed to represent the major ethnic groups of early rome: the ramnes representing rome's latin population; the tities representing the sabines; and the luceres probably representing the etruscans. rome lay on the tiber, the traditional boundary of etruria with latium, and may have had a substantial etruscan population from the beginning; but certainly there was a considerable etruscan element in the roman population by the sixth century bc; the fifth and seventh kings of rome were etruscan, and many of rome's cultural institutions were of etruscan origin. it may be to this period, rather than the time of romulus, that the institution of the luceres belongs; and indeed the names, if not the ethnic character, of all three of the romulean tribes appear to be etruscan.[ ][ ] although the theory that the romulean tribes represented the city's original ethnic components continues to be represented in modern scholarship, it has never been universally accepted, and this view is rejected by many scholars.[ ] the curiae[edit] these three tribes were in turn divided into thirty curiae, or wards, the organization of which is unclear; they were said to have been named after thirty of the sabine women, but of the nine curiae whose names are known today, several are of geographical origin. the only curiae whose names are now known were: acculeia,[ii] calabra, faucia,[iii] foriensis,[iv] rapta,[v] tifata,[vi] titia,[vii] veliensis,[viii] and velitia.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] in the past, it was widely believed that membership in the curiae was limited to the patricians, and that statements to the contrary, indicating that clientes were admitted meant no more than that they were passive members with no voting rights. however, mommsen argued convincingly that the plebeians were included in voting, and this view now appears to have prevailed; the plebeians were included either from the beginning, or at least from an early date; certainly from the earliest years of the republic.[ ][ ][ ] the members of the curiae were known as curiales. each curia was attended by a priest, or curio, who assisted by another priest, known as the flamen curialis, undertook the religious obligations of the ward. each had its own place of meeting, also known as a curia.[ ] the comitia curiata[edit] when the various curiae were assembled for voting, they formed the comitia curiata, the oldest legislative assembly of the roman republic. one of the curiones was appointed or elected curio maximus, and presided over the assembly.[ ][ ] under the kings, the comitia curiata was summoned by the king or by an interrex, who would present questions upon which the comitia might vote. these included the election of a new king, as proposed by the interrex; the passing of a law conferring imperium on the king, known as a lex curiata de imperio; whether to declare war; rulings on appeals; matters relating to arrogatio;[ix] and whether to allow foreigners to be received among the patricians. under servius tullius, the rights to declare war and to decide appeals were transferred to the comitia centuriata, another legislative assembly.[ ] after the downfall of the roman monarchy, questions were presented to the comitia curiata by the roman senate. however, between and bc, most of its functions were relegated to the comitia tributa and the comitia centuriata. the higher magistrates were elected by the comitia centuriata, which also presided over certain capital trials, and held the power to declare war, and to pass legislation presented by the senate. lesser magistrates were elected by the comitia tributa, which also elected religious officials, presided over trials affecting the plebeians, and passed resolutions based on legislation proposed by the tribunes of the plebs and various magistrates. the comitia curiata retained the power to confer imperium on magistrates elected by the comitia centuriata, and to confirm alterations in the roman constitution decided upon by the other two comitia; both of these, however, required the senate to propose them before the comitia could act. the comitia also retained the power to decide whether to admit a non-patrician into that order, and to oversee the process of arrogatio, particularly when a patrician was being adopted into a plebeian family.[ ] by the late republic, each curia was represented by only one lictor. the servian tribes[edit] inscription (cil . ) from gallia narbonensis, recording the enrollment of gaius otacilius in the tribus voltinia (abbreviated vol), into which gallic citizens were frequently placed. the institution of the tribes that made up the comitia tributa, as well as the centuries of the comitia centuriata, occurred under servius tullius, the sixth king of rome, whose reign is traditionally dated from to bc. according to livy, servius divided the city into four regions,[ ] and the surrounding land into twenty-six, thus dividing the people into thirty tribes, based on geographic location. the names of the four "urban" tribes were based on the four regions of the city that they represented, while those of the "rural" or "rustic" tribes were likely based on the names of families that owned considerable tracts of land in those areas.[ ][ ][ ] ten of the original rural tribes, whose names are lost to history, were destroyed in the war against lars porsena at the commencement of the republic.[ ] those that remained were the four urban tribes: collina, esquilina, palatina, and suburana (also called succusana); together with sixteen rural tribes: aemilia, camilia, cornelia, fabia, galeria, horatia, lemonia, menenia, papiria, pollia, popillia, pupinia, romilia, sergia, veturia, and voltinia. later tribes[edit] when the sabine appius claudius removed to rome together with his clientes, in bc, he was admitted to the patriciate, and assigned lands in the region around the mouth of the anio. these settlers became the basis of the tribus claudia, which was admitted in bc, during claudius' consulship, and subsequently enlarged to become the tribus crustumina or clustumina.[ ][ ] four more tribes were added in bc: arniensis, sabatina, stellatina, and tromentina.[ ] with the addition of volscian territory in bc, two more tribes were formed, pomptina and publilia (also found as poblilia). in , the censors quintus publilius philo and spurius postumius albinus enrolled two more tribes, maecia (originally maicia) and scaptia. ufentina (or oufentina) and falerina followed in , and in aniensis and terentina were added. the last two tribes, quirina and velina, were established in bc, bringing the number of tribes to thirty-five. eight tribes were added at the end of the social war, when the roman franchise was extended to the socii, but they were later absorbed into the other thirty-five.[ ] the thirty-five tribes (with their usual abbreviations) were:[x] 	 the four urban tribes 	collina (col.) 	esquilina ( esq.) 	palatina ( pal.) 	suburana ( sub./suc.) 	 the rural tribes 	aemilia ( aem.) 	aniensis ( ani.) 	arniensis ( arn.) 	camilia ( cam.) 	claudia ( cla.)[xi] 	crustumina ( clu.) 	cornelia ( cor.) 	fabia ( fab.) 	 	falerina ( fal.) 	galeria ( gal.) 	horatia ( hor.) 	lemonia ( lem.) 	maecia ( mae./mai.) 	menenia ( men.) 	papiria ( pap.) 	pollia ( pol.) 	 	pomptina ( pom.) 	publilia ( pub./pob.) 	pupinia ( pup.) 	quirina ( qui.) 	romilia ( rom.) 	sabatina ( sab.) 	scaptia ( scap.) 	sergia ( ser.) 	 	stellatina ( ste.) 	terentina ( ter.) 	tromentina ( tro.) 	ufentina ( ouf.) 	velina ( vel.) 	veturia ( vet.) 	voltinia ( vol.) although the names of the older rural tribes are those of patrician families, the tribes themselves were probably entirely plebeian until bc, after which both patricians and plebeians were enrolled; before this time, many of the powers and responsibilities later held by the comitia tributa still belonged to the comitia curiata.[ ] while we know the origin of their names, the location of the territories which defined these tribes is uncertain. subsequent tribes were based in territories where roman settlements had been established, or in which the inhabitants had received the roman franchise. in later periods, citizens might be enrolled in tribes without reference to geography.[ ] the enrollment of new citizens in particular tribes became a significant political issue during the censorship of appius claudius caecus in bc. those who wished to limit the voting power of the lower social orders, and particularly of freedmen, advocated enrolling them only in the four urban tribes. this effort was largely unsuccessful, except with respect to freedmen, who were nearly always enrolled in one of the urban tribes. a similar attempt to limit the power of newly enfranchised citizens followed the end of the social war. it was also possible for one of the censors to punish an individual by expelling him from one of the rustic tribes, and assigning him to one of the urban tribes; this was known as tribu movere.[ ] the tribes functioned as civil divisions of the populace for purposes of the census, taxation, and military service. each tribe possessed its own officers, including a curator tribuum, who served as the head of the tribe, and tribuni aerarii, or tribunes of the treasury, whose responsibility was for the tribe's financial obligations; they were responsible for collecting the war tax, and distributed pay to the tribe's soldiers.[ ][ ] toward the end of the republic, the importance of the tribus was such that it became an official part of a roman's name, usually appearing, in the most formal documents and inscriptions, between a citizen's filiation and any cognomina.[ ] in imperial times, the enrollment of citizens in tribes along a geographic basis was resumed; for instance, easterners were typically enrolled in the tribes collina and quirina, while in gallia narbonensis enrollment in the tribus voltinia was preferred.[ ] the comitia tributa[edit] a view of the roman forum from the palatine hill. main article: tribal assembly together, the servian tribes constituted the concilium plebis, or plebeian council; as time passed and the council's authority to pass legislation developed, it was increasingly known as the comitia plebis tributa, or tribal assembly.[ ] a law passed in bc made resolutions of the comitia tributa, known as plebi scita, or plebiscites, binding upon the whole roman people; this law was not ratified by the senate until bc, but even before this its resolutions were considered binding on the plebs. because all citizens, whether patrician or plebeian, received the same vote in the comitia tributa, and because the assembly was much simpler to convene than the comitia centuriata, the comitia tributa was rome's most democratic assembly. by the end of the republic, the plebs greatly outnumbered the patricians, and it was through this comitia that the collective will of the citizens could be exercised without regard to wealth or status.[ ] powers[edit] the comitia tributa elected all of the lower magistrates, including the tribunes of the plebs, the military tribunes, the plebeian aediles and the curule aediles. a committee of seventeen tribes, chosen by lot, nominated the pontifex maximus, and coöpted members of the collegia of the pontifices, augures, and the decemviri sacrorum.[ ] the comitia could pass resolutions proposed by the tribunes of the plebs, or by the higher magistrates, on both domestic and foreign matters, such as the making of treaties or concluding of peace. proposals had to be published before receiving a vote, and were passed or rejected as a whole, without modification. although the senate might review these resolutions, it could only reject them if they had been passed without the proper formalities.[ ] the comitia tributa also decided suits instituted by the plebeian tribunes and aediles, for offenses against the plebs or their representatives. in the later republic, these suits typically involved charges of maladministration; the tribunes and aediles were entitled to levy substantial fines.[ ] procedures[edit] beginning with the institution of the tribunes of the plebs in bc, the comitia tributa was normally summoned by the tribunes themselves. magistrates could also convene the comitia, but only with the consent of the tribunes. the comitia was summoned by the proclamation of a praeco, a crier or herald, at least seventeen days before the meeting. the auspices would be taken, and the meeting could only proceed if they were favourable. the tribes convened at daybreak, and were obliged to adjourn at sunset. if summoned by one of the tribunes, the tribes had to gather within the city, or within a one-mile radius of the city; this was the boundary of a tribune's authority. in the first centuries of the republic, the comitia usually met on the capitol, in the forum, or at the comitium. if summoned by one of the magistrates, the comitia typically met on the campus martius.[ ] after a prayer, unaccompanied by sacrifice, proposals would be read, and the citizens arranged by tribe. the first tribe to vote, known as the principium, was chosen by lot, and the result of its vote announced. the other tribes would then vote simultaneously, and the results of their votes announced in an order also determined by lot, before the final result was proclaimed. laws passed by the comitia took effect as soon as the results were announced.[ ] although the order of voting was determined by lot, there was also an official order of the tribes, known as the ordo tribuum. the first four tribes were the urban tribes, in the order: suburana, palatina, esquilina, collina; the rural tribes followed, concluding with aniensis.[xii][ ] decline[edit] in the final years of the republic, participation in the comitia was quite low, and its acts increasingly the result of corruption. caesar deprived the comitia tributa of the power to declare war or conclude peace; the early emperors further curtailed its power. augustus removed the comitia's judicial function, and preserved its power to pass legislation only in form. he filled half of the available magistracies with his own candidates, and tiberius transferred the comitia's remaining electoral authority to the senate. although the emperors received many of their powers from the comitia tributa, this was only a formality.[ ] although the comitia tributa continued to exist until the third century ad, its only remaining functions were symbolic; it took auspices and gave prayer; it conferred the emperor's legislative powers and other authority; and it proclaimed the laws presented to it for approval. but by this time voting was done not by ballot, but by acclamatio.[ ] see also[edit] 	list of roman tribes notes[edit] 	^ there is no evidence that the romulean tribes were ever formally abolished, although they are seldom mentioned in the time of the republic. however, livy implies that they still existed, and that members of the college of augurs were traditionally assigned in threes, so that each tribe would be represented by one or more augurs. 	^ according to varro, the curia acculeia made a sacrifice to angerona during the festival of the angeronalia, on december . this may have been a special honour, as angerona was the tutelary goddess of rome itself. there was a gens accoleia, probably derived from the same source, and either the curia was named after the gens, or if this ward was named for one of the sabine women, perhaps accoleia was a matronymic surname, based on an ancient praenomen such as acca. various traditions relating to an acca larentia are associated with romulus. 	^ livy mentions that the curia faucia was particularly ill-omened, because it had cast the first vote in bc, the year that rome was sacked by the gauls, and again in bc, the year of the disaster at the caudine forks; they cast the first vote again in , but the ill omen came to naught, as the romans won an important victory over the etruscans. according to licinius macer, the curia faucia had also cast the first vote in bc, the year of the destruction of the fabii at the cremera. 	^ foriensis probably refers to the area around the roman forum. 	^ raptus is an adjective meaning "abducted" or "captured." in its feminine form, it could well be a reference to one of the sabine women. 	^ festus says that tifata means "full of holm oaks." however, it also referred to various places, including a curia tifata at rome, which in another passage festus explains was named after a certain curius who lived there. thus, while festus seems to say in one passage that tifata was one of the thirty curiae, there is some doubt as to whether it was instead a place name; or perhaps it was both. 	^ festus informs us that the curia titia, like the tribe of the tities, was named after titus tatius; but poucet disagrees. titia was also a women's praenomen. 	^ veliensis refers to the velian hill, a ridge in central rome joining the palatine hill and the oppian hill. the origin of the name is obscure; but velia is an etruscan woman's praenomen, and there was a gens velia. 	^ arrogatio, or arrogation, was a particular type of adoption specific to roman culture. it was a means of ensuring that a particular family line did not become extinct, merely because a man had no children of his own. in order to qualify, the adoptor had to be both childless and incapable of having children, while the adoptee had to be an adult. this process was of particular interest to the patricians, who formed an increasingly small minority of the roman populus as time passed; normally, the adoptee would receive the status of his adopted father, and thus a patrician adopted into a plebeian gens would normally lose his patrician status; this principle was used by publius clodius pulcher to pass over to the plebeians, and become eligible to hold office as tribune of the plebs, although in his case the adoption was technically illegal, as his adoptive father was a young man, presumably capable of having children. on the other hand, a plebeian might obtain patrician status by being adopted into a patrician gens, and this would also have been of concern to the patricians. there may have been exceptions to the usual rule; a family of the junii silani descended from the patrician manlia gens seems to have retained their patrician status, although adopted into the plebeian junii; gaius junius silanus was flamen martialis, a priestly office restricted to the patricians. 	^ a number of the tribes are known with variations in spelling, both as the result of scribal error, and as the orthography of latin itself shifted over time; for example, the tribus maecia must originally have been maicia, as it is frequently abbreviated mai. crustumina and clustumina are used interchangeably; poplilia and poblilia are older forms of publilia; and a number of internal letters are omitted in some writing; for instance, falerna in place of falerina, sabatia for sabatina, teretina for terentina, and votinia for voltinia. 	^ the tribus claudia was subsequently enlarged to become crustumina. 	^ crawford postulates that the rustic tribes were enumerated along the major roads leading from rome (the viae ostiensis, appia, latina, praenestina, valeria, salaria, flaminia and clodia), in a counter-clockwise order: romilia, voltinia, voturia, aemilia, horatia, maecia, scaptia, pomptina, falerina, lemonia, papiria, ufentina, terentina, pupinia, menenia, publilia, cornelia, claudia, camilia, aniensis, fabia, pollia, sergia, clustumina, quirina, velina, stellatina, tromentina, galeria, sabatina, arniensis. this list omits the tribus popillia, one of the original servian tribes, and counts claudia and clustumina as separate tribes.[ ] references[edit] 	^ a b c d e f g h i j k l harper's dictionary of classical literature and antiquities, "tribus." 	^ a b c d e f g h i j oxford classical dictionary, "tribus." 	^ the bantam new college latin & english dictionary, s. v. tribus. 	^ cassell's latin & english dictionary, s. v. tribus. 	^ livy, x. . 	^ a b c d e f g h i j k harper's dictionary of classical literature and antiquities, second edition, harry thurston peck, editor ( ), "comitia". 	^ livy, i. – . 	^ a b robert maxwell ogilvie, a commentary on livy, books i–v ( ). 	^ cornell, pp. , . 	^ varro, de lingua latina. 	^ livy, ix. . 	^ festus. 	^ a b c d harper's dictionary of classical literature and antiquities, "curia." 	^ c. j. smith, the roman clan, p. . 	^ mommsen, römische forschungen i. – . 	^ harper's dictionary of classical literature and antiquities, "curio." 	^ livy, i. . 	^ livy, ii. . 	^ oxford classical dictionary, "tribuni aerarii." 	^ oxford classical dictionary, "comitia." 	^ crawford. bibliography[edit] 	primary sources 	marcus terentius varro, de lingua latina (on the latin language). 	titus livius (livy), history of rome. 	sextus pompeius festus, epitome de m. verrio flacco de verborum significatu (epitome of marcus verrius flaccus: on the meaning of words). 	secondary sources 	timothy cornell, the beginnings of rome: italy and rome from the bronze age to the punic wars, routledge, london ( ). 	michael h. crawford, "tribus, tesserae, et regions," in comptes rendus de l'academie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, vol. , pp. – ( ). 	oxford classical dictionary, n. g. l. hammond and h. h. scullard, eds., clarendon press, oxford (second edition, ). 	christian matthias theodor mommsen, römische forschungen (roman research), weidmannsche buchhandlung, berlin ( – ). 	harper's 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	triumviri 	decemviri 	 titles and honours 	 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	praeses 	praefectus 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 	 	other countries 		v 	t 	e citizenship in ancient rome (latin: civitas) was a privileged political and legal status afforded to free individuals with respect to laws, property, and governance. 	roman women had a limited form of citizenship. they were not allowed to vote or stand for civil or public office. the rich might participate in public life by funding building projects or sponsoring religious ceremonies and other events. women had the right to own property, to engage in business, and to obtain a divorce, but their legal rights varied over time. marriages were an important form of political alliance during the republic. 	client state citizens and allies (socii) of rome could receive a limited form of roman citizenship such as the latin right. such citizens could not vote or be elected in roman elections.[ ] 	freedmen were former slaves who had gained their freedom. they were not automatically given citizenship and lacked some privileges such as running for executive magistracies. the children of freedmen and women were born as free citizens; for example, the father of the poet horace was a freedman. 	slaves were considered property and lacked legal personhood. over time, they acquired a few protections under roman law. some slaves were freed by manumission for services rendered, or through a testamentary provision when their master died. once free, they faced few barriers, beyond normal social stigma, to participating in roman society. the principle that a person could become a citizen by law rather than birth was enshrined in roman mythology; when romulus defeated the sabines in battle, he promised the war captives that were in rome they could become citizens.[ ] contents 	 possible rights 	 classes of citizenship 	 . cives romani 	 . latini 	 . socii 	 . provinciales 	 . peregrini 	 citizenship as a tool of romanization 	 the edict of caracalla 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links possible rights[edit] 	ius suffragii: the right to vote in the roman assemblies. 	ius honorum: the right to stand for civil or public office. 	ius commercii: the right to make legal contracts and to hold property as a roman citizen. 	ius gentium: the legal recognition, developed in the rd century bc, of the growing international scope of roman affairs, and the need for roman law to deal with situations between roman citizens and foreign persons. the ius gentium was therefore a roman legal codification of the widely accepted international law of the time, and was based on the highly developed commercial law of the greek city-states and of other maritime powers.[ ] the rights afforded by the ius gentium were considered to be held by all persons; it is thus a concept of human rights rather than rights attached to citizenship. 	ius conubii: the right to have a lawful marriage with a roman citizen according to roman principles,[ ] to have the legal rights of the paterfamilias over the family, and for the children of any such marriage to be counted as roman citizens. 	ius migrationis: the right to preserve one's level of citizenship upon relocation to a polis of comparable status. for example, members of the cives romani (see below) maintained their full civitas when they migrated to a roman colony with full rights under the law: a colonia civium romanorum. latins also had this right, and maintained their ius latii if they relocated to a different latin state or latin colony (latina colonia). this right did not preserve one's level of citizenship should one relocate to a colony of lesser legal status; full roman citizens relocating to a latina colonia were reduced to the level of the ius latii, and such a migration and reduction in status had to be a voluntary act. 	the right of immunity from some taxes and other legal obligations, especially local rules and regulations.[ ] 	the right to sue in the courts and the right to be sued. 	the right to have a legal trial (to appear before a proper court and to defend oneself). 	the right to appeal from the decisions of magistrates and to appeal the lower court decisions. 	following the early nd-century bc porcian laws, a roman citizen could not be tortured or whipped and could commute sentences of death to voluntary exile, unless he was found guilty of treason. 	if accused of treason, a roman citizen had the right to be tried in rome, and even if sentenced to death, no roman citizen could be sentenced to die on the cross. roman citizenship was required in order to enlist in the roman legions, but this was sometimes ignored. citizen soldiers could be beaten by the centurions and senior officers for reasons related to discipline. non-citizens joined the auxilia and gained citizenship through service. classes of citizenship[edit] the legal classes varied over time, however the following classes of legal status existed at various times within the roman state: the orator, c. bc, an etrusco-roman bronze sculpture depicting aule metele (latin: aulus metellus), an etruscan man wearing a roman toga while engaged in rhetoric; the statue features an inscription in the etruscan alphabet cives romani[edit] the cives romani were full roman citizens, who enjoyed full legal protection under roman law. cives romani were sub-divided into two classes: 	the non optimo iure who held the ius commercii and ius conubii (rights of property and marriage) 	the optimo iure, who held these rights as well as the ius suffragii and ius honorum (the additional rights to vote and to hold office). latini[edit] further information: latin league and latin right the latini were a class of citizens who held the latin right (ius latii), or the rights of ius commercii and ius migrationis, but not the ius conubii. the term latini originally referred to the latins, citizens of the latin league who came under roman control at the close of the latin war, but eventually became a legal description rather than a national or ethnic one. freedmen slaves, those of the cives romani convicted of crimes, or citizens settling latin colonies could be given this status under the law. socii[edit] further information: socii, foederati, social war ( – bc), and lex julia socii or foederati were citizens of states which had treaty obligations with rome, under which typically certain legal rights of the state's citizens under roman law were exchanged for agreed levels of military service, i.e. the roman magistrates had the right to levy soldiers for the roman legions from those states. however, foederati states that had at one time been conquered by rome were exempt from payment of tribute to rome due to their treaty status. growing dissatisfaction with the rights afforded to the socii, and with the growing manpower demands of the legions (due to the protracted jugurthine war and the cimbrian war) led eventually to the social war of – bc in which the italian allies revolted against rome. the lex julia (in full the lex iulia de civitate latinis danda), passed in bc, granted the rights of the cives romani to all latini and socii states that had not participated in the social war, or who were willing to cease hostilities immediately. this was extended to all the italian socii states when the war ended (except for gallia cisalpina), effectively eliminating socii and latini as legal and citizenship definitions. provinciales[edit] provinciales were those people who fell under roman influence, or control, but who lacked even the rights of the foederati, essentially having only the rights of the ius gentium. peregrini[edit] a peregrinus (plural peregrini) was originally any person who was not a full roman citizen, that is someone who was not a member of the cives romani. with the expansion of roman law to include more gradations of legal status, this term became less used, but the term peregrini included those of the latini, socii, and provinciales, as well as those subjects of foreign states. citizenship as a tool of romanization[edit] 	 	this section does not cite any sources. please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (april ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) the mausoleum of the julii, located across the via domitia, to the north of, and just outside the city entrance, dates to about bc, and is one of the best preserved mausoleums of the roman era. a dedication is carved on the architrave of the building facing the old roman road, which reads: sex · m · l · ivliei · c · f · parentibvs · sveis sextius, marcus and lucius julius, sons of gaius, to their forebears it is believed that the mausoleum was the tomb of the mother and father of the three julii brothers, and that the father, for military or civil service, received roman citizenship and the privilege of bearing the name of the julii roman citizenship was also used as a tool of foreign policy and control. colonies and political allies would be granted a "minor" form of roman citizenship, there being several graduated levels of citizenship and legal rights (the latin right was one of them). the promise of improved status within the roman "sphere of influence", and the rivalry with one's neighbours for status, kept the focus of many of rome's neighbours and allies centered on the status quo of roman culture, rather than trying to subvert or overthrow rome's influence. the granting of citizenship to allies and the conquered was a vital step in the process of romanization. this step was one of the most effective political tools and (at that point in history) original political ideas (perhaps one of the most important reasons for the success of rome). previously alexander the great had tried to "mingle" his greeks with the persians, egyptians, syrians, etc. in order to assimilate the people of the conquered persian empire, but after his death this policy was largely ignored by his successors. the idea was not to assimilate, but to turn a defeated and potentially rebellious enemy (or their sons) into roman citizens. instead of having to wait for the unavoidable revolt of a conquered people (a tribe or a city-state) like sparta and the conquered helots, rome tried to make those under its rule feel that they had a stake in the system. the edict of caracalla[edit] the edict of caracalla (officially the constitutio antoniniana in latin: "constitution [or edict] of antoninus") was an edict issued in ad by the roman emperor caracalla, which declared that all free men in the roman empire were to be given full roman citizenship and all free women in the empire were given the same rights as roman women, with the exception of the dediticii, people who had become subject to rome through surrender in war, and freed slaves.[ ] before , for the most part only inhabitants of italia held full roman citizenship. colonies of romans established in other provinces, romans (or their descendants) living in provinces, the inhabitants of various cities throughout the empire, and a few local nobles (such as kings of client countries) also held full citizenship. provincials, on the other hand, were usually non-citizens, although some held the latin right. the book of acts indicates that paul the apostle was a roman citizen by birth - though not clearly specifying which class of citizenship - a fact which had considerable bearing on paul's career and on the way he shaped the new religion of christianity. however, by the century previous to caracalla, roman citizenship had already lost much of its exclusiveness and become more available.[ ] see also[edit] 	ancient rome portal 	civis romanus sum 	constitution of the roman republic 	rights of englishmen references[edit] 	^ hans volkmann: municipium. in: der kleine pauly. vol. , stuttgart , col. – . 	^ plutarch, life of romulus . . 	^ "roman law". the columbia encyclopedia, sixth edition. new york: columbia university press. archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - . 	^ conubium. charlton t. lewis and charles short. a latin dictionary on perseus project. 	^ catholic resources 	^ giessen papyrus, , - "i grant to all the inhabitants of the empire the roman citizenship and no one remains outside a civitas, with the exception of the dediticii" 	^ geoffrey w. bromiley ( ). the international standard bible encyclopedia. wm. b. eerdmans publishing. pp.  –. isbn  - - - - . further reading[edit] 	atkins, jed w. . roman political thought. key themes in ancient history. cambridge; new york: cambridge university press, . 	cecchet, lucia and anna busetto, eds. . citizens in the graeco-roman world: aspects of citizenship from the archaic period to ad . mnemosyne supplements, . leiden; boston: brill. 	gardner, jane. . being a roman citizen. london: routledge. 	howarth, randal s. . the origins of roman citizenship. lewiston, ny: edwin mellen press. 	nicolet, claude. . the world of the citizen in republican rome. berkeley: university of california press. external links[edit] 	library resources about roman citizenship 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	just, felix. 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	antonine wall 	hadrian's wall 	saxon shore 	limes germanicus 	alb limes 	lauter valley limes 	lower germanic limes 	main limes 	neckar-odenwald limes 	upper germanic-rhaetian limes 	wetterau limes 	danube–iller–rhine limes 	norican limes 	claustra alpium iuliarum 	pannonian limes 	limes alutanus 	limes moesiae 	trajan's wall 	anastasian wall 	limes sarmatiae 	limes arabicus 	limes tripolitanus 	limes mauretaniae 	  ancient rome portal •  war portal 		v 	t 	e the structural history of the roman military concerns the major transformations in the organization and constitution of ancient rome's armed forces, "the most effective and long-lived military institution known to history."[ ] from its origins around  bc to its final dissolution in ad  with the demise of the western roman empire, rome's military organization underwent substantial structural change. at the highest level of structure, the forces were split into the roman army and the roman navy, although these two branches were less distinct than in many modern national defense forces. within the top levels of both army and navy, structural changes occurred as a result of both positive military reform and organic structural evolution. these changes can be divided into four distinct phases. 	phase i 	the army was derived from obligatory annual military service levied on the citizenry, as part of their duty to the state. during this period, the roman army would wage seasonal campaigns against largely local adversaries. 	phase ii 	as the extent of the territories falling under roman control expanded and the size of the forces increased, the soldiery gradually became salaried professionals. as a consequence, military service at the lower (non-salaried) levels became progressively longer-term. roman military units of the period were largely homogeneous and highly regulated. the army consisted of units of citizen infantry known as legions (latin: legiones) as well as non-legionary allied troops known as auxilia. the latter were most commonly called upon to provide light infantry, logistical, or cavalry support. 	phase iii 	at the height of the roman empire's power, forces were tasked with manning and securing the borders of the vast provinces which had been brought under roman control. serious strategic threats were less common in this period and emphasis was placed on preserving gained territory. the army underwent changes in response to these new needs and became more dependent on fixed garrisons than on march-camps and continuous field operations. 	phase iv 	as rome began to struggle to keep control over its sprawling territories, military service continued to be salaried and professional for rome's regular troops. however, the trend of employing allied or mercenary elements was expanded to such an extent that these troops came to represent a substantial proportion of the armed forces. at the same time, the uniformity of structure found in rome's earlier military disappeared. soldiery of the era ranged from lightly armed mounted archers to heavy infantry, in regiments of varying size and quality. this was accompanied by a trend in the late empire of an increasing predominance of cavalry rather than infantry troops, as well as a requirement for more mobile operations. in this period there was more focus (on all frontiers but the east) on smaller units of independently-operating troops, engaging less in set-piece battles and more in low-intensity, guerilla actions. contents 	 tribal forces (c. bc – c. bc) 	 etruscan-model hoplites (  bc – c.  bc) 	 manipular legion ( –  bc) 	 . proletarianisation of the infantry ( –  bc) 	 marian legion ( –  bc) 	 . non-citizen recruitment ( –  bc) 	 imperial legions and reformation of the auxilia (  bc –  ad) 	 . introduction of vexillationes ( –  ad) 	 barbarisation of the army ( –  ad) 	 successive crises ( – ad) 	 comitatenses and limitanei ( –  ad) 	 . adoption of barbarian allies ( –  ad) 	 collapse in the west and survival in the east ( –  ad) 	 see also 	 references 	 . explanatory notes 	 . citations 	 bibliography 	 . primary sources 	 . secondary and tertiary sources tribal forces (c. bc – c. bc)[edit] main article: early roman army according to the historians livy and dionysius of halicarnassus, writing at a far later date, the earliest roman army existed in the th century bc. during this period rome itself was probably little more than a fortified hilltop settlement and its army a relatively small force, whose activities were limited "mainly [to] raiding and cattle rustling with the occasional skirmish-like battle".[ ] historian theodor mommsen referred to it as rome's curiate army, named for its presumed subdivision along the boundaries of rome's three founding tribes (latin: curiae), the ramnians, tities and luceres.[ ] this army's exact structure is not known, but it is probable that it loosely resembled a warrior band or group of bodyguards led by a chieftain or king.[ ] mommsen believes that roman military organization of this period was regimented by the "laws of [the apocryphal] king [v]italus"[ ] but these laws, though referred to by aristotle, have been lost. the army (latin: legio) consisted, according to livy, of exactly , infantry and horsemen, one third from each of rome's three founding tribes.[note ][ ] warriors served under six "leaders of division" (latin: tribuni) who in turn served under a general, usually in the person of the reigning king. mommsen uses philological arguments and references from livy and others to suggest that the greater mass of foot-soldiers probably consisted of pilumni (javelin-throwers), with a smaller number possibly serving as arquites (archers).[ ] the cavalry was far smaller in number and probably consisted solely of the town's richest citizens.[ ] the army may also have contained the earliest form of chariots,[ ] hinted at by references to the flexuntes ("the wheelers").[ ] by the beginning of the th century bc, the iron-age etruscan civilization (latin: etrusci) was dominant in the region.[ ] like most of the other peoples in the region, the romans warred against the etruscans. by the close of the century, the romans had lost their struggle for independence, and the etruscans had conquered rome, establishing a military dictatorship, or kingdom, in the city. etruscan-model hoplites (  bc – c.  bc)[edit] main article: early roman army ancient greek sculpture of a hoplite (c.  th century bc, archæological museum of sparti), on which rome's first class of infantry was based. although several roman sources including livy and polybius talk extensively about the roman army of the roman kingdom period that followed the etruscan capture of the city, no contemporary accounts survive. polybius, for example, wrote some years after the events in question, and livy some years later. additionally, what records were kept by the romans at this time were later destroyed when the city was sacked. the sources for this period cannot therefore be seen as reliable, as they can be for later military history, e.g. from the first punic war onwards. according to our surviving narratives, the three kings of rome during the etruscan occupation were tarquinius priscus, servius tullius, and tarquinius superbus. during this period the army underwent a reformation into a centurial army based on socio-economic class.[ ] this reformation is traditionally attributed to servius tullius, the second of the etruscan kings. tullius had earlier carried out the first roman census of all citizens.[ ] livy tells us that tullius reformed the army by transplanting onto it the structure derived originally for civil life as a result of this census.[ ] at all levels, military service was, at this time, considered to be a civic responsibility and a way of advancing one's status within society.[ ] however, rome's social classes were qualified rather than created by the census. it is perhaps more accurate to say therefore that the army's structure was slightly refined during this period rather than radically reformed. prior to these reforms, the infantry was divided into the classis of rich citizens and the infra classem of poorer citizens. the latter were excluded from the regular line of battle on the basis that their equipment was of poor quality.[ ] during the reforms, this crude division of poorer and richer citizens was further stratified. the army thereafter consisted of a number of troop types based upon the social class of propertied citizens, collectively known as adsidui. from the poorest in the "fifth class" to the richest in the "first class" and the equestrians above them, military service was compulsory for all.[ ] however, roman citizens at this time generally viewed military service as a proper undertaking of duty to the state, in contrast to later views of military service as an unwelcome and unpleasant burden.[ ] whereas there are accounts of romans in the late empire mutilating their own bodies in order to exempt themselves from military service,[ ] there seems to have been no such reluctance to serve in the military of early rome. this may in part be due to the generally lower intensity of conflict in this era; to the fact that men were fighting close to and often in protection of their own homes, or due to—as posited by later roman writers—a greater martial spirit in antiquity.[note ][ ] the equestrians, the highest social class of all, served in mounted units known as equites. the first class of the richest citizens served as heavy infantry with swords and long spears (resembling hoplites), and provided the first line of the battle formation. the second class were armed similarly to the first class, but without a breastplate for protection, and with an oblong rather than a round shield. the second class stood immediately behind the first class when the army was drawn up in battle formation. the third and fourth classes were more lightly armed and carried a thrusting-spear and javelins. the third class stood behind the second class in battle formation, normally providing javelin support. the poorest of the propertied men of the city comprised the fifth class. they were generally too poor to afford much equipment at all and were armed as skirmishers with slings and stones. they were deployed in a screen in front of the main army, covering its approach and masking its manoeuvres. men without property, who were thereby excluded from the qualifying social classes of the adsidui, were exempted from military service on the grounds that they were too poor to provide themselves with any arms whatsoever.[ ] however, in the most pressing circumstances, even these proletarii were pressed into service,[ ] though their military worth was probably questionable. troops in all of these classes would fight together on the battlefield, with the exception of the most senior troops, who were expected to guard the city.[ ] the army is said to have increased from , to , men in the th century bc, and then again from , to , men sometime before bc.[ ] this later army of , men were then divided into centuries of men each.[ ] manipular legion ( –  bc)[edit] main article: roman army of the mid-republic altar of domitius ahenobarbus, c. bc; the altar shows two roman infantrymen equipped with long scuta and a cavalryman with his horse. all are shown wearing chain mail armour. the army of the early republic continued to evolve, and although there was a tendency among romans to attribute such changes to great reformers, it is more likely that changes were the product of slow evolution rather than singular and deliberate policy of reform.[ ] the manipular formation was probably copied from rome's samnite enemies to the south, perhaps as a result of roman defeats in the second samnite war.[ ][ ] during this period, a military formation of around , men was known as a legion (latin: legio). however, in contrast to later legionary formations of exclusively heavy infantry, the legions of the early and middle republic consisted of both light and heavy infantry. the term manipular legion, a legion based on units called maniples, is therefore used to contrast the later cohortal legion of the empire that was based around a system of cohort units. the manipular legion was based partially upon social class and partially upon age and military experience.[ ] it therefore represents a theoretical compromise between the earlier class-based army and the class-free armies of later years. in practice, even slaves were at one time pressed into the army of the republic out of necessity.[ ] normally a single legion was raised each year, but in  bc two legions were raised in a single year for the first time.[ ] maniples were units of men each drawn from a single infantry class. the maniples were small enough to permit tactical movement of individual infantry units on the battlefield within the framework of the greater army. the maniples were typically deployed into three discrete lines (latin: triplex acies) based on the three heavy infantry types of hastati, principes and triarii.[ ] the first type, the hastati, typically formed the first rank in battle formation. they typically wore a brass chest plate (though some could afford mail), a helmet called a galea, and occasionally, greaves (shin guards). they carried an iron bossed wooden shield,  cm (  ft) tall and rectangular in shape with a curved front to partially protect the sides. traditionally they were armed with a sword known as a gladius and two throwing spears known as pila: one the heavy pilum of popular imagination and one a slender javelin.[ ] however the exact introduction of the gladius and the replacement of the spear with the sword as the primary weapon of the roman legions is uncertain, and it's possible that the early manipular legions still fought with the hastati and principes wielding the hasta or spear. 	"the romans ... habitually enroll four legions each year, each consisting of about four thousand foot and two hundred horse; and when any unusual necessity arises, they raise the number of foot to five thousand and of the horse to three hundred. of allies, the number in each legion is the same as that of the citizens, but of the horse three times as great" 	polybius, the histories, : – the second type, the principes, typically formed the second rank of soldiers back from the front of a battle line. they were heavy infantry soldiers armed and armoured as per the hastati. the triarii, who typically formed the third rank when the army was arrayed for battle, were the last remnant of hoplite-style troops in the roman army. they were armed and armoured as per the principes, with the exception that they carried a pike rather than two pila.[ ] a triarii maniple was divided into two formations each six men across by men deep.[ ] a manipular legion typically contained between , hastati, , principes and triarii.[ ] the three classes of unit may have retained some slight parallel to social divisions within roman society, but at least officially the three lines were based upon age and experience rather than social class. young, unproven men would serve as hastati, older men with some military experience as principes, and veteran troops of advanced age and experience as triarii. the heavy infantry of the maniples were supported by a number of light infantry (latin: velites) and cavalry (latin: equites) troops, typically horsemen per manipular legion.[ ] the cavalry was drawn primarily from the richest class of equestrians, but additional cavalry and light infantry were drawn at times from the socii and latini of the italian mainland. the equites were still drawn from the wealthier classes in roman society. there was an additional class of troops (latin: accensi, also adscripticii and later supernumerarii) who followed the army without specific martial roles and were deployed to the rear of the triarii. their role in accompanying the army was primarily to supply any vacancies that might occur in the maniples, but they also seem to have acted occasionally as orderlies to the officers. the light infantry of , velites[ ] consisted of unarmoured skirmishing troops drawn from the youngest and lower social classes. they were armed with a sword and shield (  cm (  ft) diameter), as well as several light javelins, each with a  cm (  ft) wooden shaft the diameter of a finger, with a c.   cm (  in) narrow metal point.[ ] their numbers were swollen by the addition of allied light infantry and irregular rorarii. the roman levy of  bc was the first to be requested to campaign for longer than a single season,[ ] and from this point on such a practice became gradually more common, if still not typical. a small navy had operated at a fairly low level after the second samnite war, but it was massively upgraded during this period, expanding from a few primarily river- and coastal-based patrol craft to a full maritime unit. after a period of frenetic construction, the navy mushroomed to a size of more than ships on the carthaginian pattern. once completed, it could accommodate up to , sailors and embarked troops for battle. the navy thereafter declined in size. this was partially because a pacified roman mediterranean called for little naval policing, and partially because the romans chose to rely during this period on ships provided by greek cities, whose peoples had greater maritime experience.[ ] proletarianisation of the infantry ( –  bc)[edit] the extraordinary demands of the punic wars, in addition to a shortage of manpower, exposed the tactical weaknesses of the manipular legion, at least in the short term.[ ] in  bc, rome was forced to effectively ignore its long-standing principle that its soldiers must be both citizens and property owners when slaves were pressed into naval service;[ ] around  bc, the property requirement was reduced from , to , asses.[ ] since the romans are unlikely to have preferred to employ slaves over poor citizens in their armies,[ ] it must be assumed that, at this point, the proletarii of the poorest citizens must also have been pressed into service despite their lack of legal qualification. by  bc, the financial requirement for military service was slashed again from , asses to just , asses.[ ] by this time, therefore, it is clear that many of the property-less former proletarii had been nominally admitted into the adsidui.[ ] during the nd century bc, roman territory saw an overall decline in population,[ ] partially due to the huge losses incurred during various wars. this was accompanied by severe social stresses and the greater collapse of the middle classes into lower classes of the census and the proletarii.[ ] as a result, both the roman society and its military became increasingly proletarianised. the roman state was forced to arm its soldiers at the expense of the state, since many of the soldiers who made up its lower classes were now impoverished proletarii in all but name, and were too poor to afford their own equipment.[ ] the distinction between the heavy infantry types of hastati, principes and triarii began to blur, perhaps because the state was now assuming the responsibility of providing standard-issue equipment to all but the first class of troops, who alone were able to afford their own equipment.[ ] by the time of polybius, the triarii or their successors still represented a distinct heavy infantry type armed with a unique style of cuirass, but the hastati and principes had become indistinguishable.[ ] in addition, the shortage of available manpower led to a greater burden being placed upon its allies (socii) for the provision of allied troops.[ ] where accepted allies could not provide the required force types, the romans were not averse during this period to hiring mercenaries to fight alongside the legions.[ ] marian legion ( –  bc)[edit] bust of marius, instigator of the marian reforms main article: roman army of the late republic in a process known as the marian reforms, roman consul gaius marius carried out a programme of reform of the roman military.[ ] in  bc, all citizens, regardless of their wealth or social class, were made eligible for entry into the roman army.[ ] this move formalised and concluded a gradual process that had been growing for centuries, of removing property requirements for military service.[ ] the distinction between hastati, principes and triarii, which had already become blurred, was officially removed,[ ][ ] and the legionary infantry of popular imagination was created. legionary infantry formed a homogeneous force of heavy infantry. these legionaries were drawn from citizen stock; by this time, roman or latin citizenship had been regionally expanded over much of ancient italy and cisalpine gaul.[ ] lighter citizen infantry, such as the velites and equites, were replaced by non-citizen auxiliaries (auxilia) that could consist of foreign mercenaries.[ ] due to the concentration of the citizen legions into a force of heavy infantry[ ] rome's armies depended on auxiliary cavalry attachments for support. as a tactical necessity, legions were almost always accompanied by an equal or greater number of lighter auxiliary troops,[ ] which were drawn from the non-citizens of the empire's territories. one known exception of legions being formed from non-citizen provinces during this period was the legion that was raised in the province of galatia.[ ] after marius, the legions were drawn largely from volunteer citizens rather than citizens conscripted for duty.[ ] volunteers came forward and were accepted not from citizens of the city of rome itself but from the surrounding countryside and smaller towns falling under roman control.[ ] whereas some long-term military professionals were classed as veterans, they were outnumbered by civilians with limited military experience who were in active service perhaps only for a few campaigns.[ ] the legions of the late republic remained, unlike the legions of the later empire, predominantly roman in origin, although some small number of ex-auxiliary troops were probably incorporated.[ ] the army's higher-level officers and commanders were still drawn exclusively from the roman aristocracy.[ ] unlike earlier in the republic, legionaries were no longer fighting on a seasonal basis to protect their land.[note ] instead, they received standard pay, and were employed by the state on a fixed-term basis. as a consequence, military duty began to appeal most to the poorest sections of society, to whom a guaranteed salary was attractive.[ ] the army therefore consisted of a far higher proportion of the poor—particularly the rural poor—than it had previously.[ ] a destabilising consequence of this development was that the proletariat "acquired a stronger and more elevated position"[ ] within the state. this professionalisation of the military was necessary to provide permanent garrisons for newly acquired and distant territories such as hispania, something not possible under an army of seasonal citizen militia. historian r. e. smith notes that there was a need to raise additional legions in an emergency to repel specific strategic threats. he argues that this may have resulted in two types of legion.[ ] long-standing legions deployed overseas were probably professional troops forming a standing army. quickly-formed new legions, in contrast, consisted of younger men, perhaps with little or no military experience, who hoped for adventure and plunder.[ ] however, no distinction in basic pay, discipline or armour is known of between the two types of legion. the practice of veteran troops signing up again voluntarily into newly raised legions must have meant that no one army conformed exactly to one or other of these theoretical archetypes. the legions of the late republic were, structurally, almost entirely heavy infantry. the legion's main sub-unit was called a cohort and consisted of approximately infantrymen.[ ] the cohort was therefore a much larger unit than the earlier maniple sub-unit, and was divided into six centuriae of men each.[ ] each centuria was separated further into "tent groups" (latin: contubernia) of men each. legions additionally consisted of a small body, typically men, of roman legionary cavalry (latin: equites legionis). the equites were used as scouts and dispatch riders rather than battlefield cavalry.[ ] legions also contained a dedicated artillery crew of perhaps men, who would operate devices such as ballistae.[ ] each legion was normally partnered with an approximately equal number of allied (non-roman) auxiliae troops.[ ] the addition of allied troops to the roman army was a formalisation of the earlier arrangement of using light troops from the socii and latini, who had received roman citizenship after the social war.[ ] auxiliary troops could be formed from either auxiliary light cavalry known as alae, auxiliary light infantry known as cohors auxiliae, or a flexible mixture of the two known as cohors equitata.[ ] cavalry types included mounted archers (latin: sagittarii) and heavy shock cavalry (latin: cataphracti or clibanarii). infantry could be armed with bows, slings, throwing spears, long swords, or thrusting spears. auxiliary units were originally led by their own chiefs, and, in this period, their internal organisation was left to their commanders.[ ] however, "the most obvious deficiency" of the roman army remained its shortage of cavalry, especially heavy cavalry;[ ] even auxiliary troops were predominantly infantry. luttwak argues that auxiliary forces largely consisted of cretan archers, balearic slingers and numidian infantry, all of whom fought on foot.[ ] as rome's borders expanded and its adversaries changed from largely infantry-based to largely cavalry-based troops, the infantry-based roman army began to find itself at a tactical disadvantage, particularly in the east. after having declined in size following the subjugation of the mediterranean, the roman navy underwent short-term upgrading and revitalisation in the late republic to meet several new demands. under caesar, an invasion fleet was assembled in the english channel to allow the invasion of britain; under pompey, a large fleet was raised in the mediterranean sea to clear the sea of cilician pirates.[ ] during the civil war that followed, as many as a thousand ships were either constructed or pressed into service from greek cities.[ ] non-citizen recruitment ( –  bc)[edit] by the time of julius caesar in  bc, regular legionary units were supplemented by exploratores, a body of scouts, and speculatores, spies who infiltrated enemy camps.[ ] due to the demands of the civil war, the extraordinary measure of recruiting legions from non-citizens was taken by caesar in transalpine gaul (latin: gallia transalpina), by brutus in macedonia, and by pompey in pharsalus.[ ] this irregular and extraordinary recruitment was not, however, typical of recruitment during this period, and roman law still officially required that legions were recruited from roman citizens only. imperial legions and reformation of the auxilia (  bc –  ad)[edit] main article: imperial roman army by the turn of the millennium, emperor augustus' primary military concern was to prevent roman generals from further usurping the imperial throne.[ ] the experience of caesar and, earlier, marius and sulla, had demonstrated the willingness of "emergency" (re-activated previously decommissioned) legions containing troops keen for plunder to follow their generals against the state. augustus therefore removed the need for such emergency armies by increasing the size of the standing armies to a size sufficient to provide territorial defence on their own.[ ] perhaps due to similar concerns, the legions and auxiliaries of the army were supplemented under the emperor augustus by an elite formation of guards dedicated to the protection of the emperor. the first such unit was based in rome and were known as the praetorian guard, and a second similar formation were known as the cohortes urbanae.[ ] the legions, which had been a mix of life professionals and civilian campaigners, was altered into a standing army of professionals only.[ ] the actual structure of the cohort army remained much the same as in the late republic, although around the st century ad the first cohort of each legion was increased in size to a total of soldiers.[ ] however, while the structure of the legions remained much the same, their make-up gradually changed. whereas early republican legions had been raised by a draft from eligible roman citizens, imperial legions were recruited solely on a voluntary basis and from a much wider base of manpower. likewise, whereas republican legions had been recruited almost exclusively in italy, early imperial legions drew most of their recruits from roman colonies in the provinces from  ad onwards. one estimate places the proportion of italian troops at % under augustus in c.   ad, falling to around % by the end of nero's reign.[ ] bas-relief carving of a roman legionary out of battle dress, c.  st century ad (pergamon museum, berlin) since the legions were officially open only to roman citizens, max cary and howard hayes scullard argue that at least in some provinces at this time "many provincials must have been recruited who lacked any genuine claim to roman citizenship but received it unofficially on enlistment,"[ ] a practice that was to increase in the nd century.[ ] this is most likely in those provinces where the pool of roman citizens was not large enough to fulfill the provincial army's recruitment needs. one possible example is britain, where one estimate puts the citizen pool in the st century at only , out of a total provincial population of around two million.[ ] at the same time as the legions underwent these transformations, the auxilia were reorganized and a number of allied troops were formalised into standing units similar to legions. rather than being raised re-actively when required, the process of raising auxiliary troops was carried out in advance of conflicts according to annual targets.[ ] whereas the internal organisation of the auxilia had previously been left up to their commanders, in the early empire they were organised into standardised units known as turmae (for cavalry alae) and centuriae (for infantry cohortes).[ ] although never becoming as standardised in their equipment as the legions,[ ] and often retaining some national flavour, the size of the units at least was standardised to some degree. cavalry were formed into either an ala quingenaria of horsemen, or an ala millaria of , horsemen.[ ] likewise, infantry auxilia could be formed into a cohors quingenaria of men or a cohors millaria of , men.[ ] mixed cavalry/infantry auxiliaries were typically formed with a larger proportion of foot than horse troops: the cohors equitata quingenaria consisted of foot and horsemen, and the cohors equitata millaria consisted of foot and horsemen.[ ] the vitality of the empire at this point was such that the use of native auxilia in the roman army did not apparently barbarise the military as some scholars claim was to happen in the late empire.[ ] on the contrary, those serving in the auxilia during this period frequently strove to romanise themselves. they were granted roman citizenship on retirement, granting them several social advantages, and their sons became eligible for service in the legions.[ ] as with the army, many non-italians were recruited into the roman navy, partly because the romans had never readily taken to the sea. it appears that the navy was considered to be slightly less prestigious than the auxilia but, like the auxilia, troops could gain citizenship on discharge upon retirement. in terms of structure, each ship was staffed by a group of men approximately equivalent to a century, with ten ships forming a naval squadron.[ ] introduction of vexillationes ( –  ad)[edit] roman soldiers of around  ad from a cast of trajan's column, c.   ad (victoria and albert museum, london) through the final years of the st century ad, the legions remained the backbone of the roman army, although the auxilia in fact outnumbered them by up to half as much again.[ ] within the legions, the proportion of troops recruited from within italy fell gradually after  ad.[ ] by the close of the st century, this proportion had fallen to as low as percent, with the remainder drawn from conquered provinces.[ ] since technically only citizens were allowed to enlist in the legions, where recruits did not possess citizenship then, at least in some instances, citizenship "was simply given [to] them on enlistment".[ ] during this time, the borders of the empire had remained relatively fixed to the extent originally reached under the emperor trajan. because of this, the army was increasingly responsible for protecting existing frontiers rather than expanding into foreign territory, the latter of which had characterised the army's earlier existence.[ ] as a result, legions became stationed in largely fixed locations. although entire legions were occasionally transferred into theatres of war, they remained largely rooted in one or more legionary bases in a province, detaching into smaller bodies of troops (latin: vexillationes) on demand.[ ] this policy eventually led to a split of the military's land-based forces into mobile and fixed troops in the later empire. in general, the best troops were dispatched as vexillationes, and the remainder left to guard border defences were of lower quality, perhaps those with injuries or near retirement.[ ] barbarisation of the army ( –  ad)[edit] battle with germanic troops, on the portonaccio sarcophagus ( – ) by the time of the emperor hadrian the proportion of italians in the legions had fallen to just ten percent[ ] and provincial citizens now dominated. this low figure is probably a direct result of the changing needs of military staffing: a system of fixed border defences (latin: limes) were established around the empire's periphery under hadrian, consolidating trajan's territorial gains. these called for troops to be stationed permanently in the provinces, a prospect more attractive to locally raised rather than italian troops.[ ] the higher prestige and pay to be found in the italian dominated praetorian guard must also have played a role. the majority of the troops in the legions at the start of the rd century ad were from the more romanised (though non-italian) provinces, especially illyria.[ ] as the century progressed, more and more barbarians (latin: barbari) were permitted to settle inside of, and tasked with aiding in the defence of, rome's borders.[ ] as a result, greater numbers of barbarous and semi-barbarous peoples were gradually admitted to the army.[ ] rd-century roman soldiers battling barbarian troops on the ludovisi battle sarcophagus ( - ) however, whether this regionalisation of the legions was partnered by a drop in the professionalism of the troops is contested. antonio santosuosso argues that the strict discipline and high motivation of the days of marius had lapsed,[ ] but andrew alfoldi states that the illyrian troops were both valiant and warlike,[ ] and tacitus described german recruits as being natural mercenaries (latin: vivi ad arma nati).[ ] it seems that discipline in the legions did slacken, with soldiers granted permission to live with wives outside of military lodgings and permitted to adopt a more lavish and comfortable lifestyle, in contrast to the strict military regimen of earlier years.[ ] however, it is by no means certain that this led to any reduction in the effectiveness of the legions, due to the greater ferocity and stature of the barbari recruits. the flavour of the roman military, however, was now dictated by the increasing number of regional recruits, leading to a partial barbarisation of rome's military forces beginning in this period.[ ] the barbarisation of the lower ranks was paralleled by a concurrent barbarisation of its command structure, with the roman senators who had traditionally provided its commanders becoming entirely excluded from the army. by  ad the emperor himself, the figurehead of the entire military, was a man born outside of italy to non-italian parents.[ ] 	"a young nobleman, strong of hand and quick of mind and far more intelligent than your average barbarian ... the ardour of his face and eyes showed the burning spirit within. he had fought on our side in previous campaigns and earned the right to become a roman citizen; indeed, he was even elevated to the rank of equestrian." 	velleius paterculus, roman history, . the gradual inclusion of greater numbers of non-citizen troops into the military was taken a further step by the creation under hadrian of a new type of force in addition to the legions and auxilia, known as numeri.[ ] formed in bodies of around irregular troops,[ ] the numeri were drawn from subjugate provinces and peoples of client-states or even from beyond the borders of the empire. they were both less regimented and less romanised than auxiliary troops, with a "pronounced national character,"[ ] including native dress and native war cries.[ ] the introduction of the numeri was a response to the need for cheap troops, who were nevertheless fierce and provided a force balance of light infantry and cavalry.[ ] they were therefore largely less well armed and less well trained than auxilia or legions,[ ] although more prestigious elite irregular native troops were also utilised.[ ] however, the legions still made up around one half of the roman army at this point.[ ] successive crises ( – ad)[edit] main articles: late roman army and sacer comitatus a th-century carving of a sassanid armoured knight, the model for the roman catafractarii by the late empire, enemy forces in both the east and west were "sufficiently mobile and sufficiently strong to pierce [the roman] defensive perimeter on any selected axis of penetration";[ ] from the rd century onwards, both germanic tribes and persian armies pierced the frontiers of the roman empire.[ ] in response, the roman army underwent a series of changes, more organic and evolutionary than the deliberate military reforms of the republic and early empire. a stronger emphasis was placed upon ranged combat ability of all types, such as field artillery, hand-held ballistae, archery and darts. roman forces also gradually became more mobile, with one cavalryman for every three infantryman, compared to one in forty in the early empire.[ ] additionally, the emperor gallienus took the revolutionary step of forming an entirely cavalry field army, which was kept as a mobile reserve at the city of milan in northern italy. it is believed that gallienus facilitated this concentration of cavalry by stripping the legions of their integral mounted element.[ ] a diverse range of cavalry regiments existed, including catafractarii or clibanarii, scutarii, and legionary cavalry known as promoti. collectively, these regiments were known as equites.[ ] around  ad, the proportion of catafractarii was also increased.[ ] there is some disagreement over exactly when the relative proportion of cavalry increased, whether gallienus' reforms occurred contemporaneously with an increased reliance on cavalry, or whether these are two distinct events. alfoldi appears to believe that gallienus' reforms were contemporaneous with an increase in cavalry numbers. he argues that, by , gallienus had made cavalry the predominant troop type in the roman army in place of heavy infantry, which dominated earlier armies.[ ] according to warren treadgold, however, the proportion of cavalry did not change between the early rd and early th centuries.[ ] larger groups of barbari began to settle in rome's territories around this time, and the troops they were contracted to provide to the roman army were no longer organised as numeri but rather were the forerunners of the later rented native armies known as federated troops (latin: foederati).[note ][ ] though they served under roman officers, the troops of these units were far more barbarised than the numeri, lacked romanisation of either military structure or personal ideology, and were ineligible for roman citizenship upon discharge.[ ] these native troops were not permitted to fight in native war bands under their own leaders, unlike the later foederati; instead, these troops were split into small groups attached to other roman units.[ ] they existed therefore as a halfway house between numeri, who were encouraged to be romanised, and the foederati, who raised officers from their own ranks and were almost entirely self-dependent. comitatenses and limitanei ( –  ad)[edit] main articles: late roman army, scholae, palatini (roman military), comitatenses, and limitanei bearded roman troops as pictured on a triumphal arch, c.   ad, however, the sculptured panels were re-used from earlier monuments of trajanic date. a distinction between frontier guard troops and more mobile reserve forces had emerged with the use of certain troops to permanently man frontiers such as hadrian's wall in britannia in the nd century ad. the competing demands of manned frontiers and strategic reserve forces had led to the division of the military into four types of troops by the early th century: 	the limitanei or riparienses patrolled the border and defended the border fortifications. according to some older theories, the limitanei were "settled and hereditary"[ ] militia that were "tied to their posts."[ ] but according to most recent research, the limitanei were originally regular soldiers, including infantry, cavalry, and river flotillas,[ ][ ][ ] although they eventually became settled militia.[ ][ ] according to luttwak, the cunei of cavalry, and auxilia of infantry alone by this time, were local provincial reserves that may have evolved from earlier auxiliary units.[ ][clarification needed] according to pat southern and karen dixon, the legiones, auxilia, and cunei of the border armies were part of the limitanei, but higher-status than the older cohortes and alae in the same armies.[ ] 	the comitatenses, and later the palatini were strategic reserves, usually in the rear.[ ] after their division into palatini and comitatenses, the latter were usually associated with the praesental armies, and the former were usually associated with the regional armies, but both types could be moved between the two. 	the emperor constantine i created the scholae to replace the old praetorian guard. the scholae were his personal guard, and were mainly equipped as cavalry. vogt suggests that the scholae formed two small central reserves (latin: scholae) held to the strategic rear even of the comitatenses, one each in the presence of the emperors of west and east respectively.[ ] the permanent field armies of the palatini and comitatenses ultimately derived from the temporary field armies of the earlier sacer comitatus. created and expanded from the core troops of the emperor's personal bodyguards,[clarification needed] the central field armies by  ad seem to have been too large to be accounted for as simple bodyguard forces, but were still too small to be able to campaign independently of legionary or vexillation support.[clarification needed][ ] of the four troop types, the limitanei (border guards) were once considered to have been of the lowest quality,[ ] consisting largely of peasant-soldiers that were both "grossly inferior" to the earlier legions and inferior also to their counterparts in the mobile field armies.[ ] however, more recent work establishes that the limitanei were regular soldiers.[ ][ ][ ] while the limitanei were supposed to deal with policing actions and low-intensity incursions, the duty of responding to more serious incidents fell upon the provincial troops.[contradictory] the countering of the very largest scale incursions on a strategic scale was the task of the comitatenses and palatini or mobile field troops, possibly accompanied by the emperor's scholae. both border and field armies consisted of a mix of infantry and cavalry units[ ] although the weight of cavalry was, according to some authorities, greater in the mobile field armies.[ ] overall, approximately one quarter of the army consisted of cavalry troops[ ] but their importance is uncertain. older works such as the eleventh edition of the encyclopædia britannica ( ) state that the roman military of the late empire was "marked by that predominance of the horseman which characterised the earlier centuries of the middle ages,"[ ] but many more recent authors believe that the infantry remained predominant.[ ] there is some dispute about whether this new military structure was put into place under the emperor diocletian or constantine since both reorganised the roman army in the late rd and early th centuries to some degree.[ ] both diocletian and even his predecessor of thirty years gallienus may already have controlled mobile strategic reserves to assist the empire's border forces;[ ] either diocletian or constantine expanded this nascent force into permanent field armies.[ ] recruitment from amongst roman citizens had become greatly curtailed as a consequence of a declining population,[ ] "cripplingly numerous" categories of those exempted from military service and the spread of christianity with its pacifist message.[note ][ ] together, these factors culminated in "the withdrawal of the urban class from all forms of military activity."[ ] in their place, much of rome's military were now recruited from non-italian peoples living within the empire's borders. many of these people were barbarians or semi-barbarians recently settled from lands beyond the empire,[ ] including several colonies of carpi, bastarnae and sarmatians.[ ] although units described as legiones existed as late as the th century in both the border and field armies,[ ] the legionary system was very different from that of the principate and early empire. since the term legion continued to be used, it is unclear exactly when the structure and role of the legions changed. in the rd or th century, however, the legions' role as elite heavy infantry was substantially reduced[ ] and may have evaporated entirely.[ ] instead, those "legions" that remained were no longer drawn exclusively (and perhaps hardly at all) from roman citizens.[ ] either diocletian[ ] or constantine reorganised the legions into smaller infantry units[ ] who, according to some sources, were more lightly armoured than their forebears.[ ] their lighter armament may have been either because they "would not consent to wear the same weight of body armour as the legionaries of old"[ ] or, as in at least one documented instance, because they were prohibited from wearing heavy armour by their general in order to increase their mobility.[ ] th-century legions were at times only one sixth the size of early imperial legions, and they were armed with some combination of spears, bows, slings, darts and swords, reflecting a greater contemporary emphasis on ranged fighting.[ ] the auxilia and numeri had also largely disappeared.[ ] constantine further increased the proportion of german troops in the regular army;[ ] their cultural impact was so great that even legionaries began wearing german dress.[ ] at the start of diocletian's reign, the roman army numbered about , men, but by the end of his reign he successfully increased the number to , men.[ ] adoption of barbarian allies ( –  ad)[edit] by the late th century, the empire had become chronically deficient in raising sufficient troops from amongst its own population.[ ] as an alternative, taxation raised internally was increasingly used to subsidise growing numbers of barbarian recruits. the romans had, for some time, recruited individual non-roman soldiers into regular military units. in  ad, this practice was accelerated by the wholescale adoption of the entire salian franks people into the empire, providing a ready pool of such recruits. in return for being allowed to settle as foederatii in northern gallia on the near side of the rhine, the franks were expected to defend the empire's borders in their territory and provide troops to serve in roman units. in , a large band of goths asked emperor valens for permission to settle on the southern bank of the danube river on terms similar to the franks. the goths were also accepted into the empire as foederati; however, they rebelled later that year and defeated the romans at the battle of adrianople. the heavy losses that the roman military suffered during this defeat ironically forced the roman empire to rely still further on such foederati troops to supplement its forces.[ ] in , the practice was radically extended when federated troops were signed up en masse as allied contingents of laeti and foederatii troops separate from existing roman units.[ ] near-constant civil wars during the period and between various roman usurpers, emperors and their supposed deputies such as constantine iii, constantius iii, aetius and bonifacius resulted in further losses, necessitating the handing over of more taxable land to foederati. the size and composition of these allied forces remains in dispute. santosuosso argues that foederati regiments consisted mostly of cavalry[ ] that were raised both as a temporary levy for a specific campaign need and, in some cases, as a permanent addition to the army. hugh elton believes that the importance of foederati has been overstated in traditional accounts by historians such as a.h.m. jones. elton argues that the majority of soldiers were probably non-italian roman citizens,[note ][ ] while santosuosso believes that the majority of troops were almost certainly non-citizen barbari.[ ] collapse in the west and survival in the east ( –  ad)[edit] mosaic of what is presumed to be a gothic war leader. the goths were employed as foederati by the romans in the th century the non-federated mobile field army, known as the comitatenses, was eventually split into a number of smaller field armies: a central field army under the emperor's direct control, known as the comitatensis palatina or praesentalis, and several regional field armies.[ ] historians santosuosso and vogt agree that the latter gradually degraded into low-quality garrison units similar to the limitanei that they either supplemented or replaced.[ ] by the th century, a significant portion of western rome's main military strength lay in rented barbarian mercenaries known as foederati.[ ] as the th century progressed, many of the empire's original borders had been either wholly or partially denuded of troops to support the central field army.[ ][ ] in , the western roman empire had several regional field armies in italy, illyricum, gallia, britannia and africa, and about twelve border armies. by about , two more field armies were established in hispania and tingitania but the central government had lost control of britannia[ ] as well as much of gaul, hispania, and africa. in the same period, the eastern roman empire had two palatine field armies (at constantinople), three regional field armies (in the east, in thrace, and in illyricum) and fifteen frontier armies.[ ] 	"we received a terrible rumour about events in the west. they told us that rome was under siege, and the only safety for its citizens was that which they could buy with gold, and when that had been stripped from them, they were besieged again, so that they lost not only their possessions, but also their lives. our messenger gave the news in a faltering voice, and could hardly speak for sobbing. the city which had captured the world was now itself captured" 	jerome, letters, as roman troops were spread increasingly thin over its long border, the empire's territory continued to dwindle in size as the population of the empire declined.[ ] barbarian war bands increasingly began to penetrate the empire's vulnerable borders, both as settlers and invaders. in , the romans defeated attila the hun, but only with assistance from a confederation of foederatii troops, which included visigoths, franks and alans. as barbarian incursions continued, some advancing as far as the heart of italy, rome's borders began to collapse, with frontier forces swiftly finding themselves cut off deep in the enemy's rear.[ ] simultaneously, barbarian troops in rome's pay came to be "in a condition of almost perpetual turbulence and revolt"[ ] from onwards. in these troops finally unseated the last emperor of the western roman empire.[ ] the eastern roman forces continued to defend the eastern roman (byzantine) empire until its fall in .[ ] the former oxford university historian adrian goldsworthy has argued that the cause of the fall of the roman empire in the west should not be blamed on barbarization of the late roman army, but on its recurrent civil wars, which led to its inability to repel or defeat invasions from outside its frontiers. the east roman or byzantine empire on the other hand had fewer civil wars to contend with in the late fourth and early fifth centuries, or in the years from – a.d.[ ] see also[edit] 	roman army 	early roman army 	roman army of the mid-republic 	roman army of the late republic 	imperial roman army 	late roman army 	socii 	roman auxiliaries 	east roman army 	byzantine army 	history of physical training and fitness references[edit] explanatory notes[edit] 	^ the eleventh edition of the encyclopædia britannica calls livy's numbers "clearly artificial and invented." 	^ this viewpoint is echoed in the encyclopædia britannica, eleventh edition, which argues that "much of its strength lay in the same qualities which made the puritan soldiers of cromwell terrible—the excellent character of the common soldiers, the rigid discipline, the high training." 	^ livy describes how an army of citizen levies was first retained for longer than a single season in bc. citizens forced to continue to prosecute hostilities throughout the winter were apparently outraged and for a while roman society came close to tearing at itself (see livy, book , chapter ). however, throughout the th and th centuries bc, it became gradually more common for campaigns to last for longer than a single season, such that marius' reforms were not entirely radical on this point. 	^ the word can mean both a federated people, and also the units of allied troops later supplied by those people 	^ gibbon writes that due to "the abuse of christianity ... the active virtues of society were discouraged; and the last remains of military spirit were buried in the cloister." 	^ elton argues from the proportion of roman names to non-roman names from to 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(april ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) quintilian's statue in calahorra, la rioja, spain marcus fabius quintilianus (c. – c. ad) was a roman educator and rhetorician from hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in renaissance writing. in english translation, he is usually referred to as quintilian (/kwɪnˈtɪliən/), although the alternate spellings of quintillian and quinctilian are occasionally seen, the latter in older texts. contents 	 life 	 works 	 institutio oratoria 	 placement of quintilian's rhetoric 	 influence of quintilian 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links life[edit] quintilian was born c. in calagurris (calahorra, la rioja) in hispania. his father, a well-educated man, sent him to rome to study rhetoric early in the reign of nero. while there, he cultivated a relationship with domitius afer, who died in . "it had always been the custom … for young men with ambitions in public life to fix upon some older model of their ambition … and regard him as a mentor" (kennedy, ). quintilian evidently adopted afer as his model and listened to him speak and plead cases in the law courts. afer has been characterized as a more austere, classical, ciceronian speaker than those common at the time of seneca the younger, and he may have inspired quintilian's love of cicero. sometime after afer's death, quintilian returned to hispania, possibly to practice law in the courts of his own province. however, in , he returned to rome as part of the retinue of emperor galba, nero's short-lived successor. quintilian does not appear to have been a close advisor of the emperor, which probably ensured his survival after the assassination of galba in . after galba's death, and during the chaotic year of the four emperors which followed, quintilian opened a public school of rhetoric. among his students were pliny the younger, and perhaps tacitus. the emperor vespasian made him a consul. the emperor "in general was not especially interested in the arts, but … was interested in education as a means of creating an intelligent and responsible ruling class" (kennedy, ). this subsidy enabled quintilian to devote more time to the school, since it freed him of pressing monetary concerns. in addition, he appeared in the courts of law, arguing on behalf of clients. of his personal life, little is known. in the institutio oratoria, he mentions a wife who died young, as well as two sons who predeceased him.[citation needed] quintilian retired from teaching and pleading in (reid ), during the reign of domitian. his retirement may have been prompted by his achievement of financial security and his desire to become a gentleman of leisure. quintilian survived several emperors; the reigns of vespasian and titus were relatively peaceful, but that of domitian was reputed to be difficult. domitian's cruelty and paranoia may have prompted the rhetorician to distance himself quietly. the emperor does not appear to have taken offence as he made quintilian tutor of his two grand-nephews in ad. he is believed to have died sometime around , not having long survived domitian, who was assassinated in (quintilianus ,[page needed]). works[edit] the only extant work of quintilian is a twelve-volume textbook on rhetoric entitled institutio oratoria (generally referred to in english as the institutes of oratory), written around ad . this work deals not only with the theory and practice of rhetoric, but also with the foundational education and development of the orator himself, providing advice that ran from the cradle to the grave. an earlier text, de causis corruptae eloquentiae ("on the causes of corrupted eloquence") has been lost, but is believed to have been "a preliminary exposition of some of the views later set forth in [institutio oratoria]" (kennedy, ). in addition, there are two sets of declamations, declamationes maiores and declamationes minores, which have been attributed to quintilian. however, there is some dispute over the real writer of these texts: "some modern scholars believe that the declamations circulated in his name represent the lecture notes of a scholar either using quintilian's system or actually trained by him" (murphy, xvii–xviii). institutio oratoria[edit] main article: institutio oratoria frontispiece of a edition of the institutio oratoria, showing quintilan teaching rhetoric institutio oratoria (english: institutes of oratory) is a twelve-volume textbook on the theory and practice of rhetoric by roman rhetorician quintilian. it was written around year ad. the work deals also with the foundational education and development of the orator himself. in this work, quintilian establishes that the perfect orator is first a good man, and after that he is a good speaker (golden, berquist, coleman, and sproule,[page needed]). he also believed that a speech should stay genuine to a message that is "just and honorable" (golden, berquist, coleman, and sproule,[page needed]). this came to be known as his good man theory, embracing the message that if one cannot be genuinely good, then one cannot be a good speaker for the people. this theory also revolves around being of service to the people. a good man is one who works for the good of the people and the prosperity of society. quintilian wrote institutio oratoria in the last years of domitian’s rule of the empire.[citation needed] he had worked alongside domitian, but as he began to write more and ease away from emperor domitian’s complete power, the emperor did not seem to mind as he was so impressed with quintilian, he hired him to be a tutor for his family because of quintilian’s devotion to education. domitian was in the harshest period of his rule, and almost no one had the courage to speak any idea that was unlike his, but quintilian did (gideon). he spoke as an orator in the tradition of cicero, such as had not been seen since the beginning of the reign of augustus (gideon). rather than pleading cases, as an orator of his era might have been expected to do, he concentrated on speaking in more general terms about how sound rhetoric influences the education of the people. placement of quintilian's rhetoric[edit] quintilian cites many authors in the institutio oratoria before providing his own definition of rhetoric (quintilianus , . . ). his rhetoric is chiefly defined by cato the elder’s vir bonus, dicendi peritus, or “the good man skilled at speaking” (quintilian, . . ) harv error: no target: citerefquintilian (help). later he states: “i should like the orator i am training to be a sort of roman wise man” (quintilianus , . . ). quintilian also “insists that his ideal orator is no philosopher because the philosopher does not take as a duty participation in civic life; this is constitutive of quintilian's (and isocrates' and cicero's) ideal orator" (walzer, ). though he calls for imitation, he also urges the orator to use this knowledge to inspire his own original invention (quintilianus , . . ). no author receives greater praise in the institutio oratoria than cicero: "for who can instruct with greater thoroughness, or more deeply stir the emotions? who has ever possessed such a gift of charm?" (quintilianus , . . ). quintilian's definition of rhetoric shares many similarities with that of cicero, one being the importance of the speaker's moral character (logie,[page needed]). like cicero, quintilian also believes that “history and philosophy can increase an orator’s command of copia and style;" they differ in that quintilian “features the character of the orator, as well as the art” (walzer, – ). in book ii, quintilian sides with plato’s assertion in the phaedrus that the rhetorician must be just: “in the phaedrus, plato makes it even clearer that the complete attainment of this art is even impossible without the knowledge of justice, an opinion in which i heartily concur" (quintilianus , . . ). their views are further similar in their treatment of “( ) the inseparability, in more respects than one, of wisdom, goodness, and eloquence; and ( ) the morally ideological nature of rhetoric. [...] for both, there are conceptual connections between rhetoric and justice which rule out the possibility of [an] amorally neutral conception of rhetoric. for both, rhetoric is ‘speaking well,’ and for both ‘speaking well’ means speaking justly" (logie, ). influence of quintilian[edit] the influence of quintilian's masterwork, institutio oratoria, can be felt in several areas. first of all, there is his criticism of the orator seneca the younger. quintilian was attempting to modify the prevailing imperial style of oratory with his book, and seneca was the principal figure in that style's tradition. he was more recent than many of the authors mentioned by quintilian, but his reputation within the post-classical style necessitated both his mention and the criticism or back-handed praise that is given to him. quintilian believed that “his style is for the most part corrupt and extremely dangerous because it abounds in attractive faults” (quintilianus , . . ). seneca was regarded as doubly dangerous because his style was sometimes attractive. this reading of seneca “has heavily coloured subsequent judgments of seneca and his style" (dominik, ). quintilian also made an impression on martial, the latin poet. a short poem, written in , was addressed to him, and opened, "quintilian, greatest director of straying youth, / you are an honour, quintilian, to the roman toga". however, one should not take martial's praise at face value, since he was known for his sly and witty insults. the opening lines are all that are usually quoted, but the rest of the poem contains lines such as "a man who longs to surpass his father’s census rating" ( ).[full citation needed] this speaks of quintilian's ambitious side and his drive for wealth and position. after his death, quintilian's influence fluctuated. he was mentioned by his pupil, pliny, and by juvenal, who may have been another student, “as an example of sobriety and of worldly success unusual in the teaching profession” (gwynn, ). during the rd to th centuries, his influence was felt among such authors as st. augustine of hippo, whose discussion of signs and figurative language certainly owed something to quintilian, and to st. jerome, editor of the vulgate bible, whose theories on education are clearly influenced by quintilian's. the middle ages saw a decline in knowledge of his work, since existing manuscripts of institutio oratoria were fragmented, but the italian humanists revived interest in the work after the discovery by poggio bracciolini in of a forgotten, complete manuscript in the monastery of st. gall, which he found "buried in rubbish and dust" in a filthy dungeon. the influential scholar leonardo bruni, considered the first modern historian, greeted the news by writing to his friend poggio: it will be your glory to restore to the present age, by your labour and diligence, the writings of excellent authors, which have hitherto escaped the researches of the learned... oh! what a valuable acquisition! what an unexpected pleasure! shall i then behold quintilian whole and entire, who, even in his imperfect state, was so rich a source of delight?... but quintilian is so consummate a master of rhetoric and oratory, that when, after having delivered him from his long imprisonment in the dungeons of the barbarians, you transmit him to this country, all the nations of italy ought to assemble to bid him welcome... quintilian, an author whose works i will not hesitate to affirm, are more an object of desire to the learned than any others, excepting only cicero's dissertation de republica. (shepherd, chapter , pp. – ) the italian poet petrarch addressed one of his letters to the dead to quintilian, and for many he “provided the inspiration for a new humanistic philosophy of education” (gwynn, ). this enthusiasm for quintilian spread with humanism itself, reaching northern europe in the th and th centuries. martin luther, the german theologian and ecclesiastical reformer, "claimed that he preferred quintilian to almost all authors, 'in that he educates and at the same time demonstrates eloquence, that is, he teaches in word and in deed most happily'" (gwynn, ). the influence of quintilian's works is also seen in luther's contemporary erasmus of rotterdam. he above all shaped the implicit depth of humanism and had studied at steyn. it has been argued by a musicologist, ursula kirkendale, page needed) that the composition of johann sebastian bach's das musikalische opfer (the musical offering, bwv ), was closely connected with the institutio oratoria. among bach's duties during his tenure at leipzig ( – ) was teaching latin; his early training included rhetoric. (philologist and rector of the leipzig thomasschule, johann matthias gesner, for whom bach composed a cantata in , published a substantial quintilian edition with a long footnote in bach's honor.) after this high point, quintilian's influence seems to have lessened somewhat, although he is mentioned by the english poet alexander pope in his versified an essay on criticism: in grave quintilian’s copious works we find the justest rules and clearest method join’d (lines – ). in addition, “he is often mentioned by writers like montaigne and lessing... but he made no major contribution to intellectual history, and by the nineteenth century he seemed to be... rather little read and rarely edited” (gwynn, – ). however, in his celebrated autobiography, john stuart mill (arguably the nineteenth-century's most influential english intellectual) spoke highly of quintilian as a force in his early education. he wrote that quintilian, while little-read in mill's day due to "his obscure style and to the scholastic details of which many parts of his treatise are made up," was "seldom sufficiently appreciated." "his book," mill continued, "is a kind of encyclopaedia of the thoughts of the ancients on the whole field of education and culture; and i have retained through life many valuable ideas which i can distinctly trace to my reading of him..." (mill,[page needed]). he was also highly praised by thomas de quincey: "[f]or elegance and as a practical model in the art he was expounding, neither aristotle, nor any less austere among the greek rhetoricians, has any pretensions to measure himself with quintilian. in reality, for a triumph over the difficulties of the subject, and as a lesson on the possibility of imparting grace to the treatment of scholastic topics, naturally as intractable as that of grammar or prosody, there is no such chef-d'oeuvre to this hour in any literature, as the institutions of quintilian" (de quincey, ). in more recent times, quintilian appears to have made another upward turn. he is frequently included in anthologies of literary criticism, and is an integral part of the history of education. he is believed to be the "earliest spokesman for a child-centered education" ( ),[full citation needed] which is discussed above under his early childhood education theories. as well, he has something to offer students of speech, professional writing, and rhetoric, because of the great detail with which he covers the rhetorical system. his discussions of tropes and figures also formed the foundation of contemporary works on the nature of figurative language, including the post-structuralist and formalist theories. for example, the works of jacques derrida on the failure of language to impart the truth of the objects it is meant to represent would not be possible without quintilian's assumptions about the function of figurative language and tropes (gunderson, ).[failed verification] see also[edit] 	quadripartita ratio 	dionysian imitatio references[edit] 	de quincey, thomas. de quincey's literary criticism, edited with an introduction by h. darbisire. london: henry frowde, . 	dominik, william j. "the style is the man: seneca, tacitus, and quintilian’s canon". in roman eloquence: rhetoric in society and literature, edited by william j. dominik, – . new york: routledge, . 	gideon, burton o. "quintilian: institutio oratoria ( c.e.)." quintilian: institutio oratoria ( c.e.). silva rhetoricae, n.d. web[full citation needed]. sept. . 	golden, j. l., g. f. berquist, w. e. coleman, and j. m. sproule. the rhetoric of western thought. dubuque, ia: kendall-hunt, . 	gunderson, erik. staging masculinity: the rhetoric of performance in the roman world.[full citation needed], . 	gwynn, aubrey s.j. roman education from cicero to quintilian. new york: teachers college press, . 	kennedy, george. quintilian. new york: twayne publishers, . 	kirkendale, ursula. "the source for bach's musical offering". journal of the american musicological society ( ): – . 	logie, john. "quintilian and roman authorship". rhetoric review . ( ): – . 	mill, john stuart. autobiography, chapter : "childhood and early education", the university of adelaide library electronic texts collection, archived november from the original. (also at p. , collected works, vol. i). 	murphy, james j. (ed.). quintilian on the teaching of speaking and writing: translations from books one, two, and ten of the institutio oratoria. edwardville: southern illinois university press, . 	quintilianus, marcus fabius. institutio oratoria, translated by h.e. butler. loeb classical library. cambridge: harvard university press, . 	quintilian. quintilian on the teaching of speaking & writing: translations from books one, two & ten of the institutio oratoria, second edition, translated by james jerome murphy and cleve wiese. carbondale: southern illinois university press, . isbn  - - - . 	reid, james smith ( ). "quintilian" . in chisholm, hugh (ed.). encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. p.  .cs maint: ref=harv (link) 	shepherd, william. life of poggio bracciolini.[full citation needed] . 	walzer, arthur e. "quintilian's "vir bonus" and the stoic wise man." rhetoric society . ( ): – . further reading[edit] 	bonner, stanley f. education in ancient rome: from the elder cato to the younger pliny. london: methuen & company, ltd., . 	clarke, m.l. rhetoric at rome: a historical survey. new york: routledge, . 	dozier, curtis andrew. "poetry, politics, and pleasure in quintilian." aesthetic value in classical antiquity. – . 	fantham, elaine. roman readings: roman response to greek literature from plautus to statius and quintilian. beiträge zur altertumskunde, . berlin; new york: de gruyter, . 	galand, p., f. hallyn, c. lévy, w. verbaal, quintilien ancien et moderne. etudes réunies, turnhout , brepols publishers, isbn  - - - - 	gernot, krapinger (ed.), [quintilian] der gladiator (groessere deklamationen, ). collana scientifica, . cassino: universita\ degli studi di cassino, . 	kennedy, george alexander. the art of rhetoric in the roman world b.c.–a.d. . princeton, nj: princeton university press, . 	laing, gordon j. quintilian, the schoolmaster. the classical journal . ( ): – . 	leitch, vincent b., ed. the norton anthology of theory and criticism. new york: w.w. norton & company, inc., . 	morgan, teresa. literate education in the hellenistic and roman worlds. cambridge, uk: cambridge university press, . 	murray, oswyn, john boardman, and jasper griffin, eds. the oxford history of the roman world. new york: oxford university press, . 	quintilian. quintilian's institutes of oratory; or, education of an orator. j. s. watson. london: g. bell and sons, . print. 	thomas, zinsmaier, [quintilian], die hände der blinden mutter (größere deklamationen, ). collana scientifica . cassino: edizioni università di cassino, . 	winterbottom, michael. problems in quintilian. london: university of london, institute of classical studies, . external links[edit] 		wikiquote has quotations related to: quintilian 		wikimedia commons has media related to quintilian. 	library resources about quintilian 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 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statement 		 	 	 roman legion - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	roman legion 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		for other uses, see roman legion (disambiguation). see also: list of roman legions ancient heavy infantry unit of , to , men 	 	this article needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. find sources: "roman legion" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · jstor (november ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) 	 	part of a series on the 	military of ancient rome bc – ad 	 structural history 	 army 	 	unit types and ranks 	decorations and punishments 	legions 	auxilia 	generals 	 navy 	 	fleets 	admirals 	 campaign history 	wars and battles 	 technological history 	 military engineering 	 	castra 	siege engines 	triumphal arches 	roads 	 political history   	 strategy and tactics 	 	infantry 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	 . later empire (from ad) 	 legionary ranks 	 . senior officers 	 . centurions 	 . lower ranks 	 . special duty posts 	 pay 	 symbols 	 discipline 	 . minor punishments 	 . major punishments 	 factors in the legion's success 	 see also 	 references 	 . citations 	 . bibliography 	 external links etymology[edit] in the early roman kingdom legion may have meant the entire roman army, but sources on this period are few and unreliable.[ ] the subsequent organization of legions varied greatly over time but legions were typically composed of around five thousand soldiers. during much of the republican era, a legion was divided into three lines of ten maniples. in the late republic and much of the imperial period (from about bc), a legion was divided into ten cohorts, each of six (or five) centuries. legions also included a small ala, or cavalry unit. by the third century ad, the legion was a much smaller unit of about , to , men, and there were more of them. in the fourth century ad, east roman border guard legions (limitanei) may have become even smaller. in terms of organisation and function, the republican era legion may have been influenced by the ancient greek and macedonian phalanx.[ ] function and constitution[edit] for most of the roman imperial period, the legions formed the roman army's elite heavy infantry, recruited exclusively from roman citizens, while the remainder of the army consisted of auxiliaries, who provided additional infantry and the vast majority of the roman army's cavalry. (provincials who aspired to citizenship gained it when honourably discharged from the auxiliaries.) the roman army, for most of the imperial period, consisted mostly of auxiliaries rather than legions.[ ] longevity[edit] many of the legions founded before bc were still active until at least the fifth century, notably legio v macedonica, which was founded by augustus in bc and was in egypt in the seventh century during the islamic conquest of egypt. overview of typical organization and strength[edit] main article: structural history of the roman military imperial roman legionaries in tight formation, a relief from glanum, a roman town in what is now southern france that was inhabited from bc to ad (when it was sacked by invading alemanni) because legions were not permanent units until the marian reforms (c. bc), and were instead created, used, and disbanded again, several hundred legions were named and numbered throughout roman history. to date, about have been identified. the republican legions were composed of levied men that paid for their own equipment and thus the structure of the roman army at this time reflected the society, and at any time there would be four consular legions (with command divided between the two ruling consuls) and in time of war extra legions could be levied. toward the end of the nd century bc, rome started to experience manpower shortages brought about by property and financial qualifications to join the army. this prompted consul gaius marius to remove property qualifications and decree that all citizens, regardless of their wealth or social class, were made eligible for service in the roman army with equipment and rewards for fulfilling years of service provided by the state. the roman army became a volunteer, professional and standing army which extended service beyond roman citizens but also to non-citizens who could sign on as auxillia (auxiliaries) and were rewarded roman citizenship upon completion of service and all the rights and privileges that entailed. in the time of augustus, there were nearly upon his succession but this was reduced to about – permanent standing legions and this remained the figure for most of the empire's history. evolution[edit] the legion evolved from , men in the roman republic to over , men in the roman empire, consisting of centuries as the basic units. until the middle of the first century, ten cohorts (about men) made up a roman legion. this was later changed to nine cohorts of standard size (with six centuries at men each) with the first cohort being of double strength (five double-strength centuries with men each). by the fourth century ad, the legion was a much smaller unit of about , to , men, and there were more of them. this had come about as the large formation legion and auxiliary unit, , men, was broken down into smaller units - originally temporary detachments - to cover more territory. in the fourth century ad, east roman border guard legions (limitanei) may have become even smaller. in terms of organisation and function, the republican era legion may have been influenced by the ancient greek and macedonian phalanx.[ ] size[edit] the size of a typical legion varied throughout the history of ancient rome, with complements of , legionaries and equites (drawn from the wealthier classes – in early rome all troops provided their own equipment) in the republican period of rome (the infantry were split into cohorts each of four maniples of legionaries), to , men plus auxiliaries in the imperial period (split into cohorts, nine of men each, plus the first cohort holding men). history[edit] main articles: roman army, military history of ancient rome, and structural history of the roman military roman kings (to c. bc)[edit] main article: early roman army in the period before the raising of the legio and the early years of the roman kingdom and the republic, forces are described as being organized into centuries of roughly one hundred men. these centuries were grouped together as required and answered to the leader who had hired or raised them. such independent organization persisted until the nd century bc amongst light infantry and cavalry, but was discarded completely in later periods with the supporting role taken instead by allied troops. the roles of century leader (later formalized as a centurion), second in command and standard bearer are referenced in this early period. rome's early period is undocumented and shrouded in myths, but those myths tell that during the rule of servius tullius, the census (from latin: censeō – accounting of the people) was introduced. with this all roman able-bodied, property-owning male citizens were divided into five classes for military service based on their wealth and then organized into centuries as sub-units of the greater roman army or legio (multitude). joining the army was both a duty and a distinguishing mark of roman citizenship; during the entire pre-marian period the wealthiest land owners performed the most years of military service. these individuals would have had the most to lose should the state have fallen. roman republic ( – bc)[edit] main article: roman army of the mid-republic at some point, possibly in the beginning of the roman republic after the kings were overthrown, the legio was subdivided into two separate legions, each one ascribed to one of the two consuls. in the first years of the republic, when warfare was mostly concentrated on raiding, it is uncertain if the full manpower of the legions was summoned at any one time. in bc, when three foreign threats emerged, the dictator manius valerius maximus raised ten legions which livy says was a greater number than had been raised previously at any one time.[ ] also, some warfare was still conducted by roman forces outside the legionary structure, the most famous example being the campaign in bc by the clan army of gens fabia against the etruscan city of veii (in which the clan was annihilated). legions became more formally organized in the th century bc, as roman warfare evolved to more frequent and planned operations, and the consular army was raised to two legions each. in the republic, legions had an ephemeral existence. except for legio i to iv, which were the consular armies (two per consul), other units were levied by campaign. rome's italian allies were required to provide approximately ten cohorts (auxilia were not organized into legions) to support each roman legion. in the middle of the republic, legions were composed of the following units: 	equites (cavalry): the cavalry was originally the most prestigious unit, where wealthy young roman men displayed their skill and prowess, laying the foundation for an eventual political career. cavalry equipment was purchased by each of the cavalrymen and consisted of a round shield, helmet, body armour, sword and one or more lances. the cavalry was outnumbered in the legion. in a total of circa , men, (plus the velites that normally enlarged the number to about , ), the legion only had around horsemen, divided into units (turmae) of men. these men were commanded by decurions. in addition to heavy cavalry, there would be the light cavalry levied from poor citizens and wealthy young citizens not old enough to be in the hastati or the equites. in battle, they were used to disrupt and outflank enemy infantry formations and to fight off enemy cavalry. in the latter type of engagement, they would often (though not always) dismount some or all of the horsemen to fight a stationary battle on foot, an unusual tactic for the time, but one that offered significant advantages in stability and agility in a time before stirrups.[ ] 	velites (light infantry): the velites were mainly poorer citizens who could not afford to equip themselves properly. their primary function was to act as skirmishers – javelin-throwers, who would engage the enemy early in order either to harass them or to cover the movement of troops behind them. after throwing their javelins, they would retreat through the gaps between the maniples, screened from the attack of the enemy by the heavy infantry lines. with the shortage of cavalry in the army of the early to mid republican army, the velites were also used as scouts. they did not have a precise formal organization or formation. 	heavy infantry: this was the principal unit of the legion. the heavy infantry was composed of citizen legionaries that could afford the equipment composed of an iron helmet, shield, armour and pilum, a heavy javelin whose range was about meters. after bc, the preferred weapon for the hastati and principes was the gladius, a short sword. their hobnailed sandals (caligae) were also an effective weapon against a fallen enemy. prior to the marian reforms (see below), the heavy infantry was subdivided, according to experience, into three separate lines of troops: 	the hastati (sing. hastatus) consisted of raw or inexperienced soldiers, considered to be less reliable than legionaries of several years' service. the hastati were placed at the front for several reasons. one reason is the city of rome could ill-afford to lose experienced soldiers, so they put the greenest soldiers at the front. if they survived, the hastati/tus would gain invaluable experience. another reason is if the newest soldiers succumbed to battle nerves and broke and tried to run, then there were experienced soldiers behind them to stiffen their resolve. 	the principes (sing. princeps) these were the more experienced soldiers, often better equipped than the hastati, and having more experience on the battlefield, they would take up the second line in the battle in the event the hastati failed or fled. they were the second wave in an early republican legion before the military reforms of marius. 	the triarii (sing. triarius) were the veteran soldiers, to be used in battle only in extreme situations; they rested one knee down when not engaged in combat. the triarii served primarily as reserves or barrier troops designed to backstop the hastati and principes, and were equipped with long hastae (spears) rather than the pilum and gladius (the hastati and principes stopped using spears in bc). thus armed, they fought in a phalanx formation. the sight of an advancing armored formation of triarii legionaries frequently discouraged exultant enemies in pursuit of retreating hastati and principes troops. ad triarios redisse – to fall back upon the triarii was a roman idiom – meaning to use one's last resort. each of these three lines was subdivided into (usually ) chief tactical units called maniples. a maniple consisted of two centuries and was commanded by the senior of the two centurions. at this time, each century of hastati and principes consisted of men; a century of triarii was men. these , men (twenty maniples of men, and ten maniples of men), together with about , velites and cavalry gave the mid republican ("manipular") legion a nominal strength of about , men. late republic ( – bc)[edit] main article: roman army of the late republic visual representation of the post marian reform legion showing size and disposition for infantry formations see also list of roman legions for details of notable late republican legions see also sub-units of the roman legion the marian reforms (of gaius marius) enlarged the centuries to men, and grouped them into six-century "cohorts" (rather than two-century maniples). each century had its own standard and was made up of ten units (contubernia) of eight men who shared a tent, a millstone, a mule and cooking pot. following the reforms of the general marius in the nd century bc, the legions took on the second, narrower meaning that is familiar in the popular imagination as close-order citizen heavy infantry. at the end of the nd century bc, gaius marius reformed the previously ephemeral legions as a professional force drawing from the poorest classes, enabling rome to field larger armies and providing employment for jobless citizens of the city of rome. however, this put the loyalty of the soldiers in the hands of their general rather than the state of rome itself. this development ultimately enabled julius caesar to cross the rubicon with an army loyal to him personally and effectively end the republic. the legions of the late republic and early empire are often called marian legions. following the battle of vercellae in bc, marius granted all italian soldiers roman citizenship. he justified this action to the senate by saying that in the din of battle he could not distinguish roman from ally. this effectively eliminated the notion of allied legions; henceforth all italian legions would be regarded as roman legions, and full roman citizenship was open to all the regions of italy. at the same time, the three different types of heavy infantry were replaced by a single, standard type based on the principes: armed with two heavy javelins called pila (singular pilum), the short sword called gladius, chain mail (lorica hamata), helmet and rectangular shield (scutum). the role of allied legions would eventually be taken up by contingents of allied auxiliary troops, called auxilia. auxilia contained specialist units, engineers and pioneers, artillerymen and craftsmen, service and support personnel and irregular units made up of non-citizens, mercenaries and local militia. these were usually formed into complete units such as light cavalry, light infantry or velites, and labourers. there was also a reconnaissance squad of or more light mounted infantry called speculatores who could also serve as messengers or even as an early form of military intelligence service. as part of the marian reforms, the legions' internal organization was standardized. each legion was divided into cohorts. prior to this, cohorts had been temporary administrative units or tactical task forces of several maniples, even more transitory than the legions themselves. now the cohorts were ten permanent units, composed of centuries and in the case of the first cohort double strength centuries each led by a centurion assisted by an optio. the cohorts came to form the basic tactical unit of the legions. ranking within the legion was based on length of service, with the senior centurion commanding the first century of the first cohort; he was called the primus pilus (first spear), and reported directly to the superior officers (legates and tribuni). all career soldiers could be promoted to the higher ranks in recognition of exceptional acts of bravery or valour. a newly promoted junior centurion would be assigned to the sixth century of the tenth cohort and slowly progressed through the ranks from there. every legion had a large baggage train, which included mules ( mule for every legionaries) just for the soldiers' equipment. to keep these baggage trains from becoming too large and slow, marius had each infantryman carry as much of his own equipment as he could, including his own armour, weapons and days' rations, for about –  kg ( – pounds) of load total. to make this easier, he issued each legionary a cross stick to carry their loads on their shoulders. the soldiers were nicknamed marius' mules because of the amount of gear they had to carry themselves. this arrangement allowed for the possibility for the supply train to become temporarily detached from the main body of the legion, thus greatly increasing the army's speed when needed. a typical legion of this period had , legionaries as well as a large number of camp followers, servants and slaves. legions could contain as many as , fighting men when including the auxiliaries. during the later roman empire, the legion was reduced in size to , to allow for easier provisioning and to expand the regions under surveillance. numbers would also vary depending on casualties suffered during a campaign; julius caesar's legions during his campaign in gaul often only had around , men. tactics were not very different from the past, but their effectiveness was largely improved because of the professional training of the soldiers. a re-enactor as a roman centurion, c. . a re-enactor, showing a roman miles, ( nd century). after the marian reforms and throughout the history of rome's late republic, the legions played an important political role. by the st century bc, the threat of the legions under a demagogue was recognized. governors were not allowed to leave their provinces with their legions. when julius caesar broke this rule, leaving his province of gaul and crossing the rubicon into italy, he precipitated a constitutional crisis. this crisis and the civil wars which followed brought an end to the republic and led to the foundation of the empire under augustus in bc. the roman empire under hadrian (ruled – ), showing the legions deployed in early empire ( bc–ad )[edit] main article: imperial roman army see list of roman legions of the early empire see also sub-units of the roman legion map of roman legions by ad. generals, during the recent republican civil wars, had formed their own legions and numbered them as they wished. during this time, there was a high incidence of gemina (twin) legions, where two legions were consolidated into a single organization (and was later made official and put under a legatus and six duces). at the end of the civil war against mark antony, augustus was left with around fifty legions, with several double counts (multiple legio xs for instance). for political and economic reasons, augustus reduced the number of legions to (which diminished to after the battle of teutoburg forest, in which legions were completely destroyed by the germanics). beside streamlining the army, augustus also regulated the soldiers' pay. at the same time, he greatly increased the number of auxiliaries to the point where they were equal in number to the legionaries. he also created the praetorian guard along with a permanent navy where served the liberti, or freed slaves. the legions also became permanent at this time, and not recruited for particular campaigns. they were also allocated to static bases with permanent castra legionaria (legionary fortresses). augustus' military policies proved sound and cost effective, and were generally followed by his successors. these emperors would carefully add new legions, as circumstances required or permitted, until the strength of the standing army stood at around legions (hence the wry remark of the philosopher favorinus that it is ill arguing with the master of legions). with each legion having , legionaries usually supported by an equal number of auxiliary troops (according to tacitus), the total force available to a legion commander during the pax romana probably ranged from , downwards, with the more prestigious legions and those stationed on hostile borders or in restive provinces tending to have more auxiliaries. by the time of the emperor severus, - , the auxiliaries may have composed to % of the army, , of , . some legions may have even been reinforced at times with units making the associated force near , – , or about the size of a modern division. throughout the imperial era, the legions played an important political role. their actions could secure the empire for a usurper or take it away. for example, the defeat of vitellius in the year of the four emperors was decided when the danubian legions chose to support vespasian. in the empire, the legion was standardized, with symbols and an individual history where men were proud to serve. the legion was commanded by a legatus or legate. aged around thirty, he would usually be a senator on a three-year appointment. immediately subordinate to the legate would be six elected military tribunes – five would be staff officers and the remaining one would be a noble heading for the senate (originally this tribune commanded the legion). there would also be a group of officers for the medical staff, the engineers, record-keepers, the praefectus castrorum (commander of the camp) and other specialists such as priests and musicians. later empire (from ad)[edit] main article: late roman army see also: list of roman legions a re-enactor, portraying a legionary at the end of the rd century map of roman legions by ad.[ ] in the later roman empire, the number of legions was increased and the roman army expanded. there is no evidence to suggest that legions changed in form before the tetrarchy, although there is evidence that they were smaller than the paper strengths usually quoted. the final form of the legion originated with the elite legiones palatinae created by diocletian and the tetrarchs. these were infantry units of around , men rather than the , , including cavalry, of the old legions. the earliest legiones palatinae were the lanciarii, joviani, herculiani and divitenses.[citation needed] the th century saw a very large number of new, small legions created, a process which began under constantine ii. in addition to the elite palatini, other legions called comitatenses and pseudocomitatenses, along with the auxilia palatina, provided the infantry of late roman armies. the notitia dignitatum lists legiones palatinae, legiones comitatenses, legiones pseudocomitatenses and auxilia palatina in the field armies, and a further legiones in the frontier armies.[ ] legion names such as honoriani and gratianenses found in the notitia suggest that the process of creating new legions continued through the th century rather than being a single event. the names also suggest that many new legions were formed from vexillationes or from old legions. in addition, there were vexillationes palatini, vexillationes comitatenses; other units in the eastern limitanei and in the western limitanei.[ ] a rare instance of apparent direct continuity between the legions of the early empire and those of the post- th century army was legion v macedonica; created in bc, recorded in the notitia dignitatum as a legione comitatense under the title of quinta macedonica and surviving in egypt until the arab conquest of ad.[ ] according to the late roman writer vegetius' de re militari, each century had a ballista and each cohort had an onager, giving the legion a formidable siege train of ballistae and onagers, each manned by libritors (artillerymen) and mounted on wagons drawn by oxen or mules. in addition to attacking cities and fortifications, these would be used to help defend roman forts and fortified camps (castra) as well. they would even be employed on occasion, especially in the later empire, as field artillery during battles or in support of river crossings. despite a number of organisational changes, the legion system survived the fall of the western roman empire. it was continued within the eastern roman empire until the th century, when reforms begun by emperor heraclius to counter the increasing need for soldiers resulted in the theme system. despite this, the eastern roman/byzantine armies continued to be influenced by the earlier roman legions, and were maintained with similar levels of discipline, strategic prowess, and organization. legionary ranks[edit] aside from the rank and file legionary (who received the base wage of assēs a day or denarii a year), the following list describes the system of officers which developed within the legions from the marian reforms ( bc) until the military reforms of diocletian (c. ). senior officers[edit] 	legatus augusti pro praetore, imperial legate: the commander of two or more legions. the imperial legate also served as the governor of the province in which the legions he commanded were stationed. of senatorial rank, the imperial legate was appointed by the emperor and usually held command for or years. in the present time, an imperial legate would be called a general. 	legatus legionis, legion legate: the overall legion commander. the post was usually filled by a senator, appointed by the emperor, who held command for or years, although he could serve for a much longer period. in a roman province with only one legion, the legatus was also the provincial governor. in such circumstances, the legatus was dual-hatted as both legion legate and imperial legate. the legion legate also served as commander of the auxiliary units attached to the legion though they were not formally a part of the legion's command structure. 	tribunus laticlavius, broad band tribune: named for the broad striped tunic worn by men of senatorial rank, this tribune was appointed by the emperor or the senate. though generally young, he was more experienced than the tribuni angusticlavii, he served as second in command of the legion, behind the legate. because of his age and inexperience he was not the actual second in command in battle, but if the legate died he would take command of the legion. 	praefectus castrorum, camp prefect: the camp prefect was third in command of the legion. generally he was a long serving veteran from a lower social status than the tribunii whom he outranked, and who previously had served as primus pilus and finished his years with the legions. he was used as a senior officer in charge of training a legion, though he could also command a cohort of auxiliaires. 	tribuni angusticlavii, narrow band tribunes: each legion had five lower ranking tribunes, who were normally from the equestrian class and had at least some years of prior military experience. they often served the role of administrative officers.[ ] this tribunate was often a first, but optional, step in a young man's political career (see cursus honorum).[ ] centurions[edit] the rank of centurion was an officer grade that included many ranks, meaning centurions had very good prospects for promotion. the most senior centurion in a legion was known as the primus pilus (first file or spear), who directly commanded the first century of the first cohort and commanded the whole first cohort when in battle. within the second to tenth cohorts, the commander of each cohort's first century was known as a pilus prior and was in command of his entire cohort when in battle. the seniority of the pilus prior centurions was followed by the five other century commanders of the first cohort, who were known as primi ordines. a historical reenactor in roman centurion costume the six centuries of a normal cohort, were, in order of precedence: 	the forward hastati (forward spears) 	the rear hastati (rear spears) 	the forward principes (forward principal line) 	the rear principes (rear principal line) 	the forward triarii (forward third line) 	the rear triarii (rear third line) the centuries took their titles from the old use of the legion drawn up in three lines of battle using three classes of soldier. (each century would then hold a cross-section of this theoretical line, although these century titles were now essentially nominal.) each of the three lines is then sub-divided within the century into a more forward and a more rear century. 	primus pilus, literally first file: the primus pilus was the commanding centurion of the first century, first cohort and the senior-most centurion of the entire legion. (unlike other cohorts, the first cohort had only one javelin century, instead of a "front spear" and a "back spear" century.) the primus pilus had a chance of later becoming a praefectus castrorum. when the primus pilus retired, he would most likely gain entry into the equestrian class. he was paid times the base wage. primus pilus were also paid more than an average centurion and like a narrowband tribune. 	pilus prior: the "front file" centurions were the commanders of the st centuries within the legion, making them senior centurions of their respective cohorts. while the legion was in battle formation, the pilus prior was given command of their entire cohort. the primus pilus was also a pilus prior, and the most senior of all the centurions within the legion. these positions were usually held by experienced veteran soldiers who had been moved up within the ranks. this rank is subordinate to the primus pilus. 	primi ordines: the "ranks of the first [cohort]" were the five centurions of the first cohort, and included the primus pilus. they, excluding the primus pilus, were paid times the base wage. this rank is senior to all other centurions, save the primus pilus and pilus prior. 	other centurions: each legion had or centurions, one to command each century of the cohorts. they were the backbone of the professional army and were the career soldiers who ran the day-to-day life of the soldiers and issued commands in the field. they were generally moved up from the ranks, but in some cases could be direct appointments from the emperor or other higher-ranking officials. the cohorts were ranked from the first to the tenth and the century within each cohort ranked from to , with only five centuries in the first cohort (for a total of centurions and the primus pilus). the century that each centurion commanded was a direct reflection of his rank: command of the st century of the first cohort was the highest, and the th century of the th cohort was the lowest. paid ten times the basic wage. lower ranks[edit] 	optio: one for each centurion ( – ), they were appointed by the centurion from within the ranks to act as his second in command and were paid twice the basic wage. equivalent to a modern first sergeant.[ ] 	tesserarius: (guard commander) one for each century. they acted as seconds to the optios and were paid one and a half times the basic wage. keeper of the watchword, administrative assistant to hq staff, third in command of a century. these men fought as normal soldiers when the century they were attached to was not in the vanguard. equivalent to a modern staff sergeant. 	decurion: commanded a cavalry unit (turma) of to eques legionis.[ ] 	decanus: commanded a contubernium or ten men tent party, eight soldiers and two non-combatants, equivalent to a sergeant or corporal. a group of four soldiers would be referred to as a quaternion. special duty posts[edit] 	aquilifer: a single position within the legion. the aquilifer was the legion's standard– or aquila (eagle)– bearer and was an enormously important and prestigious position. losing the aquila was considered the greatest dishonor a legion could endure. this post therefore had to be filled with steady veteran soldiers, with an excellent understanding of the tactics of the legion. he was paid twice the basic wage. 	signifer: each century had a signifer (thus, there were in a legion) and within each cohort the st century's signifer would be the senior. he was standard-bearer for the centurial signum, a spear shaft decorated with medallions and topped with an open hand to signify loyalty, which was a rallying point for the soldiers. in addition to carrying the signum, the signifer also assumed responsibility for the financial administration of the unit and functioned as the legionaries' banker. he was paid twice the basic wage. 	cornicen (horn blower): worked hand in hand with the signifer drawing the attention of the men to the centurial signum and issuing the audible commands of the officers. he was paid twice the basic wage. 	imaginifer: a special position from the time of augustus onwards. carried the standard bearing the image of the emperor as a constant reminder of the troops' loyalty to him. he was paid twice the basic wage. 	immunes: immunes were legionary soldiers who possessed specialized skills, qualifying them for better pay and excusing them from labour and guard work. engineers, artillerymen, musicians, clerks, quartermasters, drill and weapons instructors, carpenters, hunters, medical staff and military police were all immune soldiers. these men were still fully trained legionaries, however, and were called upon to serve in the battle lines when needed. 	evocatus: a veteran of the roman army who had earned his military diploma for military service, but had chosen to re-enlist. they received double pay and were excluded from regular duties, such as manual labour. 	duplicarius: a special pay grade that could also be awarded regardless of rank, received double the basic pay. pay[edit] from the time of gaius marius onwards, legionaries received denarii a year (equal to sestertii); this basic rate remained unchanged until domitian, who increased it to denarii. in spite of the steady inflation during the nd century, there was no further rise until the time of septimius severus, who increased it to denarii a year. however, the soldiers did not receive all the money in cash, as the state deducted a clothing and food tax from their pay. to this wage, a legionary on active campaign would hope to add the booty of war, from the bodies of their enemies and as plunder from enemy settlements. slaves could also be claimed from the prisoners of war and divided amongst the legion for later sale, which would bring in a sizeable supplement to their regular pay. all legionary soldiers would also receive a praemia (veterans' benefits) on completion of their term of service of years or more: a sizeable sum of money ( , denarii from the time of augustus) and/or a plot of good farmland (good land was in much demand); farmland given to veterans often helped in establishing control of the frontier regions and over rebellious provinces. later, under caracalla, the praemia increased to , denarii. symbols[edit] from bc onwards, each legion used an aquila (eagle) as its standard symbol. the symbol was carried by an officer known as aquilifer, and its loss was considered to be a very serious embarrassment, and often led to the disbanding of the legion itself. normally, this was because any legion incapable of regaining its eagle in battle was so severely mauled that it was no longer effective in combat.[ ] reenacters portraying roman legionaries of legio xv apollinaris. in gallic war (bk iv, para. ), julius caesar describes an incident at the start of his first invasion of britain in bc that illustrated how fear for the safety of the eagle could drive roman soldiers. when caesar's troops hesitated to leave their ships for fear of the britons, the aquilifer of the tenth legion threw himself overboard and, carrying the eagle, advanced alone against the enemy. his comrades, fearing disgrace, 'with one accord, leapt down from the ship' and were followed by troops from the other ships. with the birth of the roman empire, the legions created a bond with their leader, the emperor himself. each legion had another officer, called imaginifer, whose role was to carry a pike with the imago (image, sculpture) of the emperor as pontifex maximus. each legion, furthermore, had a vexillifer who carried a vexillum or signum, with the legion name and emblem depicted on it, unique to the legion. it was common for a legion to detach some sub-units from the main camp to strengthen other corps. in these cases, the detached subunits carried only the vexillum, and not the aquila, and were called, therefore, vexillationes. a miniature vexillum, mounted on a silver base, was sometimes awarded to officers as a recognition of their service upon retirement or reassignment. civilians could also be rewarded for their assistance to the roman legions. in return for outstanding service, a citizen was given an arrow without a head. this was considered a great honour and would bring the recipient much prestige. discipline[edit] main article: roman military decorations and punishments the military discipline of the legions was quite harsh. regulations were strictly enforced, and a broad array of punishments could be inflicted upon a legionary who broke them. many legionaries became devotees in the cult of the minor goddess disciplina, whose virtues of frugality, severity and loyalty were central to their code of conduct and way of life. minor punishments[edit] 	castigatio – being hit by the centurion with his staff or animadversio fustium (tac. annals i, ) 	– reduction of rations or to be forced to eat barley instead of the usual grain ration 	pecuniaria mulcta – reduction in pay, fines or deductions from the pay allowance 	– flogging in front of the century, cohort or legion 	– whipping with the flagrum (flagellum, flagella), or "short whip" – a much more brutal punishment than simple flogging. the "short whip" was used by slave volunteers, volones, who constituted the majority of the army in the later years of the roman empire. 	gradus deiectio – reduction in rank 	missio ignominiosa – dishonourable discharge 	– loss of time in service advantages 	militiae mutatio – relegation to inferior service or duties. 	munerum indictio – additional duties major punishments[edit] 	fustuarium – a sentence for desertion or dereliction of duty. the legionary would be stoned or beaten to death by cudgels, in front of the assembled troops, by his fellow soldiers or those whose lives had been put in danger. soldiers under sentence of fustuarium who escaped were not pursued but lived under sentence of banishment from rome. in the event that a group of legionaries are to be subjected to this punishment, the tribune would make an alteration in order to spare the majority of the accused. the tribune would first select a handful of the guilty men, and those selected would be condemned to the original penalty under the fustuarium. the remainder of the accused would then be driven out of the camp and forced to live in an undefended location for a chosen period of time; they were also limited to eating only barley. [ ] 	decimation – according to th century belief[ ][failed verification](possibly folk etymology[citation needed]), the romans practiced this punishment in which a sentence was carried out against an entire unit that had mutinied, deserted, or shown dereliction of duty. one out of every ten men, chosen by lots, would be beaten to death, usually by the other nine with their bare hands, who would be forced to live outside the camp and in some instances obliged to renew the military oath, the sacramentum.[citation needed] factors in the legion's success[edit] play media reenactment: training montesquieu wrote that "the main reason for the romans becoming masters of the world was that, having fought successively against all peoples, they always gave up their own practices as soon as they found better ones."[ ] examples of ideas that were copied and adapted include weapons like the gladius (iberians) and warship design (cf. carthaginians' quinquereme), as well as military units, such as heavy mounted cavalry and mounted archers (parthians and numidians). 	roman organization was more flexible than those of many opponents. over time, the legions effectively handled challenges ranging from cavalry, to guerrillas, and to siege warfare. 	roman discipline (cf. decimation (roman army)), organization and systematization sustained combat effectiveness over a longer period. these elements appear throughout the legion in training, logistics, field fortification etc. 	the romans were more persistent and more willing to absorb and replace losses over time than their opponents. wars with carthage and the parthians and most notably, the campaigns against pyrrhus of epirus, illustrate this. 	roman leadership was mixed, but over time it was often effective in securing roman military success. 	the influence of roman military and civic culture, as embodied particularly in the heavy infantry legion, gave the roman military consistent motivation and cohesion.[citation needed] 	strict, and more importantly, uniform discipline made commanding, maintaining, and replacing roman legionaries a much more consistent exercise. 	roman military equipment (cf. roman military personal equipment), particularly armor, was more withstanding and far more ubiquitous, especially in the late republican and early imperial era, than that of most of their opponents. soldiers equipped with shields, helmets and highly effective body armor had a major advantage over warriors protected, in many cases, with nothing other than their shields, particularly in a prolonged engagement. 	roman engineering skills were second to none in ancient europe, and their mastery of both offensive and defensive siege warfare, specifically the construction and investiture of fortifications (cf. sudis, castra), was another major advantage for the roman legions. 	roman military training focused on the more effective thrusting of the sword rather than the slash. see also[edit] 	ancient rome portal 	war portal 	auxiliaries (roman military) 	early roman army 	imperial roman army 	late roman army 	legionary 	list of roman wars 	list of roman battles 	list of topics related to ancient rome 	list of roman legions 	list of roman auxiliary regiments 	military history of ancient rome 	marian roman army 	roman army 	roman army of the mid-republic 	roman military personal equipment 	structural history of the roman military 	for a more detailed analysis, as well as the romans in battle, see the articles roman infantry tactics and roman military personal equipment. references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ cornell, t. j. 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help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. find sources: "roman calendar" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · jstor (march ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) a reproduction of the fragmentary fasti antiates maiores (c.  bc), with the sixth and seventh months still named quintilis ("qvi") and sextilis ("sex") and an intercalary month ("inter") in the far righthand column another reproduction of the fasti antiates maiores the roman calendar was the calendar used by the roman kingdom and republic. the term often includes the julian calendar established by the reforms of the dictator julius caesar and emperor augustus in the late st century bc and sometimes includes any system dated by inclusive counting towards months' kalends, nones, and ides in the roman manner. the term usually excludes the alexandrian calendar of roman egypt, which continued the unique months of that land's former calendar; the byzantine calendar of the later roman empire, which usually dated the roman months in the simple count of the ancient greek calendars; and the gregorian calendar, which refined the julian system to bring it into still closer alignment with the tropical year. roman dates were counted inclusively forward to the next of three principal days: the first of the month (the kalends), a day shortly before the middle of the month (the ides), and eight days—nine, counting inclusively—before this (the nones). the original calendar consisted of ten months beginning in spring with march; winter was left as an unassigned span of days. these months ran for nundinal cycles, each forming an eight-day week (nine days counted inclusively, hence the name) ended by religious rituals and a public market. the winter period was later divided into two months, january and february. the legendary early kings romulus and numa pompilius were traditionally credited with establishing this early fixed calendar, which bears traces of its origin as an observational lunar one. in particular, the kalends, nones, and ides seem to have derived from the first sighting of the crescent moon, the first-quarter moon, and the full moon respectively. the system ran well short of the solar year, and it needed constant intercalation to keep religious festivals and other activities in their proper seasons. this is a typical element of lunisolar calendars. for superstitious reasons, such intercalation occurred within the month of february even after it was no longer considered the last month. after the establishment of the roman republic, years began to be dated by consulships and control over intercalation was granted to the pontifices, who eventually abused their power by lengthening years controlled by their political allies and shortening the years in their rivals' terms of office.[citation needed] having won his war with pompey, caesar used his position as rome's chief pontiff to enact a calendar reform in  bc, coincidentally making the year of his third consulship last for  days. in order to avoid interfering with rome's religious ceremonies, the reform added all its days towards the ends of months and did not adjust any nones or ides, even in months which came to have  days. the julian calendar was supposed to have a single leap day on february (a doubled vi kal. mart. or ante diem bis sextum kalendas martias) every fourth year, but following caesar's assassination the priests figured this using inclusive counting and mistakenly added this bissextile (bis sextum) day every three years. in order to bring the calendar back to its proper place, augustus was obliged to suspend intercalation for one or two decades. the revised calendar remained slightly longer than the solar year; by the th century the date of easter had shifted so far away from the vernal equinox that pope gregory xiii ordered the calendar's adjustment, resulting in the gregorian calendar. contents 	 history 	 . prehistoric lunar calendar 	 . legendary  month calendar 	 . republican calendar 	 . flavian reform 	 . julian reform 	 . later reforms 	 days 	 weeks 	 months 	 intercalation 	 years 	 conversion to julian or gregorian dates 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 . citations 	 . bibliography 	 external links history[edit] the remains of the fasti praenestini prehistoric lunar calendar[edit] the original roman calendar is believed to have been an observational lunar calendar[ ] whose months began from the first signs of a new crescent moon. because a lunar cycle is about ​   ⁄ days long, such months would have varied between and days. twelve such months would have fallen or days short of the solar year; without adjustment, such a year would have quickly rotated out of alignment with the seasons in the manner of the islamic calendar. given the seasonal aspects of the later calendar and its associated religious festivals, this was presumably avoided through some form of intercalation or the suspension of the calendar during winter. rome's -day week, the nundinal cycle, was shared with the etruscans, who used it as the schedule of royal audiences. it was presumably a part of the early calendar and was credited in roman legend variously to romulus and servius tullius. legendary  month calendar[edit] the romans themselves described their first organized year as one with ten fixed months, each of or days.[ ][ ] such a decimal division fitted general roman practice.[ ] the four  day months were called "full" (pleni) and the others "hollow" (cavi).[ ][ ] its  days made up exactly  nundinal cycles. the system is usually said to have left the remaining  odd days of the year as an unorganized "winter", although licinius macer's lost history apparently stated the earliest roman calendar employed intercalation instead[ ][ ] and macrobius claims the  month calendar was allowed to shift until the summer and winter months were completely misplaced, at which time additional days belonging to no month were simply inserted into the calendar until it seemed things were restored to their proper place.[ ][ ] later roman writers credited this calendar to romulus,[ ][ ] their legendary first king and culture hero, although this was common with other practices and traditions whose origin had been lost to them. some scholars doubt the existence of this calendar at all, as it is only attested in late republican and imperial sources and supported only by the misplaced names of the months from september to december.[ ] rüpke also finds the coincidence of the length of the supposed "romulan" year with the length of the first ten months of the julian calendar to be suspicious.[clarification needed][ ] calendar of romulus 	english	latin	meaning	length in days [ ][ ] 	march	mensis martius	month of mars 	 	april	mensis aprilis	month of apru (aphrodite)[ ] 	 	 	 	may	mensis maius	month of maia[ ] 	 	june	mensis iunius	month of juno 	 	 	july	mensis quintilis mensis quinctilis[ ]	fifth month 	 	august	mensis sextilis	sixth month 	 	 	september	mensis september	seventh month 	 	 	october	mensis october	eighth month 	 	november	mensis november	ninth month 	 	 	december	mensis december	tenth month 	 	 	length of the year: 	 other traditions existed alongside this one, however. plutarch's parallel lives recounts that romulus's calendar had been solar but adhered to the general principle that the year should last for  days. months were employed secondarily and haphazardly, with some counted as  days and others as or more.[ ][ ] republican calendar[edit] the attested calendar of the roman republic was quite different. it followed greek calendars in assuming a lunar cycle of ​   ⁄ days and a solar year of ​   ⁄ synodic months (​   ⁄ days), which align every fourth year after the addition of two intercalary months.[ ] two months were added at the end of the year to complete the cycle during winter, january and february, before the intercalary month inserted every two years; the intercalary month was sometimes known as mercedonius.[ ] the romans did not follow the usual greek practice in alternating - and -day months and a - or -day intercalary month every other year. instead, their st, rd, th, and th months[a] had  days each; all the other months had  days except february, which had   days in common years, for a total of days. the roman intercalary month always had  days, but was placed within the month of february alternating between after the terminalia on the rd (a.d. vii kal. mart.), and after the following day on the th; the remaining days of february were replaced by the corresponding days of mercedonius[ ] (these last or days of february were actually named and counted inclusively in days before the calends of march and were traditionally part of the celebration for the new year). this seems to have arisen from roman superstitions concerning the numbering and order of the months.[citation needed] the arrangement of the roman calendar similarly seems to have arisen from pythagorean superstitions concerning the luckiness of odd numbers.[ ] these pythagorean-based changes to the roman calendar were generally credited by the romans to numa pompilius, romulus's successor and the second of rome's seven kings,[citation needed] as were the two new months of the calendar.[ ][ ][b] most sources thought he had established intercalation with the rest of his calendar.[citation needed] although livy's numa instituted a lunar calendar, the author claimed the king had instituted a -year system of intercalation equivalent to the metonic cycle[ ] centuries before its development by babylonian and greek astronomers.[c] plutarch's account claims he ended the former chaos of the calendar by employing  months totaling  days—the length of the lunar and greek years—and biennial intercalary months of  days.[ ][ ] according to livy's periochae, the beginning of the consular year changed from march to january  in  bc to respond to a rebellion in hispania.[ ] plutarch believed numa was responsible for placing january and february first in the calendar;[ ][ ] ovid states january began as the first month and february the last, with its present order owing to the decemvirs.[ ][ ] w. warde fowler believed the roman priests continued to treat january and february as the last months of the calendar throughout the republican period.[ ] roman republican calendar (c.  bc or c.  bc – bc) 	english 	latin 	meaning 	length in days[ ][ ][ ][ ] 	 st year (cmn.) 	 nd year (leap) 	 rd year (cmn.) 	 th year (leap) 	 .	january 	i.	mensis ianuarius 	month of janus 	 	 	 	 	 .	february 	ii.	mensis februarius 	month of the februa 	 	 	 	 	 	intercalary month 	 	intercalaris mensis (mercedonius) 	 	month of wages 	  	 	  	 	 .	march 	iii.	mensis martius 	month of mars 	 	 	 	 	 .	april 	iv.	mensis aprilis 	month of aphrodite – from which the etruscan apru might have been derived 	 	 	 	 	 .	may 	v.	mensis maius 	month of maia 	 	 	 	 	 .	june 	vi.	mensis iunius 	month of juno 	 	 	 	 	 .	july 	vii.	mensis quintilis 	fifth month (from the earlier calendar starting in march) 	 	 	 	 	 .	august 	viii.	mensis sextilis 	sixth month 	 	 	 	 	 .	september 	ix.	mensis september 	seventh month 	 	 	 	 	 .	october 	x.	mensis october 	eighth month 	 	 	 	 	 .	november 	xi.	mensis november 	ninth month 	 	 	 	 	 .	december 	xii.	mensis december 	tenth month 	 	 	 	 	whole year: 	 	 	 	 the consuls' terms of office were not always a modern calendar year, but ordinary consuls were elected or appointed annually. the traditional list of roman consuls used by the romans to date their years began in  bc.[ ] flavian reform[edit] gnaeus flavius, a secretary (scriba) to censor app. claudius caecus introduced a series of reforms in  bc.[ ] their exact nature is uncertain, although he is thought to have begun the custom of publishing the calendar in advance of the month, depriving the priests of some of their power but allowing for a more consistent calendar for official business.[ ] julian reform[edit] main article: julian calendar julius caesar, following his victory in his civil war and in his role as pontifex maximus, ordered a reformation of the calendar in  bc. this was undertaken by a group of scholars apparently including the alexandrian sosigenes[ ] and the roman m. flavius.[ ][ ] its main lines involved the insertion of ten additional days throughout the calendar and regular intercalation of a single leap day every fourth year to bring the roman calendar into close agreement with the solar year. the year  bc was the last of the old system and included intercalary months, the first inserted in february and two more—intercalaris prior and posterior—before the kalends of december. later reforms[edit] main article: byzantine calendar after caesar's assassination, mark antony had caesar's birth month quintilis renamed july (iulius) in his honor. after antony's defeat at actium, augustus assumed control of rome and, finding the priests had (owing to their inclusive counting) been intercalating every third year instead of every fourth, suspended the addition of leap days to the calendar for one or two decades until its proper position had been restored. see julian calendar: leap year error. in  bc, the plebiscite lex pacuvia de mense augusto renamed sextilis august (augustus) in his honor.[ ][ ][ ][d] in large part, this calendar continued unchanged under the roman empire. (egyptians used the related alexandrian calendar, which augustus had adapted from their wandering ancient calendar to maintain its alignment with rome's.) a few emperors altered the names of the months after themselves or their family, but such changes were abandoned by their successors. diocletian began the -year indiction cycles beginning from the ad  census;[ ] these became the required format for official dating under justinian. constantine formally established the -day week by making sunday an official holiday in .[citation needed] consular dating became obsolete following the abandonment of appointing nonimperial consuls in ad  .[ ] the roman method of numbering the days of the month never became widespread in the hellenized eastern provinces and was eventually abandoned by the byzantine empire in its calendar. days[edit] main article: kalends roman dates were counted inclusively forward to the next one of three principal days within each month:[ ] 	kalends (kalendae or kal.), the st day of each month[ ] 	nones (nonae or non.), the th day of full months[ ] and th day of hollow ones,[ ]  days—"nine" by roman reckoning—before the ides in every month 	ides (idus, variously eid. or id.), the th day of full months[ ] and the th day of hollow ones,[ ] a day less than the middle of each month these are thought to reflect a prehistoric lunar calendar, with the kalends proclaimed after the sighting of the first sliver of the new crescent moon a day or two after the new moon, the nones occurring on the day of the first-quarter moon, and the ides on the day of the full moon. the kalends of each month were sacred to juno and the ides to jupiter.[ ][ ] the day before each was known as its eve (pridie); the day after each (postridie) was considered particularly unlucky. the days of the month were expressed in early latin using the ablative of time, denoting points in time, in the contracted form "the th december kalends" (vi kalendas decembres).[ ] in classical latin, this use continued for the three principal days of the month[ ] but other days were idiomatically expressed in the accusative case, which usually expressed a duration of time, and took the form " th day before the december kalends" (ante diem vi kalendas decembres). this anomaly may have followed the treatment of days in greek,[ ] reflecting the increasing use of such date phrases as an absolute phrase able to function as the object of another preposition,[ ] or simply originated in a mistaken agreement of dies with the preposition ante once it moved to the beginning of the expression.[ ] in late latin, this idiom was sometimes abandoned in favor of again using the ablative of time. the kalends were the day for payment of debts and the account books (kalendaria) kept for them gave english its word calendar. the public roman calendars were the fasti, which designated the religious and legal character of each month's days. the romans marked each day of such calendars with the letters:[ ] 	f (fastus, "permissible") on days when it was legal to initiate action in the courts of civil law (dies fasti, "allowed days") 	c (comitialis) on fasti days during which the roman people could hold assemblies (dies comitiales) 	n (nefastus) on days when political and judicial activities were prohibited (dies nefasti) 	np (uncertain)[e] on public holidays (feriae) 	qrcf (uncertain)[f] on days when the "king" (rex sacrorum) could convene an assembly 	en (endotercissus, an archaic form of intercissus, "halved") on days when most political and religious activities were prohibited in the morning and evening due to sacrifices being prepared or offered but were acceptable for a period in the middle of the day each day was also marked by a letter from a to h to indicate its place within the nundinal cycle of market days. weeks[edit] a fragment of the fasti praenestini for the month of april (aprilis), showing its nundinal letters on the left side main articles: nundinae, planetary hours, and week the nundinae were the market days which formed a kind of weekend in rome, italy, and some other parts of roman territory. by roman inclusive counting, they were reckoned as "ninth days" although they actually occurred every eighth day. because the republican and julian years were not evenly divisible into eight-day periods, roman calendars included a column giving every day of the year a nundinal letter from a to h marking its place in the cycle of market days. each year, the letter used for the markets would shift – letters along the cycle. as a day when the city swelled with rural plebeians, they were overseen by the aediles and took on an important role in roman legislation, which was supposed to be announced for three nundinal weeks (between and days) in advance of its coming to a vote. the patricians and their clients sometimes exploited this fact as a kind of filibuster, since the tribunes of the plebs were required to wait another three-week period if their proposals could not receive a vote before dusk on the day they were introduced. superstitions arose concerning the bad luck that followed a nundinae on the nones of a month or, later, on the first day of january. intercalation was supposedly used to avoid such coincidences, even after the julian reform of the calendar. the -day week began to be observed in italy in the early imperial period,[ ] as practitioners and converts to eastern religions introduced hellenistic and babylonian astrology, the jewish saturday sabbath, and the christian lord's day. the system was originally used for private worship and astrology but had replaced the nundinal week by the time constantine made sunday (dies solis) an official day of rest in ad  . the hebdomadal week was also reckoned as a cycle of letters from a to g; these were adapted for christian use as the dominical letters. months[edit] the names of roman months originally functioned as adjectives (e.g., the january kalends occur in the january month) before being treated as substantive nouns in their own right (e.g., the kalends of january occur in january). some of their etymologies are well-established: january and march honor the gods janus[ ] and mars;[ ] july and august honor julius caesar[ ] and his successor, the emperor augustus;[ ] and the months quintilis,[ ] sextilis,[ ] september,[ ] october,[ ] november,[ ] and december[ ] are archaic adjectives formed from the ordinal numbers from to , their position in the calendar when it began around the spring equinox in march.[ ] others are uncertain. february may derive from the februa festival or its eponymous februa ("purifications, expiatory offerings"), whose name may be either sabine or preserve an archaic word for sulphuric.[ ] april may relate to the etruscan goddess apru or the verb aperire ("to open").[citation needed] may and june may honor maia[ ] and juno[ ] or derive from archaic terms for "senior" and "junior". a few emperors attempted to add themselves to the calendar after augustus, but without enduring success. in classical latin, the days of each month were usually reckoned as:[ ] 	day 	original -day months mar, may, jul, oct[g] 	new julian -day months jan, aug, dec[h] 	new julian -day months apr, jun, sep, nov[i] 	original -day months jan, apr, jun, aug, sep, nov, dec[j] 	february 	 	kal. 	on the kalends kalendis	kal.	kal.	kal. feb. 	 	a.d. vi non. 	the th day before the nones ante diem quartum nonas	a.d. iv non.	a.d. iv non.	a.d. iv non. feb. 	 	a.d. v non. 	the rd day before the nones ante diem tertium nonas	a.d. iii non.	a.d. iii non.	a.d. iii non. feb. 	 	a.d. iv non. 	on the day before the nones pridie nonas	prid. non.	prid. non.	prid. non. feb. 	 	a.d. iii non. 	on the nones nonis	non.	non.	non. feb. 	 	prid. non. 	the th day before the ides ante diem octavum idus	a.d. viii eid.	a.d. viii eid.	a.d. viii eid. feb. 	 	non. 	the th day before the ides ante diem septimum idus	a.d. vii eid.	a.d. vii eid.	a.d. vii eid. feb. 	 	a.d. viii eid. 	the th day before the ides ante diem sextum idus	a.d. vi eid.	a.d. vi eid.	a.d. vi eid. feb. 	 	a.d. vii eid. 	the th day before the ides ante diem quintum idus	a.d. v eid.	a.d. v eid.	a.d. v eid. feb. 	 	a.d. vi eid. 	the th day before the ides ante diem quartum idus	a.d. iv eid.	a.d. iv eid.	a.d. iv eid. feb. 	 	a.d. v eid. 	the rd day before the ides ante diem tertium idus	a.d. iii eid.	a.d. iii eid.	a.d. iii eid. feb. 	 	a.d. iv eid. 	on the day before the ides pridie idus	prid. eid.	prid. eid.	prid. eid. feb. 	 	a.d. iii eid. 	on the ides idibus	eid.	eid.	eid. feb. 	 	prid. eid. 	the th day before the kalends ante diem undevicesimum kalendas	a.d. xviii kal.	a.d. xvii kal.	a.d. xvi kal. mart. 	 	eid. 	the th day before the kalends ante diem duodevicesimum kalendas	a.d. xvii kal.	a.d. xvi kal.	a.d. xv kal. mart. 	 	a.d. xvii kal. 	the th day before the kalends ante diem septimum decimum kalendas	a.d. xvi kal.	a.d. xv kal.	a.d. xiv kal. mart. 	 	a.d. xvi kal. 	the th day before the kalends ante diem sextum decimum kalendas	a.d. xv kal.	a.d. xiv kal.	a.d. xiii kal. mart. 	 	a.d. xv kal. 	the th day before the kalends ante diem quintum decimum kalendas	a.d. xiv kal.	a.d. xiii kal.	a.d. xii kal. mart. 	 	a.d. xiv kal. 	the th day before the kalends ante diem quartum decimum kalendas	a.d. xiii kal.	a.d. xii kal.	a.d. xi kal. mart. 	 	a.d. xiii kal. 	the th day before the kalends ante diem tertium decimum kalendas	a.d. xii kal.	a.d. xi kal.	a.d. x kal. mart. 	 	a.d. xii kal. 	the th day before the kalends ante diem duodecimum kalendas	a.d. xi kal.	a.d. x kal.	a.d. ix kal. mart. 	 	a.d. xi kal. 	the th day before the kalends ante diem undecimum kalendas	a.d. x kal.	a.d. ix kal.	a.d. viii kal. mart. 	 	a.d. x kal. 	the th day before the kalends ante diem decimum kalendas	a.d. ix kal.	a.d. viii kal.	a.d. vii kal. mart. 	 	a.d. ix kal. 	the th day before the kalends ante diem nonum kalendas	a.d. viii kal.	a.d. vii kal.	a.d. vi kal. mart.[k] 	 	a.d. viii kal. 	the th day before the kalends ante diem octavum kalendas	a.d. vii kal.	a.d. vi kal.	a.d. v kal. mart. 	 	a.d. vii kal. 	the th day before the kalends ante diem septimum kalendas	a.d. vi kal.	a.d. v kal.	a.d. iv kal. mart. 	 	a.d. vi kal. 	the th day before the kalends ante diem sextum kalendas	a.d. v kal.	a.d. iv kal.	a.d. iii kal. mart. 	 	a.d. v kal. 	the th day before the kalends ante diem quintum kalendas	a.d. iv kal.	a.d. iii kal.	prid. kal. mart. 	 	a.d. iv kal. 	the th day before the kalends ante diem quartum kalendas	a.d. iii kal.	prid. kal. 	 	 	a.d. iii kal. 	the rd day before the kalends ante diem tertium kalendas	prid. kal. 	 	 	prid. kal. 	on the day before the kalends pridie kalendas 	 dates after the ides count forward to the kalends of the next month and are expressed as such. for example, march  was expressed as "the th day before the april kalends" (a.d. xiv kal. apr.), without a mention of march itself. the day after a kalends, nones, or ides was also often expressed as the "day after" (postridie) owing to their special status as particularly unlucky "black days". the anomalous status of the new -day months under the julian calendar was an effect of caesar's desire to avoid affecting the festivals tied to the nones and ides of various months. however, because the dates at the ends of the month all counted forward to the next kalends, they were all shifted by one or two days by the change. this created confusion with regard to certain anniversaries. for instance, augustus's birthday on the rd day of september was a.d. viii kal. oct. in the old calendar but a.d. ix kal. oct. under the new system. the ambiguity caused honorary festivals to be held on either or both dates. intercalation[edit] main article: mercedonius the republican calendar only had  days, which meant that it would quickly unsynchronize from the solar year, causing, for example, agricultural festivals to occur out of season. the roman solution to this problem was to periodically lengthen the calendar by adding extra days within february. february was broken into two parts, each with an odd number of days. the first part ended with the terminalia on the rd (a.d. vii kal. mart.), which was considered the end of the religious year; the five remaining days beginning with the regifugium on the th (a.d. vi kal. mart.) formed the second part; and the intercalary month mercedonius was inserted between them. in such years, the days between the ides and the regifugium were counted down to either the intercalary kalends or to the terminalia. the intercalary month counted down to nones and ides on its th and th day in the manner of the other short months. the remaining days of the month counted down towards the march kalends, so that the end of mercedonius and the second part of february were indistinguishable to the romans, one ending on a.d. vii kal. mart. and the other picking up at a.d. vi kal. mart. and bearing the normal festivals of such dates. apparently because of the confusion of these changes or uncertainty as to whether an intercalary month would be ordered, dates after the february ides are attested as sometimes counting down towards the quirinalia (feb.  ), the feralia (feb.  ), or terminalia (feb.  )[ ] rather than the intercalary or march kalends. the third-century writer censorinus says: when it was thought necessary to add (every two years) an intercalary month of or days, so that the civil year should correspond to the natural (solar) year, this intercalation was in preference made in february, between terminalia [ rd] and regifugium [ th].[ ] the fifth-century writer macrobius says that the romans intercalated and days in alternate years (saturnalia, . . ); the intercalation was placed after  february and the remaining five days of february followed (saturnalia, . . ). to avoid the nones falling on a nundine, where necessary an intercalary day was inserted "in the middle of the terminalia, where they placed the intercalary month".[ ] this is historically correct. in  bc intercalaris began on the day after  february [ ] and in  bc it began on the second day after  february.[ ] varro, writing in the first century bc, says "the twelfth month was february, and when intercalations take place the five last days of this month are removed."[ ] since all the days after the ides of intercalaris were counted down to the beginning of march intercalaris had either  days (making for the year) or (making for the year). there is another theory which says that in intercalary years february had or days and intercalaris had . no date is offered for the regifugium in -day years.[ ] macrobius describes a further refinement whereby, in one -year period within a -year cycle, there were only three intercalary years, each of  days. this refinement brings the calendar back in line with the seasons, and averages the length of the year to .  days over  years. the pontifex maximus determined when an intercalary month was to be inserted. on average, this happened in alternate years. the system of aligning the year through intercalary months broke down at least twice: the first time was during and after the second punic war. it led to the reform of the  bc acilian law on intercalation, the details of which are unclear, but it appears to have successfully regulated intercalation for over a century. the second breakdown was in the middle of the first century bc and may have been related to the increasingly chaotic and adversarial nature of roman politics at the time. the position of pontifex maximus was not a full-time job; it was held by a member of the roman elite, who would almost invariably be involved in the machinations of roman politics. because the term of office of elected roman magistrates was defined in terms of a roman calendar year, a pontifex maximus would have reason to lengthen a year in which he or his allies were in power or shorten a year in which his political opponents held office. although there are many stories to interpret the intercalation, a period of or days is always ​ ⁄  synodic month short. obviously, the month beginning shifts forward (from the new moon, to the third quarter, to the full moon, to the first quarter, back the new moon) after intercalation. years[edit] a fragment of an imperial consular list[ ] main article: list of roman consuls as mentioned above, rome's legendary -month calendar notionally lasted for  days but was usually thought to make up the rest of the solar year during an unorganized winter period. the unattested but almost certain lunar year and the pre-julian civil year were or days long, with the difference from the solar year more or less corrected by an irregular intercalary month. the julian year was  days long, with a leap day doubled in length every fourth year, almost equivalent to the present gregorian system. the calendar era before and under the roman kings is uncertain but dating by regnal years was common in antiquity. under the roman republic, from  bc, years were most commonly described in terms of their reigning ordinary consuls.[ ] (temporary and honorary consuls were sometimes elected or appointed but were not used in dating.)[ ] consular lists were displayed on the public calendars. after the institution of the roman empire, regnal dates based on the emperors' terms in office became more common. some historians of the later republic and early imperial eras dated from the legendary founding of the city of rome (ab urbe condita or avc).[ ] varro's date for this was  bc but other writers used different dates, varying by several decades.[citation needed] such dating was, however, never widespread. after the consuls waned in importance, most roman dating was regnal[ ] or followed diocletian's -year indiction tax cycle.[ ] these cycles were not distinguished, however, so that "year of the indiction" may refer to any of , , , &c.[ ] the orthodox subjects of the byzantine empire used various christian eras, including those based on diocletian's persecutions, christ's incarnation, and the supposed age of the world. the romans did not have records of their early calendars but, like modern historians, assumed the year originally began in march on the basis of the names of the months following june. the consul m. fulvius nobilior (r.   bc) wrote a commentary on the calendar at the temple of hercules musarum that claimed january had been named for janus because the god faced both ways,[ ][where?] suggesting it had been instituted as a first month.[citation needed] it was, however, usually said to have been instituted along with february, whose nature and festivals suggest it had originally been considered the last month of the year. the consuls' term of office—and thus the order of the years under the republic—seems to have changed several times. their inaugurations were finally moved to  january (kal. ian.) in  bc to allow q. fulvius nobilior to attack segeda in spain during the celtiberian wars, before which they had occurred on  march (eid. mart.).[ ] there is reason to believe the inauguration date had been  may during the rd century bc until  bc[citation needed] and livy mentions earlier inaugurations on  may (eid. mai.),  july (kal. qui.),  august (kal. sex.),  october (kal. oct.), and  december (eid. dec.).[ ][where?] under the julian calendar, the year began on  january but years of the indiction cycle began on  september. in addition to egypt's separate calendar, some provinces maintained their records using a local era.[ ] africa dated its records sequentially from  bc;[ ] spain from ad  .[citation needed] this dating system continued as the spanish era used in medieval spain.[citation needed] conversion to julian or gregorian dates[edit] the continuity of names from the roman to the gregorian calendar can lead to the mistaken belief that roman dates correspond to julian or gregorian ones. in fact, the essentially complete list of roman consuls allows general certainty of years back to the establishment of the republic but the uncertainty as to the end of lunar dating and the irregularity of roman intercalation means that dates which can be independently verified are invariably weeks to months outside of their "proper" place. two astronomical events dated by livy show the calendar months out of alignment with the julian date in  bc and months out of alignment in  bc. thus, "the year of the consulship of publius cornelius scipio africanus and publius licinius crassus" (usually given as "  bc") actually began on  march  bc and ended on  march  bc according to the roman calendar but may have begun as early as november or december  bc owing to its misalignment. even following the establishment of the julian calendar, the leap years were not applied correctly by the roman priests, meaning dates are a few days out of their "proper" place until a few decades into augustus's reign. given the paucity of records regarding the state of the calendar and its intercalation, historians have reconstructed the correspondence of roman dates to their julian and gregorian equivalents from disparate sources. there are detailed accounts of the decades leading up to the julian reform, particularly the speeches and letters of cicero, which permit an established chronology back to about  bc. the nundinal cycle and a few known synchronisms—e.g., a roman date in terms of the attic calendar and olympiad—are used to generate contested chronologies back to the start of the first punic war in  bc. beyond that, dates are roughly known based on clues such as the dates of harvests and seasonal religious festivals. see also[edit] 	list of calendars 	julian, alexandrian, byzantine, & gregorian calendars 	list of roman consuls and ab urbe condita dating 	general roman calendar of the catholic church 	roman festivals 	undecimber notes[edit] 	^ that is, the rd, th, th, and th months after the repositioning of january and february. 	^ plutarch reports this tradition while claiming that the months had more probably predated or originated with romulus.[ ][ ] 	^ this equivalence was first described by stanyan in his history of ancient greece.[ ] 	^ there are some documents which state the month had been renamed as early as or  bc, but the date of the lex pacuvia is certain. 	^ the np days are sometimes thought to mark days when political and judicial activities were prohibited only until noon, standing for nefastus priore. 	^ the qrcf days are sometimes supposed, on the basis of the fasti viae lanza which gives it as q. rex c. f., to stand for "permissible when the king has entered the comitium" (quando rex comitiavit fas).[ ] 	^ the original -day months of the roman calendar were march, may, quintilis or july, and october. 	^ the -day months established by the julian reform were january, sextilis or august, and december. the other -day months of the julian calendar continued to use the old system, with their nones on the th and ides on the th. 	^ the -day months established by the julian reform were april, june, september, and november. 	^ the -day months of the calendar prior to the julian reform were january, april, june, sextilis, september, november, and december. after the julian reform, february could have days during a leap year but it was not reckoned according to this list until late in the imperial period. instead, the sixth day before the march kalends was initially treated as lasting for hours. 	^ after the julian reform, this day was reckoned to last hours during a leap year. references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ mommsen & al. 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privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 la pléiade - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	la pléiade 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		  (redirected from pléiade) 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		for other uses, see pleiades (disambiguation). 	 french literature 	 by category 	 french literary history 	 	medieval 	renaissance 	 th 	 th 	 th 	 th century 	contemporary 	 french writers 	 	chronological list 	writers by category 	essayists 	novelists 	playwrights 	poets 	short story writers 	children's writers 	 portals 	 	france 	literature 		v 	t 	e la pléiade (french pronunciation: ​[la plejad]) is the name given to a group of th-century french renaissance poets whose principal members were pierre de ronsard, joachim du bellay and jean-antoine de baïf. the name was a reference to another literary group, the original alexandrian pleiad of seven alexandrian poets and tragedians ( rd century b.c.), corresponding to the seven stars of the pleiades star cluster. the name "pléiade" was also adopted in by a group of fourteen poets (seven men and seven women) in toulouse. contents 	 the french renaissance pléiade 	 . major figures 	 . minor figures 	 . use of the term 	 the th century toulouse pléiade 	 see also 	 notes 	 references the french renaissance pléiade[edit] major figures[edit] notable members of "la pléiade" consisted of the following people: 	pierre de ronsard 	joachim du bellay 	jean-antoine de baïf the core group of the french renaissance "pléiade"—pierre de ronsard, joachim du bellay and jean-antoine de baïf—were young french poets who met at the collège de coqueret, where they studied under the famous hellenist and latinist scholar jean dorat; they were generally called the "brigade" at the time. ronsard was regarded as the leader of the "brigade", and remained the most popular and well-known poet of the group. the pléiade's "manifesto" was penned by joachim du premiere bellay (la défense et illustration de la langue française ). in it, du bellay detailed a literary program of renewal and revolution. the group aimed to break with earlier traditions of french poetry (especially marot and the grands rhétoriqueurs), and, maintaining that french (like the tuscan of petrarch and dante) was a worthy language for literary expression, to attempt to ennoble the french language by imitating the ancients. to this end du bellay recommended vernacular innovation of greek and roman poetic forms, emulation of specific models, and the creation of neologisms based on greek and latin. among the models favoured by the pléiade were pindar, anacreon, alcaeus and other poets of the greek anthology, as well as virgil, horace and ovid. the ideal was not one of slavish imitation, but of a poet so well-versed in the entire corpus of ancient literature (du bellay uses the metaphor of "digestion") that he would be able to convert it into an entirely new and rich poetic language in the vernacular. for some of the members of the pléiade, the act of the poetry itself was seen as a form of divine inspiration (see pontus de tyard for example), a possession by the muses akin to romantic passion, prophetic fervour or alcoholic delirium. the forms that dominate the poetic production of these poets are the petrarchan sonnet cycle (developed around an amorous encounter or an idealised woman) and the horatian/anacreontic ode (of the "wine, women and song" variety, often making use of the horatian carpe diem topos - life is short, seize the day). ronsard also tried early on to adapt the pindaric ode into french and, later, to write a nationalist verse epic modelled on homer and virgil (entitled the franciade), which he never completed. throughout the period, the use of mythology is frequent, but so too is a depiction of the natural world (woods, rivers). 	 			 			 pierre de ronsard 			 		 	 			 			 joachim du bellay 			 		 	 			 			 jean-antoine de baïf 			 		 	 			 			 pontus de tyard 			 		 	 			 			 Étienne jodelle 			 		 minor figures[edit] minor figures also associated with this term include the following: 	pontus de tyard 	Étienne jodelle 	rémy belleau 	jacques pelletier du mans 	jean de la péruse 	guillaume des autels use of the term[edit] the use of the term "pléiade" to refer to the group the french poets around ronsard and du bellay is much criticised. in his poems, ronsard frequently made lists of those he considered the best poets of his generation, but these lists changed several times. these lists always included ronsard, du bellay, de baïf, pontus de tyard and Étienne jodelle; the last two positions were taken by rémy belleau, jacques pelletier du mans, jean de la péruse, or guillaume des autels. in a poem in ronsard announced that the "brigade" had become the "pléiade", but apparently no one in ronsard's literary circle used the expression to refer to himself, and use of the term stems principally from huguenot poets critical of ronsard's pretensions (ronsard was a polemicist for the royal catholic policy). this use was finally consecrated by ronsard's biographer claude binet, shortly after the poet's death. some modern literary historians reject the use of the term, as it gives precedence to ronsard's poetic ideas and minimises the diversity of poetic production in the french renaissance. the th century toulouse pléiade[edit] main article: consistori del gay saber male poets: 	bernart de panassac 	guillaume de lobra 	béringuier de saint-plancart 	pierre de mejanaserra 	guillaume de gontaut 	pierre camo 	bernard oth female poets: 	catherine fontaine 	bernarde deupie 	claude ligonne 	audiette peschaira 	esclarmonde spinète 	johanne perle 	françoise marie (later replaced by paul de viguier) see also[edit] 	poetry portal 	french poetry 	castalian band notes[edit] 	"la pléiade", or more correctly "la bibliothèque de la pléiade", is also the name of a prestigious leather-bound bible-paper collection of works in french (literature, history, etc.) published by the Éditions gallimard publishing house. references[edit] 	simonin, michel, ed. dictionnaire des lettres françaises. le xvie siècle. paris: fayard, . isbn  - - - . 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"johnsonism" redirects here. for the political positions of boris johnson, see boris johnson § political positions and ideology. english poet, biographer, essayist, and lexicographer 	samuel johnson 	samuel johnson c.  , painted by sir joshua reynolds 	born	( - - ) september (os september) lichfield, staffordshire, england 	died	 december ( - - ) (aged  ) london, england 	resting place	westminster abbey 	pen name	dr johnson 	occupation		literary critic 	biographer 	essayist 	lexicographer 	poet 	playwright 	language	english 	alma mater	pembroke college, oxford (no degree) 	notable works	a dictionary of the english language a journey to the western isles of scotland 	spouse	elizabeth porter (née jervis) ​ ​ (m.  ; died  )​ 	 	signature	 samuel johnson ( september [os september] – december ), often referred to as dr johnson, was an english writer who made lasting contributions to english literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. religiously, he was a devout anglican,[ ] and politically a committed tory. the oxford dictionary of national biography describes johnson as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in english history".[ ] he is the subject of james boswell's the life of samuel johnson, described by walter jackson bate as "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature".[ ] born in lichfield, staffordshire, johnson attended pembroke college, oxford, for just over a year, but a lack of funds forced him to leave. after working as a teacher, he moved to london, where he began to write for the gentleman's magazine. his early works include the biography life of mr richard savage, the poems london and the vanity of human wishes, and the play irene. after nine years of work, johnson's a dictionary of the english language was published in . it had a far-reaching effect on modern english and has been acclaimed as "one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship".[ ] this work brought johnson popularity and success. until the completion of the oxford english dictionary years later, johnson's was the pre-eminent british dictionary.[ ] his later works included essays, an influential annotated edition of the plays of william shakespeare, and the widely read tale the history of rasselas, prince of abissinia. in , he befriended james boswell, with whom he later travelled to scotland; johnson described their travels in a journey to the western islands of scotland. towards the end of his life, he produced the massive and influential lives of the most eminent english poets, a collection of biographies and evaluations of th- and th-century poets. johnson was a tall[a] and robust man. his odd gestures and tics were disconcerting to some on first meeting him. boswell's life, along with other biographies, documented johnson's behaviour and mannerisms in such detail that they have informed the posthumous diagnosis of tourette syndrome,[ ] a condition not defined or diagnosed in the th century. after a series of illnesses, he died on the evening of december , and was buried in westminster abbey. in the years following his death, johnson began to be recognised as having had a lasting effect on literary criticism, and he was claimed by some to be the only truly great critic of english literature.[ ] contents 	 life and career 	 . early life and education 	 . early career 	 . a dictionary of the english language 	 . later career 	 . final works 	 . final years 	 literary criticism 	 character sketch 	 health 	 legacy 	 major works 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links life and career[edit] early life and education[edit] main article: early life of samuel johnson johnson's birthplace in market square, lichfield samuel johnson was born on september , to sarah (née ford) and michael johnson, a bookseller.[ ] the birth took place in the family home above his father's bookshop in lichfield, staffordshire. his mother was when she gave birth to johnson. this was considered an unusually late pregnancy, so precautions were taken, and a "man-midwife" and surgeon of "great reputation" named george hector was brought in to assist.[ ] the infant johnson did not cry, and there were concerns for his health. his aunt exclaimed that "she would not have picked such a poor creature up in the street".[ ] the family feared that johnson would not survive, and summoned the vicar of st mary's to perform a baptism.[ ] two godfathers were chosen, samuel swynfen, a physician and graduate of pembroke college, oxford, and richard wakefield, a lawyer, coroner, and lichfield town clerk.[ ] johnson's health improved and he was put to wet-nurse with joan marklew. some time later he contracted scrofula,[ ] known at the time as the "king's evil" because it was thought royalty could cure it. sir john floyer, former physician to king charles ii, recommended that the young johnson should receive the "royal touch",[ ] and he did so from queen anne on march . however, the ritual proved ineffective, and an operation was performed that left him with permanent scars across his face and body.[ ] with the birth of johnson's brother, nathaniel, a few months later, their father was unable to pay the debts he had accrued over the years, and the family was no longer able to maintain its standard of living.[ ] when he was a child in petticoats, and had learnt to read, mrs. johnson one morning put the common prayer-book into his hands, pointed to the collect for the day, and said, 'sam, you must get this by heart.' she went up stairs, leaving him to study it: but by the time she had reached the second floor, she heard him following her. 'what's the matter?' said she. 'i can say it,' he replied; and repeated it distinctly, though he could not have read it more than twice.[ ] boswell's life of samuel johnson johnson displayed signs of great intelligence as a child, and his parents, to his later disgust, would show off his "newly acquired accomplishments".[ ] his education began at the age of three, and was provided by his mother, who had him memorise and recite passages from the book of common prayer.[ ] when samuel turned four, he was sent to a nearby school, and, at the age of six he was sent to a retired shoemaker to continue his education.[ ] a year later johnson went to lichfield grammar school, where he excelled in latin.[ ] during this time, johnson started to exhibit the tics that would influence how people viewed him in his later years, and which formed the basis for a posthumous diagnosis of tourette syndrome.[ ] he excelled at his studies and was promoted to the upper school at the age of nine.[ ] during this time, he befriended edmund hector, nephew of his "man-midwife" george hector, and john taylor, with whom he remained in contact for the rest of his life.[ ] at the age of , johnson stayed with his cousins, the fords, at pedmore, worcestershire.[ ] there he became a close friend of cornelius ford, who employed his knowledge of the classics to tutor johnson while he was not attending school.[ ] ford was a successful, well-connected academic, and notorious alcoholic whose excesses contributed to his death six years later.[ ] after spending six months with his cousins, johnson returned to lichfield, but mr hunter, the headmaster, "angered by the impertinence of this long absence", refused to allow johnson to continue at the school.[ ] unable to return to lichfield grammar school, johnson enrolled at the king edward vi grammar school at stourbridge.[ ] as the school was located near pedmore, johnson was able to spend more time with the fords, and he began to write poems and verse translations.[ ] however, he spent only six months at stourbridge before returning once again to his parents' home in lichfield.[ ] entrance of pembroke college, oxford during this time, johnson's future remained uncertain because his father was deeply in debt.[ ] to earn money, johnson began to stitch books for his father, and it is likely that johnson spent much time in his father's bookshop reading and building his literary knowledge. the family remained in poverty until his mother's cousin elizabeth harriotts died in february and left enough money to send johnson to university.[ ] on october , a few weeks after he turned , johnson entered pembroke college, oxford.[ ] the inheritance did not cover all of his expenses at pembroke, and andrew corbet, a friend and fellow student at the college, offered to make up the deficit.[ ] johnson made friends at pembroke and read much. in later life, he told stories of his idleness.[b] his tutor asked him to produce a latin translation of alexander pope's messiah as a christmas exercise.[ ] johnson completed half of the translation in one afternoon and the rest the following morning. although the poem brought him praise, it did not bring the material benefit he had hoped for.[ ] the poem later appeared in miscellany of poems ( ), edited by john husbands, a pembroke tutor, and is the earliest surviving publication of any of johnson's writings. johnson spent the rest of his time studying, even during the christmas holiday. he drafted a "plan of study" called "adversaria", which he left unfinished, and used his time to learn french while working on his greek.[ ] after thirteen months, a lack of funds forced johnson to leave oxford without a degree, and he returned to lichfield.[ ] towards the end of johnson's stay at oxford, his tutor, jorden, left pembroke and was replaced by william adams. johnson enjoyed adams' tutoring, but by december, johnson was already a quarter behind in his student fees, and was forced to return home. he left behind many books that he had borrowed from his father because he could not afford to transport them, and also because he hoped to return to oxford.[ ] he eventually did receive a degree. just before the publication of his dictionary in , the university of oxford awarded johnson the degree of master of arts.[ ] he was awarded an honorary doctorate in by trinity college dublin and in by the university of oxford.[ ] in he returned to pembroke with boswell and toured the college with his former tutor adams, who by then was the master of the college. during that visit he recalled his time at the college and his early career, and expressed his later fondness for jorden.[ ] early career[edit] little is known about johnson's life between the end of and . it is likely that he lived with his parents. he experienced bouts of mental anguish and physical pain during years of illness;[ ] his tics and gesticulations associated with tourette syndrome became more noticeable and were often commented upon.[ ] by johnson's father was deeply in debt and had lost much of his standing in lichfield. johnson hoped to get an usher's position, which became available at stourbridge grammar school, but since he did not have a degree, his application was passed over on september .[ ] at about this time, johnson's father became ill and developed an "inflammatory fever" which led to his death in december .[ ] johnson eventually found employment as undermaster at a school in market bosworth, run by sir wolstan dixie, who allowed johnson to teach without a degree.[ ] although johnson was treated as a servant,[ ] he found pleasure in teaching even though he considered it boring. after an argument with dixie he left the school, and by june he had returned home.[ ] elizabeth "tetty" porter, johnson's wife johnson continued to look for a position at a lichfield school. after being turned down for a job at ashbourne, he spent time with his friend edmund hector, who was living in the home of the publisher thomas warren. at the time, warren was starting his birmingham journal, and he enlisted johnson's help.[ ] this connection with warren grew, and johnson proposed a translation of jerónimo lobo's account of the abyssinians.[ ] johnson read abbé joachim le grand's french translations, and thought that a shorter version might be "useful and profitable".[ ] instead of writing the work himself, he dictated to hector, who then took the copy to the printer and made any corrections. johnson's a voyage to abyssinia was published a year later.[ ] he returned to lichfield in february , and began an annotated edition of poliziano's latin poems, along with a history of latin poetry from petrarch to poliziano; a proposal was soon printed, but a lack of funds halted the project.[ ] johnson remained with his close friend harry porter during a terminal illness,[ ] which ended in porter's death on september . porter's wife elizabeth (née jervis) (otherwise known as "tetty") was now a widow at the age of , with three children.[ ] some months later, johnson began to court her. the reverend william shaw claims that "the first advances probably proceeded from her, as her attachment to johnson was in opposition to the advice and desire of all her relations,"[ ] johnson was inexperienced in such relationships, but the well-to-do widow encouraged him and promised to provide for him with her substantial savings.[ ] they married on july , at st werburgh's church in derby.[ ] the porter family did not approve of the match, partly because of the difference in their ages, johnson was and elizabeth was . elizabeth's marriage to johnson so disgusted her son jervis that he severed all relations with her.[ ] however, her daughter lucy accepted johnson from the start, and her other son, joseph, later came to accept the marriage.[ ] edial hall school in june , while working as a tutor for the children of thomas whitby, a local staffordshire gentleman, johnson had applied for the position of headmaster at solihull school.[ ] although johnson's friend gilbert walmisley gave his support, johnson was passed over because the school's directors thought he was "a very haughty, ill-natured gent, and that he has such a way of distorting his face (which though he can't help) the gents think it may affect some lads".[ ] with walmisley's encouragement, johnson decided that he could be a successful teacher if he ran his own school.[ ] in the autumn of , johnson opened edial hall school as a private academy at edial, near lichfield. he had only three pupils: lawrence offley, george garrick, and the -year-old david garrick, who later became one of the most famous actors of his day.[ ] the venture was unsuccessful and cost tetty a substantial portion of her fortune. instead of trying to keep the failing school going, johnson began to write his first major work, the historical tragedy irene.[ ] biographer robert demaria believed that tourette syndrome likely made public occupations like schoolmaster or tutor almost impossible for johnson. this may have led johnson to "the invisible occupation of authorship".[ ] johnson left for london with his former pupil david garrick on march , the day johnson's brother died. he was penniless and pessimistic about their travel, but fortunately for them, garrick had connections in london, and the two were able to stay with his distant relative, richard norris.[ ] johnson soon moved to greenwich near the golden hart tavern to finish irene.[ ] on july he wrote to edward cave with a proposal for a translation of paolo sarpi's the history of the council of trent ( ), which cave did not accept until months later.[ ] in october johnson brought his wife to london, and he found employment with cave as a writer for the gentleman's magazine.[ ] his assignments for the magazine and other publishers during this time were "almost unparalleled in range and variety," and "so numerous, so varied and scattered" that "johnson himself could not make a complete list".[ ] the name columbia, a poetic name for america coined by johnson, first appears in a weekly publication of the debates of the british parliament in the gentleman's magazine. title page of london second edition in may his first major work, the poem london, was published anonymously.[ ] based on juvenal's satire iii, it describes the character thales leaving for wales to escape the problems of london,[ ] which is portrayed as a place of crime, corruption, and poverty. johnson could not bring himself to regard the poem as earning him any merit as a poet.[ ] alexander pope said that the author "will soon be déterré" (unearthed, dug up), but this would not happen until years later.[ ] in august, johnson's lack of an ma degree from oxford or cambridge led to his being denied a position as master of the appleby grammar school. in an effort to end such rejections, pope asked lord gower to use his influence to have a degree awarded to johnson.[ ] gower petitioned oxford for an honorary degree to be awarded to johnson, but was told that it was "too much to be asked".[ ] gower then asked a friend of jonathan swift to plead with swift to use his influence at the university of dublin to have a master's degree awarded to johnson, in the hope that this could then be used to justify an ma from oxford,[ ] but swift refused to act on johnson's behalf.[ ] between and , johnson befriended poet richard savage.[ ] feeling guilty about living on tetty's money, johnson stopped living with her and spent his time with savage. they were poor and would stay in taverns or sleep in "night-cellars". some nights they would roam the streets until dawn because they had no money.[ ] savage's friends tried to help him by attempting to persuade him to move to wales, but savage ended up in bristol and again fell into debt. he was committed to debtors' prison and died in . a year later, johnson wrote life of mr richard savage ( ), a "moving" work which, in the words of the biographer and critic walter jackson bate, "remains one of the innovative works in the history of biography".[ ] a dictionary of the english language[edit] see also: a dictionary of the english language, the rambler, the vanity of human wishes, and irene (play) johnson's dictionary vol. ( ) title page johnson's dictionary vol. ( ) title page in , a group of publishers approached johnson with an idea about creating an authoritative dictionary of the english language.[ ] a contract with william strahan and associates, worth , guineas, was signed on the morning of june .[ ] johnson claimed that he could finish the project in three years. in comparison, the académie française had scholars spending years to complete their dictionary, which prompted johnson to claim, "this is the proportion. let me see; forty times forty is sixteen hundred. as three to sixteen hundred, so is the proportion of an englishman to a frenchman."[ ] although he did not succeed in completing the work in three years, he did manage to finish it in eight.[ ] some criticised the dictionary, including thomas babington macaulay, who described johnson as "a wretched etymologist,"[ ] but according to bate, the dictionary "easily ranks as one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship, and probably the greatest ever performed by one individual who laboured under anything like the disadvantages in a comparable length of time."[ ] johnson's dictionary was not the first, nor was it unique. it was, however, the most commonly used and imitated for the years between its first publication and the completion of the oxford english dictionary in . other dictionaries, such as nathan bailey's dictionarium britannicum, included more words,[ ] and in the years preceding johnson's dictionary about twenty other general-purpose monolingual "english" dictionaries had been produced.[ ] however, there was open dissatisfaction with the dictionaries of the period. in , david hume claimed: "the elegance and propriety of stile have been very much neglected among us. we have no dictionary of our language, and scarce a tolerable grammar."[ ] johnson's dictionary offers insights into the th century and "a faithful record of the language people used".[ ] it is more than a reference book; it is a work of literature.[ ] for a decade, johnson's constant work on the dictionary disrupted his and tetty's living conditions. he had to employ a number of assistants for the copying and mechanical work, which filled the house with incessant noise and clutter. he was always busy, and kept hundreds of books around him.[ ] john hawkins described the scene: "the books he used for this purpose were what he had in his own collection, a copious but a miserably ragged one, and all such as he could borrow; which latter, if ever they came back to those that lent them, were so defaced as to be scarce worth owning."[ ] johnson was also distracted by tetty's poor health as she began to show signs of a terminal illness.[ ] to accommodate both his wife and his work, he moved to gough square near his printer, william strahan.[ ] dr. johnson in the ante-room of lord chesterfield. coloured engraving by e.m. ward. in preparation, johnson wrote a plan for the dictionary. philip stanhope, th earl of chesterfield, was the patron of the plan, to johnson's displeasure.[ ] seven years after first meeting johnson to go over the work, chesterfield wrote two anonymous essays in the world recommending the dictionary.[ ] he complained that the english language lacked structure and argued in support of the dictionary. johnson did not like the tone of the essays, and he felt that chesterfield had not fulfilled his obligations as the work's patron.[ ] in a letter to chesterfield, johnson expressed this view and harshly criticised chesterfield, saying "is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? the notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind: but it has been delayed till i am indifferent and cannot enjoy it; till i am solitary and cannot impart it; till i am known and do not want it."[ ] chesterfield, impressed by the language, kept the letter displayed on a table for anyone to read.[ ] the dictionary was finally published in april , with the title page acknowledging that the university of oxford had awarded johnson a master of arts degree in anticipation of the work.[ ] the dictionary as published was a large book. its pages were nearly inches (  cm) tall, and the book was inches (  cm) wide when opened; it contained , entries, to which only a few more were added in subsequent editions, and it sold for the extravagant price of £ s, perhaps the rough equivalent of £ today.[ ] an important innovation in english lexicography was to illustrate the meanings of his words by literary quotation, of which there were approximately , . the authors most frequently cited include william shakespeare, john milton and john dryden.[ ] it was years before johnson's dictionary, as it came to be known, turned a profit. authors' royalties were unknown at the time, and johnson, once his contract to deliver the book was fulfilled, received no further money from its sale. years later, many of its quotations would be repeated by various editions of the webster's dictionary and the new english dictionary.[ ] besides working on the dictionary, johnson also wrote numerous essays, sermons, and poems during these nine years.[ ] in , he decided to produce a series of essays under the title the rambler that were to be published every tuesday and saturday and sell for twopence each. explaining the title years later, he told his friend, the painter joshua reynolds: "i was at a loss how to name it. i sat down at night upon my bedside, and resolved that i would not go to sleep till i had fixed its title. the rambler seemed the best that occurred, and i took it."[ ] these essays, often on moral and religious topics, tended to be more grave than the title of the series would suggest; his first comments in the rambler were to ask "that in this undertaking thy holy spirit may not be withheld from me, but that i may promote thy glory, and the salvation of myself and others."[ ] the popularity of the rambler took off once the issues were collected in a volume; they were reprinted nine times during johnson's life. writer and printer samuel richardson, enjoying the essays greatly, questioned the publisher as to who wrote the works; only he and a few of johnson's friends were told of johnson's authorship.[ ] one friend, the novelist charlotte lennox, includes a defence of the rambler in her novel the female quixote ( ). in particular, the character mr. glanville says, "you may sit in judgment upon the productions of a young, a richardson, or a johnson. rail with premeditated malice at the rambler; and for the want of faults, turn even its inimitable beauties into ridicule." (book vi, chapter xi) later, she claims johnson as "the greatest genius in the present age."[ ] his necessary attendance while his play was in rehearsal, and during its performance, brought him acquainted with many of the performers of both sexes, which produced a more favourable opinion of their profession than he had harshly expressed in his life of savage. with some of them he kept up an acquaintance as long as he and they lived, and was ever ready to shew them acts of kindness. he for a considerable time used to frequent the green room, and seemed to take delight in dissipating his gloom, by mixing in the sprightly chit-chat of the motley circle then to be found there. mr. david hume related to me from mr. garrick, that johnson at last denied himself this amusement, from considerations of rigid virtue; saying, 'i'll come no more behind your scenes, david; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.[ ] boswell's life of samuel johnson however, not all of his work was confined to the rambler. his most highly regarded poem, the vanity of human wishes, was written with such "extraordinary speed" that boswell claimed johnson "might have been perpetually a poet".[ ] the poem is an imitation of juvenal's satire x and claims that "the antidote to vain human wishes is non-vain spiritual wishes".[ ] in particular, johnson emphasises "the helpless vulnerability of the individual before the social context" and the "inevitable self-deception by which human beings are led astray".[ ] the poem was critically celebrated but it failed to become popular, and sold fewer copies than london.[ ] in , garrick made good on his promise that he would produce irene, but its title was altered to mahomet and irene to make it "fit for the stage."[ ] the show eventually ran for nine nights.[ ] tetty johnson was ill during most of her time in london, and in she decided to return to the countryside while johnson was busy working on his dictionary. she died on march , and, at word of her death, johnson wrote a letter to his old friend taylor, which according to taylor "expressed grief in the strongest manner he had ever read".[ ] he wrote a sermon in her honour, to be read at her funeral, but taylor refused to read it, for reasons which are unknown. this only exacerbated johnson's feelings of loss and despair after the death of his wife. consequently, john hawkesworth had to organise the funeral. johnson felt guilty about the poverty in which he believed he had forced tetty to live, and blamed himself for neglecting her. he became outwardly discontented, and his diary was filled with prayers and laments over her death which continued until his own. she was his primary motivation, and her death hindered his ability to complete his work.[ ] later career[edit] see also: the plays of william shakespeare; the idler ( – ); and the history of rasselas, prince of abissinia johnson, by john opie on march , johnson was arrested for an outstanding debt of £ s. unable to contact anyone else, he wrote to the writer and publisher samuel richardson. richardson, who had previously lent johnson money, sent him six guineas to show his good will, and the two became friends.[ ] soon after, johnson met and befriended the painter joshua reynolds, who so impressed johnson that he declared him "almost the only man whom i call a friend".[ ] reynolds' younger sister frances observed during their time together "that men, women and children gathered around him [johnson]", laughing at his gestures and gesticulations.[ ] in addition to reynolds, johnson was close to bennet langton and arthur murphy. langton was a scholar and an admirer of johnson who persuaded his way into a meeting with johnson which led to a long friendship. johnson met murphy during the summer of after murphy came to johnson about the accidental republishing of the rambler no. , and the two became friends.[ ] around this time, anna williams began boarding with johnson. she was a minor poet who was poor and becoming blind, two conditions that johnson attempted to change by providing room for her and paying for a failed cataract surgery. williams, in turn, became johnson's housekeeper.[ ] to occupy himself, johnson began to work on the literary magazine, or universal review, the first issue of which was printed on march . philosophical disagreements erupted over the purpose of the publication when the seven years' war began and johnson started to write polemical essays attacking the war. after the war began, the magazine included many reviews, at least of which were written by johnson.[ ] when not working on the magazine, johnson wrote a series of prefaces for other writers, such as giuseppe baretti, william payne and charlotte lennox.[ ] johnson's relationship with lennox and her works was particularly close during these years, and she in turn relied so heavily upon johnson that he was "the most important single fact in mrs lennox's literary life".[ ] he later attempted to produce a new edition of her works, but even with his support they were unable to find enough interest to follow through with its publication.[ ] to help with domestic duties while johnson was busy with his various projects, richard bathurst, a physician and a member of johnson's club, pressured him to take on a freed slave, francis barber, as his servant.[ ] a literary party, , of johnson (second from left) and other members of "the club". johnson's work on the plays of william shakespeare took up most of his time. on june , johnson published his proposals for printing, by subscription, the dramatick works of william shakespeare, which argued that previous editions of shakespeare were edited incorrectly and needed to be corrected.[ ] johnson's progress on the work slowed as the months passed, and he told music historian charles burney in december that it would take him until the following march to complete it. before that could happen, he was arrested again, for a debt of £ , in february . the debt was soon repaid by jacob tonson, who had contracted johnson to publish shakespeare, and this encouraged johnson to finish his edition to repay the favour. although it took him another seven years to finish, johnson completed a few volumes of his shakespeare to prove his commitment to the project.[ ] in , johnson began to write a weekly series, the idler, which ran from april to april , as a way to avoid finishing his shakespeare. this series was shorter and lacked many features of the rambler. unlike his independent publication of the rambler, the idler was published in a weekly news journal the universal chronicle, a publication supported by john payne, john newbery, robert stevens and william faden.[ ] since the idler did not occupy all johnson's time, he was able to publish his philosophical novella rasselas on april . the "little story book", as johnson described it, describes the life of prince rasselas and nekayah, his sister, who are kept in a place called the happy valley in the land of abyssinia. the valley is a place free of problems, where any desire is quickly satisfied. the constant pleasure does not, however, lead to satisfaction; and, with the help of a philosopher named imlac, rasselas escapes and explores the world to witness how all aspects of society and life in the outside world are filled with suffering. they return to abyssinia, but do not wish to return to the state of constantly fulfilled pleasures found in the happy valley.[ ] rasselas was written in one week to pay for his mother's funeral and settle her debts; it became so popular that there was a new english edition of the work almost every year. references to it appear in many later works of fiction, including jane eyre, cranford and the house of the seven gables. its fame was not limited to english-speaking nations: rasselas was immediately translated into five languages (french, dutch, german, russian and italian), and later into nine others.[ ] james boswell at by , however, johnson had gained notoriety for his dilatoriness in writing; the contemporary poet churchill teased johnson for the delay in producing his long-promised edition of shakespeare: "he for subscribers baits his hook / and takes your cash, but where's the book?"[ ] the comments soon motivated johnson to finish his shakespeare, and, after receiving the first payment from a government pension on july , he was able to dedicate most of his time towards this goal.[ ] earlier that july, the -year-old king george iii granted johnson an annual pension of £ in appreciation for the dictionary.[ ] while the pension did not make johnson wealthy, it did allow him a modest yet comfortable independence for the remaining years of his life.[ ] the award came largely through the efforts of sheridan and the earl of bute. when johnson questioned if the pension would force him to promote a political agenda or support various officials, he was told by bute that the pension "is not given you for anything you are to do, but for what you have done".[ ] on may , johnson first met -year-old james boswell—who would later become johnson's first major biographer—in the bookshop of johnson's friend, tom davies. they quickly became friends, although boswell would return to his home in scotland or travel abroad for months at a time.[ ] around the spring of , johnson formed "the club", a social group that included his friends reynolds, burke, garrick, goldsmith and others (the membership later expanded to include adam smith and edward gibbon, in addition to boswell himself). they decided to meet every monday at :  pm at the turk's head in gerrard street, soho, and these meetings continued until long after the deaths of the original members.[ ] on january , murphy introduced johnson to henry thrale, a wealthy brewer and mp, and his wife hester. they struck up an instant friendship; johnson was treated as a member of the family, and was once more motivated to continue working on his shakespeare.[ ] afterwards, johnson stayed with the thrales for years until henry's death in , sometimes staying in rooms at thrale's anchor brewery in southwark.[ ] hester thrale's documentation of johnson's life during this time, in her correspondence and her diary (thraliana), became an important source of biographical information on johnson after his death.[ ] during the whole of the interview, johnson talked to his majesty with profound respect, but still in his firm manly manner, with a sonorous voice, and never in that subdued tone which is commonly used at the levee and in the drawing-room. after the king withdrew, johnson shewed himself highly pleased with his majesty's conversation and gracious behaviour. he said to mr barnard, 'sir, they may talk of the king as they will; but he is the finest gentleman i have ever seen.'[ ] boswell's life of samuel johnson johnson's edition of shakespeare was finally published on october as the plays of william shakespeare, in eight volumes ... to which are added notes by sam. johnson in a printing of one thousand copies. the first edition quickly sold out, and a second was soon printed.[ ] the plays themselves were in a version that johnson felt was closest to the original, based on his analysis of the manuscript editions. johnson's revolutionary innovation was to create a set of corresponding notes that allowed readers to clarify the meaning behind many of shakespeare's more complicated passages, and to examine those which had been transcribed incorrectly in previous editions.[ ] included within the notes are occasional attacks upon rival editors of shakespeare's works.[ ] years later, edmond malone, an important shakespearean scholar and friend of johnson's, stated that johnson's "vigorous and comprehensive understanding threw more light on his authour than all his predecessors had done".[ ] in february , johnson was granted a special audience with king george iii. this took place at the library of the queen's house, and it was organised by barnard, the king's librarian.[ ] the king, upon hearing that johnson would visit the library, commanded that barnard introduce him to johnson.[ ] after a short meeting, johnson was impressed both with the king himself and with their conversation.[ ] final works[edit] see also: a journey to the western islands of scotland and lives of the most eminent english poets johnson ( ) showing his intense concentration and the weakness of his eyes; he did not want to be depicted as "blinking sam." this unique portrait showing his nearsightedness is in the huntington library in san marino, california.[ ] on august , eleven years after first meeting boswell, johnson set out to visit his friend in scotland, and to begin "a journey to the western islands of scotland", as johnson's account of their travels would put it.[ ] the work was intended to discuss the social problems and struggles that affected the scottish people, but it also praised many of the unique facets of scottish society, such as a school in edinburgh for the deaf and mute.[ ] also, johnson used the work to enter into the dispute over the authenticity of james macpherson's ossian poems, claiming they could not have been translations of ancient scottish literature on the grounds that "in those times nothing had been written in the earse [i.e. scots gaelic] language".[ ] there were heated exchanges between the two, and according to one of johnson's letters, macpherson threatened physical violence.[ ] boswell's account of their journey, the journal of a tour to the hebrides ( ), was a preliminary step toward his later biography, the life of samuel johnson. included were various quotations and descriptions of events, including anecdotes such as johnson swinging a broadsword while wearing scottish garb, or dancing a highland jig.[ ] in the s, johnson, who had tended to be an opponent of the government early in life, published a series of pamphlets in favour of various government policies. in he produced the false alarm, a political pamphlet attacking john wilkes. in , his thoughts on the late transactions respecting falkland's islands cautioned against war with spain.[ ] in he printed the patriot, a critique of what he viewed as false patriotism. on the evening of april , he made the famous statement, "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."[ ] this line was not, as widely believed, about patriotism in general, but what johnson considered to be the false use of the term "patriotism" by john wilkes and his supporters. johnson opposed "self-professed patriots" in general, but valued what he considered "true" patriotism.[ ] the last of these pamphlets, taxation no tyranny ( ), was a defence of the coercive acts and a response to the declaration of rights of the first continental congress, which protested against taxation without representation.[ ] johnson argued that in emigrating to america, colonists had "voluntarily resigned the power of voting", but they still retained "virtual representation" in parliament. in a parody of the declaration of rights, johnson suggested that the americans had no more right to govern themselves than the cornish, and asked "how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?"[ ] if the americans wanted to participate in parliament, said johnson, they could move to england and purchase an estate.[ ] johnson denounced english supporters of american separatists as "traitors to this country", and hoped that the matter would be settled without bloodshed, but he felt confident that it would end with "english superiority and american obedience".[ ] years before, johnson had stated that the french and indian war was a conflict between "two robbers" of native american lands, and that neither deserved to live there.[ ] after the signing of the treaty of paris, marking the colonists' victory over the british, johnson became "deeply disturbed" with the "state of this kingdom".[ ] mr thrale's death was a very essential loss to johnson, who, although he did not foresee all that afterwards happened, was sufficiently convinced that the comforts which mr thrale's family afforded him, would now in great measure cease.[ ] boswell's life of samuel johnson on may , while johnson was trying to save reverend william dodd from execution, he wrote to boswell that he was busy preparing a "little lives" and "little prefaces, to a little edition of the english poets".[ ] tom davies, william strahan and thomas cadell had asked johnson to create this final major work, the lives of the english poets, for which he asked guineas, an amount significantly less than the price he could have demanded.[ ] the lives, which were critical as well as biographical studies, appeared as prefaces to selections of each poet's work, and they were longer and more detailed than originally expected.[ ] the work was finished in march and the whole collection was published in six volumes. as johnson justified in the advertisement for the work, "my purpose was only to have allotted to every poet an advertisement, like those which we find in the french miscellanies, containing a few dates and a general character."[ ] johnson was unable to enjoy this success because henry thrale, the dear friend with whom he lived, died on april .[ ] life changed quickly for johnson when hester thrale became romantically involved with the italian singing teacher gabriel mario piozzi, which forced johnson to change his previous lifestyle.[ ] after returning home and then travelling for a short period, johnson received word that his friend and tenant robert levet, had died on january .[ ] johnson was shocked by the death of levet, who had resided at johnson's london home since .[ ] shortly afterwards johnson caught a cold that developed into bronchitis and lasted for several months. his health was further complicated by "feeling forlorn and lonely" over levet's death, and by the deaths of his friend thomas lawrence and his housekeeper williams.[ ] final years[edit] hester thrale and her daughter queeney although he had recovered his health by august, he experienced emotional trauma when he was given word that hester thrale would sell the residence that johnson shared with the family. what hurt johnson most was the possibility that he would be left without her constant company.[ ] months later, on october , johnson attended church for the final time in his life, to say goodbye to his former residence and life. the walk to the church strained him, but he managed the journey unaccompanied.[ ] while there, he wrote a prayer for the thrale family: to thy fatherly protection, o lord, i commend this family. bless, guide, and defend them, that they may pass through this world, as finally to enjoy in thy presence everlasting happiness, for jesus christ's sake. amen.[ ] hester thrale did not completely abandon johnson, and asked him to accompany the family on a trip to brighton.[ ] he agreed, and was with them from october to november .[ ] on his return, his health began to fail, and he was left alone after boswell's visit on may .[ ] on june , johnson's poor circulation resulted in a stroke[ ] and he wrote to his neighbour, edmund allen, that he had lost the ability to speak.[ ] two doctors were brought in to aid johnson; he regained his ability to speak two days later.[ ] johnson feared that he was dying, and wrote: the black dog i hope always to resist, and in time to drive, though i am deprived of almost all those that used to help me. the neighbourhood is impoverished. i had once richardson and lawrence in my reach. mrs. allen is dead. my house has lost levet, a man who took interest in everything, and therefore ready at conversation. mrs. williams is so weak that she can be a companion no longer. when i rise my breakfast is solitary, the black dog waits to share it, from breakfast to dinner he continues barking, except that dr. brocklesby for a little keeps him at a distance. dinner with a sick woman you may venture to suppose not much better than solitary. after dinner, what remains but to count the clock, and hope for that sleep which i can scarce expect. night comes at last, and some hours of restlessness and confusion bring me again to a day of solitude. what shall exclude the black dog from an habitation like this?[ ] by this time he was sick and gout-ridden. he had surgery for gout, and his remaining friends, including novelist fanny burney (the daughter of charles burney), came to keep him company.[ ] he was confined to his room from december to april .[ ] a few days before his death, he had asked sir john hawkins, one of his executors, where he should be buried; and on being answered, "doubtless, in westminster abbey," seemed to feel a satisfaction, very natural to a poet.[ ] boswell's life of samuel johnson his health began to improve by may , and he travelled to oxford with boswell on may .[ ] by july, many of johnson's friends were either dead or gone; boswell had left for scotland and hester thrale had become engaged to piozzi. with no one to visit, johnson expressed a desire to die in london and arrived there on november . on november , he allowed burney to visit him and expressed an interest to her that he should leave london; he soon left for islington, to george strahan's home.[ ] his final moments were filled with mental anguish and delusions; when his physician, thomas warren, visited and asked him if he were feeling better, johnson burst out with: "no, sir; you cannot conceive with what acceleration i advance towards death."[ ] many visitors came to see johnson as he lay sick in bed, but he preferred only langton's company.[ ] burney waited for word of johnson's condition, along with windham, strahan, hoole, cruikshank, des moulins and barber.[ ] on december , johnson met with two others: a young woman, miss morris, whom johnson blessed, and francesco sastres, an italian teacher, who was given some of johnson's final words: "iam moriturus" ("i who am about to die").[ ] shortly afterwards he fell into a coma, and died at :  p.m.[ ] langton waited until :  p.m. to tell the others, which led to john hawkins' becoming pale and overcome with "an agony of mind", along with seward and hoole describing johnson's death as "the most awful sight".[ ] boswell remarked, "my feeling was just one large expanse of stupor ... i could not believe it. my imagination was not convinced."[ ] william gerard hamilton joined in and stated, "he has made a chasm, which not only nothing can fill up, but which nothing has a tendency to fill up. –johnson is dead.– let us go to the next best: there is nobody; –no man can be said to put you in mind of johnson."[ ] he was buried on december at westminster abbey with an inscription that reads: 	samuel johnson, ll.d. 	obiit xiii die decembris, 	anno domini 	m.dcc.lxxxiv. 	Ætatis suœ lxxv.[ ] literary criticism[edit] main article: samuel johnson's literary criticism the vanity of human wishes ( ) title page plays of william shakespeare ( expanded edition) title page johnson's works, especially his lives of the poets series, describe various features of excellent writing. he believed that the best poetry relied on contemporary language, and he disliked the use of decorative or purposefully archaic language.[ ] he was suspicious of the poetic language used by milton, whose blank verse he believed would inspire many bad imitations. also, johnson opposed the poetic language of his contemporary thomas gray.[ ] his greatest complaint was that obscure allusions found in works like milton's lycidas were overused; he preferred poetry that could be easily read and understood.[ ] in addition to his views on language, johnson believed that a good poem incorporated new and unique imagery.[ ] in his smaller poetic works, johnson relied on short lines and filled his work with a feeling of empathy, which possibly influenced housman's poetic style.[ ] in london, his first imitation of juvenal, johnson uses the poetic form to express his political opinion and, as befits a young writer, approaches the topic in a playful and almost joyous manner.[ ] however, his second imitation, the vanity of human wishes, is completely different; the language remains simple, but the poem is more complicated and difficult to read because johnson is trying to describe complex christian ethics.[ ] these christian values are not unique to the poem, but contain views expressed in most of johnson's works. in particular, johnson emphasises god's infinite love and shows that happiness can be attained through virtuous action.[ ] when it came to biography, johnson disagreed with plutarch's use of biography to praise and to teach morality. instead, johnson believed in portraying the biographical subjects accurately and including any negative aspects of their lives. because his insistence on accuracy in biography was little short of revolutionary, johnson had to struggle against a society that was unwilling to accept biographical details that could be viewed as tarnishing a reputation; this became the subject of rambler .[ ] furthermore, johnson believed that biography should not be limited to the most famous and that the lives of lesser individuals, too, were significant;[ ] thus in his lives of the poets he chose both great and lesser poets. in all his biographies he insisted on including what others would have considered trivial details to fully describe the lives of his subjects.[ ] johnson considered the genre of autobiography and diaries, including his own, as one having the most significance; in idler he explains how a writer of an autobiography would be the least likely to distort his own life.[ ] a caricature of johnson by james gillray mocking him for his literary criticism; he is shown doing penance for apollo and the muses with mount parnassus in the background. johnson's thoughts on biography and on poetry coalesced in his understanding of what would make a good critic. his works were dominated with his intent to use them for literary criticism. this was especially true of his dictionary of which he wrote: "i lately published a dictionary like those compiled by the academies of italy and france, for the use of such as aspire to exactness of criticism, or elegance of style".[ ] although a smaller edition of his dictionary became the standard household dictionary, johnson's original dictionary was an academic tool that examined how words were used, especially in literary works. to achieve this purpose, johnson included quotations from bacon, hooker, milton, shakespeare, spenser, and many others from what he considered to be the most important literary fields: natural science, philosophy, poetry, and theology. these quotations and usages were all compared and carefully studied in the dictionary so that a reader could understand what words in literary works meant in context.[ ] johnson did not attempt to create schools of theories to analyse the aesthetics of literature. instead, he used his criticism for the practical purpose of helping others to better read and understand literature.[ ] when it came to shakespeare's plays, johnson emphasised the role of the reader in understanding language: "if shakespeare has difficulties above other writers, it is to be imputed to the nature of his work, which required the use of common colloquial language, and consequently admitted many phrases allusive, elliptical, and proverbial, such as we speak and hear every hour without observing them".[ ] his works on shakespeare were devoted not merely to shakespeare, but to understanding literature as a whole; in his preface to shakespeare, johnson rejects the previous dogma of the classical unities and argues that drama should be faithful to life.[ ] however, johnson did not only defend shakespeare; he discussed shakespeare's faults, including his lack of morality, his vulgarity, his carelessness in crafting plots, and his occasional inattentiveness when choosing words or word order.[ ] as well as direct literary criticism, johnson emphasised the need to establish a text that accurately reflects what an author wrote. shakespeare's plays, in particular, had multiple editions, each of which contained errors caused by the printing process. this problem was compounded by careless editors who deemed difficult words incorrect, and changed them in later editions. johnson believed that an editor should not alter the text in such a way.[ ] character sketch[edit] further information: political views of samuel johnson and religious views of samuel johnson portrait of samuel johnson c. johnson's tall[a] and robust figure combined with his odd gestures were confusing to some; when william hogarth first saw johnson standing near a window in samuel richardson's house, "shaking his head and rolling himself about in a strange ridiculous manner", hogarth thought johnson an "ideot, whom his relations had put under the care of mr. richardson".[ ] hogarth was quite surprised when "this figure stalked forwards to where he and mr. richardson were sitting and all at once took up the argument ... [with] such a power of eloquence, that hogarth looked at him with astonishment, and actually imagined that this ideot had been at the moment inspired".[ ] beyond appearance, adam smith claimed that "johnson knew more books than any man alive",[ ] while edmund burke thought that if johnson were to join parliament, he "certainly would have been the greatest speaker that ever was there".[ ] johnson relied on a unique form of rhetoric, and he is well known for his "refutation" of bishop berkeley's immaterialism, his claim that matter did not actually exist but only seemed to exist:[ ] during a conversation with boswell, johnson powerfully stomped a nearby stone and proclaimed of berkeley's theory, "i refute it thus!"[ ] johnson was a devout, conservative anglican and a compassionate man who supported a number of poor friends under his own roof, even when unable to fully provide for himself.[ ] johnson's christian morality permeated his works, and he would write on moral topics with such authority and in such a trusting manner that, walter jackson bate claims, "no other moralist in history excels or even begins to rival him".[ ] however, johnson's moral writings do not contain, as donald greene points out, "a predetermined and authorized pattern of 'good behavior'", even though johnson does emphasise certain kinds of conduct.[ ] he did not let his own faith prejudice him against others, and had respect for those of other denominations who demonstrated a commitment to christ's teachings.[ ] although johnson respected john milton's poetry, he could not tolerate milton's puritan and republican beliefs, feeling that they were contrary to england and christianity.[ ] he was an opponent of slavery on moral grounds, and once proposed a toast to the "next rebellion of the negroes in the west indies".[ ] beside his beliefs concerning humanity, johnson is also known for his love of cats,[ ] especially his own two cats, hodge and lily.[ ] boswell wrote, "i never shall forget the indulgence with which he treated hodge, his cat.[ ] after we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of bishop berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. i observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. i never shall forget the alacrity with which johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, 'i refute it thus.'[ ] boswell's life of samuel johnson johnson was also known as a staunch tory; he admitted to sympathies for the jacobite cause during his younger years but, by the reign of george iii, he came to accept the hanoverian succession.[ ] it was boswell who gave people the impression that johnson was an "arch-conservative", and it was boswell, more than anyone else, who determined how johnson would be seen by people years later. however, boswell was not around for two of johnson's most politically active periods: during walpole's control over british parliament and during the seven years' war. although boswell was present with johnson during the s and describes four major pamphlets written by johnson, he neglects to discuss them because he is more interested in their travels to scotland. this is compounded by the fact that boswell held an opinion contradictory to two of these pamphlets, the false alarm and taxation no tyranny, and so attacks johnson's views in his biography.[ ] in his life of samuel johnson boswell referred to johnson as 'dr. johnson' so often that he would always be known as such, even though he hated being called such. boswell's emphasis on johnson's later years shows him too often as merely an old man discoursing in a tavern to a circle of admirers.[ ] although boswell, a scotsman, was a close companion and friend to johnson during many important times of his life, like many of his fellow englishmen johnson had a reputation for despising scotland and its people. even during their journey together through scotland, johnson "exhibited prejudice and a narrow nationalism".[ ] hester thrale, in summarising johnson's nationalistic views and his anti-scottish prejudice, said: "we all know how well he loved to abuse the scotch, & indeed to be abused by them in return."[ ] health[edit] main article: samuel johnson's health johnson had several health problems, including childhood tuberculous scrofula resulting in deep facial scarring, deafness in one ear and blindness in one eye, gout, testicular cancer, and a stroke in his final year that left him unable to speak; his autopsy indicated that he had pulmonary fibrosis along with cardiac failure probably due to hypertension, a condition then unknown. johnson displayed signs consistent with several diagnoses, including depression and tourette syndrome. reynolds' portrait depicting johnson's "odd gesticulations"[ ] there are many accounts of johnson suffering from bouts of depression and what johnson thought might be madness. as walter jackson bate puts it, "one of the ironies of literary history is that its most compelling and authoritative symbol of common sense—of the strong, imaginative grasp of concrete reality—should have begun his adult life, at the age of twenty, in a state of such intense anxiety and bewildered despair that, at least from his own point of view, it seemed the onset of actual insanity".[ ] to overcome these feelings, johnson tried to constantly involve himself with various activities, but this did not seem to help. taylor said that johnson "at one time strongly entertained thoughts of suicide".[ ] boswell claimed that johnson "felt himself overwhelmed with an horrible melancholia, with perpetual irritation, fretfulness, and impatience; and with a dejection, gloom, and despair, which made existence misery".[ ] early on, when johnson was unable to pay off his debts, he began to work with professional writers and identified his own situation with theirs.[ ] during this time, johnson witnessed christopher smart's decline into "penury and the madhouse", and feared that he might share the same fate.[ ] hester thrale piozzi claimed, in a discussion on smart's mental state, that johnson was her "friend who feared an apple should intoxicate him".[ ] to her, what separated johnson from others who were placed in asylums for madness—like christopher smart—was his ability to keep his concerns and emotions to himself.[ ] two hundred years after johnson's death, the posthumous diagnosis of tourette syndrome became widely accepted.[ ] the condition was unknown during johnson's lifetime, but boswell describes johnson displaying signs of tourette syndrome, including tics and other involuntary movements.[ ][ ] according to boswell "he commonly held his head to one side ... moving his body backwards and forwards, and rubbing his left knee in the same direction, with the palm of his hand ... [h]e made various sounds" like "a half whistle" or "as if clucking like a hen", and "... all this accompanied sometimes with a thoughtful look, but more frequently with a smile. generally when he had concluded a period, in the course of a dispute, by which time he was a good deal exhausted by violence and vociferation, he used to blow out his breath like a whale."[ ] there are many similar accounts; in particular, johnson was said to "perform his gesticulations" at the threshold of a house or in doorways.[ ] when asked by a little girl why he made such noises and acted in that way, johnson responded: "from bad habit."[ ] the diagnosis of the syndrome was first made in a report,[ ] and tourette syndrome researcher arthur k. shapiro described johnson as "the most notable example of a successful adaptation to life despite the liability of tourette syndrome".[ ] details provided by the writings of boswell, hester thrale, and others reinforce the diagnosis, with one paper concluding: [johnson] also displayed many of the obsessional-compulsive traits and rituals which are associated with this syndrome ... it may be thought that without this illness dr johnson's remarkable literary achievements, the great dictionary, his philosophical deliberations and his conversations may never have happened; and boswell, the author of the greatest of biographies would have been unknown.[ ] legacy[edit] statue of dr johnson erected in opposite the house where he was born at lichfield's market square. there are also statues of him in london and uttoxeter.[ ] johnson was, in the words of steven lynn, "more than a well-known writer and scholar";[ ] he was a celebrity for the activities and the state of his health in his later years were constantly reported in various journals and newspapers, and when there was nothing to report, something was invented.[ ] according to bate, "johnson loved biography," and he "changed the whole course of biography for the modern world. one by-product was the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature, boswell's life of johnson, and there were many other memoirs and biographies of a similar kind written on johnson after his death."[ ] these accounts of his life include thomas tyers's a biographical sketch of dr samuel johnson ( );[ ] boswell's the journal of a tour to the hebrides ( ); hester thrale's anecdotes of the late samuel johnson, which drew on entries from her diary and other notes;[ ] john hawkins's life of samuel johnson, the first full-length biography of johnson;[ ] and, in , arthur murphy's an essay on the life and genius of samuel johnson, which replaced hawkins's biography as the introduction to a collection of johnson's works.[ ] another important source was fanny burney, who described johnson as "the acknowledged head of literature in this kingdom" and kept a diary containing details missing from other biographies.[ ] above all, boswell's portrayal of johnson is the work best known to general readers. although critics like donald greene argue about its status as a true biography, the work became successful as boswell and his friends promoted it at the expense of the many other works on johnson's life.[ ] in criticism, johnson had a lasting influence, although not everyone viewed him favourably. some, like macaulay, regarded johnson as an idiot savant who produced some respectable works, and others, like the romantic poets, were completely opposed to johnson's views on poetry and literature, especially with regard to milton.[ ] however, some of their contemporaries disagreed: stendhal's racine et shakespeare is based in part on johnson's views of shakespeare,[ ] and johnson influenced jane austen's writing style and philosophy.[ ] later, johnson's works came into favour, and matthew arnold, in his six chief lives from johnson's "lives of the poets", considered the lives of milton, dryden, pope, addison, swift, and gray as "points which stand as so many natural centres, and by returning to which we can always find our way again".[ ] more than a century after his death, literary critics such as g. birkbeck hill and t. s. eliot came to regard johnson as a serious critic. they began to study johnson's works with an increasing focus on the critical analysis found in his edition of shakespeare and lives of the poets.[ ] yvor winters claimed that "a great critic is the rarest of all literary geniuses; perhaps the only critic in english who deserves that epithet is samuel johnson".[ ] f. r. leavis agreed and, on johnson's criticism, said, "when we read him we know, beyond question, that we have here a powerful and distinguished mind operating at first hand upon literature. this, we can say with emphatic conviction, really is criticism".[ ] edmund wilson claimed that "the lives of the poets and the prefaces and commentary on shakespeare are among the most brilliant and the most acute documents in the whole range of english criticism".[ ] the critic harold bloom placed johnson's work firmly within the western canon, describing him as "unmatched by any critic in any nation before or after him ... bate in the finest insight on johnson i know, emphasised that no other writer is so obsessed by the realisation that the mind is an activity, one that will turn to destructiveness of the self or of others unless it is directed to labour."[ ] it is no wonder that his philosophical insistence that the language within literature must be examined became a prevailing mode of literary theory during the mid- th century.[ ] there are many societies formed around and dedicated to the study and enjoyment of samuel johnson's life and works. on the bicentennial of johnson's death in , oxford university held a week-long conference featuring papers, and the arts council of great britain held an exhibit of "johnsonian portraits and other memorabilia". the london times and punch produced parodies of johnson's style for the occasion.[ ] in , the bbc four television channel started the samuel johnson prize, an award for non-fiction.[ ] half of johnson's surviving correspondence, together with some of his manuscripts, editions of his books, paintings and other items associated with him are in the donald and mary hyde collection of dr. samuel johnson, housed at houghton library at harvard university since . materials in the collection may be accessed through the houghton reading room. the collection includes drafts of his plan for a dictionary, documents associated with hester thrale piozzi and james boswell (including corrected proofs of his life of johnson) and a teapot owned by johnson.[ ] a royal society of arts blue plaque, unveiled in , commemorates his gough square house.[ ] on september google commemorated johnson's th birthday with a google doodle.[ ][ ] major works[edit] bust of johnson by joseph nollekens, . 		essays, pamphlets, periodicals, sermons 	 	 –   	birmingham journal 	 	plan for a dictionary of the english language 	 –   	the rambler 	 – 	the adventurer 	 	universal visiter 	 -	the literary magazine, or universal review 	 – 	the idler 	 	the false alarm 	 	thoughts on the late transactions respecting falkland's islands 	 	the patriot 	 	a journey to the western islands of scotland 	taxation no tyranny 	 	the beauties of johnson 	 		poetry 	 	 	messiah, a translation into latin of alexander pope's messiah 	 	london 	 	prologue at the opening of the theatre in drury lane 	 	the vanity of human wishes 	irene, a tragedy 	 		biographies, criticism 	 	a voyage to abyssinia, by jerome lobo, translated from the french 	 	life of mr richard savage 	 	miscellaneous observations on the tragedy of macbeth 	 	"life of browne" in thomas browne's christian morals 	proposals for printing, by subscription, the dramatick works of william shakespeare 	 	preface to the plays of william shakespeare 	the plays of william shakespeare 	 – 	lives of the poets 	 		dictionary 	 	 	preface to a dictionary of the english language 	a dictionary of the english language 	 		novellas 	 	the history of rasselas, prince of abissinia notes[edit] 	^ a b johnson was  cm ( feet inches) tall when the average height of an englishman was  cm ( feet inches).[ ] 	^ bate ( ) comments that johnson's standard of effort was very high, so high that johnson said he had never known a man to study hard.[ ] references[edit] specific 	^ meyers , p.  	^ rogers, pat ( ), "johnson, samuel ( – )", oxford dictionary of national biography, oxford dictionary of national biography (online ed.), oxford university press, doi: . /ref:odnb/ (subscription or uk public library membership required.) 	^ a b bate , p. xix 	^ a b bate , p.  	^ a b c lynch , p.  	^ murray and stern, burza & robertson 	^ a b c winters , p.  	^ bate , p.  	^ lane , pp.  – 	^ a b watkins , p.  	^ lane , p.  	^ bate , pp.  – 	^ lane , pp.  – 	^ lane , p.  	^ lane , pp.  – 	^ lane , pp.  – 	^ boswell , p.  	^ bate , pp.  – 	^ bate , p.  	^ lane , pp.  – 	^ a b lane , 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( ), "johnson's poetry", in clingham, greg (ed.), cambridge companion to samuel johnson, cambridge: cambridge university press, isbn  - - - - . 	wilson, edmund ( ), "reexamining dr. johnson", in wilson, edmund (ed.), classics and commercials, new york: farrar, straus & giroux, oclc  . 	wiltshire, john ( ), samuel johnson in the medical world, cambridge: cambridge university press, isbn  - - - - . 	winchester, simon ( ), the meaning of everything, oxford: oxford university press, isbn  - - - - . 	winters, yvor ( ), the anatomy of nonsense, norfolk, conn.: new directions, oclc  . 	yung, kai kin ( ), samuel johnson, – , london: herbert press, isbn  - - - - . further reading[edit] 	broadley, a. m. ( ), doctor johnson and mrs thrale : including mrs thrale's unpublished journal of the welsh tour made in and much hitherto unpublished correspondence of the streatham coterie, london: john lane the bodley head 	bate, w. jackson ( ), samuel johnson. a biography, berkeley: conterpoint, isbn  - - - - 	fine, lg (may–june ), "samuel johnson's illnesses", j nephrol, (suppl ): s – , pmid  . 	gopnik, adam ( december ), "the critics: a critic at large: man of fetters: dr. johnson and mrs. thrale", the new yorker, ( ): – , retrieved july . 	johnson, samuel ( ), chapman, r. w. (ed.), letters, oxford: clarendon, isbn  - - - . 	johnson, samuel ( ), bate, w. jackson (ed.), selected essays from the rambler, adventurer, and idler, new haven - london: yale university press, isbn  - - - - . 	johnson, samuel ( ), greene, donald (ed.), major works, oxford: oxford university press, isbn  - - - . 	johnston, freya, "i'm coming, my tetsie!" (review of samuel johnson, edited by david womersley, oxford, , isbn  , , pp.), london review of books, vol. , no. ( may ), pp.  – . ""his attacks on [the pursuit of originality in the writing of literature] were born of the conviction that literature ought to deal in universal truths; that human nature was fundamentally the same in every time and every place; and that, accordingly (as he put it in the 'life of dryden'), 'whatever can happen to man has happened so often that little remains for fancy or invention.'" (p.  .) 	kammer, thomas ( ), "mozart in the neurological department: who has the tic?", in bogousslavsky, julien; hennerici, m (eds.), neurological disorders in famous artists, part , frontiers of neurology and neuroscience, , basel: karger, pp.  – , doi: . / , isbn  - - - - , pmid  . 	leavis, fr ( ), "johnson as critic", scrutiny, : – . 	murray, tj (july–august ), "samuel johnson: his ills, his pills and his physician friends", clin med, ( ): – , doi: . /clinmedicine. - - , pmc  , pmid  . 	sacks, oliver ( – december ), "tourette's syndrome and creativity", british medical journal, ( ): – , doi: . /bmj. . . , pmc  , pmid  , ... the case for samuel johnson having the syndrome, though also circumstantial, is extremely strong and, to my mind, entirely convincing . 	stephen, leslie ( ), "johnsoniana", studies of a biographer, , london: duckworth and co., pp.  – 	uglow, jenny, "big talkers" (review of leo damrosch, the club: johnson, boswell, and the friends who shaped an age, yale university press, pp.), the new york review of books, vol. lxvi, no. 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this page was last edited on december , at :  (utc). 	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 symposium - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	symposium 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		part of a banquet in greek and etruscan art this article is about the social custom in ancient greece. for other uses, see symposium (disambiguation). a female aulos-player entertains men at a symposium on this attic red-figure bell-krater, c. bc in ancient greece, the symposium (greek: συμπόσιον symposion or symposio, from συμπίνειν sympinein, "to drink together") was a part of a banquet that took place after the meal, when drinking for pleasure was accompanied by music, dancing, recitals, or conversation.[ ] literary works that describe or take place at a symposium include two socratic dialogues, plato's symposium and xenophon's symposium, as well as a number of greek poems such as the elegies of theognis of megara. symposia are depicted in greek and etruscan art that shows similar scenes.[ ] in modern usage, it has come to mean an academic conference or meeting such as a scientific conference. the equivalent of a greek symposium in roman society is the latin convivium.[ ] contents 	 setting and social occasion 	 drinking 	 pottery 	 entertainments 	 etruscan and roman drinking parties 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links setting and social occasion[edit] plato's symposium, depiction by anselm feuerbach banquet scene from a temple of athena ( th century bc relief). the greek symposium was a key hellenic social institution. it was a forum for men of respected families to debate, plot, boast, or simply to revel with others. they were frequently held to celebrate the introduction of young men into aristocratic society. symposia were also held by aristocrats to celebrate other special occasions, such as victories in athletic and poetic contests. they were a source of pride for them. symposia were usually held in the andrōn (ἀνδρών), the men's quarters of the household. the participants, or "symposiasts", would recline on pillowed couches arrayed against the three walls of the room away from the door. due to space limitations, the couches would number between seven and nine, limiting the total number of participants to somewhere between fourteen and twenty seven[ ] (oswyn murray gives a figure of between seven and fifteen couches and reckons fourteen to thirty participants a "standard size for a drinking group").[ ] if any young men took part, they did not recline but sat up.[ ] however, in macedonian symposia, the focus was not only on drinking but hunting, and young men were allowed to recline only after they had killed their first wild boar. pietro testa ( – ): the drunken alcibiades interrupting the symposium ( ). food and wine were served. entertainment was provided, and depending on the occasion could include games, songs, flute-girls or boys, slaves performing various acts, and hired entertainment. symposia often were held for specific occasions. the most famous symposium of all, described in plato's dialogue of that name (and rather differently in xenophon's) was hosted by the poet agathon on the occasion of his first victory at the theater contest of the bc dionysia. according to plato's account, the celebration was upstaged by the unexpected entrance of the toast of the town, the young alcibiades, dropping in drunken and nearly naked, having just left another symposium. the men at the symposium would discuss a multitude of topics—often philosophical, such as love and the differences between genders. drinking[edit] a slave attends to a vomiting symposiast. a symposium would be overseen by a "symposiarch" who would decide how strong the wine for the evening would be, depending on whether serious discussions or sensual indulgence were in the offing. the greeks and romans customarily served their wine mixed with water, as the drinking of pure wine was considered a habit of uncivilized peoples. however, there were major differences between the roman and greek symposia. a roman symposium (convivium) served wine before, with and after food, and women were allowed to join. in a greek symposium, wine was only drunk after dinner, and women were not allowed to attend.[ ] the wine was drawn from a krater, a large jar designed to be carried by two men, and served from pitchers (oenochoe). determined by the master of ceremonies, the wine was diluted to a specific strength and was then mixed. slave boys would manage the krater, and transfer the wine into pitchers. they then attended to each man in the symposium with the pitchers and filled their cups with wine.[ ] certain formalities were observed, most important among which were libations, the pouring of a small amount of wine in honour of various deities or the mourned dead. in a fragment from his c. bc play semele or dionysus, eubulus has the god of wine dionysos describe proper and improper drinking: for sensible men i prepare only three kraters: one for health (which they drink first), the second for love and pleasure, and the third for sleep. after the third one is drained, wise men go home. the fourth krater is not mine any more – it belongs to bad behaviour; the fifth is for shouting; the sixth is for rudeness and insults; the seventh is for fights; the eighth is for breaking the furniture; the ninth is for depression; the tenth is for madness and unconsciousness. in keeping with the greek virtue of moderation, the symposiarch should have prevented festivities from getting out of hand, but greek literature and art often indicate that the third-krater limit was not observed.[ ] pottery[edit] symposiums are often featured on attic pottery and richard neer has argued that the chief function of attic pottery was for use in the symposium.[ ] an amphora was used as a jug to hold the wine and usually one single cup was passed amongst the men.[ ] cups used at symposiums were not as nearly intricate as amphoras. pottery used at symposiums often featured painted scenes of the god dionysus, satyrs, and other mythical scenes related to drinking and celebration.[ ] entertainments[edit] kottabos player flinging wine-dregs (attic red-figure kylix, c. bc). poetry and music were central to the pleasures of the symposium. although free women of status did not attend symposia, high-class female prostitutes (hetairai) and entertainers were hired to perform, consort, and converse with the guests. among the instruments, women might play was the aulos, a greek woodwind instrument sometimes compared to an oboe. when string instruments were played, the barbiton was the traditional instrument.[ ] slaves and boys also provided service and entertainment. the guests also participated actively in competitive entertainments. a game sometimes played at symposia was kottabos, in which players swirled the dregs of their wine in a kylix, a platter-like stemmed drinking vessel, and flung them at a target. another feature of the symposia were skolia, drinking songs of a patriotic or bawdy nature, performed competitively with one symposiast reciting the first part of a song and another expected to improvise the end of it. symposiasts might also compete in rhetorical contests, for which reason the word "symposium" has come to refer in english to any event where multiple speeches are made. etruscan and roman drinking parties[edit] banqueting scene from the etruscan tomb of the leopards. paris – louvre – sarcophagus of the married couple etruscan art shows scenes of banqueting that recall aspects of the greek symposia; however, one major difference is that women of status participated more fully in this as in other realms of etruscan society. women were allowed to drink wine and recline with men at feasts. some etruscan women were even considered "expert drinkers".[ ] additionally, etruscan women were often buried with drinking and feasting paraphernalia, suggesting that they partook in these activities.[ ] the most apparent distinctions between greek and etruscan drinking parties appear in etruscan art. etruscan paintings show men and women drinking wine together and reclining on the same cushions.[ ] the sarcophagus of the married couple,[ ] found in the etruscan region dating to – bc, depicts a man and women lounging together in the context of a banquet,[ ] which is a stark contrast with gendered greek drinking parties. as with many other greek customs, the aesthetic framework of the symposium was adopted by the romans under the name of comissatio. these revels also involved the drinking of assigned quantities of wine, and the oversight of a master of the ceremonies appointed for the occasion from among the guests. another roman version of the symposium was the convivium. women's role differed in roman symposia as well. roman women were legally prohibited from drinking wine as a matter of public morality.[ ] men were expected to control their own wine consumption, but women were not given this authority. women seemed to have a greater presence at drinking parties in the early years of the roman empire, until they were prohibited from drinking wine during the republic period. references[edit] 	^ a b c peter garnsey, food and society in classical antiquity (cambridge university press, ), p. online; sara elise phang, roman military service: ideologies of discipline in the late republic and early principate (cambridge university press, ), pp. – . 	^ literature in the greek world by oliver taplin; p 	^ the oxford companion to classical civilization (ed. hornblower & spawforth), pp. – 	^ xenophon, 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l'aquila gaius sallustius crispus, usually anglicised as sallust (/ˈsæləst/; – c. bc),[ ] was a roman historian and politician from an italian plebeian family. sallust was born at amiternum in the country of the sabines and was a popularis, an opponent of the old roman aristocracy, throughout his career, and later a partisan of julius caesar. sallust is the earliest known roman historian with surviving works to his name, of which catiline's war (about the conspiracy in bc of l. sergius catilina), the jugurthine war (about rome's war against the numidian king jugurtha from to bc), and the histories (of which only fragments survive) are still extant. sallust was primarily influenced by the greek historian thucydides and amassed great (and ill-gotten) wealth from his governorship of africa.[ ] contents 	 life and career 	 works 	 . the conspiracy of catiline 	 . jugurthine war 	 . other works 	 style 	 significance 	 manuscripts 	 translations 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links life and career[edit] gardens of sallust sallust was probably born in amiternum in central italy,[ ][ ][ ] though eduard schwartz takes the view that sallust's birthplace was rome.[ ] his birth date is calculated from the report of jerome's chronicon.[ ] but ronald syme suggests that jerome's date has to be adjusted because of his carelessness,[ ] and suggests bc as a more correct date.[ ] however, sallust's birth is widely dated at bc,[ ][ ][ ] and the kleine pauly encyclopedia takes october bc as the birthdate.[ ] michael grant cautiously offers s bc.[ ] there is no information about sallust's parents or family,[ ] except for tacitus' mention of his sister.[ ] the sallustii were a provincial noble family of sabine origin.[ ][ ][ ] they belonged to the equestrian order and had full roman citizenship.[ ] during the social war sallust’s parents hid in rome, because amiternum was under threat of siege by rebelling italic tribes.[ ] because of this sallust could have been raised in rome[ ] he received a very good education.[ ] after an ill-spent youth, sallust entered public life and may have won election as quaestor in bc. however, there is no conclusive evidence about this, and some scholars suppose that sallust did not become a quaestor — the practice of violating the cursus honorum was common in the last years of the republic.[ ][ ][ ] he became a tribune of the plebs in bc, the year in which the followers of milo killed clodius in a street brawl. sallust then supported the prosecution of milo. sallust, titus munatius plancus and quintus pompeius rufus also tried to blame cicero, one of the leaders of the senators' opposition to the triumvirate, for his support of milo.[ ] syme suggests that sallust, because of his position in milo's trial, did not originally support caesar.[ ] theodor mommsen states that sallust acted in pompey's interests (according to mommsen, pompey was preparing to install his own dictatorship).[ ] according to one inscription, some sallustius (with unclear praenomen) was a proquaestor in syria in bc under marcus calpurnius bibulus.[ ] mommsen identified this sallustius with sallust the historian, though t. r. s. broughton argued that sallust the historian could not have been an assistant to julius caesar's adversary.[ ] from the beginning of his public career, sallust operated as a decided partisan of julius caesar, to whom he owed such political advancement as he attained. in bc, the censor appius claudius pulcher removed him from the senate on the grounds of gross immorality (probably really because of his opposition to milo and cicero). in the following year, perhaps through caesar's influence, he was reinstated. during the civil war of – bc sallust acted as caesar's partisan, but his role was not significant, so his name is not mentioned in the dictator's commentarii de bello civili.[ ] it was reported by plutarch that sallust dined with caesar, hirtius, oppius, balbus and sulpicius rufus on the night after caesar's famous crossing of the rubicon river into italy on january.[ ] in bc sallust was moved to illyricum and probably commanded at least one legion there after the failure of publius cornelius dolabella and gaius antonius.[ ][ ] this campaign was unsuccessful.[ ] in bc he was probably made quaestor by caesar to[clarification needed] re-enter the senate.[ ] however, the last statement is based on the "invective against sallust" ascribed to cicero,[ ] which is probably a later forgery. in late summer bc a group of soldiers rebelled near rome, demanding their discharge and payment for service. sallust, as praetor designatus, with several other senators, was sent to persuade the soldiers to abstain, but the rebels killed two senators, and sallust narrowly escaped death.[ ][ ] in bc, he served as a praetor and accompanied caesar in his african campaign, which ended in the decisive defeat of the remains of the pompeian war party at thapsus. sallust did not participate in military operations directly, but he commanded several ships and organized supply through the kerkennah islands. as a reward for his services, sallust was appointed governor of the province of africa nova — it is not clear why: sallust was not a skilled general, and the province was militarily significant, with three legions deployed there. moreover, his successors as governor were experienced military men. however, sallust successfully managed the organization of supply and transportation, and these qualities could have determined caesar's choice.[ ] as governor he committed such oppression and extortion that only caesar's influence enabled him to escape condemnation. on his return to rome he purchased and began laying out in great splendour the famous gardens on the quirinal known as the horti sallustiani or gardens of sallust. these gardens would later belong to the emperors. sallust then retired from public life and devoted himself to historical literature, and further developed his gardens, upon which he spent much of his accumulated wealth. according to hieronymus stridonensis, sallust later became the second husband of cicero's ex-wife terentia.[ ] however prominent scholars of roman prosopography such as ronald syme refute this as a legend.[ ] according to procopius, when alaric's invading army entered rome they burned sallust's house.[ ] works[edit] sallust's account of the catiline conspiracy (de coniuratione catilinae or bellum catilinae) and of the jugurthine war (bellum jugurthinum) have come down to us complete, together with fragments of his larger and most important work (historiae), a history of rome from to bc, intended as a continuation of cornelius sisenna's work. the conspiracy of catiline[edit] main article: the conspiracy of catiline this is sallust's first published work, an account of the attempt by lucius sergius catalina (catiline) to overthrow the roman republic in the year bc. sallust presents catiline as a deliberate foe of law, order and morality, and does not give a comprehensive explanation of his views and intentions (catiline had supported the party of sulla, whom sallust had opposed). theodor mommsen suggested that sallust particularly wished to clear his patron (caesar) of all complicity in the conspiracy. in writing about the conspiracy of catiline, sallust's tone, style, and descriptions of aristocratic behavior show that he was deeply troubled by the moral decline of rome. while he inveighs against catiline's depraved character and vicious actions, he does not fail to state that the man had many noble traits, indeed all that a roman man needed to succeed. in particular, sallust shows catiline as deeply courageous in his final battle. the work probably was written between and bc,[ ] or between and bc according to der kleine pauly.[ ][ ] the work does not show any traces of personal experience, and the most common explanation is that sallust was absent from rome on military service during this period.[ ] the main source for this work is de consulatu suo by cicero.[ ] jugurthine war[edit] c. manuscript for de bello jugurthino sallust's jugurthine war is a monograph recording the war against jugurtha in numidia from c. bc to bc. its true value lies in the introduction of marius and sulla to the roman political scene and the beginning of their rivalry. sallust's time as governor of africa nova ought to have let the author develop a solid geographical and ethnographical background to the war; however, this is not evident in the monograph, despite a diversion on the subject, because sallust's priority in the jugurthine war, as with the catiline conspiracy, is to use history as a vehicle for his judgement on the slow destruction of roman morality and politics. other works[edit] see also: epistula mithridatis the extant fragments of the histories (some discovered in ) show sufficiently well the political partisan, who took a keen pleasure in describing the reaction against sulla's policy and legislation after the dictator's death. historians regret the loss of the work, as it must have thrown much light on a very eventful period, embracing the war against sertorius (died bc), the campaigns of lucullus against mithradates vi of pontus ( - bc), and the victories of pompey in the east ( – bc). two letters (duae epistolae de republica ordinanda), letters of political counsel and advice addressed to caesar, and an attack upon cicero (invectiva or declamatio in ciceronem), frequently attributed to sallust, are thought by modern scholars to have come from the pen of a rhetorician of the first century ad, along with a counter-invective attributed to cicero. at one time marcus porcius latro was considered a candidate for the authorship of the pseudo-sallustian corpus, but this view is no longer commonly held.[ ] style[edit] the style of works written by sallust was well known in rome. it differs from the writings of his contemporaries — caesar and especially cicero. it is characterized by brevity and by the use of rare words and turns of phrase. as a result, his works are very far from the conversational latin of his time.[ ] consider his use of archaic words. according to suetonius, lucius ateius praetextatus (philologus) helped sallust to collect them.[ ] ronald syme suggests that sallust's choice of style and even particular words was influenced by his antipathy to cicero, his rival, but also one of the trendsetters in latin literature in the first century bc.[ ] "the conspiracy of catiline" reflects many features of style that were developed in his later works.[ ] sallust avoids common words from public speeches of contemporary roman political orators, such as honestas, humanitas, consensus.[ ] in several cases he uses rare forms of well-known words: for example, lubido instead of libido, maxumum instead of maximum, the conjunction quo in place of more common ut. he also uses the less common endings -ere instead of common -erunt in the third person plural in the perfect indicative, and -is instead of -es in the accusative plural for third declension (masculine or feminine) adjectives and nouns. some words used by sallust (for example, antecapere, portatio, incruentus, incelebratus, incuriosus), are not known in other writings before him. they are believed to be either neologisms or intentional revivals of archaic words.[ ] sallust also often uses antithesis, alliterations and chiasmus.[ ] significance[edit] on the whole, antiquity looked favourably on sallust as a historian. tacitus speaks highly of him (annals, iii. ); and quintilian does not hesitate to put him on a level with thucydides, and declares that he is a greater historian than livy. martial joins the praise: "sallust, according to the judgment of the learned, will rank as the prince of roman historiographers".[ ] his books were sometimes used by authors of the first and second centuries ad, especially after imitations of archaic style gained popularity. among those who borrowed information from his works were silius italicus, lucan, plutarch, and ammianus marcellinus.[ ][ ] fronto used ancient words collected by sallust to provide "archaic coloring" for his works.[ ] in the second century ad zenobius translated his works into ancient greek.[ ] other opinions were also present. for example, gaius asinius pollio criticized sallust's addiction to archaic words and his unusual grammatical features.[ ] aulus gellius saved[clarification needed] pollio's unfavorable statement about sallust's style. according to him, sallust once used the word transgressus meaning generally "passage [by foot]" for a platoon which crossed the sea (the usual word for this type of crossing was transfretatio).[ ] though quintilian has a generally favorable opinion of sallust, he disparages several features of his style: for though a diffuse irrelevance is tedious, the omission of what is necessary is positively dangerous. we must therefore avoid even the famous terseness of sallust (though in his case of course it is a merit), and shun all abruptness of speech, since a style which presents no difficulty to a leisurely reader, flies past a hearer and will not stay to be looked at again.[ ] sallust struck out practically a new line in literature for himself: his predecessors had been little better than mere dry-as-dust chroniclers, but he endeavoured to explain the connection and meaning of events and successfully delineated character. the contrast between his early life and the high moral tone he adopted in his writings has frequently made him a subject of reproach, but history gives no reason why he should not have reformed. in any case, his knowledge of his own former weaknesses may have led him to take a pessimistic view of the morality of his fellow men, and to judge them severely. he took as his model thucydides, whom he imitated in his truthfulness and impartiality, in the introduction of philosophical reflections and speeches, and in the brevity of his style, sometimes bordering upon obscurity. during the late antiquity and early middle ages his works retained their popularity, and some influential early christian theologists (marcus minucius felix and augustine of hippo) knew his writings well.[ ][ ] in the middle ages sallust's works were often used in schools to teach latin. his brief style influenced, among others, widukind of corvey and wipo of burgundy.[ ] in the thirteenth century sallust's passage on the expansion of the roman republic (cat. ) was cited and interpreted by theologian thomas aquinas and scholar brunetto latini.[ ] during the late middle ages and renaissance sallust's works began to influence political thought in italy. among many scholars and historians interested in sallust, the most notable are leonardo bruni, coluccio salutati and niccolo machiavelli.[ ] petrarch also praised sallust highly, though he primarily appreciated his style and moralization.[ ] during the french wars of religion, de coniuratione catilinae became widely known as a tutorial on disclosing conspiracies.[ ] among his admirers in england were thomas more, alexander barclay and thomas elyot.[ ] justus lipsius marked sallust as the second most notable roman historian after tacitus.[ ] nietzsche credits sallust in twilight of the idols[ ] for his epigrammatic style: "my sense of style, for the epigram as a style, was awakened almost instantly when i came into contact with sallust" and praises him for being "compact, severe, with as much substance as possible, a cold sarcasm against 'beautiful words' and 'beautiful sentiments'." henrik ibsen's first play was catiline, based on sallust's story.[ ] manuscripts[edit] several manuscripts of his works survived due to his popularity in antiquity and the middle ages. manuscripts of his writings are usually divided into two groups: mutili (mutilated) and integri (whole; undamaged). the classification is based on the existence of the lacuna (gap) between . and . of the jugurthine war. the lacuna exists in the mutili scrolls, while integri manuscripts have the text there. the most ancient scrolls which survive are the codex parisinus and codex parisinus , known as "p" and "a" respectively. they were created in the ninth century, and both belong to the mutili group.[ ] both these scrolls include only catiline and jugurtha, while some other mutili manuscripts also include invective and cicero's response.[ ] the oldest integri scrolls were created in the eleventh century ad.[ ] the probability that all these scrolls came from one or more ancient manuscripts is debated.[ ] there is also a unique scroll codex vaticanus , known as "v". it includes only speeches and letters from catiline, jugurtha and histories.[ ] the creator of this manuscript changed the original word order and replaced archaisms with more familiar words.[ ] the "v" scroll also includes two anonymous letters to caesar probably from sallust,[ ] but their authenticity is debated (see above). several fragments of sallust's works survived in papyri of the second to fourth centuries ad. many ancient authors cited sallust, and sometimes their citations of histories are the only source for reconstruction of this work. but the significance of these citations for the reconstruction is uncertain, because occasionally the authors cited sallust from memory, and some distortions were possible.[ ] translations[edit] 	the conspiracie of cateline and the warre of jugurth (trans. thomas heywood, ). new york: ams press, (among other modern printings). 	loeb classical library, vol. (trans. j.c. rolfe). cambridge, ma: hup, . 	catiline's war, the jugurthine war, histories (trans. a.j. woodman). london: penguin, (isbn  ). (page xxvii, "when sallust died, probably in ...") 	catiline's conspiracy, the jugurthine war, histories (trans. william w. batstone). oxford: oup, ( isbn  ). see also[edit] 	ancient rome portal 	biography portal 	list of historians 	roman historiography 	unity makes strength 	animus in consulendo liber references[edit] 	^ woodman, a.j. ( ). catiline's war, the jugurthine war, histories. london: penguin. p. xxvii. isbn  - . when sallust died, probably in . 	^ woodman, catiline's war, the jugurthine war, histories, p. xxvii 	^ syme, r. ( ) sallust. university of california press. p. 	^ a b c d e mellor, r. j. ( ) the roman historians. routledge. p. 	^ a b c d grant, m. ( ) greek and roman historians: information and misinformation. routledge. p. 	^ syme, r. 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( ) sallust’s bellum catilinae. nd ed. new york—oxford: oxford university press. p. 	^ rolfe j. c. "introduction", sallust. loeb classical library p. xviii 	^ ramsey j. t. ( ) sallust’s bellum catilinae. nd ed. new york—oxford: oxford university press. p. 	^ (in russian) Альбрехт, М. ( ) История римской литературы, Т. . Греко-латинский кабинет. С. 	^ ramsey j. t. ( ) sallust's bellum catilinae, nd ed. new york—oxford: oxford university press. p. further reading[edit] 	aili, h. the prose rhythm of sallust and livy. stockholm: almqvist & wiksell, . 	chisholm, h., ed. 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	died	c.  ad (aged c.  ) 	occupation	historian, politician 	genre	history, silver age of latin 	subject	history, biography, oratory publius (or gaius) cornelius tacitus[note ] (/ˈtæsɪtəs/ tass-it-əs, latin: [ˈtakɪtʊs]; c. ad – c.  ) was a roman historian and politician. tacitus is considered by modern scholars to be one of the greatest roman historians.[ ][ ] he lived in what has been called the silver age of latin literature, and has a reputation for the brevity and compactness of his latin prose, as well as for his penetrating insights into the psychology of power politics. the surviving portions of his two major works—the annals and the histories—examine the reigns of the emperors tiberius, claudius, nero, and those who reigned in the year of the four emperors ( ad). these two works span the history of the roman empire from the death of augustus, in ad, to ad in the first jewish–roman war of – . there are substantial lacunae in the surviving texts, including a gap in the annals that is four books long. tacitus' other writings discuss oratory (in dialogue format, see dialogus de oratoribus), germania (in de origine et situ germanorum), and the life of his father-in-law, agricola, the general responsible for much of the roman conquest of britain, mainly focusing on his campaign in britannia (de vita et moribus iulii agricolae). contents 	 life 	 . family and early life 	 . public life, marriage, and literary career 	 works 	 . history of the roman empire from the death of augustus 	 . . the histories 	 . . the annals 	 . monographs 	 . . germania 	 . . agricola (de vita et moribus iulii agricolae) 	 . . dialogus 	 literary style 	 . approach to history 	 . prose 	 sources 	 editions 	 see also 	 references 	 . notes 	 . citations 	 bibliography 	 external links life details about his personal life are scarce. what little is known comes from scattered hints throughout his work, the letters of his friend and admirer pliny the younger, and an inscription found at mylasa in caria.[ ] tacitus was born in or to an equestrian family;[ ] but the exact place and date of his birth are not known, and his praenomen (first name) is also unknown; in the letters of sidonius apollinaris his name is gaius, but in the major surviving manuscript of his work his name is given as publius.[ ] one scholar's suggestion of sextus has gained no approval.[ ] family and early life most of the older aristocratic families failed to survive the proscriptions which took place at the end of the republic, and tacitus makes it clear that he owed his rank to the flavian emperors (hist. . ). the claim that he was descended from a freedman is derived from a speech in his writings which asserts that many senators and knights were descended from freedmen (ann. . ), but this is generally disputed.[ ] his father may have been the cornelius tacitus who served as procurator of belgica and germania; pliny the elder mentions that cornelius had a son who aged rapidly (nh . ), which implies an early death. there is no mention of tacitus suffering such a condition, but it is possible that this refers to a brother—if cornelius was indeed his father.[ ] the friendship between the younger pliny and tacitus leads some scholars to conclude that they were both the offspring of wealthy provincial families.[ ] the province of his birth remains unknown, though various conjectures suggest gallia belgica, gallia narbonensis or northern italy.[ ] his marriage to the daughter of narbonensian senator gnaeus julius agricola implies that he came from gallia narbonensis. tacitus' dedication to lucius fabius justus in the dialogus may indicate a connection with spain, and his friendship with pliny suggests origins in northern italy.[ ] no evidence exists, however, that pliny's friends from northern italy knew tacitus, nor do pliny's letters hint that the two men had a common background.[ ] pliny book , letter reports that, when he was asked if he was italian or provincial, he gave an unclear answer, and so was asked if he was tacitus or pliny. since pliny was from italy, some infer that tacitus was from the provinces, probably gallia narbonensis.[ ] his ancestry, his skill in oratory, and his sympathetic depiction of barbarians who resisted roman rule (e.g., ann. . ) have led some to suggest that he was a celt. this belief stems from the fact that the celts who had occupied gaul prior to the roman invasion were famous for their skill in oratory, and had been subjugated by rome.[ ] public life, marriage, and literary career as a young man, tacitus studied rhetoric in rome to prepare for a career in law and politics; like pliny, he may have studied under quintilian[ ] (c.  ad – c.  ). in or , he married julia agricola, daughter of the famous general agricola.[ ] little is known of their domestic life, save that tacitus loved hunting and the outdoors.[ ] he started his career (probably the latus clavus, mark of the senator)[ ] under vespasian[ ] (r. – ), but entered political life as a quaestor in or under titus.[ ] he advanced steadily through the cursus honorum, becoming praetor in and a quindecimvir, a member of the priestly college in charge of the sibylline books and the secular games.[ ] he gained acclaim as a lawyer and as an orator; his skill in public speaking ironically counterpoints his cognomen tacitus ("silent"). he served in the provinces from c.  to c.  , either in command of a legion or in a civilian post.[ ] he and his property survived domitian's reign of terror ( – ), but the experience left him jaded and perhaps ashamed at his own complicity, installing in him the hatred of tyranny evident in his works.[ ] the agricola, chs. – , is illustrative: agricola was spared those later years during which domitian, leaving now no interval or breathing space of time, but, as it were, with one continuous blow, drained the life-blood of the commonwealth... it was not long before our hands dragged helvidius to prison, before we gazed on the dying looks of mauricus and rusticus, before we were steeped in senecio's innocent blood. even nero turned his eyes away, and did not gaze upon the atrocities which he ordered; with domitian it was the chief part of our miseries to see and to be seen, to know that our sighs were being recorded... from his seat in the senate, he became suffect consul in during the reign of nerva, being the first of his family to do so. during his tenure, he reached the height of his fame as an orator when he delivered the funeral oration for the famous veteran soldier lucius verginius rufus.[ ] in the following year, he wrote and published the agricola and germania, foreshadowing the literary endeavors that would occupy him until his death.[ ] afterwards, he absented himself from public life, but returned during trajan's reign ( – ). in , he and his friend pliny the younger prosecuted marius priscus [la] (proconsul of africa) for corruption. priscus was found guilty and sent into exile; pliny wrote a few days later that tacitus had spoken "with all the majesty which characterizes his usual style of oratory".[ ] a lengthy absence from politics and law followed while he wrote the histories and the annals. in to , he held the highest civilian governorship, that of the roman province of asia in western anatolia,[ ] recorded in the inscription found at mylasa mentioned above. a passage in the annals fixes as the terminus post quem of his death, which may have been as late as or even . it seems that he survived both pliny (died c.  ) and trajan (died ).[ ] it remains unknown whether tacitus had any children. the augustan history reports that emperor marcus claudius tacitus (r. – ) claimed him for an ancestor and provided for the preservation of his works, but this story may be fraudulent, like much of the augustan history.[ ] works see also: list of people mentioned in the works of tacitus the title page of justus lipsius's edition of the complete works of tacitus, bearing the stamps of the bibliotheca comunale in empoli, italy five works ascribed to tacitus have survived (albeit with lacunae), the most substantial of which are the annals and the histories. this canon (with approximate dates) consists of: 	( ) de vita iulii agricolae (the life of agricola) 	( ) de origine et situ germanorum (germania) 	( ) dialogus de oratoribus (dialogue on oratory) 	( ) historiae (histories) 	( ) ab excessu divi augusti (annals) history of the roman empire from the death of augustus the annals and the histories, published separately, were meant to form a single edition of thirty books.[ ] although tacitus wrote the histories before the annals, the events in the annals precede the histories; together they form a continuous narrative from the death of augustus ( ) to the death of domitian ( ). though most has been lost, what remains is an invaluable record of the era. the first half of the annals survived in a single manuscript from corvey abbey in germany, and the second half in a single manuscript from monte cassino in italy, and it is remarkable that they survived at all. the histories main article: histories (tacitus) in an early chapter of the agricola, tacitus asserts that he wishes to speak about the years of domitian, nerva and trajan. in the histories the scope has changed; tacitus says that he will deal with the age of nerva and trajan at a later time. instead, he will cover the period from the civil wars of the year of the four emperors and end with the despotism of the flavians. only the first four books and twenty-six chapters of the fifth book survive, covering the year and the first part of . the work is believed to have continued up to the death of domitian on september , . the fifth book contains—as a prelude to the account of titus's suppression of the first jewish–roman war—a short ethnographic survey of the ancient jews, and it is an invaluable record of roman attitudes towards them. the annals main article: annals (tacitus) the annals, tacitus' final work, covers the period from the death of augustus in ad. he wrote at least sixteen books, but books – and parts of books , , and are missing. book ends with the death of tiberius and books to presumably covered the reigns of caligula and claudius. the remaining books cover the reign of nero, perhaps until his death in june or until the end of that year to connect with the histories. the second half of book is missing, ending with the events of . it is not known whether tacitus completed the work; he died before he could complete his planned histories of nerva and trajan and no record survives of the work on augustus and the beginnings of the roman empire, with which he had planned to finish his work. the annals is one of the earliest secular historical records to mention christ, which tacitus does in connection with nero's persecution of the christians. annals . , in the second medicean manuscript monographs tacitus wrote three works with a more limited scope. agricola, a biography of his father-in-law gnaeus julius agricola; the germania, a monograph on the lands and tribes of barbarian germania; and the dialogus, a dialogue on the art of rhetoric. germania main article: germania (book) the germania (latin title: de origine et situ germanorum) is an ethnographic work on the germanic tribes outside the roman empire. the germania fits within a classical ethnographic tradition which includes authors such as herodotus and julius caesar. the book begins (chapters – ) with a description of the lands, laws, and customs of the various tribes. later chapters focus on descriptions of particular tribes, beginning with those who lived closest to the roman empire, and ending with a description of those who lived on the shores of the baltic sea, such as the fenni. tacitus had written a similar, albeit shorter, piece in his agricola (chapters – ). agricola (de vita et moribus iulii agricolae) main article: agricola (book) the agricola (written c.  ) recounts the life of gnaeus julius agricola, an eminent roman general and tacitus' father-in-law; it also covers, briefly, the geography and ethnography of ancient britain. as in the germania, tacitus favorably contrasts the liberty of the native britons with the tyranny and corruption of the empire; the book also contains eloquent polemics against the greed of rome, one of which, that tacitus claims is from a speech by calgacus, ends by asserting that auferre trucidare rapere falsis nominibus imperium, atque ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant. (to ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace. —oxford revised translation). dialogus main article: dialogus de oratoribus the style of the dialogus follows cicero's models for latin rhetoric. there is uncertainty about when tacitus wrote dialogus de oratoribus. many characteristics set it apart from the other works of tacitus, so that its authenticity has at various times been questioned. it is likely to be early work, indebted to the author's rhetorical training, since its style imitates that of the foremost roman orator cicero. it lacks (for example) the incongruities that are typical of his mature historical works. the dialogus is dedicated to fabius iustus, a consul in ad. literary style tacitus's writings are known for their dense prose that seldom glosses the facts, in contrast to the style of some of his contemporaries, such as plutarch. when he writes about a near-defeat of the roman army in ann. i, he does so with brevity of description rather than embellishment. in most of his writings he keeps to a chronological narrative order, only seldom outlining the bigger picture, leaving the readers to construct that picture for themselves. nonetheless, where he does use broad strokes, for example, in the opening paragraphs of the annals, he uses a few condensed phrases which take the reader to the heart of the story. approach to history tacitus's historical style owes some debt to sallust. his historiography offers penetrating—often pessimistic—insights into the psychology of power politics, blending straightforward descriptions of events, moral lessons, and tightly focused dramatic accounts. tacitus's own declaration regarding his approach to history (annals i, ) is well known: 		"inde consilium mihi ... tradere ... sine ira et studio, quorum causas procul habeo." 	  	my purpose is to relate ... without either anger or zeal, motives from which i am far removed. there has been much scholarly discussion about tacitus' "neutrality". throughout his writing, he is preoccupied with the balance of power between the senate and the emperors, and the increasing corruption of the governing classes of rome as they adjusted to the ever-growing wealth and power of the empire. in tacitus's view, senators squandered their cultural inheritance—that of free speech—to placate their (rarely benign) emperor. tacitus noted the increasing dependence of the emperor on the goodwill of his armies. the julio-claudians eventually gave way to generals, who followed julius caesar (and sulla and pompey) in recognizing that military might could secure them the political power in rome.(hist. . ) welcome as the death of nero had been in the first burst of joy, yet it had not only roused various emotions in rome, among the senators, the people, or the soldiery of the capital, it had also excited all the legions and their generals; for now had been divulged that secret of the empire, that emperors could be made elsewhere than at rome. tacitus's political career was largely lived out under the emperor domitian. his experience of the tyranny, corruption, and decadence of that era ( – ) may explain the bitterness and irony of his political analysis. he draws our attention to the dangers of power without accountability, love of power untempered by principle, and the apathy and corruption engendered by the concentration of wealth generated through trade and conquest by the empire. nonetheless, the image he builds of tiberius throughout the first six books of the annals is neither exclusively bleak nor approving: most scholars view the image of tiberius as predominantly positive in the first books, and predominantly negative after the intrigues of sejanus. the entrance of tiberius in the first chapters of the first book is dominated by the hypocrisy of the new emperor and his courtiers. in the later books, some respect is evident for the cleverness of the old emperor in securing his position. in general, tacitus does not fear to praise and to criticize the same person, often noting what he takes to be their more-admirable and less-admirable properties. one of tacitus's hallmarks is refraining from conclusively taking sides for or against persons he describes, which has led some to interpret his works as both supporting and rejecting the imperial system (see tacitean studies, black vs. red tacitists). prose his latin style is highly praised.[ ] his style, although it has a grandeur and eloquence (thanks to tacitus's education in rhetoric), is extremely concise, even epigrammatic—the sentences are rarely flowing or beautiful, but their point is always clear. the style has been both derided as "harsh, unpleasant, and thorny" and praised as "grave, concise, and pithily eloquent". a passage of annals . , where tacitus laments the state of the historiography regarding the last four emperors of the julio-claudian dynasty, illustrates his style: "the histories of tiberius, gaius, claudius and nero, while they were in power, were falsified through terror and after their death were written under the irritation of a recent hatred",[ ] or in a word-for-word translation: 		tiberiī gāīque et claudiī ac nerōnis rēs flōrentibus ipsīs—ob metum—falsae, postquam occiderant—recentibus ōdiīs—compositae sunt. 	  	tiberius', gaius' and claudius' as well as nero's acts while flourishing themselves—out of fear—counterfeited, after they came to fall—resulting from new-found hate— related are. 	(interpunction and linebreaks added for clarity) compared to the ciceronian period, where sentences were usually the length of a paragraph and artfully constructed with nested pairs of carefully matched sonorous phrases, this is short and to the point. but it is also very individual. note the three different ways of saying and in the first line (-que, et, ac), and especially the matched second and third lines. they are parallel in sense but not in sound; the pairs of words ending "…-entibus …-is" are crossed over in a way that deliberately breaks the ciceronian conventions—which one would however need to be acquainted with to see the novelty of tacitus' style. some readers, then and now, find this teasing of their expectations merely irritating. others find the deliberate discord, playing against the evident parallelism of the two lines, stimulating and intriguing.[ ] his historical works focus on the motives of the characters, often with penetrating insight—though it is questionable how much of his insight is correct, and how much is convincing only because of his rhetorical skill.[ ] he is at his best when exposing hypocrisy and dissimulation; for example, he follows a narrative recounting tiberius's refusal of the title pater patriae by recalling the institution of a law forbidding any "treasonous" speech or writings—and the frivolous prosecutions which resulted (annals, . ). elsewhere (annals . – ) he compares tiberius's public distribution of fire relief to his failure to stop the perversions and abuses of justice which he had begun. although this kind of insight has earned him praise, he has also been criticized for ignoring the larger context. tacitus owes most, both in language and in method, to sallust, and ammianus marcellinus is the later historian whose work most closely approaches him in style. sources tacitus makes use of the official sources of the roman state: the acta senatus (the minutes of the sessions of the senate) and the acta diurna populi romani (a collection of the acts of the government and news of the court and capital). he also read collections of emperors' speeches, such as those of tiberius and claudius. he is generally seen[by whom?] as a scrupulous historian who paid careful attention to his sources. the minor inaccuracies in the annals may be due to tacitus dying before he had finished (and therefore before he had proof-read) his work. tacitus cites some of his sources directly, among them cluvius rufus, fabius rusticus and pliny the elder, who had written bella germaniae and a historical work which was the continuation of that of aufidius bassus. tacitus also uses collections of letters (epistolarium). he also took information from exitus illustrium virorum. these were a collection of books by those who were antithetical to the emperors. they tell of sacrifices by martyrs to freedom, especially the men who committed suicide. while he places no value on the stoic theory of suicide and views suicides as ostentatious and politically useless, tacitus often gives prominence to speeches made by those about to commit suicide, for example cremutius cordus' speech in ann. iv, – . editions 	damon, cynthia ( ) tacitus: histories book i. cambridge greek and latin classics. cambridge university press. 	ash, rhiannon ( ) tacitus: histories book ii. cambridge greek and latin classics.cambridge university press. 	malloch, s. j. v. ( ) the annals of tacitus, book . cambridge classical texts and commentaries. cambridge university press. see also 	the republic (plato): tacitus' critique of "model state" philosophies 	tacitus on christ: a well-known passage from the annals mentions the death of jesus of nazareth (ann., xv ) 	claude fauchet: the first person to translate all of tacitus's works into french 	justus lipsius: produced an extremely influential early modern edition of tacitus ( ) references notes 	^ his full nomenclature may have been "publius cornelius tacitus caecina paetus".[ ] citations 	^ birley , p.  . 	^ van voorst, robert; evans, craig a.; chilton, bruce ( ). "tacitus: the executed christ". in evans, craig a.; chilton, bruce (eds.). jesus outside the new testament: an introduction to the ancient evidence studying the historical jesus. grand rapids, michigan: wm. b. eerdmans publishing. p.  . isbn  . retrieved june . cornelius tacitus is generally considered the greatest roman historian [...]. 	^ compare: ferguson, everett ( ). "literature and language". backgrounds of early christianity ( ed.). grand rapids, michigan: william b. eerdmans publishing (published ). p.  . isbn  . retrieved june . the silver age produced two outstanding historians. cornelius tacitus (c. a.d. - ), through his histories and the annals, is the major source for the history of the empire in the first century. 	^ ogis , first brought to light in bulletin de correspondance hellénique, , pp. – 	^ since he was appointed to the quaestorship during titus's short rule (see note below) and twenty-five was the minimum age for the position, the date of his birth can be fixed with some accuracy 	^ see oliver, , for an analysis of the manuscript from which the name publius is taken; see also oliver, , which examines the evidence for each suggested praenomen (the well-known gaius and publius, the lesser-known suggestions of sextus and quintus) before settling on publius as the most likely. 	^ oliver, , cites an article by harold mattingly in rivista storica dell'antichità, ( ) – 	^ syme, , pp. – ; gordon, , pp. – 	^ syme, , p. , ; gordon, , p. ; martin, , p. 	^ syme, , p. 	^ michael grant in introduction to tacitus, the annals of imperial rome, p. xvii; herbert w. benario in introduction to tacitus, germany, p. . 	^ syme, , pp. – 	^ syme, , pp. – 	^ syme, , p. ; gordon, , p. 	^ gordon, , pp. – ; syme, , pp. – 	^ the fact that he studied rhetoric and law is known from the dialogus, ch. ; see also martin, , p. ; syme, , pp. – 	^ agricola, 	^ pliny, letters . , . ; benario, , pp. , ; syme, , pp. – 	^ syme, , p. ; martin, , pp. – 	^ ( . ) 	^ he states his debt to titus in his histories ( . ); since titus ruled only briefly, these are the only years possible. 	^ in the annals ( . ), he mentions that, as praetor, he assisted in the secular games held by domitian, which can be precisely dated to . see syme, , p. ; martin, , p. ; benario in his introduction to tacitus, germany, p. . 	^ the agricola ( . ) indicates that tacitus and his wife were absent at the time of julius agricola's death in . for his occupation during this time see syme, , p. ; benario, , p. ; dudley, , pp. – ; martin, , p. ; mellor, , p. 	^ for the effects on tacitus of this experience see dudley, , p. ; mellor, , pp. – 	^ pliny, letters, . (english); benario in his introduction to tacitus, germany, pp. – . 	^ in the agricola ( ), he announces what was probably his first major project: the histories. see dudley, , p. 	^ pliny, letters . 	^ hazel, j. ( ). who's who in the roman world. routledge who's who series. routledge. p.  . isbn  - - - - . retrieved august . seniority brought him the governorship of the province of asia as proconsul in – . 	^ grant in his introduction to tacitus, annals, p. xvii; benario in his introduction to tacitus, germania, p. . annals, . , says that the roman empire "now extends to the red sea". if by mare rubrum he means the persian gulf, the passage must have been written after trajan's eastern conquests in , but before hadrian abandoned the new territories in . but this may only indicate the date of publication for the first books of the annals; tacitus could have lived well into hadrian's reign, and there is no reason to suppose that he did not. see dudley, , p. ; mellor, , p. ; mendell, , p. ; syme, , p. ; against this traditional interpretation, e.g., goodyear, , pp. – . 	^ augustan history, tacitus x. scholarly opinion on this story is that it is either "a confused and worthless rumor" (mendell, , p. ) or "pure fiction" (syme, , p. ). sidonius apollinaris reports (letters, . ; cited in syme, , p. ) that polemius, a th-century gallo-roman aristocrat, is descended from tacitus—but this claim, says syme (ibid.), is of little value. 	^ jerome's commentary on the book of zechariah ( . , ; quoted in mendell, , p. ) says that tacitus's history was extant triginta voluminibus, "in thirty volumes". 	^ donald r. dudley. introduction to: the annals of tacitus. ny: mentor book, . p. xiv: "no other writer of latin prose—not even cicero—deploys so effectively the full resources of the language." 	^ the annals (tacitus)/book # translation based on alfred john church and william jackson brodribb ( ). wikisource, april . 	^ ostler , pp.  – where the quoted example is used; further quotes from the book: "…some writers—notably the perverse genius tacitus—delighted in disappointing the expectations raised by periodic theory." – "this monkeying with hard-won stylistic norms…only makes sense if readers knew the rules that tacitus was breaking." 	^ john taylor. tacitus and the boudican revolt. dublin: camvlos, . p. ff bibliography 	benario, herbert w. an introduction to tacitus. 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	clockwise from top: the colosseum, st. peter's basilica, castel sant'angelo, ponte sant'angelo, trevi fountain and the pantheon 	 flag coat of arms 	etymology: possibly etruscan: rumon, lit. 'river' (see etymology). 	nickname(s): urbs aeterna (latin) the eternal city caput mundi (latin) the capital of the world throne of st. peter 	the territory of the comune (roma capitale, in red) inside the metropolitan city of rome (città metropolitana di roma, in yellow). the white area in the centre is vatican city. 	 rome location within italy show map of italy rome location within europe show map of europe 	coordinates: ° ′n ° ′e /  . °n . °e / . ; . coordinates: ° ′n ° ′e /  . °n . °e / . ; . 	country	 italy[a] 	region	 lazio 	metropolitan city	rome 	founded	c.  bc 	founded by	king romulus 	government 	 • type	strong mayor–council 	 • mayor	virginia raggi (m s) 	 • legislature	capitoline assembly 	area 	 • total	 ,  km ( .  sq mi) 	elevation 	  m (  ft) 	population ( december ) 	 • rank	 st in italy ( rd in the eu) 	 • density	 , /km ( , /sq mi) 	 • comune 	 , , [ ] 	 • metropolitan city 	 , , [ ] 	demonym(s)	italian: romano (masculine), romana (feminine) english: roman 	time zone	utc+ (cet) 	cap code(s)	 ; to 	area code(s)	 	website	comune.roma.it 		 	 unesco world heritage site 	official name	historic centre of rome, the properties of the holy see in that city enjoying extraterritorial rights and san paolo fuori le mura 	reference	 	inscription	 ( th session) 	area	 ,  ha ( , acres) 	 rome (italian and latin: roma [ˈroːma] (listen)) is the capital city and a special comune of italy (named comune di roma capitale), as well as the capital of the lazio region. the city has been a major human settlement for almost three millennia. with , , residents in ,  km ( .  sq mi),[ ] it is also the country's most populated comune. it is the third most populous city in the european union by population within city limits. it is the centre of the metropolitan city of rome, which has a population of , , residents, thus making it the most populous metropolitan city in italy.[ ] its metropolitan area is the third-most populous within italy.[ ] rome is located in the central-western portion of the italian peninsula, within lazio (latium), along the shores of the tiber. vatican city (the smallest country in the world)[ ] is an independent country inside the city boundaries of rome, the only existing example of a country within a city; for this reason rome has sometimes been defined as the capital of two states.[ ][ ] rome's history spans centuries. while roman mythology dates the founding of rome at around bc, the site has been inhabited for much longer, making it one of the oldest continuously occupied cities in europe.[ ] the city's early population originated from a mix of latins, etruscans, and sabines. eventually, the city successively became the capital of the roman kingdom, the roman republic and the roman empire, and is regarded by many as the first ever imperial city and metropolis.[ ] it was first called the eternal city (latin: urbs aeterna; italian: la città eterna) by the roman poet tibullus in the st century bc, and the expression was also taken up by ovid, virgil, and livy.[ ][ ] rome is also called "caput mundi" (capital of the world). after the fall of the empire in the west, which marked the beginning of the middle ages, rome slowly fell under the political control of the papacy, and in the th century it became the capital of the papal states, which lasted until . beginning with the renaissance, almost all popes since nicholas v ( – ) pursued a coherent architectural and urban programme over four hundred years, aimed at making the city the artistic and cultural centre of the world.[ ] in this way, rome became first one of the major centres of the renaissance,[ ] and then the birthplace of both the baroque style and neoclassicism. famous artists, painters, sculptors and architects made rome the centre of their activity, creating masterpieces throughout the city. in , rome became the capital of the kingdom of italy, which, in , became the italian republic. in , rome was the th most visited city in the world with . million tourists, the third most visited in the european union, and the most popular tourist destination in italy.[ ] its historic centre is listed by unesco as a world heritage site.[ ] host city for the summer olympics, rome is also the seat of several specialised agencies of the united nations, such as the food and agriculture organization (fao), the world food programme (wfp) and the international fund for agricultural development (ifad). the city also hosts the secretariat of the parliamentary assembly of the union for the mediterranean[ ] (ufm) as well as the headquarters of many international business companies such as eni, enel, tim, leonardo s.p.a., and national and international banks such as unicredit and bnl. rome's eur business district is the home of many companies involved in the oil industry, the pharmaceutical industry, and financial services. the presence of renowned international brands in the city have made rome an important centre of fashion and design, and the cinecittà studios have been the set of many academy award–winning movies.[ ] contents 	 etymology 	 history 	 . earliest history 	 . . legend of the founding of rome 	 . monarchy and republic 	 . empire 	 . middle ages 	 . early modern history 	 . late modern and contemporary 	 government 	 . local government 	 . . administrative and historical subdivisions 	 . metropolitan and regional government 	 . national government 	 geography 	 . location 	 . topography 	 climate 	 demographics 	 . ethnic groups 	 . religion 	 . vatican city 	 pilgrimage 	 cityscape 	 . architecture 	 . . ancient rome 	 . . medieval 	 . . renaissance and baroque 	 . . neoclassicism 	 . . fascist architecture 	 . parks and gardens 	 . fountains and aqueducts 	 . statues 	 . obelisks and columns 	 . bridges 	 . catacombs 	 economy 	 education 	 culture 	 . entertainment and performing arts 	 . tourism 	 . fashion 	 . cuisine 	 . cinema 	 . language 	 sports 	 transport 	 international entities, organisations and involvement 	 international relations 	 . twin towns and sister cities 	 . other relationships 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 bibliography 	 external links etymology[edit] roman representation of tiber as a god, capitoline hill in rome according to the founding myth of the city by the ancient romans themselves,[ ] the long-held tradition of the origin of the name roma is believed to have come from the city's founder and first king, romulus.[ ] however, it is a possibility that the name romulus was actually derived from rome itself.[ ] as early as the th century, there have been alternative theories proposed on the origin of the name roma. several hypotheses have been advanced focusing on its linguistic roots which however remain uncertain:[ ] 	from rumon or rumen, archaic name of the tiber, which in turn is supposedly related to the greek verb ῥέω (rhéō) 'to flow, stream' and the latin verb ruō 'to hurry, rush';[b] 	from the etruscan word 𐌓𐌖𐌌𐌀 (ruma), whose root is *rum- "teat", with possible reference either to the totem wolf that adopted and suckled the cognately named twins romulus and remus, or to the shape of the palatine and aventine hills; 	from the greek word ῥώμη (rhṓmē), which means strength.[c] history[edit] main articles: history of rome and timeline of the city of rome historical affiliations latins (italic tribe) c. nd millennium – bc albanis (latins) th century – bc (foundation of the city) th–c. bc roman kingdom – bc roman republic – bc  roman empire bc– ad western roman empire – kingdom of odoacer – ostrogothic kingdom – eastern roman empire – papal states – kingdom of italy – vatican city –present italian republic –present earliest history[edit] main article: founding of rome while there have been discoveries of archaeological evidence of human occupation of the rome area from approximately , years ago, the dense layer of much younger debris obscures palaeolithic and neolithic sites.[ ] evidence of stone tools, pottery, and stone weapons attest to about , years of human presence. several excavations support the view that rome grew from pastoral settlements on the palatine hill built above the area of the future roman forum. between the end of the bronze age and the beginning of the iron age, each hill between the sea and the capitol was topped by a village (on the capitol hill, a village is attested since the end of the th century bc).[ ] however, none of them yet had an urban quality.[ ] nowadays, there is a wide consensus that the city developed gradually through the aggregation ("synoecism") of several villages around the largest one, placed above the palatine.[ ] this aggregation was facilitated by the increase of agricultural productivity above the subsistence level, which also allowed the establishment of secondary and tertiary activities. these, in turn, boosted the development of trade with the greek colonies of southern italy (mainly ischia and cumae).[ ] these developments, which according to archaeological evidence took place during the mid-eighth century bc, can be considered as the "birth" of the city.[ ] despite recent excavations at the palatine hill, the view that rome was founded deliberately in the middle of the eighth century bc, as the legend of romulus suggests, remains a fringe hypothesis.[ ] legend of the founding of rome[edit] capitoline wolf, a sculpture of the mythical she-wolf suckling the infant twins romulus and remus traditional stories handed down by the ancient romans themselves explain the earliest history of their city in terms of legend and myth. the most familiar of these myths, and perhaps the most famous of all roman myths, is the story of romulus and remus, the twins who were suckled by a she-wolf.[ ] they decided to build a city, but after an argument, romulus killed his brother and the city took his name. according to the roman annalists, this happened on april bc.[ ] this legend had to be reconciled with a dual tradition, set earlier in time, that had the trojan refugee aeneas escape to italy and found the line of romans through his son iulus, the namesake of the julio-claudian dynasty.[ ] this was accomplished by the roman poet virgil in the first century bc. in addition, strabo mentions an older story, that the city was an arcadian colony founded by evander. strabo also writes that lucius coelius antipater believed that rome was founded by greeks.[ ][ ] monarchy and republic[edit] main articles: ancient rome, roman kingdom, roman republic, and roman empire after the legendary foundation by romulus,[ ] rome was ruled for a period of years by a monarchical system, initially with sovereigns of latin and sabine origin, later by etruscan kings. the tradition handed down seven kings: romulus, numa pompilius, tullus hostilius, ancus marcius, tarquinius priscus, servius tullius and lucius tarquinius superbus.[ ] the ancient-imperial-roman palaces of the palatine, a series of palaces located in the palatine hill, visibly express the power and wealth of emperors from augustus until the th century. in bc, the romans expelled the last king from their city and established an oligarchic republic. rome then began a period characterised by internal struggles between patricians (aristocrats) and plebeians (small landowners), and by constant warfare against the populations of central italy: etruscans, latins, volsci, aequi, and marsi.[ ] after becoming master of latium, rome led several wars (against the gauls, osci-samnites and the greek colony of taranto, allied with pyrrhus, king of epirus) whose result was the conquest of the italian peninsula, from the central area up to magna graecia.[ ] the third and second century bc saw the establishment of roman hegemony over the mediterranean and the balkans, through the three punic wars ( – bc) fought against the city of carthage and the three macedonian wars ( – bc) against macedonia.[ ] the first roman provinces were established at this time: sicily, sardinia and corsica, hispania, macedonia, achaea and africa.[ ] from the beginning of the nd century bc, power was contested between two groups of aristocrats: the optimates, representing the conservative part of the senate, and the populares, which relied on the help of the plebs (urban lower class) to gain power. in the same period, the bankruptcy of the small farmers and the establishment of large slave estates caused large-scale migration to the city. the continuous warfare led to the establishment of a professional army, which turned out to be more loyal to its generals than to the republic. because of this, in the second half of the second century and during the first century bc there were conflicts both abroad and internally: after the failed attempt of social reform of the populares tiberius and gaius gracchus,[ ] and the war against jugurtha,[ ] there was a first civil war between gaius marius and sulla.[ ] a major slave revolt under spartacus followed,[ ][ ] and then the establishment of the first triumvirate with caesar, pompey and crassus.[ ] the imperial fora belong to a series of monumental fora (public squares) constructed in rome by the emperors. also seen in the image is trajan's market. the conquest of gaul made caesar immensely powerful and popular, which led to a second civil war against the senate and pompey. after his victory, caesar established himself as dictator for life.[ ] his assassination led to a second triumvirate among octavian (caesar's grandnephew and heir), mark antony and lepidus, and to another civil war between octavian and antony.[ ] empire[edit] in bc, octavian became princeps civitatis and took the title of augustus, founding the principate, a diarchy between the princeps and the senate.[ ] during the reign of nero, two thirds of the city was ruined after the great fire of rome, and the persecution of christians commenced.[ ][ ][ ] rome was established as a de facto empire, which reached its greatest expansion in the second century under the emperor trajan. rome was confirmed as caput mundi, i.e. the capital of the known world, an expression which had already been used in the republican period. during its first two centuries, the empire was ruled by emperors of the julio-claudian,[ ] flavian (who also built an eponymous amphitheatre, known as the colosseum),[ ] and antonine dynasties.[ ] this time was also characterised by the spread of the christian religion, preached by jesus christ in judea in the first half of the first century (under tiberius) and popularised by his apostles through the empire and beyond.[ ] the antonine age is considered the apogee of the empire, whose territory ranged from the atlantic ocean to the euphrates and from britain to egypt.[ ] the roman empire at its greatest extent in ad, approximately .  million square kilometres ( .  million square miles)[ ] of land surface. the roman forum are the remains of those buildings that during most of ancient rome's time represented the political, legal, religious and economic centre of the city and the neuralgic centre of all the roman civilisation.[ ] trajan's column, triumphal column and place where the relics of emperor trajan are placed. after the end of the severan dynasty in , the empire entered into a -year period known as the crisis of the third century during which there were numerous putsches by generals, who sought to secure the region of the empire they were entrusted with due to the weakness of central authority in rome. there was the so-called gallic empire from to and the revolts of zenobia and her father from the mid- s which sought to fend off persian incursions. some regions – britain, spain, and north africa – were hardly affected. instability caused economic deterioration, and there was a rapid rise in inflation as the government debased the currency in order to meet expenses. the germanic tribes along the rhine and north of the balkans made serious, uncoordinated incursions from the s- s that were more like giant raiding parties rather than attempts to settle. the persian empire invaded from the east several times during the s to s but were eventually defeated.[ ] emperor diocletian ( ) undertook the restoration of the state. he ended the principate and introduced the tetrarchy which sought to increase state power. the most marked feature was the unprecedented intervention of the state down to the city level: whereas the state had submitted a tax demand to a city and allowed it to allocate the charges, from his reign the state did this down to the village level. in a vain attempt to control inflation, he imposed price controls which did not last. he or constantine regionalised the administration of the empire which fundamentally changed the way it was governed by creating regional dioceses (the consensus seems to have shifted from to / as the date of creation due to the argument of constantin zuckerman in "sur la liste de verone et la province de grande armenie, melanges gilber dagron). the existence of regional fiscal units from served as the model for this unprecedented innovation. the emperor quickened the process of removing military command from governors. henceforth, civilian administration and military command would be separate. he gave governors more fiscal duties and placed them in charge of the army logistical support system as an attempt to control it by removing the support system from its control. diocletian ruled the eastern half, residing in nicomedia. in , he elevated maximian to augustus of the western half, where he ruled mostly from mediolanum when not on the move.[ ] in , he created two 'junior' emperors, the caesars, one for each augustus, constantius for britain, gaul, and spain whose seat of power was in trier and licinius in sirmium in the balkans. the appointment of a caesar was not unknown: diocletian tried to turn into a system of non-dynastic succession. upon abdication in , the caesars succeeded and they, in turn, appointed two colleagues for themselves.[ ] the pyramid of gaius cestius and the aurelian walls after the abdication of diocletian and maximian in and a series of civil wars between rival claimants to imperial power, during the years – , the tetrarchy was abandoned. constantine the great undertook a major reform of the bureaucracy, not by changing the structure but by rationalising the competencies of the several ministries during the years – , after he defeated licinius, emperor in the east, at the end of . the so-called edict of milan of , actually a fragment of a letter from licinius to the governors of the eastern provinces, granted freedom of worship to everyone, including christians, and ordered the restoration of confiscated church properties upon petition to the newly created vicars of dioceses. he funded the building of several churches and allowed clergy to act as arbitrators in civil suits (a measure that did not outlast him but which was restored in part much later). he transformed the town of byzantium into his new residence, which, however, was not officially anything more than an imperial residence like milan or trier or nicomedia until given a city prefect in may by constantius ii; constantinople.[ ] christianity in the form of the nicene creed became the official religion of the empire in , via the edict of thessalonica issued in the name of three emperors – gratian, valentinian ii, and theodosius i – with theodosius clearly the driving force behind it. he was the last emperor of a unified empire: after his death in , his sons, arcadius and honorius divided the empire into a western and an eastern part. the seat of government in the western roman empire was transferred to ravenna after the siege of milan in . during the th century, the emperors from the s mostly resided in the capital city, rome.[ ] rome, which had lost its central role in the administration of the empire, was sacked in by the visigoths led by alaric i,[ ] but very little physical damage was done, most of which were repaired. what could not be so easily replaced were portable items such as artwork in precious metals and items for domestic use (loot). the popes embellished the city with large basilicas, such as santa maria maggiore (with the collaboration of the emperors). the population of the city had fallen from , to – , by the time the city was sacked in by genseric, king of the vandals.[ ] the weak emperors of the fifth century could not stop the decay, leading to the deposition of romulus augustus on august , which marked the end of the western roman empire and, for many historians, the beginning of the middle ages.[ ] the decline of the city's population was caused by the loss of grain shipments from north africa, from onward, and the unwillingness of the senatorial class to maintain donations to support a population that was too large for the resources available. even so, strenuous efforts were made to maintain the monumental centre, the palatine, and the largest baths, which continued to function until the gothic siege of . the large baths of constantine on the quirinale were even repaired in , and the extent of the damage exaggerated and dramatised.[ ] however, the city gave an appearance overall of shabbiness and decay because of the large abandoned areas due to population decline. the population declined to , by and , by ad (perhaps larger, though no certain figure can be known). after the gothic siege of , the population dropped to , but had risen to , by the papacy of gregory the great.[ ] the population decline coincided with the general collapse of urban life in the west in the fifth and sixth centuries, with few exceptions. subsidized state grain distributions to the poorer members of society continued right through the sixth century and probably prevented the population from falling further.[ ] the figure of , – , is based on the amount of pork, , , lbs. distributed to poorer romans during five winter months at the rate of five roman lbs per person per month, enough for , persons or / or / of the total population.[ ] grain distribution to , ticket holders at the same time suggests , (augustus set the number at , or one-fifth of the population). middle ages[edit] th-century illustration depicting the sack of rome ( ) by the visigothic king alaric i the bishop of rome, called the pope, was important since the early days of christianity because of the martyrdom of both the apostles peter and paul there. the bishops of rome were also seen (and still are seen by catholics) as the successors of peter, who is considered the first bishop of rome. the city thus became of increasing importance as the centre of the catholic church. after the fall of the western roman empire in ad, rome was first under the control of odoacer and then became part of the ostrogothic kingdom before returning to east roman control after the gothic war, which devastated the city in and . its population declined from more than a million in ad to , in [ ] to , after the gothic war ( – ),[ ] reducing the sprawling city to groups of inhabited buildings interspersed among large areas of ruins, vegetation, vineyards and market gardens.[ ] it is generally thought the population of the city until ad was million (estimates range from million to , ) declining to – , in ad, – , in ad and down to – , in ad (though it may have been twice this).[ ] after the lombard invasion of italy, the city remained nominally byzantine, but in reality, the popes pursued a policy of equilibrium between the byzantines, the franks, and the lombards.[ ] in , the lombard king liutprand donated the north latium town of sutri to the church, starting its temporal power.[ ] in , pepin the short, after having defeated the lombards, gave the pope temporal jurisdiction over the roman duchy and the exarchate of ravenna, thus creating the papal states.[ ] since this period, three powers tried to rule the city: the pope, the nobility (together with the chiefs of militias, the judges, the senate and the populace), and the frankish king, as king of the lombards, patricius, and emperor.[ ] these three parties (theocratic, republican, and imperial) were a characteristic of roman life during the entire middle ages.[ ] on christmas night of , charlemagne was crowned in rome as emperor of the holy roman empire by pope leo iii: on that occasion, the city hosted for the first time the two powers whose struggle for control was to be a constant of the middle ages.[ ] detail view on an illustration by raphael portraying the crowning of charlemagne in old saint peter's basilica, on december in , muslim arabs unsuccessfully stormed the city's walls, but managed to loot st. peter's and st. paul's basilica, both outside the city wall.[ ] after the decay of carolingian power, rome fell prey to feudal chaos: several noble families fought against the pope, the emperor, and each other. these were the times of theodora and her daughter marozia, concubines and mothers of several popes, and of crescentius, a powerful feudal lord, who fought against the emperors otto ii and otto iii.[ ] the scandals of this period forced the papacy to reform itself: the election of the pope was reserved to the cardinals, and reform of the clergy was attempted. the driving force behind this renewal was the monk ildebrando da soana, who once elected pope under the name of gregory vii became involved into the investiture controversy against emperor henry iv.[ ] subsequently, rome was sacked and burned by the normans under robert guiscard who had entered the city in support of the pope, then besieged in castel sant'angelo.[ ] during this period, the city was autonomously ruled by a senatore or patrizio. in the th century, this administration, like other european cities, evolved into the commune, a new form of social organisation controlled by the new wealthy classes.[ ] pope lucius ii fought against the roman commune, and the struggle was continued by his successor pope eugenius iii: by this stage, the commune, allied with the aristocracy, was supported by arnaldo da brescia, a monk who was a religious and social reformer.[ ] after the pope's death, arnaldo was taken prisoner by adrianus iv, which marked the end of the commune's autonomy.[ ] under pope innocent iii, whose reign marked the apogee of the papacy, the commune liquidated the senate, and replaced it with a senatore, who was subject to the pope.[ ] in this period, the papacy played a role of secular importance in western europe, often acting as arbitrators between christian monarchs and exercising additional political powers.[ ][ ][ ] in , charles of anjou, who was heading south to fight the hohenstaufen on behalf of the pope, was appointed senator. charles founded the sapienza, the university of rome.[ ] in that period the pope died, and the cardinals, summoned in viterbo, could not agree on his successor. this angered the people of the city, who then unroofed the building where they met and imprisoned them until they had nominated the new pope; this marked the birth of the conclave.[ ] in this period the city was also shattered by continuous fights between the aristocratic families: annibaldi, caetani, colonna, orsini, conti, nested in their fortresses built above ancient roman edifices, fought each other to control the papacy.[ ] pope boniface viii, born caetani, was the last pope to fight for the church's universal domain; he proclaimed a crusade against the colonna family and, in , called for the first jubilee of christianity, which brought millions of pilgrims to rome.[ ] however, his hopes were crushed by the french king philip the fair, who took him prisoner and killed him in anagni.[ ] afterwards, a new pope faithful to the french was elected, and the papacy was briefly relocated to avignon ( – ).[ ] during this period rome was neglected, until a plebeian man, cola di rienzo, came to power.[ ] an idealist and a lover of ancient rome, cola dreamed about a rebirth of the roman empire: after assuming power with the title of tribuno, his reforms were rejected by the populace.[ ] forced to flee, cola returned as part of the entourage of cardinal albornoz, who was charged with restoring the church's power in italy.[ ] back in power for a short time, cola was soon lynched by the populace, and albornoz took possession of the city. in , rome became the seat of the papacy again under gregory xi.[ ] the return of the pope to rome in that year unleashed the western schism ( – ), and for the next forty years, the city was affected by the divisions which rocked the church.[ ] early modern history[edit] main article: roman renaissance almost years old, this map of rome by mario cartaro shows the city's primary monuments. castel sant'angelo or hadrian's mausoleum, is a roman monument radically altered in the middle ages and the renaissance built in ad and crowned with th and th-century statues. fontana della barcaccia by gian lorenzo bernini in in , the council of constance settled the western schism, and a roman pope, martin v, was elected.[ ] this brought to rome a century of internal peace, which marked the beginning of the renaissance.[ ] the ruling popes until the first half of the th century, from nicholas v, founder of the vatican library, to pius ii, humanist and literate, from sixtus iv, a warrior pope, to alexander vi, immoral and nepotist, from julius ii, soldier and patron, to leo x, who gave his name to this period ("the century of leo x"), all devoted their energy to the greatness and the beauty of the eternal city and to the patronage of the arts.[ ] during those years, the centre of the italian renaissance moved to rome from florence. majestic works, as the new saint peter's basilica, the sistine chapel and ponte sisto (the first bridge to be built across the tiber since antiquity, although on roman foundations) were created. to accomplish that, the popes engaged the best artists of the time, including michelangelo, perugino, raphael, ghirlandaio, luca signorelli, botticelli, and cosimo rosselli. the period was also infamous for papal corruption, with many popes fathering children, and engaging in nepotism and simony. the corruption of the popes and the huge expenses for their building projects led, in part, to the reformation and, in turn, the counter-reformation. under extravagant and rich popes, rome was transformed into a centre of art, poetry, music, literature, education and culture. rome became able to compete with other major european cities of the time in terms of wealth, grandeur, the arts, learning and architecture. the renaissance period changed the face of rome dramatically, with works like the pietà by michelangelo and the frescoes of the borgia apartments. rome reached the highest point of splendour under pope julius ii ( – ) and his successors leo x and clement vii, both members of the medici family. carnival in rome, c.  a view of the piazza navona, rome, hendrik frans van lint, c.  in this twenty-year period, rome became one of the greatest centres of art in the world. the old st. peter's basilica built by emperor constantine the great[ ] (which by then was in a dilapidated state) was demolished and a new one begun. the city hosted artists like ghirlandaio, perugino, botticelli and bramante, who built the temple of san pietro in montorio and planned a great project to renovate the vatican. raphael, who in rome became one of the most famous painters of italy, created frescoes in the villa farnesina, the raphael's rooms, plus many other famous paintings. michelangelo started the decoration of the ceiling of the sistine chapel and executed the famous statue of the moses for the tomb of julius ii. its economy was rich, with the presence of several tuscan bankers, including agostino chigi, who was a friend of raphael and a patron of arts. before his early death, raphael also promoted for the first time the preservation of the ancient ruins. the war of the league of cognac caused the first plunder of the city in more than five hundred years since the previous sack; in , the landsknechts of emperor charles v sacked the city, bringing an abrupt end to the golden age of the renaissance in rome.[ ] beginning with the council of trent in , the church began the counter-reformation in response to the reformation, a large-scale questioning of the church's authority on spiritual matters and governmental affairs. this loss of confidence led to major shifts of power away from the church.[ ] under the popes from pius iv to sixtus v, rome became the centre of a reformed catholicism and saw the building of new monuments which celebrated the papacy.[ ] the popes and cardinals of the th and early th centuries continued the movement by having the city's landscape enriched with baroque buildings.[ ] this was another nepotistic age; the new aristocratic families (barberini, pamphili, chigi, rospigliosi, altieri, odescalchi) were protected by their respective popes, who built huge baroque buildings for their relatives.[ ] during the age of enlightenment, new ideas reached the eternal city, where the papacy supported archaeological studies and improved the people's welfare.[ ] but not everything went well for the church during the counter-reformation. there were setbacks in the attempts to assert the church's power, a notable example being in when pope clement xiv was forced by secular powers to have the jesuit order suppressed.[ ] late modern and contemporary[edit] the rule of the popes was interrupted by the short-lived roman republic ( – ), which was established under the influence of the french revolution. the papal states were restored in june , but during napoleon's reign rome was annexed as a département of the french empire: first as département du tibre ( – ) and then as département rome ( – ). after the fall of napoleon, the papal states were reconstituted by a decision of the congress of vienna of . in , a second roman republic was proclaimed during a year of revolutions in . two of the most influential figures of the italian unification, giuseppe mazzini and giuseppe garibaldi, fought for the short-lived republic. rome then became the focus of hopes of italian reunification after the rest of italy was united as the kingdom of italy in with the temporary capital in florence. that year rome was declared the capital of italy even though it was still under the pope's control. during the s, the last vestiges of the papal states were under french protection thanks to the foreign policy of napoleon iii. french troops were stationed in the region under papal control. in the french troops were withdrawn due to the outbreak of the franco-prussian war. italian troops were able to capture rome entering the city through a breach near porta pia. pope pius ix declared himself a prisoner in the vatican. in the capital of italy was moved from florence to rome.[ ] in the population of the city was , , all of whom lived with the area circumscribed by the ancient city, and in , the population was , . a significant portion lived outside the walls in the north and across the tiber in the vatican area. bombardment of rome by allied planes, soon after world war i in late rome witnessed the rise of italian fascism led by benito mussolini, who led a march on the city. he did away with democracy by , eventually declaring a new italian empire and allying italy with nazi germany in . mussolini demolished fairly large parts of the city centre in order to build wide avenues and squares which were supposed to celebrate the fascist regime and the resurgence and glorification of classical rome.[ ] the interwar period saw a rapid growth in the city's population which surpassed one million inhabitants soon after . during world war ii, due to the art treasuries and the presence of the vatican, rome largely escaped the tragic destiny of other european cities. however, on july , the san lorenzo district was bombed by anglo-american forces, resulting in about , immediate deaths and , wounded of whom another , died. mussolini was arrested on july . on the date of the italian armistice september the city was occupied by the germans. the pope declared rome an open city. it was liberated on june . rome developed greatly after the war as part of the "italian economic miracle" of post-war reconstruction and modernisation in the s and early s. during this period, the years of la dolce vita ("the sweet life"), rome became a fashionable city, with popular classic films such as ben hur, quo vadis, roman holiday and la dolce vita filmed in the city's iconic cinecittà studios. the rising trend in population growth continued until the mid- s when the comune had more than . million residents. after this, the population declined slowly as people began to move to nearby suburbs. government[edit] see also: mayor of rome, city council of rome, elections in rome, and administrative subdivision of rome local government[edit] rome constitutes a comune speciale, named "roma capitale",[ ] and is the largest both in terms of land area and population among the , comuni of italy. it is governed by a mayor and a city council. the seat of the comune is the palazzo senatorio on the capitoline hill, the historic seat of the city government. the local administration in rome is commonly referred to as "campidoglio", the italian name of the hill. administrative and historical subdivisions[edit] the municipi of rome the piazza della repubblica, rome since , the city has been divided into administrative areas, called municipi (sing. municipio) (until named circoscrizioni).[ ] they were created for administrative reasons to increase decentralisation in the city. each municipio is governed by a president and a council of twenty-five members who are elected by its residents every five years. the municipi frequently cross the boundaries of the traditional, non-administrative divisions of the city. the municipi were originally , then ,[ ] and in , their number was reduced to .[ ] rome is also divided into differing types of non-administrative units. the historic centre is divided into rioni, all of which are located within the aurelian walls except prati and borgo. these originate from the regions of augustan rome, which evolved in the middle ages into the medieval rioni.[ ] in the renaissance, under pope sixtus v, they again reached fourteen, and their boundaries were finally defined under pope benedict xiv in . a new subdivision of the city under napoleon was ephemeral, and there were no serious changes in the organisation of the city until when rome became the third capital of italy. the needs of the new capital led to an explosion both in the urbanisation and in the population within and outside the aurelian walls. in , a fifteenth rione, esquilino, was created on the newly urbanised zone of monti. at the beginning of the th century other rioni were created (the last one was prati – the only one outside the walls of pope urban viii – in ). afterwards, for the new administrative subdivisions of the city, the term "quartiere" was used. today all the rioni are part of the first municipio, which therefore coincides completely with the historical city (centro storico). metropolitan and regional government[edit] rome is the principal town of the metropolitan city of rome, operative since january . the metropolitan city replaced the old provincia di roma, which included the city's metropolitan area and extends further north until civitavecchia. the metropolitan city of rome is the largest by area in italy. at , square kilometres ( ,  sq mi), its dimensions are comparable to the region of liguria. moreover, the city is also the capital of the lazio region.[ ] national government[edit] the palazzo del quirinale, now seat of the president of the italian republic rome is the national capital of italy and is the seat of the italian government. the official residences of the president of the italian republic and the italian prime minister, the seats of both houses of the italian parliament and that of the italian constitutional court are located in the historic centre. the state ministries are spread out around the city; these include the ministry of foreign affairs, which is located in palazzo della farnesina near the olympic stadium. geography[edit] location[edit] rome is in the lazio region of central italy on the tiber (italian: tevere) river. the original settlement developed on hills that faced onto a ford beside the tiber island, the only natural ford of the river in this area. the rome of the kings was built on seven hills: the aventine hill, the caelian hill, the capitoline hill, the esquiline hill, the palatine hill, the quirinal hill, and the viminal hill. modern rome is also crossed by another river, the aniene, which flows into the tiber north of the historic centre. although the city centre is about kilometres (  mi) inland from the tyrrhenian sea, the city territory extends to the shore, where the south-western district of ostia is located. the altitude of the central part of rome ranges from metres (  ft) above sea level (at the base of the pantheon) to metres (  ft) above sea level (the peak of monte mario).[ ] the comune of rome covers an overall area of about , square kilometres (  sq mi), including many green areas. topography[edit] satellite image of rome aerial view of part of rome's centro storico throughout the history of rome, the urban limits of the city were considered to be the area within the city's walls. originally, these consisted of the servian wall, which was built twelve years after the gaulish sack of the city in bc. this contained most of the esquiline and caelian hills, as well as the whole of the other five. rome outgrew the servian wall, but no more walls were constructed until almost years later, when, in ad, emperor aurelian began building the aurelian walls. these were almost kilometres (  mi) long, and were still the walls the troops of the kingdom of italy had to breach to enter the city in . the city's urban area is cut in two by its ring-road, the grande raccordo anulare ("gra"), finished in , which circles the city centre at a distance of about  km (  mi). although when the ring was completed most parts of the inhabited area lay inside it (one of the few exceptions was the former village of ostia, which lies along the tyrrhenian coast), in the meantime quarters have been built which extend up to  km (  mi) beyond it. the comune covers an area roughly three times the total area within the raccordo and is comparable in area to the entire metropolitan cities of milan and naples, and to an area six times the size of the territory of these cities. it also includes considerable areas of abandoned marshland which is suitable neither for agriculture nor for urban development. as a consequence, the density of the comune is not that high, its territory being divided between highly urbanised areas and areas designated as parks, nature reserves, and for agricultural use. climate[edit] main article: climate of rome stone pines in the villa doria pamphili rome has a mediterranean climate (köppen climate classification: csa),[ ] with hot, dry summers and mild, humid winters. its average annual temperature is above  °c (  °f) during the day and  °c (  °f) at night. in the coldest month, january, the average temperature is .  °c ( .  °f) during the day and .  °c ( .  °f) at night. in the warmest month, august, the average temperature is .  °c ( .  °f) during the day and .  °c ( .  °f) at night. december, january and february are the coldest months, with a daily mean temperature of approximately  °c (  °f). temperatures during these months generally vary between and  °c ( and  °f) during the day and between and  °c ( and  °f) at night, with colder or warmer spells occurring frequently. snowfall is rare but not unheard of, with light snow or flurries occurring on some winters, generally without accumulation, and major snowfalls on a very rare occurrence (the most recent ones were in , and ).[ ][ ][ ] the average relative humidity is %, varying from % in july to % in november. sea temperatures vary from a low of .  °c ( .  °f) in february to a high of .  °c ( .  °f) in august.[ ] 	climate data for rome urbe airport (altitude: m sl, km north from colosseum satellite view) 	month 	jan 	feb 	mar 	apr 	may 	jun 	jul 	aug 	sep 	oct 	nov 	dec 	year 	record high °c (°f) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	average high °c (°f) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	daily mean °c (°f) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	average low °c (°f) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	record low °c (°f) 	− . ( . ) 	− . ( . ) 	− . ( . ) 	− . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	− . ( . ) 	− . ( . ) 	− . ( . ) 	average precipitation mm (inches) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	 . ( . ) 	average precipitation days (≥  mm) 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	mean monthly sunshine hours 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 , 	source: servizio meteorologico[ ] ( – ) demographics[edit] main article: demographics of italy historical population	year	pop.	±% 	 	 , 	—     	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , , 	+ . % 	 	 , , 	+ . % 	 	 , , 	+ . % 	 	 , , 	+ . % 	 	 , , 	+ . % 	 	 , , 	− . % 	 	 , , 	− . % 	 	 , , 	− . % 	 	 , , 	+ . % 	source: istat, in bc, rome was the second largest city in italy, with tarentum being the largest.[citation needed] it had an area of about hectares ( acres) and an estimated population of , . other sources suggest the population was just under , from to bc.[ ][ ] when the republic was founded in bc the census recorded a population of , . the republic included the city itself and the immediate surroundings. other sources suggest a population of , in bc. it surpassed , in bc.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] the size of the city at the time of the emperor augustus is a matter of speculation, with estimates based on grain distribution, grain imports, aqueduct capacity, city limits, population density, census reports, and assumptions about the number of unreported women, children and slaves providing a very wide range. glenn storey estimates , people, whitney oates estimates . million, neville morely provides a rough estimate of , and excludes earlier suggestions of million.[ ][ ][ ][ ] estimates of the city's population vary. a.h.m. jones estimated the population at , in the mid-fifth century. the damage caused by the sackings may have been overestimated. the population had already started to decline from the late fourth century onward, although around the middle of the fifth century it seems that rome continued to be the most populous city of the two parts of the empire.[ ] according to krautheimer it was still close to , in ad; had declined to , by , and dwindled to perhaps , in ad. after the gothic wars, – , the population may have dwindled temporarily to , . during the pontificate of pope gregory i ( – ), it may have reached , , augmented by refugees.[ ] lancon estimates , based on the number of 'incisi' enrolled as eligible to receive bread, oil and wine rations; the number fell to , in the reform of .[ ] neil christie, citing free rations for the poorest, estimated , in the mid-fifth century and still a quarter of a million at the end of the century.[ ] novel of emperor valentinian iii records . million pounds of pork to be distributed to the needy at lbs. per month for the five winter months, sufficient for , recipients. this has been used to suggest a population of just under , . supplies of grain remained steady until the seizure of the remaining provinces of north africa in by the vandals, and may have continued to some degree afterwards for a while. the city's population declined to less than , people in the early middle ages from ad onward. it continued to stagnate or shrink until the renaissance.[ ] when the kingdom of italy annexed rome in , the city had a population of about , . less than half the city within the walls was built up in when the population recorded was , . this increased to , by the eve of world war i. the fascist regime of mussolini tried to block an excessive demographic rise of the city but failed to prevent it from reaching one million people by the early s.[citation needed][clarification needed] population growth continued after the second world war, helped by a post-war economic boom. a construction boom also created many suburbs during the s and s. in mid- , there were , , residents in the city proper, while some .  million people lived in the greater rome area (which can be approximately identified with its administrative metropolitan city, with a population density of about inhabitants/km stretching over more than ,  km ( ,  sq mi)). minors (children ages and younger) totalled . % of the population compared to pensioners who number . %. this compares with the italian average of . % (minors) and . % (pensioners). the average age of a roman resident is compared to the italian average of . in the five years between and , the population of rome grew by . %, while italy as a whole grew by . %.[ ] the current[when?] birth rate of rome is . births per , inhabitants compared to the italian average of . births.[citation needed] the urban area of rome extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of around . million.[ ] between . and . million people live in the rome metropolitan area.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] ethnic groups[edit] the esquilino rione according to the latest statistics conducted by istat,[ ] approximately . % of the population consists of non-italians. about half of the immigrant population consists of those of various other european origins (chiefly romanian, polish, ukrainian, and albanian) numbering a combined total of , or . % of the population. the remaining . % are those with non-european origins, chiefly filipinos ( , ), bangladeshis ( , ), and chinese ( , ). the esquilino rione, off termini railway station, has evolved into a largely immigrant neighbourhood. it is perceived as rome's chinatown. immigrants from more than a hundred different countries reside there. a commercial district, esquilino contains restaurants featuring many kinds of international cuisine. there are wholesale clothes shops. of the , or so commercial premises operating in the district are chinese-owned; around are run by immigrants from other countries around the world; are owned by italians.[ ] religion[edit] main article: religion in rome archbasilica of saint john lateran, rome's cathedral, built in , and partly rebuilt between and 	religion in rome ( ), percentage[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] 			 	catholicism	  	 . 	other or non-religious	  	 . 	eastern orthodoxy	  	 . 	islam	  	 . 	protestantism	  	 . 	judaism	  	 . 	hinduism	  	 . 	buddhism	  	 . much like the rest of italy, rome is predominantly christian, and the city has been an important centre of religion and pilgrimage for centuries, the base of the ancient roman religion with the pontifex maximus and later the seat of the vatican and the pope. before the arrival of the christians in rome, the religio romana (literally, the "roman religion") was the major religion of the city in classical antiquity. the first gods held sacred by the romans were jupiter, the most high, and mars, the god of war, and father of rome's twin founders, romulus and remus, according to tradition. other deities such as vesta and minerva were honoured. rome was also the base of several mystery cults, such as mithraism. later, after st peter and st paul were martyred in the city, and the first christians began to arrive, rome became christian, and the old st. peter's basilica was constructed in ad. despite some interruptions (such as the avignon papacy), rome has for centuries been the home of the roman catholic church and the bishop of rome, otherwise known as the pope. basilica di santa maria maggiore, one of the four papal major basilicas and has numerous architectural styles, built between the th century and despite the fact that rome is home to the vatican city and st. peter's basilica, rome's cathedral is the archbasilica of saint john lateran, in the south-east of the city centre. there are around churches in rome in total. aside from the cathedral itself, some others of note include the basilica di santa maria maggiore, the basilica of saint paul outside the walls, the basilica di san clemente, san carlo alle quattro fontane and the church of the gesù. there are also the ancient catacombs of rome underneath the city. numerous highly important religious educational institutions are also in rome, such as the pontifical lateran university, pontifical biblical institute, pontifical gregorian university, and pontifical oriental institute. in recent years, there has been growth in rome's muslim community, mainly due to immigration from north africa and the middle east into the city.[clarification needed] as a result of this increase of the local practitioners of the islamic faith, the comune promoted the building of the mosque of rome, which is the largest mosque in western europe, designed by architect paolo portoghesi and inaugurated on june . since the end of the roman republic, rome is also the centre of an important jewish community,[ ] which was once based in trastevere, and later in the roman ghetto. there lies also the major synagogue in rome, the tempio maggiore. vatican city[edit] main article: vatican city st. peter's square in vatican city the territory of vatican city is part of the mons vaticanus (vatican hill), and of the adjacent former vatican fields, where st. peter's basilica, the apostolic palace, the sistine chapel, and museums were built, along with various other buildings. the area was part of the roman rione of borgo until . being separated from the city on the west bank of the tiber, the area was a suburb that was protected by being included within the walls of leo iv, later expanded by the current fortification walls of paul iii, pius iv, and urban viii. when the lateran treaty of that created the vatican state was being prepared, the boundaries of the proposed territory were influenced by the fact that much of it was all but enclosed by this loop. for some parts of the border, there was no wall, but the line of certain buildings supplied part of the boundary, and for a small part a new wall was constructed. the territory includes saint peter's square, separated from the territory of italy only by a white line along with the limit of the square, where it borders piazza pio xii. st. peter's square is reached through the via della conciliazione, which runs from the tiber to st. peter's. this grand approach was designed by architects piacentini and spaccarelli, on the instructions of benito mussolini and in accordance with the church, after the conclusion of the lateran treaty. according to the treaty, certain properties of the holy see located in italian territory, most notably the papal palace of castel gandolfo and the major basilicas, enjoy extraterritorial status similar to that of foreign embassies. pilgrimage[edit] st. peter's basilica at night from via della conciliazione in rome rome has been a major christian pilgrimage site since the middle ages. people from all over the christian world visit vatican city, within the city of rome, the seat of the papacy. the city became a major pilgrimage site during the middle ages. apart from brief periods as an independent city during the middle ages, rome kept its status as papal capital and holy city for centuries, even when the papacy briefly relocated to avignon ( – ). catholics believe that the vatican is the last resting place of st. peter. pilgrimages to rome can involve visits to many sites, both within vatican city and in italian territory. a popular stopping point is the pilate's stairs: these are, according to the christian tradition, the steps that led up to the praetorium of pontius pilate in jerusalem, which jesus christ stood on during his passion on his way to trial.[ ] the stairs were, reputedly, brought to rome by helena of constantinople in the fourth century. for centuries, the scala santa has attracted christian pilgrims who wished to honour the passion of jesus. other objects of pilgrimage include several catacombs built in imperial times, in which christians prayed, buried their dead and performed worship during periods of persecution, and various national churches (among them san luigi dei francesi and santa maria dell'anima), or churches associated with individual religious orders, such as the jesuit churches of jesus and sant'ignazio. traditionally, pilgrims in rome (as well as devout romans) visit the seven pilgrim churches (italian: le sette chiese) in hours. this custom, mandatory for each pilgrim in the middle ages, was codified in the th century by saint philip neri. the seven churches are the four major basilicas (st peter in the vatican, st paul outside the walls, st john in lateran and santa maria maggiore), while the other three are san lorenzo fuori le mura (an early christian basilica), santa croce in gerusalemme (a church founded by helena, the mother of constantine, which hosts fragments of wood attributed to the holy cross) and san sebastiano fuori le mura (which lies on the appian way and is built above the catacombs of san sebastiano). cityscape[edit] see also: list of tourist attractions in rome and list of streets in rome architecture[edit] main articles: architecture of rome and churches of rome the pantheon, built as a temple dedicated to "all the gods of the past, present and future" the colosseum is still today the largest amphitheater in the world.[ ] it was used for gladiator shows and other public events (hunting shows, recreations of famous battles and dramas based on classical mythology). rome's architecture over the centuries has greatly developed, especially from the classical and imperial roman styles to modern fascist architecture. rome was for a period one of the world's main epicentres of classical architecture, developing new forms such as the arch, the dome and the vault.[ ] the romanesque style in the th, th, and th centuries was also widely used in roman architecture, and later the city became one of the main centres of renaissance, baroque and neoclassical architecture.[ ] ancient rome[edit] main articles: list of ancient monuments in rome and ancient roman architecture one of the symbols of rome is the colosseum ( – ad), the largest amphitheatre ever built in the roman empire. originally capable of seating , spectators, it was used for gladiatorial combat. important monuments and sites of ancient rome include the roman forum, the domus aurea, the pantheon, trajan's column, trajan's market, the catacombs, the circus maximus, the baths of caracalla, castel sant'angelo, the mausoleum of augustus, the ara pacis, the arch of constantine, the pyramid of cestius, and the bocca della verità. medieval[edit] the medieval popular quarters of the city, situated mainly around the capitol, were largely demolished between the end of the th century and the fascist period, but many notable buildings still remain. basilicas dating from christian antiquity include saint mary major and saint paul outside the walls (the latter largely rebuilt in the th century), both housing precious fourth century ad mosaics. notable later medieval mosaics and frescoes can be also found in the churches of santa maria in trastevere, santi quattro coronati, and santa prassede. secular buildings include a number of towers, the largest being the torre delle milizie and the torre dei conti, both next to the roman forum, and the huge outdoor stairway leading up to the basilica of santa maria in aracoeli. renaissance and baroque[edit] rome was a major world centre of the renaissance, second only to florence, and was profoundly affected by the movement. among others, a masterpiece of renaissance architecture in rome is the piazza del campidoglio by michelangelo. during this period, the great aristocratic families of rome used to build opulent dwellings as the palazzo del quirinale (now seat of the president of the italian republic), the palazzo venezia, the palazzo farnese, the palazzo barberini, the palazzo chigi (now seat of the italian prime minister), the palazzo spada, the palazzo della cancelleria, and the villa farnesina. panoramic view of piazza del campidoglio, with a copy of the equestrian statue of marcus aurelius many of the famous city's squares – some huge, majestic and often adorned with obelisks, some small and picturesque – took their present shape during the renaissance and baroque periods. the principal ones are piazza navona, the spanish steps, campo de' fiori, piazza venezia, piazza farnese, piazza della rotonda and piazza della minerva. one of the most emblematic examples of baroque art is the trevi fountain by nicola salvi. other notable th-century baroque palaces are the palazzo madama, now the seat of the italian senate, and the palazzo montecitorio, now the seat of the chamber of deputies of italy. neoclassicism[edit] the victor emmanuel ii monument in , rome became the capital city of the new kingdom of italy. during this time, neoclassicism, a building style influenced by the architecture of antiquity, became the predominant influence in roman architecture. during this period, many great palaces in neoclassical styles were built to host ministries, embassies, and other government agencies. one of the best-known symbols of roman neoclassicism is the monument to vittorio emanuele ii or "altar of the fatherland", where the grave of the unknown soldier, who represents the , italian soldiers who died in world war i, is located. fascist architecture[edit] the palazzo della civiltà italiana in eur district see also: fascist architecture the fascist regime that ruled in italy between and had its showcase in rome. mussolini ordered the construction of new roads and piazzas, resulting in the destruction of older roads, houses, churches and palaces erected during papal rule. the main activities during his government were: the "isolation" of the capitoline hill; via dei monti, later renamed via del'impero, and finally via dei fori imperiali; via del mare, later renamed via del teatro di marcello; the "isolation" of the mausoleum of augustus, with the erection of piazza augusto imperatore; and via della conciliazione. architecturally, italian fascism favoured the most modern movements, such as rationalism. parallel to this, in the s another style emerged, named "stile novecento", characterised by its links with ancient roman architecture. two important complexes in the latter style are the foro mussolini, now foro italico, by enrico del debbio, and the città universitaria ("university city"), by marcello piacentini, also author of the controversial destruction of part of the borgo rione to open via della conciliazione. the most important fascist site in rome is the eur district, designed in by piacentini. this new quarter emerged as a compromise between rationalist and novecento architects, the former being led by giuseppe pagano. the eur was originally conceived for the world exhibition, and was called "e. " ("esposizione "). the most representative buildings of eur are the palazzo della civiltà italiana ( – ), and the palazzo dei congressi, examples of the rationalist style. the world exhibition never took place, because italy entered the second world war in , and the buildings were partly destroyed in in fighting between the italian and german armies and later abandoned. the quarter was restored in the s when the roman authorities found that they already had the seed of an off-centre business district of the type that other capitals were still planning (london docklands and la défense in paris). also, the palazzo della farnesina, the current seat of the italian ministry of foreign affairs, was designed in in pure fascist style. parks and gardens[edit] main article: list of parks and gardens in rome the temple of aesculapius, in the villa borghese gardens public parks and nature reserves cover a large area in rome, and the city has one of the largest areas of green space among european capitals.[ ] the most notable part of this green space is represented by the large number of villas and landscaped gardens created by the italian aristocracy. while most of the parks surrounding the villas were destroyed during the building boom of the late th century, some of them remain. the most notable of these are the villa borghese, villa ada, and villa doria pamphili. villa doria pamphili is west of the gianicolo hill, comprising some . square kilometres ( .  sq mi). the villa sciarra is on the hill, with playgrounds for children and shaded walking areas. in the nearby area of trastevere, the orto botanico (botanical garden) is a cool and shady green space. the old roman hippodrome (circus maximus) is another large green space: it has few trees but is overlooked by the palatine and the rose garden ('roseto comunale'). nearby is the lush villa celimontana, close to the gardens surrounding the baths of caracalla. the villa borghese garden is the best known large green space in rome, with famous art galleries among its shaded walks. overlooking piazza del popolo and the spanish steps are the gardens of pincio and villa medici. there is also a notable pine wood at castelfusano, near ostia. rome also has a number of regional parks of much more recent origin, including the pineto regional park and the appian way regional park. there are also nature reserves at marcigliana and at tenuta di castelporziano. fountains and aqueducts[edit] main articles: list of fountains in rome and list of aqueducts in the city of rome the trevi fountain. construction began during the time of ancient rome and was completed in by a design of nicola salvi. rome is a city famous for its numerous fountains, built-in all different styles, from classical and medieval, to baroque and neoclassical. the city has had fountains for more than two thousand years, and they have provided drinking water and decorated the piazzas of rome. during the roman empire, in ad, according to sextus julius frontinus, the roman consul who was named curator aquarum or guardian of the water of the city, rome had nine aqueducts which fed monumental fountains and public basins, not counting the water supplied to the imperial household, baths, and owners of private villas. each of the major fountains was connected to two different aqueducts, in case one was shut down for service.[ ] during the th and th century, the roman popes reconstructed other ruined roman aqueducts and built new display fountains to mark their termini, launching the golden age of the roman fountain. the fountains of rome, like the paintings of rubens, were expressions of the new style of baroque art. they were crowded with allegorical figures and filled with emotion and movement. in these fountains, sculpture became the principal element, and the water was used simply to animate and decorate the sculptures. they, like baroque gardens, were "a visual representation of confidence and power".[ ] statues[edit] see also: talking statues of rome fontana dei fiumi by gian lorenzo bernini, rome is well known for its statues but, in particular, the talking statues of rome. these are usually ancient statues which have become popular soapboxes for political and social discussion, and places for people to (often satirically) voice their opinions. there are two main talking statues: the pasquino and the marforio, yet there are four other noted ones: il babuino, madama lucrezia, il facchino and abbot luigi. most of these statues are ancient roman or classical, and most of them also depict mythical gods, ancient people or legendary figures; il pasquino represents menelaus, abbot luigi is an unknown roman magistrate, il babuino is supposed to be silenus, marforio represents oceanus, madama lucrezia is a bust of isis, and il facchino is the only non-roman statue, created in , and not representing anyone in particular. they are often, due to their status, covered with placards or graffiti expressing political ideas and points of view. other statues in the city, which are not related to the talking statues, include those of the ponte sant'angelo, or several monuments scattered across the city, such as that to giordano bruno in the campo de'fiori. obelisks and columns[edit] main article: list of obelisks in rome flaminio obelisk, piazza del popolo the city hosts eight ancient egyptian and five ancient roman obelisks, together with a number of more modern obelisks; there was also formerly (until ) an ancient ethiopian obelisk in rome.[ ] the city contains some of obelisks in piazzas, such as in piazza navona, st peter's square, piazza montecitorio, and piazza del popolo, and others in villas, thermae parks and gardens, such as in villa celimontana, the baths of diocletian, and the pincian hill. moreover, the centre of rome hosts also trajan's and antonine column, two ancient roman columns with spiral relief. the column of marcus aurelius is located in piazza colonna and it was built around ad by commodus in memory of his parents. the column of marcus aurelius was inspired by trajan's column at trajan's forum, which is part of the imperial fora[ ] bridges[edit] main article: list of bridges in rome ponte vittorio emanuele ii at sunset the city of rome contains numerous famous bridges which cross the tiber. the only bridge to remain unaltered until today from the classical age is ponte dei quattro capi, which connects the isola tiberina with the left bank. the other surviving – albeit modified – ancient roman bridges crossing the tiber are ponte cestio, ponte sant'angelo and ponte milvio. considering ponte nomentano, also built during ancient rome, which crosses the aniene, currently there are five ancient roman bridges still remaining in the city.[ ] other noteworthy bridges are ponte sisto, the first bridge built in the renaissance above roman foundations; ponte rotto, actually the only remaining arch of the ancient pons aemilius, collapsed during the flood of and demolished at the end of the th century; and ponte vittorio emanuele ii, a modern bridge connecting corso vittorio emanuele and borgo. most of the city's public bridges were built in classical or renaissance style, but also in baroque, neoclassical and modern styles. according to the encyclopædia britannica, the finest ancient bridge remaining in rome is the ponte sant'angelo, which was completed in ad, and was decorated with ten statues of the angels, designed by bernini in .[ ] catacombs[edit] main article: catacombs of rome the vatican caves, the place where many popes are buried rome has an extensive amount of ancient catacombs, or underground burial places under or near the city, of which there are at least forty, some discovered only in recent decades. though most famous for christian burials, they include pagan and jewish burials, either in separate catacombs or mixed together. the first large-scale catacombs were excavated from the nd century onwards. originally they were carved through tuff, a soft volcanic rock, outside the boundaries of the city, because roman law forbade burial places within city limits. currently, maintenance of the catacombs is in the hands of the papacy which has invested in the salesians of don bosco the supervision of the catacombs of st. callixtus on the outskirts of rome. economy[edit] as the capital of italy, rome hosts all the principal institutions of the nation, including the presidency of the republic, the government (and its single ministeri), the parliament, the main judicial courts, and the diplomatic representatives of all the countries for the states of italy and vatican city. many international institutions are located in rome, notably cultural and scientific ones, such as the american institute, the british school, the french academy, the scandinavian institutes, and the german archaeological institute. there are also specialised agencies of the united nations, such as the fao. rome also hosts major international and worldwide political and cultural organisations, such as the international fund for agricultural development (ifad), world food programme (wfp), the nato defense college and the international centre for the study of the preservation and restoration of cultural property (iccrom). panoramic view of the eur business district according to the gawc study of world cities, rome is a "beta +" city.[ ] the city was ranked in as nd in the global cities index, the highest in italy.[ ] with a gdp of € .  billion (us$ .  billion),[ ][needs update] the city produces . % of the national gdp (more than any other single city in italy), and its unemployment rate, lowered from . % to . % between and , is now one of the lowest rates of all the european union capital cities.[ ] rome's economy grows at around . % annually and continues to grow at a higher rate in comparison to any other city in the rest of the country.[ ] this means that were rome a country, it would be the world's nd richest country by gdp, near to the size to that of egypt. rome also had a gdp per capita of € , (us$ , ), which was second in italy, (after milan), and is more than . % of the eu average gdp per capita.[ ][needs update] rome, on the whole, has the highest total earnings in italy, reaching € , , , in ,[ ][needs update] yet, in terms of average workers' incomes, the city places itself th in italy, with € , .[ ] on a global level, rome's workers receive the th highest wages in , coming three places higher than in , in which the city ranked rd.[ ][needs update] the rome area had a gdp amounting to $ . billion, and $ , per capita.[ ] rome chamber of commerce in the ancient temple of hadrian although the economy of rome is characterised by the absence of heavy industry and it is largely dominated by services, high-technology companies (it, aerospace, defence, telecommunications), research, construction and commercial activities (especially banking), and the huge development of tourism are very dynamic and extremely important to its economy. rome's international airport, fiumicino, is the largest in italy, and the city hosts the head offices of the vast majority of the major italian companies, as well as the headquarters of three of the world's largest companies: enel, eni, and telecom italia.[ ] universities, national radio and television and the movie industry in rome are also important parts of the economy: rome is also the hub of the italian film industry, thanks to the cinecittà studios, working since the s. the city is also a centre for banking and insurance as well as electronics, energy, transport, and aerospace industries. numerous international companies and agencies headquarters, government ministries, conference centres, sports venues, and museums are located in rome's principal business districts: the esposizione universale roma (eur); the torrino (further south from the eur); the magliana; the parco de' medici-laurentina and the so-called tiburtina-valley along the ancient via tiburtina. education[edit] the sapienza university of rome, founded in rome is a nationwide and major international centre for higher education, containing numerous academies, colleges and universities. it boasts a large variety of academies and colleges, and has always been a major worldwide intellectual and educational centre, especially during ancient rome and the renaissance, along with florence.[ ] according to the city brands index, rome is considered the world's second most historically, educationally and culturally interesting and beautiful city.[ ] rome has many universities and colleges. its first university, la sapienza (founded in ), is one of the largest in the world, with more than , students attending; in it ranked as europe's rd best university[ ] and in the sapienza university of rome ranked as the nd in the world and the top in italy in its world university rankings.[ ] and has been ranked among europe's and the world's best colleges.[ ] in order to decrease the overcrowding of la sapienza, two new public universities were founded during the last decades: tor vergata in , and roma tre in . rome hosts also the luiss school of government,[ ] italy's most important graduate university in the areas of international affairs and european studies as well as luiss business school, italy's most important business school. rome isia was founded in by giulio carlo argan and is italy's oldest institution in the field of industrial design. biblioteca casanatense rome contains many pontifical universities and other institutes, including the british school at rome, the french school in rome, the pontifical gregorian university (the oldest jesuit university in the world, founded in ), istituto europeo di design, the scuola lorenzo de' medici, the link campus of malta, and the università campus bio-medico. rome is also the location of two american universities; the american university of rome[ ] and john cabot university as well as st. john's university branch campus, john felice rome center, a campus of loyola university chicago and temple university rome, a campus of temple university.[ ] the roman colleges are several seminaries for students from foreign countries studying for the priesthood at the pontifical universities.[ ] examples include the venerable english college, the pontifical north american college, the scots college, and the pontifical croatian college of st. jerome. national central library rome's major libraries include: the biblioteca angelica, opened in , making it italy's first public library; the biblioteca vallicelliana, established in ; the biblioteca casanatense, opened in ; the national central library, one of the two national libraries in italy, which contains , , volumes; the biblioteca del ministero degli affari esteri, specialised in diplomacy, foreign affairs and modern history; the biblioteca dell'istituto dell'enciclopedia italiana; the biblioteca don bosco, one of the largest and most modern of all salesian libraries; the biblioteca e museo teatrale del burcardo, a museum-library specialised in history of drama and theatre; the biblioteca della società geografica italiana, which is based in the villa celimontana and is the most important geographical library in italy, and one of europe's most important;[ ] and the vatican library, one of the oldest and most important libraries in the world, which was formally established in , though in fact much older and has , codices, as well as . million printed books, which include some , incunabula. there are also many specialist libraries attached to various foreign cultural institutes in rome, among them that of the american academy in rome, the french academy in rome and the bibliotheca hertziana – max planck institute of art history, a german library, often noted for excellence in the arts and sciences;[ ] culture[edit] main article: culture in rome entertainment and performing arts[edit] main articles: music of rome and events in rome the teatro dell'opera di roma at the piazza beniamino gigli rome is an important centre for music, and it has an intense musical scene, including several prestigious music conservatories and theatres. it hosts the accademia nazionale di santa cecilia (founded in ), for which new concert halls have been built in the new parco della musica, one of the largest musical venues in the world. rome also has an opera house, the teatro dell'opera di roma, as well as several minor musical institutions. the city also played host to the eurovision song contest in and the mtv europe music awards in . rome has also had a major impact on music history. the roman school was a group of composers of predominantly church music, which were active in the city during the th and th centuries, therefore spanning the late renaissance and early baroque eras. the term also refers to the music they produced. many of the composers had a direct connection to the vatican and the papal chapel, though they worked at several churches; stylistically they are often contrasted with the venetian school of composers, a concurrent movement which was much more progressive. by far the most famous composer of the roman school is giovanni pierluigi da palestrina, whose name has been associated for four hundred years with smooth, clear, polyphonic perfection. however, there were other composers working in rome, and in a variety of styles and forms. between and rome was considered to be as a “new hollywood” because of the many actors and directors who worked there; via vittorio veneto had transformed into a glamour place where you could meet famous people.[ ] tourism[edit] main article: tourism in rome the spanish steps ostia lido beach rome today is one of the most important tourist destinations of the world, due to the incalculable immensity of its archaeological and artistic treasures, as well as for the charm of its unique traditions, the beauty of its panoramic views, and the majesty of its magnificent "villas" (parks). among the most significant resources are the many museums – musei capitolini, the vatican museums and the galleria borghese and others dedicated to modern and contemporary art – aqueducts, fountains, churches, palaces, historical buildings, the monuments and ruins of the roman forum, and the catacombs. rome is the third most visited city in the eu, after london and paris, and receives an average of –  million tourists a year, which sometimes doubles on holy years. the colosseum (  million tourists) and the vatican museums ( .  million tourists) are the th and th (respectively) most visited places in the world, according to a recent study.[ ] rome is a major archaeological hub, and one of the world's main centres of archaeological research. there are numerous cultural and research institutes located in the city, such as the american academy in rome,[ ] and the swedish institute at rome.[ ] rome contains numerous ancient sites, including the forum romanum, trajan's market, trajan's forum,[ ] the colosseum, and the pantheon, to name but a few. the colosseum, arguably one of rome's most iconic archaeological sites, is regarded as a wonder of the world.[ ][ ] rome contains a vast and impressive collection of art, sculpture, fountains, mosaics, frescos, and paintings, from all different periods. rome first became a major artistic centre during ancient rome, with forms of important roman art such as architecture, painting, sculpture and mosaic work. metal-work, coin die and gem engraving, ivory carvings, figurine glass, pottery, and book illustrations are considered to be 'minor' forms of roman artwork.[ ] rome later became a major centre of renaissance art, since the popes spent vast sums of money for the constructions of grandiose basilicas, palaces, piazzas and public buildings in general. rome became one of europe's major centres of renaissance artwork, second only to florence, and able to compare to other major cities and cultural centres, such as paris and venice. the city was affected greatly by the baroque, and rome became the home of numerous artists and architects, such as bernini, caravaggio, carracci, borromini and cortona.[ ] in the late th century and early th century, the city was one of the centres of the grand tour,[ ] when wealthy, young english and other european aristocrats visited the city to learn about ancient roman culture, art, philosophy, and architecture. rome hosted a great number of neoclassical and rococo artists, such as pannini and bernardo bellotto. today, the city is a major artistic centre, with numerous art institutes[ ] and museums. internal view of the colosseum the vatican museums are the rd most visited art museum in the world. rome has a growing stock of contemporary and modern art and architecture. the national gallery of modern art has works by balla, morandi, pirandello, carrà, de chirico, de pisis, guttuso, fontana, burri, mastroianni, turcato, kandisky, and cézanne on permanent exhibition. saw the opening of rome's newest arts foundation, a contemporary art and architecture gallery designed by acclaimed iraqi architect zaha hadid. known as maxxi – national museum of the st century arts it restores a dilapidated area with striking modern architecture. maxxi[ ] features a campus dedicated to culture, experimental research laboratories, international exchange and study and research. it is one of rome's most ambitious modern architecture projects alongside renzo piano's auditorium parco della musica[ ] and massimiliano fuksas' rome convention center, centro congressi italia eur, in the eur district, due to open in .[ ] the convention centre features a huge translucent container inside which is suspended a steel and teflon structure resembling a cloud and which contains meeting rooms and an auditorium with two piazzas open to the neighbourhood on either side. fashion[edit] via condotti rome is also widely recognised as a world fashion capital. although not as important as milan, rome is the fourth most important centre for fashion in the world, according to the global language monitor after milan, new york, and paris, and beating london.[ ] major luxury fashion houses and jewellery chains, such as valentino, bulgari, fendi,[ ] laura biagiotti, brioni, and renato balestra, are headquartered or were founded in the city. also, other major labels, such as gucci, chanel, prada, dolce & gabbana, armani, and versace have luxury boutiques in rome, primarily along its prestigious and upscale via dei condotti. cuisine[edit] main article: roman cuisine spaghetti alla carbonara, a typical roman dish concia di zucchine, an example of roman-jewish cuisine rome's cuisine has evolved through centuries and periods of social, cultural, and political changes. rome became a major gastronomical centre during the ancient age. ancient roman cuisine was highly influenced by ancient greek culture, and after, the empire's enormous expansion exposed romans to many new, provincial culinary habits and cooking techniques. later, during the renaissance, rome became well known as a centre of high-cuisine, since some of the best chefs of the time worked for the popes. an example of this was bartolomeo scappi, who was a chef working for pius iv in the vatican kitchen, and he acquired fame in when his cookbook opera dell'arte del cucinare was published. in the book he lists approximately recipes of the renaissance cuisine and describes cooking techniques and tools, giving the first known picture of a fork.[ ] in the modern age, the city developed its own peculiar cuisine, based on products of the nearby campagna, as lamb and vegetables (globe artichokes are common).[ ] in parallel, roman jews – present in the city since the st century bc – developed their own cuisine, the cucina giudaico-romanesca. examples of roman dishes include "saltimbocca alla romana" – a veal cutlet, roman-style; topped with raw ham and sage and simmered with white wine and butter; "carciofi alla romana" – artichokes roman-style; outer leaves removed, stuffed with mint, garlic, breadcrumbs and braised; "carciofi alla giudia" – artichokes fried in olive oil, typical of roman jewish cooking; outer leaves removed, stuffed with mint, garlic, breadcrumbs and braised; "spaghetti alla carbonara" – spaghetti with bacon, eggs and pecorino, and "gnocchi di semolino alla romana" – semolina dumpling, roman-style, to name but a few.[ ] cinema[edit] main articles: list of films set in rome and list of films set in ancient rome roman holiday with audrey hepburn and gregory peck, rome hosts the cinecittà studios,[ ] the largest film and television production facility in continental europe and the centre of the italian cinema, where many of today's biggest box office hits are filmed. the -acre (  ha) studio complex is . kilometres ( .  mi) from the centre of rome and is part of one of the biggest production communities in the world, second only to hollywood, with well over , professionals – from period costume makers to visual effects specialists. more than , productions have been made on its lot, from recent features like the passion of the christ, gangs of new york, hbo's rome, the life aquatic and dino de laurentiis' decameron, to such cinema classics as ben-hur, cleopatra, and the films of federico fellini.[citation needed] founded in by benito mussolini, the studios were bombed by the western allies during the second world war. in the s, cinecittà was the filming location for several large american film productions, and subsequently became the studio most closely associated with federico fellini. today, cinecittà is the only studio in the world with pre-production, production, and full post-production facilities on one lot, allowing directors and producers to walk in with their script and "walkout" with a completed film.[citation needed] language[edit] 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to 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(july ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) main articles: roman dialect and latin latin inscription, national roman museum although associated today only with latin, ancient rome was in fact multilingual. in the highest antiquity, sabine tribes shared the area of what is today rome with latin tribes. the sabine language was one of the italic group of ancient italian languages, along with etruscan, which would have been the main language of the last three kings who ruled the city till the founding of the republic in bc. urganilla, or plautia urgulanilla, wife of emperor claudius, is thought to have been a speaker of etruscan many centuries after this date, according to suetonius' entry on claudius. however latin, in various evolving forms, was the main language of classical rome, but as the city had immigrants, slaves, residents, ambassadors from many parts of the world it was also multilingual. many educated romans also spoke greek, and there was a large greek, syriac and jewish population in parts of rome from well before the empire. latin evolved during the middle ages into a new language, the "volgare". the latter emerged as the confluence of various regional dialects, among which the tuscan dialect predominated, but the population of rome also developed its own dialect, the romanesco. the romanesco spoken during the middle ages was more like a southern italian dialect, very close to the neapolitan language in campania. the influence of the florentine culture during the renaissance, and above all, the immigration to rome of many florentines following the two medici popes (leo x and clement vii), caused a major shift in the dialect, which began to resemble more the tuscan varieties. this remained largely confined to rome until the th century, but then expanded to other zones of lazio (civitavecchia, latina and others), from the beginning of the th century, thanks to the rising population of rome and to improving transportation systems. as a consequence of education and media like radio and television, romanesco became more similar to standard italian. dialectal literature in the traditional form of romanesco includes the works of such authors as giuseppe gioachino belli (one of the most important italian poets altogether), trilussa and cesare pascarella. it is worth remembering though that romanesco was a "lingua vernacola" (vernacular language), meaning that for centuries, it did not have a written form but it was only spoken by the population. contemporary romanesco is mainly represented by popular actors and actresses, such as alberto sordi, aldo fabrizi, anna magnani. carlo verdone, enrico montesano, gigi proietti and nino manfredi. rome's historic contribution to language in a worldwide sense is much more extensive, however. through the process of romanization, the peoples of italy, gallia, the iberian peninsula and dacia developed languages which derive directly from latin and were adopted in large areas of the world, all through cultural influence, colonisation and migration. moreover, also modern english, because of the norman conquest, borrowed a large percentage of its vocabulary from the latin language. the roman or latin alphabet is the most widely used writing system in the world used by the greatest number of languages.[ ] rome has long hosted artistic communities, foreign resident communities and many foreign religious students or pilgrims and so has always been a multilingual city. today because of mass tourism, many languages are used in servicing tourism, especially english which is widely known in tourist areas, and the city hosts large numbers of immigrants and so has many multilingual immigrant areas. sports[edit] stadio olimpico, home of a.s. roma and s.s. lazio, is one of the largest in europe, with a capacity of over , .[ ] association football is the most popular sport in rome, as in the rest of the country. the city hosted the final games of the and fifa world cup. the latter took place in the stadio olimpico, which is also the shared home stadium for local serie a clubs s.s. lazio, founded in , and a.s. roma, founded in , whose rivalry in the derby della capitale has become a staple of roman sports culture.[ ] footballers who play for these teams and are also born in the city tend to become especially popular, as has been the case with players such as francesco totti and daniele de rossi (both for a.s. roma), and alessandro nesta (for s.s. lazio). stadio dei marmi rome hosted the summer olympics, with great success, using many ancient sites such as the villa borghese and the thermae of caracalla as venues. for the olympic games many new facilities were built, notably the new large olympic stadium (which was then enlarged and renewed to host several matches and the final of the fifa world cup), the stadio flaminio, the villaggio olimpico (olympic village, created to host the athletes and redeveloped after the games as a residential district), ecc. rome made a bid to host the summer olympics but it was withdrawn before the deadline for applicant files.[ ][ ] further, rome hosted the eurobasket and is home to the internationally recognised basketball team virtus roma. rugby union is gaining wider acceptance. until the stadio flaminio was the home stadium for the italy national rugby union team, which has been playing in the six nations championship since . the team now plays home games at the stadio olimpico because the stadio flaminio needs works of renovation in order to improve both its capacity and safety. rome is home to local rugby union teams such as rugby roma (founded in and winner of five italian championships, the latter in – ), unione rugby capitolina and s.s. lazio (rugby union branch of the multisport club s.s. lazio). every may, rome hosts the atp masters series tennis tournament on the clay courts of the foro italico. cycling was popular in the post-world war ii period, although its popularity has faded. rome has hosted the final portion of the giro d'italia three times, in , , and . rome is also home to other sports teams, including volleyball (m. roma volley), handball or waterpolo. transport[edit] main article: transport in rome rome–fiumicino airport was the tenth busiest airport in europe in . port of civitavecchia rome is at the centre of the radial network of roads that roughly follow the lines of the ancient roman roads which began at the capitoline hill and connected rome with its empire. today rome is circled, at a distance of about  km (  mi) from the capitol, by the ring-road (the grande raccordo anulare or gra). due to its location in the centre of the italian peninsula, rome is the principal railway node for central italy. rome's main railway station, termini, is one of the largest railway stations in europe and the most heavily used in italy, with around thousand travellers passing through every day. the second-largest station in the city, roma tiburtina, has been redeveloped as a high-speed rail terminus.[ ] as well as frequent high-speed day trains to all major italian cities, rome is linked nightly by 'boat train' sleeper services to sicily, and internationally by overnight sleeper services to munich and vienna by Öbb austrian railways. rome is served by three airports. the intercontinental leonardo da vinci international airport, italy's chief airport is located within the nearby fiumicino, south-west of rome. the older rome ciampino airport is a joint civilian and military airport. it is commonly referred to as "ciampino airport", as it is located beside ciampino, south-east of rome. a third airport, the roma-urbe airport, is a small, low-traffic airport located about  km (  mi) north of the city centre, which handles most helicopter and private flights. although the city has its own quarter on the mediterranean sea (lido di ostia), this has only a marina and a small channel-harbour for fishing boats. the main harbour which serves rome is port of civitavecchia, located about kilometres ( miles) northwest of the city.[ ] the city suffers from traffic problems largely due to this radial street pattern, making it difficult for romans to move easily from the vicinity of one of the radial roads to another without going into the historic centre or using the ring-road. these problems are not helped by the limited size of rome's metro system when compared to other cities of similar size. in addition, rome has only taxis for every , inhabitants, far below other major european cities.[ ] chronic congestion caused by cars during the s and s led to restrictions being placed on vehicle access to the inner city-centre during the hours of daylight. areas, where these restrictions apply, are known as limited traffic zones (zona a traffico limitato (ztl) in italian). more recently, heavy night-time traffic in trastevere, testaccio and san lorenzo has led to the creation of night-time ztls in those districts. roma metrorail and underground map, conca d'oro metro station a -line metro system called the metropolitana operates in rome. construction on the first branch started in the s.[ ] the line had been planned to quickly connect the main railway station with the newly planned e area in the southern suburbs, where the world fair was supposed to be held. the event never took place because of war, but the area was later partly redesigned and renamed eur (esposizione universale di roma: rome universal exhibition) in the s to serve as a modern business district. the line was finally opened in , and it is now the south part of the b line. the a line opened in from ottaviano to anagnina stations, later extended in stages ( – ) to battistini. in the s, an extension of the b line was opened from termini to rebibbia. this underground network is generally reliable (although it may become very congested at peak times and during events, especially the a line) as it is relatively short. the a and b lines intersect at roma termini station. a new branch of the b line (b ) opened on june after an estimated building cost of €  million. b connects to line b at piazza bologna and has four stations over a distance of .  km (  mi). a third line, the c line, is under construction with an estimated cost of €  billion and will have stations over a distance of .  km (  mi). it will partly replace the existing termini-pantano rail line. it will feature full automated, driverless trains.[ ] the first section with stations connecting pantano with the quarter of centocelle in the eastern part of the city, opened on november .[ ] the end of the work was scheduled in , but archaeological findings often delay underground construction work. a fourth line, d line, is also planned. it will have stations over a distance of  km (  mi). the first section was projected to open in and the final sections before , but due to the city's financial crisis, the project has been put on hold. above-ground public transport in rome is made up of a bus, tram and urban train network (fr lines). the bus, tram, metro and urban railways network is run by atac s.p.a. (which originally stood for the municipal bus and tramways company, azienda tramvie e autobus del comune in italian). the bus network has in excess of bus lines and over eight thousand bus stops, whereas the more-limited tram system has  km (  mi) of track and stops.[ ] there is also one trolleybus line, opened in , and additional trolleybus lines are planned.[ ] international entities, organisations and involvement[edit] fao headquarters in rome, circo massimo wfp headquarters in rome among the global cities, rome is unique in having two sovereign entities located entirely within its city limits, the holy see, represented by the vatican city state, and the territorially smaller sovereign military order of malta. the vatican is an enclave of the italian capital city and a sovereign possession of the holy see, which is the diocese of rome and the supreme government of the roman catholic church. rome, therefore, hosts foreign embassies to the italian government, to the holy see, to the order of malta and to certain international organisations. several international roman colleges and pontifical universities are located in rome. the pope is the bishop of rome and its official seat is the archbasilica of saint john lateran (of which the president of the french republic is ex officio the "first and only honorary canon", a title held by the heads of the french state since king henry iv of france). another body, the sovereign military order of malta (smom), took refuge in rome in , due to the conquest of malta by napoleon in . it is sometimes classified as having sovereignty but does not claim any territory in rome or anywhere else, hence leading to dispute over its actual sovereign status. rome is the seat of the so-called polo romano[ ] made up by three main international agencies of the united nations: the food and agriculture organization (fao), the world food programme (wfp) and the international fund for agricultural development (ifad). rome has traditionally been involved in the process of european political integration. the treaties of the eu are located in palazzo della farnesina, the seat of the ministry of foreign affairs, because the italian government is the depositary of the treaties. in the city hosted the signing of the treaty of rome, which established the european economic community (predecessor to the european union), and also played host to the official signing of the proposed european constitution in july . rome is the seat of the european olympic committee and of the nato defense college. the city is the place where the statute of the international criminal court and the european convention on human rights were formulated. the city hosts also other important international entities such as the idlo (international development law organisation), the iccrom (international centre for the study of the preservation and restoration of cultural property) and the unidroit (international institute for the unification of private law). international relations[edit] twin towns and sister cities[edit] see also: list of twin towns and sister cities in italy sculpture dedicated to rome in the square paul painlevé in paris column dedicated to paris in near the baths of diocletian since april , rome is exclusively and reciprocally twinned only with: 	 paris, france, 	solo parigi è degna di roma; solo roma è degna di parigi. (in italian) 	seule paris est digne de rome; seule rome est digne de paris. (in french) 	"only paris is worthy of rome; only rome is worthy of paris."[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] other relationships[edit] 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (september ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) rome's other partner cities are:[ ] 	 achacachi, bolivia 	 algiers, algeria 	 beijing, china[ ][ ] 	 belgrade, serbia 	 brasília, brazil 	 buenos aires, argentina 	 cairo, egypt 	 cincinnati, united states 	 kyiv, ukraine 	 kobanî, syria[ ] 	 kraków, poland[ ] 	 madrid, spain[ ] 	 multan, pakistan[ ] 	 new delhi, india 	 new york city, united states[ ] 	 plovdiv, bulgaria 	 seoul, south korea[ ][ ] 	 sydney, australia 	 tirana, albania[ ][ ] 	 tehran, iran 	 tokyo, japan[ ] 	 tongeren, belgium 	 tunis, tunisia[ ] 	 washington, d.c., united states[ ] see also[edit] 	italy portal 	outline of rome 	tourism in italy notes[edit] 	^ excluding vatican city. 	^ this hypothesis originates from the roman grammarian maurus servius honoratus. however, the greek verb descends from the proto-indo-european root *srew- (compare ancient greek ῥεῦμα (rheûma) 'a stream, flow, current', the thracian river name Στρυμών (strumṓn) and proto-germanic *strauma- 'stream'; if it was related, however, the latin river name would be expected to begin with **frum-, like latin frīgeō 'to freeze' from the root *sreyhg-) and the latin verb from *h₃rew-. 	^ this hypothesis originates from plutarch. references[edit] 	^ a b "i numeri di roma capitale" (pdf). comune di roma. december . archived (pdf) from the original on may . retrieved may . 	^ a b "popolazione residente al ° gennaio". 	^ "principal agglomerations of the world". citypopulation. january . 	^ "what is the smallest country in the world?". history.com. retrieved september . 	^ "discorsi del presidente ciampi". presidenza della repubblica. archived from the original on september . retrieved may . 	^ "le istituzioni salutano benedetto xvi". la repubblica. archived from the original on march . retrieved may . 	^ a b heiken, g., funiciello, r. and de rita, d. 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	this article needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. find sources: "technological history of the roman military" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · jstor (october ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) 	 	part of a series on the 	military of ancient rome bc – ad 	 structural history 	 army 	 	unit types and ranks 	decorations and punishments 	legions 	auxilia 	generals 	 navy 	 	fleets 	admirals 	 campaign history 	wars and battles 	 technological history 	 military engineering 	 	castra 	siege engines 	triumphal arches 	roads 	 political history   	 strategy and tactics 	 	infantry tactics 	 frontiers and fortifications 	 	limes 	limes britannicus 	antonine wall 	hadrian's wall 	saxon shore 	limes germanicus 	alb limes 	lauter valley limes 	lower germanic limes 	main limes 	neckar-odenwald limes 	upper germanic-rhaetian limes 	wetterau limes 	danube–iller–rhine limes 	norican limes 	claustra alpium iuliarum 	pannonian limes 	limes alutanus 	limes moesiae 	trajan's wall 	anastasian wall 	limes sarmatiae 	limes arabicus 	limes tripolitanus 	limes mauretaniae 	  ancient rome portal •  war portal 		v 	t 	e the technology history of the roman military covers the development of and application of technologies for use in the armies and navies of rome from the roman republic to the fall of the western roman empire. the rise of hellenism and the roman republic are generally seen as signalling the end of the iron age in the mediterranean. roman iron-working was enhanced by a process known as carburization. the romans used the better properties in their armaments, and the , years of roman military technology saw radical changes. the roman armies of the early empire were much better equipped than early republican armies. metals used for arms and armor primarily included iron, bronze, and brass. for construction, the army used wood, earth, and stone. the later use of concrete in architecture was widely mirrored in roman military technology, especially in the application of a military workforce to civilian construction projects.[ ] contents 	 origins and development 	 . new materials 	 . mining 	 roman implementation of technology 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 external links origins and development[edit] much of what is described as typically roman technology, as opposed to that of the greeks, comes directly from the etruscan civilization, which was thriving to the north when rome was just a small kingdom. the etruscans had invented the stone arch, and used it in bridges as well as buildings. some later roman technologies were taken directly from greek civilization. after the absorption of the ancient greek city states into the roman republic in bc, the highly advanced greek technology began to spread across many areas of roman influence and supplement the empire. this included the military advances that the greeks had made, as well as all the scientific, mathematical, political and artistic developments. new materials[edit] however, the romans made many significant technological advances, such as the invention of hydraulic cement and concrete. they used such new materials to great advantage in their structures, many of which survive to this day, like their masonry aqueducts, such as the pont du gard, and buildings, such as the pantheon and baths of diocletian in rome. their methods were recorded by such luminaries as vitruvius and frontinus for example, who wrote handbooks to advise fellow engineers and architects. romans knew enough history to be aware that widespread technological change had occurred in the past and brought benefits, as shown for example by pliny the elder's naturalis historia. that tradition continued as the empire grew in size and absorbed new ideas. romans thought of themselves as practical, so small-scale innovation was common (such as the development of the ballista into the polybolos or repeating ballista). the traditional view is that their reliance on a plentiful slave labour force and a lack of a patent or copyright system have both been cited as reasons that there was little social or financial pressure to automate or reduce manual tasks. however, this view is being challenged by new research that shows they did indeed innovate, and on a wide scale. thus the watermill had been known to the greeks, but it was the romans who developed their efficient utilisation. the set of mills at barbegal in southern france were worked by a single aqueduct, which drove no fewer than overshot mills built into the side of a hill. they probably were built by the army and supplied flour to a wide region. floating mills were also used to exploit fast flowing rivers. pont du gard mining[edit] the romans also used water power in an unexpected way during mining operations. it's known from the writings of pliny the elder that they exploited the alluvial gold deposits of north-west spain soon after the conquest of the region in bc using large-scale hydraulic mining methods. the spectacular gold mine at las medulas was worked by no fewer than seven long aqueducts cut into the surrounding mountains, the water being played directly onto the soft auriferous ore. the outflow was channelled into sluice boxes, and the heavier gold collected on rough pavements. they also developed many deep mines, such as those for copper at rio tinto, where victorian mining developments exposed the much earlier workings. dewatering machines, such as archimedean screws and reverse overshot water wheels, were found in situ, one of which is on show at the british museum. another fragmentary example was recovered from the roman gold mine at dolaucothi in west wales, and is preserved at the national museum of wales in cardiff. the army were at the forefront of development of gold mines, since the metal was imperial property, and developed the dolaucothi mines from the outset by establishing a fort there that was known as luentinum. they had the expertise to build the infrastructure of aqueducts and reservoirs, as well as control production. panoramic view of las médulas the period in which technological progress was fastest and greatest was during the nd century and st century bc, which was the period in which roman political and economic power greatly increased. by the nd century, roman technology appears to have peaked. roman implementation of technology[edit] the romans advanced military technology significantly, and implemented it on a massive scale. from a few early models of ballista from greek city-states the romans adopted and improved the design, eventually issuing one to every century in the legions. to facilitate this organization, an engineering corps was developed. an officer of engineers, or praefectus fabrum, is referenced in armies of the late republic, but this post is not verifiable in all accounts and may have simply been a 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"sentence structure" redirects here. for sentence types in traditional grammar, see sentence clause structure. 	part of a series on 	linguistics 	 	outline 	history 	index 	 subfields 	acquisition 	anthropological 	applied 	computational 	discourse analysis 	forensic 	historical 	lexicography 	morphology 	morphophonology 	neurolinguistics 	philosophy of language 	phonetics 	phonology 	pragmatics 	psycholinguistics 	semantics 	sociolinguistics 	syntax 	 grammatical theories 	cognitive 	model-theoretic 	constituency 	dependency 	functional 	generative 	stochastic 	 topics 	conservative / innovative forms 	descriptivism 	etymology 	internet linguistics 	lgbt linguistics 	linguistic anthropology 	linguistic philosophy 	origin of language 	origin of speech 	orthography 	prescriptivism 	second-language acquisition 	structuralism 	 portal 		v 	t 	e in linguistics, syntax (/ˈsɪntæks/)[ ][ ] is the set of rules, principles, and processes that govern the structure of sentences (sentence structure) in a given language, usually including word order. the term syntax is also used to refer to the study of such principles and processes.[ ] the goal of many syntacticians is to discover the syntactic rules common to all languages. contents 	 etymology 	 sequencing of subject, verb, and object 	 early history 	 theories 	 . dependency grammar 	 . categorial grammar 	 . stochastic/probabilistic grammars/network theories 	 . functional grammars 	 . generative grammar 	 . cognitive and usage-based grammars 	 see also 	 . syntactic terms 	 references 	 . citations 	 . sources 	 further reading 	 external links etymology[edit] the word syntax comes from ancient greek: σύνταξις "coordination", which consists of σύν syn, "together", and τάξις táxis, "an ordering". sequencing of subject, verb, and object[edit] one basic description of a language's syntax is the sequence in which the subject (s), verb (v), and object (o) usually appear in sentences. over % of languages usually place the subject first, either in the sequence svo or the sequence sov. the other possible sequences are vso, vos, ovs, and osv, the last three of which are rare. in most generative theories of syntax, these surface differences arise from a more complex clausal phrase structure, and each order may be compatible with multiple derivations. early history[edit] the aṣṭādhyāyī of pāṇini (c. th century bc in ancient india), is often cited as an example of a premodern work that approaches the sophistication of a modern syntactic theory (as works on grammar were written long before modern syntax came about).[ ] in the west, the school of thought that came to be known as "traditional grammar" began with the work of dionysius thrax. for centuries, a framework known as grammaire générale (first expounded in by antoine arnauld in a book of the same title) dominated work in syntax: as its basic premise the assumption that language is a direct reflection of thought processes and therefore there is a single, most natural way to express a thought.[citation needed] however, in the th century, with the development of historical-comparative linguistics, linguists began to realize the sheer diversity of human language and to question fundamental assumptions about the relationship between language and logic. it became apparent that there was no such thing as the most natural way to express a thought, and therefore logic could no longer be relied upon as a basis for studying the structure of language.[citation needed] the port-royal grammar modeled the study of syntax upon that of logic. (indeed, large parts of the port-royal logic were copied or adapted from the grammaire générale.[ ]) syntactic categories were identified with logical ones, and all sentences were analyzed in terms of "subject – copula – predicate". initially, this view was adopted even by the early comparative linguists such as franz bopp. the central role of syntax within theoretical linguistics became clear only in the th century, which could reasonably be called the "century of syntactic theory" as far as linguistics is concerned. (for a detailed and critical survey of the history of syntax in the last two centuries, see the monumental work by giorgio graffi ( ).[ ]) theories[edit] there are a number of theoretical approaches to the discipline of syntax. one school of thought, founded in the works of derek bickerton,[ ] sees syntax as a branch of biology, since it conceives of syntax as the study of linguistic knowledge as embodied in the human mind. other linguists (e.g., gerald gazdar) take a more platonistic view, since they regard syntax to be the study of an abstract formal system.[ ] yet others (e.g., joseph greenberg) consider syntax a taxonomical device to reach broad generalizations across languages. dependency grammar[edit] main article: dependency grammar dependency grammar is an approach to sentence structure where syntactic units are arranged according to the dependency relation, as opposed to the constituency relation of phrase structure grammars. dependencies are directed links between words. the (finite) verb is seen as the root of all clause structure and all the other words in the clause are either directly or indirectly dependent on this root. some prominent dependency-based theories of syntax are: 	recursive categorical syntax, or algebraic syntax 	functional generative description 	meaning–text theory 	operator grammar 	word grammar lucien tesnière ( – ) is widely seen as the father of modern dependency-based theories of syntax and grammar. he argued vehemently against the binary division of the clause into subject and predicate that is associated with the grammars of his day (s → np vp) and which remains at the core of most phrase structure grammars. in the place of this division, he positioned the verb as the root of all clause structure.[ ] categorial grammar[edit] main article: categorial grammar categorial grammar is an approach that attributes the syntactic structure not to rules of grammar, but to the properties of the syntactic categories themselves. for example, rather than asserting that sentences are constructed by a rule that combines a noun phrase (np) and a verb phrase (vp) (e.g., the phrase structure rule s → np vp), in categorial grammar, such principles are embedded in the category of the head word itself. so the syntactic category for an intransitive verb is a complex formula representing the fact that the verb acts as a function word requiring an np as an input and produces a sentence level structure as an output. this complex category is notated as (np\s) instead of v. np\s is read as "a category that searches to the left (indicated by \) for an np (the element on the left) and outputs a sentence (the element on the right)." the category of transitive verb is defined as an element that requires two nps (its subject and its direct object) to form a sentence. this is notated as (np/(np\s)) which means "a category that searches to the right (indicated by /) for an np (the object), and generates a function (equivalent to the vp) which is (np\s), which in turn represents a function that searches to the left for an np and produces a sentence." tree-adjoining grammar is a categorial grammar that adds in partial tree structures to the categories. stochastic/probabilistic grammars/network theories[edit] theoretical approaches to syntax that are based upon probability theory are known as stochastic grammars. one common implementation of such an approach makes use of a neural network or connectionism. functional grammars[edit] main article: functional theories of grammar functionalist models of grammar study the form–function interaction by performing a structural and a functional analysis. 	functional discourse grammar (dik) 	prague linguistic circle 	role and reference grammar (rrg) 	systemic functional grammar generative grammar[edit] main article: generative grammar the hypothesis of generative grammar is that language is a biological structure. the difference between structural–functional and generative models is that, in generative grammar, the object is placed into the verb phrase. generative grammar is meant to be used to describe all human language and to predict whether any given utterance in a hypothetical language would sound correct to a speaker of that language (versus constructions which no human language would use). this approach to language was pioneered by noam chomsky. most generative theories (although not all of them) assume that syntax is based upon the constituent structure of sentences. generative grammars are among the theories that focus primarily on the form of a sentence, rather than its communicative function. among the many generative theories of linguistics, the chomskyan theories are: 	transformational grammar (tg) (original theory of generative syntax laid out by chomsky in syntactic structures in )[ ] 	government and binding theory (gb) (revised theory in the tradition of tg developed mainly by chomsky in the s and s)[ ] 	minimalist program (mp) (a reworking of the theory out of the gb framework published by chomsky in )[ ] other theories that find their origin in the generative paradigm are: 	arc pair grammar 	generalized phrase structure grammar (gpsg; now largely out of date) 	generative semantics (superseded by semantic syntax)[ ] 	head-driven phrase structure grammar (hpsg) 	lexical functional grammar (lfg) 	nanosyntax 	relational grammar (rg) (now largely out of date) 	harmonic grammar (hg) (similar to the optimality theory of syntax) cognitive and usage-based grammars[edit] main article: cognitive linguistics the cognitive linguistics framework stems from generative grammar, but adheres to evolutionary rather than chomskyan linguistics. cognitive models often recognise the generative assumption that the object belongs to the verb phrase. cognitive frameworks include: 	cognitive grammar 	construction grammar (cxg) 	emergent grammar see also[edit] 	list of language disorders 	list of syntactic phenomena 	metasyntax 	musical syntax 	semiotics 	syntactic category 	syntax (academic journal) 	syntax (programming languages) 	usage syntactic terms[edit] 	adjective 	adjective phrase 	adjunct 	adpositional phrase 	adverb 	anaphora 	answer ellipsis 	antecedent 	antecedent-contained deletion 	appositive 	argument 	article 	aspect 	attributive adjective and predicative adjective 	auxiliary verb 	binding 	branching 	c-command 	case 	category 	catena 	clause 	closed class word 	comparative 	complement 	compound noun and adjective 	conjugation 	conjunction 	constituent 	coordination 	coreference 	crossover 	dangling modifier 	declension 	dependency grammar 	dependent marking 	determiner 	discontinuity 	do-support 	dual (form for two) 	ellipsis 	endocentric 	exceptional case-marking 	expletive 	extraposition 	finite verb 	function word 	gapping 	gender 	gerund 	government 	head 	head marking 	infinitive 	inverse copular construction 	inversion 	lexical item 	m-command 	measure word (classifier) 	merge 	modal particle 	modal verb 	modifier 	mood 	movement 	movement paradox 	nanosyntax 	negative inversion 	non-configurational language 	non-finite verb 	noun 	noun ellipsis 	noun phrase 	number 	object 	open class word 	parasitic gap 	part of speech 	particle 	periphrasis 	person 	personal pronoun 	pied-piping 	phrasal verb 	phrase 	phrase structure grammar 	plural 	predicate 	predicative expression 	preposition and postposition 	pronoun 	pseudogapping 	raising 	relation (grammatical relation) 	restrictiveness 	right node raising 	sandhi 	scrambling 	selection 	sentence 	separable verb 	shifting 	singular 	sluicing 	small clause 	stripping 	subcategorization 	subject 	subject-auxiliary inversion 	subject-verb inversion 	subordination 	superlative 	tense 	topicalization 	tough movement 	uninflected word 	v word order 	valency 	verb 	verb phrase 	verb phrase ellipsis 	voice 	wh-movement 	word order 	x-bar theory references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ "syntax". oxford dictionaries uk dictionary. oxford university press. 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( ). indo-european language and culture: an introduction. blackwell. p.  . isbn  - . [the aṣṭādhyāyī] is a highly precise and thorough description of the structure of sanskrit somewhat resembling modern generative grammar...[it] remained the most advanced linguistic analysis of any kind until the twentieth century. 	^ arnauld, antoine ( ). la logique ( th ed.). paris: g. desprez. p.  . nous avons emprunté...ce que nous avons dit...d'un petit livre...sous le titre de grammaire générale. 	^ giorgio, graffi ( ). years of syntax: a critical survey (googlebook preview). john benjamins publishing. isbn  . 	^ see bickerton, derek ( ). language and species. university of chicago press. isbn  - - - . and, for more recent advances, derek bickerton; eörs szathmáry, eds. 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literary or educated men who advanced to the job through patronage; or even men of the equestrian order.[ ] among the scribe's duties was the recording of sworn oaths on public tablets.[ ] as a magistrate's attendant, he might also assist in religious rituals; for instance, since the exact wording of a prescribed prayer was considered vital to its success, a scribe might prompt the presiding magistrate by reading it out as recorded on official tablets.[ ] by the end of the th century bc, the office evidently afforded several advantages, including a knowledge of roman law that was traditionally the privilege of the elite, and the ability to trade favors that could be translated into political capital. in bc, the public scribe gnaeus flavius, the son of a freedman, shocked the roman upperclasses by winning election as curule aedile for the following year. though not the first plebeian to hold the office,[ ] his victory, made possible by the growing number of freedmen and those of libertine descent among the urban population, prompted the censors of bc to adopt voter registration policies that curtailed the political power of the lower orders.[ ] gaius cicereius, a former scriba of scipio africanus, was elected praetor in bc, and enjoyed greater popularity than scipio's own son. certainly by the late republic, the scribae had become a well-organized group who had achieved or were near to equestrian status.[ ] the scriba sextus cloelius kept a high profile as an agent of the popularist clodius pulcher. at the beginning of clodius's year in office as tribune of the plebs in bc, cloelius organized ludi compitalicii, neighborhood new-year festivities that had been banned as promoting unrest and political subversion. cloelius also led the people in riots when clodius was murdered a few years later, taking his body to the senate house and turning it into the popular leader's funeral pyre.[ ] the augustan poet horace introduced himself in his first published book as the son of a freedman and as a civil servant, specifically a scriba quaestorius, or clerk to the quaestors who were in charge of the public treasury.[ ] further reading[edit] 	e. badian, "the scribae of the roman republic," klio ( ) – . references[edit] 	^ the latin word scriba, like poeta ("poet") and nauta ("sailor"), is a first declension noun of masculine gender. 	^ the others are the lictores, "lictors"; viatores, "messengers" or "summoners," that is, agents on official errands; and praecones, "announcers" or "heralds." see marietta horster, "living on religion: professionals and personnel," in a companion to roman religion (blackwell, ), p. ; daniel peretz, "the roman interpreter and his diplomatic and military roles," historia ( ), p. . 	^ peter white, "bookshops in the literary culture of rome," in ancient literacies: the culture of reading in ancient greece and rome (oxford university press, ), p. , note . 	^ david armstrong, horace (yale university press, ), p. . 	^ clifford ando, imperial ideology and provincial loyalty in the roman empire (university of california press, ), p. . 	^ valerius maximus . . ; eric m. orlin, temples, religions, and politics in the roman republic (brill, ), p. ; on the use of prompters in general, see matthias klinghardt, "prayer formularies for public recitation: their use and function in ancient religion," numen ( ) – . 	^ t.r.s. broughton, the magistrates of the roman republic (american philological association, , ), vol. , pp. – . 	^ gary forsythe, a critical history of early rome: from prehistory to the first punic war (university of california press, ), p. . 	^ forsythe, critical history, p. . 	^ geoffrey s. sumi, "power and ritual: the crowd at clodius' funeral," historia ( ), pp. – ; cynthia damon, "sex. cloelius, scriba," harvard studies in classical philology ( ) – , limited preview online. 	^ emily gowers, "the restless companion: horace, satires and ," in the cambridge companion to roman satire (cambridge university press, ), p. . retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=scriba_(ancient_rome)&oldid= " 		categories: 	ancient roman government 	notary 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			article 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	edit 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		search 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigation 	 	 			main page 	contents 	current events 	random article 	about wikipedia 	contact us 	donate 		 	 	 	 		contribute 	 	 			help 	learn to edit 	community portal 	recent changes 	upload file 		 	 	 		tools 	 	 			what links here 	related changes 	upload file 	special pages 	permanent link 	page information 	cite this page 	wikidata item 		 	 	 		print/export 	 	 			download as pdf 	printable version 		 	 	 	 		languages 	 	 			deutsch 	português 	Русский 		edit links 	 		 this page was last edited on april , at :  (utc). 	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; 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according to marius victorinus (ars grammatica . keil), it was invented by alcaeus but then used more frequently by sappho, and so is more strongly associated with her. sappho's most famous poem in this metre is sappho , written in the aeolic greek dialect of her home island of lesbos, which begins as follows: 	φαίνεταί μοι κῆνος ἴσος θέοισιν 	ἔμμεν᾽ ὤνηρ, ὄττις ἐνάντιός τοι 	ἰσδάνει καὶ πλάσιον ἆδυ φωνεί- 	σας ὐπακούει. 	phaínetaí moi kênos ísos théoisin 	émmen᾽ ṓnēr, óttis enántiós toi 	isdánei kaì plásion âdu phōneí- 	sas upakoúei. 	"that man seems to me to be equal to the gods 	who is sitting opposite you 	and hears you nearby 	speaking sweetly." other poets[edit] sappho's contemporary and countryman, alcaeus of mytilene, also used the sapphic stanza. a few centuries later, the roman poet catullus admired sappho's work and used the sapphic meter in two poems, catullus and catullus . the latter is a rough translation of sappho . sapphics were also used by horace in several of his odes, including ode . : 	 integer vītae scelerīsque pūrus nōn eget maurīs iaculīs neque arcū nec venēnātīs gravidā sagittīs, fusce, pharetrā... 	 the man who is upright in life and free of wickedness, he needs no moorish spears nor bow nor quiver heavy with envenomed arrows, fuscus... 	 	 the sapphic stanza was one of the few classical quantitative meters to survive into the middle ages, when accentual rather than quantitative prosody became the norm. many latin hymns were written in sapphic stanzas, including the famous hymn for st john the baptist which gave the original names of the sol-fa scale: ut queant laxis resonare fibris/ mira gestorum famuli tuorum/ solve polluti labii reatum/ sancte joannes modern adaptations[edit] english[edit] though some english poets attempted quantitative effects in their verse, quantity is not phonemic in english. so imitations of the sapphic stanza are typically structured by replacing long with stressed syllables, and short with unstressed syllables (and often additional alterations, as exemplified below). the sapphic stanza was imitated in english, using a line articulated into three sections (stressed on syllables , , and ) as the greek and latin would have been, by algernon charles swinburne in a poem he simply called sapphics: so the goddess fled from her place, with awful sound of feet and thunder of wings around her; while behind a clamour of singing women severed the twilight. thomas hardy chose to open his first verse collection wessex poems and other verses with "the temporary the all," a poem in sapphics, perhaps as a declaration of his skill and as an encapsulation of his personal experience. change and chancefulness in my flowering youthtime, set me sun by sun near to one unchosen; wrought us fellowly, and despite divergence, friends interblent us. rudyard kipling wrote a tribute to william shakespeare in sapphics called "the craftsman". he hears the line articulated into four, with stresses on syllables , , , and (called a 'schoolboy error' by classical scholar l. p. wilkinson, arising from a misunderstanding of horace's regularisation of the th syllable as a long and his frequent use of the th-element caesura in his sapphics). his poem begins: once, after long-drawn revel at the mermaid, he to the overbearing boanerges jonson, uttered (if half of it were liquor blessed be the vintage!) allen ginsberg also experimented with the form: red cheeked boyfriends tenderly kiss me sweet mouthed under boulder coverlets winter springtime hug me naked laughing & telling girl friends gossip til autumn isaac watts penned "the day of judgment" subtitled an ode attempted in english sapphic (here are the third and fourth stanzas, the full poem is at this link): such shall the noise be and the wild disorder, (if things eternal may be like these earthly) such the dire terror, when the great archangel shakes the creation, tears the strong pillars of the vault of heaven, breaks up old marble, the repose of princes; see the graves open, and the bones arising, flames all around 'em! australian classicist and poet john lee wrote a sapphic stanza about the impossibility of writing sapphic stanzas in english: making sapphics isn't that easy, shackling our reluctant language with trochees. since you first begot them, songstress of lesbos, keep them. i'll never write them. (the poem exists also in a latin version). the australian poet john tranter has also written a poem ("writing in the manner of sappho") in two sapphic stanzas about the difficulty of writing sapphics in english: writing sapphics well is a tricky business. lines begin and end with a pair of trochees; in between them dozes a dactyl, rhythm rising and falling, like a drunk asleep at a party. ancient greek — the language seemed to be made for sapphics, not a worry; anyone used to english finds it a bastard. the oxford classicist armand d'angour has created mnemonics to illustrate the difference between sapphics heard as ) a four-beat line (as in kipling) and ) in the (correct) three-beat measure, as follows: . four-beat: conquering sappho's not an easy business: masculine ladies cherish independence. only good music penetrates the souls of lesbian artists. . three-beat: independent metre is overrated: what's the point if nobody knows the dance-form? wisely, sappho chose to create a stately regular stanza. notable contemporary sapphic poems include "sapphics for patience" by annie finch, "dusk: july" by marilyn hacker, "buzzing affy" (a translation of "an ode to aphrodite") by adam lowe, and "sapphics against anger" by timothy steele. other languages[edit] further information: sapphic stanza in polish poetry the sapphic stanza has been very popular in polish literature since the th century. it was used by many poets. sebastian klonowic wrote a long poem, flis, using the form.[ ] the formula of / / / syllables[ ] was so attractive that it can be found in other forms, among others the słowacki stanza: a/ b/ a/ b/ c/ c.[ ] in , paul gerhardt used the sapphic strophe format in the text of his sacred morning song "lobet den herren alle, die ihn ehren". sapphic stanza was often used in poetry of german humanism and baroque. it is also used in hymns such as "herzliebster jesu" by johann heermann. notes[edit] 	^ for long or anceps in the last position of the adonean, see e.g. sappho fr. , vv. , , , . fr. . and horatius i. , vv. , , , . 	^ lucylla pszczołowska,wiersz polski. zarys historyczny, wrocław , p. . 	^ stanisław sierotwiński, słownik terminów literackich, wrocław , p. . 	^ wiktor jarosław darasz, mały przewodnik po wierszu polskim kraków , p. - . external links[edit] 	http://www.aoidoi.org/articles/meter/intro.pdf 	http://www.dl.ket.org/latinlit/carmina/scansion/metersofcat.htm 		v 	t 	e sappho 	fragments	 	ode to aphrodite ( ) 	 	 	 	 	tithonus poem ( ) 	 	midnight poem ( b) 	brothers poem 	 	papyri	 	papyrus oxyrhynchus 	papyrus oxyrhynchus 	related	 	sapphic stanza 	sapphic love 	 	 category 	 	v 	t 	e poetic forms 	stanzas	 	alcaic stanza 	ballad stanza 	biolet 	burns stanza 	chaubola 	cinquain 	couplet 	ghazal 	quatorzain 	quatrain 	quintain 	sapphic stanza 	sestain 	sestet 	sonnet 	tercet 	triolet 	terza rima 	verse paragraph 	villanelle 	rhymes	 	alliteration 	assonance 	broken rhyme 	consonance 	cross rhyme 	forced/oblique 	half rhyme 	holorime 	imperfect/near 	internal rhyme 	off-centered rhyme 	monorhyme 	pararhyme 	perfect rhyme 	rhyme scheme 	semirhyme 	syllabic 	tail rhyme 	weak/unaccented 	authority control 	 	lccn: sh retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=sapphic_stanza&oldid= " 		categories: 	stanzaic form 	sappho hidden categories: 	articles containing ancient greek (to )-language text 	wikipedia articles with lccn identifiers 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			article 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	edit 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		search 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigation 	 	 			main page 	contents 	current events 	random article 	about wikipedia 	contact us 	donate 		 	 	 	 		contribute 	 	 			help 	learn to edit 	community portal 	recent changes 	upload file 		 	 	 		tools 	 	 			what links here 	related changes 	upload file 	special pages 	permanent link 	page information 	cite this page 	wikidata item 		 	 	 		print/export 	 	 			download as pdf 	printable version 		 	 	 		in other projects 	 	 			wikimedia commons 		 	 	 	 		languages 	 	 			Čeština 	dansk 	deutsch 	español 	français 	frysk 	Հայերեն 	bahasa indonesia 	italiano 	latina 	magyar 	nederlands 	日本語 	polski 	Русский 	simple english 	suomi 	svenska 	Українська 		edit links 	 		 this page was last edited on october , at :  (utc). 	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 satires . (horace) - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	satires . (horace) 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 tiresias appears to odysseus during the nekyia of odyssey xi, in this watercolor with tempera by the anglo-swiss painter johann heinrich füssli, c. - published around bce, the second book of satires is a series of poems composed in dactylic hexameter by the roman poet horace. satires . [ ] stands out in the work for its unique analysis of legacy hunting. contents 	 plot summary 	 analysis 	 characterizations 	 . ulysses 	 . tiresias 	 . penelope 	 references plot summary[edit] horace's satire book ii, satire v is poem about a discussion between ulysses and tiresias that is presented as a continuation of their interaction in the underworld in book of homer's odyssey. ulysses is concerned that he will have no wealth once he returns to ithaca because the suitors will have squandered the contents of his storehouses. stating bluntly that breeding and character are meaningless without wealth, he asks tiresias for any suggestions on how to rebuild his prosperity. tiresias suggests that ulysses try his hand at legacy hunting, and gives examples of characters through history that have ingratiated themselves with the affluent in order to be named as benefactors in their will. despite ulysses’ skepticism, tiresias asserts the plan's merit and provides examples of how to curry favor. 	outline of the poem[ ] 	a. - introduction 	b. - ensnarement of victim. flattery 	c. - precautions. failure 	d. - maintenance of hold over victim. flattery 	e. - conclusions. success analysis[edit] the structure of the poem places the majority of focus on section c, especially the story of nasica and coranus.[ ] the poem draws from the imagery of hunting, referring to the legacy-seeker as adept with snares and to his prey as an unwary tunny fish. most importantly, in the poem “nothing suggests that the typical senex has a mind or will of his own.”.[ ] the victim is utterly objectified and reduced to a feeble creature that the captator can exploit. on a linguistic level, the poem features very colloquial and expressive language. “‘breeding and character without assets are vilior alga--more worthless than seaweed.’ tell me, says ulysses, how i can rake together ‘piles of cash’-- aeris acervos.”.[ ] the analogies in the text are similarly graphic, as in the story of the over-insistent heir in thebes who was required by the will of his benefactor to carry her oil-soaked slippery carcass on his shoulders during the funeral procession. satire . is often thought of as the least “horatian” of the satires and is often compared to works by juvenal, a poet of the st century ad. juvenal’s poems focus on the perversions of man and hint at man’s loss of “his highest potentialities”.[ ][ ] many scholars acknowledge this cynicism in satire . and see a connection between the two authors. as shackleton bailey writes, “uniquely for horace, it concerns a particular social malpractice (touting for legacies), and its mordant humour has reminded many readers of juvenal.”[ ] characterizations[edit] ulysses[edit] horace diverges from classical portrayals of ulysses in this satire. ulysses is a heroic greek protagonist, but in this poem he eschews the importance of noble bearing in favor of temporal riches. michael roberts writes that “the theme of perversion of human values runs throughout the satire,”[ ] and this is especially relevant to the destitute ulysses. horace’s choice of an established epic hero to request tiresias’ scheming advice displays a distortion of greek heroic values. the poem also distorts the meaning of xenia, reducing the powerful bonds of host-guest friendship down to a calculated exchange of flattery for services. although ulysses is mostly silent after line , it is implied that he has been swayed by the pragmatism of tiresias’ words. tiresias[edit] horace’s characterization of tiresias is strikingly different from other authors. instead of portraying him as a great prophet, horace characterizes him as a shady figure, quick to reveal the secret to making money. with this, the characterization of tiresias creates a moral tension between the paragon prophet so highly respected in ancient literature and the shady truth-teller that reveals the inner workings of legacy hunting. it is from this tension that the satirical nature of the work is derived.[ ] penelope[edit] horace also takes a noticeably different tack than other roman and greek poets with regard to his characterization of penelope. horace introduces her first as the virtuous wife she is typically characterized as in lines - . ulysses claims that his chaste wife would never betray their vows of monogamy, but tiresias counters that she is chaste only because the suitors are more motivated by consuming ulysses’ bountiful stores than by sex. 			”but if you make her a partner/ and let her taste some cash at an old fellow’s expense,/ there’ll be no holding her. she’ll be like a dog with a juicy bone.” penelope, classically a bastion of chastity, is hereby portrayed as corruptible like any other woman. references[edit] 	^ "horace ( bc– bc) - the satires: book ii satire v". www.poetryintranslation.com. 	^ roberts, michael. "horace satires . : restrained indignation." the american journal of philology . ( ). pg. 	^ roberts, michael. "horace satires . : restrained indignation." the american journal of philology . ( ). pg. 	^ roberts, michael. "horace satires . : restrained indignation." the american journal of philology . ( ). pg. 	^ rudd, niall. the satires of horace. cambridge: cambridge university press, . pg. 	^ anderson, w.s., “imagery in the satires of horace and juvenal,” ajp ( ). pg. - 	^ roberts, michael. "horace satires . : restrained indignation." the american journal of philology . ( ). pg. 	^ shackleton bailey, d.r. profile of horace. cambridge: harvard university press, . pg. 	^ roberts, michael. "horace satires . : restrained indignation." the american journal of philology . 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(september ) samnite soldiers from a tomb frieze in nola th century bc. the population of samnium were called samnites by the romans. their own endonyms were safinim for the country (attested in one inscription and one coin legend) and safineis for the people.[ ] etymologically, the name samnium is generally recognized to be a form of the name of the sabines, who were umbrians.[ ] from safinim, sabinus, sabellus and samnis, an indo-european root can be extracted, *sabh-, which becomes sab- in latino-faliscan and saf- in osco-umbrian: sabini and *safineis.[ ] the eponymous god of the sabines, sabus, seems to support this view. the greek terms, saunitai and saunitis, remain outside the group. nothing is known of their origin. at some point in prehistory, a population speaking a common language extended over both samnium and umbria. salmon conjectures that it was common italic and puts forward a date of bc, after which the common language began to separate into dialects. this date does not necessarily correspond to any historical or archaeological evidence; developing a synthetic view of the ethnology of proto-historic italy is an incomplete and ongoing task. linguist julius pokorny carries the etymology somewhat further back. conjecturing that the -a- was altered from an -o- during some prehistoric residence in illyria, he derives the names from an o-grade extension *swo-bho- of an extended e-grade *swe-bho- of the possessive adjective, *s(e)we-, of the reflexive pronoun, *se-, "oneself" (the source of english self). the result is a set of indo-european tribal names (if not the endonym of the indo-europeans): germanic suebi and semnones, suiones; celtic senones; slavic serbs and sorbs; italic sabelli, sabini, etc., as well as a large number of kinship terms.[ ] history[edit] map of ancient samnium from the historical atlas by william r. shepherd, . the earliest written record of the people is a treaty with the romans from bc, which set their border at the liris river. shortly thereafter, the samnite wars broke out; they won an important battle against the roman army in bc, and their imperium reached its peak in bc, after further gains from the romans. by bc, the romans were able to break the samnites' power after some hard-fought battles. the samnites were one of the italian peoples that allied with king pyrrhus of epirus during the pyrrhic war. after pyrrhus left for sicily, the romans invaded samnium and were crushed at the battle of the cranita hills, but after the defeat of pyrrhus, the samnites could not resist on their own and surrendered to rome. some of them joined and aided hannibal during the second punic war, but most stayed loyal to rome. the samnites and several other italic people rebelled against rome and started the social war, after romans refused to grant them roman citizenship. the war lasted almost four years, and resulted in a roman victory. however, samnites and other italic tribes were granted roman citizenship, to avoid another war. the samnites supported the populares in the civil war against lucius cornelius sulla, but unfortunately for them, sulla ended up winning the war and was declared the dictator of rome. sulla ordered all those who went against him to be punished. thousands of people in rome and all over italy were brutally hunted down and killed. samnites, who were some of the most prominent supporters of the populares, were punished so severely that it was recorded "some of their cities have now dwindled into villages, some indeed being entirely deserted." samnites did not play any prominent role in history after this, and they eventually became latinized and assimilated into the roman world.[ ][ ] list of tribes[edit] 	caraceni 	caudini 	frentani 	hirpini 	pentri notable samnites[edit] gentes of samnite origin[edit] 	cassia gens 	decimia gens 	egnatia gens 	gavia gens 	gellia gens 	herennia gens 	obellia (gens) 	ofilia (gens) 	oppidia gens 	opsidia gens 	otacilia gens 	paccia gens 	pacidia gens 	papia (gens) 	papinia (gens) 	percennia (gens) 	petreia (gens) 	pontia gens 	scutaria gens 	vibia gens leaders of the samnites[edit] 	gaius pontius ca. s bc 	gellius egnatius ca. bc 	pontius telesinus, bc uprising against sulla[edit] 	gaius papius mutilus - romans of samnite origin[edit] 	gaius cassius longinus - assassin of julius caesar 	pontius pilate - the th prefect of the roman province of judaea from ad – . he ordered the crucifixion of jesus see also[edit] 	aeclanum 	compsa 	samnite wars 	list of ancient italic peoples 	sabellians notes[edit] 	^ "samnite (people)". encyclopædia britannica online. encyclopædia britannica, inc. retrieved november . 	^ a b c edward togo salmon ( ). samnium and the samnites. cambridge university press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ salmon , p.  harvnb error: no target: citerefsalmon (help). 	^ salmon , p.  harvnb error: no target: citerefsalmon (help). 	^ pokorny , pp.  – harvnb error: no target: citerefpokorny (help) under se. 	^ strabo, geography, book v, section . . references[edit] 	salmon, edward togo. samnium and the samnites. cambridge, uk: cambridge university press, . further reading[edit] 	forsythe, gary. a critical history of early rome: from prehistory to the first punic war. berkeley: university of california press, . 	jones, howard. samnium: settlement and cultural change: the proceedings of the third e. togo salmon conference on roman studies. providence, ri: center for old world archaeology and art, . 	paget, r. f. central italy: an archaeological guide; the prehistoric, villanovan, etruscan, samnite, italic, and roman remains, and the ancient road systems. st u.s. ed. park ridge, nj: noyes press, . 	salvucci, claudio r. a vocabulary of oscan: including the oscan and samnite glosses. southampton, pa.: evolution pub., . 	stek, tesse. cult places and cultural change in republican italy: a contextual approach to religious aspects of rural society after the roman conquest. amsterdam: amsterdam university 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molise, campania and basilicata and northern apulia) 	belligerents 	 roman republic, latin allies, campanians	 samnites, aequi, some hernici, etruscans, umbrians, senone gauls, some northern apulian towns 		v 	t 	e samnite wars 	first samnite war 	mons gaurus 	saticula 	suessula second samnite war 	neapolis 	imbrinium 	caudine forks 	lautulae 	lake vadimo 	bovianum third samnite war 	camerinum 	tifernum 	sentinum 	aquilonia 	 	v 	t 	e ancient unification of italy 	 	roman–etruscan wars 	roman–latin wars 	roman–volscian wars 	roman conquest of the hernici 	samnite wars 	pyrrhic war 	social war the first, second, and third samnite wars ( – bc, – bc, and – bc) were fought between the roman republic and the samnites, who lived on a stretch of the apennine mountains to the south of rome and the north of the lucanians. the first of these wars was the result of rome's intervention to rescue the campanian city of capua from a samnite attack. the second one was the result of rome's intervention in the politics of the city of naples and developed into a contest over the control of much of central and southern italy. the third war also involved a struggle over the control of this part of italy. the wars extended over half a century and the peoples to the east, north, and west of samnium (land of the samnites) as well as the peoples of central italy north of rome (the etruscans, umbrians, and picenti) and the senone gauls got involved to various degrees and at various points in time. the samnites were one of early rome's most formidable rivals. contents 	 background 	 first samnite war ( to bc) 	 . outbreak 	 . . livy's account 	 . . modern views 	 . three roman victories 	 . end of the war 	 . historicity of the war 	 second (or great) samnite war ( to bc) 	 . outbreak 	 . from bc to bc 	 . from the caudine forks to bc 	 . presumed resumption of hostilities 	 . . – bc – operations at saticula, sora, and bovianum 	 . . – bc – the etruscans intervene 	 . . – bc – final campaigns in apulia and samnium 	 . aftermath 	 third samnite war ( to bc) 	 . outbreak 	 . the war 	 . . bc: conflicting accounts 	 . . bc: rome turns to samnium 	 . . bc: etruscan intervention 	 . . bc: the etrurian campaign and the battle of sentinum 	 . . bc: samnite raids 	 . . bc- bc: defeat of samnium 	 . aftermath 	 chronology 	 references 	 bibliography 	 external links background[edit] by the time of the first samnite war ( bc), the southward expansion of rome's territory had reached the river liris (see liri), which was the boundary between latium (land of the latins) and campania. this river is now called garigliano and it is the boundary between the modern regions of lazio and campania. in those days the name campania referred to the plain between the coast and the apennine mountains which stretched from the river liris down to the bays of naples and salerno. the northern part of this area was inhabited by the sidicini, the aurunci, and the ausoni (a subgroup of the aurunci). the central and southern part was inhabited by the campanians, who were people who had migrated from samnium (land of the samnites) and were closely related to the samnites, but had developed a distinctive identity. the samnites were a confederation of four tribes who lived in the mountains to the east of campania and were the most powerful people in the area. the samnites, campanians, and sidicini spoke oscan languages. their languages were part of the osco-umbrian linguistic family, which also included umbrian and the sabellian languages to the north of samnium. the lucanians who lived to the south were also oscan speakers. diodorus siculus and livy report that in bc rome and the samnites concluded a treaty,[ ][ ] but neither lists the terms agreed upon. modern historians have proposed that the treaty established the river liris as the boundary between their spheres of influence, with rome's lying to its north and the samnites' to its south. this arrangement broke down when the romans intervened south of the liris to rescue the campanian city of capua (just north of naples) from an attack by the samnites. first samnite war ( to bc)[edit] livy is the only preserved source to give a continuous account of the war which has become known in modern historiography as the first samnite war. in addition, the fasti triumphales records two roman triumphs dating to this war and some of the events described by livy are also mentioned by other ancient writers. outbreak[edit] livy's account[edit] according to livy, the first samnite war started not because of any enmity between rome and the samnites, but due to outside events.[ ] the spark came when the samnites without provocation attacked the sidicini,[ ] a tribe living north of campania with their chief settlement at teanum sidicinum.[ ] unable to stand against the samnites, the sidicini sought help from the campanians.[ ] however, livy continues, the samnites defeated the campanians in a battle in sidicine territory and then turned their attention toward campania. first they seized the tifata hills overlooking capua (the main campanian city) and, having left a strong force to hold them, marched into the plain between the hills and capua.[ ] there they defeated the campanians in a second battle and drove them within their walls. this compelled the campanians to ask rome for help.[ ] in rome, the campanian ambassadors were admitted to an audience with the senate. in a speech, they proposed an alliance between rome and the campanians, noting how the campanians with their famous wealth could be of aid to the romans, and that they could help to subdue the volsci, who were enemies of rome. they pointed out that nothing in rome's treaty with the samnites prevented them from also making a treaty with the campanians, and warning that if they did not, the samnites would conquer campania and its strength would be added to the samnites' instead of the romans'.[ ] after discussing this proposal, the senate concluded that while there was much to be gained from a treaty with the campanians, and that this fertile area could become rome's granary, rome could not ally with them and still be considered loyal to their existing treaty with the samnites: for this reason they had to refuse the proposal.[ ] after being informed of rome's refusal, the campanian embassy, in accordance with their instructions, surrendered the people of campania and the city of capua unconditionally into the power of rome.[ ] moved by this surrender, the senators resolved that rome's honour now required that the campanians and capua, who by their surrender had become the possession of rome, be protected from samnite attacks.[ ] envoys were sent to the samnites with the introductions to request that they, in view of their mutual friendship with rome, spare territory which had become the possession of rome and to warn them to keep their hands off the city of capua and the territory of campania.[ ] the envoys delivered their message as instructed to the samnites' national assembly. however, they were met with a defiant response, "not only did the samnites declare their intention of waging war against capua, but their magistrates left the council chamber, and in tones loud enough for the envoys to hear, ordered [their armies] to march out at once into campanian territory and ravage it."[ ] when this news reached rome, the fetials were sent to demand redress, and when this was refused rome declared war against the samnites.[ ] modern views[edit] the historical accuracy of livy's account is disputed among modern historians. they are willing to accept that while livy might have simplified the way in which the sidicini, campani and samnites came to be at war, his narrative here, at least in outline, is historical.[ ][ ][ ][ ] the sidicini's stronghold at teanum controlled an important regional crossroads, which would have provided the samnites with a motive for conquest.[ ][ ][ ] the first samnite war might have started quite by accident, as livy claimed. the sidicini were located on the samnite side of the river liris, and while the roman-samnite treaty might only have dealt with the middle liris, not the lower, rome does not appear to have been overly concerned for the fate of the sidicini. the samnites could therefore go to war with sidicini without fear of roman involvement. it was only the unforeseen involvement of the campani that brought in the romans.[ ] many historians have however had difficulty accepting the historicity of the campanian embassy to rome, in particular whether livy was correct in describing the campani as surrendering themselves unconditionally into roman possession.[ ][ ][ ] that capua and rome were allied in is less controversial, as such a relationship underpins the whole first samnite war.[ ] historians have noted the similarities between the events leading to the first samnite war and events, which according to thucydides, caused the peloponnesian war,[ ] but there are differences as well.[ ] it is clear that livy, or his sources, has consciously modelled the campanian embassy after the "corcyrean debate" in thucydides' history of the peloponnesian war.[ ][ ] there are many parallels between the speech given by the campanian ambassador to the roman senate in livy and the speech of the corcyrean ambassador to the athenian assembly in thucydides. but while thucydides' athenians debate the corcyreans' proposal in pragmatic terms, livy's senators decide to reject the campanian alliance based on moral arguments.[ ][ ] livy might have intended his literary educated readers to pick up this contrast.[ ] the exaggerated misery of the surrendering campani contrast with the campanian arrogance, a stock motif in ancient roman literature.[ ] it is also unlikely that livy's description of the samnite national assembly is based on any authentic sources.[ ] however, it does not necessarily follow that because the speeches are invented, a standard feature for ancient historians, the campanian surrender must be invented as well.[ ] the chief difficulty lies in how, in , rich capua could have been reduced to such dire straits by the samnites that the campani were willing to surrender everything to rome.[ ] during the second punic war ( to bc), capua famously sided with carthage, but after a lengthy siege by rome, she had to surrender unconditionally in bc, after which the capuans were harshly punished by the romans. salmon ( , p.  ) therefore held that the campanian surrender in is a retrojection by later roman historians. this invention would serve the double purpose of exonerating rome from treaty-breaking in bc and justifying the punishment handed out in bc. what rome agreed to in was an alliance on terms similar to the treaties she had with the latins and the hernici. cornell ( , p.  ) accepts the surrender as historical. studies have shown that voluntary submission was a common feature in the diplomacy of this period. likewise oakley ( , pp.  – ) does not believe the surrender of bc to be a retrojection, not finding many similarities between the events of and . the ancient historians record many later instances, whose historicity are not doubted, where a state appealed to rome for assistance in war against a stronger enemy. the historical evidence shows the romans considering such supplicants to have technically the same status as surrendered enemies, but in practice, rome would not want to abuse would-be allies. forsythe ( , p.  ), like salmon, argues that the surrender in is a retrojection of that of , invented to better justify roman actions and for good measure shift the guilt for the first samnite war onto the manipulative campani. livy portrays the romans selflessly assuming the burden of defending the campani, but this is a common theme in roman republican histories, whose authors wished to show that rome's wars had been just. military success was the chief road to prestige and glory among the highly competitive roman aristocracy. evidence from later, better documented, time periods shows the roman senate quite capable of manipulating diplomatic circumstances so as to provide just causes for an expansionary wars. there is no reason to believe this was not also the case in the second half of the th century bc.[ ] there are also recorded examples of rome rejecting appeals for help, implying that the romans in bc had the choice of rejecting the campani.[ ] three roman victories[edit] samnite soldiers from a tomb frieze in nola, th century bc according to livy, the two roman consuls for bc, marcus valerius corvus and aulus cornelius cossus, both marched against the samnites. valerius led his army into campania, while cornelius, into samnium where he camped at saticula.[ ] livy then goes on to narrate how rome won three different battles against the samnites. after a day of hard fighting, valerius won the first battle, fought at mount gaurus near cumae, only after a last desperate charge in fading daylight.[ ] the second battle almost ended in disaster for the romans when the samnites attempted to trap the other consul, cornelius cossus, and his army in a mountain pass. fortunately for them, one of cornelius' military tribunes, publius decius mus with a small detachment, seized a hilltop, distracting the samnites and allowing the roman army to escape the trap. decius and his men slipped away to safety during the night; the morning after the unprepared samnites were attacked and defeated.[ ] still determined to seize victory, the samnites collected their forces and laid siege to suessula at the eastern edge of campania. leaving his baggage behind, marcus valerius took his army on forced marches to suessula. low on supplies, and underestimating the size of the roman force, the samnites scattered their army to forage for food. this gave valerius the opportunity to win a third roman victory when he first captured the samnites' lightly defended camp and then scattered their foragers.[ ] these roman successes against the samnites convinced falerii to convert her forty year's truce with rome into a permanent peace treaty, and the latins to abandon their planned war against rome and instead campaign against the paeligni. the friendly city-state of carthage sent a congratulatory embassy to rome with a twenty-five pound crown for the temple of jupiter optimus maximus. both consuls then celebrated triumphs over the samnites.[ ] the fasti triumphales records that valerius and cornelius celebrated their triumphs over the samnites on september and september respectively.[ ] modern historians have doubted the historical accuracy of livy's description of these three battles. livy's battle-scenes for this time period are mostly free reconstructions by him and his sources, and there are no reasons why these should be different.[ ] the number of samnites killed and the amounts of spoils taken by the romans have clearly been exaggerated.[ ] historians have noted the many similarities between the story of publius decius mus, and an event said to have taken place in sicily in when the romans were fighting the first punic war against carthage. according to the ancient sources, a roman army was in danger of being trapped in a defile when a military tribune led a detachment of men to seize a hilltop in the middle of the enemy. the roman army escaped, but of the only the tribune survived. it is unlikely that this latter, in ancient times more famous, episode has not influenced the descriptions of the former.[ ] salmon( ) also found several other similarities between the campaigns of and later events which he considered to be doublets. both the first and the second samnite wars start with an invasion of samnium by a cornelius, the way in which a roman army was led into a trap resembles the famous disaster at the caudine forks in bc, and there are similarities to the campaigns of publius cornelius arvina in bc and publius decius mus (the son of the hero of saticula) in bc. he also thought valerius corvus' two campanian victories could be doublets of roman operations against hannibal in the same area in [ ] on the other hand, the entries in the fasti triumphales supports some measure of roman success. in salmon's reconstruction, therefore, there was only one battle in bc, perhaps fought on the outskirts of capua near the shrine of juno gaura, and ending with a narrow roman victory.[ ] oakley( ) dismisses these claims of doublets and inclines towards believing there were three battles. the samnites would have gained significant ground in campania by the time the romans arrived and valerius' two victories could be the outcome of twin samnite attacks on capua and cumae. and while samnite ambushes are somewhat of a stock motif in livy's narrative of the samnite wars, this might simply reflect the mountainous terrain in which these wars were fought.[ ] the story of decius, as preserved, has been patterned after that of the military tribune of , but decius could still have performed some heroic act in , the memory of which became the origin of the later embellished tale.[ ] forsythe( ) considers the episode with cornelius cossus and decius mus to have been invented, in part to foreshadow decius' sacrifice in bc. p. decius might have performed some heroic act which then enabled him to become the first of his family to reach the consulship in , but if so, no detail of the historical event survives. instead, later annalists have combined the disaster at the caudine forks with the tale of the military tribune of bc to produce the entirely fictitious story recorded by livy; the difference being that while in the originals the romans suffered defeat and death, here none of decius' men are killed and the romans win a great victory.[ ] end of the war[edit] no fighting is reported for . instead the sources focus on a mutiny by part of the soldiery. according to the most common variant, following the roman victories of the campani asked rome for winter garrisons to protect them against the samnites. subverted by the luxurious lifestyle of the campani, the garrison soldiers started plotting to seize control and set themselves up as masters of campania. however the conspiracy was discovered by the consuls of before the coup could be carried out. afraid of being punished, the plotters mutinied, formed a rebel army and marched against rome. marcus valerius corvus was nominated dictator to deal with the crisis; he managed to convince the mutineers to lay down their arms without bloodshed and a series of economic, military and political reforms were passed to deal with their grievances.[ ] the history of this mutiny is however disputed among modern historians and it is possible that the whole narrative has been invented to provide a background for the important reforms passed that year.[ ] these reforms included the leges genuciae which stated that no one could be reelected to the same office within less than ten years, and it is clear from the list of consuls that, except in years of great crises, this law was enforced. it also became a firm rule that one of the consuls had to be a plebeian.[ ] livy writes that in bc one of the roman consuls, lucius aemilius mamercus, entered samnite territory but found no army to oppose him. he was ravaging their territory when samnite envoys came to ask for peace. when presenting their case to the roman senate, the samnite envoys stressed their former treaty with the romans, which unlike the campani, they had formed in times of peace, and that the samnites now intended to go to war against the sidicini who were no friends of rome. the roman praetor, ti. aemilius, delivered the reply of the senate: rome was willing to renew her former treaty with the samnites; moreover, rome would not involve herself in the samnites' decision to make war or peace with the sidicini. once peace had been concluded the roman army withdrew from samnium.[ ] the impact of aemilius' invasion of samnium may have been exaggerated;[ ] it could even have been entirely invented by a later writer to bring the war to an end with rome in a suitably triumphant fashion.[ ] the sparse mentions of praetors in the sources for the th century bc are generally thought to be historical; it is possible therefore that as praetor ti. aemilius really was involved in the peace negotiations with the samnites.[ ] the first samnite war ended in a negotiated peace rather than one state dominating the other. the romans had to accept that the sidicini belonged to the samnite sphere, but their alliance with the campani was a far greater prize. campania's wealth and manpower were a major addition to rome's strength.[ ] historicity of the war[edit] the many problems with livy's account and diodorus' failure to mention it has even caused some historians to reject the entire war as unhistorical. more recent historians have however accepted the basic historicity of the war.[ ][ ] no roman historian would have invented a series of events so unflattering to rome. livy was clearly embarrassed at the way rome had turned from being an ally to an enemy of the samnites.[ ][ ] it is also unlikely that the romans could have established such a dominating position in campania as they had after without samnite resistance.[ ] finally diodorus ignores many other events in early roman history such as all the early years of the second samnite war; his omission of the first samnite war can therefore not be taken as proof of its unhistoricity.[ ] second (or great) samnite war ( to bc)[edit] outbreak[edit] the second samnite war resulted from tensions which arose from roman interventions in campania. the immediate precipitants were the foundation of a roman colony (settlement) at fregellae in bc and actions taken by the inhabitants of paleopolis. fregellae had been a volscian town on the eastern branch of the river liris, at the junction with the river tresus (today's sacco) – viz., in campania and in an area which was to be under samnite control. it had been taken from the volsci and destroyed by the samnites. paleopolis ("old city") was the older settlement of what is now naples (which was a greek city) and was very close to the newer and larger settlement of neapolis ("new city"). livy said that it attacked romans who lived in campania. rome asked for redress, but they were rebuffed and she declared war. in bc the two consular armies headed for campania. the consul quintus publilius philo took on naples. his colleague lucius cornelius lentulus positioned himself inland to check the movements of the samnites because of reports that there had been a levy in samnium that intended to intervene, in anticipation of a rebellion in campania. lentulus set up a permanent camp. the nearby campanian city of nola sent troops to paleopolis/neapolis and the samnites sent . in rome there was also a report that the samnites were encouraging rebellions in the towns of privernum fundi, and formiae (volscian towns north of the river liris). rome sent envoys to samnium. the samnites denied that they were preparing for war, that they had not interfered in formiae and fundi, and said that the samnite men were not sent to paleopolis by their government. they also complained about the founding of fregellae, which they thought was as an act of aggression against them, as they had recently overrun that area. they called for war in campania.[ ] there had been tensions prior to these events. in bc a war broke out between the aurunci and the sidicini. the romans decided to help the aurunci because they had not fought rome during the first samnite war. meanwhile, the ancient city of aurunca was destroyed, and so they fled to suessa aurunca, which they fortified. in bc the ausoni joined the sidicini. the romans defeated the forces of these two peoples in a minor battle. in bc one of the two roman consuls besieged, seized and garrisoned cales, the main town of the ausoni. the army was then sent to march on the sidicini so that the other consul could share the glory. in bc, civilians were sent to cales to set up a roman colony there. the romans ravaged the territory of the sidicini and there were reports that in samnium there had been calls for war with rome for two years. therefore, the roman troops were kept in sidicini territory. there were also tensions north of the river liris, in the volscian territory. in bc the volscian towns of fabrateria and luca offered rome overlordship over them in exchange for protection from the samnites and the senate sent a warning to the samnites not to attack their territories. the samnites agreed. according to livy this was because they were not ready for war. in the same year the volscian towns of privernum and fundi rebelled and ravaged the territories of another volscian town and two roman colonies in the area. when the romans sent an army fundi quickly pledged its loyalty. in bc, privernum either fell or surrendered (this is unclear). its ringleaders were sent to rome, its walls were pulled down and a garrison was stationed there.[ ] in livy's account there is a sense that the peace with the samnites had been on a thin edge for years. it has also to be noted that cales was in an important strategic position not only for the route from rome to capua but also for some of the routes which gave access to the mountains of samnium. yet the samnites had not responded militarily to roman interventions in campania. one factor might have been the conflict between the lucanians (the samnites’ southerly neighbours) and the greek city of taras (tarentum in latin, modern taranto) on the ionian sea. the tarentines called for the help of the greek king alexander of epirus, who crossed over to italy in bc. in bc alexander landed at paestum, which was close to samnium and campania. the samnites joined the lucanians and the two were defeated by alexander, who then established friendly relations with rome. however, alexander was killed in battle in or bc.[ ][ ] the grievance of the samnites about fregellae might have been an addition to aggravations caused by roman policy in campania in the previous eight years. from bc to bc[edit] quintus publilius philo positioned his army between paleopolis and neapolis to isolate them from each other. meanwhile, the romans introduced an institutional novelty: publilius philo and cornelius lentulus should have gone back to rome at the end of their term (to make way for the consuls elected for the next year, who would continue the military operations), instead, their military command (but not their authority as civilian heads of the republic) was extended until the termination of the campaigns with the title of proconsuls. in bc two leading men of naples, who were dissatisfied with the misbehaviour of the samnite soldiers in the city, arranged a plot, which enabled the romans to take the city, and called for renewed friendship with rome. in samnium the towns of allifae, callifae, and rufrium were taken by the romans. the lucanians and the apulians (from the toe of italy) allied with rome.[ ] news of an alliance between the samnites and the vestini (sabellians who lived by the adriatic coast, to the north-east of samnium) reached rome. in bc the consul decimus junius brutus scaeva ravaged their territory, forced them into a pitched battle and took the towns of cutina and cingilia.[ ] the dictator lucius papirius cursor, who had taken over the command of the other consul, who had fallen ill, inflicted a crushing defeat on the samnites in an unspecified location in bc. the samnites sued for peace and the dictator withdrew from samnium. however, the samnites rejected rome's peace terms and agreed only a one-year truce, which they broke when they heard that papirius intended to continue the fight. livy also said that in that year the apulians became enemies of rome. unfortunately, this information is very vague as the region of apulia was populated by three separate ethnic groups, the messapii in the south, the iapyges in the centre and the dauni in the north. we know that only daunia (land of the dauni) was caught up in this war. however, this was a collection of independent city-states. therefore, we do not know who in this area became enemies of rome. the consuls for bc fought on the two fronts, with c. sulpicius longus going to samnium and quintus aemilius cerretanus to apulia. there were no battles, but areas were laid waste on both fronts.[ ] in bc there were rumours that the samnites had hired mercenaries and aulus cornelius cossus arvina was appointed as dictator. the samnites attacked his camp in samnium, which he had to leave. a fierce battle followed and eventually the samnites were routed. the samnites offered to surrender, but this was rejected by rome.[ ] from the caudine forks to bc[edit] in bc the consuls titus veturius calvinus and spurius postumius albinus were encamped in calatia (a campanian town  km southeast of capua). gaius pontius, the commander of the samnites, placed his army at the caudine forks and sent some soldiers disguised as shepherds grazing their flock towards calatia. their mission was to spread the misinformation that the samnites were about to attack the city of lucera in apulia, which was an ally of rome. the consuls decided to march to the aid of this city and to take the quicker (but less safe) route through the caudine forks. these were two narrow and wooded defiles on the apennine mountains with a plain between them. the passage from the first to the second defile was a narrow and difficult ravine. the samnites blocked this with felled trees and boulders. when the romans passed through, they also barraged the rear entry to the defile. the romans were stuck and surrounded by the enemy and set up a fortified camp. gaius pontius sent a messenger to his father herennius, a retired statesman, to ask for advice. his council was to free the romans immediately. gaius rejected this and herenius’ second message was to kill them all. with these contradictory responses gaius thought that his father had gone senile, but summoned him to the forks. herennius said that the first option would lead to peace and friendship with rome and that with the second one, the loss of two armies would neutralise the romans for a long time. when asked about a middle course of letting them go and imposing terms on rome, he said that this "neither wins men friends nor rids them of their enemies." shaming the romans would lead them to seek revenge. gaius decided to demand the romans to surrender, "evacuate the samnite territory and withdraw their colonies." the consuls had no choice but to surrender. the roman soldiers came out of their camp unarmed, underwent the humiliation of passing under the yoke and suffered the mockery of the enemy.[ ] the yoke was a symbol of subjugation in which the defeated soldiers had to bow and pass under a yoke used for oxen in disgrace. according to appian, pontius used spears as a yoke: "pontius opened a passage from the defile, and having fixed two spears in the ground and laid another across the top, caused the romans to go under it as they passed out, one by one."[ ] livy and other ancient sources maintain that rome rejected the truce offered by the samnites and avenged the humiliation with victories. livy said that there was a two-year truce following victories in – bc.[ ] however, salmon thinks that, instead, the truce was the result of the agreement which was made at the caudine forks.[ ] whatever the case, there was a truce which ended in bc. for a discussion on this debate, see frederiksen.[ ] this section will continue to follow livy's account. livy wrote that regarding the demands of the samnites (which in rome they called the caudine peace), the consuls said that they were in no position to agree a treaty because this had to be authorised by the vote of the people of rome and ratified by the fetials (priest-ambassadors) following the proper religious rites. therefore, instead of a treaty there was a guarantee, the guarantors being the consuls, the officers of the two armies and the quaestors. six hundred equites (equestrians) were handed over as hostages "whose lives were to be forfeit if the romans should fail to keep the terms." [ ] the dejected roman soldiers left and were too ashamed to enter capua, whose inhabitants gave them supplies in commiseration. in rome people went into mourning, shops were closed and all activities at the forum were suspended. there was anger towards the soldiers and suggestions to bar them. however, when they arrived people took pity on them. they locked themselves in their homes.[ ] spurius postumius said to the senate that rome was not bound to the guarantee at the caudine forks because it was given without the authorisation of the people, that there was no impediment to resuming the war and all that rome owed to the samnites were the persons and the lives of the guarantors. an army, the fetials and the guarantors to be surrendered were sent to samnium. once there, postumius jostled the knee of a fetial and claimed that he was a samnite who had violated diplomatic rules. gaius pontius denounced roman duplicity and declared that he deemed the roman guarantors not to be surrendered. the peace he had hoped for did not materialise. meanwhile, satricum (a town in latium) defected to the samnites and the samnites took fregellae.[ ] in bc the consul quintus publilius philo and lucius papirius cursor marched to apulia. this move threw the samnites off. publilius headed for luceria, where the roman hostages were held. he routed a samnite contingent. however, the samnites regrouped and besieged the romans outside luceria. the army of papirius advanced along the coast as far as arpi. the people of that area were well disposed towards the romans because they were fed up with years of samnite raids. they supplied the besieged romans with corn. this forced the samnites to engage papirius. there was an indecisive battle and papirius besieged the samnites who then surrendered and passed under the yoke. luceria was taken and the roman hostages were freed.[ ] in bc the consul quintus aemilius barbula seized ferentium and quintus publilius subdued satricum, which had rebelled and had hosted a samnite garrison. in bc envoys from samnite cities went to rome to "seek a renewal of the treaty." this was turned down, but a two-year truce was granted. the apulian cities of teanum and canusium submitted to rome and apulia was now subdued. in bc quintus aemilius barbula took nerulum in lucania.[ ] presumed resumption of hostilities[edit] – bc – operations at saticula, sora, and bovianum[edit] in bc the dictator lucius aemilius besieged saticula, a samnite city near the border with campania. a large samnite army encamped near the romans and the saticulans made a sortie. aemilius was in a position which was difficult to attack, drove the saticulans back into the town and then confronted the samnites, who fled to their camp and left at night. the samnites then besieged the nearby plistica, which was an ally of rome.[ ] in bc the dictator quintus fabius maximus rullianus took over the operations at saticula. the samnites had raised fresh troops, encamped near the city and were trying to force a battle to divert the romans from the siege. quintus fabius concentrated on the city and the samnites harassed the roman rampart. the roman master of the horse quintus aulius cerretanus attacked the samnites who were harassing the roman camp. he killed the samnite commander and was killed himself. the samnites left and went on to seize plistica. the romans transferred their troops in apulia and samnium to deal with sora, a roman colony in latium near the border with samnium, which had defected to the samnites and killed the roman colonists. the roman army headed for there, but heard that the samnites were also moving and that they were getting close. the romans took a diversion and engaged the samnites at the battle of lautulae, where they were defeated and their master of the horse, quintus aulius, died. he was replaced by gaius fabius, who brought a new army and was told to conceal it. quintus fabius ordered battle without telling his troops about the new army and simulated a burning of their camp to strengthen their resolve. the soldiers threw the enemy into disarray and quintus aulius joined the attack.[ ] in bc the new consuls, marcus poetelius and gaius sulpicius, took new troops to sora. the city was in a difficult position to take, but a deserter offered to betray it. he told the romans to move their camp close to the city and the next night he took ten men on an almost impassable and steep path up to the citadel. he then shouted that the romans had taken it. the inhabitants panicked and opened the city gates. the conspirators were taken to rome and executed and a garrison was stationed at sora. after the samnite victory at lautulae three ausoni cities, ausona, minturnae (ausonia and minturno) both in latium, just north of and on the north bank of the river liris respectively, and vescia (across the river, in campania) had sided with the samnites. some young nobles from the three cities betrayed them and three roman detachments were sent. livy said that "because the leaders were not present when the attack was made, there was no limit to the slaughter, and the ausonian nation was wiped out." in the same year, luceria betrayed its roman garrison to the samnites. a roman army which was not far away seized the city. in rome it was proposed to send colonists to luceria. many voted to destroy the city because of the treachery and, because it was so distant, that many believed that sending colonists there was like sending people into exile, and in hostile territory to boot. however, the colonization proposal was carried. a conspiracy was discovered in capua and the samnites decided to try to seize the city. they were confronted by both consuls, marcus poetelius libo and gaius sulpicius longus. the right wing of poetelius routed its samnite counterpart. however, sulpicius, overconfident about a roman victory, had left his left wing with a contingent to join poetelius and without him his troops came close to defeat. when he re-joined them, his men prevailed. the samnites fled to maleventum, in samnium.[ ] the two consuls went on to besiege bovianum, the capital of the pentri, the largest of the four samnite tribes, and wintered there. in bc they were replaced by the dictator gaius poetelius libo visolus. the samnites took fregellae and poetelius moved to retake it, but the samnites had left at night. he placed a garrison and then marched on nola (near naples) to retake it. he set fire to the buildings near the city walls and took the city. colonies were established at the volscian island of pontiae, the volscian town of interamna sucasina and at suessa aurunca. – bc – the etruscans intervene[edit] in bc, while the war in samnium seemed to be winding down, there were rumours of a mobilisation of the etruscans, who were more feared than the samnites. while the consul m. valerius maximus corvus was in samnium, his colleague publius decius mus, who was sick, appointed gaius sulpicius longus as dictator, who made preparations for war.[ ] in bc the consuls gaius junius bubulcus and quintus aemilius barbula divided their command. junius took on samnium and aemilius took on etruria. the samnites took the roman garrison of cluviae (location unknown) and scourged its prisoners. junius retook it and then moved on bovianum and sacked it. the samnites sought to ambush the romans. misinformation that there was a large flock of sheep in an inaccessible mountain meadow was planted. junius headed for it and was ambushed. while the romans mounted the slope there was little fighting and when they reached level ground at the top and lined up the samnites panicked and fled. the woods blocked their escape and most were killed. meanwhile, the etruscans besieged sutrium, an ally which the romans saw as their key to etruria. aemilius came to help and the next day the etruscans offered battle. it was a long and bloody fight. the romans were starting to gain the upper hand, but darkness stopped the battle. there was no further fighting that year as the etruscans had lost their first line and only had their reservists left and the romans had suffered many casualties.[ ] in bc the consul quintus fabius maximus rullianus went to sutrium with reinforcements and was met by a superior force of etruscans who were lined up for battle. he went up the hills and faced the enemy. the etruscans charged in haste, throwing away their javelins. the romans pelted them with javelins and stones. this unsettled the etruscans and their line wavered. the romans charged, the etruscans fled and, as they were cut off by the roman cavalry, they headed for the mountains instead of their camp. from there they went to the impassable ciminian forest, which the romans were so scared of that none of them had ever crossed it. marcus fabius, one of the brothers of the consul, who had been educated by family friends in caere in etruria and spoke etruscan, offered to explore the forest, pretending to be an etruscan shepherd. he went as far as camerinum in umbria, where the locals offered supplies and soldiers to the romans. quintus fabius crossed the forest and ravaged the area around the cimian mountains. this enraged the etruscans, who gathered the largest army they had ever raised and marched on sutrium. they advanced to the roman rampart, but the romans refused to engage, so they waited there. to encourage his outnumbered soldiers quintus fabius told them that he had a secret weapon and hinted that the etruscans were being betrayed. at dawn the romans exited their camp and attacked the sleeping etruscans, who were routed. some fled to their camp, but most made for the hills and the forest. the etruscan cities of perusia and cortona and arretium sued for peace and obtained a thirty-year truce.[ ] meanwhile, the other consul, gaius marcius rutilus, captured allifae (in campania) from the samnites and destroyed or seized many forts and villages. the roman fleet was sent to pompeii in campania and from there they pillaged the territory of nuceria. greedy for booty, the sailors ventured too far inland and on their way back the country folk killed many of them. the samnites received a report that the romans had been besieged by the etruscans and had decided to confront gaius marcius. the report also indicated that, if gaius marcius avoided battle, the samnites would march to etruria via the lands of the marsi and the sabines. gaius marcius confronted them and a bloody but indecisive battle was fought where the romans lost several officers and the consul was wounded. the senate appointed lucius papirius cursor as dictator. however, quintus fabius had a grudge against lucius papirius. a delegation of former consuls was sent to him to persuade him to accept the senate's decision, and fabius reluctantly appointed papirius. lucius papirius relieved gaius marcius at longula, a volscian town near the samnite border. he marched out to offer battle. the two armies lined up in front of each other until night and there was no fighting. meanwhile, a fierce battle was fought in etruria by an unspecified etruscan army levied (presumably by etruscans who had not signed the mentioned treaty) by using the lex sacrata (an arrangement with religious connotations whereby the soldiers had to fight to the death). it confronted the romans at the battle of lake vadimo. the battle was long-drawn-out affair and with many casualties and the reserves were called in. it was finally resolved by the roman cavalry which dismounted and fought like a fresh line of infantry and managed to break the exhausted ranks of the enemy. livy said that this battle broke the might of the etruscans for the first time as the battle cut off their strength.[ ] in bc lucius papirius cursor won a massive[clarification needed] battle against the samnites and celebrated the finest triumph there had been thanks to the spoils. the etruscan cities broke the truce and quintus fabius easily defeated the remnants of their troops near perusia and would have taken the city had it not surrendered. in bc, quintus fabius was elected consul again. his colleague was publius decius mus. quintus fabius took on samnium. he refused peace offers by nuceria alfaterna and besieged it into surrender. he also fought an unspecified battle where the marsi joined the samnites. the paeligni, who also sided with the samnites, were defeated next. in etruria decius obtained a forty-year truce and corn supplies from tarquinii, seized some strongholds of volsinii and ravaged wide areas. all etruscans sued for a treaty, but he conceded only a one-year truce and required them to give each roman soldier one year's pay and two tunics. there was a revolt by umbrians who, backed by etruscan men, gathered a large army and said that they would ignore decius and march on rome. decius undertook forced marches, encamped near pupinia, to the north-east of rome, and called on fabius to lead his army to umbria. fabius marched to mevania, near assisi, where the umbrian troops were. the umbrians were surprised as they thought he was in samnium. some of them fell back to their cities and some pulled out of the war. others attacked fabius while he was entrenching his camp, but they were defeated. the leaders of the revolt surrendered and the rest of umbria capitulated within days.[ ] – bc – final campaigns in apulia and samnium[edit] in bc the consul lucius volumnius flamma violens was assigned a campaign against the salentini of southern apulia, where he seized several hostile towns. quintus fabius was elected as proconsul to conduct the campaign in samnium. he defeated the samnites in a pitched battle near allifae and besieged their camp. the samnites surrendered, passed under the yoke and their allies were sold into slavery. there were some hernici among the troops and they were sent to rome where an inquiry was held to determine whether they were conscripts or volunteers. all of the hernici, except the peoples of the cities of aletrium, ferentium and verulae, declared war on rome. quintus fabius left samnium, and the samnites seized calatia and sora with their roman garrisons. in bc the consul publius cornelius arvina headed for samnium and his colleague quintus marcius tremulus took on the hernici. the enemies took all the strategic points between the camps and isolated the two consuls. in rome two armies were enlisted. however, the hernici did not engage the romans, lost three camps, sued for a thirty-year truce and then surrendered unconditionally. meanwhile, the samnites were harassing publius cornelius and blocking his supply routes. quintus marcius came to his aid and was attacked. he advanced through the enemy lines and took their camp, which was empty, and burned it. on seeing the fire publius cornelius joined in and blocked the escape of the samnites, who were slaughtered when the two consuls joined their forces. some samnite relief troops also attacked, but they were routed and pursued and begged for peace. in bc the samnites made forays in campania.[ ] in bc the consuls were sent to samnium. lucius postumius megellus marched on tifernum and titus minucius augurinus on bovianum. there was a battle at tifernum where some of livy's sources say that postumius was defeated, while others say that the battle was even and he withdrew to the mountains at night. the samnites followed him and encamped near him. livy said that he seemed to have wanted to gain a position where he could get abundant supplies. postumius then left a garrison at this camp and marched to his colleague who was also encamped facing the enemy. he instigated titus minucius to give battle, which dragged on until the late afternoon. then postumius joined in and the samnites were slaughtered. the next day the consuls begun the siege of bovianum, which fell quickly. in bc the samnites sent envoys to rome to negotiate a peace. the suspicious romans sent the consul publius sempronius sophus to samnium with an army to investigate the true intentions of the samnites. he travelled all over samnium and everywhere he found peaceable people who gave him supplies. livy said that the ancient treaty with the samnites was restored. he did not specify what the terms were.[ ] aftermath[edit] after the defeat of the hernici in bc, roman citizenship without the right to vote was imposed on this people, effectively annexing their territory. in bc, after the peace treaty, rome sent the fetials to ask for reparation from the aequi of the mountains by latium, who had repeatedly joined the hernici in helping the samnites and after the defeat of the former, they went over to the enemy. the aequi claimed that rome was trying to impose roman citizenship on them. they said to the roman assemblies that the thrusting of roman citizenship on them amounted to loss of independence and was a punishment. this led to the roman people voting for war on the aequi. both consuls were entrusted with this war. the aequi levied a militia, but this did not have a clear commander. there was disagreement over whether to offer battle or defend their camp. concerns about the destruction of the farms and the poor fortification of the towns led to the decision to disperse to defend the towns. the romans found the aequi camp deserted. they then took the aequi towns by storm and most were burnt. livy wrote that "the aequian name was almost blotted out." [ ] still, in bc, the sabellian peoples of modern northern abruzzo, the marsi and marucini (on the adriatic coast), as well as the latter's oscan neighbours, the paeligni and the frentani (oscans who lived in the southern coast of abruzzo and the coastal part of modern molise), stipulated treaties with rome.[ ] in bc the sabine town of trefula suffrenas (ciciliano) and the volscian town of arpinium (arpino) in southern latium were given citizenship without the right to vote (civitas sine suffragio). frusino (frosinone), also a volscian town in southern latium, was deprived of two thirds of its land because it had conspired with the hernici and its ringleaders were executed. colonies were established at alba fucens in the land of the aequi and sora, in volscian territory which had been taken by the samnites, with settlers sent to the former and to the latter. in bc the aequi attacked alba fucens, but were defeated by the colonists. gaius junius bubulcus was appointed as dictator. he reduced them to submission in one battle. in the same year the vestini (oscans who lived on adriatic coast of modern abruzzo) established an alliance with rome. in bc the marsi resisted land being confiscated for the establishment of the colony of carsoli (or carseoli, modern carsoli) with colonists, even through it was in aequi territory. marcus valerius corvus calenus was appointed as dictator. he defeated the marsi, seized milionia, plestina, and fresilia and renewed the treaty with them. in bc two roman tribes (administrative districts), the aniensis and the terentina were added. in bc the romans besieged and seized nequinum in umbria and established the colony of narnia.[ ] the annexation of trebula suffenas provided a degree of control over the sabines who lived close to rome. with the annexation of arpinium and of the most of the land of frusino and the founding of the colony at sora the romans consolidated control over southern latium and the volsci. control over the stretch of the apennine mountains next to latium was consolidated with the annexation of the hernici, the destruction of the towns of the aequi, the founding of two colonies in their territory (alba fucens and caseoli) and the creation of the aniensis roman tribe on land taken from the aequi. control over campania was consolidated with the renewal of friendship with naples, with the destruction of the ausoni, and the creation of the teretina roman tribe on land which had been annexed by from the aurunci in bc.[ ] the alliances with the marsi, maruccini, paelingni, frentani (in bc), and vestini (in bc), who lived to the north and north-east of samnium, not only gave rome control over this substantial area around samnium, but it also strengthened its military position. the alliances were military and the allies supplied soldiers who supported the roman legions at their own expense, thus increasing the pool of military manpower available to rome. in exchange the allies shared the spoils of war (which could be considerable) and were protected by rome. however, rome's dominance over central italy and part of southern italy was not fully established yet. etruria and umbria were not quite pacified. there were two expeditions to umbria; there were wars with the etruscans in bc and in bc. the latter was the year the third samnite war broke out.[ ] the second war accelerated the process of roman expansion and the third war established rome's dominance of the areas concerned. third samnite war ( to bc)[edit] a ceremonial attic helmet typical of many found in samnite tombs, c. bc outbreak[edit] in bc, the etruscans, possibly due to the roman colony set up at narnia in next-door umbria, prepared for war against rome. however, the gauls invaded their territory, so, the etruscans offered them money to form an alliance. the gauls agreed, but then objected to fighting against rome, claiming that the agreement was only about them not devastating etruscan territory. so, instead, the etruscans paid the gauls off and dismissed them. this incident led the romans to ally with the picentes (who lived on the adriatic coast, in the south of modern marche) who were concerned about their neighbours, the senone gauls to the north, and the pretutii to the south. the latter had allied with the samnites. the romans sent an army to etruria led by the consul titus manlius torquatus, who died in a riding accident. the etruscans saw this as an omen for war. however, the romans elected marcus valerius corvus calenus as suffect consul (an office which lasted for the remainder of the term of a deceased or removed consul) and he was sent to etruria. this led the etruscans to remain in their fortifications, refusing battle even though the romans ravaged their land. meanwhile, the picentes warned the romans that the samnites were preparing for war and that they had asked them for help.[ ] early in bc a lucanian delegation went to rome to ask the romans to take them under their protection as the samnites, having failed to bring them into an alliance, had invaded their territory. rome agreed to an alliance. fetials were sent to samnium to order the samnites to leave lucania. the samnites threatened their safety and rome declared war.[ ][ ] dionysius of halicarnassus thought that the cause of the war was not roman compassion for the wronged, but fear of the strength the samnites would gain if they subdued the lucanians.[ ] oakley suggests that rome might well have deliberately sought a new war with samnium by allying with her enemies.[ ] the war[edit] bc: conflicting accounts[edit] according to livy, the consul lucius cornelius scipio barbatus was assigned etruria and his colleague gnaeus fulvius maximus centumalus was given the samnites. barbatus was engaged in a battle near volterrae (in northern etruria) which was interrupted by sunset. the etruscans retreated during the night. barbatus marched to the faliscan district and laid etruscan territory north of the river tiber to waste. gnaeus fulvius won in samnium and seized bovianum, and aufidena. however, an epitaph on the sarcophagus of cornelius scipio says that he ‘was consul, censor and aedile ...[and]... he captured taurasia and cisauna in samnium; he subdued all lucania and brought back hostages.’ cornell says that the original inscription was erased and replaced by the extant one probably around bc, and notes that this "was the period when the first histories of rome were being written, which is not a coincidence.".[ ] in addition to having barbatus fighting in samnium the inscription records him as taking taurasia (probably in the tammaro valley in the modern province of benevento) and cisauna (unknown location), rather than bovianum and aufidena.[ ] there is the further complication by the fasti triumphales (a record of roman triumphal celebrations), recording gnaeus fulvius’ triumphs against both the samnites and the etruscans.[ ] forsythe points out that the consulship is the only public office barbatus is mentioned as having held which gave him command of a legion.[ ] modern historians have proposed various alternative scenarios wherein one or both of the consuls campaigned against both the samnites and etruscans, but without satisfactory conclusions.[ ] cornell says that such an assumption could reconcile the sources, but "if so, neither livy nor the inscription would emerge with much credit. once again the evidence seems to show that there was a great deal of confusion in the tradition about the distribution of consular commands in the samnite wars, and that many different versions proliferated in the late republic." his conclusion is that "no satisfactory resolution to this puzzle is possible" [ ] regarding the submission of lucania and the bringing back of hostages, livy said that the lucanians were willing to give hostages as a pledge of good faith.[ ] cornell remarks that "[t]he intimation of that the lucanians’ submission was the result of military action is a good example of how events could be improved in the telling." forsythe points out that livy noted that in bc the romans suppressed plebeian disturbances in lucania on the behest of the lucanian aristocracy. he argues that this suggests divisions in lucania over the alliance with rome and that, if this was also the case in bc, barbatus might have gone to lucania to quell any possible local resistance to the alliance as well as to prevent samnite raids and to collect the agreed hostages. forsythe also notes that barbatus’ campaign in etruria could be explained in three ways: ) it could be fictive; ) barbatus could have campaigned in both samnium and etruria; ) barbatus participated in the campaigns linked to the front which led to the battle of sentinum in bc, and that this may have included operations in etruria in that year, but it might have been attributed by later historians to his consulship in bc. as for the claim that barbatus subdued all of lucania, forsythe suggests that this is "perhaps part truth and part a roman aristocratic exaggeration."[ ] oakley also points to two more problems with the sources. in livy's account, bovianum, the capital of the pentri, the largest of the four samnite tribes, was captured in the first year of the war, which seems unlikely. frontinus records three stratagems employed by one "fulvius nobilior" while fighting against the samnites in lucania.[ ] the cognomen nobilior is not otherwise recorded before bc, forty-five years after the end of the samnite wars. a plausible explanation is therefore that nobilior is a mistake and the stratagems should be attributed to the consul of bc.[ ] bc: rome turns to samnium[edit] the elections of the consuls for bc took place amid rumours that the etruscans and the samnites were raising huge armies. the romans turned to quintus fabius maximus rullianus, rome's most experienced military commander, who was not a candidate for election and refused the proposal. he then relented on condition that publius decius mus, who had been consul with him in bc, would be elected as his colleague.[ ] it is impossible to establish whether livy had any evidence for the existence of these rumours, or if they are just conjecture by him or his sources.[ ] livy is the only source for the events of bc. he wrote that envoys from sutrium, nepete (romans colonies) and falerii in southern etruria arrived in rome with news that the etruscan city-states were discussing suing for peace. this freed both consuls, who marched on samnium, quintus fabius by way of sora and publius decius through the land of the sidicini. a samnite army had prepared to confront them in a valley near tifernum, but it was defeated by quintus fabius. meanwhile, publius decius had camped at maleventum where an apulian army would have joined the samnites in the battle against quintus fabius had publius decius not defeated it. the two consuls then spent four months ravaging samnium. fabius also seized cimetra (location unknown).[ ] there are no major problems with livy's account, but no parallel sources survive to confirm it either. fabius' route via sora to tifernum is convoluted, but not insurmountable. the appearance of an apulian army at maleventum is surprising since nothing is known of apulian hostility to rome since the conclusion of peace in bc. however the apulians might have been divided in their alliance with rome or have been provoked to war by the campaign of barbatus the previous year. publius decius' campaign fits within the larger pattern of roman warfare in south-eastern italy; he might even have wintered in apulia. no triumphs are recorded in this year for either of the consuls, hence they are unlikely to have had any victories of great significance or made any deep inroads into samnium.[ ] bc: etruscan intervention[edit] the consuls for bc were appius claudius caecus and lucius volumnius flamma violens. the previous consuls were given a six-month extension of their command as proconsuls to carry on the war in samnium. publius decius ravaged samnium until he drove the samnite army outside its territory. this army went to etruria to back up previous calls for an alliance, which had been turned down, with intimidation and insisted on the etruscan council being convened. the samnites pointed out that they could not defeat rome by themselves, but an army of all the etruscans, the richest nation in italy, backed up by the samnite army could. meanwhile, publius decius decided to switch from ravaging the countryside to attacking cities as the samnite army was away. he seized murgantia, a strong city, and romulea. after that he marched to ferentium, which was in southern etruria. livy pointed out some discrepancies between his sources, noting that some annalists said that romulea and ferentium were taken by quintus fabius and that publius decius took only murgantia, while others said that the towns were taken by the consuls of the year, and others still gave all the credit to lucius volumnius who, they said, had sole command in samnium.[ ] meanwhile, in etruria gellius egnatius, a samnite commander, was organising a campaign against rome. almost all the etruscan city-states voted for war, the nearest umbrian tribes joined in and there were attempts to hire gauls as auxiliaries. news of this reached rome and appius claudius set off for etruria with two legions and , allied troops. lucius volumnius had already left for samnium with two legions and , allies.[ ] this is the first time livy gives details about the roman forces and figures for the allied troops for the samnite wars. it is also the first time that we hear of the consuls commanding two legions each. including the forces of the proconsuls, in this year the romans must have mobilised six legions. appius claudius suffered a number of setbacks and lost the confidence of his troops. lucius volumnius, who had taken three fortifications in samnium, sent quintus fabius to suppress disturbances by the plebeians in lucania, left the ravaging of rural samnium to publius decius and went to etruria. livy notes that some annalists said that appius claudius had written him a letter to summon him from samnium and that this became a subject of dispute between the two consuls, with the former denying it and the latter insisting that he had been summoned by the former. livy thought that appius claudius did not write the letter, but said that he wanted to send his colleague back to samnium and felt that he ungratefully denied his need for help. however, the soldiers begged him to stay. a dispute between the two men ensued, but the soldiers insisted that both consuls fight in etruria. the etruscans faced lucius volumnius and the samnites advanced on appius claudius. livy said that "the enemy could not withstand a force so much greater than they were accustomed to meet." they were routed; , were killed and , were captured.[ ] lucius volumnius hurried back to samnium because the proconsulships of quintus fabius and publius decius were about to expire. meanwhile, the samnites raised new troops and raided roman territories and allies in campania around capua and falernium. lucius volumnius headed for campania and was informed that the samnites had gone back to samnium to take their loot. he caught up with their camp and defeated a force which was made unfit to fight by the burden of their loot. the samnite commander, staius minatius, was attacked by the prisoners of the samnites and delivered to the consul. the senate decided to establish the colonies of minturnae on the mouth of the river liris and sinuessa further inland, in the former territory of the ausoni.[ ] bc: the etrurian campaign and the battle of sentinum[edit] the samnite raids in campania created great alarm in rome. in addition to this, there was news that, following the withdrawal of lucius volumnius' army from etruria, the etruscans were arming themselves, had invited gellius egnatius' samnites and the umbrians to join them in revolt, and had offered large sums of money to the gauls. then there were reports of an actual coalition between these four peoples and that there was "a huge army of gauls." [ ] it was the first time that rome had to confront a coalition of four peoples. there was going to be the biggest war rome had ever faced and the two best military commanders, quintus fabius maximus rullianus and publius decius mus were elected as consuls again (for bc). lucius volumnius' command was prolonged for a year. quintus fabius went to etruria with one legion to replace appius claudius and left this legion in clusium, too. he then went to rome where the war was being debated. it was decided that the two consuls both fight in etruria. they set off with four legions, a large cavalry and , campanian soldiers. the allies fielded an even larger army. lucius volumnius went to samnium with two legions. that he went with such a large force must have been part of a diversionary strategy to force the samnites to respond to roman raids in samnium and limit their troop deployment in etruria. two reserve contingents headed by propraetors were stationed in the faliscan district and near the vatican hill respectively to protect rome.[ ] livy reported two traditions about events in etruria early in bc. according to one, before the consuls went to etruria, a large force of senones went to clusium to attack the roman legion stationed there and routed it. there were no survivors to warn the consuls who were unaware of the disaster until they came across gallic horsemen. according to the other one, umbrians attacked a roman foraging party which was relieved by assistance from the roman camp.[ ] the etruscans, samnites and umbrians crossed the apennine mountains and advanced near sentinum (in the marche region, near modern sassoferrato). their plan was for the samnites and senones to engage the romans and for the etruscans and umbrians to take the roman camp during the battle. deserters from clusium informed quintus fabius about this plan. the consul ordered the legions in falerii and the vatican to march to clusium and ravage its territory for another diversionary strategy. it drew the etruscans away from sentinium to defend their land. in the battle of sentinum, the gauls stood on the right wing and the samnites on the left. quintus fabius stood on the right and publius decius on the left. livy said that the two forces were so evenly matched that if the etruscans and umbrians had been present it would have been a disaster for the romans.[ ] quintus fabius fought defensively to prolong the battle into a test of endurance and wait for the enemy to flag. publius decius fought more aggressively and ordered a cavalry attack, which drove back the senone cavalry twice. the second time they reached the enemy infantry, but suffered a chariot attack and were scattered and overthrown. the line of the decius’ infantry was broken by the chariots and the senone foot attacked. publius decius decided to devote himself. this term referred to a military commander offering prayers to the gods and launching himself into the enemy lines, effectively sacrificing himself, when his troops were in dire straits. this act galvanised the roman left which was also joined by two reserve contingents which quintus fabius had called in to help. on the right, quintus fabius told the cavalry to outflank the samnite wing and attack it in the flank and ordered his infantry to push forward. he then called in the other reserves. the samnites fled past the senone line. the senones formed a testudo (tortoise) formation – where the men aligned their shields in a compact formation covered with shields at the front and top. quintus fabius ordered campanian lancers to attack them at the rear. this was to be combined with push by the middle line of one of the legions and an attack by the cavalry. meanwhile, quintus fabius took the samnite camp by storm and cut off the senones in the rear. the senone gauls were defeated. the romans lost , men and their enemy , .[ ] livy noted that some writers (whose works are lost) exaggerated the size of the battle, saying that the umbrians also took part and gave the enemy an infantry of , a cavalry of , and , chariots and claiming that lucius volumnius and his two legions also fought in the battle. livy said that lucius volumnius, instead, was holding the front in samnium and routed a samnite force near mount tifernus. after the battle, , samnites made their way back home from sentinum through the land of the paeligni. the locals attacked them and killed , men. in etruria, the propraetor gnaeus fulvius defeated the etruscans. perusia and clusium lost up to , men. quintus fabius left publius decius’ army to guard etruria and went to rome to celebrate a triumph. in etruria perusia continued the war. appius claudius was sent to head publius decius's army as propraetor and quintus fabius confronted and defeated the perusini. the samnites attacked the areas around the river liris (at formiae and vescia), and the river volturnus. they were pursued by appius claudius and lucius volumnius, who merged their forces and defeated the samnites in the vicinity of caiatia, near capua.[ ] bc: samnite raids[edit] in bc the samnites raided three roman armies (one was meant to return to etruria, one to defend the border and the third to raid campania). the consul marcus atilius regulus was sent to the front and met the samnites in a position where neither force could raid enemy territory. the samnites attacked the roman camp under the cover of fog, taking part of the camp and killing many men and several officers. the romans managed to repel them but did not pursue them because of the fog. the other consul, lucius postumius megellus, who was recovering from illness, assembled an army of allies at sora, where roman foragers had been pushed back by the samnites, and the samnites retreated. lucius postumius went on to take milionia and feritrum, two unidentified samnite towns.[ ] marcus atilius marched on luceria (in apulia), which was being besieged, and was defeated. the next day there was another battle. the roman infantry began to flee, but was forced back into battle by their cavalry. the samnites did not press their advantage and were then defeated. on his way back, marcus atilius defeated a samnite force which was trying to seize interamna, a roman colony on the river liris. the other consul, lucius postumius, moved from samnium to etruria without consulting the senate. he ravaged the territory of volsinii and defeated the townsfolk who had come out of the city to defend it. volsinii, perusia and arretium sued for peace and obtained a forty-year truce. livy mentioned that there were sources with different stories. in one, it was marcus atilius who went to etruria and got a triumph. lucius postumius, instead, seized some cities in samnium and then was defeated and wounded in apulia and took refuge in luceria. in another, both consuls fought in samnium and at luceria, with both sides suffering heavy losses.[ ] bc- bc: defeat of samnium[edit] in bc, fresh troops were levied throughout samnium. forty thousand men met in aquilonia. the consul spurius carvilius maximus took on veteran legions which marcus atilius had left at interamna lirenas in the middle liris valley and went on to seize amiternum in samnium (not to be confused with amiternum in sabina). the other consul, lucius papirius cursor (the son of the lucius papirius of the second samnite war), levied a new army and took duronia by storm. the two consuls then went where the main samnite forces were stationed. spurius carvilius went to cominium and engaged in skirmishes. lucius papirius besieged aquilonia. both towns were in north-western samnium. the consuls decided to attack both at the same time. lucius papirius was informed by a deserter that twenty contingents of men each of the samnite elite forces which, in desperation, had been recruited under the lex sacrata (in which soldiers swore not to flee the battle under pain of death) were heading for cominium. he informed his colleague and then set out to intercept them with part of his forces, defeating them. meanwhile, the other part of his forces attacked aquilonia. lucius pairius re-joined them and the city was taken. meanwhile, at cominium, when spurius carvilius heard about the twenty elite samnite contingents (not knowing about their defeat by his colleague), he sent a legion and some auxiliaries to keep them at bay and went ahead with his planned attack on the city, which eventually surrendered.[ ] forsythe writes that the battle of aquilonia "was the last great battle of the war, and it sealed the fate of the samnites." [ ] with the samnite armies destroyed, the consuls decided to storm towns. spurius carvilius took velia, palumbinum and herculaneum (locations unknown). lucius papirius took saepinum (modern altilia), one of samnium's main towns. meanwhile, the etruscans attacked roman allies and the faliscans defected to the etruscans. with the winter setting in and the snow falling, the romans withdrew from samnium. lucius papirius went to rome for his triumph and then went to vescia (in campania) to winter and to protect the locals from samnite raids. spurius carvilius went to etruria. he seized troilum (location unknown) and took five fortresses by storm. the faliscans sued for peace and were fined heavily and granted a one-year truce.[ ] livy's narrative of the third samnite war ends here, with the end of book . books – have been lost. for book we only have a brief summary which is part of the periochae, a summary of his books (except for and ). there is mention of the consul quintus fabius maximus gurges being defeated in samnium and being spared a recall from the army and humiliation by the intervention of his father, quintus fabius maximus rullianus, who promised to help him as deputy. the two men defeated the samnites and captured gaius pontius, the samnite commander, who was paraded in the triumph and beheaded. gurges had moved against the caudini and according to eutropius his army was nearly destroyed and lost , men.[ ] salmon thinks that this setback was probably an exaggeration because the next year gurges was appointed proconsul and he was consul again in bc, during the pyrrhic war. he thinks that his subsequent victory was also magnified and is a fictitious anticipation of the father and son partnership between quintus fabius maximus cunctator and his son during the second punic war [ ] in bc quintus fabius maximus gurges, as proconsul, defeated the pentri, the largest samnite tribe, and took their stronghold of cominium ocritum. the consul lucius postimius megellus operating form apulia attacked the hirpini tribe of the samnites and seized their large town of venusia. because its location offered control over lucania and apulia as well as samnium the romans founded the largest colony they ever established. dionysius of halicarnassus gave a figure of , colonists, which is impossibly high.[ ] details for bc are scant, but the little surviving information suggests that the consuls manius curius dentatus and publius cornelius rufinus campaigned to mop up the last pockets of resistance throughout samnium and according to eutropius this involved some large scale fighting.[ ][ ] aftermath[edit] when the samnite war ended, the romans moved to crush the sabines who lived on the mountains to the east of rome. manius curius dentatus pushed deep into the sabine territory between the rivers nar (today's nera, the main tributary of the river tiber) and anio (aniene, another tributary of the tiber) and the source of the river avens (velino). spurius carvilius confiscated large tracts of land in the plain around reate (today's rieti) and amiternum (  km from l’ aquila), which he distributed to roman settlers.[ ] florus did not give the reasons for this campaign. salmon speculates that "it might have been because of the part they had played or failed to play in the events of / [bc]." [ ] they let the samnites cross their territory to go to etruria. forsythe also speculated that it may have been a punishment for this.[ ] livy mentioned that dentatus subdued the rebellious sabines.[ ] the sabines were given citizenship without the right to vote (civitas sine suffragio), which meant that their territory was effectively annexed to the roman republic. reate and amiternum were given full roman citizenship (civitas optimo iure) in bc. cornell notes that rome also conquered the praetutii.[ ] they lived to the east of the sabines, on the adriatic coast and were at odds with the picentes, who were roman allies. with these two conquests the roman territory extended into the apennines area next to her and a strip of it stretched to the adriatic sea. this, combined with the mentioned alliances struck after the second samnite war with the marsi, marrucini, and paeligni ( bc) and the vestini ( bc), gave rome control of this part of central italy. the samnites were forced to become allies of rome which must have been on unequal terms. rome offered a friendship treaty (foedus amicitiae) to those who allied with her voluntarily, but not to those who became allies as a result of defeat. the romans also established a colony at venusia, an important strategic point in south-eastern samnium. the lucanians retained their alliance with rome. the result of the samnite wars was that rome became the great power of italy and controlled a large portion of it. the alliances which developed after the latin war, after the second samnite war, and at the beginning and the end of the third war laid the foundation for rome to become the great power in the mediterranean which defeated pyrrhus and the carthaginians and expanded into the eastern mediterranean. all the alliance treaties provided that the allies had to provide troops for rome's wars at their expense. the system worked because rome supported the ruling elites of the allied peoples, who could turn to her in case of local troubles, and rome shared the spoils of war, which could be considerable, with her allies. the allies also gained security, protection (rome fought wars to defend their allies) and a share in the profits of conquest. the participation of allied troops had already become important in the battle of sentinum of the second samnite war. the romans came to rely on the allies and their troops often greatly outnumbered those of the romans.[ ] polybius wrote that for the massive battle of telamon against the gauls in bc, the romans deployed about , roman troops and , allied troops. it can also be deduced that the pool of roman military manpower was about % of the total roman and italian pool, which polybius estimated at , .[ ] these were massive numbers which could not be matched by anyone else in the mediterranean. in bc there was further roman consolidation in italy. there were clashes with the gauls and the etruscans. the sources lack detail and can be confused. according to polybius in bc unspecified gauls besieged arretium and defeated a roman force which had come to the aid of the city. the praetor lucius caecilius metellus denter died in the battle and was replaced by manius curius dentatus. dentatus sent envoys to negotiate the release of roman prisoners, but they were killed. the romans marched on gaul (polybius used this very vague term and must have meant cisalpine gaul) and they were met by the senones who were defeated in a pitched battle. it can be assumed that this clash occurred in the ager gallicus (the name the romans gave to the area which had been conquered by the senones), on the adriatic coast (in modern marche) as polybius wrote that "the romans invaded the territory of the senones, killed most of them and drove the rest out of the country and founded the colony of sena gallia (senigalia). polybius also wrote that "[h]ereupon the boii, seeing the senones expelled from their territory, and fearing a like fate for themselves and their own land, implored the aid of the etruscans and marched out in full force. the united armies gave battle to the romans near lake vadimon, and in this battle most of the etruscans were cut to pieces while only quite a few of the boii escaped." he added that the next year the boii and the etruscans engaged the romans in battle again and "were utterly defeated and it was only now that their courage at length gave way and that they sent an embassy to sue for terms and made a treaty with the romans." through these clashes the romans gained further territory along the adriatic coast, eliminated danger from the senones and half a century without major conflicts with the gauls followed. polybius thought that rome gained two advantages from these battles: she got used to defeating the gauls, whom they had feared since the gallic sack of rome of bc, and her troops became battle-hardened just before they had to confront pyrrhus in the pyrrhic war of – bc.[ ] in etruria there were victorious clashes with vulsci and volsinii in bc and caere in bc and the destruction of volsinii in bc. chronology[edit] main article: timeline of the samnite wars first samnite war ( to bc) 	 bc – start of the first samnite war. 	 bc – battle of mount gaurus. 	 bc – rome withdraws from the conflict with the samnites and enters the latin war on the side of the samnites. second (or great) samnite war ( to bc) 	 bc – the samnites declared war. 	 bc – start of the roman siege of neapolis. 	 bc – capture of neapolis (naples). 	 bc – land of the vestini ravaged and two of their towns seized by romans because they had allied with the samnites. 	 bc – samnites defeated and sued for peace, but granted only a one-year truce. 	 bc – first roman operations in daunia, northern apulia. 	 bc – roman humiliation at the caudine forks. 	 bc – destruction of fregellae by the samnites. 	 bc – romans seized luceria and freed the romans hostages. 	 bc – romans subdued satricum, which had rebelled and hosted a samnite garrison. 	 bc – samnites sought peace. rome tuned this down. 	 bc – the apulian the cities of teanum and canusium submitted to rome. 	 bc – romans seized nerulum in lucania. 	 bc – roman besieged saticula. 	 bc – samnites besieged plistica. 	 bc – samnites seized plistica. 	 bc – battle of lautulae, roman defeat 	 bc – romans seized nola. 	 bc – romans destroyed the ausoni cities of ausona, minturnae and vescia. 	 bc – romans defeated samnites near capua. 	 bc – romans seized sora. 	 bc – romans established colonies at suessa aurunca, interamna sucasina and the island of pontiae. 	 bc – samnites seized roman garrison at cluvius, romans retook it. 	 bc – romans sacked bovianum. 	 bc – romans defeated samnites at unspecified location in samnium. 	 bc – beginning of war in etruria, etruscans besieged sutrium, indecisive battle with romans. 	 bc – romans defeated etruscans near sutrium. 	 bc – marcus fabius' expedition through the cimian forest. 	 bc – romans defeat etruscans at unspecified location. 	 bc – the etruscan cities of perusia and cortona and arretium sued for peace and obtained a thirty-year truce. 	 bc – battle of lake vadimo - roman victory, the battle was said to have broken the might of the etruscans for the first time. 	 bc – samnites fought the consul gaius marcius at unspecified location, indecisive battle, romans lost several officers, consul wounded. 	 bc – etruscans broke the truce, romans defeated them near perusia. 	 bc – rome refused peace offers by nuceria alfaterna and seized it. 	 bc – romans defeated marsi and paeligni who had allied with samnites in separate battles at unspecified locations. 	 bc – etruscans sued for peace, rome only granted a one-year truce. 	 bc – romans fought campaign against salentini of southern apulia and seized several towns 	 bc – samnites defeated near allifae, some hernici troops found among the enemy ranks, rome investigated this, hernici revolt. 	 bc – samnites and hernici isolated one of the roman consul each, hernici surrendered, samnites defeated. 	 bc – battle at tifenum in samnium, according to one source romans defeated, according to another, they withdrew. 	 bc – romans defeated samnites at unspecified location in samnium. 	 bc – romans besieged bovianum. 	 bc – samnites sued for peace, end of the war. third samnite war ( to bc) 	 bc – start of the third samnite war. 	 bc – battle of volterrae. 	 bc – the romans capture the samnite cities of bovianum and aufidena and/or, according to a dubious inscription, taurasia and cisauna. 	 bc – quintus fabius maximus rullianus defeats the samnites near tifernum. 	 bc – publius decius mus seized murgantia, romulea and ferentium. 	 bc – battle of sentinum. 	 bc – the samintes nearly seized a roman camp in an unspecified location but are repelled. 	 bc – lucius postumius seized milionia and feritrum, two unidentified samnite towns and defeated volsini in etruria. 	 bc – marcus atilius was defeated at luceria, but won another battle the next day. he then defeated samnites who were trying to seize interamna. 	 bc – lucius papirius seized aquilonia and saepinum in samnium. 	 bc – spurius carvilius seized cominium, velia, palumbinum and herculaneum in samnium. 	 bc – spurius carvilius seized troilum and five fortresses in etruria. 	 bc – quintus fabius maximus gurges defeated by caudine samnites, then defeated them with the help of his father quintus fabius maximus rullianus. 	 bc – quintus fabius maximus gurges seized cominium ocritum, a stronghold of the pentri samnites. 	 bc – lucius postimius megellus seized venusia, the chief town of the hirpini samnites. 	 bc – roman operations to mop up last pockets of samnite resistance; end of the war. references[edit] 	^ diodorus, xvi. . . 	^ livy, vii. . – . 	^ livy, vii. . 	^ livy, vii. . 	^ a b c oakley , p.  . 	^ livy, vii. . 	^ livy, vii. . – 	^ livy, vii. . – 	^ livy, vii. . – 	^ livy, vii. . – 	^ livy, vii. . – 	^ livy, vii. . – 	^ livy, vii. . – 	^ livy, vii. . – 	^ livy, vii. . – 	^ a b 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(october ) click [show] for important translation instructions. 	 	machine translation like deepl or google translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the english wikipedia. 	do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. if possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. 	you must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. a model attribution edit summary content in this edit is translated from the existing german wikipedia article at [[:de:]]; see its history for attribution. 	you should also add the template {{translated page}} to the talk page. 	for more guidance, see wikipedia:translation. 	suetonius 	a generalized representation of suetonius from the th-century nuremberg chronicle[ ] 	born	gaius suetonius tranquillus c. ad 	died	after c. ad 	occupation	secretary, historian 	genre	biography 	subject	history, biography, oratory 	literary movement	silver age of latin 	notable works	the lives of the twelve caesars gaius suetonius tranquillus (latin: [ˈɡaːi.ʊs sweːˈtoːni.ʊs traŋˈkᶣɪlːʊs]), commonly known as suetonius (/swɪˈtoʊniəs/; c. – after ad),[ ] was a roman historian who wrote during the early imperial era of the roman empire. his most important surviving work is a set of biographies of twelve successive roman rulers, from julius caesar to domitian, entitled de vita caesarum. other works by suetonius concern the daily life of rome, politics, oratory, and the lives of famous writers, including poets, historians, and grammarians. a few of these books have partially survived, but many have been lost. contents 	 life 	 works 	 . the twelve caesars 	 . other works 	 . . partly extant 	 . . lost works 	 editions 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 external links life[edit] gaius suetonius tranquillus was probably born about ad, a date deduced from his remarks describing himself as a "young man" twenty years after nero's death. his place of birth is disputed, but most scholars place it in hippo regius, a small north african town in numidia, in modern-day algeria.[ ] it is certain that suetonius came from a family of moderate social position, that his father, suetonius laetus,[ ] was a tribune belonging to the equestrian order (tribunus angusticlavius) in legio xiii gemina, and that suetonius was educated when schools of rhetoric flourished in rome. suetonius was a close friend of senator and letter-writer pliny the younger. pliny describes him as "quiet and studious, a man dedicated to writing." pliny helped him buy a small property and interceded with the emperor trajan to grant suetonius immunities usually granted to a father of three, the ius trium liberorum, because his marriage was childless.[ ] through pliny, suetonius came into favour with trajan and hadrian. suetonius may have served on pliny’s staff when pliny was proconsul of bithynia and pontus (northern asia minor) between and . under trajan he served as secretary of studies (precise functions are uncertain) and director of imperial archives. under hadrian, he became the emperor's secretary. but hadrian later dismissed suetonius for the latter's alleged affair with the empress sabina.[ ][ ] works[edit] the twelve caesars[edit] main article: the twelve caesars a bust of gaius julius caesar he is mainly remembered as the author of de vita caesarum—translated as the life of the caesars although a more common english title is the lives of the twelve caesars or simply the twelve caesars—his only extant work except for the brief biographies and other fragments noted below. the twelve caesars, probably written in hadrian's time, is a collective biography of the roman empire's first leaders, julius caesar (the first few chapters are missing), augustus, tiberius, caligula, claudius, nero, galba, otho, vitellius, vespasian, titus and domitian. the book was dedicated to his friend gaius septicius clarus, a prefect of the praetorian guard in .[ ] the work tells the tale of each caesar's life according to a set formula: the descriptions of appearance, omens, family history, quotes, and then a history are given in a consistent order for each caesar. he recorded the earliest accounts of julius caesar's epileptic seizures. other works[edit] partly extant[edit] 	de viris illustribus ("on famous men" — in the field of literature), to which belong: 	de illustribus grammaticis ("lives of the grammarians"; brief lives, apparently complete) 	de claris rhetoribus ("lives of the rhetoricians"; brief lives out of an original survive) 	de poetis ("lives of the poets"; the life of virgil, as well as fragments from the lives of terence, horace and lucan, survive) 	de historicis ("lives of the historians"; a brief life of pliny the elder is attributed to this work) 	peri ton par' hellesi paidion ("greek games") 	peri blasphemion ("greek terms of abuse") the two last works were written in greek. they apparently survive in part in the form of extracts in later greek glossaries. lost works[edit] the below listed lost works of suetonius are from the foreword written by robert graves in his translation of the twelve caesars.[ ] 	royal biographies 	lives of famous whores 	roman manners and customs 	the roman year 	the roman festivals 	roman dress 	greek games 	offices of state 	on cicero’s republic 	physical defects of mankind 	methods of reckoning time 	an essay on nature 	greek objurations 	grammatical problems 	critical signs used in books the introduction to loeb edition of suetonius, translated by j. c. rolfe, with an introduction by k. r. bradley, references the suda with the following titles: 	on greek games 	on roman spectacles and games 	on the roman year 	on critical signs in books 	on cicero's republic 	on names and types of clothes 	on insults 	on rome and its customs and manners the volume then goes on to add other titles not testified within the suda. 	on famous courtesans 	on kings 	on the institution of offices 	on physical defects 	on weather signs 	on names of seas and rivers 	on names of winds two other titles may also be collections of some of the aforelisted: 	pratum (miscellany) 	on various matters editions[edit] 	edwards, catherine lives of the caesars. oxford world’s classics. (oxford university press, ). 	robert graves (trans.), suetonius: the twelve caesars (harmondsworth, middlesex, england: penguin books, ltd, ) 	donna w. hurley (trans.), suetonius: the caesars (indianapolis/london: hackett publishing company, ). 	j.c. rolfe (trans.), lives of the caesars, volume i (loeb classical library , harvard university press, ). 	j.c. rolfe (trans.), lives of the caesars, volume ii (loeb classical library , harvard university press, ). 	c. suetonii tranquilli de vita caesarum libros viii et de grammaticis et rhetoribus librum, ed. robert a. kaster (oxford: ). see also[edit] 	suetonius on christians notes[edit] 	^ the same woodcut is used throughout the chronicle for writers, priests and philosophers of different time periods and different national backgrounds. see nuremberg chronicle, digital edition (university of cambridge), ff. v, r, v, v, r, v, r, and r. 	^ the editors of encyclopaedia britannica. "suetonius". encyclopædia britannica. cambridge university press. retrieved may . 	^ suetonius ( ). lives of the caesars. . cambridge: harvard university press. loeb classical library. p.  . 	^ suetonius. vita othonis. , . 	^ pliny the younger. " . ". letters. 	^ chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "suetonius tranquillus, gaius" . encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. 	^ hadrianus. " : ". historia augusta. claims that hadrian "removed from office septicius clarus, the prefect of the guard, and suetonius tranquillus, the imperial secretary, and many others besides, because without his consent they had been conducting themselves toward his wife, sabina, in a more informal fashion than the etiquette of the court demanded." 	^ reynolds, leighton durham ( ). texts and transmission: a survey of the latin classics. oxford: clarendon press. p.  . isbn  . the dedication, in the lost preface, is recorded by a sixth-century source when the text was still complete 	^ suetonius ( ). "foreword". in rives, james (ed.). suetonius: the twelve caesars. translated by graves, robert ( st ed.). hamondsworth, middlesex, england: penguin books. p.  . references[edit] 	barry baldwin, suetonius: biographer of the caesars. amsterdam: a. m. hakkert, . 	gladhill, bill. “the emperor's no clothes: suetonius and the dynamics of corporeal ecphrasis.” classical antiquity, vol. , no. , , pp. – . 	lounsbury, richard c. the arts of suetonius: an introduction. frankfurt: lang, . 	mitchell, jack “literary quotation as literary performance in suetonius.” the classical journal, vol. , no. , , pp. – 	newbold, r.f. “non-verbal communication in suetonius and ‘the historia augusta:' power, posture and proxemics.” acta classica, vol. , , pp. – . 	power, tristan and roy k. gibson (ed.), suetonius, the biographer: studies in roman lives. oxford; new york: oxford university press, 	syme, ronald. "the travels of suetonius tranquillus." hermes : – , . 	trentin, lisa. “deformity in the roman imperial court.” greece & rome, vol. , no. , , pp. – . 	trevor, luke “ideology and humor in suetonius' ‘life of vespasian’ .” the classical world, vol. , no. , , pp. – . 	wallace-hadrill, andrew f. suetonius: the scholar and his caesars. new haven, ct: yale univ. press, . 	wardle, david. "did suetonius write in greek?" acta classica : – , . 	wardle, david. “suetonius on augustus as god and man.” the classical quarterly, vol. , no. , , pp. – . 	kaster, robert a., studies on the text of suetonius’ “de vita caesarum” (oxford: ). external links[edit] 		wikiquote has quotations related to: suetonius 		wikisource has original works written by or about: suetonius 		wikimedia commons has media related to suetonius. 	library resources about suetonius 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 by suetonius 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	the lives of the twelve caesars at lacuscurtius (latin original, english translation) 	suetonius' works at latin library (latin) 	works by suetonius at project gutenberg 	the lives of the twelve caesars at project gutenberg (english translation including the lives of the grammarians, rhetoricians, and poets) 	works by or about suetonius at internet archive 	works by 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( ). as a philosopher, kant claimed the phrase sapere aude as the motto for the entire period of the enlightenment, and used it to develop his theories of the application of reason in the public sphere of human affairs. in the th century, in the essay "what is enlightenment?" ( ) michel foucault took up kant's formulation of "dare to know" in an attempt to find a place for the individual man and woman in post-structuralist philosophy, and so come to terms with the problematic legacy of the enlightenment. moreover, in the essay the baroque episteme: the word and the thing ( ) jean-claude vuillemin proposed that the latin phrase sapere aude be the motto of the baroque episteme.[ ] the phrase is widely used as a motto, especially by educational institutions. contents 	 usages 	 . st century 	 . th century 	 . th century 	 . th century 	 . th century 	 see also 	 references 	 external links usages[edit] st century[edit] 	horace the original use of the phrase sapere aude appears in the first book of letters ( bc), by the roman poet horace; in the second letter, addressed to lolius, in line , the passage is: dimidium facti, qui coepit, habet; sapere aude, incipe. ("he who has begun is half done; dare to know; begin!") the phrase is the moral to a story in which a fool waits for a stream to cease flowing, before attempting to cross it. in saying, "he who begins is half done. dare to know, begin!", horace suggests the value of human endeavour, of persistence in reaching a goal, of the need for effort to overcome obstacles. moreover, the laconic latin of sapere aude also can be loosely translated as the english phrase "dare to be wise". th century[edit] 	philip melanchthon in his inaugural address as professor of greek in wittenberg on august , , philip melanchthon quoted horace's letter.[citation needed] th century[edit] 	immanuel kant answering the question: what is enlightenment?, by immanuel kant. in the essay, "answering the question: what is enlightenment?" ( ), immanuel kant describes the age of enlightenment as "man's release from his self-incurred immaturity"; and, with the phrase sapere aude, the philosopher charges the reader to follow such a program of intellectual self-liberation, by means of reason. the essay is kant's shrewd, political challenge to men and women, suggesting that the mass of "domestic cattle" have been bred, by unfaithful stewards, to not question what they have been told about the world and its ways. kant classifies the uses of reason as public and private. the public use of reason is discourse in the public sphere, such as political discourse (argument and analysis); the private use of reason is rational argument, such as that used by a person entrusted with a duty, either official or organizational. skillfully praising king frederick ii of prussia (r. – ) for his intellectual receptiveness to the political, social, and cultural ideas of the enlightenment, the philosopher kant proposes that an enlightened prince is one who instructs his subjects to: "argue as much as you will, and about what you will, only obey!" it is the courage of the individual man to abide the advice sapere aude that will break the shackles of despotism, and reveal, through public discourse, for the benefit of the mass population and of the state, better methods of governance, and of legitimate complaint.[ ] th century[edit] the founder of homoeopathy, dr christian frederich samuel hahnemann used the phrase on the cover of his organon of medicine ( , , , , , ). th century[edit] 	michel foucault in response to immanuel kant's age of enlightenment propositions for intellectual courage, in the essay "what is enlightenment?" ( ), michel foucault rejected much of the hopeful politics proposed by kant: a people ruled by just rulers; ethical leaders inspired by the existential dare advised in the phrase sapere aude. instead, foucault applied ontology to examine the innate resources for critical thinking of a person's faculty of reason. with the analytical value of sapere aude reinforced by the concept of "faithful betrayal" to impracticable beliefs, foucault disputed the enlightenment-era arguments that kant presents in the essay "answering the question: what is enlightenment?" ( ). like his th-century predecessor, foucault also based his philosophic interpretation of sapere aude upon a definite practice of critical thinking that is an "attitude, an ethos, a philosophical life in which [is found] the critique of what we are". such an enlightened, intellectual attitude applies reason to experience, and so effects an historical criticism of "the limits that are imposed on us". the criticism is "an experiment with the possibility of going beyond" imposed limits, in order to reach the limit-experience, which simultaneously is an individual, personal act, and an act that breaks the concept of the individual person.[ ] see also[edit] 	durham johnston comprehensive school, founded in , has sapere aude as its motto. 	epistularum liber primus, horace's work containing the original phrase. 	lutterworth college, founded in (as lutterworth grammar school), has sapere aude as its motto. 	manchester grammar school, founded in , has sapere aude as its motto. 	moscow institute of physics and technology, has the motto highlight the school's tradition in groundbreaking fundamental research. 	staffordshire university, adopted sapere aude as its motto in . 	university of otago, new zealand: the phrase serves as its motto; the students' association replies in kind with its motto "audeamus" (let us dare) 	richmond hill high school, ontario, canada, has this as its motto. 	west london free school, london, uk, has this as its motto. references[edit] 	^ jean-claude vuillemin, epistémè baroque: le mot et la chose, paris, hermann, coll. 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	regional unit 	limenas (port) of thasos, capital of the island 	thasos within east macedonia and thrace 	coordinates: ° ′n ° ′e /  . °n . °e / . ; . coordinates: ° ′n ° ′e /  . °n . °e / . ; . 	country	greece 	region	east macedonia and thrace 	capital	thasos 	area 	 • total	 .  km ( .  sq mi) 	elevation 	 ,  m ( ,  ft) 	population ( ) 	 • total	 , 	 • density	 /km ( /sq mi) 	time zone	utc+ (eet) 	 • summer (dst)	utc+ (eest) 	postal codes	 	area codes	 	car plates	ΚΒ 	website	www.thassos.gr thasos (from west) thasos or thassos (greek: Θάσος, thásos) is a greek island, geographically part of the north aegean sea, but administratively part of the kavala regional unit, macedonia. it is the northernmost major greek island, and th largest by area. thasos is also the name of the largest town of the island (officially known as limenas thasou, "port of thasos"), situated at the northern side, opposite the mainland and about kilometres ( miles) from keramoti. thassos island is known from ancient times for its termae making it a climatic and balneoclimateric resort area. thasos's economy relies on timber (it is rich in forests), marble quarries, olive oil and honey. tourism has also become important since the s, although not to the level of other greek islands. contents 	 history 	 . mythology 	 . prehistory 	 . antiquity 	 . middle ages 	 . ottoman era 	 . archaeological discovery 	 . modern era 	 administration 	 geography 	 . geology 	 . mining history 	 economy 	 localities 	 historical population 	 sights 	 notable people 	 notes 	 references 	 external links history[edit] mythology[edit] staphylus (ancient greek: Στάφυλος), the beloved of god dionysus, lived in thasos.[ ] prehistory[edit] lying close to the coast of eastern macedonia, thasos was inhabited from the palaeolithic period onwards,[ ] but the earliest settlement to have been explored in detail is that at limenaria, where remains from the middle and late neolithic relate closely to those found at the mainland's drama plain. in contrast, early bronze age remains on the island align it with the aegean culture of the cyclades and sporades, to the south; at skala sotiros[ ] for example, a small settlement was encircled by a strongly built defensive wall. even earlier activity is demonstrated by the presence of large pieces of 'megalithic' anthropomorphic stelai built into these walls, which, so far, have no parallels in the aegean area. there is then a gap in the archaeological record until the end of the bronze age c bc, when the first burials took place at the large cemetery of kastri in the interior of the island.[ ][ ] here built tombs covered with small mound of earth were typical until the end of the iron age. in the earliest tombs were a small number of locally imitated mycenaean pottery vessels, but the majority of the hand-made pottery with incised decoration reflects connections eastwards with thrace and beyond. antiquity[edit] ancient agora of thasos the island was colonised at an early date by phoenicians, attracted probably by its gold mines; they founded a temple to the god melqart, whom the greeks identified as "tyrian heracles", and whose cult was merged with heracles in the course of the island's hellenization.[ ] the temple still existed in the time of herodotus.[ ] an eponymous thasos or thasus, son of phoenix (or of agenor, as pausanias reported) was said to have been the leader of the phoenicians, and to have given his name to the island.[ ] around bc, or a little earlier, greeks from paros founded a colony on thasos.[ ] a generation or so later, the poet archilochus, a descendant of these colonists, wrote of casting away his shield during a minor war against an indigenous thracian tribe, the saians.[ ] thasian power, and sources of its wealth, extended to the mainland, where the thasians owned gold mines even more valuable than those of the island; their combined annual revenues amounted to between and talents. herodotus says that the best mines on the island were those opened by the phoenicians on the east side of the island, facing samothrace. archilochus described thasos as "an ass's backbone crowned with wild wood." the island's capital, thasos, had two harbours. besides its gold mines, the wine, nuts and marble of thasos were well known in antiquity.[ ] thasian wine was quite famous. thasian coins had the head of the wine god dionysos on one side and bunches of grape of the other.[ ] thasos was important during the ionian revolt against persia. after the capture of miletus ( bc) histiaeus, the ionian leader, laid siege. the attack failed, but, warned by the danger, the thasians employed their revenues to build war ships and strengthen their fortifications. this excited the suspicions of the persians, and darius compelled them to surrender their ships and pull down their walls.[ ] after the defeat of xerxes the thasians joined the delian league; but afterwards, on account of a difference about the mines and marts on the mainland, they revolted.[ ] silver tritartemorion struck in thasos circa - bc. satyr on the obverse and dolphins on the reverse the athenians defeated them by sea, and, after a siege that lasted more than two years, took the capital, thasos, probably in bc, and compelled the thasians to destroy their walls, surrender their ships, pay an indemnity and an annual contribution (in bc this was talents, from bc about talents), and resign their possessions on the mainland. in bc, at the time of the oligarchical revolution at athens, thasos again revolted from athens and received a lacedaemonian governor; but in bc the partisans of lacedaemon were expelled, and the athenians under thrasybulus were admitted.[ ] after the battle of aegospotami ( bc), thasos again fell into the hands of the lacedaemonians under lysander who formed a decarchy there; but the athenians must have recovered it, for it formed one of the subjects of dispute between them and philip ii of macedonia. in the embroilment between philip v of macedonia and the romans, thasos submitted to philip, but received its freedom at the hands of the romans after the battle of cynoscephalae ( bc), and it was still a "free" state in the time of pliny.[ ] middle ages[edit] further information: byzantine greece and frankokratia byzantine church in thasos thasos was part of the eastern roman empire, now known as the byzantine empire, from on. according to the th century synecdemus, it belonged to the province of macedonia prima, although the th century de thematibus claims that it was part of thracia.[ ] the island was a major source of marble until the disruption of the slavic invasions in the late th/ th centuries, and several churches from late antiquity have been found on it.[ ] the island remained in byzantine hands for most of the middle ages. it functioned as a naval base in the th century, under its own doux, and came briefly under the rule of the genoese tedisio zaccaria in – . returning to byzantine control, its bishopric was raised to an archdiocese by manuel ii palaiologos. thasos was captured by the genoese gattilusi family c.  , who surrendered it to the ottoman empire in .[ ] following the ottoman conquest of the despotate of the morea in , the former despot demetrios palaiologos received lands on the island.[ ] it is related that the byzantine greek saint joannicius the great ( – ) in one of his miracles freed the island of thasos from a multitude of snakes. ottoman era[edit] further information: ottoman greece thasos was incorporated into the ottoman empire in .[ ] under the ottoman rule, the island was known as ottoman turkish: طاشوز taşöz. between and , the island was briefly occupied by a russian fleet. by this time the population of thassos had gravitated to the inland villages as a protective measure.[ ] nearly years later, a revolt against ottoman rule arose in , at the outbreak of the greek war of independence, led by hatzigiorgis metaxas, but it failed. the island had been given in by the sultan mahmud ii to muhammad ali of egypt as a personal fiefdom, as a reward for his intervention against the wahhabites. egyptian rule was relatively benign (by some accounts muhammad ali had either been born or spent his infancy on thasos) and the island became prosperous, until , when the new turk regime asserted turkish control. the island was a kaza (sub-province), lastly of the sanjak of drama in the salonica vilayet, until the balkan wars. on october during the first balkan war, a greek naval detachment freed thasos from the ottomans and it became part of greece. from the day it was reunited with greece, it has remained so ever since. archaeological discovery[edit] on the november issue of the new york times (p.  ), it was reported that on the island of thassos, archaeologist theodore bent discovered the tomb of cassius, the one who slew himself after the disastrous defeat at the battle of philippi in b.c. cassius was buried by brutus at thassos, where the army of the patriots of the republic had established its base of supplies.[ ][ ] researchers from the adelphi university discovered in the paliokastro on thasos ten skeletal remains, four women and six men, who were buried between the fourth and seventh centuries a.d. their bones illuminated their physical activities, traumas, and even a complex form of brain surgery. according to the researchers: "the very serious trauma cases sustained by both males and females had been treated surgically or orthopedically by a very experienced physician/surgeon with great training in trauma care. we believe it to have been a military physician". the researchers were impressed by the complexity of the brain surgical operation.[ ] modern era[edit] further information: axis occupation of greece during world war ii limenaria in s the writer vassilis vassilikos, famous for his novel "z", which was later adapted into an academy award-winning film was born in thasos in . he later became director general of greek public television, and greece's ambassador to unesco. during the axis occupation (april  – october ) thasos, along with the region of east macedonia and thrace, was assigned by the nazis to their bulgarian allies. the bulgarian government renamed the island "tasos" and closed its schools. thasos' mountainous terrain facilitated resistance activity against the occupation forces, mainly led by the left-wing national liberation front (eam). after the end of the war and the withdrawal of axis troops in , the island was caught up in the greek civil war. the leader of the communist naval forces in the civil war, sarantis spintzos, was a native of thasos.[ ] skirmishes and communist guerilla attacks continued on thasos until , almost a year after the main hostilities were over on the mainland. in the post-war decades, another native of thasos, costas tsimas, was to attain national recognition; a friend of prime minister andreas papandreou, he was appointed director of the national intelligence service, the first civilian to hold that post. thasos, the capital, is now informally known as limenas, or "the port". it is served by a ferry route to and from keramoti a port close to kavala international airport, and has the shortest possible crossing to the island. scala prinos  km south of thassos town is served by a ferry route to and from kavala. administration[edit] thasos is a separate regional unit of the east macedonia and thrace region, and the only municipality of the regional unit.[ ] as a part of the kallikratis government reform, the regional unit thasos was created out of part of the former kavala prefecture. the municipality, unchanged at the kallikratis reform, includes a few uninhabited islets besides the main island thasos and has an area of .  km .[ ] the province of thasos (greek: Επαρχία Θάσου) was one of the provinces of the kavala prefecture. it had the same territory as the present municipality.[ ] it was abolished in . geography[edit] thasos from space, april thasos island is located in the northern aegean sea approximately  km (  mi) from the northern mainland and kilometres ( miles) south-east of kavala, and is of generally rounded shape, without deep bays or significant peninsulas. the terrain is mountainous but not particularly rugged, rising gradually from coast to centre. the highest peak is ypsario (ipsario), at , metres ( , feet), somewhat east of centre. pine forest covers much of the island's eastern slopes. historically, the island's population was chiefly engaged in agriculture and stockbreeding, and established villages inland, some of them connected via stairways (known as skalas) to harbors at the shore. the local population gradually migrated towards these shoreline settlements as tourism began to develop as an important source of income. thus, there are several "paired villages" such as maries–skala maries, with the former inland and the latter on the coast. geology[edit] 	 	this section may be too 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(january ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) geological and metallogenic map of thasos island. the island is formed mainly by gneisses, schists and marbles of the rhodope massif. marble sequences corresponding to the falacron marbles intercalated by schists and gneisses, are up to m thick and are separated from the underlying gneisses by a transition zone about m thick termed the t-zone consisting of alternances of dolomitic and calcitic marbles intercalated by schists and gneisses. the rocks have undergone several periods of regional metamorphism, to at least upper amphibolite facies, and there was a subsequent phase of retrograde metamorphism. at least three periods of regional deformation have been identified, the most important being large scale isoclinal folding with axes aligned north-west. the t-zone is deformed and is interpreted by some authors as a regional thrust of pre-major folding age. there are two major high angle fault systems aligned north-west and north-east respectively. a large low-angle thrust cuts the gneiss, schist and marble sequence at the south-west corner of the island, probably indicating an overthrusting of the serbomacedonian massif onto the rodope massif. the late miocene oil-producing nestos-prinos basin is located between thassos island and the mainland. the floor of the basin is around , m deep off the thassos coast (south kavala ridge; proedrou, ) and up to . – . m in the axial sector between thassos and the mainland. the basin is filled with late miocene-pliocene sediments, including ubiquitously repeated evaporite layers of rock salt and anhydrite-dolomite that alternate with sandstones, conglomerates, black shales, and uraniferous coal measures (proedrou, , ; taupitz, ). stratigraphically equivalent rocks on the mainland are clastic sediments with coal beds, marine to brackish fluvial units and travertines. mining history[edit] the earliest mining on the island has been dated to around , bc, when paleolithic miners dug a shaft at the site of the modern-era tzines iron mine for the extraction of limonitic ochre.[ ] mining for base and precious metals started around the th century bc with the phoenicians, followed in the th century by the greeks, then the romans. these later mines were both open-cast and underground, mostly to exploit the island's numerous karst hosted calamine deposits for their lead and silver. gold, copper and iron were also found; the byzantines quarried marble on the island. in the early th century, mining companies (most notably the speidel mining company) exploited the island's zinc-lead rich calamine ores, with a yield of around million tonnes, and a processing plant at limenaria produced zinc oxide. iron ore was mined on a significant scale from to , with a yield of around million tonnes. since , surveys have established the existence of a deep-level zinc-lead deposit, but the only mining activity on the island has been marble quarrying. 	 			 			 lead-zinc mine at sellada 			 		 	 			 			 iron mine of koupanada 			 		 	 			 			 gold mine 			 		 	 			 			 iron mine at tzines, with paleolithic mine-tunnel 			 		 	 			 			 marble quarry of alyki 			 		 economy[edit] shiploading in limenaria during the s by far the most important economic activity is tourism. the main agricultural products on the island are honey, almonds, walnuts, olives (famously throuba olives), and olive oil, as well as wine, sheep, goat herding, and fishing.[ ] other industries are lumber and mining which includes lead, zinc, and marble, especially in the panagia area where one of the mountains near the thracian sea has a large marble quarry. the marble quarries in the south (in the area of aliki), now abandoned, were mined during ancient times. localities[edit] panagia village towns and villages with over inhabitants ( census) are: 	kallirachi ( ) 	koinyra ( ) 	limenaria ( , ) 	maries ( ) 	ormos prinou ( ) 	panagia ( ) 	potamia ( , ) 	potos ( ) 	prinos ( , ) 	rachoni ( ) 	skala kallirachis ( ) 	skala marion ( ) 	skala rachoniou ( ) 	skala sotiros ( ) 	thasos (limenas thasou) ( , ) 	theologos ( ) traditional village of theologos historical population[edit] 	year	town	municipality 	 	 , 	– 	 	 , 	– 	 	 , 	 , 	 	 , 	 , sights[edit] kouros at the archaeological museum of thasos polygnotos vagis municipal museum in potamia paradisos beach 	archaeological museum of thasos and the nearby ancient agora in thasos town 	acropolis of thasos and ancient theater near thasos town 	polygnotos vagis municipal museum in potamia 	folklore museum of limenaria 	archangel michael's monastery 	saint panteleimon monastery: it was built in and became monastery in . according to inhabitants of thassos, someone wanted to build it in favor of saint panteleimon. the workers started the building at a location, but the next day when they wanted to continue with the construction, the part they had built was found destroyed and their tools were missing. the same happened on the following days. one day they saw footprints on the ground and followed them until they found their tools nearby a natural spring. finally, they built the monastery at that spot. 	monastery of the assumption 	kastro: its foundation year is unknown. this village must have been created during the years of frankish domination. 	krambousa isle: it can be found across the coast of skala potamia. the thick vegetation make it impossible to explore all parts of it. it is full with special wild vegetable called "krambi". the little church of saint daniel is located at the top of the hill. the inhabitants visit this church on the day of the saint every year. 	mount ypsario (ipsario) , meters ( ,  ft) 	artificial lake in maries notable people[edit] 	archilochos ( th century bc), warrior and poet. 	aglaophon ( th– th century bc), painter, teacher and father of polygnotus and aristophon[ ] 	hegemon of thasos, comedian, inventor of parody 	leodamas ( th century bc), mathematician 	neseus of thasos, painter 	polygnotos vagis ( – ), thasos-born us sculptor 	polygnotus (mid- th century bc), painter 	stesimbrotos (c. bc – c. bc), sophist 	theagenes of thasos ( bc) olympic boxer 	pankratiast ( bc), olympic runner 	androsthenes of thasos ( th century bc), admiral serving under alexander the great. 	vassilis vassilikos ( ), poet and author. notes[edit] 	^ suda, § th. 	^ papadopoulos s., "recent field investigations in paleolithic, neolithic and bronze age thasos", international symposium in memoriam mieczislaw domaradzki, kazanlak, archaeological institute of sofia, kazanluk, (in press) 	^ Κουκούλη Χ.- Χρυσανθάκη, "Ανασκαφή Σκάλας Σωτήρος Θάσου", Το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο στη Μακεδονία και Θράκη, , (( ), , – , ( ), , – , ( ), , – , ( ), , – ). 	^ chaidou koukouli-chrysanthaki: Πρωτοιστορική Θάσος. Τα νεκροταφεία του οικισμού Κάστρι, Μερος Α και Β, Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού, Δυμοσιέυματα του αρχαιολογικού Δελτίου Αρ. , isbn  - - - 	^ agelarakis a., "reflections of the human condition in prehistoric thasos: aspects of the anthropological and palaeopathological record from the settlement of kastri". actes du colloque international matières prèmieres et technologie de la préhistoire à nos jours, limenaria, thasos. the french archaeological institute in greece, . – . 	^ pausanias, . . . "the thasians, who are phoenicians by descent, and sailed from tyre, and from phoenicia generally, together with thasos, the son of agenor, in search of europa, dedicated at olympia a herakles, the pedestal as well as the image being of bronze. the height of the image is ten cubits, and he holds a club in his right hand and a bow in his left. they told me in thasos that they used to worship the same heracles as the tyrians, but that afterwards, when they were included among the greeks, they adopted the worship of heracles the son of amphitryon." 	^ herodotus. histories, . . "in the wish to get the best information that i could on these matters, i made a voyage to tyre in phoenicia, hearing there was a temple of heracles at that place, very highly venerated. i visited the temple, and found it richly adorned with a number of offerings, among which were two pillars, one of pure gold, the other of smaragdos, shining with great brilliancy at night. in a conversation i held with the priests, i inquired how long their temple had been built, and found by their answer that they, too, differed from the hellenes. they said that the temple was built at the same time that the city was founded, and that the foundation of the city took place , years ago. in tyre i remarked another temple where the same god was worshipped as the thasian heracles. so i went on to thasos, where i found a temple of heracles, which had been built by the phoenicians who colonised that island when they sailed in search of europa. even this was five generations earlier than the time when heracles, son of amphitryon, was born in hellas. these researches show plainly that there is an ancient god heracles; and my own opinion is that those hellenes act most wisely who build and maintain two temples of heracles, in the one of which the heracles worshipped is known by the name of olympian, and has sacrifice offered to him as an immortal, while in the other the honours paid are such as are due to a hero." 	^ a b c d e chisholm , p.  . 	^ aj graham,"the foundation of thasos", the annual of the british school at athens, vol. 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using wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society. a feature of satire is strong irony or sarcasm —"in satire, irony is militant", according to literary critic northrup frye—[ ] but parody, burlesque, exaggeration,[ ] juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre are all frequently used in satirical speech and writing. this "militant" irony or sarcasm often professes to approve of (or at least accept as natural) the very things the satirist wishes to question. satire is found in many artistic forms of expression, including internet memes, literature, plays, commentary, music, film and television shows, and media such as lyrics. contents 	 etymology and roots 	 humour 	 social and psychological functions 	 classifications 	 . horatian, juvenalian, menippean 	 . . horatian 	 . . juvenalian 	 . . menippean 	 . satire versus teasing 	 . classifications by topics 	 development 	 . ancient egypt 	 . ancient greece 	 . roman world 	 . medieval islamic world 	 . medieval europe 	 . early modern western satire 	 . ancient and modern india 	 . age of enlightenment 	 . satire in victorian england 	 . th-century satire 	 . contemporary satire 	 techniques 	 legal status 	 . australia 	 censorship and criticism 	 . typical arguments 	 . . bad taste 	 . . targeting the victim 	 . . romantic prejudice 	 . history of opposition toward notable satires 	 . . book ban 	 . . st-century polemics 	 satirical prophecy 	 satire celebration 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 . citations 	 . sources 	 bibliography 	 further reading 	 . theories/critical approaches to satire as a genre 	 . the plot of satire 	 external links etymology and roots[edit] the word satire comes from the latin word satur and the subsequent phrase lanx satura. satur meant "full" but the juxtaposition with lanx shifted the meaning to "miscellany or medley": the expression lanx satura literally means "a full dish of various kinds of fruits".[ ] the word satura as used by quintilian, however, was used to denote only roman verse satire, a strict genre that imposed hexameter form, a narrower genre than what would be later intended as satire.[ ][ ] quintilian famously said that satura, that is a satire in hexameter verses, was a literary genre of wholly roman origin (satura tota nostra est). he was aware of and commented on greek satire, but at the time did not label it as such, although today the origin of satire is considered to be aristophanes' old comedy. the first critic to use the term "satire" in the modern broader sense was apuleius.[ ] to quintilian, the satire was a strict literary form, but the term soon escaped from the original narrow definition. robert elliott writes: as soon as a noun enters the domain of metaphor, as one modern scholar has pointed out, it clamours for extension; and satura (which had had no verbal, adverbial, or adjectival forms) was immediately broadened by appropriation from the greek word for “satyr” (satyros) and its derivatives. the odd result is that the english “satire” comes from the latin satura; but "satirize", "satiric", etc., are of greek origin. by about the th century ad the writer of satires came to be known as satyricus; st. jerome, for example, was called by one of his enemies 'a satirist in prose' ('satyricus scriptor in prosa'). subsequent orthographic modifications obscured the latin origin of the word satire: satura becomes satyra, and in england, by the th century, it was written 'satyre.'[ ] the word satire derives from satura, and its origin was not influenced by the greek mythological figure of the satyr.[ ] in the th century, philologist isaac casaubon was the first to dispute the etymology of satire from satyr, contrary to the belief up to that time.[ ] humour[edit] the rules of satire are such that it must do more than make you laugh. no matter how amusing it is, it doesn't count unless you find yourself wincing a little even as you chuckle.[ ] laughter is not an essential component of satire;[ ] in fact there are types of satire that are not meant to be "funny" at all. conversely, not all humour, even on such topics as politics, religion or art is necessarily "satirical", even when it uses the satirical tools of irony, parody, and burlesque. even light-hearted satire has a serious "after-taste": the organizers of the ig nobel prize describe this as "first make people laugh, and then make them think".[ ] social and psychological functions[edit] satire and irony in some cases have been regarded as the most effective source to understand a society, the oldest form of social study.[ ] they provide the keenest insights into a group's collective psyche, reveal its deepest values and tastes, and the society's structures of power.[ ][ ] some authors have regarded satire as superior to non-comic and non-artistic disciplines like history or anthropology.[ ][ ][ ][ ] in a prominent example from ancient greece, philosopher plato, when asked by a friend for a book to understand athenian society, referred him to the plays of aristophanes.[ ][ ] historically, satire has satisfied the popular need to debunk and ridicule the leading figures in politics, economy, religion and other prominent realms of power.[ ] satire confronts public discourse and the collective imaginary, playing as a public opinion counterweight to power (be it political, economic, religious, symbolic, or otherwise), by challenging leaders and authorities. for instance, it forces administrations to clarify, amend or establish their policies. satire's job is to expose problems and contradictions, and it's not obligated to solve them.[ ] karl kraus set in the history of satire a prominent example of a satirist role as confronting public discourse.[ ] for its nature and social role, satire has enjoyed in many societies a special freedom license to mock prominent individuals and institutions.[ ] the satiric impulse, and its ritualized expressions, carry out the function of resolving social tension.[ ] institutions like the ritual clowns, by giving expression to the antisocial tendencies, represent a safety valve which re-establishes equilibrium and health in the collective imaginary, which are jeopardized by the repressive aspects of society.[ ][ ] the state of political satire in a given society reflects the tolerance or intolerance that characterizes it,[ ] and the state of civil liberties and human rights. under totalitarian regimes any criticism of a political system, and especially satire, is suppressed. a typical example is the soviet union where the dissidents, such as aleksandr solzhenitsyn and andrei sakharov were under strong pressure from the government. while satire of everyday life in the ussr was allowed, the most prominent satirist being arkady raikin, political satire existed in the form of anecdotes[ ] that made fun of soviet political leaders, especially brezhnev, famous for his narrow-mindedness and love for awards and decorations. classifications[edit] satire is a diverse genre which is complex to classify and define, with a wide range of satiric "modes".[ ][ ] horatian, juvenalian, menippean[edit] "le satire e l'epistole di q. orazio flacco", printed in . satirical literature can commonly be categorized as either horatian, juvenalian, or menippean.[ ] horatian[edit] horatian satire, named for the roman satirist horace ( – bce), playfully criticizes some social vice through gentle, mild, and light-hearted humour. horace (quintus horatius flaccus) wrote satires to gently ridicule the dominant opinions and "philosophical beliefs of ancient rome and greece" (rankin).[ ] rather than writing in harsh or accusing tones, he addressed issues with humor and clever mockery. horatian satire follows this same pattern of "gently [ridiculing] the absurdities and follies of human beings" (drury).[ ] it directs wit, exaggeration, and self-deprecating humour toward what it identifies as folly, rather than evil. horatian satire's sympathetic tone is common in modern society.[ ] a horatian satirist's goal is to heal the situation with smiles, rather than by anger. horatian satire is a gentle reminder to take life less seriously and evokes a wry smile.[ ] a horatian satirist makes fun of general human folly rather than engaging in specific or personal attacks. shamekia thomas suggests, "in a work using horatian satire, readers often laugh at the characters in the story who are the subject of mockery as well as themselves and society for behaving in those ways." alexander pope has been established as an author whose satire "heals with morals what it hurts with wit" (green).[ ] alexander pope—and horatian satire—attempt to teach. examples of horatian satire: 	the ig nobel prizes. 	bierce, ambrose, the devil's dictionary. 	defoe, daniel, the true-born englishman . 	the savoy operas of gilbert and sullivan. 	trollope, anthony, the way we live now . 	gogol, nikolai, dead souls . 	groening, matthew "matt", the simpsons . 	lewis, clive staples, the screwtape letters . 	mercer, richard ‘rick’, the rick mercer report . 	more, thomas, utopia 	pope, alexander, the rape of the lock . 	reiner, rob, this is spinal tap . 	twain, mark, adventures of huckleberry finn . 	ralston saul, john, the doubter's companion: a dictionary of aggressive common sense . juvenalian[edit] see also: satires of juvenal juvenalian satire, named for the writings of the roman satirist juvenal (late first century – early second century ad), is more contemptuous and abrasive than the horatian. juvenal disagreed with the opinions of the public figures and institutions of the republic and actively attacked them through his literature. "he utilized the satirical tools of exaggeration and parody to make his targets appear monstrous and incompetent" (podzemny).[ ] juvenal's satire follows this same pattern of abrasively ridiculing societal structures. juvenal also, unlike horace, attacked public officials and governmental organizations through his satires, regarding their opinions as not just wrong, but evil. following in this tradition, juvenalian satire addresses perceived social evil through scorn, outrage, and savage ridicule. this form is often pessimistic, characterized by the use of irony, sarcasm, moral indignation and personal invective, with less emphasis on humor. strongly polarized political satire can often be classified as juvenalian. a juvenal satirist's goal is generally to provoke some sort of political or societal change because he sees his opponent or object as evil or harmful.[ ] a juvenal satirist mocks "societal structure, power, and civilization" (thomas)[ ] by exaggerating the words or position of his opponent in order to jeopardize their opponent's reputation and/or power. jonathan swift has been established as an author who "borrowed heavily from juvenal's techniques in [his critique] of contemporary english society" (podzemny).[ ] examples of juvenalian satire: 	barnes, julian, england, england . 	beatty, paul, the sellout . 	bradbury, ray, fahrenheit . 	brooker, charlie, black mirror . 	bulgakov, mikhail, heart of a dog . 	burgess, anthony, a clockwork orange . 	burroughs, william, naked lunch . 	byron, george gordon, lord, don juan . 	barth, john, the sot-weed factor; or, a voyage to maryland,—a satire, in which is described the laws, government, courts, and constitutions of the country, and also the buildings, feasts, frolics, entertainments, and drunken humors of the inhabitants in that part of america . 	ellis, bret easton, american psycho . 	golding, william, lord of the flies . 	hall, joseph, virgidemiarum . 	heller, joseph, catch- . 	huxley, aldous, brave new world . 	johnson, samuel, london , an adaptation of juvenal, third satire . 	junius, letters . 	kubrick, stanley, dr. strangelove . 	mencken, hl, libido for the ugly . 	morris, chris, brass eye . 	———, the day today . 	orwell, george, nineteen eighty-four . 	orwell, george, animal farm . 	palahniuk, chuck, fight club . 	swift, jonathan, a modest proposal . 	voltaire, candide . 	zamyatin, yevgeny, we . menippean[edit] see menippean satire. satire versus teasing[edit] in the history of theatre there has always been a conflict between engagement and disengagement on politics and relevant issue, between satire and grotesque on one side, and jest with teasing on the other.[ ] max eastman defined the spectrum of satire in terms of "degrees of biting", as ranging from satire proper at the hot-end, and "kidding" at the violet-end; eastman adopted the term kidding to denote what is just satirical in form, but is not really firing at the target.[ ] nobel laureate satirical playwright dario fo pointed out the difference between satire and teasing (sfottò).[ ] teasing is the reactionary side of the comic; it limits itself to a shallow parody of physical appearance. the side-effect of teasing is that it humanizes and draws sympathy for the powerful individual towards which it is directed. satire instead uses the comic to go against power and its oppressions, has a subversive character, and a moral dimension which draws judgement against its targets.[ ][ ][ ][ ] fo formulated an operational criterion to tell real satire from sfottò, saying that real satire arouses an outraged and violent reaction, and that the more they try to stop you, the better is the job you are doing.[ ] fo contends that, historically, people in positions of power have welcomed and encouraged good-humoured buffoonery, while modern day people in positions of power have tried to censor, ostracize and repress satire.[ ][ ] teasing (sfottò) is an ancient form of simple buffoonery, a form of comedy without satire's subversive edge. teasing includes light and affectionate parody, good-humoured mockery, simple one-dimensional poking fun, and benign spoofs. teasing typically consists of an impersonation of someone monkeying around with his exterior attributes, tics, physical blemishes, voice and mannerisms, quirks, way of dressing and walking, and/or the phrases he typically repeats. by contrast, teasing never touches on the core issue, never makes a serious criticism judging the target with irony; it never harms the target's conduct, ideology and position of power; it never undermines the perception of his morality and cultural dimension.[ ][ ] sfottò directed towards a powerful individual makes him appear more human and draws sympathy towards him.[ ] hermann göring propagated jests and jokes against himself, with the aim of humanizing his image.[ ][ ] classifications by topics[edit] types of satire can also be classified according to the topics it deals with. from the earliest times, at least since the plays of aristophanes, the primary topics of literary satire have been politics, religion and sex.[ ][ ][ ][ ] this is partly because these are the most pressing problems that affect anybody living in a society, and partly because these topics are usually taboo.[ ][ ] among these, politics in the broader sense is considered the pre-eminent topic of satire.[ ] satire which targets the clergy is a type of political satire, while religious satire is that which targets religious beliefs.[ ] satire on sex may overlap with blue comedy, off-color humor and dick jokes. scatology has a long literary association with satire,[ ][ ][ ] as it is a classical mode of the grotesque, the grotesque body and the satiric grotesque.[ ][ ] shit plays a fundamental role in satire because it symbolizes death, the turd being "the ultimate dead object".[ ][ ] the satirical comparison of individuals or institutions with human excrement, exposes their "inherent inertness, corruption and dead-likeness".[ ][ ][ ] the ritual clowns of clown societies, like among the pueblo indians, have ceremonies with filth-eating.[ ][ ] in other cultures, sin-eating is an apotropaic rite in which the sin-eater (also called filth-eater),[ ][ ] by ingesting the food provided, takes "upon himself the sins of the departed".[ ] satire about death overlaps with black humor and gallows humor. another classification by topics is the distinction between political satire, religious satire and satire of manners.[ ] political satire is sometimes called topical satire, satire of manners is sometimes called satire of everyday life, and religious satire is sometimes called philosophical satire. comedy of manners, sometimes also called satire of manners, criticizes mode of life of common people; political satire aims at behavior, manners of politicians, and vices of political systems. historically, comedy of manners, which first appeared in british theater in , has uncritically accepted the social code of the upper classes.[ ] comedy in general accepts the rules of the social game, while satire subverts them.[ ] another analysis of satire is the spectrum of his possible tones: wit, ridicule, irony, sarcasm, cynicism, the sardonic and invective.[ ][ ] the type of humour that deals with creating laughter at the expense of the person telling the joke is called reflexive humour.[ ] reflexive humour can take place at dual levels of directing humour at self or at the larger community the self identifies with. the audience's understanding of the context of reflexive humour is important for its receptivity and success.[ ] satire is found not only in written literary forms. in preliterate cultures it manifests itself in ritual and folk forms, as well as in trickster tales and oral poetry.[ ] it appears also in graphic arts, music, sculpture, dance, cartoon strips, and graffiti. examples are dada sculptures, pop art works, music of gilbert and sullivan and erik satie, punk and rock music.[ ] in modern media culture, stand-up comedy is an enclave in which satire can be introduced into mass media, challenging mainstream discourse.[ ] comedy roasts, mock festivals, and stand-up comedians in nightclubs and concerts are the modern forms of ancient satiric rituals.[ ] development[edit] ancient egypt[edit] the satirical papyrus at the british museum satirical ostracon showing a cat guarding geese, c. bc, egypt. figured ostracon showing a cat waiting on a mouse, egypt one of the earliest examples of what we might call satire, the satire of the trades,[ ] is in egyptian writing from the beginning of the nd millennium bc. the text's apparent readers are students, tired of studying. it argues that their lot as scribes is not only useful, but far superior to that of the ordinary man. scholars such as helck[ ] think that the context was meant to be serious. the papyrus anastasi i[ ] (late nd millennium bc) contains a satirical letter which first praises the virtues of its recipient, but then mocks the reader's meagre knowledge and achievements. ancient greece[edit] the greeks had no word for what later would be called "satire", although the terms cynicism and parody were used. modern critics call the greek playwright aristophanes one of the best known early satirists: his plays are known for their critical political and societal commentary,[ ] particularly for the political satire by which he criticized the powerful cleon (as in the knights). he is also notable for the persecution he underwent.[ ][ ][ ][ ] aristophanes' plays turned upon images of filth and disease.[ ] his bawdy style was adopted by greek dramatist-comedian menander. his early play drunkenness contains an attack on the politician callimedon. the oldest form of satire still in use is the menippean satire by menippus of gadara. his own writings are lost. examples from his admirers and imitators mix seriousness and mockery in dialogues and present parodies before a background of diatribe. as in the case of aristophanes plays, menippean satire turned upon images of filth and disease.[ ] roman world[edit] the first roman to discuss satire critically was quintilian, who invented the term to describe the writings of gaius lucilius. the two most prominent and influential ancient roman satirists are horace and juvenal, who wrote during the early days of the roman empire. other important satirists in ancient latin are gaius lucilius and persius. satire in their work is much wider than in the modern sense of the word, including fantastic and highly coloured humorous writing with little or no real mocking intent. when horace criticized augustus, he used veiled ironic terms. in contrast, pliny reports that the th-century-bc poet hipponax wrote satirae that were so cruel that the offended hanged themselves.[ ] in the nd century ad, lucian wrote true history, a book satirizing the clearly unrealistic travelogues/adventures written by ctesias, iambulus, and homer. he states that he was surprised they expected people to believe their lies, and stating that he, like them, has no actual knowledge or experience, but shall now tell lies as if he did. he goes on to describe a far more obviously extreme and unrealistic tale, involving interplanetary exploration, war among alien life forms, and life inside a mile long whale back in the terrestrial ocean, all intended to make obvious the fallacies of books like indica and the odyssey. medieval islamic world[edit] main articles: arabic satire and persian satire medieval arabic poetry included the satiric genre hija. satire was introduced into arabic prose literature by the author al-jahiz in the th century. while dealing with serious topics in what are now known as anthropology, sociology and psychology, he introduced a satirical approach, "based on the premise that, however serious the subject under review, it could be made more interesting and thus achieve greater effect, if only one leavened the lump of solemnity by the insertion of a few amusing anecdotes or by the throwing out of some witty or paradoxical observations. he was well aware that, in treating of new themes in his prose works, he would have to employ a vocabulary of a nature more familiar in hija, satirical poetry."[ ] for example, in one of his zoological works, he satirized the preference for longer human penis size, writing: "if the length of the penis were a sign of honor, then the mule would belong to the (honorable tribe of) quraysh". another satirical story based on this preference was an arabian nights tale called "ali with the large member".[ ] in the th century, the writer tha'alibi recorded satirical poetry written by the arabic poets as-salami and abu dulaf, with as-salami praising abu dulaf's wide breadth of knowledge and then mocking his ability in all these subjects, and with abu dulaf responding back and satirizing as-salami in return.[ ] an example of arabic political satire included another th-century poet jarir satirizing farazdaq as "a transgressor of the sharia" and later arabic poets in turn using the term "farazdaq-like" as a form of political satire.[ ] the terms "comedy" and "satire" became synonymous after aristotle's poetics was translated into arabic in the medieval islamic world, where it was elaborated upon by islamic philosophers and writers, such as abu bischr, his pupil al-farabi, avicenna, and averroes. due to cultural differences, they disassociated comedy from greek dramatic representation and instead identified it with arabic poetic themes and forms, such as hija (satirical poetry). they viewed comedy as simply the "art of reprehension", and made no reference to light and cheerful events, or troubled beginnings and happy endings, associated with classical greek comedy. after the latin translations of the th century, the term "comedy" thus gained a new semantic meaning in medieval literature.[ ] ubayd zakani introduced satire in persian literature during the th century. his work is noted for its satire and obscene verses, often political or bawdy, and often cited in debates involving homosexual practices. he wrote the resaleh-ye delgosha, as well as akhlaq al-ashraf ("ethics of the aristocracy") and the famous humorous fable masnavi mush-o-gorbeh (mouse and cat), which was a political satire. his non-satirical serious classical verses have also been regarded as very well written, in league with the other great works of persian literature. between and , bibi khatoon astarabadi and other iranian writers wrote notable satires. medieval europe[edit] in the early middle ages, examples of satire were the songs by goliards or vagants now best known as an anthology called carmina burana and made famous as texts of a composition by the th-century composer carl orff. satirical poetry is believed to have been popular, although little has survived. with the advent of the high middle ages and the birth of modern vernacular literature in the th century, it began to be used again, most notably by chaucer. the disrespectful manner was considered "unchristian" and ignored, except for the moral satire, which mocked misbehaviour in christian terms. examples are livre des manières by Étienne de fougères [fr] (~ ), and some of chaucer's canterbury tales. sometimes epic poetry (epos) was mocked, and even feudal society, but there was hardly a general interest in the genre. early modern western satire[edit] pieter bruegel's satirical painting the blind leading the blind. direct social commentary via satire returned with a vengeance in the th century, when farcical texts such as the works of françois rabelais tackled more serious issues (and incurred the wrath of the crown as a result). two major satirists of europe in the renaissance were giovanni boccaccio and françois rabelais. other examples of renaissance satire include till eulenspiegel, reynard the fox, sebastian brant's narrenschiff ( ), erasmus's moriae encomium ( ), thomas more's utopia ( ), and carajicomedia ( ). the elizabethan (i.e. th-century english) writers thought of satire as related to the notoriously rude, coarse and sharp satyr play. elizabethan "satire" (typically in pamphlet form) therefore contains more straightforward abuse than subtle irony. the french huguenot isaac casaubon pointed out in that satire in the roman fashion was something altogether more civilised. casaubon discovered and published quintilian's writing and presented the original meaning of the term (satira, not satyr), and the sense of wittiness (reflecting the "dishfull of fruits") became more important again. seventeenth-century english satire once again aimed at the "amendment of vices" (dryden). in the s a new wave of verse satire broke with the publication of hall's virgidemiarum, six books of verse satires targeting everything from literary fads to corrupt noblemen. although donne had already circulated satires in manuscript, hall's was the first real attempt in english at verse satire on the juvenalian model.[ ][page needed] the success of his work combined with a national mood of disillusion in the last years of elizabeth's reign triggered an avalanche of satire—much of it less conscious of classical models than hall's — until the fashion was brought to an abrupt stop by censorship.[note ] ancient and modern india[edit] satire (kataksh or vyang) has played a prominent role in indian and hindi literature, and is counted as one of the "ras" of literature in ancient books.[ ] with the commencement of printing of books in local language in the nineteenth century and especially after india's freedom, this grew.[ ] many of the works of tulsi das, kabir, munshi premchand,[ ][ ] village ministrels, hari katha singers, poets, dalit singers and current day stand up indian comedians incorporate satire, usually ridiculing authoritarians, fundamentalists and incompetent people in power.[ ][ ][ ] in india, it has usually been used as a means of expression and an outlet for common people to express their anger against authoritarian entities.[ ] a popular custom in northern india of "bura na mano holi hai" continues, in which comedians on the stage roast local people of importance (who are usually brought in as special guests).[ ][ ][ ] age of enlightenment[edit] 'a welch wedding' satirical cartoon c. the age of enlightenment, an intellectual movement in the th and th centuries advocating rationality, produced a great revival of satire in britain. this was fuelled by the rise of partisan politics, with the formalisation of the tory and whig parties—and also, in , by the formation of the scriblerus club, which included alexander pope, jonathan swift, john gay, john arbuthnot, robert harley, thomas parnell, and henry st john, st viscount bolingbroke. this club included several of the notable satirists of early- th-century britain. they focused their attention on martinus scriblerus, "an invented learned fool... whose work they attributed all that was tedious, narrow-minded, and pedantic in contemporary scholarship".[ ] in their hands astute and biting satire of institutions and individuals became a popular weapon. the turn to the th century was characterized by a switch from horatian, soft, pseudo-satire, to biting "juvenal" satire.[ ] jonathan swift was one of the greatest of anglo-irish satirists, and one of the first to practise modern journalistic satire. for instance, in his a modest proposal swift suggests that irish peasants be encouraged to sell their own children as food for the rich, as a solution to the "problem" of poverty. his purpose is of course to attack indifference to the plight of the desperately poor. in his book gulliver's travels he writes about the flaws in human society in general and english society in particular. john dryden wrote an influential essay entitled "a discourse concerning the original and progress of satire"[ ] that helped fix the definition of satire in the literary world. his satirical mac flecknoe was written in response to a rivalry with thomas shadwell and eventually inspired alexander pope to write his satirical [[dunciad]. other satirical works by pope include the epistle to dr arbuthnot. alexander pope (b. may , ) was a satirist known for his horatian satirist style and translation of the iliad. famous throughout and after the long th century, pope died in .[ ] pope, in his the rape of the lock, is delicately chiding society in a sly but polished voice by holding up a mirror to the follies and vanities of the upper class. pope does not actively attack the self-important pomp of the british aristocracy, but rather presents it in such a way that gives the reader a new perspective from which to easily view the actions in the story as foolish and ridiculous. a mockery of the upper class, more delicate and lyrical than brutal, pope nonetheless is able to effectively illuminate the moral degradation of society to the public. the rape of the lock assimilates the masterful qualities of a heroic epic, such as the iliad, which pope was translating at the time of writing the rape of the lock. however, pope applied these qualities satirically to a seemingly petty egotistical elitist quarrel to prove his point wryly.[ ] daniel defoe pursued a more journalistic type of satire, being famous for his the true-born englishman which mocks xenophobic patriotism, and the shortest-way with the dissenters—advocating religious toleration by means of an ironical exaggeration of the highly intolerant attitudes of his time. the pictorial satire of william hogarth is a precursor to the development of political cartoons in th-century england.[ ] the medium developed under the direction of its greatest exponent, james gillray from london.[ ] with his satirical works calling the king (george iii), prime ministers and generals (especially napoleon) to account, gillray's wit and keen sense of the ridiculous made him the pre-eminent cartoonist of the era.[ ] ebenezer cooke ( – ), author of "the sot-weed factor" ( ), was among the first american colonialists to write literary satire. benjamin franklin ( – ) and others followed, using satire to shape an emerging nation's culture through its sense of the ridiculous. satire in victorian england[edit] a victorian satirical sketch depicting a gentleman's donkey race in several satiric papers competed for the public's attention in the victorian era ( – ) and edwardian period, such as punch ( ) and fun ( ). perhaps the most enduring examples of victorian satire, however, are to be found in the savoy operas of gilbert and sullivan. in fact, in the yeomen of the guard, a jester is given lines that paint a very neat picture of the method and purpose of the satirist, and might almost be taken as a statement of gilbert's own intent: 	"i can set a braggart quailing with a quip, 	the upstart i can wither with a whim; 	he may wear a merry laugh upon his lip, 	but his laughter has an echo that is grim!" novelists such as charles dickens ( - ) often used passages of satiric writing in their treatment of social issues. continuing the tradition of swiftian journalistic satire, sidney godolphin osborne ( - ) was the most prominent writer of scathing "letters to the editor" of the london times. famous in his day, he is now all but forgotten. his maternal grandfather william eden, st baron auckland was considered to be a possible candidate for the authorship of the junius letters. if this were true, we can read osborne as following in his grandfather's satiric "letters to the editor" path. osborne's satire was so bitter and biting that at one point he received a public censure from parliament's then home secretary sir james graham. osborne wrote mostly in the juvenalian mode over a wide range of topics mostly centered on british government's and landlords' mistreatment of poor farm workers and field laborers. he bitterly opposed the new poor laws and was passionate on the subject of great britain's botched response to the irish famine and its mistreatment of soldiers during the crimean war. later in the nineteenth century, in the united states, mark twain ( – ) grew to become american's greatest satirist: his novel huckleberry finn ( ) is set in the antebellum south, where the moral values twain wishes to promote are completely turned on their heads. his hero, huck, is a rather simple but goodhearted lad who is ashamed of the "sinful temptation" that leads him to help a runaway slave. in fact his conscience, warped by the distorted moral world he has grown up in, often bothers him most when he is at his best. he is prepared to do good, believing it to be wrong. twain's younger contemporary ambrose bierce ( – ) gained notoriety as a cynic, pessimist and black humorist with his dark, bitterly ironic stories, many set during the american civil war, which satirized the limitations of human perception and reason. bierce's most famous work of satire is probably the devil's dictionary ( ), in which the definitions mock cant, hypocrisy and received wisdom. th-century satire[edit] karl kraus is considered the first major european satirist since jonathan swift.[ ] in th-century literature, satire was used by english authors such as aldous huxley ( s) and george orwell ( s), which under the inspiration of zamyatin's russian novel we, made serious and even frightening commentaries on the dangers of the sweeping social changes taking place throughout europe. anatoly lunacharsky wrote ‘satire attains its greatest significance when a newly evolving class creates an ideology considerably more advanced than that of the ruling class, but has not yet developed to the point where it can conquer it. herein lies its truly great ability to triumph, its scorn for its adversary and its hidden fear of it. herein lies its venom, its amazing energy of hate, and quite frequently, its grief, like a black frame around glittering images. herein lie its contradictions, and its power.’[ ] many social critics of this same time in the united states, such as dorothy parker and h. l. mencken, used satire as their main weapon, and mencken in particular is noted for having said that "one horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms" in the persuasion of the public to accept a criticism. novelist sinclair lewis was known for his satirical stories such as main street ( ), babbitt ( ), elmer gantry ( ; dedicated by lewis to h. l. menchen), and it can't happen here ( ), and his books often explored and satirized contemporary american values. the film the great dictator ( ) by charlie chaplin is itself a parody of adolf hitler; chaplin later declared that he would have not made the film if he had known about the concentration camps.[ ] benzino napaloni and adenoid hynkel in the great dictator ( ). chaplin later declared that he would have not made the film if he had known about the concentration camps.[ ] in the united states s, satire was introduced into american stand-up comedy most prominently by lenny bruce and mort sahl.[ ] as they challenged the taboos and conventional wisdom of the time, were ostracized by the mass media establishment as sick comedians. in the same period, paul krassner's magazine the realist began publication, to become immensely popular during the s and early s among people in the counterculture; it had articles and cartoons that were savage, biting satires of politicians such as lyndon johnson and richard nixon, the vietnam war, the cold war and the war on drugs. this baton was also carried by the original national lampoon magazine, edited by doug kenney and henry beard and featuring blistering satire written by michael o'donoghue, p.j. o'rourke, and tony hendra, among others.[ ] prominent satiric stand-up comedian george carlin acknowledged the influence the realist had in his s conversion to a satiric comedian.[ ][ ] a more humorous brand of satire enjoyed a renaissance in the uk in the early s with the satire boom, led by such luminaries as peter cook, alan bennett, jonathan miller, and dudley moore, whose stage show beyond the fringe was a hit not only in britain, but also in the united states. other significant influences in s british satire include david frost, eleanor bron and the television program that was the week that was.[ ] joseph heller's most famous work, catch- ( ), satirizes bureaucracy and the military, and is frequently cited as one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century.[ ] departing from traditional hollywood farce and screwball, director and comedian jerry lewis used satire in his self-directed films the bellboy ( ), the errand boy ( ) and the patsy ( ) to comment on celebrity and the star-making machinery of hollywood.[ ] the film dr. strangelove ( ) starring peter sellers was a popular satire on the cold war. contemporary satire[edit] contemporary popular usage of the term "satire" is often very imprecise. while satire often uses caricature and parody, by no means all uses of these or other humorous devices are satiric. refer to the careful definition of satire that heads this article. the cambridge companion to roman satire also warns of the ambiguous nature of satire: [w]hile "satire," or perhaps rather "satiric(al)," are words we run up against constantly in analyses of contemporary culture [...], the search for any defining formal charcteristic (sic) [of satire] that will link past to present may turn out to be more frustrating than enlightening.[ ] puppet of manchester united striker eric cantona from the british satirical puppet show spitting image satire is used on many uk television programmes, particularly popular panel shows and quiz shows such as mock the week ( –ongoing) and have i got news for you ( –ongoing). it is found on radio quiz shows such as the news quiz ( –ongoing) and the now show ( –ongoing). one of the most watched uk television shows of the s and early s, the puppet show spitting image was a satire of the royal family, politics, entertainment, sport and british culture of the era.[ ] court flunkey from spitting image is a caricature of james gillray, intended as a homage to the father of political cartooning.[ ] created by dma design in , satire features prominently in the british video game series grand theft auto.[ ][ ] another example is the fallout series, namely interplay-developed fallout: a post nuclear role playing game ( ).[ ] other games utilizing satire include postal ( ),[ ] and state of emergency ( ).[ ] trey parker and matt stone's south park ( –ongoing) relies almost exclusively on satire to address issues in american culture, with episodes addressing racism, anti-semitism, militant atheism, homophobia, sexism, environmentalism, corporate culture, political correctness and anti-catholicism, among many other issues. satirical web series and sites include emmy-nominated video game-themed honest trailers ( –),[ ] internet phenomena-themed encyclopedia dramatica ( –),[ ] uncyclopedia ( –),[ ] and self-proclaimed "america's finest news source" the onion ( –).[ ] stephen colbert satirically impersonated an opinionated and self-righteous television commentator on his comedy central program in the u.s. in the united states, stephen colbert's television program, the colbert report ( – ) is instructive in the methods of contemporary american satire; sketch comedy television show saturday night live is also known for its satirical impressions and parodies of prominent persons and politicians, among some of the most notable, their parodies of u.s. political figures hillary clinton[ ] and of sarah palin.[ ] colbert's character is an opinionated and self-righteous commentator who, in his tv interviews, interrupts people, points and wags his finger at them, and "unwittingly" uses a number of logical fallacies. in doing so, he demonstrates the principle of modern american political satire: the ridicule of the actions of politicians and other public figures by taking all their statements and purported beliefs to their furthest (supposedly) logical conclusion, thus revealing their perceived hypocrisy or absurdity. in the united kingdom, a popular modern satirist was the late sir terry pratchett, author of the internationally best-selling discworld book series. one of the most well-known and controversial british satirists is chris morris, co-writer and director of four lions. in canada, satire has become an important part of the comedy scene. stephen leacock was one of the best known early canadian satirists, and in the early th century, he achieved fame by targeting the attitudes of small town life. in more recent years, canada has had several prominent satirical television series and radio shows. some, including codco, the royal canadian air farce, this is that, and this hour has minutes deal directly with current news stories and political figures, while others, like history bites present contemporary social satire in the context of events and figures in history. the beaverton is a canadian news satire site similar to the onion. canadian songwriter nancy white uses music as the vehicle for her satire, and her comic folk songs are regularly played on cbc radio. cartoonists often use satire as well as straight humour. al capp's satirical comic strip li'l abner was censored in september . the controversy, as reported in time, centred on capp's portrayal of the us senate. said edward leech of scripps-howard, "we don't think it is good editing or sound citizenship to picture the senate as an assemblage of freaks and crooks... boobs and undesirables."[ ] walt kelly's pogo was likewise censored in over his overt satire of senator joe mccarthy, caricatured in his comic strip as "simple j. malarky". garry trudeau, whose comic strip doonesbury focuses on satire of the political system, and provides a trademark cynical view on national events. trudeau exemplifies humour mixed with criticism. for example, the character mark slackmeyer lamented that because he was not legally married to his partner, he was deprived of the "exquisite agony" of experiencing a nasty and painful divorce like heterosexuals. this, of course, satirized the claim that gay unions would denigrate the sanctity of heterosexual marriage. political satire by ranan lurie like some literary predecessors, many recent television satires contain strong elements of parody and caricature; for instance, the popular animated series the simpsons and south park both parody modern family and social life by taking their assumptions to the extreme; both have led to the creation of similar series. as well as the purely humorous effect of this sort of thing, they often strongly criticise various phenomena in politics, economic life, religion and many other aspects of society, and thus qualify as satirical. due to their animated nature, these shows can easily use images of public figures and generally have greater freedom to do so than conventional shows using live actors. news satire is also a very popular form of contemporary satire, appearing in as wide an array of formats as the news media itself: print (e.g. the onion, waterford whispers news, private eye), radio (e.g. on the hour), television (e.g. the day today, the daily show, brass eye) and the web (e.g. faking news, el koshary today, babylon bee, the beaverton, the daily bonnet and the onion). other satires are on the list of satirists and satires. in an interview with wikinews, sean mills, president of the onion, said angry letters about their news parody always carried the same message. "it's whatever affects that person", said mills. "so it's like, 'i love it when you make a joke about murder or rape, but if you talk about cancer, well my brother has cancer and that's not funny to me.' or someone else can say, 'cancer's hilarious, but don't talk about rape because my cousin got raped.' those are rather extreme examples, but if it affects somebody personally, they tend to be more sensitive about it."[ ] techniques[edit] literary satire is usually written out of earlier satiric works, reprising previous conventions, commonplaces, stance, situations and tones of voice.[ ] exaggeration is one of the most common satirical techniques.[ ] contrarily diminution is also a satirical technique. legal status[edit] for its nature and social role, satire has enjoyed in many societies a special freedom license to mock prominent individuals and institutions.[ ] in germany[ ] and italy[ ][ ] satire is protected by the constitution. since satire belongs to the realm of art and artistic expression, it benefits from broader lawfulness limits than mere freedom of information of journalistic kind.[ ] in some countries a specific "right to satire" is recognized and its limits go beyond the "right to report" of journalism and even the "right to criticize".[ ] satire benefits not only of the protection to freedom of speech, but also to that to culture, and that to scientific and artistic production.[ ][ ] australia[edit] main article: the juice media § controversy in september the juice media received an e-mail from the australian national symbols officer requesting that the use of a satirical logo, called the "coat of harms" based on the australian coat of arms, no longer be used as they had received complaints from the members of the public.[ ] coincidentally days later a bill was proposed to australian parliament to amend the criminal code act .[ ] if passed, those found to be in breach of the new amendment can face – years imprisonment.[ ] as of june , the criminal code amendment (impersonating a commonwealth body) bill was before the australian senate with the third reading moved may , .[ ] censorship and criticism[edit] descriptions of satire's biting effect on its target include 'venomous', 'cutting', 'stinging',[ ] vitriol. because satire often combines anger and humor, as well as the fact that it addresses and calls into question many controversial issues, it can be profoundly disturbing. typical arguments[edit] because it is essentially ironic or sarcastic, satire is often misunderstood. a typical misunderstanding is to confuse the satirist with his persona.[ ] bad taste[edit] common uncomprehending responses to satire include revulsion (accusations of poor taste, or that "it's just not funny" for instance) and the idea that the satirist actually does support the ideas, policies, or people he is attacking. for instance, at the time of its publication, many people misunderstood swift's purpose in a modest proposal, assuming it to be a serious recommendation of economically motivated cannibalism. targeting the victim[edit] some critics of mark twain see huckleberry finn as racist and offensive, missing the point that its author clearly intended it to be satire (racism being in fact only one of a number of mark twain's known concerns attacked in huckleberry finn).[ ][ ] this same misconception was suffered by the main character of the s british television comedy satire till death us do part. the character of alf garnett (played by warren mitchell) was created to poke fun at the kind of narrow-minded, racist, little englander that garnett represented. instead, his character became a sort of anti-hero to people who actually agreed with his views. (the same situation occurred with archie bunker in american tv show all in the family, a character derived directly from garnett.) the australian satirical television comedy show the chaser's war on everything has suffered repeated attacks based on various perceived interpretations of the "target" of its attacks. the "make a realistic wish foundation" sketch (june ), which attacked in classical satiric fashion the heartlessness of people who are reluctant to donate to charities, was widely interpreted as an attack on the make a wish foundation, or even the terminally ill children helped by that organisation. prime minister of the time kevin rudd stated that the chaser team "should hang their heads in shame". he went on to say that "i didn't see that but it's been described to me. ...but having a go at kids with a terminal illness is really beyond the pale, absolutely beyond the pale."[ ] television station management suspended the show for two weeks and reduced the third season to eight episodes. romantic prejudice[edit] the romantic prejudice against satire is the belief spread by the romantic movement that satire is something unworthy of serious attention; this prejudice has held considerable influence to this day.[ ] such prejudice extends to humour and everything that arouses laughter, which are often underestimated as frivolous and unworthy of serious study.[ ] for instance, humor is generally neglected as a topic of anthropological research and teaching.[ ] history of opposition toward notable satires[edit] because satire criticises in an ironic, essentially indirect way, it frequently escapes censorship in a way more direct criticism might not. periodically, however, it runs into serious opposition, and people in power who perceive themselves as attacked attempt to censor it or prosecute its practitioners. in a classic example, aristophanes was persecuted by the demagogue cleon. book ban[edit] in , the archbishop of canterbury john whitgift and the bishop of london richard bancroft, whose offices had the function of licensing books for publication in england, issued a decree banning verse satire. the decree, now known as the bishops' ban of , ordered the burning of certain volumes of satire by john marston, thomas middleton, joseph hall, and others; it also required histories and plays to be specially approved by a member of the queen's privy council, and it prohibited the future printing of satire in verse.[ ] the motives for the ban are obscure, particularly since some of the books banned had been licensed by the same authorities less than a year earlier. various scholars have argued that the target was obscenity, libel, or sedition. it seems likely that lingering anxiety about the martin marprelate controversy, in which the bishops themselves had employed satirists, played a role; both thomas nashe and gabriel harvey, two of the key figures in that controversy, suffered a complete ban on all their works. in the event, though, the ban was little enforced, even by the licensing authority itself. st-century polemics[edit] in , the jyllands-posten muhammad cartoons controversy caused global protests by offended muslims and violent attacks with many fatalities in the near east. it was not the first case of muslim protests against criticism in the form of satire, but the western world was surprised by the hostility of the reaction: any country's flag in which a newspaper chose to publish the parodies was being burnt in a near east country, then embassies were attacked, killing people in mainly four countries; politicians throughout europe agreed that satire was an aspect of the freedom of speech, and therefore to be a protected means of dialogue. iran threatened to start an international holocaust cartoon competition, which was immediately responded to by jews with an israeli anti-semitic cartoons contest. in british comedian sacha baron cohen released borat: cultural learnings of america for make benefit glorious nation of kazakhstan, a "mockumentary" that satirized everyone, from high society to frat boys. the film was criticized by many. although baron cohen is jewish, some complained that it was antisemitic, and the government of kazakhstan boycotted the film. the film itself had been a reaction to a longer quarrel between the government and the comedian. in , popular south african cartoonist and satirist jonathan shapiro (who is published under the pen name zapiro) came under fire for depicting then-president of the anc jacob zuma in the act of undressing in preparation for the implied rape of 'lady justice' which is held down by zuma loyalists.[ ] the cartoon was drawn in response to zuma's efforts to duck corruption charges, and the controversy was heightened by the fact that zuma was himself acquitted of rape in may . in february , the south african broadcasting corporation, viewed by some opposition parties as the mouthpiece of the governing anc,[ ] shelved a satirical tv show created by shapiro,[ ] and in may the broadcaster pulled a documentary about political satire (featuring shapiro among others) for the second time, hours before scheduled broadcast.[ ] apartheid south africa also had a long history of censorship. on december , , samsung sued mike breen, and the korea times for $  million, claiming criminal defamation over a satirical column published on christmas day, .[ ][ ] on april , , the uk independence party (ukip) requested kent police investigate the bbc, claiming that comments made about party leader nigel farage by a panelist on the comedy show have i got news for you might hinder his chances of success in the general election (which would take place a week later), and claimed the bbc breached the representation of the people act.[ ] kent police rebuffed the request to open an investigation, and the bbc released a statement, "britain has a proud tradition of satire, and everyone knows that the contributors on have i got news for you regularly make jokes at the expense of politicians of all parties."[ ] satirical prophecy[edit] satire is occasionally prophetic: the jokes precede actual events.[ ][ ] among the eminent examples are: 	the presaging of modern daylight saving time, later actually proposed in . while an american envoy to france, benjamin franklin anonymously published a letter in suggesting that parisians economise on candles by arising earlier to use morning sunlight.[ ] 	in the s, an english cartoonist imagined a laughable thing for the time: a hotel for cars. he drew a multi-story car park.[ ] 	the second episode of monty python's flying circus, which debuted in , featured a sketch entitled "the mouse problem" (meant to satirize contemporary media exposés on homosexuality), which depicted a cultural phenomenon similar to some aspects of the modern furry fandom (which did not become widespread until the s, over a decade after the sketch was first aired). 	the comedy film americathon, released in and set in the united states of , predicted a number of trends and events that would eventually unfold in the near future, including an american debt crisis, chinese capitalism, the fall of the soviet union, a presidential sex scandal, and the popularity of reality shows. 	in january , a satirical news article in the onion, entitled "our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over"[ ] had newly elected president george bush vowing to "develop new and expensive weapons technologies" and to "engage in at least one gulf war-level armed conflict in the next four years". furthermore, he would "bring back economic stagnation by implementing substantial tax cuts, which would lead to a recession". this prophesied the iraq war, the bush tax cuts, and the great recession. 	in , the first episode of saturday night live included an ad for a triple blade razor called the triple-trac; in , gillette introduced the mach . in , the onion satirized schick and gillette's marketing of ever-increasingly multi-blade razors with a mock article proclaiming gillette will now introduce a five-blade razor.[ ] in , gillette released the gillette fusion, a five-blade razor. 	after the iran nuclear deal in , the onion ran an article with the headline "u.s. soothes upset netanyahu with shipment of ballistic missiles". sure enough, reports broke the next day of the obama administration offering military upgrades to israel in the wake of the deal.[ ] 	in july , the simpsons released the most recent in a string of satirical references to a potential donald trump presidency (although the first was made back in a episode). other media sources, including the popular film back to the future part ii have also made similar satirical references.[ ] 	infinite jest, published in , described an alternate america following the presidency of johnny gentle, a celebrity who had not held prior political office. gentle's signature policy was the erection of a wall between the united states and canada for use as a hazardous waste dump. the us territory behind the wall was "given" to canada, and the canadian government was forced to pay for the wall. this appeared to parody the signature campaign promise and background of donald trump.[ ] satire celebration[edit] in june , punocracy, nigeria's foremost satire platform organised a nationwide writing competition for youth in the country with the objective to make satire a widely accepted and understood tool of socio-political commentary.[ ] some of the entries addressed issues like gender violence, political corruption, religious hypocrisy, internet fraud, educational decay and so on.[ ] the group also declared november as world satire day with the idea of "trying to fight against the ills in the society not by ammunition but by humour, sarcasm etcetera".[ ] see also[edit] 	culture jamming 	freedom of the press 	onomasti komodein 	parody religion 	satiric misspellings notes[edit] 	^ the archbishop of canterbury and the bishop of london, the censors of the press, issued orders to the stationers' company on june and , , prohibiting the further printing of satires—the so-called 'bishop's ban'.[ ][page needed] references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ a b elliott . 	^ frye, northrup ( ). anatomy of criticism. princeton, nj: princeton up. p.  . isbn  - - - . 	^ a b claridge, claudia ( ) hyperbole in english: a corpus-based study of exaggeration p. 	^ a b c kharpertian, theodore d ( ), "thomas pynchon and postmodern american satire", in kharpertian (ed.), a hand to turn the time: the menippean satires of thomas pynchon, pp.  – , isbn  	^ branham , p. xxiv. sfn error: no target: citerefbranham (help) 	^ ullman, bl ( ), "satura and satire", classical philology, ( ): – , doi: . / , jstor  , s cid  , the renaissance confusion of the two origins encouraged a satire more aggressive than that of its roman forebearers 	^ antonia szabari ( ) less rightly said: scandals and readers in sixteenth-century france p. 	^ "forecast". galaxy science fiction. june . p.  . 	^ corum , p.  . 	^ "ig", improbable 	^ a b rosenberg, harold ( ), "community, values, comedy", commentary, the american jewish committee, : , the oldest form of social study is comedy... if the comedian, from aristophanes to joyce, does not solve sociology's problem of "the participant observer", he does demonstrate his objectivity by capturing behavior in its most intimate aspects yet in its widest typicality. comic irony sets whole cultures side by side in a multiple exposure (e.g., don quixote, ulysses), causing valuation to spring out of the recital of facts alone, in contrast to the hidden editorializing of tongue-in-cheek ideologists. 	^ deloria, vine ( ), "indian humor", custer died for your sins: an indian manifesto, p.  , isbn  , irony and satire provide much keener insights into a group's collective psyche and values than do years of [conventional] research as quoted in ryan, allan j ( ), the trickster shift: humour and irony in contemporary native art, p.  , isbn  	^ nash, roderick frazier ( ), " . the new humor", the call of the wild: – , p.  , humor is one of the best indicators of popular thought. to ask what strikes a period as funny is to probe its deepest values and tastes. 	^ babcock, barbara a. ( ), "arrange me into disorder: fragments and reflections on ritual clowning", in macaloon (ed.), rite, drama, festival, spectacle . also collected as babcock, barbara a grimes ( ), ronald, l (ed.), readings in ritual studies, p.  , isbn  , harold rosenberg has asserted that sociology needs to bring comedy into the foreground, including "an awareness of the comedy of sociology with its disguises", and, like burke and duncan, he has argued that comedy provides "the radical effect of self- knowledge which the anthropological bias excludes. 	^ coppola, jo ( ), "an angry young magazine ...", the realist ( ), good comedy is social criticism—although you might find that hard to believe if all you ever saw were some of the so-called clowns of videoland.... comedy is dying today because criticism is on its deathbed... because telecasters, frightened by the threats and pressure of sponsors, blacklists and viewers, helped introduce conformity to this age... in such a climate, comedy cannot flourish. for comedy is, after all, a look at ourselves, not as we pretend to be when we look in the mirror of our imagination, but as we really are. look at the comedy of any age and you will know volumes about that period and its people which neither historian nor anthropologist can tell you. 	^ coppola, jo (december , ). comedy on television. commonweal. p.  . 	^ willi, andreas ( ), the languages of aristophanes: aspects of linguistic variation in classical attic greek, oxford university press, pp.  – , isbn  	^ ehrenberg, victor ( ), the people of aristophanes: a sociology of old attic comedy, p.  	^ a b c d bevere, antonio and cerri, augusto ( ) il diritto di informazione e i diritti della persona pp. – quotation: nella storia della nostra cultura, la satira ha realizzato il bisogno popolare di irridere e dissacrare il gotha politico ed economico, le cui reazioni punitive non sono certo state condizionate da critiche estetiche, ma dalla tolleranza o intolleranza caratterizzanti in quel momento storico la società e i suoi governanti. (...) la reale esistenza della satira in una società deriva, (...) dal margine di tolleranza espresso dai poteri punitivi dello stato. 	^ amy wiese forbes ( ) the satiric decade: satire and the rise of republicanism in france, – p.xv, quotation: a critical public discourse (...) satire rose the daunting question of what role public opinion would play in government. (...) satirists criticized government activities, exposed ambiguities, and forced administrators to clarify or establish policies. not surprisingly, heated public controversy surrounded satiric commentary, resulting in an outright ban on political satire in (...) government officials cracked down on their humorous public criticism that challenged state authority through both its form and content. satire had been a political resource in france for a long time, but the anxious political context of the july monarchy had unlocked its political power. satire also taught lessons in democracy. it fit into the july monarchy's tense political context as a voice in favor of public political debate. satiric expression took place in the public sphere and spoke from a position of public opinion-that is, from a position of the nation’s expressing a political voice and making claims on its government representatives and leadership. beyond mere entertainment, satire's humor appealed to and exercised public opinion, drawing audiences into new practices of representative government. 	^ a b knight, charles a. ( ) literature of satire p. 	^ a b test ( ) p. quotation: a surprising variety of societies have allowed certain persons the freedom to mock other individuals and social institutions in rituals. from the earliest times the same freedom has been claimed by and granted to social groups at certain times of the year, as can be seen in such festivals as the saturnalia, the feast of fools, carnival, and similar folk festivals in india, nineteenth-century newfoundland, and the ancient mediterranean world. 	^ a b c d e f test ( ) pp. – 	^ cazeneuve ( ) p. - quotation: ils constituent donc pour la tribu un moyen de donner une satisfaction symbolique aux tendances anti-sociales. les zunis, précisément parce qu'ils sont un peuple apollinien [où la règle prédomine], avaient besoin de cette soupape de sûreté. les koyemshis représentent ce que m. caillois nomme le « sacré de transgression ». 	^ durand ( ) p. quotation: déjà cazeneuve ( ) [les dieux dansent à cibola] avait mis auparavant en relief, dans la société « apollinienne » des zuñi, l'institution et le symbolisme saturnal des clowns koyemshis, véritable soupape de sûreté « dionysienne ». 	^ yatsko, v, russian folk funny stories 	^ corum ( ) p. 	^ david worcester ( ) the art of satire p. 	^ müller, rolf arnold ( ). komik und satire (in german). zürich: juris-verlag. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ "what is horatian satire?". wisegeek. 	^ a b "satire terms". nku.edu. 	^ sharma, raja ( ). 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"the golden age of satire: alexander pope and jonathan swift" (pdf). 	^ a b "what is juvenalian satire?". wisegeek. 	^ "satire examples and definition". literary devices. 	^ "satire in literature: definition, types & examples". education portal. 	^ a b fo ( ) p. quotation: nella storia del teatro si ritrova sempre questo conflitto in cui si scontrano impegno e disimpegno ... grottesco, satirico e lazzo con sfottò. e spesso vince lo sfotto. tanto amato dal potere. quando si dice che il potere ama la satira 	^ eastman, max ( ), "iv. degrees of biting", enjoyment of laughter, pp.  – , isbn  	^ fo, dario; lorch, jennifer ( ), dario fo, p.  , isbn  , in other writings fo makes an important distinction between sfottò and satire. 	^ a b c fo ( ) pp. – ... una caricatura che, è ovvio, risulta del tutto bonaria, del tutto epidermica, che indica, come dicevo prima, soltanto la parte più esteriore del loro carattere, i tic la cui messa in risalto non lede assolutamente l'operato, l'ideologia, la morale e la dimensione culturale di questi personaggi. ... ricordando che i politici provano un enorme piacere nel sentirsi presi in giro; è quasi un premio che si elargisce loro, nel momento stesso in cui li si sceglie per essere sottoposti alla caricatura, a quella caricatura. ... di fatto questa è una forma di comicità che non si può chiamare satira, ma solo sfottò. ... pensa quanti pretesti satirici si offrirebbero se solo quei comici del "biberon" volessero prendere in esame il modo in cui questi personaggi gestiscono il potere e lo mantengono, o si decidessero a gettare l'occhio sulle vere magagne di questa gente, le loro violenze più o meno mascherate, le loro arroganze e soprattutto le loro ipocrisie. ...un teatro cabaret capostipite: il bagaglino, un teatro romano che, già vent'anni fa, si metteva in una bella chiave politica dichiaratamente di estrema destra, destra spudoratamente reazionaria, scopertamente fascista. nelle pieghe del gruppo del bagaglino e del suo lavoro c'era sempre la caricatura feroce dell'operaio, del sindacalista, del comunista, dell'uomo di sinistra, e una caricatura bonacciona invece, e ammiccante, accattivante, degli uomini e della cultura al potere 	^ fo ( ) quotation: l'ironia fatta sui tic, sulla caricatura dei connotati più o meno grotteschi dei politici presi di mira, dei loro eventuali difetti fisici, della loro particolare pronuncia, dei loro vezzi, del loro modo di vestire, del loro modo di camminare, delle frasi tipiche che vanno ripetendo. ...[lo sfottò è] una chiave buffonesca molto antica, che viene di lontano, quella di giocherellare con gli attributi esteriori e non toccare mai il problema di fondo di una critica seria che è l'analisi messa in grottesco del comportamento, la valutazione ironica della posizione, dell'ideologia del personaggio. 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[...] the distinction between shallow and deep [...] [is] helpful in understanding the complex ways in which parodies are used. for instance, shallow parody is sometimes used to pay an author an indirect compliment. the opposite of damning with faint praise, this parody with faint criticism may be designed to show that no more fundamental criticism could be made. 	^ luttazzi, daniele ( ), matrix, it, archived from the original on december , , dario fo disse a satyricon: —la satira vera si vede dalla reazione che suscita. 	^ luttazzi, daniele (october ), fracassi, federica; guerriero, jacopo (eds.), "state a casa a fare i compiti" (interview), nazione indiana (in italian), lo sfottò è reazionario. non cambia le carte in tavola, anzi, rende simpatica la persona presa di mira. la russa, oggi, è quel personaggio simpatico, con la voce cavernosa, il doppiatore dei simpson di cui fiorello fa l’imitazione. nessuno ricorda più il la russa picchiatore fascista. nessuno ricorda gli atti fascisti e reazionari di questo governo in televisione. 	^ kremer, s lillian ( ), holocaust literature: agosín to lentin, p.  , isbn  	^ lipman, stephen ‘steve’ ( ), laughter in hell: the use of humour during the holocaust, northvale, nj: j aronson, p.  	^ a b c d clark ( ) pp. – quotation: ...religion, politics, and sexuality are the primary stuff of literary satire. among these sacret targets, matters costive and defecatory play an important part. ... from the earliest times, satirists have utilized scatological and bathroom humor. aristophanes, always livid and nearly scandalous in his religious, political, and sexual references... 	^ clark, john r; motto, anna lydia ( ), satire–that blasted art, p.  	^ clark, john r; motto, anna lydia ( ), "menippeans & their satire: concerning monstrous leamed old dogs and hippocentaurs", scholia satyrica, ( / ): , [chapple's book soviet satire of the twenties]... classifying the very topics his satirists satirized: housing, food, and fuel supplies, poverty, inflation, "hooliganism", public services, religion, stereotypes of nationals (the englishman, german, &c), &c. yet the truth of the matter is that no satirist worth his salt (petronius, chaucer, rabelais, swift, leskov, grass) ever avoids man's habits and living standards, or scants those delicate desiderata: religion, politics, and sex. 	^ ferdie addis ( ) qual è il tuo "tallone da killer"? p. 	^ a b hodgart ( ) ch the topics of satire: politics p. the most pressing of the problems that face us when we close the book or leave the theatre are ultimately political ones; and so politics is the pre-eminent topic of satire. ...to some degree public affairs vex every man, if he pays taxes, does military service or even objects to the way his neighbour is behaving. there is no escape from politics where more than a dozen people are living together. there is an essential connection between satire and politics in the widest sense: satire is not only the commonest form of political literature, but, insofar as it tries to influence public behaviours, it is the most political part of all literature. 	^ hodgart ( ) p. 	^ a b c wilson ( ) pp. – , and notes (p. ), (p. ) 	^ a b anspaugh, kelly ( ) 'bung goes the enemay': wyndham lewis and the uses of disgust. in mattoid (issn - ) issue . , pp. – . as quoted in wilson ( ): the turd is the ultimate dead object. 	^ lise andries etat des recherche. présentation in dix-huitième siècle n. , , special on rire p. , as quoted in jean-michel racault ( ) voyages badins, burlesques et parodiques du xviiie siècle, p. , quotation: "le corps grotesque dans ses modalités clasiques – la scatologie notamment – ..." 	^ klein, cecelia f. 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featured on wikipedia's main page in the on this day section on november , . contents 	 debt to the greeks 	 carpe diem 	 stuart lyons book 	 link to jon corelis translation 	 first english translation 	 horace's villa 	 page move and merge proposals 	 rearrangement 	 horace's sayings 	 new edit 	 bugger the tag 	 kiernan's marxist irrelevancies 	 kipling's "parodies" 	 amaryllis and neaera 	 do-re-mi debt to the greeks[edit] horace was a great poet and philosepher, how did he help rome in any way? hi. i'm still learning here so apologies if i'm not doing things right. the observation that horace was derivative of the greeks is true with respect to meter, but that's also true of all latin poets. the comment could be interpreted as a negative comment on his originality, which i think is transparently unfair and so i deleted it. no greek poet published an ars poetica like horace's. with regard to satire, moreover, he took a largely indigenous form created (as best we can tell) by lucilius, modified it significantly and made it his own. while horace has many debts to the greeks, the standard rap on romans that they stole everything from the greeks is unfair, and particularly unfair in horace's case. thanks for listening! maggietmaggiet : , february (utc) maggie t is absolutely right; i edited some of the language to reflect that. i also deleted some inaccurate characterizations of the odes and epodes. ron kane / / . 	"while horace has many debts to the greeks, the standard rap on romans that they stole everything from the greeks is unfair, and particularly unfair in horace's case." there seems to be someone who disagrees with you... "graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artis intulit agresti latio." "conquered greece took captive her savage conqueror and brought her arts into rustic latium." horace, book ii, epistle i, lines - lets respect horace's own words... as for horace himself, i cannot disagree with your opinion since i have not studied his work on a degree that would allow me to give an informed opinion. --rememberhistory (talk) : , october (utc) carpe diem[edit] isn't carpe diem "pluck the day" or "savor the day"? i thought carpere means "to pluck" or "to savor", as we get the english word carp, to complain. i have a growing suspicion that "seize the day", although popular, is an incorrect translation. chase . . . : , january (utc) 	transferred, it means "enjoy". literally carpe does mean "you must pluck", but as a phrase with diem it correctly means "enjoy the day". amphytrite : , april (utc) 	actually seize seems exactly right to me, the feeling is 'don't hang about wasting your time, there's not much of it'. well employed in the film dead poets society. and the oxford latin dictionary, no less, gives "pluck, seize, (things considered as fruits and often transitory in nature)". john wheater : , june (utc) stuart lyons book[edit] i removed the reference to stuart lyons' book - it's more relevant to the guido of arezzo page (where it has also appeared) and, if one wishes to add a bibliography, there are plenty of other books which are of greater significance. cassian : , may (utc) link to jon corelis translation[edit] i am inclined to remove this external link to what seems to me a poor translation. it was added by the mysterious 'villager' on nov . i thought of replacing it with a link to housman's translation of ode . , diffugere nives. does anyone feel the corelis should be left in? villager's talk page contains only notifications of auto-removals, so maybe he is inclined to special pleading. john wheater : , june (utc) 	i agree with you. there's no reason to link to a non-notable translation of a single ode. housman's translation could reasonably be included, though i would rather place all links specific to the odes at odes (horace) than here. ealacey : , june (utc) 		i've added a link to james michie's marvellous translation of . michie recently died, & surely deserves an article: does anyone feel liking starting one? --nigelg (or ndsg) | talk : , november (utc) first english translation[edit] from the wikipedia article on horace: "ars poetica was first translated into english by queen elizabeth i." from the wikipedia article ars poetica: "ars poetica (also known as "the art of poetry", epistula ad pisones, or letters to piso) was a treatise on poetics. it was first translated into english by ben jonson." which one is it? —preceding unsigned comment added by . . . (talk) : , january (utc) neither. in thomas drant's was the first english translation to be published. the queen's translation was presumably not put on sale to the public. nrpanikker (talk) : , january (utc) horace's villa[edit] has anyone considered writing or creating an article about horace's villa? there have been extensive excavations which can be read about here, and the remains of which can be seen even in google maps here. as one can see, they are quite extensive. surely there is something to be said about them? it isn't often such ruins are properly identified with their owners, especially of such moment as horace. just a thought... cjcaesar (talk) : , july (utc) 	see horace's villa. camenae (talk) : , october (utc) page move and merge proposals[edit] the articles on horace and his works need quite a lot of attention. as a modest beginning, i have suggested that two names be changed in order to conform with regular english language usage. no one as yet has commented on these proposals, perhaps because few editors watch these articles. i thought i might have better luck here. horatians: please note the proposals hic and illic. camenae (talk) : , october (utc) 	i have moved epistularum liber primus to epistles (horace) and merged sermonum liber primus and secundus under the new name satires (horace). camenae (talk) : , october (utc) rearrangement[edit] obviously the article needs works, and what is really missing is any in-depth discussion of horace's works. for this reason, i propose moving the works section before the influence section and greatly expanding. any objections? —preceding unsigned comment added by dt barber (talk • contribs) : , february (utc) this page needs rewriting as well as rearranging. half of the sentences make the ones that immediately follow them gibberish. . . . (talk) : , may (utc) horace's sayings[edit] i think an article dedicated simply to horace's catchy sayings would be a good addition - people might consult such an article when looking for quotes. generally speaking, it's sad to see horace in such neglect here at wp. i write this as a passer-by with no intention of doing anything about it myself - at least not yet. amphitryoniades (talk) : , may (utc) actually, looking at things through new eyes, an article on h's catchy sayings now seems to me premature, bearing in mind the continuing nakedness of the existing articles dedicated to h and his work. where is everyone? if you saw a beggar this naked you would give him a cloak, but one of the greatest poets of all time gets just a few rags. i'll get round to doing something for him within a year if nobody else does. mccronion (talk) : , july (utc) why bother? the current article here is rated pretty well, compared to many others i've seen: 	trustworthy ( votes) 	objective . ( votes) 	complete . ( votes) 	well written . ( votes) eyeless in gaza (talk) : , december (utc) new edit[edit] time something was done here. i'll start with the reception, which i think should end up being at least half the article, considering h's importance in european literature. then i'll spread out from from there, like the wisteria in my sainted mother's garden, or the unknown vine that keeps strangling her citrus trees, except i won't be a nuisance. the reception will probably take me a couple of weeks, a bit every day. the rest of the garden will probably be a more chronic project, especially since i have my own life and property to manage, and my tractor's generator has gone phut. texts so far: 	stephen harrison (ed), a companion to latin literature, blackwell publishing ( ) 	stephen harrison (ed), a cambridge companion to horace, cambridge university press ( ) 	v.g.kiernan, horace: poetics and politics, st martin's press ( ) 	david mankin (ed), horace: epodes, cambridge university press ( ) i'll also try to get some older, more 'classic' criticism cheap from the net, and use google previews etc. this is another mcrap project project! eyeless in gaza (talk) : , january (utc) fed up with this crap now. gone fishing instead! eyeless in gaza (talk) : , january (utc) bugger the tag[edit] i removed this tag because i haven't finished editing. people can reinstate it after i'm done, if it's still necessary. otherwise it invites busy-bodies and leads to edit-conflicts. thanks. mccnut (talk) : , february (utc) {{wikify}} i'm done now. i leave all my work to wp, as horace left everything to the emperor. do with it whatever you like. me and horace are past caring. mccnut (talk) : , february (utc) kiernan's marxist irrelevancies[edit] i removed a portion of the following from the section on horace's education in athens. 	rome's troubles following the assassination of julius ceaser were soon to catch up with him. marcus junius brutus came to athens seeking support for a republican cause that was bereft of ideas – the much-vaunted ideal of liberty was actually irrelevant in a conflict between elites.[ ] the athenians had a tradition of honouring tyrannicides, as types of their own heroes harmodius and aristogeiton, beside whose statues brutus and his colleague cassius were, by a popular decree, to be immortalized in bronze too. this article draws entirely too much from kiernan's book, which is more about his political ideas than it is about horace. i will trim more when i have time. — preceding unsigned comment added by . . . (talk) : , august (utc) kipling's "parodies"[edit] the sentence " kipling wrote a famous parody of the odes ..." : what does it refer to? the "q. horatii flacci carminum liber quintus" (oxonii, blackwell, ), a collection of horatian imitations by a group of friends, is partly (in view of the title, of the pseudo-scholarly preface, etc.) a spoof, but not a "parody" in the sense of mocking or satirizing; and the same seems to me to be true of kipling's "horatian" poems in his debits and credits.svato (talk) : , february (utc) amaryllis and neaera[edit] this may not be the right place to put this question, but i can find no relevant references to amaryllis (mythology, i presume), apart from citations of milton's poem, which do not explain who amaryllis is. references to neaera are opaque, as regards to milton's citation. i am a naif in this area. i didn't find google to be particularly helpful. certainly there are contributors who know this, just off hand. thank you! detail guy : , april (utc) — preceding unsigned comment added by crbeals (talk • contribs) do-re-mi[edit] isn't solfege do-re-mi not from horace, but from a hymn to st. john? the syllables were originally ut-re-mi-fa-sol-la-si, which are first syllables (or letters) of the hymn's semi-verses: ut queant laxis / resonare fibris / mira gestorum / famuli tuorum / solve polluti / labii reatum / sancte iohannes (this is sapphic stophe of course). . . . 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(october ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) the satires (latin: satirae or sermones) is a collection of satirical poems written by the roman poet, horace. composed in dactylic hexameters, the satires explore the secrets of human happiness and literary perfection. published probably in bc and at the latest, by bc,[ ] the first book of satires represents horace's first published work. it established him as one of the great poetic talents of the augustan age.[citation needed] the second book was published in bc as a sequel.[ ] in his sermones (latin for "conversations") or satires (latin for "miscellaneous poems"), horace combines epicurean, that is, originally greek, philosophy with roman good sense to convince his readers of the futility and silliness of their ambitions and desires. as an alternative, he proposes a life that is based on the greek philosophical ideals of autarkeia (greek for "inner self-sufficiency") and metriotes (greek for "moderation" or sticking to the just mean).[ ] in s. . . – , horace illustrates what he means by describing a typical day in his own simple, but contented life. the second book also addresses the fundamental question of greek hellenistic philosophy, the search for a happy and contented life. in contrast to satires i, however, many of this book's poems are dialogues in which the poet allows a series of pseudo-philosophers, such as the bankrupt art-dealer turned stoic philosopher damasippus, the peasant ofellus, the mythical seer teiresias, and the poet's own slave, dama, to espouse their philosophy of life, in satiric contrast to that of the narrator.[ ] although the satires are considered to be inferior to the odes, they have been received positively in recent decades.[ ] contents 	 poetic models 	 content 	 literary success 	 see also 	 notes 	 selected bibliography 	 . critical editions of the latin text 	 . on-line editions of horace's satires, latin 	 . horace's satires, in english translation 	 . commentary 	 . short surveys 	 . more specialized literature 	 external links poetic models[edit] horace's direct predecessor as writer of satires was lucilius.[ ] horace inherits from lucilius the hexameter, the conversational and sometimes even "prosaic" tone of his poetry, and the tradition of personal attack. in contrast to lucilius, although, the victims of horace's mockery are not members of the nobility, but overly ambitious freedmen, anonymous misers, courtesans, street philosophers, hired buffoons, and bad poets. in accordance with the epicurean principle lathe biosas (greek for "live unnoticed"), horace consciously does not get involved in the complicated politics of his times, but advocates instead a life that focuses on individual happiness and virtue.[ ] probably equally important is the influence of greek diatribe in the tradition of the philosopher bion of borysthenes (c. – bc).[ ] horace's satires share with this genre some of their themes, typical imagery, and similes, and the fiction of an anonymous interlocutor whose objections the speaker easily refutes. in addition, horace alludes to another inspiration, the poet lucretius whose didactic epic de rerum natura ("on the nature of things"), also written in hexameters, popularized epicurean physics in rome.[ ] for example, horace's comparison of his satires with cookies that a teacher uses to encourage his students to learn their letters,[ ] reminds of lucretius' more traditional comparison of his poetry with the sugar that sweetens the bitter medicine of philosophy. moreover, lucretian stock phrases such as nunc ad rem redeo ("now i return to the matter at hand") give horace's philosophical "conversations" (sermones) a subtly lucretian flavor. content[edit] satire . , qui fit, maecenas ("how come, maecenas"), targets avarice and greed. most people, the satirist argues, complain about their lot yet do not really want to change it. our insatiable greed for material wealth is just as silly. the true basic human needs, food and water, are easily satisfied. a person who recognizes the natural limit (modus) set for our desires, the just mean between the extremes, will in the end, leave the banquet of life like a satisfied guest, full, and content. satire . , ambubaiarum collegia ("the trade unions of singing syrian courtesans"), deals with adultery and other unreasonable behaviour in sexual matters. the satirist claims that there is also a natural mean with regard to sex. our basic sexual urges are easily satisfied (any partner will do), so it seems silly to run after married noblewomen instead. satire . , omnibus hoc vitium est ("everyone has this flaw"), demands fairness when we criticize other people’s flaws. in the case of friends, we should be especially lenient. satire . , eupolis atque cratinus ("eupolis and cratinus"), in a programmatic declaration of horace's poetic views, he applies these same critical principles to poetry and shows that his own satires follow them. satire . , egressum magna ... roma ("having left great rome"), describes a journey from rome to brundisium. it is thus, also known as the iter brundisium or iter ad brundisium. alluding to a famous satire in which horace’s poetic model, lucilius, described a trip to his knightly estates near tarentum, this satire offers a comic self-portrait of horace as an insignificant member in the retinue of his powerful friend maecenas when the latter negotiated one last truce between antony and octavian, the peace of brundisium ( bc). a highpoint of the satire is the central verbal contest that again, just as in s. . , distinguishes scurrility from satire. here, horace pitches a ‘’scurra’’ (buffoon) from the capital, the freedman sarmentus, against his ultimately victorious local challenger, messius cicirrus (“the fighting cock”). satire . , non quia, maecenas ("not because, maecenas"), rejects false ambition. with the same modesty, with which he just depicted himself in satire . , horace explains why he is not interested in a career in politics even though he once, during the civil war, served as the tribune of a roman legion ( ). people would jeer at him because of his freedman father, and his father taught him to be content with his status in life ( – ) even though he made sure that his son could enjoy the same education as an aristocrat ( – ). satire . , proscripti regis rupili pus atque venenum ("the pus and poison of the proscribed rupilius rex"), deals with a trial that persius, a greek merchant of dubious birth (hybrida, ), won against the roman rupilius rex. following the account of horace's youth in s. . , this satire tells a story from his service under brutus during the civil war. just as in s. . , it features a verbal contest in which two different kinds of invective are fighting against each other. initially, greek verbosity seems to succumb to italian acidity, but in the end, the greek wins with a clever turn of phrase, calling on the presiding judge, brutus the liberator, to do his duty and dispose of the "king" (latin: 'rex') rupilius rex ( – ). satire . , olim truncus eram ("once i was a tree trunk"), describes a funny victory over witchcraft and superstition. another hybrida like persius in s. . , priapus, half garden god, half still a barely shaped piece of wood, narrates the visit of two terrible witches to maecenas' garden that he is supposed to protect against trespassers and thieves. maecenas' garden on the esquiline hill used to be a cemetery for executed criminals and the poor, and so it attracts witches that dig for magic bones and harmful herbs. the god is powerless until the summer heat makes the figwood that he is made of explode, and this divine "fart" chases the terrified witches away. satire . , ibam forte via sacra ("i happened to be walking on the sacred way"), the famous encounter between horace and the boor, relates another funny story of a last-minute delivery from an overpowering enemy. horace is accosted by an ambitious flatterer and would-be poet who hopes that horace will help him to worm his way into the circle of maecenas' friends. horace tries in vain to get rid of the boor. he assures him that this is not how maecenas and his friends operate. yet he only manages to get rid of him, when finally a creditor of the boor appears and drags him off to court, with horace offering to serve as a witness ( – ). satire . , nempe incomposito ("i did indeed say that lucilius' verses hobble along"), functions as an epilogue to the book. here horace clarifies his criticism of his predecessor lucilius, jokingly explains his choice of the genre ("nothing else was available") in a way that groups him and his satires among the foremost poets of rome, and lists maecenas and his circle as his desired audience. literary success[edit] both in antiquity and in the middle ages, horace was much better known for his satires and the thematically-related epistles than for his lyric poetry. in the century after his death, he finds immediate successors in persius and juvenal, and even dante still refers to him simply as "orazio satiro" (inferno . ). conte ( : ) writes, "over , medieval quotations from his satires and epistles have been traced, only about from his carmina." see also[edit] 	prosody (latin) notes[edit] 	^ brown : 	^ brown : ; muecke : 	^ horace himself later coins the phrase aurea mediocritas (latin for the "golden mean" in carm. . . .) 	^ muecke : - 	^ sharland, suzanne ( ). "priapus' magic marker: literary aspects of horace, "satire" . ". acta classica. : – . jstor  . 	^ brown : - ; muecke : - 	^ scholars often point out that horace, only the son of a freedman, could not afford to make powerful enemies, and that is why he, in contrast to lucilius, who was a roman knight, did not dare to attack roman aristocrats by name (cf. freudenburg : – ). yet at the time he published the satires, horace already was affiliated with the powerful maecenas (cf. s. . and ), and if he had wanted to, he could easily have ingratiated himself with the young ruler, octavian, by attacking octavian's enemies, such as sextus pompeius and later mark antony. 	^ brown : – ; muecke : 	^ brown : – 	^ s. . . – ; elementa can refer both to the letters of the abc and to the beginnings of philosophy. selected bibliography[edit] critical editions of the latin text[edit] 	borzsák, stephan. q. horati flacci opera. leipzig: teubner, . 	shackleton bailey, d. r. q. horati flacci opera. stuttgart: teubner, . isbn  - - - . makes more use of conjectural emendation than borzsák. on-line editions of horace's satires, latin[edit] 	sermones (horatius), wikisource (latin). 	all satires book i and ii, in latin. (with notes, also in latin) orelli rev. baiter th ed. . retrieved september . 	satirae, peerlkamp . 	carminum, satirarum i et ii, epodon, epistolarum, ars poetica, etc., long and macleane . 	satirarum liber i & ii , desprez in usum delphini. 	sermonum liber i , zeune in usum delphini. 	satires . , . , and . (in latin) with vocabulary lists (in english). 'the dickinson college wiki', retrieved september . 	bibliotheca augustana [ ] 	the latin library (latin) [ ] 	intratext (latin) [ ] 	perseus project (latin) [ ] horace's satires, in english translation[edit] 	satires, epistles, and art of poetry (engl.). translated into english verse by john conington, m.a. corpus professor of latin at the university of oxford. project gutenberg. retrieved september . n.b. satire i- is excluded. 	first book of satires, with notes (all in english). r. m. millington . retrieved september . 	epodes, satires and epistles, in english. also an introduction (of pages). rev. francis howes . retrieved september . 	alexander, sidney. the complete odes and satires of horace. princeton, n.j.: princeton university press, . isbn  - - - . 	juster, a.m. the satires of horace. philadelphia, pa: university of pennsylvania press, . isbn  - - - - . 	rudd, niall. horace, satires and epistles; persius, satires. london : penguin, . isbn  - - - (verse translation with introduction and notes). commentary[edit] 	brown, p. michael. horace, satires i. warminster, england: aris & phillips, . isbn  - - - (introduction, text, translation and commentary) 	gowers, emily. satires. book . cambridge university press, . isbn  - (introduction, text and commentary) 	muecke, frances. horace, satires ii. warminster, england: aris & phillips, , repr. with corr. . isbn  - - - (hb). isbn  - - - (pb) (introduction, text, translation and extensive scholarly commentary) short surveys[edit] 	conte, gian biagio. latin literature. a history. translated by joseph solodow. baltimore: johns hopkins university press, . isbn  - - - . 	braund, susan h. roman verse satire. oxford: oxford university press, . isbn  - - - . 	freudenburg, kirk. satires of rome: threatening poses from lucilius to juvenal. cambridge: cambridge university press, . isbn  - - -x. 	hooley, daniel m. roman satire. malden, ma: blackwell pub., . isbn  - - - . more specialized literature[edit] 	anderson, william s. "ironic preambles and satiric self-definition in horace satire . ." pacific coast philology ( ) – . 	bernstein, michael andré. "o totiens servus: saturnalia and servitude in augustan rome." critical inquiry ( - ) – . 	braund, susan h. "city and country in roman satire." in: braund, s. h., ed. satire and society in ancient rome. exeter: university of exeter press, , – . 	clauss, james j. "allusion and structure in horace satire . . the callimachean response." transactions of the american philological association ( ) – . 	classen, carl joachim. "horace – a cook?" classical quarterly ( ) – . 	cucchiarelli, andrea. la satira e il poeta : orazio tra epodi e sermones. pisa: giardini, . isbn  - - - . 	freudenburg, kirk. "horace's satiric program and the language of contemporary theory in satires . ." american journal of philology ( ) – . 	freudenburg, kirk. the walking muse: horace on the theory of satire. princeton, n.j.: princeton university press, . isbn  - - - . 	freudenburg, kirk. the cambridge companion to roman satire. cambridge: cambridge university press, . isbn  - - - - . 	hudson, nicola a. "food in roman satire," in: braund, susan h., ed. satire and society in ancient rome. exeter: university of exeter press, , – . 	knorr, ortwin. verborgene kunst : argumentationsstruktur und buchaufbau in den satiren des horaz. hildesheim: olms-weidmann, . isbn  - - - . 	lowrie, michèle, “slander and horse law in horace, sermones . ,” law and literature ( ) - . 	muecke, frances. "law, rhetoric, and genre in horace, satires . ." in: harrison, stephen j., ed. homage to horace. oxford: oxford university press, , – . 	rudd, niall. the satires of horace. berkeley: university of california press, ( nd. ed., ). isbn  - - - . 	roberts, michael. "horace satires . : restrained indignation," american journal of philology ( ) – . 	rothaus caston, ruth. "the fall of the curtain (horace s. . )." transactions of the american philological association ( ) – . 	sallmann, klaus. "satirische technik in horaz' erbschleichersatire (s. , )." hermes ( ) – . 	schlegel, catherine. satire and the threat of speech: horace's satires, book . madison: university of wisconsin press, . isbn  - - - . external links[edit] 		latin wikisource has original text related to this article: sermones 	scholarly bibliography selected by wilfried stroh (in german), munich, archived from the original on - - 		v 	t 	e works by horace 	poetry	 	satires 	epodes 	odes 	epistles 	carmen saeculare 	ars poetica 	collections	 	satires . 	quote	 	ut pictura poesis 	related	 	spring of bandusium 	authority control 	 	viaf: 	 worldcat identities (via viaf): retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=satires_(horace)&oldid= " 		categories: 	poetry by horace 	 st-century bc latin books 	satirical poems hidden categories: 	articles lacking in-text citations from october 	all articles lacking in-text citations 	articles containing latin-language text 	all articles with unsourced statements 	articles with unsourced statements from november 	cs german-language sources (de) 	wikipedia articles with viaf identifiers 	wikipedia articles with worldcat-viaf identifiers 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			article 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	edit 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		search 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigation 	 	 			main page 	contents 	current events 	random article 	about wikipedia 	contact us 	donate 		 	 	 	 		contribute 	 	 			help 	learn to edit 	community portal 	recent changes 	upload file 		 	 	 		tools 	 	 			what links here 	related changes 	upload file 	special pages 	permanent link 	page information 	cite this page 	wikidata item 		 	 	 		print/export 	 	 			download as pdf 	printable version 		 	 	 		in other projects 	 	 			wikisource 		 	 	 	 		languages 	 	 			català 	français 	bahasa indonesia 	italiano 	latina 	srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски 		edit links 	 		 this page was last edited on june , at :  (utc). 	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 scapegoat - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	scapegoat 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		this article is about "scapegoat" in its religious and ritualistic sense. for the social-psychological sense of a person or group singled out for blame, see scapegoating. for other uses, see scapegoat (disambiguation). the scapegoat, by william holman hunt, in the bible, a scapegoat is one of two kid goats. as a pair, one goat was sacrificed (not a scapegoat) and the living “scapegoat” was released into the wilderness, taking with it all sins and impurities. the concept first appears in leviticus, in which a goat is designated to be cast into the desert to carry away the sins of the community. then aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over it all the iniquities of the people of israel, and all their transgressions, all their sins, putting them on the head of the goat, and sending it away into the wilderness by means of someone designated for the task. the goat shall bear on itself all their iniquities to a barren region; and the goat shall be set free in the wilderness. — leviticus : – , new revised standard version practices with some similarities to the scapegoat ritual also appear in ancient greece and ebla. contents 	 etymology 	 ancient judaism 	 christian perspectives 	 similar practices 	 . ancient syria 	 . ancient greece 	 in literature 	 references 	 external links etymology[edit] main article: azazel the word "scapegoat" is an english translation of the hebrew ‘ăzāzêl (hebrew: עזאזל‎), which occurs in leviticus : : ונתן אהרן על שני השעירם גרלות גורל אחד ליהוה וגורל אחד לעזאזל and aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats: one lot for the lord, and the other lot for azazel. (jps) the brown–driver–briggs hebrew lexicon[ ] gives la-azazel (hebrew: לעזאזל‎) as a reduplicative intensive of the stem ‘-z-l "remove", hence la-‘ăzāzêl, "for entire removal". this reading is supported by the greek old testament translation as "the sender away (of sins)". the lexicographer gesenius takes azazel to mean "averter", which he theorized was the name of a deity, to be appeased with the sacrifice of the goat.[ ] alternatively, broadly contemporary with the septuagint, the pseudepigraphical book of enoch may preserve azazel as the name of a fallen angel.[ ][ ][ ] and azazel taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all colouring tinctures. — enoch : [ ] early english christian bible versions follow the translation of the septuagint and latin vulgate, which interpret azazel as "the goat that departs" (greek tragos apopompaios, "goat sent out", latin caper emissarius, "emissary goat"). william tyndale rendered the latin as "(e)scape goat" in his bible. this translation was followed by subsequent versions up through the king james version of the bible in : "and aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the lord, and the other lot for the scapegoat."[ ] several modern versions however either leave it as the proper noun azazel, or footnote "for azazel" as an alternative reading. jewish sources in the talmud (yoma : , b) give the etymology of azazel as a compound of az, strong or rough, and el, mighty, that the goat was sent from the most rugged or strongest of mountains.[ ] from the targums onwards the term azazel was also seen by some rabbinical commentators as the name of a hebrew demon, angelic force, or pagan deity.[ ] the two readings are still disputed today.[ ] ancient judaism[edit] main article: azazel the scapegoat was a goat that was designated (hebrew: לַעֲזָאזֵֽל‎) la-'aza'zeyl; "for absolute removal" (for symbolic removal of the people's sins with the literal removal of the goat), and outcast in the desert as part of the ceremonies of the day of atonement, that began during the exodus with the original tabernacle and continued through the times of the temples in jerusalem. once a year, on yom kippur, the cohen gadol sacrificed a bull as a sin offering to atone for sins he may have committed unintentionally throughout the year. subsequently he took two goats and presented them at the door of the tabernacle. two goats were chosen by lot: one to be "for yhwh", which was offered as a blood sacrifice, and the other to be the scapegoat to be sent away into the wilderness. the blood of the slain goat was taken into the holy of holies behind the sacred veil and sprinkled on the mercy seat, the lid of the ark of the covenant. later in the ceremonies of the day, the high priest confessed the intentional sins of the israelites to god placing them figuratively on the head of the other goat, the azazel scapegoat, who would symbolically "take them away". christian perspectives[edit] see also: victim soul and lamb of god agnus-dei: the scapegoat (agnus-dei. le bouc émissaire), by james tissot in christianity, this process prefigures the sacrifice of christ on the cross through which god has been propitiated and sins can be expiated. jesus christ is seen to have fulfilled all of the biblical "types"—the high priest who officiates at the ceremony, the lord's goat that deals with the pollution of sin and the scapegoat that removes the "burden of sin". christians believe that sinners who own their guilt and confess their sins, exercising faith and trust in the person and sacrifice of jesus, are forgiven of their sins. since the second goat was sent away to perish,[ ] the word "scapegoat" has developed to indicate a person who is blamed and punished for the sins of others. similar practices[edit] ancient syria[edit] a concept superficially similar to the biblical scapegoat is attested in two ritual texts in archives at ebla of the th century bc.[ ] they were connected with ritual purification on the occasion of the king's wedding. in them, a she-goat with a silver bracelet hung from her neck was driven forth into the wasteland of "alini"; "we" in the report of the ritual involves the whole community. such "elimination rites", in which an animal, without confession of sins, is the vehicle of evils (not sins) that are chased from the community are widely attested in the ancient near east.[ ] ancient greece[edit] ancient greeks practiced scapegoating rituals in exceptional times based on the belief that the repudiation of one or two individuals would save the whole community.[ ][ ] scapegoating was practiced with different rituals across ancient greece for different reasons but was mainly used during extraordinary circumstances such as famine, drought, or plague.[ ][ ] the scapegoat would usually be an individual of lower society such as a criminal, slave, or poor person and was referred to as the pharmakos, katharma or peripsima.[ ][ ] there is a dichotomy, however, in the individuals used as scapegoats in mythical tales and the ones used in the actual rituals. in mythical tales, it was stressed that someone of high importance had to be sacrificed if the whole society were to benefit from the aversion of catastrophe (usually a king or the king's children).[ ][ ] however, since no king or person of importance would be willing to sacrifice himself or his children, the scapegoat in actual rituals would be someone of lower society who would be given value through special treatment such as fine clothes and dining before the sacrificial ceremony.[ ] sacrificial ceremonies varied across greece depending on the festival and type of catastrophe. in abdera, for example, a poor man was feasted and led around the walls of the city once before being chased out with stones.[ ] in massilia, a poor man was feasted for a year and then cast out of the city in order to stop a plague.[ ] the scholia refer to the pharmakos being killed, but many scholars reject this and argue that the earliest evidence (the fragments of the iambic satirist hipponax) show the pharmakos being only stoned, beaten, and driven from the community. in literature[edit] j. m. coetzee's work is permeated by the scapegoat problematic as well as the scapegoating practice in the social and psychological sense. animals are connected to phenomena of scapegoating.[ ] the scapegoat, as a religious and ritualistic practice and a metaphor for social exclusion, is one of the major preoccupations in dimitris lyacos's poena damni trilogy.[ ][ ] in the first book, z : exit, the narrator sets out on a voyage in the midst of a dystopian landscape that is reminiscent of the desert mentioned in leviticus ( , ). the text also contains references to the ancient greek pharmakos.[ ][ ] in the second book, with the people from the bridge, the male and female characters are treated apotropaically as vampires and are cast out from both the world of the living and that of the dead.[ ] in the third book, the first death, the main character appears irrevocably marooned on a desert island as a personification of miasma expelled to a geographical point of no return.[ ][ ] references[edit] 	^ p. . 	^ gesenius. "i have no doubt that it should be rendered 'averter'". 	^ archie t. wright the origin of evil spirits: the reception of genesis . – page . . "however, the corresponding aramaic fragment of / enoch . does not use the name azazel; instead, the name has been reconstructed by milik to read asa'el. stuckenbruck suggests the presence of the biblical form azazel in the ethiopic. 	^ wright, david p. "azazel". pages : – in anchor bible dictionary. edited by david noel freedman et al. new york: doubleday, . 	^ the symbolism of the azazel goat. ralph d. levy. . "this is still fairly straightforward, and is translated by the majority of the versions as "for azazel" (targums onkelos and pseudo-jonathan follow this understanding, as do the rsv, nrsv, reb, and tanakh). kjv and nkjv have "to be the scapegoat". 	^ enoch : , translation by r. h. charles. online. 	^ the merriam-webster new book of word histories. merriam-webster. . pp.  – . isbn  - - - - . 	^ "azazel". jewishencyclopedia.com. retrieved - - . 	^ the jps guide to jewish traditions. page . ronald l. eisenberg, jewish publication society – . "(leviticus : – ). in talmudic times, a popular rabbinic interpretation was that azazel referred to the place to which the goat was sent, the eretz g'zera (inaccessible region) of leviticus ( : ). later, azazel became associated with another..." 	^ the jps torah commentary: leviticus nahum m. sarna, chaim potok, jewish publication society – . "according to the first, azazel is the name of the place in the wilderness to which the scapegoat was dispatched; ... according to the second line of interpretation, azazel describes the goat. the word 'aza'zel is a contraction. 	^ the golden bough, p. . sir james frazer, worsworth reference. isbn  - - - . 	^ zatelli, ida (april ). "the origin of the biblical scapegoat ritual: the evidence of two eblaite text". vetus testamentum. ( ): – . doi: . / . 	^ david p. wright, the disposal of the impurity: elimination rites in the bible and in hittite and mesopotamian literature (atlanta: scholars press) : - . 	^ a b c d e f g bremmer, jan ( ). "scapegoat rituals in ancient greece" (pdf). harvard studies in classical philology. : – . doi: . / . jstor  . 	^ a b c d westbrook, raymond. "who led the scapegoat in leviticus : ?". journal of biblical literature. 	^ https://papers.ssrn.com/sol /papers.cfm?abstract_id= 	^ the precarious destitute: a possible commentary on the lives of unwanted immigrants by michael o'sullivan. cha magazine, reviews / june (issue ).https://www.asiancha.com/content/view/ / / 	^ https://www.berfrois.com/ / /berfrois-interviews-dimitris-lyacos/ 	^ dimitris lyacos, z : exit, shoestring press 	^ https://www.pangyrus.com/review/dimitris-lyacos-poena-damni-i-z -exit-ii-with-the-people-from-the-bridge-iii-the-first-death/ 	^ dimitris lyacos, with the people from the bridge, shoestring press 	^ dimitris lyacos, the first death, shoestring press 	^ http://poeticsresearch.com/article/a-column-of-cloud-and-a-column-of-fire-dimitris-lyacos-poena-damni-by-robert-zaller/ external links[edit] the dictionary definition of scapegoat at wiktionary 		wikimedia commons has media related to scapegoats. 		wikiquote has quotations related to: scapegoat 	escapegoat: virtual scapegoat website for yom kippur retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=scapegoat&oldid= " 		categories: 	persecution 	jewish animal sacrifice 	hebrew bible words and phrases 	yom kippur 	book of leviticus 	metaphors referring to animals 	goats hidden categories: 	articles containing hebrew-language text 	articles containing latin-language text 	commons category link is on wikidata 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			article 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	edit 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		search 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigation 	 	 			main page 	contents 	current events 	random article 	about wikipedia 	contact us 	donate 		 	 	 	 		contribute 	 	 			help 	learn to edit 	community portal 	recent changes 	upload file 		 	 	 		tools 	 	 			what links here 	related changes 	upload file 	special pages 	permanent link 	page information 	cite this page 	wikidata item 		 	 	 		print/export 	 	 			download as pdf 	printable version 		 	 	 		in other projects 	 	 			wikimedia commons 	wikiquote 		 	 	 	 		languages 	 	 			العربية 	Български 	brezhoneg 	català 	Čeština 	dansk 	deutsch 	Ελληνικά 	español 	esperanto 	euskara 	فارسی 	français 	bahasa indonesia 	italiano 	עברית 	latina 	lëtzebuergesch 	lietuvių 	limburgs 	magyar 	nederlands 	norsk bokmål 	norsk nynorsk 	occitan 	português 	română 	Русский 	slovenščina 	suomi 	svenska 	türkçe 	Українська 	tiếng việt 	粵語 	中文 		edit links 	 		 this page was last edited on december , at :  (utc). 	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; 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augustus (ruled bc – ad), tiberius (ruled ad – ad) and caligula (ruled ad – ad). he was the father of lucius junius gallio annaeanus, best known as a proconsul of achaia; his second son was the dramatist and stoic philosopher seneca the younger (lucius), who was tutor of nero, and his third son, marcus annaeus mela, became the father of the poet lucan. contents 	 background 	 . the declamatory anthology 	 . history 	 editions of the declamatory anthology 	 references 	 sources 	 further reading 	 external links background[edit] seneca the elder is the first of the gens annaea of whom there is definite knowledge.[ ] in the renaissance his name and his works became confused with his son lucius annaeus seneca.[ ] in the early th century raphael of volterra saw that there must be two different men. he noted that two of the elder seneca's grandsons were called marcus and since there was a roman custom for boys to be given the name of their grandfather, raphael adopted the name of marcus for the elder seneca.[ ] until the th century this was used as the standard praenomen. however it is now accepted that this naming custom was not rigid, and since in the manuscripts he is referred to as lucius, many scholars now prefer this praenomen since it would also help explain why their works became so confused.[ ] the elder seneca was born in spain at a date sufficiently early that he might, theoretically, have heard the voice of cicero, had he been living in italy as a boy. instead, he was confined by wartime conditions 'within the walls' of his 'own colony'[ ], and it was presumably there that he received his first schooling from a praeceptor who had more than two hundred pupils. [ ]as soon as the journey became safe after the civil wars,[ ] he travelled to rome and during lengthy stays there attended assiduously the public declamations by teachers of rhetoric, and sometimes professional orators too, which provided training, in those days, for young men preparing to pursue careers in advocacy and public administration. but there is no evidence that the elder seneca ever pursued such a career. rather the testimony of the younger seneca in a fragment from his de vita patris, suggests that his father remained all his life a private gentleman, declining to seek fame from his writing of a history of rome 'from the beginning of the civil wars', on which he was still engaged at the time of his death under the regime of caligula. it emerges from some of the elder seneca's own words [ ] that he regarded as honourable political careers such as his elder two sons had entered upon, and thought the study of rhetoric, as a preparation for them, correspondingly honourable; yet he was fully aware of the dangers inherent in such careers, 'in which the very objectives sought after are to be feared'[ ], and was supportive also towards his youngest son, mela, when he opted not to follow his brothers in their pursuit of public honours but, instead, to remain content with his inherited equestrian status. the declamatory anthology[edit] it was on the basis of his experiences in the schools and auditoria of the declaimers of augustan and tiberian rome that the elder seneca wrote, in his old age, the work on which his fame rests today, the oratorum et rhetorum sententiae divisiones colores. this work, originally comprising ten books on the subject of controversiae (fictitious lawsuits) together with at least one additional book on suasoriae (fictitious speeches of persuasion), was written ostensibly at the request of his sons and ostensibly from memory. it is not a collection of his own declamations, or of complete fair copies of those delivered by any other declaimer but instead it presents representative extracts and analyses of the declamatory art of a considerable number of the rhetorical celebrities of his younger days. it certainly does not have the character of a theoretical treatise. the elder seneca's own input is confined to pen-portraits of the famous declaimers whom he cites, plus analytical and critical comments about details of their work and anecdotes remembered from the literary chatter of long ago. the declaimers of augustan and tiberian rome professed admiration for cicero, but their preferred oratorical style was not very ciceronian and nor was the theoretical basis of their educational method. 'declamation' of the sort that they practised, was, according to the elder seneca, a new art, born after his own birth. so far as rome was concerned, we must believe him. if its characteristic concentration on the bizarre kind of imaginary lawsuits known as controversiae had earlier precedent in the schools somewhere in the greek-speaking world - as is likely, in view of the remoteness of the subject-matter and legal suppositions of these declamatory themes from the realities of roman law-courts - seneca the elder seems to have been totally unaware of it. he was, however, aware of the activity of a number of greek rhetoricians, teaching in rome alongside those who taught their art in latin. it so happened that porcius latro, a great friend from the elder seneca's corduban childhood, became one of rome's leading rhetoricians in the augustan era. together they had studied at the rhetorical school of one marullus.[ ] in his friend's view latro's only serious rival for supremacy among rome's declaimers was the orator junius gallio, another close family connection of the senecas. latro cultivated the sort of 'fiery and agitated style' that seneca particularly admired.[ ] he was characterized by his friend as a man of both gravity and charm, pre-emininently worthy of the eloquence he possessed. but the end of seneca's tribute to him [ ] illustrates how both men inhabited a literary world far distant from cicero's, one in which delight in neat contrasts and paradoxes had become all-consuming: 'no one' wrote seneca of latro, 'was more in command of his intellect: no one was more indulgent towards it'. not all the rhetoricians cited by seneca were identical to latro in their tastes. in the prefaces to the books of controversiae seneca took pains to identify their distinguishing characteristics and was by no means entirely dismissive of those who fell short of his latronian ideal. at one point he refers to a primum tetradeum, meaning the four most distinguished declaimers he had known. one should note the inclusion, in this distinguished group, alongside latro, gallio and albucius silus, of arellius fuscus, about whose style he expresses serious reservations in his second preface, for its unevenness and, in particular, with regard to the descriptive passages (explicationes)[ ] characteristic of it, which he considered 'brilliant, but laboured and involved, with a decorative finish too contrived, and word-positioning too effeminate, to be tolerable for a mind preparing itself for such holy and courageous teachings.'[ ] but there was no denying the distinction of the school of arellius fuscus, whose pupils included the philosophical writer fabianus[ ] and the poet ovid,[ ] so it is understandable why, even in the judgement of a severe critic, he had to be ranked so highly. albucius, too was influential, the author of a textbook which quintilian was to cite several times.[ ] the elder seneca's declamatory anthology in fact presents a far-reaching critical investigation of the rhetorical substrata underlying the mannerist 'silver age' literature in which, after ovid, the younger seneca's sententious philosophical disquisitions and dramatic art and, in the next generation, lucan's fiery and agitated epic poetry stand out as among the most striking examples. out of the ten books of controversiae, in which extracts from declamatory treatments of seventy-four judicial themes were presented, only books , , , , survive more or less in their entirety, with the names of individual rhetoricians and seneca's critical comments included. such information as we have about the remaining books is supplied by an epitome made in the th or th century for school use, which was to leave its mark on later european literature by supplying some of the stories included in the anecdote-collection called gesta romanorum each book was introduced by a preface in which the anthologist adopted an approach which he himself compared to that adopted by organizers of gladiatorial shows [ ] each preface presents pen-portraits of the famous exponents of the declamatory art either individually, or in pairs, before finally, in the tenth preface, seneca offers his readers a group-presentation of declaimers previously overlooked. after the prefaces came surveys of the treatment of particular controversia-themes by noted declaimers of the past. these surveys, in line with the title of the anthology, usually contain three main sections, the first presenting sententiae the 'ways of thinking'[ ] adopted by the various declaimers about their set themes, while the second section is devoted to divisiones , outlines of their argumentation, and the third to colores, the specious interpretations which they gave to the actions of their imaginary defendants, with a view to excusing or vilifying them. the books of controversiae were supplemented by at least one devoted to suasoriae (exercises in deliberative oratory), in which historical or mythological characters are imagined as deliberating on their options at crucial junctures in the career. in his extant book of suasoriae, seneca presents sententiae by the declaimers cited, followed by their divisiones, but no colores, as these have no place in deliberation, belonging exclusively to judicial rhetoric. the elder seneca's claim to the authorship of this declamatory anthology, generally ascribed to his son during the middle ages, was vindicated by the renaissance humanists raffaello maffei and justus lipsius. history[edit] seneca was also the author of a lost historical work, containing the history of rome from the beginning of the civil wars almost down to his own death, after which it was published by his son. about this magnum opus we learn something from the younger seneca's de vita patris (h. peter, historicorum romanorum fragmenta, , , ) and from a large fragment of the history itself which was cited by lactantius in institutiones divinae . . . this fragment is prefatory in character and pessimistic in outlook, likening as it does the history of rome to the seven ages of man, and comparing the reversion of rome to monarchical rule with the 'second infancy' of senility. also extant is his account of the death of tiberius, cited by suetonius in tiberius .[ ] in the papyrologist valeria piano published a detailed study of p.herc , a charred papyrus-roll from herculaneum first excavated probably in , and partially unrolled in the early nineteenth century. in this study, published in cronache ercolanesi ( , pp. – ), she asserts, on the basis of traces of lettering on its final subscriptio, that the text which the roll contained was by one l. annaeus seneca, and that in view of the clear preponderance in what can be read of the text's contents, of historical and political matter relating to the first decades of the roman empire, it is most likely to have originated in the elder seneca's histories. slight traces of a book-title following the author's name in the subscriptio are also judged to be more compatible with ab initio b[ell]orum [civilium] than with the title of the rhetorical anthology. unfortunately, the text of the scroll legible now is very far from capable of being read as a continuous narrative since, in the process of unrolling, several layers of tightly rolled papyrus tended to remain stuck together and peeled away from each other unevenly.[citation needed] editions of the declamatory anthology[edit] 	nicolas lefèvre (nicholas faber) (paris, ) 	jf gronovius (leiden, , amsterdam, ) 	conrad bursian (critical edition) (leipzig, ) 	adolf kiessling (leipzig, ) 	hermann johannes müller (prague, ) 	michael winterbottom, ( ) declamations, (controversiae, suasoriae. fragments). vols. loeb classical library references[edit] 	^ dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology, william smith, editor. 	^ a b c sussman, lewis a. ( ). the elder seneca. brill. p.  . isbn  . 	^ controversiae pr 	^ controversiae . pr. 	^ controversiae pr. 	^ controversiae pr. - 	^ latin: in quibus ipsa quae sperantur timenda sunt 	^ controversiae pr. , 	^ controversiae pr. ; . . 	^ controversiae i pr 	^ oxford latin dictionary sv. explicatio 	^ controversiae pr 	^ controversiae pr. 	^ controversiae . 	^ quintilian . . ; . . ; . . . the elder seneca's pen-portrait of him is lost, but suetonius' de rhetoribus describes him vividly as a man who was a greater success as a declaimer than as an orator. 	^ controversiae pr. ; pr ; fairweather - 	^ oxford latin dictionary s.v. sententia , cf. 'an opinion expressed in the senate in response to an interrogatio/ 	^ see m. winterbottom, loeb edition, seneca the elder vol. , pp - , for the text and english translation of both these fragments. sources[edit] 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "seneca". encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. pp.  – . further reading[edit] 	bodel, john. ( ). kangaroo courts: displaced justice in the roman novel. in spaces of justice in the roman world. edited by francesco de angelis, - . boston: brill. 	fairweather, janet. ( ). seneca the elder. cambridge: cambridge university press. 	fantham, elaine ( ). imitation and decline: rhetorical theory and practice in the first century after christ. classical philology, ( ), - . 	griffin, miriam. ( ). the elder seneca and spain. journal of roman studies : – . 	gunderson, erik. ( ). declamation, paternity, and roman identity: authority and the rhetorical self. cambridge: cambridge university press. 	huelsenbeck, b. ( ). the rhetorical collection of the elder seneca: textual tradition and traditional text. harvard studies in classical philology, , - . 	imber, margaret. ( ). life without father: declamation and the construction of paternity in the roman empire. in role models in the roman world: identity and assimilation. edited by sinclair bell and inge lyse hansen, - . ann arbor: university of michigan press. 	mcgill, scott. ( ). a spectrum of innocence: denying plagiarism in seneca the elder. in plagiarism in latin literature. by scott mcgill, – . cambridge: cambridge university press. 	richlin, amy. 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and the letter is still extant, in which constantius recommends him to the senate, and speaks in the highest terms both of themistius himself and of his father. we also possess the oration of thanks which themistius addressed to the senate of constantinople early in , in reply to the emperor's letter.[ ] in he recited in the senate of constantinople two orations in honour of constantius, which were intended to have been delivered before the emperor himself, who was then at rome.[ ] as a reward, constantius conferred upon him the honour of a bronze statue; and, in , he was appointed to the praetorian rank by a decree still extant.[ ] in – , themistius may have served as proconsul of constantinople in ; he was the last to hold that office, before the position was elevated to the status of urban prefect.[ ] constantius died in ; but themistius, as a philosopher and non-christian, naturally retained the favour of julian, who spoke of him as the worthy senator of the whole world, and as the first philosopher of his age.[ ] the suda states that julian made themistius prefect of constantinople; but this is disproved by the speech delivered by themistius, when he was really appointed to that office under theodosius. shortly before the death of julian in , themistius delivered an oration in honour of him, which is no longer extant, but which is referred to at some length by libanius, in a letter to themistius.[ ] in he went, as one of the deputies from the senate, to meet jovian at dadastana, on the border of galatia and bithynia, and to confer the consulate upon him; and on this occasion he delivered an oration, which he afterwards repeated at constantinople, in which he claims full liberty of conscience to practice any religion.[ ] in the same year he delivered an oration at constantinople, in honour of the accession of valentinian i and valens, in the presence of the latter. his next oration is addressed to valens, congratulating him on his victory over procopius in june , and interceding for some of the rebels; it was delivered in .[ ] in the next year he accompanied valens to the danube in the second campaign of the gothic war, and delivered before the emperor, at marcianopolis, a congratulatory oration upon his quinquennalia, .[ ] his next orations are to the young valentinian ii upon his consulship, ,[ ] and to the senate of constantinople, in the presence of valens, in honour of the peace granted to the goths, .[ ] on march , , he addressed to valens, who was then in syria, a congratulatory address upon the emperor's entrance on the tenth year of his reign.[ ] it was also while valens was in syria, that themistius addressed to him an oration by which he persuaded him to cease from his persecution of the catholic party.[ ] in addition to these orations, which prove that the orator was in high favour with the emperor, we have the testimony of themistius himself to his influence with valens.[ ] in we find him at rome, where he appears to have gone on an embassy to gratian, to whom he there delivered his oration entitled erotikos.[ ] on the association of theodosius i in the empire by gratian, at sirmium, in , themistius delivered an elegant oration, congratulating the new emperor on his elevation.[ ] of his remaining orations some are public and some private; but few of them demand special notice as connected with the events of his life. in , (about the first of september), he was made prefect of constantinople,[ ] an office which had been offered to him, but declined, several times before.[ ] he only held the prefecture a few months, as we learn from an oration delivered after he had laid down the office,[ ] in which he mentions, as he had done even six years earlier,[ ] and more than once in the interval,[ ] his old age and ill-health. from the thirty-fourth oration we also learn that he had previously held the offices of princeps senatus and praefectus annonae, besides his embassy to rome; in another oration he mentions ten embassies on which he had been sent before his prefecture;[ ] and in another, composed probably about , he says that he has been engaged for nearly forty years in public business and in embassies.[ ] so great was the confidence placed in him by theodosius, that, though themistius was not a christian, the emperor, when departing for the west to oppose magnus maximus, entrusted his son arcadius to the tutorship of the philosopher, - .[ ] nothing is known about themistius after this time; and he may have died around . besides the emperors, he numbered among his friends the chief orators and philosophers of the age, christian and non-christian. not only libanius, but gregory of nazianzus also was his friend and correspondent, and the latter, in an epistle still extant, calls him the "king of arguments."[ ] work[edit] main article: byzantine aristotelianism the orations of themistius, extant in the time of photius ( th century), were thirty-six in number.[ ] of these, thirty-three have come down to us in greek.[ ] two of them, however, (orations and , and perhaps oration ) are not fully preserved, and one (oration ) is a brief statement, not a full oration.[ ] modern editions of the orations have thirty-four pieces, because a latin address to valens has been included as oration .[ ] it is now believed though that this latin address is a th-century creation.[ ] the final oration (oration ) was discovered as recently as by angelo mai in the ambrosian library at milan. there are, in addition, a few other fragments which may come from lost orations, as well as an additional work which survives in syriac and another preserved in arabic.[ ] the philosophical works of themistius must have been very voluminous; for photius tells us that he wrote commentaries on all the books of aristotle, besides useful abstracts of the posterior analytics, the books on the soul, and the physics, and that there were works of his on plato; "and, in a word, he is a lover and eager student of philosophy."[ ] the suda mentions his epitome of the physics of aristotle, in eight books; of the prior analytics, in two books; of the posterior analytics, in two books; of the treatise on the soul, in seven books; and of the categories in one book. the epitomes which survive are:[ ] 	on the posterior analytics 	on the physics 	on aristotle's on the soul 	on aristotle's on the heavens, in a hebrew translation only 	on the metaphysics , in a hebrew translation only in addition to these works, two surviving anonymous paraphrases were mistakenly attributed to him in the byzantine era, and are now assigned to a pseudo-themistius:[ ] 	on the prior analytics 	on the parva naturalia his paraphrases of aristotle's posterior analytics, physics and on the soul are valuable; but the orations in which he panegyrizes successive emperors, comparing them to plato's true philosopher, and even to the idea itself, are intended to flatter. boëthius describes him as, disertissimus (or diligentissimus[ ]) scriptor ac lucidus, et omnia ad facilitatem intelligentiae revocans.[ ] in philosophy themistius was an eclectic. he held that plato and aristotle were in substantial agreement, that god has made men free to adopt the mode of worship they prefer, and that christianity and hellenism were merely two forms of the one universal religion.[ ] works[edit] 	w. dindorf edition of the orations (leipzig, ): themistii orationes, ex codice mediolanensi emendatae, a guilielmo dindorfio, lipsiae: c. cnobloch . 	themistii paraphrases aristotelis librorum quae supersunt, ed. leonhard von spengel (leipzig, ), teubner series (reprinted ) translations[edit] 	commentaire sur le traité de l'Âme d'aristote, traduction de guillaume de moerbeke (latin). louvain, 	themistius on aristotle on the soul, trans. robert b. todd. london and ithaca, (ancient commentators on aristotle) 	themistius on aristotle physics - , trans. robert b. todd. london and ithaca, (ancient commentators on aristotle) 	themistius on aristotle's physics , trans. robert b. todd. london and ithaca, (ancient commentators on aristotle) 	themistius on aristotle physics - , trans. robert b. todd. london, (ancient commentators on aristotle) 	the private orations of themistius, trans. r. penella. berkeley, notes[edit] 	^ simplicius, in cael., c.a.g. vol. , p. , in cat. v. p. , in phys. v. , p. and v. , p. ; sophonias, paraphr. in...de anima, c.a.g. v. , p. . 	^ a b c d chisholm . 	^ john vanderspoel, themistius and the imperial court, p. 	^ themistius, orat. ii. 	^ themistius, orat. iii. iv. 	^ cod. theodos. vi. tit. . s. ; comp. orat. xxxi. 	^ prosopography of the later roman empire, vol. , p. 	^ themist. orat. xxxi. 	^ libanius, ep. 	^ themistius, orat. v.; socrat. hist. ev. iii. . 	^ themistius, orat. vii. 	^ themistius, orat. viii. 	^ themistius, orat. ix. 	^ themistius, orat. x. 	^ themistius, orat. xi. 	^ socrat. hist. ev. iv. ; sozom. hist. ev. vi. 	^ themistius, orat. xxxi. 	^ themistius, orat. xiii. 	^ a b themistius, orat. xiv. 	^ themistius, orat. xvii, 	^ themistius, orat. xxxiv. 	^ themistius, orat. xxxiv. 	^ themistius, orat. xv. xvi. 	^ themistius, orat. xvii. 	^ themistius, orat. xxi. 	^ socrat. hist. ev. iv. ; sozom. hist. ev. vi. ; niceph. hist. ev. xi. . 	^ greg. naz. epist. 	^ a b photius, bibl. cod. 	^ a b c d e robert j. penella, , the private orations of themistius, page . university of california press 	^ a b todd, robert b. ( ). "themistius" (pdf). catalogus translationum et commentariorum. : . retrieved august . 	^ boethius, de differentiis topicis, patrologia latina edition [ ] references[edit] 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "themistius". encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. p.  . 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: smith, william, ed. ( ). dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology. missing or empty |title= (help) further reading[edit] 	todd, robert b. ( ). "themistius" (pdf). catalogus translationum et commentariorum. : . retrieved august . 	heather, peter & moncur, david, trans. ( ) politics, philosophy, and empire in the fourth century: selected orations of themistius, with an introduction. liverpool u. p. isbn  - - - 	swain, simon. 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(for example, petre, being a catholic, could not take the place in the house of lords that would otherwise have been rightfully his.) petre had cut off a lock of arabella's hair without permission, and the consequent argument had created a breach between the two families. the poem's title does not refer to the extreme of sexual rape, but to an earlier definition of the word derived from the latin rapere (supine stem raptum), "to snatch, to grab, to carry off"[ ][ ]—in this case, the theft and carrying away of a lock of hair. in terms of the sensibilities of the age, however, even this non-consensual personal invasion might be interpreted as bringing dishonour. pope, also a catholic, wrote the poem at the request of friends in an attempt to "comically merge the two" worlds, the heroic with the social. he utilised the character belinda to represent arabella and introduced an entire system of “sylphs”, or guardian spirits of virgins, a parodised version of the gods and goddesses of conventional epic. pope derived his sylphs from the th-century french rosicrucian novel comte de gabalis.[ ] pope, writing pseudonymously as esdras barnivelt, also published a key to the lock in as a humorous warning against taking the poem too seriously.[ ] "the new star", illustration by aubrey beardsley for the rape of the lock pope's poem uses the traditional high stature of classical epics to emphasise the triviality of the incident. the abduction of helen of troy becomes here the theft of a lock of hair; the gods become minute sylphs; the description of achilles' shield becomes an excursus on one of belinda's petticoats. he also uses the epic style of invocations, lamentations, exclamations and similes, and in some cases adds parody to imitation by following the framework of actual speeches in homer's iliad. although the poem is humorous at times, pope keeps a sense that beauty is fragile, and emphasizes that the loss of a lock of hair touches belinda deeply. the humour of the poem comes from the storm in a teacup being couched within the elaborate, formal verbal structure of an epic poem. it is a satire on contemporary society which showcases the lifestyle led by some people of that age. pope arguably satirises it from within rather than looking down judgmentally on the characters. belinda's legitimate rage is thus alleviated and tempered by her good humour, as directed by the character clarissa.[ ] dedicatory letter[edit] pope added to the second edition the following dedicatory letter to mrs. arabella fermor: madam, it will be in vain to deny that i have some regard for this piece, since i dedicate it to you. yet you may bear me witness, it was intended only to divert a few young ladies, who have good sense and good humour enough to laugh not only at their sex's little unguarded follies, but at their own. but as it was communicated with the air of a secret, it soon found its way into the world. an imperfect copy having been offered to a bookseller, you had the good nature for my sake to consent to the publication of one more correct: this i was forced to, before i had executed half my design, for the machinery was entirely wanting to complete it. the machinery, madam, is a term invented by the critics, to signify that part which the deities, angels, or dæmons are made to act in a poem: for the ancient poets are in one respect like many modern ladies: let an action be never so trivial in itself, they always make it appear of the utmost importance. these machines i determined to raise on a very new and odd foundation, the rosicrucian doctrine of spirits. i know how disagreeable it is to make use of hard words before a lady; but 'tis so much the concern of a poet to have his works understood and particularly by your sex, that you must give me leave to explain two or three difficult terms. the rosicrucians are the people i must bring you acquainted with. the best account i know of them is in a french book called le comte de gabalis, which both in its title and size is so like a novel, that many of the fair sex have read it for one by mistake. according to these gentlemen, the four elements are inhabited by spirits, which they call sylphs, gnomes, nymphs, and salamanders. the gnomes or dæmons of earth delight in mischief; but the sylphs, whose habitation is in the air, are the best-conditioned creatures imaginable. for they say, any mortals may enjoy the most intimate familiarities with these gentle spirits, upon a condition very easy to all true adepts, an inviolate preservation of chastity. as to the following cantos, all the passages of them are as fabulous as the vision at the beginning or the transformation at the end; (except the loss of your hair, which i always mention with reverence). the human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones, and the character of belinda, as it is now managed, resembles you in nothing but in beauty. summary[edit] belinda sails down the thames to hampton court attended by sylphs; a copperplate engraving by anna maria werner ( ) in the beginning of this mock-epic, pope declares that a "dire offence" (canto line ) has been committed. a lord has assaulted a "gentle belle" (line ), causing her to reject him. he then proceeds to tell the story of this offence. while belinda is still asleep, her guardian sylph ariel forewarns her that "some dread event impends". belinda then awakes and gets ready for the day with the help of her maid, betty. the sylphs, though unseen, also contribute: "these set the head, and those divide the hair, some fold the sleeve, whilst others plait the gown" ( – ). here pope also describes belinda's two locks of hair "which graceful hung behind". the baron, one of belinda's suitors, greatly admires these locks and conspires to steal one. building an altar, he places on it "all the trophies of his former loves" (line ), sets them on fire and fervently prays "soon to obtain, and long possess" (line ) the lock. ariel, disturbed by the impending event although not knowing what it will be, summons many sylphs to her and instructs them to guard belinda from anything that may befall her, whether she "forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade, or lost her heart, or necklace, at a ball" (line – ). so protected, belinda arrives at hampton court and is invited to play a game of ombre. the conspiring baron acquires a pair of scissors and tries to snip off one of her locks, but he is prevented by the watchful sylphs. this happens three times, but in the end the baron succeeds (also cutting a sylph in two although pope reassures us, parodying a passage in paradise lost, that "airy substance soon unites again" [line ]). when belinda discovers her lock is gone, she falls into a tantrum, while the baron celebrates his victory. a gnome named umbriel now journeys to the cave of spleen and from the queen receives a bag of "sighs, sobs, and passions, and the war of tongues" (canto line ) and a vial filled "with fainting fears, soft sorrows, melting griefs, and flowing tears" (line – ) and brings them to belinda. finding her dejected in the arms of the woman thalestris, umbriel pours the contents over them both. many people, moved by belinda's grief, demand the lock back, but the baron is unrepentant and refuses. clarissa admonishes them to keep their good humour, but they will not listen and instead a battle ensues with glares, songs and wits as weapons. belinda fights with the baron and throws snuff up his nose to subdue him. when she demands that he restore the lock, however, it is nowhere to be found. it has been made a constellation and is destined to outlast the contestants. translations[edit] translations of the poem into french, italian and german were all made in the first half of the th century. others in those languages followed later, as well as in dutch, czech, estonian, hungarian, polish, swedish and danish.[ ] the work had originally come to european notice through an anonymous prose version, la boucle de cheveux enlevée, published anonymously in [ ] and now ascribed either to marthe-marguerite, marquise de caylus, or to pierre desfontaines. despite there being a playful french model for this kind of writing in boileau's lutrin, the translator claims of pope's work in the preface that "i do not believe that there can be found in our language anything more ingenious, in this playful genre."[ ] a verse translation by jean-françois marmontel followed in .[ ] der lockenraub, the german translation of pope's poem by luise gottsched the first german translation, der merckwürdige haar-locken-raub ( ), was a rendering of the french prose version of . luise gottsched's verse translation, der lockenraub, was begun in the s, again using a french prose version. however, she revised it totally once she managed to obtain the original text in english and in this way pioneered an interest in english literature in the german-language area. from then on, "pope became very popular as a model for german poets from the s onwards and remained an important source of inspiration throughout the second half of the th century," and in particular as a model for mock heroic poetry.[ ] early italian verse translations of the poem include andrea bonducci's il riccio rapito (florence ), followed by antonio schinella conti's version, begun much earlier and finally published in venice in .[ ] the vogue for pope's work went on to blossom at the start of the th century with separate translations by federico federici (faziola ),[ ] vincenzo benini (milan ),[ ] sansone uzielli (livorno ),[ ] and antonio beduschi (milan ).[ ] scandinavian versions appeared near the start of the th century, beginning with the swedish våldet på belindas låck (stockholm, ) by johan lorens odhelius ( – ). it was followed in by den bortröfvade hårlocken by jonas magnus stjernstolpe ( – ), and by the danish imitation belinde, eller den røvede haarlok by anton martini ( – ) in .[ ] parody and interpretation[edit] in giles jacob published his bawdy parody, the rape of the smock, the plot of which turns on voyeurism and enforced seduction,[ ] building on erotic undertones present in pope's poem which were to be taken up by its illustrators, and reached an apotheosis in aubrey beardsley's work.[ ] the edition of the rape of the lock and those that followed from lintot's press had come with six woodcuts designed by louis du guernier.[ ] although the work of this artist has been described as unimaginative,[ ] he goes beyond his literal brief in making belinda sleep in unwarranted décolletage in the first canto, while in the second giving the "painted vessel" on its way down the thames the tilted perspective of the ship of fools. furthermore, du guernier's frontispiece owes its iconography to a print by Étienne baudet after a painting by francesco albani of venus at her toilette, making for an identification of belinda with the goddess.[ ] the german translation of the poem published from leipzig in had five copperplate engravings by anna maria werner ( – ), the court painter of saxony.[ ] it has been observed, however, that the places they depict are not specifically english and that the scene of the game of ombre in canto is "clearly based on a leipzig coffee-house", complete with lapdogs tumbling on the floor.[ ] sir plume demands the restoration of the lock, an oil painting by charles robert leslie, meanwhile, in britain most illustrations of the work were descending into "high kitsch and low camp".[ ] the edition, for example, illustrated by a variety of contemporary artists, is particularly noted now for thomas stothard's watercolour in which fairies are pictured with wings. advised by william blake to make the sylphs like butterflies, stothard decided to "paint the wing from the butterfly itself" and immediately went out to catch one.[ ] oil paintings by two artists rise a little above this judgment. henry fuseli's erotic the dream of belinda ( – ) goes beyond the actual episode to incorporate other imagery from the poem and some details peculiar only to fuseli, such as the white moths in copulation in the lower foreground.[ ] he also illustrated the cave of spleen episode from canto , but this met with contemporary scepticism[ ] and the original is now lost.[ ] only thomas holloway's print remains to suggest that critics might have been right in seeing in it more "burlesque than sublimity".[ ] in the following century, charles robert leslie's period piece, sir plume demands the restoration of the lock, takes place in a cluttered drawing room in which the kind of lap dog present in many previous pictures feeds from a dish on the floor. the nine photo-engravings with which aubrey beardsley "embroidered" the edition of the poem[ ] drew on the french rococo style, in which there was a contemporary revival of interest.[ ] well received at the time, their enduring popularity can be attributed to their reinterpreting of the poem in ways only a very few had managed earlier. influence[edit] pope's fanciful conclusion to his work, translating the stolen lock into the sky, where "'midst the stars [it] inscribes belinda's name", contributed to the eventual naming of three of the moons of uranus after characters from the rape of the lock: umbriel, ariel, and belinda. the first two are major bodies and were named in by john herschel, a year after their discovery. the inner satellite belinda was not discovered until and is the only other of the planet's moons taken from pope's poem rather than shakespeare's works. modern adaptations of the rape of the lock include deborah mason's opera-ballet, on which the composer worked since .[ ] it had its premiere as an opera-oratorio in june , performed by the spectrum symphony of new york and the new york baroque dance company.[ ][ ] there had also been a performance at sheffield university's drama studio of a musical work based on pope's poem composed by jenny jackson.[ ] references[edit] 	^ text online 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( ). "sylphs and other elemental beings in french literature since le comte de gabalis ( )". pmla. ( ): – . doi: . / . jstor  . 	^ "a key to the lock: or, a treatise proving, beyond all contradiction, the dangerous tendency of a late poem, entituled, the rape of the lock, to government and religion". 	^ ijaz, muhammad. "risenotes-rape of the lock". www.risenotes.com. 	^ pat rogers, the alexander pope encyclopedia, greenwood press , p. 	^ pope, alexander; desfontaines, pierre françois guyot; caylus.), marthe marguerite hippolyte de tubiÈres de grimoard de pestels de levis (marchioness de ( august ). "la boucle de cheveux enlevée; poëme héroï-comique de monsieur pope. traduit [in prose] de l'anglois par mr. ** [i.e. p. f. guyot desfontaines]". f. le breton – via google books. 	^ alexander pope: the critical heritage, routledge , ch. 	^ available in google books,p. ff 	^ hilary brown, introduction to the mhra reprint, london 	^ giuseppe parinis il giorno im kontext der europäischen aufklärung, würzburg , p. 	^ pope, alexander ( august ). "il riccio rapito, di alessandro pope, traduzione di federico federici, ..." stamp. faziola – via google books. 	^ pope, alexander ( august ). "il riccio rapito ; tradotto ed illustrato da g. vincenzo benini". bettoni – via google books. 	^ pope, alexander ( august ). "il riccio rapito". g. masi – via google books. 	^ pope, alexander ( august ). "il riccio rapito ... tradotto da a. beduschi". soc. tip. de'classici italiani – via google books. 	^ "dansk oversættelse af alexander popes "the rape of the lock"". biblioteksvagten.dk. 	^ "the rape of the smock. an heroi-comic poem. in two cantos. [by giles jacob.]". j. brown. august – via google books. 	^ barbara m. benedict, curiosity: a cultural history of early modern inquiry, university of chicago , pp. - 	^ pope, alexander. "the rape of the lock" – via wikisource. 	^ morris r. brownell, eighteenth-century studies . , , p. 	^ timothy erwin, textual vision: augustan design and the invention of eighteenth-century british culture, bucknell university , pp. - 	^ "a new audience for pope - simon beattie". www.simonbeattie.kattare.com. 	^ hilary brown's introduction to luise gottsched, der lockenraub, mhra , p. 	^ robert halsband, the rape of the lock and its illustrations, oup , p. 	^ jayne elizabeth lewis, air's appearance: literary atmosphere in british fiction, - , university of chicago , p. 	^ vancouver art gallery, p. 	^ luisa cale, fuseli's milton gallery, oxford , p. 	^ "the cave of spleen, with umbriel receiving from the goddess the bag and vial". british museum. 	^ "the cave of spleen, with umbriel receiving from the goddess the bag and vial". british museum. 	^ "the rape of the lock". ebooks.adelaide.edu.au. 	^ "favourite find: aubrey beardsley's illustrations for 'the rape of the lock'". july . 	^ "the rape of the lock opera". debmasonstudio.com. 	^ ""alexander pope's the rape of the lock" opera-oratorio by deborah mason". 	^ a performance of the last act is available on youtube 	^ sheffield, university of. 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of antioch, biblical commentator, and christian bishop of cyrrhus ( – ). he played a pivotal role in several th-century byzantine church controversies that led to various ecumenical acts and schisms. he wrote against cyril of alexandria's anathemas which were sent to nestorius and did not personally condemn nestorius until the council of chalcedon. his writings against cyril were included in the three chapters controversy and were condemned at the second council of constantinople. some chalcedonian and east syriac christians regard him as a "full" saint.[a] contents 	 biography 	 the nestorian controversy 	 works 	 . exegetical 	 . dogmatic 	 . apologetic, historical 	 . letters 	 . linguistic interest 	 translations 	 notes 	 references 	 sources 	 external links biography[edit] according to tillemont, he was born at antioch in , and died either at cyrrhus ("about a two-days' journey east of antioch" or eighty roman miles), or at the monastery near apamea (fifty-four miles south-east of antioch) about . the following facts about his life are gleaned mainly from his epistles and his religious history (philotheos historia). he was the child of a prosperous antiochene couple who had been childless for many years. encouraged by the fact that his mother had been cured of a serious eye complaint and converted to a sober life by peter the galatian, an ascetic living in an unoccupied in the locality,[ ] theodoret's parents sought further help from the local holy men, since she had been childless for twelve years. for years their hopes were fed but not fulfilled. eventually, theodoret's birth was promised by a hermit named macedonius the barley-eater on the condition of his dedication to god, whence the name theodoret ("gift of god").[ ] theodoret received an extensive religious and secular education. the actual evidence given to us by theodoret suggests that his education was exclusively religious. he paid weekly visits to peter the galatian, was instructed by macedonius and other ascetics, and at an early age became a lector among the clergy of antioch. though he speaks of diodore of tarsus and theodore of mopsuestia as his teachers, this is improbable - though it was certainly their theological tradition in which he was brought up. he clearly, also, though, received an extensive classical education, unsurprisingly for the child of prosperous parents in a city which had long been a centre of secular learning and culture. his correspondents included the sophists aerius and isokasius. he understood syriac as well as greek, but was not acquainted with either hebrew or latin.[ ] in his letters he quotes from homer, sophocles, euripides, aristophanes, demosthenes and thucydides.[ ] when he was twenty-three years old and both parents were dead, he divided his fortune among the poor (epist. cxiii; p.g., lxxxiii, ) and became a monk in the monastery of nicerte not far from apamea.[ ] there he lived for about seven years. in he left as he had been appointed bishop of cyrrhus, over a diocese about forty miles square and embracing parishes, but with an insignificant town as its see city. theodoret, supported only by the appeals of the intimate hermits, himself in personal danger, zealously guarded purity of the doctrine. he converted more than , marcionites in his diocese,[ ] besides many arians and macedonians;[ ] more than copies of tatian's diatessaron he retired from the churches; and he erected churches and supplied them with relics. his philanthropic and economic interests were extensive and varied: he endeavoured to secure relief for the people oppressed with taxation; he divided his inheritance among the poor; from his episcopal revenues he erected baths, bridges, halls, and aqueducts; he summoned rhetoricians and physicians, and reminded the officials of their duties. to the persecuted christians of persian armenia he sent letters of encouragement, and to the carthaginian celestiacus, who had fled the rule of the vandals, he gave refuge. the nestorian controversy[edit] theodoret stands out prominently in the christological controversies aroused by cyril of alexandria. theodoret shared in the petition of john i of antioch to nestorius to approve of the term theotokos ("mother of god"),[ ] and upon the request of john wrote against cyril's anathemas. he may have prepared the antiochian symbol which was to secure the emperor's true understanding of the nicene creed, and he was a member and spokesman of the deputation of eight from antioch called by the emperor to chalcedon. to the condemnation of nestorius he could not assent. john, reconciled to cyril by the emperor's order, sought to bring theodoret to submission by entrenching upon his eparchy. theodoret was determined to preserve the peace of the church by seeking the adoption of a formula avoiding the unconditional condemnation of nestorius, and toward the close of strove earnestly for the reconciliation between the eastern churches. but cyril refused to compromise and when he opened his attack ( ) upon diodorus of tarsus and theodore, john sided with them and theodoret assumed the defence of the antiochian party (c.  ).[ ] domnus ii, the successor of john, took him as his counsellor. after the death of cyril, adherents of the antiochian theology were appointed to bishoprics. irenaeus the friend of nestorius, with the cooperation of theodoret, became bishop of tyre, in spite of the protests of dioscorus, cyril's successor, who now turned specially against theodoret; and secured the order from the court confining theodoret to cyrrhus. theodoret now composed the eranistes (see below). in vain were his efforts at court at self-justification against the charges of dioscurus, as well as the countercharge of domnus against eutyches of apollinarism. the court excluded theodoret from the second council of ephesus in because of his antagonism to cyril. here, because of his epistle against cyril and his defence of diodorus and theodore, he was condemned without a hearing and excommunicated and his writings were directed to be burned. even domnus gave his assent. theodoret was compelled to leave cyrrhus and retire to his monastery at apamea. he made an appeal to leo the great, but not until after the death of theodosius ii in was his appeal for a revocation of the judgments against him granted by imperial edict. he was ordered to participate in the council of chalcedon, which created violent opposition. he was first to take part only as accuser, yet among the bishops. then he was constrained (october , ) by the friends of dioscurus to pronounce the anathema over nestorius. his conduct shows (though hindered from a statement to that effect) that he performed this with his previous reservation; namely, without application beyond the teaching of two sons in christ and the denial of the theotokos. upon this he was declared orthodox and rehabilitated. the only thing known concerning him following the council of chalcedon is the letter of leo charging him to guard the chalcedonian victory (pg, lxxxiii. sqq.). with diodorus and theodore he was no less hated by the miaphysites than nestorius himself, and held by them and their friends as a heretic. after chalcedon, he lived in cyrrhus until his death, which may have been in .[ ][ ] the three-chapter controversy led to the condemnation of his writings against cyril in the second council of constantinople ( ). works[edit] exegetical[edit] the most significant works of theodoret are those of exegesis. a chronology of the composition of these works can be developed by studying references in the latter works to the earlier works. the commentary on the song of songs, written while he was a young bishop, though not before , precedes psalms; the commentaries on the prophets were begun with daniel, followed by ezekiel, and then the minor prophets. next that on the psalms was completed before ; and those on isaiah, jeremiah, and the pauline epistles (including hebrews), before . theodoret's last exegetical works were the interpretations of difficult passages in the octateuch and quaestiones dealing with the books of samuel, kings, and chronicles, written about to . excepting the commentary on isaiah (fragments preserved in the catenae) and on galatians ii. - , the exegetical writings of theodoret are extant. exegetical material on the gospels under his name in the catenae may have come from his other works, and foreign interpolations occur in his comments on the octateuch. his representation of orthodox doctrine consists of a collocation of scripture passages. the biblical authors are, for theodoret, merely the mouthpieces of the holy spirit, though they do not lose their individual peculiarities. by the unavoidable imperfection of the translations, he states, the understanding is encumbered. not familiar with hebrew, theodoret uses the syriac translation, the greek versions, and the septuagint. in principle his exegesis is grammatical-historical; and he criticizes the intrusion of the author's own ideas. his aim is to avoid a one-sidedness of literalness as well as of allegory. hence he protests against the attributing of the song of songs to solomon and the like as degrading the holy spirit. rather is it to be said that the scripture speaks often "figuratively" and "in riddles." in the old testament everything has typological significance and prophetically it embodies already the christian doctrine. the divine illumination affords the right understanding after the apostolic suggestion and the new testament fulfilment. valuable though not binding is the exegetical tradition of the ecclesiastical teachers. theodoret likes to choose the best among various interpretations before him, preferably theodore's, and supplements from his own. he is clear and simple in thought and statement; and his merit is to have rescued the exegetical heritage of the school of antioch as a whole for the christian church. dogmatic[edit] many of theodoret's dogmatic works have perished; five, however, have survived. his chief christological work is the eranistes etoi polymorphos (beggar or multiform, or perhaps the collector) in three dialogues, describing the monophysites as beggars passing off their doctrines gathered by scraps from diverse heretical sources and himself as the orthodox. the work is interspersed with lengthy florilegia (anthologies of patristic citations), which may be the reason for its preservation. these florilegia provide evidence of theodoret's considerable learning, with texts drawn from works, including pre-nicene writers such as ignatius, irenaeus and hippolytus, as well as theologians such as athanasius and the cappadocian fathers. this use of florilegia heralds a new stage in doctrinal development, in that it creates a new authority for christian theology: that of the 'fathers'.[ ][ ] two works, on the holy and life-giving trinity and on the incarnation of the lord, have survived through ascription to his opponent cyril of alexandria.[ ][ ][ ] another surviving work by theodoret is his refutation of the anathemas, his rejection of the twelve anathemas pronounced on him by cyril of alexandria, which has been preserved in cyril's defence.[ ] he detects apollinarianism in cyril's teaching, and declines a "contracting into one" of two natures of the only begotten, as much as a separation into two sons (epist. cxliii). instead of a "union according to hypostases," he would accept only one that "manifests the essential properties or modes of the natures." the man united to god was born of mary; between god the logos and the form of a servant a distinction must be drawn. another surviving work is the expositio rectae fidei. this was preserved among the writings of justin martyr. however, both lebon ( ) and sellers ( ) independently recognised it as the work of theodoret, probably pre-dating the outbreak of the christological controversies.[ ] only minor fragments (cf. epist. ) of theodoret's defence of diodorus and theodore ( - ) have been preserved.[ ] there are many lost works. theodoret mentions having written against arius and eunomius,[ ] probably one work, to which were joined the three treatises against the macedonians. there were, besides, two works against the apollinarians, and of the opus adversus marcionem nothing has been preserved. god is immutable also in becoming man, the two natures are separate in christ, and god the logos is ever immortal and impassive. each nature remained "pure" after the union, retaining its properties to the exclusion of all transmutation and intermixture. of the twenty-seven orations in defence of various propositions, the first six agree in their given content with theodoret. a few extracts from the five orations on chrysostom were preserved by photius (codex ). apologetic, historical[edit] among apologetic writings was the ad quaestiones magorum ( - ), now lost, in which theodoret justified the old testament sacrifices as alternatives in opposition to the egyptian idolatry,[ ] and exposed the fables of the magi who worshipped the elements (church history v. ). de providentia, or ten discourses on providence, consists of apologetic discourses, proving the divine providence from the physical order (chapters i-iv), and from the moral and social order (chapters vi-x). they were most probably delivered to the cultured greek congregation of antioch, sometime between and . unlike most sermons, they are reasoned arguments, lectures rather than homilies on scriptural texts. the graecarum affectionum curatio or cure of the greek maladies, subtitled the truth of the gospel proved from greek philosophy, arranged in twelve books, was an attempt to prove the truth of christianity from greek philosophy and in contrast with the pagan ideas and practises. as such, it forms one of the last apologies written, since in an age when christianity was dominant, the need for apologies gradually died out. the truth is self-consistent where it is not obscured with error and approves itself as the power of life; philosophy is only a presentiment of it. this work is distinguished for clearness of arrangement and style.[ ] the ecclesiastical history of theodoret, which begins with the rise of arianism and closes with the death of theodore in (despite being completed in - ) is very different in style from those of socrates scholasticus and sozomen. it contains many sources otherwise lost, specially letters on the arian controversy; however, the book is extremely partisan, the heretics being consistently blackened and described as afflicted with the 'arian plague'. the narrative is more compressed than in the other historians, and theodoret often strings documents together, with only brief comments between. original material of antiochian information appears chiefly in the latter books. theodoret's sources are in dispute. according to valesius these were mainly socrates and sozomen; albert guldenpenning's thorough research placed rufinus first, and next to him, eusebius of caesarea, athanasius, sozomen, sabinus, philostorgius, gregory nazianzen, and, least of all, socrates. n. glubokovskij counts eusebius, rufinus, philostorgius, and, perhaps, sabinus. the religious history, with an appendix on divine love, contains the biographies of thirty (ten living) ascetics, held forth as religious models. it is a document of remarkable significance for understanding the complexities of the role of early monastics, both in society and in the church; it is also remarkable for presenting a model of ascetic authority which runs strongly against athanasius's life of antony. upon the request of a high official named sporacius, theodoret compiled a compendium of heretical accounts (haereticarum fabularum compendium), including a heresiology (books i-iv) and a "compendium of divine dogmas" (book v), which, apart from origen's de principiis and the theological work of john of damascus, is the only systematic representation of the theology of the greek fathers. letters[edit] compared to the more than letters known to nicephorus callistus in the fourteenth century, only about half that number had survived to the twentieth century. three collections survive, though there is some overlap between them. letters were edited by j sirmond in the seventeenth century. to these, j. sakkelion added another letters he published from a manuscript he found at the monastery of patmos in .[ ] letters have been preserved in conciliar records. these letters provide glimpses of rural christianity in northern syria, as well as insight into episcopal relationships; hints of the development of christological issues between the councils of ephesus and chalcedon can be seen; there are letters of consolation and commendation; throughout there is revealed the generous and sensitive soul of a pastor.[ ] an english translation of the surviving letters is part of the nicene and post-nicene fathers ( ser., iii. - ).[ ] linguistic interest[edit] in several works, theodoret demonstrated an interest for linguistic issues related to translations of sacred texts and theological works, with emphasis on literary exchange between two languages, greek and syriac.[ ][ ] theodoret himself belonged to the highly hellenized urban landscape of roman syria,[ ] but his aramaic background,[ ] accompanied with knowledge of aramaic language (called syriac among greeks), enabled him to note several features of his ancestral language. aware of regional diversities of aramaic dialects, he recorded that "the osroënians, the syrians, the people of the euphrates, the palestinians, and the phoenicians all speak syriac, but with many differences in pronunciation".[ ] theodoret′s regional (provincial) differentiation of aramaic dialects included an explicit distinction between the "syrians" (as aramaic speakers of syria proper, western of euphrates), and the "osroenians" as aramaic speakers of osroene (eastern region, centered in edessa), thus showing that dialect of the "syrians" (aramaic speakers of proper syria) was known to have somewhat different pronunciation from that of the "osroenians" (speakers of edessan aramaic).[ ][ ] translations[edit] 	translations of some of theodoret's writings can be found in nicene and post-nicene fathers. 	a bilingual edition of the eranistes was published by oxford university press in . 	ettlinger, gh, . theodoret: eranistes, fc, washington, dc: catholic university of america press. 	petruccione, john f and rc hill, . theodoret of cyrus. the questions on the octateuch, greek text and english translation, washington, dc, catholic university of america press 	rc hill has published translations into english of the commentary on the psalms ( , ), the commentary on the songs of songs ( ), and the commentary on the letters of st paul ( ) 	istván pásztori-kupán, theodoret of cyrus, (routledge, ), includes full translations of on the trinity, on the incarnation, and excerpts from a cure of greek maladies and a compendium of heretical mythification.[ ] 	an english translation of the ecclesiastical history is available as an e-book from munseys.com. 	bilingual editions (greek text with parallel french translation) of several of the texts mentioned above have been published in recent years in sources chrétiennes. notes[edit] 	^ although the eastern orthodox protopresbyter michael pomazansky repeatedly refers to him as "blessed",[ ] there is no evidence in his work that this is the official position of any eastern orthodox jurisdiction. hieromonk seraphim rose also refers to theodoret as "blessed" in his book the place of blessed augustine in the orthodox church while explaining the nature of the term "blessed" in the russian orthodox church, referring to how both sts. augustine and jerome are referred to as "blessed" too despite being part of the orthodox saints calendar.[ ] references[edit] 	^ orthodox dogmatic theology 	^ rose, seraphim ( ). the place of blessed augustine in the orthodox church. platina, california: saint herman of alaska brotherhood. p.  . 	^ theodoret, historia religiosa, 	^ theodoret, historia religiosa, 	^ a b c baur, chrysostom. "theodoret." the catholic encyclopedia vol. . new york: robert appleton company, . february 	^ young & teal , p.  . 	^ this evidence is assumed because, when later deprived of his see, he begs permission to return to this monastery, explaining it is miles from antioch and miles from his episcopal city. (ep ). young & teal , p.  	^ chisholm . 	^ young & teal , p.  . 	^ is the traditional date, has held the field for some decades (by e honigmann ( )) but is now proposed (by y azema( ). 	^ louth , p.  . 	^ a b c louth , p.  . 	^ young & teal , pp.  - . 	^ in the nineteenth century, a ehrhard showed that these two works, though ascribed to cyril, in fact present the doctrinal views of theodoret; some fragments, quotations cited under theodoret's name, prove that these are in fact works by theodoret, not cyril. young & teal , p.  	^ to the same belong chapters xiii-xv, xvii, and brief parts of other chapters of the fragments which jean garnier (auctarium) included under the title, pentology of theodoret on the incarnation as well as three of the five fragments referred by marius mercator to the fifth book of some writing of theodoret. they are polemics against arianism and apollinarianism. 	^ pg, cxxvi. sqq. 	^ young & teal , p.  . 	^ glubokovskij ii. 	^ (epist. cxiii, cxvi) 	^ qquestion [sic?] , lev., pg, lxxx. sqq. 	^ "plato and theodoret christian appropriation platonic philosophy and hellenic intellectual resistance :: ancient philosophy :: cambridge university press". cambridge.org. retrieved october . 	^ m. monica wagner, "a chapter in byzantine epistolography the letters of theodoret of cyrus", dumbarton oaks papers, ( ), p. 	^  one or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. 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marking the end of the crisis of the third century and the recovery of the roman empire. the government of the empire was divided between the two senior emperors, the augusti, and their juniors and designated successors, the caesares. initially diocletian chose maximian as his caesar in , raising him to co-augustus the following year; maximian was to govern the western provinces and diocletian would administer the eastern ones. the role of the augustus was likened to jupiter, while his caesar was akin to jupiter's son hercules. galerius and constantius were appointed caesares in march . diocletian and maximian retired on may , raising galerius and constantius to the rank of augustus. their places as caesares were in turn taken by valerius severus and maximinus daia. the orderly system of two senior and two junior emperors endured until constantius died in july , and his son constantine was unilaterally acclaimed augustus and caesar by his father's army. maximian's son maxentius contested severus's title, styled himself princeps invictus, and was appointed caesar by his retired father in . severus surrendered to maximian and maxentius in . maxentius and constantine were both recognized as augusti by maximian that same year. galerius appointed licinius augustus for the west in and elevated maximinus daia to augustus in . constantine's victory over maxentius at the battle of the milvian bridge in left him in control of the western part of the empire, while licinius was left in control of the east on the death of maximinus daia. constantine and licinius jointly recognized their sons – crispus, constantine ii, and licinius ii – as caesares in march . ultimately the tetrarchic system lasted until c.  , when mutually destructive civil wars eliminated most of the claimants to power: licinius resigned as augustus after the losing the battle of chrysopolis, leaving constantine in control of the entire empire. the constantinian dynasty's emperors retained some aspects of collegiate rule; constantine appointed his son constantius ii as another caesar in , followed by constans in and his nephew dalmatius in , and the three surviving sons of constantine in were declared joint augusti together, and the concept of the division of the empire under multiple joint emperors endured until the fall of the western roman empire. in the eastern roman empire, augusti and caesares continued to be appointed sporadically. contents 	 terminology 	 creation 	 regions and capitals 	 public image 	 military successes 	 demise 	 emperors 	 detailed timeline 	 simplified timeline 	 . tetrarchy until may 	 . tetrarchy until july 	 . tetrarchy until may 	 . tetrarchy from november to the beginning of may 	 . tetrarchy from may 	 . tetrarchy after october to the end of 	 . tetrarchy from march to september 	 legacy 	 other examples 	 see also 	 notes 	 citations 	 references 	 external links terminology[edit] the term "tetrarchy" (from the greek: τετραρχία, tetrarchia, "leadership of four [people]")[a] describes any form of government where power is divided among four individuals. although the term "tetrarch" was current in antiquity, it was never used of the imperial college under diocletian. instead, the term was used to describe independent portions of a kingdom that were ruled under separate leaders. the tetrarchy of judaea, established after the death of herod the great, is the most famous example of the antique tetrarchy. the term was understood in the latin world as well, where pliny the elder glossed it as follows: "each is the equivalent of a kingdom, and also part of one" (regnorum instar singulae et in regna contribuuntur).[ ] as used by the ancients, the term describes not only different governments, but also a different system of government from the diocletianic arrangements. the judaean tetrarchy was a set of four independent and distinct states, where each tetrarch ruled a quarter of a kingdom as they saw fit; the diocletianic tetrarchy was a college led by a single supreme leader. when later authors described the period, this is what they emphasized: ammianus had constantius ii admonish gallus for disobedience by appealing to the example in submission set by diocletian's lesser colleagues; his successor julian compared the diocletianic tetrarchs to a chorus surrounding a leader, speaking in unison under his command.[ ] only lactantius, a contemporary of diocletian and a deep ideological opponent of the diocletianic state, referred to the tetrarchs as a simple multiplicity of rulers.[ ] much modern scholarship was written without the term. although edward gibbon pioneered the description of the diocletianic government as a "new empire", he never used the term "tetrarchy"; neither did theodor mommsen. it did not appear in the literature until used in by schoolmaster hermann schiller in a two-volume handbook on the roman empire (geschichte der römischen kaiserzeit), to wit: "die diokletianische tetrarchie". even so, the term did not catch on in the literature until otto seeck used it in .[ ] on the reverse of this argenteus struck in antioch under constantius i, the tetrarchs offer sacrifice to celebrate a victory against the sarmatians. creation[edit] the first phase, sometimes referred to as the diarchy ("rule of two"), involved the designation of the general maximian as co-emperor—firstly as caesar (junior emperor) in , followed by his promotion to augustus in . diocletian took care of matters in the eastern regions of the empire while maximian similarly took charge of the western regions. in , diocletian thought that more focus was needed on both civic and military problems, so with maximian's consent, he expanded the imperial college by appointing two caesares (one responsible to each augustus)—galerius and constantius i.[ ] in , the senior emperors jointly abdicated and retired, allowing constantius and galerius to be elevated in rank to augustus. they in turn appointed two new caesares—severus ii in the west under constantius, and maximinus in the east under galerius—thereby creating the second tetrarchy. regions and capitals[edit] map of the roman empire under the tetrarchy, showing the dioceses and the four tetrarchs' zones of influence. the four tetrarchs based themselves not at rome but in other cities closer to the frontiers, mainly intended as headquarters for the defence of the empire against bordering rivals (notably sassanian persia) and barbarians (mainly germanic, and an unending sequence of nomadic or displaced tribes from the eastern steppes) at the rhine and danube. these centres are known as the tetrarchic capitals. although rome ceased to be an operational capital, rome continued to be nominal capital of the entire roman empire, not reduced to the status of a province but under its own, unique prefect of the city (praefectus urbi, later copied in constantinople). the four tetrarchic capitals were: 	nicomedia in northwestern asia minor (modern izmit in turkey), a base for defence against invasion from the balkans and persia's sassanids was the capital of diocletian, the eastern (and most senior) augustus; in the final reorganisation by constantine the great, in , the equivalent of his domain, facing the most redoubtable foreign enemy, sassanid persia, became the praetorian prefecture oriens, 'the east', the core of later byzantium. 	sirmium (modern sremska mitrovica in the vojvodina region of modern serbia, and near belgrade, on the danube border) was the capital of galerius, the eastern caesar; this was to become the balkans-danube prefecture illyricum. 	mediolanum (modern milan, near the alps) was the capital of maximian, the western augustus; his domain became "italia et africa", with only a short exterior border. 	augusta treverorum (modern trier, in germany) was the capital of constantius, the western caesar, near the strategic rhine border; it had been the capital of gallic emperor tetricus i. this quarter became the prefecture galliae. aquileia, a port on the adriatic coast, and eboracum (modern york, in northern england near the celtic tribes of modern scotland and ireland), were also significant centres for maximian and constantius respectively. in terms of regional jurisdiction there was no precise division among the four tetrarchs, and this period did not see the roman state actually split up into four distinct sub-empires. each emperor had his zone of influence within the roman empire, but little more, mainly high command in a 'war theater'. each tetrarch was himself often in the field, while delegating most of the administration to the hierarchic bureaucracy headed by his respective pretorian prefect, each supervising several vicarii, the governors-general in charge of another, lasting new administrative level, the civil diocese. for a listing of the provinces, now known as eparchy, within each quarter (known as a praetorian prefecture), see roman province. in the west, the augustus maximian controlled the provinces west of the adriatic sea and the syrtis, and within that region his caesar, constantius, controlled gaul and britain. in the east, the arrangements between the augustus diocletian and his caesar, galerius, were much more flexible. however, it appears that some contemporary and later writers, such as the christian author lactantius, and sextus aurelius victor (who wrote about fifty years later and from uncertain sources), misunderstood the tetrarchic system in this respect, believing it to have involved a stricter division of territories among the four emperors. public image[edit] although power was shared in the tetrarchic system, the public image of the four emperors in the imperial college was carefully managed to give the appearance of a united empire (patrimonium indivisum). this was especially important after the numerous civil wars of the rd century. the tetrarchs appeared identical in all official portraits. coinage dating from the tetrarchic period depicts every emperor with identical features—only the inscriptions on the coins indicate which one of the four emperors is being shown. the byzantine sculpture portrait of the four tetrarchs shows the tetrarchs again with identical features and wearing the same military costume. military successes[edit] one of the greatest problems facing emperors in the third century crisis was that they were only ever able to personally command troops on one front at any one time. while aurelian and probus were prepared to accompany their armies thousands of miles between war regions, this was not an ideal solution. furthermore, it was risky for an emperor to delegate power in his absence to a subordinate general, who might win a victory and then be proclaimed as a rival emperor himself by his troops (which often happened). all members of the imperial college, on the other hand, were of essentially equal rank, despite two being senior emperors and two being junior; their functions and authorities were also equal. under the tetrarchy a number of important military victories were secured. both the dyarchic and the tetrarchic system ensured that an emperor was near to every crisis area to personally direct and remain in control of campaigns simultaneously on more than just one front. after suffering a defeat by the persians in , galerius crushed narseh in —reversing a series of roman defeats throughout the century—capturing members of the imperial household and a substantial amount of booty and gaining a highly favourable peace treaty, which secured peace between the two powers for a generation. similarly, constantius defeated the british usurper allectus, maximian pacified the gauls, and diocletian crushed the revolt of domitianus in egypt. demise[edit] main article: civil wars of the tetrarchy when in the -year term of diocletian and maximian ended, both abdicated. their caesares, galerius and constantius chlorus, were both raised to the rank of augustus, and two new caesares were appointed: maximinus daia (caesar to galerius) and valerius severus (caesar to constantius). these four formed the second tetrarchy. constantine at the battle of the milvian bridge, fresco by raphael, vatican rooms. however, the system broke down very quickly thereafter. when constantius died in , galerius promoted severus to augustus while constantine, constantius' son, was proclaimed augustus by his father's troops. at the same time, maxentius, the son of maximian, who also resented being left out of the new arrangements, defeated severus before forcing him to abdicate and then arranging his murder in . maxentius and maximian both then declared themselves augusti. by there were therefore no fewer than four claimants to the rank of augustus (galerius, constantine, maximian and maxentius), and only one to that of caesar (maximinus). in galerius, together with the retired emperor diocletian and the supposedly retired maximian, called an imperial "conference" at carnuntum on the river danube. the council agreed that licinius would become augustus in the west, with constantine as his caesar. in the east, galerius remained augustus and maximinus remained his caesar. maximian was to retire, and maxentius was declared a usurper. this agreement proved disastrous: by maxentius had become de facto ruler of italy and africa even without any imperial rank, and neither constantine nor maximinus—who had both been caesares since and respectively—were prepared to tolerate the promotion of the augustus licinius as their superior. after an abortive attempt to placate both constantine and maximinus with the meaningless title filius augusti ("son of the augustus"), essentially an alternative title for caesar), they both had to be recognised as augusti in . however, four full augusti all at odds with each other did not bode well for the tetrarchic system. between and most of the claimants to the imperial office died or were killed in various civil wars. constantine forced maximian's suicide in . galerius died naturally in . maxentius was defeated by constantine at the battle of the milvian bridge in and subsequently killed. maximinus committed suicide at tarsus in after being defeated in battle by licinius. by , therefore, there remained only two emperors: constantine in the west and licinius in the east. the tetrarchic system was at an end, although it took until for constantine to finally defeat licinius, reunite the two halves of the roman empire and declare himself sole augustus. emperors[edit] 	portrait 	name 	reign 	co-ruler(s) 	ref 	 	diocletian caivs avrelivs valerivs diocletianvs (whole, then east) 	 november – may ( years, months and days) 	maximian (caesar, july – april ; co-augustus, – may ) galerius (caesar, march – may ) constantius i chlorus (caesar, march – may ) 	[ ] 	 	maximian marcvs avrelivs valerivs maximianvs hercvlivs (west) 	 april – may (retired) end /early – november ( years and month) 	diocletian (augustus, july ; co-augustus, april – may ) galerius (caesar, march – may ) constantius i chlorus (caesar, march – may ) maxentius (caesar, october ; junior co-augustus, april –november ) constantine i (rival augustus, july ; proclaimed junior co-augustus by maximian, c. late summer ) 	[ ] 	 	galerius caivs galerivs valerivs maximianvs (east) 	 may – may ( years and days) 	diocletian (augustus, march – may ) maximian (augustus, march – may ) constantius i chlorus (caesar, march ; co-augustus, may – july ) valerius severus (caesar, may ; co-augustus, august –april ) maxentius (caesar, october ; junior co-augustus, april –may ) licinius (designated augustus for the west, november – ) maximinus ii (caesar, may ; co-augustus, may –early may ) 	[ ] 	 	constantius i chlorus marcvs flavivs valerivs constantivs hercvlivs (west) 	 may – july ( year, months and days) 	diocletian (augustus, march – may ) maximian (augustus, april – may ) galerius (caesar, march ; co-augustus, may – july ) valerius severus (caesar, may –july ) maximinus ii (caesar, may – july ) 	[ ] 	 	valerius severus (also severus ii) flavivs valerivs severvs (west) 	 july – april (< year) 	galerius (augustus, july –april ) maxentius (caesar, october ; rival augustus, c. april ) constantine i (rival augustus, july –april ) maximinus ii (caesar, may –april ) 	[ ] 	 	constantine i the great flavivs valerivs constantinvs (west) 	 july – september ( years, month and days; later emperor of the entire empire – ) 	maximian (rival augustus, late ; senior co-augustus, c. late summer –november )maxentius (caesar, october ; rival augustus, c. april – october ) licinius (rival augustus, november – ; co-augustus, – ; rival augustus, – ; co-augustus, – ; rival augustus, – september ) crispus (caesar, march – ) constantine ii (caesar, march – ) martinian (rival augustus, ) 	[ ] 	 	maxentius marcvs avrelivs valerivs maxentivs (west) 	 october – october ( years) 	maximian (co-augustus, – ) valerius severus (rival augustus, august –april ) licinius (rival-augustus, november – october ) constantine i (rival augustus, july – october ) 	[ ] 	 	licinius caivs valerivs licinianvs licinivs (west, then east) 	 november – september ( years, months and days) 	constantine i (rival augustus, november – ; co-augustus, – ; rival augustus, – ; co-augustus, – ; rival augustus, – september ) valerius valens (designated augustus for the west, – ) licinius ii (caesar, march – ) crispus (caesar, march – ) constantine ii (caesar, march – ) martinian (designated augustus for the west, ) 	[ ] 	 	maximinus ii daia caivs calerivs valerivs maximinvs (east) 	 may – summer ( years) 	constantius i chlorus (augustus, may – july ) galerius (augustus, may – july ) valerius severus (caesar, may –july ) maximian (augustus, late –november ) maxentius (rival caesar, october ; augustus, c. april ; rival augustus, may – october ) constantine i (augustus, july ; rival augustus, may – ) licinius (augustus, november ; rival augustus, may – ) 	[ ] detailed timeline[edit] 	diarchy july – march 	western roman empire 	eastern roman empire 	augustus maximian ( - ) 	augustus diocletian ( - ) 	usurpers (date) 	carausius ( - ) roman britain 	first tetrarchy march - may 	dioceses of spain, italy and africa 	dioceses of the east, asia and pontus 	augustus maximian ( - ) 	augustus diocletian ( - ) 	dioceses of gaul, vienne and britain 	dioceses of pannonia, moesia and thrace 	caesar constantius chlorus ( - ) 	caesar galerius ( - ) 	usurpers (date) 	carausius ( - ) roman britain allectus ( - ) roman britain 	domitius domitianus ( ) roman egypt achilleus ( - ) roman egypt 	second tetrarchy may – july 	dioceses of gaul, vienne, spain and britain[ ] 	dioceses of pannonia, moesia, thrace, pontus and asia[ ] 	augustus constantius chlorus ( - ) 	augustus galerius ( - ) 	dioceses of italy and africa[ ] 	dioceses of the east[ ] 	caesar valerius severus (?- ) 	caesar maximinus daia ( - ) 	third tetrarchy july – august 	dioceses of italy, africa, hispania and pannonia[ ] 	dioceses of moesia, macedonia, thrace, pontus and asia[ ] 	augustus valerius severus (?- ) 	augustus galerius ( - ) 	dioceses of britain, vienne and gaul[ ] 	diocesis of the east[ ] 	caesar constantine i ( - ) 	caesar maximinus daia ( - ) 	usurpers (date) 	augustus maxentius ( - ) firstly rome, then italy and africa augustus maximian ( - ) italy and africa 	fourth tetrarchy august – may 	dioceses of gaul, vienne, hispania and britain 	dioceses of moesia, macedonia, thrace, pontus and asia 	augustus constantine i ( - ) 	augustus galerius ( - ) 	dioceses of pannonia 	dioceses of the east 	augustus licinius ( - ) 	augustus maximinus daia ( - ) 	dioceses of italy and africa 	augustus maxentius ( - ) augustus maximian ( - ) he broke with his son and took refuge in arles under protection of constantine. he later rebelled against constantine and was compelled to commit suicide in 	usurpers(date) 	domitius alexander ( - ) in africa against maxentius 	fifth tetrarchy may – august 	dioceses of gaul, vienne, hispania, britain (italy and africa)[ ] 	dioceses of pannonia, moesia, macedonia and thrace (asia, pontus and of the east)[ ] 	augustus constantine i ( - ) 	augustus licinius ( - ) 	dioceses de italy and africa 	dioceses de asia, pontus and of the east 	augustus maxentius ( - ) 	augustus maximinus daia ( - ) 	last tetrarchy august – september 	dioceses of gaul, vienne, hispania, britain, italy and africa (pannonia, moesia and macedonia)[ ] 	dioceses of pannonia, moesia, macedonia, thrace, asia, pontus and of the east 	augustus constantine i ( - ) 	augustus licinius ( - ) 	western roman empire 	eastern roman empire 	caesar crispus ( - ) he was proclaimed by his father constantine in caesar constantine ii ( - ) he was proclaimed by his father constantine in 	augustus valerius valens (?- ) co-emperor with licinius in pannonia, elevated as augustus by licinius, but he had valens executed caesar licinius ii ( - ) he was raised to the rank of caesar by his father licinius in augustus martinianus (?- ) nominal co-emperor with licinius in simplified timeline[edit] tetrarchy until may [edit] 		west 	east 	augusti	maximian 	diocletian 	caesares	constantius chlorus	galerius tetrarchy until july [edit] after the retirement of the two augusti both previous caesares succeeded them, and two new caesares were appointed. maximinus daia was galerius' nephew. 		west 	east 	augusti	constantius chlorus	galerius 	caesares	severus 	maximinus daia tetrarchy until may [edit] after the death of constantius his legions proclaim his son constantine the new augustus, but galerius elevates severus to be the new junior augustus and compensates constantine with the rank of caesar. 		west 	east 	augusti	severus 	galerius 	caesares	constantine 	maximinus daia tetrarchy from november to the beginning of may [edit] after the death of severus, constantine does not succeed him. at the council of carnutum, diocletian decides that licinius will be the new augustus of the west. 		west 	east 	augusti	licinius 	galerius 	caesares	constantine	maximinus daia tetrarchy from may [edit] after the death of galerius he was succeeded by maximinus daia in as augustus of the east, but is crowded by licinius, who wants to have the status of the senior augustus. maximinus appoints no new caesar, although it was assumed that this position should later on be filled out with the son of severus, flavius severianus, or at least that he was scheduled for this position. 		west 	east 	augusti	licinius 	maximinus daia 	caesares	constantine	vacant tetrarchy after october to the end of [edit] shortly before the turn of the year / , constantine, now augustus in the west, appointed a caesar, while licinius briefly appointed one of his officers, valerius valens, as the third augustus. this was apparent from coins, though valens was apparently inferior to licinius, who soon executed him. even the chronology is unclear, as the date stamping could also be the turn of the year / . 		west 	east 	augusti	constantine 	licinius and valerius valens 	caesares	bassianus	 tetrarchy from march to september [edit] the tetrarchic system is at its end. both augusti appoint their own sons as co-emperors, restoring a dynastic system. however, before his death, licinius appoints the general martinianus on july as augustus in name only, as martinianus was intended to replace constantine in the west. 		west 	east 	augusti	constantine i 	licinius 	caesares	crispus and constantine ii	licinius ii legacy[edit] although the tetrarchic system as such only lasted until , many aspects of it survived. the fourfold regional division of the empire continued in the form of praetorian prefectures, each of which was overseen by a praetorian prefect and subdivided into administrative dioceses, and often reappeared in the title of the military supra-provincial command assigned to a magister militum. the pre-existing notion of consortium imperii, the sharing of imperial power, and the notion that an associate to the throne was the designated successor (possibly conflicting with the notion of hereditary claim by birth or adoption), was to reappear repeatedly. the idea of the two halves, the east and the west, re-emerged and eventually resulted in the permanent de facto division into two separate roman empires after the death of theodosius i, though it is important to remember that the empire was never formally divided, the emperors of the eastern and western halves legally ruling as one imperial college until the fall of rome's western empire left byzantium, the "second rome", sole direct heir. other examples[edit] 	part of a series of articles on 	monarchy 	 	 central concepts 		monarch 	monarchism 	imperialism 		divine right of kings 	mandate of heaven 	 types 	absolute 	chinese legalist 	composite 	constitutional 	crowned republic 	diarchy 	dual 	elective 	emirate 	ethnarch 	federal 	hereditary 	personal union 	non-sovereign 	popular 	regency 	coregency 	tetrarch 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minor; including lycaonia) as well as among the british cantiaci. 	the constellation of jewish principalities in the herodian kingdom of judea was known as a tetrarchy; see tetrarchy (judea). 	in the novel the lion, the witch and the wardrobe, the pevensie siblings rule narnia as a tetrarchy of two kings and two queens. see also[edit] 	notitia dignitatum, a later document from the imperial chancery 	problem of two emperors – a problem arising when multiple people claim the title of emperor notes[edit] 	^ historian david potter translates the term as "gang of four". see idem., constantine the emperor (oxford: oxford university press, ), . citations[edit] 	^ qtd. and tr. leadbetter, galerius, . 	^ amm. marc. . . ; jul. caes. a-b. 	^ leadbetter, galerius, . 	^ leadbetter, galerius, – . 	^ the chronology has been thoroughly established by kolb, diocletian, and kuhoff, diokletian. 	^ a b c d e f g h i cooley, alison e. ( ). "imperial titles, augustus–justinian (appendix )". the cambridge manual of latin epigraphy. pp.  – . doi: . /cbo . . retrieved - - . 	^ a b c d e f g h bajo, f. ( ) constantino y sus sucesores. la conversión del imperio. akal historia del mundo antiguo, pág 	^ after defeating maxentius in 	^ a partir de derrotar a maximino daya 	^ after defeating licinius in references[edit] 	barnes, timothy d. ( ). constantine and eusebius. harvard university press. isbn  - - - . 	bowman, alan ( ). the cambridge ancient history volume , the crisis of empire, ad – . cambridge university press. isbn  - - - . 	corcoran, simon ( ). the empire of the tetrarchs, imperial pronouncements and government ad – . oxford university press. isbn  - - -x. 	kolb, frank ( - - ). diocletian und die erste tetrarchie: improvisation oder experiment in der organisation monarchischer herrschaft? (in german). berlin: de gruyter. isbn  . 	kuhoff, wolfgang ( ). diokletian und die epoche der tetrarchie: das römische reich zwischen krisenbewältigung und neuaufbau ( - n. chr.). frankfurt am main: lang. isbn  . 	leadbetter, william lewis ( - - ). galerius and the will of diocletian. london, new york: routledge. isbn  . 	rees, roger ( ). diocletian and the tetrarchy. edinburgh, uk: edinburgh university press. isbn  . external links[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to tetrarchy. 	a detailed chronology of the tetrarchy from diocletian to constantine 	a chart showing the tetrarchy from diocletian to constantine 	 	v 	t 	e roman emperors by epoch 		list of roman emperors 	roman empire 	family tree 		early principate	crisis of the third century	dominate	western roman empire and the middle ages 	 	julio-claudian dynasty (  bc–  ad) 	year of the emperors ( – ) 	flavian dynasty ( – ) 	nerva–antonine dynasty ( – ) 	year of the emperors ( – ) 	severan dynasty ( – ) 	 	year of the 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wikipedia:translation. secessio plebis (withdrawal of the commoners, or secession of the plebs) was an informal exercise of power by rome's plebeian citizens, similar in concept to the general strike. during the secessio plebis, the plebs would abandon the city en masse in a protest emigration and leave the patrician order to themselves. therefore, a secessio meant that all shops and workshops would shut down and commercial transactions would largely cease. this was an effective strategy in the conflict of the orders due to strength in numbers; plebeian citizens made up the vast majority of rome's populace and produced most of its food and resources, while a patrician citizen was a member of the minority upper class, the equivalent of the landed gentry of later times. authors report different numbers for how many secessions there were. cary & scullard state there were five between bc and bc.[ ] contents 	 secessions in roman history 	 . first secession – bc 	 . second secession – bc 	 . third secession – bc 	 . fourth secession – bc 	 . fifth secession – bc 	 references 	 bibliography 	 external links secessions in roman history[edit] first secession – bc[edit] main article: first secessio plebis the secession of the people to the mons sacer, engraving by b. barloccini, . beginning in bc, and culminating in – bc, the plebeian class of rome grew increasingly unhappy with the political rulership of the patrician class. at this time, the roman city-state was governed by two consuls and the senate, which performed executive and most of the legislative functions of rome. both of these governing bodies were composed of only patricians, who were generally a wealthy minority of the roman populace. in bc, the plebeian populace of rome began to raise significant concerns about debt, including questioning the necessity of beatings and imprisonment of debtors by money-lenders. roman historian livy records an account of a former military official throwing himself into the forum in an extremely disheveled state, telling the people of his troubles. he explained that during the war against the sabines his estate was torched by the enemy and his possessions stolen. upon returning home, he was forced to take a loan to afford paying a tax that had been imposed on him, driving him deeply into debt due to usury. this resulted in him being forced to give up family properties including his grandfather and father's farms. when this was still insufficient, he was taken by his creditors to a prison, whipped, and threatened with death. the people at the forum were angered and the story quickly spread, drawing a large crowd into an uproar.[ ] after much anticipation about consul or senate action to address popular debt concerns, consul appius worsened the situation by passing unpopular decrees reinforcing the imprisonment of debtors by creditors.[ ] this outrage further compounded by continued senate inaction resulted in the plebeians on the advice of lucius sicinius vellutus seceding to the mons sacer (the sacred mountain), over three miles from the city. the plebeians then established basic defences in the area, waiting for senate action.[ ] map of republican rome by william r shepherd, . after the secession, the senate finally took action to address the issue. negotiating with three envoys from the plebeians, the senate came to a resolution. the patricians freed some of the plebs from their debts and conceded some of their power by creating the office of the tribune of the plebs.[ ] this office was the first government position to be held by the plebs, since at this time the office of consul was held by patricians solely. plebeian tribunes were made personally sacrosanct during their period in office, meaning that any person who harmed them was subject to punishment by death.[ ][ ] second secession – bc[edit] the second secessio plebis of bc was precipitated by the abuses of a commission of the decemviri (latin for "ten men") and involved demands for the restoration of the plebeian tribunes (the representatives of the plebeians) and of the right to appeal, which had been suspended. in bc rome decided to appoint the decemviri which was tasked with compiling a law code (which became the law of the twelve tables). the commission was given a term of one year, during which the offices of state were suspended. the decemviri were also exempted from appeal. in bc, they issued a set of laws, but did not resign at the end of their term and held onto their power instead. they killed a soldier, a former plebeian tribune, who had criticised them. one of the decemviri, appius claudius crassus, tried to force a woman, verginia, to marry him. to prevent this, her father stabbed her and cursed appius claudius crassus. this sparked riots which started when the crowd witnessed the incident and spread to the army, encamped outside the city. the crowd went to the aventine hill. the senate pressured the decemviri to resign, but they refused. the people decided to withdraw to mons sacer, as they had during the first secession. the senate blamed the decemviri for the new secession and managed to force their full resignation. the body selected two senators, lucius valerus potitus and marcus horatius barbatus, to go meet with the people to negotiate. those gathered at mons sacer demanded the restoration of both the plebeian tribunes and the right to appeal, as they had been suspended during the term of the decemviri. the senate's delegation of two agreed to these terms and they returned to the aventine hill and elected their tribunes. lucius valerius potitus and marcus horatius barbatus became the consuls for bc. they introduced new laws which increased the power and added to the political strength of the plebeians. the lex valeria horatia de plebiscìtis stipulated that the laws passed by the plebeian council were binding of all roman citizens (that is, both patricians and plebeians) despite the patrician opposition to the requirement that they adhere to the universal law. however, once passed, these laws had to receive the approval of the senate (auctoritas patrum). this meant that the senate had the power of veto over the laws passed by the plebeians. lex valeria horatia de senatus consulta ordered that the senatus consulta (the decrees of the senate) had to be kept in the temple of ceres by the plebeian aediles (assistants of the plebeian tribunes). this meant that the plebeian tribunes and aediles had knowledge of these decrees, which previously was privileged knowledge. thus, the decrees entered into the public domain. in the past, the consuls had been in the habit of suppressing or altering them.[ ][ ] the lex valeria horatia de provocatio forbade the creation of state offices that were not subject to appeal.[ ] third secession – bc[edit] main article: lex canuleia as part of the process of establishing the twelve tables of roman law, the second decemvirate placed severe restrictions on the plebeian order, including a prohibition on the intermarriage of patricians and plebeians.[ ][ ] gaius canuleius, one of the tribunes of the plebs in bce, proposed a rogatio repealing this law. the consuls vehemently opposed canuleius, arguing that the tribune was proposing nothing less than the breakdown of rome's social and moral fabric, at a time when the city was faced with external threats.[i] undeterred, canuleius reminded the people of the many contributions of romans of lowly birth, and pointed out that the senate had willingly given roman citizenship to defeated enemies, even while maintaining that the marriage of patricians and plebeians would be detrimental to the state. he then proposed that, in addition to restoring the right of conubium, the law should be changed to allow plebeians to hold the consulship; all but one of the other tribunes supported this measure.[ ] a remark by a consul, that the children of mixed marriages might incur the displeasure of the gods, inflamed the plebeians into a military strike, refusing to defend the city against attacking neighbors. this caused the consuls to yield to their demands, allowing a vote on canuleius' original rogatio. the prohibition on intermarriage between patricians and plebeians was thus repealed.[ ] however, the proposal that would permit plebeians to stand for the consulship was not brought to a vote. threatening a radical escalation of the conflict between the plebeian assembly and the patrician senate.[ ][ ] a compromise was instead suggested that military tribunes with consular power might be elected from either order. this proposal was well-received, and the first consular tribunes were elected for the following year.[ ][ ] fourth secession – bc[edit] this fourth secession is noted by livy. the oxford classical dictionary refers to this as an "obscure military revolt." fifth secession – bc[edit] main article: lex hortensia in bc, the plebeians seceded for the fifth and final time. in bc, roman armies led by consuls manio curio denato and publio cornelio rufino lands conquered large territories in the plains of rieti and amiternum from the sabines.[ ] after the war, lands were distributed solely to the patricians. meanwhile plebeian farmers, many of whom had fought in the war, found difficulty in repaying debts incurred with these wealthy patricians. this time plebeians seceded to aventine hill in protest. to resolve the matter, quintus hortensius was appointed as dictator, who convinced the crowd to stop the secession. shortly afterwards hortensius promulgated a law, the lex hortensia, which established that the laws decided on by plebeian assemblies (plebiscite) were made binding on all roman citizens, including patricians.[ ] this law finally eliminated the political disparity between the two classes, closing the conflict of orders after about two hundred years of struggle. this event, although far from resolving all the economic and social inequalities between patricians and plebeians, nevertheless marked an important turning point in the history of roman democracy as it gave rise to the formation of a new type of patrician-plebeian nobility (nobilitas) which, allowing continuity in the government of the republic, constituted one of the main elements of strength in its economic and military expansion. references[edit] 	^ specifically, a revolt at ardea, veientes raiding roman territory, and increased activity at a fortification of the aequi and volsci.[ ] 	^ cary, m; scullard, h.h. ( ). a history of rome. p.  . isbn  - - - . 	^ livy, . 	^ livy, . 	^ livy, . 	^ kondratieff, eric ( ). "tribuni plebis". wiley online library. 	^ a b "secessio plebis". imperium romanum. 	^ livy, . 	^ livy, . . 	^ cornell, p. 	^ cornell, p. 	^ livy, iv. . 	^ dionysius, x. . 	^ livy, iv. . 	^ livy, iv. – . 	^ livy, iv. . 	^ a b livy, iv. . 	^ dionysius, xi. . 	^ dionysius, xi. , . 	^ florus , epitome , lib. i, x bibliography[edit] 	livy, "ab urbe condita" 	cornell, t.j., "the beginnings of rome", routledge, . 	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mendes de sá[ ] belonging to the ancient and noble family of sá and inês de melo.[ ] his brother, mem de sá, was the third governor of the portuguese colony of brazil. sá de miranda passed his early years by the banks of the river mondego, considered a source of inspiration to many other poets. he made his first studies of greek, latin and philosophy in the college of the santa cruz monastery, and in went to university of lisbon[ ] (the university of coimbra had moved to lisbon in ) to study law, beginning at the same time to attend the portuguese court and write poems in the mediaeval style still dominant in portugal. he travelled to italy in , where he was able to make contact with many writers and artists of the renaissance, including vittoria colonna[ ] (who was his relative), pietro bembo,[ ] sannazzaro and ariosto. on his way home, in , he visited spain, meeting classical writers juan boscan and garcilaso de la vega. back in portugal in or , he was again received in the court, where he became a friend to king john iii and other nobles. four years after his return he decided to move to the minho province, in the north of the country, where he purchased land. around he married[ ] briolanja de azevedo,[ ] a lady of noble birth. in he moved to the quinta da tapada, near amares, where he died in , aged .[ ] work[edit] like many portuguese writers of his time, sá de miranda often wrote in castilian[ ] apart from portuguese. his early work is all in the form of the typical th-century portuguese poetry (the vilancete, the cantiga, the esparsa and the trova). influenced by his travels in italy and spain, sá de miranda introduced a new aesthetics in portugal.[ ] he introduced the sonnet,[ ] the elegy, the eclogue, the ottava rima[ ] and other classical poetic forms, adapting the portuguese language to the italian hendecasyllable verse. these forms, especially sonnet and ottava rima were later used by many portuguese poets including luís vaz de camões.[ ] apart from poems, sá de miranda wrote two theatrical comedies following classical forms: estrangeiros (staged in coimbra in and published in ) and vilhalpandos (written around and published in ). his tragedy cleópatra[ ] has only survived in fragments. he also left several letters in verse, addressed to people like king john iii and his brother mem de sá. references[edit] 	^ a b c d e f g h "francisco de sa de miranda | portuguese author". encyclopædia britannica. retrieved september . 	^ a b prestage, edgar ( ). "sá de miranda, francisco de" . in chisholm, hugh (ed.). encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. pp.  – . 	^ sá de miranda – biografia e obras. 	^ miranda, francisco de sá de. 	^ luis de camões at sonnet central. 	^ sá de miranda st projecto vercial. bibliography[edit] 	lusitania illustrata. notices on the history, antiquities, literature &c, by john adamson, newcastle on tyne . 	dreams of waking: an anthology of iberian lyric poetry - . edited and translated by vincent barletta, mark l. bajus, cici malik, the university of chicago press, chicago . external links[edit] 	poems by francisco de sá de miranda at portuguese wikisource. 	francisco de sá de miranda's versos portuguêses at archive.org. 	authority control 	 	bibsys: 	bne: xx 	bnf: cb g (data) 	cantic: a 	cinii: da 	gnd: 	isni: 	lccn: n 	nkc: kup 	nlk: kac 	nsk: 	nta: 	selibr: 	snac: w bw h 	sudoc: 	vcba: / 	viaf: 	 worldcat identities: lccn-n retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=francisco_de_sá_de_miranda&oldid= " 		categories: 	 births 	 deaths 	 th-century portuguese poets 	portuguese male poets 	portuguese renaissance writers 	people from coimbra 	university of coimbra alumni 	 th-century portuguese people hidden categories: 	wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the encyclopaedia britannica with wikisource reference 	death-date and age transclusions with invalid parameters 	articles with hcards 	wikipedia articles with bibsys identifiers 	wikipedia articles with bne identifiers 	wikipedia articles with bnf identifiers 	wikipedia articles with cantic identifiers 	wikipedia articles with cinii identifiers 	wikipedia articles with gnd identifiers 	wikipedia articles with isni identifiers 	wikipedia articles with lccn identifiers 	wikipedia articles with nkc identifiers 	wikipedia articles with nlk identifiers 	wikipedia articles with nsk identifiers 	wikipedia articles with nta identifiers 	wikipedia articles with selibr identifiers 	wikipedia articles with snac-id identifiers 	wikipedia articles with sudoc identifiers 	wikipedia articles with vcba identifiers 	wikipedia articles with viaf identifiers 	wikipedia articles with worldcatid identifiers 	use dmy dates from april 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			article 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	edit 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		search 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigation 	 	 			main page 	contents 	current events 	random article 	about wikipedia 	contact us 	donate 		 	 	 	 		contribute 	 	 			help 	learn to edit 	community portal 	recent changes 	upload file 		 	 	 		tools 	 	 			what links here 	related changes 	upload file 	special pages 	permanent link 	page information 	cite this page 	wikidata item 		 	 	 		print/export 	 	 			download as pdf 	printable version 		 	 	 		in other projects 	 	 			wikimedia commons 	wikiquote 		 	 	 	 		languages 	 	 			العربية 	Беларуская 	Български 	dansk 	deutsch 	español 	esperanto 	euskara 	français 	galego 	italiano 	occitan 	polski 	português 	română 	Русский 	simple english 	svenska 	Українська 		edit links 	 		 this page was last edited on september , at :  (utc). 	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 secular games - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	secular games 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		the saecular games[ ] (latin: ludi saeculares, originally ludi terentini) was a roman religious celebration involving sacrifices and theatrical performances, held in ancient rome for three days and nights to mark the end of a saeculum and the beginning of the next. a saeculum, supposedly the longest possible length of human life, was considered as either or years in length.[ ][ ] according to roman mythology, the secular games began when a sabine man called valesius prayed for a cure for his children's illness and was supernaturally instructed to sacrifice on the campus martius to dis pater and proserpina, deities of the underworld. some ancient authors traced official celebrations of the games as far back as bc, but the only clearly attested celebrations under the roman republic took place in and in the s bc. they involved sacrifices to the underworld gods over three consecutive nights. the games were revived in bc by rome's first emperor augustus, with the nocturnal sacrifices on the campus martius now transferred to the moerae (fates), the ilythiae (goddesses of childbirth), and terra mater ("mother earth"). the games of bc also introduced day-time sacrifices to roman deities on the capitoline and palatine hills. certain sacrifices were unusually specified to be performed by married women.[ ] each sacrifice was followed by theatrical performances.[ ] later emperors held celebrations in ad and , after intervals of roughly years. however, they were also held by claudius in ad to celebrate the th anniversary of rome's foundation, which led to a second cycle of games in and . the games were abandoned under later christian emperors. contents 	 the republic 	 augustus 	 the later principate 	 notes 	 references 	 external links the republic[edit] according to roman mythology told by zosimus, the secular games originated with a sabine man called valesius, ancestor of the valerii.[ ] when his children became seriously ill, he prayed to his household gods for their cure, offering to give up his own life in exchange. a voice told him to take them to tarentum and to give them water from the tiber to drink, heated on an altar of dis pater and proserpina.[ ] assuming that he had to travel to the greek colony of tarentum in southern italy, he set out with his children on the journey. sailing along the tiber, he was instructed by the voice to stop on the campus martius, at a place which happened also to be called tarentum. when he warmed water from the river and gave it to the children, they were miraculously cured and fell asleep. when they woke up, they informed valesius that a figure had appeared to them in a dream and told the family to sacrifice to dis pater and proserpina. upon digging, valesius found that an altar to those deities was buried on the site, and performed the ritual as instructed.[ ][ ] celebrations of the games under the roman republic are poorly documented. although some roman antiquarians traced them as far back as bc,[ ] some modern scholars consider that the first celebration well attested as having taken place was that of bc, during the first punic war.[ ][ ] according to varro, an antiquarian of the st century bc, the games were introduced after a series of portents led to a consultation of the sibylline books by the quindecimviri.[ ] in accordance with the instructions contained in these books, sacrifices were offered at the tarentum on the campus martius over three nights, to the underworld deities of dis pater and proserpina. varro also states that a vow was made that the games would be repeated every hundred years, and another celebration did indeed take place in either or bc, at the time of the third punic war.[ ][ ] however, beard, north and price suggest that the games of and the s bc were both held because of the immediate pressures of war, and that it was only with the revival in the s that they came to be considered as a regular centennial celebration.[ ] this sequence would have led to a celebration in bc, but the civil wars apparently prevented this. augustus[edit] the games were revived in bc by rome's first emperor augustus. the date was justified by a sibylline oracle that called for the games to be celebrated every years, and a new reconstruction of the games' republican history which placed a first celebration in bc.[ ] before the games themselves, heralds went around the city and invited the people to "a spectacle, such as they had never witnessed and never would again".[ ] the quindecimviri sat on the capitol and in the temple of apollo on the palatine, and handed out to the free citizens torches, sulphur and asphalt, to be burnt as a means of purification. (this may have been modelled on the purificatory rituals of the parilia, the anniversary of rome's foundation.)[ ] offerings of wheat, barley, and beans were also made.[ ] the senate decreed that an inscribed record of the games should be set up in the tarentum, a site in the campus martius.[ ] this inscription has partially survived,[ ] and offers information about the ceremonies.[ ] the night-time sacrifices were made not to the underworld deities dis pater and proserpina, but to the moerae (fates), the ilythiae (goddesses of childbirth), and terra mater (the "earth mother"). these were "more beneficent honorands, who nonetheless shared with dis pater and proserpina the twin characteristics of being greek in nomenclature and without cult in the roman state".[ ] the nocturnal sacrifices to greek deities on the campus martius alternated with day-time sacrifices to roman deities on the capitoline and palatine hills. 	date 	time 	location 	deities 	sacrifices 	may 	night 	campus martius 	moerae 	 female lambs, she-goats 	june 	day 	capitoline hill 	jupiter optimus maximus 	 bulls 	june 	night 	campus martius 	ilythiae (Εἰλείθυια) 	 sacrificial cakes ( of each of three types) 	june 	day 	capitoline hill 	juno regina 	 cows 	june 	night 	campus martius 	terra mater 	pregnant sow 	june 	day 	palatine hill 	apollo and diana 	 sacrificial cakes ( of each of three types) the key roles were played by augustus and his son-in-law marcus vipsanius agrippa, in their capacity as members of the quindecimviri; augustus participated alone in the night-time sacrifices but was joined by agrippa for those during the day. after the sacrifices of june , choirs of boys and girls sang the carmen saeculare, composed for the occasion by the poet horace.[ ] this hymn was sung both on the palatine and then on the capitoline, but its words focus on the palatine deities apollo and diana, which were more closely associated with augustus. the hymn adds a further level of complexity to the alternation of sacrifices between greek and roman deities by addressing the greek deities under latin names.[ ] each sacrifice was followed by theatrical performances. once the major sacrifices were over, the days between june and june were devoted to greek and latin plays, and june saw chariot racing and displays of hunting.[ ] the later principate[edit] the games continued to be celebrated under later emperors, but two different systems of calculation were used to determine their dates. claudius held them in ad to celebrate the th year from the foundation of rome.[ ][ ] according to suetonius, a herald's proclamation of a spectacle "which no one had ever seen or would ever see again" amused his listeners, some of whom had attended the games under augustus.[ ] under subsequent emperors, games were celebrated on both the augustan and the claudian systems. domitian held his in ad ,[ ][ ] possibly years from a planned augustan celebration in bc,[ ] and he was followed by septimius severus in ad , years from the actual augustan celebration.[ ][ ] on both occasions, the procedure used in bc was followed closely.[ ] antoninus pius in and philip i in followed claudius in celebrating the - and -year anniversaries of rome's foundation, respectively. these involved rituals at the temple of venus and roma instead of the tarentum, and the date was probably changed to april , the parilia.[ ] by , years from the games of septimius severus, the christian constantine i was emperor, and no secular games were held. the pagan historian zosimus (fl. c. – ), who wrote the most detailed extant account of the games, blamed this neglect of the traditional ritual for the decline of the roman empire.[ ] notes[edit] 	^ formerly translated 'secular games', but recent scholarship prefers 'saecular games' to avoid confusion with the modern concept of the secular that implies disconnection from religious matters. see, for example, rüpke, jörg ( ). pantheon: a new history of roman religion. princeton, nj: princeton university press. pp.  – . isbn  - - - - . 	^ haase, mareile; rüpke, jörg ( ). "saeculum". in hubert cancik; helmuth schneider; christine f. salazar; david e. orton (eds.). brill's new pauly: encyclopaedia of the ancient world. leiden: brill. doi: . / - _bnp_e . isbn  - - - - . 	^ bilynskyj dunning, susan (november ). "saeculum". oxford classical dictionary. doi: . /acrefore/ . . . 	^ darja, Šterbenc erker ( - - ). "augustus' "new" festival: the centrality of married women's rituals at the ludi saeculares of bce". numen. ( ): – . doi: . / - . issn  - . 	^ boyce, aline abaecherli ( ). "processions in the acta ludorum saecularium". transactions and proceedings of the american philological association. : – . doi: . / . jstor  . 	^ bilynskyj dunning, susan (march ). "secular games". oxford classical dictionary. doi: . /acrefore/ . . . 	^ watkins, calvert ( ). "latin tarentum accas, the ludi saeculares, and indo-european eschatology". in winfred p. lehmann; helen-jo jakusz hewitt (eds.). language typology : typological models in reconstruction. amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. amsterdam: benjamins. p.  . doi: . /cilt. . wat. isbn  - - - - . 	^ valerius maximus . . . 	^ a b c d e zosimus . 	^ censorinus . . 	^ beard et al., vol. , pp. – . 	^ a b livy, periochae . . 	^ varro in censorinus . . 	^ a b c d censorinus . . 	^ beard et al., vol. , pp. – , . 	^ beard et al., vol. , p. . the oracle is preserved in zosimus , and is also translated by braund, no. . this cycle would logically have led to games in rather than bc; the reason for the discrepancy is unclear (beard et al., vol. , p. and n. ). 	^ beard et al., vol. , p. . 	^ braund, no. . 	^ inscription cil vi, = ae , , with english translation. 	^ a b beard et al., vol. , no. . b = braund, no. . 	^ a b feeney, dennis ( ). "the ludi saeculares and the carmen saeculare". in ando, clifford (ed.). roman religion. edinburgh readings on the ancient world. edinburgh: edinburgh university press. pp.  – . doi: . /edinburgh/ . . . isbn  - - - - . jstor  . /j.ctt r b s. . 	^ bollók, jános ( ). "a carmen saeculare és a ludi saeculares". antik tanulmányok. ( ): – . doi: . /anttan. . . - . . issn  - x. 	^ tacitus, annals . . 	^ suetonius, claudius . . 	^ sobocinski, melanie grunow ( ). "visualizing ceremony: the design and audience of the ludi saeculares coinage of domitian". american journal of archaeology. ( ): – . doi: . /aja. . . . jstor  . 	^ suetonius, domitian . , with jones and milns, p. . 	^ a b beard et al., vol. , p. . references[edit] 	beard, mary; north, john a.; price, simon ( ). religions of rome. cambridge: cambridge university press. isbn  - - - - . (vol. ). isbn  - - - - (vol. ). 	braund, david c. 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these he apparently discussed in a separate work now lost, entitled priscorum verborum cum exemplis. even incomplete, festus' lexicon reflects at second hand the enormous intellectual effort that had been made in the augustan age to put together information on the traditions of the roman world, which was already in a state of flux and change. of flaccus' work only a few fragments remain; of festus' epitome, only one damaged, fragmentary manuscript. the rest is further abridged in a summary made at the close of the th century, by paul the deacon. the festus lexicon project has summed up paul's epitome of festus' de verborum significatu as follows: the text, even in its present mutilated state, is an important source for scholars of roman history. it is a treasury of historical, grammatical, legal and antiquarian learning, providing sometimes unique evidence for the culture, language, political, social and religious institutions, deities, laws, lost monuments, and topographical traditions of ancient italy.[ ] manuscript[edit] the th-century codex farnesianus at naples is the sole surviving manuscript of festus. it was rediscovered in at speyer by the venetian humanist and bishop pietro donato.[ ] when he found it, half of the manuscript was already missing, so that it only contains the alphabetized entries m-v, and not in perfect condition. it has been scorched by fire and disassembled. collating these fragmentary abridgments, and republishing them with translations, is a project being coordinated at university college london, with several objectives: to make this information available in usable form, to stimulate debate on festus and on the augustan antiquarian tradition upon which he drew, and to enrich and to renew studies on roman life, about which festus provides essential information. references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ festus lexicon project, department of history - university college london (archived from the original) 	^ stinger, charles l ( ). the renaissance in rome. indiana university press. p.  . isbn  – via google books. bibliography[edit] 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "festus, sextus pompeius". encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. p.  . further reading[edit] 	acciarino, d. . "the renaissance editions of festus: fulvio orsini's version." acta classica : - . 	cornell, timothy j. . "festus." in the fragments of the roman historians. vol. , introduction. edited by timothy j. cornell, – . oxford: oxford univ. press. 	dahm, murray k. . "a hendiadys in the breviarum of festus: a literary festus?" prudentia: a journal devoted to the intellectual history of the ancient world. . : – . 	glinister, fay, and clare woods, with john a. north and michael h. crawford. . verrius, festus, and paul: lexicography, scholarship, and society. bulletin of the institute of classical studies of the university of london supplement . london: institute of classical studies. 	lamers, han. . "creating room for doubt: a reexamination of the editorship of festus’ “collectanea” (rome, )." philologus : – . 	lindsay, wallace martin. . studies in early mediaeval latin glossaries. edited by michael lapidge. variorum collected studies series . aldershot, uk: variorum. 	loew, elias avery. . "the naples ms. of festus: its home and date." berliner philologische wochenschrift : – . 	marshall, peter k. . "sex. pompeius festus." in texts and transmission: a survey of the latin classics. edited by leighton d. reynolds, – . oxford: clarendon. 	north, john. . "restoring festus from paul’s epitome." acta antiqua academiae scientiarum hungaricae . – : – . 	schmidt, peter lebrecht. . 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joseph addison estimated that each number was read by thousands of londoners, about a tenth of the capital's population at the time. contemporary historians and literary scholars, meanwhile, do not consider this to be an unreasonable claim; most readers were not themselves subscribers but patrons of one of the subscribing coffeehouses. these readers came from many stations in society, but the paper catered principally to the interests of england's emerging middle class—merchants and traders large and small. the spectator also had many readers in the american colonies. in particular, james madison read the paper avidly as a teenager. it is said to have had a big influence on his world view, lasting throughout his long life.[ ] benjamin franklin was also a reader, and the spectator influenced his style in his "silence dogood" letters.[ ] jürgen habermas sees the spectator as instrumental in the formation of the public sphere in th century england.[ ] although the spectator declares itself to be politically neutral, it was widely recognised as promoting whig values and interests. the spectator continued to be popular and widely read in the late th and th centuries. it was sold in eight-volume editions. its prose style, and its marriage of morality and advice with entertainment, were considered exemplary. the decline in its popularity has been discussed by brian mccrea and c. s. lewis. works[edit] inkle and yarico[edit] in the spectator, no. , steele created a frame narrative that would come to be an incredibly well known story in the eighteenth century, the story of inkle and yarico. although the periodical essay was published on march of , the story is based on richard ligon's publication in . ligon's publication, a true and exact history of the island of barbadoes, reports on how the cruelties of the transatlantic slave trade contribute to slave-produced goods such as tobacco and sugarcane. mr. spectator goes to speak with an older woman, arietta, whom many people visit to discuss various topics. when mr. spectator enters the room, there is already another man present speaking with arietta. they are discussing "constancy in love," and the man uses the tale of the ephesian matron to support his point. arietta is insulted and angered by the man's hypocrisy and sexism. she counters his tale with one of her own, the story of inkle and yarico. thomas inkle, a twenty-year-old man from london, sailed to the west indies to increase his wealth through trade. while on an island, he encounters a group of indians, who battle and kill many of his shipmates. after fleeing, inkle hides in a cave where he discovers yarico, an indian maiden. they become enamored with one another's clothing and physical appearances, and yarico for the next several months hides her lover from her people and provides him with food and fresh water. eventually, a ship passes, headed for barbadoes, and inkle and yarico use this opportunity to leave the island. after reaching the english colony, inkle sells yarico to a merchant, even after she tells him that she is pregnant. arietta closes the tale stating that inkle simply uses yarico's declaration to argue for a higher price when selling her. mr. spectator is so moved by the legend that he takes his leave. steele's text was so well known and influential that seven decades after his publication, george colman modified the short story into a comic opera, showcasing three relationships between characters of varying social statuses to reach multiple audiences. see also[edit] 	bully dawson, mentioned in the spectator as being kicked by "sir roger de coverley" in a public coffee house 	the spectator, a current weekly british conservative magazine, which borrows its name from the publication notes[edit] 	^ information britain 	^ "joseph addison & richard steele". the open anthology of literature in english. retrieved september . 	^ felsenstein, frank, ed. ( ). english trader, indian maid: representing gender, race, and slavery in the new world. johns hopkins up. 	^ addison, joseph ( ). the works of joseph addison, vol. i, p. . harper & brothers. 	^ bowers, terence. "universalizing sociability: the spectator, civic enfranchisement, and the rule(s) of the public sphere." in newman, donald j., ed. ( ). the spectator: emerging discourses, pp. - . university of delaware press. 	^ ralph ketcham, james madison, a biography, , pp. - 	^ george goodwin ( ). benjamin franklin in london. weidenfeld & nicolson. p.  . 	^ habermas, jürgen ( ). the structural transformation of the public sphere: an inquiry into a category of bourgeois society. massachusetts institute of technology. references[edit] 	the spectator nos. , , [addison], – . 	the spectator no. [addison], – . 	brian mccrea, addison and steele are dead: the english department, its canon, and the professionalization of literary criticism 	c. s. lewis, "addison" in eighteenth century english literature: modern essays in criticism ed. james clifford. bibliography[edit] editions[edit] the standard edition of the spectator is donald f. bond's edition in five volumes, published in .[ ] selections can be found in the norton anthology of english literature. 	ross, angus (ed.) selections from the tatler and the spectator (harmondsworth: penguin, ) isbn  - - - - . edited with an introduction and notes. out of print. further reading[edit] 	henry w. kent ( ). "spectator". bibliographical notes on one hundred books famous in english literature. ny: grolier club. external links[edit] 	 the spectator, volumes , and : with translations and index for the series at project gutenberg (transcription of republication) 	dear mr spectator, series (bbc series by elizabeth kuti, adapted from and inspired by joseph addison and richard steele's th century spectator essays) 	hathi trust 	the spectator; addison, joseph, – ; internet archive 	^ greenblatt, stephen, ed. 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ancient roman senate (latin: senatus), so-called as an assembly of the senior (latin: senex meaning "the elder" or "old man") and therefore considered wiser and more experienced members of the society or ruling class. many countries have an assembly named a senate, composed of senators who may be elected, appointed, have inherited the title, or gained membership by other methods, depending on the country. modern senates typically serve to provide a chamber of "sober second thought" to consider legislation passed by a lower house, whose members are usually elected. most senates have asymmetrical duties and powers compared with their respective lower house meaning they have special duties, for example to fill important political positions or to pass special laws. conversely many senates have limited powers in changing or stopping bills under consideration and efforts to stall or veto a bill may be bypassed by the lower house or another branch of government.[ ] contents 	 overview 	 alternative meanings 	 national senates in other parts of the world 	 defunct and unestablished senates 	 notes 	 see also 	 references 	 external links overview[edit] the modern word senate is derived from the latin word senātus (senate), which comes from senex, 'old man'.[ ] the members or legislators of a senate are called senators. the latin word senator was adopted into english with no change in spelling. its meaning is derived from a very ancient form of social organization, in which advisory or decision-making powers are reserved for the eldest men. for the same reason, the word senate is correctly used when referring to any powerful authority characteristically composed by the eldest members of a community, as a deliberative body of a faculty in an institution of higher learning is often called a senate. this form adaptation was used to show the power of those in body and for the decision-making process to be thorough, which could take a long period of time. the original senate was the roman senate, which lasted until at least ad ,[ ] although various efforts to revive it were made in medieval rome. in the eastern roman empire, the byzantine senate continued until the fourth crusade, circa – . modern democratic states with bicameral parliamentary systems are sometimes equipped with a senate, often distinguished from an ordinary parallel lower house, known variously as the "house of representatives", "house of commons", "chamber of deputies", "national assembly", "legislative assembly", or "house of assembly", by electoral rules. this may include minimum age required for voters and candidates, proportional or majoritarian or plurality system, and an electoral basis or collegium. typically, the senate is referred to as the upper house and has a smaller membership than the lower house. in some federal states senates also exist at the subnational level. in the united states, every state has a senate, with the exception of nebraska (whose legislature is a unicameral body called the "legislature" but whose members refer to themselves as "senators"). there is also the us senate at the federal level. similarly in argentina, in addition to the senate at federal level, eight of the country's provinces, buenos aires, catamarca, corrientes, entre ríos, mendoza, salta, san luis (since ) and santa fe, have bicameral legislatures with a senate. córdoba and tucumán changed to unicameral systems in and respectively. in australia and canada, only the upper house of the federal parliament is known as the senate. all australian states other than queensland have an upper house known as a legislative council. several canadian provinces also once had a legislative council, but these have all been abolished, the last being quebec's legislative council in . in germany, the last senate of a state parliament, the senate of bavaria, was abolished in . senate membership can be determined either through elections or appointments. for example, elections are held every three years for half the membership of the senate of the philippines, the term of a senator being six years. in contrast, members of the canadian senate are appointed by the governor general upon the recommendation of the prime minister of canada, holding the office until they resign, are removed, or retire at the mandatory age of . alternative meanings[edit] the terms senate and senator, however, do not necessarily refer to a second chamber of a legislature: 	the senate of finland was, until , the executive branch and the supreme court. 	the senate of latvia (lv) fulfilled a similar judicial function during the interbellum ( - ). 	in german politics: in the bundesländer (federated states) of germany which form a city state (in german: stadtstaat), i.e. berlin (senate of berlin), bremen (senate of bremen) and hamburg (senate of hamburg), the senates (senat in german) are the executive branch, with senators (senator) being the holders of ministerial portfolios.[ ] in a number of cities which were former members of the hanse (a medieval confederacy of port cities mainly at the shores of the baltic sea and the north sea), such as greifswald, lübeck, rostock, stralsund, or wismar, the city government is also called a senate. however, in bavaria, the senate was a second legislative chamber until its abolition in . 	in german jurisdiction: the term senat (senate) in higher courts of appeal refers to the "bench" in its broader metonymy meaning, describing members of the judiciary collectively (usually five judges), often occupied with a particular subject-matter jurisdiction. however, the judges are not called "senators". the german term strafsenat (literally "penal senate") in a german court translates to bench of penal-law jurisdiction and zivilsenat (literally "civil senate") to bench of private-law jurisdiction. the federal constitutional court of germany consists of two senates of eight judges each. in its case the division is mostly of an organizational nature, as a matter of dividing the work load; both senates handle the same kind of constitutional cases. at some points in the past, one senate was considered more conservative and the other more liberal, but that is not the case as of . 	in scotland, judges of the high court of justiciary are called senators of the college of justice. 	in some, mostly federal countries with a unicameral legislature, some of the legislators are elected differently from the others and are called senators. in federal countries, such senators represent the territories, while the other members represent the people at large (this device is used to allow a federal representation without having to establish a bicameral legislature); this is the case with st. kitts and nevis, comoros and micronesia. in other, non-federal countries, the use of the term senator marks some other difference between such members and the rest of the legislators (such as the method of selection); this is the case with the states of jersey, dominica's house of assembly and the saint vincent house of assembly. 	in wales, the welsh parliament debating chamber is called the senedd, pronounced 'seneth', there being no other word in the welsh language for "parliament" 	an academic senate is the governing body of some universities. 	in greece during the early stages of the greek war of independence, various local legislative and executive bodies were established by the greek rebels. two of them were styled "senate": the peloponnesian senate and the senate of western continental greece. national senates in other parts of the world[edit] 	afghanistan 	argentina 	austria 	australia 	bahamas 	barbados 	belgium 	belize 	bolivia 	brazil 	burundi 	cambodia 	cameroon 	canada 	chile 	colombia 	democratic republic of the congo 	republic of congo 	czech republic 	dominican republic 	egypt 	france 	gabon 	germany 	grenada 	haiti 	india 	indonesia 	ireland 	italy 	ivory coast 	jamaica 	japan 	jordan 	kenya 	kazakhstan 	lesotho 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in the chinese constitution which were elected by provincial legislators for a duration of years. after the chinese civil war, the government was transferred to taiwan. in the constitutional reforms of the s, the control yuan is now a purely auditory body, and its members are nominated by the president, and confirmed by the legislative yuan for a duration of years. since , the legislative yuan is now the nation's sole parliamentary body. 	^ a b c the philippine senate was abolished and restored twice. a new constitution in abolished the senate but an amendment in restored it in . in , the legislature was closed, and a passage of a new constitution in confirmed the abolition of the senate; an approval of a new constitution in restored it. 	^ a b c the constitution of the republic of costa rica archived - - at the wayback machine provided for a senate; the constitution of archived - - at the wayback machine, which replaced it, established a unicameral legislature. the senate was reestablished by the constitution of archived - - at the wayback machine; the country reverted to unicameralism with the adoption of the constitution archived - - at the wayback machine. costa rica briefly restored the senate and bicameralism with the adoption of the constitution archived - - at the wayback machine, but that constitution was abrogated in , whereupon the constitution was restored; it remained in effect until , when costa rica adopted its present constitution, which provides for a unicameral legislature. 	^ the constitution of the republic of el salvador established a bicameral legislature with a chamber of deputies and a senate. the constitution replaced the bicameral legislature with a unicameral one.[ ] see also[edit] 	senator for life references[edit] 	^ bicameral legislatures: an international comparison. betty drexhage. the hague. . 	^ dictionary.com unabridged based on the random house dictionary: senate 	^ levillain, philippe ( ). the papacy: gaius-proxies. psychology press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ see senate of berlin, senate of bremen and senate of hamburg. 	^ haggerty, richard a. 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trident before, dolphin below / ship sailing right; star above. sextus pompeius was the younger son of gnaeus pompeius magnus (pompey the great)[ ] by his third wife, mucia tertia. his elder brother was gnaeus pompeius. both boys grew up in the shadow of their father, one of rome's greatest generals and an originally non-conservative politician who drifted to the more traditional faction when julius caesar became a threat. when caesar crossed the rubicon in bc, thus starting a civil war, sextus' older brother gnaeus followed their father in his escape to the east, as did most of the conservative senators. sextus stayed in rome in the care of his stepmother, cornelia metella. pompey's army lost the battle of pharsalus in bc and pompey himself had to run for his life. cornelia and sextus met him in the island of lesbos and together they fled to egypt.[ ] on the arrival, sextus watched his father being killed by treachery on september of the same year. after the murder, cornelia returned to rome; in the following years, sextus joined the resistance against caesar in the african provinces. together with metellus scipio, cato the younger, his brother gnaeus and other senators, they prepared to oppose caesar and his army to the end. a sextus pompeius denarius, minted for his victory over octavian's fleet. on the obverse is the pharos of messina, on the reverse the monster scylla. caesar won the first battle at thapsus in bc against metellus scipio and cato, who committed suicide.[ ] in bc, caesar managed to defeat the pompeius brothers in the battle of munda, in hispania (the iberian peninsula, comprising modern spain and portugal), after what he himself described as his hardest fought victory ever.[ ] gnaeus pompeius was executed, but young sextus escaped once more, this time to sicily, and thereafter raised another dissident army in spain.[ ] back in rome, julius caesar was killed on the ides of march (march ) bc by a group of senators led by cassius and brutus. this incident did not lead to a return to normality, but provoked yet another civil war between caesar's political heirs and his killers: one of the latter, decimus brutus, wrote to m. brutus and to cassius that march that “we have nowhere to base ourselves, except for sex. pompeius”.[ ] early in , the senate commended marcus aemelius lepidus for forging an alliance with sextus against the caesarians;[ ] but thereafter lepidus joined the second triumvirate formed by gaius julius caesar octavianus and marcus antonius, with the intention of avenging caesar and subduing all other parties. sextus pompeius in the western mediterranean certainly remained a focus of opposition, but the faction of cassius and brutus was the second triumvirate's first priority. thus sextus had the time and resources to develop an army, with the whole island of sicily as his base, and (even more importantly) to establish a strong navy operated by sicilian marines. brutus and cassius lost the twin battles of philippi and committed suicide in bc. after this, the triumvirs turned their attentions to sicily and sextus. sicilian revolt, campaign of / bc.  sextus pompeius' possessions (territories that went over to octavianus before the war with menodorus are painted in pink and beige) ↗ — actions of octavianus and his admirals; ↗ — actions of sextus' admirals. however, sextus was by now prepared for strong resistance. in the following years, military confrontations failed to return a conclusive victory for either side, although in bc sextus' admiral, the freedman menas, seized sardinia from octavian's governor marcus lurius.[ ] in bc, sextus and the triumvirs signed for peace in the pact of misenum.[ ] the reason for the peace treaty was to secure the west before the anticipated campaign against the parthian empire: tacitus reports the view that "he [octavian] had cheated sextus pompeius by a spurious peace treaty"[ ] antony, the leader of rome's eastern provinces, needed a large number of legions for the coming campaign, which would take his army (ostensibly) through mesopotamia, armenia and parthia. thus, an armistice with sextus' large forces on sicily proved useful. sicilian revolt, campaign of bc. ↗ — actions of octavianus and his commanders; ↗ — actions of sextus pompeius and his commanders. the peace did not last for long. in antony's absence, octavian renewed the conflict against sextus. sextus and octavian accused each other of violating the terms of the pact of misenum, but the final straw was the betrayal of sardinia to octavian by menas. octavian was defeated in the naval battle of messina ( bc), so he now turned to his friends marcus vipsanius agrippa and titus statilius taurus, both very talented generals. in addition, the third triumvir, marcus aemilius lepidus, raised legions in his african provinces to help defeat pompey. agrippa spent the winter training a navy on land and building a fleet near lake avernus, from scratch.[ ] agrippa fought sextus at mylae in august bc, and again a month later, while lepidus and statilius taurus invaded sicily. in the battle of naulochus,[ ] agrippa destroyed the remainder of sextus' fleet. sextus escaped to asia minor[ ] and, by abandoning sicily, lost his only base of support. sextus pompeius was finally captured in bc, and executed without trial in miletus by marcus titius, whom sextus had once spared; either by his own initiative or possibly on the orders of antony or plancus[ ] [ ]. although octavian later pretended that the execution without a trial of sextus was illegal because sextus was a roman citizen, octavian himself had declared sextus an outlaw without citizen rights. family connections[edit] sextus pompey in an aureus dated – bc. the reverse reads praefectus classis. sextus had married scribonia, a distant relative. she was the daughter of lucius scribonius libo, consul of bc and the niece of another scribonia, the second wife of octavian. sextus and scribonia had a daughter, their only child, called pompeia magna. as an affine to both sextus and octavian, scribonius libo had played a role in brokering peace between sextus and the triumviri, and had very reluctantly abandoned sextus in / , in return for which he had received the consulship. chronology[edit] 	 bc – in egypt with his father, who is assassinated 	 / bc – resistance in africa 	 bc – defeated in munda 	 bc – controls sicily with a powerful navy 	 bc – pact of misenum with octavianus and antony 	 bc – defeats octavian off messina 	 bc 	august, defeats octavian 	september, defeated by agrippa off naulochus (sicily) 	 bc – captured and executed in asia minor (miletus) historiographical readings[edit] where plutarch gives sextus only a minor role in the confused events surrounding the fall of the roman republic, appian sees him as a more central figure, who might even have emerged as the final victor, so as to establish a dynasty of pompeys, not caesars.[ ] dramatic representations[edit] 	shakespeare had sextus pompey as a major character in his play antony and cleopatra ( – ). 	sesto (italian for sextus) appears as main character in . opera titled pompeo by italian baroque composer alessandro scarlatti. 	sextus ("sesto" in italian) appears in george frideric handel's opera giulio cesare in egitto ("julius caesar in egypt"). the opera attributes to sextus the killing of the egyptian king ptolemy xiii, who had killed his father pompey. this is not historically attested. 	british actor donald sumpter portrayed sextus pompey in the bbc shakespeare television production of antony and cleopatra ( ). 	american actor walter koenig portrayed sextus pompey in the bard productions television production of antony and cleopatra ( ). references[edit] 	^ a b c d e jones, tom b ( ). "pompeius magnus, sextus". in william d. halsey (ed.). collier's encyclopedia. . macmillan educational corporation. p.  . 	^ sextus pompeius 	^ sextus pompeius 	^ r warner transl., plutarch: fall of the roman republic (penguin ) p. 	^ sextus pompeius 	^ d r shakleton bailey trans., cicero’s letters to his friends (atlanta ) p. 	^ d r shakleton bailey trans., cicero’s letters to his friends (atlanta ) p. 	^ sextus pompeius 	^ tacitus, the annals of imperial rome (pengun ) p. 	^ j griffin ed., the oxford history of the classical world (oxford ) p. 	^ appian, bellum civile, . . 	^ ronald syme, the roman revolution, pg. . oxford university press, reprint 	^ b breed, citizens of discord ( ) p. - further reading[edit] 	m hadas, sextus pompeius (new york ) external links[edit] media related to sextus pompeius at wikimedia commons 	sextus pompey - biography at unrv.com 	coins of sextus pompeius 	authority control 	 	bibsys: 	bne: xx 	gnd: 	isni: 	lccn: nr 	nta: 	sudoc: 	viaf: 	 worldcat 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sources 	 external links history[edit] ernst maass, scholia graeca in homeri iliadem townleyana ( ), a collection of scholia of homer's iliad. ancient scholia are important sources of information about many aspects of the ancient world, especially ancient literary history. the earliest scholia, usually anonymous, date to the th or th century bc (such as the "a" scholia on the iliad). the practice of compiling scholia continued to late byzantine times, outstanding examples being archbishop eustathius' massive commentaries to homer in the th century and the scholia recentiora of thomas magister and demetrius triclinius in the th. scholia were altered by successive copyists and owners of the manuscript, and in some cases, increased to such an extent that there was no longer room for them in the margin, and it became necessary to make them into a separate work. at first, they were taken from one commentary only, subsequently from several. this is indicated by the repetition of the lemma ("headword"), or by the use of such phrases as "or thus", "alternatively", "according to some", to introduce different explanations, or by the explicit quotation of different sources. important sets of scholia[edit] greek[edit] the most important are those on the homeric iliad, especially those found in the th-century manuscripts discovered by villoison in in the biblioteca marciana in venice (see further venetus a, homeric scholarship), which are based on aristarchus and his school.[ ] the scholia on hesiod, pindar, sophocles, aristophanes and apollonius rhodius are also extremely important.[citation needed] latin[edit] in latin, the most important are those of servius on virgil;[ ] of acro and porphyrio on horace;[ ] and of donatus on terence.[ ] also of interest are the scholia on juvenal attached to the good manuscript p;[ ] while there are also scholia on statius,[ ] especially associated with the name lactantius placidus.[ ] list of ancient commentaries[edit] some ancient scholia are of sufficient quality and importance to be labelled "commentaries" instead. the existence of a commercial translation is often used to distinguish between "scholia" and "commentaries". the following is a chronological list of ancient commentaries written defined as those for which commercial translations have been made: 	asconius (c. ad) on cicero's pro scauro, in pisonem, pro milone, pro cornelio and in toga candida 	servius (c. ad) on virgil's aeneid 	macrobius (c. ad) on cicero's dream of scipio 	proclus (c. ad) on plato's parmenides and timaeus and euclid's elements 	boethius (c. ad) on cicero's topics other uses[edit] 	benedict spinoza provided his own scholia to many of the propositions in his ethics, commentaries upon and expansions of the individual propositions, or sometimes short conclusions to sections of argumentation running over a number of propositions. 	in modern mathematics texts, scholia are marginal notes which may amplify a line of reasoning or compare it with proofs given earlier. a famous example is bayes' scholium, in which he presents a justification for assuming a continuous uniform distribution for the prior of the parameter of a bernoulli process.[ ] another famous example of a somewhat different use is to be found in brook taylor's methodus incrementorum, in which the propositions demonstrated are often followed by a scholium which further explains the significance of the proposition. 	scholia is an academic journal in the field of classical studies.[ ] 	search engine relying on wikidata, mainly for scientific publications: scholia 	nicolás gómez dávila was one of the most radical critics of modernity whose work consists almost entirely of aphorisms which he called "escolios" ("glosses") of an implicit text. see also[edit] 	 the dictionary definition of scholium at wiktionary references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ cicero ad atticum . . 	^ j e sandys, a dictionary of classical antiquities (london ) p. 	^ j e sandys, a dictionary of classical antiquities (london ) p. 	^ a palmer, the satires of horace (london ) p. xxxvii 	^ j e sandys, a dictionary of classical antiquities (london ) p. 	^ j d duff, fourteen satires of juvenal (cambridge ) p. xliii 	^ r sweeny, prolegomena to an edition of scholia on statius ( ) p. - 	^ h j rose, a handbook of latin literature ( ) p. 	^ murray, f. h. (february ). "note on a scholium of bayes". bulletin of the american mathematical society. american mathematical society. ( ): – . doi: . /s - - - - . retrieved january . 	^ scholia, scholia reviews archived july at the wayback machine sources[edit] 	dickey, eleanor. ancient greek scholarship: a guide to finding, reading, and understanding scholia, commentaries, lexica, and grammatical treatises. oxford: oup for the apa, . isbn  - - - . 	reynolds, l.d. and n.g. wilson. scribes & scholars: a guide to the transmission of greek & latin literature, rd ed. oxford: clarendon press, . isbn  - - - . 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). 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c. bc – ad  ),[ ] usually known as seneca, was a roman stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and—in one work—satirist from the silver age of latin literature. seneca was born in cordoba in hispania, and raised in rome, where he was trained in rhetoric and philosophy. his father was seneca the elder, his elder brother was lucius junius gallio annaeanus, and his nephew was the poet lucan. in ad , seneca was exiled to the island of corsica under emperor claudius,[ ] but was allowed to return in to become a tutor to nero. when nero became emperor in , seneca became his advisor and, together with the praetorian prefect sextus afranius burrus, provided competent government for the first five years of nero's reign. seneca's influence over nero declined with time, and in seneca was forced to take his own life for alleged complicity in the pisonian conspiracy to assassinate nero, in which he was likely to have been innocent.[ ] his stoic and calm suicide has become the subject of numerous paintings. as a writer seneca is known for his philosophical works, and for his plays, which are all tragedies. his prose works include a dozen essays and one hundred twenty-four letters dealing with moral issues. these writings constitute one of the most important bodies of primary material for ancient stoicism. as a tragedian, he is best known for plays such as his medea, thyestes, and phaedra. seneca's influence on later generations is immense—during the renaissance he was "a sage admired and venerated as an oracle of moral, even of christian edification; a master of literary style and a model [for] dramatic art."[ ] 	part of a series on 	stoicism 	epictetus, seneca, and marcus aurelius 	 background 	socrates 	plato 	aristotle 	crates of thebes 	 philosophy 	apatheia 	ekpyrosis 	katalepsis 	kathekon 	logos 	stoic logic 	stoic categories 	stoic passions 	stoic physics 	virtue ethics 	 stoics 	zeno of citium 	cleanthes 	chrysippus 	panaetius 	posidonius 	seneca the younger 	publius clodius thrasea paetus 	epictetus 	junius rusticus 	marcus aurelius 	 stoic works 	discourses of epictetus 	epistulae morales ad lucilium 	the meditations 	 similar positions 	cynicism 	aristotelianism 	middle platonism 	 contrary positions 	pyrrhonism 	academic skepticism 	epicureanism 	  philosophy portal 		v 	t 	e contents 	 life 	 . early life, family and adulthood 	 . politics and exile 	 . imperial advisor 	 . retirement 	 . death 	 philosophy 	 drama 	 works 	 . seneca's tragedies 	 . essays and letters 	 . . essays 	 . . other essays 	 . . letters 	 . . other 	 . . spurious 	 . "pseudo-seneca" 	 legacy 	 . as a proto-christian saint 	 . an improving reputation 	 . notable fictional portrayals 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links life[edit] early life, family and adulthood[edit] seneca was born in corduba in the roman province of baetica in hispania.[ ] his father was lucius annaeus seneca the elder, a spanish-born roman knight who had gained fame as a writer and teacher of rhetoric in rome.[ ] seneca's mother, helvia, was from a prominent baetician family.[ ] seneca was the second of three brothers; the others were lucius annaeus novatus (later known as junius gallio), and annaeus mela, the father of the poet lucan.[ ] miriam griffin says in her biography of seneca that "the evidence for seneca's life before his exile in is so slight, and the potential interest of these years, for social history as well as for biography, is so great that few writers on seneca have resisted the temptation to eke out knowledge with imagination."[ ] griffin also infers from the ancient sources that seneca was born in either , , or bc. she thinks he was born between and bc and was resident in rome by ad .[ ] modern statue of seneca in córdoba seneca tells us that he was taken to rome in the "arms" of his aunt (his mother's stepsister) at a young age, probably when he was about five years old.[ ] his father resided for much of his life in the city.[ ] seneca was taught the usual subjects of literature, grammar, and rhetoric, as part of the standard education of high-born romans.[ ] while still young he received philosophical training from attalus the stoic, and from sotion and papirius fabianus, both of whom belonged to the short-lived school of the sextii, which combined stoicism with pythagoreanism.[ ] sotion persuaded seneca when he was a young man (in his early twenties) to become a vegetarian, which he practised for around a year before his father urged him to desist because the practice was associated with "some foreign rites".[ ] seneca often had breathing difficulties throughout his life, probably asthma,[ ] and at some point in his mid-twenties (c. ad) he appears to have been struck down with tuberculosis.[ ] he was sent to egypt to live with his aunt (the same aunt who had brought him to rome), whose husband gaius galerius had become prefect of egypt.[ ] she nursed him through a period of ill-health that lasted up to ten years.[ ] in ad he returned to rome with his aunt, his uncle dying en route in a shipwreck.[ ] his aunt's influence helped seneca be elected quaestor (probably after ad[ ]), which also earned him the right to sit in the roman senate.[ ] politics and exile[edit] seneca's early career as a senator seems to have been successful and he was praised for his oratory.[ ] cassius dio relates a story that caligula was so offended by seneca's oratorical success in the senate that he ordered him to commit suicide.[ ] seneca only survived because he was seriously ill and caligula was told that he would soon die anyway.[ ] in his writings seneca has nothing good to say about caligula and frequently depicts him as a monster.[ ] seneca explains his own survival as down to his patience and his devotion to his friends: "i wanted to avoid the impression that all i could do for loyalty was die."[ ] in ad, claudius became emperor, and seneca was accused by the new empress messalina of adultery with julia livilla, sister to caligula and agrippina.[ ] the affair has been doubted by some historians, since messalina had clear political motives for getting rid of julia livilla and her supporters.[ ][ ] the senate pronounced a death sentence on seneca, which claudius commuted to exile, and seneca spent the next eight years on the island of corsica.[ ] two of seneca's earliest surviving works date from the period of his exile—both consolations.[ ] in his consolation to helvia, his mother, seneca comforts her as a bereaved mother for losing her son to exile.[ ] seneca incidentally mentions the death of his only son, a few weeks before his exile.[ ] later in life seneca was married to a woman younger than himself, pompeia paulina.[ ] it has been thought that the infant son may have been from an earlier marriage,[ ] but the evidence is "tenuous".[ ] seneca's other work of this period, his consolation to polybius, one of claudius' freedmen, focused on consoling polybius on the death of his brother. it is noted for its flattery of claudius, and seneca expresses his hope that the emperor will recall him from exile.[ ] in ad agrippina married her uncle claudius, and through her influence seneca was recalled to rome.[ ] agrippina gained the praetorship for seneca and appointed him tutor to her son, the future emperor nero.[ ] imperial advisor[edit] nero and seneca, by eduardo barrón ( ). museo del prado from ad to , seneca acted as nero's advisor, together with the praetorian prefect sextus afranius burrus. one by-product of his new position was that seneca was appointed suffect consul in .[ ] seneca's influence was said to have been especially strong in the first year.[ ] seneca composed nero's accession speeches in which he promised to restore proper legal procedure and authority to the senate.[ ] he also composed the eulogy for claudius that nero delivered at the funeral.[ ] seneca's satirical skit apocolocyntosis, which lampoons the deification of claudius and praises nero dates from the earliest period of nero's reign.[ ] in ad, seneca wrote on clemency following nero's murder of britannicus, perhaps to assure the citizenry that the murder was the end, not the beginning of bloodshed.[ ] on clemency is a work which, although it flatters nero, was intended to show the correct (stoic) path of virtue for a ruler.[ ] tacitus and dio suggest that nero's early rule, during which he listened to seneca and burrus, was quite competent. however, the ancient sources suggest that, over time, seneca and burrus lost their influence over the emperor. in they had reluctantly agreed to agrippina's murder, and afterward tacitus reports that seneca had to write a letter justifying the murder to the senate.[ ] in ad the senator publius suillius rufus made a series of public attacks on seneca.[ ] these attacks, reported by tacitus and cassius dio,[ ] included charges that, in a mere four years of service to nero, seneca had acquired a vast personal fortune of three hundred million sestertii by charging high interest on loans throughout italy and the provinces.[ ] suillius' attacks included claims of sexual corruption, with a suggestion that seneca had slept with agrippina.[ ] tacitus, though, reports that suillius was highly prejudiced: he had been a favourite of claudius,[ ] and had been an embezzler and informant.[ ] in response, seneca brought a series of prosecutions for corruption against suillius: half of his estate was confiscated and he was sent into exile.[ ] however, the attacks reflect a criticism of seneca that was made at the time and continued through later ages.[ ] seneca was undoubtedly extremely rich: he had properties at baiae and nomentum, an alban villa, and egyptian estates.[ ] cassius dio even reports that the boudica uprising in britannia was caused by seneca forcing large loans on the indigenous british aristocracy in the aftermath of claudius's conquest of britain, and then calling them in suddenly and aggressively.[ ] seneca was sensitive to such accusations: his de vita beata ("on the happy life") dates from around this time and includes a defence of wealth along stoic lines, arguing that properly gaining and spending wealth is appropriate behaviour for a philosopher.[ ] retirement[edit] after burrus' death in , seneca's influence declined rapidly; as tacitus puts it (ann. . . ), mors burri infregit senecae potentiam ("the death of burrus broke seneca's power").[ ] tacitus reports that seneca tried to retire twice, in and ad, but nero refused him on both occasions.[ ] nevertheless, seneca was increasingly absent from the court.[ ] he adopted a quiet lifestyle on his country estates, concentrating on his studies and seldom visiting rome. it was during these final few years that he composed two of his greatest works: naturales quaestiones—an encyclopedia of the natural world; and his letters to lucilius—which document his philosophical thoughts.[ ] death[edit] manuel domínguez sánchez, the suicide of seneca ( ), museo del prado lodovico lana, death of seneca, national gallery of art in ad , seneca was caught up in the aftermath of the pisonian conspiracy, a plot to kill nero. although it is unlikely that seneca was part of the conspiracy, nero ordered him to kill himself.[ ] seneca followed tradition by severing several veins in order to bleed to death, and his wife pompeia paulina attempted to share his fate. cassius dio, who wished to emphasize the relentlessness of nero, focused on how seneca had attended to his last-minute letters, and how his death was hastened by soldiers.[ ] a generation after the julio-claudian emperors, tacitus wrote an account of the suicide, which, in view of his republican sympathies, is perhaps somewhat romanticized.[ ] according to this account, nero ordered seneca's wife saved. her wounds were bound up and she made no further attempt to kill herself. as for seneca himself, his age and diet were blamed for slow loss of blood and extended pain rather than a quick death. he also took poison, which was however not fatal. after dictating his last words to a scribe, and with a circle of friends attending him in his home, he immersed himself in a warm bath, which he expected would speed blood flow and ease his pain. tacitus wrote, "he was then carried into a bath, with the steam of which he was suffocated, and he was burnt without any of the usual funeral rites. so he had directed in a codicil of his will, even when in the height of his wealth and power he was thinking of life's close."[ ] this may give the impression of a favourable portrait of seneca, but tacitus' treatment of him is at best ambivalent. alongside seneca's apparent fortitude in the face of death, for example, one can also view his actions as rather histrionic and performative; and when tacitus tells us that he left his family an imago suae vitae (annales . ), "an image of his life", he is possibly being ambiguous: in roman culture, the imago was a kind of mask that commemorated the great ancestors of noble families, but at the same time, it may also suggest duplicity, superficiality, and pretence.[ ] philosophy[edit] first page of the naturales quaestiones, made for the catalan-aragonese court as "a major philosophical figure of the roman imperial period",[ ] seneca’s lasting contribution to philosophy has been to the school of stoicism.  his writing is highly accessible[ ][ ] and was the subject of attention from the renaissance onwards by writers such as michel de montaigne.[ ] he has been described as “a towering and controversial figure of antiquity”[ ] and “the world’s most interesting stoic”.[ ] seneca wrote a number of books on stoicism, mostly on ethics, with one work (naturales quaestiones) on the physical world.[ ] seneca built on the writings of many of the earlier stoics: he often mentions zeno, cleanthes, and chrysippus;[ ] and frequently cites posidonius, with whom seneca shared an interest in natural phenomena.[ ] he frequently quotes epicurus, especially in his letters.[ ] his interest in epicurus is mainly limited to using him as a source of ethical maxims.[ ] likewise seneca shows some interest in platonist metaphysics, but never with any clear commitment.[ ] his moral essays are based on stoic doctrines.[ ] stoicism was a popular philosophy in this period, and many upper-class romans found in it a guiding ethical framework for political involvement.[ ] it was once popular to regard seneca as being very eclectic in his stoicism,[ ] but modern scholarship views him as a fairly orthodox stoic, albeit a free-minded one.[ ] his works discuss both ethical theory and practical advice, and seneca stresses that both parts are distinct but interdependent.[ ] his letters to lucilius showcase seneca's search for ethical perfection[ ] and “represent a sort of philosophical testament for posterity”.[ ] seneca regards philosophy as a balm for the wounds of life.[ ] the destructive passions, especially anger and grief, must be uprooted,[ ] or moderated according to reason.[ ] he discusses the relative merits of the contemplative life and the active life,[ ] and he considers it important to confront one's own mortality and be able to face death.[ ][ ] one must be willing to practice poverty and use wealth properly,[ ] and he writes about favours, clemency, the importance of friendship, and the need to benefit others.[ ][ ][ ] the universe is governed for the best by a rational providence,[ ] and this must be reconciled with acceptance of adversity.[ ] drama[edit] see also: senecan tragedy and theatre of ancient rome woodcut illustration of the suicide of seneca and the attempted suicide of his wife pompeia paulina ten plays are attributed to seneca, of which most likely eight were written by him.[ ] the plays stand in stark contrast to his philosophical works. with their intense emotions, and grim overall tone, the plays seem to represent the antithesis of seneca's stoic beliefs.[ ] up to the th century it was normal to distinguish between seneca the moral philosopher and seneca the dramatist as two separate people.[ ] scholars have tried to spot certain stoic themes: it is the uncontrolled passions that generate madness, ruination, and self-destruction.[ ] this has a cosmic as well as an ethical aspect, and fate is a powerful, albeit rather oppressive, force.[ ] many scholars have thought, following the ideas of the th-century german scholar friedrich leo, that seneca's tragedies were written for recitation only.[ ] other scholars think that they were written for performance and that it is possible that actual performance had taken place in seneca's lifetime.[ ] ultimately, this issue cannot be resolved on the basis of our existing knowledge.[ ] the tragedies of seneca have been successfully staged in modern times. the dating of the tragedies is highly problematic in the absence of any ancient references.[ ] a parody of a lament from hercules furens appears in the apocolocyntosis, which implies a date before ad for that play.[ ] a relative chronology has been suggested on metrical grounds but scholars remain divided. the plays are not all based on the greek pattern; they have a five-act form and differ in many respects from extant attic drama, and while the influence of euripides on some of these works is considerable, so is the influence of virgil and ovid.[ ] seneca's plays were widely read in medieval and renaissance european universities and strongly influenced tragic drama in that time, such as elizabethan england (william shakespeare and other playwrights), france (corneille and racine), and the netherlands (joost van den vondel). english translations of seneca's tragedies appeared in print in the mid- th century, with all ten published collectively in .[ ] he is regarded as the source and inspiration for what is known as "revenge tragedy", starting with thomas kyd's the spanish tragedy and continuing well into the jacobean era. thyestes is considered seneca's masterpiece,[ ][ ] and has been described by scholar dana gioia as "one of the most influential plays ever written".[ ] medea is also highly regarded,[ ][ ] and was praised along with phaedra by t. s. eliot.[ ] works[edit] works attributed to seneca include a dozen philosophical essays, one hundred and twenty-four letters dealing with moral issues, nine tragedies, and a satire, the attribution of which is disputed.[ ] his authorship of hercules on oeta has also been questioned. seneca's tragedies[edit] fabulae crepidatae (tragedies with greek subjects): 	hercules or hercules furens (the madness of hercules) 	troades (the trojan women) 	phoenissae (the phoenician women) 	medea 	phaedra 	oedipus 	agamemnon 	thyestes 	hercules oetaeus (hercules on oeta): generally considered not written by seneca. first rejected by heinsius. fabula praetexta (tragedy in roman setting): 	octavia: almost certainly not written by seneca (at least in its final form) since it contains accurate prophecies of both his and nero’s deaths.[ ] this play closely resembles seneca's plays in style, but was probably written some time after seneca's death (perhaps under vespasian) by someone influenced by seneca and aware of the events of his lifetime.[ ] though attributed textually to seneca, the attribution was early questioned by petrarch,[ ] and rejected by lipsius. essays and letters[edit] essays[edit] traditionally given in the following order: 	( ) de providentia (on providence) - addressed to lucilius 	( ) de constantia sapientis (on the firmness of the wise person) - addressed to serenus 	( ) de ira (on anger) – a study on the consequences and the control of anger - addressed to his brother novatus 	(book of the de ira) 	(book of the de ira) 	( ) ad marciam, de consolatione (to marcia, on consolation) – consoles her on the death of her son 	( ) de vita beata (on the happy life) - addressed to gallio 	( ) de otio (on leisure) - addressed to serenus 	( ) de tranquillitate animi (on the tranquillity of mind) - addressed to serenus 	( ) de brevitate vitæ (on the shortness of life) – essay expounding that any length of life is sufficient if lived wisely - addressed to paulinus 	( ) de consolatione ad polybium (to polybius, on consolation) – consoling him on the death of his brother. 	( ) ad helviam matrem, de consolatione (to mother helvia, on consolation) – letter to his mother consoling her on his absence during exile. other essays[edit] 	( ) de clementia (on clemency) – written to nero on the need for clemency as a virtue in an emperor.[ ] 	( ) de beneficiis (on benefits) [seven books] 	(–) de superstitione (on superstition) -- lost, but quoted from in saint augustine's city of god . - . . letters[edit] 	( ) epistulae morales ad lucilium – collection of letters dealing with moral issues written to lucilius junior. other[edit] 	( ) apocolocyntosis divi claudii (the gourdification of the divine claudius), a satirical work. 	( ) naturales quaestiones [seven books] an insight into ancient theories of cosmology, meteorology, and similar subjects. spurious[edit] 	( – / ?) cujus etiam ad paulum apostolum leguntur epistolae: these letters, allegedly between seneca and st paul, were revered by early authorities, but modern scholarship rejects their authenticity.[ ][ ] "pseudo-seneca"[edit] various antique and medieval texts purport to be by seneca, e.g., de remediis fortuitorum. their unknown authors are collectively called pseudo-seneca.[ ] at least some of these seem to preserve and adapt genuine senecan content, for example, saint martin of braga's (d. c. ) formula vitae honestae, or de differentiis quatuor virtutumvitae honestae ("rules for an honest life", or "on the four cardinal virtues"). early manuscripts preserve martin's preface, where he makes it clear that this was his adaptation, but in later copies this was omitted, and the work was later thought fully seneca's work.[ ] legacy[edit] as a proto-christian saint[edit] plato, seneca, and aristotle in a medieval manuscript illustration (c. – ) seneca's writings were well known in the later roman period, and quintilian, writing thirty years after seneca's death, remarked on the popularity of his works amongst the youth.[ ] while he found much to admire, quintillian criticised seneca for what he regarded as a degenerate literary style—a criticism echoed by aulus gellius in the middle of the nd century.[ ] the early christian church was very favourably disposed towards seneca and his writings, and the church leader tertullian possessively referred to him as "our seneca".[ ] by the th century an apocryphal correspondence with paul the apostle had been created linking seneca into the christian tradition.[ ] the letters are mentioned by jerome who also included seneca among a list of christian writers, and seneca is similarly mentioned by augustine.[ ] in the th century martin of braga synthesised seneca's thought into a couple of treatises that became popular in their own right.[ ] otherwise, seneca was mainly known through a large number of quotes and extracts in the florilegia, which were popular throughout the medieval period.[ ] when his writings were read in the later middle ages, it was mostly his letters to lucilius—the longer essays and plays being relatively unknown.[ ] medieval writers and works continued to link him to christianity because of his alleged association with paul.[ ] the golden legend, a th-century hagiographical account of famous saints that was widely read, included an account of seneca's death scene, and erroneously presented nero as a witness to seneca's suicide.[ ] dante placed seneca (alongside cicero) among the "great spirits" in the first circle of hell, or limbo.[ ] boccaccio, who in came across the works of tacitus whilst browsing the library at montecassino, wrote an account of seneca's suicide hinting that it was a kind of disguised baptism, or a de facto baptism in spirit.[ ] some, such as albertino mussato and giovanni colonna, went even further and concluded that seneca must have been a christian convert.[ ] an improving reputation[edit] the "pseudo-seneca", a roman bust found at herculaneum, one of a series of similar sculptures known since the renaissance, once identified as seneca. now commonly identified as hesiod seneca remains one of the few popular roman philosophers from the period. he appears not only in dante, but also in chaucer and to a large degree in petrarch, who adopted his style in his own essays and who quotes him more than any other authority except virgil. in the renaissance, printed editions and translations of his works became common, including an edition by erasmus and a commentary by john calvin.[ ] john of salisbury, erasmus and others celebrated his works. french essayist montaigne, who gave a spirited defense of seneca and plutarch in his essays, was himself considered by pasquier a "french seneca".[ ] similarly, thomas fuller praised joseph hall as "our english seneca". many who considered his ideas not particularly original, still argued that he was important in making the greek philosophers presentable and intelligible.[ ] his suicide has also been a popular subject in art, from jacques-louis david's painting the death of seneca to the film quo vadis. even with the admiration of an earlier group of intellectual stalwarts, seneca has never been without his detractors. in his own time, he was accused of hypocrisy or, at least, a less than "stoic" lifestyle. while banished to corsica, he wrote a plea for restoration rather incompatible with his advocacy of a simple life and the acceptance of fate. in his apocolocyntosis he ridiculed the behaviours and policies of claudius, and flattered nero—such as proclaiming that nero would live longer and be wiser than the legendary nestor. the claims of publius suillius rufus that seneca acquired some "three hundred million sesterces" through nero's favour, are highly partisan, but they reflect the reality that seneca was both powerful and wealthy.[ ] robin campbell, a translator of seneca's letters, writes that the "stock criticism of seneca right down the centuries [has been]...the apparent contrast between his philosophical teachings and his practice."[ ] in gerolamo cardano wrote an apology praising nero in his encomium neronis, printed in basel.[ ] this was likely intended as a mock encomium, inverting the portrayal of nero and seneca that appears in tacitus.[ ] in this work cardano portrayed seneca as a crook of the worst kind, an empty rhetorician who was only thinking to grab money and power, after having poisoned the mind of the young emperor. cardano stated that seneca well deserved death. "seneca", ancient hero of the modern córdoba; this architectural roundel in seville is based on the "pseudo-seneca" (illustration above) among the historians who have sought to reappraise seneca is the scholar anna lydia motto who in argued that the negative image has been based almost entirely on suillius' account, while many others who might have lauded him have been lost.[ ] "we are therefore left with no contemporary record of seneca's life, save for the desperate opinion of publius suillius. think of the barren image we should have of socrates, had the works of plato and xenophon not come down to us and were we wholly dependent upon aristophanes' description of this athenian philosopher. to be sure, we should have a highly distorted, misconstrued view. such is the view left to us of seneca, if we were to rely upon suillius alone."[ ] more recent work is changing the dominant perception of seneca as a mere conduit for pre-existing ideas showing originality in seneca's contribution to the history of ideas. examination of seneca's life and thought in relation to contemporary education and to the psychology of emotions is revealing the relevance of his thought. for example, martha nussbaum in her discussion of desire and emotion includes seneca among the stoics who offered important insights and perspectives on emotions and their role in our lives.[ ] specifically devoting a chapter to his treatment of anger and its management, she shows seneca's appreciation of the damaging role of uncontrolled anger, and its pathological connections. nussbaum later extended her examination to seneca's contribution to political philosophy[ ] showing considerable subtlety and richness in his thoughts about politics, education, and notions of global citizenship—and finding a basis for reform-minded education in seneca's ideas she used to propose a mode of modern education that avoids both narrow traditionalism and total rejection of tradition. elsewhere seneca has been noted as the first great western thinker on the complex nature and role of gratitude in human relationships.[ ] notable fictional portrayals[edit] baroque marble imaginary portrait bust of seneca, by an anonymous sculptor of the th century. museo del prado seneca is a character in monteverdi's opera l'incoronazione di poppea (the coronation of poppea), which is based on the pseudo-senecan play, octavia.[ ] in nathaniel lee's play nero, emperor of rome, seneca attempts to dissuade nero from his egomaniacal plans, but is dragged off to prison, dying off-stage.[ ] he appears in robert bridges' verse drama nero, the second part of which (published ) culminates in seneca's death.[ ] seneca appears in a fairly minor role in henryk sienkiewicz's novel quo vadis and was played by nicholas hannen in the film.[ ] in robert graves' book claudius the god, the sequel novel to i, claudius, seneca is portrayed as an unbearable sycophant.[ ] he is shown as a flatterer who converts to stoicism solely to appease claudius' own ideology. the "pumpkinification" (apocolocyntosis) to graves thus becomes an unbearable work of flattery to the loathsome nero mocking a man that seneca grovelled to for years. the historical novel chariot of the soul by linda proud features seneca as tutor of the young togidubnus, son of king verica of the atrebates, during his ten-year stay in rome.[ ] see also[edit] 	audio theater 	otium 	seneca (crater) 	 seneca notes[edit] 	^ encyclopædia britannica, s.v. seneca. 	^ fitch, john ( ). seneca. new york: oxford university press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ bunson, matthew ( ). a dictionary of the roman empire. oxford university press. p.  . 	^ watling, e. f. 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( ), the greatest empire: a life of seneca, oxford university press, isbn  - further reading[edit] 	seneca, lucius annaeus. anger, mercy, revenge. trans. robert a. kast and martha c. nussbaum. chicago, il. university of chicago press, . isbn  - - - - 	seneca, lucius annaeus. hardship and happiness. trans. elaine fantham, harry m. hine, james ker, and gareth d. williams. chicago, il. university of chicago press, . isbn  - - - - 	seneca, lucius annaeus. natural questions. trans. harry m. hine. chicago, il. university of chicago press, . isbn  - - - - 	seneca, lucius annaeus. on benefits. trans. miriam griffin and brad inwood. chicago, il. university of chicago press, . isbn  - - - - 	cunnally, john, “nero, seneca, and the medallist of the roman emperors”, art bulletin, vol. , no. (june ), pp.  – 	di paola, o. ( ), "connections between seneca and platonism in epistulae ad lucilium ", athens: atiner's conference paper series, no: phi - . 	inwood, brad, reading seneca. stoic philosophy at rome, oxford: oxford university press, . 	degand, martin, sénèque au risque du don. une éthique oblative à la croisée des disciplines, turnhout: brepols, . 	gloyn, liz ( october ). tracking classical monsters in popular culture. london, uk. isbn  - - - - . oclc  . 	lucas, f. l., seneca and elizabethan tragedy (cambridge university press, ; paperback , isbn  - - - - ); on seneca the man, his plays, and the influence of his tragedies on later drama. 	motto, anna lydia, ”seneca on death and immortality“, the classical journal, vol. , no. (jan., ), pp.  – 	motto, anna lydia, "seneca on trial: the case of the opulent stoic", the classical journal, vol. , no. (march ), pp.  – 	mitchell, david. legacy: the apocryphal correspondence between seneca and paul xlibris corporation [self-published source] 	sevenster, j.n., paul and seneca, novum testamentum, supplements, vol. , leiden: e.j. brill, ; a comparison of seneca and the apostle paul, who were contemporaries. 	shelton, jo-ann, seneca's hercules furens: theme, structure and style, göttingen : vandenhoeck & ruprecht, . isbn  - - - . a revision of the author's doctoral thesis at the university of california, berkeley, . 	wilson, emily, seneca: six tragedies. oxford world’s classics. oxford university press, . external links[edit] 		wikisource has original works written by or about: seneca 		wikiquote has quotations related to: seneca the younger 		wikimedia commons has media related to lucius annaeus seneca. 	library resources about seneca the younger 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 by seneca the younger 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	works by seneca the younger at perseus digital library 	vogt, katja. 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[ ]) was a disciple of ammonius hermiae and damascius, and was one of the last of the neoplatonists. he was among the pagan philosophers persecuted by justinian in the early th century, and was forced for a time to seek refuge in the persian court, before being allowed back into the empire. he wrote extensively on the works of aristotle. although his writings are all commentaries on aristotle and other authors, rather than original compositions, his intelligent and prodigious learning makes him the last great philosopher of pagan antiquity. his works have preserved much information about earlier philosophers which would have otherwise been lost. contents 	 life 	 writings 	 works in english translation 	 . on aristotle's categories 	 . on aristotle's on the heavens 	 . on aristotle's physics 	 . on aristotle's on the soul 	 . on epictetus' handbook 	 . other works 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links life[edit] simplicius was a disciple of ammonius hermiae,[ ] and damascius,[ ] and was consequently one of the last members of the neoplatonist school. the school had its headquarters in athens. it became the centre of the last efforts to maintain hellenistic religion against the encroachments of christianity. imperial edicts enacted in the th century against paganism gave legal protection to pagans against personal maltreatment.[ ] in the year the emperor justinian ordered that pagans should be removed from government posts. some were robbed of their property, some put to death. the order specified that if they did not within three months convert to christianity, they were to be banished from the empire. in addition, it was forbidden any longer to teach philosophy and jurisprudence in athens.[ ] probably also the property of the platonist school, which in the time of proclus was valued at more than gold pieces,[ ] was confiscated; at least, justinian deprived the physicians and teachers of the liberal arts of the provision-money which had been assigned to them by previous emperors, and confiscated funds which the citizens had provided for spectacles and other civic purposes.[ ] seven philosophers, among whom were simplicius, eulamius, priscian, and others, with damascius, the last president of the platonist school in athens at their head, resolved to seek protection at the court of the famous persian king chosroes, who had succeeded to the throne in . but they were disappointed in their hopes. chosroes, in a peace treaty concluded with justinian c. stipulated that the philosophers should be allowed to return without risk and to practise their rites, after which they returned.[ ] of the subsequent fortunes of the seven philosophers we learn nothing. we know little about where simplicius lived and taught. that he not only wrote, but taught, is proved by the address to his hearers in the commentary on the physica auscultatio of aristotle,[ ] as well as by the title of his commentary on the categories. he had received his training partly in alexandria, under ammonius,[ ] partly in athens, as a disciple of damascius; and it was probably in one of these two cities that he subsequently took up his abode; for, with the exception of these cities and constantinople, it would have been difficult to find a town which possessed the collections of books he needed, and he is unlikely to have gone to constantinople. as to his personal history, especially his migration to persia, no definite allusions are to be found in the writings of simplicius. only at the end of his explanation of the treatise of epictetus, simplicius mentions, with gratitude, the consolation which he had found under tyrannical oppression in such ethical contemplations; which might suggest that it was composed during, or immediately after, the above-mentioned persecutions. writings[edit] commentary on aristotle's de caelo by simplicius. this th-century manuscript is signed by a former owner, basilios bessarion. the works which have survived are his commentaries upon aristotle's de caelo, physica auscultatio, and categories, as well as a commentary upon the enchiridion of epictetus. there is also a commentary on aristotle's de anima under his name, but it is stylistically inferior and lacks the breadth of historical information usually used by simplicius. it has been suggested that it was written by priscian of lydia,[ ] but other scholars see it as authentic.[ ] the commentary on de caelo was written before that on the physica auscultatio, and probably not in alexandria, since he mentions in it an astronomical observation made during his stay in that city by ammonius.[ ] simplicius wrote his commentary on the physica auscultatio after the death of damascius, and therefore after his return from persia.[ ] when it was that he wrote his explanations of the categories, whether before or after those on the above-mentioned aristotelian treatises, it is impossible to ascertain. besides these commentaries of simplicius which have been preserved, the de anima commentary mentions explanations on the metaphysical books, and an epitome of the physica of theophrastus.[ ] simplicius, as a neoplatonist, endeavoured to show that aristotle agrees with plato even on those points which he controverts, so that he may lead the way to their deeper, hidden meaning. in his view not only plotinus, but also syrianus, proclus, and ammonius, are great philosophers, who have penetrated into the depths of the wisdom of plato. many of the more ancient greek philosophers he also brings into a connection with platonism. he is, however, distinguished from his predecessors, whom he so admires, in making less frequent application of orphic, hermetic, chaldean, and other theologumena of the east; partly in proceeding carefully and modestly in the explanation and criticism of particular points, and in striving with diligence to draw from the original sources a thorough knowledge of the older greek philosophy. his commentaries can, therefore, be regarded as the richest in their contents of any that have come down to us concerning aristotle. but for them, we should be without the most important fragments of the writings of the eleatics, of empedocles, anaxagoras, diogenes of apollonia, and others, which were at that time already very scarce,[ ] as well as without many extracts from the lost books of aristotle, theophrastus and eudemus: but for them we should hardly be able to unriddle the doctrine of the categories, so important for the system of the stoics. it is true he himself complains that in his time both the school and the writings of the followers of zeno had perished.[ ] but where he cannot draw immediately from the original sources, he looks round for guides whom he can depend upon, who had made use of those sources. in addition, we have to thank him for such copious quotations from the greek commentaries from the time of andronicus of rhodes down to ammonius and damascius, that, for the categories and the physics, the outlines of a history of the interpretation and criticism of those books may be composed. with a correct idea of their importance, simplicius made the most diligent use of the commentaries of alexander of aphrodisias and porphyry; and although he often enough combats the views of the former, he knew how to value, as it deserved, his (in the main) sound critical sense. he has also preserved for us intelligence of several more ancient readings, which now, in part, have vanished from the manuscripts without leaving any trace, and in the paraphrastic sections of his interpretations furnishes us with valuable contributions for correcting or settling the text of aristotle. not less valuable are the contributions towards a knowledge of the ancient astronomical systems for which we have to thank him in his commentary on the books de caelo. we even find in his writings some traces of a disposition for the observation of nature.[ ] although averse to christianity he abstains from assailing christian doctrines, even when he combats expressly the work of his contemporary, john philoponus, directed against the aristotelian doctrine of the eternity of the universe.[ ] in ethics he seems to have abandoned the mystical pantheistic purification-theory of the neoplatonists, and to have found full satisfaction in the ethical system of the later stoics, however little he was disposed towards their logical and physical doctrines. while some sources attribute to simplicius the coining of the phrase πάντα ῥεῖ (panta rhei), meaning "everything flows/is in a state of flux", to characterize the concept in the philosophy of heraclitus,[ ] the essential phrasing "everything changes"[ ] and variations on it, in contexts where heraclitus's thought is being alluded to, was current in both plato and aristotle's writings.[ ][ ] works in english translation[edit] on aristotle's categories[edit] 	simplicius: on aristotle, categories - , translated by michael chase ( ). cornell university press: isbn  - - - , and duckworth, london: isbn  - - - 	simplicius: on aristotle, categories - , translated by frans a.j. de haas and barrie fleet ( ). cornell university press: isbn  - - - , and duckworth, london: isbn  - - - 	simplicius: on aristotle, categories - , translated by barrie fleet ( ). cornell university press: isbn  - - -x, and duckworth, london: isbn  - - - 	simplicius: on aristotle, categories - , translated by richard gaskin ( ). cornell university press: isbn  - - - , and duckworth, london: isbn  - - -x on aristotle's on the heavens[edit] 	simplicius: on aristotle, on the heavens . - , translated by robert j. hankinson ( ). cornell university press: isbn  - - - , and duckworth, london: isbn  - - - 	simplicius: on aristotle, on the heavens . - , translated by ian mueller ( ). duckworth, london: isbn  - - - 	simplicius: on aristotle, on the heavens . - , translated by robert j. hankinson ( ). cornell university press: isbn  - - - , and duckworth, london: isbn  - - - 	simplicius: on aristotle, on the heavens . - , translated by robert j. hankinson ( ). cornell university press: isbn  - - - , and duckworth, london: isbn  - - - 	simplicius: on aristotle, on the heavens . - , translated by ian mueller ( ). cornell university press: isbn  - - - , and duckworth, london: isbn  - - - 	simplicius: on aristotle, on the heavens . - , translated by ian mueller ( ). cornell university press: isbn  - - - , and duckworth, london: isbn  - - - 	simplicius: on aristotle, on the heavens . - , translated by ian mueller ( ). duckworth, london: isbn  - - - 	simplicius: on aristotle, on the heavens . - . , translated by ian mueller ( ). duckworth, london: isbn  - - - on aristotle's physics[edit] 	simplicius: on aristotle, physics . - , translated by pamela m. huby and c. c. w. taylor ( ). duckworth, london: isbn  - - - 	simplicius: on aristotle, physics . - , translated by han baltussen ( ). duckworth, london: isbn  - - - 	simplicius: on aristotle, physics , translated by barrie fleet ( ). cornell university press: isbn  - - - , and duckworth, london: isbn  - - - 	simplicius: on aristotle, physics , translated by james o. urmson ( ). cornell university press: isbn  - - - , and duckworth, london: isbn  - - - 	simplicius: on aristotle, physics . - , - , translated by james o. urmson ( ). cornell university press: isbn  - - - , and duckworth, london: isbn  - - - 	simplicius: on aristotle, physics , translated by james o. urmson ( ). cornell university press: isbn  - - - , and duckworth, london: isbn  - - - 	simplicius: on aristotle, physics , translated by david konstan ( ). cornell university press: isbn  - - - , and duckworth, london: isbn  - - -x 	simplicius: on aristotle, physics , translated by charles hagen ( ). cornell university press: isbn  - - - , and duckworth, london: isbn  - - - 	simplicius: on aristotle, physics . - , translated by richard mckirahan ( ). cornell university press: isbn  - - - , and duckworth, london: isbn  - - - on aristotle's on the soul[edit] 	simplicius: on aristotle, on the soul . - . , translated by james o. urmson ( ). cornell university press: isbn  - - - , and duckworth, london: isbn  - - - 	priscian: on theophrastus on sense-perception, with "simplicius": on aristotle, on the soul . - , translated by carlos steel ( ). cornell university press: isbn  - - - , and duckworth, london: isbn  - - -x 	"simplicius": on aristotle, on the soul . - , translated by henry j. blumenthal ( ). cornell university press: isbn  - - - , and duckworth, london: isbn  - - - on epictetus' handbook[edit] 	simplicius: on epictetus, handbook - , translated by tad brennan and charles brittain ( ). cornell university press: isbn  - - - , and duckworth, london: isbn  - - - 	simplicius: on epictetus, handbook - , translated by tad brennan and charles brittain ( ). cornell university press: isbn  - - - , and duckworth, london: isbn  - - - other works[edit] 	simplicius: corollaries on place and time, translated by james o. urmson ( ). cornell university press: isbn  - - - , and duckworth, london: isbn  - - - 	philoponus: corollaries on place and void, with simplicius: against philoponus on the eternity of the world, translated by david furley and christian wildberg ( ). cornell university press: isbn  - - - , and duckworth, london: isbn  - - - 	philoponus: on aristotle, physics - , with simplicius: on aristotle on the void, translated by paul lettinck and j. o. urmson ( ). cornell university press: isbn  - - - , and duckworth, london: isbn  - - - notes[edit] 	^ agathias, ii. ; suda, presbeis; it is inaccurately that the suda (damascius) calls him a countryman of eulamius the phrygian. 	^ donald j. zeyl, daniel devereux, phillip mitsis, ( ), encyclopedia of classical philosophy. greenwood press 	^ simplicius, in phys. ausc. f. , , etc. 	^ simplicius, in phys. ausc. f. , a. b., , b., , etc. 	^ cod. theod. . tit. . 	^ ad; malalas, xviii.; comp. theophanes, i. . 	^ damascius ap. photius. 	^ procopius, arcan. c. . 	^ agathias, ii. . 	^ simplicius, in arist. phys. ausc. f. . 	^ see especially simplicius in ll. de caelo, f. . 	^ steel c., in priscian, on theophrastus on sense-perception and simplicius' on aristotle's on the soul . - ., cornell university press, . see bryn mawr classical review . . 	^ hadot, i. ( ). "simplicius or pricianus? on the author of the commentary on aristotle's de anima". mnemosyne. ( ): – . doi: . / . 	^ simplicius, de caelo, f. . 	^ simplicius, in arist. phys. ausc. f. , etc. 	^ simplicius, in arist. de anima, . 	^ simplicius, in phys. ausc. f. . 	^ simplicius, in arist. de caelo, , b. 	^ simplicius, comm. in phys. ausc. , ; de anima, , b. . 	^ simplicius, in arist. de caelo, , b, etc., ; in phys. ausc. , , etc., , etc., . 	^ barnes page , and also peters, francis e. ( ). greek philosophical terms: a historical lexicon. nyu press. pp.  . isbn  . simplicius' commentary on aristotle's physica . . 	^ plato, cratylus, d and a 	^ graham, daniel w. ( ). explaining the cosmos: the ionian tradition of scientific philosophy. princeton university press. p.  n. . isbn  - - - . 	^ peters ( ), p. . references[edit] 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: smith, william, ed. ( ). "simplicius". dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology. 	barnes, jonathan ( ). the presocratic philosophers [revised edition]. london & new york: routledge taylor & francis group. isbn  - - - . further reading[edit] 	ilsetraut hadot (ed.), simplicius, sa vie, son œuvre, sa survie. actes du colloque international de paris ( septembre - octobre ) / organised by the centre de recherche sur les œuvres et la pensée de simplicius (rcp -cnrs), berlin & new york, walter de gruyter, , x- p.  isbn  - - - 	ilsetraut hadot: the life and work of simplicius in greek and arabic sources. in: richard sorabji (ed.): aristotle transformed. duckworth, london , pp.  – . isbn  - - - 	han baltussen: philosophy and exegesis in simplicius. the methodology of a commentator. duckworth, london , p.  isbn  - - - - external links[edit] 	simplicius, commentary on the enchiridion of epictetus, translated by george stanhope, 	helmig, christoph. "simplicius". in zalta, edward n. 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navigation 		jump to search 		 silius italicus silius italicus, in full tiberius catius asconius silius italicus[ ] (latin: [ˈsiːlijʊs ɪˈt̪alɪkʊs], c. – c. ad), was a roman consul, orator, and latin epic poet of the st century ad (silver age of latin literature). his only surviving work is the -book punica, an epic poem about the second punic war and the longest surviving poem in latin at over , lines. a painting by joseph wright of derby depicting silius italicus at the tomb of virgil. contents 	 life 	 . sources and birthplace 	 . political career 	 . campanian retirement and suicide 	 works 	 . the punica 	 influence 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links life[edit] sources and birthplace[edit] the sources for the life of silius italicus are primarily letter . of pliny the younger, which is a description of the poet's life written on the occasion of his suicide, some inscriptions,[ ] and several epigrams by the poet martial. silius is believed to have been born between ad and ,[ ] but his birthplace has not been securely identified. italica, in the roman province of hispania, (modern spain), was once considered the prime candidate, based on his cognomen italicus, but, if that were the case, latin usage would have demanded the form italicensis, and it is highly improbable that martial would have failed to name him among the literary celebrities of spain in the latter half of the st century. the city of patavium, padua in northern italy, has been suggested by j. d. campbell based on a seeming bias in favor of the region in the punica and the prevalence of the name asconius in inscriptions from the region.[ ] political career[edit] in early life silius was a renowned forensic orator, later a safe and cautious politician. silius was generally believed to have voluntarily and enthusiastically become an informer under nero, prosecuting in court persons whom the emperor wished condemned.[ ] he was consul in the year of nero's death (ad ), and afterward became a close friend and ally of the emperor vitellius, whom he served, according to pliny sapienter et comiter, wisely and amicably.[ ] he is mentioned by tacitus as having been one of two witnesses who were present at the conferences between vitellius and flavius sabinus, the elder brother of vespasian, when the legions from the east were marching rapidly on the capital.[ ] silius became proconsul of asia ad - as attested in an inscription from aphrodisias which describes his activities in maintaining the institutions of the city.[ ] according to pliny (ep. . ), he performed his duties well and earned himself a place of importance in the empire. campanian retirement and suicide[edit] after his proconsulship in asia, silius seems to have left politics in favor of a leisurely life; despite his wealth and importance in the state, he seems to have exercised little power and avoided offense.[ ] thus, he outlived the flavian dynasty without incident. pliny depicts him spending time in learned conversation at his villas, writing, passionately collecting books and sculpture,[ ] and giving recitations of his works. silius was evidently writing poems as early as ad .[ ] it is firmly believed that the punica was written during this retirement period of silius' life.[ ] martial . indicates that some of the punica had been published by ad and that silius was no longer making speeches in court. book has been dated tentatively to after ad based on the poet's treatment of domitian.[ ] his poem contains several passages relating to the flavians, and domitian is eulogized as a warrior and as a singer whose lyre is sweeter than that of orpheus himself.[ ] the poem mentions primarily domitian but later seems to discuss the emperor nerva, although domitian may be meant by the latter reference.[ ] the poet's attitude to domitian tends to be laudatory and friendly, employing the full spectrum of virgilian panegyrical language and imagery.[ ] silius was considered highly educated by contemporaries. the philosopher epictetus judged him to be the most philosophic spirit among the romans of his time,[ ] and cornutus, the stoic, rhetorician and grammarian, dedicated to silius a commentary upon virgil.[ ] he had two sons, one of whom, severus, died young. the other, decianus, went on to become consul.[ ] as he aged, he moved permanently to his villas in campania, not even leaving to attend the accession ceremony of trajan.[ ] silius idealized and almost worshipped two great romans of the past, cicero and virgil. he purchased cicero's estate at tusculum[ ] and the tomb of virgil in naples, which he restored.[ ] pliny records that silius especially revered virgil, celebrating virgil's birthday more lavishly than his own and treating the poet's tomb as a shrine.[ ] his dual interests in composing epic poetry and discussing philosophical questions have been compared to the intellectual efforts of his heroes, virgil and cicero, respectively.[ ] silius was one of the numerous romans of the early empire who had the courage of their opinions, and carried into perfect practice the theory of suicide developed in stoicism; punica . - contains a praise of suicide. stricken by an incurable tumour after the age of , he starved himself to death around ad, keeping a cheerful countenance to the end. pliny remarks that silius was the last person to die who was consul under nero.[ ] works[edit] whether silius committed his philosophic dialogues and speeches to writing or not, we cannot say. his only preserved work is his epic poem entitled punica, about the second punic war ( – bc) in seventeen books, comprising some twelve thousand lines, making it the longest preserved poem in latin literature.[ ] the punica[edit] the vision of a knight by raphael is based on an episode in book of the punica, the choice of scipio. main article: punica (poem) the dating of the punica has been a difficult issue for classical scholars, but two passages, . and . ff., along with several poems of martial cited above, indicate that it was composed sometime between and , with book being dated to ad and book around ad .[ ] other books cannot be dated with any precision. the poem is divided into books and is composed in dactylic hexameter. it has been thought that the poem was initially planned in hexads and that the original intent was to round off the composition in books.[ ] the poem takes virgil as its primary stylistic and dramatic inspiration throughout; from its opening, the punica is configured as the continuation of juno's grudge against rome developed in the aeneid.[ ] livy and ennius[ ] are important sources for historical and poetic information, and homer specifically is declared an important model by silius who remarks of him at . - , "his [homer's] poetry embraced the earth, sea, stars, and shades and he rivaled the muses in song and phoebus in glory."[ ] lucan is also an important model for the writing of historical epic, geographical excursus, and stoic tone, although silius' approach toward the gods in much more traditional.[ ] the poem opens with a discussion of juno's wrath against rome on account of aeneas' treatment of dido and of hannibal's character and upbringing. hannibal attacks saguntum and receives a roman embassy. in book , the roman legation is heard at carthage, but hannibal takes the city after the defenders heroically commit suicide. the carthaginians are catalogued, hannibal crosses the alps, and jupiter reveals that the punic war is a test of roman manliness in book . in and the romans suffer defeat at ticinus, trebia, and lake trasimene. book looks back to the exploits of marcus atilius regulus in the first punic war, while book describes quintus fabius maximus verrucosus' delaying strategy. books - describe in vivid detail the battle of cannae; juno prevents hannibal from marching on rome. in book , hannibal's army winters in capua, where venus enfeebles them with luxury. hannibal is defeated at nola in , emboldening the romans. he makes an attempt on the city, but juno stops him, revealing that the gods are against him. book reports the romans' invasion of capua and the death of two scipios, which leads to scipio africanus' journey to the underworld (nekyia), his meeting with famous dead heroes, and a prophecy by the sibyl of hannibal's defeat. in the marcellus' successful sicilian campaign and the siegecraft of archimedes are described. in , scipio, choosing virtue over vice, has a successful campaign in spain, while at the battle of the metaurus, hannibal's brother is killed. describes the alliance between rome and masinissa and scipio's crossing into africa, while describes the bringing of the statue of cybele to rome, hannibal's stormy crossing into africa, juno's appeal to jupiter for the life of hannibal, and the battle of zama. the poem ends with scipio's triumphal return to rome. silius' style is unlike virgil in that he does not focus on a few central characters but divides his action up between many significant heroes.[ ] this encourages him to present important events from the roman past as a reflection on the characters and their actions in the poem's present, echoing the roman tradition of using exempla. while many important set pieces of epic are included, such as elaborated similes, ekphrases of objects, such as hannibal's shield in . - , a nekyia, and divine participation in and prophecy of events, there are also important elements of historiography such as paired contrasting speeches and detailed geographical description. allegory is particularly important in silius, and he includes such figures as fides, faith, in book , italia in , and virtus and voluptas also in book , continuing a trend towards allegory which was significant in statius, silius' contemporary.[ ] silius' metrics and language can be closely compared to virgilian usage, especially his use of spondees.[ ] stoicism and stoic ethical thought are significant themes in the punica. the war is configured as a trial of roman virtus which must be overcome with hard work, akin to the stoic ideal of overcoming adversity with inner courage and trial.[ ] the "choice of hercules", a favorite stoic parable, is given to scipio in book , and everywhere the war brings out moral lessons and discussions of stoic concepts like emotion, reason, and destiny. influence[edit] the only ancient authors to refer to silius are martial, pliny, and sidonius apollinaris. pliny's judgment that silius wrote poetry maiore cura quam ingenio (with more eagerness than genius) has encouraged the view that silius is a talented but mediocre and uninspired poet. the poem seems to have been mostly unknown in the middle ages. petrarch's africa was composed independently of the punica, as the manuscript was discovered by poggio bracciolini in at the abbey of saint gall during the council of constance.[ ] julius caesar scaliger's harsh opinion of silius damaged his reputation.[ ] many authors were familiar with silius' work, such as montaigne, milton, dryden (who considered him better than lucan), gibbon, and alexander pope.[ ] joseph addison particularly includes many quotations of silius in his dialogue on medals as does thomas macaulay in his works.[ ] interest in silius mostly vanished in the th century.[ ] as for visual arts, raphael's vision of the knight is a treatment of silius' choice of scipio.[ ] despite silius' poor reputation, classical scholars with their renewed interest in later imperial epic seem to be finally turning their attentions to silius' poetry.[citation needed] references[edit] 	^ "silius italicus". encyclopædia britannica. 	^ von albrecht, p. n. 	^ m. von albrecht, a history of latin literature, vol. p. . 	^ d. j. campbell, "the birthplace of silius italicus", the classical review ( ), pp. - . 	^ a b pliny . . 	^ tacitus histories . 	^ w. calder, "silius italicus in asia", classical review, ( ), pp. - . 	^ pliny ep. . . 	^ martial remarks in . that silius read his epigrams. 	^ martial . . 	^ von albrecht p. n. 	^ w. macdermott and a. orentzel, "silius and domitian", american journal of philology, ( ) pp. - 	^ punica . - and . - . 	^ w. macdermott and a. orentzel pp. - . 	^ w. macdermott and a. orentzel, pp. - 	^ epict. diss. . . 	^ char. gramm. . . - . 	^ martial . 	^ pliny, ep. . . 	^ a b martial . . 	^ martial . . 	^ pliny, ep. . . - . 	^ pliny, ep. . . . 	^ "punica". encyclopædia britannica. 	^ e. wistrand, die chronologie der punica des silius italicus goeteborg, . 	^ von albrecht, p. 	^ von albrecht, pp. ff. for a discussion of sources. 	^ pun. . - is a passage in praise of ennius. 	^ von albrecht, p. for a list of homeric episodes in silius which are not found in virgil. 	^ von albrecht, p. . 	^ von albrecht, p. . 	^ feeney, d. the gods in epic (oxford, ) 	^ von albrecht, p. . 	^ von albrecht, pp. ff. for a discussion of silius' stoicism with references. 	^ g. b. conte a history of latin literature (baltimore, ) p. . 	^ a b von albrecht, p. . 	^ e. bassett "silius italicus in england" in classical philology , pp. - . 	^ e. bassett pp. - . 	^ e. bassett, p. further reading[edit] 	augoustakis, antony. . motherhood and the other: fashioning female power in flavian epic. oxford: oxford univ. press. 	augoustakis, antony. . "the other as same: non-roman mothers in silius italicus' punica," classical philology . : – . 	dominik, william j. . the reception of silius italicus in modern scholarship. in brill’s companion to silius italicus. edited by antony augoustakis, – . leiden, the netherlands: brill. 	keith, alison m. . "engendering orientalism in silius’ punica." in brill’s companion to silius italicus. edited by antony augoustakis, – . leiden, the netherlands: brill. 	marks, raymond. . from republic to empire. scipio africanus in the punica of silius italicus. frankfurt am main: peter lang. 	marks, raymond. . "the song and the sword: silius’ punica and the crisis of early imperial epic." in epic and history. edited by david kostan and kurt raaflaub, – . malden, ma: wiley. 	santini, carlo. . silius italicus and his view of the past. amsterdam: j. c. gieben. 	stocks, claire. . the roman hannibal: remembering the enemy in silius italicus’ 'punica'. liverpool: liverpool university press. 	tipping, benjamin. . exemplary epic: silius italicus’ punica. oxford: oxford univ. press. external links[edit] 	library resources about silius italicus 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 by silius italicus 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	reid, james smith ( ). "silius italicus" . in chisholm, hugh (ed.). encyclopædia britannica. 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"pornographic" paintings were featured among the art collections in respectable upperclass households.[ ] it was considered natural and unremarkable for men to be sexually attracted to teen-aged youths of both sexes, and pederasty was condoned as long as the younger male partner was not a freeborn roman. "homosexual" and "heterosexual" did not form the primary dichotomy of roman thinking about sexuality, and no latin words for these concepts exist.[ ] no moral censure was directed at the man who enjoyed sex acts with either women or males of inferior status, as long as his behaviors revealed no weaknesses or excesses, nor infringed on the rights and prerogatives of his masculine peers. while perceived effeminacy was denounced, especially in political rhetoric, sex in moderation with male prostitutes or slaves was not regarded as improper or vitiating to masculinity, if the male citizen took the active and not the receptive role. hypersexuality, however, was condemned morally and medically in both men and women. women were held to a stricter moral code,[ ] and same-sex relations between women are poorly documented, but the sexuality of women is variously celebrated or reviled throughout latin literature. in general the romans had more flexible gender categories than the ancient greeks.[ ] a late- th-century paradigm analyzed roman sexuality in terms of a "penetrator–penetrated" binary model, a misleadingly rigid analysis that may obscure expressions of sexuality among individual romans.[ ] even the relevance of the word "sexuality" to ancient roman culture has been disputed,[ ][ ][ ] but in the absence of any other label for "the cultural interpretation of erotic experience", the term continues to be used.[ ] contents 	 erotic literature and art 	 sex, religion and the state 	 . moral and legal concepts 	 . . castitas 	 . . incestum 	 . . stuprum 	 . . raptus 	 . healing and magic 	 theories of sexuality 	 . epicurean sexuality 	 . stoic sexual morality 	 male sexuality 	 . male nudity 	 . phallic sexuality 	 . . castration and circumcision 	 . regulating semen 	 . effeminacy and transvestism 	 . male–male sex 	 . the rape of men 	 . sex in the military 	 female sexuality 	 . the female body 	 . . female genitals 	 . . breasts 	 . female–female sex 	 . rape 	 . . the mythology of rape 	 . . rape and the law 	 sexuality and children 	 . rites of passage 	 sex, marriage, and society 	 . marital sex 	 . . the wedding night 	 . . fidelity and adultery 	 . master-slave relations 	 . prostitution 	 . . pleasure and infamy 	 . . private sex clubs 	 sex acts and positions 	 . male–female sex 	 . . mulier equitans 	 . anal sex 	 . os impurum 	 . . cunnilingus and fellatio 	 . . irrumatio 	 . group sex 	 . masturbation 	 . bestiality 	 hermaphroditism and androgyny 	 sexual conquest and imperialism 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 cited sources 	 further reading 	 external links erotic literature and art[edit] romantic scene from a mosaic (villa at centocelle, rome,  bc–  ad) ancient literature pertaining to roman sexuality falls mainly into four categories: legal texts; medical texts; poetry; and political discourse.[ ] forms of expression with lower cultural cachet in antiquity—such as comedy, satire, invective, love poetry, graffiti, magic spells, inscriptions, and interior decoration—have more to say about sex than elevated genres, such as epic and tragedy. information about the sex lives of the romans is scattered in historiography, oratory, philosophy, and writings on medicine, agriculture, and other technical topics.[ ] legal texts point to behaviors romans wanted to regulate or prohibit, without necessarily reflecting what people actually did or refrained from doing.[ ] major latin authors whose works contribute significantly to an understanding of roman sexuality include: 	the comic playwright plautus (d.  bc), whose plots often revolve around sex comedy and young lovers kept apart by circumstances; 	the statesman and moralist cato the elder (d.  bc), who offers glimpses of sexuality at a time that later romans regarded as having higher moral standards; 	the poet lucretius (d. c.  bc), who presents an extended treatment of epicurean sexuality in his philosophical work de rerum natura; 	catullus (fl. s bc), whose poems explore a range of erotic experience near the end of the republic, from delicate romanticism to brutally obscene invective; 	cicero (d.  bc), with courtroom speeches that often attack the opposition's sexual conduct and letters peppered with gossip about rome's elite; 	the augustan elegists propertius and tibullus, who reveal social attitudes in describing love affairs with mistresses; 	ovid (d.  ad), especially his amores ("love affairs") and ars amatoria ("art of love"), which according to tradition contributed to augustus's decision to exile the poet, and his epic, the metamorphoses, which presents a range of sexuality, with an emphasis on rape, through the lens of mythology; 	the epigrammatist martial (d. c. /  ad), whose observations of society are braced by sexually explicit invective; 	the satirist juvenal (d. early nd century ad), who rails against the sexual mores of his time. ovid lists a number of writers known for salacious material whose works are now lost.[ ] greek sex manuals and "straightforward pornography"[ ] were published under the name of famous heterai (courtesans), and circulated in rome. the robustly sexual milesiaca of aristides was translated by sisenna, one of the praetors of  bc. ovid calls the book a collection of misdeeds (crimina), and says the narrative was laced with dirty jokes.[ ] after the battle of carrhae, the parthians were reportedly shocked to find the milesiaca in the baggage of marcus crassus's officers.[ ] erotic art, especially as preserved in pompeii and herculaneum, is a rich if not unambiguous source; some images contradict sexual preferences stressed in literary sources and may be intended to provoke laughter or challenge conventional attitudes.[ ] everyday objects such as mirrors and serving vessels might be decorated with erotic scenes; on arretine ware, these range from "elegant amorous dalliance" to explicit views of the penis entering the vagina.[ ] erotic paintings were found in the most respectable houses of the roman nobility, as ovid notes: just as venerable figures of men, painted by the hand of an artist, are resplendent in our houses, so too there is a small painting (tabella)[ ] in some spot which depicts various couplings and sexual positions: just as telamonian ajax sits with an expression that declares his anger, and the barbarian mother (medea) has crime in her eyes, so too a wet venus dries her dripping hair with her fingers and is viewed barely covered by the maternal waters.[ ] erotic art on a wall of the house of the centenary, pompeii the pornographic tabella and the erotically charged venus appear among various images that a connoisseur of art might enjoy.[ ] a series of paintings from the suburban baths at pompeii, discovered in and published in , presents erotic scenarios that seem intended "to amuse the viewer with outrageous sexual spectacle," including a variety of positions, oral sex, and group sex featuring male–female, male–male, and female–female relations.[ ] the décor of a roman bedroom could reflect quite literally its sexual use: the augustan poet horace supposedly had a mirrored room for sex, so that when he hired a prostitute he could watch from all angles.[ ] the emperor tiberius had his bedrooms decorated with "the most lascivious" paintings and sculptures, and stocked with greek sex manuals by elephantis in case those employed in sex needed direction.[ ] in the nd century ad, "there is a boom in texts about sex in greek and latin," along with romance novels.[ ] but frank sexuality all but disappears from literature thereafter, and sexual topics are reserved for medical writing or christian theology. in the rd century, celibacy had become an ideal among the growing number of christians, and church fathers such as tertullian and clement of alexandria debated whether even marital sex should be permitted for procreation. the sexuality of martyrology focuses on tests against the christian's chastity[ ] and sexual torture; christian women are more often than men subjected to sexual mutilation, in particular of the breasts.[n ] the obscene humor of martial was briefly revived in th-century bordeaux by the gallo-roman scholar-poet ausonius, although he shunned martial's predilection for pederasty and was at least nominally a christian.[ ] sex, religion and the state[edit] a man prepares the nocturnal sacrifice of a pig to priapus, with cupid as the swineherd[ ] (wall painting, villa of the mysteries) like other aspects of roman life, sexuality was supported and regulated by religious traditions, both the public cult of the state and private religious practices and magic. sexuality was an important category of roman religious thought.[ ] the complement of male and female was vital to the roman concept of deity. the dii consentes were a council of deities in male–female pairs, to some extent rome's equivalent to the twelve olympians of the greeks.[ ] at least two state priesthoods were held jointly by a married couple.[ ] the vestal virgins, the one state priesthood reserved for women, took a vow of chastity that granted them relative independence from male control; among the religious objects in their keeping was a sacred phallus:[ ] "vesta's fire ... evoked the idea of sexual purity in the female" and "represented the procreative power of the male".[ ] the men who served in the various colleges of priests were expected to marry and have families. cicero held that the desire (libido) to procreate was "the seedbed of the republic", as it was the cause for the first form of social institution, marriage. marriage produced children and in turn a "house" (domus) for family unity that was the building block of urban life.[ ] many roman religious festivals had an element of sexuality. the february lupercalia, celebrated as late as the th century of the christian era, included an archaic fertility rite. the floralia featured nude dancing. at certain religious festivals throughout april, prostitutes participated or were officially recognized.[ ] the connections among human reproduction, general prosperity, and the wellbeing of the state are embodied by the roman cult of venus, who differs from her greek counterpart aphrodite in her role as a mother of the roman people through her half-mortal son aeneas.[ ] during the civil wars of the s bc, sulla, about to invade his own country with the legions under his command, issued a coin depicting a crowned venus as his personal patron deity, with cupid holding a palm branch of victory; on the reverse military trophies flank symbols of the augurs, the state priests who read the will of the gods. the iconography links deities of love and desire with military success and religious authority; sulla adopted the title epaphroditus, "aphrodite's own", before he became a dictator.[ ] the fascinum, a phallic charm, was ubiquitous in roman culture, appearing on everything from jewelry to bells and wind chimes to lamps,[ ] including as an amulet to protect children[ ] and triumphing generals.[ ] denarius issued ca. –  bc under sulla picturing venus with a diadem and a standing cupid with a palm branch, and on the reverse two military trophies and religious implements (jug and lituus) cupid inspired desire; the imported god priapus represented gross or humorous lust; mutunus tutunus promoted marital sex. the god liber (understood as the "free one") oversaw physiological responses during sexual intercourse. when a male assumed the toga virilis, "toga of manhood," liber became his patron; according to the love poets, he left behind the innocent modesty (pudor) of childhood and acquired the sexual freedom (libertas) to begin his course of love.[ ] a host of deities oversaw every aspect of intercourse, conception, and childbirth.[ ] classical myths often deal with sexual themes such as gender identity, adultery, incest, and rape. roman art and literature continued the hellenistic treatment of mythological figures having sex as humanly erotic and at times humorous, often removed from the religious dimension.[ ] moral and legal concepts[edit] castitas[edit] the latin word castitas, from which the english "chastity" derives, is an abstract noun denoting "a moral and physical purity usually in a specifically religious context", sometimes but not always referring to sexual chastity.[ ] the related adjective castus (feminine casta, neuter castum), "pure", can be used of places and objects as well as people; the adjective pudicus ("chaste, modest") describes more specifically a person who is sexually moral.[ ] the goddess ceres was concerned with both ritual and sexual castitas, and the torch carried in her honor as part of the roman wedding procession was associated with the bride's purity; ceres also embodied motherhood.[ ] the goddess vesta was the primary deity of the roman pantheon associated with castitas, and a virgin goddess herself; her priestesses the vestals were virgins who took a vow to remain celibate. incestum[edit] a vestal incestum (that which is "not castum") is an act that violates religious purity,[ ] perhaps synonymous with that which is nefas, religiously impermissible.[ ] the violation of a vestal's vow of chastity was incestum, a legal charge brought against her and the man who rendered her impure through sexual relations, whether consensually or by force. a vestal's loss of castitas ruptured rome's treaty with the gods (pax deorum),[ ] and was typically accompanied by the observation of bad omens (prodigia). prosecutions for incestum involving a vestal often coincide with political unrest, and some charges of incestum seem politically motivated:[ ] marcus crassus was acquitted of incestum with a vestal who shared his family name.[ ] although the english word "incest" derives from the latin, incestuous relations are only one form of roman incestum,[ ] sometimes translated as "sacrilege". when clodius pulcher dressed as a woman and intruded on the all-female rites of the bona dea, he was charged with incestum.[ ] stuprum[edit] in latin legal and moral discourse, stuprum is illicit sexual intercourse, translatable as "criminal debauchery"[ ] or "sex crime".[ ] stuprum encompasses diverse sexual offenses including incestum, rape ("unlawful sex by force"),[ ] and adultery. in early rome, stuprum was a disgraceful act in general, or any public disgrace, including but not limited to illicit sex.[n ] by the time of the comic playwright plautus (ca. –  bc) it had acquired its more restricted sexual meaning.[ ] stuprum can occur only among citizens; protection from sexual misconduct was among the legal rights that distinguished the citizen from the non-citizen.[ ] although the noun stuprum may be translated into english as fornication, the intransitive verb "to fornicate" (itself derived from the latin fornicarium,[citation needed] which originally meant "a vaulted room"; the small vaulted rooms in which some prostitutes plied their trade led to the verb fornicare) is an inadequate translation of the latin stuprare, which is a transitive verb requiring a direct object (the person who is the target of the misconduct) and a male agent (the stuprator).[ ] raptus[edit] see also: raptio the english word "rape" derives ultimately from the latin verb rapio, rapere, raptus, "to snatch, carry away, abduct" (the words rapt, rapture, and raptor still have the same meaning). in roman law, raptus or raptio meant primarily kidnapping or abduction;[ ] the mythological rape of the sabine women is a form of bride abduction in which sexual violation is a secondary issue. (before the word "rape" acquired its modern strictly sexual meaning, the verb meant simply to seize something or someone by force; this usage persisted at least into the early th century.) the abduction of an unmarried girl from her father's household in some circumstances was a matter of the couple eloping without her father's permission to marry. rape in the english sense was more often expressed as stuprum committed through violence or coercion (cum vi or per vim). as laws pertaining to violence were codified toward the end of the republic, raptus ad stuprum, "abduction for the purpose of committing a sex crime", emerged as a legal distinction.[ ] (see further discussion of rape under "the rape of men" and "rape and the law" below.) healing and magic[edit] votive offerings from pompeii representing breasts, penises, and a uterus divine aid might be sought in private religious rituals along with medical treatments to enhance or block fertility, or to cure diseases of the reproductive organs. votive offerings (vota; compare ex-voto) in the form of breasts and penises have been found at healing sanctuaries. a private ritual under some circumstances might be considered "magic", an indistinct category in antiquity.[ ] an amatorium (greek philtron) was a love charm or potion;[ ] binding spells (defixiones) were supposed to "fix" a person's sexual affection.[ ] the greek magical papyri, a collection of syncretic magic texts, contain many love spells that indicate "there was a very lively market in erotic magic in the roman period", catered by freelance priests who at times claimed to derive their authority from the egyptian religious tradition.[ ] canidia, a witch described by horace, performs a spell using a female effigy to dominate a smaller male doll.[ ] aphrodisiacs, anaphrodisiacs, contraceptives, and abortifacients are preserved by both medical handbooks and magic texts; potions can be difficult to distinguish from pharmacology. in his book de medicamentis, marcellus of bordeaux, a contemporary of ausonius,[ ] collected more than sexually related treatments—for growths and lesions on the testicles and penis, undescended testicles, erectile dysfunction, hydrocele, "creating a eunuch without surgery",[ ] ensuring a woman's fidelity, and compelling or diminishing a man's desire—some of which involve ritual procedures: if you’ve had a woman, and you don't want another man ever to get inside her, do this: cut off the tail of a live green lizard with your left hand and release it while it’s still alive. keep the tail closed up in the palm of the same hand until it dies and touch the woman and her private parts when you have intercourse with her.[ ] there is an herb called nymphaea in greek, 'hercules’ club' in latin, and baditis in gaulish. its root, pounded to a paste and drunk in vinegar for ten consecutive days, has the astonishing effect of turning a boy into a eunuch.[ ] if the spermatic veins of an immature boy should become enlarged,[n ] split a young cherry-tree down the middle to its roots while leaving it standing, in such a way that the boy can be passed through the cleft. then join the sapling together again and seal it with cow manure and other dressings, so that the parts that were split may intermingle within themselves more easily. the speed with which the sapling grows together and its scar forms will determine how quickly the swollen veins of the boy will return to health.[ ] marcellus also records which herbs[ ] could be used to induce menstruation, or to purge the womb after childbirth or abortion; these herbs include potential abortifacients and may have been used as such.[ ] other sources advise remedies such as coating the penis with a mixture of honey and pepper to get an erection,[ ] or boiling an ass's genitals in oil as an ointment.[ ] theories of sexuality[edit] ancient theories of sexuality were produced by and for an educated elite. the extent to which theorizing about sex actually affected behavior is debatable, even among those who were attentive to the philosophical and medical writings that presented such views. this elite discourse, while often deliberately critical of common or typical behaviors, at the same time cannot be assumed to exclude values broadly held within the society. epicurean sexuality[edit] "nor does he who avoids love lack the fruit of venus but rather chooses goods which are without a penalty; for certainly the pleasure from this is more pure for the healthy than for the wretched. for indeed, at the very moment of possession, the hot passion of lovers fluctuates with uncertain wanderings and they are undecided what to enjoy first with eyes and hands. they tightly press what they have sought and cause bodily pain, and often drive their teeth into little lips and give crushing kisses, because the pleasure is not pure and there are goads underneath which prod them to hurt that very thing, whatever it is, from which those [torments] of frenzy spring."[ ] lucretius, de rerum natura . – the fourth book of lucretius' de rerum natura provides one of the most extended passages on human sexuality in latin literature. yeats, describing the translation by dryden, called it "the finest description of sexual intercourse ever written."[ ] lucretius was the contemporary of catullus and cicero in the mid- st century bc. his didactic poem de rerum natura is a presentation of epicurean philosophy within the ennian tradition of latin poetry. epicureanism is both materialist and hedonic. the highest good is pleasure, defined as the absence of physical pain and emotional distress.[ ] the epicurean seeks to gratify his desires with the least expenditure of passion and effort. desires are ranked as those that are both natural and necessary, such as hunger and thirst; those that are natural but unnecessary, such as sex; and those that are neither natural nor necessary, including the desire to rule over others and glorify oneself.[ ] it is within this context that lucretius presents his analysis of love and sexual desire, which counters the erotic ethos of catullus and influenced the love poets of the augustan period.[ ] lucretius treats male desire, female sexual pleasure, heredity, and infertility as aspects of sexual physiology. in the epicurean view, sexuality arises from impersonal physical causes without divine or supernatural influence. the onset of physical maturity generates semen, and wet dreams occur as the sexual instinct develops.[ ][ ] sense perception, specifically the sight of a beautiful body, provokes the movement of semen into the genitals and toward the object of desire. the engorgement of the genitals creates an urge to ejaculate, coupled with the anticipation of pleasure. the body's response to physical attractiveness is automatic, and neither the character of the person desired nor one's own choice is a factor. with a combination of scientific detachment and ironic humor, lucretius treats the human sex drive as muta cupido, "dumb desire", comparing the physiological response of ejaculation to the blood spurting from a wound.[ ] love (amor) is merely an elaborate cultural posturing that obscures a glandular condition;[ ] love taints sexual pleasure just as life is tainted by the fear of death.[ ] lucretius is writing primarily for a male audience, and assumes that love is a male passion, directed at either boys or women.[ ][ ] male desire is viewed as pathological, frustrating, and violent.[ ] lucretius thus expresses an epicurean ambivalence toward sexuality, which threatens one's peace of mind with agitation if desire becomes a form of bondage and torment,[ ] but his view of female sexuality is less negative.[ ] while men are driven by unnatural expectations to engage in onesided and desperate sex, women act on a purely animal instinct toward affection, which leads to mutual satisfaction.[ ] the comparison with female animals in heat is meant not as an insult, though there are a few traces of conventional misogyny in the work, but to indicate that desire is natural and should not be experienced as torture.[ ] having analyzed the sex act, lucretius then considers conception and what in modern terms would be called genetics. both man and woman, he says, produce genital fluids that mingle in a successful procreative act. the characteristics of the child are formed by the relative proportions of the mother's "seed" to the father's. a child who most resembles its mother is born when the female seed dominates the male's, and vice versa; when neither the male nor female seed dominates, the child will have traits of both mother and father evenly.[ ] infertility occurs when the two partners fail to make a satisfactory match of their seed after several attempts; the explanation for infertility is physiological and rational, and has nothing to do with the gods.[ ][ ] the transfer of genital "seed" (semina) is consonant with epicurean physics and the theme of the work as a whole: the invisible semina rerum, "seeds of things," continually dissolve and recombine in universal flux.[ ] the vocabulary of biological procreation underlies lucretius's presentation of how matter is formed from atoms.[ ] lucretius' purpose is to correct ignorance and to give the knowledge necessary for managing one's sex life rationally.[ ] he distinguishes between pleasure and conception as goals of copulation; both are legitimate, but require different approaches.[ ] he recommends casual sex as a way of releasing sexual tension without becoming obsessed with a single object of desire;[ ][ ] a "streetwalking venus"—a common prostitute—should be used as a surrogate.[ ] sex without passionate attachment produces a superior form of pleasure free of uncertainty, frenzy, and mental disturbance.[ ][ ] lucretius calls this form of sexual pleasure venus, in contrast to amor, passionate love.[ ][ ] the best sex is that of happy animals, or of gods.[ ] lucretius combines an epicurean wariness of sex as a threat to peace of mind with the roman cultural value placed on sexuality as an aspect of marriage and family life,[ ] pictured as an epicurean man in a tranquil and friendly marriage with a good but homely woman, beauty being a disquieting prompt to excessive desire.[ ] lucretius reacts against the roman tendency to display sex ostentatiously, as in erotic art, and rejects the aggressive, "priapic" model of sexuality spurred by visual stimulus.[ ] stoic sexual morality[edit] in early stoicism among the greeks, sex was regarded as a good, if enjoyed between people who maintained the principles of respect and friendship; in the ideal society, sex should be enjoyed freely, without bonds of marriage that treated the partner as property. some greek stoics privileged same-sex relations between a man and a younger male partner[ ][ ] (see "pederasty in ancient greece"). however, stoics in the roman imperial era departed from the view of human beings as "communally sexual animals"[ ] and emphasized sex within marriage,[ ] which as an institution helped sustain social order.[ ] although they distrusted strong passions, including sexual desire,[ ] sexual vitality was necessary for procreation. roman-era stoics such as seneca and musonius rufus, both active about years after lucretius, emphasized "sex unity" over the polarity of the sexes.[ ] although musonius is predominately a stoic, his philosophy also partakes of platonism and pythagoreanism.[ ] he rejected the aristotelian tradition, which portrayed sexual dimorphism as expressing a proper relation of those ruling (male) and those being ruled (female), and distinguished men from women as biologically lacking. dimorphism exists, according to musonius, simply to create difference, and difference in turn creates the desire for a complementary relationship, that is, a couple who will bond for life for the sake of each other and for their children.[ ] the roman ideal of marriage was a partnership of companions who work together to produce and rear children, manage everyday affairs, lead exemplary lives, and enjoy affection; musonius drew on this ideal to promote the stoic view that the capacity for virtue and self-mastery was not gender-specific.[ ] marcus aurelius wrote that sex "is the friction of a piece of gut and, following a sort of convulsion, the expulsion of some mucus" both musonius and seneca criticized the double standard, cultural and legal, that granted roman men greater sexual freedom than women.[ ][ ] men, musonius argues, are excused by society for resorting to prostitutes and slaves to satisfy their sexual appetites, while such behavior from a woman would not be tolerated; therefore, if men presume to exercise authority over women because they believe themselves to have greater self-control, they ought to be able to manage their sex drive. the argument, then, is not that sexual freedom is a human good, but that men as well as women should exercise sexual restraint.[ ][ ] a man visiting a prostitute does harm to himself by lacking self-discipline; disrespect for his wife and her expectations of fidelity would not be at issue.[ ] similarly, a man should not be so self-indulgent as to exploit a female slave sexually; however, her right not to be used is not a motive for his restraint.[ ] musonius maintained that even within marriage, sex should be undertaken as an expression of affection and for procreation, and not for "bare pleasure".[ ] musonius disapproved of same-sex relations because they lacked a procreative purpose.[ ][ ] seneca and epictetus also thought that procreation privileged male–female sexual pairing within marriage,[ ] and seneca strongly opposed adultery, finding it particularly offensive by women.[ ] although seneca is known primarily as a stoic philosopher, he draws on neopythagoreanism for his views on sexual austerity.[ ] neopythagoreans characterized sexuality outside marriage as disordered and undesirable; celibacy was not an ideal, but chastity within marriage was.[ ] to seneca, sexual desire for pleasure (libido) is a "destructive force (exitium) insidiously fixed in the innards"; unregulated, it becomes cupiditas, lust. the only justification for sex is reproduction within marriage.[ ] although other stoics see potential in beauty to be an ethical stimulus, a way to attract and develop affection and friendship within sexual relations, seneca distrusts the love of physical beauty as destroying reason to the point of insanity.[ ] a man should have no sexual partner other than his wife,[ ] and the wise man (sapiens, greek sophos) will make love to his wife by exercising good judgment (iudicium), not emotion (affectus).[ ] this is a far stricter view than that of other stoics who advocate sex as a means of promoting mutual affection within marriage.[ ] venus rising from the sea, a wall painting from pompeii the philosophical view of the body as a corpse that carries around the soul[ ] could result in outright contempt for sexuality: the emperor and stoic philosopher marcus aurelius writes, "as for sexual intercourse, it is the friction of a piece of gut and, following a sort of convulsion, the expulsion of some mucus".[ ] seneca rails "at great length" against the perversity of one hostius quadra, who surrounded himself with the equivalent of funhouse mirrors so he could view sex parties from distorted angles and penises would look bigger.[ ] sexual severity opened the roman stoics to charges of hypocrisy: juvenal satirizes those who affect a rough and manly stoic façade but privately indulge.[ ] it was routinely joked that not only were stoics inclined toward pederasty, they liked young men who were acquiring beards, contrary to roman sexual custom.[ ] martial repeatedly makes insinuations about those who were outwardly stoic but privately enjoyed the passive homosexual role.[ ] stoic sexual ethics are grounded in their physics and cosmology.[ ] the th-century writer macrobius preserves a stoic interpretation of the myth of the birth of venus as a result of the primal castration of the deity heaven (latin caelus).[n ] the myth, macrobius indicates, could be understood as an allegory of the doctrine of seminal reason. the elements derive from the semina, "seeds," that are generated by heaven; "love" brings together the elements in the act of creation, like the sexual union of male and female.[ ] cicero suggests that in stoic allegory the severing of reproductive organs signifies, "...that the highest heavenly aether, that seed-fire which generates all things, did not require the equivalent of human genitals to proceed in its generative work".[ ] male sexuality[edit] male–female couple on an oil lamp (römisch-germanisches museum) during the republic, a roman citizen's political liberty (libertas) was defined in part by the right to preserve his body from physical compulsion, including both corporal punishment and sexual abuse.[ ] virtus, "valor" as that which made a man most fully a man (vir), was among the active virtues.[ ][ ][ ] roman ideals of masculinity were thus premised on taking an active role that was also, as williams has noted, "the prime directive of masculine sexual behavior for romans." the impetus toward action might express itself most intensely in an ideal of dominance that reflects the hierarchy of roman patriarchal society.[ ] the "conquest mentality" was part of a "cult of virility" that particularly shaped roman homosexual practices.[ ][ ] in the late th and early st centuries, an emphasis on domination has led scholars to view expressions of roman male sexuality in terms of a "penetrator-penetrated" binary model; that is, the proper way for a roman male to seek sexual gratification was to insert his penis in his partner.[ ] allowing himself to be penetrated threatened his liberty as a free citizen as well as his sexual integrity.[ ] it was expected and socially acceptable for a freeborn roman man to want sex with both female and male partners, as long as he took the dominating role.[ ] acceptable objects of desire were women of any social or legal status, male prostitutes, or male slaves, but sexual behaviors outside marriage were to be confined to slaves and prostitutes, or less often a concubine or "kept woman." lack of self-control, including in managing one's sex life, indicated that a man was incapable of governing others;[ ] the enjoyment of "low sensual pleasure" threatened to erode the elite male's identity as a cultured person.[ ] it was a point of pride for gaius gracchus to claim that during his term as a provincial governor he kept no slave-boys chosen for their good looks, no female prostitutes visited his house, and he never accosted other men's slave-boys.[ ][ ] in the imperial era, anxieties about the loss of political liberty and the subordination of the citizen to the emperor were expressed by a perceived increase in passive homosexual behavior among free men, accompanied by a documentable increase in the execution and corporal punishment of citizens.[ ] the dissolution of republican ideals of physical integrity in relation to libertas contributes to and is reflected by the sexual license and decadence associated with the empire.[ ] male nudity[edit] roman neo-attic stele depicting a warrior in a muscle cuirass, idealizing the male form without nudity ( st century bc) the poet ennius (ca. –  bc) declared that "exposing naked bodies among citizens is the beginning of public disgrace (flagitium)," a sentiment echoed by cicero that again links the self-containment of the body with citizenship.[ ][ ][ ][ ] roman attitudes toward nudity differed from those of the greeks, whose ideal of masculine excellence was expressed by the nude male body in art and in such real-life venues as athletic contests. the toga, by contrast, distinguished the body of the sexually privileged adult roman male.[ ] even when stripping down for exercises, roman men kept their genitals and buttocks covered, an italic custom shared also with the etruscans, whose art mostly shows them wearing a loincloth, a skirt-like garment, or the earliest form of "shorts" for athletics. romans who competed in the olympic games presumably followed the greek custom of nudity, but athletic nudity at rome has been dated variously, possibly as early as the introduction of greek-style games in the nd century bc but perhaps not regularly till the time of nero around  ad.[ ] public nudity might be offensive or distasteful even in traditional settings; cicero derides mark antony as undignified for appearing near-naked as a participant in the lupercalia, even though it was ritually required.[ ][ ] nudity is one of the themes of this religious festival that most consumes ovid's attention in the fasti, his long-form poem on the roman calendar.[ ] augustus, during his program of religious revivalism, attempted to reform the lupercalia, in part by suppressing the use of nudity despite its fertility aspect.[ ] negative connotations of nudity include defeat in war, since captives were stripped, and slavery, since slaves for sale were often displayed naked. the disapproval of nudity was thus less a matter of trying to suppress inappropriate sexual desire than of dignifying and marking the citizen's body.[ ] the influence of greek art, however, led to "heroic" nude portrayals of roman men and gods, a practice that began in the nd century bc. when statues of roman generals nude in the manner of hellenistic kings first began to be displayed, they were shocking not simply because they exposed the male figure, but because they evoked concepts of royalty and divinity that were contrary to republican ideals of citizenship as embodied by the toga.[ ] the god mars is presented as a mature, bearded man in the attire of a roman general when he is conceived of as the dignified father of the roman people, while depictions of mars as youthful, beardless, and nude show the influence of the greek ares. in art produced under augustus, the programmatic adoption of hellenistic and neo-attic style led to more complex signification of the male body shown nude, partially nude, or costumed in a muscle cuirass.[ ] one exception to public nudity was the baths, though attitudes toward nude bathing also changed over time. in the nd century bc, cato preferred not to bathe in the presence of his son, and plutarch implies that for romans of these earlier times it was considered shameful for mature men to expose their bodies to younger males.[ ][ ][ ] later, however, men and women might even bathe together.[n ] phallic sexuality[edit] see also: fascinum polyphallic[n ] bronze tintinnabulum; the tip of each phallus was outfitted with a ring to dangle a bell roman sexuality as framed by latin literature has been described as phallocentric.[ ][ ] the phallus was supposed to have powers to ward off the evil eye and other malevolent supernatural forces. it was used as an amulet (fascinum), many examples of which survive, particularly in the form of wind chimes (tintinnabula).[ ] some scholars have even interpreted the plan of the forum augustum as phallic, "with its two semi-circular galleries or exedrae as the testicles and its long projecting forecourt as the shaft".[ ][ ] the outsized phallus of roman art was associated with the god priapus, among others. it was laughter-provoking, grotesque, or used for magical purposes.[ ] originating in the greek town of lampsacus, priapus was a fertility deity whose statue was placed in gardens to ward off thieves. the poetry collection called the priapea deals with phallic sexuality, including poems spoken in the person of priapus. in one, for instance, priapus threatens anal rape against any potential thief. the wrath of priapus might cause impotence, or a state of perpetual arousal with no means of release: one curse of priapus upon a thief was that he might lack women or boys to relieve him of his erection, and burst.[ ] there are approximately recorded latin terms and metaphors for the penis, with the largest category treating the male member as an instrument of aggression, a weapon.[ ] this metaphorical tendency is exemplified by actual lead sling-bullets, which are sometimes inscribed with the image of a phallus, or messages that liken the target to a sexual conquest—for instance "i seek octavian's asshole."[ ] the most common obscenity for the penis is mentula, which martial argues for in place of polite terms: his privileging of the word as time-honored latin from the era of numa may be compared to the unvarnished integrity of "four letter anglo-saxon words".[ ][ ] cicero does not use the word even when discussing the nature of obscene language in a letter to his friend atticus;[ ][ ] catullus famously uses it as a pseudonym for the disreputable mamurra, julius caesar's friend ("dick" or "peter" might be english equivalents).[ ] mentula appears frequently in graffiti and the priapea,[ ] but while obscene the word was not inherently abusive or vituperative. verpa, by contrast, was "an emotive and highly offensive word" for the penis with its foreskin drawn back, as the result of an erection, excessive sexual activity, or circumcision.[ ][ ] virga, as well as other words for "branch, rod, stake, beam", is a common metaphor,[ ] as is vomer, "plough".[ ] priapus, wearing a phrygian cap and weighing his phallus in a balance scale (house of the vettii, pompeii) the penis might also be referred to as the "vein" (vena), "tail" (penis or cauda), or "tendon" (nervus).[ ] the english word "penis" derives from penis, which originally meant "tail" but in classical latin was used regularly as a "risqué colloquialism" for the male organ. later, penis becomes the standard word in polite latin, as used for example by the scholiast to juvenal and by arnobius, but did not pass into usage among the romance languages.[ ] it was not a term used by medical writers, except for marcellus of bordeaux.[ ][ ] in medieval latin, a vogue for scholarly obscenity led to a perception of the dactyl, a metrical unit of verse represented — ‿ ‿, as an image of the penis, with the long syllable (longum) the shaft and the two short syllables (breves) the testicles.[ ] the apparent connection between latin testes, "testicles," and testis, plural testes, "witness" (the origin of english "testify" and "testimony")[ ] may lie in archaic ritual. some ancient mediterranean cultures swore binding oaths upon the male genitalia, symbolizing that "the bearing of false witness brings a curse upon not only oneself, but one's house and future line".[ ] latin writers make frequent puns and jokes based on the two meanings of testis:[ ] it took balls to become a legally functioning male citizen.[ ] the english word "testicle" derives from the diminutive testiculum.[ ] the obscene word for "testicle" was coleus.[ ] castration and circumcision[edit] see also: circumcision controversies § classical civilization, history of male circumcision, and religious male circumcision to romans and greeks, castration and circumcision were linked as barbaric mutilations of the male genitalia.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] when the cult of cybele was imported to rome at the end of the rd century bc, its traditional eunuchism was confined to foreign priests (the galli), while roman citizens formed sodalities to perform honors in keeping with their own customs.[ ] it has been argued that among the reasons for the apostle paul's exhortation of the galatians not to undergo circumcision,[ ][ ][ ] the practice at the time should be understood not only in the context of jewish circumcision, but also of the ritual castration associated with cybele, whose cult was centered in galatia.[ ][ ][ ] among jews, circumcision was a marker of the abrahamic covenant; diaspora jews circumcised their male slaves and adult male converts, in addition to jewish male infants.[ ] although greco-roman writers view circumcision as an identifying characteristic of jews, they believed the practice to have originated in egypt,[ ][ ] and recorded it among peoples they identified as arab, syrian, phoenician, colchian, and ethiopian.[ ][ ] the neoplatonic philosopher sallustius associates circumcision with the strange familial–sexual customs of the massagetae who "eat their fathers" and of the persians who "preserve their nobility by begetting children on their mothers".[ ] during the republican period, a lex cornelia prohibited various kinds of mutilation, including castration. (two millennia later, in , the poet salvatore rosa would write in la musica, “fine cornelia law, where hast thou gone / now that the whole of norcia seems not enough / for the castration of boys?”)[ ] despite these prohibitions, some romans kept beautiful male slaves as deliciae or delicati ("toys, delights") who were sometimes castrated in an effort to preserve the androgynous looks of their youth. the emperor nero had his freedman sporus castrated, and married him in a public ceremony.[ ] by the end of the st century ad, bans against castration had been enacted by the emperors domitian and nerva in the face of a burgeoning trade in eunuch slaves. sometime between and  ad, hadrian seems to have temporarily banned circumcision, on pain of death.[ ] antoninus pius exempted jews from the ban,[ ][ ] as well as egyptian priests,[ ] and origen says that in his time only jews were permitted to practice circumcision.[ ][ ] legislation under constantine, the first christian emperor, freed any slave who was subjected to circumcision; in  ad, circumcising a slave became punishable by death.[ ] a medical procedure known as epispasm, which consisted of both surgical and non-surgical methods,[ ][ ][ ] existed in ancient rome and greece to restore the foreskin and cover the glans "for the sake of decorum".[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] both were described in detail by the greek physician aulus cornelius celsus in his comprehensive encyclopedic work de medicina, written during the reign of tiberius ( - ce).[ ][ ] the surgical method involved freeing the skin covering the penis by dissection, and then pulling it forward over the glans; he also described a simpler surgical technique used on men whose prepuce is naturally insufficient to cover their glans.[ ][ ][ ] the second approach was non-surgical: a restoration device which consisted of a special weight made of bronze, copper, or leather, was affixed to the penis, pulling its skin downward.[ ][ ] overtime a new foreskin was generated, or a short prepuce was lengthened, by means of tissue expansion;[ ][ ] martial also mentioned the restoration device in epigrammaton (book : ).[ ] hellenized or romanized jews resorted to epispasm to better integrate into the greco-roman society, and also to make themselves less conspicuous at the baths or during athletics.[ ][ ][ ] of these, some had themselves circumcised again later.[ ] regulating semen[edit] too-frequent ejaculation was thought to weaken men. greek medical theories based on the classical elements and humors recommended limiting the production of semen by means of cooling, drying, and astringent therapies, including cold baths and the avoidance of flatulence-causing foods.[ ] in the nd century ad, the medical writer galen explains semen as a concoction of blood (conceived of as a humor) and pneuma (the "vital air" required by organs to function) formed within the man's coiled spermatic vessels, with the humor turning white through heat as it enters into the testicles.[ ] in his treatise on semen, galen warns that immoderate sexual activity results in a loss of pneuma and hence vitality: it is not at all surprising that those who are less moderate sexually turn out to be weaker, since the whole body loses the purest part of both substances, and there is besides an accession of pleasure, which by itself is enough to dissolve the vital tone, so that before now some persons have died from excess of pleasure.[ ] the uncontrolled dispersing of pneuma in semen could lead to loss of physical vigor, mental acuity, masculinity, and a strong manly voice,[ ] a complaint registered also in the priapea.[ ] sexual activity was thought particularly to affect the voice: singers and actors might be infibulated to preserve their voices.[ ][ ][ ] quintilian advises that the orator who wished to cultivate a deep masculine voice for court should abstain from sexual relations.[ ] this concern was felt intensely by catullus's friend calvus, the st-century bc avant-garde poet and orator, who slept with lead plates over his kidneys to control wet dreams. pliny reports that: when plates of lead are bound to the area of the loins and kidneys, it is used, owing to its rather cooling nature, to check the attacks of sexual desire and sexual dreams in one's sleep that cause spontaneous eruptions to the point of becoming a sort of disease. with these plates the orator calvus is reported to have restrained himself and to have preserved his body's strength for the labor of his studies.[ ] lead plates, cupping therapy, and hair removal were prescribed for three sexual disorders thought to be related to nocturnal emissions: satyriasis, or hypersexuality; priapism, a chronic erection without an accompanying desire for sex; and the involuntary discharge of semen (seminis lapsus or seminis effusio).[ ] effeminacy and transvestism[edit] hercules and omphale cross-dressed (mosaic from roman spain, rd century ad) effeminacy was a favorite accusation in roman political invective, and was aimed particularly at populares, the politicians of the faction who represented themselves as champions of the people, sometimes called rome's "democratic" party in contrast to the optimates, a conservative elite of nobles.[ ] in the last years of the republic, the popularists julius caesar, marcus antonius (mark antony), and clodius pulcher, as well as the catilinarian conspirators, were all derided as effeminate, overly-groomed, too-good-looking men who might be on the receiving end of sex from other males; at the same time, they were supposed to be womanizers or possessed of devastating sex appeal.[ ] perhaps the most notorious incident of cross-dressing in ancient rome occurred in  bc, when clodius pulcher intruded on annual rites of the bona dea that were restricted to women only. the rites were held at a senior magistrate's home, in this year that of julius caesar, nearing the end of his term as praetor and only recently invested as pontifex maximus. clodius disguised himself as a female musician to gain entrance, as described in a "verbal striptease" by cicero, who prosecuted him for sacrilege (incestum):[ ] take away his saffron dress, his tiara, his girly shoes and purple laces, his bra, his greek harp, take away his shameless behavior and his sex crime, and clodius is suddenly revealed as a democrat.[ ] the actions of clodius, who had just been elected quaestor and was probably about to turn thirty, are often regarded as a last juvenile prank. the all-female nature of these nocturnal rites attracted much prurient speculation from men; they were fantasized as drunken lesbian orgies that might be fun to watch.[ ] clodius is supposed to have intended to seduce caesar's wife, but his masculine voice gave him away before he got a chance. the scandal prompted caesar to seek an immediate divorce to control the damage to his own reputation, giving rise to the famous line "caesar's wife must be above suspicion". the incident "summed up the disorder of the final years of the republic".[ ][ ] in addition to political invective, cross-dressing appears in roman literature and art as a mythological trope (as in the story of hercules and omphale exchanging roles and attire),[ ] religious investiture, and rarely or ambiguously as transvestic fetishism. a section of the digest by ulpian[ ] categorizes roman clothing on the basis of who may appropriately wear it; a man who wore women's clothes, ulpian notes, would risk making himself the object of scorn. a fragment from the playwright accius ( –  bc) seems to refer to a father who secretly wore "virgin's finery".[ ] an instance of transvestism is noted in a legal case, in which "a certain senator accustomed to wear women's evening clothes" was disposing of the garments in his will.[ ] in a "mock trial" exercise presented by the elder seneca, a young man (adulescens) is gang-raped while wearing women's clothes in public, but his attire is explained as his acting on a dare by his friends, not as a choice based on gender identity or the pursuit of erotic pleasure.[ ][ ] gender ambiguity was a characteristic of the priests of the goddess cybele known as galli, whose ritual attire included items of women's clothing. they are sometimes considered a transgender priesthood, since they were required to be castrated in imitation of attis. the complexities of gender identity in the religion of cybele and the attis myth are explored by catullus in one of his longest poems, carmen .[ ] male–male sex[edit] main article: homosexuality in ancient rome roman men were free to have sex with males of lower status without a perceived loss of masculinity, or even as an enhancement of it. however, those who took the receiving role in sex acts, sometimes referred to as the "passive" or "submissive" role, were disparaged as weak and effeminate, regardless of the sex of their partner (see the section below on cunnilungus and fellatio),[ ] while having sex with males in the active position was proof of one's masculinity.[ ] mastery of one's own body was an aspect of the citizen's libertas, political liberty,[ ] while the use of one's body to give pleasure to others, whether in homosexual or heterosexual relations, was servile. laws such as the poorly understood lex scantinia and various pieces of augustan moral legislation were meant to restrict same-sex activity among freeborn males, viewed as threatening a man's status and independence as a citizen. latin had such a wealth of words for men outside the masculine norm that some scholars[ ] argue for the existence of a homosexual subculture at rome; that is, although the noun "homosexual" has no straightforward equivalent in latin, literary sources reveal a pattern of behaviors among a minority of free men that indicate same-sex preference or orientation. some terms, such as exoletus, specifically refer to an adult; romans who were socially marked as "masculine" did not confine their same-sex penetration of male prostitutes or slaves to those who were "boys" under the age of .[ ] the satyricon, for example, includes many descriptions of adult, free men showing sexual interest in one another. and some older men may have at times preferred the passive role with a same age or younger partner, though this was socially frowned upon. homoerotic latin literature includes the "juventius" poems of catullus,[ ] elegies by tibullus[ ] and propertius,[ ] the second eclogue of vergil, and several poems by horace. lucretius addresses the love of boys in de rerum natura ( . – ). the poet martial, despite being married to a woman, often derides women as sexual partners, and celebrates the charms of pueri (boys).[ ] the satyricon of petronius is so permeated with the culture of male–male sexuality that in th-century european literary circles, his name became "a byword for homosexuality".[ ] although ovid includes mythological treatments of homoeroticism in the metamorphoses,[ ] he is unusual among latin love poets, and indeed among romans in general, for his aggressively heterosexual stance, though even he did not claim exclusive heterosexuality.[ ] although roman law did not recognize marriage between men, in the early imperial period some male couples were celebrating traditional marriage rites. same-sex weddings are reported by sources that mock them; the feelings of the participants are not recorded.[ ][ ] apart from measures to protect the liberty of citizens, the prosecution of homosexuality as a general crime began in the rd century when male prostitution was banned by philip the arab, a sympathizer of the christian faith. by the end of the th century, passive homosexuality under the christian empire was punishable by burning.[ ] "death by sword" was the punishment for a "man coupling like a woman" under the theodosian code.[ ] under justinian, all same-sex acts, passive or active, no matter who the partners, were declared contrary to nature and punishable by death.[ ] homosexual behaviors were pointed to as causes for god's wrath following a series of disasters around and .[ ] justinian also demanded the penalty of death for anyone who enslaved a castrated roman, although he permitted the buying and selling of foreign-born eunuchs as long as they were castrated outside the boundaries of the roman empire (codex justinianus, . . ).[ ] the rape of men[edit] men who had been raped were exempt from the loss of legal or social standing (infamia) suffered by males who prostituted themselves or willingly took the receiving role in sex.[ ] according to the jurist pomponius, "whatever man has been raped by the force of robbers or the enemy in wartime (vi praedonum vel hostium)" ought to bear no stigma.[ ] fears of mass rape following a military defeat extended equally to male and female potential victims.[ ] the mythological abduction or "rape" of hylas by the nymphs (opus sectile, basilica of junius bassus, th century ad) roman law addressed the rape of a male citizen as early as the nd century bc, when a ruling was issued in a case that may have involved a male of same-sex orientation. although a man who had worked as a prostitute could not be raped as a matter of law, it was ruled that even a man who was "disreputable (famosus) and questionable (suspiciosus)" had the same right as other free men not to have his body subjected to forced sex.[ ] in a book on rhetoric from the early st century bc, the rape of a freeborn male (ingenuus) is equated with that of a materfamilias as a capital crime.[ ][ ] the lex julia de vi publica,[ ] recorded in the early rd century ad but "probably dating from the dictatorship of julius caesar", defined rape as forced sex against "boy, woman, or anyone"; the rapist was subject to execution, a rare penalty in roman law.[ ] it was a capital crime for a man to abduct a free-born boy for sexual purposes, or to bribe the boy's chaperon (comes) for the opportunity.[ ] negligent chaperones could be prosecuted under various laws, placing the blame on those who failed in their responsibilities as guardians rather than on the victim.[ ] although the law recognized the victim's blamelessness, rhetoric used by the defense indicates that attitudes of blame among jurors could be exploited.[ ] in his collection of twelve anecdotes dealing with assaults on chastity, the historian valerius maximus features male victims in equal number to female.[ ][ ] in the "mock trial" case described by the elder seneca, an adulescens (a man young enough not to have begun his formal career) was gang-raped by ten of his peers; although the case is imaginary, seneca assumes that the law permitted the successful prosecution of the rapists.[ ] another hypothetical case imagines the extremity to which a rape victim could be driven: the free-born male who was raped commits suicide.[ ][ ] the rape of an ingenuus is among the worst crimes that could be committed in rome, along with parricide, the rape of a female virgin, and robbing a temple.[ ] rape was nevertheless one of the traditional punishments inflicted on a male adulterer by the wronged husband,[ ] though perhaps more in revenge fantasy than in practice.[ ] the threat of one man to subject another to anal or oral rape (irrumatio) is a theme of invective poetry, most notably in catullus's notorious carmen ,[ ] and was a form of masculine braggadocio.[ ][ ][ ] sex in the military[edit] the roman soldier, like any free and respectable roman male of status, was expected to show self-discipline in matters of sex. soldiers convicted of adultery were given a dishonorable discharge; convicted adulterers were barred from enlisting. strict commanders might ban prostitutes and pimps from camp,[ ] though in general the roman army, whether on the march or at a permanent fort (castrum), was attended by a number of camp followers who might include prostitutes. their presence seems to have been taken for granted, and mentioned mainly when it became a problem;[ ] for instance, when scipio aemilianus was setting out for numantia in  bc, he dismissed the camp followers as one of his measures for restoring discipline.[ ] perhaps most peculiar is the prohibition against marriage in the imperial army. in the early period, rome had an army of citizens who left their families and took up arms as the need arose. during the expansionism of the middle republic, rome began acquiring vast territories to be defended as provinces, and during the time of gaius marius (d.  bc), the army had been professionalized. the ban on marriage began under augustus (ruled  bc–  ad), perhaps to discourage families from following the army and impairing its mobility. the marriage ban applied to all ranks up to the centurionate; men of the governing classes were exempt. by the nd century ad, the stability of the empire kept most units in permanent forts, where attachments with local women often developed. although legally these unions could not be formalized as marriages, their value in providing emotional support for the soldiers was recognized. after a soldier was discharged, the couple were granted the right of legal marriage as citizens (conubium), and any children they already had were considered to have been born to citizens.[ ] septimius severus rescinded the ban in  ad.[ ] other forms of sexual gratification available to soldiers were the use of male slaves, war rape, and same-sex relations.[ ] homosexual behavior among soldiers was subject to harsh penalties, including death,[ ] as a violation of military discipline. polybius ( nd century bc) reports that same-sex activity in the military was punishable by the fustuarium, clubbing to death.[ ] sex among fellow soldiers violated the roman decorum against intercourse with another freeborn male. a soldier maintained his masculinity by not allowing his body to be used for sexual purposes. this physical integrity stood in contrast to the limits placed on his actions as a free man within the military hierarchy; most strikingly, roman soldiers were the only citizens regularly subjected to corporal punishment, reserved in the civilian world mainly for slaves. sexual integrity helped distinguish the status of the soldier, who otherwise sacrificed a great deal of his civilian autonomy, from that of the slave.[ ] in warfare, rape signified defeat, another motive for the soldier not to compromise his body sexually.[ ] reverse side of a denarius issued by julius caesar, depicting a military trophy with a nude captured gaul and a female personification of defeated gallia; venus is pictured on the obverse an incident related by plutarch in his biography of marius illustrates the soldier's right to maintain his sexual integrity. a good-looking young recruit named trebonius[ ] had been sexually harassed over a period of time by his superior officer, who happened to be marius's nephew, gaius luscius. one night, having fended off unwanted advances on numerous occasions, trebonius was summoned to luscius's tent. unable to disobey the command of his superior, he found himself the object of a sexual assault and drew his sword, killing luscius. a conviction for killing an officer typically resulted in execution. when brought to trial, he was able to produce witnesses to show that he had repeatedly had to fend off luscius, and "had never prostituted his body to anyone, despite offers of expensive gifts". marius not only acquitted trebonius in the killing of his kinsman, but gave him a crown for bravery.[ ][ ][ ][ ] roman historians record other cautionary tales of officers who abuse their authority to coerce sex from their soldiers, and then suffer dire consequences.[ ] the youngest officers, who still might retain some of the adolescent attraction that romans favored in male–male relations, were advised to beef up their masculine qualities, such as not wearing perfume, nor trimming nostril and underarm hair.[ ] during wartime, the violent use of war captives for sex was not considered criminal rape.[ ] mass rape was one of the acts of punitive violence during the sack of a city,[ ] but if the siege had ended through diplomatic negotiations rather than storming the walls, by custom the inhabitants were neither enslaved nor subjected to personal violence. mass rape occurred in some circumstances, and is likely to be underreported in the surviving sources, but was not a deliberate or pervasive strategy for controlling a population.[ ] an ethical ideal of sexual self-control among enlisted men was vital to preserving peace once hostilities ceased. in territories and provinces brought under treaty with rome, soldiers who committed rape against the local people might be subjected to harsher punishments than civilians.[ ] sertorius, the long-time governor of roman spain whose policies emphasized respect and cooperation with provincials, executed an entire cohort when a single soldier had attempted to rape a local woman.[ ][ ] mass rape seems to have been more common as a punitive measure during roman civil wars than abroad.[ ] female sexuality[edit] see also: women in ancient rome because of the roman emphasis on family, female sexuality was regarded as one of the bases for social order and prosperity. female citizens were expected to exercise their sexuality within marriage, and were honored for their sexual integrity (pudicitia) and fecundity: augustus granted special honors and privileges to women who had given birth to three children (see "ius trium liberorum"). control of female sexuality was regarded as necessary for the stability of the state, as embodied most conspicuously in the absolute virginity of the vestals.[ ] a vestal who violated her vow was entombed alive in a ritual that mimicked some aspects of a roman funeral; her lover was executed.[ ] female sexuality, either disorderly or exemplary, often impacts state religion in times of crisis for the republic.[ ] the moral legislation of augustus focused on harnessing the sexuality of women. as was the case for men, free women who displayed themselves sexually, such as prostitutes and performers, or who made themselves available indiscriminately were excluded from legal protections and social respectability.[ ] many roman literary sources approve of respectable women exercising sexual passion within marriage.[ ] while ancient literature overwhelmingly takes a male-centered view of sexuality, the augustan poet ovid expresses an explicit and virtually unique interest in how women experience intercourse.[ ] the female body[edit] divine semi-nudity on the augustan altar of peace, combining roman symbolism with a greek stylistic influence roman attitudes toward female nudity differed from but were influenced by those of the greeks, who idealized the male body in the nude while portraying respectable women clothed. partial nudity of goddesses in roman imperial art, however, can highlight the breasts as dignified but pleasurable images of nurturing, abundance, and peacefulness.[ ][ ] erotic art indicates that women with small breasts and wide hips had the ideal body type.[ ][ ] by the st century ad, roman art shows a broad interest in the female nude engaged in varied activities, including sex.[ ] pornographic art that depicts women presumed to be prostitutes performing sex acts may show the breasts covered by a strophium even when the rest of the body is naked. in the real world as described in literature, prostitutes sometimes displayed themselves naked at the entrance to their brothel cubicles, or wore see-through silk garments; slaves for sale were often displayed naked to allow buyers to inspect them for defects, and to symbolize that they lacked the right to control their own body.[ ][ ] as seneca the elder described a woman for sale: naked she stood on the shore, at the pleasure of the purchaser; every part of her body was examined and felt. would you hear the result of the sale? the pirate sold; the pimp bought, that he might employ her as a prostitute.[ ] the display of the female body made it vulnerable. varro said sight was the greatest of the senses, because while the others were limited by proximity, sight could penetrate even to the stars; he thought the latin word for "sight, gaze", visus, was etymologically related to vis, "force, power". but the connection between visus and vis, he said, also implied the potential for violation, just as actaeon gazing on the naked diana violated the goddess.[ ][ ] the completely nude female body as portrayed in sculpture was thought to embody a universal concept of venus, whose counterpart aphrodite is the goddess most often depicted as a nude in greek art.[ ][ ] female genitalia formed from strigils on a mosaic female genitals[edit] the "basic obscenity" for the female genitalia is cunnus, "cunt", though perhaps not as strongly offensive as the english.[ ] martial uses the word more than thirty times, catullus once, and horace thrice only in his early work; it also appears in the priapea and graffiti.[ ] one of the slang words women used for their genitals was porcus, "pig", particularly when mature women spoke of girls. varro connects this usage of the word to the sacrifice of a pig to the goddess ceres in preliminary wedding rites.[ ] metaphors of fields, gardens, and meadows are common, as is the image of the masculine "plough" in the feminine "furrow".[ ] other metaphors include cave, ditch, pit, bag, vessel, door, hearth, oven, and altar.[ ] although women's genitals appear often in invective and satiric verse as objects of disgust, they are rarely referred to in latin love elegy.[ ] ovid, the most heterosexual of the classic love poets, is the only one to refer to giving a woman pleasure through genital stimulation.[ ] martial writes of female genitalia only insultingly, describing one woman's vagina as "loose ... as the foul gullet of a pelican".[ ][ ] the vagina is often compared to a boy's anus as a receptacle for the phallus.[ ][ ] the function of the clitoris (landica) was "well understood".[ ] in classical latin, landica was a highly indecorous obscenity found in graffiti and the priapea; the clitoris was usually referred to with a metaphor, such as juvenal's crista ("crest").[ ][ ] cicero records that a hapless speaker of consular rank broke up the senate just by saying something that sounded like landica: hanc culpam maiorem an il-lam dicam? ("shall i call this fault greater or that one?" heard as "this greater fault or a clitoris?"). "could he have been more obscene?" cicero exclaims, observing at the same time that cum nos, "when we", sounds like cunnus.[ ][ ][ ] a lead sling-bullet uncovered through archaeology was inscribed "i aim for fulvia's clit" (fulviae landicam peto), fulvia being the wife of mark antony who commanded troops during the civil wars of the s and s.[ ] latin lacked a standard word for labia;[ ] two terms found in medical writers are orae, "edges" or "shores",[ ] and pinnacula, "little wings".[ ] the first recorded instance of the word vulva occurs in varro's work on agriculture ( st century bc), where it refers to the membrane that surrounds a fetus.[ ][ ] in the early empire, vulva came into usage for "womb", the usual word for which had been uterus in the republic, or sometimes more vaguely venter or alvus, both words for "belly". vulva seems originally to have referred to the womb of animals, but is "extremely common" in pliny's natural history for a human uterus.[ ] in the imperial era, vulva can mean "female reproductive organs" collectively or vaguely, or sometimes refers to the vagina alone.[ ] early latin bible translators used vulva as the correct and proper word for the womb.[ ] at some point during the imperial era, matrix became the common word for "uterus", particularly in the gynecological writers of late antiquity, who also employ a specialized vocabulary for parts of the reproductive organs.[ ] both women and men often removed their pubic hair,[ ] but grooming may have varied over time and by individual preference. a fragment from the early satirist lucilius refers to penetrating a "hairy bag",[ ] and a graffito from pompeii declares that "a hairy cunt is fucked much better than one which is smooth; it's steamy and wants cock".[ ] at the entrance to a caldarium in the bath complex of the house of menander at pompeii, an unusual graphic device appears on a mosaic: a phallic oil can is surrounded by strigils in the shape of female genitalia, juxtaposed with an "ethiopian" water-bearer who has an "unusually large and comically detailed" penis.[ ] breasts[edit] pompeiian wall painting (secret museum, naples) latin words for "breasts" include mammae (cf. english "mammary"), papillae (more specifically for "nipples"), and ubera, breasts in their capacity to provide nourishment, including the teats or udder of an animal.[n ] papillae is the preferred word when catullus and the augustan poets take note of breasts in an erotic context.[ ] the breasts of a beautiful woman were supposed to be "unobtrusive." idealized breasts in the tradition of hellenistic poetry were compared to apples;[ ][ ] martial makes fun of large breasts.[ ][ ][ ] old women who were stereotypically ugly and undesirable in every way had "pendulous" breasts.[ ] on the roman stage, exaggerated breasts were part of the costuming for comically unattractive female characters, since in classic roman comedy women's roles were played by male actors in drag.[ ] while greek epigrams describe ideal breasts,[ ] latin poets take limited interest in them, at least as compared to the modern focus on admiring and fondling a woman's breasts.[ ] they are observed mainly as aspects of a woman's beauty or perfection of form, though ovid finds them inviting to touch.[ ] in one poem celebrating a wedding, catullus remarks on the bride's "tender nipples" (teneris ... papillis), which would keep a good husband sleeping with her; erotic appeal supports fidelity within marriage and leads to children and a long life together.[ ] a mastos, a breast-shaped drinking cup because all infants were breastfed in antiquity, the breast was viewed primarily as an emblem of nurturing and of motherhood.[ ] mastoi, breast-shaped drinking cups, and representations of breasts are among the votive offerings (vota) found at sanctuaries of deities such as diana and hercules, sometimes having been dedicated by wet nurses.[ ][ ] the breast-shaped cup may have a religious significance; the drinking of breast milk by an adult who is elderly or about to die symbolized potential rebirth in the afterlife.[ ][ ][ ] in the etruscan tradition, the goddess juno (uni) offers her breast to hercules as a sign that he may enter the ranks of the immortals.[ ][ ] the religious meaning may underlie the story of how pero offered breast milk to her elderly father when he was imprisoned and sentenced to death by starvation (see roman charity).[ ] the scene is among the moral paintings in a pompeiian bedroom that belonged to a child, along with the legend "in sadness is the meeting of modesty and piety".[ ] pliny records medicinal uses of breast milk, and ranks it as one of the most useful remedies, especially for ailments of the eyes and ears. wrapping one's head in a bra was said to cure a headache.[ ][ ] pero offering her breast milk to her aged father in an act of "roman charity" baring the breasts is one of the gestures made by women, particularly mothers or nurses, to express mourning or as an appeal for mercy.[ ] the baring and beating of breasts ritually in grief was interpreted by servius as producing milk to feed the dead.[ ] in greek and latin literature, mythological mothers sometimes expose their breasts in moments of extreme emotional duress to demand that their nurturing role be respected.[ ] breasts exposed with such intensity held apotropaic power.[ ][ ] julius caesar indicates that the gesture had a similar significance in celtic culture: during the siege of avaricum, the female heads of household (matres familiae) expose their breasts and extend their hands to ask that the women and children be spared.[ ] tacitus notes germanic women who exhorted their reluctant men to valorous battle by aggressively baring their breasts.[ ] although in general "the gesture is meant to arouse pity rather than sexual desire", the beauty of the breasts so exposed is sometimes in evidence and remarked upon.[ ] because women were normally portrayed clothed in art, bared breasts can signify vulnerability or erotic availability by choice, accident, or force. baring a single breast was a visual motif of classical greek sculpture, where among other situations, including seductions,[ ] it often represented impending physical violence or rape.[ ] some scholars have attempted to find a "code" in which exposing the right breast had an erotic significance, while the left breast signified nurturing.[ ] although art produced by the romans may imitate or directly draw on greek conventions, during the classical period of greek art images of women nursing were treated as animalistic or barbaric; by contrast, the coexisting italic tradition emphasized the breast as a focus of the mother–child relationship and as a source of female power.[ ] the erogenous power of the breast was not utterly neglected: in comparing sex with a woman to sex with a boy, a greek novel of the roman imperial era notes that "her breast when it is caressed provides its own particular pleasure".[ ] propertius connects breast development with girls reaching an age to "play".[ ][ ] tibullus observes that a woman just might wear loose clothing so that her breasts "flash" when she reclines at dinner.[ ] an astrological tradition held that mammary intercourse was enjoyed by men born under the conjunction of venus, mercury, and saturn.[ ] even in the most sexually explicit roman paintings, however, the breasts are sometimes kept covered by the strophium (breast band).[ ][ ] the women so depicted may be prostitutes, but it can be difficult to discern why an artist decides in a given scenario to portray the breasts covered or exposed.[ ] female–female sex[edit] see also: history of lesbianism, tribadism, and homosexuality in ancient rome female couple from a series of erotic paintings at the suburban baths, pompeii greek words for a woman who prefers sex with another woman include hetairistria (compare hetaira, "courtesan" or "companion"), tribas (plural tribades), and lesbia; latin words include the loanword tribas, fricatrix ("she who rubs"), and virago.[ ] references to sex between women are infrequent in the roman literature of the republic and early principate. ovid, who advocates generally for a heterosexual lifestyle, finds it "a desire known to no one, freakish, novel ... among all animals no female is seized by desire for female".[ ] during the roman imperial era, which many roman writers perceived as more decadent than the republican period, sources for same-sex relations among women are more abundant, in the form of love spells, medical writing, texts on astrology and the interpretation of dreams, and other sources.[ ] a graffito from pompeii expresses the desire of one woman for another: i wish i could hold to my neck and embrace the little arms, and bear kisses on the tender lips. go on, doll, and trust your joys to the winds; believe me, light is the nature of men.[ ] an early reference to same-sex relations among women as "lesbianism" is found in lucian ( nd century ad): "they say there are women like that in lesbos, masculine-looking, but they don't want to give it up for men. instead, they consort with women, just like men."[ ] since romans thought a sex act required an active or dominant partner who was "phallic" (see "phallic sexuality" above), male writers imagined that in lesbian sex one of the women would use a dildo or have an exceptionally large clitoris for penetration, and that she would be the one experiencing pleasure.[ ] martial describes lesbians as having outsized sexual appetites and performing penetrative sex on both women and boys.[ ] imperial portrayals of women who sodomize boys, drink and eat like men, and engage in vigorous physical regimens, may reflect cultural anxieties about the growing independence of roman women.[ ] rape[edit] botticelli's death of lucretia (c. ): in roman legend, lucretia's rape and suicide brought about the overthrow of the monarchy and the formation of the roman republic the mythology of rape[edit] the rape of women is a pervasive theme in the myths and legends of early rome. the legendary founders romulus and remus were born from the rape of the vestal rhea silvia by the god mars.[ ] romulus and his "band of freebooters" can transform their all-male settlement into a city only by the "rape" of the sabine women, that is, by forcibly abducting the daughters of their sabine neighbors to take as wives. the overthrow of the roman monarchy and the establishment of the republic was precipitated by the rape of the much-admired lucretia by sextus tarquinius, the king's son. the legend crystallizes the roman view of unchecked libido as a form of tyranny.[ ] the augustan historian livy seems "embarrassed" by the rape motif of early roman history, and emphasizes the redeeming political dimension of these events.[ ] lucretius condemns rape as a primitive behavior outside the bounds of an advanced civilization,[ ] describing it as "a man's use of violent force and imposition of sexual impulse".[ ] rape and the law[edit] roman law recognized rape as a crime: the rape victim was not guilty of anything.[ ] intercourse by force or compulsion (vis), even if it took place under circumstances that were otherwise unlawful for a woman (see "moral and legal concepts" above), left the woman legally without blame.[ ][ ] the official position under diocletian (reigned –  ad) held that:[ ] the laws punish the foul wickedness of those who prostitute their modesty to the lusts of others, but they do not attach blame to those who are compelled to stuprum by force, since it has, moreover, been quite properly decided that their reputations are unharmed and that they are not prohibited from marriage to others.[ ] although literary sources from the republican era make it clear that rape was wrong and severely penalized, the statutes under which it might be charged as a crime are unknown until passage of the lex iulia de vi publica, dating probably to the dictatorship of julius caesar in the s bc.[ ] rome had no state prosecutors; cases could be prosecuted by any citizen with the legal expertise and speaking ability to do so. since emancipated women were allowed to bring criminal prosecutions in the republic,[ ] it is conceivable that a rape victim could have brought charges against her rapist herself. otherwise, the case could be prosecuted by her father or husband, or by anyone who saw fit to do so. there was no statute of limitations for rape; by contrast adultery, which was criminalized under augustus, had to be prosecuted within five years.[ ] rape was a capital crime.[ ] as a matter of law, rape could be committed only against a citizen in good standing. a woman who worked as a prostitute or entertainer lost her social standing and became infamis; by making her body publicly available, she had in effect surrendered her right to be protected from sexual abuse or physical violence.[ ][ ] cicero defended a client whose misdeeds included the gang rape of an actress on the grounds that young men took customary license with entertainers.[ ][ ][ ] the rape of a slave could be prosecuted only as damage to her owner's property, under the lex aquilia.[ ][ ] consent would have been an issue in rape cases only rarely; if the accused argued that the woman had consented, he could still be charged with committing the more general sex crime of stuprum against a citizen, since male sexual freedom was limited to prostitutes or slaves. if rape against a married woman could not be proven, the augustan legislation criminalizing adultery would make the man liable to a charge of adulterium, criminal adultery, though a charge of either adultery or stuprum without force would implicate the woman as well.[ ] an acquittal for rape, as with any other crime, would open the prosecutor to a retaliatory charge of calumnia, malicious prosecution.[ ] the prosecution of rape might also be hindered by psychological and social pressures, such as embarrassment or a reluctance to expose one's private life.[ ] attitudes toward rape changed when the empire became christianized. st. augustine interpreted lucretia's suicide as a possible admission that she had secretly encouraged the rapist,[n ] and christian apologists regarded her as having committed the sin of involuntary sexual pleasure.[ ] the first christian emperor constantine redefined rape as a public offense rather than as a private wrong.[ ] earlier roman law had blurred the line between abduction and elopement, since in either case it was the right of the paterfamilias to give or withhold his consent to his daughter's marriage that had been violated. the word raptus thus could refer to a successful seduction as well as abduction or rape. if the girl consented, constantine ordered that she be punished along with the male "abductor" by being burnt alive. if she had not consented, she was still considered an accomplice, "on the grounds that she could have saved herself by screaming for help".[ ] as a participant to the rape, she was punished under law by being disinherited, regardless of the wishes of her family.[ ] even if she and her family consented to a marriage as the result of an elopement, the marriage was legally void. in the republic and the pre-christian empire, the consequences of an abduction or an elopement had been up to the couple and their families.[ ] sexuality and children[edit] roman boy wearing a bulla, which contained a phallic charm both male and female freeborn children wore the toga praetexta, a purple-bordered garment that marked its wearer as having "inviolable" status.[ ] an oath could be sworn upon the "sacred praetexta", a marker of how "we make sacred and venerable the weakness of childhood".[ ] it was religiously impermissible (nefas) to use obscene language in front of those wearing the praetexta,[ ] and cato claimed that in front of his son he tried to speak as though vestal virgins were present.[ ][ ] freeborn roman boys also wore an apotropaic amulet called the bulla which incorporated a phallic talisman (fascinum) inside a locket of gold, silver, or bronze, or in a leather pouch.[ ][ ][ ] in addition to its magical function, the bulla would have been a visible warning that the boy was sexually off-limits.[ ][ ][ ] the equivalent for the girl was the lunula, a crescent moon amulet.[ ] there were laws protecting freeborn children from sexual predators,[ ][ ] and the rape of a freeborn boy was a capital crime; this severity was directed at protecting the integrity of the young citizen.[ ] fictional license was not a defense; valerius maximus reports that a poetic boast of seducing a puer praetextatus ("praetextate boy") and a freeborn virgin (ingenua virgo) was used in court to impugn a prosecutor's moral authority.[ ] in denouncing the debaucheries of quintus apronius, cicero builds to the worst offence: apronius danced naked at a banquet in front of a boy still of an age to wear the praetexta.[ ] although children were taken to dinner parties (convivia) to accustom them to proper adult social behavior, quintilian scolds parents of his day for being poor role models: they parade their mistresses and male concubines and behave indiscreetly even when their children are present, and think it's cute when their children say things that are age-inappropriate. quintilian regards this misbehavior as a sign of general moral decline.[ ] at weddings, however, boys were by ancient custom given license to speak obscenely, peppering the new couple with dirty jokes, as humor and laughter were thought to promote fertility.[ ] protections applied only to freeborn children, not those born to slaves, sold into slavery, or taken captive in war. the social acceptance of pederasty among the romans was focused on the exploitation of young male slaves or prostitutes by men of the upper classes.[ ][ ] rites of passage[edit] adolescents in ritual preparation to transition to adult status wore the tunica recta, the "upright tunic", so called because it was woven ritually on the type of upright loom that was the earliest used by romans.[ ] the tunic, worn by both youths and maidens, may have had the purple band of inviolability, though this is unclear from the evidence.[ ] girls wove their own tunica recta.[ ] the puberty ritual for the young male involved shaving his first beard and taking off his bulla, which he dedicated to the household gods, the lares.[ ] he assumed the toga virilis ("toga of manhood"), was enrolled as a citizen on the census, and soon began his military service.[ ] traditionally, the ceremony was held on the liberalia, the festival in honor of the god liber, who embodied both political and sexual liberty.[ ] following his rite of passage, the young male citizen was permitted the avenues of sexual activity that were generally acceptable for roman men of his social rank.[ ] often a young man would be introduced to heterosexual intercourse by an experienced female prostitute.[ ] roman women were expected to remain virgins until marriage; the higher a girl's social rank, the earlier she was likely to become betrothed and married.[ ] the usual age of betrothal for upper classes girls was , but for patricians as early as . weddings were often postponed until the girl was considered mature enough. the wedding ceremony was in part a rite of passage for the bride, as rome lacked the elaborate female puberty rituals of ancient greece.[ ] on the night before the wedding, the bride bound up her hair with a yellow hairnet she had woven. the confining of her hair signified the harnessing of her sexuality within marriage. her weaving of the tunica recta and the hairnet demonstrated her skill and her capacity for acting in the traditional matron's role as custos domi, "guardian of the house".[ ] on her wedding day, she belted her tunic with the cingulum, made of ewe wool to symbolize fertility, and tied with the "knot of hercules", which was supposed to be difficult to untie.[ ] the knot symbolized wifely chastity, in that it was to be untied only by her husband, but the cingulum also symbolized that the groom was bound to his wife.[ ] the bride's hair was ritually styled in "six tresses" (seni crines), and she was veiled until uncovered by her husband at the end of the ceremony, a ritual of surrendering her virginity to him.[ ] sex, marriage, and society[edit] marital sex[edit] because men could enjoy sexual relations outside marriage with relative impunity, it has sometimes been assumed that satisfying sex was not an expectation of roman marriage.[ ] the jurist ulpian noted that "it is not sexual intercourse that makes a marriage but rather marital affection",[ ] but the warnings by moralists and philosophers against a preoccupation with sex within marriage recognize the potential for marital passion.[ ] sexual intimacy between a married couple was a private matter, and not usually the subject of literature.[ ][ ] an exception was the epithalamium, a genre of poetry that celebrated a wedding. a wedding hymn by catullus, for instance, praises the love goddess venus because "nothing is possible without you".[ ] ovid, whose love poetry early in his career was directed at fictional mistresses, wrote elegies during his exile in which he longed for his wife.[ ] among the collected letters of pliny minor is one he writes about his feelings for his wife: i am seized by an unbelievable longing for you. the reason is above all my love, but secondarily the fact that we are not used to being apart. this is why i spend the greater part of the night haunted by your image; this is why from time to time my feet lead me (the right expression!) of their own accord to your room at the times i was accustomed to frequent you; this is why, in short, i retreat, morbid and disconsolate, like an excluded lover from an unwelcoming doorway. pliny adopts the rhetoric of love poetry, conventionally directed at an illicit or hard-to-attain lover, as appropriate for expressing his wedded desire.[ ] newlyweds[ ] attended by a servant: the bride remains fully clothed and demur (casa della farnesina, rome, c.  bc) the accompanying painting depicts the bride's new sexual agency. although it was a point of pride for a woman to be univira, married only once,[ ] there was no stigma attached to divorce. speedy remarriage after divorce or the death of a spouse was common and even expected among the roman elite, since marriage was considered right and natural for adults.[ ] although widows were usually expected to wait ten months before remarrying, even a pregnant woman was not barred from taking a new husband, as long as the paternity of her child was not in doubt for legal purposes.[ ] if a first marriage ended, women seem to have had more say in arranging subsequent marriages. while having children was a primary goal of marriage, other social and familial bonds were enhanced, not excluding personal companionship and sexual pleasure between husband and wife, as indicated by marriages involving women past their childbearing years.[ ] the trojan royal couple hector and andromache became a mythological trope of wedded sex. latin love elegy focuses on their sex life rather than the tragic end of their marriage with hector's death at the hands of achilles.[ ] they were known for the "woman on top" position, with a verb suggesting that the woman "rides" the man like a horse.[ ] in general, hector was portrayed as markedly heterosexual[ ] and an exemplary husband.[ ] the wedding night[edit] see also: marriage in ancient rome an epithalamium by catullus[ ] paints the wedding night as a time of ripe eroticism, spiced with humorous and bawdy songs from the guests. "look inside," the poet advises the bride, who burns with an "intimate flame", "where your man lies on the richly arrayed bed, completely available to you". the husband is reminded that "good venus" has blessed him, since he can now desire openly what he desires, and need not conceal a "good love". the couple is encouraged to enjoy themselves as they please (ludite ut lubet); the goal is to produce children soon. a pair of paintings in a bedroom of the casa della farnesina has been interpreted as "a narrative of the modest bride becoming the immodest lover—perhaps fulfilling a ribald male fantasy".[ ] fidelity and adultery[edit] for the legal aspects, see adultery in ancient rome. some literary passages suggest that a newlywed might break off his outside sexual relations for a time and focus on bonding with his wife in the hope of starting a family.[ ] some stoics maintained that marital fidelity was as much a virtue for men as for women (see "stoic sexual morality" above). legally, however, a roman husband did not commit adultery when he had sex outside marriage as long as his partner was considered sexually available; sexual misconduct (stuprum) was adultery depending on the status of a female partner. a character in a play by plautus expresses a man's sexual freedom in comic terms: no one prohibits anyone from going down the public way (publica via); as long as you do not make a path through posted land, as long as you hold off from brides, single women, maidens, the youth and free boys, love whatever you want.[ ] a married or marriageable woman and young male citizens are off-limits, just as if they were the property of someone else,[ ] and in fact adultery as a crime was committed contrary to the rights of the paterfamilias to control his household.[ ] for a man, adultery was a sexual offense committed with a woman who was neither his wife nor a permissible partner such as a prostitute or slave,[ ] in effect when his female partner was another man's wife or his unmarried daughter.[ ] the later jurists emphasize that adulterium in the strict sense was committed with a married woman.[ ] for a married woman, no infidelity was acceptable, and first-time brides were expected to be virgins.[ ] according to cato ( nd century bc), a husband had an ancient right (ius) to kill his wife if he caught her in the act of adultery, but if this "right" existed, it was a matter of custom and not statute law.[ ] in the republic, adultery was normally considered a private matter for families to deal with, not a serious criminal offense requiring the attention of the courts.[ ][ ][ ] no source records the justified killing of a woman for adultery by either a father or husband during the republican era, though adultery was grounds for divorce.[ ] the mythological adultery of venus and mars, here attended by cupid, was a popular subject for painting following the collapse of the republic, moral legislation became part of the new political order under rome's first emperor, augustus. laws pertaining to adultery passed in  bc were part of his program to restore the mos maiorum, traditional social norms, while consolidating his political authority and codifying a more rigid social hierarchy in the wake of the recent civil wars. the appeal to old-fashioned values cloaked the radical overthrow of the republic's participatory political institutions by top-down, one-man rule.[ ] the lex iulia de adulteriis ("julian law concerning acts of adultery") was directed at punishing married women who engaged in extra-marital affairs. scholars have often assumed that the lex iulia was meant to address a virulent outbreak of adultery in the late republic. an androcentric perspective in the early th century held that the lex iulia had been "a very necessary check upon the growing independence and recklessness of women".[ ] a more sympathetic view in the late th to early st century saw love affairs as a way for the intelligent, independent women of the elite to form emotionally meaningful relationships outside marriages arranged for political purposes.[ ] it is possible, however, that no such epidemic of adultery even existed; the law should perhaps be understood not as addressing a real problem that threatened society, but as one of the instruments of social control exercised by augustus that cast the state, and by extension himself, in the role of paterfamilias to all rome.[ ] personal anxieties about infidelity, within marriage or not, are reflected in magic spells intended to "fix" (defixiones) or bind the other person's erotic attachment.[ ] spells were also available for interrogating the beloved about fidelity. one magical papyrus from roman egypt recommends placing the heart of a hoopoe on a sleeping woman's genitals to induce truthful answers; another says that the tongue of a hen placed on her lips or breast will cause her to reveal the name of the man she loves.[ ] literature of the late republic and principate, particularly the satires of horace and juvenal, offer various depictions, or perhaps fantasies, of how a wronged husband might subject his wife's lover to humiliation and punishment. in these literary treatments, the adulterer is castrated, beaten, raped by the husband himself or his slaves, or penetrated anally with a mullet, a type of prized fish cultivated by elite romans as a leisure activity (otium). references to such acts do not appear in the letters of cicero nor the histories of tacitus, and may be fictional exaggerations.[ ] ovid makes fun of the jealous husband as lacking in sophistication: "the man who's excessively wounded by his wife's adulterous affairs is a hick."[ ] ovid's predecessor catullus wrote poetry celebrating his adulterous affair with "lesbia", his social superior, traditionally identified as clodia. the cultivation of a laissez-faire attitude as a sign of urbanity may have prompted the provision of augustus's adultery law that required a husband to divorce his wife and bring formal legal charges against her, or face charges himself for pimping (lenocinium).[ ] master-slave relations[edit] further information: slavery in ancient rome sexuality was a "core feature" of ancient roman slavery.[ ] because slaves were regarded as property under roman law, an owner could use them for sex or hire them out to service other people.[ ] some scholars propose that content in cicero's letters indicate he had a long-term homosexual relationship with his slave tiro.[ ][ ] as eva cantarella stated bluntly, "the roman paterfamilias was an absolute master, ... he exercised a power outside any control of society and the state. in this situation why on earth should he refrain from sodomising his houseboys?"[ ][n ] but this form of sexual release thus held little erotic cachet: to use one's own slaves was "one step up from masturbation".[ ] in describing the ideal partner in pederasty, martial prefers a slave boy who "acts more like a free man than his master", that is, one who can frame the affair as a stimulating game of courtship.[ ][ ] when figures identifiable as slaves appear in erotic art, they are performing routine tasks in the background, not taking part in sex acts.[ ] in his work on the interpretation of dreams (c.  ad), artemidorus takes a symbolic view of the sexual value of slaves: to dream of having sex with one's own female slave was a good thing, "for slaves are the dreamer's possession; therefore taking pleasure in them signifies the dreamer's being pleased with his own possessions".[ ][ ] a roman could exploit his own slaves for sex, but was not entitled to compel any enslaved person he chose to have sex, since the owner had the right to control his own property.[ ] in the pursuit of sex with a slave who belonged to someone else, persuasion or threats might be employed.[ ] a charge of rape could not be brought against a free man who forced a slave to have sex, since a slave lacked the legal standing that protected a citizen's body, but the owner could prosecute the rapist under the lex aquilia, a law pertaining to property damage.[ ] a slave's sexuality was closely controlled. slaves had no right to legal marriage (conubium), though they could live together as husband and wife (contubernales). an owner usually restricted the heterosexual activities of his male slaves to females he also owned; any children born from these unions added to his wealth.[ ] cato, at a time when rome's large-scale slave economy was still in early development, thought it good practice to monitor his slaves' sex lives, and required male slaves to pay a fee for access to their female fellow slaves.[ ] grotesque figurine of an ithyphallic slave: in roman comedy, slaves are often portrayed as oversexed if an owner found that his male slave was having a sexual relationship with a free woman, the law required that he warn the couple three times to break it off. if the affair continued, he had the right to take ownership of the woman.[ ] references to women from respectable families having sex with a male slave are infrequent, indicating that male writers were not preoccupied with the risk of it.[ ] cicero offers no examples in either the gossipy parts of his letters or in court cases where he attacks the reputation of a woman: he accuses clodia of incest and of running her house like a brothel, but not of sleeping with slaves. not even messalina or sallust's sempronia is accused in the hostile sources of having sex with a slave.[ ] sex with a slave was among the trumped-up charges against claudia octavia, the wife of nero, when poppaea sabina campaigned to take her place,[ ] but mostly it was a matter for innuendo or insult against a husband who failed to prevent it.[ ] despite the external controls and restrictions placed on a slave's sexuality, roman art and literature perversely often portray slaves as lascivious, voyeuristic, and even sexually knowing.[ ] one of the themes of roman comedy that distinguishes it from its greek models is the depiction of master-slave relations.[ ] freeborn romans who fell into slavery were supposed to be protected from sexual exploitation, as indicated by two different stories recorded by ancient historians.[ ] before the abolition of debt bondage in the th century bc,[ ] free romans were sometimes driven to sell themselves or their children into slavery when they were overwhelmed by debt. according to livy, debt slavery (nexum) was abolished as a direct result of the attempted sexual abuse of a freeborn youth who served as surety for his father's debt[ ] with the usurer lucius papirius. the boy, gaius publilius, was notably beautiful, and papirius insisted that as a bond slave he was required to provide sexual services. when publilius refused, papirius had him stripped and whipped. the youth then took to the streets to display his injuries, and an outcry among the people led the consuls to convene the senate. the political process eventually led to the lex poetelia papiria, which prohibited holding debtors in bondage for their debt and required instead that the debtor's property be used as collateral. the law thus established that the integrity of a roman citizen's body was fundamental to the concept of libertas, political liberty, in contrast to the uses to which a slave's body was subject.[n ] in this and a similar incident reported by valerius maximus, corporal punishment and sexual abuse are seen as similar violations of the citizen's freedom from physical compulsion, in contrast to the slave's physical vulnerability.[n ][ ] some sexual protections could be extended to slaves. the conduct of slaves reflected generally on the respectability of the household, and the materfamilias in particular was judged by her female slaves' sexual behavior, which was expected to be moral or at least discreet. this decorum may have limited the exploitation of female slaves that were part of the familia.[ ] seneca expressed stoic indignation that a male slave should be groomed effeminately and used sexually, because a slave's human dignity should not be debased.[ ] the burgeoning trade in eunuch slaves during the early empire prompted legislation under the emperor hadrian that prohibited the castration of a slave against his will "for lust or gain".[ ] legal agreements on the sale of a slave might include a ne serva prostituatur covenant that prohibited the employment of the slave as a prostitute. although concern for the slave's welfare may have been a factor in individual cases, this legal restriction seems also to have been intended to shield the male citizen owner from the shame or infamia associated with pimping and prostitution. the ne serva covenant remained in force for subsequent sales, even if the buyer was initially unaware of it, and if it was violated, the illegally prostituted slave was granted freedom.[ ] prostitution[edit] main article: prostitution in ancient rome wall painting from the lupanar (brothel) of pompeii prostitution was legal throughout the roman empire in all periods.[ ] most prostitutes were slaves or freedwomen. prostitutes in rome had to register with the aediles. despite what might seem to be a clear distinction as a matter of law, the jurist ulpian opined that an openly promiscuous woman brought the status of prostitute upon herself, even if she accepted no money.[ ] the augustan moral legislation that criminalized adultery exempted prostitutes, who could legally have sex with a married man. encouraged to think of adultery as a matter of law rather than morality, a few socially prominent women even chose to avoid prosecution for adultery by registering themselves as prostitutes.[ ] confused status frequently results in plot complications in the comedies of plautus and terence. obstacles to love arise when a young man falls in love with, and wishes to marry, a non-citizen prostitute, and are overcome when the young woman's true status as a freeborn virgin is revealed. the well-brought-up freeborn virgin is marriageable, and the non-citizen prostitute is not.[ ] the relation of these comic situations to real life is problematic: plautus and terence drew on greek models which are often little known, and so the extent to which they incorporated roman social behaviors and attitudes is hard to determine. elaine fantham has observed that prolonged military campaigning in greece and asia minor had introduced roman men to a more sophisticated standard of luxury and pleasure, perhaps reflected by comedy: the young man acts out his infatuation with an expensive courtesan instead of a family slave or common prostitute.[ ] prostitutes appear in erotic art in pompeii and herculaneum, including wall paintings from buildings identified as brothels, in which they are often nude except for a strapless bra (strophium). the paintings illustrate various sexual positions that contradict some scholarly claims about the preferences of roman men in heterosexual acts.[ ] literary sources record that prostitutes wore distinctive clothing, often gaudy dresses of see-through silk. they were the only roman women who wore the toga, the distinctive dress of a free roman male. this crossing of gender boundaries has been interpreted variously.[ ] pleasure and infamy[edit] prostitutes were among those persons in rome categorized as infames, enjoying few legal protections even if they were technically not slaves.[ ] infamia as a legal status once entered into could not be escaped: a prostitute was "not only a woman who practices prostitution, but also one who has formerly done so, even though she has ceased to act in this manner; for the disgrace is not removed even if the practice is subsequently discontinued".[ ] in the roman moral tradition, pleasure (voluptas) was a dubious pursuit. the stoic moralist seneca contrasts pleasure with virtue (virtus): virtue you will find in the temple, in the forum, in the senate house, standing before the city walls, dusty and sunburnt, her hands rough; pleasure you will most often find lurking around the baths and sweating rooms, and places that fear the police, in search of darkness, soft, effete, reeking of wine and perfume, pallid or else painted and made up with cosmetics like a corpse.[ ][ ] juvenal thought the retiarius (left), a gladiator who fought with face and flesh exposed, was effeminate and prone to sexual deviance[ ] roman ambivalence toward physical pleasure is expressed by the infamia of those whose bodies provided it publicly.[ ] in a technical sense, infamia was an official loss of legal standing for a freeborn person as a result of misconduct, including sexual misconduct, but the word could be used for ill repute in general.[ ] infamia was an "inescapable consequence" of certain professions, including not only prostitutes and pimps but performers such as actors, dancers, and gladiators:[ ] "these figures were the objects of other people's desires. they served the pleasure of others. they were tarnished by exposure to the public gaze."[ ] those labeled infames (singular infamis) were liable to corporal punishment, usually reserved for slaves.[ ] under the republic and early empire, one of the ways in which the citizen's liberty was defined was through the freedom of his body from physical coercion or punishment such as flogging by authorities.[ ] citizens who chose to become public performers, however, and to use their bodies to offer public pleasure,[ ] were excluded from these physical protections, and could be beaten or otherwise subjected to violence.[ ] any free man who became a gladiator took an oath to suffer branding, bondage, and beating, as well as potential death by the sword.[ ] both glamorized and despised, the gladiator was supposed to exert a compelling sexual allure over women.[ ][ ] actors were sexually ambiguous, in part because they could imitate women,[ ][ ] and were attractive to both men and women. the dictator sulla had a long-term affair with an actor;[ ] maecenas, the arts patron and advisor to augustus, was in love with an actor named bathyllus;[ ] and women of the imperial family are alleged to have had affairs with actors.[ ] actresses were assumed to be prostitutes.[ ] a man who enjoyed receiving anal sex or providing oral sex, often characterized as a cinaedus, might also be stigmatized as infamis, though if he was a citizen he could retain his legal standing.[ ][ ] private sex clubs[edit] see also: venereum archaeological evidence, primarily from pompeii and herculaneum, and literary sources seem to indicate the existence of private "sex clubs" in some roman homes (domūs).[ ] most romans lived in apartments (insulae); the domus was a large, independent dwelling owned by a family of considerable means, and in rome was central to the family's social identity. a few of these residences have rooms decorated with pornographic art[ ] not differing from that found in identified brothels; in some cases, an erotically decorated room has its own exterior door to admit visitors[ ] who would normally enter the home through the main doors leading to the atrium, where the family displayed ancestral images and other trophies of respectability. it has been suggested[ ] that these rooms were meant to evoke the ambience of a brothel for the hosting of exclusive sex parties, such as the one described by the historian valerius maximus as occurring in  bc with a consul and the tribunes of the plebs in attendance: just as notorious was that party arranged for metellus scipio when he was consul and for the people's tribunes—by gemellus, their tribunicial errand boy. he was a free man by birth, but twisted by his business to play the servant's role. society gave a collective blush: he established a whorehouse in his own house, and pimped out mucia and flavia, each of them notable for her father and husband, along with the aristocratic boy saturninus.[ ] bodies in shameless submission, ready to come for a game of drunken sex! a banquet not for honoring consul and tribunes, but indicting them![ ] the existence of sex clubs may provide background for late republican political smears about public figures whose party guests included prostitutes,[ ] and for the notorious imperial whorehouse caligula established on the palatine, where he prostituted married women and freeborn youths.[ ] sex acts and positions[edit] around positions for intercourse are recorded in the ancient world.[ ] both roman erotic art and latin literature, most famously a passage from ovid's art of love,[ ] depict various forms of copulation (concubitus varii) and sexual positions (figurae veneris). the latin terms are ovid's, from his description of how the most aristocratic households displayed erotic paintings among their art collections.[ ][ ] according to suetonius, tiberius had a vast collection of sex manuals and erotic art, including a painting of the mythological huntress atalanta performing oral sex on meleager, a work that the emperor regarded as worth more than a million sesterces.[ ] sexual variety fascinated romans. astrology was thought to influence one's preferences and pursuits: people born when the sun, moon, and planets were in certain astrological signs[ ] were supposed to be inclined toward secret vice or "unnatural" forms of intercourse, or to becoming pathici.[ ] lucretius observes that sex acts may have different purposes. prostitutes employ certain movements aimed at giving their customers pleasure and at avoiding pregnancy. wives wishing to conceive are advised against moving vigorously during intercourse, since such movements "knock the ploughshare from the furrow and misdirect the sowing of the seed".[ ][ ] lucretius recommends "doggy style" (a tergo) for couples trying to conceive, because it mimics the natural procreative sex of animals.[ ][ ] male–female sex[edit] the "woman riding" position was a favorite in roman art[ ] the basic obscene verb for a man having sex with a woman is futuo, "i fuck." although not found in polite literature,[ ] futuo was not necessarily insulting or aggressive; it was used transactionally for sex between a prostitute and her client, and in a passionate or loving setting may have been spoken as an arousing intimacy.[ ] a fragment from a play by plautus suggests that acquiring an erotic vocabulary was part of a woman's introduction to sexuality within marriage: a virgin explains that she has not yet learned the words suitable for the wedding night (nupta verba).[ ][ ] the easy use of the word by a woman in other settings indicates her independence of social norms, and corresponding lack of status. "either fuck me or let's fight it out," the formidable fulvia is quoted as challenging the future augustus.[ ] in graffiti at pompeii written by both men and women, forms of futuo are used to announce prowess, satisfaction, or availability. thomas habinek has claimed that "ovid invents the category of the heterosexual male", since, he says, it was considered normal for a roman man to have same-sex relations.[ ] ovid radically rejects the roman tradition of pederasty, and says he takes more pleasure (voluptas) in making love with a woman as his equal. sexual pleasure, he emphasizes, should be mutual,[ ][ ] and he advises men not to conclude the sex act without enabling their female partner to achieve orgasm. in one passage, he seems to be recommending simultaneous orgasm: but don't you fail your lady, hoisting bigger sails, and don't let her get ahead of you on the track either; race to the finish together: that's when pleasure is full, when man and woman lie there, equally vanquished.[ ] mulier equitans[edit] "riding" is a common metaphor for the sex act, particularly used of the woman-on-top position.[ ] the mulier equitans ("woman riding") does not appear in greek vase painting[ ] but is popular in roman art. ovid recommends it for the petite woman, as a tall woman may not wish to seem too towering in relation to the man.[ ] supposedly favored by the mythological couple hector and andromache, even though she was of legendary height, it was jokingly called "the hector horse".[ ] one relief from roman gaul showing the mulier equitans plays on the metaphor by picturing a galloping horse within a frame in the background (see first image in gallery below).[ ] in art, the mulier equitans convention has the woman posed frontally to expose her body in full to the viewer, often emphasizing her depilated pubic area. the significance of this position in roman culture has been interpreted variously. kenneth dover thought it might represent the relative sexual emancipation of roman women.[ ] from a woman's perspective, the position would grant an independence of movement for her own pleasure.[ ] paul veyne, however, thought it emphasized that the woman had to do the work of servicing the man, who lies there and receives pleasure without effort.[ ] the position may have been favored for art because it pleased both male and female viewers: for men, it offered an unobstructed view of the woman's body, as recommended by ovid, and of the penis entering the vagina; women saw the visually dominant female figure playing the active role.[ ] the position is also called venus pendula conversa, "perpendicular venus with the woman facing toward (the man)"; for its reverse (venus pendula aversa, "perpendicular venus with the woman facing away"), the man lies down with the woman on top, but she turns her back and faces his feet. this version is rarely mentioned or depicted, but is found in roman art set in nilotic egypt.[ ] 	 			 			 relief with inscription[ ] 			 		 	 			 			 casa del ristorante 			 		 	 			 			 on an oil lamp 			 		 	 			 			 venus pendula aversa 			 		 an equestrian metaphor is also found for the cinaedus "riding" on top in anal sex,[ ][ ] and at least once of lesbians who "take turns riding and move with the moon as witness".[ ][ ] anal sex[edit] "the lioness" position (casa del ristorante, pompeii) the latin verb for "to penetrate anally, bugger" is pedicare. the object was usually but not always male. pedicare was a blunt and non-euphemistic word, and can be used in a threatening manner, as notoriously by catullus in carmen , or in general to mean "fuck you".[ ][ ] the etymology of pedicare is unclear, but some have thought it derived from greek paidika, having to do with pederasty.[ ] the basic word for "anus" was culus. common metaphors are ficus, "fig", and anus, "ring," which was considered a decorous term and was standard in medical texts.[ ] men were said to "take it like a woman" (muliebria pati, "to undergo womanly things") when they were anally penetrated, but when a man performed anal sex on a woman, she was thought of as playing the boy's role.[ ] martial, for instance, is emphatic that anal sex is better with boys than with women; when his wife objects that she provides him with anal sex in an effort to preserve his fidelity, he taunts her with the inferiority of her anus compared with a boy's.[ ][ ] the figura veneris in which the woman crouches to lift her buttocks, called "the lioness", may be intended for anal penetration, since boys in greek art can be portrayed in the same position; with a female partner, it may be difficult to distinguish in art from a tergo (rear entry).[ ] culibonia ("good anal") was a humorous term for a prostitute with this speciality.[ ] avoiding pregnancy may have been one motive for female prostitutes to offer anal intercourse.[ ] os impurum[edit] os impurum, "filthy mouth" or "impure mouth", was a term of abuse especially for those who provided oral sex.[ ] "oral turpitude"[ ] was a favorite form of invective for catullus,[ ] horace, and martial.[ ] an accusation of having an os impurum is an "extreme obscenity",[ ] so vile that cicero reserved it for men of lower standing than himself,[ ] only implying that their debasement tainted their more powerful patrons who were his real targets.[ ] wall painting from pompeii depicting cunnilingus it was a convention of obscenely comic verse that oral sex caused bad breath that was nearly toxic.[ ][ ] "whores of the alleyways" are contaminated from giving oral sex; catullus refers to "the foul saliva of a pissed-over whore".[ ][ ] the urinary function of the penis makes oral sex particularly repulsive to catullus, who elsewhere reviles a celtiberian for brushing his teeth in urine.[ ] martial jokes that a fine perfume turned to garum, fish sauce, when it was sniffed by a man whose breath was putrid from oral sex.[ ] in another of martial's epigrams, a fellator breathes on a hot cake to cool it down and turns it to excrement.[ ] the bad breath and rotten teeth that are attributed to performing oral sex represent moral decay and a general corruption of the mouth's positive functions as the organ of a citizen's persuasive speech.[ ][ ][ ] cunnilingus and fellatio[edit] because of the stigma attached to providing physical pleasure, a man who performed oral sex on a woman was subject to mockery. cunnilingus typically appears in roman art only as part of a reciprocal act, with the woman fellating her male partner in some variation of the " " position.[ ] a wall painting from pompeii, however, represents a virtually unique role reversal in the giving of oral sex. the woman who receives cunnilingus is tall and shapely, well-groomed, and brazenly nude except for jewelry. the male figure is relatively small, crouching subserviently, and fully clothed; he has an anxious or furtive look.[ ] the situation is so extreme that it was probably meant to be humorous as well as titillating; other paintings in this group show a series of sex acts, at least some of which could be seen as transgressive or parodic.[ ] there is some evidence that women could hire male prostitutes to provide cunnilingus. graffiti at pompeii advertise the prices male prostitutes charged for cunnilingus, in the same price range as females performing fellatio; however, the graffiti could be intended as insults to the men named, and not as actual advertisements.[ ] one graffito is perhaps intended as political invective: "vote isidore for aedile; he's the best at licking cunt!"[ ] woman fellating a man on an oil lamp the latin verb fellare is usually used for a woman performing oral sex on a man.[ ] accusing a man of fellating another man was possibly the worst insult in all roman invective.[ ] it was an act that might be requested from women who were infames,[ ][ ] and not something a husband in a respectable household would have expected from his wife.[ ] fellatio was seen as a "somewhat laughable" preference for older men who have trouble maintaining an erection,[ ] but graffiti show that the skills of a good fellatrix were enthusiastically utilized.[ ] fellatio was a fairly uncommon subject in roman art.[ ] irrumatio[edit] main article: irrumatio irrumatio is a forced form of fellatio, almost always against another man. forcing someone to be a receptacle for oral sex was proof of virility, something to boast about, as indicated by the priapeia and the poems of catullus and martial. it was also threatened as a punishment,[ ] particularly for adulterers.[ ] martial urges a wronged husband who has already cut off the adulterous man's ears and nose to complete the humiliation by befouling his mouth with oral rape.[ ][ ] group sex[edit] threesome (from pompeii) arranged in the manner described by catullus, poem [ ] group sex appears in literary sources, graffiti, and art.[ ] suetonius says that the emperor tiberius enjoyed watching group sex, and described "chains" arranged of girls and boys: in his retreat at capri, he put together a bedroom that was the theater of his secret debauches. there he assembled from all over companies of male and female prostitutes, and inventors of monstrous couplings (which he called spintriae), so that, intertwining themselves and forming a triple chain (triplici serie connexi), they mutually prostituted themselves in front of him to fire up his flagging desires.[ ] foursome from the suburban baths at pompeii most threesomes depict two men penetrating a woman. a medallion from roman gaul shows two men reclining on a bed, one on the right and one on the left, with their legs extended under a woman between them. another shows a woman "riding" a man who reclines, while a man standing behind her parts her legs to enter. a far less common variation has one man entering a woman from the rear while he in turn receives anal sex from a man standing behind him, a scenario found in catullus, carmen as well as art. catullus makes it clear that this concatenation was considered humorous,[ ] possibly because the man in the center could be a cinaedus, a male who liked to receive anal sex but who was also considered seductive to women.[ ] foursomes also appear in roman art, typically with two women and two men, sometimes in same-sex pairings. one example of a foursome from the suburban baths at pompeii demonstrates what romans saw as the superior role. a woman on the far right kneels beside a bed to perform cunnilingus on a woman lying on it; this woman in turn fellates a man who kneels above her. the man is himself receiving anal sex from a fourth figure, who is represented as the "victor": he acts only to fulfill his own sexual gratification without providing it to others, and looks directly at the viewer with a triumphant wave of the hand.[ ] a latin epigram by the gallo-roman poet ausonius ( th century ad) is a riddle that depends on familiarity with the configurations of group sex: "three men in bed together: two are committing debauchery (stuprum), two are being debauched." "doesn't that make four men?" "you're mistaken: the man on either end each counts as a single offense, but the one in the middle both acts and is acted on."[ ] masturbation[edit] see also: history of masturbation masturbation is little noted in the sources for roman sexuality.[ ] martial has a few mentions in his poems, but considers it an inferior form of sexual release resorted to by slaves, though he admits to masturbating when a beautiful slave-boy is too expensive to obtain: "my hand relieved me as a substitute for ganymede".[ ][ ][ ] masturbation was a longstanding if infrequent theme in latin satire; one of the few surviving fragments of lucilius, rome's earliest satirist, jokes about a personified penis (mutto) whose girlfriend laeva ("lefty") wipes away his "tears".[ ] the romans preferred the left hand for masturbation.[ ] a graffito from pompeii reads "when my worries oppress my body, with my left hand i release my pent-up fluids".[ ] the etymology of the latin verb masturbari is vexed. it has been argued that it is a compound of turbare, "agitate", and mas, "male", in an otherwise unattested usage for "penis".[ ] one traditional view sees man(u)-, "hand," with an altered form of stuprare, "to defile, commit a sexual wrong against".[ ] calvert watkins proposed that it derives from a proto-indo-european root meaning "marrow, brain", since ancient medical writers believed that semen descended from the brain through the bones;[ ] if this is correct, the word turbare may still have influenced the formation in latin.[ ] bestiality[edit] leda and the swan, with a cupid in attendance ( th-century roman relief) leopard attacking a condemned person in the arena (zliten mosaic, c.  ad) the mythological tradition is full of sexual encounters between humans and animals, especially mortal women and gods in the guise of animals. bestiality is a particular characteristic of intercourse with jupiter (greek zeus), who visits leda as a swan and europa as a bull. the minotaur is born when pasiphaë feels such sexual attraction for a bull that she has herself disguised as a cow to mate with him. satyrs, known for their sexual voracity, are often pictured with bestial features. mock bestiality is recorded as a form of sexual roleplay in imperial rome. nero is supposed to have enjoyed a form of bondage with either male or female partners in which he dressed in animal skins to attack their genitals, just as condemned prisoners were bound and attacked by wild animals in the arena (see damnatio ad bestias).[ ] the historian dio tells of how a prostitute pretended to be a leopard for the gratification of a senator.[ ] the actor bathyllus was known for an erotic dance in which he dressed as leda having sex with the swan; the women watching were variously aroused.[ ] bestiality is also a theme of apuleius' novel metamorphoses (or the golden ass), in which the protagonist, transformed into a donkey, is desired by a wealthy noble matron, just as pasiphaë desired the bull.[ ] there is some indication that violent sexual encounters, like other mythological scenarios, were acted out as punitive entertainments in the arena. the poet martial praises a scenario for its fidelity to the pasiphaë myth.[ ][ ][ ] the logistics of staging a sex act between a woman and a bull is a matter of speculation; if "pasiphaë" were a condemned criminal to be tortured and killed, the animal may have been induced by the application of "vaginal secretion from a cow in season".[ ] in apuleius's novel, a female poisoner condemned ad bestias is scheduled to appear in the arena for intercourse with the protagonist in his bestial form.[ ] hermaphroditism and androgyny[edit] hermaphroditus warding off a satyr (pompeii, c. –  ad) main articles: hermaphroditus and aphroditus in his chapter on anthropology and human physiology in the encyclopedic natural history, pliny notes that "there are even those who are born of both sexes, whom we call hermaphrodites, at one time androgyni" (andr-, "man", and gyn-, "woman", from the greek).[ ][ ] the sicilian historian diodorus ( st century bc) wrote that "there are some who declare that the coming into being of creatures of a kind such as these are marvels (terata), and being born rarely, they announce the future, sometimes for evil and sometimes for good".[ ] isidore of seville (c. – ) described a hermaphrodite fancifully as those who "have the right breast of a man and the left of a woman, and after coitus in turn can both sire and bear children".[ ] in contemporary english, "hermaphrodite" is used in biology but has acquired pejorative connotations in referring to people born with physical characteristics of both sexes (see intersex); in antiquity, however, the figure of the so-called hermaphrodite was a primary focus of questions pertaining to gender identity.[ ][ ] the hermaphrodite represented a "violation of social boundaries, especially those as fundamental to daily life as male and female".[ ] in traditional roman religion, a hermaphroditic birth was a kind of prodigium, an occurrence that signalled a disturbance of the pax deorum, rome's treaty with the gods, as diodorus indicated.[ ] livy records an incident during the second punic war when the discovery of a four-year-old hermaphrodite prompted an elaborate series of expiations: on the advice of the haruspices, the child was enclosed in a chest, carried out to sea, and allowed to drown.[ ] other rituals followed. a hermaphrodite found in  bc was drowned in the local river; committing the hermaphroditic person to the element of water seems to have been the prescribed way to repair the perceived violation of the natural order.[ ] pliny observed that while hermaphrodites were once considered portents (prodigia), in his day they had become objects of delight (deliciae); they were among the human curiosities of the sort that the wealthy might acquire at the "monsters' market" at rome described by plutarch.[ ] under roman law, a hermaphrodite had to be classed as either male or female; no third gender existed as a legal category.[ ] in the mythological tradition, hermaphroditus was a beautiful youth who was the son of hermes (roman mercury) and aphrodite (venus).[ ] like many other divinities and heroes, he had been nursed by nymphs,[ ] but the evidence that he himself received cult devotion among the greeks is sparse.[ ] ovid wrote the most influential narrative[ ][ ] of how hermaphroditus became androgynous, emphasizing that although the handsome youth was on the cusp of sexual adulthood, he rejected love as narcissus had, and likewise at the site of a reflective pool.[ ] there the water nymph salmacis saw and desired him. he spurned her, and she pretended to withdraw until, thinking himself alone, he undressed to bathe in her waters. she then flung herself upon him, and prayed that they might never be parted. the gods granted this request, and thereafter the body of hermaphroditus contained both male and female. as a result, men who drank from the waters of the spring salmacis supposedly "grew soft with the vice of impudicitia", according to the lexicographer festus.[ ][ ] the myth of hylas, the young companion of hercules who was abducted by water nymphs, shares with hermaphroditus and narcissus the theme of the dangers that face the beautiful adolescent male as he transitions to adult masculinity, with varying outcomes for each.[ ] depictions of hermaphroditus were very popular among the romans. the dramatic situation in paintings often elicits a "double take" on the part of the viewer, or expresses the theme of sexual frustration.[ ] hermaphroditus is often in the company of a satyr, a figure of bestial sexuality known for subjecting an unsuspecting or often sleeping victim to non-consensual sex; the satyr in scenes with hermaphroditus is usually shown to be surprised or repulsed, to humorous effect. in a few works, hermaphroditus is strong enough to ward off his would-be attacker, but in others he shows his willingness to engage in sex, even if the satyr seems no longer inclined:[ ] artistic representations of hermaphroditus bring to the fore the ambiguities in sexual differences between women and men as well as the ambiguities in all sexual acts. ... hermaphroditus gives an eternally ambiguous answer to a man's curiosity about a woman's sexual experience—and vice versa. ... (a)rtists always treat hermaphroditus in terms of the viewer finding out his/her actual sexual identity. ... hermaphroditus stands for both the physical and, more important, the psychological impossibility of ever understanding the feelings of the beloved. hermaphroditus is a highly sophisticated representation, invading the boundaries between the sexes that seem so clear in classical thought and representation.[ ] macrobius describes a masculine form of "venus" (aphrodite) who received cult on cyprus; she had a beard and male genitals, but wore women's clothing. the deity's worshippers cross-dressed, men wearing women's clothes, and women men's.[ ] the latin poet laevius wrote of worshipping "nurturing venus" whether female or male (sive femina sive mas).[ ] the figure was sometimes called aphroditos. in several surviving examples of greek and roman sculpture, she is found in the attitude anasyrmene, from the greek verb anasyromai, "to pull up one's clothes".[ ] the love goddess lifts her garments to reveal her masculine attribute, male genitalia, a gesture that traditionally held apotropaic or magical power.[ ] sexual conquest and imperialism[edit] sestertius of vespasian depicting "captive judaea" in  bc, pompeius magnus ("pompey the great") opened his theater complex dedicated to venus victrix, "venus the conqueror," which continued into late antiquity as a venue for performing arts, literature, landscape design, visual art, and architecture.[ ] the theater of pompey was in many ways the permanent monument of his military triumph six years earlier. among the displays were portrait galleries of female writers and of courtesans; a series of images illustrated freakish births that had served as war omens. in general, intellectuality and culture are represented as feminine and hellenized, while war and politics are roman and masculine.[ ] statues personified fourteen conquered nationes ("nations, peoples") as women in ethnic or "barbarian" dress.[ ][ ] other monuments throughout the empire, including the sebasteion at aphrodisias and the altar of the sanctuary of the three gauls at lugdunum (modern lyon, france), as well as various coins, embody conquered territories and peoples as women: roman military power defeats a "feminized" nation.[ ][ ][ ] although the figures from pompey's theater have not survived, relief panels from aphrodisias include scenes such as a heroically nude claudius forcing the submission of britannia, whose right breast is bare, and nero dragging away a dead armenia, a composition that recalls the defeat of the amazon penthesilea by achilles.[ ] a particularly well-documented series of coins depicts iudaea capta, a female personification of the jewish nation as captive, issued after the destruction of the temple of jerusalem in  ad.[ ] sexual conquest is a metaphor widely used by the romans for imperialism,[ ] but not always straightforwardly for roman domination. horace famously described the romans as taken captive by captive greece: the image of roman culture colonized from within by a civilization they had defeated but perceived as intellectually and aesthetically superior might be expressed by myths in which a man raped, abducted, or enslaved a woman but fell in love with her, as embodied for instance by achilles and briseis.[ ] see also[edit] 	erotic art in pompeii and herculaneum 	exoletus 	history of human sexuality 	homosexuality in ancient greece 	homosexuality in ancient rome 	latin profanity notes[edit] 	^ for example, agatha of sicily and febronia of nisibis; sebastian p. brock and susan ashbrook harvey, introduction to holy women of the syrian orient (university of california press, ), pp. – ; harvey, "women in early byzantine hagiography: reversing the story," in that gentle strength: historical perspectives on women in christianity (university press of virginia, ), pp. – . the accounts of breast mutilation occur in christian sources and iconography, not in roman art and literature. 	^ for instance, in the mid- rd century bc, naevius uses the word stuprum in his bellum punicum for the military disgrace of desertion or cowardice; fantham, p. . 	^ referring to varicocele. 	^ "... kronos is the same as khronos: for as much as the mythographers offer different versions of saturn [= kronos] in their tales, the physical scientists restore him to a certain likeness to the truth. they say that he cut off the genitals of his father, heaven, and that when these were cast into the sea venus was engendered, taking the name aphrodite from the foam [greek aphros] from which she formed. they interpret this to mean that when chaos existed, time did not, since time is a fixed measurement computed from the rotation of the heavens. hence kronos, who as i said is khronos, is thought to have been born from heaven itself. because the seeds for engendering all things (semina rerum omnium) after heaven flowed down from heaven, and because all the elements that fill the world took their start from those seeds, when the world was complete in all its parts and members, the process of bringing forth seeds from heaven for the creation of the elements came to an end at a fixed moment in time, since a full complement of elements had by then been created. the capacity for engendering living things in an unbroken sequence of reproduction was transferred from water to venus, so that all things would thenceforth come into being through the intercourse of male and female": macrobius, saturnalia . . – , loeb classical library translation by robert a. kaster. 	^ until the late republic, a bath house probably offered women a separate wing or facility, or had a schedule that allowed women and men to bathe at different times. from the late republic until the rise of christian dominance in the later empire, there is clear evidence of mixed bathing. some scholars have thought that only lower-class women bathed with men, or those such as entertainers or prostitutes who were infames, but clement of alexandria observed that women of the highest social classes could be seen naked at the baths. hadrian prohibited mixed bathing, but the ban seems not to have endured. in short, customs varied not only by time and place, but by facility; see garrett g. fagan, bathing in public in the roman world (university of michigan press, , ), pp. – . 	^ in roman gaul, the celtic god identified with the roman mercury is sometimes represented triphallically; see for instance miranda green, symbol and image in celtic religious art (routledge, ), p. . in the sorrows of the ancient romans: the gladiator and the monster (princeton university press, ), p. , carlin a. barton associates polyphallic tintinnabula with the medusa's head and other grotesques. 	^ breasts are never ubera in ovid's amores, but are ubera throughout the metamorphoses: at . (metaphorically); . ; . ; . (materna ... ubera, "motherly breasts"); . and . (lactantia ubera, "milk-producing breasts"); . and . uber (singular) or ubera is used for animals by ovid, ars amatoria . (the udder of a cow) and . (the teats of lactating dogs); by horace, sermones . . , odes . . , . . and . . , and elsewhere; by tibullus, for sheep in . . ; by propertius, . b. 	^ staples, p. , citing norman bryson, "two narratives of rape in the visual arts: lucretia and the sabine women," in rape (blackwell, ), p. . augustine's interpretation of the rape of lucretia (in city of god . ) has generated a substantial body of criticism, starting with machiavelli's satire. in augustine of hippo: a biography (faber, ), peter brown characterized this section of augustine's work as his most vituperative attack on roman ideals of virtue. see also carol j. adams and marie m. fortune, violence against women and children: a christian theological sourcebook (continuum, ), p. ff.; melissa m. matthes, the rape of lucretia and the founding of republics (pennsylvania state university press, ), p. ff. (also on machiavelli); virginia burrus, saving shame: martyrs, saints, and other abject subjects (university of pennsylvania press, ), p. ff.; amy greenstadt, rape and the rise of the author: gendering intention in early modern england (ashgate, ), p. ; melissa e. sanchez, erotic subjects: the sexuality of politics in early modern english literature (oxford university press, ), p. ff. augustine defines sexual integrity (pudicitia) as a purely spiritual quality that physical defilement cannot taint; as indicated throughout this article, the romans viewed rape and other forms of stuprum within a political context as crimes against the citizen's liberty. 	^ martial ( . ) observed that the power of the paterfamilias was so absolute that having sex with his own son was technically not a transgression (nefas), as noted by john boswell, christianity, social tolerance, and homosexuality: gay people in western europe from the beginning of the christian era to the fourteenth century (university of chicago press, ), p. . 	^ the abolition of debt bondage was facilitated by the spread of chattel slavery for agricultural labor; thus during the period of roman conquest and expansionism on the italian peninsula, the distinction arises between a roman citizen with rights and an "italian" who might be enslaved; see john w. rich, "tiberius gracchus, land and manpower," in crises and the roman empire. proceedings of the seventh workshop of the international network impact of empire (nijmegen, june – , ) (brill, ), p. . 	^ in the similar story from valerius maximus, a young man named titus veturius, whose father was a bankrupt roman magistrate, had placed himself in slavery with publius plotius, who had attempted to seduce him (stuprare). when veturius refused, plotius whipped him. veturius then complained to the consuls, who took the complaint to the senate. plotius was jailed. see cantarella, pp. – references[edit] 	^ a b paul g.p. meyboom and miguel john versluys, "the meaning of dwarfs in nilotic scenes," in nile into tiber: egypt in the roman world. proceedings of the iiird international conference of isis studies, leiden, may – , (brill, ), p. . 	^ edwards, p. . 	^ verstraete, beert c. and provencal, vernon, eds. ( ) same-sex desire and love in greco-roman antiquity and in the classical tradition. haworth press. p. . for an extended discussion of how the modern perception of roman sexual decadence can be traced to early christian polemic, see alastair j. l. blanshard, "roman vice," in sex: vice and love from antiquity to modernity (wiley-blackwell, ), pp. – . 	^ karl-j. hölkeskamp, reconstructing the roman republic: an ancient political culture and modern research (princeton university press, ), pp. – . 	^ langlands, p. . 	^ langlands, p. . 	^ fantham, p. 	^ richlin ( ), p. . under the empire, the emperor assumed the powers of the censors (p. ). 	^ michel foucault, the history of sexuality: the care of the self (new york: vintage books, ), vol. , p. (on the contrast with the christian view of sex as "linked to evil") et passim, as summarized by inger furseth and pål repstad, an introduction to the sociology of religion: classical and contemporary perspectives (ashgate, ), p. . 	^ cantarella, p. xii. 	^ langlands, pp. – . 	^ cantarella, pp. xii–xiii. 	^ clarke, pp. , ff. 	^ langlands, p. , especially note 	^ clarke, p. . 	^ mcginn ( ), p. . 	^ williams, p. , citing saara lilja, homosexuality in republican and augustan rome (societas scientiarum fennica, ), p. . 	^ a b c d e nussbaum, pp. – 	^ a b hallett, p. . 	^ a b langlands, p. . 	^ clarke, p. , maintains that the ancient romans "did not have a self-conscious idea of their sexuality". 	^ penner, pp. – 	^ habinek, pp. ff. 	^ edwards, pp. – , especially note . 	^ clarke, p. . 	^ potter ( ), p. . 	^ potter ( ), p. . 	^ ovid, tristia . ff. 	^ griffin, jasper ( ). "propertius and antony". journal of roman studies. : – ( ). doi: . / . jstor  . 	^ ovid, tristia . and – ; heinz hofmann, latin fiction: the latin novel in context (routledge, ), p. . 	^ plutarch, life of crassus . 	^ clarke, p. . 	^ clarke, p. . 	^ the tabella was a small, portable painting, as distinguished from an architecturally permanent wall painting. 	^ ovid, tristia , as cited in clarke, pp. – . 	^ clarke, p. . 	^ clarke, pp. and ff., quotation on p. . 	^ as criticized by suetonius, life of horace: ad res venerias intemperantior traditur; nam speculato cubiculo scorta dicitur habuisse disposita, ut quocumque respexisset ibi ei imago coitus referretur; clarke, p. . 	^ a b suetonius, life of tiberius . ; clarke, pp. – . 	^ a b potter ( ), p. . 	^ potter ( ), p. . although there is little question that ausonius was a christian, his works contain many indications that he remained at least interested in, if not a practitioner of, traditional roman and celtic religions. 	^ anthony king, "mammals," in the natural history of pompeii (cambridge university press, ), p. ; john r. clarke, the houses of roman italy,  b.c.–a.d. : ritual, space and decoration (university of california press, ), p. . 	^ staples 	^ celia e. schultz, women's religious activity in the roman republic (university of north carolina press, ), pp. – ; michael lipka, roman gods: a conceptual approach (brill, ), pp. – 	^ see flamen dialis and rex sacrorum. 	^ mary beard, j.a. north, and s.r.f. price, religions of rome: a history (cambridge university press, ), vol. , p. ; robin lorsch wildfang, rome's vestal virgins: a study of rome's vestal priestesses in the late republic and early empire (routledge, ), p. . 	^ staples, p. . 	^ cicero, de officiis . . : nam cum sit hoc natura commune animantium, ut habeant libidinem procreandi, prima societas in ipso coniugio est, proxima in liberis, deinde una domus, communia omnia; id autem est principium urbis et quasi seminarium reipublicae; sabine maccormack, "sin, citizenship, and the salvation of souls: the impact of christian priorities on late-roman and post-roman society," comparative studies in society and history . ( ), p. . 	^ see also "roman prostitution and religion". 	^ as in the first-line invocation of venus in lucretius's epic de rerum natura: "begetter (genetrix) of the line of aeneas, the pleasure (voluptas) of human and divine." 	^ j. rufus fears, "the theology of victory at rome: approaches and problem," aufstieg und niedergang der römischen welt ii. . ( ), pp. – . sulla himself may or may not have been an augur at this time. 	^ williams, p. . 	^ martin henig, religion in roman britain (london: batsford, ), pp. – . 	^ pliny, natural history . . ( . ), says that when a general celebrated a triumph, the vestals hung an effigy of the fascinus on the underside of his chariot to protect him from invidia. 	^ iter amoris, "journey" or "course of love". see propertius . . – ; ovid, fasti) . – ; michelle george, "the 'dark side' of the toga," in roman dress and the fabrics of roman culture (university of toronto press, ), p. . robert e. a. palmer, "mutinus titinus: a study in etrusco-roman religion and topography," in roman religion and roman empire: five essays (university of pennsylvania press, ), pp. – , argued that mutunus tutunus was subsumed by the cult of liber; augustine, de civitate dei . , said that a phallus was a divine object used during the liberalia to repel malevolent influences from the crops. 	^ robert turcan, the gods of ancient rome (routledge, ; originally published in french ), pp. – ; jörg rüpke, religion in republican rome: rationalization and ritual change (university of pennsylvania press, ), pp. – . 	^ clarke, pp. – . 	^ a b c d langlands, p. . 	^ barbette stanley spaeth, the roman goddess ceres (university of texas press, ), pp. – , citing festus ( in the edition of müller) on the torch and noting that priestesses devoted to ceres in north africa took a vow of chastity like that of the vestals (tertullian, ad uxorem . oehler). ovid notes that ceres is pleased by even small offerings, as long as they are casta (fasti . – ). statius says that ceres herself is casta (silvae . ). the goddess's concern with castitas may have to do with her tutelary function over boundaries, including the transition between life and death, as in the mystery religions. 	^ h.h.j. brouwer, bona dea: the sources and a description of the cult (brill, ), pp. – , note . 	^ mueller, roman religion in valerius maximus, p. ; susanne william rasmussen, public portents in republican rome («l'erma» di bretschneider, ), p. . 	^ wildfang, rome's vestal virgins, p. et passim. 	^ crassus's nomen was licinius; the vestal's name was licinia (see roman naming conventions). his reputation for greed and sharp business dealings helped save him; he objected that he had spent time with licinia to obtain some real estate she owned. for sources, see michael c. alexander, trials in the late roman republic,  bc to  bc (university of toronto press, ), p. . the most likely year was  bc; plutarch, life of crassus . , implies that the prosecution was motivated by political utility. one or more vestals were also brought before the college of pontiffs for incestum in connection with the catiline conspiracy (alexander, trials, p. ). 	^ the sources on this notorious incident are numerous; brouwer, bona dea, p. ff., gathers the ancient accounts. 	^ bruce w. frier and thomas a. j. mcginn, a casebook on roman family law (oxford university press, ), pp. and . 	^ richlin ( ), p. . 	^ stuprum cum vi or per vim stuprum: richlin ( ), p. . 	^ a b c fantham, p. . 	^ diana c. moses, "livy's lucretia and the validity of coerced consent in roman law," in consent and coercion to sex and marriage in ancient and medieval societies (dunbarton oaks, ), p. ; gillian clark, women in late antiquity: pagan and christian life-styles (oxford university press, ), p. . 	^ moses, "livy's lucretia," pp. – . 	^ hans dieter betz, the greek magical papyri in translation (university of chicago press, , ), p. xliff. 	^ matthew w. dickie, magic and magicians in the greco-roman world (routledge, ), p. . 	^ dickie, magic and magicians, p. . defixiones are also known as curse tablets; erotic prohibitions are only one form of defixio. 	^ richard gordon, "innovation and authority in graeco-egyptian magic," in kykeon: studies in honour of h. s. versnel (brill, ), p. . 	^ christopher a. faraone, "agents and victims: constructions of gender and desire in ancient greek love magic," in the sleep of reason, p. . 	^ marcellus's work was "the last major compilation [of medical treatments] written in gaul based on the work of ancient and contemporary greek authors", notes bonnie effros, creating community with food and drink in merovingian gaul (palgrave macmillan, ), p. . marcellus names the father of ausonius in his preface. 	^ ut eunuchum sine ferro facias, "how you make a eunuch without the iron (blade)": marcellus of bordeaux, de medicamentis 	^ marcellus, de medicamentis . . 	^ marcellus, de medicamentis . ; compare pliny the elder, natural history . ( ). 	^ marcellus, de medicamentis . . 	^ including artemisia, dittany, opopanax, pepper, saffron, giant fennel, myrrh, and colocynth; john m. riddle, contraception and abortion from the ancient world to the renaissance (harvard university press, ), p. . 	^ riddle, contraception and abortion from the ancient world to the renaissance, p. , noting that marcellus "does not appear expertly knowledgeable about...women and fertility". 	^ the paignia of democritus, pgm . – , as cited by james n. davidson, "don't try this at home: pliny's salpe, salpe's paignia and magic," classical quarterly . ( ), p. . 	^ pliny, natural history . , crediting salpe the obstetrician, as cited by davidson, "don't try this at home," p. . 	^ translation from brown, p. , of lucretius, de rerum natura, . – : nec veneris fructu caret is qui vitat amorem, sed potius quae sunt sine poena commoda sumit; nam certe purast sanis magis inde voluptas quam miseris. etenim potiundi tempore in ipso fluctuat incertis erroribus ardor amantum nec constat quid primum oculis manibusque fruantur. quod petiere, premunt arte faciuntque dolorem corporis et dentes inlidunt saepe labellis osculaque adfligunt, quia non est pura voluptas et stimuli subsunt qui instigant laedere id ipsum quodcumque est, rabies unde illaec germina surgunt. 	^ stuart gillespie and philip hardie, introduction to the cambridge companion to lucretius (cambridge university press, ), p. . 	^ epicurus, letter to menoeceus . 	^ a scholiast gives an example of an unnatural and unnecessary desire as acquiring crowns and setting up statues for oneself; see j.m. rist, epicurus: an introduction (cambridge university press, ), pp. – . 	^ philip hardie, "lucretius and later latin literature in antiquity," in the cambridge companion to lucretius, p. , note . 	^ lucretius, de rerum natura, . – 	^ brown, pp. – . 	^ brown, pp. , – . 	^ brown, p. . 	^ brown, p. . epicurus taught that the soul was a thin tissue of atoms that dissipated into the cosmos upon death; therefore, there is no afterlife and no reason for mortals to live with anxieties about what happens after death. 	^ lucretius, de rerum natura . – 	^ brown, p. . 	^ a b brown, pp. – . 	^ a b brown, p. . 	^ a b brown, p. . 	^ the sex of the child, however, is not determined by the gender of the parent whose traits dominate. 	^ lucretius, de rerum natura . – 	^ brown, p. . 	^ david sedley, lucretius and the transformation of greek wisdom (cambridge university press, ), pp. – . 	^ a b c brown, p. . 	^ lucretius, de rerum natura . ff. 	^ brown, p. . 	^ phebe lowell bowditch, horace and the gifty economy of patronage (university of california press, ), p. . 	^ lucretius, de rerum natura . ff. 	^ brown, p. . 	^ lucretius, de rerum natura . , , 	^ brown, p. . 	^ fredrick, p. . the "true" gods as conceived by epicureans bear little resemblance to those found in mythological literature; they don't concern themselves with mortals, much less have sexual relations with them, and dwell in a state of detachment and ideal pleasure. 	^ brown, pp. ff. 	^ lucretius, de rerum natura . – ; gordon, "some unseen monster," p. . 	^ gordon, "some unseen monster," pp. – . 	^ a b c richlin, amy, ed. ( ). marcus aurelius in love. university of chicago press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ colish, p. , pointing out that to the early stoics, "sexual needs may therefore be met in whatever manner pleases the individual, including prostitution, incest, masturbation, and homosexuality." 	^ gaca, p. . gaca (p. ) emphasizes that seneca and musonius, while highly influential among the romans, were "unrepresentative" of the stoic tradition in general. 	^ william loader, sexuality and the jesus tradition (wm. b. eerdmans, ), p. . the relation of stoic sexual ethics to the formation of christian sexual ethics is a much-discussed topic of scholarship, but mainstream christianity regarded celibacy as ideal and sex as inherently sinful, redeemed somewhat if occurring within marriage; see nussbaum, p. . see also colish. 	^ martha nussbaum, the therapy of desire: theory and practice in hellenistic ethics (princeton university press, , ), pp. – . 	^ prudence allen, the concept of woman: the aristotelian revolution,  bc–ad  (eden press, ), p. . 	^ nussbaum, p. . musonius wrote in greek under roman rule; seneca was a latin author from roman spain. 	^ nussbaum, p. . 	^ colish, pp. – . 	^ gretchen reydams-schils, the roman stoics: self, responsibility, and affection (university of chicago press, ), p. . 	^ nussbaum, pp. – . 	^ nussbaum, p. . 	^ "bare pleasure" is psilên hêdonên; nussbaum, p. . 	^ reydams-schils, the roman stoics, p. . 	^ gaca, p. . 	^ gaca, p. . 	^ a b gaca, p. . 	^ allen, the concept of woman, pp. – . 	^ gaca, p. , citing ad helviam . : "if one thinks that sexual lust is given to a man not for the purpose of pleasure but for propagating the human race, then all other lust will pass him by unscathed, since the destructive force insidiously fixed in the innards does not violently harm him" (si cogitas libidinem non voluptatis causa homini datam, sed propagandi generis, quem no violaverit hoc secretum et infixum visceribus ipsis exitium, omnis alia cupiditas intactum praeteribit). 	^ gaca, p. , citing seneca, de matrimonio (edition of frassinetti, as excerpted by jerome, against jovinianus a. 	^ a b gaca, p. . 	^ a view of epictetus as quoted by marcus aurelius, . : "you are a little soul carrying a corpse around, as epictetus used to say." 	^ marcus aurelius, meditations . , as translated by hard and cited by reydams-schils, the roman stoics, p. . 	^ seneca, natural questions . , as discussed by reydams-schils, the roman stoics, p. . 	^ juvenal, satire . – , – , as cited by potter ( ), p. , with further references to her more in-depth discussions of juvenal's portrayal in other studies. 	^ richlin ( ), p. , citing martial . , . , . , . , . , . , and . . 	^ gaca, pp. , . 	^ colish, p. . 	^ cicero, on the nature of the gods . . isidore of seville says similarly that saturn "cut off the genitalia of his father caelus, because nothing is born in the heavens from seeds" (etymologies . . ). jane chance, medieval mythography: from roman north africa to the school of chartres, a.d. – (university press of florida, ), pp. and . 	^ mcginn ( ), p. . see the statement preserved by aulus gellius . . that " it was an injustice to bring force to bear against the body of those who are free" (vim in corpus liberum non aecum ... adferri). 	^ elaine fantham, "the ambiguity of virtus in lucan's civil war and statius' thebiad," arachnion 	^ bell, andrew j. e. ( ). "cicero and the spectacle of power". the journal of roman studies. : – ( ). doi: . / . jstor  . 	^ edwin s. ramage, “aspects of propaganda in the de bello gallico: caesar’s virtues and attributes,” athenaeum ( ) – ; myles anthony mcdonnell, roman manliness: virtus and the roman republic (cambridge university press, ) passim; rhiannon evans, utopia antiqua: readings of the golden age and decline at rome (routledge, ), pp. – . 	^ a b williams, p. . 	^ cantarella, p. xi 	^ see further discussion of how sexual activity defines the free, respectable citizen from the slave or "un-free" person below under master-slave relations and pleasure and infamy. 	^ richlin ( ), p. . 	^ hallett, pp. – . 	^ a b c hallett, p. . 	^ aulus gellius . . 	^ williams, pp. – , . 	^ potter ( ), p. . the law began to specify harsher punishments for the lower classes (humiliores) than for the elite (honestiores). 	^ this is a theme throughout carlin a. barton, the sorrows of the ancient romans: the gladiator and the monster (princeton university press, ). 	^ flagiti principium est nudare inter civis corpora: ennius, as quoted by cicero, tusculan disputations . . 	^ williams, pp. and , note 	^ younger, p. 	^ simon goldhill, introduction to being greek under rome: cultural identity, the second sophistic and the development of empire (cambridge university press, ), p. . originally, flagitium meant a public shaming, and later more generally a disgrace; fritz graf, "satire in a ritual context," in the cambridge companion to roman satire (cambridge university press, ), pp. – . 	^ habinek, p. . 	^ a b crowther, nigel b. ( ). "nudity and morality: athletics in italy". classical journal. ( ): – . jstor  . 	^ julia heskel, "cicero as evidence for attitudes to dress in the late republic," in the world of roman costume (university of wisconsin press, ), p. 	^ a b c bonfante, larissa ( ). "nudity as a costume in classical art". american journal of archaeology. 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"such readings of major roman public building projects may seem fanciful, born out of the late twentieth-century fascination which wishes to see everything refracted through its prism," montserrat notes (p. ) 	^ fredrick, pp. – . the idea is that the plan would have a apotropaic function mimicking on a grand scale the local effect of the bulla or fascinum. 	^ fredrick, p. . 	^ mattingly, imperialism, power, and identity, p. . 	^ as represented by the glandes perusinae; williams, p. . 	^ martial, . . ff., with usages throughout his epigrams 	^ a b adams, p. . 	^ cicero, ad familiares . 	^ it is the most common word for "penis" in the poetry of catullus, appearing eight times; adams, pp. – . 	^ eighteen times in inscriptions from pompeii, thrice in the graffiti del palatino, and times in the priapea; adams, pp. , . 	^ adams, p. . verpa appears once each in catullus ( . ), martial ( . . ), and the priapea ( . ). as a term of vulgar latin, it appears frequently in graffiti (adams, pp. – ). 	^ a b c d e f hodges, frederick m. 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"uncircumcision: a historical review of preputial restoration". plastic and reconstructive surgery. lippincott williams & wilkins. ( ): – . doi: . / - - . pmid  . retrieved december . 	^ causa decoris: celsus, de medicina, . . a. 	^ schäfer ( ), p. . 	^ dugan, pp. – . 	^ dugan, pp. – . galen's theory is based on that of aristotle. 	^ galen, de semine . . – ( . kühn = de lacy , – ). 	^ dugan, p. . 	^ ann ellis hanson, "the restructuring of female physiology at rome," in les écoles médicales à rome (université de nantes, ), p. , citing priapea and cil . ( ), one of the perusine glandes. 	^ martial . , juvenal . , ; j.p. sullivan, martial, the unexpected classic (cambridge university press, ), p. 	^ schafer ( ), p. 	^ peter j. ucko, "penis sheaths: a comparative study," in material culture: critical concepts in the social sciences (routledge, ), p. . 	^ quintilian, institutio oratoria . . . 	^ pliny, natural history . . 	^ the greek word for the involuntary discharge of semen was gonorrhea. dugan, pp. – . 	^ edwards, pp. – . 	^ edwards, p. . 	^ the case, which nearly shipwrecked clodius's political career, is discussed at length by his biographer, w. jeffrey tatum, the patrician tribune: publius clodius pulcher (university of north carolina press, ), p. ff. 	^ p. clodius, a crocota, a mitra, a muliebribus soleis purpureisque fasceolis, a strophio, a psalterio, <a> flagitio, a stupro est factus repente popularis: cicero, the speech de haruspicium responso . , delivered may  bc, and given a lacanian analysis by eleanor winsor leach, “gendering clodius,” classical world ( ) – . 	^ a b williams 	^ edwards, p. 	^ w. jeffrey tatum, always i am caesar (blackwell, ), p. . 	^ ovid adduces the story of hercules and omphale as an explanation for the ritual nudity of the lupercalia; see under "male nudity" above and richard j. king, desiring rome: male subjectivity and reading ovid's fasti (ohio state university press, ), pp. , , , . 	^ digest . . . , as cited in richlin ( ), p. . 	^ cum virginali mundo clam pater: olson, "the appearance of the young roman girl," p. . 	^ digest . . , as cited in richlin ( ), p. . 	^ a b seneca the elder, controversia . 	^ a b c richlin ( ), p. . 	^ stephen o. murray, homosexualities (university of chicago press, ), pp. – ; mary r. bachvarova, "sumerian gala priests and eastern mediterranean returning gods: tragic lamentation in cross-cultural perspective," in lament: studies in the ancient mediterranean and beyond (oxford university press, ), pp. , , . see also "hermaphroditism and androgyny" below. 	^ a b c hallett. p. . 	^ for an explanation of this principle in a military setting, see phang ( ), p. . 	^ richlin ( ) 	^ williams, p. . 	^ catullus, carmina , , , . 	^ tibullus, book one, elegies , , and . 	^ propertius . . 	^ amy richlin, "sexuality in the roman empire," in a companion to the roman empire (blackwell, ), p. : "the sulks and pride of these boys and their petulant quarrels . . . i prefer to a dowry of a million sesterces." 	^ louis crompton, byron and greek love (london, ), p. . 	^ as at metamorphoses . ff. 	^ both juvenal (for instance, in satire ) and martial describe weddings between men. suetonius reports that the emperor nero had two marriages to men, once taking the role of the bride, and once the groom. williams, p. 	^ karen k. hersh, the roman wedding: ritual and meaning in antiquity (cambridge university press, ), p. ; caroline vout, power and eroticism in imperial rome (cambridge university press, ), pp. ff. 	^ michael groneberg, "reasons for homophobia: three types of explanation," in combatting homophobia: experiences and analyses pertinent to education (lit verlag, ), p. . 	^ codex theodosianus . . ( december ), introduced by the sons of constantine in . 	^ groneberg, "reasons for homophobia," p. . 	^ michael brinkschröde, "christian homophobia: four central discourses," in combatting homophobia, p. . 	^ scholz, piotr o. ( ). eunuchs and castrati: a cultural history. markus wiener. pp.  – . isbn  . 	^ richlin ( ), pp. – . 	^ digest . . . , as noted in richlin ( ), p. . 	^ williams, pp. – . 	^ as recorded in a fragment of the speech de re floria by cato the elder (frg. jordan = aulus gellius . . ), as noted and discussed in richlin ( ), p. . 	^ rhetorica ad herennium . . 	^ a b richlin ( ), p. . 	^ digest . . . and . . . . 	^ richlin ( ), pp. – . see also digest . . [ ] on legal definitions of rape that included boys. 	^ paulus, digest . . . 	^ richlin ( ), p. . 	^ valerius maximus . 	^ quintilian, institutio oratoria . . – 	^ richlin ( ), p. . 	^ richlin ( ), p. , citing the same passage by quintilian. 	^ williams, pp. , (with an example from martial . . . 	^ edwards, pp. – . 	^ richlin ( ), pp. – , (on martial), . 	^ williams, p. 	^ hallett, p. 	^ a b c d e f g richlin, amy ( ). "the meaning of irrumare in catullus and martial". classical philology. ( ): – . jstor  . 	^ a b c mcginn ( ), p. . 	^ david potter, "the roman army and navy," in the cambridge companion to the roman republic, p. . 	^ pat southern, the roman army: a social and institutional history (oxford university press, ), p. . 	^ phang ( ), p. . 	^ phang ( ), p. . the bellum hispaniense, about caesar's civil war on the front in roman spain, mentions an officer who has a male concubine (concubinus) on campaign. 	^ polybius, histories . . (translated as bastinado). 	^ phang ( ), p. . see also "master-slave relations" below. 	^ phang ( ), p. . roman law recognized that a soldier was vulnerable to rape by the enemy: digest . . . , as discussed in richlin ( ), p. . 	^ the name is given elsewhere as plotius. 	^ plutarch, life of marius . – ; see also valerius maximus . . and cicero, pro milone , in dillon and garland, ancient rome, p. 	^ phang ( ), pp. – 	^ phang ( ), p. 	^ cantarella, pp. – . 	^ phang ( ), pp. – . 	^ phang ( ), p. , citing among other examples juvenal, satire . – . 	^ phang ( ), pp. , – . 	^ phang ( ), pp. – . 	^ c.r. whittaker, rome and its frontiers: the dynamics of empire (routledge, ), pp. – . 	^ phang ( ), pp. , . 	^ appian, bellum civile . . 	^ phang ( ), pp. and . 	^ whittaker, rome and its frontiers, pp. – . 	^ beth severy, augustus and the family at the birth of the roman empire (routledge, ), p. . 	^ hans-friedrich mueller, roman religion in valerius maximus (routledge, ), p. . 	^ langlands, p. . 	^ see further discussion at pleasure and infamy below. 	^ clarke, p. . 	^ roy k. gibson, ars amatoria book (cambridge university press, ), pp. – . 	^ cohen, "divesting the female breast," p. ; cameron, the last pagans, p. 	^ kelly olson, "the appearance of the young roman girl," in roman dress and the fabrics of roman culture (university of toronto press, ), p. 	^ clarke, p. . 	^ fredrick, p. . 	^ alastair j. l. blanshard, sex: vice and love from antiquity to modernity (wiley-blackwell, ), p. 	^ harper, pp. – . 	^ seneca, controversia . . 	^ varro, de lingua latina . , citing a fragment from the latin tragedian accius on actaeon that plays with the verb video, videre, visum, "see," and its presumed connection to vis (ablative vi, "by force") and violare, "to violate": "he who saw what should not be seen violated that with his eyes" (cum illud oculis violavit is, qui invidit invidendum) 	^ fredrick, pp. – . ancient etymology was not a matter of scientific linguistics, but of associative interpretation based on similarity of sound and implications of theology and philosophy; see davide del bello, forgotten paths: etymology and the allegorical mindset (catholic university of america press, ). 	^ clement of alexandria, protrepticus . 	^ fredrick, p. . 	^ adams, pp. – . 	^ adams, p. . 	^ varro, on agriculture . . ; karen k. hersch, the roman wedding: ritual and meaning in antiquity (cambridge university press, ), pp. , ; barbette stanley spaeth, the roman goddess ceres (university of texas press, ), p. . 	^ adams, pp. – . 	^ adams, pp. – . 	^ richlin ( ), pp. xvi, , – , , et passim. 	^ throughout the ars amatoria ("art of love"); gibson, ars amatoria book , p. . 	^ martial, epigrams . . , : tam laxa ... quam turpe guttur onocrotali 	^ richlin ( ), p. . 	^ richlin ( ), pp. , 	^ clarke, pp. , , . 	^ adams, p. . 	^ juvenal . 	^ adams, p. . 	^ cicero, ad familiares . . 	^ adams, p. 	^ richard w. hooper, the priapus poems: erotic epigrams from ancient rome (university of illinois press, ), p. . 	^ hooper, the priapus poems, pp. – . see also "phallic sexuality" above for more on sling bullets inscribed with obscenities. 	^ a b adams, p. . 	^ celsus . . , . . c, . . , . . . 	^ varro, on agriculture . . 	^ adams, p. . 	^ adams, pp. – . 	^ adams, pp. – . 	^ adams, p. . 	^ adams, pp. – . 	^ clarke, p. . this is particularly characteristic of the st century ad, the period from which the most explicit erotic art survives. 	^ lucilius, frg. warmington: in bulgam penetrare pilosam. 	^ cil . : futuitur cunnus pilossus multo melliur quam glaber; eadem continet vaporem et eadem vellit mentulam; younger, p. . 	^ clarke, pp. – . romans tended to identify most black africans as "ethiopian". 	^ catullus, carmina . , . , . , . . ovid takes note of "handy nipples" (amores . . , habiles papillae); see also . . and . . , the poem in which he addresses the ring he's giving to his girlfriend, and fantasizes about the various ways it will touch her, "...since i would desire to have touched the breasts of my mistress and to have inserted my left hand within her sheath." the usage of propertius is more varied; when he wrestles with his naked mistress, her nipples fight back ( . . ). 	^ as for instance at rufinus . , 	^ richlin ( ), pp. , . 	^ martial, epigrams . , . , . , . , . 	^ richlin ( ), p. 	^ craig a. williams epigrams: martial (oxford university press, ), p. . 	^ richlin ( ), pp. , . 	^ c.w. marshall, the stagecraft and performance of roman comedy (cambridge university press, ), p. . in the poenulus of plautus (line ), a flute girl is dismissed as unattractive because both her cheeks and her breasts are overly full; puffing out one's cheeks while playing a wind instrument was considered ugly (as noted by minerva herself in ovid's fasti . – ). by contrast, in plautus's casina (line ), a character exclaims edepol papillam bellulam, "by pollux, what a pretty little titty!" 	^ richlin ( ), p. . 	^ richlin ( ), p. . 	^ ovid, amores . . , in a catalogue of his mistress's assets, remarks on "the outline of her nipples, ready to be squeezed." see also the catalogue of philodemus (palatine anthology . ); andrew dalby, empires of pleasures: luxury and indulgence in the roman world (routledge, ), pp. , – , . 	^ catullus . – , t.p. wiseman, catullus and his world: a reappraisal (cambridge university press, , ), pp. – . 	^ larissa bonfante, "nursing mothers in classical art," in naked truths: women, sexuality, and gender in classical art and archaeology (routledge, , ), pp. ff., with many examples. the ideal characteristics of the breasts of a wet nurse (nutrix) are enumerated in the gynaecology of soranus . – . 	^ celia e. schultz, women's religious activity in the roman republic (university of north carolina press, ), pp. , , , 	^ younger, p. . breast vota, like representations of other body parts (compare milagro), can also be dedicated at healing sanctuaries as part of seeking a cure for an ailment of the breast, such as mastitis or various tumors the ancients diagnosed as "cancer." 	^ anthony corbeill, nature embodied: gesture in ancient rome (princeton university press, ), pp. – 	^ younger, pp. – 	^ fritz graf and sarah iles johnston, ritual texts for the afterlife: orpheus and the bacchic gold tablets (routledge, ), pp. – . perhaps also a reference to the "milky way" as a path to the heavens. 	^ younger, p. 	^ nancy thomson de grummond, etruscan myth, sacred history, and legend (university of pennsylvania museum of archaeology and anthropology, ), pp. – . 	^ valerius maximus . . . 	^ clarke, p. . 	^ pliny, natural history . , 	^ hallett, pp. – . 	^ corbeill, nature embodied, p. et passim. see for instance seneca, phaedra , hercules oetaeus . "one of the commonest literary motifs for mourning in ancient texts is women baring and beating their breasts," notes alan cameron, the last pagans of rome (oxford university press, ), p. . 	^ servius, note to aeneid . ; corbeill, nature embodied, pp. – . 	^ beth cohen, "divesting the female breast of clothes in classical sculpture," in naked truths: women, sexuality, and gender in classical art and archaeology (routledge, ), p. . 	^ claire l. lyons and ann olga koloski-ostrow, introduction to naked truths, p. ; bonfante, "nursing mothers," pp. – , relating it to the evil eye and the gaze of medusa 	^ julius caesar, bellum gallicum . . ; g. matherat, “le première campagne de césar contre les bellovaques et le geste passis manibus," in hommages à albert grenier (latomus, ), vol. . 	^ tacitus, germania . ; bonfante, "nursing mothers," p. . 	^ mary lefkowitz and maureen b. fant, women's life in greece and rome, p. , note . a greek example is found in euripides, hecuba – when polyxena, about to become a human sacrifice, shows her courage by exposing "breasts and chest as beautiful as a statue's." 	^ other situations include marking a female figure as an amazon, as part of athletic attire, or for the purpose of nursing an infant. 	^ cohen, "divesting the female breast," p. ff. 	^ cohen, "divesting the female breast," p. . 	^ bonfante, "nursing mothers," passim and conclusion on p. . 	^ achilles tatius, leucippe and clitophon . , as excerpted by lefkowitz and fant, women's life in greece and rome, p. . 	^ necdum inclinatae prohibent te ludere mammae, . . 	^ thomas habinek, the world of roman song: from ritualized speech to social order (johns hopkins university press, ), p. . 	^ tibullus . . ; dalby, empire of pleasures, p. . 	^ younger, p. , citing manetho . . 	^ clarke, p. 	^ younger, p. . 	^ examples throughout clarke. 	^ bernadette j. brooten, love between women: early christian responses to female homoeroticism (university of chicago press, ), p. . 	^ ovid, metamorphoses . , – , as cited in potter ( ), p. . 	^ brooten, love between women, p. . 	^ the latin indicates that the i is of feminine gender; cil . , as cited in potter ( ), p. . 	^ lucian, dialogues of the courtesans . 	^ jonathan walters, "invading the roman body: manliness and impenetrability in roman thought," pp. – , and pamela gordon, "the lover's voice in heroides : or, why is sappho a man?," p. , both in hallett; fredrick, p. . the dildo is rarely mentioned in roman sources, but was a popular comic item in classical greek literature and art; potter ( ), p. . 	^ martial . and . , ; potter ( ), p. 	^ clarke, p. . 	^ livy . . – . . 	^ kuttner, p. . 	^ mary beard, j.a. north, and s.r.f. price, religions of rome: a history (cambridge university press, ), vol. , pp. – , as cited and elaborated by phyllis culham, "women in the roman republic," in the cambridge companion to the roman republic (cambridge university press, ), p. . 	^ fredrick, p. . 	^ lucretius, de rerum natura . : violenta viri vis atque impensa libido. 	^ staples, p. . 	^ staples, p. 	^ gardner, pp. ff. 	^ a b gardner, p. . 	^ digest . . . 	^ a b c gardner, p. . 	^ a law passed sometime between and  bc banned women from acting as prosecutors in the courtroom; valerius maximus . . ; richard a. bauman, women and politics in ancient rome (routledge, , ), p. ; joseph farrell, latin language and latin culture (cambridge university press, ), pp. – ; michael c. alexander, trials in the late roman republic, –  bc (university of toronto press, ), p. . 	^ a b gardner, p. 	^ mcginn ( ), p. . 	^ cicero, pro planco 	^ mcginn ( ), p. 	^ roy k. olson, ars amatoria, book (cambridge university press, ), p. ; j.p. toner, leisure and ancient rome (blackwell, ), p. . 	^ mcginn ( ), p. 	^ a b gardner, pp. – . 	^ gardner, p. . 	^ staples, p. . 	^ james a. brundage, law, sex, and christian society in medieval europe (university of chicago press, , ), p. . 	^ charles matson odahl, constantine and the christian empire (routledge, ), p. ; timothy david barnes, constantine and eusebius (harvard university press, ), p. ; gillian clark, women in late antiquity: pagan and christian lifestyles (oxford university press, ), pp. – , characterizing constantine's law as "unusually dramatic even for him." 	^ theodosian code . . . – ; cod. . . ; brundage, law, sex, and christian society, p. . 	^ the purple border appeared also on the togas of magistrates whose duties including presiding over sacrifices, on the toga worn by a mourning son when he carried out a parent's funeral rites, and on the veils of the vestal virgins; judith lynn sebesta, "women's costume and feminine civic morality in augustan rome," gender & history . ( ), p. , and "symbolism in the costume of the roman woman," p. . 	^ in a declamation attributed to quintilian, declamatio minor . as quoted by sebesta, "women's costume," p. . persius, satire . – , calls the praetexta the guardian (custos) of childhood. 	^ praetextatis nefas sit obsceno verbo uti: festus –  l =  m). 	^ plutarch, life of cato . 	^ williams, p. . 	^ pliny, natural history . ; varro, de lingua latina . 	^ habinek, p. 	^ judith lynn sebesta, "symbolism in the costume of the roman woman," in the world of roman costume (university of wisconsin press, ), p. . 	^ plutarch, moralia a 	^ habinek, p. 	^ richlin ( ), pp. – . 	^ sebesta, "symbolism in the costume of the roman woman," pp. , . there is only slight and ambiguous evidence that they too might wear a bulla, at plautus, rudens . 	^ richlin ( ), p. 	^ paulus, digest . . . . 	^ fantham, p. 	^ valerius maximus . absol. , as cited by kelly olson, "the appearance of the young roman girl," in roman dress and the fabrics of roman culture, p. . 	^ cicero, verrine . . 	^ quintiltian, institution oratoria . . – ; matthew b. roller, dining posture in ancient rome (princeton university press, ), p. . 	^ robinson ellis, a commentary to catullus (oxford: clarendon press, ), p. , in reference to catullus, carmen . 	^ elizabeth manwell, "gender and masculinity," in a companion to catullus (blackwell, ), p. . 	^ a b sebesta, "women's costume," p. . 	^ a b sebesta, "women's costume," p. . 	^ persius . – . 	^ larissa bonfante, introduction to the world of roman costume, p. ; shelley stone, "the toga: from national to ceremonial costume," in the world of roman costume, p. ; sebesta, "women's costume," p. . after the augustan building program, the rites were held at the new temple of mars ultor in the forum augustum: dominic montserrat, "reading gender in the roman world," in experiencing rome: culture, identity, and power in the roman empire (routledge, ), p. . 	^ other dates could be chosen for the ceremony. see staples, p. ; george, "the 'dark side' of the toga," p. ; propertius . . – ; ovid, fasti . – . 	^ richlin ( ), p. , citing martial . . 	^ judith p. hallett, fathers and daughters in roman society: women and the elite family (princeton university press, ), ; beryl rawson, "the roman family in italy" (oxford university press, ), p. ; 	^ girls coming of age dedicated their dolls to diana, the goddess most concerned with girlhood, or to venus when they were preparing for marriage; beryl rawson, children and childhood in roman italy (oxford university press, ), p. on diana; p. , citing persius . and the related scholion; p. on comparison with greece. 	^ sebesta, "women's costume," pp. , , . 	^ sebesta, "women's costume," pp. – ; festus l on the nodus herculaneus, which was used for its apotropaic powers on jewelry as well. the roman hercules was a giver of fertility and a great scatterer of seed: he fathered, according to verrius flaccus, seventy children. 	^ cinctus vinctusque, according to festus (edition of lindsay); karen k. hersch, the roman wedding: ritual and meaning in antiquity (cambridge university press, ), pp. , , . 	^ sebesta, "women's costume," p. . 	^ susan dixon, the roman family (johns hopkins university press, ), pp. – . 	^ non enim coitus matrimonium facit, sed maritalis affectio, ulpian, ulpianus libro trigesimo tertio ad sabinum, digest . . . , as cited by bruce w. frier and thomas a.j. mcginn, a casebook on family law (oxford university press, ), p. . 	^ dixon, the roman family, pp. – . 	^ james a. brundage, law, sex, and christian society in medieval europe (university of chicago press, , ), p. , citing philippe ariès, "l'amour dans le mariage," in sexualités occidentales, École des hautes Études en sciences sociales, centre d'Études transdisciplinaires, communications (paris: seuil, ), p. 	^ a b potter ( ), p. . 	^ catullus, carmen : nil potest sine te venus. 	^ a b dixon, the roman family, p. . 	^ the interpretation of the couple as newlyweds is based on the woman's attire; clarke, pp. – . 	^ univira is one of the attributes that might be memorialized on a woman's gravestone. 	^ susan treggiari, roman marriage: iusti coniuges from the time of cicero to the time of ulpian (oxford university press, ), pp. – , – et passim. 	^ eva cantarella, "marriage and sexuality in republican rome: a roman conjugal love story," in the sleep of reason, p. . 	^ beryl rawson, "finding roman women," in a companion to the roman republic (blackwell, ), p. . 	^ propertius, . b, – heyworth; ovid, amores . . – , ars amatoria . – and . – , heroides . ; barbara graziosi and johannes haubold, homer: iliad book vi (cambridge university press, ), p. . see also martial . . – , where the couple's lovemaking is so intensely erotic that it drives the household slaves to masturbate. 	^ helen king, "sowing the field: greek and roman sexology," in sexual knowledge, sexual science: the history of attitudes to sexuality (cambridge university press, ), p. . 	^ william armstrong percy iii, "reconsiderations about greek homosexualities," in same-sex desire and love in greco-roman antiquity, p. . 	^ graziosi and haubold, homer, p. . 	^ catullus, carmen . 	^ clarke, pp. – , quotation pp. – . 	^ for example, catullus . , where a concubinus, a male concubine, expects that his master's wedding will cause him to be abandoned; james l. butrica, "some myths and anomalies in the study of roman sexuality," in same-sex desire and love in greco-roman antiquity, pp. , . 	^ plautus, curculio – . the passage is something of a topos of roman sexuality; in addition to richlin (following), see fantham, p. . 	^ fantham, p. . 	^ mcginn, thomas a. j. ( ). "concubinage and the lex iulia on adultery". transactions of the american philological association. : – ( ). doi: . / . jstor  . 	^ nussbaum, p. . 	^ fantham, p. , citing papinian, de adulteriis i and modestinus, liber regularum i. 	^ judith p. hallett, fathers and daughters in roman society: women and the elite family (princeton university press, ), . 	^ susan dixon, the roman family (johns hopkins university press, ), p. . 	^ cantarella, p. 	^ edwards, pp. – 	^ nussbaum, p. , noting that custom "allowed much latitude for personal negotiation and gradual social change." 	^ edwards, p. . 	^ hallett, pp. ff., – , , – . 	^ p.e. corbett, the roman law of marriage ( ), as cited by edwards, p. . 	^ beryl rawson, the family in ancient rome (cornell university press, ), p. , as cited by edwards, pp. – . 	^ edwards, pp. – . 	^ matthew w. dickie, magic and magicians in the greco-roman world (routledge, ), p. . defixiones are also known as curse tablets; erotic prohibitions are only one form of defixio. 	^ dickie, magic and magicians, p. . 	^ "the men who people the pages of cicero and tacitus do not burst into their wives' bedrooms to take violent revenge (even when license was granted by the law)," notes edwards, pp. – . 	^ edwards, p. , citing ovid, amores . . : rusticus est nimium quem laedit adultera coniunx. 	^ edwards, p. . 	^ harper, p. . 	^ fantham, pp. , . 	^ a b c d cantarella, p. . 	^ neville morley, "social structure and demography," in a companion to the roman republic, p. , describes the relationship as "intimate and affectionate." see pliny, epistle . . , where he claims to preserve an epigram by cicero on tiro, which reveals tiro's "effeminate subordination," as described by ellen oliensis, "the erotics of amicitia: readings in tibullus, propertius, and horace," in hallett, p. , note . see also comments on the epigram by richlin ( ), pp. and , who thinks it may have been pliny's joke. 	^ cantarella, p. . 	^ parker, p. . 	^ william fitzgerald, slavery and the roman literary imagination (cambridge university press, ), pp. – 	^ a b hubbard, thomas k. ( ) homosexuality in greece and rome: a sourcebook of basic documents. university of california press. p. . isbn  - - - - . 	^ excluding those presumed to be prostitutes, who might be either slaves or infames; parker, p. . 	^ artemidorus, p. . – pack 	^ potter ( ), p. . 	^ mcginn ( ), p. . 	^ plutarch, life of the elder cato . ; sandra r. joshel and sheila murnaghan, introduction to women and slaves in greco-roman culture: differential equations (routledge, ), p. . 	^ parker, p. . 	^ parker, p. . 	^ tacitus, annales . , as cited by williams, p. . 	^ mostly in juvenal and martial, as in the latter's epigram . , where the seven children of cinna were supposedly fathered by various slaves of the household; parker, p. . 	^ harper, pp. – . 	^ williams, pp. – . 	^ livy . (see also dionysius of halicarnassus . ); valerius maximus . . . the historicity of these stories is questionable, and they should perhaps be regarded as exempla encapsulating themes of historical events; see cantarella, pp. – , and gary forsythe, a critical history of early rome: from prehistory to the first punic war (university of california press, , ), p. , where the names are seen as "clearly fictitious." 	^ by the lex poetelia papiria in  bc (or , according to varro). 	^ dionysius's version says the youth went into debt to pay for his father's funeral, an act of roman piety. 	^ williams, pp. – , emphasizing that the homosexual nature of plotius's libido is not at issue, but rather his violation of a freeborn roman male's body; forsythe, a critical history of early rome, pp. – ; butrica, "some myths and anomalies in the study of roman sexuality," pp. – . 	^ harper, pp. – . 	^ nussbaum, p. , citing seneca, epistula . 	^ ra'anan abusch, "circumcision and castration under roman law in the early empire," in the covenant of circumcision: new perspectives on an ancient jewish rite (brandeis university press, ), pp. – . 	^ mcginn ( ), p. ff., especially p. on manumission. from a legalistic perspective, the covenant was not subject to negotiation for subsequent sales, because that would implicitly violate it. 	^ hallett, p. , citing ulpian, digest . . . . 	^ habinek, p. . 	^ langlands, pp. – . 	^ fantham, p. . 	^ clarke 	^ a b hallett, p. . 	^ hallett, p. . 	^ according to the lex iulia et papia, as cited in women's life in greece and rome: a sourcebook in translation, edited by mary r. lefkowitz and maureen b. fant (johns hopkins university press, , rd ed.), p. . 	^ seneca, de vita beata . 	^ hallett, p. . 	^ juvenal, satires and ; michael carter, "(un)dressed to kill: viewing the retiarius," in roman dress and the fabrics of roman culture (university of toronto press, ), pp. – . 	^ hallett, pp. – . 	^ both the censors and the praetors could impose infamia as a legal status; mcginn ( ), p. ff. 	^ hallett, p. . the tabula heracleensis, "probably from the time of julius caesar," lists those who are barred from holding local magistracies, including anyone "who has or shall ... have been hired out for the purpose of fighting as a gladiaor ... or who has or shall have prostituted his person; or who has been or shall have been a trainer of gladiators or actors, or who shall run <or shall have run> a brothel" (as quoted by hallett, p. ). although infamia can be used as a legal term and was codified as such by the time of hadrian, in the republic and principate it also has a non-technical, social sense. 	^ hallett, p. . 	^ hallett, pp. – . by the nd and rd centuries, low-status free persons were increasingly subjected to various forms of corporal punishment, as republican ideals vanished. 	^ even trades which served sensual pleasures (voluptates) were considered less honorable than others, including fishmongers, butchers, cooks, poulterers, fishermen, and perfumers, all of whom cicero classed with dancers and performers of the ludus talarius (de officiis . , citing the playwright terence); hallett, p. . 	^ hallett, pp. – . 	^ hallett, p. . 	^ hallett, pp. – 	^ michael carter, "(un)dressed to kill: viewing the retiarius," in roman dress and the fabrics of roman culture (university of toronto press, ), p. et passim. 	^ in tragedy and the literary comedies of plautus and terence, female roles were played by masked men in drag. hallett, p. 	^ juvenal, satire . – . 	^ plutarch, life of sulla . . 	^ tacitus, annales . . 	^ including "the wives of claudius and domitian": hallett, p. . 	^ richlin ( ), – , ff. 	^ mcginn ( ), pp. – . 	^ "pornographic" here means portrayals of ordinary human beings having sex, as distinguished from depictions of mythological rapes or aroused satyrs and priapuses. 	^ mcginn ( ), pp. – , sites listed pp. – . 	^ mcginn ( ), pp. – . 	^ the identity of this boy and his likely family is much debated. 	^ valerius maximus . . : aeque flagitiosum illud conuiuium, quod gemellus tribunicius uiator ingenui sanguinis, sed officii intra seruilem habitum deformis metello [et] scipioni consuli ac tribunis pl. magno cum rubore ciuitatis conparauit: lupanari enim domi suae instituto muniam et flauiam, cum a patre tum a uiro utramque inclitam, et nobilem puerum saturninum in eo prostituit. probrosae patientiae corpora, ludibrio temulentae libidini futura! epulas consuli et tribunis non celebrandas, sed uindicandas! mcginn ( ), p. , goes so far as to suggest that this party in particular helped make the pompeian "sex clubs" fashionable. 	^ cicero makes accusations of this kind against verres, piso, and antony, who is said to have converted his bedrooms into stabula, the cubicles housing prostitutes in a brothel, and his dining room into popinae, common eateries; see in verrem . . , . . , . . – , ; post reditum in senatu , ; philippicae . , – , , as cited by mcginn ( ), p. . 	^ mcginn ( ), pp. , . 	^ ovid, ars amatoria . ff. 	^ ovid, tristia . . 	^ clarke, pp. – . 	^ capricorn, aquarius, taurus or cancer. 	^ firmicus maternus . . , . . and , . . , . . ; vettius valens . , . , . and , as cited and summarized in younger, p. . 	^ lucretius, de rerum natura . – 	^ lucretius, de rerum natura . – 	^ brown, pp. – . 	^ fredrick, p. . 	^ the verb is not found, for instance, in the writings of cicero; adams, p. . futuo appears mainly in graffiti (at least instances) and the priapea. martial uses the verb times. it is found seven times in catullus, and once in the early work of horace. although ausonius revives the general obscenity of martial, he avoids the use of futuo. 	^ adams, pp. – . 	^ plautus, frg. in the edition of lindsay 	^ adams, p. . 	^ aut futue aut pugnemus, literally "either fuck or let's fight," in martial . . ; adams, p. . augustus chooses to sound the call to battle. 	^ habinek, p. . 	^ ovid, ars amatoria . – : women, he says, "need no encouragement to take their pleasure: let both man and woman feel what delights them equally. i hate embraces which fail to satisfy both partners. that is why for me loving boys holds little attraction" (illis sentitur non inritata voluptas: / quod iuvet, ex aequo femina virque ferant. / odi concubitus, qui non utrumque resolvunt; / hoc est, cur pueri tangar amore minus); edwards, p. 	^ pollini, john ( ). "the warren cup: homoerotic love and symposial rhetoric in silver". the art bulletin. : – ( ). doi: . / . jstor  . 	^ ovid, ars amatoria . – , as cited in potter ( ), p. . 	^ adams, p. . 	^ the position is discussed "in some detail" in greek literature, and appears in other forms of greek art; fredrick, p. . 	^ ovid, ars amatoria . – ; gibson, ars amatoria book , p. . 	^ hectoreus equus (ars amatoria . – ); meyboom and versluys, "the meaning of dwarfs in nilotic scenes," in nile into tiber, p. ; gibson, ars amatoria book , p. . trojan imagery, especially in connection with the trojan horse, became important under the julio-claudian emperors, who claimed descent from the trojan refugee aeneas, son of venus. see for instance the "troy game". 	^ clarke, p. . 	^ kenneth dover, greek homosexuality (harvard university press, ), p. , as cited by fredrick, p. . 	^ catherine johns, sex or symbol? erotic images of greece and rome (routledge, ), pp. – , as cited in fredrick, p. . 	^ paul veyne, "la famille et l'amour sous le haut-empire romain," annales: Économies, sociétés, civilisations ( ) – , as cited in fredrick, p. . 	^ fredrick, pp. – . 	^ meyboom and versluys, "the meaning of dwarfs in nilotic scenes," in nile into tiber, p. . 	^ "you see how well you fuck" (vides quam bene chalas), probably a compliment paid by a prostitute to her client to diminish the domineering effect; clarke, p. .froman 	^ petronius, satyricon . ; cil . 	^ adams, pp. – . 	^ juvenal . 	^ adams, p. . 	^ adams, pp. – 	^ adams, p. . 	^ adams, pp. – . 	^ hallett, p. . 	^ martial . and , using the fig metaphor; williams, p. 	^ richlin ( ), pp. – . 	^ "the lionness" as a name for the position was popularized by th-century bc greeks; clarke, pp. , . 	^ adams, pp. – . 	^ clarke, p. . 	^ valentina arena, "roman oratorical invective," in a companion to roman rhetoric (blackwell, ), p. ; nancy woman, abusive mouths in classical athens (cambridge university press, ), p. . 	^ a b woman, abusive mouths, p. . 	^ catullus, carmina , b, , ; william fitzgerald, catullan provocations: lyric poetry and the drama of position (university of california press, , ), p. . 	^ a companion to catullus (blackwell, ), n.p. 	^ quintus apronius, the assistant of verres, at verres . ; sextus cloelius, a henchman of clodius pulcher, at de domo sua , , – , . 	^ arena, "roman oratorical invective," p. . 	^ a b richlin ( ), p. 	^ guillermo galán vioque, martial, book vii: a commentary (brill, ), p. . 	^ catullus, carmen . 	^ richlin ( ), p. . 	^ martial, . ; vioque, martial, book vii, p. . 	^ martial, . ; guillermo galán vioque, martial, book vii: a commentary, p. . 	^ woman, abusive mouths, p. f 	^ richlin ( ), p. 	^ marilyn b. skinner, catullus in verona: a reading of the elegiac libellus, poems – (ohio state university press, ), p. . 	^ clarke, p. . 	^ clarke, p. 	^ clarke, pp. – . 	^ clarke, p. . 	^ cil . , scrawled at an entrance to a shop in pompeii; antonio varone, erotica pompeiana: love inscriptions on the walls of pompeii («l'erma» di bretschneider, ), p. . 	^ fredrick, p. . 	^ catullus carmina and ; and martial, epigrams . , . , . , and . , on women who perform fellatio. 	^ a b fredrick, p. . 	^ fredrick, p. . 	^ mostly famously in catullus, carmen 	^ martial, . . 	^ clarke, pp. – . 	^ clark, looking at lovemaking, pp. – . 	^ suetonius, life of tiberius , as quoted by clarke, p. . 	^ clarke, p. . 	^ clarke, pp. – . 	^ clarke, p. . 	^ ausonius, epigram green ( ); matthew kuefler, the manly eunuch: masculinity, gender ambiguity, and christian ideology in late antiquity (university of chicago press, ), p. . 	^ richlin, "sexuality in the roman empire," p. . 	^ martial, . . 	^ williams, p. 	^ j.p. sullivan, martial, the unexpected classic: a literary and historical study (cambridge university press, ), p. . martial describes slaves masturbating behind the door as they watch andromache ride hector ( . . – ). 	^ at laeva lacrimas muttoni absterget amica ("a girlfriend wipes away mutto's tears—his left hand, that is"): lucilius and . kirk freundenburg has dubbed the muttō of lucilius "clearly the least finicky of all personified penises in roman satire": satires of rome: threatening poses from lucilius to juvenal (cambridge university press, ), p. . 	^ antonio varone, erotica pompeiana: love inscriptions on the walls of pompeii («l'erma» di bretschneider, ), p. . 	^ multa mihi curae cum [pr]esserit artus has ego mancinas, stagna refusa, dabo: cil . , as cited by younger, p. . 	^ etymological views as summarized by joshua t. katz, "testimonia ritus italici: male genitalia, solemn declarations, and a new latin sound law," harvard studies in classical philology ( ), pp. – , citing judith p. hallett, "masturbator, mascarpio", glotta ( ) – , for turbare + mas, with support for this usage of mas from douglas q. adams, "latin mas and masturbari", glotta ( ) – . 	^ adams, pp. – . 	^ calvert watkins, how to kill a dragon: aspects of indo-european poetics (oxford university press, ), p ff. 	^ katz, "testimonia ritus italici," p. . 	^ suetonius, life of nero ; 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 (utc). 	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 social war ( – bc) - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	social war ( – bc) 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		  (redirected from social war ( – bc)) 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		war between the roman republic and italic allies for other uses, see social war. 	social war 	 map of the roman confederation in bc, on the eve of the social war. the roman possessions (in green) straddle the strategic centre of the italian peninsula and the tyrrhenian coastal plain. latin colonies (dark red) are scattered in strategic locations. other socii (pink) are concentrated in the mountainous interior. 		date	 – bc 	location	roman italy 	result	 • roman military victory • status quo ante bellum • roman citizenship granted to the socii and thus extended to all of peninsular italy 	belligerents 	 roman republic pro-roman italians	 anti-roman italians   	marsic group: marsi paeligni vestini marrucini picentes frentani samnite group: samnites campanians iapygii lucanians hirpini venusia 	commanders and leaders 	 publius rutilius lupus † gaius marius pompeius strabo lucius julius caesar lucius cornelius sulla titus didius † lucius porcius cato †	 quintus poppaedius silo † gaius papius mutilus 	strength 	 bc: ~ , men[ ] bc: ~ , men[ ] bc: ~ , men[ ] total mobilized: , men[ ]	 total mobilized: , men[ ] 	casualties and losses 	 , killed[ ]	 , killed[ ] 	 ~ , killed in total[ ] 		v 	t 	e social war ( – bc) 	 	acerrae 	aesernia 	taenum 	asculum 	canusium 	mount falernus 	firmum 	fucine lake 	nola 	 	v 	t 	e ancient unification of italy 	 	roman–etruscan wars 	roman–latin wars 	roman–volscian wars 	roman conquest of the hernici 	samnite wars 	pyrrhic war 	social war 	 	v 	t 	e roman republican civil wars 	 	 st servile 	 nd servile 	social 	sulla's st 	sulla's nd 	sertorian 	 rd servile 	catilinarian conspiracy 	caesar's 	mutina 	liberators' 	sicilian 	perusine 	last the social war (from latin bellum sociale, properly 'war of the allies'), also called the italian or marsic war, was waged from to bc between the roman republic and other cities and tribes in italy which had hitherto been allies (socii) of rome for centuries. the italian allies wanted roman citizenship, not only for the status and influence that came with it, but also for the right to vote in the roman republic. [ ] they believed that they should be treated equally to the romans, given that they had formed cultural and linguistic connections with the roman civilization, and had been loyal allies for over two centuries. the romans strongly opposed their demands and refused to grant them citizenship, thus leaving the italian groups with fewer rights and privileges. the situation led in bc to the outbreak of a devastating war, in which the samnites and the marsi led a revolt against roman rule for four years. most of the etruscans, umbrians and latins did not join the rebellion. in order to avoid a future conflict of the same kind, rome decreed a series of laws (lex iulia in bc, lex plautia papiria in bc) by which the peoples and cities who remained loyal or surrendered were awarded roman citizenship. by bc, roman victory was complete and citizenship extended to all of peninsular italy.[ ] this war also led to a complete romanization of italy. the etruscans and the italic peoples quickly integrated themselves into the roman world, after gaining roman citizenship. their own languages and cultures became extinct in the process, and the term "roman" came to refer to all inhabitants of italy.[ ][ ][ ] the romans did not consider sicily, sardinia and corsica part of italy during this period. cisalpine gaul was also not legally considered italian territory until bc, when it was merged into roman italy as indicated in caesar's unpublished acts (acta caesaris).[ ][ ] contents 	 origins 	 war 	 . events in bc 	 . events in bc 	 . events in bc 	 aftermath in – bc: another war 	 roman concessions to the allies 	 see also 	 citations 	 references origins[edit] roman victory in the samnite wars ( - bc ) resulted in effective roman dominance of the italian peninsula. this dominance was expressed in a collection of alliances between rome and the cities and communities of italy, on more or less favorable terms depending on whether a given city had voluntarily allied with rome or been defeated in war. these cities were theoretically independent, but in practice rome had the right to demand from them tribute money and a certain number of soldiers: by the nd century bc the italian allies contributed between one half and two-thirds of the soldiers in roman armies. rome also had virtual control over the allies' foreign policy, including their interaction with one another. aside from the second punic war, where hannibal had limited success in turning some italian communities against rome, for the most part the italian communities were content to remain as client states of rome in return for local autonomy. the romans' policy of land distribution had led to great inequality of land-ownership and wealth.[ ] this led to the "italic people declining little by little into pauperism and paucity of numbers without any hope of remedy."[ ] a number of political proposals had attempted to address the growing discrepancy whereby italians made a significant contribution to rome's military force, while receiving disproportionately small shares of land and citizenship rights. these efforts came to a head under the impetus of marcus livius drusus in bc. his reforms would have granted the italian allies roman citizenship, giving them a greater say in the external policy of the roman republic. most local affairs came under local governance and were not as important to the romans as, for example, when the alliance would go to war or how they would divide the plunder. the response of the roman senatorial elite to drusus' proposals was to reject his ideas and assassinate him. this brusque dismissal of the granting of rights that the italians considered to be long overdue greatly angered them, and communities throughout italy attempted to declare independence from rome in response, sparking a war. war[edit] the social war began in bc when the italian allies revolted. the latins as a whole remained largely loyal to rome, with the one exception of venusia. the etruscans and umbrians, who were the most powerful people amongst socii, mostly stayed neutral at the beginning. they were soon offered citizenship by rome to prevent them from joining the rebellion.[ ] the rebellious allies not only planned a formal separation from rome, but also the re-organisation of italia (the roman term for the peninsula) as its own independent federation, with its own capital at corfinium (in modern abruzzo) that was renamed italica.[ ] to pay for the troops, they created their own coinage that was used as propaganda against rome. the coins depict eight warriors taking an oath, probably representing the marsi, picentines, paeligni, marrucini, vestini, frentani, samnites and hirpini.[ ] the italian soldiers were battle-hardened, most of them having served in the roman armies. the allies of italia were originally able to field , men. the italians divided this force according to their positions within italy.[ ] 	quintus poppaedius silo had overall command of the "marsic group", as consul. 	gaius papius mutilus had overall command of the "samnite group", as consul. 	titus lafrenius commanded the marsi in bc, when he was killed in action. he was succeeded by fraucus. 	titus vettius scato commanded the paeligni to bc, when he was captured by the romans and killed by his slave.[ ] 	gaius pontidius probably commanded the vestini, probably at least until bc. 	herius asinius commanded the marrucini until bc, when he was killed in action. he was succeeded by obsidius who was also killed in action. 	gaius vidacilius commanded the picentes until bc, when he committed suicide. 	publius praesentius probably commanded the frentani, probably throughout the war. 	numerius lucilius probably commanded the hirpini until bc, when he seems to have been succeeded by minatus iegius (or minius iegius). 	lucius cluentius commanded the pompeiani in bc when he was killed in action. 	titus herennius probably commanded the venusini throughout the war. 	trebatius may have commanded the iapygii throughout the war. 	marcus lamponius commanded the lucani throughout the war. 	marius egnatius commanded the samnites until bc when he was killed in action. he was succeeded by pontius telesinus who was also killed in action that year. the roman strategy focused on surviving the first onslaught, while simultaneously trying to entice other italian clients to remain loyal or refrain from defection, and then meet the threat of the revolt with troops raised from provinces as well as from client kingdoms. one of the two separate theatres of war was assigned to each of the consuls of bc. in the north, the consul publius rutilius lupus was advised by gaius marius and pompeius strabo; in the south the consul lucius julius caesar had lucius cornelius sulla and titus didius. events in bc[edit] 	marcus livius drusus, a champion of the italian cause, was assassinated by an unknown assailant. drusus's death meant the end of his enfranchisement policy.[ ] 	when news of drusus's assassination reached the marsi they decided on a show of force.[ ] quintus poppaedius silo, a leader of the marsi and a good friend of drusus, led a march on rome.[ ] they were met by gnaeus domitius ahenobarbus, the pontifex maximus, who persuaded them to go back.[ ] when ahenobarbus returned to rome he informed the senate something had to be done quickly or there would be war.[ ] 	by mid-autumn, the peace had irrevocably broken down. diplomacy and negotiations had failed; the social war started.[ ] 	the first to rebel and take up arms were the marsi.[ ] they were joined by the vestini (a sabine tribe), the peligni (an apennine mountain tribe) and the marruncini.[ ] 	the second major group of italians to rebel were the samnites. they were quickly joined by more italian tribes including the hirpini, the lucanians, apulia and the frentani.[ ] 	the italian rebels chose two consuls to take command of the war. quintus poppaedius silo commanded the 'northern' group, while gaius papius mutilus commanded the 'southern' group.[ ] 	the roman colonies of alba fucensis and aesernia, which were in italian territory, came under siege.[ ] 	when the rebels took asculum, the first city to fall to them, they slaughtered every roman they could find. the wives of the men who refused to join them were tortured and scalped.[ ] 	while marching his legions south through picentum, gnaeus pompeius strabo, who had recruited troops ( – legions) on rome's behalf in his native picenum, was suddenly attacked by a large force of picentes, vestini and marsi led by the rebel general scato. although the battle favoured neither side pompeius strabo was heavily outnumbered and he decided to withdraw. eventually he found himself blockaded in picenum.[ ] 	the romans elected lucius julius caesar and publius rutilius lupus as consuls for the following year. caesar was to command the southern front against the samnites and their allies while lupus was to command the northern front against the marsi and their allies. caesar was allocated gaius marius as senior legate (second-in-command) while lupus was allocated lucius cornelius sulla. marius and sulla were considered rome's best military commanders.[ ] events in bc[edit] 	in central italy, gaius perpenna, a lieutenant of the consul publius rutilius lupus, suffered a defeat at the hands of the italian general presentius. perpenna lost , men. the remnant of his force was transferred to the army of marius.[ ] 	in lucania, a lieutenant of the consul lucius julius caesar, lost men when the italians set fire to his camp.[ ] 	sextus julius caesar attempted to head off italian reinforcements going to the siege of aesernia, but was beaten back with the loss of , men.[ ] 	aesernia was taken by the italians.[ ] 	the italian 'consul' mutilus invaded campania and took the city of nola (by betrayal). afterwards, he starved his roman prisoners (including the praetor lucius postumus) to death.[ ] 	mutilus attacked lucius caesar's camp, but caesar fought off the assault and killed , rebels. this was the first substantial defeat of the italian rebels. the news of the victory caused the senate to decree that the population should resume wearing togas again (they had stopped doing so as a sign their country was struggling at war).[ ] 	on july, the consul rutilius was ambushed by the marsi led by vettius scato while crossing the river tolenus. the rebels killed , of rutilius's men, including the consul himself.[ ] 	gaius marius, in command of a separate division of rutilius' army, arrived during the aftermath of the marsi ambush captured their camp and then attacked the marsi from the rear routing them with heavy losses.[ ] 	quintus servilius caepio defeated the paeligni, a rebel tribe related to the marruncini.[ ] 	the senate then decided to give joint command to marius and caepio. marius had expected sole command and he did not get along with caepio with disastrous results.[ ] after having dealt with a raiding party of marsi at varnia, caepio attempted to give marius instructions, but marius ignored them.[ ] caepio left on his own was then obliged to move his legions back towards caeoli. once they reached the arno at sublaqueum they were attacked by the marsi. caepio's column was massacred.[ ] it is said he was killed by quintus poppaedius silo himself.[ ] 	the marsi and marruncini were defeated in battle by marius working in tandem with sulla, his old subordinate from the jugurthine and cimbri wars. together they killed , rebels and the marruncini general herius asinus.[ ] 	in the volturnus valley (at the melfa gorge) the samnites under marius egnatius ambushed lucius caesar who still managed to fight his way through to teanum where he took up a defensive position. lucius caesar lost , of his , men in the ambush.[ ] 	pompeius strabo succeeded in breaking out of picenum and drove the rebels all the way back to asculum. he then started to besiege the city.[ ] 	the consul lucius caesar returned to rome and pushed through the lex julia de civitate latinis et sociis danda which gave roman citizenship to any italian with latin rights, and made eligible for citizenship any italian who had not taken up arms against the romans. this marked the turning point of the war. many italians flocked to the roman standards depriving the rebels of manpower.[ ] 	pompeius strabo, who by now had been elected one of the consul for the next year, attacked and defeated a rebel column trying to march into etruria killing , rebels. another , died while trying to get back across the apennines.[ ] events in bc[edit] 	lucius porcius cato licinianus, who had been elected junior consul for bc, took over the southern command from lucius caesar.[ ] 	vidacilius, the leader of the rebels in southern picenum, and his men (ca. , ) managed to fight their way through the siege lines and reinforced asculum. however, upon seeing the hopelessness of their cause he and his followers committed suicide.[ ] 	sextus caesar, now a lieutenant of the senior consul pompeius strabo, caught the rebels shifting camp outside asculum and fell upon them, killing , and scattering the rest.[ ] 	the consul cato engaged the marsi in battle near fucine lake (close to alba fucensis). he died in an attempt to storm the enemy camp. sulla then took command of the southern front.[ ] 	in a huge battle near asculum pompeius strabo defeated an italian relief army of , men. the city capitulated soon after.[ ] 	in the south sulla, now a praetor, moved on the offensive. he started to besiege pompeii and herculaneum. when the rebel general cleuntius tried to reinforce the city, sulla routed the rebel army, chased them to nola and there massacred , rebels in battle right in front of the walls.[ ] 	after his victory at nola, sulla turned on the hirpini to the north. he quickly forced them to surrender. he then marched on samnium.[ ] 	sulla invaded samnium by a circuitous route and hereby surprised and defeated mutilus (the samnite commander) attacking him from an unsuspected direction. with the samnite army routed he marched on bovianum, the samnite capital, and stormed it in a three-hour assault.[ ] 	the praetor gaius cosconius caught the rebel general trebatius and a samnite army in mid-crossing at the aufidius near cannae killing , rebels.[ ] 	quintus caecilius metellus pius captured venusia, along with , rebel soldiers.[ ] 	after sulla had returned to his sieges in campania, poppaedius silo recaptured bovianum. silo then tried to eject metellus from apulia, but failed and died in the attempt.[ ] 	herculaneum, pompeii and several rebel cities in campania surrendered to sulla. only nola and aesernia remained defiant.[ ] by the end of bc most of the rebel leaders were dead. in the north the last pockets of resistance were being mopped up by pompeius strabo and in the south only the samnites remained a threat. aftermath in – bc: another war[edit] at the beginning of bc, the war was largely over except for the samnites, the old rivals of rome, who still held out. it is likely that the war would have continued for some time had rome not made concessions to their allies. rome could now return their focus on the rest of their empire. in the east a new threat loomed; mithridates, the king of pontus, invaded the roman province of asia and slaughtered romans and italians alike.[ ] rome's generals contended for the honour (and profit) of commanding the war against the eastern king.[ ] unfortunately for the republic, this led to a new civil war. eventually the samnites would become major players in the second round of that civil war. the samnites and lucanians held out at nola and bruttium until bc, when the conflict subsumed into the roman civil war that broke out that year.[ ] roman concessions to the allies[edit] lucius julius caesar sponsored the lex julia during his consulship, which he carried out before his office ended. the law offered full citizenship to all latin and italian communities who had not revolted. this was mainly done to prevent the etruscans and umbrians from joining the rebellion. however, the law offered the option of citizenship to whole communities and not to individuals. this meant that each individual community had to pass the law, most likely by a vote in assembly, before it could take effect. it was also possible under the lex julia for citizenship to be granted as a reward for distinguished military service in the field. it is assumed that the lex julia was closely followed by a supplementary statute, the lex plautia papiria, which stated that a registered male of an allied italian state could obtain roman citizenship by presenting himself to a roman praetor within days of the passing of the law. this law granted roman citizenship to italians who had rebelled against rome. see also[edit] 	coinage of the social war citations[edit] 	^ brunt , p.  . 	^ brunt , p.  . 	^ a b c d e f brunt , p.  . 	^ a b beard, mary ( ). pompeii. profile books ltd. isbn  - - - - . 	^ keaveney, arthur ( ). rome and the unification of italy. london: croom helm. isbn  . 	^ suetonius, life of claudius, section . . 	^ "oscan". ancient scripts. retrieved january . 	^ williams, j. h. c. 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′ ″n ° ′ ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; . 	type	settlement smyrna among the cities of ionia and lydia (ca. ad) smyrna (/ˈsmɜːrnə/ smur-nə; ancient greek: Σμύρνη, romanized: smýrnē, or ancient greek: Σμύρνα, romanized: smýrna) was a greek city located at a strategic point on the aegean coast of anatolia. due to its advantageous port conditions, its ease of defense and its good inland connections, smyrna rose to prominence. the modern name of the city is izmir.[ ] two sites of the ancient city are today within izmir's boundaries. the first site, probably founded by indigenous peoples, rose to prominence during the archaic period as one of the principal ancient greek settlements in western anatolia. the second, whose foundation is associated with alexander the great,[citation needed] reached metropolitan proportions during the period of the roman empire. most of the present-day remains of the ancient city date from the roman era, the majority from after a nd-century ad earthquake. in practical terms, a distinction is often made between these. old smyrna was the initial settlement founded around the th century bc, first as an aeolian settlement, and later taken over and developed during the archaic period by the ionians. smyrna proper was the new city which residents moved to as of the th century bc and whose foundation was inspired by[citation needed] alexander the great. old smyrna was located on a small peninsula connected to the mainland by a narrow isthmus at the northeastern corner of the inner gulf of İzmir, at the edge of a fertile plain and at the foot of mount yamanlar. this anatolian settlement commanded the gulf. today, the archeological site, named bayraklı höyüğü, is approximately metres (  yd) inland, in the tepekule neighbourhood of bayraklı. new smyrna developed simultaneously on the slopes of the mount pagos (kadifekale today) and alongside the coastal strait, immediately below where a small bay existed until the th century. the core of the late hellenistic and early roman smyrna is preserved in the large area of İzmir agora open air museum at this site. research is being pursued at the sites of both the old and the new cities. this has been conducted since for old smyrna and since for the classical period city, in collaboration between the İzmir archaeology museum and the metropolitan municipality of İzmir.[ ] contents 	 history 	 . etymology 	 . third millennium to  bc 	 . lydian period 	 . hellenistic period 	 . roman and byzantine period 	 . ottoman period 	 . post world war i 	 agora 	 excavations 	 economy 	 toponyms 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links history[edit] the agora of the ancient city of smyrna, now called izmir. etymology[edit] for further information on etymology of the city's name, see İzmir § names and etymology. several explanations have been offered for its name. a greek myth derived the name from an eponymous amazon named Σμύρνα (smyrna), which was also the name of a quarter of ephesus. this is the basis of myrina, a city of aeolis. in inscriptions and coins, the name often was written as Ζμύρνα (zmýrna), Ζμυρναῖος (zmyrnaîos, "of smyrna").[ ] arches of the ancient city of smyrna, modern day izmir. the name smyrna may also have been taken from the ancient greek word for myrrh, smýrna,[ ][ ][ ] which was the chief export of the city in ancient times.[ ] third millennium to  bc[edit] further information: fortifications of ancient smyrna the region was settled at least as of the beginning of the third millennium bc, or perhaps earlier, as suggested by finds made in yeşilova höyük in excavations since . it could have been a city of the autochthonous leleges before the greek colonists started to settle along the coast of asia minor at the turn of the second to first millennium bc. throughout classical antiquity, smyrna was a leading city-state of ionia, with influence over the aegean shores and islands. smyrna was also among the cities that claimed homer as a resident.[ ] the early aeolian greek settlers of lesbos and cyme, expanding eastwards, occupied the valley of smyrna. it was one of the confederacy of aeolian city-states, marking the aeolian frontier with the ionian colonies. strangers or refugees from the ionian city of colophon settled in the city. during an uprising in  bc, they took control of the city, making it the thirteenth of the ionian city-states. revised mythologies said it was a colony of ephesus.[ ] in  bc, the ionian boxer onomastus of smyrna won the prize at olympia, but the coup was probably then a recent event. the colophonian conquest is mentioned by mimnermus (before  bc), who counts himself equally of colophon and of smyrna. the aeolic form of the name was retained even in the attic dialect, and the epithet "aeolian smyrna" remained current long after the conquest. agora of smyrna, built during the hellenistic era at the base of pagos hill and totally rebuilt under marcus aurelius after the destructive ad earthquake, izmir, turkey smyrna was located at the mouth of the small river hermus and at the head of a deep arm of the sea (smyrnaeus sinus) that reached far inland. this enabled greek trading ships to sail into the heart of lydia, making the city part of an essential trade route between anatolia and the aegean. during the th century bc, smyrna rose to power and splendor. one of the great trade routes which cross anatolia descends the hermus valley past sardis, and then, diverging from the valley, passes south of mount sipylus and crosses a low pass into the little valley where smyrna lies between the mountains and the sea. miletus and later ephesus were situated at the sea end of the other great trade route across anatolia; they competed for a time successfully with smyrna; but after both cities' harbors silted up, smyrna was without a rival. the meles river, which flowed by smyrna, is famous in literature and was worshiped in the valley. a common and consistent tradition connects homer with the valley of smyrna and the banks of the meles; his figure was one of the stock types on coins of smyrna, one class of which numismatists call "homerian." the epithet melesigenes was applied to him; the cave where he was wont to compose his poems was shown near the source of the river; his temple, the homereum, stood on its banks. the steady equable flow of the meles, alike in summer and winter, and its short course, beginning and ending near the city, are celebrated by aristides and himerius. the stream rises from abundant springs east of the city and flows into the southeast extremity of the gulf. the archaic city ("old smyrna") contained a temple of athena from the th century bc. lydian period[edit] head of the poetess sappho, smyrna, marble copy of a prototype belonging to the hellenistic period, in istanbul archaeology museums map of smyrna and other cities within the lydian empire. when the mermnad kings raised the lydian power and aggressiveness, smyrna was one of the first points of attack. gyges (ca. –  bc) was, however, defeated on the banks of the hermus, the situation of the battlefield showing that the power of smyrna extended far to the east. a strong fortress was built probably by the smyrnaean ionians to command the valley of nymphi, the ruins of which are still imposing, on a hill in the pass between smyrna and nymphi. according to theognis (c.  bc), it was pride that destroyed smyrna. mimnermus laments the degeneracy of the citizens of his day, who could no longer stem the lydian advance. finally, alyattes ( –  bc) conquered the city and sacked it, and though smyrna did not cease to exist, the greek life and political unity were destroyed, and the polis was reorganized on the village system. smyrna is mentioned in a fragment of pindar and in an inscription of  bc, but its greatness was past. hellenistic period[edit] 	 	this section does not cite any sources. please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be 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(february ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) alexander the great conceived the idea of restoring the greek city in a scheme that was, according to strabo, actually carried out under antigonus ( –  bc) and lysimachus (  bc—  bc), who enlarged and fortified the city. the ruined acropolis of the ancient city, the "crown of smyrna", had been on a steep peak about metres ( ,  ft) high, which overhangs the northeast extremity of the gulf. modern İzmir was constructed atop the later hellenistic city, partly on the slopes of a rounded hill the greeks called pagos[ ] near the southeast end of the gulf, and partly on the low ground between the hill and the sea. the beauty of the hellenistic city, clustering on the low ground and rising tier over tier on the hillside, was frequently praised by the ancients and is celebrated on its coins. the statue of the river god kaystros with a cornucopia in izmir museum of history and art at kültürpark smyrna is shut in on the west by a hill now called deirmen tepe, with the ruins of a temple on the summit. the walls of lysimachus crossed the summit of this hill, and the acropolis occupied the top of pagus. between the two the road from ephesus entered the city by the ephesian gate, near which was a gymnasium. closer to the acropolis the outline of the stadium is still visible, and the theatre was situated on the north slopes of pagus. smyrna possessed two harbours. the outer harbour was simply the open roadstead of the gulf, and the inner was a small basin with a narrow entrance partially filled up by tamerlane in ad. the streets were broad, well paved and laid out at right angles; many were named after temples: the main street, called the golden, ran across the city from west to east, beginning probably from the temple of zeus akraios on the west slope of pagus, and running round the lower slopes of pagus (like a necklace on the statue, to use the favorite terms of aristides the orator) towards tepecik outside the city on the east, where probably stood the temple of cybele, worshipped under the name of meter sipylene, the patroness of the city. the name is from the nearby mount sipylus, which bounds the valley of the city's backlands. the plain towards the sea was too low to be properly drained, and in rainy weather, the streets of the lower town were deep with mud and water. at the end of the hellenistic period, in  bc, the city suddenly cut its ties with king eumenes of pergamum and instead appealed to rome for help. because rome and smyrna had no ties until then, smyrna created a cult of rome to establish a bond, and the cult eventually became widespread through the whole roman empire. as of  bc, the city of rome started to be deified, in the cult to the goddess roma. in this sense, the smyrneans can be considered as the creators of the goddess roma. in  bc, when the last attalid king attalus iii died without an heir, his will conferred his entire kingdom, including smyrna, to the romans. they organized it into the roman province of asia, making pergamum the capital. smyrna, however, as a major seaport, became a leading city in the newly constituted province. roman and byzantine period[edit] further information: samos (theme), byzantine empire, and history of anatolia map of western anatolia showing the "seven churches of asia" and the greek island of patmos. as one of the principal cities of roman asia,[ ] smyrna vied with ephesus and pergamum for the title "first city of asia." a christian church and a bishopric existed here from a very early time, probably originating in the considerable jewish colony. it was one of the seven churches addressed in the book of revelation.[ ] saint ignatius of antioch visited smyrna and later wrote letters to its bishop, polycarp. a mob of jews and pagans abetted the martyrdom of polycarp in ad .[ ] saint irenaeus, who heard polycarp as a boy, was probably a native of smyrna.[ ] another famous resident of the same period was aelius aristides.[ ] after a destructive earthquake in  ad, smyrna was rebuilt in the roman period ( nd century ad) under the emperor marcus aurelius. aelius aristides wrote a letter to marcus aurelius and his son commodus, inviting them to become the new founders of the city.[ ] the bust of the emperor's wife faustina on the second arch of the western stoa confirms this fact.[citation needed] polycrates reports a succession of bishops including polycarp of smyrna, as well as others in nearby cities such as melito of sardis. related to that time the german historian w. bauer wrote: asian jewish christianity received in turn the knowledge that henceforth the "church" would be open without hesitation to the jewish influence mediated by christians, coming not only from the apocalyptic traditions, but also from the synagogue with its practices concerning worship, which led to the appropriation of the jewish passover observance. even the observance of the sabbath by christians appears to have found some favor in asia...we find that in post-apostolic times, in the period of the formation of ecclesiastical structure, the jewish christians in these regions come into prominence.[ ] in the late nd century, irenaeus also noted: polycarp also was not only instructed by apostles, and conversed with many who had seen christ, but was also, by apostles in asia, appointed bishop of the church in smyrna…always taught the things which he had learned from the apostles, and which the church has handed down, and which alone are true. to these things all the asiatic churches testify, as do also those men who have succeeded polycarp.[ ] tertullian wrote c.  ad: anyhow the heresies are at best novelties, and have no continuity with the teaching of christ. perhaps some heretics may claim apostolic antiquity: we reply: let them publish the origins of their churches and unroll the catalogue of their bishops till now from the apostles or from some bishop appointed by the apostles, as the smyrnaeans count from polycarp and john, and the romans from clement and peter; let heretics invent something to match this.[ ] hence, apparently the church in smyrna was one of the churches that tertullian felt had real apostolic succession. during the mid- rd century, most became affiliated with the greco-roman churches. when constantinople became the seat of government, the trade between anatolia and the west diminished in importance, and smyrna declined. the seljuk commander tzachas seized smyrna in and used it as a base for naval raids, but the city was recovered by the general john doukas. the city was several times ravaged by the turks, and had become quite ruinous when the nicaean emperor john iii doukas vatatzes rebuilt it about . ottoman period[edit] main article: İzmir in the year , timur had decisively defeated the knights hospitaller at smyrna, and therefore referred to himself as a ghazi. the great fire of smyrna as seen from an italian ship, september ibn batuta found it still in great part a ruin when the homonymous chieftain of the beylik of aydın had conquered it about and made his son, umur, governor. it became the port of the emirate. during the smyrniote crusade in , on october , the combined forces of the knights hospitaliers of rhodes, the republic of venice, the papal states and the kingdom of cyprus, captured both the harbor and city from the turks, which they held for nearly years; the citadel fell in , with the death of the governor umur baha ad-din ghazi.[ ] in , tamerlane stormed the town and massacred almost all the inhabitants. the mongol conquest was only temporary, but smyrna was recovered by the turks under the aydın dynasty after which it became ottoman, when the ottomans took over the lands of aydın after .[ ] greek influence was so strong in the area that the turks called it "smyrna of the infidels" (gavur İzmir).[ ] while turkish sources track the emergence of the term to the th century when two separate parts of the city were controlled by two different powers, the upper İzmir being muslim and the lower part of the city christian.[citation needed][clarification needed] during the late th and early th century, the city was an important financial and cultural center of the greek world.[citation needed] out of the factories belonged to local greeks, while out of the banks were backed by greek capital. education was also dominated by the local greek communities with male and female schools in total. the ottomans continued to control the area, with the exception of the – period, when the city was assigned to greece by the treaty of sèvres. the most important greek educational institution of the region was the evangelical school that operated from to .[ ] post world war i[edit] main articles: occupation of smyrna and great fire of smyrna greek troops marching on İzmir's coastal street, may . after the end of the first world war greece occupied smyrna from may and put in place a military administration. the greek premier venizelos had plans to annex smyrna and he seemed to be realizing his objective in the treaty of sèvres, signed august .[ ] (however, this treaty was not ratified by the parties; the treaty of peace of lausanne replaced it.) the occupation of smyrna came to an end when the turkish army of kemal atatürk entered the city on september , , at the end of the greco-turkish war ( – ). in the immediate aftermath, a fire broke out in the greek and armenian quarters of the city on september , , known as the great fire of smyrna. the death toll is estimated to range from , [ ][ ] to , .[ ][ ] agora[edit] main article: agora of smyrna the remains of the ancient agora of smyrna constitute today the space of İzmir agora museum in İzmir's namazgah quarter, although its area is commonly referred to as "agora" by the city's inhabitants. situated on the northern slopes of the pagos hills, it was the commercial, judicial and political nucleus of the ancient city, its center for artistic activities and for teaching. İzmir agora open air museum consists of five parts, including the agora area, the base of the northern basilica gate, the stoa and the ancient shopping centre. the agora of smyrna was built during the hellenistic era. excavations[edit] engraving with a view of the site of smyrna agora a few years after the first explorations ( ). although smyrna was explored by charles texier in the th century and the german consul in İzmir had purchased the land around the ancient theater in to start excavations, the first scientific digs can be said to have started in . most of the discoveries were made by archaeological exploration carried as an extension during the period between and by the german archaeologist rudolf naumann and selâhattin kantar, the director of İzmir and ephesus museums. they uncovered a three-floor, rectangular compound with stairs in the front, built on columns and arches around a large courtyard in the middle of the building.[citation needed] new excavations in the agora began in . they have continued since under the sponsorship of the metropolitan municipality of İzmir. a primary school adjacent to the agora that had burned in was not reconstructed. instead, its space was incorporated into the historical site. the area of the agora was increased to , square metres ( ,  sq ft). this permitted the evacuation of a previously unexplored zone. the archaeologists and the local authorities, means permitting, are also keenly eyeing a neighbouring multi-storey car park, which is known to cover an important part of the ancient settlement.[citation needed] during the present renovations the old restorations in concrete are gradually being replaced by marble. the new excavation has uncovered the agora's northern gate. it has been concluded that embossed figures of the goddess hestia found in these digs were a continuation of the zeus altar uncovered during the first digs. statues of the gods hermes, dionysos, eros and heracles have also been found, as well as many statues, heads, embossments, figurines and monuments of people and animals, made of marble, stone, bone, glass, metal and terracotta. inscriptions found here list the people who provided aid to smyrna after the earthquake of  ad.[citation needed] economy[edit] in the early th-century, there were mills spinning thread. as of , there were two factories in smyrna dyeing yarn, which were owned by british companies. these companies employed over , people. during this time, there was also a french owned cotton spinning mill.[ ] the city also produced soap made of refuse olive oil. an ironworks, also owned by the british, produced tools and equipment. those tools were used to extract tannin from valonia oak. as of , the ironwork was exporting , tons of product a year. the city also produced wooden boxes, which were used for fig and raisin storage. the wood for the boxes was imported from austria and romania.[ ] toponyms[edit] several american cities have been named after smyrna, including smyrna, georgia; smyrna, tennessee; smyrna, north carolina; smyrna, delaware; smyrna, michigan; smyrna, maine[ ] and new smyrna beach, florida. see also[edit] 	list of ancient greek cities 	ionia 	nea smyrni 	new smyrna beach, florida 	on the quai at smyrna (hemingway story) 	yeşilova höyük references[edit] 	^ fant, clyde e. 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encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		for other uses, see spartacus (disambiguation). not to be confused with spartocus or sportacus. 	spartacus 	the death of spartacus by hermann vogel ( ) 	born	c. bc near the strymon river in present-day bulgaria 	died	 bc (aged – ) near sele river in lucania, italy[ ] 	years of service	 – bc 	commands held	rebel slave army 	battles/wars	third servile war spartacus (greek: Σπάρτακος spártakos; latin: spartacus; c. –  bc) was a thracian gladiator who, along with crixus, gannicus, castus, and oenomaus, was one of the escaped slave leaders in the third servile war, a major slave uprising against the roman republic. little is known about him beyond the events of the war, and surviving historical accounts are sometimes contradictory. however, all sources agree that he was a former gladiator and an accomplished military leader. this rebellion, interpreted by some as an example of oppressed people fighting for their freedom against a slave-owning oligarchy, has provided inspiration for many political thinkers, and has been featured in literature, television, and film.[ ] although this interpretation is not specifically contradicted by classical historians, no historical account mentions that the goal was to end slavery in the republic.[ ] contents 	 early life 	 enslavement and escape 	 third servile war 	 objectives 	 legacy and recognition 	 . in communism 	 . in sports 	 . in russia 	 . in ukraine 	 . in bulgaria 	 . in serbia 	 . in slovakia 	 . in other countries 	 in popular culture 	 . film 	 . television 	 . literature 	 . music 	 . video games 	 . places 	 see also 	 references 	 bibliography 	 . classical authors 	 . modern historiography 	 external links early life balkan tribes, including the maedi ("maidoi", on map). the greek essayist plutarch describes spartacus as "a thracian of nomadic stock",[ ] in a possible reference to the maedi tribe.[ ] appian says he was "a thracian by birth, who had once served as a soldier with the romans, but had since been a prisoner and sold for a gladiator".[ ] florus described him as one "who, from a thracian mercenary, had become a roman soldier, that had deserted and became enslaved, and afterward, from consideration of his strength, a gladiator".[ ] the authors refer to the thracian tribe of the maedi,[ ][ ][ ] which occupied the area on the southwestern fringes of thrace, along its border with the roman province of macedonia – present day south-western bulgaria.[ ] plutarch also writes that spartacus' wife, a prophetess of the maedi tribe, was enslaved with him. the name spartacus is otherwise manifested in the black sea region. five out of twenty kings of the thracian spartocid dynasty of the cimmerian bosporus[ ] and pontus[ ] are known to have borne it, and a thracian "sparta" "spardacus"[ ] or "sparadokos",[ ] father of seuthes i of the odrysae, is also known. enslavement and escape the extent of the roman republic at bc. according to the differing sources and their interpretation, spartacus was a captive taken by the legions.[ ] spartacus was trained at the gladiatorial school (ludus) near capua belonging to lentulus batiatus. he was a heavyweight gladiator called a murmillo. these fighters carried a large oblong shield (scutum), and used a sword with a broad, straight blade (gladius), about inches long.[ ] in bc, spartacus was among a group of gladiators plotting an escape.[ ] about [ ] slaves were part of the plot. though few in number, they seized kitchen utensils, fought their way free from the school, and seized several wagons of gladiatorial weapons and armour.[ ] the escaped slaves defeated soldiers sent after them, plundered the region surrounding capua, recruited many other slaves into their ranks, and eventually retired to a more defensible position on mount vesuvius.[ ][ ] once free, the escaped gladiators chose spartacus and two gallic slaves—crixus and oenomaus—as their leaders. although roman authors assumed that the escaped slaves were a homogeneous group with spartacus as their leader, they may have projected their own hierarchical view of military leadership onto the spontaneous organization, reducing other slave leaders to subordinate positions in their accounts. third servile war further information: third servile war the response of the romans was hampered by the absence of the roman legions, which were already engaged in fighting a revolt in spain and the third mithridatic war. furthermore, the romans considered the rebellion more of a policing matter than a war. rome dispatched militia under the command of praetor gaius claudius glaber, who besieged spartacus and his camp on mount vesuvius, hoping that starvation would force spartacus to surrender. they were surprised when spartacus, who had made ropes from vines, climbed down the cliff side of the volcano with his men and attacked the unfortified roman camp in the rear, killing most of them.[ ] the rebels also defeated a second expedition, nearly capturing the praetor commander, killing his lieutenants and seizing the military equipment.[ ] with these successes, more and more slaves flocked to the spartacan forces, as did "many of the herdsmen and shepherds of the region", swelling their ranks to some , .[ ] at its height spartacus led an army derived of many different people, celts, gauls, and more. also due to social war, some of spartacus' ranks were legion veterans.[ ] of the slaves that joined spartacus ranks, they were from the countryside. the rural slave lived a life in the frontier thus better equipping themselves to march with spartacus' army. in contrast, urban slaves were more suited for city life, being considered "privileged" and "lazy."[ ] of the people who fought in spartacus' army, it shows that the revolt did not have the goal of freeing all slaves. in these altercations spartacus proved to be an excellent tactician, suggesting that he may have had previous military experience. though the rebels lacked military training, they displayed a skilful use of available local materials and unusual tactics when facing the disciplined roman armies.[ ] they spent the winter of – bc training, arming and equipping their new recruits, and expanding their raiding territory to include the towns of nola, nuceria, thurii and metapontum.[ ] the distance between these locations and the subsequent events indicate that the slaves operated in two groups commanded by the remaining leaders spartacus and crixus.[citation needed] in the spring of bc, the rebels left their winter encampments and began to move northward. at the same time, the roman senate, alarmed by the defeat of the praetorian forces, dispatched a pair of consular legions under the command of lucius gellius and gnaeus cornelius lentulus clodianus.[ ] the two legions were initially successful—defeating a group of , rebels commanded by crixus near mount garganus[ ]—but then were defeated by spartacus. these defeats are depicted in divergent ways by the two most comprehensive (extant) histories of the war by appian and plutarch.[ ][ ][ ][ ] alarmed at the continued threat posed by the slaves, the senate charged marcus licinius crassus, the wealthiest man in rome and the only volunteer for the position,[ ] with ending the rebellion. crassus was put in charge of eight legions, approximately , trained roman soldiers,[ ][failed verification][ ] which he treated with harsh, even brutal discipline, reviving the punishment "decimation" on units.[ ] when spartacus and his followers, who for unclear reasons had retreated to the south of italy, moved northward again in early bc, crassus deployed six of his legions on the borders of the region and detached his legate mummius with two legions to maneuver behind spartacus. though ordered not to engage the rebels, mummius attacked at a seemingly opportune moment but was routed.[ ] after this, crassus's legions were victorious in several engagements, forcing spartacus farther south through lucania as crassus gained the upper hand. by the end of bc, spartacus was encamped in rhegium (reggio calabria), near the strait of messina. a th-century depiction of the fall of spartacus by the italian nicola sanesi ( – ) according to plutarch, spartacus made a bargain with cilician pirates to transport him and some , of his men to sicily, where he intended to incite a slave revolt and gather reinforcements. however, he was betrayed by the pirates, who took payment and then abandoned the rebels.[ ] minor sources mention that there were some attempts at raft and shipbuilding by the rebels as a means to escape, but that crassus took unspecified measures to ensure the rebels could not cross to sicily, and their efforts were abandoned.[ ] spartacus's forces then retreated toward rhegium. crassus's legions followed and upon arrival built fortifications across the isthmus at rhegium,[citation needed] despite harassing raids from the rebels. the rebels were now under siege and cut off from their supplies.[ ] at this time, the legions of pompey returned from hispania and were ordered by the senate to head south to aid crassus.[ ] while crassus feared that pompey's arrival would cost him the credit, spartacus unsuccessfully tried to reach an agreement with crassus.[ ] when crassus refused, spartacus and his army broke through the roman fortifications and headed up the bruttium peninsula with crassus's legions in pursuit.[ ] when the legions managed to catch a portion of the rebels separated from the main army,[ ] discipline among spartacus's forces broke down as small groups independently attacked the oncoming legions.[ ] spartacus now turned his forces around and brought his entire strength to bear on the legions in a last stand, in which the rebels were routed completely, with the vast majority of them being killed on the battlefield.[ ] the final battle that saw the assumed defeat of spartacus in bc took place on the present territory of senerchia on the right bank of the river sele in the area that includes the border with oliveto citra up to those of calabritto, near the village of quaglietta, in the high sele valley, which at that time was part of lucania. in this area, since , there have been finds of armour and swords of the roman era. plutarch, appian and florus all claim that spartacus died during the battle, but appian also reports that his body was never found.[ ] six thousand survivors of the revolt captured by the legions of crassus were crucified, lining the appian way from rome to capua.[ ] objectives classical historians were divided as to the motives of spartacus. none of spartacus's actions overtly suggest that he aimed at reforming roman society or abolishing slavery. plutarch writes that spartacus wished to escape north into cisalpine gaul and disperse his men back to their homes.[ ] if escaping the italian peninsula was indeed his goal, it is not clear why spartacus turned south after defeating the legions commanded by the consuls lucius publicola and gnaeus clodianus, which left his force a clear passage over the alps. appian and florus write that he intended to march on rome itself.[ ] appian also states that he later abandoned that goal, which might have been no more than a reflection of roman fears. based on the events in late bc and early bc, which suggest independently operating groups of escaped slaves[ ] and a statement by plutarch, it appears that some of the escaped slaves preferred to plunder italy, rather than escape over the alps.[ ][clarification needed] legacy and recognition toussaint louverture, a leader of the slave revolt that led to the independence of haiti, has been called the "black spartacus".[ ][ ] adam weishaupt, founder of the bavarian illuminati, often referred to himself as spartacus within written correspondences.[ ] in communism viva spartaco, spartaco a rosarno: graffiti connecting spartacus with rosarno riots between locals and migrant farm workers in modern times, spartacus became an icon for communists and socialists. karl marx listed spartacus as one of his heroes and described him as "the most splendid fellow in the whole of ancient history" and a "great general, noble character, real representative of the ancient proletariat".[ ] spartacus has been a great inspiration to left-wing revolutionaries, most notably the german spartacus league ( – ), a forerunner of the communist party of germany.[ ] a january uprising by communists in germany was called the spartacist uprising.[ ] spartacus books, one of the longest running collectively-run leftist book stores in north america, is also named in his honour. in sports several sports clubs around the world, in particular the former soviet and the communist bloc, were named after the roman gladiator. spartacus's name was chosen in numerous football sides in slavic europe. in russia 	fc spartak moscow, a football club 	fc spartak kostroma, a football club 	pfc spartak nalchik, a football club 	fc spartak vladikavkaz, a football club 	hc spartak moscow, an ice hockey team 	spartak saint petersburg, a basketball team 	spartak tennis club, a tennis training facility 	wbc spartak moscow, a women's basketball team in ukraine 	fc spartak sumy, a football club 	spartak, a village in donetsk oblast 	spartak ivano-frankivsk, a football team 	zakarpattia uzhhorod, a football club, formerly known as spartak uzhhorod 	spartak lviv 	spartak kyiv 	spartak odesa, a football team competed in the soviet war league 	spartak kharkiv, a football team competed in the soviet war league in bulgaria 	pfc spartak varna, a football team 	pfc spartak pleven, a football team 	fc spartak plovdiv, a football team 	spartak sofia, a former football team in serbia 	fk spartak subotica, a football team 	fk radnički, several teams in slovakia 	fc spartak trnava, a football team 	tj spartak myjava, a football team 	fk spartak vráble, a football team 	fk spartak bánovce nad bebravou, a football team in other countries 	spartak stadium (disambiguation) 	barnt green spartak f.c., an english football team 	spartak (cape verde), a cape verdean football team 	fc spartak semey, a kazakh football team spartacus's name was also used in athletics in the soviet union and communist states of central and eastern europe. the spartakiad was a soviet bloc version of the olympic games.[ ] this name was also used for the mass gymnastics exhibition held every five years in czechoslovakia. the mascot for the ottawa senators, spartacat, is also named after him. in popular culture spartacus, marble sculpture by denis foyatier ( ), louvre museum film 	the film spartacus ( ), which was executive-produced by and starred kirk douglas, was based on howard fast's novel spartacus and directed by stanley kubrick. the phrase "i'm spartacus!" from this film has been referenced in a number of other films, television programs, and commercials. television 	fast's novel was adapted as a miniseries by the usa network, with goran višnjić in the main role. 	one episode of – bbc's docudrama heroes and villains features spartacus. 	the television series spartacus, starring andy whitfield and later liam mcintyre in the title role, aired on the starz premium cable network from january to april .[ ][ ] 	the history channel's barbarians rising ( ) features the story of spartacus in its third episode entitled "rebellion". 	the fifth series of outnumbered had ben brockmans (daniel roche)play spartacus in a musical called spartacus.[ ] literature 	howard fast wrote the historical novel spartacus, the basis of the film of the same name. 	arthur koestler wrote a novel about spartacus called the gladiators. 	the scottish writer lewis grassic gibbon wrote a novel spartacus. 	the italian writer raffaello giovagnoli wrote his historical novel, spartacus, in . his novel has been subsequently translated and published in many european countries. 	the german writer bertolt brecht wrote spartacus, his second play, before . it was later renamed drums in the night. 	the latvian writer andrejs upīts in wrote the play spartacus. 	the polish writer halina rudnicka [pl] in wrote a novel uczniowie spartakusa (spartacus' disciples). 	the reverend elijah kellogg's spartacus to the gladiators at capua has been used effectively by school pupils to practice their oratory skills for ages. 	amal donkol, the egyptian modern poet wrote "the last words of spartacus". 	max gallo wrote the novel les romains.spartacus. la revolte des esclaves, librairie artheme fayard, . 	in the fate/apocrypha light novel series by yūichirō higashide, spartacus appears as a berserker-class servant summoned by the red faction. in the anime adaptation of the novels, spartacus is voiced by satoshi tsuruoka in japanese and josh tomar in english. this version of spartacus would also appear in the mobile rpg fate/grand order. music 	the "spartacus overture" was written by composer camille saint-saëns in . 	"love theme from spartacus" was a hit for composer alex north and has become a jazz standard. 	spartacus ( , first staged in ) is a ballet, with a score by soviet armenian composer aram khachaturian. 	in , triumvirat reached the apex of their commercial success with the release of spartacus, a classic "prog rock" album. 	australian composer carl vine wrote a short piano piece entitled "spartacus", from red blues. 	phantom regiment's show, "spartacus", was the championship show of the drum corps international season. 	jeff wayne released his musical retelling, jeff wayne's musical version of spartacus, in . video games 	in age of empires: rise of rome expansion iv enemies of rome, : spartacus the campaign has the player fighting against spartacus' army. 	in spartacus legends, spartacus appears as an endgame boss. places 	spartacus peak on livingston island in the south shetland islands. see also 	ancient rome portal 	alaric i 	ambiorix 	ardaric 	arminius 	autaritus 	bato 	battle of baduhenna wood 	boudica 	fritigern 	gaius julius civilis 	john of gothia 	list of people who disappeared 	totila 	vercingetorix 	viriathus references 	^ plutarch, crassus, : – archived april at the wayback machine 	^ historian barry strauss on his new book the spartacus war (interview). simon & schuster. . 	^ strauss , p.  harvnb error: multiple targets ( ×): citerefstrauss (help) "we do not know if spartacus wanted to abolish slavery, but if so, he aimed low. he and his men freed only gladiators, farmers, and shepherds. they avoided urban slaves, a softer and more elite group than rural workers. they rallied slaves to the cry not only of freedom but also to the themes of nationalism, religion, revenge, and riches. another paradox: they might have been liberators but the rebels brought ruin. they devastated southern italy in search of food and trouble." 	^ "plutarch, crassus ". archived from the original on april . retrieved november . 	^ nic fields ( ). spartacus and the slave war – bc: a gladiator rebels against rome. osprey publishing. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ appian, civil wars . archived june at the wayback machine 	^ florus, epitome of roman history . . 	^ sallust ( ). the histories. vol. , books iii–v. translated by mcgushin, patrick. oxford: oxford university press. isbn  - . 	^ annuaire de l'université de sofia, faculté d'histoire, volume , issue , , p. . . retrieved february . 	^ strauss , p.  harvnb error: multiple targets ( ×): citerefstrauss (help) 	^ john boardman; i. e. s. edwards, n. g. l. hammond and e. sollberger, eds. ( ). the cambridge ancient history (pdf) ( ed.). cambridge university press. doi: . /chol . isbn  - . 	^ diodorus siculus, historical library book 	^ diodorus siculus, historical library book archived november at the wayback machine 	^ theucidides, history of the peloponnesian war . 	^ "tribes, dynasts and kingdoms of northern greece: history and numismatics". archived from the original on august . retrieved february . 	^ appian, civil wars, : archived june at the wayback machine; plutarch, crassus, : archived april at the wayback machine. note: spartacus' status as an auxilia is taken from the loeb edition of appian translated by horace white, which states "...who had once served as a soldier with the romans...". however, the translation by john carter in the penguin classics version reads: "...who had once fought against the romans and after being taken prisoner and sold...". 	^ strauss , p.  harvnb error: multiple targets ( ×): citerefstrauss (help) 	^ a b plutarch, crassus, : – archived april at the wayback machine; appian, civil wars, : archived june at the wayback machine; livy, periochae, : ; florus, epitome, . . plutarch claims escaped, livy claims , appian "about seventy", and florus says "thirty or rather more men". 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( ). spartacus and the servile wars: a brief history with documents. palgrave macmillan. isbn  - - - - . 	^ a b appian, civil wars, : archived june at the wayback machine. 	^ plutarch, crassus : archived april at the wayback machine. 	^ appian, civil wars, : archived june at the wayback machine; smith, a dictionary of greek and roman antiquities, "exercitus", p. archived october at the wayback machine. 	^ a b plutarch, crassus, : – archived april at the wayback machine. 	^ florus, epitome, . ; cicero, orations, "for quintius, sextus roscius...", . archived march at the wayback machine 	^ plutarch, crassus, : – archived april at the wayback machine. 	^ contrast plutarch, crassus, : archived april at the wayback machine with appian, civil wars, : archived june at the wayback machine. 	^ appian, civil wars, : archived june at the wayback machine. 	^ appian, civil wars, : archived june at the wayback machine; plutarch, crassus, : archived april at the wayback machine. 	^ plutarch, crassus, : archived april at the wayback machine; livy, periochae, : . bradley, slavery and rebellion. p. ; plutarch, crassus, : archived april at the wayback machine. 	^ plutarch, crassus, : archived april at the wayback machine;. 	^ appian, civil wars, : archived june at the wayback machine; plutarch, crassus, : – archived april at the wayback machine; livy, periochae, . . 	^ appian, civil wars, : archived june at the wayback machine; florus, epitome, . . 	^ appian, civil wars, . archived june at the wayback machine. 	^ a b plutarch crassus, : – archived april at the wayback machine. 	^ appian, civil wars, : archived june at the wayback machine; florus, epitome, . . 	^ plutarch, crassus, : archived april at the wayback machine; appian, civil wars, : archived june at the wayback machine. 	^ thomson, ian ( january ). 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additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 solfège - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	solfège 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		  (redirected from solfege) 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		music teaching method for similar terms, see solfeggietto and solfege (manga). in music, solfège (uk: /ˈsɒlfɛdʒ/,[ ] us: /sɒlˈfɛʒ/; french: [sɔlfɛʒ]) or solfeggio (/sɒlˈfɛdʒioʊ/; italian: [solˈfeddʒo]), also called sol-fa, solfa, solfeo, among many names, is a music education method used to teach aural skills, pitch and sight-reading of western music. solfège is a form of solmization and, though the two terms are sometimes used interchangeably, this system originated from other "eastern" music cultures such as swara, durar mufaṣṣalāt and jianpu. syllables are assigned to the notes of the scale and enable the musician to audiate, or mentally hear, the pitches of a piece of music being seen for the first time and then to sing them aloud. through the renaissance (and much later in some shapenote publications) various interlocking , and -note systems were employed to cover the octave. the tonic sol-fa method popularized the seven syllables commonly used in english-speaking countries: do (or doh in tonic sol-fa),[ ] re, mi, fa, so(l), la, and si (or ti), see below. there are two current ways of applying solfège: ) fixed do, where the syllables are always tied to specific pitches (e.g. "do" is always "c-natural") and ) movable do, where the syllables are assigned to scale degrees ("do" is always the first degree of the major scale). contents 	 etymology 	 origin 	 in elizabethan england 	 modern use 	 . movable do solfège 	 . . major 	 . . minor 	 . fixed do solfège 	 . . chromatic variants 	 . comparison of the two systems 	 note names 	 other possibilities to denote solfège 	 . rainbow colors assigned by isaac newton 	 cultural references 	 see also 	 references 	 external links etymology[edit] italian "solfeggio" and english/french "solfège" derive from the names of two of the syllables used: sol and fa.[ ][ ] the generic term "solmization", referring to any system of denoting pitches of a musical scale by syllables, including those used in india and japan as well as solfège, comes from french solmisation, from the latin solfège syllables sol and mi.[ ] the verb "to sol-fa" means to sing a passage in solfège.[ ] origin[edit] in eleventh-century italy, the music theorist guido of arezzo invented a notational system that named the six notes of the hexachord after the first syllable of each line of the latin hymn ut queant laxis, the "hymn to st. john the baptist", yielding ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la.[ ][ ] each successive line of this hymn begins on the next scale degree, so each note's name was the syllable sung at that pitch in this hymn. sheet music for ut queant laxis ut queant laxīs    resonāre fībrīs mīra gestōrum    famulī tuōrum, solve pollūtī    labiī reātum, sancte iōhannēs. the words were written by paulus diaconus in the th century. they translate as: so that your servants may,    with loosened voices, resound the wonders    of your deeds, clean the guilt    from our stained lips, o st. john. "ut" was changed in the s in italy to the open syllable do,[ ] at the suggestion of the musicologist giovanni battista doni (based on the first syllable of his surname), and si (from the initials for "sancte iohannes") was added to complete the diatonic scale. in anglophone countries, "si" was changed to "ti" by sarah glover in the nineteenth century so that every syllable might begin with a different letter.[ ] "ti" is used in tonic sol-fa (and in the famed american show tune "do-re-mi"). an alternative theory argues that the solfège syllables (do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti) derive from the syllables of an arabic solmization system درر مفصّلات durar mufaṣṣalāt ("detailed pearls") (dāl, rā', mīm, fā', ṣād, lām, tā'), mentioned in the works of francisci a mesgnien meninski in and later discussed by jean-benjamin de la borde in .[ ][ ][ ][ ] however, there is no documentary evidence for this theory.[ ] in elizabethan england[edit] in the elizabethan era, england and its related territories used only four of the syllables: mi, fa, sol, and la. "mi" stood for modern si, "fa" for modern do or ut, "sol" for modern re, and "la" for modern mi. then, fa, sol and la would be repeated to also stand for their modern counterparts, resulting in the scale being "fa, sol, la, fa, sol, la, mi, fa". the use of "fa", "sol" and "la" for two positions in the scale is a leftover from the guidonian system of so-called "mutations" (i.e. changes of hexachord on a note, see guidonian hand). this system was largely eliminated by the th century, but is still used in some shape note systems, which give each of the four syllables "fa", "sol", "la", and "mi" a different shape. an example of this type of solmization occurs in shakespeare's king lear, i, (see § cultural references). modern use[edit] solfège is still used for sight reading training. in the u.s., traditional american country music was first recorded in the s by solfège-trained singers, often too poor to afford a piano, who used sight reading as a way of making printed music into entertainment. flanders bays and "singing bob" leonard were traveling music teachers who trained hundreds of students, among them the carter family, who recorded the first nationally distributed recordings of regional "country" music. there are two main types of solfège: movable do and fixed do. movable do solfège[edit] in movable do[ ] or tonic sol-fa, each syllable corresponds to a scale degree. this is analogous to the guidonian practice of giving each degree of the hexachord a solfège name, and is mostly used in germanic countries, commonwealth countries, and the united states. one particularly important variant of movable do, but differing in some respects from the system described below, was invented in the nineteenth century by sarah ann glover, and is known as tonic sol-fa. in italy, in , roberto goitre wrote the famous method "cantar leggendo", which has come to be used for choruses and for music for young children. the pedagogical advantage of the movable-do system is its ability to assist in the theoretical understanding of music; because a tonic is established and then sung in comparison to, the student infers melodic and chordal implications through his or her singing. thus, while fixed-do is more applicable to instrumentalists, movable-do is more applicable to theorists and, arguably, composers. major[edit] movable do is frequently employed in australia, china, japan (with th being so, and th being si), ireland, the united kingdom, the united states, hong kong, and english-speaking canada. the movable do system is a fundamental element of the kodály method used primarily in hungary, but with a dedicated following worldwide. in the movable do system, each solfège syllable corresponds not to a pitch, but to a scale degree: the first degree of a major scale is always sung as "do", the second as "re", etc. (for minor keys, see below.) in movable do, a given tune is therefore always sol-faed on the same syllables, no matter what key it is in. the solfège syllables used for movable do differ slightly from those used for fixed do, because the english variant of the basic syllables ("ti" instead of "si") is usually used, and chromatically altered syllables are usually included as well. 	major scale degree 	mova. do solfège syllable 	# of half steps from do 	trad. pron. 	 	do 	 	/doʊ/ 	raised 	di 	 	/diː/ 	lowered 	ra 	 	/ɹɑː/ 	 	re 	 	/ɹeɪ/ 	raised 	ri 	 	/ɹiː/ 	lowered 	me (or ma) 	 	/meɪ/ (/mɑː/) 	 	mi 	 	/miː/ 	 	fa 	 	/fɑː/ 	raised 	fi 	 	/fiː/ 	lowered 	se 	 	/seɪ/ 	 	sol 	 	/soʊ/ 	raised 	si 	 	/siː/ 	lowered 	le (or lo) 	 	/leɪ/ (/loʊ/) 	 	la 	 	/lɑː/ 	raised 	li 	 	/liː/ 	lowered 	te (or ta) 	 	/teɪ/ (/tɑː/) 	 	ti 	 	/tiː/ if, at a certain point, the key of a piece modulates, then it is necessary to change the solfège syllables at that point. for example, if a piece begins in c major, then c is initially sung on "do", d on "re", etc. if, however, the piece then modulates to g major, then g is sung on "do", a on "re", etc., and c is then sung on "fa". minor[edit] passages in a minor key may be sol-faed in one of two ways in movable do: either starting on do (using "me", "le", and "te" for the lowered third, sixth, and seventh degrees, and "la" and "ti" for the raised sixth and seventh degrees), which is referred to as "do-based minor", or starting on la (using "fi" and "si" for the raised sixth and seventh degrees). the latter (referred to as "la-based minor") is sometimes preferred in choral singing, especially with children. the choice of which system is used for minor makes a difference as to how you handle modulations. in the first case ("do-based minor"), when the key moves for example from c major to c minor the syllable do keeps pointing to the same note, namely c, (there's no "mutation" of do's note), but when the key shifts from c major to a minor (or a major), the scale is transposed from do = c to do = a. in the second case ("la-based minor"), when the key moves from c major to a minor the syllable do continues to point to the same note, again c, but when the key moves from c major to c minor the scale is transposed from do = c to do = e-flat. 	natural minor scale degree 	movable do solfège syllable (la-based minor) 	movable do solfège syllable (do-based minor) 	lowered 	le (or lo) 	( ti ) 	 	la 	do 	raised 	li 	di 	lowered 	te (or ta) 	ra 	 	ti 	re 	 	do 	me (or ma) 	raised 	di 	mi 	lowered 	ra 	( mi ) 	 	re 	fa 	raised 	ri 	fi 	lowered 	me (or ma) 	se 	 	mi 	sol 	 	fa 	le (or lo) 	raised 	fi 	la 	lowered 	se 	( la ) 	 	sol 	te (or ta) 	raised 	si 	ti fixed do solfège[edit] the names of the notes in romance languages. in fixed do, each syllable corresponds to the name of a note. this is analogous to the romance system naming pitches after the solfège syllables, and is used in romance and slavic countries, among others, including spanish-speaking countries. in the major romance and slavic languages, the syllables do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, and si are used to name notes the same way that the letters c, d, e, f, g, a, and b are used to name notes in english. for native speakers of these languages, solfège is simply singing the names of the notes, omitting any modifiers such as "sharp" or "flat" in order to preserve the rhythm. this system is called fixed do and is used in spain, portugal, france, italy, belgium, romania, latin american countries and in french-speaking canada as well as countries such as bosnia and herzegovina, croatia, russia, serbia, poland, ukraine, georgia, bulgaria, greece, armenia, albania, north macedonia, mongolia, iran, israel, the arab world, turkey, and taiwan where non-romance languages are spoken. in the united states, the fixed-do system is principally taught at the juilliard school in new york city, the curtis institute of music in philadelphia, and the cleveland institute of music in cleveland, ohio. traditional fixed do[ ] 	note name 	syllable 	pronunciation 	pitch class 	english	romance 	anglicized	italian 	c♭ 	do♭ 	do 	/doʊ/ 	/dɔ/ 	 	c	do	 	c♯	do♯	 	d♭ 	re♭ 	re 	/ɹeɪ/ 	/rɛ/ 	 	d	re	 	d♯	re♯	 	e♭ 	mi♭ 	mi 	/miː/ 	/mi/ 	 	e	mi	 	e♯	mi♯	 	f♭ 	fa♭ 	fa 	/fɑː/ 	/fa/ 	 	f	fa	 	f♯	fa♯	 	g♭ 	sol♭ 	sol 	/soʊl/ 	/sɔl/ 	 	g	sol	 	g♯	sol♯	 	a♭ 	la♭ 	la 	/lɑː/ 	/la/ 	 	a	la	 	a♯	la♯	 	b♭ 	si♭ 	si 	/siː/ 	/si/ 	 	b	si	 	b♯	si♯	 in the fixed do system, shown above, accidentals do not affect the syllables used. for example, c, c♯, and c♭ (as well as c and c, not shown above) are all sung with the syllable "do". chromatic variants[edit] several chromatic fixed-do systems that have also been devised to account for chromatic notes (and even for double-sharp and double-flat variants) are as follows: chromatic variants of fixed do 	note name 	syllable 	pitch class 	english	romance 	traditional [ ] 	 sharps, flats [ ][ ][ ] 	hullah [ ] 	shearer [ ] 	siler [ ] 	sotorrio [ ] 	c 	do 	do 	– 	duf 	daw 	du 	(pe) 	 	c♭	do♭ 	–	du	de	do	(tsi)	 	c	do 	do	do	do	da	do	 	c♯	do♯ 	di	da	di	de	ga	 	c	do 	–	das	dai	di	(ray)	 	d 	re 	re 	– 	raf 	raw 	ru 	(do) 	 	d♭	re♭ 	ra	ra	ra	ro	ga	 	d	re 	re	re	re	ra	ray	 	d♯	re♯ 	ri	ri	ri	re	nu	 	d	re 	–	ris	rai	ri	(mi)	 	e 	mi 	mi 	– 	mef 	maw 	mu 	(ray) 	 	e♭	mi♭ 	me	me	me	mo	nu	 	e	mi 	mi	mi	mi	ma	mi	 	e♯	mi♯ 	–	mis	mai	me	(fa)	 	e	mi 	–	mish	–	mi	(jur)	 	f 	fa 	fa 	– 	fof 	faw 	fu 	(nu) 	 	f♭	fa♭ 	–	fo	fe	fo	(mi)	 	f	fa 	fa	fa	fa	fa	fa	 	f♯	fa♯ 	fi	fe	fi	fe	jur	 	f	fa 	–	fes	fai	fi	(sol)	 	g 	sol 	sol 	– 	sulf 	saw 	su 	(fa) 	 	g♭	sol♭ 	se	sul	se	so	jur	 	g	sol 	sol	sol	so	sa	sol	 	g♯	sol♯ 	si	sal	si	se	ki	 	g	sol 	–	sals	sai	si	(la)	 	a 	la 	la 	– 	lof 	law 	lu 	(sol) 	 	a♭	la♭ 	le	lo	le	lo	ki	 	a	la 	la	la	la	la	la	 	a♯	la♯ 	li	le	li	le	pe	 	a	la 	–	les	lai	li	(tsi)	 	b 	si 	si 	– 	sef 	taw 	tu 	(la) 	 	b♭	si♭ 	te	se	te	to	pe	 	b	si 	ti	si	ti	ta	tsi	 	b♯	si♯ 	–	sis	tai	te	(do)	 	b	si 	–	sish	–	ti	(ga)	 	a dash ("–") means that the source(s) did not specify a syllable. comparison of the two systems[edit] movable do corresponds to our psychological experience of normal tunes. if the song is sung a tone higher it is still perceived to be the same song, and the notes have the same relationship to each other, but in a fixed do all the note names would be different. a movable do emphasizes the musicality of the tune as the psychological perception of the notes is always relative to a key for the vast majority of people that do not have absolute pitch. sotorrio[ ] argues that fixed-do is preferable for serious musicians, as music involving complex modulations and vague tonality is often too ambiguous with regard to key for any movable system. that is, without a prior analysis of the music, any movable-do system would inevitably need to be used like a fixed-do system anyway, thus causing confusion. with fixed-do, the musician learns to regard any syllable as the tonic, which does not force them to make an analysis as to which note is the tonic when ambiguity occurs. instead, with fixed-do the musician will already be practiced in thinking in multiple/undetermined tonalities using the corresponding syllables. in comparison to the movable do system, which draws on short-term relative pitch skills involving comparison to a pitch identified as the tonic of the particular piece being performed, fixed do develops long-term relative pitch skills involving comparison to a pitch defined independently of its role in the piece, a practice closer to the definition of each note in absolute terms as found in absolute pitch. the question of which system to use is a controversial subject among music educators in schools in the united states. while movable do is easier to teach and learn, some feel that fixed do leads to stronger sight-reading and better ear training because students learn the relationships between specific pitches as defined independently, rather than only the function of intervals within melodic lines, chords, and chord progressions.[ ] if a performer has been trained using fixed do, particularly in those rare cases in which the performer has absolute pitch or well-developed long-term relative pitch, the performer may have difficulty playing music scored for transposing instruments: because the "concert pitch" note to be performed differs from the note written in the sheet music, the performer may experience cognitive dissonance when having to read one note and play another. especially in the early stages of learning a piece, when the performer has yet to gain familiarity with the melodic line of the piece as expressed in relative terms, it may be necessary to mentally re-transpose the sheet music in order to restore the notes to concert pitch. however, because fixed do pedagogical system often include instruction on reading all seven clefs, musicians reading transposing instruments are used to mentally substituting a clef. for example, when reading clarinets in b-flat written in treble clef, those trained in fixed do mentally substitute tenor clef. in comparison, those trained in moveable do may experience confusion in reading transposing instruments in context in a score, as it is necessary to ascertain the absolute sounding pitch coming out of the instrument in order to know the function of the pitch in the key that the ensemble is playing in. this is especially true for french horn parts, which are traditionally written without a key signature, and instead have all accidentals notated. a musician fluent in fixed do reading the parts in mezzo-soprano clef can ascertain the absolute pitches and use those to extrapolate function. those trained in fixed-do will argue that their act is the analogue of reading aloud in a language. just as one reads this very sentence without parsing it grammatically, so too fixed-do is the direct sounding of the music. where the movable-do system requires constant real-time analysis of the tonality and modulations in the score, in fixed-do the musician uses knowledge of the changing tonality to understand for example that the pitch class c-natural is the supertonic in b-flat major or minor, and the dominant when the music modulates to f-major, but the c-note remains the same pitch. instrumentalists who begin sight-singing for the first time in college as music majors find movable do to be the system more consistent with the way they learned to read music. for choirs, sight-singing fixed do using chromatic movable do syllables (see below) is more suitable than sight-singing movable do for reading atonal music, polytonal music, pandiatonic music, music that modulates or changes key often, or music in which the composer simply did not bother to write a key signature. it is not uncommon for this to be the case in modern or contemporary choral works. note names[edit] in the countries with fixed-do, these seven syllables (with si replacing ti) – rather than the letters c, d, e, f, g, a, and b – are used to name the notes of the c-major scale. here it would be said, for example, that beethoven's ninth symphony (in d minor) is in "re minor", and that its third movement (in b-flat major) is in "si-bemol major". in germanic countries, on the other hand, it is the letters that are used for this purpose (so that beethoven's ninth symphony is said to be in "d-moll") and the solfège syllables are encountered only in their use in sight-singing and ear training. other possibilities to denote solfège[edit] depiction of john curwen's solfege hand signs used in tonic sol-fa. this version includes the tonal tendencies and interesting titles for each tone. rainbow colors assigned by isaac newton[edit] isaac newton[ ] had associated the seven solfège syllables with the seven colors of the rainbow and surmised that each color vibrated accordingly (a concept possibly related to the modern view of chromesthesia). thus, red has the least amount of vibration while violet vibrates the most. 	pitch 	solfège 	color 	c 	do (or doh in tonic sol-fa) 	red 	d 	re 	orange 	e 	mi 	yellow 	f 	fa 	green 	g 	sol (or so in tonic sol-fa) 	blue 	a 	la 	indigo 	blue violet 	b 	ti/si 	purple 	red violet cultural references[edit] 	the various possibilities to distinguish the notes acoustically, optically and by ways of speech and signs, made the solfège a possible syllabary for an international auxiliary language (ial/lai). this was, in the latter half of the th century, realised in the musical language solresol. 	in shakespeare's play king lear (act , scene ), edmund exclaims to himself right after edgar's entrance so that edgar can hear him: "o, these eclipses do portend these divisions". then, in the first folio (but not in the quarto), he adds "fa, so, la, mi". this edmund probably sang (see § in elizabethan england) to the tune of fa, so, la, ti (e.g. f, g, a, b in c major), i.e. an ascending sequence of three whole tones with an ominous feel to it: see tritone (historical uses). 	in the sound of music, the song "do-re-mi" is built around solfège. maria sings it with the von trapp children to teach them to sing the major scale. 	ernie kovacs' television show had a popular recurring sketch that became known as "the nairobi trio". the three characters wore long overcoats, bowler hats, and gorilla masks, and were performed by ernie and two other rotating persons including uncredited stars such as frank sinatra and jack lemmon, as well as kovacs' wife, singer edie adams. there was no dialog, the three pantomimed to the song solfeggio by robert maxwell and the lyrics of the song were made up solely of the solfeggio syllables themselves. the sketch was so popular, that the song was re-released as "song of the nairobi trio". see also[edit] 	key signature names and translations 	numbered musical notation 	vocable references[edit] 	^ "solfège". lexico uk dictionary. oxford university press. 	^ oxford english dictionary nd ed. ( )[page needed] 	^ "solfeggio". merriam-webster online dictionary. merriam-webster online. retrieved - - . 	^ "solfège". merriam-webster online dictionary. merriam-webster online. retrieved - - . 	^ "solmization". merriam-webster online dictionary. merriam-webster online. retrieved - - . 	^ "sol-fa". merriam-webster online dictionary. merriam-webster online. retrieved - - . 	^ davies, norman ( ), europe, pp. – 	^ a b mcnaught, w. g. ( ). "the history and uses of the sol-fa syllables". proceedings of the musical association. london: novello, ewer and co. : – . issn  - . 	^ this also freed up si for later use as sol-sharp 	^ thesaurus linguarum orientalum ( ) oclc  	^ essai sur la musique ancienne et moderne ( ) oclc  	^ farmer, henry george ( ). historical facts for the arabian musical influence. ayer publishing. pp.  – . isbn  - - -x. oclc  . 	^ miller, samuel d. (autumn ). "guido d'arezzo: medieval musician and educator". journal of research in music education. menc_ the national association for music education. ( ): – . doi: . / . jstor  . 	^ miller , p. . 	^ "movable "do" vs fixed "do"". teaching children music. - - . retrieved - - . 	^ a b c demorest, steven m. ( ). building choral excellence: teaching sight-singing in the choral rehearsal. new york: oxford university press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ benjamin, thomas; horvit, michael; nelson, robert ( ). music for sight singing ( th ed.). belmont, ca: thompson schirmer. pp. x–xi. isbn  - - - - . 	^ white, john d. ( ). guidelines for college teaching of music theory ( nd ed.). lanham, md: scarecrow press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ hullah, john ( ). hullah's method of teaching singing ( nd ed.). london: longmans, green and co. pp. xi–xv. isbn  - - - . 	^ shearer, aaron ( ). learning the classical guitar, part : reading and memorizing music. pacific, mo: mel bay. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ siler, h. ( ). "toward an international solfeggio". journal of research in music education. ( ): – . doi: . / . jstor  . 	^ sotorrio, josé a ( ). tone spectra – and the natural elements of music. ( st ed) spectral music, . (presents a simple -tone solfège: do (ga) re (nu) mi fa (jer) sol (ki) la (pe) and tsi, a written compromise between "ti" and "si".] 	^ sotorrio, josé a ( ). tone spectra – and the natural elements of music. ( st ed) spectral music, . 	^ humphries, lee. learning to sight-sing: the mental mechanics of aural imagery. minneapolis: thinking applied, , no. . 	^ ashley p. taylor (march , ). "newton's color theory, ca. ". the scientist. external links[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to solfege. 		look up solfège in wiktionary, the free dictionary. 	history of notation by neil v. hawes 	various scales with their solfège names and associated hand signs 	a search engine for melodies that uses solfège 	an online music notation editor for sargam (the indian solfège), abc, and numbered notation, the indian solfège 	music theory online: key signatures and accidentals 	music theory online : staffs, clefs & pitch notation 	gnu solfège, a free software program to study solfeggio 	eyes and ears, an anthology of melodies for practicing sight-singing, available under a creative commons license 	the advantages of movable do over fixed do 	thesightreadingproject: an interactive database of sight-reading materials (utilizes movable do, la minor) 	origin of do re mi singing system ad 	"colours are sounds: how to see the music", creativelab. the method for transformation of music into an image. 	what is solfège singing? 	good, craig (july , ). 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of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 social class in ancient rome - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	social class in ancient rome 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		not to be confused with status in roman legal system. example of higher class roman men. social class in ancient rome was hierarchical, with multiple and overlapping social hierarchies. an individual's relative position in one might be higher or lower than in another, which complicated the social composition of rome.[ ] the status of freeborn romans during the republic was established by: 	ancestry (patrician or plebeian); 	census rank (ordo) based on wealth and political privilege, with the senatorial and equestrian ranks elevated above the ordinary citizen; 	gender; and 	citizenship, of which there were grades with varying rights and privileges. the different roman classes allowed for different rights and privileges, including voting rights, marriage rights, and more. contents 	 patricians and plebeians 	 . patrician 	 . plebeians 	 property-based classes 	 gender-based classes 	 . pater familias 	 . women 	 slavery and freed men 	 . slaves 	 . freed men 	 non-roman citizens 	 . latin right 	 . . old latin rights 	 . . latin rights post- bc 	 . peregrini 	 references patricians and plebeians[edit] main articles: patrician (ancient rome) and plebs traditionally, patrician refers to members of the upper class, while plebeian refers to lower class.[ ] economic differentiation in rome saw a small number of families accumulate most of the wealth in rome, thus giving way to the creation of the patrician and plebeian classes.[ ] after this initial distinction, however, the divide between patrician and plebeian families was strictly hereditary, based on social status.[ ] the toga, shown here on a statue restored with the head of nerva, was the distinctive garb of roman male citizens. the plebeians comprised the majority of roman citizens. although patricians are often represented as rich and powerful families who managed to secure power over the less-fortunate plebeian families, plebeians and patricians among the senatorial class were often equally wealthy.[ ] as civil rights for plebeians increased during the middle and late roman republic, many plebeian families had attained wealth and power while some traditionally patrician families had fallen into poverty and obscurity. regardless of how rich a plebeian family became, they would not rise to be included in the ranks of the patricians.[ ] by the second century bc, the divide between patricians and plebeians had lost most of its distinction and began to merge into one class.[ ] patrician[edit] patricians were considered the upper-class in early roman society. they controlled the best land and made up the majority of the roman senate. it was rare—if not impossible—for a plebeian to be a senator until bc.[ ][page needed] a common type of social relation in ancient rome was the clientela system that involved a patron and client(s) that performed services for one another and who were engaged in strong business-like relationships. patricians were most often the patrons, and they would often have multiple plebeian clients.[ ] patrons provided many services to their clients in exchange for a promise of support if the patron went to war.[ ] this patronage system was one of the class relations that most tightly bound roman society together, while also protecting patrician social privileges.[ ] clientela continued into the late roman society, spanning almost the entirety of the existence of ancient rome.[ ] patricians also exclusively controlled the censor, which controlled the census, appointed senators, and oversaw other aspects of social and political life. through this office, patricians were able to maintain their hierarchy over the plebeians.[ ] plebeians[edit] plebeians were the lower-class, often farmers, in rome who mostly worked the land owned by the patricians. some plebeians owned small plots of land, but this was rare until the second century bc.[ ] plebeians were tied to patricians through the clientela system of patronage that saw plebeians assisting their patrician patrons in war, augmenting their social status, and raising dowries or ransoms.[ ] in bc, plebeians were barred from marrying patricians, but this law was repealed in bc by a tribune of the plebs.[ ][page needed] in bc, the office of military tribune with consular powers was created, which enabled plebeians who passed through this office to serve in the senate once their one-year term was completed.[ ][page needed] plebeians remained, for the most part, dependent on those of higher social class for the entirety of the existence of ancient rome, through the clientela system or by other means attaching themselves to those with power if possible.[ ][page needed] property-based classes[edit] further information: roman senate and equites roman society was also divided based on property in the centuriate assembly. the centuriate assembly was responsible for declaring war, for electing magistrates with imperium, and for trying select cases.[ ] a statue of a member of the equestrian class from ce. this statue is believed to be from the capitoline hill in rome, and is the only equestrian statue that survives. only romans who were wealthy enough to afford their own armour were allowed to serve in the army, which consisted of both patricians and plebeians. as long as a citizen could afford armour, he was able to be a soldier.[ ] the centuriate assembly was divided into groups based on how wealthy one was and one’s ability to provide his armour and weapons. centuriate assembly[ ][ ] 	class 	number of centuries/votes 	census property 	equipment 	equestrians 	 	 	horse, full armour, various weapons 	class i 	 	 , as 	full armour, some weapons 	class ii 	 	 , as 	almost full armour, some weapons 	class iii 	 	 , as 	some armour, few weapons 	class iv 	 	 , as 	little armour, few weapons 	class v 	 	 , as 	no armour, single weapon 	proletariate 	 	 	none 	total centuries/votes 	 	 	 the equestrians and class i held votes between them, thus they could outvote the combined lower classes who only had votes. this was a means for the wealthier classes to maintain control over the army and social life. rather than risk the lower classes revolt because of their lack of influence in the assembly, the votes were allocated to ensure that the higher classes could always outvote the lower ones.[ ] gender-based classes[edit] pater familias[edit] roman society was patriarchal in the purest sense; the male head of household was the pater familias, he held special legal powers and privileges that gave him jurisdiction (patria potestas) over all the members of his familia.[ ] fathers were in charge of educating their sons. additionally, adult sons would often marry and continue to live in the family household under their pater familias, until their father died and they took over the responsibility of pater familias.[ ] the pater familias could also perform an emancipatio (emancipation) ritual - a process that set the son free, three times in a row - to grant the son his own legal authority, free from the pater familias.[ ] a painting of lucretia, the ideal roman woman from the roman tale, the death of lucretia. women[edit] free-born women in ancient rome were citizens (cives), but could not vote or hold political office. women were under exclusive control of their pater familias, which was either their father, husband, or sometimes their eldest brother.[ ] women, and their children, took on the social status of their pater familias. women were not included in the political sphere, and they had little influence outside the home. however, women of wealthier families had more political power than poorer women as they were able to exert their influence behind the scenes of public, political actions.[ ] there were three early forms of marriage that transferred roman women from one pater familias to another. the first, coemptio, represented the purchase of the bride.[ ][ ] this oldest form of marriage required five witnesses and an official, and was treated as a business transaction.[ ] the second, usus, occurred after one year of intimacy between a man and a woman.[ ] if the woman did not leave the man for three nights following the year, she became the man's possession and he became her pater familias. if the woman left before the three nights were over, she would return to her family. the relationship would still be valid, but the man would not become her pater familias.[ ] the last form of marriage, confarreatio, was the closest to modern marriage. confarreatio was a religious ceremony that consisted of the bride and groom sharing bread in front of religious officials and other witnesses.[ ] by the end of the second century ce, marriages sine manu were the standard form of marriage.[ ] through a marriage sine manu, women did not fall under the legal jurisdictions of their new husbands or their fathers. they controlled their own property (usually their dowry) after the death of their father.[ ] men still had to sign any paperwork on behalf of their women, but there were now two economic units in the marriage. moreover, divorce could be initiated by either man or woman, often by saying "i divorce you" three times while in front of witnesses.[ ] the legal status of a mother as a citizen affected her son's citizenship. the phrase ex duobus civibus romanis natos (“children born of two roman citizens”) indicates that a roman woman was regarded as having citizen status, in specific contrast to a peregrina. slavery and freed men[edit] slaves[edit] slaves (servi) were not citizens, and lacked even the legal standing accorded free-born foreigners. slaves were seen as property, and they were bought and sold like any other good in rome.[ ] for the most part, slaves descended from debtors and from prisoners of war, especially women and children captured during sieges and other military campaigns in greece, italy, spain, and carthage. in the later years of the republic and into the empire, more slaves came from newly conquered areas of gaul, britain, north africa, and asia minor.[ ] many slaves were created as the result of rome's conquest of greece, but greek culture was considered in some respects superior to that of rome: hence horace's famous remark graecia capta ferum victorem cepit ("captured greece took her savage conqueror captive"). the roman playwright terence is thought to have been brought to rome as a slave. thus slavery was regarded as a circumstance of birth, misfortune, or war; it was defined in terms of legal status, or rather the lack thereof, and was neither limited to or defined by ethnicity or race, nor regarded as an inescapably permanent condition. slavery was more prominent in roman antiquity than anywhere else in the ancient world, save for greece.[ ] slaves who lacked skills or education performed agricultural or other forms of manual labor. more slaves were tasked with agricultural labour than any other form of work.[ ] those who were violent or disobedient, or who for whatever reason were considered a danger to society, might be sentenced to labor in the mines, where they suffered under inhumane conditions. slave owners were allowed to return their slaves for their money back if they were found to be defective, or if the seller had concealed anything that would affect the slave's productivity.[ ] slaves that were found to be sick or defective would often be sold for very little, if anything.[ ] masters would occasionally manumit sick or elderly slaves as a way to save money if they would not fetch enough money from their sale because it was cheaper than feeding and housing a useless slave. since slaves were legally property, they could be disposed of by their owners at any time. all children born to female slaves were slaves. slaves who had the education or skills to earn a living were often manumitted upon the death of their owner as a condition of his will.[ ] slaves who conducted business for their masters were also permitted to earn and save money for themselves, and some might be able to buy their own freedom, while still others were granted their freedom by their owners - though this was rare.[ ] freed men[edit] freed men (liberti) were freed slaves who, once freed, became full roman citizens, however they were not considered equal to other citizens because of their former status as slaves or their descent from former slaves, thus they joined the ranks of the lower-class plebeians.[ ] only after a few generations would the descendants of former slaves be able to rise through the ranks of the classes (sometimes becoming equites or senators).[ ] the status of liberti developed throughout the republic as their number increased. through their military service, and through other endeavours such as craftsmanship and business ventures, freed men often accumulated vast fortunes in the later republic.[ ] despite the fortunes of these many liberti, throughout ancient rome the majority of freed men were plebeians and worked as farmers or tradesmen.[ ] non-roman citizens[edit] the orator, c. bc, an etrusco-roman bronze sculpture depicting aule metele (latin: aulus metellus), an etruscan man wearing a roman toga while engaged in rhetoric; the statue features an inscription in the etruscan alphabet latin right[edit] latin rights, or jus latii, are the rights given to latin allies and latin colonies of rome.[ ] old latin rights[edit] latin allies were given the right to intermarry, conduct business, and enter into contracts with full roman citizens, and the right to move from an allied latin city to rome (or vice versa).[ ] children of full roman citizens and latin mothers could inherit the roman property and citizenship of their fathers through the latin league, before bce.[ ] those with latin rights had a privileged status above other roman allies who were not full roman citizens.[ ] latin rights post- bc[edit] the citizens of latin towns (aricia, lanuvium, pedum, nomentum, and antium) were given full roman citizenship in bc, after the end of the latin war. the rest of the latin allies were given limited roman citizenship, receiving the privileges of the old latin rights, but not being granted the right to vote or obtain roman property unless they relocated permanently to the city of rome.[ ] peregrini[edit] free-born foreign subjects were known as peregrini. peregrini operated under the laws that were in effect in their provinces when they were captured by rome.[ ] augustus ( b.c..- ad) instituted laws that allowed peregrini to become citizens through serving in the roman army or on a city council. citizen rights were inherited, so children of peregrini who had become citizens were also citizens upon birth.[ ] distinctions between roman citizens and peregrini continued until ad, when caracalla ( ad - ad) extended full roman citizenship to all free-born men in the empire[ ] with the declaration of the antonine constitution.[ ] references[edit] 	^ koenraad verboven. 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home[edit] he was born around in bethelia, a small town near gaza, into a wealthy christian family of palestine. what he has to tell us of the history of southern palestine was derived from oral tradition.[ ] he appears familiar with the region around gaza, and mentions having seen bishop zeno of majuma, the seaport of gaza. grandfather[edit] sozomen wrote that his grandfather lived at bethelia,[ ] near gaza, and became a christian together with his household, probably under constantius ii. a neighbor named alaphrion was miraculously healed by saint hilarion who cast out a demon from alaphrion, and, as eyewitnesses to the miracle, his family converted, along with alaphrion's. the conversion marked a turning-point in the christianization of southern palestine, according to his account. the grandfather became within his own circle a highly esteemed interpreter of scripture. the descendants of the wealthy alaphrion founded churches and convents in the district, and were particularly active in promoting monasticism. sozomen himself had conversed with one of these, a very old man. he tells us that he was brought up under monkish influences and his history bears him out.[ ] life and career[edit] education[edit] sozomen seems to have been brought up in the circle of alaphrion and acknowledges a debt of gratitude to the monastic order. his early education was directed by the monks in his native place. it is impossible to ascertain what curriculum he followed in these monastic schools, but his writings give clear evidence of the thoroughness with which he was grounded in greek studies.[ ] as a man he retained the impressions of his youth, and his great work later was to be also a monument of his reverence for the monks in general and for the disciples of hilarion in particular.[ ] lawyer[edit] as an adult he acquired training as a lawyer. he studied law in beirut.[citation needed] he then went to constantinople to start his career as a lawyer, perhaps at the court of theodosius ii. while thus engaged he conceived, around the year the project of writing a history of the church.[ ] writings on church history[edit] sozomen wrote two works on church history, of which only the second one is extant. his first work covered the history of the church, from the ascension of jesus to the defeat of licinius in , in twelve books. his sources for it included eusebius of caesarea, the clementine homilies, hegesippus, and sextus julius africanus. sozomen's second work continues approximately where his first work left off. he wrote it in constantinople, around the years to and dedicated it to emperor theodosius ii. the work is structured into nine books, roughly arranged along the reigns of roman emperors: 	book i: from the conversion of constantine i until the council of nicea ( – ) 	book ii: from the council of nicea to constantine's death ( – ) 	book iii: from the death of constantine i to the death of constans i ( – ) 	book iv: from the death of constans i to the death of constantius ii ( – ) 	book v: from the death of constantius ii to the death of julian the apostate ( – ) 	book vi: from the death of julian to the death of valens ( – ) 	book vii: from the death of valens to the death of theodosius i ( – ) 	book viii: from the death of theodosius i to the death of arcadius ( – ). 	book ix: from the death of arcadius to the accession of valentinian iii ( – ). book ix is incomplete. in his dedication of the work, he states that he intended cover up to the th consulate of theodosius ii, that is, to . the extant history ends about . scholars disagree on why the end is missing. albert guldenpenning supposed that sozomen himself suppressed the end of his work because in it he mentioned the empress aelia eudocia,[ ] who later fell into disgrace through her supposed adultery. however, it appears that nicephorus, theophanes, and theodorus lector actually read the end of sozomen's work, according to their own histories later.[citation needed] therefore, most scholars believe that the work actually came down to that year and that consequently it has reached us only in a damaged condition.[ ] other writings[edit] according to historian and scholar of islam michael cook, sozomen wrote that a group of "saracens" (arabs) in palestine had adopted jewish laws and customs after coming into contact with jews and may have been (according to cook) the forerunners of islam and muslims.[ ] sources[edit] sozomen borrowed heavily from other sources for his work. the source for about three fourths of his material was the writings of socrates scholasticus. the literary relationship of those writers appears everywhere.[ ] valesius asserted that sozomen read socrates, and robert hussey and guldenpenning have proved this. for example, socrates, in i.x, relates an anecdote which he had heard, and says that neither eusebius nor any other author reports it, yet this anecdote is found in sozomen, i.xxii, the similarity of diction showing that the text of socrates was the source. the extent of this dependence cannot be accurately determined. sozomen used the work of socrates as a guide to sources and order. in some matters, such as in regard to the novatians, sozomen is entirely dependent on socrates.[ ] but sozomen did not simply copy socrates. he went back to the principal sources used by socrates and other sources, often including more from them than socrates did. he used the writings of eusebius, the first major church historian. the vita constantini of eusebius is expressly cited in the description of the vision of constantine. sozomen appears also to have consulted the historia athanasii and also the works of athanasius including the vita antonii. he completes the statements of socrates from the apologia contra arianos, lix, sqq., and copies athanasius' adv. episcopos aegypti, xviii-xix. rufinus is frequently used. instructive in this respect is a comparison of sozomen, socrates, and rufinus on the childhood of athanasius. rufinus is the original; socrates expressly states that he follows rufinus, while sozomen knows socrates' version, but is not satisfied with it and follows rufinus more closely. the ecclesiastical records used by sozomen are principally taken from sabinus, to whom he continually refers. in this way he uses records of the synods from that of tyre ( ) to that of antioch in caria ( ). for the period from theodosius i, sozomen stopped following the work of socrates and followed olympiodorus of thebes, who was probably sozomen's only secular source. a comparison with zosimus, who also made use of olympiodorus, seems to show that the whole ninth book of sozomen, is mostly an abridged extract from olympiodorus. sozomen used many other authorities. these include sources relating to christianity in persia, monkish histories, the vita martini of sulpicius severus, the works of hilarius, logoi of eustathius of antioch, the letter of cyril of jerusalem to constantius concerning the miraculous vision of the cross, and palladius. he also used oral tradition, adding some of the most distinctive value to his work. publication[edit] the work of sozomen was first printed (editio princeps) by robert estienne at paris in ,[ ] on the basis of codex regius, .[citation needed] there are later editions by christophorson and ictrus (cologne, ).[ ] a noteworthy edition was done by valesius (cambridge, ), who used, besides the text of stephens, a codex fucetianus (now at paris, ), "readings" of savilius, and the indirect traditions of theodorus lector and of cassiodorus-epiphanius. hussey's posthumous edition (largely prepared for the press by john barrow, who wrote the preface) is important, since in it the archetype of the codex regius, the codex baroccianus , is collated for the first time. but this manuscript was written by various hands and at various times and therefore is not equally authoritative in all its parts. there is an excellent english translation published in (london, samuel bagster and sons), translator unnamed, later reprinted and credited to chester david hartranft ( - ), with a learned though somewhat diffuse introduction, in the nicene and post-nicene fathers, ii (published new york, ).[ ] (this text is available on-line at the christian classics ethereal library.) notes[edit] 	^ variations on his name include, salamanes and salaminius. references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ a b c d e harnack & mcgiffert , p.  . 	^ sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica, bk. , chap. 	^ a b c d e f healy . 	^ cook , p.  . 	^ for a recent discussion of their relationship see h. leppin, "the church historians (i): socrates, sozomenus, and theodoretus", in gabriele marasco, greek & roman historiography in late antiquity, brill, , pp. - . sources[edit] 	cook, michael ( ). the koran : a very short introduction. oxford university press. isbn  . the koran : a very short introduction. attribution: 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: harnack, adolf; mcgiffert, arthur cushman ( ). "sozomen". in chisholm, hugh (ed.). encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. p.  . 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: healy, patrick j. ( ). "salminius hermias sozomen". in herbermann, charles (ed.). catholic encyclopedia. . new york: robert appleton company. 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: loeschke, g. ( ). "sozomen, salminius hermias". in jackson, samuel macauley (ed.). new schaff–herzog encyclopedia of religious knowledge. xi (third ed.). london and new york: funk and wagnalls. pp.  – . further reading[edit] 	on ethnic identity and ecclesiastical politics in sozomen, see: 	argov, eran i. ( ). "a church historian in search of an identity: aspects of early byzantine palestine in sozomen's historia ecclesiastica". zeitschrift für antikes christentum. : – . 	the english translation of the ecclesiastical history ascribed to chester d. hartranft is available online: 	sozomen ( ). "ecclesiastical history". in schaff, philip; wace, henry (eds.). nicene and post-nicene fathers, second series. . translated by chester d. hartranft. buffalo, ny: christian literature publishing co. retrieved march – via new advent. 	the english translation of the ecclesiastical history by edward walford as originally published in the bohn ecclesiastical library, is available in book form: 	sozomen, hermias ( ). the ecclesiastical history of sozomen. merchantville, new jersey: evolution publishing. isbn  - - - - . external links[edit] 		wikisource has original text related to this article: ecclesiastical history 	online text of the ecclesiastical history 	greek text by migne patrologia graeca with analytical index 	authority control 	 	bibsys: 	bne: xx 	bnf: cb (data) 	cantic: a 	cinii: da 	gnd: 	isni: 	lccn: n 	nkc: xx 	nla: 	nli: 	nta: 	rero: -a 	selibr: 	snac: w hz bv 	sudoc: x 	trove: 	vcba: / 	viaf: 	 worldcat identities: lccn-n retrieved from 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punishment, sexual exploitation (prostitutes were often slaves), torture and summary execution. over time, however, slaves gained increased legal protection, including the right to file complaints against their masters. a major source of slaves had been roman military expansion during the republic. the use of former enemy soldiers as slaves led perhaps inevitably to a series of en masse armed rebellions, the servile wars, the last of which was led by spartacus. during the pax romana of the early roman empire ( st– nd centuries ad), emphasis was placed on maintaining stability, and the lack of new territorial conquests dried up this supply line of human trafficking. to maintain an enslaved work force, increased legal restrictions on freeing slaves were put into place. escaped slaves would be hunted down and returned (often for a reward). there were also many cases of poor people selling their children to richer neighbors as slaves in times of hardship. contents 	 origins 	 slavery and warfare 	 trade and economy 	 demography 	 auctions and sales 	 . debt slavery 	 types of work 	 . servus publicus 	 treatment and legal status 	 rebellions and runaways 	 serfdom 	 slavery in philosophy and religion 	 . classical roman religion 	 . . female slaves and religion 	 . mystery cults 	 . stoic philosophy 	 . early christianity 	 in literature 	 . plutarch 	 . cicero 	 . roman comedies 	 emancipation 	 freedmen 	 see also 	 references 	 . bibliography 	 further reading 	 external links origins[edit] further information: slavery in antiquity in his institutiones (  ad), the roman jurist gaius wrote that: [slavery is] the state that is recognized by the ius gentium in which someone is subject to the dominion of another person contrary to nature. — gaius, institutiones . . [ ] the st century bc greek historian dionysius of halicarnassus indicates that the roman institution of slavery began with the legendary founder romulus giving roman fathers the right to sell their own children into slavery, and kept growing with the expansion of the roman state. slave ownership was most widespread throughout the roman citizenry from the second punic war ( –  bc) to the th century ad. the greek geographer strabo ( st century ad) records how an enormous slave trade resulted from the collapse of the seleucid empire ( –  bc).[ ] the twelve tables, rome's oldest legal code, has brief references to slavery, indicating that the institution was of long standing. in the tripartite division of law by the jurist ulpian ( nd century ad), slavery was an aspect of the ius gentium, the customary international law held in common among all peoples (gentes). the "law of nations" was neither considered natural law, thought to exist in nature and govern animals as well as humans, nor civil law, belonging to the emerging bodies of laws specific to a people in western societies.[ ] all human beings are born free (liberi) under natural law, but slavery was held to be a practice common to all nations, who might then have specific civil laws pertaining to slaves.[ ] in ancient warfare, the victor had the right under the ius gentium to enslave a defeated population; however, if a settlement had been reached through diplomatic negotiations or formal surrender, the people were by custom to be spared violence and enslavement. the ius gentium was not a legal code,[ ] and any force it had depended on "reasoned compliance with standards of international conduct."[ ] vernae (singular verna) were slaves born within a household (familia) or on a family farm or agricultural estate (villa). there was a stronger social obligation to care for vernae, whose epitaphs sometimes identify them as such, and at times they would have been the children of free males of the household.[ ][ ] the general latin word for slave was servus. roman mosaic describing slaves performing agricultural tasks slavery and warfare[edit] throughout the roman period many slaves for the roman market were acquired through warfare. many captives were either brought back as war booty or sold to traders,[ ] and ancient sources cite anywhere from hundreds to tens of thousands of such slaves captured in each war.[ ][ ] these wars included every major war of conquest from the monarchical period to the imperial period, as well as the social and samnite wars.[ ] the prisoners taken or retaken after the three roman servile wars ( – , – , and –  bc, respectively) also contributed to the slave supply.[ ] while warfare during the republic provided the largest figures for captives,[ ] warfare continued to produce slaves for rome throughout the imperial period.[ ] piracy has a long history of adding to the slave trade,[ ] and the period of the roman republic was no different. piracy was particularly lucrative in cilicia where pirates operated with impunity from a number of strongholds. pompey was credited with effectively eradicating piracy from the mediterranean in bc.[ ] although large-scale piracy was curbed under pompey and controlled under the roman empire, it remained a steady institution, and kidnapping through piracy continued to contribute to the roman slave supply. augustine lamented the wide-scale practice of kidnapping in north africa in the early th century ad.[ ] trade and economy[edit] during the period of roman imperial expansion, the increase in wealth amongst the roman elite and the substantial growth of slavery transformed the economy.[ ] although the economy was dependent on slavery, rome was not the most slave-dependent culture in history. among the spartans, for instance, the slave class of helots outnumbered the free by about seven to one, according to herodotus.[ ] in any case, the overall role of slavery in roman economy is a discussed issue among scholars.[ ][ ][ ] delos in the eastern mediterranean was made a free port in bc and became one of the main market venues for slaves. multitudes of slaves who found their way to italy were purchased by wealthy landowners in need of large numbers of slaves to labor on their estates. historian keith hopkins noted that it was land investment and agricultural production which generated great wealth in italy, and considered that rome's military conquests and the subsequent introduction of vast wealth and slaves into italy had effects comparable to widespread and rapid technological innovations.[ ] augustus imposed a percent tax on the sale of slaves, estimated to generate annual revenues of about million sesterces—a figure that indicates some , sales.[ ] the tax was increased to  percent by  ad.[ ] slave markets seem to have existed in every city of the empire, but outside rome the major center was ephesus.[ ] demography[edit] th-century sarcophagus relief of valerius petronianus, with his slave holding writing tablets estimates for the prevalence of slavery in the roman empire vary. estimates of the percentage of the population of italy who were slaves range from to percent in the st century bc, upwards of two to three million slaves in italy by the end of the st century bc, about % to % of italy's population.[ ][ ][ ] for the empire as a whole during the period – ad, according to a study done by kyle harper, the slave population has been estimated at just under five million, representing – % of the total population of – million+ inhabitants. an estimated % of all slaves were owned by the elite, who made up less than . % of the empire's population. about half of all slaves worked in the countryside where they were a small percentage of the population except on some large agricultural, especially imperial, estates; the remainder of the other half were a significant percentage — % or more — in towns and cities as domestics and workers in commercial enterprises and manufacturers.[ ] roman slavery was not based on ideas of race.[ ][ ] slaves were drawn from all over europe and the mediterranean, including gaul, hispania, north africa, syria, germany, britannia, the balkans, greece, etc. those from outside of europe were predominantly of greek descent, while the jewish ones never fully assimilated into roman society, remaining an identifiable minority. the slaves (especially the foreigners) had higher mortality rates and lower birth rates than natives, and were sometimes even subjected to mass expulsions.[ ] the average recorded age at death for the slaves of the city of rome was extraordinarily low: seventeen and a half years ( . for males; . for females).[ ] by comparison, life expectancy at birth for the population as a whole was in the mid-twenties ( % percent of men and % of women could expect to reach the age of if they succeeded in reaching the age of ). the overall impact of slavery on the italian genetics was insignificant though, because the slaves imported in italy were native europeans, mostly from germanic and slavic tribes and very few if any of them had non-european origin. this has been further confirmed by recent biochemical analysis of skeletons from three non-elite imperial-era cemeteries in the vicinity of rome (where the bulk of the slaves lived), which shows that only one individual definitely came from outside of europe (north africa), and another two possibly did, but results are inconclusive. in the rest of the italian peninsula, the fraction of non-european slaves was definitively much lower than that.[ ][ ] auctions and sales[edit] slave market in ancient rome, by jean-léon gérôme new slaves were primarily acquired by wholesale dealers who followed the roman armies.[ ] many people who bought slaves wanted strong slaves, mostly men.[ ] child slaves cost less than adults[ ] although other sources state their price as higher.[ ] julius caesar once sold the entire population of a conquered region in gaul, no fewer than , people, to slave dealers on the spot.[ ] within the empire, slaves were sold at public auction or sometimes in shops, or by private sale in the case of more valuable slaves. slave dealing was overseen by the roman fiscal officials called quaestors. sometimes slaves stood on revolving stands, and around each slave for sale hung a type of plaque describing their origin, health, character, intelligence, education, and other information pertinent to purchasers. prices varied with age and quality, with the most valuable slaves fetching high prices. because the romans wanted to know exactly what they were buying, slaves were presented naked. the dealer was required to take a slave back within six months if the slave had defects that were not manifest at the sale, or make good the buyer's loss.[ ] slaves to be sold with no guarantee were made to wear a cap at the auction. debt slavery[edit] main article: nexum nexum was a debt bondage contract in the early roman republic. within the roman legal system, it was a form of mancipatio. though the terms of the contract would vary, essentially a free man pledged himself as a bond slave (nexus) as surety for a loan. he might also hand over his son as collateral. although the bondsman could expect to face humiliation and some abuse, as a legal citizen he was supposed to be exempt from corporal punishment. nexum was abolished by the lex poetelia papiria in  bc, in part to prevent abuses to the physical integrity of citizens who had fallen into debt bondage. roman historians illuminated the abolition of nexum with a traditional story that varied in its particulars; basically, a nexus who was a handsome but upstanding youth suffered sexual harassment by the holder of the debt. in one version, the youth had gone into debt to pay for his father's funeral; in others, he had been handed over by his father. in all versions, he is presented as a model of virtue. historical or not, the cautionary tale highlighted the incongruities of subjecting one free citizen to another's use, and the legal response was aimed at establishing the citizen's right to liberty (libertas), as distinguished from the slave or social outcast (infamis).[ ] cicero considered the abolition of nexum primarily a political maneuver to appease the common people (plebs): the law was passed during the conflict of the orders, when plebeians were struggling to establish their rights in relation to the hereditary privileges of the patricians. although nexum was abolished as a way to secure a loan, debt bondage might still result after a debtor defaulted.[ ] types of work[edit] mosaic depicting two female slaves (ancillae) attending their mistress. slaves worked in a wide range of occupations that can be roughly divided into five categories: household or domestic, imperial or public, urban crafts and services, agriculture, and mining.[ ] epitaphs record at least  different jobs a household slave might have,[ ] including barber, butler, cook, hairdresser, handmaid (ancilla), wash their master's clothes, wet nurse or nursery attendant, teacher, secretary, seamstress, accountant, and physician.[ ] a large elite household (a domus in town, or a villa in the countryside) might be supported by a staff of hundreds.[ ] the living conditions of slaves attached to a domus (the familia urbana), while inferior to those of the free persons they lived with, were sometimes superior to that of many free urban poor in rome.[ ] household slaves likely enjoyed the highest standard of living among roman slaves, next to publicly owned slaves, who were not subject to the whims of a single master.[ ] imperial slaves were those attached to the emperor's household, the familia caesaris.[ ] in urban workplaces, the occupations of slaves included fullers, engravers, shoemakers, bakers, mule drivers, and prostitutes. farm slaves (familia rustica) probably lived in more healthful conditions. roman agricultural writers expect that the workforce of a farm will be mostly slaves, managed by a vilicus, who was often a slave himself.[ ] "eros, posidippus' cook, this is his site" ("ser" presumably short for "servus", "slave"): epitaph on a stele[ ] slaves numbering in the tens of thousands were condemned to work in the mines or quarries, where conditions were notoriously brutal.[ ] damnati in metallum ("those condemned to the mine") were convicts who lost their freedom as citizens (libertas), forfeited their property (bona) to the state, and became servi poenae, slaves as a legal penalty. their status under the law was different from that of other slaves; they could not buy their freedom, be sold, or be set free. they were expected to live and die in the mines.[ ] imperial slaves and freedmen (the familia caesaris) worked in mine administration and management.[ ] in the late republic, about half the gladiators who fought in roman arenas were slaves, though the most skilled were often free volunteers.[ ] successful gladiators were occasionally rewarded with freedom. however gladiators, being trained warriors and having access to weapons, were potentially the most dangerous slaves. at an earlier time, many gladiators had been soldiers taken captive in war. spartacus, who was a rebel gladiator, led the great slave rebellion of – bc. servus publicus[edit] a servus publicus was a slave owned not by a private individual, but by the roman people. public slaves worked in temples and other public buildings both in rome and in the municipalities. most performed general, basic tasks as servants to the college of pontiffs, magistrates, and other officials. some well-qualified public slaves did skilled office work such as accounting and secretarial services. they were permitted to earn money for their personal use.[ ] because they had an opportunity to prove their merit, they could acquire a reputation and influence, and were sometimes deemed eligible for manumission. during the republic, a public slave could be freed by a magistrate's declaration, with the prior authorization of the senate; in the imperial era, liberty would be granted by the emperor. municipal public slaves could be freed by the municipal council.[ ] treatment and legal status[edit] relief from smyrna (present-day İzmir, turkey) depicting a roman soldier leading captives in chains according to marcel mauss, in roman times the persona gradually became "synonymous with the true nature of the individual" but "the slave was excluded from it. servus non habet personam ('a slave has no persona'). he has no personality. he does not own his body; he has no ancestors, no name, no cognomen, no goods of his own."[ ] the testimony of a slave could not be accepted in a court of law[ ] unless the slave was tortured—a practice based on the belief that slaves in a position to be privy to their masters' affairs would be too virtuously loyal to reveal damaging evidence unless coerced. rome differed from greek city-states in allowing freed slaves to become citizens. after manumission, a male slave who had belonged to a roman citizen enjoyed not only passive freedom from ownership, but active political freedom (libertas), including the right to vote.[ ] a slave who had acquired libertas was thus a libertus ("freed person", feminine liberta) in relation to his former master, who then became his patron (patronus). as a social class, freed slaves were libertini, though later writers used the terms libertus and libertinus interchangeably.[ ][ ] libertini were not entitled to hold public office or state priesthoods, nor could they achieve senatorial rank. during the early empire, however, freedmen held key positions in the government bureaucracy, so much so that hadrian limited their participation by law.[ ] any future children of a freedman would be born free, with full rights of citizenship. although in general freed slaves could become citizens, with the right to vote if they were male, those categorized as dediticii suffered permanent disbarment from citizenship. the dediticii were mainly slaves whose masters had felt compelled to punish them for serious misconduct by placing them in chains, branding them, torturing them to confess a crime, imprisoning them or sending them involuntarily to a gladiatorial school (ludus), or condemning them to fight with gladiator or wild beasts (their subsequent status was obviously a concern only to those who survived). dediticii were regarded as a threat to society, regardless of whether their master's punishments had been justified, and if they came within a hundred miles of rome, they were subject to reenslavement.[ ] roman slaves could hold property which, despite the fact that it belonged to their masters, they were allowed to use as if it were their own.[ ] skilled or educated slaves were allowed to earn their own money, and might hope to save enough to buy their freedom.[ ][ ] such slaves were often freed by the terms of their master's will, or for services rendered. a notable example of a high-status slave was tiro, the secretary of cicero. tiro was freed before his master's death, and was successful enough to retire on his own country estate, where he died at the age of .[ ][ ][ ] however, the master could arrange that slaves would only have enough money to buy their freedom when they were too old to work. they could then use the money to buy a new young slave while the old slave, unable to work, would be forced to rely on charity to stay alive.[ ] several emperors began to grant more rights to slaves as the empire grew. claudius announced that if a slave was abandoned by his master, he became free. nero granted slaves the right to complain against their masters in a court. and under antoninus pius, a master who killed a slave without just cause could be tried for homicide.[ ] legal protection of slaves continued to grow as the empire expanded. it became common throughout the mid to late nd century ad to allow slaves to complain of cruel or unfair treatment by their owners.[ ] attitudes changed in part because of the influence among the educated elite of the stoics, whose egalitarian views of humanity extended to slaves. there are reports of abuse of slaves by romans, but there is little information to indicate how widespread such harsh treatment was. cato the elder was recorded as expelling his old or sick slaves from his house. seneca held the view that a slave who was treated well would perform a better job than a poorly treated slave. as most slaves in the roman world could easily blend into the population if they escaped, it was normal for the masters to discourage slaves from running away by putting a tattoo reading "stop me! i am a runaway!" or "tax paid" if the slaves were owned by the roman state on the foreheads of their slaves.[ ] for this reason, slaves usually wore headbands to cover up their disfiguring tattoos and at the temple of asclepius, the greek god of healing, in ephesus, archeologists have found thousands of tablets from escaped slaves asking asclepius to make their tattoos on their foreheads disappear.[ ] crucifixion was the capital punishment meted out specifically to slaves, traitors, and bandits.[ ][ ][ ][ ] marcus crassus was supposed to have concluded his victory over spartacus in the third servile war by crucifying ,  of the slave rebels along the appian way. rebellions and runaways[edit] moses finley remarked, "fugitive slaves are almost an obsession in the sources". rome forbade the harbouring of fugitive slaves, and professional slave-catchers were hired to hunt down runaways. advertisements were posted with precise descriptions of escaped slaves, and offered rewards.[ ] if caught, fugitives could be punished by being whipped, burnt with iron, or killed. those who lived were branded on the forehead with the letters fug, for fugitivus. sometimes slaves had a metal collar riveted around the neck. one such collar is preserved at rome and states in latin, "i have run away. catch me. if you take me back to my master zoninus, you'll be rewarded."[ ] there was a constant danger of servile insurrection, which had more than once seriously threatened the republic.[ ] the st century bc greek historian diodorus siculus wrote that slaves sometimes banded together to plot revolts. he chronicled the three major slave rebellions: in –  bc (the first servile war), in –  bc (the second servile war), and in –  bc (the third servile war).[ ] serfdom[edit] in addition to slavery, the romans also practiced serfdom. by the rd century ad, the roman empire faced a labour shortage. large roman landowners increasingly relied on roman freemen, acting as tenant farmers, instead of slaves to provide labour.[ ] the status of these tenant farmers, eventually known as coloni, steadily eroded. because the tax system implemented by diocletian assessed taxes based on both land and the inhabitants of that land, it became administratively inconvenient for peasants to leave the land where they were counted in the census.[ ] in ad emperor constantine issued legislation that greatly restricted the rights of the coloni and tied them to the land. some see these laws as the beginning of medieval serfdom in europe. slavery in philosophy and religion[edit] classical roman religion[edit] the religious holiday most famously celebrated by slaves at rome was the saturnalia, a december festival of role reversals during which time slaves enjoyed a rich banquet, gambling, free speech and other forms of license not normally available to them. to mark their temporary freedom, they wore the pilleus, the cap of freedom, as did free citizens, who normally went about bareheaded.[ ][ ] some ancient sources suggest that master and slave dined together,[ ][ ] while others indicate that the slaves feasted first, or that the masters actually served the food. the practice may have varied over time.[ ] macrobius ( th century ad) describes the occasion thus: meanwhile the head of the slave household, whose responsibility it was to offer sacrifice to the penates, to manage the provisions and to direct the activities of the domestic servants, came to tell his master that the household had feasted according to the annual ritual custom. for at this festival, in houses that keep to proper religious usage, they first of all honor the slaves with a dinner prepared as if for the master; and only afterwards is the table set again for the head of the household. so, then, the chief slave came in to announce the time of dinner and to summon the masters to the table.[ ][ ] saturnalian license also permitted slaves to enjoy a pretense of disrespect for their masters, and exempted them from punishment. the augustan poet horace calls their freedom of speech "december liberty" (libertas decembri).[ ][ ] in two satires set during the saturnalia, horace portrays a slave as offering sharp criticism to his master.[ ][ ][ ] but everyone knew that the leveling of the social hierarchy was temporary and had limits; no social norms were ultimately threatened, because the holiday would end.[ ] another slaves' holiday (servorum dies festus) was held august  [ ] in honor of servius tullius, the legendary sixth king of rome who was the child of a slave woman. like the saturnalia, the holiday involved a role reversal: the matron of the household washed the heads of her slaves, as well as her own.[ ][ ] the temple of feronia at terracina in latium was the site of special ceremonies pertaining to manumission. the goddess was identified with libertas, the personification of liberty,[ ] and was a tutelary goddess of freedmen (dea libertorum). a stone at her temple was inscribed "let deserving slaves sit down so that they may stand up free."[ ][ ] female slaves and religion[edit] at the matralia, a women's festival held june in connection with the goddess mater matuta, free women ceremonially beat a slave girl and drove her from the community. slave women were otherwise forbidden participation.[ ] slave women were honored at the ancillarum feriae on july  .[ ][ ] the holiday is explained as commemorating the service rendered to rome by a group of ancillae (female slaves or "handmaids") during the war with the fidenates in the late th century bc.[ ][ ] weakened by the gallic sack of rome in bc, the romans next had suffered a stinging defeat by the fidenates, who demanded that they hand over their wives and virgin daughters as hostages to secure a peace. a handmaid named either philotis or tutula came up with a plan to deceive the enemy: the ancillae would put on the apparel of the free women, spend one night in the enemy camp, and send a signal to the romans about the most advantageous time to launch a counterattack.[ ][ ] although the historicity of the underlying tale may be doubtful, it indicates that the romans thought they had already had a significant slave population before the punic wars.[ ] dedication to mithras by the imperial slave atimetus; a great number of inscriptions from around the empire record votive offerings from slaves and freedmen mystery cults[edit] the mithraic mysteries were open to slaves and freedmen, and at some cult sites most or all votive offerings are made by slaves, sometimes for the sake of their masters' wellbeing.[ ] the cult of mithras, which valued submission to authority and promotion through a hierarchy, was in harmony with the structure of roman society, and thus the participation of slaves posed no threat to social order.[ ] stoic philosophy[edit] the stoics taught that all men were manifestations of the same universal spirit, and thus by nature equal. stoicism also held that external circumstances (such as being enslaved) did not truly impede a person from practicing the stoic ideal of inner self-mastery: it has been said that one of the more important roman stoics, epictetus, spent his youth as a slave. early christianity[edit] see also: christianity and slavery both the stoics and some early christians opposed the ill treatment of slaves, rather than slavery itself. advocates of these philosophies saw them as ways to live within human societies as they were, rather than to overthrow entrenched institutions. in the christian scriptures, equal pay[clarification needed] and fair treatment of slaves was enjoined upon slave masters, and slaves were advised to obey their earthly masters, even if their masters are unfair, and lawfully obtain freedom if possible.[ ][ ][ ][ ] certain senior christian leaders (such as gregory of nyssa and john chrysostom) called for good treatment for slaves and condemned slavery, while others supported it. christianity gave slaves an equal place within the religion, allowing them to participate in the liturgy. according to tradition, pope clement i (term c. – ), pope pius i ( – ) and pope callixtus i (c. – ) were former slaves.[ ] in literature[edit] although ancient authors rarely discussed slavery in terms of morals, because their society did not view slavery as the moral dilemma we do today,[ ] they included slaves and the treatment of slaves in works in order to shed light on other topics—history, economy, an individual's character—or to entertain and amuse. texts mentioning slaves include histories, personal letters, dramas, and satires, including petronius' banquet of trimalchio, in which the eponymous freedman asserts "slaves too are men. the milk they have drunk is just the same even if an evil fate has oppressed them."[ ] many literary works may have served to help educated roman slave owners navigate acceptability in the master-slave relationships in terms of slaves' behavior and punishment. to achieve this navigation of acceptability, works often focus on extreme cases, such as the crucifixion of hundreds of slaves for the murder of their master. we must be careful to recognize these instances as exceptional and yet recognize that the underlying problems must have concerned the authors and audiences.[ ] examining the literary sources that mention ancient slavery can reveal both the context for and contemporary views of the institution. the following examples provide a sampling of different genres and portrayals. plutarch[edit] plutarch mentioned slavery in his biographical history in order to pass judgement on men's characters. in his life of cato the elder, plutarch revealed contrasting views of slaves. he wrote that cato, known for his stringency, would resell his old servants because "no useless servants were fed in his house," but that he himself believes that "it marks an over-rigid temper for a man to take the work out of his servants as out of brute beasts."[ ] cicero[edit] a prolific letter writer, cicero even wrote letters to one of his administrative slaves, one marcus tullius tiro. even though cicero himself remarked that he only wrote to tiro "for the sake of keeping to [his] established practice,"[ ] he occasionally revealed personal care and concern for his slave. indeed, just the fact that tiro had enough education and freedom to express his opinions in letters to his master is exceptional and only allowed through his unique circumstances.[ ] first, as an administrative slave, tiro would have enjoyed better living and working conditions than the majority of slaves working in the fields, mines, or workhouses. also, cicero was an exceptional owner, even taking tiro's education into his own hands.[ ] while these letters suggest a familiarity and connection between master and slave, each letter still contains a direct command, suggesting that cicero calculatingly used familiarity in order to ensure performance and loyalty from tiro.[ ] roman comedies[edit] main article: theatre of ancient rome in roman comedy, servi or slaves make up the majority of the stock characters, and generally fall into two basic categories: loyal slaves and tricksters. loyal slaves often help their master in their plan to woo or obtain a lover (the most popular plot-driving element in roman comedy). they are often dim, timid, and worried about what punishments may befall them. trickster slaves are more numerous and often use their masters' unfortunate situation to create a "topsy-turvy" world in which they are the masters and their masters are subservient to them. the master will often ask the slave for a favor and the slave only complies once the master has made it clear that the slave is in charge, beseeching him and calling him lord, sometimes even a god.[ ] these slaves are threatened with numerous punishments for their treachery, but always escape the fulfillment of these threats through their wit.[ ] depictions of slaves in roman comedies can be seen in the work of plautus and publius terentius afer. dartmouth associate professor roberta stewart has stated that plautus’ plays represent slavery "as a complex institution that raised perplexing problems in human relationships involving masters and slaves.”[ ] terence added a new element to how slaves were portrayed in his plays, due to his personal background as a former slave. in the work andria, slaves are at the centerpiece off the plot. in this play, simo, a wealthy athenian wants his son, pamphilius, to marry one girl but pamphilius has his sights set on another. much of the conflict in this play revolves around schemes with pamphilius's slave, davos, and the rest of the characters in the story. many times throughout the play, slaves are allowed to engage in activity, such as the inner and personal lives of their owners, that wouldn't normally be seen with slaves in every day society. this is a form of satire by terence due to the unrealistic nature of events that occurs between slaves and citizens in his plays.[ ] emancipation[edit] freeing a slave was called manumissio, which literally means "sending out from the hand". the freeing of the slave was a public ceremony, performed before some sort of public official, usually a judge. the owner touched the slave on the head with a staff and he was free to go. simpler methods were sometimes used, usually with the owner proclaiming a slave's freedom in front of friends and family, or just a simple invitation to recline with the family at dinner. a felt cap called the pileus was given to the former slave as symbol of manumission. slaves were freed for a variety of reasons; for a particularly good deed toward the slave's owner, or out of friendship or respect. sometimes, a slave who had enough money could buy his freedom and the freedom of a fellow slave, frequently a spouse. however, few slaves had enough money to do so, and many slaves were not allowed to hold money. slaves were also freed through testamentary manumission, by a provision in an owner's will at his death. augustus restricted such manumissions to at most a hundred slaves, and fewer in a small household.[citation needed] already educated or experienced slaves were freed the most often. eventually the practice became so common that augustus decreed that no roman slave could be freed before age .[citation needed] freedmen[edit] cinerary urn for the freedman tiberius claudius chryseros and two women, probably his wife and daughter a freed slave was the libertus of his former master, who became his patron (patronus). the two had mutual obligations to each other within the traditional patronage network. the terms of his manumission might specify the services a libertus owed. a freedman could "network" with other patrons as well. as a social class, former slaves were libertini. men could vote and participate in politics, with some limitations. they could not run for office, nor be admitted to the senatorial class. the children of former slaves enjoyed the full privileges of roman citizenship without restrictions. the latin poet horace was the son of a freedman, and an officer in the army of marcus junius brutus. some freedmen became very powerful. many freedmen had important roles in the roman government. freedmen of the imperial families often were the main functionaries in the imperial administration. some rose to positions of great influence, such as narcissus, a former slave of the emperor claudius. other freedmen became wealthy. the brothers who owned house of the vettii, one of the biggest and most magnificent houses in pompeii, are thought to have been freedmen. a freedman designed the amphitheater in pompeii. a freedman who became rich and influential might still be looked down on by the traditional aristocracy as a vulgar nouveau riche. trimalchio, a character in the satyricon, is a caricature of such a freedman. see also[edit] 	slavery in ancient greece 	slavery in antiquity 	history of slavery references[edit] 	^ described by mikhail rostovtzev, the social and economic history of the roman empire (tannen, ), p.  . 	^ fields, nic. spartacus and the slave war – bc: a gladiator rebels against rome. 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	cookie statement 		 	 	 roman military personal equipment - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	roman military personal equipment 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		further information: equipment roman ensigns, standards, trumpets etc. roman military personal equipment was produced in small numbers to established patterns, and it was used in an established manner. these standard patterns and uses were called the res militaris or disciplina. its regular practice during the roman republic and roman empire led to military excellence and victory. the equipment gave the romans a very distinct advantage over their barbarian enemies, especially so in the case of armour.[ ] this does not mean that every roman soldier had better equipment than the richer men among his opponents. according to edward luttwak, roman equipment was not of a better quality than that used by the majority of rome's adversaries.[ ] other historians and writers have stated that the roman army's need for large quantities of "mass produced" equipment after the marian reforms and subsequent civil wars led to a decline in the quality of roman equipment compared to the earlier republican era: "the production of these kings of helmets of italic tradition decreased in quality because of the demands of equipping huge armies, especially during civil wars...the bad quality of these helmets is recorded by the sources describing how sometimes they were covered by wicker protections (viminea tegimenta), like those of pompeius' soldiers during the siege of dyrrachium in bc, which were seriously damaged by the missles of caesar's slingers and archers." [ ] "it would appear that armour quality suffered at times when mass production methods were being used to meet the increased demand (from the civil and social wars, and following the marian and augustan reforms)..." and "...the reduced size curiasses would also have been quicker and cheaper to produce, which may have been a deciding factor at times of financial crisis, or where large bodies of men were required to be mobilized at short notice, possibly reflected in the poor-quality, mass produced iron helmets of imperial italic type c, as found, for example, in the river po at cremona, associated with the civil wars of ad ad; russel-robinson, , " [ ] "up until then, the quality of helmets had been fairly consistent and the bowls well decorated and finished. however, after the marian reforms, with their resultant influx of the poorest citizens into the army, there must inevitably have been a massive demand for cheaper equipment, a situation which can only have been exacerbated by the civil wars..." [ ] initially, they used weapons based on greek and etruscan models. on encountering the celts, they based new varieties on celtic equipment. to defeat the carthaginians, they constructed an entire fleet de novo based on the carthaginian model. once a weapon was adopted, it became standard. the standard weapons varied somewhat during rome's long history, but the equipment and its use were never individual. contents 	 personal weapons of a roman legionary 	 . pugio 	 . gladius 	 . spatha 	 . spears and javelins (hastae) 	 . . hasta 	 . . javelin 	 . . pilum 	 . projectile weapons 	 . . bow 	 . . crossbow 	 . . plumbatae 	 entrenching tools 	 . dolabra 	 . ligo 	 . falx 	 torso armor 	 . lorica segmentata 	 . lorica hamata 	 . lorica squamata 	 shields 	 . scutum 	 . parma 	 . caetra 	 helmets 	 limb armour 	 . manica 	 . greave 	 clothing 	 sarcina 	 other 	 . ballista 	 . scorpio 	 . catapult 	 . buccina 	 . tribulus 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 external links personal weapons of a roman legionary[edit] pugio[edit] main article: pugio reconstruction of a pugio: a roman soldier from a northern province a pugio was a dagger used by roman soldiers, likely as a sidearm. like other items of legionary equipment, the dagger underwent some changes during the st century. generally, it had a large, leaf-shaped blade to  cm long and  cm or more in width. a raised midrib ran the length of each side, either simply standing out from the face or defined by grooves on either side. it was changed by making the blade a little thinner, about  mm, and the handle was also made out of metal. the tang was wide and flat initially, and the grip was riveted through it, as well as through the shoulders of the blade. around ad, a rod tang was introduced, and the hilt was no longer riveted through the shoulders of the blade. this in itself caused no great change to the pugio's appearance, but some of these later blades were narrower (under .  cm wide), and/or had little or no waisting, and/or had reduced or vestigial midribs. throughout the period, the outline of the hilt remained approximately the same. it was made with two layers of horn, wood or bone sandwiching the tang, each overlaid with a thin metal plate. often the hilt was decorated with inlaid silver. the hilt was –  cm long overall and the grip was quite narrow; which produced a very secure grip. an expansion or lump in the middle of the handle made the user's grip even more secure. gladius[edit] main article: gladius re-enactor with pompeii-type gladius gladius is the general latin word for "sword". in the roman republic, the term gladius hispaniensis (spanish sword) referred (and still refers) specifically to the short sword,  cm ( inches) long, used by roman legionaries from the rd century bc. several different better-known designs followed; among collectors and historical reenactors, the two primary kinds of swords are known as the mainz gladius, and the pompeii gladius which follows the mainz type, which had itself followed the 'hispaniensis' (these names refer to where or how the canonical example was found). more recent archaeological finds have confirmed the appearance of the earlier version, the gladius hispaniensis. the legionaries wore their gladii on their right hips. spatha[edit] main article: spatha a spatha could be any sword (in late latin), but most often one of the longer swords characteristic of the middle and late roman empire. in the st century, roman cavalry started using these longer swords, and in the late nd or early rd century, roman infantry also switched to longer swords, as well as mostly changing from carrying javelins to carrying spears.[ ][ ] shorter weapons (short swords and possibly sometimes daggers) were known as semispathae or half-swords. a large rd-century hoard from künzing included one triangular-bladed short sword and several narrow-bladed short swords (with –  cm blades). bishop and coulston suggest that some or all were made from broken spathae.[ ][ ] spears and javelins (hastae)[edit] hasta[edit] main article: hasta (spear) hasta is a latin word meaning a thrusting spear. hastae were carried by early roman legionaries (camillan); in particular, they were carried by and gave their name to those roman soldiers known as hastati. however, during republican times, the hastati were re-armed with pila and gladii, and only the triarii still used hastae. a hasta was about . meters (six feet) in length. the shaft was generally made from ash while the head was usually of iron, although early republican hastae also had a tip made of bronze. javelin[edit] main article: javelin although romans often used the word pila to refer to all thrown javelins, the term pilum also means specifically the heavy roman throwing javelin of the legions. lighter, shorter javelins existed, such as those used by the velites and the early legions. pilum[edit] main article: pilum the pilum (plural pila) was a heavy javelin commonly used by the roman army in ancient times. it was generally somewhat less than two metres (  ft  in) long overall, consisting of a wooden shaft from which projected an iron shank about  mm ( . inches) in diameter and  cm ( .  in) long with a pyramidal head. the iron shank was socketed or, more usually, widened to a flat tang. a pilum usually weighed between two and four kilograms ( . and .  lb), with the versions produced during the empire era being somewhat lighter. pila were designed to penetrate both shield and armour, wounding the wearer; but, if they simply stuck in a shield, they could not easily be removed. some believed that the iron shank would bend upon impact, weighing down the enemy's shield and also preventing the pilum from being immediately re-used. some versions of the shaft may have fallen off on impact, leaving the enemy with a bent shank in their shield. however, recent evidence suggests that many types of pilum did not bend at all, but reduced the effectiveness of enemy shields by simply getting stuck due to the shape of its larger head and thin shank. in fact, there were many cases where the whole shank was hardened, making the pilum more suitable as a close quarters melee weapon, while also rendering it usable by enemy soldiers.[ ] newer work by m. c. bishop states that the pilum is "unlikely to bend under their own weight when thrown and striking a target or ground" - rather, it is human intervention [e.g., improper removal of a pilum stuck in a target] that is responsible in some way, and that caesar's writings should be interpreted as the pilum bent when soldiers tried to remove them.[ ] a sturdy pilum that does not bend upon impact would be in line with the numerous historical roman writings that state the pilum was often used as a weapon in melee combat: for example, in "the gallic wars" caesar writes that at alesia his troops used the pila as spears or pikes. in the "life of pompey" and "life of antony", plutarch describes caesar's men at pharsalus jabbing upwards at the faces of pompey's cavalry with their javelins and marc antony's men stabbing at parthian cavalry with theirs.[ ][ ] in arrian in array against the alans, arrian writes that the first four ranks of the formation should use their pila like spearmen, while the rest should use them like javelins.[ ] projectile weapons[edit] bow[edit] main article: sagittarii the sagittarius was armed with a composite bow (arcus), shooting an arrow (sagitta),[ ] made of horn, wood, and sinew held together with hide glue. however, vegetius recommended training recruits "arcubus ligneis", with wooden bows. the reinforcing laths for the composite bows were found throughout the empire, even in the western provinces where wooden bows were traditional.[ ] crossbow[edit] main article: cheiroballistra roman crossbow the cheiroballistra, also known as the manuballista, was a crossbow that was occasionally used by the romans. the ancient world knew a variety of mechanical hand-held weapons similar to the later medieval crossbow. the exact terminology is a subject of continuing scholarly debate. roman authors like vegetius (fl. th century) note repeatedly the use of arrow shooting weapons such as arcuballista and manuballista respectively cheiroballista. while most scholars agree that one or more of these terms refer to handheld mechanical weapons, there is disagreement whether these were flexion bows or torsion powered like the recent xanten find.[ ] the roman commander arrian (c. – after ) records in his tactica roman cavalry training for shooting some mechanical handheld weapon from horseback.[ ] sculptural reliefs from roman gaul depict the use of crossbows in hunting scenes. these are remarkably similar to the later medieval crossbow.[ ] plumbatae[edit] main article: plumbata late infantrymen often carried half-dozen lead-weighted throwing-darts called plumbatae (from plumbum, meaning "lead"), with an effective range of c.  m, well beyond that of a javelin. the darts were carried clipped to the back of the shield.[ ] entrenching tools[edit] ancient writers, including julius caesar, documented the use of spades and other digging implements as important tools of war. a roman legion when on the march would dig a ditch and rampart around their camps every night where established camps were not available. they were also useful as improvised weapons. dolabra[edit] main article: dolabra the dolabra was an italian pickaxe used as an entrenching tool. ligo[edit] main article: mattock falx[edit] main article: falx the falx was a curved blade that was sharp on the inside edge such as a sickle or a scythe. it was used to clear overgrowth. torso armor[edit] scale armour not all troops wore torso armor. light infantry, especially in the early republic, wore little or no armor. this was both to allow swifter movement for light troops and also as a matter of cost. legionary soldiers of the st and nd centuries used a variety of armour types. some wore mail shirts, while others wore scale armor or lorica segmentata or laminated-strip cuirass. this last type was a complex piece of armor which in certain circumstances provided superior protection to the other types of roman armour, mail armour (lorica hamata) and scale armour (lorica squamata). the testing of modern replicas has demonstrated that this kind of armour was impenetrable to most direct hits and missile strikes. it was, however, uncomfortable without padding: re-enactors have confirmed that wearing a padded undergarment known as a subarmalis relieves the wearer from bruising both from prolonged wear and from shock produced by weapon blows against the armour. it was also expensive to produce and difficult to maintain.[ ] in the rd century, the segmentata appears to have been dropped and troops are depicted wearing mail armour (mainly) or scale, the standard armour of the nd-century auxilia. the artistic record shows that most late soldiers wore metal armour, despite vegetius' statement to the contrary. for example, illustrations in the notitia show that the army's fabricae (arms factories) were producing mail armour at the end of the th century.[ ] actual examples of both scale armour and quite large sections of mail have been recovered, at trier and weiler-la-tour respectively, within th-century contexts.[ ] officers generally seem to have worn bronze or iron cuirasses, as in the days of the principate, together with traditional pteruges.[ ] lorica segmentata[edit] main article: lorica segmentata a reenactor dressed as a roman soldier in lorica segmentata lorica segmentata was a type of body armour primarily used in the early roman empire, but the latin name was first used in the th century (the ancient form is unknown). the armour itself consisted of broad ferrous strips ('girth hoops') fastened to internal leather straps. the strips were arranged horizontally on the body, overlapping downwards, and they surrounded the torso in two halves, being fastened at the front and back by means of brass hooks, which were joined by leather laces. the upper body and shoulders were protected by additional strips ('shoulder guards') and breast- and backplates. the form of the armour allowed it to be stored very compactly, since it was possible to separate it into four sections. during the time of its use, it was modified several times, the currently recognised types being the kalkriese (c. bc to ), corbridge (c. to ), and newstead (c. to possibly the early th century) types. there is also a little-known fourth type, known only from a statue found at alba julia in romania, where there appears to have been a hybrid form, the shoulders being protected by scale armour and the torso hoops being fewer in number and deeper. the earliest evidence of the lorica segmentata being worn is around bc (dangstetten), and the armour was evidently quite common in service until the nd century ad, judging from the number of finds throughout this period (over sites are known, many of them in britain). however, even during the nd century ad, the segmentata never replaced the lorica hamata - thus the hamata mail was still standard issue for both heavy infantry and auxiliaries alike. the last recorded use of this armour seems to have been for the last quarter of the rd century ad (leon, spain). there are two opinions as to who used this form of armour. one is that only legionaries (heavy infantry of the roman legions) and praetorians were issued lorica segmentata. auxiliary forces would more commonly wear the lorica hamata, or lorica squamata. the second viewpoint is that both legionaries and auxiliary soldiers used the segmentata armour and this latter view is supported, to some degree, by archaeological findings. the lorica segmentata offered greater protection than the lorica hamata for about half of the weight, but was also more difficult to produce and repair. the expenses attributed to the segmentata may account for the reversion to ring-mail after the rd to th century. alternatively, all forms of armour may have fallen into disuse as the need for heavy infantry waned in favour of the speed of mounted troops. lorica hamata[edit] main article: lorica hamata detail of mail (replica) with -in- scheme, typical of roman hamatas, and alternation of rows of solid rings with rows of riveted rings lorica hamata was a type of mail armour used during the roman republic continuing throughout the roman empire as a standard-issue armour for the primary heavy infantry legionaries and secondary troops (auxilia). they were mostly manufactured out of iron, though sometimes bronze was used instead. the rings were linked together, alternating closed washer-like rings with riveted rings. this produced a very flexible, reliable and strong armour. each ring had an inside diameter of between and  mm, and an outside diameter of to  mm. the shoulders of the lorica hamata had flaps that were similar to those of the greek linothorax; they ran from about mid-back to the front of the torso, and were connected by brass or iron hooks which connected to studs riveted through the ends of the flaps. several thousand rings would have gone into one lorica hamata. although labour-intensive to manufacture, it is thought that, with good maintenance, they could be continually used for several decades. its utility was such that the later appearance of the famous lorica segmentata—which afforded greater protection for a third of the weight—never led to the disappearance of the ubiquitous mail, and, in fact, the army of the late empire reverted to the lorica hamata once the segmentata had fallen out of fashion. lorica squamata[edit] main article: lorica squamata roman scale armour fragment detail of a fragment. each plate has six holes and the scales are linked in rows. only the lower most holes are visible on most scales, while a few show the pair above and the ring fastener passing through them. lorica squamata was a type of scale armour used during the roman republic and at later periods. it was made from small metal scales sewn to a fabric backing. it is typically seen on depictions of standard bearers, musicians, centurions, cavalry troops, and even auxiliary infantry, but could be worn by regular legionaries as well. a shirt of scale armour was shaped in the same way as a lorica hamata, mid-thigh length with the shoulder doublings or cape.[ ] the individual scales (squamae) were either iron or bronze, or even alternating metals on the same shirt. they could be tinned as well, one surviving fragment showing bronze scales that were alternately tinned and plain. the metal was generally not very thick, .  mm to .  mm ( . to . in) perhaps being a common range. since the scales overlapped in every direction, however, the multiple layers gave good protection. the size ranged from as small as  mm ( .  in) wide by .  cm tall up to about  cm (  in) wide by  cm (  in) tall, with the most common sizes being roughly . by .  cm ( . by in). many had rounded bottoms, while others were pointed or had flat bottoms with the corners clipped off at an angle. the scales could be flat, slightly domed, or have a raised midrib or edge.[ ] all the scales in a shirt were generally of the same size; however, scales from different shirts varied significantly. the scales were wired together in horizontal rows that were then laced or sewn to the backing. therefore, each scale had from four to holes: two or more at each side for wiring to the next in the row, one or two at the top for fastening to the backing, and sometimes one or two at the bottom to secure the scales to the backing or to each other.[ ] it is possible that the shirt could be opened either at the back or down one side so that it was easier to put on, the opening being closed by ties. much has been written about scale armour's supposed vulnerability to an upward thrust, but this is probably exaggerated.[ ] no examples of an entire lorica squamata have been found, but there have been several archaeological finds of fragments of such shirts and individual scales are quite common finds—even in non-military contexts. shields[edit] scutum[edit] main article: scutum (shield) parma[edit] main article: parma (shield) the parma was a circular shield, three roman feet across. it was smaller than most shields, but was strongly made and regarded as effective protection. this may have been due to the use of iron in its frame.[ ] it had a handle and a shield boss (umbo). the parma was used in the roman army of the mid-republic, by the lowest class division of the army — the velites. the velites' equipment consisted of a parma, javelin, sword and helmet. later, the parma was replaced by the scutum. caetra[edit] a light shield of wood and leather, the name from greek (καίτρεα, hesych.). used by tribesmen from hispania, mauretania, and britannia.[ ] helmets[edit] main article: galea (helmet) cavalry parade helmet, latter half of the nd century ad, from the german limes. roman helmets, galea or cassis, varied greatly in form. one of the earliest types was the montefortino helmet used by the republic armies up to the st century bc. this was replaced directly by the coolus helmet, which "raised the neck peak to eye level and set a sturdy frontal peak to the brow of the helmet".[ ] limb armour[edit] manica[edit] main article: manica (armguard) from early imperial times to after the fall of the western empire, some troops wore segmented armour on one or both arms. greave[edit] main article: greave greaves, sheet metal protecting the legs, were widely used in the late republic, and by some troops in the imperial army. clothing[edit] 	tunic: a basic garment worn under the armour by all soldiers in the republic and early empire. normally made of wool. tunics originally consisted simply of a piece of rectangular cloth sewed to an identical piece, with holes for the arms and head left unsewn. later, it became fashionable for tunics to be produced with sleeves, and worn with braccae. 	focale: a scarf worn by legionaries to protect the neck from chafing caused by constant contact with the soldier's armour (typically lorica hamata or lorica segmentata) and helmet 	balteus: a sword belt 	cingulum militare: a type of decorated belt denoting rank 	braccae: woollen trousers 	subligaria: underpants. their existence was confirmed by one of the vindolanda tablets. 	cloak: two types of cloaks were used, the sagum and the paenula. both were made from wool, which insulated and also contained natural oil to repel water. they were fastened with a fibula. the paenula was hooded in colder climates. since every common soldier slept in the open, it was important that he have a warm full-length wrap, but necessary that he carry it with him each day regardless of his activities. this was accomplished by a cloak of more than body length, double-folded so that it did not fall beneath the knees when worn. an excellent illustration of this is the statue of caesar augustus atop the theater in the roman city of orange, in what is now france. 	caligae: military boots worn by legionaries and auxiliaries throughout the history of the roman republic and empire. the boots were made from leather and laced up the center of the foot and onto the top of the ankle. iron hobnails were hammered into the sole for added strength. similar to the modern cleat. 	pteruges: a skirt of leather or fabric strips that was worn around the waist to protect the upper legs. pteruges could be fitted with small metal studs and plates to provide additional protection. sarcina[edit] marching packs of two soldiers illustrated on trajan's column showing loculus, cloak bag, patera, cooking pot and "netted object" main article: sarcina a military pack carried by legionaries. the pack included a number of items suspended from a furca or carrying pole. items carried in the pack included: 	loculus: a leather satchel 	waterskin: roman camps would typically be built near water sources, but each soldier would have to carry his water for the day's march in a waterskin. 	food: each legionary would carry some of his food. although a roman army on the move would typically have a baggage train of mules or similar to carry supplies such as food, after the marian reforms legionaries were required to carry about days worth of basic food supplies with them. 	cooking equipment: including a patera, cooking pot and skewer. a patera was a broad, shallow dish used for drinking, primarily in ritual contexts such as a libation. 	entrenching tools: carried by legionaries to construct fortifications and dig latrines etc. each legionary would typically carry either a shovel (batillum) or dolabra (mattock) for digging, a turf cutting tool or a wicker basket for hauling earth. 	sudis: stakes for construction of camps other[edit] buccina roman iron caltrop ballista[edit] main article: ballista the ballista was a powerful crossbow, powered by torsion in bundles of sinew, rather than torsion in the arms. early versions projected heavy darts called bolts, or spherical stone projectiles of various sizes. scorpio[edit] main article: scorpio (weapon) the scorpio was a torsion-powered catapult-type weapon used for precision fire and also for parabolic shooting. it fired bolts capable of piercing enemy shields and armour. the roman army supplied to each legion. catapult[edit] main article: catapult a catapult is a siege engine which used an arm to hurl a projectile. the roman version was called an onager. projectiles included both arrows and (later) stones. buccina[edit] main article: buccina a brass instrument used in the ancient roman army. it was originally designed as a tube measuring some to feet in length, of narrow cylindrical bore, and played by means of a cup-shaped mouthpiece. the tube was bent around upon itself from the mouthpiece to the bell in the shape of a broad c and was strengthened by means of a bar across the curve, which the performer grasped while playing, in order to steady the instrument; the curves over his head or shoulder. the buccina was used for the announcement of night watches and various other announcements in the camp. the instrument is the ancestor of both the trumpet and the trombone. the german word for trombone, posaune, is derived from buccina. tribulus[edit] a tribulus (caltrop) was a weapon made up of four sharp nails or spines arranged in such a manner that one of them always pointed upward from a stable base (for example, a tetrahedron). caltrops served to slow down the advance of horses, war elephants, and human troops. it was said to be particularly effective against the soft feet of camels.[ ] the late-roman writer vegetius, in his work de re militari, wrote: the scythed chariots used in war by antiochus and mithridates at first terrified the romans, but they afterwards made a jest of them. as a chariot of this sort does not always meet with plain and level ground, the least obstruction stops it. and if one of the horses be either killed or wounded, it falls into the enemy's hands. the roman soldiers rendered them useless chiefly by the following contrivance: at the instant the engagement began, they strewed the field of battle with caltrops, and the horses that drew the chariots, running full speed on them, were infallibly destroyed. a caltrop is a machine composed of four spikes or points arranged so that in whatever manner it is thrown on the ground, it rests on three and presents the fourth upright.[ ] see also[edit] 	roman siege machines 	military of ancient rome 	technological history of the roman military notes[edit] 	^ elton, hugh, , warfare in roman europe, ad - , p. 	^ in luttwak, e., the grand strategy of the roman empire, jhup, , luttwak states that "roman weapons, far from being universally more advanced, were frequently inferior to those used by... enemies" 	^ d’amato . 	^ travis . sfn error: no target: citereftravis (help) 	^ bishop , p.  . 	^ stephenson, i.p., , roman infantry 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statement 		 	 	 roman navy - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	roman navy 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		navy of ancient rome 	 	part of a series on the 	military of ancient rome bc – ad 	 structural history 	 army 	 	unit types and ranks 	decorations and punishments 	legions 	auxilia 	generals 	 navy 	 	fleets 	admirals 	 campaign history 	wars and battles 	 technological history 	 military engineering 	 	castra 	siege engines 	triumphal arches 	roads 	 political history   	 strategy and tactics 	 	infantry tactics 	 frontiers and fortifications 	 	limes 	limes britannicus 	antonine wall 	hadrian's wall 	saxon shore 	limes germanicus 	alb limes 	lauter valley limes 	lower germanic limes 	main limes 	neckar-odenwald limes 	upper germanic-rhaetian limes 	wetterau limes 	danube–iller–rhine limes 	norican limes 	claustra alpium iuliarum 	pannonian limes 	limes alutanus 	limes moesiae 	trajan's wall 	anastasian wall 	limes sarmatiae 	limes arabicus 	limes tripolitanus 	limes mauretaniae 	  ancient rome portal •  war portal 		v 	t 	e the roman navy (latin: classis, lit. 'fleet') comprised the naval forces of the ancient roman state. the navy was instrumental in the roman conquest of the mediterranean basin, but it never enjoyed the prestige of the roman legions. throughout their history, the romans remained a primarily land-based people and relied partially on their more nautically inclined subjects, such as the greeks and the egyptians, to build their ships. because of that, the navy was never completely embraced by the roman state, and deemed somewhat "un-roman".[ ] in antiquity, navies and trading fleets did not have the logistical autonomy that modern ships and fleets possess, and unlike modern naval forces, the roman navy even at its height never existed as an autonomous service but operated as an adjunct to the roman army. during the course of the first punic war, the roman navy was massively expanded and played a vital role in the roman victory and the roman republic's eventual ascension to hegemony in the mediterranean sea. in the course of the first half of the nd century bc, rome went on to destroy carthage and subdue the hellenistic kingdoms of the eastern mediterranean, achieving complete mastery of the inland sea, which they called mare nostrum. the roman fleets were again prominent in the st century bc in the wars against the pirates, and in the civil wars that brought down the republic, whose campaigns ranged across the mediterranean. in bc, the great naval battle of actium ended the civil wars culminating in the final victory of augustus and the establishment of the roman empire. during the imperial period, the mediterranean became largely a peaceful "roman lake". in the absence of a maritime enemy, the navy was reduced mostly to patrol, anti-piracy and transport duties.[ ] by far, the navy's most vital task was to ensure roman grain imports were shipped and delivered to the capital unimpeded across the mediterranean. the navy also manned and maintained craft on major frontier rivers such as the rhine and the danube for supplying the army. on the fringes of the empire, in new conquests or, increasingly, in defense against barbarian invasions, the roman fleets were still engaged in open warfare. the decline of the empire in the rd century took a heavy toll on the navy, which was reduced to a shadow of its former self, both in size and in combat ability. as successive waves of the völkerwanderung crashed on the land frontiers of the battered empire, the navy could only play a secondary role. in the early th century, the roman frontiers were breached, and barbarian kingdoms appeared on the shores of the western mediterranean. one of them, the vandal kingdom, raised a navy of its own and raided the shores of the mediterranean, even sacking rome, while the diminished roman fleets were incapable of offering any resistance. the western roman empire collapsed in the late th century. the navy of the surviving eastern roman empire is known as the byzantine navy. contents 	 history 	 . early republic 	 . . first punic war 	 . . illyria and the second punic war 	 . . operations in the east 	 . late republic 	 . . mithridates and the pirate threat 	 . . caesar and the civil wars 	 . principate 	 . . operations under augustus 	 . . julio-claudian dynasty 	 . . flavian, antonine and severan dynasties 	 . . rd century crisis 	 . late antiquity 	 organization 	 . crews 	 . high command 	 . ship types 	 . armament and tactics 	 . fleets 	 . . principate period 	 . . . praetorian fleets 	 . . . provincial fleets 	 . . dominate period 	 . . . fleets of the danube frontier 	 . . . fleets in western europe 	 . . . fleets in the eastern mediterranean 	 . ports 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 external links history[edit] early republic[edit] the exact origins of the roman fleet are obscure. a traditionally agricultural and land-based society, the romans rarely ventured out to sea, unlike their etruscan neighbours.[ ] there is evidence of roman warships in the early th century bc, such as mention of a warship that carried an embassy to delphi in bc, but at any rate, the roman fleet, if it existed, was negligible.[ ] the traditional birth date of the roman navy is set at ca. bc, when, after the conquest of campania, two new officials, the duumviri navales classis ornandae reficiendaeque causa, were tasked with the maintenance of a fleet.[ ][ ] as a result, the republic acquired its first fleet, consisting of ships, most likely triremes, with each duumvir commanding a squadron of ships.[ ][ ] however, the republic continued to rely mostly on her legions for expansion in italy; the navy was most likely geared towards combating piracy and lacked experience in naval warfare, being easily defeated in bc by the tarentines.[ ][ ][ ] this situation continued until the first punic war: the main task of the roman fleet was patrolling along the italian coast and rivers, protecting seaborne trade from piracy. whenever larger tasks had to be undertaken, such as the naval blockade of a besieged city, the romans called on the allied greek cities of southern italy, the socii navales, to provide ships and crews.[ ] it is possible that the supervision of these maritime allies was one of the duties of the four new praetores classici, who were established in bc.[ ] first punic war[edit] the first roman expedition outside mainland italy was against the island of sicily in bc. this led to the outbreak of hostilities with carthage, which would last until bc. at the time, the punic city was the unchallenged master of the western mediterranean, possessing a long maritime and naval experience and a large fleet. although rome had relied on her legions for the conquest of italy, operations in sicily had to be supported by a fleet, and the ships available by rome's allies were insufficient.[ ] thus in bc, the roman senate set out to construct a fleet of quinqueremes and triremes.[ ] according to polybius, the romans seized a shipwrecked carthaginian quinquereme, and used it as a blueprint for their own ships.[ ] the new fleets were commanded by the annually elected roman magistrates, but naval expertise was provided by the lower officers, who continued to be provided by the socii, mostly greeks. this practice was continued until well into the empire, something also attested by the direct adoption of numerous greek naval terms.[ ][ ] three-banked ("trireme") roman quinquereme with the corvus boarding bridge. the use of the corvus negated the superior carthaginian naval expertise, and allowed the romans to establish their naval superiority in the western mediterranean. despite the massive buildup, the roman crews remained inferior in naval experience to the carthaginians, and could not hope to match them in naval tactics, which required great maneuverability and experience. they, therefore, employed a novel weapon that transformed sea warfare to their advantage. they equipped their ships with the corvus, possibly developed earlier by the syracusans against the athenians. this was a long plank with a spike for hooking onto enemy ships. using it as a boarding bridge, marines were able to board an enemy ship, transforming sea combat into a version of land combat, where the roman legionaries had the upper hand. however, it is believed that the corvus' weight made the ships unstable, and could capsize a ship in rough seas.[ ] although the first sea engagement of the war, the battle of the lipari islands in bc, was a defeat for rome, the forces involved were relatively small. through the use of the corvus, the fledgling roman navy under gaius duilius won its first major engagement later that year at the battle of mylae. during the course of the war, rome continued to be victorious at sea: victories at sulci ( bc) and tyndaris ( bc) were followed by the massive battle of cape ecnomus, where the roman fleet under the consuls marcus atilius regulus and lucius manlius inflicted a severe defeat on the carthaginians. this string of successes allowed rome to push the war further across the sea to africa and carthage itself. continued roman success also meant that their navy gained significant experience, although it also suffered a number of catastrophic losses due to storms, while conversely, the carthaginian navy suffered from attrition.[ ] the battle of drepana in bc resulted in the only major carthaginian sea victory, forcing the romans to equip a new fleet from donations by private citizens. in the last battle of the war, at aegates islands in bc, the romans under gaius lutatius catulus displayed superior seamanship to the carthaginians, notably using their rams rather than the now-abandoned corvus to achieve victory.[ ] illyria and the second punic war[edit] roman as coin of the second half of the rd century bc, featuring the prow of a galley, most likely a quinquereme. several similar issues are known, illustrating the importance of naval power during that period of rome's history. after the roman victory, the balance of naval power in the western mediterranean had shifted from carthage to rome.[ ] this ensured carthaginian acquiescence to the conquest of sardinia and corsica, and also enabled rome to deal decisively with the threat posed by the illyrian pirates in the adriatic. the illyrian wars marked rome's first involvement with the affairs of the balkan peninsula.[ ] initially, in bc, a fleet of warships was sent against queen teuta, and swiftly expelled the illyrian garrisons from the greek coastal cities of modern-day albania.[ ] ten years later, the romans sent another expedition in the area against demetrius of pharos, who had rebuilt the illyrian navy and engaged in piracy up into the aegean. demetrius was supported by philip v of macedon, who had grown anxious at the expansion of roman power in illyria.[ ] the romans were again quickly victorious and expanded their illyrian protectorate, but the beginning of the second punic war ( – bc) forced them to divert their resources westwards for the next decades. due to rome's command of the seas, hannibal, carthage's great general, was forced to eschew a sea-borne invasion, instead choosing to bring the war over land to the italian peninsula.[ ] unlike the first war, the navy played little role on either side in this war. the only naval encounters occurred in the first years of the war, at lilybaeum ( bc) and the ebro river ( bc), both resulting roman victories. despite an overall numerical parity, for the remainder of the war the carthaginians did not seriously challenge roman supremacy. the roman fleet was hence engaged primarily with raiding the shores of africa and guarding italy, a task which included the interception of carthaginian convoys of supplies and reinforcements for hannibal's army, as well as keeping an eye on a potential intervention by carthage's ally, philip v.[ ] the only major action in which the roman fleet was involved was the siege of syracuse in – bc with ships under marcus claudius marcellus. the siege is remembered for the ingenious inventions of archimedes, such as mirrors that burned ships or the so-called "claw of archimedes", which kept the besieging army at bay for two years.[ ] a fleet of vessels was assembled to support scipio africanus' army in africa in bc, and, should his expedition fail, evacuate his men. in the event, scipio achieved a decisive victory at zama, and the subsequent peace stripped carthage of its fleet.[ ] operations in the east[edit] a roman naval bireme depicted in a relief from the temple of fortuna primigenia in praeneste (palastrina),[ ] which was built c. bc;[ ] exhibited in the pius-clementine museum (museo pio-clementino) in the vatican museums. rome was now the undisputed master of the western mediterranean, and turned her gaze from defeated carthage to the hellenistic world. small roman forces had already been engaged in the first macedonian war, when, in bc, a fleet under marcus valerius laevinus had successfully thwarted philip v from invading illyria with his newly built fleet. the rest of the war was carried out mostly by rome's allies, the aetolian league and later the kingdom of pergamon, but a combined roman–pergamene fleet of ca. ships patrolled the aegean until the war's end in bc. in this conflict, rome, still embroiled in the punic war, was not interested in expanding her possessions, but rather in thwarting the growth of philip's power in greece. the war ended in an effective stalemate, and was renewed in bc, when philip v invaded asia minor. a naval battle off chios ended in a costly victory for the pergamene–rhodian alliance, but the macedonian fleet lost many warships, including its flagship, a deceres.[ ] soon after, pergamon and rhodes appealed to rome for help, and the republic was drawn into the second macedonian war. in view of the massive roman naval superiority, the war was fought on land, with the macedonian fleet, already weakened at chios, not daring to venture out of its anchorage at demetrias.[ ] after the crushing roman victory at cynoscephalae, the terms imposed on macedon were harsh, and included the complete disbandment of her navy. almost immediately following the defeat of macedon, rome became embroiled in a war with the seleucid empire. this war too was decided mainly on land, although the combined roman–rhodian navy also achieved victories over the seleucids at myonessus and eurymedon. these victories, which were invariably concluded with the imposition of peace treaties that prohibited the maintenance of anything but token naval forces, spelled the disappearance of the hellenistic royal navies, leaving rome and her allies unchallenged at sea. coupled with the final destruction of carthage, and the end of macedon's independence, by the latter half of the nd century bc, roman control over all of what was later to be dubbed mare nostrum ("our sea") had been established. subsequently, the roman navy was drastically reduced, depending on its socii navales.[ ] late republic[edit] mithridates and the pirate threat[edit] pompey the great. his swift and decisive campaign against the pirates re-established rome's control over the mediterranean sea lanes. in the absence of a strong naval presence however, piracy flourished throughout the mediterranean, especially in cilicia, but also in crete and other places, further reinforced by money and warships supplied by king mithridates vi of pontus, who hoped to enlist their aid in his wars against rome.[ ] in the first mithridatic war ( – bc), sulla had to requisition ships wherever he could find them to counter mithridates' fleet. despite the makeshift nature of the roman fleet however, in bc lucullus defeated the pontic navy at tenedos.[ ] immediately after the end of the war, a permanent force of ca. vessels was established in the aegean from the contributions of rome's allied maritime states. although sufficient to guard against mithridates, this force was totally inadequate against the pirates, whose power grew rapidly.[ ] over the next decade, the pirates defeated several roman commanders, and raided unhindered even to the shores of italy, reaching rome's harbor, ostia.[ ] according to the account of plutarch, "the ships of the pirates numbered more than a thousand, and the cities captured by them four hundred."[ ] their activity posed a growing threat for the roman economy, and a challenge to roman power: several prominent romans, including two praetors with their retinue and the young julius caesar, were captured and held for ransom. perhaps most important of all, the pirates disrupted rome's vital lifeline, namely the massive shipments of grain and other produce from africa and egypt that were needed to sustain the city's population.[ ] the resulting grain shortages were a major political issue, and popular discontent threatened to become explosive. in bc, with the outbreak of the third mithridatic war, marcus antonius (the father of mark antony) was appointed praetor with extraordinary imperium against the pirate threat, but signally failed in his task: he was defeated off crete in bc, and died shortly after.[ ] finally, in bc the lex gabinia was passed in the plebeian council, vesting pompey with unprecedented powers and authorizing him to move against them.[ ] in a massive and concerted campaign, pompey cleared the seas of the pirates in only three months.[ ][ ] afterwards, the fleet was reduced again to policing duties against intermittent piracy. caesar and the civil wars[edit] in bc, for the first time a roman fleet engaged in battle outside the mediterranean. this occurred during julius caesar's gallic wars, when the maritime tribe of the veneti rebelled against rome. against the veneti, the romans were at a disadvantage, since they did not know the coast, and were inexperienced in fighting in the open sea with its tides and currents.[ ] furthermore, the veneti ships were superior to the light roman galleys. they were built of oak and had no oars, being thus more resistant to ramming. in addition, their greater height gave them an advantage in both missile exchanges and boarding actions.[ ] in the event, when the two fleets encountered each other in quiberon bay, caesar's navy, under the command of d. brutus, resorted to the use of hooks on long poles, which cut the halyards supporting the veneti sails.[ ] immobile, the veneti ships were easy prey for the legionaries who boarded them, and fleeing veneti ships were taken when they became becalmed by a sudden lack of winds.[ ] having thus established his control of the english channel, in the next years caesar used this newly built fleet to carry out two invasions of britain. silver denarius struck by sextus pompeius in – bc, featuring a bust of pompey the great and a roman warship. the last major campaigns of the roman navy in the mediterranean until the late rd century ad would be in the civil wars that ended the republic. in the east, the republican faction quickly established its control, and rhodes, the last independent maritime power in the aegean, was subdued by gaius cassius longinus in bc, after its fleet was defeated off kos. in the west, against the triumvirs stood sextus pompeius, who had been given command of the italian fleet by the senate in bc. he took control of sicily and made it his base, blockading italy and stopping the politically crucial supply of grain from africa to rome.[ ] after suffering a defeat from sextus in bc, octavian initiated massive naval armaments, aided by his closest associate, marcus agrippa: ships were built at ravenna and ostia, the new artificial harbor of portus julius built at cumae, and soldiers and rowers levied, including over , manumitted slaves.[ ] finally, octavian and agrippa defeated sextus in the battle of naulochus in bc, putting an end to all pompeian resistance. the battle of actium, by laureys a castro, painted . octavian's power was further enhanced after his victory against the combined fleets of mark antony and cleopatra, queen of egypt, in the battle of actium in bc, where antony had assembled ships against octavian's ships.[ ] this last naval battle of the roman republic definitively established octavian as the sole ruler over rome and the mediterranean world. in the aftermath of his victory, he formalized the fleet's structure, establishing several key harbors in the mediterranean (see below). the now fully professional navy had its main duties consist of protecting against piracy, escorting troops and patrolling the river frontiers of europe. it remained however engaged in active warfare in the periphery of the empire. principate[edit] operations under augustus[edit] under augustus and after the conquest of egypt there were increasing demands from the roman economy to extend the trade lanes to india. the arabian control of all sea routes to india was an obstacle. one of the first naval operations under princeps augustus was therefore the preparation for a campaign on the arabian peninsula. aelius gallus, the prefect of egypt ordered the construction of transports and subsequently carried , soldiers to arabia.[ ] but the following march through the desert towards yemen failed and the plans for control of the arabian peninsula had to be abandoned. at the other end of the empire, in germania, the navy played an important role in the supply and transport of the legions. in bc an independent fleet was installed at the lake constance. later, the generals drusus and tiberius used the navy extensively, when they tried to extend the roman frontier to the elbe. in bc drusus ordered the construction of a fleet of , ships and sailed them along the rhine into the north sea.[ ] the frisii and chauci had nothing to oppose the superior numbers, tactics and technology of the romans. when these entered the river mouths of weser and ems, the local tribes had to surrender. in bc the roman knowledge concerning the north and baltic sea was fairly extended during a campaign by tiberius, reaching as far as the elbe: plinius describes how roman naval formations came past heligoland and set sail to the north-eastern coast of denmark, and augustus himself boasts in his res gestae: "my fleet sailed from the mouth of the rhine eastward as far as the lands of the cimbri to which, up to that time, no roman had ever penetrated either by land or by sea...".[ ] the multiple naval operations north of germania had to be abandoned after the battle of the teutoburg forest in the year ad. julio-claudian dynasty[edit] in the years and , germanicus carried out several fleet operations along the rivers rhine and ems, without permanent results due to grim germanic resistance and a disastrous storm.[ ] by , the romans lost further control of the rhine mouth in a succession of frisian insurgencies. from to , the roman navy played an important role in the roman conquest of britain. the classis germanica rendered outstanding services in multitudinous landing operations. in , a naval expedition made a push deep into the black sea region and even travelled on the tanais. in a revolt by the chauci, who took to piratical activities along the gallic coast, was subdued by gnaeus domitius corbulo.[ ] by an expeditionary corps reached chersonesos (see charax, crimea). it seems that under nero, the navy obtained strategically important positions for trading with india; but there was no known fleet in the red sea. possibly, parts of the alexandrian fleet were operating as escorts for the indian trade. in the jewish revolt, from to , the romans were forced to fight jewish ships, operating from a harbour in the area of modern tel aviv, on israel's mediterranean coast. in the meantime several flotilla engagements on the sea of galilee took place. in , as his reign became increasingly insecure, nero raised legio i adiutrix from sailors of the praetorian fleets. after nero's overthrow, in , the "year of the four emperors", the praetorian fleets supported emperor otho against the usurper vitellius,[ ] and after his eventual victory, vespasian formed another legion, legio ii adiutrix, from their ranks.[ ] only in the pontus did anicetus, the commander of the classis pontica, support vitellius. he burned the fleet, and sought refuge with the iberian tribes, engaging in piracy. after a new fleet was built, this revolt was subdued.[ ] flavian, antonine and severan dynasties[edit] two-banked lburnians of the danube fleets during trajan's dacian wars. casts of reliefs from trajan's column, rome. mosaic of a roman galley, bardo museum, tunisia, nd century ad. during the batavian rebellion of gaius julius civilis ( – ), the rebels got hold of a squadron of the rhine fleet by treachery,[ ] and the conflict featured frequent use of the roman rhine flotilla. in the last phase of the war, the british fleet and legio xiv were brought in from britain to attack the batavian coast, but the cananefates, allies of the batavians, were able to destroy or capture a large part of the fleet.[ ] in the meantime, the new roman commander, quintus petillius cerialis, advanced north and constructed a new fleet. civilis attempted only a short encounter with his own fleet, but could not hinder the superior roman force from landing and ravaging the island of the batavians, leading to the negotiation of a peace soon after.[ ] in the years to , the romans under gnaeus julius agricola launched a campaign against the caledonians in modern scotland. in this context the roman navy significantly escalated activities on the eastern scottish coast.[ ] simultaneously multiple expeditions and reconnaissance trips were launched. during these the romans would capture the orkney islands (orcades) for a short period of time and obtained information about the shetland islands.[ ] there is some speculation about a roman landing in ireland, based on tacitus reports about agricola contemplating the island's conquest,[ ] but no conclusive evidence to support this theory has been found. under the five good emperors the navy operated mainly on the rivers; so it played an important role during trajan's conquest of dacia and temporarily an independent fleet for the euphrates and tigris rivers was founded. also during the wars against the marcomanni confederation under marcus aurelius several combats took place on the danube and the tisza. under the aegis of the severan dynasty, the only known military operations of the navy were carried out under septimius severus, using naval assistance on his campaigns along the euphrates and tigris, as well as in scotland. thereby roman ships reached inter alia the persian gulf and the top of the british isles. rd century crisis[edit] as the rd century dawned, the roman empire was at its peak. in the mediterranean, peace had reigned for over two centuries, as piracy had been wiped out and no outside naval threats occurred. as a result, complacency had set in: naval tactics and technology were neglected, and the roman naval system had become moribund.[ ] after however and for fifty years, the situation changed dramatically. the so-called "crisis of the third century" ushered a period of internal turmoil, and the same period saw a renewed series of seaborne assaults, which the imperial fleets proved unable to stem.[ ] in the west, picts and irish ships raided britain, while the saxons raided the north sea, forcing the romans to abandon frisia.[ ] in the east, the goths and other tribes from modern ukraine raided in great numbers over the black sea.[ ] these invasions began during the rule of trebonianus gallus, when for the first time germanic tribes built up their own powerful fleet in the black sea. via two surprise attacks ( ) on roman naval bases in the caucasus and near the danube, numerous ships fell into the hands of the germans, whereupon the raids were extended as far as the aegean sea; byzantium, athens, sparta and other towns were plundered and the responsible provincial fleets were heavily debilitated. it was not until the attackers made a tactical error, that their onrush could be stopped. in – another, much fiercer series of attacks took place. a fleet composed of heruli and other tribes raided the coasts of thrace and the pontus. defeated off byzantium by general venerianus,[ ] the barbarians fled into the aegean, and ravaged many islands and coastal cities, including athens and corinth. as they retreated northwards over land, they were defeated by emperor gallienus at nestos.[ ] however, this was merely the prelude to an even larger invasion that was launched in / : several tribes banded together (the historia augusta mentions scythians, greuthungi, tervingi, gepids, peucini, celts and heruli) and allegedly , ships and , men strong,[ ] raided the thracian shore, attacked byzantium and continued raiding the aegean as far as crete, while the main force approached thessalonica. emperor claudius ii however was able to defeat them at the battle of naissus, ending the gothic threat for the time being.[ ] barbarian raids also increased along the rhine frontier and in the north sea. eutropius mentions that during the s, the sea along the coasts of the provinces of belgica and armorica was "infested with franks and saxons". to counter them, maximian appointed carausius as commander of the british fleet.[ ] however, carausius rose up in late and seceded from the empire with britannia and parts of the northern gallic coast.[ ] with a single blow roman control of the channel and the north sea was lost, and emperor maximinus was forced to create a completely new northern fleet, but in lack of training it was almost immediately destroyed in a storm.[ ] only in , under caesar constantius chlorus did rome regain the gallic coast. a new fleet was constructed in order to cross the channel,[ ] and in , with a concentric attack on londinium the insurgent province was retaken.[ ] late antiquity[edit] by the end of the rd century, the roman navy had declined dramatically. although emperor diocletian is held to have strengthened the navy, and increased its manpower from , to , men,[ ] the old standing fleets had all but vanished, and in the civil wars that ended the tetrarchy, the opposing sides had to mobilize the resources and commandeered the ships of the eastern mediterranean port cities.[ ] these conflicts thus brought about a renewal of naval activity, culminating in the battle of the hellespont in between the forces of constantine i under caesar crispus and the fleet of licinius, which was the only major naval confrontation of the th century. vegetius, writing at the end of the th century, testifies to the disappearance of the old praetorian fleets in italy, but comments on the continued activity of the danube fleet.[ ] in the th century, only the eastern half of the empire could field an effective fleet, as it could draw upon the maritime resources of greece and the levant. although the notitia dignitatum still mentions several naval units for the western empire, these were apparently too depleted to be able to carry out much more than patrol duties.[ ] at any rate, the rise of the naval power of the vandal kingdom under geiseric in north africa, and its raids in the western mediterranean, were practically uncontested.[ ] although there is some evidence of west roman naval activity in the first half of the th century, this is mostly confined to troop transports and minor landing operations.[ ] the historian priscus and sidonius apollinaris affirm in their writings that by the mid- th century, the western empire essentially lacked a war navy.[ ] matters became even worse after the disastrous failure of the fleets mobilized against the vandals in and , under the emperors majorian and anthemius. for the west, there would be no recovery, as the last western emperor, romulus augustulus, was deposed in . in the east however, the classical naval tradition survived, and in the th century, a standing navy was reformed.[ ] the east roman (byzantine) navy would remain a formidable force in the mediterranean until the th century. organization[edit] crews[edit] roman warship on a denarius of mark antony the bulk of a galley's crew was formed by the rowers, the remiges (sing. remex) or eretai (sing. eretēs) in greek. despite popular perceptions, the roman fleet, and ancient fleets in general, relied throughout their existence on rowers of free status, and not on galley slaves. slaves were employed only in times of pressing manpower demands or extreme emergency, and even then, they were freed first.[ ] in imperial times, non-citizen freeborn provincials (peregrini), chiefly from nations with a maritime background such as greeks, phoenicians, syrians and egyptians, formed the bulk of the fleets' crews.[ ][ ] during the early principate, a ship's crew, regardless of its size, was organized as a centuria. crewmen could sign on as marines (called marinus), rowers/seamen, craftsmen and various other jobs, though all personnel serving in the imperial fleet were classed as milites ("soldiers"), regardless of their function; only when differentiation with the army was required, were the adjectives classiarius or classicus added. along with several other instances of prevalence of army terminology, this testifies to the lower social status of naval personnel, considered inferior to the auxiliaries and the legionaries.[ ] emperor claudius first gave legal privileges to the navy's crewmen, enabling them to receive roman citizenship after their period of service.[ ] this period was initially set at a minimum of years (one year more than the legions), and was later expanded to . upon honorable discharge (honesta missio), the sailors received a sizable cash payment as well.[ ] as in the army, the ship's centuria was headed by a centurion with an optio as his deputy, while a beneficiarius supervised a small administrative staff.[ ] among the crew were also a number of principales (junior officers) and immunes (specialists exempt from certain duties). some of these positions, mostly administrative, were identical to those of the army auxiliaries, while some (mostly of greek provenance) were peculiar to the fleet. an inscription from the island of cos, dated to the first mithridatic war, provides us with a list of a ship's officers, the nautae: the gubernator (kybernētēs in greek) was the helmsman or pilot, the celeusta (keleustēs in greek) supervised the rowers, a proreta (prōreus in greek) was the look-out stationed at the bow, a pentacontarchos was apparently a junior officer, and an iatros (lat. medicus), the ship's doctor.[ ] each ship was commanded by a trierarchus, whose exact relationship with the ship's centurion is unclear. squadrons, most likely of ten ships each, were put under a nauarchus, who often appears to have risen from the ranks of the trierarchi.[ ][ ][ ] the post of nauarchus archigubernes or nauarchus princeps appeared later in the imperial period, and functioned either as a commander of several squadrons or as an executive officer under a civilian admiral, equivalent to the legionary primus pilus.[ ][ ] all these were professional officers, usually peregrini, who had a status equal to an auxiliary centurion (and were thus increasingly called centuriones [classiarii] after ca. ad).[ ] until the reign of antoninus pius, their careers were restricted to the fleet.[ ] only in the rd century were these officers equated to the legionary centurions in status and pay, and could henceforth be transferred to a similar position in the legions.[ ] merchant vessels were commanded by the magister navis. if privately owned, the owner was called exercitor navis.[ ] the modern term of "master" to designate a captain of a merchant vessel derives from the magister navis. high command[edit] during the republic, command of a fleet was given to a serving magistrate or promagistrate, usually of consular or praetorian rank.[ ] in the punic wars for instance, one consul would usually command the fleet, and another the army. in the subsequent wars in the eastern mediterranean, praetors would assume the command of the fleet. however, since these men were political appointees, the actual handling of the fleets and of separate squadrons was entrusted to their more experienced legates and subordinates. it was therefore during the punic wars that the separate position of praefectus classis ("fleet prefect") first appeared.[ ] initially subordinate to the magistrate in command, after the fleet's reorganization by augustus, the praefectus classis became a procuratorial position in charge of each of the permanent fleets. these posts were initially filled either from among the equestrian class, or, especially under claudius, from the emperor's freedmen, thus securing imperial control over the fleets.[ ] from the period of the flavian emperors, the status of the praefectura was raised, and only equestrians with military experience who had gone through the militia equestri were appointed.[ ][ ] nevertheless, the prefects remained largely political appointees, and despite their military experience, usually in command of army auxiliary units, their knowledge of naval matters was minimal, forcing them to rely on their professional subordinates.[ ] the difference in importance of the fleets they commanded was also reflected by the rank and the corresponding pay of the commanders. the prefects of the two praetorian fleets were ranked procuratores ducenarii, meaning they earned , sesterces annually, the prefects of the classis germanica, the classis britannica and later the classis pontica were centenarii (i.e. earning , sesterces), while the other fleet prefects were sexagenarii (i.e. they received , sesterces).[ ] ship types[edit] further information: hellenistic-era warships model of a roman bireme the generic roman term for an oar-driven galley warship was "long ship" (latin: navis longa, greek: naus makra), as opposed to the sail-driven navis oneraria (from onus, oneris: burden), a merchant vessel, or the minor craft (navigia minora) like the scapha.[ ] the navy consisted of a wide variety of different classes of warships, from heavy polyremes to light raiding and scouting vessels. unlike the rich hellenistic successor kingdoms in the east however, the romans did not rely on heavy warships, with quinqueremes (gk. pentērēs), and to a lesser extent quadriremes (gk. tetrērēs) and triremes (gk. triērēs) providing the mainstay of the roman fleets from the punic wars to the end of the civil wars.[ ] the heaviest vessel mentioned in roman fleets during this period was the hexareme, of which a few were used as flagships.[ ] lighter vessels such as the liburnians and the hemiolia, both swift types invented by pirates, were also adopted as scouts and light transport vessels. during the final confrontation between octavian and mark antony, octavian's fleet was composed of quinqueremes, together with some "sixes" and many triremes and liburnians, while antony, who had the resources of ptolemaic egypt to draw upon,[ ] fielded a fleet also mostly composed of quinqueremes, but with a sizeable complement of heavier warships, ranging from "sixes" to "tens" (gk. dekērēs).[ ][ ] later historical tradition made much of the prevalence of lighter and swifter vessels in octavian's fleet,[ ] with vegetius even explicitly ascribing octavian's victory to the liburnians.[ ] reconstruction of a late roman navis lusoria at mainz this prominence of lighter craft in the historical narrative is perhaps best explained in light of subsequent developments. after actium, the operational landscape had changed: for the remainder of the principate, no opponent existed to challenge roman naval hegemony, and no massed naval confrontation was likely. the tasks at hand for the roman navy were now the policing of the mediterranean waterways and the border rivers, suppression of piracy, and escort duties for the grain shipments to rome and for imperial army expeditions. lighter ships were far better suited to these tasks, and after the reorganization of the fleet following actium, the largest ship kept in service was a hexareme, the flagship of the classis misenensis. the bulk of the fleets was composed of the lighter triremes and liburnians (latin: liburna, greek: libyrnis), with the latter apparently providing the majority of the provincial fleets.[ ] in time, the term "liburnian" came to mean "warship" in a generic sense.[ ] in addition, there were smaller oared vessels, such as the navis actuaria, with oars ( on each bank), a ship primarily used for transport in coastal and fluvial operations, for which its shallow draught and flat keel were ideal. in late antiquity, it was succeeded in this role by the navis lusoria ("playful ship"), which was extensively used for patrols and raids by the legionary flotillas in the rhine and danube frontiers. roman ships were commonly named after gods (mars, iuppiter, minerva, isis), mythological heroes (hercules), geographical maritime features such as rhenus or oceanus, concepts such as harmony, peace, loyalty, victory (concordia, pax, fides, victoria) or after important events (dacicus for the trajan's dacian wars or salamina for the battle of salamis).[ ] they were distinguished by their figurehead (insigne or parasemum),[ ] and, during the civil wars at least, by the paint schemes on their turrets, which varied according to each fleet.[ ] armament and tactics[edit] ballistae on a roman ship in classical antiquity, a ship's main weapon was the ram (rostra, hence the name navis rostrata for a warship), which was used to sink or immobilize an enemy ship by holing its hull. its use, however, required a skilled and experienced crew and a fast and agile ship like a trireme or quinquereme. in the hellenistic period, the larger navies came instead to rely on greater vessels. this had several advantages: the heavier and sturdier construction lessened the effects of ramming, and the greater space and stability of the vessels allowed the transport not only of more marines, but also the placement of deck-mounted ballistae and catapults.[ ] although the ram continued to be a standard feature of all warships and ramming the standard mode of attack, these developments transformed the role of a warship: from the old "manned missile", designed to sink enemy ships, they became mobile artillery platforms, which engaged in missile exchange and boarding actions. the romans in particular, being initially inexperienced at sea combat, relied upon boarding actions through the use of the corvus. although it brought them some decisive victories, it was discontinued because it tended to unbalance the quinqueremes in high seas; two roman fleets are recorded to have been lost during storms in the first punic war.[ ] during the civil wars, a number of technical innovations, which are attributed to agrippa,[ ] took place: the harpax, a catapult-fired grappling hook, which was used to clamp onto an enemy ship, reel it in and board it, in a much more efficient way than with the old corvus, and the use of collapsible fighting towers placed one apiece bow and stern, which were used to provide the boarders with supporting fire.[ ] fleets[edit] principate period[edit] map of the roman fleets and major naval bases during the principate after the end of the civil wars, augustus reduced and reorganized the roman armed forces, including the navy. a large part of the fleet of mark antony was burned, and the rest was withdrawn to a new base at forum iulii (modern fréjus),[ ] which remained operative until the reign of claudius.[ ] however, the bulk of the fleet was soon subdivided into two praetorian fleets at misenum and ravenna, supplemented by a growing number of minor ones in the provinces, which were often created on an ad hoc basis for specific campaigns. this organizational structure was maintained almost unchanged until the th century. praetorian fleets[edit] the two major fleets were stationed in italy and acted as a central naval reserve, directly available to the emperor (hence the designation "praetorian"). in the absence of any naval threat, their duties mostly involved patrolling and transport duties. these were not confined to the waters around italy, but throughout the mediterranean. there is epigraphic evidence for the presence of sailors of the two praetorian fleets at piraeus and syria. these two fleets were: 	the classis misenensis, established in bc and based at portus julius. later classis praetoria misenesis pia vindex. detachments of the fleet served at secondary bases, such as ostia, puteoli, centumcellae and other harbors.[ ] 	the classis ravennas, established in bc and based at ravenna. later classis praetoria ravennatis pia vindex. provincial fleets[edit] the various provincial fleets were smaller than the praetorian fleets and composed mostly of lighter vessels. nevertheless, it was these fleets that saw action, in full campaigns or raids on the periphery of the empire. 	the classis africana commodiana herculea, established by commodus in to secure the grain shipments (annona) from north africa to italy,[ ] after the model of the classis alexandrina. 	the classis alexandriae, based in alexandria, it controlled the eastern part of the mediterranean sea. it was founded by augustus around bc, probably from ships that fought at the battle of actium and manned mostly by greeks of the nile delta.[ ] having supported emperor vespasian in the civil war of , it was awarded of the cognomen augusta.[ ] the fleet was responsible chiefly for the escort of the grain shipments to rome (and later constantinople), and also apparently operated the potamophylaciae, the nile river patrol.[ ] 	the classis britannica, established in or ad at gesoriacum (boulogne-sur-mer).[ ] it participated in the roman invasion of britain and the subsequent campaigns in the island.[ ] the fleet was probably based at rutupiae (richborough) until ad, when it was transferred to dubris (dover). other bases were portus lemanis (lympne) and anderitum (pevensey), while gesoriacum on the gallic coast likely remained active.[ ] during the nd– rd centuries, the fleet was chiefly employed in transport of supplies and men across the english channel. the classis britannica disappears (at least under that name) from the mid- rd century, and the sites occupied by it were soon incorporated into the saxon shore system.[ ] 	the classis germanica was established in bc by drusus at castra vetera.[ ] it controlled the rhine river, and was mainly a fluvial fleet, although it also operated in the north sea. it is noteworthy that the romans' initial lack of experience with the tides of the ocean left drusus' fleet stranded on the zuiderzee.[ ] after ca. ad, the fleet moved its main base to the castrum of alteburg, some  km south of colonia agrippinensis (modern cologne).[ ] later granted the honorifics augusta pia fidelis domitiana following the suppression of the revolt of saturninus.[ ] 	the classis nova libyca, first mentioned in , based most likely at ptolemais on the cyrenaica. 	the classis mauretanica, based at caesarea mauretaniae (modern cherchell), it controlled the african coasts of the western mediterranean sea. established on a permanent basis after the raids by the moors in the early s. 	the classis moesica was established sometime between bc and ad.[ ] it was based in noviodunum and controlled the lower danube from the iron gates to the northwestern black sea as far as the crimea.[ ] the honorific flavia, awarded to it and to the classis pannonica, may indicate its reorganization by vespasian.[ ] 	the classis pannonica, a fluvial fleet controlling the upper danube from castra regina in raetia (modern regensburg) to singidunum in moesia (modern belgrade). its exact date of establishment is unknown. some trace it to augustus' campaigns in pannonia in ca. bc, but it was certainly in existence by ad.[ ][ ] its main base was probably taurunum (modern zemun) at the confluence of the river sava with the danube. under the flavian dynasty, it received the cognomen flavia.[ ] 	the classis perinthia, established after the annexation of thrace in ad and based in perinthus. probably based on the indigenous navy, it operated in the propontis and the thracian coast.[ ] probably united with the classis pontica at a later stage. 	the classis pontica, founded in ad from the pontic royal fleet,[ ][ ] and based in trapezus, although on occasion it was moved to byzantium (in ca. ),[ ] and in , to cyzicus.[ ] this fleet was used to guard the southern and eastern black sea, and the entrance of the bosporus.[ ] according to the historian josephus, in the latter half of the st century, it numbered warships and , men.[ ] 	the classis syriaca, established probably under vespasian, and based in seleucia pieria (hence the alternative name classis seleucena)[ ] in syria.[ ] this fleet controlled the eastern mediterranean and the aegean sea. in addition, there is significant archaeological evidence for naval activity by certain legions, which in all likelihood operated their own squadrons: legio xxii primigenia in the upper rhine and main rivers, legio x fretensis in the jordan river and the sea of galilee, and several legionary squadrons in the danube frontier.[ ] dominate period[edit] our main source for the structure of the late roman military is the notitia dignitatum, which corresponds to the situation of the s for the eastern empire and the s for the western empire. notable in the notitia is the large number of smaller squadrons that have been created, most of these fluvial and of a local operational role. fleets of the danube frontier[edit] the upper danube (pannonian) limes the lower danube (moesian) limes the classis pannonica and the classis moesica were broken up into several smaller squadrons, collectively termed classis histrica, authority of the frontier commanders (duces).[ ] with bases at mursa in pannonia ii,[ ] florentia in pannonia valeria,[ ] arruntum in pannonia i,[ ] viminacium in moesia i[ ] and aegetae in dacia ripensis.[ ] smaller fleets are also attested on the tributaries of the danube: the classis arlapensis et maginensis (based at arelape and comagena) and the classis lauriacensis (based at lauriacum) in pannonia i,[ ] the classis stradensis et germensis, based at margo in moesia i,[ ] and the classis ratianensis, in dacia ripensis.[ ] the naval units were complemented by port garrisons and marine units, drawn from the army. in the danube frontier these were: 	in pannonia i and noricum ripensis, naval detachments (milites liburnarii) of the legio xiv gemina and the legio x gemina at carnuntum and arrabonae, and of the legio ii italica at ioviacum.[ ] 	in pannonia ii, the i flavia augusta (at sirmium) and the ii flavia are listed under their prefects.[ ] 	in moesia ii, two units of sailors (milites nauclarii) at appiaria and altinum.[ ] 	in scythia minor, marines (muscularii)[ ] of legio ii herculia at inplateypegiis and sailors (nauclarii) at flaviana.[ ] fleets in western europe[edit] in the west, and in particular in gaul, several fluvial fleets had been established. these came under the command of the magister peditum of the west, and were:[ ] 	the classis anderetianorum, based at parisii (paris) and operating in the seine and oise rivers. 	the classis ararica, based at caballodunum (chalon-sur-saône) and operating in the saône river. 	a classis barcariorum, composed of small vessels, at eburodunum (modern yverdon-les-bains) at lake neuchâtel. 	the classis comensis at lake como. 	the old praetorian fleets, the classis misenatis and the classis ravennatis are still listed, albeit with no distinction indicating any higher importance than the other fleets. the "praetorian" surname is still attested until the early th century, but absent from vegetius or the notitia.[ ] 	the classis fluminis rhodani, based at arelate and operating in the rhône river. it was complemented with a marine detachment (milites muscularii) based at marseilles. 	the classis sambrica, based at locus quartensis (unknown location) and operating in the somme river and the channel. it came under the command of the dux beligae secundae.[ ] 	the classis venetum, based at aquileia and operating in the northern adriatic sea. this fleet may have been established to ensure communications with the imperial capitals in the po valley (ravenna and milan) and with dalmatia.[ ] bases and command sectors of the saxon shore system it is notable that, with the exception of the praetorian fleets (whose retention in the list does not necessarily signify an active status), the old fleets of the principate are missing. the classis britannica vanishes under that name after the mid- rd century;[ ] its remnants were later subsumed in the saxon shore system. by the time of the notitia dignitatum, the classis germanica has ceased to exist (it is last mentioned under julian in ),[ ] most probably due to the collapse of the rhine frontier after the crossing of the rhine by the barbarians in winter – , and the mauretanian and african fleets had been disbanded or taken over by the vandals. fleets in the eastern mediterranean[edit] as far as the east is concerned, we know from legal sources that the classis alexandrina[ ] and the classis seleucena[ ] continued to operate, and that in ca. a classis carpathia was detached from the syrian fleet and based at the aegean island of karpathos.[ ] a fleet is known to have been stationed at constantinople itself, but no further details are known about it.[ ] ports[edit] major roman ports were: 	portus julius, located at misenum 	classis, near ravenna 	alexandria 	leptis magna 	ostia 	portus 	port of mainz (mogontiacum, river navy on the rhine) see also[edit] 	ancient rome portal 	war portal 	caligula's giant ship 	nemi ships 	roman shipyard of stifone (narni) notes[edit] 	^ potter , pp.  – 	^ "map of the roman fleet". 	^ meijer , pp.  – 	^ a b meijer , p.  	^ livy, auc ix. ; xl. , ; xli. 	^ a b c goldsworthy , p.  	^ meijer , p.  	^ potter , p.  	^ a b goldsworthy ( ), p. 	^ a b goldsworthy ( ), p. 	^ polybius, the histories, i. – 	^ saddington , p.  	^ a b c webster & elton ( ), p. 	^ a b c goldsworthy ( ), p. 	^ a b meijer , p.  	^ gruen ( ), p. . 	^ meijer , pp.  – 	^ meijer , p.  	^ meijer , p.  	^ meijer , pp.  – 	^ meijer , p.  	^ d.b. saddington ( ) [ ]. "the evolution of the roman imperial fleets," in paul erdkamp (ed), a companion to the roman army, – . malden, oxford, chichester: wiley-blackwell. isbn  - - - - . plate . on p. . 	^ coarelli, filippo ( ), i santuari del lazio in età repubblicana. nis, rome, pp. – . 	^ a b meijer , p.  	^ a b c connolly ( ), p. 	^ appian, the mithridatic wars, §  	^ a b starr ( ), p. 	^ cassius dio, historia romana, xxxvi. 	^ plutarch, life of pompey, §  	^ appian, the mithridatic wars, §  	^ goldsworthy ( ), p. 	^ appian, the mithridatic wars, §  	^ appian, the mithridatic wars, §  –§  	^ caesar, commentaries on the gallic wars, iii. 	^ caesar, commentaries on the gallic wars, iii. 	^ caesar, commentaries on the gallic wars, iii. 	^ caesar, commentaries on the gallic wars, iii. 	^ saddington , pp.  – 	^ saddington , p.  	^ saddington , p.  	^ saddington , p.  	^ tacitus, the annals ii. 	^ res gestae, . 	^ webster & elton ( ), pp. – 	^ webster & elton ( ), p. 	^ tacitus, the histories, ii. 	^ tacitus, the histories, ii. 	^ a b webster & elton ( ), p. 	^ tacitus, the histories, iv. 	^ tacitus, the histories, iv. 	^ tacitus, the histories, v. – 	^ tacitus, agricola, ; 	^ tacitus, agricola, 	^ tacitus, agricola, 	^ lewis & runyan ( ), p. 	^ a b lewis & runyan ( ), p. 	^ a b c d e casson ( ), p. 	^ scriptores historiae augustae, vita gallienii, . – 	^ scriptores historiae augustae, vita gallienii, . – 	^ scriptores historiae augustae, vita divi claudii, . – ; . 	^ zosimus, historia nova, i. – 	^ eutropius, breviarium, ix. 	^ panegyrici latini, . 	^ panegyrici latini, . 	^ panegyrici latini, . ; . – 	^ eutropius, breviarium . ; aurelius victor, book of caesars . 	^ treadgold ( ), p. 	^ a b macgeorge ( ), pp. – 	^ lewis & runyan ( ), pp. – 	^ macgeorge ( ), p. 	^ a b c d casson ( ), p. 	^ starr ( ), p. table 	^ saddington , p.  	^ a b gardiner , p.  	^ saddington , pp.  – 	^ starr ( ), p. 	^ webster & elton ( ), pp. – 	^ a b saddington , p.  	^ starr ( ), pp. – 	^ saddington , pp.  – 	^ wesch-klein ( ), p. 	^ http://casopisi.junis.ni.ac.rs/index.php/fulawpol/article/view/ 	^ rodgers ( ), p. 	^ livy, auc xxvi. ; xxxvi. 	^ a b c webster & elton ( ), p. 	^ pflaum, h.g. ( ). les procurateurs équestres sous le haut-empire romain, pp. – 	^ saddington , pp.  – 	^ a b potter , p.  	^ gardiner , p.  	^ cassius dio, historia romana, l. . 	^ gardiner , pp.  , 	^ plutarch, antony, 	^ vegetius, de re militari, iv. 	^ casson ( ), p. 	^ casson ( ), pp. – ; casson ( ), pp. – 	^ saddington , p.  	^ warry ( ), p. 	^ warry ( ), p. 	^ warry ( ), p. 	^ appian, the civil wars, v. & v. 	^ warry ( ), pp. – 	^ tacitus, the annals, iv. ; strabo, geography, iv. . 	^ gardiner , p.  	^ webster & elton ( ), p. 	^ scriptores historiae augustae, vita commodi, . 	^ a b c webster & elton ( ), p. 	^ a b saddington , p.  	^ cleere ( ), pp. ; – 	^ a b cleere ( ), p. 	^ a b c cleere ( ), p. 	^ webster & elton ( ), p. 	^ köln-alteburg at livius.org 	^ a b webster & elton ( ), p. 	^ webster & elton ( ), pp. – 	^ webster & elton ( ), p. 	^ a b saddington , p.  	^ starr ( ), p. 	^ tacitus, the histories, ii. ; iii. 	^ starr ( ), p. 	^ josephus, the jewish war, ii. . 	^ codex theodosianus, x. . 	^ "the fleets and roman border policy". www .rgzm.de. 	^ pauly-wissowa, xxii. – 	^ a b notitia dignitatum, pars occ., xxxii. 	^ notitia dignitatum, pars occ., xxxiii. 	^ a b c notitia dignitatum, pars occ., xxxiv. 	^ a b notitia dignitatum, pars orient., xli. 	^ a b notitia dignitatum, pars orient., xlii. 	^ notitia dignitatum, pars orient., xl. 	^ musculus (meaning "small mouse") was a kind of small ship 	^ notitia dignitatum, pars orient., xxxix. 	^ notitia dignitatum, pars occ., xlii. 	^ pauly-wissowa, iii. & xxii. 	^ notitia dignitatum, pars occ., xxxviii. 	^ lewis & runyan ( ), p. 	^ classis britannica at romanbritain.org 	^ pauly-wissowa, iii. – & xxii. 	^ codex justinianus, xi. . 	^ codex justinianus, xi. . 	^ codex theodosianus, xiii. . references[edit] 	casson, lionel ( ), the ancient mariners: seafarers and sea fighters of the mediterranean in ancient times, princeton university press, isbn  - - - - 	casson, lionel ( ), ships and seamanship in the ancient world, johns hopkins university press, isbn  - - - 	cleere, henry ( ), "the classis britannica" (pdf), cba research report ( ): – , retrieved - - 	connolly, peter ( ), greece and rome at war, greenhill 	gardiner, robert (ed.) 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was last edited on november , at :  (utc). 	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc., a non-profit organization. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 roman mythology - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	 	roman mythology 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		traditional stories pertaining to ancient rome's legendary origins and religious system romulus and remus, the lupercal, father tiber, and the palatine on a relief from a pedestal dating to the reign of trajan (ad – ) roman mythology is the body of traditional stories pertaining to ancient rome's legendary origins and religious system, as represented in the literature and visual arts of the romans. "roman mythology" may also refer to the modern study of these representations, and to the subject matter as represented in the literature and art of other cultures in any period. the romans usually treated their traditional narratives as historical, even when these have miraculous or supernatural elements. the stories are often concerned with politics and morality, and how an individual's personal integrity relates to his or her responsibility to the community or roman state. heroism was an important theme. when the stories illuminate roman religious practices, they are more concerned with ritual, augury, and institutions than with theology or cosmogony.[ ] the study of roman religion and myth is complicated by the early influence of greek religion on the italian peninsula during rome's protohistory, and by the later artistic imitation of greek literary models by roman authors. in matters of theology, the romans were curiously eager to identify their own gods with those of the greeks (interpretatio graeca), and to reinterpret stories about greek deities under the names of their roman counterparts.[ ] rome's early myths and legends also have a dynamic relationship with etruscan religion, less documented than that of the greeks. while roman mythology may lack a body of divine narratives as extensive as that found in greek literature,[ ] romulus and remus suckling the she-wolf is as famous as any image from greek mythology except for the trojan horse.[ ] because latin literature was more widely known in europe throughout the middle ages and into the renaissance, the interpretations of greek myths by the romans often had a greater influence on narrative and pictorial representations of "classical mythology" than greek sources. in particular, the versions of greek myths in ovid's metamorphoses, written during the reign of augustus, came to be regarded as canonical. contents 	 nature of roman myth 	 . founding myths 	 . other myths 	 religion and myth 	 . foreign gods 	 see also 	 references 	 sources 	 external links nature of roman myth in this wall painting from pompeii, venus looks on while the physician iapyx tends to the wound of her son, aeneas; the tearful boy is her grandson ascanius, also known as iulus, legendary ancestor[citation needed] of julius caesar and the julio-claudian dynasty because ritual played the central role in roman religion that myth did for the greeks, it is sometimes doubted that the romans had much of a native mythology. this perception is a product of romanticism and the classical scholarship of the th century, which valued greek civilization as more "authentically creative."[ ] from the renaissance to the th century, however, roman myths were an inspiration particularly for european painting.[ ] the roman tradition is rich in historical myths, or legends, concerning the foundation and rise of the city. these narratives focus on human actors, with only occasional intervention from deities but a pervasive sense of divinely ordered destiny. in rome's earliest period, history and myth have a mutual and complementary relationship.[ ] as t. p. wiseman notes: the roman stories still matter, as they mattered to dante in and shakespeare in and the founding fathers of the united states in . what does it take to be a free citizen? can a superpower still be a republic? how does well-meaning authority turn into murderous tyranny?[ ] major sources for roman myth include the aeneid of virgil and the first few books of livy's history as well as dionysius's roman antiquities. other important sources are the fasti of ovid, a six-book poem structured by the roman religious calendar, and the fourth book of elegies by propertius. scenes from roman myth also appear in roman wall painting, coins, and sculpture, particularly reliefs. founding myths main article: founding of rome the aeneid and livy's early history are the best extant sources for rome's founding myths. material from greek heroic legend was grafted onto this native stock at an early date. the trojan prince aeneas was cast as husband of lavinia, daughter of king latinus, patronymical ancestor of the latini, and therefore through a convoluted revisionist genealogy as forebear of romulus and remus. by extension, the trojans were adopted as the mythical ancestors of the roman people.[ ] other myths mucius scaevola in the presence of lars porsenna (early s) by matthias stom polyphemus hears of the arrival of galatea; ancient roman fresco painted in the "fourth style" of pompeii ( – ad) the characteristic myths of rome are often political or moral, that is, they deal with the development of roman government in accordance with divine law, as expressed by roman religion, and with demonstrations of the individual's adherence to moral expectations (mos maiorum) or failures to do so. 	rape of the sabine women, explaining the importance of the sabines in the formation of roman culture, and the growth of rome through conflict and alliance. 	numa pompilius, the sabine second king of rome who consorted with the nymph egeria and established many of rome's legal and religious institutions. 	servius tullius, the sixth king of rome, whose mysterious origins were freely mythologized and who was said to have been the lover of the goddess fortuna. 	the tarpeian rock, and why it was used for the execution of traitors. 	lucretia, whose self-sacrifice prompted the overthrow of the early roman monarchy and led to the establishment of the republic. 	cloelia, a roman woman taken hostage by lars porsena. she escaped the clusian camp with a group of roman virgins. 	horatius at the bridge, on the importance of individual valor. 	mucius scaevola, who thrust his right hand into the fire to prove his loyalty to rome. 	caeculus and the founding of praeneste.[ ] 	manlius and the geese, about divine intervention at the gallic siege of rome.[ ] 	stories pertaining to the nonae caprotinae and poplifugia festivals.[ ] 	coriolanus, a story of politics and morality. 	the etruscan city of corythus as the "cradle" of trojan and italian civilization.[ ] 	the arrival of the great mother (cybele) in rome.[ ] religion and myth main article: religion in ancient rome narratives of divine activity played a more important role in the system of greek religious belief than among the romans, for whom ritual and cult were primary. although roman religion did not have a basis in scriptures and exegesis, priestly literature was one of the earliest written forms of latin prose.[ ] the books (libri) and commentaries (commentarii) of the college of pontiffs and of the augurs contained religious procedures, prayers, and rulings and opinions on points of religious law.[ ] although at least some of this archived material was available for consultation by the roman senate, it was often occultum genus litterarum,[ ] an arcane form of literature to which by definition only priests had access.[ ] prophecies pertaining to world history and to rome's destiny turn up fortuitously at critical junctures in history, discovered suddenly in the nebulous sibylline books, which tarquin the proud (according to legend) purchased in the late th century bc from the cumaean sibyl. some aspects of archaic roman religion survived in the lost theological works of the st-century bc scholar varro, known through other classical and christian authors. capitoline triad the earliest pantheon included janus, vesta, and a leading so-called archaic triad of jupiter, mars, and quirinus, whose flamens were of the highest order. according to tradition, numa pompilius, the sabine second king of rome, founded roman religion; numa was believed to have had as his consort and adviser a roman goddess or nymph of fountains and of prophecy, egeria. the etruscan-influenced capitoline triad of jupiter, juno and minerva later became central to official religion, replacing the archaic triad – an unusual example within indo-european religion of a supreme triad formed of two female deities and only one male. the cult of diana became established on the aventine hill, but the most famous roman manifestation of this goddess may be diana nemorensis, owing to the attention paid to her cult by j.g. frazer in the mythographical classic the golden bough. punishment of ixion: in the center stands mercury holding the caduceus, and on the right juno sits on her throne. behind her iris stands and gestures. on the left vulcan (the blond figure) stands behind the wheel, manning it, with ixion already tied to it. nephele sits at mercury's feet. – roman fresco from the eastern wall of the triclinium in the house of the vettii, pompeii, fourth style ( – ad). the gods represented distinctly the practical needs of daily life, and ancient romans scrupulously accorded them the appropriate rites and offerings. early roman divinities included a host of "specialist gods" whose names were invoked in the carrying out of various specific activities. fragments of old ritual accompanying such acts as plowing or sowing reveal that at every stage of the operation a separate deity was invoked, the name of each deity being regularly derived from the verb for the operation. tutelary deities were particularly important in ancient rome. thus, janus and vesta guarded the door and hearth, the lares protected the field and house, pales the pasture, saturn the sowing, ceres the growth of the grain, pomona the fruit, and consus and ops the harvest. even the majestic jupiter, the ruler of the gods, was honored for the aid his rains might give to the farms and vineyards. in his more encompassing character he was considered, through his weapon of lightning, the director of human activity. due to his widespread domain, the romans regarded him as their protector in their military activities beyond the borders of their own community. prominent in early times were the gods mars and quirinus, who were often identified with each other. mars was a god of war; he was honored in march and october. modern scholars see quirinus as the patron of the armed community in time of peace. the th-century scholar georg wissowa[ ] thought that the romans distinguished two classes of gods, the di indigetes and the di novensides or novensiles: the indigetes were the original gods of the roman state, their names and nature indicated by the titles of the earliest priests and by the fixed festivals of the calendar, with such gods honored by special festivals; the novensides were later divinities whose cults were introduced to the city in the historical period, usually at a known date and in response to a specific crisis or felt need. arnaldo momigliano and others, however, have argued that this distinction cannot be maintained.[ ] during the war with hannibal, any distinction between "indigenous" and "immigrant" gods begins to fade, and the romans embraced diverse gods from various cultures as a sign of strength and universal divine favor.[ ] foreign gods mithras in a roman wall painting the absorption of neighboring local gods took place as the roman state conquered neighboring territories. the romans commonly granted the local gods of a conquered territory the same honors as the earlier gods of the roman state religion. in addition to castor and pollux, the conquered settlements in italy seem to have contributed to the roman pantheon diana, minerva, hercules, venus, and deities of lesser rank, some of whom were italic divinities, others originally derived from the greek culture of magna graecia. in bc, rome imported the cult object embodying cybele from pessinus in phrygia and welcomed its arrival with due ceremony. both lucretius and catullus, poets contemporary in the mid- st century bc, offer disapproving glimpses of cybele's wildly ecstatic cult. in some instances, deities of an enemy power were formally invited through the ritual of evocatio to take up their abode in new sanctuaries at rome. communities of foreigners (peregrini) and former slaves (libertini) continued their own religious practices within the city. in this way mithras came to rome and his popularity within the roman army spread his cult as far afield as roman britain. the important roman deities were eventually identified with the more anthropomorphic greek gods and goddesses, and assumed many of their attributes and myths. see also 	mythology portal 	history portal 		wikimedia commons has media related to roman mythology. 	ancient rome 	greek mythology 	kanglei mythology 	list of deities in sanamahism 	list of metamorphoses characters 	list of roman deities 	roman polytheistic reconstructionism 	the golden bough (mythology) references 	^ john north, roman religion (cambridge university press, ) pp. ff. 	^ north, roman religion, pp. – . 	^ north, roman religion, p. . 	^ t. p. wiseman, remus: a roman myth (cambridge university press, ), p. xiii. 	^ t. p. wiseman, the myths of rome (university of exeter press, ), preface (n.p.). 	^ a b wiseman, the myths of rome, preface. 	^ alexandre grandazzi, the foundation of rome: myth and history (cornell university press, ), pp. – . 	^ see also lusus troiae. 	^ j.n. bremmer and n.m. horsfall, roman myth and mythography (university of london institute of classical studies, ), pp. – . 	^ bremmer and horsfall, pp. – . 	^ bremmer and horsfall, pp. – . 	^ bremmer and horsfall, pp. – ; 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limes 	 	part of a series on the 	military of ancient rome bc – ad 	 structural history 	 army 	 	unit types and ranks 	decorations and punishments 	legions 	auxilia 	generals 	 navy 	 	fleets 	admirals 	 campaign history 	wars and battles 	 technological history 	 military engineering 	 	castra 	siege engines 	triumphal arches 	roads 	 political history   	 strategy and tactics 	 	infantry tactics 	 frontiers and fortifications 	 	limes 	limes britannicus 	antonine wall 	hadrian's wall 	saxon shore 	limes germanicus 	alb limes 	lauter valley limes 	lower germanic limes 	main limes 	neckar-odenwald limes 	upper germanic-rhaetian limes 	wetterau limes 	danube–iller–rhine limes 	norican limes 	claustra alpium iuliarum 	pannonian limes 	limes alutanus 	limes moesiae 	trajan's wall 	anastasian wall 	limes sarmatiae 	limes arabicus 	limes tripolitanus 	limes mauretaniae 	  ancient rome portal •  war portal 		v 	t 	e roman military borders and fortifications were part of a grand strategy of territorial defense in the roman empire, although this is a matter of debate. by the early nd century, the roman empire had reached the peak of its territorial expansion and rather than constantly expanding their borders as earlier in the empire and republic, the romans solidified their position by fortifying their strategic position with a series of fortifications and established lines of defense. historian adrian goldsworthy argues that the romans had reached the natural limits which their military traditions afforded them conquest over and that beyond the borders of the early-to-mid empire lay peoples whose military traditions made them militarily unconquerable, despite many roman battle victories. in particular, goldsworthy argues that the cavalry-based warfare of the parthians, sarmatians and persians presented a major challenge to the expansion of rome's infantry-based armies. contents 	 nature of the fortifications 	 northern borders 	 . britannia 	 . continental europe 	 eastern borders 	 southern borders 	 western borders 	 see also 	 references 	 external links nature of the fortifications[edit] the borders of the roman empire, which fluctuated throughout the empire's history, were a combination of natural frontiers (the rhine and danube rivers to the north and east, the atlantic to the west, and deserts to the south) and man-made fortifications which separated the lands of the empire from the "barbarian" lands beyond. individual fortifications had been constructed by the roman military from as early as the building of rome's first city walls in the th or th century bc. however, systematic construction of fortifications around the periphery of the empire on a strategic scale began around ad under emperor caligula.[citation needed] however, it was under hadrian's rule, which began in , that the roman frontier was systematically fortified. he spent half of his -year reign touring the empire and advocating for the construction of forts, towers, and walls all across the edges of the empire.[ ] the coherent construction of these fortifications on a strategic scale (i.e. to protect the empire as a whole rather than fortifying individual settlements) are known as the limes, and continued until around . the limes consisted of fortresses for legions or vexillations (e.g. segedunum) as well as a system of roads for the rapid transit of troops and, in some places, extensive walls. perhaps the most famous example of these is hadrian's wall in great britain, which was built across the entire width of the island to protect from attack from tribes located in modern-day scotland. the so-called limes britannicus is perhaps the best example of the ultimate limes - like the great wall of china, it was an attempt to construct a continuous man-made fortification along the length of an entire border, a massive undertaking. however, it is not correct to interpret other limes in the same way or to view the limes as an impenetrable barrier. other limes would not have had a continuous man-made fortification for the entirety of their length. in places, a river, desert or natural outcropping of rock could provide the same effect for zero outlay. also, fortifications as impressive as hadrian's wall were not unbreachable: with milecastles some distance apart and patrols infrequent, small enemy forces would have been able to penetrate the defenses easily for small-scale raiding. however, a raiding party would be forced to fight its way through one of the well-defended gates, abandon its loot, such as cattle, thus negating the whole purpose of the raid or be trapped against the wall by the responding legions. additionally, a large army would have been able to force a crossing of the limes using siege equipment. the value of the limes lay not in its absolute impenetrability but, as s. thomas parker argues, in its hindrance to the enemy: granting a delay or warning that could be used to summon concentrated roman forces to the site. the limes are therefore perhaps better seen as an instrument allowing a greater economy of force in defense of a border than otherwise would be necessary to provide the same level of defense. after , the maintenance of an impenetrable solid frontier was abandoned by constantine i in favor of a policy, whether deliberate or forced by circumstance, of "defense in depth". this called for the maintenance of a softer, deeper perimeter area of defense, with concentrated hard points throughout its depth. the idea was that any invading force of a sufficient size could penetrate the initial perimeter but in doing so with any element of surprise or rapid movement would be forced to leave several defended hard points (fortresses) to its rear, hampering its lines of supply and communications, and threatening surrounding of the force. in the very late empire the frontiers became even more elastic, with little effort expended in maintaining frontier defense. instead, armies were concentrated near the heart of the empire, and enemies allowed to penetrate in cases as far inwards as the italian peninsula before being met in battle. northern borders[edit] britannia[edit] after conquering much of the modern landmass of great britain, the romans halted their northern expansion at the southern fringe of caledonia, what is now central scotland. this left them with a border shared with a people who made repeated raids and insurrections against them. unlike other borders throughout the empire, there was no natural border to fall back on such as desert or wide river that crossed the whole peninsula, so instead a series of defenses were built in southern to mid-scotland in order to protect the province of britannia from the caledonians and later the picts. hadrian's wall viewed from vercovicium although the border was not a continuous wall, a series of fortifications known as gask ridge in mid-scotland may well be rome's earliest fortified land frontier. constructed in the ce or ce, it was superseded by the later hadrian's wall forty years later and then the final antonine wall twenty years after that. rather than representing a series of consecutive advancements, the border should be seen as fluctuating - the antonine wall for example was built between and , abandoned by and briefly re-occupied in . although records are scarce, there are indications that the border fluctuated between the various fortifications depending on the local strength of the military. there is archaeological evidence for widespread burning of fortifications, but it is disputed whether this represents fortifications falling to attack or part of the normal process of the roman military to destroy their own fortified camps on abandonment so as not to furnish the enemy with a fortified base at their expense. these northern fortifications are sometimes styled the limes britannicus. the average garrison of the wall fortifications is thought to have been around , men. along with a continuous wall (except in the case of gask ridge), there existed a metaled road immediately behind the wall for transport of troops. along the wall there existed a few large forts for legions or vexillations, as well as a series of milecastles - effectively watchtowers that were unable to defend a stretch of wall against anything but low-scale raiding but were able to signal attack to legionary forts by means of fire signals atop the towers. in the later empire, roman britannia found itself increasingly vulnerable to external aggression, in parallel to attacks felt across the length of the empire's borders. however, since britannia shared no land bridge with continental europe, the method of attack and thus methods of defense varied from the imperial standard. a series of naval forts was built along the south east coast, initially to combat piracy but later to protect from raiding and the threat of invasion from saxons that eventually led to the saxon occupation of lowland britain by and is reflected in the name of the fortification system: the saxon shore, which extended to the northern coasts of france. each shore fort both protected against direct attack and also sheltered a small naval sub-fleet of vessels that could patrol the coast against pirates and raiders. continental europe[edit] roman watchtower and beacon on the lower danube frontier in continental europe, the borders were generally well defined, usually following the courses of major rivers such as the rhine and the danube. nevertheless, those were not always the final border lines: the original province of dacia, in modern romania, was completely north of the danube, and the province of germania magna,[citation needed] which should not be confused with germania inferior and germania superior, was the land between the rhine, the danube and the elbe (although this province was lost three years after its creation as a result of the battle of teutoburg forest). the limes that ran across the line of the rhine-danube was known as the limes germanicus. it consisted of: 	the lower (northern) germanic limes, which extended from the north sea at katwijk in the netherlands along the rhine; 	the upper germanic limes (just to be confusing, also called the rhaetian limes or simply "the limes") started from the rhine at rheinbrohl (neuwied (district)) across the taunus mountains to the river main (east of hanau), then along the main to miltenberg, and from osterburken (neckar-odenwald-kreis) south to lorch (ostalbkreis) in a nearly perfect straight line of more than  km; 	the proper rhaetian limes extended east from lorch to eining (close to kelheim) on the danube. the total length was  km (  mi). it included at least castles and watchtowers. in dacia, the limes between the black sea and the danube were a mix of the camps and the wall defenses: the limes moesiae was the conjunction of two, and sometimes three, lines of vallum, with a great camp and many minor camps spread through the fortifications. eastern borders[edit] the eastern borders changed many times, of which the most enduring was the euphrates river, bordering the parthian empire in modern iran and western iraq. rome advanced beyond the euphrates for a time upon defeating their rivals, the parthians in ad, when trajan captured ctesiphon, and established new provinces in assyria and babylonia. later that year he took the parthian capital, susa, and deposed the parthian king osroes i. however, the romans did not romanize the entire parthian empire, leaving parthamaspates as a puppet king on the throne to rule over former parthian lands with the exclusion of modern iraq, which became assyria and mesopotamia. southern borders[edit] at its greatest extent, the southern borders were the deserts of arabia and the sahara, that represented a natural barrier to prevent expansion. the empire controlled the mediterranean shores and the mountains opposite. however the romans attempted twice to occupy effectively the siwa oasis (and failed) and controlled the nile many miles into africa until the st cataract near the modern border between egypt and sudan. for mauretania there was a single wall with forts on both sides of it, the limes mauretaniae. in other places, such as syria and arabia petraea, there was instead a network of border settlements and forts occupied by the roman army. 	limes arabicus, (called the limes uranus) was the frontier of the roman province of arabia petraea facing the desert. 	limes tripolitanus was the frontier in modern libya facing the sahara. western borders[edit] the western borders were mainly protected by the atlantic coast and unfortified. see also[edit] 	limitanei, troops along the borders in the late roman and early byzantine periods. 	sassanian defense lines references[edit] 	nuovo atlante storico de agostini, by "instituto geografico de agostini", isbn  - - - novara . 	corso di storia antica e medievale (seconda edizione) by augusto camer and renato fabietti isbn  - - - 	^ curry, 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wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		gallic poet, diplomat, and bishop 	saint sidonius apollinaris 	 	born	c. lugdunum, gaul, western roman empire 	died	c. kingdom of the burgundians 	venerated in	eastern orthodox church roman catholic church 	feast	 august gaius sollius modestus apollinaris sidonius, better known as sidonius apollinaris ( november[ ] of an unknown year, c. – / ad), was a poet, diplomat, and bishop. sidonius is "the single most important surviving author from fifth-century gaul" according to eric goldberg.[ ] he was one of four gallo-roman aristocrats of the fifth- to sixth-century whose letters survive in quantity; the others are ruricius, bishop of limoges (died ), alcimus ecdicius avitus, bishop of vienne (died ) and magnus felix ennodius of arles, bishop of ticinum (died ). all of them were linked in the tightly bound aristocratic gallo-roman network that provided the bishops of catholic gaul.[ ] his feast day is august. contents 	 life 	 works 	 notes 	 sources and further reading 	 external links life[edit] sidonius was born in lugdunum (lyon). his father (anonymous) was prefect of gaul under valentinian iii; he recalls with pride being present with his father at the installation of astyrius as consul for the year .[ ] sidonius' grandfather was praetorian prefect of gaul sometime prior to and a friend of his successor decimus rusticus. sidonius may be a descendant of another apollinaris who was prefect of gaul under constantine ii between and . sidonius married papianilla, the daughter of emperor avitus, around .[ ] this union produced one son, apollinaris, and at least two daughters: sidonius mentions in his letters severina and roscia, but a third, alcima, is only mentioned much later by gregory of tours, and theodor mommsen has speculated that alcima may be another name for one of his other daughters.[ ] his known acquaintances include bishop faustus of riez and his theological adversary claudianus mamertus; his life and friendships put him in the center of th-century roman affairs. in majorian deprived avitus of the empire and seized the city of lyons; sidonius fell into his hands. however, the reputation of sidonius's learning led majorian to treat him with the greatest respect. in return sidonius composed a panegyric in his honour (as he had previously done for avitus), which won for him a statue at rome and the title of comes. in or the emperor anthemius rewarded him for the panegyric which he had written in honour of him by raising him to the post of urban prefect of rome, which he held until , and afterwards to the dignity of patrician and senator. in or , he was elected to succeed eparchius in the bishopric of averna (clermont). when the goths captured clermont in he was imprisoned, as he had taken an active part in its defense; but he was afterwards released from captivity by euric, king of the goths, and continued to shepherd his flock as he had done before; he did so until his death. sidonius's relations have been traced over several generations as a narrative of a family's fortunes, from the prominence of his paternal grandfather's time into later decline in the th century under the franks. sidonius's son apollinaris, who was a correspondent of ruricius of limoges, commanded a unit raised in auvergne on the losing side of the decisive battle of vouille, and also was bishop of clermont for four months until he died.[ ] sidonius's grandson arcadius, on hearing a rumor that the frankish king theuderic i had died, betrayed clermont to childebert i, only to abandon his wife and mother when theuderic appeared; his other appearance in the history of gregory of tours is as a servant of king childebert.[ ] sidonius was still living in .[ ] he was dead before , when his successor as bishop, aprunculus, died. his date of death was or august.[ ] works[edit] opera ( ) his extant works are his panegyrics on different emperors (in which he draws largely upon statius, ausonius and claudian), which document several important political events. carmen is a panegyric to his father-in-law avitus on his inauguration as emperor. carmen is a panegyric to majorian, which offers evidence that sidonius was able to overcome the natural suspicion and hostility towards the man who was responsible for the death of his father-in-law. carmen is a panegyric to the emperor anthemius, part of sidonius' efforts to be appointed urban prefect of rome; several samples of occasional verse; and nine books of letters, about which w.b. anderson notes, "whatever one may think about their style and diction, the letters of sidonius are an invaluable source of information on many aspects of the life of his time."[ ] while very stilted in diction, these letters reveal sidonius as a man of genial temper, fond of good living and of pleasure. a letter of sidonius's addressed to riothamus, "king of the brittones" (c. ) is of particular interest, since it provides evidence that a king or military leader with ties to britain lived around the time frame of king arthur. the best edition is that in the monumenta germaniae historica (berlin, ), which gives a survey of the manuscripts. an english translation of his poetry and letters by w.b. anderson, with accompanying latin text, have been published by the loeb classical library (volume , containing his poems and books - of his letters, [ ]; remainder of letters, ). among his lost works, is the one on apollonius of tyana.[ ] gregory of tours speaks of sidonius as a man who could celebrate mass from memory (without a sacramentary) and give unprepared speeches without any hesitation.[ ] notes[edit] 	^ apollinaris alludes to the date of his birthday in a short poem addressed to his brother-in-law ecdicius, carmen . 	^ the fall of the roman empire revisited: sidonius apollinaris and his crisis of identity archived september , , at the wayback machine 	^ ralph w. mathisen, "epistolography, literary circles and family ties in late roman gaul" transactions of the american philological association ( ), pp. - . 	^ epistulae, viii. . ; translated by w.b. anderson, sidonius: poems and letters (harvard: loeb classical library, ), vol. p. 	^ gregory of tours, history of the franks, . . this is confirmed by the otherwise oblique allusion in sidonius' own epistuale . . . 	^ severina, epistulae ii. . ; roscia, epistulae v. . ; alcima, gregory of tours decem libri historiarum, iii. 	^ gregory of tours, . , . 	^ gregory of tours, . , 	^ harries . sfn error: no target: citerefharries (help) 	^ martindale , p.  . 	^ in his introduction to sidonius: poems and letters (cambridge: loeb, ), vol. , p. lxiv. 	^ https://archive.org/details/l sidoniusi poemsletters 	^ http://www.gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/apollonius/apollonius_mead_ .htm 	^ gregory of tours, . sources and further reading[edit] 	c.e. stevens, sidonius apollinaris and his age. oxford: university press, . 	k.f. stroheker. der senatorische adel im spätantiken gallien. tübingen, . 	nora chadwick, poetry and letters in early christian gaul london: bowes and bowes, . 	harries, jill ( ). sidonius apollinaris and the fall of rome, ad - . oxford: clarendon press. isbn  - - - - . 	harries, jill ( ). 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sarmatiae 	limes arabicus 	limes tripolitanus 	limes mauretaniae 	  ancient rome portal •  war portal 		v 	t 	e the military engineering of ancient rome's armed forces was of a scale and frequency far beyond that of any of its contemporaries. indeed, military engineering was in many ways institutionally endemic in roman military culture, as demonstrated by the fact that each roman legionary had as part of his equipment a shovel, alongside his gladius (sword) and pila (spears). fabri were workers, craftsmen or artisans in roman society and descriptions of early roman army structure (phalanx, the legion came around the conquest of greece) attributed to king servius tullius describe there being two centuriae of fabri under an officer, the praefectus fabrum. roman military engineering took both routine and extraordinary forms, the former a proactive part of standard military procedure, and the latter of an extraordinary or reactionary nature. contents 	 proactive and routine military engineering 	 . the roman legionary fortified camp 	 . bridge building 	 . engineering siege machines 	 . road making 	 . civilian engineering by military troops 	 . mining operations 	 reactive and extraordinary engineering 	 see also 	 notes 	 external links proactive and routine military engineering[edit] the roman legionary fortified camp[edit] further information: castra each roman legion had a military legionary fort as its permanent base. however, when on the march, particularly in enemy territory, the legion would, after a day's marching, construct a fortified camp or castra, requiring as raw materials only earth, turf and timber. camp construction was the responsibility of special engineering units to which specialists of many types belonged, officered by architecti (engineers), from a class of troops known as immunes since they were excused from or, literally, immune from, regular duties. these engineers would requisition manual labor from the soldiers at large as required. a legion could throw up a camp under enemy attack in as little as a few hours. judging from the names, they probably used a repertory of camp plans from a set textbook, selecting the one appropriate to the length of time a legion would spend in it: tertia castra, quarta castra: "a camp of three days", "four days", etc. the remains of vercovicium on hadrian's wall near housesteads, england bridge building[edit] trajan's bridge across the danube, the longest bridge for over a millennium roman legionaries crossing the danube river by pontoon bridge during the marcomannic wars, as depicted in relief on the column of emperor marcus aurelius (r. - ad) in rome, italy further information: roman bridge the engineers also built bridges from both timber and stone depending on required permanence, time available etc. some roman stone bridges survive to this day. stone bridges were made possible by the innovative use of the keystone to allow an arch construction. one of the most notable examples of military bridge-building in the roman empire was julius caesar's bridge over the rhine river. this bridge was completed in only ten days and is conservatively estimated to have been more than m (  feet) long.[ ][ ] the construction was deliberately over-engineered for caesar's stated purpose of impressing the germanic tribes,[ ] who had little experience of engineering, and to emphasise that rome could travel wherever she wished. caesar was able to cross over the completed bridge and explore the area uncontested, before crossing back over and dismantling the bridge. caesar relates in his war in gaul that he "sent messengers to the sugambri to demand the surrender of those who had made war on me and on gaul, they replied that the rhine was the limit of roman power". the bridge was intended to show otherwise. engineering siege machines[edit] roman carroballista on trajan's column, early nd century ad although most roman siege engines were adaptations from earlier greek designs, the romans were adept at engineering them swiftly and efficiently, as well as innovating variations such as the repeating ballista. the st century bc army engineer vitruvius describes in detail many of the roman siege machines in his manuscript de architectura. road making[edit] further information: roman road when invading enemy territories, the roman army would often construct roads as they went, to allow swift reinforcement and resupply, as well as a path for easy retreat if necessary. roman road-making skills are such that some roman roads survive to this day. michael grant credits the roman building of the via appia with winning them the second samnite war.[ ] civilian engineering by military troops[edit] greco-roman pentaspastos ("five-pulley-crane"), a medium-sized variant (ca. kg load) further information: roman engineering the roman army also took part in building projects for civilian use. there were sound reasons for the use of the army in building projects: primarily, that if they weren't directly engaged in military campaigns, the legions were largely unproductive, costing the roman state large sums of money. but the involvement of the soldiers in building works, kept them not only well accustomed to hard physical labour, but also kept them busy, since it was the widely held belief that busy armies weren't plotting to mutiny, whereas idle armies were. of both military and civilian use was the construction of roads within the boundaries of the empire, in which the army was heavily involved. but so too were soldiers put to use in the construction of town walls, the digging of shipping canals, the drainage of land, aqueducts, harbours, even in the cultivation of vineyards. in some rare cases soldiers were even used in mining work. mining operations[edit] further information: roman mining they were also skilled in conducting mining operations such as building the many aqueducts needed for prospecting for metal veins, in methods like hydraulic mining, and the building of reservoirs to hold the water at the minehead. it is likely that they were also capable of building and operating mine equipment such as water mills, stamp mills and dewatering machines. it is likely that they were closely involved in exploiting gold resources such as those at dolaucothi in south west wales. it was developed soon after conquest of the region under frontinus, and the local auxiliary troop came from north-west spain, a country where gold mining developed on a very large scale in the early part of the first century ad. reactive and extraordinary engineering[edit] the knowledge and experience learned through such routine engineering lent itself readily to any extraordinary engineering foot projects required by the army, and it is here that the scale of roman military engineering exceeded that of any of its contemporaries in both imagination and scope. one of the most famous of such extraordinary constructions was the circumvallation of the entire city of alesia and its celtic leader vercingetorix, within a massive length of double-wall – one inward-facing to prevent escape or offensive sallies from the city, and one outward-facing to prevent attack by celtic reinforcements. this wall is estimated to have been over  km (  mi) long. a second example would be the massive ramp built using thousands of tons of stones and beaten earth up to the invested city of masada in the jewish revolt. the siege works and the ramp remain in a remarkable state of preservation today. see also[edit] 	ancient rome portal 	war portal 	technological history of the roman military 	list of roman pontoon bridges 	roman architecture 	roman aqueducts 	roman engineering 	trajan's column notes[edit] 	^ nebel, b. julius cäsars brücke über den rhein 	^ voggenreiter, a., historischer rückblick 	^ caesar writes in his war in gaul that he rejected the idea of simply crossing in boats because it "would not be fitting for my own prestige and that of rome" - at the time, he did not 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derive from and are part of the overall evolution of earlier greek theatres. indeed, much of the architectural influence on the romans came from the greeks, and theatre structural design was no different from other buildings. however, roman theatres have specific differences, such as generally being built upon their own foundations instead of earthen works or a hillside and being completely enclosed on all sides. contents 	 buildings 	 list of roman theatres 	 see also 	 references buildings[edit] standard floor plan of a roman theatre roman theatres were built in all areas of the empire, from spain to the middle east. because of the romans' ability to influence local architecture, we see numerous theatres around the world with uniquely roman attributes.[ ] similarities exist between the theatres and amphitheaters of ancient rome. they were constructed out of the same material, roman concrete, and provided a place for the public to go and see numerous events. however, they are two entirely different structures, with specific layouts that lend to the different events they held. amphitheatres did not need superior acoustics, unlike those provided by the structure of a roman theatre. while amphitheatres would feature races and gladiatorial events, theatres hosted events such as plays, pantomimes, choral events, orations, and commerce.[ ] their design, with its semicircular form, enhances the natural acoustics, unlike roman amphitheatres constructed in the round.[ ] interior view of the roman theatre of bosra, syria: ) scaenae frons ) porticus post scaenam ) pulpitum ) proscaenium ) orchestra ) cavea ) aditus maximus ) vomitorium. these buildings were semi-circular and possessed certain inherent architectural structures, with minor differences depending on the region in which they were constructed. the scaenae frons was a high back wall of the stage floor, supported by columns. the proscaenium was a wall that supported the front edge of the stage with ornately decorated niches off to the sides. the hellenistic influence is seen through the use of the proscenium. the roman theatre also had a podium, which sometimes supported the columns of the scaenae frons. the theatre itself was divided into the stage (orchestra) and the seating section (cavea). the cavea was sometimes constructed on a small hill or slope in which stacked seating could be easily made in the tradition of the greek theatres. the center of the cavea was hollowed out of a hill or slope, while the outer radian seats required structural support and solid retaining walls. this was not always the case as romans tended to build their theatres regardless of the availability of hillsides. all theatres built within the city of rome were completely man-made without the use of earthworks. the cavea was not roofed, rather, awnings (vela) could be pulled overhead to provide shelter from rain or sunlight.[ ] vomitoria, passages situated below or behind a tier of seats, were made available to the audience.[ ] some roman theatres, constructed of wood, were torn down after the festival for which they were erected concluded. this practice was due to a moratorium on permanent theatre structures that lasted until bc when the theatre of pompey was built with the addition of a temple to avoid the law. some roman theatres show signs of never having been completed in the first place.[ ] inside rome, few theatres have survived the centuries following their construction, providing little evidence about the specific theatres. the roman theatre of orange in modern orange, france, is a good example of a classic roman theatre, with an indented scaenae frons, reminiscent of why western roman theatre designs, however, stripped of its ornamental stone columns, statues and [ ] 	 			 			 roman theatre (mérida) 			 		 	 			 			 roman theatre of orange, france 			 		 	 			 			 roman theatre at palmyra 			 		 	 			 			 plovdiv roman theatre, bulgaria 			 		 list of roman theatres[edit] main 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"ancient mall found in famous theater city of aspendos shows commerce and entertainment went hand-in-hand". 	^ a b richard allan tomlinson. "theatres (greek and roman), structure", the oxford companion to classical civilization. ed. simon hornblower and antony spawforth. oxford university press, . oxford reference online. oxford university press. northwestern university. may . 	^ ros, karen e. ( ). "the roman theater at carthage". american journal of archaeology. ( ): – . jstor  . 	^ , constance campbell. "the uncompleted theatres of rome", the johns hopkins university press. theatre journal . 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to search 		roman naming conventions over the course of some fourteen centuries, the romans and other peoples of italy employed a system of nomenclature that differed from that used by other cultures of europe and the mediterranean sea, consisting of a combination of personal and family names. although conventionally referred to as the tria nomina, the combination of praenomen, nomen, and cognomen that have come to be regarded as the basic elements of the roman name in fact represent a continuous process of development, from at least the seventh century bc to the end of the seventh century ad. the names that developed as part of this system became a defining characteristic of roman civilization, and although the system itself vanished during the early middle ages, the names themselves exerted a profound influence on the development of european naming practices, and many continue to survive in modern languages. contents 	 overview 	 origin and development 	 tria nomina 	 . praenomen 	 . nomen 	 . cognomen 	 . . agnomen 	 . . . cognomina ex virtute 	 . . . adoptive cognomina 	 filiation 	 tribe 	 women's names 	 foreign names 	 imperial names 	 later development 	 . binary nomenclature and polyonymy 	 . cognomen replaces praenomen 	 . edict of caracalla 	 . traditional nomen replaced 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 bibliography 	 external links overview[edit] the distinguishing feature of roman nomenclature was the use of both personal names and regular surnames. throughout europe and the mediterranean, other ancient civilizations distinguished individuals through the use of single personal names, usually dithematic in nature. consisting of two distinct elements, or "themes", these names allowed for hundreds or even thousands of possible combinations. but a markedly different system of nomenclature arose in italy, where the personal name was joined by a hereditary surname. over time, this binomial system expanded to include additional names and designations.[ ][ ] an etruscan musician, fresco from the tomb of the triclinium, near tarquinii, c. bc the most important of these names was the nomen gentilicium, or simply nomen, a hereditary surname that identified a person as a member of a distinct gens. this was preceded by the praenomen, or "forename", a personal name that served to distinguish between the different members of a family. for example, a roman named publius lemonius might have sons named publius, lucius, and gaius lemonius. here, lemonius is the nomen, identifying each person in the family as a member of the gens lemonia; publius, lucius, and gaius are praenomina used to distinguish between them.[ ] the origin of this binomial system is lost in prehistory, but it appears to have been established in latium and etruria by at least bc.[ ] in written form, the nomen was usually followed by a filiation, indicating the personal name of an individual's father, and sometimes the name of the mother or other antecedents. toward the end of the roman republic, this was followed by the name of a citizen's voting tribe. lastly, these elements could be followed by additional surnames, or cognomina, which could be either personal or hereditary, or a combination of both.[ ] the roman grammarians came to regard the combination of praenomen, nomen, and cognomen as a defining characteristic of roman citizenship, known as the tria nomina. however, although all three elements of the roman name existed throughout most of roman history, the concept of the tria nomina can be misleading, because not all of these names were required or used throughout the whole of roman history. during the period of the roman republic, the praenomen and nomen represented the essential elements of the name; the cognomen first appeared among the roman aristocracy at the inception of the republic, but was not widely used among the plebeians, who made up the majority of the roman people, until the second century bc. even then, not all roman citizens bore cognomina, and until the end of the republic the cognomen was regarded as somewhat less than an official name. by contrast, in imperial times the cognomen became the principal distinguishing element of the roman name, and although praenomina never completely vanished, the essential elements of the roman name from the second century onward were the nomen and cognomen.[ ] naming conventions for women also varied from the classical concept of the tria nomina. originally roman women shared the binomial nomenclature of men; but over time the praenomen became less useful as a distinguishing element, and women's praenomina were gradually discarded, or replaced by informal names. by the end of the republic, the majority of roman women either did not have or did not use praenomina. most women were called by their nomen alone, or by a combination of nomen and cognomen. praenomina could still be given when necessary, and as with men's praenomina the practice survived well into imperial times, but the proliferation of personal cognomina eventually rendered women's praenomina obsolete.[ ][ ] in the later empire, members of the roman aristocracy used several different schemes of assuming and inheriting nomina and cognomina, both to signify their rank, and to indicate their family and social connections. some romans came to be known by alternative names, or signia, and due to the lack of surviving epigraphic evidence, the full nomenclature of most romans, even among the aristocracy, is seldom recorded.[ ] thus, although the three types of names referred to as the tria nomina existed throughout roman history, the period during which the majority of citizens possessed exactly three names was relatively brief. nevertheless, because most of the important individuals during the best-recorded periods of roman history possessed all three names, the tria nomina remains the most familiar conception of the roman name.[ ] for a variety of reasons, the roman nomenclature system broke down in the centuries following the collapse of imperial authority in the west. the praenomen had already become scarce in written sources during the fourth century, and by the fifth century it was retained only by the most conservative elements of the old roman aristocracy, such as the aurelii symmachi. over the course of the sixth century, as roman institutions and social structures gradually fell away, the need to distinguish between nomina and cognomina likewise vanished. by the end of the seventh century, the people of italy and western europe had reverted to single names. but many of the names that had originated as part of the tria nomina were adapted to this usage, and survived into modern times.[ ][ ] origin and development[edit] the shepherd faustulus bringing romulus and remus to his wife nicolas mignard, – as in other cultures, the early peoples of italy probably used a single name, which later developed into the praenomen.[ ] marcus terentius varro wrote that the earliest italians used simple names.[ ] names of this type could be honorific or aspirational, or might refer to deities, physical peculiarities, or circumstances of birth.[ ] in this early period, the number of personal names must have been quite large; but with the development of additional names the number in widespread use dwindled.[ ] by the early republic, about three dozen latin praenomina remained in use, some of which were already rare; about eighteen were used by the patricians.[ ] barely a dozen praenomina remained in general use under the empire, although aristocratic families sometimes revived older praenomina, or created new ones from cognomina.[ ] the development of the nomen as the second element of the italic name cannot be attributed to a specific period or culture. from the earliest period it was common to both the indo-european speaking italic peoples and the etruscans. the historian livy relates the adoption of silvius as a nomen by the kings of alba longa in honour of their ancestor, silvius.[i][ ] as part of rome's foundation myth, this statement cannot be regarded as historical fact, but it does indicate the antiquity of the period to which the romans themselves ascribed the adoption of hereditary surnames.[ii] in latin, most nomina were formed by adding an adjectival suffix, usually -ius, to the stem of an existing word or name. frequently this required a joining element, such as -e-, -id-, -il-, or -on-. many common nomina arose as patronymic surnames; for instance, the nomen marcius was derived from the praenomen marcus, and originally signified marci filius, "son of marcus". in the same way, sextius, publilius, and lucilius arose from the praenomina sextus, publius, and lucius.[ ][iii] this demonstrates that, much like later european surnames, the earliest nomina were not necessarily hereditary, but might be adopted and discarded at will, and changed from one generation to the next. the practice from which these patronymics arose also gave rise to the filiation, which in later times, once the nomen had become fixed, nearly always followed the nomen. other nomina were derived from names that later came to be regarded as cognomina, such as plancius from plancus or flavius from flavus; or from place-names, such as norbanus from norba.[ ] the binomial name consisting of praenomen and nomen eventually spread throughout italy. nomina from different languages and regions often have distinctive characteristics; latin nomina tended to end in -ius, -us, -aius, -eius, -eus, or -aeus, while oscan names frequently ended in -is or -iis; umbrian names in -as, -anas, -enas, or -inas, and etruscan names in -arna, -erna, -ena, -enna, -ina, or -inna. oscan and umbrian forms tend to be found in inscriptions; in roman literature these names are often latinized.[ ] many individuals added an additional surname, or cognomen, which helped to distinguish between members of larger families. originally these were simply personal names, which might be derived from a person's physical features, personal qualities, occupation, place of origin, or even an object with which a person was associated. some cognomina were derived from the circumstance of a person's adoption from one family into another, or were derived from foreign names, such as when a freedman received a roman praenomen and nomen. other cognomina commemorated important events associated with a person; a battle in which a man had fought (regillensis), a town captured (coriolanus); or a miraculous occurrence (corvus). the late grammarians distinguished certain cognomina as agnomina.[ ] although originally a personal name, the cognomen frequently became hereditary, especially in large families, or gentes, in which they served to identify distinct branches, known as stirpes. some romans had more than one cognomen, and in aristocratic families it was not unheard of for individuals to have as many as three, of which some might be hereditary and some personal. these surnames were initially characteristic of patrician families, but over time cognomina were also acquired by the plebeians. however, a number of distinguished plebeian gentes, such as the antonii and the marii, were never divided into different branches, and in these families cognomina were the exception rather than the rule.[ ] cognomina are known from the beginning of the republic, but were long regarded as informal names, and omitted from most official records before the second century bc. later inscriptions commemorating the early centuries of the republic supply these missing surnames, although the authenticity of some of them has been disputed. under the empire, however, the cognomen acquired great importance, and the number of cognomina assumed by the roman aristocracy multiplied exponentially.[ ] adding to the complexity of aristocratic names was the practice of combining the full nomenclature of both one's paternal and maternal ancestors, resulting in some individuals appearing to have two or more complete names. duplicative or politically undesirable names might be omitted, while the order of names might be rearranged to emphasize those giving the bearer the greatest prestige.[ ] following the promulgation of the constitutio antoniniana in ad , granting roman citizenship to all free men living within the roman empire, the praenomen and nomen lost much of their distinguishing function, as all of the newly enfranchised citizens shared the name of marcus aurelius. the praenomen and sometimes the nomen gradually disappeared from view, crowded out by other names indicating the bearer's rank and social connections. surviving inscriptions from the fifth century rarely provide a citizen's full nomenclature.[ ][ ] in the final centuries of the empire, the traditional nomenclature was sometimes replaced by alternate names, known as signa. in the course of the sixth century, as central authority collapsed and roman institutions disappeared, the complex forms of roman nomenclature were abandoned altogether, and the people of italy and western europe reverted to single names. modern european nomenclature developed independently of the roman model during the middle ages and the renaissance. however, many modern names are derived from roman originals.[ ] tria nomina[edit] the three types of names that have come to be regarded as quintessentially roman were the praenomen, nomen, and cognomen. together, these were referred to as the tria nomina. although not all romans possessed three names, the practice of using multiple names having different functions was a defining characteristic of roman culture that distinguished citizens from foreigners. praenomen[edit] main article: praenomen a roman child. in the peristyle ( ), john william waterhouse, – the praenomen was a true personal name, chosen by a child's parents, and bestowed on the dies lustricius, or "day of lustration", a ritual purification performed on the eighth day after the birth of a girl, or the ninth day after the birth of a boy.[iv] normally all of the children in a family would have different praenomina.[v] although there was no law restricting the use of specific praenomina,[vi] the choice of the parents was usually governed by custom and family tradition. an eldest son was usually named after his father, and younger sons were named after their father's brothers or other male ancestors. in this way, the same praenomina were passed down in a family from one generation to the next. not only did this serve to emphasize the continuity of a family across many generations, but the selection of praenomina also distinguished the customs of one gens from another. the patrician gentes in particular tended to limit the number of praenomina that they used far more than the plebeians, which was a way of reinforcing the exclusiveness of their social status.[ ] of course, there were many exceptions to these general practices. a son might be named in honour of one of his maternal relatives, thus bringing a new name into the gens.[ ] because some gentes made regular use of only three or four praenomina, new names might appear whenever a family had more than three or four sons. furthermore, a number of the oldest and most influential patrician families made a habit of choosing unusual names; in particular the fabii, aemilii, furii, claudii, cornelii, and valerii all used praenomina that were uncommon amongst the patricians, or which had fallen out of general use. in the last two centuries of the republic, and under the early empire, it was fashionable for aristocratic families to revive older praenomina.[ ] about three dozen latin praenomina were in use at the beginning of the republic, although only about eighteen were common. this number fell gradually, until by the first century ad, about a dozen praenomina remained in widespread use, with a handful of others used by particular families.[ ] the origin and use of praenomina was a matter of curiosity to the romans themselves; in de praenominibus, probus discusses a number of older praenomina and their meanings.[ ] most praenomina were regularly abbreviated, and rarely written in full.[ ] other praenomina were used by the oscan, umbrian, and etruscan-speaking peoples of italy, and many of these also had regular abbreviations. lists of praenomina used by the various people of italy, together with their usual abbreviations, can be found at praenomen. roman men were usually known by their praenomina to members of their family and household, clientes and close friends; but outside of this circle, they might be called by their nomen, cognomen, or any combination of praenomen, nomen, and cognomen that was sufficient to distinguish them from other men with similar names.[ ] in the literature of the republic, and on all formal occasions, such as when a senator was called upon to speak, it was customary to address a citizen by praenomen and nomen; or, if this were insufficient to distinguish him from other members of the gens, by praenomen and cognomen.[ ][ ] in imperial times, the praenomen became increasingly confused by the practices of the aristocracy. the emperors usually prefixed imperator to their names as a praenomen, while at the same time retaining their own praenomina; but because most of the early emperors were legally adopted by their predecessors, and formally assumed new names, even these were subject to change. several members of the julio-claudian dynasty exchanged their original praenomina for cognomina, or received cognomina in place of praenomina at birth. an emperor might emancipate or enfranchise large groups of people at once, all of whom would automatically receive the emperor's praenomen and nomen. yet another common practice beginning in the first century ad was to give multiple sons the same praenomen, and distinguish them using different cognomina; by the second century this was becoming the rule, rather than the exception. another confusing practice was the addition of the full nomenclature of maternal ancestors to the basic tria nomina, so that a man might appear to have two praenomina, one occurring in the middle of his name.[ ] under the weight of these practices and others, the utility of the praenomen to distinguish between men continued to decline, until only the force of tradition prevented its utter abandonment. over the course of the third century, praenomina become increasingly scarce in written records, and from the fourth century onward their appearance becomes exceptional. the descendants of those who had been granted citizenship by the constitutio antoniniana seem to have dispensed with praenomina altogether, and by the end of the western empire, only the oldest roman families continued to use them.[ ][ ] nomen[edit] the nomen gentilicium, or "gentile name",[vii] designated a roman citizen as a member of a gens. a gens, which may be translated as "race", "family", or "clan", constituted an extended roman family, all of whom shared the same nomen, and claimed descent from a common ancestor. particularly in the early republic, the gens functioned as a state within the state, observing its own sacred rites, and establishing private laws, which were binding on its members, although not on the community as a whole.[ ] cognomen[edit] main article: cognomen quintus fabius maximus verrucosus, surnamed "cunctator". maximus was the branch of the fabia gens to which he belonged; verrucosus was a personal cognomen referring to a wart above his upper lip; cunctator a cognomen ex virtute referring to his delaying strategy against hannibal. statue at schönbrunn palace, vienna the cognomen, the third element of the tria nomina, began as an additional personal name. it was not unique to rome, but rome was where the cognomen flourished, as the development of the gens and the gradual decline of the praenomen as a useful means of distinguishing between individuals made the cognomen a useful means of identifying both individuals and whole branches of rome's leading families. in the early years of the republic, some aristocratic romans had as many as three cognomina, some of which were hereditary, while others were personal.[ ] like the nomen, cognomina could arise from any number of factors: personal characteristics, habits, occupations, places of origin, heroic exploits, and so forth. one class of cognomina consisted largely of archaic praenomina that were seldom used by the later republic, although as cognomina these names persisted throughout imperial times.[ ] many cognomina had unusual terminations for latin names, ending in -a, -o, or -io, and their meanings were frequently obscure, even in antiquity; this seems to emphasize the manner in which many cognomina originally arose from nicknames. the -ius termination typical of latin nomina was generally not used for cognomina until the fourth century ad, making it easier to distinguish between nomina and cognomina until the final centuries of the western empire.[ ] unlike the nomen, which was passed down unchanged from father to son, cognomina could appear and disappear almost at will. they were not normally chosen by the persons who bore them, but were earned or bestowed by others, which may account for the wide variety of unflattering names that were used as cognomina. doubtless some cognomina were used ironically, while others continued in use largely because, whatever their origin, they were useful for distinguishing among individuals and between branches of large families. new cognomina were coined and came into fashion throughout roman history.[ ] under the empire, the number of cognomina increased dramatically. where once only the most noble patrician houses used multiple surnames, romans of all backgrounds and social standing might bear several cognomina. by the third century, this had become the norm amongst freeborn roman citizens. the question of how to classify different cognomina led the grammarians of the fourth and fifth centuries to designate some of them as agnomina.[ ] for most of the republic, the usual manner of distinguishing individuals was through the binomial form of praenomen and nomen. but as the praenomen lost its value as a distinguishing name, and gradually faded into obscurity, its former role was assumed by the versatile cognomen, and the typical manner of identifying individuals came to be by nomen and cognomen; essentially one form of binomial nomenclature was replaced by another, over the course of several centuries. the very lack of regularity that allowed the cognomen to be used as either a personal or a hereditary surname became its strength in imperial times; as a hereditary surname, a cognomen could be used to identify an individual's connection with other noble families, either by descent, or later by association. individual cognomina could also be used to distinguish between members of the same family; even as siblings came to share the same praenomen, they bore different cognomina, some from the paternal line, and others from their maternal ancestors.[ ] although the nomen was a required element of roman nomenclature down to the end of the western empire, its usefulness as a distinguishing name declined throughout imperial times, as an increasingly large portion of the population bore nomina such as flavius or aurelius, which had been granted en masse to newly enfranchised citizens. as a result, by the third century the cognomen became the most important element of the roman name, and frequently the only one that was useful for distinguishing between individuals. in the later empire, the proliferation of cognomina was such that the full nomenclature of most individuals was not recorded, and in many cases the only names surviving in extant records are cognomina.[ ] by the sixth century, traditional roman cognomina were frequently prefixed by a series of names with christian religious significance. as roman institutions vanished, and the distinction between nomen and cognomen ceased to have any practical importance, the complex system of cognomina that developed under the later empire faded away. the people of the western empire reverted to single names, which were indistinguishable from the cognomina that they replaced; many former praenomina and nomina also survived in this way.[ ] agnomen[edit] main article: agnomen the proliferation of cognomina in the later centuries of the empire led some grammarians to classify certain types as agnomina. this class included two main types of cognomen: the cognomen ex virtute, and cognomina that were derived from nomina, to indicate the parentage of romans who had been adopted from one gens into another. although these names had existed throughout roman history, it was only in this late period that they were distinguished from other cognomina.[ ] cognomina ex virtute[edit] the cognomen ex virtute was a surname derived from some virtuous or heroic episode attributed to the bearer. roman history is filled with individuals who obtained cognomina as a result of their exploits: aulus postumius albus regillensis, who commanded the roman army at the battle of lake regillus; gaius marcius coriolanus, who captured the city of corioli; marcus valerius corvus, who defeated a giant gaul in single combat, aided by a raven; titus manlius torquatus, who likewise defeated a gaulish giant, and took his name from the torque that he claimed as a prize; publius cornelius scipio africanus, who carried the second punic war to africa, and defeated hannibal. interestingly, the most famous examples of this class of cognomen come from the period of the republic, centuries before the concept of the agnomen was formulated. adoptive cognomina[edit] main article: adoption in ancient rome adoption was a common and formal process in roman culture. its chief purpose had nothing to do with providing homes for children; it was about ensuring the continuity of family lines that might otherwise become extinct. in early rome, this was especially important for the patricians, who enjoyed tremendous status and privilege compared with the plebeians. because few families were admitted to the patriciate after the expulsion of the kings, while the number of plebeians continually grew, the patricians continually struggled to preserve their wealth and influence. a man who had no sons to inherit his property and preserve his family name would adopt one of the younger sons from another family. in time, as the plebeians also acquired wealth and gained access to the offices of the roman state, they too came to participate in the roman system of adoption.[ ][ ] since the primary purpose of adoption was to preserve the name and status of the adopter, an adopted son would usually assume both the praenomen and nomen of his adoptive father, together with any hereditary cognomina, just as an eldest son would have done. however, adoption did not result in the complete abandonment of the adopted son's birth name. the son's original nomen (or occasionally cognomen) would become the basis of a new surname, formed by adding the derivative suffix -anus or -inus to the stem. thus, when a son of lucius aemilius paullus was adopted by publius cornelius scipio, he became publius cornelius scipio aemilianus; in his will, the dictator gaius julius caesar adopted his grandnephew, gaius octavius, who became known as gaius julius caesar octavianus.[ ][ ][ ] filiation[edit] apart from the praenomen, the filiation was the oldest element of the roman name. even before the development of the nomen as a hereditary surname, it was customary to use the name of a person's father as a means of distinguishing him or her from others with the same personal name, like a patronymic; thus lucius, the son of marcus would be lucius, marci filius; paulla, the daughter of quintus, would be paulla, quinti filia. many nomina were derived in the same way, and most praenomina have at least one corresponding nomen, such as lucilius, marcius, publilius, quinctius, or servilius. these are known as patronymic surnames, because they are derived from the name of the original bearer's father. even after the development of the nomen and cognomen, filiation remained a useful means of distinguishing between members of a large family.[ ]   "dedicated by the emperor caesar, son of the divine marcus antoninus pius, brother of the divine commodus, grandson of the divine antoninus pius, great-grandson of the divine hadrian, great-great-grandson of the divine trajan, conqueror of parthia, great-great-great-grandson of the divine nerva, lucius septimius severus pius pertinax augustus arabicus adiabenicus, father of his country, pontifex maximus, holding the tribunician power for the fourth year, in the eighth year of his imperium, consul for the second time; and marcus aurelius antoninus caesar" filiations were normally written between the nomen and any cognomina, and abbreviated using the typical abbreviations for praenomina, followed by f. for filius or filia, and sometimes n. for nepos (grandson) or neptis (granddaughter). thus, the inscription s. postumius a. f. p. n. albus regillensis means "spurius postumius albus regillensis, of aulus the son, of publius the grandson". "tiberius aemilius mamercinus, the son of lucius and grandson of mamercus" would be written ti. aemilius l. f. mam. n. mamercinus. the more formal the writing, the more generations might be included; a great-grandchild would be pron. or pronep. for pronepos or proneptis, a great-great-grandchild abn. or abnep. for abnepos or abneptis, and a great-great-great-grandchild adnepos or adneptis.[viii] however, these forms are rarely included as part of a name, except on the grandest of monumental inscriptions.[ ] the filiation sometimes included the name of the mother, in which case gnatus[ix] would follow the mother's name, instead of filius or filia.[x] this is especially common in families of etruscan origin. the names of married women were sometimes followed by the husband's name and uxor for "wife". n. fabius q. f. m. n. furia gnatus maximus means "numerius fabius maximus, son of quintus, grandson of marcus, born of furia",[xi] while claudia l. valeri uxor would be "claudia, wife of lucius valerius". slaves and freedmen also possessed filiations, although in this case the person referred to is usually the slave's owner, rather than his or her father. the abbreviations here include s. for servus or serva and l. for libertus or liberta. a slave might have more than one owner, in which case the names could be given serially. in some cases the owner's nomen or cognomen was used instead of or in addition to the praenomen. the liberti of women sometimes used an inverted "c", signifying the feminine praenomen gaia, here used generically to mean any woman; and there are a few examples of an inverted "m", although it is not clear whether this was used generically, or specifically for the feminine praenomen marca or marcia.[ ] an example of the filiation of slaves and freedmen would be: alexander corneli l. s., "alexander, slave of lucius cornelius", who upon his emancipation would probably become l. cornelius l. l. alexander, "lucius cornelius alexander, freedman of lucius"; it was customary for a freedman to take the praenomen of his former owner, if he did not already have one, and to use his original personal name as a cognomen. another example might be salvia pompeia cn. Ɔ. l., "salvia pompeia, freedwoman of gnaeus (pompeius) and gaia"; here gaia is used generically, irrespective of whether pompeius' wife was actually named gaia. a freedman of the emperor might have the filiation aug. l., augusti libertus. although filiation was common throughout the history of the republic and well into imperial times, no law governed its use or inclusion in writing. it was used by custom and for convenience, but could be ignored or discarded, as it suited the needs of the writer. tribe[edit] main article: roman tribe from the beginning of the roman republic, all citizens were enumerated in one of the tribes making up the comitia tributa, or "tribal assembly". this was the most democratic of rome's three main legislative assemblies of the roman republic, in that all citizens could participate on an equal basis, without regard to wealth or social status. over time, its decrees, known as plebi scita, or "plebiscites" became binding on the whole roman people. although much of the assembly's authority was usurped by the emperors, membership in a tribe remained an important part of roman citizenship, so that the name of the tribe came to be incorporated into a citizen's full nomenclature.[ ][ ][ ] the number of tribes varied over time; tradition ascribed the institution of thirty tribes to servius tullius, the sixth king of rome, but ten of these were destroyed at the beginning of the republic. several tribes were added between and bc, as large swaths of italy came under roman control, bringing the total number of tribes to thirty-five; except for a brief experiment at the end of the social war in bc, this number remained fixed. the nature of the tribes was mainly geographic, rather than ethnic; inhabitants of rome were, in theory, assigned to one of the four "urban" tribes, while the territory beyond the city was allocated to the "rural" or "rustic" tribes.[ ][ ] geography was not the sole determining factor in one's tribus; at times efforts were made to assign freedmen to the four urban tribes, thus concentrating their votes and limiting their influence on the comitia tributa. perhaps for similar reasons, when large numbers of provincials gained the franchise, certain rural tribes were preferred for their enrollment. citizens did not normally change tribes when they moved from one region to another; but the censors had the power to punish a citizen by expelling him from one of the rural tribes and assigning him to one of the urban tribes. in later periods, most citizens were enrolled in tribes without respect to geography.[ ] precisely when it became common to include the name of a citizen's tribus as part of his full nomenclature is uncertain. the name of the tribe normally follows the filiation and precedes any cognomina, suggesting that it occurred before the cognomen was recognized as a formal part of the roman name; so probably no later than the second century bc. however, in both writing and inscriptions, the tribus is found with much less frequency than other parts of the name; so the custom of including it does not seem to have been deeply ingrained in roman practice. as with the filiation, it was common to abbreviate the name of the tribe. for the names of the thirty-five tribes and their abbreviations, see roman tribe.[ ] women's names[edit] main article: naming conventions for women in ancient rome a roman woman, attired as a priestess of vesta, performing sacred rites. invocation frederic leighton ( – ) in the earliest period, the binomial nomenclature of praenomen and nomen that developed throughout italy was shared by both men and women.[ ] most praenomina had both masculine and feminine forms, although a number of praenomina common to women were seldom or never used by men. just as men's praenomina, women's names were regularly abbreviated instead of being written in full.[ ] a list of women's praenomina can be found at praenomen. for a variety of reasons, women's praenomina became neglected over the course of roman history, and by the end of the republic, most women did not have or did not use praenomina. they did not disappear entirely, nor were roman women bereft of personal names; but for most of roman history women were known chiefly by their nomina or cognomina.[ ] the first of these reasons is probably that the praenomen itself lost much of its original utility following the adoption of hereditary surnames. the number of praenomina commonly used by both men and women declined throughout roman history. for men, who might hold public office or serve in the military, the praenomen remained an important part of the legal name. but, as in other ancient societies, roman women played little role in public life, so the factors that resulted in the continuation of men's praenomina did not exist for women. another factor was probably that the praenomen was not usually necessary to distinguish between women within the family. because a roman woman did not change her nomen when she married, her nomen alone was usually sufficient to distinguish her from every other member of the family. as latin names had distinctive masculine and feminine forms, the nomen was sufficient to distinguish a daughter from both of her parents and all of her brothers. thus, there was no need for a personal name unless there were multiple sisters in the same household.[ ] when this occurred, praenomina could be and frequently were used to distinguish between sisters. however, it was also common to identify sisters using a variety of names, some of which could be used as either praenomina or cognomina. for example, if publius servilius had two daughters, they would typically be referred to as servilia major and servilia minor. if there were more daughters, the eldest might be called servilia prima or servilia maxima;[xii] younger daughters as servilia secunda, tertia, quarta, etc. all of these names could be used as praenomina, preceding the nomen, but common usage from the later republic onward was to treat them as personal cognomina; when these names appear in either position, it is frequently impossible to determine whether they were intended as praenomina or cognomina.[ ][ ] although women's praenomina were infrequently used in the later republic, they continued to be used, when needed, into imperial times. among the other peoples of italy, women's praenomina continued to be used regularly until the populace was thoroughly romanized. in the etruscan culture, where women held a markedly higher social status than at rome or in other ancient societies, inscriptions referring to women nearly always include praenomina.[ ] avlia l.f. secunda aulia secunda, daughter of lucius most roman women were known by their nomina, with such distinction as described above for older and younger siblings. if further distinction were needed, she could be identified as a particular citizen's daughter or wife. for instance, cicero refers to a woman as annia p. anni senatoris filia, which means "annia, daughter of publius annius, the senator".[ ] however, toward the end of the republic, as hereditary cognomina came to be regarded as proper names, a woman might be referred to by her cognomen instead, or by a combination of nomen and cognomen; the daughter of lucius caecilius metellus was usually referred to as caecilia metella. sometimes these cognomina were given diminutive forms, such as agrippina from the masculine agrippa, or drusilla from drusus.[ ] in imperial times, other, less formal names were sometimes used to distinguish between women with similar names. still later, roman women, like men, adopted signa, or alternative names, in place of their roman names. with the fall of the western empire in the fifth century, the last traces of the distinctive italic nomenclature system began to disappear, and women too reverted to single names. foreign names[edit] as roman territory expanded beyond italy, many foreigners obtained roman citizenship, and adopted roman names. often these were discharged auxiliary soldiers, or the leaders of annexed towns and peoples. customarily a newly enfranchised citizen would adopt the praenomen and nomen of his patron; that is, the person who had adopted or manumitted him, or otherwise procured his citizenship. but many such individuals retained a portion of their original names, usually in the form of cognomina. this was especially true for citizens of greek origin. a name such as t. flavius aristodemus or gaius julius hyginus would be typical of such persons, although in form these names are not distinguishable from those of freedmen.[xiii][ ] the constitutio antoniniana promulgated by caracalla in ad was perhaps the most far-reaching of many imperial decrees enfranchising large numbers of non-citizens living throughout the empire. it extended citizenship to all free inhabitants of the empire, all of whom thus received the name marcus aurelius, after the emperor's praenomen and nomen. the result was that vast numbers of individuals who had never possessed praenomina or nomina formally shared the same names. in turn, many of the "new romans" promptly discarded their praenomina, and ignored their nomina except when required by formality. as a result, the cognomina adopted by these citizens, often including their original non-latin names, became the most important part of their nomenclature.[ ] imperial names[edit] during the republic, a person's names were usually static and predictable, unless he were adopted into a new family or obtained a new surname. in imperial times, however, names became highly variable and subject to change. perhaps no names were more variable than those of the emperors. for example, the first emperor, known conventionally as augustus, began life as c. octavius c. f., or gaius octavius, the son of gaius octavius. his ancestors had borne the same name for at least four generations.[ ] although the octavii were an old and distinguished plebeian family, the gens was not divided into stirpes and had no hereditary cognomina; octavius' father had put down a slave revolt at thurii and was sometimes given the surname thurinus (a cognomen ex virtute), but this name was not passed down to the son. at the age of eighteen in bc, octavius was nominated magister equitum by his granduncle, gaius julius caesar, who held the office of dictator. on the ides of march, caesar was assassinated, without legitimate children; but in his will he adopted his nephew, who then became c. julius c. f. caesar octavianus, "gaius julius caesar octavianus, son of gaius". thus far, his name follows the republican model, becoming that of his adoptive father, followed by his original nomen in the form of an agnomen. two years later, caesar was deified by the roman senate, and octavian, as he was then known, was styled divi f., "son of the divine (caesar)", instead of c. f.. still later, after having been acclaimed imperator by the troops under his command, octavian assumed this title as an additional praenomen, becoming imp. c. julius divi f. caesar octavianus; in some inscriptions his original praenomen is discarded altogether. in bc, the senate granted him the title of augustus, which would ever after be affixed as a cognomen to the names of the roman emperors. a similar pattern was followed by augustus' heirs. the emperor's stepson and eventual successor was born tiberius claudius nero; after his adoption by the emperor, he became tiberius julius caesar (retaining his original praenomen). his brother, born decimus claudius nero, subsequently became nero claudius drusus, exchanging his original praenomen for his paternal cognomen, and assuming a new cognomen from his maternal grandfather. other members of the julio-claudian dynasty used praenomina such as drusus and germanicus. in subsequent generations, all reigning emperors assumed imperator as an additional praenomen (usually without foregoing their original praenomina), and augustus as a cognomen. caesar came to be used as a cognomen designating an heir apparent; and for the first two centuries of the empire, most emperors were adopted by their predecessors. the result was that each emperor bore a series of names that had more to do with the previous emperor than the names with which he had been born. they added new cognomina as they fought and conquered enemies and new lands, and their filiations recorded their descent from a series of gods. as the names of the emperors themselves changed, so did the names of the members of their families. later development[edit] during the empire, a variety of new naming conventions developed which, while differing, were internally coherent.[ ] binary nomenclature and polyonymy[edit] under the "high empire", the new aristocracy began adopting two or more nomina – a practice which has been termed 'binary nomenclature'.[ ] this arose out of a desire to incorporate distinguished maternal ancestry in a name or, in order to inherit property, an heir was required by a will to incorporate the testator's name into his own name.[ ] for example, the suffect consul of ad / , gaius bruttius praesens lucius fulvius rusticus, has a name which is composed of two standard sets of tria nomina: he was the natural son of a lucius bruttius, and added the nomina of his maternal grandfather, lucius fulvius rusticus, to his paternal nomina.[ ] in order to reflect an illustrious pedigree or other connections, the aristocracy expanded the binary nomenclature concept to include other nomina from an individual's paternal and maternal ancestry.[ ] there was no limit to the number of names which could be added in this way (known as polyonomy), and, for example, the consul of ad, (usually called q. sosius priscus) had thirty-eight names comprising fourteen sets of nomina reflecting a complex pedigree stretching back three generations.[ ] cognomen replaces praenomen[edit] the praenomen, even under the classic system, had never been particularly distinctive because of the limited number of praenomina available.[ ] between the late republic and the second century ad, the praenomen gradually became less used and eventually disappeared altogether.[ ] even among the senatorial aristocracy it became a rarity by about ad.[ ] in part this came about through a tendency for the same praenomen to be given to all males of a family, thereby fossilizing a particular preaenomen/nomen combination and making the praenomen even less distinctive e.g. all males in the emperor vespasian's family (including all his sons) had the praenomen/nomen combination titus flavius:[ ] 							titus flavius petro 									 							titus flavius sabinus (married vespasia polla) 															 										 			titus flavius sabinus						titus flavius vespasianus emperor vespasian (married flavia domitilla) 																				 												 	titus flavius sabinus		titus flavius clemens		titus flavius vespasianus emperor titus		titus flavius domitianus emperor domitian the cognomen, as in vespasian's family, then assumed the distinguishing function for individuals; where this happened, the cognomen replaced the praenomen in intimate address.[ ] the result was that two names remained in use for formal public address but instead of praenomen + nomen, it became nomen + cognomen.[ ] edict of caracalla[edit] with the constitutio antoniniana in , the emperor caracalla granted roman citizenship to all free inhabitants of the empire. it had long been the expectation that when a non-roman acquired citizenship he, as part of his enfranchisement, took on a roman name.[ ] with the mass enfranchisement of , the new citizens adopted the nomen "aurelius" in recognition of caracalla's beneficence[ ] (the emperor's full name was marcus aurelius severus antoninus augustus, with aurelius as the nomen). "aurelius" quickly became the most common nomen in the east and the second most common (after "julius") in the west.[ ] the change in the origins of the new governing elite that assumed control of the empire from the end of the third century can be seen in their names: seven of the eleven emperors between gallienus and diocletian (claudius gothicus, quintillus, probus, carus, carinus, numerian and maximian) bore the name "marcus aurelius"[ ] although praenomina were not adopted by the new citizens, reflecting the pre-existing decline amongst "old" romans,[ ] in the west the new names were formulated on the same basis as the existing roman practices.[ ] in the east, however, the new citizens formulated their names by placing "aurelius" before versions of their non-roman given name and a patronymic.[ ] ultimately, the ubiquity of "aurelius" meant that it could not function as a true distinguishing nomen, and became primarily just a badge of citizenship added to any name.[ ] traditional nomen replaced[edit] although a nomen would long be required for official purposes, and, in isolated corners of the empire and in parts of italy, its usage would persist into the seventh century, the nomen was generally omitted from the name (even of emperors) by the third century.[ ] two factors encouraged its frequent non-use. firstly, the cognomen increasingly became the distinguishing name and general name of address.[ ] as a result, "new romans" and, under their influence, "old romans" too, either dropped the nomen from their name[ ] or, in some cases, treated the nomen as a praenomen.[ ] secondly, with the nomen becoming an increasingly fossilized formality, non-italian families, even those who had acquired citizenship and a nomen prior to , began to ignore their nomen.[ ] when a nomen was required for official purposes they would simply put the default nomen of "aurelius" in front of their name, rather than use their actual nomen.[ ] see also[edit] 	ancient greek personal names 	latinisation of names – practice of rendering a non-latin name in a latin style notes[edit] 	^ livy refers to this as a cognomen, or "surname", which in later roman practice was the third element of the roman tria nomina; but it must be remembered that the word nomen simply means "name", and before the adoption of a second name, this is how the praenomen would have been called; thus, the first surnames adopted would have been known as cognomina before their gradually-increasing importance caused the word nomen to refer to them, while the original personal name became known as the praenomen, or "forename".[ ] 	^ although a few individuals mentioned in relation to the period of and before rome's legendary foundation in the eighth century bc are known by only a single name, it is equally difficult to discern which of these represent actual historical figures, and if so, whether their names were accurately remembered by the historians who recorded these myths centuries later. romulus and remus, together with their foster-father, the herdsman faustulus, are among those easily remembered; but even supposing that romulus and remus are the names of historical persons, they belonged, in theory, to the royal house of the silvii; or they might have borne no surname because they were said to have been fathered by mars himself. meanwhile, faustulus may represent a mythical personage interjected into rome's foundation legend; although it may be noted that his name is a diminutive of the latin praenomen faustus. almost all other persons mentioned as part of the traditions surrounding romulus as the first king of rome have both praenomen and nomen.[ ][ ] 	^ so common was this practice that nearly all latin praenomina gave rise to patronymic nomina, including many that were uncommon in historical times. 	^ in his treatise, de praenominibus, probus cites quintus mucius scaevola, an authority on roman law, for the proposition that boys did not receive a praenomen before assuming the toga virilis, signifying the transition into adulthood, and that girls did not receive a praenomen before marriage.[ ] but this appears to refer to some sort of formal ceremony in which a praenomen was granted or confirmed, rather than the original act of naming. the funerary inscriptions of many romans who died in childhood conclusively demonstrate that roman children had praenomina.[ ] 	^ as usual, there were exceptions to this policy as well; for instance, among the fabii maximi, several brothers in a single family were all named quintus; in the first century ad, the flavii sabini all bore the praenomen titus, but were distinguished in each generation by the use of different cognomina. also, because praenomina had grammatical gender, a brother and sister could have the same praenomen, in masculine and feminine forms, and still be easily distinguished. 	^ a few exceptions are noted by the ancient historians; for example, supposedly no member of the junia gens was named titus or tiberius after two brothers of this name, sons of the consul lucius junius brutus, were put to death for plotting to restore the roman monarchy. the manlia gens is said to have forbidden the use of marcus after the condemnation of marcus manlius capitolinus;[ ] and after the death of marcus antonius and the execution of his son, it was decreed that none of the antonii should ever again be named marcus. however, all of these supposed prohibitions were subsequently broken. 	^ although this use of the term gentile has the same origin as the term used to distinguish non-jews from the jewish population, its meaning is purely civil, and has nothing to do with ethnic or religious identity; in this use it simply refers to a member of a gens, distinguished by his or her surname, and in this sense the term gentile name is used today without any religious connotation, despite (or perhaps because of) the use of christian name to refer to personal names. in this sense, romanized jews could also be gentiles, and gentiles could be jewish! this is also the origin of the term gentleman; the association of gentlemen with courtesy developed later. 	^ also spelled atnepos and atneptis. 	^ also spelled natus; this could be abbreviated gn., gnat., or, perhaps confusingly, n. 	^ evidently there were exceptions to this as well. cil ii. gives the name fabia domitia Ɔ. f. secunda, in which Ɔ. f. can only be read "gaiae filia" (the use of an inverted c. for "gaia" was common in the filiations of freedmen, but apparently not restricted to them; see below); this may be the same woman referred to as fabia domitia d. f. secunda, cil ii. , in the latter case giving her father's name. both inscriptions are from roman spain, and are also notable for the doubled nomen and for the cognomen secunda, which in this case is really a praenomen placed after the filiation, a common practice in roman women's names of this period. 	^ note that while the names of the father and grandfather are genitive (quinti filius, marci nepos), the mother's name is ablative; the translation "born of" is simply idiomatic in english. "born to" would also be idiomatic, but could imply the dative case. 	^ however, the eldest daughter, who might have been called by her nomen alone for several years, might continue to be so called even after the birth of younger sisters; in this case only the younger sisters might receive distinctive personal names. 	^ in such cases, the filiation, if present, would indicate if someone were a freedman; but in these particular instances the nomina suggest citizens of provincial origin, who have been enfranchised by imperial decree. references[edit] 	^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z oxford classical dictionary, nd ed. ( ), "names, personal." 	^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r benet salway, "what's in a name? a survey of roman onomastic practice from c. b.c. to a.d. ", in journal of roman studies, vol. , pp. – ( ). 	^ a b c gaius titius probus, de praenominibus, epitome by julius paris. 	^ a b c d e f g h i j k l harper's dictionary of classical literature and antiquities, second edition, harry thurston peck, editor ( ), "nomen." 	^ a b titus livius, ab urbe condita i. . 	^ titus livius, ab urbe condita i. – . 	^ titus livius, ab urbe condita vi. . 	^ realencyclopädie der classischen altertumswissenschaft. 	^ sextus pompeius festus, epitome of marcus verrius flaccus, de verborum significatu, s.v. "numerius." 	^ oxford classical dictionary, nd ed. ( ), "gens." 	^ a b c george davis chase, "the origin of roman praenomina", in harvard studies in classical philology, vol. viii ( ). 	^ a b harper's dictionary of classical literature and antiquities, second edition, harry thurston peck, editor ( ), "adoption." 	^ oxford classical dictionary, nd ed. 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(april ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) major roman administrative territorial entity outside of italy roman empire under augustus ( bc – ad ). yellow: bc. dark green – bc, light green – bc, pale green – bc. mauve: client states the roman empire under hadrian ( ) showing the provinces as then organised 	history of geography 	 	 	graeco-roman 	chinese 	islamic 	age of discovery 	history of cartography 	historical geography 	environmental determinism 	regional geography 	quantitative revolution 	critical geography 		v 	t 	e 	ancient rome 	 	this article is part of a series on the politics and government of ancient rome 	 periods 	 	roman kingdom – bc 	roman republic – bc 	roman empire bc – ad 	principate bc – ad 	dominate ad – 	western ad – 	eastern ad – 	timeline 	 roman constitution 	 	constitution of the kingdom 	constitution of the republic 	constitution of the empire 	constitution of the late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	executive magistrates 	 precedent and law 	 	roman law 	ius 	imperium 	mos maiorum 	collegiality 	auctoritas 	roman citizenship 	cursus honorum 	senatus consultum 	senatus consultum ultimum 	 assemblies 	 	centuriate 	curiate 	plebeian 	tribal 	 ordinary magistrates 	 	consul 	praetor 	quaestor 	promagistrate 	aedile 	tribune 	censor 	governor 	 extraordinary magistrates 	 	corrector 	dictator 	magister equitum 	consular tribune 	rex 	triumviri 	decemviri 	 titles and honours 	 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	praeses 	praefectus 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 	 	other countries 	 	v 	t 	e the roman provinces (latin: provincia, pl. provinciae) were the administrative regions of the roman empire outside of italy that were controlled by the romans under the republic and later under the empire. each province was ruled by a roman appointed as governor. contents 	 overview 	 republican provinces 	 . list of republican provinces 	 imperial provinces during the principate 	 . list of provinces created during the principate 	 . . under augustus 	 . . under tiberius 	 . . under claudius 	 . . under nero 	 . . under vespasian 	 . . under domitian 	 . . under trajan 	 . . under septimius severus 	 . . under caracalla 	 . . under aurelian 	 late antiquity 	 primary sources for lists of provinces 	 . early roman empire provinces 	 . late roman empire provinces 	 see also 	 references 	 . inline citations 	 . sources referenced 	 external links overview[edit] a province was the basic and, until the tetrarchy (from ad), the largest territorial and administrative unit of the empire's territorial possessions outside italy. the word province in modern english has its origins in the latin term used by the romans. provinces were generally governed by politicians of senatorial rank, usually former consuls or former praetors. a later exception was the province of egypt, which was incorporated by augustus after the death of cleopatra and was ruled by a governor of only equestrian rank, perhaps as a discouragement to senatorial ambition. that exception was unique but not contrary to roman law, as egypt was considered augustus's personal property, following the tradition of the kings of the earlier hellenistic period. the latin term provincia also had a more general meaning of "jurisdiction". republican provinces[edit] the latin word provincia originally meant any task or set of responsibilities assigned by the roman senate to an individual who held imperium (right of command), which was often a military command within a specified theatre of operations.[ ][ ] under the roman republic, the magistrates were elected to office for a period of one year, and those serving outside the city of rome, such as consuls acting as generals on a military campaign, were assigned a particular provincia, the scope of authority within which they exercised their command. the territory of a people who were defeated in war might be brought under various forms of treaty, in some cases entailing complete subjection (deditio). the formal annexation of a territory created a province, in the modern sense of an administrative unit that is geographically defined. republican-period provinces were administered in one-year terms by the consuls and praetors who had held office the previous year and were invested with imperium.[ ] rome started expanding beyond italy during the first punic war. the first permanent provinces to be annexed were sicilia in  bc and corsica et sardinia in  bc. militarized expansionism kept increasing the number of these administrative provinces until there were no longer enough qualified individuals to fill the posts. [ ][ ] the terms of provincial governors often had to be extended for multiple years (prorogatio), and on occasion, the senate awarded imperium even to private citizens (privati), most notably pompey the great.[ ][ ] prorogation undermined the republican constitutional principle of annually-elected magistracies and the amassing of disproportionate wealth and military power by a few men through their provincial commands was a major factor in the transition from a republic to an imperial autocracy.[ ][ ][ ][ ] list of republican provinces[edit] 	 bc – sicilia (sicily) taken over from the carthaginians and annexed at the end of the first punic war 	 bc – corsica et sardinia; these two islands were taken over from the carthaginians and annexed soon after the mercenary war, in bc and bc respectively 	 bc – hispania citerior; along the east coast of the iberian peninsula; part of the territories taken over from the carthaginians 	 bc – hispania ulterior; along the southern coast of the iberian peninsula; part of the territories taken over from the carthaginians in the second punic war 	 bc – macedonia was annexed after a rebellion by the achaean league. 	 bc – africa (modern day tunisia and western libya) home territory of carthage; annexed after the destruction of carthage in the third punic war 	 bc – asia, formerly the kingdom of pergamon, in western anatolia (modern turkey) by its last king, attalus iii, in bc 	 bc – gallia narbonensis (southern france); prior to its annexation it was called gallia transalpina (gallia on the other side of the alps) to distinguish it from gallia cisalpina (gaul on this same side of the alps, in northern italy). it was annexed following attacks on the allied greek city of massalia (marseille). 	 bc – creta et cyrenae; cyrenaica was bequeathed to rome in bc. however, it was not organised as a province. it was incorporated into the province of creta et cyrenae when crete was annexed in bc. 	 bc – pontus et bithynia; the kingdom of bithynia (in north-western anatolia – turkey) was bequeathed to rome by its last king, nicomedes iv in bc. it was organised as a roman province at the end of the third mithridatic war ( – bc) by pompey, who incorporated the eastern part of the defeated kingdom of pontus into it in bc. 	 bc – syria; pompey annexed syria at the end of the third mithridatic war 	 bc – cilicia et cyprus; cilicia was created as a province in the sense of area of military command in bc in a campaign against piracy. the romans controlled only a small area. in bc lycia and pamphylia (to the east) were added to the small roman possessions in cilicia. cilicia came fully under roman control towards the end of the third mithridatic war – – bc. the province was reorganised by pompey in bc. cyprus was annexed and added to this province in bc. 	 bc – africa nova (eastern numidia – algeria), julius caesar annexed eastern numidia and the new province called africa nova (new africa) to distinguish it from the older province of africa, which become known as africa vetus (old africa). gallia cisalpina (in northern italy) was a province in the sense of an area of military command, but was never a province in the sense of an administrative unit. during rome's expansion in the italian peninsula, the romans assigned some areas as provinces in the sense of areas of military command assigned to consuls and praetors (not proconsuls or propraetors as in the case of administrative provinces) due to risks of rebellions or invasions. this was applied to liguria because there was a series of rebellions, bruttium and to (calabria) because of perceived risks of rebellion. in the early days of the roman presence in gallia cisalpina, the issue was rebellion. later, the issue was risk of invasions by warlike peoples east of italy. the city of aquileia was founded to protect northern italy from invasions. gaius julius caesar granted the inhabitants of this region roman citizenship and incorporated the region into italy. imperial provinces during the principate[edit] the roman empire at its greatest extent, under trajan ( ); imperial provinces are shaded green, senatorial provinces are shaded pink, and client states are shaded gray in the so-called augustan settlement of  bc, which established the roman empire, the governance of the provinces was regulated. gaius julius caesar octavianus, having emerged from the civil wars as the undisputed victor and master of rome, officially laid down his powers and, in theory, restored the authority of the roman senate. octavian himself assumed the title "augustus" and was given to govern, in addition to egypt, the strategically-important provinces of gaul, hispania and syria (including cilicia and cyprus). under augustus, roman provinces were classified as either public or imperial, depending on whether power was exercised by the senate or the emperor. generally, the older provinces that had existed under the republic were public. public provinces were, as they had been under the republic, governed by a proconsul, who was chosen by lot among the ranks of senators who were ex-consuls or ex-praetors, depending on the province that was assigned. the major imperial provinces were under a legatus augusti pro praetore, also a senator of consular or praetorian rank. egypt and some smaller provinces in which no legions were based were ruled by a procurator (praefectus in egypt), whom the emperor selected from non-senators of equestrian rank. the status of a province could change from time to time. in ad  , of a total provinces, were public and imperial. of the latter, were under legati and under procuratores or praefecti. during the principate, the number and size of provinces also changed, through conquest or the division of existing provinces. the larger or most heavily-garrisoned provinces (for example syria and moesia) were subdivided into smaller provinces to prevent any single governor from holding too much power. list of provinces created during the principate[edit] under augustus[edit] 	 bc – aegyptus, taken over by augustus after his defeat of mark antony and cleopatra vii of egypt in bc. it was the first imperial province in that it was augustus' own domain as the egyptians recognised him as their new pharaoh. its proper initial name was alexandrea et aegyptus. it was governed by augustus' praefectus, alexandreae et aegypti. 	 bc – achaia (southern and central greece), augustus separated it from macedonia (senatorial propraetorial province) 	 bc – hispania tarraconensis; former hispania citerior (northern, central and eastern spain), created with the reorganisation of the provinces in hispania by augustus (imperial proconsular province). 	 bc – hispania baetica; former hispania ulterior (southern spain); created with the reorganisation of the provinces in hispania by augustus (senatorial propraetorial province). the name derives from betis, the latin name for the guadalquivir river. 	 bc – lusitania (portugal and extremadura in spain), created with the reorganisation of the provinces in hispania by augustus (imperial proconsular province) 	 bc – illyricum, augustus conquered illyria and southern pannonia in – bc. created as a senatorial province in bc. northern pannonia was conquered during the pannonian war ( – bc). subdivided into dalmatia (a new name for illyria) and pannonia, which were officially called upper and lower illyricum respectively in bc, towards the end of the batonian war. initially a senatorial province, it became an imperial propraetorial province in bc, during the pannonian war. it was dissolved and the new provinces of dalmatia and pannonia were created during the reign of vespasian ( – ). in pannonia was divided into pannonia superior and pannonia inferior – imperial provinces (proconsular and propraetorial respectively). 	 bc or – bc – aquitania (south-western france) province created in the territories in gaul conquered by julius caesar; there is uncertainty as to whether it was created with augustus’ first visit and the first census on gaul or during augustus' visit in – (imperial proconsular province) 	 bc or – bc – gallia lugdunensis (central and part of northern france) province created in the territories in gaul conquered by julius caesar; there is uncertainty as to whether it was created with augustus’ first visit and the first census on gaul or during augustus’ visit in – (imperial proconsular province) 	 bc or – bc – gallia belgica (netherlands south of the rhine river, belgium, luxembourg, part of northern france and germany west of the rhine; there is uncertainty as to whether it was created with augustus’ first visit and the first census on gaul or during augustus' visit in – (imperial proconsular province) 	 bc – galatia (central anatolia, turkey), formerly a client kingdom, it was annexed by augustus when amyntas, its last king died (imperial propraetorial province) 	 bc – raetia (imperial procuratorial province) 	 bc – germania magna, lost after three roman legions were routed in ad 	 ad? – moesia (on the east and south bank of the river danube part of modern serbia, the north part of north macedonia, northern bulgaria), conquered in bc, originally it was a military district under the province of macedonia. the first mention of a provincial governor was for ad, at the beginning of the batonian war. in moesia was divided into moesia superior and moesia inferior (imperial proconsular provinces). 	 ad – judaea, imperial procuratorial province (reverted to status of client kingdom in ad and became province again in ad; renamed syria palaestina by hadrian in ad and upgraded to proconsular province). under tiberius[edit] 	 ad – cappadocia (central anatolia – turkey); imperial propraetorial (later proconsular) province. under claudius[edit] 	 ad – mauretania tingitana (northern morocco); after the death of ptolemy, the last king of mauretania, in ad, his kingdom was annexed. it was begun by caligula and was completed by claudius with the defeat of the rebels. in ad, claudius divided it into two provinces (imperial procuratorial province). 	 ad – mauretania caesariensis, (western and central algeria), after the death of ptolemy, the last king of mauretania, in ad, his kingdom was annexed. it was begun by caligula and was completed by claudius with the defeat of the rebels. in ad claudius divided it into two provinces( imperial procuratorial province). 	 / ad – noricum (central austria, north-eastern slovenia and part of bavaria), it was incorporated into the empire in bc. it was called a province, but it remained a client kingdom under the control of an imperial procurator. it was turned into a proper province during the reign of claudius ( – ) (imperial propraetorial province). 	 ad – britannia; claudius initiated the invasion of britannia. up to ad, the romans controlled the area south a line from the river humber to the severn estuary. wales was finally subdued in . in – agricola conquered the north of england and scotland. scotland was then abandoned (imperial proconsular province). in septimius severus divided britannia into britannia superior and britannia inferior. imperial provinces (proconsular and propraetorial respectively). 	 ad – lycia annexed by claudius (in ad merged with pamphylia to form lycia et pamphylia). 	 ad – thracia (thrace, north-eastern greece, south-eastern bulgaria and european turkey), it was annexed by claudius (imperial procuratorial province). 	 ad? – alpes atrectianae et poeninae (between italy and switzerland), augustus subdued its inhabitants, the salassi, in bc. it was incorporated into raetia. the date of the creation of the province is uncertain. it is usually set at the date of claudius' foundation of forum claudii vallensium (martigny), which became its capital (imperial procuratorial province). under nero[edit] 	 ad? – alpes maritimae (on the french alps), created as a protectorate by augustus, it probably became a province under nero when alpes cottiae became a province (imperial procuratorial province) 	 ad – alpes cottiae (between france and italy), in bc it became a nominal prefecture which was run by the ruling dynasty of the cotii. it was named after the king, marcus julius cottius. it became a province in (imperial procuratorial province). under vespasian[edit] 	 ad – commagene, its client king was deposed and commagene was annexed to syria. 	 ad – lycia et pamphylia. vespasian (reigned ad – ) merged lycia, annexed by claudius, and pamphylia which had been a part of the province of galatia. under domitian[edit] 	 / ad – germania superior (southern germany) the push into southern germany up to the agri decumates by domitian created the necessity to create this province, which had been a military district in gallia belgica when it was restricted to the west bank of the river rhine (imperial proconsular province). 	 / ad – germania inferior (netherlands south of the river rhine, part of belgium, and part of germany west of the rhine) originally a military district under gallia belgica, created when germania superior was created (imperial proconsular province). under trajan[edit] 	 ad – arabia, formerly the kingdom of nabataea, it was annexed without resistance by trajan (imperial propraetorial province) 	 ad – dacia "trajana" (the romanian regions of south-eastern transylvania, the banat, and oltenia), conquered by trajan in the dacian wars (imperial proconsular province). divided into dacia superior and dacia inferior in by antoninus pius. divided into three provinces (tres daciae) in by marcus aurelius: porolissensis, apulensis and malvensis (imperial procuratorial provinces). abandoned by aurelian in . 	 / ad epirus nova (in western greece and southern albania), epirus was originally under the province of macedonia. it was placed under achaia in bc except for its northernmost part, which remained part of macedonia. it became a separate province under trajan, sometime between and ad and was renamed epirus nova (new epirus) (imperial procuratorial province). 	 ad – armenia, annexed by trajan, who deposed its client king. in hadrian restored this client kingdom 	 ad – mesopotamia (iraq) seized from the parthians and annexed by trajan, who invaded the parthian empire in late . given back to the parthians by hadrian in . in septimius severus conquered a small area in the north and named it mesopotamia. it was attacked twice by the persians (imperial praefectorial province). 	 ad – assyria, trajan suppressed a revolt by assyrians in mesopotamia and created the province. hadrian relinquished it in . under septimius severus[edit] 	 ad – numidia, was separated from africa proconsularis by septimius severus (imperial propraetorial province). 	 ad – syria coele and syria phoenice, septimius severus divided syria into these two units in the north and the south respectively. imperial provinces (proconsular and propraetorial respectively). under caracalla[edit] 	 ad – osrhoene, this kingdom (in northern mesopotamia, in parts of today's iraq, syria and turkey) was annexed. under aurelian[edit] 	 ad – dacia aureliana (most of bulgaria and serbia) created by aurelian in the territory of the former moesia superior after his evacuation of dacia trajana beyond the river danube. 	many of the above provinces were under roman military control or under the rule of roman clients for a long time before being officially constituted as civil provinces. only the date of the official formation of the province is marked above, not the date of conquest. late antiquity[edit] see also: list of late roman provinces the roman empire and its administrative divisions, c. emperor diocletian introduced a radical reform known as the tetrarchy ( – ), with a western and an eastern augustus or senior emperor, each seconded by a junior emperor (and designated successor) styled caesar, and each of these four defending and administering a quarter of the empire. in the s, diocletian divided the empire anew into almost a hundred provinces, including italy. their governors were hierarchically ranked, from the proconsuls of africa proconsularis and asia through those governed by consulares and correctores to the praesides. these last were the only ones recruited from the equestrian class. the provinces in turn were grouped into (originally twelve) dioceses, headed usually by a vicarius, who oversaw their affairs. only the proconsuls and the urban prefect of rome (and later constantinople) were exempt from this, and were directly subordinated to the tetrarchs. although the caesars were soon eliminated from the picture, the four administrative resorts were restored in by emperor constantine i, in the form of praetorian prefectures, whose holders generally rotated frequently, as in the usual magistracies but without a colleague. constantine also created a new capital, known after him as constantinople, which was sometimes called 'new rome' because it became the permanent seat of the government. in italy itself, rome had not been the imperial residence for some time and diocletian formally moved the seat of government to mediolanum (modern milan), while taking up residence himself in nicomedia. during the th century, the administrative structure was modified several times, including repeated experiments with eastern-western co-emperors. provinces and dioceses were split to form new ones, the praetorian prefecture of illyricum was abolished and reformed. in the end, with the rise of odoacer in and the death of julius nepos in , administration of the effectively reduced empire was permanently unified in constantinople. detailed information on the arrangements during this period is contained in the notitia dignitatum (record of offices), a document dating from the early th century. most data is drawn from this authentic imperial source, as the names of the areas governed and titles of the governors are given there. there are however debates about the source of some data recorded in the notitia, and it seems clear that some of its own sources are earlier than others. it is interesting to compare this with the list of military territories under the duces, in charge of border garrisons on so-called limites, and the higher ranking comites rei militaris, with more mobile forces, and the later, even higher magistri militum. justinian i made the next great changes in – by abolishing, in some provinces, the strict separation of civil and military authority that diocletian had established. this process was continued on a larger scale with the creation of extraordinary exarchates in the s and culminated with the adoption of the military theme system in the s, which replaced the older administrative arrangements entirely. some scholars use the reorganization of the empire into themata in this period as one of the demarcations between the dominate and the byzantine (or the later roman) period. as a matter of scholarly convenience, the medieval phase of the roman empire is today conventionally referred to as byzantine, named after the original name of the city that constantine rebuilt into the new capital of constantinople. primary sources for lists of provinces[edit] early roman empire provinces[edit] 	germania (ca. ) 	geography (ptolemy) (ca. ) late roman empire provinces[edit] 	laterculus veronensis (ca. ) 	notitia dignitatum (ca. – ) 	laterculus polemii silvii (ca. ) 	synecdemus (ca. ) see also[edit] 	ancient geography 	classical antiquity 	early world maps 	ecumene 	geography 	history of cartography 	history of the mediterranean region 	latin spelling and pronunciation 	list of graeco-roman geographers 	list of historical maps 	local government (ancient roman) references[edit] inline citations[edit] 	^ richardson, john ( ). "fines provinciae". frontiers in the roman world. proceedings of the ninth workshop of the international network impact of empire (durhan, – april ). brill. p.  ff. 	^ "the administration of the empire". the cambridge ancient history. cambridge university press. : – , . . 	^ ando, clifford ( ). "the administration of the provinces". a companion to the roman empire. blackwell publishers. p.  . 	^ lintott, andrew ( ). the constitution of the roman republic. oxford university press. p.  ff. 	^ brennan, t. corey ( ). the praetorship in the roman republic. oxford university press. pp.  – . 	^ lintott, andrew. the constitution of the roman republic. p.  . 	^ brennan, t. corey. the praetorship in the roman republic. p.  . 	^ nicolet, claude ( ) [ ]. space, geography, and politics in the early roman empire. university of michigan press. pp.  , . 	^ hekster, olivier; kaizer, ted. frontiers in the roman world. p.  . 	^ lintott, andrew. the constitution of the roman republic. p.  . 	^ eder, w. ( ). "the augustan principate as binding link". between republic and empire. university of california press. p.  . sources referenced[edit] 	early imperial roman provinces, at livius.org 	pauly–wissowa 	lintott, andrew ( ). imperium romanum. london: routledge. 	mommsen, theodor ( ). the provinces of the roman empire. vols. london: ares publishers. 	scarre, chris ( ). "the eastern provinces," the penguin historical atlas of ancient rome. london: penguin books, – . 	westermann, großer atlas zur weltgeschichte (in german) 	loewenstein, karl ( ). the governance of rome. springer. isbn  - - - . external links[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to roman provinces. 	map of the roman empire 	map of the roman empire in the year 	https://web.archive.org/web/ /http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-dgra/ 	 	v 	t 	e provinces of the early roman empire ( ad) 	 	achaea 	aegyptus 	africa proconsularis 	alpes cottiae 	alpes maritimae 	alpes poeninae 	arabia petraea 	armenia 	asia 	assyria 	bithynia and pontus 	britannia 	cappadocia 	cilicia 	corsica and sardinia 	crete and cyrenaica 	cyprus 	dacia 	dalmatia 	epirus 	galatia 	gallia aquitania 	gallia belgica 	gallia lugdunensis 	gallia narbonensis 	germania inferior 	germania superior 	hispania baetica 	hispania lusitania 	hispania tarraconensis 	italia † 	iudaea 	lycia et pamphylia 	macedonia 	mauretania caesariensis 	mauretania tingitana 	mesopotamia 	moesia inferior 	moesia superior 	noricum 	pannonia inferior 	pannonia superior 	raetia 	sicilia 	syria 	thracia 	 	† italy was never constituted as a province, instead retaining a special juridical status until diocletian's reforms. 	 	v 	t 	e late roman and byzantine provinces ( th– th centuries ad) 	 	history 	as found in the notitia dignitatum. provincial administration reformed and dioceses established by diocletian, c.  . permanent praetorian prefectures established after the death of constantine i. empire permanently partitioned after . exarchates of ravenna and africa established after . after massive territorial losses in the th century, the remaining provinces were superseded by the theme system in c.  – , although in asia minor and parts of greece they survived under the themes until the early th century. 	 	western roman empire ( – ) 	 	praetorian prefecture of gaul	 	diocese of gaul	 	alpes poeninae et graiae 	belgica i 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born and educated at the royal high school and university. he practised as a solicitor in edinburgh – , after which he went to london and became head of the firm of martin and leslie, parliamentary agents. his first contribution to literature was the humorous bon gaultier ballads, written along with w.e. aytoun, which remained popular for a long time; originally contributed to a magazine, they appeared in book form in . funerary monument, brompton cemetery, london martin's translations include dante's vita nuova, oehlenschläger's correggio and aladdin, heinrich heine's poems and ballads, friedrich schiller's wilhelm tell, and hertz's king rené's daughter.[ ] he also published a complete translation of horace with a life, and one of catullus. he is probably best known for his life of the prince consort ( – ), the writing of which was entrusted to him by queen victoria, a work which won him her lifelong friendship. he also wrote lives of professor aytoun and lord lyndhurst. in he married helena faucit, a well-known actress, and author of studies on shakespeare's female characters, whose life he published in . the couple lived for some time at bryntysilio {the hill of st. tyssilio} which he bought in , near llangollen, where in they were visited by the queen during her progress in wales. martin kept up his intellectual activity into old age, published in a translation of leopardi's poems, and monographs ( ). he was lord rector of st. andrews , ll.d. of edinburgh , and knight commander of the order of the bath . he died in and is buried in brompton cemetery, london. references[edit] 	^ martin, theodore. king rené's daughter: a danish lyrical drama, w. crosby and h.p. nichols, . sources[edit] 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: cousin, john william ( ). "martin, sir theodore". a short biographical dictionary of english literature. london: j. m. dent & sons – via wikisource. 	chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "martin, sir theodore" . encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. 	lee, sidney, ed. ( ). "martin, theodore" . dictionary of national biography ( nd supplement). . london: smith, elder & co. 	ward, a. w.; basu, sayoni. "martin, sir theodore ( – )". oxford dictionary of national biography (online ed.). oxford university press. doi: . /ref:odnb/ . 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"roman" is still used to refer to a citizen of the city itself and the term romioi is sometimes (albeit rarely) used as their identity by modern greeks. additionally, the names and identities of some romance peoples remain connected to their roman roots especially in the alps (such as the romansh people and the romands) and the balkans (such as the romanians, aromanians and istro-romanians). contents 	 meaning of "roman" 	 roman republic 	 . political history 	 . roman citizenship 	 (ancient/classical) roman empire 	 . extensions of citizenship 	 . romans in late antiquity 	 later history in western europe 	 . romans in the post-roman west 	 . possibility of reunification and justinian's wars 	 . disappearance of the romans 	 . reversion to association with the city of rome 	 later history in the eastern mediterranean 	 . romans in the byzantine empire 	 . late byzantine identity 	 . romans in the ottoman empire 	 as a modern identity 	 . greeks 	 . western romance peoples 	 . balkan romance peoples 	 see also 	 references 	 . citations 	 . cited bibliography 	 . cited web sources meaning of "roman"[edit] see also: romanitas st century ad wall painting from pompeii depicting a multigenerational banquet. the term "roman" is typically used interchangeably to describe a historical timespan, a material culture, a geographical location and a personal identity. though these concepts are obviously related, they are not identical. although modern historians tend to have a preferred idea of what being roman meant, so-called romanitas (a term rarely used in ancient rome itself), the idea of "romanness" was never static or unchanging.[ ] what being roman meant and what rome itself was would have been viewed considerably different by a roman under the roman republic in the nd century bc and a roman living in constantinople in the th century ad. even then, some elements remained common throughout much of roman history.[ ] unlike other ancient peoples, such as the greeks or gauls, the romans did not see their common identity as one necessarily based on shared language or inherited ethnicity. instead, the important factors of being roman were being part of the same larger religious or political community and sharing common customs, values, morals and ways of life.[ ] what an individual believed and did was far more important to the concept of roman identity than bloodlines and shared descent.[ ] the key to "romanness" in the minds of some famous roman orators, such as cicero, was keeping with roman tradition and serving the roman state. they did not, however, by any means dismiss the importance of blood kinship and its influence on the character of individual romans; to do so would, paradoxically, be un-roman in itself. instead, they made frequent appeals to their noble contemporaries to live up to the greatness of their forefathers.[ ] genealogy was typically only invoked by individual illustrious families; other important roman traditions emphasize the collective descent of rome. rome was uniquely capable of incorporating other peoples, a sentiment originating from the city of rome's foundation myths, such as the city functioning as an asylum opened up by romulus and the rape of the sabine women,[ ] used to represent the commingling of peoples that featured in their city's history from the very beginning.[ ] cicero and other roman authors sneered at peoples such as the athenians, who prided themselves in their shared descent, and instead found pride in rome's status as a "mongrel nation".[ ] dionysius of halicarnassus, a greek historian who lived in roman times, even embellished the multicultural origin of the romans, writing that romans had since the foundation of rome welcomed innumerable immigrants not only from the rest of italy, but from the entire world, whose cultures merged with theirs.[ ] though some roman authors, such as tacitus and suetonius, expressed concerns of roman "blood purity" as roman citizens from outside of roman italy increased in number, their ideas of "purity" differed significantly from modern ideas of race and ethnicity.[ ] voicing their concerns, neither suggested stopping the naturalization of new citizens, but instead limiting the number of citizenships granted.[ ] based on their writings, ancient authors do not appear to have closely associated traits such as physical features or skin color with ideas of blood purity, descent or "race".[ ] roman republic[edit] political history[edit] see also: rise of rome a graphic showing border changes of the roman state from the th century bc to the th century ad. one of the most important aspects of ancient roman life was warfare; the romans went on military campaigns almost every year, rituals marked the beginning and the end of the campaigning seasons and elections of chief magistrates (commanders of the army) generally took place on the campus martius ("field of mars", mars being the roman god of war). all roman citizens were liable for military service, with most serving for several years during their youth. all soldiers could earn honors and rewards for valor in battle, though the highest military reward of all, the triumph, was reserved for commanders and generals.[ ] roman warfare was not overwhelmingly successful for the first few centuries of the city's history, with most campaigns being small engagements with the other latin city-states in the immediate vicinity, but from the middle of the th century bc onwards, the romans won a series of victories which saw them rise to rule all of italy south of the po river by bc. following the conquest of italy, the romans waged war against the great powers of their time; carthage to the south and west and the various hellenistic kingdoms to the east, and by the middle of the second century bc, all rivals had been defeated and rome became recognized by other countries as the definite masters of the mediterranean.[ ] political divisions in roman-controlled italy before the social war. roman communities are indicated with green. although roman technological prowess and their ability to adopt strategies and technology from their enemies made their army among the most formidable in the ancient world, the roman war machine was also made powerful by the vast pool of manpower available for the roman legions. this manpower derived from the way in which the romans had organized their conquered land in italy. by the late rd century bc, about a third of the people in italy south of the po river had been made roman citizens (meaning they were liable for military service) and the rest had been made allies, frequently called on to join roman wars.[ ] these allies were eventually made roman citizens as well after refusal by the roman government to make them so was met with the social war, after which roman citizenship was extended to all the people south of the po river.[ ] in bc, citizenship rights were also extended to the people of cisalpine gaul by julius caesar.[ ] though rome had throughout its history been continually generous with its granting of citizenship than other city states, granting significant rights to peoples of conquered territories, immigrants and their freed slaves, it was only with the social war that a majority of the people in italy became recognized as romans, with the number of romans rapidly increasing throughout the centuries that followed due to further extensions of citizenship.[ ] roman citizenship[edit] see also: roman citizenship a collection of ancient roman busts displayed in the vatican museums in rome. though it could be explicitly granted by the roman people to non-citizens, roman citizenship (or civitas) was automatically granted to children whose parents consisted of either two roman citizens or one citizen and one peregrinus ("foreigner") who possessed connubium (the right to a roman marriage). citizenship allowed for participation in roman affairs, such as voting rights. by the time of the rd century bc, romans of all social classes held nominally equal voting rights, though the value of your vote was tied to your personal wealth. in addition to voting rights, citizenship also made citizens eligible for military service and public office, both of these rights also tied to wealth and property qualifications.[ ] the latin rights, which originally encompassed latium but was then extended to encompass most of italy, ensured that most of the people in italy enjoyed the benefits of roman citizenship but lacked voting rights. because they were bound to rome and often called upon for military service but lacked the rights of the roman citizens, rome's italian allies rebelled in the social war, after which the latin rights in their traditional sense were more or less abolished in favor of a complete integration of the people in italy as romans.[ ] typically, a non-citizen could acquire roman citizenship through five different mechanisms: 	non-citizens who served in the roman army were typically granted citizenship.[ ] 	men without citizenship could obtain it through holding office in cities and other settlements with the latin right.[ ] 	specific individuals could be granted citizenship directly.[ ] 	whole communities could receive "block grants", with all their inhabitants becoming citizens.[ ] 	slaves freed by roman citizens became roman citizens themselves.[ ] (ancient/classical) roman empire[edit] see also: demography of the roman empire extensions of citizenship[edit] emperor caracalla's (r.  – ) antonine constitution ( ) formally made all the free inhabitants of the roman empire into roman citizens. the populace in the early roman empire was composed of several groups of distinct legal standing, including the roman citizens themselves (cives romani), the provincials (provinciales), foreigners (peregrini) and free non-citizens such as freedmen (freed slaves) and slaves. roman citizens were subject to the roman legal system while provincials were subject to whatever laws and legal systems had been in place in their area at the time it was annexed by the romans. over time, roman citizenship was gradually extended more and more and there was a regular "siphoning" of people from less privileged legal groups to more privileged groups, increasing the total percentage of subjects recognized as roman citizens (e.g. romans) though the incorporation of the provinciales and peregrini.[ ] the roman empire's capability to integrate peoples in this way was one of the key elements which ensured its success. in antiquity, it was significantly easier to become a roman than it was to become a member or citizen of any other contemporary state. this aspect of the roman state was seen as important even by some of the emperors. for instance, emperor claudius pointed it out when questioned by the senate on admitting gauls to join the senate: what else proved fatal to lacedaemon or athens, in spite of their power in arms, but their policy of holding the conquered aloof as alien-born? but the sagacity of our own founder romulus was such that several times he fought and naturalized a people in the course of the same day![ ] from the principate onwards, "barbarians" (peoples from beyond rome's borders) settled and integrated into the roman world. such settlers would have been granted certain legal rights simply by being within roman territory, becoming provinciales and thus being eligible to serve as auxilia (auxiliary soldiers), which in turn made them eligible to become full cives romani. through this relatively rapid process, thousands of former barbarians could quickly become romans. this tradition of straightforward integration eventually culminated in the antonine constitution, issued by emperor caracalla in , in which all free inhabitants of empire were granted the citizenship, with the exception of the dediticii, people who had become subject to rome through surrender in war, and freed slaves.[ ][ ] at this point, roman citizenship in the empire was not as significant as it had been in the republic, chiefly due to the change from a republican to an imperial government invalidating the need for voting rights and because service in the roman military was no longer compulsory.[ ] caracalla's grant contributed to a vast increase in the number of people with the nomen (name indicating familial association) aurelius (caracalla was a nickname for the emperor, whose actual name was marcus aurelius severus antoninus).[ ] by the time of caracalla's edict, there were already many people throughout the provinces who were considered (and considered themselves) romans; through the centuries of roman expansion large numbers of veterans and opportunists had settled in the provinces. colonies founded by julius caesar and augustus alone saw between . and a million people from italy settled in rome's provinces. around the time of augustus's death, four to seven percent of the free people in the provinces of the empire were roman citizens.[ ] in addition to colonists, many provincials had also become citizens through grants by emperors (who sometimes granted citizenship to individuals, families or cities), holding offices in certain cities or serving in the army.[ ] romans in late antiquity[edit] th century portrait of a woman from roman egypt. by late antiquity, many inhabitants of the roman empire had become romani, with the term no longer simply being a civic designation for a citizen of the city of rome, but referred to a citizen of the orbis romanus, the roman world. by this time, the city of rome had lost its exceptional status in the empire. the historian ammianus marcellinus, definitely one of the romani, hailing from modern-day greece, wrote in the th century and refers to rome almost as a foreign city, full of vice and corruption. few of the romani probably embodied all aspects of what the term had previously meant, many of them would have come from remote or less prestigious provinces and practiced religions and cults unheard of in rome itself. many of them would also have spoken "barbarian" languages or greek instead of latin.[ ] the prelevant view of the romans themselves was that the populus romanus, roman people, represented a "people by constitution" as opposed to barbarian peoples such as the franks or goths, who were described as gentes ("people by descent"; ethnicities). to the people of the empire, "roman" was just one layer of identification, in addition to local identities (similar to local and national identities today, a person from california can identify him/herself as a "californian" within the context of the united states and an "american" in the context of the world).[ ] if a person originated from one of the major imperial regions, such as gaul or britannia, one might have been viewed as a roman, but still distinct from romans of other major regions. it is clear from the writings of later historians, such as the gallo-roman gregory of tours, that such lower levels of identity, such as being the citizen of a particular region, province or city, were important within the empire. this importance, combined with there being clearly understood differences between local populations (the roman historian ammianus marcellinus comments on the difference between "gauls" and "italians" for instance) illustrates that there were no fundamental differences between the local roman identities and the gentes-identities applied to barbarians, though the romans themselves would not have seen the two as equivalent concepts. in the late roman army, there were regiments named after roman sub-identities (such as "celts" and "batavians") as well as regiments named after gentes, such as the franks or saxons.[ ] religion had been an important aspect of romanitas since pagan times and as christianity gradually became the dominant religion in the empire, pagan aristocrats became aware that power was slipping from their hands as times changed. some of them began to emphasize that they were the only "true romans" because they preserved the traditional roman literary culture and religion. this view enjoyed some support by poets and orators, such as the orator quintus aurelius symmachus, who saw these pagan aristocrats as preserving the ancient roman way of life, which would eventually allow rome to triumph over all of its enemies, as it had before. this movement was met with strong opposition from the leaders of the church in rome, with some church leaders, such as ambrose, the archbishop of mediolanum, launching formal and vicious assaults on paganism and those members of the elite which defended it. followers of paganism viewed rome as the greatest city in the empire because of its glorious pagan past, and though christians accepted rome as a great city, it was great because of its glorious christian present, not its pagan past. this gave romanitas a new christian element, which would become important in later centuries. though the city would be important as the source of auctoritas and the self-perception of the imperial elite, it was not as important politically during the late empire as it had been before.[ ] later history in western europe[edit] romans in the post-roman west[edit] brick with the emblem of theodoric the great, king of the ostrogoths, found in the temple of vesta, rome. it reads "+reg(nante) d(omino) n(ostro) theoderico [b]o[n]o rom(a)e", which translates as with our master theodoric the good reigning in rome [this brick was made]. the titulature dominus noster had in previous times mostly been applied only to roman emperors. the end of direct imperial control in western europe did not mean an end to the roman identity, which remained somewhat prominent for centuries.[ ] the predominant socio-political situation in western europe between the death of the last western emperor, julius nepos, in and the wars of emperor justinian i in the th century was a more or less completely barbarian military but also a more or less completely roman civil aristocracy and administration, a situation different, but clearly evolved, from the situation that existed in late antiquity. the romans in western europe at the time appear to have been somewhat confused; they were well aware that the western roman empire was no longer functioning but seem to have been unaware that it had ended.[ ] the barbarian kings in western europe often assumed imperial powers and took over imperial institutions, this practice was especially prominent in italy since it was the empire's ancient heartland.[ ] the early barbarian kings of italy, first odoacer and later theoderic the great, acted ostensibly as viceroys to the remaining roman emperor in constantinople. like the western roman emperors had done before them, these barbarian kings continued to appoint western consuls which would in turn be accepted by the emperors in the east and by other barbarian kings throughout western europe.[ ] although the romans detested kings, a holdover from the anti-monarchical sentiment that had led to the foundation of the roman republic almost a thousand years prior, the title of rex, assumed by the barbarian kings, formed a useful basis of authority that barbarian rulers could use in diplomacy with other kingdoms and with the surviving imperial court in constantinople.[ ] consular diptych of rufius gennadius probus orestes exhibited at the victoria and albert museum. orestes was a roman consul appointed in , during the time that rome was under ostrogothic rule. theoderic was careful to maintain the loyalty of his roman subjects (which represented the majority of the people in his kingdom) and he deliberately likened himself to the old emperors, minting coins in much the same way, wearing purple clothing in public and during official ceremonies and maintained his court at ravenna in imperial splendor. theoderic's laws, the edictum theoderici, were also clearly connected to roman law in both content and form.[ ] emperor anastasius i returned the western roman imperial regalia, held in constantinople since they had been sent there by odoacer in , to italy, then ruled by theoderic.[ ] these imperial regalia appear to have been worn by theoderic and there are references by roman senators to theoderic as an emperor, indicating that the citizens of rome itself viewed these barbarian kings as taking on the traditional role of the emperor. an inscription by caecina mavortius basilius decius (western consul in , praetorian prefect of italy – ) titles theoderic as dominus noster gloriosissimus adque inclytus rex theodericus victor ac triumfator semper augustus, but theoderic himself appears to have preferred to title himself simply as "king".[ ] theoderic's unwillingness to assume the imperial title may have been mainly due to being careful not to insult the emperors in constantinople.[ ] roman law continued to be in use and be important in western europe through the early middle ages. both the visigoths and the franks issued law collections which either explicitly mention, or presuppose, the existence of a large population of romans within their territories as barbarian laws distinguish between the barbarians who live by their own laws and the romans, who live by roman law.[ ] it was still possible to become a "roman citizen" in the west in the th century, as indicated by visigothic and frankish works referencing the benefits of doing so. there is preserved letters from both east and west around this time which reference the act of freeing slaves and making them roman citizens; pope gregory the great is recorded as having freed slaves and made them cives romanos and there is documentation in bari, part of byzantine italy, on a slave who was freed and thus became a politēs rōmaiōn. roman status could also be conferred on people who weren't slaves, a law by the lombard king liutprand specifies that if a "roman" married a lombard wife, that wife and all children of the couple would become roman and the wife's relatives would no longer have the right to sue her, perhaps an idea which seemed attractive to lombard women who wanted to escape the control of their relatives.[ ] possibility of reunification and justinian's wars[edit] map of the realm of the gothic king theodoric the great at its height in , following the annexation of the southern parts of the burgundian kingdom. theoderic ruled both the visigothic and ostrogothic kingdoms and exerted hegemony over the burgundians and vandals. though theoderic was sometimes called by the title augustus (emperor) by his subjects, he never formally assumed the title, using rex (king) instead. western europe after the fall of the western roman empire was not destined to develop into what later historians have referred to as the dark ages. one of many possibilities for europe's future at the time was reunification through military action. in , most of western europe was under the control of two barbarian kings; clovis i of the franks and theoderic of the goths. both of these kings were called by the title augustus by their roman subjects, though neither formally adopted the title, and they were poised to war against each other. to their contemporaries, the looming conflict between the goths and franks might have looked like the next, perhaps decisive war in the struggle between the gallic and italian factions which had dominated inter-imperial relations in the western roman empire in the th century (such as the war between emperor honorius and the usurper constantine iii). had the war happened, and been as decisive as other battles in this period typically were, it is likely that the victorious king would have re-established the western roman empire under his own rule.[ ] the war between theoderic and clovis never transpired, but the idea that a powerful barbarian king might restore the western roman empire under barbarian rule saw the court at constantinople beginning to emphasize its exclusive roman legitimacy. through the remaining part of its thousand-year history, the eastern empire would repeatedly attempt to assert its right to govern the west through military campaigns. a key development was what later historians have termed the "justiniaic ideological offensive"; a re-writing of th century history which portrayed the west as lost to barbarian invasions (rather than the true situation, that the barbarian rulers had been gradually given power by the western emperors themselves and worked within a fundamentally roman framework). this ideology is prominently seen in procopius's wars and marcellinus comes's chronicle.[ ] though the eastern emperor justinian i restored much of the former western roman empire to imperial roman control, his wars also brought with them the end of the ancient roman senate (though a senate survived in constantinople) and ensured the gradual disappearance of roman identity in western europe. a fundamental turning point in what it meant to be roman was the eastern emperor justinian i's wars aimed at reconquering the lost provinces of the western roman empire. by the end of his wars ( – ), the justiniaic ideology that the west was no longer part of the roman empire had been asserted. though italy and north africa were restored to imperial control, there could be no doubt in the aftermath of the wars that areas beyond justinian's authority were no longer part of the roman empire and instead remained lost to barbarians. this resulted in a dramatic decline in roman identity beyond the regions controlled by the byzantine empire and led to the decisive end of the "roman world" that had existed since the days of the roman republic.[ ] the roman senate continued to function during gothic rule of italy and senators dominated the politics within the city of rome well into the gothic wars, during which the senate in the city eventually disappeared and most of its members moved to constantinople instead. the senate as an idea achieved a certain legacy in the west. in gaul, members of the aristocracy were sometimes identified as "senators" from the th century to the th century and the carolingian dynasty claimed to be descended from a former roman senatorial family. in spain, references to people of "senatorial stock" appear as late as the th century and in lombard italy, "senator" became a personal name, with at least two people known to have had the name in the th century. the practice of representing themselves as "the senate" was revived by the aristocracy within the city of rome in the th century, though the institution itself was not revived.[ ] disappearance of the romans[edit] see also: romano-germanic culture king clovis i of the franks dictates the salic law surrounded by his military chiefs. in salic law, the romans were recognized as a parallel population alongside the franks within clovis's frankish kingdom. there is substantial evidence that the meaning of "roman" changed significantly during the th century. in the east, being roman became defined not only by loyalty to the emperor but also increasingly by religious orthodoxy (though what that explicitly meant also changed through the ages). the gothic wars in italy had split the roman elite unto those who supported the goths and later enjoyed lombard rule and those who supported the emperor and later withdrew to regions still governed by the empire. with this, roman identity no longer provided a sense of social cohesion. this, combined with the abolition of the senate in rome itself, removed groups of people who had previously always set the standard for what "roman" was supposed to mean. through the centuries that followed, the division between the non-roman and roman parts of the population faded in the west as roman political unity collapsed.[ ] this decline in people identifying as romans in the west can be prominently seen in northern gaul. in the th century, the personnel of churches in northern gaul had been dominated by people with roman names, for instance only a handful of names of non-roman and non-biblical origin are recorded in the episcopal list of metz from before the year , a situation that is reversed after when bishops had predominantly frankish names. the reason for this change in naming practices might be a change in naming practices in gaul, that people entering church services no longer adopted roman names or that the roman families which had provided the church personnel dropped in status.[ ] in salic law, produced under clovis i around the year , the romans and the franks are two parallel major populations in the frankish kingdom and although the franks have somewhat of an advantage, both have well-defined legal statuses. a century later in the lex ripuaria, the romani are just one of many smaller semi-free populations, restricted in their legal capacity. this legal arrangement would have been unthinkable during the rule of the roman empire, and even under the reign of clovis.[ ] through the early middle ages, the legal significance of having roman status also faded away in western europe and spoken latin fragmented and split into what would develop into the modern romance languages. the unifying and sometimes contradictory roman identity was replaced with local identities based on the region one was from (such as provence or aquitania). where romans had once been accepted as making up the majority of the population, such as in hispania and gaul, they quietly faded away as their descendants accepted other names and identities.[ ] the benefit of abandoning the identity as roman and reverting to more local identities was that local identities were not binary opposed to the identity as a "frank" or "goth" and could exist together with them, providing legal advantages that "roman" no longer did.[ ] furthermore, it is possible that people who identified as "romans" were victims of anti-roman sentiments, as experienced by the th century saint goar of aquitaine. although roman identity would linger on in western europe in some places, mostly being restricted to a few minorities in the alpine regions, some residual meanings of "roman" would remain important through the middle ages, such as "roman" as a citizen of the byzantine empire or "roman" as a citizen of the city of rome or representative of the roman catholic church.[ ] the significance of being a roman thus eventually completely disappeared in western europe, together with the roman identity itself. th century sources from salzburg still reference that there was a social group in the city called the romani tributales but romans at this time mostly merged with the wider tributales (tributary peoples) distinction rather than having a separate roman distinction in frankish documents. throughout most of former gaul, the roman elite which had lingered for centuries merged with the frankish elite and lost their previously distinct identity and though "romans" continued to be a dominant identity in regional politics in southern gaul for a while, the specific references to some individuals as "romans" or "descendants of romans" indicates that the roman status of some people in gaul was perhaps no longer being taken for granted and needed pointing out. the last groups of romani in the frankish realm lingered for some time, especially in salzburg and raetia, but seem to fade away in the early th century[ ] (except for the romansh people in southeastern raetia).[ ] by , when charlemagne was crowned as a new roman emperor in rome, the first time an emperor was crowned in rome itself since antiquity, self-identification as a roman was largely gone in western europe. nevertheless, the name of rome was to remain a source of power and prestige throughout history, becoming associated with two most powerful figures of the catholic western europe (the pope and the holy roman emperor) and also being invoked by later aristocratic medieval families who sometimes proclaimed and were proud of their alleged roman origins.[ ] reversion to association with the city of rome[edit] personifications of (from left to right) the slavic, german, gallic (french) and roman peoples bringing gifts to holy roman emperor otto iii, depicted in the th or th century gospels of otto iii. as the seat of the pope, the city of rome continued to hold significance despite the fall of the western roman empire and sack of the city by both the visigoths and the vandals.[ ] although the glorious past of rome was remembered in the middle ages, whatever power rome had once held was completely overshadowed by the city being the seat of the papal see. in the th century writings of gregory of tours, rome is always described as a christian city, first being mentioned once saint peter arrives there. the longest discussion on rome is about the election of pope gregory the great, and gregory of tours appears indifferent to rome at one point having been the capital of a great empire.[ ] through the early middle ages, the term romani became more and more heavily associated by authors in western europe with the population of the city itself, or the population of the larger duchy of rome. the change from an identity applied to people throughout italy to an identity applied to the city itself can be pinpointed to the th century; cassiodorus, who served the gothic kings, use the term romani to describe roman people across italy and pope gregory the great, at the end of the th century, uses romani almost exclusively for the people in the city. the historia langobardorum, written by paul the deacon in the th century, postulates that the term civis romanus ("roman citizen") is applied solely to someone who either lived in, or was born in, the city of rome and it could for instance be applied to the archbishop of ravenna, marinianus, only because he had originally been born in rome. this indicates that the term at some point ceased to generally refer to all the latin-speaking subjects of the lombard kings and became restricted to the city itself.[ ] after the byzantine empire restored imperial control over rome, the city had become a peripheral city within the empire. its importance stemmed from being the seat of the pope, the first in order among five foremost patriarchs of the church, and the city's population was not specially administered and lacked political participation in wider imperial affairs except for its interactions with the papacy.[ ] under byzantine rule, the popes often used the fact that they had the backing of the "people of rome" as a legitimizing factor when clashing with the emperors. the political implications of the name and citizenry of rome thus remained somewhat important, at least in the eyes of the westerners.[ ] th-century illustration depicting the sack of rome ( ) by the visigothic king alaric i. when the temporal power of the popes was established through the foundation of the papal states (established through the frankish king pepin granting control of former byzantine provinces conquered from the lombards to the pope), the population of the city of rome became a constitutional identity which accompanied and supported the sovereignty of the popes. in the minds of the contemporary popes, the sovereign of the papal states was saint peter, who delegated control to his vicars on earth, the popes. however, the popes were too deeply rooted in the roman imperial system to imagine a worldly government established only on religious relationships. as such, the "romans" became the political body of this new state and the term, once used for all the inhabitants of byzantine italy, became increasingly used to exclusively refer to the inhabitants of the city. after pepin's donations the popes also revived the concept of respublica romanorum as something associated with, but distinct from, the church. in the new version of the idea, the pope was the lord of the romans, but the romans themselves, as citizens of rome, had a share in the public rights connected to the sovereignty of the city.[ ] medieval sources on the "romans" as the people living in rome are generally quite hostile. the romans are frequently described as being "as proud as they are helpless" and as speaking the ugliest of all the italian dialects. because they repeatedly attempted to take a position independent from the papacy and/or the holy roman emperors (both of whom were considered as more universal rulers. whose policies extended much further than the city itself), the romans were often seen as intruders in affairs that exceeded their competence. the roman people were in turn overwhelmingly negatively oriented towards the franks, which they identified as "the gauls". the frankish emperors from charlemagne onwards decreed that frankish law could be used in the courts of their empire when demanded. this soured relations, and frankish nobility which visited italy and rome would often speak in their own frankish language when they did not want the romans to understand them. roman sources from this time typically describe "the gauls" as vain, aggressive and insolent. the roman dislike for the franks sometimes turned into fear, as the franks would more and more frequently appear outside their gates with armies.[ ] despite this fear, the population of rome and people in most other parts of italy (with the exception of southern italy, still under byzantine influence) saw charlemagne and his successors as true roman emperors.[ ] the reasons for this were many. although the romans accepted that there was continuity between rome and constantinople, and saw the carolingian emperors as having more to do with the lombard kings of italy than the ancient roman emperors,[ ] the byzantines were often seen as grieci ("greeks") rather than romans and were seen as having abandoned rome, the seat of empire, and lost the roman way of life and the latin language; thus the empire ruling in constantinople had not survived, but had fled from its responsibilities. this disconnect shows that the city of rome and the byzantines had grown very far apart from each other.[ ] to the citizens of rome and other italians of the th and th century, the original roman empire was a thing of the past. there definitely used to be an empire, such as during the time of constantine the great, but it had now transferred itself to the eastern mediterranean and ceased to be properly roman, now inhabited by "greeks". rome was no longer a city of emperors, but was the city of saint peter only. a real roman empire could have only one capital, rome, and its possible existence rested on the man who ruled in rome, the pope. as such, the new emperors in the west (an office that eventually developed into the holy roman emperors) could be emperors only because they were crowned and anointed by the pope.[ ] the support of what was perceived by western europe as the populus romanus was a highly important factor during charlemagne's coronation. charlemagne himself actively hoped to suppress the idea of romani as an ethnicity, in an effort to avoid the possibility of the population of rome proclaiming an emperor in the same way that the franks could proclaim a rex francorum (king of the franks).[ ] later history in the eastern mediterranean[edit] romans in the byzantine empire[edit] main article: byzantine greeks th century mosaic in the basilica of san vitale, ravenna depicting emperor justinian i (center) surrounded by court officials and guards. the figures to his immediate left and right are assumed to be the prominent generals belisarius (left) and narses (right). in stark contrast to the catastrophic collapse of the western roman empire, the eastern roman empire (frequently called the byzantine empire by modern historians) survived the th century more or less intact and its predominantly greek-speaking population continued to identify themselves as romans (rhomaioi), as they remained inhabitants of the roman empire. the name romania ("land of the romans"), a later popular designation by the people of the byzantine empire for their country, is attested as early as when it was used by the inhabitants of the city of sirmium for their country. although rarely expressed as an idea before the th century, the earliest mention of the byzantine empire as being "greek" is from the th century, written by bishop avitus of vienne in the context of the frankish king clovis i's baptism; "let greece, to be sure, rejoice in having an orthodox ruler, but she is no longer the only one to deserve such a great gift".[ ] to the early byzantines (up until around the th century) the term "greeks" or "hellenes" was offensive, as it downplayed their roman nature and furthermore associated them with the ancient pagan greeks rather than the more recent christian romans.[ ] the idea of the res publica remained an important imperial concept for centuries. in the frankish king childebert ii's letters to emperor maurice, the emperor is called the princeps romanae reipublicae and through the th and th centuries, terms such as res publica and sancta res publica was still sometimes applied to the byzantine empire by authors in western europe. this practice only ceased as byzantine control over italy and rome itself crumbled and "roman" as a name and concept became more heavily associated by western authors with the city itself. the use of the term romani was somewhat similar, usually often used in reference to the inhabitants of the byzantine empire by early medieval western authors when not used for the population of the city itself. in isidore of seville's history of the goths, the term romani refers to the byzantine empire and their remaining garrisons in spain, and the term is never applied to the population of the former western provinces.[ ] th century hagia sophia mosaic. on the left, emperor constantine ix is identified as "faithful in christ the god, emperor of the romans". references to the romans as a gens, like the barbarian gentes, begin to appear around the time of justinian's conquests. priscian, a grammarian who was born in roman north africa and later lived in constantinople during the late th century and early th century, refers in his work to the existence of a gens romana. letters written by the frankish king childebert ii to emperor maurice in constantinople in the s talk of the peace between the two "gentes of the franks and the romans". the th century historian jordanes, himself identifying as a roman, refers to the existence of a roman gens in the title of his work on roman history, de summa temporum vel de origine actibusque gentis romanorum. the idea of romans as a gens like any other didn't become generally accepted in the east until the th century.[ ] for instance, emperor basil i (r.  – ) still considered "roman" to be an identity that was defined as an opposite to being of a barbarian gens.[ ] before the th century, the "romans" discussed in byzantine texts usually refer to individuals loyal to the byzantine emperor who followed chalcedonian christianity. as such, the romans were all the christian subjects of the emperor.[ ] the biblical joshua portrayed as a byzantine soldier wearing the lamellar klivanion cuirass and a straight spathion sword (hosios loukas). in the th chapter of emperor constantine vii's th century political treatise de administrando imperio, the emperor expressed the idea that the imperium had been transferred from rome to constantinople once rome stopped being ruled by an emperor. the th century historian john kinnamos expresses similar views, seeing the rights to the imperium as having disappeared from rome and the west since power passed there from the last western roman emperors to barbarian kings who had no claim to being roman. as such, the ruler in constantinople was the sole ruler in europe who could claim to be a true roman. as such, the transfer of power from rome to constantinople that had begun under constantine the great had been finished once the last few western roman emperors were dethroned or killed. this view was important in byzantine ideology as it served as the basis for their idea of unbroken continuity between rome and constantinople.[ ] the population within the byzantine empire saw themselves as living within the roman empire but were aware that their empire was no longer as powerful as it once had been. the th century text doctrina jacobi, set in carthage, states that the territory ruled by the romans had once stretched from spain in the west to persia in the east and africa in the south to britain in the north, with all the people in it having been subordinated to the romans by the will of god. though the old borders were still visible through the presence of monuments erected by the ancient emperors, the author of the doctrina jacobi stated that one could now see that the present roman realm (the romania) had been humbled.[ ] the losses that the empire had experienced, in particular the loss of the levant, egypt, and northwest africa in the muslim conquests in the th century, were typically blamed on the heresy of the emperors (e.g. iconoclasm) and the christians who had once lived in these lost regions ceased to be recognized by the byzantines as "romans". this eventually led to "roman" being applied more to the dominant greek-speaking population of the remaining empire than to inhabitants of the empire in general. the late th century was the first time (in the writings of st. anastasios the persian) that greek, rather than latin, was referred to as the rhomaisti (roman way of speaking).[ ] in leo the deacon's th century histories, emperor nikephoros ii phokas is described as having settled communities of armenians, rhomaioi and other ethnicities on crete, indicating that romans by this time were just one of the groups within the empire (for instance alongside the armenians).[ ] by the late th century, the transformation of "roman" to an identity by descent rather than political or religious affiliation was complete, with references to people as "rhomaios by birth" beginning to appear in the writings of byzantine historians. the label was now also applied to greek-speakers outside of the empire's borders, such as the greek-speaking christians under seljuk rule in anatolia, who were referred to as rhomaioi despite actively resisting attempts at re-integration by the byzantine emperors.[ ] late byzantine identity[edit] byzantine portrait of alexios apokaukos, a th-century megas doux in the service of emperors andronikos iii and john v. after the crusaders of the fourth crusade captured constantinople in and shattered the byzantine view of unbroken continuity from rome to constantinople, new alternative sources were required for the legitimacy of the byzantines as romans. the byzantine elite thus began to increasingly detach their self-identity from the roman empire as a unit and look to greek cultural heritage and orthodox christianity as the markers of what romans were, and connected the contemporary romans to the ancient greeks as the precursors who had once ruled the current homeland of the romans. ethnic romanness became increasingly identified as someone who was ethno-culturally hellenic, an idea which was taken a step further by emperors john iii and theodore ii (who ruled at nicaea while the crusaders and their descendants occupied constantinople), who stated that the present rhomaioi were hellenes, descendants of the ancient greeks.[ ] this is not to say that the byzantines stopped identifying as romans. the byzantine view changed from constantine the great bestowing the empire to constantinople to constantine the great bestowing the empire to the hellenes and as such a roman and a greek was the same thing. this in no way invalidated them as romans; though the nicaean emperors explicitly referred to their lands and subjects as hellenic, they also identified themselves as the only true roman emperors. "greek" and "roman" were not contrasting or distinct identities, but building blocks of the same identity as rhomaioi. this double-identity lasted beyond the reconquest of the city under emperor michael viii palaiologos and remained the main view on the issue by the time of the last few byzantine emperors. in the text comparison of the old and the new rome by manuel chrysoloras, addressed to emperor manuel ii palaiologos, rome is presented as the mother of the daughter constantinople, a city founded by the two most wise and powerful peoples in the world, the romans and the hellenes, who came together to create a city destined to rule the entire world.[ ] romans in the ottoman empire[edit] main articles: ottoman greeks and rûm ottoman greeks in constantinople, painted by luigi mayer ( – ) rhomaioi survived the fall of constantinople, the end of the byzantine empire, as the primary self-designation for the christian greek-speaking inhabitants in the new turkish ottoman empire. the popular historical memory of these rhomaioi was not occupied with the glorious past of the roman empire of old or the hellenism in the byzantine empire but by legends of the fall and loss of their christian homeland and constantinople, such as the myth that the last emperor, constantine xi palaiologos (who had died fighting the ottomans at constantinople in ), would one day return from the dead to reconquer the city.[ ] in the early modern period, an educated, urban-dwelling turkish-speaker who was not a member of the military-administrative class would often refer to himself neither as an osmanlı ("ottoman") nor as a türk ("turk"), but rather as a rūmī (رومى‎), or "roman", meaning an inhabitant of the territory of the former byzantine empire in the balkans and anatolia. the term rūmī was also used to refer to turkish-speakers by the other muslim peoples of the empire and beyond.[ ] as applied to ottoman turkish-speakers, this term began to fall out of use at the end of the seventeenth century, and instead the word increasingly became associated with the greek population of the empire, a meaning that it still bears in turkey today.[ ] as a modern identity[edit] see also: names of the greeks, rome § demographics, and romance peoples greeks[edit] map of "rumelia" in . almost all the balkan peninsula was called "land of the romans" by the ottoman empire. for centuries following the fall of constantinople, the dominant self-identity of the greeks remained "roman" (romioi or rhomaioi). the th century greek scholar and revolutionary rigas feraios called for the "bulgars and arvanites, armenians and romans" to rise in arms against the ottomans.[ ] the th century general yannis makriyannis, who served in the greek war of independence, recalled in his memoirs that a friend had asked him "what say you, is the roman state far away from coming? are we to sleep with the turks and awaken with the romans?".[ ] for the greeks, the roman identity only lost ground by the time of the greek war of independence in the th century, when multiple factors saw the name "hellene" rise to replace it. among these factors were that names such as "hellene", "hellas" or "greece" were already in use for the country and its people by the other nations in europe, the absence of the old byzantine government to reinforce roman identity, and the term romioi becoming associated with those greeks still under ottoman rule rather than those actively fighting for independence. in the eyes of the independence movement, a hellene was a brave and rebellious freedom fighter while a roman was an idle slave under the ottomans.[ ][ ] though some parts of byzantine identity were preserved (notably a desire to take constantinople itself), the name hellene fostered a fixation on more ancient (pre-christian) greek history and a negligence for other periods of the country's history (such as the byzantine period).[ ] many greeks, particularly those outside the then newly founded greek state, continued to refer to themselves as romioi well into the th century. peter charanis, who was born on the island of lemnos in and later became a professor of byzantine history at rutgers university, recounts that when the island was taken from the ottomans by greece in , greek soldiers were sent to each village and stationed themselves in the public squares. some of the island children ran to see what greek soldiers looked like. ‘‘what are you looking at?’’ one of the soldiers asked. ‘‘at hellenes,’’ the children replied. ‘‘are you not hellenes yourselves?’’ the soldier retorted. ‘‘no, we are romans’’ the children replied.[ ] the modern greek people still sometimes use romioi to refer to themselves, as well as the term "romaic" ("roman") to refer to their modern greek language.[ ] western romance peoples[edit] proclamation of the roman republic in , in piazza del popolo. in addition to the greeks, another group of people who have continually self-identified as roman since antiquity are the present day citizens of the city of rome, though modern romans identify nationally and ethnically as italians, with "roman" being a local identity within the larger scope of italy. today, rome is the most populous city in italy with the city proper having about . million citizens and the rome metropolitan area is home to over four million people.[ ] governments inspired by the ancient roman republic have been revived in the city four times since its ancient collapse; as the commune of rome in the th century (an opposition to papal temporal power), as the government of cola di rienzo (who used the titles "tribune" and "senator") in the th century, as a sister republic to revolutionary france in – (which briefly restored the office of roman consul) and in with a government based on the ancient roman triumvirates.[ ][ ][ ] though most of the romance peoples that descended from the romans following the collapse of roman political unity in the th century diverged into groups no longer identifying as romans, the name of rome has remained associated with some modern romance peoples. examples of this are the romansh people (descended from the romani recorded in the alps in the th and th centuries) and the romands.[ ] romands represent the french-speaking community of switzerland, with french being the native language of % of the swiss people. their homeland is called romandy, which covers the western part of the country. originally, the majority of the romands spoke the arpitan language (also known as franco-provençal), but it has been almost completely extinguished in favor of french.[ ] on the other hand, the romansh people are an ethnic group living in southeastern switzerland. this region, anciently known as raetia, was inhabited by the rhaetian people (though probably only in the east), with the celtic helvetii at their west. the ethnicity of the rhaetians is uncertain, but their language was probably related to etruscan, perhaps with indo-european, specifically celtic influences. the rhaetians were conquered by the romans in ad. they were seen by the romans as excellent fighters and were included in several legions, where their usage of latin would start. over the centuries, latin would replace indigenous languages in raetia, with roman culture only strongly consolidated in the province during the times of the collapse of the western roman empire. after this, germanic tribes would settle in the province, where they would eventually assimilate most of this romanized rhaetian population. the ones that resisted the germanic invasions evolved into the modern romansh people, who call their language and themselves rumantsch or romontsch, derived from the latin word romanice, which means "romance".[ ] balkan romance peoples[edit] the balkan romance peoples have also maintained their roman identity over the centuries, and it has remained especially prominent in the romanians. one of the main principles of romanian identity and nationalism is the theory of daco-roman continuity. this theory claims that dacia, after its conquest by trajan, was so extensively colonized that the indigenous dacians mixed with the roman settlers, thus creating a culture of daco-romans. these would resist the invasions of slavs and other peoples by hiding in the carpathians, eventually evolving into the modern day romanians. this theory is not universally accepted, however.[ ] one of the earliest records of the romanians being referred to as romans is given in the nibelungenlied, a german epic poem written before in which a "duke ramunc from the land of vlachs (wallachia)" is mentioned. "vlach" was an exonym (name employed by forgeiners) used almost exclusively for the romanians during the middle ages. it has been argued that "ramunc" was not the name of the duke, but a collective name that highlighted his ethnicity. other documents, especially byzantine or hungarian ones, also mention the old romanians as romans or their descendants.[ ] today, romanians call themselves români and their nation românia.[ ] the aromanians are another balkan romance ethnic group scattered in the balkans. their origins are highly uncertain. romanians often say that they originally were romanians who migrated from north to south of the danube and that they are still romanians. the greeks, on the other hand, say that they descend from indigenous greeks and roman soldiers placed there to guard the passes of the pindus (and that they are therefore ethnic greeks who speak a romance language). the debates of their origins have been widely discussed throughout recent history, and the opinions of the aromanians themselves are divided. regardless of where they come from, the aromanians have a large number of names with which they identify, among which are arumani, armani, aromani and rumani, all of them derived from "roman".[ ] another group related to the last two are the istro-romanians, with some of them still calling themselves rumeri or similar names, although this name has lost strength and the istro-romanians often prefer to use different terms.[ ] the megleno-romanians, the last of the balkan romance peoples, identified in the past as rumâni, but this name was completely lost centuries ago mostly in favor of vlasi, derived from "vlach".[ ] see also[edit] 	culture of ancient rome 	list of ancient italic peoples 	romance-speaking world 	legacy of the roman empire 	pan-latinism references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ gruen , p.  . 	^ darling buck , p.  . 	^ a b c woolf , p.  . 	^ a b arno , p.  . 	^ a b dench , p.  . 	^ a b c gruen , p.  . 	^ enyclopaedia britannica – ancient rome. 	^ a b giessen papyrus, , - "i grant to all the free inhabitants of the empire the roman citizenship and no one remains outside a civitas, with the exception of the dediticii" 	^ a b revell , p. x. 	^ arno , p.  . 	^ gruen , p.  . 	^ a b c dench , p.  . 	^ rich & shipley , p.  . 	^ a b rich & shipley , p.  . 	^ rich & shipley , p.  . 	^ a b c lavan , p.  . 	^ a b c britannica. 	^ a b c d e lavan , p.  . 	^ mathisen , p.  . 	^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t pohl . 	^ mathisen , p.  . 	^ lavan , p.  . 	^ lavan , p.  . 	^ a b c d e f g h i halsall . 	^ a b c d hen . 	^ a b jones , p.  . 	^ jones , p.  . 	^ jones , p.  . 	^ a b billigmeier . 	^ a b c delogu . 	^ a b c granier . 	^ a b west . 	^ cameron , p.  . sfn error: no target: citerefcameron (help) 	^ stouraitis , p.  . 	^ a b stouraitis , p.  . 	^ stouraitis , p.  . 	^ stouraitis , p.  . 	^ stouraitis , p.  . 	^ stouraitis , p.  . 	^ stouraitis , p.  . 	^ kafadar , p.  . 	^ greene , p.  . 	^ rigas feraios, thurius, line . 	^ makrygiannis , p.  . 	^ ambrosius phrantzes (Αμβρόσιος Φραντζής, – ). 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december, , pearson's magazine) 	"slaves of the lamp, part i." (april , cosmopolis: a literary review;[ ][ ]) 	"an unsavoury interlude" (january, , mcclure's magazine and windsor magazine) 	"the impressionists" (february, , mcclure's magazine and windsor magazine) 	"the moral reformers" (march, , mcclure's magazine and windsor magazine) 	a little prep." (april, , mcclure's magazine and windsor magazine) 	"the flag of their country" (may , mcclure's magazine; july, , pearson's magazine) 	"the last term" (may, , windsor magazine) 	"slaves of the lamp, part ii." (may , cosmopolis: a literary review)[ ] rare and missing materials[edit] kipling expert flora virginia milner livingston, of houghton library, harvard college library, wrote in a kipling bibliography: no. of the stalky & co. series in the windsor magazine was entitled "stalky" and appeared in the "december, " number of that magazine. it was not included in the book, nor has it ever been reproduced. however, as the kipling society states, it was indeed collected in , as one of the land and sea tales for scouts and guides.[ ] an expanded version of "stalky & co." called "the complete stalky and co." was published by doubleday and company (new york) in . it contains all of the stories plus five more. they appear in the following order: 	"stalky" (originally published ) 	"in ambush" ( ) 	slaves of the lamp (part i) ( ) 	an unsavory interlude ( ) 	the impressionists ( ) 	the moral reformers ( ) 	the united idolaters ( ) 	regulus ( ) 	a little prep. ( ) 	the flag of their country ( ) 	the propagation of knowledge ( ) 	the satisfaction of a gentleman ( ) 	the last term ( ) 	slaves of the lamp (part ii) ( ) characters[edit] boys[edit] 	"stalky" (real name: arthur lionel corkran[ ]). he knows that he is destined for sandhurst, so he does not care about many academic subjects. stalky later turns out to be brilliant in battle. 	reginald (or reggie) beetle 	william "turkey" m'turk (pronounced mcturk; he comes from a landed estate in ireland) staff[edit] 	mr. bates - the headmaster 	mr. prout – a housemaster in charge of stalky's house 	mr. king – a housemaster who sometimes bedevils the boys; "generally held to be based on w. c. crofts"[ ] 	mr. hartopp – a housemaster, president of the natural history society; a naive young man, he rather likes stalky and his friends 	foxy – a "subtle red-haired school sergeant" sources and allusions[edit] kipling portrays the boys as being widely read, at least in the literature available to them. much of their casual talk is held in latin, not unusual for schoolboys of the time, and they quote or purposefully misquote the classical authors such as cicero and horace. other texts appearing in dialogue include: 	the boy's own paper 	eric, or, little by little (referred to often in mockery)[ ] example: "wasn't it glorious? didn't i eric 'em splendidly?" (stalky: ch. , "the last term") 	fors clavigera, by john ruskin 	"the gold-bug", by edgar allan poe 	jabberwocky, by lewis carroll (m'turk uses the phrase 'frabjously immoral') 	a jorrocks novel, probably handley cross ( ), by robert smith surtees. stalky quotes the line, "hellish dark and smells of cheese." (stalky: ch. , "the last term") 	julius caesar, by william shakespeare. stalky, accusing another student of betrayal, says, "and tulkus ... is an honourable man." 	the last of the mohicans, by james fenimore cooper. stalky and friends often refer to a school officer as "chingachgook". 	oliver twist, by charles dickens (an allusion to fagin) 	wisdom of sirach. ("let us now praise famous men...") 	uncle remus and his legends of the old plantation, by joel chandler harris, london edition, . the principal basis for "the united idolaters." the youths also discuss the painting "a day with puffington's hounds", by caricaturist john leech, which outrages them. further stories[edit] more tales about stalky & co. appeared in magazines and later in collections:[ ] "regulus" and "the honours of war" in a diversity of creatures ( ); "stalky" in land and sea tales for scouts and guides ( ); "the united idolators" (first published in magazine form in ) and "the propagation of knowledge" in debits and credits ( ); and "the satisfaction of a gentleman" (with the others) in the complete stalky & co ( ). kipling describes "stalky" as the first of the stalky & co tales to be written: it was originally published in the windsor magazine and mcclure's magazine in .[ ] posthumously published manuscript[edit] kipling wrote an additional story about stalky and co., "scylla and charybdis", that remained unpublished in his lifetime. it depicts stalky and his friends catching a colonel cheating at golf near appledore in north devon. the story existed only in manuscript form, attached to the end of the original manuscript of stalky & co.: it may have been planned as the opening chapter. on his death in kipling bequeathed the manuscript to the imperial service trust, the body that administered the imperial service college (successor institution to the united services college). that school merged with haileybury in to form haileybury and imperial service college. the manuscript was displayed at haileybury in , in an exhibition to mark the school's centenary; and in , after spending many years in a bank vault, was transferred to the college archives. while the story "scylla and charybdis" was known to exist, it had never been transcribed or widely discussed. it was "discovered" in by jeremy lewins, a former kipling fellow at magdalene college, cambridge. the school subsequently decided to publish it, in association with the kipling society.[ ][ ] television adaptation[edit] the tales were adapted for television by the bbc in . the six-part series starred robert addie as stalky and david parfitt as beetle. it was directed by rodney bennett and produced by barry letts. references[edit] 	^ "stalky & co.: the general background", roger lancelyn green 	^ "boy-society in rudyard kipling's stalky & co.", lynne m. rosenthal, the lion and the unicorn (journal) volume , number , pp. – 	^ roosevelt, theodore (may ). "what we can expect of the american boy". st. nicholas. retrieved august . 	^ livingston, flora v. ( ). a bibliography of the works of rudyard kipling ( – ). . london: haskell house. p.  . 	^ green, roger lancelyn (april , ). "slaves of the lamp, part i". kipling society. retrieved january , . this was the first 'stalky' story to be published, and possibly the first to be written. it first appeared in cosmopolis in april , and was subsequently collected in stalky & co. ( ) it was later included in the complete stalky & co. ( ) it is twinned with "slaves of the lamp" part ii, in which the tactics used by stalky against his enemies at school are used again with great success on the north west frontier of india. 	^ livingston, flora v. ( ). a bibliography of the works of rudyard kipling ( – ). . london: haskell house. p.  . 'slaves of the lamp, parts i & ii,' mcclure's magazine, august, ). 	^ green, roger lancelyn (february , ). "slaves of the lamp, part ii". kipling society. retrieved january . 	^ green, roger lancelyn (february , ). "stalky". kipling society. retrieved january , . 	^ kipling, rudyard. "land and sea tales: stalky". www.telelib.com. retrieved january , . 	^ green, roger lancelyn ( ). "some notes on the characters". kipling society. retrieved january , . ... or rather, like the essence of crofts distilled with genius, with the perspective of more than thirty years to colour even kipling's recollection of the real man. the first written of the stories, "slaves of the lamp", suggests that to begin with kipling's "mixture" for king contained a large percentage of crofts, but with a certain admixture of mr. f. w. haslam... 	^ rouse, john ( ). "introduction". stalky & co. new york: dell. p.  . one of the most popular novels of school life in kipling's time was frederick farrar's eric, or little by little, a book that went through nearly fifty editions in as many years. it is a novel that stalky & co. know very well and constantly ridicule. eric's troubles begin one night in the dormitory when he listens to boys swearing and fails to warn them about the dangers of foul language. from there on it's moral decay all the way. 	^ list of stories 	^ "stalky" 	^ the haileybury connection, andrew hambling, 	^ milner, catherine ( february ). "kipling's 'missing stalky and co. chapter' found in school library". the telegraph (online). london: telegraph media group. retrieved january . external links[edit] 		wikisource has original text related to this article: stalky & co. 	 stalky & co. public domain audiobook at librivox 	project gutenberg e-text, stalky.com e-text, words e-text 	stalky & co. on imdb 		v 	t 	e rudyard kipling 	novels	 	the light that failed ( ) 	the naulahka: a story of west and east (co-author, wolcott balestier, ) 	captains courageous ( ) 	kim ( ) 	collections	 	plain tales from the hills ( ) 	soldiers three ( ) 	the story of the gadsbys ( ) 	in black and white ( ) 	the phantom 'rickshaw and other eerie tales ( ) 	under the deodars ( ) 	wee willie winkie and other child stories ( ) 	from sea to sea and other sketches, letters of travel ( ) 	barrack-room ballads ( , poetry) 	many inventions ( ) 	the jungle book ( ) 	"mowgli's brothers" 	"kaa's hunting" 	"tiger! tiger!" 	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[ ] along with concrete, the romans used stone, wood, and marble as building materials. they used these materials to construct civil engineering projects for their cities and transportation devices for land and sea travel. the romans also contributed to the development of technologies of the battlefield. warfare was an essential aspect of roman society and culture. the military was not only used for territorial acquisition and defense, but also as a tool for civilian administrators to use to help staff provincial governments and assist in construction projects.[ ] the romans adopted, improved, and developed military technologies for foot soldiers, cavalry, and siege weapons for land and sea environments. having familiar relations with warfare, the romans became accustomed to physical injuries. to combat physical injuries sustained in civilian and military spheres, the romans innovated medical technologies, particularly surgical practices and techniques.  contents 	 types of power 	 . human power 	 . animal power 	 . water power 	 . wind power 	 . solar power 	 . theoretical types of power 	 . . steam power 	 technology as a craft 	 engineering and construction 	 . building materials and instruments 	 . . wood 	 . . stone 	 . . cements 	 . . cranes 	 . buildings 	 . . the pantheon 	 . . hagia sophia 	 . waterworks 	 . . aqueducts 	 . . dams 	 . . sanitation 	 . . roman baths 	 . transportation 	 . . roads 	 . . bridges 	 . . carts 	 . industrial 	 . . mining 	 military technology 	 . foot soldier 	 . . weaponry 	 . . armour 	 . . tactics 	 . cavalry 	 . siege warfare 	 . . ballistas and onagers 	 . . the helepolis 	 . . greek fire 	 . transportation 	 . . pontoon bridge 	 medical technology 	 . surgery 	 technologies developed or invented by the romans 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links types of power[edit] human power[edit] the most readily available sources of power to the ancients were human power and animal power. an obvious utilization of human power is the movement of objects. for objects ranging from to pounds a single person can generally suffice. for objects of greater weight, more than one person may be required to move the object. a limiting factor in using multiple people to move objects is the available amount of grip space. to overcome this limiting factor, mechanical devices were developed to assist in the manipulation of objects. one device being the windlass which used ropes and pulleys to manipulate objects. the device was powered by multiple people pushing or pulling on handspikes attached to a cylinder. human power was also a factor in the movement of ships, in particularly warships. though wind-powered sails were the dominate form of power in water transportation, rowing was often used by military craft during battle engagements.[ ] animal power[edit] the primary usage of animal power was for transportation. several species of animals were used for differing tasks. oxen are strong creatures that do not require the finest pasture. being strong and cheap to maintain, oxen were used to farm and transport large masses of goods. a disadvantage to using oxen is that they are slow. if speed was desired, horses were called upon. the main environment which called for speed was the battlefield, with horses being used in the cavalry and scouting parties. for carriages carrying passengers or light materials donkeys or mules were generally used, as they were faster than oxen and cheaper on fodder than horses. other than being used as a means of transportation, animals were also employed in the operation of rotary mills. schematic of an overshot water wheel beyond the confines of the land, a schematic for a ship propelled by animals has been discovered. the work known as anonymus de rebus bellicus describes a ship powered by oxen. wherein oxen are attached to a rotary, moving in a circle on a deck floor, spinning two paddle wheels, one on either side of the ship. the likelihood that such a ship was ever built is low, due to the impracticality of controlling animals on a watercraft.[ ] water power[edit] power from water was generated through the use of a water wheel. a water wheel had two general designs: the undershot and the overshot. the undershot water wheel generated power from the natural flow of a running water source pushing upon the wheel’s submerged paddles. the overshot water wheel generated power by having water flow over its buckets from above. this was usually achieved by building an aqueduct above the wheel. although it is possible to make the overshot water wheel percent more efficient than the undershot, the undershot was generally the preferred water wheel. the reason being, the economic cost to building an aqueduct was too high for the mild benefit of having the water wheel turn faster. the primary purpose of water wheels were to generate power for milling operations and to raise water above a system’s natural height. evidence also exists that water wheels were used to power the operation of saws, though only scant descriptions of such devices remain.[ ] reconstruction of hero of alexandria's steam machine the aeolipile, st century ce wind power[edit] wind power was used in the operation of watercraft, through the use of sails. windmills do not appear to have been created in ancient times.[ ] solar power[edit] the romans used the sun as a passive solar heat source for buildings, such as bath houses. thermae were built with large windows facing southwest, the location of the sun at the hottest time of day.[ ] theoretical types of power[edit] steam power[edit] the generation of power through steam remained theoretical in the roman world. hero of alexandria published schematics of a steam device that rotated a ball on a pivot. the device used heat from a cauldron to push steam through a system of tubes towards the ball. the device produced roughly rpm but would never be practical on an industrial scale as the labour requirements to operate, fuel and maintain the heat of the device would have been too great of a cost.[ ]  technology as a craft[edit] roman technology was largely based on a system of crafts. technical skills and knowledge were contained within the particular trade, such as stonemasons. in this sense, knowledge was generally passed down from a tradesman master to a tradesman apprentice. since there are only a few sources from which to draw upon for technical information, it is theorized that tradesmen kept their knowledge a secret. vitruvius, pliny the elder and frontinus are among the few writers who have published technical information about roman technology.[ ] there was a corpus of manuals on basic mathematics and science such as the many books by archimedes, ctesibius, heron (a.k.a. hero of alexandria), euclid and so on. not all of the manuals which were available to the romans have survived, as lost works illustrate. engineering and construction[edit] further information: roman architecture and roman engineering building materials and instruments[edit] reconstruction of a . -metre-high roman construction crane at bonn, germany wood[edit] the romans created fireproof wood by coating the wood with alum.[ ] stone[edit] it was ideal to mine stones from quarries that were situated as close to the site of construction as possible, to reduce the cost of transportation. stone blocks were formed in quarries by punching holes in lines at the desired lengths and widths. then, wooden wedges were hammered into the holes. the holes were then filled with water so that the wedges would swell with enough force to cut the stone block out of the earth. blocks with the dimensions of yds by ft by ft have been found, with weights of about tons. there is evidence that saws were developed to cut stone in the imperial age. initially, romans used saws powered by hand to cut stone, but later went on to develop stone cutting saws powered by water.[ ] cements[edit] the ratio of the mixture of roman lime mortars depended upon where the sand for the mixture was acquired. for sand gathered at a river or sea, the mixture ratio was two parts sand, one part lime, and one part powdered shells. for sand gathered further inland, the mixture was three parts sand and one part lime. the lime for mortars was prepared in limekilns, which were underground pits designed to block out the wind.[ ] another type of roman mortar is known as pozzolana mortar. pozzolana is a volcanic clay substance located in and around naples. the mixture ratio for the cement was two parts pozzolana and one part lime mortar. due to its composition, pozzolana cement was able to form in water and has been found to be as hard as natural forming rock.[ ] cranes[edit] cranes were used for construction work and possibly to load and unload ships at their ports, although for the latter use there is according to the "present state of knowledge" still no evidence.[ ] most cranes were capable of lifting about – tons of cargo, and according to a relief shown on trajan's column were worked by treadwheel. buildings[edit] the pantheon constructed - ce the pantheon[edit] further information: the pantheon the romans designed the pantheon thinking about the concepts of beauty, symmetry, and perfection. the romans incorporated these mathematical concepts into their public works projects. for instance, the concept of perfect numbers were used in the design of the pantheon by embedding coffers into the dome. a perfect number is a number where its factors add up to itself. so, the number is considered to be a perfect number, because its factors of , , , , and add together to equal . perfect numbers are extremely rare, with there being only one number for each quantity of digits (one for single digits, double digits, triple digits, quadruple digits, etc.). embodying mathematical concepts of beauty, symmetry, and perfection, into the structure conveys the technical sophistication of roman engineers. [ ] cements were essential to the design of the pantheon. the mortar used in the construction of the dome is made up of a mixture of lime and the volcanic powder known as, pozzolana. the concrete is suited for the use in constructing thick walls as it does not require to be completely dry in order to cure.[ ] the construction of the pantheon was a massive undertaking, requiring large quantities of resources and man-hours. delaine estimates the amount of total manpower needed in the construction the pantheon to be about man-days.[ ]   hagia sophia constructed ce hagia sophia[edit] further information: hagia sophia although the hagia sophia was constructed after the fall of the western empire, its construction incorporated the building materials and techniques signature to ancient rome. the building was constructed using pozzolana mortar. evidence for the use of the substance comes from the sagging of the structures arches during construction, as a distinguishing feature of pozzalana mortar is the large amount of time it needs to cure. the engineers had to remove decorative walls in order to let the mortar cure.[ ] the pozzalana mortar used in the construction of the hagia sophia does not contain volcanic ash but instead crushed brick dust. the composition of the materials used in pozzalana mortar leads to an increased tensile strength. a mortar composed of mostly lime has a tensile strength of roughly psi whereas pozzalana mortar using crushed brick dust has a tensile strength of psi. the advantage of using pozzalana mortar in the construction of the hagia sophia is the increase in strength of the joints. the mortar joints used in the structure are wider than one would expect in a typical brick and mortar structure. the fact of the wide mortar joints suggests the designers of the hagia sophia knew about the high tensile strength of the mortar and incorporated it accordingly.[ ] waterworks[edit] aqueducts[edit] further information: roman aqueduct and aqueduct (bridge) the romans constructed numerous aqueducts to supply water. the city of rome itself was supplied by eleven aqueducts made of limestone that provided the city with over million cubic metres of water each day, sufficient for . million people even in modern-day times,[ ] and with a combined length of kilometres (  mi).[ ] roman segovia aqueduct in modern-day spain, constructed st century ce water inside the aqueducts depended entirely on gravity. the raised stone channels in which the water traveled were slightly slanted. the water was carried directly from mountain springs. after it had gone through the aqueduct, the water was collected in tanks and fed through pipes to fountains, toilets, etc.[ ] the main aqueducts in ancient rome were the aqua claudia and the aqua marcia.[ ] most aqueducts were constructed below the surface with only small portions above ground supported by arches.[ ] the longest roman aqueduct, kilometres (  mi) in length, was traditionally assumed to be that which supplied the city of carthage. the complex system built to supply constantinople had its most distant supply drawn from over  km away along a sinuous route of more than  km.[ ] roman aqueducts were built to remarkably fine tolerances, and to a technological standard that was not to be equaled until modern times. powered entirely by gravity, they transported very large amounts of water very efficiently. sometimes, where depressions deeper than metres had to be crossed, inverted siphons were used to force water uphill.[ ] an aqueduct also supplied water for the overshot wheels at barbegal in roman gaul, a complex of water mills hailed as "the greatest known concentration of mechanical power in the ancient world".[ ] roman aqueducts conjure images of water travelling long distances across arched bridges, however; only percent of the water being transported along the aqueduct systems traveled by way of bridges. roman engineers worked to make the routes of aqueducts as practical as possible. in practice, this meant designing aqueducts that flowed ground level or below surface level, as these were more cost effective than building bridges considering the cost of construction and maintenance for bridges was higher than that of surface and sub-surface elevations. aqueduct bridges were often in need of repairs and spent years at a time in disuse. water theft from the aqueducts was a frequent problem which led to difficulties in estimating the amount of water flowing through the channels.[ ] to prevent the channels of the aqueducts from eroding, a plaster known as opus signinum was used.[ ] the plaster incorporated crushed terracotta in the typical roman mortar mixture of pozzolana rock and lime.[ ] proserpina dam was constructed during the first to second century ce and is still in use today. dams[edit] main article: list of roman dams and reservoirs the romans built dams for water collection, such as the subiaco dams, two of which fed anio novus, one of the largest aqueducts of rome. they built dams in just one country, spain and many more are known across the empire, some of which are still in use. at one site, montefurado in galicia, they appear to have built a dam across the river sil to expose alluvial gold deposits in the bed of the river. the site is near the spectacular roman gold mine of las medulas. several earthen dams are known from britain, including a well-preserved example from roman lanchester, longovicium, where it may have been used in industrial-scale smithing or smelting, judging by the piles of slag found at this site in northern england. tanks for holding water are also common along aqueduct systems, and numerous examples are known from just one site, the gold mines at dolaucothi in west wales. masonry dams were common in north africa for providing a reliable water supply from the wadis behind many settlements. the romans built dams to store water for irrigation. they understood that spillways were necessary to prevent the erosion of earth-packed banks. in egypt, the romans adopted the water technology known as wadi irrigation from the nabataeans. wadis were a technique developed to capture large amounts of water produced during the seasonal floods and store it for the growing season. the romans successfully developed the technique further for a larger scale.[ ] sanitation[edit] roman baths in the english city of bath. a temple was initially constructed on the site in ce with the bathing complex being built up over time. the romans did not invent plumbing or toilets, but instead borrowed their waste disposal system from their neighbors, particularly the minoans.[ ] a waste disposal system was not a new invention, but rather had been around since bce, when one was created in the indus river valley [ ] the roman public baths, or thermae served hygienic, social and cultural functions. the baths contained three main facilities for bathing. after undressing in the apodyterium or changing room, romans would proceed to the tepidarium or warm room. in the moderate dry heat of the tepidarium, some performed warm-up exercises and stretched while others oiled themselves or had slaves oil them. the tepidarium’s main purpose was to promote sweating to prepare for the next room, the caldarium or hot room. the caldarium, unlike the tepidarium, was extremely humid and hot. temperatures in the caldarium could reach degrees celsius ( degrees fahrenheit). many contained steam baths and a cold-water fountain known as the labrum. the last room was the frigidarium or cold room, which offered a cold bath for cooling off after the caldarium. the romans also had flush toilets. roman baths[edit] further information: thermae the containment of heat in the rooms was important in the operation of the baths, as to avoid patrons from catching colds. to prevent doors from being left open, the door posts were installed at an inclined angle so that the doors would automatically swing shut. another technique of heat efficiency was the use of wooden benches over stone, as wood conducts away less heat.[ ] transportation[edit] the via appia constructed – bce roads[edit] main article: roman road the romans primarily built roads for their military. their economic importance was probably also significant, although wagon traffic was often banned from the roads to preserve their military value. in total, more than , kilometres ( ,  mi) of roads were constructed, , kilometres ( ,  mi) of which were stone-paved.[ ] way stations providing refreshments were maintained by the government at regular intervals along the roads. a separate system of changing stations for official and private couriers was also maintained. this allowed a dispatch to travel a maximum of kilometres (  mi) in hours by using a relay of horses. the roads were constructed by digging a pit along the length of the intended course, often to bedrock. the pit was first filled with rocks, gravel or sand and then a layer of concrete. finally, they were paved with polygonal rock slabs. roman roads are considered the most advanced roads built until the early th century. bridges were constructed over waterways. the roads were resistant to floods and other environmental hazards. after the fall of the roman empire the roads were still usable and used for more than years. most roman cities were shaped like a square. there were main roads leading to the center of the city, or forum. they formed a cross shape, and each point on the edge of the cross was a gateway into the city. connecting to these main roads were smaller roads, the streets where people lived. bridges[edit] further information: roman bridge and list of roman bridges roman bridges were built with stone and/or concrete and utilized the arch. built in bc, the pons aemilius, later named ponte rotto (broken bridge) is the oldest roman stone bridge in rome, italy. the biggest roman bridge was trajan's bridge over the lower danube, constructed by apollodorus of damascus, which remained for over a millennium the longest bridge to have been built both in terms of overall and span length. they were most of the time at least feet (  m) above the body of water. carts[edit] alcantara bridge constructed in to ce, was built in a similar in style to trajan's bridge. roman carts had many purposes and came in a variety of forms. freight carts were used to transport goods. barrel carts were used to transport liquids. the carts had large cylindrical barrels laid horizontally with their tops facing forward. for transporting building materials, such as sand or soil, the romans used carts with high walls. public transportation carts were also in use with some designed with sleeping accommodations for up to six people.[ ] the romans developed a railed cargo system for transporting heavy loads. the rails consisted of grooves embedded into existing stone roadways. the carts used in such a system had large block axles and wooden wheels with metal casings.[ ] carts also contained brakes, elastic suspensions and bearings. the elastic suspension systems used leather belts attached bronze supports to suspend the carriage above the axles. the system helped to create a smoother ride by reducing the vibration. the romans adopted bearings developed by the celts. the bearings decreased rotational friction by using mud to lubricate stone rings.[ ] industrial[edit] rosia montana roman gold mine mining[edit] further information: roman metallurgy and roman mining the romans also made great use of aqueducts in their extensive mining operations across the empire, some sites such as las medulas in north-west spain having at least major channels entering the minehead. other sites such as dolaucothi in south wales was fed by at least leats, all leading to reservoirs and tanks or cisterns high above the present opencast. the water was used for hydraulic mining, where streams or waves of water are released onto the hillside, first to reveal any gold-bearing ore, and then to work the ore itself. rock debris could be sluiced away by hushing, and the water also used to douse fires created to break down the hard rock and veins, a method known as fire-setting. alluvial gold deposits could be worked and the gold extracted without needing to crush the ore. washing tables were fitted below the tanks to collect the gold-dust and any nuggets present. vein gold needed crushing, and they probably used crushing or stamp mills worked by water-wheels to comminute the hard ore before washing. large quantities of water were also needed in deep mining to remove waste debris and power primitive machines, as well as for washing the crushed ore. pliny the elder provides a detailed description of gold mining in book xxxiii of his naturalis historia, most of which has been confirmed by archaeology. that they used water mills on a large scale elsewhere is attested by the flour mills at barbegal in southern france, and on the janiculum in rome. military technology[edit] further information: technological history of the roman military and roman military engineering the roman military technology ranged from personal equipment and armament to deadly siege engines. foot soldier[edit] weaponry[edit] pilum (spear): the roman heavy spear was a weapon favored by legionaries and weighed approximately five pounds.[ ] the innovated javelin was designed to be used only once and was destroyed upon initial use. this ability prevented the enemy from reusing spears. all soldiers carried two versions of this weapon: a primary spear and a backup. a solid block of wood in the middle of the weapon provided legionaries protection for their hands while carrying the device. according to polybius, historians have records of "how the romans threw their spears and then charged with swords".[ ] this tactic seemed to be common practice among roman infantry. armour[edit] roman scale armour while heavy, intricate armour was not uncommon (cataphracts), the romans perfected a relatively light, full torso armour made of segmented plates (lorica segmentata). this segmented armour provided good protection for vital areas, but did not cover as much of the body as lorica hamata or chainmail. the lorica segmentata provided better protection, but the plate bands were expensive and difficult to produce and difficult to repair in the field. generally, chainmail was cheaper, easier to produce, and simpler to maintain, was one-size-fits-all, and was more comfortable to wear – thus, it remained the primary form of armour even when lorica segmentata was in use. tactics[edit] testudo is a tactical military maneuver original to rome. the tactic was implemented by having units raise their shields in order to protect themselves from enemy projectiles raining down on them. the strategy only worked if each member of the testudo protected his comrade. commonly used during siege battles, the "sheer discipline and synchronization required to form a testudo" was a testament to the abilities of legionnaires.[ ] testudo, meaning tortoise in latin, "was not the norm, but rather adopted in specific situations to deal with particular threats on the battlefield".[ ] the greek phalanx and other roman formations were a source of inspiration for this maneouver. cavalry[edit] the roman cavalry saddle had four horns [ ] and is believed to have been copied from celtic peoples. siege warfare[edit] roman siege engines such as ballistas, scorpions and onagers were not unique. but the romans were probably the first people to put ballistas on carts for better mobility on campaigns. on the battlefield, it is thought that they were used to pick off enemy leaders. there is one account of the use of artillery in battle from tacitus, histories iii, : on engaging they drove back the enemy, only to be driven back themselves, for the vitellians had concentrated their artillery on the raised road that they might have free and open ground from which to fire; their earlier shots had been scattered and had struck the trees without injuring the enemy. a ballista of enormous size belonging to the fifteenth legion began to do great harm to the flavians' line with the huge stones that it hurled; and it would have caused wide destruction if it had not been for the splendid bravery of two soldiers, who, taking some shields from the dead and so disguising themselves, cut the ropes and springs of the machine.[ ] in addition to innovations in land warfare, the romans also developed the corvus (boarding device) a movable bridge that could attach itself to an enemy ship and allow the romans to board the enemy vessel. developed during the first punic war it allowed them to apply their experience in land warfare on the seas.[ ] ballistas and onagers[edit] further information: ballista while core artillery inventions were notably founded by the greeks, rome saw opportunity in the ability to enhance this long range artillery. large artillery pieces such as carroballista and onagers bombarded enemy lines, before full ground assault by infantry. the manuballista would "often be described as the most advanced two-armed torsion engine used by the roman army”.[ ] the weapon often looks like a mounted crossbow capable of shooting projectiles. similarly, the onager "named after the wild ass because of its ‘kick’," was a larger weapon that was capable of hurling large projectiles at walls or forts.[ ] both were very capable machines of war and were put to use by the roman military. computer model of a helepolis the helepolis[edit] further information: helepolis the helepolis was a transportation vehicle used to besiege cities. the vehicle had wooden walls to shield soldiers as they were transported toward the enemy’s walls. upon reaching the walls, the soldiers would disembark at the top of the m tall structure and drop on to the enemy’s ramparts. to be effective in combat, the helepolis was designed to be self-propelled. the self-propelled vehicles were operated using two types of motors: an internal motor powered by humans, or a counterweight motor powered by gravity. the human-powered motor used a system of ropes that connected the axles to a capstan. it has been calculated that at least men would be required to turn the capstan in order to exceed the force required to move the vehicle. two capstans may have been used instead of just the one, reducing the amount of men needed per capstan to , for a total of to power the helepolis. the gravity-powered counterweight motor used a system of ropes and pulleys to propel the vehicle. ropes were wrapped around the axles, strung through a pulley system that connected them to a counterweight hanging at the top of the vehicle. the counterweights would have been made of lead or a bucket filled with water. the lead counterweight was encapsulated in a pipe filled with seeds to control its fall. the water bucket counterweight was emptied when it reached the bottom of the vehicle, raised back to the top, and filled with water using a reciprocating water pump, so that motion could again be achieved. it has been calculated that to move a helepolis with a mass of kg, a counterweight with a mass of kg was needed.[ ] greek fire[edit] further information: greek fire originally an incendiary weapon adopted from the greeks in th century ad, the greek fire "is one of the very few contrivances whose gruesome effectiveness was noted by"[ ] many sources. roman innovators made this already lethal weapon even more deadly. its nature is often described as a "precursor to napalm".[ ] military strategists often put the weapon to good use during naval battles, and the ingredients to its construction "remained a closely guarded military secret".[ ] despite this, the devastation caused by greek fire in combat is indisputable. depiction of a roman pontoon bridge on the column of marcus aurelius, constructed ce transportation[edit] pontoon bridge[edit] further information: pontoon bridge mobility, for a military force, was an essential key to success. although this was not a roman invention, as there were instances of "ancient chinese and persians making use of the floating mechanism”,[ ] roman generals used the innovation to great effect in campaigns. furthermore, engineers perfected the speed at which these bridges were constructed. leaders surprised enemy units to great effect by speedily crossing otherwise treacherous bodies of water. lightweight crafts were "organized and tied together with the aid of planks, nails and cables".[ ] rafts were more commonly used instead of building new makeshift bridges, enabling quick construction and deconstruction.[ ] the expedient and valuable innovation of the pontoon bridge also accredited its success to the excellent abilities of roman engineers. medical technology[edit] surgical instruments used by ancient romans further information: military medicine surgery[edit] although various levels of medicine were practiced in the ancient world,[ ] the romans created or pioneered many innovative surgeries and tools that are still in use today such as hemostatic tourniquets and arterial surgical clamps.[ ] rome was also responsible for producing the first battlefield surgery unit, a move that paired with their contributions to medicine made the roman army a force to be reckoned with.[ ] they also used a rudimentary version of antiseptic surgery years before its use became popular in the th century and possessed very capable doctors.[ ] technologies developed or invented by the romans[edit] 	technology 	comment 	abacus, roman 	portable. 	alum 	the production of alum (kal(so ) . h o) from alunite (kal (so ) .(oh) ) is archaeologically attested on the island lesbos.[ ] this site was abandoned in the th century but dates back at least to the nd century ad. 	amphitheatre 	see e.g. colosseum. 	aqueduct, true arch 	pont du gard, segovia etc. 	arch, monumental 	 	bath, monumental public (thermae) 	see e.g. baths of diocletian 	book (codex) 	first mentioned by martial in the st century ad. held many advantages over the scroll. 	brass 	the romans had enough understanding of zinc to produce a brass denomination coinage; see sestertius. 	bridge, true arch 	see e.g. roman bridge in chaves or the severan bridge. 	bridge, segmental arch 	more than a dozen roman bridges are known to feature segmental (=flat) arches. a prominent example was trajan's bridge over the danube, a lesser known the extant limyra bridge in lycia 	bridge, pointed arch 	constructed in the early byzantine era, the earliest known bridge featuring a pointed arch is the th or th century ad karamagara bridge[ ] 	camel harness 	the harnessing of camels to ploughs is attested in north africa by the rd century ad[ ] 	cameos 	probably a hellenistic innovation e.g. cup of the ptolemies but taken up by the emperors e.g. gemma augustea, gemma claudia etc. 	cast iron 	recently archaeologically detected in the val gabbia in northern lombardy from the th and th centuries ad.[ ] this technically interesting innovation appears to have had little economic impact. but archaeologists may have failed to recognize the distinctive slag, so the date and location of this innovation may be revised. 	cement concrete 	pozzolana variety 	crank handle 	a roman iron crank handle was excavated in augusta raurica, switzerland. the .  cm long piece with a  cm long handle is of yet unknown purpose and dates to no later than c. ad.[ ] 	crank and connecting rod 	found in several water-powered saw mills dating from the late rd (hierapolis sawmill) to th century ad (at ephesus respectively gerasa).[ ] 	crane, treadwheel 	 	dam, arch[ ] 	currently best attested for the dam at glanum, france dated c. bc.[ ] the structure has entirely disappeared. its existence attested from the cuts into the rock on either side to key in the dam wall, which was . metres high, . m thick at base narrowing to . m at the top. earliest description of arch action in such types of dam by procopius around ad, the dara dam[ ] 	dam, arch-gravity 	examples include curved dams at orükaya,[ ] Çavdarhisar, both turkey (and nd century)[ ]kasserine dam in tunisia,[ ] and puy foradado dam in spain ( nd– rd century)[ ] 	dam, bridge 	the band-i-kaisar, constructed by roman prisoners of war in shustar, persia, in the rd century ad,[ ] featured a weir combined with an arch bridge, a multifunctional hydraulic structure which subsequently spread throughout iran.[ ] 	dam, buttress 	attested in a number of roman dams in spain,[ ] like the  m long consuegra dam 	dam, multiple arch buttress 	esparragalejo dam, spain ( st century ad) earliest known[ ] 	dome, monumental 	see e.g. pantheon. 	flos salis 	a product of salt evaporation ponds dunaliella salina[ ] used in the perfume industry (pliny nat. hist. , ) 	force pump used in fire engine 	see image of pointable nozzle 	glass blowing 	this led to a number of innovations in the use of glass. window glass is attested at pompeii in ad . in the nd century ad[ ] hanging glass oil lamps were introduced. these used floating wicks and by reducing self-shading gave more lumens in a downwards direction. cage cups (see photograph) are hypothesised as oil lamps. 	 	dichroic glass as in the lycurgus cup. [ ] note, this material attests otherwise unknown chemistry (or other way?) to generate nano-scale gold-silver particles. 	 	glass mirrors (pliny the elder naturalis historia , ) 	greenhouse cold frames 	(pliny the elder naturalis historia . ; columella on ag. . . ) 	hydraulis 	a water organ. later also the pneumatic organ. 	hushing 	described by pliny the elder and confirmed at dolaucothi and las médulas 	hydraulic mining 	described by pliny the elder and confirmed at dolaucothi and las médulas 	hydrometer 	mentioned in a letter of synesius 	hypocaust 	a floor and also wall heating system. described by vitruvius 	knife, multifunctional 	[ ] 	lighthouses 	the best surviving examples are those at dover castle and the tower of hercules at a coruña 	leather, tanned 	the preservation of skins with vegetable tannins was a pre-roman invention but not of the antiquity once supposed. (tawing was far more ancient.) the romans were responsible for spreading this technology into areas where it was previously unknown such as britain and qasr ibrim on the nile. in both places this technology was lost when the romans withdrew.[ ] 	mills 	m.j.t.lewis presents good evidence that water powered vertical pounding machines came in by the middle of the st century ad for fulling, grain hulling (pliny nat. hist. , ) and ore crushing (archaeological evidence at dolaucothi gold mines and spain). 	 	grainmill, rotary. according to moritz (p ) rotary grainmills were not known to the ancient greeks but date from before bc. unlike reciprocating mills, rotary mills could be easily adapted to animal or water power. lewis ( ) argues that the rotary grainmill dates to the th century bc in the western mediterranean. animal and water powered rotary mills came in the rd century bc. 	 	sawmill, water powered. recorded by ad. attested in ausonius's poem mosella. translated [ ]"the ruwer sends mill-stones swiftly round to grind the corn, and drives shrill saw-blades through smooth marble blocks". recent archaeological evidence from phrygia, anatolia, now pushes back the date to the rd century ad and confirms the use of a crank in the sawmill.[ ] 	 	shipmill, (though small, the conventional term is "shipmill" not boat mill, probably because there was always a deck, and usually an enclosed superstructure, to keep the flour away from the damp) where water wheels were attached to boats, was first recorded at rome in ad in procopius of caesarea's gothic wars ( . . – ) when belisaurius was besieged there. 	essentials of the steam engine 	by the late rd century ad, all essential elements for constructing a steam engine were known by roman engineers: steam power (in hero's aeolipile), the crank and connecting rod mechanism (in the hierapolis sawmill), the cylinder and piston (in metal force pumps), non-return valves (in water pumps) and gearing (in water mills and clocks)[ ] 	 	watermill. improvements upon earlier models. for the largest mill complex known see barbegal 	mercury gilding 	as in the horses of san marco 	newspaper, rudimentary 	see acta diurna. 	odometer 	 	paddle wheel boats 	in de rebus bellicis (possibly only a paper invention). 	pewter 	mentioned by pliny the elder (naturalis historia , – ). surviving examples are mainly romano-british of the rd and th centuries e.g.[ ] and [ ]. roman pewter had a wide range of proportions of tin but proportions of %, % and % predominate (beagrie ). 	pleasure lake 	an artificial reservoir, highly unusual in that it was meant for recreational rather than utilitarian purposes was created at subiaco, italy, for emperor nero ( – ad). the dam remained the highest in the roman empire (  m),[ ] and in the world until its destruction in .[ ] 	plough 	 	 	iron-bladed (a much older innovation (e.g. bible; i samuel , – ) that became much more common in the roman period) 	 	wheeled (pliny the elder naturalis historia . – ) (more important for the middle ages, than this era.) 	pottery, glossed 	i.e. samian ware 	reaper 	an early harvesting machine: vallus (pliny the elder naturalis historia , , palladius . . – [ ]) 	sails, fore-and-aft rig 	introduction of fore-and-aft rigs ) the lateen sail ) the spritsail, this last already attested in nd century bc in the northern aegean sea[ ] note: there is no evidence of any combination of fore-and-aft rigs with square sails on the same roman ship. 	sails, lateen 	representations show lateen sails in the mediterranean as early as the nd century ad. both the quadrilateral and the triangular type were employed.[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] 	roller bearings 	archaeologically attested in the lake nemi ships[ ] 	rudder, stern-mounted 	see image for something very close to being a sternpost rudder 	sausage, fermented dry (probably) 	see salami. 	screw press 	an innovation of about the mid- st century ad[ ] 	sewers 	see for example cloaca maxima 	soap, hard (sodium) 	first mentioned by galen (earlier, potassium, soap being celtic). 	spiral staircase 	though first attested as early as the th century bc in greek selinunte, spiral staircases only become more widespread after their adoption in trajan's column and the column of marcus aurelius. 	stenography, a system of 	see tironian notes. 	street map, early 	see forma urbis romae (severan marble plan), a carved marble ground plan of every architectural feature in ancient rome.[ ] 	sundial, portable 	see theodosius of bithynia 	surgical instruments, various 	 	tooth implants, iron 	from archaeological evidence in gaul[ ] 	towpath 	e.g. beside the danube, see the "road" in trajan's bridge 	tunnels 	excavated from both ends simultaneously. the longest known is the . -kilometre ( .  mi) drain of the fucine lake 	vehicles, one wheeled 	solely attested by a latin word in th century ad scriptores historiae augustae heliogabalus . as this is fiction, the evidence dates to its time of writing. 	wood veneer 	pliny nat. hist. . – see also[edit] 	maritime hydraulics in antiquity 	de architectura 	ancient greek technology 	history of science in classical antiquity 	list of byzantine inventions references[edit] 	^ lancaster, lynn ( ). engineering and technology in the classical world. new york: oxford university press. pp.  – . isbn  . 	^ davies, gwyn ( ). engineering and technology in the classical world. new york: oxford university press. pp.  – . isbn  . 	^ a b c d e landels, john g. 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me dicente cavis impositam ilicem saxis, unde loquaces lymphae desiliunt tuae. the spring of bandusium (latin: fons bandusiae) is a natural water source in rural italy, to which the roman poet horace addressed a well-known ode (odes . ). the location of the spring is unknown: speculation has centered on apulia, the poet's birthplace, and the neighborhood of an archaeological ruin east of rome, thought to be the site of poet's beloved sabine farm in what is now the commune of licenza. in the poem horace promises to sacrifice a young goat to the spring and praises the spring's constancy in the hottest days of summer. the poem ends with horace promising to immortalize the spring through his song. location[edit] evidence that the original fons bandusiae may have been located in apulia, near horace's childhood home, comes from a papal bull of paschal ii, dating to . this bull mentions a "church of the holy martyrs gervasius and protasius at the bandusine spring in venusia" (ecclesia 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(detail from mór than's feast of attila.) priscus of panium (/ˈprɪskəs/; greek: Πρίσκος) was a th-century eastern roman diplomat and greek historian and rhetorician (or sophist).[ ][ ][ ][ ] contents 	 biography 	 . history of byzantium 	 . priscus account of a dinner with attila the hun 	 . priscus in fiction 	 remaining works 	 references 	 . citations 	 . sources 	 further reading 	 external links biography[edit] priscus was born in panion (located in thrace) between - ad.[ ][ ] in / ad, he accompanied maximinus, the head of the byzantine embassy representing emperor theodosius the younger (r. – ), on a diplomatic mission to the court of attila the hun.[ ][ ][ ] while there, he met and conversed with a greek merchant, dressed in "scythian" (or hunnic) fashion, who was captured eight years earlier (circa – ) when the city of viminacium (located on the danube east of modern-day belgrade) was sacked by the huns.[ ][ ] the trader explained to priscus that after the sack of viminacium, he was a slave of onegesius, a hunnic nobleman, but obtained his freedom and chose to settle among the huns.[ ][ ] priscus ultimately engaged in a debate with the greek defector regarding the qualities of life and justice in both the byzantine empire and in barbarian kingdoms.[ ] after an interlude in rome, priscus traveled to alexandria and the thebaid in egypt.[ ][ ] he last appeared in the east, circa , attached to the staff of euphemios as emperor marcian's (r. – ) magister officiorum.[ ] he died after ad.[ ] history of byzantium[edit] priscus was the author of an eight-volume historical work, written in greek, entitled the history of byzantium (greek: Ἱστορία Βυζαντιακή), which was probably not the original title name.[ ][ ] the history probably covered the period from the accession of attila the hun to the accession of emperor zeno (r. – ), or from up until ad.[ ] priscus's work currently survives in fragments and was very influential in the byzantine empire.[ ] the history was used in the excerpta de legationibus of emperor constantine vii porphyrogenitus (r. – ), as well as by authors such as evagrius scholasticus, cassiodorus, jordanes, and the author of the souda.[ ] priscus's writing style is straightforward and his work is regarded as a reliable contemporary account of attila the hun, his court, and the reception of the roman ambassadors.[ ] he is considered a "classicizing" historian to the extent that his work, though written during the christian era, is almost completely secular and relies on a style and word-choice that are part of an historiographical tradition dating back to the fifth century bc.[ ] priscus account of a dinner with attila the hun[edit] priscus recounted the story of a dinner with attila the hun which took place at one of attila's many houses. this house was said to be greater than the rest (having been made for celebration) due to it being constructed of decorative polished wood, with little thought to making any part of the place for defense. the dinner was at three o’clock; priscus entered the house bearing gifts to attila's wife; her name was kreka and she had three sons. priscus and the embassy of eastern romans were placed at the end of the table farthest from attila but still in his presence; this was meant to show that he was greater than the roman guests, and that attila considered his people to be more important than priscus and the roman embassy. as priscus and the eastern roman embassy stood, they followed the cultural tradition of being served tea from the cupbearers; they were to pray and have a drink before having a seat at the table. the seats were arranged parallel to the walls; attila sat on the middle couch. the right side of attila was reserved for his honored chiefs, and everyone else including priscus and the roman embassies sat on the left. after being seated, everyone raised a glass to pledge one another with wine. once the cupbearers left another attendant came in with a platter of meat, followed by bread and other foods of the time. all of the food was served onto plates of silver and gold. priscus also notes that attila didn’t use any silver or gold plates but instead used a cup made of wood; also, his attire was not very grand. once the first round was finished, they stood and drank again to the health of attila. when evening arrived torches were lit and songs that were about attila's victories were sung.[ ][ ][ ] priscus in fiction[edit] priscus is an important character in slave of the huns by geza gardonyi. he is depicted as a kindly master and scholar, and part of the novel is based on his account of his visit to attila. remaining works[edit] the remaining works of priscus are currently published in four collections: 	given, john ( ). the fragmentary history of priscus. merchantville, new jersey: evolution publishing. isbn  - - - - . 	blockley, roger c. ( ). the fragmentary classicising historians of the later roman empire. ii. cambridge, united kingdom: francis cairns. isbn  - - - - . 	gordon, colin douglas ( ). the age of attila: fifth-century byzantium and the barbarians. ann arbor, michigan: university of michigan press. 	dindorfius, ludovicus ( ). historici graeci minores (volume ). leipzig, germany: b. g. teubneri. references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ a b c d e f g h i j kazhdan , "priskos", p. . 	^ a b c d e f g chisholm , p.  . 	^ toynbee & myers , p.  : "the renegade greek business man from viminacium whom the greek historian and roman diplomatist priscus encountered in attila's ordu on the alföld in a.d. has already come to our notice." 	^ a b christophilopoulou , p.  : "for information about attila, his court and the organization of life generally in his realm we have the authentic and reliable evidence of contemporary greek historian priscus, who accompanied maximinus, the head of the byzantine embassy, in ." 	^ halsall ; kelly , p.  ; toynbee & myers , p.  . 	^ a b jones , p.  : "priscus of panium met one of these in attila's camp. he was, he said, a greek who had settled at viminacium on the danube and prospered in trade and married a rich wife. he was wealthy enough to be allotted as a special prize to onegesius, one of the hunnic nobles, when the town was captured." 	^ a b halsall . 	^ given , p. xvii. 	^ robinson . 	^ ase berit, rolf strandskogen ( december ). lifelines in world history. routledge. isbn  . sources[edit] 	chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "priscus" . encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. p.  .cs maint: ref=harv (link) 	christophilopoulou, aikaterinē ( ). byzantine history (volume ). amsterdam, the netherlands: adolf m. hakkert. isbn  - - - . 	given, john ( ). the fragmentary history of priscus. merchantville, new jersey: evolution publishing. isbn  - - - - . 	halsall, paul (march ). "priscus at the court of attila". retrieved december – via fordham university, internet medieval source book. 	jones, arnold hugh martin ( ). the later roman empire, - (volume two). norman, oklahoma: university of oklahoma press. isbn  - - -x. 	kazhdan, alexander petrovich, ed. ( ). the oxford dictionary of byzantium. new york, new york and oxford, united kingdom: oxford university press. isbn  - - - - . 	kelly, christopher ( ). ruling the later roman empire. cambridge, massachusetts: harvard university press. isbn  - - - . 	robinson, j. h. ( ). "priscus describes the court of attila king of the huns ( )". readings in european history. boston: ginn. pp.  – . retrieved december – via fordham university, internet medieval source book. 	toynbee, arnold joseph; myers, edward delos ( ). a study of history (volume ). oxford, united kingdom: oxford university press. further reading[edit] 	gordon, colin douglas ( ). "fifth century chronology of in the fragments of priscus". new review. iv ( – ). 	thompson, e. a. (july–october ). "priscus of panium, fragment i b". the classical quarterly. cambridge, united kingdom: cambridge university press. 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however, this process was gradual, and the use of roman numerals persists in some applications to this day. one place they are often seen is on clock faces. for instance, on the clock of big ben (designed in ), the hours from to are written as: 			i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix, x, xi, xii the notations iv and ix can be read as "one less than five" ( ) and "one less than ten" ( ), although there is a tradition favouring representation of " " as "iiii" on roman numeral clocks.[ ] other common uses include year numbers on monuments and buildings and copyright dates on the title screens of movies and television programs. mcm, signifying "a thousand, and a hundred less than another thousand", means , so is written mcmxii. for the years of this century, mm indicates . the current year is mmxx ( ). contents 	 description 	 . standard form 	 . variant forms 	 . . use of additive notation 	 . . irregular subtractive notation 	 . . rare variants 	 . . non-numeric combinations 	 . zero 	 . fractions 	 . large numbers 	 . . apostrophus 	 . . vinculum 	 origin of the system 	 . etruscan numerals 	 . early roman numerals 	 . classical roman numerals 	 use in the middle ages and renaissance 	 modern use 	 . specific disciplines 	 . modern use in continental europe 	 unicode 	 see also 	 references 	 . notes 	 . citations 	 sources 	 further reading 	 external links description roman numerals are essentially a decimal or "base " number system, but instead of place value notation (in which 'place-keeping' zeros enable a digit to represent different powers of ten) it uses a set of symbols with fixed values. tally-like combinations of these fixed symbols correspond to the digits of arabic numerals. this structure allows for significant flexibility in notation, and many variant forms are attested. in fact, there has never been an officially "binding", or universally accepted standard for roman numerals. usage in ancient rome varied greatly and became thoroughly chaotic in medieval times. even the post-renaissance restoration of a largely "classical" notation has failed to produce total consistency: variant forms are even defended by some modern writers as offering improved "flexibility".[ ] on the other hand, especially where a roman numeral is considered a legally binding expression of a number, as in u.s. copyright law (where an "incorrect" or ambiguous numeral may invalidate a copyright claim, or affect the termination date of the copyright period)[ ] it is desirable to strictly follow the usual style described below. standard form the following table displays how roman numerals are usually written:[ ] individual decimal places 		thousands	hundreds	tens	units 	 	m	c	x	i 	 	mm	cc	xx	ii 	 	mmm	ccc	xxx	iii 	 		cd	xl	iv 	 		d	l	v 	 		dc	lx	vi 	 		dcc	lxx	vii 	 		dccc	lxxx	viii 	 		cm	xc	ix the numerals for (iv) and (ix) are written using "subtractive notation",[ ] where the first symbol (i) is subtracted from the larger one (v, or x), thus avoiding the clumsier (iiii, and viiii).[a] subtractive notation is also used for (xl) and (xc), as well as (cd) and (cm).[ ] these are the only subtractive forms in standard use. a number containing several decimal digits is built by appending the roman numeral equivalent for each, from highest to lowest, as in the following examples: 	    = xxx + ix = xxxix. 	   = cc + xl + vi = ccxlvi. 	   = dcc + lxxx + ix = dcclxxxix. 	 , = mm + cd + xx + i = mmcdxxi. any missing place (represented by a zero in the place-value equivalent) is omitted, as in latin (and english) speech: 	   = c + lx = clx 	   = cc + vii = ccvii 	 , = m + ix = mix 	 , = m + lx + vi = mlxvi[ ][ ] roman numerals for large numbers are seen in the form of year numbers, as in these examples: 	 = m + dcc + lxx + vi = mdcclxxvi (the date written on the book held by the statue of liberty). 	 = m + cm + x + viii = mcmxviii (the first year of the "spanish" flu pandemic) 	 = m + cm + l + iv = mcmliv (as in the trailer for the movie the last time i saw paris)[ ] 	 = mm + x + iv = mmxiv (the year of the games of the xxii ( nd) olympic winter games (in sochi, russia)) the largest number that can be represented in this notation is , (mmmcmxcix), but since the largest roman numeral likely to be required today is mmxx (the current year) there is no practical need for larger roman numerals. prior to the introduction of arabic numerals in the west, ancient and medieval users of the system used various means to write larger numbers; see large numbers below. variant forms forms exist that vary in one way or another from the general "standard" described above. use of additive notation a typical clock face with roman numerals in bad salzdetfurth, germany while subtractive notation for , and (iv, xl and cd) has been the usual form since roman times, additive notation (iiii, xxxx and cccc)[ ] continued to be used, including in compound numbers like xxiiii,[ ] lxxiiii,[ ] and cccclxxxx.[ ] the additive forms for , , and (viiii,[ ] lxxxx,[ ] and dcccc[ ]) have also been used, although less frequently. the two conventions could be mixed in the same document or inscription, even in the same numeral. on the numbered gates to the colosseum, for instance, iiii is systematically used instead of iv, but subtractive notation is used for other digits; so that gate is labelled xliiii.[ ] modern clock faces that use roman numerals still usually employ iiii for four o'clock but ix for nine o'clock, a practice that goes back to very early clocks such as the wells cathedral clock of the late th century.[ ][ ][ ] however, this is far from universal: for example, the clock on the palace of westminster tower, "big ben", uses a subtractive iv for o'clock.[ ] isaac asimov theorises that the use of iv, as the initial letters of ivpitter (a classical latin spelling of the name of the roman god jupiter), may have been felt to have been impious in this context.[ ] although this, like several other theories, seems to be pure speculation. the year number on admiralty arch, london. the year is rendered as mdccccx, rather than the more usual mcmx several monumental inscriptions created in the early th century use variant forms for " " (usually written mcm). these vary from mdccccx for as seen on admiralty arch, london, to the more unusual, if not unique mdcdiii for , on the north entrance to the saint louis art museum.[ ] especially on tombstones and other funerary inscriptions and have been occasionally written iiiii and xxxxx instead of v and l, and there are instances such as iiiiii and xxxxxx rather than vi or lx.[ ][ ] irregular subtractive notation it is a common belief that any smaller digit placed earlier than a larger digit is subtracted from the total, and that by clever choices a roman numeral can be "compressed." the best known example of this is the roman() function in microsoft excel, which can turn into cdxcix, ldvliv, xdix, vdiv, or id depending on the "form" setting.[ ] there is no indication this is anything other than an invention by the programmer, and the universal-subtraction belief may be a result of modern users trying to rationalize the syntax of roman numerals. epitaph of centurion marcus caelius, showing "xiix" there is however some historic use of subtractive notation other than that described in the "standard": in particular iiixx for ,[ ] iixx for ,[ ] iiic for ,[ ] iic for ,[ ][ ] and ic for .[ ] a possible explanation is that the word for in latin is duodeviginti, literally "two from twenty", is duodecentum (two from hundred), and is undecentum (one from hundred).[ ] however, the explanation does not seem to apply to iiixx and iiic, since the latin words for and were septendecim (seven ten) and nonaginta septem (ninety seven), respectively. there are multiple examples of iix being used for . there does not seem to be a linguistic explanation for this use, although it is one stroke shorter than viii. xiix was used by officers of the xviii roman legion to write their number.[ ][ ] the notation appears prominently on the cenotaph of their senior centurion marcus caelius (c.  bc – ad ). on the publicly displayed official roman calendars known as fasti, xiix is used for the days to the next kalends, and xxiix for the days in february. the latter can be seen on the sole extant pre-julian calendar, the fasti antiates maiores.[ ] rare variants while irregular subtractive and additive notation has been used at least occasionally throughout history, some roman numerals have been observed in documents and inscriptions that do not fit either system. some of these variants do not seem to have been used outside specific contexts, and may have been regarded as errors even by contemporaries. padlock used on the north gate of the irish town of athlone. " " in the date is rendered xvixiii, (literally " , ") instead of mdcxiii 	iixx was how people associated with the xxii roman legion used to write their number. the practice may have been due to a common way to say "twenty-second" in latin, namely duo et vice(n)sima (literally "two and twentieth") rather than the "regular" vice(n)sima secunda (twenty second).[ ] apparently, at least one ancient stonecutter mistakenly thought that the iixx of " nd legion" stood for , and "corrected" it to xviii.[ ] excerpt from bibliothèque nationale de france.[ ] the roman numeral for is rendered as vc, instead of d 	there are some examples of year numbers after written as two roman numerals – , e.g. as xvixiii, corresponding to the common reading "sixteen thirteen" of such year numbers in english, or as xvcxix as in french quinze-cent-dix-neuf (fifteen-hundred and nineteen), and similar readings in other languages.[ ] 	in some french texts from the th century and later one finds constructions like iiiixxxix for , reflecting the french reading of that number as quatre-vingt-dix-neuf (four-score and nineteen).[ ] similarly, in some english documents one finds, for example, written as "iiixxxvii" (which could be read "three-score and seventeen").[ ] 	another medieval accounting text from renders numbers like , as "xiii. m. v. c. iii. xx. xiii", that is, " × + × + × + ".[ ] 	other numerals that do not fit the usual patterns – such as vxl for , instead of the usual xlv — may be due to scribal errors, or the writer's lack of familiarity with the system, rather than being genuine variant usage. non-numeric combinations as roman numerals are composed of ordinary alphabetic characters, there may sometimes be confusion with other uses of the same letters. for example, "xxx" and "xl" have other connotations in addition to their values as roman numerals, while "ixl" more often than not is a gramogram of "i excel", and is in any case not an unambiguous roman numeral. zero "place-keeping" zeros are alien to the system of roman numerals - however the actual number zero (what remains after is subtracted from ) was also missing from the classical roman numeral system. the word nulla (the latin word meaning "none") was used to represent , although the earliest attested instances are medieval. for instance dionysius exiguus used nulla alongside roman numerals in a manuscript from a.d. .[ ][ ] about , bede or one of his colleagues used the letter n, the initial of nulla or of nihil (the latin word for "nothing") for , in a table of epacts, all written in roman numerals.[ ] the use of n to indicate "none" long survived in the historic apothecaries' system of measurement: used well into the th century to designate quantities in pharmaceutical prescriptions.[ ] fractions a triens coin (​ ⁄ or ​ ⁄ of an as). note the four dots (····) indicating its value. a semis coin (​ ⁄ or ​ ⁄ of an as). note the s indicating its value. the base "roman fraction" is s, indicating ​ ⁄ . the use of s (as in viis to indicate ​ ⁄ ) is attested in some ancient inscriptions[ ] and also in the now rare apothecaries' system (usually in the form ss):[ ] but while roman numerals for whole numbers are essentially decimal s does not correspond to ​ ⁄ , as one might expect, but ​ ⁄ . in fact the romans used a duodecimal rather than a decimal system for fractions, as the divisibility of twelve ( = × ) makes it easier to handle the common fractions of ​ ⁄ and ​ ⁄ than does a system based on ten ( = × ).. notation for fractions other than ​ ⁄ is mainly found on surviving roman coins, many of which had values that were duodecimal fractions of the unit as. fractions less than ​ ⁄ are indicated by a dot (·) for each uncia "twelfth", the source of the english words inch and ounce; dots are repeated for fractions up to five twelfths. six twelfths (one half), is s for semis "half". uncia dots were added to s for fractions from seven to eleven twelfths, just as tallies were added to v for whole numbers from six to nine.[ ] the arrangement of the dots was variable and not necessarily linear. five dots arranged like (⁙) (as on the face of a die) are known as a quincunx, from the name of the roman fraction/coin. the latin words sextans and quadrans are the source of the english words sextant and quadrant. each fraction from ​ ⁄ to ​ ⁄ had a name in roman times; these corresponded to the names of the related coins: 	fraction 	roman numeral 	name (nominative and genitive) 	meaning 	​ ⁄ 	· 	uncia, unciae 	"ounce" 	​ ⁄ = ​ ⁄ 	·· or : 	sextans, sextantis 	"sixth" 	​ ⁄ = ​ ⁄ 	··· or ∴ 	quadrans, quadrantis 	"quarter" 	​ ⁄ = ​ ⁄ 	···· or ∷ 	triens, trientis 	"third" 	​ ⁄ 	····· or ⁙ 	quincunx, quincuncis 	"five-ounce" (quinque unciae → quincunx) 	​ ⁄ = ​ ⁄ 	s 	semis, semissis 	"half" 	​ ⁄ 	s· 	septunx, septuncis 	"seven-ounce" (septem unciae → septunx) 	​ ⁄ = ​ ⁄ 	s·· or s: 	bes, bessis 	"twice" (as in "twice a third") 	​ ⁄ = ​ ⁄ 	s··· or s∴ 	dodrans, dodrantis or nonuncium, nonuncii 	"less a quarter" (de-quadrans → dodrans) or "ninth ounce" (nona uncia → nonuncium) 	​ ⁄ = ​ ⁄ 	s···· or s∷ 	dextans, dextantis or decunx, decuncis 	"less a sixth" (de-sextans → dextans) or "ten ounces" (decem unciae → decunx) 	​ ⁄ 	s····· or s⁙ 	deunx, deuncis 	"less an ounce" (de-uncia → deunx) 	​ ⁄ = 	i 	as, assis 	"unit" other roman fractional notations included the following: 	fraction 	roman numeral 	name (nominative and genitive) 	meaning 	​ ⁄ = − 	» 	siliqua, siliquae 	 	​ ⁄ 	℈ 	scripulum, scripuli 	"scruple" 	​ ⁄ = − 	Ƨ 	dimidia sextula, dimidiae sextulae 	"half a sextula" 	​ ⁄ 	Ƨ 	sextula, sextulae 	"​ ⁄ of an uncia" 	​ ⁄ 	Ɔ 	sicilicus, sicilici 	 	​ ⁄ 	ƧƧ 	binae sextulae, binarum sextularum 	"two sextulas" (duella, duellae) 	​ ⁄ 	Σ or 𐆒 or Є 	semuncia, semunciae 	"​ ⁄ uncia" (semi- + uncia) 	​ ⁄ 	Σ· or 𐆒· or Є· 	sescuncia, sescunciae 	"​   ⁄ uncias" (sesqui- + uncia) large numbers during the centuries that roman numerals remained the standard way of writing numbers throughout europe, there were various extensions to the system designed to indicate larger numbers, none of which were ever standardised. apostrophus " " on the westerkerk in amsterdam. "m" and "d" are given archaic "apostrophus" form. one of these was the apostrophus,[ ] in which was written as iↃ, while , was written as ciↃ.[ ] this is a system of encasing numbers to denote thousands (imagine the cs and Ↄs as parentheses), which has its origins in etruscan numeral usage. the iↃ and ciↃ used to represent and , most likely preceded, and subsequently influenced, the adoption of "d" and "m" in conventional roman numerals. in this system, an extra Ↄ denoted , and multiple extra Ↄs are used to denote , , , , etc. for example: 	base number 	  	ciↃ = , 	cciↃↃ = , 	ccciↃↃↃ = , 	 extra Ↄ 	iↃ = 	ciↃↃ = , 	cciↃↃↃ = , 	ccciↃↃↃↃ = , 	 extra Ↄs 	iↃↃ = , 	  	cciↃↃↃↃ = , 	ccciↃↃↃↃↃ = , 	 extra Ↄs 	iↃↃↃ = , 	  	  	ccciↃↃↃↃↃↃ = , page from a th-century manual, showing a mixture of apostrophus and vinculum numbers (see in particular the ways of writing , ). sometimes ciↃ was reduced to ↀ for , . john wallis is often credited for introducing the symbol for infinity (modern ∞), and one conjecture is that he based it on this usage, since , was hyperbolically used to represent very large numbers. similarly, iↃↃ for , was reduced to ↁ; cciↃↃ for , to ↂ; iↃↃↃ for , to ↇ; and ccciↃↃↃ for , to ↈ. [ ] vinculum another system was the vinculum, in which conventional roman numerals were multiplied by , by adding a "bar" or "overline".[ ] it was a common alternative to the apostrophic ↀ during the imperial era: both systems were in simultaneous use around the roman world (m for ' ' was not in use until the medieval period).[ ] [ ] the use of vinculum for multiples of , can be observed, for example, on the milestones erected by roman soldiers along the antonine wall in the mid- nd century ad.[ ] there is some scope for confusion when an overline is meant to denote multiples of , , and when not. the greeks and romans often overlined letters acting as numerals to highlight them from the general body of the text, without any numerical significance. this stylistic convention was, for example, also in use in the inscriptions of the antonine wall,[ ] and the reader is required to decipher the intended meaning of the overline from the context. the vinculum for marking , s continued in use in the middle ages, though it became known more commonly as titulus.[ ] some modern sources describe vinculum as if it were a part of the current "standard":[ ] however this is purely hypothetical - since no common modern usage requires numbers larger than the current year (mmxx). nonetheless, for reference: here are some examples, to give an idea of how it might be used:: 	iv = , 	ivdcxxvii = , 	xxv = , 	xxvcdlix = , another inconsistent medieval usage was the addition of vertical lines (or brackets) before and after the numeral to multiply it by (or ): thus m for , as an alternative form for x. in combination with the overline the bracketed forms might be used to raise the multiplier to (say) ten (or one hundred) thousand, thus: 	viii for , (or , ) 	xx for , (or , , ) use of roman numeral "i" (with exaggerated serifs) contrasting with the upper case letter "i". this use of lines is distinct from the custom, once very common, of adding both underline and overline (or very large serifs) to a roman numeral, simply to make it clear that it is a number, e.g. for . origin of the system the system is closely associated with the ancient city-state of rome and the empire that it created. however, due to the scarcity of surviving examples, the origins of the system are obscure and there are several competing theories, all largely conjectural. etruscan numerals main article: etruscan numerals rome was founded sometime between and bc. at the time, the region was inhabited by diverse populations of which the etruscans were the most advanced. the ancient romans themselves admitted that the basis of much of their civilization was etruscan. rome itself was located next to the southern edge of the etruscan domain, which covered a large part of north-central italy. the roman numerals, in particular, are directly derived from the etruscan number symbols: "𐌠", "𐌡", "𐌢", "𐌣", and "𐌟" for , , , , and (they had more symbols for larger numbers, but it is unknown which symbol represents which number). as in the basic roman system, the etruscans wrote the symbols that added to the desired number, from higher to lower value. thus the number , for example, would be written + + + + + + = 𐌣𐌢𐌢𐌢𐌡𐌠�� (this would appear as 𐌠𐌠𐌡𐌢𐌢𐌢𐌣 since etruscan was written from right to left.)[ ] the symbols "𐌠" and "𐌡" resembled letters of the etruscan alphabet, but "𐌢", "𐌣", and "𐌟" did not. the etruscans used the subtractive notation, too, but not like the romans. they wrote , , and as "𐌠𐌠𐌠𐌢𐌢", "𐌠𐌠𐌢𐌢", and 𐌠𐌢𐌢, mirroring the way they spoke those numbers ("three from twenty", etc.); and similarly for , , , , , etc. however they did not write "𐌠𐌡" for (or "𐌢𐌣" for ), and wrote "𐌡𐌠𐌠", "𐌡𐌠𐌠𐌠" and "𐌡𐌠𐌠𐌠𐌠" for , , and , respectively.[ ] early roman numerals the early roman numerals for , , and were the etruscan ones: "i", "x", and "Ж". the symbols for and changed from Ʌ and "𐌣" to v and ↆ at some point. the latter had flattened to ⊥ (an inverted t) by the time of augustus, and soon afterwards became identified with the graphically similar letter l.[ ] the symbol for was written variously as >i< or Ɔic, was then abbreviated to Ɔ or c, with c (which matched a latin letter) finally winning out. it may have helped that c is the initial of centum, latin for "hundred". the numbers and were denoted by v or x overlaid with a box or circle. thus was like a Ɔ superimposed on a Þ. it became d or Ð by the time of augustus, under the graphic influence of the letter d. it was later identified as the letter d; an alternative symbol for "thousand" was a ciƆ, and half of a thousand or "five hundred" is the right half of the symbol, iƆ, and this may have been converted into d.[ ] the notation for was a circled or boxed x: Ⓧ, ⊗, ⊕, and by augustinian times was partially identified with the greek letter Φ phi. over time, the symbol changed to Ψ and ↀ. the latter symbol further evolved into ∞, then ⋈, and eventually changed to m under the influence of the latin word mille "thousand".[ ] according to paul kayser, the basic numerical symbols were i, x, c and Φ (or ⊕) and the intermediate ones were derived by taking half of those (half an x is v, half a c is l and half a Φ/⊕ is d).[ ] entrance to section lii ( ) of the colosseum, with numerals still visible classical roman numerals the colosseum was constructed in rome in ce - ,[ ] and while the original perimeter wall has largely disappeared, the numbered entrances from xxiii ( ) to liiii ( ) survive,[ ] to demonstrate that in imperial times roman numerals had already assumed their classical form: as largely standardised in current use. the most obvious anomaly (a common one that persisted for centuries) is the inconsistent use of subtractive notation - while xl is used for , iv is avoided in favour of iiii: in fact gate is labelled xliiii. use in the middle ages and renaissance lower case, or minuscule, letters were developed in the middle ages, well after the demise of the western roman empire, and since that time lower-case versions of roman numbers have also been commonly used: i, ii, iii, iv, and so on. th century example of iiij. since the middle ages, a "j" has sometimes been substituted for the final "i" of a "lower-case" roman numeral, such as "iij" for or "vij" for . this "j" can be considered a swash variant of "i". into the early th century, the use of a final "j" was still sometimes used in medical prescriptions to prevent tampering with or misinterpretation of a number after it was written.[ ] numerals in documents and inscriptions from the middle ages sometimes include additional symbols, which today are called "medieval roman numerals". some simply substitute another letter for the standard one (such as "a" for "v", or "q" for "d"), while others serve as abbreviations for compound numerals ("o" for "xi", or "f" for "xl"). although they are still listed today in some dictionaries, they are long out of use.[ ] 	number 	medieval abbreviation 	notes and etymology 	 	a 	resembles an upside-down v. also said to equal . 	 	ↅ 	either from a ligature of vi, or from digamma (ϛ), the greek numeral (sometimes conflated with the στ ligature).[ ] 	 	s, z 	presumed abbreviation of septem, latin for . 	 . 	x̷ 	scribal abbreviation, an x with a slash through it. likewise, ix̷ represented . 	 	o 	presumed abbreviation of onze, french for . 	 	f 	presumed abbreviation of english forty. 	 	s 	also could stand for , with the same derivation. 	 	r 	 	 	n 	presumed abbreviation of nonaginta, latin for . (ambiguous with n for "nothing" (nihil)). 	 	y 	possibly derived from the lowercase y's shape. 	 	k 	unusual, origin unknown; also said to stand for .[ ] 	 	t 	possibly derived from greek tetra, as × = . 	 	h 	could also stand for (see also 𐆙, the symbol for the dupondius). from a barring of two i's. 	 	e 	 	 	b 	 	 	p, g 	 	 	q 	redundant with d; abbreviates quingenti, latin for . also sometimes used for , .[ ] 	 	Ω 	borrowed from gothic. 	 	ϡ 	borrowed from gothic. 	 	z 	 chronograms, messages with dates encoded into them, were popular during the renaissance era. the chronogram would be a phrase containing the letters i, v, x, l, c, d, and m. by putting these letters together, the reader would obtain a number, usually indicating a particular year. modern use by the th century, arabic numerals had been introduced into europe from al-andalus, by way of arab traders and arithmetic treatises. roman numerals, however, proved very persistent, remaining in common use in the west well into the th and th centuries, even in accounting and other business records (where the actual calculations would have been made using an abacus). replacement by their more convenient "arabic" equivalents was quite gradual, and roman numerals are still used today in certain contexts. a few examples of their current use are: spanish real using iiii instead of iv as regnal number of charles iv of spain 	names of monarchs and popes, e.g. elizabeth ii of the united kingdom, pope benedict xvi. these are referred to as regnal numbers and are usually read as ordinals; e.g. ii is pronounced "the second". this tradition began in europe sporadically in the middle ages, gaining widespread use in england during the reign of henry viii. previously, the monarch was not known by numeral but by an epithet such as edward the confessor. some monarchs (e.g. charles iv of spain and louis xiv of france) seem to have preferred the use of iiii instead of iv on their coinage (see illustration). 	generational suffixes, particularly in the us, for people sharing the same name across generations, for example william howard taft iv. 	in the french republican calendar, initiated during the french revolution, years were numbered by roman numerals – from the year i ( ) when this calendar was introduced to the year xiv ( ) when it was abandoned. 	the year of production of films, television shows and other works of art within the work itself. it has been suggested – by bbc news, perhaps facetiously – that this was originally done "in an attempt to disguise the age of films or television programmes."[ ] outside reference to the work will use regular arabic numerals. 	hour marks on timepieces. in this context, is often written iiii. 	the year of construction on building faces and cornerstones. 	page numbering of prefaces and introductions of books, and sometimes of appendices and annexes, too. 	book volume and chapter numbers, as well as the several acts within a play (e.g. act iii, scene ). 	sequels to some films, video games, and other works (as in rocky ii). 	outlines that use numbers to show hierarchical relationships. 	occurrences of a recurring grand event, for instance: 	the summer and winter olympic games (e.g. the xxi olympic winter games; the games of the xxx olympiad) 	the super bowl, the annual championship game of the national football league (e.g. super bowl xxxvii; super bowl was a one-time exception[ ]) 	wrestlemania, the annual professional wrestling event for the wwe (e.g. wrestlemania xxx). this usage has also been inconsistent. specific disciplines in astronomy, the natural satellites or "moons" of the planets are traditionally designated by capital roman numerals appended to the planet's name. for example, titan's designation is saturn vi. in chemistry, roman numerals are often used to denote the groups of the periodic table. they are also used in the iupac nomenclature of inorganic chemistry, for the oxidation number of cations which can take on several different positive charges. they are also used for naming phases of polymorphic crystals, such as ice. in education, school grades (in the sense of year-groups rather than test scores) are sometimes referred to by a roman numeral; for example, "grade ix" is sometimes seen for "grade ". in entomology, the broods of the thirteen and seventeen year periodical cicadas are identified by roman numerals. stylised "ix" represents " " in unit emblem of th aero squadron aef, in graphic design stylised roman numerals may represent numeric values. in advanced mathematics (including trigonometry, statistics, and calculus), when a graph includes negative numbers, its quadrants are named using i, ii, iii, and iv. these quadrant names signify positive numbers on both axes, negative numbers on the x axis, negative numbers on both axes, and negative numbers on the y axis, respectively. the use of roman numerals to designate quadrants avoids confusion, since arabic numerals are used for the actual data represented in the graph. in military unit designation, roman numerals are often used to distinguish between units at different levels. this reduces possible confusion, especially when viewing operational or strategic level maps. in particular, army corps are often numbered using roman numerals (for example the american xviii airborne corps or the ww -era german iii panzerkorps) with arabic numerals being used for divisions and armies. in music, roman numerals are used in several contexts: 	movements are often numbered using roman numerals. 	in roman numeral analysis, harmonic function is identified using roman numerals. 	individual strings of stringed instruments, such as the violin, are often denoted by roman numerals, with higher numbers denoting lower strings. in pharmacy, roman numerals were used with the now largely obsolete apothecaries' system of measurement: including ss to denote "one half" and n to denote "zero".[ ][ ] in photography, roman numerals (with zero) are used to denote varying levels of brightness when using the zone system. in seismology, roman numerals are used to designate degrees of the mercalli intensity scale of earthquakes. in sport the team containing the "top" players and representing a nation or province, a club or a school at the highest level in (say) rugby union is often called the " st xv", while a lower-ranking cricket or american football team might be the " rd xi". in tarot, roman numerals (with zero) are used to denote the cards of the major arcana. in theology and biblical scholarship, the septuagint is often referred to as lxx, as this translation of the old testament into greek is named for the legendary number of its translators (septuaginta being latin for "seventy"). modern use in continental europe some uses that are rare or never seen in english speaking countries may be relatively common in parts of continental europe. for instance: capital or small capital roman numerals are widely used in romance languages to denote centuries, e.g. the french xviiie siècle[ ] and the spanish siglo xviii mean " th century". slavic languages in and adjacent to russia similarly favor roman numerals ( xviii век). on the other hand, in slavic languages in central europe, like most germanic languages, one writes " ." (with a period) before the local word for "century". boris yeltsin's signature, dated november , rendered as .xi. . mixed roman and arabic numerals are sometimes used in numeric representations of dates (especially in formal letters and official documents, but also on tombstones). the month is written in roman numerals, while the day is in arabic numerals: " .vi. " and "vi. . " both refer unambiguously to june . business hours table on a shop window in vilnius, lithuania roman numerals are sometimes used to represent the days of the week in hours-of-operation signs displayed in windows or on doors of businesses,[ ] and also sometimes in railway and bus timetables. monday, taken as the first day of the week, is represented by i. sunday is represented by vii. the hours of operation signs are tables composed of two columns where the left column is the day of the week in roman numerals and the right column is a range of hours of operation from starting time to closing time. in the example case (left), the business opens from am to pm on weekdays, am to pm on saturdays and is closed on sundays. note that the listing uses -hour time. sign at .  km on route ss salaria, north of rome, italy roman numerals may also be used for floor numbering.[ ][ ] for instance, apartments in central amsterdam are indicated as -iii, with both an arabic numeral (number of the block or house) and a roman numeral (floor number). the apartment on the ground floor is indicated as -huis. in italy, where roads outside built-up areas have kilometre signs, major roads and motorways also mark -metre subdivisionals, using roman numerals from i to ix for the smaller intervals. the sign ix/ thus marks .  km. a notable exception to the use of roman numerals in europe is in greece, where greek numerals (based on the greek alphabet) are generally used in contexts where roman numerals would be used elsewhere. unicode the "number forms" block of the unicode computer character set standard has a number of roman numeral symbols in the range of code points from u+ to u+ .[ ] this range includes both upper- and lowercase numerals, as well as pre-combined characters for numbers up to (Ⅻ or xii). one justification for the existence of pre-combined numbers is to facilitate the setting of multiple-letter numbers (such as viii) on a single horizontal line in asian vertical text. the unicode standard, however, includes special roman numeral code points for compatibility only, stating that "[f]or most purposes, it is preferable to compose the roman numerals from sequences of the appropriate latin letters".[ ] the block also includes some apostrophus symbols for large numbers, an old variant of "l" ( ) similar to the etruscan character, the claudian letter "reversed c", etc. 	symbol 	ↀ 	ↁ 	ↂ 	ↅ 	ↆ 	ↇ 	ↈ 	value 	 , 	 , 	 , 	 	 	 , 	 , see also 	egyptian numerals 	etruscan numerals 	greek numerals 	hebrew numerals 	kharosthi numerals 	maya numerals 	roman abacus 	proto-writing 	roman numerals in unicode 	pentimal system references notes 	^ without theorising about causation, it may be noted that iv and ix not only have fewer characters than iiii and viiii, but are less likely to be confused (especially at a quick glance) with iii and viii. citations 	^ gordon, arthur e. ( ). illustrated introduction to latin epigraphy. berkeley: university of california press. isbn  - - - . alphabetic symbols for larger numbers, such as q for , , have also been used to various degrees of standardization. 	^ judkins, maura ( november ). "public clocks do a number on roman numerals". the washington post. retrieved august . most clocks using roman numerals traditionally use iiii instead of iv... one of the rare prominent clocks that uses the iv instead of iiii is big ben in london. 	^ adams, cecil ( february ). "what is the proper way to style roman numerals for the s?". the straight dope. 	^ a b hayes, david p. "guide to roman numerals". copyright registration and renewal information chart and web site. 	^ reddy, indra k.; khan, mansoor a. ( ). " (working with arabic and roman numerals)". essential math and calculations for pharmacy technicians. crc press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . table - roman and arabic numberals (table very similar to the table here, apart from inclusion of vinculum notation. 	^ stanislas dehaene ( ): the number sense : how the mind creates mathematics. oxford university press; pages. isbn  	^ Ûrij vasilʹevič prokhorov and michiel hazewinkel, editors ( ): encyclopaedia of mathematics, volume , page . springer; pages. isbn  	^ dela cruz, m. l. p.; torres, h. d. ( ). number smart quest for mastery: teacher's edition. rex bookstore, inc. isbn  . 	^ martelli, alex; ascher, david ( ). python cookbook. o'reilly media inc. isbn  - - - - . 	^ a b julius caesar ( – bc): commentarii de bello gallico. book ii, section : "... xv milia atrebates, ambianos x milia, morinos xxv milia, menapios vii milia, caletos x milia, veliocasses et viromanduos totidem, atuatucos xviiii milia; ..." section : "... ab utroque latere eius collis transversam fossam obduxit circiter passuum cccc et ad extremas fossas castella constituit..." book iv, section : "nostri ad unum omnes incolumes, perpaucis vulneratis, ex tanti belli timore, cum hostium numerus capitum ccccxxx milium fuisset, se in castra receperunt." book vii, section : "...in hiberna remissis ipse se recipit die xxxx bibracte." 	^ angelo rocca ( ) de campanis commentarius. published by guillelmo faciotti, rome. title of a plate: "campana a xxiiii hominibus pulsata" ("bell to be sounded by men") 	^ gerard ter borch ( ): portrait of cornelis de graef. date on painting: "out. xxiiii jaer. // m. dc. lxxiiii". 	^ pliny the elder ( – ad): naturalis historia, book iii: "saturni vocatur, caesaream mauretaniae urbem cclxxxxvii p[assum]. traiectus. reliqua in ora flumen tader ... ortus in cantabris haut procul oppido iuliobrica, per ccccl p. fluens ..." book iv: "epiri, achaiae, atticae, thessalia in porrectum longitudo cccclxxxx traditur, latitudo cclxxxxvii." book vi: "tam vicinum arsaniae fluere eum in regione arrhene claudius caesar auctor est, ut, cum intumuere, confluant nec tamen misceantur leviorque arsanias innatet mmmm ferme spatio, mox divisus in euphraten mergatur." 	^ thomas bennet ( ): grammatica hebræa, cum uberrima praxi in usum tironum ... editio tertia. published by t. astley, copy in the british library; pages. page : "prÆfixa duo sunt viz. he emphaticum vel relativum (de quo cap vi reg. lxxxx.) & shin cum segal sequente dagesh, quod denotat pronomen relativum..." 	^ pico della mirandola ( ) conclusiones sive theses dcccc ("conclusions, or theses"). 	^ " : tables, chairs, and plenty of chalk". roman numerals...not quite so simple. january . 	^ milham, w.i. ( ). time & timekeepers. new york: macmillan. p.  . 	^ a b pickover, clifford a. ( ), wonders of numbers: adventures in mathematics, mind, and meaning, oxford university press, p.  , isbn  - - - - . 	^ adams, cecil; zotti, ed ( ). more of the straight dope. ballantine books. p.  . isbn  - - - - . . 	^ a b c asimov, isaac ( ). asimov on numbers (pdf). pocket books, a division of simon & schuster, inc. p.  . 	^ "gallery: museum's north entrance ( )". saint louis art museum. archived from the original on december . retrieved january . the inscription over the north entrance to the museum reads: "dedicated to art and free to all mdcdiii." these roman numerals translate to , indicating that the engraving was part of the original building designed for the world's fair. 	^ reynolds, joyce maire; spawforth, anthony j. s. ( ). "numbers, roman". in hornblower, simon; spawforth, anthony (eds.). oxford classical dictionary ( rd ed.). oxford university press. isbn  - - -x. 	^ kennedy, benjamin hall ( ). the revised latin primer. london: longmans, green & co. 	^ roman function - office support 	^ michaele gasp. lvndorphio ( ): acta publica inter invictissimos gloriosissimosque&c. ... et ferdinandum ii. romanorum imperatores.... printed by ian-friderici weissii. page : "sub dato pragæ iiixx decemb. a. c. m. dc. iixx". page , end of the same document: "dabantur pragæ decemb. m. dc. iixx" 	^ raphael sulpicius à munscrod ( ): vera ac germana detecto clandestinarvm deliberationvm. page , line : "repertum originale subdatum iiixxx aug. a. c. mdc.iixx". page , upper right corner: "decemb. a. c. mdc.iixx". page , upper left corner: "febr. a. c. mdc.xix". page : "iixx. die maij sequentia in consilio noua ex bohemia allata....". page : "xix. maij". 	^ wilhelm ernst tentzel ( ): als ihre königl. majestät in pohlen und .... page : "... und der umschrifft: lithuania asserta m. dc. iiic [ ]." 	^ joh. caspar posner ( ): mvndvs ante mvndvm sive de chao orbis primordio, title page: "ad diem jvlii a. o. r. m dc iic". 	^ wilhelm ernst tentzel ( ): saxonia nvmismatica: das ist: die historie des durchlauchtigsten.... page : "die revers hat eine feine inscription: serenissimo dn.dn... senatus.qvernf. a. m dc iic d. oct [year day oct]." 	^ enea silvio piccolomini ( ): opera geographica et historica. helmstadt, j. m. sustermann. title page of first edition: "bibliopolæ ibid. m dc ic" 	^ kennedy, benjamin h. ( ). latin grammar. london: longmans, green, and co. p.  . isbn  . 	^ adkins, lesley; adkins, roy a ( ). handbook to life in ancient rome ( ed.). p.  . isbn  - - - . 	^ boyne, william ( ). a manual of roman coins. p.  . 	^ degrassi, atilius, ed. ( ), inscriptiones italiae, : fasti et elogia, rome: istituto poligrafico dello stato, fasciculus : fasti anni numani et iuliani 	^ a b stephen james malone, ( ) legio xx valeria victrix.... phd thesis. on page it discusses many coins with "leg. iixx" and notes that it must be legion . the footnote on that page says: "the form iixx clearly reflecting the latin duo et vicensima 'twenty-second': cf. x , legatus i[eg ii] i et vicensim(ae) pri[mi]g; vi , legatus leg] iixx prj; iii . , miles leg iixx; and iii - , a vexillation drawn from four german legions including 'xviii pr' – surely here the stonecutter's hypercorrection for iixx pr. 	^ l' atre périlleux et yvain, le chevalier au lion . – . 	^ a b m. gachard ( ): "ii. analectes historiques, neuvième série (nos cclxi-cclxxxiv)". bulletin de la commission royale d'historie, volume , pages – . page : lettre de philippe le beau aux échevins..., quote: "escript en nostre ville de gand, le xxiiiime de febvrier, l'an iiiixxxix [quatre-vingt-dix-neuf = ]." page : lettre de l'achiduchesse marguerite au conseil de brabant..., quote: "... escript à bruxelles, le dernier jour de juing anno xvcxix [ ]." page : letters patentes de la rémission ... de la ville de bruxelles, quote: "... op heden, tweentwintich ['twenty-two'] daegen in decembri, anno vyfthien hondert tweendertich ['fifteen hundred thirty-two'] ... gegeven op ten vyfsten dach in deser jegewoirdige maent van decembri anno xv tweendertich [ ] vorschreven." page : acte du duc de parme portant approbation..., quote": "faiet le xvme de juillet xvc huytante-six [ ]." doi: . /bcrh. . 	^ herbert edward salter ( ) registrum annalium collegii mertonensis – oxford historical society, volume ; pages. page has the computation in pounds:shillings:pence (li:s:d) x:iii:iiii + xxi:viii:viii + xlv:xiiii:i = iiixxxvii:vi:i, i.e. : : + : : + : : = : : . 	^ johannis de sancto justo ( ): "e duo codicibus ceratis" ("from two texts in wax"). in de wailly, delisle ( ): contenant la deuxieme livraison des monumens des regnes de saint louis,... volume of recueil des historiens des gaules et de la france. page : "summa totalis, xiii. m. v. c. iii. xx. xiii. l. iii s. xi d. [sum total, thousand hundred score livres, sous, deniers]. 	^ faith wallis, trans. bede: the reckoning of time ( ), liverpool, liverpool univ. pr., . isbn  - - - . 	^ byrhtferth's enchiridion ( ). edited by peter s. baker and michael lapidge. early english text society . isbn  - - - - . 	^ c. w. jones, ed., opera didascalica, vol. c in corpus christianorum, series latina. 	^ a b c bachenheimer, bonnie s. 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in service of the roman empire a roman street in pompeii roman roads (latin: viae romanae [ˈwɪ.ae̯ roːˈmaːnae̯]; singular: via romana [ˈwɪ.a roːˈmaːna]; meaning "roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the roman state, and were built from about bc through the expansion and consolidation of the roman republic and the roman empire.[ ] they provided efficient means for the overland movement of armies, officials, civilians, inland carriage of official communications, and trade goods.[ ] roman roads were of several kinds, ranging from small local roads to broad, long-distance highways built to connect cities, major towns and military bases. these major roads were often stone-paved and metaled, cambered for drainage, and were flanked by footpaths, bridleways and drainage ditches. they were laid along accurately surveyed courses, and some were cut through hills, or conducted over rivers and ravines on bridgework. sections could be supported over marshy ground on rafted or piled foundations.[ ][ ] at the peak of rome's development, no fewer than great military highways radiated from the capital, and the late empire's provinces were interconnected by great roads.[ ][ ] the whole comprised more than , kilometres ( , miles) of roads, of which over , kilometres ( ,  mi) were stone-paved.[ ][ ] in gaul alone, no less than , kilometres ( ,  mi) of roadways are said to have been improved, and in britain at least , kilometres ( ,  mi).[ ] the courses (and sometimes the surfaces) of many roman roads survived for millennia; some are overlaid by modern roads. contents 	 roman systems 	 laws and traditions 	 types 	 . viae publicae, consulares, praetoriae and militares 	 . viae privatae, rusticae, glareae and agrariae 	 . viae vicinales 	 . governance and financing 	 . costs and civic responsibilities 	 . official bodies 	 . changes under augustus 	 . other curatores 	 construction and engineering 	 . practices and terminology 	 . materials and methods 	 . . via terrena 	 . . via glareata 	 . . via munita 	 . obstacle crossings 	 . bridges and causeways 	 military and citizen utilization 	 . milestones and markers 	 . itinerary maps and charts 	 . vehicles and transportation 	 . way stations and traveler inns 	 . post offices and services 	 locations 	 . italian areas 	 . other areas 	 see also 	 references 	 . footnotes 	 . general information 	 . primary sources 	 further reading 	 external links roman systems[edit] "the extraordinary greatness of the roman empire manifests itself above all in three things: the aqueducts, the paved roads, and the construction of the drains." dionysius of halicarnassus, ant. rom. . . [ ] livy mentions some of the most familiar roads near rome, and the milestones on them, at times long before the first paved road—the appian way.[ ] unless these allusions are just simple anachronisms, the roads referred to were probably at the time little more than levelled earthen tracks.[ ] thus, the via gabina (during the time of porsena) is mentioned in about bc; the via latina (during the time of gaius marcius coriolanus) in about bc; the via nomentana (also known as "via ficulensis"), in bc; the via labicana in bc; and the via salaria in bc.[ ] in the itinerary of antoninus, the description of the road system, after the death of julius caesar and during the tenure of augustus, is as follows: with the exception of some outlying portions, such as britain north of the wall, dacia, and certain provinces east of the euphrates, the whole empire was penetrated by these itinera (plural of iter). there is hardly a district to which we might expect a roman official to be sent, on service either civil or military, where we do not find roads. they reach the wall in britain; run along the rhine, the danube, and the euphrates; and cover, as with a network, the interior provinces of the empire.[ ] a road map of the empire reveals that it was generally laced with a dense network of prepared viae.[ ] beyond its borders there were no paved roads; however, it can be supposed that footpaths and dirt roads allowed some transport.[ ] there were, for instance, some pre-roman ancient trackways in britain, such as the ridgeway and the icknield way.[ ] 	for specific roads, see roman road locations below. laws and traditions[edit] the laws of the twelve tables, dated to about bc, required that any public road (latin via) be  roman feet (perhaps about . m) wide where straight and twice that width where curved. these were probably the minimum widths for a via; in the later republic, widths of around roman feet were common for public roads in rural regions, permitting the passing of two carts of standard ( foot) width without interference to pedestrian traffic.[ ] actual practices varied from this standard. the tables command romans to build public roads and give wayfarers the right to pass over private land where the road is in disrepair. building roads that would not need frequent repair therefore became an ideological objective, as well as building them as straight as practicable to construct the shortest possible roads, and thus save on material. roman law defined the right to use a road as a servitus, or liability. the ius eundi ("right of going") established a claim to use an iter, or footpath, across private land; the ius agendi ("right of driving"), an actus, or carriage track. a via combined both types of servitutes, provided it was of the proper width, which was determined by an arbiter. the default width was the latitudo legitima of  feet. roman law and tradition forbade the use of vehicles in urban areas, except in certain cases. married women and government officials on business could ride. the lex iulia municipalis restricted commercial carts to night-time access in the city within the walls and within a mile outside the walls. types[edit] old roman road, leading from jerusalem to beit gubrin, adjacent to regional highway in israel roman roads varied from simple corduroy roads to paved roads using deep roadbeds of tamped rubble as an underlying layer to ensure that they kept dry, as the water would flow out from between the stones and fragments of rubble, instead of becoming mud in clay soils. according to ulpian, there were three types of roads:[ ] 	viae publicae, consulares, praetoriae or militares 	viae privatae, rusticae, glareae or agrariae 	viae vicinales viae publicae, consulares, praetoriae and militares[edit] the first type of road included public high or main roads, constructed and maintained at the public expense, and with their soil vested in the state. such roads led either to the sea, or to a town, or to a public river (one with a constant flow), or to another public road. siculus flaccus, who lived under trajan ( – ), calls them viae publicae regalesque,[ ] and describes their characteristics as follows: 	they are placed under curatores (commissioners), and repaired by redemptores (contractors) at the public expense; a fixed contribution, however, being levied from the neighboring landowners.[ ] 	these roads bear the names of their constructors (e.g. via appia, cassia, flaminia).[ ] the central road of aeclanum. roman roads were named after the censor who had ordered their construction or reconstruction. the same person often served afterwards as consul, but the road name is dated to his term as censor. if the road was older than the office of censor or was of unknown origin, it took the name of its destination or of the region through which it mainly passed. a road was renamed if the censor ordered major work on it, such as paving, repaving, or rerouting. with the term viae regales compare the roads of the persian kings (who probably organized the first system of public roads) and the king's highway.[ ] with the term viae militariae compare the icknield way (e.g., icen-hilde-weg, or "war-way of the iceni").[ ] however, there were many other people, besides special officials, who from time to time, and for a variety of reasons, sought to connect their names with a great public service like that of the roads.[ ] gaius gracchus, when tribune of the people ( – bc), paved or gravelled many of the public roads, and provided them with milestones and mounting-blocks for riders. again, gaius scribonius curio, when tribune ( bc), sought popularity by introducing a lex viaria, under which he was to be chief inspector or commissioner for five years. dio cassius mentions as one of the forcible acts of the triumvirs of bc (octavianus, antony, and lepidus), that they obliged the senators to repair the public roads at their own expense. viae privatae, rusticae, glareae and agrariae[edit] the second category included private or country roads, originally constructed by private individuals, in whom their soil was vested, and who had the power to dedicate them to the public use.[ ] such roads benefited from a right of way, in favor either of the public or of the owner of a particular estate. under the heading of viae privatae were also included roads leading from the public or high roads to particular estates or settlements. these ulpian considers to be public roads in themselves.[ ] features off the via were connected to the via by viae rusticae, or secondary roads.[ ] both main or secondary roads might either be paved, or left unpaved, with a gravel surface, as they were in north africa. these prepared but unpaved roads were viae glareae or sternendae ("to be strewn"). beyond the secondary roads were the viae terrenae, "dirt roads". viae vicinales[edit] the third category comprised roads at or in villages, districts, or crossroads, leading through or towards a vicus or village.[ ] such roads ran either into a high road, or into other viae vicinales, without any direct communication with a high road. they were considered public or private, according to the fact of their original construction out of public or private funds or materials. such a road, though privately constructed, became a public road when the memory of its private constructors had perished.[ ] siculus flaccus describes viae vicinales as roads "de publicis quae divertunt in agros et saepe ad alteras publicas perveniunt" (which turn off the public roads into fields, and often reach to other public roads). the repairing authorities, in this case, were the magistri pagorum or magistrates of the cantons. they could require the neighboring landowners either to furnish laborers for the general repair of the viae vicinales, or to keep in repair, at their own expense, a certain length of road passing through their respective properties.[ ] governance and financing[edit] with the conquest of italy, prepared viae were extended from rome and its vicinity to outlying municipalities, sometimes overlying earlier roads. building viae was a military responsibility and thus came under the jurisdiction of a consul. the process had a military name, viam munire, as though the via were a fortification. municipalities, however, were responsible for their own roads, which the romans called viae vicinales. the beauty and grandeur of the roads might tempt us to believe that any roman citizen could use them for free, but this was not the case. tolls abounded, especially at bridges. often they were collected at the city gate. freight costs were made heavier still by import and export taxes. these were only the charges for using the roads. costs of services on the journey went up from there. financing road building was a roman government responsibility. maintenance, however, was generally left to the province. the officials tasked with fund-raising were the curatores viarum. they had a number of methods available to them. private citizens with an interest in the road could be asked to contribute to its repair. high officials might distribute largesse to be used for roads. censors, who were in charge of public morals and public works, were expected to fund repairs suâ pecuniâ (with their own money). beyond those means, taxes were required. a via connected two cities. viae were generally centrally placed in the countryside.[clarification needed] the construction and care of the public roads, whether in rome, in italy, or in the provinces, was, at all periods of roman history, considered to be a function of the greatest weight and importance. this is clearly shown by the fact that the censors, in some respects the most venerable of roman magistrates, had the earliest paramount authority to construct and repair all roads and streets. indeed, all the various functionaries, not excluding the emperors themselves, who succeeded the censors in this portion of their duties, may be said to have exercised a devolved censorial jurisdiction.[ ] costs and civic responsibilities[edit] the devolution to the censorial jurisdictions soon became a practical necessity, resulting from the growth of the roman dominions and the diverse labors which detained the censors in the capital city. certain ad hoc official bodies successively acted as constructing and repairing authorities. in italy, the censorial responsibility passed to the commanders of the roman armies, and later to special commissioners – and in some cases perhaps to the local magistrates. in the provinces, the consul or praetor and his legates received authority to deal directly with the contractor.[ ] the care of the streets and roads within the roman territory was committed in the earliest times to the censors. they eventually made contracts for paving the street inside rome, including the clivus capitolinus, with lava, and for laying down the roads outside the city with gravel. sidewalks were also provided. the aediles, probably by virtue of their responsibility for the freedom of traffic and policing the streets, co-operated with the censors and the bodies that succeeded them.[ ] it would seem that in the reign of claudius (ad – ) the quaestors had become responsible for the paving of the streets of rome, or at least shared that responsibility with the quattuorviri viarum.[ ] it has been suggested that the quaestors were obliged to buy their right to an official career by personal outlay on the streets. there was certainly no lack of precedents for this enforced liberality, and the change made by claudius may have been a mere change in the nature of the expenditure imposed on the quaestors. official bodies[edit] the official bodies which first succeeded the censors in the care of the streets and roads were two in number. they were:[ ] 	quattuorviri viis in urbe purgandis, with jurisdiction inside the walls of rome; 	duoviri viis extra urbem purgandis, with jurisdiction outside the walls. both these bodies were probably of ancient origin, but the true year of their institution is unknown.[ ] little reliance can be placed on pomponius, who states that the quattuorviri were instituted eodem tempore (at the same time) as the praetor peregrinus (i.e. about bc) and the decemviri litibus iudicandis[ ] (time unknown).[ ] the first mention of either body occurs in the lex julia municipalis of bc. the quattuorviri were afterwards called quattuorviri viarum curandarum. the extent of jurisdiction of the duoviri is derived from their full title as duoviri viis extra propiusve urbem romam passus mille purgandis.[ ][ ] their authority extended over all roads between their respective gates of issue in the city wall and the first milestone beyond.[ ] in case of an emergency in the condition of a particular road, men of influence and liberality were appointed, or voluntarily acted, as curatores or temporary commissioners to superintend the work of repair.[ ] the dignity attached to such a curatorship is attested by a passage of cicero. among those who performed this duty in connection with particular roads was julius caesar, who became curator ( bc) of the via appia, and spent his own money liberally upon it. certain persons appear also to have acted alone and taken responsibility for certain roads. in the country districts, as has been stated, the magistri pagorum had authority to maintain the viae vicinales.[ ] in rome itself each householder was legally responsible for the repairs to that portion of the street which passed his own house.[ ] it was the duty of the aediles to enforce this responsibility. the portion of any street which passed a temple or public building was repaired by the aediles at the public expense. when a street passed between a public building or temple and a private house, the public treasury and the private owner shared the expense equally. no doubt[speculation?], if only to secure uniformity, the personal liability of householders to execute repairs of the streets was commuted for a paving rate payable to the public authorities who were responsible from time to time. changes under augustus[edit] the governing structure was changed by augustus, who in the course of his reconstitution of the urban administration, both abolished and created new offices in connection with the maintenance of public works, streets and aqueducts in and around rome. the task of maintaining the roads had previously been administered by two groups of minor magistrates, the quattuorviri (a board of four magistrates to oversee the roads inside the city) and the duoviri (a board of two to oversee the roads outside the city proper) who were both part of the collegia known as the vigintisexviri (literally meaning "twenty-six men").[ ] augustus, finding the collegia ineffective, especially the boards dealing with road maintenance, reduced the number of magistrates from to . completely abolishing the duoviri and later being granted the position as superintendent (according to dio cassius) of the road system connecting rome to the rest of italy and provinces beyond. in this capacity he had effectively given himself and any following emperors a paramount authority which had originally belonged to the city censors. the quattuorviri board was kept as it was until at least the reign of hadrian between – ad.[ ] furthermore, he appointed praetorians to the offices of "road-maker" and assigning each one with two lictors. also making the office of curator of each of the great public roads a perpetual magistracy rather than a temporary commission. the persons appointed under the new system were of senatorial or equestrian rank, depending on the relative importance of the roads assigned to them. it was the duty of each curator to issue contracts for the maintenance of his road and to see that the contractor who undertook said work performed it faithfully, as to both quantity and quality. augustus also authorized the construction of sewers and removed obstructions to traffic, as the aediles did in rome.[ ] it was in the character of an imperial curator (though probably armed with extraordinary powers) that corbulo denounced the magistratus and mancipes of the italian roads to tiberius.[ ] he pursued them and their families with fines and imprisonment for years ( – ad) and was later rewarded with a consulship by caligula, who also shared the habit of condemning well-born citizens to work on the roads. it is worth noting that under the rule of claudius, corbulo was brought to justice and forced to repay the money which had been extorted from his victims. other curatores[edit] special curatores for a term seem to have been appointed on occasion, even after the institution of the permanent magistrates bearing that title.[ ] the emperors who succeeded augustus exercised a vigilant control over the condition of the public highways. their names occur frequently in the inscriptions to restorers of roads and bridges. thus, vespasian, titus, domitian, trajan, and septimius severus were commemorated in this capacity at emérita.[ ] the itinerary of antoninus, which was probably a work of much earlier date, republished in an improved and enlarged form, under one of the antonine emperors, remains as standing evidence of the minute care which was bestowed on the service of the public roads. construction and engineering[edit] road construction shown on trajan's column in rome see also: history of infrastructure ancient rome boasted impressive technological feats, using many advances that would be lost in the middle ages. these accomplishments would not be rivaled until the modern age. many practical roman innovations were adopted from earlier designs. some of the common, earlier designs incorporated arches. practices and terminology[edit] main article: roman engineering see also: roman military engineering roman road builders aimed at a regulation width (see laws and traditions above), but actual widths have been measured at between . feet ( . metres) and more than feet ( . metres). today, the concrete has worn from the spaces around the stones, giving the impression of a very bumpy road, but the original practice was to produce a surface that was no doubt much closer to being flat. many roads were built to resist rain, freezing and flooding. they were constructed to need as little repair as possible. section of the via delle gallie (valle d'aosta), built by digging the steep rock slope roman construction took a directional straightness. many long sections are ruler-straight, but it should not be thought that all of them were. some links in the network were as long as miles (  km). gradients of %– % are known in ordinary terrain, %– % in mountainous country. the roman emphasis on constructing straight roads often resulted in steep slopes relatively impractical for most commercial traffic; over the years the romans themselves realized this and built longer, but more manageable, alternatives to existing roads. roman roads generally went straight up and down hills, rather than in a serpentine pattern of switchbacks. as to the standard imperial terminology that was used, the words were localized for different elements used in construction and varied from region to region. also, in the course of time, the terms via munita and vía publica became identical.[ ] materials and methods[edit] viae were distinguished not only according to their public or private character, but according to the materials employed and the methods followed in their construction. ulpian divided them up in the following fashion:[ ] 	via terrena: a plain road of leveled earth. 	via glareata:[ ] an earthed road with a graveled surface. 	via munita:[ ] a regular built road, paved with rectangular blocks of the stone of the country, or with polygonal blocks of lava. the romans, though certainly inheriting some of the art of road construction from the etruscans, borrowed the knowledge of construction of viae munitae from the carthaginians according to isidore of sevilla.[ ] via terrena[edit] the viae terrenae were plain roads of leveled earth. these were mere tracks worn down by the feet of humans and animals, and possibly by wheeled carriages.[ ] via glareata[edit] the viae glareatae were earthed roads with a graveled surface or a gravel subsurface and paving on top. livy speaks of the censors of his time as being the first to contract for paving the streets of rome with flint stones, for laying gravel on the roads outside the city, and for forming raised footpaths at the sides.[ ] in these roads, the surface was hardened with gravel, and although pavements were introduced shortly afterwards, the blocks were allowed to rest merely on a bed of small stones.[ ][ ] an example of this type is found on the praenestine way. another example is found near the via latina.[ ] via munita[edit] the best sources of information as regards the construction of a regulation via munita are:[ ] 	the many existing remains of viae publicae. these are often sufficiently well preserved to show that the rules of construction were, as far as local material allowed, minutely adhered to in practice. 	the directions for making pavements given by vitruvius. the pavement and the via munita were identical in construction, except as regards the top layer, or surface. this consisted, in the former case, of marble or mosaic, and, in the latter, of blocks of stone or lava. 	a passage in statius describing the repairs of the via domitiana, a branch road of the via appia, leading to neapolis. after the civil engineer looked over the site of the proposed road and determined roughly where it should go, the agrimensores went to work surveying the road bed. they used two main devices, the rod and a device called a groma, which helped them obtain right angles. the gromatici, the roman equivalent of rod men, placed rods and put down a line called the rigor. as they did not possess anything like a transit, a civil engineering surveyor tried to achieve straightness by looking along the rods and commanding the gromatici to move them as required. using the gromae they then laid out a grid on the plan of the road. the libratores then began their work using ploughs and, sometimes with the help of legionaries, with spades excavated the road bed down to bedrock or at least to the firmest ground they could find. the excavation was called the fossa, the latin word for ditch. the depth varied according to terrain. the general appearance of such a metalled road and footway is shown in an existing street of pompeii.	native earth, leveled and, if necessary, rammed tight. 	statumen: stones of a size to fill the hand. 	audits: rubble or concrete of broken stones and lime. 	nucleus: kernel or bedding of fine cement made of pounded potshards and lime. 	dorsum or agger viae: the elliptical surface or crown of the road (media stratae eminentia) made of polygonal blocks of silex (basaltipositionc lava) or rectangular blocks of saxum quadratum (travertine, peperino, or other stone of the country). the upper surface was designed to cast off rain or water like the shell of a tortoise. the lower surfaces of the separate stones, here shown as flat, were sometimes cut to a point or edge in order to grasp the nucleus, or next layer, more firmly. 	crepido, margo or semita: raised footway, or sidewalk, on each side of the via. 	umbones or edge-stones. the method varied according to geographic locality, materials available and terrain, but the plan, or ideal at which the engineer aimed was always the same. the roadbed was layered. the road was constructed by filling the ditch. this was done by layering rock over other stones. into the ditch was dumped large amounts of rubble, gravel and stone, whatever fill was available. sometimes a layer of sand was put down, if it could be found. when it came to within yd ( m) or so of the surface it was covered with gravel and tamped down, a process called pavire, or pavimentare. the flat surface was then the pavimentum. it could be used as the road, or additional layers could be constructed. a statumen or "foundation" of flat stones set in cement might support the additional layers. the final steps utilized lime-based concrete, which the romans had discovered.[ ] they seem to have mixed the mortar and the stones in the ditch. first a small layer of coarse concrete, the rudus, then a little layer of fine concrete, the nucleus, went onto the pavement or statumen. into or onto the nucleus went a course of polygonal or square paving stones, called the summa crusta. the crusta was crowned for drainage. an example is found in an early basalt road by the temple of saturn on the clivus capitolinus. it had travertine paving, polygonal basalt blocks, concrete bedding (substituted for the gravel), and a rain-water gutter.[ ] the remains of emperor trajan's route along the danube (see roman serbia) roman auxiliary infantry crossing a river, probably the danube, on a pontoon bridge during the emperor trajan's dacian wars ( – ) obstacle crossings[edit] romans preferred to engineer solutions to obstacles rather than circumvent them. outcroppings of stone, ravines, or hilly or mountainous terrain called for cuttings and tunnels. an example of this is found on the roman road from căzănești near the iron gates. this road was half carved into the rock, about  ft to  ft  in ( . to .  m), the rest of the road, above the danube, was made from wooden structure, projecting out of the cliff. the road functioned as a towpath, making the danube navigable. tabula traiana memorial plaque in serbia is all that remains of the now-submerged road. bridges and causeways[edit] main article: roman bridge see also: list of roman bridges roman bridges, built by ancient romans, were the first large and lasting bridges built.[citation needed] river crossings were achieved by bridges, or pontes. single slabs went over rills. a bridge could be of wood, stone, or both. wooden bridges were constructed on pilings sunk into the river, or on stone piers. larger or more permanent bridges required arches. these larger bridges were built with stone and had the arch as its basic structure (see arch bridge). most also used concrete, which the romans were the first to use for bridges. roman bridges were so well constructed that a number remain in use today. causeways were built over marshy ground. the road was first marked out with pilings. between them were sunk large quantities of stone so as to raise the causeway to more than feet ( . metres) above the marsh. in the provinces, the romans often did not bother with a stone causeway, but used log roads (pontes longi). military and citizen utilization[edit] the public road system of the romans was thoroughly military in its aims and spirit.[ ] it was designed to unite and consolidate the conquests of the roman people, whether within or without the limits of italy proper. a legion on the march brought its own baggage train (impedimenta) and constructed its own camp (castra) every evening at the side of the road. milestones and markers[edit] main article: milestone milestones divided the via appia even before bc into numbered miles, and most viae after bc. the modern word "mile" derives from the latin milia passuum, "one thousand paces", which amounted to roman feet, or a modern measurement , feet ( , metres). a milestone, or miliarium, was a circular column on a solid rectangular base, set for more than feet ( . metres) into the ground, standing feet ( . metres) tall, inches ( centimetres) in diameter, and weighing more than tons. at the base was inscribed the number of the mile relative to the road it was on. in a panel at eye-height was the distance to the roman forum and various other information about the officials who made or repaired the road and when. these miliaria are valuable historical documents now. their inscriptions are collected in the volume xvii of the corpus inscriptionum latinarum. 	examples of roman milestones 		 			 			 rome, campidoglio: the miliarium (milestone), point of departure of the consular roads by the capitoline wolf. 			 		 	 			 			 turda, romania: copy of the milliarium of aiton, dating from and showing the construction of the road from potaissa to napoca built by cohors i hispanorum miliaria in roman dacia, by demand of the emperor trajan 			 		 	 			 			 remains of the miliarium aureum in the roman forum 			 		 	 			 			 a provincial roman milestone, at alto rabagão, portugal (road from bracara augusta to asturias) 			 		 the romans had a preference for standardization wherever possible, so augustus, after becoming permanent commissioner of roads in bc, set up the miliarium aureum ("golden milestone") near the temple of saturn. all roads were considered to begin from this gilded bronze monument. on it were listed all the major cities in the empire and distances to them. constantine called it the umbilicus romae ("navel of rome"), and built a similar—although more complex—monument in constantinople, the milion. milestones permitted distances and locations to be known and recorded exactly. it was not long before historians began to refer to the milestone at which an event occurred. itinerary maps and charts[edit] main article: itinerarium tabula peutingeriana (southern italy centered). combined topographical and road-maps may have existed as specialty items in some roman libraries, but they were expensive, hard to copy and not in general use. travelers wishing to plan a journey could consult an itinerarium, which in its most basic form was a simple list of cities and towns along a given road, and the distances between them.[ ] it was only a short step from lists to a master list, or a schematic route-planner in which roads and their branches were represented more or less in parallel, as in the tabula peutingeriana. from this master list, parts could be copied and sold on the streets. the most thorough used different symbols for cities, way stations, water courses, and so on. the roman government from time to time would produce a master road-itinerary. the first known were commissioned in bc by julius caesar and mark antony. three greek geographers, zenodoxus, theodotus and polyclitus, were hired to survey the system and compile a master itinerary; the task required over years and the resulting stone-engraved master itinerary was set up near the pantheon. travelers and itinerary sellers could make copies from it. vehicles and transportation[edit] roman carriage (reconstruction) outside the cities, romans were avid riders and rode on or drove quite a number of vehicle types, some of which are mentioned here. carts driven by oxen were used. horse-drawn carts could travel up to to kilometres ( to  mi) per day,[ ] pedestrians to kilometres ( to  mi). for purposes of description, roman vehicles can be divided into the car, the coach, and the cart. cars were used to transport one or two individuals, coaches were used to transport parties, and carts to transport cargo. of the cars, the most popular was the carrus, a standard chariot form descending to the romans from a greater antiquity. the top was open, the front closed. one survives in the vatican. it carried a driver and a passenger. a carrus with two horses was a biga; three horses, a triga; and four horses a quadriga. the tyres were of iron. when not in use, its wheels were removed for easier storage. a more luxurious version, the carpentum, transported women and officials. it had an arched overhead covering of cloth and was drawn by mules. a lighter version, the cisium, equivalent to a gig, was open above and in front and had a seat. drawn by one or two mules or horses, it was used for cab work, the cab drivers being called cisiani. the builder was a cisarius. of the coaches, the mainstay was the raeda or reda, which had four wheels. the high sides formed a sort of box in which seats were placed, with a notch on each side for entry. it carried several people with baggage up to the legal limit of roman librae (pounds), modern equivalent kilograms ( pounds). it was drawn by teams of oxen, horses or mules. a cloth top could be put on for weather, in which case it resembled a covered wagon. the raeda was probably the main vehicle for travel on the roads. raedae meritoriae were hired coaches. the fiscalis raeda was a government coach. the driver and the builder were both referred to as a raedarius. of the carts, the main one was the plaustrum or plostrum. this was simply a platform of boards attached to wheels and a cross-tree. the wheels, or tympana, were solid and were several centimetres (inches) thick. the sides could be built up with boards or rails. a large wicker basket was sometimes placed on it. a two-wheel version existed along with the normal four-wheel type called the plaustrum maius. the military used a standard wagon. their transportation service was the cursus clabularis, after the standard wagon, called a carrus clabularius, clabularis, clavularis, or clabulare. it transported the impedimenta (baggage) of a military column. way stations and traveler inns[edit] see also: mansio remains of the mansio at letocetum, wall, staffordshire, england non-military officials and people on official business had no legion at their service and the government maintained way stations, or mansiones ("staying places"), for their use. passports were required for identification. mansiones were located about to kilometres ( to  mi) apart. there the official traveller found a complete villa dedicated to his use. often a permanent military camp or a town grew up around the mansio. for non-official travelers in need of refreshment, a private system of "inns" or cauponae were placed near the mansiones. they performed the same functions but were somewhat disreputable, as they were frequented by thieves and prostitutes. graffiti decorate the walls of the few whose ruins have been found. genteel travelers needed something better than cauponae. in the early days of the viae, when little unofficial provision existed, houses placed near the road were required by law to offer hospitality on demand. frequented houses no doubt became the first tabernae, which were hostels, rather than the "taverns" we know today. as rome grew, so did its tabernae, becoming more luxurious and acquiring good or bad reputations as the case may be. one of the best hotels was the tabernae caediciae at sinuessa on the via appia. it had a large storage room containing barrels of wine, cheese and ham. many cities of today grew up around a taberna complex, such as rheinzabern in the rhineland, and saverne in alsace. a third system of way stations serviced vehicles and animals: the mutationes ("changing stations"). they were located every to kilometres ( to  mi). in these complexes, the driver could purchase the services of wheelwrights, cartwrights, and equarii medici, or veterinarians. using these stations in chariot relays, the emperor tiberius hastened kilometres (  mi) in hours to join his brother, drusus germanicus,[ ][ ] who was dying of gangrene as a result of a fall from a horse. post offices and services[edit] two postal services were available under the empire, one public and one private. the cursus publicus, founded by augustus, carried the mail of officials by relay throughout the roman road system. the vehicle for carrying mail was a cisium with a box, but for special delivery, a horse and rider was faster. on average, a relay of horses could carry a letter kilometres (  mi)[ ] in a day. the postman wore a characteristic leather hat, the petanus. the postal service was a somewhat dangerous occupation, as postmen were a target for bandits and enemies of rome. private mail of the well-to-do was carried by tabellarii, an organization of slaves available for a price. locations[edit] the roman empire in the time of hadrian (ruled – ), showing the network of main roman roads. there are many examples of roads that still follow the route of roman roads. italian areas[edit] italian and sicilian roads in the time of ancient rome. 	major roads 	via aemilia, from rimini (ariminum) to placentia 	via appia, the appian way ( bc), from rome to apulia 	via aurelia ( bc), from rome to france 	via cassia, from rome to tuscany 	via flaminia ( bc), from rome to rimini (ariminum) 	via raetia, from verona north across the brenner pass 	via salaria, from rome to the adriatic sea (in the marches) 	others 	via aemilia scauri ( bc) 	via aquillia, branches off the appia at capua to the sea at vibo 	via amerina, from rome to amelia and perusia 	via canalis, from udine, gemona and val canale to villach in carinthia and then over alps to salzburg or vienna 	via claudia julia augusta ( bc) 	via claudia nova ( ad) 	via clodia, from rome to tuscany forming a system with the cassia 	via domitiana, coast road from naples to formia 	via flavia, from trieste (tergeste) to dalmatia 	via gemina, from aquileia and trieste through the karst to materija, obrov, lipa and klana, from where, near rijeka, descending towards trsat (tersatica) to continue along the dalmatian coast 	via julia augusta ( bc), exits aquileia 	via labicana, southeast from rome, forming a system with the praenestina 	via ostiensis, from rome to ostia 	via postumia ( bc), from aquileia through verona across the apennines to genoa 	via popilia ( bc), two distinct roads, one from capua to rhegium and the other from ariminum through the later veneto region 	via praenestina, from rome to praeneste 	via schlavonia, from aquileia across northern istria to senj and into dalmatia 	via severiana, terracina to ostia 	via tiburtina, from rome to aternum 	via traiana, a branch of via appia, from benevento to brindisi 	via traiana nova (italy), from lake bolsena to the via cassia. known by archaeology only other areas[edit] a road in histria (sinoe) presumed to be of roman origin (the rectangular blocks are not true roman construction)[ ] major roman roads in germania inferior roman roads along the danube roman roads in hispania, or roman iberia roman road in the urban fabric of tarsus, mersin province in turkey 	africa main article: roman roads in africa 	main road: from sala colonia to carthage to alexandria. 	in egypt: via hadriana 	in mauretania tingitana from tingis southward (see: roman roads in morocco) 	albania / north macedonia / greece / turkey 	via egnatia ( bc) connecting dyrrhachium (on adriatic sea) to byzantium via thessaloniki 	austria / serbia / bulgaria / turkey 	via militaris (via diagonalis, via singidunum), connecting middle europe and byzantium 	roman road in cilicia in south turkey 	roman road of ankara 	france in france, a roman road is called voie romaine in vernacular language. 	via agrippa 	via aquitania, from narbonne, where it connected to the via domitia, to the atlantic ocean across toulouse and bordeaux 	via domitia ( bc), from nîmes to the pyrenees, where it joins to the via augusta at the col de panissars 	roman road (nord), extending from dunkirk to cassel in nord département 	germania inferior (germany, belgium, netherlands) 	roman road from trier to cologne 	via belgica (boulogne-cologne) 	lower limes germanicus 	interconnections between lower limes germanicus and via belgica 	middle east 	via maris 	via traiana nova 	petra roman road st-century petra, jordan 	romania 	trajan's bridge and iron gates road. 	via traiana: porolissum napoca potaissa apulum road. 	via pontica: troesmis piroboridava caput stenarum apulum partiscum lugio 	romania / bulgaria 	via pontica 	spain and portugal 	iter ab emerita asturicam, from sevilla to gijón. later known as vía de la plata (plata means "silver" in spanish, but in this case it is a false cognate of an arabic word balata), part of the fan of the way of saint james. now it is the a- freeway. 	via augusta, from cádiz to the pyrénées, where it joins to the via domitia at the coll de panissars, near la jonquera. it passes through valencia, tarragona (anciently tarraco), and barcelona. 	camiño de oro, ending in ourense, capital of the province of ourense, passing near the village of reboledo. 	syria 	road connecting antioch and chalcis. 	strata diocletiana, along the limes arabicus, going through palmyra and damascus, and south to arabia. 	trans-alpine roads these roads connected modern italy and germany 	via claudia augusta ( ) from altinum (now quarto d'altino) to augsburg via the reschen pass 	via mala from milan to lindau via the san bernardino pass 	via decia 	trans-pyrenean roads connecting hispania and gallia: 	ab asturica burdigalam 	united kingdom high street, a fell in the english lake district, named after the apparent roman road which runs over the summit, which is claimed to be the highest roman road in britain. its status as a roman road is problematic, as it appears to be a holloway or sunken lane, whereas the romans built their roads on an agger or embankment.[ ] main article: roman roads in britannia 	akeman street 	camlet way 	dere street 	ermine street 	fen causeway 	fosse way 	king street 	london-west of england roman roads 	peddars way 	pye road 	roman road from silchester to bath 	stane street (chichester) 	stane street (colchester) 	stanegate 	via devana 	watling street see also[edit] 	historic roads and trails 	legacy of the roman empire 	roman military engineering references[edit] footnotes[edit] 	^ forbes, robert james ( ). studies in ancient technology, volume . brill. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ kaszynski, william. the american highway: the history and culture of roads in the united states. jefferson, n.c.: mcfarland, . page 	^ a b c bailey, l. h., and wilhelm miller. cyclopedia of american horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the 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politics and salvation in the geography of constantine's empire", journal of roman studies, ( ), pp. – , p. . 	^ travel in the ancient world, lionel casson, p. 	^ naturalis historia by gaius plinius secundus, liber vii, . 	^ the general history of the highways by nicolas bergier, page . 	^ c.w.j.eliot, new evidence for the speed of the roman imperial post. phoenix , , , ff. 	^ the archaeological site of histria, archweb.cimec.ro. 	^ http://www.romanroads.org general information[edit] 	laurence, ray ( ). the roads of roman italy: mobility and cultural change. routledge. 	von hagen, victor w. ( ). the roads that led to rome. the world publishing company, cleveland and new york. 	codrington, thomas ( ). roman roads in britain. london [etc.]: society for promoting christian knowledge. 	forbes, urquhart a., and arnold c. burmester ( ). our roman highways. london: f.e. robinson & co. 	roby, henry john ( ). roman private law in the times of cicero and of the antonines. cambridge: c.u.p. 	smith, william, william wayte, and g. e. marindin ( ). a dictionary of greek and roman antiquities. london: j. murray. pp. – . 	smith, william ( ). a school dictionary of greek and roman antiquities; abridged from the larger dictionary by william smith, with corrections and improvements by charles anthon. n.y.: [s.n.]. pp. – . 	cresy, edward ( ). an encyclopædia of civil engineering, historical, theoretical, and practical. london: printed for longman, brown, green, and longmans, paternoster-row. primary sources[edit] 	 	siculus flaccus, de condicionibus agrorum cap. xix 	isidori hispalensis episcopi etymologiarum sive originum liber xv, – 	codex theodosianus: 	 . de cursu publico angariis et parangariis; 	 . de itinere muniendo 	 	corpus iuris civilis 	c. . de cursu publico angariis et parangariis 	d. . . de servitutibus praediorum rusticorum. 	d. . . 	d. . de locis et itineribus publicis 	d. . ne quid in loco publico vel itinere fiat. 	d. . de via publica et si quid in ea factum esse dicatur. 	d. . de via publica et itinere publico reficiendo. 	d. . de itinere actuque privato. further reading[edit] 	adams, colin. . land transport in roman egypt bc–ad : a study in administration and economic history. oxford: oxford univ. press. 	coarelli, filippo. . rome and environs: an archaeological guide. berkeley: univ. of california press. 	davies, hugh, e. h. . "designing roman roads." britannia: journal of romano-british and kindred studies : – . 	erdkamp, peter. hunger and the sword: warfare and food supply in roman republican wars ( – b.c.). amsterdam: gieben, . 	isaac, benjamin. . "the meaning of 'limes' and 'limitanei' in ancient sources." journal of roman studies : – . 	macdonald, william l. – . the architecture of the roman empire. vols. yale publications in the history of art , . new haven, ct: yale univ. press. 	meijer, fik j., and o. van nijf. . trade, transport and society in the ancient world: a sourcebook. london: routledge. 	o’connor, colin. . roman bridges. cambridge, uk: cambridge univ. press. 	laurence, ray. . the roads of roman italy. mobility and cultural change. london: routledge. 	lewis, michael j. t. . surveying instruments of greece and rome. cambridge, uk: cambridge univ. press. 	quilici, lorenzo. . "land transport, part : roads and bridges." in the oxford handbook of engineering and technology in the classical world. edited by john p. oleson, – . new york: oxford univ. press. 	talbert, richard j. a., et al. . barrington atlas of the greek and roman world. princeton, nj: princeton univ. press. 	wiseman, t. p. . 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	emmanuel mounier 	josef pieper 	karl rahner 	edith stein 	charles taylor 	  catholicism portal  philosophy portal 		v 	t 	e jerome (/dʒəˈroʊm/; latin: eusebius sophronius hieronymus; greek: Εὐσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ἱερώνυμος; c. - – september ), also known as jerome of stridon, was a latin priest, confessor, theologian, and historian; he is commonly known as saint jerome. jerome was born at stridon, a village near emona on the border of dalmatia and pannonia.[ ][ ][ ] he is best known for his translation of most of the bible into latin (the translation that became known as the vulgate) and his commentaries on the gospels. his list of writings is extensive.[ ] the protégé of pope damasus i who died in december of , jerome was known for his teachings on christian moral life, especially to those living in cosmopolitan centers such as rome. in many cases, he focused his attention on the lives of women and identified how a woman devoted to jesus should live her life. this focus stemmed from his close patron relationships with several prominent female ascetics who were members of affluent senatorial families.[ ] jerome is recognised as a saint and doctor of the church by the catholic church, the eastern orthodox church, the lutheran church, and the anglican communion.[ ] his feast day is september. contents 	 life 	 conversion to christianity 	 after rome 	 death 	 translation of the bible ( – ) 	 commentaries ( – ) 	 historical and hagiographic writings 	 . description of vitamin a deficiency 	 letters 	 theological writings 	 . eschatology 	 reception by later christianity 	 in art 	 see also 	 references 	 . bibliography 	 further reading 	 external links 	 . latin texts 	 . . facsimiles 	 . english translations life[edit] eusebius sophronius hieronymus was born at stridon around - ad.[ ] he was of illyrian ancestry,[ ] although whether he was able to speak the illyrian languages is a subject of controversy. he was not baptized until about – in rome, where he had gone with his friend bonosus of sardica to pursue rhetorical and philosophical studies. (this bosonus may or may not have been the same bonosus whom jerome identifies as his friend who went to live as a hermit on an island in the adriatic.) jerome studied under the grammarian aelius donatus. there he learned latin and at least some greek,[ ] though he probably did not yet acquire the familiarity with greek literature that he later claimed to have acquired as a schoolboy.[ ] as a student, jerome engaged in the superficial escapades and sexual experimentation of students in rome; he indulged himself quite casually but he suffered terrible bouts of guilt afterwards.[ ][better source needed] to appease his conscience, on sundays he visited the sepulchers of the martyrs and the apostles in the catacombs. this experience reminded him of the terrors of hell: often i would find myself entering those crypts, deep dug in the earth, with their walls on either side lined with the bodies of the dead, where everything was so dark that almost it seemed as though the psalmist's words were fulfilled, let them go down quick into hell.[ ] here and there the light, not entering in through windows, but filtering down from above through shafts, relieved the horror of the darkness. but again, as soon as you found yourself cautiously moving forward, the black night closed around and there came to my mind the line of virgil, "horror ubique animos, simul ipsa silentia terrent".[ ][ ] st. jerome in his study ( ), by domenico ghirlandaio. his quote from virgil reads: "on all sides round horror spread wide; the very silence breathed a terror on my soul"[ ]—to describe the horror of hell. he initially used classical authors to describe christian concepts such as hell that indicated both his classical education and his deep shame of their associated practices, such as the pederasty then found in rome.[citation needed] conversion to christianity[edit] st jerome in the nuremberg chronicle although initially skeptical of christianity, he eventually converted.[ ] after several years in rome, he travelled with bonosus to gaul and settled in trier where he seems to have first taken up theological studies, and where, for his friend tyrannius rufinus, he copied hilary of poitiers' commentary on the psalms and the treatise de synodis. next came a stay of at least several months, or possibly years, with rufinus at aquileia, where he made many christian friends. some of these accompanied jerome when in about he set out on a journey through thrace and asia minor into northern syria. at antioch, where he stayed the longest, two of his companions died and he himself was seriously ill more than once. during one of these illnesses (about the winter of – ), he had a vision that led him to lay aside his secular studies and devote himself to god. he seems to have abstained for a considerable time from the study of the classics and to have plunged deeply into study of the bible, under the impulse of apollinaris of laodicea, then teaching in antioch and not yet suspected of heresy. st. jerome in the desert, by giovanni bellini ( ) seized with a desire for a life of ascetic penance, jerome went for a time to the desert of chalcis, to the southeast of antioch, known as the "syrian thebaid" from the number of eremites inhabiting it. during this period, he seems to have found time for studying and writing. he made his first attempt to learn hebrew under the guidance of a converted jew; and he seems to have been in correspondence with jewish christians in antioch. around this time he had copied for him a hebrew gospel, of which fragments are preserved in his notes. it is known today as the gospel of the hebrews which the nazarenes considered to be the true gospel of matthew.[ ] jerome translated parts of this hebrew gospel into greek.[ ] returning to antioch in or , jerome was ordained there by bishop paulinus, apparently unwillingly and on condition that he continue his ascetic life. soon afterward, he went to constantinople to pursue a study of scripture under gregory nazianzen. he seems to have spent two years there, then left, and for the next three ( – ) he was in rome again, as secretary to pope damasus i and the leading roman christians. invited originally for the synod of , held to end the schism of antioch as there were rival claimants to be the proper patriarch in antioch. jerome had accompanied one of the claimants, paulinus, back to rome to get more support for him; jerome distinguished himself before the pope and assumed a prominent place in his papal councils. jerome was given duties in rome, and he undertook a revision of the latin bible based on the greek manuscripts of the new testament. he also updated the psalter containing the book of psalms then in use in rome, based on the septuagint. though he did not realize it yet, translating much of what became the latin vulgate bible would take many years and be his most important achievement (see writings – translations section below). saint jerome in his study, , by antonio da fabriano ii, shows writing implements, scrolls, and manuscripts testifying to jerome's scholarly pursuits.[ ] the walters art museum. in rome, jerome was surrounded by a circle of well-born and well-educated women, including some from the noblest patrician families, such as the widows lea, marcella and paula, with paula's daughters blaesilla and eustochium. the resulting inclination of these women towards the monastic life, away from the indulgent lasciviousness in rome, and his unsparing criticism of the secular clergy of rome, brought a growing hostility against him among the roman clergy and their supporters. soon after the death of his patron pope damasus i on december , jerome was forced to leave his position at rome after an inquiry was brought up by the roman clergy into allegations that he had an improper relationship with the widow paula. still, his writings were highly regarded by women who were attempting to maintain a vow of becoming a consecrated virgin. his letters were widely read and distributed throughout the christian empire and it is clear through his writing that he knew these virgin women were not his only audience.[ ] additionally, jerome's condemnation of blaesilla's hedonistic lifestyle in rome had led her to adopt ascetic practices, but it affected her health and worsened her physical weakness to the point that she died just four months after starting to follow his instructions; much of the roman populace were outraged at jerome for causing the premature death of such a lively young woman, and his insistence to paula that blaesilla should not be mourned, and complaints that her grief was excessive, were seen as heartless, polarising roman opinion against him.[ ] after rome[edit] in august , jerome left rome for good and returned to antioch, accompanied by his brother paulinian and several friends, and followed a little later by paula and eustochium who had resolved to end their days in the holy land. in the winter of , jerome acted as their spiritual adviser. the pilgrims, joined by bishop paulinus of antioch, visited jerusalem, bethlehem, and the holy places of galilee, and then went to egypt, the home of the great heroes of the ascetic life. at the catechetical school of alexandria, jerome listened to the catechist didymus the blind expounding the prophet hosea and telling his reminiscences of anthony the great, who had died years before. jerome spent some time in nitria, admiring the disciplined community life of the numerous inhabitants of that "city of the lord", but detecting even there "concealed serpents", i.e., the influence of origen of alexandria. late in the summer of he was back in palestine, and spent the remainder of his life working in a cave near bethlehem, the very cave where jesus was born,[ ] surrounded by a few friends, both men and women (including paula and eustochium), to whom he acted as priestly guide and teacher. saint jerome in his study, by niccolò antonio colantonio c. – , depicts jerome's removal of a thorn from a lion's paw. amply provided for by paula with the means of livelihood and for increasing his collection of books, jerome led a life of incessant activity in literary production. to these last years of his career belong the most important of his works; his version of the old testament from the original hebrew text, the best of his scriptural commentaries; his catalogue of christian authors; and the dialogue against the pelagians, the literary perfection of which even an opponent recognized.[citation needed] to this period also belong most of his polemics, which distinguished him among the orthodox fathers, including the treatises against the origenism later declared anathema, of bishop john ii of jerusalem and his early friend rufinus. later, as a result of his writings against pelagianism, a body of excited partisans broke into the monastic buildings, set them on fire, attacked the inmates and killed a deacon, forcing jerome to seek safety in a neighboring fortress in . death[edit] it is recorded that jerome died near bethlehem on september . the date of his death is given by the chronicon of prosper of aquitaine. his remains, originally buried at bethlehem, are said to have been later transferred to the basilica of santa maria maggiore in rome, though other places in the west claim some relics, the cathedral at nepi boasting possession of his head, which, according to another tradition, is in the escorial.[citation needed] translation of the bible ( – )[edit] saint jerome writing, by michelangelo merisi da caravaggio, , at st john's co-cathedral, valletta, malta jerome was a scholar at a time when that statement implied a fluency in greek. he knew some hebrew when he started his translation project, but moved to jerusalem to strengthen his grip on jewish scripture commentary. a wealthy roman aristocrat, paula, funded his stay in a monastery in bethlehem and he completed his translation there. he began in by correcting the existing latin-language version of the new testament, commonly referred to as the vetus latina. by he turned to translating the hebrew bible from the original hebrew, having previously translated portions from the septuagint which came from alexandria. he believed that the mainstream rabbinical judaism had rejected the septuagint as invalid jewish scriptural texts because of what were ascertained as mistranslations along with its hellenistic heretical elements.[ ] he completed this work by . prior to jerome's vulgate, all latin translations of the old testament were based on the septuagint, not the hebrew. jerome's decision to use a hebrew text instead of the previous-translated septuagint went against the advice of most other christians, including augustine, who thought the septuagint inspired. modern scholarship, however, has sometimes cast doubts on the actual quality of jerome's hebrew knowledge. many modern scholars believe that the greek hexapla is the main source for jerome's "iuxta hebraeos" (i.e. "close to the hebrews", "immediately following the hebrews") translation of the old testament.[ ] however, detailed studies have shown that to a considerable degree jerome was a competent hebraist.[ ] commentaries ( – )[edit] saint jerome, unknown southern dutch artist, , hamburger kunsthalle for the next years, until he died, jerome produced a number of commentaries on scripture, often explaining his translation choices in using the original hebrew rather than suspect translations. his patristic commentaries align closely with jewish tradition, and he indulges in allegorical and mystical subtleties after the manner of philo and the alexandrian school. unlike his contemporaries, he emphasizes the difference between the hebrew bible "apocrypha" and the hebraica veritas of the protocanonical books. in his vulgate's prologues, he describes some portions of books in the septuagint that were not found in the hebrew as being non-canonical (he called them apocrypha);[ ] for baruch, he mentions by name in his prologue to jeremiah and notes that it is neither read nor held among the hebrews, but does not explicitly call it apocryphal or "not in the canon".[ ] his preface to the books of samuel and kings[ ] includes the following statement, commonly called the helmeted preface: this preface to the scriptures may serve as a "helmeted" introduction to all the books which we turn from hebrew into latin, so that we may be assured that what is not found in our list must be placed amongst the apocryphal writings. wisdom, therefore, which generally bears the name of solomon, and the book of jesus, the son of sirach, and judith, and tobias, and the shepherd are not in the canon. the first book of maccabees i have found to be hebrew, the second is greek, as can be proved from the very style. although jerome was once suspicious of the apocrypha, it is said that he later viewed them as scripture. for example, in jerome's letter to eustochium he quotes sirach : ;[ ] elsewhere jerome also refers to baruch, the story of susannah and wisdom as scripture.[ ][ ][ ] jerome in the desert, tormented by his memories of the dancing girls, by francisco de zurbarán, , monastery of santa maría de guadalupe jerome's commentaries fall into three groups: 	his translations or recastings of greek predecessors, including fourteen homilies on the book of jeremiah and the same number on the book of ezekiel by origen (translated c. in constantinople); two homilies of origen of alexandria on the song of solomon (in rome, c. ); and thirty-nine on the gospel of luke (c. , in bethlehem). the nine homilies of origen on the book of isaiah included among his works were not done by him. here should be mentioned, as an important contribution to the topography of palestine, his book de situ et nominibus locorum hebraeorum, a translation with additions and some regrettable omissions of the onomasticon of eusebius. to the same period (c. ) belongs the liber interpretationis nominum hebraicorum, based on a work supposed to go back to philo and expanded by origen. 	original commentaries on the old testament. to the period before his settlement at bethlehem and the following five years belong a series of short, old testament studies: de seraphim, de voce osanna, de tribus quaestionibus veteris legis (usually included among the letters as , , and ); quaestiones hebraicae in genesim; commentarius in ecclesiasten; tractatus septem in psalmos – (lost); explanationes in michaeam, sophoniam, nahum, habacuc, aggaeum. after he composed a series of longer commentaries, though in rather a desultory fashion: first on jonah and obadiah ( ), then on isaiah (c. – c. ), on zechariah, malachi, hoseah, joel, amos (from ), on the book of daniel (c. ), on ezekiel (between and ), and on jeremiah (after , left unfinished). 	new testament commentaries. these include only philemon, galatians, ephesians, and titus (hastily composed – ); matthew (dictated in a fortnight, ); mark, selected passages in luke, revelation, and the prologue to the gospel of john. historical and hagiographic writings[edit] 	 	this section does not cite any sources. please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (august ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) in the middle ages, jerome was often ahistorically depicted as a cardinal. jerome is also known as a historian. one of his earliest historical works was his chronicon, composed c. in constantinople; this is a translation into latin of the chronological tables which compose the second part of the chronicon of eusebius, with a supplement covering the period from to . despite numerous errors taken over from eusebius, and some of his own, jerome produced a valuable work, if only for the impulse which it gave to such later chroniclers as prosper, cassiodorus, and victor of tunnuna to continue his annals. of considerable importance as well is the de viris illustribus, which was written at bethlehem in , the title and arrangement of which are borrowed from suetonius. it contains short biographical and literary notes on christian authors, from saint peter down to jerome himself. for the first seventy-eight authors eusebius (historia ecclesiastica) is the main source; in the second section, beginning with arnobius and lactantius, he includes a good deal of independent information, especially as to western writers. four works of a hagiographic nature are: 	the vita pauli monachi, written during his first sojourn at antioch (c. ), the legendary material of which is derived from egyptian monastic tradition; 	the vitae patrum (vita pauli primi eremitae), a biography of saint paul of thebes; 	the vita malchi monachi captivi (c. ), probably based on an earlier work, although it purports to be derived from the oral communications of the aged ascetic malchus of syria originally made to him in the desert of chalcis; 	the vita hilarionis, of the same date, containing more trustworthy historical matter than the other two, and based partly on the biography of epiphanius and partly on oral tradition. the so-called martyrologium hieronymianum is spurious; it was apparently composed by a western monk toward the end of the th or beginning of the th century, with reference to an expression of jerome's in the opening chapter of the vita malchi, where he speaks of intending to write a history of the saints and martyrs from the apostolic times. description of vitamin a deficiency[edit] the following passage, taken from saint jerome's "life of st. hilarion" which was written about a.d. , appears to be the earliest account of the etiology, symptoms and cure of severe vitamin a deficiency:[ ] from his thirty-first to his thirty-fifth year he had for food six ounces of barley bread, and vegetables slightly cooked without oil. but finding that his eyes were growing dim, and that his whole body was shrivelled with an eruption and a sort of stony roughness (impetigine et pumicea quad scabredine) he added oil to his former food, and up to the sixty-third year of his life followed this temperate course, tasting neither fruit nor pulse, nor anything whatsoever besides.[ ] letters[edit] saint jerome by matthias stom, jerome's letters or epistles, both by the great variety of their subjects and by their qualities of style, form an important portion of his literary remains. whether he is discussing problems of scholarship, or reasoning on cases of conscience, comforting the afflicted, or saying pleasant things to his friends, scourging the vices and corruptions of the time and against sexual immorality among the clergy,[ ] exhorting to the ascetic life and renunciation of the world, or breaking a lance with his theological opponents, he gives a vivid picture not only of his own mind, but of the age and its peculiar characteristics. because there was no distinct line between personal documents and those meant for publication, we frequently find in his letters both confidential messages and treatises meant for others besides the one to whom he was writing.[ ] due to the time he spent in rome among wealthy families belonging to the roman upper-class, jerome was frequently commissioned by women who had taken a vow of virginity to write to them in guidance of how to live their life. as a result, he spent a great deal of his life corresponding with these women about certain abstentions and lifestyle practices.[ ] these included the clothing she should wear, the interactions she should undertake and how to go about conducting herself during such interactions, and what and how she ate and drank. the letters most frequently reprinted or referred to are of a hortatory nature, such as ep. , ad heliodorum de laude vitae solitariae; ep. , ad eustochium de custodia virginitatis; ep. , ad nepotianum de vita clericorum et monachorum, a sort of epitome of pastoral theology from the ascetic standpoint; ep. , ad paulinum de studio scripturarum; ep. , to the same, de institutione monachi; ep. , ad magnum de scriptoribus ecclesiasticis; and ep. , ad laetam de institutione filiae. francesco st jerome by jacopo palma il giovane, c. theological writings[edit] the virgin and child with saints jerome and nicholas of tolentino by lorenzo lotto, practically all of jerome's productions in the field of dogma have a more or less vehemently polemical character, and are directed against assailants of the orthodox doctrines. even the translation of the treatise of didymus the blind on the holy spirit into latin (begun in rome , completed at bethlehem) shows an apologetic tendency against the arians and pneumatomachoi. the same is true of his version of origen's de principiis (c. ), intended to supersede the inaccurate translation by rufinus. the more strictly polemical writings cover every period of his life. during the sojourns at antioch and constantinople he was mainly occupied with the arian controversy, and especially with the schisms centering around meletius of antioch and lucifer calaritanus. two letters to pope damasus ( and ) complain of the conduct of both parties at antioch, the meletians and paulinians, who had tried to draw him into their controversy over the application of the terms ousia and hypostasis to the trinity. at the same time or a little later ( ) he composed his liber contra luciferianos, in which he cleverly uses the dialogue form to combat the tenets of that faction, particularly their rejection of baptism by heretics. in rome (c. ) jerome wrote a passionate counterblast against the teaching of helvidius, in defense of the doctrine of the perpetual virginity of mary and of the superiority of the single over the married state. an opponent of a somewhat similar nature was jovinianus, with whom he came into conflict in (adversus jovinianum, against jovinianus) and the defense of this work addressed to his friend pammachius, numbered in the letters. once more he defended the ordinary practices of piety and his own ascetic ethics in against the gallic presbyter vigilantius, who opposed the cultus of martyrs and relics, the vow of poverty, and clerical celibacy. meanwhile, the controversy with john ii of jerusalem and rufinus concerning the orthodoxy of origen occurred. to this period belong some of his most passionate and most comprehensive polemical works: the contra joannem hierosolymitanum ( or ); the two closely connected apologiae contra rufinum ( ); and the "last word" written a few months later, the liber tertius seuten ultima responsio adversus scripta rufini. the last of his polemical works is the skilfully composed dialogus contra pelagianos ( ). eschatology[edit] jerome in his study, made by the flemish drawer de bry.[ ] jerome warned that those substituting false interpretations for the actual meaning of scripture belonged to the "synagogue of the antichrist".[ ] "he that is not of christ is of antichrist," he wrote to pope damasus i.[ ] he believed that "the mystery of iniquity" written about by paul in thessalonians : was already in action when "every one chatters about his views."[ ] to jerome, the power restraining this mystery of iniquity was the roman empire, but as it fell this restraining force was removed. he warned a noble woman of gaul: he that letteth is taken out of the way, and yet we do not realize that antichrist is near. yes, antichrist is near whom the lord jesus christ "shall consume with the spirit of his mouth." "woe unto them," he cries, "that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days."... savage tribes in countless numbers have overrun run all parts of gaul. the whole country between the alps and the pyrenees, between the rhine and the ocean, has been laid waste by hordes of quadi, vandals, sarmatians, alans, gepids, herules, saxons, burgundians, allemanni, and—alas! for the commonweal!—even pannonians.[ ] his commentary on daniel was expressly written to offset the criticisms of porphyry,[ ] who taught that daniel related entirely to the time of antiochus iv epiphanes and was written by an unknown individual living in the second century bc. against porphyry, jerome identified rome as the fourth kingdom of chapters two and seven, but his view of chapters eight and was more complex. jerome held that chapter eight describes the activity of antiochus epiphanes, who is understood as a "type" of a future antichrist; : onwards applies primarily to a future antichrist but was partially fulfilled by antiochus. instead, he advocated that the "little horn" was the antichrist: we should therefore concur with the traditional interpretation of all the commentators of the christian church, that at the end of the world, when the roman empire is to be destroyed, there shall be ten kings who will partition the roman world amongst themselves. then an insignificant eleventh king will arise, who will overcome three of the ten kings. ...after they have been slain, the seven other kings also will bow their necks to the victor.[ ] in his commentary on daniel, he noted, "let us not follow the opinion of some commentators and suppose him to be either the devil or some demon, but rather, one of the human race, in whom satan will wholly take up his residence in bodily form."[ ] instead of rebuilding the jewish temple to reign from, jerome thought the antichrist sat in god's temple inasmuch as he made "himself out to be like god."[ ] jerome identified the four prophetic kingdoms symbolized in daniel as the neo-babylonian empire, the medes and persians, macedon, and rome.[ ] jerome identified the stone cut out without hands as "namely, the lord and savior".[ ] jerome refuted porphyry's application of the little horn of chapter seven to antiochus. he expected that at the end of the world, rome would be destroyed, and partitioned among ten kingdoms before the little horn appeared.[ ] jerome believed that cyrus of persia is the higher of the two horns of the medo-persian ram of daniel : .[ ] the he-goat is greece smiting persia.[ ] alexander is the great horn, which is then succeeded by alexander's half brother philip and three of his generals. reception by later christianity[edit] statue of saint jerome (hieronymus) – bethlehem, palestine authority, west bank jerome is the second most voluminous writer (after augustine of hippo) in ancient latin christianity. in the catholic church, he is recognized as the patron saint of translators, librarians and encyclopedists.[ ] he acquired a knowledge of hebrew by studying with a jew who converted to christianity. against the traditional view at the time, he maintained that the hebrew, not the septuagint, was the inspired text of the old testament. over a period of fifteen years at the request of pope damasus, he made a translation from the hebrew into latin that eventually superseded the preceding latin translations and became known as the vulgate. in the council of trent, it was declared authoritative "in public lectures, disputations, sermons and expositions".[ ][ ] jerome showed more zeal and interest in the ascetic ideal than in abstract speculation. he lived as an ascetic for four or five years in the syrian desert and later, for years, near bethlehem. nevertheless, his writings show outstanding scholarship and his correspondence is historically of great importance.[ ] it was jerome's strict asceticism that made martin luther judge him so severely. in fact, protestant readers are not generally inclined to accept his writings as authoritative. the tendency to recognize a superior comes out in his correspondence with augustine (cf. jerome's letters numbered , , – , – , – ; and , , , – , – , – in augustine's).[citation needed] in art[edit] in art, jerome is often represented as one of the four latin doctors of the church along with augustine of hippo, ambrose, and pope gregory i. as a prominent member of the roman clergy, he has often been portrayed anachronistically in the garb of a cardinal. even when he is depicted as a half-clad anchorite, with cross, skull and bible for the only furniture of his cell, the red hat or some other indication of his rank as cardinal is as a rule introduced somewhere in the picture. during jerome's life, cardinals did not exist. however, by the time of the renaissance and the baroque it was common practice for a secretary to the pope to be a cardinal (as jerome had effectively been to damasus), and so this was reflected in artistic interpretations. jerome is also often depicted with a lion, in reference to the popular hagiographical belief that jerome had tamed a lion in the wilderness by healing its paw. the source for the story may actually have been the second century roman tale of androcles, or confusion with the exploits of saint gerasimus (jerome in later latin is "geronimus").[ ][ ][ ] hagiographies of jerome talk of his having spent many years in the syrian desert, and artists often depict him in a "wilderness", which for west european painters can take the form of a wood.[ ] from the late middle ages, depictions of jerome in a wider setting became popular. he is either shown in his study, surrounded by books and the equipment of a scholar, or in a rocky desert, or in a setting that combines both themes, with him studying a book under the shelter of a rock-face or cave mouth. his attribute of the lion, often shown at a smaller scale, may be beside him in either setting. jerome is often depicted in connection with the vanitas motif, the reflection on the meaninglessness of earthly life and the transient nature of all earthly goods and pursuits. in the th century saint jerome in his study by pieter coecke van aelst and workshop, the saint is depicted with a skull. behind him on the wall is pinned an admonition, cogita mori ("think upon death"). further reminders of the vanitas motif of the passage of time and the imminence of death are the image of the last judgment visible in the saint's bible, the candle and the hourglass.[ ] jerome is also sometimes depicted with an owl, the symbol of wisdom and scholarship.[ ] writing materials and the trumpet of final judgment are also part of his iconography.[ ] he is commemorated on september with a memorial. 	 			 			 saint jerome in his study, c. by pieter coecke van aelst and workshop, walters art museum 			 		 	 			 			 saint jerome and the paulines painted by gabriel thaller in the st. jerome church in Štrigova, međimurje county, northern croatia ( th century) 			 		 	 			 			 saint jerome by simon vouet c. 			 		 	 			 			 saint jerome c. netherlandish stained glass window at met. 			 		 see also[edit] 	saints portal 	christianity portal 	bible translations 	church fathers 	ferdinand cavallera 	genesius of arles 	international translation day 	letter of jerome to pope damasus 	order of st. jerome 	saint jerome, patron saint archive references[edit] 	^ the encyclopedia of christian literature, volume . scarecrow press. . isbn  . jerome ("hieronymus" in latin), was born into a christian family in stridon, modern-day strigova in northern croatia. 	^ "st. jerome (christian scholar)". britannica encyclopedia. february . archived from the original on march . retrieved march . 	^ scheck, thomas p. (december ). commentary on matthew (the fathers of the church, volume ). p.  . isbn  . archived from the original on february . retrieved june . "" 	^ maisie ward, saint jerome, sheed & ward, london , p. "it may be taken as certain that jerome was an italian, coming from that wedge of italy which seems on the old maps to be driven between dalmatia and pannonia." 	^ tom streeter, the church and western culture: an introduction to church history, authorhouse , p. "jerome was born around ad at stridon, a town in northeast italy at the head of the adriatic ocean." 	^ schaff, philip, ed. ( ). a select library of nicene and post-nicene fathers of the christian church. nd series. vi. henry wace. new york: the christian literature company. archived from the original on july . retrieved june . 	^ a b c megan hale williams, the monk and the book: jerome and the making of christian scholarship, (chicago: the university of chicago press, ) 	^ in the eastern orthodox church he is known as saint jerome of stridonium or blessed jerome. though "blessed" in this context does not have the sense of being less than a saint, as in the west. 	^ williams, megan hale ( ), the monk and the book: jerome and the making of christian scholarship, chicago 	^ pevarello, daniele ( ). the sentences of sextus and the origins of christian ascetiscism. tübingen: mohr siebeck. p.  . isbn  - - - - . archived from the original on february . retrieved december . 	^ walsh, michael, ed. ( ), butler's lives of the saints, new york: harpercollins, p.  	^ kelly, jnd ( ), jerome: his life, writings, and controversies, new york: harper & row, pp.  – 	^ payne, robert ( ), the fathers of the western church, new york: viking press, pp.  – 	^ psalm : 	^ jerome, commentarius in ezzechielem, c. , v. 	^ patrologia latina , : crebroque cryptas ingredi, quae in terrarum profunda defossae, ex utraque parte ingredientium per parietes habent corpora sepultorum, et ita obscura sunt omnia, ut propemodum illud propheticum compleatur: descendant ad infernum viventes (ps. liv, ): et raro desuper lumen admissum, horrorem temperet tenebrarum, ut non-tam fenestram, quam foramen demissi luminis putes: rursumque pedetentim acceditur, et caeca nocte circumdatis illud virgilianum proponitur (aeneid. lib. ii): "horror ubique animos, simul ipsa silentia terrent." 	^ p. vergilius maro, aeneid theodore c. williams, ed. perseus project archived november at the wayback machine (retrieved august ) 	^ payne, robert ( ), the fathers of the western church, new york: viking, p.  	^ rebenich, stefan ( ), jerome, p.  , further, he began to study hebrew: 'i betook myself to a brother who before his conversion had been a hebrew and...' 	^ pritz, ray ( ), nazarene jewish christianity: from the end of the new testament, p.  , in his accounts of his desert sojourn, jerome never mentions leaving chalcis, and there is no pressing reason to think... 	^ "saint jerome in his study". the walters art museum. archived from the original on may . retrieved september . 	^ joyce e. salisbury, encyclopedia of women in the ancient world, blaesilla 	^ bennett, rod ( ). the apostasy that wasn't: the extraordinary story of the unbreakable early church. catholic answers press. isbn  - - - - . 	^ "(...) die griechische bibelübersetzung, die einem innerjüdischen bedürfnis entsprang (...) [von den] rabbinen zuerst gerühmt (...) später jedoch, als manche ungenaue Übertragung des hebräischen textes in der septuaginta und Übersetzungsfehler die grundlage für hellenistische irrlehren abgaben, lehte man die septuaginta ab." verband der deutschen juden (hrsg.), neu hrsg. von walter homolka, walter jacob, tovia ben chorin: die lehren des judentums nach den quellen; münchen, knesebeck, , bd. , s. ff 	^ pierre nautin, article hieronymus, in: theologische realenzyklopädie, vol. , walter de gruyter, berlin-new york , p. - , here p. - . 	^ michael graves, jerome's hebrew philology: a study based on his commentary on jeremiah, brill, : – . page : "in his discussion he gives clear evidence of having consulted the hebrew himself, providing details about the hebrew that could not have been learned from the greek translations." 	^ "the bible". archived from the original on january . retrieved december . 	^ edgecomb, kevin p., jerome's prologue to jeremiah, archived from the original on december , retrieved december 	^ "jerome's preface to samuel and kings". archived from the original on december . retrieved december . 	^ barber, michael ( march ). "loose canons: the development of the old testament (part )". archived from the original on december . retrieved august . 	^ jerome, to paulinus, epistle (a.d. ), in npnf , vi: .: "do not, my dearest brother, estimate my worth by the number of my years. gray hairs are not wisdom; it is wisdom which is as good as gray hairs at least that is what solomon says: 'wisdom is the gray hair unto men' [wisdom : ]. moses too in choosing the seventy elders is told to take those whom he knows to be elders indeed, and to select them not for their years but for their discretion [num. : ]? and, as a boy, daniel judges old men and in the flower of youth condemns the incontinence of age [daniel : – aka story of susannah – ]." 	^ jerome, to oceanus, epistle : (a.d. ), in npnf , vi: .:"i would cite the words of the psalmist: 'the sacrifices of god are a broken spirit,’ [ps : ] and those of ezekiel 'i prefer the repentance of a sinner rather than his death,’ [ez : ] and those of baruch, 'arise, arise, o jerusalem,’ [baruch : ] and many other proclamations made by the trumpets of the prophets." 	^ jerome, letter , , , npnf , vi: - : "for in the book of wisdom, which is inscribed with his name, solomon says: 'god created man to be immortal and made him be an image of his own eternity.'[wisdom : ]...instead of the three proofs from holy scripture which you said would satisfy you if i could produce them, behold i have given you seven" 	^ a b taylor, f. sherwood ( december ). 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( ): . bibcode: natur. q. t. doi: . / a . s cid  . 	^ "regulae sancti pachomii rule . 	^ w. h. fremantle, "prolegomena to jerome", v. 	^ "hiëronymus in zijn studeervertrek". lib.ugent.be. retrieved october . 	^ see jerome's the dialogue against the luciferians archived january at the wayback machine, p. in a select library of nicene and post-nicene fathers of the christian church : st. jerome: letters and select works, . second series by philip schaff, henry wace. 	^ see jerome's letter to pope damasus archived march at the wayback machine, p. in a select library of nicene and post-nicene fathers of the christian church : st. jerome: letters and select works, . second series by philip schaff, henry wace. 	^ see jerome's against the pelagians, book i archived january at the wayback machine, p. in a select library of nicene and post-nicene fathers of the christian church : st. jerome: letters and select works, . second series by philip schaff, henry wace. 	^ see jerome's letter to ageruchia archived - - at the wayback machine, p. - in a select library of nicene and post-nicene fathers of the christian church : st. jerome: letters and select works, . second series by philip schaff, henry wace. 	^ eremantle, note on jerome's commentary on daniel, in npaf, d series, vol. , p. . 	^ a b c d "jerome, commentario in danielem". archived from the original on may . retrieved may . 	^ "jerome, commentaria in danelem, chap. , verses – ". archived from the original on may . retrieved may . 	^ "jerome, commentaria in danieluem, chap. , verse ". archived from the original on may . retrieved may . 	^ "jerome, commentario in danielem, chap. , verse ". archived from the original on may . retrieved may . 	^ "jerome, commentaria in danielem, chap. , verse ". archived from the original on may . retrieved may . 	^ "st. jerome: patron saint of librarians | luther college library and information services". lis.luther.edu. archived from the original on july . retrieved june . 	^ jimmy akin, "is the vulgate the catholic church’s official bible?" in national catholic register 	^ the oxford dictionary of the christian church. oxford university press; . isbn  - - - - . vulgate. p. – . 	^ the oxford dictionary of the christian church. oxford university press; . isbn  - - - - . jerome. p. – . 	^ hope werness, continuum encyclopaedia of animal symbolism in art, 	^ "eugene rice has suggested that in all probability the story of gerasimus's lion became attached to the figure of jerome some time during the seventh century, after the military invasions of the arabs had forced many greek monks who were living in the deserts of the middle east to seek refuge in rome. rice conjectures (saint jerome in the renaissance, pp. – ) that because of the similarity between the names gerasimus and geronimus – the late latin form of jerome's name – 'a latin-speaking cleric . . . made st geronimus the hero of a story he had heard about st gerasimus; and that the author of plerosque nimirum, attracted by a story at once so picturesque, so apparently appropriate, and so resonant in suggestion and meaning, and under the impression that its source was pilgrims who had been told it in bethlehem, included it in his life of a favourite saint otherwise bereft of miracles.'" salter, david ( ). holy and noble beasts: encounters with animals in medieval literature. d. s. brewer. p.  . isbn  - - - - . archived from the original on february . retrieved december . 	^ "a figment" found in the thirteenth-century golden legend by jacobus de voragine williams, megan hale ( ). the monk and the book: jerome and the making of christian scholarship. chicago: u of chicago p. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ "saint jerome in catholic saint info". catholic-saints.info. archived from the original on april . retrieved june . 	^ "saint jerome in his study". the walters art museum. archived from the original on september . retrieved september . 	^ a b the collection: saint jerome archived october at the wayback machine, gallery of the religious art collection of new mexico state university, with explanations. retrieved august . bibliography[edit] 	andrew cain and josef lössl, jerome of stridon: his life, writings and legacy (london and new york, ) 	j. n. d. kelly, jerome: his life, writings, and controversies (peabody, ma ) 	s. rebenich, jerome (london and new york, ) 	megan hale williams. the monk and the book: jerome and the making of christian scholarship (chicago and london, ) 	biblia sacra vulgata [e.g. edition published stuttgart, , isbn  - - - ] 	attribution 	this article uses material from the schaff–herzog encyclopedia of religious knowledge. further reading[edit] 	saint jerome, three biographies: malchus, st. hilarion and paulus the first hermit authored by saint jerome, london, . limovia.net. isbn  - - - - external links[edit] 		wikiquote has quotations related to: jerome 		wikimedia commons has media related to saint jerome. 		latin wikisource has original text related to this article: biblia sacra 	letters of jerome dataset – corpus as structured data, with sender, receiver, and letter-type classification 	st. jerome (pdf) from fr. alban butler's lives of the saints 	the life of st. jerome, priest, confessor and doctor of the church 	herbermann, charles, ed. 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"st. jerome" . catholic encyclopedia. new york: robert appleton company. 	jewish encyclopedia: jerome 	st. jerome – catholic online 	st jerome (hieronymus) of stridonium orthodox synaxarion 	further reading of depictions of saint jerome in art 	saint jerome, doctor of the church at the christian iconography web site 	here followeth the life of jerome from caxton's translation of the golden legend 	works of saint jerome at somni 	beati hyeronimi epistolarum liber, digitized codex ( ) 	epistole de santo geronimo traducte di latino, digitized codex ( – ) 	hieronymi in danielem, digitized codex ( ) 	sancti hieronymi ad pammachium in duodecim prophetas, digitized codex ( – ) 	colonnade statue in st peter's square latin texts[edit] 	chronological list of jerome's works with modern editions and translations cited 	opera omnia (complete works) from migne edition (patrologia latina, – ) with analytical indexes, almost complete online edition 	lewis e vitae patrum (lives of the fathers) at openn 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video[edit] the music video opens with carter in a boring tour of a space museum. as the tour guide instructs him and the rest of his classmates to move onwards, carter stumbles near a door to a restricted area. he enters it as his clothes morph into a futuristic outfit. throughout the video, carter sits in a chair near a control console and a stellar map that shows him singing. among one of the buttons on the console is one that turns him cgi while singing with a group of men in black. while performing the song, carter glances over near the screen, only to realize it's displaying a countdown warning about it self-destructing. carter jumps and aborts it just in time, as the picture zooms out to black. an alternate version of the music video was featured on the vhs and dvd release of jimmy neutron: boy genius, where film clips are shown on the control screen instead of carter singing. at the very end, instead of the picture zooming out, an explosion is shown with jimmy on his rocket 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frontiers and fortifications 	 	limes 	limes britannicus 	antonine wall 	hadrian's wall 	saxon shore 	limes germanicus 	alb limes 	lauter valley limes 	lower germanic limes 	main limes 	neckar-odenwald limes 	upper germanic-rhaetian limes 	wetterau limes 	danube–iller–rhine limes 	norican limes 	claustra alpium iuliarum 	pannonian limes 	limes alutanus 	limes moesiae 	trajan's wall 	anastasian wall 	limes sarmatiae 	limes arabicus 	limes tripolitanus 	limes mauretaniae 	  ancient rome portal •  war portal 		v 	t 	e roman siege engines were, for the most part, adapted from hellenistic siege technology. relatively small efforts were made to develop the technology; however, the romans brought an unrelentingly aggressive style to siege warfare[ ] that brought them repeated success. up to the first century bc, the romans utilized siege weapons only as required and relied for the most part on ladders, towers and rams to assault a fortified town. ballistae were also employed, but held no permanent place within a legion's roster, until later in the republic, and were used sparingly. julius caesar took great interest in the integration of advanced siege engines, organizing their use for optimal battlefield efficiency.[ ] contents 	 army engineering corps 	 artillery 	 . ballista 	 . . early roman ballistae 	 . . first invasion of britain 	 . . siege of alesia 	 . onager 	 . scorpio 	 breaking the walls 	 . battering ram 	 . siege tower 	 . mine 	 . corvus 	 see also 	 notes 	 references army engineering corps[edit] roman springald main article: roman military engineering to facilitate this organization and the army's self-sufficiency, an engineering corps was developed. an officer of engineers, or praefectus fabrum, is referenced in armies of the late republic, but this post is not verifiable in all accounts and may have simply been a military advisor on the personal staff of a commanding officer.[ ] there were legion architects (whose rank is yet unknown) who were responsible for the construction of war machines who would also assure that all artillery constructions in the field were level. ensuring that constructions were level was the job of the libratores, who would also launch missiles and other projectiles (on occasion) during battle (le bohec : ). the engineering corps was in charge of massive production, frequently prefabricating artillery and siege equipment to facilitate its transportation.[ ] artillery[edit] roman siege engines 	 roman artillery was very efficient at that time, and during a siege the romans would attack the weakest area of their enemy's defenses and attempt to breach the walls at that point. to support this effort, artillery fire would commence, with three main objectives:[ ] to cause damage to defenses, casualties among the opposing army, and loss of enemy morale. it would also provide cover fire for troops building siege ramps or those in siege towers. there were machines called tormenta , which would launch (sometimes incendiary) projectiles such as javelins, arrows, rocks, or beams. these devices were on wheeled platforms to follow the line's advance. all were "predicated on a principle of physics: a lever was inserted into a skein of twisted horsehair to increase torsion, and when the arm was released, a considerable amount of energy was thus freed".[ ] it was later stated that sinew, instead of twisted hair, provided a better “spring.” these weapons were high-maintenance devices and vulnerable to having their leather, sinew, or hemp skeins affected by wet or even damp, which would cause them to slacken and lose tension, rendering the engine useless.[ ] it is somewhat difficult to clearly define and describe roman artillery, as names are easily confused and historians still do not agree on all definitions. perhaps best known are the ballista, the onager, and the scorpio. ballista[edit] main article: ballista roman arrow machine one talent ballista ( kg weight projectile). the heaviest versions could shoot up to three talents ( kg), possibly much more.[ ] a ballista after the absorption of the ancient greek city states into the roman republic in bc, some advanced greek technologies began to spread across many areas of roman influence. this included the hugely advantageous military advances the greeks had made (most notably by dionysus of syracuse), as well as all the scientific, mathematical, political and artistic developments. the romans 'inherited' the torsion powered ballistae which had by now spread to several cities around the mediterranean, all of which became roman spoils of war in time, including one from pergamum, which was depicted among a pile of 'trophy' weapons in relief on a balustrade. the torsion ballista, developed by alexander, was a far more complicated weapon than its predecessor, and the romans developed it even further. vitruvius, in his de architectura book x, describes the construction and tuning of ballistae. every century (group of - men) in the roman army had a ballista by the st century ad.[ ] it was the command of the chief of the ballistae, under whom were the artillery experts, or doctores ballistarum and finally, the artillerymen, or ballistarii.[ ] ballistae were heavy missile weapons, hurling large rocks great distances to damage rampart walls. they resembled large crossbows, rather than catapults. they were powered by two horizontal like arms, which were inserted into two vertical and tightly wound "skein" springs contained in a rectangular frame structure making up the head or principal part of the weapon. the arms were drawn rearward with a winch lever to further twist the skeins and thus gain the torsion power to cast a projectile.[ ] it has been said that the whirring sound of a ballista-fired stone struck fear and dread into the hearts of those inside the walls of besieged cities. the stones chosen to be used in the ballista had to be a particular sort. according to vegetius, river stones were best, since they are round, smooth, and dense. ballista stones found at the site of masada were chiseled to make them as round as possible.[ ] early roman ballistae[edit] roman 'catapult-nest' on trajan's column ballista the early roman ballistae were made of wood, and held together with iron plates around the frames and iron nails in the stand. the main stand had a slider on the top, into which were loaded the bolts or stone 'shot'. attached to this, at the back, was a pair of winches and a claw, used to ratchet the bowstring back to the armed firing position. a slider passed through the field frames of the weapon, in which were located the torsion springs (rope made of animal sinew), which were twisted around the bow arms, which in turn were attached to the bowstring. drawing the bowstring back with the winches twisted the already taut springs, storing the energy to fire the projectiles. the ballista was a highly accurate weapon (there are many accounts right from its early history of single soldiers being picked off by the operators), but some design aspects meant it could compromise its accuracy for range. the lightweight bolts could not gain the high momentum of the stones over the same distance as those thrown by the later onagers, trebuchets, or mangonels; these could be as heavy as –  kg ( - pounds). the romans continued the development of the ballista, and it became a highly prized and valued weapon in the army of the roman empire. it was used, just before the start of the empire, by julius caesar during his conquest of gaul and on both of his expeditions to britain. both attempted invasions of britain and the siege of alesia are recorded in his own commentarii (journal), the gallic wars (de bello gallico). first invasion of britain[edit] the first invasion of britain took place in  bc, after a rapid and successful initial conquest of gaul, in part as an exploratory expedition, and more practically to try to put an end to the re-enforcements sent by the native britons to fight the romans in gaul. a total of eighty transports, carrying two legions, attempted to land on the british shore, only to be driven back by the many british warriors assembled along the shoreline. the ships had to unload their troops on the beach, as it was the only one suitable for many kilometers, yet the massed ranks of british charioteers and javeliners were making it impossible. seeing this, caesar ordered the warships – which were swifter and easier to handle than the transports, and likely to impress the natives more by their unfamiliar appearance – to be removed a short distance from the others, and then be rowed hard and run ashore on the enemy’s right flank, from which position the slings, bows and artillery could be used by men on deck to drive them back. this manoeuvre was highly successful. scared by the strange shape of the warships, the motion of the oars, and the unfamiliar machines, the natives halted and then retreated a little. (caesar, the conquest of gaul, p. ) siege of alesia[edit] in gaul, the stronghold of alesia was under a roman siege in bc, and surrounded by roman fortifications. as was standard siege technique at the time, ballistae were placed up in the towers with other soldiers armed with either bows or slings. onager[edit] main article: onager (siege weapon) sketch of an onager, from antique technology by diels the onager was a post-classical roman siege engine, which derived its name from the kicking action of the machine, similar to that of an onager (wild ass). it is a type of catapult that uses torsional pressure, generally from twisted rope, to store energy for the shot. the onager consisted of a frame placed on the ground to whose front end a vertical frame of solid timber was rigidly fixed; through the vertical frame ran an axle, which had a single stout spoke. on the extremity of the spoke was a sling used to launch a projectile. in action the spoke was forced down, against the tension of twisted ropes or other springs, by a windlass, and then suddenly released. the spoke thus kicked the crosspiece of the vertical frame, and the projectile at its extreme end was shot forward. the onagers of the roman empire were mainly used for besieging forts or settlements. they would often be loaded with large stones or rocks that could be covered with a flammable substance and set alight. in the middle ages (recorded from around a.d.) a less powerful version of the onager was used that employed a fixed bowl rather than a sling, so that many small projectiles could be thrown, as opposed to a single large one. this engine was sometimes called the mangonel, although the same name may have been used for a variety of siege engines. scorpio[edit] main article: scorpio (dart-thrower) modern reconstruction of a scorpio the scorpio was a crossbow-like device that fired smaller arrows with deadly accuracy[ ] used both in the field and in sieges. they were so-named for their deadly, armor-piercing sting and could be operated by just one or two men. scorpios were meant to kill and injure enemy troops, rather than break down enemy fortifications. thanks to their smaller size, they could be mounted on or in siege towers. during the siege of amida, a scorpio-fired arrow killed the son of grumbates, king of the chionitae, when he was approaching the city to surrender.[ ] there has been some research done into the existence of the self-loading, serial-fire scorpio or polybolos. legionaries either side would continuously keep turning cranks which turned a chain, which operated the various mechanisms to load and fire the catapult. all that was needed was for another soldier to keep feeding in more arrows.[ ] breaking the walls[edit] battering ram[edit] main article: battering ram roman battering ram. a battering ram (aries) with a shed (testudo). after a relief on septimius severus' triumphal arc in rome. roman battering rams, or aries, were an effective weapon for breaking down an enemy's walls, as well as their morale. under roman law, any defenders who failed to surrender before the first ram touched their wall were denied any rights.[ ] the moment they heard the ram hit the wall, those inside the city knew that the siege proper had begun and there was no turning back.[ ] the remains of the roman siege-ramp at masada josephus describes the battering ram used at jotapata thus:[ ] it is an immense beam, similar to a ship’s mast, with one end covered with iron shaped into a ram’s head; hence its name. it is suspended from another beam like a balance arm by cables around its middle, and this in turn is supported at both ends by posts fixed in the ground. it is drawn back by a huge number of men who then push it forward in unison with all their might so that it hits the wall with its iron head. there is no tower strong enough nor any wall thick enough to withstand repeated blows of this kind, and many cannot resist the first shock. vitruvius in de architectura book x describes the construction and use of battering rams. for protection, a battering ram was suspended in a mobile shelter called a tortoise, or testudo. according to vegetius, it was given this name because the ram would swing out of the shelter much like a tortoise's head comes out of its shell. such shelters would provide the men within protection against missiles and incendiary devices. they were constructed from a framework of strong timbers with planks and wicker hurdles on the sides. the entire shelter would then be covered with a fireproof material such as uncured hides.[ ] according to apollodorus of damascus, the shelter should be fixed to the ground while the ram was being used to both prevent skidding and strain on the axles from the weight of the moving apparatus. this would also increase the strength of the impact on the walls.[ ] siege tower[edit] siege machine main article: siege towers according to josephus, the roman siege towers at jotapata were feet high and iron-plated to protect them from fire; those at masada were reported to be feet high. it was possible to have many different devices on siege towers, such as artillery, draw bridges and rams. those at the top of the tower were to keep defenders off the walls while those below them attempted to breach the wall using ramps. in the battle of jerusalem in ad the romans began assault on the third defensive wall within jerusalem, the tower stood  ft tall and was compromised when the jewish resistance tunneled underneath the tower leading it to collapse.[ ] following a basic design, details of tower construction varied from siege to siege and there is no known treatise which specifies at which level siege equipment should be placed. vegetius noted that, “besiegers sometimes built a tower with another turret inside it that could suddenly be raised by ropes and pulleys to over-top the wall”.[ ] mine[edit] mines could be dug under city walls as a means of entering a city secretly and capturing it but were more frequently constructed to weaken city walls. once dug, sappers would underpin the walls with wood and cause the walls to collapse by firing the supports with resin, sulfur and other incendiary materials.[ ] corvus[edit] main article: corvus (boarding device) in chapter . "the victory of mylae" of his history, polybius writes: "now their ships were badly fitted out and not easy to manage, and so some one suggested to them as likely to serve their turn in a fight the construction of what were afterwards called "crows"".[ ] corvus means "crow" or "raven" in latin and was the name given to a roman boarding device first documented during the first punic war against carthage. polybius goes on to describe this siege engine as a bridge used to span the distance between two ships in battle. the device was a plank,  ft wide and  ft long, affixed to the roman vessel around a pole. this construction allowed the bridge to be swung port to starboard and therefore used on either side of the ship. a pulley at the top of the pole allowed the planks to be raised and lowered on command. at the end of the bridge there was a heavy metal spike that when dropped on the deck of an enemy ship would, with the aid of gravity, become imbedded in the deck. by connecting the two ships in such a way, roman soldiers could gain access to the deck of the enemy ship and engage in a more hand to hand based combat styles instead of depending on naval combat styles. polybius also includes an insight on how these siege engines would have practically functioned in battle: "and as soon as the "crows" were fixed in the planks of the decks and grappled the ships together, if the ships were alongside of each other, the men leaped on board anywhere along the side, but if they were prow to prow, they used the "crow" itself for boarding, and advanced over it two abreast. the first two protected their front by holding up before them their shields, while those who came after them secured their sides by placing the rims of their shields upon the top of the railing. such were the preparations which they made; and having completed them they watched an opportunity of engaging at sea."[ ] based on this historical description the corvus used some mechanisms seen in the more complex siege towers or the sheds constructed around battering rams. they protected, to an extent, the roman soldiers as they gained entry to the enemy's space where they could engage in combat. see also[edit] 	ancient rome portal 	war portal 	roman engineering 	roman military personal equipment 	vitruvius notes[edit] 	^ a b goldsworthy : 	^ a b c keppie : 	^ a b le bohec : 	^ a b catapulta at legionxxiv 	^ werner soedel, vernard foley: “ancient catapults”, scientific american, vol. , no. (march ), p. - ( ff.) 	^ le bohec : p. 	^ le bohec : p. 	^ garrison . 	^ goldsworthy : 	^ siege weapons at roman-empire.net 	^ goldsworthy : p. 	^ gilliver : p. 	^ le bohec : p. 	^ gilliver : pp. - 	^ gilliver : p. 	^ gilliver : pp. - . 	^ gilliver : 	^ gilliver : 	^ a b histories. polybius. evelyn s. shuckburgh. translator. london, new york. macmillan. . reprint bloomington .http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=plb.+ . &fromdoc=perseus% atext% a . . references[edit] 	james v. garrison ( ). "casting stones: ballista, stones as weapons, and death by stoning". brigham young university studies. ( ): – . 	gilliver, c.m. ( ). the roman art of war. charleston, sc: tempus. isbn  - - - . 	goldsworthy, adrian ( ). roman warfare. london: cassell. isbn  - - - . 	keppie, lawrence ( ). the making of the roman army from empire to republic. totowa, nj: barnes & noble books. isbn  - - - . 	le bohec, yann ( ). the imperial roman army. london: b.t. batsford ltd. isbn  - - - . 	shuckburgh, evelyn s. 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rubāʿiyāt)[ ] is the term for a quatrain, a poem or a verse of a poem consisting of four lines. it refers specifically to a form of persian poetry, or its derivative form in english and other languages. in classical persian poetry, the ruba'i is written as a four-line (or two-couplet) poem, with a rhyme-scheme aaba or aaaa.[ ][ ][ ][ ] this is an example of a ruba'i from rūmī's dīwān-i shams: 	 anwār-i Ṣalāḥ-i dīn bar angēkhta bād dar dīda u jān-i ʿāshiqān rēkhta bād har jān ki laṭīf gasht u az luṭf guzasht bā khāk-i Ṣalāḥ-i dīn dar āmēkhta bād 	 may the splendors of salahuddin be roused, and poured into the eyes and souls of the lovers. may every soul that has become refined and has surpassed refinement be mingled with the dust of salahuddin![ ] 	 	 contents 	 metre 	 in english 	 see also 	 references 	 external links metre[edit] further information: persian metres the usual metre of a persian ruba'i, which is used for all four lines of the above quatrain by rumi, is as follows:[ ] 	– – u u – u – u – – u u – in the above scheme, "–" represents a long syllable, and "u" a short one. as variations of this scheme, any sequence of – u can be replaced by a single "overlong" syllable, such as gēkh, tīf, luṭf in the poem above, containing either a long vowel followed by a consonant other than "n", or a short vowel followed by two consonants. an overlong syllable can also freely be substituted for the final syllable of the line, as with bād above. another variation is that occasionally a sequence of two short syllables (u u) can be replaced by a single long one (–). a third variation is to use the same metre as above, but with the eighth and ninth syllables reversed: 	– – u u – – u u – – u u – in english[edit] the verse form aaba as used in english verse is known as the rubaiyat quatrain due to its use by edward fitzgerald in his famous translation, rubaiyat of omar khayyam. algernon charles swinburne, one of the first admirers of fitzgerald's translation of khayyam's medieval persian verses, was the first to imitate the stanza form, which subsequently became popular and was used widely, as in the case of robert frost's poem "stopping by woods on a snowy evening". fitzgerald's translation became so popular by the turn of the century that hundreds of american humorists wrote parodies using the form and, to varying degrees, the content of his stanzas, including the rubaiyat of ohow dryyam, the rubaiyat of a persian kitten, the rubaiyat of omar cayenne and the rubaiyat of omar khayyam, jr. quatrain vii from the fourth edition of fitzgerald's rubaiyat: come, fill the cup, and in the fire of spring your winter-garment of repentance fling: the bird of time has but a little way to flutter—and the bird is on the wing.[ ] in extended sequences of ruba'i stanzas, the convention is sometimes extended so that the unrhymed line of the current stanza becomes the rhyme for the following stanza.[ ] the structure can be made cyclical by linking the unrhymed line of the final stanza back to the first stanza: zzaz.[ ] these more stringent systems were not, however, used by fitzgerald in his rubaiyat. see also[edit] 	poetry portal 	rubaiyat of omar khayyam 	'parwaze taffakkur' – published in containing about persian rubaiyat of renowned indian poet syed waheed ashraf[ ] references[edit] 	^ the persian noun is borrowed from arabic rubāʿiyy (رباعي) "consisting of four, quadripartite, fourfold" whose root consonants r-b-ʿ (ر ب ع) also occur in the numeral arbaʿah (أربعة, 'four'). see: cowan, j. m., ed. . the hans wehr dictionary of modern written arabic ( th edition). wiesbaden: harrassowitz. 	^ princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics, princeton university press, , p. 	^ introduction to the rubaiyat of omar khayyam, translated by peter avery and john heath-stubbs, penguin classics, , isbn  - - - , p. [ ] 	^ the cambridge history of iran, v. , edited by r. n. frye, cambridge university press, , isbn  - - - , pgs. - [ ] 	^ elwell-sutton, l. p. "the foundations of persian prosody and metrics," iran, v. ( ), p. . 	^ "the splendors of salahuddin". 	^ l. p. elwell-sutton ( ), “ʿarŪŻ,” encyclopaedia iranica, ii/ - , pp. - . 	^ [ ] 	^ skelton, robin ( ). the shapes of our singing: a comprehensive guide to verse forms and metres from around the world. spokane, wa: eastern washington university press. p.  . isbn  - - - . 	^ turco, lewis ( ). the book of forms: a handbook of poetics. lebanon, nh: university press of new england. p.  . isbn  - - - . 	^ [ ] external links[edit] 	dr.amjad parvez ( march ). 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whether the first or second emperor of that name is meant is disputed, but it seems probable that stephanus flourished in byzantium in the earlier part of the sixth century ad, under justinian i. the ethnica[edit] even as an epitome, the ethnica is of enormous value for geographical, mythological, and religious information about ancient greece. nearly every article in the epitome contains a reference to some ancient writer, as an authority for the name of the place. from the surviving fragments, we see that the original contained considerable quotations from ancient authors, besides many interesting particulars, topographical, historical, mythological, and others. stephanus cites[ ] artemidorus, polybius, aelius herodianus, herodotus, thucydides, xenophon, strabo and other writers. the chief fragments remaining of the original work are preserved by constantine porphyrogennetos, de administrando imperio, ch. (the article Ίβηρίαι δύο) and de thematibus, ii. (an account of sicily); the latter includes a passage from the comic poet alexis on the seven largest islands. another respectable fragment, from the article Δύμη to the end of Δ, exists in a manuscript of the fonds coislin, the library formed by pierre séguier. the first modern printed edition of the work was that published by the aldine press in venice, . the complete standard edition is still that of augustus meineke ( , reprinted at graz, ), and by convention, references to the text use meineke's page numbers. a new completely revised edition in german, edited by b. wyss, c. zubler, m. billerbeck, j.f. gaertner, was published between and , with a total of volumes.[ ] editions[edit] 	aldus manutius (pr.), , Στέφανος. Περὶ πόλεων (peri poleōn) = stephanus. de urbibus ("on cities") (venice). google books 	guilielmus xylander, , Στέφανος. Περὶ πόλεων = stephanus. de urbibus (basel). 	thomas de pinedo, , Στέφανος. Περὶ πόλεων = stephanus. de urbibus (amsterdam). contains parallel latin translation. google books 	claudius salmasius (claude saumaise) and abraham van berkel, , Στεφάνου Βυζαντίου Ἐθνικὰ κατ' ἐπιτομήν Περὶ πόλεων = stephani byzantini gentilia per epitomen, antehac de urbibus inscripta (leiden). contains parallel latin translation. google books 	lucas holstenius, , notae & castigationes in stephanum byzantium de urbibus (leiden). google books 	thomas de pinedo, , stephanus de urbibus (amsterdam). google books 	karl wilhelm dindorf, , stephanus byzantinus. opera, vols, (leipzig). incorporating notes by l. holsteinius, a. berkelius, and t. de pinedo. google books 	anton westermann, , stephani byzantii ethnikon quae supersunt (leipzig). google books 	augustus meineke, , stephani byzantii ethnicorum quae supersunt (berlin). google books 	margarethe billerbeck et al. (edd), stephani byzantii ethnica. volumes: – . berlin/new york: walter de gruyter, (corpus fontium historiae byzantinae / )[ ][ ][ ] references[edit] 	^ j. s. richardson, hispaniae: spain and the development of roman imperialism, - bc: "in four places, the lexicographer stephanus of byzantium refers to towns and ... artemidorus as source, and in three of the four examples cites polybius.; from political architecture to stephanus byzantius 	^ a b de gruyter 	^ reviewed by c. neri in 	^ reviewed by martin l. west sources[edit] 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "stephanus byzantinus". encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. p.  . (the britannica page as a tiff scan[permanent dead link]) further reading[edit] 	smith, w., dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology, vol. , s.v. "stephanus" ( ) of byzantium. 	diller, aubrey , "the tradition of stephanus byzantius", transactions of the american philological association : – . 	e.h. bunbury, , history of ancient geography (london), vol. i. , , ; ii. – . 	holstenius, l., (posth.), lucae holstenii notae et castigationes postumae in stephani byzantii ethnika, quae vulgo peri poleōn inscribuntur (leiden). 	niese, b., , de stephani byzantii auctoribus (kiel) 	johannes geffcken, , de stephano byzantio (göttingen) 	whitehead, d. 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	 	 	 	 	romanization (cultural) 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		for other uses, see romanization (disambiguation). romanization or latinization (or romanisation or latinisation), in the historical and cultural meanings of both terms, indicate different historical processes, such as acculturation, integration and assimilation of newly incorporated and peripheral populations by the roman republic and the later roman empire. ancient roman historiography and italian historiography until the fascist period used to call the various processes the "civilizing of barbarians". contents 	 characteristics 	 process 	 legacy 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 external links characteristics[edit] the roman empire at its greatest extent acculturation proceeded from the top down, with the upper classes adopting roman culture first and the old ways lingering for the longest among peasants in outlying countryside and rural areas.[ ] hostages played an important part in this process, as elite children, from mauretania to gaul, were taken to be raised and educated in rome.[ ] ancient roman historiography and traditional italian historiography confidently identified the different processes involved with a "civilization of barbarians". modern historians take a more nuanced view: by making their peace with rome, local elites could make their position more secure and reinforce their prestige. new themes include the study of personal and group values and the construction of identity, which is the personal aspect of ethnogenesis. the transitions operated differently in different provinces; as blagg and millett point out[ ] even a roman province may be too broad a canvas to generalize. one characteristic of cultural romanization was the creation of many hundreds of roman coloniae in the territory of the roman republic and the subsequent roman empire. until trajan, colonies were created by using retired veteran soldiers, mainly from the italian peninsula, who promoted roman customs and laws, with the use of latin. about towns (of the roman empire) are known to have possessed the rank of colonia. during the empire, colonies were showcases of roman culture and examples of the roman way of life. the native population of the provinces could see how they were expected to live. because of this function, the promotion of a town to the status of "colonia civium romanorum" implied that all citizens received full citizen rights and dedicated a temple to the capitoline triad: jupiter, juno, and minerva, the deities venerated in the temple of jupiter best and biggest on the capitol in rome. livius[ ] it has been estimated that at the beginning of the empire, about , italians lived in the provinces.[ ] julius caesar, mark anthony and octavian settled many of their veterans in colonies: in italy, and the provinces. the colonies that were established in italy until bce have been studied by keppie ( ). in his account of the achievements of his long reign, res gestae divi augusti, augustus stated that he had settled , soldiers in twenty colonies in italy in bce, then , men in colonies in spain and southern gaul in bce, followed by another , in bce.[ ] brian campbell also states "from to bce about , italians were recruited", which would thus be the veteran (citizen) stock that was largely sent to the provinces (colonies) during augustus. the lex calpurnia, however, also allowed citizenship to be granted for distinguished bravery. for example, the , socii from camerinum after vercellae bce (plutarch mar. xxxviii) and the auxiliary (later legio xxii deiotariana) after zela, got roman citizenship. by the time of augustus, the legions consisted mostly of ethnic latins/italics and cisalpine gauls.[ ] however, romanization did not always result in the extinction of all aspects of native cultures even when there was extensive acculturation. many non-latin provincial languages survived the entire period while sustaining considerable latin influence, including the ancestor languages of welsh, albanian, basque and berber. where there was language replacement, in some cases, such as italy, it took place in the early imperial stage, while in others, native languages only totally succumbed to latin after the fall of the empire, as was likely the case with gaulish. the gaulish language is thought to have survived into the th century in france, despite considerable romanization of the local material culture.[ ] the last record of spoken gaulish deemed to be plausibly credible[ ] was when gregory of tours wrote in the th century (c. - ) that a shrine in auvergne which "is called vasso galatae in the gallic tongue" was destroyed and burnt to the ground.[ ] coexisting with latin, gaulish helped shape the vulgar latin dialects that developed into french, with effects including loanwords and calques (including oui,[ ] the word for "yes"),[ ][ ] sound changes,[ ][ ] and influences in conjugation and word order.[ ][ ][ ] process[edit] all that led to many gradual developments. the very existence is a source of contention among modern archaeologists.[ ] one of the first approaches, which now can be regarded as the "traditional" approach, was taken by francis haverfield.[ ] he saw this process beginning in primarily post-conquest societies (such as britain and gaul), where direct roman policy from the top promoted an increase in the roman population of the province through the establishment of veteran colonies.[ ] the coloniae would have spoken latin and been citizens of rome following their army tenure (see roman citizenship). haverfield thus assumes this would have a romanising effect upon the native communities. this thought process, fueled though it was by early th century standards of imperialism and cultural change, forms the basis for the modern understanding of romanization. however, recent scholarship has devoted itself to providing alternate models of how native populations adopted roman culture and has questioned the extent to which it was accepted or resisted. 	non-interventionist model[ ] – native elites were encouraged to increase social standing through association with the powerful conqueror be it in dress, language, housing and food consumption. that provides them with associated power. the establishment of a civil administration system is quickly imposed to solidify the permanence of roman rule. 	discrepant identity[ ] – no uniformity of identity that can accurately be described as traditional romanization. fundamental differences within a province are visible through economics, religion and identity. not all provincials supported rome and not all elites wanted to be like the roman upper classes. 	acculturation[ ] – aspects of both native and roman cultures are joined together., as can be seen in the roman acceptance, and adoption of, non-classical religious practices. the inclusion of isis, epona, britannia and dolichenus into the pantheon are evidence. 	creolization[ ] – romanization occurs as a result of negotiation between different elements of non-egalitarian societies and so material culture is ambiguous. legacy[edit] romance languages in europe roman names were adopted. the latin language was spread, which was greatly facilitated by the fact that many cultures were mostly oral (particularly for the gauls and iberians). anyone who wanted to deal (through writing) with the bureaucracy and/or with the roman market had to write in latin. the extent of the adoption is subject to ongoing debate, as the native languages were certainly spoken after the conquests. moreover, in the eastern half of the empire, latin had to compete with greek, which largely kept its position as lingua franca and even spread to new areas. latin became prominent in certain areas around new veteran colonies like berytus. the ancient tribal laws were replaced by roman law, with its institutions of property rights. typically-roman institutions, such as public baths, the imperial cult and gladiator fights, were adopted. gradually, the conquered would see themselves as romans. the process was supported by the roman republic and then by the roman empire. the entire process was facilitated by the indo-european origin of most of the languages and by the similarity of the gods of many ancient cultures. they also already had had trade relations and contacts with one another through the seafaring mediterranean cultures like the phoenicians and the greeks. romanization was largely effective in the western half of the empire, where native civilizations were weaker. in the hellenized east, ancient civilizations like those of ancient egypt, anatolia, the balkans, judea and syria, effectively resisted all but its most superficial effects. when the empire was divided, the east, with mainly greek culture, was marked by the increasing strength of specifically greek culture and language to the detriment of the latin language and other romanizing influences, but its citizens continued to regard themselves as romans. while britain certainly was romanized, its approximation to the roman culture seems to have been smaller than that of gaul. the most romanized regions, as demonstrated by dott. bernward tewes and barbara woitas of the computing center of the catholic university eichstätt-ingolstadt, were italy, the iberian peninsula, gaul, southern germany and dalmatia.[ ] romanization in most of those regions remains such a powerful cultural influence in most aspects of life today that they are described as "latin countries" and "latin american countries". that is most evident in european countries in which romance languages are spoken and former colonies that have inherited the languages and other roman influences. according to theodor mommsen, cultural romanisation was more complete in those areas that developed a "neolatin language" (like spanish, french, italian, portuguese, and romanian). the same process later developed in the recent centuries' colonial empires. see also[edit] 	italic peoples 	latinization of names 	roman citizenship 	romanitas 	latin rights 	romance languages 	romanization of hispania 	illyro-roman 	thraco-roman 	gallo-roman 	daco-roman 	romano-british culture 	list of cities founded by the romans 	spread of the latin script 	historiography of romanization notes[edit] 	^ the identification of countryfolk as pagani is discussed at paganism. 	^ leonard a. curchin, the romanization of central spain: complexity, diversity, and change in a provincial hintellrfreshsrland, , p. . 	^ t. f. c. blagg and m. millett, eds., the early roman empire in the west , p. . 	^ coloniae 	^ scheidel, "demography", – , , n. , citing p. a. brunt, italian manpower b.c.–a.d. (oxford: oxford university press, ), . 	^ pat southern - the roman army: a social and institutional history ( /oxford uni.) 	^ b. campbell the roman army, bc–ad p. 	^ a b laurence hélix ( ). histoire de la langue française. ellipses edition marketing s.a. p.  . isbn  - - - - . le déclin du gaulois et sa disparition ne s'expliquent pas seulement par des pratiques culturelles spécifiques: lorsque les romains conduits par césar envahirent la gaule, au er siecle avant j.-c., celle-ci romanisa de manière progressive et profonde. pendant près de ans, la fameuse période gallo-romaine, le gaulois et le latin parlé coexistèrent; au vie siècle encore; le temoignage de grégoire de tours atteste la survivance de la langue gauloise. 	^ hist. franc., book i, veniens vero arvernos, delubrum illud, quod gallica lingua vasso galatæ vocant, incendit, diruit, atque subvertit. and coming to clermont [to the arverni] he set on fire, overthrew and destroyed that shrine which they call vasso galatæ in the gallic tongue. 	^ a b c matasovic, ranko ( ). "insular celtic as a language area". papers from the workship within the framework of the xiii international congress of celtic studies. the celtic languages in contact: . 	^ a b savignac, jean-paul ( ). dictionnaire français-gaulois. paris: la différence. p.  . 	^ henri guiter, "sur le substrat gaulois dans la romania", in munus amicitae. studia linguistica in honorem witoldi manczak septuagenarii, eds., anna bochnakowa & stanislan widlak, krakow, . 	^ eugeen roegiest, vers les sources des langues romanes: un itinéraire linguistique à travers la romania (leuven, belgium: acco, ), . 	^ adams, j. n. ( ). "chapter v -- regionalisms in provincial texts: gaul". the regional diversification of latin bc – ad . cambridge. p.  – . doi: . /cbo . isbn  . 	^ mattingly, d. j., , "being roman: expressing identity in a provincial setting", journal of roman archaeology vol. , pp – 	^ haverfield, f., , the romanization of roman britain, oxford: claredon press 	^ mackendrick, p. l ( ). "roman colonization". phoenix. ( ): – . doi: . / . jstor  . 	^ millet, m., , "romanization: historical issues and archaeological interpretation", in blagg, t. and millett, m. 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		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		roman poet of the st century ad (silver age of latin literature) for the personal name, see statius (praenomen). for other uses, see statius (disambiguation). 	statius 	 	born	c.  ad naples 	died	c.  ad naples 	occupation	poet 	nationality	roman publius papinius statius (/ˈsteɪʃiəs/; c.  —c.  ) was a roman poet of the st century ad. his surviving latin poetry includes an epic in twelve books, the thebaid; a collection of occasional poetry, the silvae; and an unfinished epic, the achilleid. he is also known for his appearance as a guide in the purgatory section of dante's epic poem, the divine comedy. contents 	 life 	 . family background 	 . birth and career 	 . later years at naples 	 works 	 . the thebaid 	 . the silvae 	 . the achilleid 	 statius' influence and literary afterlife 	 references 	 sources 	 . editions 	 . studies 	 external links life[edit] family background[edit] information about statius' life is almost entirely drawn from his silvae and a mention by the satirist juvenal. he was born to a family of graeco-campanian origin; his roman cognomen suggests that at some time an ancestor of his was freed and adopted the name of his former master, although neither statius nor his father were slaves. the poet's father (whose name is unknown) was a native of velia but later moved to naples and spent time in rome where he taught with marked success. from boyhood to adulthood, statius' father proved himself a champion in the poetic contests at naples in the augustalia and in the nemean, pythian, and isthmian games, which served as important events to display poetic skill during the early empire. statius declares in his lament for his father (silv. . ) that his father was in his time equal to any literary task, whether in prose or verse. he mentioned mevania, and may have spent time there, or been impressed by the confrontation of vitellius and vespasian in  . statius' father was a roman eques, but may have lost his status because of money troubles. at naples, he was a teacher of greek and roman literature who attracted many pupils who were destined for religious offices in rome. he died in ad. from pliny the younger's letters, it has recently been deduced that statius also wrote under the pseudonym of propertius. birth and career[edit] less is known of the events of statius' life. he was born c. ad. from his boyhood he was victorious in poetic contests many times at his native naples and three times at the alban festival, where he received the golden crown from the hand of the emperor domitian who had instituted the contest. for the alban festival, statius composed a poem on the german and dacian campaigns of domitian which juvenal lampoons in his seventh satire. statius is thought to have moved to rome c. after his father's death where he published his acclaimed epic poem the thebaid c. . in the capital, statius seems to have made many connections among the roman aristocracy and court, and he was probably supported through their patronage. statius produced the first three books of occasional poetry, his silvae, which were published in , which sketch his patrons and acquaintances of this period and mention his attendance at one of domitian's saturnalia banquets. he competed in the great capitoline competition, although it is not known in what year, although has been suggested. statius failed to win the coveted prize, a loss he took very hard. the disappointment may have prompted his return to naples around , the home of his youth. in existence is a poem he addressed to his wife, claudia, the widow of a famous singer who had a musically talented daughter by her first husband, on this occasion (silv. . ). later years at naples[edit] statius' first three books of the silvae seem to have received some criticism, and in response he composed a fourth book' at naples, which was published in . during this period at naples, statius maintained his relations with the court and his patrons, earning himself another invitation to a palace banquet (silv. . ). he seems to have taken an interest in the marriage and career of his stepdaughter and he also took a young slave boy under his wing, as he was childless, who died c. . in that same year statius embarked on a new epic, the achilleid, giving popular recitations of his work (juv. . ) only to complete a book and a half before dying in , leaving the poem unfinished. his fifth book of silvae were published after his death c. . works[edit] as a poet, statius was versatile in his abilities and contrived to represent his work as otium. taught by his educated father, statius was familiar with the breadth of classical literature and displayed his learning in his poetry which is densely allusive and has been described as elaborate and mannerist. he was able to compose in hexameter, hendecasyllable, alcaic and sapphic meters, to produce deeply researched and highly refined epic and polished impromptu pieces, and to treat a variety of themes with the dazzling rhetorical and poetic skill that inspired the support of his patrons and the emperor. some of statius' works, such as his poems for his competitions, have been lost; he is recorded as having written an agave mime, and a four line fragment remains of his poem on domitian's military campaigns, the de bello germanico composed for the alban games in the scholia to juvenal . .[ ] the thebaid[edit] main article: thebaid (latin poem) based on statius' own testimony, the thebaid was written c. – c. ad, beginning when the poet was around , and the work is thought to have been published in or .[ ] the poem is divided into twelve books in imitation of virgil's aeneid and is composed in dactylic hexameter.[ ] in the silvae, statius speaks of his extensive work in polishing and revising the thebaid and his public recitations of the poem.[ ] from the epilogue it seems clear that statius considered the thebaid to be his magnum opus and believed that it would secure him fame for the future. in the poem, statius follows virgil closely as a model (in the epilogue he acknowledges his debt to virgil), but he also refers to a wide range of sources in his handling of meter and episodes. the thebaid describes the siege of thebes by the seven argive champions. the poem's theme is the myth of the seven against thebes, the story of the battle between the sons of oedipus for the throne of thebes. the poem opens (book ) with the disgraced oedipus' curse on his two sons, eteocles and polyneices, who have decided to hold the throne of thebes in alternate years, one ruling, the other in exile. jupiter plans a war between thebes and argos, although juno begs him not to incite it. polyneices in exile fights with tydeus, another exile at adrastus' palace; the two are entertained and marry adrastus' daughters. in book , tydeus goes to eteocles to ask him to lay down the throne and yield power, but he refuses and tries to kill tydeus with an ambush. tydeus slaughters the thebans and escapes to argos, causing adrastus and polyneices to declare war on thebes (book ). in the fourth book the argive forces gather, commanded by the seven champions adrastus, polyneices, amphiaraus, capaneus, parthenopaeus, hippomedon and tydeus, and march to thebes, but at nemea, bacchus causes a drought. the army meets hypsipyle who shows them a spring then tells them the story of the women of lemnos (book ). while she is speaking, her ward, opheltes, is killed by a snake; in book , the argives perform games for the dead child, instituting the nemean games. in , jupiter urges the argives to march on thebes where battle breaks out during which amphiaraus is swallowed in the earth. in , tydeus, wounded and dying, kills melanippus and eats his head; a battle over his body leads to the death of hippomedon and parthenopaeus (book ). in , juno causes sleep to overcome the thebans and the argives slaughter many in the camp; menoeceus sacrifices himself to save thebes and jupiter kills the wicked capaneus with a thunderbolt. in , polyneices and eteocles join in single combat and kill each other; jocasta kills herself and creon assumes power, forbidding burial of the argive dead. in the final book, the argive widows go to athens to ask theseus to force creon to allow their husbands' burial while argia, polyneices' wife, burns him illicitly. theseus musters an army and kills creon. the thebaid ends with an epilogue in which the poet prays that his poem will be successful, cautions it not to rival the aeneid, and hopes that his fame will outlive him. modern critics of the thebaid have been divided over interpretations of the epic's tone. earlier critics in the th and th century considered the poem a piece of elaborate flattery that vindicated the regime of domitian; however, more recent scholars have viewed the poem as a subversive work that criticizes the authoritarianism and violence of the flavians by focusing on extreme violence and social chaos.[ ] statius' use of allegory in the thebaid and his abstract treatment of the gods has been seen as an important innovation in the tradition of classical poetry which ushered in medieval conventions.[ ] finally, although earlier scholars criticized the style of the poem as episodic, current scholars have noted the subtlety and skill with which statius organizes and controls his narrative and description.[ ] the silvae[edit] main article: silvae the silvae were probably composed by statius between – ad. the first three books seem to have been published together after ad, book was probably released in ad, and book is thought to have been released posthumously c. .[ ] the title of the collection (silvae meaning "forest" or "raw material") was used to describe the draft of a poet's work which was composed impromptu in a moment of strong inspiration and which was then revised into a polished, metrical poem.[ ] this suggests that the silvae are revised, impromptu pieces of occasional poetry which were composed in the space of a few days' time. there are thirty-two poems in the collection (almost all with a dedicatee), divided into five books, each with a dedicatory epistle. of nearly four thousand lines which the books contain, more than five-sixths are hexameters. four of the pieces are written in the hendecasyllabic metre, and there is one alcaic and one sapphic ode. subjects of the silvae vary widely. five poems are devoted to the emperor and his favorites, including a description of domitian's equestrian statue in the forum ( . ), praise for his construction of the via domitiana ( . ), and a poem on the dedication of the hair of earinus, a eunuch favorite of domitian's, to a shrine of aesculapius ( . ). six are lamentations for deaths or consolations to survivors, including the highly personal poems on the death of statius' father and his foster-son ( . , ). the poems on loss are particularly notable in the collection and range from consolations on the death of wives ( . ) to pieces on the death of a favorite parrot ( . ) and a lion in the arena ( . ). another group of the silvae give picturesque descriptions of the villas, gardens, and artworks of the poet's friends. in these we have a more vivid representation than elsewhere of the surroundings roman aristocrats of the empire lived in the country. important examples include a piece on pollius' temple to hercules ( . ), the aetiology of the tree at atedius' villa ( . ), an antique statue of lysippus' heracles ( . ) and a description of pollius' villa at surrentum ( . ). the rest of the silvae consist of congratulatory addresses to friends, and poems for special occasions such as the wedding poem for stella and violentilla ( . ), the poem commemorating the poet lucan's birthday ( . ), and a joking piece to plotius grypus on a saturnalia gift ( . ). as with the thebaid, statius' relationship to domitian and his court caused him to fall out of favor with critics and readers, but in recent times, the silvae have been rehabilitated by scholars.[ ] domitian is an important presence in the silvae, and many of the poems appear to flatter the emperor and court. the content of the silvae is primarily dictated by the needs of statius' patrons, and many of the addressees come from the wealthy, privileged class of landowners and politicians. statius' flattery of these elites has been interpreted in two ways by scholars; some maintain that the collection is highly subversive and is a subtle criticism of domitian and the roman aristocracy.[ ] others urge a reading of the silvae as individual pieces that respond to specific circumstances with their own unique viewpoints.[ ] the achilleid[edit] main article: achilleid a fragment of his epic poem on the life of achilles—the achilleid—is also extant, consisting of one book and a few hundred lines of a second.[ ] what was completed of this poem was composed between – ad based on silvae . . ff. statius records that there were recitations of the poem.[ ] it is thought that statius' death in is the reason that the poem remains unfinished. in the first book, thetis, having foreknowledge of her son's death in the trojan war, attempts to hide achilles on the island of scyros by dressing him up as a girl. on the island, achilles falls in love with deidamia and forces her to have sex with him. ulysses arrives to recruit achilles for the war effort and reveals his identity. in the second book, ulysses and achilles depart and achilles gives an account of his early life and tutelage by the centaur chiron. the poem breaks off at the end of his speech. in general, scholars have remarked on the markedly different tone of the achilleid in comparison with the thebaid, equating it more to the style of ovid than virgil.[ ] some have also noted the predominance of feminine themes and feminine power in the fragment and focus on the poem's perspectives on gender relations.[ ] statius' influence and literary afterlife[edit] statius' poetry was very popular in his lifetime, although he was not without his critics who apparently had problems with his ex tempore style.[ ] juvenal is thought to extensively lampoon statius' type of court poetry in his fourth satire on the turbot of domitian, but he also mentions the immense popularity of statius' recitations in satire . ff.[ ] in late antiquity, the thebaid which was by then a classic received a commentary by a lactantius placidus. throughout the middle ages, the thebaid remained a popular text, inspiring a th-century french romance and works by boccaccio and chaucer. statius' development of allegory helped establish the importance of that technique in medieval poetry. in the renaissance, the silvae, thanks to poliziano, helped inspire an entire genre of collections of miscellaneous, occasional poetry called sylvae which remained popular throughout the period, inspiring works by hugo grotius and john dryden.[ ] dante mentions statius in de vulgari eloquentia along with ovid, virgil and lucan as one of the four regulati poetae (ii, vi, ). in the divina commedia, dante and virgil are caught up with statius as they leave the fifth terrace (reserved for the avaricious and the prodigal) and enter the sixth (reserved for the gluttonous). statius' redemption is heard in canto xx (the mountain trembles and the penitent souls cry out "gloria in excelsis deo") and he joins dante and virgil in canto xxi. he then ascends mount purgatory with them and stays with dante in the earthly paradise at the mountain's summit, after virgil has returned to limbo. he is last mentioned in canto xxxiii, making him one of the longest recurring characters in the comedy, fourth to dante, virgil and beatrice. he is not mentioned in paradise, though he presumably ascends like dante. dante appears to claim that statius was a secret convert to christianity as a result of his reading of virgil, although his conversion is not attested in any historical source. a study dedicated to dante's writing of statius's relation to christianity has shown the significance of the fact that dante does not state that statius ever converted to christianity, but that his neapolitan predecessor let himself be "baptized" by christians.[ ] in restoration england, john dryden wrote a poem entitled "to sir robert howard" that refers to statius' achilleid; dryden criticizes statius' unfinished epic, calling it "too bold." references[edit] 	^ lumina; nestorei mitis prudentia crispi/et fabius veiento (pontentem signat utrumque/purpura, ter memores implerunt nomine fastos/et prope caesareae confinis acilius alvae) ("lights; the gentle wisdom of nestor-like crispinus, and fabius veiento, the purple masks of each as eminent, three times have filled the recording annals with their names, and acilius, near neighbor of caesar's palace. trans. braund, s. m. juvenal satires book (cambridge, ) pg. 	^ feeney, dennis the oxford classical dictionary (oxford, ) pg. 	^ shackleton bailey, d.r. statius' thebaid – (cambridge, ) pg. 	^ silv. . . 	^ hardie, p. the epic successors of virgil: a study in the dynamics of a tradition (cambridge, ). 	^ lewis, c. s. the allegory of love ( ) pp. – 	^ coleman in bailey, pg. – 	^ shackleton bailey, d. r. statius silvae (cambridge, ) pg. 	^ quintilian . . 	^ coleman in bailey, pp. – 	^ newlands, c. e. statius' silvae and the poetics of empire (cambridge, ) 	^ nauta, r. r. poetry for patrons: literary communication in the age of domitian (leiden, ) 	^ the best text for both epics is provided by the ninth-century codex puteaneus, from the abbey of corbie, a manuscript in the bibliothèque nationale (bn ) that was once the property of the humanist claude dupuy. the best recent edition is o.a.w. dilke, (cambridge ), which has more recently been reprinted with a new introduction (bristol ). a new translation in the loeb classical library is by d. r. shackleton bailey. 	^ silv. . . ff. 	^ elaine fantham in "statius' achilles and his trojan model" the 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( , pp. – ) p describes it as "a more varied and charming work than readers of the thebaid could ever have imagined and is perhaps the most attractive approach to the imitative and professional poet.". 	^ shackleton bailey, d. r. statius' thebaid – (cambridge, ) pg. , – 	^ prologue to silvae 	^ juvenal . – : "they run to his pleasant voice and the poetry of his dear thebaid when statius has made the city happy and set a day. their hearts are captured with sheer sweetness and the crowd is inspired by immense pleasure. but once he has broken the benches, he'll starve unless he sells his virgin agave to paris. 	^ van dam, h. "wandering woods again: from poliziano to grotius" in the poetry of statius ed. smolenaars, j., van dam, h., and nauta, r. (leiden, ) 	^ marco andreacchio, "dante's statius and christianity: a reading of purgatorio xxi and xxii in their poetic context," in interpretation: a journal of political philosophy (vol. : ); pp. – . sources[edit] 	newlands, carol. 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		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 status in roman legal system - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	status in roman legal system 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		not to be confused with social status in ancient rome. 	 	this article needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. find sources: "status in roman legal system" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · jstor (december ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) a fresco portrait of a man holding a papyrus roll, pompeii, italy, st century ad 	ancient rome 	 	this article is part of a series on the politics and government of ancient rome 	 periods 	 	roman kingdom – bc 	roman republic – bc 	roman empire bc – ad 	principate bc – ad 	dominate ad – 	western ad – 	eastern ad – 	timeline 	 roman constitution 	 	constitution of the kingdom 	constitution of the republic 	constitution of the empire 	constitution of the late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	executive magistrates 	 precedent and law 	 	roman law 	ius 	imperium 	mos maiorum 	collegiality 	auctoritas 	roman citizenship 	cursus honorum 	senatus consultum 	senatus consultum ultimum 	 assemblies 	 	centuriate 	curiate 	plebeian 	tribal 	 ordinary magistrates 	 	consul 	praetor 	quaestor 	promagistrate 	aedile 	tribune 	censor 	governor 	 extraordinary magistrates 	 	corrector 	dictator 	magister equitum 	consular tribune 	rex 	triumviri 	decemviri 	 titles and honours 	 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	praeses 	praefectus 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 	 	other countries 		v 	t 	e in roman law, status describes a person's legal status. the individual could be a roman citizen (status civitatis), unlike foreigners; or he could be free (status libertatis), unlike slaves; or he could have a certain position in a roman family (status familiae) either as head of the family (pater familias), or as a lower member (filii familias). contents 	 status civitatis 	 status familiae 	 status libertatis 	 . legal status 	 . means of becoming a slave 	 . termination of slave status 	 references 	 external links status civitatis[edit] main article: roman citizenship in the roman state, according to roman civil law (ius civile), only roman citizens had the full civil and political rights. in regard to status civitatis, in the roman state, there were cives, latini and peregrini, and foreigners. outside the roman state, there were externi, barbari and hostes. status familiae[edit] main article: paterfamilias status familiae is the legal status of an individual in the family. the pater familias had the authority in the family (patria potestas), and everyone was subjected to him based on adgnatio (kinship only from father's side). this had an impact in private law. there is a distinction between alieni iuris (persons under patria potestas) and sui iuris (persons autonomous of patria potestas, who could only be the pater familias himself). filius familias had ius suffragii and ius honorum, but in the area of private law he was restricted because of patria potestas. status libertatis[edit] main article: slavery in ancient rome the social and legal status of slaves in the roman state was different in different epochs. in the time of old civil law (ius civile quiritium) slavery had a patriarchal shape (a slave did the same job and lived under the same conditions as his master and family). after rome's victorious wars, from the rd century bc, huge numbers of slaves came to rome, and that resulted in slave trade and increased exploitation of slaves. from that time on, a slave became only a thing (res)- servi pro nullis habentur. legal status[edit] the legal state of slaves was based on the fact that the slave was not a subject but an object of law. a master had the right of ownership over the slave. he could sell him, give him in pawn but certainly could not harm or kill him. if someone injured his slave, a master could initiate legal proceedings and demand protection. the ownership over the slave was called dominica potestas, and not dominium like the ownership of objects and animals. in the roman legal system, a slave did not have a family. his sexual relationships with other slaves was not marriage (matrimonium), but a cohabitation without legal consequences (contubernium). masters could also give over a certain amount of property (such as land, buildings), known as peculium, to a slave for his management and use. this peculium was protected under roman law and inaccessible by the owner. this was another tool slaves could use to purchase their freedom.[ ] means of becoming a slave[edit] the oldest means of becoming a slave was to be captured as an enemy in war. however, even a foreigner could become free again and even a roman citizen could become a slave. slavery was hereditary, and the child of a slave woman became a slave no matter who the father was. however, according to classical law, a child of a slave became free (ingenuus), if his or her mother was free, even for a short period of time, during the pregnancy. there were a number of means by which a free man could become a slave in roman society. 	according to twelve tables: 		Æris confessi rebusque iure iudicatis xxx dies iusti sunto. 		a person who admits to owing money or has been adjudged to owe money must be given days to pay. 		post deinde manus iniectio esto. in ius ducito. ni iudicatum facit aut quis endo eo in iure vindicit, secum ducito, vincito aut nervo aut compedibus xv pondo, ne maiore aut si volet minore vincito. si volet suo vivito, ni suo vivit, qui eum vinctum habebit, libras faris endo dies dato. si volet, plus dato. 		after that, the creditor can lay hands on him and haul him to court. if he does not satisfy the judgment and no one is surety for him, the creditor may take the defendant with him in stocks or chains... 	also citizens involved in the false presentation of slavery for benefit could become slaves. if a free man were sold as a slave, then after proving that he is free he shared proceeds from the sale with the party that sold him. a praetor could deprive the seller of his freedom (vindicatio in libertatem). 	convicts (most of them sentenced to death), could become slaves and their property would belong to state. 	a female roman citizen could become a slave (under senatus consultum claudianum form ) if she had "mutual living" (contubernium) with another man's slave despite the master's objection. termination of slave status[edit] after the punic wars, rome started the mass exploitation of slaves. however, the development of industry, trade and other branches of economy required skilled free workers that took interest in their jobs. a slave could get free by the act of manumission, by which a master would release him from his authority. manumissions were different in different epochs. the old civil law (ius civile quiritium) recognized three kinds of manumissions:[clarification needed] 	manumissio censu, was done by a master in the time of the centuriate assembly. a master wishing to free his slave needed only to enter him in the censor's list as a citizen. 	manumissio vindicta, was the liberation of a slave by a fictitious plea for freedom (vindicatio in libertatem). it was done before a magistrate when some citizen (adsertor libertatis) touched a slave by a stick (vindicta), and by right words said that the slave is a free man. if a master did not object to that claim (in iure cessio), a magistrate would validate the slave's freedom (addictio). this had been done under the old civil law (ius civile quiricium) 	manumissio testamento, was the liberation of a slave by a will. in a will master usually said "stichus servus meus liber esto", and the slave would be free and without patron. 	manumissio testamento fideicommissaria, was when a master asked his successor to release a slave. if that slave was made free, the man who released him became his patron. 	manumissio inter amicos, was liberation of a slave by a statement in front of friends. praetors protected these free slaves (by the lex junia norbana, these people lived as free but died as slaves). this kind of manumission originated at the end of the republic. 	manumissio per epistulam, same as above, just done by a statement in a letter. 	manumissio per mensam was similar to the above manumissions. this one was not as formal as manumissions in time of old civil law, but had the same value as praetoric manumissions. manumissions of this kind originated in the time of empire. 	manumissio in ecclesia, were manumissions made in the time of christian emperors in front of a priest. at the beginning of the empire, because of the number of manumissions, legal limitations of manumissions were made. these limitations were implemented by two laws: lex fufia caninia and lex aelia sentia. according to roman law, slaves that were freed (libertinus, in regard to his master libertus) became roman citizens, but they had many fewer rights than roman citizens that were born free (ingenuus). the slave's former master now became his patron (patronus), and the libertus still had obligations towards him (this was regulated by law). the libertus had to be obedient and respectful to his patron (obsequium et reverentia). the patron could punish a disobedient libertus, in older times he could even kill him (ius vitae necisque), but later he could not. in some circumstances he could even ask a magistrate to turn the libertus into a slave once again (accusatio ingrati). references[edit] 	^ temin, peter ( ). 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	fire sacrifice 	horse sacrifice 	sati 	winter solstice/yule 	 indo-european studies 	scholars 	marija gimbutas 	j. p. mallory 	institutes 	copenhagen studies in indo-european 	publications 	encyclopedia of indo-european culture 	the horse, the wheel and language 	journal of indo-european studies 	indogermanisches etymologisches wörterbuch 	indo-european etymological dictionary 		v 	t 	e 		this article contains ipa phonetic symbols. without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of unicode characters. for an introductory guide on ipa symbols, see help:ipa. the romance languages (less commonly latin languages, or neo-latin languages) are the modern languages that evolved from vulgar latin between the third and eighth centuries.[ ] they are a subgroup of the italic languages in the indo-european language family. the five most widely spoken romance languages by number of native speakers are spanish (  million), portuguese (  million), french (  million), italian (  million), and romanian (  million). of the major romance languages, italian is the closest to latin, followed by spanish, romanian, portuguese, and the most divergent being french. taking into account all the romance languages, including national and regional languages, it is seen that sardinian and italian are together the least differentiated from latin and that occitan is closer to latin than french.[ ][ ][ ] however, all romance languages are closer to each other than to classical latin. the more than million native speakers of romance languages are found worldwide, mainly in the americas, europe, and parts of africa. the major romance languages also have many non-native speakers and are in widespread use as lingua franca.[ ] this is especially true of french, which is in widespread use throughout central and west africa, madagascar, mauritius, seychelles, comoros, djibouti, lebanon, and north africa (excluding egypt, where it is a minority language). because it is difficult to assign rigid categories to phenomena such as languages, which exist on a continuum, estimates of the number of modern romance languages vary. for example, dalby lists , based on the criterion of mutual intelligibility.[ ] the following includes those and additional current, living languages, and one extinct language, dalmatian: 	ibero-romance: portuguese, galician, mirandese, asturian, leonese, spanish, aragonese, ladino (judaeo-spanish); 	occitano-romance: catalan/valencian, occitan (lenga d'oc), gascon; 	gallo-romance: french/oïl languages, franco-provençal (arpitan); 	rhaeto-romance: romansh, ladin, friulian; 	gallo-italic: piedmontese, ligurian, lombard, emilian-romagnol; 	italo-dalmatian: italian, tuscan, romanesco, corsican, sassarese, sicilian, neapolitan, dalmatian (extinct in ), venetian (classification disputed), istriot; 	sardinian; 	eastern romance: romanian (standard known as daco-romanian), istro-romanian, megleno-romanian, aromanian. contents 	 name 	 samples 	 classification and related languages 	 . proposed divisions 	 . . italo-western vs. eastern vs. sardinian 	 . . gallo-romance languages 	 . pidgins, creoles, and mixed languages 	 . auxiliary and constructed languages 	 modern status 	 history 	 . vulgar latin 	 . fall of the western roman empire 	 . fall of the eastern roman empire 	 . early romance 	 . recognition of the vernaculars 	 . uniformization and standardization 	 sound changes 	 . consonants 	 . . apocope 	 . . palatalization 	 . . lenition 	 . . vowel prosthesis 	 . stressed vowels 	 . . loss of vowel length, reorientation 	 . . latin diphthongs 	 . . further developments 	 . . . metaphony 	 . . . diphthongization 	 . . . nasalization 	 . . front-rounded vowels 	 . unstressed vowels 	 . intertonic vowels 	 writing systems 	 . letters 	 . digraphs and trigraphs 	 . . double consonants 	 . diacritics 	 . upper and lower case 	 vocabulary comparison 	 . degrees of lexical similarity between the romance languages 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 external links name[edit] the term romance comes from the vulgar latin adverb romanice, "in roman", derived from romanicus: for instance, in the expression romanice loqui, "to speak in roman" (that is, the latin vernacular), contrasted with latine loqui, "to speak in latin" (medieval latin, the conservative version of the language used in writing and formal contexts or as a lingua franca), and with barbarice loqui, "to speak in barbarian" (the non-latin languages of the peoples living outside the roman empire).[ ] from this adverb the noun romance originated, which applied initially to anything written romanice, or "in the roman vernacular".[citation needed] samples[edit] lexical and grammatical similarities among the romance languages, and between latin and each of them, are apparent from the following examples having the same meaning in various romance lects: english: she always closes the window before she dines / before dining. 		latin	(ea) semper antequam cenat fenestram claudit. 	vulgar latin	illa/ipsa claudit semper illa fenestra antequa (later, only in italy prima) de cenare 	apulian	(jèdde) akjude sèmbe la fenèstre prime de mangè. 	aragonese	(ella) zarra siempre a finestra antes de cenar. 	aromanian	(ea/nâsa) ãncljidi/nkidi totna firida/fireastra ninti di tsinã. 	asturian	(ella) pieslla siempres la ventana enantes de cenar. 	cantabrian	(ella) tranca siempri la ventana enantis de cenar. 	catalan	(ella) sempre tanca/clou la finestra abans de sopar. 	northern corsican	ella chjode/chjude sempre lu/u purtellu avanti/nanzu di cenà. 	southern corsican	edda/idda sarra/serra sempri u purteddu nanzu/prima di cinà. 	emilian (reggiano)	(lē) la sèra sèmpar sù la fnèstra prima ad snàr. 	emilian (bolognese)	(lî) la sèra sänper la fnèstra prémma ed dṡnèr. 	extremaduran	(ella) afecha siempri la ventana antis de cenal. 	franco-provençal	(le) sarre toltin/tojor la fenétra avan de goutâ/dinar/sopar. 	french	elle ferme toujours la fenêtre avant de dîner/souper. 	friulian	(jê) e siere simpri il barcon prin di cenâ. 	galician	(ela) pecha/fecha sempre a fiestra/xanela antes de cear. 	gallurese	idda chjude sempri lu balconi primma di cinà. 	italian	(ella/lei) chiude (archaic: serra) sempre la finestra prima (archaic: avanti) di cenare. 	judaeo-spanish	אֵילייה סֵירּה סײֵמפּרֵי לה בֵֿינטאנה אנטֵיס דֵי סֵינאר.‎‎ ella cerra siempre la ventana antes de cenar. 	ladin	badiot: Ëra stlüj dagnora la finestra impröma de cenè. centro cadore: la sera sempre la fenestra gnante de disna. auronzo di cadore: la sera sempro la fenestra davoi de disnà. gherdëina: Ëila stluj for l viere dan maië da cëina. 	leonese	(eilla) pecha siempre la ventana primeiru de cenare. 	ligurian	(le) a saera sempre u barcun primma de cenà. 	lombard (east.) (bergamasque)	(lé) la sèra sèmper sö la finèstra prima de senà. 	lombard (west.)	(lee) la sara sù semper la finestra primma de disnà/scenà. 	magoua	(elle) à fàrm toujour là fnèt àvan k'à manj. 	mirandese	(eilha) cerra siempre la bentana/jinela atrás de jantar. 	mozarabic	آلي كلودات سامبرا ل فيناستر أبنتا د جانرا.‎‎ ella cloudet sempre la fainestra abante da cenare. (reconstructed) 	neapolitan	essa 'nzerra sempe 'a fenesta primma 'e cenà. 	norman	lli barre tréjous la crouésie devaunt de daîner. 	occitan	(ela) barra/tanca sempre/totjorn la fenèstra abans de sopar. 	picard	ale frunme tojours l' creusèe édvint éd souper. 	piedmontese	chila a sara sèmper la fnestra dnans ëd fé sin-a/dnans ëd siné. 	portuguese	(ela) fecha sempre a janela antes de jantar/cear/comer. 	romagnol	(lia) la ciud sëmpra la fnèstra prëma ad magnè. 	romanian	ea închide întotdeauna fereastra înainte de a cina. 	romansh	ella clauda/serra adina la fanestra avant ch'ella tschainia. 	southern sardinian	issa serrat semp(i)ri sa bentana in antis de cenai 	northern sardinian	issa serrat semper sa bentana in antis de chenàre. 	sassarese	edda sarra sempri lu balchoni primma di zinà. 	sicilian	iḍḍa ferma sempri la finesṭṛa anti mi pistìa/mancha. 	spanish	(ella) siempre cierra la ventana antes de cenar/comer. 	tuscan	lei chiude sempre la finestra prima di cenà. 	umbrian	lia chiude sempre la finestra prima de cenà. 	venetian	eła ła sara/sera senpre ła fenestra vanti de diznar. 	walloon	ele sere todi li finiesse divant di soper. romance-based creoles and pidgins 		haitian creole	li toujou fèmen fenèt la avan li mange. 	mauritian creole	li pou touzour ferm lafnet la avan (li) manze. 	seychellois creole	y pou touzour ferm lafnet aven y manze. 	papiamento	e muhe semper ta sera e bentana promé ku e kome. 	kriolu	Êl fechâ sempre janela antes de jantâ. 	chavacano	ta cerrá él siempre con la ventana antes de cená. some of the divergence comes from semantic change: where the same root words have developed different meanings. for example, the portuguese word fresta is descended from latin fenestra "window" (and is thus cognate to french fenêtre, italian finestra, romanian fereastră and so on), but now means "skylight" and "slit". cognates may exist but have become rare, such as finiestra in spanish, or dropped out of use entirely. the spanish and portuguese terms defenestrar meaning "to throw through a window" and fenestrado meaning "replete with windows" also have the same root, but are later borrowings from latin. likewise, portuguese also has the word cear, a cognate of italian cenare and spanish cenar, but uses it in the sense of "to have a late supper" in most varieties, while the preferred word for "to dine" is jantar (related to archaic spanish yantar "to eat") because of semantic changes in the th century. galician has both fiestra (from medieval fẽestra, the ancestor of standard portuguese fresta) and the less frequently used ventá and xanela. as an alternative to lei (originally the genitive form), italian has the pronoun ella, a cognate of the other words for "she", but it is hardly ever used in speaking. spanish, asturian, and leonese ventana and mirandese and sardinian bentana come from latin ventus "wind" (cf. english window, etymologically 'wind eye'), and portuguese janela, galician xanela, mirandese jinela from latin *ianuella "small opening", a derivative of ianua "door". sardinian balcone (alternative for ventàna/bentàna) comes from old italian and is similar to other romance languages such as french balcon (from italian balcone), portuguese balcão, romanian balcon, spanish balcón, catalan balcó and corsican balconi (alternative for purtellu). classification and related languages[edit] chart of romance languages based on structural and comparative criteria, not on socio-functional ones. fp: franco-provençal, ir: istro-romanian. eastern and western romance areas split by the la spezia–rimini line romance languages and dialects main article: classification of romance languages the classification of the romance languages is inherently difficult, because most of the linguistic area is a dialect continuum, and in some cases political biases can come into play. along with latin (which is not included among the romance languages) and a few extinct languages of ancient italy, they make up the italic branch of the indo-european family.[ ] 																		latin 																												 											 															classical latin			vulgar latin		ecclesiastical latin 																															 										 																continental romance						sardinian language 																										 											 													italo-western		african romance		eastern romance		 																																 															 									western romance						proto-italian		balkan romance		dalmatian 																											 										 					ibero-romance						gallo-romance		italian		proto-romanian	 																																	 																				 			galician-portuguese		spanish		occitano-romance	french	gallo-italic	romanian		aromanian 																									 												 	galician		portuguese		catalan		occitan				 proposed divisions[edit] extent of variation in development (very conservative to very innovative) 	form ("to sing")	latin	nuorese sardinian	italian	spanish	portuguese	languedocien occitan	classical catalan 	milanese lombard	romanian 	bolognese emilian 	french 	infinitive	cantāre	cantare [kanˈtare̞]	cantare [kanˈtare]	cantar [kanˈtar]	cantar [kɐ̃ˈtaɾ] [kɐ̃ˈtaχ] 	cantar [kanˈta]	cantar [kənˈta] [kanˈtaɾ]	cantar [kanˈta]	a cânta [a kɨnˈta] 	cantèr [kaŋˈtɛːr] 	chanter [ʃɑ̃ˈte] 	past participle	cantātum	cantatu [kanˈtatu]	cantato [kanˈtato]	cantado [kanˈtaðo̞]	cantado [kɐ̃ˈtadu] [kɐ̃ˈtadʊ]	cantat [kanˈtat]	cantat [kənˈtat] [kanˈtat]	cantad [kanˈtaː]	cântat [kɨnˈtat] 	cantè [kaŋˈtɛː] 	chanté [ʃɑ̃ˈte] 	gerund	cantandum	cantande [kanˈtande̞]	cantando [kanˈtando]	cantando [kanˈtando̞]	cantando [kɐ̃ˈtɐ̃du] [kɐ̃ˈtɐ̃dʊ]	cantant [kanˈtan]	cantant [kənˈtan] [kanˈtant]	cantand [kanˈtant]	cântând [kɨnˈtɨnd] 	cantànd [kaŋˈtaŋd] 	chantant [ʃɑ̃ˈtɑ̃] 	 sg indic	cantō	canto [ˈkanto̞]	canto [ˈkanto]	canto [ˈkanto̞]	canto [ˈkɐ̃tu] [ˈkɐ̃tʊ]	cante [ˈkante]	cant [ˈkan] [ˈkant]	canti [ˈkanti]	cânt [ˈkɨnt] 	a cant [a ˈkaŋt] 	chante [ˈʃɑ̃t] 	 sg indic	cantās	cantas [ˈkantaza]	canti [ˈkanti]	cantas [ˈkantas]	cantas [ˈkɐ̃tɐʃ] [ˈkɐ̃tɐs]	cantas [ˈkantɔs]	cantes [ˈkantəs] [ˈkantes]	càntet [ˈkantɛt]	cânți [ˈkɨntsʲ] 	t cant [t ˈkaŋt] 	chantes [ˈʃɑ̃t] 	 sg indic	cantat	cantat [ˈkantata]	canta [ˈkanta]	canta [ˈkanta]	canta [ˈkɐ̃tɐ]	canta [ˈkantɔ]	canta [ˈkantə] [ˈkanta]	canta [ˈkantɔ]	cântă [ˈkɨntə] 	al canta [al ˈkaŋtɐ] 	chante [ˈʃɑ̃t] 	 pl indic	cantāmus	cantamus [kanˈtamuzu]	cantiamo [kanˈtjamo]	cantamos [kanˈtamo̞s]	cantamos [kɐ̃ˈtɐmuʃ] [kɐ̃ˈtɐ̃mʊs]	cantam [kanˈtam]	cantam [kənˈtam] [kanˈtam]	cantom [ˈkantum, kanˈtum]	cântăm [kɨnˈtəm] 	a cantän [a kaŋˈtɛ̃] 	chantons [ʃɑ̃ˈtɔ̃] 	 pl indic	cantātis	cantates [kanˈtate̞ze̞]	cantate [kanˈtate]	cantáis [kanˈtajs]	cantais [kɐ̃ˈtajʃ] [kɐ̃ˈtajs]	cantatz [kanˈtats]	cantau [kənˈtaw] [kanˈtaw]	cantev [kanˈteː(f)]	cântați [kɨnˈtatsʲ] 	a cantè [a kaŋˈtɛ:] 	chantez [ʃɑ̃ˈte] 	 pl indic	cantant	cantant [ˈkantana]	cantano [ˈkantano]	cantan [ˈkantan]	cantam [ˈkɐ̃tɐ̃w̃]	cantan [ˈkantan]	canten [ˈkantən] [ˈkanten]	canten/canta [ˈkantɛn, ˈkantɔ]	cântă [ˈkɨntə] 	i cànten [i ˈkaŋtɐn] 	chantent [ˈʃɑ̃t] 	 sg sbjv	cantem	cante [ˈkante̞]	canti [ˈkanti]	cante [ˈkante̞]	cante [ˈkɐ̃tɨ] [ˈkɐ̃tᶴi]	cante [ˈkante]	cante [ˈkantə] [ˈkanta]	canta [ˈkantɔ]	cânt [ˈkɨnt] 	a canta [a ˈkaŋtɐ] 	chante [ˈʃɑ̃t] 	 sg sbjv	cantēs	cantes [ˈkante̞ze̞]	canti [ˈkanti]	cantes [ˈkante̞s]	cantes [ˈkɐ̃tɨʃ] [ˈkɐ̃tᶴis]	cantes [ˈkantes]	cantes [ˈkantəs] [ˈkantes]	càntet [ˈkantɛt]	cânți [ˈkɨntsʲ] 	t cant [t ˈkaŋt] 	chantes [ˈʃɑ̃t] 	 sg sbjv	cantet	cantet [ˈkante̞te̞]	canti [ˈkanti]	cante [ˈkante̞]	cante [ˈkɐ̃tɨ] [ˈkɐ̃tᶴi]	cante [ˈkante]	cante [ˈkantə] [ˈkante]	canta [ˈkantɔ]	cânte [ˈkɨnte̞] 	al canta [al ˈkaŋtɐ] 	chante [ˈʃɑ̃t] 	 pl sbjv	cantēmus	cantemus [kanˈte̞muzu]	cantiamo [kanˈtjamo]	cantemos [kanˈte̞mo̞s]	cantemos [kɐ̃ˈtemuʃ] [kɐ̃ˈtẽmʊs]	cantem [kanˈtem]	cantem [kənˈtɛm] [kanˈtem]	cantom [ˈkantum, kanˈtum]	cântăm [kɨnˈtəm] 	a cantaggna [a kɐnˈtaɲɲɐ] 	chantions [ʃɑ̃ˈtjɔ̃] 	 pl sbjv	cantētis	cantetis [kanˈte̞tizi]	cantiate [kanˈtjate]	cantéis [kanˈte̞js]	canteis [kɐ̃ˈtejʃ] [kɐ̃ˈtejs]	cantetz [kanˈtets]	canteu [kənˈtɛw] [kanˈtew]	cantev [kanˈteː(f)]	cântați [kɨnˈtatsʲ] 	a cantèdi [a kaŋˈtɛ:di] 	chantiez [ʃɑ̃ˈtje] 	 pl sbjv	cantent	cantent [ˈkante̞ne̞]	cantino [ˈkantino]	canten [ˈkante̞n]	cantem [ˈkɐ̃tẽj̃]	canten [ˈkanten]	canten [ˈkantən] [ˈkanten]	canten/canta [ˈkantɛn, ˈkantɔ]	cânte [ˈkɨnte̞] 	i cànten [i ˈkaŋtɐn] 	chantent [ˈʃɑ̃t] 	 sg imperative	cantā	canta [ˈkanta]	canta [ˈkanta]	canta [ˈkanta]	canta [ˈkɐ̃tɐ]	canta [ˈkantɔ]	canta [ˈkantə] [ˈkanta]	canta [ˈkantɔ]	cântă [ˈkɨntə] 	canta [ˈkaŋtɐ] 	chante [ˈʃɑ̃t] 	 pl imperative	cantāte	cantate [kanˈtate̞]	cantate [kanˈtate]	cantad [kanˈtað]	cantai [kɐ̃ˈtaj]	cantatz [kanˈtats]	cantau [kənˈtaw] [kanˈtaw]	cantev [kanˈteːn(f)]	cântați [kɨnˈtatsʲ] 	cantè [kaŋˈtɛ:] 	chantez [ʃɑ̃ˈte] 	 also [ɾ̥ r̥ ɻ̝̊ x χ ħ] are all possible allophones of [ɾ] in this position, as well deletion of the consonant. its conjugation model is based according to the classical model dating to the middle ages, rather than the modern conjugations used in catalonia, the valencian community or the balearic islands, which may differ accordingly. conjugated verbs in bolognese require an unstressed subject pronoun cliticized to the verb. full forms may be used in addition, thus 'you (pl.) eat' can be a magnè or vuèter a magnè, but bare *magnè is ungrammatical. interrogatives require enclitics, which may not replicate proclitic forms: magnèv? 'are you (pl.) eating?/do you (pl.) eat?'. there are various schemes used to subdivide the romance languages. three of the most common schemes are as follows: 	italo-western vs. eastern vs. southern. this is the scheme followed by ethnologue, and is based primarily on the outcome of the ten monophthong vowels in classical latin. this is discussed more below. 	west vs. east. this scheme divides the various languages along the la spezia–rimini line, which runs across north-central italy just to the north of the city of florence (whose speech forms the basis of standard italian). in this scheme, "east" includes the languages of central and southern italy, and the balkan romance (or "eastern romance") languages in romania, greece, and elsewhere in the balkans; "west" includes the languages of portugal, spain, france, northern italy and switzerland. sardinian does not easily fit in this scheme. 	"conservative" vs. "innovatory". this is a non-genetic division whose precise boundaries are subject to debate. generally, the gallo-romance languages (discussed further below) form the core "innovatory" languages, with standard french generally considered the most innovatory of all, while the languages near the periphery (which include spanish, portuguese, italian and romanian) are "conservative". sardinian is generally acknowledged the most conservative romance language, and was also the first language to split off genetically from the rest, possibly as early as the first century bc. dante famously denigrated the sardinians for the conservativeness of their speech, remarking that they imitate latin "like monkeys imitate men".[ ][ ] italo-western vs. eastern vs. sardinian[edit] the main subfamilies that have been proposed by ethnologue within the various classification schemes for romance languages are: 	italo-western, the largest group, which includes languages such as catalan, portuguese, italian, spanish, and french. 	eastern romance, which includes the romance languages of eastern europe, such as romanian. 	southern romance, which includes a few languages with particularly archaic features, such as sardinian and, according to some authors, corsican as well to a more limited extent. this family is thought to have included the now-vanished romance languages of north africa (or at least, they appear to have evolved some phonological features and their vowels in the same way). now only represented by sardinian and lucanian. this three-way division is made primarily based on the outcome of vulgar latin (proto-romance) vowels: outcome of classical latin vowels 	classical latin	proto-romance 	southern 	italo-western 	eastern 	taravo 	long i 	/i/ 	/i/ 	/i/ 	/i/ 	/i/ 	short i 	/ɪ/ 	/e/ 	/e/ 	/ɛ/ 	long e 	/e/ 	/e/ 	/e/ 	short e 	/ɛ/ 	/ɛ/ 	/ɛ/ 	short a	/a/ 	/a/ 	/a/ 	/a/ 	/a/ 	long a 	short o	/ɔ/ 	/o/ 	/ɔ/ 	/o/ 	/o/ 	long o	/o/ 	/o/ 	short u	/ʊ/ 	/u/ 	/u/ 	/ɔ/ 	long u	/u/ 	/u/ 	/u/ italo-western is in turn split along the so-called la spezia–rimini line in northern italy, which divides the central and southern italian languages from the so-called western romance languages to the north and west. the primary characteristics dividing the two are: 	phonemic lenition of intervocalic stops, which happens to the northwest but not to the southeast. 	degemination of geminate stops (producing new intervocalic single voiceless stops, after the old ones were lenited), which again happens to the northwest but not to the southeast. 	deletion of intertonic vowels (between the stressed syllable and either the first or last syllable), again in the northwest but not the southeast. 	use of plurals in /s/ in the northwest vs. plurals using vowel change in the southeast. 	development of palatalized /k/ before /e,i/ to /(t)s/ in the northwest vs. /tʃ/ in the southeast. 	development of /kt/, which develops to /xt/ > /it/ (sometimes progressing further to /tʃ/) in the northwest but /tt/ in the southeast. the reality is somewhat more complex. all of the "southeast" characteristics apply to all languages southeast of the line, and all of the "northwest" characteristics apply to all languages in france and (most of) spain. however, the gallo-italic languages are somewhere in between. all of these languages do have the "northwest" characteristics of lenition and loss of gemination. however: 	the gallo‒italic languages have vowel-changing plurals rather than /s/ plurals. 	the lombard language in north-central italy and the rhaeto-romance languages have the "southeast" characteristic of /tʃ/ instead of /(t)s/ for palatalized /k/. 	the venetian language in northeast italy and some of the rhaeto-romance languages have the "southeast" characteristic of developing /kt/ to /tt/. 	lenition of post-vocalic /p t k/ is widespread as an allophonic phonetic realization in italy below the la spezia-rimini line, including corsica and most of sardinia. on top of this, the ancient mozarabic language in southern spain, at the far end of the "northwest" group, had the "southeast" characteristics of lack of lenition and palatalization of /k/ to /tʃ/. certain languages around the pyrenees (e.g. some highland aragonese dialects) also lack lenition, and northern french dialects such as norman and picard have palatalization of /k/ to /tʃ/ (although this is possibly an independent, secondary development, since /k/ between vowels, i.e. when subject to lenition, developed to /dz/ rather than /dʒ/, as would be expected for a primary development). the usual solution to these issues is to create various nested subgroups. western romance is split into the gallo-iberian languages, in which lenition happens and which include nearly all the western romance languages, and the pyrenean-mozarabic group, which includes the remaining languages without lenition (and is unlikely to be a valid clade; probably at least two clades, one for mozarabic and one for pyrenean). gallo-iberian is split in turn into the iberian languages (e.g. spanish and portuguese), and the larger gallo-romance languages (stretching from eastern spain to northeast italy). probably a more accurate description, however, would be to say that there was a focal point of innovation located in central france, from which a series of innovations spread out as areal changes. the la spezia–rimini line represents the farthest point to the southeast that these innovations reached, corresponding to the northern chain of the apennine mountains, which cuts straight across northern italy and forms a major geographic barrier to further language spread. this would explain why some of the "northwest" features (almost all of which can be characterized as innovations) end at differing points in northern italy, and why some of the languages in geographically remote parts of spain (in the south, and high in the pyrenees) are lacking some of these features. it also explains why the languages in france (especially standard french) seem to have innovated earlier and more extensively than other western romance languages. many of the "southeast" features also apply to the eastern romance languages (particularly, romanian), despite the geographic discontinuity. examples are lack of lenition, maintenance of intertonic vowels, use of vowel-changing plurals, and palatalization of /k/ to /tʃ/. this has led some researchers to postulate a basic two-way east-west division[citation needed], with the "eastern" languages including romanian and central and southern italian, although this view is troubled by the contrast of numerous romanian phonological developments with those found in italy below the la spezia-rimini line. among these features, in romanian geminates reduced historically to single units — which may be an independent development or perhaps due to slavic influence[citation needed] — and /kt/ developed into /pt/, whereas in central and southern italy geminates are preserved and /kt/ underwent assimilation to /tt/.[ ] despite being the first romance language to evolve from vulgar latin,[dubious – discuss][ ] sardinian does not fit at all into this sort of division.[ ] it is clear that sardinian became linguistically independent from the remainder of the romance languages at an extremely early date, possibly already by the first century bc.[citation needed] sardinian contains a large number of archaic features, including total lack of palatalization of /k/ and /g/ and a large amount of vocabulary preserved nowhere else, including some items already archaic by the time of classical latin (first century bc). sardinian has plurals in /s/ but post-vocalic lenition of voiceless consonants is normally limited to the status of an allophonic rule (e.g. [k]ane 'dog' but su [g]ane or su [ɣ]ane 'the dog'), and there are a few innovations unseen elsewhere, such as a change of /au/ to /a/. use of su < ipsum as an article is a retained archaic feature that also exists in the catalan of the balearic islands and that used to be more widespread in occitano-romance, and is known as article salat [ca] (literally the "salted article"), while sardinian shares develarisation of earlier /kw/ and /gw/ with romanian: sard. abba, rum. apă 'water'; sard. limba, rom. limbă 'language' (cf. italian acqua, lingua). gallo-romance languages[edit] main article: gallo-romance languages gallo-romance can be divided into the following subgroups: 	the langues d'oïl, including french and closely related languages. 	the franco-provençal language (also known as arpitan) of southeastern france, western switzerland, and aosta valley region of northwestern italy. the following groups are also sometimes considered part of gallo-romance: 	the occitano-romance languages of southern france namely, occitan and gascon. 	the catalan language of eastern iberia is also sometimes included in gallo-romance. this is however disputed by some linguists who prefer to group it with iberian romance, since although old catalan is close to old occitan, it later adjusted its lexicon to some degree to align with spanish. in general however, modern catalan, especially grammatically, remains closer to modern occitan than to either spanish or portuguese. 	the gallo-italian languages of northern italy, including piedmontese, ligurian, lombard, emilian and romagnol. ligurian retains the final -o, being the exception in gallo-romance. 	the rhaeto-romance languages, including romansh, and friulian, and ladin dialects. the gallo-romance languages are generally considered the most innovative (least conservative) among the romance languages. characteristic gallo-romance features generally developed earliest and appear in their most extreme manifestation in the langue d'oïl, gradually spreading out along riverways and transalpine roads. in some ways, however, the gallo-romance languages are conservative. the older stages of many of the languages preserved a two-case system consisting of nominative and oblique, fully marked on nouns, adjectives and determiners, inherited almost directly from the latin nominative and accusative and preserving a number of different declensional classes and irregular forms. the languages closest to the oïl epicenter preserve the case system the best, while languages at the periphery lose it early. notable characteristics of the gallo-romance languages are: 	early loss of unstressed final vowels other than /a/ — a defining characteristic of the group. 	further reductions of final vowels in langue d'oïl and many gallo-italic languages, with the feminine /a/ and prop vowel /e/ merging into /ə/, which is often subsequently dropped. 	early, heavy reduction of unstressed vowels in the interior of a word (another defining characteristic). 	loss of final vowels phonemicized the long vowels that used to be automatic concomitants of stressed open syllables. these phonemic long vowels are maintained directly in many northern italian dialects; elsewhere, phonemic length was lost, but in the meantime many of the long vowels diphthongized, resulting in a maintenance of the original distinction. the langue d'oïl branch is again at the forefront of innovation, with no less than five of the seven long vowels diphthongizing (only high vowels were spared). 	front rounded vowels are present in all branches of gallo-romance. /u/ usually fronts to /y/, and secondary mid front rounded vowels often develop from long /oː/ or /ɔː/. 	extreme lenition (i.e. multiple rounds of lenition) occurs in many languages especially in langue d'oïl and many gallo-italian languages. 	the langue d'oïl, swiss rhaeto-romance languages and many of the northern dialects of occitan have a secondary palatalization of /k/ and /ɡ/ before /a/, producing different results from the primary romance palatalization: e.g. centum "hundred" > cent /sɑ̃/, cantum "song" > chant /ʃɑ̃/. 	other than the occitano-romance languages, most gallo-romance languages are subject-obligatory (whereas all the rest of the romance languages are pro-drop languages). this is a late development triggered by progressive phonetic erosion: old french was still a null-subject language, and this only changed upon loss of secondarily final consonants in middle french. pidgins, creoles, and mixed languages[edit] some romance languages have developed varieties which seem dramatically restructured as to their grammars or to be mixtures with other languages. there are several dozens of creoles of french, spanish, and portuguese origin, some of them spoken as national languages in former european colonies. creoles of french: 	antillean (french antilles, saint lucia, dominica) 	haitian (one of haiti's two official languages) 	louisiana (us) 	mauritian (lingua franca of mauritius) 	réunion (native language of réunion) 	seychellois (seychelles' official language) creoles of spanish: 	chavacano (in part of philippines) 	palenquero (in part of colombia) creoles of portuguese: 	angolar (regional language in são tomé and principe) 	cape verdean (cape verde's national language; includes several distinct varieties) 	forro (regional language in são tomé and príncipe) 	kristang (malaysia) 	macanese (macau) 	papiamento (dutch antilles official language) 	guinea-bissau creole (guinea-bissau's national language) auxiliary and constructed languages[edit] main articles: constructed language and international auxiliary language latin and the romance languages have also served as the inspiration and basis of numerous auxiliary and constructed languages, so-called "neo-romance languages".[ ][ ] the concept was first developed in by italian mathematician giuseppe peano, under the title latino sine flexione.[ ] he wanted to create a naturalistic international language, as opposed to an autonomous constructed language like esperanto or volapük which were designed for maximal simplicity of lexicon and derivation of words. peano used latin as the base of his language, because at the time of his flourishing it was the de facto international language of scientific communication. other languages developed since include idiom neutral, interlingua and lingua franca nova. the most famous and successful of these is interlingua. each of these languages has attempted to varying degrees to achieve a pseudo-latin vocabulary as common as possible to living romance languages. some languages have been constructed specifically for communication among speakers of romance languages, the pan-romance languages. there are also languages created for artistic purposes only, such as talossan. because latin is a very well attested ancient language, some amateur linguists have even constructed romance languages that mirror real languages that developed from other ancestral languages. these include brithenig (which mirrors welsh), breathanach[ ] (mirrors irish), wenedyk (mirrors polish), Þrjótrunn (mirrors icelandic),[ ] and helvetian (mirrors german).[ ] modern status[edit] main articles: romance-speaking europe, latin america, latin union, romance-speaking africa, and romance-speaking world european extent of romance languages in the th century number of native speakers of each romance language, as fractions of the total million ( ) the romance language most widely spoken natively today is spanish, followed by portuguese, french, italian and romanian, which together cover a vast territory in europe and beyond, and work as official and national languages in dozens of countries. romance languages in the world french, italian, portuguese, spanish, and romanian are also official languages of the european union. spanish, portuguese, french, italian, romanian, and catalan were the official languages of the defunct latin union; and french and spanish are two of the six official languages of the united nations. outside europe, french, portuguese and spanish are spoken and enjoy official status in various countries that emerged from the respective colonial empires. spanish is an official language in spain and in nine countries of south america, home to about half that continent's population; in six countries of central america (all except belize); and in mexico. in the caribbean, it is official in cuba, the dominican republic, and puerto rico. in all these countries, latin american spanish is the vernacular language of the majority of the population, giving spanish the most native speakers of any romance language. in africa it is an official language of equatorial guinea. portuguese, in its original homeland, portugal, is spoken by virtually the entire population of million. as the official language of brazil, it is spoken by more than million people in that country, as well as by neighboring residents of eastern paraguay and northern uruguay, accounting for a little more than half the population of south america, thus making portuguese the most spoken official romance language in a single country. it is the official language of six african countries (angola, cape verde, guinea-bissau, mozambique, equatorial guinea, and são tomé and príncipe), and is spoken as a first language by perhaps million residents of that continent.[ ] in asia, portuguese is co-official with other languages in east timor and macau, while most portuguese-speakers in asia—some , [ ]—are in japan due to return immigration of japanese brazilians. in north america , , people speak portuguese as their home language.[ ] in oceania, portuguese is the second most spoken romance language, after french, due mainly to the number of speakers in east timor. its closest relative, galician, has official status in the autonomous community of galicia in spain, together with spanish. outside europe, french is spoken natively most in the canadian province of quebec, and in parts of new brunswick and ontario. canada is officially bilingual, with french and english being the official languages. in parts of the caribbean, such as haiti, french has official status, but most people speak creoles such as haitian creole as their native language. french also has official status in much of africa, but relatively few native speakers. in france's overseas possessions, native use of french is increasing. although italy also had some colonial possessions before world war ii, its language did not remain official after the end of the colonial domination. as a result, italian outside of italy and switzerland is now spoken only as a minority language by immigrant communities in north and south america and australia. in some former italian colonies in africa—namely libya, eritrea and somalia—it is spoken by a few educated people in commerce and government. romania did not establish a colonial empire, but beyond its native territory in southeastern europe, the romanian language is spoken as a minority language by autochthonous populations in serbia, bulgaria, and hungary, and in some parts of the former greater romania (before ), as well as in ukraine (bukovina, budjak) and in some villages between the dniester and bug rivers.[ ] the aromanian language is spoken today by aromanians in bulgaria, macedonia, albania, kosovo, and greece.[ ] romanian also spread to other countries on the mediterranean (especially the other romance-speaking countries, most notably italy and spain), and elsewhere such as israel, where it is the native language of five percent of the population,[ ] and is spoken by many more as a secondary language. this is due to the large number of romanian-born jews who moved to israel after world war ii.[ ] and finally, some .  million people in the former soviet republic of moldova speak a variety of romanian, called variously moldovan or romanian by them. the total native speakers of romance languages are divided as follows (with their ranking within the languages of the world in brackets):[ ][ ] 	spanish (hispanosphere) % ( nd) 	portuguese (lusosphere) % ( th) 	french (francophonie) . % ( th) 	italian . % ( rd) 	romanian . % ( th) 	catalan . % (not in the top ) 	others . % catalan is the official language of andorra. in spain, it is co-official with spanish in catalonia, the valencian community, and the balearic islands, and it is recognized, but not official, in la franja, and in aragon. in addition, it is spoken by many residents of alghero, on the island of sardinia, and it is co-official in that city. galician, with more than a million native speakers, is official together with spanish in galicia, and has legal recognition in neighbouring territories in castilla y león. a few other languages have official recognition on a regional or otherwise limited level; for instance, asturian and aragonese in spain; mirandese in portugal; friulan, sardinian and franco-provençal in italy; and romansh in switzerland. the remaining romance languages survive mostly as spoken languages for informal contact. national governments have historically viewed linguistic diversity as an economic, administrative or military liability, as well as a potential source of separatist movements; therefore, they have generally fought to eliminate it, by extensively promoting the use of the official language, restricting the use of the other languages in the media, recognizing them as mere "dialects", or even persecuting them. as a result, all of these languages are considered endangered to varying degrees according to the unesco red book of endangered languages, ranging from "vulnerable" (e.g. sicilian and venetian) to "severely endangered" (arpitan, most of the occitan varieties). since the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, increased sensitivity to the rights of minorities has allowed some of these languages to start recovering their prestige and lost rights. yet it is unclear whether these political changes will be enough to reverse the decline of minority romance languages. history[edit] romance languages are the continuation of vulgar latin, the popular and colloquial sociolect of latin spoken by soldiers, settlers, and merchants of the roman empire, as distinguished from the classical form of the language spoken by the roman upper classes, the form in which the language was generally written.[ ] between bc and ad, the expansion of the empire, together with its administrative and educational policies, made latin the dominant native language in continental western europe. latin also exerted a strong influence in southeastern britain, the roman province of africa, western germany, pannonia and the whole balkans. during the empire's decline, and after its fragmentation and the collapse of western half in the fifth and sixth centuries, the spoken varieties of latin became more isolated from each other, with the western dialects coming under heavy germanic influence (the goths and franks in particular) and the eastern dialects coming under slavic influence.[ ][ ] the dialects diverged from classical latin at an accelerated rate and eventually evolved into a continuum of recognizably different typologies. the colonial empires established by portugal, spain, and france from the fifteenth century onward spread their languages to the other continents to such an extent that about two-thirds of all romance language speakers today live outside europe. despite other influences (e.g. substratum from pre-roman languages, especially continental celtic languages; and superstratum from later germanic or slavic invasions), the phonology, morphology, and lexicon of all romance languages consist mainly of evolved forms of vulgar latin. however, some notable differences occur between today's romance languages and their roman ancestor. with only one or two exceptions, romance languages have lost the declension system of latin and, as a result, have svo sentence structure and make extensive use of prepositions. vulgar latin[edit] main article: vulgar latin length of the roman rule and the romance languages[ ] romance languages in europe documentary evidence is limited about vulgar latin for the purposes of comprehensive research, and the literature is often hard to interpret or generalize. many of its speakers were soldiers, slaves, displaced peoples, and forced resettlers, more likely to be natives of conquered lands than natives of rome. in western europe, latin gradually replaced celtic and other italic languages, which were related to it by a shared indo-european origin. commonalities in syntax and vocabulary facilitated the adoption of latin.[ ][ ][ ] vulgar latin is believed to have already had most of the features shared by all romance languages, which distinguish them from classical latin, such as the almost complete loss of the latin grammatical case system and its replacement by prepositions; the loss of the neuter grammatical gender and comparative inflections; replacement of some verb paradigms by innovations (e.g. the synthetic future gave way to an originally analytic strategy now typically formed by infinitive + evolved present indicative forms of 'have'); the use of articles; and the initial stages of the palatalization of the plosives /k/, /g/, and /t/. to some scholars, this suggests the form of vulgar latin that evolved into the romance languages was around during the time of the roman empire (from the end of the first century bc), and was spoken alongside the written classical latin which was reserved for official and formal occasions. other scholars argue that the distinctions are more rightly viewed as indicative of sociolinguistic and register differences normally found within any language. both were mutually intelligible as one and the same language, which was true until very approximately the second half of the th century. however, within two hundred years latin became a dead language since "the romanized people of europe could no longer understand texts that were read aloud or recited to them,"[ ] i.e. latin had ceased to be a first language and became a foreign language that had to be learned, if the label latin is constrained to refer to a state of the language frozen in past time and restricted to linguistic features for the most part typical of higher registers. with the rise of the roman empire, vulgar latin spread first throughout italy and then through southern, western, central, and southeast europe, and northern africa along parts of western asia.[ ]: fall of the western roman empire[edit] during the political decline of the western roman empire in the fifth century, there were large-scale migrations into the empire, and the latin-speaking world was fragmented into several independent states. central europe and the balkans were occupied by germanic and slavic tribes, as well as by huns. these incursions isolated the vlachs from the rest of romance-speaking europe. british and african romance—the forms of vulgar latin used in britain and the roman province of africa, where it had been spoken by much of the urban population—disappeared in the middle ages (as did pannonian romance in what is now hungary, and moselle romance in germany). but the germanic tribes that had penetrated roman italy, gaul, and hispania eventually adopted latin/romance and the remnants of the culture of ancient rome alongside existing inhabitants of those regions, and so latin remained the dominant language there. in part due to regional dialects of the latin language and local environments, several languages evolved from it.[ ]: fall of the eastern roman empire[edit] meanwhile, large-scale migrations into the eastern roman empire started with the goths and continued with huns, avars, bulgars, slavs, pechenegs, hungarians and cumans. the invasions of slavs were the most thoroughgoing, and they partially reduced the romanic element in the balkans.[ ] 	 the invasion of the turks and conquest of constantinople in marked the end of the empire. the slavs named the romance-speaking population vlachs, while the latter called themselves "rumân" or "român", from the latin "romanus"[ ] the daco-roman dialect became fully distinct from the three dialects spoken south of the danube—macedo-romanian, istro-romanian, and megleno-romanian—during the ninth and tenth centuries, when the romanians (sometimes called vlachs or wallachians) emerged as a people.[ ] early romance[edit] over the course of the fourth to eighth centuries, local changes in phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon accumulated to the point that the speech of any locale was noticeably different from another. in principle, differences between any two lects increased the more they were separated geographically, reducing easy mutual intelligibility between speakers of distant communities.[ ] clear evidence of some levels of change is found in the reichenau glosses, an eighth-century compilation of about , words from the fourth-century vulgate of jerome that had changed in phonological form or were no longer normally used, along with their eighth-century equivalents in proto-franco-provençal. the following are some examples with reflexes in several modern romance languages for comparison: 	english	classical / th cent. (vulgate)	 th cent. (reichenau)	franco-provençal	french	romansh	italian	spanish	portuguese	romanian	catalan	sardinian	occitan	ladin	neapolitan 	once	semel	una vice	una fês	une fois	(ina giada)	(una volta)	una vez	uma vez	(o dată)	una vegada (un cop, una volta)	(una borta)	una fes (un còp)	n iede	na vota 	children/ infants 	liberi / infantes	infantes	enfants	enfants	unfants	(bambini) / infanti	(niños) / infantes	infantes (crianças)	(copii)	(nens, etc.) / infants	(pipius) / (pitzinnos)	enfants	mutons	criature 	to blow	flare / sofflare	suflare	soflar	souffler	suflar	soffiare	soplar	soprar	(a) sufla	(bufar)	sulai / sulare	bufar	suflé	sciuscià 	to sing	canere	cantare	çhantar	chanter	chantar	cantare	cantar	cantar	(a) cânta	cantar	cantai / cantare	cantar	cianté	cantà 	the best (plur.)	optimi / meliores	meliores	los mèljörs	les meilleurs	ils megliers	i migliori	los mejores	os melhores	(optimi, cei mai buni)	els millors	is mellus / sos menzus	los/lei melhors	i miëures	'e meglie 	beautiful	pulchra / bella	bella	bèla	belle	bella	bella	(hermosa, bonita, linda) / bella	bela / (formosa, bonita, linda)	frumoasă	(bonica, polida) / bella	bella	bèla	bela	bella 	in the mouth	in ore	in bucca	en la boçhe	dans la bouche	in la bucca	nella bocca	en la boca	na boca[ ]	(a îmbuca)[ ]	a la boca	in sa buca	dins la boca	te la bocia	'n bocca /'mmok.kə 	winter	hiems	hibernus	hìvern	hiver	inviern	inverno	invierno	inverno	iarnă	hivern	ierru / iberru	ivèrn	inviern	vierno in all of the above examples, the words appearing in the fourth century vulgate are the same words as would have been used in classical latin of c. bc. it is likely that some of these words had already disappeared from casual speech by the time of the glosses; but if so, they may well have been still widely understood, as there is no recorded evidence that the common people of the time had difficulty understanding the language. by the th century, the situation was very different. during the late th century, charlemagne, holding that "latin of his age was by classical standards intolerably corrupt",[ ]: successfully imposed classical latin as an artificial written vernacular for western europe. unfortunately, this meant that parishioners could no longer understand the sermons of their priests, forcing the council of tours in to issue an edict that priests needed to translate their speeches into the rustica romana lingua, an explicit acknowledgement of the reality of the romance languages as separate languages from latin.[ ]: by this time, and possibly as early as the th century according to price ( ),[ ]: the romance lects had split apart enough to be able to speak of separate gallo-romance, ibero-romance, italo-romance and eastern romance languages. some researchers[who?] have postulated that the major divergences in the spoken dialects began or accelerated considerably in the th century, as the formerly widespread and efficient communication networks of the western roman empire rapidly broke down, leading to the total disappearance of the western roman empire by the end of the century. the critical period between the th– th centuries ad is poorly documented because little or no writing from the chaotic "dark ages" of the th– th centuries has survived, and writing after that time was in consciously classicized medieval latin, with vernacular writing only beginning in earnest in the th or th centuries. an exception such as the oaths of strasbourg is evidence that by the ninth century effective communication with a non-learnèd audience was carried out in evolved romance. a language that was closely related to medieval romanian was spoken during the dark ages by vlachs in the balkans, herzegovina, dalmatia (morlachs), ukraine (hutsuls), poland (gorals), slovakia, and czech moravia, but gradually these communities lost their maternal language.[ ] recognition of the vernaculars[edit] romance - germanic language border:[ ] • early middle ages   • early twentieth century   between the th and th centuries, some local vernaculars developed a written form and began to supplant latin in many of its roles. in some countries, such as portugal, this transition was expedited by force of law; whereas in others, such as italy, many prominent poets and writers used the vernacular of their own accord – some of the most famous in italy being giacomo da lentini and dante alighieri. well before that, the vernacular was also used for practical purposes, such as the testimonies in the placiti cassinesi, written - . uniformization and standardization[edit] the invention of the printing press brought a tendency towards greater uniformity of standard languages within political boundaries, at the expense of other romance languages and dialects less favored politically. in france, for instance, the dialect spoken in the region of paris gradually spread to the entire country, and the occitan of the south lost ground. sound changes[edit] see also: vulgar latin 	 	this section does not cite any sources. please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (february ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) consonants[edit] significant sound changes affected the consonants of the romance languages. apocope[edit] there was a tendency to eliminate final consonants in vulgar latin, either by dropping them (apocope) or adding a vowel after them (epenthesis). many final consonants were rare, occurring only in certain prepositions (e.g. ad "towards", apud "at, near (a person)"), conjunctions (sed "but"), demonstratives (e.g. illud "that (over there)", hoc "this"), and nominative singular noun forms, especially of neuter nouns (e.g. lac "milk", mel "honey", cor "heart"). many of these prepositions and conjunctions were replaced by others, while the nouns were regularized into forms based on their oblique stems that avoided the final consonants (e.g. *lacte, *mele, *core). final -m was dropped in vulgar latin. even in classical latin, final -am, -em, -um (inflectional suffixes of the accusative case) were often elided in poetic meter, suggesting the m was weakly pronounced, probably marking the nasalisation of the vowel before it. this nasal vowel lost its nasalization in the romance languages except in monosyllables, where it became /n/ e.g. spanish quien < quem "whom", french rien "anything" < rem "thing"; note especially french and catalan mon < meum "my (m.sg.)" pronounced as one syllable (/meu̯m/ > */meu̯n/, /mun/) but spanish mío and portuguese and catalan meu < meum pronounced as two (/ˈme.um/ > */ˈme.o/). as a result, only the following final consonants occurred in vulgar latin: 	final -t in third-person singular verb forms, and -nt (later reduced in many languages to -n) in third-person plural verb forms. 	final -s (including -x) in a large number of morphological endings (verb endings -ās/-ēs/-īs/-is, -mus, -tis; nominative singular -us/-is; plural -ās/-ōs/-ēs) and certain other words (trēs "three", sex "six", crās "tomorrow", etc.). 	final -n in some monosyllables (from earlier -m). 	final -r, -d in some prepositions (e.g. ad, per), which were clitics that attached phonologically to the following word. 	very occasionally, final -c, e.g. occitan oc "yes" < hoc, old french avuec "with" < apud hoc (although these instances were possibly protected by a final epenthetic vowel at one point). final -t was eventually dropped in many languages, although this often occurred several centuries after the vulgar latin period. for example, the reflex of -t was dropped in old french and old spanish only around . in old french, this occurred only when a vowel still preceded the t (generally /ə/ < latin a). hence amat "he loves" > old french aime but venit "he comes" > old french vient: the /t/ was never dropped and survives into modern french in liaison, e.g. vient-il? "is he coming?" /vjɛ̃ti(l)/ (the corresponding /t/ in aime-t-il? is analogical, not inherited). old french also kept the third-person plural ending -nt intact. in italo-romance and the eastern romance languages, eventually all final consonants were either dropped or protected by an epenthetic vowel, except in clitic forms (e.g. prepositions con, per). modern standard italian still has almost no consonant-final words, although romanian has resurfaced them through later loss of final /u/ and /i/. for example, amās "you love" > ame > italian ami; amant "they love" > *aman > ital. amano. on the evidence of "sloppily written" lombardic language documents, however, the loss of final /s/ in italy did not occur until the th or th century, after the vulgar latin period, and the presence of many former final consonants is betrayed by the syntactic gemination (raddoppiamento sintattico) that they trigger. it is also thought that after a long vowel /s/ became /j/ rather than simply disappearing: nōs > noi "we", se(d)ēs > sei "you are", crās > crai "tomorrow" (southern italian). in unstressed syllables, the resulting diphthongs were simplified: canēs > /ˈkanej/ > cani "dogs"; amīcās > /aˈmikaj/ > amiche /aˈmike/ "(female) friends", where nominative amīcae should produce **amice rather than amiche (note masculine amīcī > amici not **amichi). central western romance languages eventually regained a large number of final consonants through the general loss of final /e/ and /o/, e.g. catalan llet "milk" < lactem, foc "fire" < focum, peix "fish" < piscem. in french, most of these secondary final consonants (as well as primary ones) were lost before around , but tertiary final consonants later arose through the loss of /ə/ < -a. hence masculine frīgidum "cold" > old french freit /frwεt/ > froid /fʁwa/, feminine frigidam > old french freide /frwεdə/ > froide /fʁwad/. palatalization[edit] for a table of examples of palatalized n and l in the romance languages, see palatalization (sound change) § mouillé. palatalization was one of the most important processes affecting consonants in vulgar latin. this eventually resulted in a whole series of "palatal" and postalveolar consonants in most romance languages, e.g. italian /ʃ/, /tʃ/, /dʒ/, /ts/, /dz/, /ɲ/, /ʎ/. the following historical stages occurred: 	stage	environment	consonants affected	result	languages affected 	 	before /j/ (from e, i in hiatus)	/t/, /d/	/tsʲ/, /jj~dzʲ~ddʒʲ/	all 	 	all remaining, except labial consonants	/ttʃʲ~ttsʲ/ < /kj/, /jj~ddʒʲ/ < /ɡj/, /ɲɲ/, /ʎʎ/, /cʲ/	all except sardinian 	 	before /i/	/k/, /ɡ/	/tʃʲ~tsʲ/, /j~dʒʲ/ 	 	before /e/	all except sardinian and dalmatian 	 	before /a/, /au/	/tɕ~tʃʲ/, /dʑ~dʒʲ/	north-central gallo-romance (e.g. french, northern occitan); rhaeto-romance note how the environments become progressively less "palatal", and the languages affected become progressively fewer. the outcomes of palatalization depended on the historical stage, the consonants involved, and the languages involved. the primary division is between the western romance languages, with /ts/ resulting from palatalization of /k/, and the remaining languages (italo-dalmatian and eastern romance), with /tʃ/ resulting. it is often suggested that /tʃ/ was the original result in all languages, with /tʃ/ > /ts/ a later innovation in the western romance languages. evidence of this is the fact that italian has both /ttʃ/ and /tts/ as outcomes of palatalization in different environments, while western romance has only /(t)ts/. even more suggestive is the fact that the mozarabic language in al-andalus (modern southern spain) had /tʃ/ as the outcome despite being in the "western romance" area and geographically disconnected from the remaining /tʃ/ areas; this suggests that mozarabic was an outlying "relic" area where the change /tʃ/ > /ts/ failed to reach. (northern french dialects, such as norman and picard, also had /tʃ/, but this may be a secondary development, i.e. due to a later sound change /ts/ > /tʃ/.) note that /ts, dz, dʒ/ eventually became /s, z, ʒ/ in most western romance languages. thus latin caelum (sky, heaven), pronounced [ˈkai̯lu(m)] with an initial [k], became italian cielo [ˈtʃɛlo], romanian cer [tʃer], spanish cielo [ˈθjelo]/[ˈsjelo], french ciel [sjɛl], catalan cel [ˈsɛɫ], and portuguese céu [ˈsɛw]. the outcome of palatalized /d/ and /ɡ/ is less clear: 	original /j/ has the same outcome as palatalized /ɡ/ everywhere. 	romanian fairly consistently has /z/ < /dz/ from palatalized /d/, but /dʒ/ from palatalized /ɡ/. 	italian inconsistently has /ddz~ddʒ/ from palatalized /d/, and /ddʒ/ from palatalized /ɡ/. 	most other languages have the same results for palatalized /d/ and /ɡ/: consistent /dʒ/ initially, but either /j/ or /dʒ/ medially (depending on language and exact context). but spanish has /j/ (phonetically [ɟ͡ʝ]) initially except before /o/, /u/; nearby gascon is similar. this suggests that palatalized /d/ > /dʲ/ > either /j/ or /dz/ depending on location, while palatalized /ɡ/ > /j/; after this, /j/ > /(d)dʒ/ in most areas, but spanish and gascon (originating from isolated districts behind the western pyrenees) were relic areas unaffected by this change. in french, the outcomes of /k, ɡ/ palatalized by /e, i, j/ and by /a, au/ were different: centum "hundred" > cent /sɑ̃/ but cantum "song" > chant /ʃɑ̃/. french also underwent palatalization of labials before /j/: vulgar latin /pj, bj~vj, mj/ > old french /tʃ, dʒ, ndʒ/ (sēpia "cuttlefish" > seiche, rubeus "red" > rouge, sīmia "monkey" > singe). the original outcomes of palatalization must have continued to be phonetically palatalized even after they had developed into alveolar/postalveolar/etc. consonants. this is clear from french, where all originally palatalized consonants triggered the development of a following glide /j/ in certain circumstances (most visible in the endings -āre, -ātum/ātam). in some cases this /j/ came from a consonant palatalized by an adjoining consonant after the late loss of a separating vowel. for example, mansiōnātam > /masʲoˈnata/ > masʲˈnada/ > /masʲˈnʲæðə/ > early old french maisnieḍe /maisˈniɛðə/ "household". similarly, mediētātem > /mejeˈtate/ > /mejˈtade/ > /mejˈtæðe/ > early old french meitieḍ /mejˈtʲɛθ/ > modern french moitié /mwaˈtje/ "half". in both cases, phonetic palatalization must have remained in primitive old french at least through the time when unstressed intertonic vowels were lost (?c. th century), well after the fragmentation of the romance languages. the effect of palatalization is indicated in the writing systems of almost all romance languages, where the letters have the "hard" pronunciation [k, ɡ] in most situations, but a "soft" pronunciation (e.g. french/portuguese [s, ʒ], italian/romanian [tʃ, dʒ]) before ⟨e, i, y⟩. (this orthographic trait has passed into modern english through norman french-speaking scribes writing middle english; this replaced the earlier system of old english, which had developed its own hard-soft distinction with the soft ⟨c, g⟩ representing [tʃ, j~dʒ].) this has the effect of keeping the modern spelling similar to the original latin spelling, but complicates the relationship between sound and letter. in particular, the hard sounds must be written differently before ⟨e, i, y⟩ (e.g. italian ⟨ch, gh⟩, portuguese ⟨qu, gu⟩), and likewise for the soft sounds when not before these letters (e.g. italian ⟨ci, gi⟩, portuguese ⟨ç, j⟩). furthermore, in spanish, catalan, occitan and brazilian portuguese, the use of digraphs containing ⟨u⟩ to signal the hard pronunciation before ⟨e, i, y⟩ means that a different spelling is also needed to signal the sounds /kw, ɡw/ before these vowels (spanish ⟨cu, gü⟩, catalan, occitan and brazilian portuguese ⟨qü, gü⟩).[ ] this produces a number of orthographic alternations in verbs whose pronunciation is entirely regular. the following are examples of corresponding first-person plural indicative and subjunctive in a number of regular portuguese verbs: marcamos, marquemos "we mark"; caçamos, cacemos "we hunt"; chegamos, cheguemos "we arrive"; averiguamos, averigüemos "we verify"; adequamos, adeqüemos "we adapt"; oferecemos, ofereçamos "we offer"; dirigimos, dirijamos "we drive" erguemos, ergamos "we raise"; delinquimos, delincamos "we commit a crime". in the case of italian, the convention of digraphs <ch> and <gh> to represent /k/ and /g/ before written <e, i> results in similar orthographic alternations, such as dimentico 'i forget', dimentichi 'you forget', baco 'worm', bachi 'worms' with [k] or pago 'i pay', paghi 'you pay' and lago 'lake', laghi 'lakes' with [g]. the use in italian of <ci> and <gi> to represent /tʃ/ or /dʒ/ before vowels written <a,o,u> neatly distinguishes dico 'i say' with /k/ from dici 'you say' with /tʃ/ or ghiro 'dormouse' /g/ and giro 'turn, revolution' /dʒ/, but with orthographic <ci> and <gi> also representing the sequence of /tʃ/ or /dʒ/ and the actual vowel /i/ (/ditʃi/ dici, /dʒiro/ giro), and no generally observed convention of indicating stress position, the status of i when followed by another vowel in spelling can be unrecognizable. for example, the written forms offer no indication that <cia> in camicia 'shirt' represents a single unstressed syllable /tʃa/ with no /i/ at any level (/kaˈmitʃa/ → [kaˈmiːtʃa] ~ [kaˈmiːʃa]), but that underlying the same spelling <cia> in farmacia 'pharmacy' is a bisyllabic sequence consisting of the stressed syllable /tʃi/ and syllabic /a/ (/farmaˈtʃia/ → [farmaˈtʃiːa] ~ [farmaˈʃiːa]). lenition[edit] stop consonants shifted by lenition in vulgar latin in some areas. the voiced labial consonants /b/ and /w/ (represented by ⟨b⟩ and ⟨v⟩, respectively) both developed a fricative [β] as an intervocalic allophone.[ ] this is clear from the orthography; in medieval times, the spelling of a consonantal ⟨v⟩ is often used for what had been a ⟨b⟩ in classical latin, or the two spellings were used interchangeably. in many romance languages (italian, french, portuguese, romanian, etc.), this fricative later developed into a /v/; but in others (spanish, galician, some catalan and occitan dialects, etc.) reflexes of /b/ and /w/ simply merged into a single phoneme. several other consonants were "softened" in intervocalic position in western romance (spanish, portuguese, french, northern italian), but normally not phonemically in the rest of italy (except some cases of "elegant" or ecclesiastical words), nor apparently at all in romanian. the dividing line between the two sets of dialects is called the la spezia–rimini line and is one of the most important isoglosses of the romance dialects. the changes (instances of diachronic lenition resulting in phonological restructuring) are as follows: single voiceless plosives became voiced: -p-, -t-, -c- > -b-, -d-, -g-. subsequently, in some languages they were further weakened, either becoming fricatives or approximants, [β̞], [ð̞], [ɣ˕] (as in spanish) or disappearing entirely (as /t/ and /k/, but not /p/, in french). the following example shows progressive weakening of original /t/: e.g. vītam > italian vita [ˈvita], portuguese vida [ˈvidɐ] (european portuguese [ˈviðɐ]), spanish vida [ˈbiða] (southern peninsular spanish [ˈbia]), and french vie [vi]. some scholars once speculated that these sound changes may be due in part to the influence of continental celtic languages,[citation needed] but scholarship of the past few decades challenges that hypothesis. 	the voiced plosives /d/ and /ɡ/ tended to disappear. 	the plain sibilant -s- [s] was also voiced to [z] between vowels, although in many languages its spelling has not changed. (in spanish, intervocalic [z] was later devoiced back to [s]; [z] is only found as an allophone of /s/ before voiced consonants in modern spanish.) 	the double plosives became single: -pp-, -tt-, -cc-, -bb-, -dd-, -gg- > -p-, -t-, -c-, -b-, -d-, -g- in most languages. in french spelling, double consonants are merely etymological, except for -ll- after -i (pronounced [ij]), in most cases. 	the double sibilant -ss- [sː] also became phonetically single [s], although in many languages its spelling has not changed. consonant length is no longer phonemically distinctive in most romance languages. however some languages of italy (italian, sardinian, sicilian, and numerous other varieties of central and southern italy) do have long consonants like /ɡɡ/, /dd/, /bb/, /kk/, /tt/, /pp/, /ll/, /mm/, /nn/, /ss/, /rr/, etc., where the doubling indicates either actual length or, in the case of plosives and affricates, a short hold before the consonant is released, in many cases with distinctive lexical value: e.g. note /ˈnɔ.te/ (notes) vs. notte /ˈnɔt.te/ (night), cade /ˈka.de/ (s/he, it falls) vs. cadde /ˈkad.de/ (s/he, it fell), caro /ˈka.ro/ (dear, expensive) vs. carro /ˈkar.ro/ (cart). they may even occur at the beginning of words in romanesco, neapolitan, sicilian and other southern varieties, and are occasionally indicated in writing, e.g. sicilian cchiù (more), and ccà (here). in general, the consonants /b/, /ts/, and /dz/ are long at the start of a word, while the archiphoneme |r|[dubious – discuss] is realised as a trill /r/ in the same position. in much of central and southern italy, the affricates /t͡ʃ/ and /d͡ʒ/ weaken synchronically to fricative [ʃ] and [ʒ] between vowels, while their geminate congeners do not, e.g. cacio /ˈka.t͡ʃo/ → [ˈkaːʃo] (cheese) vs. caccio /ˈkat.t͡ʃo/ → [ˈkat.t͡ʃo] (i chase). a few languages have regained secondary geminate consonants. the double consonants of piedmontese exist only after stressed /ə/, written ë, and are not etymological: vëdde (latin vidēre, to see), sëcca (latin sicca, dry, feminine of sech). in standard catalan and occitan, there exists a geminate sound /lː/ written ŀl (catalan) or ll (occitan), but it is usually pronounced as a simple sound in colloquial (and even some formal) speech in both languages. vowel prosthesis[edit] in late latin a prosthetic vowel /i/ (lowered to /e/ in most languages) was inserted at the beginning of any word that began with /s/ (referred to as s impura) and a voiceless consonant (#sc- > isc-): 	scrībere 'to write' > sardinian iscribere, spanish escribir, portuguese escrever, catalan escriure, old french escri(v)re (mod. écrire); 	spatha "sword" > sard ispada, sp/pg espada, cat espasa, ofr espeḍe (modern épée); 	spiritus "spirit" > sard ispìritu, sp espíritu, pg espírito, cat esperit, french esprit; 	stephanum "stephen" > sard istèvene, sp esteban, cat esteve, pg estêvão, ofr estievne (mod. Étienne); 	status "state" > sard istadu, sp/pg estado, cat estat, ofr estat (mod. état). prosthetic /i/ ~ /e/ in romance languages may have been influenced by continental celtic languages,[citation needed] although the phenomenon exists or existed in some areas where celtic was never present (e.g. sardinia, southern italy). while western romance words undergo prothesis, cognates in balkan romance and southern italo-romance do not, e.g. italian scrivere, spada, spirito, stefano, and stato. in italian, syllabification rules were preserved instead by vowel-final articles, thus feminine spada as la spada, but instead of rendering the masculine *il spaghetto, lo spaghetto came to be the norm. though receding at present, italian once had a prosthetic /i/ if a consonant preceded such clusters, so that 'in switzerland' was in [i]svizzera. some speakers still use the prothetic [i] productively, and it is fossilized in a few set locutions such as in ispecie 'especially' or per iscritto 'in writing' (although in this case its survival may be due partly to the influence of the separate word iscritto < latin īnscrīptus). the association of /i/ ~ /j/ and /s/ also led to the vocalization of word-final -s in italian, romanian, certain occitan dialects, and the spanish dialect of chocó in colombia.[ ] stressed vowels[edit] loss of vowel length, reorientation[edit] 	evolution of the stressed vowels in early romance 	classical 	proto- romance 	western romance 	balkan romance	sardinian	sicilian 	acad. 	roman 	ipa 	acad. 	ipa	ipa 	ī 	long i	/iː/	/i/ [i(ː)]	i	/i/	/i/	/i/ 	ȳ 	long y	/yː/ 	i (ĭ) 	short i	/i/ [ɪ]	/ɪ/ [ɪ(ː)]	ẹ	/e/ 	y (y̆) 	short y	/y/ 	ē 	long e	/eː/	/e/ [e(ː)]	/e/ 	œ 	oe	/oj/ > /eː/ 	e (ĕ) 	short e	/e/ [ɛ]	/ɛ/ [ɛ(ː)]	ę	/ɛ/	/ɛ/ 	æ 	ae	/aj/ > [ɛː] 	ā 	long a	/aː/	/a/ [a(ː)]	a	/a/ 	a (ă) 	short a	/a/ 	o (ŏ) 	short o	/o/ [ɔ]	/ɔ/ [ɔ(ː)]	ǫ	/ɔ/	/o/	/ɔ/ 	ō 	long o	/oː/	/o/ [o(ː)]	ọ	/o/	/u/ 	au (a few words) 	au	/aw/ > /oː/ 	u (ŭ) 	short u	/u/ [ʊ]	/ʊ/ [ʊ(ː)]	/u/ 	ū 	long u	/uː/	/u/ [u(ː)]	u	/u/ 	au (most words) 	au	/aw/	au	/aw/ 	 traditional academic transcription in latin and romance studies, respectively. one profound change that affected vulgar latin was the reorganisation of its vowel system. classical latin had five short vowels, ă, ĕ, ĭ, ŏ, ŭ, and five long vowels, ā, ē, ī, ō, ū, each of which was an individual phoneme (see the table in the right, for their likely pronunciation in ipa), and four diphthongs, ae, oe, au and eu (five according to some authors, including ui). there were also long and short versions of y, representing the rounded vowel /y(ː)/ in greek borrowings, which however probably came to be pronounced /i(ː)/ even before romance vowel changes started. there is evidence that in the imperial period all the short vowels except a differed by quality as well as by length from their long counterparts.[ ] so, for example ē was pronounced close-mid /eː/ while ĕ was pronounced open-mid /ɛ/, and ī was pronounced close /iː/ while ĭ was pronounced near-close /ɪ/. during the proto-romance period, phonemic length distinctions were lost. vowels came to be automatically pronounced long in stressed, open syllables (i.e. when followed by only one consonant), and pronounced short everywhere else. this situation is still maintained in modern italian: cade [ˈkaːde] "he falls" vs. cadde [ˈkadde] "he fell". the proto-romance loss of phonemic length originally produced a system with nine different quality distinctions in monophthongs, where only original /ă ā/ had merged. soon, however, many of these vowels coalesced: 	the simplest outcome was in sardinian,[ ] where the former long and short vowels in latin simply coalesced, e.g. /ĕ ē/ > /e/, /ĭ ī/ > /i/: this produced a simple five-vowel system /a e i o u/. 	in most areas, however (technically, the italo-western languages), the near-close vowels /ɪ ʊ/ lowered and merged into the high-mid vowels /e o/. as a result, latin pira "pear" and vēra "true", came to rhyme (e.g. italian and spanish pera, vera, and old french poire, voire). similarly, latin nucem (from nux "nut") and vōcem (from vōx "voice") become italian noce, voce, portuguese noz, voz, and french noix, voix. this produced a seven-vowel system /a ɛ e i ɔ o u/, still maintained in conservative languages such as italian and portuguese, and lightly transformed in spanish (where /ɛ/ > /je/, /ɔ/ > /we/). 	in the eastern romance languages (particularly, romanian), the front vowels /ĕ ē ĭ ī/ evolved as in the majority of languages, but the back vowels /ŏ ō ŭ ū/ evolved as in sardinian. this produced an unbalanced six-vowel system: /a ɛ e i o u/. in modern romanian, this system has been significantly transformed, with /ɛ/ > /je/ and with new vowels /ə ɨ/ evolving, leading to a balanced seven-vowel system with central as well as front and back vowels: /a e i ə ɨ o u/. 	sicilian is sometimes described as having its own distinct vowel system. in fact, sicilian passed through the same developments as the main bulk of italo-western languages. subsequently, however, high-mid vowels (but not low-mid vowels) were raised in all syllables, stressed and unstressed; i.e. /e o/ > /i u/. the result is a five-vowel /a ɛ i ɔ u/. the proto-romance allophonic vowel-length system was rephonemicized in the gallo-romance languages as a result of the loss of many final vowels. some northern italian languages (e.g. friulan) still maintain this secondary phonemic length, but most languages dropped it by either diphthongizing or shortening the new long vowels. french phonemicized a third vowel length system around ad as a result of the sound change /vsc/ > /vhc/ > /vːc/ (where v is any vowel and c any consonant). this vowel length was eventually lost by around ad , but the former long vowels are still marked with a circumflex. a fourth vowel length system, still non-phonemic, has now arisen: all nasal vowels as well as the oral vowels /ɑ o ø/ (which mostly derive from former long vowels) are pronounced long in all stressed closed syllables, and all vowels are pronounced long in syllables closed by the voiced fricatives /v z ʒ ʁ vʁ/. this system in turn has been phonemicized in some non-standard dialects (e.g. haitian creole), as a result of the loss of final /ʁ/. latin diphthongs[edit] the latin diphthongs ae and oe, pronounced /ai/ and /oi/ in earlier latin, were early on monophthongized. ae became /ɛː/ by the st century a.d. at the latest. although this sound was still distinct from all existing vowels, the neutralization of latin vowel length eventually caused its merger with /ɛ/ < short e: e.g. caelum "sky" > french ciel, spanish/italian cielo, portuguese céu /sɛw/, with the same vowel as in mele "honey" > french/spanish miel, italian miele, portuguese mel /mɛl/. some words show an early merger of ae with /eː/, as in praeda "booty" > *prēda /preːda/ > french proie (vs. expected **priée), italian preda (not **prieda) "prey"; or faenum "hay" > *fēnum [feːnũ] > spanish heno, french foin (but italian fieno /fjɛno/). oe generally merged with /eː/: poenam "punishment" > romance */pena/ > spanish/italian pena, french peine; foedus "ugly" > romance */fedo/ > spanish feo, portuguese feio. there are relatively few such outcomes, since oe was rare in classical latin (most original instances had become classical ū, as in old latin oinos "one" > classical ūnus[ ]) and so oe was mostly limited to greek loanwords, which were typically learned (high-register) terms. au merged with ō /oː/ in the popular speech of rome already by the st century b.c. a number of authors remarked on this explicitly, e.g. cicero's taunt that the populist politician publius clodius pulcher had changed his name from claudius to ingratiate himself with the masses. this change never penetrated far from rome, however, and the pronunciation /au/ was maintained for centuries in the vast majority of latin-speaking areas, although it eventually developed into some variety of o in many languages. for example, italian and french have /ɔ/ as the usual reflex, but this post-dates diphthongization of /ɔ/ and the french-specific palatalization /ka/ > /tʃa/ (hence causa > french chose, italian cosa /kɔza/ not **cuosa). spanish has /o/, but portuguese spelling maintains ⟨ou⟩, which has developed to /o/ (and still remains as /ou/ in some dialects, and /oi/ in others). occitan, romanian, southern italian languages, and many other minority romance languages still have /au/. a few common words, however, show an early merger with ō /oː/, evidently reflecting a generalization of the popular roman pronunciation: e.g. french queue, italian coda /koda/, occitan co(d)a, romanian coadă (all meaning "tail") must all derive from cōda rather than classical cauda (but notice portuguese cauda).[ ] similarly, spanish oreja, portuguese orelha, french oreille, romanian ureche, and sardinian olícra, orícla "ear" must derive from ōric(u)la rather than classical auris (occitan aurelha was probably influenced by the unrelated ausir < audīre "to hear"), and the form oricla is in fact reflected in the appendix probi. further developments[edit] metaphony[edit] main article: metaphony (romance languages) an early process that operated in all romance languages to varying degrees was metaphony (vowel mutation), conceptually similar to the umlaut process so characteristic of the germanic languages. depending on the language, certain stressed vowels were raised (or sometimes diphthongized) either by a final /i/ or /u/ or by a directly following /j/. metaphony is most extensive in the italo-romance languages, and applies to nearly all languages in italy; however, it is absent from tuscan, and hence from standard italian. in many languages affected by metaphony, a distinction exists between final /u/ (from most cases of latin -um) and final /o/ (from latin -ō, -ud and some cases of -um, esp. masculine "mass" nouns), and only the former triggers metaphony. some examples: 	in servigliano in the marche of italy, stressed /ɛ e ɔ o/ are raised to /e i o u/ before final /i/ or /u/:[ ] /ˈmetto/ "i put" vs. /ˈmitti/ "you put" (< *metti < *mettes < latin mittis); /moˈdɛsta/ "modest (fem.)" vs. /moˈdestu/ "modest (masc.)"; /ˈkwesto/ "this (neut.)" (< latin eccum istud) vs. /ˈkwistu/ "this (masc.)" (< latin eccum istum). 	calvallo in basilicata, southern italy, is similar, but the low-mid vowels /ɛ ɔ/ are diphthongized to /je wo/ rather than raised:[ ] /ˈmette/ "he puts" vs. /ˈmitti/ "you put", but /ˈpɛnʒo/ "i think" vs. /ˈpjenʒi/ "you think". 	metaphony also occurs in most northern italian dialects, but only by (usually lost) final *i; apparently, final *u was lowered to *o (usually lost) before metaphony could take effect. 	some of the astur-leonese languages in northern spain have the same distinction between final /o/ and /u/[ ] as in the central-southern italian languages,[ ] with /u/ triggering metaphony.[ ] the plural of masculine nouns in these dialects ends in -os, which does not trigger metaphony, unlike in the singular (vs. italian plural -i, which does trigger metaphony). 	sardinian has allophonic raising of mid vowels /ɛ ɔ/ to [e o] before final /i/ or /u/. this has been phonemicized in the campidanese dialect as a result of the raising of final /e o/ to /i u/. 	raising of /ɔ/ to /o/ occurs sporadically in portuguese in the masculine singular, e.g. porco /ˈporku/ "pig" vs. porcos /ˈpɔrkus/ "pig". it is thought that galician-portuguese at one point had singular /u/ vs. plural /os/, exactly as in modern astur-leonese.[ ] 	in all of the western romance languages, final /i/ (primarily occurring in the first-person singular of the preterite) raised mid-high /e o/ to /i u/, e.g. portuguese fiz "i did" (< *fidzi < *fedzi < latin fēcī) vs. fez "he did" (< *fedze < latin fēcit). old spanish similarly had fize "i did" vs. fezo "he did" (-o by analogy with amó "he loved"), but subsequently generalized stressed /i/, producing modern hice "i did" vs. hizo "he did". the same thing happened prehistorically in old french, yielding fis "i did", fist "he did" (< *feist < latin fēcit). diphthongization[edit] a number of languages diphthongized some of the free vowels, especially the open-mid vowels /ɛ ɔ/: 	spanish consistently diphthongized all open-mid vowels /ɛ ɔ/ > /je we/ except for before certain palatal consonants (which raised the vowels to close-mid before diphthongization took place). 	romanian similarly diphthongized /ɛ/ to /je/ (the corresponding vowel /ɔ/ did not develop from proto-romance). 	italian diphthongized /ɛ/ > /jɛ/ and /ɔ/ > /wɔ/ in open syllables (in the situations where vowels were lengthened in proto-romance), the most salient exception being /ˈbɛne/ bene 'well', perhaps due to the high frequency of apocopated ben (e.g. ben difficile 'quite difficult', ben fatto 'well made' etc.). 	french similarly diphthongized /ɛ ɔ/ in open syllables (when lengthened), along with /a e o/: /aː ɛː eː ɔː oː/ > /aɛ iɛ ei uɔ ou/ > middle of /e je ɔi we eu/ > modern /e je wa œ ~ ø œ ~ ø/. 	french also diphthongized /ɛ ɔ/ before palatalized consonants, especially /j/. further development was as follows: /ɛj/ > /iej/ > /i/; /ɔj/ > /uoj/ > early of /uj/ > modern /ɥi/. 	catalan diphthongized /ɛ ɔ/ before /j/ from palatalized consonants, just like french, with similar results: /ɛj/ > /i/, /ɔj/ > /uj/. these diphthongizations had the effect of reducing or eliminating the distinctions between open-mid and close-mid vowels in many languages. in spanish and romanian, all open-mid vowels were diphthongized, and the distinction disappeared entirely. portuguese is the most conservative in this respect, keeping the seven-vowel system more or less unchanged (but with changes in particular circumstances, e.g. due to metaphony). other than before palatalized consonants, catalan keeps /ɔ o/ intact, but /ɛ e/ split in a complex fashion into /ɛ e ə/ and then coalesced again in the standard dialect (eastern catalan) in such a way that most original /ɛ e/ have reversed their quality to become /e ɛ/. in french and italian, the distinction between open-mid and close-mid vowels occurred only in closed syllables. standard italian more or less maintains this. in french, /e/ and /ɛ/ merged by the twelfth century or so, and the distinction between /ɔ/ and /o/ was eliminated without merging by the sound changes /u/ > /y/, /o/ > /u/. generally this led to a situation where both [e,o] and [ɛ,ɔ] occur allophonically, with the close-mid vowels in open syllables and the open-mid vowels in closed syllables. this is still the situation in modern spanish, for example.[citation needed] in french, however, both [e/ɛ] and [o/ɔ] were partly rephonemicized: both /e/ and /ɛ/ occur in open syllables as a result of /aj/ > /ɛ/, and both /o/ and /ɔ/ occur in closed syllables as a result of /al/ > /au/ > /o/. old french also had numerous falling diphthongs resulting from diphthongization before palatal consonants or from a fronted /j/ originally following palatal consonants in proto-romance or later: e.g. pācem /patsʲe/ "peace" > pwr */padzʲe/ (lenition) > of paiz /pajts/; *punctum "point" > gallo-romance */ponʲto/ > */pojɲto/ (fronting) > of point /põjnt/. during the old french period, preconsonantal /l/ [ɫ] vocalized to /w/, producing many new falling diphthongs: e.g. dulcem "sweet" > pwr */doltsʲe/ > of dolz /duɫts/ > douz /duts/; fallet "fails, is deficient" > of falt > faut "is needed"; bellus "beautiful" > of bels [bɛɫs] > beaus [bɛaws]. by the end of the middle french period, all falling diphthongs either monophthongized or switched to rising diphthongs: proto-of /aj ɛj jɛj ej jej wɔj oj uj al ɛl el il ɔl ol ul/ > early of /aj ɛj i ej yj oj yj aw ɛaw ew i ɔw ow y/ > modern spelling ⟨ai ei i oi ui oi ui au eau eu i ou ou u⟩ > mod. french /ɛ ɛ i wa ɥi wa ɥi o o ø i u u y/. nasalization[edit] in both french and portuguese, nasal vowels eventually developed from sequences of a vowel followed by a nasal consonant (/m/ or /n/). originally, all vowels in both languages were nasalized before any nasal consonants, and nasal consonants not immediately followed by a vowel were eventually dropped. in french, nasal vowels before remaining nasal consonants were subsequently denasalized, but not before causing the vowels to lower somewhat, e.g. dōnat "he gives" > of dune /dunə/ > donne /dɔn/, fēminam > femme /fam/. other vowels remained diphthongized, and were dramatically lowered: fīnem "end" > fin /fɛ̃/ (often pronounced [fæ̃]); linguam "tongue" > langue /lɑ̃ɡ/; ūnum "one" > un /œ̃/, /ɛ̃/. in portuguese, /n/ between vowels was dropped, and the resulting hiatus eliminated through vowel contraction of various sorts, often producing diphthongs: manum, *manōs > pwr *manu, ˈmanos "hand(s)" > mão, mãos /mɐ̃w̃, mɐ̃w̃s/; canem, canēs "dog(s)" > pwr *kane, ˈkanes > *can, ˈcanes > cão, cães /kɐ̃w̃, kɐ̃j̃s/; ratiōnem, ratiōnēs "reason(s)" > pwr *raˈdʲzʲone, raˈdʲzʲones > *raˈdzon, raˈdzones > razão, razões /χaˈzɐ̃w̃, χaˈzõj̃s/ (brazil), /ʁaˈzɐ̃ũ, ʁɐˈzõj̃ʃ/ (portugal). sometimes the nasalization was eliminated: lūna "moon" > galician-portuguese lũa > lua; vēna "vein" > galician-portuguese vẽa > veia. nasal vowels that remained actually tend to be raised (rather than lowered, as in french): fīnem "end" > fim /fĩ/; centum "hundred" > pwr tʲsʲɛnto > cento /ˈsẽtu/; pontem "bridge" > pwr pɔnte > ponte /ˈpõtʃi/ (brazil), /ˈpõtɨ/ (portugal). front-rounded vowels[edit] characteristic of the gallo-romance languages and rhaeto-romance languages are the front rounded vowels /y ø œ/. all of these languages show an unconditional change /u/ > /y/, e.g. lūnam > french lune /lyn/, occitan /ˈlyno/. many of the languages in switzerland and italy show the further change /y/ > /i/. also very common is some variation of the french development /ɔː oː/ (lengthened in open syllables) > /we ew/ > /œ œ/, with mid back vowels diphthongizing in some circumstances and then re-monophthongizing into mid-front rounded vowels. (french has both /ø/ and /œ/, with /ø/ developing from /œ/ in certain circumstances.) unstressed vowels[edit] evolution of unstressed vowels in early italo-western romance 	latin 	proto- romance 	stressed	non-final unstressed	final-unstressed 	original 	later italo- romance 	later western- romance 	gallo- romance 	primitive french 	ipa 	acad. 	ipa 	a,ā 	/a/	a	/a/	/a/	/ə/ 	e,ae 	/ɛ/	ę	/ɛ/	/e/	/e/	/e/	∅; /e/ (prop)	∅; /ə/ (prop) 	ē,oe 	/e/	ẹ	/e/ 	i,y 	/ɪ/ 	ī,ȳ 	/i/	i	/i/	/i/ 	o 	/ɔ/	ǫ	/ɔ/	/o/	/o/	/o/ 	ō,(au) 	/o/	ọ	/o/ 	u 	/ʊ/	/u/ 	ū 	/u/	u	/u/ 	au (most words) 	/aw/	au	/aw/	n/a 	 traditional academic transcription in romance studies. there was more variability in the result of the unstressed vowels. originally in proto-romance, the same nine vowels developed in unstressed as stressed syllables, and in sardinian, they coalesced into the same five vowels in the same way. in italo-western romance, however, vowels in unstressed syllables were significantly different from stressed vowels, with yet a third outcome for final unstressed syllables. in non-final unstressed syllables, the seven-vowel system of stressed syllables developed, but then the low-mid vowels /ɛ ɔ/ merged into the high-mid vowels /e o/. this system is still preserved, largely or completely, in all of the conservative romance languages (e.g. italian, spanish, portuguese, catalan). in final unstressed syllables, results were somewhat complex. one of the more difficult issues is the development of final short -u, which appears to have been raised to /u/ rather than lowered to /o/, as happened in all other syllables. however, it is possible that in reality, final /u/ comes from long *-ū < -um, where original final -m caused vowel lengthening as well as nasalization. evidence of this comes from rhaeto-romance, in particular sursilvan, which preserves reflexes of both final -us and -um, and where the latter, but not the former, triggers metaphony. this suggests the development -us > /ʊs/ > /os/, but -um > /ũː/ > /u/.[ ] examples of evolution of final unstressed vowels: from least- to most-changed languages 	english	latin	proto-italo-western 	conservative central italian 	italian	spanish	catalan	old french 	a, e, i, o, u	a, e, i, o, u	a, e, i, o	a, e/-, o	a, -/e	e, -/e 	one (fem.)	ūnam	ˈuna	una	una	una	una	une 	door	portam	ˈpɔrta	pɔrta	porta	puerta	porta	porte 	seven	septem	ˈsɛtte	sɛtte	sette	siete	set	set 	sea	mare	ˈmare	mare	mare	mar	mar	mer 	peace	pācem	ˈpatʃe	pace	pace	paz	pau	paiz 	part	partem	ˈparte	parte	parte	parte	part	part 	mother	mātrem	ˈmatre	matre	madre	madre	mare	meḍre 	twenty	vīgintī	veˈenti	vinti	venti	veinte	vint	vint 	four	quattuor	ˈkwattro	quattro	quattro	cuatro	quatre	quatre 	eight	octō	ˈɔkto	ɔtto	otto	ocho	vuit	huit 	when	quandō	ˈkwando	quando	quando	cuando	quan	quant 	fourth	quartum	ˈkwartu	quartu	quarto	cuarto	quart	quart 	one (masc.)	ūnum	ˈunu	unu	uno	uno	un	un 	port	portum	ˈpɔrtu	portu	porto	puerto	port	port 	 these columns use ipa symbols /ɔ, ɛ/ to indicate open-mid vowels. the original five-vowel system in final unstressed syllables was preserved as-is in some of the more conservative central italian languages, but in most languages there was further coalescence: 	in tuscan (including standard italian), final /u/ merged into /o/. 	in the western romance languages, final /i/ eventually merged into /e/ (although final /i/ triggered metaphony before that, e.g. spanish hice, portuguese fiz "i did" < *fize < latin fēcī). conservative languages like spanish largely maintain that system, but drop final /e/ after certain single consonants, e.g. /r/, /l/, /n/, /d/, /z/ (< palatalized c). 	in the gallo-romance languages (part of western romance), final /o/ and /e/ were dropped entirely unless that produced an impossible final cluster (e.g. /tr/), in which case a "prop vowel" /e/ was added. this left only two final vowels: /a/ and prop vowel /e/. catalan preserves this system. 	loss of final stressless vowels in venetian shows a pattern intermediate between central italian and the gallo-italic branch, and the environments for vowel deletion vary considerably depending on the dialect. in the table above, final /e/ is uniformly absent in mar, absent in some dialects in part(e) /part(e)/ and set(e) /sɛt(e)/, but retained in mare (< latin mātrem) as a relic of the earlier cluster *dr. 	in primitive old french (one of the gallo-romance languages), these two remaining vowels merged into /ə/. various later changes happened in individual languages, e.g.: 	in french, most final consonants were dropped, and then final /ə/ was also dropped. the /ə/ is still preserved in spelling as a final silent -e, whose main purpose is to signal that the previous consonant is pronounced, e.g. port "port" /pɔʁ/ vs. porte "door" /pɔʁt/. these changes also eliminated the difference between singular and plural in most words: ports "ports" (still /pɔʁ/), portes "doors" (still /pɔʁt/). final consonants reappear in liaison contexts (in close connection with a following vowel-initial word), e.g. nous [nu] "we" vs. nous avons [nu.za.ˈvɔ̃] "we have", il fait [il.fɛ] "he does" vs. fait-il ? [fɛ.til] "does he?". 	in portuguese, final unstressed /o/ and /u/ were apparently preserved intact for a while, since final unstressed /u/, but not /o/ or /os/, triggered metaphony (see above). final-syllable unstressed /o/ was raised in preliterary times to /u/, but always still written ⟨o⟩. at some point (perhaps in late galician-portuguese), final-syllable unstressed /e/ was raised to /i/ (but still written ⟨e⟩); this remains in brazilian portuguese, but has developed to /ɨ/ in northern and central european portuguese. 	in catalan, final unstressed /as/ > /es/. in many dialects, unstressed /o/ and /u/ merge into /u/ as in portuguese, and unstressed /a/ and /e/ merge into /ə/. however, some dialects preserve the original five-vowel system, most notably standard valencian. intertonic vowels[edit] the so-called intertonic vowels are word-internal unstressed vowels, i.e. not in the initial, final, or tonic (i.e. stressed) syllable, hence intertonic. intertonic vowels were the most subject to loss or modification. already in vulgar latin intertonic vowels between a single consonant and a following /r/ or /l/ tended to drop: vétulum "old" > veclum > dalmatian vieklo, sicilian vecchiu, portuguese velho. but many languages ultimately dropped almost all intertonic vowels. generally, those languages south and east of the la spezia–rimini line (romanian and central-southern italian) maintained intertonic vowels, while those to the north and west (western romance) dropped all except /a/. standard italian generally maintained intertonic vowels, but typically raised unstressed /e/ > /i/. examples: 	septimā́nam "week" > italian settimana, romanian săptămână vs. spanish/portuguese semana, french semaine, occitan/catalan setmana, piedmontese sman-a 	quattuórdecim "fourteen" > italian quattordici, venetian cuatòrdexe, lombard/piedmontese quatòrdes, vs. spanish catorce, portuguese/french quatorze 	metipsissimus[ ] > medipsimus /medíssimos/ ~ /medéssimos/ "self"[ ] > italian medésimo vs. venetian medemo, lombard medemm, old spanish meísmo, meesmo (> modern mismo), galician-portuguese meesmo (> modern mesmo), old french meḍisme (> later meïsme > mf mesme > modern même)[ ] 	bonitā́tem "goodness" > italian bonità ~ bontà, romanian bunătate but spanish bondad, portuguese bondade, french bonté 	collocā́re "to position, arrange" > italian coricare vs. spanish colgar "to hang", romanian culca "to lie down", french coucher "to lay sth on its side; put s.o. to bed" 	commūnicā́re "to take communion" > romanian cumineca vs. portuguese comungar, spanish comulgar, old french comungier 	carricā́re "to load (onto a wagon, cart)" > portuguese/catalan carregar vs. spanish/occitan cargar "to load", french charger, lombard cargà/caregà, venetian carigar/cargar(e) "to load" 	fábricam "forge" > /*fawrɡa/ > spanish fragua, portuguese frágua, occitan/catalan farga, french forge 	disjējūnā́re "to break a fast" > *disjūnā́re > old french disner "to have lunch" > french dîner "to dine" (but *disjū́nat > old french desjune "he has lunch" > french (il) déjeune "he has lunch") 	adjūtā́re "to help" > italian aiutare, romanian ajuta but french aider, lombard aidà/aiuttà (spanish ayudar, portuguese ajudar based on stressed forms, e.g. ayuda/ajuda "he helps"; cf. old french aidier "to help" vs. aiue "he helps") portuguese is more conservative in maintaining some intertonic vowels other than /a/: e.g. *offerḗscere "to offer" > portuguese oferecer vs. spanish ofrecer, french offrir (< *offerīre). french, on the other hand, drops even intertonic /a/ after the stress: stéphanum "stephen" > spanish esteban but old french estievne > french Étienne. many cases of /a/ before the stress also ultimately dropped in french: sacraméntum "sacrament" > old french sairement > french serment "oath". writing systems[edit] main article: latin script the romance languages for the most part have kept the writing system of latin, adapting it to their evolution. one exception was romanian before the nineteenth century, where, after the roman retreat, literacy was reintroduced through the romanian cyrillic alphabet, a slavic influence. a cyrillic alphabet was also used for romanian (moldovan) in the ussr. the non-christian populations of spain also used the scripts of their religions (arabic and hebrew) to write romance languages such as ladino and mozarabic in aljamiado. letters[edit] spelling of results of palatalization and related sounds 	sound	spanish	portuguese	french 	catalan	italian	romanian 	/k/, not + ⟨e, i, y⟩	⟨c⟩ 	palatalized /k/ (/tʃ/~/s/~/θ/), + ⟨e, i, y⟩	⟨c⟩ 	palatalized /k/ (/tʃ/~/s/~/θ/), not + ⟨e, i, y⟩	⟨z⟩	⟨ç⟩	⟨ci⟩ 	/kw/, not + ⟨e, i, y⟩	⟨cu⟩	⟨qu⟩	⟨cu⟩ 	/k/ + ⟨e, i⟩ (inherited)	⟨qu⟩	⟨ch⟩ 	/kw/ + ⟨e, i⟩ (learned)	⟨cu⟩	⟨qu⟩[ ] 	⟨qü⟩ 	⟨qu⟩	⟨cu⟩ 	/g/, not + ⟨e, i, y⟩	⟨g⟩ 	palatalized /k, g/ (/dʒ/~/ʒ/~/x/), + ⟨e, i, y⟩	⟨g⟩ 	palatalized /k, g/ (/dʒ/~/ʒ/~/x/), not + ⟨e, i, y⟩	⟨j⟩	⟨g(e)⟩ 	⟨j⟩	⟨gi⟩ 	/gw/, not + ⟨e ,i⟩	⟨gu⟩ 	/g/ + ⟨e, i⟩ (inherited)	⟨gu⟩	⟨gh⟩ 	/gw/ + ⟨e, i⟩ (learned)	⟨gü⟩	⟨gu⟩[ ] 	⟨gü⟩ 	⟨gu⟩ 	(former) /ʎ/	⟨ll⟩	⟨lh⟩	⟨il(l)⟩ 	⟨ll⟩	⟨gli⟩	⟨il⟩ 	/ɲ/	⟨ñ⟩	⟨nh⟩	⟨gn⟩ 	⟨ny⟩ 	⟨gn⟩	⟨in⟩ the romance languages are written with the classical latin alphabet of letters – a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, v, x, y, z – subsequently modified and augmented in various ways. in particular, the single latin letter v split into v (consonant) and u (vowel), and the letter i split into i and j. the latin letter k and the new letter w, which came to be widely used in germanic languages, are seldom used in most romance languages – mostly for unassimilated foreign names and words. indeed, in italian prose kilometro is properly chilometro. catalan eschews importation of "foreign" letters more than most languages. thus wikipedia is viquipèdia in catalan but wikipedia in spanish. while most of the basic latin letters have maintained their phonetic value, for some of them it has diverged considerably; and the new letters added since the middle ages have been put to different uses in different scripts. some letters, notably h and q, have been variously combined in digraphs or trigraphs (see below) to represent phonetic phenomena that could not be recorded with the basic latin alphabet, or to get around previously established spelling conventions. most languages added auxiliary marks (diacritics) to some letters, for these and other purposes. the spelling rules of most romance languages are fairly simple, and consistent within any language. since the spelling systems are based on phonemic structures rather than phonetics, however, the actual pronunciation of what is represented in standard orthography can be subject to considerable regional variation, as well as to allophonic differentiation by position in the word or utterance. among the letters representing the most conspicuous phonological variations, between romance languages or with respect to latin, are the following: 	b, v: merged in spanish and some dialects of catalan, where both letters represent a single phoneme pronounced as either [b] or [β] depending on position, with no differentiation between b and v. 	c: generally a "hard" [k], but "soft" (fricative or affricate) before e, i, or y. 	g: generally a "hard" [ɡ], but "soft" (fricative or affricate) before e, i, or y. in some languages, like spanish, the hard g, phonemically /g/, is pronounced as a fricative [ɣ] after vowels. in romansch, the soft g is a voiced palatal plosive [ɟ] or a voiced alveolo-palatal affricate [dʑ]. 	h: silent in most languages; used to form various digraphs. but represents [h] in romanian, walloon and gascon occitan. 	j: represents the fricative [ʒ] in most languages, or the palatal approximant [j] in romansh and in several of the languages of italy, and [x] or [h] in spanish, depending on the variety. italian does not use this letter in native words. 	q: as in latin, its phonetic value is that of a hard c, i.e. [k], and in native words it is almost always followed by a (sometimes silent) u. romanian does not use this letter in native words. 	s: generally voiceless [s], but voiced [z] between vowels in some languages. in spanish, romanian, galician and several varieties of italian, however, it is always pronounced voiceless between vowels. if the phoneme /s/ is represented by the letter s, predictable assimilations are normally not shown (e.g. italian /slitta/ 'sled', spelled slitta but pronounced [zlitːa], never with [s]). also at the end of syllables it may represent special allophonic pronunciations. in romansh, it also stands for a voiceless or voiced fricative, [ʃ] or [ʒ], before certain consonants. 	w: no romance language uses this letter in native words, with the exception of walloon. 	x: its pronunciation is rather variable, both between and within languages. in the middle ages, the languages of iberia used this letter to denote the voiceless postalveolar fricative [ʃ], which is still the case in modern catalan and portuguese. with the renaissance the classical pronunciation [ks] – or similar consonant clusters, such as [ɡz], [ɡs], or [kθ] – were frequently reintroduced in latinisms and hellenisms. in venetian it represents [z], and in ligurian the voiced postalveolar fricative [ʒ]. italian does not use this letter in native words. 	y: this letter is not used in most languages, with the prominent exceptions of french and spanish, where it represents [j] before vowels (or various similar fricatives such as the palatal fricative [ʝ], in spanish), and the vowel [i] or semivowel [j] elsewhere. 	z: in most languages it represents the sound [z]. however, in italian it denotes the affricates [dz] and [ts] (which are two separate phonemes, but rarely contrast; among the few examples of minimal pairs are razza "ray" with [ddz], razza "race" with [tts] (note that both are phonetically long between vowels); in romansh the voiceless affricate [ts]; and in galician and spanish it denotes either the voiceless dental fricative [θ] or [s]. otherwise, letters that are not combined as digraphs generally represent the same phonemes as suggested by the international phonetic alphabet (ipa), whose design was, in fact, greatly influenced by romance spelling systems. digraphs and trigraphs[edit] since most romance languages have more sounds than can be accommodated in the roman latin alphabet they all resort to the use of digraphs and trigraphs – combinations of two or three letters with a single phonemic value. the concept (but not the actual combinations) is derived from classical latin, which used, for example, th, ph, and ch when transliterating the greek letters "θ", "ϕ" (later "φ"), and "χ". these were once aspirated sounds in greek before changing to corresponding fricatives, and the h represented what sounded to the romans like an /ʰ/ following /t/, /p/, and /k/ respectively. some of the digraphs used in modern scripts are: 	ci: used in italian, romance languages in italy, corsican and romanian to represent /tʃ/ before a, o, or u. 	ch: used in italian, romance languages in italy, corsican, romanian, romansh and sardinian to represent /k/ before e or i (including yod /j/); /tʃ/ in occitan, spanish, astur-leonese and galician; [c] or [tɕ] in romansh before a, o or u; and /ʃ/ in most other languages. in catalan it is used in some old spelling conventions for /k/. 	dd: used in sicilian and sardinian to represent the voiced retroflex plosive /ɖ/. in recent history more accurately transcribed as ddh. 	dj: used in walloon and catalan for /dʒ/. 	gi: used in italian, romance languages in italy, corsican and romanian to represent /dʒ/ before a, o, or u, and in romansh to represent [ɟi] or /dʑi/ or (before a, e, o, and u) [ɟ] or /dʑ/ 	gh: used in italian, romance languages in italy, corsican, romanian, romansh and sardinian to represent /ɡ/ before e or i (including yod /j/), and in galician for the voiceless pharyngeal fricative /ħ/ (not standard sound). 	gl: used in romansh before consonants and i and at the end of words for /ʎ/. 	gli: used in italian and corsican for /ʎʎ/ and romansh for /ʎ/. 	gn: used in french, some romance languages in italy, corsican and romansh for /ɲ/, as in champignon; in italian to represent /ɲɲ/, as in "ogni" or "lo gnocco". 	gu: used before e or i to represent /ɡ/ or /ɣ/ in all romance languages except italian, romance languages in italy, corsican, romansh, and romanian, which use gh instead. 	ig: used at the end of word in catalan for /tʃ/, as in maig, safareig or enmig. 	ix: used between vowels or at the end of word in catalan for /ʃ/, as in caixa or calaix. 	lh: used in portuguese and occitan /ʎ/. 	ll: used in spanish, catalan, galician, astur-leonese, norman and dgèrnésiais, originally for /ʎ/ which has merged in some cases with /j/. represents /l/ in french unless it follows i (i) when it represents /j/ (or /ʎ/ in some dialects). as in italian, it is used in occitan for a long /ll/. 	l·l: used in catalan for a geminate consonant /ɫɫ/. 	nh: used in portuguese and occitan for /ɲ/, used in official galician for /ŋ/ . 	n-: used in piedmontese and ligurian for /ŋ/ between two vowels. 	nn: used in leonese for /ɲ/, in italian for geminate /nn/. 	ny: used in catalan for /ɲ/. 	qu: represents /kw/ in italian, romance languages in italy, and romansh; /k/ in french, astur-leonese (normally before e or i); /k/ (before e or i) or /kw/ (normally before a or o) in occitan, catalan and portuguese; /k/ in spanish (always before e or i). 	rr: used between vowels in several languages (occitan, catalan, spanish...) to denote a trilled /r/ or a guttural r, instead of the flap /ɾ/. 	sc: used before e or i in italian, romance languages in italy as /ʃʃ/, in european portuguese as /ʃˈs/ and in french, brazilian portuguese, catalan and latin american spanish as /s/ in words of certain etymology (notice this would represent /θ/ in standard peninsular spanish) 	sch: used in romansh for [ʃ] or [ʒ], in italian for /sk/ before "e"or "i", including yod /j/. 	sci: used in italian, romance languages in italy, and corsican to represent /ʃ/ or /ʃʃ/ before a, o, or u. 	sh: used in aranese occitan for /ʃ/. 	ss: used in french, portuguese, piedmontese, romansh, occitan, and catalan for /s/ between vowels, in italian, romance languages of italy, and corsican for long /ss/. 	ts: used in catalan for /ts/. 	tg: used in romansh for [c] or [tɕ]. in catalan is used for /dʒ/ before e and i, as in metge or fetge. 	th: used in jèrriais for /θ/; used in aranese for either /t/ or /tʃ/. 	tj: used between vowels and before a, o or u, in catalan for /dʒ/, as in sotjar or mitjó. 	tsch: used in romansh for [tʃ]. 	tx: used at the beginning or at the end of word or between vowels in catalan for /tʃ/, as in txec, esquitx or atxa. 	tz: used in catalan for /dz/. while the digraphs ch, ph, rh and th were at one time used in many words of greek origin, most languages have now replaced them with c/qu, f, r and t. only french has kept these etymological spellings, which now represent /k/ or /ʃ/, /f/, /ʀ/ and /t/, respectively. double consonants[edit] gemination, in the languages where it occurs, is usually indicated by doubling the consonant, except when it does not contrast phonemically with the corresponding short consonant, in which case gemination is not indicated. in jèrriais, long consonants are marked with an apostrophe: s's is a long /zz/, ss's is a long /ss/, and t't is a long /tt/. the phonemic contrast between geminate and single consonants is widespread in italian, and normally indicated in the traditional orthography: fatto /fatto/ 'done' vs. fato /fato/ 'fate, destiny'; cadde /kadde/ 's/he, it fell' vs. cade /kade/ 's/he, it falls'. the double consonants in french orthography, however, are merely etymological. in catalan, the gemination of l is marked by a punt volat ("flying point"): l·l. diacritics[edit] romance languages also introduced various marks (diacritics) that may be attached to some letters, for various purposes. in some cases, diacritics are used as an alternative to digraphs and trigraphs; namely to represent a larger number of sounds than would be possible with the basic alphabet, or to distinguish between sounds that were previously written the same. diacritics are also used to mark word stress, to indicate exceptional pronunciation of letters in certain words, and to distinguish words with same pronunciation (homophones). depending on the language, some letter-diacritic combinations may be considered distinct letters, e.g. for the purposes of lexical sorting. this is the case, for example, of romanian ș ([ʃ]) and spanish ñ ([ɲ]). the following are the most common use of diacritics in romance languages. 	vowel quality: the system of marking close-mid vowels with an acute accent, é, and open-mid vowels with a grave accent, è, is widely used (e.g. catalan, french, italian). portuguese, however, uses the circumflex (ê) for the former, and the acute (é), for the latter. some minority romance languages use an umlaut (diaeresis mark) in the case of ä, ö, ü to indicate fronted vowel variants, as in german. centralized vowels (/ɐ/, /ə/) are indicated variously (â in portuguese, ă/î in romanian, ë in piedmontese, etc.). in french, occitan and romanian, these accents are used whenever necessary to distinguish the appropriate vowel quality, but in the other languages, they are used only when it is necessary to mark unpredictable stress, or in some cases to distinguish homophones. 	vowel length: french uses a circumflex to indicate what had been a long vowel (although nowadays this rather indicates a difference in vowel quality, if it has any effect at all on pronunciation). this same usage is found in some minority languages. 	nasality: portuguese marks nasal vowels with a tilde (ã) when they occur before other written vowels and in some other instances. 	palatalization: some historical palatalizations are indicated with the cedilla (ç) in french, catalan, occitan and portuguese. in spanish and several other world languages influenced by it, the grapheme ñ represents a palatal nasal consonant. 	separate pronunciation: when a vowel and another letter that would normally be combined into a digraph with a single sound are exceptionally pronounced apart, this is often indicated with a diaeresis mark on the vowel. this is particularly common in the case of gü /gw/ before e or i, because plain gu in this case would be pronounced /g/. this usage occurs in spanish, french, catalan and occitan, and occurred before the spelling reform in brazilian portuguese. french also uses the diaeresis on the second of two adjacent vowels to indicate that both are pronounced separately, as in noël "christmas" and haïr "to hate". 	stress: the stressed vowel in a polysyllabic word may be indicated with an accent, when it cannot be predicted by rule. in italian, portuguese and catalan, the choice of accent (acute, grave or circumflex) may depend on vowel quality. when no quality needs to be indicated, an acute accent is normally used (ú), but italian and romansh use a grave accent (ù). portuguese puts a diacritic on all stressed monosyllables that end in a e o as es os, to distinguish them from unstressed function words: chá "tea", más "bad (fem. pl.)", sé "seat (of government)", dê "give! (imperative)", mês "month", só "only", nós "we" (cf. mas "but", se "if/oneself", de "of", nos "us"). word-final stressed vowels in polysyllables are marked by the grave accent in italian, thus università "university/universities", virtù "virtue/virtues", resulting in occasional minimal or near-minimal pairs such as parlo "i speak" ≠ parlò "s/he spoke", capi "heads, bosses" ≠ capì "s/he understood", gravita "it, s'/he gravitates" ≠ gravità "gravity, seriousness". 	homophones: words (especially monosyllables) that are pronounced exactly or nearly the same way and are spelled identically, but have different meanings, can be differentiated by a diacritic. typically, if one of the pair is stressed and the other isn't, the stressed word gets the diacritic, using the appropriate diacritic for notating stressed syllables (see above). portuguese does this consistently as part of notating stress in certain monosyllables, whether or not there is an unstressed homophone (see examples above). spanish also has many pairs of identically pronounced words distinguished by an acute accent on the stressed word: si "if" vs. sí "yes", mas "but" vs. más "more", mi "my" vs. mí "me", se "oneself" vs. sé "i know", te "you (object)" vs. té "tea", que/quien/cuando/como "that/who/when/how" vs. qué/quién/cuándo/cómo "what?/who?/when?/how?", etc. a similar strategy is common for monosyllables in writing italian, but not necessarily determined by stress: stressed dà "it, s/he gives" vs. unstressed da "by, from", but also tè "tea" and te "you", both capable of bearing phrasal stress. catalan has some pairs where both words are stressed, and one is distinguished by a vowel-quality diacritic, e.g. os "bone" vs. ós "bear". when no vowel-quality needs distinguishing, french and catalan use a grave accent: french ou "or" vs. où "where", french la "the" vs. là "there", catalan ma "my" vs. mà "hand". upper and lower case[edit] most languages are written with a mixture of two distinct but phonetically identical variants or "cases" of the alphabet: majuscule ("uppercase" or "capital letters"), derived from roman stone-carved letter shapes, and minuscule ("lowercase"), derived from carolingian writing and medieval quill pen handwriting which were later adapted by printers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. in particular, all romance languages capitalize (use uppercase for the first letter of) the following words: the first word of each complete sentence, most words in names of people, places, and organizations, and most words in titles of books. the romance languages do not follow the german practice of capitalizing all nouns including common ones. unlike english, the names of months, days of the weeks, and derivatives of proper nouns are usually not capitalized: thus, in italian one capitalizes francia ("france") and francesco ("francis"), but not francese ("french") or francescano ("franciscan"). however, each language has some exceptions to this general rule. vocabulary comparison[edit] the tables below provide a vocabulary comparison that illustrates a number of examples of sound shifts that have occurred between latin and romance languages. words are given in their conventional spellings. in addition, for french the actual pronunciation is given, due to the dramatic differences between spelling and pronunciation. (french spelling approximately reflects the pronunciation of old french, c. ad.) 	english 	latin 	sardinian[ ] (nuorese) 	romanian 	sicilian[ ][ ][ ] 	corsican (northern) 	italian 	venetian 	emilian 	lombard 	piedmontese[ ] 	friulian[ ] 	romansh 	french 	occitan[ ] 	catalan 	aragonese[ ] 	spanish 	asturian[ ] 	portuguese 	galician 	man 	homō, hominem 	ómine 	om 	omu 	omu 	uomo 	om(en)o 	òm(en) 	òm(en) 	òm 	om 	um 	homme /ɔm/ 	òme 	home 	om(br)e 	hombre 	home 	homem 	home 	woman, wife 	domina, femina,mulier, mulierem 	fémina, muzère 	femeie, muiere 	mugghieri 	donna, moglie 	donna, moglie 	mujer 	mujér 	dòna/fomna, miee/moglier 	fomna 	muîr 	muglier 	femme /fam/ of moillier 	ooc mólher (nom.) / molhér (obj.) 	dona, muller 	muller 	mujer 	muyer 	mulher 	muller 	son 	fīlium 	fízu 	fiu 	figghiu 	figliu/figliolu 	figlio 	fio 	fiōl 	fiœl 	fieul 	fi 	figl, fegl 	fils /fis/ 	filh 	fill 	fillo 	hijo 	fíu 	filho 	fillo 	water 	aquam 	àbba 	apă 	acqua 	acqua 	acqua 	acua 	aqua 	aqua/ova/eiva 	eva 	aghe 	aua 	eau /o/ 	aiga 	aigua 	aigua, augua 	agua 	agua 	água 	auga 	fire 	focum 	fócu 	foc 	focu 	focu 	fuoco 	fogo 	foeugh 	fœg 	feu 	fûc 	fieu 	feu /fø/ 	fuòc 	foc 	fuego 	fuego 	fueu 	fogo 	fogo 	rain 	pluviam 	próida 	ploaie 	chiuvuta[ ] 	pioggia 	pioggia 	pióva 	pioeuva 	piœva 	pieuva 	ploe 	plievgia 	pluie /plɥi/ 	pluèja 	pluja 	plebia 	lluvia 	lluvia 	chuva 	choiva 	land 	terram 	tèrra 	ţară 	terra 	terra 	terra 	tera 	tera 	terra 	tèra 	tiere 	terra/tiara 	terre /tɛʁ/ 	tèrra 	terra 	tierra 	tierra 	tierra 	terra 	terra 	sky 	caelum 	chélu 	cer 	celu 	celu 	cielo 	çiél 	cēl 	cel 	cel 	cîl 	tschiel 	ciel /sjɛl/ 	cèl 	cel 	zielo 	cielo 	cielu 	céu 	ceo 	high 	altum 	àrtu 	înalt 	autu 	altu 	alto 	alto 	élt 	alt/(v)olt 	àut 	alt 	aut 	haut[ ] /o/ 	n-aut 	alt 	alto 	alto 	altu 	alto 	alto 	new 	novum 	nóbu 	nou 	novu 	novu 	nuovo 	nóvo 	noeuv 	nœv 	neuv 	gnove 	nov 	neuf /nœf/ 	nòu 	nou 	nuebo 	nuevo 	nuevu 	novo 	novo 	horse 	caballum 	càdhu 	cal 	cavaddu 	cavallu 	cavallo 	cavało 	cavàl 	cavall 	caval 	ĉhaval 	chaval 	cheval /ʃ(ə)val/ 	caval 	cavall 	caballo 	caballo 	caballu 	cavalo 	cabalo 	dog 	canem 	càne/jàgaru 	câine 	cani 	cane 	cane 	can 	can 	can/ca 	can 	cjan 	chaun 	chien /ʃjɛ̃/ 	can 	ca, gos 	can 	can/perro 	can 	cão 	can 	do 	facere 	fàchere 	face(re) 	fari/fàciri 	fà 	fare 	far 	far 	fà 	fé 	fâ 	far 	faire /fɛːʁ/ 	far/fàser 	fer 	fer 	hacer 	facer 	fazer 	facer 	milk 	lactem 	làte 	lapte 	latti 	latte 	latte 	late 	latt 	lacc/lat 	làit 	lat 	latg 	lait /lɛ/ 	lach 	llet 	leit 	leche 	lleche 	leite 	leite 	eye 	oculum > *oclum 	ócru 	ochi 	occhiu 	ochiu/ochju 	occhio 	ocio 	òć 	œgg 	euj 	voli 	egl 	œil /œj/ 	uèlh 	ull 	güello 	ojo 	güeyu 	olho 	ollo 	ear 	auriculam > *oriclam 	orícra 	ureche 	auricchia 	orecchiu/orechju 	orecchio 	orécia 	uréć 	oregia/orecia 	orija 	orele 	ureglia 	oreille /ɔʁɛj/ 	aurelha 	orella 	orella 	oreja 	oreya 	orelha 	orella 	tongue/ language 	linguam 	límba 	limbǎ 	lingua 	lingua 	lingua 	léngua 	léngua 	lengua 	lenga 	lenghe 	lingua 	langue /lɑ̃ɡ/ 	lenga 	llengua 	luenga 	lengua 	llingua 	língua 	lingua 	hand 	manum 	mànu 	mână 	manu 	manu 	mano 	man 	man 	man/ma 	man 	man 	maun 	main /mɛ̃/ 	man 	mà 	man 	mano 	mano 	mão [mɐ̃w̃] 	man 	skin 	pellem 	pèdhe 	piele 	peddi 	pelle 	pelle 	pełe 	pèl 	pell 	pel 	piel 	pel 	peau /po/ 	pèl 	pell 	piel 	piel 	piel 	pele 	pel 	i 	ego 	(d)ègo 	eu 	eu/jè/ju 	eiu 	io 	(mi)[ ] 	(mì/mè)[ ] 	(mi/mé)[ ] 	i 	jo 	jau 	je /ʒə/ 	ieu/jo 	jo 	yo 	yo 	yo 	eu 	eu 	our 	nostrum 	nóstru 	nostru 	nostru 	nostru 	nostro 	nostro 	noster 	nòst/nòster 	nòst 	nestri 	noss 	notre /nɔtʁ/ 	nòstre 	nostre 	nuestro 	nuestro 	nuesu,[ ] nuestru 	nosso[ ] 	noso[ ] 	three 	trēs 	tres 	trei 	tri 	tre 	tre 	tre 	trii 	tri (m)/ tre (f) 	trè 	tre 	trais 	trois /tʁwɑ/ 	tres 	tres 	tres 	tres 	trés 	três 	tres 	four 	quattuor > *quattro 	bàtoro 	patru 	quattru 	quattru 	quattro 	cuatro 	quàtar 	quàter 	quatr 	cuatri 	quat(t)er 	quatre /katʁ/ 	quatre 	quatre 	cuatre, cuatro 	cuatro 	cuatro 	quatro 	catro 	five 	quīnque > *cīnque 	chímbe 	cinci 	cincu 	cinque 	cinque 	çincue 	sinc 	cinc/sic 	sinch 	cinc 	tschintg 	cinq /sɛ̃k/ 	cinc 	cinc 	zinco, zingo 	cinco 	cinco, cincu 	cinco 	cinco 	six 	sex 	ses 	şase 	sia 	sei 	sei 	sìe 	siē 	sex /ses/ 	ses 	sîs 	sis 	six /sis/ 	sièis 	sis 	seis/sais 	seis 	seis 	seis 	seis 	seven 	septem 	sète 	şapte 	setti 	sette 	sette 	sete 	sèt 	set 	set 	siet 	se(a)t, siat 	sept /sɛt/ 	sèt 	set 	siet(e) 	siete 	siete 	sete 	sete 	eight 	octō 	òto 	opt 	ottu 	ottu 	otto 	oto 	òt 	vòt/òt 	eut 	vot 	ot(g), och 	huit /ɥit/ 	uèch 	vuit 	güeito, ueito 	ocho 	ocho 	oito 	oito 	nine 	novem 	nòbe 	nouă 	novi 	nove 	nove 	nove 	nóv 	nœv 	neuv 	nûv 	no(u)v 	neuf /nœf/ 	nòu 	nou 	nueu 	nueve 	nueve 	nove 	nove 	ten 	decem 	dèche 	zece 	deci 	dece 	dieci 	diéxe 	déś 	dex /des/ 	des 	dîs 	diesch 	dix /dis/ 	dètz 	deu 	diez 	diez 	diez 	dez 	dez 	english 	latin 	sardinian (nuorese) 	romanian 	sicilian 	corsican (northern) 	italian 	venetian 	emilian 	lombard 	piedmontese 	friulian 	romansh 	french 	occitan 	catalan 	aragonese 	spanish 	asturian 	portuguese 	galician degrees of lexical similarity between the romance languages[edit] data from ethnologue:[ ] 	% 	french 	catalan 	italian 	portuguese 	romansh 	romanian 	spanish 	sardinian 	french		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	catalan	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	italian	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	portuguese	 	 	 		 	 	 	 	romansh	 	 	 	 		 	 	 	romanian	 	 	 	 	 		 	 	spanish	 	 	 	 	 	 		 	sardinian	 	 	 (a)	 	 	 	 	 see also[edit] 	romance languages linguistics 	italo-celtic 	romance peoples 	legacy of the roman empire 	southern romance 	african romance 	british latin 	moselle romance 	pannonian romance 	romance-speaking africa 	romance-speaking europe 	romance-speaking world notes[edit] 	^ hammarström, harald; forkel, robert; haspelmath, martin, eds. ( ). "romance". glottolog . . jena, germany: max planck institute for the science of human history. 	^ herman, józsef; wright, roger (translator) ( ). vulgar latin. university park: pennsylvania state university press. pp.  – . isbn  - - - . 	^ «classifications that are not based on family trees usually involve ranking languages according to degree of differentiation rather than grouping them; thus, if the romance languages are compared with latin, it is seen that by most measures sardinian and italian are least differentiated and french most (though in vocabulary romanian has changed most).» marius sala; et al. "romance languages". britannica.com. 	^ pei, mario ( ). "a new methodology for romance classification". word. ( ): – . doi: . / . . . 	^ for example, a study by pei, analyzing the degree of difference from a language's parent (latin, in the case of romance languages) by comparing phonology, inflection, syntax, vocabulary, and intonation, indicated the following percentages (the higher the percentage, the greater the distance from latin): sardinian %, italian %, spanish %, romanian . %, occitan %, portuguese %, and french %. 	^ m. paul lewis, "summary by language size", ethnologue: languages of the world, sixteenth edition. 	^ david dalby ( ). the linguasphere register of the world's languages and speech communities (pdf). . oxford, england: observatoire linguistique, linguasphere press. pp.  – (zone ). retrieved july , . 	^ ilari, rodolfo ( ). lingüística românica. Ática. p.  . isbn  - - - . 	^ "romance languages". encyclopædia britannica. retrieved december . 	^ sardos etiam, qui non latii sunt sed latiis associandi videntur, eiciamus, quoniam soli sine proprio vulgari esse videntur, gramaticam tanquam simie homines imitantes: nam domus nova et dominus meus locuntur. ["as for the sardinians, who are not italian but may be associated with italians for our purposes, out they must go, because they alone seem to lack a vernacular of their own, instead imitating gramatica as apes do humans: for they say domus nova [my house] and dominus meus [my master]." (english translation provided by dante online, de vulgari eloquentia, i-xi)] it is unclear whether this indicates that sardinian still had a two-case system at the time; modern sardinian lacks grammatical case. 	^ "dante's peek". online etymology dictionary. . 	^ jaberg, karl and jud, jakob, sprach- und sachatlas italiens und der südschweiz, vol. - , bern: zofingen, - ; karte : quella vacca, karte : una notte (online access: [ ]) 	^ a b zhang, huiying ( ). "from latin to the romance languages: a normal evolution to what extent?" (pdf). quarterly journal of chinese studies. ( ): – . archived from the original (pdf) on - - . retrieved - - . 	^ ruhlen m. 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"genesis and evolution of the romance-germanic language border in europe". in treffers-daller, jeanine; willemyns, roland (eds.). language contact at the romance–germanic language border (pdf). multilingual matters. p.  . isbn  . 	^ note that the current portuguese spelling (portuguese language orthographic agreement of ) abolished the use of the diaeresis for this purpose. 	^ pope ( ). 	^ rodney sampson, vowel prosthesis in romance: a diachronic study (oxford: oxford up, ), . 	^ allen ( ) states: "there appears to have been no great difference in quality between long and short a, but in the case of the close and mid vowels (i and u, e and o) the long appear to have been appreciably closer than the short." he then goes on to the historical development, quotations from various authors (from around the second century ad), as well as evidence from older inscriptions where "e" stands for normally short i, and "i" for long e, etc. 	^ technically, sardinian is one of the southern romance languages. the same vowel outcome occurred in a small strip running across southern italy (the lausberg zone), and is thought to have occurred in the romance languages of northern africa. 	^ palmer ( ). 	^ cauda would produce french **choue, italian */kɔda/, occitan **cauda, romanian **caudă. 	^ kaze, jeffery w. 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	 	terence 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		roman comic playwright this article is about the roman playwright. for other persons named terence, see terence (given name). for other members of the roman gens, see terentia gens. 	terence 	born	publius terentius afer c. / bc 	died	c. ? bc 	occupation	playwright 	nationality	roman african 	period	roman republic publius terentius afer (/təˈrɛnʃiəs, -ʃəs/; c. / – c. ? bc), better known in english as terence (/ˈtɛrəns/), was a roman african playwright during the roman republic. his comedies were performed for the first time around – bc. terentius lucanus, a roman senator, brought terence to rome as a slave, educated him and later on, impressed by his abilities, freed him. terence abruptly died, around the age of , likely in greece or on his way back to rome, due to shipwreck or disease.[ ] he was supposedly on his way to explore and find more plots to base his comedies on. terence's legacy is one that includes his plays being heavily used to learn to speak and write in latin during the middle ages and renaissance period, as well as to be imitated by shakespeare in some of his plays. one famous quotation by terence reads: "homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto", or "i am human, and i think nothing human is alien to me."[ ] this appeared in his play heauton timorumenos.[ ] contents 	 biography 	 plays 	 cultural legacy 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links biography[edit] terence's date of birth is disputed; aelius donatus, in his incomplete commentum terenti, considers the year bc to be the year terentius was born;[ ] fenestella, on the other hand, states that he was born ten years earlier, in bc.[ ] other scholars have also stated his birth to be in the year bce.[ ] while no one knows for certainty, it is likely to say that that it occurred somewhere between the years of bce and bce. terence may have been born in or near carthage or in greek italy to a woman taken to carthage as a slave. terence's cognomen afer suggests he lived in the territory of the libyan tribe called by the romans afri near carthage prior to being brought to rome as a slave.[ ] portrait of terence, created by dutch artist pieter van cuyck however, it is possible that ancient biographers' reports that terence was born in africa are an inference from his name and not independent biographical information.[ ][ ] this inference is based on the fact that the term was used in two different ways during the republican era. during terence's lifetime, it was used to refer to non-carthaginian berbers, with the term punicus reserved for the carthaginians.[ ] subsequently, after the destruction of carthage in bc, it was used to refer to anyone from the land of the afri (that is, the ancient roman province of africa, mostly corresponding to today's tunisia and its surroundings). the cognomen afer "[north] african" may indicate that terence hailed from ancient libya,[ ] and was therefore of berber descent.[ ] however, such names did not necessarily denote origin, and there were romans who had this cognomen who were not africans, such as domitius afer. consequently, it is not known with certainty whether terence was given the cognomen afer as denoting his origin, or if it was solely based on later bibliographers' reports based on the terminology of their day. according to his traditional biography, he was sold to p. terentius lucanus,[ ] a roman senator, who educated him and later on, impressed by terence's abilities, freed him. terence then took the nomen "terentius," which is the origin of the present form. based on the writings of the roman historian suetonius, terence was described to be of "moderate height, slender, and of dark complexion," additionally leaving a daughter who subsequently went on to marry a roman knight.[ ] additionally, terence was a member of the so-called scipionic circle. when he was about the age of , terence travelled to greece to gather materials for his plays and never returned. it is mostly believed that terence died during the journey, but this cannot be confirmed. before his disappearance, he exhibited six comedies which are still in existence. according to some ancient writers, he died at sea due to shipwreck or disease. it is possible, however, that the fateful voyage to greece was a speculative explanation of why he wrote so few plays inferred from terence's complaint in eunuchus – about the limited materials at his disposal.[ ] plays[edit] edition of terence's works like plautus, terence adapted greek plays from the late phases of attic comedy. unlike plautus though, terence's way of writing his comedies was more in a simple conversational latin, pleasant and direct, while less visually humorous to watch.[ ] it has also been said that terence made better utilization of his plots than plautus, and his purer language and characterizations in his comedies can be attributed to the lack of popularity during his day.[ ] aelius donatus, jerome's teacher, is the earliest surviving commentator on terence's work. terence's popularity throughout the middle ages and the renaissance is attested to by the numerous manuscripts containing part or all of his plays; the scholar claudia villa has estimated that manuscripts containing terence's work date from after ad . the mediaeval playwright hroswitha of gandersheim claims to have written her plays so that learned men had a christian alternative to reading the pagan plays of terence, while the reformer martin luther not only quoted terence frequently to tap into his insights into all things human but also recommended his comedies for the instruction of children in school.[ ] terence's six plays are: 	andria (the girl from andros) ( bc) 	hecyra (the mother-in-law) ( bc) 	heauton timorumenos (the self-tormentor) ( bc) 	phormio ( bc) 	eunuchus ( bc) 	adelphoe (the brothers) ( bc) the first printed edition of terence appeared in strasbourg in , while the first certain post-antique performance of one of terence's plays, andria, took place in florence in . there is evidence, however, that terence was performed much earlier. the short dialogue terentius et delusor was probably written to be performed as an introduction to a terentian performance in the th century (possibly earlier). cultural legacy[edit] mid- th century illustrated latin manuscript of terence's comedies from st albans abbey, now held at the bodleian library due to his clear and entertaining language, terence's works were heavily used by monasteries and convents during the middle ages and the renaissance. scribes often learned latin through the meticulous copying of terence's texts. priests and nuns often learned to speak latin through reenactment of terence's plays, thereby learning both latin and gregorian chants. although terence's plays often dealt with pagan material, the quality of his language promoted the copying and preserving of his text by the church. the preservation of terence through the church enabled his work to influence much of later western drama.[ ] pietro alighieri's commentary to the commedia states that his father took the title from terence's plays and giovanni boccaccio copied out in his own hand all of terence's comedies and apuleius' writings in manuscripts that are now in the laurentian library. two of the earliest english comedies, ralph roister doister and gammer gurton's needle, are thought to parody terence's plays. montaigne, shakespeare and molière cite and imitate him. terence's plays were a standard part of the latin curriculum of the neoclassical period. president of the united states john adams once wrote to his son, "terence is remarkable, for good morals, good taste, and good latin...his language has simplicity and an elegance that make him proper to be accurately studied as a model."[ ] american playwright thornton wilder based his novel the woman of andros on terence's andria. the works of terence had often been read not only in roman schools years after his death, but also in schools around europe for centuries after due to the proficient and skillful use of language that were in his plays. terence's works, along with plautus', were so well appreciated and revered, that even shakespeare centuries later studied their works in his schooling and certainly knew them through and throughout.[ ] due to his cognomen afer, terence has long been identified with africa and heralded as the first poet of the african diaspora by generations of writers, including juan latino, phyllis wheatley, alexandre dumas, langston hughes and maya angelou. two of his plays were produced in denver with black actors. questions as to whether terence received assistance in writing or was not the actual author have been debated over the ages, as described in the edition of the encyclopædia britannica: [in a prologue to one of his plays, terence] meets the charge of receiving assistance in the composition of his plays by claiming as a great honour the favour which he enjoyed with those who were the favorites of the roman people. but the gossip, not discouraged by terence, lived and throve; it crops up in cicero and quintilian, and the ascription of the plays to scipio had the honour to be accepted by montaigne and rejected by diderot.[ ] see also[edit] 	translation 	metres of roman comedy 	codex vaticanus 	list of slaves 	roman africans 	quod licet iovi, non licet bovi references[edit] 	^ kamm, antony; graham, abigail ( ). "the romans". routledgetextbooks.com. retrieved - - . 	^ more literally, "i am a human being; of that which is human, i think nothing estranged from me." 	^ ricord, frederick w. ( ). the self-tormentor (heautontimorumenos) from the latin of publius terentius afer with more english songs from foreign tongues. new york: charles scribner's. p.  . retrieved january – via internet archive. . the quote appears in act i, scene , line , or at line if the entire play is numbered continuously. 	^ aeli donati commentum terenti, accedunt eugraphi commentum et scholia bembina, ed. paul wessner, volumes, leipzig, , , . 	^ g. d' anna, sulla vita suetoniana di terenzio, ril, , pp. - , - . 	^ martin, t.r. ( ). ancient rome: from romulus to justinian. new haven: yale university press. 	^ tenney frank, "on suetonius' life of terence." the american journal of philology, vol. , no. ( ), pp. - . 	^ brown, peter g. m. ( ). "terence". oxford classical dictionary ( ed.). oxford university press. pp.  – . 	^ a b terence ( ). goldberg, sander m. (ed.). hecyra. cambridge university press. pp.  – . 	^ h. j. rose, a handbook of latin literature, . 	^ michael von albrecht, geschichte der römischen literatur, volume , bern, . 	^ "...the playwright terence, who reached rome as the slave of a senator in the second century bc, was a berber", suzan raven, rome in africa, routledge, , p. ; isbn  - - - . 	^ smith, william (editor); dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology, "lucanus, terentius" archived - - at the wayback machine, boston, . 	^ "suetonius • life of terence". penelope.uchicago.edu. retrieved - - . 	^ knox, p.e., and j.c. mckeown ( ). the oxford anthology of roman literature. oxford: oxford university press. 	^ kamm, antony; graham, abigail ( ). "the romans". routledgetextbooks.com. retrieved - - . 	^ see, e.g., in luther's works: american edition, vol. : ; : . 	^ holloway, julia bolton ( ). sweet new style: brunetto latino, dante alighieri, geoffrey chaucer, essays, - . retrieved october . 	^ john adams by david mccullough, simon and schuster paperbacks, new york, . pg . isbn  - - - - 	^ knox, p.e., and j.c. mckeown. . the oxford anthology of roman literature. oxford: oxford university press. 	^  one or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: sellar, william young; harrison, ernest ( ). "terence". in chisholm, hugh (ed.). encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. p.  . further reading[edit] 	augoustakis, a. and ariana traill eds. ( ). a companion to terence. blackwell companions to the ancient world. malden/oxford/chichester: wiley-blackwell. 	boyle, a. j., ed. ( ). special issue: rethinking terence. ramus : – . 	büchner, k. ( ). das theater des terenz. heidelberg: c. winter. 	davis, j. e. ( ). terence interrupted: literary biography and the reception of the terentian canon. american journal of philology ( ), – . 	forehand, w. e. ( ). terence. boston: twayne. 	goldberg, s. m. ( ). understanding terence. princeton: princeton university press. 	karakasis, e. ( ). terence and the language of roman comedy. cambridge: cambridge university press. 	papaioannou, s., ed. ( ). terence and interpretation. pierides, . newcastle upon tyne: cambridge scholars publishing. 	pezzini, g. ( ). terence and the verb ‘to be’ in latin. oxford classical monographs. oxford/new york: oxford university press. 	sharrock, a. ( ). reading roman comedy: poetics and playfulness in plautus and terence. w.b. stanford memorial lectures. cambridge/new york: cambridge university press. external links[edit] 	library resources about terence 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 by terence 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	the six plays of terence at the latin library (in latin). 	works by terence at project gutenberg 	works by or about terence at internet archive 	at perseus digital library: 	andria. 	hecyra. 	heautontimorumenos. 	the eunuch. 	phormio. 	the brothers. 	 th-century scripts from hecyra and eunuchus, center for digital initiatives, university of vermont libraries. 	lewis e comediae at openn 	terence's works: text, concordances and frequency list (in latin). 	the life of terence, part of suetonius's de viris illustribus, translated by john c. rolfe. 	p. terenti comoediae cum scholi aeli donati et eugraphi commentariis, reinhold klotz (ed.), lipsiae, sumptum fecite. b. schwickert, , vol. , vol. . 	sorgll: terence, eunuch - 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wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	template talk:ancient rome topics 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 			wikiproject classical greece and rome 	(rated template-class) 	 			v 	t 	e this template is within the scope of wikiproject classical greece and rome, a group of contributors interested in wikipedia's articles on classics. if you would like to join the wikiproject or learn how to contribute, please see our project page. if you need assistance from a classicist, please see our talk page.classical greece and romewikipedia:wikiproject classical greece and rometemplate:wikiproject classical greece and romeclassical greece and rome articles	 	 template 	this template does not require a rating on the project's quality scale. 	  		 	 oh my... that statue is from . it is not roman... how unseemly! -- pichote (talk) : , january (utc) 	whatever, the subject is julius ceasar the most famous roman of all times. more than worthy. flamarande (talk) : , january (utc) 		...as cultural depiction of julius caesar, you mean. pichote (talk) : , february (utc) i added a section to this template on the latin language. i think it would be a good idea to do away with the ages of latin template and apply this one to all the latin pages since it's a good way to consolidate information - have a single template for all the roman articles? thoughts? - christopher (talk) : , february (utc) should tetrarchy be added under extraordinary magistrates? . . . (talk) : , september (utc) contents 	 julius caesar statue image replacement 	 semi-protected edit request on september 	 servius 	 adding list of quaestors under lists julius caesar statue image replacement[edit] i changed the picture of the statue of julius caesar by nicolas coustou to a picture of the augustus of prima porta statue. the julius caesar statue was anachronistic with ancient rome and misleading. i tried to substitute another statue of a caesar for the sake of consistency. having the image with a white background looked very good and i looked for another such image, but did not find one in the commons. amateureditor (talk) : , august (utc) 	i've changed the image to one with a white background for aesthetic reasons. amateureditor (talk) : , august (utc) 	icons should not be added only because they look good, because aesthetics are in the eye of the beholder: one reader's harmless decoration may be another reader's distraction gnevin (talk) : , june (utc) semi-protected edit request on september [edit] 		this edit request has been answered. set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. . . . (talk) : , september (utc) i suggest you to add thessaloniki as one of the largest cities of the roman empire 	can you list any reliable sources that support your idea? —ae (talk • contributions) : , september (utc) 	 not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. hhkohh (talk) : , september (utc) servius[edit] please fix [[maurus servius honoratus|servius]]. thank you . . . (talk) : , december (utc) 	done. thank you for letting us know about the error! p aculeius (talk) : , december (utc) adding list of quaestors under lists[edit] hey! i am kinda new to editing stuff here on the wiki and how to edit templates such as this one seems kinda scary. so i am wondering if someone could do me the favor of adding "list of roman quaestors" under the section "lists" as it feels like that list would now fit there unless im confused about how this template is supposed to work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_roman_quaestors cutieyking (talk) : , june (utc) 	done. and also added the list of roman praetors (moved that from incorrect capitalization). not sure if these lists are particularly useful compared with the consuls or dictators, but that's a discussion for another time, and adding them to the template seems harmless enough. p aculeius (talk) : , june (utc) retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=template_talk:ancient_rome_topics&oldid= " 		categories: 	template-class classical greece and rome articles 	na-importance classical greece and rome articles 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			template 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	edit 	new section 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		search 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigation 	 	 			main page 	contents 	current events 	random article 	about wikipedia 	contact us 	donate 		 	 	 	 		contribute 	 	 			help 	learn to edit 	community portal 	recent changes 	upload file 		 	 	 		tools 	 	 			what links here 	related changes 	upload file 	special pages 	permanent link 	page information 		 	 	 		print/export 	 	 			download as pdf 	printable version 		 	 	 	 		languages 	 	 		 		 	 		 this page was last edited on june , at :  (utc). 	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; 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english: "the roman senate and people"; or more freely "the senate and people of rome"), is an emblematic abbreviated phrase referring to the government of the ancient roman republic. it appears on roman currency, at the end of documents made public by an inscription in stone or metal, and in dedications of monuments and public works. the full phrase appears in roman political, legal, and historical literature, such as the speeches of cicero and ab urbe condita libri ("books from the founding of the city") of livy. contents 	 translation 	 historical context 	 modern use 	 . civic references 	 . use by white nationalists 	 gallery 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links translation[edit] 	 	this section does not cite any sources. please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (june ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) spqr: senātus populusque rōmānus. in latin, senātus is a nominative singular noun meaning "senate". populusque is compounded from the nominative noun populus, "the people", and -que, an enclitic particle meaning "and" which connects the two nominative nouns. the last word, rōmānus ("roman") is an adjective modifying the whole of senātus populusque: the "roman senate and people", taken as a whole. thus, the phrase is translated literally as "the roman senate and people", or more freely as "the senate and people of rome". historical context[edit] a modern recreation of a roman standard. 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (february ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) the title's date of establishment is unknown, but it first appears in inscriptions of the late republic, from c. bc onwards. previously, the official name of the roman state, as evidenced on coins, was simply roma. the abbreviation last appears on coins of constantine the great (ruled – ad), the first roman emperor to support christianity. the two legal entities mentioned, senātus and the populus rōmānus, are sovereign when combined. however, where populus is sovereign alone, senātus is not. under the roman kingdom, neither entity was sovereign. the phrase, therefore, can be dated to no earlier than the foundation of the republic. this signature continued in use under the roman empire. the emperors were considered the de jure representatives of the people even though the senātūs consulta, or decrees of the senate, were made at the de facto pleasure of the emperor. populus rōmānus in roman literature is a phrase meaning the government of the people. when the romans named governments of other countries, they used populus in the singular or plural, such as populī prīscōrum latīnōrum, "the governments of the old latins". rōmānus is the established adjective used to distinguish the romans, as in cīvis rōmānus, "roman citizen". the roman people appear very often in law and history in such phrases as dignitās, maiestās, auctoritās, lībertās populī rōmānī, the "dignity, majesty, authority, freedom of the roman people". they were a populus līber, "a free people". there was an exercitus, imperium, iudicia, honorēs, consulēs, voluntās of this same populus: "the army, rule, judgments, offices, consuls and will of the roman people". they appear in early latin as popolus and poplus, so the habit of thinking of themselves as free and sovereign was quite ingrained. the romans believed that all authority came from the people. it could be said that similar language seen in more modern political and social revolutions directly comes from this usage. people in this sense meant the whole government. the latter, however, was essentially divided into the aristocratic senate, whose will was executed by the consuls and praetors, and the comitia centuriāta, "committee of the centuries", whose will came to be safeguarded by the tribunes. one of the ways the emperor commodus ( – ) paid for his donatives and mass entertainments was to tax the senatorial order, and on many inscriptions, the traditional order is provocatively reversed (populus senatusque...). beginning in , the commune of rome struck coins in the name of the senatvs p q r. from until , the roman senate struck coins with a shield inscribed spqr.[ ] during the regime of benito mussolini, spqr was emblazoned on a number of public buildings and manhole covers in an attempt to promote his dictatorship as a "new roman empire".[citation needed] modern use[edit] modern coat of arms of rome municipality. even in contemporary usage, spqr is still used in the municipal coat of arms of rome and as abbreviation for the comune of rome in official documents.[ ][ ] the italians have long used a different and humorous expansion of this abbreviation, "sono pazzi questi romani" (literally: "they're crazy, these romans").[ ] in spain, spqr is also used in the flag and coat of arms of sabiñánigo. in business, in english-speaking countries, spqr is sometimes (humorously) used to mean ‘small profit, quick return’, often by people who have studied latin at school. civic references[edit] spqh - hamburg rathaus 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (february ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) spqx is sometimes used as an assertion of municipal pride and civic rights. the italian town of reggio emilia, for instance, has spqr in its coat of arms, standing for senatus populusque regiensis. there have been confirmed usages and reports of the deployment of the "spqx" template in; 	city	country	spqx	latin	where has it been used 	alkmaar	 netherlands	spqa		on the facade of the waag building. 	amsterdam	 netherlands	spqa	senatus populusque amstelodamensis[ ]	at one of the major theatres[which?][citation needed] and some of the bridges.[ ] 	antwerp	 belgium	spqa	senatus populusque antverpensis	on antwerp city hall.[ ] 	basel	  switzerland	spqb	senatus populusque basilea	on the webern-brunnen in steinenvorstadt.[ ] 	benevento	 italy	spqb[ ]	senatus populusque beneventanus[ ]	on manhole covers.[ ] 	bremen	 germany	spqb		in the bremen city hall.[ ] 	bruges	 belgium	spqb		on its coat of arms.[ ] 	brussels	 belgium	spqb		found repeatedly on the palais de justice,[ ], over the main stage of la monnaie,[citation needed] and on the ceiling of the hemicycle of the belgian senate in the palais de la nation. 	capua	 italy	spqc		 	catania	 italy	spqc		can be found on manhole covers. 	chicago	 united states	spqc		can be found on the george n. leighton cook county criminal courthouse. 	dublin	 ireland	spqh	senatus populusque hibernia	on the city hall, built in . 	florence	 italy	spqf[ ]	senatus populusque florianopolitanus[ ]	 	franeker	 netherlands	spqf		at the a gate on the westerbolwerk and academiestraat .[ ] 	freising	 germany	spqf		above the door of the town hall. 	ghent	 belgium	spqg	senatus populusque gandavensis	on the opera, theater and some other major buildings. inscribed on a shield on coins struck in ghent in , during the dutch revolt.[ ] 	the hague	 netherlands	spqh		above the stage in koninklijke schouwburg. 	hamburg	 germany	spqh		on a door in the hamburg rathaus.[ ] 	hanover	 germany			 	haarlem	 netherlands	spqh		on the face of the town hall at the "grote markt". 	hasselt	 belgium	spqh		 	kortrijk	 belgium	spqc	senatus populusque cortoriacum	city hall. 	la plata	 argentina	spqr		on a monument outside of the city's "casco urbano". 	leeuwarden	 netherlands	spql	senatus populusque leovardia	on the mayor's chain of office.[ ] 	liverpool	 united kingdom	spql	senatus populusque liverpudliensis	on various gold doors in st george's hall.[ ] 	city of london	 united kingdom	spql	senatus populusque londinii	on historic variants of the city's coat of arms[ ][ ] 	lübeck	 germany	spql	senatus populusque lubecca	on the holstentor.[ ] 	lucerne	  switzerland			 	milan	 italy	spqm		the holy roman emperor charles v struck coins at milan with the inscription s p q mediol optimo principi.[ ] 	modica	 italy	spqm		on the coat of arms.[ ] 	molfetta	 italy	spqm		on the coat of arms.[ ] 	naples	 italy	spqn	senatus populusque neāpolis	inscribed on a shield on coins struck during masaniello's revolt.[ ] 	noto	 italy	spqn	senatus populusque netum	on the coat of arms.[ ] and the façade of noto cathedral 	nuremberg	 germany	spqn	senatus populusque norimbergensis)	on the fleisch bridge (one of the major bridges over river pegnitz in the inner city). 	oudenburg	 belgium	spqo	senatus populusque odenburgensis	on its water pump next to the market square.[ ] 	olomouc	 czechia	spqo[ ]	senatus populusque olomucium	on its coat of arms."olomouc". heraldry of the world.</ref> 	palermo	 italy	spqp		[ ] 	penne, abruzzo	 italy	spqp		[ ] 	rieti	 italy	spqs	senatus populusque sabinus	on the coat of arms. present also in the modern composite lazio coat-of-arms. 	rotterdam	 netherlands	spqr		on a wall painting in the rotterdam city hall [nl]. 	severn beach	 united kingdom	spqr		on the crest of pilning & severn beach parish council. 	seville	 spain	spqh	senatus populusque hispalensis	on the historic banner of the city. 	siena	 italy	spqs		on the base of a status of the capitoline wolf.[ ] 	solothurn	  switzerland	spqs	senatus populusque solodori	on the cathedral of st ursus and victor. 	terracina	 italy	spqt		[ ] 	tivoli, lazio	 italy	spqt		[ ] 	valencia	 spain	spqv	senatus populusque valentinus	in several places and buildings, including the silk exchange[ ] and the university of valencia historic building.[ ] 	verviers	 belgium	spqv		on the grand theatre.[ ] 	vienna	 austria	spqv[ ]	senatus populusque viennensis[ ]	 use by white nationalists[edit] some members of white nationalist groups use the acronym spqr on flags, on their person (such as tattoos) and other forms of identification.[ ][ ][ ][ ] however, the anti-defamation league does not include spqr in its hate symbol database, and the organization's mark pitcavage said that the abbrevation is used "just as much or more often by nonextremists than extremists".[ ] gallery[edit] 	 			 			 the inscription in the arch of titus 			 		 	 			 			 manhole cover in rome with spqr inscription 			 		 	 			 			 spqr in the coat of arms of reggio emilia 			 		 	 			 			 detail from the mosaic floor in the galleria vittorio emanuele ii in milan 			 		 	 			 			 "superiority of the warrior class. state ." etching by wenceslaus hollar, (university of toronto) 			 		 	 			 			 arch of septimius severus top inscription 			 		 	 			 			 dedicatory plaque to federico fellini on via veneto 			 		 	 			 			 mural in the burgerzaal of rotterdam city hall [nl] 			 		 references[edit] 	^ monete e zecche medievalli italiane, elio biaggi, coins and 	^ "roma capitale - sito istituzionale - home" (in italian). archived from the original on october . retrieved october . 	^ "oggetto: revoca deleghe consigliera nathalie naim" (pdf) (in italian). s.p.q.r. - roma capitale - municipio roma centro storico. february . archived (pdf) from the original on october . retrieved october . 	^ see, e.g. von hefner, otto titan ( ). handbuch der theoretischen und praktischen heraldik. munich. p.  . 	^ a b "heraldic 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transition from monarchy to republic. [ ] theatre during this era is generally separated into genres of tragedy and comedy, which are represented by a particular style of architecture and stage play, and conveyed to an audience purely as a form of entertainment and control.[ ] when it came to the audience, romans favored entertainment and performance over tragedy and drama, displaying a more modern form of theatre that is still used in contemporary times.[ ] 'spectacle' became an essential part of an everyday romans expectations when it came to theatre.[ ] some works by plautus, terence, and seneca the younger that survive to this day, highlight the different aspects of roman society and culture at the time, including advancements in roman literature and theatre.[ ]theatre during this period of time would come to represent an important aspect of roman society during the republican and imperial periods of rome.[ ] contents 	 origins of roman theatre 	 genres of ancient roman theatre 	 . roman tragedy 	 . roman comedy 	 . . stock characters in roman comedy 	 roman theatre in performance 	 . stage and physical space 	 . actors 	 notable roman playwrights 	 see also 	 references 	 external links origins of roman theatre[edit] rome was founded in b.c.e as a monarchy under etruscan rule, and remained as such throughout the first two and a half centuries of its existence. following the expulsion of rome's last king, lucius tarquinius superbus, or "tarquin the proud," circa b.c.e., rome became a republic and was henceforth led by a group of magistrates elected by the roman people. it is believed that roman theatre was born during the first two centuries of the roman republic, following the spread of roman rule into a large area of the italian peninsula, circa b.c.e. following the devastation of widespread plague in b.c.e, roman citizens began including theatrical games as a supplement to the lectisternium ceremonies already being performed, in a stronger effort to pacify the gods. in the years following the establishment of these practices, actors began adapting these dances and games into performances by acting out texts set to music and simultaneous movement. as the era of the roman republic progressed, citizens began including professionally performed drama in the eclectic offerings of the ludi (celebrations of public holidays) held throughout each year—the largest of these festivals being the ludi romani, held each september in honor of the roman god jupiter.[ ] it was as a part of the ludi romani in b.c.e. that author and playwright livius adronicus became the first to produce translations of greek plays to be performed on the roman stage.[ ][ ][ ] prior to b.c.e, roman contact with northern and southern italian cultures began to influence roman concepts of entertainment. [ ]the early roman stage was dominated by: phylakes(a form of tragic parody that arose in italy during the roman republic from to b.c.e), atellan farces (or a type of comedy that depicted the supposed backwards thinking of the southeastern oscan town of atella; a form of ethnic humor that arose around b.c.e), and fescennine verses (originating in southern etruria).[ ] furthermore, phylakes scholars have discovered vases depicting productions of old comedy (e.g. aristophanes, a greek play), leading many to ascertain that such comedic plays were presented at one point to an italian, if not "latin-speaking" audience as early as the th century.[ ] this is supported by the fact that latin was an essential component to roman theatre.[ ] from b.c.e to b.c.e, roman theatre had been introduced to a period of literary drama, within which classical and post-classical greek plays had been adapted to roman theatre.[ ] from b.c.e till c.e, roman entertainment began to be captured by circus-like performances, spectacles, and miming while remaining allured by theatrical performances.[ ] ancient roman theatre in orange, south of france, the early drama that emerged was very similar to the drama in greece. rome had engaged in a number of wars, some of which had taken place in areas of italy, in which greek culture had been a great influence.[ ] examples of this include the first punic war ( - b.c.e) in sicily.[ ] through this came relations between greece and rome, starting with the emergence of a hellenistic world, one in which hellenistic culture was more widely spread and through political developments via roman conquests of mediterranean colonies.[ ] acculturation had become specific to greco-roman relations, with rome mainly adopting aspects of greek culture, their achievements, and developing those aspects into roman literature, art, and science.[ ] rome had become one of the first developing european cultures to shape their own culture after another.[ ] with the end of the third macedonian war ( b.c.e), rome had gained greater access to a wealth of greek art and literature, and an influx of greek migrants, particularly stoic philosophers such as crates of mallus ( b.c.e) and even athenian philosophers ( b.c.e).this allowed the romans to develop an interest in a new form of expression, philosophy.[ ] the development that occurred was first initiated by playwrights that were greeks or half-greeks living in rome.[ ] while greek literary tradition in drama influenced the romans, the romans chose to not fully adopt these traditions, and instead the dominant local language of latin was used.[ ] these roman plays that were beginning to be performed were heavily influenced by the etruscan traditions, particularly regarding the importance of music and performance.[ ] genres of ancient roman theatre[edit] a roman actor playing papposilenus, marble statue, c. ad, after a greek original from the th century bc the first important works of roman literature were the tragedies and comedies written by livius andronicus beginning in bc. five years later, gnaeus naevius, a younger contemporary of andronicus, also began to write drama, composing in both genres as well. no plays from either writer have survived. by the beginning of the nd century bc, drama had become firmly established in rome and a guild of writers (collegium poetarum) had been formed.[ ] roman tragedy[edit] no early roman tragedy survives, though it was highly regarded in its day; historians know of three early tragedians—ennius, pacuvius and lucius accius. one important aspect of tragedy that differed from other genres was the implementation of choruses that were included in the action on the stage during the performances of many tragedies.[ ] from the time of the empire, however, the work of two tragedians survives—one is an unknown author, while the other is the stoic philosopher seneca. nine of seneca's tragedies survive, all of which are fabulae crepidatae (a fabula crepidata or fabula cothurnata is a latin tragedy with greek subjects) seneca appears as a character in the tragedy octavia, the only extant example of fabula praetexta (tragedies based on roman subjects, first created by naevius), and as a result, the play was mistakenly attributed as having been authored by seneca himself. however, though historians have since confirmed that the play was not one of seneca's works, the true author remains unknown.[ ] senecan tragedy put forth a declamatory style, or a style of tragedy that emphasized rhetoric structures.[ ] it was a style characterized through paradox, discontinuity, antithesis, and the adoption of declamatory structures and techniques that involved a aspects of compression, elaboration, epigram, and of course, hyperbole, as most of his plays seemed to emphasize such exaggerations in order to make points more persuasive.[ ] seneca wrote tragedies that reflected the soul, through which rhetoric would be used within that process of creating a tragic character and reveal something about the state of one's mind.[ ] one of the most notable ways that seneca developed a tragedy, was through the use of an aside, or a common theatre device found within hellenistic drama, which at the time was foreign to the world of attic tragedy.[ ] seneca explored the interior of the psychology of the mind through 'self-representational soliloquies or monologues,' which focused on one's inner thoughts, the central causes of their emotional conflicts, their self-deception, as well as other varieties of psychological turmoil that served to dramatize emotion in a way that became central to roman tragedy, distinguishing itself from the prior used forms of greek tragedy.[ ] those that witnessed seneca's use of rhetoric; pupils, readers, and audience, were noted to have been taught seneca's use of verbal strategy, psychic mobility, and public role-play, which for many, substantially altered the mental states of many individual's.[ ] roman comedy[edit] further information: metres of roman comedy a well preserved roman theater in bosra (syria) all roman comedies that have survived can be categorized as fabula palliata (comedies based on greek subjects) and were written by two dramatists: titus maccius plautus (plautus) and publius terentius afer (terence). no fabula togata (roman comedy in a roman setting) has survived. in adapting greek plays to be performed for roman audiences, the roman comic dramatists made several changes to the structure of the productions. most notable is the removal of the previously prominent role of the chorus as a means of separating the action into distinct episodes. additionally, musical accompaniment was added as a simultaneous supplement to the plays' dialogue. the action of all scenes typically took place in the streets outside the dwelling of the main characters, and plot complications were often a result of eavesdropping by a minor character. plautus wrote between and b.c. and twenty of his comedies survive to present day, of which his farces are best known. he was admired for the wit of his dialogue and for his varied use of poetic meters. as a result of the growing popularity of plautus' plays, as well as this new form of written comedy, scenic plays became a more prominent component in roman festivals of the time, claiming their place in events that had previously only featured races, athletic competitions, and gladiatorial battles. all six of the comedies that terence composed between and bc have survived. the complexity of his plots, in which he routinely combined several greek originals into one production, brought about heavy criticism, including claims that in doing so, he was ruining the original greek plays, as well as rumors that he had received assistance from high ranking men in composing his material. in fact, these rumors prompted terence to use the prologues in several of his plays as an opportunity to plead with audiences, asking that they lend an objective eye and ear to his material, and not be swayed by what they may have heard about his practices. this was a stark difference from the written prologues of other known playwrights of the period, who routinely utilized their prologues as a way of prefacing the plot of the play being performed.[ ][ ] stock characters in roman comedy[edit] an ivory statuette of a roman actor of tragedy, st. century. the following are examples of stock characters in roman comedy: 	the adulescens is an unmarried man, usually in late teens or twenties; his action typically surrounds the pursuit of the love of a prostitute or slave girl, who is later revealed to be a free-born woman, and therefore eligible for marriage. the adulescens character is typically accompanied by a clever slave character, who attempts to solve the adulescens’ problems or shield him from conflict.[ ] 	the senex is primarily concerned with his relationship with his son, the adulescens. although he often opposes his son's choice of love interest, he sometimes helps him to achieve his desires. he is sometimes in love with the same woman as his son, a woman who is much too young for the senex. he never gets the girl and is often dragged off by his irate wife.[ ] 	the leno is the character of the pimp or 'slave dealer.' although the activities of the character are portrayed as highly immoral and vile, the leno always acts legally and is always paid in full for his services.[ ] 	the miles gloriosus is an arrogant, braggart soldier character, deriving from greek old comedy. the character’s title is taken from a play of the same name written by plautus. the miles gloriosus character is typically gullible, cowardly, and boastful.[ ] 	the parasitus (parasite) is often portrayed as a selfish liar. he is typically associated with the miles gloriosus character, and hangs upon his every word. the parasitus is primarily concerned with his own appetite, or from where he will obtain his next free meal.[ ] 	the matrona is the character of the wife and mother, and is usually displayed as an annoyance to her husband, constantly getting in the way of his freedom to pursue other women. after catching her husband with another woman, she typically ends the affair and forgives him. she loves her children, but is often temperamental towards her husband.[ ] 	the virgo (young maiden) is an unmarried young woman, and is the love interest of the adulescens, she is often spoken of, but remains offstage. a typical plot point in the last act of the play reveals her to be of freeborn descent, and therefore eligible for marriage.[ ] roman theatre in performance[edit] a sculpture of lucius annaeus seneca, by puerta de almodóvar in córdoba stage and physical space[edit] beginning with the first presentation of theatre in rome in b.c., plays were often presented during public festivals. since these plays were less popular than the several other types of events (gladiatorial matches, circus events, etc.) held within the same space, theatrical events were performed using temporary wooden structures, which had to be displaced and dismantled for days at a time, whenever other spectacle events were scheduled to take place. the slow process of creating a permanent performance space was due to the staunch objection of high-ranking officials: it was the opinion of the members of the senate that citizens were spending too much time at theatrical events, and that condoning this behavior would lead to corruption of the roman public. as a result, no permanent stone structure was constructed for the purpose of theatrical performance until b.c.e.sometimes theatre building projects could last generations before being completed, and would take a combination of private benefactors, public subscription, and proceeds from the summae honorariae or payments for office positions made by magistrates.[ ] to demonstrate their benefactions, statues or inscriptions (sometimes in sums of money) were erected or inscribed for all to see in front of the tribunalia, in the proscaenium or scaenae frons, parts of the building meant to be in the public eye.[ ] building theatres required both a massive undertaking and a significant amount of time, often lasting generations.[ ] roman theatres, particularly ones constructed in western-roman, were mainly modeled off of greek ones.[ ] they were often arranged in a semicircle around an orchestra, but both the stage and scene building were joined together with the auditorium and were elevated to the same height, creating an enclosure very similar in structure and appearance to that of a modern theatre.[ ] this was furthered by odea or smaller theatres having roofs or larger theatres having vela, allowing for the audience to have some shade.[ ] during the time of these temporary structures, theatrical performances featured a very minimalist atmosphere. this included space for spectators to stand or sit to watch the play, known as a cavea, and a stage, or scaena. the setting for each play was depicted using an elaborate backdrop (scaenae frons), and the actors performed on the stage, in the playing space in front of the scaenae frons, called the proscaenium. these structures were erected in several different places, including temples, arenas, and at times, plays were held in rome’s central square (the forum).[ ][ ] societal divisions within the theatre were made apparent in how the auditorium was divided, typically by broad corridors or praecinctiones, into one of three zones, the ima, media, and summa cavea.[ ] these zones served to section off certain groups within the population.[ ] of these three divisions, the summa cavea or 'the gallery' was where men (without togas or pullati (poor)), women, and sometimes slaves (by admission) were seated.[ ] the seating arrangements of the theatre highlight the gender disparities in roman society, as women were seated among the slaves.[ ] sur notes that it wasn’t until augustus that segregation in the theatre was enforced, to which women had to either sit at or near the back.[ ] theatres were paid for by certain benefactors and were seen as targets for benefaction, mainly out of the need to maintain civil order and as a consequence of the citizens desire for theatrical performance.[ ] theatres were constructed almost always through the interests of those who held the highest ranks and positions in the roman republic.[ ] in order to maintain segregation of power, those of high rank were often seated near the front or in the public eye (tribunalia).[ ] individuals who made benefactions to the construction of theatres would often do so for propaganda reasons.[ ] whether it be at the hand of an imperial benefactor or a wealthy individual, the high cost of building a theatre usually required more than a single individual’s donations.[ ] in b.c., the first permanent theatre was constructed. built by pompey the great, the main purpose of this structure was actually not for the performance of drama, but rather, to allow current and future rulers a venue with which they could assemble the public and demonstrate their pomp and authority over the masses. with seating for , audience members, the grandiose structure held a -foot-wide stage, and boasted a three-story scaenae frons flanked with elaborate statues. the theatre of pompey remained in use through the early th century, but was dismantled for it stone in the middle ages. virtually nothing of the vast structure is visible above ground today.[ ][ ] actors[edit] roman actors. the first actors that appeared in roman performances were originally from etruria. this tradition of foreign actors would continue in roman dramatic performances. beginning with early performances, actors were denied the same political and civic rights that were afforded to ordinary roman citizens because of the low social status of actors. in addition, actors were exempt from military service, which further inhibited their rights in roman society because it was impossible for an individual to hold a political career without having some form of military experience. while actors did not possess many rights, slaves did have the opportunity to win their freedom if they were able to prove themselves as successful actors.[ ] the open-air declaiming, gesturing, singing, and dancing of roman stage acting required stamina and agility.[ ] the spread of dramatic performance throughout rome occurred with the growth of acting companies that are believed to have eventually begun to travel throughout all of italy. these acting troupes were usually composed of four to six trained actors. usually, two to three of the actors in the troupe would have speaking roles in a performance, while the other actors in the troupe would be present on stage as attendants to the speaking actors. for the most part, actors specialized in one genre of drama and did not alternate between other genres of drama.[ ] the most famous actor to develop a career in the late roman republic was quintus roscius gallus ( bce- bce). he was primarily known for his performances in the genre of comedy and became renowned for his performances among the elite circles of roman society.[ ] through these connections he became intimate with lucius licinius crassus, the great orator and member of the senate, and lucius cornelius sulla.[ ] in addition to the acting career gallus would build, he also would take his acting abilities and use them to teach amateur actors the craft of becoming successful in the art. he would further distinguish himself through his financial success as an actor and a teacher of acting in a field that was not highly respected. ultimately, he chose to conclude his career as an actor without being paid for his performances because he wanted to offer his performances as a service to the roman people.[ ] until recently, it was commonly believed, that although the possibility exists that women may have performed non-speaking roles in roman theatrical performances, historical evidence dictated that male actors portrayed all speaking roles. later research has shown that, although likely rare, there were women who performed speaking roles.[ ] bassilla and fabia arete were, for example, two actresses known for their role of charition in a popular folk comedy.[ ] there were certainly successful women stage performers within dance and singing in theatrical performances, many of whom apparently enjoyed widespread fame, and even a guild exclusively for female stage performers, the sociae mimae. the public opinion of actors was very low, placing them within the same social status as criminals and prostitutes, and acting as a profession was considered illegitimate and repulsive. many roman actors were slaves, and it was not unusual for a performer to be beaten by his master as punishment for an unsatisfactory performance. these actions and opinions differ greatly from those demonstrated during the time of ancient greek theatre, a time when actors were regarded as respected professionals, and were granted citizenship in athens.[ ][ ] notable roman playwrights[edit] 	livius andronicus, a greek slave taken to rome in bc; wrote plays based on greek subjects and existing plays. rome's first playwright 	plautus, rd century bc comedic playwright and author of miles gloriosus, pseudolus, and menaechmi 	terence, wrote between and bc 	titinius, writing in the second century bc 	gaius maecenas melissus, st century playwright of a "comedy of manners" 	seneca, st century dramatist most famous for roman adaptations of ancient greek plays (e.g. medea and phaedra) 	ennius, contemporary of plautus who wrote both comedy and tragedy 	lucius accius, tragic poet and literary scholar 	pacuvius, ennius's nephew and tragic playwright see also[edit] 	history of theatre 	theatre of ancient greece 	roman theatre (structure) 	atellan farce 	roman funerals and burial 	ludi 	floralia 	latin literature 	theatre area of pompeii 	sociae mimae 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however, it is possible that sabines extended to lake regillus slightly to the south of it near gabii. 	part of a series on the 	history of italy 	 	 early 	prehistoric italy 	etruscan civilization ( th– th c. bc) 	magna graecia ( th– rd c. bc) 	 ancient rome 	kingdom ( bc– bc) 	republic ( bc– bc) 	empire ( bc– ad) 	roman italy 	western empire ( ad– ad) 	praetorian prefecture of italy 	 post-roman kingdoms 	 odoacer's	 - 	 ostrogothic	 - 	 vandal	 - 	 lombard (independence)	 - 	 lombard (under the frankish rule)	 - 	 frankish (as part of the carolingian empire)	 - 	 germanic (as part of the holy roman empire)	 - 	 medieval 	italy in the middle ages 	byzantine reconquest of italy ( th– th c.) 	islam and normans in southern italy 	maritime republics and italian city-states 	guelphs and ghibellines 	 early modern 	italian renaissance ( th– th c.) 	italian wars ( – ) 	catholic revival ( - ) 	foreign dominations 	napoleonic italy ( – ) 		republic 	kingdom 	risorgimento ( – ) 	young italy 	thousand 	 modern 	monarchy ( – ) 	colonial empire ( – ) 	italy in world war i ( – ) 	fascism ( – ) 	italy in world war ii ( – ) 	fascist italian social republic, partisans and civil war ( – ) 	republic ( –present) 	years of lead ( s– s) 	maxi trial ( – ) 	mani pulite ( – ) 	great recession ( – ) 	european migrant crisis ( –present) 	coronavirus pandemic ( –present) 	 by topic 	list of historic states 	citizenship 	currency 	economy 	fashion 	genetic 	military 	music 	postage 	railway 	 timeline  italy portal 		v 	t 	e the sabines (/ˈseɪbaɪnz/; latin: sabini; ancient greek: Σαβῖνοι sabĩnoi; italian: sabini, all exonyms) were an italic people that lived in the central apennine mountains of ancient italy, also inhabiting latium north of the anio before the founding of rome. the sabines divided into two populations just after the founding of rome, which is described by roman legend. the division, however it came about, is not legendary. the population closer to rome transplanted itself to the new city and united with the preexisting citizenry, beginning a new heritage that descended from the sabines but was also latinized. the second population remained a mountain tribal state, coming finally to war against rome for its independence along with all the other italic tribes. after losing, it became assimilated into the roman republic. contents 	 language 	 historical geography 	 origins 	 . literary evidence 	 at rome 	 . legend of the sabine women 	 . traditions 	 . religion 	 state 	 prominent sabines 	 . gentes of sabine origin 	 . romans of sabine ancestry 	 see also 	 references 	 sources 	 . ancient 	 . modern 	 further reading language[edit] there is little record of the sabine language; however, there are some glosses by ancient commentators, and one or two inscriptions have been tentatively identified as sabine. there are also personal names in use on latin inscriptions from the sabine country, but these are given in latin form. robert seymour conway, in his italic dialects, gives approximately words which vary from being well-attested as sabine to being possibly of sabine origin. in addition to these he cites place names derived from the sabine, sometimes giving attempts at reconstructions of the sabine form.[ ] based on all the evidence, the linguist list tentatively classifies sabine as a member of the umbrian group of italic languages of the indo-european family. historical geography[edit] latin-speakers called the sabines' original territory, straddling the modern regions of lazio, umbria, and abruzzo, sabinum. to this day[update], it bears the ancient tribe's name in the italian form of sabina. within the modern region of lazio (or latium), sabina constitutes a sub-region, situated north-east of rome, around rieti. origins[edit] the sabine hills in the middle of sabina literary evidence[edit] according to dionysius of halicarnassus, many roman historians (including porcius cato and gaius sempronius) regarded the origins of indigenous romans to be greek, even though their knowledge was derived from greek legendary accounts.[ ] dionysius regarded lista as the mother-city of the aborigines.[ ] ancient historians debated the specific origins of the sabines. zenodotus of troezen claimed that the sabines were originally umbrians that changed their name after being driven from the reatine territory by the pelasgians. however, porcius cato argued that the sabines were a populace named after sabus, the son of sancus (a divinity of the area sometimes called jupiter fidius).[ ] in another account mentioned in dionysius's work, a group of lacedaemonians fled sparta since they regarded the laws of lycurgus as too severe. in italy, they founded the spartan colony of foronia (near the pomentine plains) and some from that colony settled among the sabines. according to the account, the sabine habits of belligerence (aggressive or warlike behavior) and frugality (prudence in avoiding waste) were known to have derived from the spartans.[ ] plutarch also mentions, in the life of numa pompilius, "sabines, who declare themselves to be a colony of the lacedaemonians". plutarch also wrote that the pythagoras of sparta, who was olympic victor in the foot-race, helped numa arrange the government of the city and many spartan customs introduced by him to the numa and the people.[ ] at rome[edit] legend of the sabine women[edit] main article: the rape of the sabine women the linguistic landscape of central italy at the beginning of roman expansion legend says that the romans abducted sabine women to populate the newly built rome. the resultant war ended only by the women throwing themselves and their children between the armies of their fathers and their husbands. the rape of the sabine women became a common motif in art; the women ending the war is a less frequent but still reappearing motif. according to livy, after the conflict, the sabine and roman states merged, and the sabine king titus tatius jointly ruled rome with romulus until tatius' death five years later. three new centuries of equites were introduced at rome, including one named tatienses, after the sabine king. a variation of the story is recounted in the pseudepigraphal sefer hayashar (see jasher : – ). traditions[edit] tradition suggests that the population of the early roman kingdom was the result of a union of sabines and others. some of the gentes of the roman republic were proud of their sabine heritage, such as the claudia gens, assuming sabinus as a cognomen or agnomen. some specifically sabine deities and cults were known at rome: semo sancus and quirinus, and at least one area of the town, the quirinale, where the temples to those latter deities were located, had once been a sabine centre. the extravagant claims of varro and cicero that augury, divination by dreams and the worship of minerva and mars originated with the sabines are disputable, as they were general italic and latin customs, as well as etruscan, even though they were espoused by numa pompilius, second king of rome and a sabine.[ ] religion[edit] 	dius fidius 	feronia 	ops 	quirinus 	sabus 	sancus 	soranus 	vacuna 	varro's list of sabine gods 	flora state[edit] main article: roman–sabine wars during the expansion of ancient rome, there were a series of conflicts with the sabines. manius curius dentatus conquered the sabines in bc. the citizenship without the right of suffrage was given to the sabines in the same year.[ ] the right of suffrage was granted to the sabines in bc.[ ] prominent sabines[edit] gentes of sabine origin[edit] 	aemilia gens – patrician 	aurelia gens 	calpurnia gens 	calvisia gens 	claudia gens – patrician 	curtia (gens) – patrician 	flavia gens 	ligaria (gens) 	marcia gens – patrician 	minatia (gens) 	oppia gens – patrician 	opsia gens 	ostoria gens 	pantuleia (gens) 	petronia gens 	pinaria gens 	pompilia gens 	pomponia gens 	poppaea (gens) 	quirinia gens 	rania gens 	rubellia gens 	sabinia gens 	safinia gens 	sallustia gens 	saturia gens 	sertoria gens 	sicinia gens 	tarpeia gens – patrician 	tineia gens 	titia gens 	valeria gens – patrician romans of sabine ancestry[edit] 	titus tatius, legendary king of the sabines 	numa pompilius, legendary king of rome 	ancus marcius, legendary king of rome 	quintus sertorius, republican general 	attius clausus, founder of the roman claudia gens 	gaius sallustius crispus, roman writer 	marcus terentius varro, roman scholar 	vespasian, roman emperor and founder of the flavian dynasty see also[edit] 		wikisource has the text of the encyclopædia britannica article sabini. 		wikimedia commons has media related to rape of the sabine women. 		for a list of words relating to sabine language, see the sabine language category of words in wiktionary, the free dictionary. 	library resources about sabines 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	ancient peoples of italy 	hostus hostilius references[edit] 	^ hammarström, harald; forkel, robert; haspelmath, martin, eds. ( ). "sabine". glottolog . . jena, germany: max planck institute for the science of human history. 	^ conway, robert seymour ( ). the italic dialects edited with a grammar and glossary. cambridge: university press. pp.  – . 	^ dionysius of halicarnassus. "book . ". roman antiquities. but the most learned of the roman historians, among whom is porcius cato, who compiled with the greatest care the "origins" of the italian cities, gaius sempronius and a great many others say that they [aborigines] were greeks, part of those who once dwelt in achaia, and that they migrated many generations before the trojan war. but they do not name the greek tribe or city they belonged to, or the date or the leader of the colony, or what made them leave their mother country. though they follow a greek legend, they cite no greek historian as their authority. it is uncertain, therefore, what the truth of the matter is. 	^ dionysius of halicarnassus. "book i. ". roman antiquities. twenty-four stades from the afore-mentioned city stood lista, the mother-city of the aborigines, which at a still earlier time the sabines had captured by a surprise attack, having set out against it from amiternum by night. 	^ dionysius of halicarnassus. "book ii. ". roman antiquities. but zenodotus of troezen, a...historian, relates that the umbrians, a native race, first dwelt in the reatine territory, as it is called, and that, being driven from there by the pelasgians, they came into the country which they now inhabit and changing their name with their place of habitation, from umbrians were called sabines. but porcius cato says that the sabine race received its name from sabus, the son of sancus, a divinity of that country, and that this sancus was by some called jupiter fidius. 	^ dionysius of halicarnassus. "book ii. ". roman antiquities. there is also another account given of the sabines in the native histories, to the effect that a colony of lacedaemonians settled among them at the time when lycurgus, being guardian to his nephew eunomus, gave his laws to sparta. for the story goes that some of the spartans, disliking the severity of his laws and separating from the rest, quit the city entirely, and after being borne through a vast stretch of sea, made a vow to the gods to settle in the first land they should reach; for a longing came upon them for any land whatsoever. at last they made that part of italy which lies near the pomentine plains and they called the place where they first landed foronia, in memory of their being borne through the sea, and built a temple to the goddess foronia, to whom they had addressed their vows; this goddess, by the alteration of one letter, they now call feronia. and some of them, setting out from thence, settled among the sabines. it is for this reason, they say, that many of the habits of the sabines are spartan, particularly their fondness for war and their frugality and a severity in all the actions of their lives. but this is enough about the sabine race. 	^ plutarch. " ". numa. pythagoras, the spartan, who was olympic victor in the foot-race for the sixteenth olympiad (in the third year of which numa was made king), and that in his wanderings about italy he made the acquaintance of numa, and helped him arrange the government of the city, whence it came about that many spartan customs were mingled with the roman, as pythagoras taught them to numa. and at all events, numa was of sabine descent, and the sabines will have it that they were colonists from lacedaemon. chronology, however, is hard to fix, and especially that which is based upon the names of victors in the olympic games, the list of which is said to have been published at a late period by hippias of elis, who had no fully authoritative basis for his work. i shall therefore begin at a convenient point, and relate the noteworthy facts which i have found in the life of numa. 	^ bunbury, edward herbert ( ). "sabini". in smith, william (ed.). dictionary of greek and roman geography. volume ii iabadius—zymethus. boston: little, brown and company. 	^ velleius paterculus . . 	^ velleius paterculus . . sources[edit] ancient[edit] 	ovid, fasti (book iii, – ) 	ovid, ars amatoria (book i, ) 	livy, ab urbe condita (book i, – ) 	cicero, de republica (book ii, – ) 	plutarch, parallel lives (romulus, – ) 	juvenal, satires (book iii, – ) modern[edit] 	donaldson, john william ( ). "chapter iv: the sabello-oscan language". varronianus: a critical and historical introduction to the ethnography of ancient italy and the philological study of the latin language. london: john w. parker and son. further reading[edit] 	brown, robert. 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	fleets 	admirals 	 campaign history 	wars and battles 	 technological history 	 military engineering 	 	castra 	siege engines 	triumphal arches 	roads 	 political history   	 strategy and tactics 	 	infantry tactics 	 frontiers and fortifications 	 	limes 	limes britannicus 	antonine wall 	hadrian's wall 	saxon shore 	limes germanicus 	alb limes 	lauter valley limes 	lower germanic limes 	main limes 	neckar-odenwald limes 	upper germanic-rhaetian limes 	wetterau limes 	danube–iller–rhine limes 	norican limes 	claustra alpium iuliarum 	pannonian limes 	limes alutanus 	limes moesiae 	trajan's wall 	anastasian wall 	limes sarmatiae 	limes arabicus 	limes tripolitanus 	limes mauretaniae 	  ancient rome portal •  war portal 		v 	t 	e the strategy of the roman military contains its grand strategy (the arrangements made by the state to implement its political goals through a selection of military goals, a process of diplomacy backed by threat of military action, and a dedication to the military of part of its production and resources), operational strategy (the coordination and combination of the military forces and their tactics for the goals of an overarching strategy) and, on a small scale, its military tactics (methods for military engagement in order to defeat the enemy). if a fourth rung of "engagement" is added, then the whole can be seen as a ladder, with each level from the foot upwards representing a decreasing concentration on military engagement. whereas the purest form of tactics or engagement are those free of political imperative, the purest form of political policy does not involve military engagement. strategy as a whole is the connection between political policy and the use of force to achieve it. contents 	 grand strategy 	 operational strategy 	 infantry tactics 	 . tactical pre-battle maneuvers 	 . tactical deployment 	 . tactical engagement 	 references grand strategy[edit] in its clearest form, strategy deals solely with military issues: either a threat or an opportunity is recognised, an evaluation is made, and a military stratagem for meeting it is devised. however, as clausewitz stated, a successful military strategy may be a means to an end, but it is not an end in itself. where a state has a long term political goal to which it applies military methods and the resources of the state, that state can be said to have a grand strategy. to an extent, all states will have a grand strategy to a certain degree even if it is simply determining which forces to raise as a military, or how to arm them. whilst early rome did raise and arm troops, they tended to raise them annually in response to the specific demands of the state during that year. such a reactive policy, whilst possibly more efficient than the maintenance of a standing army, does not indicate the close ties between long-term political goals and military organization demanded by grand strategy. early indications for a roman grand strategy emerged during the punic wars with carthage, in which rome was able to influence the course of the war by selecting to ignore the armies of hannibal threatening its homeland and to invade africa instead in order to dictate the primary theatre of war. in the empire, as the need for and size of the professional army grew, the possibility arose for the expansion of the concept of a grand strategy to encompass the management of the resources of the entire roman state in the conduct of warfare: great consideration was given in the empire to diplomacy and the use of the military to achieve political goals, both through warfare and also as a deterrent. the contribution of actual (rather than potential) military force to strategy was largely reduced to operational strategy - the planning and control of large military units. rome's grand strategy incorporated diplomacy through which rome might forge alliances or pressure another nation into compliance, as well as the management of the post-war peace. operational strategy[edit] further information: campaign history of the roman military vegetius wrote that "every plan... is to be considered, every expedient tried and every method taken before matters are brought to this last extremity [general engagements]... good officers decline general engagements where the odds are too great, and prefer the employment of stratagem and finesse to destroy the enemy as much as possible... without exposing their own forces.".[ ] however, vegetius was writing late in the fourth century ad, in the latter years of the empire. during this period, and for much of the empire, it can be argued that the romans did follow a grand strategy calling for limited direct operational engagement. however, earlier in its history, in the republic and early empire rome showed little reluctance to become engaged in direct military engagement, prosecuting offensive operations against numerous adversaries. when a campaign did go badly wrong, operational strategy varied greatly as the circumstances dictated, from naval actions to sieges, assaults of fortified positions and open battle. however, the preponderance of roman campaigns exhibit a preference for direct engagement in open battle and, where necessary, the overcoming of fortified positions via military engineering. the roman army was adept at building fortified camps for protection from enemy attack, but history shows a reluctance to sit in the camp awaiting battle and a history of seeking open battle. infantry tactics[edit] main article: roman infantry tactics roman armies of the republic and early empire worked from a set tactical 'handbook', a military tradition of deploying forces that provided for few variations and was ignored or elaborated only on occasion. tactical pre-battle maneuvers[edit] once the legion had deployed on an operation, they would generally march to their objective. there were exceptions when the armies were transported by the roman navy but even then in most instances this was followed by a march of several days or weeks. the approach to the battlefield was made in several columns, enhancing maneuver. typically a strong vanguard preceded the main body, and included scouts, cavalry and light troops. a tribune or other officer often accompanied the vanguard to survey the terrain for possible camp locations. flank and recon elements were also deployed to provide the usual covering security. behind the vanguard came the main body of heavy infantry. each legion marched as a distinct formation and was accompanied by its own baggage train. at the end of a day's march, the romans would typically establish a strong field camp called a castra, complete with palisade and a deep ditch, providing a basis for supply storage, troop marshalling and defence. streets were laid out, units designated to take specific places, and guards posted at carefully designed gates. construction could take between and hours with part of the army laboring, while the rest stood guard, depending on the tactical situation. no other ancient army persisted over such a long period in systematic camp construction like the romans, even if the army rested for only a single day. this concentration of conservative security in deployment was mirrored both in the measured tactics of engagement for the infantry and by the largely conservative operational strategies employed. tactical deployment[edit] the roman heavy infantry typically was deployed, as the main body, facing the enemy, in three approximately equal lines, with the cavalry or equites on their wings to prevent them being flanked and turned, and light infantry in a screen in front of them to hide maneuvers of the heavy infantry, harass the enemy forces and, in some cases, drive off units such as elephants that would be a great threat to close-order heavy infantry. they were deployed in a quincunx checkered pattern. alternative tactical formations were adopted occasionally. tactical engagement[edit] in the same way that roman tactical maneuver was measured and cautious, so too was their actual engagement of the enemy. the soldiers were long-term service professionals whose interest lay in receiving a large pension and an allocation of land on retirement from the army, rather than in seeking glory on the battlefield as a warrior. the tactics of engagement largely reflected this, concentrating on maintaining formation order and protecting individual troops rather than pushing aggressively to destroy the maximum number of enemy troops in a wild charge. a battle usually opened with light troops skirmishing with the opposition. these light forces then withdrew to the flanks or between the gaps in the central line of heavy infantry. cavalry might be launched against their opposing numbers or used to screen the central core from envelopment. as the gap between the contenders closed, the heavy infantry typically took the initiative, attacking on the double. the front ranks usually cast their pila, and the following ranks hurled theirs over the heads of the front-line fighters. if a cast pilum did not cause direct death or injury, they were so designed that the hard iron triangular points would stick into enemy shields, bending on their soft metal shafts, weighing down the shields and making them unusable. after the pila were cast, the soldiers then drew their swords and engaged the enemy. however, rather than charging as might be assumed, great emphasis was placed on the protection gained from sheltering behind the scutum and remaining unexposed, stabbing out from behind the protection of the shield whenever an exposed enemy presented himself. fresh troops were fed in from the rear, through the "checkboard" arrangement, to relieve the injured and exhausted further ahead. many roman battles, especially during the late empire, were fought with the preparatory bombardment from ballistas and onagers. these war machines, a form of ancient artillery, launched arrows and large stones 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this privacy policy does & doesn't cover 	 collection & use of info 	 . types of information we receive from you & how we get it 	 . . your public contributions 	 . . account information & registration 	 . . location information 	 . . . gps & other location technologies 	 . . . metadata 	 . . . ip addresses 	 . information related to your use of the wikimedia sites 	 . . information we receive automatically 	 . . information we collect 	 . how we use information we receive from you 	 . other 	 . . location information 	 . . . gps & other location technologies 	 . . . metadata 	 . . . ip addresses 	 sharing 	 . when may we share your information? 	 . . with your permission 	 . . for legal reasons 	 . . if the organization is transferred (really unlikely!) 	 . . to protect you, ourselves & others 	 . . to our service providers 	 . . to understand & experiment 	 . . because you made it public 	 protection 	 . how do we protect your data? 	 . how long do we keep your data? 	 important info 	 . where is the foundation & what does that mean for me? 	 . our response to do not track (dnt) signals 	 . changes to this privacy policy 	 . contact us 	 . thank you! introduction welcome! the wikimedia foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates collaborative, free knowledge websites, like wikipedia, wikimedia commons, and wiktionary. this policy explains how we collect, use, and share your personal information. 	we collect very little personal information about you. 	we do not rent or sell your information to third parties. by using wikimedia sites, you consent to this policy. the wikimedia movement is founded on a simple, but powerful principle: we can do more together than any of us can do alone. we cannot work collectively without gathering, sharing, and analyzing information about our users as we seek new ways to make the wikimedia sites more usable, safer, and more beneficial. we believe that information-gathering and use should go hand-in-hand with transparency. this privacy policy explains how the wikimedia foundation, the non-profit organization that hosts the wikimedia sites, like wikipedia, collects, uses, and shares information we receive from you through your use of the wikimedia sites. it is essential to understand that, by using any of the wikimedia sites, you consent to the collection, transfer, processing, storage, disclosure, and use of your information as described in this privacy policy. that means that reading this policy carefully is important. we believe that you shouldn't have to provide nonpublic personal information to participate in the free knowledge movement. you do not have to provide things like your real name, address, or date of birth to sign up for a standard account or contribute content to the wikimedia sites. we do not sell or rent your personal information, nor do we give it to others to sell you anything. we use it to figure out how to make the wikimedia sites more engaging and accessible, to see which ideas work, and to make learning and contributing more fun. put simply: we use this information to make the wikimedia sites better for you. after all, it's people like you, the champions of free knowledge, who make it possible for the wikimedia sites to not only exist, but also grow and thrive. definitions back to top we recognize that only a minority of you are familiar with technical terms like “tracking pixels” and “cookies” used in the privacy policy. whether you are brand new to privacy terminology or you are an expert who just wants a refresher, you might find our glossary of key terms helpful. because everyone (not just lawyers) should be able to easily understand how and why their information is collected and used, we use common language instead of more formal terms throughout this policy. to help ensure your understanding of some particular key terms, here is a table of translations: 	when we say... 	... we mean: 	"the wikimedia foundation" / "the foundation" / "we" / "us" / "our" 	the wikimedia foundation, inc., the non-profit organization that operates the wikimedia sites. 	"wikimedia sites" / "our services" 	wikimedia websites and services (regardless of language), including our main projects, such as wikipedia and wikimedia commons, as well as mobile applications, apis, emails, and notifications; excluding, however, sites and services listed in the "what this privacy policy doesn't cover" section below. 	"you" / "your" / "me" 	you, regardless of whether you are an individual, group, or organization, and regardless of whether you are using the wikimedia sites or our services on behalf of yourself or someone else. 	"this policy" / "this privacy policy" 	this document, entitled the "wikimedia foundation privacy policy". 	"contributions" 	content you add or changes you make to any wikimedia sites. 	"personal information" 	information you provide us or information we collect from you in the context of your use of the wikimedia sites that could be used to personally identify you. to be clear, while we do not necessarily collect all of the following types of information, we consider at least the following to be personal information if it can be used to identify you: 	(a) name, address, phone number, email address, username, password, identification number on government-issued id, ip addresses, user-agent information, and credit card number; and; 	(b) when associated with an identifiable person, any sensitive data such as date of birth, gender, sexual orientation, racial or ethnic origins, marital or familial status, genetic and biometric data, medical conditions or disabilities, political affiliation, and religion. 	"third party" / "third parties" 	individuals, entities, websites, services, products, and applications that are not controlled, managed, or operated by the wikimedia foundation. this includes other wikimedia users and independent organizations or groups who help promote the wikimedia movement such as wikimedia chapters, thematic organizations, and user groups as well as volunteers, employees, directors, officers, grant recipients, and contractors of those organizations or groups. what this privacy policy does & doesn't cover except as explained below, this privacy policy applies to our collection and handling of information about you that we receive as a result of your use of any of the wikimedia sites. this policy also applies to information that we receive from our partners or other third parties. to understand more about what this privacy policy covers, please see below. 	examples of what this privacy policy covers 	 for the sake of clarity, this privacy policy covers, regardless of language: 	all of our major sites (found at list of major projects), such as wikipedia, including user pages, discussion pages, and noticeboards. 	our blogs and apis (unless we have provided a separate policy for those services). 	official wikimedia foundation mobile applications. 	emails, sms, and notifications from us or sent to us from you. this privacy policy, however, does not cover some situations where we may gather or process information. for example, some uses may be covered by separate privacy policies (like those of the wikimedia shop) or sites or services run by third parties (such as third-party developer projects on wikimedia cloud services). to understand more about what this privacy policy does not cover, please see below. 	more on what this privacy policy doesn’t cover 	 this section is part of the privacy policy and is meant to explain in detail which situations are not covered by our privacy policy. 	wikimedia sites and tools with alternative policies 	some wikimedia foundation websites or tools have alternative privacy policies or provisions that differ from this privacy policy. these websites include: 	wikimedia shop (covered by the shop's policy); 	donate.wikimedia.org, including the donation process, such as clicking on a donation banner (covered by the donor privacy policy); and 	the wikipedia reading lists browser extension, which is governed by a separate privacy policy. this separate policy will also be made available where the extension can be downloaded. 	if a wikimedia foundation website is governed by an alternative privacy policy, it will link to such policy. when a wikimedia foundation tool is governed by an alternative privacy policy, the page where the tool may be downloaded or enabled will include a link to that policy. 	community members 	the wikimedia sites are collaborative labors of love that are constantly maintained and updated by a global community of volunteers. as a result, some volunteers have access to certain personal information, and use of that personal information may not be governed by this privacy policy. volunteers that have such access include: 	administrative volunteers, such as checkusers or stewards. these are volunteers who enforce wikimedia site policies and ensure the safety of the wikimedia sites. when these administrators access personal information that is nonpublic, they are required to comply with our access to nonpublic information policy, as well as other, tool-specific policies. 	tool providers. tool providers. we support platforms for third-party developers to experiment and develop new tools and sites, such as wmflabs.org. when you use one of the tools developed by these volunteers, you may transfer information to them. when these volunteers access nonpublic information or personal information, they are required to comply with the terms governing the particular platform the tool is available on. 	other users. we provide several tools that allow users to communicate with each other. the communications may be covered by this policy while they pass through our systems, but the users who receive these communications, and what they do with the communications once they receive them, are not covered by this policy. examples include: 	posting to foundation-hosted email lists; 	requesting support from volunteers through our online ticketing system (email sent to info[at]wikimedia.org goes to this system); 	emailing other users through the wikimedia sites (for example, by using the "email this user" feature); and 	chatting on irc (such as on the #wikipedia channel). 	third parties 	this privacy policy only covers the way the wikimedia foundation collects, uses and discloses personal information and does not address the practices of third parties. for example, this privacy policy does not address the practices of: 	websites run by other organizations, like websites linked to from the “references” sections of wikipedia, or run by wikimedia chapters or other movement organizations. these organizations may receive information from you if you visit their websites after using one of the wikimedia sites. they are governed by their own privacy policies. 	mobile applications provided by other organizations or individuals. these organizations or individuals may receive information from you if you use those applications to access the wikimedia sites or wikimedia site content. they are governed by their own privacy policies. sometimes, volunteers may place a data-collecting tool, such as a script, gadget, tracking pixel, or share button, on a wikimedia site without our knowledge. this policy does not cover how third parties handle the information they receive as a result of such a tool. if you come across such a third-party tool, and you believe it violates this policy, you can remove the tool yourself, or report it to privacy[at]wikimedia.org so we can investigate. where community policies govern information, such as the checkuser policy, the relevant community may add to the rules and obligations set out in this policy. however, they are not permitted to create new exceptions or otherwise reduce the protections offered by this policy. collection & use of info types of information we receive from you & how we get it your public contributions whatever you post on wikimedia sites can be seen and used by everyone. when you make a contribution to any wikimedia site, including on user or discussion pages, you are creating a permanent, public record of every piece of content added, removed, or altered by you. the page history will show when your contribution or deletion was made, as well as your username (if you are signed in) or your ip address (if you are not signed in). we may use your public contributions, either aggregated with the public contributions of others or individually, to create new features or data-related products for you or to learn more about how the wikimedia sites are used. 	publicly visible information 	 unless this policy says otherwise, you should assume that information that you actively contribute to the wikimedia sites, including personal information, is publicly visible and can be found by search engines. like most things on the internet, anything you share may be copied and redistributed throughout the internet by other people. please do not contribute any information that you are uncomfortable making permanently public, like revealing your real name or location in your contributions. you should be aware that specific data made public by you or aggregated data that is made public by us can be used by anyone for analysis and to infer further information, such as which country a user is from, political affiliation and gender. back to top account information & registration you do not need to create an account to use any wikimedia site. if you do create an account, you do not need to give us your name or email address. if you do not create an account, your contributions will be publicly attributed to your ip address. want to create an account? great! don't want to create an account? no problem! you are not required to create an account to read or contribute to a wikimedia site, except under rare circumstances. however, if you contribute without signing in, your contribution will be publicly attributed to the ip address associated with your device. if you want to create a standard account, in most cases we require only a username and a password. 	more on usernames 	 your username will be publicly visible, so please be careful about using your real name as your username. your password is only used to verify that the account is yours. your ip address is also automatically submitted to us, and we record it temporarily to help prevent abuse. no other personal information is required: no name, no email address, no date of birth, no credit card information. once created, user accounts cannot be removed entirely (although you can usually hide the information on your user page if you choose to). this is because your public contributions must be associated with their author (you!). in some circumstances, the wikimedia communities can assist users with removing additional information related to their account from the projects. to gain a better understanding of the demographics of our users, to localize our services and to learn how we can improve our services, we may ask you for more demographic information, such as gender or age, about yourself. we will tell you if such information is intended to be public or private, so that you can make an informed decision about whether you want to provide us with that information. providing such information is always completely optional. if you don't want to, you don't have to—it's as simple as that. back to top location information gps & other location technologies some features we offer work better if we know what area you are in. if you consent, we can use gps (and other technologies commonly used to determine location) to show you more relevant content. we keep information obtained by these technologies confidential, except as provided in this policy. you can learn more by checking out the list of examples of how we use these technologies in our faq. back to top metadata sometimes, we automatically receive location data from your device. for example, if you want to upload a photo on the wikimedia commons mobile app, we may receive metadata, such as the place and time you took the photo, automatically from your device. please be aware that, unlike location information collected using gps signals described above, the default setting on your mobile device typically includes the metadata in your photo or video upload to the wikimedia sites. if you do not want metadata sent to us and made public at the time of your upload, please change your settings on your device. back to top ip addresses finally, when you visit any wikimedia site, we automatically receive the ip address of the device (or your proxy server) you are using to access the internet, which could be used to infer your geographical location. back to top information related to your use of the wikimedia sites we use certain technologies to collect information about how you use wikimedia sites. like other websites, we receive some information about you automatically when you visit the wikimedia sites. we also use a variety of commonly-used technologies, like cookies, to collect information regarding how you use the wikimedia sites, make our services safer and easier to use, and to help create a better and more customizable experience for you. we want to make the wikimedia sites better for you by learning more about how you use them. examples of this might include how often you visit the wikimedia sites, what you like, what you find helpful, how you get to the wikimedia sites, and whether you would use a helpful feature more if we explained it differently. we also want this policy and our practices to reflect our community's values. for this reason, we keep information related to your use of the wikimedia sites confidential, except as provided in this policy. back to top information we receive automatically because of how browsers work, we receive some information automatically when you visit the wikimedia sites. this information includes the type of device you are using (possibly including unique device identification numbers, for some beta versions of our mobile applications), the type and version of your browser, your browser's language preference, the type and version of your device's operating system, in some cases the name of your internet service provider or mobile carrier, the website that referred you to the wikimedia sites, which pages you request and visit, and the date and time of each request you make to the wikimedia sites. put simply, we use this information to enhance your experience with wikimedia sites. for example, we use this information to administer the sites, provide greater security, and fight vandalism; optimize mobile applications, customize content and set language preferences, test features to see what works, and improve performance; understand how users interact with the wikimedia sites, track and study use of various features, gain understanding about the demographics of the different wikimedia sites, and analyze trends. back to top information we collect we use a variety of commonly-used technologies, like cookies, to understand how you use the wikimedia sites, make our services safer and easier to use, and to help create a better and more customizable experience for you. we actively collect some types of information with a variety of commonly-used technologies. these generally include tracking pixels, javascript, and a variety of "locally stored data" technologies, such as cookies and local storage. we realize that some of these technologies do not have the best reputation in town and can be used for less-than-noble purposes. so we want to be as clear as we can about why we use these methods and the type of information we collect with them. depending on which technology we use, locally stored data can be anything from text, pictures, and whole articles (as we explain further below) to personal information (like your ip address) and information about your use of the wikimedia sites (like your username or the time of your visit). we use this information to make your experience with the wikimedia sites safer and better, to gain a greater understanding of user preferences and their interaction with the wikimedia sites, and to generally improve our services. we will never use third-party cookies, unless we get your permission to do so. if you ever come across a third-party data collection tool that has not been authorized by you (such as one that may have been mistakenly placed by another user or administrator), please report it to us at privacy@wikimedia.org. 	more on locally stored data 	 locally stored data, javascript, and tracking pixels help us do things like: 	provide you with a customizable experience, such as using cookies to know your language preference, to remember the user preferences you set so we can provide you with the customized look and feel that you want, and to tell you about interesting wikimedia issues and events in your area. 	deliver more relevant content to you faster. for example, we use local storage to store your most recently read articles directly on your device, so they can be retrieved quickly. also, we use cookies to learn about the topics searched so that we can optimize the search results we deliver to you. 	understand how you use the wikimedia sites, so that we know what works and what is useful. for example, we might use cookies to learn about the list of articles you are following on your watchlist so that we can recommend similar articles that you may be interested in. 	understand how you use the wikimedia sites across different devices, so that we can make our varied wikimedia sites more efficient and effective for you. 	make the wikimedia sites more convenient to use, such as by using cookies to maintain your session when you log in or to remember your username in the login field. want to know even more? you can read more about some of the specific cookies we use, when they expire, and what we use them for in our faq. we believe this data collection helps improve your user experience, but you may remove or disable some or all locally stored data through your browser settings, depending on your browser. you can learn more about some options you have in our faq. while locally stored data may not be necessary to use our sites, some features will not function properly if you disable locally stored data. while the examples above concerning information about you collected through the use of data collection tools are kept confidential in accordance with this policy, please note that some information about the actions taken by your username is made publicly available through public logs alongside actions taken by other users. for example, a public log may include the date your account was created on a wikimedia site along with the dates that other accounts were created on a wikimedia site. back to top how we use information we receive from you we and our service providers use your information for the legitimate purpose of pursuing our charitable mission, including: 	operating the wikimedia sites, sharing your contributions and administering our services. 	 	to help you share your knowledge with the world and add new features to our services. 	to arrange access to your account and provide you with related service. 	to send administrative information to you, such as changes to our policies. 	to allow you to send messages to another person if you choose to do so. direct communications between users (such as messages sent through the "email this user" feature), to the extent such communications are nonpublic and stored in or in transit through wikimedia foundation systems, are kept confidential by us, except as provided in this policy. we engage in these activities to manage our relationship with you, because we have a legitimate interest and/or to comply with our legal obligations. 	providing customized services. 	 	to provide to you custom content, notices and settings and to enhance your experience with the wikimedia sites. we will customize the services, in some instances, at your direction; in all instances, in keeping with our legitimate charitable purpose of pursuing our mission. 	sending emails with news updates, surveys and communications about items we believe may be of interest to you. 	 	to let you know about things that are happening with the wikimedia foundation, the wikimedia sites or the wikimedia movement. 	to alert you when there has been a change to an article that you have decided to follow. we will send these types of emails to you only with your consent. we do not sell, rent, or use your email address to advertise third-party products or services to you. you can manage what kinds of notifications you receive and how often you receive them by going to your notifications preferences. you can learn more about email and notifications and how to change your preferences in our faq. 	sending optional surveys and requesting feedback. 	 we will always tell you, at the time we give you an opportunity to share your thoughts, how we plan on using your answers and any personal information you provide. your responses to our surveys and feedback requests are always optional. we will email these types of requests to you only with your consent. you can manage what kinds of notifications you receive and how often you receive them by going to your notifications preferences. you can learn more about email and notifications and how to change your preferences in our faq. 	improving the wikimedia sites and making your user experience safer and better. 	 	to use your public contributions, either aggregated with the public contributions of others or individually, to create new features or data-related products for you or to learn more about how the wikimedia sites are used. 	for research and analytics. 	to fight spam, identity theft, malware and other kinds of abuse. 	to optimize mobile and other applications. 	to test features to see what works, understand how users interact with the wikimedia sites, track and study use of various features, gain understanding about the demographics of the different wikimedia sites and analyze trends. we engage in these activities to further our legitimate charitable purpose and/or to comply with our legal obligations. back to top other location information gps & other location technologies as stated above, we can use commonly-used location technologies to show you more relevant content. for example, our mobile apps can identify articles from the wikimedia sites about points of interest near your location. as a reminder, you can deactivate our access to these location technologies at any time, and still use the wikimedia sites. back to top metadata as stated above, we may automatically receive location data from your device. for example, if you upload a photo using the wikimedia commons mobile app, please be aware that the default setting on your mobile device typically results in the metadata associated with your photo being included in the upload. as a reminder, if you do not want metadata sent to us and made public at the time of your upload, please change your settings on your device. back to top ip addresses when you visit any wikimedia site, we automatically receive the ip address of the device (or your proxy server) you are using to access the internet, which could be used to infer your geographical location. we keep ip addresses confidential, except as provided in this policy. if you are visiting wikimedia sites with your mobile device, we may use your ip address to provide anonymized or aggregated information to service providers regarding the volume of usage in certain areas. we use this location information to make your experience with the wikimedia sites safer and better, to gain a greater understanding of user preferences and their interaction with the wikimedia sites, and to generally improve our services. for example, we use this information to provide greater security, optimize mobile applications, and learn how to expand and better support wikimedia communities. we also use personal information in the manner described in the sections of this policy titled "for legal reasons" and "to protect you, ourselves & others." back to top sharing when may we share your information? we may share your information when you give us specific permission to do so, for legal reasons, and in the other circumstances described below. with your permission we share your information when you give us specific permission to do so. we share your information for a particular purpose, if you agree. you can find more information in the list of examples in our faq. back to top for legal reasons we will disclose your information in response to an official legal process only if we believe it to be legally valid. we will notify you of such requests when possible. we will access, use, preserve, and/or disclose your personal information if we reasonably believe it necessary to satisfy a valid and legally enforceable warrant, subpoena, court order, law or regulation, or other judicial or administrative order. however, if we believe that a particular request for disclosure of a user's information is legally invalid or an abuse of the legal system and the affected user does not intend to oppose the disclosure themselves, we will try our best to fight it. we are committed to notifying you via email at least ten ( ) calendar days, when possible, before we disclose your personal information in response to a legal demand. however, we may only provide notice if we are not legally restrained from contacting you, there is no credible threat to life or limb that is created or increased by disclosing the request, and you have provided us with an email address. nothing in this privacy policy is intended to limit any legal objections or defenses you may have to a third party's request (whether it be civil, criminal, or governmental) to disclose your information. we recommend seeking the advice of legal counsel immediately if such a request is made involving you. for more information, see our subpoena faq. back to top if the organization is transferred (really unlikely!) in the unlikely event that the ownership of the foundation changes, we will provide you days’ notice before any personal information is transferred to the new owners or becomes subject to a different privacy policy. in the extremely unlikely event that ownership of all or substantially all of the foundation changes, or we go through a reorganization (such as a merger, consolidation, or acquisition), we will continue to keep your personal information confidential, except as provided in this policy, and provide notice to you via the wikimedia sites and a notification on wikimediaannounce-l or similar mailing list at least thirty ( ) calendar days before any personal information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy. back to top to protect you, ourselves & others we, or users with certain administrative rights, may disclose information that is reasonably necessary to: 	enforce or investigate potential violations of the wikimedia foundation or community-based policies; 	protect our organization, infrastructure, employees, contractors, or the public; or 	prevent imminent or serious bodily harm or death to a person. we, or particular users with certain administrative rights as described below, may need to share your personal information if it is reasonably believed to be necessary to enforce or investigate potential violations of our terms of use, this privacy policy, or any wikimedia foundation or user community-based policies. we may also need to access and share information to investigate and defend ourselves against legal threats or actions. wikimedia sites are collaborative, with users writing most of the policies and selecting from amongst themselves people to hold certain administrative rights. these rights may include access to limited amounts of otherwise nonpublic information about recent contributions and activity by other users. they use this access to help protect against vandalism and abuse, fight harassment of other users, and generally try to minimize disruptive behavior on the wikimedia sites. these various user-selected administrative groups have their own privacy and confidentiality guidelines, but all such groups are supposed to agree to follow our access to nonpublic information policy. these user-selected administrative groups are accountable to other users through checks and balances: users are selected through a community-driven process and overseen by their peers through a logged history of their actions. however, the legal names of these users are not known to the wikimedia foundation. we hope that this never comes up, but we may disclose your personal information if we believe that it's reasonably necessary to prevent imminent and serious bodily harm or death to a person, or to protect our organization, employees, contractors, users, or the public. we may also disclose your personal information if we reasonably believe it necessary to detect, prevent, or otherwise assess and address potential spam, malware, fraud, abuse, unlawful activity, and security or technical concerns. (check out the list of examples in our faq for more information.) back to top to our service providers we may disclose personal information to our third party service providers or contractors to help run or improve the wikimedia sites and provide services in support of our mission. as hard as we may try, we can't do it all. so sometimes we use third-party service providers or contractors who help run or improve the wikimedia sites for you and other users. we give access to your personal information to these providers or contractors as needed to perform their services for us or to use their tools and services. we put requirements, such as confidentiality agreements, in place to help ensure that these service providers treat your information consistently with, and no less protective of your privacy than, the principles of this policy. (check out the list of examples in our faq.) if you are visiting wikimedia sites with your mobile device, we use your ip address to provide anonymized or aggregated information to service providers regarding the volume of usage in certain areas. back to top to understand & experiment 	we give volunteer developers and researchers access to systems that contain your information to allow them to protect, develop, and contribute to the wikimedia sites. 	we also share non-personal information or aggregated information with third parties interested in studying the wikimedia sites. 	when we share information with third parties for these purposes, we put reasonable technical and contractual protections in place to protect your information consistent with this policy. the open-source software that powers the wikimedia sites depends on the contributions of volunteer software developers, who spend time writing and testing code to help it improve and evolve with our users' needs. to facilitate their work, we give some developers limited access to systems that contain your personal information, but only as reasonably necessary for them to develop and contribute to the wikimedia sites. similarly, we share non-personal information or aggregated information with researchers, scholars, academics, and other interested third parties who wish to study the wikimedia sites. sharing this information helps them understand usage, viewing, and demographics statistics and patterns. they then can share their findings with us and our users so that we can all better understand and improve the wikimedia sites. when we give access to personal information to third-party developers or researchers, we put requirements, such as reasonable technical and contractual protections, in place to help ensure that these service providers treat your information consistently with the principles of this policy and in accordance with our instructions. if these developers or researchers later publish their work or findings, we ask that they not disclose your personal information. please note that, despite the obligations we impose on developers and researchers, we cannot guarantee that they will abide by our agreement, nor do we guarantee that we will regularly screen or audit their projects. (you can learn more about re-identification in our faq.) back to top because you made it public information that you post is public and can been seen and used by everyone. any information you post publicly on the wikimedia sites is just that – public. for example, if you put your mailing address on your talk page, that is public, and not protected by this policy. and if you edit without registering or logging into your account, your ip address will be seen publicly. please think carefully about your desired level of anonymity before you disclose personal information on your user page or elsewhere. back to top protection how do we protect your data? we use a variety of physical and technical measures, policies, and procedures to help protect your information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. we strive to protect your information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. we use a variety of physical and technical measures, policies, and procedures (such as access control procedures, network firewalls, and physical security) designed to protect our systems and your personal information. unfortunately, there's no such thing as completely secure data transmission or storage, so we can't guarantee that our security will not be breached (by technical measures or through violation of our policies and procedures). we will never ask for your password by email (but may send you a temporary password via email if you have requested a password reset). if you ever receive an email that requests your password, please let us know by sending it to privacy@wikimedia.org, so we can investigate the source of the email. back to top how long do we keep your data? except as otherwise stated in this policy, we only keep your personal information as long as necessary to maintain, understand and improve the wikimedia sites or to comply with u.s. law. once we receive personal information from you, we keep it for the shortest possible time that is consistent with the maintenance, understanding, and improvement of the wikimedia sites, and our obligations under applicable u.s. law. non-personal information may be retained indefinitely. 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terms may apply. see terms of use for details. 		privacy policy 	about wikimedia foundation governance wiki 	disclaimers 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 sanitation in ancient rome - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	sanitation in ancient rome 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		sanitation in ancient rome was well advanced compared to other ancient cities sanitation in ancient rome was well advanced compared to other ancient cities and was providing water supply and sanitation services to residents of rome. contents 	 sewer systems 	 public latrines 	 aqueducts 	 health impacts 	 see also 	 references 	 . bibliography 	 external links sewer systems[edit] the romans had a complex system of sewers covered by stones, much like modern sewers. waste flushed from the latrines flowed through a central channel into the main sewage system and thence into a nearby river or stream. however, it was not uncommon for romans to throw waste out of windows into the streets (at least according to roman satirists)[citation needed]. despite this, roman waste management is admired for its innovation. a system of eleven roman aqueducts provided the inhabitants of rome with water of varying quality, the best being reserved for potable supplies. poorer-quality water was used in public baths and in latrines. latrine systems have been found in many places, such as housesteads, a roman fort on hadrian's wall, in pompeii, herculaneum, and elsewhere that flushed waste away with a stream of water. it is estimated that the first sewers of ancient rome were built between and bc. drainage systems evolved slowly, and began primarily as a means to drain marshes and storm runoff. the sewers were mainly for the removal of surface drainage and underground water.[ ] the sewage system as a whole did not really take off until the arrival of the cloaca maxima, an open channel that was later covered, and one of the best-known sanitation artifacts of the ancient world. most sources believe it was built during the reign of the three etruscan kings in the sixth century bc. this "greatest sewer" of rome was originally built to drain the low-lying land around the forum. it is not known how effective the sewers were, especially in removing excrement.[ ] from very early times the romans, in imitation of the etruscans, made underground channels to drain rainwater that might otherwise wash away precious topsoil, used ditches to drain swamps (such as the pontine marshes), and dug subterranean channels to drain marshy areas. over time, the romans expanded the network of sewers that ran through the city and linked most of them, including some drains, to the cloaca maxima, which emptied into the tiber river. the cloaca maxima was built in the fourth century bc, and was largely reconstructed and enclosed under the authority of agrippa as an aedile in bc.[ ] it still drains the forum romanum and surrounding hills. strabo, a greek author who lived from about bc to ad , admired the ingenuity of the romans in his geographica, writing: 	the sewers, covered with a vault of tightly fitted stones, have room in some places for hay wagons to drive through them. and the quantity of water brought into the city by aqueducts is so great that rivers, as it were, flow through the city and the sewers; almost every house has water tanks, and service pipes, and plentiful streams of water...in short, the ancient romans gave little thought to the beauty of rome because they were occupied with other, greater and more necessary matters. a law was eventually passed to protect innocent bystanders from assault by wastes thrown into the street. the violator was forced to pay damages to whomever his waste hit, if that person sustained an injury. this law was enforced only in the daytime, it is presumed, because one then lacked the excuse of darkness for injuring another by careless waste disposal. around ad , direct connections of homes to sewers began, and the romans completed most of the sewer system infrastructure. sewers were laid throughout the city, serving public and some private latrines, and also served as dumping grounds for homes not directly connected to a sewer. it was mostly the wealthy whose homes were connected to the sewers, through outlets that ran under an extension of the latrine. public latrines[edit] the latrines are the best-preserved feature at housesteads roman fort on hadrian's wall. the soldiers sat on wooden boards with holes, which covered one big trench. water ran in a big ditch at the soldiers' feet. in general, poorer residents used pots that they were supposed to empty into the sewer, or visited public latrines. public latrines date back to the nd century bc. whether intentionally or not, they became places to socialise. long bench-like seats with keyhole-shaped openings cut in rows offered little privacy. some latrines were free, for others small charges were made.[ ] according to lord amulree, the site where julius caesar was assassinated, the hall of curia in the theatre of pompey, was turned into a public latrine because of the dishonor it had witnessed. the sewer system, like a little stream or river, ran beneath it, carrying the waste away to the cloaca maxima. the romans recycled public bath waste water by using it as part of the flow that flushed the latrines. terra cotta piping was used in the plumbing that carried waste water from homes. the romans were the first to seal pipes in concrete to resist the high water pressures developed in siphons and elsewhere. beginning around the th century bc, aediles, among their other functions, supervised the sanitary systems. they were also responsible for the efficiency of the drainage and sewage systems, the cleansing of the streets, prevention of foul smells, and general oversight of baths. in the first century ad, the roman sewage system was very efficient. in his natural history, pliny remarked that of all the things romans had accomplished, the sewers were "the most noteworthy things of all". aqueducts[edit] remains of aqueducts aqua claudia and anio novus, integrated into the aurelian wall main article: roman aqueducts the aqueducts provided the large volumes of water that—after serving drinking, bathing, and other needs—flushed through the sewers. a system of eleven aqueducts supplied the city with water from as far away as the river anio. anio novus and aqua claudia were two of the biggest systems. the distribution system was carefully designed so that all waste water drained into the cloaca maxima. the management and maintenance involved in keeping the aqueducts flowing is well described by frontinus, a general appointed by the emperor nerva as water commissioner toward the end of the first century ad. he described his work on the distribution system in de aquaeductu published at the end of the first century ad. when first appointed, he surveyed and mapped the entire system, and strove to investigate the many abuses of the water supply, such as the act of tapping into pipes illegally. he also systematized aqueduct maintenance with gangs of specially trained workmen. he also tried to separate the supply, so that the best-quality water went to drinking and cooking, while second-quality water flowed to the fountains, baths, and, finally, sewers. pont du gard in france the system in rome was copied in all provincial towns and cities of the roman empire, and even down to villas that could afford the plumbing. roman citizens came to expect high standards of hygiene, and the army was also well provided with latrines and bath houses, or thermae. aqueducts were used everywhere in the empire not just to supply drinking water for private houses but to supply other needs such as irrigation, public fountains, and thermae. indeed, many of the provincial aqueducts survive in working order to the present day, although modernized and updated. of the eleven ancient aqueducts serving rome, eight of them entered rome close to each other on the esquiline hill.[ ] also, the first aqueduct was the aqua appia built in bc by the censor appius.[ ] other aqueducts of importance to roman sanitation was the aqua marcia built between - bc, which provided large amounts of quality water to rome.[ ] one aqueduct with some major importance to rome was traiana, which tapped from the clear springs of the northern and western slopes above lake bracciano.[ ] it is said that the “romans fully appreciated the importance of plentiful and wholesome supply of water, for domestic purposes to health of the community.[ ] it was stated by amulree that for years after the building of rome, it depended on water from the tiber for drinking and other domestic purposes, but in bc appius claudius crassus provide rome with water from the springs of the alban hills and brought to consumers by the means of aqueducts.[ ] the amulree notes state that this practice is in line with the teachings of hippocrates: that stagnant water should be refused, not the spring water from the hills or rain water.[ ] roman rubbish was often left to collect in alleys between buildings in the poor districts of the city. it sometimes became so thick that stepping stones were needed. "unfortunately its functions did not include house-to-house garbage collection, and this led to indiscriminate refuse dumping, even to the heedless tossing of trash from windows." [ ] as a consequence, the street level in the city rose, as new buildings were constructed on top of rubble and rubbish. health impacts[edit] although there were many sewers, public latrines, baths and other sanitation infrastructure, disease was still rampant. most dwellings were not connected to street drains or sewers. some apartment buildings (insulae) might have had a latrine and a fountain on the ground floor. this didn't stop the residents on the upper floors from dumping their waste onto the street. there was no street cleaning service in rome. thus, the neighborhoods were plagued with disease.[ ] the baths are known to symbolise the "great hygiene of rome." although the baths may have made the romans smell good, they were a cesspool of disease. doctors commonly prescribed their patients a bath. consequently, the diseased and healthy sometimes bathed together. the sick generally preferred to visit the baths during the afternoon or night to avoid the healthy, but the baths were not constantly being cleaned. this means the healthy who bathe the next day might catch the disease from the sick who bathed the previous day.[ ] latrines could be found in many places such as in baths, forts and the colosseum. the romans wiped themselves after defecating with a sea sponge on a stick named tersorium.[ ] this might be shared by all of those using the latrine, or people would bring their own sponge. to clean the sponge, they washed it in a bucket with water and salt or vinegar.[ ] this became a breeding ground for bacteria, causing the spread of disease in the latrine.[ ] it is commonly believed the romans used sea sponges on a stick and dipped in vinegar after defecation (for anal hygiene), but the practice is only attested to once.[ ] see also[edit] 	aqueduct (roman) 	cloaca maxima 	frontinus 	roman architecture 	roman engineering 	roman technology 	history of water supply and sanitation 	sanitation of the indus valley civilization references[edit] 	^ farnsworth , p. . 	^ gowers , p. . 	^ howatson , p. . 	^ amulree , p. 	^ a b aicher , p. . 	^ a b aicher , p. . 	^ a b c amulree , p. . 	^ casson 	^ a b c "death and disease in ancient rome". www.innominatesociety.com. retrieved - - . 	^ mirsky, steve ( ). 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la temoj estas ĉefe amo, vino, festeno kaj la bonfaroj de, kaj bonfarto sub, la regado de aŭgusto. la verkado de l' odoj postulis pli malpli sep jarojn. liaj odoj estis ege laŭdataj tra la jarcentoj, sed preskaŭ neniu eĉ klopodis por iom imiti lin. oni lin admiras, kaj tre ofte citas po unu aŭ du versojn, sed imiti... specialan lokon inter la odoj havas la odoj iii: - , kiujn ofte oni nomas la romaj odoj. en tiuj ses odoj la poeto esprimas sian politikan kaj etikan esperon je la estonto de romo. multe pli poste li ankoraŭ aldonis kvaran libron da odoj. en kaj a.kr. aperis ambaŭ liaj libroj epistoloj, leteroj en heksametra formo. inter ili troviĝas unu el la plej influaj tekstojn, kiujn entute li verkis: la epistolo al la pizonoj, pli konata kiel lia arto poetika. en esperanto aperis ...[redakti | redakti fonton] en el parnaso de popoloj de antoni grabowski - - aperis traduko de odo iii: . en tutmonda sonoro de kálmán kalocsay - - aperis de li tradukoj je paĝoj - . en antologio latina, volumo , de gerrit berveling - - aperis el ĉiuj liaj verkoj ekzemplaj eroj en la paĝoj - . 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Životopis[uredi | uredi kôd] horacije je rođen u prosincu . pr. kr. u venusiji (danas venosa) na jugu italije, umro je . studenog . pr. kr. u rimu. njegov otac je bio rob koji je stekao slobodu prije horacijevog rođenja. moglo bi se pretpostaviti da je u ropstvo pao za vrijeme pompeja, odnosno nakon spartakovog ustanka. svog sina je odveo u jednu od najpoznatijih škola sabelijanca po imenu orbilus (koji je po horaciju bio pristalica tjelesnog kažnjavanja). godine . pr. kr. horacije posjećuje predavanja na atenskoj akademiji, gdje prve stihove počinje pisati na grčkom. kad je brut u ateni prikupljao vojsku protiv oktavijana augusta i antonija, zajedno sa sinovima cicerona i katona, u nju stupa i horacije. međutim, u bitci kod filipa poražena je republika, a i tribunus militium horacije. nakon toga se horacije vraća u rim i posvećuje pjesništvu. godine . pr. kr. doveden je kod mecene, učenog čovjeka iz etrurije iz središnje italije, koji je bio glavni politički savjetnik oktavijana 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(  évesen) róma 	sírhely	 róma 	nemzetiség	 római 	szülei	 nem ismert nem ismert 	pályafutása 	jellemző műfaj(ok)	 levélirodalom, ódaköltészet 	fontosabb művei	 sermones (beszélgetések) carmina (versek) epistulae (levelek) epodes (epódoszok) 	 a wikimédia commons tartalmaz quintus horatius flaccus témájú médiaállományokat. quintus horatius flaccus (venusia, ma venosa, olaszország, kr. e. . december . – róma, kr. e. . november .) római költő. tartalomjegyzék 	 Élete 	 művei 	 magyarul 	 . -ig 	 . – 	 . – 	 . – 	 további irodalom 	 külső hivatkozások Élete[szerkesztés] egy dél-itáliai kisvárosban, venusiában született, apja felszabadított rabszolga. felszabadítása után apja rómába költözött, ahol ingatlanközvetítőként tevékenykedett. az így keresett pénzéből fiát a legjobb tanítókhoz küldte. kr. e. körül horatius filozófia tanulmányokat folytat athénban. caesar meggyilkolásakor csatlakozik brutus és társai közé. részt vett kr. e. -ben a philippi ütközetben(wd), ahonnan elmenekült. a csata után visszatért rómába, ahol időközben elkobozták házukat és birtokaikat. a szegénység hatására verseket írt (episztolák . - ). később írnokként dolgozott az államkincstárnál. először görögül kezdett verselni (szatírák , , - ), később latinul folytatta. vergilius támogatásával a híres művészetpártoló, maecenas(wd), barátjává fogadta horatiust, és támogatta. ideje nagy részét sabinumban, majd később tiburi házában töltötte. két hónappal támogatója, maecenas halála után halt meg rómában. testét maecenas mellé temették. művei[szerkesztés] 	sermones (beszélgetések) 	carmina (versek) 	epistulae (levelek) többek között: thaliarchushoz, leuconoéhoz, aristius fuscushoz, licinius murenához és melpomenéhez 	ars poetica (költői hitvallás) 	carmen saeculare (százados ének) 	epodes (epódoszok) magyarul[szerkesztés] -ig[szerkesztés] 	mi a poézis? És ki az igaz poéta? egy rövid elmélkedés, mellyben a költésnek mivolta, eszközei, tzéllya és tárgya előállíttatnak / függelék: horátziusnak pizóhoz és ennek fiaihoz írtt levele / költeményes enyelgések; prózaford. verseghy ferenc; landerer ny., buda, 	horátzius poétikája / ars poetica / toldalék; prózaford., jegyz. virág benedek; trattner ny., pest, 	horátzius levelei; ford. kis jános, jegyz. christoph martin wieland; sziesz ny., sopron, 	flakkus q. horatius levelei; ford. virág benedek; egyetemi ny., buda, 	epodusok; ford. virág benedek; universitas ny., buda, 	szatírák-ból; ford. virág benedek; universitas ny., buda, 	q. horatius f. ódái. könyv; ford. virág benedek; universitas ny., buda, 	q. flaccus horatiusnak ódái; ford., jegyz. lassu istván; universitas ny., buda, 	horatius levelei; ford. kis jános, jegyz. wieland, szöveggond. kazinczy ferenc; magyar tudós társaság, pest, 	horatius levele a pisókhoz a költészetről; ford. czuczor gergely; in: széptani remekírók, - .; egyetemi ny., buda, – [szerkesztés] 	q. horatius flaccus értelmezve; ford., jegyz. szenthmártony józsef; jäger ny., sárospatak, 	horácz ódái; ford. virág benedek; lampel, pest, (római remekírók) 	quintus horatius flaccus ódái, - .; ford., jegyz. vajdafy józsef; bucsánszky, pest, 	horatius episztolája a pisokhoz a költészetről; ford. czuczor gergely; in: széptani remekírók; eggenberger, bp., 	horatius pizókhoz írt levele a költészetről; ford. fábián gábor; réthy ny., arad, 	horác levele a pizókhoz; ford. Édes albert; aigner, bp., 	horatius quintus flaccus episztolái; ford., jegyz. csalomjai [pajor istván]; kék ny., balassagyarmat, 	horácz néhány költeménye magyarul; ford. kolosy lajos; bakos ny., jászberény, 	jámbor pál: Ó és új világ. - . könyv. fordítások [horatius, vergilius, victor hugo]; tettey, szabadka, (hiador művei) 	flaccus horatius satirái; ford. boros gábor; lampel, bp., 	horatius q. flaccus epistolái; ford. boros gábor; lampel, bp., 	horatius quintus flaccus levele a két piso fivérekhez a költészetről; ford., jegyz. pajor istván; kék ny., balassagyarmat, 	horatius Ódái és epodosai; ford., jegyz. dávid istván; stampfel, pozsony, 	q. horatius flaccus satíráinak két könyve; ford., jegyz. barna ignác; athenaeum, bp., 	horátz levelei; ford., jegyz. márki józsef; rudnyánszky ny., bp., 	q. flaccus horatius válogatott ódái; folyóbeszédben magyarítá gyurits antal; ungár ny., szatmár, (római remekírók magyar nyelven) 	q. flaccus horatius ódái. latinul és magyarul; ford. barna ignác; révai, bp., 	horátius satirái, - .; ford., jegyz. rózsa vitál; stampfel, pozsony, – 	q. horatius flaccus válogatott ódái és epodosai; prózaford., jegyz. kárpáti kelemen; szele-breitfeld, szombathely, 	horatius levelei; ford. paulovits károly; lampel, bp., (magyar könyvtár) 	horatius ódái és epodosai; ford. ifj. szász béla; kiad. a kisfaludy-társaság; franklin, bp., – [szerkesztés] 	horatius qu. flaccus "carmina"-i. a gimnázium . osztályának anyaga; szójegyzék, szószerinti és magyaros ford. pongrátz elemér; révai ny., bp., (bangó tanintézet könyvtára) 	horatius költeményei csengery jános átültetésében, - .; délmagyarország ny., szeged, 	horatius levele a költészetről; ford. vietórisz józsef; jóba ny., nyíregyháza, 	horatius ódái. i-iii. füzet; ford., jegyz. dankovits béla; aczél, bp., (diákkönyvtár) 	versek; ford. trencséni józsef; radó ny., bp., 	horatius ódái. praeparatio, fordítás, mythológiai és nyelvtani magyarázatok, - .; ford., jegyz. dankovits béla; aczél, bp., – 	szemelvények quintus flaccus horatius ódáiból; bilinguis kiad.; ford. dömötör istván; fordítói, szekszárd, 	horatius szatírái. . füzet. teljes szószedet, magyarázat és fordítás; készítette pongrácz elemér; aczél, bp., (Új tanulók könyvtára) –[szerkesztés] 	versek; ford. bede anna, novák józsef; vál., utószó révay józsef, jegyz. földy józsef; európa, bp., (világirodalmi kiskönyvtár) 	opera omnia / quintus horatius flaccus összes versei; szerk., ford., bev., utószó borzsák istván, devecseri gábor, jegyz. szepessy tibor, borzsák istván; corvina, bp., 	horatius legszebb ódái; ford. szepesy gyula; szerzői, bp., 	Ódák; ford. arany jános et al.; európa, bp., (lyra mundi) 	horatius összes művei; ford. bede anna; európa, bp., 	quintus horatius flaccus legszebb versei; ford. andrás lászló et al.; móra, bp., (a világirodalom gyöngyszemei) 	horatius költeményei. Ódák és epodoszok; ford. csengery jános, szerk., jegyz., utószó bálint istván jános; seneca, bp., (seneca könyvek) 	ars poetica; ford. muraközy gyula; in: poétikák; jegyz. osztovits szabolcs, unghy-seress fanny; európa, bp., (európa diákkönyvtár) további irodalom[szerkesztés] 	horatius levelei (pest, ) 	módi mihály: horatius és bacchylides (kolozsvár, ) online 	quintus horatius flaccus összes költeményei (budapest, ) 	erósz és Ámor (budapest, ) 	horatius költeményei – Ódák és epodoszok (budapest, ) 	falus róbert: apollón lantja. a görög-római irodalom kistükre. móra ferenc könyvkiadó, bp. 	falus róbert: a római irodalom története, gondolat, bp. 	falus róbert: horatius (budapest, ) 	leffler sámuelː római irodalomtörténet – a középiskolák felsőbb osztályai számára és a művelt közönség használatára, lampel róbert (wodianer f. és fiai) cs. és kir. könyvkereskedése, budapest, , – . o. 	sebestyén károlyː a római irodalom története – szemelvényekkel magyar írók latin műfordításaiból, lampel 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university of alberta (edmonton) 	 university of calgary (calgary) 	 university of lethbridge (lethbridge) 	 wood buffalo regional library (fort mcmurray) 	 british columbia	 burnaby public library (burnaby) 	 coquitlam public library (coquitlam) 	 douglas college (new westminster and coquitlam) 	 fraser valley regional library (abbotsford, chilliwack, langley, and other valley locations) 	 greater victoria public library (victoria and vicinity) 	 justice institute of british columbia (new westminster and other campuses) 	 kwantlen polytechnic university (surrey) 	 langara college library (vancouver) 	 okanagan college (kelowna) 	 okanagan regional library (okanagan valley and vicinity) 	 prince george public library (prince george) 	 royal roads university (victoria) 	 simon fraser university (burnaby, surrey, and vancouver) 	 surrey libraries (surrey) 	 thompson rivers university (kamloops and other campuses) 	 trinity western university (langley and other campuses) 	 university of british columbia library (vancouver and kelowna) 	 university of victoria libraries (victoria) 	 vancouver island regional library (various public libraries on vancouver island) 	 vancouver island university (nanaimo and other campuses) 	 vancouver public library (vancouver) 	 west vancouver memorial library (west vancouver) 	 manitoba	 border regional library (virden, elkhorn, and mcauley) 	 university of manitoba (winnipeg) 	 western manitoba regional library (brandon and vicinity) 	 winnipeg public library (winnipeg) 	 new brunswick	 new brunswick public library service (public libraries across new brunswick) 	 university of new brunswick (fredericton and saint john) 	 newfoundland and labrador	 newfoundland and labrador public libraries (public libraries across the province) 	 northwest territories	 northwest territories public library services (public libraries across the nwt) 	 nova scotia	 annapolis valley regional library (annapolis and kings counties, and west hants) 	 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library (st. catharines) 	 st. thomas public library (st. thomas) 	 stratford public library (stratford) 	 thunder bay public library (thunder bay) 	 toronto public library (toronto) 	 university of guelph (guelph) 	 university of ottawa (ottawa) 	 university of toronto (toronto) 	 university of waterloo (waterloo) 	 university of windsor, leddy library (windsor) 	 waterloo public library (waterloo) 	 western university (london) 	 wilfrid laurier university (waterloo) 	 windsor public library (windsor) 	 york university libraries (toronto) 	 prince edward island	 prince edward island public library service (public libraries across the province) 	 québec	 bibliothèque et archives nationales du québec (montreal and other facilities) 	 bibliotheques montreal (public libraries in montreal) 	 concordia university (montreal) 	 mcgill university library (montreal) 	 université laval (québec) 	 saskatchewan	 saskatchewan information and library services consortium (public libraries across the province) 	 university of regina (regina) 	 university of saskatchewan (saskatoon) 	 yukon	 yukon university (whitehorse) china	 zhengzhou university (zhengzhou; english search terms may give limited results) cyprus	 university of cyprus (nicosia) denmark	 odense bibliotekerne (odense; english search terms may give limited or imprecise results) ethiopia	 addis ababa university (addis ababa) finland	 Åbo akademi university (turku and vaasa) france	 aix marseille université (aix-en-provence, marseille, and vicinity) 	 bnf: bibliothèque nationale de france (paris; english searches may give imprecise or limited results) 	 sudoc (french academic libraries; english searches may give limited results) germany	 humboldt-universität zu berlin (berlin; english search terms may give limited results) ghana	 kwame nkrumah university of science and technology (kumasi) 	 university of cape coast, sam jonah library (cape coast) hong kong	 city university of hong kong (hong kong) india	 south asian university: sau library (new delhi) 	 university of kashmir (srinigar) indonesia	 universitas indonesia library (depok; english searches may give limited results) ireland	 dublin institute of technology (dublin) 	 institute of technology tallaght (dublin; local access only) 	 libraries ireland (shared catalog for ireland public libraries) 	 national library of ireland (dublin) 	 national university of ireland, galway (galway) 	 trinity college dublin (dublin) 	 university of limerick (limerick) israel	 national library of israel (jerusalem) italy	 museo galileo library (florence) 	 opac sbn (italian academic libraries; english searches may give imprecise or limited results) kenya	 kenyatta university (nairobi) 	 kisii university (kisii) 	 university of eastern africa, baraton (eldoret; local access only?) 	 university of nairobi (nairobi) latvia	 national library of latvia (riga) lithuania	 vytautas magnus university (kaunas) mexico	 tecnológico de monterrey (monterrey) namibia	 university of namibia (windhoek and other campuses) netherlands	 leiden university libraries (leiden) 	 utrecht university library (utrecht) new zealand	 te puna (combined catalogue of new zealand libraries) nigeria	 american university of nigeria (yola) 	 university of nigeria, nnamdi azikiwe library (nsukka) norway	 bibsys oria (many research libraries in norway) pakistan	 university of sargodha, central library (sargodha; english search terms may give limited results) poland	 university of warsaw library (warsaw) qatar	 vcuqatar (doha) saudi arabia	 king saud university (riyadh; english search terms may give limited results) singapore	 nanyang technological university (singapore) 	 national library board (onesearch) (various libraries and archives in singapore) 	 national university of singapore libraries (singapore) 	 singapore institute of management (singapore) 	 singapore management university (singapore) 	 singapore university of technology and design (singapore) south africa	 durban university of technology (durban and pietermaritzburg) 	 mangosuthu university of technology (umlazi) 	 national library of south africa (pretoria) 	 nelson mandela university (port elizabeth) 	 rhodes university (makhanda) 	 university of fort hare (alice and other campuses) 	 university of limpopo libraries (turfloop and medunsa) 	 university of south africa (pretoria and other campuses) 	 university of the witwatersrand (wits) (johannesburg) 	 walter sisulu university (mthatha and other campuses) spain	 biblioteca nacional de españa (madrid; english search terms may give limited results) sweden	 libris ( research libraries in sweden; english search coverage may vary) 	 stockholms stadsbibliotek (stockholm; english search terms may give limited results) switzerland	 swissbib (union catalog of swiss libraries; english search coverage may vary) taiwan	 national library of public information (taichung; english search terms may give limited results) 	 taipei public library (taipei) trinidad and tobago	 university of the west indies (st. augustine and other campuses) turkey	 bilkent university library (ankara) 	 bogazici university library (istanbul) uganda	 kyambogo university (kampala) 	 uganda christian university (mukono) united kingdom	 abertay university (dundee, scotland) 	 anglia ruskin university (cambridge, chelmsford, and peterborough, england) 	 angus libraries (public libraries in angus, scotland) 	 bangor university (bangor, wales) 	 blackburn with darwen libraries (blackburn, darwen, and vicinity, england) 	 brighton and hove libraries (brighton and hove, england) 	 british library (london, england) 	 buckinghamshire county libraries (buckinghamshire, england) 	 copac ( + academic, national and specialist libraries in the uk and ireland) 	 cambridge university library (cambridge, england) 	 camden libraries (london borough of camden, england) 	 cardiff libraries (cardiff, wales) 	 cardiff university and nhs wales libraries (cardiff and elsewhere in wales) 	 city of york libraries and archives (york, england) 	 cornwall council libraries ( + public libraries in cornwall, england) 	 coventry university (coventry, england) 	 cranfield university (bedfordshire, england) 	 de montfort university (leicester, england) 	 east sussex libraries ( libraries in east sussex, england) 	 edinburgh city libraries (edinburgh, scotland) 	 essex libraries (essex county, england) 	 fife library catalogue (public libraries in fife, scotland) 	 glasgow libraries (glasgow, scotland) 	 goldsmiths, university of london (london, england) 	 gwynedd libraries (gwynedd, wales) 	 lambeth libraries (london borough of lambeth, england) 	 leeds libraries (leeds, england) 	 leicester libraries (leicester, england) 	 libraries ni (public libraries in northern ireland) 	 librarieswest (bath, bristol, somerset, and s. gloucester areas, england) 	 library of birmingham (birmingham, england) 	 liverpool libraries (liverpool, england) 	 london metropolitan 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university of westminster (london, england) 	 university of the arts london (london, england) 	 wellcome library (london, england) 	 west sussex libraries (west sussex, england) 	 westminster libraries (city of westminster, london, england) 	 zoological society of london (london, england) united states of americajump to al - ak - az - ar - ca - co - ct - de - dc - fl - ga - hi - id - il - in - ia - ks - ky - la - me - md - ma - mi - mn - ms - mo - mt - ne - nv - nh - nj - nm - ny - nc - nd - oh - ok - or - pa - pr - ri - sc - sd - tn - tx - ut - vt - vi - va - wa - wv - wi - wy 	 alabama	 alabama a&m university (normal) 	 alabama state university (montgomery) 	 auburn public library (auburn) 	 auburn university (auburn) 	 baldwin county library cooperative (public libraries in baldwin county) 	 decatur public library (decatur) 	 dothan houston county library system (dothan and vicinity) 	 florence-lauderdale public library (florence) 	 huntsville-madison county public library (huntsville and vicinity) 	 jefferson county library cooperative (birmingham and vicinity) 	 lewis cooper jr. memorial library (opelika) 	 mobile public library (mobile) 	 montgomery city-county public library (montgomery) 	 tuscaloosa public library (tuscaloosa) 	 tuskegee university libraries (tuskegee institute) 	 university of alabama libraries (tuscaloosa) 	 university of alabama at birmingham libraries (birmingham) 	 alaska	 alaska state court law library (anchorage and other branches) 	 alaska state library catalog (various libraries in southeast and south-central alaska) 	 anchorage public library (anchorage) 	 consortium library: university of alaska anchorage, alaska pacific university (anchorage) 	 fairbanks north star borough public libraries (fairbanks and vicinity) 	 first city libraries (ketchikan) 	 haines borough public library (haines borough) 	 juneau public libraries (juneau) 	 matanuska-susitna library network (matanuska-susitna borough) 	 petersburg public library (petersburg) 	 unalaska public library (unalaska) 	 arizona	 arizona state university libraries (tempe and other campuses) 	 chandler public library (chandler) 	 flagstaff city-coconino county public library (flagstaff) 	 glendale public library (glendale) 	 mesa public library (mesa) 	 northern arizona university, cline library (flagstaff) 	 phoenix public library (phoenix) 	 pima county public library (tucson and vicinity) 	 scottsdale public library (scottsdale) 	 university of arizona libraries (tucson) 	 arkansas	 bentonville public library (bentonville) 	 central arkansas library system (little rock; pulaski and perry counties) 	 fayetteville public library (fayetteville) 	 fort smith public library (fort smith) 	 university of arkansas (fayetteville) 	 university of arkansas at little rock (little rock) 	 california	 alameda county library (east bay communities south of oakland) 	 anaheim public library (anaheim) 	 benecia public library (benecia) 	 berkeley public library (berkeley) 	 butte county library (butte county) 	 california lutheran university (thousand oaks) 	 california polytechnic state university (san luis obispo) 	 california state university, east bay (hayward and concord) 	 california state university, fresno (fresno state) (fresno) 	 california state university, northridge (csun) (northridge) 	 california state university, sacramento (sacramento state) (sacramento) 	 caltech library, california institute of technology (pasadena) 	 chula vista public library (chula vista) 	 city college of san francisco (san francisco) 	 claremont colleges library (claremont) 	 contra costa library (contra costa county) 	 county of los angeles public library (most of los angeles county outside the city of los angeles) 	 cypress college (cypress) 	 de anza college (cupertino) 	 dixon public library (dixon) 	 el centro public library (el centro) 	 fresno county public library (fresno and vicinity) 	 glendale community college (glendale) 	 golden west college (huntington beach) 	 holy names university (oakland) 	 humboldt county public library (eureka and vicinity) 	 humboldt state university (arcata) 	 imperial valley college (imperial) 	 kern county library (bakersfield and vicinity) 	 link+ union catalog (cooperating libraries in california and nevada) 	 lodi public library (lodi) 	 long beach public library (long beach) 	 los angeles public library (los angeles) 	 loyola marymount university (los angeles) 	 marinet (public libraries in marin county) 	 monterey public library (monterey) 	 mountain view public library (mountain view) 	 napa county library (napa county) 	 newport beach public library (newport beach) 	 oc public libraries (orange county) 	 oakland public library (oakland) 	 occidental college (los angeles) 	 pacific grove public library (pacific grove) 	 pacific union college (angwin) 	 palo alto city library (palo alto) 	 pasadena public library (pasadena) 	 peninsula library system (san mateo county) 	 riverside county library system (riverside county outside of riverside) 	 riverside public library (riverside) 	 roseville public library (roseville) 	 sacramento public library (sacramento and vicinity) 	 saint mary's college of california (moraga) 	 salinas public library (salinas) 	 san diego county library (san diego county outside the city of san diego) 	 san diego public library (san diego) 	 san diego state university (san diego) 	 san francisco public library (san francisco) 	 san jose public library (san jose) 	 san jose state university (san jose) 	 san leandro public library (san leandro) 	 santa clara city library (santa clara) 	 santa clara county library district (parts of santa clara county) 	 santa monica college library (santa monica) 	 santa monica public library (santa monica) 	 sausalito public library (sausalito; member of marinet) 	 solano county library (solano county) 	 sonoma county library (santa rosa and vicinity) 	 sonoma state university library (rohnert park) 	 st. helena public library (st. helena) 	 stanford university libraries (stanford) 	 stanislaus county library (modesto and vicinity) 	 sunnyvale public library (sunnyvale) 	 tulare county library (visalia and vicinity) 	 ucla: university of california los angeles (los angeles) 	 ucsd: university of california san diego (la jolla) 	 usc: university of southern california (los angeles) 	 university of california berkeley (berkeley) 	 university of california davis (davis) 	 university of california irvine (irvine) 	 university of california libraries (all uc campuses) 	 university of california riverside (riverside) 	 university of california santa barbara (santa barbara) 	 whittier college (whittier) 	 yolo county library (yolo county) 	 colorado	 arapahoe libraries (arapahoe county) 	 bemis public library (littleton) 	 boulder public library (boulder) 	 colorado alliance of research libraries: prospector (various libraries in or near colorado) 	 colorado state university (fort collins) 	 denver public library (denver) 	 douglas county libraries (douglas county) 	 jefferson county public library (jefferson county) 	 longmont public library (longmont) 	 pikes peak library district (colorado springs, and el paso county) 	 poudre river public library district (fort collins) 	 summit county library (frisco, silverthorne, and breckenridge) 	 united states air force academy (colorado springs) 	 university of colorado boulder (boulder) 	 connecticut	 bridgeport library (bridgeport) 	 central connecticut state university (new britain) 	 connecticut college (new london) 	 connecticut state library (hartford and other locations) 	 cyrenius h. booth library (newtown) 	 danbury library (danbury) 	 darien library (darien) 	 eastern connecticut state university (willimantic) 	 edsel ford memorial library, hotchkiss school (lakeville) 	 greenwich library (greenwich) 	 hartford public library (hartford) 	 library connection inc. (greater hartford suburban libraries) 	 new haven free public library (new haven) 	 norwalk public library system (norwalk) 	 quinnipiac university (hamden) 	 silas bronson library (waterbury) 	 southern connecticut state university (new haven) 	 the ferguson library (stamford) 	 trinity college (hartford) 	 united states coast guard academy (new london) 	 university of connecticut (storrs and other campuses) 	 wesleyan university (middletown) 	 western connecticut state university (danbury) 	 westport library (westport) 	 yale university (new haven) 	 delaware	 delaware library catalog (public libraries statewide) 	 delaware state university (dover) 	 university of delaware library (newark) 	 wilmington university library (new castle) 	 district of columbia	 american university (washington) 	 catholic university of america (washington) 	 dc public library (washington) 	 gallaudet university (washington) 	 george washington university (washington) 	 georgetown university (washington) 	 howard university (washington) 	 library of congress (washington) 	 smithsonian libraries (washington and other locations) 	 florida	 alachua county library district (gainesville and vicinity) 	 bethune-cookman university (daytona beach) 	 brevard county libraries (space coast area) 	 broward county library (fort lauderdale and vicinity) 	 collier county public library (naples and vicinity) 	 columbia county public library (lake city) 	 edward waters college (jacksonville) 	 flagler county public library system (palm coast and bunnell) 	 florida a&m university (tallahassee) 	 florida gulf coast university (fort myers) 	 florida memorial university (miami gardens) 	 florida state university (tallahassee and other campuses) 	 heartland library cooperative (highlands, desoto, glades, hardee, and okechobee counties) 	 hillsborough county public library cooperative (tampa and vicinity) 	 indian river county library system (vero beach and vicinity) 	 jacksonville public library (jacksonville) 	 lake county library system (lake county) 	 leroy collins leon county public library (tallahassee) 	 lee county library system (fort myers and vicinity) 	 marion county public library system (ocala and vicinity) 	 miami dade college (miami and other campuses) 	 miami-dade public library system (miami) 	 nassau county public library system (nassau county) 	 orange county library system (orlando and vicinity) 	 palm beach county library system (west palm beach and vicinity) 	 pasco county libraries (pasco county) 	 pinellas public library cooperative (clearwater, st. petersburg and pinellas county) 	 saint leo university (saint leo) 	 sarasota county libraries (sarasota and vicinity) 	 seminole county public library (seminole county) 	 seminole state college of florida (sanford and other campuses) 	 southeastern university (lakeland) 	 st. lucie county library system (st. lucie county) 	 suwanee river regional library system (suwanee, hamilton, and madison counties) 	 university of central florida: ucf libraries (orlando and other campuses) 	 university of florida, george a. smathers libraries (gainesville) 	 university of miami libraries (coral gables) 	 university of north florida (jacksonville) 	 university of south florida (tampa) 	 university of west florida (pensacola) 	 volusia county public library (daytona beach, deltona, and vicinity) 	 west florida public libraries (pensacola and escambia county) 	 georgia	 albany state university (albany) 	 athens-clarke county library (athens) 	 atlanta university center (clark atlanta, interdenominational theological center, morehouse, spelman) 	 atlanta-fulton public library system (atlanta and vicinity) 	 brenau university (gainesville) 	 chattahoochee valley libraries (columbus and vicinity) 	 dekalb county public library (dekalb county) 	 emory university libraries (atlanta) 	 fort benning libraries (fort benning) 	 fort valley state university (fort valley) 	 georgia public library service, pines catalog (public libraries throughout the state) 	 georgia southern university (statesboro and savannah) 	 georgia state university (atlanta) 	 georgia tech library (atlanta) 	 gwinnett county public library (gwinnett county) 	 live oak public libraries (savannah; chatham, effingham and liberty counties) 	 oglethorpe university (atlanta) 	 savannah state university (savannah) 	 university of georgia (athens) 	 university of west georgia (carrollton) 	 hawaii	 hawaii state public library system (public libraries throughout the state) 	 university of hawaii at manoa (honolulu) 	 idaho	 blackfoot public library (blackfoot) 	 boise public library (boise) 	 boise state university, albertsons library (boise) 	 coeur d'alene public library (coeur d'alene) 	 cooperative information network ( public and school libraries in northern idaho and vicinity) 	 idaho falls public library (idaho falls) 	 idaho state university (pocatello) 	 marshall public library (pocatello) 	 meridian library district (meridian) 	 nampa public library (nampa) 	 twin falls public library (twin falls) 	 university of idaho library (moscow, and other campuses) 	 illinois	 arlington heights memorial library (arlington heights) 	 aurora public library (aurora) 	 bloomingdale public library (bloomingdale) 	 bloomington public library (bloomington) 	 champaign public library and urbana free library (champaign-urbana) 	 chicago public library (chicago) 	 chicago school of professional psychology (chicago and other campuses) 	 chicago state university (chicago) 	 college of dupage (glen ellyn) 	 cooperative computer services ( libraries in northwestern chicago suburbs) 	 depaul university (chicago) 	 dixon public library (dixon) 	 dominican university, rebecca crown library (river forest) 	 evanston public library (evanston) 	 illinois heartland library system (share) (libraries in southern illinois) 	 indian trails library district (buffalo grove, wheeling, prospect heights, and vicinity) 	 itasca community library (itasca) 	 joliet junior college (joliet) 	 joliet public library, main library (joliet) 	 lincoln library (springfield) 	 naperville public library (naperville) 	 northeastern illinois university (neiu) (chicago) 	 northwestern university libraries (evanston) 	 oswego public library district (oswego and montgomery) 	 parlin-ingersoll public library (canton) 	 plainfield public library district (plainfield) 	 prairiecat (libraries in the rails cooperative of northern illinois) 	 pritzker military museum and library (chicago) 	 resource sharing alliance (rsa) (libraries in west central illinois) 	 rockford public library (rockford) 	 swan: system wide automated network (suburban libraries in the chicago area) 	 schaumburg township district library (schaumburg and vicinity) 	 skokie public library (skokie) 	 university of chicago library (chicago) 	 university of illinois urbana-champaign library (urbana-champaign) 	 university of illinois-chicago library (chicago) 	 waukegan public library (waukegan) 	 western illinois university (macomb and quad cities) 	 indiana	 allen county public library (fort wayne and vicinity) 	 butler university (indianapolis) 	 depauw university (greencastle) 	 evansville vanderburgh public library (evansville and vanderburgh county) 	 hanover college, duggan library (hanover) 	 hesburgh libraries, university of notre dame (notre dame) 	 indiana university libraries (bloomington, and other campuses) 	 indianapolis public library (indianapolis) 	 purdue university libraries (west lafayette) 	 st. joseph county public library (south bend and vicinity) 	 tippecanoe county public library (lafayette and vicinity) 	 valparaiso university (valparaiso) 	 iowa	 bondurant community library (bondurant) 	 carnegie-stout public library (dubuque) 	 cedar falls public library (cedar falls) 	 cedar rapids public library (cedar rapids) 	 council bluffs public library (council bluffs) 	 davenport public library (davenport) 	 des moines public library (des moines) 	 drake public library (centerville) 	 grinnell college (grinnell) 	 harlan community library (harlan) 	 iowa city public library (iowa city) 	 iowa state university (ames) 	 marion public library (marion) 	 orange city public library (orange city) 	 sioux city public library (sioux city) 	 university of iowa libraries (iowa city) 	 university of northern iowa (cedar falls) 	 waterloo public library (waterloo) 	 kansas	 johnson county library (overland park and vicinity) 	 kansas city, kansas public library (kansas city) 	 kansas state university (manhattan) 	 manhattan public library (manhattan) 	 psu library consortium (academic and public libraries in the pittsburg area) 	 topeka and shawnee county public library (topeka) 	 university of kansas libraries (lawrence) 	 wichita public library (wichita) 	 wichita state university (wichita) 	 kentucky	 ashland community and technical college (ashland) 	 berea college (berea) 	 big sandy community and technical college (prestonburg) 	 bluegrass community and technical college (lexington) 	 elizabethtown community and technical college (elizabethtown) 	 fort campbell, sink library (fort campbell) 	 gateway community and technical college (florence) 	 hazard community and technical college (hazard and jackson) 	 henderson community college (henderson) 	 hopkinsville community college (hopkinsville) 	 jefferson community and technical college (louisville) 	 kenton county public library (kenton county) 	 kentucky state university (frankfort) 	 lexington public library (lexington) 	 louisville free public library (louisville) 	 madisonville community college (madisonville) 	 maysville community and technical college (maysville) 	 murray state university (murray) 	 northern kentucky university (highland heights) 	 owensboro community and technical college (owensboro) 	 paul sawyier public library (frankfort) 	 rowan county public library (morehead) 	 somerset community college (somerset) 	 southcentral kentucky community and technical college (bowling green, glasgow, and franklin) 	 southeast kentucky community and technical college (cumberland and other campuses) 	 southern baptist theological seminary (louisville) 	 university of kentucky (lexington) 	 university of louisville (louisville) 	 west kentucky community and technical college (paducah) 	 western kentucky university (bowling green and other campuses) 	 louisiana	 jefferson parish library (jefferson parish) 	 lsu alexandria, bolton library (alexandria) 	 lafourche parish public library (lafourche parish) 	 louisiana state university (baton rouge) 	 loyola university new orleans, monroe library (new orleans) 	 new orleans public library (new orleans) 	 northwestern state university (natchitoches and other campuses) 	 shreve memorial library (shreveport and caddo parish) 	 tulane university (new orleans) 	 university of new orleans, long library (new orleans) 	 west feliciana parish library (st. francisville) 	 xavier university of louisiana (new orleans) 	 maine	 bangor public library (bangor) 	 bates college (lewiston) 	 bowdoin college (brunswick) 	 colby college (waterville) 	 mainecat (statewide library catalog) 	 portland public library (portland) 	 university of maine, fogler library (orono) 	 york county community college (wells) 	 maryland	 baltimore county public library (baltimore suburbs) 	 cecil county public library (cecil county) 	 chesapeake college (wye mills and cambridge) 	 eastern shore regional library system (public libraries on maryland's eastern shore) 	 enoch pratt free library (baltimore) 	 frederick county public libraries (frederick and vicinity) 	 harford county public library (harford county) 	 howard county library system (howard county) 	 johns hopkins libraries (baltimore) 	 montgomery county public libraries (montgomery county) 	 national agricultural library (beltsville) 	 prince george's county memorial library system (prince george's county) 	 united states naval academy, nimitz library (annapolis) 	 university of maryland baltimore county (baltimore) 	 university of maryland libraries (college park) 	 massachusetts	 beverly public library (beverly) 	 boston college (boston) 	 boston public library (boston) 	 boston university libraries (boston) 	 brandeis university library (waltham) 	 bridgewater state university, maxwell library (bridgewater) 	 c/w mars (public and small academic libraries in central and western ma) 	 clams: cape libraries automated materials sharing (public libraries on cape cod) 	 college of the holy cross (worcester) 	 fenway libraries online (museums and small colleges in boston and vicinity) 	 five college libraries (amherst, hampshire, mt. holyoke, smith, umass-amherst) 	 harvard library (cambridge) 	 j. v. fletcher library (westford) 	 mit libraries, massachusetts institute of technology (cambridge) 	 merrimack valley library consortium (public libraries in northeastern ma) 	 minuteman library network (metrowest-region public and small college libraries) 	 noble: north of boston library exchange (north shore public and small academic libraries) 	 northeastern university (boston) 	 old colony library network (south shore public libraries) 	 sails library network (new bedford, fall river, taunton, and vicinity) 	 simmons college (boston) 	 smith college libraries (northampton) 	 springfield college (springfield) 	 tufts university (medford) 	 university of massachusetts amherst (amherst) 	 university of massachusetts lowell (lowell) 	 wellesley college (wellesley) 	 western new england university (springfield) 	 williams college (williamstown) 	 worcester polytechnic institute (worcester) 	 worcester public library (worcester) 	 michigan	 ann arbor district library (ann arbor) 	 canton public library (canton) 	 capital area district libraries (lansing and ingham county) 	 central michigan university (mount pleasant) 	 detroit public library (detroit) 	 eastern michigan university (ypsilanti) 	 flint public library (flint) 	 grand rapids public library (grand rapids) 	 grand valley state university (allendale) 	 kalamazoo public library (kalamazoo) 	 lakenet: lakeland library cooperative ( + public libraries in west michigan) 	 lansing community college (lansing) 	 michigan state university libraries (east lansing) 	 michigan elibrary (order from libraries across the state) 	 oakland community college (various oakland county campuses) 	 petoskey district library (petoskey) 	 plymouth district library (plymouth) 	 royal oak public library (royal oak) 	 traverse area district library (traverse city and vicinity) 	 university of michigan library (ann arbor) 	 warren public library (warren) 	 western michigan university (kalamazoo) 	 willard library (battle creek) 	 minnesota	 duluth public library (duluth) 	 hamline university (st. paul) 	 hennepin county library (minneapolis and vicinity) 	 minnesota state university (mankato) 	 saint paul public library (st. paul) 	 st. olaf college (northfield) 	 university of minnesota libraries (twin cities) 	 university of st. thomas (st. paul) 	 washington county library (washington county) 	 mississippi	 alcorn state university (lorman) 	 harrison county library system (gulfport, biloxi, and vicinity) 	 jackson state university (jackson) 	 jackson-hinds library system (jackson and hinds county) 	 mississippi library commission (jackson) 	 mississippi state university (starkville, meridian, and jackson) 	 tougaloo college (tougaloo) 	 university of mississippi libraries (oxford) 	 missouri	 concordia seminary library (st. louis) 	 daniel boone regional library (columbia and vicinity) 	 ferguson municipal public library (ferguson) 	 harris-stowe state university (st. louis) 	 joplin public library (joplin) 	 kansas city public library (kansas city) 	 lincoln university (jefferson city) 	 linda hall library (kansas city) 	 mid-continent public library (kansas city vicinity) 	 missouri river regional library (jefferson city and linn) 	 missouri state university (springfield) 	 missouri university of science and technology (rolla) 	 ozarks technical community college (springfield and other campuses) 	 poplar bluff municipal library (poplar bluff) 	 saint louis university (st. louis) 	 southeast missouri state university (cape girardeau) 	 springfield-greene county library district (springfield and vicinity) 	 st. charles city-county library district (st. charles county) 	 st. louis county library (st. louis suburbs) 	 st. louis public library (st. louis) 	 taneyhills community library (branson) 	 university of missouri kansas city: umkc libraries (kansas city) 	 university of missouri libraries (columbia) 	 washington university libraries (st. louis) 	 montana	 butte-silver bow public library (butte) 	 montana shared catalog ( + libraries across montana) 	 montana state university library (bozeman) 	 montana tech of the university of montana (butte) 	 university of montana, mansfield library (missoula) 	 nebraska	 bellevue public library (bellevue) 	 creighton university (omaha) 	 lincoln city libraries (lincoln) 	 omaha public library (omaha) 	 university of nebraska-lincoln (lincoln) 	 nevada	 carson city library (carson city) 	 college of southern nevada (las vegas and vicinity) 	 las vegas-clark county library district (las vegas and vicinity) 	 nevada library cooperative (public libraries outside nevada's largest urban areas) 	 washoe county library system (reno and vicinity) 	 new hampshire	 concord public library (concord) 	 dartmouth college (hanover) 	 lebanon public libraries (lebanon and west lebanon) 	 manchester city library (manchester) 	 nashua public library (nashua) 	 university of new hampshire (durham and manchester) 	 new jersey	 atlantic city free public library (atlantic city) 	 bccls (bergen, essex, hudson, and passaic county public libraries) 	 burlington county library system (public libraries in burlington county) 	 camcat (camden county library system, and camden county college) 	 hunterdon county library (flemington, clinton, and lambertville) 	 mercer county community college (west windsor and trenton) 	 middlesex county college (edison) 	 middletown township public library (middletown) 	 monmouth county library (monmouth county) 	 morris automated information network (morris county public libraries) 	 newark public library (newark) 	 pals plus library consortium ( libraries in passaic, essex, and hudson counties) 	 princeton public library (princeton) 	 princeton theological seminary (princeton) 	 princeton university library (princeton) 	 rowan college at burlington county (mount laurel and other campuses) 	 rowan university (glassboro) 	 rutgers university libraries (new brunswick, newark, and camden) 	 seton hall university (south orange) 	 somerset county library system (somerset county) 	 stockton university (galloway and other locations) 	 the college of new jersey (ewing) 	 william paterson university, cheng library (wayne) 	 new mexico	 los alamos public library system (los alamos and white rock) 	 new mexico state university (las cruces and other campuses) 	 rio rancho public libraries (rio rancho) 	 santa fe public library (santa fe) 	 the public library (albuquerque and bernalillo county) 	 thomas branigan memorial library (las cruces) 	 university of new mexico libraries (albuquerque) 	 new york	 binghamton university (binghamton) 	 brooklyn public library (brooklyn) 	 buffalo and erie county public library (buffalo) 	 chautauqua-cattaraugus library system (jamestown and vicinity) 	 city university of new york (cuny) (new york) 	 clinton essex franklin library system ( public libraries in northern new york counties) 	 columbia university libraries (new york) 	 connectny ( academic libraries in new york state) 	 cornell university library (ithaca) 	 finger lakes library system (public libraries in cayuga, cortland, seneca, tioga, and tompkins counties) 	 finkelstein memorial library (spring valley) 	 fordham university (new york) 	 hudson valley community college (troy) 	 iona college (new rochelle) 	 long island university (brooklyn, post, and other campuses) 	 manhattan college (new york) 	 metropolitan museum of art libraries (new york) 	 mid york library system (herkimer, madison, and oneida counties) 	 mid-hudson library system (columbia, dutchess, greene, putnam and ulster counties) 	 mohawk valley and southern adirondack library systems (public libraries in counties northwest of albany) 	 monroe county library system (rochester and vicinity) 	 nassau library system (aliscat: public libraries in nassau county, long island) 	 new york law school (new york) 	 new york public library (new york) 	 new york state library, archives, and museum (albany) 	 new york university libraries (new york) 	 nioga library system (niagara, orleans, and geneseee counties) 	 north country library system (jefferson, lewis, oswego, and st. lawrence counties) 	 onondaga county public library (syracuse and vicinity) 	 pioneer library system: owwl catalog (ontario, wayne, wyoming, and livingston counties) 	 pratt institute (new york) 	 queens library (queens) 	 rochester institute of technology (rochester) 	 suny oswego, penfield library (oswego) 	 southern tier library system (allegany, chemung, schuyler, steuben and yates counties) 	 st. francis college (brooklyn) 	 st. john's university (new york) 	 stony brook university libraries (stony brook) 	 suffolk county libraries (public libraries in suffolk county, long island) 	 syracuse university libraries (syracuse) 	 touro college libraries (new york) 	 united states military academy (west point) 	 university at albany, suny (albany) 	 university at buffalo, suny (buffalo) 	 university of rochester, river campus libraries (rochester) 	 westchester library system (public libraries in westchester county) 	 yeshiva university libraries (new york) 	 north carolina	 appalachian state university, belk library (boone) 	 bennett college (greensboro) 	 charlotte mecklenburg library (charlotte and vicinity) 	 davidson college (davidson) 	 duke university libraries (durham) 	 durham county library (durham and vicinity) 	 elizabeth city state university (elizabeth city) 	 fayetteville state university (fayetteville) 	 forsyth county public library (winston-salem and vicinity) 	 fort bragg, throckmorton library (fort bragg) 	 johnson c. smith university (charlotte) 	 north carolina state university (ncsu) (raleigh) 	 polk county public libraries (columbus and saluda) 	 rutherford county library (rutherford county) 	 university of north carolina (unc) asheville (asheville) 	 university of north carolina (unc) chapel hill (chapel hill) 	 university of north carolina (unc) greensboro (greensboro) 	 university of north carolina (unc) wilmington (wilmington) 	 wake county public libraries (raleigh) 	 wake forest university (winston-salem) 	 north dakota	 bismarck veterans memorial public library (bismarck) 	 fargo public library (fargo) 	 minot public library (minot) 	 north dakota state university (fargo) 	 university of north dakota (grand forks) 	 ohio	 akron-summit county public library (akron and vicinity) 	 clevnet ( library systems in northeast ohio) 	 case western reserve university (cleveland) 	 central state university (wilberforce) 	 cleveland public library (cleveland) 	 college of wooster (wooster) 	 columbus metropolitan library (columbus and vicinity) 	 cuyahoga county public library (cleveland suburbs) 	 dayton metro library (dayton and vicinity) 	 delaware county district library (delaware, ostrander, and powell) 	 kent state university (kent and other campuses) 	 kenyon college (gambier) 	 licking county library (newark and other locations) 	 lloyd library and museum (cincinnati) 	 lorain public library system (lorain and vicinity) 	 miami university (oxford) 	 opal consortium ( academic libraries in ohio) 	 oberlin college (oberlin) 	 ohio northern university (ada) 	 ohio state university (columbus) 	 ohio university (athens and other campuses) 	 ohio wesleyan university (delaware) 	 public library of cincinnati and hamilton county (cincinnati and vicinity) 	 public library of youngstown and mahoning county (youngstown and vicinity) 	 stark libraries information consortium (canton and vicinity) 	 toledo-lucas county public library (toledo and vicinity) 	 university of cincinnati (cincinnati) 	 university of dayton (dayton) 	 upper arlington public library (upper arlington) 	 xavier university (cincinnati) 	 oklahoma	 eastern oklahoma district library system ( counties in eastern oklahoma) 	 enid public library (enid) 	 lawton public library (lawton) 	 metropolitan library system (oklahoma city and vicinity) 	 northeastern state university (tahlequah, broken arrow, and muskogee) 	 oklahoma state university (stillwater) 	 pioneer library system (cleveland, mcclain, and pottawatomie counties) 	 quapaw tribal library (quapaw) 	 southeastern public library system of oklahoma ( counties in southeast oklahoma) 	 southern oklahoma library system ( counties in southern oklahoma) 	 southern prairie library system (jackson and harmon counties) 	 stillwater public library (stillwater) 	 tulsa city-county library (tulsa) 	 university of oklahoma (norman) 	 western plains library system (custer, dewey, roger mills and washita counties) 	 oregon	 albany public library (albany) 	 central oregon community college (bend) 	 chemeketa community college (salem and yamhill valley) 	 chemeketa cooperative regional library service (public libraries in marion, polk, and yamhill counties) 	 corvallis-benton county public library (corvallis and vicinity) 	 deschutes public library (bend and deschutes county) 	 eugene public library (eugene) 	 george fox university (newberg) 	 jackson county library services (medford, ashland and vicinity) 	 lincc: libraries in clackamas county (clackamas county) 	 lewis and clark college (portland) 	 multnomah county library (portland) 	 oregon health and science university (portland) 	 oregon state library (salem) 	 oregon state university (osu) (corvallis and other campuses) 	 portland state university (portland) 	 springfield public library (springfield) 	 umpqua community college (roseburg) 	 university of oregon (eugene) 	 washington county cooperative library services (washington county) 	 willamette university libraries (salem) 	 pennsylvania	 access pennsylvania (libraries across the state) 	 arcadia university, landman library (glenside) 	 beaver county library system (public and community college libraries in beaver county) 	 berks county public libraries (reading and vicinity) 	 bryn mawr college (bryn mawr) 	 bucks county library district (public libraries in bucks county) 	 butler county federated library system ( public libraries in butler county) 	 cambria county library (johnstown) 	 carnegie mellon university (pittsburgh) 	 chester county library system (public libraries in chester county) 	 cheyney university library (cheyney) 	 community college of philadelphia (philadelphia) 	 cranberry public library (cranberry township, butler county) 	 cumberland county library system (cumberland county and shippensburg area school district) 	 dauphin county library system (harrisburg and vicinity) 	 delaware county library system (public libraries in delaware county) 	 dickinson college, waidner-spahr library (carlisle) 	 drexel university libraries (philadelphia) 	 erie county public libraries (erie and vicinity) 	 free library of philadelphia (philadelphia) 	 geneva college (beaver falls) 	 haverford college (haverford) 	 historical society of pennsylvania (philadelphia) 	 holy family university (philadelphia, newtown, and bensalem) 	 king's college (wilkes-barre) 	 la salle university, connelly library (philadelphia) 	 lackawanna county library system (scranton and vicinity) 	 lafayette college (easton) 	 lehigh university (bethlehem) 	 library company of philadelphia (philadelphia) 	 library system of lancaster county (lancaster and vicinity) 	 lincoln university (lincoln university, chester county) 	 luzerne county library system (wilkes-barre, hazleton, and vicinity) 	 mclinc (montgomery county public libraries) 	 misericordia university (dallas) 	 muhlenberg college, trexler library (allentown) 	 othmer library of chemical history (philadelphia) 	 penn state university libraries (university park, and other campuses) 	 public libraries of perry county (perry county) 	 robert morris university (moon township) 	 swarthmore college (swarthmore) 	 temple university libraries (philadelphia) 	 university of pennsylvania libraries (philadelphia) 	 university of pittsburgh (pittsburgh and other campuses) 	 university of scranton, weinberg memorial library (scranton) 	 ursinus college (collegeville) 	 villanova university (villanova) 	 west chester university (west chester) 	 westmoreland library network (public libraries in westmoreland county) 	 york county libraries (york and vicinity) 	 einetwork (carnegie library of pittsburgh, and allegheny county libraries) 	 puerto rico	 universidad de puerto rico (san juan and other campuses) 	 rhode island	 brown university library (providence) 	 community college of rhode island (warwick and other campuses) 	 ocean state libraries (public libraries across the state) 	 providence college (providence) 	 south carolina	 allen university (columbia) 	 anderson county library system (anderson and vicinity) 	 benedict college (columbia) 	 charleston county public library (charleston and vicinity) 	 clemson university libraries (clemson) 	 coastal carolina university (conway) 	 francis marion university (florence) 	 furman university libraries (greenville) 	 greenville county library system (greenville and vicinity) 	 richland library (columbia and richland county) 	 sc lends ( library systems around sc with shared lending) 	 spartanburg county public libraries (spartanburg and vicinity) 	 university of south carolina (columbia and other campuses) 	 voorhees college (denmark) 	 wofford college (spartanburg) 	 south dakota	 rapid city public library (rapid city and pennington county) 	 rawlins municipal library (pierre) 	 south dakota share-it (various libraries throughout the state) 	 south dakota state university (brookings) 	 tennessee	 american baptist college (nashville) 	 austin peay state university (clarksville) 	 belmont university (nashville) 	 chattanooga public library (chattanooga) 	 clarksville-montgomery county public library (clarksville and vicinity) 	 coffee county lannom library (tullahoma) 	 east tennessee state university (johnson city) 	 fisk university (nashville) 	 hardin county public library (savannah) 	 knox county public library (knoxville and vicinity) 	 lemoyne-owen college (memphis) 	 memphis public library and information center (memphis) 	 middle tennessee state university (murfreesboro) 	 nashville public library (nashville) 	 organization of watauga libraries (public libraries in tri-cities area, ne tennessee) 	 rhodes college (memphis) 	 rutherford county library system (murfreesboro and vicinity) 	 tennessee state library and archives (nashville) 	 tennessee state university (nashville) 	 tennessee tech university (cookeville) 	 university of memphis (memphis) 	 university of tennessee (knoxville) 	 university of tennessee chattanooga (chattanooga) 	 vanderbilt university (nashville) 	 volunteer state community college (gallatin) 	 williamson county public library (franklin and vicinity) 	 texas	 arlington public library (arlington) 	 austin college, abell library center (sherman) 	 austin public library (austin) 	 baylor university (waco) 	 belton lena armstrong public library (belton) 	 corpus christi public libraries (corpus christi) 	 dallas public library (dallas) 	 denton public library (denton) 	 dripping springs community library (dripping springs) 	 el paso public library (el paso) 	 fort bend county libraries (richmond, sugar land, and vicinity) 	 fort hood, casey memorial library (fort hood) 	 fort worth library (fort worth) 	 harris county public library (houston vicinity) 	 helen hall library (league city) 	 houston public library (houston) 	 huston-tillotson university (austin) 	 irving public library (irving) 	 kaufman county library (kaufman) 	 laredo public library (laredo) 	 lubbock public library (lubbock) 	 lunar and planetary institute library (houston) 	 mcallen public library (mcallen) 	 mckinney public library system (mckinney) 	 montgomery county memorial library system (montgomery county) 	 nicholson memorial library system (garland) 	 northeast lakeview college (universal city) 	 northwest vista college (san antonio) 	 palacios library (palacios and blessing) 	 palo alto college (san antonio) 	 paul quinn college, zale library (dallas) 	 plano public library system (plano) 	 prairie view a&m university (prairie view) 	 rice university (houston) 	 round rock public library (round rock) 	 san antonio college (san antonio) 	 san antonio public library (san antonio) 	 sekula memorial library (edinburg) 	 southern methodist university (dallas) 	 st. mary's university, louis j. blume library (san antonio) 	 st. philip's college (san antonio) 	 stephen f. austin state university (nacogdoches) 	 texas a&m university libraries (college station) 	 texas college (tyler) 	 texas southern university (houston) 	 texas tech university libraries (lubbock) 	 texas woman's university (denton, dallas, and houston campuses) 	 tyler public library (tyler) 	 uhcl neumann library (clear lake) 	 university of houston libraries (houston, and other campuses) 	 university of north texas (denton) 	 university of texas libraries (austin) 	 university of texas medical branch (galveston) 	 waco-mcclennan county library (waco) 	 wiley college (marshall) 	 utah	 brigham young university (provo) 	 davis county library (northern suburbs of salt lake city) 	 orem public library (orem) 	 provo library (provo) 	 salt lake community college (salt lake city and vicinity) 	 the city library (salt lake city) 	 university of utah (salt lake city) 	 utah state university (logan and other campuses) 	 utah valley university (orem) 	 washington county library system (st. george and vicinity) 	 weber county library (ogden and vicinity) 	 weber state university, stewart library (ogden) 	 vermont	 bennington college (bennington) 	 bennington free library (bennington) 	 brooks memorial library (brattleboro) 	 essex free library (essex) 	 fletcher free library (burlington) 	 middlebury college (middlebury) 	 rutland free library (rutland) 	 saint michael's college (colchester) 	 university of vermont (burlington) 	 virgin islands	 university of the virgin islands (st. thomas and st. croix) 	 virginia	 alexandria library (alexandria) 	 arlington public library (arlington) 	 bland county public library (bland) 	 central rappahannock regional library (fredericksburg and vicinity; westmoreland county) 	 chesterfield county public library (chesterfield county) 	 fairfax county public library (fairfax county) 	 george mason university (fairfax and other campuses) 	 hampton university, harvey library (hampton) 	 hollins university (roanoke) 	 james madison university (harrisonburg) 	 liberty university (lynchburg) 	 loudoun county public library (leesburg and vicinity) 	 newport news public library (newport news) 	 norfolk public library (norfolk) 	 norfolk state university, lyman beecher brooks library (norfolk) 	 northern virginia community college (virginia suburbs of washington, dc) 	 richmond public library (richmond) 	 roanoke valley libraries (roanoke, salem, and vicinity) 	 university of virginia library (charlottesville) 	 valley libraries connection (augusta county, staunton, and waynesboro public libraries) 	 virginia beach public library (virginia beach) 	 virginia commonwealth university (richmond) 	 virginia state 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superstite           iucunda, si contra, gravis?     utrumne iussi persequemur otium           non dulce, ni tecum simul,     an hunc laborem mente laturi, decet           qua ferre non mollis viros?     feremus et te vel per alpium iuga           inhospitalem et caucasum     vel occidentis usque ad ultimum sinum           forti sequemur pectore.     roges, tuom labore quid iuvem meo,           inbellis ac firmus parum?     comes minore sum futurus in metu,           qui maior absentis habet:     ut adsidens inplumibus pullis avis           serpentium adlapsus timet     magis relictis, non, ut adsit, auxili           latura plus praesentibus.     libenter hoc et omne militabitur           bellum in tuae spem gratiae,     non ut iuvencis inligata pluribus           aratra nitantur meis     pecusve calabris ante sidus fervidum           lucana mutet pascuis     neque ut superni villa candens tusculi           circaea tangat moenia:     satis superque me benignitas tua           ditavit, haud paravero     quod aut avarus ut chremes terra premam,           discinctus aut perdam nepos. ii[recensere]     'beatus ille qui procul negotiis,           ut prisca gens mortalium,     paterna rura bubus exercet suis           solutus omni faenore     neque excitatur classico miles truci           neque horret iratum mare     forumque vitat et superba civium           potentiorum limina.     ergo aut adulta vitium propagine           altas maritat populos     aut in reducta valle mugientium           prospectat errantis greges     inutilisque falce ramos amputans           feliciores inserit     aut pressa puris mella condit amphoris           aut tondet infirmas ovis.     vel cum decorum mitibus pomis caput           autumnus agris extulit,     ut gaudet insitiva decerpens pira           certantem et uvam purpurae,     qua muneretur te, priape, et te, pater           silvane, tutor finium.     libet iacere modo sub antiqua ilice,           modo in tenaci gramine:     labuntur altis interim ripis aquae,           queruntur in silvis aves     frondesque lymphis obstrepunt manantibus,           somnos quod invitet levis.     at cum tonantis annus hibernus iovis           imbris nivisque conparat,     aut trudit acris hinc et hinc multa cane           apros in obstantis plagas     aut amite levi rara tendit retia           turdis edacibus dolos     pavidumque leporem et advenam laqueo gruem           iucunda captat praemia.     quis non malarum quas amor curas habet           haec inter obliviscitur?     quodsi pudica mulier in partem iuvet           domum atque dulcis liberos,     sabina qualis aut perusta solibus           pernicis uxor apuli,     sacrum vetustis exstruat lignis focum           lassi sub adventum viri     claudensque textis cratibus laetum pecus           distenta siccet ubera     et horna dulci vina promens dolio           dapes inemptas adparet:     non me lucrina iuverint conchylia           magisve rhombus aut scari,     siquos eois intonata fluctibus           hiems ad hoc vertat mare,     non afra avis descendat in ventrem meum,           non attagen ionicus     iucundior quam lecta de pinguissimis           oliva ramis arborum     aut herba lapathi prata amantis et gravi           malvae salubres corpori     vel agna festis caesa terminalibus           vel haedus ereptus lupo.     has inter epulas ut iuvat pastas ovis           videre properantis domum,     videre fessos vomerem inversum boves           collo trahentis languido     positosque vernas, ditis examen domus,           circum renidentis laris.'     haec ubi locutus faenerator alfius,           iam iam futurus rusticus,     omnem redegit idibus pecuniam,           quaerit kalendis ponere. iii[recensere]     parentis olim siquis inpia manu           senile guttur fregerit,     edit cicutis alium nocentius.           o dura messorum ilia.     quid hoc veneni saevit in praecordiis?           num viperinus his cruor     incoctus herbis me fefellit? an malas           canidia tractavit dapes?     ut argonautas praeter omnis candidum           medea mirata est ducem,     ignota tauris inligaturum iuga           perunxit hoc iasonem,     hoc delibutis ulta donis paelicem           serpente fugit alite.     nec tantus umquam siderum insedit vapor           siticulosae apuliae     nec munus umeris efficacis herculis           inarsit aestuosius.     at siquid umquam tale concupiveris,           iocose maecenas, precor,     manum puella savio opponat tuo,           extrema et in sponda cubet. iv[recensere]     lupis et agnis quanta sortito obtigit,           tecum mihi discordia est,     hibericis peruste funibus latus           et crura dura compede.     licet superbus ambules pecunia,           fortuna non mutat genus.     videsne, sacram metiente te viam           cum bis trium ulnarum toga,     ut ora vertat huc et huc euntium           liberrima indignatio?     'sectus flagellis hic triumviralibus           praeconis ad fastidium     arat falerni mille fundi iugera           et appiam mannis terit     sedilibusque magnus in primis eques           othone contempto sedet.     quid attinet tot ora navium gravi           rostrata duci pondere     contra latrones atque servilem manum           hoc, hoc tribuno militum?' v[recensere]     'at o deorum quidquid in caelo regit           terras et humanum genus,     quid iste fert tumultus aut quid omnium           voltus in unum me truces?     per liberos te, si vocata partubus           lucina veris adfuit,     per hoc inane purpurae decus precor,           per inprobaturum haec iovem,     quid ut noverca me intueris aut uti           petita ferro belua?'     ut haec trementi questus ore constitit           insignibus raptis puer,     inpube corpus, quale posset inpia           mollire thracum pectora:     canidia, brevibus illigata viperis           crinis et incomptum caput,     iubet sepulcris caprificos erutas,           iubet cupressos funebris     et uncta turpis ova ranae sanguine           plumamque nocturnae strigis     herbasque, quas iolcos atque hiberia           mittit venenorum ferax,     et ossa ab ore rapta ieiunae canis           flammis aduri colchicis.     at expedita sagana, per totam domum           spargens avernalis aquas,     horret capillis ut marinus asperis           echinus aut laurens aper.     abacta nulla veia conscientia           ligonibus duris humum     exhauriebat, ingemens laboribus,           quo posset infossus puer     longo die bis terque mutatae dapis           inemori spectaculo,     cum promineret ore, quantum exstant aqua           suspensa mento corpora;     exsucta uti medulla et aridum iecur           amoris esset poculum,     interminato cum semel fixae cibo           intabuissent pupulae.     non defuisse masculae libidinis           ariminensem foliam     et otiosa credidit neapolis           et omne vicinum oppidum,     quae sidera excantata voce thessala           lunamque caelo deripit.     hic inresectum saeva dente livido           canidia rodens pollicem     quid dixit aut quid tacuit? 'o rebus meis           non infideles arbitrae,     nox et diana, quae silentium regis,           arcana cum fiunt sacra,     nunc, nunc adeste, nunc in hostilis domos           iram atque numen vertite.     formidulosis cum latent silvis ferae           dulci sopore languidae,     senem, quod omnes rideant, adulterum           latrent suburanae canes     nardo perunctum, quale non perfectius           meae laborarint manus.     quid accidit? cur dira barbarae minus           venena medeae valent,     quibus superbam fugit ulta paelicem,           magni creontis filiam,     cum palla, tabo munus imbutum, novam           incendio nuptam abstulit?     atqui nec herba nec latens in asperis           radix fefellit me locis.     indormit unctis omnium cubilibus           oblivione paelicum?     a, a, solutus ambulat veneficae           scientioris carmine.     non usitatis, vare, potionibus,           o multa fleturum caput,     ad me recurres nec vocata mens tua           marsis redibit vocibus.     maius parabo, maius infundam tibi           fastidienti poculum     priusque caelum sidet inferius mari           tellure porrecta super     quam non amore sic meo flagres uti           bitumen atris ignibus.'     sub haec puer iam non, ut ante, mollibus           lenire verbis inpias,     sed dubius unde rumperet silentium,           misit thyesteas preces:     'venena maga non fas nefasque, non valent           convertere humanam vicem.     diris agam vos: dira detestatio           nulla expiatur victima.     quin, ubi perire iussus exspiravero,           nocturnus occurram furor     petamque voltus umbra curvis unguibus,           quae vis deorum est manium,     et inquietis adsidens praecordiis           pavore somnos auferam.     vos turba vicatim hinc et hinc saxis petens           contundet obscaenas anus;     post insepulta membra different lupi           et esquilinae alites     neque hoc parentes, heu mihi superstites,           effugerit spectaculum.' vi[recensere]     quid inmerentis hospites vexas, canis           ignavos adversum lupos?     quin huc inanis, si potes, vertis minas           et me remorsurum petis?     nam qualis aut molossus aut fulvos lacon,           amica vis pastoribus,     agam per altas aure sublata nivis           quaecumque praecedet fera;     tu, cum timenda voce complesti nemus,           proiectum odoraris cibum.     cave, cave, namque in malos asperrimus           parata tollo cornua,     qualis lycambae spretus infido gener           aut acer hostis bupalo.     an si quis atro dente me petiverit,           inultus ut flebo puer? vii[recensere]     quo, quo scelesti ruitis? aut cur dexteris           aptantur enses conditi?     parumne campis atque neptuno super           fusum est latini sanguinis,     non ut superbas invidae karthaginis           romanus arces ureret,     intactus aut britannus ut descenderet           sacra catenatus via,     sed ut secundum vota parthorum sua           vrbs haec periret dextera?     neque hic lupis mos nec fuit leonibus           umquam nisi in dispar feris.     furorne caecos an rapit vis acrior           an culpa? responsum date.     tacent et albus ora pallor inficit           mentesque perculsae stupent.     sic est: acerba fata romanos agunt           scelusque fraternae necis,     ut inmerentis fluxit in terram remi           sacer nepotibus cruor. viii[recensere]     rogare longo putidam te saeculo,           viris quid enervet meas,     cum sit tibi dens ater et rugis vetus           frontem senectus exaret     hietque turpis inter aridas natis           podex velut crudae bovis.     sed incitat me pectus et mammae putres           equina quales ubera     venterque mollis et femur tumentibus           exile suris additum.     esto beata, funus atque imagines           ducant triumphales tuom     nec sit marita, quae rotundioribus           onusta bacis ambulet.     quid? quod libelli stoici inter sericos           iacere pulvillos amant,     inlitterati num minus nervi rigent           minusve languet fascinum?     quod ut superbo povoces ab inguine,           ore adlaborandum est tibi. ix[recensere]     quando repositum caecubum ad festas dapes           victore laetus caesare     tecum sub alta---sic iovi gratum---domo,           beate maecenas, bibam     sonante mixtum tibiis carmen lyra,           hac dorium, illis barbarum?     ut nuper, actus cum freto neptunius           dux fugit ustis navibus     minatus vrbi vincla, quae detraxerat           servis amicus perfidis.     romanus eheu---posteri negabitis---           emancipatus feminae     fert vallum et arma miles et spadonibus           servire rugosis potest     interque signa turpe militaria           sol adspicit conopium.     ad hunc frementis verterunt bis mille equos           galli canentes caesarem     hostiliumque navium portu latent           puppes sinistrorsum citae.     io triumphe, tu moraris aureos           currus et intactas boves?     io triumphe, nec iugurthino parem           bello reportasti ducem     neque africanum, cui super karthaginem           virtus sepulcrum condidit.     terra marique victus hostis punico           lugubre mutavit sagum.     aut ille centum nobilem cretam urbibus           ventis iturus non suis     exercitatas aut petit syrtis noto           aut fertur incerto mari.     capaciores adfer huc, puer, scyphos           et chia vina aut lesbia     vel quod fluentem nauseam coerceat           metire nobis caecubum.     curam metumque caesaris rerum iuvat           dulci lyaeo solvere. x[recensere]     mala soluta navis exit alite           ferens olentem mevium.     ut horridis utrumque verberes latus,           auster, memento fluctibus;     niger rudentis eurus inverso mari           fractosque remos differat;     insurgat aquilo, quantus altis montibus           frangit trementis ilics;     nec sidus atra nocte amicum adpareat,           qua tristis orion cadit;     quietiore nec feratur aequore           quam graia victorum manus,     cum pallas usto vertit iram ab ilio           in inpiam aiacis ratem.     o quantus instat navitis sudor tuis           tibique pallor luteus     et illa non virilis heiulatio           preces et aversum ad iovem,     ionius udo cum remugiens sinus           noto carinam ruperit     opima quodsi praeda curvo litore           porrecta mergos iuverit,     libidinosus immolabitur caper           et agna tempestatibus. xi[recensere]     petti, nihil me sicut antea iuvat           scribere versiculos amore percussum gravi,     amore, qui me praeter omnis expetit           mollibus in pueris aut in puellis urere.     hic tertius december, ex quo destiti           inachia furere, silvis honorem decutit.     heu me, per vrbem (nam pudet tanti mali)           fabula quanta fui, conviviorum et paenitet,     in quis amantem languor et silentium           arguit et latere petitus imo spiritus.     'contrane lucrum nil valere candidum           pauperis ingenium' querebar adplorans tibi,     simul calentis inverecundus deus           fervidiore mero arcana promorat loco.     'quodsi meis inaestuet praecordiis           libera bilis, ut haec ingrata ventis dividat     fomenta volnus nil malum levantia,           desinet inparibus certare submotus pudor.'     ubi haec severus te palam laudaveram,           iussus abire domum ferebar incerto pede     ad non amicos heu mihi postis et heu           limina dura, quibus lumbos et infregi latus.     nunc gloriantis quamlibet mulierculam           vincere mollitia amor lycisci me tenet;     unde expedire non amicorum queant           libera consilia nec contumeliae graves,     sed alius ardor aut puellae candidae           aut teretis pueri longam renodantis comam. xii[recensere]     quid tibi vis, mulier nigris dignissima barris?           munera quid mihi quidve tabellas     mittis nec firmo iuveni neque naris obesae?           namque sagacius unus odoror,     polypus an gravis hirsutis cubet hircus in alis           quam canis acer ubi lateat sus.     qui sudor vietis et quam malus undique membris           crescit odor, cum pene soluto     indomitam properat rabiem sedare, neque illi           iam manet umida creta colorque     stercore fucatus crocodili iamque subando           tenta cubilia tectaque rumpit.     vel mea cum saevis agitat fastidia verbis:           'inachia langues minus ac me;     inachiam ter nocte potes, mihi semper ad unum           mollis opus. pereat male quae te     lesbia quaerenti taurum monstravit inertem.           cum mihi cous adesset amyntas,     cuius in indomito constantior inguine nervos           quam nova collibus arbor inhaeret.     muricibus tyriis iteratae vellera lanae           cui properabantur? tibi nempe,     ne foret aequalis inter conviva, magis quem           diligeret mulier sua quam te.     o ego non felix, quam tu fugis, ut pavet acris           agna lupos capreaeque leones!' xiii[recensere]     horrida tempestas caelum contraxit et imbres           nivesque deducunt iovem; nunc mare, nunc siluae     threicio aquilone sonant. rapiamus, amici,           occasionem de die dumque virent genua     et decet, obducta solvatur fronte senectus.           tu vina torquato move consule pressa meo.     cetera mitte loqui: deus haec fortasse benigna           reducet in sedem vice. nunc et achaemenio     perfundi nardo iuvat et fide cyllenea           levare diris pectora sollicitudinibus,     nobilis ut grandi cecinit centaurus alumno:           'invicte, mortalis dea nate puer thetide,     te manet assaraci tellus, quam frigida parvi           findunt scamandri flumina lubricus et simois,     unde tibi reditum certo subtemine parcae           rupere, nec mater domum caerula te revehet.     illic omne malum vino cantuque levato,     deformis aegrimoniae dulcibus adloquiis.' xiv[recensere]     mollis inertia cur tantam diffuderit imis           oblivionem sensibus,     pocula lethaeos ut si ducentia somnos           arente fauce traxerim,     candide maecenas, occidis saepe rogando:           deus, deus nam me vetat     inceptos, olim promissum carmen, iambos           ad umbilicum adducere.     non aliter samio dicunt arsisse bathyllo           anacreonta teium,     qui persaepe cava testudine flevit amorem           non elaboratum ad pedem.     ureris ipse miser: quodsi non pulcrior ignis           accendit obsessam ilion,     gaude sorte tua; me libertina, nec uno           contenta, phryne macerat. xv[recensere]     nox erat et caelo fulgebat luna sereno           inter minora sidera,     cum tu, magnorum numen laesura deorum,           in verba iurabas mea,     artius atque hedera procera adstringitur ilex           lentis adhaerens bracchiis;     dum pecori lupus et nautis infestus orion           turbaret hibernum mare     intonsosque agitaret apollinis aura capillos,           fore hunc amorem mutuom,     o dolitura mea multum virtute neaera:           nam siquid in flacco viri est,     non feret adsiduas potiori te dare noctes           et quaeret iratus parem     nec semel offensi cedet constantia formae,           si certus intrarit dolor.     et tu, quicumque es felicior atque meo nunc           superbus incedis malo,     sis pecore et multa dives tellure licebit           tibique pactolus fluat     nec te pythagorae fallant arcana renati           formaque vincas nirea,     heu heu, translatos alio maerebis amores,           ast ego vicissim risero. xvi[recensere]     altera iam teritur bellis civilibus aetas,           suis et ipsa roma viribus ruit.     quam neque finitimi valuerunt perdere marsi           minacis aut etrusca porsenae manus,     aemula nec virtus capuae nec spartacus acer           novisque rebus infidelis allobrox     nec fera caerulea domuit germania pube           parentibusque abominatus hannibal:     inpia perdemus devoti sanguinis aetas           ferisque rursus occupabitur solum:     barbarus heu cineres insistet victor et vrbem           eques sonante verberabit ungula,     quaeque carent ventis et solibus ossa quirini,           (nefas videre) dissipabit insolens.     forte quid expediat communiter aut melior pars,           malis carere quaeritis laboribus;     nulla sit hac potior sententia: phocaeorum           velut profugit exsecrata civitas     agros atque lares patrios habitandaque fana           apris reliquit et rapacibus lupis,     ire, pedes quocumque ferent, quocumque per undas           notus vocabit aut protervos africus.     sic placet? an melius quis habet suadere? secunda           ratem occupare quid moramur alite?     sed iuremus in haec: 'simul imis saxa renarint           vadis levata, ne redire sit nefas;     neu conversa domum pigeat dare lintea, quando           padus matina laverit cacumina,     in mare seu celsus procurrerit appenninus           novaque monstra iunxerit libidine     mirus amor, iuvet ut tigris subsidere cervis,           adulteretur et columba miluo,     credula nec ravos timeant armenta leones           ametque salsa levis hircus aequora.'     haec et quae poterunt reditus abscindere dulcis           eamus omnis exsecrata civitas     aut pars indocili melior grege; mollis et exspes           inominata perpremat cubilia.     vos, quibus est virtus, muliebrem tollite luctum,           etrusca praeter et volate litora.     nos manet oceanus circum vagus: arva beata           petamus, arva divites et insulas,     reddit ubi cererem tellus inarata quotannis           et inputata floret usque vinea,     germinat et numquam fallentis termes olivae           suamque pulla ficus ornat arborem,     mella cava manant ex ilice, montibus altis           levis crepante lympha desilit pede.     illic iniussae veniunt ad mulctra capellae           refertque tenta grex amicus ubera     nec vespertinus circumgemit ursus ovile           nec intumescit alta viperis humus;     pluraque felices mirabimur, ut neque largis           aquosus eurus arva radat imbribus,     pinguia nec siccis urantur semina glaebis,           utrumque rege temperante caelitum.     non huc argoo contendit remige pinus           neque inpudica colchis intulit pedem,     non huc sidonii torserunt cornua nautae,           laboriosa nec cohors vlixei.     nulla nocent pecori contagia, nullius astri           gregem aestuosa torret impotentia.     iuppiter illa piae secrevit litora genti,           ut inquinavit aere tempus aureum,     aere, dehinc ferro duravit saecula, quorum           piis secunda vate me datur fuga. xvii[recensere]     'iam iam efficaci do manus scientiae,     supplex et oro regna per proserpinae,     per et dianae non movenda numina,     per atque libros carminum valentium     refixa caelo devocare sidera,     canidia: parce vocibus tandem sacris     citumque retro solve, solve turbinem.     movit nepotem telephus nereium,     in quem superbus ordinarat agmina     mysorum et in quem tela acuta torserat. 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. coordinates: ° ′n ° ′e /  . °n . °e / . ; . 	country	netherlands 	province	utrecht 	government[ ] 	 • body	municipal council 	 • mayor	sharon dijksma (pvda) 	area[ ] 	 • municipality	 .  km ( .  sq mi) 	 • land	 .  km ( .  sq mi) 	 • water	 .  km ( .  sq mi) 	 • randstad	 ,  km ( ,  sq mi) 	elevation[ ] 	  m (  ft) 	population ( february )[ ][ ][ ] 	 • municipality	 , 	 • density	 , /km ( , /sq mi) 	 • urban 	 , 	 • metro 	 , 	 • randstad 	 , , 	demonym(s)	utrechter(s) [nb ] 	time zone	utc+ (cet) 	 • summer (dst)	utc+ (cest) 	postcode	 – , – 	area code	 	website	www.utrecht.nl utrecht (/ˈjuːtrɛkt/ yoo-trekt, also uk: /juːˈtrɛxt/ yoo-trekht,[ ][ ] dutch: [ˈytrɛxt] (listen)) is the fourth-largest city and a municipality of the netherlands, capital and most populous city of the province of utrecht. it is located in the eastern corner of the randstad conurbation, in the very centre of mainland netherlands; it had a population of , as of .[ ] utrecht's ancient city centre features many buildings and structures, several dating as far back as the high middle ages. it has been the religious centre of the netherlands since the th century. it lost the status of prince-bishopric but remains the main religious centre in the country. utrecht was the most important city in the netherlands until the dutch golden age, when it was surpassed by amsterdam as the country's cultural centre and most populous city. utrecht is host to utrecht university, the largest university in the netherlands, as well as several other institutions of higher education. due to its central position within the country, it is an important transport hub for both rail and road transport; the busiest train station in the netherlands, utrecht centraal, is in the city of utrecht. it has the second highest number of cultural events in the netherlands, after amsterdam.[ ] in , lonely planet included utrecht in the top of the world's unsung places.[ ] contents 	 history 	 . origins (before ad) 	 . centre of christianity in the netherlands ( – ) 	 . . prince-bishops 	 . . religious buildings 	 . . city of utrecht 	 . . the end of independence 	 . republic of the netherlands ( – ) 	 . modern history ( –present) 	 geography 	 . climate 	 population 	 . demographics 	 . religion 	 . population centres and agglomeration 	 cityscape 	 transport 	 . public transport 	 . . heavy and light rail 	 . . bus transport 	 . cycling 	 . road transport 	 . shipping 	 economy 	 education 	 culture 	 . sports 	 . museums 	 . music and events 	 . theatre 	 notable people from utrecht 	 international relations 	 . twin towns 	 . other relations 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 . bibliography 	 external links history[edit] see also: timeline of utrecht origins (before ad)[edit] willem blaeu's map of utrecht although there is some evidence of earlier inhabitation in the region of utrecht, dating back to the stone age (app. bce) and settling in the bronze age (app. –  bce),[ ] the founding date of the city is usually related to the construction of a roman fortification (castellum), probably built in around ce. a series of such fortresses was built after the roman emperor claudius decided the empire should not expand further north. to consolidate the border, the limes germanicus defense line was constructed[ ] along the main branch of the river rhine, which at that time flowed through a more northern bed compared to today (what is now the kromme rijn). these fortresses were designed to house a cohort of about roman soldiers. near the fort, settlements would grow housing artisans, traders and soldiers' wives and children. in roman times, the name of the utrecht fortress was simply traiectum, denoting its location at a possible rhine crossing. traiectum became dutch trecht; with the u from old dutch "uut" (downriver) added to distinguish u-trecht from maas-tricht.[ ][ ] in th-century official documents, it was latinized as ultra traiectum. around the year , the wooden walls of the fortification were replaced by sturdier tuff stone walls,[ ] remnants of which are still to be found below the buildings around dom square. from the middle of the rd century, germanic tribes regularly invaded the roman territories. around the romans could no longer maintain the northern border and utrecht was abandoned.[ ] little is known about the next period – . utrecht is first spoken of again several centuries after the romans left. under the influence of the growing realms of the franks, during dagobert i's reign in the th century, a church was built within the walls of the roman fortress.[ ] in ongoing border conflicts with the frisians, this first church was destroyed. centre of christianity in the netherlands ( – )[edit] the dom tower seen from downtown utrecht. the remaining section of the cathedral of saint martin is not connected to the tower since the collapse of the nave in due to a storm. by the mid- th century, english and irish missionaries set out to convert the frisians. pope sergius i appointed their leader, saint willibrordus, as bishop of the frisians. the tenure of willibrordus is generally considered to be the beginning of the bishopric of utrecht.[ ] in , the frankish leader charles martel bestowed the fortress in utrecht and the surrounding lands as the base of the bishops. from then on utrecht became one of the most influential seats of power for the roman catholic church in the netherlands. the archbishops of utrecht were based at the uneasy northern border of the carolingian empire. in addition, the city of utrecht had competition from the nearby trading centre dorestad.[ ] after the fall of dorestad around , utrecht became one of the most important cities in the netherlands.[ ] the importance of utrecht as a centre of christianity is illustrated by the election of the utrecht-born adriaan florenszoon boeyens as pope in (the last non-italian pope before john paul ii). prince-bishops[edit] main article: bishopric of utrecht when the frankish rulers established the system of feudalism, the bishops of utrecht came to exercise worldly power as prince-bishops.[ ] the territory of the bishopric not only included the modern province of utrecht (nedersticht, 'lower sticht'), but also extended to the northeast. the feudal conflict of the middle ages heavily affected utrecht. the prince-bishopric was involved in almost continuous conflicts with the counts of holland and the dukes of guelders.[ ] the veluwe region was seized by guelders, but large areas in the modern province of overijssel remained as the oversticht. religious buildings[edit] several churches and monasteries were built inside, or close to, the city of utrecht. the most dominant of these was the cathedral of saint martin, inside the old roman fortress. the construction of the present gothic building was begun in after an earlier romanesque construction had been badly damaged by fire. the choir and transept were finished from and were followed then by the ambitious dom tower.[ ] the last part to be constructed was the central nave, from . by that time, however, the age of the great cathedrals had come to an end and declining finances prevented the ambitious project from being finished, the construction of the central nave being suspended before the planned flying buttresses could be finished.[ ] besides the cathedral there were four collegiate churches in utrecht: st. salvator's church (demolished in the th century), on the dom square, dating back to the early th century.[ ] saint john (janskerk), originating in ;[ ] saint peter, building started in [ ] and saint mary's church building started around (demolished in the early th century, cloister survives).[ ] besides these churches, the city housed st. paul's abbey,[ ] the th-century beguinage of st. nicholas, and a th-century chapter house of the teutonic knights.[ ] besides these buildings which belonged to the bishopric, an additional four parish churches were constructed in the city: the jacobikerk (dedicated to saint james), founded in the th century, with the current gothic church dating back to the th century;[ ] the buurkerk (neighbourhood-church) of the th-century parish in the centre of the city; nicolaichurch (dedicated to saint nicholas), from the th century[ ] and the th-century geertekerk (dedicated to saint gertrude of nivelles).[ ] city of utrecht[edit] its location on the banks of the river rhine allowed utrecht to become an important trade centre in the northern netherlands. the growing town was granted city rights by henry v in . when the main flow of the rhine moved south, the old bed which still flowed through the heart of the town became ever more canalized; and the wharf system was built as an inner city harbour system.[ ] on the wharfs, storage facilities (werfkelders) were built, on top of which the main street, including houses, was constructed. the wharfs and the cellars are accessible from a platform at water level with stairs descending from the street level to form a unique structure.[nb ][ ] the relations between the bishop, who controlled many lands outside of the city, and the citizens of utrecht was not always easy.[ ] the bishop, for example dammed the kromme rijn at wijk bij duurstede to protect his estates from flooding. this threatened shipping for the city and led the city of utrecht to commission a canal to ensure access to the town for shipping trade: the vaartse rijn, connecting utrecht to the hollandse ijssel at ijsselstein. the end of independence[edit] in the bishop lost secular power over both neder- and oversticht – which included the city of utrecht – to charles v, holy roman emperor. charles v combined the seventeen provinces (the current benelux and the northern parts of france) as a personal union. this ended the prince-bishopric of utrecht, as the secular rule was now the lordship of utrecht, with the religious power remaining with the bishop, although charles v had gained the right to appoint new bishops. in the bishopric of utrecht was raised to archbishopric to make it the religious centre of the northern ecclesiastical province in the seventeen provinces. the transition from independence to a relatively minor part of a larger union was not easily accepted. to quell uprisings, charles v struggled to exert his power over the city's citizens who had struggled to gain a certain level of independence from the bishops and were not willing to cede this to their new lord. the heavily fortified castle vredenburg was built to house a large garrison whose main task was to maintain control over the city. the castle would last less than  years before it was demolished in an uprising in the early stages of the dutch revolt. republic of the netherlands ( – )[edit] lambert de hondt (ii): the surrender of utrecht on june to the french king louis xiv, , centraal museum utrecht prince maurits in utrecht, july in the northern seven provinces signed the union of utrecht, in which they decided to join forces against spanish rule. the union of utrecht is seen as the beginning of the dutch republic. in , the new and predominantly protestant state abolished the bishoprics, including the archbishopric of utrecht. the stadtholders disapproved of the independent course of the utrecht bourgeoisie and brought the city under much more direct control of the republic, shifting the power towards its dominant province holland. this was the start of a long period of stagnation of trade and development in utrecht. utrecht remained an atypical city in the new republic being about % catholic in the mid- th-century, and even more so among the elite groups, who included many rural nobility and gentry with town houses there.[ ] the fortified city temporarily fell to the french invasion in (the disaster year); where the french invasion was stopped just west of utrecht at the old hollandic waterline. in , only two years after the french left, the centre of utrecht was struck by a tornado. the halt to building before construction of flying buttresses in the th century now proved to be the undoing of the cathedral of st martin church's central section which collapsed, creating the current dom square between the tower and choir. in , utrecht hosted one of the first international peace negotiations when the treaty of utrecht settled the war of the spanish succession. beginning in , utrecht became the centre of the non-roman old catholic churches in the world. modern history ( –present)[edit] people celebrating the liberation of utrecht at the end of world war ii on may zadelstraat contemporary map of utrecht in the early th century, the role of utrecht as a fortified town had become obsolete. the fortifications of the nieuwe hollandse waterlinie were moved east of utrecht. the town walls could now be demolished to allow for expansion. the moats remained intact and formed an important feature of the zocher plantsoen, an english style landscape park that remains largely intact today. growth of the city increased when, in , a railway connecting utrecht to amsterdam was opened. after that, utrecht gradually became the main hub of the dutch railway network. with the industrial revolution finally gathering speed in the netherlands and the ramparts taken down, utrecht began to grow far beyond its medieval centre. when the dutch government allowed the bishopric of utrecht to be reinstated by rome in , utrecht became the centre of dutch catholicism once more. from the s onward, neighbourhoods such as oudwijk, wittevrouwen, vogelenbuurt to the east, and lombok to the west were developed. new middle-class residential areas, such as tuindorp and oog in al, were built in the s and s. during this period, several jugendstil houses and office buildings were built, followed by rietveld who built the rietveld schröder house ( ), and dudok's construction of the city theater ( ). during world war ii, utrecht was held by the germans until the general german surrender of the netherlands on may . british and canadian troops that had surrounded the city entered it after that surrender, on may . following the end of world war ii, the city grew considerably when new neighbourhoods such as overvecht, kanaleneiland, hoograven [nl] and lunetten were built. around , the leidsche rijn housing area was developed as an extension of the city to the west. the area surrounding utrecht centraal railway station and the station itself were developed following modernist ideas of the s, in a brutalist style. this development led to the construction of the shopping mall hoog catharijne [nl], the music centre vredenburg (hertzberger, ), and conversion of part of the ancient canal structure into a highway (catherijnebaan). protest against further modernisation of the city centre followed even before the last buildings were finalised. in the early st century, the whole area is undergoing change again. the redeveloped music centre tivolivredenburg opened in with the original vredenburg and tivoli concert and rock and jazz halls brought together in a single building. geography[edit] climate[edit] utrecht experiences a temperate oceanic climate (köppen: cfb) similar to all of the netherlands. 	climate data for de bilt 	month 	jan 	feb 	mar 	apr 	may 	jun 	jul 	aug 	sep 	oct 	nov 	dec 	year 	record high °c (°f) 	 . 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( . ) 	average precipitation days (≥  mm) 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	average snowy days 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	average relative humidity (%) 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	mean monthly sunshine hours 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 . 	 , . 	source : royal netherlands meteorological institute ( – normals, snowy days normals for – )[ ] 	source : royal netherlands meteorological institute ( –present extremes)[ ] population[edit] demographics[edit] historical population		year	pop.	±% p.a. 	 	 , 	—     	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	− . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 		year	pop.	±% p.a. 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 		year	pop.	±% p.a. 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	− . % 	 	 , 	− . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	 	 , 	+ . % 	source: lourens & lucassen , pp.  – ( – ) utrecht city had a population of , in . it is a growing municipality and projections are that the population will surpass , by .[ ] as of november , the city of utrecht has a population of , .[ ] utrecht has a young population, with many inhabitants in the age category from and  years, due to the presence of a large university. about % of the population is female, % is male. the majority of households ( . %) in utrecht are single-person households. about % of people living in utrecht are either married, or have another legal partnership. about % of the population of utrecht is divorced.[ ] for % of the population of utrecht both parents were born in the netherlands. approximately % of the population consists of people with a recent migration background from western countries, while % of the population has at least one parent who is of 'non-western origin' ( % from morocco, % turkey, % surinam and dutch caribbean and % of other countries).[ ] some of the city's boroughs have a relatively high percentage of originally people with a migration background – i.e. kanaleneiland ( %) and overvecht ( %). like rotterdam, amsterdam, the hague and other large dutch cities, utrecht faces some socio-economic problems. about % percent of its population either earns a minimum income or is dependent on social welfare ( % of all households). boroughs such as kanaleneiland, overvecht and hoograven consist primarily of high-rise housing developments, and are known for relatively high poverty and crime rate.[citation needed] 	population of the city of utrecht by country of birth of the parents of citizens ( )[ ] 	country/territory	population 	 netherlands	 , ( . %) 	 morocco	 , ( . %) 	 turkey	 , ( . %) 	 indonesia	 , ( . %) 	 suriname	 , ( . %) 	other	 , ( . %) religion[edit] utrecht has been the religious centre of the netherlands since the th century. currently it is the see of the metropolitan archbishop of utrecht, the most senior dutch roman catholic leader.[ ][ ] his ecclesiastical province covers the whole kingdom. utrecht is also the see of the archbishop of the old catholic church, titular head of the union of utrecht, and the location of the offices of the protestant church in the netherlands, the main dutch protestant church. as of , the largest religion is christianity with % of the population being christian, followed by islam with . % and hinduism with . %. religions in utrecht ( )[ ]   irreligion ( . %)   roman catholic ( . %)   protestant church in the netherlands ( . %)   other christian denominations ( . %)   islam ( . %)   hinduism ( . %)   buddhism ( . %)   judaism ( . %) population centres and agglomeration[edit] the city of utrecht is subdivided into city quarters, all of which have their own neighbourhood council and service centre for civil affairs. 	binnenstad 	oost 	leidsche rijn 	west 	overvecht 	zuid 	noordoost 	zuidwest 	noordwest 	vleuten-de meern utrecht is the centre of a densely populated area, a fact which makes concise definitions of its agglomeration difficult, and somewhat arbitrary. the smaller utrecht agglomeration of continuously built-up areas counts some , inhabitants and includes nieuwegein, ijsselstein and maarssen. it is sometimes argued that the close by municipalities de bilt, zeist, houten, vianen, driebergen-rijsenburg (utrechtse heuvelrug), and bunnik should also be counted towards the utrecht agglomeration, bringing the total to , inhabitants. the larger region, including slightly more remote towns such as woerden and amersfoort, counts up to , inhabitants.[ ] cityscape[edit] panorama oudegracht (the 'old canal') in central utrecht the oudegracht in the s view of the oudegracht from the dom tower aerial view of utrecht from the dom tower utrecht's cityscape is dominated by the dom tower, the tallest belfry in the netherlands and originally part of the cathedral of saint martin.[ ] an ongoing debate is over whether any building in or near the centre of town should surpass the dom tower in height (  m (  ft)). nevertheless, some tall buildings are now being constructed that will become part of the skyline of utrecht. the second tallest building of the city, the rabobank-tower, was completed in and stands metres ( feet) tall.[ ] two antennas will increase that height to metres ( feet). two other buildings were constructed around the nieuw galgenwaard stadium ( ). these buildings, the 'kantoortoren galghenwert' and 'apollo residence', stand . metres ( . feet) and . metres ( . feet) high respectively. another landmark is the old centre and the canal structure in the inner city. the oudegracht is a curved canal, partly following the ancient main branch of the rhine. it is lined with the unique wharf-basement structures that create a two-level street along the canals.[ ] the inner city has largely retained its medieval structure,[ ] and the moat ringing the old town is largely intact.[ ] in the s part of the moat was converted into a motorway. it was then converted back into a waterway, the work being finished in .[ ][ ] because of the role of utrecht as a fortified city, construction outside the medieval centre and its city walls was restricted until the th century. surrounding the medieval core there is a ring of late th- and early th-century neighbourhoods, with newer neighbourhoods positioned farther out.[ ] the eastern part of utrecht remains fairly open. the dutch water line, moved east of the city in the early th century, required open lines of fire, thus prohibiting all permanent constructions until the middle of the th century on the east side of the city.[ ] due to the past importance of utrecht as a religious centre, several monumental churches were erected, many of which have survived.[ ] most prominent is the dom church. other notable churches include the romanesque st peter's and st john's churches; the gothic churches of st james and st nicholas; and the buurkerk, now converted into a museum for automatically playing musical instruments. transport[edit] public transport[edit] because of its central location, utrecht is well connected to the rest of the netherlands and has a well-developed public transport network. heavy and light rail[edit] utrecht centraal railway station utrecht centraal is the main railway station of utrecht and is the largest in the country. there are regular intercity services to all major dutch cities; direct services to schiphol airport. utrecht centraal is a station on the night service, providing days a week an all-night service to (among others) schiphol airport, amsterdam and rotterdam. international intercityexpress (ice) services to germany (and further) through arnhem call at utrecht centraal. regular local trains to all areas surrounding utrecht also depart from utrecht centraal; and service several smaller stations: utrecht lunetten; utrecht vaartsche rijn; utrecht overvecht; utrecht leidsche rijn; utrecht terwijde; utrecht zuilen and vleuten. a former station utrecht maliebaan closed in and has since been converted into the dutch railway museum. the utrecht sneltram is a light rail scheme running southwards from utrecht centraal to the suburbs of ijsselstein, kanaleneiland, lombok and nieuwegein. the sneltram began operations in and is currently operated by the private transport company qbuzz. on december the new tram line to the uithof started operating, creating a direct mass transit connection from the central station to the main utrecht university campus.[ ] utrecht is the location of the headquarters of nederlandse spoorwegen (english: dutch railways) – the largest rail operator in the netherlands – and prorail – the state-owned company responsible for the construction and maintenance of the country's rail infrastructure. bus transport[edit] the main local and regional bus station of utrecht is located adjacent to utrecht centraal railway station, at the east and west entrances. due to large-scale renovation and construction works at the railway station, the station's bus stops are changing frequently. as a general rule, westbound buses depart from the bus station on the west entrance, other buses from the east side station. local buses in utrecht are operated by qbuzz – its services include a high-frequency service to the uithof university district. the local bus fleet is one of europe's cleanest, using only buses compliant with the euro-vi standard as well as electric buses for inner city transport. regional buses from the city are operated by arriva and connexxion. the utrecht centraal railway station is also served by the pan-european services of eurolines. furthermore, it acts as departure and arrival place of many coach companies serving holiday resorts in spain and france – and during winter in austria and switzerland. cycling[edit] like most dutch cities, utrecht has an extensive network of cycle paths, making cycling safe and popular. % of journeys within the city are by bicycle, more than any other mode of transport.[ ] (cars, for example, account for % of trips). bicycles are used by young and old people, and by individuals and families. they are mostly traditional, upright, steel-framed bicycles, with few gears. there are also barrow bikes, for carrying shopping or small children. in , the city council decided to build the world's largest bicycle parking station, near the central railway station. this -floor construction will cost an estimated  million euro and will hold , bicycles. the bicycle parking station was finally opened on august .[ ] road transport[edit] utrecht is well-connected to the dutch road network. two of the most important major roads serve the city of utrecht: the a and a motorways connect amsterdam, arnhem, the hague and maastricht, as well as belgium and germany. other major motorways in the area are the almere–breda a and the utrecht–groningen a .[ ] due to the increasing traffic and the ancient city plan, traffic congestion is a common phenomenon in and around utrecht, causing elevated levels of air pollutants. this has led to a passionate debate in the city about the best way to improve the city's air quality. shipping[edit] utrecht has an industrial port located on the amsterdam-rijnkanaal.[ ] the container terminal has a capacity of , containers a year. in , the port facilitated the transport of four million tons of cargo; mostly sand, gravel, fertiliser and fodder.[ ] additionally, some tourist boat trips are organised from various places on the oudegracht; and the city is connected to touristic shipping routes through sluices.[ ][ ][ ] economy[edit] 'de inktpot [nl]' (the inkpot) with fake ufo production industry constitutes a small part of the economy of utrecht. the economy of utrecht depends for a large part on the several large institutions located in the city. it is the centre of the dutch railroad network and the location of the head office of nederlandse spoorwegen. prorail is headquartered in de inktpot [nl] (the inkwell) – the largest brick building in the netherlands[ ] (the "ufo" featured on its façade stems from an art program in ). rabobank, a large bank, has its headquarters in utrecht.[ ] education[edit] view on the science park campus of utrecht university. the building in the centre is the library. utrecht hosts several large institutions of higher education. the most prominent of these is utrecht university (est. ), the largest university of the netherlands with , students (as of [update]). the university is partially based in the inner city as well as in the uithof campus area, to the east of the city. according to shanghai jiaotong university's university ranking in , it is the th best university in the world.[ ] utrecht also houses the much smaller university of humanistic studies, which houses about students.[ ] utrecht is home of one of the locations of tias school for business and society, focused on post-experience management education and the largest management school of its kind in the netherlands. in , its executive mba program was rated the th best program in the world by the financial times.[ ] utrecht is also home to two other large institutions of higher education: the vocational university hogeschool utrecht ( , students),[ ] with locations in the city and the uithof campus; and the hku utrecht school of the arts ( , students). there are many schools for primary and secondary education, allowing parents to select from different philosophies and religions in the school as is inherent in the dutch school system. culture[edit] miffy statue at the nijntjepleintje in utrecht the rietveld schröder house from caryatids at the winkel van sinkel utrecht city has an active cultural life, and in the netherlands is second only to amsterdam.[ ] there are several theatres and theatre companies. the main city theatre was built by dudok. in addition to theatres, there is a large number of cinemas including three arthouse cinemas. utrecht is host to the international early music festival (festival oude muziek, for music before ) and the netherlands film festival. the city has an important classical music hall vredenburg ( by herman hertzberger). its acoustics are considered among the best of the th-century original music halls.[citation needed] the original vredenburg music hall has been redeveloped as part of the larger station area redevelopment plan and in gained additional halls that allowed its merger with the rock club tivoli and the sju jazzpodium. there are several other venues for music throughout the city. young musicians are educated in the conservatory, a department of the utrecht school of the arts. there is a specialised museum of automatically playing musical instruments. prins clausbrug across the amsterdam-rhine canal there are many art galleries in utrecht. there are also several foundations to support art and artists. training of artists is done at the utrecht school of the arts. the centraal museum has many exhibitions on the arts, including a permanent exhibition on the works of utrecht resident illustrator dick bruna, who is best known for creating miffy ("nijntje", in dutch). bak, basis voor actuele kunst offers contemporary art exhibitions and public events, as well as a fellowship program for practitioners involved in contemporary arts, theory and activisms. although street art is illegal in utrecht, the utrechtse kabouter, a picture of a gnome with a red hat, became a common sight in .[ ] utrecht also houses one of the landmarks of modern architecture, the rietveld schröder house, which is listed on unesco's world heritage sites. every saturday, a paviour adds another letter to the letters of utrecht, an endless poem in the cobblestones of the oude gracht in utrecht. with the letters, utrecht has a social sculpture as a growing monument created for the benefit of future people. to promote culture, utrecht city organizes cultural sundays. during a thematic sunday, several organisations create a program which is open to everyone without, or with a very much reduced, admission fee. there are also initiatives for amateur artists. the city subsidises an organisation for amateur education in arts aimed at all inhabitants (utrechts centrum voor de kunsten), as does the university for its staff and students. additionally there are also several private initiatives. the city council provides coupons for discounts to inhabitants who receive welfare to be used with many of the initiatives. in utrecht was named as a unesco city of literature. sports[edit] triton rowing club [nl] team pauses with their coach by the muntbrug, a rotating bridge built in . utrecht is home to the premier league (professional) football club fc utrecht, which plays in stadium nieuw galgenwaard. it is also the home of kampong, the largest (amateur) sportsclub in the netherlands ( , members), sv kampong.[ ] kampong features field hockey, association football, cricket, tennis, squash and boules. kampong's men and women top hockey squads play in the highest dutch hockey league, the rabohoofdklasse. utrecht is also home to baseball and softball club uvv, which plays in the highest dutch baseball league: de hoofdklasse. utrecht's waterways are used by several rowing clubs. viking is a large club open to the general public, and the student clubs orca and triton compete in the varsity each year. in july , utrecht hosted the european youth olympic festival, in which more than , young athletes competed in nine different olympic sports. in july , utrecht hosted the grand départ and first stage of the tour de france.[ ] museums[edit] duitse huis in april utrecht has several smaller and larger museums. many of those are located in the southern part of the old town, the museumkwartier. 	aboriginal art museum [nl],[ ] located at the oudegracht and closed since june , this museum had a small exhibit of australian aboriginal art 	bak, basis voor actuele kunst, an international platform for theoretically-informed, politically driven art and experimental research 	centraal museum, located in the museumquarter, this municipal museum has a large collection of art, design, and historical artifacts; 	dick bruna huis [nl],[ ] art of centraal museum on this separate location is dedicated to miffy creator dick bruna. 	duitse huis has a collection of historical items including many charters with seals dating from as far back as the early th century and a collection of medieval coins.[ ] 	museum catharijneconvent, museum of the catholic church shows the history of christian culture and arts in the netherlands; 	museum speelklok national museum in the centre of the city, displays several centuries of mechanical musical instruments; 	railway museum (nederlands spoorwegmuseum) railway sponsored museum on the history of the dutch railways; 	utrecht archives,[ ] are located at hamburgerstraat in utrecht; 	utrecht university museum [nl][ ] utrecht university museum includes the ancient botanical garden; 	volksbuurtmuseum wijk c [nl][ ] 	sonnenborgh observatory[ ] observatory and museum that regularly hosts lectures on astronomy, located at zonnenburg in utrecht; 	betje boerhave museum [nl][ ] museum for the grocer's shop where you can still buy old-fashioned food and non-food items, located at hoogt in utrecht. music and events[edit] the city has several music venues such as tivolivredenburg, tivoli de helling, acu, moira, ekko, db's and rasa. utrecht hosts the yearly utrecht early music festival (festival oude muziek).[ ] in jaarbeurs it hosts trance energy. every summer there used to be the summer darkness festival, which celebrated goth culture and music.[ ] in november the le guess who? festival, focused on indie rock, art rock and experimental rock, takes place in many of the city's venues. theatre[edit] there are two main theaters in the city, the theater kikker [nl][ ] and the stadsschouwburg utrecht [nl][ ] de parade, a travelling theatre festival, performs in utrecht in summer. the city also hosts the yearly festival a/d werf which offers a selection of contemporary international theatre, together with visual arts, public art and music. notable people from utrecht[edit] birthplace of pope adrian vi main article: list of people from utrecht 	see also the category people from utrecht over the ages famous people have been born and/or raised in utrecht. among the most famous utrechters are: 	pope adrian vi ( – ) – head of the catholic church 	louis andriessen ( ) – composer 	marco van basten ( ) – football player 	dick bruna ( – ) – writer, illustrator (miffy) 	c.h.d. buys ballot ( – ) – meteorologist (buys-ballot's law) 	theo van doesburg ( – ) – painter, artist (de stijl movement) 	karel doorman ( – ) – rear admiral (battle of the java sea) 	paul fentener van vlissingen ( – ) – businessman and philanthropist 	anton geesink ( – ) – judoka, first non-japanese worldchampion judo 	rijk de gooyer ( – ) – actor, writer, comedian and singer 	sylvia kristel ( – ) – actress emmanuelle 	gerrit rietveld ( – ) – designer, architect (de stijl movement) 	dafne schippers ( ) – sprinter/heptathlon olympian 	herman van veen ( ) – actor, musician, singer-songwriter and author alfred j. kwak 	wil velders-vlasblom ( – ), first woman alderman in utrecht international relations[edit] 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. 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st-century latin writer and author of a collection of historical anecdotes: factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri ix ("nine books of memorable deeds and sayings", also known as de factis dictisque memorabilibus or facta et dicta memorabilia). he worked during the reign of tiberius ( ad to ad). during the middle ages, valerius maximus was one of the most copied latin prose authors, second only to priscian. more than medieval manuscripts of his books have survived as a result.[ ] contents 	 biography 	 style 	 legacy 	 editions and translations 	 references 	 bibliography 	 external links biography[edit] nothing is known of his life except that his family was poor and undistinguished, and that he owed everything to sextus pompeius (consul ad ),[ ] proconsul of asia, whom he accompanied to the east in . pompeius was the center of a literary circle to which ovid belonged; he was also an intimate friend of the most literary prince of the imperial family, germanicus.[ ] although he shared the same name as a prestigious family of the republic, john briscoe says "it is unlikely in the extreme" that valerius maximus belonged to the patrician valerii maximi. he suggests instead that he was either a descendant of the plebeian valerii tappones or triarii, or earned the roman citizenship thanks to the patronage of a valerius of the republic.[ ] his attitude towards the imperial household is controversial: he has been represented as a mean flatterer of tiberius,[ ] of the same type as martial. chisholm in argued however that, if the references to the imperial administration are carefully scanned, they will be seen to be extravagant neither in kind nor in number: few will now grudge tiberius, when his whole action as a ruler is taken into account, such a title as salutaris princeps, which seemed to a former generation a specimen of shameless adulation. a quarter of a century later still, however, h j rose claimed that valerius “cares nothing for historical truth if by neglecting it he can flatter tiberius, which he does most fulsomely”.[ ] chisholm also maintained that the few allusions to caesar's murderers and to augustus hardly pass beyond the conventional style of the writer's day; and that the only passage which can fairly be called fulsome is the violently rhetorical tirade against sejanus.[ ] style[edit] the style of valerius's writings seems to indicate that he was a professional rhetorician; and his writing represents much of the worst rhetorical tendencies of the silver latin age. direct and simple statement is avoided and novelty pursued at any price, producing a clumsy obscurity.[ ] the diction is like that of poetry; the uses of words are strained; metaphors are invented; there are startling contrasts, innuendoes and epithets; variations are played upon grammatical and rhetorical figures of speech.[ ] in his preface, valerius intimates that his work is intended as a commonplace book of historical anecdotes for use in the schools of rhetoric, where the pupils were trained in the art of embellishing speeches by references to history. according to the manuscripts, its title is factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri ix (shorter title facta et dicta memorabilia), "nine books of memorable deeds and sayings." the stories are loosely and irregularly arranged, each book being divided into sections, and each section bearing as its title the topic, most commonly some virtue or vice, or some merit or demerit, which the stories in the section are intended to illustrate.[ ] most of the tales are from roman history, but each section has an appendix consisting of extracts from the annals of other peoples, principally the greeks. the exposition exhibits strongly the two currents of feeling which are intermingled by almost every roman writer of the empire—the feeling that the romans of the writer's own day are degenerate creatures when confronted with their own republican predecessors, and the feeling that, however degenerate, the latter-day romans still tower above the other peoples of the world, and in particular are morally superior to the greeks.[ ] the author's chief sources are cicero, livy, sallust and pompeius trogus, especially the first two.[ ] valerius's treatment of his material is careless and inaccurate in the extreme;[ ] but in spite of his confusions, contradictions and anachronisms, the excerpts are apt illustrations, from the rhetorician's point of view, of the circumstance or quality they were intended to illustrate.[ ] and even on the historical side we owe something to valerius. he often used sources now lost, and where he touches on his own time he affords us some glimpses of the much debated and very imperfectly recorded reign of tiberius;[ ] as well as some fragmentary information on hellenistic art;[ ] and a revealing glimpse into the early imperial consensus on the need for the orderly logic and stability of the ancient roman religion, in a politically unsettled world.[ ] legacy[edit] simon de hesdin presents his translation of valerius maximus' 'facta et dicta memorabilia' to charles v, king of france the collection of valerius was much used for school purposes, and its popularity in the middle ages is attested by the large number of manuscripts in which it has been preserved: indeed, b. g. niebuhr went so far as to claim that it was then “the most important book next to the bible”.[ ] like other schoolbooks it was epitomised: one complete epitome, probably of the th or th century, bearing the name of julius paris, has come down to us; also a portion of another by januarius nepotianus [fr].[ ] only in the renaissance, however, did it enter the central latin curriculum in unabridged form, and it is then that its influence was arguably at its peak.[ ] dante for example used valerius for details in his account of the generosity and modesty of pisistratus.[ ]< although in the manuscripts of valerius a tenth book is given, which consists of the so-called liber de praenominibus, this is the work of some grammarian of a much later date.[ ] editions and translations[edit] editions by c. halm ( ), c. kempf ( ), contain the epitomes of paris and nepotianus.[ ] new editions have been produced by r. combès ( -) with a french translation, j. briscoe ( ), and d.r. shackleton baily ( ) with an english translation. recent discussions of valerius' work include w. martin bloomer, valerius maximus and the rhetoric of the new nobility (chapel hill, ), clive skidmore, practical ethics for roman gentlemen: the work of valerius maximus (exeter, ), and hans-friedrich mueller, roman religion in valerius maximus (london, ). a translation into dutch was published in ,[ ] and was read by rembrandt and other artists (and their patrons), stimulating interest in some new subjects such as artemisia drinking her husband's ashes.[ ] manuscripts of valerius have survived, when counting epitomes, more than any other latin prose writer after the grammarian priscian. most manuscripts date from the late middle ages, but predates the th century.[ ] the three oldest manuscripts are the authoritative sources for the text: 	burgerbibliothek, bern, switzerland, n° (manuscript a). 	laurentian library, florence, italy, ashburnham (manuscript l). both a and l were written in northern france in the th century and share a common source. 	royal library, brussels, belgium, n° (manuscript g). it was probably written at the gembloux abbey (south of brussels) in the th century. briscoe says that g has a different parent from a and l, as several mistakes shared by a and l are not found in g.[ ] references[edit] 	^ a b briscoe, valerius maximus, p. . 	^ h j rose, a handbook of latin literature (london ) p. 	^ a b c d e f g chisholm . 	^ briscoe, valerius maximus, p. . 	^ h nettleship, a dictionary of classical antiquities (london ) p. 	^ h j rose, a handbook of latin literature (london ) p. 	^ h j rose, a handbook of latin literature (london ) p. 	^ h nettleship, a dictionary of classical antiquities (london ) p. 	^ h j rose, a handbook of latin literature (london ) p. 	^ reading for the moral in valerius maximus 	^ j boardman ed, the oxford history of the classical world ( ) p. 	^ h-f mueller, roman religion in valerius maximus ( ) p. and p. 	^ quoted in m crab, exemplary reading ( ) p. 	^ h j rose, a handbook of latin literature (london ) p. 	^ m crab, exemplary reading ( ) p. - 	^ dante, purgatory (penguin ) p. 	^ h j rose, a handbook of latin literature (london ) p. 	^ valerii maximi des alder-vermaertsten ende welsprekensten histori-schryvers negen boecken, van ghedenck-weerdighe / loflicke woorden / daden ende gheschiedenissen der romeynen en de uytlansche volcken. overgheset uyt de latijnsche in onse nederduytsche tale door conradum mirkinium. tot rotterdam, by jan leendertsz. berewout / boeckverkooper op de hoogh-straet int schrijfboeck. . available at https://books.google.nl/books/about/des_alder_vermaertsten_ende_wel_sprekens.html?id=sfktoecjbq 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(august ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) marcus verrius flaccus (c. bc – ad ) was a roman grammarian and teacher who flourished under augustus and tiberius. contents 	 life 	 works 	 see also 	 references 	 external links life[edit] he was a freedman, and his manumitter has been identified with verrius flaccus, an authority on pontifical law; but for chronological reasons the name of veranius flaccus, a writer on augury, has been suggested (teuffel-schwabe, hist. of roman lit. , ). he gained such a reputation by his methods of instruction that he was summoned to court to bring up gaius and lucius, the grandsons of augustus. he removed there with his whole school, and his salary was greatly increased on the condition that he took no fresh pupils. he died at an advanced age during the reign of tiberius (suetonius, de grammaticis, ), and a statue in his honour was erected at praeneste, in a marble recess, with inscriptions from his fasti praenestini.[ ] works[edit] section of the fasti praenestini flaccus was also a distinguished philologist and antiquarian investigator. his most important work, de verborum significatu, was the first major alphabetical dictionary in latin. though only small fragments remain of the work, it served as the basis for sextus pompeius festus's epitome, also called de verborum significatu. festus's work was in turn abridged centuries later by paul the deacon for the library of charlemagne. of the calendar of roman festivals (fasti praenestini) engraved on marble and set up in the forum at praeneste, some fragments were discovered ( ) at some distance from the town itself in a christian building of later date, and some consular fasti in the forum itself ( ). the collection was subsequently increased by two new fragments.[ ] other lost works of flaccus include: 	de orthographia: de obscuris catonis, an elucidation of obscurities in the writings of cato the elder 	saturnus, dealing with questions of roman ritual 	rerum memoria dignarum libri, an encyclopaedic work much used by pliny the elder 	res etruscae, probably on augury.[ ] see also[edit] 	quintus caecilius epirota references[edit] 	^ a b c chisholm . attribution: 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. 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(june ) 	vitruvius 	a depiction of vitruvius (right) presenting de architectura to augustus 	born	marcus vitruvius pollio – bc roman republic 	died	 bc (aged – ) 	nationality	roman 	occupation		author 	architect 	civil engineer 	military engineer 	notable work 	de architectura marcus vitruvius pollio (/vɪˈtruːviəs ˈpɒlioʊ/; c. – bc – after c.  bc), commonly known as vitruvius, was a roman author, architect, civil and military engineer during the st century bc, known for his multi-volume work entitled de architectura.[ ] his discussion of perfect proportion in architecture and the human body led to the famous renaissance drawing by leonardo da vinci of vitruvian man. he was also the one who, in bc, invented the idea that all buildings should have three attributes: firmitas, utilitas, and venustas, meaning: strength, utility, and beauty.[ ] these principles were later adopted by the romans. little is known about his life, but by his own description[ ] vitruvius served as an artilleryman, the third class of arms in the military offices. he probably served as a senior officer of artillery in charge of doctores ballistarum (artillery experts) and libratores who actually operated the machines.[ ] as an army engineer he specialized in the construction of ballista and scorpio artillery war machines for sieges. it is possible that vitruvius served with caesar's chief engineer lucius cornelius balbus. vitruvius' de architectura was widely copied and survives in many dozens of manuscripts throughout the middle ages,[ ] though in it was "rediscovered" by the florentine humanist poggio bracciolini in the library of saint gall abbey. leon battista alberti published it in his seminal treatise on architecture, de re aedificatoria (c. ). the first known latin printed edition was by fra giovanni sulpitius in rome, . translations followed in italian, french, english, german, spanish and several other languages. the original illustrations had been lost and the first illustrated edition was published in venice in by fra giovanni giocondo, with woodcut illustrations based on descriptions in the text. contents 	 life and career 	 de architectura 	 . scope 	 . proportions of man 	 . lists of names given in book vii introduction 	 . rediscovery 	 . notable editions 	 roman technology 	 . machines 	 . aqueducts 	 . materials 	 . dewatering machines 	 . surveying instruments 	 . central heating 	 legacy 	 in popular culture 	 see also 	 references 	 sources 	 further reading 	 external links life and career[edit] little is known about vitruvius' life. most inferences about him are extracted from his only surviving work de architectura. even his first name marcus and his cognomen pollio are uncertain. marcus cetius faventinus writes of "vitruvius polio aliique auctores"; this can be read as "vitruvius polio, and others" or, less likely, as "vitruvius, polio, and others". an inscription in verona, which names a lucius vitruvius cordo, and an inscription from thilbilis in north africa, which names a marcus vitruvius mamurra have been suggested as evidence that vitruvius and mamurra (who was a military praefectus fabrum under julius caesar) were from the same family;[ ] or were even the same individual.[ ][ ] neither association, however, is borne out by de architectura (which vitruvius dedicated to augustus), nor by the little that is known of mamurra. vitruvius was a military engineer (praefectus fabrum), or a praefect architectus armamentarius of the apparitor status group (a branch of the roman civil service). he is mentioned in pliny the elder's table of contents for naturalis historia (natural history), in the heading for mosaic techniques.[ ] frontinus refers to "vitruvius the architect" in his late st-century work de aquaeductu. likely born a free roman citizen, by his own account, vitruvius served in the roman army under caesar with the otherwise poorly identified marcus aurelius, publius minidius, and gnaeus cornelius. these names vary depending on the edition of de architectura. publius minidius is also written as publius numidicus and publius numidius, speculated as the same publius numisius inscribed on the roman theatre at heraclea.[ ] as an army engineer he specialized in the construction of ballista and scorpio artillery war machines for sieges. it is speculated that vitruvius served with caesar's chief engineer lucius cornelius balbus.[ ] the locations where he served can be reconstructed from, for example, descriptions of the building methods of various "foreign tribes". although he describes places throughout de architectura, he does not say he was present. his service likely included north africa, hispania, gaul (including aquitaine) and pontus. to place the role of vitruvius the military engineer in context, a description of "the prefect of the camp" or army engineer is quoted here as given by flavius vegetius renatus in the military institutions of the romans: the prefect of the camp, though inferior in rank to the [prefect], had a post of no small importance. the position of the camp, the direction of the entrenchments, the inspection of the tents or huts of the soldiers and the baggage were comprehended in his province. his authority extended over the sick, and the physicians who had the care of them; and he regulated the expenses relative thereto. he had the charge of providing carriages, bathhouses and the proper tools for sawing and cutting wood, digging trenches, raising parapets, sinking wells and bringing water into the camp. he likewise had the care of furnishing the troops with wood and straw, as well as the rams, onagri, balistae and all the other engines of war under his direction. this post was always conferred on an officer of great skill, experience and long service, and who consequently was capable of instructing others in those branches of the profession in which he had distinguished himself.[ ] at various locations described by vitruvius,[citation needed] battles and sieges occurred. he is the only source for the siege of larignum in bc.[ ] of the battlegrounds of the gallic war there are references to: the siege and massacre of the , residents at avaricum in bc; vercingetorix commented that "the romans did not conquer by valor nor in the field, but by a kind of art and skill in assault, with which they [gauls] themselves were unacquainted."[ ] the broken siege at gergovia in bc. the circumvallation and battle of alesia in bc; the women and children of the encircled city were evicted to conserve food, where they starved to death between the opposing walls of the defenders and besiegers. and the siege of uxellodunum in bc. these are all sieges of large gallic oppida. of the sites involved in caesar's civil war, we find the siege of massilia in bc,[ ] the battle of dyrrhachium of bc (modern albania), the battle of pharsalus in bc (hellas – greece), the battle of zela of bc (modern turkey) and the battle of thapsus in bc in caesar's african campaign.[ ] a legion that fits the same sequence of locations is the legio vi ferrata, of which ballista would be an auxiliary unit. mainly known for his writings, vitruvius was himself an architect. in roman times architecture was a broader subject than at present including the modern fields of architecture, construction management, construction engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, materials engineering, mechanical engineering, military engineering and urban planning;[ ] architectural engineers consider him the first of their discipline, a specialization previously known as technical architecture. frontinus mentions vitruvious in connection with the standard sizes of pipes:[ ] the role he is most widely respected. he is often credited as father of architectural acoustics for describing the technique of echeas placement in theaters.[ ] the only building, however, that we know vitruvius to have worked on is one he tells us about,[ ] a basilica completed in bc.[ ] it was built at fanum fortunae, now the modern town of fano. the basilica di fano (to give the building its italian name) has disappeared so completely that its very site is a matter of conjecture, although various attempts have been made to visualise it.[ ] the early christian practice of converting roman basilicae (public buildings) into cathedrals implies the basilica may be incorporated into the cathedral in fano. in later years the emperor augustus, through his sister octavia minor, sponsored vitruvius, entitling him with what may have been a pension to guarantee financial independence.[ ] whether de architectura was written by one author or is a compilation completed by subsequent librarians and copyists, remains an open question. the date of his death is unknown, which suggests that he had enjoyed only little popularity during his lifetime.[citation needed] gerolamo cardano, in his book de subtilitate rerum, ranks vitruvius as one of the persons whom he supposes to have excelled all men in the force of genius and invention; and would not have scrupled to have given him the first place, if it could be imagined that he had delivered nothing but his own discoveries.[ ] de architectura[edit] roman house plan after vitruvius further information: mathematics and architecture vitruvius is the author of de architectura, libri decem, known today as the ten books on architecture,[ ] a treatise written in latin on architecture, dedicated to the emperor augustus. in the preface of book i, vitruvius dedicates his writings so as to give personal knowledge of the quality of buildings to the emperor. likely vitruvius is referring to marcus agrippa's campaign of public repairs and improvements. this work is the only surviving major book on architecture from classical antiquity. according to petri liukkonen, this text "influenced deeply from the early renaissance onwards artists, thinkers, and architects, among them leon battista alberti ( – ), leonardo da vinci ( – ), and michelangelo ( – )."[ ] the next major book on architecture, alberti's reformulation of ten books, was not written until . vitruvius is famous for asserting in his book de architectura that a structure must exhibit the three qualities of firmitatis, utilitatis, venustatis – that is, stability, utility, beauty. these are sometimes termed the vitruvian virtues or the vitruvian triad. according to vitruvius, architecture is an imitation of nature. as birds and bees built their nests, so humans constructed housing from natural materials, that gave them shelter against the elements. when perfecting this art of building, the greeks invented the architectural orders: doric, ionic and corinthian. it gave them a sense of proportion, culminating in understanding the proportions of the greatest work of art: the human body. this led vitruvius in defining his vitruvian man, as drawn later by leonardo da vinci: the human body inscribed in the circle and the square (the fundamental geometric patterns of the cosmic order). in this book series, vitruvius, also wrote about climate in relation to housing architecture and how to choose locations for cities.[ ][ ] scope[edit] vitruvius designed and supervised the construction of this basilica in fano (reconstruction). however, many of the other things he did would not now be considered the realm of architecture vitruvius is sometimes loosely referred to as the first architect, but it is more accurate to describe him as the first roman architect to have written surviving records of his field. he himself cites older but less complete works. he was less an original thinker or creative intellect than a codifier of existing architectural practice. vitruvius had a much wider scope than modern architects. roman architects practised a wide variety of disciplines; in modern terms, they could be described as being engineers, architects, landscape architects, surveyors, artists, and craftsmen combined. etymologically the word architect derives from greek words meaning 'master' and 'builder'. the first of the ten books deals with many subjects which now come within the scope of landscape architecture. in book i, chapter , titled the education of the architect, vitruvius instructs... . architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts. practice and theory are its parents. practice is the frequent and continued contemplation of the mode of executing any given work, or of the mere operation of the hands, for the conversion of the material in the best and readiest way. theory is the result of that reasoning which demonstrates and explains that the material wrought has been so converted as to answer the end proposed. . wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance. he who is theoretic as well as practical, is therefore doubly armed; able not only to prove the propriety of his design, but equally so to carry it into execution.[ ] he goes on to say that the architect should be versed in drawing, geometry, optics (lighting), history, philosophy, music, theatre, medicine, and law. in book i, chapter (the departments of architecture), vitruvius divides architecture into three branches, namely; building; the construction of sundials and water clocks;[ ] and the design and use of machines in construction and warfare.[ ][ ] he further divides building into public and private. public building includes city planning, public security structures such as walls, gates and towers; the convenient placing of public facilities such as theatres, forums and markets, baths, roads and pavings; and the construction and position of shrines and temples for religious use.[ ] later books are devoted to the understanding, design and construction of each of these. proportions of man[edit] "vitruvian man", illustration in the edition of de architectura by vitruvius; illustrated edition by cesare cesariano ( ) vitruvian man by leonardo da vinci, an illustration of the human body inscribed in the circle and the square derived from a passage about geometry and human proportions in vitruvius' writings in book iii, chapter , paragraph , vitruvius writes about the proportions of man: . just so the parts of temples should correspond with each other, and with the whole. the navel is naturally placed in the centre of the human body, and, if in a man lying with his face upward, and his hands and feet extended, from his navel as the centre, a circle be described, it will touch his fingers and toes. it is not alone by a circle, that the human body is thus circumscribed, as may be seen by placing it within a square. for measuring from the feet to the crown of the head, and then across the arms fully extended, we find the latter measure equal to the former; so that lines at right angles to each other, enclosing the figure, will form a square.[ ] it was upon these writings that renaissance engineers, architects and artists like mariano di jacopo taccola, pellegrino prisciani and francesco di giorgio martini and finally leonardo da vinci based the illustration of the vitruvian man.[ ] vitruvius described the human figure as being the principal source of proportion. the drawing itself is often used as an implied symbol of the essential symmetry of the human body, and by extension, of the universe as a whole.[ ] lists of names given in book vii introduction[edit] in the introduction to book seven, vitruvius goes to great lengths to present why he is qualified to write de architectura. this is the only location in the work where vitruvius specifically addresses his personal breadth of knowledge. similar to a modern reference section, the author's position as one who is knowledgeable and educated is established. the topics range across many fields of expertise reflecting that in roman times as today construction is a diverse field. vitruvius is clearly a well-read man. in addition to providing his qualification, vitruvius summarizes a recurring theme throughout the books, a non-trivial and core contribution of his treatise beyond simply being a construction book. vitruvius makes the point that the work of some of the most talented are unknown, while many of those of lesser talent but greater political position are famous.[ ] this theme runs through vitruvius’s ten books repeatedly – echoing an implicit prediction that he and his works will also be forgotten. vitruvius illustrates this point by naming what he considers are the most talented individuals in history.[ ] implicitly challenging the reader that they have never heard of some of these people, vitruvius goes on and predicts that some of these individuals will be forgotten and their works lost, while other, less deserving political characters of history will be forever remembered with pageantry. 	list of physicists: thales, democritus, anaxagoras, xenophanes 	list of philosophers: socrates, plato, aristotle, zeno, epicurus 	list of kings: croesus, alexander the great, darius 	on plagiarism: aristophanes, ptolemy i soter, a person named attalus 	on abusing dead authors: zoilus homeromastix, ptolemy ii philadelphus 	on divergence of the visual rays: agatharchus, aeschylus, democritus, anaxagoras 	list of writers on temples: silenus, theodorus, chersiphron and metagenes, ictinus and carpion, theodorus the phocian, hermogenes, arcesius, satyrus and a person named pytheos 	list of artists: leochares, bryaxis, scopas, praxiteles, timotheos 	list of writers on laws of symmetry: nexaris, theocydes, a person named demophilus, pollis, a person named leonidas, silanion, melampus, sarnacus, euphranor 	list of writers on machinery: diades of pella, archytas, archimedes, ctesibius, nymphodorus, philo of byzantium, diphilus, democles, charias, polyidus of thessaly, pyrrus, agesistratus 	list of writers on architecture: fuficius, terentius varro, publius septimius (writer) 	list of architects: antistates, callaeschrus, antimachides, pormus, cossutius 	list of greatest temple architects: chersiphron of gnosus, metagenes, demetrius, paeonius the milesian, ephesian daphnis, ictinus, philo, cossutius, gaius mucianus rediscovery[edit] battle of thapsus as depicted in an engraving after andrea palladio the interior of the pantheon (from an th-century painting by panini). although built after vitruvius' death, its excellent state of preservation makes it of great importance to those interested in vitruvian architecture vitruvius' de architectura was "rediscovered" in by the florentine humanist poggio bracciolini in the library of saint gall abbey. leon battista alberti ( – ) publicised it in his seminal treatise on architecture, de re aedificatoria (c. ). the first known latin printed edition was by fra giovanni sulpitius in rome, .[ ][ ] translations followed in italian (cesare cesariano, ), french (jean martin, [ ]), english, german (walther h. ryff, ) and spanish and several other languages. the original illustrations had been lost and the first illustrated edition was published in venice in by fra giovanni giocondo, with woodcut illustrations based on descriptions in the text.[ ] later in the th-century andrea palladio provided illustrations for daniele barbaro's commentary on vitruvius, published in italian and latin versions. the most famous illustration is probably da vinci's vitruvian man. the surviving ruins of roman antiquity, the roman forum, temples, theatres, triumphal arches and their reliefs and statues offered visual examples of the descriptions in the vitruvian text. printed and illustrated editions of de architectura inspired renaissance, baroque and neoclassical architecture. filippo brunelleschi, for example, invented a new type of hoist to lift the large stones for the dome of the cathedral in florence and was inspired by de architectura as well as surviving roman monuments such as the pantheon and the baths of diocletian. notable editions[edit] latin 	 augustus rode, berlin[ ] 	 teubner edition by valentin rose 	 teubner edition 	 teubner edition at the latin library[ ] 	bill thayer, transcription of the teubner edition[ ] italian 	cesare cesariano, , como, italy, includes illustrations by cesare cesariano 	danielle barbaro, includes illustration by andrea palladio french 	jean martin, [ ] 	claude perrault, [ ] 	auguste choisy, english 	henry wotton, 	joseph gwilt, 	bill thayer transcription of the gwilt edition[ ] 	morris h. morganmorris hickey morgan, with illustrations prepared by herbert langford warren, , harvard university press[ ] 	frank granger, loeb edition, [ ] 	ingrid rowland, [ ] 	thomas gordon smith, the monacelli press (january , )[ ] roman technology[edit] drainage wheel from rio tinto mines books viii, ix and x form the basis of much of what we know about roman technology, now augmented by archaeological studies of extant remains, such as the water mills at barbegal in france. the other major source of information is the naturalis historia compiled by pliny the elder much later in c. ad. machines[edit] the work is important for its descriptions of the many different machines used for engineering structures such as hoists, cranes and pulleys, as well as war machines such as catapults, ballistae, and siege engines. as a practising engineer, vitruvius must be speaking from personal experience rather than simply describing the works of others. he also describes the construction of sundials and water clocks, and the use of an aeolipile (the first steam engine) as an experiment to demonstrate the nature of atmospheric air movements (wind). aqueducts[edit] his description of aqueduct construction includes the way they are surveyed, and the careful choice of materials needed, although frontinus (a general who was appointed in the late st century ad to administer the many aqueducts of rome), writing a century later, gives much more detail of the practical problems involved in their construction and maintenance. surely vitruvius' book would have been of great assistance in this. vitruvius was writing in the st century bc when many of the finest roman aqueducts were built, and survive to this day, such as those at segovia and the pont du gard. the use of the inverted siphon is described in detail, together with the problems of high pressures developed in the pipe at the base of the siphon, a practical problem with which he seems to be acquainted. materials[edit] he describes many different construction materials used for a wide variety of different structures, as well as such details as stucco painting. concrete and lime receive in-depth descriptions. vitruvius is cited as one of the earliest sources to connect lead mining and manufacture, its use in drinking water pipes, and its adverse effects on health. for this reason, he recommended the use of clay pipes and masonry channels in the provision of piped drinking-water.[ ] vitruvius is the source for the anecdote that credits archimedes with the discovery of the mass-to-volume ratio while relaxing in his bath. having been asked to investigate the suspected adulteration of the gold used to make a crown, archimedes realised that the crown's volume could be measured exactly by its displacement of water, and ran into the street with the cry of eureka! dewatering machines[edit] design for an archimedean water-screw he describes the construction of archimedes' screw in chapter x (without mentioning archimedes by name). it was a device widely used for raising water to irrigate fields and drain mines. other lifting machines he mentions include the endless chain of buckets and the reverse overshot water-wheel. remains of the water wheels used for lifting water were discovered when old mines were re-opened at rio tinto in spain, rosia montana in romania and dolaucothi in west wales. the rio tinto wheel is now shown in the british museum, and the dolaucothi specimen in the national museum of wales. surveying instruments[edit] that he must have been well practised in surveying is shown by his descriptions of surveying instruments, especially the water level or chorobates, which he compares favourably with the groma, a device using plumb lines. they were essential in all building operations, but especially in aqueduct construction, where a uniform gradient was important to the provision of a regular supply of water without damage to the walls of the channel. he also developed one of the first odometers, consisting of a wheel of known circumference that dropped a pebble into a container on every rotation. central heating[edit] ruins of the hypocaust under the floor of a roman villa. the part under the exedra is covered. he describes the many innovations made in building design to improve the living conditions of the inhabitants. foremost among them is the development of the hypocaust, a type of central heating where hot air developed by a fire was channelled under the floor and inside the walls of public baths and villas. he gives explicit instructions how to design such buildings so that fuel efficiency is maximised, so that for example, the caldarium is next to the tepidarium followed by the frigidarium. he also advises on using a type of regulator to control the heat in the hot rooms, a bronze disc set into the roof under a circular aperture which could be raised or lowered by a pulley to adjust the ventilation. although he does not suggest it himself, it is likely that his dewatering devices such as the reverse overshot water-wheel were used in the larger baths to lift water to header tanks at the top of the larger thermae, such as the baths of diocletian. the one which was used in bath of caracalla for grinding flour. legacy[edit] 	vitruvian man – a drawing by leonardo da vinci 	vitruvius britannicus – th century work on british architecture named after vitruvius. 	den danske vitruvius – th century work on danish architecture – inspired by vitruvius britannicus.[ ] 	the american vitruvius – th century work on civil architecture by werner hegemann 	william vitruvius morrison ( – ), the son of irish architect sir richard morrison and himself a noted architect of great houses, bridges, court houses and prisons. 	a small lunar crater has been named after vitruvius and also an elongated lunar mountain mons vitruvius close-by. 	the design quality indicator (dqi) tool for buildings uses vitruvius's principles. in popular culture[edit] 	the leader of the master builders in the lego movie is named vitruvius. 	vitruvius appears as a non-player character in the video game assassin's creed origins. 	vitruvius' work appears in the rule of four, a novel by ian caldwell and dustin thomason. see also[edit] 	aristotle 	ctesibius 	colen campbell 	frontinus 	pliny the elder 	roman architecture 	roman aqueducts 	roman engineering 	roman 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"greek and roman specialized writing on art and architecture". in the oxford handbook of greek and roman art and architecture. edited by clemente marconi, – . oxford: oxford univ. press. 	könig, alice. . "from architect to imperator: vitruvius and his addressee in the de architectura". in authorial voices in greco-roman technical writing. edited by liba chaia taub and aude doody, – . trier, germany: wvt wissenschaftlicher verlag trier. 	milnor, kristina l. . "other men’s wives". in gender, domesticity and the age of augustus: inventing private life. by kristina l. milnor, – . oxford: oxford univ. press. 	nichols, marden fitzpatrick. ".author and audience in vitruvius’ de architectura". cambridge, uk: cambridge univ. press. 	rowland, ingrid d. . "vitruvius and his influence". in a companion to roman architecture. edited by roger b. ulrich and caroline k. quenemoen, – . malden, ma, and oxford: blackwell. 	sear, frank b. . "vitruvius and roman theater design". american journal of archaeology . : – . 	smith, thomas gordon. . vitruvius on architecture. new york: monacelli press. 	wallace-hadrill, andrew. . "the articulation of the house". in houses and society in pompeii and herculaneum. by andrew wallace-hadrill, – . princeton, nj: princeton univ. press. 	wallace-hadrill, andrew. . "vitruvius: building roman identity". in rome’s cultural revolution. by andrew wallace-hadrill, – . cambridge, uk: cambridge univ. press. external links[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to vitruvius. 		wikisource has original works written by or about: vitruvius 		latin wikisource has original text related to this article: marcus vitruvius pollio 		wikiquote has quotations related to: vitruvius 	works by vitruvius at project gutenberg 	works by or about vitruvius at internet archive 	works by vitruvius at librivox (public domain audiobooks) 	the ten books on architecture online: cross-linked latin text and english translation 	the ten books on architecture at the perseus classics collection. latin and english text. latin text has hyperlinks to pop-up dictionary. 	palladio's literary predecessors 	latin text, version 	an abridgment of the architecture of vitruvius 	 ten books on architecture at project gutenberg (morris hicky morgan translation with illustrations) 	vitruvius 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		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 the educated and well-traveled vibia sabina (ca. ad) was a grand-niece of the emperor trajan and became the wife of his successor hadrian; unlike some empresses, she played little role in court politics and remained independent in private life, having no children and seeking emotional gratification in love affairs[ ] 	part of a series on 	women in society 	 	 society 	women's history (legal rights) 	 	woman 	animal advocacy 	business 	female entrepreneur 	gender representation on corporate boards of directors 	economic development 	explorers and travelers 	education 	feminism 	womyn 	government 	conservatives in the us 	heads of government 	heads of state 	queen regnant 	list 	health 	journalism and the media 	law 	law enforcement 	military 	mother 	nobel prize laureates 	piracy 	positions of power 	reproductive rights 	venture capital 	violence and abuse 	voting rights 	workforce 	exchange of 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	paralympic games 	rodeo 	roller derby 	rowing 	surfing 	swimming 	tennis 	track and field 	volleyball 	winter sport see also: list of sports 	 by country 	afghanistan 	albania 	algeria 	andorra 	angola 	argentina 	armenia 	australia 	azerbaijan 	bahrain 	bangladesh 	belgium 	benin 	bhutan 	bolivia 	bosnia 	brazil 	brunei 	bulgaria 	burma 	cambodia 	chad 	chile 	china 	colombia 	comoros 	croatia 	cuba 	cyprus (north) 	denmark 	dr congo 	dominican republic 	ecuador 	egypt 	el salvador 	east timor 	ethiopia 	fs micronesia 	fiji 	finland 	france 	georgia 	germany 	ghana 	greece 	guatemala 	guyana 	haiti 	honduras 	iceland 	italy 	india 	indonesia 	iran 	iraq 	israel 	ivory coast 	japan 	jordan 	kazakhstan 	kenya 	kiribati 	kuwait 	kyrgyzstan 	laos 	lebanon 	libya 	madagascar 	malaysia 	maldives 	mali 	marshall islands 	mauritania 	mauritius 	mexico 	mongolia 	morocco 	nepal 	new zealand 	niger 	nigeria 	north korea 	oman 	pakistan 	palau 	panama 	paraguay 	peru 	philippines 	poland 	portugal 	puerto rico 	qatar 	russia 	saudi arabia 	senegal 	seychelles 	sierra leone 	singapore 	spain 	somalia 	south africa 	south korea 	south sudan 	sudan 	suriname 	sri lanka 	sweden 	syria 	taiwan 	tajikistan 	thailand 	tonga 	tunisia 	turkey 	turkmenistan 	tuvalu 	trinidad and tobago 	uganda 	ukraine 	united arab emirates 	united kingdom 	united states 	uruguay 	uzbekistan 	vanuatu 	venezuela 	vietnam 	yemen 		v 	t 	e freeborn women in ancient rome were citizens (cives),[ ] but could not vote or hold political office.[ ] because of their limited public role, women are named less frequently than men by roman historians. but while roman women held no direct political power, those from wealthy or powerful families could and did exert influence through private negotiations.[ ] exceptional women who left an undeniable mark on history range from lucretia and claudia quinta, whose stories took on mythic significance; fierce republican-era women such as cornelia, mother of the gracchi, and fulvia, who commanded an army and issued coins bearing her image; women of the julio-claudian dynasty, most prominently livia ( bc-ad ) and agrippina the younger ( ad- ad), who contributed to the formation of imperial mores; and the empress helena (c. – ad), a driving force in promoting christianity.[ ] as is the case with male members of society, elite women and their politically significant deeds eclipse those of lower status in the historical record. inscriptions and especially epitaphs document the names of a wide range of women throughout the roman empire, but often tell little else about them. some vivid snapshots of daily life are preserved in latin literary genres such as comedy, satire, and poetry, particularly the poems of catullus and ovid, which offer glimpses of women in roman dining rooms and boudoirs, at sporting and theatrical events, shopping, putting on makeup, practicing magic, worrying about pregnancy — all, however, through male eyes.[ ] the published letters of cicero, for instance, reveal informally how the self-proclaimed great man interacted on the domestic front with his wife terentia and daughter tullia, as his speeches demonstrate through disparagement the various ways roman women could enjoy a free-spirited sexual and social life.[ ] the one major public role reserved solely for women was in the sphere of religion: the priestly office of the vestals. forbidden from marriage or sex for a period of thirty years, the vestals devoted themselves to the study and correct observance of rituals which were deemed necessary for the security and survival of rome but which could not be performed by the male colleges of priests.[ ] contents 	 childhood and education 	 women in the family and law 	 . always a daughter 	 women and sexuality 	 . augustus's campaign on women and the family 	 . women and the law 	 . marriage 	 . . divorce 	 . . remarriage 	 . . concubinage 	 . . domestic abuse 	 . motherhood 	 daily life 	 . in business 	 . in politics 	 . women and the military 	 . religious life 	 . social activities 	 . attire and adornment 	 . . body image 	 . mos maiorum and the love poets 	 . gynecology and medicine 	 slavery 	 prostitution 	 see also 	 references 	 bibliography 	 further reading 	 external links childhood and education[edit] roman girls playing a game childhood and upbringing in ancient rome were determined by social status. roman children played a number of games, and their toys are known from archaeology and literary sources. animal figures were popular, and some children kept live animals and birds as pets.[ ] in roman art, girls are shown playing many of the same games as boys, such as ball, hoop-rolling, and knucklebones. dolls are sometimes found in the tombs of those who died before adulthood. the figures are typically –  cm tall, with jointed limbs, and made of materials such as wood, terracotta, and especially bone and ivory. girls coming of age dedicated their dolls to diana, the goddess most concerned with girlhood, or to venus when they were preparing for marriage.[ ] noble girls were known to marry as young as years of age,[ ] whereas females in the lower classes were more likely to marry slightly further into their teenage years.[ ][ ] an example of the marriage age of noble females can be seen with cicero's lifelong friend atticus, who married his daughter caecilia attica to marcus vipsanius agrippa when she was .[ ] bronze statuette of the st century depicting a girl reading girls were expected to safeguard their chastity, modesty and reputation, in preparation for eventual marriage.[ ] the light regulation of marriage by the law with regards to minimum age ( ) and consent to marriage was designed to leave families, primarily fathers, with much freedom to propel girls into marriage whenever and with whomever they saw fit. marriage facilitated a partnership between the father and prospective husbands, and enabled the formation of a mutually beneficial alliance with both political and economic incentives at heart.[ ] the social regime, geared towards early marriage and implemented through children's education and upbringing, was particularly restrictive for girls.[ ] some, perhaps many, girls went to a public primary school, however there is some evidence to suggest that girls’ education was limited to this elementary school level. it has been inferred that individual school tutoring of girls at home was led by concerns about threats to girls’ modesty in coeducational classrooms.[ ] ovid and martial imply that boys and girls were educated either together or similarly, and livy takes it for granted that the daughter of a centurion would be in school.[ ] however many other historians and philosophers, such as epictetus, suggest that the educational system, particularly rhetorical training, was preoccupied with the development of masculine virtue; with male teenagers performing school exercises in public speaking about roman values.[ ] children of both genders learned to behave socially by attending dinner parties or other, less elitist events. both genders participated in religious festivals; for example, at the secular games of bc, the carmen saeculare was sung by a choir of girls and boys.[ ] children were made into virtuous adults through scholastic means, with curriculum, language, literature, and philosophy teaching moral precepts. children of the elite were taught greek as well as latin from an early age.[ ] among the upper classes, women seem to have been well-educated, some highly so, and were sometimes praised by the male historians for their learning and cultivation.[ ] some women became socially prominent, and even relatively independent.[ ] cornelia metella, the young wife of pompey the great at the time of his death, was distinguished for her musicianship and her knowledge of geometry, literature, and philosophy.[ ] this degree of learning indicates formal preparation, however among the lower classes education was limited and strongly geared towards the course of marriage, and performing the tasks of the female within the household.[ ] elite families poured money into their daughters literary and virtue training to equip them with skills that would appeal to prospective husbands. epictetus suggests that at the age of , girls were considered to be on the brink of womanhood, and beginning to understand the inevitability of their future role as wives. they learned modesty through explicit instruction and upbringing.[ ] the lives of boys and girls began to diverge dramatically after they formally came of age,[ ] and memorials to women recognize their domestic qualities far more often than intellectual achievements.[ ] the skills a roman matron needed to run a household required training, and mothers probably passed on their knowledge to their daughters in a manner appropriate to their station in life, given the emphasis in roman society on traditionalism.[ ] virginity and sexual purity was a culturally valued quality, and considered vital for the stability of both family and state. the rape of an unmarried girl posed a threat to her reputation and marriageability, and the penalty of death was sometimes imposed on the unchaste daughter.[ ] the emperor augustus introduced marriage legislation, the lex papia poppaea, which rewarded marriage and childbearing. the legislation also imposed penalties on young persons who failed to marry and on those who committed adultery. therefore, marriage and childbearing was made law between the ages of twenty-five and sixty for men, and twenty and fifty for women.[ ] women in the family and law[edit] always a daughter[edit] see also: pater familias both daughters and sons were subject to patria potestas, the power wielded by their father as head of household (familia). a roman household was considered a collective (corpus, a "body") over which the pater familias had mastery (dominium). slaves, who had no legal standing, were part of the household as property. in the early empire, the legal standing of daughters differed little if at all from that of sons.[ ] if the father died without a will, the right of a daughter to share in the family property was equal to that of a son, though legislation in the nd century bce had attempted to limit this right. even apart from legal status, daughters seem no less esteemed within the roman family than sons, though sons were expected to ensure family standing by following their fathers into public life.[ ] bust of a roman girl, early rd century the pater familias had the right and duty to find a husband for his daughter,[ ] and first marriages were normally arranged. technically, the couple had to be old enough to consent, but the age of consent was for girls and for boys, though in practice boys seem to have been on average five years older. among the elite, was the age of transition from childhood to adolescence,[ ] but a betrothal might be arranged for political reasons when the couple were too young to marry,[ ] and in general noble women married younger than women of the lower classes. most roman women would have married in their late teens to early twenties. an aristocratic girl was expected to be a virgin when she married, as her young age might indicate.[ ] a daughter could legitimately refuse a match made by her parents only by showing that the proposed husband was of bad character.[ ] in the early republic, the bride became subject to her husband's potestas, but to a lesser degree than their children.[ ] by the early empire, however, a daughter's legal relationship to her father remained unchanged when she married, even though she moved into her husband's home.[ ] this arrangement was one of the factors in the degree of independence roman women enjoyed relative to those of many other ancient cultures and up to the early modern period: although she had to answer to her father legally, she didn't conduct her daily life under his direct scrutiny,[ ] and her husband had no legal power over her.[ ] a daughter was expected to be deferential toward her father and to remain loyal to him, even if it meant having to differ with her husbands.[ ] "deference" was not always absolute. after arranging his daughter's first two marriages, cicero disapproved — rightly, as it turned out — of her choice to marry the unreliable dolabella, but found himself unable to prevent it.[ ] a daughter kept her own family name (nomen) for life, not assuming that of her husband. children usually took the father's name. in the imperial period, however, children might sometimes make their mother's family name part of theirs, or even adopt it instead.[ ] women and sexuality[edit] from the start of the roman republic, there was a high emphasis placed on a woman's virginity. pudicitia (chastity) was a goddess of feminine purity, and was worshipped by roman women. only those who were virgins were allowed to enter the temple.[ ] a woman's sexual life began with the consummation of her marriage in her husband's cubiculum, or private room where slaves did not enter. in roman houses it was common for men and women to each have their own cubicula, allowing potential for them to engage in sex lives separate from each other. while it was expected that women should only have sexual relations with their husbands, it was common for men to have many sexual partners throughout his life.[ ] after marriage, women were scrutinized in the household to prevent any adulterous behavior. for example, julius caesar's second wife, pompeia, highlights this point well as she attempted to have private relations with publius clodius. julius caesar's mother, aurelia, monitored pompeia's actions and prevented their private meetings. the mere possibility of pompeia committing adultery caused caesar to divorce her.[ ] augustus's campaign on women and the family[edit] the obsession with a woman's purity, and her role as a faithful wife and dutiful mother in the family increased during the reign of augustus. this general campaign to improve family dynamics began in – bc.[ ] augustus' new laws targeted both men and women between the ages of - , who were rewarded for being in healthy relationships, and punished if not married and without children. additionally, augustus enforced the divorce and punishment of adulterous wives. women under his rule could be punished in the courts for adultery and banished. this shifted a woman's body and relationships from being private, to become a public matter that could be regulated. therefore, the palace was secured and driven by this idea that women would be returned to their proper places as chaste wives and mothers, and thus household order would be restored. augustus went so far as to punish and exile his own daughter, julia, for engaging in extramarital affairs.[ ] women and the law[edit] there never was a case in court in which the quarrel was not started by a woman. if manilia is not a defendant, she'll be the plaintiff; she will herself frame and adjust the pleadings; she will be ready to instruct celsus himself how to open his case, and how to urge his points. — juvenal, satire vi although the rights and status of women in the earliest period of roman history were more restricted than in the late republic and empire, as early as the th century bc, roman women could own land, write their own wills, and appear in court. the historian valerius maximus devotes a section of his work on memorable deeds and speeches to women who conducted cases on their own behalf, or on behalf of others.[ ] these women got to show their ability as orators in the courtroom at a time when oratory was considered a defining pursuit of the most ambitious roman men. one of these, maesia sentinas,[ ] is identified by her origin in the town of sentinum, and not, as was customary, by her relation to a man. the independent maesia spoke in her own defense, and was acquitted almost unanimously after only a short trial because she spoke with such strength and effectiveness. since these characteristics were considered masculine, however, the historian opined that under her feminine appearance, she had a "virile spirit," and thereafter she was called "the androgyne."[ ] roman fresco of a maiden reading a text, pompeian fourth style ( – ad), pompeii, italy maesia's ability to present a case "methodically and vigorously" suggests that while women didn't plead regularly in open court, they had experience in private declamation and family court.[ ] afrania,[ ] the wife of a senator during the time of sulla, appeared so frequently before the praetor who presided over the court, even though she had male advocates who could have spoken for her, that she was accused of calumnia, malicious prosecution. an edict was consequently enacted that prohibited women from bringing claims on behalf of others, on the grounds that it jeopardized their pudicitia, the modesty appropriate to one's station.[ ] it has been noted[ ] that while women were often impugned for their feeblemindedness and ignorance of the law, and thus in need of protection by male advocates, in reality actions were taken to restrict their influence and effectiveness. despite this specific restriction, there are numerous examples of women taking informed actions in legal matters in the late republic and principate, including dictating legal strategy to their advocate behind the scenes.[ ] an emancipated woman legally became sui iuris, or her own person, and could own property and dispose of it as she saw fit. if a pater familias died intestate, the law required the equal division of his estate amongst his children, regardless of their age and sex. a will that did otherwise, or emancipated any family member without due process of law, could be challenged.[ ] from the late republic onward, a woman who inherited a share equal with her brothers would have been independent of agnatic control.[ ] as in the case of minors, an emancipated woman had a legal guardian (tutor) appointed to her. she retained her powers of administration, however, and the guardian's main if not sole purpose was to give formal consent to actions.[ ] the guardian had no say in her private life, and a woman sui iuris could marry as she pleased.[ ] a woman also had certain avenues of recourse if she wished to replace an obstructive tutor.[ ] under augustus, a woman who had gained the ius liberorum, the legal right to certain privileges after bearing three children, was also released from guardianship,[ ] and the emperor claudius banned agnatic guardianship. the role of guardianship as a legal institution gradually diminished, and by the nd century ce the jurist gaius said he saw no reason for it.[ ] the christianization of the empire, beginning with the conversion of the emperor constantine in the early th century, eventually had consequences for the legal status of women. marriage[edit] main article: marriage in ancient rome roman couple in the ceremonial joining of hands; the bride's knotted belt symbolized that her husband was "belted and bound" to her.[ ] th century sarcophagus family tomb inscriptions of respectable romans suggest that the ideal roman marriage was one of mutual loyalty, in which husband and wife shared interests, activities, and property.[ ] in the earliest period of the roman republic, a bride passed from her father's control into the "hand" (manus) of her husband. she then became subject to her husband's potestas, though to a lesser degree than their children.[ ] in the earliest periods of roman history, manus marriage meant that a married woman would be subjugated by her husband, but that custom had died out by the st century bce, in favor of free marriage which did not grant a husband any rights over his wife or have any changing effect on a woman's status.[ ] during the classical era of roman law, marriage required no ceremony, but only a mutual will and agreement to live together in harmony. marriage ceremonies, contracts, and other formalities were meant only to prove that a couple had, in fact, married. under early or archaic roman law, marriages were of three kinds: confarreatio, symbolized by the sharing of bread (panis farreus); coemptio, "by purchase"; and usus, by mutual cohabitation. patricians always married by confarreatio, while plebeians married by the latter two kinds. in marriage by usus, if a woman was absent for three consecutive nights at least once a year, she would avoid her husband establishing legal control over her. this differed from the athenian custom of arranged marriage and sequestered wives who were not supposed to walk in the street unescorted. the form of marriage known as manus was the norm in the early republic, but became less frequent thereafter.[ ] under this early form of marriage, the bride passed into the "hand" (manus) of her husband; that is, she was transferred from the potestas of her father to that of her husband. her dowry, any inheritance rights transferred through her marriage, and any property acquired by her after marriage belonged to him. husbands could divorce on grounds of adultery, and a few cases of divorce for a wife's infertility are recorded.[ ] manus marriage was an unequal relationship; it changed a woman’s intestate heirs from her siblings to her children, not because she was their mother, but because in law her position was the same as that of a daughter to her husband. under manus, women were expected to obey their husbands in almost all aspects of their lives. this archaic form of manus marriage was largely abandoned by the time of julius caesar, when a woman remained under her father's authority by law even when she moved into her husband's home. this arrangement was one of the factors in the independence roman women enjoyed relative to those of many other ancient cultures and up to the modern period:[ ] so-called "free" marriage caused no change in personal status for either the wife or the husband.[ ] free marriage usually involved two citizens, or a citizen and a person who held latin rights, and in the later imperial period and with official permission, soldier-citizens and non-citizens. in a free marriage a bride brought a dowry to the husband: if the marriage ended with no cause of adultery he returned most of it.[ ] so total was the law's separation of property that gifts between spouses were not recognized as such; if a couple divorced or even lived apart, the giver could reclaim the gift.[ ] divorce[edit] fresco of a seated woman from stabiae, st century ad divorce was a legal but relatively informal affair which mainly involved a wife leaving her husband’s house and taking back her dowry. according to the historian valerius maximus, divorces were taking place by bce or earlier, and the law code as embodied in the mid- th century bce by the twelve tables provides for divorce. divorce was socially acceptable if carried out within social norms (mos maiorum). by the time of cicero and julius caesar, divorce was relatively common and "shame-free," the subject of gossip rather than a social disgrace.[ ] valerius says that lucius annius was disapproved of because he divorced his wife without consulting his friends; that is, he undertook the action for his own purposes and without considering its effects on his social network (amicitia and clientela). the censors of bce thus expelled him from the senate for moral turpitude. elsewhere, however, it is claimed that the first divorce took place only in bce, at which time dionysius of halicarnassus notes[ ] that "spurius carvilius, a man of distinction, was the first to divorce his wife" on grounds of infertility. this was most likely the spurius carvilius maximus ruga who was consul in and bce. the evidence is confused.[ ] during the classical period of roman law (late republic and principate), a man or woman[ ] could end a marriage simply because he or she wanted to, and for no other reason. unless the wife could prove the spouse was worthless, he kept the children. because property had been kept separate during the marriage, divorce from a "free" marriage was a very easy procedure.[ ] remarriage[edit] heracles and omphale, roman fresco, pompeian fourth style ( – ad), naples national archaeological museum, italy the frequency of remarriage among the elite was high. speedy remarriage was not unusual, and perhaps even customary, for aristocratic romans after the death of a spouse.[ ] while no formal waiting period was dictated for a widower, it was customary for a woman to remain in mourning for ten months before remarrying.[ ] the duration may allow for pregnancy: if a woman had become pregnant just before her husband's death, the period of ten months ensures that no question of paternity, which might affect the child's social status and inheritance, would attach to the birth.[ ] no law prohibited pregnant women from marrying, and there are well-known instances: augustus married livia when she was carrying her former husband's child, and the college of pontiffs ruled that it was permissible as long as the child's father was determined first. livia's previous husband even attended the wedding.[ ] because elite marriages often occurred for reasons of politics or property, a widow or divorcée with assets in these areas faced few obstacles to remarrying. she was far more likely to be legally emancipated than a first-time bride, and to have a say in the choice of husband. the marriages of fulvia, who commanded troops during the last civil war of the republic and who was the first roman woman to have her face on a coin, are thought to indicate her own political sympathies and ambitions: she was married first to the popularist champion clodius pulcher, who was murdered in the street after a long feud with cicero; then to scribonius curio, a figure of less ideological certitude who at the time of his death had come over to julius caesar; and finally to mark antony, the last opponent to the republican oligarchs and to rome's future first emperor. the greek observer plutarch indicates that a second wedding among romans was likely to be a quieter affair, as a widow would still feel the absence of her dead husband, and a divorcée ought to feel shame.[ ] but while the circumstances of divorce might be shameful or embarrassing, and remaining married to the same person for life was ideal, there was no general disapproval of remarriage; on the contrary, marriage was considered the right and desirable condition of adult life for both men and women.[ ] cato the younger, who presented himself as a paragon modeled after his moral namesake, allowed his pregnant wife marcia to divorce him and marry hortensius, declining to offer his young daughter to the -year-old orator instead. after the widowed marcia inherited considerable wealth, cato married her again, in a ceremony lacking many of the formalities.[ ] women might be mocked, however, for marrying too often or capriciously, particularly if it could be implied that sexual appetites and vanity were motives.[ ] concubinage[edit] further information: concubinage in ancient rome roman fresco with a banquet scene from the casa dei casti amanti, pompeii a concubine was defined by roman law as a woman living in a permanent monogamous relationship with a man not her husband.[ ] there was no dishonor in being a concubine or living with a concubine, and a concubine could become a wife.[ ] gifts could be exchanged between the partners in concubinage, in contrast to marriage, which maintained a more defined separation of property. couples usually resorted to concubinage when inequality of social rank was an obstacle to marriage: for instance, a man of senatorial rank, and a woman who was a social inferior, such as a freedwoman or one who had a questionable background of poverty or prostitution.[ ] two partners who lacked the right to the form of legal marriage known as conubium might enter into concubinage, or even a highborn woman who loved a man of low social status.[ ] concubinage differed from marriage chiefly in the status of children born from the relationship. children had their mother's social rank, and not as was customary their father's. domestic abuse[edit] a maenad with a cupid in her arms, fresco, st century ad classical roman law did not allow any domestic abuse by a husband to his wife,[ ] but as with any other crime, laws against domestic abuse can be assumed to fail to prevent it. cato the elder said, according to his biographer plutarch, "that the man who struck his wife or child, laid violent hands on the holiest of holy things. also that he thought it more praiseworthy to be a good husband than a good senator."[ ] a man of status during the roman republic was expected to behave moderately toward his wife and to define himself as a good husband. wife beating was sufficient grounds for divorce or other legal action against the husband.[ ] domestic abuse enters the historical record mainly when it involves the egregious excesses of the elite. the emperor nero was alleged to have had his first wife (and stepsister) claudia octavia murdered, after subjecting her to torture and imprisonment. nero then married his pregnant mistress poppaea sabina, whom he kicked to death for criticizing him.[ ] some modern historians believe that poppaea died from a miscarriage or childbirth, and that the story was exaggerated to vilify nero. the despised commodus is supposed also to have killed his wife and his sister.[ ] motherhood[edit] mother nursing an infant in the presence of the father, detail from a young boy's sarcophagus ca. ce roman wives were expected to bear children, but the women of the aristocracy, accustomed to a degree of independence, showed a growing disinclination to devote themselves to traditional motherhood. by the st century ce, most elite women avoided breast-feeding their infants themselves, and hired wet-nurses.[ ] the practice was not uncommon as early as the nd century bce, when the comic playwright plautus mentions wet-nurses casually.[ ] since a mother's milk was considered best for the baby,[ ] aristocratic women might still choose to breast-feed, unless physical reasons prevented it.[ ] if a woman chose to forgo nursing her own child she could visit the columna lactaria ("milk column"), where poor parents could obtain milk for their infants as charity from wet nurses, and those who could afford it could choose to hire a wet nurse.[ ] licinia, the wife of cato the elder (d. bce), is reported to have nursed not only her son, but sometimes the infants of her slaves, to encourage "brotherly affection" among them.[ ] by the time of tacitus (d. ce), breastfeeding by elite matrons was idealized as a practice of the virtuous old days.[ ] large families were not the norm among the elite even by the late republic; the family of clodius pulcher, who had at least three sisters and two brothers, was considered unusual.[ ] the birth rate among the aristocracy declined to such an extent that the first roman emperor augustus (reigned bce– ce) passed a series of laws intended to increase it, including special honors for women who bore at least three children (the ius trium liberorum).[ ] those who were unmarried, divorced, widowed, or barren were prohibited from inheriting property unless named in a will.[ ] the extent to which roman women might expect their husbands to participate in the rearing of very young children seems to vary and is hard to determine. family-values traditionalists such as cato appear to have taken an interest: cato liked to be present when his wife bathed and swaddled their child.[ ] roman women were not only valued for the number of children that they produced, but also for their part in raising and educating children to become good citizens. to rear children for successful lives, an exemplary roman mother needed to be well-educated herself.[ ] one of the roman women most famous for their strength and influence as a mother was cornelia, the mother of the gracchi. julius caesar, whose father died when he was only a young teen, had a close relationship with his mother, aurelia, whose political clout was essential in preventing the execution of her -year-old son during the proscriptions of sulla. daily life[edit] left image: wall painting from the vila san marco, stabiae, st century right image: a woman fixing her hair in the mirror, fresco from the villa of arianna at stabiae, st century ad aristocratic women managed a large and complex household. since wealthy couples often owned multiple homes and country estates with dozens or even hundreds of slaves, some of whom were educated and highly skilled, this responsibility was the equivalent of running a small corporation. in addition to the social and political importance of entertaining guests, clients, and visiting dignitaries from abroad, the husband held his morning business meetings (salutatio) at home.[ ] the home (domus) was also the center of the family's social identity, with ancestral portraits displayed in the entrance hall (atrium). since the most ambitious aristocratic men were frequently away from home on military campaign or administrative duty in the provinces, sometimes for years at a time, the maintenance of the family's property and business decisions were often left to the wives; for instance, while julius caesar was away from rome throughout the s bce, his wife calpurnia was responsible for taking care of his assets. when ovid, rome's greatest living poet, was exiled by augustus in ce, his wife exploited social connections and legal maneuvers to hold on to the family's property, on which their livelihood depended.[ ] ovid expresses his love and admiration for her lavishly in the poetry he wrote during his exile.[ ] frugality, parsimony, and austerity were characteristics of the virtuous matron.[ ] one of the most important tasks for women is to oversee in a large household was clothing production. in the early roman period, the spinning of wool was a central domestic occupation, and indicated a family's self-sufficiency, since the wool would be produced on their estates. even in an urban setting, wool was often a symbol of a wife's duties, and equipment for spinning might appear on the funeral monument of a woman to show that she was a good and honorable matron.[ ] even women of the upper classes were expected to be able to spin and weave in virtuous emulation of their rustic ancestors — a practice ostentatiously observed by livia. in business[edit] "one of the most curious characteristics of that age," observed french classical scholar gaston boissier, "was that the women appear as much engaged in business and as interested in speculations as the men. money is their first care. they work their estates, invest their funds, lend and borrow. we find one among cicero's creditors, and two among his debtors."[ ] although roman society did not allow women to gain official political power, it did allow them to enter business.[ ] even women of wealth were not supposed to be idle ladies of leisure. among the aristocracy, women as well as men lent money to their peers to avoid resorting to a moneylender. when pliny was considering buying an estate, he factored in a loan from his mother-in-law as a guarantee rather than an option.[ ] women also joined in funding public works, as is frequently documented by inscriptions during the imperial period. the "lawless" politta, who appears in the martyrdom of pionius, owned estates in the province of asia. inscriptions record her generosity in funding the renovation of the sardis gymnasium.[ ] because women had the right to own property, they might engage in the same business transactions and management practices as any landowner. as with their male counterparts, their management of slaves appears to have varied from relative care to negligence and outright abuse. during the first servile war, megallis and her husband damophilus were both killed by their slaves on account of their brutality, but their daughter was spared because of her kindness and granted safe passage out of sicily, along with an armed escort.[ ] women and a man working alongside one another at a dye shop (fullonica), on a wall painting from pompeii unlike landholding, industry was not considered an honorable profession for those of senatorial rank. cicero suggested that in order to gain respectability a merchant should buy land. attitudes changed during the empire, however, and claudius created legislation to encourage the upper classes to engage in shipping. women of the upper classes are documented as owning and running shipping corporations. trade and manufacturing are not well represented in roman literature, which was produced for and largely by the elite, but funerary inscriptions sometimes record the profession of the deceased, including women.[ ] women are known to have owned and operated brick factories.[ ] a woman might develop skills to complement her husband's trade, or manage aspects of his business. artemis the gilder was married to dionysius the helmet maker, as indicated by a curse tablet asking for the destruction of their household, workshop, work, and livelihood.[ ] the status of ordinary women who owned a business seems to have been regarded as exceptional. laws during the imperial period aimed at punishing women for adultery exempted those "who have charge of any business or shop" from prosecution.[ ] some typical occupations for a woman would be wet nurse, actress, dancer or acrobat, prostitute, and midwife — not all of equal respectability.[ ] prostitutes and performers such as actresses were stigmatized as infames, people who had recourse to few legal protections even if they were free.[ ] inscriptions indicate that a woman who was a wet nurse (nutrix) would be quite proud of her occupation.[ ] women could be scribes and secretaries, including "girls trained for beautiful writing," that is, calligraphers.[ ] pliny gives a list of female artists and their paintings.[ ] most romans lived in insulae (apartment buildings), and those housing the poorer plebeian and non-citizen families usually lacked kitchens. the need to buy prepared food meant that takeaway food was a thriving business. most of the roman poor, whether male or female, young or old, earned a living through their own labour. in politics[edit] the heroic suicide of porcia, daughter of cato and wife of brutus, as pictured by pierre mignard men argued firmly to block women from engaging in the public sphere. the political system in ancient rome involved men exclusively—from senators to magistrates. women were even prevented from voting. they were not seen as fit to be part of the political sphere as men believed them to be only suited for "elegance, adornment, and finery."[ ] however, elite women could manipulate their husbands and through them exercise control over the political world. in some cases, women were viewed as a threat to male rule. cato the censor went so far as to prevent boys from attending senatorial meetings in fear that they would relay the news to their inquisitive mothers.[ ] during the civil wars that ended the republic, appian reports the heroism of wives who saved their husbands. an epitaph known as the laudatio turiae preserves a husband's eulogy for his wife, who during the civil war following the death of julius caesar endangered her own life and relinquished her jewelry to send support to her husband in exile.[ ] both survived the turbulence of the time to enjoy a long marriage. porcia, the daughter of cato the younger and wife of brutus the assassin, came to a less fortunate but (in the eyes of her time) heroic end: she killed herself as the republic collapsed, just as her father did. the rise of augustus to sole power in the last decades of the st century bce diminished the power of political officeholders and the traditional oligarchy, but did nothing to diminish and arguably increased the opportunities for women, as well as slaves and freedmen, to exercise influence behind the scenes.[ ] before this point, women's political power was extremely curtailed compared to the power men held by preventing their right to vote. however, starting with augustus' rule, the inability to vote no longer mattered because the senate lost its power. additionally, the shift from the forum to the palace allowed for women who lived there to gain an upper hand in influencing politics.[ ] one notable woman was livia drusilla augusta ( bce – ce ), the wife of augustus and the most powerful woman in the early roman empire, acting several times as regent and being augustus' faithful advisor. several women of the imperial family, such as livia's great-granddaughter and caligula's sister agrippina the younger, gained political influence as well as public prominence. women also participated in efforts to overthrow emperors, predominantly for personal gain. shortly after caligula's sister drusilla died, her widower marcus aemilius lepidus and her sisters agrippina the younger and livilla conspired to overthrow caligula. the plot was discovered, and lepidus was executed. agrippina and livilla were exiled, and returned from exile only when their paternal uncle claudius came to power after caligula's assassination in ce. in turn, claudius's third wife valeria messalina conspired with gaius silius to overthrow her husband in the hope of installing herself and her lover in power. tacitus immortalized the woman epicharis for her part in the pisonian conspiracy, where she attempted to gain the support of the roman fleet and was instead arrested.[ ] once the conspiracy was uncovered, she would reveal nothing even under torture, in contrast to the senators, who were not subjected to torture and yet raced to spill the details. tacitus also praises egnatia maximilla for sacrificing her fortune in order to stand by her innocent husband against nero.[ ] according to the historia augusta (elagabalus . and . ) emperor elagabalus had his mother or grandmother take part in senate proceedings. "and elagabalus was the only one of all the emperors under whom a woman attended the senate like a man, just as though she belonged to the senatorial order" (david magie's translation). according to the same work, elagabalus also established a women's senate called the senaculum, which enacted rules to be applied to matrons, regarding clothing, chariot riding, the wearing of jewelry etc. (elagabalus . and aurelian . ). before this, agrippina the younger, mother of nero, had been listening to senate proceedings, concealed behind a curtain, according to tacitus (annales, . ). women and the military[edit] classical texts have little to say about women and the roman army. emperor augustus (reigned bc–ad ) disallowed marriage by ordinary soldiers, a ban that lasted nearly two centuries. however it has been suggested that wives and children of centurions lived with them at border and provincial forts.[ ] shoes in women's and children's sizes were found at vindolanda[ ] (site of a roman fort on hadrian's wall in northern england), along with bronze plaques, awarded to provincial soldiers whose years of service earned them roman citizenship, that mention their wives and children. likewise, in germany, further evidence of this practice was discovered in the form of brooches and shoes. trajan's column depicts six women amongst the soldiers who are attendants holding sacrificial offerings at a military religious ceremony.[ ] religious life[edit] ruins of the house of the vestals, with pedestals for statuary in the foreground women were present at most roman festivals and cult observances. some rituals specifically required the presence of women, but their participation might be limited. as a rule women did not perform animal sacrifice, the central rite of most major public ceremonies,[ ] though this was less a matter of prohibition than the fact that most priests presiding over state religion were men.[ ] some cult practices were reserved for women only, for example, the rites of the good goddess (bona dea).[ ] women priests played a prominent and crucial role in the official religion of rome. although the state colleges of male priests were far more numerous, the six women of the college of vestals were rome's only "full-time professional clergy."[ ] sacerdos, plural sacerdotes, was the latin word for a priest of either gender. religious titles for women include sacerdos, often in relation to a deity or temple, such as a sacerdos cereris or cerealis, "priestess of ceres", an office never held by men;[ ] magistra, a high priestess, female expert or teacher in religious matters; and ministra, a female assistant, particularly one in service to a deity. a magistra or ministra would have been responsible for the regular maintenance of a cult. epitaphs provide the main evidence for these priesthoods, and the woman is often not identified in terms of her marital status.[ ] the vestals possessed unique religious distinction, public status and privileges, and could exercise considerable political influence. it was also possible for them to amass "considerable wealth."[ ] upon entering her office, a vestal was emancipated from her father's authority. in archaic roman society, these priestesses were the only women not required to be under the legal guardianship of a man, instead answering directly and only to the pontifex maximus.[ ] their vow of chastity freed them of the traditional obligation to marry and rear children, but its violation carried a heavy penalty: a vestal found to have polluted her office by breaking her vow was given food, water, and entombed alive. the independence of the vestals thus existed in relation to the prohibitions imposed on them. in addition to conducting certain religious rites, the vestals participated at least symbolically in every official sacrifice, as they were responsible for preparing the required ritual substance mola salsa.[ ] the vestals seem to have retained their religious and social distinctions well into the th century ce, until the christian emperors dissolved the order. a few priesthoods were held jointly by married couples. marriage was a requirement for the flamen dialis, the high priest of jupiter; his wife, the flaminica dialis, had her own unique priestly attire, and like her husband was placed under obscure magico-religious prohibitions. the flaminica was a perhaps exceptional case of a woman performing animal sacrifice; she offered a ram to jupiter on each of the nundinae, the eight-day roman cycle comparable to a week.[ ] the couple were not permitted to divorce, and if the flaminica died the flamen had to resign his office. the capitoline triad of minerva, jupiter, and juno like the flaminica dialis, the regina sacrorum, "queen of the sacred rites," wore distinctive ceremonial dress and performed animal sacrifice, offering a sow or female lamb to juno on the first day of each month.[ ] the names of some reginae sacrorum are recorded by inscriptions.[ ] the regina was the wife of the rex sacrorum, "king of the sacred rites," an archaic priesthood regarded in the earliest period as more prestigious than even the pontifex maximus.[ ] these highly public official duties for women contradict the commonplace notion that women in ancient rome took part only in private or domestic religion. the dual male-female priesthoods may reflect the roman tendency to seek a gender complement within the religious sphere;[ ] most divine powers are represented by both a male and a female deity, as seen in divine pairs such as liber and libera.[ ] the twelve major gods were presented as six gender-balanced pairs,[ ] and roman religion departed from indo-european tradition in installing two goddesses in its supreme triad of patron deities, juno and minerva along with jupiter. this triad "formed the core of roman religion."[ ] mosaic depicting masked actors in a play: two women consult a "witch" or private diviner from the mid republic onward, religious diversity became increasingly characteristic of the city of rome. many religions that were not part of rome's earliest state cult offered leadership roles for women, among them the cult of isis and of the magna mater. an epitaph preserves the title sacerdos maxima for a woman who held the highest priesthood of the magna mater's temple near the current site of st. peter's basilica.[ ] although less documented than public religion, private religious practices addressed aspects of life that were exclusive to women. at a time when the infant mortality rate was as high as percent,[ ] divine aid was solicited for the life-threatening act of giving birth and the perils of caring for a baby. invocations were directed at the goddesses juno, diana, lucina, the di nixi, and a host of divine attendants devoted to birth and childrearing. male writers vary in their depiction of women's religiosity: some represent women as paragons of roman virtue and devotion, but also inclined by temperament to excessive religious devotion, the lure of magic, or "superstition".[ ] nor was "private" the same as "secret": romans were suspicious of secretive religious practices, and cicero cautioned that nocturnal sacrifices were not to be performed by women, except for those ritually prescribed pro populo, on behalf of the roman people, that is, for the public good.[ ] social activities[edit] mosaic showing roman women in various recreational activities wealthy women traveled around the city in a litter carried by slaves.[ ] women gathered in the streets on a daily basis to meet with friends, attend religious rites at temples, or to visit the baths. the wealthiest families had private baths at home, but most people went to bath houses not only to wash but to socialize, as the larger facilities offered a range of services and recreational activities, among which casual sex was not excluded. one of the most vexed questions of roman social life is whether the sexes bathed together in public. until the late republic, evidence suggests that women usually bathed in a separate wing or facility, or that women and men were scheduled at different times. but there is also clear evidence of mixed bathing from the late republic until the rise of christian dominance in the later empire. some scholars have thought that only lower-class women bathed with men, or those of dubious moral standing such as entertainers or prostitutes, but clement of alexandria observed that women of the highest social classes could be seen naked at the baths. hadrian prohibited mixed bathing, but the ban seems not to have endured. most likely, customs varied not only by time and place, but by facility, so that women could choose to segregate themselves by gender or not.[ ] for entertainment women could attend debates at the forum, the public games (ludi), chariot races, and theatrical performances. by the late republic, they regularly attended dinner parties, though in earlier times the women of a household dined in private together.[ ] conservatives such as cato the censor ( – bce) considered it improper for women to take a more active role in public life; his complaints indicated that indeed some women did voice their opinions in the public sphere.[ ] though the practice was discouraged, roman generals would sometimes take their wives with them on military campaigns. caligula's mother agrippina the elder often accompanied her husband germanicus on his campaigns in northern germania, and the emperor claudius was born in gaul for this reason. wealthy women might tour the empire, often participating or viewing religious ceremonies and sites around the empire.[ ] rich women traveled to the countryside during the summer when rome became too hot.[ ] for more on how women fit into social classes in ancient rome, see social class in ancient rome. attire and adornment[edit] livia attired in a stola and palla see also: cosmetics in ancient rome and clothing in ancient rome women in ancient rome took great care in their appearance, though extravagance was frowned upon. they wore cosmetics and made different concoctions for their skin. ovid even wrote a poem about the correct application of makeup. women used white chalk or arsenic to whiten their faces, or rouge made of lead or carmine to add color to their cheeks as well as using lead to highlight their eyes.[ ] they spent much time arranging their hair and often dyed it black, red, or blonde. they also wore wigs regularly.[ ] matrons usually wore two simple tunics for undergarments covered by a stola. the stola was a long white dress that was cinched at the waist and which fell to the wearer’s feet, secured by clasps at the shoulder. wealthier women would decorate their stola further. when going out a woman wore a palla over her stola, which was held by a clasp at the shoulder.[ ] young women were not permitted to wear a stola, and instead wore tunics.[ ] prostitutes and those caught committing adultery put on the male toga.[ ] wealthy women wore jewels such as emeralds, aquamarine, opal, and pearls as earrings, necklaces, rings and sometimes sewn onto their shoes and clothing.[ ] exaggerated hairstyle of the flavian period ( s– s ce) in the aftermath of roman defeat at cannae, economic crisis provoked the passing of the lex oppia ( bce) to restrict personal and public extravagance. the law limited women's possession and display of gold and silver (as money or personal ornament), expensive clothing and their "unnecessary" use of chariots and litters. victory over carthage flooded rome with wealth and in bce the lex oppia was reviewed. the ruling consul, cato the censor argued for its retention: personal morality and self-restraint were self-evidently inadequate controls on indulgence and luxury. luxury provoked the envy and shame of those less well-off, and was therefore divisive. roman women, in cato's view, had showed only too clearly that their appetites once corrupted knew no limits, and must be restrained. large numbers of roman matrons thought otherwise, and made concerted public protest. in bce the laws were abolished: cato's opposition did not harm his political career. later, in bce, roman women, led by hortensia, successfully protested against laws designed to tax roman women, by use of the argument of no taxation without representation.[ ] evidence of a lessening on luxury restrictions can also be found; one of the letters of pliny is addressed to the woman pompeia celerina praising the luxuries she keeps in her villa.[ ] body image[edit] venus, goddess of beauty and love ( nd century) based on roman art and literature, small breasts and wide hips were the ideal body type for women considered alluring by roman men.[ ] roman art from the augustan period shows idealized women as substantial and fleshy, with a full abdomen and breasts that are rounded,[ ] not pendulous.[ ] prostitutes depicted in roman erotic art have fleshy bodies and wide hips, and often have their breasts covered by a strophium (a sort of strapless bra) even when otherwise nude and performing sex acts.[ ] large breasts were mocked as humorous or a sign of old age.[ ] young girls wore a strophium secured tightly in the belief that it would inhibit the growth of breasts,[ ] and a regimen of massaging the breasts with hemlock, begun while a woman was still a virgin, was thought to prevent sagging.[ ] breasts receive relatively minimal attention in erotic art and literature as a sexual focus;[ ] the breast was associated primarily with nursing infants and a woman's role as a mother.[ ] in times of extreme emotional duress, such as mourning or captivity in wartime, women might bare their breasts as an apotropaic gesture.[ ] mos maiorum and the love poets[edit] see also: sexuality in ancient rome romantic scene from a mosaic (villa at centocelle, rome, bce– ce) during the late republic penalties for sexuality were barely enforced if at all,[ ] and a new erotic ideal of romantic relationship emerges. subverting the tradition of male dominance, the love poets of the late republic and augustan era declared their eagerness to submit to "love slavery" (servitium amoris). catullus addresses a number of poems to "lesbia," a married woman with whom he has an affair, usually identified as a fictionalized clodia, sister of the prominent popularist politician clodius pulcher. the affair ends badly, and catullus's declarations of love turn to attacks on her sexual appetites — rhetoric that accords with the other hostile source on clodia's behavior, cicero's pro caelio. in the art of love, ovid goes a step further, adopting the genre of didactic poetry for offering instruction in how to pursue, keep, and get over a lover. satirists such as juvenal complain about the dissolute behavior of women.[ ] gynecology and medicine[edit] the practices and views in the hippocratic corpus regarding women's bodies and their perceived weaknesses were inadequate for addressing the needs of women in the hellenistic and roman eras, when women led active lives and more often engaged in family planning. the physiology of women began to be seen as less alien to that of men.[ ] in the older tradition, intercourse, pregnancy, and childbirth were not only central to women's health, but the raison d'être for female physiology;[ ] men, by contrast, were advised to exercise moderation in their sexual behavior, since hypersexuality would cause disease and fatigue.[ ] a female artist paints a statue of the phallic god priapus the hippocratic view that amenorrhea was fatal became by roman times a specific issue of infertility, and was recognized by most roman medical writers as a likely result when women engage in intensive physical regimens for extended periods of time. balancing food, exercise, and sexual activity came to be regarded as a choice that women might make. the observation that intensive training was likely to result in amenorrhea implies that there were women who engaged in such regimens.[ ] in the roman era, medical writers saw a place for exercise in the lives of women in sickness and health. soranus recommends playing ball, swimming, walking, reading aloud, riding in vehicles, and travel as recreation, which would promote overall good health.[ ] in examining the causes of undesired childlessness, these later gynecological writers include information about sterility in men, rather than assuming some defect in the woman only.[ ] hypersexuality was to be avoided by women as well as men. an enlarged clitoris, like an oversized phallus,[ ] was considered a symptom of excessive sexuality. although hellenistic and roman medical and other writers refer to clitoridectomy as primarily an "egyptian" custom, gynecological manuals under the christian empire in late antiquity propose that hypersexuality could be treated by surgery or repeated childbirth.[ ] slavery[edit] see also: freedman and manumission left image: a young woman sits while a servant fixes her hair with the help of a cupid, who holds up a mirror to offer a reflection, detail of a fresco from the villa of the mysteries, pompeii, c. bc right image: a floor mosaic of a woman dancer from the villa romana del casale, th century ad freedwomen were manumitted slaves. a freed slave owed a period of service, the terms of which might be agreed upon as a precondition of freedom, to her former owner, who became her patron. the patron had obligations in return, such as paying for said services and helping in legal matters. the patron-client relationship was one of the fundamental social structures of ancient rome, and failure to fulfill one's obligations brought disapproval and censure. in most ways, freedwomen had the same legal status as freeborn women. but because under roman law a slave had no father, freed slaves had no inheritance rights unless they were named in a will. the relationship of a former slave to her patron could be complicated. in one legal case, a woman named petronia iusta attempted to show — without a birth declaration to prove it — that she had been free-born. her mother, she acknowledged, had been a slave in the household of petronius stephanus and calatoria themis, but iusta maintained that she had been born after her mother's manumission. calatoria, by now a widow, in turn argued that iusta was born before her mother was free and that she had been manumitted, therefore owing her former owner the service due a patron. calatoria could produce no documentation of this supposed manumission, and the case came down to the testimony of witnesses.[ ] the status of freedwomen, like freedmen, varied widely. caenis was a freedwoman and secretary to the emperor vespasian; she was also his concubine. he is said to have lived with her faithfully, but she was not considered a wife.[ ] prostitution[edit] main article: prostitution in ancient rome women could turn to prostitution to support themselves, but not all prostitutes had freedom to decide. there is some evidence that even slave prostitutes could benefit from their labor.[ ] although rape was a crime, the law only punished the rape of a slave if it "damaged the goods," because a slave had no legal standing. the penalty was aimed at providing her owner compensation for the "damage" of his property. because a slave woman was considered property under roman law, forcing her to be a prostitute was not considered a crime. prior to septimius severus, women who engaged in acts that brought infamia to them as slaves also suffered infamia when freed.[ ] sometimes sellers of female slaves attached a ne serva clause to the slave to prevent her from being prostituted. the ne serva clause meant that if the new owner or any owner after him or her used the slave as a prostitute she would be free. later on the ne serva agreements became enforceable by law.[ ] prostitution was not limited to slaves or poor citizens; according to suetonius, caligula when converting his palace into a brothel employed upper class "matrons and youths" as prostitutes. suetonius, the twelve caesars, life of caligula, tacitus records that during one of nero's feasts the prefect tigellinus had brothels filled with upper class women.[ ] prostitution could also be a punishment instead of an occupation; a law of augustus allowed that women guilty of adultery could be sentenced to work in brothels as prostitutes. the law was abolished in .[ ] see also[edit] 	ancient rome portal 	list of roman women 	list of roman birth and childhood deities 	sexuality in ancient rome 	women in ancient sparta 	women in classical athens 	women in ancient warfare references[edit] 	^ jasper burns, "sabina," in great women of imperial rome: mothers and wives of the caesars (routledge, ), pp. – . 	^ the form of roman marriage called conubium, for instance, requires that both spouses be citizens; like men from towns granted civitas sine suffragio, women (at least those eligible for conubium) were citizens without suffrage. the legal status of a mother as a citizen affected her son's citizenship. all roman citizens recognized as such by law did not hold equal rights and privileges, particularly in regard to holding high office. see a casebook on roman family law following, and a.n. sherwin-white, roman citizenship (oxford university press, ), pp. and online (on male citizenship as it relates to marrying citizen women) et passim. ("children born of two roman citizens") indicates that a roman woman was regarded as having citizen status, in specific contrast to a peregrina. 	^ bruce w. frier and thomas a.j. mcginn, a casebook on roman family law (oxford university press: american philological association, ), pp. – , , et passim. 	^ kristina milnor, "women in roman historiography," in the cambridge companion to the roman historians (cambridge university press, ), p. ; ann ellis hanson, "the restructuring of female physiology at rome," in les écoles médicales à rome: actes du ème colloque international sur les textes médicaux latins antiques, lausanne, septembre (université de nantes, ), p. . 	^ unless otherwise noted, this introductory overview is based on beryl rawson, "finding roman women," in a companion to the roman republic (blackwell, ), p. . 	^ kelly olson, "the appearance of the young roman girl," in roman dress and the fabrics of roman culture (university of toronto press, ), p. . 	^ in reference to his character assassination of the notorious clodia; see pro caelio. 	^ for an extensive modern consideration of the vestals, see ariadne staples, from good goddess to vestal virgins: sex and category in roman religion (routledge, ). 	^ beryl rawson, children and childhood in roman italy (oxford university press, ), pp. – . 	^ rawson, children and childhood in roman italy, p. , citing persius . and the related scholion, and p. on diana. rome lacked the elaborate puberty rites for girls that were practiced in ancient greece (p. ). 	^ a b beryl rawson, "the roman family in italy" (oxford university press, ), p. . 	^ judith p. hallett, fathers and daughters in roman society: women and the elite family (princeton university press, ), . 	^ a b lauren, caldwell, "roman girlhood and the fashioning of femininity" (cambridge university press, ), pp. – . 	^ a b caldwell, "roman girlhood and the fashioning of femininity", p. . 	^ caldwell, "roman girlhood and the fashioning of femininity", pp. – . 	^ caldwell, "roman girlhood and the fashioning of femininity", p. . 	^ rawson, children and childhood in roman italy, pp. – 	^ caldwell, "roman girlhood and the fashioning of femininity", p. . 	^ rawson, children and childhood in roman italy, p. . 	^ janine assa, the great roman ladies (new york, ), p. . 	^ beryl rawson, "the roman family," in the family in ancient rome: new perspectives (cornell university press, ), pp. , – . 	^ caldwell, "roman girlhood and the fashioning of femininity", p. . 	^ plutarch, life of pompey lacuscurtius edition. 	^ sandra r. joshel, sheila murnaghan, "women and slaves in greco-roman culture" (routledge; new edition ), p. . 	^ caldwell, "roman girlhood and the fashioning of femininity", pp. – . 	^ rawson, "the roman family," p. . 	^ rawson, children and childhood in roman italy, p. . 	^ rawson, children and childhood in roman italy, p. . 	^ caldwell, "roman girlhood and the fashioning of femininity", pp. , – . 	^ mary t. boatwright, daniel j. gargola, noel lenski, richard j. a. talbert, "a brief history of the romans" (oxford university press; edition, ), p. . 	^ frier, a casebook on roman family law, pp. – . 	^ beryl rawson, "the roman family," in the family in ancient rome: new perspectives (cornell university press, ), p. . 	^ frier, a casebook on roman family law, p. . 	^ j.a. crook, law and life of rome b.c.- a.d. 	^ judith p. hallett, fathers and daughters in roman society: women and the elite family (princeton university press, ), . 	^ rawson, "the roman family", p. . 	^ bruce w. frier and thomas a.j. mcginn, a casebook on roman family law (oxford university press, ), p. . 	^ a b frier and mcginn, casebook, pp. – . 	^ "if adults sons or daughters and their children had lived in the same household as the paterfamilias," notes rawson, "they may well have found the constant awareness of his powers and position a great strain" ("the roman family," p. ). 	^ hallett, . 	^ rawson, the roman family, p. . 	^ rawson, "the roman family," p. . 	^ a b c d bauman, richard ( ). women and politics in ancient rome. new york, new york: routledge. pp.  , , , . 	^ harlow, mary, and ray, laurence ( ). growing up and growing old in ancient rome. new york, new york: rutledge. pp.  – . 	^ a b boatwright, mary; gargola, daniel; lenski, noel; talbert, richard ( ). a brief history of the romans. new york: oxford university. pp.  – . 	^ richard a. bauman, women and politics in ancient rome (routledge, , ), p. . 	^ her name appears also as amesia. 	^ valerius maximus . . ; joseph farrell, latin language and latin culture (cambridge university press, ), pp. – ; michael c. alexander, trials in the late roman republic, – bce (university of toronto press, ), p. . alexander places the date of the trial, about which valerius is unclear, to sometime between and bce. the charge goes unrecorded. 	^ bauman, women and politics, p. . 	^ the name is vexed; it may also be carfrania. 	^ bauman, women and politics, pp. – . 	^ bauman, women and politics, p. . 	^ bauman, women and politics, pp. – . 	^ johnston, roman law in context, chapter . ; frier and mcginn, casebook, chapter iv. 	^ yan thomas, "the division of the sexes in roman law," in a history of women from ancient goddesses to christian saints (harvard university press, ), p. . 	^ alan watson, the spirit of roman law (university of georgia press, ), p. ; thomas, "the division of the sexes," p. . 	^ judith evans grubbs, women and the law in the roman empire: a sourcebook on marriage, divorce and law in the roman empire (routledge, ) , p. . 	^ watson, the spirit of roman law, p. ; gaius, inst. . . 	^ thomas, "the division of the sexes," p. . 	^ gaius, institutes . – . . 	^ cinctus vinctusque, according to festus (edition of lindsay); karen k. hersch, the roman wedding: ritual and meaning in antiquity (cambridge university press, ), pp. , , . 	^ wiesner, merry e. “the family” gender in history: global perspectives, nd edition, john wiley & sons, ltd., , p. 	^ frier and mcginn, a casebook on roman family law, p. . 	^ duby,perrot,and pantel a history of women volume , pg. 	^ the late imperial roman jurist gaius writes of manus marriage as something that used to happen. frier and mcginn, casebook, p. . 	^ frier and mcginn, casebook, p. . 	^ eva cantarella, pandora's daughters: the role and status of women in greek and roman antiquity (johns hopkins university press, ), pp. – ; j.p. sullivan, "martial's sexual attitudes", philologus ( ), p. , specifically on sexual freedom. 	^ david johnston, roman law in context (cambridge university press, ), pp. – . 	^ johnston, roman law, pp. – ; frier and mcginn, casebook, section v. 	^ frier and mcginn, casebook, pp. , , citing ulpian, d. . . . . if the donor died first, however, the gift to the surviving spouse was valid. 	^ suzanne dixon, "from ceremonial to sexualities: a survey of scholarship on roman marriage" in a companion to families in the greek and roman worlds (wiley-blackwell, ), p. . 	^ dionysius of halicarnassus, antiquitates romanae, . 	^ aulus gellius (noctes atticae . . ) places the divorce in bce, but fudges the date and his sources elsewhere. 	^ alan watson, the spirit of roman law (university of georgia press, ), p. . 	^ frier and mcginn, casebook, part d, "the end of marriage." 	^ susan treggiari, roman marriage: iusti coniuges from the time of cicero to the time of ulpian (oxford university press, ), pp. – , – et passim. 	^ karen k. hersch, the roman wedding: ritual and meaning in antiquity, p. . 	^ in roman inclusive counting, a pregnancy was counted as lasting ten months. 	^ eva cantarella, "marriage and sexuality in republican rome: a roman conjugal love story," in the sleep of reason: erotic experience and sexual ethics in ancient greece and rome (university of chicago press, ), p. . 	^ plutarch, roman questions . 	^ karen k. hersh, the roman wedding: ritual and meaning in antiquity (cambridge university press, ), pp. , , et passim citing humbert ( ), pp. – . see also treggiari, roman marriage. 	^ hersh, the roman wedding, passim, pointing to the fictionalized and possibly satiric account by lucan. or some scholars see in this more of an arrangement than marriage proper. 	^ hersh, the roman wedding, pp. – . 	^ frier and mcginn, casebook, p. . 	^ frier and mcginn, casebook, p. . 	^ frier and mcginn, casebook, p. 	^ j.a. crook law and life of rome b.c.- a.d. 	^ a casebook on roman family law, frier and mcginn, pg. . 	^ plutarch, life of cato the elder . . 	^ garrett g. fagan, "violence in roman social relations," in the oxford handbook of social relations (oxford university press, ), p. . 	^ tacitus, annals xvi. 	^ frank mclynn, marcus aurelius: a life, p. . 	^ rawson, "the roman family," p. . 	^ plautus, miles gloriosus . 	^ as noted by soranus ( st century ad) in his gynaecology . . 	^ jane f. gardner, women in roman law and society (indiana university press, ), p. . 	^ lawrence richardson, "a new topographical dictionary of ancient rome," (jhu press, ), p. . 	^ plutarch, life of cato the elder . ; christopher michael mcdonough, "carna, procra and the strix on the kalends of june," transactions of the american philological association ( ), p. , note . 	^ tacitus, dialogus , as noted by mcdonough, p. . 	^ w. jeffrey tatum, the patrician tribune: publius clodius pulcher (university of north carolina press, ), p. ff. 	^ janine assa, the great roman ladies (new york, ), p. ; a history of women in the west from ancient goddesses to christian saints, vol. , p. . 	^ jane f. gardner, family and familia in roman law and life (oxford university press, , ), p. . 	^ plutarch, life of cato the elder . . 	^ assa, the great roman ladies, p. . 	^ susan treggiari, roman marriage: iusti coniuges from the time of cicero to the time of ulpian (oxford university press, , reprinted ), p. . 	^ hermann fränkel, ovid: a poet between two worlds (university of california press, ), p. . 	^ jo-marie claasen, "tristia," in a companion to ovid (blackwell, ), p. . 	^ assa, the great roman ladies, p. . 	^ assa, the great roman ladies, p. . 	^ gaston boissier, cicero and his friends: a study of roman society in the time of caesar, questia edition. 	^ a casebook on roman family law frier+mcginn pg 	^ law and life of rome, j.a. crook pg. 	^ christians and pagans, fox, pg. 	^ the gracchi marius and sulla, a.h. beesley, pg. on the first serville war 	^ see ancient roman life as illustrated by latin inscriptions by brian k. harvey. 	^ abbott, society and politics in ancient rome: essays and sketches, pg. 	^ women's life in greece & rome, lefkowitz+fant, pg. 	^ paul, opinions . . l, as cited in women's life in greece and rome: a source book in translation, edited by mary r. lefkowitz and maureen b. fant (johns hopkins university press, , rd ed. ), p. . 	^ "women and marriage in ancient rome," chapter ; jane bingham,the usborne internet-linked encyclopedia of the roman world (usborne, ), page . 	^ catharine edwards, "unspeakable professions: public performance and prostitution in ancient rome," in roman sexualities (princeton university press, ), pp. ff. 	^ celia e. schultz, women's religious activity in the roman republic (university of north carolina press, ), p. . 	^ rawson, children and childhood in roman italy, p. . 	^ pliny the elder, natural history, . . 	^ hallet, judith ( ). fathers and daughters in roman society. princeton, new jersey: princeton university. pp.  , . 	^ arthur ernest gordon, illustrated introduction to latin epigraphy (university of california press, ), pp. , . 	^ richard saller, "status and patronage", cambridge ancient history: the high empire, a.d. – (cambridge university press, ), p. . 	^ tacitus, annals . 	^ tacitus, annals . . 	^ allison p. ( ) 'soldiers’ families in the early roman empire', in b. rawson, ed., family and household in ancient greece and rome: a companion, – . oxford: wiley-blackwell 	^ greene, e.m. ( ). “if the shoe fits: style and function of children’s shoes from vindolanda” in r. collins and f. mcintosh (eds.), life in the limes: studies of the people and objects of the roman frontiers. oxford: oxbow. – . 	^ greene, e.m. ( ) 'girls or boys on the column of trajan? depictions of female participation in military religion' presented at th joint annual meeting of the archaeological institute of america and the society for classical studies (formerly the american philological association), january – , . 	^ mary beard, j.a. north, and s.r.f. price, religions of rome: a history (cambridge university press, ), vol. , p. . 	^ celia e. schultz, women's religious activity in the roman republic (university of north carolina press, ), pp. – . in some sense, every head of household was a priest responsible for religious maintenance at home; in roman patriarchal society, this was the paterfamilias. public religion, like society and politics in general, reflected the hierarchy of the household, since the familia was the building block of society. see john scheid, an introduction to roman religion (indiana university press, ), p. ff. 	^ beard et al., religions of rome, vol. , pp. – . 	^ phyllis culham, "women in the roman republic," in the cambridge companion to the roman republic (cambridge university press, ), p. . 	^ barbette stanley spaeth, the roman goddess ceres (university of texas press, ), p. . 	^ lesley e. lundeen, "in search of the etruscan priestess: a re-examination of the hatrencu," in religion in republican italy (cambridge university press, ), p. ; schultz, women's religious activity in the roman republic, pp. – . 	^ ariadne staples, from good goddess to vestal virgins: sex and category in roman religion (routledge, ), p. . 	^ gary forsythe, a critical history of early rome: from prehistory to the first punic war (university of california press, , ), p. . 	^ staples, from good goddess to vestal virgins, pp. – . 	^ macrobius, saturnalia . . 	^ emily a. hemelrijk, "women and sacrifice in the roman empire," in ritual dynamics and religious change in the roman empire. proceedings of the eighth workshop of the international network impact of empire (heidelberg, july – , ) (brill, ), pp. – , citing macrobius, saturnalia . . . 	^ jörg rüpke, fasti sacerdotum: a prosopography of pagan, jewish, and christian religious officials in the city of rome, bce to ce (oxford university press, , originally published in german ), pp. , , . 	^ forsythe, a critical history of early rome, p. , based on festus on the ordo sacerdotum (hierarchy of priests), in the edition of lindsay. 	^ schultz, women's religious activity in the roman republic, pp. – . 	^ michael lipka, roman gods: a conceptual approach (brill, ), pp. – online. 	^ varro, de re rustica . . , says their golden images stood in the forum, "six male and the same number of female." 	^ the capitoline triad replaced the indo-european archaic triad, composed of three male gods, and is thought to result from etruscan influence; see robert schilling, roman and european mythologies (university of chicago press, , from the french edition of ), pp. , , , . 	^ stephen l. dyson, rome: a living portrait of an ancient city (johns hopkins university press, ), p. . 	^ m. golden, "did the ancients care when their children died?" greece & rome ( ) – . 	^ beard et al., religions of rome, vol. , p. . 	^ cicero, de legibus . . ; emily a. hemelrijk, "women and sacrifice in the roman empire," in ritual dynamics and religious change in the roman empire. proceedings of the eighth workshop of the international network impact of empire (heidelberg, july – , ) (brill, ), p. . 	^ assa, the great roman ladies, p. . 	^ garrett g. fagan, bathing in public in the roman world (university of michigan press, , ), pp. – . 	^ assa, the great roman ladies, p. . 	^ livius, titus, a history of rome, (indianapolis, in: hackett pub, ), . 	^ assa, . 	^ assa, . 	^ assa, . 	^ assa, . 	^ assa, 	^ assa, . 	^ christopher a. faraone; laura k. mcclure ( march ). prostitutes and courtesans in the ancient world. univ of wisconsin press. pp.  –. isbn  - - - - . retrieved april . 	^ assa, . 	^ pomeroy, sarah jane, women in classical antiquity 	^ pliny the younger, letters, book letter iv 	^ kelly olson, "the appearance of the young roman girl," in roman dress and the fabrics of roman culture (university of toronto press, ), p. . 	^ john r. clarke, looking at lovemaking: constructions of sexuality in roman art b.c.–a.d. (university of california press, , ), p. . 	^ amy richlin, the garden of priapus: sexuality and aggression in roman humor (oxford university press, , ), pp. , . 	^ clarke, looking at lovemaking, p. et passim. 	^ martial, epigrams . , . , . ; richlin, the garden of priapus, pp. , , . 	^ olson, "the appearance of the young roman girl," p. . 	^ pliny the elder, natural history . , citing anaxilaus, a pythagorean physician in the time of augustus; matthew w. dickie, magic and magicians in the greco-roman world (routledge, , ), p. . pliny also notes that an application of hemlock was used to suppress lactation. 	^ richlin, the garden of priapus, p. . 	^ larissa bonfante, "nursing mothers in classical art," in naked truths: women, sexuality, and gender in classical art and archaeology (routledge, , ), pp. ff. 	^ anthony corbeill, nature embodied: gesture in ancient rome (princeton university press, ), p. ff.; alan cameron, the last pagans of rome (oxford university press, ), p. ; mary lefkowitz and maureen b. fant, women's life in greece and rome, p. , note . 	^ citation needed 	^ juvenal, satire vi lines . – 	^ ann ellis hanson, "the restructuring of female physiology at rome," in les écoles médicales à rome (université de nantes, ), p. . 	^ hanson, "the restructuring of female physiology," p. – ; marilyn b. skinner, introduction to roman sexualities (princeton university press, ), p. : the "notion of women as 'same' as well as 'other' presupposed a female body partly assimilated to the male constitution, one whose sex-specific functions, such as lactation or even pregnancy, did not constitute its entire raison d'être." 	^ hanson, "the restructuring of female physiology," pp. – . 	^ hanson, "the restructuring of female physiology," p. . the gynecology of soranus is central to hanson's arguments. 	^ hanson, "the restructuring of female physiology," p. . 	^ hanson, "the restructuring of female physiology," p. . 	^ hanson, "the restructuring of female physiology," p. , citing priapea on the vitiating effects of uncontrolled sexual activity and releasing too much semen, and cil . ( ), one of the perusine glandes. the outsized phallus of roman art was associated with the god priapus, among others. it was laughter-provoking, grotesque, or used for magical purposes; see david fredrick, the roman gaze: vision, power, and the body (johns hopkins university press, ), p. . nude statues of men that were intended to be beautiful or dignified had a small penis. 	^ hanson, "the restructuring of female physiology," p. . clitoridectomy is described in some detail by the byzantine physicians and medical writers aëtius of amida (fl. mid- th century/mid- th century) and paul of aegina, as well as the north african gynecological writer muscio (ca. ce); see holt n. parker, "the teratogenic grid," in roman sexualities (princeton university press, ), p. . 	^ j.a. crook, law and life of rome b.c.-a.d. (cornell university press, , ), pp. – . 	^ crook, law and life of rome, p. . 	^ the economy of prostitution in the roman world: a study of social history and the brothel by thomas a. mcginn. pg. 	^ thomas aj mcginn, prostitution, sexuality and the law in ancient rome, oxford university press. , p. . 	^ thomas aj mcginn, prostitution, sexuality and the law in ancient rome, oxford university press, , p. 	^ tacitus, annals . 	^ thomas aj mcginn, prostitution, sexuality and the law in ancient rome, oxford university press, , pp. , . bibliography[edit] 	assa, janine ( ). the great roman ladies. new york: grove press. 	daehner, jens (ed.), the herculaneum women: history, context, identities (los angeles: the j. paul getty museum, ), pp. xiv, . 	freisenbruch, annelise ( ). the first ladies of rome: the women behind the caesars. london: jonathan cape. 	bruce w. frier, thomas a. j. mcginn ( ). a casebook on roman family law. oxford university press. isbn  - - - . 	gardner, jane f. . women in roman law and society. croom helm 	hallett, judith p. 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	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 velleius paterculus - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	velleius paterculus 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		roman historian, soldier and senator (c. bc - c. ad ) early th century publication edited by beatus rhenanus marcus velleius paterculus (/vɛˈliːəs, -ˈleɪəs/; c. bc – c. ad ) was a roman historian, soldier and senator. his roman history, written in a highly rhetorical style, covered the period from the end of the trojan war to ad , but is most useful for the period from the death of caesar in bc to the death of augustus in ad . contents 	 biography 	 history 	 style 	 legacy 	 early editions 	 newer edition 	 commentaries 	 . translation with latin text 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links biography[edit] few details of velleius' life are known with certainty; even his praenomen is uncertain. priscian, the only ancient author to mention it, calls him "marcus", but the title page of the editio princeps, printed in , calls him "publius", probably due to confusion with a publius velleius mentioned in tacitus. elsewhere, the same volume calls him gaius.[ ] some modern writers use the latter name, based on an inscription found on a milestone at el harrouch in algeria, once part of roman numidia;[ ] but the inscription identifies this gaius velleius paterculus as legatus augusti, an office that the historian is not known to have held, and it is thought to date from the reigns of claudius or nero, by which time he is thought to have been dead.[ ] the gaius velleius paterculus referred to may be the same man who was consul in ad , and a lucius velleius paterculus was consul in the following year; but it is not apparent how either of them were related to the historian.[ ] our remaining information comes from velleius' own brief description of his life, included in his history. he was born into a noble campanian family about bc, although the place of his birth is unknown. he was a great-great-great-grandson of minatus magius of aeculanum in samnium, who received the roman franchise for his actions during the social war. several of his ancestors in subsequent generations held important magistracies or military commands, including his uncle, capito, who was a member of the roman senate.[ ] as a young man, velleius served as a military tribune in rome's eastern provinces. in ad , he was with the army of gaius caesar, and personally witnessed the meeting between the young general and phraates v of parthia on the banks of the euphrates. two years later, velleius was a cavalry prefect serving in the command of tiberius in germania, having already held the office of praefectus castrorum. he continued as a senior member of tiberius' staff until the future emperor's return to rome in ad . while serving under tiberius, velleius was also elected quaestor, an important step on the cursus honorum, filling that office in ad .[ ][ ] before his death in ad , the emperor augustus designated velleius and his brother, magius celer, for the praetorship. the emperor died before the comitia could be held, and so the two brothers were formally elected under tiberius, serving their year of office in ad . few other particulars of velleius' life are known; he dedicated his history to marcus vinicius, and from his description of events during the latter's consulship in ad , velleius must still have been alive that year. but velleius was among the friends of sejanus, whom he praises in his writing, and as there is no evidence that the historian survived his friend's downfall by any great length of time, it seems likely that he shared his fate.[ ][ ][ ] history[edit] the original title of velleius' history is uncertain. the editio princeps styles it c. vellei paterculi historiae romanae ad m. vinicium cos., the roman histories of gaius velleius paterculus to the consul marcus vinicius, but this was probably assigned the work by a copyist, or by one of the grammarians.[ ][ ] the work is frequently referred to as a "compendium of roman history," which has also been used as the title, as have the more abbreviated historiae romanae, or roman history, or simply historiae or history.[ ][ ][ ] the work consists of two books, and was apparently conceived as a universal history.[ ] the first covers the period from the aftermath of the trojan war to the destruction of carthage at the end of the third punic war, in bc. the volume is missing several portions, including the beginning, and a section following the eighth chapter, which deals with the founding of rome.[ ][ ] the second book, which continues the history from the age of the gracchi to the consulship of marcus vinicius, in ad , is intact.[ ][ ] it is particularly useful as the only connected narrative of events during this period; the portions of livy's history dealing with the late republic have been lost, and are known only from a brief epitome, while other historians covered only portions of the span.[ ] the period from the death of caesar to that of augustus is especially detailed.[ ] velleius' subject matter consists largely of historical highlights and character portraits, omitting subtler if equally important details. he draws upon the historical writings of cato the elder, quintus hortensius, gnaeus pompeius trogus, cornelius nepos, and livy, most of which have been lost.[ ] he also devotes some attention to greek and roman literature, and records unique details about lucius afranius and lucius pomponius, but he curiously omits any mention of important figures such as plautus, horace, and propertius.[ ][ ] according to velleius, the peak of perfection in any literary field is arrived at quickly by the first arrivals. however, this was not an original insight, but a standard view of his time.[ ] style[edit] velleius' style is characterized by the showy rhetoric, hyperbole, and exaggerated figures of speech that were typical of silver age latin. modern appraisals of his approach and its results vary considerably. in the dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology, william smith writes, in the execution of his work, velleius has shown great skill and judgment, and has adopted the only plan by which an historical abridgement can be rendered either interesting or instructive. he does not attempt to give a consecutive account of all the events of history; he omits entirely a vast number of facts, and seizes only upon a few of the more prominent occurrences, which he describes at sufficient length to leave them impressed upon the recollection of his hearers. he also exhibits great tact in the manner in which he passes from one subject to another; his reflections are striking and apposite; and his style, which is a close imitation of sallust's, is characterized by clearness, conciseness, and energy, but at the same time exhibits some of the faults of writers of his age in a fondness for strange and out-of-the-way expressions. as a historian velleius is entitled to no mean rank; in his narrative he displays impartiality and love of truth, and in his estimate of the characters of the leading actors in roman history he generally exhibits both discrimination and judgment.[ ] a more critical view appears in the edition of the encyclopædia britannica: the author is a vain and shallow courtier, and destitute of real historical insight, although generally trustworthy in his statements of individual facts. he may be regarded as a courtly annalist rather than a historian. his knowledge is superficial, his blunders, numerous, his chronology inconsistent. he labours at portrait-painting, but his portraits are daubs... the repeitions, redundancies, and slovenliness of expression which disfigure the work may be partly due to the haste with which (as the author frequently reminds us) it was written. some blemishes of style, particularly the clumsy and involved structure of his sentences, may perhaps be ascribed to insufficient literary training. the inflated rhetoric, the straining after effect by means of hyperbole, antithesis and epigram, mark the degenerate taste of the silver age, of which paterculus is the earliest example.[ ] in his introduction to velleius paterculus, frederick w. shipley takes a middle ground: a compendium of roman history, hastily compiled by an army officer... could hardly be expected to rise to the level either of great history or great literature. and yet, taken for what it is, a rapid sketch of some ten centuries of history, it is, in spite of its many defects... the most successful and most readable of all the abridgements of roman history which have come down to us. abridgements are usually little more than skeletons; but velleius has succeeded, in spite of the brief compass of his work, in clothing the bare bones with real flesh, and in endowing his compendium with more than a mere shadow of vitality, thanks to his own enthusiastic interest in the human side of the great characters of history... [i]t has certain excellences of its own in the treatment of special subjects, especially the chapters on literary history, in which the author has a genuine if not very critical interest, the chapters on the roman colonies, and those on the history of the organization of the roman provinces, and in some of the character portraits of the great figures of roman history.[ ] legacy[edit] velleius' treatise was not intended as a careful and comprehensive study of history. the author acknowledged as much, and stated his desire to write a more detailed work, which he indicated would give a fuller account of the civil war, and the campaigns of his patron, tiberius, but there is no reason to believe that he ever did so.[ ] his history does not seem to have been widely known in antiquity. according to the scholiast, he was read by lucan; the chronica of sulpicius severus seems to have been modeled on velleius' history; and he is mentioned by priscian, but this seems to be the extent of his influence prior to the discovery of a badly damaged manuscript at murbach abbey in alsace in . although corrupt and since lost, this formed the basis for the editio princeps published by beatus rhenanus in , and a later copy acquired by orelli.[ ][ ] early editions[edit] historia romana, 	editio princeps, beatus rhenanus, 	early editions by 	justus lipsius, 	jan gruter, 	gerardus vossius, 	johan henrik boeclerus, 	antonius thysius the younger, 	nikolaes heinsius the elder, 	john hudson, 	pieter burman the elder, 	ruhnken, , reprinted by karl heinrich frotscher, – 	later editions 	johann caspar von orelli, 	justus friedrich kritz, 	friedrich gottlob haase, 	karl felix halm, 	robinson ellis, , reviewed by william warde fowler in classical review, may on the sources see 	f. burmeister, "de fontibus vellei paterculi," in berliner studien für classische philologie ( ), xv. english translation by j. s. watson in bohn's classical library. newer edition[edit] 	velleius paterculus, historiarum libri duo, ed. w. s. watt ( nd ed. . saur, stuttgart.) = bibliotheca scriptorum graecorum et romanorum teubneriana isbn  - - -x commentaries[edit] 	a. j. woodman, velleius paterculus: the caesarian and augustan narrative ( . - ) ( cambridge u.p.; repr. paperback) = cambridge classical texts and commentaries . isbn  - - - 	velleius paterculus: the tiberian narrative ( cambridge u.p.; repr. paperback) = cambridge classical texts and commentaries . isbn  - - - ) translation with latin text[edit] 	velleius paterculus, compendium of roman history, trans. f. w. shipley; loeb classical library (harvard university press, ; isbn  - - - ) references[edit] 	^ shipley, introduction to velleius paterculus' roman history, note . 	^ a b c d e f g h i j k encyclopædia britannica, ed., vol. , p. ("velleius paterculus, marcus"). 	^ cil viii, . 	^ ae , , ae , , ae , . 	^ a b c d e f g h i j dictionary of greek and roman biography, vol. iii, pp. , ("c. velleius paterculus"). 	^ syme, "seianus on the aventine", p. . 	^ a b shipley, introduction to velleius paterculus' roman history, note . 	^ a b c shipley, introduction to velleius paterculus' roman history. 	^ h.j. rose, a handbook of latin literature, london ( ), pp. , . 	^ the oxford history of the classical world, j. boardman, ed., oxford ( ), p. . further reading[edit] 	balmaceda, c. ( ). virtues of tiberius in velleius’ "histories." historia . : – . 	connal, r. t. ( ). velleius paterculus: the soldier and the senator. classical world ( ), – . 	cowan, e. ed., ( ). velleius paterculus: making history. swansea: classical press of wales. 	gowing, a. m. ( ). caesar grabs my pen: writing on civil war under tiberius. in citizens of discord: rome and its civil wars. oxford: oxford university press. 	gowing, a. m. ( ). empire and memory. the representation of the roman republic in imperial culture. cambridge: cambridge university press. 	kramer, e. a. ( ). book one of velleius’ history: scope, levels of treatment, and non-roman elements. historia . : – . 	schultze, c. ( ). universal and particular in velleius paterculus. in historiae mundi: studies in universal historiography. edited by p. liddel and a. fear, – . london: duckworth. 	starr, r. j. ( ). velleius’ literary techniques and the organization of his history. transactions and proceedings of the american philological association : – . 	sumner, g. v. ( ). the truth about velleius paterculus: prolegomena. harvard studies in classical philology : – . 	syme, r. ( ). mendacity in velleius. american journal of philology. : – . 	syme, r. ( ). "seianus on the aventine". hermes. franz steiner verlag. ( ): – . jstor  . 	woodman, a. j. 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("senatus populusque romanus" ["senate and people of rome"] latin) used in documents, on flags and banners and carved/engraved on buildings 	^ whilst the deposition of emperor romulus augustulus in is the most commonly cited end date for the western roman empire, the last western roman emperor julius nepos, was assassinated in , when the title and notion of a separate western empire were abolished. another suggested end date is the reorganization of the italian peninsula and abolition of separate western roman administrative institutions under emperor justinian during the latter half of the th century. 	^ the theodosian dynasty emperors honorius and valentinian iii reigned from ravenna. in the period between valentinian and glycerius (who once again reigned from northern italy), most emperors appear to have reigned from rome. both emperors petronius maximus and anthemius reigned from, and died in, rome. 	^ the de jure last emperor, julius nepos, reigned for five years in exile from salona/spalatum in dalmatia.[ ][ ][ ] the western roman empire comprises the western provinces of the roman empire at any time during which they were administered by a separate independent imperial court; in particular, this term is used in historiography to describe the period from to , where there were separate coequal courts dividing the governance of the empire in the western and the eastern provinces, with a distinct imperial succession in the separate courts. the terms western roman empire and eastern roman empire were coined in modern times to describe political entities that were de facto independent; contemporary romans did not consider the empire to have been split into two separate empires but viewed it as a single polity governed by two separate imperial courts as an administrative expediency. the western roman empire collapsed in , and the western imperial court in ravenna was formally dissolved by justinian in . the eastern imperial court survived until . though the empire had seen periods with more than one emperor ruling jointly before, the view that it was impossible for a single emperor to govern the entire empire was institutionalised to reforms to roman law by emperor diocletian following the disastrous civil wars and disintegrations of the crisis of the third century. he introduced the system of the tetrarchy in , with two separate senior emperors titled augustus, one in the east and one in the west, each with an appointed caesar (junior emperor and designated successor). though the tetrarchic system would collapse in a matter of years, the east–west administrative division would endure in one form or another over the coming centuries. as such, the western roman empire would exist intermittently in several periods between the rd and th centuries. some emperors, such as constantine i and theodosius i, governed as the sole augustus across the roman empire. on the death of theodosius i in , he divided the empire between his two sons, with honorius as his successor in the west, governing briefly from mediolanum and then from ravenna, and arcadius as his successor in the east, governing from constantinople. in , after the battle of ravenna, the roman army in the west suffered defeat at the hands of odoacer and his germanic foederati. odoacer forced the deposition of emperor romulus augustulus and became the first king of italy. in , following the assassination of the previous western emperor julius nepos, the eastern emperor zeno dissolved the western court and proclaimed himself the sole emperor of the roman empire. the date of was popularized by the th century british historian edward gibbon as a demarcating event for the end of the western empire and is sometimes used to mark the transition from antiquity to the middle ages. odoacer's italy, and other barbarian kingdoms, many of them representing former western roman allies that had been granted lands in return for military assistance, would maintain a pretence of roman continuity through the continued use of the old roman administrative systems and nominal subservience to the eastern roman court. in the th century, emperor justinian i re-imposed direct imperial rule on large parts of the former western roman empire, including the prosperous regions of north africa, the ancient roman heartland of italy and parts of hispania. political instability in the eastern heartlands, combined with foreign invasions and religious differences, made efforts to retain control of these territories difficult and they were gradually lost for good. though the eastern empire retained territories in the south of italy until the eleventh century, the influence that the empire had over western europe had diminished significantly. the papal coronation of the frankish king charlemagne as roman emperor in marked a new imperial line that would evolve into the holy roman empire, which presented a revival of the imperial title in western europe but was in no meaningful sense an extension of roman traditions or institutions. the great schism of between the churches of rome and constantinople further diminished any authority the emperor in constantinople could hope to exert in the west. contents 	 background 	 . rebellions and political developments 	 . crisis of the third century 	 . tetrarchy 	 . further divisions 	 history 	 . reign of honorius 	 . escalating barbarian conflicts 	 . internal unrest and majorian 	 . collapse 	 . fall of the empire 	 political aftermath 	 . germanic italy 	 . imperial reconquest 	 legacy 	 . nomenclature 	 . attempted restorations of a western court 	 . later claims to the imperial title in the west 	 list of western roman emperors 	 . tetrarchy ( – ) 	 . constantinian dynasty ( – ) 	 . non-dynastic ( – ) 	 . valentinianic dynasty ( – ) 	 . theodosian dynasty ( – ) 	 . non-dynastic ( – ) 	 references 	 . citations 	 . sources 	 . web sources 	 further reading 	 external links background[edit] further information: history of the roman empire and first division of the roman empire as the roman republic expanded, it reached a point where the central government in rome could not effectively rule the distant provinces. communications and transportation were especially problematic given the vast extent of the empire. news of invasion, revolt, natural disasters, or epidemic outbreak was carried by ship or mounted postal service, often requiring much time to reach rome and for rome's orders to be returned and acted upon. therefore, provincial governors had de facto autonomy in the name of the roman republic. governors had several duties, including the command of armies, handling the taxes of the province and serving as the province's chief judges.[ ] prior to the establishment of the empire, the territories of the roman republic had been divided in bc among the members of the second triumvirate: mark antony, octavian and marcus aemilius lepidus. antony received the provinces in the east: achaea, macedonia and epirus (roughly modern greece, albania and the coast of croatia), bithynia, pontus and asia (roughly modern turkey), syria, cyprus, and cyrenaica.[ ] these lands had previously been conquered by alexander the great; thus, much of the aristocracy was of greek origin. the whole region, especially the major cities, had been largely assimilated into greek culture, greek often serving as the lingua franca.[ ] the roman republic before the conquests of octavian octavian obtained the roman provinces of the west: italia (modern italy), gaul (modern france), gallia belgica (parts of modern belgium, the netherlands and luxembourg), and hispania (modern spain and portugal).[ ] these lands also included greek and carthaginian colonies in the coastal areas, though celtic tribes such as gauls and celtiberians were culturally dominant. lepidus received the minor province of africa (roughly modern tunisia). octavian soon took africa from lepidus, while adding sicilia (modern sicily) to his holdings.[ ] upon the defeat of mark antony, a victorious octavian controlled a united roman empire. the empire featured many distinct cultures, all experienced a gradual romanization.[ ] while the predominantly greek culture of the east and the predominantly latin culture of the west functioned effectively as an integrated whole, political and military developments would ultimately realign the empire along those cultural and linguistic lines. more often than not, greek and latin practices (and to some extent the languages themselves) would be combined in fields such as history (e.g., those by cato the elder), philosophy and rhetoric.[ ][ ][ ] rebellions and political developments[edit] minor rebellions and uprisings were fairly common events throughout the empire. conquered tribes or oppressed cities would revolt, and the legions would be detached to crush the rebellion. while this process was simple in peacetime, it could be considerably more complicated in wartime. in a full-blown military campaign, the legions were far more numerous—as, for example, those led by vespasian in the first jewish–roman war. to ensure a commander's loyalty, a pragmatic emperor might hold some members of the general's family hostage. to this end, nero effectively held domitian and quintus petillius cerialis, governor of ostia, who were respectively the younger son and brother-in-law of vespasian. nero's rule was ended by a revolt of the praetorian guard, who had been bribed in the name of galba. the praetorian guard, a figurative "sword of damocles", was often perceived as being of dubious loyalty, primarily due its role in court intrigues and in overthrowing several emperors, including pertinax and aurelian.[ ][ ] following their example, the legions at the borders increasingly participated in civil wars. for instance, legions stationed in egypt and the eastern provinces would see significant participation in the civil war of between emperor macrinus and elagabalus.[ ] as the empire expanded, two key frontiers revealed themselves. in the west, behind the rivers rhine and danube, germanic tribes were an important enemy. augustus, the first emperor, had tried to conquer them but had pulled back after the disastrous battle of the teutoburg forest.[ ] whilst the germanic tribes were formidable foes, the parthian empire in the east presented the greatest threat to the empire. the parthians were too remote and powerful to be conquered and there was a constant parthian threat of invasion. the parthians repelled several roman invasions, and even after successful wars of conquest, such as those implemented by trajan or septimius severus, the conquered territories were forsaken in attempts to ensure a lasting peace with the parthians. the parthian empire would be succeeded by the sasanian empire, which continued hostilities with the roman empire.[ ] controlling the western border of rome was reasonably easy because it was relatively close to rome itself and also because of the disunity among the germans. however, controlling both frontiers simultaneously during wartime was difficult. if the emperor was near the border in the east, the chances were high that an ambitious general would rebel in the west and vice versa. this wartime opportunism plagued many ruling emperors and indeed paved the road to power for several future emperors. by the time of the crisis of the third century, usurpation became a common method of succession: philip the arab, trebonianus gallus and aemilianus were all usurping generals-turned-emperors whose rule would end with usurpation by another powerful general.[ ][ ][ ] crisis of the third century[edit] main article: crisis of the third century the roman, gallic and palmyrene empires in ad with the assassination of the emperor alexander severus on march , the roman empire sank into a -year period of civil war, now known as the crisis of the third century. the rise of the bellicose sasanian empire in place of parthia posed a major threat to rome in the east, as demonstrated by shapur i's capture of emperor valerian in . valerian's eldest son and heir-apparent, gallienus, succeeded him and took up the fight on the eastern frontier. gallienus' son, saloninus, and the praetorian prefect silvanus were residing in colonia agrippina (modern cologne) to solidify the loyalty of the local legions. nevertheless, marcus cassianius latinius postumus – the local governor of the german provinces – rebelled; his assault on colonia agrippina resulted in the deaths of saloninus and the prefect. in the confusion that followed, an independent state known in modern historiography as the gallic empire emerged.[ ] its capital was augusta treverorum (modern trier), and it quickly expanded its control over the german and gaulish provinces, all of hispania and britannia. it had its own senate, and a partial list of its consuls still survives. it maintained roman religion, language, and culture, and was far more concerned with fighting the germanic tribes, fending off germanic incursions and restoring the security the gallic provinces had enjoyed in the past, than in challenging the roman central government.[ ] however, in the reign of claudius gothicus ( to ), large expanses of the gallic empire were restored to roman rule. at roughly the same time, several eastern provinces seceded to form the palmyrene empire, under the rule of queen zenobia.[ ] in , emperor aurelian finally managed to reclaim palmyra and its territory for the empire. with the east secure, his attention turned to the west, invading the gallic empire a year later. aurelian decisively defeated tetricus i in the battle of châlons, and soon captured tetricus and his son tetricus ii. both zenobia and the tetrici were pardoned, although they were first paraded in a triumph.[ ][ ] tetrarchy[edit] main article: tetrarchy the organization of the empire under the tetrarchy diocletian was the first emperor to divide the roman empire into a tetrarchy. in he elevated maximian to the rank of augustus (emperor) and gave him control of the western empire while he himself ruled the east.[ ][ ][ ] in , galerius and constantius chlorus were appointed as their subordinates (caesars), creating the first tetrarchy. this system effectively divided the empire into four major regions, as a way to avoid the civil unrest that had marked the rd century. in the west, maximian made mediolanum (now milan) his capital, and constantius made trier his. in the east, galerius made his capital sirmium and diocletian made nicomedia his. on may , diocletian and maximian abdicated, replaced by galerius and constantius, who appointed maximinus ii and valerius severus, respectively, as their caesars, creating the second tetrarchy.[ ] the tetrarchy collapsed after the unexpected death of constantius in . his son, constantine the great, was declared western emperor by the british legions,[ ][ ][ ][ ] but several other claimants arose and attempted to seize the western empire. in , galerius held a meeting at carnuntum, where he revived the tetrarchy by dividing the western empire between constantine and licinius.[ ] however, constantine was more interested in conquering the whole empire than he was in the stability of the tetrarchy, and by began to compete against licinius. constantine defeated licinius in , at the battle of chrysopolis, where licinius was taken prisoner, and later murdered.[ ] after constantine unified the empire, he refounded the city of byzantium in modern-day turkey as nova roma ("new rome"), later called constantinople, and made it the capital of the roman empire.[ ] the tetrarchy was ended, although the concept of physically splitting the roman empire between two emperors remained. although several powerful emperors unified both parts of the empire, this generally reverted in an empire divided into east and west upon their deaths, such as happened after the deaths of constantine and theodosius i.[ ][ ] further divisions[edit] division of the roman empire among the caesars appointed by constantine i: from west to east, the territories of constantine ii, constans i, dalmatius and constantius ii. after the death of constantine i (may ), this was the formal division of the empire, until dalmatius was killed and his territory divided between constans and constantius. the roman empire was under the rule of a single emperor, but, with the death of constantine in , the empire was partitioned between his surviving male heirs.[ ] constantius, his third son and the second by his wife fausta (maximian's daughter)[ ] received the eastern provinces, including constantinople, thrace, asia minor, syria, egypt, and cyrenaica; constantine ii received britannia, gaul, hispania, and mauretania; and constans, initially under the supervision of constantine ii, received italy, africa, illyricum, pannonia, macedonia, and achaea. the provinces of thrace, achaea and macedonia were shortly controlled by dalmatius, nephew of constantine i and a caesar, not an augustus, until his murder by his own soldiers in .[ ] the west was unified in under constans, who was assassinated in under the order of the usurper magnentius. after magnentius lost the battle of mursa major and committed suicide, a complete reunification of the whole empire occurred under constantius in .[ ] constantius ii focused most of his power in the east. under his rule, the city of byzantium – only recently re-founded as constantinople – was fully developed as a capital. at constantinople, the political, economic and military control of the eastern empire's resources would remain safe for centuries to come. the city was well fortified and located at the crossroads of several major trade and military routes. the site had been acknowledged for its strategic importance already by emperors septimius severus and caracalla, more than a century prior.[ ] in , constantius ii became ill and died, and constantius chlorus' grandson julian, who had served as constantius ii's caesar, assumed power. julian was killed in in the battle of samarra against the persian empire and was succeeded by jovian, who ruled for only nine months.[ ] following the death of jovian, valentinian i emerged as emperor in . he immediately divided the empire once again, giving the eastern half to his brother valens. stability was not achieved for long in either half, as the conflicts with outside forces (barbarian tribes) intensified. in , the visigoths, fleeing before the ostrogoths, who in turn were fleeing before the huns, were allowed to cross the river danube and settle in the balkans by the eastern government. mistreatment caused a full-scale rebellion, and in they inflicted a crippling defeat on the eastern roman field army in the battle of adrianople, in which emperor valens also died. the defeat at adrianople was shocking to the romans, and forced them to negotiate with and settle the visigoths within the borders of the empire, where they would become semi-independent foederati under their own leaders.[ ] the division of the empire after the death of theodosius i, c. ad, superimposed on modern borders  western court under honorius   eastern court under arcadius more than in the east, there was also opposition to the christianizing policy of the emperors in the western part of the empire. in , valentinian i's son and successor gratian declined to wear the mantle of pontifex maximus, and in he rescinded the rights of pagan priests and removed the altar of victory from the roman curia, a decision which caused dissatisfaction among the traditionally pagan aristocracy of rome.[ ] theodosius i later decreed the edict of thessalonica, which banned all religions except christianity.[ ] the political situation was unstable. in , a powerful and popular general named magnus maximus seized power in the west and forced gratian's half-brother valentinian ii to flee to the east for aid; in a destructive civil war the eastern emperor theodosius i restored him to power.[ ] in , the frankish and pagan magister militum arbogast assassinated valentinian ii and proclaimed an obscure senator named eugenius as emperor. in the forces of the two halves of the empire again clashed with great loss of life. again theodosius i won, and he briefly ruled a united empire until his death in . he was the last emperor to rule both parts of the roman empire before the west fragmented and collapsed.[ ] theodosius i's older son arcadius inherited the eastern half while the younger honorius got the western half. both were still minors and neither was capable of ruling effectively. honorius was placed under the tutelage of the half-roman/half-barbarian magister militum flavius stilicho,[ ] while rufinus became the power behind the throne in the east. rufinus and stilicho were rivals, and their disagreements would be exploited by the gothic leader alaric i who again rebelled in following the massacre by roman legions of thousands of barbarian families who were trying to assimilate into the roman empire.[ ] neither half of the empire could raise forces sufficient even to subdue alaric's men, and both tried to use alaric against the other half. alaric himself tried to establish a long-term territorial and official base, but was never able to do so. stilicho tried to defend italy and bring the invading goths under control, but to do so he stripped the rhine frontier of troops and the vandals, alans, and suevi invaded gaul in large numbers in . stilicho became a victim of court intrigues and was killed in . while the east began a slow recovery and consolidation, the west began to collapse entirely. alaric's men sacked rome in .[ ] history[edit] reign of honorius[edit] main article: honorius (emperor) solidus of emperor honorius honorius, the younger son of theodosius i, was declared augustus (and as such co-emperor with his father) on january in . upon the death of theodosius, honorius inherited the throne of the west at the age of ten whilst his older brother arcadius inherited the east. the western capital was initially mediolanum, as it had been during previous divisions, but it was moved to ravenna in upon the entry of the visigothic king alaric i into italy. ravenna, protected by abundant marshes and strong fortifications, was far easier to defend and had easy access to the imperial fleet of the eastern empire but made it more difficult for the roman military to defend the central parts of italy from regular barbarian incursions.[ ] ravenna would remain the western capital years until the deposition of romulus augustulus and would later be the capital of both the ostrogothic kingdom and the exarchate of ravenna.[ ][ ] despite the moved capital, economic power remained focused on rome and its rich senatorial aristocracy which dominated much of italy and africa in particular. after emperor gallienus had banned senators from army commands in the mid- rd century, the senatorial elite lost all experience of—and interest in—military life.[ ] in the early th century the wealthy landowning elite of the roman senate largely barred its tenants from military service, but it also refused to approve sufficient funding for maintaining a sufficiently powerful mercenary army to defend the entire western empire. the west's most important military area had been northern gaul and the rhine frontier in the th century, when trier frequently served as a military capital of sorts for the empire. many leading western generals were barbarians.[ ] the reign of honorius was, even by western roman standards, chaotic and plagued by both internal and external struggles. the visigothic foederati under alaric, magister militum in illyricum, rebelled in . gildo, the comes africae and magister utriusque militiae per africam, rebelled in and initiated the gildonic war. stilicho managed to subdue gildo but was campaigning in raetia when the visigoths entered italy in .[ ] stilicho, hurrying back to aid in defending italy, summoned legions in gaul and britain with which he managed to defeat alaric twice before agreeing to allow him to retreat back to illyria.[ ] barbarian invasions and the invasion of usurper constantine iii in the western roman empire during the reign of honorius – the weakening of the frontiers in britain and gaul had dire consequences for the empire. as the imperial government was not providing the military protection the northern provinces expected and needed, numerous usurpers arose in britain, including marcus ( – ), gratian ( ), and constantine iii who invaded gaul in .[ ] britain was effectively abandoned by the empire by due to the lack of resources and the need to look after more important frontiers. the weakening of the rhine frontier allowed multiple barbarian tribes, including the vandals, alans and suebi, to cross the river and enter roman territory in .[ ] honorius was convinced by the minister olympius that stilicho was conspiring to overthrow him, and so arrested and executed stilicho in .[ ] olympius headed a conspiracy that successfully orchestrated the deaths of key individuals related to the faction of stilicho, including his son and the families of many of his federated troops. this led many of the soldiers to instead join with alaric, who returned to italy in and met little opposition. despite attempts by honorius to reach a settlement and six legions of eastern roman soldiers sent to support him,[ ] the negotiations between alaric and honorius broke down in and alaric sacked the city of rome. though the sack was relatively mild and rome was no longer the capital of even the western empire, the event shocked people across both halves of the empire as this was the first time rome (viewed at least as the symbolic heart of the empire) had fallen to a foreign enemy since the gallic invasions of the th century bc. the eastern roman emperor theodosius ii, the successor of arcadius, declared three days of mourning in constantinople.[ ] without stilicho and following the sack of rome, honorius' reign grew more chaotic. the usurper constantine iii had stripped roman britain of its defenses when he crossed over to gaul in , leaving the romanized population subject to invasions, first by the picts and then by the saxons, angli, and the jutes who began to settle permanently from about onwards. after honorius accepted constantine as co-emperor, constantine's general in hispania, gerontius, proclaimed maximus as emperor. with the aid of general constantius, honorius successfully defeated gerontius and maximus in and shortly thereafter captured and executed constantine iii. with constantius back in italy, the gallo-roman senator jovinus revolted after proclaiming himself emperor, with the support of the gallic nobility and the barbarian burgundians and alans. honorius turned to the visigoths under king athaulf for support.[ ] athaulf defeated and executed jovinus and his proclaimed co-emperor sebastianus in , around the same time as another usurper arose in africa, heraclianus. heraclianus attempted to invade italy but failed and retreated to carthage, where he was killed.[ ] with the roman legions withdrawn, northern gaul became increasingly subject to frankish influence, the franks naturally adopting a leading role in the region. in , honorius granted southwestern gaul (gallia aquitania) to the visigoths as a vassal federation. honorius removed the local imperial governors, leaving the visigoths and the provincial roman inhabitants to conduct their own affairs. as such, the first of the "barbarian kingdoms", the visigothic kingdom, was formed.[ ] escalating barbarian conflicts[edit] germanic and hunnic invasions of the roman empire, – ad honorius' death in was followed by turmoil until the eastern roman government installed valentinian iii as western emperor in ravenna by force of arms, with galla placidia acting as regent during her son's minority. theodosius ii, the eastern emperor, had hesitated to announce the death of honorius and in the ensuing interregnum, joannes was nominated as western emperor. joannes' "rule" was short and the forces of the east defeated and executed him in .[ ] boxwood relief depicting the liberation of a besieged city by a relief force, with those defending the walls making a sortie. western roman empire, early th century ad after a violent struggle with several rivals, and against placidia's wish, aetius rose to the rank of magister militum. aetius was able to stabilize the western empire's military situation somewhat, relying heavily on his hunnic allies. with their help aetius undertook extensive campaigns in gaul, defeating the visigoths in and but suffering a defeat himself in , ending the conflict in a status quo ante with a treaty.[ ] meanwhile, pressure from the visigoths and a rebellion by bonifacius, the governor of africa, induced the vandals under king gaiseric to cross from spain to tingitana in what is now morocco in . they temporarily halted in numidia in before moving eastward. with aetius occupied in gaul, the western roman government could do nothing to prevent the vandals conquering the wealthy african provinces, culminating in the fall of carthage on  october and the establishment of the vandal kingdom. by the s, italy and rome itself were dependent on the taxes and foodstuffs from these provinces, leading to an economic crisis. with vandal fleets becoming an increasing danger to roman sea trade and the coasts and islands of the western and central mediterranean, aetius coordinated a counterattack against the vandals in , organizing a large army in sicily.[ ] however, the plans for retaking africa had to be abandoned due to the immediate need to combat the invading huns, who in were united under their ambitious king attila. turning against their former ally, the huns became a formidable threat to the empire. aetius transferred his forces to the danube,[ ] though attila concentrated on raiding the eastern roman provinces in the balkans, providing temporary relief to the western empire. in , attila received a message from honoria, valentinian iii's sister, offering him half the western empire if he would rescue her from an unwanted marriage that her brother was forcing her into. with a pretext to invade the west, attila secured peace with the eastern court and crossed the rhine in early .[ ] with attila wreaking havoc in gaul, aetius gathered a coalition of roman and germanic forces, including visigoths and burgundians, and prevented the huns from taking the city of aurelianum, forcing them into retreat.[ ] at the battle of the catalaunian plains, the roman-germanic coalition met and defeated the hunnic forces, though attila escaped.[ ] attila regrouped and invaded italy in . with aetius not having enough forces to attack him, the road to rome was open. valentinian sent pope leo i and two leading senators to negotiate with attila. this embassy, combined with a plague among attila's troops, the threat of famine, and news that the eastern emperor marcian had launched an attack on the hun homelands along the danube, forced attila to turn back and leave italy. when attila died unexpectedly in , the power struggle that erupted between his sons ended the threat posed by the huns.[ ] internal unrest and majorian[edit] the western roman empire during the reign of majorian in ad. during his four-year-long reign from to , majorian successfully restored western roman authority in hispania and most of gaul. despite his accomplishments, roman rule in the west would last less than two more decades. valentinian iii was intimidated by aetius and was encouraged by the roman senator petronius maximus and the chamberlain heraclius to assassinate him. when aetius was at court in ravenna delivering a financial account, valentinian suddenly leaped from his seat and declared that he would no longer be the victim of aetius' drunken depravities. aetius attempted to defend himself from the charges, but valentinian drew his sword and struck the weaponless aetius on the head, killing him on the spot.[ ] on march the following year, valentinian himself was killed by supporters of the dead general, possibly acting for petronius maximus. with the end of the theodosian dynasty, petronius maximus proclaimed himself emperor during the ensuing period of unrest.[ ] petronius was not able to take effective control of the significantly weakened and unstable empire. he broke the betrothal between huneric, son of the vandal king gaiseric, and eudocia, daughter of valentinian iii. this was seen as a just cause of war by king gaiseric, who set sail to attack rome. petronius and his supporters attempted to flee the city at the sight of the approaching vandals, only to be stoned to death by a roman mob. petronius had reigned only weeks.[ ] with the vandals at the gates, pope leo i requested that the king not destroy the ancient city or murder its inhabitants, to which gaiseric agreed and the city gates were opened to him. though keeping his promise, gaiseric looted great amounts of treasure and damaged objects of cultural significance such as the temple of jupiter optimus maximus. the severity of the vandal sack of is disputed, though with the vandals plundering the city for a full fourteen days as opposed to the visigothic sack of , where the visigoths only spent three days in the city, it was likely more thorough.[ ] avitus, a prominent general under petronius, was proclaimed emperor by the visigothic king theodoric ii and accepted as such by the roman senate. though supported by the gallic provinces and the visigoths, avitus was resented in italy due to ongoing food shortages caused by vandal control of trade routes, and for using a visigothic imperial guard. he disbanded his guard due to popular pressure, and the suebian general ricimer used the opportunity to depose avitus, counting on popular discontent. after the deposition of avitus, the eastern emperor leo i did not select a new western augustus. the prominent general majorian defeated an invading force of alemanni and was subsequently proclaimed western emperor by the army and eventually accepted as such by leo.[ ] majorian was the last western emperor to attempt to recover the western empire with his own military forces. to prepare, majorian significantly strengthened the western roman army by recruiting large numbers of barbarian mercenaries, among them the gepids, ostrogoths, rugii, burgundians, huns, bastarnae, suebi, scythians and alans, and built two fleets, one at ravenna, to combat the strong vandalic fleet. majorian personally led the army to wage war in gaul, leaving ricimer in italy. the gallic provinces and the visigothic kingdom had rebelled following the deposition of avitus, refusing to acknowledge majorian as lawful emperor. at the battle of arelate, majorian decisively defeated the visigoths under theoderic ii and forced them to relinquish their great conquests in hispania and return to foederati status. majorian then entered the rhone valley, where he defeated the burgundians and reconquered the rebel city of lugdunum. with gaul back under roman control, majorian turned his eyes to the vandals and africa. not only did the vandals pose a constant danger to coastal italy and trade in the mediterranean, but the province they ruled was economically vital to the survival of the west. majorian began a campaign to fully reconquer hispania to use it as a base for the reconquest of africa. throughout , majorian campaigned against the suebi in northwestern hispania.[ ] the vandals began to increasingly fear a roman invasion. king gaiseric tried to negotiate a peace with majorian, who rejected the proposal. in the wake of this, gaiseric devastated mauretania, part of his own kingdom, fearing that the roman army would land there. having regained control of hispania, majorian intended to use his fleet at carthaginiensis to attack the vandals. before he could, the fleet was destroyed, allegedly by traitors paid by the vandals. deprived of his fleet, majorian had to cancel his attack on the vandals and conclude a peace with gaiseric. disbanding his barbarian forces, majorian intended to return to rome and issue reforms, stopping at arelate on his way. here, ricimer deposed and arrested him in , having gathered significant aristocratic opposition against majorian. after five days of beatings and torture, majorian was beheaded near the river iria.[ ] collapse[edit] see also: fall of the western roman empire the western and eastern roman empire by the final collapse of the empire in the west was marked by increasingly ineffectual puppet emperors dominated by their germanic magister militums. the most pointed example of this is ricimer, who effectively became a "shadow emperor" following the depositions of avitus and majorian. unable to take the throne for himself due to his barbarian heritage, ricimer appointed a series of puppet emperors who could do little to halt the collapse of roman authority and the loss of the territories re-conquered by majorian.[ ] the first of these puppet emperors, libius severus, had no recognition outside of italy, with the eastern emperor leo i and provincial governors in gaul and illyria all refusing to recognize him.[ ] severus died in and leo i, with the consent of ricimer, appointed the capable eastern general anthemius as western emperor following an eighteen-month interregnum. the relationship between anthemius and the east was good, anthemius is the last western emperor recorded in an eastern law, and the two courts conducted a joint operation to retake africa from the vandals, culminating in the disastrous battle of cape bon in . in addition anthemius conducted failed campaigns against the visigoths, hoping to halt their expansion.[ ] the trial and subsequent execution of romanus, an italian senator and friend of ricimer, on the grounds of treachery in made ricimer hostile to anthemius. following two years of ill feeling, ricimer successfully deposed and killed anthemius in , elevating olybrius to the western throne.[ ] during the brief reign of olybrius, ricimer died and his nephew gundobad succeeded him as magister militum. after only seven months of rule, olybrius died of dropsy. gundobad elevated glycerius to western emperor. the eastern empire had rejected olybrius and also rejected glycerius, instead supporting a candidate of their own, julius nepos, magister militum in dalmatia. with the support of eastern emperors leo ii and zeno, julius nepos crossed the adriatic sea in the spring of to depose glycerius. at the arrival of nepos in italy, glycerius abdicated without a fight and was allowed to live out his life as the bishop of salona.[ ] the brief rule of nepos in italy ended in when orestes, a former secretary of attila and the magister militum of julius nepos, took control of ravenna and forced nepos to flee by ship to dalmatia. later in the same year, orestes crowned his own young son as western emperor under the name romulus augustus. romulus augustus was not recognised as western emperor by the eastern court, who maintained that nepos was the only legal western emperor, reigning in exile from dalmatia.[ ] on september , odoacer, leader of the germanic foederati in italy, captured ravenna, killed orestes and deposed romulus. though romulus was deposed, nepos did not return to italy and continued to reign as western emperor from dalmatia, with support from constantinople. odoacer proclaimed himself ruler of italy and began to negotiate with the eastern emperor zeno. zeno eventually granted odoacer patrician status as recognition of his authority and accepted him as his viceroy of italy. zeno, however, insisted that odoacer had to pay homage to julius nepos as the emperor of the western empire. odoacer accepted this condition and issued coins in the name of julius nepos throughout italy. this, however, was mainly an empty political gesture, as odoacer never returned any real power or territories to nepos. the murder of nepos in prompted odoacer to invade dalmatia, annexing it to his kingdom of italy.[ ] fall of the empire[edit] see also: historiography of the fall of the western roman empire the city of ravenna, western roman capital, on the tabula peutingeriana, a th-century medieval map possibly copied from a th- or th-century roman original by convention, the western roman empire is deemed to have ended on september , when odoacer deposed romulus augustus, but the historical record calls this determination into question. indeed, the deposition of romulus augustus received very little attention in contemporary times. romulus was a usurper in the eyes of the eastern roman empire and the remaining territories of western roman control outside of italy, with the previous emperor julius nepos still being alive and claiming to rule the western empire in dalmatia. furthermore, the western court had lacked true power and had been subject to germanic aristocrats for decades, with most of its legal territory being under control of various barbarian kingdoms. with odoacer recognising julius nepos, and later the eastern emperor zeno, as his sovereign, nominal roman control continued in italy.[ ] syagrius, who had managed to preserve roman sovereignty in an exclave in northern gaul (a realm today known as the domain of soissons) also recognized nepos as his sovereign and the legitimate western emperor.[ ] the authority of julius nepos as emperor was accepted not only by odoacer in italy, but by the eastern empire and syagrius in gaul (who had not recognized romulus augustulus). nepos was murdered by his own soldiers in , a plot some attribute to odoacer or the previous, deposed emperor glycerius,[ ] and the eastern emperor zeno chose not to appoint a new western emperor. zeno, recognizing that no true roman control remained over the territories legally governed by the western court, instead chose to abolish the juridical division of the position of emperor and declared himself the sole emperor of the roman empire. zeno became the first sole roman emperor since the division after theodosius i, years prior, and the position would never again be divided. as such, the (eastern) roman emperors after are the successors of the western ones, albeit only in a juridical sense.[ ] these emperors would continue to rule the roman empire until the fall of constantinople in , nearly a thousand years later.[ ] as marks the end of the juridical division of the empire into two separate imperial courts, some historians refer to the death of nepos and abolition of the western empire by zeno as the end of the western roman empire.[ ][ ] despite the fall, or abolition, of the western empire, many of the new kings of western europe continued to operate firmly within a roman administrative framework. this is especially true in the case of the ostrogoths, who came to rule italy after odoacer. they continued to use the administrative systems of odoacer's kingdom, essentially those of the western roman empire, and administrative positions continued to be staffed exclusively by romans. the senate continued to function as it always had, and the laws of the empire were recognized as ruling the roman population, though the goths were ruled by their own traditional laws.[ ] western roman administrative institutions, in particular those of italy, thus continued to be used during "barbarian" rule and after the forces of the eastern roman empire re-conquered some of the formerly imperial territories. some historians thus refer to the reorganizations of italy and abolition of the old and separate western roman administrative units, such as the praetorian prefecture of italy, during the sixth century as the "true" fall of the western roman empire.[ ] roman cultural traditions continued throughout the territory of the western empire for long after its disappearance, and a recent school of interpretation argues that the great political changes can more accurately be described as a complex cultural transformation, rather than a fall.[ ] political aftermath[edit] map of the barbarian kingdoms (major kingdoms and the roman empire labelled below) of the western mediterranean in , seven years before the campaigns of reconquest under eastern emperor justinian i   the roman empire under justinian   the vandal kingdom   the ostrogothic kingdom of italy   the visigothic kingdom   the frankish kingdom after the fall of the western roman empire, the germanic kingdoms, often referred to as "barbarian kingdoms", founded during its collapse continued to grow and prosper. their beginnings, together with the end of the western roman empire, mark the transition from late antiquity to the middle ages. the practices of the barbarian kingdoms gradually replaced the old roman institutions, specifically in the praetorian prefectures of gaul and italy, during the sixth and seventh centuries.[ ] in many places, the roman institutions collapsed along with the economic stability. in some regions, notably gaul and italy, the settlement of barbarians on former roman lands seems to have caused relatively little disruption, with barbarian rulers using and modifying the roman systems already in place.[ ] the germanic kingdoms in italy, hispania and gaul continued to recognise the emperor in constantinople as a somewhat nominal sovereign, the visigoths minted coins in their names until the reign of justinian i in the sixth century.[ ] th-century visigothic coin, struck in the name of emperor justinian i some territories under direct roman control continued to exist in the west even after . the domain of soissons, a rump state in northern gaul ruled by syagrius, survived until when it was conquered by the franks under king clovis i after the battle of soissons. syagrius was known as the "king of the romans" by the germanic peoples of the region and repeatedly claimed that he was merely governing a roman province, not an independent realm.[ ] under clovis i from the s to , the franks would come to develop into a great regional power. after their conquest of soissons, the franks defeated the alemanni in and conquered all visigothic territory north of the pyrenees other than septimania in . relations between the franks and the eastern empire appear to have been positive, with emperor anastasius granting clovis the title of consul following his victory against the visigoths. at the time of its dissolution in the s, the frankish kingdom had lasted far longer than the other migration period barbarian kingdoms. its divided successors would develop into the medieval states of france (initially known as west francia) and germany (initially known as east francia).[ ] a mauro-roman realm survived in the province of mauretania caesariensis until the early th century. an inscription on a fortification at the ruined city of altava from the year identifies a man named masuna as the king of "regnum maurorum et romanarum", the kingdom of the moors and romans.[ ] it is possible that masuna is the same man as the "massonas" who allied himself with the forces of the eastern roman empire against the vandals in .[ ] this kingdom was defeated by the eastern roman magister militum gennadius in and its coastal territories were incorporated into the empire once more.[ ] germanic italy[edit] odoacer's italy in ad, following the annexation of dalmatia the deposition of romulus augustus and the rise of odoacer as ruler of italy in received very little attention at the time.[ ] overall, very little changed for the people; there was still a roman emperor in constantinople to whom odoacer had subordinated himself. interregna had been experienced at many points in the west before and the deposition of romulus augustus was nothing out of the ordinary. odoacer saw his rule as entirely in the tradition of the roman empire, not unlike ricimer, and he effectively ruled as an imperial "governor" of italy and was even awarded the title of patricius. odoacer ruled using the roman administrative systems already in place and continued to mint coins with the name and portrait of julius nepos until and later with the name and portrait of the eastern augustus, rather than in his own name.[ ] when nepos was murdered in dalmatia in , odoacer assumed the duty of pursuing and executing the assassins and established his own rule in dalmatia at the same time.[ ] odoacer established his power with the loyal support of the roman senate, a legislative body that had continued even without an emperor residing in italy. indeed, the senate seems to have increased in power under odoacer. for the first time since the mid- rd century, copper coins were issued with the legend s c (senatus consulto). these coins were copied by vandals in africa and also formed the basis of the currency reform carried out by emperor anastasius in the east.[ ] under odoacer, western consuls continued to be appointed as they had been under the western roman empire and were accepted by the eastern court, the first being caecina decius maximus basilus in . basilus was made the praetorian prefect of italy in , another traditional position which continued to exist under odoacer.[ ] eleven further consuls were appointed by the senate under odoacer from to and one further praetorian prefect of italy was appointed, caecina mavortius basilius decius ( – ).[ ] solidus minted under odoacer with the name and portrait of the eastern emperor zeno though odoacer ruled as a roman governor would have and maintained himself as a subordinate to the remaining empire, the eastern emperor zeno began to increasingly see him as a rival. thus, zeno promised theoderic the great of the ostrogoths, foederati of the eastern court, control over the italian peninsula if he was able to defeat odoacer.[ ] theoderic led the ostrogoths across the julian alps and into italy and defeated odoacer in battle twice in . following four years of hostilities between them, john, the bishop of ravenna, was able to negotiate a treaty in between odoacer and theoderic whereby they agreed to rule ravenna and italy jointly. theoderic entered ravenna on  march and odoacer was dead ten days later, killed by theoderic after sharing a meal with him.[ ] map of the realm of theodoric the great at its height in , following the annexation of the southern parts of the burgundian kingdom. theoderic ruled both the visigothic and ostrogothic kingdoms and exerted hegemony over the burgundians and vandals. theoderic inherited odoacer's role as acting viceroy for italy and ostensibly a patricius and subject of the emperor in constantinople. this position was recognized by emperor anastasius in , four years after theoderic had defeated odoacer. though theodoric acted as an independent ruler, he meticulously preserved the outward appearance of his subordinate position. theoderic continued to use the administrative systems of odoacer's kingdom, essentially those of the western roman empire, and administrative positions continued to be staffed exclusively by romans. the senate continued to function as it always had and the laws of the empire were recognized as ruling the roman population, though the goths were ruled by their own traditional laws. as a subordinate, theoderic did not have the right to issue his own laws, only edicts or clarifications.[ ] the army and military offices were exclusively staffed by the goths, however, who largely settled in northern italy.[ ] though acting as a subordinate in domestic affairs, theodoric acted increasingly independent in his foreign policies. seeking to counterbalance the influence of the empire in the east, theoderic married his daughters to the visigothic king alaric ii and the burgundian prince sigismund. his sister amalfrida was married to the vandal king thrasamund and he married audofleda, sister of the frankish king clovis i, himself.[ ] through these alliances and occasional conflicts, the territory controlled by theoderic in the early sixth century nearly constituted a restored western roman empire. ruler of italy since , theoderic became king of the visigoths in and exerted hegemony over the vandals in north africa between and . as such, his rule extended throughout the western mediterranean. the western imperial regalia, housed in constantinople since the deposition of romulus augustulus in , were returned to ravenna by emperor anastasius in .[ ] theoderic, by now western emperor in all but name, could not, however, assume an imperial title, not only because the notion of a separate western court had been abolished but also due to his "barbarian" heritage, which, like that of ricimer before him, would have barred him from assuming the throne.[ ] with the death of theodoric in , his network of alliances began to collapse. the visigoths regained autonomy under king amalaric and the ostrogoths' relations with the vandals turned increasingly hostile under the reign of their new king athalaric, a child under the regency of his mother amalasuntha.[ ] after the collapse of theoderic's control of the western mediterranean, the frankish kingdom rose to become the most powerful of the barbarian kingdoms, having taken control of most of gaul in the absence of roman governance.[ ] amalasuntha continued the policies of conciliation between the goths and romans, supporting the new eastern emperor justinian i and allowing him to use sicily as a staging point during the reconquest of africa in the vandalic war. with the death of athalaric in , amalasuntha crowned her cousin and only relative theodahad as king, hoping for his support. instead, amalasuntha was imprisoned and, even though theodahad assured emperor justinian of her safety, she was executed shortly after. this served as an ideal casus belli for justinian, who prepared to invade and reclaim the italian peninsula for the roman empire.[ ] imperial reconquest[edit] further information: vandalic war and gothic war ( – ) the eastern roman empire, by reoccupying some of the former western roman empire's lands, enlarged its territory considerably during justinian's reign from (red) to (orange). with emperor zeno having juridically reunified the empire into one imperial court, the remaining eastern roman empire continued to lay claim to the areas previously controlled by the western court throughout late antiquity and the middle ages. though military campaigns had been conducted by the western court prior to with the aim of recapturing lost territory, most notably under majorian, the reconquests, if successful at all, were only momentary. it was as a result of the campaigns of the generals belisarius and narses on behalf of the eastern roman emperor justinian i from to that long-lasting reconquests of roman lands were witnessed.[ ] despite also suffering from barbarian incursions, the eastern empire had survived the fifth century mostly intact. the western roman empire, less urbanized than the eastern and more thinly populated, may have experienced an economic decline throughout the late empire in some provinces.[ ] southern italy, northern gaul (except for large towns and cities), and to some extent spain and the danubian areas may have suffered. the east fared better economically, especially as emperors such as constantine the great and constantius ii had invested heavily in the eastern economy. as a result, the eastern empire could afford large numbers of professional soldiers and to augment them with mercenaries, while the western roman empire could not afford this to the same extent. even after major defeats, the east could, although not without difficulties, buy off its enemies with a ransom or "protection money".[ ] numbering more than , soldiers, the eastern roman army of justinian i was among the most powerful in the world.[ ] unlike the visigoths and ostrogoths, the vandals in africa minted their own coinage and were both de facto and de jure independent, often being enemies of both the western and eastern roman empires.[ ] with the pro-roman vandal king hilderic having been deposed by gelimer in ,[ ] justinian prepared an expedition led by belisarius. it swiftly retook north africa between june and march , returning the wealthy province to roman rule. following the reconquest, justinian swiftly reintroduced the roman administrations of the province, establishing a new praetorian prefecture of africa and taking measures to decrease vandal influence, eventually leading to the complete disappearance of the vandalic people.[ ] justinian i (left) was the first eastern emperor to attempt to reconquer the territories of the western roman empire, undertaking successful campaigns in africa and italy in the s. manuel i komnenos (right) was the last, campaigning in southern italy in the s. following the execution of the pro-roman ostrogoth queen amalasuntha and the refusal of ostrogoth king theodahad to renounce his control of italy, justinian ordered the expedition to move on to reconquer italy, ancient heartland of the empire. from to , the roman forces campaigned in italy and captured ravenna, the ostrogothic and formerly western roman capital, in . the gothic resistance revived under king totila in . they were finally defeated following campaigns by the roman general narses, who also repelled invasions into italy by the franks and alemanni, though some cities in northern italy continued to hold out until the s. justinian promulgated the pragmatic sanction to reorganize the governance of italy and the province was returned to roman rule. the end of the conflict saw italy devastated and considerably depopulated, which, combined with the disastrous effects of the plague of justinian, made it difficult to retain over the following centuries.[ ] at the time of the collapse of the western empire in – , the visigoths controlled large areas of southern gaul as well as a majority of hispania. their increased domain had been partly conquered and partly awarded to them by the western emperor avitus in the s– s.[ ] justinian undertook some limited campaigns against them, recovering portions of the southern coast of the iberian peninsula. here, the province of spania would last until the s, when the visigoths under king suintila reconquered the south coast.[ ] these regions remained under roman control throughout the reign of justinian. three years after his death, the lombards invaded italy. the lombards conquered large parts of the devastated peninsula in the late s, establishing the lombard kingdom. they were in constant conflict with the exarchate of ravenna, a polity established to replace the old praetorian prefecture of italy and enforce roman rule in italy. the wealthiest parts of the province, including the cities of rome and ravenna, remained securely in roman hands under the exarchate throughout the seventh century.[ ] map of the eastern roman empire in ad. over the course of the seventh and eighth centuries, islamic expansion had ended roman rule in africa and though some bastions of roman rule remained, most of italy was controlled by the lombards. although other eastern emperors occasionally attempted to campaign in the west, none were as successful as justinian. after , events conspired to drive the western provinces out of constantinople's control, with imperial attention focused on the pressing issues of war with sasanian persia and then the rise of islam. for a while, the west remained important, with emperor constans ii ruling from syracuse in sicily a roman empire that still stretched from north africa to the caucasus in the s. thereafter, imperial attention declined, with constantinople itself being besieged in the s, renewed war with the arabs in the s, and then a period of chaos between and , during which time africa was finally lost once and for all, being conquered by the umayyad caliphate. through reforms and military campaigns, emperor leo iii attempted to restore order in the empire, but his doctrinal reforms, known as the iconoclastic controversy, were extremely unpopular in the west and were condemned by pope gregory iii.[ ] the roman empire was not the only christian nation affected by the islamic conquests, the visigothic kingdom finally fell to the umayyad caliphate in the s.[ ][ ] the kingdom of asturias was founded by pelagius of asturias around the same time and was the first christian realm to be established in iberia following the defeat of the visigoths.[ ] asturias would be transformed into the kingdom of león in ,[ ] which would develop into the predecessors of modern-day spain.[ ] the religious disagreements between rome and constantinople eventually led to the breakdown in imperial rule over rome itself, and the gradual transition of the exarchate of ravenna into the independent papal states, led by the pope. in an attempt to gain support against the lombards, the pope called for aid from the frankish kingdom instead of the eastern empire, eventually crowning the frankish king charlemagne as "roman emperor" in ad. though this coronation was strongly opposed by the eastern empire, there was little they could do as their influence in western europe decreased. after a series of small wars in the s, emperor michael i recognized charlemagne as an "emperor". he refused to recognize him as a "roman emperor" (a title which michael reserved for himself and his successors), instead recognizing him as the slightly less prestigious "emperor of the franks".[ ] imperial rule continued in sicily throughout the eighth century, with the island slowly being overrun by the arabs during the course of the ninth century. in italy, a few strongholds in calabria provided a base for a later, modest imperial expansion, which reached its peak in the early eleventh century, with most of southern italy under roman rule of a sort. this, however, was undone by further civil wars in the empire, and the slow conquest of the region by the empire's former mercenaries, the normans, who finally put an end to imperial rule in western europe in with the conquest of bari.[ ] the last emperor to attempt reconquests in the west was manuel i komnenos, who invaded southern italy during a war with the norman kingdom of sicily in the s. the city of bari willingly opened its gates to the emperor and after successes in taking other cities in the region,[ ] manuel dreamed of a restored roman empire and a union between the churches of rome and constantinople, separated since the schism of . despite initial successes and papal support, the campaign was unsuccessful and manuel was forced to return east.[ ] legacy[edit] further information: legacy of the roman empire, romance languages, corpus juris civilis, civil law (legal system), latin alphabet, literature, bust (sculpture), concrete, and cities on the left: emperor honorius on the consular diptych of anicius petronius probus ( ) on the right: consular diptych of constantius iii (a co-emperor with honorius in ), produced for his consulate in or . as the western roman empire crumbled, the new germanic rulers who conquered its constituent provinces maintained most roman laws and traditions. many of the invading germanic tribes were already christianized, although most were followers of arianism. they quickly changed their adherence to the state church of the roman empire. this helped cement the loyalty of the local roman populations, as well as the support of the powerful bishop of rome. although they initially continued to recognize indigenous tribal laws, they were more influenced by roman law and gradually incorporated it.[ ] roman law, particularly the corpus juris civilis collected on the orders of justinian i, is the basis of modern civil law. in contrast, common law is based on germanic anglo-saxon law. civil law is by far the most widespread system of law in the world, in force in some form in about countries.[ ] romance languages, languages that developed from latin following the collapse of the western roman empire, are spoken in western europe to this day and their extent almost reflects the continental borders of the old empire. latin as a language did not disappear. vulgar latin combined with neighboring germanic and celtic languages, giving rise to modern romance languages such as italian, french, spanish, portuguese, romanian, and a large number of minor languages and dialects. today, more than  million people are native speakers of romance languages worldwide. in addition, many romance languages are used as lingua francas by non-native speakers.[ ] latin also influenced germanic languages such as english and german.[ ] it survives in a "purer" form as the language of the catholic church; the catholic mass was spoken exclusively in latin until . as such it was also used as a lingua franca by ecclesiasticals. it remained the language of medicine, law, and diplomacy (most treaties were written in latin[citation needed]), as well as of intellectuals and scholarship, well into the th century. since then the use of latin has declined with the growth of other lingua francas, especially english and french.[ ] the latin alphabet was expanded due to the split of i into i and j, and of v into u, v, and, in places (especially germanic languages and polish), w. it is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today.[citation needed] roman numerals continue to be used in some fields and situations, though they have largely been replaced by arabic numerals.[ ] a very visible legacy of the western roman empire is the catholic church. church institutions slowly began to replace roman ones in the west, even helping to negotiate the safety of rome during the late th century.[ ] as rome was invaded by germanic tribes, many assimilated, and by the middle of the medieval period (c. th and th centuries) the central, western, and northern parts of europe had been largely converted to roman catholicism and acknowledged the pope as the vicar of christ. the first of the barbarian kings to convert to the church of rome was clovis i of the franks; other kingdoms, such as the visigoths, later followed suit to garner favor with the papacy.[ ] when pope leo iii crowned charlemagne as "roman emperor" in , he both severed ties with the outraged eastern empire and established the precedent that no man in western europe would be emperor without a papal coronation.[ ] although the power the pope wielded changed significantly throughout the subsequent periods, the office itself has remained as the head of the catholic church and the head of state of the vatican city. the pope has consistently held the title of "pontifex maximus" since before the fall of the western roman empire and retains it to this day; this title formerly used by the high priest of the roman polytheistic religion, one of whom was julius caesar.[ ][ ] the roman senate survived the initial collapse of the western roman empire. its authority increased under the rule of odoacer and later the ostrogoths, evident by the senate in managing to install symmachus as pope despite both theodoric of italy and emperor anastasius supporting another candidate, laurentius.[ ] exactly when the senate disappeared is unclear, but the institution is known to have survived at least into the th century, inasmuch as gifts from the senate were received by emperor tiberius ii in and . the traditional senate building, curia julia, was rebuilt into a church under pope honorius i in , probably with permission from the eastern emperor, heraclius.[ ] nomenclature[edit] marcellinus comes, a sixth-century eastern roman historian and a courtier of justinian i, mentions the western roman empire in his chronicle, which primarily covers the eastern roman empire from to . in the chronicle, it is clear that marcellinus made a clear divide between east and west, with mentions of a geographical east ("oriens") and west ("occidens") and of an imperial east ("orientale imperium" and "orientale respublica") and an imperial west ("occidentalie imperium", "occidentale regnum", "occidentalis respublica", "hesperium regnum", "hesperium imperium" and "principatum occidentis"). furthermore, marcellinus specifically designates some emperors and consuls as being "eastern", "orientalibus principibus" and "orientalium consulum" respectively.[ ] the term hesperium imperium, translating to "western empire", has sometimes been applied to the western roman empire by modern historians as well.[ ] though marcellinus does not refer to the empire as a whole after , only to its separate parts, he clearly identifies the term "roman" as applying to the empire as a whole. when using terms such as "us", "our generals", and "our emperor", marcellinus distinguished both divisions of the empire from outside foes such as the sasanian persians and the huns.[ ] this view is consistent with the view that contemporary romans of the th and th centuries continued to consider the empire as a single unit, although more often than not with two rulers instead of one.[ ] the first time the empire was divided geographically was during the reign of diocletian, but there was precedent for multiple emperors. before diocletian and the tetrarchy, there had been a number of periods where there were co-emperors, such as with caracalla and geta in – , who inherited the imperial throne from their father septimius severus, but caracalla ruled alone after the murder of his brother.[ ] attempted restorations of a western court[edit] maps of the exarchates within the roman empire in ad. the exarchates of ravenna (left) and africa (right) were established by the eastern empire to better administer the reconquered western territories. the positions of eastern and western augustus, established under emperor diocletian in as the tetrarchy, had been abolished by emperor zeno in following the loss of direct control over the western territories. declaring himself the sole augustus, zeno only exercised true control over the largely intact eastern empire and over italy as the nominal overlord of odoacer.[ ] the reconquests under justinian i would bring back large formerly western roman territories into imperial control, and with them the empire would begin to face the same problems it had faced under previous periods prior to the tetrarchy when there had been only one ruler. shortly after the reconquest of north africa a usurper, stotzas, appeared in the province (though he was quickly defeated).[ ] as such, the idea of dividing the empire into two courts out of administrative necessity would see a limited revival during the period that the eastern empire controlled large parts of the former west, both by courtiers in the east and enemies in the west.[ ][ ] the earliest attempt at crowning a new western emperor after the abolition of the title occurred already during the gothic wars under justinian. belisarius, an accomplished general who had already successfully campaigned to restore roman control over north africa and large parts of italy, including rome itself, was offered the position of western roman emperor by the ostrogoths during his siege of ravenna (the ostrogothic, and previously western roman, capital) in . the ostrogoths, desperate to avoid losing their control of italy, offered the title and their fealty to belisarius as western augustus. justinian had expected to rule over a restored roman empire alone, with the codex justinianeus explicitly designating the new praetorian prefect of africa as the subject of justinian in constantinople.[ ] belisarius, loyal to justinian, feigned acceptance of the title to enter the city, whereupon he immediately relinquished it. despite belisarius relinquishing the title, the offer had made justinian suspicious and belisarius was ordered to return east.[ ] at the end of emperor tiberius ii's reign in , the eastern roman empire retained control over relatively large parts of the regions reconquered under justinian. tiberius chose two caesares, the general maurice and the governor germanus, and married his two daughters to them. germanus had clear connections to the western provinces, and maurice to the eastern provinces. it is possible that tiberius was planning to divide the empire into western and eastern administrative units once more.[ ] if so, the plan was never realized. at the death of tiberius, maurice inherited the entire empire as germanus had refused the throne. maurice established a new type of administrative unit, the exarchate, and organized the remaining western territories under his control into the exarchate of ravenna and the exarchate of africa.[ ] later claims to the imperial title in the west[edit] see also: problem of two emperors denarius of frankish king charlemagne, who was crowned as roman emperor karolus imperator augustus in the year by pope leo iii due to, and in opposition to, the roman empire in the east being ruled by irene, a woman. his coronation was strongly opposed by the eastern empire. in addition to remaining as a concept for an administrative unit in the remaining empire, the ideal of the roman empire as a mighty christian empire with a single ruler further continued to appeal to many powerful rulers in western europe. with the papal coronation of charlemagne as "emperor of the romans" in ad, his realm was explicitly proclaimed as a restoration of the roman empire in western europe under the concept of translatio imperii. though the carolingian empire collapsed in and berengar, the last "emperor" claiming succession from charlemagne, died in , the concept of a papacy- and germanic-based roman empire in the west would resurface in the form of the holy roman empire in . the holy roman emperors would uphold the notion that they had inherited the supreme power and prestige of the roman emperors of old until the dissolution of the holy roman empire in .[ ] charlemagne, and the subsequent holy roman emperors, were not, and did not claim to be, rulers of a restored western roman empire. pope leo iii and contemporary historians were fully aware of that the notion of a separate western court had been abolished over three centuries prior and considered the roman empire to be "one and indivisible". the ruler of the roman empire at the time of charlemagne's coronation was irene, the mother of emperor constantine vi who she had deposed. leo iii considered irene to be a usurper and illegitimate to rule due to her gender and as such considered the imperial throne to be vacant. thus, charlemagne was not crowned as the ruler of the western roman empire and successor to romulus augustulus, but rather as the successor of constantine vi and as sole roman emperor. irene was deposed and replaced by emperor nikephoros soon after, and the eastern empire refused to recognize the imperial title of charlemagne. following several wars in the s emperor michael i rangabe eventually recognized charlemagne as an "emperor", but as the slightly humiliating "emperor of the franks" rather than "roman emperor", a title he reserved for himself.[ ] for centuries to come, the "revived" western court and the eastern court, in direct succession to the roman emperors of old, would make competing claims to be rulers of the whole roman empire. with the eastern empire terming the holy roman empire as an "empire of the franks", the term "empire of the greeks" was popularized in the frankish court as a way to refer to the empire centered in constantinople.[ ] following the end of the eastern roman empire after the fall of constantinople in and the dissolution of the holy roman empire in , the title of "emperor" became widespread among european monarchs. the austrian empire laid claim to be the heir of the holy roman empire as austria's habsburgs attempted to unite germany under their rule.[ ] the german empire, established in , also claimed to be a successor of rome through the lineage of the holy roman empire.[ ] both of these empires used the imperial title kaiser (derived from the latin word "caesar"), the german word for emperor. the german empire and austria-hungary, successor of the austrian empire, would both fall in the aftermath of the first world war along with the russian and ottoman empires who had both claimed succession from the eastern roman empire.[ ][ ][ ] list of western roman emperors[edit] with junior colleagues titled caesar listed below the reign of each emperor. tetrarchy ( – )[edit] main article: tetrarchy bust of emperor maximian, the first western roman emperor 	maximian: – [ ] 	constantius chlorus: – [ ] maximian was elevated to caesar by diocletian in , after diocletian defeated carinus.[ ] he became western emperor in , with the establishment of the tetrarchy. on may , both maximian and diocletian abdicated, leaving constantius and galerius as emperors.[ ] 	constantius i chlorus: – [ ] 	valerius severus: – [ ] constantius chlorus was elevated to caesar in , under maximian. constantius became the western emperor in , after the abdication of maximian.[ ] constantius died on july , leaving a highly contested succession in his wake.[ ] 	valerius severus: – [ ] 	constantine: – [ ] valerius severus was elevated to caesar by constantius in , after the abdication of maximian and diocletian. after the death of constantius in , severus became western emperor. severus was forced to deal with the revolt of maxentius, the son of maximian. maxentius invaded in early , and successfully captured the western empire.[ ] he had severus put to death soon after his capture.[ ] 	maxentius: – [ ] maxentius was proclaimed emperor in , in opposition to valerius severus. he succeeded in capturing the western empire in , and had severus killed soon after.[ ] the western empire was invaded in by constantine, who on october decisively defeated maxentius, who drowned when his forces were pushed back into the tiber river.[ ] 	licinius: – [ ] licinius was made emperor of the eastern empire, and parts of the western empire, all of which was actually held by maxentius, at the council of carnuntum, which was held in in order to try to end the civil war in the western empire. constantine invaded licinius' section of the western empire in , and forced him to sign a treaty in which he forfeited his claim to the western empire, and only controlled the eastern empire.[ ] constantinian dynasty ( – )[edit] main article: constantinian dynasty bust of emperor constantine i, the founder of the constantinian dynasty 	constantine i: – (sole emperor: – ).[ ] constantine i was proclaimed caesar of the western empire on july . after he proclaimed himself as the western emperor, in opposition to maxentius and licinius. he was the sole western emperor from – , when he became both western emperor and eastern emperor.[ ] 	constantine ii – (emperor of gaul, britannia and hispania: – ).[ ] constantine ii was proclaimed caesar of the eastern empire in late . in , constantine i allotted the inheritance his sons would receive after his death, which would take place two years later in , giving constantine ii control of gaul, britannia and hispania. constantine ii's relationship with constans i was tense, and in , constantine took advantage of constans absence from italy and invaded it. however, in the same year, he was ambushed by constans' forces in aquilea, and was killed.[ ] 	constans i – (emperor of italy and africa: – , western emperor: – ).[ ] constans was proclaimed emperor of italy and africa in , after the death of constantine i. after constantine ii was killed in , while attempting to invade constans' territory in italy, constans took control of the entire western empire. constans was contemptuous of his army, who as a result proclaimed magnentius as emperor in . constans fled toward hispania, but was captured and executed by an agent of magnentius on the border.[ ] 	constantius ii – (eastern emperor: – , sole emperor: – ).[ ] 	julian: – [ ] constantius ii was proclaimed caesar in , and became eastern emperor in , after the death of constantine i. after constans was killed by the usurper magnentius, constantius laid claim to the western empire, and after defeating magnentius in , took possession of it, becoming sole emperor. constantius ii died in , of a violent fever.[ ] 	julian: – (sole emperor).[ ] julian was proclaimed caesar in , before becoming emperor in , after constantius ii died of a violent fever in . julian died in march , of wounds sustained during the battle of samarra.[ ] non-dynastic ( – )[edit] 	jovian: – (sole emperor).[ ] when julian died in , he left no heir, causing a succession crisis. the roman army elected jovian as sole emperor. jovian reigned only seven months, in which he signed a humiliating peace treaty with the sasanian empire, under shapur ii. in this agreement, rome surrendered five provinces and fortresses to the sasanians, in exchange for a -year truce. jovian died on february , due to either indigestion or charcoal vapour inhalation.[ ] valentinianic dynasty ( – )[edit] main article: valentinianic dynasty bust of emperor valentinian ii, a member of the valentinianic dynasty's second generation of emperors 	valentinian i: – [ ] 	gratian: – [ ] after the death of jovian, valentinian i was elected. he divided the empire between himself and his younger brother, valens, giving himself the west and valens the east. valentinian spent much of his reign defending gaul against repeated attacks by barbarian tribes, only leaving the region in . in , while meeting with the quadi, he suffered a stroke brought on by rage.[ ] 	gratian: – [ ] 	valentinian ii: – [ ] valentinian elevated his son, gratian, to caesar in , however on his deathbed he elevated his much younger son, valentinian ii, to caesar along with gratian, and valens who was emperor in the east.[ ] gratian showed a strong preference for the barbarian mercenaries in his army, especially his alanic guard, which inflamed the roman population, to the point that in , roman troops in britain declared magnus maximus emperor, in opposition to gratian. maximus landed troops in gaul, and attacked gratian's troops near paris. gratian was defeated, and fled to lyons, where he was murdered on august .[ ] 	valentinian ii: – [ ] after the death of gratian, valentinian ii succeeded him, although he only controlled italy itself, with all other western roman provinces recognizing maximus. in maximus invaded italy, to depose valentinian. valentinian fled to the court of theodosius, where he succeeded in convincing theodosius to attack maximus, and to reinstate himself as western emperor, which was done after maximus was defeated in battle near aquileia.[ ] valentinian continued to rule the western empire until , when he was murdered by arbogast.[ ] 	magnus maximus: – [ ][ ] 	flavius victor: / – [ ][ ][ ] magnus maximus was elected emperor by his men in , in opposition to gratian, who defeated him in battle in . maximus was briefly recognized as the western emperor by eastern emperor theodosius i, however this recognition was revoked by both when maximus invaded italy and deposed valentinian ii in . valentinian ii fled to the eastern roman empire, and convinced theodosius to invade the western roman empire and restore him to the western roman throne, which he did in . maximus was defeated in battle near aquileia, and executed.[ ][ ][ ][ ] theodosian dynasty ( – )[edit] main article: theodosian dynasty emperor honorius, as depicted by jean-paul laurens in 	theodosius i: – (eastern roman emperor: – , sole emperor: – )[ ] theodosius was proclaimed eastern emperor by gratian on january , after securing victory against invading barbarians along the danube. he became sole emperor in august , after defeating the usurper eugenius. theodosius died of edema in january .[ ] 	honorius: – [ ] 	constantine iii: – [ ] 	constans ii: – [ ] 	constantius iii: .[ ] honorius became western emperor in , after the death of his father theodosius. his reign was beset by barbarian invasions, and for much of his early reign, until , he was controlled by stilicho, whose influence over honorius would create a standard for puppet western emperors. honorius died of edema in .[ ] 	valentinian iii: – [ ] valentinian iii was designated honorius' heir in , although he was not proclaimed caesar, only given the title of nobilissimus puer. in , after the death of honorius, a usurper named joannes rose up, forcing valentinian iii to flee with his family to the court of the eastern emperor theodosius ii. he was installed as western emperor in , after joannes was defeated by theodosius in ravenna. valentinian was killed on march , by optila, a friend of flavius aetius, whom valentinian had killed.[ ] non-dynastic ( – )[edit] 	petronius maximus: (not recognized by eastern emperor)[ ] 	palladius: .[ ] petronius maximus became the western roman emperor on march , after assassinating valentinian iii.[ ] during his short reign, he provoked gaiseric, the vandal king, into invading the western empire and sacking rome, by breaking a marriage agreement made between gaiseric and valentinian iii. maximus and his son palladius attempted to flee on may , however they were apprehended by a group of peasants, and either killed by them, or by palace servants wishing to curry favor with them.[ ][ ] 	avitus: – (not recognized by eastern emperor)[ ] avitus was proclaimed western emperor on  july , with the support of the visigoth king theodoric ii. while he held support from the visigoths, his rule alienated both the roman senate and people. in ricimer, a senior officer, had avitus deposed, and ruled the western empire through a series of puppet emperors until his death in .[ ] 	majorian: – [ ] majorian was proclaimed western emperor  april , officially by eastern emperor leo i, however in reality leo's decision was swayed by the influence of ricimer. on  august , majorian was compelled to abdicate, and reportedly died five days later of dysentery, although modern historians have asserted he was likely murdered.[ ] 	libius severus: – (not recognized by eastern emperor)[ ] libius severus was proclaimed western emperor on november . his rule, even as a puppet emperor, extended little beyond italy, with aegidius splitting off from the western empire, and establishing the kingdom of soissons. libius severus incited the hostility of the vandals, who invaded italy and sicily. during these events, libius severus died on  november , possibly due to being poisoned by ricimer.[ ] 	anthemius: – [ ] anthemius was proclaimed western emperor on  april by leo i. under anthemius, the western empire, which had become increasingly isolated from the eastern empire, grew closer, although this collaboration came too late to save the western empire. anthemius' friendly attitude towards the eastern empire angered ricimer, who deposed him in march or april of .[ ] 	olybrius: (not recognized by eastern emperor)[ ] olybrius was proclaimed emperor in april . his brief reign, lasting only five or six months, was dominated by gundobad, who had replaced his uncle ricimer as the true power behind the throne, after the former's death. olybrius died in october or november , of edema.[ ] 	glycerius: – (not recognized by eastern emperor)[ ] after the death of both olybrius and ricimer, glycerius was proclaimed western emperor by the western roman army, on or  may .[ ] he was deposed by julius nepos in july , and sent to live in a monastery, where he remained until his death.[ ] 	julius nepos: – (in exile – )[ ] the eastern roman empire had rejected the coronation of both olybrius and glycerius, instead supporting julius nepos, magister militum in dalmatia as western roman emperor. nepos, with support from the east, deposed glycerius in the spring of .[ ] orestes, magister militum of nepos, deposed him a year later in , forcing nepos to flee ravenna to his estates in dalmatia. orestes crowned his son romulus as western emperor, though the eastern empire and the western possessions outside of italy maintained recognition of nepos as the legitimate emperor.[ ] nepos continued to rule as "western emperor" in exile in dalmatia until his murder in and would be the last holder of the title.[ ] 	romulus augustus: – (not recognized by eastern emperor)[ ] romulus augustus was crowned as western emperor after his father orestes deposed julius nepos.[ ] the rule of romulus would be brief; in the autumn of the foederati under the control of odoacer rebelled when their demands for a third of the land of italy were ignored.[ ] orestes was captured and executed on  august the same year and romulus was deposed by odoacer a week later. romulus was spared and allowed to live out his life in the castellum lucullanum in campania, where he might have been alive as late as ad.[ ] with the deposition of romulus augustus by odoacer, 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(san diego county outside the city of san diego) 	 san diego public library (san diego) 	 san diego state university (san diego) 	 san francisco public library (san francisco) 	 san jose public library (san jose) 	 san jose state university (san jose) 	 san leandro public library (san leandro) 	 santa clara city library (santa clara) 	 santa clara county library district (parts of santa clara county) 	 santa monica college library (santa monica) 	 santa monica public library (santa monica) 	 sausalito public library (sausalito; member of marinet) 	 solano county library (solano county) 	 sonoma county library (santa rosa and vicinity) 	 sonoma state university library (rohnert park) 	 st. helena public library (st. helena) 	 stanford university libraries (stanford) 	 stanislaus county library (modesto and vicinity) 	 sunnyvale public library (sunnyvale) 	 tulare county library (visalia and vicinity) 	 ucla: university of california los angeles (los angeles) 	 ucsd: university of california san diego (la jolla) 	 usc: university of southern california (los angeles) 	 university of california berkeley (berkeley) 	 university of california davis (davis) 	 university of california irvine (irvine) 	 university of california libraries (all uc campuses) 	 university of california riverside (riverside) 	 university of california santa barbara (santa barbara) 	 whittier college (whittier) 	 yolo county library (yolo county) 	 colorado	 arapahoe libraries (arapahoe county) 	 bemis public library (littleton) 	 boulder public library (boulder) 	 colorado alliance of research libraries: prospector (various libraries in or near colorado) 	 colorado state university (fort collins) 	 denver public library (denver) 	 douglas county libraries (douglas county) 	 jefferson county public library (jefferson county) 	 longmont public library (longmont) 	 pikes peak library district (colorado springs, and el paso county) 	 poudre river public library district (fort collins) 	 summit county library (frisco, silverthorne, and breckenridge) 	 united states air force academy (colorado springs) 	 university of colorado boulder (boulder) 	 connecticut	 bridgeport library (bridgeport) 	 central connecticut state university (new britain) 	 connecticut college (new london) 	 connecticut state library (hartford and other locations) 	 cyrenius h. booth library (newtown) 	 danbury library (danbury) 	 darien library (darien) 	 eastern connecticut state university (willimantic) 	 edsel ford memorial library, hotchkiss school (lakeville) 	 greenwich library (greenwich) 	 hartford public library (hartford) 	 library connection inc. (greater hartford suburban libraries) 	 new haven free public library (new haven) 	 norwalk public library system (norwalk) 	 quinnipiac university (hamden) 	 silas bronson library (waterbury) 	 southern connecticut state university (new haven) 	 the ferguson library (stamford) 	 trinity college (hartford) 	 united states coast guard academy (new london) 	 university of connecticut (storrs and other campuses) 	 wesleyan university (middletown) 	 western connecticut state university (danbury) 	 westport library (westport) 	 yale university (new haven) 	 delaware	 delaware library catalog (public libraries statewide) 	 delaware state university (dover) 	 university of delaware library (newark) 	 wilmington university library (new castle) 	 district of columbia	 american university (washington) 	 catholic university of america (washington) 	 dc public library (washington) 	 gallaudet university (washington) 	 george washington university (washington) 	 georgetown university (washington) 	 howard university (washington) 	 library of congress (washington) 	 smithsonian libraries (washington and other locations) 	 florida	 alachua county library district (gainesville and vicinity) 	 bethune-cookman university (daytona beach) 	 brevard county libraries (space coast area) 	 broward county library (fort lauderdale and vicinity) 	 collier county public library (naples and vicinity) 	 columbia county public library (lake city) 	 edward waters college (jacksonville) 	 flagler county public library system (palm coast and bunnell) 	 florida a&m university (tallahassee) 	 florida gulf coast university (fort myers) 	 florida memorial university (miami gardens) 	 florida state university (tallahassee and other campuses) 	 heartland library cooperative (highlands, desoto, glades, hardee, and okechobee counties) 	 hillsborough county public library cooperative (tampa and vicinity) 	 indian river county library system (vero beach and vicinity) 	 jacksonville public library (jacksonville) 	 lake county library system (lake county) 	 leroy collins leon county public library (tallahassee) 	 lee county library system (fort myers and vicinity) 	 marion county public library system (ocala and vicinity) 	 miami dade college (miami and other campuses) 	 miami-dade public library system (miami) 	 nassau county public library system (nassau county) 	 orange county library system (orlando and vicinity) 	 palm beach county library system (west palm beach and vicinity) 	 pasco county libraries (pasco county) 	 pinellas public library cooperative (clearwater, st. petersburg and pinellas county) 	 saint leo university (saint leo) 	 sarasota county libraries (sarasota and vicinity) 	 seminole county public library (seminole county) 	 seminole state college of florida (sanford and other campuses) 	 southeastern university (lakeland) 	 st. lucie county library system (st. lucie county) 	 suwanee river regional library system (suwanee, hamilton, and madison counties) 	 university of central florida: ucf libraries (orlando and other campuses) 	 university of florida, george a. smathers libraries (gainesville) 	 university of miami libraries (coral gables) 	 university of north florida (jacksonville) 	 university of south florida (tampa) 	 university of west florida (pensacola) 	 volusia county public library (daytona beach, deltona, and vicinity) 	 west florida public libraries (pensacola and escambia county) 	 georgia	 albany state university (albany) 	 athens-clarke county library (athens) 	 atlanta university center (clark atlanta, interdenominational theological center, morehouse, spelman) 	 atlanta-fulton public library system (atlanta and vicinity) 	 brenau university (gainesville) 	 chattahoochee valley libraries (columbus and vicinity) 	 dekalb county public library (dekalb county) 	 emory university libraries (atlanta) 	 fort benning libraries (fort benning) 	 fort valley state university (fort valley) 	 georgia public library service, pines catalog (public libraries throughout the state) 	 georgia southern university (statesboro and savannah) 	 georgia state university (atlanta) 	 georgia tech library (atlanta) 	 gwinnett county public library (gwinnett county) 	 live oak public libraries (savannah; chatham, effingham and liberty counties) 	 oglethorpe university (atlanta) 	 savannah state university (savannah) 	 university of georgia (athens) 	 university of west georgia (carrollton) 	 hawaii	 hawaii state public library system (public libraries throughout the state) 	 university of hawaii at manoa (honolulu) 	 idaho	 blackfoot public library (blackfoot) 	 boise public library (boise) 	 boise state university, albertsons library (boise) 	 coeur d'alene public library (coeur d'alene) 	 cooperative information network ( public and school libraries in northern idaho and vicinity) 	 idaho falls public library (idaho falls) 	 idaho state university (pocatello) 	 marshall public library (pocatello) 	 meridian library district (meridian) 	 nampa public library (nampa) 	 twin falls public library (twin falls) 	 university of idaho library (moscow, and other campuses) 	 illinois	 arlington heights memorial library (arlington heights) 	 aurora public library (aurora) 	 bloomingdale public library (bloomingdale) 	 bloomington public library (bloomington) 	 champaign public library and urbana free library (champaign-urbana) 	 chicago public library (chicago) 	 chicago school of professional psychology (chicago and other campuses) 	 chicago state university (chicago) 	 college of dupage (glen ellyn) 	 cooperative computer services ( libraries in northwestern chicago suburbs) 	 depaul university (chicago) 	 dixon public library (dixon) 	 dominican university, rebecca crown library (river forest) 	 evanston public library (evanston) 	 illinois heartland library system (share) (libraries in southern illinois) 	 indian trails library district (buffalo grove, wheeling, prospect heights, and vicinity) 	 itasca community library (itasca) 	 joliet junior college (joliet) 	 joliet public library, main library (joliet) 	 lincoln library (springfield) 	 naperville public library (naperville) 	 northeastern illinois university (neiu) (chicago) 	 northwestern university libraries (evanston) 	 oswego public library district (oswego and montgomery) 	 parlin-ingersoll public library (canton) 	 plainfield public library district (plainfield) 	 prairiecat (libraries in the rails cooperative of northern illinois) 	 pritzker military museum and library (chicago) 	 resource sharing alliance (rsa) (libraries in west central illinois) 	 rockford public library (rockford) 	 swan: system wide automated network (suburban libraries in the chicago area) 	 schaumburg township district library (schaumburg and vicinity) 	 skokie public library (skokie) 	 university of chicago library (chicago) 	 university of illinois urbana-champaign library (urbana-champaign) 	 university of illinois-chicago library (chicago) 	 waukegan public library (waukegan) 	 western illinois university (macomb and quad cities) 	 indiana	 allen county public library (fort wayne and vicinity) 	 butler university (indianapolis) 	 depauw university (greencastle) 	 evansville vanderburgh public library (evansville and vanderburgh county) 	 hanover college, duggan library (hanover) 	 hesburgh libraries, university of notre dame (notre dame) 	 indiana university libraries (bloomington, and other campuses) 	 indianapolis public library (indianapolis) 	 purdue university libraries (west lafayette) 	 st. joseph county public library (south bend and vicinity) 	 tippecanoe county public library (lafayette and vicinity) 	 valparaiso university (valparaiso) 	 iowa	 bondurant community library (bondurant) 	 carnegie-stout public library (dubuque) 	 cedar falls public library (cedar falls) 	 cedar rapids public library (cedar rapids) 	 council bluffs public library (council bluffs) 	 davenport public library (davenport) 	 des moines public library (des moines) 	 drake public library (centerville) 	 grinnell college (grinnell) 	 harlan community library (harlan) 	 iowa city public library (iowa city) 	 iowa state university (ames) 	 marion public library (marion) 	 orange city public library (orange city) 	 sioux city public library (sioux city) 	 university of iowa libraries (iowa city) 	 university of northern iowa (cedar falls) 	 waterloo public library (waterloo) 	 kansas	 johnson county library (overland park and vicinity) 	 kansas city, kansas public library (kansas city) 	 kansas state university (manhattan) 	 manhattan public library (manhattan) 	 psu library consortium (academic and public libraries in the pittsburg area) 	 topeka and shawnee county public library (topeka) 	 university of kansas libraries (lawrence) 	 wichita public library (wichita) 	 wichita state university (wichita) 	 kentucky	 ashland community and technical college (ashland) 	 berea college (berea) 	 big sandy community and technical college (prestonburg) 	 bluegrass community and technical college (lexington) 	 elizabethtown community and technical college (elizabethtown) 	 fort campbell, sink library (fort campbell) 	 gateway community and technical college (florence) 	 hazard community and technical college (hazard and jackson) 	 henderson community college (henderson) 	 hopkinsville community college (hopkinsville) 	 jefferson community and technical college (louisville) 	 kenton county public library (kenton county) 	 kentucky state university (frankfort) 	 lexington public library (lexington) 	 louisville free public library (louisville) 	 madisonville community college (madisonville) 	 maysville community and technical college (maysville) 	 murray state university (murray) 	 northern kentucky university (highland heights) 	 owensboro community and technical college (owensboro) 	 paul sawyier public library (frankfort) 	 rowan county public library (morehead) 	 somerset community college (somerset) 	 southcentral kentucky community and technical college (bowling green, glasgow, and franklin) 	 southeast kentucky community and technical college (cumberland and other campuses) 	 southern baptist theological seminary (louisville) 	 university of kentucky (lexington) 	 university of louisville (louisville) 	 west kentucky community and technical college (paducah) 	 western kentucky university (bowling green and other campuses) 	 louisiana	 jefferson parish library (jefferson parish) 	 lsu alexandria, bolton library (alexandria) 	 lafourche parish public library (lafourche parish) 	 louisiana state university (baton rouge) 	 loyola university new orleans, monroe library (new orleans) 	 new orleans public library (new orleans) 	 northwestern state university (natchitoches and other campuses) 	 shreve memorial library (shreveport and caddo parish) 	 tulane university (new orleans) 	 university of new orleans, long library (new orleans) 	 west feliciana parish library (st. francisville) 	 xavier university of louisiana (new orleans) 	 maine	 bangor public library (bangor) 	 bates college (lewiston) 	 bowdoin college (brunswick) 	 colby college (waterville) 	 mainecat (statewide library catalog) 	 portland public library (portland) 	 university of maine, fogler library (orono) 	 york county community college (wells) 	 maryland	 baltimore county public library (baltimore suburbs) 	 cecil county public library (cecil county) 	 chesapeake college (wye mills and cambridge) 	 eastern shore regional library system (public libraries on maryland's eastern shore) 	 enoch pratt free library (baltimore) 	 frederick county public libraries (frederick and vicinity) 	 harford county public library (harford county) 	 howard county library system (howard county) 	 johns hopkins libraries (baltimore) 	 montgomery county public libraries (montgomery county) 	 national agricultural library (beltsville) 	 prince george's county memorial library system (prince george's county) 	 united states naval academy, nimitz library (annapolis) 	 university of maryland baltimore county (baltimore) 	 university of maryland libraries (college park) 	 massachusetts	 beverly public library (beverly) 	 boston college (boston) 	 boston public library (boston) 	 boston university libraries (boston) 	 brandeis university library (waltham) 	 bridgewater state university, maxwell library (bridgewater) 	 c/w mars (public and small academic libraries in central and western ma) 	 clams: cape libraries automated materials sharing (public libraries on cape cod) 	 college of the holy cross (worcester) 	 fenway libraries online (museums and small colleges in boston and vicinity) 	 five college libraries (amherst, hampshire, mt. holyoke, smith, umass-amherst) 	 harvard library (cambridge) 	 j. v. fletcher library (westford) 	 mit libraries, massachusetts institute of technology (cambridge) 	 merrimack valley library consortium (public libraries in northeastern ma) 	 minuteman library network (metrowest-region public and small college libraries) 	 noble: north of boston library exchange (north shore public and small academic libraries) 	 northeastern university (boston) 	 old colony library network (south shore public libraries) 	 sails library network (new bedford, fall river, taunton, and vicinity) 	 simmons college (boston) 	 smith college libraries (northampton) 	 springfield college (springfield) 	 tufts university (medford) 	 university of massachusetts amherst (amherst) 	 university of massachusetts lowell (lowell) 	 wellesley college (wellesley) 	 western new england university (springfield) 	 williams college (williamstown) 	 worcester polytechnic institute (worcester) 	 worcester public library (worcester) 	 michigan	 ann arbor district library (ann arbor) 	 canton public library (canton) 	 capital area district libraries (lansing and ingham county) 	 central michigan university (mount pleasant) 	 detroit public library (detroit) 	 eastern michigan university (ypsilanti) 	 flint public library (flint) 	 grand rapids public library (grand rapids) 	 grand valley state university (allendale) 	 kalamazoo public library (kalamazoo) 	 lakenet: lakeland library cooperative ( + public libraries in west michigan) 	 lansing community college (lansing) 	 michigan state university libraries (east lansing) 	 michigan elibrary (order from libraries across the state) 	 oakland community college (various oakland county campuses) 	 petoskey district library (petoskey) 	 plymouth district library (plymouth) 	 royal oak public library (royal oak) 	 traverse area district library (traverse city and vicinity) 	 university of michigan library (ann arbor) 	 warren public library (warren) 	 western michigan university (kalamazoo) 	 willard library (battle creek) 	 minnesota	 duluth public library (duluth) 	 hamline university (st. paul) 	 hennepin county library (minneapolis and vicinity) 	 minnesota state university (mankato) 	 saint paul public library (st. paul) 	 st. olaf college (northfield) 	 university of minnesota libraries (twin cities) 	 university of st. thomas (st. paul) 	 washington county library (washington county) 	 mississippi	 alcorn state university (lorman) 	 harrison county library system (gulfport, biloxi, and vicinity) 	 jackson state university (jackson) 	 jackson-hinds library system (jackson and hinds county) 	 mississippi library commission (jackson) 	 mississippi state university (starkville, meridian, and jackson) 	 tougaloo college (tougaloo) 	 university of mississippi libraries (oxford) 	 missouri	 concordia seminary library (st. louis) 	 daniel boone regional library (columbia and vicinity) 	 ferguson municipal public library (ferguson) 	 harris-stowe state university (st. louis) 	 joplin public library (joplin) 	 kansas city public library (kansas city) 	 lincoln university (jefferson city) 	 linda hall library (kansas city) 	 mid-continent public library (kansas city vicinity) 	 missouri river regional library (jefferson city and linn) 	 missouri state university (springfield) 	 missouri university of science and technology (rolla) 	 ozarks technical community college (springfield and other campuses) 	 poplar bluff municipal library (poplar bluff) 	 saint louis university (st. louis) 	 southeast missouri state university (cape girardeau) 	 springfield-greene county library district (springfield and vicinity) 	 st. charles city-county library district (st. charles county) 	 st. louis county library (st. louis suburbs) 	 st. louis public library (st. louis) 	 taneyhills community library (branson) 	 university of missouri kansas city: umkc libraries (kansas city) 	 university of missouri libraries (columbia) 	 washington university libraries (st. louis) 	 montana	 butte-silver bow public library (butte) 	 montana shared catalog ( + libraries across montana) 	 montana state university library (bozeman) 	 montana tech of the university of montana (butte) 	 university of montana, mansfield library (missoula) 	 nebraska	 bellevue public library (bellevue) 	 creighton university (omaha) 	 lincoln city libraries (lincoln) 	 omaha public library (omaha) 	 university of nebraska-lincoln (lincoln) 	 nevada	 carson city library (carson city) 	 college of southern nevada (las vegas and vicinity) 	 las vegas-clark county library district (las vegas and vicinity) 	 nevada library cooperative (public libraries outside nevada's largest urban areas) 	 washoe county library system (reno and vicinity) 	 new hampshire	 concord public library (concord) 	 dartmouth college (hanover) 	 lebanon public libraries (lebanon and west lebanon) 	 manchester city library (manchester) 	 nashua public library (nashua) 	 university of new hampshire (durham and manchester) 	 new jersey	 atlantic city free public library (atlantic city) 	 bccls (bergen, essex, hudson, and passaic county public libraries) 	 burlington county library system (public libraries in burlington county) 	 camcat (camden county library system, and camden county college) 	 hunterdon county library (flemington, clinton, and lambertville) 	 mercer county community college (west windsor and trenton) 	 middlesex county college (edison) 	 middletown township public library (middletown) 	 monmouth county library (monmouth county) 	 morris automated information network (morris county public libraries) 	 newark public library (newark) 	 pals plus library consortium ( libraries in passaic, essex, and hudson counties) 	 princeton public library (princeton) 	 princeton theological seminary (princeton) 	 princeton university library (princeton) 	 rowan college at burlington county (mount laurel and other campuses) 	 rowan university (glassboro) 	 rutgers university libraries (new brunswick, newark, and camden) 	 seton hall university (south orange) 	 somerset county library system (somerset county) 	 stockton university (galloway and other locations) 	 the college of new jersey (ewing) 	 william paterson university, cheng library (wayne) 	 new mexico	 los alamos public library system (los alamos and white rock) 	 new mexico state university (las cruces and other campuses) 	 rio rancho public libraries (rio rancho) 	 santa fe public library (santa fe) 	 the public library (albuquerque and bernalillo county) 	 thomas branigan memorial library (las cruces) 	 university of new mexico libraries (albuquerque) 	 new york	 binghamton university (binghamton) 	 brooklyn public library (brooklyn) 	 buffalo and erie county public library (buffalo) 	 chautauqua-cattaraugus library system (jamestown and vicinity) 	 city university of new york (cuny) (new york) 	 clinton essex franklin library system ( public libraries in northern new york counties) 	 columbia university libraries (new york) 	 connectny ( academic libraries in new york state) 	 cornell university library (ithaca) 	 finger lakes library system (public libraries in cayuga, cortland, seneca, tioga, and tompkins counties) 	 finkelstein memorial library (spring valley) 	 fordham university (new york) 	 hudson valley community college (troy) 	 iona college (new rochelle) 	 long island university (brooklyn, post, and other campuses) 	 manhattan college (new york) 	 metropolitan museum of art libraries (new york) 	 mid york library system (herkimer, madison, and oneida counties) 	 mid-hudson library system (columbia, dutchess, greene, putnam and ulster counties) 	 mohawk valley and southern adirondack library systems (public libraries in counties northwest of albany) 	 monroe county library system (rochester and vicinity) 	 nassau library system (aliscat: public libraries in nassau county, long island) 	 new york law school (new york) 	 new york public library (new york) 	 new york state library, archives, and museum (albany) 	 new york university libraries (new york) 	 nioga library system (niagara, orleans, and geneseee counties) 	 north country library system (jefferson, lewis, oswego, and st. lawrence counties) 	 onondaga county public library (syracuse and vicinity) 	 pioneer library system: owwl catalog (ontario, wayne, wyoming, and livingston counties) 	 pratt institute (new york) 	 queens library (queens) 	 rochester institute of technology (rochester) 	 suny oswego, penfield library (oswego) 	 southern tier library system (allegany, chemung, schuyler, steuben and yates counties) 	 st. francis college (brooklyn) 	 st. john's university (new york) 	 stony brook university libraries (stony brook) 	 suffolk county libraries (public libraries in suffolk county, long island) 	 syracuse university libraries (syracuse) 	 touro college libraries (new york) 	 united states military academy (west point) 	 university at albany, suny (albany) 	 university at buffalo, suny (buffalo) 	 university of rochester, river campus libraries (rochester) 	 westchester library system (public libraries in westchester county) 	 yeshiva university libraries (new york) 	 north carolina	 appalachian state university, belk library (boone) 	 bennett college (greensboro) 	 charlotte mecklenburg library (charlotte and vicinity) 	 davidson college (davidson) 	 duke university libraries (durham) 	 durham county library (durham and vicinity) 	 elizabeth city state university (elizabeth city) 	 fayetteville state university (fayetteville) 	 forsyth county public library (winston-salem and vicinity) 	 fort bragg, throckmorton library (fort bragg) 	 johnson c. smith university (charlotte) 	 north carolina state university (ncsu) (raleigh) 	 polk county public libraries (columbus and saluda) 	 rutherford county library (rutherford county) 	 university of north carolina (unc) asheville (asheville) 	 university of north carolina (unc) chapel hill (chapel hill) 	 university of north carolina (unc) greensboro (greensboro) 	 university of north carolina (unc) wilmington (wilmington) 	 wake county public libraries (raleigh) 	 wake forest university (winston-salem) 	 north dakota	 bismarck veterans memorial public library (bismarck) 	 fargo public library (fargo) 	 minot public library (minot) 	 north dakota state university (fargo) 	 university of north dakota (grand forks) 	 ohio	 akron-summit county public library (akron and vicinity) 	 clevnet ( library systems in northeast ohio) 	 case western reserve university (cleveland) 	 central state university (wilberforce) 	 cleveland public library (cleveland) 	 college of wooster (wooster) 	 columbus metropolitan library (columbus and vicinity) 	 cuyahoga county public library (cleveland suburbs) 	 dayton metro library (dayton and vicinity) 	 delaware county district library (delaware, ostrander, and powell) 	 kent state university (kent and other campuses) 	 kenyon college (gambier) 	 licking county library (newark and other locations) 	 lloyd library and museum (cincinnati) 	 lorain public library system (lorain and vicinity) 	 miami university (oxford) 	 opal consortium ( academic libraries in ohio) 	 oberlin college (oberlin) 	 ohio northern university (ada) 	 ohio state university (columbus) 	 ohio university (athens and other campuses) 	 ohio wesleyan university (delaware) 	 public library of cincinnati and hamilton county (cincinnati and vicinity) 	 public library of youngstown and mahoning county (youngstown and vicinity) 	 stark libraries information consortium (canton and vicinity) 	 toledo-lucas county public library (toledo and vicinity) 	 university of cincinnati (cincinnati) 	 university of dayton (dayton) 	 upper arlington public library (upper arlington) 	 xavier university (cincinnati) 	 oklahoma	 eastern oklahoma district library system ( counties in eastern oklahoma) 	 enid public library (enid) 	 lawton public library (lawton) 	 metropolitan library system (oklahoma city and vicinity) 	 northeastern state university (tahlequah, broken arrow, and muskogee) 	 oklahoma state university (stillwater) 	 pioneer library system (cleveland, mcclain, and pottawatomie counties) 	 quapaw tribal library (quapaw) 	 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publications 	 see also 	 references 	 external links history and description[edit] the wall poems project was partly funded by the private tegen-beeld foundation of ben walenkamp and jan-willem bruins, the project's two artists, with additional funding from several corporations and the city of leiden.[ ][ ] it began in with a poem in russian by marina tsvetaeva and (temporarily) finished in with the spanish poem de profundis by federico garcía lorca.[ ] other poets included in the set include e. e. cummings, langston hughes, jan hanlo, du fu, louis oliver, pablo neruda, rainer maria rilke, william shakespeare, and w. b. yeats,[ ][ ] as well as local writers piet paaltjens and j. c. bloem.[ ] one of the more obscure poems in the collection is written in the buginese language on a canal wall near the royal netherlands institute of southeast asian and caribbean studies; it and many of the other poems are accompanied by plaques with translations into dutch and english.[ ] guides[edit] a guide available on the web describes a walking tour for visitors to leiden that takes in of the poems.[ ] the first poems have been collected in a book by marleen van der weij, dicht op de muur: gedichten in leiden, and the rest are described in a second volume, published in .[ ] gallery[edit] 	 			 			 william shakespeare 			 		 	 			 			 e.e. cummings 			 		 	 			 			 du fu 			 		 	 			 			 seiichi niikuni 			 		 	 			 			 cesare simonetti 			 		 	 			 			 marina tsvetaeva 			 		 	 			 			 louis oliver 			 		 	 			 			 federico garcía lorca 			 		 	 			 			 osip mandelstam 			 		 	 			 			 cees van hoore 			 		 	 			 			 filippo tommaso marinetti 			 		 	 			 			 jabra ibrahim jabra 			 		 	 			 			 nils ferlin 			 		 	 			 			 bashō 			 		 	 			 			 ranggawarsita 			 		 influence[edit] the poem le bateau ivre on a wall in paris based on the success of the leiden poetry project, wall poems have also been painted in several other dutch cities.[ ][ ] in the dutch embassy to bulgaria launched a similar project in sofia,[ ] and in the tegen-beeld foundation collaborated with the international society of friends of rimbaud to paint a poem by arthur rimbaud, "le bateau ivre", on a government building in the th arrondissement of paris.[ ] in a poem by marsman was painted on a wall in berlin. publications[edit] 	marleen van der weij: dicht op de muur. gedichten in leiden. gemeente leiden, dienst bouwen en wonen, . isbn  ( nd ed.: , rd ed.: ). th, rev. ed.: burgersdijk & niermans, leiden, . isbn  [description of the first poems]. 	marleen van der weij: dicht op de muur . gedichten in leiden. burgersdijk & niermans, leiden, . isbn  [description of the poems - ] see also[edit] 	poems on the underground, a public display of poetry in the london underground references[edit] 	^ beatley, timothy ( ), native to nowhere: sustaining home and community in a global age, island press, pp.  – , isbn  , archived from the original on - - , retrieved - - . 	^ a b c khouw, ida indawati (july , ), "leiden, the dutch city of poems", jakarta post, archived from the original on march , . 	^ a b fihn, stephan ( ), "poetry on the wall", in garg, anu (ed.), another word a day: an all-new romp through some of the most unusual and intriguing words in english, john wiley & sons, p.  , isbn  . 	^ a b c the wall poems of leiden, archived from the original on - - , retrieved - - . 	^ crerand, patrick j. ( ), the land of good deeds, ph.d. thesis, university of louisiana at lafayette, p.  , isbn  . 	^ wandeling langs de muurgedichten van leiden (in dutch), archived from the original on - - , retrieved - - . 	^ dienst bouwen en wonen, leiden, , reprinted and by burgersdijk & niermans, leiden; see worldcat. a second volume, published in , (dicht op de muur ) describes the poems - . 	^ "gedichten op murenroute veenendaal van start", veenendalsekrant (in dutch), december , . 	^ wall-to-wall poetry in a&w, archipel willemspark, archived from the original on - - , retrieved - - . 	^ dikov, ivan (january , ), wall-to-wall poetry: how the dutch bring european 'unity in diversity' to sofia, novinite.com (sofia news agency), archived from the original on - - , retrieved - - . 	^ le bateau ivre bien ancré dans le e (in french), city hall of the th arrondissement, retrieved - - . external links[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to wall poems in leiden. 	complete list of all poems, with 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for the train, see vindobona (train). for the modern city, see vienna. map of vindobona around a.d. vindobona (from gaulish windo- "white" and bona "base/bottom") was a roman military camp on the site of the modern city of vienna in austria. the settlement area took on a new name in the th century, being changed to berghof, or now simply known as alter berghof (the old berghof).[ ] around bc, the kingdom of noricum was included in the roman empire. henceforth, the danube marked the border of the empire, and the romans built fortifications and settlements on the banks of the danube, including vindobona with an estimated population of , to , .[ ][ ] contents 	 history 	 evidence for the roman presence in vindobona 	 . archaeological remains 	 . evidence for the roman military presence 	 . roman canals 	 . legacies in today's streets 	 popular culture 	 see also 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links history[edit] head of a genius found during excavations of vindobona silver plate, part of a larger find found around kärntner straße in early references to vindobona are made by the geographer ptolemy in his geographica and the historian aurelius victor, who recounts that emperor marcus aurelius died in vindobona on march from an unknown illness while on a military campaign against invading germanic tribes. today, there is a marc-aurelstraße (english: marcus aurelius street) near the hoher markt in vienna. it is possible that vindobona as a legionary fortress was built around the year of , because from the archeological records there are no building inscriptions dating earlier than the year of .[ ] vindobona was part of the roman province pannonia, of which the regional administrative centre was carnuntum. vindobona was a military camp with an attached civilian city (canabae). the military complex covered an area of some hectares, housing about men where vienna’s first district now stands. the danube marked the border of the roman empire, and vindobona was part of a defensive network including the camps of carnuntum, brigetio and aquincum. by the time of emperor commodus, four legions (x gemina, xiv gemina martia victrix, i adiutrix and ii adiutrix) were stationed in pannonia.[ ] vindobona was provisioned by the surrounding roman country estates (villae rusticae). a centre of trade with a developed infrastructure as well as agriculture and forestry developed around vindobona. civic communities developed outside the fortifications (canabae legionis), as well another community that was independent of the military authorities in today's third district.[citation needed] it has also been proven that a germanic settlement with a large marketplace existed on the far side of the danube from the second century onwards.[citation needed] the asymmetrical layout of the military camp, which was unusual for the otherwise standardised roman encampments, is still recognisable in vienna’s street plan: graben, naglergasse, tiefer graben, salzgries, rabensteig, rotenturmstraße. the oblique camp border along today's street salzgries was probably caused by a tremendous flood of the river danube that occurred during the rd century and eroded a considerable part of the camp.[ ] the name “graben” (english: ditch) is believed to hark back to the defensive ditches of the military camp. it is thought that at least parts of the walls still stood in the middle ages, when these streets were laid out, and thus determined their routes. the berghof was later erected in one corner of the camp. rebuilt after germanic invasions in the second century, the town remained a seat of roman government through the third and fourth centuries.[ ][ ] the population fled after the huns invaded pannonia in the s and the settlement was abandoned for several centuries.[ ][ ] evidence for the roman presence in vindobona[edit] archaeological remains[edit] remains of the roman outpost at michaelerplatz roman stones from the thermae, at sterngasse remains of a hypocaust, found below hoher markt remains of the roman military camp have been found at many sites in the centre of vienna. the centre of the michaelerplatz has been widely investigated by archaeologists. here, traces of a roman legionary outpost (canabae legionis) and of a crossroad have been found.[ ] the centrepiece of the current design of the square is a rectangular opening that evokes the archaeological excavations at the site and shows wall remains that have been preserved from different epochs. part of a roman canal system is underneath the fire station am hof.[ ] directly under the hoher markt are the remains of two buildings unearthed during the canalisation works of / and made accessible to the public. after further excavation, a showroom was opened in . for this purpose some of the original walls had to be removed; white marks on the floor show the spots where.[citation needed] the buildings, which are separated from one another by a road, housed an officer and his family.[citation needed] in this roman ruins exhibit was expanded into the museum of the romans.[ ] only a small portion can today be seen, for the majority of the remains are still located underneath the square and south of it. the remains of the walls date from different phases from the st to the th century ad. the houses were typical roman villas, with living quarters and space for working set around a middle courtyard with columned halls.[ ] evidence for the roman military presence[edit] dedication stone with inscriptions mentioning the legio xiii gemina over , stamped bricks, several stone monuments and written sources prove that several legions, cavalry units and marines were stationed in vindobona. around ad, legio xiii gemina was responsible for construction of the legionary camps. because of the wars in dacia, they were pulled out and redeployed in ad. a decade later, legio xiiii gemina martia victrix followed. legio x gemina from aquincum arrived in ad and remained in vindobona until the th century.[citation needed] about , soldiers were stationed in the roman camp.[citation needed] many of them were free from active duty during peaceful times and had other jobs.[citation needed] these so-called immunes were needed for the supply of goods and for the production and maintenance of weapons and commodities. they also extracted stone from quarries and wood from forests, produced bricks, and maintained the streets, bridges and the water system. administrating the camp and ensuring its security required additional manpower. roman canals[edit] manhole cover. proper water supply and sanitation was vital for the functioning of the city the romans provided their cities, including vindobona, with clean potable water through an elaborate systems of roman aqueducts, canals, and large subterranean pipes. excavations have revealed that vindobona received its supply through a  km long water pipeline.[citation needed] the source is in the vienna woods around today's kalksburg. wells, latrines and the thermae were supplied with water. central buildings such as the commander's office and the hospital had their own supplies, as did the settlement outside the camp, where households had their own groundwater wells.[citation needed] archaeological excavations done over the last years have discovered the following roman water supply fragment locations: 	in the zemlinskygasse: at numbers - - ( rd district, found in ) 	in the breitenfurter straße: at number - ( rd district, in ) 	in the rudolf zeller-gasse/anton-krieger-gasse - ( rd district, ) 	in atzgersdorf - ( rd district, – ) 	in the tullnertalgasse: at number - ( rd district, ) 	in the lainergasse: at number - ( rd district, ) 	in the wundtgasse - ( th district, ) 	in the rosenhügelstraße: at number - ( th district, ) 	in the fasangartenstraße: at number - ( th district, ) 	in the pacassistraße - ( th district, ) 	in the sechshauserstraße: at number - ( th district, - leading towards the first district) waste from the roman camp was transported through an elaborate subterranean sewerage system that was planned from the beginning. the sewers were lined with brick walls and plates and ran beneath the main roads. gradients were used in such a way that the waste water descended through the canals into the river danube. since the canals were up to two meters deep, they could be cleaned out regularly. large waste was probably deposed at the slope of the river. in the civilian settlement, waste was deposed in former water wells and dumps.[citation needed] legacies in today's streets[edit] the cygnus-relief was probably part of a larger public building small bronze statuettes of gods the layout of a roman camp (castra) was normally standardised. this has helped archaeologists to reconstruct what the camp must have looked like, despite the heavy rebuilding that has taken place in vienna throughout the centuries. the basic contours of the camp, which was surrounded by a mighty wall with towers and three moats (today the tiefer graben, naglergasse, graben, and rotenturmstraße) are identifiable. along these axes, main roads connected the gates with one other. the main buildings were the commander's headquarters, the palace of the legate, the houses of the staff officers, and the thermae. at right angles to these, the soldiers' accommodation, a hospital, workshops, and mews (stables) were constructed.[citation needed] popular culture[edit] 	in the american film gladiator ( ), maximus (russell crowe) fights in the battle of vindobona under the order of marcus aurelius (richard harris).[ ][ ] there are also two lines that make reference to vindobona. in one, the lead character's servant, cicero, trying to get the attention of lucilla, states, "i served your father at vindobona!"[ ] in the other, the lead character asks if anyone in his group of gladiators has served in the army, to which an anonymous fighter responds, "i served with you at vindobona." 	the historical novel votan by welsh writer john james begins in "vindabonum" and imagines nd century c.e. life there. see also[edit] 	list of aqueducts in the roman empire references[edit] 	^ the older berghof in vienna (german). today, the site is more commonly associated with hoher markt and wiener neustädter hof, a building in today's sterngasse . berghof was the name of the mansion, which had evolved from the initial settlement with the walls of the roman baths. it was originally the only building in vienna to be built by a certain pagan, presumably an avaricum dignitary, eventually becoming a fortified town. the place is mentioned in jans enikel's "fürstenbuch" (around ) (vide: jeff bernhard / dieter bietak: the wiener neustädter hof alias berghof - a probe into the year zero, frankfurt am main/berlin/bern , p. ). 	^ bowman, alan; wilson, andrew ( - - ). settlement, urbanization, and population. isbn  . 	^ ziak, karl ( ). "unvergängliches wien: ein gang durch die geschichte von der urzeit bis zur gegenwart". 	^ móscy, andrás ( ). pannonia and upper moesia: a history of the middle danube provinces of the roman empire. london; boston: routledge & kegan paul. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ stephen dando-collins ( ). legions of rome: the definitive history of every roman legion. quercus publishing. isbn  . archived from the original on october . retrieved october . '...at the start of ad ...on april, the legions of pannonia - the th gemina and th gemina martia victrix in his own province, and the st and nd adiutrix legions from neighbouring lower pannonia...' 	^ reconstruction of the ancient relief of downtown vienna (in german) 	^ southern germany and austria, including the eastern alps: handbook for travellers. karl baedeker. . p.  . retrieved october . 'by the end of the third century vindobona had become a municipal town, and being the seat of the roman civil and military government, continued to flourish until the invasion of the huns in the th century.' 	^ j. sydney jones ( ). viennawalks: four intimate walking tours of vienna's most historic and enchanting neighborhoods. henry holt and company. isbn  . archived from the original on october . retrieved october . 'vindobona was destroyed suring the germanic invasions of the latter part of the second century and was rebuilt after those invasions were finally repelled, but the roman era had had its peak....by ...roman order was restored to pannonia. but it was a tenuous order, holding doggedly on for another two centuries until the final withdrawal of the roman troops and destruction of vindobona in the early fifth century.' 	^ southern germany and austria, including the eastern alps: handbook for travellers. karl baedeker. . p.  . retrieved october . 'vindobona ... continued to flourish until the invasion of the huns in the th century. from that date the roman vindobona disappears from the history until the year .' 	^ rob collins, matt symonds, meike weber ( ). roman military architecture on the frontiers: armies and their architecture in late antiquity. oxbow books. isbn  . archived from the original on october . retrieved october . '...consequently, vindobona became increasingly depopulated over the course of the first half of the th century. the present state of research indicated that the definite end of the settlement within the old fortress occurred during the s ad, when the huns finally seized control of the province of pannonia...the intramural area of vindobona has provided no evidence of settlement activity from the mid th century through until at least the th century.'cs maint: multiple names: authors list (link) 	^ wien museum | archäologisches grabungsfeld michaelerplatz(in german) 	^ wien museum | römische baureste am hof, vienna museum (in german) 	^ "die römer kommen nach wien", orf may (in german) 	^ wien museum | römische ruinen hoher markt(in german) 	^ villapalos salas, gustavo; san miguel pérez, enrique (september , ). lecciones de historia del derecho español. editorial universitaria ramon areces. p.  . isbn  . 	^ gilliland, charles (november , ). the gospel of matthew through the eyes of a cop: a devotional for law enforcement officers. westbow press. p.  . isbn  . 	^ cyrino, monica silveira (february , ). big screen rome. john wiley & sons. p.  . isbn  . further reading[edit] 	michaela kronberger: siedlungschronologische forschungen zu den canabae legionis von vindobona. die gräberfelder (monographien der stadtarchäologie wien band ). phoibos verlag, wien . (in german) 	christine ranseder e.a., michaelerplatz. die archäologischen ausgrabungen. wien archäologisch , wien . isbn  - - - . (in german) 	vindobona. die reise in das antike wien. dvd-rom, . (in german) 	vindobona ii. wassertechnik des antiken wiens. dvd-rom, . (in german) external links[edit] media related to vindobona at wikimedia commons 	wien museum | ausgrabungsstätten (in german) 	forschungsgesellschaft wiener stadtarchäologie | legionslager vindobona (in german) 	animationsfilme zu vindobona (in german) 	seite mit sehenswerter rekonstruktion des lagertores (in german) 	livius.org: vindobona (vienna) 	austrian mint coin features vindobona 	bursche, a., l. pitts, p. kaczanowski, e. krekovič, r. madyda‑legutko, r. talbert, t. elliott, s. gillies. 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latin: quintus septimius florens tertullianus; c. – c. ? ad)[ ] was a prolific early christian author from carthage in the roman province of africa.[ ] of berber and phoenician origin,[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] he was the first christian author to produce an extensive corpus of latin christian literature. he was an early christian apologist and a polemicist against heresy, including contemporary christian gnosticism.[ ] tertullian has been called "the father of latin christianity"[ ][ ] and "the founder of western theology."[ ] though conservative in his worldview, tertullian originated new theological concepts and advanced the development of early church doctrine. he is perhaps most famous for being the first writer in latin known to use the term trinity (latin: trinitas). tertullian was never recognized as a saint by the eastern or western catholic churches. several of his teachings on issues such as the clear subordination of the son and spirit to the father,[ ][ ] as well as his condemnation of remarriage for widows and of fleeing from persecution, contradict the doctrines of these traditions, and his later rejection of orthodoxy for montanism has led these communions to refrain from considering him a church father, important ecclesiastical writer though he was. contents 	 life 	 writings 	 . general character 	 . chronology and contents 	 theology 	 . general character 	 . specific teachings 	 . eschatology 	 moral principles 	 works 	 . possible chronology 	 . spurious works 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 bibliography 	 further reading 	 external links life[edit] scant reliable evidence exists regarding tertullian's life; most history about him comes from passing references in his own writings. roman africa was famous as the home of orators, and this influence can be seen in his writing style with its archaisms or provincialisms, its glowing imagery and its passionate temper. he was a scholar with an excellent education. he wrote at least three books in greek. in them he refers to himself, but none of these is extant. according to church tradition, tertullian was raised in carthage[ ] and was thought to be the son of a roman centurion; tertullian has been claimed to have been a trained lawyer and an ordained priest. these assertions rely on the accounts of eusebius of caesarea, church history, ii, ii. , and jerome's de viris illustribus (on famous men) chapter .[a] jerome claimed that tertullian's father held the position of centurio proconsularis ("aide-de-camp") in the roman army in africa.[ ] further, tertullian has been thought to be a lawyer based on his use of legal analogies and an identification of him with the jurist tertullianus, who is quoted in the pandects. although tertullian used a knowledge of roman law in his writings, his legal knowledge does not demonstrably exceed that of what could be expected from a sufficient roman education.[ ] the writings of tertullianus, a lawyer of the same cognomen, exist only in fragments and do not explicitly denote a christian authorship. finally, any notion of tertullian being a priest is also questionable. in his extant writings, he never describes himself as ordained in the church[ ] and seems to place himself among the laity.[ ] his conversion to christianity perhaps took place about – (cf. adolf harnack, bonwetsch, and others), but its immediate antecedents are unknown except as they are conjectured from his writings. the event must have been sudden and decisive, transforming at once his own personality. he writes that he could not imagine a truly christian life without such a conscious breach, a radical act of conversion: "christians are made, not born" (apol., xviii). two books addressed to his wife confirm that he was married to a christian wife.[ ] in middle life (about ), he was attracted to the "new prophecy" of montanism, though today most scholars reject the assertion that tertullian left the mainstream church or was excommunicated.[ ] "[w]e are left to ask whether [saint] cyprian could have regarded tertullian as his master if tertullian had been a notorious schismatic. since no ancient writer was more definite (if not indeed fanatical) on this subject of schism than cyprian, the question must surely be answered in the negative."[ ] in the time of augustine, a group of "tertullianists" still had a basilica in carthage which, within that same period, passed to the orthodox church. it is unclear whether the name was merely another for the montanists[b] or that this means tertullian later split with the montanists and founded his own group. jerome[ ] says that tertullian lived to old age. by the doctrinal works he published, tertullian became the teacher of cyprian and the predecessor of augustine, who, in turn, became the chief founder of latin theology. writings[edit] general character[edit] thirty-one works are extant, together with fragments of more. some fifteen works in latin or greek are lost, some as recently as the th century (de paradiso, de superstitione saeculi, de carne et anima were all extant in the now damaged codex agobardinus in ad). tertullian's writings cover the whole theological field of the time—apologetics against paganism and judaism, polemics, polity, discipline, and morals, or the whole reorganization of human life on a christian basis; they gave a picture of the religious life and thought of the time which is of great interest to the church historian. like other early christian writers tertullian used the term paganus to mean "civilian" as a contrast to the "soldiers of christ".[ ] the motif of miles christi did not assume the literal meaning of participation in war until church doctrines justifying christian participation in battle were developed around the th century.[ ] in the nd century writings of tertullian paganus meant a "civilian" who was lacking self-discipline. in de corona militis xi.v he writes:[ ] 	apud hunc [christum] tam miles est paganus fidelis quam paganus est miles fidelis.[ ] 	with him [christ] the faithful citizen is a soldier, just as the faithful soldier is a citizen.[ ] chronology and contents[edit] the chronology of his writings is difficult to fix with certainty. it is in part determined by the montanistic views that are set forth in some of them, by the author's own allusions to this writing, or that, as antedating others (cf. harnack, litteratur ii. – ), and by definite historic data (e.g., the reference to the death of septimius severus, ad scapulam, iv). in his work against marcion, which he calls his third composition on the marcionite heresy, he gives its date as the fifteenth year of the reign of severus (adv. marcionem, i. , ) – which would be approximately . the writings may be divided with reference to the two periods of tertullian's christian activity, the mainstream and the montanist (cf. harnack, ii. sqq.), or according to their subject matter. the object of the former mode of division is to show, if possible, the change of views tertullian's mind underwent. following the latter mode, which is of a more practical interest, the writings fall into two groups. apologetic and polemic writings, like apologeticus, de testimonio animae, the anti-jewish de adversus iudaeos, adv. marcionem, adv. praxeam, adv. hermogenem, de praescriptione hereticorum, and scorpiace were written to counteract gnosticism and other religious or philosophical doctrines. the other group consists of practical and disciplinary writings, e.g., de monogamia, ad uxorem, de virginibus velandis, de cultu feminarum, de patientia, de pudicitia, de oratione, and ad martyras. among his apologetic writings, the apologeticus, addressed to the roman magistrates, is a most pungent defense of christianity and the christians against the reproaches of the pagans, and an important legacy of the ancient church, proclaiming the principle of freedom of religion as an inalienable human right and demanding a fair trial for christians before they are condemned to death. tertullian was the first to disprove charges that christians sacrificed infants at the celebration of the lord's supper and committed incest. he pointed to the commission of such crimes in the pagan world and then proved by the testimony of pliny the younger that christians pledged themselves not to commit murder, adultery, or other crimes. he adduced the inhumanity of pagan customs such as feeding the flesh of gladiators to beasts. he argued that the gods have no existence and thus there is no pagan religion against which christians may offend. christians do not engage in the foolish worship of the emperors, that they do better: they pray for them, and that christians can afford to be put to torture and to death, and the more they are cast down the more they grow; "the blood of the martyrs is seed" (apologeticum, ). in the de praescriptione he develops as its fundamental idea that, in a dispute between the church and a separating party, the whole burden of proof lies with the latter, as the church, in possession of the unbroken tradition, is by its very existence a guarantee of its truth. the five books against marcion, written in or , are the most comprehensive and elaborate of his polemical works, invaluable for gauging the early christian view of gnosticism. tertullian has been identified by jo ann mcnamara as the person who originally invested the consecrated virgin as the “bride of christ”, which helped to bring the independent virgin under patriarchal rule.[ ] theology[edit] general character[edit] 	 	this section possibly contains original research. please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. statements consisting only of original research should be removed. (august ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) though thoroughly conversant with the greek theology, tertullian remained independent of its metaphysical speculations. he had learned from the greek apologies, and offered a direct contrast to origen of alexandria who drew many of his theories regarding creation from middle platonism. tertullian carried his realism to the verge of materialism. this is evident from his ascription to god of corporeality and his acceptance of the traducian theory of the origin of the human spirit. he despised greek philosophy, and, far from looking at plato, aristotle, and other greek thinkers whom he quotes as forerunners of christ and the gospel, he pronounces them the patriarchal forefathers of the heretics (de anima, iii.). he held up to scorn their inconsistency when he referred to the fact that socrates in dying ordered a cock to be sacrificed to aesculapius (de anima, i). tertullian always wrote under stress of a felt necessity. he was never so happy as when he had opponents like marcion and praxeas, and, however abstract the ideas may be which he treated, he was always moved by practical considerations to make his case clear and irresistible. it was partly this element which gave to his writings a formative influence upon the theology of the post-nicene period in the west and has rendered them fresh reading to this day. although he was by nature a polemicist, no mention is made of his name by other authors during the rd century. lactantius at the opening of the th century is the first to do so. augustine, however, treats him with respect. cyprian, tertullian's north african compatriot, though nowhere mentioning his name, was well read in his writings, according to cyprian's secretary in a letter to jerome. specific teachings[edit] tertullian's main doctrinal teachings are as follows: 	the soul, or human spirit, was not preexistent, as plato affirmed, nor subject to metempsychosis or reincarnation, as the pythagoreans held. in each individual it is a new product, proceeding equally with the body from the parents, and not created later and associated with the body (de anima, xxvii). this position is called traducianism in opposition to 'creationism', or the idea that each immortal spirit is a fresh creation of god. 	the soul's sinfulness is easily explained by its traducian origin (de anima, xxxix). it is in bondage to satan (whose works it renounces in baptism), but has seeds of good (de anima, xli), and when awakened, it passes to health and at once calls upon god (apol., xvii.) and is naturally christian. it exists in all men alike; it is a culprit and yet an unconscious witness – by its impulse to worship, its fear of demons, and its musings on death – to the power, benignity, and judgment of god as revealed in the christian's scriptures (de testimonio, v-vi). 	tertullian reserves the appellation god, in the sense of the ultimate originator of all things, to the father,[ ] who made the world out of nothing through his son, the word, has corporeity though he is a spirit (de praescriptione, vii.; adv. praxeam, vii.). however tertullian used 'corporeal' only in the stoic sense, to mean something with actual material existence, rather than the later idea of flesh. tertullian is often considered an early proponent of the nicene doctrine, approaching the subject from the standpoint of the logos doctrine, though he did not state the later doctrine of the immanent trinity. in his treatise against praxeas, who taught patripassianism in rome, he used the words "trinity", "economy" (used in reference to the three persons), "persons", and "substance," maintaining the distinction of the son from the father as the unoriginate god, and the spirit from both the father and the son (adv. praxeam, xxv). "these three are one substance, not one person; and it is said, 'i and my father are one' in respect not of the singularity of number but the unity of the substance." the very names "father" and "son" indicate the distinction of personality. the father is one, the son is another, and the spirit is another ("dico alium esse patrem et alium filium et alium spiritum" adv. praxeam, ix), and yet in defending the unity of god, he says the son is not other ("alius a patre filius non est", adv. prax. ) as a result of receiving a portion of the father's substance.[ ] at times, speaking of the father and the son, tertullian refers to "two gods".[ ][c] he says that all things of the father belong also to the son, including his names, such as almighty god, most high, lord of hosts, or king of israel.[ ] though tertullian considered the father to be god (yahweh), he responded to criticism of the modalist praxeas that this meant that tertullian's christianity was not monotheistic by noting that even though there was one god (yahweh, who became the father when the son became his agent of creation), the son could also be referred to as god, when referred to apart from the father, because the son, though subordinate to god, is entitled to be called god "from the unity of the father" in regards to being formed from a portion of his substance.[ ][d] the catholic encyclopedia comments that for tertullian, "there was a time when there was no son and no sin, when god was neither father nor judge."[ ][ ] similarly j.n.d. kelly has stated: "tertullian followed the apologists in dating his 'perfect generation' from his extrapolation for the work of creation; prior to that moment god could not strictly be said to have had a son, while after it the term 'father', which for earlier theologians generally connoted god as author of reality, began to acquire the specialized meaning of father and son."[ ][verify illogical quote] as regards the subjects of subordination of the son to the father, the new catholic encyclopedia has commented: "in not a few areas of theology, tertullian’s views are, of course, completely unacceptable. thus, for example, his teaching on the trinity reveals a subordination of son to father that in the later crass form of arianism the church rejected as heretical."[ ] though he did not fully state the doctrine of the immanence of the trinity, according to b. b. warfield, he went a long distance in the way of approach to it.[ ] 	in soteriology, tertullian does not dogmatize; he prefers to keep silence at the mystery of the cross (de patientia, iii). the sufferings of christ's life as well as of the crucifixion are efficacious to redemption. in the water of baptism, which (upon a partial quotation of john : ) is made necessary (de baptismo, vi.), humans are born again; the baptized does not receive the holy spirit in the water, but is prepared for the holy spirit. humans are little fishes – after the example of the ichthys, fish, jesus christ – born in water (de baptismo, i). in discussing whether sins committed subsequent to baptism may be forgiven, tertullian calls baptism and penance "two planks" on which the sinner may be saved from shipwreck – language which he gave to the church (de penitentia, xii). 	with reference to the 'rule of faith', it may be said that tertullian is constantly using this expression, and by it means now the authoritative tradition handed down in the church, now the scriptures themselves, and, perhaps, a definite doctrinal formula. while he nowhere gives a list of the books of scripture, he divides them into two parts and calls them the instrumentum and testamentum (adv. marcionem, iv. ). he distinguishes between the four gospels and insists upon their apostolic origin as accrediting their authority (de praescriptione, xxxvi; adv. marcionem, iv. – ); in trying to account for marcion's treatment of the lucan gospel and the pauline writings he sarcastically queries whether the "shipmaster from pontus" (marcion) had ever been guilty of taking on contraband goods or tampering with them after they were aboard (adv. marcionem, v. ). the scripture, the rule of faith, is for him fixed and authoritative (de corona, iii-iv). as opposed to the pagan writings they are divine (de testimonio animae, vi). they contain all truth (de praescriptione, vii, xiv) and from them the church drinks (potat) her faith (adv. praxeam, xiii). the prophets were older than the greek philosophers and their authority is accredited by the fulfilment of their predictions (apol., xix-xx). the scriptures and the teachings of philosophy are incompatible, insofar as the latter are the origins of sub-christian heresies. "what has athens to do with jerusalem?" he exclaims, "or the academy with the church?" (de praescriptione, vii). philosophy as pop-paganism is a work of demons (de anima, i); the scriptures contain the wisdom of heaven. however, tertullian was not averse to using the technical methods of stoicism to discuss a problem (de anima). the rule of faith, however, seems to be also applied by tertullian to some distinct formula of doctrine, and he gives a succinct statement of the christian faith under this term (de praescriptione, xiii). 	tertullian was a defender of the necessity of apostolicity. in his prescription against heretics, he explicitly challenges heretics to produce evidence of the apostolic succession of their communities.[ ] "let them produce the original records of their churches; let them unfold the roll of their bishops, running down in due succession from the beginning in such a manner that [that first bishop of theirs] bishop shall be able to show for his ordainer and predecessor some one of the apostles or of apostolic men – a man, moreover, who continued steadfast with the apostles. for this is the manner in which the apostolic churches transmit their registers: as the church of smyrna, which records that polycarp was placed therein by john; as also the church of rome, which makes clement to have been ordained in like manner by peter. in exactly the same way the other churches likewise exhibit (their several worthies), whom, as having been appointed to their episcopal places by apostles, they regard as transmitters of the apostolic seed." 	fornicators and murderers should never be readmitted into the church under any circumstances. in de pudicitia, tertullian condemns pope callixtus i for allowing such people to be readmitted if they show repentance. eschatology[edit] 	resurrection at the second coming tertullian was a premillennialist, affirming a literal resurrection at the second advent of jesus at the end of the world, not at death.[ ] 	jesus, the stone that strikes and destroys the image concerning the image prophecy of daniel , tertullian identified jesus, at his second advent, as the stone cut out of a mountain that strikes and destroys the image of "secular kingdoms". he compares this with daniel , "behold, one like the son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the ancient of days; and they brought him before him, and there was given him dominion and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages should serve him. his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away; and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed."[ ][ ] 	antichrist is the beast like irenaeus, tertullian equated the antichrist with the '"man of sin" and the "beast". he expected a specific antichrist to appear as a persecutor of the church just before the resurrection, under whom a second company of martyrs will be slain. unlike irenaeus, however, tertullian does not consider the antichrist to be a jew sitting in a jewish temple at jerusalem. rather, the antichrist comes out of the church.[ ] 	rome symbolized as babylon tertullian applied the biblical figure of babylon to the city of rome and her domination. he portrayed rome as drunk with the blood of martyred saints.[ ] 	order of last days events the order of last days events, according to tertullian, are the plagues, babylon's doom, antichrist's warfare on the saints, the devil cast into the bottomless pit, the advent, the resurrection of the saints, the judgment, and the second resurrection, with the harvest at the end of the world; and the sixth seal extending to the final dissolution of the earth and sky, including the stars.[ ] 	millennium follows resurrection of the righteous dead tertullian maintained that the thousand years of revelation will follow the resurrection of the righteous dead on the earth with the new jerusalem, preceding the eternity of heaven. the earth is destroyed after the one thousand years and the saints moved to the kingdom of heaven.[ ] 	seventy weeks fulfilled by first advent tertullian contended that daniel's seventy weeks foretold the time of christ's incarnation and death. he started the seventy weeks from the first year of darius, and continued to jerusalem's destruction by the romans under the command of titus, fully completing the vision and prophecy. it is sealed by the advent of christ, which he places at the end of the sixty-two and one-half weeks.[ ] moral principles[edit] 	 	this section possibly contains original research. please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. statements consisting only of original research should be removed. (july ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) tertullian was a determined advocate of strict discipline and an austere code of practise, and like many of the african fathers, one of the leading representatives of the rigorist element in the early church. these views may have led him to adopt montanism with its ascetic rigor and its belief in chiliasm and the continuance of the prophetic gifts. in his writings on public amusements, the veiling of virgins, the conduct of women, and the like, he gives expression to these views. on the principle that we should not look at or listen to what we have no right to practise, and that polluted things, seen and touched, pollute (de spectaculis, viii, xvii), he declared a christian should abstain from the theater and the amphitheater. there pagan religious rites were applied and the names of pagan divinities invoked; there the precepts of modesty, purity, and humanity were ignored or set aside, and there no place was offered to the onlookers for the cultivation of the christian graces. women should put aside their gold and precious stones as ornaments,[ ] and virgins should conform to the law of st. paul for women and keep themselves strictly veiled (de virginibus velandis). he praised the unmarried state as the highest (de monogamia, xvii; ad uxorem, i. ) and called upon christians not to allow themselves to be excelled in the virtue of celibacy by vestal virgins and egyptian priests. he even labeled second marriage a species of adultery (de exhortationis castitatis, ix), but this directly contradicted the epistles of the apostle paul. tertullian's resolve to never marry again and that no one else should remarry eventually led to his break with rome because the orthodox church refused to follow him in this resolve. he, instead, favored the montanist sect where they also condemned second marriage.[ ] one reason for tertullian's disdain for marriage was his belief about the transformation that awaited a married couple. he believed that marital relations coarsened the body and spirit and would dull their spiritual senses and avert the holy spirit since husband and wife became one flesh once married.[ ] tertullian is sometimes criticized for being misogynistic, on the basis of the contents of his de cultu feminarum, section i.i, part (trans. c.w. marx):[citation needed] "do you not know that you are eve? the judgment of god upon this sex lives on in this age; therefore, necessarily the guilt should live on also. you are the gateway of the devil; you are the one who unseals the curse of that tree, and you are the first one to turn your back on the divine law; you are the one who persuaded him whom the devil was not capable of corrupting; you easily destroyed the image of god, adam. because of what you deserve, that is, death, even the son of god had to die." tertullian had a radical view on the cosmos. he believed that heaven and earth intersected at many points and that it was possible that sexual relations with supernatural beings can occur.[ ] works[edit] septimi florensis tertulliani opera ( ) 		wikisource has original works written by or about: tertullian tertullian's writings are edited in volumes – of the patrologia latina, and modern texts exist in the corpus christianorum latinorum. english translations by sidney thelwall and philip holmes can be found in volumes iii and iv of the ante-nicene fathers which are freely available online; more modern translations of some of the works have been made. 	apologetic 	apologeticus pro christianis. 	libri duo ad nationes. 	de testimonio animae. 	ad martyres. 	de spectaculis. 	de idololatria. 	accedit ad scapulam liber. 	dogmatic 	de oratione. 	de baptismo. 	de poenitentia. 	de patientia. 	ad uxorem libri duo. 	de cultu feminarum lib. ii. 	polemical 	de praescriptionibus adversus haereticos. 	de corona militis. 	de fuga in persecutione. 	adversus gnosticos scorpiace. 	adversus praxeam. 	adversus hermogenem. 	adversus marcionem libri v. 	adversus valentinianos. 	adversus judaeos. 	de anima. 	de carne christi. 	de resurrectione carnis. 	on morality 	de velandis virginibus. 	de exhortatione castitatis. 	de monogamia. 	de jejuniis. 	de pudicitia. 	de pallio. possible chronology[edit] the following chronological ordering was proposed by john kaye, bishop of lincoln in the th century:[ ] probably mainstream (pre-montanist): 	 . de poenitentia (on repentance) 	 . de oratione (on prayer) 	 . de baptismo (on baptism) 	 ., . ad uxorem, lib. i & ii, (to his wife) 	 . ad martyras (to the martyrs) 	 . de patientia (on patience) 	 . adversus judaeos (against the jews) 	 . de praescriptione haereticorum (on the prescription of heretics) indeterminate: 	 . apologeticus pro christianis (apology for the christians) 	 ., . ad nationes, lib. i & ii (to the nations) 	 . de testimonio animae (on the witness of the soul) 	 . de pallio (on the ascetic mantle) 	 . adversus hermogenem (against hermogenes) probably post-montanist: 	 . adversus valentinianus (against the valentinians) 	 . ad scapulam (to scapula, proconsul of africa) 	 . de spectaculis (on the games) 	 . de idololatria (on idolatry) 	 ., . de cultu feminarum, lib. i & ii (on women's dress) definitely post-montanist: 	 . adversus marcionem, lib i (against marcion, bk. i) 	 . adversus marcionem, lib ii 	 . de anima (on the soul), 	 . adversus marcionem, lib iii 	 . adversus marcionem, lib iv 	 . de carne christi (on the flesh of christ) 	 . de resurrectione carnis (on the resurrection of flesh) 	 . adversus marcionem, lib v 	 . adversus praxean (against praxeas) 	 . scorpiace (antidote to scorpion's bite) 	 . de corona militis (on the soldier's garland) 	 . de velandis virginibus (on veiling virgins) 	 . de exhortatione castitatis (on exhortation to chastity) 	 . de fuga in persecutione (on flight in persecution) 	 . de monogamia (on monogamy) 	 . de jejuniis, adversus psychicos (on fasting, against the materialists) 	 . de puditicia (on modesty) spurious works[edit] there have been many works attributed to tertullian in the past which have since been determined to be almost definitely written by others. nonetheless, since their actual authors remain uncertain, they continue to be published together in collections of tertullian's works. 	 adversus omnes haereses (against all heresies) – poss. victorinus of pettau 	 de execrandis gentium diis (on the execrable gods of the heathens) 	 carmen adversus marcionem (poem against marcion) 	 carmen de iona propheta (poem about the prophet jonas) – poss. cyprianus gallus 	 carmen de sodoma (poem about sodom) – poss. cyprianus gallus 	 carmen de genesi (poem about genesis) 	 carmen de judicio domini (poem about the judgment of the lord) the popular passio ss. perpetuae et felicitatis (martyrdom of ss. perpetua and felicitas), much of it the personal diary of st. perpetua, was once assumed to have been edited by tertullian. that view is no longer held, and it is usually published separately from tertullian's works. see also[edit] 	christian pacifism 	septimia gens 	pseudo-tertullian 	tertulia 	descriptions in antiquity of the execution cross 	list of christian women of the patristic age notes[edit] 	^ see introduction to (barnes ); however barnes retracted some of his positions in the revised edition. 	^ the passage in praedestinatus describing the tertullianists suggests that this might have been the case, as the tertullianist minister obtains the use of a church in rome on the grounds that the martyrs to whom it was dedicated were montanists. but the passage is very condensed and ambiguous. 	^ "ergo, inquis, si deus dixit et deus fecit, si alius deus dixit et alius fecit, duo dii praedicantur. si tam durus es, puta interim. et ut adhuc amplius hoc putes, accipe et in psalmo duos deos dictos: thronus tuus, deus, in aevum, <virga directionis> virga regni tui; dilexisti iustitiam et odisti iniquitatem, propterea unxit te deus, deus tuus." ("therefore", thou sayest, "if a god said and a god made, if one god said and another made, two gods are being preached." if thou art so hard, think a little! and that thou mayest think more fully, accept that in the psalm two gods are spoken of: "thy throne, god, is for ever, a sceptre of right direction is thy sceptre; thou hast loved justice and hast hated iniquity, therefore god, thy god, hath anointed thee." adv. prax. ) 	^ "si filium nolunt secundum a patre reputari ne secundus duos faciat deos dici, ostendimus etiam duos deos in scriptura relatos et duos dominos: et tamen ne de isto scandalizentur, rationem reddimus qua dei non duo dicantur nec domini sed qua pater et filius duo, et hoc non ex separatione substantiae sed ex dispositione, cum individuum et inseparatum filium a patre pronuntiamus, nec statu sed gradu alium, qui etsi deus dicatur quando nominatur singularis, non ideo duos deos faciat sed unum, hoc ipso quod et deus ex unitate patris vocari habeat." (if they do not wish that the son be considered second to the father, lest being second he cause it to be said that there are two gods, we have also showed that two gods are related in scripture, and two lords. and yet, let them not be scandalized by this – we give a reason why there are not said to be two gods nor lords but rather two as a father and a son. and this not from separation of substance but from disposition, since we pronounce the son undivided and unseparated from the father, other not in status but in grade, who although he is said to be god when mentioned by himself, does not therefore make two gods but one, by the fact that he is also entitled to be called god from the unity of the father. adv. prax. ) references[edit] 	^ audi, robert ( ). the cambridge dictionary of philosophy. cambridge university press. p.  . 	^ barnes , p.  . 	^ serralda, vincent; huard, andré ( ). le berbère-- lumière de l'occident (in french). nouvelles editions latines. p.  . isbn  . 	^ brouksy, lahcen ( ). les berbères face à leur destin (in french). bouregreg. p.  . isbn  . 	^ berthier, andré ( - - ). l'algérie et son passé: ouvrage illustré de gravures en phototypie (in french). picard. p.  . 	^ zemmouri, mohammed-saâd; wazzānī, muḥammad al-yamlāḥī ( ). présence berbère et nostalgie païenne: dans la littérature maghrébine de langue française (in french). le club du livre. p.  . isbn  . 	^ hilliard, constance b. ( ). intellectual traditions of pre-colonial africa. mcgraw-hill. p.  . isbn  . 	^ versluis, arthur ( ). magic and mysticism. rowman & littlefield. p.  . 	^ benham, william ( ). the dictionary of religion. cassell. pp.  . 	^ ekonomou , p.  . 	^ gonzáles, justo l. ( ). "the early church to the dawn of the reformation". the story of christianity. . new york: harpercollins publishers. pp.  – . 	^ a b c d e tuggy, dale & zalta, edward n. (ed.) ( ). "history of trinitarian doctrines". the stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. stanford university. retrieved september .cs maint: uses authors parameter (link) 	^ a b le saint, w. ( ). "tertullian". the new catholic encyclopedia. : . 	^ cross, f. l., ed. ( ). the oxford dictionary of the christian church. new york: oxford university press. 	^ jerome, 'chronicon' . - 	^ barnes , p.  , . 	^ barnes , p.  . 	^ tertullian, de exhortatione castitatis . and de monogamia . 	^ "book written to his wife". newadvent.org. archived from the original on - - . 	^ still, todd d; wilhite, david e ( - - ). tertullian and paul. isbn  . 	^ http://www.tertullian.org/articles/powell_tertullianists.htm 	^ jerome. de viris illustribus. p.  . 	^ ernest weekley, etymological dictionary of english, s.v. "pagan". 	^ iwanczak, wojciech ( ). "miles christi: the medieval ideal of knighthood". journal of the australian early medieval association. (journal article): –. issn  - . 	^ cameron, alan g. ( ). the last pagans of rome. new york, new york: oxford university press. isbn  . oclc  . 	^ de corona militis xi.v 	^ ante-nicene fathers iii, de corona xi 	^ a b bitel , p.  . 	^ adv. prax. . 	^ ""tertullian," the catholic encyclopedia". 	^ a b b. b. warfield in princeton theological review, , pp. , . 	^ j.n.d. kelly, early christian doctrines, continual international publishing book, c , , p. 	^ "the prescription against heretics: chapter ". 	^ froom , pp.  – . 	^ tertulian, against marcion, chap. , in anf, vol. , p. 	^ froom , p.  . 	^ froom , p.  . 	^ froom , p.  . 	^ froom , pp.  – . 	^ froom , pp.  – . 	^ froom , pp.  – . 	^ de cultu, v-vi 	^ bitel , p.  . 	^ "scholar discusses the 'bride of christ' in the early church". fordham.edu. archived from the original on november , . 	^ cf. j.kaye, , the ecclesiastical history of the second and third centuries. list here as reproduced in rev. alexander roberts and james donaldson, editors, – , ante-nicene christian library: translation of the writings of the fathers, down to ad , vol. , p. xii-xiii bibliography[edit] 	barnes, timothy ( ). tertullian: a literary and historical study (reprinted with appendix of revisions ed.). oxford. isbn  - . 	bitel, lisa m. bitel & lifshitz, felice ( ). gender and christianity in medieval europe: new perspectives. philadelphia: university of pennsylvania press. isbn  .cs maint: uses authors parameter (link) 	daniel, robin ( ). this holy seed: faith, hope and love in the early churches of north africa. chester: tamarisk publications. isbn  - - - - . 	ekonomou, andrew j. ( ). byzantine rome and the greek popes: eastern influences on rome and the papacy from gregory the great to zacharias, a.d. – . lexington books. isbn  - . 	froom, leroy ( ). the prophetic faith of our fathers (djvu and pdf). . review and herald publishing association. 	schaff, philip. the new schaff-herzog encyclopedia of religious knowledge. further reading[edit] 	ames, cecilia. . "roman religion in the vision of tertullian." in a companion to roman religion. edited by jörg rüpke, – . oxford: blackwell. 	dunn, geoffrey d. . tertullian. new york: routledge. 	gero, stephen. . "miles gloriosus: the christians and military service according to tertullian." church history : – . 	hillar, marian. . from logos to trinity. the evolution of religious beliefs from pythagoras to tertullian. cambridge, uk: cambridge univ. press. 	lane, anthony n. s. . "tertullianus totus noster? calvin’s use of tertullian." reformation and renaissance review : – . 	o’malley, thomas p. . tertullian and the bible. language, imagery, exegesis. latinitas christianorum primaeva . nijmegen, the netherlands: dekker & van de vegt. 	otten, willemien. . "views on women in early christianity: incarnational hermeneutics in tertullian and augustine." in hermeneutics, scriptural politics, and human rights. between text and context. edited by bas de gaay fortman, kurt martens, and m. a. mohamed salih, – . basingstoke, uk: palgrave macmillan. 	osborn, eric f. ( ). tertullian, first theologian of the west. cambridge, uk: cambridge university press. 	rankin, david. . tertullian and the church. cambridge, uk: cambridge univ. press. 	wilhite, david e. . tertullian the african. an anthropological reading of tertullian’s context and identities. millennium studien . berlin and new york: de gruyter. external links[edit] 	library resources about tertullian 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 by tertullian 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 		wikimedia commons has media related to quintus septimius florens tertullianus. 		wikisource has original works written by or about: tertullian 		wikiquote has quotations related to: tertullian primary sources: 	tertullian's works in many languages, including latin, and english, website intratext.com. 	english translations of all tertullian's works can be found in rev. alexander roberts and james donaldson, editors, – , ante-nicene christian library: translation of the writings of the fathers, down to ad , edinburgh: t&t clark: vol. (tertullian's against marcion), vol. (tertullian's treatises, pt. ), vol. (tertullian's treatises, pt. ), vol. (tertullian's treatises, pt. ) 	works by tertullian at perseus digital library 	works by tertullian at librivox (public domain audiobooks) secondary sources: 	earlychurch.org.uk detailed bibliography and on-line articles. 	jerome's on famous men chapter is devoted to tertullian. 	chapman, henry palmer ( ). "tertullian" . catholic encyclopedia. . 	harnack, adolf ( ). "tertullian" . encyclopædia britannica. 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augustus quintus horatius flaccus q quintus horatius flaccusquintus horatiusflaccusflaccus,_quintus horatiusknown in the english-speaking world as horace; the leading roman lyric poet during the time of augustus contents 	 works 	 . compilations 	 imitations of the works of horace 	 works about horace works[edit] 	ars poetica ("the art of poetry") 	q horati flacci carminum librum quintum ( ) 	(tr.) odes of horace, book v., edited by alfred denis godley, translated by rudyard kipling and charles larcom graves 	carminum liber tertius (the necessity for reform) 	epistulae ("letters") 	odes, translated by wikisource 	"ode to augustus" in littell's living age,  ( ) 	sermones ("satires") compilations[edit] 	the works of horace, translated by christopher smart (transcription project) 	the odes and epodes of horace ( ), translated by lord lytton (external scan) 	the odes and carmen sæculare of horace ( ), translated by john conington 	the satires, epistles, and art of poetry of horace ( ), translated by john conington imitations of the works of horace[edit] 	horace’s art of poetry, imitated in english, ( ) by john oldham works about horace[edit] 	“q. horatius flaccus”, by henry hart milman in dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology, . 	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( años) roma 	sepultura	 roma 	familia 	padres	 valor desconocido valor desconocido 	educación 	alumno de	 cratipo de pérgamo 	información profesional 	ocupación	 poesía 	obras notables	 epístola a los pisones 	[editar datos en wikidata] quinto horacio flaco [a]​ (venusia, hoy venosa, basilicata, de diciembre de  a. c.-roma, de noviembre de  a. c.), conocido como horacio, fue el principal poeta lírico y satírico en lengua latina.[ ]​ fue un poeta reflexivo, que expresaba aquello que desea con una perfección casi absoluta. los principales temas que trató en su poesía son el elogio de una vida retirada («beatus ille») y la invitación de gozar de la juventud («carpe diem»), temas retomados por poetas españoles como garcilaso de la vega y fray luis de león. escribió, además, epístolas (cartas), las últimas de las cuales, dirigida «a los pisones», es conocida como arte poética.[cita requerida] Índice 	 biografía 	 obra 	 influencia 	 cronología 	 véase también 	 notas 	 referencias 	 bibliografía 	 enlaces externos biografía[editar] era hijo de un esclavo liberto, si bien nació cuando su padre ya gozaba de la libertad. su padre, aunque pobre, invirtió mucho dinero en la educación de su hijo, acompañándolo a roma donde inició sus estudios de gramática con orbilio y, es probable, los de retórica con heliodoro. a los años se trasladó a atenas para estudiar griego y filosofía en la academia con teomnesto, donde tomó contacto por primera vez con el epicureísmo. horacio siempre reconoció los cuidados y el gran sacrificio que su padre hizo por él, su relación es uno de los más bellos episodios de amor filial que sobreviven del periodo clásico. tras el asesinato de julio césar, se unió al partido republicano, formando parte del ejército que marco junio bruto preparaba en grecia para oponerse a los triunviros octavio, lépido y marco antonio, siendo nombrado tribuno militar. el ejército republicano fue derrotado en la doble batalla de filipos (  a. c.), en la cual, dadas sus escasas aptitudes militares, hubo de escapar para salvar así su vida. cuando octavio decretó una amnistía a favor de aquellos que habían luchado en su contra, horacio decidió volver a roma. conoció entonces la noticia de la muerte de su padre y la confiscación de sus propiedades. sumido en la pobreza, consiguió no obstante trabajo como escribano de cuestor, un puesto que le permitió practicar su arte poético. con el tiempo, horacio fue ganando el respeto y la admiración de los círculos literarios romanos, al que pertenecían virgilio y lucio vario rufo, quienes le presentaron a cayo mecenas (  a. c.), amigo y consejero de césar augusto. el emperador le brindó su protección, llegó a ofrecerle un puesto como secretario personal, si bien horacio declinó debido a sus principios epicúreos. mecenas llegó a convertirse en su protector y amigo personal, y obsequió a horacio con una finca en tiber, en las montañas sabinas (  a. c.), donde el poeta se retiró a redactar sus obras. su amistad fue tal que fueron enterrados uno junto al otro. obra[editar] su obra poética no se redujo al subgénero de la lírica, sino que también tocó otros aspectos del conocimiento. los críticos proponen dos periodos de su producción. un primer período en el que compuso las sátiras,[ ]​ una poesía donde da una versión de la cultura humana y una visión del comienzo de la humanidad,[ ]​ y que presenta abundantes elementos autobiográficos que persiguen un fin moral. también compuso los epodos, composiciones de carácter lírico en las que tampoco está ausente la crítica social. el epodo es una composición de origen griego destinada al insulto y al improperio. algunos de los epodos de horacio conservan este carácter, pero otros son de carácter eminentemente lírico. destaca aquel cuyo comienzo, beatus ille, ha dado nombre a un tema literario, la alabanza de la vida en el campo. en el segundo periodo escribiría las odas y las epístolas. las odas son composiciones de carácter lírico que constituyen la obra cumbre de la lírica latina. son cuatro libros con un total de odas. en ellos se jacta de haber sido el primero en trasplantar al latín la lírica eolia en su conjunto, imitando los temas y los metros líricos griegos, sobre todo de alceo, safo y anacreonte. horacio tiene conciencia de que sus odas son lo mejor de su obra y afirma que serán más duraderas que el bronce. en las odas el componente fundamental es el lírico. podemos agrupar las odas en varios grupos temáticos: alabanza de augusto, elogio de la amistad, tema filosófico y moral, el amor, y finalmente el campo y la naturaleza. expone el poeta su filosofía de la vida: hay que saber hacer uso de las riquezas y ser generoso; no hay que dejarse abatir por la adversidad y debe uno gozar de los bienes presentes, que son precarios; lo mejor para ser feliz es la «áurea medianía» («aurea mediocritas»). hay una invitación a gozar del momento presente, ya que el día de mañana es incierto: «carpe diem». este tema tendrá gran fortuna en la literatura universal. las epístolas son la poesía de la reflexión moral y filosófica. entre estas últimas destaca epistula ad pisones, más conocida como arte poética, en la que sienta principios de preceptiva literaria que han tenido durante siglos pervivencia en nuestra cultura. influencia[editar] estatua de horacio en venosa. los temas y tópicos creados por horacio gozarán de un respaldo universal a lo largo de la literatura posterior a su fallecimiento. esencialmente partiendo desde el renacimiento es difícil no hallar una sola composición influida por los tópicos o las formas horacianas. así, destacan poetas como ronsard, petrarca o garcilaso, que se vieron envueltos por la dulzura y las reflexiones horacianas. en españa podemos encontrar grandes influencias horacianas en fray luis de león, que prácticamente lo parafrasea en algunas de sus poesías, josé cadalso o leandro fernández de moratín; e incluso otros autores que seguirán el camino labrado por el poeta romano. algunos poetas ingleses se verán también influidos por horacio, como john keats o john milton. más adelante, en la generación del , también encontraremos influencias horacianas en poetas como en el vallisoletano jorge guillén. su figura sigue asociada hoy día a los tópicos a los que le asoció la edad media, y que ahora pueden considerarse casi más medievales que plenamente romanos: la «aurea mediocritas», el «carpe diem» y el «beatus ille». no obstante, la vitalidad de horacio, pese a cierto anacronismo en su perspectiva que revela el siglo xxi, sigue activa como uno de los clásicos latinos más extraordinarios, junto a otros como cicerón, virgilio, ovidio y demás artistas inmortales. cronología[editar] carpe diem. 	año  a. c. nace horacio. 	 . nace octavio. conjuración de catilina. 	 . constitución del llamado primer triunvirato (julio césar, pompeyo y craso). 	 . derrota de craso en carras por los partos. 	 . julio césar pasa el río rubicón. guerra civil entre julio césar y pompeyo. 	 . victoria de julio césar en farsalia. 	 . llega horacio a atenas. 	 . asesinato de julio césar. 	 . guerra de módena. constitución del segundo triunvirato (octavio, marco antonio y lépido). proscripciones y muerte de marco tulio cicerón. nacimiento de ovidio. 	 . victoria de los cesarianos en filipos. horacio entre los derrotados. 	 . presentación de horacio a mecenas. 	 . viaje a brindisi con ocasión de la conferencia de tarento. 	 . derrota de sexto pompeyo en nauloco. 	 . publicación del primer libro de sátiras. 	 . victoria de octavio en accio sobre marco antonio y cleopatra. 	 . publicación del libro ii de sátiras y el libro de los epodos. 	 . fin de la ilegalidad revolucionaria. octavio recibe el título de augusto. 	 . publicación de los tres primeros libros de odas. 	 . publicación del primer libro de epístolas. 	 . mueren virgilio y tibulo. 	 . celebración de los juegos seculares. canto secular. 	 . publicación del libro ii de las epístolas. 	 . publicación del libro iv de las odas. 	  a. c. muere mecenas. muere horacio. véase también[editar] 	carmen saeculare notas[editar] 	↑ en latín, q. horatius flaccus.[ ]​ referencias[editar] 	↑ pir h . 	↑ a b ripoll lópez, sergio; muñoz ibáñez, francisco javier (octubre de ). «conceptos generales de cazadores-recolectores». economía, sociedad e ideología de los cazadores-recolectores ( ª edición). universidad nacional de educación a distancia. p.  . isbn  .  	↑ moralejo, josé luis ( ). las sátiras, epístolas y ars poetica. madrid: editorial gredos. isbn  .  bibliografía[editar] 	horacio ( ). sátiras. epístolas. arte poética. edición josé luis moralejo (premio nacional a la mejor traducción ). madrid: editorial gredos. isbn - - - - .  	horacio ( ). moralejo, josé luis, ed. odas. canto secular. epodos. madrid: editorial gredos. isbn  - - - - .  enlaces externos[editar] 	 wikimedia commons alberga una categoría multimedia sobre horacio. 	 wikiquote alberga frases célebres de o sobre horacio. 	 wikisource contiene traducciones en castellano de horacio. 	 wikisource en latín contiene obras originales de horacio. 	textos de horacio, en latín, en el sitio the latin library. 	suetonio: sobre hombres ilustres (de viris illustribus); sobre poetas (de poetis); quinto horacio flaco (q. horatius flaccus). 	texto en latín, en wikisource. 	texto en latín, en the latin library. 	nagy, gregory: copies and models in horace odes . and . 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"largest unified international library catalog". library world records ( rd ed.). jefferson, nc: mcfarland & company. p.  . isbn  . oclc  . 	^ "content available through worldcat discovery" (xls). www.oclc.org. oclc. retrieved september , . 	^ a b margalit fox (august , ). "frederick g. kilgour, innovative librarian, dies at ". the new york times. retrieved december , . frederick g. kilgour, a distinguished librarian who nearly years ago transformed a consortium of ohio libraries into what is now the largest library cooperative in the world, making the catalogs of thousands of libraries around the globe instantly accessible to far-flung patrons, died on monday in chapel hill, n.c. he was . 	^ "a brief history of worldcat". oclc.org. february , . retrieved february , . 	^ o'neill, nancy (november–december ). "open worldcat pilot: a user's perspective". searcher. ( ): – . issn  - . oclc  . 	^ quint, barbara (october , ). 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( ): – . doi: . / . jstor  . / . breeding [ ] also makes the following observations about the benefits of the search system: the presence of a more visually appealing interface; the grouping of related material; faceted navigation; and the capability for user-generated content (e.g., reviews). eden [ ] also refers to the advantages of user-generated content possible in wcl... 	^ a b hane, paula j. (july , ). "oclc to open worldcat searching to the world". infotoday.com. information today. retrieved june , . 	^ prucha, francis paul ( ). "national online library catalogs". handbook for research in american history: a guide to bibliographies and other reference works ( nd ed.). lincoln: university of nebraska press. pp.  – . isbn  . oclc  . online computer library center has developed two new programs. one is called epic, a new command-driven full online service with sophisticated searching features, including subject searches, intended for librarians and other experienced users. the other, designed for end-users, is firstsearch, which contains the database materials found in epic or subsets of them but has a menu interface that nonspecialists find easy to use. both epic and firstsearch make available the full oclc online union catalog (called worldcat in firstsearch), but they also function as online database services, offering their users a wide array of other databases. 	^ hickey, thomas b. (april , ). 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( ): – . doi: . / . . . 	mckenzie, elizabeth (january ). oclc changes its rules for use of records in worldcat: library community pushback through blogs and cultures of resistance (technical report). boston: suffolk university law school. research paper - . 	what the oclc online union catalog means to me: a collection of essays. dublin, ohio: oclc. . isbn  . oclc  . 	wilson, kristen (august ). "the knowledge base at the center of the universe". library technology reports. ( ): – . doi: . /ltr. n . 	"worldcat data licensing" (pdf). oclc.org. retrieved december , . see also: "data licenses & attribution". oclc.org. january , . retrieved december , . information about licensing of worldcat records and some other oclc data. external links[edit] 	official website 	"worldcat". oclc.org. retrieved december , . information on the oclc website about worldcat. 	what is worldcat?—a shorter explanation at worldcat 	"bibliographic formats and standards". oclc.org. retrieved december , . 	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	preceded by	regency era 	followed by	edwardian era 	monarch(s)	victoria 	leader(s)		the viscount melbourne 	sir robert peel 	lord john russell 	the earl of derby 	the earl of aberdeen 	the viscount palmerston 	benjamin disraeli 	william ewart gladstone 	the marquess of salisbury 	the earl of rosebery 	part of a series on the 	history of the united kingdom 	 	 timeline 	georgian period 	napoleonic wars 	regency period 	victorian period 	edwardian period 	first world war 	interwar period 	second world war 	post-war period (political) 	post-war period (social) 	modern history (political) 	modern history (social) 	 topics 	history of women 	military history 	  united kingdom portal 		v 	t 	e 	periods in english history 	 	   	prehistoric britain	until c. 	roman britain	c. – 	anglo-saxon	c. – 	norman	 – 	plantagenet	 – 	tudor	 – 	elizabethan	 – 	stuart	 – 	jacobean	 – 	caroline	 – 	(interregnum)	 – 	restoration	 – 	georgian britain	 – 	regency britain	 – 	victorian britain	 – 	edwardian 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romanticism and even mysticism with regard to religion, social values, and arts.[ ] technologically, this era saw a staggering amount of innovations that proved key to britain's power and prosperity.[ ][ ] doctors started moving away from tradition and mysticism towards a science-based approach; modern medicine saw the light of day thanks to the adoption of the germ theory of disease and pioneering research in epidemiology.[ ] multiple studies suggest that on the per-capita basis, the numbers of significant innovations in science and technology and of scientific geniuses peaked during the victorian era and have been on the decline ever since.[ ] domestically, the political agenda was increasingly liberal, with a number of shifts in the direction of gradual political reform, social reform, and the widening of the franchise. there were unprecedented demographic changes: the population of england and wales almost doubled from .  million in to .  million in ,[ ] and scotland's population also rose rapidly, from .  million in to .  million in . however, ireland's population decreased sharply, from .  million in to less than .  million in , mostly due to emigration and the great famine.[ ] between and about million emigrated from great britain, mostly to the united states, canada, south africa, new zealand, and australia.[ ] thanks to educational reforms, the british population not only approached universal literacy towards the end of the era but also became increasingly well-educated; the market for reading materials of all kinds boomed.[ ][ ][ ] britain's relations with the other great powers were driven by the colonial antagonism of the great game with russia, climaxing during the crimean war; a pax britannica of international free trade was maintained by the country's naval and industrial supremacy. britain embarked on global imperial expansion, particularly in asia and africa, which made the british empire the largest empire in history. national self-confidence peaked.[ ][ ] britain granted political autonomy to the more advanced colonies of australia, canada, and new zealand,[ ] and avoided war with the united states.[ ] apart from the crimean war, britain was not involved in any armed conflict with another major power.[ ][ ] the two main political parties during the era remained the whigs/liberals and the conservatives; by its end, the labour party had formed as a distinct political entity. these parties were led by such prominent statesmen as lord melbourne, sir robert peel, lord derby, lord palmerston, benjamin disraeli, william gladstone, and lord salisbury. the unsolved problems relating to irish home rule played a great part in politics in the later victorian era, particularly in view of gladstone's determination to achieve a political settlement in ireland. contents 	 terminology and periodisation 	 political and diplomatic history 	 . early 	 . middle 	 . late 	 society and culture 	 . common culture 	 . evangelicals, utilitarians, and reform 	 . religion 	 . . status of nonconformist churches 	 . . agnostics and freethinkers 	 . marriage and family 	 . education and literacy 	 . reading culture 	 . entertainment 	 . . sports 	 . high culture 	 . . gallery of selected victorian paintings 	 . . journalism 	 . . leisure 	 demographics 	 . demographic transition 	 . fertility rates and mortality rates 	 economy, industry, and trade 	 . progress 	 . housing 	 . poverty 	 . child labour 	 mathematics, science, technology, and engineering 	 . professionalisation of science 	 . ease of discovery and rate of progress 	 . mathematics and statistics 	 . theoretical mechanics and optics 	 . thermodynamics, heat engines, and refrigerators 	 . natural history 	 . electricity, magnetism, and electrification 	 . computer science and logic 	 . communication and transportation 	 . . steam ships 	 . . telegraphy, telephony, the wireless, and photography 	 . . railways 	 . public safety, health and medicine 	 moral standards 	 . crime, police and prisons 	 . prostitution 	 events 	 see also 	 citations 	 further reading 	 . general 	 . daily life and culture 	 . literature 	 . politics 	 . crime and punishment 	 . historiography 	 . primary sources 	 external links terminology and periodisation see also: periodisation in the strictest sense, the victorian era covers the duration of victoria's reign as queen of the united kingdom of great britain and ireland, from her accession on june —after the death of her uncle, william iv—until her death on january , after which she was succeeded by her eldest son, edward vii. her reign lasted for years and seven months, a longer period than any of her predecessors. the term 'victorian' was in contemporaneous usage to describe the era.[ ] the era has also been understood in a more extensive sense as a period that possessed sensibilities and characteristics distinct from the periods adjacent to it, in which case it is sometimes dated to begin before victoria's accession—typically from the passage of or agitation for (during the s) the reform act , which introduced a wide-ranging change to the electoral system of england and wales. definitions that purport a distinct sensibility or politics to the era have also created scepticism about the worth of the label "victorian", though there have also been defences of it.[ ] michael sadleir was insistent that "in truth, the victorian period is three periods, and not one".[ ] he distinguished early victorianism – the socially and politically unsettled period from to [ ] – and late victorianism (from onwards), with its new waves of aestheticism and imperialism,[ ] from the victorian heyday: mid-victorianism, to . he saw the latter period as characterized by a distinctive mixture of prosperity, domestic prudery, and complacency[ ] – what g. m. trevelyan similarly called the "mid-victorian decades of quiet politics and roaring prosperity".[ ] political and diplomatic history main articles: united kingdom of great britain and ireland and international relations of the great powers ( – ) early in , after much political agitation, the reform act was passed on the third attempt. the act abolished many borough seats and created others in their place, as well as expanding the franchise in england and wales (a scottish reform act and irish reform act were passed separately). minor reforms followed in and . on june , victoria became queen of the united kingdom on the death of her uncle, william iv, just weeks after reaching the age of eighteen.[ ] her government was led by the whig prime minister lord melbourne, to whom she was close.[ ] but within two years he had resigned, and the tory politician sir robert peel attempted to form a new ministry. peel said he was willing to become prime minister provided the queen replaced her whig ladies-in-waiting with tory ones. she refused and re-appointed lord melbourne, a decision criticised as unconstitutional.[ ] she regularly recorded the events of the rebellions on upper and lower canada as these reminded her of the american revolution, which took place during the reign of her grandfather king george iii.[ ] london sent lord durham to resolve the issue and his report opened the way for "responsible government" (that is, self-government).[ ][ ] in the same year, a seizure of british opium exports to china prompted the first opium war against the qing dynasty, and british imperial india initiated the first anglo-afghan war—one of the first major conflicts of the great game between britain and russia.[ ] in in south africa, the dutch boers made their "great trek to found natal, the transvaal, and the orange free state, defeating the zulus in the process, – ; london annexed natal in but recognized the independence of the transvaal in in the orange free state in .[ ][ ] queen victoria, prince albert, and five of their children in . painting by franz xaver winterhalter. in , queen victoria married her german cousin prince albert of saxe-coburg-saalfield. it proved a passionate marriage, whose children were much sought after by royal families across europe. an astute diplomat, the queen was only too willing to arrange such marriages. indeed, she became the "grandmother of europe" thanks to the nine children she had with prince albert in just sixteen years despite suffering from postnatal depression and her dislike of childbirth. unfortunately, she carried the gene for haemophilia, which affected ten of her male descendants, one of whom was the heir apparent of tsar nicholas ii.[ ][ ] in australia, new provinces were founded with victoria in and south australia in . the focus shifted from transportation of criminals to voluntary immigration. new zealand became a british colony in ; in maori chiefs ceded sovereignty to britain in treaty of waitangi. in new zealand became an autonomous colony.[ ][ ] the signing of the treaty of nanking in ended the first opium war and gave britain control over hong kong island.[ ] however, a disastrous retreat from kabul in the same year led to the annihilation of a british army column in afghanistan. in , the great famine began to cause mass starvation, disease and death in ireland, sparking large-scale emigration.[ ] to allow more cheap food into ireland, the peel government repealed the corn laws. peel was replaced by the whig ministry of lord john russell.[ ] in , britain fought alongside france in the crimean war against russia. the goal was to ensure that russia could not benefit from the declining status of the ottoman empire,[ ] a strategic consideration known as the eastern question. the conflict marked a rare breach in the pax britannica, the period of relative peace ( – ) that existed among the great powers of the time, and especially in britain's interaction with them. on its conclusion in with the treaty of paris, russia was prohibited from hosting a military presence in crimea. in october of the same year, the second opium war saw britain overpower the qing dynasty in china. along with other major powers, britain took steps in obtaining special trading and legal rights in a limited number of treaty ports.[ ] it was during the crimean war that the queen introduced the victoria cross, awarded on the basis of valour and merit regardless of rank. the first crosses were handed out to men in a ceremony at hyde park in , the first time officers and men were decorated together.[ ] during – , an uprising by sepoys against the east india company was suppressed, an event that led to the end of company rule in india and the transferral of administration to direct rule by the british government. the princely states were not affected and remained under british guidance.[ ] english was imposed as the medium of education.[ ] middle in , prince albert died.[ ] queen victoria went into mourning and withdrew from public life.[ ] whilst the cabinet leaned toward recognition of the confederacy during the american civil war, public opinion was split.[ ] confederate foreign policy planners had hoped that the value of their cotton exports would encourage european powers to intervene in their favour. it was not to be, and the british attitude might have been decisive. being cut off from cotton did not affect the british economy as much as the confederates had expected. a considerable supply was available to great britain when the american civil war erupted and she was able to turn to india and egypt as alternatives when that ran out.[ ] in the end, the government decided to remain neutral upon realising that war with the united states would be highly dangerous, for that country provided much of britain's food supply (especially wheat) and its navy could sink much of the merchant fleet.[ ][ ] u.s. ambassador to britain charles francis adams sr. succeeded in resolving thorny problems that could have driven the two powers into war. but once it was clear that the united states had the upper hand on the battlefield, the possibility of an anglo-american war vanished.[ ] fathers of canadian confederation by robert harris ( ). her diary entries suggest the queen had contemplated the possibility of a union of her north american colonies as early as february . she wrote, "...we must struggle for it, and far the best it would be to let it go as an independent kingdom, under an english prince!" she also mentioned how her late husband prince albert had hoped that one day, their sons would rule over the british colonies. in february , the queen received a copy of the british north america act (also known as the constitution act ). a fortnight later she hosted delegates coming to discuss the question of confederation "under the name of canada," including the future prime minister john a. macdonald. on march , the queen granted royal ascent to the act, which was to become effective on july , allowing the delegates time to return home for celebrations.[ ] in fact, the queen maintained strong ties with canada. victoria in british columbia and victoria county in nova scotia were named after her, regina in saskatchewan in her honour, prince edward island her father, and alberta her daughter. her birthday, victoria day, is an official public holiday in canada. in addition, her daughter princess louise was chatelaine of rideau hall from to and her son the duke of connaught served as governor-general of canada between and .[ ] in , the second reform act was passed, expanding the franchise. in , just a year after the french third republic was founded, republican sentiments grew in britain. after prince edward recovered from typhoid, the queen decided to give a public thanksgiving service and appear on the balcony of buckingham palace. this was the start of her return to public life.[ ] in , britain was a plenipotentiary at the treaty of berlin, which gave de jure recognition to the independent states of romania, serbia, and montenegro. late map of the british empire in key leaders included conservatives benjamin disraeli, and robert gascoyne-cecil, rd marquess of salisbury, and liberals william ewart gladstone, the earl of rosebery and william harcourt.[ ] they introduced various reforms aimed at strengthening the political autonomy of large industrial cities and increasing british involvement in the international stage. labour movements were recognised and integrated in order to combat extremism. both queen victoria and prince albert favoured moderate improvements to conditions of workers.[ ] queen victoria found in disraeli a trustworthy adviser. she approved of his policies which helped elevated britain's status to global superpower. in her later years, her popularity soared as she became a symbol of the british empire.[ ] the major new policies included rapid succession, the complete abolition of slavery in the west indies and african possessions, the end of transportation of convicts to australia, loosening restrictions on colonial trade, and introducing responsible government.[ ][ ] david livingstone led famous expeditions in central africa, positioning britain for favorable expansion of its colonial system in the scramble for africa during the s. there were numerous revolts and violent conflicts in the british empire, but there were no wars with other major nations.[ ][ ] in south africa tensions escalated, especially with the discovery of gold. the result was the first boer war in – and the intensely bitter second boer war in – . the british finally prevailed, but lost prestige at home and abroad.[ ][ ] after weeks of illness, queen victoria died on january . by her bedside were her son and heir edward vii and grandson kaiser wilhelm ii.[ ] australia received dominion status in the same year.[ ] despite their difficult relations, edward vii never severed ties with the queen. like her, he modernised the british monarchy and ensured its survival when so many european royal families collapsed as a result of the first world war.[ ] society and culture common culture the rise of the middle class during the era had a formative effect on its character; the historian walter e. houghton reflects that "once the middle class attained political as well as financial eminence, their social influence became decisive. the victorian frame of mind is largely composed of their characteristic modes of thought and feeling".[ ] industrialisation brought with it a rapidly growing middle class whose increase in numbers had a significant effect on the social strata itself: cultural norms, lifestyle, values and morality. identifiable characteristics came to define the middle-class home and lifestyle. previously, in town and city, residential space was adjacent to or incorporated into the work site, virtually occupying the same geographical space. the difference between private life and commerce was a fluid one distinguished by an informal demarcation of function. in the victorian era, english family life increasingly became compartmentalised, the home a self-contained structure housing a nuclear family extended according to need and circumstance to include blood relations. the concept of "privacy" became a hallmark of the middle-class life. the english home closed up and darkened over the decade ( s), the cult of domesticity matched by a cult of privacy. bourgeois existence was a world of interior space, heavily curtained off and wary of intrusion, and opened only by invitation for viewing on occasions such as parties or teas. "the essential, unknowability of each individual, and society's collaboration in the maintenance of a façade behind which lurked innumerable mysteries, were the themes which preoccupied many mid-century novelists."[ ] — kate summerscale quoting historian anthony s. wohl evangelicals, utilitarians, and reform the central feature of victorian-era politics is the search for reform and improvement, including both the individual personality and society.[ ] three powerful forces were at work. first was the rapid rise of the middle class, in large part displacing the complete control long exercised by the aristocracy. respectability was their code—a businessman had to be trusted and must avoid reckless gambling and heavy drinking. second, the spiritual reform closely linked to evangelical christianity, including both the nonconformist sects, such as the methodists, and especially the evangelical or low church element in the established church of england, typified by lord shaftesbury ( – ).[ ] it imposed fresh moralistic values on society, such as sabbath observance, responsibility, widespread charity, discipline in the home, and self-examination for the smallest faults and needs of improvement. starting with the anti-slavery movement of the s, the evangelical moralizers developed highly effective techniques of enhancing the moral sensibilities of all family members and reaching the public at large through intense, very well organized agitation and propaganda. they focused on exciting a personal revulsion against social evils and personal misbehavior.[ ] asa briggs points out, "there were as many treatises on 'domestic economy' in mid-victorian england as on political economy"[ ] the third effect came from the liberalism of philosophical utilitarians, led by intellectuals jeremy bentham ( – ), james mill ( – ) and his son john stuart mill ( – ).[ ] they were not moralistic but scientific. their movement, often called "philosophic radicalism," fashioned a formula for promoting the goal of "progress" using scientific rationality, and businesslike efficiency, to identify, measure, and discover solutions to social problems. the formula was an inquiry, legislation, execution, inspection, and report.[ ] in public affairs, their leading exponent was edwin chadwick ( – ). evangelicals and utilitarians shared a basic middle-class ethic of responsibility and formed a political alliance. the result was an irresistible force for reform.[ ] social reforms focused on ending slavery, removing the slavery-like burdens on women and children, and reforming the police to prevent crime, rather than emphasizing the very harsh punishment of criminals. even more important were political reforms, especially the lifting of disabilities on nonconformists and roman catholics, and above all, the reform of parliament and elections to introduce democracy and replace the old system whereby senior aristocrats controlled dozens of seats in parliament.[ ] the long-term effect of the reform movements was to tightly link the nonconformist element with the liberal party. the dissenters gave significant support to moralistic issues, such as temperance and sabbath enforcement. the nonconformist conscience, as it was called, was repeatedly called upon by gladstone for support for his moralistic foreign policy.[ ] in election after election, protestant ministers rallied their congregations to the liberal ticket. in scotland, the presbyterians played a similar role to the nonconformist methodists, baptists and other groups in england and wales.[ ] the political strength of dissent faded sharply after with the secularization of british society in the th century.[citation needed] religion the restoration of the catholic hierarchy in provoked a strong reaction. this sketch is from an issue of punch, printed in november that year. religion was a battleground during this era, with the nonconformists fighting bitterly against the established status of the church of england, especially regarding education and access to universities and public office. penalties on roman catholics were mostly removed. the vatican restored the english catholic bishoprics in and numbers grew through conversions and immigration from ireland.[ ] the oxford movement was also occurring around this time, which would draw in new converts to the catholic church; among these was john henry newman. secularism and doubts about the accuracy of the old testament grew as the scientific outlooked rapidly gained ground among the better educated. walter e. houghton argues, "perhaps the most important development in th-century intellectual history was the extension of scientific assumptions and methods from the physical world to the whole life of man."[ ] during the mid-nineteenth century, there were two distinct religious mentalities among british academics. the north british school was religiously conservative and commercially engaged thanks to the influence of presbyterianism and calvinism. northern english and scottish researchers played a key role in the development of thermodynamics, which was motivated by the desire to design ever more efficient engines. by contrast, in the south, mentalities of anglicanism, agnosticism, and even atheism were more common. academics such as the biologist thomas huxley promoted "scientific naturalism."[ ] status of nonconformist churches nonconformist conscience describes the moral sensibility of the nonconformist churches—those which dissent from the established church of england—that influenced british politics in the th and early th centuries.[ ][ ] in the census of church attendance, non-conformists who went to chapel comprised half the attendance of sunday services.[ ] nonconformists were focused in the fast-growing urban middle class.[ ] the two categories of this group were in addition to the evangelicals or "low church" element in the church of england: "old dissenters," dating from the th and th centuries, included baptists, congregationalists, quakers, unitarians, and presbyterians outside scotland; "new dissenters" emerged in the th century and were mainly methodists. the "nonconformist conscience" of the old group emphasized religious freedom and equality, the pursuit of justice, and opposition to discrimination, compulsion, and coercion. the new dissenters (and also the anglican evangelicals) stressed personal morality issues, including sexuality, temperance, family values, and sabbath-keeping. both factions were politically active, but until the mid- th century, the old group supported mostly whigs and liberals in politics, while the new—like most anglicans—generally supported conservatives. in the late th century, the new dissenters mostly switched to the liberal party. the result was a merging of the two groups, strengthening their great weight as a political pressure group. they joined together on new issues especially regarding schools and temperance, with the latter of special interest to methodists.[ ][ ] by the linkage was weakening and by the s it was virtually dead.[ ] parliament had long imposed a series of political disabilities on nonconformists outside scotland. they could not hold most public offices, they had to pay local taxes to the anglican church, be married by anglican ministers, and be denied attendance at oxford or degrees at cambridge. dissenters demanded the removal of political and civil disabilities that applied to them (especially those in the test and corporation acts). the anglican establishment strongly resisted until .[ ] dissenters organized into a political pressure group and succeeded in in the repeal of some restrictions. it was a major achievement for an outside group, but the dissenters were not finished and the early victorian period saw them even more active and successful in eliminating their grievances.[ ] next on the agenda was the matter of church rates, which were local taxes at the parish level for the support of the parish church building in england and wales. only buildings of the established church received the tax money. civil disobedience was attempted but was met with the seizure of personal property and even imprisonment. the compulsory factor was finally abolished in by william ewart gladstone, and payment was made voluntary.[ ] while gladstone was a moralistic evangelical inside the church of england, he had strong support in the nonconformist community.[ ][ ] the marriage act allowed local government registrars to handle marriages. nonconformist ministers in their chapels were allowed to marry couples if a registrar was present. also in , civil registration of births, deaths, and marriages was taken from the hands of local parish officials and given to local government registrars. burial of the dead was a more troubling problem, for urban chapels had no graveyards, and nonconformists sought to use the traditional graveyards controlled by the established church. the burial laws amendment act finally allowed that.[ ] oxford university required students seeking admission to subscribe to the articles of the church of england. cambridge required that for a diploma. the two ancient universities opposed giving a charter to the new university of london in the s because it had no such restriction. the university, nevertheless, was established in , and by the s oxford dropped its restrictions. in gladstone sponsored the universities tests act that provided full access to degrees and fellowships. nonconformists (especially unitarians and presbyterians) played major roles in founding new universities in the late th century at manchester, as well as birmingham, liverpool and leeds.[ ] agnostics and freethinkers t. h. huxley's famous debate in with samuel wilberforce was a key moment in the wider acceptance of charles darwin's theory of evolution the abstract theological or philosophical doctrine of agnosticism, whereby it is theoretically impossible to prove whether or not god exists, suddenly became a popular issue around , when t. h. huxley coined the term. it was much discussed for several decades, and had its journal edited by william stewart ross ( – ) the agnostic journal and eclectic review. interest petered out by the s, and when ross died the journal soon closed. ross championed agnosticism in opposition not so much to christianity, but to atheism, as expounded by charles bradlaugh[ ] the term "atheism" never became popular. blasphemy laws meant that promoting atheism could be a crime and was vigorously prosecuted.[ ] charles southwell was among the editors of an explicitly atheistic periodical, oracle of reason, or philosophy vindicated, who were imprisoned for blasphemy in the s.[ ] disbelievers call themselves "freethinkers" or "secularists". they included john stuart mill, thomas carlyle, george eliot and matthew arnold.[ ] they were not necessarily hostile to christianity, as huxley repeatedly emphasized. the literary figures were caught in something of a trap – their business was writing and their theology said there was nothing for certain to write. they instead concentrated on the argument that it was not necessary to believe in god to behave in moral fashion.[ ] the scientists, on the other hand, paid less attention to theology and more attention to the exciting issues raised by charles darwin in terms of evolution. the proof of god's existence that said he had to exist to have a marvelously complex world was no longer satisfactory when biology demonstrated that complexity could arise through evolution.[ ] marriage and family further information: separate spheres and women in the victorian era george william joy's painting the bayswater omnibus, , depicts middle-class social life in this english late victorian-era scene. a daguerreotype of a victorian couple, s or s the centrality of the family was a dominant feature for all classes. worriers repeatedly detected threats that had to be dealt with: working wives, overpaid youths, harsh factory conditions, bad housing, poor sanitation, excessive drinking, and religious decline. the licentiousness so characteristic of the upper class of the late th and early th centuries dissipated. the home became a refuge from the harsh world; middle-class wives sheltered their husbands from the tedium of domestic affairs. the number of children shrank, allowing much more attention to be paid to each child. extended families were less common, as the nuclear family became both the ideal and the reality.[ ] the emerging middle-class norm for women was separate spheres, whereby women avoid the public sphere – the domain of politics, paid work, commerce, and public speaking. instead, they should dominate in the realm of domestic life, focused on the care of the family, the husband, the children, the household, religion, and moral behavior.[ ] religiosity was in the female sphere, and the nonconformist churches offered new roles that women eagerly entered. they taught in sunday schools, visited the poor and sick, distributed tracts, engaged in fundraising, supported missionaries, led methodist class meetings, prayed with other women, and a few were allowed to preach to mixed audiences.[ ] the long poem the angel in the house by coventry patmore ( – ) exemplified the idealized victorian woman who is angelically pure and devoted to her family and home. the poem was not a pure invention but reflected the emerging legal economic social, cultural, religious and moral values of the victorian middle-class. legally women had limited rights to their bodies, the family property, or their children. the recognized identities were those of daughter, wife, mother, and widow. rapid growth and prosperity meant that fewer women had to find paid employment, and even when the husband owned a shop or small business, the wife's participation was less necessary. meanwhile, the home sphere grew dramatically in size; women spent the money and decided on the furniture, clothing, food, schooling, and outward appearance the family would make. patmore's model was widely copied – by charles dickens, for example.[ ] literary critics of the time suggested that superior feminine qualities of delicacy, sensitivity, sympathy, and sharp observation gave women novelists a superior insight into stories about home family and love. this made their work highly attractive to the middle-class women who bought the novels and the serialized versions that appeared in many magazines. however, a few early feminists called for aspirations beyond the home. by the end of the century, the "new woman" was riding a bicycle, wearing bloomers, signing petitions, supporting worldwide mission activities, and talking about the vote.[ ] in great britain, elsewhere in europe, and in the united states, the notion that marriage should be based on romantic love and companionship rather than convenience, money, or other strategic considerations grew in popularity during the victorian period. cheaper paper and printing technology made it easier for humans to attract mates this way, hence the birth of the valentine card.[ ] education and literacy further information: history of education in england § nineteenth century, and public school (united kingdom) a cartoon from the humorous british magazine punch about a senior wrangler and a student at girton college from "december , " (see upper-right corner). the industrial revolution incentivised people to think more scientifically and to become more educated and informed in order to solve novel problems. as a result, cognitive abilities were pushed to their genetic limits, making people more intelligent and innovative than their predecessors.[ ][ ] formal education thus became vital. according to intelligence researcher james r. flynn, these changes echoed down to the twentieth century before leveling off in the early twenty-first.[ ] the era saw a reform and renaissance of public schools, inspired by thomas arnold at rugby. the public school became a model for gentlemen and public service.[ ] sunday schools and charity schools helped reduce illiteracy. in fact, throughout the course of the nineteenth century, there was a clear movement towards universal literacy, culminating in the elementary education act of . by , attending elementary schools was made compulsory.[ ] as a consequence of various education reforms, literacy rates steadily rose. one way to determine the literacy rate is to count those who could sign their names on their marriage registers. using this method, it was established that literacy in england and wales reached roughly % by the late nineteenth century. statistics of literacy from this era are likely underestimates because they were based on the number of people who could write, but throughout most of the nineteenth century, people were typically taught to read before they were taught to write. literacy rates were higher in urban than rural areas. rising literacy and urbanization provided an expanding market for printed materials, from cheap books to magazines.[ ] a key component of the curriculum at cambridge since the mid-eighteenth century had been the "mathematical tripos," providing not just intensive training for mathematicians and scientists but also general education for future civil servants, colonial administrators, lawyers, and clergymen.[ ] named after the three-legged stool students had been sitting on since the fifteenth century, the tripos included extremely challenging and highly prestigious exams whose most successful candidate for a given year was called the "senior wrangler." below the senior and second wranglers were the optimes.[ ] the exams concerned not just pure but also "mixed" or applied mathematics. starting from the s, under the influence of master of trinity college william whewell, the "mixed" portion included only branches of applied mathematics deemed stable, such as mechanics and optics, rather those amenable to mathematical analysis but remained unfinished at the time, such as electricity and magnetism. following recommendations from the royal commission of – , science education at oxford and cambridge underwent significant reforms. in , a new tripos was introduced, providing a broader and less mathematical program in "natural philosophy," or what science was still commonly called back then.[ ] by , the tripos had evolved into a rigorous test of not just mathematical ingenuity but also mental stamina. topics ranged widely, from number theory to mathematical physics. candidates needed to have a firm grasp of the works of sir isaac newton and euclid of alexandria, trigonometric identities, conic sections, compounded interest, eclipses and more. they usually sat for five and a half hours each day for eight days for a total of a dozen papers featuring increasingly difficult questions.[ ] in general, while the first colleges for women opened in the s, it was not until the s that they started to be permitted to study side-by-side with men and to sit for the same exams as men.[ ] the first college for women at the university of cambridge, girton, opened in . however, women were only allowed to take exams; it was not until that they were able to receive degrees.[ ] they were marked and scored separately, however, and the results of female candidates were enunciated in comparison to men's, for instance, "between the th and st optimes." exam results from the s onward suggested that women broadly did as well as men, though with the notable exception of mathematics. at that time, it was commonly thought that women were emotional creatures lacking the mental faculty to master mathematics. thus it was big news when philippa fawcett was ranked "above the senior wranger" in , scoring thirteen percent higher than the top male that year, geoffrey thomas bennett. she was the first, and last, woman to score the highest on the tripos.[ ] while women were not welcomed in the world of medicine, this was not the case in nursing. in fact, nursing became even more respected after the brilliant exploits of florence nightingale during the crimean war. her nursing school at st thomas' hospital became a model for others. consequently, for many middle-class young women, the prospects of being a nurse, one of the few career options open to them at the time, became much more appealing.[ ] reading culture see also: victorian literature and list of th-century british children's literature titles cover illustration for lewis carroll's the nursery "alice" by e. gertrude thomson published by macmillan in in london the edition of beeton's christmas annual contains arthur conan doyle's a study in scarlet, the first appearance of the fictional detective sherlock holmes. page from somerville's mechanism discussing kepler's laws during the nineteenth century, the publishing industry found itself catching up with the momentous changes to society brought about by the industrial revolution. it benefited from the introduction of electrical power, rail transport, and telegraphy.[ ] sales of books and periodicals were fuelled by the seemingly insatiable demand for knowledge, self-improvement, and entertainment from the rapidly growing middle-class.[ ] initially, while book prices were too high for the average reader, they were sufficient to cover the costs of the publisher and to pay reasonable amounts to the authors. but as free-to-use libraries sprang up all around the country, people started flocking to them. authors and publishers looked for ways to cut prices and increase sales. serialisation in periodicals, especially literary magazines though not newspapers, became popular. quality illustrations were commissioned from the reputable artists of the time as an incentive to purchase. income from writing increased for some writers, and many became professional novelists.[ ] in the early s, the market for children's literature was dominated by religious groups. stories from this period often included strong a moral message.[ ] but it showed signs of growth and some writers decided to seize the opportunity.[ ] by the middle of the century, commercial publishers came to recognise the great potential of this market and signed deals with gifted authors to provide a plethora of reading materials to children. they also took advantage of innovations such as those that enable the printing of coloured illustrations. as the middle class boomed, people had more money to spend on entertaining their children. moral messaging was de-emphasised in favor of fun. classics like the tales of the brothers grimm and the fairy tales of hans christian andersen made their way to the printing press. but it was alice's adventures in wonderland by lewis carroll that proved to be the most popular, alongside the works of william makepeace thackeray, charles kingsley, jean ingelow, and george macdonald. by the s, juvenile fiction packed with action and adventure became commonplace.[ ] fantasy did not have a monopoly on the market for children's literature, however. tom brown's school days ( ) by thomas hughes was a noteworthy example of realistic writing and school stories while black beauty ( ) by anna sewell was the start of the blooming of animal tales. as a matter of fact, the market grew so large that most of the top writers of the era wrote at least one book for children. children's magazines and poetry for children (especially the nonsensical variety) blossomed during the victorian age.[ ] in prose, the novel rose from a position of relative neglect during the s to become the leading literary genre by the end of the era.[ ][ ] in the s and s, the social novel (also "condition-of-england novels") responded to the social, political and economic upheaval associated with industrialisation.[ ] though it remained influential throughout the period, there was a notable resurgence of gothic fiction in the fin de siècle, such as in robert louis stevenson's novella strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde ( ) and oscar wilde's the picture of dorian gray ( ). following the bicentenary of william shakespeare in , the popularity of his works steadily grew, reaching a peak in the nineteenth century. charles and mary lamb appeared to have anticipated this with their tales from shakespeare ( ). intended as an introduction for apprentice readers to the works of the great playwright, the book became one of the best-selling titles in literature of the century,[ ] being republished multiple times.[ ] as early as , astronomer john herschel had already recognised the need for the genre of popular science. in a letter to philosopher william whewell, he wrote that the general public needed "digests of what is actually known in each particular branch of science... to give a connected view of what has been done, and what remains to be accomplished."[ ] indeed, as the british population became not just increasingly literate but also well-educated, there was growing demand for science titles. mary somerville became an early and highly successful science writer of the nineteenth century. her on the connexion of the physical sciences ( ), intended for the mass audience, sold quite well.[ ][ ] arguably one of the first books in the genre of popular science, it contained few diagrams and very little mathematics. it had ten editions and was translated to multiple languages. as its name suggests, it offered readers a broad overview of the physical sciences at a time when these studies were becoming increasingly distinct and specialised. it was the most popular science title from the publisher john murray until charles darwin's on the origin of species ( ).[ ] although somerville's rendition of pierre-simon de laplace's masterpiece mécanique céleste, the mechanism of the heavens ( ), was intended to inform the masses of the latest advances in newtonian mechanics and gravitation, it was also used as a textbook for students at the university of cambridge till the s.[ ][ ] the abolition of the newspaper stamp duty in and the advertising tax in paved the way for not only cheaper magazines but also those catering to a variety of interests. during the final three decades of the victorian era, women's newspapers and magazines flourished and increasingly covered topics other than domestic issues, reflecting the trend among women at the time.[ ] the professional police force dedicated to not just the prevention but also the investigation of crime took shape during the mid-nineteenth century. this development inspired charles dickens to write the crime novel bleak house ( – ), creating the first fictional detective, mr. bucket, based on a real-life character by the name of charles field.[ ] but it was arthur conan doyle's sherlock holmes who proved to be the most popular fictional detective of the victorian age, and indeed, of all times.[ ] by the s, there was strong demand for adventure, detective, sensational, and science-fiction novels.[ ] indeed, the late nineteenth century saw a tremendous amount of technological progress, which inspired authors to write in the genre of science fiction. herbert george wells' the time machine ( ) was a commercial success; in it, he introduced the notion of time travel. in some instances, science fiction inspired new technology and scientific research. explorer ernest shackleton acknowledged that the novel twenty thousand leagues under the sea by jules vernes was an inspiration.[ ] a study investigated the frequency at which difficult vocabulary from the wordsum test were employed in about . million english-language texts published between and . the researchers found that the more difficult of words were in declining usage and a negative correlation between the use of such words and completed fertility. on the other hand, simpler words entered increasingly common use, an effect of rising literacy.[ ][ ] in another study, from , researchers employed google's ngram viewer, an enormous archive of scanned books, periodicals, and other printed materials dating back to the sixteenth century. they found that the use of difficult vocabulary increased substantially between the mid- s and mid- s before declining steadily till the present day.[ ] entertainment pablo fanque performing at astley's amphitheatre, llandudno, . with the arrival of the railway network, seaside towns became popular destinations for victorian holiday makers the epsom derby; painting by james pollard, c. popular forms of entertainment varied by social class. victorian britain, like the periods before it, was interested in literature, theatre and the arts (see aesthetic movement and pre-raphaelite brotherhood), and music, drama, and opera were widely attended. michael balfe was the most popular british grand opera composer of the period, while the most popular musical theatre was a series of fourteen comic operas by gilbert and sullivan, although there was also musical burlesque and the beginning of edwardian musical comedy in the s. drama ranged from low comedy to shakespeare (see henry irving). melodrama—literally 'musical drama'—was introduced in revolutionary france and reached great britain from there during the victorian era. it was a particularly widespread and influential theatrical genre thanks to its appeal to the working-class and artisans. however, its popularity decline in the late nineteenth century. even so, it continued to influence the novels of the era.[ ] gentlemen went to dining clubs, like the beefsteak club or the savage club. gambling at cards in establishments popularly called casinos was wildly popular during the period: so much so that evangelical and reform movements specifically targeted such establishments in their efforts to stop gambling, drinking, and prostitution.[ ] brass bands and 'the bandstand' became popular in the victorian era. the bandstand was a simple construction that not only created an ornamental focal point but also served acoustic requirements whilst providing shelter from the changeable british weather. it was common to hear the sound of a brass band whilst strolling through parklands. at this time musical recording was still very much a novelty.[ ] the victorian era marked the golden age of the british circus.[ ] astley's amphitheatre in lambeth, london, featuring equestrian acts in a -foot wide circus ring, was the center of the th-century circus. the permanent structure sustained three fires but as an institution lasted a full century, with andrew ducrow and william batty managing the theatre in the middle part of the century. william batty would also build his , -person arena, known commonly as batty's hippodrome, in kensington gardens, and draw crowds from the crystal palace exhibition. traveling circuses, like pablo fanque's, dominated the british provinces, scotland, and ireland (fanque would enjoy fame again in the th century when john lennon would buy an poster advertising his circus and adapt the lyrics for the beatles song, being for the benefit of mr. kite!). fanque also stands out as a black man who achieved great success and enjoyed great admiration among the british public only a few decades after britain had abolished slavery.[ ] edinburgh ale, by david octavius hill and robert adamson. another form of entertainment involved "spectacles" where paranormal events, such as mesmerism, communication with the dead (by way of mediumship or channeling), ghost conjuring and the like, were carried out to the delight of crowds and participants. such activities were more popular at this time than in other periods of recent western history.[ ] natural history became increasingly an "amateur" activity. particularly in britain and the united states, this grew into specialist hobbies such as the study of birds, butterflies, seashells (malacology/conchology), beetles and wildflowers. amateur collectors and natural history entrepreneurs played an important role in building the large natural history collections of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.[ ][ ] middle-class victorians used the train services to visit the seaside, helped by the bank holiday act of , which created many fixed holidays. large numbers traveling to quiet fishing villages such as worthing, morecambe and scarborough began turning them into major tourist centers, and people like thomas cook saw tourism and even overseas travel as viable businesses.[ ] sports main article: sport in the united kingdom § history rugby football match between england and scotland, c. the victorian era saw the introduction and development of many modern sports.[ ] often originating in the public schools, they exemplified new ideals of manliness.[ ] cricket,[ ] cycling, croquet, horse-riding, and many water activities are examples of some of the popular sports in the victorian era.[ ] the modern game of tennis originated in birmingham, england, between and . the world's oldest tennis tournament, the wimbledon championships, was first played in london in . britain was an active competitor in all the olympic games starting in . high culture see also: victorian architecture, victorian decorative arts, victorian fashion, victorian literature, and victorian painting a picture of leadenhall street, london, c. the poultry cross, salisbury, painted by louise rayner, c. gothic revival architecture became increasingly significant during the period, leading to the battle of the styles between gothic and classical ideals. charles barry's architecture for the new palace of westminster, which had been badly damaged in an fire, was built in the medieval style of westminster hall, the surviving part of the building. it constructed a narrative of cultural continuity, set in opposition to the violent disjunctions of revolutionary france, a comparison common to the period, as expressed in thomas carlyle's the french revolution: a history and charles dickens' great expectations and a tale of two cities. gothic was also supported by critic john ruskin, who argued that it epitomised communal and inclusive social values, as opposed to classicism, which he considered to epitomise mechanical standardisation.[citation needed] the middle of the th century saw the great exhibition of , the first world's fair, which showcased the greatest innovations of the century. at its centre was the crystal palace, a modular glass and iron structure – the first of its kind. it was condemned by ruskin as the very model of mechanical dehumanisation in design but later came to be presented as the prototype of modern architecture. the emergence of photography, showcased at the great exhibition, resulted in significant changes in victorian art with queen victoria being the first british monarch to be photographed. in general, various styles of painting were popular during the victorian period, classicism, neoclassicism, romanticism, impressionism, and post-impressionism. in , dante rossetti and william holman hunt created the pre-raphaelite brotherhood whose stated aim was to produce paintings of photographic quality, taking inspiration from a variety of sources, from the works of william shakespeare to mother nature herself.[ ] the growing popularity of romantic love spilled over into literature and fine arts.[ ] gallery of selected victorian paintings 	 			 			 the hireling shepherd ( ) by william holman hunt 			 		 	 			 			 monarch of the glen ( ) by edwin landseer 			 		 	 			 			 prosperpine ( ) by dante rossetti. 			 		 	 			 			 miranda ( ) by john william waterhouse 			 		 	 			 			 biondina ( ) by frederick leighton 			 		 	 			 			 a hopeless dawn ( ) by frank bramley. 			 		 	 			 			 titania sleeping in the moonlight protected by her fairies by john simmons, inspired by shakespeare's a midsummer night's dream. 			 		 	 			 			 god speed! ( ) by edmund leighton 			 		 a wounded british officer reading the times's report of the end of the crimean war journalism main article: history of journalism in the united kingdom in , thomas barnes became general editor of the times; he was a political radical, a sharp critic of parliamentary hypocrisy and a champion of freedom of the press.[ ] under barnes and his successor in , john thadeus delane, the influence of the times rose to great heights, especially in politics and in the financial district (the city of london). it spoke of reform.[ ] the times originated the practice of sending war correspondents to cover particular conflicts. w. h. russell wrote immensely influential dispatches on the crimean war of – ; for the first time, the public could read about the reality of warfare. russell wrote one dispatch that highlighted the surgeons' "inhumane barbarity" and the lack of ambulance care for wounded troops. shocked and outraged, the public reacted in a backlash that led to major reforms especially in the provision of nursing, led by florence nightingale.[ ] the manchester guardian was founded in manchester in by a group of non-conformist businessmen. its most famous editor, charles prestwich scott, made the guardian into a world-famous newspaper in the s. the daily telegraph in became the first penny newspaper in london. it was funded by advertising revenue based on a large audience. leisure opening of the royal albert hall in ramsgate beach in at mid-century, the idea of a large amphitheatre for musical performances and conferences for the learned captured the imagination of not just henry cole, secretary of the science and art department, but also prince albert. by , cole planned to build one with "due regard to the principles of sound." after the prince's death in , this project had the additional goal of commemorating him. the royal albert hall opened on march . lieutenant-colonel henry scott, r.e., who managed the construction, estimated there was enough space for , people plus , performers; the theoretical limit was , . as desired by the prince, it did not rely on public funds but was purely privately funded.[ ] opportunities for leisure activities increased dramatically as real wages continued to grow and hours of work continued to decline. in urban areas the nine-hour workday became increasingly the norm; the factory act limited the working week to . hours, encouraging the movement towards an eventual eight-hour workday. furthermore, a system of routine annual holidays came into play, starting with white-collar workers and moving into the working-class.[ ][ ] some seaside resorts emerged thanks to cheap hotels and inexpensive railway fares, widespread bank holidays and the fading of many religious prohibitions against secular activities on sundays.[ ] by the late victorian era the leisure industry had emerged in all cities. it provided scheduled entertainment of suitable length at convenient locales at inexpensive prices. these included sporting events, music halls, and popular theatre. by football was no longer the preserve of the social elite, as it attracted large working-class audiences. average attendance was in , rising to , in . that amounted to million paying customers with a weekly turnover of £ , . sports by generated some three percent of the total gross national product. professional sports were the norm, although some new activities reached an upscale amateur audience, such as lawn tennis and golf. women were now allowed in some sports, such as archery, tennis, badminton and gymnastics.[ ] demographics demographic transition london magazine ad links prosperity to temperance. britain had the lead in rapid economic and population growth. at the time, thomas malthus believed this lack of growth outside britain was due the carrying capacity of their local environments. that is, the tendency of a population to expand geometrically while resources grew more slowly, reaching a crisis (such as famine, war, or epidemic) which would reduce the population to a more sustainable size.[ ] great britain escaped the 'malthusian trap' because the scientific and technological breakthroughs of the industrial revolution dramatically improved living standards, reducing mortality and increasing longevity.[ ] the victorian era was a time of unprecedented population growth in britain. the population rose from .  million in to .  million in . two major contributory factors were fertility rates and mortality rates. britain was the first country to undergo the demographic transition and the agricultural and industrial revolutions. economist gary becker argued that at first, falling fertility is due to urbanisation and lower infant mortality rates, which diminished the benefits and increased the costs of raising children. in other words, it became more economically sensible to invest more in fewer children. this is known as the first demographic transition. this trend continued till around . (the second demographic transition occurred due to the significant cultural shifts of the s, leading to the decline in the desire for children.)[ ] fertility rates and mortality rates the demographic transition is when a population shifts from being one of high child mortality rates and high fertility rates to one that is low in both. western nations completed this transition by the early s. it occurred in two stages. initially, child mortality rates dropped significantly due to improved healthcare and sanitation and better nutrition, yet fertility rates remained high, leading to a population boom. gradually, fertility rates fell as people became more affluent and had better access to contraception. by , the infant mortality rate in england was %, down from about half in the middle ages.[ ] there was no catastrophic epidemic or famine in england or scotland in the nineteenth century—it was the first century in which a major epidemic did not occur throughout the whole country, and deaths per of population per year in england and wales fell from . from to to in (cf, for instance, . in ).[ ] social class had a significant effect on mortality rates: the upper classes had a lower rate of premature death early in the nineteenth century than poorer classes did.[ ] in the victorian era, fertility rates increased in every decade until , when the rates started evening out.[ ] there were several reasons for this. one is biological: with improving living standards, a higher proportion of women were biologically able to have children. another possible explanation is social. in the th century, the marriage rate increased, and people were getting married at a very young age until the end of the century, when the average age of marriage started to increase again slowly. the reasons why people got married younger and more frequently are uncertain. one theory is that greater prosperity allowed people to finance marriage and new households earlier than previously possible. with more births within marriage, it seems inevitable that marriage rates and birth rates would rise together. birth rates were originally measured by the 'crude birth rate' – births per year divided by total population. this is indeed a crude measure, as key groups and their fertility rates are not clear. it is likely to be affected mainly by changes in the age distribution of the population. the net reproduction rate was then introduced as an alternative measure: it measures the average fertility rate of women of child-bearing ages. high rates of birth also occurred because of a lack of birth control. mainly because women lacked knowledge of birth control methods and the practice was seen as unrespectable.[ ] the evening out of fertility rates at the beginning of the th century was mainly the result of a few big changes: availability of forms of birth control, and changes in people's attitude towards sex.[ ] in the olden days, people typically had had as many children as they could afford in order to ensure at least a few of them would survive to adulthood and have children of their own due to high child mortality rates. moreover, it was the poor who had had an incentive to curb their fertility whereas the rich had lacked such a need due to greater wealth and lower child mortality rates. this changed due to the industrial revolution. standards of living improved and mortality rates fell. people no longer needed to have as many children as before to ensure the propagation of their genes. the link between poverty and child mortality weakened. in addition, societal attitude towards contraception warmed, leading to the negative correlation between intelligence and fertility.[ ][ ] factors linked to general intelligence, such as socioeconomic status and educational attainment, were also found to be negatively correlated with fertility starting from the nineteenth century.[ ] environmental and health standards rose throughout the victorian era. improvements in nutrition may also have played a role, though its importance is still debated.[ ] economy, industry, and trade further information: industrial revolution and second industrial revolution progress the most obvious and the most distinctive feature of the history of civilisation, during the last fifty years [ – ], is the wonderful increase of industrial production by the application of machinery, the improvement of old technical processes and the invention of new ones, accompanied by an even more remarkable development of old and new means of locomotion and intercommunication. —thomas henry huxley[ ] life in the late s had been little different from life in the late middle ages. but the nineteenth century saw dramatic technological development. someone alive in would know about the electric telegraph, the steam ship, the circular saw, the bicycle, and the steam-powered locomotive. if this person lived to , he or she would have heard of the invention of the electric light bulb, the typewriter, the calculator, the rubber tyre, the washing machine, the internal combustion engine, plastic, and dynamite.[ ] engineering prowess, especially in communication and transportation, made great britain the leading industrial powerhouse and trading nation of the world at that time.[ ] schematic diagram of the kondratiev wave historians have characterised the mid-victorian era ( – ) as britain's "golden years".[ ][ ] it was not till the two to three decades following the second world war that substantial economic growth was seen again. in the long-term view, the mid-victorian boom was one upswing in the kondratiev cycle (see figure).[ ] there was prosperity, as the national income per person grew by half. much of the prosperity was due to the increasing industrialisation, especially in textiles and machinery, as well as to the worldwide network of exports that produced profits for british merchants. british entrepreneurs built railways in india and many independent nations. there was peace abroad (apart from the short crimean war, – ), and social peace at home. opposition to the new order melted away, says porter. the chartist movement peaked as a democratic movement among the working class in ; its leaders moved to other pursuits, such as trade unions and cooperative societies. the working class ignored foreign agitators like karl marx in their midst, and joined in celebrating the new prosperity. employers typically were paternalistic and generally recognised the trade unions.[ ] companies provided their employees with welfare services ranging from housing, schools and churches, to libraries, baths, and gymnasia. middle-class reformers did their best to assist the working classes' aspirations to middle-class norms of "respectability". there was a spirit of libertarianism, says porter, as people felt they were free. taxes were very low, and government restrictions were minimal. there were still problem areas, such as occasional riots, especially those motivated by anti-catholicism. society was still ruled by the aristocracy and the gentry, who controlled high government offices, both houses of parliament, the church, and the military. becoming a rich businessman was not as prestigious as inheriting a title and owning a landed estate. literature was doing well, but the fine arts languished as the great exhibition of showcased britain's industrial prowess rather than its sculpture, painting or music. the educational system was mediocre; the main universities (outside scotland) were likewise mediocre.[ ] historian llewellyn woodward has concluded:[ ] 	for leisure or work, for getting or for spending, england was a better country in than in . the scales were less weighted against the weak, against women and children, and against the poor. there was greater movement, and less of the fatalism of an earlier age. the public conscience was more instructed, and the content of liberty was being widened to include something more than freedom from political constraint ... yet england in was by no means an earthly paradise. the housing and conditions of life of the working class in town & country were still a disgrace to an age of plenty. in december , rochdale society of equitable pioneers founded what is considered the first cooperative in the world. the founding members were a group of , around half of which were weavers, who decided to band together to open a store owned and managed democratically by the members, selling food items they could not otherwise afford. ten years later, the british co-operative movement had grown to nearly , co-operatives. the movement also spread across the world, with the first cooperative financial institution founded in in germany. 	 			 			 from street life in london, , by john thomson and adolphe smith. "...the inhabitants of church lane were nearly all what i may term “street folks” – living, buying, selling, transacting all their business in the open street. it was a celebrated resort for tramps and costers of every description." 			 		 	 			 			 a street stall in london during the s 			 		 	 			 			 many european companies, such as steam-machine producer j. kemna, modeled themselves on english industry. 			 		 housing part of charles booth's poverty map showing the old nichol, a slum in the east end of london. published in life and labour of the people in london. the red areas are "middle class, well-to-do", light blue areas are "poor, s to s a week for a moderate family", dark blue areas are "very poor, casual, chronic want", and black areas are the "lowest class...occasional labourers, street sellers, loafers, criminals and semi-criminals". working class life in victorian wetherby, west yorkshire girl pulling a coal tub in mine. from official report of the parliamentary commission in the mid- th century.[ ] the very rapid growth in population in the th century in the cities included the new industrial and manufacturing cities, as well as service centres such as edinburgh and london. the critical factor was financing, which was handled by building societies that dealt directly with large contracting firms.[ ][ ] private renting from housing landlords was the dominant tenure. p. kemp says this was usually of advantage to tenants.[ ] people moved in so rapidly that there was not enough capital to build adequate housing for everyone, so low income newcomers squeezed into increasingly overcrowded slums. clean water, sanitation, and public health facilities were inadequate; the death rate was high, especially infant mortality, and tuberculosis among young adults. cholera from polluted water and typhoid were endemic. unlike rural areas, there were no famines such as the one which devastated ireland in the s.[ ][ ][ ] poverty th-century britain saw a huge population increase accompanied by rapid urbanisation stimulated by the industrial revolution. wage rates improved steadily; real wages (after taking inflation into account) were percent higher in , compared to . much of the money was saved, as the number of depositors in savings banks rose from , in , to .  million in , and their deposits from £  million to over £  million.[ ] people flooded into industrial areas and commercial cities faster than housing could be built, resulting in overcrowding and lagging sanitation facilities such as fresh water and sewage. these problems were magnified in london, where the population grew at record rates. large houses were turned into flats and tenements, and as landlords failed to maintain these dwellings, slum housing developed. kellow chesney described the situation as follows: "hideous slums, some of them acres wide, some no more than crannies of obscure misery, make up a substantial part of the metropolis... in big, once handsome houses, thirty or more people of all ages may inhabit a single room."[ ] significant changes happened in the british poor law system in england and wales, scotland, and ireland. these included a large expansion in workhouses (or poorhouses in scotland), although with changing populations during the era. child labour the early victorian era before the reforms of the s became notorious for the employment of young children in factories and mines and as chimney sweeps.[ ][ ] child labour played an important role in the industrial revolution from its outset: novelist charles dickens, for example, worked at the age of in a blacking factory, with his family in a debtors' prison. reformers wanted the children in school: in only about percent of the children in london had any schooling. by about half of the children between and were in school (including sunday school).[ ] the children of the poor were expected to help towards the family budget, often working long hours in dangerous jobs for low wages.[ ] agile boys were employed by the chimney sweeps; small children were employed to scramble under machinery to retrieve cotton bobbins; and children were also employed to work in coal mines, crawling through tunnels too narrow and low for adults. children also worked as errand boys, crossing sweepers, shoe blacks, or sold matches, flowers, and other cheap goods.[ ] some children undertook work as apprentices to respectable trades, such as building, or as domestic servants (there were over , domestic servants in london in the mid th century). working hours were long: builders might work hours a week in summer and in winter, while domestic servants were theoretically on duty -hours a week. mother bides at home, she is troubled with bad breath, and is sair weak in her body from early labour. i am wrought with sister and brother, it is very sore work; cannot say how many rakes or journeys i make from pit's bottom to wall face and back, thinks about or on the average; the distance varies from to fathom. i carry about cwt. and a quarter on my back; have to stoop much and creep through water, which is frequently up to the calves of my legs. 	— isabella read, years old, coal-bearer, testimony gathered by ashley's mines commission [ ] as early as and , factory acts were passed to limit the working hours of children in factories and cotton mills to hours per day. these acts were largely ineffective and after radical agitation, by for example the "short time committees" in , a royal commission recommended in that children aged – should work a maximum of hours per day, children aged – a maximum of eight hours, and children under the age of nine should no longer be permitted to work. this act, however, only applied to the textile industry, and further agitation led to another act in limiting both adults and children to -hour working days.[ ] mathematics, science, technology, and engineering professionalisation of science painting of the royal institution by thomas hosmer shepherd circa . founded in with the stated purpose of "diffusing the knowledge, and facilitating the general introduction, of useful mechanical inventions and improvements; and for teaching, by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments, the application of science to the common purposes of life," the royal institution was a proper scientific institution with laboratories, a lecture hall, libraries, and offices. in its first years, the institution was dedicated to the improvement of agriculture using chemistry, prompted by trade restrictions with europe. such practical concerns continued through the next two centuries. however, it soon became apparent that additional funding was required in order for the institution to continue. some well-known experts were hired as lecturers and researchers. the most successful of them all was sir humphry davy, whose lectures concerned a myriad of topics and were so popular that the original practical purpose of the institution faded away. it became increasingly dominated by research in basic science.[ ] the professionalisation of science began in the aftermath of the french revolution and soon spread to other parts of the continent, including the german lands. it was slow to reach britain, however. master of trinity college william whewell coined the term scientist in to describe the new professional breed specialists and experts studying what was still commonly known as natural philosophy.[ ] in , whewell wrote, "we need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. i should incline to call him a scientist." the new term signaled the recognition of the importance of empiricism and inductive reasoning.[ ] but this term was slow to catch on. as biologist thomas huxley indicated in , the prospect of earning a decent living as a scientist remained remote despite the prestige of the occupation. it was possible for a scientist to "earn praise but not pudding," he wrote. since its birth, the royal society of london had been a club of gentlemanly amateurs, though some of whom were the very best in their fields, people like charles darwin and james prescott joule. but the society reformed itself in the s and s. by , it only admitted the new breed of professionals.[ ] the victorians were impressed by science and progress and felt that they could improve society in the same way as they were improving technology. britain was the leading world centre for advanced engineering and technology. its engineering firms were in worldwide demand for designing and constructing railways.[ ][ ] ease of discovery and rate of progress a necessary part of understanding scientific progress is the ease of scientific discovery. in many cases, from planetary science to mammalian biology, the ease of discovery since the s and s can be fitted to an exponentially decaying curve. but the rate of progress is also dependent on other factors, such as the number of researchers, the level of funding, and advances in technology. thus the number of new species of mammals discovered between the late s and late s followed grew exponentially before leveling off in the s; the general shape is known as the logistic curve. in other cases, a branch of study reached the point of saturation. for instance, the last major internal human organ, the paraythyroid gland, was discovered in by ivar viktor sandström.[ ] this does not mean that basic science was coming an end. despite the despondency of many victorian-era scientists, who thought that all that remained was measuring quantities to the next decimal place and that new discoveries would not change the contemporary scientific paradigm, as the nineteenth century became the twentieth, science witnessed truly revolutionary discoveries, such as radioactivity, and basic science continued its advance, though a number of twentieth-century scientists shared the same pessimism as their late-victorian counterparts.[ ] mathematics and statistics nightingale's mortality charts from the crimean war in the field of statistics, the nineteenth century saw significant innovations in data visualisation. william playfair, who created charts of all sorts, justified it thus, "a man who has carefully investigated a printed table, finds, when done, that he has only a very faint and partial idea of what he has read; and that like a figure imprinted on sand, is soon totally erased and defaced." for example, in a chart showing the relationship between population and government revenue of some european nations, he used the areas of circles to represent the geographical sizes of those nations. in the same graph he used the slopes of lines to indicate the tax burden of a given population. while serving as nurse during the crimean war, florence nightingale drew the first pie charts representing the monthly fatality rates of the conflict, distinguishing deaths due to battle wounds (innermost section), those due to infectious disease (outer section), and to other causes (middle section). (see figure.) her charts clearly showed that most deaths resulted from disease, which led the general public to demand improved sanitation at field hospitals. although bar charts representing frequencies were first used by the frenchman a. m. guerry in , it was the statistician karl pearson who gave them the name histograms. pearson used them in an article mathematically analyzing biological evolution. one such histogram showed that buttercups with large numbers of petals were rarer.[ ] normal distributions, expressible in the form y = a e − k x {\displaystyle y=ae^{-kx^{ }}} , arose in various works on probability and the theory of errors. belgian sociologist and statistician adolphe quetelet discovered that its extremely wide applicability in his analysis of vast amounts of statistics of human physical characteristics such as height and other traits such as criminality and alcoholism. queletet derived the concept of the "average man" from his studies. sir francis galton employed quetelet's ideas in his research on mathematical biology. in his experiments with sweet peas in the s, galton discovered that the spread of the distributions of a particular trait did not change over the generations. he invented what he called the "quincunx" to demonstrate why mixtures of normal distributions were normal. galton noticed that the means of a particular trait in the offspring generation differed from those of the parent generation, a phenomenon now known as regression to the mean. he found that the slopes of the regression lines of two given variables were the same if the two data sets were scaled by units of probable error and introduced the notion of the correlation coefficient, but noted that correlation does not imply causation.[ ] during the late nineteenth century, british statisticians introduced a number of methods to relate and draw conclusions from statistical quantities. francis edgeworth developed a test for statistical significance that estimated the "fluctuations"—twice the variance in modern language—from two given means. by modern standards, however, he was extremely conservative when it comes to drawing conclusions about the significance of an observation. for edgeworth, an observation was significant if it was at the level of . , which is much stricter than the requirement of . to . commonly used today. pearson defined the standard deviation and introduced the χ {\displaystyle \chi ^{ }} -statistic (chi-squared). pearson's student, george udney yule, demonstrated that one could compute the regression equation of a given data set using the method of least squares.[ ] in , miller and autodidactic mathematician george green published an essay on the application of mathematical analysis to the theories of electricity and magnetism, making use of the mathematics of potential theory developed by continental mathematicians. but this paper fell on deaf ears until william thomson read it, realised its significance, and had it re-printed in . green's work became a source of inspiration for the cambridge school of mathematical physicists, which included thomson himself, george gabriel stokes, and james clerk maxwell. green's essay contained what became known as green's theorem, a basic result in vector calculus, green's identities, and the notion of green's functions, which appears in the study of differential equations.[ ][ ] thomson went on to prove stokes' theorem, which earned that name after stokes asked students to prove in the smith's prize exam in . stokes learned it from thomson in a letter in . stokes' theorem generalises green's theorem, which itself is a higher-dimensional version of the fundamental theorem of calculus.[ ][ ] research in physics—in particular elasticity, heat conduction, hydrodynamics, and electromagnetism—motivated the development of vector calculus in the nineteenth century.[ ][ ] arthur cayley is credited with the creation of the theory of matrices—rectangular arrays of numbers—as distinct objects from determinants, studied since the mid-eighteenth century. the term matrix was coined by james joseph sylvester, a major contributor to the theory of determinants. it is difficult to overestimate the value of matrix theory to modern theoretical physics. peter tait wrote, prophetically, that cayley was "forging the weapons for future generations of physicists."[ ] theoretical mechanics and optics 		unsolved problem in physics: under what conditions do solutions to the navier–stokes equations exist and are smooth? this is a millennium prize problem in mathematics. (more unsolved problems in physics) early contributions study of elasticity—how objects behave under stresses, pressures, and loads— employed ad hoc hypotheses to solve specific problems. it was during the nineteenth century that scientists began to work out a thorough theory. in , using an analogy with elastic bodies, french professor of mechanics claude-louis navier arrived at the basic equations of motion for viscous fluids. george gabriel stokes re-derived them in using continuum mechanics in a paper titled "on the theories of internal friction of fluids in motion." in it, stokes sought to develop a mathematical description for all known fluids that take into account viscosity, or internal friction. these are now referred to as the navier–stokes equations.[ ] in , stokes showed that light polarisation can be described in terms of what are now known as the stokes parameters. the stokes parameters for a given wave may be viewed as a vector.[ ] founded in the eighteenth century, the calculus of variations grew into a much favored mathematical tool among physicists. scientific problems thus became the impetus for the development of the subject. william rowan hamilton advanced it in his course to construct a deductive framework for optics; he then applied the same ideas to mechanics.[ ] with an appropriate variational principle, one could deduce the equations of motion for a given mechanical or optical system. soon, scientists worked out the variational principles for the theory of elasticity, electromagnetism, and fluid mechanics (and, in the future, relativity and quantum theory). whilst variational principles did not necessarily provide a simpler way to solve problems, they were of interest for philosophical or aesthetic reasons, though scientists at this time were not as motivated by religion in their work as their predecessors.[ ] hamilton's work in physics was great achievement; he was able to provide a unifying mathematical framework for wave propagation and particle motion.[ ] in light of this description, it becomes clear why the wave and corpuscle theories of light were equally able to account for the phenomena of reflection and refraction.[ ] hamilton's equations also proved useful in calculating planetary orbits.[ ] in , john james waterson submitted to the royal society a paper on the kinetic theory of gases that included a statement of the equipartition theorem and a calculation of the ratio of the specific heats of gases. although the paper was read before the society and its abstract published, waterson's paper faced antipathy. at this time, the kinetic theory of gases was considered highly speculative as it was based on the then not-accepted atomic hypothesis.[ ] but by the mid- s, interest was revived. in the s, james clerk maxwell published a series of papers on the subject. unlike those of his predecessors, who were only using averages, maxwell's papers were explicitly statistical in nature. he proposed that the speeds of molecules in a gas followed a distribution. although the speeds would cluster around the average, some molecules were moving faster or slower than this average. he showed that this distribution is a function of temperature and mathematically described various properties of gases, such as diffusion and viscosity. he predicted, surprisingly, that the viscosity of a gas is independent of its density. this was verified at once by a series of experiments maxwell conducted with his wife, katherine. experimental verification of the maxwell distribution was not obtained till years later, however. in the meantime, the austrian ludwig boltzmann developed maxwell's statistics further and proved, in , using the " h {\displaystyle h} -function," that the maxwellian distribution is stable and any non-maxwellian distribution would morph into it.[ ] in his dynamics of rigid bodies ( ), edward john routh noted the importance of what he called "absent coordinates," also known as cyclic coordinates or ignorable coordinates (following the terminology of e. t. whittaker). such coordinates are associated with conserved momenta and as such are useful in problem solving.[ ] routh also devised a new method for solving problems in mechanics. although routh's procedure does not add any new insights, it allows for more systematic and convenient analysis, especially in problems with many degrees of freedom and at least some cyclic coordinates.[ ][ ] in , at the request the british association for the advancement of science from the year before, edmund taylor whittaker submitted his report on the progress of solution to the problem of three bodies. at that time, classical mechanics in general and the three-body problem in particular captured the imagination of many talented mathematicians, whose contributions whittaker covered in his report. whittaker later incorporated the report into his textbook titled analytical dynamics of particles and rigid bodies (first edition ). it helped provide the scientific basis for the aerospace industry in the twentieth century. despite its age, it remains in print in the early twenty-first century.[ ] thermodynamics, heat engines, and refrigerators william thomson, knighted by queen victoria in and elevated to lord kelvin of largs in , was one of the top physicists of his day. during the s and s, traditional caloric theory of heat began losing favour to "dynamical" alternatives, which posit that heat is a kind of motion. brewer and amateur scientist james prescott joule was one of the proponents of the latter. joule's intricate experiments—the most successful of which involved heating water with paddle wheels—making full use of his skill in temperature control as a brewer, demonstrated decisively the reality of the "mechanical equivalent of heat." what would later become known as the "conservation of energy" was pursued by many other workers approaching the subject from a variety of backgrounds, from medicine and physiology to physics and engineering. another notable contributor to this development was the german researcher hermann von helmholtz, who gave an essentially newtonian, that is, mechanical, account. william thomson (later lord kelvin) received the works of joule and helmholtz positively, embracing them as providing support for the emerging "science of energy."[ ] in the late s to the s, kelvin, his friend william john macquorn rankine, and the german rudolf clausius published a steady stream of papers concerning heat engines and an absolute temperature scale. indeed, the commercial value of new science had already become apparent by this time; some businessmen were quite willing to offer generous financial support for researchers. rankine spoke confidently of the new science of thermodynamics, a term kelvin coined in , whose fundamental principles came to be known as the first and second laws and whose core concepts were "energy" and "entropy."[ ] kelvin and peter guthrie tait's treatise on natural philosophy ( ) was an attempt to reformulate physics in terms of energy. here, kelvin and tait introduced the phrase kinetic energy (instead of 'actual'), now in standard usage. the phrase potential energy was promoted by rankine.[ ] on the practical side, the food-preserving effect of low temperatures had long been recognised. natural ice was vigorously traded in the early nineteenth century, but it was inevitably in short supply, especially in australia. during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, there was considerable commercial incentive to develop ever more effective refrigerators thanks to the expansion of agriculture in the americas, australia, and new zealand and rapid urbanization in western europe. from the s onward, refrigerators relied on the expansion of compressed air or the evaporation of a volatile liquid; evaporation became the basis of all modern refrigerator designs. long-distance shipping of perishable foods, such as meat, boomed in the late s.[ ] on the theoretical side, new refrigeration techniques were also of great value. from his absolute temperature scale, lord kelvin deduced the existence of absolute zero occurring at − . °c. scientists began trying to reach ever lower temperatures and to liquefy every gas they encountered. this paved the way for the development of low-temperature physics and the third law of thermodynamics.[ ] natural history this study of natural history was most powerfully advanced by charles darwin and his theory of evolution first published in his book on the origin of species in . research in geology and evolutionary biology naturally led to the question of how old the earth was. indeed, between the mid- s to the mid- s, this was the topic of increasingly sophisticated intellectual discussions. with the advent of thermodynamics, it became clear that the earth and the sun must have an old but finite age. whatever the energy source of the sun, it must be finite, and since it is constantly dissipating, there must be a day when the sun runs out of energy. lord kelvin wrote in , "...within a finite period of time past the earth must have been, and within a finite period of time to come the earth must again be, unfit for the habitation of man as at present constituted, unless operations have been, or are to be performed, which are impossible under the laws to which the known operations going on are subject." in the s, kelvin employed a mathematical model by von helmholtz suggesting that the energy of the sun is released via gravitational collapse to calculate the age of the sun to be between and million years. he reached comparable figures for the earth. the missing ingredient here was radioactivity, which was not known to science till the end of the nineteenth century.[ ] electricity, magnetism, and electrification michael faraday delivering a christmas lecture at the royal institution after the dane hans christian orsted demonstrated that it was possible to deflect a magnetic needle by closing or opening an electric circuit nearby, a deluge of papers attempting explain the phenomenon was published. michael faraday set himself to the task of clarifying the nature of electricity and magnetism by experiments. in doing so, he devised what could be described as the first electric motor (though it does not resemble a modern one), a transformer (now used to step up the voltage and step down the current or vice versa), and a dynamo (which contains the basics of all electric turbine generators).[ ] the practical value of faraday's research on electricity and magnetism was nothing short of revolutionary. a dynamo converts mechanical energy into an electrical current whilst a motor does the reverse. the world's first power plants entered service in , and by the following year, people realized the possibility of using electricity to power a variety of household appliances. inventors and engineers soon raced to develop such items, starting with affordable and durable incandescent light bulbs, perhaps the most important of the early applications of electricity.[ ] as the foremost expert on electricity and magnetism at the time, lord kelvin oversaw the laying of the trans-atlantic telegraphic cable, which became successful in .[ ] drawing on the work of his predecessors, especially the experimental research of michael faraday, the analogy with heat flow by lord kelvin, and the mathematical analysis of george green, james clerk maxwell synthesized all that was known about electricity and magnetism into a single mathematical framework, maxwell's equations.[ ] maxwell used his equations to predict the existence of electromagnetic waves, which travel at the speed of light. in other words, light is but one kind of electromagnetic wave. maxwell's theory predicted there ought to be other types, with different frequencies. after some ingenious experiments, maxwell's prediction was confirmed by german physicist heinrich hertz. in the process, hertz generated and detected what are now called radio waves and built crude radio antennas and the predecessors of satellite dishes.[ ] dutch physicist hendrik lorentz derived, using suitable boundary conditions, fresnel's equations for the reflection and transmission of light in different media from maxwell's equations. he also showed that maxwell's theory succeeded in illuminating the phenomenon of light dispersion where other models failed. john william strutt (lord rayleigh) and the american josiah willard gibbs then proved that the optical equations derived from maxwell's theory are the only self-consistent description of the reflection, refraction, and dispersion of light consistent with experimental results. optics thus found a new foundation in electromagnetism.[ ] but it was oliver heaviside, an enthusiastic supporter of maxwell's electromagnetic theory, who deserves most of the credit for shaping how people understood and applied maxwell's work for decades to come.[ ] maxwell originally wrote down a grand total of equations for the electromagnetic field, which he later reduced to eight. heaviside rewrote them in the form commonly used today, just four expressions. in addition, heaviside was responsible for considerable progress in electrical telegraphy, telephony, and the study of the propagation of electromagnetic waves. independent of gibbs, heaviside assembled a set of mathematical tools known as vector calculus to replace the quaternions, which were in vogue at the time but which heaviside dismissed as "antiphysical and unnatural."[ ] faraday also investigated how electrical currents affected chemical solutions. his experiments led him to the two laws of electrochemistry. together with whewell, faraday introduced the basic vocabulary for the subject, the words electrode, anode, cathode, electrolysis, electrolyte, ion, anion, and cation. they remain in standard usage. but faraday's work was of value to more then just chemists. in his faraday memorial lecture in , the german hermann von helmholtz asserted that faraday's laws of electrochemistry hinted at the atomic structure of matter. if the chemical elements were distinguishable from one another by simple ratios of mass, and if the same amounts of electricity deposited amounts of these elements upon the poles in ratios, then electricity must also come in as discrete units, later named electrons.[ ] in the late nineteenth century, the nature of the energy emitted by the discharge between high-voltage electrodes inside an evacuated tube—cathode rays—attracted the attention of many physicists. while the germans thought cathode rays were waves, the british and the french believed they were particles. working at the cavendish laboratory, established by maxwell, j. j. thompson directed a dedicate experiment demonstrating that cathode rays were in fact negatively charged particles, now called electrons. the experiment enabled thompson to calculate the ratio between the magnitude of the charge and the mass of the particle ( q / m {\displaystyle q/m} ). in addition, because the ratio was the same regardless of the metal used, thompson concluded that electrons must be a constituent of all atoms. although the atoms of each chemical elements have different numbers of electrons, all electrons are identical.[ ] computer science and logic inspired by the explorations in abstract algebra of george peacock and augustus de morgan, george boole published a book titled an investigation of the laws of thought ( ), in which he brought the study of logic from philosophy and metaphysics to mathematics. his stated goal was to "investigate the fundamental laws of those operations of the mind by which reasoning is performed; to give expression to them in the symbolical language of a calculus, and upon this foundation to establish the science of logical and construct its methods." although ignored at first, boolean algebra, as it is now known, became central to the design of circuits and computers in the following century.[ ] the desire to construct calculating machines is not new. in fact, it can be traced all the way back to the hellenistic civilization. while people have devised such machines over the centuries, mathematicians continued to perform calculations by hand, as machines offered little advantage in speed. for complicated calculations, they employed tables, especially of logarithmic and trigonometric functions, which were computed by hand. but right in the middle of the industrial revolution in england, charles babbage thought of using the all-important steam engine to power a mechanical computer, the difference engine. unfortunately, whilst babbage managed to secure government funds for the construction of the machine, the government subsequently lost and interest and babbage faced considerable troubles developing the necessary machine components. he abandoned the project to pursue a new one, his analytical engine. by , he had worked out the basic design. like a modern computer, it consisted of two basic parts, one that stores the numbers to be processed (the store), and one that performed the operations (the mill). babbage adopted the concept of punch cards from the french engineer joseph jacquard, who had used it to automate the textile industry in france, to control the operations of his analytical engine. unfortunately, he again lacked the financial resources to build it, and so it remained a theoretical construct. but he did leave behind detailed notes and engineering drawings, from which modern experts conclude that the technology of the time was advanced enough to actually build it, even if he never had enough money to do so.[ ] in , babbage went to turin to give lectures on his work designing the analytical engine to italian scientists. ada lovelace translated the notes published by one of the attendees into english and heavily annotated it. she wrote down the very first computer program, in her case one for computing the bernoulli numbers. she employed what modern computer programmers would recognise as loops and decision steps, and gave a detailed diagram, possibly the first flowchart ever created.[ ] she noted that a calculating machine could perform not just arithmetic operations but also symbolic manipulations. on the limitations and implications of the computer, she wrote,[ ] ...the analytical engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. it can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. it can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with... but it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself in another manner. for, in so distributing and combining the truths and the formulas of analysis, that they may become most easily and rapidly amendable to the mechanical combinations of the engine, the relations and the nature of many subjects in that science are necessarily thrown into new lights, and more profoundly investigated... it is however pretty evident, on general principles, that in devising for mathematical truths a new form in which to record and throw themselves out for actual use, views are likely to be induced, which should again react on the more theoretical phase of the subject. communication and transportation steam ships the ss great britain is now a museum ship in bristol. steam ships were one of the keys to britain's prosperity in the nineteenth century. this technology, which predates the victorian era, had a long a rich history. starting in the late s, people had begun building steam-powered ships with ever increasing size, operational range, and speed, first to cross the english channel and then the atlantic and finally to reach places as far away as india and australia without having to refuel mid-route. international trade and travel boosted demand, and there was intense competition among the shipping companies.[ ] steam ships such as the ss great britain and ss great western made international travel more common but also advanced trade, so that in britain it was not just the luxury goods of earlier times that were imported into the country but essentials and raw materials such as corn and cotton from the united states and meat and wool from australia. at feet long, feet wide and weighing over , tons, the ss great eastern was the largest ship built at the time, capable of transporting , passengers from britain to australia without having to refuel along the way. even when she was finally broken up for scraps in , she was still the largest ship in the world. her record was not broken till the edwardian era with super liners like the lusitania in , the titanic in . yet despite being a remarkable feat of engineering, the great eastern became more and more of a white elephant as smaller and faster ships were in greater demand. nevertheless, she gained a new lease of life when she was chartered to lay telegraphic cables across the atlantic, and then to india. her size and range made her ideally suited for the task.[ ] the british government had long realised that national prosperity depended on trade. for that reason, it deployed the royal navy to protect maritime trade routes and financed the construction of many steam ships.[ ] telegraphy, telephony, the wireless, and photography 	 			 			 the louth-london royal mail travelling by train from peterborough east, northamptonshire ( ) by james pollard. 			 		 	 			 			 the british empire's submarine telegraphic cable network eventually connected all of its major possessions. 			 		 although the idea of transmitting messages via electrical signals dated back to the eighteenth century, it was not until the s that advances in the study of electricity and magnetism made that a practical reality. in , william fothergill cooke and charles wheatstone invented a telegraphic system that used electrical currents to deflect magnetic needles, thus transmitting coded messages. this design soon made its way all across britain, appearing in every town and post office. by the mid- s, a telegraphic cable was laid across the english channel, the irish sea, and the north sea. in , the ss great eastern successfully laid the transatlantic telegraphic cable. a global network boomed towards the end of the century.[ ] in , alexander graham bell patented the telephone. like the telegraph, the telephone enabled rapid personal communication. a little over a decade later, , telephones were in service in britain (and , in america) had telephones. multiple switchboards were installed in every major town and city.[ ] hertz's experimental work in electromagnetism stimulated interest in the possibility of wireless communication, which did not require long and expensive cables and was faster than even the telegraph. receiving little support in his native italy, guglielmo marconi moved to england and adapted hertz's equipment for this purpose in the s. he achieved the first international wireless transmission between england and france in and by the following year, he succeeded in sending messages in morse code across the atlantic. seeing its value, the shipping industry adopted this technology at once. radio broadcasting became extremely popular in the twentieth century and remains in common use in the early twenty-first.[ ] in fact, the global communications network of the twenty-first century has its roots in the victorian era.[ ] photography was realised in by louis daguerre in france and william fox talbot in britain. by , hand-held cameras were available.[ ] another important innovation in communications was the penny black, the first postage stamp, which standardised postage to a flat price regardless of distance sent. railways brunel's clifton suspension bridge in bristol the railways changed communications and society dramatically crossing the lagan canal by the ulster railway near moira, northern ireland, a legacy of the victorian era. frith's depiction of paddington railway station in london. construction of the metropolitan railway ( ) a central development during the victorian era was the rise of rail transport. the new railways all allowed goods, raw materials, and people to be moved about, rapidly facilitating trade and industry. the financing of railways became an important specialty of london's financiers.[ ] they retained an ownership share even while turning over management to locals; that ownership was largely liquidated in – to pay for the world war. railroads originated in england because industrialists had already discovered the need for inexpensive transportation to haul coal for the new steam engines, to supply parts to specialized factories, and to take products to market. the existing system of canals was inexpensive but was too slow and too limited in geography.[ ] the railway system led to a reorganisation of society more generally, with "railway time" being the standard by which clocks were set throughout britain; the complex railway system setting the standard for technological advances and efficiency. the engineers and businessmen needed to create and finance a railway system were available; they knew how to invent, to build, and to finance a large complex system. the first quarter of the th century involved numerous experiments with locomotives and rail technology. by railways were commercially feasible, as demonstrated by george stephenson ( – ) when he built the stockton and darlington. on his first run, his locomotive pulled freight and passenger cars at speeds as high as miles per hour. stephenson went on to design many more railways and is best known for standardizing designs, such as the "standard gauge" of rail spacing, at feet ½ inches.[ ] thomas brassey ( – ) was even more prominent, operating construction crews that at one point in the s totalled , men throughout europe, the british empire, and latin america.[ ] brassey took thousands of british engineers and mechanics across the globe to build new lines. they invented and improved thousands of mechanical devices, and developed the science of civil engineering to build roadways, tunnels and bridges.[ ] britain had a superior financial system based in london that funded both the railways in britain and also in many other parts of the world, including the united states, up until . the boom years were and – when parliament authorised , miles of lines at a projected cost of £ million, which was about the same value as the country's annual gross domestic product (gdp) at that time. a new railway needed a charter, which typically cost over £ , (about $ million) to obtain from parliament, but opposition could effectively prevent its construction. the canal companies, unable or unwilling to upgrade their facilities to compete with railways, used political power to try to stop them. the railways responded by purchasing about a fourth of the canal system, in part to get the right of way, and in part to buy off critics. once a charter was obtained, there was little government regulation, as laissez-faire and private ownership had become accepted practices.[ ] the different lines typically had exclusive territory, but given the compact size of britain, this meant that multiple competing lines could provide service between major cities. george hudson ( – ) became the "railway king" of britain. he merged various independent lines and set up a "clearing house" in which rationalized interconnections by establishing uniform paperwork and standard methods for transferring passengers and freight between lines, and rates when one system used freight cars owned by another. by , rates had fallen to a penny a ton mile for coal, at speeds of up to fifty miles an hour. britain now had had the model for the world in a well integrated, well-engineered system that allowed fast, cheap movement of freight and people, and which could be replicated in other major nations. the railways directly or indirectly employed tens of thousands of engineers, mechanics, repairmen and technicians, as well as statisticians and financial planners. they developed new and more efficient and less expensive techniques. most important, they created a mindset of how technology could be used in many different forms of business. railways had a major impact on industrialization. by lowering transportation costs, they reduced costs for all industries moving supplies and finished goods, and they increased demand for the production of all the inputs needed for the railroad system itself. by , there were , locomotives which each carried , passengers a year, or , tons of freight.[ ] member of parliament and solicitor to the city of london charles pearson campaigned for an underground rail service in london. parts of the first such railway, the metropolitan line, opened to the public in , thereby becoming the first subway line in the world. trains were originally steam-powered, but in , the first electric trains entered service. that same year, the whole system became officially known as the tube after the shape of the rail tunnels. (it was not until that the name london underground was introduced.)[ ] india provides an example of the london-based financiers pouring money and expertise into a very well built system designed for military reasons (after the mutiny of ), and with the hope that it would stimulate industry. the system was overbuilt and much too elaborate and expensive for the small amount of freight traffic it carried. however, it did capture the imagination of the indians, who saw their railways as the symbol of an industrial modernity—but one that was not realized until a century or so later.[ ] public safety, health and medicine a gas network for lighting and heating was introduced in the s.[ ] the model town of saltaire was founded, along with others, as a planned environment with good sanitation and many civic, educational and recreational facilities, although it lacked a pub, which was regarded as a focus of dissent. although initially developed in the early years of the th century, gas lighting became widespread during the victorian era in industry, homes, public buildings and the streets. the invention of the incandescent gas mantle in the s greatly improved light output and ensured its survival as late as the s. hundreds of gasworks were constructed in cities and towns across the country. in , incandescent electric lights were introduced to london streets, although it took many years before they were installed everywhere. medicine progressed during queen victoria's reign. in fact, medicine at the start of the nineteenth century was little different from that in the medieval era whereas by the end of the century, it became a lot closer to twenty-first century practice thanks to advances in science, especially microbiology, paving the way for the germ theory of disease. this was during the height of the industrial revolution, and urbanisation occurred at a frantic pace. as the population density of the cities grew, epidemics of cholera, smallpox, tuberculosis, and typhus were commonplace.[ ] after studying previous outbreaks, physician john snow drew the conclusion that cholera was a water-borne disease. when the broke out, snow mapped the locations of the cases in soho, london, and found that they centered around a well he deemed contaminated. he asked that the pump's handle be replaced, after which the epidemic petered out. snow also discovered that households whose water supplies came from companies that used the thames downstream, after many sewers had flown into the river, were fourteen times more likely to die from cholera. he thus recommended boiling water before use.[ ] sanitation reforms, prompted by the public health acts and , were made in the crowded, dirty streets of the existing cities, and soap was the main product shown in the relatively new phenomenon of advertising. a great engineering feat in the victorian era was the sewage system in london. it was designed by joseph bazalgette in . he proposed to build  mi (  km) of sewer system linked with over ,  mi ( ,  km) of street sewers. many problems were encountered but the sewers were completed. after this, bazalgette designed the thames embankment which housed sewers, water pipes and the london underground. during the same period, london's water supply network was expanded and improved.[ ] john simon, as chief medical officer of the general board of health, secured funds for research into various common infectious diseases at the time, including cholera, diphtheria, smallpox, and typhus. using his political influence, he garnered support for the public health act of , which focused on preventative measures in housing, the water supply, sewage and drainage, providing britain with an extensive public health system.[ ] joseph thomas clover demonstrating the chloroform apparatus he invented in by mid-century, the stethoscope became an oft-used device and designs of the microscope had advanced enough for scientists to closely examine pathogens. the pioneering work of french microbiologist louis pasteur from the s earned widespread acceptance for the germ theory of disease.[ ] it led to the introduction antiseptics by joseph lister in in the form of carbolic acid (phenol).[ ] he instructed the hospital staff to wear gloves and wash their hands, instruments, and dressings with a phenol solution and in , he invented a machine that would spray carbolic acid in the operating theatre during surgery.[ ] infection-related deaths fell noticeably as a result.[ ] as the british empire expanded, britons found themselves facing novel climates and contagions; there was active research into tropical diseases. in , ronald ross proved that the mosquito was responsible for spreading malaria.[ ] although nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, had been proposed as an anaesthetic as far back as by humphry davy, it was not until when an american dentist named william morton started using ether on his patients that anaesthetics became common in the medical profession.[ ] in chloroform was introduced as an anaesthetic by james young simpson.[ ] chloroform was favoured by doctors and hospital staff because it is much less flammable than ether, but critics complained that it could cause the patient to have a heart attack.[ ] chloroform gained in popularity in england and germany after john snow gave queen victoria chloroform for the birth of her eighth child (prince leopold).[ ] by , chloroform was used in to % of all narcoses performed in the uk and german-speaking countries.[ ] a combination of antiseptics and anaesthetics helped surgeons operate more carefully and comfortably on their patients.[ ] anaesthetics made painless dentistry possible. at the same time sugar consumption in the british diet increased, greatly increasing instances of tooth decay.[ ] as a result, more and more people were having teeth extracted and needing dentures. this gave rise to "waterloo teeth", which were real human teeth set into hand-carved pieces of ivory from hippopotamus or walrus jaws.[ ][ ] the teeth were obtained from executed criminals, victims of battlefields, from grave-robbers, and were even bought directly from the desperately impoverished.[ ] news of the discovery of x-rays in spread like wildfire. its medical value was realised immediately, and within a year, doctors were prescribing x-rays for diagnosis, in particular to locate bone fractures and foreign objects inside the patient's body. radioactivity was discovered , and was later to used to treat cancer.[ ] during the second half of the nineteenth century, british medical doctors became increasingly specialised, following the footsteps of their german counterparts, and more hospitals were built. surgeons began wearing gowns in the operating room and doctors white coats and stethoscopes, sights that are common in the early twenty-first century.[ ] yet despite all the aforementioned medical advances, the mortality rate fell only marginally, from . per thousand in to . by the end of the century. urbanisation aided the spread of diseases and squalid living conditions in many places exacerbated the problem. moreover, while some diseases, such as cholera, were being driven out, others, such as sexually transmitted diseases, made themselves felt.[ ] moral standards see also: victorian morality and women in the victorian era victorian morality was a surprising new reality. the changes in moral standards and actual behaviour across the british were profound. historian harold perkin wrote: between and the english ceased to be one of the most aggressive, brutal, rowdy, outspoken, riotous, cruel and bloodthirsty nations in the world and became one of the most inhibited, polite, orderly, tender-minded, prudish and hypocritical.[ ] historians continue to debate the various causes of this dramatic change. asa briggs emphasizes the strong reaction against the french revolution, and the need to focus british efforts on its defeat and not be diverged by pleasurable sins. briggs also stresses the powerful role of the evangelical movement among the nonconformists, as well as the evangelical faction inside the established church of england. the religious and political reformers set up organizations that monitored behaviour, and pushed for government action.[ ] among the higher social classes, there was a marked decline in gambling, horse races, and obscene theatres; there was much less heavy gambling or patronage of upscale houses of prostitution. the highly visible debauchery characteristic of aristocratic england in the early th century simply disappeared.[ ] historians agree that the middle classes not only professed high personal moral standards, but actually followed them. there is a debate whether the working classes followed suit. moralists in the late th century such as henry mayhew decried the slums for their supposed high levels of cohabitation without marriage and illegitimate births. however new research using computerized matching of data files shows that the rates of cohabitation were quite low—under %—for the working class and the poor. by contrast, in st-century britain nearly half of all children are born outside marriage, and nine in ten newlyweds have been cohabitating.[ ] crime, police and prisons crime was getting exponentially worse. there were , arrests for criminal offenses in , tripling to , in and doubling to , in in england and wales.[ ] th-century british criminology had emphasized severe punishment. slowly capital punishment was replaced by transportation, first to the american colonies and then to australia,[ ] and, especially, by long-term incarceration in newly built prisons. as one historian points out, "public and violent punishment which attacked the body by branding, whipping, and hanging was giving way to reformation of the mind of the criminal by breaking his spirit, and encouraging him to reflect on his shame, before labour and religion transformed his character."[ ] crime rates went up, leading to calls for harsher measures ito stop the 'flood of criminals' released under the penal servitude system. the reaction from the committee set up under the commissioner of prisons, colonel edmund frederick du cane, was to increase minimum sentences for many offences with deterrent principles of 'hard labour, hard fare, and a hard bed'.[ ] as the prisons grew more numerous, they became more depraved. historian s. g. checkland says, "it was sunk in promiscuity and squalor, jailers' tyranny and greed, and administrative confusion."[ ] in du cane encouraged disraeli's government to remove all prisons from local government; he held a firm grip on the prison system till his forced retirement in . by the s, the prison population was over , . by the victorian era, penal transportation to australia was falling out of use since it did not reduce crime rates.[ ] the british penal system underwent a transition from harsh punishment to reform, education, and training for post-prison livelihoods. the reforms were controversial and contested. in – era a series of major legislative reforms enabled significant improvement in the penal system. in , the previously localized prisons were nationalized in the home office under a prison commission. the prison act of enabled the home secretary to impose multiple reforms on his own initiative, without going through the politicized process of parliament. the probation of offenders act of introduced a new probation system that drastically cut down the prison population, while providing a mechanism for transition back to normal life. the criminal justice administration act of required courts to allow a reasonable time before imprisonment was ordered for people who did not pay their fines. previously tens of thousands of prisoners had been sentenced solely for that reason. the borstal system after was organized to reclaim young offenders, and the children act of prohibited imprisonment under age , and strictly limited that of ages to . the principal reformer was sir evelyn ruggles-brise, the chair of the prison commission.[ ][ ] prostitution further information: victorian morality § prostitution, and prostitution in the united kingdom §  th century during victorian england, prostitution was seen as a "great social evil" by clergymen and major news organizations, but many feminists viewed prostitution as a means of economic independence for women. estimates of the number of prostitutes in london in the s vary widely, but in his landmark study, prostitution, william acton reported an estimation of , prostitutes in london alone in .[ ] the differing views on prostitution have made it difficult to understand its history. judith walkowitz has multiple works focusing on the feminist point of view on the topic of prostitution. many sources blame economic disparities as leading factors in the rise of prostitution, and walkowitz writes that the demographic within prostitution varied greatly. however, women who struggled financially were much more likely to be prostitutes than those with a secure source of income. orphaned or half-orphaned women were more likely to turn to prostitution as a means of income.[ ] while overcrowding in urban cities and the amount of job opportunities for females were limited, walkowitz argues that there were other variables that lead women to prostitution. walkowitz acknowledges that prostitution allowed for women to feel a sense of independence and self-respect.[ ] although many assume that pimps controlled and exploited these prostitutes, some women managed their own clientele and pricing. it is evident that women were exploited by this system, yet walkowitz says that prostitution was often their opportunity to gain social and economic independence.[ ] prostitution at this time was regarded by women in the profession to be a short-term position, and once they earned enough money, there were hopes that they would move on to a different profession.[ ] as previously stated, the arguments for and against prostitution varied greatly from it being perceived as a mortal sin or desperate decision to an independent choice. while there were plenty of people publicly denouncing prostitution in england, there were also others who took opposition to them. one event that sparked a lot of controversy was the implementation of the contagious diseases acts. this was a series of three acts in , and that allowed police officers to stop women whom they believed to be prostitutes and force them to be examined.[ ] if the suspected woman was found with a venereal disease, they placed the woman into a lock hospital. arguments made against the acts claimed that the regulations were unconstitutional and that they only targeted women.[ ] in , a national association in opposition of the acts was created. because women were excluded from the first national association, the ladies national association was formed. the leader of that organization was josephine butler.[ ] butler was an outspoken feminist during this time who fought for many social reforms. her book personal reminiscences of a great crusade describes her oppositions to the c.d. acts.[ ] along with the publication of her book, she also went on tours condemning the c.d. acts throughout the s.[ ] other supporters of reforming the acts included quakers, methodists and many doctors.[ ] eventually the acts were fully repealed in .[ ] the book prostitution-action by dr. william acton included detailed reports on his observations of prostitutes and the hospitals they would be placed in if they were found with a venereal disease.[ ] acton believed that prostitution was a poor institution but it is a result of the supply and demand for it. he wrote that men had sexual desires and they sought to relieve them, and for many, prostitution was the way to do it.[ ] while he referred to prostitutes as wretched women, he did note how the acts unfairly criminalized women and ignored the men involved.[ ][ ] events the launch of the great britain, the revolutionary ship of isambard kingdom brunel first opium war: british ships approaching canton in may the last of the mail coaches at newcastle upon tyne, governor-general of india lord canning meets maharaja ranbir singh of jammu and kashmir, the defence of rorke's drift during the anglo-zulu war of following the fourth anglo-ashanti war in , the british proclaimed a protectorate over the ashanti kingdom. the author constance wilde, wife of oscar wilde, pictured with son cyril, daimler wagonette, ireland, c. british and australian officers in south africa during the second boer war workmen leaving platt's works, oldham, 	 	restoration of the roman catholic hierarchy in england and wales. (scotland did not follow until .) 	 	passage of the first reform act.[ ] 	 	the first tract for the times is written by john henry newman, starting the oxford movement in the church of england. 	 	ascension of queen victoria to the throne.[ ] 	 	treaty of balta liman (great britain trade alliance with the ottoman empire). 	 	first opium war ( – ) fought between britain and china. 	 	queen victoria marries prince albert of saxe-coburg-saalfield. he had been naturalised and granted the british style of royal highness beforehand. for the next years, he was known as hrh prince albert. 	 	new zealand becomes a british colony, through the treaty of waitangi. no longer part of new south wales 	 	treaty of nanking. the massacre of elphinstone's army by the afghans in afghanistan results in the death or incarceration of , soldiers and civilians.[ ] the mines act of banned women/children from working in coal, iron, lead and tin mining.[ ] the illustrated london news was first published.[ ] 	 	the irish famine begins. within years it would become the uk's worst human disaster, with starvation and emigration reducing the population of ireland itself by over %. the famine permanently changed ireland's and scotland's demographics and became a rallying point for nationalist sentiment that pervaded british politics for much of the following century. 	 	repeal of the corn laws.[ ] 	 	death of around , people a week in a cholera epidemic. 	 	the great exhibition (the first world's fair) is held at the crystal palace,[ ] with great success and international attention. the victorian gold rush. in ten years the australian population nearly tripled.[ ] 	 	crimean war: britain, france and turkey declare limited war on russia. russia loses. 	 	the indian mutiny, a concentrated revolt in northern india against the rule of the privately owned british east india company, is sparked by sepoys (native indian soldiers) in the company's army. the rebellion, involving not just sepoys but many sectors of the indian population as well, is largely quashed within a year. the east india company is replaced by the british government beginning the period of the british raj. 	 	the prime minister, lord palmerston, responds to the orsini plot against french emperor napoleon iii, the bombs for which were purchased in birmingham, by attempting to make such acts a felony; the resulting uproar forces him to resign. 	 	charles darwin publishes on the origin of species, which leads to various reactions.[ ] victoria and albert's first grandchild, prince wilhelm of prussia, is born – he later became william ii, german emperor. john stuart mill publishes on liberty, a defence of the famous harm principle. 	 	death of prince albert;[ ] queen victoria refuses to go out in public for many years, and when she did she wore a widow's bonnet instead of the crown. 	 	lewis carroll's alice's adventures in wonderland is published. 	 	an angry crowd in london, protesting against john russell's resignation as prime minister, is barred from hyde park by the police; they tear down iron railings and trample on flower beds. disturbances like this convince derby and disraeli of the need for further parliamentary reform. 	 	the constitution act, passes and british north america becomes dominion of canada. 	 	britain purchased egypt's shares in the suez canal[ ] as the african nation was forced to raise money to pay off its debts. 	 	scottish-born inventor alexander graham bell patents the telephone. 	 	treaty of berlin. cyprus becomes a crown colony. 	 	the battle of isandlwana is the first major encounter in the anglo-zulu war. 	 	the british suffer defeat at the battle of majuba hill, leading to the signing of a peace treaty and later the pretoria convention, between the british and the reinstated south african republic, ending the first boer war. sometimes claimed to mark the beginning of the decline of the british empire.[ ] 	 	british troops begin the occupation of egypt by taking the suez canal, to secure the vital trade route and passage to india, and the country becomes a protectorate. 	 	the fabian society is founded in london by a group of middle-class intellectuals, including quaker edward r. pease, havelock ellis and e. nesbit, to promote socialism.[ ] prince leopold, duke of albany dies. 	 	blackpool electric tramway company starts the first electric tram service in the united kingdom. 	 	prime minister william ewart gladstone and the liberal party tries passing the first irish home rule bill, but the house of commons rejects it. 	 	the serial killer known as jack the ripper murders and mutilates five (and possibly more) prostitutes on the streets of london. 	 	emily williamson founds the royal society for the protection of birds. 	 – 	under the elementary education act , basic state education becomes free for every child under the age of .[ ] 	 	british and egyptian troops led by horatio kitchener defeat the mahdist forces at the battle of omdurman, thus establishing british dominance in the sudan. winston churchill takes part in the british cavalry charge at omdurman. 	 	the second boer war is fought between the british empire and the two independent boer republics. the boers finally surrendered and the british annexed the boer republics. 	 	the death of victoria sees the end of this era. the ascension of her eldest son, edward, begins the edwardian era. see also 	history portal 	united kingdom portal 	victorian era portal 		wikimedia commons has media related to victorian era. 	united kingdom of great britain and ireland covers politics and diplomacy 	historiography of the united kingdom 	historiography of the british empire 	international relations of the great powers ( – ) 	imperialism 	pax britannica 	victorian decorative arts 	victorian fashion 	victorian morality 	victorian literature 	neo-victorian 	social history of england 	women in the victorian era 	victoriana 	horror victorianorum 	victorian cemeteries 	gilded age, in the united states 	belle Époque, in france citations 	^ dixon, nicholas ( ). 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( ). the victorian frame of mind, – . new haven: yale univ. press. isbn  - - - - . 	mitchell, sally. daily life in victorian england. greenwood press: . isbn  - - - . 	o'gorman, francis, ed. the cambridge companion to victorian culture ( ) 	roberts, adam charles, ed. victorian culture and society: the essential glossary ( ). 	thompson, f. m. l. rise of respectable society: a social history of victorian britain, – ( ) strong on family, marriage, childhood, houses, and play. 	weiler, peter. the new liberalism: liberal social theory in great britain, – (routledge, ). 	wilson, a. n. the victorians. arrow books: . isbn  - - - 	young, gerard mackworth, ed. early victorian england - ( vol ) scholarly surveys of cultural history. vol online literature 	altick, richard daniel. victorian people and ideas: a companion for the modern reader of victorian literature. ( ) online free 	felluga, dino franco, et al. the encyclopedia of victorian literature ( ). 	flint, kay. the cambridge history of victorian literature ( ). 	horsman, alan. the victorian novel (oxford history of english literature, ) politics 	aydelotte, william o. “parties and issues in early victorian england.” journal of british studies, # , pp. – . online 	bourne, kenneth. the foreign policy of victorian england, – (oxford up, ), contains a short narrative history and "selected documents" on pp – . 	boyd, kelly and rohan mcwilliam, eds. the victorian studies reader ( ) pp; articles and excerpts by scholars excerpts and text search 	bright, j. franck. a history of england. period : growth of democracy: victoria – ( ) online pp; highly detailed older political narrative 	a history of england: period v. imperial reaction, victoria, ‒ ( ) online 	brock, m. g. "politics at the accession of queen victoria" history today ( ) # pp – online. 	brown, david, robert crowcroft, and gordon pentland, eds. the oxford handbook of modern british political history, – ( ) excerpt 	burton, antoinette, ed. politics and empire in victorian britain: a reader. palgrave macmillan: . isbn  - - - 	marriott, j. a. r. england since waterloo ( ); focus on politics and diplomacy; online 	martin, howard.britain in the th century (challenging history series, ) pp; textbook; emphasizing politics, diplomacy and use of primary sources 	trevelyan, g. m. british history in the nineteenth century and after ( – ) ( ). online very well written scholarly survey 	walpole, spencer. a history of england from the conclusion of the great war in ( vol. – ), very well written political narrative to ; online 	walpole, spencer. history of twenty-five years ( vol. – ) covers – ; online 	woodward, e. l. the age of reform: – ( ) comprehensive survey online 	young, g. m. "mid-victorianism" history today ( ) # pp – , online. crime and punishment 	auerbach, sascha. "'beyond the pale of mercy': victorian penal culture, police court missionaries, and the origins of probation in england." law and history review . ( ): – . 	bailey, victor. policing and punishment in nineteenth century britain ( ). 	churchill, david. crime control and everyday life in the victorian city (oxford up, ) 	emsley, clive. crime and society in england: – ( ). 	emsley, clive. "crime in th century britain." history today ( ): + 	emsley, clive. the english police: a political and social history ( nd ed. ) also published as the great british bobby: a history of british policing from the th century to the present ( )excerpt 	fox, lionel w. ( ). the english prison and borstal systems. p.  . isbn  . 	gatrell, v. a. c. "crime, authority and the policeman-state." in e.m.l. thompson, ed., the cambridge social history of britain - : volume ( ). : - 	hay, douglas. "crime and justice in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century england." crime and justice ( ): – . online 	kilday, anne-marie. "women and crime." women's history, britain – ed. hannah barker and elaine chalus, (routledge, ) pp. – . 	may, margaret. "innocence and experience: the evolution of the concept of juvenile delinquency in the mid-nineteenth century." victorian studies . ( ): – . online 	radzinowicz, leon. a history of english criminal law and its administration from ( vol. – ) 	radzinowicz, leon and roger hood the emergence of penal policy in victorian and edwardian england ( ) 	shore, heather. "the idea of juvenile crime in th century england." history today . ( ): – . 	shore, heather. "crime, policing and punishment." in chris williams, ed., a companion to nineteenth-century britain ( ): – . excerpt 	storch, r. d. "crime and justice in th-century england." history today vol (sep ): – . 	taylor, james. "white-collar crime and the law in nineteenth-century britain." business history ( ) # pp – . 	tobias, j. j. crime and industrial society in the nineteenth century ( ) . 	tobias, j.j. ed, nineteenth-century crime: prevention and punishment ( ) primary sources. 	taylor, howard. "rationing crime: the political economy of criminal statistics since the s." economic history review ( ) # – . online historiography 	burton, antoinette. "victorian history: some experiments with syllabi." victorian studies . ( ): – . 	elton, g. r. modern historians on british history – : a critical bibliography – ( ), annotated guide to history books on every major topic, plus book reviews and major scholarly articles. online 	gooch, brison d. recent literature on queen victoria's little wars" victorian studies, # ( ): – online. 	goodlad, lauren m. e. "'a middle class cut into two': historiography and victorian national character." elh . ( ): – . 	homans, margaret, and adrienne munich, eds. remaking queen victoria (cambridge university press, ) 	kent, christopher. "victorian social history: post-thompson, post-foucault, postmodern." victorian studies ( ): – . in jstor 	mays, kelly j. "looking backward, looking forward: the victorians in the rear-view mirror of future history." victorian studies . ( ): – . 	moore, d. c. "in search of a new past: – ," in richard schlatter, ed., recent views on british history: essays on historical writing since (rutgers up, ), pp – 	parry, j. p. "the state of victorian political history." historical journal ( ) # pp.  – online 	sandiford, keith a. p. "the victorians at play: problems in historiographical methodology." journal of social history ( ): – . in jstor 	stansky, peter. "british history: – ," in richard schlatter, ed., recent views on british history: essays on historical writing since (rutgers up, ), pp. – 	taylor, miles. "the bicentenary of queen victoria." journal of british studies . ( ): – . https://doi.org/ . /jbr. . 	vernon, james. "historians and the victorian studies question." victorian studies . 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liburnis inter alta navium,           amice, propugnacula,     paratus omne caesaris periculum           subire, maecenas, tuo:     quid nos, quibus te vita sit superstite           iucunda, si contra, gravis?     utrumne iussi persequemur otium           non dulce, ni tecum simul,     an hunc laborem mente laturi, decet           qua ferre non mollis viros?     feremus et te vel per alpium iuga           inhospitalem et caucasum     vel occidentis usque ad ultimum sinum           forti sequemur pectore.     roges, tuom labore quid iuvem meo,           inbellis ac firmus parum?     comes minore sum futurus in metu,           qui maior absentis habet:     ut adsidens inplumibus pullis avis           serpentium adlapsus timet     magis relictis, non, ut adsit, auxili           latura plus praesentibus.     libenter hoc et omne militabitur           bellum in tuae spem gratiae,     non ut iuvencis inligata pluribus           aratra nitantur meis     pecusve calabris ante sidus fervidum           lucana mutet pascuis     neque ut superni villa candens tusculi           circaea tangat moenia:     satis superque me benignitas tua           ditavit, haud paravero     quod aut avarus ut chremes terra premam,           discinctus aut perdam nepos. ii[recensere]     'beatus ille qui procul negotiis,           ut prisca gens mortalium,     paterna rura bubus exercet suis           solutus omni faenore     neque excitatur classico miles truci           neque horret iratum mare     forumque vitat et superba civium           potentiorum limina.     ergo aut adulta vitium propagine           altas maritat populos     aut in reducta valle mugientium           prospectat errantis greges     inutilisque falce ramos amputans           feliciores inserit     aut pressa puris mella condit amphoris           aut tondet infirmas ovis.     vel cum decorum mitibus pomis caput           autumnus agris extulit,     ut gaudet insitiva decerpens pira           certantem et uvam purpurae,     qua muneretur te, priape, et te, pater           silvane, tutor finium.     libet iacere modo sub antiqua ilice,           modo in tenaci gramine:     labuntur altis interim ripis aquae,           queruntur in silvis aves     frondesque lymphis obstrepunt manantibus,           somnos quod invitet levis.     at cum tonantis annus hibernus iovis           imbris nivisque conparat,     aut trudit acris hinc et hinc multa cane           apros in obstantis plagas     aut amite levi rara tendit retia           turdis edacibus dolos     pavidumque leporem et advenam laqueo gruem           iucunda captat praemia.     quis non malarum quas amor curas habet           haec inter obliviscitur?     quodsi pudica mulier in partem iuvet           domum atque dulcis liberos,     sabina qualis aut perusta solibus           pernicis uxor apuli,     sacrum vetustis exstruat lignis focum           lassi sub adventum viri     claudensque textis cratibus laetum pecus           distenta siccet ubera     et horna dulci vina promens dolio           dapes inemptas adparet:     non me lucrina iuverint conchylia           magisve rhombus aut scari,     siquos eois intonata fluctibus           hiems ad hoc vertat mare,     non afra avis descendat in ventrem meum,           non attagen ionicus     iucundior quam lecta de pinguissimis           oliva ramis arborum     aut herba lapathi prata amantis et gravi           malvae salubres corpori     vel agna festis caesa terminalibus           vel haedus ereptus lupo.     has inter epulas ut iuvat pastas ovis           videre properantis domum,     videre fessos vomerem inversum boves           collo trahentis languido     positosque vernas, ditis examen domus,           circum renidentis laris.'     haec ubi locutus faenerator alfius,           iam iam futurus rusticus,     omnem redegit idibus pecuniam,           quaerit kalendis ponere. iii[recensere]     parentis olim siquis inpia manu           senile guttur fregerit,     edit cicutis alium nocentius.           o dura messorum ilia.     quid hoc veneni saevit in praecordiis?           num viperinus his cruor     incoctus herbis me fefellit? an malas           canidia tractavit dapes?     ut argonautas praeter omnis candidum           medea mirata est ducem,     ignota tauris inligaturum iuga           perunxit hoc iasonem,     hoc delibutis ulta donis paelicem           serpente fugit alite.     nec tantus umquam siderum insedit vapor           siticulosae apuliae     nec munus umeris efficacis herculis           inarsit aestuosius.     at siquid umquam tale concupiveris,           iocose maecenas, precor,     manum puella savio opponat tuo,           extrema et in sponda cubet. iv[recensere]     lupis et agnis quanta sortito obtigit,           tecum mihi discordia est,     hibericis peruste funibus latus           et crura dura compede.     licet superbus ambules pecunia,           fortuna non mutat genus.     videsne, sacram metiente te viam           cum bis trium ulnarum toga,     ut ora vertat huc et huc euntium           liberrima indignatio?     'sectus flagellis hic triumviralibus           praeconis ad fastidium     arat falerni mille fundi iugera           et appiam mannis terit     sedilibusque magnus in primis eques           othone contempto sedet.     quid attinet tot ora navium gravi           rostrata duci pondere     contra latrones atque servilem manum           hoc, hoc tribuno militum?' v[recensere]     'at o deorum quidquid in caelo regit           terras et humanum genus,     quid iste fert tumultus aut quid omnium           voltus in unum me truces?     per liberos te, si vocata partubus           lucina veris adfuit,     per hoc inane purpurae decus precor,           per inprobaturum haec iovem,     quid ut noverca me intueris aut uti           petita ferro belua?'     ut haec trementi questus ore constitit           insignibus raptis puer,     inpube corpus, quale posset inpia           mollire thracum pectora:     canidia, brevibus illigata viperis           crinis et incomptum caput,     iubet sepulcris caprificos erutas,           iubet cupressos funebris     et uncta turpis ova ranae sanguine           plumamque nocturnae strigis     herbasque, quas iolcos atque hiberia           mittit venenorum ferax,     et ossa ab ore rapta ieiunae canis           flammis aduri colchicis.     at expedita sagana, per totam domum           spargens avernalis aquas,     horret capillis ut marinus asperis           echinus aut laurens aper.     abacta nulla veia conscientia           ligonibus duris humum     exhauriebat, ingemens laboribus,           quo posset infossus puer     longo die bis terque mutatae dapis           inemori spectaculo,     cum promineret ore, quantum exstant aqua           suspensa mento corpora;     exsucta uti medulla et aridum iecur           amoris esset poculum,     interminato cum semel fixae cibo           intabuissent pupulae.     non defuisse masculae libidinis           ariminensem foliam     et otiosa credidit neapolis           et omne vicinum oppidum,     quae sidera excantata voce thessala           lunamque caelo deripit.     hic inresectum saeva dente livido           canidia rodens pollicem     quid dixit aut quid tacuit? 'o rebus meis           non infideles arbitrae,     nox et diana, quae silentium regis,           arcana cum fiunt sacra,     nunc, nunc adeste, nunc in hostilis domos           iram atque numen vertite.     formidulosis cum latent silvis ferae           dulci sopore languidae,     senem, quod omnes rideant, adulterum           latrent suburanae canes     nardo perunctum, quale non perfectius           meae laborarint manus.     quid accidit? cur dira barbarae minus           venena medeae valent,     quibus superbam fugit ulta paelicem,           magni creontis filiam,     cum palla, tabo munus imbutum, novam           incendio nuptam abstulit?     atqui nec herba nec latens in asperis           radix fefellit me locis.     indormit unctis omnium cubilibus           oblivione paelicum?     a, a, solutus ambulat veneficae           scientioris carmine.     non usitatis, vare, potionibus,           o multa fleturum caput,     ad me recurres nec vocata mens tua           marsis redibit vocibus.     maius parabo, maius infundam tibi           fastidienti poculum     priusque caelum sidet inferius mari           tellure porrecta super     quam non amore sic meo flagres uti           bitumen atris ignibus.'     sub haec puer iam non, ut ante, mollibus           lenire verbis inpias,     sed dubius unde rumperet silentium,           misit thyesteas preces:     'venena maga non fas nefasque, non valent           convertere humanam vicem.     diris agam vos: dira detestatio           nulla expiatur victima.     quin, ubi perire iussus exspiravero,           nocturnus occurram furor     petamque voltus umbra curvis unguibus,           quae vis deorum est manium,     et inquietis adsidens praecordiis           pavore somnos auferam.     vos turba vicatim hinc et hinc saxis petens           contundet obscaenas anus;     post insepulta membra different lupi           et esquilinae alites     neque hoc parentes, heu mihi superstites,           effugerit spectaculum.' vi[recensere]     quid inmerentis hospites vexas, canis           ignavos adversum lupos?     quin huc inanis, si potes, vertis minas           et me remorsurum petis?     nam qualis aut molossus aut fulvos lacon,           amica vis pastoribus,     agam per altas aure sublata nivis           quaecumque praecedet fera;     tu, cum timenda voce complesti nemus,           proiectum odoraris cibum.     cave, cave, namque in malos asperrimus           parata tollo cornua,     qualis lycambae spretus infido gener           aut acer hostis bupalo.     an si quis atro dente me petiverit,           inultus ut flebo puer? vii[recensere]     quo, quo scelesti ruitis? aut cur dexteris           aptantur enses conditi?     parumne campis atque neptuno super           fusum est latini sanguinis,     non ut superbas invidae karthaginis           romanus arces ureret,     intactus aut britannus ut descenderet           sacra catenatus via,     sed ut secundum vota parthorum sua           vrbs haec periret dextera?     neque hic lupis mos nec fuit leonibus           umquam nisi in dispar feris.     furorne caecos an rapit vis acrior           an culpa? responsum date.     tacent et albus ora pallor inficit           mentesque perculsae stupent.     sic est: acerba fata romanos agunt           scelusque fraternae necis,     ut inmerentis fluxit in terram remi           sacer nepotibus cruor. viii[recensere]     rogare longo putidam te saeculo,           viris quid enervet meas,     cum sit tibi dens ater et rugis vetus           frontem senectus exaret     hietque turpis inter aridas natis           podex velut crudae bovis.     sed incitat me pectus et mammae putres           equina quales ubera     venterque mollis et femur tumentibus           exile suris additum.     esto beata, funus atque imagines           ducant triumphales tuom     nec sit marita, quae rotundioribus           onusta bacis ambulet.     quid? quod libelli stoici inter sericos           iacere pulvillos amant,     inlitterati num minus nervi rigent           minusve languet fascinum?     quod ut superbo povoces ab inguine,           ore adlaborandum est tibi. ix[recensere]     quando repositum caecubum ad festas dapes           victore laetus caesare     tecum sub alta---sic iovi gratum---domo,           beate maecenas, bibam     sonante mixtum tibiis carmen lyra,           hac dorium, illis barbarum?     ut nuper, actus cum freto neptunius           dux fugit ustis navibus     minatus vrbi vincla, quae detraxerat           servis amicus perfidis.     romanus eheu---posteri negabitis---           emancipatus feminae     fert vallum et arma miles et spadonibus           servire rugosis potest     interque signa turpe militaria           sol adspicit conopium.     ad hunc frementis verterunt bis mille equos           galli canentes caesarem     hostiliumque navium portu latent           puppes sinistrorsum citae.     io triumphe, tu moraris aureos           currus et intactas boves?     io triumphe, nec iugurthino parem           bello reportasti ducem     neque africanum, cui super karthaginem           virtus sepulcrum condidit.     terra marique victus hostis punico           lugubre mutavit sagum.     aut ille centum nobilem cretam urbibus           ventis iturus non suis     exercitatas aut petit syrtis noto           aut fertur incerto mari.     capaciores adfer huc, puer, scyphos           et chia vina aut lesbia     vel quod fluentem nauseam coerceat           metire nobis caecubum.     curam metumque caesaris rerum iuvat           dulci lyaeo solvere. x[recensere]     mala soluta navis exit alite           ferens olentem mevium.     ut horridis utrumque verberes latus,           auster, memento fluctibus;     niger rudentis eurus inverso mari           fractosque remos differat;     insurgat aquilo, quantus altis montibus           frangit trementis ilics;     nec sidus atra nocte amicum adpareat,           qua tristis orion cadit;     quietiore nec feratur aequore           quam graia victorum manus,     cum pallas usto vertit iram ab ilio           in inpiam aiacis ratem.     o quantus instat navitis sudor tuis           tibique pallor luteus     et illa non virilis heiulatio           preces et aversum ad iovem,     ionius udo cum remugiens sinus           noto carinam ruperit     opima quodsi praeda curvo litore           porrecta mergos iuverit,     libidinosus immolabitur caper           et agna tempestatibus. xi[recensere]     petti, nihil me sicut antea iuvat           scribere versiculos amore percussum gravi,     amore, qui me praeter omnis expetit           mollibus in pueris aut in puellis urere.     hic tertius december, ex quo destiti           inachia furere, silvis honorem decutit.     heu me, per vrbem (nam pudet tanti mali)           fabula quanta fui, conviviorum et paenitet,     in quis amantem languor et silentium           arguit et latere petitus imo spiritus.     'contrane lucrum nil valere candidum           pauperis ingenium' querebar adplorans tibi,     simul calentis inverecundus deus           fervidiore mero arcana promorat loco.     'quodsi meis inaestuet praecordiis           libera bilis, ut haec ingrata ventis dividat     fomenta volnus nil malum levantia,           desinet inparibus certare submotus pudor.'     ubi haec severus te palam laudaveram,           iussus abire domum ferebar incerto pede     ad non amicos heu mihi postis et heu           limina dura, quibus lumbos et infregi latus.     nunc gloriantis quamlibet mulierculam           vincere mollitia amor lycisci me tenet;     unde expedire non amicorum queant           libera consilia nec contumeliae graves,     sed alius ardor aut puellae candidae           aut teretis pueri longam renodantis comam. xii[recensere]     quid tibi vis, mulier nigris dignissima barris?           munera quid mihi quidve tabellas     mittis nec firmo iuveni neque naris obesae?           namque sagacius unus odoror,     polypus an gravis hirsutis cubet hircus in alis           quam canis acer ubi lateat sus.     qui sudor vietis et quam malus undique membris           crescit odor, cum pene soluto     indomitam properat rabiem sedare, neque illi           iam manet umida creta colorque     stercore fucatus crocodili iamque subando           tenta cubilia tectaque rumpit.     vel mea cum saevis agitat fastidia verbis:           'inachia langues minus ac me;     inachiam ter nocte potes, mihi semper ad unum           mollis opus. pereat male quae te     lesbia quaerenti taurum monstravit inertem.           cum mihi cous adesset amyntas,     cuius in indomito constantior inguine nervos           quam nova collibus arbor inhaeret.     muricibus tyriis iteratae vellera lanae           cui properabantur? tibi nempe,     ne foret aequalis inter conviva, magis quem           diligeret mulier sua quam te.     o ego non felix, quam tu fugis, ut pavet acris           agna lupos capreaeque leones!' xiii[recensere]     horrida tempestas caelum contraxit et imbres           nivesque deducunt iovem; nunc mare, nunc siluae     threicio aquilone sonant. rapiamus, amici,           occasionem de die dumque virent genua     et decet, obducta solvatur fronte senectus.           tu vina torquato move consule pressa meo.     cetera mitte loqui: deus haec fortasse benigna           reducet in sedem vice. nunc et achaemenio     perfundi nardo iuvat et fide cyllenea           levare diris pectora sollicitudinibus,     nobilis ut grandi cecinit centaurus alumno:           'invicte, mortalis dea nate puer thetide,     te manet assaraci tellus, quam frigida parvi           findunt scamandri flumina lubricus et simois,     unde tibi reditum certo subtemine parcae           rupere, nec mater domum caerula te revehet.     illic omne malum vino cantuque levato,     deformis aegrimoniae dulcibus adloquiis.' xiv[recensere]     mollis inertia cur tantam diffuderit imis           oblivionem sensibus,     pocula lethaeos ut si ducentia somnos           arente fauce traxerim,     candide maecenas, occidis saepe rogando:           deus, deus nam me vetat     inceptos, olim promissum carmen, iambos           ad umbilicum adducere.     non aliter samio dicunt arsisse bathyllo           anacreonta teium,     qui persaepe cava testudine flevit amorem           non elaboratum ad pedem.     ureris ipse miser: quodsi non pulcrior ignis           accendit obsessam ilion,     gaude sorte tua; me libertina, nec uno           contenta, phryne macerat. xv[recensere]     nox erat et caelo fulgebat luna sereno           inter minora sidera,     cum tu, magnorum numen laesura deorum,           in verba iurabas mea,     artius atque hedera procera adstringitur ilex           lentis adhaerens bracchiis;     dum pecori lupus et nautis infestus orion           turbaret hibernum mare     intonsosque agitaret apollinis aura capillos,           fore hunc amorem mutuom,     o dolitura mea multum virtute neaera:           nam siquid in flacco viri est,     non feret adsiduas potiori te dare noctes           et quaeret iratus parem     nec semel offensi cedet constantia formae,           si certus intrarit dolor.     et tu, quicumque es felicior atque meo nunc           superbus incedis malo,     sis pecore et multa dives tellure licebit           tibique pactolus fluat     nec te pythagorae fallant arcana renati           formaque vincas nirea,     heu heu, translatos alio maerebis amores,           ast ego vicissim risero. xvi[recensere]     altera iam teritur bellis civilibus aetas,           suis et ipsa roma viribus ruit.     quam neque finitimi valuerunt perdere marsi           minacis aut etrusca porsenae manus,     aemula nec virtus capuae nec spartacus acer           novisque rebus infidelis allobrox     nec fera caerulea domuit germania pube           parentibusque abominatus hannibal:     inpia perdemus devoti sanguinis aetas           ferisque rursus occupabitur solum:     barbarus heu cineres insistet victor et vrbem           eques sonante verberabit ungula,     quaeque carent ventis et solibus ossa quirini,           (nefas videre) dissipabit insolens.     forte quid expediat communiter aut melior pars,           malis carere quaeritis laboribus;     nulla sit hac potior sententia: phocaeorum           velut profugit exsecrata civitas     agros atque lares patrios habitandaque fana           apris reliquit et rapacibus lupis,     ire, pedes quocumque ferent, quocumque per undas           notus vocabit aut protervos africus.     sic placet? an melius quis habet suadere? secunda           ratem occupare quid moramur alite?     sed iuremus in haec: 'simul imis saxa renarint           vadis levata, ne redire sit nefas;     neu conversa domum pigeat dare lintea, quando           padus matina laverit cacumina,     in mare seu celsus procurrerit appenninus           novaque monstra iunxerit libidine     mirus amor, iuvet ut tigris subsidere cervis,           adulteretur et columba miluo,     credula nec ravos timeant armenta leones           ametque salsa levis hircus aequora.'     haec et quae poterunt reditus abscindere dulcis           eamus omnis exsecrata civitas     aut pars indocili melior grege; mollis et exspes           inominata perpremat cubilia.     vos, quibus est virtus, muliebrem tollite luctum,           etrusca praeter et volate litora.     nos manet oceanus circum vagus: arva beata           petamus, arva divites et insulas,     reddit ubi cererem tellus inarata quotannis           et inputata floret usque vinea,     germinat et numquam fallentis termes olivae           suamque pulla ficus ornat arborem,     mella cava manant ex ilice, montibus altis           levis crepante lympha desilit pede.     illic iniussae veniunt ad mulctra capellae           refertque tenta grex amicus ubera     nec vespertinus circumgemit ursus ovile           nec intumescit alta viperis humus;     pluraque felices mirabimur, ut neque largis           aquosus eurus arva radat imbribus,     pinguia nec siccis urantur semina glaebis,           utrumque rege temperante caelitum.     non huc argoo contendit remige pinus           neque inpudica colchis intulit pedem,     non huc sidonii torserunt cornua nautae,           laboriosa nec cohors vlixei.     nulla nocent pecori contagia, nullius astri           gregem aestuosa torret impotentia.     iuppiter illa piae secrevit litora genti,           ut inquinavit aere tempus aureum,     aere, dehinc ferro duravit saecula, quorum           piis secunda vate me datur fuga. xvii[recensere]     'iam iam efficaci do manus scientiae,     supplex et oro regna per proserpinae,     per et dianae non movenda numina,     per atque libros carminum valentium     refixa caelo devocare sidera,     canidia: parce vocibus tandem sacris     citumque retro solve, solve turbinem.     movit nepotem telephus nereium,     in quem superbus ordinarat agmina     mysorum et in quem tela acuta torserat.     unxere matres iliae additum feris     alitibus atque canibus homicidam hectorem,     postquam relictis moenibus rex procidit     heu pervicacis ad pedes achillei.     saetosa duris exuere pellibus     laboriosi remiges vlixei     volente circa membra; tunc mens et sonus     relapsus atque notus in voltus honor.     dedi satis superque poenarum tibi,     amata nautis multum et institoribus.     fugit iuventas et verecundus color     reliquit ossa pelle amicta lurida,     tuis capillus albus est odoribus,     nullum a labore me reclinat otium;     urget diem nox et dies noctem neque est     levare tenta spiritu praecordia.     ergo negatum vincor ut credam miser,     sabella pectus increpare carmina     caputque marsa dissilire nenia.     quid amplius vis? o mare et terra, ardeo,     quantum neque atro delibutus hercules     nessi cruore nec sicana fervida     virens in aetna flamma; tu, donec cinis     iniuriosis aridus ventis ferar,     cales venenis officina colchicis.     quae finis aut quod me manet stipendium?     effare; iussas cum fide poenas luam,     paratus expiare, seu poposceris     centum iuvencos sive mendaci lyra     voles sonare: tu pudica, tu proba     perambulabis astra sidus aureum.     infamis helenae castor offensus vice     fraterque magni castoris, victi prece,     adempta vati reddidere lumina:     et tu, potes nam, solve me dementia,     o nec paternis obsoleta sordibus     neque in sepulcris pauperum prudens anus     novendialis dissipare pulveres.     tibi hospitale pectus et purae manus     tuosque venter pactumeius et tuo     cruore rubros obstetrix pannos lavit,     utcumque fortis exsilis puerpera.'           'quid obseratis auribus fundis preces?     non saxa nudis surdiora navitis     neptunus alto tundit hibernus salo.     inultus ut tu riseris cotytia     volgata, sacrum liberi cupidinis,     et esquilini pontifex venefici     inpune ut vrbem nomine inpleris meo?     quid proderat ditasse paelignas anus     velociusve miscuisse toxicum?     sed tardiora fata te votis manent:     ingrata misero vita ducenda est in hoc,     novis ut usque suppetas laboribus.     optat quietem pelopis infidi pater,     egens benignae tantalus semper dapis,     optat prometheus obligatus aliti,     optat supremo collocare sisyphus     in monte saxum; sed vetant leges iovis.     voles modo altis desilire turribus,     frustraque vincla gutturi innectes tuo     modo ense pectus norico recludere     fastidiosa tristis aegrimonia.     vectabor umeris tunc ego inimicis eques     meaeque terra cedet insolentiae.     an quae movere cereas imagines,     ut ipse nosti curiosus, et polo     deripere lunam vocibus possim meis,     possim crematos excitare mortuos     desiderique temperare pocula,     plorem artis in te nil agentis exitus?' receptum de "https://la.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=epodi&oldid= " 		categoriae: 	opera omnia 	opera quae quintus horatius flaccus scripsit 	carmina 	saeculi primi ante christum opera 	opera sine editione 	opera sine fonte 	opera sine re wikidata 	 % 	 	tabula navigationis 	 		 	 		instrumenta personalia 	 	 			nomen nondum datum est 	disputatio huius ip 	conlationes 	sibi nomen imponere 	nomen dare 		 	 		 			 	 		spatia nominalia 	 	 			opus 	disputatio 		 	 			 	 	 		variantes 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		visae 	 	 			legere 	recensere 	historiam inspicere 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		quaerere 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigatio 	 	 			pagina prima 	english main page 	scriptorium 	scriptores 	chronologia 	nuper mutata 	pagina fortuita 	auxilium 		 	 	 	 		instrumenta 	 	 			nexus ad hanc paginam 	nuper mutata annexorum 	onerare fascicula 	paginae speciales 	nexus perpetuus 	de hac pagina 	hanc paginam citare 		 	 	 		imprimere vel exportare 	 	 			librum creare 	paginam prehendere formá pdf 	forma impressibilis 		 	 	 	 		aliae linguae 	 	 			català 	português 		add links 	 		 novissima mutatio die maii hora : facta. 	nonobstantibus ceteris condicionibus hunc textum tractare licet secundum "creative commons attribution-sharealike license". vide modos et condiciones. 		consilium de secreto 	de wikisource 	repudiationes 	pagina mobilis 	elaboratores 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 carmina (horatius)/liber iv/carmen xi - wikisource 	 	 	 	 	carmina (horatius)/liber iv/carmen xi 	 		e wikisource 		< carmina (horatius)unchecked 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 quintus horatius flaccuscarmina a.ch.n. quintus horatius flaccus carmina liber iv carmen xi a.ch.n. 	 iv, x	iv, xii  	 est mihi nonum superantis annum plenus albani cadus; est in horto, phylli, nectendis apium coronis;              est hederae vis multa, qua crinis religata fulges; ridet argento domus; ara castis vincta verbenis avet immolato              spargier agno; cuncta festinat manus, huc et illuc cursitant mixtae pueris puellae; sordidum flammae trepidant rotantes              vertice fumum. ut tamen noris quibus advoceris gaudiis, idus tibi sunt agendae, qui dies mensem veneris marinae              findit aprilem, iure sollemnis mihi sanctiorque paene natali proprio, quod ex hac luce maecenas meus adfluentis              ordinat annos. telephum, quem tu petis, occupavit non tuae sortis iuvenem puella dives et lasciva tenetque grata              compede vinctum. terret ambustus phaethon avaras spes, et exemplum grave praebet ales pegasus terrenum equitem gravatus              bellerophonten, semper ut te digna sequare et ultra quam licet sperare nefas putando disparem vites. age iam, meorum              finis amorum, (non enim posthac alia calebo femina) condisce modos, amanda voce quos reddas: minuentur atrae              carmine curae. 	 iv, x	iv, xii  	 receptum de "https://la.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=carmina_(horatius)/liber_iv/carmen_xi&oldid= " 		categoriae: 	 % 	capita ex operibus 	sapphici 	 	tabula navigationis 	 		 	 		instrumenta personalia 	 	 			nomen nondum datum est 	disputatio huius ip 	conlationes 	sibi nomen imponere 	nomen dare 		 	 		 			 	 		spatia nominalia 	 	 			opus 	disputatio 		 	 			 	 	 		variantes 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		visae 	 	 			legere 	recensere 	historiam inspicere 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		quaerere 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigatio 	 	 			pagina prima 	english main page 	scriptorium 	scriptores 	chronologia 	nuper mutata 	pagina fortuita 	auxilium 		 	 	 	 		instrumenta 	 	 			nexus ad hanc paginam 	nuper mutata annexorum 	onerare fascicula 	paginae speciales 	nexus perpetuus 	de hac pagina 	hanc paginam citare 		 	 	 		imprimere vel exportare 	 	 			librum creare 	paginam prehendere formá pdf 	forma impressibilis 		 	 	 	 		aliae linguae 	 	 			français 	italiano 		add links 	 		 novissima mutatio die ianuarii hora : facta. 	nonobstantibus ceteris condicionibus hunc textum tractare licet secundum "creative commons attribution-sharealike license". vide modos et condiciones. 		consilium de secreto 	de wikisource 	repudiationes 	pagina mobilis 	elaboratores 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 venosa - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	venosa 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		"venusia" redirects here. for the genus of moth, see venusia (moth). for other uses, see venosa (disambiguation). comune in basilicata, italy 	venosa 	comune 	città di venosa 	 	 coat of arms 	location of venosa 	 venosa location of venosa in italy show map of italy venosa venosa (basilicata) show map of basilicata 	coordinates: ° ′ . ″n ° ′ . ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; . coordinates: ° ′ . ″n ° ′ . ″e /  . °n . °e / . ; . 	country	italy 	region	basilicata 	province	potenza (pz) 	government 	 • mayor	tommaso gammone 	area[ ] 	 • total	 .  km ( .  sq mi) 	elevation 	  m ( ,  ft) 	population ( december )[ ] 	 • total	 , 	 • density	 /km ( /sq mi) 	demonym(s)	venosini 	time zone	utc+ (cet) 	 • summer (dst)	utc+ (cest) 	postal code	 	dialing code	 	patron saint	st roch (formerly st felix of thibiuca) 	saint day	august 	website	official website venosa (lucano: venòse) is a town and comune in the province of potenza, in the southern italian region of basilicata, in the vulture area. it is bounded by the comuni of barile, ginestra, lavello, maschito, montemilone, palazzo san gervasio, rapolla and spinazzola. contents 	 history 	 . ancient 	 . middle ages 	 . modern era 	 main sights 	 people 	 twin towns 	 references 	 external links history[edit] ancient[edit] the city was known as venusia ("city of venus") to the romans, who credited its establishment—as aphrodisia ("city of aphrodite")—to the homeric hero diomedes. he was said to have moved to magna graecia in southern italy following the trojan war, seeking a life of peace and building the town and its temples to appease the anger of aphrodite for the destruction of her beloved troy. the town was taken by the romans after the third samnite war in bc and became a colony. no fewer than , men were sent there, owing to its military importance. throughout the hannibalic wars it remained faithful to rome, and had a further contingent of colonists sent in bc to replace its losses in war. in bc the appian way was extended to the town. some coins of venusia of this period exist. it took part in the social war, and was recaptured by quintus metellus pius; it then became a municipium, but in bc its territory was assigned to the veterans of the triumvirs, and it became a colony once more. horace was born here in bc. it remained an important place under the empire as a station on the via appia, though theodor mommsen's description of it as having branch roads to aequum tuticum and potentia, and kiepert's maps annexed to the volume, do not agree with one another.[ ] middle ages[edit] after the fall of the western roman empire, venusia was sacked by the heruls, and in ad it was turned into the administrative centre of the area in the ostrogothic kingdom of italy, although later this role was moved to acerenza. the lombards made it a gastaldate in / . in venosa was sacked by the saracens, who were later ousted by emperor louis ii. next rulers in the th century were the byzantines, who lost control of it after their defeat in by the normans. under the latter, venosa was assigned to drogo of hauteville. in the town was sacked and set on fire by roger ii of sicily. his later successor frederick ii had a castle built here where a lombard outpost existed before, which was to house the treasury (ministry of finances) of the kingdom of sicily. frederick's son, manfred of sicily, was born here in . after the latter's fall, the hohenstaufens were replaced by the angevines; king charles of anjou assigned venosa as a county to his son robert. modern era[edit] after a series of different feudal lords, venosa became a possession of the orsini in . count pirro del balzo, who had married donata orsini, built a new castle ( – ) and a cathedral. then, under the aragonese domination, followed the gesualdo family ( ); amongst their number was the famous prince, musician and murderer carlo gesualdo. despite the plague that had reduced its population from the , of to , , venosa had a flourishing cultural life under the gesualdos: apart from the famous carlo, other relevant figures of the period include the poet luigi tansillo ( – ) and the jurist giovanni battista de luca ( – ). venosa took part in the revolt of masaniello in . the gesualdos were in turn followed by the ludovisi and the caracciolo families. home to a traditionally strong republican tradition, venosa had a role in the peasant revolts and the carbonari movement of the early th century. a true civil war between baronial powers and supporters of the peasants' rights broke out in , being harshly suppressed by the neapolitan troops.(see sicilian revolution of independence of .) in , after the fall of the kingdom of the two sicilies during the italian unification, venosa was occupied by some bands of brigands under the command of carmine crocco in order to restore the bourbon power in basilicata. main sights[edit] the aragonese castle. the church of ss. trinità. the archaeological area of notarchirico. 	the aragonese castle, built in by pirro del balzo orsini. it has a square plan with four cylindrical towers. the shining sun, the del balzo coat of arms, is visible on the western towers. it was turned into a residence by carlo and emanuele gesualdo, who added also an internal loggia, the north-western wing and bastions used as prisons. from it was the seat of the accademia dei rinascenti. it is now home to the national museum of venosa, inaugurated in , with ancient roman and other findings up to the th century. the entrance is preceded by a fountain conceded by king charles i of anjou. 	many fragments of roman workmanship are built into the walls of the cathedral, which is due to pirro del balzo also (c. ). 	the abbey church of ss. trinità is historically interesting; it was consecrated in by pope nicholas ii and passed into the hands of the knights of saint john in the time of boniface viii ( – ). in the central aisle is the tomb of alberada, the first wife of robert guiscard and mother of bohemund. an inscription on the wall commemorates the great norman brothers william iron arm, drogo, humfrey and robert guiscard. the bones of these brothers rest together in a simple stone sarcophagus opposite the tomb of alberada. the church also contains some th-century frescoes. behind it is a larger church, which was begun for the benedictines about , from the designs of a french architect, in imitation of the cluniac church at paray-le-monial, but never carried beyond the spring of the vaulting. the ancient amphitheatre adjacent furnished the materials for its walls. 	baroque church of the purgatory (or san filippo neri) 	the archaeological area of notarchirico, in the communal territory. it covers the palaeolithic period with eleven layers dating from , to , years ago. remains of ancient wildlife, including extinct species of elephants, bisons and rhinoceroses, have been found, as well as a fragment of a femur of homo erectus. 	jewish catacombs with inscriptions in hebrew, greek and latin show the importance of the jewish population here in the th and th centuries.[ ] 	remains of the ancient city walls and of an amphitheatre still exist, and a number of inscriptions have been found there.[ ] people[edit] 	horace ( bc – bc): roman poet 	manfred ( – ): king of sicily 	bartolomeo maranta ( – ): physician, botanist, and literary theorist 	luigi tansillo ( – ): poet 	carlo gesualdo ( – ): music composer, lutenist and nobleman 	giovanni battista de luca ( – ): jurist and cardinal 	giacomo di chirico ( – ): painter 	mario de bernardi ( – ): colonel and aviator 	cinzia giorgio (b. ): writer twin towns[edit] 	 tortolì, italy 	 bernalda, italy references[edit] 	^ "superficie di comuni province e regioni italiane al ottobre ". istat. retrieved march . 	^ "popolazione residente al ° gennaio ". istat. retrieved march . 	^ a b c  one or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "venusia". encyclopædia britannica. 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additional terms may apply. by using this site, you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy. 		privacy policy 	about wikisource 	disclaimers 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 w. h. auden - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	 	w. h. auden 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		  (redirected from w.h.auden) 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		anglo-american poet 	w. h. auden 	auden in 	born	wystan hugh auden ( - - ) february york, yorkshire, england 	died	 september ( - - ) (aged  ) vienna, austria 	citizenship	british (birth); american ( ) 	education	m.a. english language and literature 	alma mater	christ church, oxford 	occupation	poet 	spouse(s)	erika mann (unconsummated marriage, , to provide her with a british passport) 	relatives		george augustus auden (father) 	constance rosalie bicknell auden (mother) 	john bicknell auden (brother) 	george bernard auden (brother) wystan hugh auden (/ˈwɪstən ˈhjuː ˈɔːdən/; february  – september ) was an anglo-american poet. auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form, and content. some of his best known poems are about love, such as "funeral blues"; on political and social themes, such as "september , " and "the shield of achilles"; on cultural and psychological themes, such as the age of anxiety; and on religious themes such as "for the time being" and "horae canonicae".[ ][ ][ ] he was born in york and grew up in and near birmingham in a professional middle-class family. he attended english independent (or public) schools and studied english at christ church, oxford. after a few months in berlin in – , he spent five years ( – ) teaching in british private preparatory schools, then travelled to iceland and china in order to write books about his journeys. in he moved to the united states and became an american citizen in , retaining his british citizenship. he taught from to in american universities, followed by occasional visiting professorships in the s. from to he wintered in new york and summered in ischia; from until the end of his life he wintered in new york (in oxford in – ) and summered in kirchstetten, lower austria. he came to wide public attention with his first book poems at the age of twenty-three in ; it was followed in by the orators. three plays written in collaboration with christopher isherwood between and built his reputation as a left-wing political writer. auden moved to the united states partly to escape this reputation, and his work in the s, including the long poems "for the time being" and "the sea and the mirror", focused on religious themes. he won the pulitzer prize for poetry for his long poem the age of anxiety, the title of which became a popular phrase describing the modern era.[ ] from to he was professor of poetry at oxford; his lectures were popular with students and faculty, and served as the basis for his prose collection the dyer's hand. auden and isherwood maintained a lasting but intermittent sexual friendship from around to , while both had briefer but more intense relations with other men.[ ] in , auden fell in love with chester kallman and regarded their relationship as a marriage, but this ended in when kallman refused to accept the faithful relations that auden demanded. however, the two maintained their friendship, and from until auden's death they lived in the same house or apartment in a non-sexual relationship, often collaborating on opera libretti such as that of the rake's progress, to music by igor stravinsky. auden was a prolific writer of prose essays and reviews on literary, political, psychological, and religious subjects, and he worked at various times on documentary films, poetic plays, and other forms of performance. throughout his career he was both controversial and influential, and critical views on his work ranged from sharply dismissive—treating him as a lesser figure than w. b. yeats and t. s. eliot—to strongly affirmative, as in joseph brodsky's statement that he had "the greatest mind of the twentieth century". after his death, his poems became known to a much wider public than during his lifetime through films, broadcasts, and popular media. contents 	 life 	 . childhood 	 . education 	 . britain and europe, – 	 . united states and europe, – 	 work 	 . early work, – 	 . . up to 	 . . – 	 . . – 	 . middle period, – 	 . . – 	 . . – 	 . later work, – 	 . reputation and influence 	 published works 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links life[edit] childhood[edit] auden's birthplace in york auden was born on bootham in york, yorkshire, england, to george augustus auden ( – ), a physician, and constance rosalie auden (née bicknell; – ), who had trained (but never served) as a missionary nurse.[ ] he was the third of three sons; the eldest, george bernard auden ( – ), became a farmer, while the second, john bicknell auden ( – ), became a geologist.[ ] the audens were minor gentry with a strong clerical tradition, originally of rowley regis, later of horninglow, staffordshire.[ ] auden, whose grandfathers were both church of england clergymen,[ ] grew up in an anglo-catholic household that followed a "high" form of anglicanism, with doctrine and ritual resembling those of roman catholicism.[ ][ ] he traced his love of music and language partly to the church services of his childhood.[ ] he believed he was of icelandic descent, and his lifelong fascination with icelandic legends and old norse sagas is evident in his work.[ ] his family moved to homer road in solihull, near birmingham, in ,[ ] where his father had been appointed the school medical officer and lecturer (later professor) of public health. auden's lifelong psychoanalytic interests began in his father's library. from the age of eight he attended boarding schools, returning home for holidays.[ ] his visits to the pennine landscape and its declining lead-mining industry figure in many of his poems; the remote decaying mining village of rookhope was for him a "sacred landscape", evoked in a late poem, "amor loci".[ ][ ] until he was fifteen he expected to become a mining engineer, but his passion for words had already begun. he wrote later: "words so excite me that a pornographic story, for example, excites me sexually more than a living person can do."[ ][ ] education[edit] auden's school - hindhead auden attended st edmund's school, hindhead, surrey, where he met christopher isherwood, later famous in his own right as a novelist.[ ] at thirteen he went to gresham's school in norfolk; there, in , when his friend robert medley asked him if he wrote poetry, auden first realised his vocation was to be a poet.[ ] soon after, he "discover(ed) that he (had) lost his faith" (through a gradual realisation that he had lost interest in religion, not through any decisive change of views).[ ] in school productions of shakespeare, he played katherina in the taming of the shrew in ,[ ] and caliban in the tempest in , his last year at gresham's.[ ] his first published poems appeared in the school magazine in .[ ] auden later wrote a chapter on gresham's for graham greene's the old school: essays by divers hands ( ).[ ] in he went up to christ church, oxford, with a scholarship in biology; he switched to english by his second year, and was introduced to old english poetry through the lectures of j. r. r. tolkien. friends he met at oxford include cecil day-lewis, louis macneice, and stephen spender; these four were commonly though misleadingly identified in the s as the "auden group" for their shared (but not identical) left-wing views. auden left oxford in with a third-class degree.[ ][ ] auden was reintroduced to christopher isherwood in by his fellow student a. s. t. fisher. for the next few years auden sent poems to isherwood for comments and criticism; the two maintained a sexual friendship in intervals between their relations with others. in – they collaborated on three plays and a travel book.[ ] from his oxford years onward, auden's friends uniformly described him as funny, extravagant, sympathetic, generous, and, partly by his own choice, lonely. in groups he was often dogmatic and overbearing in a comic way; in more private settings he was diffident and shy except when certain of his welcome. he was punctual in his habits, and obsessive about meeting deadlines, while choosing to live amidst physical disorder.[ ] britain and europe, – [edit] in late , auden left britain for nine months, going to berlin, partly to rebel against english repressiveness. in berlin, he first experienced the political and economic unrest that became one of his central subjects.[ ] on returning to britain in , he worked briefly as a tutor. in his first published book, poems ( ), was accepted by t. s. eliot for faber and faber, and the same firm remained the british publisher of all the books he published thereafter. in he began five years as a schoolmaster in boys' schools: two years at the larchfield academy in helensburgh, scotland, then three years at the downs school in the malvern hills, where he was a much-loved teacher.[ ] at the downs, in june , he experienced what he later described as a "vision of agape", while sitting with three fellow-teachers at the school, when he suddenly found that he loved them for themselves, that their existence had infinite value for him; this experience, he said, later influenced his decision to return to the anglican church in .[ ] during these years, auden's erotic interests focused, as he later said, on an idealised "alter ego"[ ] rather than on individual persons. his relationships (and his unsuccessful courtships) tended to be unequal either in age or intelligence; his sexual relations were transient, although some evolved into long friendships. he contrasted these relationships with what he later regarded as the "marriage" (his word) of equals that he began with chester kallman in , based on the unique individuality of both partners.[ ] from until he left britain early in , auden worked as freelance reviewer, essayist, and lecturer, first with the gpo film unit, a documentary film-making branch of the post office, headed by john grierson. through his work for the film unit in he met and collaborated with benjamin britten, with whom he also worked on plays, song cycles, and a libretto.[ ] auden's plays in the s were performed by the group theatre, in productions that he supervised to varying degrees.[ ] his work now reflected his belief that any good artist must be "more than a bit of a reporting journalist".[ ] in , auden spent three months in iceland where he gathered material for a travel book letters from iceland ( ), written in collaboration with louis macneice. in he went to spain intending to drive an ambulance for the republic in the spanish civil war, but was put to work writing propaganda at the republican press and propaganda office, where he felt useless and left after a week.[ ] he returned to england after a brief visit to the front at sarineña. his seven-week visit to spain affected him deeply, and his social views grew more complex as he found political realities to be more ambiguous and troubling than he had imagined.[ ][ ] again attempting to combine reportage and art, he and isherwood spent six months in visiting china amid the sino-japanese war, working on their book journey to a war ( ). on their way back to england they stayed briefly in new york and decided to move to the united states. auden spent late partly in england, partly in brussels.[ ] many of auden's poems during the s and after were inspired by unconsummated love, and in the s he summarised his emotional life in a famous couplet: "if equal affection cannot be / let the more loving one be me" ("the more loving one"). he had a gift for friendship and, starting in the late s, a strong wish for the stability of marriage; in a letter to his friend james stern he called marriage "the only subject."[ ] throughout his life, auden performed charitable acts, sometimes in public (as in his marriage of convenience to erika mann that provided her with a british passport to escape the nazis),[ ] but, especially in later years, more often in private. he was embarrassed if they were publicly revealed, as when his gift to his friend dorothy day for the catholic worker movement was reported on the front page of the new york times in .[ ] united states and europe, – [edit] christopher isherwood (left) and w. h. auden (right) photographed by carl van vechten, february auden and isherwood sailed to new york city in january , entering on temporary visas. their departure from britain was later seen by many as a betrayal, and auden's reputation suffered.[ ] in april , isherwood moved to california, and he and auden saw each other only intermittently in later years. around this time, auden met the poet chester kallman, who became his lover for the next two years (auden described their relation as a "marriage" that began with a cross-country "honeymoon" journey).[ ] in kallman ended their sexual relationship because he could not accept auden's insistence on mutual fidelity,[ ] but he and auden remained companions for the rest of auden's life, sharing houses and apartments from until auden's death.[ ] auden dedicated both editions of his collected poetry ( / and ) to isherwood and kallman.[ ] in – , auden lived in a house at middagh street in brooklyn heights, that he shared with carson mccullers, benjamin britten, and others, which became a famous centre of artistic life, nicknamed "february house".[ ] in , auden joined the episcopal church, returning to the anglican communion he had abandoned at fifteen. his reconversion was influenced partly by what he called the "sainthood" of charles williams,[ ] whom he had met in , and partly by reading søren kierkegaard and reinhold niebuhr; his existential, this-worldly christianity became a central element in his life.[ ] auden's grave at kirchstetten (lower austria) after britain declared war on germany in september , auden told the british embassy in washington that he would return to the uk if needed. he was told that, among those his age ( ), only qualified personnel were needed. in – he taught english at the university of michigan. he was called for the draft in the united states army in august , but was rejected on medical grounds. he had been awarded a guggenheim fellowship for – but did not use it, choosing instead to teach at swarthmore college in – .[ ] in mid- , after the end of world war ii in europe, he was in germany with the u. s. strategic bombing survey, studying the effects of allied bombing on german morale, an experience that affected his postwar work as his visit to spain had affected him earlier.[ ] on his return, he settled in manhattan, working as a freelance writer, a lecturer at the new school for social research, and a visiting professor at bennington, smith, and other american colleges. in he became a naturalised citizen of the us.[ ][ ] in , auden began spending his summers in europe, together with chester kallman, first in ischia, italy, where he rented a house. then, starting in , he began spending his summers in kirchstetten, austria, where he bought a farmhouse from the prize money of the premio feltrinelli awarded to him in .[ ] he said that he shed tears of joy at owning a home for the first time.[ ] in – , auden was professor of poetry at oxford university where he was required to give three lectures each year. this fairly light workload allowed him to continue to spend winter in new york, where he lived at st. mark's place in manhattan's east village, and to spend summer in europe, spending only three weeks each year lecturing in oxford. he earned his income mostly from readings and lecture tours, and by writing for the new yorker, the new york review of books, and other magazines.[ ] in kallman left the apartment he shared in new york with auden, and lived during the winter in athens while continuing to spend his summers with auden in austria. in , auden moved his winter home from new york to oxford, where his old college, christ church, offered him a cottage, while he continued to spend summers in austria. he died in vienna in , a few hours after giving a reading of his poems at the austrian society for literature; his death occurred at the hotel altenburger hof where he was staying overnight before his intended return to oxford the next day.[ ] he was buried in kirchstetten.[ ] work[edit] see also: bibliography of w. h. auden auden published about four hundred poems, including seven long poems (two of them book-length). his poetry was encyclopaedic in scope and method, ranging in style from obscure twentieth-century modernism to the lucid traditional forms such as ballads and limericks, from doggerel through haiku and villanelles to a "christmas oratorio" and a baroque eclogue in anglo-saxon meters.[ ] the tone and content of his poems ranged from pop-song clichés to complex philosophical meditations, from the corns on his toes to atoms and stars, from contemporary crises to the evolution of society.[ ][ ] he also wrote more than four hundred essays and reviews about literature, history, politics, music, religion, and many other subjects. he collaborated on plays with christopher isherwood and on opera libretti with chester kallman, and worked with a group of artists and filmmakers on documentary films in the s and with the new york pro musica early music group in the s and s. about collaboration he wrote in : "collaboration has brought me greater erotic joy . . . than any sexual relations i have had."[ ] auden controversially rewrote or discarded some of his most famous poems when he prepared his later collected editions. he wrote that he rejected poems that he found "boring" or "dishonest" in the sense that they expressed views he had never held but had used only because he felt they would be rhetorically effective.[ ] his rejected poems include "spain" and "september , ". his literary executor, edward mendelson, argues in his introduction to selected poems that auden's practice reflected his sense of the persuasive power of poetry and his reluctance to misuse it.[ ] (selected poems includes some poems that auden rejected and early texts of poems that he revised.) early work, – [edit] up to [edit] cover of the privately printed poems ( ) auden began writing poems in , at fifteen, mostly in the styles of th-century romantic poets, especially wordsworth, and later poets with rural interests, especially thomas hardy. at eighteen he discovered t. s. eliot and adopted an extreme version of eliot's style. he found his own voice at twenty when he wrote the first poem later included in his collected work, "from the very first coming down".[ ] this and other poems of the late s tended to be in a clipped, elusive style that alluded to, but did not directly state, their themes of loneliness and loss. twenty of these poems appeared in his first book poems ( ), a pamphlet hand-printed by stephen spender.[ ] in he wrote his first dramatic work, paid on both sides, subtitled "a charade", which combined style and content from the icelandic sagas with jokes from english school life. this mixture of tragedy and farce, with a dream play-within-a-play, introduced the mixed styles and content of much of his later work.[ ] this drama and thirty short poems appeared in his first published book poems ( , nd edition with seven poems replaced, ); the poems in the book were mostly lyrical and gnomic mediations on hoped-for or unconsummated love and on themes of personal, social, and seasonal renewal; among these poems were "it was easter as i walked," "doom is dark," "sir, no man's enemy," and "this lunar beauty."[ ] a recurrent theme in these early poems is the effect of "family ghosts", auden's term for the powerful, unseen psychological effects of preceding generations on any individual life (and the title of a poem). a parallel theme, present throughout his work, is the contrast between biological evolution (unchosen and involuntary) and the psychological evolution of cultures and individuals (voluntary and deliberate even in its subconscious aspects).[ ][ ] – [edit] programme of a group theatre production of the dance of death, with unsigned synopsis by auden auden's next large-scale work was the orators: an english study ( ; revised editions, , ), in verse and prose, largely about hero-worship in personal and political life. in his shorter poems, his style became more open and accessible, and the exuberant "six odes" in the orators reflect his new interest in robert burns.[ ] during the next few years, many of his poems took their form and style from traditional ballads and popular songs, and also from expansive classical forms like the odes of horace, which he seems to have discovered through the german poet hölderlin.[ ] around this time his main influences were dante, william langland, and alexander pope.[ ] during these years, much of his work expressed left-wing views, and he became widely known as a political poet although he was privately more ambivalent about revolutionary politics than many reviewers recognised,[ ] and mendelson argues that he expounded political views partly out of a sense of moral duty and partly because it enhanced his reputation, and that he later regretted having done so.[ ] he generally wrote about revolutionary change in terms of a "change of heart", a transformation of a society from a closed-off psychology of fear to an open psychology of love.[ ] his verse drama the dance of death ( ) was a political extravaganza in the style of a theatrical revue, which auden later called "a nihilistic leg-pull."[ ] his next play the dog beneath the skin ( ), written in collaboration with isherwood, was similarly a quasi-marxist updating of gilbert and sullivan in which the general idea of social transformation was more prominent than any specific political action or structure.[ ][ ] the ascent of f ( ), another play written with isherwood, was partly an anti-imperialist satire, partly (in the character of the self-destroying climber michael ransom) an examination of auden's own motives in taking on a public role as a political poet.[ ] this play included the first version of "funeral blues" ("stop all the clocks"), written as a satiric eulogy for a politician; auden later rewrote the poem as a "cabaret song" about lost love (written to be sung by the soprano hedli anderson, for whom he wrote many lyrics in the s).[ ] in , he worked briefly on documentary films with the gpo film unit, writing his famous verse commentary for night mail and lyrics for other films that were among his attempts in the s to create a widely accessible, socially conscious art.[ ][ ][ ] – [edit] in auden's publisher chose the title look, stranger! for a collection of political odes, love poems, comic songs, meditative lyrics, and a variety of intellectually intense but emotionally accessible verse; auden hated the title and retitled the collection for the us edition on this island).[ ] among the poems included in the book are "hearing of harvests", "out on the lawn i lie in bed", "o what is that sound", "look, stranger, on this island now" (later revised versions change "on" to "at"), and "our hunting fathers".[ ][ ] auden was now arguing that an artist should be a kind of journalist, and he put this view into practice in letters from iceland ( ) a travel book in prose and verse written with louis macneice, which included his long social, literary, and autobiographical commentary "letter to lord byron".[ ] in , after observing the spanish civil war he wrote a politically engaged pamphlet poem spain ( ); he later discarded it from his collected works. journey to a war ( ) a travel book in prose and verse, was written with isherwood after their visit to the sino-japanese war.[ ] auden's last collaboration with isherwood was their third play, on the frontier, an anti-war satire written in broadway and west end styles.[ ][ ] auden's shorter poems now engaged with the fragility and transience of personal love ("danse macabre", "the dream", "lay your sleeping head"), a subject he treated with ironic wit in his "four cabaret songs for miss hedli anderson" (which included "tell me the truth about love" and the revised version of "funeral blues"), and also the corrupting effect of public and official culture on individual lives ("casino", "school children", "dover").[ ][ ] in he wrote a series of dark, ironic ballads about individual failure ("miss gee", "james honeyman", "victor"). all these appeared in another time ( ), together with poems including "dover", "as he is", and "musée des beaux arts" (all of which were written before he moved to america in ), and "in memory of w. b. yeats", "the unknown citizen", "law like love", "september , ", and "in memory of sigmund freud" (all written in america).[ ] the elegies for yeats and freud are partly anti-heroic statements, in which great deeds are performed, not by unique geniuses whom others cannot hope to imitate, but by otherwise ordinary individuals who were "silly like us" (yeats) or of whom it could be said "he wasn't clever at all" (freud), and who became teachers of others, not awe-inspiring heroes.[ ] middle period, – [edit] – [edit] in auden wrote a long philosophical poem "new year letter", which appeared with miscellaneous notes and other poems in the double man ( ). at the time of his return to the anglican communion he began writing abstract verse on theological themes, such as "canzone" and "kairos and logos". around , as he became more comfortable with religious themes, his verse became more open and relaxed, and he increasingly used the syllabic verse he had learned from the poetry of marianne moore.[ ] auden's work in this era addresses the artist's temptation to use other persons as material for his art rather than valuing them for themselves ("prospero to ariel") and the corresponding moral obligation to make and keep commitments while recognising the temptation to break them ("in sickness and health").[ ][ ] from through he worked mostly on three long poems in dramatic form, each differing from the others in form and content: "for the time being: a christmas oratorio", "the sea and the mirror: a commentary on shakespeare's the tempest" (both published in for the time being, ), and the age of anxiety: a baroque eclogue (published separately in ).[ ] the first two, with auden's other new poems from to , were included in his first collected edition, the collected poetry of w. h. auden ( ), with most of his earlier poems, many in revised versions.[ ] – [edit] after completing the age of anxiety in he focused again on shorter poems, notably "a walk after dark", "the love feast", and "the fall of rome".[ ] many of these evoked the italian village where he spent his summers between and , and his next book, nones ( ), had a mediterranean atmosphere new to his work.[ ] a new theme was the "sacred importance" of the human body[ ] in its ordinary aspect (breathing, sleeping, eating) and the continuity with nature that the body made possible (in contrast to the division between humanity and nature that he had emphasised in the s);[ ] his poems on these themes included "in praise of limestone" ( ) and "memorial for the city" ( ).[ ][ ] in auden and kallman wrote the libretto for igor stravinsky's opera the rake's progress, and later collaborated on two libretti for operas by hans werner henze.[ ][ ] auden's first separate prose book was the enchafèd flood: the romantic iconography of the sea ( ), based on a series of lectures on the image of the sea in romantic literature.[ ] between and he worked on a sequence of seven good friday poems, titled "horae canonicae", an encyclopaedic survey of geological, biological, cultural, and personal history, focused on the irreversible act of murder; the poem was also a study in cyclical and linear ideas of time. while writing this, he also wrote "bucolics," a sequence of seven poems about man's relation to nature. both sequences appeared in his next book, the shield of achilles ( ), with other short poems, including the book's title poem, "fleet visit", and "epitaph for the unknown soldier".[ ][ ] in – auden wrote a group of poems about "history", the term he used to mean the set of unique events made by human choices, as opposed to "nature", the set of involuntary events created by natural processes, statistics, and anonymous forces such as crowds. these poems included "t the great", "the maker", and the title poem of his next collection homage to clio ( ).[ ][ ] later work, – [edit] auden in in the late s auden's style became less rhetorical while its range of styles increased. in , having moved his summer home from italy to austria, he wrote "good-bye to the mezzogiorno"; other poems from this period include "dichtung und wahrheit: an unwritten poem", a prose poem about the relation between love and personal and poetic language, and the contrasting "dame kind", about the anonymous impersonal reproductive instinct. these and other poems, including his – poems about history, appeared in homage to clio ( ).[ ][ ] his prose book the dyer's hand ( ) gathered many of the lectures he gave in oxford as professor of poetry in – , together with revised versions of essays and notes written since the mid- s.[ ] among the new styles and forms in auden's later work were the haiku and tanka that he began writing after translating the haiku and other verse in dag hammarskjöld's markings.[ ] a sequence of fifteen poems about his house in austria, "thanksgiving for a habitat" (written in various styles that included an imitation of william carlos williams) appeared in about the house ( ), together with other poems that included his reflection on his lecture tours, "on the circuit".[ ] in the late s he wrote some of his most vigorous poems, including "river profile" and two poems that looked back over his life, "prologue at sixty" and "forty years on". all these appeared in city without walls ( ). his lifelong passion for icelandic legend culminated in his verse translation of the elder edda ( ).[ ][ ] among his later themes was the "religionless christianity" he learned partly from dietrich bonhoeffer, the dedicatee of his poem "friday's child."[ ] a certain world: a commonplace book ( ) was a kind of self-portrait made up of favourite quotations with commentary, arranged in alphabetical order by subject.[ ] his last prose book was a selection of essays and reviews, forewords and afterwords ( ).[ ] his last books of verse, epistle to a godson ( ) and the unfinished thank you, fog (published posthumously, ) include reflective poems about language ("natural linguistics", "aubade"), philosophy and science ("no, plato, no", "unpredictable but providential"), and his own aging ("a new year greeting", "talking to myself", "a lullaby" ["the din of work is subdued"]). his last completed poem was "archaeology", about ritual and timelessness, two recurring themes in his later years.[ ] reputation and influence[edit] auden's stature in modern literature has been contested. probably the most common critical view from the s onward ranked him as the last and least of the three major twentieth-century british and irish poets—behind yeats and eliot—while a minority view, more prominent in recent years, ranks him as the highest of the three.[ ] opinions have ranged from those of hugh macdiarmid, who called him "a complete wash-out"; f. r. leavis, who wrote that auden's ironic style was "self-defensive, self-indulgent or merely irresponsible";[ ] and harold bloom, who wrote "close thy auden, open thy [wallace] stevens,"[ ] to the obituarist in the times, who wrote: "w.h. auden, for long the enfant terrible of english poetry… emerges as its undisputed master."[ ] joseph brodsky wrote that auden had "the greatest mind of the twentieth century".[ ] critical estimates were divided from the start. reviewing auden's first book, poems ( ), naomi mitchison wrote "if this is really only the beginning, we have perhaps a master to look forward to."[ ] but john sparrow, recalling mitchison's comment in , dismissed auden's early work as "a monument to the misguided aims that prevail among contemporary poets, and the fact that… he is being hailed as 'a master' shows how criticism is helping poetry on the downward path."[ ] auden's clipped, satiric, and ironic style in the s was widely imitated by younger poets such as charles madge, who wrote in a poem "there waited for me in the summer morning / auden fiercely. i read, shuddered, and knew."[ ] he was widely described as the leader of an "auden group" that comprised his friends stephen spender, cecil day-lewis, and louis macneice.[ ] the four were mocked by the poet roy campbell as if they were a single undifferentiated poet named "macspaunday."[ ] auden's propagandistic poetic plays, including the dog beneath the skin and the ascent of f , and his political poems such as "spain" gave him the reputation as a political poet writing in a progressive and accessible voice, in contrast to eliot; but this political stance provoked opposing opinions, such as that of austin clarke who called auden's work "liberal, democratic, and humane",[ ] and john drummond, who wrote that auden misused a "characteristic and popularizing trick, the generalized image", to present ostensibly left-wing views that were in fact "confined to bourgeois experience."[ ] auden's departure for america in was debated in britain (once even in parliament), with some seeing his emigration as a betrayal. defenders of auden such as geoffrey grigson, in an introduction to a anthology of modern poetry, wrote that auden "arches over all". his stature was suggested by book titles such as auden and after by francis scarfe ( ) and the auden generation by samuel hynes ( ).[ ] commemorative plaque at one of auden's homes in brooklyn heights, new york in the us, starting in the late s, the detached, ironic tone of auden's regular stanzas became influential; john ashbery recalled that in the s auden "was the modern poet".[ ] auden's formal influences were so pervasive in american poetry that the ecstatic style of the beat generation was partly a reaction against his influence. from the s through the s, many critics lamented that auden's work had declined from its earlier promise; randall jarrell wrote a series of essays making a case against auden's later work,[ ] and philip larkin's "what's become of wystan?" ( ) had a wide impact.[ ][ ] after his death, some of his poems, notably "funeral blues", "musée des beaux arts", "refugee blues", "the unknown citizen", and "september , ", became known to a much wider public than during his lifetime through films, broadcasts, and popular media.[ ] the first full-length study of auden was richard hoggart's auden: an introductory essay ( ), which concluded that "auden's work, then, is a civilising force."[ ] it was followed by joseph warren beach's the making of the auden canon ( ), a disapproving account of auden's revisions of his earlier work. [ ] the first systematic critical account was monroe k. spears' the poetry of w. h. auden: the disenchanted island ( ), "written out of the conviction that auden's poetry can offer the reader entertainment, instruction, intellectual excitement, and a prodigal variety of aesthetic pleasures, all in a generous abundance that is unique in our time."[ ] auden was one of three candidates recommended by the nobel committee to the swedish academy for the nobel prize in literature in [ ] and [ ] and six recommended for the prize.[ ] by the time of his death in he had attained the status of a respected elder statesman, and a memorial stone for him was placed in poets' corner in westminster abbey in .[ ] the encyclopædia britannica writes that "by the time of eliot's death in … a convincing case could be made for the assertion that auden was indeed eliot's successor, as eliot had inherited sole claim to supremacy when yeats died in ."[ ] with some exceptions, british critics tended to treat his early work as his best, while american critics tended to favour his middle and later work.[ ][ ] another group of critics and poets has maintained that unlike other modern poets, auden's reputation did not decline after his death, and the influence of his later writing was especially strong on younger american poets including john ashbery, james merrill, anthony hecht, and maxine kumin.[ ] typical later evaluations describe him as "arguably the [ th] century's greatest poet" (peter parker and frank kermode),[ ] who "now clearly seems the greatest poet in english since tennyson" (philip hensher).[ ] public recognition of auden's work sharply increased after his "funeral blues" ("stop all the clocks") was read aloud in the film four weddings and a funeral ( ); subsequently, a pamphlet edition of ten of his poems, tell me the truth about love, sold more than , copies. after september his poem "september , " was widely circulated and frequently broadcast.[ ] public readings and broadcast tributes in the uk and us in marked his centenary year.[ ] overall, auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form and content.[ ][ ][ ][ ] memorial stones and plaques commemorating auden include those in westminster abbey; at his birthplace at bootham, york;[ ] near his home on lordswood road, birmingham;[ ] in the chapel of christ church, oxford; on the site of his apartment at montague terrace, brooklyn heights; at his apartment in st. marks place, new york (damaged and now removed);[ ] at the site of his death at walfischgasse in vienna;[ ] and in the rainbow honor walk in san francisco.[ ] in his house in kirchstetten, his study is open to the public upon request.[ ] published works[edit] the following list includes only the books of poems and essays that auden prepared during his lifetime; for a more complete list, including other works and posthumous editions, see w. h. auden bibliography. in the list below, works reprinted in the complete works of w. h. auden are indicated by footnote references. 	books 	poems (london, ; second edn., seven poems substituted, london, ; includes poems and paid on both sides: a charade[ ]) (dedicated to christopher isherwood). 	the orators: an english study (london, , verse and prose; slightly revised edn., london, ; revised edn. with new preface, london, ; new york ) (dedicated to stephen spender). 	the dance of death (london, , play)[ ] (dedicated to robert medley and rupert doone). 	poems (new york, ; contains poems [ edition], the orators [ edition], and the dance of death). 	the dog beneath the skin (london, new york, ; play, with christopher isherwood)[ ] (dedicated to robert moody). 	the ascent of f (london, ; nd edn., ; new york, ; play, with christopher isherwood)[ ] (dedicated to john bicknell auden). 	look, stranger! (london, , poems; us edn., on this island, new york, ) (dedicated to erika mann) 	letters from iceland (london, new york, ; verse and prose, with louis macneice)[ ] (dedicated to george augustus auden). 	on the frontier (london, ; new york ; play, with christopher isherwood)[ ] (dedicated to benjamin britten). 	journey to a war (london, new york, ; verse and prose, with christopher isherwood)[ ] (dedicated to e. m. forster). 	another time (london, new york ; poetry) (dedicated to chester kallman). 	the double man (new york, , poems; uk edn., new year letter, london, ) (dedicated to elizabeth mayer). 	for the time being (new york, ; london, ; two long poems: "the sea and the mirror: a commentary on shakespeare's the tempest", dedicated to james and tania stern, and "for the time being: a christmas oratorio", in memoriam constance rosalie auden [auden's mother]). 	the collected poetry of w. h. auden (new york, ; includes new poems) (dedicated to christopher isherwood and chester kallman). full text.[ ] 	the age of anxiety: a baroque eclogue (new york, ; london, ; verse; won the pulitzer prize for poetry) (dedicated to john betjeman). 	collected shorter poems, – (london, ; similar to collected poetry) (dedicated to christopher isherwood and chester kallman). 	the enchafèd flood (new york, ; london, ; prose) (dedicated to alan ansen).[ ] 	nones (new york, ; london, ; poems) (dedicated to reinhold and ursula niebuhr) 	the shield of achilles (new york, london, ; poems) (won the national book award for poetry)[ ] (dedicated to lincoln and fidelma kirstein). 	homage to clio (new york, london, ; poems) (dedicated to e. r. and a. e. dodds). 	the dyer's hand (new york, ; london, ; essays) (dedicated to nevill coghill).[ ] 	about the house (new york, london, ; poems) (dedicated to edmund and elena wilson). 	collected shorter poems – (london, ; new york, ) (dedicated to christopher isherwood and chester kallman). 	collected longer poems (london, ; new york, ). 	secondary worlds (london, new york, ; prose) (dedicated to valerie eliot).[ ] 	city without walls and other poems (london, new york, ) (dedicated to peter heyworth). 	a certain world: a commonplace book (new york, london, ; quotations with commentary) (dedicated to geoffrey grigson).[ ] 	epistle to a godson and other poems (london, new york, ) (dedicated to orlan fox). 	forewords and afterwords (new york, london, ; essays) (dedicated to hannah arendt). 	thank you, fog: last poems (london, new york, ) (dedicated to michael and marny yates). 	film scripts and opera libretti 	coal face ( , closing chorus for gpo film unit documentary).[ ] 	night mail ( , narrative for gpo film unit documentary, not published separately except as a programme note).[ ] 	paul bunyan ( , libretto for operetta by benjamin britten; not published until ).[ ] 	the rake's progress ( , with chester kallman, libretto for an opera by igor stravinsky).[ ] 	elegy for young lovers ( , with chester kallman, libretto for an opera by hans werner henze).[ ] 	the bassarids ( , with chester kallman, libretto for an opera by hans werner henze based on the bacchae of euripides).[ ] 	runner ( , documentary film narrative for national film board of canada)[ ] 	love's labour's lost ( , with chester kallman, libretto for an opera by nicolas nabokov, based on shakespeare's play).[ ] 	musical collaborations 	our hunting fathers ( , song cycle written for benjamin britten) 	an evening of elizabethan verse and its music ( recording with the new york pro musica antiqua, director noah greenberg; auden spoke the verse texts) 	the play of daniel ( , verse narration for a production by the new york pro musica antiqua, director noah greenberg)[ ] references[edit] 	^ auden, w. h. ( ). mendelson, edward (ed.). prose, volume ii: – . princeton: princeton university press. p.  . isbn  - - - - . auden used the phrase "anglo-american poets" in , implicitly referring to himself and t. s. eliot. 	^ the first definition of "anglo-american" in the oed ( revision) is: "of, belonging to, or involving both england (or britain) and america.""oxford english dictionary (access by subscription)". retrieved may . see also the definition "english in origin or birth, american by settlement or citizenship" in chambers th century dictionary. . p.  . see also the definition "an american, especially a citizen of the united states, of english origin or descent" in merriam webster's new international dictionary, second edition. . p.  . see also the definition "a native or descendant of a native of england who has settled in or become a citizen of america, esp. of the united states" from the random house dictionary, , available online at "dictionary.com". retrieved may . 	^ a b c d smith, stan, ed. 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the roman empire, around ad vicarius is a latin word, meaning substitute or deputy. it is the root of the english word "vicar". history[edit] originally, in ancient rome, this office was equivalent to the later english "vice-" (as in "deputy"), used as part of the title of various officials. each vicarius was assigned to a specific superior official, after whom his full title was generally completed by a genitive (e.g. vicarius praetoris). at a low level of society, the slave of a slave, possibly hired out to raise money to buy manumission, was a servus vicarius.[ ] later, in the s, the emperor diocletian carried out a series of administrative reforms, ushering in the period of the dominate. these reforms also saw the number of roman provinces increased, and the creation of a new administrative level, the diocese. the dioceses, initially twelve, grouped several provinces, each with its own governor. the dioceses were headed by a vicarius, or, more properly, by a vices agens praefecti praetorio ("deputy of the praetorian prefect"). an exception was the diocese of the east, which was headed by a comes ("count"). in or egypt and cyrenaica were detached from the diocese of the east and made a diocese under an official called the augustal prefect. in the eastern parts of the empire, dominated by greek language and common use of greek terminology, vicarius was called exarch.[ ] according to the notitia dignitatum (an early th century imperial chancery document), the vicarius had the rank of vir spectabilis; the staff of a vicarius, his officium, was rather similar to a gubernatorial officium. for example, in the diocese of hispania, his staff included: 	the princeps (i.e. chief of staff) was chosen from among the senior agentes in rebus (couriers or special investigators, 'men of affairs,' from the ministry of the interior headed by the master of the offices), from the salaried class of the ducenarii (those earning , sesterces a year - the highest regular pay grade in the roman civil service; the highest officials, governors and above, were not civil service). 	a cornicularius ("chief of staff"). 	two numerarii (chief accountants). 	a commentariensis ("keeper of the commentary", the official diary). 	an adiutor (adjutant; literally "helper", an assistant). 	an ab actis ("acts-keeper", archivist). 	a cura epistolarum ("curator of correspondence"). 	an unnamed number of subadiuvae ("deputy assistants"). 	various exceptores (lower clerks). 	singulares et reliquum officium (various menial staff). references[edit] 	^ p. r. c. weaver. 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( : min) as wiki documents, articles are never considered complete and may be continually edited and improved. over time, this generally results in an upward trend of quality and a growing consensus over a neutral representation of information. users should be aware that not all articles are of encyclopedic quality from the start: they may contain false or debatable information. indeed, many articles start their lives as displaying a single viewpoint; and, after a long process of discussion, debate, and argumentation, they gradually take on a neutral point of view reached through consensus. for a while, others may become caught up in a heavily unbalanced viewpoint that can take some time—months or years perhaps—to achieve better-balanced coverage of their subject. in part, this is because editors often contribute content in which they have a particular interest and do not attempt to make each article they edit comprehensive. however, additional editors eventually expand and contribute to articles and strive to achieve balance and comprehensive coverage. also, wikipedia operates several internal resolution processes that can assist when editors disagree on content and approach. usually, editors eventually reach a consensus on ways to improve the article. 	external video 	 "using wikipedia" with john green, from crash course's navigating digital information series, youtube video the ideal wikipedia article is well written, balanced, neutral, and encyclopedic, containing comprehensive, notable, verifiable knowledge. an increasing number of articles reach this standard over time, and many already have. our best articles are called featured articles (and display a small star in the upper right corner of the article), and our second-best tier of articles are designated good articles. however, this is a process and can take months or years to be achieved through editors' concerted effort. some articles contain statements that have not yet been fully cited. others will later be augmented with new sections. some information will be considered by later contributors to be insufficiently founded and, therefore, may be removed. while the overall trend is toward improvement, it is important to use wikipedia carefully if it is intended to be used as a research source. individual articles will vary in quality and maturity by their nature. guidelines and information pages are available to help users and researchers do this effectively, as is an article that summarizes third-party studies and assessments of the reliability of wikipedia. versus paper encyclopedias like a paper encyclopedia, wikipedia attempts to compile world knowledge but is not bound by the restrictions of a paper encyclopedia. illustration from nuremberg chronicle 	main page: wikipedia is not paper (on wikimedia meta-wiki). wikipedia has advantages over traditional paper encyclopedias. first, it is not limited in space: it can keep growing as fast as people add. second, there are no qualifications required to be able to author its articles. therefore, it has a vast pool of contributors: the whole world. this, and the first advantage mentioned above, have enabled wikipedia to become the most comprehensive encyclopedia on earth. third, a paper encyclopedia remains static (stays the same) and falls out of date until the next edition. but wikipedia is dynamic: you don't have to wait for the next edition to come out (there are no editions), as wikipedia is published on-line as it is written on-line. articles are made available as is, regardless of what stage of development they are in. you can update wikipedia at any instant. people do so continually around the clock, thereby helping each other keep abreast of the most recent events everywhere and the latest facts in every subject. fourth, wikipedia has a meager "publishing" cost for adding or expanding entries, as it is on-line, with no need to buy paper or ink for distribution. this has allowed it to be made available for free, making it more accessible to everyone. this has enabled wikipedia to be independently developed and published in many different languages simultaneously by people literate in each language. of the + different language wikipedias, of them have , or more articles. fifth, wikipedia has a low environmental impact in some respects, since it never needs to be printed. however, computers have their own environmental cost. sixth, wikipedia is extra-linear (more than linear). instead of in-line explanations, wikipedia incorporates hypertext in the form of wikilinks. throughout its content is a robust network of links, providing another dimension of knowledge accessibility. the encyclopedia also has correlated to tables of contents and indexes, with each entry in them hyperlinked to an article on the topic specified. seventh, each wikipedia article provides an introduction summarizing the more extensive detail of its contents. eighth, being open to anyone to edit, articles on wikipedia are subject to additions that might be erroneous or written poorly, which in turn are subject to being corrected or rewritten. it is a community effort, with most people involved helping to improve the work, fixing problems they encounter along the way. see more about wikipedia's strengths and weaknesses below ... strengths, weaknesses, and article quality main pages: wikipedia:why wikipedia is so great and wikipedia:why wikipedia is not so great see also: reliability of wikipedia and wikipedia:researching with wikipedia the wikipedia monument ( ) by mihran hakobyan in slubice, poland, honors the wikipedia community. wikipedia's greatest strengths, weaknesses, and differences arise because it is open to anyone. according to editorial guidelines and policies, it has a large contributor base, and its articles are written by consensus. 	wikipedia is open to a large contributor base, drawing many editors from diverse backgrounds. this allows wikipedia to reduce regional and cultural bias found in many publications significantly and makes it very difficult for any person or group to censor and impose bias. a large, diverse editor base also provides access and breadth on subject matter otherwise inaccessible or poorly documented. many editors contributing at any moment can produce encyclopedic articles and resources covering newsworthy events within hours or days of their occurrence. like any publication, wikipedia may reflect the cultural, age, socio-economic, and other biases of its contributors. there is no systematic process to make sure "obviously important" topics are written about, so wikipedia may suffer unexpected oversights and omissions. while most articles may be altered by anyone, in practice, editing will be performed by a certain demographic (younger rather than older, male rather than female, literate, rich enough to afford a computer, et cetera) and may, therefore, show some bias. some topics may not be covered well, others in great depth. 	allowing anyone to edit wikipedia makes it easily vandalized and susceptible to unverified information, which requires removal. see wikipedia:administrator intervention against vandalism. while blatant vandalism is usually easily spotted and rapidly corrected, wikipedia is more subject to subtle viewpoint promotion than a typical reference work. however, a bias that would be unchallenged in a traditional reference work is likely to be eventually challenged or considered on wikipedia. while wikipedia articles generally attain a good standard after editing, it is important to note that fledgling articles and those monitored less well may be susceptible to vandalism and insertion of false information. wikipedia's radical openness also means any given article may be, at any given moment, in a bad state, such as in the middle of a large edit or a controversial rewrite. many contributors do not yet comply fully with key policies or may add information without citable sources. wikipedia's open approach tremendously increases the chances that any particular factual error or misleading statement will be relatively promptly corrected. numerous editors at any given time are monitoring recent changes and edit articles on their watchlists. 	wikipedia is written by open and transparent consensus—an approach with its pros and cons. censorship or imposing "official" points of view is complicated and usually fails after a time. eventually, all notable views become fairly described for most articles and a neutral point of view reached. in reality, the process of reaching consensus may be long and drawn-out, with articles fluid or changeable for a long time while they find the "neutral approach" all sides can agree on. reaching neutrality is occasionally made harder by extreme-viewpoint contributors. wikipedia operates a full editorial dispute resolution process that allows time for discussion and resolution in-depth. still, it also permits disagreements to last for months before poor-quality or biased edits are removed. a common conclusion is that wikipedia is a valuable resource and provides a good reference point on its subjects. 	that said, articles and subject areas sometimes suffer from significant omissions, and while misinformation and vandalism are usually corrected quickly, this does not always happen. (see for example this incident in which a person inserted a fake biography linking a prominent journalist to the kennedy assassinations and soviet russia as a joke on a co-worker which went undetected for four months, saying afterward he "didn't know wikipedia was used as a serious reference tool.") 	wikipedia is written largely by amateurs. those with expert credentials are given no additional weight. wikipedia is also not subject to any peer review for scientific, medical, or engineering articles. one advantage of having amateurs write in wikipedia is that they have more free time on their hands to make rapid changes in response to current events. the wider the general public interest in a topic, the more likely it is to attract contributions from non-specialists. the mediawiki software that runs wikipedia retains a history of all edits and changes. thus information added to wikipedia never "vanishes" irreversibly. discussion pages are an important resource on contentious topics. therefore, serious researchers can often find a wide range of vigorously or thoughtfully advocated viewpoints not present in the consensus article. as with any source, the information should be checked. a editorial by a bbc technology writer comments that these debates are probably symptomatic of cultural changes that are happening across all sources of information (including search engines and the media), and may lead to "a better sense of how to evaluate information sources." [ ] disclaimers main page: wikipedia:general disclaimer wikipedia disclaimers apply to all pages on wikipedia. however, the consensus in wikipedia is to put all disclaimers only as links and at the end of each article. proposals to have a warning box at the beginning have been rejected. some do not like the way it looks or that it calls attention to possible errors in wikipedia. wikipedia, in common with many websites, has a disclaimer that, at times, has led to commentators citing these to support the view that wikipedia is unreliable. a selection of similar disclaimers from places which are often regarded as reliable (including sources such as encyclopædia britannica, associated press, and the oxford english dictionary) can be read and compared at wikipedia:non-wikipedia disclaimers. contributing main pages: wikipedia:contributing to wikipedia and help:introduction to wikipedia see also: help:your first article and guide to fixing vandalism a downloadable "editing wikipedia guide" in pdf form written by the staff at the wikimedia foundation play media go ahead and be bold—click the edit button! ( : min) anyone can contribute to wikipedia by clicking on the edit tab in an article, and editors are encouraged to be bold. to get started, the intro tutorial has helpful advice. also, creating an account offers many benefits. editors are expected to add only verifiable and factual information rather than personal views and opinions, and to remain civil when discussing issues. vandals will have their edits reverted and be blocked from editing. most articles start as stubs, but after many contributions, they can become featured articles. all editors are unpaid volunteers, including administrators, trusted editors who are given elevated permissions. the ease of editing wikipedia results in many people editing. that makes updating the encyclopedia very quick. every page has an associated talk page tab, where improvements to it are discussed. editorial quality review play media video guided tour # : why does wikipedia work even though anyone can edit it? as well as systems to catch and 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collection of quotations wikisource free-content library wikispecies directory of species wikiversity free learning resources wikivoyage free travel guide wiktionary dictionary and thesaurus 	please note that while other sites may also use mediawiki software and therefore look like wikipedia [dot org]—"wiki-" or "-pedia" or anything similar—the only projects which are part of the wikimedia foundation are those listed above. see also help desk 	help portal 	internet portal 	for useful directories and indexes, see wikipedia:directories and indexes. 	wikipedia:formal organization 	wikipedia:history of wikipedian processes and people 	wikipedia:quality control 	wikipedia:ten things you may not know about wikipedia 	wikimedia power structure (meta) references 	^ "wikistats - statistics for wikimedia projects". stats.wikimedia.org. wikimedia foundation. retrieved march . 	^ "milestones ". wikipedia, www.wikipedia.org. 	^ bill thompson, "what is it with wikipedia?" bbc, december  ,  . further 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periculum           subire, maecenas, tuo:     quid nos, quibus te vita sit superstite           iucunda, si contra, gravis?     utrumne iussi persequemur otium           non dulce, ni tecum simul,     an hunc laborem mente laturi, decet           qua ferre non mollis viros?     feremus et te vel per alpium iuga           inhospitalem et caucasum     vel occidentis usque ad ultimum sinum           forti sequemur pectore.     roges, tuom labore quid iuvem meo,           inbellis ac firmus parum?     comes minore sum futurus in metu,           qui maior absentis habet:     ut adsidens inplumibus pullis avis           serpentium adlapsus timet     magis relictis, non, ut adsit, auxili           latura plus praesentibus.     libenter hoc et omne militabitur           bellum in tuae spem gratiae,     non ut iuvencis inligata pluribus           aratra nitantur meis     pecusve calabris ante sidus fervidum           lucana mutet pascuis     neque ut superni villa candens tusculi           circaea tangat moenia:     satis superque me benignitas tua           ditavit, haud paravero     quod aut avarus ut chremes terra premam,           discinctus aut perdam nepos. ii[recensere]     'beatus ille qui procul negotiis,           ut prisca gens mortalium,     paterna rura bubus exercet suis           solutus omni faenore     neque excitatur classico miles truci           neque horret iratum mare     forumque vitat et superba civium           potentiorum limina.     ergo aut adulta vitium propagine           altas maritat populos     aut in reducta valle mugientium           prospectat errantis greges     inutilisque falce ramos amputans           feliciores inserit     aut pressa puris mella condit amphoris           aut tondet infirmas ovis.     vel cum decorum mitibus pomis caput           autumnus agris extulit,     ut gaudet insitiva decerpens pira           certantem et uvam purpurae,     qua muneretur te, priape, et te, pater           silvane, tutor finium.     libet iacere modo sub antiqua ilice,           modo in tenaci gramine:     labuntur altis interim ripis aquae,           queruntur in silvis aves     frondesque lymphis obstrepunt manantibus,           somnos quod invitet levis.     at cum tonantis annus hibernus iovis           imbris nivisque conparat,     aut trudit acris hinc et hinc multa cane           apros in obstantis plagas     aut amite levi rara tendit retia           turdis edacibus dolos     pavidumque leporem et advenam laqueo gruem           iucunda captat praemia.     quis non malarum quas amor curas habet           haec inter obliviscitur?     quodsi pudica mulier in partem iuvet           domum atque dulcis liberos,     sabina qualis aut perusta solibus           pernicis uxor apuli,     sacrum vetustis exstruat lignis focum           lassi sub adventum viri     claudensque textis cratibus laetum pecus           distenta siccet ubera     et horna dulci vina promens dolio           dapes inemptas adparet:     non me lucrina iuverint conchylia           magisve rhombus aut scari,     siquos eois intonata fluctibus           hiems ad hoc vertat mare,     non afra avis descendat in ventrem meum,           non attagen ionicus     iucundior quam lecta de pinguissimis           oliva ramis arborum     aut herba lapathi prata amantis et gravi           malvae salubres corpori     vel agna festis caesa terminalibus           vel haedus ereptus lupo.     has inter epulas ut iuvat pastas ovis           videre properantis domum,     videre fessos vomerem inversum boves           collo trahentis languido     positosque vernas, ditis examen domus,           circum renidentis laris.'     haec ubi locutus faenerator alfius,           iam iam futurus rusticus,     omnem redegit idibus pecuniam,           quaerit kalendis ponere. iii[recensere]     parentis olim siquis inpia manu           senile guttur fregerit,     edit cicutis alium nocentius.           o dura messorum ilia.     quid hoc veneni saevit in praecordiis?           num viperinus his cruor     incoctus herbis me fefellit? an malas           canidia tractavit dapes?     ut argonautas praeter omnis candidum           medea mirata est ducem,     ignota tauris inligaturum iuga           perunxit hoc iasonem,     hoc delibutis ulta donis paelicem           serpente fugit alite.     nec tantus umquam siderum insedit vapor           siticulosae apuliae     nec munus umeris efficacis herculis           inarsit aestuosius.     at siquid umquam tale concupiveris,           iocose maecenas, precor,     manum puella savio opponat tuo,           extrema et in sponda cubet. iv[recensere]     lupis et agnis quanta sortito obtigit,           tecum mihi discordia est,     hibericis peruste funibus latus           et crura dura compede.     licet superbus ambules pecunia,           fortuna non mutat genus.     videsne, sacram metiente te viam           cum bis trium ulnarum toga,     ut ora vertat huc et huc euntium           liberrima indignatio?     'sectus flagellis hic triumviralibus           praeconis ad fastidium     arat falerni mille fundi iugera           et appiam mannis terit     sedilibusque magnus in primis eques           othone contempto sedet.     quid attinet tot ora navium gravi           rostrata duci pondere     contra latrones atque servilem manum           hoc, hoc tribuno militum?' v[recensere]     'at o deorum quidquid in caelo regit           terras et humanum genus,     quid iste fert tumultus aut quid omnium           voltus in unum me truces?     per liberos te, si vocata partubus           lucina veris adfuit,     per hoc inane purpurae decus precor,           per inprobaturum haec iovem,     quid ut noverca me intueris aut uti           petita ferro belua?'     ut haec trementi questus ore constitit           insignibus raptis puer,     inpube corpus, quale posset inpia           mollire thracum pectora:     canidia, brevibus illigata viperis           crinis et incomptum caput,     iubet sepulcris caprificos erutas,           iubet cupressos funebris     et uncta turpis ova ranae sanguine           plumamque nocturnae strigis     herbasque, quas iolcos atque hiberia           mittit venenorum ferax,     et ossa ab ore rapta ieiunae canis           flammis aduri colchicis.     at expedita sagana, per totam domum           spargens avernalis aquas,     horret capillis ut marinus asperis           echinus aut laurens aper.     abacta nulla veia conscientia           ligonibus duris humum     exhauriebat, ingemens laboribus,           quo posset infossus puer     longo die bis terque mutatae dapis           inemori spectaculo,     cum promineret ore, quantum exstant aqua           suspensa mento corpora;     exsucta uti medulla et aridum iecur           amoris esset poculum,     interminato cum semel fixae cibo           intabuissent pupulae.     non defuisse masculae libidinis           ariminensem foliam     et otiosa credidit neapolis           et omne vicinum oppidum,     quae sidera excantata voce thessala           lunamque caelo deripit.     hic inresectum saeva dente livido           canidia rodens pollicem     quid dixit aut quid tacuit? 'o rebus meis           non infideles arbitrae,     nox et diana, quae silentium regis,           arcana cum fiunt sacra,     nunc, nunc adeste, nunc in hostilis domos           iram atque numen vertite.     formidulosis cum latent silvis ferae           dulci sopore languidae,     senem, quod omnes rideant, adulterum           latrent suburanae canes     nardo perunctum, quale non perfectius           meae laborarint manus.     quid accidit? cur dira barbarae minus           venena medeae valent,     quibus superbam fugit ulta paelicem,           magni creontis filiam,     cum palla, tabo munus imbutum, novam           incendio nuptam abstulit?     atqui nec herba nec latens in asperis           radix fefellit me locis.     indormit unctis omnium cubilibus           oblivione paelicum?     a, a, solutus ambulat veneficae           scientioris carmine.     non usitatis, vare, potionibus,           o multa fleturum caput,     ad me recurres nec vocata mens tua           marsis redibit vocibus.     maius parabo, maius infundam tibi           fastidienti poculum     priusque caelum sidet inferius mari           tellure porrecta super     quam non amore sic meo flagres uti           bitumen atris ignibus.'     sub haec puer iam non, ut ante, mollibus           lenire verbis inpias,     sed dubius unde rumperet silentium,           misit thyesteas preces:     'venena maga non fas nefasque, non valent           convertere humanam vicem.     diris agam vos: dira detestatio           nulla expiatur victima.     quin, ubi perire iussus exspiravero,           nocturnus occurram furor     petamque voltus umbra curvis unguibus,           quae vis deorum est manium,     et inquietis adsidens praecordiis           pavore somnos auferam.     vos turba vicatim hinc et hinc saxis petens           contundet obscaenas anus;     post insepulta membra different lupi           et esquilinae alites     neque hoc parentes, heu mihi superstites,           effugerit spectaculum.' vi[recensere]     quid inmerentis hospites vexas, canis           ignavos adversum lupos?     quin huc inanis, si potes, vertis minas           et me remorsurum petis?     nam qualis aut molossus aut fulvos lacon,           amica vis pastoribus,     agam per altas aure sublata nivis           quaecumque praecedet fera;     tu, cum timenda voce complesti nemus,           proiectum odoraris cibum.     cave, cave, namque in malos asperrimus           parata tollo cornua,     qualis lycambae spretus infido gener           aut acer hostis bupalo.     an si quis atro dente me petiverit,           inultus ut flebo puer? vii[recensere]     quo, quo scelesti ruitis? aut cur dexteris           aptantur enses conditi?     parumne campis atque neptuno super           fusum est latini sanguinis,     non ut superbas invidae karthaginis           romanus arces ureret,     intactus aut britannus ut descenderet           sacra catenatus via,     sed ut secundum vota parthorum sua           vrbs haec periret dextera?     neque hic lupis mos nec fuit leonibus           umquam nisi in dispar feris.     furorne caecos an rapit vis acrior           an culpa? responsum date.     tacent et albus ora pallor inficit           mentesque perculsae stupent.     sic est: acerba fata romanos agunt           scelusque fraternae necis,     ut inmerentis fluxit in terram remi           sacer nepotibus cruor. viii[recensere]     rogare longo putidam te saeculo,           viris quid enervet meas,     cum sit tibi dens ater et rugis vetus           frontem senectus exaret     hietque turpis inter aridas natis           podex velut crudae bovis.     sed incitat me pectus et mammae putres           equina quales ubera     venterque mollis et femur tumentibus           exile suris additum.     esto beata, funus atque imagines           ducant triumphales tuom     nec sit marita, quae rotundioribus           onusta bacis ambulet.     quid? quod libelli stoici inter sericos           iacere pulvillos amant,     inlitterati num minus nervi rigent           minusve languet fascinum?     quod ut superbo povoces ab inguine,           ore adlaborandum est tibi. ix[recensere]     quando repositum caecubum ad festas dapes           victore laetus caesare     tecum sub alta---sic iovi gratum---domo,           beate maecenas, bibam     sonante mixtum tibiis carmen lyra,           hac dorium, illis barbarum?     ut nuper, actus cum freto neptunius           dux fugit ustis navibus     minatus vrbi vincla, quae detraxerat           servis amicus perfidis.     romanus eheu---posteri negabitis---           emancipatus feminae     fert vallum et arma miles et spadonibus           servire rugosis potest     interque signa turpe militaria           sol adspicit conopium.     ad hunc frementis verterunt bis mille equos           galli canentes caesarem     hostiliumque navium portu latent           puppes sinistrorsum citae.     io triumphe, tu moraris aureos           currus et intactas boves?     io triumphe, nec iugurthino parem           bello reportasti ducem     neque africanum, cui super karthaginem           virtus sepulcrum condidit.     terra marique victus hostis punico           lugubre mutavit sagum.     aut ille centum nobilem cretam urbibus           ventis iturus non suis     exercitatas aut petit syrtis noto           aut fertur incerto mari.     capaciores adfer huc, puer, scyphos           et chia vina aut lesbia     vel quod fluentem nauseam coerceat           metire nobis caecubum.     curam metumque caesaris rerum iuvat           dulci lyaeo solvere. x[recensere]     mala soluta navis exit alite           ferens olentem mevium.     ut horridis utrumque verberes latus,           auster, memento fluctibus;     niger rudentis eurus inverso mari           fractosque remos differat;     insurgat aquilo, quantus altis montibus           frangit trementis ilics;     nec sidus atra nocte amicum adpareat,           qua tristis orion cadit;     quietiore nec feratur aequore           quam graia victorum manus,     cum pallas usto vertit iram ab ilio           in inpiam aiacis ratem.     o quantus instat navitis sudor tuis           tibique pallor luteus     et illa non virilis heiulatio           preces et aversum ad iovem,     ionius udo cum remugiens sinus           noto carinam ruperit     opima quodsi praeda curvo litore           porrecta mergos iuverit,     libidinosus immolabitur caper           et agna tempestatibus. xi[recensere]     petti, nihil me sicut antea iuvat           scribere versiculos amore percussum gravi,     amore, qui me praeter omnis expetit           mollibus in pueris aut in puellis urere.     hic tertius december, ex quo destiti           inachia furere, silvis honorem decutit.     heu me, per vrbem (nam pudet tanti mali)           fabula quanta fui, conviviorum et paenitet,     in quis amantem languor et silentium           arguit et latere petitus imo spiritus.     'contrane lucrum nil valere candidum           pauperis ingenium' querebar adplorans tibi,     simul calentis inverecundus deus           fervidiore mero arcana promorat loco.     'quodsi meis inaestuet praecordiis           libera bilis, ut haec ingrata ventis dividat     fomenta volnus nil malum levantia,           desinet inparibus certare submotus pudor.'     ubi haec severus te palam laudaveram,           iussus abire domum ferebar incerto pede     ad non amicos heu mihi postis et heu           limina dura, quibus lumbos et infregi latus.     nunc gloriantis quamlibet mulierculam           vincere mollitia amor lycisci me tenet;     unde expedire non amicorum queant           libera consilia nec contumeliae graves,     sed alius ardor aut puellae candidae           aut teretis pueri longam renodantis comam. xii[recensere]     quid tibi vis, mulier nigris dignissima barris?           munera quid mihi quidve tabellas     mittis nec firmo iuveni neque naris obesae?           namque sagacius unus odoror,     polypus an gravis hirsutis cubet hircus in alis           quam canis acer ubi lateat sus.     qui sudor vietis et quam malus undique membris           crescit odor, cum pene soluto     indomitam properat rabiem sedare, neque illi           iam manet umida creta colorque     stercore fucatus crocodili iamque subando           tenta cubilia tectaque rumpit.     vel mea cum saevis agitat fastidia verbis:           'inachia langues minus ac me;     inachiam ter nocte potes, mihi semper ad unum           mollis opus. pereat male quae te     lesbia quaerenti taurum monstravit inertem.           cum mihi cous adesset amyntas,     cuius in indomito constantior inguine nervos           quam nova collibus arbor inhaeret.     muricibus tyriis iteratae vellera lanae           cui properabantur? tibi nempe,     ne foret aequalis inter conviva, magis quem           diligeret mulier sua quam te.     o ego non felix, quam tu fugis, ut pavet acris           agna lupos capreaeque leones!' xiii[recensere]     horrida tempestas caelum contraxit et imbres           nivesque deducunt iovem; nunc mare, nunc siluae     threicio aquilone sonant. rapiamus, amici,           occasionem de die dumque virent genua     et decet, obducta solvatur fronte senectus.           tu vina torquato move consule pressa meo.     cetera mitte loqui: deus haec fortasse benigna           reducet in sedem vice. nunc et achaemenio     perfundi nardo iuvat et fide cyllenea           levare diris pectora sollicitudinibus,     nobilis ut grandi cecinit centaurus alumno:           'invicte, mortalis dea nate puer thetide,     te manet assaraci tellus, quam frigida parvi           findunt scamandri flumina lubricus et simois,     unde tibi reditum certo subtemine parcae           rupere, nec mater domum caerula te revehet.     illic omne malum vino cantuque levato,     deformis aegrimoniae dulcibus adloquiis.' xiv[recensere]     mollis inertia cur tantam diffuderit imis           oblivionem sensibus,     pocula lethaeos ut si ducentia somnos           arente fauce traxerim,     candide maecenas, occidis saepe rogando:           deus, deus nam me vetat     inceptos, olim promissum carmen, iambos           ad umbilicum adducere.     non aliter samio dicunt arsisse bathyllo           anacreonta teium,     qui persaepe cava testudine flevit amorem           non elaboratum ad pedem.     ureris ipse miser: quodsi non pulcrior ignis           accendit obsessam ilion,     gaude sorte tua; me libertina, nec uno           contenta, phryne macerat. xv[recensere]     nox erat et caelo fulgebat luna sereno           inter minora sidera,     cum tu, magnorum numen laesura deorum,           in verba iurabas mea,     artius atque hedera procera adstringitur ilex           lentis adhaerens bracchiis;     dum pecori lupus et nautis infestus orion           turbaret hibernum mare     intonsosque agitaret apollinis aura capillos,           fore hunc amorem mutuom,     o dolitura mea multum virtute neaera:           nam siquid in flacco viri est,     non feret adsiduas potiori te dare noctes           et quaeret iratus parem     nec semel offensi cedet constantia formae,           si certus intrarit dolor.     et tu, quicumque es felicior atque meo nunc           superbus incedis malo,     sis pecore et multa dives tellure licebit           tibique pactolus fluat     nec te pythagorae fallant arcana renati           formaque vincas nirea,     heu heu, translatos alio maerebis amores,           ast ego vicissim risero. xvi[recensere]     altera iam teritur bellis civilibus aetas,           suis et ipsa roma viribus ruit.     quam neque finitimi valuerunt perdere marsi           minacis aut etrusca porsenae manus,     aemula nec virtus capuae nec spartacus acer           novisque rebus infidelis allobrox     nec fera caerulea domuit germania pube           parentibusque abominatus hannibal:     inpia perdemus devoti sanguinis aetas           ferisque rursus occupabitur solum:     barbarus heu cineres insistet victor et vrbem           eques sonante verberabit ungula,     quaeque carent ventis et solibus ossa quirini,           (nefas videre) dissipabit insolens.     forte quid expediat communiter aut melior pars,           malis carere quaeritis laboribus;     nulla sit hac potior sententia: phocaeorum           velut profugit exsecrata civitas     agros atque lares patrios habitandaque fana           apris reliquit et rapacibus lupis,     ire, pedes quocumque ferent, quocumque per undas           notus vocabit aut protervos africus.     sic placet? an melius quis habet suadere? secunda           ratem occupare quid moramur alite?     sed iuremus in haec: 'simul imis saxa renarint           vadis levata, ne redire sit nefas;     neu conversa domum pigeat dare lintea, quando           padus matina laverit cacumina,     in mare seu celsus procurrerit appenninus           novaque monstra iunxerit libidine     mirus amor, iuvet ut tigris subsidere cervis,           adulteretur et columba miluo,     credula nec ravos timeant armenta leones           ametque salsa levis hircus aequora.'     haec et quae poterunt reditus abscindere dulcis           eamus omnis exsecrata civitas     aut pars indocili melior grege; mollis et exspes           inominata perpremat cubilia.     vos, quibus est virtus, muliebrem tollite luctum,           etrusca praeter et volate litora.     nos manet oceanus circum vagus: arva beata           petamus, arva divites et insulas,     reddit ubi cererem tellus inarata quotannis           et inputata floret usque vinea,     germinat et numquam fallentis termes olivae           suamque pulla ficus ornat arborem,     mella cava manant ex ilice, montibus altis           levis crepante lympha desilit pede.     illic iniussae veniunt ad mulctra capellae           refertque tenta grex amicus ubera     nec vespertinus circumgemit ursus ovile           nec intumescit alta viperis humus;     pluraque felices mirabimur, ut neque largis           aquosus eurus arva radat imbribus,     pinguia nec siccis urantur semina glaebis,           utrumque rege temperante caelitum.     non huc argoo contendit remige pinus           neque inpudica colchis intulit pedem,     non huc sidonii torserunt cornua nautae,           laboriosa nec cohors vlixei.     nulla nocent pecori contagia, nullius astri           gregem aestuosa torret impotentia.     iuppiter illa piae secrevit litora genti,           ut inquinavit aere tempus aureum,     aere, dehinc ferro duravit saecula, quorum           piis secunda vate me datur fuga. xvii[recensere]     'iam iam efficaci do manus scientiae,     supplex et oro regna per proserpinae,     per et dianae non movenda numina,     per atque libros carminum valentium     refixa caelo devocare sidera,     canidia: parce vocibus tandem sacris     citumque retro solve, solve turbinem.     movit nepotem telephus nereium,     in quem superbus ordinarat agmina     mysorum et in quem tela acuta torserat.     unxere matres iliae additum feris     alitibus atque canibus homicidam hectorem,     postquam relictis moenibus rex procidit     heu pervicacis ad pedes achillei.     saetosa duris exuere pellibus     laboriosi remiges vlixei     volente circa membra; tunc mens et sonus     relapsus atque notus in voltus honor.     dedi satis superque poenarum tibi,     amata nautis multum et institoribus.     fugit iuventas et verecundus color     reliquit ossa pelle amicta lurida,     tuis capillus albus est odoribus,     nullum a labore me reclinat otium;     urget diem nox et dies noctem neque est     levare tenta spiritu praecordia.     ergo negatum vincor ut credam miser,     sabella pectus increpare carmina     caputque marsa dissilire nenia.     quid amplius vis? o mare et terra, ardeo,     quantum neque atro delibutus hercules     nessi cruore nec sicana fervida     virens in aetna flamma; tu, donec cinis     iniuriosis aridus ventis ferar,     cales venenis officina colchicis.     quae finis aut quod me manet stipendium?     effare; iussas cum fide poenas luam,     paratus expiare, seu poposceris     centum iuvencos sive mendaci lyra     voles sonare: tu pudica, tu proba     perambulabis astra sidus aureum.     infamis helenae castor offensus vice     fraterque magni castoris, victi prece,     adempta vati reddidere lumina:     et tu, potes nam, solve me dementia,     o nec paternis obsoleta sordibus     neque in sepulcris pauperum prudens anus     novendialis dissipare pulveres.     tibi hospitale pectus et purae manus     tuosque venter pactumeius et tuo     cruore rubros obstetrix pannos lavit,     utcumque fortis exsilis puerpera.'           'quid obseratis auribus fundis preces?     non saxa nudis surdiora navitis     neptunus alto tundit hibernus salo.     inultus ut tu riseris cotytia     volgata, sacrum liberi cupidinis,     et esquilini pontifex venefici     inpune ut vrbem nomine inpleris meo?     quid proderat ditasse paelignas anus     velociusve miscuisse toxicum?     sed tardiora fata te votis manent:     ingrata misero vita ducenda est in hoc,     novis ut usque suppetas laboribus.     optat quietem pelopis infidi pater,     egens benignae tantalus semper dapis,     optat prometheus obligatus aliti,     optat supremo collocare sisyphus     in monte saxum; sed vetant leges iovis.     voles modo altis desilire turribus,     frustraque vincla gutturi innectes tuo     modo ense pectus norico recludere     fastidiosa tristis aegrimonia.     vectabor umeris tunc ego inimicis eques     meaeque terra cedet insolentiae.     an quae movere cereas imagines,     ut ipse nosti curiosus, et polo     deripere lunam vocibus possim meis,     possim crematos excitare mortuos     desiderique temperare pocula,     plorem artis in te nil agentis exitus?' receptum de "https://la.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=epodi&oldid= " 		categoriae: 	opera omnia 	opera quae quintus horatius flaccus scripsit 	carmina 	saeculi primi ante christum opera 	opera sine editione 	opera sine fonte 	opera sine re wikidata 	 % 	 	tabula navigationis 	 		 	 		instrumenta personalia 	 	 			nomen nondum datum est 	disputatio huius ip 	conlationes 	sibi nomen imponere 	nomen dare 		 	 		 			 	 		spatia nominalia 	 	 			opus 	disputatio 		 	 			 	 	 		variantes 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		visae 	 	 			legere 	recensere 	historiam inspicere 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		quaerere 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigatio 	 	 			pagina prima 	english main page 	scriptorium 	scriptores 	chronologia 	nuper mutata 	pagina fortuita 	auxilium 		 	 	 	 		instrumenta 	 	 			nexus ad hanc paginam 	nuper mutata annexorum 	onerare fascicula 	paginae speciales 	nexus perpetuus 	de hac pagina 	hanc paginam citare 		 	 	 		imprimere vel exportare 	 	 			librum creare 	paginam prehendere formá pdf 	forma impressibilis 		 	 	 	 		aliae linguae 	 	 			català 	português 		add links 	 		 novissima mutatio die maii hora : facta. 	nonobstantibus ceteris condicionibus hunc textum tractare licet secundum "creative commons attribution-sharealike license". vide modos et condiciones. 		consilium de secreto 	de wikisource 	repudiationes 	pagina mobilis 	elaboratores 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 horace - wikiquote 	 	 	 	 	horace 	 		from wikiquote 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 he wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time. what odds does it make to the man who lives within nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand? quintus horatius flaccus ( december bc – november bc), known in the english-speaking world as horace, was the leading lyric poet in latin. contents 	 quotes 	 . satires (c. bc and bc) 	 . odes (c. bc and bc) 	 . epistles (c. bc and bc) 	 . ars poetica, or the epistle to the pisones (c. bc) 	 misattributed 	 external links quotes[edit] life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. never despair... tommorrow we'll be back on the vast ocean 	cras ingens iterabimus aequor 	tommorrow we will be back on the vast ocean. 	the routledge dictionary of latin quotations: the illiterati's guide to latin maxims, mottoes, proverbs and sayings satires (c. bc and bc)[edit] 	quamquam ridentem dicere verum quid vetat? ut pueris olim dant crustula blandi doctores, elementa velint ut discere prima. 	what is to prevent one from telling truth as he laughs, even as teachers sometimes give cookies to children to coax them into learning their a b c? 	book i, satire i, line (translation by h. fairclough) 	what odds does it make to the man who lives within nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand? 	book i, satire i, line 	people are enticed by a desire which continually cheats them. ‘nothing is enough,’ they say, ‘for you’re only worth what you have.’ 	book i, satire i, lines - , as translated by n. rudd 	saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturus. often must you turn your pencil to erase, if you hope to write something worth a second reading. 	book i, satire i, lines - , (transl. rushton fairclough, ) 	let’s put a limit to the scramble for money. ... having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end. 	book i, satire i, lines - , as translated by n. rudd 	inde fit ut raro, qui se vixisse beatum dicat et exacto contentus tempore vita cedat uti conviva satur, reperire queamus. 	we rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest. 	book i, satire i, line 	non satis est puris versum perscribere verbis. 	'tis not sufficient to combine well-chosen words in a well-ordered line. 	book i, satire iv, line (translated by john conington) 	atqui si vitiis mediocribus ac mea paucis mendosa est natura, alioqui recta, velut si egregio inspersos reprehendas corpore naevos, si neque avaritiam neque sordes nec mala lustra obiciet vere quisquam mihi, purus et insons, ut me collaudem, si et vivo carus amicis... at hoc nunc laus illi debetur et a me gratia maior. nil me paeniteat sanum patris huius, eoque non, ut magna dolo factum negat esse suo pars, quod non ingenuos habeat clarosque parentis, sic me defendam. 	if my character is flawed by a few minor faults, but is otherwise decent and moral, if you can point out only a few scattered blemishes on an otherwise immaculate surface, if no one can accuse me of greed, or of prurience, or of profligacy, if i live a virtuous life, free of defilement (pardon, for a moment, my self-praise), and if i am to my friends a good friend, my father deserves all the credit... as it is now, he deserves from me unstinting gratitude and praise. i could never be ashamed of such a father, nor do i feel any need, as many people do, to apologize for being a freedman's son. 	book i, satire vi, lines – 	nil sine magno vita labore dedit mortalibus. 	life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. / life has given nothing to mortals without great labor. 	book i, satire ix, line 	in pace, ut sapiens, aptarit idonea bello 	in peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war. 	book ii, satire ii, line 	adclinis falsis animus meliora recusat. 	the mind enamored with deceptive things, declines things better. 	book ii, satire ii, line 	quocirca vivite fortes, fortiaque adversis opponite pectora rebus 	so live, my boys, as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. 	book ii, satire ii, line - (trans. e. c. wickham) 	ille sinistrorsum, hie dextrorsum abit : unus utrique error, sed variis illudit partibus. 	this to the right, that to the left hand strays, and all are wrong, but wrong in different ways. 	book ii, satire iii, line (trans. conington) 	heu, fortuna, quis est crudelior in nos te deus? ut semper gaudes illudere rebus humanis! 	o fortune, cruellest of heavenly powers, why make such game of this poor life of ours? 	book ii, satire viii, line (trans. conington) 	sed convivatoris uti ducis ingenium res adversae nudare solent, celare secundae. 	a host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius. 	book ii, satire viii, lines – [ ] 	dum licet, in rebus jucundis vive beatus; vive memor quam sis aevi brevis. 	then take, good sir, your pleasure while you may; with life so short 'twere wrong to lose a day. 	book ii, satire viii, line (trans. conington) odes (c. bc and bc)[edit] i have made a monument more lasting than bronze. 	nequiquam deus abscidit prudens oceano dissociabili terras, si tamen impiae non tangenda rates transiliunt vada. 	in vain did nature's wife command divide the waters from the land, if daring ships and men profane, invade th' inviolable main. 	book i, ode iii, line (trans. by john dryden) 	vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat inchoare longam. 	life's short span forbids us to enter on far reaching hopes. 	book i, ode iv, line 	nil desperandum... 	never despair... 	book i, ode vii, line 	nunc vino pellite curas. 	now drown care in wine. 	book i, ode vii, line 	permitte divis cetera. 	leave all else to the gods. 	book i, ode ix, line 	dum loquimur, fugerit invida aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. 	as we speak cruel time is fleeing. seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow. 	book i, ode xi, line 	john conington's translation: 	in the moment of our talking, envious time has ebbed away, seize the present, trust tomorrow e'en as little as you may. 	o matre pulchra filia pulchrior 	o fairer daughter of a fair mother! 	book i, ode xvi, line 	nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero pulsanda tellus. 	now is the time for drinking, now the time to dance footloose upon the earth. 	book i, ode xxxvii, line 	aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem. 	in adversity, remember to keep an even mind. 	book ii, ode iii, line 	auream quisquis mediocritatem diligit, tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula. 	whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. 	book ii, ode x, line 	eheu fugaces, postume, postume, labuntur anni nec pietas moram rugis et instanti senectae adferet indomitaeque morti. 	ah, postumus! they fleet away, our years, nor piety one hour can win from wrinkles and decay, and death's indomitable power. 	book ii, ode xiv, line (trans. john conington) 	virginibus puerisque canto. 	i sing for maidens and boys. 	book iii, ode i, line 	aequa lege necessitas sortitur insignes et imos; omne capax movet urna nomen. 	death takes the mean man with the proud; the fatal urn has room for all. 	book iii, ode i, line (trans. john conington) 	dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. 	it is sweet and honorable to die for one's country. 	book iii, ode ii, line 	iustum et tenacem propositi virum non civium ardor prava iubentium, non vultus instantis tyranni mente quatit solida. 	the man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance. 	book iii, ode iii, line 	si fractus illabatur orbis, impavidum ferient ruinae. 	if the world should break and fall on him, it would strike him fearless. 	book iii, ode iii, line 	vis consili expers mole ruit sua. 	force without wisdom falls of its own weight. 	book iii, ode iv, line 	crescentem sequitur cura pecuniam, maiorumque fames. 	as money grows, care follows it and the hunger for more. 	book iii, ode xvi, line 	magnas inter opes inops. 	a pauper in the midst of wealth. 	book iii, ode xvi, line . 	conington's translation: "'mid vast possessions poor." 	quod adest memento componere aequus. 	enjoy the present smiling hour, and put it out of fortune's power. 	book iii, ode xxix, line (as translated by john dryden) 	ille potens sui laetusque deget, cui licet in diem dixisse "vixi: cras vel atra nube polum pater occupato vel sole puro." 	he will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "i have lived: tomorrow the father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine." 	book iii, ode xxix, line 	john dryden's paraphrase: happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call to day his own: he who, secure within, can say, to-morrow do thy worst, for i have lived to-day. 	exegi monumentum aere perennius 	i have made a monument more lasting than bronze. 	book iii, ode xxx, line 	pulvis et umbra sumus. 	we are but dust and shadow. 	book iv, ode vii, line 	vixere fortes ante agamemnona. 	brave men were living before agamemnon. 	book iv, ode ix, line epistles (c. bc and bc)[edit] i am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me i turn in for shelter. to flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom. he who has begun has half done. dare to be wise; begin! 	quid verum atque decens curo et rogo, et omnis in hoc sum. 	my cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this i am wholly occupied. 	book i, epistle i, line 	nullius addictus iurare in verba magistri, quo me cumque rapit tempestas, deferor hospes. 	i am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me i turn in for shelter. 	book i, epistle i, line 	virtus est vitium fugere et sapientia prima stultitia caruisse. 	to flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom. 	book i, epistle i, line 	nos numerus sumus et fruges consumere nati. 	we are but numbers, born to consume resources. 	book i, epistle ii, line 	nam cur quae laedunt oculum festinas demere; si quid est animum, differs curandi tempus in annum? 	for why do you hasten to remove things that hurt your eyes, but if anything gnaws your mind, defer the time of curing it from year to year? 	book i, epistle ii, lines – ; translation by c. smart 	dimidium facti qui coepit habet; sapere aude; incipe! 	he who has begun has half done. dare to be wise; begin! 	book i, epistle ii, lines – 	qui recte vivendi prorogat horam, rusticus exspectat dum defluat amnis. 	he who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. 	book i, epistle ii, lines – 	semper avarus eget. 	the covetous man is ever in want. 	book i, epistle ii, line 	ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat. 	anger is a momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you. 	book i, epistle ii, line 	inter spem curamque, timores inter et iras, omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum: grata superveniet quae non sperabitur hora. 	let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, and think each day that dawns the last you'll see; for so the hour that greets you unforeseen will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen. 	book i, epistle iv, line (translated by john conington) 	omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum. grata superveniet, quae non sperabitur hora. 	think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise. 	book i, epistle iv, line – 	me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises, cum ridere voles epicuri de grege porcum. 	as for me, when you want a good laugh, you will find me in fine state... fat and sleek, a true hog of epicurus' herd. 	book i, epistle iv, lines – 	naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret. 	you may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back. 	book i, epistle x, line 	caelum, non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt. 	sky, not spirit, do they change, those who cross the sea. 	book i, epistle xi, line 	pauper enim non est, cui rerum suppetit usus. si ventri bene, si lateri est pedibusque tuis, nil divitiae poterunt regales addere maius. 	he is not poor who has enough of things to use. if it is well with your belly, chest and feet, the wealth of kings can give you nothing more. 	book i, epistle xii, line 	quid velit et possit rerum concordia discors 	what the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect. 	book i, epistle xii, line 	nam neque divitibus contingunt gaudia solis, nec vixit male, qui natus moriensque fefellit. 	for joys fall not to the rich alone, nor has he lived ill, who from birth to death has passed unknown. 	book i, epistle xvii, line 	sedit qui timuit ne non succederet. 	he who feared that he would not succeed sat still. 	book i, epistle xvii, line 	semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum. 	once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. 	book i, epistle xviii, line 	qualem commendes, etiam atque etiam aspice, ne mox incutiant aliena tibi peccata pudorem. 	look round and round the man you recommend, for yours will be the shame should he offend. 	book i, epistle xviii, line (translated by john conington). 	variant translation: study carefully the character of the one you recommend, lest his misdeeds bring you shame. 	nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet. 	it is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire. 	book i, epistle xviii, line 	dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; expertus metuit.[ ] 	to have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. 	book i, epistle xviii, line 	interdum volgus rectum videt, est ubi peccat. 	at times the world sees straight, but many times the world goes astray. 	book ii, epistle i, line 	graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artes intulit agresti latio. 	conquered greece took captive her savage conqueror and brought her arts into rustic latium. 	book ii, epistle i, lines – 	singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes. 	the years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another. 	book ii, epistle ii, line 	natales grate numeras? 	do you count your birthdays with gratitude? 	book ii, epistle ii, line ars poetica, or the epistle to the pisones (c. bc)[edit] the mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be brought forth. 	inceptis gravibus plerumque et magna professis purpureus, late qui splendeat, unus et alter adsuitur pannus. 	often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour. 	line 	brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio. 	struggling to be brief i become obscure. 	line 	non satis est pulchra esse poemata; dulcia sunto et, quocumque uolent, animum auditoris agunto. 	mere grace is not enough: a play should thrill the hearer's soul, and move it at its will. 	line (tr. john conington) 	si vis me flere, dolendum est primum ipsi tibi. 	if you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief. 	line 	format enim natura prius nos intus ad omnem fortunarum habitum, juvat, aut impellit ad iram, aut ad humum moerore gravi deducit, et angit. 	for nature forms our spirits to receive each bent that outward circumstance can give: she kindles pleasure, bids resentment glow, or bows the soul to earth in hopeless woe. 	line (tr. conington) 	difficile est proprie communia dicere. 	it is difficult to speak of the universal specifically. 	line 	nec verbum verbo curabis reddere fidus interpres. 	nor word for word too faithfully translate. 	line (tr. john dryden) 	parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. 	the mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be brought forth. 	line . horace is hereby poking fun at heroic labours producing meager results; his line is also an allusion to one of Æsop's fables, the mountain in labour. the title to shakespeare's play much ado about nothing expresses a similar sentiment. 	in medias res. 	into the middle things. 	line 	et quae desperat tractata nitescere posse relinquit. 	and what he fears he cannot make attractive with his touch he abandons. 	line (tr. h. r. fairclough) 	scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons. 	to have good sense, is the first principle and fountain of writing well. 	line 	grais ingenium, grais dedit ore rotundo musa loqui, præter laudem nullius avaris. . . 	the muse gave the greeks their native character, and allowed them to speak in noble tones, they who desired nothing but praise. 	line 	quidquid praecipies, esto brevis, ut cito dicta percipiant animi dociles teneantque fideles: omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat. 	when you wish to instruct, be brief; that men’s minds may take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind. 	lines – ; edward charles wickham translation 	omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci, lectorem delectando pariterque monendo. 	he wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time. 	line 	sunt delicta tamen quibus ignovisse velimus. 	some faults may claim forgiveness. 	line (tr. conington) 	indignor quandoque bonus dormitat homerus; 	i am displeased when sometimes even the worthy homer nods; 	whence the familiar expression, even homer nods (i.e. no one is perfect: even the wisest make mistakes). 	line 	mediocribus esse poetis non homines, non di, non concessere columnae. 	mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers. 	lines – 	nec satis apparet, cur versus factitet. 	none knows the reason why this curse was sent on him, this love of making verse. 	line (tr. conington) misattributed[edit] 	ars longa, vita brevis. 	art is long, life is short. 	seneca's (de brevitate vitae, . ) latin translation of the greek by hippocrates. external links[edit] wikipedia has an article about: horace look up horace in wiktionary, the free dictionary wikisource has original works written by 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wordsworth (child) 	alma mater	st john's college, cambridge 	occupation	poet william wordsworth ( april  – april ) was an english romantic poet who, with samuel taylor coleridge, helped to launch the romantic age in english literature with their joint publication lyrical ballads ( ). wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be the prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. it was posthumously titled and published by his wife in the year of his death, before which it was generally known as "the poem to coleridge". wordsworth was poet laureate from until his death from pleurisy on april . contents 	 early life 	 relationship with annette vallon 	 first publication and lyrical ballads 	 the borderers 	 germany and move to the lake district 	 marriage and children 	 autobiographical work and poems, in two volumes 	 the prospectus 	 religious beliefs 	 laureateship and other honours 	 death 	 in popular culture 	 major works 	 references 	 further reading 	 external links early life[edit] main article: early life of william wordsworth the second of five children born to john wordsworth and ann cookson, william wordsworth was born on april in what is now named wordsworth house in cockermouth, cumberland,[ ] part of the scenic region in northwestern england known as the lake district. william's sister, the poet and diarist dorothy wordsworth, to whom he was close all his life, was born the following year, and the two were baptised together. they had three other siblings: richard, the eldest, who became a lawyer; john, born after dorothy, who went to sea and died in when the ship of which he was captain, the earl of abergavenny, was wrecked off the south coast of england; and christopher, the youngest, who entered the church and rose to be master of trinity college, cambridge.[ ] wordsworth's father was a legal representative of james lowther, st earl of lonsdale, and, through his connections, lived in a large mansion in the small town. he was frequently away from home on business, so the young william and his siblings had little involvement with him and remained distant from him until his death in .[ ] however, he did encourage william in his reading, and in particular set him to commit large portions of verse to memory, including works by milton, shakespeare and spenser. william was also allowed to use his father's library. william also spent time at his mother's parents' house in penrith, cumberland, where he was exposed to the moors, but did not get along with his grandparents or his uncle, who also lived there. his hostile interactions with them distressed him to the point of contemplating suicide.[ ] wordsworth was taught to read by his mother and attended, first, a tiny school of low quality in cockermouth, then a school in penrith for the children of upper-class families, where he was taught by ann birkett, who insisted on instilling in her students traditions that included pursuing both scholarly and local activities, especially the festivals around easter, may day and shrove tuesday. wordsworth was taught both the bible and the spectator, but little else. it was at the school in penrith that he met the hutchinsons, including mary, who later became his wife.[ ] after the death of wordsworth's mother, in , his father sent him to hawkshead grammar school in lancashire (now in cumbria) and sent dorothy to live with relatives in yorkshire. she and william did not meet again for nine years. wordsworth made his debut as a writer in when he published a sonnet in the european magazine. that same year he began attending st john's college, cambridge. he received his ba degree in .[ ] he returned to hawkshead for the first two summers of his time at cambridge, and often spent later holidays on walking tours, visiting places famous for the beauty of their landscape. in he went on a walking tour of europe, during which he toured the alps extensively, and visited nearby areas of france, switzerland, and italy.[ ] relationship with annette vallon[edit] in november , wordsworth visited revolutionary france and became enchanted with the republican movement. he fell in love with a french woman, annette vallon, who, in , gave birth to their daughter caroline. financial problems and britain's tense relations with france forced him to return to england alone the following year.[ ] the circumstances of his return and his subsequent behaviour raised doubts as to his declared wish to marry annette. however, he supported her and his daughter as best he could in later life. the reign of terror left wordsworth thoroughly disillusioned with the french revolution and the outbreak of armed hostilities between britain and france prevented him from seeing annette and his daughter for some years. with the peace of amiens again allowing travel to france, in wordsworth and his sister dorothy visited annette and caroline in calais. the purpose of the visit was to prepare annette for the fact of his forthcoming marriage to mary hutchinson.[ ] afterwards he wrote the sonnet "it is a beauteous evening, calm and free", recalling a seaside walk with the -year-old caroline, whom he had never seen before that visit. mary was anxious that wordsworth should do more for caroline. upon caroline's marriage, in , wordsworth settled £ a year on her (equivalent to £ , as of ), payments which continued until , when they were replaced by a capital settlement.[ ][ ] first publication and lyrical ballads[edit] wordsworth in , about the time he began the prelude.[ ] the year saw the first publication of poems by wordsworth, in the collections an evening walk and descriptive sketches. in he received a legacy of £ from raisley calvert and became able to pursue a career as a poet. it was also in that he met samuel taylor coleridge in somerset. the two poets quickly developed a close friendship. for two years from , william and his sister dorothy lived at racedown house in dorset—a property of the pinney family—to the west of pilsdon pen. they walked in the area for about two hours every day, and the nearby hills consoled dorothy as she pined for the fells of her native lakeland. she wrote, "we have hills which, seen from a distance almost take the character of mountains, some cultivated nearly to their summits, others in their wild state covered with furze and broom. these delight me the most as they remind me of our native wilds."[ ] in , the pair moved to alfoxton house, somerset, just a few miles away from coleridge's home in nether stowey. together wordsworth and coleridge (with insights from dorothy) produced lyrical ballads ( ), an important work in the english romantic movement.[ ] the volume gave neither wordsworth's nor coleridge's name as author. one of wordsworth's most famous poems, "tintern abbey", was published in this collection, along with coleridge's "the rime of the ancient mariner". the second edition, published in , had only wordsworth listed as the author, and included a preface to the poems.[ ] it was augmented significantly in the next edition, published in .[ ] in this preface, which some scholars consider a central work of romantic literary theory, wordsworth discusses what he sees as the elements of a new type of verse, one that is based on the ordinary language "really used by men" while avoiding the poetic diction of much th-century verse. wordsworth also gives his famous definition of poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility", and calls his own poems in the book "experimental". a fourth and final edition of lyrical ballads was published in .[ ] the borderers[edit] between – , wordsworth wrote his only play, the borderers, a verse tragedy set during the reign of king henry iii of england, when englishmen in the north country came into conflict with scottish border reivers. he attempted to get the play staged in november , but it was rejected by thomas harris, the manager of the covent garden theatre, who proclaimed it "impossible that the play should succeed in the representation". the rebuff was not received lightly by wordsworth and the play was not published until , after substantial revision.[ ] germany and move to the lake district[edit] wordsworth, dorothy and coleridge travelled to germany in the autumn of . while coleridge was intellectually stimulated by the journey, its main effect on wordsworth was to produce homesickness.[ ] during the harsh winter of – wordsworth lived with dorothy in goslar, and, despite extreme stress and loneliness, began work on the autobiographical piece that was later titled the prelude. he wrote a number of other famous poems in goslar, including "the lucy poems". in the autumn of , wordsworth and his sister returned to england and visited the hutchinson family at sockburn. when coleridge arrived back in england he travelled to the north with their publisher joseph cottle to meet wordsworth and undertake a proposed tour of the lake district. this was the immediate cause of the brother and sister's settling at dove cottage in grasmere in the lake district, this time with another poet, robert southey, nearby. wordsworth, coleridge and southey came to be known as the "lake poets".[ ] throughout this period many of wordsworth's poems revolved around themes of death, endurance, separation and grief. marriage and children[edit] dove cottage (town end, grasmere) – home of william and dorothy wordsworth, – ; home of thomas de quincey, – in , lowther's heir, william lowther, st earl of lonsdale, paid the £ , owed to wordsworth's father through lowther's failure to pay his aide.[ ] it was this repayment that afforded wordsworth the financial means to marry. on october, following his visit with dorothy to france to arrange matters with annette, wordsworth married his childhood friend mary hutchinson.[ ] dorothy continued to live with the couple and grew close to mary. the following year mary gave birth to the first of five children, three of whom predeceased her and william: 	john wordsworth ( june  – ). married four times: 	isabella curwen (died ) had six children: jane, henry, william, john, charles and edward. 	helen ross (died ). no children. 	mary ann dolan (died after ) had one daughter dora (born ). 	mary gamble. no children. 	dora wordsworth ( august  – july ). married edward quillinan in . 	thomas wordsworth ( june  – december ). 	catherine wordsworth ( september  – june ). 	william "willy" wordsworth ( may  – ). married fanny graham and had four children: mary louisa, william, reginald, gordon autobiographical work and poems, in two volumes[edit] 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. find sources: "william wordsworth" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · jstor (april ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) wordsworth had for years been making plans to write a long philosophical poem in three parts, which he intended to call the recluse. in – he started an autobiographical poem, which he referred to as the "poem to coleridge" and which he planned would serve as an appendix to a larger work called the recluse. in he began expanding this autobiographical work, having decided to make it a prologue rather than an appendix. he completed this work, now generally referred to as the first version of the prelude, in , but refused to publish such a personal work until he had completed the whole of the recluse. the death of his brother john, also in , affected him strongly and may have influenced his decisions about these works. rydal mount – home to wordsworth – . hundreds of visitors came here to see him over the years wordsworth's philosophical allegiances as articulated in the prelude and in such shorter works as "lines written a few miles above tintern abbey" have been a source of critical debate. it was long supposed that wordsworth relied chiefly on coleridge for philosophical guidance, but more recently scholars have suggested that wordsworth's ideas may have been formed years before he and coleridge became friends in the mid- s. in particular, while he was in revolutionary paris in , the -year-old wordsworth made the acquaintance of the mysterious traveller john "walking" stewart ( – ),[ ] who was nearing the end of his thirty years of wandering, on foot, from madras, india, through persia and arabia, across africa and europe, and up through the fledgling united states. by the time of their association, stewart had published an ambitious work of original materialist philosophy entitled the apocalypse of nature (london, ), to which many of wordsworth's philosophical sentiments may well be indebted. in wordsworth published poems, in two volumes, including "ode: intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood". up to this point, wordsworth was known only for lyrical ballads, and he hoped that this new collection would cement his reputation. its reception was lukewarm, however. in , wordsworth and coleridge were estranged over the latter's opium addiction,[ ] and in , his son thomas died at the age of , six months after the death of -year-old catherine. the following year he received an appointment as distributor of stamps for westmorland, and the stipend of £ a year made him financially secure, albeit at the cost of political independence. in , he and his family, including dorothy, moved to rydal mount, ambleside (between grasmere and rydal water), where he spent the rest of his life.[ ] the prospectus[edit] in wordsworth published the excursion as the second part of the three-part work the recluse, even though he had not completed the first part or the third part, and never did. he did, however, write a poetic prospectus to the recluse in which he laid out the structure and intention of the whole work. the prospectus contains some of wordsworth's most famous lines on the relation between the human mind and nature:                       ... my voice proclaims how exquisitely the individual mind (and the progressive powers perhaps no less of the whole species) to the external world is fitted:—and how exquisitely, too— theme this but little heard of among men, the external world is fitted to the mind; and the creation (by no lower name can it be called) which they with blended might accomplish ...[ ] some modern critics[ ] suggest that there was a decline in his work beginning around the mid- s, perhaps because most of the concerns that characterised his early poems (loss, death, endurance, separation and abandonment) had been resolved in his writings and his life.[ ] by , he was enjoying considerable success accompanying a reversal in the contemporary critical opinion of his earlier works. following the death of his friend the painter william green in , wordsworth also mended his relations with coleridge.[ ] the two were fully reconciled by , when they toured the rhineland together.[ ] dorothy suffered from a severe illness in that rendered her an invalid for the remainder of her life. coleridge and charles lamb both died in , their loss being a difficult blow to wordsworth. the following year saw the passing of james hogg. despite the death of many contemporaries, the popularity of his poetry ensured a steady stream of young friends and admirers to replace those he lost. religious beliefs[edit] wordsworth's youthful political radicalism, unlike coleridge's, never led him to rebel against his religious upbringing. he remarked in that he was willing to shed his blood for the established church of england, reflected in his ecclesiastical sketches of . this religious conservatism also colours the excursion ( ), a long poem that became extremely popular during the nineteenth century. it features three central characters: the wanderer; the solitary; who has experienced the hopes and miseries of the french revolution; and the pastor, who dominates the last third of the poem.[ ] laureateship and other honours[edit] wordsworth remained a formidable presence in his later years. in , the scottish poet and playwright joanna baillie reflected on her long acquaintance with wordsworth. "he looks like a man that one must not speak to unless one has some sensible thing to say. however he does occasionally converse cheerfully & well; and when one knows how benevolent & excellent he is, it disposes one to be very much pleased with him."[ ] in , wordsworth received an honorary doctorate in civil law from the university of durham and the following year he was awarded the same honorary degree by the university of oxford, when john keble praised him as the "poet of humanity", praise greatly appreciated by wordsworth.[ ][ ] (it has been argued that wordsworth was a great influence on keble's immensely popular book of devotional poetry, the christian year ( ).[ ]) in , the government awarded him a civil list pension of £ a year. following the death of robert southey in wordsworth became poet laureate. he initially refused the honour, saying that he was too old, but accepted when the prime minister, robert peel, assured him that "you shall have nothing required of you". wordsworth thus became the only poet laureate to write no official verses. the sudden death of his daughter dora in at age was difficult for the aging poet to take and in his depression, he completely gave up writing new material. death[edit] gravestone of william wordsworth, grasmere, cumbria william wordsworth died at home at rydal mount from an aggravated case of pleurisy on april ,[ ][ ] and was buried at st oswald's church, grasmere. his widow, mary, published his lengthy autobiographical "poem to coleridge" as the prelude several months after his death.[ ] though it failed to interest people at the time, it has since come to be widely recognised as his masterpiece. in popular culture[edit] 	 	this section does not cite any sources. please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (march ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) wordsworth has appeared as a character in works of fiction, including: 	william kinsolving – mister christian. 	jasper fforde – the eyre affair. 	val mcdermid – the grave tattoo. 	sue limb – the wordsmiths at gorsemere. isaac asimov's novelisation of the film fantastic voyage sees dr. peter duval quoting wordsworth's the prelude as the miniaturised submarine sails through the cerebral fluid surrounding a human brain, comparing it to the "strange seas of thought". taylor swift's album folklore mentions wordsworth in her bonus track "the lakes", which is thought to be about the lake district.[ ] major works[edit] main article: list of poems by william wordsworth 	lyrical ballads, with a few other poems ( ) 	"simon lee" 	"we are seven" 	"lines written in early spring" 	"expostulation and reply" 	"the tables turned" 	"the thorn" 	"lines composed a few miles above tintern abbey" 	lyrical ballads, with other poems ( )[dubious – discuss] 	preface to the lyrical ballads 	"strange fits of passion have i known"[ ] 	"she dwelt among the untrodden ways"[ ] 	"three years she grew"[ ] 	"a slumber did my spirit seal"[ ] 	"i travelled among unknown men"[ ] 	"lucy gray" 	"the two april mornings" 	"the solitary reaper" 	"nutting" 	"the ruined cottage" 	"michael" 	"the kitten at play" 	poems, in two volumes ( ) 	"resolution and independence" 	"i wandered lonely as a cloud" also known as "daffodils" 	"my heart leaps up" 	"ode: intimations of immortality" 	"ode to duty" 	"the solitary reaper" 	"elegiac stanzas" 	"composed upon westminster bridge, september , " 	"london, " 	"the world is too much with us" 	"french revolution" ( )[ ] 	guide to the lakes ( ) 	"to the cuckoo" 	the excursion ( ) 	laodamia ( , ) 	the white doe of rylstone ( ) 	peter bell ( ) 	ecclesiastical sonnets ( ) 	the prelude ( ) references[edit] 	^ historic england. 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"french revolution". the friend ( ). retrieved june . further reading[edit] 	poetry portal 	juliet barker. wordsworth: a life, harpercollins, new york, , isbn  - 	hunter davies, william wordsworth: a biography, frances lincoln, london, , isbn  - - - - 	stephen gill, william wordsworth: a life, oxford university press, , isbn  - 	emma mason, the cambridge introduction to william wordsworth (cambridge university press, ) 	minto, william; chisholm, hugh ( ). "wordsworth, william" . in chisholm, hugh (ed.). encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. pp.  – .cs maint: ref=harv (link) 	mary moorman, william wordsworth, a biography: the early years, – v. , oxford university press, , isbn  - 	mary moorman, william wordsworth: a biography: the later years, – v. , oxford university press, , isbn  - 	m. r. tewari, one interior life—a study of the nature of wordsworth's poetic experience (new delhi: s. chand & company ltd, ) 	report to wordsworth, written by boey kim cheng, as a direct reference to his poems "composed upon westminster bridge" and "the world is too much with us" external links[edit] william wordsworthat wikipedia's sister projects 	media from wikimedia commons 	quotations from wikiquote 	texts from wikisource 	resources from wikiversity 	internet archive of volume of christopher wordsworth's biography 	internet archive of volume of christopher wordsworth's biography 	works by william wordsworth at project gutenberg 	works by or about william wordsworth at internet archive 	works by 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other symbols instead of unicode characters. for an introductory guide on ipa symbols, see help:ipa. vulgar latin or sermo vulgaris ("common speech"), also colloquial latin,[ ] or common romance (particularly in the late stage), was a range of non-standard sociolects of latin spoken in the mediterranean region during and after the classical period of the roman empire. it is distinct from classical latin, the standard and literary version of the language. compared to classical latin, written documentation of vulgar latin appears less standardized. works written in latin during classical times and the earlier middle ages used prescribed classical latin rather than vulgar latin, with very few exceptions (most notably sections of gaius petronius' satyricon), thus vulgar latin had no official orthography of its own. by its nature, vulgar latin varied greatly by region and by time period, though several major divisions can be seen. vulgar latin dialects began to significantly diverge from classical latin by the third century during the classical period of the roman empire. nevertheless, throughout the sixth century, the most widely spoken dialects were still similar to and mostly mutually intelligible with classical latin. in terms of regional differences for the whole latin period, "we can only glimpse a tiny amount of divergence with the actual written data. in texts of all kinds, literary, technical, and all others, the written latin of the first five or six centuries a.d. looks as if it were territorially homogeneous, even in its 'vulgar' register. it is only in the later texts, of the seventh and eighth centuries, that we are able to see in the texts geographical differences that seem to be the precursors of similar differences in the subsequent romance languages."[ ] in the eastern roman empire, latin gradually faded as the court language over the course of the th century (official latin lost its predominance in official communications from the mid- th, although all communications at the imperial level of administration in greek had to be accompanied by a latin text); it was used in justinian's (whose native language was latin), but during the reign of heraclius in the early th century, greek (which was already widely spoken in the eastern portions of the roman empire from its inception) was made the official language. the vulgar latin spoken in the balkans north of greece became heavily influenced by greek and slavic (vulgar latin already had greek loanwords before the roman empire) and also became radically different from classical latin and from the proto-romance of western europe.[ ][ ] thus the latin of classical antiquity changed from being a "living natural mother tongue" to being a language foreign to all, which could not be used or understood even by romance-speakers except as a result of deliberate and systematic study.[ ] if a date is wanted "we could say latin 'died' in the first part of the eighth century",[ ] and after a long period – a.d. of rapidly accelerating changes.[ ] even after the end of classical latin, people had no other names for the languages they spoke than latin, lingua romana, or lingua romana rustica (to distinguish it from formal latin) for – years. the romance languages, such as catalan, french, italian, occitan, portuguese, romanian, and spanish all evolved from vulgar latin and not from classical latin, but linguists prefer to distinguish the attested vulgar latin from the reconstructed model of proto-romance. contents 	 origin of the term 	 sources 	 history 	 vocabulary 	 . shifting usage of words 	 phonology 	 . evidence of changes 	 . consonant development 	 . . loss of final consonants 	 . . lenition of stops 	 . . simplification of geminates 	 . . loss of word-final m 	 . . neutralization of /b/ and /w/ 	 . . consonant cluster simplification 	 . vowel development 	 . . system in classical latin 	 . . monophthongization 	 . . loss of distinctive length and near-close mergers 	 . . phonologization of stress 	 . . lengthening of stressed open syllables 	 grammar 	 . romance articles 	 . loss of neuter gender 	 . loss of oblique cases 	 . wider use of prepositions 	 . pronouns 	 . adverbs 	 . verbs 	 . . copula 	 . word order typology 	 see also 	 . history of specific romance languages 	 references 	 . citations 	 . works consulted 	 . . transitions to romance languages 	 further reading 	 external links origin of the term[edit] the term "common speech" (sermo vulgaris), which later became "vulgar latin", was used by inhabitants of the roman empire. subsequently, it became a technical term from latin and romance-language philology referring to the unwritten varieties of a latinised language spoken mainly by italo-celtic populations governed by the roman republic and the roman empire. traces of their language appear in some inscriptions, such as graffiti or advertisements. the educated population mainly responsible for classical latin may also have spoken vulgar latin in certain contexts depending on their socioeconomic background. the term was first used improperly in that sense by the pioneers of romance-language philology: françois juste marie raynouard ( – ) and friedrich christian diez ( – ). in the course of his studies on the lyrics of songs written by the troubadours of provence, which had already been studied by dante alighieri and published in de vulgari eloquentia, raynouard noticed that the romance languages derived in part from lexical, morphological, and syntactic features that were latin, but were not preferred in classical latin. he hypothesized an intermediate phase and identified it with the romana lingua, a term that in countries speaking romance languages meant "nothing more or less than the vulgar speech as opposed to literary or grammatical latin".[ ] diez, the principal founder of romance-language philology, impressed by the comparative methods of jakob grimm in deutsche grammatik, which came out in and was the first to use such methods in philology, decided to apply them to the romance languages and discovered raynouard's work, grammaire comparée des langues de l'europe latine dans leurs rapports avec la langue des troubadours, published in . describing himself as a pupil of raynouard, he went on to expand the concept to all romance languages, not just the speech of the troubadours, on a systematic basis, thereby becoming the originator of a new field of scholarly inquiry.[ ] diez, in his signal work on the topic, "grammar of the romance languages,"[ ] after enumerating six romance languages that he compared: italian and wallachian (i.e., romanian) (east); spanish and portuguese (southwest); and provençal and french (northwest), asserts that they had their origin in latin – but "not from classical latin," rather "from the roman popular language or popular dialect".[ ] these terms, as he points out later in the work, are a translation into german of dante's vulgare latinum and latinum vulgare, and the italian of boccaccio, latino volgare.[ ] these names in turn are at the end of a tradition extending to the roman republic. the concepts and vocabulary from which vulgare latinum descend were known in the classical period and are to be found amply represented in the unabridged latin dictionary, starting in the late roman republic. marcus tullius cicero was a prolific writer. his works have survived in large quantity, and serve as a standard of latin. he and his contemporaries recognized the lingua latina; but they also knew varieties of "speech" under the name sermo. latin could be sermo latinus, but there was also a variety known as sermo vulgaris, sermo vulgi, sermo plebeius and sermo quotidianus. these modifiers inform post-classical readers that a conversational latin existed, which was used by the masses (vulgus) in daily speaking (quotidianus) and was perceived as lower-class (plebeius). these vocabulary items manifest no opposition to the written language. there was an opposition to higher-class, or family latin (good family) in sermo familiaris and very rarely literature might be termed sermo nobilis. the supposed "sermo classicus" is a scholarly fiction unattested in the dictionary. all kinds of sermo were spoken only, not written. if one wanted to refer to what in post-classical times was called classical latin one resorted to the concept of latinitas ("latinity") or latine (adverb). if one spoke in the lingua or sermo latinus one merely spoke latin, but if one spoke latine or latinius ("more latinish") one spoke good latin, and formal latin had latinitas, the quality of good latin, about it. after the fall of the empire and the transformation of spoken latin into the early romance languages, the only representative of the latin language was written latin, which became known as classicus, "classical" latin. the original opposition was between formal or implied good latin and informal or vulgar latin. the spoken/written dichotomy is entirely philological. sources[edit] vulgar latin is a blanket term covering the popular dialects and sociolects of the latin language throughout its range, from the hypothetical prisca latinitas of unknown or poorly remembered times in early latium, to the language spoken around the fall of the empire. although making it clear that sermo vulgaris existed, ancient writers said very little about it. because it was not transcribed, it can only be studied indirectly. knowledge comes from these chief sources:[ ] 	solecisms, especially in late latin texts. 	mention of it by ancient grammarians, including prescriptive grammar texts from the late latin period condemning linguistic "errors" that represent spoken latin. 	the comparative method, which reconstructs proto-romance, a hypothetical vernacular proto-language from which the romance languages descended. 	some literary works written in a lower register of latin provide a glimpse into the world of vulgar latin in the classical period: the dialogues of the plays of plautus and terence, being comedies with many characters who were slaves, and the speech of freedmen in the cena trimalchionis by petronius arbiter. history[edit] an extract of the oaths of strasbourg, the earliest known gallo-romance text. the original written latin language (what is today referred to as classical latin) was adapted from the actual spoken language of the latins, with some minor modifications, long before the rise of the roman empire. as with many languages, over time the spoken vulgar language diverged from the written language, with the written language remaining somewhat static. during the classical period spoken (vulgar) latin still remained largely common across the empire, some minor dialectal differences notwithstanding. the collapse of the western roman empire caused rapid changes. the former western provinces became increasingly isolated from the eastern roman empire, leading to a rapid divergence between the latin spoken on either side of the adriatic north of a line that ran from northern albania mid-way through bulgaria but stopped short of the black sea coast which was greek-speaking. in the west an even more complex transformation was occurring. a blending of cultures was occurring between the former roman citizens who were fluent in the "proper" latin speech (which was already substantially different from classical latin), and many of the gothic rulers who, though largely latinised, tended to speak latin poorly, speaking what could be considered a pidgin of latin and their germanic mother tongue, though this changed over time. notable among those who spoke latin well is theodoric the great, imperial regent of italy ( – ) who is reputed to have been illiterate based on his use of a stamp to sign documents. since he lived as a hostage of emperor leo i at the great palace of constantinople from to (from age to ) and was well-educated by constantinople's best teachers,[ ] it is difficult to believe he did not know greek and latin. the 'vulgar' or conversational latin language that continued to evolve after the establishment of the successor kingdoms of the roman state incorporated germanic vocabulary, but with minimal influences from germanic grammar (germanic languages did not displace latin except in northern belgium, england, the rhineland moselle region and north of the alps). for a few centuries this language remained relatively common across most of western europe (as a result, italian, spanish, french, etc. are far more similar to each other than to classical latin), though regional dialects were already developing. as early as , in a face to face meeting between pope gregory ii, born and raised in rome, and saint boniface, an anglo-saxon, boniface complained that he found pope gregory's latin speech difficult to understand, a clear sign of the transformation of vulgar latin in two regions of western europe.[ ] although they had become more dissimilar over time, classical latin and vulgar latin were still viewed as the same language. the verb system [...] seems to have remained virtually intact throughout the fifth century [...] the transformation of the language, from structures we call latin into structures we call romance, lasted from the third or fourth century until the eighth, "so its history came to an end – or to put it another way, the language becomes a 'dead' language – when it stops functioning in this way and is no longer anybody's natural mother tongue," in gaul from the mid-eighth century many people were not able to understand even the most straightforward religious texts read to them in latin. in italy the first signs that people were aware of the difference between the everyday language they spoke and the written form is in the mid-tenth century. the period of most rapid change occurred from the second half of the seventh century. until then the spoken and written form (though with many vulgar features) were regarded as one language.[ ] similarly, while increasingly divergent, latin and the romance languages in the early middle ages were seen as the same tongue.[ ] at the third council of tours in , priests were ordered to preach in the vernacular language – either in the rustica lingua romanica (vulgar latin), or in the germanic vernaculars – since the common people could no longer understand formal latin. within a generation, the oaths of strasbourg ( ), a treaty between charlemagne's grandsons charles the bald and louis the german, was proffered and recorded in a language that was already distinct from latin. józsef herman states: it seems certain that in the sixth century, and quite likely into the early parts of the seventh century, people in the main romanized areas could still largely understand the biblical and liturgical texts and the commentaries (of greater or lesser simplicity) that formed part of the rites and of religious practice, and that even later, throughout the seventh century, saints' lives written in latin could be read aloud to the congregations with an expectation that they would be understood. we can also deduce however, that in gaul, from the central part of the eighth century onward, many people, including several of the clerics, were not able to understand even the most straightforward religious texts.[ ] by the end of the first millennium, local speech had diverged to the point that distinct languages are recognizable; names were emerging for these; and some of the more geographically distant ones may have become mutually unintelligible. with the evolved latin vernaculars viewed as different languages with local norms, specific orthographies were duly developed for some. since all modern romance varieties are continuations of this evolution, vulgar latin is not extinct but survives in variously evolved forms as today's romance languages and dialects. in romance-speaking europe, recognition of the common origin of romance varieties was replaced by labels recognizing and implicitly accentuating local differences in linguistic features. some romance languages evolved more than others. in terms of phonological structures, for example, a clear hierarchy from conservative to innovative is found in a comparison of modern italian, spanish and french (e.g. latin amica > italian amica, spanish amiga, french amie; latin caput > italian capo, spanish cabo, french chef). the oaths of strasbourg offer indications of the state of gallo-romance toward the middle of the th century. while the language cannot be said with any degree of certainty to be old french in the sense of the linear precursor to today's standard french, the abundance of gallo-romance features provides a glimpse of some particulars of vulgar latin's evolution on french soil. extract of the romance part of the oaths of strasbourg ( ) 	gallo-romance, ad [ ]	hypothetical vulgar latin of paris, circa th c. ad, for comparison[better source needed][further explanation needed][ ]	english translation 	"pro deo amur et pro christian poblo et nostro commun salvament, d'ist di in avant, in quant deus savir et podir me dunat, si salvarai eo cist meon fradre karlo, et in ayudha et in cadhuna cosa si cum om per dreit son fradra salvar dift, in o quid il mi altresi fazet. et ab ludher nul plaid nunquam prindrai qui meon vol cist meon fradre karlo in damno sit."	"por deo amore et por chrestyano pob(o)lo et nostro comune salvamento de esto die en avante en quanto deos sabere et podere me donat, sic salvarayo eo eccesto meon fradre karlo, et en ayuda et en caduna causa, sic quomo omo per drecto son fradre salvare devet, en o qued illi me altrosic fatsyat, et ab ludero nullo plag(i)do nonqua prendrayo, qui meon volo eccesto meon fradre karlo en damno seat."	"for the love of god and for christendom and our common salvation, from this day onwards, as god will give me the wisdom and power, i shall protect this brother of mine charles, with aid or anything else, as one ought to protect one's brother, so that he may do the same for me, and i shall never knowingly make any covenant with lothair that would harm this brother of mine charles." vocabulary[edit] 		this section needs expansion. you can help by adding to it. (january ) main article: vulgar latin vocabulary further information: reichenau glosses vulgar latin largely kept much of its classical vocabulary, albeit with some changes in spelling and case usage. shifting usage of words[edit] in many dialects of vulgar latin, new words were either created or gained greater popularity as the language developed. for example, equus ("horse") (classical latin), was replaced by caballu.[ ] many words started to change or broaden their meaning. the classical latin word fabulare ("to make stories") became a broad term for "to speak" in vulgar latin, encompassing narrare, loqui and other similar verbs (all roughly translating to "to tell, to speak" in classical latin). as vulgar latin lost its cases, the new caseless words often took their accusative forms after shifting spelling and pronunciation. phonology[edit] see also: latin spelling and pronunciation and latin regional pronunciation main article: romance languages there was no single pronunciation of vulgar latin, and the pronunciation of vulgar latin in the various latin-speaking areas is indistinguishable from the earlier history of the phonology of the romance languages. see the article on romance languages for more information. evidence of changes[edit] 		latin wikisource has original text related to this article: appendix probi evidence of phonological changes can be seen in the late rd-century appendix probi, a collection of glosses prescribing correct classical latin forms for certain vulgar forms. these glosses describe: 	a process of syncope, the loss of unstressed vowels in medial syllables ("calida non calda"); 	the merger of unstressed pre-vocalic /e/ and short /i/, probably as yod /j/ ("vinea non vinia"); 	the levelling of the distinction between /o/ and /u/ ("coluber non colober") and /e/ and /i/ ("dimidius non demedius"); 	regularization of irregular forms ("glis non glirus"); 	regularization and emphasis of gendered forms ("pauper mulier non paupera mulier"); 	levelling of the distinction between /b/ and /w/ between vowels ("bravium non brabium"); 	assimilation of plosive consonant clusters ("amycdala non amiddula"); 	the substitution of diminutives for unmarked words ("auris non oricla, neptis non nepticla"); 	the loss of syllable-final nasals before /s/ ("mensa non mesa") or their inappropriate insertion as a form of hypercorrection ("formosus non formunsus"); 	the loss of /h/, both initially ("hostiae non ostiae") and within the word ("adhuc non aduc"); 	simplification of /kʷ/ ("coqui non coci"). many of the forms castigated in the appendix probi proved to be the forms accepted in romance; e.g., oricla (evolved from the classical latin marked diminutive auricula) is the source of french oreille, catalan orella, spanish oreja, italian orecchia, romanian ureche, portuguese orelha, sardinian origra 'ear', not the prescribed auris. development of yod from the post-nasal unstressed /e/ of vinea enabled the palatalization of /n/ that would produce french vigne, italian vigna, spanish viña, portuguese vinha, catalan vinya, occitan vinha, friulan vigne, etc., 'vineyard'. consonant development[edit] see also: romance languages § consonants the most significant consonant changes affecting vulgar latin were palatalization (except in sardinia); lenition, including simplification of geminate consonants (in areas north and west of the la spezia–rimini line, e.g. spanish digo vs. italian dico 'i say', spanish boca vs. italian bocca 'mouth'); and loss of final consonants. loss of final consonants[edit] the loss of final consonants was underway by the st century ad in some areas. a graffiti at pompeii reads quisque ama valia, which in classical latin would read quisquis amat valeat ("may whoever loves be strong/do well").[ ] (the change from valeat to valia is also an early indicator of the development of /j/ (yod), which played such an important part in the development of palatalization.) on the other hand, this loss of final /t/ was not general. old spanish and old french preserved a reflex of final /t/ up through ad or so, and modern french still maintains final /t/ in some liaison environments, and sardinian retains final /t/ in almost all circumstances. lenition of stops[edit] areas north and west of the la spezia–rimini line lenited intervocalic /p, t, k/ to /b, d, ɡ/. this phenomenon is occasionally attested during the imperial period, but it became frequent by the th century. for example, in merovingian documents, rotatico > rodatico ("wheel tax").[ ] simplification of geminates[edit] reduction of bisyllabic clusters of identical consonants to a single syllable-initial consonant also typifies romance north and west of la spezia-rimini. the results in italian and spanish provide clear illustrations: siccus > italian secco, spanish seco; cippus > italian ceppo, spanish cepo; mittere > italian mettere, spanish meter. loss of word-final m[edit] the loss of the final m was a process which seems to have begun by the time of the earliest monuments of the latin language. the epitaph of lucius cornelius scipio barbatus, who died around bc, reads taurasia cisauna samnio cepit, which in classical latin would be taurāsiam, cisaunam, samnium cēpit ("he captured taurasia, cisauna, and samnium"). this however can be explained in a different way, that the inscription simply fails to note the nasality of the final vowels (just as consul was customarily abbreviated as cos.) neutralization of /b/ and /w/[edit] confusions between b and v show that the classical semivowel /w/, and intervocalic /b/ partially merged to become a bilabial fricative /β/ (classical semivowel /w/ became /β/ in vulgar latin, while [β] became an allophone of /b/ in intervocalic position). already by the st century ad, a document by one eunus writes iobe for iovem and dibi for divi.[ ] in most of the romance varieties, this sound would further develop into /v/, with the notable exception of the betacist varieties of hispano-romance and some sardinian lects: b and v represent the same phoneme /b/ (with allophone [β]) in modern spanish, as well as in galician, northern portuguese, several varieties of occitan and the northern dialects of catalan. consonant cluster simplification[edit] in general, many clusters were simplified in vulgar latin. for example, /ns/ reduced to /s/, reflecting the fact that syllable-final /n/ was no longer phonetically consonantal. in some inscriptions, mensis > mesis ("month"), or consul > cosul ("consul").[ ] descendants of mensis include portuguese mês, spanish and catalan mes, old french meis (modern french mois), italian mese.[ ] in some areas (including much of italy), the clusters [mn], [kt] ⟨ct⟩, [ks] ⟨x⟩ were assimilated to the second element: [nn], [tt], [ss].[ ] thus, some inscriptions have omnibus > onibus ("all [dative plural]"), indictione > inditione ("indiction"), vixit > bissit ("lived").[ ] also, three-consonant clusters usually lost the middle element. for example: emptores > imtores ("buyers").[ ] not all areas show the same development of these clusters, however. in the east, italian has [kt] > [tt], as in octo > otto ("eight") or nocte > notte ("night"); while romanian has [kt] > [pt] (opt, noapte).[ ] by contrast, in the west, the [k] weakened to [j]. in french and portuguese, this came to form a diphthong with the previous vowel (huit, oito; nuit, noite), while in spanish, the [i] brought about palatalization of [t], which produced [tʃ] (*oito > ocho, *noite > noche).[ ] also, many clusters including [j] were simplified. several of these groups seem to have never been fully stable[clarification needed] (e.g. facunt for faciunt). this dropping has resulted in the word parietem ("wall") developing as italian parete, romanian părete>perete, portuguese parede, spanish pared, or french paroi (old french pareid).[ ] the cluster [kw] ⟨qu⟩ was simplified to [k] in most instances before /i/ and /e/. in , one can find the hypercorrective spelling quisquentis for quiescentis ("of the person who rests here"). modern languages have followed this trend, for example latin qui ("who") has become italian chi and french qui (both /ki/); while quem ("whom") became quien (/kjen/) in spanish and quem (/kẽj/) in portuguese.[ ] however, [kw] has survived in front of [a] in most areas, although not in french; hence latin quattuor yields spanish cuatro (/kwatro/), portuguese quatro (/kwatru/), and italian quattro (/kwattro/), but french quatre (/katʀ/), where the qu- spelling is purely etymological.[ ] in spanish, most words with consonant clusters in syllable-final position are loanwords from classical latin, examples are: transporte [tɾansˈpor.te], transmitir [tɾanz.miˈtir], instalar [ins.taˈlar], constante [konsˈtante], obstante [oβsˈtante], obstruir [oβsˈtɾwir], perspectiva [pers.pekˈti.βa], istmo [ˈist.mo]. a syllable-final position cannot be more than one consonant (one of n, r, l, s or z) in most (or all) dialects in colloquial speech, reflecting vulgar latin background. realizations like [trasˈpor.te], [tɾaz.miˈtir], [is.taˈlar], [kosˈtante], [osˈtante], [osˈtɾwir], and [ˈiz.mo] are very common, and in many cases, they are considered acceptable even in formal speech. vowel development[edit] see also: romance languages § vowels in general, the ten-vowel system of classical latin, which relied on phonemic vowel length, was newly modelled into one in which vowel length distinctions lost phonemic importance, and qualitative distinctions of height became more prominent. system in classical latin[edit] classical latin had different vowel phonemes, grouped into five pairs of short-long, ⟨ ă – ā, ĕ – ē, ĭ – ī, ŏ – ō, ŭ – ū⟩. it also had four diphthongs, ⟨ ae, oe, au, eu⟩, and the rare diphthongs ⟨ ui, ei⟩. finally, there were also long and short ⟨ y⟩, representing /y/, /yː/ in greek borrowings, which, however, probably came to be pronounced /i/, /iː/ even before romance vowel changes started. at least since the st century ad, short vowels (except a) differed by quality as well as by length from their long counterparts, the short vowels being lower.[ ][ ] thus the vowel inventory is usually reconstructed as /a – aː/, /ɛ – eː/, /ɪ – iː/, /ɔ – oː/, /ʊ – uː/. general vowel changes in most vulgar latin 	spelling	 st cent.	 nd cent.	 rd cent.	 th cent. 	 ă 	/a/	/a/ 	 ā 	/aː/ 	 ĕ 	/ɛ/ 	 ē 	/eː/	/e/	/e/ 	 ĭ 	/ɪ/ 	 ī 	/iː/	/i/ 	 ŏ 	/ɔ/ 	 ō 	/oː/	/o/	/o/ 	 ŭ 	/ʊ/ 	 ū 	/uː/	/u/ monophthongization[edit] many diphthongs had begun their monophthongization very early. it is presumed that by republican times, ae had become /ɛː/ in unstressed syllables, a phenomenon that would spread to stressed positions around the st century ad.[ ] from the nd century ad, there are instances of spellings with ⟨ ĕ⟩ instead of ⟨ ae⟩.[ ] ⟨oe⟩ was always a rare diphthong in classical latin (in old latin, oinos regularly became unus ("one")) and became /eː/ during early imperial times. thus, one can find penam for poenam.[ ] however, ⟨ au⟩ lasted much longer. while it was monophthongized to /o/ in areas of north and central italy (including rome), it was retained in most vulgar latin, and it survives in modern romanian (for example, aur < aurum). there is evidence in french and spanish that the monophthongization of au occurred independently in those languages.[ ] loss of distinctive length and near-close mergers[edit] length confusions seem to have begun in unstressed vowels, but they were soon generalized.[ ] in the rd century ad, sacerdos mentions people's tendency to shorten vowels at the end of a word, while some poets (like commodian) show inconsistencies between long and short vowels in versification.[ ] however, the loss of contrastive length caused only the merger of ă and ā while the rest of pairs remained distinct in quality: /a/, /ɛ – e/, /ɪ – i/, /ɔ – o/, /ʊ – u/.[ ] also, the near-close vowels /ɪ/ and /ʊ/ became more open in most varieties and merged with /e/ and /o/ respectively.[ ] as a result, the reflexes of latin pira "pear" and vēra "true" rhyme in most romance languages: italian and spanish pera, vera.[clarification needed][citation needed] similarly, latin nucem "walnut" and vōcem "voice" become italian noce, voce, portuguese noz, voz.[citation needed] there was likely some regional variation in pronunciation, as the romanian languages and sardinian evolved differently.[ ] in sardinian, all corresponding short and long vowels simply merged with each other, creating a -vowel system: /a, e, i, o, u/. in romanian, the front vowels ĕ, ĭ, ē, ī evolved like the western languages, but the back vowels ŏ, ŭ, ō, ū evolved as in sardinian. a few southern italian languages, such as southern corsican, northernmost calabrian and southern lucanian, behave like sardinian with its penta-vowel system or, in case of vegliote (even if only partially) and western lucanian,[ ] like romanian. phonologization of stress[edit] the placement of stress generally did not change from classical to vulgar latin, and except for reassignment of stress on some verb morphology (e.g. italian cantavamo 'we were singing', but stress retracted one syllable in spanish cantábamos) most words continued to be stressed on the same syllable they were before. however, the loss of distinctive length disrupted the correlation between syllable weight and stress placement that existed in classical latin. whereas in classical latin the place of the accent was predictable from the structure of the word, it was no longer so in vulgar latin. stress had become a phonological property and could serve to distinguish forms that were otherwise homophones of identical phonological structure, as in spanish canto 'i sing' vs. cantó 's/he sang'. lengthening of stressed open syllables[edit] after the classical latin vowel length distinctions were lost in favor of vowel quality, a new system of allophonic vowel quantity appeared sometime between the th and th centuries. around then, stressed vowels in open syllables came to be pronounced long (but still keeping height contrasts), and all the rest became short. for example, long venis /*ˈvɛː.nis/, fori /*fɔː.ri/, cathedra /*ˈkaː.te.dra/; but short vendo /*ˈven.do/, formas /*ˈfor.mas/.[ ] (this allophonic length distinction persists to this day in italian.) however, in some regions of iberia and gaul, all stressed vowels came to be pronounced long: for example, porta /*ˈpɔːr.ta/, tempus /*ˈtɛːm.pus/.[ ] in many descendants, several of the long vowels underwent some form of diphthongization, most extensively in old french where five of the seven long vowels were affected by breaking. grammar[edit] romance articles[edit] it is difficult to place the point in which the definite article, absent in latin but present in all romance languages, arose, largely because the highly colloquial speech in which it arose was seldom written down until the daughter languages had strongly diverged; most surviving texts in early romance show the articles fully developed. definite articles evolved from demonstrative pronouns or adjectives (an analogous development is found in many indo-european languages, including greek, celtic and germanic); compare the fate of the latin demonstrative adjective ille, illa, illud "that", in the romance languages, becoming french le and la (old french li, lo, la), catalan and spanish el, la and lo, occitan lo and la, portuguese o and a (elision of -l- is a common feature of portuguese), and italian il, lo and la. sardinian went its own way here also, forming its article from ipse, ipsa "this" (su, sa); some catalan and occitan dialects have articles from the same source. while most of the romance languages put the article before the noun, romanian has its own way, by putting the article after the noun, e.g. lupul ("the wolf" – from *lupum illum) and omul ("the man" – *homo illum),[ ] possibly a result of being within the balkan sprachbund. this demonstrative is used in a number of contexts in some early texts in ways that suggest that the latin demonstrative was losing its force. the vetus latina bible contains a passage est tamen ille daemon sodalis peccati ("the devil is a companion of sin"), in a context that suggests that the word meant little more than an article. the need to translate sacred texts that were originally in koine greek, which had a definite article, may have given christian latin an incentive to choose a substitute. aetheria uses ipse similarly: per mediam vallem ipsam ("through the middle of the valley"), suggesting that it too was weakening in force.[ ] another indication of the weakening of the demonstratives can be inferred from the fact that at this time, legal and similar texts begin to swarm with praedictus, supradictus, and so forth (all meaning, essentially, "aforesaid"), which seem to mean little more than "this" or "that". gregory of tours writes, erat autem... beatissimus anianus in supradicta civitate episcopus ("blessed anianus was bishop in that city.") the original latin demonstrative adjectives were no longer felt to be strong or specific enough.[ ] in less formal speech, reconstructed forms suggest that the inherited latin demonstratives were made more forceful by being compounded with ecce (originally an interjection: "behold!"), which also spawned italian ecco through eccum, a contracted form of ecce eum. this is the origin of old french cil (*ecce ille), cist (*ecce iste) and ici (*ecce hic); italian questo (*eccum istum), quello (*eccum illum) and (now mainly tuscan) codesto (*eccum tibi istum), as well as qui (*eccu hic), qua (*eccum hac); spanish and occitan aquel and portuguese aquele (*eccum ille); spanish acá and portuguese cá (*eccum hac); spanish aquí and portuguese aqui (*eccum hic); portuguese acolá (*eccum illac) and aquém (*eccum inde); romanian acest (*ecce iste) and acela (*ecce ille), and many other forms. on the other hand, even in the oaths of strasbourg, no demonstrative appears even in places where one would clearly be called for in all the later languages (pro christian poblo – "for the christian people"). using the demonstratives as articles may have still been considered overly informal for a royal oath in the th century. considerable variation exists in all of the romance vernaculars as to their actual use: in romanian, the articles are suffixed to the noun (or an adjective preceding it), as in other languages of the balkan sprachbund and the north germanic languages. the numeral unus, una (one) supplies the indefinite article in all cases (again, this is a common semantic development across europe). this is anticipated in classical latin; cicero writes cum uno gladiatore nequissimo ("with a most immoral gladiator"). this suggests that unus was beginning to supplant quidam in the meaning of "a certain" or "some" by the st century bc.[dubious – discuss] loss of neuter gender[edit] st and nd adjectival declension paradigm in classical latin: e.g. altus ("tall") excludes vocative. 		singular	plural 	masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine 	nominative 	altus	altum	alta	altī	alta	altae 	accusative 	altum	altam	altōs	alta	altās 	dative 	altō	altae	altīs 	ablative 	altō	altā	altīs 	genitive 	altī	altae	altōrum	altārum the genders the three grammatical genders of classical latin were replaced by a two-gender system in most romance languages. the neuter gender of classical latin was in most cases identical with the masculine both syntactically and morphologically. the confusion had already started in pompeian graffiti, e.g. cadaver mortuus for cadaver mortuum ("dead body"), and hoc locum for hunc locum ("this place"). the morphological confusion shows primarily in the adoption of the nominative ending -us (-Ø after -r) in the o-declension. in petronius's work, one can find balneus for balneum ("bath"), fatus for fatum ("fate"), caelus for caelum ("heaven"), amphitheater for amphitheatrum ("amphitheatre"), vinus for vinum ("wine"), and conversely, thesaurum for thesaurus ("treasure"). most of these forms occur in the speech of one man: trimalchion, an uneducated greek (i.e. foreign) freedman. in modern romance languages, the nominative s-ending has been largely abandoned, and all substantives of the o-declension have an ending derived from -um: -u, -o, or -Ø. e.g., masculine murum ("wall"), and neuter caelum ("sky") have evolved to: italian muro, cielo; portuguese muro, céu; spanish muro, cielo, catalan mur, cel; romanian mur, cieru>cer; french mur, ciel. however, old french still had -s in the nominative and -Ø in the accusative in both words: murs, ciels [nominative] – mur, ciel [oblique]. [a] for some neuter nouns of the third declension, the oblique stem was productive; for others, the nominative/accusative form, (the two were identical in classical latin). evidence suggests that the neuter gender was under pressure well back into the imperial period. french (le) lait, catalan (la) llet, occitan (lo) lach, spanish (la) leche, portuguese (o) leite, italian language (il) latte, leonese (el) lleche and romanian lapte(le) ("milk"), all derive from the non-standard but attested latin nominative/accusative neuter lacte or accusative masculine lactem. in spanish the word became feminine, while in french, portuguese and italian it became masculine (in romanian it remained neuter, lapte/lăpturi). other neuter forms, however, were preserved in romance; catalan and french nom, leonese, portuguese and italian nome, romanian nume ("name") all preserve the latin nominative/accusative nomen, rather than the oblique stem form *nominem (which nevertheless produced spanish nombre).[ ] typical italian endings 		nouns 	adjectives and determiners 		singular	plural	singular	plural 	masculine 	giardino	giardini	buono	buoni 	feminine 	donna	donne	buona	buone 	neuter 	uovo	uova	buono	buone most neuter nouns had plural forms ending in -a or -ia; some of these were reanalysed as feminine singulars, such as gaudium ("joy"), plural gaudia; the plural form lies at the root of the french feminine singular (la) joie, as well as of catalan and occitan (la) joia (italian la gioia is a borrowing from french); the same for lignum ("wood stick"), plural ligna, that originated the catalan feminine singular noun (la) llenya, and spanish (la) leña. some romance languages still have a special form derived from the ancient neuter plural which is treated grammatically as feminine: e.g., bracchium : bracchia "arm(s)" → italian (il) braccio : (le) braccia, romanian braț(ul) : brațe(le). cf. also merovingian latin ipsa animalia aliquas mortas fuerant. alternations in italian heteroclitic nouns such as l'uovo fresco ("the fresh egg") / le uova fresche ("the fresh eggs") are usually analysed as masculine in the singular and feminine in the plural, with an irregular plural in -a. however, it is also consistent with their historical development to say that uovo is simply a regular neuter noun (ovum, plural ova) and that the characteristic ending for words agreeing with these nouns is -o in the singular and -e in the plural. the same alternation in gender exists in certain romanian nouns, but is considered regular as it is more common than in italian. thus, a relict neuter gender can arguably be said to persist in italian and romanian. in portuguese, traces of the neuter plural can be found in collective formations and words meant to inform a bigger size or sturdiness. thus, one can use ovo/ovos ("egg/eggs") and ova/ovas ("roe", "a collection of eggs"), bordo/bordos ("section(s) of an edge") and borda/bordas ("edge/edges"), saco/sacos ("bag/bags") and saca/sacas ("sack/sacks"), manto/mantos ("cloak/cloaks") and manta/mantas ("blanket/blankets"). other times, it resulted in words whose gender may be changed more or less arbitrarily, like fruto/fruta ("fruit"), caldo/calda (broth"), etc. these formations were especially common when they could be used to avoid irregular forms. in latin, the names of trees were usually feminine, but many were declined in the second declension paradigm, which was dominated by masculine or neuter nouns. latin pirus ("pear tree"), a feminine noun with a masculine-looking ending, became masculine in italian (il) pero and romanian păr(ul); in french and spanish it was replaced by the masculine derivations (le) poirier, (el) peral; and in portuguese and catalan by the feminine derivations (a) pereira, (la) perera. as usual, irregularities persisted longest in frequently used forms. from the fourth declension noun manus ("hand"), another feminine noun with the ending -us, italian and spanish derived (la) mano, romanian mânu>mâna pl (reg.)mâini/mâini, catalan (la) mà, and portuguese (a) mão, which preserve the feminine gender along with the masculine appearance. except for the italian and romanian heteroclitic nouns, other major romance languages have no trace of neuter nouns, but still have neuter pronouns. french celui-ci / celle-ci / ceci ("this"), spanish éste / ésta / esto ("this"), italian: gli / le / ci ("to him" /"to her" / "to it"), catalan: ho, açò, això, allò ("it" / this / this-that / that over there); portuguese: todo / toda / tudo ("all of him" / "all of her" / "all of it"). in spanish, a three-way contrast is also made with the definite articles el, la, and lo. the last is used with nouns denoting abstract categories: lo bueno, literally "that which is good", from bueno: good. 	^ in a few isolated masculine nouns, the s has been either preserved or reinstated in the modern languages, for example filius ("son") > french fils, deus ("god") > spanish dios and portuguese deus, and particularly in proper names: spanish carlos, marcos, in the conservative orthography of french jacques, charles, jules, etc.[ ] loss of oblique cases[edit] the vulgar latin vowel shifts caused the merger of several case endings in the nominal and adjectival declensions.[ ] some of the causes include: the loss of final m, the merger of ă with ā, and the merger of ŭ with ō (see tables).[ ] thus, by the th century, the number of case contrasts had been drastically reduced.[ ] evolution of a st declension noun: caepa/cēpa ("onion") (feminine singular) 	 	classical (c. st century) 	vulgar[ ] (c. th cent.) 	modern romanian 	nominative 	caepa, cēpa 	*cépa 	ceapă 	accusative 	caepam, cēpam 	ablative 	caepā, cēpā 	dative 	caepae, cēpae 	*cépe 	cepe 	genitive evolution of a nd declension noun: mūrus ("wall") (masculine singular) 	 	classical (c. st cent.) 	vulgar[ ] (c. th cent.) 	old french (c. th cent.) 	nominative 	mūrus 	*múros 	murs 	accusative 	mūrum 	*múru 	mur 	ablative 	mūrō 	*múro 	dative 	genitive 	mūrī 	*múri there also seems to be a marked tendency to confuse different forms even when they had not become homophonous (like the generally more distinct plurals), which indicates that nominal declension was shaped not only by phonetic mergers, but also by structural factors.[ ] as a result of the untenability of the noun case system after these phonetic changes, vulgar latin shifted from a markedly synthetic language to a more analytic one. the genitive case died out around the rd century ad, according to meyer-lübke, and began to be replaced by de + noun (which originally meant "about/concerning", weakened to "of") as early as the nd century bc.[citation needed] exceptions of remaining genitive forms are some pronouns, many fossilized combinations like sayings, some proper names, and certain terms related to the church. for example, french jeudi ("thursday") < old french juesdi < vulgar latin jovis diēs; spanish es menester ("it is necessary") < est ministeri; terms like angelorum, paganorum; and italian terremoto ("earthquake") < terrae motu as well as names like paoli, pieri.[ ] the dative case lasted longer than the genitive, even though plautus, in the nd century bc, already shows some instances of substitution by the construction ad + accusative. for example, ad carnuficem dabo.[ ][ ] the accusative case developed as a prepositional case, displacing many instances of the ablative.[ ] towards the end of the imperial period, the accusative came to be used more and more as a general oblique case.[ ] despite increasing case mergers, nominative and accusative forms seem to have remained distinct for much longer, since they are rarely confused in inscriptions.[ ] even though gaulish texts from the th century rarely confuse both forms, it is believed that both cases began to merge in africa by the end of the empire, and a bit later in parts of italy and iberia.[ ] nowadays, romanian maintains a two-case system, while old french and old occitan had a two-case subject-oblique system. this old french system was based largely on whether or not the latin case ending contained an "s" or not, with the "s" being retained but all vowels in the ending being lost (as with veisin below). but since this meant that it was easy to confuse the singular nominative with the plural oblique, and the plural nominative with the singular oblique, along with the final "s" becoming silent, this case system ultimately collapsed as well, and french adopted one case (usually the oblique) for all purposes, leaving the romanian the only one to survive to the present day. evolution of a masculine noun in old french: veisin ("neighbor"). (definite article in parentheses). 		classical latin ( st cent.)	old french ( th cent.) 	singular 	nominative 	 vīcīnus	(li) veisins 	accusative 	 vīcīnum	(le) veisin 	genitive 	 vīcīnī 	dative 	 vīcīnō 	ablative 	plural 	nominative 	 vīcīnī	(li) veisin 	accusative 	 vīcīnōs	(les) veisins 	genitive 	 vīcīnōrum 	dative 	 vīcīnīs 	ablative wider use of prepositions[edit] loss of a productive noun case system meant that the syntactic purposes it formerly served now had to be performed by prepositions and other paraphrases. these particles increased in number, and many new ones were formed by compounding old ones. the descendant romance languages are full of grammatical particles such as spanish donde, "where", from latin de + unde, or french dès, "since", from de + ex, while the equivalent spanish and portuguese desde is de + ex + de. spanish después and portuguese depois, "after", represent de + ex + post. some of these new compounds appear in literary texts during the late empire; french dehors, spanish de fuera and portuguese de fora ("outside") all represent de + foris (romanian afară – ad + foris), and we find jerome writing stulti, nonne qui fecit, quod de foris est, etiam id, quod de intus est fecit? (luke . : "ye fools, did not he, that made which is without, make that which is within also?"). in some cases, compounds were created by combining a large number of particles, such as the romanian adineauri ("just recently") from ad + de + in + illa + hora.[ ] classical latin: 	marcus patrī librum dat. "marcus is giving [his] father [a/the] book." vulgar latin: 	*marcos da libru a patre. "marcus is giving [a/the] book to [his] father." just as in the disappearing dative case, colloquial latin sometimes replaced the disappearing genitive case with the preposition de followed by the ablative, then eventually the accusative (oblique). classical latin: 	marcus mihi librum patris dat. "marcus is giving me [his] father's book. vulgar latin: 	*marcos mi da libru de patre. "marcus is giving me [the] book of [his] father." pronouns[edit] unlike in the nominal and adjectival inflections, pronouns kept great part of the case distinctions. however, many changes happened. for example, the /ɡ/ of ego was lost by the end of the empire, and eo appears in manuscripts from the th century.[which?][ ] reconstructed pronominal system of vulgar latin[ ] 		 st person	 nd person	 rd person 		singular	plural	singular	plural 	nominative 	*éo	*nọs	*tu	*vọs	 	dative 	*mi	*nọ́be(s)	*ti, *tẹ́be	*vọ́be(s)	*si, *sẹ́be 	accusative 	*mẹ	*nọs	*tẹ	*vọs	*sẹ adverbs[edit] classical latin had a number of different suffixes that made adverbs from adjectives: cārus, "dear", formed cārē, "dearly"; ācriter, "fiercely", from ācer; crēbrō, "often", from crēber. all of these derivational suffixes were lost in vulgar latin, where adverbs were invariably formed by a feminine ablative form modifying mente, which was originally the ablative of mēns, and so meant "with a ... mind". so vēlōx ("quick") instead of vēlōciter ("quickly") gave veloci mente (originally "with a quick mind", "quick-mindedly") this explains the widespread rule for forming adverbs in many romance languages: add the suffix -ment(e) to the feminine form of the adjective. the development illustrates a textbook case of grammaticalization in which an autonomous form, the noun meaning 'mind', while still in free lexical use in e.g. italian venire in mente 'come to mind', becomes a productive suffix for forming adverbs in romance such as italian chiaramente, spanish claramente 'clearly', with both its source and its meaning opaque in that usage other than as adverb formant. verbs[edit] the cantar de mio cid (song of my cid) is the earliest spanish text main article: romance verbs see also: romance languages § verbal morphology in general, the verbal system in the romance languages changed less from classical latin than did the nominal system. the four conjugational classes generally survived. the second and third conjugations already had identical imperfect tense forms in latin, and also shared a common present participle. because of the merging of short i with long ē in most of vulgar latin, these two conjugations grew even closer together. several of the most frequently-used forms became indistinguishable, while others became distinguished only by stress placement: 	 	infinitive 	 st 	 nd 	 rd 	 st 	 nd 	 rd 	imperative singular 	singular 	plural 	second conjugation (classical) 	-ēre 	-eō 	-ēs 	-et 	-ēmus 	-ētis 	-ent 	-ē 	second conjugation (vulgar) 	*-ẹ́re 	*-(j)o 	*-es 	*-e(t) 	*-ẹ́mos 	*-ẹ́tes 	*-en(t) 	*-e 	third conjugation (vulgar) 	*-ere 	*-o 	*-emos 	*-etes 	*-on(t) 	third conjugation (classical) 	-ere 	-ō 	-is 	-it 	-imus 	-itis 	-unt 	-e these two conjugations came to be conflated in many of the romance languages, often by merging them into a single class while taking endings from each of the original two conjugations. which endings survived was different for each language, although most tended to favour second conjugation endings over the third conjugation. spanish, for example, mostly eliminated the third conjugation forms in favour of second conjugation forms. french and catalan did the same, but tended to generalise the third conjugation infinitive instead. catalan in particular almost completely eliminated the second conjugation ending over time, reducing it to a small relic class. in italian, the two infinitive endings remained separate (but spelled identically), while the conjugations merged in most other respects much as in the other languages. however, the third-conjugation third-person plural present ending survived in favour of the second conjugation version, and was even extended to the fourth conjugation. romanian also maintained the distinction between the second and third conjugation endings. in the perfect, many languages generalized the -aui ending most frequently found in the first conjugation. this led to an unusual development; phonetically, the ending was treated as the diphthong /au/ rather than containing a semivowel /awi/, and in other cases the /w/ sound was simply dropped. we know this because it did not participate in the sound shift from /w/ to /β̞/. thus latin amaui, amauit ("i loved; he/she loved") in many areas became proto-romance *amai and *amaut, yielding for example portuguese amei, amou. this suggests that in the spoken language, these changes in conjugation preceded the loss of /w/.[ ] another major systemic change was to the future tense, remodelled in vulgar latin with auxiliary verbs. a new future was originally formed with the auxiliary verb habere, *amare habeo, literally "to love i have" (cf. english "i have to love", which has shades of a future meaning). this was contracted into a new future suffix in western romance forms, which can be seen in the following modern examples of "i will love": 	french: j'aimerai (je + aimer + ai) ← aimer ["to love"] + ai ["i have"]. 	portuguese and galician: amarei (amar + [h]ei) ← amar ["to love"] + hei ["i have"] 	spanish and catalan: amaré (amar + [h]e) ← amar ["to love"] + he ["i have"]. 	italian: amerò (amar + [h]o) ← amare ["to love"] + ho ["i have"]. a periphrastic construction of the form 'to have to' (late latin habere ad) used as future is characteristic of sardinian: 	ap'a istàre < apo a istàre 'i will stay' 	ap'a nàrrere < apo a nàrrer 'i will say' an innovative conditional (distinct from the subjunctive) also developed in the same way (infinitive + conjugated form of habere). the fact that the future and conditional endings were originally independent words is still evident in literary portuguese, which in these tenses allows clitic object pronouns to be incorporated between the root of the verb and its ending: "i will love" (eu) amarei, but "i will love you" amar-te-ei, from amar + te ["you"] + (eu) hei = amar + te + [h]ei = amar-te-ei. in spanish, italian and portuguese, personal pronouns can still be omitted from verb phrases as in latin, as the endings are still distinct enough to convey that information: venio > sp vengo ("i come"). in french, however, all the endings are typically homophonous except the first and second person (and occasionally also third person) plural, so the pronouns are always used (je viens) except in the imperative. contrary to the millennia-long continuity of much of the active verb system, which has now survived years of known evolution, the synthetic passive voice was utterly lost in romance, being replaced with periphrastic verb forms—composed of the verb "to be" plus a passive participle—or impersonal reflexive forms—composed of a verb and a passivizing pronoun. apart from the grammatical and phonetic developments there were many cases of verbs merging as complex subtleties in latin were reduced to simplified verbs in romance. a classic example of this are the verbs expressing the concept "to go". consider three particular verbs in classical latin expressing concepts of "going": ire, vadere, and *ambitare. in spanish and portuguese ire and vadere merged into the verb ir, which derives some conjugated forms from ire and some from vadere. andar was maintained as a separate verb derived from ambitare. italian instead merged vadere and ambitare into the verb andare. at the extreme french merged three latin verbs with, for example, the present tense deriving from vadere and another verb ambulare (or something like it) and the future tense deriving from ire. similarly the romance distinction between the romance verbs for "to be", essere and stare, was lost in french as these merged into the verb être. in italian, the verb essere inherited both romance meanings of "being essentially" and "being temporarily of the quality of", while stare specialized into a verb denoting location or dwelling, or state of health. copula[edit] main article: romance copula the copula (that is, the verb signifying "to be") of classical latin was esse. this evolved to *essere in vulgar latin by attaching the common infinitive suffix -re to the classical infinitive; this produced italian essere and french être through proto-gallo-romance *essre and old french estre as well as spanish and portuguese ser (romanian a fi derives from fieri, which means "to become"). in vulgar latin a second copula developed utilizing the verb stare, which originally meant (and is cognate with) "to stand", to denote a more temporary meaning. that is, *essere signified the essence, while stare signified the state. stare evolved to spanish and portuguese estar and old french ester (both through *estare), while italian and romanian retained the original form. the semantic shift that underlies this evolution is more or less as follows: a speaker of classical latin might have said: vir est in foro, meaning "the man is in/at the marketplace". the same sentence in vulgar latin could have been *(h)omo stat in foro, "the man stands in/at the marketplace", replacing the est (from esse) with stat (from stare), because "standing" was what was perceived as what the man was actually doing. the use of stare in this case was still semantically transparent assuming that it meant "to stand", but soon the shift from esse to stare became more widespread. in the iberian peninsula esse ended up only denoting natural qualities that would not change, while stare was applied to transient qualities and location. in italian, stare is used mainly for location, transitory state of health (sta male 's/he is ill' but è gracile 's/he is puny') and, as in spanish, for the eminently transient quality implied in a verb's progressive form, such as sto scrivendo to express 'i am writing'. the historical development of the stare + gerund progressive in those romance languages that have it seems to have been a passage from a usage such as sto pensando 'i stand/stay (here) thinking', in which the stare form carries the full semantic load of 'stand, stay' to grammaticalization of the construction as expression of progressive aspect (similar in concept to the english verbal construction of "i am still thinking"). the process of reanalysis that took place over time bleached the semantics of stare so that when used in combination with the gerund the form became solely a grammatical marker of subject and tense (e.g. sto = subject first person singular, present; stavo = subject first person singular, past), no longer a lexical verb with the semantics of 'stand' (not unlike the auxiliary in compound tenses that once meant 'have, possess', but is now semantically empty: j'ai écrit, ho scritto, he escrito, etc.). whereas sto scappando would once have been semantically strange at best (?'i stay escaping'), once grammaticalization was achieved, collocation with a verb of inherent mobility was no longer contradictory, and sto scappando could and did become the normal way to express 'i am escaping'. (although it might be objected that in sentences like spanish la catedral está en la ciudad, "the cathedral is in the city" this is also unlikely to change, but all locations are expressed through estar in spanish, as this usage originally conveyed the sense of "the cathedral stands in the city"). word order typology[edit] classical latin in most cases adopted an sov word order in ordinary prose, although other word orders were allowed, such as in poetry, due to its inflectional nature. however, word order in the modern romance languages generally adopted a standard svo word order. fragments of sov word order still survive in the placement of clitic object pronouns (e.g. spanish yo te amo "i love you"). see also[edit] 	romance copula 	romance languages 	reichenau glosses 	oaths of strasbourg 	veronese riddle 	glosas emilianenses 	gallo-romance 	gallo-italic 	ibero-roman 	common romanian 	daco-roman 	thraco-roman history of specific romance languages[edit] 	sicilian 	catalan phonology 	history of french 	history of italian 	history of portuguese 	history of the spanish language 	latin to romanian sound changes 	old french references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ posner, rebecca ( ). the romance languages. cambridge, new york: cambridge university press. p.  . 	^ herman , p.  . 	^ posner, rebecca; sala, marius. 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( ). an introduction to old occitan. new york: modern language association of america. 	to sardinian 	blasco ferrer, eduardo ( ). storia linguistica della sardegna. tübingen: max niemeyer verlag. further reading[edit] 	adams, james noel. . the text and language of a vulgar latin chronicle (anonymus valesianus ii). london: university of london, institute of classical studies. 	--. . the vulgar latin of the letters of claudius terentianus. manchester, uk: manchester univ. press. 	--. . social variation and the latin language. cambridge: cambridge university press. 	burghini, julia, and javier uría. . "some neglected evidence on vulgar latin 'glide suppression': consentius, . . n." glotta; zeitschrift für griechische und lateinische sprache : – . jstor  . 	herman, józsef, and roger wright. . vulgar latin. university park: pennsylvania state university press. 	jensen, frede. . from vulgar latin to old provençal. chapel hill: university of north carolina press. 	lakoff, robin tolmach. . "vulgar latin: comparative castration (and comparative theories of syntax). style , nos. – : – . jstor  . /style. . - . . 	rohlfs, gerhard. . from vulgar latin to old french: an introduction to the study of the old french language. detroit: wayne state university press. 	weiss, michael. . outline of the historical and comparative grammar of latin. ann arbor, mi: beechstave. 	zovic, v ( ). "vulgar latin in inscriptions from the roman province of dalmatia". vjesnik za arheologiju i povijest dalmatinsku. : – . external links[edit] 	library resources about vulgar latin 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	batzarov, zdravko ( ). "orbis latinus". retrieved september . 	norberg, dag; johnson, r.h. (translator) ( ) [ ]. "latin at the end of the imperial age". manuel pratique de latin médiéval. new york: columbia university press, orbis latinus. 	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wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	joannes zonaras 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		  (redirected from zonaras) 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		joannes or john zonaras (greek: Ἰωάννης Ζωναρᾶς, iōánnēs zōnarâs; fl. th century) was a byzantine chronicler and theologian who lived in constantinople. under emperor alexios i komnenos he held the offices of head justice and private secretary (protasēkrētis) to the emperor, but after alexios' death, he retired to the monastery on the island of hagia glykeria,[ ] (incir ada, in the aegean sea), where he spent the rest of his life writing books. contents 	 written works 	 notes 	 references 	 external links written works[edit] his most important work, extracts of history (greek: Ἐπιτομὴ Ἱστοριῶν, latin: epitome historiarum), in eighteen books, extends from the creation of the world to the death of alexius ( ). the earlier part is largely drawn from josephus; for roman history he chiefly followed cassius dio up to the early third century. contemporary scholars are particularly interested in his account of the third and fourth centuries, which depend upon sources, now lost, whose nature is fiercely debated. central to this debate is the work of bruno bleckmann, whose arguments tend to be supported by continental scholars but rejected in part by english-speaking scholars.[ ] an english translation of these important sections has recently been published.[ ] the chief original part of zonaras' history is the section on the reign of alexios i komnenos, whom he criticizes for the favour shown to members of his family, to whom alexios entrusted vast estates and significant state offices. his history was continued by nicetas acominatus. various ecclesiastical works have been attributed to zonaras — commentaries on the church fathers and the poems of gregory of nazianzus; lives of saints; and a treatise on the apostolic canons — and there is no reason to doubt their genuineness. the lexicon, however, which has been handed down under his name (ed. j. a. h. tittmann ) is probably the work of a certain antonius monachus (stein's herodotus, ii. f). the first ecclesiastical denunciation of the game of chess on the part of the eastern orthodox church was voiced by zonaras. it was during his retirement as a monk to the monastery of mount athos that he wrote his commentary on the canons of the eastern church. the quinisext council required both clergy and laity to give up the use of dice (canon ). zonaras wanted chess to also be included for clergy and laity to give up. zonaras, commenting on canon , wrote, "because there are some of the bishops and clergy who depart from virtue and play chess (zatikron) or dice or drink to excess, the rule commands that such shall cease to do so or be excluded; and if a bishop or elder or deacon or subdeacon or reader or singer do not cease so to do, he shall be cast out: and if laymen be given to chess-playing and drunkenness, they shall be excluded." notes[edit] 	^ fresco, karen l.; wright, charles d. (ed.) ( ). translating the middle ages. oxford, new york: routledge. p.  . isbn  . retrieved sep , .cs maint: extra text: authors list (link) 	^ bleckmann, die reichskrise des iii. jahrhunderts in der spätantiken und byzantinischen geschichtsschreibung : untersuchungen zu den nachdionischen quellen der chronik des johannes zonaras. munich, . 	^ banchich and lane, zonaras, . references[edit] 		wikisource has the text of the catholic encyclopedia article john zonaras. 	kazhdan, alexander (ed.) ( ). oxford dictionary of byzantium. oxford university press. p.  . isbn  - - - - .cs maint: extra text: authors list (link) 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: chisholm, hugh, ed. ( ). "zonaras, joannes". encyclopædia britannica ( th ed.). cambridge university press. 	dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology, william smith, ed., little, brown and company, boston ( ), vol. iii, p. ("joannes zonaras"). 	harper's dictionary of classical literature and antiquities, harry thurston peck, ed. (second edition, ), p. ("ioannes zonaras"). 	oxford classical dictionary, n. g. l. hammond and h. h. scullard, eds., clarendon press, oxford (second edition, ), p. ("johannes zonaras"). 	thomas banchich and eugene lane, the history of zonaras from alexander severus to the death of theodosius the great, routledge, . external links[edit] 	editio princeps: ioannis zonarae monachi, qui olim byzantii magnus drungarius excubiaru[m] seu biglae, & protosecretarius fuit, compendium historiarum : in tres tomos distinctum. vols., greek text with latin translation. oporinus, basel . vol. vol. vol. 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earl of aberdeen 	preceded by	benjamin disraeli 	succeeded by	george cornewall lewis 	secretary of state for war and the colonies 	in office december  – june 	monarch	victoria 	prime minister	robert peel 	preceded by	the earl of derby 	succeeded by	the earl of grey 	president of the board of trade 	in office may  – february 	monarch	victoria 	prime minister	robert peel 	preceded by	the earl of ripon 	succeeded by	the earl of dalhousie 	member of parliament 	in office august  – august 	preceded by	thomas grimston estcourt 	succeeded by	thomas gibson-carmichael 	constituency	oxford university ( – ) south lancashire ( – ) greenwich ( – ) midlothian ( – ) 	in office january  – january 	preceded by	thomas wilde 	succeeded by	john stuart 	constituency	newark 	monarch	victoria 	 	personal details 	born	( - - ) december rodney street, liverpool, lancashire, england 	died	 may ( - - ) (aged  ) hawarden castle, flintshire, wales 	resting place	westminster abbey 	nationality	british 	political party		tory ( – ) 	conservative ( – ) 	peelite ( – ) 	liberal ( – ) 	spouse(s)	catherine glynne ​ (m.  )​ 	children	 ; including william, helen, henry, herbert 	parents	 	sir john gladstone 	anne mackenzie robertson 	alma mater	christ church, oxford 	signature	 william ewart gladstone frs fss (/ˈɡlædstən/; december  – may ) was a british statesman and liberal politician. in a career lasting over years, he served for years as prime minister of the united kingdom, spread over four terms beginning in and ending in . he also served as chancellor of the exchequer four times, serving over years. gladstone was born in liverpool to scottish parents. he first entered the house of commons in , beginning his political career as a high tory, a grouping which became the conservative party under robert peel in . gladstone served as a minister in both of peel's governments, and in joined the breakaway peelite faction, which eventually merged into the new liberal party in . he was chancellor under lord aberdeen ( – ), lord palmerston ( – ) and lord russell ( – ). gladstone's own political doctrine—which emphasised equality of opportunity and opposition to trade protectionism—came to be known as gladstonian liberalism. his popularity amongst the working-class earned him the sobriquet "the people's william". in , gladstone became prime minister for the first time. many reforms were passed during his first ministry, including the disestablishment of the church of ireland and the introduction of secret voting. after electoral defeat in , gladstone resigned as leader of the liberal party. from he began a comeback based on opposition to turkey's reaction to the bulgarian april uprising. his midlothian campaign of – was an early example of many modern political campaigning techniques.[ ][ ] after the general election, gladstone formed his second ministry ( – ), which saw the passage of the third reform act as well as crises in egypt (culminating in the fall of khartoum) and ireland, where his government passed repressive measures but also improved the legal rights of irish tenant farmers. back in office in early , gladstone proposed home rule for ireland but was defeated in the house of commons. the resulting split in the liberal party helped keep them out of office – with one short break – for years. gladstone formed his last government in , at the age of . the government of ireland bill passed through the commons but was defeated in the house of lords in . gladstone left office in march , aged , as both the oldest person to serve as prime minister and the only prime minister to have served four terms. he left parliament in and died three years later. gladstone was known affectionately by his supporters as "the people's william" or the "g.o.m." ("grand old man", or, to political rivals "god's only mistake").[ ] historians often call him one of britain's greatest leaders.[ ][ ][ ][ ] contents 	 early life 	 house of commons 	 . first term 	 . attitude towards slavery 	 . opposition to the opium wars 	 minister under peel ( – ) 	 opposition mp ( – ) 	 chancellor of the exchequer ( – ) 	 opposition ( – ) 	 chancellor of the exchequer ( – ) 	 . american civil war 	 . electoral reform 	 . leader of the liberal party, from 	 first premiership ( – ) 	 opposition ( – ) 	 . anti-catholicism 	 . self help and opposition to socialism 	 . bulgarian horrors 	 second premiership ( – ) 	 . foreign policy 	 . ireland 	 . franchise 	 . failure 	 third premiership ( ) 	 opposition ( – ) 	 fourth premiership ( – ) 	 final years ( – ) 	 religion 	 marriage and family 	 . descendants 	 legacy 	 . rivalry with disraeli 	 monuments and archives 	 gallery 	 in popular culture 	 portrayal in film and television 	 works 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 further reading 	 . biographies 	 . special studies 	 . midlothian campaign 	 . historiography 	 . primary sources 	 external links early life[edit] born in in liverpool, at rodney street, william ewart gladstone was the fourth son of the merchant john gladstone, and his second wife, anne mackenzie robertson. in , the family name was changed from gladstones to gladstone by royal licence. his father was made a baronet, of fasque and balfour, in .[ ] although born and raised in liverpool, william gladstone was of purely scottish ancestry.[ ] his grandfather thomas gladstones ( – ) was a prominent merchant from leith, and his maternal grandfather, andrew robertson, was provost of dingwall and a sheriff-substitute of ross-shire.[ ] his biographer john morley described him as "a highlander in the custody of a lowlander", and an adversary as "an ardent italian in the custody of a scotsman". one of his earliest childhood memories was being made to stand on a table and say "ladies and gentlemen" to the assembled audience, probably at a gathering to promote the election of george canning as mp for liverpool in . in , young "willy" visited scotland for the first time, as he and his brother john travelled with their father to edinburgh, biggar and dingwall to visit their relatives. willy and his brother were both made freemen of the burgh of dingwall.[ ] in , gladstone also travelled to london and cambridge for the first time with his parents. whilst in london, he attended a service of thanksgiving with his family at st paul's cathedral following the battle of waterloo, where he saw the prince regent.[ ] william gladstone was educated from to at a preparatory school at the vicarage of st. thomas' church at seaforth, close to his family's residence, seaforth house.[ ] in , william followed in the footsteps of his elder brothers and attended eton college before matriculating in at christ church, oxford, where he read classics and mathematics, although he had no great interest in the latter subject. in december , he achieved the double first-class degree he had long desired. gladstone served as president of the oxford union, where he developed a reputation as an orator, which followed him into the house of commons. at university, gladstone was a tory and denounced whig proposals for parliamentary reform. gladstone in the s following the success of his double first, william travelled with his brother john on a grand tour of western europe. although gladstone entered lincoln's inn in , with intentions of becoming a barrister, by he had requested that his name should be removed from the list because he no longer intended to be called to the bar.[ ] house of commons[edit] first term[edit] when gladstone was the duke of newcastle, a conservative party activist, provided him with one of two seats at newark where he controlled about a fourth of the very small electorate. the duke spent thousands of pounds entertaining the voters. gladstone displayed remarkably strong technique as a campaigner and stump speaker.[ ] he won his seat at the united kingdom general election with votes.[ ] initially a disciple of high toryism, gladstone's maiden speech as a young tory was a defence of the rights of west indian sugar plantation magnates — slave-owners — among whom his father was prominent. he immediately came under attack from anti-slavery elements. he also surprised the duke by urging the need to increase pay for unskilled factory workers.;[ ] after new bills to protect child workers were proposed following the publication of the sadler report, he voted against the factory acts that would regulate the hours of work and welfare of minors employed in cotton mills.[ ] attitude towards slavery[edit] gladstone's early attitude towards slavery was highly shaped by his father, sir john gladstone, one of the largest slave owners in the british empire. both father and son opposed emancipation, saying the slaves first had to have better morals. they also opposed the international slave trade (which lowered the value of the slaves the father already owned).[ ][ ][ ] the antislavery movement demanded the immediate abolition of slavery. gladstone opposed this and said in that emancipation should come after moral emancipation through the adoption of an education and the inculcation of "honest and industrious habits" among the slaves then "with the utmost speed that prudence will permit, we shall arrive at that exceedingly desired consummation, the utter extinction of slavery."[ ] in , when the oxford union considered a motion in favour of the immediate emancipation of the slaves in the west indies, gladstone moved an amendment in favour of gradual manumission along with better protection for the personal and civil rights of the slaves and better provision for their christian education.[ ] his early parliamentary speeches followed a similar line: in june , gladstone concluded his speech on the ‘slavery question’ by declaring that though he had dwelt on "the dark side" of the issue, he looked forward to "a safe and gradual emancipation".[ ] in , when slavery was abolished across the british empire, the owners were paid full value for the slaves. gladstone helped his father obtain £ , in official reimbursement by the government for the , slaves he owned across nine plantations in the caribbean.[ ] in later years gladstone's attitude towards slavery became more critical as his father's influence over his politics diminished. in gladstone broke with his father when, as president of the board of trade, he advanced proposals to half duties on foreign sugar not produced by slave labour, in order to "secure the effectual exclusion of slave-grown sugar" and to encourage brazil and spain to end slavery.[ ] sir john gladstone, who opposed any reduction in duties on foreign sugar, wrote a letter to the times criticizing the measure.[ ] looking back late in life, gladstone named the abolition of slavery as one of ten great achievements of the previous sixty years where the masses had been right and the upper classes had been wrong.[ ] opposition to the opium wars[edit] the opium trade faced intense opposition from gladstone.[ ][ ] gladstone called it "most infamous and atrocious" referring to the opium trade between china and british india in particular.[ ] gladstone was fiercely against both of the opium wars britain waged in china, in the first opium war initiated in and the second opium war initiated in , denouncing british violence against chinese, and was ardently opposed to the british trade of opium in china.[ ] gladstone lambasted it as "palmerston's opium war" and said that he felt "in dread of the judgements of god upon england for our national iniquity towards china" in may .[ ] a famous speech was made by gladstone in parliament against the first opium war.[ ][ ] gladstone criticised it as "a war more unjust in its origin, a war more calculated in its progress to cover this country with permanent disgrace".[ ] his hostility to opium stemmed from the effects of opium upon his sister helen.[ ] due to the first opium war brought on by palmerston, there was initial reluctance to join the government of peel on the part of gladstone before .[ ] minister under peel ( – )[edit] gladstone was re-elected in . in september he lost the forefinger of his left hand in an accident while reloading a gun. thereafter he wore a glove or finger sheath (stall). in the second ministry of robert peel he served as president of the board of trade ( – ). gladstone was responsible for the railways act —regarded by historians as the birth of the regulatory state, of network industry regulation, of rate of return regulation, and telegraph regulation. examples of its foresight are the clauses empowering government to take control of railway in time of war, the concept of parliamentary trains limited in cost to a penny a mile, of universal service and of control of the recently invented electric telegraph which ran alongside railway lines. railways were the largest investment (as a percentage of gnp) in human history and this bill the most heavily lobbied in parliamentary history. gladstone succeeded in guiding the act through parliament at the height of the railway bubble.[ ] gladstone became concerned with the situation of "coal whippers". these were the men who worked on london docks, "whipping" in baskets from ships to barges or wharves all incoming coal from the sea. they were called up and relieved through public houses, therefore a man could not get this job unless he possessed the favourable opinion of the publican, who looked most favourably upon those who drank. the man's name was written down and the "score" followed. publicans issued employment solely on the capacity of the man to pay, and men often left the pub to work drunk. they spent their savings on drink to secure the favourable opinion of publicans and therefore further employment. gladstone passed the coal vendors act to set up a central office for employment. when this act expired in a select committee was appointed by the lords in to look into the question. gladstone gave evidence to the committee: "i approached the subject in the first instance as i think everyone in parliament of necessity did, with the strongest possible prejudice against the proposal [to interfere]; but the facts stated were of so extraordinary and deplorable a character, that it was impossible to withhold attention from them. then the question being whether legislative interference was required i was at length induced to look at a remedy of an extraordinary character as the only one i thought applicable to the case ... it was a great innovation".[ ] looking back in , gladstone wrote that "in principle, perhaps my coalwhippers act of was the most socialistic measure of the last half century".[ ] he resigned in over the maynooth grant issue, a matter of conscience for him.[ ] to improve relations with the catholic church, peel's government proposed increasing the annual grant paid to maynooth seminary for training catholic priests in ireland. gladstone, who had previously argued in a book that a protestant country should not pay money to other churches, nevertheless supported the increase in the maynooth grant and voted for it in commons, but resigned rather than face charges that he had compromised his principles to remain in office. after accepting gladstone's resignation, peel confessed to a friend, "i really have great difficulty sometimes in exactly comprehending what he means."[ ] gladstone returned to peel's government as colonial secretary in december . "as such, he had to stand for re-election, but the strong protectionism of the duke of newcastle, his patron in newark, meant that he could not stand there and no other seat was available. throughout the corn law crisis of , therefore, gladstone was in the highly anomalous and possibly unique position of being a secretary of state without a seat in either house and thus unanswerable to parliament."[ ] opposition mp ( – )[edit] in peel's government fell over the repeal of the corn laws and gladstone followed his leader into a course of separation from mainstream conservatives. after peel's death in , gladstone emerged as the leader of the peelites in the house of commons. he was re-elected for the university of oxford (i.e. representing the ma graduates of the university) at the general election in —peel had once held this seat but had lost it because of his espousal of catholic emancipation in . gladstone became a constant critic of lord palmerston.[ ] in gladstone helped to establish glenalmond college, then the holy and undivided trinity college at glenalmond. the school was set up as an episcopal foundation to spread the ideas of anglicanism in scotland, and to educate the sons of the gentry.[ ] as a young man gladstone had treated his father's estate, fasque, in forfarshire, southwest of aberdeen, as home, but as a younger son he would not inherit it. instead, from the time of his marriage, he lived at his wife's family's estate at hawarden in flintshire, wales. he never actually owned hawarden, which belonged first to his brother-in-law sir stephen glynne, and was then inherited by gladstone's eldest son in . during the late s, when he was out of office, he worked extensively to turn hawarden into a viable business.[ ] in he founded the church penitentiary association for the reclamation of fallen women. in may he began his most active "rescue work" and met prostitutes late at night on the street, in his house or in their houses, writing their names in a private notebook. he aided the house of mercy at clewer near windsor (which exercised extreme in-house discipline) and spent much time arranging employment for ex-prostitutes. in a "declaration" signed on december and only to be opened after his death, gladstone wrote, "i desire to record my solemn declaration and assurance, as in the sight of god and before his judgement seat, that at no period of my life have i been guilty of the act which is known as that of infidelity to the marriage bed."[ ] in / gladstone visited naples. italy, for the benefit of his daughter mary's eyesight. giacomo lacaita, legal adviser to the british embassy, was at the time imprisoned by the neapolitan government, as were other political dissidents. gladstone became concerned at the political situation in naples and the arrest and imprisonment of neapolitan liberals. in february gladstone visited the prisons where thousands of them were held and was extremely outraged. in april and july he published two letters to the earl of aberdeen against the neapolitan government and responded to his critics in an examination of the official reply of the neapolitan government in . gladstone's first letter described what he saw in naples as "the negation of god erected into a system of government".[ ] chancellor of the exchequer ( – )[edit] a pensive gladstone, from the book great britain and her queen, by anne e. keeling in , following the appointment of lord aberdeen as prime minister, head of a coalition of whigs and peelites, gladstone became chancellor of the exchequer. the whig sir charles wood and the tory disraeli had both been perceived to have failed in the office and so this provided gladstone with a great political opportunity.[ ] his first budget in almost completed the work begun by peel eleven years before in simplifying britain's tariff of duties and customs.[ ] duties were abolished and duties were reduced.[ ] the income tax had legally expired but gladstone proposed to extend it for seven years to fund tariff reductions: we propose, then, to re-enact it for two years, from april, , to april, , at the rate of d. in the £; from april, , to enact it for two more years at d. in the £; and then for three years more ... from april, , at d. under this proposal, on april , the income-tax will by law expire.[ ] gladstone wanted to maintain a balance between direct and indirect taxation and to abolish income tax. he knew that its abolition depended on a considerable retrenchment in government expenditure. he therefore increased the number of people eligible to pay it by lowering the threshold from £ to £ . the more people that paid income tax, gladstone believed, the more the public would pressure the government into abolishing it.[ ] gladstone argued that the £ line was "the dividing line ... between the educated and the labouring part of the community" and that therefore the income tax payers and the electorate were to be the same people, who would then vote to cut government expenditure.[ ] the budget speech (delivered on april), nearly five hours long, raised gladstone "at once to the front rank of financiers as of orators".[ ] h.c.g. matthew has written that gladstone "made finance and figures exciting, and succeeded in constructing budget speeches epic in form and performance, often with lyrical interludes to vary the tension in the commons as the careful exposition of figures and argument was brought to a climax".[ ] the contemporary diarist charles greville wrote of gladstone's speech: ... by universal consent it was one of the grandest displays and most able financial statement that ever was heard in the house of commons; a great scheme, boldly, skilfully, and honestly devised, disdaining popular clamour and pressure from without, and the execution of it absolute perfection. even those who do not admire the budget, or who are injured by it, admit the merit of the performance. it has raised gladstone to a great political elevation, and, what is of far greater consequence than the measure itself, has given the country assurance of a man equal to great political necessities, and fit to lead parties and direct governments.[ ] during wartime, he insisted on raising taxes and not borrowing funds to pay for the war. the goal was to turn wealthy britons against expensive wars. britain entered the crimean war in february , and gladstone introduced his budget on march. he had to increase expenditure on the military and a vote of credit of £ , , was taken to send a force of , to the front. the deficit for the year would be £ , , (estimated revenue £ , , ; estimated expenditure £ , , ). gladstone refused to borrow the money needed to rectify this deficit and instead increased income tax by half, from sevenpence to tenpence-halfpenny in the pound (from . % to . %). by may another £ , , was needed for the war and gladstone raised the income tax from tenpence halfpenny to fourteen pence in the pound to raise £ , , . spirits, malt, and sugar were taxed to raise the rest of the money needed.[ ] he proclaimed: 	the expenses of a war are the moral check which it has pleased the almighty to impose upon the ambition and lust of conquest that are inherent in so many nations ... the necessity of meeting from year to year the expenditure which it entails is a salutary and wholesome check, making them feel what they are about, and making them measure the cost of the benefit upon which they may calculate[ ] he served until , a few weeks into lord palmerston's first premiership, and resigned along with the rest of the peelites after a motion was passed to appoint a committee of inquiry into the conduct of the war. opposition ( – )[edit] gladstone in , painted by george frederic watts. the conservative leader lord derby became prime minister in , but gladstone—who like the other peelites was still nominally a conservative—declined a position in his government, opting not to sacrifice his free trade principles. between november and february , gladstone, on behalf of lord derby's government, was made extraordinary lord high commissioner of the ionian islands embarking via vienna and trieste on a twelve-week mission to the southern adriatic entrusted with complex challenges that had arisen in connection with the future of the british protectorate of the united states of the ionian islands.[ ] in , gladstone took up the hobby of tree felling, mostly of oak trees, an exercise he continued with enthusiasm until he was in . eventually, he became notorious for this activity, prompting lord randolph churchill to observe: "for the purposes of recreation he has selected the felling of trees; and we may usefully remark that his amusements, like his politics, are essentially destructive. every afternoon the whole world is invited to assist at the crashing fall of some beech or elm or oak. the forest laments in order that mr gladstone may perspire."[ ] less noticed at the time was his practice of replacing the trees felled by planting new saplings. gladstone was a lifelong bibliophile.[ ] in his lifetime, he read around , books, and eventually owned a library of over , .[ ] chancellor of the exchequer ( – )[edit] gladstone in , photographed by john mayall. in , lord palmerston formed a new mixed government with radicals included, and gladstone again joined the government (with most of the other remaining peelites) as chancellor of the exchequer, to become part of the new liberal party. gladstone inherited a deficit of nearly £ , , , with income tax now set at d (fivepence). like peel, gladstone dismissed the idea of borrowing to cover the deficit. gladstone argued that "in time of peace nothing but dire necessity should induce us to borrow".[ ] most of the money needed was acquired through raising the income tax to d. usually not more than two-thirds of a tax imposed could be collected in a financial year so gladstone therefore imposed the extra four pence at a rate of d. during the first half of the year so that he could obtain the additional revenue in one year. gladstone's dividing line set up in had been abolished in but gladstone revived it, with lower incomes to pay ½d. instead of d. for the first half of the year the lower incomes paid d. and the higher incomes paid d. in income tax.[ ] on september the radical mp richard cobden visited gladstone, who recorded it in his diary: "... further conv. with mr. cobden on tariffs & relations with france. we are closely & warmly agreed".[ ] cobden was sent as britain's representative to the negotiations with france's michel chevalier for a free trade treaty between the two countries. gladstone wrote to cobden: "... the great aim—the moral and political significance of the act, and its probable and desired fruit in binding the two countries together by interest and affection. neither you nor i attach for the moment any superlative value to this treaty for the sake of the extension of british trade. ... what i look to is the social good, the benefit to the relations of the two countries, and the effect on the peace of europe".[ ] gladstone's budget of was introduced on february along with the cobden–chevalier treaty between britain and france that would reduce tariffs between the two countries.[ ] this budget "marked the final adoption of the free trade principle, that taxation should be levied for revenue purposes alone, and that every protective, differential, or discriminating duty ... should be dislodged".[ ] at the beginning of , there were duties in existence. the budget reduced the number of duties to , with duties constituting the majority of the revenue. to finance these reductions in indirect taxation, the income tax, instead of being abolished, was raised to d. for incomes above £ and at d. for incomes above £ .[ ] in gladstone intended to abolish the duty on paper - a controversial policy - because the duty traditionally inflated the cost of publishing and hindered the dissemination of radical working-class ideas. although palmerston supported continuation of the duty, using it and income tax revenue to buy arms, a majority of his cabinet supported gladstone. the bill to abolish duties on paper narrowly passed commons but was rejected by the house of lords. no money bill had been rejected by lords for over years, and a furore arose over this vote. the next year, gladstone included the abolition of paper duty in a consolidated finance bill (the first ever) to force the lords to accept it, and accept it they did. the proposal in the commons of one bill only per session for the national finances was a precedent uniformly followed from that date until , and it has been ever since the rule.[ ] gladstone steadily reduced income tax over the course of his tenure as chancellor. in the tax was reduced to ninepence (£ – s– d), in to sevenpence, in to fivepence and in to fourpence.[ ] gladstone believed that government was extravagant and wasteful with taxpayers' money and so sought to let money "fructify in the pockets of the people" by keeping taxation levels down through "peace and retrenchment". in he wrote to his brother, who was a member of the financial reform association at liverpool: "economy is the first and great article (economy such as i understand it) in my financial creed. the controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a minor, though important place".[ ] he wrote to his wife on january : "i am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. it is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards".[ ][incomplete short citation] [a] due to his actions as chancellor, gladstone earned the reputation as the liberator of british trade and the working man's breakfast table, the man responsible for the emancipation of the popular press from "taxes upon knowledge" and for placing a duty on the succession of the estates of the rich.[ ] gladstone's popularity rested on his taxation policies which meant to his supporters balance, social equity and political justice.[ ] the most significant expression of working-class opinion was at northumberland in when gladstone visited. george holyoake recalled in : when mr gladstone visited the north, you well remember when word passed from the newspaper to the workman that it circulated through mines and mills, factories and workshops, and they came out to greet the only british minister who ever gave the english people a right because it was just they should have it ... and when he went down the tyne, all the country heard how twenty miles of banks were lined with people who came to greet him. men stood in the blaze of chimneys; the roofs of factories were crowded; colliers came up from the mines; women held up their children on the banks that it might be said in after life that they had seen the chancellor of the people go by. the river was covered like the land. every man who could ply an oar pulled up to give mr gladstone a cheer. when lord palmerston went to bradford the streets were still, and working men imposed silence upon themselves. when mr gladstone appeared on the tyne he heard cheer no other english minister ever heard ... the people were grateful to him, and rough pitmen who never approached a public man before, pressed round his carriage by thousands ... and thousands of arms were stretched out at once, to shake hands with mr gladstone as one of themselves.[ ] when gladstone first joined palmerston's government in , he had opposed further electoral reform, but he changed his position during palmerston's last premiership, and by he was firmly in favour of enfranchising the working classes in towns. the policy caused friction with palmerston, who strongly opposed enfranchisement. at the beginning of each session, gladstone would passionately urge the cabinet to adopt new policies, while palmerston would fixedly stare at a paper before him. at a lull in gladstone's speech, palmerston would smile, rap the table with his knuckles, and interject pointedly, "now, my lords and gentlemen, let us go to business".[ ] although he personally was not a nonconformist, and rather disliked them in person, he formed a coalition with the nonconformists that gave the liberals a powerful base of support.[ ] american civil war[edit] shortly after the outbreak of the american civil war gladstone wrote to his friend the duchess of sutherland that "the principle announced by the vice-president of the south...which asserts the superiority of the white man, and therewith founds on it his right to hold the black in slavery, i think that principle detestable, and i am wholly with the opponents of it" but that he felt that the north was wrong to try to restore the union by military force, which he believed would end in failure.[ ] palmerston's government adopted a position of british neutrality throughout the war, while declining to recognise the independence of the confederacy. in october gladstone made a speech in newcastle in which he said that jefferson davis and the other confederate leaders had "made a nation", that the confederacy seemed certain to succeed in asserting its independence from the north, and that the time might come when it would be the duty of the european powers to "offer friendly aid in compromising the quarrel."[ ] the speech caused consternation on both sides of the atlantic and led to speculation that the britain might be about to recognise the confederacy."[ ][ ] gladstone was accused of sympathising with the south, a charge he rejected.[ ][ ] gladstone was forced to clarify in the press that his comments in newcastle had not been intended to signal a change in government policy, but to express his belief that the north's efforts to defeat the south would fail, due to southern resistance.[ ][ ] in a memorandum to the cabinet later that month gladstone wrote that, although he believed the confederacy would probably win the war, it was "seriously tainted by its connection with slavery" and argued that the european powers should use their influence on the south to effect the "mitigation or removal of slavery."[ ] electoral reform[edit] in may gladstone said that he saw no reason in principle why all mentally able men could not be enfranchised, but admitted that this would only come about once the working classes themselves showed more interest in the subject. queen victoria was not pleased with this statement, and an outraged palmerston considered it a seditious incitement to agitation.[ ] gladstone's support for electoral reform and disestablishment of the (anglican) church of ireland won support from nonconformists but alienated him from constituents in his oxford university seat, and he lost it in the general election. a month later he stood as a candidate in south lancashire, where he was elected third mp (south lancashire at this time elected three mps). palmerston campaigned for gladstone in oxford because he believed that his constituents would keep him "partially muzzled"; many oxford graduates were anglican clergymen at that time. a victorious gladstone told his new constituency, "at last, my friends, i am come among you; and i am come—to use an expression which has become very famous and is not likely to be forgotten—i am come 'unmuzzled'."[ ] on palmerston's death in october, earl russell formed his second ministry.[ ] russell and gladstone (now the senior liberal in the house of commons) attempted to pass a reform bill, which was defeated in the commons because the "adullamite" whigs, led by robert lowe, refused to support it. the conservatives then formed a ministry, in which after long parliamentary debate disraeli passed the second reform act of ; gladstone's proposed bill had been totally outmanoeuvred; he stormed into the chamber, but too late to see his arch-enemy pass the bill. gladstone was furious; his animus commenced a long rivalry that would only end on disraeli's death and gladstone's encomium in the commons in .[ ] leader of the liberal party, from [edit] lord russell retired in and gladstone became leader of the liberal party.[ ] in the irish church resolutions was proposed as a measure to reunite the liberal party in government (on the issue of disestablishment of the church of ireland—this would be done during gladstone's first government in and meant that irish roman catholics did not need to pay their tithes to the anglican church of ireland).[ ] when it was passed disraeli took the hint and called a general election. first premiership ( – )[edit] main articles: first premiership of william gladstone, first gladstone ministry, and foreign policy of william ewart gladstone gladstone's cabinet of , painted by lowes cato dickinson.[ ] use a cursor to see who is who.[ ] in the next general election in , the south lancashire constituency had been broken up by the second reform act into two: south east lancashire and south west lancashire. gladstone stood for south west lancashire and for greenwich, it being quite common then for candidates to stand in two constituencies simultaneously.[ ] to his great surprise he was defeated in south lancashire but winning in greenwich was able to remain in parliament. he became prime minister for the first time and remained in the office until . evelyn ashley famously described the scene in the grounds of hawarden castle on december : one afternoon...in the park at hawarden, i was standing by mr. gladstone holding his coat on my arm while he, in his shirt sleeves, was wielding an axe to cut down a tree. up came a telegraph messenger. he took the telegram, opened it and read it, then handed it to me, speaking only two words, namely, 'very significant', and at once resumed his work. the message merely stated that general grey would arrive that evening from windsor. this, of course, implied that a mandate was coming from the queen charging mr. gladstone with the formation of his first government. i said nothing, but waited while the well-directed blows resounded in regular cadence. after a few minutes the blows ceased and mr. gladstone, resting on the handle of his axe, looked up, and with deep earnestness in his voice, and great intensity in his face, exclaimed: 'my mission is to pacify ireland.' he then resumed his task, and never said another word till the tree was down.[ ] in the s and s, gladstonian liberalism was characterised by a number of policies intended to improve individual liberty and loosen political and economic restraints. first was the minimisation of public expenditure on the premise that the economy and society were best helped by allowing people to spend as they saw fit. secondly, his foreign policy aimed at promoting peace to help reduce expenditures and taxation and enhance trade. thirdly, laws that prevented people from acting freely to improve themselves were reformed. when an unemployed miner (daniel jones) wrote to him to complain of his unemployment and low wages, gladstone gave what h. c. g. matthew has called "the classic mid-victorian reply" on october : the only means which have been placed in my power of 'raising the wages of colliers' has been by endeavouring to beat down all those restrictions upon trade which tend to reduce the price to be obtained for the product of their labour, & to lower as much as may be the taxes on the commodities which they may require for use or for consumption. beyond this i look to the forethought not yet so widely diffused in this country as in scotland, & in some foreign lands; & i need not remind you that in order to facilitate its exercise the government have been empowered by legislation to become through the dept. of the p.o. the receivers & guardians of savings.[ ] gladstone's first premiership instituted reforms in the british army, civil service, and local government to cut restrictions on individual advancement. the local government board act put the supervision of the poor law under the local government board (headed by g.j. goschen) and gladstone's "administration could claim spectacular success in enforcing a dramatic reduction in supposedly sentimental and unsystematic outdoor poor relief, and in making, in co-operation with the charity organization society ( ), the most sustained attempt of the century to impose upon the working classes the victorian values of providence, self-reliance, foresight, and self-discipline".[ ] gladstone was associated with the charity organization society's first annual report in .[ ] some leading conservatives at this time were contemplating an alliance between the aristocracy and the working class against the capitalist class, an idea called the new social alliance.[ ] at a speech at blackheath on october , he warned his constituents against these social reformers: ... they are not your friends, but they are your enemies in fact, though not in intention, who teach you to look to the legislature for the radical removal of the evils that afflict human life. ... it is the individual mind and conscience, it is the individual character, on which mainly human happiness or misery depends. (cheers.) the social problems that confront us are many and formidable. let the government labour to its utmost, let the legislature labour days and nights in your service; but, after the very best has been attained and achieved, the question whether the english father is to be the father of a happy family and the centre of a united home is a question which must depend mainly upon himself. (cheers.) and those who ... promise to the dwellers in towns that every one of them shall have a house and garden in free air, with ample space; those who tell you that there shall be markets for selling at wholesale prices retail quantities—i won't say are impostors, because i have no doubt they are sincere; but i will say they are quacks (cheers); they are deluded and beguiled by a spurious philanthropy, and when they ought to give you substantial, even if they are humble and modest boons, they are endeavouring, perhaps without their own consciousness, to delude you with fanaticism, and offering to you a fruit which, when you attempt to taste it, will prove to be but ashes in your mouths. (cheers.)[ ] gladstone as caricatured by vanity fair in . gladstone instituted abolition of the sale of commissions in the army: he also instituted the cardwell reforms in that made peacetime flogging illegal. in his government passed the trade union act allowing trade unions to organise and operate legally for the first time (although picketing remained illegal). gladstone later counted this reform as one of the most significant of the previous half century, saying that prior to its passage the law had effectively "compelled the british workman to work...in chains."[ ] he secured passage of the ballot act for secret ballots, and the licensing act . in , his leadership led to the passage of laws restructuring the high courts. in , the irish land act and forster's education act. in , he instituted the universities tests act. in foreign affairs his over-riding aim was to promote peace and understanding, characterised by his settlement of the alabama claims in in favour of the americans. gladstone unexpectedly dissolved parliament in january and called a general election. [b] gladstone's proposals went some way to meet working-class demands, such as the realisation of the free breakfast table through repealing duties on tea and sugar, and reform of local taxation which was increasing for the poorer ratepayers.[ ] according to the working-class financial reformer thomas briggs, writing in the trade unionist newspaper the bee-hive, the manifesto relied on "a much higher authority than mr. gladstone...viz., the late richard cobden".[ ] the dissolution itself was reported in the times on january. on january, the names of the first fourteen mps for uncontested seats were published. by february a conservative victory was apparent. in contrast to and when the liberal campaign lasted several months, only three weeks separated the news of the dissolution and the election. the working-class newspapers were so taken by surprise they had little time to express an opinion on gladstone's manifesto before the election was over.[ ] unlike the efforts of the conservatives, the organisation of the liberal party had declined since and they had also failed to retain liberal voters on the electoral register. george howell wrote to gladstone on february: "there is one lesson to be learned from this election, that is organization. ... we have lost not by a change of sentiment so much as by want of organised power".[ ] the liberals received a majority of the vote in each of the constituent countries of the united kingdom and , more votes nationally than the conservatives. however, they obtained a minority of seats in the house of commons.[ ] opposition ( – )[edit] gladstone in , painted by franz von lenbach. in the wake of benjamin disraeli's victory, gladstone retired from the leadership of the liberal party, although he retained his seat in the house. anti-catholicism[edit] further information: anti-catholicism in the united kingdom gladstone had a complex ambivalence about catholicism. he was attracted by its international success in majestic traditions. more important, he was strongly opposed to the authoritarianism of its pope and bishops, its profound public opposition to liberalism, and its refusal to distinguish between secular allegiance on the one hand and spiritual obedience on the other. the danger came when the pope or bishops attempted to exert temporal power, as in the vatican decrees of as the climax of the papal attempt to control churches in different nations, despite their independent nationalism.[ ] on the other hand, when ritual practices in the church of england—such as vestments and incense—came under attack as too ritualistic and too much akin to catholicism, gladstone strongly opposed passage of the public worship regulation act in .[ ] in november , he published the pamphlet the vatican decrees in their bearing on civil allegiance, directed at the first vatican council's dogmatising papal infallibility in , which had outraged him.[ ] gladstone claimed that this decree had placed british catholics in a dilemma over conflicts of loyalty to the crown. he urged them to reject papal infallibility as they had opposed the spanish armada of . the pamphlet sold , copies by the end of . a second pamphlet followed in feb , a defence of the earlier pamphlet and a reply to his critics, entitled vaticanism: an answer to reproofs and replies.[ ] he described the catholic church as "an asian monarchy: nothing but one giddy height of despotism, and one dead level of religious subservience". he further claimed that the pope wanted to destroy the rule of law and replace it with arbitrary tyranny, and then to hide these "crimes against liberty beneath a suffocating cloud of incense".[ ] portrait of gladstone at hawarden in self help and opposition to socialism[edit] in a speech to the hawarden amateur horticultural society on august , gladstone remarked "i am delighted to see how many young boys and girls have come forward to obtain honourable marks of recognition on this occasion,—if any effectual good is to be done to them, it must be done by teaching and encouraging them and helping them to help themselves. all the people who pretend to take your own concerns out of your own hands and to do everything for you, i won't say they are impostors; i won't even say they are quacks; but i do say they are mistaken people. the only sound, healthy description of countenancing and assisting these institutions is that which teaches independence and self-exertion".[ ] lord kilbracken, one of gladstone's secretaries added: it will be borne in mind that the liberal doctrines of that time, with their violent anti-socialist spirit and their strong insistence on the gospel of thrift, self-help, settlement of wages by the higgling of the market, and non-interference by the state.... i think that mr. gladstone was the strongest anti-socialist that i have ever known among persons who gave any serious thought to social and political questions. it is quite true, as has been often said, that “we are all socialists up to a certain point”; but mr. gladstone fixed that point lower, and was more vehement against those who went above it, than any other politician or official of my acquaintance. i remember his speaking indignantly to me of the budget of as “that socialistic budget of northcote's,” merely because of the special relief which it gave to the poorer class of income-tax payers. his strong belief in free trade was only one of the results of his deep-rooted conviction that the government's interference with the free action of the individual, whether by taxation or otherwise, should be kept at an irreducible minimum. it is, indeed, not too much to say that his conception of liberalism was the negation of socialism.[ ] bulgarian horrors[edit] further information: april uprising of a pamphlet gladstone published on september , bulgarian horrors and the question of the east,[ ][ ][ ] attacked the disraeli government for its indifference to the ottoman empire's violent repression of the bulgarian april uprising. gladstone made clear his hostility focused on the turkish people, rather than on the muslim religion. the turks he said: were, upon the whole, from the black day when they first entered europe, the one great anti-human specimen of humanity. wherever they went, a broad line of blood marked the track behind them; and as far as their dominion reached, civilisation disappeared from view. they represented everywhere government by force, as opposed to government by law. for the guide of this life they had a relentless fatalism: for its reward hereafter, a sensual paradise.[ ] gladstone in , painted by john everett millais. the historian geoffrey alderman has described gladstone as 'unleashing the full fury of his oratorical powers against jews and jewish influence' during the bulgarian crisis ( – ), telling a journalist in that: "i deeply deplore the manner in which, what i may call judaic sympathies, beyond as well as within the circle of professed judaism, are now acting on the question of the east'.[ ] gladstone similarly refused to speak out against the persecution of romanian jews in the s and russian jews in the early s.[ ] in response, the jewish chronicle attacked gladstone in , arguing that 'are we, because there was once a liberal party, to bow down and worship gladstone—the great minister who was too christian in his charity, too russian in his proclivities, to raise voice or finger' to defend russian jews...[ ] alderman attributes these developments, along with other factors, to the collapse of the previously strong ties between british jews and liberalism.[ ] during the election campaign, called the midlothian campaign, he rousingly denounced disraeli's foreign policies during the ongoing second anglo-afghan war in afghanistan. (see great game). he saw the war as "great dishonour" and also criticised british conduct in the zulu war. gladstone also (on november) condemned what he saw as the conservative government's profligate spending: ...the chancellor of the exchequer shall boldly uphold economy in detail; and it is the mark ... of ... a chicken-hearted chancellor of the exchequer, when he shrinks from upholding economy in detail, when, because it is a question of only £ , or £ , , he says that is no matter. he is ridiculed, no doubt, for what is called saving candle-ends and cheese-parings. no chancellor of the exchequer is worth his salt who is not ready to save what are meant by candle-ends and cheese-parings in the cause of his country. no chancellor of the exchequer is worth his salt who makes his own popularity either his first consideration, or any consideration at all, in administrating the public purse. you would not like to have a housekeeper or steward who made her or his popularity with the tradesmen the measure of the payments that were to be delivered to them. in my opinion the chancellor of the exchequer is the trusted and confidential steward of the public. he is under a sacred obligation with regard to all that he consents to spend.... i am bound to say hardly ever in the six years that sir stafford northcote has been in office have i heard him speak a resolute word on behalf of economy.[ ] second premiership ( – )[edit] main articles: second premiership of william ewart gladstone and second gladstone ministry the cabinet council, by théobald chartran, published in vanity fair, november in , the liberals won again and the liberal leaders, lord hartington (leader in the house of commons) and lord granville, retired in gladstone's favour. gladstone won his constituency election in midlothian and also in leeds, where he had also been adopted as a candidate. as he could lawfully only serve as mp for one constituency, leeds was passed to his son herbert. one of his other sons, henry, was also elected as an mp. queen victoria asked lord hartington to form a ministry, but he persuaded her to send for gladstone. gladstone's second administration—both as prime minister and again as chancellor of the exchequer till —lasted from june to june . he originally intended to retire at the end of , the th anniversary of his entry into politics, but did not do so.[ ] foreign policy[edit] main article: foreign policy of william ewart gladstone historians have debated the wisdom of gladstone's foreign-policy during his second ministry.[ ][ ] paul hayes says it "provides one of the most intriguing and perplexing tales of muddle and incompetence in foreign affairs, unsurpassed in modern political history until the days of grey and, later, neville chamberlain."[ ] gladstone opposed himself to the "colonial lobby" pushing for the scramble for africa. his term saw the end of the second anglo-afghan war, the first boer war, and the war against the mahdi in sudan. on july , gladstone ordered the bombardment of alexandria, starting the short, anglo-egyptian war of . the british won decisively, and although they repeatedly promised to depart in a few years, the actual result was british control of egypt for four decades, largely ignoring ottoman nominal ownership. france was seriously unhappy, having lost control of the canal that it built and financed and had dreamed of for decades. gladstone's role in the decision to invade was described as relatively hands-off, and the ultimate responsibility was borne by certain members of his cabinet such as lord hartington, secretary of state for india, thomas baring, st earl of northbrook, first lord of the admiralty, hugh childers, secretary of state for war, and granville leveson-gower, nd earl granville, the foreign secretary.[ ] historian a.j.p. taylor says that the seizure of egypt "was a great event; indeed, the only real event in international relations between the battle of sedan and the defeat of russia in the russo-japanese war."[ ] taylor emphasizes long-term impact: the british occupation of egypt altered the balance of power. it not only gave the british security for their route to india, it made them masters of the eastern mediterranean and the middle east. it made it unnecessary for them to stand in the front line against russia at the straits....and thus prepared the way for the franco-russian alliance ten years later.[ ] gladstone and the liberals had a reputation for strong opposition to imperialism, so historians have long debated the explanation for this reversal of policy. the most influential was a study by john robinson and ronald gallagher, africa and the victorians ( ) which focused on the imperialism of free trade and was promoted by the cambridge school of historiography. they argue there was no long-term liberal plan in support of imperialism. instead they saw the urgent necessity to act to protect the suez canal in the face of what appeared to be a radical collapse of law and order, and a nationalist revolt focused on expelling the europeans, regardless of the damage it would do to international trade and the british empire. gladstone's decision came against strained relations with france, and maneuvering by "men on the spot" in egypt. critics such as cain and hopkins have stressed the need to protect large sums invested by british financiers and egyptian bonds, while downplaying the risk to the viability of the suez canal. unlike the marxists, they stress "gentlemanly" financial and commercial interests, not the industrial capitalism that marxists believe was always central.[ ] more recently, specialists on egypt have been interested primarily in the internal dynamics among egyptians that produce the failed urabi revolt.[ ][ ] ireland[edit] main article: irish issue in british politics in he established the irish coercion act, which permitted the lord lieutenant of ireland to detain people for as "long as was thought necessary", as there was rural disturbance in ireland between landlords and tenants as cavendish, the irish secretary, had been assassinated by irish rebels in dublin.[ ] he also passed the second land act (the first, in , had entitled irish tenants, if evicted, to compensation for improvements which they had made on their property, but had had little effect) which gave irish tenants the " fs"—fair rent, fixity of tenure and free sale.[ ] he was elected a fellow of the royal society (frs) in .[ ] franchise[edit] gladstone in , photographed by rupert potter gladstone extended the vote to agricultural labourers and others in the reform act, which gave the counties the same franchise as the boroughs—adult male householders and £ lodgers—and added six million to the total number of people who could vote in parliamentary elections. parliamentary reform continued with the redistribution of seats act .[ ] gladstone was increasingly uneasy about the direction in which british politics was moving. in a letter to lord acton on february , gladstone criticised tory democracy as "demagogism" that "put down pacific, law-respecting, economic elements that ennobled the old conservatism" but "still, in secret, as obstinately attached as ever to the evil principle of class interests". he found contemporary liberalism better, "but far from being good". gladstone claimed that this liberalism's "pet idea is what they call construction,—that is to say, taking into the hands of the state the business of the individual man". both tory democracy and this new liberalism, gladstone wrote, had done "much to estrange me, and had for many, many years".[ ] failure[edit] historian sneh mahajan has concluded, "gladstone's second ministry remained barren of any achievement in the domestic sphere."[ ] his downfall came in africa, where he delayed the mission to rescue general gordon's force which had been under siege in khartoum for months. it arrived in january two days after a massacre killed thousands. the disaster proved a major blow to gladstone's popularity. queen victoria sent him a telegram of rebuke which found its way into the press. critics said gladstone had neglected military affairs and had not acted promptly enough to save the besieged gordon. critics inverted his acronym, "g.o.m." (for "grand old man"), to "m.o.g." (for "murderer of gordon"). he resigned as prime minister in june and declined queen victoria's offer of an earldom.[ ] third premiership ( )[edit] main articles: third premiership of william ewart gladstone and third gladstone ministry a political cartoon depicting gladstone "kicked out of office" in the hawarden kite was a december press release by gladstone's son and aide herbert gladstone announcing that he had become convinced that ireland needed a separate parliament.[ ][ ] the bombshell announcement resulted in the fall of lord salisbury's conservative government. irish nationalists, led by charles parnell's irish parliamentary party, held the balance of power in parliament. gladstone's conversion to home rule convinced them to switch away from the conservatives and support the liberals using the seats in parliament they controlled. the main purpose of this administration was to deliver ireland a reform which would give it a devolved assembly, similar to those which would be eventually put in place in scotland and wales in . in gladstone's party allied with irish nationalists to defeat lord salisbury's government. gladstone regained his position as prime minister and combined the office with that of lord privy seal. during this administration he first introduced his home rule bill for ireland. the issue split the liberal party (a breakaway group went on to create the liberal unionist party) and the bill was thrown out on the second reading, ending his government after only a few months and inaugurating another headed by lord salisbury. gladstone, says his biographer, "totally rejected the widespread english view that the irish had no taste for justice, common sense, moderation or national prosperity and looked only to perpetual strife and dissension".[ ] the problem for gladstone was that his rural english supporters would not support home rule for ireland. a large faction of liberals, led by joseph chamberlain, formed a unionist faction that supported the conservative party. whenever the liberals were out of power, home rule proposals languished. opposition ( – )[edit] gladstone in , as painted by franz von lenbach. gladstone supported the london dockers in their strike of . after their victory he gave a speech at hawarden on september in which he said: "in the common interests of humanity, this remarkable strike and the results of this strike, which have tended somewhat to strengthen the condition of labour in the face of capital, is the record of what we ought to regard as satisfactory, as a real social advance [that] tends to a fair principle of division of the fruits of industry".[ ] this speech has been described by eugenio biagini as having "no parallel in the rest of europe except in the rhetoric of the toughest socialist leaders".[ ] visitors at hawarden in october were "shocked...by some rather wild language on the dock labourers question".[ ] gladstone was impressed with workers unconnected with the dockers' dispute who "intended to make common cause" in the interests of justice. on october at southport, gladstone delivered a speech where he said that the right to combination, which in london was "innocent and lawful, in ireland would be penal and...punished by imprisonment with hard labour". gladstone believed that the right to combination used by british workers was in jeopardy when it could be denied to irish workers.[ ] in october gladstone at midlothian claimed that competition between capital and labour, "where it has gone to sharp issues, where there have been strikes on one side and lock-outs on the other, i believe that in the main and as a general rule, the labouring man has been in the right".[ ] on december gladstone said that: "it is a lamentable fact if, in the midst of our civilisation, and at the close of the nineteenth century, the workhouse is all that can be offered to the industrious labourer at the end of a long and honourable life. i do not enter into the question now in detail. i do not say it is an easy one; i do not say that it will be solved in a moment; but i do say this, that until society is able to offer to the industrious labourer at the end of a long and blameless life something better than the workhouse, society will not have discharged its duties to its poorer members".[ ] on march gladstone said that the liberals had: ...come generally...to the conclusion that there is something painful in the condition of the rural labourer in this great respect, that it is hard even for the industrious and sober man, under ordinary conditions, to secure a provision for his own old age. very large propositions, involving, some of them, very novel and very wide principles, have been submitted to the public, for the purpose of securing such a provision by means independent of the labourer himself....our duty [is] to develop in the first instance, every means that we may possibly devise whereby, if possible, the labourer may be able to make this provision for himself, or to approximate towards making such provision far more efficaciously and much more closely than he can now do.[ ][ ] gladstone wrote on july in autobiographica that "in the government...did themselves high honour by the new poor law act, which rescued the english peasantry from the total loss of their independence".[ ] there were many who disagreed with him. gladstone wrote to herbert spencer, who contributed the introduction to a collection of anti-socialist essays (a plea for liberty, ), that "i ask to make reserves, and of one passage, which will be easily guessed, i am unable even to perceive the relevancy. but speaking generally, i have read this masterly argument with warm admiration and with the earnest hope that it may attract all the attention which it so well deserves".[ ] the passage gladstone alluded to was one where spencer had spoken of "the behaviour of the so-called liberal party".[ ] fourth premiership ( – )[edit] main articles: fourth premiership of william ewart gladstone, fourth gladstone ministry, and foreign policy of william ewart gladstone a political cartoon depicting gladstone as a radical bent on abolishing the house of lords the general election of resulted in a minority liberal government with gladstone as prime minister. the electoral address had promised irish home rule and the disestablishment of the scottish and welsh churches.[ ] in february he introduced the second home rule bill, which was passed in the commons at second reading on april by votes and third reading on september by votes. the house of lords defeated the bill by voting against by votes to on september. the elementary education (blind and deaf children) act, passed in , required local authorities to provide separate education for blind and deaf children.[ ] conservative mp colonel howard vincent questioned gladstone in the commons on what his government would do about unemployment on september . gladstone replied: i cannot help regretting that the honourable and gallant gentleman has felt it his duty to put the question. it is put under circumstances that naturally belong to one of those fluctuations in the condition of trade which, however unfortunate and lamentable they may be, recur from time to time. undoubtedly i think that questions of this kind, whatever be the intention of the questioner, have a tendency to produce in the minds of people, or to suggest to the people, that these fluctuations can be corrected by the action of the executive government. anything that contributes to such an impression inflicts an injury upon the labouring population.[ ][ ] in december , an opposition motion proposed by lord george hamilton called for an expansion of the royal navy. gladstone opposed increasing public expenditure on the naval estimates, in the tradition of free trade liberalism of his earlier political career as chancellor. all his cabinet colleagues believed in some expansion of the navy. he declared in the commons on december that naval rearmament would commit the government to expenditure over a number of years and would subvert "the principle of annual account, annual proposition, annual approval by the house of commons, which...is the only way of maintaining regularity, and that regularity is the only talisman which will secure parliamentary control".[ ] in january , gladstone wrote that he would not "break to pieces the continuous action of my political life, nor trample on the tradition received from every colleague who has ever been my teacher" by supporting naval rearmament.[ ] gladstone also opposed chancellor sir william harcourt's proposal to implement a graduated death duty. in a fragment of autobiography dated july , gladstone denounced the tax as ...by far the most radical measure of my lifetime. i do not object to the principle of graduated taxation: for the just principle of ability to pay is not determined simply by the amount of income.... but, so far as i understand the present measure of finance from the partial reports i have received, i find it too violent. it involves a great departure from the methods of political action established in this country, where reforms, and especially financial reforms, have always been considerate and even tender.... i do not yet see the ground on which it can be justly held that any one description of property should be more heavily burdened than others, unless moral and social grounds can be shown first: but in this case the reasons drawn from those sources seem rather to verge in the opposite direction, for real property has more of presumptive connection with the discharge of duty than that which is ranked as personal...the aspect of the measure is not satisfactory to a man of my traditions (and these traditions lie near the roots of my being).... for the sudden introduction of such change there is i think no precedent in the history of this country. and the severity of the blow is greatly aggravated in moral effect by the fact that it is dealt only to a handful of individuals.[ ] gladstone had his last audience with queen victoria on february and chaired his last cabinet on march—the last of he had chaired. on that day he gave his last speech to the house of commons, saying that the government would withdraw opposition to the lords' amendments to the local government bill "under protest" and that it was "a controversy which, when once raised, must go forward to an issue".[ ] he resigned from the premiership on march. the queen did not ask gladstone who should succeed him, but sent for lord rosebery (gladstone would have advised on lord spencer).[ ] he retained his seat in the house of commons until . he was not offered a peerage, having earlier declined an earldom. gladstone is both the oldest person to form a government—aged at his appointment—and the oldest person to occupy the premiership—being at his resignation.[ ] final years ( – )[edit] gladstone in old age in , at the age of , gladstone bequeathed £ , (equivalent to approximately £ .  million today)[ ] and much of his , volume library to found st deiniol's library in hawarden, wales.[ ] it had begun with just , items at his father's home fasque, which were transferred to hawarden for research in . on january , in conversation with l.a. tollemache, gladstone explained that: "i am not so much afraid of democracy or of science as of the love of money. this seems to me to be a growing evil. also, there is a danger from the growth of that dreadful military spirit".[ ] on january, gladstone claimed he had strong conservative instincts and that "in all matters of custom and tradition, even the tories look upon me as the chief conservative that is".[ ] on january gladstone wrote to james bryce, describing himself as "a dead man, one fundamentally a peel–cobden man".[ ] in , in his last noteworthy speech, he denounced armenian massacres by ottomans in a talk delivered at liverpool. on january , gladstone wrote to francis hirst on being unable to draft a preface to a book on liberalism: "i venture on assuring you that i regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular wish well to all the efforts you may make on behalf of individual freedom and independence as opposed to what is termed collectivism".[ ][ ] in the early months of , gladstone and his wife stayed in cannes. gladstone met queen victoria, and she shook hands with him for (to his recollection) the first time in the years he had known her.[ ] one of the gladstones' neighbours observed that "he and his devoted wife never missed the morning service on sunday ... one sunday, returning from the altar rail, the old, partially blind man stumbled at the chancel step. one of the clergy sprang involuntarily to his assistance, but retreated with haste, so withering was the fire which flashed from those failing eyes."[ ] the gladstones returned to hawarden castle at the end of march and he received the colonial premiers in their visit for the queen's jubilee. at a dinner in november with edward hamilton, his former private secretary, hamilton noted that "what is now uppermost in his mind is what he calls the spirit of jingoism under the name of imperialism which is now so prevalent". gladstone riposted "it was enough to make peel and cobden turn in their graves".[ ] on the advice of his doctor samuel habershon in the aftermath of an attack of facial neuralgia, gladstone stayed at cannes from the end of november to mid-february . he gave an interview for the daily telegraph.[ ] gladstone then travelled to bournemouth, where a swelling on his palate was diagnosed as cancer by the leading cancer surgeon sir thomas smith on march. on march, he retired to hawarden castle. despite being in pain he received visitors and quoted hymns, especially cardinal newman's "praise to the holiest in the height". gladstone's grave in westminster abbey his last public statement was dictated to his daughter helen in reply to receiving the vice-chancellor of the university of oxford's "sorrow and affection": "there is no expression of christian sympathy that i value more than that of the ancient university of oxford, the god-fearing and god-sustaining university of oxford. i served her perhaps mistakenly, but to the best of my ability. my most earnest prayers are hers to the uttermost and to the last".[ ] he left the house for the last time on april. after april he did not come down to the ground floor but still came out of bed to lie on the sofa. the bishop of st andrews, dunkeld and dunblane george wilkinson recorded when he ministered to him along with stephen gladstone: shall i ever forget the last friday in passion week, when i gave him the last holy communion that i was allowed to administer to him? it was early in the morning. he was obliged to be in bed, and he was ordered to remain there, but the time had come for the confession of sin and the receiving of absolution. out of his bed he came. alone he knelt in the presence of his god till the absolution has been spoken, and the sacred elements received.[ ] gladstone died on may at hawarden castle, hawarden, aged . he had been cared for by his daughter helen who had resigned her job to care for her father and mother.[ ] the cause of death is officially recorded as "syncope, senility". "syncope" meant failure of the heart and "senility" in the th century was an infirmity of advanced old age, rather than a loss of mental faculties.[ ] the house of commons adjourned on the afternoon of gladstone's death, with a.j. balfour giving notice for an address to the queen praying for a public funeral and a public memorial in westminster abbey. the day after, both houses of parliament approved of the address and herbert gladstone accepted a public funeral on behalf of the gladstone family.[ ] his coffin was transported on the london underground before his state funeral at westminster abbey, at which the prince of wales (the future king edward vii) and the duke of york (the future king george v) acted as pallbearers.[ ] his wife, catherine gladstone (née glynne), died two years later on june ; and was buried next to him. religion[edit] gladstone's intensely religious mother was an evangelical of scottish episcopal origins,[ ] and his father joined the church of england, having been a presbyterian when he first settled in liverpool. as a boy william was baptised into the church of england. he rejected a call to enter the ministry, and on this his conscience always tormented him. in compensation he aligned his politics with the evangelical faith in which he fervently believed.[ ] in gladstone nearly ruined his career when he tried to force a religious mission upon the conservative party. his book the state in its relations with the church argued that england had neglected its great duty to the church of england. he announced that since that church possessed a monopoly of religious truth, nonconformists and roman catholics ought to be excluded from all government positions. the historian thomas babington macaulay and other critics ridiculed his arguments and refuted them. sir robert peel, gladstone's chief, was outraged because this would upset the delicate political issue of catholic emancipation and anger the nonconformists. since peel greatly admired his protégé, he redirected his focus from theology to finance.[ ] gladstone altered his approach to religious problems, which always held first place in his mind. before entering parliament he had already substituted a high church anglican attitude, with its dependence on authority and tradition, for the evangelical outlook of his boyhood, with its reliance upon the direct inspiration of the bible. in middle life he decided that the individual conscience would have to replace authority as the inner citadel of the church. that view of the individual conscience affected his political outlook and changed him gradually from a conservative into a liberal.[ ] marriage and family[edit] gladstone c. , painted by william cubley. gladstone's early attempts to find a wife proved unsuccessful, with his being rejected by caroline eliza farquhar (daughter of sir thomas harvie farquhar, nd baronet) in , and by lady frances harriet douglas (daughter of george douglas, th earl of morton) in .[ ] the following year, having met her in at the london home of old etonian friend and then fellow-conservative mp james milnes gaskell,[ ] he married catherine glynne, to whom he remained married until his death years later. they had eight children together: 	william henry gladstone mp ( june – july ); married hon. gertrude stuart (daughter of charles stuart, th lord blantyre) on september . they had three children. 	agnes gladstone ( october – may ); she married very rev. edward wickham on december . they had three children. 	the rev. stephen edward gladstone ( april – april ); he married annie wilson on january . they had five children and were ancestors of the gladstone baronets after . 	catherine jessy gladstone ( july – april ) 	mary gladstone ( november – january ); she married reverend harry drew on february . they had two daughters. 	helen gladstone ( august – august ), vice-principal of newnham college, cambridge 	henry neville gladstone ( april – april ); he married hon. maud rendel on january . 	herbert john gladstone mp ( january – march ); he married dorothy paget on november . gladstone's eldest son william (known as "willy" to distinguish him from his father), and youngest, herbert, both became members of parliament. william henry predeceased his father by seven years. gladstone's private secretary was his nephew spencer lyttelton.[ ] descendants[edit] gladstone at hawarden with his grandchild dorothy drew ( - ),[ ] daughter of mary gladstone two of gladstone's sons and a grandson, william glynne charles gladstone, followed him into parliament, making for four generations of mps in total. one of his collateral descendants, george freeman, has been the conservative member of parliament for mid norfolk since .[ ] sir albert gladstone, th baronet and sir charles gladstone, th baronet (from whom the th and th baronets are descended) were also grandsons. legacy[edit] the historian h. c. g. matthew states that gladstone's chief legacy lay in three areas: his financial policy, his support for home rule (devolution) that modified the view of the unitary state of the united kingdom and his idea of a progressive, reforming party broadly based and capable of accommodating and conciliating varying interests, along with his speeches at mass public meetings.[ ] historian walter l. arnstein concludes: notable as the gladstonian reforms had been, they had almost all remained within the th-century liberal tradition of gradually removing the religious, economic and political barriers that prevented men of varied creeds and classes from exercising their individual talents in order to improve themselves and their society. as the third quarter of the century drew to a close, the essential bastions of victorianism still held firm: respectability; a government of aristocrats and gentlemen now influenced not only by middle-class merchants and manufacturers but also by industrious working people: a prosperity that seemed to rest largely on the tenets of laissez-faire economics; and a britannia that ruled the waves and many a dominion beyond.[ ] lord acton wrote in that he considered gladstone one "of the three greatest liberals" (along with edmund burke and lord macaulay).[ ] in the liberal chancellor david lloyd george introduced his "people's budget", the first budget which aimed to redistribute wealth. the liberal statesman lord rosebery ridiculed it by asserting gladstone would reject it, "because in his eyes, and in my eyes, too as his humble disciple, liberalism and liberty were cognate terms; they were twin-sisters."[ ] lloyd george had written in that the liberals were "carving the last few columns out of the gladstonian quarry".[ ] lloyd george said of gladstone in : "what a man he was! head and shoulders above anyone else i have ever seen in the house of commons. i did not like him much. he hated nonconformists and welsh nonconformists in particular and he had no real sympathy with the working classes. but he was far and away the best parliamentary speaker i have ever heard. he was not so good in exposition."[ ] asquithian liberals continued to advocate traditional gladstonian policies of sound finance, peaceful foreign relations and the better treatment of ireland. they often compared lloyd george unfavourably with gladstone.[citation needed] writing in the classical liberal economist friedrich hayek said of the change in political attitudes that had occurred since the great war: "perhaps nothing shows this change more clearly than that, while there is no lack of sympathetic treatment of bismarck in contemporary english literature, the name of gladstone is rarely mentioned by the younger generation without a sneer over his victorian morality and naive utopianism".[ ] in the latter half of the th century gladstone's economic policies came to be admired by thatcherite conservatives. margaret thatcher proclaimed in : "we have a duty to make sure that every penny piece we raise in taxation is spent wisely and well. for it is our party which is dedicated to good housekeeping—indeed, i would not mind betting that if mr. gladstone were alive today he would apply to join the conservative party".[ ] in , she said: "the kind of conservatism which he and i...favoured would be best described as 'liberal', in the old-fashioned sense. and i mean the liberalism of mr gladstone, not of the latter-day collectivists".[ ] nigel lawson, one of thatcher's chancellors, believed gladstone to be the "greatest chancellor of all time".[ ] a. j. p. taylor wrote: william ewart gladstone was the greatest political figure of the nineteenth century. i do not mean by that that he was necessarily the greatest statesman, certainly not the most successful. what i mean is that he dominated the scene.[ ] rivalry with disraeli[edit] historical writers have often played disraeli and gladstone against each other as great rivals.[ ] roland quinault, however, cautions us not to exaggerate the confrontation: they were not direct antagonists for most of their political careers. indeed initially they were both loyal to the tory party, the church and the landed interest. although their paths diverged over the repeal of the corn laws in and later over fiscal policy more generally, it was not until the later s that their differences over parliamentary reform, irish and church policy assumed great partisan significance. even then their personal relations remained fairly cordial until their dispute over the eastern question in the later s.[ ] monuments and archives[edit] thomas edison's european agent, colonel gouraud, recorded gladstone's voice several times on phonograph. the accent on one of the recordings is north welsh.[ ] the national library of wales holds many pamphlets that were sent to gladstone during his political career. these pamphlets show the concerns of people from all strands of society and together form a historical resource of the social and economical conditions of mid to late nineteenth century britain. many of the pamphlets bear the handwriting of gladstone, which provides direct evidence of gladstone's interest in various topics. 	a statue of gladstone by albert bruce-joy and erected in , stands near the front gate of st. marys church in bow, london. paid for by the industrialist theodore bryant, it is viewed as a symbol of the later match girls strike, which took place at the nearby bryant & may match factory. led by the socialist annie besant, hundreds of women working in the factory, where many sickened and died from poisoning from the white phosphorus used in the matches, went on strike to demand improved working conditions and pay, eventually winning their cause. in recent years, the statue of gladstone has been repeatedly daubed with red paint, suggesting that it was paid for with the "blood of the match girls".[ ] 	a statue of gladstone in bronze by sir thomas brock, erected in , stands in st john's gardens, liverpool.[ ] 	a statue of gladstone erected in stands at aldwych, london, near the royal courts of justice.[ ] 	a grade ii listed statue of gladstone stands in albert square, manchester.[ ] 	a monument to gladstone, member of parliament for midlothian – was unveiled in edinburgh in (and moved to its present location in ). it stands in coates crescent gardens. the sculptor was james pittendrigh macgillivray.[ ] 	a statue to gladstone, who was rector of the university of glasgow – was unveiled in glasgow in . it stands in george square. the sculptor was sir william hamo thornycroft.[ ] 	a bust of gladstone is in the hall of heroes of the national wallace monument in stirling. dollis house, gladstone park, as seen from the gardens 	gladstone park in the municipal borough of willesden, london was named after him in . dollis hill house, within what later became the park, was occupied by sir dudley coutts marjoribanks, who subsequently became lord tweedmouth. in lord tweedmouth's daughter and her husband, lord aberdeen, took up residence. they often had gladstone to stay as a guest. in lord aberdeen was appointed governor-general of canada and the aberdeens moved out. when willesden acquired the house and land in , they named the park gladstone park after the old prime minister.[citation needed] 	near hawarden in the town of mancot, there is a small hospital named after catherine gladstone. a statue of gladstone stands prominently in the front grounds of the eponymous gladstone's library (formerly known as st. deiniol's), near the commencement of gladstone way at hawarden.[citation needed] 	gladstone rock, a large boulder about  ft high in cwm llan on the watkin path on the south side of snowdon where gladstone made a speech in , was named for him. a plaque on the rock states that he "addressed the people of eryri upon justice to wales".[ ] 	a statue of gladstone stands in front of the kapodistrian university building in the centre of athens.[ ] 	gladstone, oregon, gladstone, new jersey, gladstone, michigan,[ ] and gladstone, new mexico, in the united states are named for him. the city of gladstone, queensland, australia, was named after him and has a th-century marble statue on display in its town museum.[ ] 	gladstone, manitoba, was named after him in .[ ] 	streets in the cities of athens, sofia, plovdiv, varna, burgas, ruse, stara zagora, limassol, springs, newark-on-trent, waterford city, clonmel, brighton, bradford, scarborough, swindon, vancouver (including a school), windsor, ottawa, halifax and brisbane are named for him. there is also gladstone avenue and adjoining ewart road in his hometown of liverpool in a part of the city where he was a landowner.[ ] 	there is a gladstone statue at glenalmond college, unveiled in , which is located in front quad.[ ] 	a gladstone memorial was unveiled on february in seaforth, liverpool by mp frank field. it is located in the grounds of our lady star of the sea church facing the former site of st thomas's church where gladstone was educated from to . the seaglam (seaforth gladstone memorial) project, whose chairman is local historian brenda murray (bem), was started to raise the profile of seaforth village by installing a memorial to gladstone. funds for the memorial were raised by voluntary effort and additional funding was provided by the heritage lottery fund. sculptor tom murphy created the bronze bust.[ ] gallery[edit] 	 			 			 statue at aldwych, london, near to the royal courts of justice and opposite australia house 			 		 	 			 			 statue in albert square, manchester, manchester 			 		 	 			 			 statue on the gladstone monument in coates crescent gardens, edinburgh 			 		 	 			 			 a statue in athens 			 		 	 			 			 a high school named after gladstone in sofia, bulgaria 			 		 in popular culture[edit] 	 	this section needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (december ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) gladstone was popularly known in his later years as the "grand old man" or "g.o.m.". the term was used occasionally during the midlothian election campaign, first became widely associated with him during the general election, and was ubiquitous in the press by . henry labouchère and sir stafford northcote have both been credited with coining it; it appears to have been in use before either of them used it publicly, though they may have helped popularise it. while it was originally used to show affectionate reverence, it was quickly adopted more sarcastically by his opponents, using it to emphasise his age. the acronym was sometimes satirised as "god's only mistake", or after the fall of khartoum, inverted to "m.o.g.", "murderer of gordon". (disraeli is often credited with the former, but lord salisbury is a more likely origin). the term is still widely used today and is virtually synonymous with gladstone.[ ] a gladstone bag, a light travelling bag, is named after him.[ ] gladstone's burial in was commemorated in a poem by william mcgonagall.[ ] there is a scene in the turkish film free man about islamic scholar said nursi who is deeply troubled by gladstone. nursi reads in a newspaper report of a speech made in the house of commons by gladstone: "so long as the muslims have the qur'an, we shall be unable to dominate them. we must either take it from them, or make them lose their love of it." he was filled with zeal. it overturned his ideas and changed the direction of his interest. thus, the explicit threats of gladstone to the qur'an and islamic world caused a revolution in nursi's ideas, clarifying them and setting him in the direction he would now follow. the threats caused him to declare: "i shall prove and demonstrate to the world that the qur'an is an undying, inextinguishable sun!"[ ] portrayal in film and television[edit] since , gladstone has been portrayed some times in film and television.[ ] portrayals include: 	montagu love in the film parnell ( ) 	arthur young in the films victoria the great ( ) and the lady with a lamp ( ) 	malcolm keen in the film sixty glorious years ( ) 	stephen murray in the film the prime minister ( ) 	gordon richards in the film the imperfect lady ( ) 	ralph richardson in the film khartoum ( )[ ] 	graham chapman in the monty python's flying circus episode sex and violence ( ) 	willoughby gray in the film young winston ( ) 	david steuart in the television serial jennie: lady randolph churchill ( ) 	michael hordern in the television series edward the seventh ( ) 	john carlisle in the television serial disraeli ( ) 	john phillips in the television series lillie ( ) 	roland culver in the television series the life and times of david lloyd george ( ) 	denis quilley in the television series number ( ) works[edit] 	gladstone, william ewart ( ). the state in its relations with the church ( th ed.). london: john murray. retrieved october – via internet archive. 	gladstone, william ewart ( ). studies on homer and the homeric age. oxford: at the university press – via internet archive. , volume , volume , volume . 	gladstone, william ewart ( ). a chapter of autobiography. london: john murray. retrieved october – via internet archive. 	gladstone, william ewart ( ). juventus mundi: the gods and men of the heroic age ( nd ed.). london: macmillan and co. retrieved october – via internet archive. 	gladstone, william ewart ( ). on books and the housing of them. new york: dodd, mead & company. retrieved october – via internet archive. a treatise on the storing of books and the design of bookshelves as employed in his personal library. 	gladstone, william ewart ( ). the impregnable rock of holy scripture (revised and enlarged from good words). london: isbister and company – via internet archive. 	william ewart gladstone, baron arthur hamilton-gordon stanmore ( ). gladstone-gordon correspondence, – : selections from the private correspondence of a british prime minister and a colonial governor, volume . american philosophical society. p.  . isbn  . retrieved june . (volume , issue of new series, transactions of the american philosophical society) (original from the university of california) see also[edit] 	liberalism in the united kingdom notes[edit] 	^ the austrian economist, joseph schumpeter, described gladstonian finance in his history of economic analysis: ... there was one man who not only united high ability with unparalleled opportunity but also knew how to turn budgets into political triumphs and who stands in history as the greatest english financier of economic liberalism, gladstone. ... the greatest feature of gladstonian finance ... was that it expressed with ideal adequacy both the whole civilisation and the needs of the time, ex visu of the conditions of the country to which it was to apply; or, to put it slightly differently, that it translated a social, political, and economic vision, which was comprehensive as well as historically correct, into the clauses of a set of co-ordinated fiscal measures. ... gladstonian finance was the finance of the system of 'natural liberty,' laissez-faire, and free trade ... the most important thing was to remove fiscal obstructions to private activity. and for this, in turn, it was necessary to keep public expenditure low. retrenchment was the victorious slogan of the day ... it means the reduction of the functions of the state to a minimum ... retrenchment means rationalisation of the remaining functions of the state, which among other things implies as small a military establishment as possible. the resulting economic development would in addition, so it was believed, make social expenditures largely superfluous. ... equally important was it ... to raise the revenue that would still have to be raised in such a way as to deflect economic behaviour as little as possible from what it would have been in the absence of all taxation ('taxation for revenue only'). and since the profit motive and the propensity to save were considered of paramount importance for the economic progress of all classes, this meant in particular that taxation should as little as possible interfere with the net earnings of business. ... as regards indirect taxes, the principle of least interference was interpreted by gladstone to mean that taxation should be concentrated on a few important articles, leaving the rest free. ... last, but not least, we have the principle of the balanced budget.[ ] 	^ in his election address to his constituents on january, gladstone said: upon a review of the finance of the last five years, we are enabled to state that, notwithstanding the purchase of the telegraphs for a sum exceeding , , l., the aggregate amount of the national debt has been reduced by more than , , l.; that taxes have been lowered or abolished (over and above any amount imposed) to the extent of , , l.; that during the present year the alabama indemnity has been paid, and the charge of the ashantee war will be met out of revenue; and that in estimating, as we can now venture to do, the income of the coming year (and, for the moment assuming the general scale of charge to continue as it was fixed during the last session), we do not fear to anticipate as the probable balance a surplus exceeding rather than falling short of , , l. ... the first item ... which i have to set down in the financial arrangements proper for the first year is relief, but relief coupled with reform, of local taxation. ... it has ... been the happy fortune of mr. lowe to bring it [the income tax] down, first from d. to d., and then from d. to d., in the pound. the proceeds of the income tax for the present year are expected to be between , , l. and , , l., and at a sacrifice for the financial year of something less than , , l. the country may enjoy the advantage and relief of its total repeal. i do not hesitate to affirm that an effort should now be made to attain this advantage, nor to declare that, according to my judgment, it is in present circumstances practicable ... we ought not to aid the rates, and remove the income tax, without giving to the general consumer, and giving him simultaneously, some marked relief in the class of articles of popular consumption. ... i for one could not belong to a government which did not on every occasion seek to enlarge its resources by a wise economy.[ ] references[edit] 	^ wiesner-hanks, merry e.; evans, andrew d.; wheeler, william bruce; ruff, julius ( ). discovering the western past, volume ii: since . cengage learning. p.  . isbn  - . 	^ price, richard ( ). british society – : dynamism, containment and change. cambridge university press. p.  . isbn  - . 	^ gardham, duncan ( june ). 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ویکی‌پدیا، دانشنامهٔ آزاد 		 		 		 		برای دیگر کاربردها، هوراس (ابهام‌زدایی) را ببینید. 	هوراس horace 	هوراس، اثر آنتون ورنر 	زاده	کوینتوس هوراسیوس فلاکوس ۸ دسامبر ۶۵ پیش از میلاد ونوسیا، لوچانیا، جمهوری رم 	درگذشته	(سن ۵۶ سالگی)۲۷ نوامبر ۸ پیش از میلاد رم، امپراتوری رم 	آرامگاه	رم 	پیشه	شاعر 	زبان(ها)	لاتین 	ملیت	اهل رم 	سبک نوشتاری	غزل 	کار(های) برجسته	اودس، ستیر، هنر شاعری هوراس با نام کامل کوینتوس هوراسیوس فلاکوس (به لاتین: quintus horatius flaccus)‏ (۶۵–۸ ق. م) از شاعران سرشناس رومی است. در دهکده و نوزیا در آپولیا به دنیا آمد ظاهراً پدرش برده آزاد شده‌ای بود که به ماهی فروشی یا تحصیلداری مالیاتی اشتغال داشت و برای فرزند خویش وسائل تحصیل معانی و بیان را در رم و فلسفه را در آتن فراهم کرد. هوراس در ۲۵ سالگی با ویرژیل آشنا و به مسناس معرفی شد و بعد از مدتی دربه‌دری و فقر در ۴۵ کیلومتری رم به امر مسناس مزرعه‌ای به او داده شد. هوراس مردی کوتاه و چاق و مغرور و در عین حال خجالتی بود، با اینکه نمی‌توانست به طبقات بالا راه یابد با عامه مردم میانه خوشی نداشت. هوراس که آسایش خیالی از لحاظ معیشت بدست آورده بود به خلق آثار ادبی به‌طور جدی پرداخت و با سود جستن از آثار قدما و آداب و عادات زندگی روزمره رومیان با هوس‌ها و آرزوها و خوبی‌ها و بدی‌هایشان دو هجونامه در بین سالهای ۳۴ و ۳۰ ق. م بر وزن هشت هجائی سرود و به قدری در کار توصیف مردم در حرفه‌های گوناگون مهارت به خرج داد که از خواندن اشعار وی احساسات و خوبی و بدی آنان را می‌توان لمس کرد. شکمبارگی، آزمندی و شیطنت مردم شهر رم در اشعار هوراس به خوبی وصف گشته‌است. هوراس در اشعار خویش از خود و دیگران انتقاد می‌کند و اخلاق زشت و شهوت پرستی رومیان و آزمندی و حرص و ولع آن‌ها را وصف می‌کند. در سال ۳۹ ق. م منظومه‌ای در وزن دو هجائی (ترجیع بندها) خشن و تقریباً کم‌مایه‌تر از آثار قبلی خود پیرامون روابط زن و مرد سرود، گویی این منظومه پرتوی از زندگی رو به انحطاط شهرنشینان رومی است و خود را در کشتی شکسته‌ای بی‌مقصد و مقصود می‌یابد. او درحالی‌که غرق در بیکارگی، می‌گساری روزگار می‌گذراند از زندگی آرام و خوش روستائی سخن می‌گفت و بیشتر به خارج شهر و مزرعه خویش پناه می‌جست و با کارگران ساده‌ای که در مزرعه‌اش کار می‌کردند طرف صحبت می‌شد و آنقدر در آنجا می‌ماند که یاران شهریش را گویی فراموش کرده‌است. هوراس از شیوه‌های شعری و افکار شاعران یونانی سود فراوان می‌جست و در اشعارش از زندگی زودگذر و از خیالات دور و دراز هوس‌آلود جاهلانه سخن می‌گفت و دربارهٔ عشق و شراب، دین و دولت، مرگ و زندگی نیز مضامین جالب آورده‌است. اشعار هوراس و شاعران معاصر او چندان با شکوه و فیلسوفانه و متصف به صنعت سهل و ممتنع است که شور و ظرافت از آن‌ها پرتوافکنی می‌کند حتی این شکوه در قصاید نیز به چشم می‌خورد. به امر آگوستوس (اوگوستوس) هوراس منظومه‌ای در وزن هشت هجائی پرداخت که در آن همچون فیلسوفی دربارهٔ خدا، بشر و غیره سخن می‌گوید. هوراس مضامینی در هنر شاعری فراهم و به صورت اندرز برای طالبان عرضه نمود و چنین گفته بود: «موضوعی را که درخور قدرت شما باشد انتخاب کنید، اما برحذر باشید که همچون آن کوه داستانی، پس از درد بسیار، موش نزائید کتاب دلخواه آنست که در آن واحد، آموزنده و سرگرمی‌آور باشد هر که چیز مفید را با چیز دلپذیر درآمیخته باشد، صدای احسنت را برخواهد آورد. از بکار بردن الفاظ جدید یا منسوخ یا بسیار طویل خودداری کنید. تا آن حد که بروشنی کلام برنخورد، سخن را به اختصار بگوئید، مستقیم و لب مطلب را بکاوید. هنگام سرودن شعر، مپندارید که احساس، کار همه چیز را انجام می‌دهد. راست است که اگر بخواهید خواننده احساسی را درک کند، شما خود باید آن احساس را درک کرده باشید، اگر بخواهی مرا دریابی نخست باید من خود همان را دریافته باشم. اما هنر ادراک نیست بلکه صورت و ظاهر است. برای آنکه بتوانید صورت هنری را بیافرینید، آثار یونانیان را شبانه‌روز مطالعه کنید. تقریباً هر چه می‌نویسید پاک کنید، هر «پاره ارغوانی» (خودنمایانه) را قلم بزنید، اثر خود را به نقادان توانا بسپرید و از دوستان خود بپرهیزید. اگر از این خوان‌ها گذشت، هشت سال آن را به کناری نهید. اگر در آن هنگام فایده فراموشی را در نیافتید، آن را انتشار دهید، اما به یاد داشته باشید که جز به مرور زمان هرگز به یاد نخواهد آمد: اگر نمایشنامه می‌نویسید، بگذارید نفس نمایش و نه کلمات شما داستان را نقل و افراد نمایش را تصویر کند. صحنه‌های موحش را نمودار مسازید. از وحدت سه‌گانه عمل، زمان و مکان پیروی کنید. داستان یکی باشد و در مدتی کوتاه در یک محل اتفاق بیفتد. در زندگی و فلسفه مطالعه کنید، چون بدون 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	نمای تلفن همراه 	توسعه‌دهندگان 	آمار 	اظهارنامهٔ کوکی 		 	 	 	 	 tegernsee abbey - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	tegernsee abbey 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 			 	this article needs additional citations for verification. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. find sources: "tegernsee abbey" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · jstor (july ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) the baroque style former tegernsee abbey and basilica tegernsee abbey (german kloster tegernsee, abtei tegernsee) is a former benedictine monastery in the town and district of tegernsee in bavaria. both the abbey and the town that grew up around it, are named after the tegernsee, the lake on the shores of which they are located. the name is from the old high german tegarin seo, meaning great lake. tegernsee abbey, officially known as st. quirinus abbey for its patron saint st. quirinus,[ ] was first built in the th century. until , it was the most important benedictine community in bavaria. today, the monastery buildings are known as schloss tegernsee (tegernsee castle) and are in the possession of the wittelsbach family. the local catholic parish church of saint quirinus is in the former abbey church. the former abbey premises also accommodate the well-known brewery herzoglich bayerisches brauhaus tegernsee, brew pub, restaurant and the tegernsee grammar school (gymnasium tegernsee). contents 	 history 	 . foundation and early history 	 . middle ages 	 . later history to dissolution 	 . architecture 	 . secularisation 	 abbots of tegernsee 	 burials 	 see also 	 references 	 sources 	 external links history[edit] foundation and early history[edit] the monastic community at tegernsee was founded in the mid- th century (either in or around ). it was settled by monks from st. gall and dedicated to saint quirinus of rome, whose relics were brought here from rome in . soon the monastery spread the message of christianity as far as tyrol and lower austria. the founders were the brothers otkar (or otocar), and adalbert, members of one of the ancient noble clans of bavaria, although it is not certain exactly which family they were from. there is little definite information on the early days of the monastery as a result of a fire in about , which destroyed earlier evidence. however, a well-known and detailed (but nevertheless entirely unverifiable) tradition about the foundation has developed. according to this tradition, otkar and adelbert were princes of the huosi. they were kin of the bavarian ruling house of the agilolfinger, whose principal territory was the area now known as the huosigau in south-west bavaria, although they had many other lands elsewhere in bavaria and in burgundy. they and their families lived at the court of pippin the younger, king of the franks ( - ), whose son fell into a rage during a game of chess and killed the son of otkar with the chessboard. pippin, fearing the revenge of such a powerful family, he summoned otkar and adalbert before they could hear of the killing, and asked them for their advice: "how would you deal with a terrible evil if there were no way to change it?" the brothers replied: "all one could do in such a case would be to accept the evil with humility and submission to the will of god." only then did pippin tell them of the death of otkar's son. the brothers, bound by their own judgment, were unable to take up arms and found themselves forced to accept the murder. instead, they decided to turn their backs on the world. they returned to their homeland in the south of bavaria and founded a monastery on an unusually beautiful site by the shores of the tegernsee, into which they withdrew. for many centuries a large panel in the nearby church of egern depicted the scene of the princes playing chess. after the fall of tassilo iii, duke of bavaria ( - ), tegernsee became a carolingian empire royal monastery during the carolingian renaissance. the community was greatly weakened by hungarian raids and by repeated attempts at secularisation during the reign of arnulf i, duke of bavaria ( - ) and in the course of the th century suffered a sustained decline, culminating in the fire of around . middle ages[edit] restored and re-founded, however, under emperor otto ii ( - ) as an imperial abbey in , and re-settled by monks from st. maximin's abbey, trier, tegernsee entered a new period of growth. with the activities of the monk froumund ( - ) and abbot ellinger ( - and - ), the abbey became a centre of literature, manuscript production and learning, and was also active in the resettlement of other benedictine houses in bavaria, including the newly founded abbey of saints ulrich and afra in augsburg in c. . this golden age of the abbey lasted almost to the end of the th century. among the literary and scientific works produced at that time were: "ruodlieb" (considered the first german novel; last third of the th century); the quirinals ( th century); "play about the antichrist" ( ?); and the tegernsee letter collection ( to ). the well-known tegernseespruch of walther von der vogelweide dates either from a little before or from c. , and thus belongs, not to this period, but to the beginning of the period of decline that followed. tegernsee was largely spared the political and ecclesiastical confusions arising from the conflict between pope alexander iii ( - ) and emperor frederick i "barbarossa," holy roman emperor, and even managed to acquire substantial privileges from both pope and emperor. however, despite those privileges and its early status as an imperial abbey, tegernsee lost that status as it was never able to effectively enjoy imperial immediacy. therefore, it remained subordinate to bavaria throughout its existence.[ ] the shape of the future was made plain with the appointment of abbot manegold of berg, son of the count of berg, to this bavarian abbey in , as the result of political intrigue by the counts of andechs, vögte (lords protectors) of tegernsee, and bishop otto of freising. the political and economic interests of the noble families of berg, andechs and hohenstaufen, now came to dominate the abbey and as a result, it declined during the th and th centuries into little more than a private monastery dependent on a small number of noble families. to make matters worse, it burnt down in . later history to dissolution[edit] however, in , tegernsee received a visitation from the vicar-general, johannes grünwalder, which marked a new beginning. over the next decades, with the support of the papal legate cardinal nikolaus von kues, it became a focus of the reforms of melk abbey, which opened benedictine houses hitherto restricted to the nobility to a wider range of social classes. in , monks of tegernsee settled andechs abbey and were appointed abbots at benediktbeuern, oberalteich, wessobrunn and others. in , a passion altar was dedicated. johannes keck (who was the tegernsee delegate at the council of basle and died in ) wrote a work on music, and the prior of tegernsee, bernhard von waging (d. ) composed his mystical writings, including a defense of cusanus' writings on "learned ignorance." this second flowering continued into the early modern period. from , the monastery had its own printing press, which thanks to imperial privileges was allowed to print many books on theology, liturgy and the theory of music. the community survived the confusion of the thirty years' war ( - ), when the abbey was raided by swedish soldiers. tegernsee abbey was also a prominent member of the benedictine bavarian congregation, established in . architecture[edit] the former carolingian style abbey church built at the end of the th century had been converted in the th to a romanesque basilica, which in its turn had been re-fashioned between and into a gothic church. the monastic buildings and the church were refurbished in the baroque style between and . secularisation[edit] during the abbacy of abbot benedikt schwarz (to ), the first signs began to show of the secularisation which eventually took place on march , thus bringing the abbey to an end. gregor rottenkolber, the last abbot of tegernsee, died on february . the greater part of the site was bought by baron drechsel for his brewery, but he later sold a small part back to an unofficial monastic community, which remained until . the buildings of the monastery itself were acquired in by king maximilian i joseph of bavaria and later became a possession of the dukes in bavaria (a side branch of the ruling wittelsbach family, the kings of bavaria), attracted by the unusually beautiful location, and turned it into their summer residence. known since then as schloss tegernsee, it is still the property of that family, the present owner is their adopted son prince max, duke in bavaria. abbots of tegernsee[edit] 	adalbert ( - ) 	zaccho ( - ) 	maginhart ( -, ) 	isker ( , ) 	[gap] 	megilo ( , - ?) 	[gap] 	hartwic ( - ) 	gozpert ( - ) 	godehard of hildesheim (saint gotthard)( - ) 	eberhard i ( - ) 	beringer ( - ) 	burchard ( - ) 	ellinger ( - ) 	albin ( - ) 	ellinger ( nd abbacy, - ) 	altmann ( ) 	udalrich i ( / - ) 	herrand ( - ) 	egbert ( - ) 	siegfried ( - ) 	eberhard ii of eppenstein ( - ) 	odalschalk of hohenburg ( - ) 	aribo of neuburg-falkenstein ( - ) 	konrad i ( - ) 	rupert of neuburg-falkenstein ( - ) 	alban ( - ) 	konrad ii ( - ) 	manegold of berg (also abbot of kremsmünster and bishop of passau) ( - ) 	berthold i ( - ) 	heinrich i ( - ) 	berthold ii schneck ( - ) 	ulrich ii portenhauser ( - ) 	rudolf ( - ) 	heinrich ii ( - ) 	ludwig of graisbach ( - ) 	heinrich iii ( - ) 	marquard of veringen ( - ) 	heinrich iv of rain ( - ) 	sigibrand geltinger ( - ) 	carl hauzendorfer ( - ) 	konrad iii kazbeck ( - ) 	konrad iv eglinger ( - ) 	gerhard of taufkirchen ( - ) 	oswald torer ( - ) 	georg türndl ( - ) 	hildebrand kastner ( - ) 	kaspar ayndorffer ( - ) 	konrad v ayrenschmalz ( - ) 	quirin i regler ( - ) 	heinrich v kintzner ( - ) 	maurus leyrer ( - ) 	heinrich v kintzner ( . mal, - ) 	quirin ii ( - ) 	paulus widmann ( - ) 	quirin iii ponschab ( -) 	bernhard wenzl ( - ) 	quirin iv millon ( - ) 	petrus von guetrater ( - ) 	gregor i plaichshirn ( - ) 	benedikt schwarz ( - ) 	gregor ii rottenkolber ( to ; last abbot; d. ) burials[edit] 	quirinus of rome 	maximilian joseph, duke in bavaria 	princess ludovika of bavaria 	duke karl-theodor in bavaria 	infanta maria josepha of portugal 	ludwig wilhelm, duke in bavaria see also[edit] 	list of carolingian monasteries 	carolingian architecture 	carolingian dynasty 	regional characteristics of romanesque architecture references[edit] 	^ "tegernsee, benediktinerabtei st. quirinus | mrfh ". mrfh.de. retrieved - - . 	^ "archived copy". archived from the original on - - . retrieved - - .cs maint: archived copy as title (link) sources[edit] 	hemmerle, josef, . die benediktinerklöster in bayern (= germania benedictina, bd. ), pp.  ff. ottobeuren. external links[edit] 	klöster in bayern: tegernsee (in german) 	herbermann, charles, ed. 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Þýðingar 	 . . Íslenskar þýðingar 	 . . enskar þýðingar 	 tenglar Ævi[breyta | breyta frumkóða] hóratíus fæddist í venosa (lucania). hann var sonur leysingja en var sjálfur frjálsborinn. faðir hans var ekki efnaður en varði þó umtalsverðu fé í menntun hóratíusar og fluttist með syni sínum til fyrst rómar til að láta mennta hann. síðar hélt hóratíus til aþenu þar sem hann nam grísku og heimspeki. hóratíus var ævinlega þakklátur föður sínum fyrir þær fórnir sem hann færði til þess að geta menntað son sinn. samband hans við föður sinn þykir eitt það hjartnæmasta sem vitað er um frá fornöld. með hans eigin orðum (athugið að fegurð kveðskaparins glatast í þýðingu): séu lestir mínir fáir og óverulegir en ég er að öðru leyti heiðarlegur maður, getirðu bent á einungis fáa bletti á annars óaðfinnanlegu yfirborði, geti enginn sakað mig um græðgi, illsku eða óhóf, sé ég hreinn og beinn (svo ég hæli nú sjálfum mér) og sé ég vinum mínum vinur í raun, þá á faðir minn heiðurinn skilinn ... eins og mál hafa æxlast verðskuldar hann þakklæti mitt og lof. aldrei gæti ég skammast mín vegna slíks föður né finn ég neina þörf, líkt og margir, til að afsaka mig fyrir að vera sonur leysingja. satires . . - eftir morðið á júlíusi caesar gekk hóratíus í herinn undir stjórn brútusar. hann tók þátt í orrustunni við filippí en bjargaði lífi sínu á flótta. hann sneri aftur til Ítalíu eftir að þeir sem höfðu barist gegn hinum sigursæla octavíanusi höfðu verið náðaðir. faðir hans var þá látinn og jörð þeirra hafði verið gerð upptæk. hóratíus bjó við sára fátækt. eigi að síður gat hann keypt sér stöðu sem ritari á skrifstofu quaestors (gjaldkera) og það gerði honum kleift að draga fram lífið og iðka kveðskap sinn. hóratíus tilheyrði sama hópi skálda og menntamanna og virgill og lucius varius rufus. Þeir kynntu hann fyrir maecenasi, vini og trúnaðarmanni octavíanusar Ágústusar. maecenas varð styrktaraðili hóratíusar og náinn vinur og gaf hóratíusi jörð nærri tibur, í dag tivoli. ritverk[breyta | breyta frumkóða] saturae, fornfræðingar álíta hóratíus almennt vera, ásamt virgli, mestan allra skálda á latínu. fjölmargir latneskir frasar sem enn eru í notkun eru komnir úr kvæðum hóratíusar, t.d. „carpe diem“ (nýttu daginn), „dulce et decorum est pro patria mori“ (sætt er og viðeigandi að deyja fyrir föðurlandið) og „aurea mediocritas“ (gullni meðalvegurinn). kvæði hans eru undir grískum bragarháttum (eins og verk elstu skáldanna á latínu), allt frá sexliðahætti, sem hæfir latínunni vel, til flóknari bragarhátta eins og saffískum hætti, sem hæfa latínunni og latneskri setningafræði ekki alltaf jafnvel. enginn annar höfundur á latínu notar þessa hætti af jafnmiklum þokka, jafnmikilli nákvæmni og léttleika, þótt catullus komist stundum nálægt því. verk hóratíusar eru (í tímaröð): 	sermonum liber primus eða satirae i [ ] ( f.kr.) 	epodon [ ] ( bc) 	sermonum liber secundus eða satirae ii [ ] ( f.kr.) 	carminum liber primus [ ] ( f.kr.) 	carminum liber secundus [ ] ( f.kr.) 	carminum liber tertius [ ] ( f.kr.) 	epistularum liber primus [ ] ( f.kr.) 	ars poetica eða bréf til písóanna [ ] ( f.kr.) 	carmen saeculare [ ] ( f.kr.) 	epistularum liber secundus [ ] ( f.kr.) 	carminum liber quartus [ ] ( f.kr.) heimild[breyta | breyta frumkóða] 	fyrirmynd greinarinnar var „horace“ á ensku útgáfu wikipedia. sótt . maí . Útgáfur og þýðingar[breyta | breyta frumkóða] fræðilegar útgáfur[breyta | breyta frumkóða] 	e.c. wickham (ritstj.), q. horati flacci opera (oxford: oxford university press, ). 	oxford classical texts útgáfa m. handritafræðilegum og textafræðilegum skýringum. skýringarrit[breyta | breyta frumkóða] 	horace, epistles: book i. roland mayer (ritstj.) (cambridge: cambridge university press, ). 	horace, epistles: book ii and epistle to the pisones (ars poetica). niall rudd (ritstj.) (cambridge: cambridge university press, ). 	horace, epodes. david mankin (ritstj.) (cambridge: cambridge university press, ). Þýðingar[breyta | breyta frumkóða] Íslenskar þýðingar[breyta | breyta frumkóða] 	quintus horatius flaccus, Í skugga lárviðar. helgi hálfdanarson (þýð.) (reykjavík: vaka-helgafell, ). enskar þýðingar[breyta | breyta frumkóða] 	horace, odes and epodes. niall rudd (þýð.) (cambridge, mass.: harvard university press, ). 	horace, satires, epistles, ars poetica. h.r. fairclough (þýð.) 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"roman baths" redirects here. for other uses, see roman baths (disambiguation). this article is about buildings used for roman recreation and cleaning. for the activity in general, see ancient roman bathing. roman public baths in bath, england. the entire structure above the level of the pillar bases is a later reconstruction. thermae maiores, aquincum, budapest the mosaics of the thermal baths the thermal baths from inside in ancient rome, thermae (from greek θερμός thermos, "hot") and balneae (from greek βαλανεῖον balaneion) were facilities for bathing. thermae usually refers to the large imperial bath complexes, while balneae were smaller-scale facilities, public or private, that existed in great numbers throughout rome.[ ] most roman cities had at least one – if not many – such buildings, which were centres not only for bathing, but socializing and reading as well. bath-houses were also provided for wealthy private villas, town houses, and for forts. they were supplied with water from an adjacent river or stream, or within cities by aqueduct. the water would be heated by fire then channelled into the caldarium (hot bathing room). the design of baths is discussed by vitruvius in de architectura (v. ). contents 	 terminology 	 building layout 	 . atrium 	 . . use of the atrium 	 . apodyterium and frigidarium 	 . tepidarium 	 . caldarium 	 . laconicum 	 . service areas 	 . women's bath 	 purpose 	 cultural significance 	 location 	 remains of roman public baths 	 see also 	 references 	 . citations 	 . sources 	 further reading 	 external links terminology[edit] mosaic bath sign from sabratha, libya, showing bathing sandals, three strigils, and the slogan salvom lavisse, "a bath is good for you"[ ] thermae, balneae, balineae, balneum and balineum may all be translated as "bath" or "baths", though latin sources distinguish among these terms. balneum or balineum, derived from the greek βαλανεῖον[ ][ ] signifies, in its primary sense, a bath or bathing-vessel, such as most persons of any consequence among the romans possessed in their own houses,[ ] and hence the chamber which contained the bath,[ ] which is also the proper translation of the word balnearium. the diminutive balneolum is adopted by seneca[ ] to designate the bathroom of scipio in the villa at liternum, and is expressly used to characterize the modesty of republican manners as compared with the luxury of his own times. but when the baths of private individuals became more sumptuous and comprised many rooms, instead of the one small chamber described by seneca, the plural balnea or balinea was adopted, which still, in correct language, had reference only to the baths of private persons. thus, cicero terms the baths at the villa of his brother quintus[ ] balnearia. balneae and balineae, which according to varro[ ] have no singular number, were the public baths, but this accuracy of diction is neglected by many of the subsequent writers, and particularly by the poets, amongst whom balnea is not uncommonly used in the plural number to signify the public baths, since the word balneae could not be introduced in a hexameter verse. pliny also, in the same sentence, makes use of the neuter plural balnea for public, and of balneum for a private bath.[ ] thermae (greek: Θέρμαι, thermai, "hot springs, hot baths",[ ] from the greek adjective thermos, "hot") meant properly warm springs, or baths of warm water; but came to be applied to those magnificent edifices which grew up under the empire, in place of the simple balneae of the republic, and which comprised within their range of buildings all the appurtenances belonging to the greek gymnasia, as well as a regular establishment appropriated for bathing.[ ] writers, however, use these terms without distinction. thus the baths erected by claudius etruscus, the freedman of the emperor claudius, are styled by statius[ ] balnea, and by martial[ ] etrusci thermulae. in an epigram by martial[ ]—subice balneum thermis—the terms are not applied to the whole building, but to two different chambers in the same edifice. building layout[edit] plan of the old baths at pompeii a public bath was built around three principal rooms: the tepidarium (warm room), the caldarium (hot room), and the frigidarium (cold room). some thermae also featured steam baths: the sudatorium, a moist steam bath, and the laconicum, a dry hot room much like a modern sauna.[citation needed][dubious – discuss] by way of illustration, this article will describe the layout of pompeii's old baths adjoining the forum, which are among the best-preserved roman baths. the references are to the floor plan pictured to the right.[ ] the whole building comprises a double set of baths, one for men, one for women. it has six different entrances from the street, one of which (b) gives admission to the smaller women's set only. five other entrances lead to the men's department, of which two (c and c ), communicate directly with the furnaces, and the other three (a , a , a) with the bathing apartments. atrium[edit] passing through the principal entrance, a (barely visible, right side, one third of the total length from above), which is removed from the street by a narrow footway surrounding the building and after descending three steps, the bather would find a small chamber on his left (x) with a toilet (latrina), and proceed into a covered portico (g, g), which ran round three sides of an open court (atrium, a). these together formed the vestibule of the baths (vestibulum balnearum),[ ] in which the servants waited. use of the atrium[edit] this atrium was the exercise ground for the young men, or perhaps served as a promenade for visitors to the baths. within this court the keeper of the baths (balneator), who exacted the quadrans paid by each visitor, was also stationed. the room f, which runs back from the portico, might have been appropriated to him; but most probably it was an oecus or exedra, for the convenience of the better classes while awaiting the return of their acquaintances from the interior. in this court, advertisements for the theatre, or other announcements of general interest, were posted up, one of which, announcing a gladiatorial show, still remains. at the sides of the entrance were seats (scholae). the edition of harper's dictionary of classical antiquities provided illustrations envisioning the rooms of the old baths at pompeii: 	 			 			 apodyterium 			 		 	 			 			 tepidarium 			 		 	 			 			 caldarium 			 		 	 			 			 frigidarium 			 		 apodyterium and frigidarium[edit] main articles: apodyterium and frigidarium a passage (c) leads into the apodyterium (b), a room for undressing in which all visitors must have met before entering the baths proper. here, the bathers removed their clothing, which was taken in charge by slaves known as capsarii, notorious in ancient times for their dishonesty.[ ] the apodyterium was a spacious chamber, with stone seats along three sides of the wall (h). holes are still visible on the walls, and probably mark the places where the pegs for the bathers' clothes were set. the chamber was lighted by a glass window, and had six doors. one of these led to the tepidarium (d) and another to the frigidarium (c), with its cold plunge-bath referred to as baptisterium (more commonly called natatorium or piscina), loutron, natatio, or puteus; the terms natatio and natatorium suggest that some of those baths were also swimming pools. the bath in this chamber is of white marble, surrounded by two marble steps. tepidarium[edit] main article: tepidarium pompeian interior, the thermae by forum by joseph theodor hansen ( – ) from the apodyterium the bather who wished to go through the warm bath and sweating process entered the tepidarium (d). it did not contain water neither at pompeii nor at the baths of hippias, but was merely heated with warm air of an agreeable temperature, in order to prepare the body for the great heat of the vapour and warm baths, and, upon returning, to prevent a too-sudden transition to the open air. in the baths at pompeii this chamber also served as an apodyterium for those who took the warm bath. the walls feature a number of separate compartments or recesses for receiving the garments when taken off. the compartments are divided from each other by figures of the kind called atlantes or telamones, which project from the walls and support a rich cornice above them in a wide arch. three bronze benches were also found in the room, which was heated as well by its contiguity to the hypocaust of the adjoining chamber, as by a brazier of bronze (foculus), in which the charcoal ashes were still remaining when the excavation was made. sitting and perspiring beside such a brazier was called ad flammam sudare.[ ] the tepidarium is generally the most highly ornamented room in baths. it was merely a room to sit and be anointed in. in the forum baths at pompeii the floor is mosaic, the arched ceiling adorned with stucco and painting on a coloured ground, the walls red. anointing was performed by slaves called unctores and aliptae. it sometimes took place before going to the hot bath, and sometimes after the cold bath, before putting on the clothes, in order to check the perspiration.[ ] some baths had a special room (destrictarium or unctorium) for this purpose. caldarium[edit] main article: caldarium from the tepidarium a door opened into the caldarium (e), whose mosaic floor was directly above the furnace or hypocaust. its walls also were hollow, behind the decorated plaster one part of the wall was made from interconnected hollow bricks called tubuli lateraci, forming a great flue filled with heated air. at one end was a round basin (labrum), and at the other a quadrangular bathing place (puelos, alveus, solium, calida piscina), approached from the platform by steps. the labrum held cold water, for pouring upon the bather's head before he left the room. these basins are of marble in the old baths, but we hear of alvei of solid silver.[ ] because of the great heat of the room, the caldarium was but slightly ornamented. laconicum[edit] main article: laconicum the old baths have no laconicum, which was a chamber still hotter than the caldarium, and used simply as a sweating-room, having no bath. it was said to have been introduced at rome by agrippa[ ] and was also called sudatorium and assa. service areas[edit] a three-tiered water boiler (miliarium) the apodyterium has a passage (q) communicating with the mouth of the furnace (i), called praefurnium or propigneum and, passing down that passage, we reach the chamber m, into which the praefurnium projects, and which is entered from the street at c. it was assigned to the fornacatores, or persons in charge of the fires. of its two staircases, one leads to the roof of the baths, and one to the boilers containing the water. there were three boilers, one of which (caldarium) held the hot water; a second, the tepid (tepidarium); and the third, the cold (frigidarium). the warm water was filled into the warm bath by a pipe through the wall, marked on the plan. underneath the hot chamber was set the circular furnace d, of more than  ft. in diameter, which heated the water and poured hot air into the hollow cells of the hypocaustum. it passed from the furnace under the first and last of the caldrons by two flues, which are marked on the plan. the boiler containing hot water was placed immediately over the furnace; as the water was drawn out from there, it was supplied from the next, the tepidarium, which was raised a little higher and stood a little way off from the furnace. it was already considerably heated from its contiguity to the furnace and the hypocaust below it, so that it supplied the deficiency of the former without materially diminishing its temperature; and the vacuum in this last was again filled up from the farthest removed, which contained the cold water received directly from the square reservoir seen behind them. the boilers themselves no longer remain, but the impressions which they have left in the mortar in which they were embedded are clearly visible, and enable us to determine their respective positions and dimensions. such coppers or boilers appear to have been called miliaria, from their similarity of shape to a milestone.[ ] behind the boilers, another corridor leads into the court or atrium (k), appropriated to the servants of the bath. women's bath[edit] the adjoining, smaller set of baths were assigned to the women. the entrance is by the door b, which conducts into a small vestibule (m) and from there into the apodyterium (h), which, like the one in the men's bath, has a seat (pulvinus, gradus) on either side built up against the wall. this opens upon a cold bath (j), answering to the natatio of the men's set, but of much smaller dimensions. there are four steps on the inside to descend into it. opposite to the door of entrance into the apodyterium is another doorway which leads to the tepidarium (g), which also communicates with the thermal chamber (f), on one side of which is a warm bath in a square recess, and at the farther extremity the labrum. the floor of this chamber is suspended, and its walls perforated for flues, like the corresponding one in the men's baths. the tepidarium in the women's baths had no brazier, but it had a hanging or suspended floor. purpose[edit] ruins of the enormous baths of caracalla, completed in on a hectare ( acre) site the baths often included, aside from the three main rooms listed above, a palaestra, or outdoor gymnasium where men would engage in various ball games and exercises. there, among other things, weights were lifted and the discus thrown. men would oil themselves (as soap was still a luxury good and thus not widely available), shower,[citation needed] and remove the excess with a strigil (cf. the well known apoxyomenus of lysippus from the vatican museum). often wealthy bathers would bring a capsarius, a slave that carried his master's towels, oils, and strigils to the baths and then watched over them once in the baths, as thieves and pickpockets were known to frequent the baths. the changing room was known as the apodyterium (from greek apodyterion from apoduein "to take off"). cultural significance[edit] in many ways, baths were the ancient roman equivalent of community centres. because the bathing process took so long, conversation was necessary. many romans would use the baths as a place to invite their friends to dinner parties, and many politicians would go to the baths to convince fellow romans to join their causes. the thermae had many attributes in addition to the baths. there were libraries, rooms for poetry readings, and places to buy and eat food. the modern equivalent would be a combination of a library, art gallery, mall, restaurant, gym, and spa.[ ] one important function of the baths in roman society was their role as what we would consider a “branch library” today. many in the general public did not have access to the grand libraries in rome and so as a cultural institution the baths served as an important resource where the more common citizen could enjoy the luxury of books. the baths of trajan, of caracalla, and diocletian all contained rooms determined to be libraries. they have been identified through the architecture of the baths themselves. the presence of niches in the walls are assumed to have been bookcases and have been shown to be sufficiently deep to have contained ancient scrolls. there is little documentation from the writers of the time that there did exist definitive public libraries maintained in the baths, but records have been found that indicated a slave from the imperial household was labelled vilicus thermarum bybliothecae graecae ("maintenance man of the greek library of the baths"). however, this may only indicate that the same slave held two positions in succession: "maintenance man of the baths" (vilicus thermarum) and "employee in the greek library" (a bybliothecae graecae). the reason for this debate is that, although julius caesar and asinius pollio advocated for public access to books and that libraries be open to all readers, there is little evidence that public libraries existed in the modern sense as we know it. it is more likely that these reserves were maintained for the wealthy elite.[ ] roman thermal baths, aeclanum, mirabella eclano baths were a site for important sculpture; among the well-known pieces recovered from the baths of caracalla are the farnese bull and farnese hercules and over life-size early rd century patriotic figures somewhat reminiscent of soviet socialist realism works (now in the museo di capodimonte, naples). the romans believed that good health came from bathing, eating, massages, and exercise. the baths, therefore, had all of these things in abundance. since some citizens would be bathing multiple times a week, roman society was surprisingly clean.[ ] when asked by a foreigner why he bathed once a day, a roman emperor is said to have replied "because i do not have the time to bathe twice a day."[ ] emperors often built baths to gain favour for themselves and to create a lasting monument of their generosity. if a rich roman wished to gain the favour of the people, he might arrange for a free admission day in his name. for example, a senator hoping to become a tribune might pay all admission fees at a particular bath on his birthday to become well known to the people of the area. location[edit] virtual historical reconstruction of the roman baths in weißenburg, germany, using data from laser scan technology baths sprang up all over the empire. where natural hot springs existed (as in bath, england; băile herculane, romania or aquae calidae near burgas and serdica, bulgaria) thermae were built around them. alternatively, a system of hypocausta (from hypo "below" and kaio "to burn") were utilised to heat the piped water from a furnace (praefurnium). remains of roman public baths[edit] main article: list of remains of roman public baths a number of roman public baths survive, either as ruins or in varying degrees of conservation. among the more notable are the roman baths of bath and the ravenglass roman bath house in england as well as the baths of caracalla, of diocletian, of titus, of trajan in rome and the baths of sofia, serdica and varna.[ ] probably the most complete are various public and private baths in pompeii and nearby sites. see also[edit] 	ancient roman bathing 	diocletian window (thermal window) 	greek baths 	history of sanitation 	roman architecture 	roman culture 	roman engineering 	roman technology 	spa town 	thermae romae (manga and film) 	turkish bath 	victorian turkish bath references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ harry b. evans ( ). water distribution in ancient rome: the evidence of frontinus. university of michigan press. pp.  , . isbn  - - - . archived from the original on - - . 	^ more literally, "it is a healthful thing to have bathed." 	^ βαλανεῖον. liddell, henry george; scott, robert; a greek–english lexicon at the perseus project. 	^ varro, de ling. lat. ix. , ed. müller (cited by rich, ) 	^ cicero, ad atticum ii. . 	^ cicero, ad fam. xiv. 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"freestanding sculptures from the baths of caracalla." american journal of archaeology : – . 	nielsen, inge. . thermae et balnea: the architecture and cultural history of roman public baths. nd ed. aarhus, denmark: aarhus university press. 	ring, james w. . "windows, baths and solar energy in the roman empire." american journal of archaeology : – . 	rotherham, ian d. . roman baths in britain. stroud: amberley. 	roupas, n. . 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legislative representatives. instead, they voted themselves on legislative matters in the popular assemblies (the comitia centuriata, the tribal assembly and the plebeian council). bills were proposed by magistrates and the citizens only exercised their right to vote. in the tribal assembly, citizens were organized on the basis of tribes: four urban tribes of the citizens in the city of rome, and rural tribes of citizens outside the city. each tribe voted separately and one after the other. in each tribe, decisions were made by majority vote and its decision counted as one vote regardless of how many electors each tribe held. once a majority of tribes voted in the same way on a given measure, the voting ended and the matter was decided.[ ] the tribal assembly was chaired by a magistrate, usually a consul or a praetor. the presiding magistrate made all decisions on matters of procedure and legality. his power over the assembly could be nearly absolute. one check on his power came in the form of vetoes by other magistrates. also, any decision made by a presiding magistrate could be vetoed by the plebeian tribunes. the tribal assembly elected the quaestors, and the curule aediles.[ ] it conducted trials for non-capital punishment cases. however, the roman dictator lucius cornelius sulla reassigned this to special jury courts (quaestiones perpetuae) in bc.[citation needed] there are disagreements among modern historians regarding the number and nature of the tribal assembly (see below). contents 	 definitions of types assemblies 	 disagreements on the number and nature of tribal assemblies 	 assembly procedures 	 decline 	 tribes 	 see also 	 references 	 notes 	 further reading 	 external links definitions of types assemblies[edit] the romans distinguished between two types of assemblies, the comitia (or comitatus) and the contio (contracted from conventio). the word comitia (going together), which was the plural of comitium (a purpose-built meeting place), referred to assemblies convened to make decisions on legislative or judicial matters or to hold elections. the word contio (coming together) referred to meetings where 'nothing was legally enacted'. they were convened to hear public announcements and pronouncements, speeches and debates, witness the interrogation of someone accused of in a trial and to watch executions. opinions expressed in a contio did not have any legal validity.[ ] the tribal assembly was a comitia. private citizens who did not hold political office could make speeches in a contio, but not before a comitia or a concilium.[ ] voters always assembled first in a contio to hear debates or to enable canvassing by electoral candidates before voting. the actual voting took place in a comitia or concilium (for this term, see below).[ ] gellius wrote about a further distinction between comita and concilium, which he based on a quote from a passage written by laelius felix, an early second century ad jurist: he who orders not the entire people (populus) but some part thereof to be present ought to proclaim not a comitia, but a concilium. moreover, the [plebeian] tribunes neither summon patricians nor have the power to propose anything to them. thus, measures which were accepted on the proposal of the plebeian tribunes are not properly called laws (leges) but plebiscites. patricians were not bound by these bills until the dictator quintus hortensius [ bc] carried that law whereby all the quirites (the roman people) were bound by whatever the plebs had determined.[ ] this has been taken as referring to the assembly which was reserved for the plebeians (or plebs, the commoners), thus excluding the patricians (the aristocracy), and which was convened by the tribunes of the plebs (also called by modern historians plebeian tribunes) – see plebeian council. since the meetings of the plebs excluded the patricians, they were not considered as representing the whole of the roman people and because of this, according to laelius felix, the term concilium applied to them. by contrast, the term comitia applied to assemblies which represented the whole of the roman people. measures passed by assemblies of the whole citizen body were called leges (laws), whereas those passed only by the plebeians were called plebiscites (resolutions of the plebs). until the lex hortensia passed by quintus hortensius in bc, the patricians refused to accept the plebiscites as being binding on them on the ground that, because of their exclusion, did not apply to the whole of the people.[ ] disagreements on the number and nature of tribal assemblies[edit] chart showing the checks and balances of the constitution of the roman republic andrew lintott notes that many modern historians follow theodor mommsen's view that during the roman republic there were two assemblies of the tribes and that the ancient sources used the term comitia tributa with reference both of them. one was the assembly by the tribes which was used for plebeian meetings to which the patricians were excluded and which was convened by the plebeian tribunes. the other assembly based on the tribes was convened by the roman consuls or the praetors and was an assembly of the whole of the roman people (both patricians and plebeians). however, the ancient sources did not have a differentiation in terminology for the two of them and used the term comitia tributa for both.[ ] many modern historians use the term comitia tributa or comitia populi tributa (comitia tributa of the people) to indicate meetings by the tribes which involved the whole of the roman people (populus) and the term concilium plebis or concilium plebis tributum (plebeian council by the tribes) for assemblies based on the tribes which were exclusively for the plebeians. however, they are not found in the ancient roman literature related to the roman republic. therefore, they denote a distinction which can be disputed. it is based on the text by gellius quoted above. lintott notes that some modern historians reject the comitia tributa/concilium plebis distinction and the use of the quote by gellius as its basis. they argue that this terminology is a convention established by modern historians which ancient writers did not make and that there was no assembly based on tribes other than the one where the plebeians met to vote and which was presided over by the plebeian tribunes, who submitted bills to its vote. references to laws which were submitted to the comitia tributa by the consuls in the ancient literature must have pertained to bills they presented to the comitia centuriata (the assembly of the soldiers, another voting assembly), a deviation from correct procedure found in the late republic or instances in which these officials got the plebeian tribunes to propose bills for them.[ ][ ][ ] lintott disagrees with the notion that there was only one assembly based on the tribes, which was the one of the plebeians. he notes that there are examples in which laws were proposed to the comitia tributa by the consuls, who did not preside over the assembly of the plebeians. examples of such laws are the law which increased the number of quaestors to twenty, which was attributed to lucius cornelius sulla, the lex gabinia calpurnia de insula delo of bc and the lex quinctia of bc. moreover, the consuls conducted the elections of the curule aediles, who were not plebeian officials, before the tribes. therefore, it is likely that the term comitia tributa was used both for the assemblies presided over by the consuls and the praetors and the assemblies presided over by the plebeian tribunes.[ ] one could add to this that livy mentioned a comitia tributa which was convened by the consuls in bc; that is, during the early republic.[ ] forsythe presents a more recent account of the argument that the comitia tributa/concilium plebis distinction is a misplaced convention established by modern historians. he argues that it is found only in the quote by gellius which comes from a text which was written in the imperial period; that is, after the fall of the roman republic and long after the assemblies of the republic had ceased to function. this implies that laelius felix was not sufficiently familiar with these republican institutions. forsythe argues that the distinctions between two assemblies based on the tribes "has no support in the extensive writings of cicero and livy, who must have been far more knowledgeable in these matters than laelius felix." cicero lived during the late republic. livy was born during the late republic and wrote a detailed history of the republican period. forsythe also argues that the word comitia was used for formal assemblies convened 'to vote on legislative, electoral and judicial matters', and that concilium was a generic term 'for any kind of public meetings of citizens, including both comitia and contio.' his conclusion is that the mentioned distinction is an artificial modern construction with no authority in ancient texts, that 'the ancients speak only of a comitia tributa' and that it is likely that in republican times there was a single tribal assembly known as comitia tributa.[ ] according to the roman tradition, in bc, fifteen years after the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of the roman republic, the plebeiany temporarily seceded from the city of rome, which started the two hundred-year conflict of the orders between the patricians (the aristocracy) and the plebeians (the commoners). during this first secession, the plebeians created their own institutions which were separate from those of the roman state, which at that time was controlled by the patricians, and were intended to protect the interests of the plebeians. these included the plebeian tribunes, the plebeian aediles and the plebeian assembly. forsythe takes the revisionist view further. he rejects the idea there was a plebeian assembly and maintains that the comitia tributa was an assembly of the whole of the roman people and opines that the plebeian secession was a myth created in later times. roman historians emerged in the late third and early second century bc, some three hundred year after the date attributed to this secession and the events of rome's early history were poorly documented. based on t. p. wiseman's view that many of rome's early historical traditions 'were created, propagated, accepted and reshaped' from the middle of the fourth century bc onward through dramas played on the stage at religious festivals[ ] forsythe argues that the story of the plebeian secession was invented in one such performances to explain the origin of the temple of ceres and its plebeian associations. it was inspired by herodotus' account of how telines, a ruler of gela, a greek town in sicily, used the rites of demeter and persephone to bring back to gela a group of political exiles. this story of civil discord, reconciliation and integration and the cult of demeter was used to fabricate the tale of the first plebeian secession where the plebeians seceded from rome but were then reconciled and returned to the city.[ ] the ludi ceriales (the games of ceres) were held annually to celebrate the anniversary of the dedication of the temple of ceres, which was dated by the tradition two years before the first secession.[ ] assembly procedures[edit] the convening of the assembly was announced three market-days (nundinae) in advance. the viatores (messengers) were sent "to inform those in country districts" about the convening of the assembly.[ ] later, for elections it was established that there should be a trinundinum, an interval of at least three market-days between the announcement of the election and the vote of the assembly, during which no legislation was permitted. the lex caecilia didia of bc required a trinundinum interval between the announcement of a law and the vote. in the case of prosecutions before an assembly, the magistrate who presided over it was required to give "notice (diem dicere) to the accused of the first day of the investigation (inquisitio), then at the end of each hearing he announced the adjournment to the next (diem prodicere). after this there was a trinundinum interval before the assembly voted the verdict.[ ] there are disagreements among scholars about how many days this interval lasted. mommsen proposes days, michels days. lintott gives a flexible suggestion, days or more.[ ][ ][ ] there could be only one assembly operating at a time. the augur marcus valerius messalla rufus (who was consul in bc) wrote a rule book (on auspices). among other things, it established that lesser magistrates could not call off (avocare, call away) an assembly which had already been convened. thus, "whoever of them first summons the people to an election has the law on his side, because it is unlawful to take the same action twice with the people nor can one minor magistrate call away an assembly from another." however, a consul could call off a comitia or contio convened by another magistrate and a praetor could call off one summoned by other magistrates except a consul. if an assembly was called "to address a contio without laying any measure before them, it is lawful for any number of magistrates to hold a contio at the same time." [ ] lintott suggests that this rule was intended to prevent rivalry among magistrates.[ ] in addition to the presiding magistrate of an assembly there were several other magistrates to act as assistants. they were available to help resolve procedural disputes and to provide a mechanism for electors to appeal the decisions of the presiding magistrate.[ ] since the romans believed that the gods communicated their approval or disapproval with proposed actions, the presiding magistrate performed augury (the divination of the omens of the gods) the night before a meeting. there were also augurs (priests who performed augury), either in attendance or on-call, who would be available to help interpret the omens of the gods.[ ] the meeting could only proceed if the omens were favourable. on several known occasions, presiding magistrates used the claim of unfavourable omens as an excuse to suspend a session that was not going the way they wanted. if after the assembly the augurs decided that some formality had been neglected, its vote became void. in the case of elections, those persons had been elected to an office had to resign.[ ] there were several cases in which an assembly could be adjourned. on religious grounds, this could happen, besides when the auspices were found to be unfavourable, when the gods manifested their displeasure by rain, thunder, or lightning or if the sun set before the proceedings were completed – this was because the auspices were considered to be valid only for one day from dawn to sunset. other reasons were the veto of a plebeian tribune and one of the assembled citizens suffering an epileptic fit (morbus comitialis). in the politically volatile years of the late republic, at times assemblies were broken up by riots. if an assembly convened as a court, its being broken up was equivalent to an acquittal of the accused.[ ] on the day of the vote the tribes convened at dawn. the meeting started with a prayer, unaccompanied by sacrifice.[ ] for legislative meetings the presiding magistrate was the one who proposed the bill (rogatio legis) to be voted on and after the prayer he laid his bill before the people. for electoral meetings, he announced the names of the candidates. if the meeting was for a trial, he made the people acquainted with the nature of the offence on which the people had to pass a verdict. he concluded the announcement with the words velitis, jubeatis quirites (command your wish, citizens). a rogatio was read out by the praeco (the crier or herald). then the contio begun. the voters were not sorted into their tribes. for legislative matters there was a debate on the rogatio in which private citizens had to ask the presiding magistrate for permission to speak. this debate took place before the bill was either vetoed or put to the vote.[ ][ ] if the vote was for an election, the candidates used the contio for canvassing and there were no speeches by private citizens.[ ] after the above, the voters were told to break up the contio and to arrange themselves by the tribes with the formula discedite, quirites (depart to your separate groups, citizens). the tribes voted one by one. the voters assembled in enclosures called saepta[ ] and voted by placing a pebble or written ballot into an appropriate jar. the baskets (cistae) that held the votes were watched by officers (the custodes) who then counted the ballots and reported the results to the presiding magistrate.[ ] the majority of votes in each tribe decided how that tribe voted. the presiding magistrate (either a consul or a praetor), always ensured that all tribes had at least five members voting, and if a tribe did not, individuals from other tribes were reassigned to the vacant places in that tribe.[ ] the order in which the tribes voted was determined by lot. an urn into which lots were cast was brought in. from then on, the plebeian tribunes were not allowed to exercise their right to veto.[ ] the first tribe to vote was called praerogativa or principium and the result of its vote was announced immediately.[ ] the tribes which voted next were called jure vocatae.[ ] when a majority of tribes had voted the same way, voting ended. the results of votes of each tribe was announced in an order also determined by lot before the announcement of the final result. this announcement was called renuntiatio.[ ] the praerogativa or principium was usually the most important tribe, because it often decided the matter through a bandwagon effect. it was believed that the order of the lot was chosen by the gods, and thus, that the position held by the tribes which voted earlier was the position of the gods.[ ] if the voting process was not complete by nightfall, the electors were dismissed and the voting had to begin again the next day.[ ] laws passed by the comitia took effect as soon as the results were announced.[ ] it has been speculated that the word suffragium (vote) indicates that in the early days the men in the assembly made a crash with their arms to signal approval, rather than vote. another speculation is that the term rogatores (sing. rogator, a teller, an official who asked the people for their votes or collected votes) indicates that in later times, but before the introduction of the written ballot, the assembled men were asked to express their votes verbally and that this was recorded with marks inscribed in tablets. however, there is no evidence for either of these. the written ballot was introduced by a series of laws, the lex gabinia tabellaria ( bc) for elections, the lex cassia tebellaria ( bc) for non-capital punishment trials, the lex papiria ( bc) for legislation, and the lex coelia ( bc) for capital punishment trials (which were conducted before the comitia centuriata). this was an introduction of secret ballots which reduced undue influence or intimidation by the powerful elites, which was at times a problem during votes.[ ] although the order of voting was determined by lot, there was also an official order of the tribes, known as the ordo tribuum. the first four tribes were the urban tribes, in the order: suburana, palatina, esquilina, collina. the rural tribes followed, concluding with aniensis. crawford postulates that the rustic tribes were enumerated along the major roads leading from rome (the viae ostiensis, appia, latina, praenestina, valeria, salaria, flaminia and clodia), in a counter-clockwise order: romilia, voltinia, voturia, aemilia, horatia, maecia, scaptia, pomptina, falerina, lemonia, papiria, ufentina, terentina, pupinia, menenia, publilia, cornelia, claudia, camilia, aniensis, fabia, pollia, sergia, clustumina, quirina, velina, stellatina, tromentina, galeria, sabatina, arniensis. this list omits the tribus popillia, one of the earlier tribes.[ ] the location of the meetings of the tribal assembly varied. up to bc were centred on comitium, a templum an open-air space, built for public meetings at the north end of the roman forum. the rostra, a speaking platform on its southern side of the comitium, was used for speeches. it was also used as a tribunal; that is, as a platform to deliver the votes. then this place became too cramped and the steps of the temple of castor and pollux at the forum's south-east end were used as the tribunal. elevated gangways (pontes) which provided access to it were built by the second century bc. meetings were also sometimes held in the area capitolina, an open space in front and around the temple of jupiter optimus maximus, on the southern summit of the capitoline hill. in the late republic the meetings were held outside the city walls, at the campus martius (the field of mars) a large flat area which could accommodate the simultaneous voting of the tribes and thus speed up the process.[ ] decline[edit] in the politically volatile and highly corrupt final years of the roman republic, the popular assemblies were susceptible to corruption and vulnerable to politically motivated violence by contenting political factions. the establishment of the second triumvirate in bc effective abolished the functions of the comitia, as the triumvirs were granted authority by the lex titia to appoint practically all offices without consulting the senate or the people.[ ] some actions were still passed using the assemblies, with certain laws providing for the erection of temples, the remission of rents in bc, and the lex falcidia governing inheritance in bc;[ ] similarly, various laws granting the triumvirs the right to wear the civic crown[ ] were passed by plebiscite, as it would have been unseemly for them to simply have granted themselves those honours.[ ] with the establishment of absolute rule by emperors after the fall of the republic, the republican assemblies were emasculated. augustus, the first roman emperor, became the real legislator and the comitia's role in passing laws became only a ceremonial one. he also removed the comitia's judicial functions, though these functions had fallen into disuse long before.[ ] this assembly's electoral functions also become only nominal, with the assemblies effectively being dominated by the emperor.[ ] augustus filled half of the magistracies with his own candidates, though the magistracies as a whole had, by this point, so little political importance that imperial control over elections was minimal.[ ] his successor, tiberius transferred the comitia's remaining electoral authority to the senate.[ ] although the emperors received many of their powers from the comitia tributa, this was only a formality. the comitia tributa continued to exist until the third century ad, but its remaining functions were only symbolic. it took auspices and gave prayer. it conferred the emperor's legislative powers and other authority only in a ceremonial manner. it proclaimed the laws presented to it for approval by acclamatio, rather than a real vote.[ ] tribes[edit] main article: roman tribe the tribes were not ethnic or kinship groups, but geographic divisions into which roman citizens were distributed. they were administrative districts which served for the purposes of taxation, the military levy and for the registration of roman citizens. this registration occurred regularly during the census and the names of citizens and their families were entered in the registers of the tribes. lintott notes that 'the tribe was the critical indicator of roman citizenship' for the adult sons of roman fathers and also for 'those incorporated into the citizen body from the outside'. a man who came of age was enrolled as a new adult in the tribe of his father and could change it only through adoption into another family. inhabitants of italic towns who were incorporated into the roman state by being given roman citizenship were also registered in tribes. consequently, "the tribe might therefore, came to bear little relationship to the whereabouts of the citizen's domicile or property." [ ] with regard to the tribal assembly, the tribes were its voting districts. each tribe had further subdivisions, which in the urban tribes were called vici (sing. vicus, in an urban context it meant neighbourhood) and in the rural tribes were called pagi (sing. pagus – which were rural sub-districts with a number of vici (which in a rural context meant villages and hamlets) and had a fortress. professional guilds (collegia), were organised along tribal lines. the tribes were originally presided over by tribuni aerarii (tribunes of the public treasury) who had the tribal register and collected the property tax and paid the soldiers registered in the tribe.[ ] later this title became obsolete and the heads of the tribes were called curatores tribuum.[ ] besides these curatores there were also the divisores tribuum who were treasurers. these two types of officials probably had their own registers; the curatores were involved in the census.[ ] by the late republic, their main task was to distribute bribes. because tribal membership was re-registered once every five years in each census, it became possible to crudely gerrymander the tribes. while land could never be taken away from a tribe, the "censors" had the power to allocate new lands to existing tribes as a part of the census. thus, the censors had the power to apportion tribes in a manner that might be advantageous to them or to their partisans.[ ] see also[edit] 	roman tribe 	pagus 	vicus 	collegia 	roman censor 	centuriate assembly 	plebeian council 	curiate assembly references[edit] 	abbott, frank frost ( ). a history and description of roman political institutions. elibron classics (isbn  - - - ). 	byrd, robert ( ). the senate of the roman republic. u.s. government printing office, senate document - . 	cicero, marcus tullius ( ). the political works of marcus tullius cicero: comprising his treatise on the commonwealth; 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"'comitia tributa again', athenaeum ( ) , pp. – 	^ sandberg, k., the concilium plebis as a legislative body', in paanen, u., et al, senatus populesque romanus: studies in roman republican legislation, (acta inst. rom. fin ) ( ), pp. – 	^ lintott, a., the constitution of the roman republic, pp. – 	^ livy, the history of rome, . 	^ forsythe, g., a critical history of early rome, pp. – 	^ wiseman, t. p., remus, a roman myth ( ), p. 	^ forsythe, g., a critical history of early rome, pp. – 	^ dionysius of halicanassus, roman antiquities, . . 	^ appian, the civil wars, . 	^ lintott, a.,the constitution of the roman republic, pp. – 	^ mommsen. t., romische staadtrecht ( ), i, pp. – 	^ michels, a. k., the calendar of the roman republic ( ), pp. , ff. 	^ a b lintott, a.,the constitution of the roman republic, p. 	^ gellius, attic nights, . 	^ taylor, l. r., roman voting assemblies, p. 	^ taylor, l.r., roman voting assemblies, pp. , 	^ a b c d smith, w., wayte, w., marindin, g. e., (eds), a dictionary of greek and roman antiquities ( ): comitia 	^ a b c d harper's dictionary of classical antiquities, second edition, harry thurston peck, editor ( ): comitia 	^ lintott, a., the constitution of the roman republic, p. 	^ taylor, l. r., roman voting assemblies. pp. , 	^ taylor, l. r., roman voting assemblies, p. 	^ lintott, a., the constitution of the roman republic, pp. – 	^ a b taylor, l. r., roman voting assemblies, p. 	^ lintott, a.,the constitution of the roman republic, p. 	^ taylor, l. r., roman voting assemblies, p. 	^ taylor, l. r.,roman voting assemblies, p. 	^ lintott, a.,the constitution of the roman republic, p. 	^ lintott, a., the constitution of the roman republic, pp. – 	^ crawford, m. h., "tribus, tesserae, et regions," in comptes rendus de l'academie des inscriptions et belles-lettres ( ) vol. , pp. – 	^ lintott, a., the constitution of the roman republic, pp. , 	^ a b c d botsford, george willis ( ). the roman assemblies. new york: cooper square publishers inc. p.  . 	^ taylor, thomas marris ( ). a constitutional and political history of rome. london: methuen & co. pp.  . 	^ a b c taylor, thomas marris ( ). a constitutional and political history of rome. london: methuen & co. pp.  . 	^ lintott, a., the constitution of the roman republic, p. 	^ oxford classical dictionary, nd ed. ( ): "tribuni aerarii." 	^ smith, w., wayte, w., marindin, g. e., (eds), a dictionary of greek and roman antiquities ( ): tribus further reading[edit] 	cameron, avril, the later roman empire, (fontana press, ). 	crawford, michael the roman republic (fontana history of the ancient world), fontana press; new edition, ; isbn  - 	crawford, michael, "tribus, tesserae, et regions," in comptes rendus de l'academie des inscriptions et belles-lettres ( ) vol. , pp.  – 	gruen, erich, "the last generation of the roman republic", university of california press, new edition, ; isbn  - 	ihne, wilhelm. researches into the history of the roman constitution: with an appendix upon the roman knights ( ), reproduction by leopold classic library, ; asin: b auo mhu 	millar, fergus, the emperor in the roman world, bristol classical press; new edition, ; isbn  - 	mommsen, theodor. roman constitutional law. – 	the roman constitution to the time of cicero 	tighe, ambrose. the development of the roman constitution ( ), reproduction by wentworth press, ; isbn  - 	whetstone johnston, harold orations and letters of cicero: with historical introduction, an outline of the roman constitution, notes, vocabulary and index ( ), reproduction by ulan press, ; asin: b fu fvq external links[edit] 	library resources about tribal assembly 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 	v 	t 	e roman constitution 	ancient rome	 	history 	constitution 	senate 	assemblies 	curiate 	century 	tribal 	plebeian 	magistrates 	roman kingdom	 	history 	constitution 	senate 	assemblies 	magistrates 	roman republic	 	history 	constitution (reforms of sulla • reforms of caesar • reforms of augustus) 	senate 	assemblies 	magistrates 	roman empire	 	history 	(post diocletian) 	constitution 	(post diocletian) 	senate 	assemblies 	magistrates 	miscellaneous	 	sulla's constitutional reforms 	caesar's constitutional reforms 	conflict of the orders 	roman law 	 	v 	t 	e ancient rome topics 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	heriotza	 erroma, k.a. ko azaroaren a ( urte) 	hobiratze lekua	 erroma 	familia 	aita	 ezezaguna 	ama	 ezezaguna 	hezkuntza 	hizkuntzak	 latina 	irakaslea(k)	 kratipo pergamokoa aristo axkelongoa 	jarduerak 	jarduerak	 poeta, idazlea eta filosofoa 	lantokia(k)	 erroma 	lan nabarmenak	 ars poetica (en) kinto horazio flako (latinez quintus horatius flaccus; venusia, k.a. eko abenduaren a - erroma, k.a. ko azaroaren a) antzinako erromako poeta izan zen. virgiliorekin batean poesia latinoaren buru, klasizismoaren eredutzat hartua izan zen eta oso irakurria antzinatearen amaiera arte. haren zorroztasuna, oreka eta perfekzio nahia direla eta, errenazimentuan horazioren poesia europako herrialde guztietan izan zen ezaguna. eduki-taula 	 bizitza 	 idazgintza 	 lanak 	 . odak (edo carmina) 	 . satirak 	 . eskutitzak (edo epistolae) 	 erreferentziak 	 kanpo loturak bizitza[aldatu | aldatu iturburu kodea] venusian jaio zen, lukaniatik oso gertu. aita, koaktorra, zergak kobratzen ziharduen esklabo libertoa zen. horaziok berak aipatzen du datu hori, baina suetoniok salsamentarius, hots, arrain gazitu saltzailea zela dio. suetonioren arabera, norbaitek zirikatu nahi zuenean, quotiens ego vidi patrem tuum bracchio se emungentem!, esaten zion; hau da: «zure aita hainbat alditan ikusi dut besoa ukondoraino sartua zuela»[ ]. horazio ez zen bere jatorriaz inoiz lotsatu, aitak haundikiek jasotzen zuten hezkuntza eta hezibide moral ona izateko baliabide guztiak eman baizizkion. oso gaztea zelarik, aitak erromara eroan eta bere diruaren zati handi bat haren heziketan erabili zuen. bertan lucius orbilius pupillus gramatikalari eta erretorikalariarekin ikasi zuen[ ], klasiko latinoak eta grekoak irakurriz; eta olerki grekoak irakurriz bere edertasunerako joera kausitu zuen. lehenengo olerkiak grezieraz idatzi zituen. aitaren eskuzabaltasuna eta azkartasunari esker, horazio atenasera joan ahal izan zen filosofia ikastera. han zegoela, julio zesarren heriotzaren eta erroman sortu ziren arazoen berri izan zituen. horaziok errepublikazaleekin bat egin zuen, eta marko bruto buru zuen greziako armadan sartu zen. oktavianoren eta marko antonioren aurka borrokatu zen tribuno militar gisa. k.a. . urtean, filiposko guduan, errepublikaren armadak hondoa jo eta, ihes egin behar izan zuen. hala ere, ihes egin izana ez zuen desohoretzat hartu. k.a. inguruan, oktavianoren amnistia politikoarekin erromara itzuli zen, eta aitak utzitako ondasunak konfiskatuak izan baitziren, kuestore (latinez: scriba quaestorius) lan egin behar izan zuen administrazioan. esperientzia mingots horren edo siron napolitarraren irakatsien eraginez, epikuroren dotrinarekin bat eginda, gizarte bizitzatik at bizi izan zen aldi hartan. horrela, olerkiak (epodoak eta satirak) idazteari lotu zitzaion. virgiliok eta variok berehala antzeman zuten haren etorkizuna poesiaren munduan, eta k.a. . urtean mezenas aurkeztu zioten. lehenbiziko elkarrizketa hotza izan zen, horazio lotsatia zelako, eta ez zen elkarrenganako elkartasunik izan. geroago, berriro topatu zuten elkar, mezenasek lagunen taldean sartu zuen, eta lagun minak izatera iritsi ziren[ ]. k.a. aldean, beharbada mezenas ahaltsuaren laguntzarekin, landetxe bat erosi zuen sabinia aldean[ ]: babesleku hartan idatzi zuen izadiaren eta aisiaren oihartzuna dakarren olerki anitz, eta maiz asko bertara erretiratzen zen hiriko nahasmenetik ihesi. mezenasen bidez augusto ezagutu zuen, eta honek idazkari gisa eraman nahi izan zuen, baina poetak ezezkoa eman zion bere bizimodu lasaitik urrutiratuko zuelakoan[ ]. izan ere, baretasun lasaia eta ezusterik gabeko aurea mediocritas-a nahiago zuen. bizitza erroma eta sabiniako landetxearen artean lerratzen zen, era lasaian. horrek denbora uzten zion bere olerkiei lotzeko. suetoniok ematen du horazioren azken egunen berri: k.a. . urtean mezenas hil zen, teatamentuan horazio augustori gomendatu eta gero; baina horazio ere gutxi barru zendu zen, supituki, testamentua egin barik. hala ere, lekukoen aurrean augusto izendatu zuen oinordeko. eskilinon hilobiratu zuten, mezenasen alboan[ ]. gizon gizentsu eta lasaia izan zen. erromako gizartea eta landetxeko bakartasuna gozatu zituen zaratarik atera gabe. begirale eta psikologo zorrotza, guzti-guztia arakatzen zuen. bere morala praktikotasunaren eta errealismoarena zen. eraso egiten ziotenean defendatzen zen, eta norbaitek txarto idaztean haserretzen zen. berekoi samarra izan zen eta ez zen batere heroia izan. idazgintza[aldatu | aldatu iturburu kodea] horazio irakurtzen mezenasen aurrean, fyodor bronnikoven margoa, horazioren lehen obrak satirak (satirae edo sermones) eta epodoak (epodon liber) k.a. eta bitartean argitaratu ziren. epodoak izenekoan garai hartako gorabeherak eta poetaren ezinegona islatzen dira. satiretan, ordea, gaio luzilioren gaiak erabili zituen berriro: garai hartako ohiturei buruzko gogarteak eta moralaren arazoak, baina eguneroko bizitzaren zertzeladez zipriztinduak eta barrerako beti prest agertzen zela. oda-k (carmina), k.a. tik ra argitaratuak, epodoak-ekin batera, latinoen lirikaren maisulanak dira. obra konplexu horretan, formaren perfekzioa helburu duela, safo, alzeo edo pindaro greziarren molde lirikoak sartzen ditu literatura latinoan. bigarren pertsonan idatzitakoak dira eta gaiei dagokienez, bizitzaren ezdeusa, heriotza, amodioa eta edertasun poetikoa dira gogapenerako bide, betiere ironia eta autokritikaz beteak. amodioa eta unean unekoaz gozatzeko gonbitea (carpe diem) dira horazioren lirikaren gunea. gutunak (epistulae) biltzen dituzten bi liburuetan eta ad pisones edo arte poetikoa (ars poetica) ere deituan, bere buruarekiko elkarrizketa bildua isuri eta epikureismoaren azalpena egiten du. liburu horietan literatura latinoa ere eztabaidagai da. augustoren eskariz, carmen saeculare kantu aberkoia ondu zuen (k.a. ). lanak[aldatu | aldatu iturburu kodea] saturae, odak (edo carmina)[aldatu | aldatu iturburu kodea] 	carminum liber primus edo odes i [ ] (k.a. ) 	carminum liber secundus edo odes ii [ ] (k.a. ) 	carminum liber tertius edo odes iii [ ] (k.a. ) 	carminum liber quartus edo odes iv [ ] (k.a. ) satirak[aldatu | aldatu iturburu kodea] 	sermonum liber primus edo satirae i [ ] (k.a. ) 	sermonum liber secundus edo satirae ii [ ] (k.a. ) eskutitzak (edo epistolae)[aldatu | aldatu iturburu kodea] 	epistularum liber primus [ ] (k.a. ) 	ars poetica [ ] (k.a. ) 	epistularum liber secundus [ ] (k.a. ) erreferentziak[aldatu | aldatu iturburu kodea] 	artikulu honen edukiaren zati bat lur hiztegi entziklopedikotik edo lur entziklopedia tematikotik txertatu zen / / egunean. egile-eskubideen jabeak, eusko jaurlaritzak, hiztegi horiek cc-by . lizentziarekin argitaratu ditu, open data euskadi webgunean. 	↑ suetonio. vita horatii. books.google.es. 	↑ a b c d horace. poetryfoundation.org. 	↑ horacio. biografiasyvidas.com. 	↑ horazio: carminum liber primus thelatinlibrary.com 	↑ horazio: carminum liber secundus thelatinlibrary.com 	↑ horazio: carminum liber tertius thelatinlibrary.com 	↑ horazio: carminum liber quartus thelatinlibrary.com 	↑ horazio: sermonum liber primus thelatinlibrary.com 	↑ horazio: sermonum liber secundus thelatinlibrary.com 	↑ horazio: epistularum liber primus thelatinlibrary.com 	↑ horazio: ars poetica thelatinlibrary.com 	↑ horazio: epistularum liber secundus thelatinlibrary.com kanpo loturak[aldatu | aldatu iturburu kodea] 		wikimedia commonsen badira fitxategi gehiago, gai hau dutenak: horazio 	euskarari ekarriak: horazio ekarriak.armiarma.eus 	autoritate kontrola	 	wikimedia proiektuak 	 datuak: q 	 multimedia: quintus horatius flaccus 	identifikadoreak 	worldcat 	viaf: 	isni: 	bne: xx 	bnf: b (data) 	bnc: 	cantic: a 	gnd: 	lccn: n 	ndl: 	nkc: jn 	nla: 	ber: 	cinii: da 	snac: w pk m c 	sudoc: 	ulan: 	bibsys: 	ub: a 	iccu: it\iccu\cfiv\ 	open library: ol a 	hiztegiak eta entziklopediak 	britannica: url 	bilduma digitalak 	bvmc: 	gutenberg proiektua: 	 datuak: q 	 multimedia: quintus horatius flaccus 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militum consulari potestate ("military tribunes with consular power"), in english commonly also consular tribunes, were tribunes elected with consular power during the so-called "conflict of the orders" in the roman republic, starting in bc and then continuously from bc to bc and again from bc to bc. contents 	 origin and dissolution of the office 	 consular tribunes by year 	 see also 	 notes 	 references origin and dissolution of the office[edit] according to the histories of livy and dionysius of halicarnassus,[citation needed] the magistracy of the tribuni militum consulari potestate was created during the conflict of the orders, along with the magistracy of the censor, in order to give the plebeian order access to higher levels of government without having to reform the office of consul; plebeians could be elected to the office of consular tribune.[ ] the choice whether a collegium of consular tribunes or consuls were to be elected for a given year was made by senatus consultum,[ ] thereby (according to livy) accounting for the periods of either office interspersed with the other. the number of consular tribunes varied from to , and because they were considered colleagues of the two censors, there is sometimes mention of the "eight tribunes".[citation needed] modern scholars now believe, however, that the creation of the consular tribunes was due to the changing military and administrative requirements of the expanding roman state.[ ] in the beginning during the s, the consular tribunes, elected from the three ancient tribes of the titienses, ramnenses, and luceres, were part of an overall redesign of the military structure of the roman state to maximise military efficiency, which included the creation of the censorship (responsible for taking the census to identify the numbers of men capable of military duty) and the quaestorship (responsible for the supply of money and goods for the armies).[ ] originally patrician office holders, they were referred to as "military tribunes", and were responsible for leading the armies into battle. it was only much later that they were given the anachronistic addition of "with consular power", in an attempt to distinguish them from the military tribunes who were the legionary officers of the middle and late republic.[ ] the tribunes, like their consular predecessors, exercised consular potestas,[ ] indicating they must have been elected by the comitia centuriata, and that the current needs of the state could not be served by the previous consular system.[ ] from their initial number of three, the consular tribunes were increased to four for the first time in bc in response to the military situation which saw the roman state capture and annex fidenae.[ ] then in bc, the number of consular tribunes was increased to six for the first time; and after that, apart from the very occasional year in which eight or ten consular tribunes are recorded, the roman state was led by six consular tribunes for almost every year down to the dissolution of the office and the reintroduction of the consulship in bc. the increase was due to the need for the consular tribunes to not only handle the military affairs of rome, but also the administrative needs of the city as well.[ ] according to livy, the practice of electing consular tribunes came to a definitive end in bc, when the lex licinia sextia took effect, allowing the plebeian order access to the office of consul. modern understanding of this process interprets the change to one where rome’s position in latium had become sufficiently secure to allow the urban duties of the consular tribunes to be discharged by other office holders with different levels of competencies and powers, including imperium in the case of the praetor.[ ] thus the reorganization of the roman state in / bc. saw the replacement of the six consular tribunes with five officials with distinct functions: the head of state became the two consuls, who would wage rome’s wars and lead the senate's deliberations. in addition there was one praetor who would oversee lawsuits in the city, while two curule aediles would undertake all other administrative duties within the city, such as the organization and holding of public games and overseeing and controlling the markets in rome.[ ] consular tribunes by year[edit] presented by varronian chronology. for more information on deciphering early roman names, see roman names. 	year 	tribunes 	 bc 	 	a. sempronius atratinus 	t. atilius luscus 	t. cloelius siculus 	 bc 	 	mam. aemilius mamercinus 	l. quinctius cincinnatus 	l. julius iulus 	 bc 	 	ser. cornelius cossus 	m. manlius capitolinus 	q. sulpicius camerinus praetextatus 	 bc 	 	m. fabius vibulanus 	m. folius flaccinator 	l. sergius fidenas 	 bc 	 	l. pinarius mamercinus 	l. furius medullinus 	sp. postumius albus regillensis 	 bc 	 	t. quinctius poenus cincinnatus 	c. furius pacilus fusus 	m. postumius albinus regillensis 	a. cornelius cossus 	 bc 	 	a. sempronius atratinus 	l. quinctius cincinnatus 	l. furius medullinus 	l. horatius barbatus 	 bc 	 	ap. claudius crassus 	sp. nautius rutilus 	l. sergius fidenas 	sex. julius iulus 	 bc 	 	l. manlius capitolinus 	q. antonius merenda 	l. papirius mugillanus 	 bc 	 	l. quinctius cincinnatus 	l. furius medullinus 	m. manlius vulso 	a. sempronius atratinus 	 bc 	 	agrippa menenius lanatus 	p. lucretius tricipitinus 	sp. nautius rutilus 	c. servilius axilla 	 bc 	 	l. sergius fidenas 	m. papirius mugillanus 	c. servilius axilla 	 bc 	 	p. lucretius tricipitinus 	agrippa menenius lanatus 	c. servilius axilla 	sp. rutilius crassus 	 bc 	* a. sempronius atratinus 	m. papirius mugillanus 	q. fabius vibulanus 	sp. nautius rutilus 	 bc 	 	p. cornelius cossus 	c. valerius potitus volusus 	n. fabius vibulanus 	q. quinctius cincinnatus 	 bc 	 	cn. cornelius cossus 	l. valerius potitus 	q. fabius vibulanus 	p. postumius albinus regillensis 	 bc 	 	c. julius iulus 	p. cornelius cossus 	c. servilius ahala 	 bc 	 	l. furius medullinus 	c. valerius potitus volusus 	n. fabius vibulanus 	c. servilius ahala 	 bc 	 	p. cornelius rutilus cossus 	cn. cornelius cossus 	n. fabius ambustus 	l. valerius potitus 	 bc 	 	t. quinctius capitolinus barbatus 	q. quinctius cincinnatus 	c. julius iulus 	a. manlius vulso capitolinus 	l. furius medullinus 	m'. aemilius mamercinus 	 bc 	 	c. valerius potitus volusus 	m'. sergius fidenas 	p. cornelius maluginensis 	cn. cornelius cossus 	k. fabius ambustus 	sp. nautius rutilus 	 bc 	 	m'. aemilius mamercinus 	l. valerius potitus 	ap. claudius crassus inregillensis 	m. quinctilius varus 	l. julius iulus 	m. furius fusus 	m. postumius albinus regillensis 	m. postumius 	 bc 	 	c. servilius ahala 	q. servilius fidenas 	l. verginius tricostus esquilinus 	q. sulpicius camerinus cornutus 	a. manlius vulso capitolinus 	m'. sergius fidenas 	 bc 	 	l. valerius potitus 	m. furius camillus 	m'. aemilius mamercinus 	cn. cornelius cossus 	k. fabius ambustus 	l. julius iulus 	 bc 	 	p. licinius calvus esquilinus 	p. manlius vulso 	l. titinius pansa saccus 	p. maelius capitolinus 	sp. furius medullinus 	l. publilius philo vulscus 	 bc 	 	cn. genucius augurinus 	l. atilius priscus 	m. pomponius rufus 	c. duillius longus 	m. veturius crassus cicurinus 	volero publilius philo 	 bc 	 	l. valerius potitus 	m. valerius lactucinus maximus 	m. furius camillus 	l. furius medullinus 	q. servilius fidenas 	q. sulpicius camerinus cornutus 	 bc 	 	l. julius iulus 	l. furius medullinus 	l. sergius fidenas 	a. postumius albinus regillensis 	p. cornelius maluginensis 	a. manlius vulso capitolinus 	 bc 	 	l. titinius pansa saccus 	p. licinius calvus esquilinus 	p. maelius capitolinus 	q. manlius vulso capitolinus 	cn. genucius augurinus 	l. atilius priscus 	 bc 	 	p. cornelius cossus 	p. cornelius scipio 	k. fabius ambustus 	l. furius medullinus 	q. servilius fidenas 	m. valerius lactucinus maximus 	 bc 	 	m. furius camillus 	l. furius medullinus 	c. aemilius mamercinus 	l. valerius publicola 	sp. postumius albinus regillensis 	p. cornelius 	 bc 	 	l. lucretius tricipitinus flavus 	ser. sulpicius camerinus 	l. aemilius mamercinus 	l. furius medullinus 	agrippa furius fusus 	c. aemilius mamercinus 	 bc 	 	q. fabius ambustus 	k. fabius ambustus 	n. fabius ambustus 	q. sulpicius longus 	q. servilius fidenas 	p. cornelius maluginensis 	 bc 	 	l. valerius publicola 	l. verginius tricostus 	p. cornelius 	a. manlius capitolinus 	l. aemilius mamercinus 	l. postumius albinus regillensis 	 bc 	 	t. quinctius cincinnatus capitolinus 	q. servilius fidenas 	l. julius iulus 	l. aquilius corvus 	l. lucretius flavus tricipitinus 	ser. sulipicius rufus 	 bc 	 	l. papirius cursor 	cn. sergius fidenas coxo 	l. aemilius mamercinus 	licinus menentius lanatus 	l. valerius publicola 	l. cornelius 	 bc 	 	m. furius camillus 	ser. cornelius maluginensis 	q. servilius fidenas 	l. quinctius cincinnatus 	l. horatius pulvillus 	p. valerius potitus publicola 	 bc 	 	a. manlius capitolinus 	p. cornelius 	t. quinctius cincinnatus capitolinus 	l. quinctius cincinnatus capitolinus 	l. papirius cursor 	cn. sergius fidenas coxo 	 bc 	 	ser. cornelius maluginensis 	p. valerius potitus publicola 	m. furius camillus 	ser. sulpicius rufus 	c. papirius crassus 	t. quinctius cincinnatus capitolinus 	 bc 	 	l. valerius publicola 	a. manlius capitolinus 	ser. sulpicius rufus 	l. lucretius flavus tricipitinus 	l. aemilius mamercinus 	m. trebonius 	 bc 	 	sp. papirius crassus 	l. papirius mugillanus 	ser. cornelius maluginensis 	q. servilius fidenas 	c. sulpicius camerinus 	l. aemilius mamercinus 	 bc 	 	m. furius camillus 	a. postumius albinus regillensis 	l. postumius albinus regillensis 	l. furius medullinus 	l. lucretius tricipitinus flavus 	m. fabius ambustus 	 bc 	 	l. valerius publicola 	p. valerius potitus publicola 	ser. cornelius maluginensis 	licinus menentius lanatus 	c. sulpicius peticus 	l. aemilius mamercinus 	cn. sergius fidenas coxo 	ti. papirius crassus 	l. papirius mugillanus 	 bc 	 	p. manlius capitolinus 	c. manlius 	l. julius iulus 	c. sextilius 	m. albinius 	l. antistius 	 bc 	 	sp. furius 	q. servilius fidenas 	licinus menenius lanatus 	p. cloelius siculus 	m. horatius 	l. geganius macerinus 	 bc 	 	l. aemilius mamercinus 	p. valerius potitus publicola 	c. veturius crassus cicurinus 	ser. sulpicius rufus 	l. quinctius cincinnatus 	c. quinctius cincinnatus 	 bc 	 	l. papirius mugillanus 	licinus menenius lanatus 	ser. cornelius maluginensis 	ser. sulpicius praetextatus 	 bc 	 	l. furius medullinus 	a. manlius capitolinus 	ser. sulpicius praetextatus 	ser. cornelius maluginensis 	p. valerius potitus publicola 	c. valerius potitus 	 bc 	 	q. servilius fidenas 	c. veturius crassus cicurinus 	a. cornelius cossus 	m. cornelius maluginensis 	q. quinctius cincinnatus 	m. fabius ambustus 	 bc 	 	t. quinctius cincinnatus capitolinus 	ser. cornelius maluginensis 	ser. sulpicius praetextatus 	sp. servilius structus 	l. papirius crassus 	l. veturius crassus cicurinus 	 bc 	 	a. cornelius cossus 	m. cornelius maluginensis 	m. geganius macerinus 	p. manlius capitolinus 	l. veturius crassus cicurinus 	p. valerius potitus publicola see also[edit] 	constitution of the roman republic notes[edit] 	^ forsythe, pgs. - 	^ livy, ab urbe condita libri, iv. . 	^ a b c d forsythe, p. 	^ bringmann, hans; smyth, w. j. (trans) a history of the roman republic ( ), p. 	^ t.corey brennan, « the praetorship in the roman republic-vol origins to bc- § . the consular tribunate», oxford university press, 	^ forsythe, pp. - 	^ a b forsythe, pg. references[edit] 	forsythe, gary a critical history of early rome: from prehistory to the first punic war, university of california press ( ) 	tribunus 	 	v 	t 	e ancient rome topics 	 	outline 	timeline 	history	 	 	foundation 	kingdom 	overthrow 	republic 	empire	 	history 	pax romana 	principate 	dominate 	western empire 	fall 	historiography of the fall 	byzantine empire 	decline 	fall 	constitution	 	history 	kingdom 	republic 	empire 	late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	curiate 	centuriate 	tribal 	plebeian 	executive magistrates 	spqr 	law	 	twelve tables 	mos maiorum 	citizenship 	auctoritas 	imperium 	status 	litigation 	government	 	curia 	forum 	cursus honorum 	collegiality 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	prefect 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 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the two most important were the tribunes of the plebs and the military tribunes. for most of roman history, a college of ten tribunes of the plebs acted as a check on the authority of the senate and the annual magistrates, holding the power of ius intercessionis to intervene on behalf of the plebeians, and veto unfavourable legislation. there were also military tribunes, who commanded portions of the roman army, subordinate to higher magistrates, such as the consuls and praetors, promagistrates, and their legates. various officers within the roman army were also known as tribunes. the title was also used for several other positions and classes in the course of roman history. contents 	 tribal tribunes 	 tribune of the celeres 	 tribune of the plebs 	 military tribunes 	 consular tribunes 	 tribunes of the treasury 	 later uses of the title 	 . republic of venice 	 . french revolutionary tribunat 	 see also 	 references 	 . notes 	 . bibliography 	 external links tribal tribunes[edit] the word tribune is derived from the roman tribes. the three original tribes known as the ramnes or ramnenses, tities or titienses, and the luceres, were each headed by a tribune, who represented each tribe in civil, religious, and military matters.[ ]:ii. [ ][ ] subsequently, each of the servian tribes was also represented by a tribune.[ ]:ii. [ ] tribune of the celeres[edit] under the roman kingdom, the tribunus celerum, in english tribune of the celeres, or tribune of the knights, was commander of the king's personal bodyguard, known as the celeres. this official was second only to the king, and had the authority to pass law, known as lex tribunicia, and to preside over the comitia curiata. unless the king himself elected to lead the cavalry into battle, this responsibility fell to the tribune of the celeres. in theory he could deprive the king of his imperium, or authority to command, with the agreement of the comitia curiata.[ ]:ii. [ ] in the reign of lucius tarquinius superbus, the last roman king, this office was held by lucius junius brutus, the king's nephew, and thus the senior member of the king's household, after the king himself and his sons. it was brutus who convened the comitia and asked that they revoke the king's imperium.[ ]:i. after the fall of the monarchy, the powers of the tribune of the celeres were divided between the magister militum, or master of the infantry, also known as the praetor maximus or dictator, and his lieutenant, the magister equitum or "master of the horse". tribune of the plebs[edit] main article: tribune of the plebs the tribuni plebis, known in english as tribunes of the plebs, tribunes of the people, or plebeian tribunes, were instituted in bc, after the first secession of the plebs, in order to protect the interests of the plebeians against the actions of the senate and the annual magistrates, who were uniformly patrician. the ancient sources indicate the tribunes may have originally been two or five in number. if the former, the college of tribunes was expanded to five in bc. either way, the college was increased to ten in bc, and remained at this number throughout roman history. they were assisted by two aediles plebis, or plebeian aediles. only plebeians were eligible for these offices, although there were at least two exceptions.[ ] the tribunes of the plebs had the power to convene the concilium plebis, or plebeian assembly, and propose legislation before it. only one of the tribunes could preside over this assembly, which had the power to pass laws affecting only the plebeians, known as plebiscita, or plebiscites. after bc, the decrees of the concilium plebis had the effect of law over all roman citizens. by the rd century bc, the tribunes could also convene and propose legislation before the senate.[ ] although sometimes referred to as "plebeian magistrates," technically the tribunes of the plebs were not magistrates, having been elected by the plebeians alone, and not the whole roman people. however, they were sacrosanct, and the whole body of the plebeians were pledged to protect the tribunes against any assault or interference with their persons during their terms of office. anyone who violated the sacrosanctity of the tribunes might be killed without penalty.[ ][ ] this was also the source of the tribunes' power, known as ius intercessionis, or intercessio, by which any tribune could intercede on behalf of a roman citizen to prohibit the act of a magistrate or other official. citizens could appeal the decisions of the magistrates to the tribunes, who would then be obliged to determine the legality of the action before a magistrate could proceed. this power also allowed the tribunes to forbid, or veto any act of the senate or another assembly. only a dictator was exempt from these powers.[ ] the tribunicia potestas, or tribunician power, was limited by the fact that it was derived from the oath of the people to defend the tribunes. this limited most of the tribunes' actions to the boundaries of the city itself, as well as a radius of one mile around. they had no power to affect the actions of provincial governors.[ ] the powers of the tribunes were severely curtailed during the constitutional reforms of the dictator sulla in bc. although many of these powers were restored in further reforms of bc and bc, the prestige and authority of the tribunes had been irreparably damaged. in bc, the senate granted tribunician powers (tribunicia potestas, powers equivalent to those of a tribune without actually being one) to the dictator julius caesar. caesar used them to prevent the other tribunes interfering with his actions. in bc, the senate granted the same power to augustus, the first roman emperor, and from that point onwards it was regularly granted to each emperor as part of their formal titles. under the roman empire, the tribunes continued to be elected, but had lost their independence and most of their practical power. the office became merely a step in the political careers of plebeians who aspired toward a seat in the senate.[ ] military tribunes[edit] main article: military tribune the tribuni militum, known in english as military tribunes or literally, tribunes of the soldiers, were elected each year along with the annual magistrates. their number varied throughout roman history, but eventually reached twenty-four. these were usually young men in their late twenties, who aspired to a senatorial career. each tribune would be assigned to command a portion of the roman army, subordinate to the magistrates and promagistrates appointed by the senate, and their legates. within each of the legions, various middle-ranking officers were also styled tribune. these officers included: 	tribunus laticlavius, a senatorial officer, second in command of a legion; identified by a broad stripe, or laticlavus. 	tribunus angusticlavius, an officer chosen from among the equites, five to each legion; identified by a narrow stripe, or angusticlavus. 	tribunus rufulus, an officer chosen by the commander. 	tribunus vacans, an unassigned officer in the late roman army; a member of the general's staff. 	tribunus cohortis, an officer commanding a cohort, part of a legion usually consisting of six centuries. 	tribunus cohortis urbanae, commander of one of the urban cohorts, a sort of military police unit stationed at rome. 	tribunus sexmestris, a tribune serving a tour of duty of only six months; there is no evidence to identify this officer as a cavalry commander, as sometimes stated in modern literature. in the late roman army, a tribunus was a senior officer, sometimes called a comes, who commanded a cavalry vexillatio. as tribounos, the title survived in the east roman army until the early th century. from the use of tribunus to describe various military officers is derived the word tribunal, originally referring to a raised platform used to address the soldiers or administer justice. military tribunes are featured in notable works of historical fiction, including ben-hur: a tale of the christ, by lew wallace, and the robe by lloyd c. douglas. both novels involve characters affected by the life and death of jesus, and were turned into epic films during the s. messala, the primary antagonist in ben-hur, was played by stephen boyd, while marcellus gallio, the protagonist of the robe, was played by a young richard burton. consular tribunes[edit] main article: tribuni militum consulari potestate in bc, the tribunes of the plebs succeeded in passing the lex canuleia, repealing the law forbidding the intermarriage of patricians and plebeians, and providing that one of the consuls might be a plebeian. rather than permit the consular dignity to pass into the hands of a plebeian, the senate proposed a compromise whereby three military tribunes, who might be either patrician or plebeian, should be elected in place of the consuls. the first tribuni militum consulare potestate, or military tribunes with consular power, were elected for the year . although plebeians were eligible for this office, each of the first "consular tribunes" was a patrician.[ ]:iv. – military tribunes were elected in place of the consuls in half the years from to bc, and in each instance, all of the tribunes were patricians; nor did any plebeian succeed in obtaining the consulship. the number of tribunes increased to four beginning in , and six beginning in . at last, the plebeians elected four of their number military tribunes for the year ; others were elected in , , , and . but apart from these years, no plebeian obtained the highest offices of the roman state. the patricians' monopoly on power was finally broken by gaius licinius calvus stolo and lucius sextius lateranus, tribunes of the people, who in bc brought forward legislation demanding not merely that one of the consuls might be a plebeian, but that henceforth one must be chosen from their order. when the senate refused their demand, the tribunes prevented the election of annual magistrates for five years, before relenting and permitting the election of consular tribunes from to . in the end, and with the encouragement of the dictator marcus furius camillus, the senate conceded the battle, and passed the licinian rogations. sextius was elected the first plebeian consul, followed by licinius two years later; and with this settlement, the consular tribunes were abolished.[ ]:xiv. [ ]:vi. , , , , vii. , [ ] tribunes of the treasury[edit] the exact nature of the tribuni aerarii, or tribunes of the treasury is shrouded in mystery. originally they seem to have been tax collectors, but this power was slowly lost to other officials. by the end of the republic, this style belonged to a class of persons slightly below the equites in wealth. when the makeup of roman juries was reformed in bc, it was stipulated that one-third of the members of each jury should belong to this class. later uses of the title[edit] republic of venice[edit] in the early history of the republic of venice, during the tenure of the sixth doge domenico monegario, venice instituted a dual tribunal modeled on the above roman institution - two new tribunes being elected each year, with the intention to oversee the doge and prevent abuse of power (though this aim was not always successfully achieved). french revolutionary tribunat[edit] main article: tribunat the "tribunat", the french word for tribunate, derived from the latin term tribunatus, meaning the office or term of a roman tribunus (see above), was a collective organ of the young revolutionary french republic composed of members styled tribun (the french for tribune), which, despite the apparent reference to one of ancient rome's prestigious magistratures, never held any real political power as an assembly, its individual members no role at all. it was instituted by napoleon i bonaparte's constitution of the year viii "in order to moderate the other powers" by discussing every legislative project, sending its orateurs ("orators", i.e. spokesmen) to defend or attack them in the corps législatif, and asking the senate to overturn "the lists of eligibles, the acts of the legislative body and those of the government" on account of unconstitutionality. its members were designated by the senate from the list of citizens from years up, and annually one fifth was renewed for a five-year term. when it opposed the first parts of bonaparte's proposed penal code, he made the senate nominate new members at once to replace the first opponents to his politic; they accepted the historically important reform of penal law. as the tribunate opposed new despotic projects, he got the senate in year x to allow itself to dissolve the tribunate. in xiii it was further downsized to members. on august , it was abolished and never revived. see also[edit] 	constitution of the roman republic 	list of roman tribunes references[edit] notes[edit] 	^ a b c d dionysius of halicarnassus. romaike archaiologia. 	^ digesta seu pandectae. i. tit. s § . 	^ servius. ad virg. aen. . 	^ a b smith, william (ed.). dictionary of greek and roman antiquities. 	^ a b c titus livius. ab urbe condita. 	^ livy, ab urbe condita, ii. , (citing piso, iii. ) 	^ a b c d e "tribuni plebis". oxford classical dictionary ( nd ed.). . 	^ abbott, frank frost ( ). a history and description of roman political institutions. ginn & co. pp.  , . 	^ plutarchus. "life of camillus". lives of the noble greeks and romans. bibliography[edit] 	nouveau larousse illustré (in french). 	mackay, christopher s. ancient rome: a military and political history. p.  . for information on tribunes of the treasury external links[edit] 	livius.org: tribune 	 	v 	t 	e ancient rome topics 	 	outline 	timeline 	history	 	 	foundation 	kingdom 	overthrow 	republic 	empire	 	history 	pax romana 	principate 	dominate 	western empire 	fall 	historiography of the fall 	byzantine empire 	decline 	fall 	constitution	 	history 	kingdom 	republic 	empire 	late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	curiate 	centuriate 	tribal 	plebeian 	executive magistrates 	spqr 	law	 	twelve tables 	mos maiorum 	citizenship 	auctoritas 	imperium 	status 	litigation 	government	 	curia 	forum 	cursus honorum 	collegiality 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	prefect 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 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texts attributed to him are of questionable origins. little is known about the life of tibullus. there are only a few references to him by later writers and a short life of doubtful authority. neither his praenomen nor his birthplace is known, and his gentile name has been questioned. his status was probably that of a roman eques (so the life affirms), and he had inherited a considerable estate. like virgil, horace and propertius, he seems to have lost most of it in bc in the confiscations of mark antony and octavian.[ ] contents 	 life 	 extant works 	 . first book of poetry 	 . . the marathus cycle 	 . second book of poetry 	 style of writing 	 questionable attributions 	 . third book of poetry 	 . fourth book of poetry 	 the vita tibulli 	 manuscripts 	 editions 	 critiques 	 references 	 . citations 	 . bibliography 	 further reading 	 external links life[edit] tibullus's chief friend and patron was marcus valerius messalla corvinus, himself an orator and poet as well as a statesman and a commander. messalla, like gaius maecenas, was at the centre of a literary circle in rome. this circle had no relationship with the court, and the name of augustus is found nowhere in the writings of tibullus. about bc messalla was dispatched by augustus to gaul to quell a rising in aquitania and restore order in the country, and tibullus may have been in his retinue. on a later occasion, probably in , he would have accompanied his friend who had been sent on a mission to the east, but he fell sick and had to stay behind in corcyra. tibullus had no liking for war, and though his life seems to have been divided between rome and his country estate, his own preferences were wholly for the country life.[ ] the loss of tibullus's landed property is attested by himself (i. , ), as a farmer "felicis quondam, nunc pauperis agri" ("of a once fruitful, now impoverished field"; cf. , ). its cause is only an inference, though a very probable one. that he was allowed to retain a portion of his estate with the family mansion is clear from ii. , . tibullus may have been messalla's contubernalis in the aquitanian war (vita tib. and tib. i. , seq., a poem composed for messalla's triumph), and may have received dona militaria (vita tib.).[ ] tibullus died prematurely, probably in ,[ ] and almost immediately after virgil. his death made a deep impression in rome, as is clear from his contemporary, domitius marsus, and from the elegy in which ovid[ ] enshrined the memory of his predecessor.[ ] extant works[edit] first book of poetry[edit] tibullus's first book consists of poems written at various times between and . his first love, the subject of book i., is called delia in the poems, but apuleius[ ] reveals that her real name was plania. as regards her station, it should be noticed that she was not entitled to wear the stola, the dress of roman matrons (i. , ). her husband is mentioned as absent (i. , seq.). she eludes the custodes placed over her (i. , and , ). tibullus's suit was favoured by delia's mother, of whom he speaks in very affectionate terms (i. , seq.). for tibullus's illness at corcyra, see i. , i seq., seq. the fifth elegy was written during estrangement (discidium), and the sixth after the return of the husband and during delia's double infidelity. it is impossible to give an exact account of the intimacy. the poems which refer to her are arranged in no chronological order. sometimes she appears as single, sometimes as married; but we hear nothing either of her marriage or of her husband's death. yet it is clear that it was the absence of her husband on military service in cilicia which gave tibullus the opportunity to see her, and he continued to do so when the husband returned. delia was clever in deception—too clever, as tibullus saw when he found that he was not the only lover. his entreaties and appeals were of no avail; and after the first book no more is heard of delia.[ ] in addition, several elegies in book i concern themselves with tibullus's love for a boy, who is named marathus.[ ] the marathus cycle[edit] the three poems centered on marathus constitute the longest poetic project in roman literature having homosexual love as theme.[ ] the first of these poems, . , begins with an imprecation of the poet to the god priapus, asking for advice on how to win over beautiful boys. the god advises patience and that the man in love yield to the beloved boy's every whim and perform a series of services if the boy demands it ( . . – ). at first the narrator of the poem presents himself as someone who is simply asking for advice from the god on behalf of a friend who fell in love with a boy but whose wife forbids such affairs ( . . ). he later portrays himself as a teacher in the affairs of love, declaring that the doors of his house are open for other men in love with boys to ask his advice ( . . ). in the end lines, however, he confesses to loving a boy named marathus, who tortures him with "love's delay" ( . . ) and whom the narrator can not conquer with his arts, causing other men to laugh at his lessons ( . . ). the cycle is resumed in poem . , in which the narrator learns that marathus is in love with a girl. the narrator advises the girl to treat marathus with more leniency than marathus treated the narrator himself ( . . ). the narrator accompanies marathus to the girl's house, carrying a torch to light the path at night, bribes her so that she meets marathus, and talks the boy up to the girl (this is described in more detail the next poem, . , lines – ). this poem can be seen as part of the narrator's efforts to win marathus' goodwill by performing a series of humiliating tasks for him, exceeding the god's counsel to perform hard physical labors for the lad, by also helping him carry on an affairs with someone else.[ ] in the poem that ends the cycle, . , the narrator discovers that marathus is in a relationship with a much older married man who buys the young man's affections through expensive gifts. initially, the narrator asks the gods for compassion towards marathus ( . . – ), who betrayed a promise he had made to the narrator, but soon love yields to bitterness, and he begins to express the desire that the gifts of the rival lover turn to ashes ( . . – ) and that the same happen to the poems that the narrator wrote to marathus to win him over ( . . – ), of which he is now ashamed. he turns to the rival, taking revenge on him for having stolen her boyfriend by describing in detail the affair that the rival's wife is herself having with another boy ( . . – and – ). finally, the poet addresses marathus, telling him that he will cry when he sees the poet fall in love with another capricious lad ( . . – ), but declaring himself, for the moment being, finally released from unfaithful love. second book of poetry[edit] about the second book, scholars can only say that in all likelihood it was published before the poet's death in bc. it is very short, containing only verses, and apparently incomplete. in the second book the place of delia is taken by "nemesis", which is also a fictitious name. nemesis (like the cynthia of propertius) was probably a courtesan of the higher class; and she had other admirers besides tibullus. he complains bitterly of his bondage, and of her rapacity and hard-heartedness. in spite of all, however, she seems to have retained her hold on him until his death.[ ] ovid, writing at the time of tibullus's death, says:[ ] "sic nemesis longum, sic delia nomen habebunt, / altera cura recens, altera primus amor." ("thus nemesis and delia will be long remembered: one tibullus' recent love, the other his first."). nemesis is the subject of book ii. , , . the mention of a una (ii. ) settles her position. the connection had lasted a year when ii. was written (see ver. ). it is worth noticing that martial selects nemesis as the source of tibullus's reputation.[ ][ ] style of writing[edit] though the character of tibullus the historical man is unclear, the character of his poetic persona is reflected in his works. he was an amiable man of generous impulses and unselfish disposition, loyal to his friends to the verge of self-sacrifice (as is shown by his leaving delia to accompany messalla to asia), and apparently constant to his mistresses. his tenderness towards them is enhanced by a refinement and delicacy which are rare among the ancients. when treated cruelly by his love, he does not invoke curses upon her head. instead he goes to her little sister's grave, hung so often with his garlands and wet with his tears, to bemoan his fate. his ideal is a quiet retirement in the country with the loved one at his side. he has no ambition and not even a poet's yearning for immortality. in an age of crude materialism and gross superstition, he was religious in the old roman way. his clear, finished and yet unaffected style made him a great favourite and placed him, in the judgment of quintilian, ahead of other elegiac writers. for natural grace and tenderness, for exquisiteness of feeling and expression, he stands alone. he rarely overloads his lines with alexandrian learning. however, his range is limited. tibullus is smoother and more musical, but liable to become monotonous; propertius, with occasional harshnesses, is more vigorous and varied. in many of tibullus's poems a symmetrical composition can be traced.[ ] specimens of tibullus at his best may be found in i. i, , - ; , - ; , - ; ii. . quintilian says,[ ] "elegia quoque graecos provocamus, cuius mihi tersus atque elegans maxime videtur auctor tibullus; sunt qui propertium malint; ovidius utroque lascivior, sicut durior gallus." ("in elegy as well we rival the greeks; of whom for me the author tibullus seems the most polished and elegant; there are those who prefer propertius; ovid is more wanton than either, just as gallus is more stern.")[ ] questionable attributions[edit] some of the genuine poems of tibullus have been lost. on the other hand, much of the work attributed to him is that of others. only the first and second books can uncontroversially claim his authorship. in both books occur poems which give evidence of internal disorder; but scholars cannot agree upon the remedies to be applied.[ ] third book of poetry[edit] the third book, which contains verses, is by a much inferior hand.[pov? – discuss] the writer calls himself lygdamus and the love that he sings of neaera. he has little poetical power, and his style is meagre and jejune. he has a good many reminiscences and imitations of tibullus, propertius[ ] and ovid,[ ] and they are not always happy. it is unknown when his poems were added to the genuine poems of tibullus.[ ] fourth book of poetry[edit] the separation of the fourth book from the third has no ancient authority. it dates from the revival of letters, and is due to the italian scholars of the th century. the fourth book consists of poems of very different quality. the first is a composition in hexameters on the achievements of messalla, and is very poor. the author is unknown; but he was certainly not tibullus. the poem itself was written in , the year of messalla's consulship.[ ] the next eleven poems relate to the loves of sulpicia and cerinthus. sulpicia was a roman lady of high station and, according to moritz haupt's conjecture, the daughter of valeria, messalla's sister. the sulpicia elegies divide into two groups. the first comprises iv. - , containing ninety-four lines, in which the theme of the attachment is worked up into five graceful poems. the second, iv. - , consists of sulpicia's own letters. they are very short, only forty lines in all; but they have a unique interest as being the only love poems by a roman woman that have survived. their frank and passionate outpourings remind us of catullus. the style and metrical handling was originally understood to be that of a novice, or a male poet appropriating female form. later analysis has concluded that sulpicia is an adept poet with a very high level of skill, playing upon gender norms in the celebration of her erotic relationship and play upon her "fama" as a poet and a woman of high status.[ ] the thirteenth poem (twenty-four lines) claims to be by tibullus; but it is hardly more than a cento from tibullus and propertius. the fourteenth is a little epigram of four lines with nothing to determine its authorship. last of all comes the epigram or fragment of domitius marsus already referred to.[ ] some scholars attribute iii. - - iv. - to tibullus himself; but the style is different, and it is best to answer the question, as biihrens does, with a non liquet. the direct ascription of iii. - iv. (verse , "nunc licet e caelo mittatur amica tibullo" - "now grant that a lover be sent from heaven to tibullus") to tibullus probably led to its inclusion in the collection and later on to the addition of the third book to the two genuine ones. for the evidence against the ascription, see postgate.[ ][ ] to sum up: the third and fourth books appear in the oldest tradition as a single book, and they comprise pieces by different authors in different styles, none of which can be assigned to tibullus with any certainty. the natural conclusion is that a collection of scattered compositions, relating to messalla and the members of his circle, was added as an appendix to the genuine relics of tibullus. when this "messalla collection" was made cannot be exactly determined; but it was definitely not till after the death of tibullus, bc, and perhaps as late as the late st century ad. besides the foregoing, two pieces in the collection called priapea (one an epigram and the other a longer piece in iambics) have been attributed to tibullus; but there is little external and no internal evidence of his authorship.[ ][ ] charisius[ ] quotes part of a hexameter which is not found in the extant poems of tibullus.[ ] the vita tibulli[edit] the value of the short vita tibulli, found at the end of the ambrosian, vatican and inferior manuscripts, has been much discussed. there is little in it that we could not infer from tibullus himself and from what horace says about albius, though it is possible that its compiler may have taken some of his statements from suetonius's book de poetis. it is another moot question of some importance whether our poet should be identified with the albius of horace,[ ] as is done by the horatian commentator pomponius porphyrion (ad - ) in his scholia. porphyrio's view was examined by postgate.[ ][ ] manuscripts[edit] the best manuscript of tibullus is the ambrosianus (a), which has been dated c.  , whose earliest known owner was the humanist coluccio salutati. two early th-century manuscripts are paris lat. (written in florence in ) and the vatican ms. ottob. lat. (also written in florence, ). these form only a small share of the over renaissance manuscripts. there are also a number of extracts from tibullus in florilegium gallicum, an anthology from various latin writers collected in the mid-twelfth century, and a few extracts in the excerpta frisingensia, preserved in a manuscript now at munich. also excerpts from the lost fragmentum cuiacianum, made by scaliger, and now in the library at leiden are of importance for their independence of a. it contained the part from . . to the end, useful as fragments go as the other manuscripts lack . . . the codex cuiacianus, a late manuscript containing catullus, tibullus and propertius, is still extant.[ ] editions[edit] tibullus was first printed with catullus, propertius, and the silvae of statius by vindelinus de spira (venice, ), and separately by florentius de argentina, probably in the same year. amongst other editions are those by scaliger (with catullus and propertius, , etc.), broukhusius ( ), vulpius ( ), heyne ( , th ed. by wunderlich, with supplement by dissen, ), huschke ( ), lachmann ( ), dissen ( ). among more modern editions emil baehrens ( , the first of the modern critical editions) has outlived[citation needed] his contemporaries lucian müller ( ), heinrich dittrich ( ),[ ] edward hiller ( ) and john percival postgate ( ). guy lee's edition and translation of books - (cambridge, ) is based on a fresh collation of a. of the commentaries heyne's and huschke's are still of value. the greater part of the poems are included in postgate's selections (with english notes, ). a history of later contributions is given in augustin cartault's a propos du corpus tibullianum ( ; not quite complete); see also his tibulle et les auteurs du corpus tibullianum (paris, ).[ ] for further information see the accounts in teuffel's history of roman literature (translated by warr), martin schanz's geschichte der romischen litteratur, and f. marx's article s.v. "albius", in pauly-wissowa's realencyclopädie.[ ] critiques[edit] scholar francis cairns regards tibullus as "a good poet but not a great one";[ ] dorothea wender similarly calls him a minor poet but argues there is "grace and polish and symmetry" to his work.[ ] references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ a b c d e f g h i j k l postgate ( ), p.  . 	^ mcgann, m. j. ( ). "the date of tibullus' death". latomus. ( ): – . jstor  . 	^ ovid, amores, iii. . 	^ apuleius, apol. . 	^ https://camws.org/meeting/ /abstracts /drinkwater.html 	^ konstantinos p. nikoloutsos ( ). "beyond sex: the poetics and politics of pederasty in tibullus . ". classical association of canada. ( / ): - . 	^ megan o. drinkwater ( ). ""his turn to cry:" tibullus' marathus cycle ( . , . and . ) and roman elegy". the classical journal. ( ): - . 	^ ovid, amores, iii. , - . 	^ martial, viii. , ; cf. xiv. . 	^ a b c d e f g postgate ( ), p.  . 	^ quintilian, institutio oratoria x. i, . 	^ propertius, iii. , – . 	^ ovid, ars. am. ii. seq.; tr. iv. , ; and am. xi. , seq. 	^ https://www.jstor.org/stable/ ?seq= 	^ postgate, selections, app. c. 	^ cf. hiller in hermes, xviii. – . 	^ charisius, pp.  and .[which?] 	^ horace, od. i. and epist. i. . 	^ postgate, selections from tibullus, appendix a. 	^ postgate ( ), pp.  - . 	^ dittrich ( ). 	^ cairns, f. ( ). tibullus: a hellenistic poet at rome. cambridge university press. p.  . isbn  . 	^ wender, dorothea ( ). roman poetry: from the republic to the silver age. southern illinois university press. p.  . isbn  . bibliography[edit] 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: postgate, john percival ( ). "tibullus, albius". in chisholm, hugh (ed.). encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. pp.  – . 	dittrich, heinrich theodor, under the pseudonym b. fabricius, ed. ( ), die elegien des albius tibullus und einiger zeitgenossen, berlin: nicolaische verlags-buchhandlung r. stricker . (in latin) & (in german) further reading[edit] 	bowditch, p. l. "tibullus and egypt: a postcolonial reading of elegy . ." arethusa, ( ), pp.  – . 	bright, d. f. haec mihi fingebam: tibullus and his world. leiden: brill, . 	cairns, francis. tibullus: a hellenistic poet at rome. cambridge: cambridge university press, . 	damer, e. z. "gender reversals and intertextuality in tibullus", classical world ( ), pp.  – . 	gaisser, j. h. 'amor, rura and militia in three elegies of tibullus: . , . , . ", latomus ( ), pp.  – . 	houghton, l. b. t. "tibullus' elegiac underworld", classical quarterly, ( ), pp.  – . 	james, s. learned girls and male persuasion: gender and reading in roman love elegy. berkeley: university of california press, . 	miller, p. a. subjecting verses: latin love elegy and the emergence of the real. princeton: princeton university press, . 	nikoloutsos, k. "from tomb to womb: tibullus . and the discourse of masculinity in post-civil war rome", scholia: natal studies in classical antiquity, ( ), pp.  – . 	wray, david. 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of tom jones, a foundling 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		novel by henry fielding tom jones 	title page from the edition 	author	henry fielding 	original title	the history of tom jones, a foundling 	country	england 	language	english 	genre	novel 	publisher	andrew millar 	publication date 	 february the history of tom jones, a foundling, often known simply as tom jones, is a comic novel by english playwright and novelist henry fielding. it is a bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. it was first published on february in london and is among the earliest english works to be classified as a novel.[ ] it is the earliest novel mentioned by w. somerset maugham in his book great novelists and their novels among the ten best novels of the world.[ ] the novel is highly organised despite its length. samuel taylor coleridge argued that it has one of the "three most perfect plots ever planned", alongside oedipus tyrannus and the alchemist.[ ] it became a best seller with four editions published in its first year alone.[ ] it is generally regarded as fielding's greatest book and as an influential english novel.[ ] contents 	 plot 	 style 	 themes 	 list of characters 	 adaptations and influences 	 see also 	 bibliography 	 . editions 	 . critical collections 	 references 	 . sources 	 external links plot[edit] the novel's events occupy eighteen books. the book opens with the narrator stating that the purpose of the novel will be to explore "human nature". the kindly and wealthy squire allworthy and his sister bridget are introduced in their wealthy estate in somerset. allworthy returns from london after an extended business trip and finds an abandoned baby sleeping in his bed. he summons his housekeeper, mrs deborah wilkins, to take care of the child. after searching the nearby village mrs wilkins is told about a young woman called jenny jones, a servant of a schoolmaster and his wife, as the most likely person to have committed the deed. jenny is brought before the allworthys and admits being the baby's mother, but she refuses to reveal the father's identity. mr allworthy mercifully removes jenny to a place where her reputation will be unknown and tells his sister to raise the boy, whom he names thomas, in his household. two brothers, dr blifil and captain blifil, regularly visit the allworthy estate. the doctor introduces the captain to bridget in the hope of marrying into allworthy's wealth. the couple soon marries. after the marriage, captain blifil begins to show a coldness to his brother, who eventually feels obliged to leave the house for london. he does, and, soon after, he dies "of a broken heart". captain blifil and his wife start to grow cool towards one another, and the former is found dead from apoplexy one evening after taking his customary evening stroll before dinner. by then, he has fathered a boy who grows up with the bastard tom. captain blifil's son, known as master blifil, is a miserable and jealous boy who conspires against tom. tom grows into a vigorous and lusty yet honest and kind-hearted youth. he tends to be closer friends with the servants and gamekeepers than with members of the gentry. he is close friends with black george, who is the gamekeeper. his first love is molly, black george's second daughter and a local beauty. she throws herself at tom, who gets her pregnant and then feels obliged to offer her his protection. after some time, however, tom finds out that molly is somewhat promiscuous. he then falls in love with a neighbouring squire's lovely daughter, sophia western. tom and sophia confess their love for each other after tom breaks his arm rescuing sophia. tom's status as a bastard causes sophia's father and allworthy to disapprove their love. this class friction gives fielding an opportunity for biting social commentary. the inclusion of prostitution and sexual promiscuity in the plot was also novel for its time, and it was the foundation for criticism of the book's "lowness".[ ] squire allworthy falls ill and is convinced that he is dying. his family and servants gather around his bed as he disposes his wealth. he gives a favourable amount of his wealth to tom jones, which displeases master blifil. tom doesn't care about what he has been given, since his only concern is allworthy's health. allworthy's health improves, and we learn that he will live. tom jones is so excited that he begins to get drunk and gets into a fight with master blifil. sophia wants to conceal her love for tom, so she gives a majority of her attention to blifil when the three of them are together. this leads to sophia's aunt, mrs western, believing that sophia and blifil are in love. squire western wants sophia to marry blifil in order to gain property from the allworthy estate. blifil learns of sophia's true affection for tom jones and is angry. blifil tells allworthy that, on the day he almost died, tom was out drinking and singing and celebrating his coming death. this leads tom to be banished. tom’s banishment seems to ensure that sophia will be forced to marry blifil, whom she finds odious, so she flees to avoid that fate. after tom is expelled from allworthy's estate he begins his adventures across britain, eventually ending up in london. on the way, he meets a barber, partridge, who was banished from town because he was thought to be tom's father. he becomes tom's faithful companion in the hope of restoring his reputation. during their journey, they end up at an inn. while they are there, a lady and her maid arrive. an angry man arrives, and the chambermaid points him in the direction she thinks he needs to go. he bursts in on tom and mrs waters, a woman whom tom rescued, in bed together. the man, however, was looking for mrs fitzpatrick and leaves. sophia and her maid arrive at the same inn, and partridge unknowingly reveals the relationship between tom and mrs waters. sophia leaves with mrs fitzpatrick, who is her cousin, and heads for london. they arrive at the home of lady bellaston, followed by tom and partridge. eventually, tom tells sophia that his true love is for her and no one else. tom ends up getting into a duel with mr fitzpatrick, which leads to his imprisonment. eventually, the secret of tom's birth is revealed after a brief scare involving mrs waters. mrs waters is really jenny jones, tom's supposed mother, and tom fears that he has committed incest. this, however, is not the case, as tom's mother is in fact bridget allworthy, who conceived him after an affair with a schoolmaster. tom is thus squire allworthy's nephew. after finding out about the intrigues of blifil, who is tom's half-brother, allworthy decides to bestow most of his inheritance on tom. after tom's true parentage is revealed, he and sophia marry, as squire western no longer harbours any misgivings about tom marrying his daughter. sophia bears tom a son and a daughter, and the couple live on happily with the blessings of squire western and squire allworthy. style[edit] the highly visible narrator is a central feature of tom jones. each book begins with a prefatory chapter directly addressing the reader, and the narrator provides a continuous commentary on characters and events. according to wayne c. booth, the reader's relationship with the narrator is something like a subplot. the reader becomes more attached to the narrator over the course of the book, culminating in a heartfelt farewell.[ ] the fight at the inn at upton fielding presents a panorama of contemporary british life, drawing characters from many different classes and occupations. but ian watt argues in the rise of the novel that fielding did not aim at the "realism of presentation" of lifelike detail and psychology practiced by authors such as richardson. watt claims that fielding was more focused on the "realism of assessment", the way in which the novel engages a broad range of topics with intelligence and "a wise assessment of life".[ ] themes[edit] the main theme of the novel is the contrast between tom jones's good nature, flawed but eventually corrected by his love for virtuous sophia western, and his half-brother blifil's hypocrisy. secondary themes include several other examples of virtue (especially that of squire allworthy), hypocrisy (especially that of thwackum) and villainy (for example, that of mrs western and ensign northerton), sometimes tempered by repentance (for instance square and mrs waters née jones). both introductory chapters to each book and interspersed commentary introduce a long line of further themes. for instance, introductory chapters dwell extensively on bad writers and critics, quite unrelated to the plot but apologetic to the author and the novel itself; and authorial commentary on several characters shows strong opposition to methodism, calling it fanatical and heretical, and implying an association between methodism and hypocrites such as the younger blifil. the novel takes place against the backdrop of the jacobite rising of . characters take different sides over the rebellion, which was an attempt to restore roman catholicism as the established religion of england and to undo the glorious revolution. at one point sophia western is even mistaken for jenny cameron, the supposed lover of bonnie prince charlie. good-natured characters are often moderately loyalist and anglican, or even supporters of the house of hanover, while ill-natured characters (mrs western) or mistaken ones (partridge) can be jacobites, or (like squire western) anti-hanoverian. list of characters[edit] caption at bottom: sophia western: "adorned with all the charms in which nature can array her, bedecked with beauty, youth, sprightliness, innocence, modesty and tenderness, breathing sweetness from her rosy lips and darting brightness from her sparkling eyes, the lovely sophia comes!" this depicts the heroine of the novel, but shows her in the latest fashions of , rather than in the historically accurate hoop skirts of – it would have been extremely difficult to skip in the clothing styles (and high-heeled shoes) of ... the dishevelment of her clothes in the picture was not meant to contradict the word "modesty" in the caption, but was supposed to be understood as being the accidental and unintentional effect of her strenuous physical activity. 	master thomas "tom" jones, a bastard and squire allworthy's ward 	miss sophia "sophy" western /ˌsoʊˈfaɪə/, western's only daughter, the model of virtue, beauty and all good qualities 	master william blifil /ˈblɪfəl/, the son of captain blifil and bridget; a hypocrite and tom jones's rival 	squire allworthy, the wealthy squire of an estate in somerset and tom's guardian; of irreproachable character and good nature 	squire western, a wealthy squire and huntsman who owns an estate bordering on squire allworthy's; a simpleton who wants to marry his daughter sophia to allworthy's heir (first blifil and then jones) 	miss bridget allworthy (later mrs blifil), allworthy's sister 	lady bellaston, tom's lover and a leading figure in london society, who tries to force sophia into marriage to a lord by having her raped by him, so that she can have jones to herself 	mrs honour blackmore, sophia's maid; egotistical and inconstant to her employer 	dr blifil, captain blifil's brother; dies of a broken heart at his brother's rejection 	captain john blifil, a captain in the army and bridget allworthy's husband; with methodist tendencies 	lawyer dowling, a lawyer 	lord fellamar, a peer and socialite; unsuccessfully conspires with lady belladonna to rape sophia so as to force her into marriage 	brian fitzpatrick, an irishman who abuses his wife, harriet fitzpatrick 	harriet fitzpatrick, mrs western's former ward and fitzpatrick's wife; a cousin and friend of sophia, but lacking her virtue 	miss jenny jones (later mrs waters), the partridges' servant, a very intelligent woman who is believed to be tom's mother 	mrs miller, mother of nancy and betty miller 	miss betty miller, pre-adolescent daughter of mrs miller 	miss nancy miller (later nightingale), a good-natured girl who is imposed on by mr nightingale and is ruined by him, together with her family, by lack of constancy in virtue 	mr nightingale, a young gentleman of leisure; saved from ruining his first true love by jones's entreaties 	mr benjamin "little benjamin" partridge, a teacher, barber, and surgeon, suspected to be tom jones's father 	mrs partridge, partridge's extremely ill-natured first wife 	mr george "black george" seagrim, allworthy and later western's gamekeeper; a poor man and the object of tom's charity 	miss molly "moll" seagrim, black george's second daughter and tom jones's first lover; has a bastard son, possibly by tom 	mr thomas square, a humanist philosopher and tutor to tom and master blifil; a hypocrite who hates jones and favors blifil, but eventually repents 	the rev. mr roger thwackum, tutor to tom and master blifil, a hypocrite who hates tom jones, favors master blifil and conspires with the latter against the former 	miss western, squire western's unmarried sister, who wrongly believes herself to "know the world" (both international and national politics and social mores) 	mrs deborah wilkins, bridget's servant adaptations and influences[edit] the book was made into the film tom jones written by john osborne, directed by tony richardson, and starring albert finney as tom. it inspired the film the bawdy adventures of tom jones. it has also been the basis of operas by françois-andré philidor (tom jones, ); by edward german (tom jones, ); and by stephen oliver in . a bbc adaptation dramatised by simon burke was broadcast in with max beesley in the title role. the book has also been adapted for the stage by joan macalpine.[ ] in , jon jory adapted the novel for the stage.[ ] the book will also be adapted into a jukebox musical called what's new pussycat? featuring songs by the singer tom jones setting the story in the s.[ ] see also[edit] 	novels portal 	illegitimacy in fiction bibliography[edit] editions[edit] 	fielding, henry tom jones (london: andrew millar, ). the first edition. 	fielding, henry "tom jones" (new york: the modern library, ). first modern library edition. 	fielding, henry tom jones (wesleyan university press, ) isbn  - - - - . edited by martin battestin and fredson c. bowers. widely taken to be the authoritative version. 	fielding, henry tom jones (new york: w. w. norton, ) isbn  . edited with notes by sheridan baker. this edition includes a collection of critical essays; it is based on the fourth and final edition of the novel, though it also includes the version of the man of the hill episode found in the rd edition in an appendix. 	fielding, henry tom jones (london: everyman's library, ) isbn  - - - - . edited with an introduction and notes by douglas brooks-davies. 	fielding, henry tom jones (harmondsworth: penguin, ) isbn  - - - - . edited with an introduction and notes by tom keymer and alice wakely. 	fielding, henry tom jones (harmondsworth: penguin, ). edited with an introduction and notes by reginald p. c. mutter. critical collections[edit] 	compton, neil (ed.) henry fielding: tom jones, a casebook (basingstoke: macmillan, ) isbn  . includes essays by william empson, ian watt, and claude rawson, amongst others. 	monographs 	battestin, martin c. the providence of wit (oxford: oxford university press, ) isbn  . includes a chapter on tom jones. 	ewers, chris. mobility in the english novel from defoe to austen (woodbridge: boydell and brewer, ) isbn  - . includes a chapter on tom jones. 	power, henry. epic into novel (oxford: oxford university press, ) isbn  - . includes two chapters on tom jones. 	rogers, pat the augustan vision (london: methuen, ) isbn  . includes a chapter on fielding, which treats tom jones briefly. 	watt, ian the rise of the novel (london: pimlico, ) isbn  . includes a chapter on tom jones, preceded by one titled 'fielding and the epic theory of the novel'. references[edit] 	^ yardley, jonathan ( december ). "tom jones, as fresh as ever". the washington post. p. c . retrieved december . 	^ http://home.comcast.net/~dwtaylor /maughamstenbestnovels.html[permanent dead link] 	^ samuel taylor coleridge and henry nelson coleridge, specimens of the table talk of samuel taylor coleridge (london, england: john murray, ), volume , page . 	^ patton, allyson ( june ). "the history of tom jones, a foundling (book review)". historynet.com. historynet llc. retrieved september . 	^ drabble, margaret, ed. ( ) the oxford companion to english literature; ( nd) revised ed. oxford: oxford university press; pp. – 	^ fielding, h ( ), "introduction by g. sherburn", the history of tom jones, a foundling, new york: modern library, p. viii . 	^ booth, wayne c ( ). the rhetoric of fiction. chicago: university of chicago press. pp.  - . isbn  . 	^ watt, ian ( ) [ ]. the rise of the novel. london: the bodley head. p.  . isbn  . 	^ "tom jones (macalpine)". archived from the original on august . 	^ jones, chris ( january ). "jory's stage version of novel has wit but lacks clarity". chicago tribune. retrieved october . 	^ "tom jones musical what's new pussycat? to premiere this autumn". the guardian. march . retrieved september . sources[edit] 	tom jones, wordsworth classics, introduction and notes doreen roberts, canterbury: rutherford college, university of kent, [ ], isbn  - - - cs maint: others (link) . 	words, words, words: from the beginnings to the eighteenth century, la spiga languages, . 	battestin, martin. the providence of wit: aspects of form in augustan literature and the arts. oxford: clarendon, . 	hunter, j. paul. before novels: the cultural context of eighteenth-century english fiction. new york: ww norton and co., . 	mckeon, michael. the origins of the english novel, – . baltimore: johns hopkins university press, . 	paulson, ronald. satire and the novel in the eighteenth century. new haven: yale university press, . 	richetti, john. "representing an under class: servants and proletarians in fielding and smollett." the new eighteenth century: theory, politics, english literature. eds. felicity nussbaum and laura brown. london: routledge, . 	richetti, john. "the old order and the new novel of the mid-eighteenth century: narrative authority in fielding and smollett." eighteenth-century fiction ( ): – . 	smallwood, angela j. fielding and the woman question. new york: st. martin's, . 	spacks, patricia meyer. desire and truth: functions of plot in eighteenth-century english novels. chicago: university of chicago press, . 	watt, ian. the rise of the novel: studies in defoe, richardson and fielding. berkeley: university of california press, . external links[edit] 		wikisource has original text related to this article: the history of tom jones, a foundling 		wikimedia commons has media related to the history of tom jones, a foundling. 	the history of tom jones, a foundling at internet archive and google books (scanned books original editions color illustrated) 	the history of tom jones, a foundling from project gutenberg (plain text and html) 	 the history of tom jones, a foundling public domain audiobook at librivox 	tom jones map 	the history of tom jones, a foundling at open library 		v 	t 	e henry fielding 	early plays	 	love in several masques 	the temple beau 	the author's farce 	tom thumb 	rape upon rape 	the tragedy of tragedies 	the letter writers 	the welsh opera 	the grub street opera 	the lottery 	the modern husband 	the old debauchees 	the covent garden tragedy 	the mock doctor 	the miser 	the universal gallant 	later plays	 	the historical register for the year 	novels and narratives	 	shamela 	joseph andrews 	jonathan wild 	tom jones 	amelia 	essays and misc.	 	the covent-garden journal 	the golden rump (play, attributed) 	events	 	actor rebellion of 	licensing act 	paper war of – 	people	 	john fielding 	sarah fielding 	christopher smart 	samuel richardson 	scriblerus club 	authority control 	 	bnf: cb (data) 	mbw work: cf f - b- e - c a- d c cebc retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=the_history_of_tom_jones,_a_foundling&oldid= " 		categories: 	 novels 	british novels adapted into films 	british novels adapted into plays 	novels adapted into operas 	novels by henry fielding 	 th-century british novels 	picaresque novels 	english novels 	novels set in somerset hidden categories: 	all articles with dead external links 	articles with dead external links from december 	articles with permanently dead external links 	articles with short description 	short description matches wikidata 	engvarb from september 	cs maint: others 	commons category link is on wikidata 	articles with librivox links 	articles with open library links 	use dmy dates from september 	wikipedia articles with bnf identifiers 	wikipedia articles with musicbrainz work identifiers 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			article 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	edit 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		search 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigation 	 	 			main page 	contents 	current events 	random article 	about wikipedia 	contact us 	donate 		 	 	 	 		contribute 	 	 			help 	learn to edit 	community portal 	recent changes 	upload file 		 	 	 		tools 	 	 			what links here 	related changes 	upload file 	special pages 	permanent link 	page information 	cite this page 	wikidata item 		 	 	 		print/export 	 	 			download as pdf 	printable version 		 	 	 		in other projects 	 	 			wikimedia commons 	wikisource 		 	 	 	 		languages 	 	 			العربية 	Čeština 	dansk 	deutsch 	español 	فارسی 	français 	한국어 	Հայերեն 	italiano 	עברית 	magyar 	日本語 	norsk bokmål 	ਪੰਜਾਬੀ 	polski 	português 	română 	Русский 	slovenščina 	suomi 	svenska 	Українська 	vèneto 	中文 		edit links 	 		 this page was last edited on december , at :  (utc). 	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; 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the twelve tables formed the basis of roman law for a thousand years.[ ] the twelve tables are sufficiently comprehensive that their substance has been described as a 'code',[ ] although modern scholars consider this characterization exaggerated.[ ] the tables were a sequence of definitions of various private rights and procedures. they generally took for granted such things as the institutions of the family and various rituals for formal transactions. the provisions were often highly specific and diverse.[ ] contents 	 drafting and development 	 laws of the twelve tables [ ] 	 . table i & ii: procedure for courts and judges and further enactments on trials 	 . table iii: execution of judgment 	 . table iv: right of familial heads 	 . women: tables v, vi & x 	 . table vii: land rights and crimes 	 . table viii: torts and delicts (laws of injury) 	 . table ix: public law 	 . the supplements: tables xi & xii 	 influence and significance 	 sources 	 footnotes 	 works cited 	 further reading 	 external links drafting and development[edit] the twelve tables of roman society were said by the romans to have come about as a result of the long social struggle between patricians and plebeians. after the expulsion of the last king of rome, tarquinius superbus, the republic was governed by a hierarchy of magistrates. initially, only patricians were eligible to become magistrates and this, among other plebeian complaints, was a source of discontent for plebeians. in the context of this unequal status, plebeians would take action to secure concessions for themselves using the threat of secession. they would threaten to leave the city with the consequence that it would grind to a halt, as the plebeians were rome's labor force. tradition held that one of the most important concessions won in this class struggle was the establishment of the twelve tables, establishing basic procedural rights for all roman citizens in relation to each other.[ ] the drafting of the twelve tables may have been fomented by a desire for self-regulation by the patricians, or for other reasons.[ ] around bc, the first decemviri (decemvirate, board of "ten men") were appointed to draw up the first ten tables. according to livy, they sent an embassy to greece to study the legislative system of athens, known as the solonian constitution, but also to find out about the legislation of other greek cities.[ ][ ] some scholars deny that the romans imitated the greeks in this respect[ ] or suggest that they visited only the greek cities of southern italy, and did not travel all the way to greece.[ ] in bc, the second decemviri started to work on the last two tables. the first decemvirate completed the first ten codes in bc. here is how livy describes their creation: "...every citizen should quietly consider each point, then talk it over with his friends, and, finally, bring forward for public discussion any additions or subtractions which seemed desirable." (cf. liv. iii. ) in bc, the second decemvirate completed the last two codes, and after a secessio plebis (secession of the plebes, a plebian protest) to force the senate to consider them, the law of the twelve tables was formally promulgated.[ ] according to livy (auc . . ) the twelve tables were inscribed on bronze (pomponius (dig. tit. s § ) alone says on ivory), and posted publicly, so all romans could read and know them. some of the provisions are procedural to ensure fairness among all romans in the courts, while other established legal terms dictating the legality of capital crimes, intentional homicide, treason, perjury, judicial corruption, and writing slanderous poems.[ ] the romans valued keeping peace in the city and the twelve tables were a mechanism of establishing and continuing peace and equality.[ ] laws of the twelve tables [ ][edit] 	table 	procedure: for courts and trials 	table 	further enactments on trials 	table 	execution of judgments 	table 	rights of familial heads 	table 	legal guardianship and inheritance laws 	table 	acquisition and possession 	table 	land rights and crimes 	table 	torts and delicts (laws of injury) 	table 	public law 	table 	sacred law 	table 	supplement i 	table 	supplement ii table i & ii: procedure for courts and judges and further enactments on trials[edit] these two tables are concerned with the roman court proceedings. table i covers proceedings between the defendant and the plaintiff, with responses to potential situations such as when age or illness prevents the defendant from making appearance, then transportation has to be arranged to assist them[ ]. it also deals with: 	the failure of appearance by the defendant. 	if there is a failure to appear by either party, then after noon the judge must make judgement in favor of the one who is present. 	provides a time-table for the trial (ends at sunset)[ ] table ii sets the amount of financial stake for each party depending on the source of litigation, what to do in case of impairment of the judge, and rules of who must present evidence[ ]. table iii: execution of judgment[edit] the laws the twelve tables covered were a way to publicly display rights that each citizen had in the public and private sphere. these twelve tables displayed what was previously understood in roman society as the unwritten laws. the public display of the copper tablets allowed for a more balanced society between the roman patricians who were educated and understood the laws of legal transactions, and the roman plebeians who had little education or experience in understanding law. by revealing the unwritten rules of society to the public, the twelve tables provided a means of safeguard for plebeians allowing them the opportunity to avoid financial exploitation and added balance to the roman economy featured within the twelve tables are five rules about how to execute judgments, in terms of debtors and creditors. these rules show how the ancient romans maintained peace with financial policy. in his article development of the roman law of debt security, donald e. phillipson states the twelve tables were, “a set of statutes known as the twelve tables that was passed by an early assembly served as the foundation of the roman private law. the twelve tables were enacted in the mid-fifth century b.c. as the result of a conflict among social classes in ancient rome.” (pp.  – ).[ ] in the book, the twelve tables, written by an anonymous source due to its origins being collaborated through a series of translations of tablets and ancient references, p.r. coleman-norton arranged and translated many of the significant features of debt that the twelve tables enacted into law during the th century. the translation of the legal features surrounding debt and derived from the known sources of the twelve tables are stated as such “ . of debt acknowledged and for matters judged in court (in iure) thirty days shall be allowed by law [for payment or for satisfaction]. . after that [elapse of thirty days without payment] hand shall be laid on (manus infection) [the debtor]. he shall be brought into court (in ius). . unless he (the debtor) discharge the debtor unless someone appear in court (in iure) to guarantee payment for him, he (the creditor) shall take [the debtor] with him. he shall bind [him] either with thong or with fetters, of which the weight shall be not less than fifteen pounds or shall be more if he (the creditor) choose. . if he (the debtor) chooses, he shall live on his own [means]. if he lives not on his own [means], [the creditor,] who shall hold him in bonds, shall give [him] a pound of bread daily; if he (the creditor) shall so desire, he shall give [him] more. . unless they (the debtors) make a compromise, they (the debtors) shall be held in bonds for sixty days. during those days they shall be brought to [the magistrate] into the comitia (meeting-place) on three successive markets […]”[ ] the five mandates of the twelve tables encompassing debt created a new understanding within social classes in ancient rome that insured financial exploitation would be limited within legal business transactions. table iv: right of familial heads[edit] the fourth table of the twelve tables deals with the specific rights of patriarchs of families. one of the first proclamations of the table iv is that "dreadfully deformed" children must be quickly euthanized. it also explains that sons are born into inheritance of their family. if a husband no longer wants to be married to his wife he can remove her from their household and "order her to mind her own affairs"[ ] not all of the codes of table iv are to the benefit of only the patriarch. if a father attempts to sell his son three times then the son earns his freedom from the father. women: tables v, vi & x[edit] the twelve tables have three sections that pertain to women as they concern estates and guardianship, ownership and possession, and religion, which give a basic understanding as to the legal rights of females. 	table v (estates and guardianship): “female heirs should remain under guardianship even when they have attained the age of majority, but exception is made for the vestal virgins.”[ ] 	table vi (ownership and possession): “where a woman, who has not been united to a man in marriage, lives with him for an entire year without interruption of three nights, she shall pass into his power as his legal wife.”[ ] 	table x (religion): “women shall not during a funeral lacerate their faces, or tear their cheeks with their nails; nor shall they utter loud cries bewailing the dead.”[ ] one of the aspects highlighted in the twelve tables is a woman's legal status and standing in society. women were considered to be a form of guardianship similar to that of minors,[ ] and sections on ownership and possession give off the impression that women were considered to be akin to a piece of real estate or property due to the use of terms such as "ownership" and "possession".[ ] table vii: land rights and crimes[edit] this table outlines the attitudes towards property. the following are all rules about property[ ] 	boundary disputes are settled by third-parties. 	road widths are eight feet wide on straight parts and double that on turns. 	people who live near the road are in charge of maintaining it. however if a road is not well maintained then carts and animals can be ridden where the riders want to 	property owners can request removal of trees that have been blown onto their property 	fruit that falls from a tree onto a neighbor's property still belongs to the original tree owner. table viii: torts and delicts (laws of injury)[edit] torts are laws dealing with litigating wrongs that occur between citizens. one such situation is that of physical injury, retaliation for which can range from dealing the prepetrator an injury in kind, to monetary compensation to the injured. this table also establishes the legal ramifications for damage dealt to property by animals and damage dealt to crops by people or animals. the penalty for stealing crops is hanging as sacrifice to ceres[ ] the table also describes several laws dealing with theft. table ix: public law[edit] this section of the tables makes it illegal for anyone to define what a citizen of rome with the exception of the greatest assembly, or maximus comitatus. it also outlaws execution of those unconvicted, bribery of judges, and extradition of a citizen to enemy powers.[ ] the supplements: tables xi & xii[edit] 	table xi (marriage between classes): a person of a certain class shall not partake in marriage with a person of a lower class. 	table xii (binding into law): whatever one or more persons have ordered into law, shall be held by the law. influence and significance[edit] roman civilians examining the twelve tables after they were first implemented. the twelve tables are often cited as the foundation for ancient roman law. the twelve tables provided an early understanding of some key concepts such as justice, equality, and punishment.[ ] although legal reform occurred soon after the implementation of the twelve tables, these ancient laws provided social protection and civil rights for both the patricians and plebeians. at this time, there was extreme tension between the privileged class and the common people resulting in the need for some form of social order. while the existing laws had major flaws that were in need of reform, the twelve tables eased the civil tension and violence between the plebeians and patricians.[ ] the twelve tables also heavily influenced and are referenced in later roman laws texts, especially the digest of justinian i. such laws from the digest that are derived from the twelve tables are the legal recompense for damage caused by an animal, protocol for inheritances, and also laws about structural property damage[ ]. the influence of the twelve tables is still evident in the modern day. the twelve tables play a significant role in the basis of the early american legal system. political theorists, such as james madison have highlighted the importance of the twelve tables in crafting the united states bill of rights.[ ] the idea of property was also perpetuated in the twelve tables, including the different forms of money, land, and slaves. an additional example, the twelve tables are tied into the notion of jus commune, which translates as "common law", but is commonly referred to as "civil law" in english-speaking countries. some countries including south africa and san marino still base their current legal system on aspects of jus commune.[ ] in addition, law school students throughout the world are still required to study the twelve tables as well as other facets of roman law in order to better understand the current legal system in place.[ ] sources[edit] the twelve tables are no longer extant: although they remained an important source through the republic, they gradually became obsolete, eventually being only of historical interest.[ ] the original tablets may have been destroyed when the gauls under brennus burned rome in bc. cicero claimed[ ] that he learned them by heart as a boy in school, but that no one did so any longer. what we have of them today are brief excerpts and quotations from these laws in other authors, often in clearly updated language. they are written in an archaic, laconic latin (described as saturnian verse). as such, though it cannot be determined whether the quoted fragments accurately preserve the original form, what is present gives some insight into the grammar of early latin. some claim that the text was written as such so plebeians could more easily memorize the laws, as literacy was not commonplace during early rome. roman republican scholars wrote commentaries upon the twelve tables, such as l. aelius stilo,[ ] teacher of both varro and cicero.[ ] like most other early codes of law, they were largely procedural, combining strict and rigorous penalties with equally strict and rigorous procedural forms. in most of the surviving quotations from these texts, the original table that held them is not given. scholars have guessed at where surviving fragments belong by comparing them with the few known attributions and records, many of which do not include the original lines, but paraphrases. it cannot be known with any certainty from what survives that the originals ever were organized this way, or even if they ever were organized by subject at all.[ ] footnotes[edit] 	^ jolowicz, h.f. historical introduction to the study of roman law (cambridge, ), 	^ a b c d e crawford, m.h. 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( ) – 	^ grant, michael ( ). history of rome ( st ed.). prentice hall. p.  . isbn  - - - . 	^ mccarty, nick "rome the greatest empire of the ancient world", the rosen publishing group, 	^ a b c d e mellor, ronald ( ). the historians of ancient rome: an anthology of the major writings. routledge. isbn  - . oclc  . 	^ https://avalon.law.yale.edu/ancient/twelve_tables.asp 	^ a b c d coleman-norton, p.r. ( ). the twelve tables. princeton: princeton university, dept. of classics. 	^ phillipson, d.e. ( ). development of the roman law of debt security. stanford law review, ( ), . doi: . / 	^ a b c d anonymous (january , ). the twelve tables. http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/ /pg -images.html.utf .gzip: gutenberg press.cs maint: location (link) 	^ a b hurri, samuli (november ). "the twelve tables" (pdf). nofo. : – . 	^ gary, forsythe. a critical history of early rome: from prehistory to the first punic war. st ed., university of california press, , www.jstor.org/stable/ . /j.ctt ppxrv. 	^ a b "law in ancient rome, the twelve tables". www.crystalinks.com. retrieved - - . 	^ watson, alan (march , ). the digest of justinian, volume . university of pennsylvania press. pp.  , , . isbn  . 	^ denis, fustel de coulanges numa. the ancient city a study on the religion, laws, and institutions of greece and rome. baltimore: johns hopkins up, . print. 	^ baker, keir ( - - ). "studying roman law: juno it's more useful than you'd think". the guardian. issn  - . retrieved - - . 	^ cic. leg. . 	^ cf. funaioli grf p 	^ cicero, brutus ; aulus gellius, attic nights . . . works cited[edit] 	durant, w. ( ). the story of civilization. simon and schuster. 	livy; de sélincourt, a.; ogilvie, r.m.; oakley, s.p. ( ). the early history of rome: books i–v of the history of rome from its foundations. penguin classics. isbn  - - - . 	goodwin, frederick ( ). the xii tables. london: stevens & sons. further reading[edit] 	cornell, t.j. . the beginnings of rome: italy and rome from the bronze age to the punic wars (c. - b.c.). london: routledge, routledge history of the ancient world. 	harries, jill. . “roman law codes and the roman legal tradition.” in beyond dogmatics: law and society in the roman world, edited by cairns, john w. and du plessis, paul j. edinburgh studies in law; , - . edinburgh: edinburgh university pr. 	tellegen-couperus olga ed. . law and religion in the roman republic. mnemosyne supplements. history and archaeology of classical antiquity, . leiden; boston: brill. 	watson, alan. . the state, law and religion: pagan rome. university of georgia press. 	westbrook, raymond. . 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wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	thomas drant 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		thomas drant (c. – ) was an english clergyman and poet. work of his on prosody was known to sir philip sidney and edmund spenser.[ ] he was in the intellectual court circle known as the 'areopagus', and including, as well as sidney, edward dyer, gabriel harvey, and daniel rogers.[ ] he translated horace into english, taking a free line in consideration of the roman poet's secular status; but he mentioned he found horace harder than homer.[ ] drant's translation was the first complete one of the satires in english, in fourteeners, but makes some radical changes of content.[ ] contents 	 life 	 works 	 notes 	 references life[edit] the son of thomas drant, he was born at hagworthingham in lincolnshire. he matriculated as pensioner of st. john's college, cambridge, march , proceeded b.a. , was admitted fellow of his college march , and commenced m.a. .[ ] on the occasion of queen elizabeth's visit to the university in august he composed copies of english, latin, and greek verses, which he presented to her majesty. at the commencement in he performed a public exercise (printed in his medicinable morall) on the theme 'corpus christi non est ubique.' he was domestic chaplain to edmund grindal, who procured for him the post of divinity reader at st. paul's cathedral. in he proceeded b.d., and on july in that year he was admitted by grindal's influence to the prebend of chamberlainwood in the church of st. paul's. on january he preached before the court at windsor, strongly rebuking vanity of attire; he also criticized the queen for her leniency to the northern rebels and catholics.[ ] he was admitted to the prebend of firles in the church of chichester january , to the rectory of slinfold in sussex january and to the archdeaconry of lewes february. on easter tuesday he preached a sermon at st. mary spital, london, denouncing the sensuality of the citizens; and he preached another sermon at the same place on easter tuesday . he had some dispute with william overton, treasurer of the church of chichester, whom he accused in the pulpit of pride, hypocrisy, and ignorance. he is supposed to have died about april , since the archdeaconry of lewes was vacant at that date. works[edit] drant is the author of: 	impii cuiusdem epigrammatis qvod edidit richardus shacklockus . . . apomaxis. also certayne of the special articles of the epigramme, refuted in englyshe, , latin and english. against richard shacklock. 	a medicinable morall, that is, the two bookes of horace his satyres englyshed. ... the wailyngs of the prophet hieremiah, done into englyshe verse. also epigrammes, . some copies have at the back of the title a dedicatory inscription, 'to the right honorable my lady bacon, and my lady cicell, sisters, fauourers of learnyng and vertue.' among the miscellaneous pieces that follow the translation of jeremiah are the english and latin verses that drant presented to the queen on her visit to cambridge in , english verses to the earl of leicester, and latin verses to chancellor cecil. 	horace his arte of poetrie, pistles, and satyrs, englished and to the earle of ormounte, by tho. drant, addressed, . 	greg. nazianzen his epigrams and spiritual sentences, . 	two sermons preached, the one at s. maries spittle on tuesday in easter weeke , and the other at the court of windsor . . . the viij of january . . . . n. d. [ ?]. 	a fruitful and necessary sermon specially concernyng almes geving, n. d. [  ?], preached at st. mary spittle on easter tuesday . 	in solomonis regis ecclesiastem . . . paraphrasis poetica, , dedicated to sir thomas heneage. 	thomse drantae angli advordingamii praesul. ejusdem sylva, undated, but published not earlier than , there are latin verses to queen elizabeth, grindal, matthew parker, lord buckhurst, and others, and on pp.  – are verses in drant's praise by james sandford in greek, latin, italian, and french. commendatory latin verses by drant are prefixed to john foxe's acts and monuments, ; john sadler's translation of vegetius's tactics, ; peter carter's annotations to john seton's dialectica, ; alexander neville's kettus, ; llodowick lloyd's pilgrimage of princes, n. d. he has a copy of english verses before robert peterson's galateo, . drant's unpublished works included a translation of the iliad, as far as the fifth book, a translation of the psalms, and the book of solomons prouerbs, epigrames, and sentences spirituall, licensed for press in . notes[edit] 	^ katherine duncan-jones, sir philip sidney: courtier poet ( ), p. . 	^ "archived copy". archived from the original on january . retrieved december .cs maint: archived copy as title (link) 	^ lori chamberlain, gender and the metaphorics of translation, p. , in lawrence venuti (editor), the translation studies reader ( ). 	^ peter france, the oxford guide to literature in english translation ( ), p. . 	^ "drant, thomas (drnt t)". a cambridge alumni database. university of cambridge. 	^ natalie mears, queenship and political discourse in the elizabethan realms ( ), p. . references[edit] 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: bullen, arthur henry ( ). 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affair. contents 	 biography 	 . early life 	 papacy 	 . papal election 	 . activities 	 . . canonizations and beatifications 	 . . consistories 	 . politics 	 . patron of the arts 	 . later life 	 . death and legacy 	 private revelation 	 portrayals in fiction 	 see also 	 references 	 external links biography[edit] early life[edit] c. painting of maffeo barberini at age by caravaggio he was born maffeo barberini in april [ ] to antonio barberini, a florentine nobleman, and camilla barbadoro. his father died when he was only three years old and his mother took him to rome, where he was put in the charge of his uncle, francesco barberini, an apostolic protonotary.[ ] at the age of , he became his uncle's heir.[ ] he was educated by the society of jesus ("jesuits"), and received a doctorate of law from the university of pisa in . in , barberini, through the influence of his uncle, was able to secure from pope clement viii appointment as a papal legate to the court of king henry iv of france. in , the same pope appointed him as the archbishop of nazareth,[ ] an office joined with that of bishop of the suppressed dioceses of canne and monteverde, with his residence at barletta. at the death of his uncle, he inherited his riches, with which he bought a palace in rome, which he made into a luxurious renaissance residence.[ ] pope paul v also later employed barberini in a similar capacity, afterwards raising him, in , to the order of the cardinal-priest, with the titular church of san pietro in montorio and appointing him as a papal legate of bologna.[ ] papacy[edit] gold quadrupla of pope urban viii, struck at the avignon mint, dated 	papal styles of pope urban viii 	 	reference style	his holiness 	spoken style	your holiness 	religious style	holy father 	posthumous style	none papal election[edit] main article: papal conclave barberini was considered someone who could be elected as pope, though there were those such as cardinal ottavio bandini who worked to prevent it. despite this, throughout – july, the cardinals began an intense series of negotiations to test the numbers as to who could emerge from the conclave as pope, with cardinal ludovico ludovisi dismissing barberini's chances as long as barberini remained a close ally of cardinal scipione borghese, whose faction barberini supported. ludovisi had discussions with cardinals farnese, medici and aldobrandini on july about seeing to barberini's election. the three supported his candidacy and went about securing the support of others, which lead to barberini's election just over a week later.[ ] on august , at the papal conclave following the death of pope gregory xv, barberini was chosen as gregory xv's successor and took the name urban viii. upon pope urban viii's election, zeno, the venetian envoy, wrote the following description of him:[ ] the new pontiff is years old. his holiness is tall, dark, with regular features and black hair turning grey. he is exceptionally elegant and refined in all details of his dress; has a graceful and aristocratic bearing and exquisite taste. he is an excellent speaker and debater, writes verses and patronises poets and men of letters. activities[edit] engraving of pope urban viii urban viii's papacy covered years of the thirty years' war, ( - ) and was an eventful one, even by the standards of the day. he canonized elizabeth of portugal, andrew corsini and conrad of piacenza, and issued the papal bulls of canonization for ignatius of loyola (founder of the society of jesus, "jesuits") and francis xavier (also a jesuit), who had been canonized by his predecessor, pope gregory xv. despite an early friendship and encouragement for his teachings, urban viii was responsible for summoning the scientist and astronomer galileo to rome in to recant his work. urban viii was opposed to copernican heliocentrism and he ordered galileo's second trial after the publication of dialogue concerning the two chief world systems, in which urban's point of view is argued by the character "simplicio". urban viii practiced nepotism on a grand scale; various members of his family were enormously enriched by him, so that it seemed to contemporaries as if he were establishing a barberini dynasty.[ ] he elevated his brother antonio marcello barberini (antonio the elder) and then his nephews francesco barberini and antonio barberini (antonio the younger) to cardinal. he also bestowed upon their brother, taddeo barberini, the titles prince of palestrina, gonfalonier of the church, prefect of rome and commander of sant'angelo. historian leopold von ranke estimated that during his reign, urban viii's immediate family amassed million scudi in personal wealth.[ ] urban viii was a skilled writer of latin verse, and a collection of scriptural paraphrases as well as original hymns of his composition have been frequently reprinted. the papal bull commissum nobis protected the existence of jesuit missions in south america by forbidding the enslavement of natives who were at the jesuit reductions.[ ][ ] at the same time, urban viii repealed the jesuit monopoly on missionary work in china and japan, opening these countries to missionaries of other orders and missionary societies.[ ] urban viii issued a papal bull that made the use of tobacco in holy places punishable by excommunication;[ ] pope benedict xiii repealed the ban one hundred years later.[ ] canonizations and beatifications[edit] urban viii canonized five saints during his pontificate: stephen harding ( ), elizabeth of portugal and conrad of piacenza ( ), peter nolasco ( ), and andrea corsini ( ). the pope also beatified individuals including the martyrs of nagasaki ( ). consistories[edit] main article: cardinals created by urban viii bust of urban viii, gianlorenzo bernini, – the pope created cardinals in eight consistories throughout his pontificate, and this included his nephews francesco and antonio, cousin lorenzo magalotti, and the pope's own brother antonio marcello. he also created giovanni battista pamphili as a cardinal, with pamphili becoming his immediate successor pope innocent x. the pope also created eight of those cardinals whom he had reserved in pectore. politics[edit] urban viii's military involvement was aimed less at the restoration of catholicism in europe than at adjusting the balance of power to favour his own independence in italy. in , the duchy of urbino was incorporated into the papal dominions, and, in , when the direct male line of the gonzagas in mantua became extinct, he controversially favoured the succession of the protestant duke charles of nevers against the claims of the catholic habsburgs. he also launched the wars of castro in against odoardo farnese, duke of parma and piacenza, whom he excommunicated. castro was destroyed and its duchy incorporated into the papal states. urban viii was the last pope to extend the papal territory. he fortified castelfranco emilia on the mantuan frontier and commissioned vincenzo maculani to fortify the castel sant'angelo in rome. urban viii also established an arsenal in the vatican, an arms factory at tivoli and fortified the harbour of civitavecchia. for the purposes of making cannon and the baldacchino in st peters, massive bronze girders were pillaged from the portico of the pantheon leading to the well known lampoon: quod non fecerunt barbari, fecerunt barberini, "what the barbarians did not do, the barberini did."[ ] patron of the arts[edit] urban viii and his family patronized art on a grand scale.[ ] he expended vast sums bringing polymaths like athanasius kircher to rome and funding various substantial works by the sculptor and architect bernini, from whom he had already commissioned boy with a dragon around and who was particularly favored during urban viii's reign. as well as several portrait busts of urban, urban commissioned bernini to work on the family palace in rome, the palazzo barberini, the college of the propaganda fide, the fontana del tritone in the piazza barberini, the baldacchino and cathedra in st peter's basilica and other prominent structures in the city. numerous members of barberini's family also had their likeness caught in stone by bernini, such as his brothers carlo and antonio. urban also had rebuilt the church of santa bibiana and the church of san sebastiano al palatino on the palatine hill. the barberini patronised painters such as nicolas poussin and claude lorrain. one of the most eulogistic of these artistic works in its celebration of his reign, is the huge allegory of divine providence and barberini power painted by pietro da cortona on the ceiling of the large salon of the palazzo barberini. the barberini vase, now re-named the portland vase. another such acquisition, in a vast collection, was the purchase of the 'barberini vase'. this was allegedly found at the mausoleum of the roman emperor severus alexander and his family at monte del grano. the discovery of the vase is described by pietro santi bartoli and referenced on page of a book on the portland vase.[ ] pietro bartoli indicates that the vase contained the ashes of the roman emperor. however, this together with the interpretations of the scenes depicted on it are the source of countless theories and disputed 'facts'. the vase remained in the barberini family collection for some years before passing through the hands of sir william hamilton ambassador to the royal court in naples. it was later sold to the duke and duchess of portland, and has subsequently been known as the portland vase. following catastrophic damage, this glass vase ( - bc) has been reconstructed three times and resides in the british museum. the portland vase itself was borrowed and near copied by josiah wedgewood who appears to have added modesty drapery. the vase formed the basis of jasperware. later life[edit] statue of pope urban viii sculpted by gian lorenzo bernini and his students between and , and currently on display at the palazzo dei conservatori in rome. a consequence of these military and artistic endeavours was a massive increase in papal debt. urban viii inherited a debt of million scudi, and by had increased it to million. according to contemporary john bargrave, in members of the spanish faction of the college of cardinals were so horrified by the conduct of pope urban viii that they conspired to have him arrested and imprisoned (or killed) so that they could replace him with a new pope; namely laudivio zacchia.[ ] when urban viii travelled to castel gandolfo to rest, the members of the spanish faction met in secret and discussed ways to advance their plan. but they were discovered and the pope raced back to rome where he immediately held a consistory and demanded to know who the new pope was. to put an end to the conspiracy, the pope decreed that all cardinal-bishops should leave rome and return to their own churches.[ ] with the spanish plan having failed, by the debt had reached million scudi, consuming more than % of annual papal income in interest repayments.[ ] death and legacy[edit] urban viii's death on july is said to have been hastened by chagrin at the result of the wars of castro. because of the costs incurred by the city of rome to finance this war, urban viii became immensely unpopular with his subjects. on his death, the bust of urban viii that lay beside the palace of the conservators on the capitoline hill was rapidly destroyed by an enraged crowd, and only a quick-thinking priest saved the sculpture of the late pope belonging to the jesuits from a similar fate.[ ] following his death, international and domestic machinations resulted in the papal conclave not electing cardinal giulio cesare sacchetti, who was closely associated with some members of the barberini family. instead, it elected cardinal giovanni battista pamphili, who took the name of innocent x, as his successor at the papal conclave of . private revelation[edit] bust by giovanni gonnelli in the papal bull sanctissimus dominus noster of march , urban instructed catholics not to venerate the deceased or represent them in the manner of saints without church sanction. it required a bishop’s approval for the publication of private revelations. since the nineteenth century, it has become common for books of popular devotion to carry a disclaimer. one read in part: "in obedience to the decrees of urban the eighth, i declare that i have no intention of attributing any other than a purely human authority to the miracles, revelations, favours, and particular cases recorded in this book...."[ ][ ][ ] portrayals in fiction[edit] urban viii is a recurring character in the ring of fire alternative history hypernovel by eric flint et al. where he is favorably portrayed. he is especially prominent in : the galileo affair (in which he made the fictional grantville priest, larry mazzare, a cardinal), and in : the cannon law, : the papal stakes, and : the vatican sanction. he is somewhat less favorably 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(january ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) (learn how and when to remove this template message) edward victor gordon kiernan ( september – february ) was a british marxist historian and a member of the communist party historians group. he was recognised as one of the most wide-ranging of global historians. while his middle name came from one of british imperialism's greatest heroes, general 'chinese' gordon of khartoum, he emerged as one of britain's foremost ideological warriors against empire.[ ] contents 	 life 	 intellectual legacy 	 kiernan and urdu poetry 	 marriages 	 selected works/articles 	 . see also 	 references 	 external links life[edit] born in ashton-on-mersey, a southern district of manchester, kiernan was one of three children born to ella née young and john edward kiernan, who served as a translator of spanish and portuguese for the privately owned manchester ship canal. his family came from a congregationalist, non-conformist religious tradition that he later suggested played a role in his socialist formation and that of many of the communist party historians group founded in . a scholarship student at the manchester grammar school, kiernan developed a passion for the classics, as he added ancient greek and latin to the modern european languages he had already learned at home. propelled with three new scholarships, he went on to trinity college, cambridge where he achieved a double-starred first in history (b.a., ; m.a., ). recruited by guy burgess during a time of radical ferment among cambridge students, kiernan joined the communist party in . he found his radicalism subsequently reinforced by what he regarded as the treachery of britain's elites. perhaps the greatest influence on kiernan was maurice dobb. a lecturer in economics at cambridge, he had joined the communist party of great britain in and was open with his students about his communist beliefs. kiernan later wrote: "we had no time then to assimilate marxist theory more than very roughly; it was only beginning to take root in england, although it had one remarkable expounder at cambridge in maurice dobb." in , as a junior fellow, kiernan departed for bombay in to continue his political activities and to teach at the sikh national college and aitchison college in lahore, india (now pakistan). shortly after his arrival he married the theatre activist and childhood friend of indira nehru, shanta gandhi. though they remained friends, they split up when kiernan returned to cambridge in to complete his fellowship. spurned by both cambridge and oxford, kiernan was offered a lectureship in at the university of edinburgh, thanks to the intervention of the distinguished historian richard pares. in , kiernan was given a personal chair in modern history; a position he held until his retirement in . having joined the cpgb in , he finally left in , chiefly in disgust at the suppression of the hungarian revolution of , after which, he said: "i waited in hopes the party might improve. it didn't." in at the age of , kiernan produced shakespeare: poet and citizen a book he had been working on since . a second volume, eight tragedies of shakespeare, followed in . his final book, horace: poetics and politics appeared in . kiernan died peacefully in his sleep, aged , in stow, scotland. intellectual legacy[edit] kiernan made immense contributions to the post-war flowering of british marxist historiography that transformed the understanding of social history. seeking escape paths from a congealing stalinism, this intellectual movement grew from several figures among them - e.p. thompson, christopher hill, rodney hilton, kiernan and eric hobsbawm. brash and confident in wielding the best of the british left's cultural arsenal, they welcomed open-ended dialogue with non-marxist traditions. some of this dialogue was on display in the journal past & present, a journal of social history that became the most prestigious in the english-speaking world. kiernan wrote a major essay in for the first issue of the journal ("evangelicalism and the french revolution"), produced several landmark articles, and later served on its editorial board from to . he also contributed to new left review throughout the journal's transitions. while thompson, hill and hilton were rooted in english social history, kiernan and hobsbawm practised a historical craft with more global aspirations. kiernan's distinctive contributions included the study of elites in history, the mythologies of imperialism, the folklore of capitalism and conservatism, and literature and social change. kiernan and urdu poetry[edit] while steeped in western literature and the classical heritage of horace, kiernan called for an appreciation of urdu poetry, as he translated works from its literary golden age spanning from ghalib ( - ) to allama iqbal ( - ) to faiz ahmad faiz ( - ). he elevated writers from the east who had been largely banished by guardians of the western canon and then overlooked by stylish post-modern literary figures looking for more transgressive exemplars of literary craft. marriages[edit] he was married twice: to the indian theatre director, dancer and playwright shanta gandhi (bollywood actress dina pathak's sister), from to ; and to the canadian scholar heather massey, from until his death. selected works/articles[edit] 	the dragon and st. george: anglo-chinese relations - ( ) 	british diplomacy in china, to ( ) 	poems from iqbal, translation ( ) 	the revolution of in spanish history ( ) 	the lords of human kind. european attitudes towards the outside world in the imperial age ( ) 	marxism and imperialism: studies ( ) 	america, the new imperialism: from white settlement to world hegemony ( ) 	state & society in europe, - ( ) 	european empires from conquest to collapse, - ( ) 	the duel in european history: honour and the reign of aristocracy ( ) 	history, classes and nation-states (edited and introduced by harvey j. kaye ( ) 	tobacco: a history ( ) 	shakespeare, poet and citizen ( ) 	imperialism and its contradictions (edited & introduced by harvey j. kaye; ) 	eight tragedies of shakespeare: a marxist study ( ) 	colonial empires and armies - ( , ) 	horace: poetics and politics ( ) see also[edit] 	history & humanism: essays in honour of v.g. kiernan (edited by owen dudley edwards; ) 	across time and continents: a tribute to victor g. kiernan (edited by prakash karat; ). isbn  - - - . references[edit] 	^ tariq ali ( february ). 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	constitution of the late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	executive magistrates 	 precedent and law 	 	roman law 	ius 	imperium 	mos maiorum 	collegiality 	auctoritas 	roman citizenship 	cursus honorum 	senatus consultum 	senatus consultum ultimum 	 assemblies 	 	centuriate 	curiate 	plebeian 	tribal 	 ordinary magistrates 	 	consul 	praetor 	quaestor 	promagistrate 	aedile 	tribune 	censor 	governor 	 extraordinary magistrates 	 	corrector 	dictator 	magister equitum 	consular tribune 	rex 	triumviri 	decemviri 	 titles and honours 	 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	praeses 	praefectus 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 	 	other countries 	 	v 	t 	e a triumvirate (latin: triumvirātus) is a political regime ruled or dominated by three powerful individuals known as triumvirs (latin: triumviri). the arrangement can be formal or informal. though the three are notionally equal, this is rarely the case in reality. the term can also be used to describe a state with three different military leaders who all claim to be the sole leader. in the context of the soviet union and russia, the term troika (russian for "group of three") is used for "triumvirate". another synonym is triarchy. contents 	 pre-modern triumvirates 	 . biblical triumvirates 	 . chinese triumvirates 	 . hinduism triumvirates 	 . pagaruyuang triumvirates 	 . roman triumvirates 	 . tamil triumvirates 	 modern triumvirates 	 . ottoman empire 	 . early-modern and modern france 	 . pre-independent india 	 . modern israel 	 . people's republic of china 	 . benin 	 . soviet union 	 . modern italy 	 . modern greece 	 . argentina 	 . the americas 	 . european union 	 . business slang 	 other triumvirates 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 external links pre-modern triumvirates[edit] biblical triumvirates[edit] in the bible triumvirates occurred at some notable events in both the old testament and new testament. in the book of exodus moses, his brother aaron and, according to some views their nephew or brother-in-law, hur acted this way during battle of rephidim against the amalekites.[exodus : ][ ] in the gospels as a leading trio among the twelve apostles at three particular occasions during public ministry of jesus acted peter, james, son of zebedee and his brother john. they were the only apostles present at the raising of jairus' daughter[mark : ], transfiguration of jesus [matthew : ] and agony in the garden of gethsemane[matthew : ]. later, at the time of the early christian church this triumvirate of the leading apostles changed slightly after the former james's death, as it became composed of peter, john and james, brother of jesus.[galatians : ][ ] 	old testament and new testament triumvirates 	 			 			 moses (in the centre) along with aaron and hur at the battle of rephidim. 			 		 	 			 			 peter (sitting in the centre) along with john and his brother james, son of zebedee (sitting l-r) at the transfiguration of jesus. 			 		 chinese triumvirates[edit] one of the most notable triumvirates formed in the history of china was by the han dynasty ( bce – ce) statesmen huo guang (d. bce), jin midi (d. bce), and shangguan jie 上官桀 (d. bce), following the death of emperor wu of han (r. – bce) and the installation of the child emperor zhao. despite the three excellencies—including the chancellor, imperial secretary, and irregularly the grand commandant—representing the most senior ministerial positions of state, this triumvirate was supported by the economic technocrat and imperial secretary sang hongyang (d. bce), their political lackey. the acting chancellor tian qianqiu was also easily swayed by the decisions of the triumvirate.[ ] the three excellencies existed in western han ( bce – ce) as the chancellor, imperial secretary, and grand commandant, but the chancellor was viewed as senior to the imperial secretary while the post of grand commandant was vacant for most of the dynasty. after emperor guangwu established the eastern han ( – ce), the grand commandant was made a permanent official while the minister over the masses replaced the chancellor and the minister of works replaced the imperial secretary. unlike the three high officials in western han when the chancellor was senior to all, these new three senior officials had equal censorial and advisory powers. when a young or weak-minded emperor ascended to the throne, these three excellencies could dominate the affairs of state. there were also other types of triumvirates during the eastern han; for example, at the onset of the reign of emperor ling of han (r. – ), the general-in-chief dou wu (d. ), the grand tutor chen fan (d. ), and another prominent statesman hu guang ( – ) formed a triumvirate nominally in charge of the privy secretariat, when in fact it was a regent triumvirate that was overseeing the affairs of state and emperor ling.[ ] hinduism triumvirates[edit] in hinduism, the gods brahma, vishnu and shiva form the triumvirate trimurti "in which the cosmic functions of creation, maintenance, and destruction are personified" respectively by those gods.."[ ] pagaruyuang triumvirates[edit] triumvirates during the pagaruyuang era in the minangkabau highlands was known as rajo tigo selo or the three reigning kings. the rajo tigo selo was descended from the same line in the same dynasty and ruled at the same reigning time. it consisted of three kings, the rajo alam who ruled the government and diplomatic affairs, the rajo adaik who ruled the customs and the rajo ibadaik who acted as a grand mufti.[ ] roman triumvirates[edit] the first triumvirate of the roman republic: gnaeus pompeius (pompey), marcus licinius crassus, and gaius julius caesar originally, triumviri were special commissions of three men appointed for specific administrative tasks apart from the regular duties of roman magistrates. the triumviri capitales, for instance, oversaw prisons and executions, along with other functions that, as andrew lintott notes, show them to have been "a mixture of police superintendents and justices of the peace."[ ] the capitales were first established around to bc.[ ] they were supervised by the praetor urbanus. these triumviri, or the tresviri nocturni,[ ] may also have taken some responsibility for fire control.[ ] the triumviri monetalis ("triumviri of the temple of juno the advisor" or "monetary triumvirs") supervised the issuing of roman coins. three-man commissions were also appointed for purposes such as establishing colonies (triumviri coloniae deducendae) or distributing land.[ ] triumviri mensarii served as public bankers;[ ] the full range of their financial functions in bc, when the commission included two men of consular rank, has been the subject of debate.[ ] another form of three-man commission was the tresviri epulones, who were in charge of organizing public feasts on holidays. this commission was created in bc by a tribunician law on behalf of the people, and their number was later increased to seven (septemviri epulones).[ ] the term is most commonly used by historians to refer to the first triumvirate of julius caesar, marcus licinius crassus, and pompey the great, and the second triumvirate of octavianus (later caesar augustus), mark antony, and marcus aemilius lepidus. tamil triumvirates[edit] tamil triumvirate refers to the triumvirate of chola, chera, and pandya who dominated the politics of the ancient tamil country. modern triumvirates[edit] the title was revived a few times for (short-lived) three-headed political 'magistratures' in post-feudal times. ottoman empire[edit] the three pashas also known as ottoman triumvirate effectively ruled the ottoman empire during world war i: mehmed talaat pasha ( – ), the grand vizier (prime minister) and minister of the interior; ismail enver pasha ( – ), the minister of war; and ahmed djemal pasha ( – ), the minister of the navy. early-modern and modern france[edit] triumvirate of : (l-r) saint-just, robespierre, and couthon while french huguenots had derisively bestowed the name triumvirate on the alliance formed in between catholic francis, duke of guise, anne de montmorency, and jacques dalbon, seigneur de saint andre during the french wars of religion, in later years the term would be used to describe other arrangements within france. at the end of the s, when the french revolutionaries turned to several roman magistrature names for their new institutions, the three-headed collective head of state was named consulat, a term in use for two-headed magistratures since antiquity; furthermore it included a "first consul" who was not an equal, but the de facto solo head of state and government – a position napoleon bonaparte chose to convert openly into the first french empire. prior to napoleon and during the terror robespierre, louis de saint-just, and couthon, as members of the governing committee of public safety, were purported by some to have formed an unofficial triumvirate. although officially all members of the committee shared equal power the three men's friendship and close ideological base led their detractors to declaim them as triumvirs which was used against them in the coup of thermidor. pre-independent india[edit] in the early days of the national struggle and before gandhi, the indian national congress was known to be under lal-bal-pal i.e. lala lajpat rai, bipin chandra pal and the leader of the three balgangadhar tilak often dubbed lokmanya tilak. modern israel[edit] 	 – : former prime minister ehud olmert, defense minister ehud barak, and minister of foreign affairs tzipi livni were sometimes referred to as a triumvirate.[ ][ ][ ] 	 : the leadership of shas, the ultra-orthodox sepharadi political party of israel, was given by its spiritual leader, rabbi ovadia yosef and the council of torah sages, to a triumvirate formed by the convicted aryeh deri, who decided to return to politics after a thirteen-year hiatus, the former party leader eli yishai and ariel atias. people's republic of china[edit] (l-r) zhou enlai, mao zedong, and liu shaoqi in mao zedong, zhou enlai, and liu shaoqi had the biggest contribution to the foundation of the people's republic of china in and are regarded as the three most influential members of the first generation of the chinese communist leaders. mao and zhou died in while holding the highest party and state offices chairman of the cpc central committee (mao), premier of the state council (zhou). liu was the chairman of the standing committee of the national people's congress and president of the people's republic of china, nominal de jure head of state, until when he was purged in the cultural revolution. he died in late under harsh treatment.[ ] benin[edit] main article: presidential council (benin) 	 april until october : after the contentious presidential elections, the country of benin (then known as the republic of dahomey) adopted a presidential council which included the three main political figures in the country: hubert maga, justin ahomadégbé-tomêtin, and sourou-migan apithy. in addition, the formal office of president would rotate between the three of them beginning with hubert maga. after one successful change of leadership, military leader mathieu kérékou staged a coup and overthrew the presidential council becoming the leader of the country until .[ ] soviet union[edit] 	see also list of troikas in the soviet union 	may – april : when vladimir lenin suffered his first stroke in may , a troika was established to govern the country in his place, although lenin briefly returned to the leadership from october until a severe stroke on march ended lenin's political career. the troika consisted of lev kamenev, joseph stalin, and grigory zinoviev. the troika broke up in april , when kamenev and zinoviev found themselves in a minority over their belief that socialism could only be achieved internationally. zinoviev and kamenev joined forces with leon trotsky's left opposition in early .[ ] later, kamenev, zinoviev and trotsky would all be murdered on stalin's orders. 	 march – june : after the death of joseph stalin in march , power was shared between lavrenty beria, georgy malenkov, and vyacheslav molotov. 	 october – june : after the removal of nikita khrushchev in october , the soviet union went through a period of collective leadership. power was initially shared between premier alexei kosygin, general secretary leonid brezhnev and chairman of the presidium anastas mikoyan. mikoyan was replaced by nikolai podgorny in . triumvirate of: (l-r) nikolai podgorny, leonid brezhnev, and alexei kosygin during october revolution anniversary celebrations in modern italy[edit] in the roman republic ( ), the title of two sets of three joint chiefs of state in the year : 	 march – july : carlo armellini (b. – d. ), giuseppe mazzini (b. – d. ), and conte aurelio saffi (b. – d. ) 	 – july : aurelio saffi (again), alessandro calandrelli (b. – d. ), and livio mariani (no dates available) modern greece[edit] 	after the downfall of the first king of greece, the bavarian otto, on october , and dimitrios voulgaris' unsuccessful term ( october – january ) as president of the provisional government, a triumvirate ( january – october ) was established consisting of the same dimitrios voulgaris, the renowned admiral konstantinos kanaris and benizelos rouphos, which acted as a regency until the arrival of the new monarch, the first "king of the hellenes", george i. 	a triumvirate was established to head the theriso revolt of in autonomous crete, consisting of eleftherios venizelos (later prime minister of greece) in charge of organisational matters, konstantinos foumis in charge of finances and konstantinos manos, the former mayor of chania, in charge of military affairs. the "triumvirate of national defence": (l-r) admiral kountouriotis, venizelos, and general danglis 	a triumvirate was set up during the first world war in september , to head the "provisional government of national defence" in thessaloniki. it consisted of the popular liberal statesman eleftherios venizelos, general panagiotis danglis and admiral pavlos koundouriotis. this "triumvirate of national defence" functioned as a collective head of government, although effective control was in venizelos' hands. with the abdication of king constantine i in june and the reunification of the country under venizelos, the triumvirate was dissolved. the triandria municipality in thessaloniki is named after this triumvirate. 	a triumvirate was set up on september to lead the military revolt against the royalist government in athens in the aftermath of the asia minor disaster. it was composed of colonels nikolaos plastiras and stylianos gonatas, and commander dimitrios fokas. the triumvirate assumed the government of greece on september, and would control the country until it laid down its powers on january . plastiras however quickly became the dominant figure among the triumvirate, and was eventually labelled as the "chief of the revolution". 	a de facto triumvirate existed during the early years of the greek military junta of – , when the junta's three main leaders were colonel georgios papadopoulos, brigadier stylianos pattakos and colonel nikolaos makarezos. with the increasing predominance of papadopoulos from on, this triumvirate ceased to function. 	the greek people's liberation army, active during the axis occupation of greece, had a triadic leadership structure, consisting of the kapetánios ("captain", the unit's leader), the stratiotikós (the military specialist, usually a former army officer) and the politikós (the political representative of the national liberation front). argentina[edit] 	first triumvirate ( september – october ): 	feliciano chiclana. 	manuel de sarratea. 	juan josé paso, replaced by juan martín de pueyrredón on march . 	second triumvirate ( october – january ): 	nicolás rodríguez peña. 	antonio Álvarez jonte, replaced by gervasio antonio de posadas on august . 	juan josé paso, replaced by josé julián pérez on february , and replaced by juan larrea on november . 	third triumvirate ( april - april ): 	josé de san martín. 	matías de irigoyen. 	manuel de sarratea. 	military junta ( june - june ): 	pascual pistarini. 	benigno ignacio varela. 	adolfo teodoro Álvarez. 	junta of commanders of the armed forces ( june - june ): 	pedro alberto josé gnavi, president. 	carlos alberto rey. 	alejandro lanusse. 	junta of commanders of the armed forces ( march - march ): 	alejandro lanusse, president. 	pedro alberto josé gnavi. 	carlos alberto rey. 	military junta ( march - march ): 	jorge rafael videla. 	emilio eduardo massera. 	orlando ramón agosti. the americas[edit] 	 venezuela: by decree of the caracas junta and ratified in the federal constitution of the executive power was vested in "three individuals" ( – ) 	 the eastern state of uruguay had one triumvirate in . 	 the united provinces of new granada, now colombia, and panama, were headed by two triumvirates in the period known as the "patria boba" or foolish fatherland 	interim triumvirate, october – november 	josé maría del castillo y rada 	josé joaquín camacho 	josé fernández madrid 	triumvirate of the united provinces of new granada, november – october 	custodio garcía rovira 	antonio villavicencio, replaced rovira during his second term as he could not preside over 	josé manuel restrepo, was never sworn in. 	josé miguel pey de andrade, replaced restrepo as he declined. july 	manuel rodríguez torices 	 the dominican republic had two triumvirates, which were essentially three-member juntas: 	 may – august – st triumvirate (in rebellion against buenaventura báez from may ): 	pedro antonio pimentel (b. – d. ; formerly one of three "generals-in-chief" – january ) 	gregorio luperón (b. – d. ) pa 	federico de jesús garcía 	 september – april – nd triumvirate: 	emilio de los santos (b. – december ) (chairman from december , succeeded by donald reid cabral, b. , ucn, new chairman) 	manuel enrique tavares espaillat (b. - d. ) 	ramón tapia espinal (b. – d. ) 	 new york: the political arrangement of "three men in a room", consisting of the governor, speaker of the new york state assembly, and the majority leader of the new york state senate[ ] 	 nicaragua ( – ) liberal-conservative junta of roberto martínez, alfonso lovo cordero (liberals) and fernando agüero (conservative). agüero resigned in and edmundo paguada was successor. 	 mexico ( – ) guadalupe victoria, nicolás bravo and celestino negrete. european union[edit] after the lisbon treaty came into force from december : 	president of the european council - charles michel 	president of the european commission - ursula von der leyen 	high representative of the union for foreign affairs and security policy - josep borrell business slang[edit] 	 	this section needs to be updated. please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (april ) eric schmidt, ceo of google has referred to himself, along with founders larry page and sergey brin as part of a triumvirate, stating, "this triumvirate has made an informal deal to stick together for at least years".[ ] other triumvirates[edit] the word has been used as a term of convenience, though not an official title, for other groups of three in a similar position: 	great triumvirate ( th-century american politics – henry clay, daniel webster, and john c. calhoun) 	great triumvirate (early th-century golf – harry vardon, james braid, and j.h. taylor) see also[edit] 	constitution of the roman republic 	council of three (disambiguation) 	decemvirate 	diarchy 	duumviri 	monarchy 	septemvir 	tetrarchy notes[edit] 	^ magill, frank northen ( january ). dictionary of world biography. isbn  . retrieved - - . 	^ "galatians : and recognizing the grace that i had been given, james, cephas, and john--those reputed to be pillars--gave me and barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we should go to the gentiles and they to the jews". biblehub.com. 	^ loewe ( ), . 	^ beck ( ), . 	^ for quotation defining the trimurti see matchett, freda. "the purāṇas", in: flood ( ), p. . 	^ [ ] 	^ andrew lintott, violence in republican rome (oxford university press, , nd ed.), p. online. 	^ livy, periocha . 	^ triumviri or tresviri nocturni may be another name or nickname for the capitales, because their duties often pertained to the streets at night. 	^ john e. stambaugh, the ancient roman city (johns hopkins university press, ), p. , note online and p. , note ; o.f. robinson, ancient rome: city planning and administration (routledge, ), p. online. 	^ andrew lintott, the constitution of the roman republic (oxford university press, ), pp. and online. 	^ jean andreau, banking and business in the roman world (cambridge university press, ), p. online. 	^ rachel feig vishnia, state, society, and popular leaders in mid-republican rome, - b.c. (routledge, ), p. ff. online. 	^ livy . . ; vishnia, state, society, and popular leaders, p. ; fergus millar, rome, the greek world, and the east (university of north caroline press, ), p. online; lintott, constitution, p. . 	^ ladies and gentlemen, your next government, by amir oren, published: january , haaretz daily newspaper 	^ diplomacy: endgame politics[permanent dead link], by herb keinon, january , , jerusalem post 	^ israel launches pr blitz ahead of gaza operation, roni sofer, published: . . , ynetnews 	^ angela p. cheater, department of sociology, university of zimbabwe ( june ). "managing culture en route to socialism: the problem of culture 'answering back'" (pdf). msu.edu. michigan state university. retrieved december .cs maint: multiple names: authors list (link) 	^ decalo, samuel ( ). "regionalism, politics, and the military in dahomey". the journal of developing areas. ( ): – . 	^ rappaport, helen ( ). joseph stalin: a biographical companion. abc-clio. pp.  , . isbn  - . 	^ lachman, seymour & polner, robert ( ). three men in a room: the inside story of power and betrayal in an american statehouse. new york : new press. 	^ tim weber ( - - ), a decade on: google's internet economy, bbc news, retrieved february , references[edit] 	beck, mansvelt. ( ). "the fall of han," in the cambridge history of china: volume i: the ch'in and han empires, b.c. – a.d. . edited by denis twitchett and michael loewe. cambridge: cambridge university press. isbn  - - - . 	flood, gavin (editor) ( ). the blackwell companion to hinduism. malden, ma: blackwell publishing ltd. isbn  - - - .cs maint: extra text: authors list (link) 	loewe, michael. ( ). 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statement 		 	 	 translation - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	translation 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		this article is about language translation. for other uses, see translation (disambiguation). "translator" redirects here. for other uses, see translator (disambiguation). for article translations in wikipedia, see wikipedia:translation. not to be confused with transliteration. communication of the meaning of a source–language text by means of an equivalent target–language text king charles v the wise commissions a translation of aristotle. first square shows his ordering the translation; second square, the translation being made. third and fourth squares show the finished translation being brought to, and then presented to, the king. 	part of a series on 	translation 	 	 types 	 	legal 	literary 	bible 	quran 	kural 	linguistic validation 	medical 	regulatory 	technical 	interpretation 	cultural 	word-for-word vs. sense-for-sense 	homophonic 	 theory 	 	translation studies 	skopos theory 	translation project 	translation criticism 	dynamic and formal equivalence 	contrastive linguistics 	 technologies 	 	cat 	machine translation 	mobile (machine) translation 	translation management system 	dubbing 	subtitling 	pre-editing 	postediting 	multimedia translation 	 localization 	 	glocalization 	internationalization and localization 	language localisation 	game localization 	dub localization 	website localization 	software localization 	 institutional 	 	associations 	awards 	organizations 	schools 	 related topics 	 	transcription 	transliteration 	video relay service (vrs) 	telephone interpreting 	language barrier 	fan translation 	fansub 	fandub 	scanlation 	journalistic translation 	books and magazines on translation 	bible translations by language 	translated books 	translators 	kural translations by language 		v 	t 	e translation is the communication of the meaning of a source–language text by means of an equivalent target-language text.[ ] the english language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between translating (a written text) and interpreting (oral or signed communication between users of different languages); under this distinction, translation can begin only after the appearance of writing within a language community. a translator always risks inadvertently introducing source–language words, grammar, or syntax into the target–language rendering. on the other hand, such "spill-overs" have sometimes imported useful source–language calques and loanwords that have enriched target languages. translators, including early translators of sacred texts, have helped shape the very languages into which they have translated.[ ] because of the laboriousness of the translation process, since the s efforts have been made, with varying degrees of success, to automate translation or to mechanically aid the human translator.[ ] more recently, the rise of the internet has fostered a world-wide market for translation services and has facilitated "language localization".[ ] contents 	 etymology 	 theories 	 . western theory 	 . other traditions 	 . . near east 	 . . asia 	 . . islamic world 	 fidelity and transparency 	 . equivalence 	 . back-translation 	 . source and target languages 	 . . source and target texts 	 translators 	 . interpreting 	 . sworn translation 	 . telephone 	 . internet 	 . computer assist 	 machine translation 	 literary translation 	 . history 	 . modern translation 	 . poetry 	 . book titles 	 . plays 	 . chinese literature 	 . sung texts 	 . religious texts 	 . experimental literature 	 . science fiction 	 technical translation 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 bibliography 	 further reading 	 external links etymology[edit] rosetta stone, a secular icon for the art of translation[ ] the english word "translation" derives from the latin word translatio,[ ] which comes from trans, "across" + ferre, "to carry" or "to bring" (-latio in turn coming from latus, the past participle of ferre). thus translatio is "a carrying across" or "a bringing across" – in this case, of a text from one language to another.[ ] some slavic languages and the germanic languages (other than dutch and afrikaans) have calqued their words for the concept of "translation" on translatio, substituting their respective slavic or germanic root words for the latin roots.[ ][ ][a][ ] the remaining slavic languages instead calqued their words for "translation" from an alternative latin word, trāductiō, itself derived from trādūcō ("to lead across" or "to bring across")—from trans ("across") + dūcō, ("to lead" or "to bring").[ ] the west and east slavic languages (except for russian) adopted the translātiō pattern, whereas russian and the south slavic languages adopted the trāductiō pattern. the romance languages, deriving directly from latin, did not need to calque their equivalent words for "translation"; instead, they simply adapted the second of the two alternative latin words, trāductiō.,[ ] the ancient greek term for "translation", μετάφρασις (metaphrasis, "a speaking across"), has supplied english with "metaphrase" (a "literal", or "word-for-word", translation)—as contrasted with "paraphrase" ("a saying in other words", from παράφρασις, paraphrasis).[ ] "metaphrase" corresponds, in one of the more recent terminologies, to "formal equivalence"; and "paraphrase", to "dynamic equivalence".[ ] strictly speaking, the concept of metaphrase—of "word-for-word translation"—is an imperfect concept, because a given word in a given language often carries more than one meaning; and because a similar given meaning may often be represented in a given language by more than one word. nevertheless, "metaphrase" and "paraphrase" may be useful as ideal concepts that mark the extremes in the spectrum of possible approaches to translation.[b] theories[edit] western theory[edit] john dryden discussions of the theory and practice of translation reach back into antiquity and show remarkable continuities. the ancient greeks distinguished between metaphrase (literal translation) and paraphrase. this distinction was adopted by english poet and translator john dryden ( – ), who described translation as the judicious blending of these two modes of phrasing when selecting, in the target language, "counterparts," or equivalents, for the expressions used in the source language: when [words] appear... literally graceful, it were an injury to the author that they should be changed. but since... what is beautiful in one [language] is often barbarous, nay sometimes nonsense, in another, it would be unreasonable to limit a translator to the narrow compass of his author's words: 'tis enough if he choose out some expression which does not vitiate the sense.[ ] cicero dryden cautioned, however, against the license of "imitation", i.e., of adapted translation: "when a painter copies from the life... he has no privilege to alter features and lineaments..."[ ] this general formulation of the central concept of translation—equivalence—is as adequate as any that has been proposed since cicero and horace, who, in st-century-bce rome, famously and literally cautioned against translating "word for word" (verbum pro verbo).[ ] despite occasional theoretical diversity, the actual practice of translation has hardly changed since antiquity. except for some extreme metaphrasers in the early christian period and the middle ages, and adapters in various periods (especially pre-classical rome, and the th century), translators have generally shown prudent flexibility in seeking equivalents—"literal" where possible, paraphrastic where necessary—for the original meaning and other crucial "values" (e.g., style, verse form, concordance with musical accompaniment or, in films, with speech articulatory movements) as determined from context.[ ] samuel johnson in general, translators have sought to preserve the context itself by reproducing the original order of sememes, and hence word order—when necessary, reinterpreting the actual grammatical structure, for example, by shifting from active to passive voice, or vice versa. the grammatical differences between "fixed-word-order" languages[ ] (e.g. english, french, german) and "free-word-order" languages[ ] (e.g., greek, latin, polish, russian) have been no impediment in this regard.[ ] the particular syntax (sentence-structure) characteristics of a text's source language are adjusted to the syntactic requirements of the target language. martin luther when a target language has lacked terms that are found in a source language, translators have borrowed those terms, thereby enriching the target language. thanks in great measure to the exchange of calques and loanwords between languages, and to their importation from other languages, there are few concepts that are "untranslatable" among the modern european languages.[ ] a greater problem, however, is translating terms relating to cultural concepts that have no equivalent in the target language.[ ] for full comprehension, such situations require the provision of a gloss. generally, the greater the contact and exchange that have existed between two languages, or between those languages and a third one, the greater is the ratio of metaphrase to paraphrase that may be used in translating among them. however, due to shifts in ecological niches of words, a common etymology is sometimes misleading as a guide to current meaning in one or the other language. for example, the english actual should not be confused with the cognate french actuel ("present", "current"), the polish aktualny ("present", "current," "topical", "timely", "feasible"),[ ] the swedish aktuell ("topical", "presently of importance"), the russian актуальный ("urgent", "topical") or the dutch actueel ("current"). the translator's role as a bridge for "carrying across" values between cultures has been discussed at least since terence, the nd-century-bce roman adapter of greek comedies. the translator's role is, however, by no means a passive, mechanical one, and so has also been compared to that of an artist. the main ground seems to be the concept of parallel creation found in critics such as cicero. dryden observed that "translation is a type of drawing after life..." comparison of the translator with a musician or actor goes back at least to samuel johnson's remark about alexander pope playing homer on a flageolet, while homer himself used a bassoon.[ ] johann gottfried herder if translation be an art, it is no easy one. in the th century, roger bacon wrote that if a translation is to be true, the translator must know both languages, as well as the science that he is to translate; and finding that few translators did, he wanted to do away with translation and translators altogether.[ ] ignacy krasicki the translator of the bible into german, martin luther ( – ), is credited with being the first european to posit that one translates satisfactorily only toward his own language. l.g. kelly states that since johann gottfried herder in the th century, "it has been axiomatic" that one translates only toward his own language.[ ] compounding the demands on the translator is the fact that no dictionary or thesaurus can ever be a fully adequate guide in translating. the scottish historian alexander tytler, in his essay on the principles of translation ( ), emphasized that assiduous reading is a more comprehensive guide to a language than are dictionaries. the same point, but also including listening to the spoken language, had earlier, in , been made by the polish poet and grammarian onufry kopczyński.[ ] the translator's special role in society is described in a posthumous essay by "poland's la fontaine", the roman catholic primate of poland, poet, encyclopedist, author of the first polish novel, and translator from french and greek, ignacy krasicki: [t]ranslation... is in fact an art both estimable and very difficult, and therefore is not the labor and portion of common minds; [it] should be [practiced] by those who are themselves capable of being actors, when they see greater use in translating the works of others than in their own works, and hold higher than their own glory the service that they render their country.[ ] other traditions[edit] due to western colonialism and cultural dominance in recent centuries, western translation traditions have largely replaced other traditions. the western traditions draw on both ancient and medieval traditions, and on more recent european innovations. though earlier approaches to translation are less commonly used today, they retain importance when dealing with their products, as when historians view ancient or medieval records to piece together events which took place in non-western or pre-western environments. also, though heavily influenced by western traditions and practiced by translators taught in western-style educational systems, chinese and related translation traditions retain some theories and philosophies unique to the chinese tradition. near east[edit] 		this section needs expansion. you can help by adding to it. (march ) traditions of translating material among the languages of ancient egypt, mesopotamia, assyria (syriac language), anatolia, and israel (hebrew language) go back several millennia. there exist partial translations of the sumerian epic of gilgamesh (c. bce) into southwest asian languages of the second millennium bce.[ ] an early example of a bilingual document is the bce treaty of kadesh between the ancient egyptian and hittie empires. asia[edit] further information: chinese translation theory buddhist diamond sutra, translated into chinese by kumārajīva: world's oldest known dated printed book ( ce) there is a separate tradition of translation in south, southeast and east asia (primarily of texts from the indian and chinese civilizations), connected especially with the rendering of religious, particularly buddhist, texts and with the governance of the chinese empire. classical indian translation is characterized by loose adaptation, rather than the closer translation more commonly found in europe; and chinese translation theory identifies various criteria and limitations in translation. in the east asian sphere of chinese cultural influence, more important than translation per se has been the use and reading of chinese texts, which also had substantial influence on the japanese, korean and vietnamese languages, with substantial borrowings of chinese vocabulary and writing system. notable is the japanese kanbun, a system for glossing chinese texts for japanese speakers. though indianized states in southeast asia often translated sanskrit material into the local languages, the literate elites and scribes more commonly used sanskrit as their primary language of culture and government. perry link some special aspects of translating from chinese are illustrated in perry link's discussion of translating the work of the tang dynasty poet wang wei ( – ce).[ ] some of the art of classical chinese poetry [writes link] must simply be set aside as untranslatable. the internal structure of chinese characters has a beauty of its own, and the calligraphy in which classical poems were written is another important but untranslatable dimension. since chinese characters do not vary in length, and because there are exactly five characters per line in a poem like [the one that eliot weinberger discusses in ways of looking at wang wei (with more ways)], another untranslatable feature is that the written result, hung on a wall, presents a rectangle. translators into languages whose word lengths vary can reproduce such an effect only at the risk of fatal awkwardness.... another imponderable is how to imitate the - , - - rhythm in which five-syllable lines in classical chinese poems normally are read. chinese characters are pronounced in one syllable apiece, so producing such rhythms in chinese is not hard and the results are unobtrusive; but any imitation in a western language is almost inevitably stilted and distracting. even less translatable are the patterns of tone arrangement in classical chinese poetry. each syllable (character) belongs to one of two categories determined by the pitch contour in which it is read; in a classical chinese poem the patterns of alternation of the two categories exhibit parallelism and mirroring.[ ] once the untranslatables have been set aside, the problems for a translator, especially of chinese poetry, are two: what does the translator think the poetic line says? and once he thinks he understands it, how can he render it into the target language? most of the difficulties, according to link, arise in addressing the second problem, "where the impossibility of perfect answers spawns endless debate." almost always at the center is the letter-versus-spirit dilemma. at the literalist extreme, efforts are made to dissect every conceivable detail about the language of the original chinese poem. "the dissection, though," writes link, "normally does to the art of a poem approximately what the scalpel of an anatomy instructor does to the life of a frog."[ ] chinese characters, in avoiding grammatical specificity, offer advantages to poets (and, simultaneously, challenges to poetry translators) that are associated primarily with absences of subject, number, and tense.[ ] it is the norm in classical chinese poetry, and common even in modern chinese prose, to omit subjects; the reader or listener infers a subject. the grammars of some western languages, however, require that a subject be stated (although this is often avoided by using a passive or impersonal construction). most of the translators cited in eliot weinberger's ways of looking at wang wei supply a subject. weinberger points out, however, that when an "i" as a subject is inserted, a "controlling individual mind of the poet" enters and destroys the effect of the chinese line. without a subject, he writes, "the experience becomes both universal and immediate to the reader." another approach to the subjectlessness is to use the target language's passive voice; but this again particularizes the experience too much.[ ] nouns have no number in chinese. "if," writes link, "you want to talk in chinese about one rose, you may, but then you use a "measure word" to say "one blossom-of roseness."[ ] chinese verbs are tense-less: there are several ways to specify when something happened or will happen, but verb tense is not one of them. for poets, this creates the great advantage of ambiguity. according to link, weinberger's insight about subjectlessness—that it produces an effect "both universal and immediate"—applies to timelessness as well.[ ] link proposes a kind of uncertainty principle that may be applicable not only to translation from the chinese language, but to all translation: dilemmas about translation do not have definitive right answers (although there can be unambiguously wrong ones if misreadings of the original are involved). any translation (except machine translation, a different case) must pass through the mind of a translator, and that mind inevitably contains its own store of perceptions, memories, and values. weinberger [...] pushes this insight further when he writes that "every reading of every poem, regardless of language, is an act of translation: translation into the reader's intellectual and emotional life." then he goes still further: because a reader's mental life shifts over time, there is a sense in which "the same poem cannot be read twice."[ ] islamic world[edit] translation of material into arabic expanded after the creation of arabic script in the th century, and gained great importance with the rise of islam and islamic empires. arab translation initially focused primarily on politics, rendering persian, greek, even chinese and indic diplomatic materials into arabic. it later focused on translating classical greek and persian works, as well as some chinese and indian texts, into arabic for scholarly study at major islamic learning centers, such as the al-karaouine (fes, morocco), al-azhar (cairo, egypt), and the al-nizamiyya of baghdad. in terms of theory, arabic translation drew heavily on earlier near eastern traditions as well as more contemporary greek and persian traditions. arabic translation efforts and techniques are important to western translation traditions due to centuries of close contacts and exchanges. especially after the renaissance, europeans began more intensive study of arabic and persian translations of classical works as well as scientific and philosophical works of arab and oriental origins. arabic, and to a lesser degree persian, became important sources of material and perhaps of techniques for revitalized western traditions, which in time would overtake the islamic and oriental traditions. in the th century, after the middle east's islamic clerics and copyists had conceded defeat in their centuries-old battle to contain the corrupting effects of the printing press, [an] explosion in publishing ... ensued. along with expanding secular education, printing transformed an overwhelmingly illiterate society into a partly literate one. in the past, the sheikhs and the government had exercised a monopoly over knowledge. now an expanding elite benefitted from a stream of information on virtually anything that interested them. between and ... more than six hundred newspapers and periodicals were founded in egypt alone. the most prominent among them was al-muqtataf ... [it] was the popular expression of a translation movement that had begun earlier in the century with military and medical manuals and highlights from the enlightenment canon. (montesquieu's considerations on the romans and fénelon's telemachus had been favorites.)[ ] a translator who contributed mightily to the advance of the islamic enlightenment was the egyptian cleric rifaa al-tahtawi ( – ), who had spent five years in paris in the late s, teaching religion to muslim students. after returning to cairo with the encouragement of muhammad ali ( – ), the ottoman viceroy of egypt, al–tahtawi became head of the new school of languages and embarked on an intellectual revolution by initiating a program to translate some two thousand european and turkish volumes, ranging from ancient texts on geography and geometry to voltaire's biography of peter the great, along with the marseillaise and the entire code napoléon. this was the biggest, most meaningful importation of foreign thought into arabic since abbasid times ( – ).[ ] in france al-tahtawi had been struck by the way the french language... was constantly renewing itself to fit modern ways of living. yet arabic has its own sources of reinvention. the root system that arabic shares with other semitic tongues such as hebrew is capable of expanding the meanings of words using structured consonantal variations: the word for airplane, for example, has the same root as the word for bird.[ ] muhammad abduh the movement to translate english and european texts transformed the arabic and ottoman turkish languages, and new words, simplified syntax, and directness came to be valued over the previous convolutions. educated arabs and turks in the new professions and the modernized civil service expressed skepticism, writes christopher de bellaigue, "with a freedom that is rarely witnessed today ... no longer was legitimate knowledge defined by texts in the religious schools, interpreted for the most part with stultifying literalness. it had come to include virtually any intellectual production anywhere in the world." one of the neologisms that, in a way, came to characterize the infusion of new ideas via translation was "darwiniya", or "darwinism".[ ] one of the most influential liberal islamic thinkers of the time was muhammad abduh ( – ), egypt's senior judicial authority—its chief mufti—at the turn of the th century and an admirer of darwin who in visited darwin's exponent herbert spencer at his home in brighton. spencer's view of society as an organism with its own laws of evolution paralleled abduh's ideas.[ ] after world war i, when britain and france divided up the middle east's countries, apart from turkey, between them, pursuant to the sykes-picot agreement—in violation of solemn wartime promises of postwar arab autonomy—there came an immediate reaction: the muslim brotherhood emerged in egypt, the house of saud took over the hijaz, and regimes led by army officers came to power in iran and turkey. "[b]oth illiberal currents of the modern middle east," writes de bellaigue, "islamism and militarism, received a major impetus from western empire-builders."as often happens in countries undergoing social crisis, the aspirations of the muslim world's translators and modernizers, such as muhammad abduh, largely had to yield to retrograde currents.[ ] fidelity and transparency[edit] dryden fidelity (or "faithfulness") and felicity[ ] (or transparency), dual ideals in translation, are often (though not always) at odds. a th-century french critic coined the phrase "les belles infidèles" to suggest that translations can be either faithful or beautiful, but not both.[c] fidelity is the extent to which a translation accurately renders the meaning of the source text, without distortion. transparency is the extent to which a translation appears to a native speaker of the target language to have originally been written in that language, and conforms to its grammar, syntax and idiom. john dryden ( – ) wrote in his preface to the translation anthology sylvae: where i have taken away some of [the original authors'] expressions, and cut them shorter, it may possibly be on this consideration, that what was beautiful in the greek or latin, would not appear so shining in the english; and where i have enlarg'd them, i desire the false criticks would not always think that those thoughts are wholly mine, but that either they are secretly in the poet, or may be fairly deduc'd from him; or at least, if both those considerations should fail, that my own is of a piece with his, and that if he were living, and an englishman, they are such as he wou'd probably have written.[ ] a translation that meets the criterion of fidelity (faithfulness) is said to be "faithful"; a translation that meets the criterion of transparency, "idiomatic". depending on the given translation, the two qualities may not be mutually exclusive. the criteria for judging the fidelity of a translation vary according to the subject, type and use of the text, its literary qualities, its social or historical context, etc. the criteria for judging the transparency of a translation appear more straightforward: an unidiomatic translation "sounds wrong"; and, in the extreme case of word-for-word translations generated by many machine-translation systems, often results in patent nonsense. schleiermacher nevertheless, in certain contexts a translator may consciously seek to produce a literal translation. translators of literary, religious, or historic texts often adhere as closely as possible to the source text, stretching the limits of the target language to produce an unidiomatic text. also, a translator may adopt expressions from the source language in order to provide "local color". venuti while current western translation practice is dominated by the dual concepts of "fidelity" and "transparency", this has not always been the case. there have been periods, especially in pre-classical rome and in the th century, when many translators stepped beyond the bounds of translation proper into the realm of adaptation. adapted translation retains currency in some non-western traditions. the indian epic, the ramayana, appears in many versions in the various indian languages, and the stories are different in each. similar examples are to be found in medieval christian literature, which adjusted the text to local customs and mores. many non-transparent-translation theories draw on concepts from german romanticism, the most obvious influence being the german theologian and philosopher friedrich schleiermacher. in his seminal lecture "on the different methods of translation" ( ) he distinguished between translation methods that move "the writer toward [the reader]", i.e., transparency, and those that move the "reader toward [the author]", i.e., an extreme fidelity to the foreignness of the source text. schleiermacher favored the latter approach; he was motivated, however, not so much by a desire to embrace the foreign, as by a nationalist desire to oppose france's cultural domination and to promote german literature. in recent decades, prominent advocates of such "non-transparent" translation have included the french scholar antoine berman, who identified twelve deforming tendencies inherent in most prose translations,[ ] and the american theorist lawrence venuti, who has called on translators to apply "foreignizing" rather than domesticating translation strategies.[ ] equivalence[edit] main article: dynamic and formal equivalence the question of fidelity vs. transparency has also been formulated in terms of, respectively, "formal equivalence" and "dynamic [or functional] equivalence" – expressions associated with the translator eugene nida and originally coined to describe ways of translating the bible; but the two approaches are applicable to any translation. "formal equivalence" corresponds to "metaphrase", and "dynamic equivalence" to "paraphrase". "formal equivalence" (sought via "literal" translation) attempts to render the text literally, or "word for word" (the latter expression being itself a word-for-word rendering of the classical latin verbum pro verbo) – if necessary, at the expense of features natural to the target language. by contrast, "dynamic equivalence" (or "functional equivalence") conveys the essential thoughts expressed in a source text—if necessary, at the expense of literality, original sememe and word order, the source text's active vs. passive voice, etc. there is, however, no sharp boundary between formal and functional equivalence. on the contrary, they represent a spectrum of translation approaches. each is used at various times and in various contexts by the same translator, and at various points within the same text – sometimes simultaneously. competent translation entails the judicious blending of formal and functional equivalents.[ ] common pitfalls in translation, especially when practiced by inexperienced translators, involve false equivalents such as "false friends"[ ] and false cognates. back-translation[edit] a "back-translation" is a translation of a translated text back into the language of the original text, made without reference to the original text. comparison of a back-translation with the original text is sometimes used as a check on the accuracy of the original translation, much as the accuracy of a mathematical operation is sometimes checked by reversing the operation. but the results of such reverse-translation operations, while useful as approximate checks, are not always precisely reliable.[ ] back-translation must in general be less accurate than back-calculation because linguistic symbols (words) are often ambiguous, whereas mathematical symbols are intentionally unequivocal. in the context of machine translation, a back-translation is also called a "round-trip translation." when translations are produced of material used in medical clinical trials, such as informed-consent forms, a back-translation is often required by the ethics committee or institutional review board.[ ] mark twain back-translated his own story, "the celebrated jumping frog of calaveras county". mark twain provided humorously telling evidence for the frequent unreliability of back-translation when he issued his own back-translation of a french translation of his short story, "the celebrated jumping frog of calaveras county". he published his back-translation in a volume together with his english-language original, the french translation, and a "private history of the 'jumping frog' story". the latter included a synopsized adaptation of his story that twain stated had appeared, unattributed to twain, in a professor sidgwick's greek prose composition (p.  ) under the title, "the athenian and the frog"; the adaptation had for a time been taken for an independent ancient greek precursor to twain's "jumping frog" story.[ ] when a document survives only in translation, the original having been lost, researchers sometimes undertake back-translation in an effort to reconstruct the original text. an example involves the novel the saragossa manuscript by the polish aristocrat jan potocki ( – ), who wrote the novel in french and anonymously published fragments in and – . portions of the original french-language manuscript were subsequently lost; however, the missing fragments survived in a polish translation, made by edmund chojecki in from a complete french copy that has since been lost. french-language versions of the complete saragossa manuscript have since been produced, based on extant french-language fragments and on french-language versions that have been back-translated from chojecki's polish version.[ ] many works by the influential classical physician galen survive only in medieval arabic translation. some survive only in renaissance latin translations from the arabic, thus at a second remove from the original. to better understand galen, scholars have attempted back-translation of such works in order to reconstruct the original greek.[citation needed] when historians suspect that a document is actually a translation from another language, back-translation into that hypothetical original language can provide supporting evidence by showing that such characteristics as idioms, puns, peculiar grammatical structures, etc., are in fact derived from the original language. for example, the known text of the till eulenspiegel folk tales is in high german but contains puns that work only when back-translated to low german. this seems clear evidence that these tales (or at least large portions of them) were originally written in low german and translated into high german by an over-metaphrastic translator. supporters of aramaic primacy—the view that the christian new testament or its sources were originally written in the aramaic language—seek to prove their case by showing that difficult passages in the existing greek text of the new testament make much more sense when back-translated to aramaic: that, for example, some incomprehensible references are in fact aramaic puns that do not work in greek. due to similar indications, it is believed that the nd century gnostic gospel of judas, which survives only in coptic, was originally written in greek. john dryden ( – ), the dominant english-language literary figure of his age, illustrates, in his use of back-translation, translators' influence on the evolution of languages and literary styles. dryden is believed to be the first person to posit that english sentences should not end in prepositions because latin sentences cannot end in prepositions.[ ][ ] dryden created the proscription against "preposition stranding" in when he objected to ben jonson's phrase, "the bodies that those souls were frighted from", though he did not provide the rationale for his preference.[ ] dryden often translated his writing into latin, to check whether his writing was concise and elegant, latin being considered an elegant and long-lived language with which to compare; then he back-translated his writing back to english according to latin-grammar usage. as latin does not have sentences ending in prepositions, dryden may have applied latin grammar to english, thus forming the controversial rule of no sentence-ending prepositions, subsequently adopted by other writers.[ ][d] source and target languages[edit] in the practice of translation, the source language is the language being translated from, while the target language, also called the receptor language,[ ] is the language being translated into.[ ] difficulties in translating can arise from lexical and syntactical differences between the source language and the target language, which differences tend to be greater between two languages belonging to different language families.[ ] often the source language is the translator's second language, while the target language is the translator's first language.[ ] in some geographical settings, however, the source language is the translator's first language because not enough people speak the source language as a second language.[ ] for instance, a survey found that % of professional slovene translators translate into their second language, usually english.[ ] in cases where the source language is the translator's first language, the translation process has been referred to by various terms, including "translating into a non-mother tongue", "translating into a second language", "inverse translation", "reverse translation", "service translation", and "translation from a to b".[ ] translation for specialized or professional fields requires a working knowledge, as well, of the pertinent terminology in the field. for example, translation of a legal text requires not only fluency in the respective languages but also familiarity with the terminology specific to the legal field in each language.[ ] while the form and style of the source language often cannot be reproduced in the target language, the meaning and content can. linguist roman jakobson went so far as to assert that all cognitive experience can be classified and expressed in any living language.[ ] linguist ghil'ad zuckermann suggests that the limits are not of translation per se but rather of elegant translation.[ ]: source and target texts[edit] see also: source text in translation, a source text (st) is a text written in a given source language which is to be, or has been, translated into another language, while a target text (tt) is a translated text written in the intended target language, which is the result of a translation from a given source text. according to jeremy munday's definition of translation, "the process of translation between two different written languages involves the changing of an original written text (the source text or st) in the original verbal language (the source language or sl) into a written text (the target text or tt) in a different verbal language (the target language or tl)".[ ] the terms 'source text' and 'target text' are preferred over 'original' and 'translation' because they do not have the same positive vs. negative value judgment. translation scholars including eugene nida and peter newmark have represented the different approaches to translation as falling broadly into source-text-oriented or target-text-oriented categories.[ ] translators[edit] competent translators show the following attributes: 	a very good knowledge of the language, written and spoken, from which they are translating (the source language); 	an excellent command of the language into which they are translating (the target language); 	familiarity with the subject matter of the text being translated; 	a profound understanding of the etymological and idiomatic correlates between the two languages, including sociolinguistic register when appropriate; and 	a finely tuned sense of when to metaphrase ("translate literally") and when to paraphrase, so as to assure true rather than spurious equivalents between the source and target language texts.[ ] a competent translator is not only bilingual but bicultural. a language is not merely a collection of words and of rules of grammar and syntax for generating sentences, but also a vast interconnecting system of connotations and cultural references whose mastery, writes linguist mario pei, "comes close to being a lifetime job."[ ] the complexity of the translator's task cannot be overstated; one author suggests that becoming an accomplished translator—after having already acquired a good basic knowledge of both languages and cultures—may require a minimum of ten years' experience. viewed in this light, it is a serious misconception to assume that a person who has fair fluency in two languages will, by virtue of that fact alone, be consistently competent to translate between them.[ ] emily wilson, a professor of classical studies at the university of pennsylvania and herself a translator, writes: "[i]t is [hard] to produce a good literary translation. this is certainly true of translations of ancient greek and roman texts, but it is also true of literary translation in general: it is very difficult. most readers of foreign languages are not translators; most writers are not translators. translators have to read and write at the same time, as if always playing multiple instruments in a one-person band. and most one-person bands do not sound very good."[ ] the translator's role in relation to a text has been compared to that of an artist, e.g., a musician or actor, who interprets a work of art. translation, like other human activities,[ ] entails making choices, and choice implies interpretation.[ ][e] mark polizzotti writes: "a good translation offers not a reproduction of the work but an interpretation, a re-representation, just as the performance of a play or a sonata is a representation of the script or the score, one among many possible representations."[ ] the english-language novelist joseph conrad, whose writings zdzisław najder has described as verging on "auto-translation" from conrad's polish and french linguistic personae,[ ] advised his niece and polish translator aniela zagórska: "[d]on't trouble to be too scrupulous ... i may tell you (in french) that in my opinion il vaut mieux interpréter que traduire [it is better to interpret than to translate] ...il s'agit donc de trouver les équivalents. et là, ma chère, je vous prie laissez vous guider plutôt par votre tempérament que par une conscience sévère ... [it is, then, a question of finding the equivalent expressions. and there, my dear, i beg you to let yourself be guided more by your temperament than by a strict conscience....]"[ ] conrad advised another translator that the prime requisite for a good translation is that it be "idiomatic". "for in the idiom is the clearness of a language and the language's force and its picturesqueness—by which last i mean the picture-producing power of arranged words."[ ] conrad thought c.k. scott moncrieff's english translation of marcel proust's À la recherche du temps perdu (in search of lost time—or, in scott moncrieff's rendering, remembrance of things past) to be preferable to the french original.[ ][f] emily wilson writes that "translation always involves interpretation, and [requires] every translator... to think as deeply as humanly possible about each verbal, poetic, and interpretative choice."[ ] translation of other than the simplest brief texts requires painstakingly close reading of the source text and the draft translation, so as to resolve the ambiguities inherent in language and thereby to asymptotically approach the most accurate rendering of the source text.[ ] part of the ambiguity, for a translator, involves the structure of human language. psychologist and neural scientist gary marcus notes that "virtually every sentence [that people generate] is ambiguous, often in multiple ways. our brain is so good at comprehending language that we do not usually notice."[ ] an example of linguistic ambiguity is the "pronoun disambiguation problem" ("pdp"): a machine has no way of determining to whom or what a pronoun in a sentence—such as "he", "she" or "it"—refers.[ ] such disambiguation is not infallible by a human, either. ambiguity is a concern to both translators and, as the writings of poet and literary critic william empson have demonstrated, to literary critics. ambiguity may be desirable, indeed essential, in poetry and diplomacy; it can be more problematic in ordinary prose.[ ] christopher kasparek also cautions that "competent translation – analogously to the dictum, in mathematics, of kurt gödel's incompleteness theorems... – generally requires more information about the subject matter than is present in the source text itself." therefore translation of a text of any complexity typically requires some research on the part of the translator.[ ] a translator is faced with two contradictory tasks: when translating, to strive for omniscience; when reviewing the resulting translation, to assume (the naive reader's) ignorance. analogously, "[i]n the process, the translator is also constantly seesawing between the respective linguistic and cultural features of his two languages."[ ] thus, writes kasparek, "translating a text of any complexity, like the performing of a musical or dramatic work, involves interpretation: choices must be made, which entails interpretation. bernard shaw, aspiring to felicitous understanding of literary works, wrote in the preface to his volume, three plays for puritans: 'i would give half a dozen of shakespeare's plays for one of the prefaces he ought to have written.'"[ ] it is due to the inescapable necessity of interpretation that – pace the story about the rd century bce septuagint translations of some biblical old testament books from hebrew into koine greek – no two translations of a literary work, by different hands or by the same hand at different times, are likely to be identical. as has been observed – by leonardo da vinci? paul valery? e.m. forster? pablo picasso? by all of them? – "a work of art is never finished, only abandoned."[ ] translators may render only parts of the original text, provided that they inform readers of that action. but a translator should not assume the role of censor and surreptitiously delete or bowdlerize passages merely to please a political or moral interest.[ ] translating has served as a school of writing for many an author, much as the copying of masterworks of painting has schooled many a novice painter.[ ] a translator who can competently render an author's thoughts into the translator's own language, should certainly be able to adequately render, in his own language, any thoughts of his own. translating (like analytic philosophy) compels precise analysis of language elements and of their usage. in the poet ezra pound, then at st. elizabeth's hospital, in washington, d.c., advised a visitor, the -year-old beginning poet w.s. merwin: "the work of translation is the best teacher you'll ever have."[ ][g] merwin, translator-poet who took pound's advice to heart, writes of translation as an "impossible, unfinishable" art.[ ] translators, including monks who spread buddhist texts in east asia, and the early modern european translators of the bible, in the course of their work have shaped the very languages into which they have translated. they have acted as bridges for conveying knowledge between cultures; and along with ideas, they have imported from the source languages, into their own languages, loanwords and calques of grammatical structures, idioms, and vocabulary. interpreting[edit] hernán cortés and la malinche meet moctezuma ii in tenochtitlan, november . lewis and clark and their native american interpreter, sacagawea main article: interpreting interpreting is the facilitation of oral or sign-language communication, either simultaneously or consecutively, between two, or among three or more, speakers who are not speaking, or signing, the same language. the term "interpreting," rather than "interpretation," is preferentially used for this activity by anglophone translators, to avoid confusion with other meanings of the word "interpretation." unlike english, many languages do not employ two separate words to denote the activities of written and live-communication (oral or sign-language) translators.[h] even english does not always make the distinction, frequently using "translating" as a synonym for "interpreting." interpreters have sometimes played crucial roles in history. a prime example is la malinche, also known as malintzin, malinalli and doña marina, an early- th-century nahua woman from the mexican gulf coast. as a child she had been sold or given to maya slave-traders from xicalango, and thus had become bilingual. subsequently given along with other women to the invading spaniards, she became instrumental in the spanish conquest of mexico, acting as interpreter, adviser, intermediary and lover to hernán cortés.[ ] lin shu nearly three centuries later, in the united states, a comparable role as interpreter was played for the lewis and clark expedition of – by sacagawea. as a child, the lemhi shoshone woman had been kidnapped by hidatsa indians and thus had become bilingual. sacagawea facilitated the expedition's traverse of the north american continent to the pacific ocean.[ ] the famous chinese man of letters lin shu ( – ), who knew no foreign languages, rendered western literary classics into chinese with the help of his friend wang shouchang (王壽昌), who had studied in france. wang interpreted the texts for lin, who rendered them into chinese. lin's first such translation, 巴黎茶花女遺事 (past stories of the camellia-woman of paris – alexandre dumas, fils's, la dame aux camélias), published in , was an immediate success and was followed by many more translations from the french and the english.[ ] sworn translation[edit] sworn translation, also called "certified translation," aims at legal equivalence between two documents written in different languages. it is performed by someone authorized to do so by local regulations, which vary widely from country to country. some countries recognize self-declared competence. others require the translator to be an official state appointee. in some countries, such as the united kingdom, certain government institutions require that translators be accredited by certain translation institutes or associations in order to be able to carry out certified translations. telephone[edit] many commercial services exist that will interpret spoken language via telephone. there is also at least one custom-built mobile device that does the same thing. the device connects users to human interpreters who can translate between english and other languages.[ ] internet[edit] web-based human translation is generally favored by companies and individuals that wish to secure more accurate translations. in view of the frequent inaccuracy of machine translations, human translation remains the most reliable, most accurate form of translation available.[ ] with the recent emergence of translation crowdsourcing,[ ][ ] translation memory techniques, and internet applications,[ ] translation agencies have been able to provide on-demand human-translation services to businesses, individuals, and enterprises. while not instantaneous like its machine counterparts such as google translate and babel fish (now defunct), web-based human translation has been gaining popularity by providing relatively fast, accurate translation of business communications, legal documents, medical records, and software localization.[ ] web-based human translation also appeals to private website users and bloggers.[ ] contents of websites are translatable but urls of websites are not translatable into other languages. language tools on the internet provide help in understanding text. computer assist[edit] main article: computer-assisted translation computer-assisted translation (cat), also called "computer-aided translation," "machine-aided human translation" (maht) and "interactive translation," is a form of translation wherein a human translator creates a target text with the assistance of a computer program. the machine supports a human translator. computer-assisted translation can include standard dictionary and grammar software. the term, however, normally refers to a range of specialized programs available to the translator, including translation memory, terminology-management, concordance, and alignment programs. these tools speed up and facilitate human translation, but they do not provide translation. the latter is a function of tools known broadly as machine translation. machine translation[edit] main article: machine translation machine translation (mt) is a process whereby a computer program analyzes a source text and, in principle, produces a target text without human intervention. in reality, however, machine translation typically does involve human intervention, in the form of pre-editing and post-editing.[ ] with proper terminology work, with preparation of the source text for machine translation (pre-editing), and with reworking of the machine translation by a human translator (post-editing), commercial machine-translation tools can produce useful results, especially if the machine-translation system is integrated with a translation memory or translation management system.[ ] unedited machine translation is publicly available through tools on the internet such as google translate, babel fish (now defunct), babylon, and stardict. these produce rough translations that, under favorable circumstances, "give the gist" of the source text. with the internet, translation software can help non-native-speaking individuals understand web pages published in other languages. whole-page-translation tools are of limited utility, however, since they offer only a limited potential understanding of the original author's intent and context; translated pages tend to be more erroneously humorous and confusing than enlightening. interactive translations with pop-up windows are becoming more popular. these tools show one or more possible equivalents for each word or phrase. human operators merely need to select the likeliest equivalent as the mouse glides over the foreign-language text. possible equivalents can be grouped by pronunciation. also, companies such as ectaco produce pocket devices that provide machine translations. claude piron relying exclusively on unedited machine translation, however, ignores the fact that communication in human language is context-embedded and that it takes a person to comprehend the context of the original text with a reasonable degree of probability. it is certainly true that even purely human-generated translations are prone to error; therefore, to ensure that a machine-generated translation will be useful to a human being and that publishable-quality translation is achieved, such translations must be reviewed and edited by a human.[i] claude piron writes that machine translation, at its best, automates the easier part of a translator's job; the harder and more time-consuming part usually involves doing extensive research to resolve ambiguities in the source text, which the grammatical and lexical exigencies of the target language require to be resolved.[ ] such research is a necessary prelude to the pre-editing necessary in order to provide input for machine-translation software, such that the output will not be meaningless.[ ] the weaknesses of pure machine translation, unaided by human expertise, are those of artificial intelligence itself.[ ] as of , professional translator mark polizzotti held that machine translation, by google translate and the like, was unlikely to threaten human translators anytime soon, because machines would never grasp nuance and connotation.[ ] literary translation[edit] a nonfiction book by robert wechsler on literary translation as a performative, rather than creative, art translation of literary works (novels, short stories, plays, poems, etc.) is considered a literary pursuit in its own right. notable in canadian literature specifically as translators are figures such as sheila fischman, robert dickson, and linda gaboriau; and the canadian governor general's awards annually present prizes for the best english-to-french and french-to-english literary translations. other writers, among many who have made a name for themselves as literary translators, include vasily zhukovsky, tadeusz boy-Żeleński, vladimir nabokov, jorge luis borges, robert stiller, lydia davis, haruki murakami, achy obejas, and jhumpa lahiri. in the s a substantial gender imbalance was noted in literary translation into english,[ ] with far more male writers being translated than women writers. in meytal radzinski launched the women in translation campaign to address this.[ ][ ][ ] history[edit] the first important translation in the west was that of the septuagint, a collection of jewish scriptures translated into early koine greek in alexandria between the rd and st centuries bce. the dispersed jews had forgotten their ancestral language and needed greek versions (translations) of their scriptures.[ ] throughout the middle ages, latin was the lingua franca of the western learned world. the th-century alfred the great, king of wessex in england, was far ahead of his time in commissioning vernacular anglo-saxon translations of bede's ecclesiastical history and boethius' consolation of philosophy. meanwhile, the christian church frowned on even partial adaptations of st. jerome's vulgate of c. ce,[ ] the standard latin bible. in asia, the spread of buddhism led to large-scale ongoing translation efforts spanning well over a thousand years. the tangut empire was especially efficient in such efforts; exploiting the then newly invented block printing, and with the full support of the government (contemporary sources describe the emperor and his mother personally contributing to the translation effort, alongside sages of various nationalities), the tanguts took mere decades to translate volumes that had taken the chinese centuries to render.[citation needed] the arabs undertook large-scale efforts at translation. having conquered the greek world, they made arabic versions of its philosophical and scientific works. during the middle ages, translations of some of these arabic versions were made into latin, chiefly at córdoba in spain.[ ] king alfonso x the wise of castile in the th century promoted this effort by founding a schola traductorum (school of translation) in toledo. there arabic texts, hebrew texts, and latin texts were translated into the other tongues by muslim, jewish, and christian scholars, who also argued the merits of their respective religions. latin translations of greek and original arab works of scholarship and science helped advance european scholasticism, and thus european science and culture. the broad historic trends in western translation practice may be illustrated on the example of translation into the english language. geoffrey chaucer the first fine translations into english were made in the th century by geoffrey chaucer, who adapted from the italian of giovanni boccaccio in his own knight's tale and troilus and criseyde; began a translation of the french-language roman de la rose; and completed a translation of boethius from the latin. chaucer founded an english poetic tradition on adaptations and translations from those earlier-established literary languages.[ ] the first great english translation was the wycliffe bible (c. ), which showed the weaknesses of an underdeveloped english prose. only at the end of the th century did the great age of english prose translation begin with thomas malory's le morte darthur—an adaptation of arthurian romances so free that it can, in fact, hardly be called a true translation. the first great tudor translations are, accordingly, the tyndale new testament ( ), which influenced the authorized version ( ), and lord berners' version of jean froissart's chronicles ( – ).[ ] marsilio ficino meanwhile, in renaissance italy, a new period in the history of translation had opened in florence with the arrival, at the court of cosimo de' medici, of the byzantine scholar georgius gemistus pletho shortly before the fall of constantinople to the turks ( ). a latin translation of plato's works was undertaken by marsilio ficino. this and erasmus' latin edition of the new testament led to a new attitude to translation. for the first time, readers demanded rigor of rendering, as philosophical and religious beliefs depended on the exact words of plato, aristotle and jesus.[ ] non-scholarly literature, however, continued to rely on adaptation. france's pléiade, england's tudor poets, and the elizabethan translators adapted themes by horace, ovid, petrarch and modern latin writers, forming a new poetic style on those models. the english poets and translators sought to supply a new public, created by the rise of a middle class and the development of printing, with works such as the original authors would have written, had they been writing in england in that day.[ ] the elizabethan period of translation saw considerable progress beyond mere paraphrase toward an ideal of stylistic equivalence, but even to the end of this period, which actually reached to the middle of the th century, there was no concern for verbal accuracy.[ ] in the second half of the th century, the poet john dryden sought to make virgil speak "in words such as he would probably have written if he were living and an englishman". as great as dryden's poem is, however, one is reading dryden, and not experiencing the roman poet's concision. similarly, homer arguably suffers from alexander pope's endeavor to reduce the greek poet's "wild paradise" to order. both works live on as worthy english epics, more than as a point of access to the latin or greek.[ ] edward fitzgerald throughout the th century, the watchword of translators was ease of reading. whatever they did not understand in a text, or thought might bore readers, they omitted. they cheerfully assumed that their own style of expression was the best, and that texts should be made to conform to it in translation. for scholarship they cared no more than had their predecessors, and they did not shrink from making translations from translations in third languages, or from languages that they hardly knew, or—as in the case of james macpherson's "translations" of ossian—from texts that were actually of the "translator's" own composition.[ ] benjamin jowett the th century brought new standards of accuracy and style. in regard to accuracy, observes j.m. cohen, the policy became "the text, the whole text, and nothing but the text", except for any bawdy passages and the addition of copious explanatory footnotes.[j] in regard to style, the victorians' aim, achieved through far-reaching metaphrase (literality) or pseudo-metaphrase, was to constantly remind readers that they were reading a foreign classic. an exception was the outstanding translation in this period, edward fitzgerald's rubaiyat of omar khayyam ( ), which achieved its oriental flavor largely by using persian names and discreet biblical echoes and actually drew little of its material from the persian original.[ ] in advance of the th century, a new pattern was set in by benjamin jowett, who translated plato into simple, straightforward language. jowett's example was not followed, however, until well into the new century, when accuracy rather than style became the principal criterion.[ ] modern translation[edit] as a language evolves, texts in an earlier version of the language—original texts, or old translations—may become difficult for modern readers to understand. such a text may therefore be translated into more modern language, producing a "modern translation" (e.g., a "modern english translation" or "modernized translation"). such modern rendering is applied either to literature from classical languages such as latin or greek, notably to the bible (see "modern english bible translations"), or to literature from an earlier stage of the same language, as with the works of william shakespeare (which are largely understandable by a modern audience, though with some difficulty) or with geoffrey chaucer's middle-english canterbury tales (which is understandable to most modern readers only through heavy dependence on footnotes). in the oregon shakespeare festival commissioned professional translation of the entire shakespeare canon, including disputed works such as edward iii,[ ] into contemporary vernacular english; in , off-off-broadway, the canon was premiered in a month-long series of staged readings.[ ] modern translation is applicable to any language with a long literary history. for example, in japanese the th-century tale of genji is generally read in modern translation (see "genji: modern readership"). modern translation often involves literary scholarship and textual revision, as there is frequently not one single canonical text. this is particularly noteworthy in the case of the bible and shakespeare, where modern scholarship can result in substantive textual changes. anna north writes: "translating the long-dead language homer used — a variant of ancient greek called homeric greek — into contemporary english is no easy task, and translators bring their own skills, opinions, and stylistic sensibilities to the text. the result is that every translation is different, almost a new poem in itself." an example is emily wilson's translation of homer's odyssey, where by conscious choice wilson "lays bare the morals of its time and place, and invites us to consider how different they are from our own, and how similar."[ ] modern translation meets with opposition from some traditionalists. in english, some readers prefer the authorized king james version of the bible to modern translations, and shakespeare in the original of ca. to modern translations. an opposite process involves translating modern literature into classical languages, for the purpose of extensive reading (for examples, see "list of latin translations of modern literature"). poetry[edit] hofstadter jakobson nabokov views on the possibility of satisfactorily translating poetry show a broad spectrum, depending largely on the degree of latitude to be granted the translator in regard to a poem's formal features (rhythm, rhyme, verse form, etc.). douglas hofstadter, in his book, le ton beau de marot, argued that a good translation of a poem must convey as much as possible not only of its literal meaning but also of its form and structure (meter, rhyme or alliteration scheme, etc.).[ ] the russian-born linguist and semiotician roman jakobson, however, had in his paper "on linguistic aspects of translation", declared that "poetry by definition [is] untranslatable". vladimir nabokov, another russian-born author, took a view similar to jakobson's. he considered rhymed, metrical, versed poetry to be in principle untranslatable and therefore rendered his english translation of alexander pushkin's eugene onegin in prose. hofstadter, in le ton beau de marot, criticized nabokov's attitude toward verse translation. in hofstadter published his own translation of eugene onegin, in verse form. however, a host of more contemporary literary translators of poetry lean toward alexander von humboldt's notion of language as a "third universe" existing "midway between the phenomenal reality of the 'empirical world' and the internalized structures of consciousness."[ ] perhaps this is what poet sholeh wolpé, translator of the th-century iranian epic poem the conference of the birds, means when she writes: twelfth-century persian and contemporary english are as different as sky and sea. the best i can do as a poet is to reflect one into the other. the sea can reflect the sky with its moving stars, shifting clouds, gestations of the moon, and migrating birds—but ultimately the sea is not the sky. by nature, it is liquid. it ripples. there are waves. if you are a fish living in the sea, you can only understand the sky if its reflection becomes part of the water. therefore, this translation of the conference of the birds, while faithful to the original text, aims at its re-creation into a still living and breathing work of literature.[ ] poet sherod santos writes: "the task is not to reproduce the content, but with the flint and the steel of one's own language to spark what robert lowell has called 'the fire and finish of the original.'"[ ] according to walter benjamin: while a poet's words endure in his own language, even the greatest translation is destined to become part of the growth of its own language and eventually to perish with its renewal. translation is so far removed from being the sterile equation of two dead languages that of all literary forms it is the one charged with the special mission of watching over the maturing process of the original language and the birth pangs of its own.[ ] gregory hays, in the course of discussing roman adapted translations of ancient greek literature, makes approving reference to some views on the translating of poetry expressed by david bellos, an accomplished french-to-english translator. hays writes: among the idées reçues [received ideas] skewered by david bellos is the old saw that "poetry is what gets lost in translation." the saying is often attributed to robert frost, but as bellos notes, the attribution is as dubious as the idea itself. a translation is an assemblage of words, and as such it can contain as much or as little poetry as any other such assemblage. the japanese even have a word (chōyaku, roughly "hypertranslation") to designate a version that deliberately improves on the original.[ ] book titles[edit] book-title translations can be either descriptive or symbolic. descriptive book titles, for example antoine de saint-exupéry's le petit prince (the little prince), are meant to be informative, and can name the protagonist, and indicate the theme of the book. an example of a symbolic book title is stieg larsson's the girl with the dragon tattoo, whose original swedish title is män som hatar kvinnor (men who hate women). such symbolic book titles usually indicate the theme, issues, or atmosphere of the work. when translators are working with long book titles, the translated titles are often shorter and indicate the theme of the book.[ ] plays[edit] the translation of plays poses many problems such as the added element of actors, speech duration, translation literalness, and the relationship between the arts of drama and acting. successful play translators are able to create language that allows the actor and the playwright to work together effectively.[ ] play translators must also take into account several other aspects: the final performance, varying theatrical and acting traditions, characters' speaking styles, modern theatrical discourse, and even the acoustics of the auditorium, i.e., whether certain words will have the same effect on the new audience as they had on the original audience.[ ] audiences in shakespeare's time were more accustomed than modern playgoers to actors having longer stage time.[ ] modern translators tend to simplify the sentence structures of earlier dramas, which included compound sentences with intricate hierarchies of subordinate clauses.[ ][ ] chinese literature[edit] in translating chinese literature, translators struggle to find true fidelity in translating into the target language. in the poem behind the poem, barnstone argues that poetry "can't be made to sing through a mathematics that doesn't factor in the creativity of the translator".[ ] a notable piece of work translated into english is the wen xuan, an anthology representative of major works of chinese literature. translating this work requires a high knowledge of the genres presented in the book, such as poetic forms, various prose types including memorials, letters, proclamations, praise poems, edicts, and historical, philosophical and political disquisitions, threnodies and laments for the dead, and examination essays. thus the literary translator must be familiar with the writings, lives, and thought of a large number of its authors, making the wen xuan one of the most difficult literary works to translate.[ ] translation generally, much as with kurt gödel's conception of mathematics, requires, to varying extents, more information than appears in the page of text being translated. sung texts[edit] translation of a text that is sung in vocal music for the purpose of singing in another language—sometimes called "singing translation"—is closely linked to translation of poetry because most vocal music, at least in the western tradition, is set to verse, especially verse in regular patterns with rhyme. (since the late th century, musical setting of prose and free verse has also been practiced in some art music, though popular music tends to remain conservative in its retention of stanzaic forms with or without refrains.) a rudimentary example of translating poetry for singing is church hymns, such as the german chorales translated into english by catherine winkworth.[k] translation of sung texts is generally much more restrictive than translation of poetry, because in the former there is little or no freedom to choose between a versified translation and a translation that dispenses with verse structure. one might modify or omit rhyme in a singing translation, but the assignment of syllables to specific notes in the original musical setting places great challenges on the translator. there is the option in prose sung texts, less so in verse, of adding or deleting a syllable here and there by subdividing or combining notes, respectively, but even with prose the process is almost like strict verse translation because of the need to stick as closely as possible to the original prosody of the sung melodic line. other considerations in writing a singing translation include repetition of words and phrases, the placement of rests and/or punctuation, the quality of vowels sung on high notes, and rhythmic features of the vocal line that may be more natural to the original language than to the target language. a sung translation may be considerably or completely different from the original, thus resulting in a contrafactum. translations of sung texts—whether of the above type meant to be sung or of a more or less literal type meant to be read—are also used as aids to audiences, singers and conductors, when a work is being sung in a language not known to them. the most familiar types are translations presented as subtitles or surtitles projected during opera performances, those inserted into concert programs, and those that accompany commercial audio cds of vocal music. in addition, professional and amateur singers often sing works in languages they do not know (or do not know well), and translations are then used to enable them to understand the meaning of the words they are singing. religious texts[edit] further information: bible translations and quran translations jerome, patron saint of translators and encyclopedists an important role in history has been played by translation of religious texts. such translations may be influenced by tension between the text and the religious values the translators wish to convey.[ ] for example, buddhist monks who translated the indian sutras into chinese occasionally adjusted their translations to better reflect china's distinct culture, emphasizing notions such as filial piety. one of the first recorded instances of translation in the west was the rd century bce rendering of some books of the biblical old testament from hebrew into koine greek. the translation is known as the "septuagint", a name that refers to the supposedly seventy translators (seventy-two, in some versions) who were commissioned to translate the bible at alexandria, egypt. according to legend, each translator worked in solitary confinement in his own cell, and, according to legend, all seventy versions proved identical. the septuagint became the source text for later translations into many languages, including latin, coptic, armenian, and georgian. still considered one of the greatest translators in history, for having rendered the bible into latin, is jerome ( – ce), the patron saint of translators. for centuries the roman catholic church used his translation (known as the vulgate), though even this translation stirred controversy. by contrast with jerome's contemporary, augustine of hippo ( – ce), who endorsed precise translation, jerome believed in adaptation, and sometimes invention, in order to more effectively bring across the meaning. jerome's colorful vulgate translation of the bible includes some crucial instances of "overdetermination". for example, isaiah's prophecy announcing that the savior will be born of a virgin, uses the word 'almah, which is also used to describe the dancing girls at solomon's court, and simply means young and nubile. jerome, writes marina warner, translates it as virgo, "adding divine authority to the virulent cult of sexual disgust that shaped christian moral theology (the [moslem] quran, free from this linguistic trap, does not connect mariam/mary's miraculous nature with moral horror of sex)." the apple that eve offered to adam, according to mark polizzotti, could equally well have been an apricot, orange, or banana; but jerome liked the pun malus/malum (apple/evil).[ ] pope francis has suggested that the phrase "lead us not into temptation", in the lord's prayer found in the gospels of matthew (the first gospel, written c. – ce) and luke (the third gospel, written c. – ce), should more properly be translated, "do not let us fall into temptation", commenting that god does not lead people into temptation—satan does.[l] some important early christian authors interpreted the bible's greek text and jerome's latin vulgate similarly to pope francis. a.j.b. higgins[ ] in showed that among the earliest christian authors, the understanding and even the text of this devotional verse underwent considerable changes. these ancient writers suggest that, even if the greek and latin texts are left unmodified, something like "do not let us fall" could be an acceptable english rendering. higgins cited tertullian, the earliest of the latin church fathers (c. –c. ce, "do not allow us to be led") and cyprian (c. – ce, "do not allow us to be led into temptation"). a later author, ambrose (c. – ce), followed cyprian's interpretation. augustine of hippo ( – ), familiar with jerome's latin vulgate rendering, observed that "many people... say it this way: 'and do not allow us to be led into temptation.'"[ ] in ce the brothers saints cyril and methodius, the byzantine empire's "apostles to the slavs", began translating parts of the bible into the old church slavonic language, using the glagolitic script that they had devised, based on the greek alphabet. the periods preceding and contemporary with the protestant reformation saw translations of the bible into vernacular (local) european languages—a development that contributed to western christianity's split into roman catholicism and protestantism over disparities between catholic and protestant renderings of crucial words and passages (and due to a protestant-perceived need to reform the roman catholic church). lasting effects on the religions, cultures, and languages of their respective countries were exerted by such bible translations as martin luther's into german (the new testament, ), jakub wujek's into polish ( , as revised by the jesuits), and william tyndale's (new testament, and revisions) and the king james version into english ( ). mistranslation: michelangelo's horned moses efforts to translate the bible into english had their martyrs. william tyndale (c. – ) was convicted of heresy at antwerp, was strangled to death while tied at the stake, and then his dead body was burned.[ ] earlier, john wycliffe (c. mid- s – ) had managed to die a natural death, but years later the council of constance in declared him a heretic and decreed that his works and earthly remains should be burned; the order, confirmed by pope martin v, was carried out in , and wycliffe's corpse was exhumed and burned and the ashes cast into the river swift. debate and religious schism over different translations of religious texts continue, as demonstrated by, for example, the king james only movement. a famous mistranslation of a biblical text is the rendering of the hebrew word קֶרֶן‎ (keren), which has several meanings, as "horn" in a context where it more plausibly means "beam of light": as a result, for centuries artists, including sculptor michelangelo, have rendered moses the lawgiver with horns growing from his forehead. chinese translation, verses – of quran's surah (chapter) such fallibility of the translation process has contributed to the islamic world's ambivalence about translating the quran (also spelled koran) from the original arabic, as received by the prophet muhammad from allah (god) through the angel gabriel incrementally between and ce, the year of muhammad's death. during prayers, the quran, as the miraculous and inimitable word of allah, is recited only in arabic. however, as of , it had been translated into at least languages.[ ] a fundamental difficulty in translating the quran accurately stems from the fact that an arabic word, like a hebrew or aramaic word, may have a range of meanings, depending on context. this is said to be a linguistic feature, particularly of all semitic languages, that adds to the usual similar difficulties encountered in translating between any two languages.[ ] there is always an element of human judgment—of interpretation—involved in understanding and translating a text. muslims regard any translation of the quran as but one possible interpretation of the quranic (classical) arabic text, and not as a full equivalent of that divinely communicated original. hence such a translation is often called an "interpretation" rather than a translation.[ ] to complicate matters further, as with other languages, the meanings and usages of some expressions have changed over time, between the classical arabic of the quran, and modern arabic. thus a modern arabic speaker may misinterpret the meaning of a word or passage in the quran. moreover, the interpretation of a quranic passage will also depend on the historic context of muhammad's life and of his early community. properly researching that context requires a detailed knowledge of hadith and sirah, which are themselves vast and complex texts. hence, analogously to the translating of chinese literature, an attempt at an accurate translation of the quran requires a knowledge not only of the arabic language and of the target language, including their respective evolutions, but also a deep understanding of the two cultures involved. experimental literature[edit] experimental literature, such as kathy acker’s novel don quixote ( ) and giannina braschi’s novel yo-yo boing! ( ), features a translative writing that highlights discomforts of the interlingual and translingual encounters and literary translation as a creative practice.[ ][ ] these authors weave their own translations into their texts. acker's postmodern fiction both fragments and preserves the materiality of catullus’s latin text in ways that tease out its semantics and syntax without wholly appropriating them, a method that unsettles the notion of any fixed and finished translation.[ ] whereas braschi's trilogy of experimental works (empire of dreams, ; yo-yo boing!, , and united states of banana, ) deals with the very subject of translation.[ ] her trilogy presents the evolution of the spanish language through loose translations of dramatic, poetic, and philosophical writings from the medieval, golden age, and modernist eras into contemporary caribbean, latin american, and nuyorican spanish expressions. braschi’s translations of classical texts in iberian spanish (into other regional and historical linguistic and poetic frameworks) challenge the concept of national languages.[ ] in the case of alejandra pizarnik, her prose poems translate phrases in old provençal spanish, castellano, and english[ ] to create lyrical storyworlds drawn from dark fairy tales.[ ] science fiction[edit] science fiction being a genre with a recognizable set of conventions and literary genealogies, in which language often includes neologisms, neosemes,[clarification needed] and invented languages, techno-scientific and pseudoscientific vocabulary,[ ] and fictional representation of the translation process,[ ][ ] the translation of science-fiction texts involves specific concerns.[ ] the science-fiction translator tends to acquire specific competences and assume a distinctive publishing and cultural agency.[ ][ ] as in the case of other mass-fiction genres, this professional specialization and role often is not recognized by publishers and scholars.[ ] translation of science fiction accounts for the transnational nature of science fiction's repertoire of shared conventions and tropes. after world war ii, many european countries were swept by a wave of translations from the english.[ ][ ] due to the prominence of english as a source language, the use of pseudonyms and pseudotranslations became common in countries such as italy[ ] and hungary,[ ] and english has often been used as a vehicular language to translate from languages such as chinese and japanese.[ ] more recently, the international market in science-fiction translations has seen an increasing presence of source languages other than english.[ ] technical translation[edit] main article: technical translation technical translation renders documents such as manuals, instruction sheets, internal memos, minutes, financial reports, and other documents for a limited audience (who are directly affected by the document) and whose useful life is often limited. thus, a user guide for a particular model of refrigerator is useful only for the owner of the refrigerator, and will remain useful only as long as that refrigerator model is in use. similarly, software documentation generally pertains to a particular software, whose applications are used only by a certain class of users.[ ] see also[edit] 	languages portal 	american literary translators association 	applied linguistics 	bible translations 	bilingual dictionary 	certified translation 	code mixing 	contrastive linguistics 	dictionary-based machine translation 	european master's in translation 	example-based machine translation 	hindi to punjabi machine translation system 	homophonic translation 	humour in translation ("howlers") 	hybrid word 	international federation of translators 	interpreting notes 	inttranet 	language brokering 	language industry 	language professional 	language transfer 	legal translation 	lexicography 	linguistic validation 	list of translators 	list of women translators 	medical translation 	mobile translation 	national translation mission (ntm) 	neural machine translation 	phono-semantic matching 	postediting 	pre-editing 	pseudotranslation 	rule-based machine translation 	self-translation 	skopos theory 	statistical machine translation 	transcription (linguistics) 	translation associations 	translation criticism 	translation scholars 	translation services of the european parliament 	translation studies 	translation-quality standards 	transliteration notes[edit] 	^ the dutch overzetting (noun) and overzetten (verb) in the sense of "translation" and "to translate", respectively, are considered archaic. while omzetting may still be found in early modern literary works, it has been replaced entirely in modern dutch by vertaling. 	^ "ideal concepts" are useful as well in other fields, such as physics and chemistry, which include the concepts of perfectly solid bodies, perfectly rigid bodies, perfectly plastic bodies, perfectly black bodies, perfect crystals, perfect fluids, and perfect gases.[ ] 	^ french philosopher and writer gilles ménage ( - ) commented on translations by humanist perrot nicolas d'ablancourt ( - ): "they remind me of a woman whom i greatly loved in tours, who was beautiful but unfaithful."[ ] 	^ cf. a supposed comment by winston churchill: "this is the type of pedantry up with which i will not put." 	^ "interpretation" in this sense is to be distinguished from the function of an "interpreter" who translates orally or by the use of sign language. 	^ see "poetry", below, for a similar observation concerning the occasional superiority of the translation over the original. 	^ elsewhere merwin recalls pound saying: "[a]t your age you don't have anything to write about. you may think you do, but you don't. so get to work translating. the provençal is the real source...."[ ] 	^ for example, in polish, a "translation" is "przekład" or "tłumaczenie." both "translator" and "interpreter" are "tłumacz." for a time in the th century, however, for "translator," some writers used a word, "przekładowca," that is no longer in use.[ ] 	^ j.m. cohen observes: "scientific translation is the aim of an age that would reduce all activities to techniques. it is impossible however to imagine a literary-translation machine less complex than the human brain itself, with all its knowledge, reading, and discrimination."[ ] 	^ for instance, henry benedict mackey's translation of st. francis de sales's "treatise on the love of god" consistently omits the saint's analogies comparing god to a nursing mother, references to bible stories such as the rape of tamar, and so forth. 	^ for another example of poetry translation, including translation of sung texts, see rhymes from russia. 	^ mjc warren, lecturer in biblical and religious studies, university of sheffield, points out (more explicitly than charles mcnamara) that luke gives a shorter version of jesus's lord's prayer, leaving off the request that god "deliver us from evil"; that (as charles mcnamara also says) accurate translation is not the question here; and that the bible records a number of incidents when god commands evil actions, such as that abraham kill his only son, isaac (whose execution is canceled at the last moment).[ ] references[edit] 	^ the oxford companion to the english language, namit bhatia, ed., , pp. , – . 	^ christopher kasparek, "the translator's endless toil", the polish review, vol. xxviii, no. , , pp. - . 	^ w.j. hutchins, early years in machine translation: memoirs and biographies of pioneers, amsterdam, john benjamins, . 	^ m. snell-hornby, the turns of translation studies: new paradigms or shifting viewpoints?, philadelphia, john benjamins, , p. . 	^ "rosetta stone", the columbia encyclopedia, th ed., , p. , . 	^ vélez, fabio. antes de babel. pp.  – . 	^ a b c d christopher kasparek, "the translator's endless toil", p. . 	^ the dutch for "translation" is vertaling, from the verb vertalen, itself derived from taal, "language", plus prefix ver-. the afrikaans for "translation", derived from the dutch, is vertaling. 	^ "overzetting" in woordenboek der nederlandsche taal, ivdnt 	^ christopher kasparek, "the translator's endless toil", p. . 	^ christopher kasparek, "the translator's endless toil", p. . 	^ a b c d e f kasparek, "the translator's endless toil", p. . 	^ władysław tatarkiewicz, on perfection (first published in polish in as o doskonałości); english translation by christopher kasparek subsequently serialized in – in dialectics and humanism: the polish philosophical quarterly, and reprinted in władysław tatarkiewicz, on perfection, warsaw university press, . 	^ typically, analytic languages. 	^ typically, synthetic languages. 	^ some examples of this are described in the article, "translating the th of may into english and other horror stories", retrieved april . 	^ a b c kasparek, "the translator's endless toil", p. . 	^ kasparek, "the translator's endless toil", pp. - . 	^ l.g. kelly, cited in kasparek, "the translator's endless 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( november ), pp. – . 	^ a b perry link, "a magician of chinese poetry", the new york review of books, vol. lxiii, no. (november , ), p. . 	^ a b c d e perry link, "a magician of chinese poetry", the new york review of books, vol. lxiii, no. ( november ), p. . 	^ a b christopher de bellaigue, "dreams of islamic liberalism" (review of marwa elshakry, reading darwin in arabic, – , university of chicago press), the new york review of books, vol. lxii, no. (june , ), p. . 	^ malise ruthven, "the islamic road to the modern world" (review of christopher de bellaigue, the islamic enlightenment: the struggle between faith and reason, to modern times, liveright; and wael abu-'uksa, freedom in the arab world: concepts and ideologies in arabic thought in the nineteenth century, cambridge university press), the new york review of books, vol. lxiv, no. 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but the most significant power was to veto the actions of the consuls and other magistrates, thus protecting the interests of the plebeians as a class. the tribunes of the plebs were sacrosanct, meaning that any assault on their person was punishable by death. in imperial times, the powers of the tribunate were granted to the emperor as a matter of course, and the office itself lost its independence and most of its functions.[ ] during the day the tribunes used to sit on the tribune benches on the forum romanum. contents 	 establishment of the tribunate 	 powers of the tribunes 	 limitations 	 history 	 . the tribunes in the conflict of the orders 	 . erosion of the tribunician power at the end of the republic 	 see also 	 notes 	 external links establishment of the tribunate[edit] the secession of the people to the mons sacer, engraving by b. barloccini, . fifteen years after the expulsion of the kings and establishment of the roman republic, the plebeians were burdened by the weight of crushing debt. a series of clashes between the people and the ruling patricians in and bc brought the plebeians to the brink of revolt, and there was talk of assassinating the consuls. instead, on the advice of lucius sicinius vellutus, the plebeians seceded en masse to the mons sacer (the sacred mount), a hill outside of rome.[ ] the senate dispatched agrippa menenius lanatus, a former consul who was well liked by the plebeians, as an envoy. menenius was well received, and told the fable of the belly and the limbs, likening the people to the limbs who chose not to support the belly, and thus starved themselves; just as the belly and the limbs, the city, he explained, could not survive without both the patricians and plebeians working in concert.[ ] the plebeians agreed to negotiate for their return to the city; and their condition was that special tribunes should be appointed to represent the plebeians, and to protect them from the power of the consuls. no member of the senatorial class would be eligible for this office (in practice, this meant that only plebeians were eligible for the tribunate), and the tribunes should be sacrosanct; any person who laid hands on one of the tribunes would be outlawed, and the whole body of the plebeians entitled to kill such person without fear of penalty. the senate agreeing to these terms, the people returned to the city.[ ] the first tribuni plebis were lucius albinius paterculus and gaius licinius, appointed for the year bc. soon afterward, the tribunes themselves appointed sicinius and two others as their colleagues.[ ] the ancient sources indicate the tribunes may have originally been two or five in number. if the former, the college of tribunes was expanded to five in bc. either way, the college was increased to ten in bc, and remained at this number throughout roman history. they were assisted by two aediles plebis, or plebeian aediles. only plebeians were eligible for these offices, although there were at least two exceptions.[ ] powers of the tribunes[edit] although sometimes referred to as plebeian magistrates, the tribunes of the people, like the plebeian aediles, who were created at the same time, were technically not magistrates, as they were elected by the plebeian assembly alone. however, they functioned very much like magistrates of the roman state. they could convene the concilium plebis, which was entitled to pass legislation affecting the plebeians alone (plebiscita), and beginning in bc to elect the plebeian tribunes and aediles. from the institution of the tribunate, any one of the tribunes of the plebs was entitled to preside over this assembly. the tribunes were entitled to propose legislation before the assembly. by the third century bc, the tribunes also had the right to call the senate to order, and lay proposals before it.[ ][ ] ius intercessionis, also called intercessio, the power of the tribunes to intercede on behalf of the plebeians and veto the actions of the magistrates, was unique in roman history. because they were not technically magistrates, and thus possessed no maior potestas, they relied on their sacrosanctity to obstruct actions unfavourable to the plebeians. being sacrosanct, no person could harm the tribunes or interfere with their activities. to do so, or to disregard the veto of a tribune, was punishable by death, and the tribunes could order the death of persons who violated their sacrosanctity. this could be used as a protection when a tribune needed to arrest someone. this sacrosanctity also made the tribunes independent of all magistrates; no magistrate could veto the action of a tribune. if a magistrate, the senate, or any other assembly disregarded the orders of a tribune, he could "interpose the sacrosanctity of his person" to prevent such action. only a dictator (or perhaps an interrex) was exempted from the veto power.[ ] the tribunes could veto acts of the roman senate. the tribune tiberius sempronius gracchus imposed his veto on all government functions in bc, when the senate attempted to block his agrarian reforms by imposing the veto of another tribune.[ ] tribunes also possessed the authority to enforce the right of provocatio ad populum, a precursor of the modern right of habeas corpus. this entitled a citizen to appeal the actions of a magistrate by shouting appello tribunos! ("i call upon the tribunes") or provoco ad populum! ("i appeal to the people").[ ] once invoked, this right required one of the tribunes to assess the situation, and determine the lawfulness of the magistrate's action. any action taken in defiance of this right was illegal on its face. in effect, this gave the tribunes of the people unprecedented power to protect individuals from the arbitrary exercise of state power, and afforded roman citizens a degree of liberty unequalled in the ancient world. if the tribune decided to act, he would impose his ius intercessionis ("right of intercession"). limitations[edit] although a tribune could veto any action of the magistrates, senate, or other assemblies, he had to be physically present in order to do so. because the sacrosanctity of the tribunes depended on the oath of the plebeians to defend them, their powers were limited to the boundaries of the city of rome. a tribune traveling abroad could not rely on his authority to intervene on behalf of the plebeians. for this reason, the activities of the tribunes were normally confined to the city itself, and a one-mile radius beyond.[ ] history[edit] the tribunes in the conflict of the orders[edit] in bc the lex publilia transferred the election of the tribunes from comitia curiata to the comitia tributa, thus removing the influence of the patricians on their election.[ ] in , the tribune gaius terentillius arsa alleged that the consular government had become even more oppressive than the monarchy that it had replaced. he urged the passage of a law appointing five commissioners to define and limit the powers of the consuls. by threat of war and plague, the issue was postponed for five contentious years, with the same college of tribunes elected each year. in , hoping to deprive the law's supporters of their impetus, the senate agreed to increase the number of tribunes to ten, provided that none of the tribunes from the preceding years should be re-elected.[ ] however, the new tribunes continued to press for the adoption of terentillus' law, until in the senate agreed to appoint three commissioners to study greek laws and institutions, and on their return help to resolve the strife between the orders. on the return of the envoys, the senate and the tribunes agreed to the appointment of a committee of ten men, known as the decemviri, or decemvirs, to serve for one year in place of the annual magistrates, and codify roman law. the tribunate itself was suspended during this time. but when a second college of decemvirs appointed for the year illegally continued their office into the following year, and the abuses of their authority became clear to the people, the decemvirate was abolished and the tribunate restored, together with the annual magistrates.[ ] among the laws codified by the decemvirs was one forbidding intermarriage between the patricians and the plebeians; the twelve tables of roman law also codified that the consulate itself was closed to the plebeians. worse still, in , two patricians were co-opted to fill vacant positions in the tribunate, although they proved to be of moderate views, and their year of office was peaceful. to prevent future attempts by the patricians to influence the selection of tribunes, lucius trebonius asper promulgated a law forbidding the tribunes to co-opt their colleagues, and requiring their election to continue until all of the seats were filled. but relations between the orders deteriorated, until in , the tribunes, led by gaius canuleius, were able to push through a law permitting the intermarriage of patricians and plebeians, and allowing one of the consuls to be a plebeian.[ ] rather than permit the election of a plebeian consul, the senate resolved upon the election of military tribunes with consular power, who might be elected from either order. initially this compromise satisfied the plebeians, but in practice only patricians were elected. the regular election of military tribunes in the place of consuls prevented any plebeians from assuming the highest offices of state until the year , when four of the six military tribunes were plebeians. plebeian military tribunes served in , , , and , but in all other years between and bc, every consul or military tribune with consular powers was a patrician.[ ] beginning in , gaius licinius calvus stolo and lucius sextius lateranus, tribunes of the plebs, used the veto power to prevent the election of any annual magistrates. continuing in office each year, they frustrated the patricians, who, despite electing patrician military tribunes from to , finally conceded the consulship, agreeing to the licinian rogations. under this law, military tribunes with consular power were abolished, and one of the consuls elected each year was to be a plebeian. although this law was occasionally violated by the election of two patrician consuls, sextius himself was elected consul for , and licinius in . at last, the plebeian tribunes had broken the patrician monopoly on the highest magistracies of the state.[ ][ ][ ] following their victory in , the tribunes remained an important check on the power of the senate and the annual magistrates. in bc, the senate formally recognized the plebiscita as laws with binding force.[ ] in bc, men elected to the tribunate automatically entered the senate. erosion of the tribunician power at the end of the republic[edit] however, in bc, the dictator sulla, who considered the tribunate a threat to his power, deprived the tribunes of their powers to initiate legislation, and to veto acts of the senate. he also prohibited former tribunes from holding any other office, effectively preventing the use of the tribunate as a stepping stone to higher office. although the tribunes retained the power to intercede on behalf of individual citizens, most of their authority was lost under sulla's reforms.[ ] former tribunes were once again admitted to the annual magistracies beginning in bc, and the tribunician authority was fully restored by the consuls gnaeus pompeius magnus and marcus licinius crassus in .[ ] the dignity of the office was further impaired when, in bc, the patrician publius clodius pulcher, who aspired to hold the tribunician power, had himself adopted by a plebeian youth, and renounced his patrician status, in order to be elected tribune for the following year. although considered outrageous at the time, clodius' scheme was allowed to proceed, and he embarked on a program of legislation designed to outlaw his political opponents and confiscate their property, while realizing a substantial gain from his actions.[ ][ ][ ] in bc, the senate bestowed the tribunicia potestas (tribunician power) on the dictator gaius julius caesar, who, as a patrician, was ineligible to be elected one of the tribunes. when two of the elected tribunes attempted to obstruct his actions, caesar had them impeached, and taken before the senate, where they were deprived of their powers. never again did caesar face opposition from the tribunes; he held the tribunician power until his death in .[ ] in bc, the senate bestowed the tribunician power on caesar's nephew, octavian, now styled augustus. from this point, the tribunicia potestas became a pre-requisite for the emperors, most of whom received it from the senate upon claiming the throne, though some had already received this power during the reigns of their predecessors; the granting of this authority was a means of designating a favoured member of the imperial court as the emperor's intended successor. agrippa, drusus the younger, tiberius, titus, trajan, and marcus aurelius each received the tribunician power in this way. with the regular assumption of the tribunician power by the emperors and their heirs, the ancient authority of the tribunes dwindled away.[ ] although the office of tribune endured throughout imperial times, its independence and most of its practical functions were lost. together with the aedileship, it remained a step in the political career of many plebeians who aspired to sit in the senate, at least until the third century. there is evidence that the tribunate continued to exist as late as the fifth century ad.[ ] see also[edit] 	list of tribune of the plebs notes[edit] 	^ a b c d e f g oxford classical dictionary, nd ed. ( ), "tribuni plebis." 	^ titus livius, ab urbe condita ii. – . 	^ titus livius, ab urbe condita ii. . 	^ a b titus livius, ab urbe condita ii. . 	^ livy, ab urbe condita, ii. , (citing piso, iii. . 	^ frank frost abbott, a history and description of roman political institutions, ginn & co., , pp. , . 	^ plutarchus, lives of the noble greeks and romans tiberius gracchus. 	^ see the use of both forms by volero in livy's account.livy ( ). ab urbe condita. . . .cs maint: location (link) 	^ livy, ab urbe condita, ii. . 	^ titus livius, ab urbe condita iii. – . 	^ titus livius, ab urbe condita iii. – . 	^ titus livius, ab urbe condita iv. – . 	^ titus livius, ab urbe condita iv. . ff, v. . ff. 	^ titus livius, ab urbe condita vi. , , , , vii. , . 	^ dionysius of halicarnassus, romaike archaiologia xiv. . 	^ plutarchus, lives of the noble greeks and romans "life of camillus." 	^ frank frost abbott, a history and description of roman political institutions, ginn & co., , p. 	^ marcus tullius cicero, pro domo sua ; de haruspicum responsis . 	^ plutarchus, lives of the noble greeks and romans "life of cicero." 	^ h.j. haskell, this was cicero ( ), pp. – . 	^ frank frost abbott, a history and description of roman political institutions, ginn & co., , p. 	^ michael grant, the roman emperors ( ), pp. , , . external links[edit] 	 media related to tribune of the plebs at wikimedia commons 		v 	t 	e ancient rome topics 	 	outline 	timeline 	history	 	 	foundation 	kingdom 	overthrow 	republic 	empire	 	history 	pax romana 	principate 	dominate 	western empire 	fall 	historiography of the fall 	byzantine empire 	decline 	fall 	constitution	 	history 	kingdom 	republic 	empire 	late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	curiate 	centuriate 	tribal 	plebeian 	executive magistrates 	spqr 	law	 	twelve tables 	mos maiorum 	citizenship 	auctoritas 	imperium 	status 	litigation 	government	 	curia 	forum 	cursus honorum 	collegiality 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	prefect 	vicarius 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hymn belongs to the tradition of gregorian chant. it is not known who wrote the melody. guido of arezzo possibly composed it,[ ] but he more likely used an existing melody. a variant of the melody appears in an eleventh-century musical setting of horace's poem ode to phyllis ( . ) recorded in a manuscript in france.[ ] contents 	 structure 	 liturgical use 	 see also 	 references 	 external links structure[edit] the hymn uses classical metres: the sapphic stanza consisting of three sapphic hendecasyllables followed by an adonius (a type of dimeter). the chant is useful for teaching singing because of the way it uses successive notes of the scale: the first six musical phrases of each stanza begin on a successively higher notes of the hexachord, giving ut–re–mi–fa–so–la; though ut is replaced by do in modern solfège. the naming of the notes of the hexachord by the first syllable of each hemistich (half line of verse) of the first verse is usually attributed to guido of arezzo. guido, who was active in the eleventh century, is regarded as the father of modern musical notation. he made use of clefs (c & f clefs) and invented the ut-re-mi-fa-sol-la notation. the hymn does not help with the seventh tone as the last line, sancte iohannes, breaks the ascending pattern. the syllable si, for the seventh tone, was added in the th century. the first stanza is: 	 	 ut queant laxis first verse of the hymn (gregorian chant) 	 problems playing this file? see media help. ut queant laxīs resonāre fibrīs mīra gestōrum famulī tuōrum, solve pollūtī labiī reātum, sāncte iōhannēs. it may be translated: so that your servants may, with loosened voices, resound the wonders of your deeds, clean the guilt from our stained lips, o saint john. a paraphrase by cecile gertken, osb ( – ) preserves the key syllables and loosely evokes the original meter: do let our voices resonate most purely, miracles telling, far greater than many; so let our tongues be lavish in your praises, saint john the baptist.[ ] ut is now mostly replaced by do in solfège due to the latter's open sound, in deference to italian theorist giovanni battista doni.[ ] the word "ut" is still in use to name the c-clef. the seventh note was not part of the medieval hexachord and does not occur in this melody, and it was originally called "si" from "sancte ioannes" (johannes).[ ] in the nineteenth century, sarah glover, an english music teacher, renamed "si" to "ti" so that every syllable might be notated by its initial letter. but this was not adopted in countries using fixed-do systems: in romance languages "si" is used alike for b and b flat, and no separate syllable is required for sharp "sol". 	 	 melody 	 problems playing this file? see media help. liturgical use[edit] in the roman rite, the hymn is sung in the divine office on june , the feast of the nativity of john the baptist. the full hymn is divided into three parts, with "ut queant laxis" sung at vespers, "antra deserti" sung at matins, "o nimis felix" sung at lauds, and doxologies added after the first two parts. see also[edit] 	diatonic and chromatic 	do-re-mi (song). the lyrics teach the solfege syllables by linking them with english homophones (or near-homophones) 	gamut 	guidonian hand 	solmization references[edit] 	^ stuart lyons, music in the odes of horace ( ), oxford, aris & phillips, isbn  - - - - 	^ a b (in french) ut queant laxis in encyclopédie larousse 	^ this manuscript h is held in bibliothèque de l'école de médecine, montpellier. 	^ gertken, cecile: feasts and saints, 	^ mcnaught, w. g. 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its product.[ ] s[edit] trove has continued to evolve and take on new services and collections. in , in collaboration with the state library of new south wales, trove launched the government gazettes zone, and continues to collect the official gazettes of all level of government (commonwealth and state and territory) where possible.[ ] in march pandora became part of larger the australian web archive, which comprises the pandora archive, the australian government web archive (agwa) and the national library's ".au" domain collections, using a single interface in trove which is publicly available.[ ][ ][ ][ ] content and services[edit] description[edit] trove has grown beyond its original aims, and has become "a community, a set of services, an aggregation of metadata, and a growing repository of full text digital resources" and "a platform on which new knowledge is being built". it is now a collaboration between the national library, australia's state and territory libraries and hundreds of other cultural and research institutions around australia.[ ] it is an australian online library database aggregator; a free faceted-search engine hosted by the national library of australia,[ ] in partnership with content providers, including members of the national and state libraries australia (nsla).[ ] content and delivery[edit] trove "brings together content from libraries, museums, archives, repositories and other research and collecting organisations big and small" in order to help users find and use resources relating to australia and therefore the content is australian-focused.[ ] much of the material may be difficult to retrieve with other search tools, for example in cases where it is part of the deep web, including records held in collection databases,[ ] or in projects such as the pandora web archive, australian research online, australian national bibliographic database and others mentioned above.[ ] since , trove has included access to all electronic documents deposited by australian publishers under the legal deposit provisions of the copyright act , as amended in to included such publications.[ ] these resources are identifiable by a display in the top right-hand corner in both the ebook and pdf viewers, saying "national edeposit collection". many of these are readable and some are downloadable, depending on the access conditions.[ ] the site's content is split into "zones" designating different forms of content which can be searched all together, or separately.[ ] books[edit] the book zone allows searching of the collective catalogues of institutions findable in libraries australia using the australian national bibliographic database (anbd). it provides access to books, audio books, e-books, theses, conference proceedings and pamphlets listed in anbd, which is a union catalogue of items held in australian libraries and a national bibliographic database of resources including australian online publications.[ ] bibliographic records from the anbd are also uploaded into the worldcat global union catalogue.[ ] the results can be filtered by format if searching for braille, audio books, theses or conference proceedings and also by decade and language of publication.[ ] a filter for australian content is also provided.[ ][ ] newspapers[edit] front page of the leader (orange, new south wales) july , the millionth newspaper page to be made available through trove.[ ] front cover of the dawn issue , may . the first feminist magazine in australia. trove allows text-searching of digitised historic newspapers, with the newspapers zone replacing the previous "australian newspapers" website.[citation needed] it provides text-searchable access to over historic australian newspapers from each state and territory.[ ] by , over . million digitised newspaper pages had been made available through trove as part of the australian newspaper plan (anplan),[ ] a "collaborative program to collect and preserve every newspaper published in australia, guaranteeing public access" to these important historical records.[ ] the extent of digitised newspaper archives is wide reaching and includes now defunct publications, such as the australian home companion and band of hope journal and the barrier miner in new south wales and the argus in victoria.[note ][ ] it includes the earliest published australian newspaper, the sydney gazette (which dates to ), and some community language newspapers.[ ] also included is the australian women's weekly.[ ][note ] the canberra times is the only major newspaper available beyond . it allowed publication of its in-copyright archive up to as part of the "centenary of canberra" in ,[ ] and the digitisation costs were raised with a crowdfunding campaign.[ ] also crowdfunded, the australian feminist magazine the dawn was included on international women's day .[ ][ ] as of  may  [update], , , newspaper pages and , , government gazette pages were available to view. 	australian newspapers digitisation project on july the "australian newspapers beta" service was released to the public as a standalone website and a year later became a fully integrated part of the newly launched trove. the service contains millions of articles from onwards, with more content being added regularly.[ ] the website was the public face of the australian newspapers digitisation project, a coordination of major libraries in australia to convert historic newspapers to text-searchable digital files. the australian newspapers website allowed users to search the database of digitised newspapers from to which are now in the public domain. the newspapers (frequently microfiche or other photographic facsimiles) were scanned and the text from the articles has been captured by optical character recognition (ocr) to facilitate easy searching, but it contains many ocr errors, often due to poor quality facsimiles.[ ][ ] 	public text correctors since august the system has incorporated crowdsourced text-correction as a major feature, allowing the public to change the searchable text. many users have contributed tens of thousands of corrected lines, and some have contributed millions.[ ] this collaborative participation allows users to give back to the service and over time improves the database's searchability.[ ][ ] the text-correcting community and other trove users have been referred to as "trovites".[ ] websites[edit] the australian web archive, created in march ,[ ] includes websites archived from until the present. this is the primary search portal of the pandora web-archiving service, and also includes the australian government web archive (agwa) as well as websites from the ".au" domain, which are collected annually through large crawl harvests.[ ] other zones[edit] (in order of presentation along the top tab.) 	pictures, photos, objects: including digitised photographs, drawings, posters, postcards etc. considerable numbers of images on flickr with the appropriate licensing are donated as well.[ ] replacing the previous "pictures australia" website. 	journals, articles and datasets searching of academic and other periodicals, and various datasets. 	government gazettes: allows searching of official publications written for the purpose of notifying the public of government business. 	music, sound and videos: allows searching of digitised historic sheet music and audio recordings. replacing the previous "music australia" website. also includes searchable transcripts from many radio national programs.[ ] 	maps 	diaries, letters, archives 	people and organisations: allows searching of biographical information and other resources about associated people and organisations, from resources including the australian dictionary of biography. 	lists users are able to create an account and log in to trove. once this is done, a type of "zone" called lists allows logged-in users to make their own public compilations of items found in trove searches. there is also a facility to join the trove community and make contributions to the resources such as tags, comments and corrections. reception and usage[edit] in a keynote address to the th national australian library and information association (alia) conference in melbourne in , roly keating, chief executive of the british library described trove as "exemplary" – a "both-end choice" of deep rich interconnected archive.[ ] digital humanities researcher and trove manager tim sherratt noted that in relation to the trove api "delivery of cultural heritage resources in a machine-readable form, whether through a custom api or as linked open data, provides more than just improved access or possibilities for aggregation. it opens those resources to transformation. it empowers us to move beyond ‘discovery’ as a mode of interaction to analyse, extract, visualise and play".[ ] the site has been described as "a model for collaborative digitization projects and serves to inform cultural heritage institutions building both large and small digital collections".[ ] the reach of the newspaper archives makes the service attractive to genealogists[ ][ ][ ] and knitters.[ ] it is one of the most well-respected[ ] and accessed glam (galleries, archives, archives and museums) services in australia, with over , daily users.[ ][ ] dr liz stainforth of the university of leeds calls it "that rare beast: a digital heritage platform with popular appeal"; "of the most successful of its kind among aggregators such as europeana, the digital public library of america and...digitalnz". what distinguishes it from the other three is that it also delivers content, and engages with the general public, which has created a form of virtual community amongst its text correctors. users can log in and thus create their own lists, and also correct the text of newspapers scanned using optical character recognition (ocr), with an honour board for the top correctors. international researchers also use trove: a showed the site among the top for external citations in the english-language version of wikipedia. the width and breadth of its audience adds to its uniqueness.[ ] awards[edit] trove received the excellence in egovernment award and the service delivery category award.[ ][ ] budget cuts[edit] in the wake of the australian government's mid-year economic and fiscal outlook statement, trove funding was cut with the result that the national library of australia would cease "aggregating content in trove from museums and universities unless ... fully funded to do so".[ ] in addition, it was argued that the cuts would further "result in many smaller institutions across australia being unable to afford to add their digital collections to this national knowledge infrastructure".[ ] those smaller institutions would include local historical societies, clubs, schools, and commercial and public organisations, as well as private collections. in march ten major australian galleries, libraries, archives and museums (commonly referred to as the glam sector) signed a statement of support for trove, in which they warned that the budgetary cuts would "hamper the development of our world leading portal and will be a major obstacle to exposing the collections of smaller and regional institutions" and that "without additional funding, trove will not fulfil its promise as the discovery site for all australian cultural content".[ ] similar statements were issued by the australian academy of the humanities[ ] and the national trust (nsw).[ ] tim sherratt, a former manager of trove, warned in early that fewer collections would be added and that less digitised content would be available – "not quite a content freeze, but certainly a slowdown".[ ] following extensive campaigning, including a public campaign on twitter, trove received a commitment of a$ . million in december , spread over four years.[ ][ ] by early , with the surge in demand for all types of digital services, the national library was having to cope with increasingly dwindling staff resources to develop services on trove and national edeposit, and undertook a restructure of its staffing and operations.[ ] continuing development[edit] in july–august a redesigned user interface was unrolled, with a more open display of search results and a new logo reminiscent of a rifle sight. see also[edit] 	australia portal 	journalism portal 	internet portal 	digital public library of america 	europeana 	list of newspapers in australia 	list of newspapers in new south wales 	national digital library program (ndlp), us digital library created by scanning the resources of the library of congress 	national digital information infrastructure and preservation program (ndiipp) - us digitisation project 	warwick cathro notes[edit] 	^ published in melbourne between and 	^ digitised between and – where the national library acknowledges the use of newspapers and microfilm owned by the state library of new south wales and 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marcius king of rome. 	  bc		ancus marcius died. 	  bc		the curiate assembly elected lucius tarquinius priscus king of rome. th century bc 	year	date	event 	  bc		the senate accepted the regent servius tullius as king of rome. 	  bc		servius tullius was murdered by his daughter tullia minor and her husband lucius tarquinius superbus, who declared himself king of rome on the steps of the curia hostilia. 	  bc		the patrician lucretia was raped by lucius tarquinius superbus' son sextus tarquinius. 		overthrow of the roman monarchy: following lucretia's suicide, lucius junius brutus called the curiate assembly, one of the legislative assemblies of the roman kingdom. the latter agreed to the overthrow and expulsion of lucius tarquinius superbus and to a provisional constitution under which two consuls acted as a joint executive and a curiate assembly held legislative power, and swore never again to let a king rule rome. it further elected lucius junius brutus and lucius tarquinius collatinus, lucretia's husband, as consuls. 		battle of silva arsia: tarquinian and veientine forces loyal to lucius tarquinius superbus were defeated in the silva arsia by a roman army. lucius junius brutus was killed. publius valerius publicola, returning to rome with the spoils of war, was awarded the first roman triumph on march . 		the consul publius valerius publicola promulgated a number of liberal reforms, including opening the office of consul to all roman citizens and placing the treasury under the administration of appointed quaestors. 	 september	the temple of jupiter optimus maximus was ceremonially dedicated to the capitoline triad. 	  bc		roman–etruscan wars: a clusian army failed to conquer rome. 	  bc		in the face of a potential sabine invasion, the senate passed a senatus consultum authorizing the consuls to appoint a dictator, a magistrate who held absolute power during a national emergency. the dictator would in turn appoint the magister equitum, the commander of the cavalry. the consuls titus lartius and postumus cominius auruncus selected the former as dictator. th century bc 	year	date	event 	  bc		battle of lake regillus: latin league invasion near modern frascati which sought to reinstall lucius tarquinius superbus. 	  bc		first secessio plebis: lucius sicinius vellutus, the plebs abandoned rome for the nearby monte sacro. 	  bc		after a law allowing organization of the plebs tribe, the plebeian council was reorganized by tribes rather than curiae. 	  bc		under popular pressure, the senate increased the tribunes of the plebs from two to ten. 	  bc		during the first dictatorship of cincinnatus, the aequians staged an offensive, breaking a truce. cincinnatus defeated the aquians at the battle of mount algidus and after a triumph, returned to his farm after sixteen days.[ ] 	  bc		resolutions of the plebeian council were given the full force of law subject to senate veto. 		the second of two decemviri, specially-elected ten man commissions, issued the last of the twelve tables, the fundamental laws of the republic. 	  bc		the tribal assembly was established, and granted the right to elect quaestors. 	  bc		lex canuleia: marriage between patricians and plebeians was legalized. 	  bc		the offices of the tribuni militum consulari potestate were established. a collegium of three patrician or plebeian tribunes, one each from specific roman tribes (the titienses, the ramnenses, and the luceres), would hold the power of the consuls from year to year, subject to the senate. 		the office of the censor, a patrician magistrate responsible for conducting the census in years without a consul, was established. 	  bc		cincinnatus was called upon to accept a second dictatorship by the patricians to prevent spurius maelius from seizing power; the patricians suspected spurius of using wheat to purchase the support of the plebeians, to set himself up as a king. gaius servilius ahala was appointed magister equitum in order to stop maelius; following an attack by maelius, ahala slew him. cincinnatus again resigned his dictatorship and returned to his farm after days.[ ] 	  bc		fidenae, an important trade post on the tiber, was captured from the veii.[ ] 	  bc		the tribuni militum consulari potestate held office. th century bc 	year	date	event 	  bc		battle of veii: roman forces led by the dictator marcus furius camillus conquered veii. 		roman soldiers first earned a salary ("salary" from latin for "salt"). 	  bc		the consuls held office. 	  bc		the tribuni militum consulari potestate held office. 	  bc	 july	battle of the allia: the senones routed a roman force at the confluence of the rivers allia and tiber. 		the senones sacked rome. among other artifacts, books were destroyed. the history of rome up to this point had to be mostly reconstructed and is sometimes unreliable or mythological. 	  bc		the consuls held office. 	  bc		lucius sextius was elected the first plebeian consul. 		the office of praetor, which took the judiciary responsibilities of the consul and could be held only by a patrician, was established. 	  bc		the first plebeian dictator was elected. 		the first plebeian censor was elected. 	  bc		samnite wars: rome marched against the samnites, probably after an appeal from the campanians. 		battle of mount gaurus: a samnite force was routed by a roman army near mount barbaro. 	  bc		the leges genuciae were passed, banning a person from holding two offices at the same time, or during any ten-year period; charging interest on loans was also banned. 	  bc		samnite wars: the senate agreed a peace, following an appeal by the samnite to a previous treaty of friendship. 	  bc		latin war: the latin league invaded samnium. 	  bc		a law was passed which required the election of at least one plebeian censor every five years. 	  bc		latin war: rome defeated the latin league armies. 	  bc		the first plebeian praetor was elected. 	  bc		samnite wars: rome declared war on the samnites after their failure to prevent their subjects raiding fregellae. 	  bc		battle of the caudine forks: after being trapped in a mountain pass near caudium without a water supply, roman forces were allowed to retreat by a samnite army. 	  bc		battle of lautulae: a decisive samnite victory near terracina split roman territory in two. 	  bc		samnite wars: the etruscans laid siege to sutri. 	  bc		battle of lake vadimo ( bc): rome inflicted a substantial military defeat on the etruscans at lake vadimo. 	  bc		samnite wars: the umbri, picentes and marsi joined the samnites against rome. 	  bc		the hernici declared their independence from rome. 	  bc		rome conquered the aequi. 		samnite wars: the treaty of friendship between the romans and samnites was restored. rd century bc 	year	date	event 	  bc		the lex ogulnia was passed, allowing plebeians to become priests. 	  bc		samnite wars: rome declared war on the samnites after an appeal by the lucani. 		samnite wars: rome captured the samnite cities of bojano and castel di sangro. 	  bc		battle of tifernum: a roman army defeated a numerically superior samnite force at città di castello. 	  bc		battle of sentinum: a roman army decisively defeated a numerically superior force of samnites, etruscans, umbri and senones in coalition at sentinum. the consul publius decius mus (consul bc) was killed. 	  bc		samnite wars: roman and samnite forces battled at lucera. 	  bc		battle of aquilonia: a roman army destroyed the majority of samnite forces, probably in modern agnone. 		a census counted about , residents of rome. 	  bc		samnite wars: rome conquered and colonized the samnite city of venosa. 	  bc		samnite wars: the last effective samnite resistance was eliminated. 	  bc		conflict of the orders: a secessio plebis took place. 		conflict of the orders: the lex hortensia was passed, made resolutions of the plebeian council (plebiscites) binding on all romans, they formally only applied to plebeians.[ ] 	  bc		battle of lake vadimo ( bc): a roman army defeated a combined force of etruscans, boii and senones near lake vadimo. 	  bc		taranto appealed to epirus for aid against rome. 	  bc		pyrrhic war: an epirote army of some , landed at taranto. 	july	battle of heraclea: a greek coalition force led by the epirote king pyrrhus of epirus defeated a roman army after their deployment of war elephants at heraclea lucania. 	  bc		battle of asculum: a greek force led by the epirote king pyrrhus defeated a roman army at modern ascoli satriano, despite suffering heavy losses. 	  bc		battle of beneventum ( bc): roman and epirote armies met in a bloody battle at benevento. 	  bc		pyrrhic war: pyrrhus withdrew with his army to epirus. 		pyrrhic war: taranto surrendered to rome. 	  bc		the number of quaestors was raised from four to ten. 	  bc		battle of messana: a roman force defeated a carthaginian and siracusani garrison at messina. 	  bc		the office of the praetor qui inter peregrinos ius dicit, a praetor with jurisdiction over foreigners, was created. 	  bc		first punic war: sicily was organized as the province of sicilia. 	  bc		mercenary war: carthage surrendered its claims on sardinia and corsica to rome. 	  bc		illyrian wars: rome invaded the territory of the ardiaei. 	  bc		illyrian wars: the ardiaei surrendered some territory, including strategically significant ports, to rome, ending the war. 	  bc		battle of telamon: a roman army decisively defeated a gallic invasion near modern talamone. the consul gaius atilius regulus was killed. 	  bc		illyrian wars: rome invaded hvar. 	  bc		second punic war: a carthaginian army departed cartagena. 		illyrian wars: demetrius of pharos fled to macedonia. 	  bc	 august	battle of cannae: the carthaginian general hannibal decisively defeated a numerically superior roman force at cannae. 	  bc		first macedonian war: a macedonian fleet captured oricum. 		siege of syracuse ( – bc): rome laid siege to syracuse. 	  bc		siege of syracuse ( – bc): roman forces breached the inner citadel of syracuse and slaughtered its inhabitants. 	  bc		first macedonian war: rome and macedonia signed the treaty of phoenice, according to which macedonia renounced its alliance with carthage in exchange for roman recognition of its gains in illyria. 	  bc		second punic war: the consul scipio africanus landed an invasion fleet at utica. 	  bc	 october	battle of zama: a roman army decisively defeated carthage, probably near modern sakiet sidi youssef. 	  bc		second punic war: carthage accepted roman conditions for peace, including disarmament, a war indemnity of ten thousand talents, and the cession of iberia, ending the war. nd century bc 	year	date	event 	  bc		second macedonian war: a roman fleet arrived in illyria to relieve a macedonian siege of abydos. 	  bc		the provinces of hispania ulterior and hispania citerior were organized. 		the number of quaestors was increased to twelve. 		the number of praetors was increased to six. 	  bc		second macedonian war: macedonia surrendered its conquests in greece and agreed to pay a war indemnity, ending the war. 	  bc		roman–seleucid war: the seleucid empire invaded greece. 	  bc		roman–seleucid war: the seleucid empire signed the treaty of apamea, under which it surrendered all territory west of the taurus mountains to the roman clients rhodes and pergamon and agreed to disarm its navy and pay a war indemnity of fifteen thousand talents of silver to rome. 	  bc		the lex villia annalis, which established minimum ages for high office and required a minimum of two years in private life between offices, was passed. 	  bc		third macedonian war: rome declared war on macedonia. 	  bc		third macedonian war: the macedonian king perseus of macedon was captured. macedonia was divided into four districts subject to rome. 	  bc		lusitanian war: the lusitanians of hispania ulterior rebelled against rome. 	  bc		fourth macedonian war: an andriscus rebelled against rome, claiming to be perseus's son and the rightful king of macedonia. 	  bc		third punic war: rome declared war on carthage. 		the lex calpurnia was passed, establishing a praetor-led court to hear appeals against extortionate taxes levied by governors in the provinces. 	  bc		fourth macedonian war: andriscus was surrendered to rome to be executed. 	  bc		third punic war: roman forces breached the city of carthage, burned it, and enslaved its surviving inhabitants. 		achaean war: roman forces decisively defeated the armies of the achaean league at corinth. 		the province of macedonia was organized. 		the province of africa was organized on captured carthaginian territory. 	  bc		lusitanian war: the lusitanian leader viriatus was assassinated by his three ambassadors to rome audax, ditalcus and minurus. 	 	lex gabinia tabellaria: required a secret ballot in elections of all magistrates. 	  bc		the tribune of the plebs tiberius gracchus was beaten to death by a mob of senators led by the pontifex maximus publius cornelius scipio nasica serapio (consul bc). 	  bc		the province of gallia narbonensis was organized. 		the first senatus consultum ultimum was passed, granting the consul lucius opimius emergency powers to defeat the partisans of gaius gracchus. 	  bc		jugurthine war: rome declared war on numidia. 	  bc		gaius marius was elected consul. 		marius instituted the marian reforms of the military, among them the establishment of a standing army and the recruitment of non-property owners. 	  bc		marius was reelected consul. 		jugurthine war: the numidian king jugurtha was imprisoned in the mamertine prison. 	  bc	 october	battle of arausio: a coalition of the cimbri and teutons inflicted a serious defeat on the roman army at modern orange. some hundred thousand roman soldiers were killed. 	  bc		marius was elected consul for the first of three years in a row. 	  bc		battle of aquae sextiae: rome decisively defeated the forces of the teutons and ambrones and killed some ninety thousand soldiers and civilians. 	  bc		battle of vercellae: an invasion of italy by the cimbri was decisively defeated by a numerically inferior roman force. some hundred thousand cimbri soldiers and civilians were killed along with their king boiorix. st century bc 	year	date	event 	  bc		marius was elected consul. 	 december	assassins hired by marius's political allies lucius appuleius saturninus and gaius servilius glaucia beat to death gaius memmius, a candidate for the consulship. 	  bc		social war ( – bc): the roman clients in italy the marsi, the paeligni, the vestini, the marrucini, the picentes, the frentani, the hirpini, the iapyges, pompeii, venosa, lucania and samnium rebelled against rome. 	  bc		sulla's first civil war: the consul sulla led an army of his partisans across the pomerium into rome. 		social war ( – bc): the war ended. 	  bc		first mithridatic war: roman forces landed at epirus. 	  bc		first mithridatic war: a peace was agreed between rome and pontus under which the latter returned to its prewar borders. 	  bc		sulla's second civil war: sulla landed with an army at brindisi. 		second mithridatic war: the roman general lucius licinius murena invaded pontus. 	  bc		sulla's second civil war: sulla was declared dictator. 	  bc		second mithridatic war: murena withdrew from pontus. 	 	sulla resigns dictatorship after enacting numerous reforms in the same year. 	  bc 	 	final consulship of sulla, he leaves rome once the year is over. 		sertorian war: quintus sertorius landed on the iberian peninsula in support of a lusitanian rebellion. 	  bc		third mithridatic war: pontus invaded bithynia. 		third servile war: some seventy gladiators, slaves of lentulus batiatus in capua, made a violent escape. 	  bc		sertorian war: marcus perpenna vento, by now the leader of the romans in revolt in iberia, was executed by the general pompey. 	  bc		third servile war: the slaves in rebellion were decisively defeated by roman forces near petelia. their leader spartacus was killed. 	  bc		the last of the cilician pirates were wiped out by pompey. 	  bc		third mithridatic war: defeated, the pontic king mithridates vi of pontus ordered his friend and bodyguard to kill him. 		siege of jerusalem ( bc): pompey conquered jerusalem and entered the holy of holies of the second temple. 		cicero was elected consul. 		second catilinarian conspiracy: a conspiracy led by the senator catiline to overthrow the republic was exposed before the senate. the five conspirators present were summarily executed in the mamertine prison. 	  bc		pompey joined a political alliance, the so-called first triumvirate, with the consul julius caesar and the censor marcus licinius crassus. 	  bc 	 	consulship of julius caesar. 	  bc		gallic wars: roman forces barred the westward migration of the helvetii across the rhône. 	  bc		 st invasion of britain: julius caesar's first invasion of britain. 	  bc		 nd invasion of britain: julius caesar's second invasion of britain. 	  bc	 may	battle of carrhae: a parthian army decisively defeated a numerically superior roman invasion force near harran. crassus was killed. 	  bc		gallic wars: the last gaulish rebels were defeated. 	  bc	 january	caesar's civil war: julius caesar illegally crossed the rubicon into italy with his army. 	  bc	 january	caesar's civil war: caesar landed at durrës in pursuit of pompey and his partisans the optimates. 	  bc	november	caesar left africa for iberia in pursuit of pompey's sons gnaeus pompeius and sextus pompey. 	  bc	 march	assassination of julius caesar: caesar was assassinated in the theatre of pompey by a conspiracy of senators. 	  bc	 november	the lex titia was passed, granting the second triumvirate of octavius (later known as augustus), mark antony and marcus aemilius lepidus the power to make and annul laws and appoint magistrates. 	  bc		liberators' civil war: augustus and antony led some thirty legions to northern greece in pursuit of caesar's assassins marcus junius brutus the younger and gaius cassius longinus. 	 october	liberators' civil war: brutus committed suicide after being defeated in battle. 	  bc		antony's parthian war: a campaign led by antony against the parthian empire ended in failure. 		the second triumvirate expired. 	  bc	 september	battle of actium: forces loyal to augustus defeated antony and his lover cleopatra, queen of egypt, in a naval battle near actium. 	  bc	 august	final war of the roman republic: antony's forces defected to augustus. he committed suicide. 	 august	cleopatra committed suicide, probably in roman custody and by snakebite. 		the province of egypt was organized. augustus took the title pharaoh. 	  bc		moesia was annexed to rome. 		cantabrian wars: rome deployed some eighty thousand soldiers against the cantabri in iberia. 	  bc	 january	the senate granted augustus the titles augustus, majestic, and princeps, first. 	  bc		augustus indicated his nephew marcus claudius marcellus (julio-claudian dynasty) as his chosen successor by marrying him to his only daughter julia the elder. 		the roman client amyntas of galatia died. augustus organized his territory as the province of galatia. 	  bc		augustus' campaigns against the cantabrians in hispania tarraconensis, the cantabrian wars, ended. 	  bc		coinage reform of augustus: augustus centralized the minting of and reformed the composition and value of the roman currency. 		marcellus died. 	  bc		augustus married julia to his general marcus vipsanius agrippa. 	  bc		cantabrian wars: the last major combat operations ended. the cantabri and astures were pacified. 	  bc		augustus adopted the sons of agrippa and julia, his grandsons gaius caesar and lucius caesar, as his own sons. 	  bc		raetia and noricum were conquered and annexed to rome. 	  bc		germanic wars: roman forces crossed the rhine into germania. 		agrippa died of fever. 	  bc		augustus married julia to his general and stepson tiberius. 	  bc		the roman general nero claudius drusus died from injuries sustained falling from a horse. 		pannonia was annexed and incorporated into illyricum. 	  bc		augustus offered tiberius tribunician power and imperium over the eastern half of the empire. tiberius refused, announcing his retirement to rhodes. 	  bc		augustus was acclaimed pater patriae, father of the country, by the senate.[ ] 		augustus convicted julia of adultery and treason, annulled her marriage to tiberius, and exiled her with her mother scribonia to ventotene. centuries: st · nd · rd · th · th · th · th · th · th · th · th · th · th · th · th st century 	year	date	event 	ad  	 august	lucius caesar died of a sudden illness. 		augustus allowed tiberius to return to rome as a private citizen. 	ad  	 february	gaius caesar died in lycia from wounds suffered in battle. 		augustus adopted tiberius as his son and granted him tribunician power. 	ad  		augustus deposed herod archelaus, ethnarch in samaria, judea and idumea, and organized the province of judea on his territories. 		bellum batonianum: the daesitiates, an illyrian people, rose up against roman authority in illyricum. 	ad  		bellum batonianum: the daesitiate chieftain bato (daesitiate chieftain) surrendered to roman forces. 	september	battle of the teutoburg forest: a coalition of germanic forces ambushed and destroyed three roman legions in the teutoburg forest. publius quinctilius varus, the commander of roman forces in germania, committed suicide. 	ad  		tiberius assumed command of roman forces in germania. 		illyricum was divided into the provinces of pannonia and dalmatia. 	ad  		tiberius was granted power equal to augustus as co-princeps. 	ad  	 august	augustus died. 		germanicus, son of nero claudius drusus and adoptive son of tiberius, was appointed commander of roman forces in germania. 		germanicus and tiberius's natural son drusus julius caesar were sent to suppress mutinies in germania and pannonia, respectively. 	ad  		lucius seius strabo was appointed governor of egypt. his son sejanus remained as the sole prefect of the praetorian guard. 	ad  		battle of the weser river: a roman army led by germanicus decisively defeated a germanic force on the weser. 	ad  		archelaus of cappadocia, king in cappadocia and a roman client, died. tiberius annexed his territory, organizing it as the province of cappadocia. 		antiochus iii of commagene, king of commagene and a roman client, died. tiberius annexed his territory to the province of syria. 	ad  		tiberius granted germanicus imperium over the eastern half of the empire. 	ad  	 october	germanicus died in antioch, possibly after being poisoned on tiberius's orders. 	ad  		tiberius granted drusus julius caesar tribunician power, marking him as his choice as successor. 	ad  	 september	drusus julius caesar died, possibly after being poisoned by sejanus or his wife livilla. 	ad  		tiberius retired to capri, leaving sejanus in control of rome through his office. 	ad  		the frisii hanged their roman tax collectors and expelled the governor. 	ad  		livia, augustus's widow and tiberius's mother, died. 	ad  	 october	sejanus was executed on tiberius's orders. 		tiberius invited germanicus's son caligula to join him on capri. 	ad  	 march	tiberius died. his will left his offices jointly to caligula and drusus julius caesar's son, his grandson tiberius gemellus. 	ad  		tiberius gemellus was murdered on caligula's orders. 	ad  		ptolemy of mauretania, king of mauretania and a roman client, was murdered on caligula's orders during a state visit to rome. his slave aedemon rose in revolt against roman rule. 	ad  		the general gaius suetonius paulinus was appointed to suppress the rebellion in mauretania. 	 january	caligula was assassinated by the centurion cassius chaerea. 	the praetorian guard acclaimed nero claudius drusus's son claudius princeps. 		claudius restored the judean monarchy under king herod agrippa. 	ad  		the territory of the former mauretania was organized into the provinces of mauretania caesariensis and mauretania tingitana. 	ad  		roman conquest of britain: the senator aulus plautius led four legions into great britain in support of king verica of the atrebates. 		claudius annexed lycia into the empire as a province. 	ad  		the odrysian king rhoemetalces iii, a roman client, was killed by anti-roman insurgents. 		odrysia was incorporated into the empire as the province of thracia. 	ad  		claudius's wife messalina was executed for conspiracy. 		claudius appointed herod agrippa's son herod agrippa ii king of judea. 	ad  		claudius married his niece, germanicus's daughter agrippina the younger. 	ad  		claudius adopted agrippina's son nero as his own son. 	ad  	 october	claudius died. nero succeeded him as princeps. 	ad  	 february	claudius's young natural son britannicus died, probably by poison. 	ad  		roman–parthian war of – : roman forces attacked armenia in support of their preferred king tigranes vi of armenia against the parthian candidate tiridates i of armenia. 	ad  	 march	agrippina died, probably murdered by her son nero. 	ad  		boudica, a queen of the iceni, was appointed to lead a revolt of the iceni and the trinovantes against rome. 	ad  		battle of watling street: some eighty thousand soldiers and civilians among the iceni and trinovantes were killed, probably in the modern west midlands, ending boudica's revolt. 	ad  		roman–parthian war of – : the roman and parthian empires agreed that tiridates and his descendants would remain kings of armenia as roman clients, ending the war. 	ad  	 july	great fire of rome: a fire began which would cause massive property damage and loss of life over six days in rome. 		nero began construction of his large and extravagant villa the domus aurea. 	ad  	 april	pisonian conspiracy: nero was informed of a broad conspiracy to assassinate him and appoint the senator gaius calpurnius piso leader of rome. 	ad  		first jewish–roman war: the jewish population of judea revolted against roman rule. 	ad  	 june	nero, then in hiding in the villa of the freedman phaon (freedman), was notified that the senate had declared him an enemy of the state and ordered him brought to the forum to be publicly beaten to death. he ordered his secretary epaphroditos to kill him. 	the senate accepted galba, governor of hispania tarraconensis, as ruler of rome. 		zealot temple siege: the forces of ananus ben ananus, the jewish former high priest of israel, laid siege to the zealots in the second temple. 	ad  	 january	the praetorian guard assassinated galba and acclaimed otho ruler of rome. 	 april	following his defeat by vitellius, the commander of the roman army on the lower rhine, near modern calvatone, and to prevent further civil war, otho committed suicide. 		revolt of the batavi: gaius julius civilis, commander of the batavi auxiliaries in the rhine legions, turned against rome. 	december	the senate recognized vespasian, the commander of roman forces in egypt and judea, as ruler of rome. 	 december	vitellius was executed in rome by troops loyal to vespasian. 	ad  		revolt of the batavi: following a series of battlefield reversals, civilis accepted peace terms from the roman general quintus petillius cerialis. 	september	siege of jerusalem ( ce): the roman general titus breached the walls of jerusalem, sacked the city and destroyed the second temple. 	ad  		roman conquest of britain: roman forces entered modern scotland. 	ad  	 april	siege of masada: roman forces breached the walls of masada, a mountain fortress held by the jewish extremist sect the sicarii. 	ad  		gnaeus julius agricola was appointed consul and governor of britain. 	ad  	 june	vespasian died. he was succeeded by his son titus. 	 august	eruption of mount vesuvius in : mount vesuvius erupted, destroying the cities of pompeii and herculaneum. 	ad  		rome was partially destroyed by fire. 	march	the colosseum was completed. 	ad  	 september	titus died of fever. he was succeeded by his younger brother domitian. 	ad  		agricola was recalled to rome. 	ad  		domitian's dacian war: the dacian king decebalus invaded moesia. 	ad  		domitian's dacian war: decebalus agreed to return all roman prisoners of war and accept his status as a roman client in exchange for an annual subsidy of eight million sestertii, ending the war. 	ad  	 january	lucius antonius saturninus, governor of germania superior, revolted against domitian's rule. 		saturninus was executed. 	ad  	 september	domitian was assassinated by members of the royal household. 	nerva was declared ruler of rome by the senate. 	ad  		nerva adopted the general and former consul trajan as his son. 	ad  	 january	nerva died. trajan succeeded him. nd century 	year	date	event 	 		first dacian war: rome invaded dacia. 	september	second battle of tapae: dacian forces retreated from contact with the romans at tapae. 	 		first dacian war: the dacian king decebalus reaffirmed his loyalty to rome, ending the war. 	 		second dacian war: trajan responded to the resumption of raids on roman settlements in moesia by invading dacia. 	 		battle of sarmisegetusa: roman forces breached the dacian capital sarmizegetusa regia. the dacian king decebalus escaped to the east. 		the nabatean king rabbel ii soter died. 	 march	nabatea was annexed to the roman empire as the province of arabia petraea. 		second dacian war: the dacian king decebalus committed suicide in his fortification at ranisstorum to avoid capture. 	 		the province of dacia was organized. 	 		trajan's forum was inaugurated. 	 		roman–parthian wars: trajan launched an expedition against parthia. 		trajan's column was erected in trajan's forum to commemorate the victory over dacia. 	 		trajan deposed the armenian king parthamasiris of armenia, a roman client, and organized the province of armenia on his territory. 	 		kitos war: the jews in cyrene rose up against roman authority. 	 		the provinces of mesopotamia and assyria were organized on territory conquered from parthia. 		trajan captured the parthian capital ctesiphon and deposed its shah osroes i in favor of his son parthamaspates of parthia. 	 		kitos war: roman forces captured the rebel stronghold of lod and executed many of its inhabitants. 	 august	trajan died. 	 august	the senate accepted the general hadrian as ruler of rome, following the appearance of documents indicating he had been adopted by trajan. 		osroes i deposed his son parthamaspates of parthia and replaced him as shah of parthia. 	 		hadrian withdrew from the territories of armenia, assyria and mesopotamia, allowing the return of their respective client monarchies. 	 		a rebellion took place in britain. 	 		the construction of hadrian's wall at the northern border of britain began. 	 		hadrian arrived in mauretania to suppress a local revolt. 	 		hadrian travelled to greece. 	 		hadrian returned to rome. 		the rebuilt pantheon was dedicated to agrippa, its original builder. 	 		bar kokhba revolt: simon bar kokhba, believed by his followers to be the messiah, launched a revolt against roman authority in judea. 	 		bar kokhba revolt: the revolt ended at a cost of tens of thousands of roman soldiers and some six hundred thousand jewish rebels and civilians, including bar kokhba, killed. judea and syria were combined into the single province of syria palaestina. 	 		hadrian adopted lucius aelius as his son and successor. 	 	 january	lucius aelius died. 	 february	hadrian adopted antoninus pius as his son and successor and granted him tribunician power and imperium, on the condition that he in turn adopt marcus aurelius and lucius verus as his sons. 	 july	hadrian died, probably from congestive heart failure. 	 july	antoninus succeeded hadrian. 	 		roman conquest of britain: roman forces invaded modern scotland under the command of the british governor quintus lollius urbicus. 	 		the construction of the antonine wall at the northern border of britain began. 	 	 march	antoninus died. he was succeeded by marcus and lucius verus. 		roman–parthian war of – : the parthian empire deposed the armenian king sohaemus of armenia, a roman client, and installed bakur. 	 		antonine plague: a pandemic, probably of smallpox or measles, began which would kill some five million people throughout the roman empire. 	 		roman–parthian war of – : roman forces sacked the parthian capital ctesiphon. 	 		lucius verus died of disease, leaving marcus the sole ruler of rome. 		marcomannic wars: a coalition of germanic tribes led by the marcomanni invaded the roman empire across the danube. 	 		marcomannic wars: rome and the iazyges signed a treaty under which the latter agreed to return roman prisoners of war and supply troops to the auxilia, ending the war. 	 		marcus named his natural son commodus co-ruler with himself. 	 	 march	marcus died. 		antonine plague: the pandemic ended. 	 		the antonine wall was abandoned by roman forces. 	 	 december	commodus was strangled to death. 	 	 january	the praetorian guard acclaimed the consul pertinax ruler of rome at the castra praetoria. 	 march	pertinax was assassinated by the praetorian guard. 	the praetorian guard acclaimed the former consul didius julianus, who had provided the highest bid, ruler of rome. 	 april	pescennius niger, the legatus augusti pro praetore of syria palaestina, was proclaimed ruler of rome by his legions. 	 april	the legio xiv gemina acclaimed its commander septimius severus ruler of rome at carnuntum. 	may	the senate recognized septimius severus as ruler of rome and sentenced julianus to death. 	 		battle of issus ( ): niger's forces were decisively defeated by the armies of septimius severus at issus. 	 		clodius albinus, the commander of roman troops in britain and iberia, took the title imperator caesar decimus clodius septimius albinus augustus. 	 	 february	battle of lugdunum: septimius severus and albinus met in battle at lugdunum. 	albinus committed suicide or was killed. 		roman–parthian wars: septimius severus sacked the parthian capital ctesiphon. 	 		septimius severus appointed his eldest natural son caracalla co-ruler with himself. rd century 	year	date	event 	 		roman invasion of caledonia – : septimius severus invaded modern scotland. 	 		septimius severus named his youngest natural son publius septimius geta co-ruler with himself and caracalla. 	 	 february	septimius severus died. 		roman invasion of caledonia – : caracalla ended the campaign. 	 december	geta was murdered in his mother's arms by members of the praetorian guard loyal to caracalla. 	 		constitutio antoniniana was an edict issued by caracalla declaring that all free men in the roman empire were to be given full roman citizenship and that all free women in the empire were to be given the same rights as roman men. 	 	 april	caracalla was assassinated by a member of his bodyguard. 	the praetorian guard acclaimed their prefect macrinus ruler of rome. 	 	 june	macrinus was captured and executed by an army loyal to elagabalus, supposedly the illegitimate son of caracalla. 	 	 march	elagabalus was assassinated by the praetorian guard, which installed his young cousin severus alexander as ruler of rome. 	 		roman–persian wars: the sasanian shah ardashir i invaded mesopotamia and syria. 	 		roman–persian wars: alexander repelled the sasanian invasion. 	 	 march	alexander was killed in a mutiny of the legio xxii primigenia at mainz. 	 march	the army elected maximinus thrax, commander of the legio iv italica, ruler of rome. 	 	 march	gordian i, governor of africa, accepted the rule of rome at the urging of rebels in his province. he appointed his son gordian ii to rule jointly with him. 	 april	the senate accepted gordian i and gordian ii as rulers of rome. 		battle of carthage ( ): forces loyal to gordian i and gordian ii were defeated by the army of capelianus, the governor of numidia, who claimed fealty to maximinus. gordian ii was killed. gordian i committed suicide. 	 april	the senate elected two senators, pupienus and balbinus, as joint rulers of the empire. 	facing popular opposition to pupienus and balbinus, the senate gave gordian i's young grandson gordian iii the title caesar. 	may	maximinus was murdered with his son during a mutiny of the legio ii parthica at aquileia. 	 july	pupienus and balbinus were tortured and murdered by the praetorian guard in their barracks. 	 		battle of resaena: roman forces defeated the sasanian empire at resaena. 	 		battle of misiche: the sasanian empire decisively defeated a roman force at misiche, near modern fallujah. gordian iii was killed, probably by a fellow roman. he was succeeded by philip the arab, the prefect of the praetorian guard, who was forced to cede mesopotamia and armenia to the sasanian empire. 	 		philip was killed at verona in battle with decius, commander of roman forces in pannonia and moesia. 	 		decius appointed his natural son herennius etruscus co-ruler of rome jointly with himself. 		battle of abritus: roman forces were dealt a bloody defeat by the goths near modern razgrad. decius and herennius were killed. 		the armies of the danube region acclaimed their commander trebonianus gallus ruler of rome. 		the senate recognized decius's son hostilian as ruler of rome. gallus adopted hostilian as his son. 		plague of cyprian: hostilian died, probably of plague. 		gallus appointed his natural son volusianus co-ruler jointly with himself. 	 		battle of barbalissos: a sasanian force destroyed a roman army at barbalissos. 	august	gallus and volusianus were killed in a mutiny at terni. the army acclaimed aemilianus, governor of pannonia and moesia, ruler of rome. 		aemilianus was killed by his own soldiers in the face of the army of the general valerian (emperor). 	 october	valerian gave his son gallienus the title caesar. 	 		the sasanian empire conquered and sacked antioch. 	 		valerian reconquered antioch. 	 		the goths invaded asia minor. 	 		death of dacian king regalianus that became roman emperor for a brief period. 	 		valerian was taken prisoner by the sasanian empire during truce negotiations. 	september	the general postumus was declared ruler of rome in the gallic empire. 	 		valerian died in captivity. 	 		odaenathus, the king of palmyra and a roman client, was assassinated. his widow zenobia took power as regent for their son vaballathus. 	 		gallienus was murdered by his soldiers during a siege of pontirolo nuovo. 	september	the general claudius gothicus was declared ruler of rome by his soldiers. 	 		postumus was killed by his soldiers, who in turn acclaimed one of their own, marcus aurelius marius, emperor of the gallic empire. 		marius was murdered by victorinus, formerly prefect of postumus's praetorian guard, who replaced him as emperor of the gallic empire. 		zenobia conquered egypt. 		battle of naissus: roman forces decisively defeated the goths at modern niš, stalling an invasion of the balkans. 	 	january	claudius gothicus died. he was succeeded by his brother quintillus. 	april	quintillus died at aquileia. 	september	aurelian became ruler of rome. 	 		battle of fano: a roman force defeated the juthungi on the metauro. 		victorinus was murdered by an officer he had cuckolded. 		tetricus i, praeses of gallia aquitania was acclaimed emperor of the gallic empire. he appointed his natural son tetricus ii to rule jointly with him. 	 		zenobia was arrested en route to refuge in the sasanian empire. 	 		palmyra rebelled against roman authority and was destroyed. 	 		battle of châlons ( ): aurelian defeated the forces of tetricus i and tetricus ii at modern châlons-en-champagne. 	 	september	aurelian was murdered by the praetorian guard. 	 september	the senate elected tacitus (emperor) ruler of rome. 	 	june	tacitus died. 		marcus aurelius probus, commander of roman forces in the east and tacitus's half-brother, was acclaimed ruler of rome by his troops. 		florianus, prefect of the praetorian guard and commander of roman forces in the west, was acclaimed ruler of rome by his troops. 	september	florianus was assassinated near tarsus by his troops following a defeat at the hands of probus. 	 		probus launched a campaign against the vandals in illyricum. 	 		the praetorian guard elected their prefect carus ruler of rome. 		probus was assassinated. 		carus gave his sons carinus and numerian the title caesar. 	 		carus died. 	 		numerian died. 	 november	roman forces in the east elected the consul diocletian their ruler and proclaimed him augustus. 	 	july	battle of the margus: forces loyal to diocletian defeated carinus in battle on the morava. carinus was killed. 	july	diocletian gave maximian the title caesar. 	 		carausian revolt: the naval commander carausius declared himself emperor in britain and northern gaul. 	 april	diocletian proclaimed maximian augustus of the west, ruling himself as augustus of the east. 	 		diocletian established the tetrarchy, appointing constantius chlorus to hold the office of caesar under maximian in the west and galerius to hold the title under himself in the east. 		carausian revolt: constantius chlorus conquered carausius's gallic territories. 		carausius was murdered by his finance minister allectus, who replaced him as emperor in britain. 	 		carausian revolt: allectus was defeated in battle and killed at calleva atrebatum. th century 	year	date	event 	 		diocletian issued the edict on maximum prices, reforming the currency and setting price ceilings on a number of goods. 	 	 february	diocletianic persecution: diocletian issued his first edict against christians, calling for the destruction of christian holy books and places of worship and stripping christians of their government positions and political rights. 	 	 may	diocletian and maximian abdicated. constantius and galerius were elevated to augusti in the west and east. galerius appointed flavius valerius severus caesar in the west and maximinus ii caesar in the east. 	 	 july	constantius died at eboracum. by his dying wish, his troops acclaimed his son constantine the great augustus. 		galerius recognized flavius valerius severus as augustus in the west and granted constantine the great the lesser title of caesar, which he accepted. 		civil wars of the tetrarchy: rioters in rome acclaimed maximian's son maxentius ruler of rome. he took the title princeps invictus, undefeated prince. 		maxentius invited maximian to reclaim the title augustus. 	 		civil wars of the tetrarchy: flavius valerius severus surrendered to maximian at ravenna. 		civil wars of the tetrarchy: galerius laid siege to rome. many of his soldiers defected to maxentius and he was forced to flee. 	 		civil wars of the tetrarchy: after a failed coup against his son maxentius, maximian was forced to flee to constantine's court. 	 november	maximian resigned as augustus. galerius appointed licinius augustus of the west and confirmed his recognition of constantine the great as caesar of the west. 	 	july	civil wars of the tetrarchy: maximian was forced to commit suicide following a failed coup against constantine the great. 	 	may	galerius died. licinius and maximinus agreed to divide the eastern empire between themselves. 		civil wars of the tetrarchy: constantine the great concluded an alliance with licinius, offering his half-sister flavia julia constantia to him in marriage. 		civil wars of the tetrarchy: maximinus entered a secret alliance with maxentius. 	 december	diocletian died, possibly from suicide. 	 	 october	battle of the milvian bridge: constantine the great had a vision of the cross appearing over the sun at the ponte milvio with the words "in this sign, conquer." his forces defeated and killed maxentius. 	 	february	constantine the great and licinius issued the edict of milan, providing for restitution to christians injured during the persecutions. 	march	licinius married constantia. 	 april	battle of tzirallum: licinius defeated a vastly numerically superior force loyal to maximinus at modern Çorlu. maximinus fled to nicomedia. 	august	maximinus died at tarsus. 	 	 october	battle of cibalae: constantine the great dealt a bloody defeat to licinius's forces at modern vinkovci. 	 		battle of mardia: after a bloody battle, probably at modern harmanli, licinius retreated from contact with constantine the great. 	 march	licinius recognized constantine the great as his superior, ceded all his territories outside of thrace, and agreed to depose and execute valerius valens, whom he had raised to augustus. 	 	 july	battle of adrianople ( ): licinius suffered a bloody defeat at the hands of constantine the great on the maritsa. 	 september	battle of chrysopolis: constantine the great dealt a decisive defeat to the remnants of licinius's army. licinius surrendered. 	 	 may	first council of nicaea: an ecumenical council called by constantine the great at nicaea opened which would establish the nicene creed, asserting jesus to be equal to and of the same substance as god the father. 		licinius was executed. 	 		constantine the great ordered the death of his oldest son crispus. 	 	 may	constantine the great moved his capital to byzantium and renamed the city constantinople, city of constantine. 	 		constantine the great campaigned against the goths. 	 		constantine the great campaigned against the sarmatians. 	 		roman–persian wars: the sasanian shah shapur ii invaded armenia and mesopotamia. 	 may	constantine the great died. 	 september	constantine the great's three sons declared themselves augusti and divided their father's empire into three parts, with constantine ii (emperor) receiving britain, iberia, gaul and illyria, constantius ii asia, syria palaestina and egypt, and constans italy and africa. the young constans was placed under constantine ii's guardianship. 	 		constantine ii campaigned against the alemanni. 		constantine ii granted illyria to his brother constans. 	 		constantine ii invaded italy. he was ambushed and slain at aquileia by constans, who inherited his territory. 	 		constans and constantius ii issued a ban against pagan sacrifice. 	 		siege of singara: sasanian forces failed to capture the roman fortress of singara. 	 	 january	magnentius, commander of the jovians and herculians, was acclaimed ruler of rome by his legions. 		constans was killed in elne by followers of magnentius. 	 june	constantius chlorus's grandson nepotianus entered rome with a band of gladiators and there declared himself imperator. 	 june	marcellinus (magister officiorum), one of magnentius's generals, entered rome and executed nepotianus. 	 	 march	constantius ii granted his cousin constantius gallus the title caesar. 	 september	battle of mursa major: constantius ii defeated magnentius in a bloody battle in the valley of the drava. 	 		battle of mons seleucus: constantius ii dealt magnentius a decisive defeat at modern la bâtie-montsaléon. magnentius committed suicide. 	 		gallus was put to death. 	 	 november	constantius ii declared julian (emperor) caesar and granted him command in gaul. 	 		battle of strasbourg: julian defeated a vastly superior alemanni force near argentoratum, solidifying roman control west of the rhine. 	 	february	the petulantes, ordered east from paris in preparation for a war with the sasanian empire, instead mutinied and proclaimed julian augustus. 	 	 november	constantius ii named julian as his successor before dying of fever. 	 	 march	julian's persian war: roman forces embarked from antioch on a punitive expedition against the sasanian empire. 	 june	battle of samarra: sasanian forces harassed a roman army in retreat at samarra from a failed siege of their capital ctesiphon. julian was killed. 	 june	julian's army declared one of their generals, jovian (emperor), augustus. 	july	julian's persian war: jovian agreed to cede the five provinces east of the tigris to the sasanian empire, ending the war. 	 	 february	jovian died. 	 february	the army acclaimed the general valentinian i the great augustus. 	 march	valentinian the great appointed his younger brother valens augustus with rule over the eastern empire, and continued as augustus in the west. 	 	 november	valentinian the great died of a stroke. his son gratian, then junior augustus in the west, succeeded him as senior augustus. 	 november	the army acclaimed valentinian the great's young son valentinian ii augustus of the west. 	 		fleeing hunnic aggression, the goths, under the leadership of the thervingi chieftain fritigern, crossed the danube and entered the eastern empire as political refugees. 		gothic war ( – ): following the deaths of several roman soldiers during civil unrest in thrace, the officer lupicinus (roman) arrested fritigern and the greuthungi chieftain alatheus. 	 	 august	battle of adrianople: a combined gothic-alanic force decisively defeated the roman army near edirne. valens was killed. 	 	 january	gratian named the general theodosius i the great augustus in the east. 	 	 february	theodosius the great issued the edict of thessalonica, making christianity the state church of the roman empire. 	 	 october	gothic war ( – ): the goths were made foederati of rome and granted land and autonomy in thrace, ending the war. 	 	 august	gratian was delivered by mutineers to the magister equitum andragathius and executed. 	 	 may	valentinian ii was found hanged in his residence. he may have been murdered by his guardian, the frankish general arbogast. 	 august	arbogast declared eugenius augustus and ruler in the west. 	 	 january	theodosius the great appointed his younger son honorius (emperor) augustus in the west. 	 	 september	battle of the frigidus: forces loyal to theodosius the great defeated and killed arbogast and eugenius, probably near the vipava. 	 	 january	theodosius the great died. his elder son arcadius succeeded him as augustus in the eastern byzantine empire. the young honorius became sole augustus in the western roman empire under the regency of magister militum stilicho. 	 		gildonic war: gildo, comes of africa, was killed following a failed rebellion against the western roman empire. th century 	year	date	event 	 		the capital of the western roman empire was moved to ravenna. 	 	 december	crossing of the rhine: a coalition of foreign tribes including the vandals, alans and suebi invaded the western roman empire across the rhine. 	 	 may	arcadius died. 	 	 august	sack of rome ( ): rome was sacked by the visigoths under their king alaric i. 		end of roman rule in britain: the last roman forces left britain. 	 	 february	honorius appointed his brother-in-law and magister militum constantius iii co-ruler of the western roman empire with himself. 	 september	constantius iii died. 	 	 august	honorius died. 		the western roman patrician castinus declared the primicerius joannes augustus. 	 	 october	the byzantine augustus theodosius ii the younger, the calligrapher named the young valentinian iii, his cousin and constantius iii's son, caesar with rule over the west. his mother galla placidia was appointed regent. 	 		joannes was executed in aquileia. 	 		battle of the utus: the huns under attila defeated a byzantine army in a bloody battle near the vit. 	 	 july	theodosius the younger died in a riding accident. 	 		attila abandoned his invasion of italy following a meeting at the mincio with the pope pope leo i. 	 	 march	valentinian iii was assassinated on orders of the senator petronius maximus. 	 march	the senate acclaimed maximus augustus of the western roman empire. 	 may	maximus was killed by a mob as he attempted to flee rome in the face of a vandal advance. 	 june	sack of rome ( ): the vandals entered and began to sack rome. 	 july	the magister militum avitus was pronounced augustus of the western roman empire at toulouse by the visigothic king theodoric ii. 	 	 october	avitus was forced to flee rome following a military coup by the general ricimer and the domesticus majorian. 	 		avitus died. 	 january	the byzantine augustus marcian died. 	 february	the byzantine augustus leo i the thracian appointed majorian magister militum in the west. 	 april	the army acclaimed majorian augustus of the western roman empire. 	 	 august	majorian was killed after torture near the staffora on ricimer's orders. 	 november	the senate elected libius severus from among their number as augustus of the western roman empire. 	 	 august	severus died. 	 	 april	leo the thracian elevated the comes anthemius to caesar with rule over the western roman empire. 	 		battle of cap bon ( ): the vandal kingdom destroyed a combined western roman and byzantine invasion fleet at cap bon. 	 	 july	anthemius was killed in flight following ricimer's conquest of rome. maximus's son olybrius was acclaimed augustus of the western roman empire. 	 august	ricimer died. 		ricimer's nephew gundobad succeeded him as magister militum and took the title patrician. 		olybrius died. 	 	 march	the germanic elements of the army elected the domesticus glycerius augustus of the western roman empire. 		gundobad relinquished his western roman titles to succeed his father as king of burgundy. 	 		leo the thracian appointed julius nepos, his nephew and governor of dalmatia, ruler of the western roman empire in opposition to glycerius. 	 january	leo the thracian died. he was succeeded by his grandson leo ii (emperor). 	 february	zeno (emperor) became co-augustus of the byzantine empire with his young son leo ii. 	july	nepos deposed glycerius. 	 november	leo ii died, possibly after being poisoned by his mother ariadne (empress). 	 	january	zeno was forced to flee constantinople for his homeland isauria in the face of a popular revolt. 	 january	basiliscus, brother of leo the thracian's widow verina, was acclaimed augustus of the byzantine empire by the byzantine senate. 		nepos appointed orestes (father of romulus augustulus) magister militum and commander-in-chief of the western roman military. 	 august	orestes took control of the western roman capital ravenna, forcing nepos to flee to dalmatia. 	 october	orestes declared his young son romulus augustulus augustus of the western roman empire. 	 	august	zeno recaptured constantinople and accepted basiliscus's surrender. 	 august	germanic foederati under the command of the general odoacer renounced western roman authority and declared odoacer their king. 	 august	odoacer captured and executed orestes at piacenza. 	 september	odoacer conquered the western roman capital ravenna, forced romulus to abdicate and declared himself king of italy. 		the senate sent zeno the imperial regalia of the western roman empire. 	 	 april	nepos was murdered in his residence in split. 	 	 april	zeno died. th century 	year	date	event 	 	 july	augustus anastasius i dicorus died. 	 	 april	augustus justin i appointed his older son justinian i the great co-augustus with himself. 	 august	justin i died. 	 	 april	the codex justinianeus, which attempted to consolidate and reconcile contradictions in roman law, was promulgated. 	 		justinian the great ordered the construction of the hagia sophia in constantinople. 	 	 june	vandalic war: a byzantine force under the general belisarius departed for the vandal kingdom. 	 september	battle of ad decimum: a byzantine army defeated a vandal force near carthage. 	 december	battle of tricamarum: the byzantines defeated a vandal army and forced their king gelimer into flight. 	 	march	vandalic war: gelimer surrendered to belisarius and accepted his offer of a peaceful retirement in galatia, ending the war. the territory of the vandal kingdom was reorganized as the praetorian prefecture of africa. 	 		gothic war ( – ): byzantine forces crossing from africa invaded sicily, then an ostrogothic possession. 	 	december	gothic war ( – ): byzantium took rome with little ostrogothic resistance. 	 	 december	the hagia sophia was completed. 	 	july	battle of taginae: a byzantine army dealt a decisive defeat to the ostrogoths at gualdo tadino. the ostrogoth king totila was killed. 	 		battle of mons lactarius: an ostrogothic force was ambushed and destroyed at monti lattari on its way to relieve a byzantine siege of cumae. the ostrogoth king teia was killed. 	 	march	belisarius died. 	 november	justinian the great died. 	 		the lombards invaded italy. 	 		the general narses died. 	 		augustus justin ii began to suffer from fits of insanity. 	 	 october	justin ii died. 	 	 august	augustus tiberius ii constantine died. th century 	year	date	event 	 		byzantine–sasanian war of – : the sasanian empire declared war on byzantium. 	 	 august	augustus phocas dedicated the column of phocas in the roman forum. 	 	june	siege of constantinople ( ): sasanian and avar forces laid siege to constantinople. 	 	april	muslim conquest of the levant: a rashidun army departed medina for the levant. 	 	january	muslim conquest of egypt: a rashidun force laid siege to pelusium. 		the legions of the east roman army were reorganized into themes. 	 	 november	siege of alexandria ( ): byzantine authorities in the egyptian capital alexandria surrendered to the besieging rashidun army. 	 		basileus constans ii visited rome. 	 		battle of carthage ( ): an umayyad siege and blockade of carthage forced the retreat of byzantine forces. the city was conquered and destroyed. th century 	year	date	event 	 	 	siege of constantinople ( – ): the umayyad caliphate besieges the city of constantinople. 	 	 august 	siege of constantinople ( – ): the umayyad caliphate lifts the siege of constantinople due to famine, disease and an unusually hard winter. 	 		basileus leo iii the isaurian promulgated an edict forbidding the veneration of religious images, beginning the first byzantine iconoclasm. 	 	 october	second council of nicaea: an ecumenical council in nicaea ended which endorsed the veneration of images, ending the first byzantine iconoclasm. th century 	year	date	event 	 	june	a group of soldiers broke into the church of the holy apostles and pleaded with the body of the iconoclast basileus constantine v to restore the empire, marking the beginning of the second byzantine iconoclasm. 	 		the byzantine regent theodora (wife of theophilos) restored the veneration of religious images, ending the second byzantine iconoclasm. 	 	 september	basileus michael iii was assassinated by his co-basileus basil i, who became sole ruler of the empire. th century 	year	date	event 	 	 january	basileus john i tzimiskes died. his co-basileus and nephew basil ii became sole ruler of the empire. th century 	year	date	event 	 		byzantine conquest of bulgaria: byzantine forces invaded bulgaria. 	 	 july	battle of kleidion: basil dealt a decisive and bloody defeat to bulgarian forces in the belasica near klyuch. 	 		byzantine conquest of bulgaria: the bulgarian boyars accepted the establishment of the theme of bulgaria on the territory of the former empire, with significant autonomy for themselves. 	 	 december	basil died. 	 	 july	east–west schism: the papal legate humbert of silva candida laid on the altar of hagia sophia a document proclaiming the excommunication of michael i cerularius, the patriarch of constantinople. 	 	 april	siege of bari: italo-norman forces captured bari, capital of the katepanikion of italy. 	 august	battle of manzikert: the byzantine empire was decisively defeated by a seljuk force near malazgirt. the basileus romanos iv diogenes was captured. 	 	 april	nikephoros iii botaneiates was deposed and replaced as basileus by alexios i komnenos. 	 	 april	battle of levounion: the byzantine army dealt a bloody defeat to a pecheneg invasion force. 	 	 june	siege of nicaea: the rum occupants of nicaea surrendered to byzantine and first crusader forces. 	 		following the conquest of antioch, the first crusader leader bohemond i of antioch declared himself prince of antioch. th century 	year	date	event 	 	 august	reign of john ii begins: being considered the greatest komnenoi emperor, he starts extensive damage control. 	 		battle of beroia: a byzantine army wiped out the pechenegs at stara zagora. 	 		war with venice begins: over the non-renewal of trading privileges by john ii komnenos. 	 		the war with venice ends in defeat: the venetian fleet ravaged the coasts of greece, forcing the emperor to back down. 	 		hungarians invade the empire: invaders go far south as philippolis. 	 		invading hungarins are repelled 	 		john ii launches his first serious campaign in the east. 	 		john ii conquers the armenian kingdom of cilicia. 	 		john ii vassalizes the principality of antioch. 	 		death of john ii: his death marks the beginning of straight decline. 	 		sack of philomelion: under the orders from manuel i, before relocating the christian population. 	 	 july	battle of sirmium: byzantium decisively defeated a hungarian force at sirmium. 	 	 september	battle of myriokephalon: a byzantine invasion force was ambushed and forced to retreat through a mountain pass by rum near lake beyşehir. 	 	 september	basileus manuel i komnenos died. 	 	 october	uprising of asen and peter: a tax revolt began in paristrion which would result in the establishment of the second bulgarian empire. th century 	year	date	event 	 	 april	siege of constantinople ( ): fourth crusaders breached and sacked constantinople, deposed the basileus alexios v doukas and established the latin empire under their leader baldwin i, latin emperor as latin emperor. theodore i laskaris was acclaimed basileus but forced to flee with his court to establish the empire of nicaea at nicaea. 	april	alexios i of trebizond, a grandson of the former basileus andronikos i komnenos, declared himself ruler of trebizond. 	 		michael i komnenos doukas, a descendant of alexios i komnenos, established himself as despot of epirus. 	 	 july	the nicaean ruler michael viii palaiologos conquered constantinople . 	 august	michael was crowned basileus in constantinople along with his infant son andronikos ii palaiologos. th century 	year	date	event 	 		byzantine–ottoman wars: the ottoman empire conquered bursa. 	 		byzantine–ottoman wars: the ottoman empire captured nicaea. 	 	 october	byzantine civil war of – : the regent john vi kantakouzenos was declared basileus by his supporters in opposition to the young john v palaiologos. 	 	 february	byzantine civil war of – : john vi concluded an arrangement under which he would rule as senior basileus alongside john v for ten years. th century 	year	date	event 	 	 may	fall of constantinople: ottoman forces entered constantinople. basileus constantine xi palaiologos was killed. see also 	history of the roman empire references 	^ forsythe, gary ( ). a companion to livy. chichester: john wiley & sons. pp.  – . 	^ forsythe, gary ( ). a companion to livy. chichester: john wiley & sons. pp.  – . 	^ grant, michael ( ). the history of rome. faber & faber. p.  . 	^ "oxford reference - answers with authority". www.oxfordreference.com. retrieved - - . 	^ eck, werner; translated 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navigation 		jump to search 		 thomas creech thomas creech ( – found dead july ) was an english translator of classical works, and headmaster of sherborne school. creech translated lucretius into verse in , for which he received a fellowship at oxford. he also produced english versions of manilius, horace, theocritus, and other classics.[ ] contents 	 life 	 works 	 notes 	 external links life[edit] he was born at blandford forum, dorset. his father, also called thomas creech, died in , and his mother, jane creech, died in ; they had two children, thomas the translator and one daughter bridget, who married thomas bastard, an architect of blandford, and had issue six sons and four daughters. creech's parents were not rich. his classical training was due to thomas curgenven, rector of folke in dorset, but best known as master of sherborne school, to whom creech afterwards dedicated his translation of the seventh idyll of theocritus, and to whom he acknowledged his debt in the preface to his translation of horace. his education was supported from colonel strangways, a member of a well-known county family.[ ] in lent term creech was admitted as a commoner at wadham college, oxford, and placed under the tuition of robert pitt. creech's translation of one of the idylls of theocritus is inscribed to his "chum mr. hody of wadham college", and another is dedicated to robert balch, who at a later date was his "friend and tutor". two of his letters are printed in evelyn's diary. he was elected a scholar of his college september , and took degrees: b.a. october , m.a. june , and b.d. march . he was a reputed scholar, and one of the first to benefit by william sancroft's reforms in the elections for fellowships at all souls' college, where he was elected a fellow in .[ ] for two years ( – ) he was the headmaster of sherborne school, but he then returned to oxford, where a strangeness of manner was noticed in . he accepted the college living of welwyn, to which he was instituted april , but never entered into residence. after he had been missing for five days he was discovered (in july ) to have committed suicide in a garret in the house of mr. ives, an apothecary, with whom he lodged. he had wished to marry miss philadelphia playdell of st. giles, oxford, but her friends would not consent to the marriage. in his will, dated january , and proved june , he divided his means into two parts, one of which he left to his sister bridget bastard for the use of his father during his lifetime and afterwards for herself, while he left the other moiety to miss playdell and appointed her sole executrix. she later married ralph hobson, butler of christ church, oxford, and died in , aged . he was also short of money.[ ] there were printed after his death two tracts: 	a step to oxford, or a mad essay on the reverend mr. tho. creech's hanging himself (as 'tis said) for love. with the character of his mistress, . 	daphnis, or a pastoral elegy upon the unfortunate and much-lamented death of mr. thomas creech, ; second edition (corrected) , and it is also found in ‘a collection of the best english poetry,’ vol. i. .[ ] his portrait, three-quarters oval in a clerical habit, was given by humphrey bartholomew to the picture gallery at oxford. it was engraved by r. white and also by van der gucht.[ ] works[edit] creech's translation of lucretius vied in popularity with john dryden's virgil and alexander pope's homer. a second edition appeared in the following year with extra commendatory verses in latin and english, some of which bore the names of nahum tate, thomas otway, aphra behn, richard duke, and edmund waller; and when dryden published his translations from theocritus, lucretius, and horace, he made flattering comments on creech's work in the preface. creech's lucretius was often reprinted, and was included in the edition of the british poets which was issued by robert anderson. an edition appeared in containing translations of verses previously omitted and numerous notes from another hand designed to set forth a complete system of epicurean philosophy.[ ] the success of his translation of lucretius induced creech to undertake an edition of the original work. it appeared in with the title 'titi lucretii cari de rerum natura libri sex, quibus interpretationem et notas addidit thomas creech,' and was dedicated to his friend christopher codrington. this edition was also often republished, in particular at glasgow in . creech's agreement with abel swalle for the preparation of this volume is among the ballard mss. at the bodleian library. h. a. j. munro in his edition of lucretius[ ] wrote of creech as borrowing annotations mainly from lambinus, attributing the popularity of the work to their clarity and brevity.[ ] in creech published 'the odes, satyrs, and epistles of horace. done into english;' it was reprinted in the same year, and again in , , , and . other translations by creech consisted of: 	several elegies from ovid with the second and third eclogues of virgil in a collection of 'miscellany poems,' . 	laconick apothegms, or remarkable sayings of the spartans in 'plutarch's morals,' , vol. i. pt. iii. – ; a discourse concerning socrates his demon, ib. ii. pt. vi. – ; the first two books of the symposiacks, ib. ii. pt. vi. – , iii. pt. viii. – . 	lives of solon, pelopidas, and cleomenes in plutarch's lives, – , vols., an edition often reprinted in the first half of the eighteenth century. 	idylliums of theocritus, with rapin's discourse of pastorals, done into english, , and reprinted in , which was dedicated to arthur charlett. 	the thirteenth satire of juvenal, with notes, in the translation 'by mr. dryden and other eminent hands,' . 	verses of santolius victorinus, prefixed to 'the compleat gard'ner of de la quintinye, made english by john evelyn,' . 	the five books of m. manilius containing a system of the ancient astronomy and astrology, done into english verse, with notes, . 	life of pelopidas in the 'lives of illustrious men' by cornelius nepos, translated by the hon. mr. finch, mr. creech, and others, .[ ] creech was engaged at the time of his death on an edition of justin martyr.[ ] notes[edit] 	^ real, hermann j. ( ). "creech, thomas ( – )". oxford dictionary of national biography. oxford dictionary of national biography (online ed.). oxford university press. doi: . /ref:odnb/ . retrieved july . (subscription or uk public library membership required.) 	^ a b c d e f g h i courtney . 	^ vol. i. ed. p. of introduction. 	attribution 	 this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: courtney, william prideaux ( ). 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she 'rises in her charms', 'awakens' and 'calls forth' her wonders and graces, culminating in the dispersal of both her body and her allure in the reader's eye.[ ] there is an emphasis on the reader's eye and the imagery that contributed to audience members being able to so vividly 'watch' the plot of this poem unfold. notes[edit] 	^ golden, leon ( ). "reception of horace's ars poetica". in davis, gregson (ed.). a companion to horace. oxford, uk: wiley-blackwell. p.  . isbn  - - - - . 	^ "ut pictura poesis". 	^ "ut pictura poesis". 	^ simonides, who wrote "poema pictura locguens, pictura poema silens" (poetry is a speaking picture, painting a silent [mute] poetry) was quoted by plutarch, de gloria atheniensium . f. 	^ iconology: image, text, ideology (university of chicago press, ) page 	^ a b williams, robert w. ( – ). "alexander pope and ut pictura poesis". sydney studies in english. : – – via mla international bibliography. 	^ ferguson, rebecca ( ). "quick as her eyes, and as unfix'd as those': objectification and seeing in pope's "rape of the lock"". critical survey. : – . references[edit] 	rensselaer, w. lee ( ). ut pictura poesis: the humanistic theory of painting. new york: norton. 	archive.org 		v 	t 	e works by horace 	poetry	 	satires 	epodes 	odes 	epistles 	carmen saeculare 	ars poetica 	collections	 	satires . 	quote	 	ut pictura poesis 	related	 	spring of bandusium 	authority control 	 	lccn: sh retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ut_pictura_poesis&oldid= " 		categories: 	horace 	literary theory 	visual arts theory hidden categories: 	articles containing latin-language text 	all articles with unsourced statements 	articles with unsourced statements from december 	wikipedia articles with lccn identifiers 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			article 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 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significant collections of historical texts. it has , codices from throughout history,[ ] as well as .  million printed books, which include some , incunabula. the vatican library is a research library for history, law, philosophy, science and theology. the vatican library is open to anyone who can document their qualifications and research needs. photocopies for private study of pages from books published between and can be requested in person or by mail. pope nicholas v ( – ) envisioned a new rome with extensive public works to lure pilgrims and scholars to the city to begin its transformation. nicolas wanted to create a "public library" for rome that was meant to be seen as an institution for humanist scholarship. his death prevented him from carrying out his plan, but his successor pope sixtus iv ( – ) established what is now known as the vatican library. in march , the vatican library began an initial four-year project of digitising its collection of manuscripts, to be made available online. the vatican apostolic archive was separated from the library at the beginning of the th century; it contains another , items. contents 	 historical periods 	 . pre-lateran 	 . lateran 	 . avignon 	 . pre-vatican 	 . vatican 	 location and building 	 . architecture and art 	 library organization 	 . catalogue 	 . reading and lending 	 collections 	 . manuscripts 	 . . manuscripts relating to christianity 	 . . classic greek and latin texts 	 . . alternative 	 . digitization projects 	 . gallery of holdings 	 related libraries 	 . vatican secret archives 	 . vatican film library 	 staff 	 . list of librarians 	 see also 	 notes 	 references 	 . works cited 	 further reading 	 external links historical periods[edit] scholars have traditionally divided the history of the library into five periods, pre-lateran, lateran, avignon, pre-vatican and vatican.[ ] pre-lateran[edit] the pre-lateran period, comprising the initial days of the library, dated from the earliest days of the church. only a handful of volumes survive from this period, though some are very significant. lateran[edit] the lateran era began when the library moved to the lateran palace and lasted until the end of the th century and the reign of pope boniface viii, who died in , by which time he possessed one of the most notable collections of illuminated manuscripts in europe. however, in that year, the lateran palace was burnt and the collection plundered by philip iv of france.[ ] avignon[edit] the avignon period was during the avignon papacy, when seven successive popes resided in avignon, france. this period saw a great growth in book collection and record keeping by the popes in avignon, between the death of boniface and the s when the papacy returned to rome. pre-vatican[edit] the pre-vatican period ranged from about to . the library was scattered during this time, with parts in rome, avignon and elsewhere. pope eugenius iv possessed books by the time of his death.[ ] vatican[edit] in , bibliophile pope nicholas v sought to establish a public library at the vatican, in part to re-establish rome as a destination for scholarship.[ ][ ] nicholas combined some greek, latin and hebrew codices inherited from his predecessors with his own collection and extensive acquisitions, among them manuscripts from the imperial library of constantinople. pope nicholas also expanded his collection by employing italian and byzantine scholars to translate the greek classics into latin for his library.[ ] the knowledgeable pope already encouraged the inclusion of pagan classics.[ ] nicolas was important in saving many of the greek works and writings during this time period that he had collected while traveling and acquired from others. in , the collection had grown to books, of which were in greek.[ ] nicholas died in . in his successor pope sixtus iv founded the palatine library.[ ] during his papacy, acquisitions were made in "theology, philosophy and artistic literature".[ ] the number of manuscripts is variously counted as , in [ ] or , in , when librarian bartolomeo platina produced a signed listing.[ ] at the time it was the largest collection of books in the western world.[ ] pope julius ii commissioned the expansion of the building.[ ] around , pope sixtus v commissioned the architect domenico fontana to construct a new building for the library, which is still used today. after this it became known as the vatican library.[ ] during the counter-reformation, access to the library's collections was limited following the introduction of the index of banned books. scholars' access to the library was restricted, particularly protestant scholars. restrictions were lifted during the course of the th century, and pope leo xiii formally reopened the library to scholars in .[ ][ ] in , abbot piaggio conserver of ancient manuscripts in the vatican library used a machine he also invented,[ ] to unroll the first herculaneum papyri, which took him months.[ ] in , napoleon bonaparte arrested pope pius vii and removed the contents of the library to paris. the contents were returned in , three years after the defeat of napoleon.[ ] in the library had almost  million catalogued items.[ ] in art history teacher anthony melnikas from ohio state university stole three leaves from a medieval manuscript once owned by francesco petrarch.[ ][ ] one of the stolen leaves contains an exquisite miniature of a farmer threshing grain. a fourth leaf from an unknown source was also discovered in his possession by u.s. customs agents. melnikas was trying to sell the pages to an art dealer, who then alerted the librarian director.[ ] location and building[edit] ancient roman sculpture, maybe of saint hippolytus of rome, found in at via tiburtina, rome, and now at the vatican library the library is located inside the vatican palace, and the entrance is through the belvedere courtyard.[ ] when pope sixtus v ( - ) commissioned the expansion and the new building of the vatican library, he had a three-story wing built right across bramante's cortile del belvedere, thus bisecting it and changing bramante's work significantly.[ ] at the bottom of a grand staircase a large statue of hippolytus decorates the la galea entrance hall.[ ] in the first semi-basement there is a papyrus room and a storage area for manuscripts.[ ] the first floor houses the restoration laboratory, and the photographic archives are on the second floor.[ ] the library has kilometres (  mi) of shelving.[ ] the library closed for renovations on july [ ] and reopened september .[ ] the three year,  million euro renovation involved the complete shut down of the library to install climate controlled rooms.[ ] architecture and art[edit] in the sala di consultazione or main reference room of the vatican library looms a statue of st thomas aquinas (c. ), sculpted by cesare aureli. a second version of this statue (c. ) stands under the entrance portico of the pontifical university of st thomas aquinas, angelicum.[a][ ] 	 			 			 the sistine hall of the vatican library. 			 		 	 			 			 golden rose stored in the vatican library. 			 		 	 			 			 ceiling fresco of the sistine hall, photograph by jean-pol grandmont 			 		 library organization[edit] catalogue[edit] the collection was originally organized through notebooks used to index the manuscripts. as the collection grew to more than a few thousand, shelf lists were used.[ ] the first modern catalogue system was put in place under father franz ehrle between and , using the library of congress card catalogue system. ehrle also set up the first program to take photographs of important works or rare works.[ ] the library catalogue was further updated by rev. leonard e. boyle when it was computerized in the early s.[ ] reading and lending[edit] bookcase in the vatican library historically, during the renaissance era, most books were not shelved but stored in wooden benches, which had tables attached to them. each bench was dedicated to a specific topic. the books were chained to these benches, and if a reader took out a book, the chain remained attached to it. until the early th century, academics were also allowed to borrow books. for important books, the pope himself would issue a reminder slip.[ ] privileges to use the library could be withdrawn for breaking the house rules, for instance by climbing over the tables. most famously pico della mirandola lost the right to use the library when he published a book on theology that the papal curia did not approve of.[ ] in the s, a bill issued by clement xiii heavily restricted access to the library's holdings.[ ] the vatican library can be accessed by scholars at a time,[ ] and it sees , to , scholars a year, mostly academics doing post-graduate research.[ ] collections[edit] a miniature from the syriac gospel lectionary (vat. syr. ), created ca. near mosul and exhibiting a strong islamic influence. while the vatican library has always included bibles, canon law texts and theological works, it specialized in secular books from the beginning. its collection of greek and latin classics was at the center of the revival of classical culture during the renaissance age.[ ] the oldest documents in the library date back to the first century.[ ] the library was founded primarily as a manuscript library, a fact reflected in the comparatively high ratio of manuscripts to printed works in its collection. such printed books as have made their way into the collection are intended solely to facilitate the study of the much larger collection of manuscripts.[ ] the collection also includes , greek, roman, and papal coins and medals.[ ] every year about , new books are acquired.[ ] the library was enriched by several bequests and acquisitions over the centuries. in , the hereditary palatine library of heidelberg containing about , manuscripts was given to the vatican by maximilian i, duke of bavaria (who had just acquired it as booty in the thirty years' war) in thanks for the adroit political maneuvers of pope gregory xv that had sustained him in his contests with protestant candidates for the electoral seat. a token of the heidelberg manuscripts were sent to paris in and were returned to heidelberg at the peace of paris in , and a gift from pope pius vii of others was made in to the university of heidelberg, including the codex manesse. aside from that, the palatine library remains in the vatican library to this day. in , the manuscripts of the dukes of urbino were acquired. in , the greek scholar leo allatius was made librarian. queen christina of sweden's important library (mostly amassed by her generals as booty from habsburg prague and german cities during the thirty years war) was bought by pope alexander viii on her death in . it represented, for all practical purposes, the entire royal library of sweden at the time. if it had remained where it was in stockholm, it would all have been lost in the destruction of the royal palace by fire in . among the most famous holdings of the library is the codex vaticanus graecus , the oldest known nearly complete manuscript of the bible. the secret history of procopius was discovered in the library and published in . pope clement xi sent scholars into the orient to bring back manuscripts, and is generally accepted as the founder of the oriental section.[ ] a school of library science is associated with the vatican library. in , a film library was established.[ ] this is not to be confused with the vatican film library, which was established in at saint louis university in st. louis, missouri. the library has a large collection of texts related to hinduism, with the oldest editions dating to .[ ] during the library's restoration between and , all of the , volumes in the library were tagged with electronic chips to prevent theft.[ ] manuscripts[edit] the abyss of hell, coloured drawing on parchment by sandro botticelli ( s) wandalbert von prüm, july, martyrologium (c ) main page: category:manuscripts of the vatican library notable manuscripts in the library include: illuminated manuscripts: manuscripts relating to christianity[edit] 	barberini gospels 	gelasian sacramentary, one of the oldest books on christian liturgy 	joshua roll 	lorsch gospels, an illuminated gospel book written and illustrated from to , which is spread up between various museums. the carved ivory rear cover and the gospels of luke and john are kept in the vatican library. 	menologion of basil ii[ ] 	vatican croatian prayer book 	vergilius vaticanus classic greek and latin texts[edit] 	vergilius romanus, virgil's aeneid 	codex vaticanus ottobonianus latinus , an important th-century manuscript of catullus' poems 	codex vaticanus latinus , a th-century facsimile of terence's comedies[ ] 	parts of euclid's elements, most notable book i, proposition , one of the oldest greek texts on the pythagorean theorem[ ] alternative[edit] 	codex borgia, an extensive mesoamerican manuscript that depicts mythology and foundational rituals in the hieroglyphic texts and iconography made of animal skins. 	codex vat. arabo , the sole manuscript of the hadith bayad wa riyad, an arabic love story[ ] 	codex vaticanus , the codex ríos,[ ] an accordion folded italian translation of a spanish colonial-era manuscript, with copies of the aztec paintings from the original codex telleriano-remensis, believed to be written by the dominican friar ríos in . 	de arte venandi cum avibus, a latin treatise on falconry in the format of a two-column parchment codex of folios written in the s. texts: 	codex vaticanus latinus , four leaves of the vergilius augusteus[ ] 	codex vaticano rossi , fragments of the rossi codex[ ] 	codex vaticanus graecus , one of the oldest extant bibles in greek language 	libri carolini 	vaticanus graecus , the original manuscript of the secret history[ ] 	one fragment of heliand and three fragments of the old saxon genesis comprise the palatinus latinus .[ ] digitization projects[edit] in , plans were announced to digitize, in collaboration with the bodleian library, a million pages of material from the vatican library. on march , the holy see announced that ntt data corporation and the library concluded an agreement to digitize approximately , of the library's manuscripts within four years.[ ] ntt is donating the equipment and technicians, estimated to be worth  million euros.[ ] it noted that there is the possibility of subsequently digitizing another , of the library's holdings. these will be high-definition images available on the library's internet site. storage for the holdings will be on a three petabyte server provided by emc.[ ] it is expected that the initial phase will take years.[ ] digivatlib is the name of the vatican library's digital library service. it provides free access to the vatican library's digitized collections of manuscripts and incunabula.[ ] the scanning of documents is impacted by the material used to produce the texts. books using gold and silver in the illuminations require special scanning equipment.[ ] digital copies are being served using the cifs protocol, from network-attached storage hardware by dell emc.[ ] gallery of holdings[edit] 	 			 			 gospel of matthew in persian, the first persian manuscript to enter the vatican library 			 		 	 			 			 manuscript page with the five-voice "kyrie" of the missa virgo parens christi by jacques barbireau 			 		 	 			 			 mappamondo borgiano, also known as "tavola di velletri", consisting of two copper tablets ( ) 			 		 	 			 			 month of may from in the chronography of by the th century kalligrapher filocalus 			 		 	 			 			 anton raphael mengs, the triumph of history over time (allegory of the museum clementinum), ceiling fresco in the camera dei papiri, vatican library 			 		 	 			 			 illumination from the legend of sain emerich of hungary's, c. 			 		 	 			 			 battle between david and goliath, book of psalms, c. 			 		 	 			 			 the ivory panels from the back cover of codex aureus of lorsch 			 		 related libraries[edit] vatican secret archives[edit] main article: vatican secret archives the vatican secret archives, located in vatican city, is the central archive for all of the acts promulgated by the holy see, as well as the state papers, correspondence, papal account books,[ ] and many other documents which the church has accumulated over the centuries. in the th century, under the orders of pope paul v, the secret archives were separated from the vatican library, where scholars had some very limited access to them, and remained absolutely closed to outsiders until , when pope leo xiii opened them to researchers, more than a thousand of whom now examine its documents each year.[ ] vatican film library[edit] main article: vatican film library the vatican film library in st. louis, missouri is the only collection, outside the vatican itself, of microfilms of more than , works from the biblioteca apostolica vaticana, the vatican library in europe. it is located in the pius xii library on the campus of saint louis university.[ ] the library was created by lowrie j. daly ( – ), with funding from the knights of columbus.[ ] the goal was to make vatican and other documents more available to researchers in north america.[ ] microfilming of vatican manuscripts began in , and according to the library's website, was the largest microfilming project that had been undertaken up to that date.[ ] the library opened in , and moved to the st. louis university campus, in the pius xii memorial library, in . the first librarian was charles j. ermatinger, who served until . as of [update], the library has microfilmed versions of over , manuscripts, with material in greek, latin, arabic, hebrew and ethiopic, as well as several more common western european languages. there are reproductions of many works from the biblioteca palatina and biblioteca cicognara at the vatican, as well as papal letter registers from the archivio segreto vaticano (vatican secret archives) from the th to th centuries, in the series registra vaticana and registra supplicationium.[ ] staff[edit] the director of the library was made a cardinal and given the title cardinal librarian.[ ] individual library staff were called "custodians".[ ] after the reopening of the library in , pope leo xiii changed the title to prefect.[ ][ ][ ] the library currently has staff who work in five departments: manuscripts and archival collections, printed books/drawings, acquisitions/cataloguing, coin collections/museums and restoration/photography.[ ] list of librarians[edit] (p) indicates time spent as pro-librarian. this is the role of acting librarian, often a librarian who is not a cardinal.[ ] 	name 	lifetime 	title 	duration as librarian[ ][ ] 	marcello cervini 	 – 	bibliothecarius i 	 may – april 	roberto de' nobili 	 – 	bibliothecarius ii 	 – january 	alfonso carafa 	 – 	bibliothecarius iii 	 – august 	marcantonio da mula 	 – 	bibliothecarius iv 	 – march [ ] 	guglielmo sirleto 	 – 	bibliothecarius v 	 march – october 	antonio carafa 	 – 	bibliothecarius vi 	 october – january 	marco antonio colonna 	 ca.– 	bibliothecarius vii 	 – march 	cesare baronio 	 – 	bibliothecarius viii 	may – june [ ] 	ludovico de torres 	 – 	bibliothecarius ix 	 july – july 	scipione borghese caffarelli 	 – 	bibliothecarius x 	 june – february [ ] 	scipione cobelluzzi 	 – 	bibliothecarius xi 	 february – june 	francesco barberini 	 – 	bibliothecarius xii 	 july – december 	antonio barberini 	 – 	bibliothecarius xiii 	 december – september 	orazio giustiniani 	 – 	bibliothecarius xiv 	 september – july 	luigi capponi 	 – 	bibliothecarius xv 	 august – april 	flavio chigi 	 – 	bibliothecarius xvi 	 june – september [ ] 	lorenzo brancati 	 – 	bibliothecarius xvii 	 september – november 	girolamo casanate 	 – 	bibliothecarius xviii 	 december – march 	enrico noris 	 – 	bibliothecarius xix 	 march – february 	benedetto pamphili 	 – 	bibliothecarius xx 	 february – march 	angelo maria querini 	 – 	bibliothecarius xxi 	 september – january 	domenico passionei 	 – 	bibliothecarius xxii 	 july – january (p) january – july 	alessandro albani 	 – 	bibliothecarius xxiii 	 august – december 	francesco saverio de zelada 	 – 	bibliothecarius xxiv 	 december – december 	luigi valenti gonzaga 	 – 	bibliothecarius xxv 	 january – december 	giulio maria della somaglia 	 – 	bibliothecarius xxvi 	 january – april 	giuseppe albani 	 – 	bibliothecarius xxvii 	 april – december 	luigi lambruschini 	 – 	bibliothecarius xxviii 	 december – june 	angelo mai 	 – 	bibliothecarius xxix 	 june – september 	antonio tosti 	 – 	bibliothecarius xxx 	 january – march 	jean baptiste françois pitra 	 – 	bibliothecarius xxxi 	 january – february [ ] 	placido maria schiaffino [it] 	 – 	bibliothecarius xxxii 	 february – september 	alfonso capecelatro 	 – 	bibliothecarius xxxiii 	 august – november [ ] 	mariano rampolla del tindaro 	 – 	bibliothecarius xxxiv 	 november – december 	francesco di paola cassetta 	 – 	bibliothecarius xxxv 	 january – march 	aidan [francis neil] gasquet 	 – 	bibliothecarius xxxvi 	 may – april 	franz ehrle 	 – 	bibliothecarius xxxvii 	 april – march 	giovanni mercati 	 – 	bibliothecarius xxxviii 	 june – august 	eugène tisserant 	 – 	bibliothecarius xxxix 	 september – march 	antonio samoré 	 – 	bibliothecarius xl 	 january – february 	alfons maria stickler 	 – 	bibliothecarius xli 	 september – may (p) may – july 	antonio maría javierre ortas 	 – 	bibliothecarius xlii 	 july – january 	luigi poggi 	 - [ ] 	bibliothecarius xliii 	 april – november (p) november – november 	jorge maría mejía 	 - 	bibliothecarius xliv 	 march – november 	jean-louis tauran 	 - 	bibliothecarius xlv 	 november – june 	raffaele farina 	 - 	bibliothecarius xlvi 	 june – june 	jean-louis bruguès 	 - 	bibliothecarius xlvii 	 june – september 	josé tolentino mendonça 	 - 	bibliothecarius xlviii 	 september - see also[edit] 	vatican city portal 	catholicism portal 	archive of the congregation for the doctrine of the faith 	index of vatican city-related articles 	the vatican splendors notes[edit] 	^ this sculpture is described in the following words: "s. tommaso seduto, nella sinistra tiene il libro della summa theologica, mentre stende la destra in atto di proteggere la scienza cristiana. quindi non siede sulla cattedra di dottore, ma sul trono di sovrano protettore; stende il braccio a rassicurare, non a dimostrare. ha in testa il dottorale berretto, e conservando il suo tipo tradizionale, rivela nel volto e nell'atteggiamento l'uomo profondamente dotto. l'autore non ha avuto da ispirarsi in altr'opera che esistesse sul soggetto, quindi ha dovuto, può dirsi, creare questo tipo, ed è riuscito originale e felice nella sua creazione."[ ] references[edit] 	^ a b c d e mendelsohn, daniel ( january ). 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"the cardinals of the holy roman church". florida international university libraries. further reading[edit] 	rome reborn: the vatican library & renaissance culture, an online exhibition from the library of congress. 	vatican to digitize apostolic library of . million volumes for general perusal, pcworld.com, october . a joint effort between the vatican and hewlett-packard. external links[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to biblioteca apostolica vaticana. 	official website 	vatican library old home page, with online catalog search 	history of the vatican library, from the library's site 	treasures of the vatican library exposed via the european library 	toward on-line, worldwide access to vatican library materials ( ). a collaborative effort (pioneered by fr. leonard boyle op prefect of the vatican library) between the vatican library and ibm, the primary goal of which is to "provide access via the internet to some of the library's most valuable manuscripts, printed books, and other sources to a scholarly community around the world." 	knights of columbus vatican film library. saint louis university library that focuses on the collection of the vatican library. 	the secret history of art by noah charney on the vatican library and procopius. an article by art historian noah charney about the vatican library and its famous manuscript, historia arcana by procopius. 	the vatican: spirit and art of christian rome, a book from the metropolitan museum of art libraries (fully available online as pdf), which contains material on the library (p.  - ) 	 	v 	t 	e national libraries of europe 	sovereign states	 	albania 	andorra 	armenia 	austria 	azerbaijan 	belarus 	belgium 	bosnia and herzegovina 	bulgaria 	croatia 	cyprus 	czech republic 	denmark 	estonia 	finland 	france 	georgia 	germany 	greece 	hungary 	iceland 	ireland 	 	italy 	kazakhstan 	latvia 	liechtenstein 	lithuania 	luxembourg 	malta 	moldova 	monaco 	montenegro 	netherlands 	north macedonia 	norway 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sünnilinnas venosas (antiikaja venusia) horatius kujutatuna anton von werneri poolt horatius (quintus horatius flaccus; . detsember ekr apuulia, venusia – . november ekr rooma) oli vana-rooma tähtsamaid lüürilisi luuletajaid. sisukord 	 teosed eesti keeles 	 ajalooline tähtsus 	 kirjandus 	 välislingid teosed eesti keeles[muuda | muuda lähteteksti] 	"melpomenele". tõlkinud johannes semper – looming , nr , lk 	"pompejus grosphusele"; "maecenasele"; "manilius torquatusele". tõlkinud ja järelmärkused: ants oras – samas, lk – 	rooma kirjanduse antoloogia, eesti raamat, tallinn , lk – (oodid ja epoodid, tõlkinud ain kaalep, satiirid, tõlkinud leo anvelt, ja kirjad, tõlkinud Ülo torpats); kommentaarid lk – 	ood .  : 'ta halval päeval mulda su istutas...' / ladina keelest tõlkinud ja kommenteerinud mari murdvee; ood .  : 'nüüd, sõbrad, joogem, nüüd vabas tantsuhoos...' / tõlkinud ja kommenteerinud janika päll; episood  : 'maecenas õnnis, millal siis su häärberis...' / tõlkinud katrin kiisler – vikerkaar , nr / , lk – 	"kuis, vaata, seisab kõrglumest valgena..."; i.  : "Ühtpuhku kärmelt armsat lucretilist..."; ii.  : "et sa armsaks pead oma teenijannat..."; ii.  : "Ühtsoodu söötis põllule vihmasid..."; ii.  : "mis on kantaabril nõuks sõjalembesel..."; ii.  : "mõnd harva juugrit jätmas on adrale..."; ii.  : "vaikust taevastelt palub kimpujäänu..."; ii.  : "miks kaeveldes mind muudad sa hingetuks..."; ii.  : "ei kandma habras, argine tiivasulg..." : [luuletused]. ladina keelest tõlkinud ja kommenteerinud mari murdvee – vikerkaar , nr , lk , – ajalooline tähtsus[muuda | muuda lähteteksti] Üks horatiuse luuletusi, "exegi monumentum" ("püstitasin monumendi"), on olnud hiljem temaatiliseks eeskujuks mitmetele kunstnikele ja kirjanikele (näiteks puškinile). kirjandus[muuda | muuda lähteteksti] 	pärtel haliste, "horatiuse -aastase sünnipäeva puhul" – looming , nr , lk – 	anne lill, "carpe diem: lootuse lootusetus horatiuse luules" – keel ja kirjandus , nr , lk – välislingid[muuda | 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proposed by the god. livy ignores the story.[ ] valerius antias (fl.  st century bc) was an ancient roman annalist whom livy mentions as a source. no complete works of his survive but from the sixty-five fragments said to be his in the works of other authors it has been deduced that he wrote a chronicle of ancient rome in at least seventy-five books.[ ] the latest dateable event in the fragments is mention of the heirs of the orator, lucius licinius crassus, who died in bc. of the seventy references to antias in classical (greek and latin) literature sixty-one mention him as an authority on roman legendary history. numa pompilius consulting egeria. contents 	 life 	 work 	 legacy 	 see also 	 references 	 . citations 	 . bibliography 	 external links life[edit] not much is known about the life of valerius antias. his family were the valerii antiates, a branch of the valeria gens residing at least from early republican times in the vicinity of antium (modern towns of anzio and nettuno). he may have been descended from lucius valerius antias.[ ] he was probably a younger contemporary of quintus claudius quadrigarius and lived in the times of sulla, although some scholars believe that he was a contemporary of julius caesar and wrote his work after bc, because he seems to have been unknown to cicero, who does not mention him in his enumeration of famous historians.[ ] he was the most important of the so-called “younger annalists”. work[edit] the nearly completely lost work of antias – cited as annales or as historiae – began its account of the roman history with the foundation of rome and extended at least to the year bc. the second book told about the legendary roman king numa pompilius, the twenty-second book about the capitulation of gaius hostilius mancinus in bc (this event livy only reports in book of his history). therefore, the earlier times were reported much shorter than the contemporary history of the author. the work of antias was not very reliable. livy criticizes his exaggerated numbers of killed and captured enemies in the roman wars. sometimes he seems to have even invented battles.[ ] but sometimes he also delivered correct values, which fact can be concluded from a comparison with some values given by polybius. antias’ account of each year included the allocation of troops and provinces, important omen, battles, foundation of new colonies etc. at the end of the description of each year he reported about plays, temple inaugurations, and other news, in particular about events in the city of rome. under the influence of hellenistic historiography antias related his stories very long-winded and filled with sensationalism to entertain his readers. he embroidered the mostly short accounts of older historians with dramatic details and also recounted legends and miracles. he falsified the report about the trials of the scipio brothers (compare livy . - ) and seems to have invented high offices and deeds of members of his house, the gens valeria, who lived in the early roman republic because there were no reliable sources about these early times, which could have disproved his assertions. antias gave a rationalistic account about the discovery of the coffins with the books of king numa, because he had the coffins uncovered by rain and not by excavation like in the older tradition. the style of antias was simple, but not archaic, and marcus cornelius fronto (epistel ad verus , , p.  , ed. van den hout) judged his language and style to be unattractive (invenuste). therefore, he was rarely cited literally by later grammarians.[ ] legacy[edit] in one long-standing view of antias' influence on livy, the latter relied mainly on the former in books - of ab urbe condita libri, the legendary history of rome.[ ] to elucidate this possible influence, a.a. howard compared each of antias' fragments with the equivalent story in livy. he deduced that there is no evidence of such influence in the first ten books. of twenty fragments falling within the period livy does not use any, either omitting the information, or explicitly disagreeing with it. howard says:[ ] "the argument that livy made free use of antias and mentioned him only in case of disagreement is absolutely without foundation, for we have seen fourteen specific instances in which, although livy does not mention him, he nevertheless disagrees with his statements as known to us from other sources, or absolutely disregards them...." for example, in fragment acca larentia willed her property to romulus. livy does not mention it. fragment mentions that exactly sabine women were kidnapped.[ ] livy says the number is greater than , and so on. for the entire period covered by livy, fragments of antias come from livy.[ ] he disagrees with six of these, criticizes eleven more, quotes antias in disagreement on ten, and agrees with, but later disproves, two. howard concludes disparagingly that "it is on such evidence as this that we are asked to believe that antias was the source of considerable portions of livy's history and that livy followed blindly, at least in the earlier part of his work. " see also[edit] 	livy's history of rome references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ howard ( ), p. . 	^ howard ( ), p. . 	^ smith ( ), antias. 	^ de legibus, . . - . 	^ a b c freese, john henry ( ). "annalists s.v." . in chisholm, hugh (ed.). encyclopædia britannica. ( th ed.). cambridge university press. p.  . 	^ hans volkmann, valerius . in: realencyclopädie der classischen altertumswissenschaft (re), vol. a, ( ), col. - 	^ howard ( ), p. . 	^ howard ( ), p. . bibliography[edit] 	howard, albert a. ( ). "valerius antias and livy". harvard studies in classical philology. cambridge: harvard university. : – . doi: . / . jstor  . external links[edit] 	smith, william ( ). 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arabic: وليلي‎, romanized: walīlī; berber languages: ⵡⵍⵉⵍⵉ, romanized: wlili) is a partly excavated berber city in morocco situated near the city of meknes, and commonly considered as the ancient capital of the kingdom of mauretania.[ ] built in a fertile agricultural area, it developed from the rd century bc onward as a berber, then proto-carthaginian, settlement before being the capital of the kingdom of mauretania. it grew rapidly under roman rule from the st century ad onward and expanded to cover about hectares ( acres) with a .  km ( .  mi) circuit of walls. the city gained a number of major public buildings in the nd century, including a basilica, temple and triumphal arch. its prosperity, which was derived principally from olive growing, prompted the construction of many fine town-houses with large mosaic floors. the city fell to local tribes around and was never retaken by rome because of its remoteness and indefensibility on the south-western border of the roman empire. it continued to be inhabited for at least another years, first as a latinised christian community, then as an early islamic settlement. in the late th century it became the seat of idris ibn abdallah, the founder of the idrisid dynasty of morocco. by the th century volubilis had been abandoned after the seat of power was relocated to fes. much of the local population was transferred to the new town of moulay idriss zerhoun, about  km ( .  mi) from volubilis. the ruins remained substantially intact until they were devastated by an earthquake in the mid- th century and subsequently looted by moroccan rulers seeking stone for building meknes. it was not until the latter part of the th century that the site was definitively identified as that of the ancient city of volubilis. during and after the period of french rule over morocco, about half of the site was excavated, revealing many fine mosaics, and some of the more prominent public buildings and high-status houses were restored or reconstructed. today it is a unesco world heritage site, listed for being "an exceptionally well preserved example of a large roman colonial town on the fringes of the empire". contents 	 name 	 foundation and roman occupation 	 after the romans 	 excavation, restoration and unesco listing 	 city layout and infrastructure 	 . commerce 	 notable buildings 	 . public buildings 	 . triumphal arch 	 . houses and palaces 	 . headquarters of idris i 	 footnotes 	 bibliography 	 external links name[edit] the origins of its name are unknown but may be a latinisation of the amazigh word walilt, meaning oleander, which grows along the sides of the valley.[ ] the lewis & short latin dictionary gives the latin meaning of "volubilis" as "that [which] is turned round or (more freq.) that [which] turns itself round, turning, spinning, whirling, circling, rolling, revolving."[ ] the word is mentioned in horace's epistles (i, , ): labitur, et labetur in omne volubilis aevum ("it flows and will flow, swirling on forever.")[ ][ ] in classical latin, the "v" in "volubilis" was pronounced like a "w," making the pronunciation closer to modern amazigh and arabic pronunciations.[ ] charles-joseph tissot [fr] ( – ) discovered that what some sources in arabic referred to as "qasr fara'on" (قصر فرعون pharaoh's palace) corresponded with volubilis.[ ] foundation and roman occupation[edit] built on a shallow slope below the zerhoun mountain, volubilis stands on a ridge above the valley of khoumane (khuman) where it is met by a small tributary stream called the fertassa.[ ] it overlooks a rolling fertile alluvial plain north of the modern city of meknes.[ ] the area around volubilis has been inhabited at least since the late atlantic neolithic, some , years ago; archaeological excavations at the site have found neolithic pottery of design comparable to pieces found in iberia.[ ] by the third century bc, the carthaginians had a presence there, as evidenced by the remains of a temple to the punic god baal and finds of pottery and stones inscribed in the phoenician language.[ ] the city lay within the kingdom of mauretania, which became a roman client state following the fall of carthage in  bc.[ ] the punic influence lasted for a considerable time afterwards, as the city's magistrates retained the carthaginian title of suffete long after the end of punic rule.[ ] juba ii of numidia was placed on the mauretanian throne by augustus in  bc and turned his attention to building a royal capital at volubilis.[ ] educated in rome and married to cleopatra selene ii, the daughter of mark antony and cleopatra, juba and his son ptolemy were thoroughly romanised kings, although of berber ancestry; their preference for roman art and architecture was clearly reflected in the city's design.[ ] map of mauretania tingitana showing the location of volubilis after claudius annexed mauretania in  ad, the city grew substantially due to its wealth and prosperity, derived from the fertile lands of the province which produced valuable export commodities such as grain, olive oil and wild animals for gladiatorial spectacles. at its peak in the late nd century, volubilis had around , inhabitants – a very substantial population for a roman provincial town[ ] – and the surrounding region was also well inhabited, to judge from over villas discovered in the area.[ ] it was mentioned by the st century ad geographer pomponius mela, who described it in his work de situ orbis libri iii as one of "the wealthiest cities, albeit the wealthiest among small ones" in mauretania.[ ] it is also mentioned by pliny the elder, and the nd century antonine itinerary refers to its location and names it as volubilis colonia.[ ] its population was dominated by romanised berbers.[ ] arch of caracalla (triumphal arch) the city remained loyal to rome despite a revolt in –  ad led by one of ptolemy's freedmen, aedemon, and its inhabitants were rewarded with grants of citizenship and a ten-year exemption from taxes.[ ] the city was raised to the status of a municipium and its system of governance was overhauled, with the punic-style suffetes replaced by annually elected duumvirs, or pairs of magistrates.[ ] however, the city's position was always tenuous; it was located on the south-eastern edge of the province, facing hostile and increasingly powerful berber tribes. a ring of five forts located at the modern hamlets of aïn schkor, bled el gaada, sidi moussa, sidi said and bled takourart (ancient tocolosida) were constructed to bolster the city's defence.[ ] sidi said was the base for the cohors iv gallorum equitata, an auxiliary cavalry unit from gaul, while aïn schkor housed hispanic and belgic cohorts. sidi moussa was the location of a cohort of parthians, and gallic and syrian cavalry were based at toscolosida.[ ] rising tensions in the region near the end of the nd century led the emperor marcus aurelius to order the construction of a .  km ( .  mi) circuit of walls with eight gates and towers.[ ] volubilis was connected by road to lixus and tingis (capital city of the roman province of mauretania tingitana, modern tangier) but had no eastwards connections with the neighbouring province of mauretania caesariensis, as the territory of the berber baquates tribe lay in between.[ ] a jewish community existed in volubilis in the third century, as evident from several hebrew, greek and latin funeral inscriptions and menorah-shaped lamps. it is the most south-western location where ancient hebrew inscription has been found.[ ] mosaics in volubilis rome's control over the city ended following the chaos of the crisis of the third century, when the empire nearly disintegrated as a series of generals seized and lost power through civil wars, palace coups and assassinations. around , roman rule collapsed in much of mauretania and was never re-established. in , the emperor diocletian reorganised what was left of the province to retain only the coastal strip between lixus, tingis and septa (modern ceuta). although a roman army was based in tingis, it was decided that it would simply be too expensive to mount a reconquest of a vulnerable border region.[ ] occupation of the city continued, however, as fine mosaics such as that of a chariot race conducted by animals in the house of venus can not have been created earlier than the fourth century. the end of the roman city probably came in the form of an earthquake towards the end of the century, which buried numerous bronze statues in the wreckage of the houses.[ ] after the romans[edit] volubilis continued to be inhabited for centuries after the end of roman control. it was certainly reoccupied by the eastern roman empire in the sixth and seventh century, when three christian inscriptions are dated by the provincial year.[ ] by the time the arabs had arrived in ,[ ] the city's name was changed to oualila or walīlī, and it was inhabited by the awraba, a berber tribe that originated in libya. much of the city centre had been abandoned and was turned into a cemetery, while the centre of habitation had moved to the southwest of the city, where a new wall was built to contain the abridged roman town. [ ] volubilis remained the capital of the region well into the islamic period. islamic coins dating to the th century have been found on the site, attesting to the arrival of islam in this part of morocco.[ ] they are concentrated outside the city walls, which suggests that arab settlement remained distinct from the berber settlement inside them. it was here that moulay idriss established the idrisid dynasty of morocco in - . a direct descendant of the islamic prophet, muhammad, he escaped to morocco from syria following the battle of fakhkh in . he was proclaimed "imam" in volubilis, occupied by the awraba, under ishaq ibn mohammad. he married kanza, from the awraba, and fathered a son, idris ii, who was proclaimed imam in volubilis. he, too, lived outside the walls of the city, along the banks of the wadi khoumane, where a complex has recently been excavated that may be identified with his headquarters.[ ] idriss i conquered most of northern morocco during the three years of his reign, founding the city of fes. he was assassinated in volubilis in on the orders of the caliph of baghdad, harun al-rashid.[ ][ ] on his majority idriss ii removed to fes which served as his new capital, depriving volubilis of its last vestiges of political significance.[ ] panoramic view of volubilis, looking west. the old phoenician core of the city is on the left, the basilica and capitoline temple are visible in the centre, while the arch of caracalla can be seen on the right behind the roman extension to the city. a muslim group known as the rabedis, who had revolted in córdoba in al-andalus (andalusia in modern spain), resettled at volubilis in .[ ] although people continued to live in volubilis for several more centuries, it was probably almost deserted by the th century. leo africanus describes its walls and gates, as well as the tomb of idris, guarded only by two or three castles.[ ] his body was subsequently removed to moulay idriss zerhoun,  km ( .  mi), where a great mausoleum was built for it. the name of the city was forgotten and it was termed ksar faraoun, or the "pharaoh's castle", by the local people, alluding to a legend that the ancient egyptians had built it.[ ] nonetheless some of its buildings remained standing, albeit ruined, until as late as the th century when moulay ismail ransacked the site to provide building material for his new imperial capital at meknes. the lisbon earthquake caused further severe destruction. however, english antiquarian john windus had sketched the site in .[ ] in his book a journey to mequinez, windus described the scene: one building seems to be part of a triumphal arch, there being several broken stones that bear inscriptions, lying in the rubbish underneath, which were fixed higher than any part now standing. it is feet long and thick, both sides exactly alike, built with very hard stones, about a yard in length and half a yard thick. the arch is feet wide and about high. the inscriptions are upon large flat stones, which, when entire, were about five feet long, and three broad, and the letters on them above inches long. a bust lay a little way off, very much defaced, and was the only thing to be found that represented life, except the shape of a foot seen under the lower part of a garment, in the niche on the other side of the arch. about yards from the arch stands a good part of the front of a large square building, which is feet long and about high; part of the four corners are yet standing, but very little remains, except these of the front. round the hill may be seen the foundation of a wall about two miles in circumference, which inclosed these buildings; on the inside of which lie scattered, all over, a great many stones of the same size the arch is built with, but hardly one stone left upon another. the arch, which stood about half a mile from the other buildings, seemed to have been a gateway, and was just high enough to admit a man to pass through on horseback.[ ] visiting years later in , after the lisbon earthquake had flattened the few buildings left standing, james gray jackson wrote: half an hour's journey after leaving the sanctuary of muley dris zerone, and at the foot of atlas, i perceived to the left of the road, magnificent and massive ruins. the country, for miles round, is covered with broken columns of white marble. there were still standing two porticoes about feet high and wide, the top composed of one entire stone. i attempted to take a view of these immense ruins, which have furnished marble for the imperial palaces at mequinas and tafilelt; but i was obliged to desist, seeing some persons of the sanctuary following the cavalcade. pots and kettles of gold and silver coins are continually dug up from these ruins. the country, however, abounds with serpents, and we saw many scorpions under the stones that my conductor turned up. these ruins are said by the africans to have been built by one of the pharaohs: they are called kasser farawan.[ ] 	volubilis before its excavation and restoration 	 			 			 the ruins of the triumphal arch, photographed in by henri poisson de la martinière 			 		 	 			 			 remnants of the basilica as seen in before its later restoration 			 		 walter burton harris, a writer for the times, visited volubilis during his travels in morocco between – , after the site had been identified by french archaeologists but before any serious excavations or restorations had begun. he wrote: there is not very much remains standing of the ruins; two archways, each of great size, and in moderately good preservation, alone tell of the grandeur of the old city, while acres and acres of land are strewn with monuments and broken sculpture. a few isolated pillars also remain, and an immense drain or aqueduct, not unlike the cloaca maxima at rome, opens on to the little river below.[ ] excavation, restoration and unesco listing[edit] edge of the excavated area at volubilis. a stretch of decauville track used to carry spoil away is still visible. much of volubilis was excavated by the french during their rule over french morocco between and , but the excavations at the site began decades earlier. from , when the french conquest of algeria began the process of extending french rule over much of northern, western and central africa, archaeology was closely associated with french colonialism. the french army undertook scientific explorations as early as the s and by the s it was fashionable for french army officers to investigate roman remains during their leave and spare time. by the late th century french archaeologists were undertaking an intensive effort to uncover north-west africa's pre-islamic past through excavations and restorations of archaeological sites.[ ] the french had a very different conception of historic preservation to that of the moroccan muslims. as the historian gwendolyn wright puts it, "the islamic sense of history and architecture found the concept of setting off monuments entirely foreign", which "gave the french proof of the conviction that only they could fully appreciate the moroccan past and its beauty." emile pauty of the institut des hautes Études marocaines criticised the muslims for taking the view that "the passage of time is nothing" and charged them with "let[ting] their monuments fall into ruin with as much indifference as they once showed ardour in building them."[ ] the french programme of excavation at volubilis and other sites in french-controlled north africa (in algeria and tunisia) had a strong ideological component. archaeology at roman sites was used as an instrument of colonialist policy, to make a connection between the ancient roman past and the new "latin" societies that the french were building in north africa. the programme involved clearing modern structures built on ancient sites, excavating roman towns and villas and reconstructing major civic structures such as triumphal arches. ruined cities, such as timgad in algeria, were excavated and cleared on a massive scale. the remains were intended to serve, as one writer has put it, as "the witness to an impulse towards romanization".[ ] this theme resonated with other visitors to the site. the american writer edith wharton visited in and highlighted what she saw as the contrast between "two dominations look[ing] at each other across the valley", the ruins of volubilis and "the conical white town of moulay idriss, the sacred city of morocco". she saw the dead city as representing "a system, an order, a social conception that still runs through all our modern ways." in contrast, she saw the still very much alive town of moulay idriss as "more dead and sucked back into an unintelligible past than any broken architrave of greece or rome."[ ] as sarah bird wright of the university of richmond puts it, wharton saw volubilis as a symbol of civilisation and moulay idriss as one of barbarism; the subtext is that "in ransacking the roman outpost, islam destroyed its only chance to build a civilised society".[ ] fortunately for morocco, "the political stability which france is helping them to acquire will at last give their higher qualities time for fruition"[ ]—very much the theme that the french colonial authorities wanted to get across.[ ] hilaire belloc, too, spoke of his impression being "rather one of history and of contrast. here you see how completely the new religion of islam flooded and drowned the classical and christian tradition."[ ] the first excavations at volubilis were carried out by the french archaeologist henri de la martinière between and .[ ] in hubert lyautey, the military governor of french morocco, commissioned the french archaeologists marcel and jane dieulafoy to carry out excavations in volubilis. although jane's ill-health meant that they were unable to carry out the programme of work that they drew up for lyautey,[ ] the work went ahead anyway under louis chatelain.[ ] the french archaeologists were assisted by thousands of german prisoners of war who had been captured during first world war and loaned to the excavators by lyautey.[ ] the excavations continued on and off until , when the second world war forced a halt.[ ] following the war, excavations resumed under the french and moroccan authorities (following morocco's independence in ) and a programme of restoration and reconstruction began. the arch of caracalla had already been restored in – . it was followed by the capitoline temple in , the basilica in – and the tingis gate in . a number of mosaics and houses underwent conservation and restoration in – . in recent years, one of the olive-oil production workshops in the southern end of the city has been restored and furnished with a replica roman oil press.[ ] these restorations have not been without controversy; a review carried out for unesco in reported that "some of the reconstructions, such as those on the triumphal arch, the capitolium, and the oil-pressing workshop, are radical and at the limit of currently accepted practice."[ ] from excavations carried out by university college london and the moroccan institut national des sciences de l'archéologie et du patrimoine under the direction of elizabeth fentress, gaetano palumbo and hassan limane revealed what should probably be interpreted as the headquarters of idris i just below the walls of the roman town to the west of the ancient city centre. excavations within the walls also revealed a section of the early medieval town.[ ] today, many artefacts found at volubilis can be seen on display in the rabat archaeological museum. unesco listed volubilis as a world heritage site in . in the s, the international council on monuments and sites (icomos) organised three conferences to assess possible nominations to the world heritage list for sites in north africa. it was unanimously agreed that volubilis was a good candidate for the list and in icomos recommended that it be inscribed as "an exceptionally well preserved example of a large roman colonial town on the fringes of the empire",[ ] which unesco accepted. city layout and infrastructure[edit] prior to the roman occupation, volubilis covered an area of about hectares ( acres), built on a v-shaped ridge between the fertassa and khoumane wadis on a roughly north-south axis. it was developed on a fairly regular pattern typical of phoenician/carthaginian settlements and was enclosed by a set of walls.[ ] under the romans, the city was expanded considerably on a northeast-southwest axis, increasing in size to about hectares ( acres). most of the city's public buildings were constructed in the older part of the city. the grand houses for which volubilis is famous are in the newer part, behind the decumanus maximus (main street), which bisected the roman-era part of the city.[ ] the decumanus was paved, with footways on either side, and was lined with arcaded porticoes on either sides, behind which were dozens of shops.[ ] the arch of caracalla marks the point at which the old and new cities merge. after the aqueduct fell into disrepair with the end of the roman occupation, a new residential area was constructed to the west near the wadi khoumane.[ ] the city was supplied with water by an aqueduct that ran from a spring in the hills behind the city.[ ] the aqueduct may have been constructed around –  ad and was subsequently reconstructed on several occasions.[ ] an elaborate network of channels fed houses and the public baths from the municipal supply and a series of drains carried sewage and waste away to the river to be flushed.[ ] the aqueduct ran under the decumanus secundus, a street that ran parallel with the decumanus maximus, and terminated at a large fountain in the city centre near the arch of caracalla.[ ] 	infrastructure in volubilis 	 			 			 the decumanus maximus, looking north-east 			 		 	 			 			 the tingis gate, looking back down the decumanus maximus 			 		 	 			 			 interior of the north baths, fed by the aqueduct 			 		 basilica and capitoline temple most of the original pre-roman city wall was built over or destroyed, but a -metre (  ft) stretch of the original wall, which was made of mud bricks on a stone foundation, can still be seen near the tumulus.[ ][ ] the roman city walls stretch for .  km ( .  mi) and average .  m ( .  ft) thick. built of rubble masonry and ashlar, they are mostly still extant.[ ][ ] the full circuit of walls had towers, spaced at intervals of about one every metres (  ft), and six main gates that were flanked by towers.[ ] a part of the eastern wall has been reconstructed to a height of . metres ( .  ft).[ ] the tingis gate, also reconstructed, marks the northern-eastern entrance to volubilis.[ ] it was constructed in /  ad – the date is known due to the discovery of a coin of that year that was deliberately embedded in the gate's stonework by its builders.[ ] an early medieval wall stands to the west of the arch of caracalla; it was built after the end of the roman occupation, apparently some time in the th or th centuries, to protect the eastern side of the city's new residential area. it was oriented in a north-south direction and was constructed using stone looted from ruined buildings elsewhere in the abandoned areas of the city.[ ][ ] commerce[edit] a reconstructed roman olive press in volubilis during roman times, volubilis was a major producer of olive oil. the remains of buildings dedicated to olive pressing are still readily visible, as are the remains of the original presses and olive mills. one such building has been reconstructed with a full-size replica of a roman olive press.[ ] olive oil was central to the life of the city, as it was not just a foodstuff but was also used for lamps, bathing and medicines, while the pressed olives were fed to animals or dried out and used as fuel for the bathhouses. for this reason, even some of the grandest mansions had their own olive presses.[ ] fifty-eight oil-pressing complexes have so far been discovered in volubilis. they housed a standard set of elements: a mill, used to crush the olives, a decantation basin to catch the oil from pressed olives, and a press that comprised a counterweight, a prelum or cross-bar and the wooden supports within which the prelum was fixed. the olives were first crushed into a paste, then put into woven baskets that were subjected to pressing. the olive oil ran out into the decantation basin, to which water was periodically added to make the lighter oil float to the surface. this was then scooped out of the basin and poured into amphorae.[ ] there is also substantial evidence of the city being a lively commercial centre. no fewer than shops have been identified so far, many of them bakeries,[ ] and judging from the number of bronzes found at the site it may also have been a centre for the production or distribution of bronze artworks.[ ] notable buildings[edit] plan of volubilis, indicating some of the most notable buildings although only about half of volubilis has been excavated, a number of prominent public buildings are still visible and some, notably a basilica and a triumphal arch, have been reconstructed. many private buildings, including the mansions of the city's elite, have also been uncovered. they are especially notable for the fine mosaics that have been discovered in a number of buildings and which are still in situ in the houses where they were laid.[ ] the buildings were mostly made from locally quarried grey-blue limestone.[ ] very little remains of the original punic settlement, as it lies under the later roman buildings.[ ] a large tumulus of uncertain origin and purpose stands approximately in the middle of the excavated area, between the old and new parts of the city. various theories have been advanced to explain it, such as that it was a burial site, a religious structure of some kind, a funerary monument or a monument to a roman victory. however, these remain unproven hypotheses.[ ] public buildings[edit] two major public buildings are readily visible at the centre of the city – the basilica and the capitoline temple. the basilica was used for the administration of justice and the governance of the city. completed during the reign of macrinus in the early rd century, it is one of the finest roman basilicas in africa[ ] and is probably modelled on the one at leptis magna in libya.[ ] the building is .  m (  ft) long by .  m (  ft) wide and originally had two storeys.[ ] its interior is dominated by two rows of columns framing the apses at each end of the building where the magistrates sat. the outer wall of the basilica, which is faced with columns, overlooks the forum where markets were held. small temples and public offices also lined the ,  m ( ,  sq ft) forum,[ ] which would have been full of statues of emperors and local dignitaries, of which only the pedestals now remain.[ ] not much is known about the public buildings which existed in volubilis prior to the start of the rd century, as the buildings currently visible were built on the foundations of earlier structures.[ ] the capitoline temple stands behind the basilica within what would originally have been an arcaded courtyard. an altar stands in the courtyard in front of steps leading up to the corinthian-columned temple,[ ] which had a single cella.[ ] the building was of great importance to civic life as it was dedicated to the three chief divinities of the roman state, jupiter, juno and minerva. civic assemblies were held in front of the temple to beseech the aid of the gods or to thank them for successes in major civic undertakings such as fighting wars.[ ] the layout of the temple, facing the back wall of the basilica, is somewhat unusual and it has been suggested that it may have been built on top of an existing shrine.[ ] an inscription found in records that it was reconstructed in . it was partly restored in and given a more substantial restoration in , reconstructing of the steps, the walls of the cella and the columns. there were four more small shrines within the temple precinct, one of which was dedicated to venus.[ ] there were five other temples in the city, of which the most notable is the so-called "temple of saturn" that stood on the eastern side of volubilis.[ ] it appears to have been built on top of, or converted from, an earlier punic temple, which may have been dedicated to baal.[ ] it is a sanctuary with a surrounding wall and a three-sided portico. in its interior was a small temple with a cella built on a shallow podium.[ ] the temple's traditional identification with saturn is purely hypothetical and has not generally been accepted.[ ] 	public buildings in volubilis 	 			 			 exterior of the basilica at volubilis 			 		 	 			 			 interior of the basilica 			 		 	 			 			 the capitoline temple 			 		 volubilis also possessed at least three sets of public baths. some mosaics can still be seen in the baths of gallienus, redecorated by that emperor in the s to become the city's most lavish baths.[ ] the nearby north baths were the largest in the city, covering an area of about ,  m ( ,  sq ft). they were possibly built in the time of hadrian.[ ] triumphal arch[edit] the arch of caracalla is one of volubilis' most distinctive sights, situated at the end of the city's main street, the decumanus maximus. although it is not architecturally outstanding,[ ] the triumphal arch forms a striking visual contrast with the smaller tingis gate at the far end of the decumanus. it was built in by the city's governor, marcus aurelius sebastenus, to honour the emperor caracalla and his mother julia domna. caracalla was himself a north african and had recently extended roman citizenship to the inhabitants of rome's provinces. however, by the time the arch was finished both caracalla and julia had been murdered by a usurper.[ ] the arch is constructed from local stone and was originally topped by a bronze chariot pulled by six horses. statues of nymphs poured water into carved marble basins at the foot of the arch. caracalla and julia domna were represented on medallion busts, though these have been defaced. the monument was reconstructed by the french between – .[ ] however, the restoration is incomplete and of disputed accuracy. the inscription on the top of the arch was reconstructed from the fragments noticed by windus in , which had been scattered on the ground in front of the arch.[ ] 	the arch of caracalla at volubilis 	 			 			 north side of the arch of caracalla 			 		 	 			 			 dedicatory inscription 			 		 	 			 			 south side of the arch of caracalla 			 		 the inscription reads (after the abbreviations have been expanded): imperatori caesari marco avrellio antonino pio felici avgvsto parthico maximo brittanico maximo germanico maximo pontifici maximo tribvnitia potestate xx imperatori iiii consvli iiii patri patriae proconsvli et ivliae avgvstae piae felici matri avgvsti et castrorvm et senatvs et patriae respvblica volvbilitanorvm ob singvlarem eivs erga vniversos et novam svpra omnes retro principes indvlgentiam arcvm cvm seivgibvs et ornamentis omnibvs incohante et dedicante marco avrellio sebasteno procvratore avgvsti devotissimo nvmini eivs a solo faciendvm cvravit or, in translation: for the emperor caesar, marcus aurelius antoninus [caracalla], the pious, fortunate augustus, greatest victor in parthia, greatest victor in britain, greatest victor in germany, pontifex maximus, holding tribunician power for the twentieth time, emperor for the fourth time, consul for the fourth time, father of the country, proconsul, and for julia augusta [julia domna], the pious, fortunate mother of the camp and the senate and the country, because of his exceptional and new kindness towards all, which is greater than that of the principes that came before, the republic of the volubilitans took care to have this arch made from the ground up, including a chariot drawn by six horses and all the ornaments, with marcus aurelius sebastenus, procurator, who is most deeply devoted to the divinity of augustus, initiating and dedicating it. houses and palaces[edit] the houses found at volubilis range from richly decorated mansions to simple two-room mud-brick structures used by the city's poorer inhabitants.[ ] the city's considerable wealth is attested by the elaborate design of the houses of the wealthy, some of which have large mosaics still in situ. they have been named by archaeologists after their principal mosaics (or other finds): 	the house of orpheus in the southern part of the city thus takes its name from the large orpheus mosaic, showing the god playing his harp to an audience of trees, animals and birds.[ ] as paul mackendrick puts it, the mosaic is rather artlessly executed, as the animals are all of different sizes and face in different directions with no relationship to orpheus. it appears that the mosaicist simply copied patterns from a book without attempting to integrate the different elements.[ ] the mosaic is situated in the triclinium, the dining room, where the diners would have reclined on couches set against the walls and admired the central mosaic. other mosaics can be seen in the atrium, which has a depiction of amphitrite in a chariot pulled by a seahorse and accompanied by other sea creatures, and in the bathing rooms. one room off the main courtyard has a mosaic of a dolphin, considered by the romans to be a lucky animal.[ ] 	the house of the athlete or desultor, located near the forum, contains a humorous mosaic of an athlete or acrobat riding a donkey back to front while holding a cup in his outstretched hand.[ ] it may possibly represent silenus.[ ] the most prestigious houses in the city were situated adjoining the decumanus maximus, behind rows of shops that lined the street under an arcade. they were entered from side streets between the shops. 	the house of the ephebe was named after a bronze statue found there. it has a prominent interior courtyard leading to a number of public rooms decorated with mosaics, including a depiction of bacchus in a chariot being drawn by leopards. 	the house of the knight next door also has a mosaic of bacchus, this time shown coming across the sleeping ariadne, who later bore him six children.[ ] the house takes its name from a bronze statue of a rider found here in that is now on display in the archaeological museum in rabat.[ ] it was a large building, with an area of about ,  m ( ,  sq ft), and incorporated a substantial area dedicated to commercial activities including eight or nine shops opening onto the road and a large olive-pressing complex.[ ] 	mosaics in volubilis 	 			 			 mosaic of bacchus encountering the sleeping ariadne from the house of the ephebe 			 		 	 			 			 mosaic of the four seasons in situ in the house of the labours of hercules 			 		 	 			 			 archaeological site of volubilis, morocco. 			 		 	 			 			 mosaic of diana and her nymph surprised by actaeon while bathing, from the house of venus 			 		 	 			 			 volubilis, morocco 			 		 	 			 			 mosaic (detail), volubilis, morocco 			 		 	 			 			 			 		 	 			 			 volubilis, morocco 			 		 the bronze bust of cato the younger, found in the house of venus in 	the house of the labours of hercules is named for the mosaic depicting the twelve tasks that the demigod had to perform as penance for killing his wife and children. it is thought to have been created during the reign of the emperor commodus, who identified himself with hercules. jupiter, his lover ganymede and the four seasons are depicted in another mosaic in the house.[ ] the house was of palatial size, with rooms covering an area of ,  m ( ,  sq ft). 	a building dubbed the gordian palace is located further up the decumanus maximus. it was the largest building in the city and was probably the residence of the governor, rather than the emperor gordian iii; it was rebuilt during gordian's reign in the mid- rd century. it combined two separate houses to create a complex of rooms with courtyards and private bathhouses serving both domestic and official functions.[ ] it also incorporated a colonnaded front with a dozen shops behind the colonnade, and an oil factory consisting of three oil presses and an oil store in the north-east corner of the complex.[ ] the decoration of the gordian palace is today quite plain with only a few scanty mosaics remaining.[ ] despite its presumed high status, the floors seem to have been mostly rendered with opus sectile rather than decorated with mosaics.[ ] inscriptions found in the palace testify to the city's decline and eventual fall. they record a series of treaties reached with the local berber chieftains, increasing in number as the city became more vulnerable and the tribesmen pressed harder. by the time of the final treaty, just a few years before the fall of the city, the chieftains were being treated as virtual equals of rome – an indication of how much roman power in the area had declined.[ ] the last two inscribed altars, from and , refer to a foederata et diuturna pax (a "federated and lasting peace"), though this proved to be a forlorn hope, as volubilis fell soon afterwards.[ ] 	the house of venus, towards the eastern side of the city under a prominent cypress tree, was one of the most luxurious residences in the city. it had a set of private baths and a richly decorated interior, with fine mosaics dating from the nd century ad showing animal and mythological scenes. there were mosaics in seven corridors and eight rooms.[ ] the central courtyard has a fanciful mosaic depicting racing chariots in a hippodrome, drawn by teams of peacocks, geese and ducks. the mosaic of venus for which the house is named has been removed to tangier, but in the next-door room is a still-extant mosaic showing diana and a companion nymph being surprised by actaeon while bathing. actaeon is depicted with horns beginning to sprout from his head as he is transformed by the angry goddess into a stag, before being chased down and killed by his own hunting dogs.[ ] the house appears to have been destroyed some time after the city's fall around ; a mosaic depicting cupids feeding birds with grain has been charred by what appears to have been a fire burning directly on top of it, perhaps resulting from the building being taken over by squatters who used the mosaic as the site of a hearth.[ ] the same building was also the site of the discovery in of a bronze bust of outstanding quality depicting cato the younger. one of the most notable artefacts discovered at volubilis, it is now on display in the archaeological museum in rabat. it was still on its original pedestal when it was found by archaeologists. the bust has been dated to the time of nero or vespasian and may be a copy of a bust created in cato's lifetime or shortly thereafter. its inscription identifies its subject as the orator.[ ] another outstanding bust, depicting a hellenistic prince, was discovered in a bakery across the street. it seems to have been made at the same time as the cato bust and may well have come from the house of venus, where an empty pedestal in another room suggests that the cato had a companion piece. the bust, which is also on display in rabat, is usually identified as juba ii but other possibilities include hiero ii of syracuse, cleomenes iii of sparta, juba i or hannibal.[ ] headquarters of idris i[edit] just outside the walls of the city, on the floodplain of the oued khoumane, was found a series of interlocking courtyard buildings, of which the largest contained a hammam, or bath. this is an l-shaped structure, with a cold room paved with flagstones and benches running along the sides. at the end is found a plunge pool with three steps leading into it. from the cold room one moved to a vestibule at the corner of the building, decorated with a relief of a shield taken from the arch of caracalla. from there, one moved into the warm room, still covered by a vault, and finally into the hot room. the vault of this has now been restored, but it is possible to see the channels in the floor through which the hot air passed. beyond this a furnace heated the room, as well as the hot water which would have flowed into basins in the corners. the courtyard of which this hammam formed the western limit was large, and contained numerous large silos for grain storage. to the south of this courtyard was one evidently designed for reception, with long narrow rooms to the east and west, one of which was painted red, with a low bench or divan at one end. further south a third courtyard, only partially excavated, seems to have been devoted to domestic use. the plan, with its large courtyards and narrow rooms, is very different from the contemporary one or two-roomed structures inside the walls, probably inhabited by the berbers of the awraba tribe. it is dated by coins and pottery to the reign of idris i, and has been 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"map of volubilis". volubilis project. archived from the original on february , . retrieved october . external links[edit] 		wikimedia commons has media related to volubilis. 	the volubilis project 	volubilis on the unesco website 		v 	t 	e world heritage sites in morocco 	northern	 	medina of fes 	rabat, modern capital and historic city: a shared heritage 	medina of tétouan (formerly known as titawin) 	archaeological site of volubilis 	historic city of meknes 	 	central	 	medina of essaouira (formerly mogador) 	medina of marrakech 	portuguese city of mazagan (el jadida) 	southern	 	ksar of ait-ben-haddou 	 	v 	t 	e former cities in morocco 	 	iulia constantia zilil 	iulia valentia banasa 	iulia campestris babba 	lixus 	sala colonia 	sijilmasa 	tagmadert 	tamdoult 	tamuda 	thamusida 	thymiaterium 	volubilis 	 	v 	t 	e romano-berber cities in roman north africa 	sorted by contemporary national borders 	morocco	 	anfa 	iulia constantia zilil 	iulia valentia banasa 	iulia campestris babba 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history[edit] discussion about having a common international authority started in the late s. after a series of failed attempts to come up with a unique common authority file, the new idea was to link existing national authorities. this would present all the benefits of a common file without requiring a large investment of time and expense in the process.[ ] the project was initiated by the us library of congress (lc), the german national library (dnb) and the oclc on august , . the bibliothèque nationale de france (bnf) joined the project on october , . the project transitioned to being a service of the oclc on april , .[ ] the aim is to link the national authority files (such as the german name authority file) to a single virtual authority file. in this file, identical records from the different data sets are linked together. a viaf record receives a standard data number, contains the primary "see" and "see also" records from the original records, and refers to the original authority records. the data are made available online and are available for research and data exchange and sharing. reciprocal updating uses the open archives initiative protocol for metadata harvesting (oai-pmh) protocol. the file numbers are also being added to wikipedia biographical articles and are incorporated into wikidata.[ ][ ] viaf clusters[edit] viaf's clustering algorithm is run every month. as more data are added from participating libraries, clusters of authority records may coalesce or split, leading to some fluctuation in the viaf identifier of certain authority records.[ ] participating libraries and organizations[edit] 	english wikipedia entry name 	identifier 	native-language name 	location 	country 	bibliotheca alexandrina 	egaxa 	arabic: مكتبة الإسكندرية‎ 	alexandria	egypt 	biblioteca nacional de chile 	bnchl 	spanish: biblioteca nacional de chile 	santiago	chile 	biblioteca nacional de españa 	bne 	spanish: biblioteca nacional de españa 	madrid	spain 	biblioteca nacional de portugal 	ptbnp 	portuguese: biblioteca nacional de portugal 	lisbon	portugal 	bibliothèque et archives nationales du québec 	b q 	french: bibliothèque et archives nationales du québec 	quebec	canada 	bibliothèque nationale de france 	bnf 	french: bibliothèque nationale de france 	paris	france 	bibliothèque nationale du royaume du maroc (bnrm) 	mrbnr 	arabic: المكتبة الوطنية للمملكة المغربية‎ french: bibliothèque nationale du royaume du maroc 	rabat	morocco 	biografisch portaal 	bpn 	dutch: biografisch portaal 	the hague	netherlands 	british library 	 	– 	london	england 	danish agency for culture and palaces 	 	danish: kulturstyrelsen 	copenhagen	denmark 	danish bibliographic centre 	dbc 	danish: dansk bibliotekscenter 	ballerup	denmark 	german national library (dnb) 	gnd 	german: deutsche nationalbibliothek 	frankfurt	germany 	international standard name identifier[ ] 	isni 	– 	london	united kingdom 	israel museum 	 	hebrew: מוזיאון ישראל‎ 	jerusalem	israel 	istituto centrale per il catalogo unico 	iccu sbn 	italian: istituto centrale per il catalogo unico 	rome	italy 	lebanese national library 	lnl 	arabic: المكتبة الوطنية‎ 	beirut	lebanon 	library and archives canada 	lac 	french: bibliothèque et archives canada 	ottawa, ontario	canada 	library of congress naco consortium (name authority cooperative program)[ ] 	lccn 	– 	washington, d.c.	united states 	national and university library in zagreb 	nsk 	croatian: nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica u zagrebu 	zagreb	croatia 	national and university library of slovenia 	 	slovene: narodna in univerzitetna knjižnica 	ljubljana	slovenia 	national central library 	ncl cyt 	chinese: 國家圖書館 	taipei	taiwan 	national diet library 	ndl 	japanese: 国立国会図書館 	tokyo kyoto	japan 	national institute of informatics 	nii cinii 	japanese: 国立情報学研究所 	tokyo	japan 	national library board 	nlb 	– 	–	singapore 	national library of australia 	nla 	– 	canberra	australia 	national library of brazil 	blbnb 	portuguese: biblioteca nacional do brasil 	rio de janeiro	brazil 	national library of catalonia 	bnc 	catalan: biblioteca de catalunya 	barcelona	spain 	national library of estonia 	errr 	estonian: eesti rahvusraamatukogu 	tallinn	estonia 	national and university library of iceland (nuli) 	uiy 	icelandic: háskólabókasafn 	reykjavík	iceland 	national library of ireland 	n i 	irish: leabharlann náisiúnta na hÉireann 	dublin	ireland 	national library of israel 	nli 	hebrew: הספרייה הלאומית‎ 	jerusalem	israel 	national library of korea 	krnlk 	korean: 국립중앙도서관 	seoul	korea 	national library of latvia 	lnb 	latvian: latvijas nacionālā bibliotēka 	rīga	latvia 	national library of luxembourg 	bnl 	luxembourgish: nationalbibliothéik lëtzebuerg french: bibliothèque nationale de luxembourg 	luxembourg city	luxembourg 	national library of mexico 	bnm 	spanish: biblioteca nacional de méxico 	mexico city	mexico 	national library of the netherlands 	nta 	dutch: koninklijke bibliotheek 	the hague	netherlands 	national library of new zealand 	 	– 	wellington	new zealand 	national library of norway 	bibsys w z 	norwegian: nasjonalbiblioteket 	trondheim	norway 	national library of poland 	nlp 	polish: biblioteka narodowa 	warsaw	poland 	national library of russia 	nlr 	russian: Российская национальная библиотека 	saint petersburg	russia 	national library of scotland 	 	scottish gaelic: leabharlann nàiseanta na h-alba scots: naitional leebrar o scotland 	edinburgh	scotland 	national library of south africa 	 	afrikaans: staats-bibliotheek der zuid-afrikaansche republiek 	cape town pretoria	south africa 	national library of sweden 	selibr 	swedish: kungliga biblioteket - sveriges nationalbibliotek 	stockholm	sweden 	national library of wales 	 	welsh: llyfrgell genedlaethol cymru 	aberystwyth	wales 	national library of the czech republic 	nkc 	czech: národní knihovna České republiky 	prague	czech republic 	national széchényi library 	nszl 	hungarian: országos széchényi könyvtár 	budapest	hungary 	perseus project 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		jump to search 		english poet and soldier ( – ) for the politician, see wilfrid owen. 	wilfred owen 	a plate from his poems by wilfred owen, depicting him 	born	wilfred edward salter owen march oswestry, shropshire, england 	died	 november ( - - ) (aged  ) sambre–oise canal, france 	cause of death	killed in action 	 	nationality	british 	period	first world war 	genre	war poetry 	website 	www.wilfredowen.org.uk wilfred edward salter owen, mc ( march  – november ) was an english poet and soldier. he was one of the leading poets of the first world war. his war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was much influenced by his mentor siegfried sassoon and stood in contrast to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war poets such as rupert brooke. among his best-known works – most of which were published posthumously – are "dulce et decorum est", "insensibility", "anthem for doomed youth", "futility", "spring offensive" and "strange meeting". contents 	 early life 	 war service 	 death 	 poetry 	 relationship with sassoon 	 memory 	 wilfred owen association 	 depictions in popular culture 	 . in literature and films 	 . in music 	 . other 	 references 	 external links early life[edit] owen was born on march at plas wilmot, a house in weston lane, near oswestry in shropshire. he was the eldest of thomas and (harriett) susan owen (née shaw)'s four children; his siblings were mary millard, (william) harold, and colin shaw owen. when wilfred was born, his parents lived in a comfortable house owned by his grandfather, edward shaw. after edward's death in january , and the house's sale in march,[ ] the family lodged in the back streets of birkenhead. there thomas owen temporarily worked in the town employed by a railway company. thomas transferred to shrewsbury in april where the family lived with thomas' parents in canon street.[ ] thomas owen transferred back to birkenhead, again in when he became stationmaster at woodside station.[ ] the family lived with him at three successive homes in the tranmere district,[ ] they then moved back to shrewsbury in .[ ] wilfred owen was educated at the birkenhead institute[ ] and at shrewsbury technical school (later known as the wakeman school). owen discovered his poetic vocation in about [ ] during a holiday spent in cheshire. he was raised as an anglican of the evangelical type, and in his youth was a devout believer, in part thanks to his strong relationship with his mother, which lasted throughout his life. his early influences included the bible and the romantic poets, particularly john keats.[ ] owen's last two years of formal education saw him as a pupil-teacher at the wyle cop school in shrewsbury.[ ] in he passed the matriculation exam for the university of london, but not with the first-class honours needed for a scholarship, which in his family's circumstances was the only way he could have afforded to attend. in return for free lodging, and some tuition for the entrance exam (this has been questioned[citation needed]) owen worked as lay assistant to the vicar of dunsden near reading,[ ] living in the vicarage from september to february . during this time he attended classes at university college, reading (now the university of reading), in botany and later, at the urging of the head of the english department, took free lessons in old english. his time spent at dunsden parish led him to disillusionment with the church, both in its ceremony and its failure to provide aid for those in need.[ ][ ] from he worked as a private tutor teaching english and french at the berlitz school of languages in bordeaux, france, and later with a family. there he met the older french poet laurent tailhade, with whom he later corresponded in french.[ ] when war broke out, owen did not rush to enlist – and even considered the french army – but eventually returned to england.[ ] war service[edit] on october , he enlisted in the artists rifles officers' training corps. for the next seven months, he trained at hare hall camp in essex.[ ] on june , he was commissioned as a second lieutenant (on probation) in the manchester regiment.[ ] initially owen held his troops in contempt for their loutish behaviour, and in a letter to his mother described his company as "expressionless lumps".[ ] however, his imaginative existence was to be changed dramatically by a number of traumatic experiences. he fell into a shell hole and suffered concussion; he was caught in the blast of a trench mortar shell and spent several days unconscious on an embankment lying amongst the remains of one of his fellow officers. soon afterward, owen was diagnosed as suffering from neurasthenia or shell shock and sent to craiglockhart war hospital in edinburgh for treatment. it was while recuperating at craiglockhart that he met fellow poet siegfried sassoon, an encounter that was to transform owen's life. whilst at craiglockhart he made friends in edinburgh's artistic and literary circles, and did some teaching at the tynecastle high school, in a poor area of the city. in november he was discharged from craiglockhart, judged fit for light regimental duties. he spent a contented and fruitful winter in scarborough, north yorkshire, and in march was posted to the northern command depot at ripon.[ ] while in ripon he composed or revised a number of poems, including "futility" and "strange meeting". his th birthday was spent quietly at ripon cathedral, which is dedicated to his namesake, st. wilfrid of hexham. owen returned in july , to active service in france, although he might have stayed on home-duty indefinitely. his decision to return was probably the result of sassoon's being sent back to england, after being shot in the head in an apparent "friendly fire" incident, and put on sick-leave for the remaining duration of the war. owen saw it as his duty to add his voice to that of sassoon, that the horrific realities of the war might continue to be told. sassoon was violently opposed to the idea of owen returning to the trenches, threatening to "stab [him] in the leg" if he tried it. aware of his attitude, owen did not inform him of his action until he was once again in france. at the very end of august , owen returned to the front line – perhaps imitating sassoon's example. on october , owen led units of the second manchesters to storm a number of enemy strong points near the village of joncourt. for his courage and leadership in the joncourt action, he was awarded the military cross, an award he had always sought in order to justify himself as a war poet, but the award was not gazetted until february .[ ] the citation followed on july : nd lt, wilfred edward salter owen, th bn. manch. r., t.f., attd. nd bn. for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in the attack on the fonsomme line on october st/ nd, . on the company commander becoming a casualty, he assumed command and showed fine leadership and resisted a heavy counter-attack. he personally manipulated a captured enemy machine gun from an isolated position and inflicted considerable losses on the enemy. throughout he behaved most gallantly.[ ] death[edit] owen's grave, in ors communal cemetery owen was killed in action on november during the crossing of the sambre–oise canal, exactly one week (almost to the hour) before the signing of the armistice which ended the war, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant the day after his death. his mother received the telegram informing her of his death on armistice day, as the church bells in shrewsbury were ringing out in celebration.[ ][ ] owen is buried at ors communal cemetery, ors, in northern france.[ ] the inscription on his gravestone, chosen by his mother susan, is based on a quote from his poetry: "shall life renew these bodies? of a truth all death will he annul" w.o.[ ][ ] poetry[edit] owen is regarded by many as the greatest poet of the first world war,[ ] known for his verse about the horrors of trench and gas warfare. he had been writing poetry for some years before the war, himself dating his poetic beginnings to a stay at broxton by the hill when he was ten years old.[ ] the poetry of william butler yeats was a significant influence for owen, but yeats did not reciprocate owen's admiration, excluding him from the oxford book of modern verse, a decision yeats later defended, saying owen was "all blood, dirt, and sucked sugar stick" and "unworthy of the poet's corner of a country newspaper". yeats elaborated: "in all the great tragedies, tragedy is a joy to the man who dies ... if war is necessary in our time and place, it is best to forget its suffering as we do the discomfort of fever ..."[ ] the romantic poets keats and shelley influenced much of his early writing and poetry. his great friend, the poet siegfried sassoon, later had a profound effect on his poetic voice, and owen's most famous poems ("dulce et decorum est" and "anthem for doomed youth") show direct results of sassoon's influence. manuscript copies of the poems survive, annotated in sassoon's handwriting. owen's poetry would eventually be more widely acclaimed than that of his mentor. while his use of pararhyme with heavy reliance on assonance was innovative, he was not the only poet at the time to use these particular techniques. he was, however, one of the first to experiment with it extensively. anthem for doomed youth what passing-bells for these who die as cattle? only the monstrous anger of the guns. only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle can patter out their hasty orisons. no mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells, nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, – the shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells; and bugles calling for them from sad shires. what candles may be held to speed them all? not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes. the pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, and each slow dusk a drawing down of blinds. [ ] his poetry itself underwent significant changes in . as a part of his therapy at craiglockhart, owen's doctor, arthur brock, encouraged owen to translate his experiences, specifically the experiences he relived in his dreams, into poetry. sassoon, who was becoming influenced by freudian psychoanalysis, aided him here, showing owen through example what poetry could do. sassoon's use of satire influenced owen, who tried his hand at writing "in sassoon's style". further, the content of owen's verse was undeniably changed by his work with sassoon. sassoon's emphasis on realism and "writing from experience" was contrary to owen's hitherto romantic-influenced style, as seen in his earlier sonnets. owen was to take both sassoon's gritty realism and his own romantic notions and create a poetic synthesis that was both potent and sympathetic, as summarised by his famous phrase "the pity of war". in this way, owen's poetry is quite distinctive, and he is, by many, considered a greater poet than sassoon. nonetheless, sassoon contributed to owen's popularity by his strong promotion of his poetry, both before and after owen's death, and his editing was instrumental in the making of owen as a poet. owen's poems had the benefit of strong patronage, and it was a combination of sassoon's influence, support from edith sitwell, and the preparation of a new and fuller edition of the poems in by edmund blunden that ensured his popularity, coupled with a revival of interest in his poetry in the s which plucked him out of a relatively exclusive readership into the public eye.[ ] though he had plans for a volume of verse, for which he had written a "preface", he never saw his own work published apart from those poems he included in the hydra, the magazine he edited at craiglockhart war hospital, and "miners", which was published in the nation. there were many other influences on owen's poetry, including his mother. his letters to her provide an insight into owen's life at the front, and the development of his philosophy regarding the war. graphic details of the horror owen witnessed were never spared. owen's experiences with religion also heavily influenced his poetry, notably in poems such as "anthem for doomed youth", in which the ceremony of a funeral is re-enacted not in a church, but on the battlefield itself, and "at a calvary near the ancre", which comments on the crucifixion of christ. owen's experiences in war led him further to challenge his religious beliefs, claiming in his poem "exposure" that "love of god seems dying". only five of owen's poems were published before his death, one in fragmentary form. his best known poems include "anthem for doomed youth", "futility", "dulce et decorum est", "the parable of the old men and the young" and "strange meeting". however, most of them were published posthumously: poems ( ),the poems of wilfred owen ( ),the collected poems of wilfred owen ( ),the complete poems and fragments ( ); fundamental in this last collection is the poem soldier's dream, that deals with owen's conception of war. owen's full unexpurgated opus is in the academic two-volume work the complete poems and fragments ( ) by jon stallworthy. many of his poems have never been published in popular form. in mrs. harold owen, wilfred's sister-in-law, donated all of the manuscripts, photographs and letters which her late husband had owned to the university of oxford's english faculty library. as well as the personal artifacts, this also includes all of owen's personal library and an almost complete set of the hydra – the magazine of craiglockhart war hospital. these can be accessed by any member of the public on application in advance to the english faculty librarian. the harry ransom humanities research center at the university of texas at austin holds a large collection of owen's family correspondence. an important turning point in owen scholarship occurred in when the new statesman published a stinging polemic 'the truth untold' by jonathan cutbill,[ ] the literary executor of edward carpenter, which attacked the academic suppression of owen as a poet of homosexual experience.[ ] amongst the points it made was that the poem "shadwell stair", previously alleged to be mysterious, was a straightforward elegy to homosexual soliciting in an area of the london docks once renowned for it. relationship with sassoon[edit] owen held siegfried sassoon in an esteem not far from hero-worship, remarking to his mother that he was "not worthy to light [sassoon's] pipe". the relationship clearly had a profound impact on owen, who wrote in his first letter to sassoon after leaving craiglockhart "you have fixed my life – however short". sassoon wrote that he took "an instinctive liking to him",[ ] and recalled their time together "with affection".[ ] on the evening of november they parted, owen having been discharged from craiglockhart. he was stationed on home-duty in scarborough for several months, during which time he associated with members of the artistic circle into which sassoon had introduced him, which included robbie ross and robert graves. he also met h. g. wells and arnold bennett, and it was during this period he developed the stylistic voice for which he is now recognised. many of his early poems were penned while stationed at the clarence garden hotel, now the clifton hotel in scarborough's north bay. a blue tourist plaque on the hotel marks its association with owen. robert graves[ ] and sacheverell sitwell[ ] (who also personally knew him) stated that owen was homosexual, and homoeroticism is a central element in much of owen's poetry.[ ][ ][ ][ ] through sassoon, owen was introduced to a sophisticated homosexual literary circle which included oscar wilde's friend robbie ross, writer and poet osbert sitwell, and scottish writer c. k. scott moncrieff, the translator of marcel proust. this contact broadened owen's outlook, and increased his confidence in incorporating homoerotic elements into his work.[ ][ ] historians have debated whether owen had an affair with scott moncrieff in may ; he had dedicated various works to a "mr w.o.",[ ] but owen never responded.[ ] throughout owen's lifetime and for decades after, homosexual activity between men was a punishable offence in british law, and the account of owen's sexual development has been somewhat obscured because his brother harold removed what he considered discreditable passages in owen's letters and diaries after the death of their mother.[ ] andrew motion wrote of owen's relationship with sassoon: "on the one hand, sassoon's wealth, posh connections and aristocratic manner appealed to the snob in owen: on the other, sassoon's homosexuality admitted owen to a style of living and thinking that he found naturally sympathetic." [ ] sassoon, by his own account, was not actively homosexual at this time.[ ] sassoon and owen kept in touch through correspondence, and after sassoon was shot in the head in july and sent back to england to recover, they met in august and spent what sassoon described as "the whole of a hot cloudless afternoon together."[ ] they never saw each other again. about three weeks later, owen wrote to bid sassoon farewell, as he was on the way back to france, and they continued to communicate. after the armistice, sassoon waited in vain for word from owen, only to be told of his death several months later. the loss grieved sassoon greatly, and he was never "able to accept that disappearance philosophically."[ ] memory[edit] there are memorials to owen at gailly,[ ] ors,[ ] oswestry,[ ] birkenhead (central library) and shrewsbury.[ ] on november , owen was one of the great war poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in westminster abbey's poet's corner.[ ] the inscription on the stone is taken from owen's "preface" to his poems: "my subject is war, and the pity of war. the poetry is in the pity."[ ] there is also a small museum dedicated to owen and sassoon at the craiglockhart war hospital, now a napier university building. the forester's house in ors where owen spent his last night, maison forestière de l'ermitage, has been transformed by turner prize nominee simon patterson into an art installation and permanent memorial to owen and his poetry, which opened to the public on october .[ ] susan owen's letter to rabindranath tagore marked, shrewsbury, august , reads: "i have been trying to find courage to write to you ever since i heard that you were in london – but the desire to tell you something is finding its way into this letter today. the letter may never reach you, for i do not know how to address it, tho' i feel sure your name upon the envelope will be sufficient. it is nearly two years ago, that my dear eldest son went out to the war for the last time and the day he said goodbye to me – we were looking together across the sun-glorified sea – looking towards france, with breaking hearts – when he, my poet son, said those wonderful words of yours – beginning at 'when i go from hence, let this be my parting word' – and when his pocket book came back to me – i found these words written in his dear writing – with your name beneath."[ ] wilfred owen association[edit] to commemorate wilfred's life and poetry, the wilfred owen association was formed in .[ ][ ] since its formation the association has established permanent public memorials in shrewsbury and oswestry. in addition to readings, talks, visits and performances, it promotes and encourages exhibitions, conferences, awareness and appreciation of owen's poetry. peter owen, wilfred owen's nephew, was president of the association until his death in july .[ ] dr rowan williams (archbishop of canterbury – ), sir daniel day-lewis and grey ruthven, nd earl of gowrie are patrons.[ ][ ] the association presents a biennial poetry award to honour a poet for a sustained body of work that includes memorable war poems; previous recipients include sir andrew motion (poet laureate – ), dannie abse, christopher logue, gillian clarke and seamus heaney. owen sheers was awarded the prize in september .[ ][ ][ ] in november , actor jason isaacs unveiled a tribute to owen at the former craiglockhart war hospital in edinburgh where owen was treated for shell shock during wwi.[ ] depictions in popular culture[edit] in literature and films[edit] stephen macdonald's play not about heroes (first performed in ) takes as its subject matter the friendship between owen and sassoon, and begins with their meeting at craiglockhart during world war i.[ ] pat barker's historical novel regeneration ( ) describes the meeting and relationship between sassoon and owen,[ ] acknowledging that, from sassoon's perspective, the meeting had a profoundly significant effect on owen. owen's treatment with his own doctor, arthur brock, is also touched upon briefly. owen's death is described in the third book of barker's regeneration trilogy, the ghost road ( ).[ ] in the film regeneration, stuart bunce played owen.[ ] owen is the subject of the bbc docudrama wilfred owen: a remembrance tale ( ), in which he is played by samuel barnett.[ ] owen was mentioned as a source of inspiration for one of the correspondents in the epistolary novel, the guernsey literary and potato peel pie society ( ), by mary ann shaffer and annie barrows.[ ] in harry turtledove's multi-novel southern victory series, the title of the third volume, walk in hell, is taken from a line in "mental cases". this part of the series is set during an alternate history version of world war i which sees canada invaded and occupied by united states troops. owen is acknowledged on the title page as the source of the quote. a film named the burying party (released august ), depicts owen's final year from craiglockhart hospital to the battle of the sambre ( ). matthew staite stars as owen and joyce branagh as his mother susan.[ ][ ][ ] in music[edit] his poetry has been reworked into various formats. for example, benjamin britten incorporated eight of owen's poems into his war requiem, along with words from the latin mass for the dead (missa pro defunctis). the requiem was commissioned for the reconsecration of coventry cathedral and first performed there on may .[ ] derek jarman adapted it for the screen in , with the recording as the soundtrack.[ ] the ravishing beauties recorded owen's poem "futility" in an april john peel session.[ ] also in , , maniacs recorded a song titled "anthem for doomed youth", loosely based on the poem, in fredonia, new york. the recording appeared on their first ep release human conflict number five and later on the compilation hope chest. also appearing on the hope chest album was the song "the latin one", a reference to the title of owen's poem "dulce et decorum est" on which the song is based. additionally in , singer virginia astley set the poem "futility" to music she had composed.[ ] in , anathema released the crestfallen ep, with the song "they die" quoting lines from owen's poem "the end", which also formed the epitaph on his grave in ors. wirral musician dean johnson created the musical bullets and daffodils, based on music set to owen's poetry, in .[ ] in , the british indie rock band, the libertines, released an album entitled anthems for doomed youth; this featured the track "anthem for doomed youth", named after owen's poem. his poetry is sampled multiple times on the jedi mind tricks album violent by design.[ ][ ] producer stoupe the enemy of mankind has been widely acclaimed for his sampling on the album, and inclusion of owen's poetry. other[edit] owen appears in episode , the piper, of british horror podcast the magnus archives.[ ] references[edit] 	^ stallworthy, jon ( ). wilfred owen, a biography. oxford university press and chatto and windus. p.  . isbn  - - - . 	^ a b wilfred owen, a biography. p.  . 	^ wilfred owen, a biography. pp.  – . 	^ wilfred owen, a biography. pp.  – . 	^ "wilfred owen – spirit of birkenhead institute". freewebs.com. retrieved july . 	^ paul farley, "wilfred owen: journey to the trenches", the independent, november 	^ sandra m. gilbert. 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class struggles he saw as endemic during this period, with patricians generally favoring consuls and plebs the military tribunes. the office of "consular tribune" eventually fell out of use after bc. after the marian reforms[edit] after the marian reforms of bc (subsequently further formalised by the emperor claudius) created a professionalized military system, legions were commanded by a legionary legate (legatus). six tribunes were still posted to a legion, but their duties and responsibilities had changed, becoming more a political position than a military rank. the second-in-command to the legate was the tribunus laticlavius or 'broad-stripe' tribune (named after the width of the stripe used to demarcate him on his tunic and toga),[ ] usually a young man of senatorial rank. he was given this position to learn and watch the actions of the legate. they often found themselves leading their unit in the absence of a legate, and some legions were permanently commanded by a broad-stripe tribune, such as those stationed in egypt, as an augustan law required that no member of the senatorial order ever enter egypt.[ ] in contrast to the broad-stripe tribune, the other five 'thin stripe' tribunes were lower in rank, and were called the tribuni angusticlavii. these 'officer cadets'[ ] were men of equestrian rank who had military experience, and yet had no authority: they were allowed to sit on a court martial but they held no power in battle. most thin-stripe tribunes served the legionary legate, yet a lucky few (such as agricola) were selected to serve on the staff of the provincial governor.[ ] according to tacitus, they did not always take their appointment as seriously as they might, contrasting agricola's tribuneship to his peers by saying "[agricola did not], like many young men who convert military service into wanton pastime, avail himself licentiously or slothfully of his tribunitial title, or use his inexperience to spend his time in pleasures and absences from 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	caesar 	tetrarch 	 	other countries 		v 	t 	e the vigintisexviri (sing. vigintisexvir) was a college (collegium) of minor magistrates (magistratus minores) in the roman republic; the name literally means "twenty-six men". the college consisted of six boards: 	decemviri stlitibus judicandis – magistrates who judged lawsuits, including those dealing with whether a man was free or a slave; 	the tresviri capitales, also known as nocturni – three magistrates who had a police function in rome, in charge of prisons and the execution of criminals; [ ] 	the tresviri aere argento auro flando feriundo, also known as tresviri monetales – three magistrates who were in charge of striking and casting bronze, silver and gold (minting coins); 	the quattuorviri viis in urbe purgandis, also known as quattuorviri viarum curandarum – four magistrates overseeing road maintenance within the city of rome; 	the duoviri viis extra urbem purgandis, also known as duoviri curatores viarum – two magistrates overseeing road maintenance near rome; 	the four praefecti capuam cumas – praefecti sent to capua and cumae in campania to administer justice there. the singular of tresviri is triumvir; triumviri is also sometimes used for the plural but is considered to be less correct.[ ] in the republic, the vigintisexvirate had served as a stepping stone for the sons of senators to begin their own public careers in the cursus honorum; julius caesar had served as curator viarum and restored parts of the via appia. in ad  , however, the senate passed a senatus consultum restricting the reduced vigintivirate to the equestrians. during the principate, caesar augustus abolished the duoviri viis extra urbem purgandis and the four praefecti capuam cumas, thereby changing the vigintisexviri into the vigintiviri ("twenty men"). references[edit] citations[edit] 	^ hornblower :police 	^ melville jones :mint magistrates sources[edit] 	melville jones, john r. 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		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	contact wikipedia 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 horace — wikipédia 	aller au contenu 	 	 		afficher/cacher la barre latérale 	 	 		 		 			 			 		 	 	 	 		rechercher 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 	 	 		outils personnels 	 	 			non connecté 	discussion 	contributions 	créer un compte 	se connecter 		 	 	 	 	 		navigation 	 	 			accueil 	portails thématiques 	article au hasard 	contact 		 	 	 	 		contribuer 	 	 			débuter sur wikipédia 	aide 	communauté 	modifications récentes 	faire un don 		 	 	 		outils 	 	 			pages liées 	suivi des pages liées 	téléverser un fichier 	pages spéciales 	lien permanent 	informations sur la page 	citer cette page 	Élément wikidata 		 	 	 		imprimer / exporter 	 	 			créer un livre 	télécharger comme pdf 	version imprimable 		 	 	 		dans d’autres projets 	 	 			wikimedia commons 	wikiquote 	wikisource 		 	 	 	 		dans d’autres langues 	 	 			afrikaans 	አማርኛ 	aragonés 	العربية 	مصرى 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(à  ans) rome 	activité principale	 poésie auteur	langue d’écriture 	 latin 	genres 	 épître, épode, ode, satire 	adjectifs dérivés 	 horatien modifier horace (en latin quintus horatius flaccus) est un poète latin né à vénouse dans le sud de l'italie le décembre av. j.-c. et mort à rome le novembre av. j.-c.. sommaire 	 biographie 	 . famille et enfance 	 . en grèce 	 . retour à rome 	 . client de mécène 	 . maturité 	 l'œuvre d'horace 	 . satires 	 . Épodes 	 . odes 	 . chant séculaire 	 . Épîtres 	 convictions 	 . religion 	 . philosophie 	 . horace et la politique augustéenne 	 le travail du poète 	 . modèles et goûts 	 . représentation du poète 	 . qu'est-ce qu'un bon poète ? 	 postérité 	 . dans l'antiquité 	 . au moyen Âge : l’aetas horatiana 	 . pendant la renaissance 	 . au xixe siècle 	 . horace, personnage littéraire 	 . citations célèbres 	 notes et références 	 . notes 	 . références anciennes 	 . références modernes 	 bibliographie 	 . Œuvres 	 . ouvrages généraux 	 . Études 	 . articles 	 voir aussi 	 . articles connexes 	 . liens externes biographie[modifier | modifier le code] la vie d'horace nous est essentiellement connue par son œuvre, riche en informations et considérée comme une source fiable[ ]. quelques renseignements supplémentaires figurent dans la biographie de viris illustribus (des hommes illustres) de suétone. famille et enfance[modifier | modifier le code] horace est issu d'une famille modeste. son père est devenu esclave dans des circonstances mal connues, peut-être comme prisonnier de guerre au cours de la guerre sociale en av. j.-c.[ ], puis a été affranchi. le nom d'horatius était probablement, comme il était l'usage, celui de son ancien maître : deux familles romaines portaient ce nom, ainsi qu'un ami de cicéron qui possédait des champs près de brundisium, c'est-à-dire près de la ville de naissance du poète ; il est impossible de savoir de qui le père a été l'esclave. il a pu également être un esclave public de la ville de venose[ ]. une fois affranchi, il exerce le métier de coactor, c'est-à-dire de caissier de ventes aux enchères, puis celui de praeco (« commissaire-priseur »). il possède quelques terres, confisquées après la mort de jules césar[ ], et n'est pas pauvre, puisqu'il peut envoyer son fils passer l'été dans la fraîcheur du mont vultur[ ]. on ne sait rien de la mère du poète, qui ne mentionne ni frère ni sœur non plus[ ]. le nom complet du poète, quintus horatius flaccus, indique qu'il faisait partie de la famille des horatii[ ]. il n'est attesté que par l'inscription commandée à l'occasion des jeux séculaires organisés par auguste en av. j.-c. : carmen composvit q. horativs flaccvs (« le poème a été composé par q. horatius flaccus »)[ ] ; il s'agit du chant séculaire. horace naît à venose, aux frontières de l'apulie et de la lucanie, le décembre av. j.-c. vers trois heures du matin[n ]. quand le jeune horace atteint l'âge de sept ou dix ans, son père s'installe à rome ; on ne sait s'il y abandonne les affaires pour vivre des revenus de ses terres[ ] ou s'il y poursuit sa carrière[ ]. il consacre son temps et une bonne partie de son argent à l'éducation de son fils et lui fait suivre les leçons du grammairien lucius orbilius pupillus, qui enseigne ennius, livius andronicus et bien sûr homère. horace témoigne de cette période et de sa gratitude envers son père dans les satires[n ] : « si [...] ma vie est pure et innocente, mes jours chers à mes amis, le mérite en appartient à mon père qui, tout pauvre qu'il était, possesseur d'un maigre champ, ne voulut pas toutefois m'envoyer à l'école de flavius, où allaient pour quelque argent, payé au retour des ides, avec leur bourse à jetons et leurs tablettes sous le bras gauche, les nobles fils de nos nobles centurions. il osa me transporter à rome, encore enfant, pour y apprendre ce que tout chevalier, tout sénateur voudrait qu'on enseignât à son fils. » — satires, i, , vers - en grèce[modifier | modifier le code] horace a environ vingt ans lorsqu'il part pour athènes, pour y poursuivre l'étude du grec et découvrir la philosophie. son père semble être mort avant ce départ[ ] et c'est à la même époque qu'il aurait commencé à écrire[n ], dont au moins quelques vers en grec[ ]. il étudie à l'académie auprès d'aristos d'ascalon[ ]. horace est toujours en grèce lors de l'assassinat de jules césar en av. j.-c.[ ]. peu après, brutus et cassius arrivent à athènes et enrôlent de jeunes aristocrates dans leur armée ; horace obtient le grade de tribun militaire en av. j.-c.[ ], ce qui le fait entrer dans l'ordre des chevaliers et lui assure des privilèges à vie[ ]. lors de la première bataille de philippes (première semaine d'octobre av. j.-c.), les troupes de brutus s'emparent du camp d'octave, qui échappe de peu à la capture. mais lors du second combat, le octobre, octave et marc antoine sont vainqueurs. brutus se suicide. horace fait partie des fuyards. virgile (à gauche) déclamant ses vers devant horace (au milieu), varius (au fond) et mécène (à droite) par charles françois jalabert. retour à rome[modifier | modifier le code] quand une amnistie est accordée aux vaincus, horace retourne en italie (fin ou début av. j.-c.[ ]) ; ses terres lui ont été confisquées[ ], et il prétend s'être retrouvé pauvre[ ]. pourtant il possède encore suffisamment d'argent pour acheter, vers av. j.-c., la charge de scriba quaestorius, c'est-à-dire de secrétaire au trésor (le questeur est le magistrat chargé des finances)[ ] : il n'a certainement jamais quitté cette charge, même s'il a pu ultérieurement en alléger les obligations[ ]. rapidement, il se lie d'amitié avec virgile. entre et av. j.-c., virgile et lucius varius rufus le présentent à mécène, confident d'auguste, protecteur des arts et des lettres, poète à ses heures. mécène le prend sous sa protection neuf mois plus tard[ ], l'introduit dans les cercles politiques et littéraires de pollion et messala[ ], et lui offre une villa en sabine[a ]. les premières satires sont composées dès son retour à rome[ ] et le premier livre des satires semble être publié vers ou av. j.-c.[ ]. il continue à l'élever socialement dans l'ordre équestre : après avoir été fait eques equo publico (chevalier dont le cheval est payé sur fonds publics) par brutus en grèce, puis avoir acheté la charge de scriba questorius à son retour à rome, il devient iudex selectus (« juge de paix ») entre et av. j.-c.[ ]. la villa offerte par mécène procure à horace une retraite campagnarde appréciable ainsi que des revenus importants[ ]. il atteint une vraie aisance financière et proclame qu'il pourrait, s'il le voulait, se faire élire questeur et devenir ainsi sénateur[ ]. il est alors définitivement lié au régime[ ]. client de mécène[modifier | modifier le code] mécène est le dédicataire des satires, des Épodes et des odes et une vraie amitié liait les deux hommes. maturité[modifier | modifier le code] il est possible qu'horace soit présent à la bataille d'actium en av. j.-c.[ ] et c'est peu après (vers av. j.-c.) que sont publiées les Épodes, poèmes dans la veine de l'iambographe grec archiloque[ ]. suit à une date inconnue le second livre des satires. la paix revenue avec auguste, c'est une période de production intense qui s'ouvre. jusqu'en av. j.-c., il se consacre à des poèmes politiques et confirme ainsi son rapprochement avec le pouvoir augustéen[ ] : célébration de la mort de cléopâtre, joie de la défaite des partisans d'antoine, éloge de la réparation des temples par auguste en [a ]. jusqu'en av. j.-c., il célèbre les victoires d'auguste hors d'italie[ ]. ces pièces, mêlées à des poèmes lyriques, forment les trois premiers livres des odes, vraisemblablement parus vers av. j.-c.[ ]. le succès est mitigé[a ] et horace s'essaie ensuite à un nouveau genre, ce qui aboutit à la publication du premier livre des Épîtres en av. j.-c.[ ]. auguste, revenu à rome en av. j.-c., offre à horace d'être son secrétaire, poste que le poète refuse[a ]. en av. j.-c., le prince lui confie l'honneur de composer le chant séculaire (carmen saeculare) qu'interprètent solennellement, à l'occasion des jeux séculaires, des chœurs mixtes d'enfants choisis parmi l'élite de la noblesse romaine. c'est peut-être aussi auguste qui lui commande des poèmes pour les victoires de tibère et drusus[a ] ; ces poèmes sont recueillis avec d'autres dans un quatrième livre d’odes qui paraît entre et av. j.-c.[ ]. suivent encore les deux lettres du second livre des Épîtres et l’art poétique, difficiles à dater[ ]. il meurt brutalement en av. j.-c., quelques mois seulement après mécène qui, sur son lit de mort, l'aurait encore recommandé à auguste[a ]. il est enterré au cimetière de l'esquilin[ ], près de la tombe de mécène. l'œuvre d'horace[modifier | modifier le code] en dépit de sa grande difficulté, l'œuvre d'horace a eu une influence non négligeable sur la littérature latine ; il est admiré, cité et repris par de nombreux auteurs, dont perse[ ], jérôme[ ], sidoine apollinaire[ ] ou prudence[ ], parfois au prix de malentendus ou de contresens, comme en témoigne par exemple le détournement de la fameuse devise carpe diem, ou de la non moins célèbre formule aurea mediocritas (« juste milieu précieux comme l'or »), tirées respectivement des odes, i, et ii, . satires[modifier | modifier le code] saturae, . article détaillé : satires (horace). les satires, connues dans les manuscrits sous le nom de sermones (« causeries »), sont des poèmes de longueur variables en hexamètres dactyliques, regroupés en deux livres : le premier, de dix poèmes, est publié vers , le second, de huit pièces, vers av. j.-c.[ ]. s'inspirant de son prédécesseur lucilius (iie siècle av. j.-c.), horace renouvelle pourtant le genre en en limitant l'extension, en s'interdisant la satire politique, et en évitant de tomber dans la crudité et la vulgarité. par ses nombreux portraits de personnages pleins de vices (avarice, gloutonnerie, raffinement extrême et ridicule dans la gastronomie, libido incontrôlée), horace construit une morale de la modération et développe déjà le thème du juste milieu qu'il célèbre ultérieurement dans les odes et les Épîtres. dès les satires, le poète est un personnage important de son œuvre : le recueil, en plus de fournir des éléments biographiques importants, offre un portrait d'horace mitigé, certes ridiculisé par son esclave ou par une prostituée, mais globalement « entaché de défauts médiocrement graves et en petit nombre[a ] »[ ]. les poèmes, composés sur une période d'au moins dix ans, témoignent de l'entrée d'horace dans le cercle de mécène et permettent de saisir le nouveau statut social qu'il a ainsi acquis[ ]. Épodes[modifier | modifier le code] article détaillé : Épodes. intérieur de la maison d'horace (venosa). imitées d'archiloque et de callimaque de cyrène, les Épodes sont le deuxième recueil d'horace. publiées vers av. j.-c. sous le titre d'iambi (iambes) elles réunissent dix-sept pièces écrites en distiques, à l'exception de la dernière, et utilisant l'iambe[ ]. genre du blâme, l'iambe permet à horace d'attaquer ses ennemis sur des sujets variés : des ennemis personnels, comme un poète malveillant, les femmes en général, dont il attaque la lubricité, et les magiciennes en particulier, dont le personnage récurrent de canidie[ ]. le recueil se place aussi dans l'actualité des guerres civiles et alterne entre les pièces les plus anciennes, qui témoignent d'une vision très sombre de ces guerres interminables, et celles, plus récentes, qui célèbrent la victoire d'actium. l'hommage à octave y reste discret, mais horace se montre comme membre à part entière du cercle de mécène[ ]. le ton y est celui de l'invective ; le style est âpre et tendu ; l'érotisme le plus cru peut y côtoyer les accents les plus patriotiques. odes[modifier | modifier le code] article détaillé : odes (horace). les odes furent publiées en ou av. j.-c. pour les trois premiers livres et en ou av. j.-c. pour le quatrième. ces quatre livres qu'horace comparait fièrement aux pyramides d'Égypte, contiennent respectivement , , et pièces, soit au total   vers, dont six sans doute apocryphes (iv, , - et iv, , - ). on a tour à tour salué[ ], dans les odes, l'exploit métrique (avec la mise en œuvre de quatre types de strophes différentes, six variétés de distiques et trois espèces de vers employés seuls), l'équilibre dans une harmonieuse architecture qui se déploie selon des proportions numériques aussi complexes qu'impeccables, la circulation, les interconnexions, les réseaux, les correspondances, les combinaisons et les symétries diverses, dont l'ensemble constitue une immense et ultrasensible chambre de résonance. quant à l'incroyable virtuosité verbale qui tire du choix et de la place de chaque mot le maximum d'énergie possible, elle impressionnait friedrich nietzsche au plus haut degré par ce qu'il appelait sa « noblesse ». « on reconnaîtra jusque dans mon zarathoustra une ambition très sérieuse de style romain, d'« aere perennius » dans le style. — il n'en a pas été autrement de mon premier contact avec horace. jusqu'à présent aucun poète ne m'a procuré le même ravissement artistique que celui que j'ai éprouvé dès l'abord à la lecture d'une ode d'horace. dans certaines langues il n'est même pas possible de vouloir ce qui est réalisé ici. cette mosaïque des mots, où chaque mot par son timbre, sa place dans la phrase, l’idée qu’il exprime, fait rayonner sa force à droite, à gauche et sur l'ensemble, ce minimum dans la somme et le nombre des signes et ce maximum que l'on atteint ainsi dans l'énergie des signes — tout cela est romain, et, si l'on veut m'en croire, noble par excellence*. tout le reste de la poésie devient, à côté de cela, quelque chose de populaire, — un simple bavardage de sentiments... » — friedrich nietzsche, le crépuscule des idoles ou comment philosopher à coups de marteau, chapitre « ce que je dois aux anciens » . mais là où horace se surpasse, là où il mérite le mieux le « laurier delphique » (odes, iii, ), c'est dans la maîtrise du contenu. en apparence, rien de plus hétéroclite que les odes, où semblent interférer de manière aléatoire la sphère privée et la sphère publique, les amours et la politique, le monde grec et le monde latin, la mythologie et l'actualité la plus brûlante, l'épicurisme poussé jusqu’au sybaritisme, et un stoïcisme aiguisé jusqu’à l'ascétisme et à un renoncement presque monacal avant la lettre. chant séculaire[modifier | modifier le code] article détaillé : chant séculaire. À l'occasion des jeux séculaires de av. j.-c., auguste commande à horace un poème qu'un chœur mixte d'enfants récite à la fin des cérémonies. horace compose alors un hymne de  vers, adressé principalement à apollon et diane. le poète y appelle les dieux à assurer la prospérité et la fécondité de rome. il célèbre l'avènement d'auguste, qu'il inscrit dans la continuité d'Énée et de romulus, et qui ouvre une ère de vertu et de félicité[ ]. Épîtres[modifier | modifier le code] article détaillé : Épîtres (horace). la statue d'horace (venosa). les Épîtres (epistulae) furent publiées en ou av. j.-c., plutôt qu'en , date traditionnellement admise, et probablement après av. j.-c. pour le second recueil. le premier recueil compte pièces (soit   vers, dont sept probablement apocryphes dans la première pièce), le second seulement, mais très longues ( et vers). s'y ajoute l'Épître aux pisons, plus connue sous le nom d'art poétique ( vers). elles sont écrites en hexamètres, comme les satires, et, comme elles, ce sont des « causeries » d'allure assez libre. mais les epîtres étant des lettres fictives, elles s'adressent à des personnes bien précises, et le ton y est moins vif, le style plus détendu. la première épître du second recueil s'adresse ainsi directement à auguste : ou comment tirer la queue du lion sans se faire mordre. florus est le destinataire de la seconde, où horace a déposé comme son testament spirituel et la quintessence de sa sagesse. convictions[modifier | modifier le code] religion[modifier | modifier le code] horace se considérait sous la protection de mercure[ ] : c'est lui qui le fait disparaître du champ de bataille de philippes à la manière d'un héros homérique. philosophie[modifier | modifier le code] horace proclame tout au long de son œuvre son indépendance vis-à-vis des écoles philosophiques : « aucune astreinte ne m'a contraint de jurer sur les paroles d'un maître[a ] ». horace et la politique augustéenne[modifier | modifier le code] s'il se trouve du « mauvais côté », celui des républicains de brutus, à la bataille de philippes ( av. j.-c.), horace, en faisant son entrée dans le cercle de mécène (entre et av. j.-c.), rejoint le camp bientôt vainqueur d'auguste. tout au long de sa carrière, il donne à l'empereur une place de plus en plus importante dans ses œuvres[ ]. le premier recueil publié, le premier livre des satires, l'ignore presque totalement[ ]. dans les plus anciennes des Épodes (vii et xvi), horace déplore les guerres civiles qui ravagent perpétuellement rome et accuse le « courroux du destin qui poursuit[a ] » les romains ; sans prendre parti, il évite ainsi de mentionner les responsables de ces malheurs. quant aux plus récents poèmes de ce recueil, adressés à mécène, horace y célèbre la victoire d'actium, mais ne mentionne le futur empereur que de manière oblique[ ]. il faut attendre le second livre des satires pour qu'horace consacre un poème à auguste ; dans la première pièce, il évoque les dangers que court le poète à investir le champ politique, mais achève en consacrant l'empereur comme juge « juste et fort[a ] » de sa production[ ]. les trois premiers livres des odes rassemblent des poèmes à caractère essentiellement privé, mais la politique « s'introduit de l'extérieur dans l'espace lyrique calme et retiré d'horace[ ] ». auguste est, comme dans les Épodes, d'abord un homme d'action : vainqueur de cléopâtre[a ], il poursuit la conquête de l'hispanie[a ]. mais horace lui confère aussi peu à peu une stature d'homme d'État[ ], « père de cités[a ] » et hôte des dieux[a ]. la proximité des deux hommes se manifeste à l'occasion des jeux séculaires de av. j.-c. : auguste commande le chant séculaire à horace, qui embrasse alors la fonction de poète officiel[ ]. il y célèbre la nouvelle législation sur le mariage[a ] et la paix augustéenne. le quatrième livre des odes, qui paraît en av. j.-c., multiplie les références à auguste, destinataire de plusieurs poèmes[ ]. l'éloge est sans réserve : « je chanterai, heureux, le retour de césar[a ] ». le dernier témoignage de la relation entre les deux hommes apparaît dans la première épître du second livre, qui discute de la place du poète dans la société : horace y loue un empereur protecteur des arts, fondateur de la bibliothèque palatine et soutien de virgile[ ]. pourtant, il décline l'invitation à écrire la geste d'auguste[a ] et proclame ainsi son indépendance[ ]. le travail du poète[modifier | modifier le code] modèles et goûts[modifier | modifier le code] il semble qu'on puisse rattacher horace au groupe des poètes nouveaux dont catulle, qu'admire mécène, est le plus grand représentant ; la question est disputée, et horace a toujours marqué son indépendance vis-à-vis des écoles et des cercles. plusieurs points communs avec cet alexandrinisme romain sont cependant à noter : le goût des œuvres courtes et ciselées, longuement travaillées, destinées à un public choisi. cette caractéristique rattache horace à l'atticisme et l'oppose à l'asianisme du vieux varron ou de cicéron[ ]. représentation du poète[modifier | modifier le code] la première personne est primordiale dans l'œuvre d'horace ; tous les genres qu'il a choisis laissent la place de choix au « je » poétique : l'iambe est le genre de l'invective personnelle ; la satire se nourrit d'éléments autobiographiques ; la lettre met en scène son auteur[ ]. le poète nous fournit quelques indications sur son physique : petit[a ], gros[a ], ses cheveux ont blanchi prématurément[a ]. il se dit également irascible[a ] et coureur, ayant eu des relations avec « mille jeunes filles et mille jeunes hommes[a ] ». horace est un personnage religieux. dès son enfance, il est protégé des dieux : alors qu'il s'était endormi dans la forêt, des oiseaux sont venus le couvrir de feuilles pour le soustraire aux « vipères et aux ours sinistres[a ] ». plusieurs anecdotes relatent les miracles auxquels il doit la vie : un loup rencontré dans la forêt, un arbre qui est tombé juste à côté de lui, la bataille de philippes et la tempête du cap palinure en route vers la bataille de nauloque[a ]. dès ses premières œuvres, horace se peint avec autodérision : paresseux et malade en voyage dans les satires, peureux et impuissant dans les Épodes, l'autocélébration du poète n'est pas exempte de détails triviaux jusque dans les trois premiers livres des odes[ ]. cela n'empêche pas au poète de proclamer son immortalité : « j'ai achevé un monument plus durable que le bronze, plus haut que la décrépitude des royales pyramides[a ] ». À plusieurs reprises, horace fait ses adieux à la poésie. les trois premiers livres des odes se concluent sur le « laurier delphique[a ] » qui couronne une carrière achevée, mais le premier poème du livre iv montre vénus forçant le poète à chanter l'amour derechef. les Épîtres sont à nouveau l'occasion de proclamer son renoncement à la poésie en faveur de la philosophie ; il n'est pas toujours facile de trancher si horace renonce seulement à la poésie lyrique pour se consacrer au genre du sermo, ou bien s'il prétend avec humour renoncer aux vers tout en en écrivant[ ]. cette affirmation est répétée jusque dans l’art poétique : « j'enseignerai, sans rien écrire moi-même[a ] ». qu'est-ce qu'un bon poète ?[modifier | modifier le code] dès les satires, horace fustige les mauvais poètes capables d'aligner deux cents vers en une matinée, prêts à tout pour trouver un libraire et plaire à la plèbe[ ]. lui « lime[ ] » ses vers, les travaille longuement, et produit peu. il n'écrit que pour ses amis et conseille au poète : « ne te mets pas en peine d'être admiré par la foule, satisfait d'un petit nombre de lecteurs[ ] ». postérité[modifier | modifier le code] dans l'antiquité[modifier | modifier le code] l'œuvre d'horace, et notamment les deux recueils des odes et le premier livre des Épîtres, exerce une influence immédiate sur les poètes contemporains[ ]. À sa suite, plusieurs poètes se proclament « prêtre des muses[a ] » ; le troisième livre des Élégies de properce, qui paraît un ou deux ans après les trois premiers livres des odes, témoigne, tout comme les métamorphoses d'ovide[a ], de la revendication à l'immortalité du poète déjà avancée par horace[a ]. quintilien analyse l'influence d'horace selon les genres[a ]. si les Épodes paraissent être le dernier ouvrage du genre[ ], il est évident qu'horace a participé du renouveau de la satire et de la célébrité de son créateur lucilius : son influence sur perse est déterminante[n ] et juvénal le mentionne plusieurs fois[ ]. les odes, quant à elles, forment un ensemble lyrique tel qu'aucun auteur latin antique postérieur n'en compose ; pourtant, elles restent l'œuvre la plus célèbre et la plus commentée du poète[ ]. leur réception est sans doute mitigée, mais leur qualité suggère à auguste de commander à leur auteur le chant séculaire, faisant ainsi d'horace le premier poète lyrique de rome[ ]. la virtuosité et la variété métrique du recueil sont célébrées[a ] et imitées par stace[a ] et sénèque[a ]. au ive siècle, horace inspire prudence, qui réinterprète les thèmes horatiens dans un sens chrétien, et est le principal modèle des parties versifiées de la consolation de la philosophie de boèce (vers )[ ]. horace devient aussi rapidement l'objet d'études[ ]. sa virtuosité métrique occupe une part importante du traité de versification de metris de césius bassus (milieu du ier siècle). les commentaires de l'œuvre, dont celui de porphyrion (iie ou iiie siècle) et un recueil d'études variées attribué par un manuscrit à helenius acro, appelé aujourd'hui pseudo-acron, régulièrement copiés, et souvent avec les poèmes eux-mêmes, témoignent d'une activité académique importante et continue consacrée au poète[ ] au moyen Âge : l’aetas horatiana[modifier | modifier le code] le christianisme se méfie des poètes païens dont la moralité est bien loin de ce qu'enseigne la théologie ; saint jérôme met en garde le chrétien : « quel rapport peut-il y avoir entre la lumière et les ténèbres, entre jésus-christ et bélial ? comment allier horace avec les psaumes [...][a ] ? ». pourtant, horace reste l'un des poètes romains les plus lus au moyen Âge[ ]. il est encore présent et parfois cité au début du moyen Âge, chez dracontius et avit de vienne par exemple. comme tous les auteurs classiques, il est un peu oublié à partir du milieu du vie siècle[ ]. au viiie siècle, il est encore connu, mais indirectement, par alcuin, qui lui emprunte son cognomen, flaccus, et paul diacre. il semble que la redécouverte d'horace ait lieu au milieu du ixe siècle : on connaît six manuscrits de ce siècle, ainsi que deux du commentaire de porphyrion[ ]. le poète est à nouveau cité, par exemple par heiric d'auxerre, ce qui montre une connaissance directe de l'œuvre[ ]. on dénombre environ manuscrits d'horace pour l'ensemble du moyen Âge, dont près de la moitié pour le seul xve siècle, répartis à peu près équitablement entre les quatre recueils des odes, des Épîtres, de l’art poétique et des satires[ ]. pour le xie siècle, les manuscrits des odes sont plus nombreux que ceux de l’Énéide ( contre ). c'est effectivement aux xe et xie siècles que ludwig traube place l'aetas horatiana (« ère horatienne »), période qui célèbre horace comme le premier poète latin, après l’aetas vergiliana des viiie et ixe siècles et avant l’aetas ovidiana des xiie et xiiie siècles[ ]. la strophe sapphique est imitée dès le ixe siècle par walafrid strabon, sedulius et notker le bègue, puis par alfan de salerne (mort en ), qui actualise l'idéal horatien de pauvreté dans un sens chrétien[ ]. c'est la diversité des mètres (uarietas) qui impressionne le plus les lecteurs du moyen Âge et nourrit les gloses qui accompagnent fréquemment les manuscrits ; metellus de tegernsee compose un recueil de poèmes vers où il réutilise l'un après l'autre tous les mètres du poète latin[ ]. l'intérêt pour horace semble s'essouffler au xiiie siècle, jusqu'à ce que pétrarque lui emprunte de nombreuses citations et lui adresse une lettre, le qualifiant de « roi de la poésie lyrique[ ] » et vantant la variété de son inspiration et la diversité de ses styles[ ]. cet hommage à la grâce inimitable du poète latin est repris par ange politien puis petrus crinitus et salmon macrin[ ]. l'étude du poète fait partie du cursus scolaire certainement dès le ixe siècle[ ] et gerbert d'aurillac, le futur pape sylvestre ii, enseigne les satires à reims peu avant l'an . une cinquantaine de manuscrits sont complétés par une notation musicale en neumes servant vraisemblablement à aider la mémorisation des mètres horatiens. l'hymne à jean le baptiste de paul diacre « vt queant laxis », à l'origine du nom des notes de musique, est écrite en strophe sapphique, imitée d'horace[ ]. pendant la renaissance[modifier | modifier le code] l'édition princeps d'horace paraît vers [ ]. au xixe siècle[modifier | modifier le code] horace a la faveur du siècle. il est l'auteur latin le plus traduit[n ], devant virgile[ ]. la traduction de pierre daru ( ) lance une sorte de concours informel de traductions en vers et doit à son auteur son élection à l'académie française. cette suite de traductions marque une évolution vers des versions moins élégantes mais plus fidèles au texte[ ]. les poètes (théophile gautier, victor hugo, leconte de lisle et alfred de musset), tous formés à horace[n ], traduisent aussi le poète latin[ ]. la principale voix discordante dans ce concert d'éloges est alphonse de lamartine qui reproche au poète son indifférence aux souffrances du peuple[ ]. l'engouement pour le poète apparaît même dans la fiction : julien sorel (le rouge et le noir) est capable de réciter les odes en entier[ ] ; un bandit de colomba demande en récompense au lieutenant orso un volume du poète latin[ ]. horace, personnage littéraire[modifier | modifier le code] 	mémoires d'horace. Écrits par lui-même, d'alexandre dumas citations célèbres[modifier | modifier le code] de nombreuses citations d'horace sont devenues célèbres et il semble que leur pouvoir d'évocation participe de la renommée du poète, et ce dès l'antiquité[ ]. 	« carpe diem » (« cueille le jour », odes i, , ) 	« dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. » (« il est doux et glorieux de mourir pour sa patrie. », odes, iii, , ) 	« in medias res » (« au milieu des choses », art poétique, ) : procédé littéraire qui place le lecteur dès le début de l'ouvrage en pleine action 	« nunc est bibendum » (« maintenant il faut boire », odes i, , ) 	« odi profanum vulgus, et arceo » (« je déteste le vulgaire profane, et je l'éloigne »[ ] 	« sapere aude ! » (« ose savoir ! », Épîtres i, , ) 	« bis repetita placent ! » (« les choses qu'on répète plaisent ! ») notes et références[modifier | modifier le code] notes[modifier | modifier le code] 	↑ l'année et le mois sont donnés par horace lui-même (odes, iii, , ), ainsi que l'heure (odes, ii, , ) et le jour par suétone (des hommes illustres xxviii, « vie d'horace ») 	↑ les citations sont tirées de la traduction de patin . 	↑ l'anecdote de la satire i, , en présence de brutus, a de toute évidence été écrite avant la bataille de philippes en av. j.-c.. 	↑ on a compté jusqu'à allusions à horace dans les vers de la première satire. 	↑ en tout, on compte une trentaine de traductions intégrales et plus de cent cinquante traductions partielles entre et 	↑ il est au programme de la seconde années d'humanités, c'est-à-dire la seconde, dans les lycées à partir du consulat références anciennes[modifier | modifier le code] 	↑ satires, ii, , - 	↑ dans les odes, respectivement i,  ; iii,  ; iii, 	↑ Épîtres, i, , 	↑ suétone, « vie d'horace », - 	↑ respectivement odes, iv, et 	↑ suétone, « vie d'horace », 	↑ satires, i, , . 	↑ Épîtres, i, , 	↑ Épodes, vii, 	↑ satires, ii, , 	↑ odes, i, 	↑ odes, iii, 	↑ odes, iii, , 	↑ odes, iii, 	↑ chant séculaire, - 	↑ odes, iv, , - 	↑ Épîtres, ii, , 	↑ Épîtres, i, , 	↑ Épîtres, i, , 	↑ Épîtres, i, , 	↑ Épîtres, i, , 	↑ satires, ii, , 	↑ odes, iii, , - 	↑ odes, i, , - et iii, , - 	↑ odes, iii, , - 	↑ odes, iii, , - 	↑ art poétique, 	↑ odes, iii, , 	↑ ovide, métamorphoses, xv, - 	↑ odes, iii, 	↑ quintilien, institution oratoire, x, , 	↑ par exemple par pline le jeune, lettres, iii, , 	↑ stace, silves, iv, et 	↑ sénèque, agamemnon et Œdipe 	↑ saint jérôme, lettres, xxii, (traduction benoît matougues, ) références modernes[modifier | modifier le code] 	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ levi , p.  	↑ perret , p.  	↑ levi , p.  	↑ davis , p.  	↑ davis , p.  	↑ levi , p.  	↑ cil vi, , conservée au musée des thermes de dioclétien 	↑ levi , p.  	↑ a et b perret , p.  	↑ levi , p.  	↑ levi , p.  	↑ perret , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ levi , p.  	↑ davis , p.  	↑ perret , p.  	↑ Épîtres ii, , vers - 	↑ Épîtres, ii, , 	↑ levi , p.  	↑ perret , p.  	↑ satires, i, , 	↑ perret , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ a et b harrison , p.  	↑ davis , p.  	↑ a b et c harrison , p.  	↑ satires, i, 	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ a et b harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ levi , p.  	↑ (en) d. m. hooley, the knotted thong : structures of mimesis in persius, ann harbor, the university of michigan press, ( ),  p. (isbn  - - - ) 	↑ a. v. nazzaro, « girolamo » dans enciclopedia oraziana iii, col. - . 	↑ g. mazzoli, « sidonio, orazio e la lex saturae », dans l. cristante (ed.), il calamo della memoria. riuso di testi e mestiere letterario nella tarda antichità, , p.  - 	↑ m. lühken, christianorum maro et flaccus : zur vergil- und horazrezeption des prudentius, . 	↑ perret , p.  . 	↑ perret , p.  . 	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ jacques perret, article « horace », in op. cit. ; pierre grimal, horace, paris, seuil,  ; hubert zehnacker et j.-cl. fredouille, littérature latine, p.u.f., . 	↑ fraenkel , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ a et b harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ a et b harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ perret , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ perret , p.  	↑ satires, i, , 	↑ satires, i, , - 	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ a et b harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ a et b harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ a b c et d harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ pétrarque, lettres familières, xxiv, 	↑ dauvois , p.  	↑ dauvois , p.  	↑ a et b harrison , p.  	↑ merle , p.  	↑ merle , p.  	↑ a et b merle , p.  	↑ stendhal, le rouge et le noir, livre premier, xxix 	↑ prosper mérimée, colomba, chap. xx 	↑ (it) « odi profanum vulgus, et arceo », dans wikipedia, décembre (lire en ligne) bibliographie[modifier | modifier le code] Œuvres[modifier | modifier le code] 	Œuvres complètes d'horace, traduites en vers par p. daru, tomes, à paris, chez janet et cotelle, libraires, m dccc xxiii, tome premier, p., tome second p. 	horace et henri patin (traducteur), Œuvres complètes, paris, charpentier, 	horace et françois villeneuve (introduction, édition, apparat critique et traduction), Œuvres d'horace, paris, les belles lettres, coll. « collection des universités de france » 	odes et Épodes, t. i, comprend aussi le chant séculaire 	satires, t. ii, 	Épîtres, t. iii, comprend aussi l’art poétique 	horace, Œuvres, garnier-flammarion, , p. 	Œuvres complètes : tome , satire, Épodes, epîtres / horace ; traduit par danielle carlès. - publie.net, . ( (isbn  ) en versions imprimées et numériques) ouvrages généraux[modifier | modifier le code] 	jean bayet, littérature latine, armand colin, paris, 	m. c. howatson, dictionnaire de l'antiquité. mythologie, littérature, civilisation, coll. « bouquin », robert laffont, , (isbn  - ) 	hubert zehnacker et jean-claude fredouille, littérature latine, puf, paris, Études[modifier | modifier le code] 	(en) gregson davis, a companion to horace, john wiley & sons, 	(en) eduard fraenkel, horace, oxford university press, 	victor giraud, les idées morales d'horace, paris, 	pierre grimal, horace, seuil, paris, 	(en) stephen harrison, the cambridge companion to horace, cambridge university press, 	(en) peter levi, horace : a life, londres/new york, tauris parke paperbacks, ,  p. (isbn  - - - - ) 	jean marmier, horace en france au dix-septième siècle, paris, puf, . 	jean marmier, la survie d'horace à l'époque romantique, paris, klincksieck, . 	jacques perret, horace, paris, hatier, coll. « connaissance des lettres », 	(en) frank stack, pope and horace: studies in imitation, cambridge university press, , p. (isbn  ) articles[modifier | modifier le code] 	nathalie dauvois, « horace à la renaissance, modèle de varietas et modèle d'écriture, l'exemple des poèmes à l'éloge d'horace », camenae, no  ,‎ juin (lire en ligne) 	raymond lebègue, « horace en france à la renaissance », humanisme et renaissance, , p.  - , - , - . 	denis merle, « sur les traductions d'horace en france, au xixe siècle », romantisme « traduire au xixe siècle », no  ,‎ , p.  - (lire en ligne) 	gaston boissier, la maison de campagne d'horace, revue des deux mondes, e période, tome , . voir aussi[modifier | modifier le code] sur les autres projets wikimedia : 	horace, sur wikimedia commons 	horace, sur wikisource 	horace, sur wikiquote articles connexes[modifier | modifier le code] 	satires 	bavius 	bertrand capmartin de chaupy, auteur de découverte de la maison de campagne d'horace. 	( ) horace liens externes[modifier | modifier le code] 	notices d'autorité : 	fichier d’autorité international virtuel 	international standard name identifier 	cinii 	bibliothèque nationale de france (données) 	système universitaire de documentation 	bibliothèque du congrès 	gemeinsame normdatei 	service bibliothécaire national 	bibliothèque nationale de la diète 	bibliothèque nationale d’espagne 	bibliothèque royale des pays-bas 	bibliothèque nationale de pologne 	bibliothèque nationale d’israël 	bibliothèque universitaire de pologne 	bibliothèque nationale de catalogne 	bibliothèque nationale de suède 	réseau des bibliothèques de suisse occidentale 	bibliothèque apostolique vaticane 	worldcat 	 	espace-horace.org, site consacré au poète latin 	Œuvres d'horace : textes avec concordances et liste de fréquence, sur intratext.com 	« renaissances d'horace », sur http://www.univ-paris .fr/ site sur les éditions et les traductions humanistes d'horace 	les odes d'horace sur itinera electronica (portail des œuvres et auteurs antiques de l'université catholique de louvain) 	carmina horatiana tous les carmina d'horace récités en latin par thomas bervoets. 	v · m horace 	Œuvres	 chant séculaire · Épîtres · Épodes · odes · satires	 	lieux	 athènes · rome · venosa 	famille	 tribu horatia · gens horatii 	entourage	 auguste · mécène · virgile 	citations célèbres	 carpe diem · dulce et decorum est pro patria mori · nunc est bibendum · in medias res · sapere aude 	 portail de la littérature 	 portail de la poésie 	 portail de la rome antique ce document provient de « https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=horace&oldid=  ». 		catégories : 	Écrivain romain du ier siècle av. j.-c. 	poète de la rome antique 	poète élégiaque 	poète satirique 	naissance à venosa 	naissance en av. j.-c. 	décès à rome 	décès en av. j.-c. 	décès à ans 	personnage cité dans la divine comédie (enfer) 	Écrivain latin classique catégories cachées : 	article utilisant une infobox 	catégorie commons avec lien local différent sur wikidata 	article de wikipédia avec notice d'autorité 	page utilisant le modèle bases littérature inactif 	portail:littérature/articles liés 	portail:poésie/articles liés 	portail:rome antique/articles liés 	portail:italie/articles liés 	portail:monde antique/articles liés 	portail:histoire/articles liés 	wikipédia:article biographique 	portail:biographie/articles liés/culture et arts 	 	 	 	 		 		 la dernière modification de cette page a été faite le décembre à : . 	droit d'auteur : les textes sont disponibles sous licence creative commons attribution, partage dans les mêmes conditions ; d’autres conditions peuvent s’appliquer. voyez les conditions d’utilisation pour plus de détails, ainsi que les crédits graphiques. en cas de réutilisation des textes de cette page, voyez comment citer les auteurs et mentionner la licence. wikipedia® est une marque déposée de la wikimedia foundation, inc., organisation de bienfaisance régie par le paragraphe (c)( ) du code fiscal des États-unis. 		politique de confidentialité 	À propos de wikipédia 	avertissements 	contact 	version mobile 	développeurs 	statistiques 	déclaration sur les témoins (cookies) 		 	 	 	 	 william makepeace thackeray - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	william makepeace thackeray 	 		from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		british novelist "thackeray" redirects here. for other uses with the name thackeray, see thackeray (disambiguation). 	 	this article's lead section may be too short to adequately summarize its key points. please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article. (april ) 	william makepeace thackeray 	 daguerreotype of william makepeace thackeray by jesse harrison whitehurst ( – ) 	born	( - - ) july calcutta, british india 	died	 december ( - - ) (aged  ) london, uk 	occupation	novelist, poet 	nationality	english 	period	 – (published posthumously) 	genre	historical fiction 	notable works	vanity fair, the luck of barry lyndon 	spouse	isabella gethin shawe 	children	 , including anne isabella ( – ) 	 	signature	 william makepeace thackeray (/ˈθækəri/; july – december ) was an english novelist, author and illustrator, who was born in india. he is known for his satirical works, particularly his novel vanity fair, a panoramic portrait of british society, and the novel the luck of barry lyndon, which was adapted for a film by stanley kubrick. contents 	 biography 	 works 	 family 	 . parents 	 . descendants 	 reputation and legacy 	 in popular culture 	 list of works 	 . series 	 . novels 	 . novellas 	 . sketches and satires 	 . play 	 . travel writing 	 . other non-fiction 	 see also 	 references 	 bibliography 	 external links biography[edit] 	 	this section possibly contains original research. please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. statements consisting only of original research should be removed. (october ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) thackeray, an only child, was born in calcutta,[ ] british india, where his father, richmond thackeray ( september – september ), was secretary to the board of revenue in the east india company. his mother, anne becher ( – ), was the second daughter of harriet becher and john harman becher, who was also a secretary (writer) for the east india company.[ ] his father was a grandson of thomas thackeray ( – ), headmaster of harrow school.[ ] richmond died in , which caused anne to send her son to england that same year, while she remained in india. the ship on which he travelled made a short stopover at saint helena, where the imprisoned napoleon was pointed out to him. once in england he was educated at schools in southampton and chiswick, and then at charterhouse school, where he became a close friend of john leech. thackeray disliked charterhouse,[ ] and parodied it in his fiction as "slaughterhouse". nevertheless, thackeray was honoured in the charterhouse chapel with a monument after his death. illness in his last year there, during which he reportedly grew to his full height of six-foot three, postponed his matriculation at trinity college, cambridge, until february .[citation needed] never too keen on academic studies, thackeray left cambridge in , but some of his earliest published writing appeared in two university periodicals, the snob and the gownsman.[ ] caricature of thackeray by thackeray thackeray then travelled for some time on the continent, visiting paris and weimar, where he met goethe. he returned to england and began to study law at the middle temple, but soon gave that up. on reaching the age of he came into his inheritance from his father, but he squandered much of it on gambling and on funding two unsuccessful newspapers, the national standard and the constitutional, for which he had hoped to write. he also lost a good part of his fortune in the collapse of two indian banks. forced to consider a profession to support himself, he turned first to art, which he studied in paris, but did not pursue it, except in later years as the illustrator of some of his own novels and other writings.[citation needed] thackeray's years of semi-idleness ended after he married, on august , isabella gethin shawe ( – ), second daughter of isabella creagh shawe and matthew shawe, a colonel who had died after distinguished service, primarily in india. the thackerays had three children, all girls: anne isabella ( – ), jane (who died at eight months old) and harriet marian ( – ), who married sir leslie stephen, editor, biographer and philosopher. thackeray now began "writing for his life", as he put it, turning to journalism in an effort to support his young family. he primarily worked for fraser's magazine, a sharp-witted and sharp-tongued conservative publication for which he produced art criticism, short fictional sketches, and two longer fictional works, catherine and the luck of barry lyndon. between and he also reviewed books for the times.[ ] he was also a regular contributor to the morning chronicle and the foreign quarterly review. later, through his connection to the illustrator john leech, he began writing for the newly created magazine punch, in which he published the snob papers, later collected as the book of snobs. this work popularised the modern meaning of the word "snob".[ ] thackeray was a regular contributor to punch between and .[ ] thackeray portrayed by eyre crowe, tragedy struck in thackeray's personal life as his wife, isabella, succumbed to depression after the birth of their third child, in . finding that he could get no work done at home, he spent more and more time away until september , when he realised how grave his wife's condition was. struck by guilt, he set out with his wife to ireland. during the crossing she threw herself from a water-closet into the sea, but she was pulled from the waters. they fled back home after a four-week battle with her mother. from november to february isabella was in and out of professional care, as her condition waxed and waned.[ ] she eventually deteriorated into a permanent state of detachment from reality. thackeray desperately sought cures for her, but nothing worked, and she ended up in two different asylums in or near paris until , after which thackeray took her back to england, where he installed her with a mrs bakewell at camberwell. isabella outlived her husband by years, in the end being cared for by a family named thompson in leigh-on-sea at southend until her death in .[ ] after his wife's illness thackeray became a de facto widower, never establishing another permanent relationship. he did pursue other women, however, in particular mrs jane brookfield and sally baxter. in mr brookfield barred thackeray from further visits to or correspondence with jane. baxter, an american twenty years thackeray's junior whom he met during a lecture tour in new york city in , married another man in .[citation needed] in the early s thackeray had some success with two travel books, the paris sketch book and the irish sketch book, the latter marked by its hostility towards irish catholics. however, as the book appealed to anti-irish sentiment in britain at the time, thackeray was given the job of being punch's irish expert, often under the pseudonym hibernis hibernior.[ ] thackeray became responsible for creating punch's notoriously hostile and negative depictions of the irish during the great irish famine of to .[ ] thackeray achieved more recognition with his snob papers (serialised / , published in book form in ), but the work that really established his fame was the novel vanity fair, which first appeared in serialised instalments beginning in january . even before vanity fair completed its serial run thackeray had become a celebrity, sought after by the very lords and ladies whom he satirised. they hailed him as the equal of charles dickens.[ ] portrait of thackeray in his study, c. he remained "at the top of the tree", as he put it, for the rest of his life, during which he produced several large novels, notably pendennis, the newcomes and the history of henry esmond, despite various illnesses, including a near-fatal one that struck him in in the middle of writing pendennis. he twice visited the united states on lecture tours during this period. thackeray also gave lectures in london on the english humorists of the eighteenth century, and on the first four hanoverian monarchs. the latter series was published in book form as the four georges.[ ] in july thackeray stood unsuccessfully as a liberal for the city of oxford in parliament.[ ] although not the most fiery agitator, thackeray was always a decided liberal in his politics, and he promised to vote for the ballot in extension of the suffrage, and was ready to accept triennial parliaments.[ ] he was narrowly beaten by cardwell, who received , votes, as against , for thackeray.[ ] in thackeray became editor of the newly established cornhill magazine,[ ] but he was never comfortable in the role, preferring to contribute to the magazine as the writer of a column called "roundabout papers".[citation needed] thackeray's health worsened during the s and he was plagued by a recurring stricture of the urethra that laid him up for days at a time. he also felt that he had lost much of his creative impetus. he worsened matters by excessive eating and drinking, and avoiding exercise, though he enjoyed riding (he kept a horse). he has been described as "the greatest literary glutton who ever lived". his main activity apart from writing was "gutting and gorging".[ ] he could not break his addiction to spicy peppers, further ruining his digestion. thackeray's grave at kensal green cemetery, london, photographed in on december , after returning from dining out and before dressing for bed, he suffered a stroke. he was found dead in his bed the following morning. his death at the age of fifty-two was entirely unexpected, and shocked his family, his friends and the reading public. an estimated , people attended his funeral at kensington gardens. he was buried on december at kensal green cemetery, and a memorial bust sculpted by marochetti can be found in westminster abbey.[ ] works[edit] 	the yellowplush papers ( ) 	catherine ( - ) 	a shabby genteel story ( ) 	the paris sketchbook ( ) 	second funeral of napoleon ( ) 	the irish sketchbook ( ) 	the luck of barry lyndon ( ) 	notes of a journey from cornhill to grand cairo ( ) 	mrs. perkin’s ball ( ) under the name m.a. titmarsh 	stray papers: being stories, reviews, verses, and sketches ( - ) 	the book of snobs ( ) 	vanity fair ( ) 	pendennis ( - ) 	rebecca and rowena ( ) 	men’s wives ( ) 	the history of henry esmond ( ) 	the english humorists of the eighteenth century ( ) 	the newcomes ( ) 	the rose and the ring ( ) 	the virginians ( - ) 	lovel the widower ( ) 	four georges ( - ) 	the adventures of philip ( ) 	roundabout papers ( ) 	denis duval ( ) 	ballads ( ) 	burlesques ( ) 	the orphan of pimlico ( ) thackeray began as a satirist and parodist, writing works that displayed a sneaking fondness for roguish upstarts such as becky sharp in vanity fair, and the title characters of the luck of barry lyndon and catherine. in his earliest works, written under such pseudonyms as charles james yellowplush, michael angelo titmarsh and george savage fitz-boodle, he tended towards savagery in his attacks on high society, military prowess, the institution of marriage and hypocrisy. one of his earliest works, "timbuctoo" ( ), contains a burlesque upon the subject set for the cambridge chancellor's medal for english verse (the contest was won by tennyson with "timbuctoo"). thackeray's writing career really began with a series of satirical sketches now usually known as the yellowplush papers, which appeared in fraser's magazine beginning in . these were adapted for bbc radio in , with adam buxton playing charles yellowplush.[ ] between may and february fraser's published the work sometimes considered thackeray's first novel, catherine. originally intended as a satire of the newgate school of crime fiction, it ended up being more of a picaresque tale. he also began work, never finished, on the novel later published as a shabby genteel story. title-page to vanity fair, drawn by thackeray, who furnished the illustrations for many of his own books thackeray is probably best known now for vanity fair. literary theorist kornelije kvas wrote that "the meteoric rise of the heroine of vanity fair rebecca sharp is a satirical presentation of the striving for profit, power and social recognition of the new middle class. old and new members of the middle class strive to emulate the lifestyle of the higher class (noblemen and landowners), and thereby to increase their material possessions and to own luxury objects. in vanity fair, one can observe a greater degree of violation of moral values among members of the new middle class, for the decline of morality is proportionate to the degree of closeness of the individual to the market and its laws."[ ] in contrast, his large novels from the period after vanity fair, which were once described by henry james as examples of "loose baggy monsters", have largely faded from view, perhaps because they reflect a mellowing in thackeray, who had become so successful with his satires on society that he seemed to lose his zest for attacking it. these later works include pendennis, a bildungsroman depicting the coming of age of arthur pendennis, an alter ego of thackeray, who also features as the narrator of two later novels, the newcomes and the adventures of philip. the newcomes is noteworthy for its critical portrayal of the "marriage market," while philip is known for its semi-autobiographical depiction of thackeray's early life, in which he partially regains some of his early satirical power. also notable among the later novels is the history of henry esmond, in which thackeray tried to write a novel in the style of the eighteenth century, a period that held great appeal for him. about this novel, there have been found evident analogies—in the fundamental structure of the plot; in the psychological outlines of the main characters; in frequent episodes; and in the use of metaphors—to ippolito nievo's "confessions of an italian". nievo wrote his novel during his stay in milan where, in the "ambrosiana" library, "the history of henry esmond" was available, just published.[ ] not only esmond but also barry lyndon and catherine are set in that period, as is the sequel to esmond, the virginians, which is set partially in north america and includes george washington as a character who nearly kills one of the protagonists in a duel. family[edit] parents[edit] thackeray's father, richmond thackeray, was born at south mimms and went to india in at age sixteen as a writer (civil servant) with the east india company. richmond's father's name was also william makepeace thackeray.[ ] richmond fathered a daughter, sarah redfield, in with charlotte sophia rudd, his possibly eurasian mistress, and both mother and daughter were named in his will. such liaisons were common among gentlemen of the east india company, and it formed no bar to his later courting and marrying william's mother.[ ] anne becher and william makepeace thackeray by george chinnery, c.  thackeray's mother, anne becher (born ), was "one of the reigning beauties of the day" and a daughter of john harmon becher, collector of the south parganas district (d. calcutta, ), of an old bengal civilian family "noted for the tenderness of its women". anne becher, her sister harriet and their widowed mother, also harriet, had been sent back to india by her authoritarian guardian grandmother, ann becher, in on the earl howe. anne's grandmother had told her that the man she loved, henry carmichael-smyth, an ensign in the bengal engineers whom she met at an assembly ball in in bath, had died, while he was told that anne was no longer interested in him. neither of these assertions was true. though carmichael-smyth was from a distinguished scottish military family, anne's grandmother went to extreme lengths to prevent their marriage. surviving family letters state that she wanted a better match for her granddaughter.[ ] anne becher and richmond thackeray were married in calcutta on october . their only child, william, was born on july .[ ] there is a fine miniature portrait of anne becher thackeray and william makepeace thackeray, aged about two, done in madras by george chinnery c. .[ ] anne's family's deception was unexpectedly revealed in , when richmond thackeray unwittingly invited the supposedly dead carmichael-smyth to dinner. five years later, after richmond had died of a fever on september , anne married henry carmichael-smyth, on march . the couple moved to england in , after having sent william off to school there more than three years earlier. the separation from his mother had a traumatic effect on the young thackeray, which he discussed in his essay "on letts's diary" in the roundabout papers. descendants[edit] thackeray is an ancestor of the british financier ryan williams, and is the great-great-great-grandfather of the british comedian al murray[ ] and author joanna nadin. reputation and legacy[edit] 	 	this section possibly contains original research. please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. statements consisting only of original research should be removed. (august ) (learn how and when to remove this template message) etching of thackeray, ca. during the victorian era thackeray was ranked second only to charles dickens, but he is now much less widely read and is known almost exclusively for vanity fair, which has become a fixture in university courses, and has been repeatedly adapted for the cinema and television. in thackeray's own day some commentators, such as anthony trollope, ranked his history of henry esmond as his greatest work, perhaps because it expressed victorian values of duty and earnestness, as did some of his other later novels. it is perhaps for this reason that they have not survived as well as vanity fair, which satirises those values. thackeray saw himself as writing in the realistic tradition, and distinguished his work from the exaggerations and sentimentality of dickens. some later commentators have accepted this self-evaluation and seen him as a realist, but others note his inclination to use eighteenth-century narrative techniques, such as digressions and direct addresses to the reader, and argue that through them he frequently disrupts the illusion of reality. the school of henry james, with its emphasis on maintaining that illusion, marked a break with thackeray's techniques. charlotte brontë dedicated the second edition of jane eyre to thackeray.[ ] in the royal society of arts unveiled a blue plaque to commemorate thackeray at the house at palace green, london, that had been built for him in the s.[ ] it is now the location of the israeli embassy.[ ] thackeray's former home in tunbridge wells, kent, is now a restaurant named after the author.[ ] thackeray was also a member of the albion lodge of the ancient order of druids at oxford.[ ] in popular culture[edit] 	thackeray is portrayed by michael palin in the itv television series vanity fair. 	miles jupp plays thackeray in the film the man who invented christmas. list of works[edit] series[edit] henry esmond 	the history of henry esmond ( ) – isbn  - - - 	the virginians ( – ) – isbn  - - - arthur pendennis 	pendennis ( – ) – isbn  - - - 	the newcomes ( ) – isbn  - - - 	a shabby genteel story (unfinished) ( ) – isbn  - - - 	the adventures of philip ( ) – isbn  - - - the christmas books of mr m. a. titmarsh thackeray wrote and illustrated five christmas books as "by mr m. a. titmarsh". they were collected under the pseudonymous title and his real name no later than by smith, elder & co.[ ] the rose and the ring was dated in its first edition, published for christmas . 	mrs. perkins's ball ( ), as by m. a. titmarsh 	our street 	doctor birch and his young friends 	the kickleburys on the rhine (christmas ) – "a new picture book, drawn and written by mr m. a. titmarsh"[ ] 	the rose and the ring (christmas ) – isbn  - - -x novels[edit] 	catherine ( – ) – isbn  - - - (originally credited to "ikey solomons, esq. junior"[ ]) 	the luck of barry lyndon ( ), filmed as barry lyndon by stanley kubrick – isbn  - - - 	vanity fair ( – ) – isbn  - - - 	men's wives ( ) – isbn  - - - - 	lovel the widower 	denis duval (unfinished) ( ) – isbn  - - - novellas[edit] 	elizabeth brownbridge 	sultan stork 	little spitz 	the yellowplush papers ( ) – isbn  - - - 	the professor 	miss löwe 	the tremendous adventures of major gahagan 	the fatal boots 	cox’s diary 	the bedford-row conspiracy 	the history of samuel titmarsh and the great hoggarty diamond 	the fitz-boodle papers 	the diary of c. jeames de la pluche, esq. with his letters 	a legend of the rhine 	a little dinner at timmins’s 	rebecca and rowena ( ), a parody sequel of ivanhoe – isbn  - - - 	bluebeard's ghost sketches and satires[edit] 	the irish sketchbook ( volumes) ( ) – isbn  - - - 	the book of snobs ( ), which popularised that term- isbn  - - - 	flore et zephyr 	roundabout papers 	some roundabout papers 	charles dickens in france 	character sketches 	sketches and travels in london 	mr. brown's letters 	the proser 	miscellanies play[edit] 	the wolves and the lamb travel writing[edit] 	notes of a journey from cornhill to grand cairo ( ), under the name mr m. a. titmarsh. 	the paris sketchbook ( ), featuring roger bontemps 	the little travels and roadside sketches ( ) other non-fiction[edit] 	the english humorists of the th century ( ) 	four georges ( - ) - isbn  - 	roundabout papers ( ) 	the orphan of pimlico ( ) 	sketches and travels in london 	stray papers: being stories, reviews, verses, and sketches ( - ) 	literary essays 	the english humorists of the th century: a series of lectures ( ) 	ballads 	miscellanies 	stories 	burlesques 	character sketches 	critical reviews 	second funeral of napoleon see also[edit] 	barry lyndon, the film adaptation by stanley kubrick references[edit] 	^ calcutta was the capital of the british empire in india at the time. thackeray was born on the grounds of what is now the armenian college & philanthropic academy, on the old freeschool street, now called mirza ghalib street. 	^ john., aplin ( ). the inheritance of genius : a thackeray family biography, - . cambridge, u.k.: lutterworth press. isbn  - . oclc  . 	^ a b c d e f g "thackeray, william makepeace ( – )" in oxford dictionary of national biography online, (subscription required), accessed may 	^ dunton, larkin ( ). the world and its people. silver, burdett. p.  . 	^ "thackeray, william makepeace (thky wm)". a cambridge alumni database. university of cambridge. 	^ gary simons, "thackeray's contributions to the times", victorian periodicals review, : ( , pp. – 	^ dabney, ross h. 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		quintus horatius flaccuscarmina a.ch.n. quintus horatius flaccus carmina liber iv carmen xv a.ch.n. 	 iv, xiv 	 phoebus volentem proelia me loqui victas et urbis increpuit lyra,    ne parva tyrrhenum per aequor       vela darem. tua, caesar, aetas fruges et agris rettulit uberes et signa nostro restituit iovi    derepta parthorum superbis       postibus et vacuom duellis ianum quirini clausit et ordinem rectum evaganti frena licentiae    iniecit emovitque culpas       et veteres revocavit artis, per quas latinum nomen et italae crevere vires famaque et imperi    porrecta maiestas ad ortus       solis ab hesperio cubili. custode rerum caesare non furor civilis aut vis exiget otium,    non ira, quae procudit ensis       et miseras inimicat urbis. non qui profundum danuvium bibunt edicta rumpent iulia, non getae,    non seres infidique persae,       non tanain prope flumen orti. nosque et profestis lucibus et sacris inter iocosi munera liberi    cum prole matronisque nostris,       rite 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horatsi horatz, .. horaz horaz (römischer dichter) horazio horazius flaccus, quintus horazius flakkus, quintus horazius flakus, quintus huoracėjos hūrās khorat︠s︡iĭ khorat︠s︡iĭ flak, kvint kvint goracij flakk kvint horacije flak kwintus horacjusz flakkus oracio oracius flaccus orassi oratio oratius orazio orazio (flacco) orazio flacco (, q.) orazio flacco (, quinto) orazjus flaccus, quintus q. horatius flaccus q. orazio flacco quinde orazio flacco quinto horatio flacco quinto orazio flacco (poeta romano) quintu orazziu flaccu quintus horacius flakus quintus horatius flaccus quintus horatius flaccus (poet roman din „perioada de aur” a literaturii romane) quintus horatius flaccus (romersk skribent og poet) Οράτιος (Ρωμαίος λυρικός ποιητής) Гарацый Гарацыюс Гораций Гораций (римский поэт) Гораций Флакк, К Гораций Флакк, Квинт Горацій (римський поет) Хораций Хорациј Хорације ჰორაციუსი Հորացիուս הוראטיוס פלקוס, קוינטוס הוראציו הוראציוס הורטיוס הורטיוס פלקוס, קוינטוס הורציוס פלקוס, קוינטוס هوراتيوس هوراس هوراس (شاعر و نویسنده در روم باستان) होरेस ਹੋਰੇਸ ஓராசு ഹൊറസ് 호라티우스 クイントゥス ホラーティウス ホラティウス 贺拉斯 	 dates 	dates:  	v . . .-v . . 	 creation class 	creation class:  	 bm computer file cre language material manuscript language material manuscript notated music mixed materials musical sound recording nonmusical sound recording notated music two-dimensional nonprojectable graphic 	 creation role 	creation role:  	 author contributor creator lyricist performer 	 related names 	related names:  	 bejarano, virgilio (co-author) bond, johannes ( - ) bovie, smith palmer (co-author) caesarius, johann ( - ; bekanntschaft; see also from) caesarius, johannes (bekanntschaft; see also from) caesarius, johannes╬c (bekanntschaft; see also from) campos, urbano chamorro luis, bonifacio colamarino, tito (co-author) cristóbal lópez, vicente duflot, roland (co-author) fedeli, paolo (co-author) freire, francisco josé ( - , c.o.) friedlieb, franz (bekanntschaft; see also from) friedlieb, franz╬c 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( - ) wheeler, george bomford ( - ) wyss, bernhard בירנבאום, רחל عوض، لويس، ( - ) 松本, 仁助 ( -) 	 titles 	titles:  	 ad augustium ars poetica : alkuteksti ja proosasuomennos, johdanto ja selityksiä art poétique arte poetica - , de arte poetica di q. orazio flacco;, l' auswahl aus seinen dichtungen carmen saeculare carmina. liber . carmina. liber carmina. liber . carmina. liber . carmina selecta et de arte poetica liber carmina. selections carminum libri quattuor et carmen saeculare : latinaksi ja suomeksi carminum libri quatuor chant séculaire classical literature/philosophy collège e latin dichtkunst donec gratus eram tibi eclogae epistles of horace;, the epístola a los pisones epistolae epístolas epistulae , epistulae , epistulae , epistulae , epistulae , epistulae. liber epistulae. liber . epistulae. selections epistularum Épitres. texte établi et traduit par françois villeneuve epodae epodi epodi epodi epodi. liber epodo epodos gedichte gruppi, scelte horace's odes and the mystery of do-re-mi horace : selected odes and satire . horacio lírico notas de clase horatiuksen oodeja horatius' satiren en brieven horaz : briefe horaz lateinisch und deutsch izabrane pjesme kleine Übersetzungs-bibliothek röm. und griech. klassiker kvintus horatius flakkuksen teokset l'art poétique d'horace traduit en vers françois le opere di quinto orazio flacco les satires lettres. lierzangen mollis inertia cum tantam diffuderil imis (epodes, ) non usitata nec tenui ferar (odes, livre , ) obra selecta obras obres odae , - odae - odae , odae , odae - odae , - odae , odae , odae , odae , odae , odae , odae , odae , odae , odae , odas selectas : texto latino oden und epoden odes and epodes odes book i odes book iv odes with the latin text odi, le Ódy a epódy ody i epody Œuvre oeuvres complètes d'horace oeuvres d'horace en latin et en françois avec des remarques critiques et historiques. oodeja ja epoodeja opera, interpretatione et notis illustravit ludovicus desprez ... opera. latin. [from old catalog] opera omnia opere di q. orazio flacco, le petti, nihil me sicut antea juvat (epodes, ) poemata poesía lírica traducción rítmica poesias de horacio, las poesias escogidas poésies, les q. horatii flacci carmina liber iv q. horatius flaccus quinti horati flacci opera : with english notes and introduction quinti horatii flacci opera runoudesta sammlung satirae. liber . satirae. liber . satirae. liber , sátiras satire e epistole ; a cura di alessandro ronconi satiren und episteln : mit anmerkungen satires and epistles saturae , saturae , saturae , saturae , saturae , saturae , saturae , satyry i listy sermones songs of remembrance: ii. pallida mors speigel, n. horatÌ£iyus, c the odes of horace the satires and epistles of horace traduction des oeuvres d'horace tutte le poesie valittuja lauluja vestigios de antigua llama antología werke... works wybór poezji zinnebeelden 詩論 	 contributed to or performed 	contributed to or performed:  	 ode welcome to the world of the 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available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; additional terms may apply. see terms of use for details. 		privacy policy 	about wikimedia login wiki 	disclaimers 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 Горацій — Вікіпедія 	 	 	 	 	Горацій 	 		Матеріал з Вікіпедії — вільної енциклопедії. 		 змін у цій версії очікують на перевірку. Стабільну версію було перевірено вересня . змін у цій версії очікують на перевірку. Стабільну версію було перевірено вересня . 		 		 		 		Перейти до навігації 		Перейти до пошуку 			Горацій 	horatius 	 	Ім'я при народженні	 quintus horatius flaccus 	Народився	 грудня до н. е.(- - - ) Венузія, Римська республіка 	Помер	 листопада до н. е.(- - - ) ( років) Рим 	Поховання	 Рим 	Країна	 Стародавній Рим 	Національність	 римлянин 	Діяльність	 поет 	Вчителі	 cratippus of pergamond[ ] і Аріст з Аскалонуd 	Знання мов	 латина 	Жанр	 лірика 	magnum opus	 ars poeticad 	Батько	 невідомо 	Мати	 невідомо 	 	 Роботи у Вікіджерелах 	 Висловлювання у Вікіцитатах 	  Медіафайли у Вікісховищі |Фото= Квінт Горацій Флакк (лат. quintus horatius flaccus; грудня до н. е. — листопада до н. е.) — поет «золотого віку» римської літератури, разом з Вергілієм і Овідієм, один з найуславленіших авторів у всій світовій літературі. Зміст 	 Біографія 	 Творчість 	 . Епóди Горація 	 . Оди Горація 	 Твори 	 Стиль 	 Спадок 	 Відлуння в Україні 	 Див. також 	 Посилання 	 Примітки Біографія[ред. | ред. код] Горацій народився грудня р. до н. е. у Венузії (суч. Веноза) в області Апулія на півдні Італії. Батько, про якого сам поет згадував із захватом і преклонінням (про матір він не згадує), був вільновідпущеником. Ремеслом помічника розпорядника аукціонів він заробив на невеликий маєток. Бажаючи, щоб здібний юнак дістав гарну освіту, батько привіз Горація до Риму і довірив його виховання відомому граматику і наставнику Орбілію Пупіллу. Сам батько взяв на себе роль «педагога», тобто людини, яка супроводжує дитину до школи (зазвичай цей обов'язок покладався на раба). У років Горацій вирушив до Афін, щоб завершити свою освіту. У до н. е. Марк Юній Брут, один із заколотників, що вбили Цезаря, також прибув до Афін нібито для занять філософією, насправді ж — щоб завербувати серед молодих римлян, які навчалися у Греції, офіцерів своєї майбутньої армії. Коли Марк Антоній і Октавіан відкрили проти «визволителів» воєнні дії, Горацій встав на бік Брута. У роки він одержав чин військового трибуна і супроводжував Брута в Малу Азію. Але переконаним республіканцем Горацій не був; після фатальної для Брута битви при Філіппах ( до н. е.), він повернувся до Риму, де його маєток був вже конфіскований на користь демобілізованих ветеранів. По загальній амністії Горацію вдалося отримати посаду переписувача-скарбника. Вірші, написані Горацієм у цей час, привернули увагу Вергілія і Варія Руфа. Вони познайомили молоду людину з Меценатом, і в до н. е. останній прийняв Горація в коло своїх друзів. Меценат був не тільки другом, а й заступником поетів. Він удостоївся вічної вдячності Горація, коли увів його до літературних і політичних кіл Риму, а в до н. е. Горацій одержав від Мецената невелику садибу в Сабінських горах (поблизу суч. Тиволі), завдяки чому йому більше не треба було турбуватися про гроші. У цей період політика усе ще турбувала поета. Природно, він приєднався до партії свого заступника, хоча ніколи не зрікався стародавніх друзів-республіканців. Горацій став діяльним прихильником Октавіана Авґуста лише в результаті військового конфлікту між ним і його колишнім союзником Марком Антонієм, що завершився перемогою при Акції ( до н. е.) і взяттям Олександрії ( до н. е.). Після цих подій Горацій зробив чималий внесок у кампанію, що проводилася Авґустом, з політичного і морального відродження Риму, оскільки був вихідцем із середовища вільновідпущеників, — з тієї соціальної групи, що, збагачувалась від торгівлі і витісняла родову аристократію, стаючи надійною опорою нового режиму. Звернувшись до поезії в пору розчарування після поразки при Філіппах, Горацій обрав за зразок двох дотепних і уїдливих авторів: у грека Архілоха (бл. до н. е. — бл. до н. е.) він запозичив ямб, у італійця Луцилія (бл. до н. е. — / до н. е.) — сатиру. Перша книга Сатир Горація (сам він називав їх sermones, тобто Бесіди), що складалася з десяти віршів, написаних гекзаметром, вийшла бл. до н. е. Після перемоги Октавіана Авґуста, бл. до н. е., Горацій зібрав ще сатир у другій книзі, приєднавши до неї коротких ямбічних творів, названих Еподи. Після цього у творчості Горація відбувся рішучий поворот. Він відшукав розміри, що відповідають своєму нині позитивному умонастроєві, у еолійській ліричній (тобто для виконання під акомпанемент) поезії початку vi ст. до н. е., в Алкея й Сапфо, у них же він черпав і натхнення. Звертався він і до більш легковажної лірики Анакреонта, і до більш розумової й ученої елліністичної поезії. Горацій мистецьки пристосував ці розміри до латинської мови, з легкістю справжнього майстра використовував він і шляхетний алкеїв вірш, і витончену сапфічну строфу, і текучі асклепіади. У до н. е. він випустив у світло Оди, різноманітних по метриці, розміру (від до рядків) і інтонації віршів, ретельно розподілених по трьох книгах (лат. carmina, тобто Пісні, Одами їх назвали вже після античності). У наступні шість років Горацій перестав складати ліричні (в античному значенні слова) вірші. У до н. е. вийшла перша книга написаних гекзаметром Послань, куди ввійшли листів переважно філософського змісту, строгіших за формою, ніж Сатири, але цілком індивідуальних і щирих. В ці роки Горацій у силу ряду причин значною мірою втрачає колишнє легкодумство. Він гостро відчуває, що молодість із усіма її відрадами його залишає. У до н. е. Меценат не догодив Октавіану Авґусту і був відлучений з позиції найбільш наближеної до нього особи. У до н. е. померли шанований Горацієм Вергілій, а також Тібулл. Однак у до н. е. Авґуст доручає Горацію укладання гімну на честь великих Столітніх ігор. Це нарешті принесло Горацію широку популярність, і він повернувся до лірики. При створенні написаних у кілька наступних років од, зібраних в iv книзі, Горацієм рухало відчуття того, що поезія здатна дарувати людині безсмертя. Тут ми знаходимо замилування імператором, а часом і лестощі. Такий саме натхненний, блискучій -і вірш з ІІ книги Послань, звернений до Октавіана Авґуста на пряме його прохання. У ньому обговорюється стан римської поезії, причому Горацій захищає сучасних йому авторів від нападок з боку прихильників старовини. Час написання знаменитого Послання до Пісонів (названого в пізній традиції ars poetica, тобто Поетичне мистецтво) не встановлений, як невідомо і те, коли саме Горацій відповів відмовою на пропозицію Октавіана Авґуста зайняти місце його особистого секретаря. Светоній розповідає, що на вигляд Горацій був невисокий і гладкий: таким він описується в його власних сатирах. У справах любовних, судячи з розповідей, був він непомірний, і кажуть, що зі своїми коханками він розташовувався в спальні, прибраній дзеркалами, з таким розрахунком, щоб скрізь, куди ні глянути, відбивалося б їхнє злягання. Жив він, головним чином, на самоті, у своєму сабінскому або тибуртинському маєтку. У до н. е. Меценат помер, і Горацій пережив його лише на два місяці. Його поховали на Есквіліні поруч з Меценатом. Творчість[ред. | ред. код] Всі його твори, крім четвертої книги од і другої книги послань, присвячені Меценатові. «Сатири» і «Послання» написані гекзаметром, і Горацій назвав їх «бесідами»; інші твори написані складними ліричними розмірами. Епóди Горація[ред. | ред. код] Перші свої твори Горацій назвав епóдами («приспівами»), це двовірші, де другий рядок є коротшим за перший, немов би «приспівом» до нього. Написані вони під явним впливом елліна Архілоха, ямбами. Щоправда, Горацій відразу заявив, що його вірші схожі на Архілохові лише формою, а не змістом (за легендою, Архілох своїми ямбами довів до самогубства свого земляка Лікамба, який порушив свою обіцянку віддати свою доньку Ніобу за поета) «…Запозичив я дух Архілоха, / Ритми його, а не зміст, не слова, що Лікамба карали» Оди Горація[ред. | ред. код] Горацієві «Оди» вирізняються художньою довершеністю та тематичним розмаїттям. Однією з перлин римської поезії є ода «До Манлія Торквата», присвячена римському ораторові, товаришеві поета. І хто б його знав зараз, якби не рядки Горація. Своєю філософічністю, якимось елегійним смутком ця поезія виходить за межі дружнього послання і зливається з традицією елегії у світовій літературі. Зокрема, тут талановито реалізовано наявний у багатьох наступних творах світової літератури паралелізм у зображенні циклів природи і людського життя: Білі вже сніги. На луги повертається зелень, Знов кучерявиться гай. В красній обнові земля, і знову, спадаючи, води В'ються в своїх берегах…. …Зиму змагає весна, її ж переборює літо Й гине само, як лише Осінь розсипле плоди, за нею — на сон лиш багата — Вже пробігає зима. Тоншає місяця серп і знов ясніє уповні. Ми ж, коли канем туди, Звідки Еней не вернувсь, де Анк, де Тулл можновладний, — Порохом, тінню стаєм… Природа оновлюється, зимову «смерть» замінює весняне «воскресіння», але люди, померши, уже не відроджуються, стають «порохом, тінню». Далі поет висловлює думку, близьку до кредо епікурейців — «лови днину», «зривай день», «càrme diém»: «Рік, і година, та й мить, останок милої днини, / Радять: безсмертя не жди. / Хтозна, чи зводять боги до годин, що поминули, додати / Частку й наступного дня?…» У першій книзі «Од» Горацій вже вживав цей вислів: «àpre dièm, guàm minimùm crèdula postero» (користуйся днем, і найменше вір у майбутнє"). Адже «…Коли вмреш і коли над тобою в усім своїм блиску / Мінос вершитиме суд — / Ні красномовство, ні рід, ні побожність велика, Торквате, / Сонця не верне тобі…» Це філософічний вірш, у якому знайшла відображення не лише художня майстерність, а й високий інтелект Горація. Горацій пішов своїм шляхом у літературі, віддавши перевагу чіткому та вишуканому класичному стилю, спираючись — через голови своїх сучасників — на творчість давньогрецьких поетів: Архілоха, Алкея, Сапфо та ін. Показово, що, підбиваючи підсумок свого життя, Горацій особливо підкреслював як свою заслугу саме те, що дав друге життя еллінській ліриці латинською мовою. Твори[ред. | ред. код] 	( до н. е.) sermonum liber primus або Сатири i 	( до н. е.) epodes (Еподи) 	( до н. е.) sermonum liber secundus або Сатири ii 	( до н. е.) carminum liber primus або Оди i 	( до н. е.) carminum liber secundus або Оди ii 	( до н. е.) carminum liber tertius або Оди iii 	( до н. е.) epistularum liber primus (Послання) 	( до н. е.) ars poetica, Поетичне мистецтво або Послання до Пісонів 	( до н. е.) carmen saeculare або Пісня вікового свята 	( до н. е.) epistularum liber secundus (Послання) 	( до н. е.) carminum liber quartus або Оди iv (Дати приблизні) Стиль[ред. | ред. код] Сатири починалися з близького копіювання Луцілія. Навіть опис реальної поїздки Горація з Риму в Брундизій був підказаний віршем Луцілія про подорож по Сицилії. Як і той, Горацій майстерно відтворює невпорядкованість живого мовного потоку, непомітно переходить від одного предмета до іншого, украпляє подекуди мальовничі сценки й алюзії, а також обривки діалогу. До Горація поступово приходить усвідомлення того, що цінність і значення сатир Луцілія — у їхній автобіографічності. В ІІ книзі Сатир Горацій невимушено розвиває цю форму одночасно в двох напрямах: до автобіографічності своїх Послань і до викривальної патетики, що ми звикли зв'язувати насамперед з Ювеналом і з жанром сатири як таким. ІІ книга Послань складається з двох великих трактатів, яким надана відповідна форма: одне послання звернене до Октавіана Авґуста, інше — до Юлія Флора. Щодо більш великого ( рядків) Поетичного мистецтва античний коментатор повідомляє, що в основі цього твору — трактат Неоптолема Пароського (iii ст. до н. е.) Горацій — поет думки і разом з тим майстер сильного, стиснутого слова і чіткого, конкретного образу. Усі ці моменти присутні вже в ранній творчості, але поету не завжди вдається створити з них єдине художнє ціле, і образний бік виявляється нерідко лише ілюстрацією для відстороненого міркування. Більшої цілісності Горацій досягає у своїх пізніших творах. Навіть за деякими фрагментами Архілоха, що дійшли до нас, ми можемо зробити висновок, що у своїх Еподах Горацій запозичає в Архілоха якусь ідею, а потім розвиває її згідно зі своїм, як правило більш добродушним, умонастроєм. Також і в Одах він бере в Алкея або в іншого грецького поета ідею, а потім додає їй такий напрям, що жодним образом не міг з'явитися в оригіналі. Якщо казати про формальний бік, для цих ліричних творів характерна винахідлива продуманість аж до найменших деталей, метрична розмаїтість, дбайливість у словах, їхня благозвучність і дивне витончене розташування. Тут використане все краще, що дали латинській мові обороти Цицеронових промов. Майже усі вірші до когось звернені. Це явно на них позначається: по інтонації все це скоріше напучувальні або підбадьорливі, ніж чисто особисті твори. Багато з них написані з якоїсь нагоди (так, принаймні, у них стверджується). Для співу призначалися не всі оди. Є тут і величні патріотичні гімни (під впливом Піндара), насамперед перші шість в iii книзі. Любов не викликає в поета глибоких почуттів, пристрасть виявляє себе тільки в Еподах. В Одах поет, що досяг зрілих років, перетворюється в байдужого глядача людської комедії, готового посміятися як над чужим, так і над своїм невіглаством. Є в Горація і чарівні вірші, присвячені сільському життю. Спадок[ред. | ред. код] У Римі Горація читали в школах, складали коментарі до його творів, йому наслідували. У iii ст. Помпонієм Порфиріоном було складено дуже цінний та цікавий коментар до творів Горація. У Середні віки Горація шанували як мораліста, автора написаних гекзаметром сатир. Йому, «сатирику Горацію», Данте відводить місце в Лімбі слідом за Вергілієм і Гомером. Відродження по справжньому відкрило Горація. Петрарка ( ) придбав рукопис з його творами, і в деяких віршах у нього проявляється явний вплив Горація. Гуманісти вважали Горація цілком своїм, але його високо цінували і єзуїти, тому що вихолощений або християнізований Горацій міг давати позитивний моральний вплив на учнів. Намальована ним картина простого сільського життя була по душі людям подібної з ним долі, що дотримувались близьких смаків, якими були Петрарка, Ронсар, Монтень. Особливо високо цінувався досить умовний у вираженні почуттів -й епод. В Англії першим популяризатором Горація став Бен Джонсон, під безсумнівним впливом Горація виникали і деякі сонети Мілтона. Ці поети, а також літератори xvii ст. розуміли Горація краще, ніж більшість його шанувальників у xviii ст., чиї поверхневі захвати скоріше зашкодили його репутації. У той же час ліричні розміри Горація використовувалися й у латинському віршуванні, особливо вдало це робив німецький гуманіст Конрад Цельтіс ( — ), що впровадив, крім того, звичай співати оди Горація в школі, що зробилося в xvi ст. загальнопоширеною практикою. Згодом Горація стали перекладати на нові європейські мови, найвдаліше на німецьку. Трактат «Мистецтво поезії» вплинув на літературну критику. Це з нього запозичалися класичні принципи, посиланнями на нього обґрунтовувалися намагання приборкати надмірності бароко. Однак рухам романтиків було не по дорозі зі співаком розсудливості, урівноваженості і помірності, і з того часу популярність Горація більше не піднімалася на колишню висоту. Відлуння в Україні[ред. | ред. код] Твори Горація були високо поціновані і в Україні. Трактат Горація «Послання до Пісонів» часто згадує ректор Києво-Могилянської академії Ф. Прокопович у праці «Про поетичне мистецтво», написаній «для юнацтва» в  р. Повний переклад трактату Горація українською мовою «Про поетичне мистецтво» зробив А. Содомора. Особливі заслуги в справі популяризації поезій Горація в Україні має письменник-гуманіст Павло Русин із Кросна. Твори Горація вивчали у братських школах, Києво-Могилянській академії, на нього посилалися частіше, ніж на інших «латинців». Ф. Прокопович закликав вчитись у Горація майстерності. Г. Сковорода «претолковал малоросійським діалектом» його оди, зокрема, гораціанські мотиви звучать у збірці «Сад божественных песней». Наслідуючи І. Котляревського, котрий «українізував» «Енеїду», Горація переспівували П. Гулак-Артемовський та Л. Боровиковський. Поезія Горація знайшла нове життя в перекладах І. Франка та В. Щурата. У вітчизняний час надруковано численні переклади творів Горація українською мовою М. Білика, Миколи Зерова, А. Содомори, Бориса Тена та ін. Див. також[ред. | ред. код] 	Портал «Література» 	Портал «Стародавній Рим» 	Портал «Біографії» 	Горації 	Давньоримська література 	Оди 	Сабінум 	Сатири 	 Горацій — астероїд, названий на честь давньоримського поета. 	aurea mediocritas 	beatus ille, qui procul negotiis 	carpe diem 	epicuri de grege porcus 	exegi monumentum 	sapere aude Посилання[ред. | ред. код] 	Горацій // Зарубіжні письменники. Енциклопедичний довідник : у   т. / за ред. Н. Михальської та Б. Щавурського. — Тернопіль : Навчальна книга — Богдан, . — Т.   : А — К. — С.  . — isbn - - - . 	Праці Горація(лат.) 	Твори Горація на сайті Е-бібліотека «Чтиво» 	Античні поетики: Арістотель. Поетика. Псевдо-Лонгін. Про високе. Горацій. Про поетичне мистецтво. — Київ: Грамота, . — с. — (Бібліотека античної літератури). 	Біографія і твори в бібліотеці «Українського Центру» 	Горацій на сайті ae-lib 	Ю. І. Ковбасенко. Антична література: навч. посіб.  — -ге вид., розшир. та доповн. — К.: Київський університет імені Бориса Грінченка, . — — с. 	Горацій. До Мецената. З циклу «Оди». Переклад Г. Кочура. Читає В. 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imagined by anton von werner quintus horatius flaccus, (venosa, december , bc – rome, november , bc), jiske english-speaking waala des me horace ke naam se jaana jaawe hae, augustus ke time roman ke ek writer rahaa. references[badlo | source ke badlo] 	michie, james ( ). the odes of horace. rupert hart-davis. bahaari jorr[badlo | source ke badlo] 	the works of horace at the latin library 	selected poems of horace 	the perseus project — latin and greek authors (with english translations), including horace 	biography and chronology 	litweb 	horace's works: text, concordances and frequency list 	sorgll: horace, odes i. , read by robert sonkowsky 	persondata 	name 	horace 	alternative names 	quintus horatius flaccus 	short description 	roman lyric poet 	date of birth 	december , bc 	place of birth 	venosa 	date of death 	november , bc 	place of death 	rome "https://hif.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=horace&oldid= " se lawa gais hae 		vibhag: 	- bc janam 	- bc maut 	writers 	italy ke log 	 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of use for details. 		gupt niti 	wikipedia ke baare me 	jimmewari se chhutkaari 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 horatio - wikipedia, le encyclopedia libere 	 	 	 	 	horatio 	 		de wikipedia, le encyclopedia libere 		non revidite 		 		 		 		saltar al navigation 		saltar al recerca 			horatio 	 	sexo	 mascule 	nascentia	 - - bc (venosa) 	decesso	 - - bc (roma) 	loco de reposo	 roma 	ethnicitate	 ancient romans[*] 	citatania	 roma antique 	occupation	 poeta[*], scriptor, philosopho[*] 	obras notabile	 ars poetica[*] 	parentes	 matre unknown value patre unknown value 	lingua	 latino 	identificatores 	isni	 	viaf	 , 	commons	 quintus horatius flaccus horatio (in latino: quintus horatius flaccus; nascite in venosa le de decembre aec e morte in roma le de novembre aec) era un poeta roman. considerate un del major poetas del etate antique e maestro del elegantia artistic e dotate de inusual ironia, sapeva affrontar le vicissitudes politic e civil de su tempore 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phoenix public library (phoenix) 	 pima county public library (tucson and vicinity) 	 scottsdale public library (scottsdale) 	 university of arizona libraries (tucson) 	 arkansas	 bentonville public library (bentonville) 	 central arkansas library system (little rock; pulaski and perry counties) 	 fayetteville public library (fayetteville) 	 fort smith public library (fort smith) 	 university of arkansas (fayetteville) 	 university of arkansas at little rock (little rock) 	 california	 alameda county library (east bay communities south of oakland) 	 anaheim public library (anaheim) 	 benecia public library (benecia) 	 berkeley public library (berkeley) 	 butte county library (butte county) 	 california lutheran university (thousand oaks) 	 california polytechnic state university (san luis obispo) 	 california state university, east bay (hayward and concord) 	 california state university, fresno (fresno state) (fresno) 	 california state university, northridge (csun) (northridge) 	 california state university, sacramento (sacramento state) (sacramento) 	 caltech library, california institute of technology (pasadena) 	 chula vista public library (chula vista) 	 city college of san francisco (san francisco) 	 claremont colleges library (claremont) 	 contra costa library (contra costa county) 	 county of los angeles public library (most of los angeles county outside the city of los angeles) 	 cypress college (cypress) 	 de anza college (cupertino) 	 dixon public library (dixon) 	 el centro public library (el centro) 	 fresno county public library (fresno and vicinity) 	 glendale community college (glendale) 	 golden west college (huntington beach) 	 holy names university (oakland) 	 humboldt county public library (eureka and vicinity) 	 humboldt state university (arcata) 	 imperial valley college (imperial) 	 kern county library (bakersfield and vicinity) 	 link+ union catalog (cooperating libraries in california and nevada) 	 lodi public library (lodi) 	 long beach public library (long beach) 	 los angeles public library (los angeles) 	 loyola marymount university (los angeles) 	 marinet (public libraries in marin county) 	 monterey public library (monterey) 	 mountain view public library (mountain view) 	 napa county library (napa county) 	 newport beach public library (newport beach) 	 oc public libraries (orange county) 	 oakland public library (oakland) 	 occidental college (los angeles) 	 pacific grove public library (pacific grove) 	 pacific union college (angwin) 	 palo alto city library (palo alto) 	 pasadena public library (pasadena) 	 peninsula library system (san mateo county) 	 riverside county library system (riverside county outside of riverside) 	 riverside public library (riverside) 	 roseville public library (roseville) 	 sacramento public library (sacramento and vicinity) 	 saint mary's college of california (moraga) 	 salinas public library (salinas) 	 san diego county library (san diego county outside the city of san diego) 	 san diego public library (san diego) 	 san diego state university (san diego) 	 san francisco public library (san francisco) 	 san jose public library (san jose) 	 san jose state university (san jose) 	 san leandro public library (san leandro) 	 santa clara city library (santa clara) 	 santa clara county library district (parts of santa clara county) 	 santa monica college library (santa monica) 	 santa monica public library (santa monica) 	 sausalito public library (sausalito; member of marinet) 	 solano county library (solano county) 	 sonoma county library (santa rosa and vicinity) 	 sonoma state university library (rohnert park) 	 st. helena public library (st. helena) 	 stanford university libraries (stanford) 	 stanislaus county library (modesto and vicinity) 	 sunnyvale public library (sunnyvale) 	 tulare county library (visalia and vicinity) 	 ucla: university of california los angeles (los angeles) 	 ucsd: university of california san diego (la jolla) 	 usc: university of southern california (los angeles) 	 university of california berkeley (berkeley) 	 university of california davis (davis) 	 university of california irvine (irvine) 	 university of california libraries (all uc campuses) 	 university of california riverside (riverside) 	 university of california santa barbara (santa barbara) 	 whittier college (whittier) 	 yolo county library (yolo county) 	 colorado	 arapahoe libraries (arapahoe county) 	 bemis public library (littleton) 	 boulder public library (boulder) 	 colorado alliance of research libraries: prospector (various libraries in or near colorado) 	 colorado state university (fort collins) 	 denver public library (denver) 	 douglas county libraries (douglas county) 	 jefferson county public library (jefferson county) 	 longmont public library (longmont) 	 pikes peak library district (colorado springs, and el paso county) 	 poudre river public library district (fort collins) 	 summit county library (frisco, silverthorne, and breckenridge) 	 united states air force academy (colorado springs) 	 university of colorado boulder (boulder) 	 connecticut	 bridgeport library (bridgeport) 	 central connecticut state university (new britain) 	 connecticut college (new london) 	 connecticut state library (hartford and other locations) 	 cyrenius h. booth library (newtown) 	 danbury library (danbury) 	 darien library (darien) 	 eastern connecticut state university (willimantic) 	 edsel ford memorial library, hotchkiss school (lakeville) 	 greenwich library (greenwich) 	 hartford public library (hartford) 	 library connection inc. (greater hartford suburban libraries) 	 new haven free public library (new haven) 	 norwalk public library system (norwalk) 	 quinnipiac university (hamden) 	 silas bronson library (waterbury) 	 southern connecticut state university (new haven) 	 the ferguson library (stamford) 	 trinity college (hartford) 	 united states coast guard academy (new london) 	 university of connecticut (storrs and other campuses) 	 wesleyan university (middletown) 	 western connecticut state university (danbury) 	 westport library (westport) 	 yale university (new haven) 	 delaware	 delaware library catalog (public libraries statewide) 	 delaware state university (dover) 	 university of delaware library (newark) 	 wilmington university library (new castle) 	 district of columbia	 american university (washington) 	 catholic university of america (washington) 	 dc public library (washington) 	 gallaudet university (washington) 	 george washington university (washington) 	 georgetown university (washington) 	 howard university (washington) 	 library of congress (washington) 	 smithsonian libraries (washington and other locations) 	 florida	 alachua county library district (gainesville and vicinity) 	 bethune-cookman university (daytona beach) 	 brevard county libraries (space coast area) 	 broward county library (fort lauderdale and vicinity) 	 collier county public library (naples and vicinity) 	 columbia county public library (lake city) 	 edward waters college (jacksonville) 	 flagler county public library system (palm coast and bunnell) 	 florida a&m university (tallahassee) 	 florida gulf coast university (fort myers) 	 florida memorial university (miami gardens) 	 florida state university (tallahassee and other campuses) 	 heartland library cooperative (highlands, desoto, glades, hardee, and okechobee counties) 	 hillsborough county public library cooperative (tampa and vicinity) 	 indian river county library system (vero beach and vicinity) 	 jacksonville public library (jacksonville) 	 lake county library system (lake county) 	 leroy collins leon county public library (tallahassee) 	 lee county library system (fort myers and vicinity) 	 marion county public library system (ocala and vicinity) 	 miami dade college (miami and other campuses) 	 miami-dade public library system (miami) 	 nassau county public library system (nassau county) 	 orange county library system (orlando and vicinity) 	 palm beach county library system (west palm beach and vicinity) 	 pasco county libraries (pasco county) 	 pinellas public library cooperative (clearwater, st. petersburg and pinellas county) 	 saint leo university (saint leo) 	 sarasota county libraries (sarasota and vicinity) 	 seminole county public library (seminole county) 	 seminole state college of florida (sanford and other campuses) 	 southeastern university (lakeland) 	 st. lucie county library system (st. lucie county) 	 suwanee river regional library system (suwanee, hamilton, and madison counties) 	 university of central florida: ucf libraries (orlando and other campuses) 	 university of florida, george a. smathers libraries (gainesville) 	 university of miami libraries (coral gables) 	 university of north florida (jacksonville) 	 university of south florida (tampa) 	 university of west florida (pensacola) 	 volusia county public library (daytona beach, deltona, and vicinity) 	 west florida public libraries (pensacola and escambia county) 	 georgia	 albany state university (albany) 	 athens-clarke county library (athens) 	 atlanta university center (clark atlanta, interdenominational theological center, morehouse, spelman) 	 atlanta-fulton public library system (atlanta and vicinity) 	 brenau university (gainesville) 	 chattahoochee valley libraries (columbus and vicinity) 	 dekalb county public library (dekalb county) 	 emory university libraries (atlanta) 	 fort benning libraries (fort benning) 	 fort valley state university (fort valley) 	 georgia public library service, pines catalog (public libraries throughout the state) 	 georgia southern university (statesboro and savannah) 	 georgia state university (atlanta) 	 georgia tech library (atlanta) 	 gwinnett county public library (gwinnett county) 	 live oak public libraries (savannah; chatham, effingham and liberty counties) 	 oglethorpe university (atlanta) 	 savannah state university (savannah) 	 university of georgia (athens) 	 university of west georgia (carrollton) 	 hawaii	 hawaii state public library system (public libraries throughout the state) 	 university of hawaii at manoa (honolulu) 	 idaho	 blackfoot public library (blackfoot) 	 boise public library (boise) 	 boise state university, albertsons library (boise) 	 coeur d'alene public library (coeur d'alene) 	 cooperative information network ( public and school libraries in northern idaho and vicinity) 	 idaho falls public library (idaho falls) 	 idaho state university (pocatello) 	 marshall public library (pocatello) 	 meridian library district (meridian) 	 nampa public library (nampa) 	 twin falls public library (twin falls) 	 university of idaho library (moscow, and other campuses) 	 illinois	 arlington heights memorial library (arlington heights) 	 aurora public library (aurora) 	 bloomingdale public library (bloomingdale) 	 bloomington public library (bloomington) 	 champaign public library and urbana free library (champaign-urbana) 	 chicago public library (chicago) 	 chicago school of professional psychology (chicago and other campuses) 	 chicago state university (chicago) 	 college of dupage (glen ellyn) 	 cooperative computer services ( libraries in northwestern chicago suburbs) 	 depaul university (chicago) 	 dixon public library (dixon) 	 dominican university, rebecca crown library (river forest) 	 evanston public library (evanston) 	 illinois heartland library system (share) (libraries in southern illinois) 	 indian trails library district (buffalo grove, wheeling, prospect heights, and vicinity) 	 itasca community library (itasca) 	 joliet junior college (joliet) 	 joliet public library, main library (joliet) 	 lincoln library (springfield) 	 naperville public library (naperville) 	 northeastern illinois university (neiu) (chicago) 	 northwestern university libraries (evanston) 	 oswego public library district (oswego and montgomery) 	 parlin-ingersoll public library (canton) 	 plainfield public library district (plainfield) 	 prairiecat (libraries in the rails cooperative of northern illinois) 	 pritzker military museum and library (chicago) 	 resource sharing alliance (rsa) (libraries in west central illinois) 	 rockford public library (rockford) 	 swan: system wide automated network (suburban libraries in the chicago area) 	 schaumburg township district library (schaumburg and vicinity) 	 skokie public library (skokie) 	 university of chicago library (chicago) 	 university of illinois urbana-champaign library (urbana-champaign) 	 university of illinois-chicago library (chicago) 	 waukegan public library (waukegan) 	 western illinois university (macomb and quad cities) 	 indiana	 allen county public library (fort wayne and vicinity) 	 butler university (indianapolis) 	 depauw university (greencastle) 	 evansville vanderburgh public library (evansville and vanderburgh county) 	 hanover college, duggan library (hanover) 	 hesburgh libraries, university of notre dame (notre dame) 	 indiana university libraries (bloomington, and other campuses) 	 indianapolis public library (indianapolis) 	 purdue university libraries (west lafayette) 	 st. joseph county public library (south bend and vicinity) 	 tippecanoe county public library (lafayette and vicinity) 	 valparaiso university (valparaiso) 	 iowa	 bondurant community library (bondurant) 	 carnegie-stout public library (dubuque) 	 cedar falls public library (cedar falls) 	 cedar rapids public library (cedar rapids) 	 council bluffs public library (council bluffs) 	 davenport public library (davenport) 	 des moines public library (des moines) 	 drake public library (centerville) 	 grinnell college (grinnell) 	 harlan community library (harlan) 	 iowa city public library (iowa city) 	 iowa state university (ames) 	 marion public library (marion) 	 orange city public library (orange city) 	 sioux city public library (sioux city) 	 university of iowa libraries (iowa city) 	 university of northern iowa (cedar falls) 	 waterloo public library (waterloo) 	 kansas	 johnson county library (overland park and vicinity) 	 kansas city, kansas public library (kansas city) 	 kansas state university (manhattan) 	 manhattan public library (manhattan) 	 psu library consortium (academic and public libraries in the pittsburg area) 	 topeka and shawnee county public library (topeka) 	 university of kansas libraries (lawrence) 	 wichita public library (wichita) 	 wichita state university (wichita) 	 kentucky	 ashland community and technical college (ashland) 	 berea college (berea) 	 big sandy community and technical college (prestonburg) 	 bluegrass community and technical college (lexington) 	 elizabethtown community and technical college (elizabethtown) 	 fort campbell, sink library (fort campbell) 	 gateway community and technical college (florence) 	 hazard community and technical college (hazard and jackson) 	 henderson community college (henderson) 	 hopkinsville community college (hopkinsville) 	 jefferson community and technical college (louisville) 	 kenton county public library (kenton county) 	 kentucky state university (frankfort) 	 lexington public library (lexington) 	 louisville free public library (louisville) 	 madisonville community college (madisonville) 	 maysville community and technical college (maysville) 	 murray state university (murray) 	 northern kentucky university (highland heights) 	 owensboro community and technical college (owensboro) 	 paul sawyier public library (frankfort) 	 rowan county public library (morehead) 	 somerset community college (somerset) 	 southcentral kentucky community and technical college (bowling green, glasgow, and franklin) 	 southeast kentucky community and technical college (cumberland and other campuses) 	 southern baptist theological seminary (louisville) 	 university of kentucky (lexington) 	 university of louisville (louisville) 	 west kentucky community and technical college (paducah) 	 western kentucky university (bowling green and other campuses) 	 louisiana	 jefferson parish library (jefferson parish) 	 lsu alexandria, bolton library (alexandria) 	 lafourche parish public library (lafourche parish) 	 louisiana state university (baton rouge) 	 loyola university new orleans, monroe library (new orleans) 	 new orleans public library (new orleans) 	 northwestern state university (natchitoches and other campuses) 	 shreve memorial library (shreveport and caddo parish) 	 tulane university (new orleans) 	 university of new orleans, long library (new orleans) 	 west feliciana parish library (st. francisville) 	 xavier university of louisiana (new orleans) 	 maine	 bangor public library (bangor) 	 bates college (lewiston) 	 bowdoin college (brunswick) 	 colby college (waterville) 	 mainecat (statewide library catalog) 	 portland public library (portland) 	 university of maine, fogler library (orono) 	 york county community college (wells) 	 maryland	 baltimore county public library (baltimore suburbs) 	 cecil county public library (cecil county) 	 chesapeake college (wye mills and cambridge) 	 eastern shore regional library system (public libraries on maryland's eastern shore) 	 enoch pratt free library (baltimore) 	 frederick county public libraries (frederick and vicinity) 	 harford county public library (harford county) 	 howard county library system (howard county) 	 johns hopkins libraries (baltimore) 	 montgomery county public libraries (montgomery county) 	 national agricultural library (beltsville) 	 prince george's county memorial library system (prince george's county) 	 united states naval academy, nimitz library (annapolis) 	 university of maryland baltimore county (baltimore) 	 university of maryland libraries (college park) 	 massachusetts	 beverly public library (beverly) 	 boston college (boston) 	 boston public library (boston) 	 boston university libraries (boston) 	 brandeis university library (waltham) 	 bridgewater state university, maxwell library (bridgewater) 	 c/w mars (public and small academic libraries in central and western ma) 	 clams: cape libraries automated materials sharing (public libraries on cape cod) 	 college of the holy cross (worcester) 	 fenway libraries online (museums and small colleges in boston and vicinity) 	 five college libraries (amherst, hampshire, mt. holyoke, smith, umass-amherst) 	 harvard library (cambridge) 	 j. v. fletcher library (westford) 	 mit libraries, massachusetts institute of technology (cambridge) 	 merrimack valley library consortium (public libraries in northeastern ma) 	 minuteman library network (metrowest-region public and small college libraries) 	 noble: north of boston library exchange (north shore public and small academic libraries) 	 northeastern university (boston) 	 old colony library network (south shore public libraries) 	 sails library network (new bedford, fall river, taunton, and vicinity) 	 simmons college (boston) 	 smith college libraries (northampton) 	 springfield college (springfield) 	 tufts university (medford) 	 university of massachusetts amherst (amherst) 	 university of massachusetts lowell (lowell) 	 wellesley college (wellesley) 	 western new england university (springfield) 	 williams college (williamstown) 	 worcester polytechnic institute (worcester) 	 worcester public library (worcester) 	 michigan	 ann arbor district library (ann arbor) 	 canton public library (canton) 	 capital area district libraries (lansing and ingham county) 	 central michigan university (mount pleasant) 	 detroit public library (detroit) 	 eastern michigan university (ypsilanti) 	 flint public library (flint) 	 grand rapids public library (grand rapids) 	 grand valley state university (allendale) 	 kalamazoo public library (kalamazoo) 	 lakenet: lakeland library cooperative ( + public libraries in west michigan) 	 lansing community college (lansing) 	 michigan state university libraries (east lansing) 	 michigan elibrary (order from libraries across the state) 	 oakland community college (various oakland county campuses) 	 petoskey district library (petoskey) 	 plymouth district library (plymouth) 	 royal oak public library (royal oak) 	 traverse area district library (traverse city and vicinity) 	 university of michigan library (ann arbor) 	 warren public library (warren) 	 western michigan university (kalamazoo) 	 willard library (battle creek) 	 minnesota	 duluth public library (duluth) 	 hamline university (st. paul) 	 hennepin county library (minneapolis and vicinity) 	 minnesota state university (mankato) 	 saint paul public library (st. paul) 	 st. olaf college (northfield) 	 university of minnesota libraries (twin cities) 	 university of st. thomas (st. paul) 	 washington county library (washington county) 	 mississippi	 alcorn state university (lorman) 	 harrison county library system (gulfport, biloxi, and vicinity) 	 jackson state university (jackson) 	 jackson-hinds library system (jackson and hinds county) 	 mississippi library commission (jackson) 	 mississippi state university (starkville, meridian, and jackson) 	 tougaloo college (tougaloo) 	 university of mississippi libraries (oxford) 	 missouri	 concordia seminary library (st. louis) 	 daniel boone regional library (columbia and vicinity) 	 ferguson municipal public library (ferguson) 	 harris-stowe state university (st. louis) 	 joplin public library (joplin) 	 kansas city public library (kansas city) 	 lincoln university (jefferson city) 	 linda hall library (kansas city) 	 mid-continent public library (kansas city vicinity) 	 missouri river regional library (jefferson city and linn) 	 missouri state university (springfield) 	 missouri university of science and technology (rolla) 	 ozarks technical community college (springfield and other campuses) 	 poplar bluff municipal library (poplar bluff) 	 saint louis university (st. louis) 	 southeast missouri state university (cape girardeau) 	 springfield-greene county library district (springfield and vicinity) 	 st. charles city-county library district (st. charles county) 	 st. louis county library (st. louis suburbs) 	 st. louis public library (st. louis) 	 taneyhills community library (branson) 	 university of missouri kansas city: umkc libraries (kansas city) 	 university of missouri libraries (columbia) 	 washington university libraries (st. louis) 	 montana	 butte-silver bow public library (butte) 	 montana shared catalog ( + libraries across montana) 	 montana state university library (bozeman) 	 montana tech of the university of montana (butte) 	 university of montana, mansfield library (missoula) 	 nebraska	 bellevue public library (bellevue) 	 creighton university (omaha) 	 lincoln city libraries (lincoln) 	 omaha public library (omaha) 	 university of nebraska-lincoln (lincoln) 	 nevada	 carson city library (carson city) 	 college of southern nevada (las vegas and vicinity) 	 las vegas-clark county library district (las vegas and vicinity) 	 nevada library cooperative (public libraries outside nevada's largest urban areas) 	 washoe county library system (reno and vicinity) 	 new hampshire	 concord public library (concord) 	 dartmouth college (hanover) 	 lebanon public libraries (lebanon and west lebanon) 	 manchester city library (manchester) 	 nashua public library (nashua) 	 university of new hampshire (durham and manchester) 	 new jersey	 atlantic city free public library (atlantic city) 	 bccls (bergen, essex, hudson, and passaic county public libraries) 	 burlington county library system (public libraries in burlington county) 	 camcat (camden county library system, and camden county college) 	 hunterdon county library (flemington, clinton, and lambertville) 	 mercer county community college (west windsor and trenton) 	 middlesex county college (edison) 	 middletown township public library (middletown) 	 monmouth county library (monmouth county) 	 morris automated information network (morris county public libraries) 	 newark public library (newark) 	 pals plus library consortium ( libraries in passaic, essex, and hudson counties) 	 princeton public library (princeton) 	 princeton theological seminary (princeton) 	 princeton university library (princeton) 	 rowan college at burlington county (mount laurel and other campuses) 	 rowan university (glassboro) 	 rutgers university libraries (new brunswick, newark, and camden) 	 seton hall university (south orange) 	 somerset county library system (somerset county) 	 stockton university (galloway and other locations) 	 the college of new jersey (ewing) 	 william paterson university, cheng library (wayne) 	 new mexico	 los alamos public library system (los alamos and white rock) 	 new mexico state university (las cruces and other campuses) 	 rio rancho public libraries (rio rancho) 	 santa fe public library (santa fe) 	 the public library (albuquerque and bernalillo county) 	 thomas branigan memorial library (las cruces) 	 university of new mexico libraries (albuquerque) 	 new york	 binghamton university (binghamton) 	 brooklyn public library (brooklyn) 	 buffalo and erie county public library (buffalo) 	 chautauqua-cattaraugus library system (jamestown and vicinity) 	 city university of new york (cuny) (new york) 	 clinton essex franklin library system ( public libraries in northern new york counties) 	 columbia university libraries (new york) 	 connectny ( academic libraries in new york state) 	 cornell university library (ithaca) 	 finger lakes library system (public libraries in cayuga, cortland, seneca, tioga, and tompkins counties) 	 finkelstein memorial library (spring valley) 	 fordham university (new york) 	 hudson valley community college (troy) 	 iona college (new rochelle) 	 long island university (brooklyn, post, and other campuses) 	 manhattan college (new york) 	 metropolitan museum of art libraries (new york) 	 mid york library system (herkimer, madison, and oneida counties) 	 mid-hudson library system (columbia, dutchess, greene, putnam and ulster counties) 	 mohawk valley and southern adirondack library systems (public libraries in counties northwest of albany) 	 monroe county library system (rochester and vicinity) 	 nassau library system (aliscat: public libraries in nassau county, long island) 	 new york law school (new york) 	 new york public library (new york) 	 new york state library, archives, and museum (albany) 	 new york university libraries (new york) 	 nioga library system (niagara, orleans, and geneseee counties) 	 north country library system (jefferson, lewis, oswego, and st. lawrence counties) 	 onondaga county public library (syracuse and vicinity) 	 pioneer library system: owwl catalog (ontario, wayne, wyoming, and livingston counties) 	 pratt institute (new york) 	 queens library (queens) 	 rochester institute of technology (rochester) 	 suny oswego, penfield library (oswego) 	 southern tier library system (allegany, chemung, schuyler, steuben and yates counties) 	 st. francis college (brooklyn) 	 st. john's university (new york) 	 stony brook university libraries (stony brook) 	 suffolk county libraries (public libraries in suffolk county, long island) 	 syracuse university libraries (syracuse) 	 touro college libraries (new york) 	 united states military academy (west point) 	 university at albany, suny (albany) 	 university at buffalo, suny (buffalo) 	 university of rochester, river campus libraries (rochester) 	 westchester library system (public libraries in westchester county) 	 yeshiva university libraries (new york) 	 north carolina	 appalachian state university, 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wyoming	 albany county public library (laramie and vicinity) 	 fremont county libraries (lander, riverton, and dubois) 	 laramie county library (cheyenne) 	 natrona county public library (casper and vicinity) 	 university of wyoming (laramie) zambia	 university of zambia (lusaka) zimbabwe	 university of zimbabwe (harare) ftl service provided by the online books page, using data provided by the library of congress, oclc, wikipedia, and other sources. orazi - vichipedie 	 	 	 	 	orazi 	 		de vichipedie, la enciclopedie libare dute in marilenghe. 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 orazi bêf un tai. orazi declame. quint orazi flac (par latin quintus horatius flaccus; venose, p.d.c. - rome, ai di novembar p.d.c.) fo un poete di rome antighe. tabele dai contignûts 	 biografie 	 . la prime formazion 	 . i incuintris gjovevui a rome e il suces 	 il spirt dal poete e il stîl de poesie 	 lis oparis 	 la figure 	 bibliografie 	 leams esternis biografie[cambie | modifiche il codiç] la prime formazion[cambie | modifiche il codiç] stant che orazi al è, di ducj i poetis latins, chel che al parave dentri plui autobiografie tai siei viers, de sô vite o vin tantis informazions. al nassè tal p.d.c. a venose, in lucanie, di un libert, che, no cate che no a jerin siorons, al fasè di dut par fâlu studià cui mestris miôrs: te citât là che al jere nât, po a rome cun orbili, l'inomenât gramatic che al sfuarçave i rilêfs a parâ jù la aromai rangide odissee di livi andronîc a sun di stafiladis, a napoli cul filosof epicureu siron e ancje a atene; chi, za compenetrât di elenisim, si metè a lei la liriche greghe arcaiche e a studiâ la filosofie e al cjatà un gnûf amì, brût, che, daspò vê scurtisât a muart juli cesar cui altris conzurâts, al jere daûr a organizâ la vuere cuintri otavian e marc antoni, profitant de ocasion par frecuentâ lessons di filosofie. a orazi, di salt republican che al jere in chê volte, cesar e i cesarians no lu convincevin par nuie, al pensà ben di lâ a combati cun lui te bataie di filipos, tal , fasint di tribun militâr; a forin sdramassâts e, come che al conte propite lui, orazi salvà la ghirbe dome scjampant vie a gjambis puartaitmi, come che a vevin fat prin di lui archiloc e alceu. l'amâr de grande delusion politiche e morâl lu leà ancjemò di plui al epicureisim, che 'nd' veve za supât un grum cuant che al jere in campanie, là che a filosofavin chei dal circul di filoden di gadare; di chel amâr nol rivà mai a disfâsi e difat no lu bandonà mai un ciert abatiment e malincûr, che a vignivin fûr a periodis. i incuintris gjovevui a rome e il suces[cambie | modifiche il codiç] finide la vuere civîl, si veve di paiâ chei che le vevin combatude e a orazi i puartarin vie i bens dal pari, cussì par campâle si metè a fâ il secretari pe cuesture, fin che, vignût amì di virgili e vari rûf, chescj tal p.d.c. lu presentarin a mecenât, che, conseîr di august, jere il plui influent dai protetôrs di leterâts: cul timp, al fasè tele ancje cun lui, che lu tirà dentri dal so circul leterari (si cjatà tant ben che al vignì il centri di chel zîr di poetis), e po ben dal princip. aromai avonde ric e sigûr, par vie dai amìs possents, al molà vore, vint miôr avodâsi dut ae poesie e gjoldisi la pâs dal mâs in sabine che lu veve regalât mecenât, là che al podeve respirâ la cuiete che no i concedeve la frenetiche e indafarade rome, ma cence rivâ mai a parâ vie chel so sutîl ma ustinât lancûr. al continuà a fâ su e jù fin al p.d.c., cuant che di fermâlu a rome e viodè la muart; al lassà dut ce che al veve a august e al fo infossât dongje di mecenât. il spirt dal poete e il stîl de poesie[cambie | modifiche il codiç] ve une alegorie dal sintiment che al dîs orazi: nol è miôr contentâsi di bevi planc a planc di une biele fontanute che no riscjâ di colâ jù e di inneâ par lâ a scjafoiâsi di aghe intune flumere insiliose? il temperament di orazi jere in sostance amant de cuiete e solitari: il so ideâl di vite jere chel di un vivi cuiet par jessi seren, seont il pinsîr dai stoics e dai epicureus, che al spartive cun convinciment, e chel che i veve insegnât la sangagnose esperience des vueris civîls. chest vul dî che al lave daûr di une serenitât di vite che lu faseve suspietâ des passions masse vivarosis che a sconzortin e a scjassin lis dìs dai omps, simpri ducj cjapâts a cirî di otignî chest o chel altri che no a àn invezit di contentâsi di chel che a àn za: lui al veve miôr doprâ la moderazion, che lu parave dai pericui dai fogôrs e i permeteve di gjoldi dai plasês che al veve, invezit di stramudâju in malcuietece cul lâ daûr di altris robis, stant che al è simpri miôr jessi avonde par se stes che no dipindi dal esterni. sichè tes poesiis al dismuele e al stanze ducj i slançs passionâi (al disè lui di jessi irasci celerem, tamen ut placabilis essem, vadì un che si inrabie a colp, ma dome par po calmâsi), vint miôr (diviers di catul) une judiziose e ecuilibrade prudence che no la plenece des emozions. paraltri, stant che al ere un poete, al crodeve di vê di dâ ai altris un model di vite: si sintive di vê propite la responsabilitât di doprâ sintiment e cussì al finive par sfumâ i impits cuntun sutîl velut di ironie o cuntun savôr di pulide malincunie. cussì la sô poesie, clare e lampide e metude sù cuntune capacitât straordenarie di paronâ i viers e cuntune cure certosine e finissime pai detais (chest jal veve stramandât la formazion elenistiche), par jessi controlade e cui slançs che a lavin simpri di sbris, judiziose e prudente come lui, jere unevore divierse di chê dai poetis lirichis che al cjapave a model, come i fogôs alceu, saf e anacreont, che di lôr al veve supât il gust pal slis e pal colôr ma no la plenece des emozions. lis oparis[cambie | modifiche il codiç] orazi al scrivè 	i epodis, butâts fûr tal p.d.c., cun invetivis personâls, impegn civîl e sugestions elenistichis; 	lis sataris, publicadis atôr dal p.d.c. e dal p.d.c., là che al metè in esametris, sielzint il metri regolâr che al veve doprât lucili e no chel miscliç di varon, lis andis dai omps, ripuartantsi a la sô esperience personâl: cussì al faseve la sô funzion di vuide morâl, instradant chei che a leievin ai usâts valôrs di ecuilibri e prudence; 	lis odis, plenis d'impegn civîl e ancjemò morâl; 	il carmen saeculare, scrit tal p.d.c., cuant che august i domandà di butâ jù alc par celebrâ une gnove ete di pâs e grandetât che, al sigurave l'imperadôr, autorevulis profeziis disevin che e sarès scomençade in chê volte; 	lis epistulis, di gnûf cui cantins des sataris e cun altris di leterature, chescj soredut in chê ai pisons, che al à non ars poetica, vadì art poetiche. la figure[cambie | modifiche il codiç] stant a chel che al conte lui, al veve i voi sgarbelôs e al jere scûr di piel, blanc di cjavei ancje cuant che nol jere ancjemò masse vecjo, tarondin e bas. bibliografie[cambie | modifiche il codiç] 	ettore paratore, storia della letteratura latina, bologne, sansoni, 	paolo fedeli, storia letteraria di 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աշխատանքներ	Պոետական արվեստ 	Հորացիոս Վիքիքաղվածքում 	quintus horatius flaccus Վիքիպահեստում Քվինտոս Հորացիոս[ ] Փլակոս (լատ.՝ quintus horatius flaccus; դեկտեմբերի , մ. թ. ա.  [ ][ ][ ], Վենոզա, Պոտենցա, Բազիլիկատա, Իտալիա[ ][ ] - նոյեմբերի , մ. թ. ա.  [ ][ ], Հռոմ, Հին Հռոմ), հին հռոմեացի նշանավոր գրող, հռոմեական գրականության «ոսկեդարի» ներկայացուցիչ։ Կենսագրություն[խմբագրել | խմբագրել կոդը] Ծնվել է Վենոզայում, հայրը եղել է ազատարձակ։ Ստացել է կրթություն Հռոմում, հետագայում Աթենքում, որտեղ հունական գրականություն է ուսումնասիրել։ Այնտեղ նա ծանոթացել և մտերմացել է Բրուտոսի հետ, հանրապետականների բանակում նշանակվել է լեգեոնի հրամանատար։ Օկտավիանոս Օգոստոսի և Մարկոս Անտոնիոսի կողմից Բրուտոսի և Կասիոսի ջախջախումից հետո Հորացիոսը վերադառնում է Հռոմ, հաշտվում Օգոստոսի հետ և նվիրվում գրական գործունեությանը՝ վայելելով կայսրի հովանավորությունը։ Հորացիոսի առաջին բանաստեղծությունները երկտող էպոդներ են։ Հիմնականում երգիծանքի են ենթարկվում նրա ժամանակակիցները՝ անչափ երկար տոգայով զբոսնող տրիբունը ( էպոդ), պոետ Մեվիոսը, որի նավը պիտի խորտակվի ( էպոդ), չար կախարդը, դավաճան սիրուհին և այլն։ Հռոմեացիներին «հեռու կղզիներ փախչելու» կոչ է անում ( էպոդ)։ Էպոդներից անցնում է սատիրաներին, ընտրելով փիլիսոփայական դիատրիբայի ձևը։ Նրա սատիրաները նվիրված են տարբեր թեմաների՝ քաղաքական, փիլիսոփայական, երգիծական։ i գրքի i սատիրայում պոետը ծաղրում է իրենց գանձերը թաքցրած և ցնցոտիներ հագած ժլատներին։ Ըստ Հորացիոսի, մարդը պիտի ապրի բնության հետ ներդաշնակ՝ հաճույքներ ստանալով առօրյա կյանքից։ vi սատիրայում նա նկարագրում է սեփական համեստ կյանքը. նա երջանիկ է, քանի որ ոչ մեկից կախում չունի և ազատ տնօրինում է ժամանակը։ Հորացիոսը գովերգում է ընկերական հավատարմությունը և կոչ է անում ընկերոջ թուլությունների հանդեպ ներողամիտ լինել։ v սատիրայում պոետը նկարագրում է Օկտավիանոսի և Անտոնիոսի բանակցություններին մասնակցելու համար Մեկենասի և Վերգիլիոսի հետ Բրունդիզիում կատարած ճանապարհորդությունը։ Շրջանցելով քաղաքական հարցերը, Հորացիոսը նկարագրում է կենցաղային մանրամասները, ճանապարհի դժվարությունները, համեստ ուրախությունները։ Սատիրաների ii ժողովածուն ավելի հասուն է, նախապատվությունը տրված է երկխոսության ձևին։ vi սատիրայում հեղինակը պատմում է իր կալվածքի դրվածքի մասին։ Հետաքրքիր է սեփական դիմանկարի ինքնաքննադատությունը. պոետը խոստովանում է իր բնավորության փոփոխականությունը, ծուլությունը և դյուրագրգռությունը։ ii գրքի v սատիրայում հույն գուշակ Տիրեսիասը Ուլիսեսին՝ Ոդիսևսին կորցրած հարստությունը վերադարձնելու ուղիներ է հուշում, խորհուրդ տալիս դիմել Օգոստոսի դարաշրջանին հատուկ շողոքորթությանը և ստորությանը։ Մ.թ.ա. թ.–ից Հորացիոսը սկսում է գրել օդաներ (ներբողներ), որոնց մեջ այլևս չի շոշափում քննադատական և ծաղրական մոտիվներ։ Ի տարբերություն Կատուլոսի սուբյեկտիվ պոեզիայի՝ Հորացիոսի օդաները, ժամանակի վեհակերտությանը համահունչ, գրված են հանդիսավոր տոնով, կոչ են անում «իմաստության», զերծ են հուզականությունից, կրքերի և դժբախտությունների նկարագրություններից։ Հորացիոսի օդաները բազմազան են՝ ուղերձներ ընկերներին, հիմներ աստվածներին, մտորումներ, սիրային բանաստեղծություններ։ Մ.թ.ա. թ. Հռոմում կազմակերպվեցին քաղաքացիական պատերազմների ավարտը խորհրդանշող «սեկուլյար խաղեր» տոնը։ Տոնական հիմնի ստեղծումը հանձնարարվեց Հորացիոսին, ով Վերգիլիոսի մահից հետո (մ.թ.ա. թ.) համարվում էր կայսրության մեծագույն պոետը։ Հիմնում Հորացիոսը գովերգում է Օկտավիանոս Օգոստոսին, նրա բարեփոխումները, հռոմեական պետությունը, «նոր դարի սկիզբը»։ Հորացիոսի ստեղծագործական վերջին տարիների նախընտրած ժանրը ուղերձներն են՝ չափածո նամակները։ Ինչպես և սատիրաները, դրանք նույնպես գրված են անկաշկանդ զրույցի ձևով, սակայն այստեղ բացակայում է ծաղրանքը, իսկ «հորացիական իմաստությունը» արտահայտվում է Օգոստոսին, Մեկենասին, Տիբերիոսի քարտուղար Ֆլորին ուղղված խորհուրդների ձևով։ Ուղերձների երկու գրքերը լույս տեսան համապատասխանաբար մ.թ.ա. և թթ.։ Երկրորդ գիրքը բաղկացած է գրականությանը նվիրված երեք նամակից, որոնցից կարևորագույնը հայտնի է «Պոետական արվեստ» խորագրով։ Այստեղ Հորացիոսը ներկայանում է որպես հռոմեական կլասիցիզմի տեսաբան։ Պոետական ստեղծագործությունից նա պահանջում է ներդաշնակություն և մասերի համաչափություն, իսկ պոետից՝ կրթվածություն և դատողություն։ Տաղանդը պետք է ամրապնդել քրտնաջան մասնագիտական աշխատանքով։ Հորացիոսի պոեզիան բարձր է գնահատվել Պետրարկայի և Վերածննդի մյուս հումանիստների, xvii դարի տեսաբանների, ինչպես նաև xviii և xix դարի սկզբի ֆրանսիական և ռուսական պոետների կողմից։ Ծանոթագրություններ[խմբագրել | խմբագրել կոդը] 	↑ , , , , , http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/quinto-orazio-flacco_(enciclopedia-italiana)/ 	↑ , , , , , , , , Любкер Ф. horatii (ռուս.) // Реальный словарь классических древностей по Любкеру / под ред. Ф. Ф. Зелинский, А. И. Георгиевский, М. С. Куторга, Ф. Гельбке, П. В. Никитин, В. А. Канский — СПб.: Общество классической филологии и педагогики, . — С.  — . 	↑ , , , , , w. y. s., j. g. horace // encyclopædia britannica — — nyc: . — vol.  . — p.  — . 	↑ https://www.mirabileweb.it/author/-/  (իտալ.) — sismel – edizioni del galluzzo. 	↑ Հովհաննես Բարսեղյան ( )։ «Աշխարհագրական անունների հայերեն տառադարձության մասին որոշում»։ Տերմինաբանական և ուղղագրական տեղեկատու։ Երևան: -րդ հրաշալիք։ էջ  ։ isbn  - - -   		     Թեմատիկ կայքեր 	discogs · international music score library project · musicbrainz · Գուտենբերգ նախագիծ · Գուտենբերգ նախագիծ 	 	Բառարաններ և հանրագիտարաններ	Բրիտանիկա ( -th) · Բրիտանիկա (օնլայն) · Բրոքհաուս · Բրոքհաուսի և Եփրոնի · Բրոքհաուսի և Եփրոնի փոքր · Դասական հնությունների իրական բառարան · Մեծ կատալոնական · Մեծ նորվեգական · Մեծ ռուսական · Մեծ սովետական ( հրտ.) · notable names database · treccani · universalis · universalis 	 	 	 Չափորոշչային վերահսկողություն 	 	ՀԳՀԳ id:  · bav: adv , adv , adv · bibsys:  · bnc: a · bne: xx · bnf:  b · cinii: da · conor:  · egaxa: vtls · gnd:  · iccu: it\iccu\cfiv\ · isni:  · lccn: n , no · lnb:  · ndl:  · nkc: jn · nla:  · nlg:  · nlp: a · nsk:  · nta:  · nukat: n · ptbnp:  · РГБ:  ,  · libris:  · sudoc:  · viaf:  ,  · ulan:  · worldcat viaf:  ,  Ստացված է «https://hy.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Հորացիոս&oldid= » էջից 		Կատեգորիաներ: 	Դեկտեմբերի ծնունդներ 	Մ. թ. ա. ծնունդներ 	Իտալիայում ծնվածներ 	Նոյեմբերի մահեր 	Մ. թ. ա. մահեր 	Հռոմ քաղաքում մահացածներ 	Անձինք այբբենական կարգով 	Գրողներ այբբենական կարգով 	Անտիկ գրականություն 	Հռոմեացի բանաստեղծներ Թաքցված կատեգորիա: 	Վիքիպեդիա:Հոդվածներ Վիքիտվյալներից աղբյուրներով 	 	 	Նավարկման ցանկ 	 		 	 		Անձնական գործիքներ 	 	 			Դուք չեք մտել համակարգ 	Քննարկում 	Ներդրումներ 	Ստեղծել մասնակցային հաշիվ 	Մուտք գործել 		 	 		 			 	 		Անվանատարածքներ 	 	 			Հոդված 	Քննարկում 		 	 			 	 	 		Տարբերակներ 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		Դիտումները 	 	 			Կարդալ 	Խմբագրել 	Խմբագրել կոդը 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	 होरेस - विकिपीडिया 	 	 	 	 	होरेस 	 		मुक्त ज्ञानकोश विकिपीडिया से 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 			 	इस लेख में सन्दर्भ या स्रोत नहीं दिया गया है। कृपया विश्वसनीय सन्दर्भ या स्रोत जोड़कर इस लेख में सुधार करें। स्रोतहीन सामग्री ज्ञानकोश के उपयुक्त नहीं है। इसे हटाया जा सकता है। (दिसम्बर ) saturae, होरेस (horace ; वास्तविक नाम : quintus horatius flaccus ; दिसम्बर , bce – नवम्बर , bce) प्रसिद्ध रोमन कवि था। इसका जीवन काल अगस्टस सीज़र ( augustus caeser ) के शासनकाल के दौरान रहा i रचनाएँ[संपादित करें] 	स्टायर - i, ii 	इपोड्स 	ओड्स 	एपिस्टलस 	आर्स पोएटिका आर्स पोएटिका[संपादित करें] होरेस द्वारा लिखी गई रचनाओं में सबसे प्रमुख आर्स पोएटिका ( ars poetica ) है i इस शीर्षक का शाब्दिक अर्थ है काव्य की कला (art of poetry) i यह पत्रों के रूप में लिखी हुई है i अंग्रेजी के लेखक बेन जोनसन (ben jonson) ने इसका अनुवाद अंग्रेजी भाषा में किया था i यह रचना मूल रूप से अरस्तु के आलोचनात्मक सिद्धांतो पर आधारित है i इसके तीन भाग हैं - पोएसिस (poesis), पोएमा (poema) और पोएटा (poeta) i 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	keluarga 	orang tua	nilai tidak diketahui , nilai tidak diketahui 	 	 quintus horatius flaccus ( desember sm - november sm), atau lebih dikenal sebagai horatius adalah seorang penyair terkenal di kekaisaran romawi. tidak ada lukisan apalagi foto yang ada dari masa hidup. ini hanyalah imajinasi anton von werner. kehidupan[sunting | sunting sumber] horatius lahir di venosa, sebuah kota kecil di italia. ayahnya adalah seorang budak yang dibebaskan oleh majikannya. mereka pindah ke roma beberapa waktu kemudian. ayah horatius bekerja sebagai makelar. dari pekerjaannya ayahnya menjadi kaya dan bisa mengirim horatius ke sekolah terbaik di roma. ayahnya juga bisa mengirimnya ke athena (yunani) untuk belajar bahasa dan filsafat yunani. bahasa ibu horatius adalah latin. horatius amat bangga dengan ayahnya, dan tak malu mengakui anak seorang budak yang dibebaskan. di awal masa mudanya, julius caesar, diktator romawi, terbunuh. perang dikumandangkan terhadap orang-orang yang membunuhnya. horatius bergabung dengan militer. saat perang selesai, horatius kembali ke romawi dan mengetahui orang lain tinggal di apartemennya. ayahnya sudah pergi. horatius menjadi amat miskin. akhirnya, ia menemukan pekerjaan di perbendaharaan, menyortir uang. kawannya lucius varius rufus dan virgil, yang juga menulis, memperkenalkannya dengan maecenas. maecenas adalah kawan dekat augustus, kaisar romawi. horatius tinggal di tibur, sebuah daerah di roma. saat meninggal, horatius memberikan tanah yang dimilikinya kepada augustus, untuk menambah tanah yang dimiliki negara. kini, banyak penulis yang mengunjungi tanah itu untuk mengingatnya. puisi[sunting | sunting sumber] beberapa puisi horatius sulit diterjemahkan karena sintaksis, tata bahasa, dan strukturnya yang amat berbeda dengan bahasa-bahasa modern. horatius banyak dipandang sejumlah orang, termasuk para ahli, sebagai salah satu penyair terbaik bahasa latin. pranala luar[sunting | sunting sumber] 		wikiquote memiliki koleksi kutipan yang berkaitan 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		kebijakan privasi 	tentang wikipedia 	penyangkalan 	tampilan seluler 	pengembang 	statistik 	pernyataan kuki 		 	 	 horácio – wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre 	 	 	 	 	horácio 	 		origem: wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre. 		 		 		 		 		saltar para a navegação 		saltar para a pesquisa 		 nota: para outros significados, veja horácio (desambiguação). 	 	esta página cita fontes confiáveis, mas que não cobrem todo o conteúdo. ajude a inserir referências. conteúdo não verificável poderá ser removido.—encontre fontes: google (notícias, livros e acadêmico) (fevereiro de ) 	horácio 	 	nascimento 	 de dezembro de a.c. venosa 	morte 	 de novembro de  a.c. (  anos) roma 	sepultamento 	roma 	cidadania 	roma antiga 	etnia 	antigos romanos 	progenitores 	mãe:desconhecido pai:desconhecido 	ocupação 	poeta, escritor, filósofo 	[edite no wikidata] quinto horácio flaco, em latim quintus horatius flaccus, (venúsia, de dezembro de a.c. — roma, de novembro de  a.c.) foi um poeta lírico e satírico romano, além de filósofo. É conhecido por ser um dos maiores poetas da roma antiga. Índice 	 vida 	 filosofia epicurista 	 bibliografia 	 . livros 	 referências 	 ver também 	 ligações externas vida[editar | editar código-fonte] filho de um escravo liberto, que possuía a função de receber o dinheiro público nos leilões, recebeu uma boa educação para alguém com suas origens sociais, graças aos recursos que seu pai conseguiu, levando-o para roma onde foi discípulo de orbílio pupilo.[ ] seus estudos literários de roma foram completados em atenas, para onde foi, aos vinte anos.[ ] quando em a.c. eclodiu a guerra civil que se seguiu ao assassinato de júlio césar, horácio tomou partido daqueles que participaram da morte deste, bruto e cássio, servindo até a batalha de filipos onde, ao avizinhar-se a derrota, fugiu de volta para roma.[ ] já sem o pai, que havia morrido, e tendo perdido todos os bens que este possuía, que foram confiscados, horácio conseguiu um trabalho como escriturário, tendo assim ocasião de começar a escrever suas obras literárias.[ ] conhece então o poeta virgílio, que o apresenta a mecenas que, após nove meses, o convoca para integrar o círculo de artistas protegidos, tornando-se assim um dos poetas oficiais do estado, tendo a amizade a partir dali aumentado a tal ponto que o protetor deu-lhe de presente uma vila.[ ] eclodem, então, as lutas de otaviano contra cleópatra e marco antônio ( - a.c.), tomando então horácio entusiasta partido do primeiro que, sagrando-se vitorioso em Ácio, dele recebeu exultação pela conquista.[ ] tendo início o império, e otaviano passando a chamar-se augusto, tem início um período de paz que o poeta louvou, agradando ao imperador que, então, lhe oferece o cargo de secretário, sendo a oferta recusada.[ ] também recusa os pedidos de mecenas e augusto para que cantasse os feitos guerreiros, preferindo exaltar o papel de pacificador do governante, dedicando-se aos poemas curtos e com temas variados.[ ] segundo enzo marmorale, horácio “era de baixa estatura, quase gordo, moreno, de cabelos pretos, e bom orador”; mesmo havendo jurado que não sobreviveria a mecenas, sua morte deu-se a de novembro de a.c., meses após o falecimento do amigo, ao lado de quem foi sepultado no esquilino.[ ] filosofia epicurista[editar | editar código-fonte] alguns de seus poemas são apontados como exemplos do impacto da filosofia epicurista na roma antiga.[ ] não sendo um filósofo ele mesmo no sentido estreito do termo, ele se mostrou um filósofo ao não evitar o tema em seus poemas[ ] alguns temas epicuristas destacam-se em sua obra, como a importância em se aproveitar o presente (carpe diem) pelo reconhecimento da brevidade da vida e a busca pela tranquilidade (fugere urbem). bibliografia[editar | editar código-fonte] saturae, sua obra pode ser dividida em quatro gêneros: 	sátiras ou sermones — retrata ironia de seu tempo dividida em dois livros escritos em hexâmetros. baseado em assuntos literários ou morais, discute questões éticas. 	odes ou carminas — divididos em quatro livros de longos poemas líricos sobre assuntos diversos, geralmente sobre mitologia. também em hexâmetros. 	epístolas ou cartas — dois livros feitos de coleções de cartas sobre vários assuntos. dentre elas destaca-se a maior, a epístola aos pisões, conhecida como arte poética. 	epodos ou iambos — um livro somente, com pequenos poemas líricos escritos na mocidade sobre assuntos de roma e imitava, tanto na métrica quanto no estilo satírico, o poeta arquíloco. livros[editar | editar código-fonte] 	( a.c.) sermonum liber primus ou sátira i 	( a.c.) epodos 	( a.c.) sermonum liber secundus ou sátira ii 	( a.c.) carminum liber primus ou odes i 	( a.c.) carminum liber secundus ou odes ii 	( a.c.) carminum liber tertius ou odes iii 	( a.c.) epistularum liber primus 	( a.c.) ars poetica, ou epístola aos pisões 	( a.c.) carmen saeculare ou canto secular 	( a.c.) epistularum liber secundus 	( a.c.) carminum liber quartus ou odes iv referências 	↑ a b c d e f g h i vivian de azevedo garcia salema (s/d). «análise do epodo x de horácio». ufrj. consultado em de novembro de   	↑ woodman, tony & feeney, denis (ed.). traditions and contexts in the poetry of horace. cambridge: cambridge university, . 	↑ moles, john. poetry, philosophy, politics and play. in: woodman, tony & feeney, denis (ed.). traditions and contexts in the poetry of horace. cambridge: cambridge university, .p. ver também[editar | editar código-fonte] o wikiquote possui citações de ou sobre: horácio o commons possui imagens e outros ficheiros sobre horácio 	epicuro 	virgílio 	mecenas 	césar augusto 	dulce et decorum est pro patria mori 	fugere urbem ligações externas[editar | editar código-fonte] 	ufrgs - 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Ông sáng tác vào thời nội chiến và những thập niên đầu của chính quyền octavian augustus. mục lục 	 tiểu sử 	 sự ảnh hưởng 	 tác phẩm 	 một số bài thơ 	 những câu lời hay ý đẹp của horace 	 tham khảo 	 liên kết ngoài tiểu sử[sửa | sửa mã nguồn] horace sinh ở venosa, miền nam nước Ý, trong một gia đình nô lệ đã được giải phóng. sau đó gia đình chuyển về roma, horace được học trong những trường nổi tiếng nhất thời đấy. khoảng năm tr. cn horace sang athens học tiếp về văn học hy lạp và triết học. năm tr. cn ceasar bị giết chết, horace đứng về phía brutus. năm tuổi ông được phong chức tribunus militum và hộ tống brutus đến vùng tiếu Á. năm tr. cn horace tham gia trận đánh philippi (battle of philippi) nhưng brutus thua trận. horace được tha, sau đó ông trở về rome và bắt đầu con đường văn học khoảng năm tr. cn những bài thơ của horace gây được sự chú ý của virgil và licius varius rufus. hai nhà thơ nổi tiếng này giới thiệu horace với maecenas – bạn thân của augustus. maecenas nhận horace là bạn và sau đó trở thành mạnh thường quân của horace. khoảng năm tr. cn cuốn sách đầu tiên (sermonum) gồm bài thơ được xuất bản. khoảng năm tr. cn xuất bản cuốn thứ hai... các tác phẩm của horace lần lượt được xuất bản. hầu hết các tác phẩm của horace đều đề tặng maecenas. horace mất năm tr. cn và được mai táng gần mộ của maecenas mất trước đó không lâu. sự ảnh hưởng[sửa | sửa mã nguồn] horace trở thành biểu tượng nhà thơ – người thầy của văn hóa châu Âu. nếu như virgil dạy người đời sự nhận thức và cắt nghĩa thế giới này thì horace dạy cách ứng xử trong đời. Ông là sự hiện thân của sự khôn ngoan, hiểu biết mọi thứ và không ngạc nhiên trước bất cứ điều gì, tiếp nhận cả thành công cũng như thất bại một cách tĩnh lặng, biết từ chối cái không hợp với sức mình, biết vui với những niềm vui bình thường, coi khinh thói bon chen của người trần, bền bỉ trong việc tự hoàn thiên bản thân để đạt đến sự tĩnh lặng trong tâm hồn và tự do cho ý chí. nguyên tắc "trung dung" của horace đã trở thành lời có cánh, mang trong mình lời di huấn của văn minh cổ đại đối với thời đại mới. khi nói về thơ ca châu Âu các thế kỷ xvii – xviii người ta gọi những bài thơ về tình yêu nhẹ nhàng, về rượu là "thơ anacreon" con những bài thơ mang chất triết lý, đạo đức hay nguyên tắc ứng xử "trung dung" là "thơ horace" – đấy là lời cảm tạ đối với nhà thơ lớn, người đóng vai trò quan trọng trong việc hình thành thơ mới châu Âu. tác phẩm[sửa | sửa mã nguồn] tượng horace ở venosa 	( tr. cn) sermonum liber primus 	( tr. cn) epodes 	( tr. cn) sermonum liber secundus 	( tr. cn) carminum liber primus 	( tr. cn) carminum liber secundus 	( tr. cn) carminum liber tertius 	( tr. cn) epistularum liber primus 	( tr. cn) ars poetica 	( tr. cn) carmen saeculare 	( tr. cn) epistularum liber secundus 	( tr. cn) carminum liber quartus một số bài thơ[sửa | sửa mã nguồn] 	 	carmina i, xi 	  	tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas, quem mihi, quem tibi 	finem di dederint, leuconoe, nec babylonios 	temptaris numeros. ut melius, quidquid erit, pati. 	seu pluris hiemes, seu tribuit iuppiter ultimam, 	  	quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare 	tyrrhenum: sapias, vina liques, et spatio brevi 	spem longam reseces. dum loquimur, fugerit invida 	aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. 	  	carmina i, xxxii 	  	poscimus, si quid vacui sub umbra 	lusimus tecum, quod et hunc in annum 	vivat et pluris, age dic latinum, 	barbite, carmen, 	  	lesbio primum modulate civi, 	qui ferox bello tamen inter arma, 	sive iactatam religarat udo 	litore navim, 	  	liberum et musas veneremque et illi 	semper haerentem puerum canebat 	et lycum nigris oculis nigroque 	crine decorum. 	  	o decus phoebi et dapibus supremi 	grata testudo iovis, o laborum 	dulce lenimen mihi cumque salve 	rite vocanti. 	 	carmina i, xi 	  	Đừng hỏi gì về ngày sau, không biết được đâu, cả em và anh cũng thế 	điểm cuối đã định rồi, leuconoe ơi đừng mải mê gì với phép bói babylon 	tốt nhất là ta hãy biết sống với những gì mà giờ ta đang có. 	thần juppiter còn cho bao nhiêu mùa đông nữa hay là đã cuối cùng 	  	mà giờ những con sóng đang dội vào vách đá trên biển ty-ren 	hãy khôn ngoan, nhấp ly rượu của mình và quãng thời gian ngắn ngủi 	hy vọng dài lâu ta bỏ lại. khi ta đang nói với nhau đây thì thời gian 	ghen tỵ trôi mau: nắm bắt khoảnh khắc, chớ tin gì tương lai xa vời vợi. 	  	carmina i, xxxii 	  	hỡi thiên cầm! trong bóng cành bóng lá 	giờ vui này xin gửi đến muôn năm 	đàn hãy cùng ta khúc hát ngân vang 	ngợi ca giống nòi la mã. 	  	chàng trai người lesbos lần đầu tiên 	say mê đàn, dù chàng từng giận dữ 	trong trận đánh, giữa biển trời bão tố 	đã cập bến con thuyền. 	  	chàng ngợi ca bacchus và vệ nữ 	với đứa con trai luôn ở bên mình 	ngợi ca sắc đẹp của ánh mắt huyền 	và mái tóc đen đúa. 	  	em là niềm vui của thần apollo 	trang điểm cho thần juppiter dự tiệc 	em mang cho đời niềm vui hạnh phúc 	em hãy đến cùng ta. 	bản dịch của nguyễn viết thắng những câu lời hay ý đẹp của horace[sửa | sửa mã nguồn] 	carpe diem – nắm bắt khoảnh khắc. câu thơ "carpe diem quam minimum credula postero" (nắm bắt khoảnh khắc, chớ tin gì tương lai xa vời vợi). 	dulce et decorum est pro patri mori – (chết vì tổ quốc sung sướng và ngọt ngào thay). câu này xuất hiện thường xuyên trên các tờ báo ở châu Âu và trở thành một khẩu hiệu của chiến tranh thế giới i. câu này cũng trở thành tên một bài thơ với sự mỉa mai cay đắng thế chiến i của nhà thơ anh wilfred owen. 	sapere aude – (quyết trở thành nhà thông thái). câu này trở thành một thứ khẩu hiệu của thế kỷ Ánh sáng, nhà triết học immanuel kant rất thích câu này. 	culpam poena premit comes – Đi sau tội ác là sự trừng phạt. 	nil desperandum – Đừng bao giờ tuyệt vọng. 	ab ovo usque ad mala – từ đầu chí cuối. 	nuda veritas – sự thật trần truồng. 	est modus in rebus – chừng mực trong mọi thứ. 	aurea mediocres – nguyên tắc vàng trung dung. 	fuga temporum – năm tháng trôi mau. 	discordat avaro parcus – người tằn tiện không có nghĩa là bủn xỉn. 	semper avarus eget – kẻ keo kiệt lúc nào cũng thấy thiếu. 	omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum – hãy nhớ rằng ngày nào cũng đều có thể là ngày cuối cùng của bạn. 	nemo contentus vivat, laudet diversa sequentis – không ai bằng lòng với đời mình, ai cũng ganh tỵ với phần người khác. 	dum vitant stulti vitia, in contraria currunt – những kẻ ngốc tránh tật xấu này lại mắc vào tật xấu khác. 	nam vitiis nemo sine nascitur, optimus ille est, qui minimis urgetur – chẳng có ai sinh ra mà không có tật xấu nào, người tốt là người có ít tật xấu hơn tất cả. 	nec naso suspendis adunco ignotos – mũi đại bàng không vểnh lên trước kẻ chưa ai biết (từ đây mà có thành ngữ: "vểnh mũi lên") 	nil sine magno vita labore dedit mortalibus – cuộc đời chẳng cho không cái gì (mà không cần lao động). 	hac urguet lupus, hac canis – chó sói ở đây, còn đằng kia là chó (giống như: "trên thớt dưới dao"). 	virtus est vitium fugere et sapientia prima stultitia caruisse – phẩm hạnh tránh tật xấu, khôn ngoan tránh phỏng đoán. 	dimidium facti, qui coepit, habet – ai mở đầu là đã làm một nửa việc. 	imperat aut servit collecta pecunia cuique – tiền có thể là ông chủ hay nô lệ cho người tích cóp nó. 	caelum, non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt – người đi sang bên kia biển thay đổi bầu trời chứ không phải tâm hồn. 	quid de quoque viro et cui dicas, saepe videto – thường xuyên để ý xem bạn nói với ai và nói về ai. 	multa fidem promissa levant – hứa hẹn lớn làm giảm lòng tin. 	non omnes eadem mirantur amantque – không phải tất cả đều khâm phục một thứ, không phải tất cả đều yêu một thứ. 	in vitium ducit culpae fuga, si caret arte – kẻ không đạt đến khoa học tránh sai lầm này sẽ rơi vào sai lầm khác. 	nec semper feriet quodcumque minabitur arcus – mũi tên không phải lúc nào cũng rơi vào cái đích mà nó ngắm. 																				bản dịch của hồ thượng tuy tham khảo[sửa | sửa mã nguồn] liên kết ngoài[sửa | sửa mã nguồn] 		wikiquote có sưu tập danh ngôn về: horace 		wikisource có văn bản gốc liên quan đến bài viết: latin texts of quintus horatius flaccus 		wikisource có văn bản gốc liên quan đến bài viết: english translations of texts of quintus horatius flaccus 		wikisource có văn bản gốc từ các bài viết của encyclopædia britannica horace. 		wikimedia commons có thêm hình ảnh và phương tiện truyền tải về horace. 	các tác phẩm của horace tại dự án gutenberg 	espace horace 	the works of horace at the latin library 	selected poems of horace 	the perseus project — latin and greek authors (with english translations), including horace 	biography and chronology 	litweb 	horace's works: text, 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horatius flaccus ( – aec) ia es un poesiste famosa roman. un esemplo: 	odi profanum volgus et arceo, 	favete linguis; carmina non prius 	audita musarum sacerdos 	virginibus puerisque canto. (odi : ) en prosa lo ta es: 	latina 	elefen 	odi et arceo profanum volgus. favete linguis; canto, 	me odia e evita la fola nonsanta. silenti, per favore; 	sacerdos musarum, carmina non prius audita virginibus puerisque 	me canta, prete de la musas, cantas no ancora oiada par virjines e jovenes retraeda de "https://lfn.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=horatio&oldid= " 		categorias: 	biografia 	leteratur latina 	romanes antica 	 	 	menu de naviga 	 		 	 		utiles personal 	 	 			no autenticida 	discute 	contribuis 	crea un conta 	autentici 		 	 		 			 	 		spasios de nom 	 	 			paje 	discute 		 	 			 	 	 		varias 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		aspetas 	 	 			leje 	edita 	edita la fonte 	mostra istoria 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		xerca 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		naviga 	 	 			paje xef 	porton de comunia 	avenis corente 	cambias resente 	paje acaso 	aida 	fa un dona 		 	 	 	 		utiles 	 	 			lias a esta paje 	cambias relatada 	carga fix 	pajes spesial 	lia permanente 	informa de paje 	refere a esta paje 	dato de vicidatos 		 	 	 		primi/esporta 	 	 			crea un libro 	descarga como pdf 	varia primable 		 	 	 		en otra projetas 	 	 			wikimedia commons 		 	 	 	 		en otra linguas 	 	 			afrikaans 	አማርኛ 	aragonés 	العربية 	مصرى 	asturianu 	تۆرکجه 	Башҡортса 	Žemaitėška 	Беларуская 	Беларуская (тарашкевіца)‎ 	Български 	brezhoneg 	bosanski 	català 	Čeština 	cymraeg 	dansk 	deutsch 	zazaki 	Ελληνικά 	english 	esperanto 	español 	eesti 	euskara 	فارسی 	suomi 	võro 	français 	furlan 	gaeilge 	galego 	עברית 	हिन्दी 	fiji hindi 	hrvatski 	magyar 	Հայերեն 	interlingua 	bahasa indonesia 	ido 	Íslenska 	italiano 	日本語 	ქართული 	Қазақша 	한국어 	kurdî 	kernowek 	latina 	lietuvių 	latviešu 	malagasy 	Македонски 	മലയാളം 	Монгол 	मराठी 	bahasa melayu 	nāhuatl 	nederlands 	norsk nynorsk 	norsk bokmål 	occitan 	ਪੰਜਾਬੀ 	polski 	piemontèis 	português 	română 	tarandíne 	Русский 	sardu 	sicilianu 	srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски 	simple english 	slovenčina 	slovenščina 	Српски / srpski 	seeltersk 	svenska 	kiswahili 	தமிழ் 	tagalog 	türkçe 	Татарча/tatarça 	Українська 	oʻzbekcha/ўзбекча 	tiếng việt 	volapük 	walon 	winaray 	吴语 	中文 	粵語 		edita lias 	 		 la edita la plu resente de esta paje ia es a desembre , a : 	testo es disponeda su la lisensa attribution-sharealike de creative commons; plu restrinjes pote pertine. vide contrata de usa per detalias. 		promete de privatia 	sur vicipedia 	renunsias 	aspeta per telefoneta 	developores 	statistics 	declara de cuci 		 	 	 horace - wikidata 	 	 	 	 	 horace (q ) 	 		from wikidata 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 roman lyric poet 	quintus horatius flaccus 	q. horatius flaccus 	horatius edit 	language	label	description	also known as 	english	 horace 	 roman lyric poet 	 	quintus horatius flaccus 	q. horatius flaccus 	horatius statements instance of human references imported from wikimedia project belarusian wikipedia stated in beweb retrieved august beweb person id image quintus horatius flaccus.jpg × ; kb media legend هوراس كما تخيله الرسام أنتون ألكساندر فون فرن (arabic) ஹோராஸ், [[ஆன்டன் வொன் வேர்னர்]] கற்பனையில் வரைந்த படம் (tamil) retrat imaginari d'horaci per anton von werner. l'epístola als pisons o art poètica d'horaci és un dels textos cabdals sobre literatura de la tradició occidental. (catalan) reference imported from wikimedia project italian wikipedia sex or gender male references imported from wikimedia project swedish wikipedia stated in virtual international authority file viaf id retrieved november imported from wikimedia project italian wikipedia stated in integrated authority file retrieved april stated in beweb retrieved august beweb person id country of citizenship ancient rome reference imported from wikimedia project italian wikipedia name in native language q. horatius flaccus (latin) references roman praenomen quintus references roman nomen gentilicium horatius references roman cognomen flaccus references date of birth december bce references reference url http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/quinto-orazio-flacco_(enciclopedia-italiana)/ stated in q quotation ... родился в г. от основания города, т. е. в г. до Р. Х. декабря в Венузии ... (russian) stated in eb- / horace quotation ... was born on the th of december b.c. at venusia ... (english) place of birth venosa references stated in q stated in eb- / horace date of death november bce references reference url http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/quinto-orazio-flacco_(enciclopedia-italiana)/ stated in q quotation Поэт, согласно предсказанию, которое он дал Меценату, умер вскоре после смерти последнего, когда ему было почти лет, ноября в г. до Р. Х. 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noiembrie î.hr. ( de ani)[ ][ ] roma, roma antică 	Înmormântat	roma 	cetățenie	roma antică 	etnie	ancient romans[*]​ 	ocupație	poet scriitor filozof 	activitate 	limbi	limba latină[ ]  	pregătire	cratippus of pergamon[*]​[ ] aristos of ascalon[*]​  	opere semnificative	ars poëtica (horatius)[*][[ars poëtica (horatius) |​]]  	modifică date / text  quintus horatius flaccus, în limba română horațiu, (n. decembrie î.hr., venosa; d. noiembrie î.hr., roma) a fost unul dintre cei mai importanți poeți romani din "perioada de aur" a literaturii romane ("secolul lui augustus") sau "epoca augustană", cuprinsă între î.hr. (moartea lui cicero) și d. hr. (moartea împăratului augustus). cuprins 	 biografie 	 opera 	 . satirele 	 . epodele 	 . odele 	 . epistole 	 repere ale operei lui horațiu 	 traducători români din operele lui horațiu 	 citate 	 note 	 bibliografie 	 legături externe biografie[modificare | modificare sursă] horațiu s-a născut la decembrie î.hr. în venusia (astăzi venosa) din provincia apulia, fiu al unui libert (sclav eliberat). tatăl său avea funcția de coactor argentarius (încasator de impozite) și realizase o oarecare avere. familia se mută la roma și horațiu are posibilitatea să obțină o cultură aleasă, frecventând școala de retorică a lui orbilius. continuă studiile la academia din atena, ocupându-se în special de filosofie și poezie. după asasinarea lui caesar în anul î.hr., horațiu se alătură trupelor republicane conduse de conspiratorii brutus și cassius și devine tribun militar. după înfrângerea suferită în bătălia de la philippi ( î.hr.) în fața trupelor lui marcus antonius și octavianus augustus (viitorul împărat), horațiu se întoarce la roma, beneficiind de o amnistie generală instituită de învingători. averea părintească a fost însă confiscată, horațiu obține o funcție de secretar în administrația statului și are timp să se dedice poeziei. primele sale versuri sunt remarcate de virgiliu, pe atunci "poeta laureatus" al romei, care îl prezintă nobilului și influentului încurajator al artelor, gaius maecenas. Între horațiu și maecenas se dezvoltă o strânsă și durabilă prietenie. În anul î.hr., maecena îi dăruiește o proprietate în regiunea munților sabinici, nu departe de roma. aici are liniștea și tihna (otium) necesare pentru a se dedica întru-totul creației sale literare. după moartea lui virgiliu, în anul î.hr., horațiu este cel care primește distincția de "poeta laureatus". În anul î.hr. maecena moare și în același an, la noiembrie, moare și horațiu, fiind înmormântat pe colina esquilina. opera[modificare | modificare sursă] creația lui horațiu s-a păstrat în întregime până în zilele noastre și poate fi împărțită în trei perioade: 	opera timpurie ( î.hr.- î.hr.): 	satirae, satire care evoluează de la tonul violent sau sarcastic la ironia amuzantă și înțeleaptă, prin care răzbate conținutul didactic, dar și grație spirituală, umor și eleganță 	epodon liber 	perioada clasică a maturității ( î.hr.- î.hr.): 	carmina i-iii, unde este prefigurată concepția epicureică echilibrată a poetului și realismul său psihologic 	epistulae i, prin care se realizează trecerea de la satira personală la filozofia morală 	opere târzii ( î.hr.- î.hr.): 	carmen saeculare, imn scris la cererea împăratului august în cinstea dianei și a lui apollo 	carmina iv 	epistulae ii, cuprinde celebra ars poetica, în care sunt formulate principiile clasicismului antic reluate ulterior de boileau și pope. satirele[modificare | modificare sursă] satirae, cele două cărți cu satire (satirae), numite de horațiu sermones ("convorbiri"), cuprind poezii scrise în hexametre dactilice, inspirate din operele satiricului gaius lucillius. sub forma unui dialog cu maecena, sunt tratate teme etice, criticându-se, pe baza unor exemple, ambiția nemăsurată, prostia, avariția, defecte și vicii care îi fac pe oameni nefericiți, într-un mod tolerant și cu umor, fără asprimea predecesorului său. uneori se referă la slăbiciunile propriei sale persoane. dialogul dintre poet și interlocutorul său ia sfârșit prin postularea principiului epicurian, al cărui adept a fost horațiu, bazat pe preconizarea ataraxiei, a echilibrului interior și armoniei: "est modus in rebus, sunt certi denique fines, quos ultra citraque nequit consistere rectum" "e o măsură-n toate: tu, drumul drept îl ține Și nu călca hotarul pus între rău și bine" (sermones, i, : trad. de al. hodoș și th. măinescu) epodele[modificare | modificare sursă] cartea epodelor (epodon liber, din limba greacă: "epódos" = refren), denumită de horațiu "iambi", deși numai o parte din poezii sunt scrise în ritm iambic, restul în dactile, cuprinde poeme lirico-satirice cu referire la evenimentele și problemele politice ale epocii, după modelul poetului grec archilochos din paros. odele[modificare | modificare sursă] horațiu a scris patru cărți de ode, intitulate "carmina", care cuprind poeme pe teme civice, mitologico-religioase, politice, morale, erotice, bacchice, unele consacrate romei sau lui augustus, reprezentând o culme a măiestriei sale poetice. primele trei cărți au fost realizate în anul î.hr., ultima în anul î.hr. ca modele i-au folosit creațiile din literatura greacă ale lui alceu, anakreon, pindar și sappho. spre deosebire de predecesorii săi greci, odele lui horațiu sunt poezii lirice pure și nu au fost transpuse pe muzică. meditația asupra scurgerii ireversibile a timpului este un motiv major în odele horațiene, încercarea de a opri trecerea timpului și apropierea sfârșitului prin rugăminți și ofrande aduse zeilor este zadarnică (carmina, ii, : ad postumum). având în vedere meditația asupra acestor motive, în oda ad leuconoen, poetul îndeamnă la trăirea clipei - carpe diem - și renunțarea la cercetarea inutilă a viitorului: 	spem longam reseces. dum loquimur, fugerit invida / aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero! ("speranța după timp ți-o păsuiește / căci vremea, cât de rea, se scurge cât vorbim / culege ziua cea de astĂzi, ce va fi mâine noi nu știm!” - carmina, i, : ad leuconoen) În poemul-epilog al cărții a treia de ode se regăsește expresia celebră a motivului autoelogiului propriei opere literare: exegi monumentum... (carmina, iii, ). carmen saeculare, scrisă cu ocazia sărbătorilor „seculare” (ludi saeculares) organizate de împăratul augustus ( î.hr.), este oda patriotică cea mai avântată închinată gloriei romei. epistole[modificare | modificare sursă] epistulae ("scrisori"), două cărți ( și a.chr.) în hexametru dactilic cu problematică filosofică, morală, literară etc. ca filosof, horațiu preferă principiul aristotelian al "căii de mijloc de aur" (aurea mediocritas) și învățăturile lui epicur, conform cărora plăcerea reprezintă bunul unic, iar durerea singurul rău existent. adevărata plăcere se găsește în starea de absolută liniște sufletească, în tihnă, într-un mod de viață bazat pe virtuțile majore (mores maiorum): modestia, curajul, fidelitatea, statornicia, dreptatea și respectul. a doua carte de epistole este consacrată problemelor literaturii. se remarcă printre ele "epistula ad pisones" ("scrisoare către pisoni", lucius calpurnius piso, consul în anul a.chr., și cei doi fii ai săi, lucius și gaius, iubitori și protectori ai literelor), cunoscută mai târziu ca "ars poetica" ("artă poetică"). fără a avea pretenția de a redacta un tratat de poetică după toate regulile, horațiu își exprimă clar în de versuri, sub forma unei conversații prietenești cu pisonii, ideile sale referitoare la problemele scrierii operelor literare. această operă a exercitat o deosebită influență asupra posterității, până în timpurile moderne. astfel nicolas boileau-despréaux, poet și critic literar francez, sintetizează în "art poétique" ) principiile clasicismului, fructificând izvoarele antice: aristotel (poezia este o imitație a vieții - mimesis) și ideile estetice ale lui horațiu. repere ale operei lui horațiu[modificare | modificare sursă] opera lui horațiu, prin concepția filosofică, spiritul ei larg, lirismul avântat, înclinația satirică, ironia fină, eleganța și concizia, varietatea de ritmuri a versurilor, valorificarea experienței umane și artistice în funcție de principiile morale, a găsit un ecou profund în conștiința artistică a multor poeți moderni, printre care și mihai eminescu, admirator entuziast al marelui poet latin. seninătății, echilibrului armonios din meditațiile horațiene îi corespunde o artă literară întemeiată pe simetrie, pe stăpânirea rațională a expresiei. traducători români din operele lui horațiu[modificare | modificare sursă] 	alexandru hodoș 	theodor măinescu 	petre stati 	dan slușanschi 	dumitru c. ollănescu-ascanio 	ionel marinescu 	lozinschi doina citate[modificare | modificare sursă] 	quae virtus et quanta sit vivere parvo! ("a se mulțumi cu puțin este o virtute atât de mare!") - sermones, ii, , 	dum licet, in rebus iucundis vive beatus! ("fii fericit cu lucrurile plăcute, cât îți este cu putință") - sermones, ii, , 	ira furor brevis est; animum rege, qui nisi paret, imperat. ("mânia este o nebunie de scurtă durată; stăpânește-ți mânia, căci dacă nu este ținută în frâu, ea îți poruncește") - epistulae, i, , - 	carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero! ("trăiește-ți ziua de azi, nu te încrede în cea următoare!") - carmina, i, , - 	dimidium facti qui coepit habet. ("lucrul început este pe jumătate făcut.") - sermones, i, , 	beatus ille procul negotiis... ("fericit acela departe de orice griji...") - epodae, ii, 	quidquid praecipies, esto brevis! ("orice sfat vei da, să fii concis!") - ars poetica, 	scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons. ("bunul simț este pentru scrisul cel bun și izvor, și principiu") - ars poetica, note[modificare | modificare sursă] 	^ mirabile: archivio digitale della cultura medievale  	^ dictionnaire des philosophes antiques ii[*]​, p.    verificați valoarea |titlelink= (ajutor) 	^ a b http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/quinto-orazio-flacco_(enciclopedia-italiana)/  lipsește sau este vid: |title= (ajutor) 	^ a b c q [*]​  verificați valoarea |titlelink= (ajutor) 	^ a b eb- / horace[*]​  verificați valoarea |titlelink= (ajutor) bibliografie[modificare | modificare sursă] 	eugen cizek: istoria literaturii latine, ed. adevărul s.a., bucurești, , reeditare la editura "corint" 	traian costa și mihai nichita (ed.): horatius: opera omnia, ed. univers, bucurești, 	bernhardt kytzler: horaz. eine einführung, reclam-verlag, stuttgart, legături externe[modificare | modificare sursă] wikimedia commons conține materiale multimedia legate de quintus horatius flaccus 	q.horatius flaccus: opera completă în limba 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báis 	 samhain, rc 	gairm 	file 	seánra 	filíocht, glámh b'fhile rómhánach é quintus horatius flaccus ( nollaig, rc – samhain, rc), nó horatius ( tugtha sa ghaeilge mar 'hórás' (ag p.ua duinnín), 'horás' (ag de bhaldraithe) agus 'horáit' (ag tearma.ie). bhí sé, in éineacht le veirgil agus Óivid, ar dhuine de na filí ba thábhachtaí agus ba mhó sa sean-róimh. clár ábhair 	 Íomhánna 	 saothair 	 . glámha agus eapóidí (sermones & epodes) ( rc - rc 	 . Óideanna (carmina) rc - rc 	 . eipistilí (epistola) ón mbliain rc amach 	 aistriúcháin Íomhánna[cuir in eagar | athraigh foinse] 	 			 			 Íomhá ón ú haois 			 		 	 			 			 leathanach den leabhar a bhí eagraithe ag aldus manutius sa bhliain 			 		 	 			 			 teach horatius san áit bhreithe venusia 			 		 saothair[cuir in eagar | athraigh foinse] glámha agus eapóidí (sermones & epodes) ( rc - rc[cuir in eagar | athraigh foinse] 	sermonum liber i 	sermonum liber ii 	epodum libri i - xvii Óideanna (carmina) rc - rc[cuir in eagar | athraigh foinse] 	carminum liber i 	carminum liber ii 	carminum liber iii 	carminum liber iv 	carmen saeculare eipistilí (epistola) ón mbliain rc amach[cuir in eagar | athraigh foinse] 	epistularum liber i 	epistularum liber ii 	ars poetica aistriúcháin[cuir in eagar | athraigh foinse] 	glámha (sermones): wikisource.org (laidin le haistriúchán bhéarla) 	Óideanna (carmina): wikisource.org (laidin le haistriúchán bhéarla) 	Óideanna (carmina): gottwein.de carpe diem (laidin in éineacht le haistriúchán ó laidin go gearmáinis) 		f • p • a litríocht na sean-róimhe 	 	  · tréimhse chlasaiceach ar na blianta rc - 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wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	kvint horacije flak 	 		iz wikipedije, slobodne enciklopedije 		 		 		 		 		idi na navigaciju 		idi na pretragu 		 "horacije" preusmjerava ovdje. za ostala značenja, v. horacije (razvrstavanje). 	horacije 	 	 	puno ime 	kvint horacije flak 	rođenje 	 . pne. venuzija, italija 	smrt 	 . pne. rim, italija 	književni period 	zlatno doba rimske književnosti 	 važnija djela 	:::ode ars poetica epistole kvint horacije flak (lat. quintus horatius flaccus, – . god. st. e.) bio je jedan od najvećih lirskih pesnika antičkog rima, koji je stvarao tokom avgustovog doba rimske književnosti. sadržaj/Садржај 	 Životopis 	 epode 	 satire 	 ode 	 poslanice 	 značaj i uticaj 	 eksterni linkovi Životopis[uredi - уреди | uredi izvor] horacije je rođen . godine stare ere u gradu venuziji u južnoitalskoj pokrajini apulija. otac mu je bio neznatnog porekla i slabog imovinskog stanja, ali je svome sinu ipak uspeo obezbediti odlično obrazovanje: horacije se školovao najpre u rimu, a zatim u atini, gde ga je zatekao i građanski rat između trijumvira i cezarovih ubica. tu je horacije stupio u brutovu republikansku vojsku i kao vojni tribun učestvovao u bici kod filipa ( . god. st. e.). sećajući se nakon mnogo godina bekstva brutove vojske, horacije koristi književne reminiscencije iz grčke lirike i arhilohovske slike gubitka štita (od. ii, , – ): 	tecum philippos et celerem fugam 	sensi relicta non bene parmula, 	cum fracta virtus et minaces 	turpe solum tetigere mento. 	doživeh s tobom filipski brzi beg, 	gde nečasno odbacih od sebe štit, 	kad hrabrost skrši se i ružno 	hvališe taknuše bradom zemlju. nakon poraza kod filipa, trijumviri su objavili amnestiju, pa se horacije vratio u rim i tu dobio ugledan položaj kvestorskog pisara (scriba). ubrzo je stekao glas dobroga pesnika te se upoznao prvo s vergilijem, a preko njega i sa mecenatom i najzad s oktavijanom avgustom. mecenat je horaciju . godine stare ere poklonio lepo imanje u sabinskoj zemlji, gde će od tada pesnik radije boraviti nego u rimu. horacije je umro ubrzo nakon mecenata, . godine stare ere: pored mecenata je bio i sahranjen. horacije je bio izuzetno obrazovan čovek: znao je odlično grčki jezik i književnost, a u mlađim danima pisao je i grčke stihove. bio je dobro upućen i u filozofiju, naročito epikurejsku i stoičku. horacije je voleo da bude nazavisan, čak i u odnosu na svoje prijatelje, pa je odbio i avgustovu ponudu da mu bude lični sekretar. epode[uredi - уреди | uredi izvor] 	glavni članak: epode (horacije) sačuvan je celokupan pesnički opus horacijev. stvaranje je započeo epodama (epodon libri, pesama, izdatih . god. st. e.) i satirama. epode su nazvane po metričkom obliku, jer su mnoge pisane u distisima (prvih deset u tzv. jampskim epodama, tj. kombinaciji jampskog trimetra i dimetra), od kojih je drugi stih kraći i koji se prema grčkom ἐπῳδός (= pripev) zove versus epodus. sam horacije naziva ove svoje pesme jambima (iambi), jer se u njima u izvesnoj meri podražava metrički oblik i oštar, satirički ton grčkoga jambografa arhiloha. uz snažan protest protiv građanskih ratova koji su u to doba potresali rimsku državu i društvo (npr. kud, kud, bezbožni srljate? – quo, quo, scelesti ruitis?), horacijeva je kritika usmerena na neke tipove rimskoga društva (zelenaše, skorojeviće, književne protivnike, vračare). osim ovakve kritike – koja nije tako snažna i duboka kao kod arhiloha – ima u epodama i elegijskih motiva, a neke epode – u kojima se oseća uticaj katula i aleksandrijske poezije – predstavljaju zametke kasnije refleksivne lirike horacijeve. u izboru tema i njihovoj obradi primećuje se horacijeva težnja da se odmakne od subjektivizma neoterika, te da, kao jedno od sredstava objektiviranja, upotrebi dramski oblik dijaloga ili monologa, u kojem nosilac teme više nije sam pesnik, nego neka osoba koju on prikazuje. u vreme kada vergilije u . eklogi najavljuje dolazak novog zlatnog veka, horacije je mnogo pesimističniji: ne samo da vatreno protestuje protiv građanskog rata, nego u . epodi takođe najavljuje zlatni vek, ali ne u italiji, nego na dalekim "blaženim ostrvima", jer tamo se jedino može pobeći iz rima koji srlja u sve dublju propast. druga epoda hvali dražesti jednostavna seoskog života, da bi se pri kraju pesme pokazalo da svu tu modernu zanesenost jednostavnošću predačkoga života izgovara niko drugi do licemerni i lakomi zelenaš (faenerator). element parodije, koji se otkriva pri kraju epode, te poentiranog preokretanja i komičkog patosa daje specifičnu boju i čitavoj ovoj zbirci pa zahvata i epode s ljubavnom tematikom. tako se u . epodi parodira sentimentalna ljubavna elegija: tu se u oštrim tonovima proklinje književni protivnik, te cela pesma dobija ton izvrnutog propemtikona, tj. pesme kojom se želi srećan put osobi koja odlazi na kakvo putovanje. satire[uredi - уреди | uredi izvor] 	glavni članak: satire (horacije) saturae, satire (saturae, heksametarskih pesama, . knjiga izdata . godine, . knjiga . godine. st. e.) bave se isključivo društvenim, književnim i filozofskim pitanjima. ponekad u njima pripoveda horacije i kakve zanimljive događaje iz života, kao što je na primer njegov put u brundizij, na koji je krenuo zajedno s mecenatom. u pisanju satira horacije se u velikoj meri oslonio na gaja lucilija, pa mu je i za opis spomenutog puta kao uzor poslužio lucilijev put na siciliju (iter siculum). osim lucilija, horacije se ugledao i na menipove satire te srodne književne vrste iz oblasti popularne filozofije – tzv. dijatribe. od njih je horacije preuzeo veseo ton i neusiljen način pripovedanja, oblikovan u pripovednim hekstametrima, svakodnevnom jeziku i jednostavnim metaforama. uopšte uzev, lucilijevu oštru ličnu porugu i političke napade zamenjuje horacije blažom i vedrijom kritikom, u kojoj je puno blagonaklonosti i koja je zapravo više peckava nego sarkastična, prožeta finom ironijom i intimnošću pesnikova kazivanja i obraćanja čitaocima. zato je satire i kasnije pisma horacije nazvao zajedničkim imenom razgovori (sermones) – kako je već lucilije nazvao svoje satire – dakle ćaskanjem, u kojem pesnik kroz smeh izriče životne istine (ridendo dicere verum). pisane u vreme konačne propasti rimske republike i sve jasnijih obrisa budućeg avgustovog principata, satire i sva kasnija horacijeva dela duboko su zaokupljena pitanjem lične čovekove sreće i njegovog odnosa prema društvu. mireći se s novim političkim sistemom koji je zaustavio građanske ratove, horacije u duhu epikurove filozofije sreću nalazi u "zlatnoj sredini" (aurea mediocritas – taj izraz i pripada njemu), koja u zadovoljstvu malim osigurava unutrašnju čovekovu samostalnost i umereno uživanje životnih dobara. upravo se zbog toga na udaru horacijeve kritike nalaze živo ocrtani tipovi nametljivaca, zelenaša, lakomaca, umišljenih filozofa, koji trče za prividnim dobrima. satire su po tematici moralno-filozofske, književne i autobiografske. moralno-filozofsku tematiku obrađuju, na primer, satire i, , . i , koje su građene kao razmišljanja o nezadovoljstvu sudbinom i koristoljublju, o postupanju s prijateljima i sl., s argumentacijom preuzetom iz popularne filozofske literature. premda se horacije ne libi ni lične poruge savremenicima, posebno u prvim satirama, on je ipak pritom oprezan i radije za mete svojih satira bira u sredini ljudi s već sumnjivom reputacijom. najvećim umetničkim kvalitetom, u smislu tematsko-sadržajne izgrađenosti i zaokruženosti, odlikuju se one satire u kojima pesnik govori o sebi, svojim ukusima, težnjama i životu (na primer, i, ; ii, ). u . knjizi satira dodatno je oslabljena lična usmerenost i izlaganje, pretežno dijaloški komponovano, zadobilo je više opšte značenje, svakako pod uticajem definitivnog učvršćivanja avgusta na čelu novoosnovanog rimskog carstva. ode[uredi - уреди | uredi izvor] 	glavni članak: ode (horacije) drugom stvaralačkom razdoblju pripadaju horacijeve pesme (carmina, prva zbirka u knjige, izdata . godine st. e.; . knjiga izdata zasebno . godine; ukupno pesama u raznovrsnim metrima i strofama, posebno u alkejskoj, safičkoj i asklepijadskoj strofi). antički komentatori nazvali su ih prema grčkom odae, pa se taj naziv ustalio, premda se u mnogim pesmama ne poklapa s današnjim pojmom te vrste lirske poezije. pesme imaju vrlo raznoliku sadržinu: to su ode prijateljima (npr. mecenatu, carm, i, ), himne bogovima (npr. seoskom bogu faunu, carm. iii, ), refleksivne pesme (npr. aequam memento – to pamti mirne duše, ii, ) vinske i ljubavne pesme (npr. donec gratus eram tibi – dok ti bejah drag, iii, ), razne prigodne pesme itd. ima i socijalnih, političkih i patriotski intoniranih pesama, kojih je naročito mnogo onih posvećenih avgustu u . knjizi, ali među kojima se posebno izdvajaju prvih šest pesama u . knjizi, koje čine tzv. rimske ode – carmina romana – u kojima se veličaju starorimske vrline. sam horacije za ove svoje pesme koristi naziv aeolium carmen (= eolska pesma) ili lesbium carmen (= lezbljanska pesma), zato što je, u težnji da na rimsko tlo presadi klasičnu grčku liriku, horacije reprodukovao metričku građu i opšti ton eolske melike, u prvom redu alkeja, sapfu i anakreonta. ugledajući se na ove pesnike, te na helenističke liričare, može se reći da horacije u pesme često unosi više učenosti i znanja nego iskrenog pesničkog oduševljenja. horacije, uostalom, i sam želi da se o njegovoj poeziji tako misli (carm, iv, , – , prev. radmila Šalabalić): 	ego apis matinae 	more modoque 	grata carpentis thyma per laborem 	plurimum circa nemus uvidique 	tiburis ripas operosa parvus 	carmina fingo. 	ja, moj antonije, 	kano pčela sa matinskih brda 	leteć vredno mučim se i skupljam 	slast mirisnu majčine dušice 	iz gajeva, uz obale tibra, 	silne reke, ponosite vodom, 	stvaram mukom, k'o i one sitan, 	pesme svoje pune teška truda. nama se u horacijevoj lirici najviše dapada njegov trezveni duh, brižljiva i savršena forma, biran i zvučan jezik. u nekoliko pesama razvija horacije teme iz oblasti savremene popularne filozofije, na primer ii, (eheu fugaces), ii, (otium divos rogat) itd., što je značajno zbog toga što antička lirika pre horacije nije bila pod uticajem filozofije. horacijeva lirika je lirika razuma: njegove pesme, odmerene i pomalo hladne u lepoti kristalne jasnoće, retko su nastale kao izraz neposrednog pesnikovog doživljaja. refleksija u njima preovlađuje nad osećajem, pa se po dubini osećaja ne mogu meriti s katulovim pesmama, ali se horacijeva lirika ipak visoko izdiže i iznad katulove i iznad ostale rimske poezije po majstorskom izbrušenošću kako jezičnog izraza tako i raznovrsnih ritmova, visoko umetnički biranih prema tematici. horacije gradi svoje ode oko ideja šireg, univerzalnog značenja, natapajući ih refleksivnošću i senzibilnošću, koja je dublja i bogatija od svih pesnikovih klasičnih i helenističkih grčkih uzora. po tome se horacijeve ode mogu smatrati ne samo njegovim najboljim pesničkim delom, nego i vrhuncem celokupne rimske lirike. kvintilijan se o pesmama pohvalno izražava: "od liričara gotovo jedini zaslužuje da bude čitan horacije: on često dolazi u visoko nadahnuće, pun je lepote i elegancije, neiscrpan u figurama, i u jeziku vrlo smeo, što uvek ostavlja najbolji utisak". horacije je pobornik idejne sadržajnosti poezije, u filozofskom pogledu na svet epikurejski materijalista s jakim primesama eklektičkog stoicizma u zrelijim godinama. kao takav horacije u odama izražava i osećaj snage i sigurnosti koji rimskom narodu i društvu pružaju avgustove reforme i stabilnost njegova poretka. stoga počašćen prihvata zadatak da za proslavu jubilarnih stoletnih igara (ludi saeculares) . godine stare ere, koja je trebalo da obeleži završetak perioda građanskih ratova i početak mirne epohe, sastavi stoletnu pesmu (carmen saeculare). ovu himnu, upućenu raznim božanstvima, a pre svega apolonu i dijani, kojima se upućuju molbe da rimskom narodu podare sreću i blagostanje, pevao je na palatinu hor dečaka i devojaka. godine . nađen je na palatinu poduži natpis u vezi s ovom pesmu: to je bio zvaničan program svetkovine, u kome se spominje i horacijevo ime. poslanice[uredi - уреди | uredi izvor] 	glavni članak: pisma (horacije) vraćajući se tematici i stilu mladalačkih satira, objavio je horacije . godine st. e. prvu, a u poslednjim godinama života i drugu knjigu pisama ili poslanica (epistulae, ukupno poslanice u heksametrima). poslanice po značaju i književnoj vrednosti zauzimaju jedno od prvih mesta u rimskoj književnosti. za razliku od satira, u kojima se pesnik obraća publici uopšte, poslanice su upućene pojedinim ličnostima, a obrađuju teme iz svakodnevnog života, upravo kao i prava pisma, te etičku i književnu tematiku. poslanice su ustvari popularne filozofske rasprave u obliku pesničkog pisma, pisane bez izrugivanja ljudskim manama, u mirnijem tonu, u savršenijoj pesničkoj formi i brižljivijoj jezičko-metričkoj obradi, sa zrelijim mislima, premda im nedostaje nešto od onog oduševljenja i svežine na koje nailazimo u satirama. sve tri poslanice u . knjizi raspravljaju o književnim pitanjima. prva je upućena avgustu, ali je najznamenitija od svih horacijevih poslanica upravo treća u . knjizi – poslanica pizonima (epistula ad pisones), koja je već u antici navođena pod posebnim naslovom pesničko umeće (ars poetica ili de arte poetica). cilj je ove poslanice da se pesnicima skrene pažnja na pogreške kojih se u svom pesničkom radu moraju čuvati. horacije nema nameru dati neku sistematsku teoriju književnosti, nego samo da saopšti nekoliko praktičnih saveta: tu je zapravo izložena horacijeva klasicistička estetika, s posebnim osvrtom na dramsko stvaralaštvo. raspored građe prilično je slab: strukturisane celine uglavnom nema, ali zato ima dosta uspelih mesta i duhovitih misli. pesničko umeće postalo je kanonom evropske normativne poetike. značaj i uticaj[uredi - уреди | uredi izvor] horacija su visoko cenili i savremenici i potomci. njegove su pesme često komentarisane i čitane u školama, ali svakako ne vrlo mnogo: zanimljivo je da među natpisima iz pompeja ima stihova iz vergilija, ovidija, propercija, tibula i drugih, ali niti jedan iz horacija. njegov uticaj se naročito oseća u persijevim satirama i senekinim tragedijama. nije čudno što je sačuvano vrlo mnogo horacijevih rukupisa – ukupno oko njih . tradicija teksta prilično je dobra: različitih lekcija nema mnogo, a i one varijante koje se javljaju nisu znatne. ogroman je bio horacijev uticaj tokom renesanse i tokom . veka, npr. pierre de ronsard, jan kochanowski, gabriello chiabrera, ben jonson, fulvio testi, martin opitz, friedrich gottlieb klopstock, giuseppe parini, marco antonio foscolo, fantoni, mihail vasiljevič lomonosov, gavrila romanovič deravžin, aleksandr sergejevič puškin. u južnoslovenskim književnostima posebno su se na horacija ugledali brno džamanjić, ignjat Đurđević, marko bruerević, lukijan mušicki i stevan lazić. horacije i danas ostaje najprevođeniji antički pisac svih vremena. eksterni linkovi[uredi - 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Хувийн мэдээллийн талаарх баримтлал 	Википедиагийн тухай 	Татгалзал 	Мобайл хувилбар 	Хөгжүүлэгчид 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 horace - simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 	 	 	 	 	horace 	 		from simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 no photographs or paintings exist from when horace was alive. this is how anton von werner imagined he would look. quintus horatius flaccus (december , bc - november , bc), known to english speakers as horace, was a famous poet in the roman empire. contents 	 life 	 quotes 	 poetry 	 other websites life[change | change source] horace was born in the small italian town of venusia. his father used to be a slave, but was known as a freedman because his master had freed him. they moved to rome a short time later. horace's father had a job taking items from the seller to the buyer. he received money from these sales. his father became richer and was able to send horace to the best schools in rome. he was also able to send him to athens (greece) to study the greek language and philosophy. horace's native language was latin. horace was incredibly proud of his father, and said he felt no shame in being the son of a freedman. in his early adult life, julius caesar, the roman dictator, was killed. war was declared against the people who killed him. horace joined the army. when the war was over, horace returned to italy to find that other people were living in his apartment. his father was also gone. horace became very poor. eventually, he found a job in the treasury. this involved sorting the country's money. his friends, lucius varius rufus and virgil, who were also writers, introduced him to maecenas. maecenas was a close friend of augustus, the emperor of rome. horace lived in tivoli, an area of rome. when he died, he gave the land he owned to augustus, to increase the land the state owned. today, other writers visit the land to remember him. quotes[change | change source] horace wrote many famous quotes in his poems. these lines are still spoken today, by speakers of every language, in the original latin. 	dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. 	carpe diem - pluck the day (seize the day is the common translation, though it is incorrect in terms of translation and usage). poetry[change | change source] some of horace's poems are difficult to translate because of their syntax, grammar and structure, which is sometimes very different to modern languages. horace is viewed by many people, including experts, to be one of the best latin poets. other websites[change | change source] 		wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: horace 		latin wikisource has original writing related to this article: latin texts of quintus horatius flaccus 		english wikisource has original writing related to this article: english translations of texts of quintus horatius flaccus 		wikimedia commons has media related to quintus horatius flaccus. 	works by horace at project gutenberg 	espace horace 	the works of horace at the latin library 	selected poems of horace 	the perseus project -- latin and greek authors (with english translations), including horace 	biography and chronology 	litweb 	horace's works: text, concordances and frequency list retrieved from "https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=horace&oldid= " 		categories: 	 bc births 	 bc deaths 	ancient roman writers hidden category: 	articles with project gutenberg links 	 	 	navigation menu 	 		 	 		personal tools 	 	 			not logged in 	talk 	contributions 	create account 	log in 		 	 		 			 	 		namespaces 	 	 			page 	talk 		 	 			 	 	 		variants 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		views 	 	 			read 	change 	change source 	view history 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		search 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		getting around 	 	 			main page 	simple start 	simple talk 	new changes 	show any page 	help 	contact us 	give to wikipedia 	about wikipedia 		 	 	 	 		tools 	 	 			what links here 	related changes 	upload file 	special pages 	permanent link 	page information 	cite this page 	wikidata item 		 	 	 		print/export 	 	 			make a book 	download as pdf 	page for printing 		 	 	 		in other projects 	 	 			wikimedia commons 		 	 	 	 		in other languages 	 	 			afrikaans 	አማርኛ 	العربية 	aragonés 	asturianu 	تۆرکجه 	Башҡортса 	Беларуская 	Беларуская (тарашкевіца)‎ 	Български 	bosanski 	brezhoneg 	català 	Čeština 	cymraeg 	dansk 	deutsch 	eesti 	Ελληνικά 	english 	español 	esperanto 	euskara 	فارسی 	fiji hindi 	français 	furlan 	gaeilge 	galego 	한국어 	Հայերեն 	हिन्दी 	hrvatski 	ido 	bahasa indonesia 	interlingua 	Íslenska 	italiano 	עברית 	ქართული 	Қазақша 	kernowek 	kiswahili 	kurdî 	latina 	latviešu 	lietuvių 	lingua franca nova 	magyar 	Македонски 	malagasy 	മലയാളം 	मराठी 	مصرى 	bahasa melayu 	Монгол 	nāhuatl 	nederlands 	日本語 	norsk bokmål 	norsk nynorsk 	occitan 	oʻzbekcha/ўзбекча 	ਪੰਜਾਬੀ 	piemontèis 	polski 	português 	română 	Русский 	sardu 	seeltersk 	sicilianu 	slovenčina 	slovenščina 	Српски / srpski 	srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски 	suomi 	svenska 	tagalog 	தமிழ் 	tarandíne 	Татарча/tatarça 	türkçe 	Українська 	tiếng việt 	volapük 	võro 	walon 	winaray 	吴语 	粵語 	zazaki 	Žemaitėška 	中文 		change links 	 		 this page was last changed on december , at : . 	text is available under the creative commons attribution/share-alike license and the gfdl; additional terms may apply. see terms of use for details. 		privacy policy 	about wikipedia 	disclaimers 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 होरेस - विकिपीडिया 	 	 	 	 	होरेस 	 		विकिपीडिया, मुक्‍त ज्ञानकोशातून 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 			होरेस quintus horatius flaccus 	 	जन्म	 ८ डिसेंबर, इ.स.पू. ६५ रोमन प्रजासत्ताक 	मृत्यू	 २७ नोव्हेंबर, इ.स.पू. ८ रोम, रोमन साम्राज्य 	पेशा	 कवी होरेस (लॅटिन: quintus horatius flaccus; ८ डिसेंबर, इ.स.पू. ६५ — २७ नोव्हेंबर, इ.स.पू. ८) हा प्राचीन रोममधील ऑगस्टसच्या काळातील एक कवी होता. ओदेस ही त्याचा कवितासंग्रह लॅटिन साहित्यामधील महत्त्वाची मानली जातो. व्हर्जिल, ओव्हिड व होरेस हे तत्कालीन लॅटिन साहित्याचे तीन मार्गदर्शक स्तंभ म्हणून ओळखले जात असत. बाह्य दुवे[संपादन] विकिमीडिया कॉमन्सवर होरेस संबंधित संचिका आहेत 	होरेसचे साहित्य 	होरेसचे व्यक्तिचित्र "https://mr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=होरेस&oldid= " पासून हुडकले 		वर्ग: 	रोमन कवी 	इ.स.पू. ६५ मधील जन्म 	इ.स.पू. ८ मधील मृत्यू 	 	 	दिक्चालन यादी 	 		 	 		वैयक्तिक साधने 	 	 			आल्याची नोंद केलेली नाही(लॉग इन केलेले नाही) 	चर्चा पान 	योगदान 	नवीन खाते तयार करा 	प्रवेश करा(लॉग इन करा) 		 	 		 			 	 		नामविश्वे 	 	 			लेख 	चर्चा 		 	 			 	 	 		चले(व्हेरियंट्स) 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		दृष्ये 	 	 			वाचा 	संपादन 	इतिहास पहा 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		शोध 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		सुचालन 	 	 			मुखपृष्ठ 	धूळपाटी 	कार्यशाळा 	साहाय्य/मदतकेंद्र 	अलीकडील बदल 	अविशिष्ट लेख 	चावडी 	दूतावास (embassy) 	ऑनलाइन शब्दकोश 	दान 		 	 	 	 		साधनपेटी 	 	 			येथे काय जोडले आहे 	या पृष्ठासंबंधीचे बदल 	संचिका चढवा 	विशेष पृष्ठे 	शाश्वत दुवा 	पानाबद्दलची माहिती 	लेखाचा संदर्भ द्या 	लघु यूआरएल(short url) 	विकिडाटा कलम 		 	 	 		छापा/ निर्यात करा 	 	 			ग्रंथ तयार करा 	pdf म्हणून उतरवा 	छापण्यायोग्य आवृत्ती 		 	 	 		इतर प्रकल्पात 	 	 			विकिमिडिया कॉमन्स 		 	 	 	 		इतर भाषांमध्ये 	 	 			afrikaans 	አማርኛ 	aragonés 	العربية 	مصرى 	asturianu 	تۆرکجه 	Башҡортса 	Žemaitėška 	Беларуская 	Беларуская (тарашкевіца)‎ 	Български 	brezhoneg 	bosanski 	català 	Čeština 	cymraeg 	dansk 	deutsch 	zazaki 	Ελληνικά 	english 	esperanto 	español 	eesti 	euskara 	فارسی 	suomi 	võro 	français 	furlan 	gaeilge 	galego 	עברית 	हिन्दी 	fiji hindi 	hrvatski 	magyar 	Հայերեն 	interlingua 	bahasa indonesia 	ido 	Íslenska 	italiano 	日本語 	ქართული 	Қазақша 	한국어 	kurdî 	kernowek 	latina 	lingua franca nova 	lietuvių 	latviešu 	malagasy 	Македонски 	മലയാളം 	Монгол 	bahasa melayu 	nāhuatl 	nederlands 	norsk nynorsk 	norsk bokmål 	occitan 	ਪੰਜਾਬੀ 	polski 	piemontèis 	português 	română 	tarandíne 	Русский 	sardu 	sicilianu 	srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски 	simple english 	slovenčina 	slovenščina 	Српски / srpski 	seeltersk 	svenska 	kiswahili 	தமிழ் 	tagalog 	türkçe 	Татарча/tatarça 	Українська 	oʻzbekcha/ўзбекча 	tiếng việt 	volapük 	walon 	winaray 	吴语 	中文 	粵語 		दुवे संपादा 	 		 या पानातील शेवटचा बदल ९ मार्च २०१३ रोजी २२:४० वाजता केला गेला. 	येथील मजकूर हा क्रियेटीव्ह कॉमन्स अट्रीब्युशन-शेअरअलाईक लायसन्स अंतर्गत उपलब्ध आहे; अतिरिक्त अटी लागू असू शकतात. हे संकेतस्थळ वापरुन आपण याच्या वापरण्याच्या अटी आणि गोपनीयता धोरणांचे पालन करण्यास आपली सहमती देत आहात. wikipedia® हे wikimedia foundation, inc. एक ना-नफा ना-तोटा संस्थेचे नोंदणीकृत ट्रेडमार्क आहे. 		गुप्तता नीती 	विकिपीडिया बद्दल 	उत्तरदायित्वास नकार 	भ्रमणध्वनी-दृश्य 	विकसक 	statistics 	कुकिंचा तक्ता 		 	 	 quinde orazio flacco - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	quinde orazio flacco 	 		da uicchipèdie, 'a 'ngeclopedije lìbbere. 		 		 		 		 		zumbe sus 'a navigazzione 		zumbe sus 'a recerche 		 note disambiggue – "orazio" manne aqquà. ce stè cirche , 'ndruche orazio, disambiggue. 	(la) « dum loquimur fugerit invida aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. » 	(ta)« mendre ca ste parlame 'u tiembe se n'ha sciute. arruèbbe 'nu sciurne, speranne 'u mene possibbele a creje. » 	(orazio, odi, i, , - ) quinde orazio flacco, ritratte de anton von werner quinde orazio flacco, in latine quintus horatius flaccus e canusciute semblicemende cumme orazio (venosa,  decemmre  n.c. – rome,  novemmre  n.c.), ha state 'nu poete romano. conziderate une de le megghie poete de l'età andiche, eppure maestre de eleganze stilisteche e dotate de 'n'ironie speciale, sapìe affrondà le avveneminde politeche e civile d'u tiembe sue da placide epicurèe amande de le piacere d'a vite, dettanne chidde ca pe assaije crestiàne angore so le canone de l'ars vivendi. condenute 	 biografije 	 orazio nnade 'a morte 	 . 'a crise escatologgeche d'u paganesime 	 . 'u rapporte de orazio cu 'a morte 	 opere 	 'ndruche pure 	 otre pruggette 	 collegaminde fore a uicchipèdie 	 note biografije[cange • cange 'a sorgende] orazio nascìe 'u decemmre d'u n.c. a venosa, colonie romane funnate in posizione strateggeche 'mbrà apulia e lucania, quedde ca osce a die jè 'a basilicata, figghie de 'nu fattore libberte ca se trasferìe pò 'a rome pe fà l'esattore de le aste pubbleche (coactor), combite picche stimate ma redditizie. 'u poete ere quinde de origgene umile, ma de bbona condizione economeche. orazio seguì allore 'nu corse de studie regolare a rome, sotte 'u 'nzegnamende d'u grammateche orbilio e pò a atene, a l'età de cchiù o mene vinde anne, addò studiò greche e felosofije da cratippo de pergamo. aqquà trasìe in condatte cu 'a lezione epicurèe ma, pure ca se sendève particolarmende attratte, decedìe de nò aderì a 'a scole. ha state a 'u 'nderne de l'ambiende romane ca orazio pigghie parte a 'a corrende, 'a quale le permettìe de acchià 'nu refugge jndr'à l'otium contemplativo. 'u poete espremìe 'a gratitudina soje verse l'attane jndr'à 'nu tribbute jndr'à le satire (i, ). quanne sckattò 'a uerre civile orazio se arruolò, apprisse 'a morte de cesare, jndr'à l'esercite de bruto, jndr'à 'u quale 'u poete 'ngarnò 'u probbie ideale de libbertà condre a 'a tirannide 'mberande e combattìe cumme tribbune militare jndr'à battagghie de filippi ( n.c.), perse da le sosteniture de bruto e vingiute da ottaviano. jndr'à 'u n.c. turnò in itaglie grazie a 'n'amnistie e, avute 'a notizie d'a confische d'u podere de l'attane, se mandenìe devendanne segretarie de 'nu questore (scriba quaestorius), jndr'à stu periode accumenzò a scrivere verse, ca accumenzarene a darle 'na certe 'mbortanze. jndr'à 'u n.c. avenìe presendate a mecenate da virgilio e vario, probbabbilmende 'ngundrate jndr'à 'u condeste de le scole epicurèe de sirone, a napule e ercolano. apprisse nove mise mecenate 'u facìe trasè jndr'à 'u circole sue. da allore orazio se dedicò 'nderamende a 'a letterature, non ge se 'nzurò maje e non g'avìe figghie. ggià jndr'à stu periode orazio resulte debbole de uecchie, avenne pigghiate 'na congiundivite.[ ] mecenate le rialò jndr'à ' n.c. 'nu possedimende piccinne jndr'à sabine, le quale rovine sò angore osce a die visitabbile vecine a licenza (rm), cose assaije gradite a 'u poete ca, in perfette osservanze d'u modus vivendi predicate da epicure, non g'amave 'a vite cetadine. cu 'a poesia soje facìe assaije vote aziune de propagande pu 'mberatore auguste, pure ce, a dicere 'a vernate, jndr'à stu periode ottaviane lassò 'na maggiore libbertà combositive a le poete sue (tendenze ca pò avere state invertite apprisse 'a scombarse de mecenate: 'u testimonie 'a vicende biografeche de ovidio). esembie de propaganne augustèe sò, a ogne mode, certe odi e 'u carmen saeculare, cmboste jndr'à 'u n.c. in occasionae d'a ricorrenze de le ludi saeculares. murìe jndr'à 'u novemmre d'u n.c. e avenìe brucate sus a 'u colle esquiline, affianghe a l'amiche sue mecenate, muèrte sulamende doje mise apprime. orazio nnade 'a morte[cange • cange 'a sorgende] 'a crise escatologgeche d'u paganesime[cange • cange 'a sorgende] 'a accussìditte case de orazio a venosa verse 'a fine d'u 'mbere 'a romanità accumenzò a perdè fede jndr'à 'u sisteme releggiose d'u paganesime, ca non ge defenneve cchiù da nemice e soprattutte da le barbare. accumme avère successe pe le etrusche, nnande a granne pericole de fore 'a releggione se cange. le dei de le etrusche, assaije disinvolte e allegre apprime, addevendane terrifice quanne le romane accumenzane a assoggettarle e a destruggere le cetate lore. ma sta fede non ge avenìe scacchiate accussì libberamende, purcé a picche a vote avenìe obbligate, attraverse le persecuziune e demoliziune o sostituziune de tembie. ma jndr'à 'u i sechele n.c. sta fede non ge se scummove, anzi 'a scola greche se trasmette a rome 'nzieme a le splendide arte sue. l'epicureisme jè une de le scole de penziere ca se face domande sus a l'omme e sus a 'u combortamende sue, a 'a fine cerche 'na resposte a le male e a le dulure d'u munne, ca non ge onne scunnè 'a ggioie de vivere. jndr'à stu periode nascene jndr'à le cetate romane 'nu sbuènne de epicurèe, addò forse orazio avère canusciute virgilio e vario, ca forse 'u facèrene canoscere a mecenate. l'epicureisme non ge vulève fà sparìe ogne angosce e dubbie esistenziale riguarde a 'a morte attraverse 'na fede de l'aldilà, ossie attraverse 'a consapevolezze d'a probbie precarietà. 'a morte jè allore viste cumme 'na libberazione serene d'a vite, chiene de dulure, ma soprattutte cumme 'na certezze ca l'omme forte e sagge addà sapè affrundà. pure lucrezio recanosce 'a vernate d'a nature e le illusiune de le releggiune, pe jidde avaste 'ndrucà 'a nature e osservà 'a scienze pe recanoscere 'a vernate. 'u rapporte de orazio cu 'a morte[cange • cange 'a sorgende] statue de orazio a venosa orazio s'avvicine parzialmende a l'epicureisme, pure jidde 'a ricerche de resposte sus a le granne teme esistenziale, resposte ca de fatte non ge riesce ad acchià maje: 'u poete pare infatte de no essere maje fusciute a l'angosce d'a morte, percepite sembre cumme ca mò arrive mò arrive. jè inderessande analizzà 'a visione ca 'u poete latine tenève de l'aldilà, in quande jè indubbiamende assaije singere: pure scunnute da 'na certe securezze, probbie de quedde "aurea mediocritas" d'a quale orazio vuleve essere esembie, jndr'à 'nu sacche de occasiune iesse 'na vene malengoneche, accumbagnate da note gnore de lirisme e de eleggìe, ca tradisce 'u sue reale state inderiore. orazio iesse, a mumende, cumme quidde ca forse forse avveramende ere: 'n'omme ca ave acchiate jndr'à vite 'u refugge da 'a morte, ma ca vernate, non g'ave maje riuscite a curà combletamende 'a paure d'a morte, ca preferisce fuscersene invece de combattre stoicamende. 'a personalità soje pò allroe resultà, a 'na prime letture, ambiggue: sta ambigguità nasce da 'a discordanze ca certe vote se avène a ccrejà 'mbrà l'immaggine ca orazio vuleve dà de jidde e, 'a vere personalità d'u poete ca inevitabbilmende iesse da le righe: none a case, cumme dice ugo enrico paoli, "ninde [...] pare accussì difficile cumme sbunnà l'anime de orazio". 'a rappresendazione de l'aldilà oraziane jè de stamde epicurèe forte forte e avène suggellate jndr'à 'u mode megghie megghie jndr'à l'affermazione, ca tène 'na note malengoneche, espresse jndr'à l'ode d'u libbre iv: 	 	« pulvis et umbra sumus » 	 	 quinde orazio flacco, ritratte de giacomo di chirico jndr'à sta affermazione orazio riesce a esprimere none sule 'u punde di viste sue susu 'a morte, ma pure l'angosce ca 'u pigghie jndr'à vite, probbie in funzione d'u prossime e certe annullamende de l'esperienze terrene. da le verse de orazio, quanne 'u poete parte d'a morte, resulte avveramende difficile pigghià 'na note de serenità, de gioie: 'u sendimende ca invece cumanne e ca se idendifiche jndr'à reazione psicologgeche d'u poete 'mbacce 'a morte, jè 'na triste accettazione de 'nu fatte naturale. in particolare stu sendimende avène espresse jndr'à l'ode d'u libbre ii, addò dice (vv. - ): 	 	« ...tristi [...] unda, scilicet omnibus, quicumquae terrae munere vescimur, enaviganda, sive reges sive inopes erimus coloni. » 	 	 ste verse ne dicene quande orazio vedève 'a morte cumme cupe e fonde de granne turbamende: avène rappresendate aqquà cumme 'na palude (unda, parole ca ggià jndr'à 'u suène sue andicipe 'u congette ca stè pe essere espresse e, dè forze a 'u simbolisme da 'u quale jè oggette: palude = morte), a 'a quale affianghe l'aggettive "triste" (tristi), ca porte cu jidde 'nu sienze profonne de inevitabbilità. 'a palude a 'a quale face reèrimende orazio jè 'u stige: jndr'à stu case, 'u refèrimende mitologgeche ave valore simboliche, e jè funzionale none sulamende pe esprimere 'u congette d'a morte, ma pure pe rendere cchiù forte e espressive 'a poesie. 'nvece scilicet (cumme jè naturale) dice 'nu date de fatte: l'inevitabbilità d'a morte, a 'a quale non ge stè mode de fuscersene. stu congette in realtà avène ripetute aqquà, ma avère ggià state espresse a l'inizie de l'ode: 	 	« ...nec pietas moram rugis et instanti senectae adfert indomitaeque morti. » 	 	 inutile jè 'a releggione, 'ngapace de acchià 'na soluzione ((moram) a 'a vecchiaie ca avanze e a 'a morte: quiste jè 'nu punde de viste d'u poete reguardanne 'a releggione, e traduce 'nu sendimende diffuse e estese a tutte 'a romanità d'u sechele. 'a releggione jè oramaije 'ngapace de dà spiegaziune sufficiende ca reguardane 'a vite apprisse 'a morte, 'u fervore releggiose (pietas) non ge pò salvà l'omme da 'a naturale soje condizione de mortale. 'nderne d'a case de orazio jè probbie 'a granne differenze ca fusce 'mbrà l'attacche e 'a criteche ca lucrezio avère fatte jndr'à le combronde d'a religio, accusate de sconnere 'a raggione e de fà nascere inutile tribbolaziune e angosce e queste, ca sone cchiù cumme 'na triste constatazione de l'ingapacità de essere rasserenate da 'na releggione jndr'à quale non ge se riesce cchiù a credere. cendrale jndr'à le verse - jè 'u gerundive enaviganda, ca esprime l'inevitabbilità e 'a certezze d'a morte, none senze 'na note de cupe e profonne malingonie, ggià andicipate da tristi unda. resulte ggià chiare da ste picche verse 'a percezione ca orazio avère d'a morte, percezione ca spieghe e motive 'a scelta soje de vite: 'na vite caratterizzate da 'u godè d'u presende e de le picche gioie ca 'a vite ne offre (idendificabbile prengepalmende jndr'à l'amicizie, jndr'à 'u convivie, jndr'à pace inderiore) e ca ne donne 'a possibbilità de vivere cu serenità e stabbilità. orazio pare a tratte pessimiste assaije probbie: 'a morte jè sembre rrete a l'angole e 'a vite pò spiccià jndr'à ogne mumende; jè megghie, allore, no remèttere le probbie speranze jndr'à ccreje. st'idea d'a vite ca jè corte (ca acchiame arrete jndr'à catullo: brevis lux) jè 'n'otre invite a goderse 'a vite 'u cchiù possibbile, congette ca acchiame jndr'à 'nu sbuènne de verse, cumme jndr'à l'ode d'u libbre i: 	 	« ...dum loquimur fugerit invida aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.[ ] » 	 	 'u tiembe jè 'na fughe condinue, ca non ge lasse ninde a le speranze future: serve sfruttà a 'u massime 'u tiembe ca 'n'avène date, e conziderà ogne mumende ca 'n'avène date cumme a 'nu riale, accussì cumme dice jndr'à l'ode d'u libbre i (vv. - : "...quem fors dierum cumque dabit, lucro/adpone..."); 'a congeziona soje d'a fuga temporis jè 'nu perfette modelle pe 'nu granne poete tagliàne cumme a frangische petrarca, ca, apprisse ca avere lette classece cumme orazio, seneca e agustine, se vè lamende, jndr'à 'u canzoniere, 'u fatte ca 'u tiembe jè malate, e l'essenza soje fuggitive jndr'à liriche cumme 'a vite fusce e non ge se ferme 'n'ore, assaije vicine a 'a poetiche oraziane. jè chiare da le verse sue quande 'a visione d'a morte condizione jndr'à 'nu mode nette l'esperienze de vite d'u poete, ca n'avène vivacemende descritte da 'a poesia soje: 'a morte non g'è, a 'u condrarie de quanne se penze, 'nu fatte ca ne aspette quanne 'u percorse vitale nuèstre spicce, ma jè quacchecose ca ne lassame rrete ogne sciurne e rrete a ogne mumende, ca sparisce e iuscke, attraverse 'u tiembe, tutte quidde ca jè. opere[cange • cange 'a sorgende] file:le odi di orazio.gif le odi de orazio tradotte da mario rapisardi saturae, orazio jè considerate da 'u classicisme une de le cchiù 'mbortande oete latine, cirate addiritture jndr'à' 'u 'nfirne de dante ndr'à 'u limbe, a 'u verse d'u cande iv. assaije de le frase sue onne devendate muttette angore osce ausate: esembie sò carpe diem, nunc est bibendum e aurea mediocritas, eppure odi profanum vulgus, et arceo, e, urtemamende, l'ha state 'nditolate pure 'nu cratere sus 'a superficie de mercurie. pò orazio jè protagoniste d'u gialle storeche meminisse iuvabit, ambiendate jndr'à 'u n.c. e scritte da luigge calcerano. 	epodi (epodon libri o iambi, cumme le definisce l'autore), comboneminde, pubblecate jndr'à 'u n.c. 	satire (saturae o sermones, cumme le definisce l'autore), jndr'à doje libbre ca combrennene satire, scritte 'mbrà 'u e 'u n.c.: 'u i libbre ( satire) avenìe dedicate a mecenate e pubblecate jndr'à 'u e 'u a.c., invece 'u ii libbre ( satire) avenìe pubblecate jndr'à 'u n.c. 'nzieme a le epodi. 	odi (carmina, cumme le definisce l'autore), jndr'à ttre libbre cu comboneminde, pubblecate jndr'à 'u n.c. 'nu quarte libbre cu otre comboneminde avenìe pubblecate atturne a 'u n.c. 	epistole, jndr'à doje libbre. 'u i libbre tène lettere comboste a partì da 'u e pubblecate jndr'à 'u n.c., cu dediche a mecenate, invece 'u ii libbre, cu ttre lettere, scritte 'mbrà 'u e 'u n.c., tène l'epistole a le pisone, o ars poetica jndr'à esametre, ca avenìe pigghiate a canone pa combosizione poeteche jndr'à l'epoche cchiù nnande. 	carme secolare (carmen saeculare), d'u n.c., scritte pe 'ngareche de auguste e destinate a 'a cerimonie conglusive de le ludi saeculares. 'ndruche pure[cange • cange 'a sorgende] 	mario rapisardi (traduzione de le odi de orazio. id ib. ) 	gens horatia otre pruggette[cange • cange 'a sorgende] altri progetti 	uicchisource 	uicchiquote 	uicchimedia commons 	 uicchisource tène una pagina dedicata a quinde orazio flacco 	 uicchiquote tène citazioni di o su quinde orazio flacco 	 uicchimedia commons tène file multimediali su quinde orazio flacco collegaminde fore a uicchipèdie[cange • cange 'a sorgende] 	della fama d'orazio fino a' dì nostri, in italia, lezione de mario rapisardi, decemmre 	il carme secolare, tratte da 'u libbre iv le odi de orazio, traduzione de mario rapisardi 	opera omnia de quinde orazio flacco: teste cu congordanze e elenghe de frequenze 	opera omnia de quinde orazio flacco: teste cu numerazione de le verse 	'u soratte; fonte bandusia; 'u faune tradotte da alessandro natucci 	 a. perutelli, g. paduano; e. rossi, alcune traduziune de orazio in tagliàne (pdf), in storie e teste d'a letterature latine on-line, zanichelli, , perutelli, paduano, rossi, traduzioni. url consultato il sciugne . 	 a. perutelli, g. paduano; e. rossi, quacche traduzione cu note de orazio in tagliàne (pdf), in storie e teste d'a letterature latine on-line, zanichelli, , perutelli, paduano, rossi, traduziune cu note. url consultato il sciugne . 	 a. perutelli, g. paduano; e. rossi, quacche teste cu metriche (pdf), in storie e teste d'a letterature latine on-line, zanichelli, , perutelli, paduano, rossi, originali latini. url consultato il sciugne . note[cange • cange 'a sorgende] 	↑ orazio, satire, i, , vv. e . 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bedingengen uurhoop konnen anweendboar weese. eenpeldhaide sunt in do nutsengsbedingengen beschrieuwen. ouroupstatistik 		doatenskuts 	uur wikipedia 	begriepskläärenge 	mobile ansicht 	entwickler 	statistiken 	stellungnahme zu cookies 		 	 	 horatius - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	horatius 	 		uit wikipedia, de vrije encyclopedie 		 		 		 		 		naar navigatie springen 		naar zoeken springen 		 	 	zie horatius (doorverwijspagina) voor andere betekenissen van horatius. fantasieportret van horatius, van de hand van anton von werner ( - ) quintus horatius flaccus (venusia, december v.chr. - rome, november v.chr.) was een romeins dichter. inhoud 	 leven 	 werk 	 . oden 	 . . de soracte-ode 	 . . carpe diem 	 nederlandse vertalingen (selectie) 	 noten 	 externe links leven[bewerken | brontekst bewerken] horatius werd geboren op december v.chr. zijn vader, flaccus, was een vrijgelaten gemeenteslaaf in de romeinse kolonie venusia, nu venosa, gelegen langs de via appia op de grens tussen apulië en lucanië. de vader van horatius bezat enig land[ ] en had in korte tijd een behoorlijk vermogen vergaard[ ] met het ontvangen van heffingen.[ ] de naam van horatius' moeder is niet bekend, waarschijnlijk stierf ze bij of kort na zijn geboorte, want zij wordt nooit in zijn werken vermeld. hoewel horatius een man van de wereld was, was hij niet ambitieus voor publieke erkenning.[ ] horatius was vooral geïnteresseerd in het verbeteren en hervormen van de latijnse poëzie.[ ] horatius was klein en dik, zoals hij zichzelf in zijn satiren beschrijft, en door augustus in een brief: "onysius bracht mij jouw boekje. ik ben er heel tevreden over, ook al vind ik het jammer, dat het zo klein is. je wekt bij mij de indruk, dat je bang bent, dat jouw boekjes groter zijn dan jij zelf bent. maar jij mist lengte, geen omvang. je mag dus best in de breedte schrijven; dan wordt de omtrek van jouw boekrol zeer kolossaal, zoals die van je buik."[ ] op zijn tiende ging horatius met zijn vader naar rome. daar kreeg hij een uitstekende opvoeding, zoals normaal alleen de zonen van patriciërs of senatoren die kregen. zijn leermeester in rome was orbilius.[ ] orbilius gebruikte graag zweepslagen om te zorgen dat zijn studenten livius zouden bestuderen.[ ] in v.chr. ging hij naar athene om zich er te verdiepen in de griekse cultuur en de wijsbegeerte. horatius ging grammatica en retorica volgen. hij studeerde er tevens filosofie, waarvoor hij onder andere luisterde naar de lezingen van cratippus van pergamum.[ ] dit dus allemaal dankzij zijn vader.[ ] in athene ontmoette horatius marcus brutus, die pas caesar had vermoord en daar jonge romeinse soldaten aan het ronselen was voor de strijd tegen octavianus en antonius. horatius sloot zich bij hen aan en werd tot krijgstribuun in het leger van brutus benoemd. hiervoor moest hij zijn studie onderbreken.[ ] hij nam deel aan de veldslag bij philippi in v.chr., waarin octavianus en antonius brutus versloegen. na deze nederlaag kon horatius dankzij amnestie ontkomen en keerde hij terug naar italië. hij kreeg na het debacle van philippi een functie als stafofficier. hij vestigde zich uiteindelijk in rome, want het land van zijn vader was onteigend toen die was gestorven, terwijl hij in het kamp van de verliezers verkeerde. in rome kreeg hij een goede baan op het ministerie van financiën.[ ] als geletterd man ging hij bij de schatkist werken als klerk (scriba quaestorius), maar heel tevreden was hij niet met dit beroep. in deze periode schreef hij zijn eerste poëzie. horatius schiep een nieuw genre, de levensbeschouwelijke brief in dichtvorm.[ ] zijn eerste dichtwerk was een bundel gedichten, een boekrol met tien satiren. deze boekrol kwam uit toen horatius dertig jaar oud was. de satiren gingen over morele en maatschappelijke kwesties, waarbij horatius zich voordoet als een man van het midden. een voorbeeld uit de satiren: geniet, maar drink met mate, zorg ervoor dat je seksueel aan je trekken komt, maar vermijd hoeren en gehuwde vrouwen, wees tegenover je lezers bot noch onderdanig. [ ] lange tijd polijstte hij zijn gedichten (limae labor, ‘het werk van de vijl’) voordat hij ze publiceerde.[ ] horatius zelf zegt, dat de satiren geen gedichten zijn, maar één gedicht verwekt door een menselijke inspiratie en een stem met sublieme geluiden. taalnuancering heeft horatius opgedaan in wijze gesprekken tijdens zijn schoolcarrière en studietijd. het werk satiren laat de gedachten van een elegante, zeer geleerde man van de wereld zien.[ ] ook schreef horatius het werk epode, dat uit jambische disticha bestaat en in v.chr. werd gepubliceerd. deze gedichten werden door horatius zelf iambi genoemd. jambische verzen zijn verzen waarbij een lange regel afgewisseld wordt met een korte regel.[ ] horatius leverde in zijn werken veel kritiek. zijn grootste bijdrage in het geven van literaire kritiek is zijn ars poetica.[ ] horatius van adalbert von roessler, ca. zijn literaire talent werd snel opgemerkt, en rond v.chr. werd hij opgenomen in de literaire kring rond maecenas, nadat hij door vergilius ingeleid was.[ ] maecenas schonk de dichter horatius v.chr. een villa, inclusief een groot landgoed, in de bergen in de buurt van de tiber.[ ] daar zou hij zich bijna de rest van zijn leven bezighouden met zijn poëzie. zijn huis is te zien bij het kleine bos van tibur.[ ] toen in v.chr. twee van zijn beste vrienden, vergilius en rufus, stierven, bleef hij ontroostbaar achter als enige van een grote generatie dichters. in v.chr.[ ] kreeg horatius de eer om de officiële hymne te mogen schrijven voor het door augustus ingestelde eeuwfeest carmen saeculare (een hymne is een verheven lofzang op een bepaald onderwerp).[ ] dit werd door een koor van jongens en meisjes gezongen.[ ] in zijn werk is horatius veel beïnvloed door griekse voorbeelden (vooral door archaïsche dichters zoals archilochus van paros, alcaeus van mytilene en sappho van lesbos). toch laat zijn eigen inspiratie, op inhoudelijk en op stilistisch vlak, hem ver boven het niveau van de imitator uitsteken. vooral in de ‘vorm’ is hij zeer geleerd. horatius’ stijl onderscheidt zich door een grote afwisseling, van ernstig en plechtig taalgebruik tot bijna onbeduidende spreektaal. het woordgebruik is erg precies en daardoor past de formulering steeds perfect.[ ] tijdens zijn leven werden horatius' werken gewaardeerd. nog voor hij stierf werden zijn carmina, liederen, een schooltekstboek. hij had toen weinig navolgers in zijn lyrische vormen. tijdens de middeleeuwen werd horatius ijverig bestudeerd, zowel in als buiten de scholen. in de middeleeuwen was horatius vooral populair om zijn moraliserende sermones en epistulae. de carmina werden toen niet zoveel gelezen, maar onder invloed van de duitse humanist conrad celtis werd het gebruikelijk om horatius' oden op muziek te zetten zodat de studenten ze elke dag konden zingen aan het eind van de lessen.[ ] in v.chr. stierf maecenas. horatius overleed negenenvijftig dagen later op -jarige leeftijd op november v.chr..[ ] hij had augustus tot erfgenaam benoemd, in het openbaar, omdat hij door zijn ziekte niet meer in staat was een testament te ondertekenen.[ ] hij is begraven en bijgezet aan de rand van de esquilijn, naast de grafheuvel van maecenas.[ ] werk[bewerken | brontekst bewerken] gedicht van horatius op een muur in leiden 	epodae (epoden, - v.chr.): in navolging griekse dichters probeert horatius zijn gevoelens van onbehagen en rancune een plaats te geven door er gedichten aan te wijden. de epoden gaan onder andere over de rust van het landleven en de ellende van de burgeroorlogen, maar ook over andere maatschappelijk en morele problemen. hij stelde zich hierbij op als de man in het midden. geniet, maar drink met mate was een uitspraak die horatius vaak deed in deze gedichten. ook ging je bij deze gedichten ervan uit dat horatius het zei, maar blijkt aan het einde dat iemand anders het aan het vertellen was. het werk bevatte epoden, agressieve jambische gedichten in de traditie van archilochus van paros (archilochus was een grieks dichter van spotdichten.). na zeeslag actium in het jaar , publiceerde horatius dit boek.[ ] 	sermones (satiren, - v.chr.): in navolging van de romeinse dichter lucilius stelt hij met milde spot in gesprekken (lat.: sermones) dwaasheden en fouten van het romeinse volk aan de kaak. dit was het tweede boek dat horatius schreef.[ ] deze gedichten zijn de afgelopen jaar haast niet tot de dichtkunst gerekend. het werd namelijk gezien als dichterlijk geklets en geouwehoer, al is de structuur van de gedichten goed. mensen en toestanden worden hierin door de dichter op kritische wijze, maar zonder bijtend cynisme onder de loep genomen. hij leverde literaire kritiek en kritiek via bijvoorbeeld schilderijen van menselijke gebreken, zoals eer en geldzucht[ ] 	carmina (oden, vanaf v.chr.): in navolging van de griekse lyrici, vooral alcaeus en sappho, verwerkt hij allerlei onderwerpen in korte, lyrische gedichten. het werk bestond uit drie boeken en verscheen in het jaar .[ ] het bestaat uit zo'n gedichten. hij maakte hierbij goed gebruik van de vrijheden van de woordvolgorde die de latijnse grammatica toeliet. horatius probeerde met zijn carmina, liederen, de oudere griekse lyriek een plekje te geven in de romeinse poëzie en, uitgaande van deze klassieke oude vormen, in het latijn gelijkwaardige werken te pubiceren. hoofdthema’s in deze gedichten/liederen zijn liefde, wijn, feestvreugde en de positieve periodes van augustus’ regering.[ ] 	epistulae ( en v.chr.): net als in de sermones bekritiseert hij de volkse dwaasheden, alleen minder scherp. in de epistulae spreekt horatius van menselijkheid en zijn levenswijsheid.[ ] in de laatste jaar van zijn leven is dit werk gemaakt, de exacte datum is niet zeker.[ ] als antwoord op augustus’ beroep, schreef hij hem een brief, het eerste deel van het tweede boek van epistulae. hij begint met een protest tegen degenen die niet het positieve inzien van de moderne tijd.[ ] het eerste boek bevat brieven in hexameters.[ ] 	ars poetica ( v.chr.): ook bekend als de epistula ad pisones, een leerdicht over het schrijven van poëzie. de datering hiervan is omstreden. men gaat ervan uit dat dit zijn laatste gedicht was. het is een brief gericht aan calpurnius piso en zijn zonen.[ ] 	carmen saeculare ( v.chr.): het eeuwgedicht dat horatius schreef voor het eeuwfeest dat aanvang juni v.chr. in rome gevierd werd. het carmen saeculare bestaat uit negentien strofen van vier verzen (totaal: verzen); de dichter richt zich tot apollo en diana. het eeuwgedicht werd gezongen door koren van jongens en meisjes. in zijn werken zijn duidelijk invloeden van het epicurisme merkbaar. oden[bewerken | brontekst bewerken] horatius' lyriek (vooral in de oden) kan niet los van zijn relatie met de griekse traditie worden gezien. een kenmerk van de relatie van horatius met de griekse lyriek, is dat hij vaak begint met een saai stuk. dit moet dan dienen als het motto van de tekst.[ ] de soracte-ode[bewerken | brontekst bewerken] de soracte-ode is een gedicht waarin horatius een zekere thaliarchus aanspoort om bij de dag te leven en ervan te genieten. 	latijnse tekst: 	nederlandse vertaling 	 vides ut alta stet nive candidum soracte, nec iam sustineant onus silvae laborantes, geluque flumina constiterint acuto? dissolve frigus ligna super foco large reponens atque benignius deprome quadrimum sabina, o thaliarche, merum diota. permitte divis cetera, qui simul stravere ventos aequore fervido deproeliantes, nec cupressi nec veteres agitantur orni. quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere et quem fors dierum cumque dabit, lucro appone, nec dulces amores sperne, puer, neque tu choreas, donec virenti canities abest morosa. nunc et campus et areae lenesque sub noctem susurri composita repetantur hora, nunc et latentis proditor intimo gratus puellae risus ab angulo pignusque dereptum lacertis aut digito male pertinaci 	 zie je hoe de soracte blinkend wit door de diepe sneeuw staat, en (hoe) de zwoegende bossen de last niet meer kunnen dragen, en de rivieren bevroren zijn door de felle vorst? verdrijf de koude, doordat je rijkelijk hout op de haard gooit en haal overvloediger vier jaar oude onvermengde wijn tevoorschijn. oh thaliarchus, uit sabijnse kruik. laat de rest aan de goden over; zodra zij de winden die vechten op de bruisende zee, tot rust hebben gebracht, worden noch de cipressen noch de oude essen hevig geschud. wat er morgen zal zijn, wil dat niet vragen en boek als winst welke ook maar van de dagen het lot zal geven, en versmaad jij, als jongen, niet de zoete liefde en ook niet de koordansen, zolang als het lastige grijze haar afwezig is (bij jou), in de kracht van je leven (lett: die krachtig bent). laten nu het marsveld en de pleinen en het zachte gefluister tegen de nacht worden opgezocht op het afgesproken uur. en nu (laat ook) het aangename gelach, dat haar verraadt, van het meisje dat zich verbergt vanuit een verborgen hoekje (opgezocht worden) en het onderpand, ontnomen aan haar armen of aan de vinger die nauwelijks tegenstribbelt. carpe diem[bewerken | brontekst bewerken] 	latijnse tekst: 	nederlandse vertaling 	 tu ne quaesieris - scire nefas - quem mihi, quem tibi finem di dederint, leuconoe, nec babylonios temptaris numeros. ut melius, quidquid erit, pati! seu plures hiemes seu tribuit iuppiter ultimam, quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare tyrrhenum, sapias: vina liques et spatio brevi spem longam reseces. dum loquimur, fugerit invida aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. 	 onderzoek niet, het is goddeloos om het te weten, welk einde de goden aan mij, welk aan jou hebben gegeven, leuconoë, en raadpleeg ook niet de berekeningen van de babyloniërs. hoeveel beter is het, wat het ook maar zal zijn, te dragen! hetzij jupiter meer winters, hetzij hij deze als laatste toedeelt, die de tyrreense zee nu met er tegenover gelegen rotsen verzwakt, moge je wijs zijn: moge je de wijn zeven en op korte termijn lange hoop snoeien. terwijl wij praten zal de afgunstige tijd al gevlucht zijn pluk de dag, zo min mogelijk vertrouwend op de volgende dag. nederlandse vertalingen (selectie)[bewerken | brontekst bewerken] 	pluk de dag. vijftig oden, ingeleid, vertaald en verklaard door paul claes, 	verzamelde gedichten, latijnse tekst van de satiren, epoden, oden, brieven en eeuwzang, met vertaling en toelichting van piet schrijvers, 	voltooid mijn monument. de oden van horatius, vertaald door anton van wilderode, noten[bewerken | brontekst bewerken] 	↑ a b c g.j.m. bartelink, klassieke letterkunde, utrecht, , pp. - . 	↑ a b c p. gerbrandy, het feest van saturnus, amsterdam, , pp. - . 	↑ a b c d e f suetonius, vita horati (nederlandse vertaling op koxkollum.nl) 	↑ a b c h.j. rose, a handbook of latin literature, londen, (= ), pp. - . 	↑ a b c g.b. conte - trad. j.b. solodow - revv. d. fowler - g.w. most, latin literature: a history, baltimore - londen, (= ), pp. - . 	↑ a b c d e p. gerbrandy, het feest van saturnus, amsterdam, , pp. - . 	↑ a b c g.b. conte - trad. j.b. solodow - revv. d. fowler - g.w. most, latin literature: a history, baltimore - londen, (= ), pp. - . 	↑ a b c d e g.j.m. bartelink, klassieke letterkunde, utrecht, , pp. - . 	↑ a b c d e f g h.j. rose, a handbook of latin literature, londen, (= ), pp. - . 	↑ p. claes (trad. introd. annot.), horatius. pluk de dag: vijftig oden, amsterdam, , p. . 	↑ e. stemplinger, das fortleben der horazischen lyrik seit der renaissance, leipzig, , pp. - . externe links[bewerken | brontekst bewerken] 	(la) sermones, carmina en epistulae van horatius, latijnse tekst, van website thelatinlibrary.com. geraadpleegd november . 	(la) carmina horatiana: alle carmina van horatius in het latijn gereciteerd door thomas bervoets. 	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Содржина 	 Животопис 	 Творештво 	 Наводи 	 Надворешни врски Животопис[уреди | уреди извор] Хорациј се родил во градот Венузија, во областа Апулија, на границата со Луканија, како син на еден ослободен роб, а мајка му воопшто не ја споменува, можеби затоа што умрела млада. Неговиот татко бил сиромашен и имал скромен имот (macro pauper agello), но се трудел на Хорациј да му обезбеди добро образование. Основното образование, Хорациј го завршил кај некој Флавиј, „во која одеа синовите на големите центуриони“, а потоа тој и татко му се преселиле во Рим. Таму, татко му работел како коактор (инкасант на лицитациите), занимање кое не било ценето, но било добро платено, а Хорациј се здобил со одлично средношколско образование, посетувајќи настава кај повеќе педагози, меѓу кои бил и познатиот Луциј Орбилиј Пупил, кој се споменува како „Орбилиј што дава ќотек“ (plagosus orbilius). Кај него, Хорациј ги читал „Одисеја“ (во превод на Лавиј Андроник) и „Илијада“. Сепак, главен воспитувач му бил неговиот грижлив татко.[ ][ ] Во потрага по највисоко образование, Хорациј се преселил во Атина, каде студирал философија, т.е. „за да умеам доброто да го разликувам од лошото“ (ut vellem curvo dignoscere rectum). Таму го затекнала граѓанската војна, кога Марко Јуниј Брут пристигнал во градот и почнал да ги привлекува римските студенти со своите републикански идеи. Хорациј бил висок офицер во војската на Брут кого веројатно го придружувал во воениот поход во Мала Азија, а учествувал и во Битката кај Филипи ( п.н.е.), во која републиканците биле поразени од војската на Марко Антониј и Октавијан Август.[ ] По завршувањето на граѓанската војна, неговиот имот во Венузија бил конфискуван и им бил поделен на воените ветерани. Уште повеќе, за време на неговото враќање, неговиот брод претрпел бродолом при што Хорациј едвај останал жив. Така, тој „со пресечени крилја, останувајќи без татковиот дом и имотот“ (me demisere philippi decisis humilem pennis inopemque paterni et laris fundi) се вратил во Рим, каде добил амнестија и со последните пари успеал да стекне место во писарскиот еснаф, и тоа во финансиската струка (квестура). На таа служба останал сè додека во година, најпрвин Вергилиј, а потоа и поетот Луциј Вариј Руф, го запознале со Мецена, кој по девет месеци го повикал кај себе и тогаш започнало нивното долгогодишно пријателство. Во година, во замена за одземениот имот во Венузија, Хорациј добил (најверојатно од Мецена) мал имот во сабинските ридови, во близина на градот Вариј (денес, Виковаро), крај реката Тибар. На својот сабински имот (fundus sabinus), Хорациј го поминал целиот свој живот, при што живеел повлечено и мирно, а единствениот значаен настан во неговиот живот се случил во  г. п.н.е., кога за малку ќе погинел кога во дворот на неговата куќа се урнало едно дрво.[ ][ ] Овој настан, тој го опеал во една своја песна, посветена на Мецена.[ ] На имотот, тој читал, пишувал песни, добро се согласувал со робовите и со соседите, а одвреме-навреме го посетувале неговите моќни пријатели од Рим (негов голем пријател бил конзулот Сестиј).[ ] Само понекогаш, тој се враќал во Рим, каде времето го минувал во прошетки по улиците и во разговори со обичните луѓе. Најмногу сакал да престојува во бањата Бајама, лечејќи се од ревматизмот.[ ] Со помош на Мецена, Хорациј се поврзал со Октавијан Август, кој му го понудил местото на личен секретар.[ ] Така, во едно писмо до Мецена, Октавијан Август вели: „... сакам нашиот Хорациј да го одвлечкам од тебе... па ќе ми помага во пишувањето писма.“ Со цел да ја задржи уметничката слобода, Хорациј ја одбил понудата, правдајќи се со лошото здравје. Оттука, одвреме-навреме, императорот продолжил да му врши благ притисок, пишувајќи му „ако ти гордо го презре моето пријателство, не мислам поради тоа кон тебе да заземам надмен став“ и „знај дека ти се лутам поради тоа што во повеќето твои записи (т.н. sermones) не водиш разговор првенествено со мене. Случајно, да не мислиш дека на твоето добро име кај потомството, ако те сметаат за мој интимен пријател?“[ ] Хорациј бил образован човек и добро ги познавал хеленскиот јазик и книжевност, а имал познавања и од философијата. Тој имал независен дух и сакал да биде независен, за што сведочи одбивањето на понудата на царот Октавијан Август да му биде личен секретар. Неговата сакана девојка се викала Лудија.[ ] Инаку, тој бил низок, дебел и со црна коса, која рано му побелела. На пример, во едно писмо до него, Октавијан Август пишува: „... иако ти недостига висина, телесниот волумен не ти недостига...“ Хорациј никогаш не се оженил, живеел скромно и бил претежно вегетаријанец.[ ] Творештво[уреди | уреди извор] Хорациј почнал да пишува уште во Атина, каде составувал стихови на грчки јазик. Потоа, по враќањето во Рим, почнал да пишува латински стихови, а според неговите зборови, „сиромаштијата, која ја буди смелоста, ме натера да правам стихови“ (paupertas inpulit audax, ut versus facerem). Така, благодарејќи на својата поезија, тој успеал да ги придобие богатите покровители.[ ] Неговиот опус не е голем, но затоа пак е целосно сочуван и се состои од четири книги со лирска поезија и четири книги со сатири. На почетокот од поетската кариера, под влијание на големиот римски сатиричар Луцилиј и на хеленскиот јамбограф Архилох, Хорациј пишувал сатири и јамби. Подоцна, тој си поставил задача на римска почва да ја пренесе еолската лирика на Сафо и Алкеј, т.е. за разлика од неговите современици кои пишувале под влијание на хеленистичката (александриска) поезија, Хорациј бил под влијание на архајската хеленска традиција. Така, во текот на седум години пишувал лиркси песни по примерот на еолската мелика и во п.н.е. веќе имал доволно песни за една збирка.[ ] Ѕидна поема во Лајден Хорациј е автор на следниве дела:[ ][ ] 	„Сатири“ (во две книги), кои самиот тој ги нарекувал „Разговори“ (sermones), испеани во хексаметри, а посветени на Мецена. Во нив, тој ги критикувал негативните страни на општеството. Во п.н.е., ја објавил првата книга „Сатири“ ( песни, со вкупно . хексаметри) кои подоцна ги нарекувал козерии, т.е. лесни разговори (sermones). Исто така, тие биле напишани и по примерот на дијатрибите (актуелни философски разговори) водени меѓу Бион и Бористен. Во п.н.е., ја објавил втората збирка „Сатири“ ( песни, со . хексаметри), која е позрела од првата (авторот не зборува во прво лице, развиен е дијалогот, итн.). Меѓутоа, самиот Хорациј не им придавал големо значење на своите sermones и ги нарекувал „проза во стихови“ (musa pedestris).[ ] 	„Еподи“ (вкупно песни со стихови), т.е. кратки и долги лирски песни, кои тој ги нарекувал јамби. Во нив, по примерот на Архилох, тој напаѓа одделни личности. Оваа збирка е објавена околу п.н.е., при што тој ги нарекувал пенсите „јамби“, но поради мешањето на кратките стихови (еподи) со долгите, подоцна целата збирка го добила името „Еподи“.[ ] 	„Песни“ (carmina), т.е. кратки и долги песни (објавени во четири книги кои содржат по , , и песни, соодветно), испеани во стилот на Сафо, Анакреонт и Алкеј, но во кои тој ја сочувал самостојноста. Станува збор за химни во кои се опеваат боговите и пријателите, како и пригодни песни и песни за виното. Тие се одликуваат со разум, совршена форма и звучен јазик. Од нив, особено се истакнуваат првите шест песни од третата книга (т.н. „Римски оди“). Првите три години биле напишани во текот на седум години и биле завршени во п.н.е., додека четвртата книга била објавена веројатно во п.н.е., а била напишана по убедување на Октавијан Август.[ ] 	„Писма“, т.е. „Посланија“ (epistulae) во две книги, од кои првата содржи , а втората само три посланија. По „Песните“, Хорациј повторно им се вратил на дијатрибите и во п.н.е. ја објавил првата збирка „Посланија“ составена од песни, со вкупно . хексаметри, кои според содржината сосема малку се разликуваат од „Сатирите“. Во втората книга на „Посланијата“ (три песни со . хексаметри) тој се свртел кон философијата и во нив пишува за естетиката и за поетската уметност. Од нив се истакнува третото послание, кое набргу било издвоено како посебно дело, „За поетската уметност“ (de arte poetica) со стихови, напишано под влијание на сличното дело на Неоптолем од Парион.[ ] Неговите писма се сметаат за едно од врвните дела на римската книжевност. 	„Столетна песна“ (carmen saeculare) е химна во строфи. Имено, со намера да го одбележи крајот на граѓанските војни и почетокот на новата ера на мирот, во п.н.е., Октавијан Август сакал да го прослави Секуларниот празник (ludi saeculares), кој се празнувал на секои сто години. На Хорациј му припаднала честа да напише химна во која ги моли боговите да му дадат материјална благосостојба на римскиот народ. Празникот бил славен три дена и три ноќи со полна месечина, од мај до јуни, а химната ја пеел хор составен од момчиња и девојчиња. Во година, од реката Тибар била извадена камена плоча на која пишувало: carmen composuit q. horatius flaccus. Тогаш, Хорациј се стекнал со голема слава и оттогаш тој бил сметан за „поет на римската лира“ (romanae fidicen lyrae).[ ] Во своето време, Хорациј бил најголемиот римски поет. И тој самиот, во песната посветена на музата Мелпомена, ја опеал својата поетска слава: во неа, тој вели дека подигнал споменик потраен од камен, кого нема да го сотре ниту чекорот на времето; дека голем дел од него ќе остане во срцата на потомците и, на тој начин, никогаш нема да умре; дека од сиромашен човек станал голем; и дека прв во Римското Царство ја пренесол песната на Еолија.[ ] Од неговите лирски песни, се напишани со алкејски а во сафички строфи. Во тој поглед, Хорациј го надминал проблемот на оригиналноста, присутен во римската поезија и на хеленската форма ѝ дал своја содржина во духот на неговата животна философија. Навистина, во младоста, тој бил епикуреец (зашто му бил ученик на Филодем), но таа црта не е пресудна во неговото творештво од зрелата возраст и од староста. Според неговата меланхолија, песимизам и апатија, како и по паролата „Ништо да не се чудиш!“ (nil admirari), тој е поблиску до етиката на Зеноновата „стоа“. Хорациј ја побарал утехата во индивидуалната слобода, во создавањето слобода во себе, во изолацијата и во апатијата. Затоа, неговата поезија е рационално студена и стоички мирна. Како човек кој се разочарал во животот и како пасивен републиканец, во својата поезија ги фалел минатите времиња (laudator temporis acti). Тој претставува еден вид пасивен стоички отпор кон монархијата и може да се смета за првиот предвесник на познатиот „сенаторски стоицизам“ во времето на царството.[ ] Рефлексивната лирика на Хорациј извршила големо влијание не само врз неговите современици, туку и врз поезијата во средниот и во новиот век: токму по примерот на Хорациј, Сенека почнал да пишува стоички дијатриби (разговори), само во проза, наместо во стихови; Плејадата во Франција и анакреонтичарите во Германија од него го позајмиле епикурејскиот хедонизам; класичарите ја зеле неговата „поезија на разумот“; а неговите мисли за поезијата и за драмата имале големо влијание врз Боало и биле прифатени како канони во времето на калсицизмот.[ ][ ] Неговиот придонес кон светската книжевност не е толку во оригиналноста на мотивот, туку во силата на изразот. Исто така, неговата поезија се одликува со јасна и прецизна версификација, како и со различност на јазикот. Така, во сатирите, тој употребува полународен јазик, додека во лирските песни пее со пуристичкиот јазик.[ ] Говорејќи за Хорациј, Гете вели дека тој бил над неговото време и сатирично и иронично ја прикажувал моралната расипаност.[ ] Наводи[уреди | уреди извор] 	↑ Мирослав Марковић, „Квинт Хорације Флак“, во: Хорације, Одабране песме. Београд: Нолит, , стр. - . 	↑ „objašnjenja“, во: rimska lirika. beograd: rad, , стр. . 	↑ Мирослав Марковић, „Квинт Хорације Флак“, во: Хорације, Одабране песме. Београд: Нолит, , стр. . 	↑ , , Мирослав Марковић, „Квинт Хорације Флак“, во: Хорације, Одабране песме. Београд: Нолит, , стр. - . 	↑ , , , „objašnjenja“, во: rimska lirika. beograd: rad, , стр. . 	↑ Хорације, Одабране песме. Београд: Нолит, , стр. . 	↑ Мирослав Марковић, „Квинт Хорације Флак“, во: Хорације, Одабране песме. Београд: Нолит, , стр. . 	↑ Мирослав Марковић, „Квинт Хорације Флак“, во: Хорације, Одабране песме. Београд: Нолит, , стр. - . 	↑ „objašnjenja“, во: rimska lirika. beograd: rad, , стр. . 	↑ , , Мирослав Марковић, „Квинт Хорације Флак“, во: Хорације, Одабране песме. Београд: Нолит, , стр. . 	↑ , , Мирослав Марковић, „Квинт Хорације Флак“, во: Хорације, Одабране песме. Београд: Нолит, , стр. - . 	↑ „kvint horacije flak“, во: rimska lirika. beograd: rad, , стр. - . 	↑ jevrosima drašković, „razvitak rimske lirike“, во: rimska lirika. beograd: rad, , стр. . 	↑ , , , Мирослав Марковић, „Квинт Хорације Флак“, во: Хорације, Одабране песме. Београд: Нолит, , стр. - . 	↑ Хорације, Одабране песме. Београд: Нолит, , стр. . 	↑ Мирослав Марковић, „Квинт Хорације Флак“, во: Хорације, Одабране песме. Београд: Нолит, , стр. - . 	↑ jevrosima drašković, „razvitak rimske lirike“, во: rimska lirika. beograd: rad, , стр. - . 	↑ , , Мирослав Марковић, „Квинт Хорације Флак“, во: Хорације, Одабране песме. Београд: Нолит, , стр. . 	↑ j. p. ekerman, razgovori sa geteom: poslednjih godina njegova života. beograd: rad, , стр. . Надворешни врски[уреди | уреди извор] Викицитат има збирка цитати поврзани со: horace Викиизворот на латински има изворна содржина поврзана со оваа статија: latin texts of quintus horatius flaccus Викиизворот на англиски има изворна содржина поврзана со оваа статија: english translations of texts of quintus horatius flaccus 		Енциклопедијата Британика на Викиизворот има текст поврзан со „horace“. 		„Хорациј“ на Ризницата ? 	full text (in latin): horace’s satirae (= satires), epistolae (= epistles, letters), etc. from archive.org. retrieved september . 	Дела од horace на проектот „Гутенберг“ 	the works of horace at the latin library 	selected poems of horace 	the perseus project — latin and greek authors (with english translations), including horace 	biography and chronology 	horace's works: text, concordances and frequency list 	sorgll: horace, odes i. , read by robert sonkowsky 	translations of several odes in the original meters (with accompaniment). 	a discussion and comparison of three different contemporary translations of horace's odes 	some spurious lines in the ars poetica? 		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Òbras 	 . obratges generals 	 . estudis 	 . articles biografia[modificar | modificar la font] la vida d'oraci nos es subretot coneguda per la siuena òbra, ric en informacions e considerada coma una font fisabla[ ]. d'informacions suplementàrias se trapan dins la biografia de viris illustribus (dels òmes illustres) de suetoni. familha e enfança[modificar | modificar la font] oraci es eissit d'una familha modèsta. son paire venguèt esclau dins d'escasenças mal conegudas, benlèu coma prisonièr de guèrra pendent la guèrra sociala en abc.[ ], puèi afranquit. le nom de horacius èra benlèu, coma èra d'usatge, aquel de son ancian mèstre: doas familhas romanas portavan aquel nom, coma un amic de ciceron que possedava de camps près de brundisi, es a dire près de la vila de naissença du poèta; es impossible de saber de qui lo paire èra l'esclau. tanben auriá podut èsser un esclau public de la vila de venosa[ ]. un cop afranquit, exercís lo mestièr de coactor, es a dire de caissièr de vendas a l'enquant, puèi aquel de praeco (enquentaire). possedís de tèrras, confiscadas après la mòrt de juli cesar[ ], e es pas pauvre, que pòt enviar son filh passar l'estiu dins la frescor del mont vultur[ ]. se sap pas res de la maire del poèta, tanpauc se menciona ni fraire ni sòrre[ ]. lo nom complet du poèta, quintus horatius flaccus, mòstra qu'èra de la tribú horatia[ ]. es atestat que per l'inscripcion mandada a l'escasença dels jòcs seculars organizats per august en abc.: carmen composvit q. horativs flaccvs[ ]; s'agís del cant secular. oraci naís a venosa, a las frontièras de l'apúlia e de la lucània, lo de decembre de abc vèrs tres oras del matin[n ]. quand lo jove oraci fa sos set o detz ans, son paire s'installa a roma; se sap pas s'bandona los afar per viure de las rendas de sas tèrras[ ] o se contunh sa carrièra[ ]. utiliza son temps e una bona partida de son argent a l'educacion de son filh e loi fai seguir las leissons du gramatician lucius orbilius pupillus, qu'ensenha enni, livi andronic e plan segur omèr. oraci testimònia d'aquel periòde e de sa gratitud per son paire dins las. en grècia[modificar | modificar la font] a vint ans d'edat oraci s'ana per atenas, per i persegir l'estudi del grèc e descobrir la filosofia. son paire sembla èsser mòrt abans aquela partença[ ] e es a aquel moment que comença a escriure[n ], amb al mens unes verses en grèc[ ]. estudís a l'acadèmia près d'aristos d'ascalon[ ]. oraci es encara en grècia pendent l'assassinat de juli cesar en abc[ ]. pauc après, brutus e cassius arridon a atenas e enròtlan de joves aristocratas dins lor armada; oraci obten lo grade de tribun militar en abc[ ], çò que lo fa dintrar dins l'òrdre dels cavalièrs e li assegura de privilègis a vida[ ]. pendent la primièra batalha de filipes (premièra setmana d'octobre de abc), las tropas de brutus prenon lo camp d'octavi, que de pauc se'n escapa. mas pendent lo segond combat, lo d'octobre, octavi et marc antòni son venceires. brutus se suicidís, oraci fugís. virgili (esquèrra) declamant sos verses dabans oraci (centre), vari (fond) e mecènas (drecha) per charles françois jalabert. retorn a roma[modificar | modificar la font] quand una amnistia es consedida al vencuts, oraci torna en itàlia (fin - o començament de - [ ]); sas tèrra li foguèron sasidas[ ], e pretend èsser vengut paure[ ]. pasmens possedís encara pro d'argent per crompar, vèrs abc, la carga de scriba quaestorius, es a dire del secretari al tresaur[ ]: de segur jamai daissèt sa carga, quitament se podèt, mai tard, ne far mai leugièras sas obligacions[ ]. lèu, venguèt amic amb virgili. entre - e - , virgil et luci vari ruf lo prese tan à mecènas, confident d'august, protector de las arts e letras, poèta entre temps. mecènas lo prend jos sa proteccion nòu meses mai tard[ ], l'introduguèt dins les cercles politics e literaris de pollion e messala[ ], e li ofrís una vilá en sabina[a ]. las primièras satiras son compausadas a son retorn a roma[ ] e lo primier libre de las satiras sembla èsser poblicat vèrs - o - [ ]. contunha a s'auçar socialament dins l'òrdre equèstre: après aver èsser  fach eques equo publico (cavalièr que lo caval es pagat pels fons publics) per brutus en grècia, puèi combrar la carga de scriba questorius a son retorn a roma, ven iudex selectus (jutge de patz) entre - e - [ ]. la vilá ofèrta per mecènas dona a oraci una retirada al camp apreciabla e de rendas importantas[ ]. ven plan aisit financièrament e proclama que poiriá, se volgava, se far elegir questor e venir alara senator[ ]. es dons definitivament ligat al regim. client de mecènas[modificar | modificar la font] mecènas es lo dedicatari de las satiras, dels epòdas e de las Òdas e una veraia amistat ligava ambedos òmes. l'òme madur[modificar | modificar la font] es possible qu'oraci siá estat present a la batalha d'actium en abc e es pauc après (vèrs abc) que son publicadas las epòdas, poèmas dins a dralha de l'iambograf grèc arquilòc[ ]. seguís a una data desconeguda lo segond libre de las satiras. la patz tornada amb august, es un periòde de produccion intens que se dubrís. fins a abc, se consacra a de poèmas politics e confirma atal son aprochament amb lo poder augustèu[ ]: celebracion de la mòrt de cleopatra, jòia de la desfacha dels partisans d'antòni, elògi de la reparacion dels temples per august en - [a ]. fins a abc, celèbra las victòrias d'august fòra d'itàlia. aquelas pèças, mescladas a de poèmas lirics, forman los tres primièrs livbes de las Òdas, segurament pareguts vèrs abc[ ]. lo succès es tebés[a ] e oraci ensag enseguida un genre novèl, e publica son primièr libre de las epistòlas en abc[ ]. august, tornat a roma en abc, ofrís a oraci d'èsser son secretari, pòste que lo poèta refusa[a ]. en abc, lo prince li confia l'onor de compausar lo cant secular (carmen saeculare) qu'interpretan solemnalament, a l'escasença dels jòcs seculars, ds còrs mixtes d'enfants causits d'entre l'elèit de la noblesa romana. es benlèu tanben august que li comanda de poèmas per las victòrias de tibèri e drus[a ]; aqueles poèmas son recampats amb d'autres dins un quatren libre d’Òdas que paréis entre - e - [ ]. seguisson encara las doas letras del segond libre de las epistòlas e l’art poetic, dificils de datar[ ]. morrís subte en abc, sonque unes après mecènas que, sus son lièch de mòrt, l'auriá encara recomandat a august[a ]. es dintrat al cimentèri de l'esquilin[ ], près de la tomba de mecènas. l'òbra d'oraci[modificar | modificar la font] malgrat sa granda dificultat, l'òbra d'oraci aguèt una influéncia non negligible sus la literatura latina; es admirat, citat e utilizat per fòrça autors, coma jeròni d'estridon[ ], sidòni d'apolinari[ ] o prudénci[ ], a vegadas amb malentenduts o contresens, coma ne mòstra per exemple lo desviament de la famosa devisa carpe diem, o de la tanben celèbre formula aurea mediocritas (« just al mitan coma l'aur »), tiradas respectivament de las Òdes, i, e ii, . satiras[modificar | modificar la font] saturae, las satiras, conegudas dins los manuscrits jol nom de sermones (convèrsas) son de poèmas de longor variablas en examètres dactilics, amassats en dos libres: lo primièr, de detz poèmas, foguèt publicat vèrs - , lo segond, de uèit pèças, vers abc. s'inspirant de son predecessor lucili (sègle ii abc), oraci renòva pasmens lo genre ne limitant l'extension, en s'interdisent la satira politica, e evitant de tombar dins la cruditat e la vulgaritat. per fòrça retrachs de personatges plen de vices (avarícia, glotoniá, rafinament extrèma e ridicul dins la gastronomia, libido incontrolada), oraci bastís una morala de la moderacion e desvolopa ja un tèma del just mitan que celèbra mai tard dins las Òdas e loas epistòlas. dempuèi las satiras, lo poèta es un personatge important de son òbra: lo recuèlh, ma que de donar d'elements biografics importants, ofrís un retrach d'oraci tebés, de segur ridiculizat per son esclatge o per una prostituida, mas globalament « endeçat de mancas mediocrament gravas e de pichon nombre » [a ] [ ]. los poèmas, composats sus un periòde d'al mens detz ans, testimònian de a dintrada d'oraci dins lo cercle de mecènas e permeton de sasir l'estatut social novèl qu'atal aqueriguèt[ ]. epòdas[modificar | modificar la font] interior de l'ostal d'oraci (venosa) imitadas d'arquilòc e de callimac de cirèna, las epòdas son lo segon recuèlh d'oraci. publicats vèrs abc jol títol d'iambi (iambes) amassan dètz e set pèças escrichas en distics, levat la darrièra, e utilisant l'iambe[ ]. genre del blaime, l'iambe permet a oraci d'atacar sos enemics sus de subjèctes variats: d'enemics personals, coma un poèta malvolent, las femnas en general, qu'ataca la lubricitat, e las mascas subretot, que lo personatge recurrent de canídia[ ]. lo recuèlh se plaça atal dins l'actualitat de las guèrras civilas e altèrna entre las pèças mai ancianas, que testimònian d'una vision plan escura d'aquelas guèrras interminablas, e aquelas, mai recentas, que celèbran la victòria d'actium. l'omenatge a octavi i demora discrèt, mas oraci se mòstra coma membre verai del cercle de mecènas[ ]. lo ton i es aquel de l'invectiva; l'estil es aspre e dificil; l'erotisme mai crud pòt i costejar los accents mai patriotics. Òdas[modificar | modificar la font] las Òdas foguèron publicadas en - o - pels tres primièrs libres e en - o - pel quatren. aqueles quatre libres qu'oraci comparava fièrament a las piramidas d'egipte, contenon respectivament , , e pèças, o al total   verses, que sièis son de segur apocrifs (iv, , - e iv, , - ). a lor torn saluat[ ], dins las Òdas, l'explech metric (amb realizacion de quatre tipes d'estrofas diferentas, sièis varietats de distics e tres espècias de verses emplegats sols), l'equilibri dins una armoniosa arquitectura que se desplega segon de proporcions numericas tan complèxas qu'impeccablas, la circulacion, las interconnexions, los malhums, las correspondéncias, las combinasons e las simetrias diferentas, que l'ensemble constituís una imensa e ultrasensibla cambra de resson. quand a l'incresiblas virtuositat verbala que tira de la causida e de la plaça de cada mot lo maxim d'energia possibla, impressionava friedrich nietzsche al gra mai naut per çò que novenava sa « noblesa ». mas ont oraci se subrepassa, ont merita melhor lo « laurièr delfic » (Òdas, iii, ), es dins la mestresa dels contengut. en aparéncia, pas res mai d'eteroclit que las Òdas, ont semblan interferir de biais aleatòri l'esfèra privada e la publica, las amors e la politica, lo mond grèc e lo mond latin, la mitologias e l'actualitat mai recenta, l'epicurisme menat fins al sibaritisme, e un estoïcisme agut fins l'ascetisme e à un renonçament gaireben monacal quitament abans son existéncia. epistòlas[modificar | modificar la font] l'estatua d'oraci (venosa) los epistòlas (epistulae) foguèron publicadas en - o - , puslèu qu'en - , data tradicionalament admesa, e benlèu après - pel segond recuèlh. lo primièr recuèlh compta pèças (o   verses, que set benlèu apocrifs dins la primièra pèça), lo segond pas que , mas fòrça longas ( e verses). s'i apond l'epistòla als piçards, mai coneguda jol nom d'art poetic ( verses). son escrichas en examètres, coma las satiras, e, coma elas, son de « convèrsas » d'allura pro liura. mas las epistòlas essent de letras fictivas, s'adreçan a de personas plan precisas, e le ton i es mens viu, l'estil mai destibat. la primièra espistòla del segond recuèlh s'adreça tanben dirèctament a august: o cossí tirar la coa del leon sens se far mòrdre. flor es lo destinatari de la segonda, ont oraci pausèt coma son testament espirital e la quintesséncia de sa saviesa. conviccions[modificar | modificar la font] religion[modificar | modificar la font] oraci se considerava jos la proteccion de mercuri: es el que lo fa desaparéisser del camp de batalha de filipes al biais d'un eròi omeric. filosofia[modificar | modificar la font] oraci proclama tot lo long de son òbra son independéncia al vejaire de las escòlas filosoficas: « pas cap astrenta m'astrenhiá de jutjar sus las paraulas d'un mèstre « aucune astreinte ne m'a contraint de jurer sur les paroles d'un maître[a ] ». oraci e la politica augustèa[modificar | modificar la font] se se trapa del costat que « cal pas », aqueles dels republicans de brutus, a la batalha de filipes ( abc), oraci, fasent son intrada dins lo cercle de mecènas (entre - e - ), rejonh lo camp lèu venceire d'august. tot lo long de sa carrièra, dona a l'emperaire una plaça totjorn mai importanta dins sas òbras[ ]. lo primièr recuèlh publicat, lo primièr libre de las satiras, l'ignora gaireben totalament[ ]. dins las epòdas mai ancianas (vii e xvi), oraci deplora las guèrras civilas que degalhan de contunh roma e accusaa la « colèra de destin que percaç « courroux du destin qui poursuit[a ] » los romans; sens prene partit, evita tanben de mencionar los responsables d'aqueles malastre. al subjècte dels mai recents poèmas del recuèlh, adreçats a mecènas, oraci i celèbra la victòria d'actium, mas ne menciona lo futur emperaire que de biais oblic[ ]. cal esperar lo segons libre de las satiras per qu'oraci consacre un poèma a august; dins la primièra pèça, evòca los dangièrs que mena lo poèta a investir lo camp politic, mas acaba consacrant l'emperaire coma jutge « just e fòrt »[a ] de sa produccion[ ]. los tres primièrs libres de las Òdas recampant de poèmas de caractèr subretot privat, mas la politica « s'introduch de l'exterior dins l'espaci liric calm e retirat d'oraci « s'introduit de l'extérieur dans l'espace lyrique calme et retiré d'horace ». august es, coma dins las epòdas, d'en primièr un òme d'accion: venceire de cleopatre[a ], contunhèt la conquista de l'ispània[a ]. mas oraci li balha tanben pauc a pauc una estatura d'òme d'estat[ ], « paire de las ciutats « père de cités[a ] » e òste dels dieus[a ]. la proximitat desls dos òmes se manifèsta a l'escasença dels jòcs seculars de abc: august comanda lo cant secular a oraci, que pren alara la foncion de poèta oficial[ ]. i celèbra la novèla legislacion sul maridatge[a ] e la patz augustèa. lo quatren libre de las Òdas, que paréis en abc, multiplica las referéncias a august, destinatari de mai d'un poèmas. l'elogi es sens retenguda:  « cantarai, aüros, lo retorn de cesar « je chanterai, heureux, le retour de césar[a ] ». lo darrièr testimòni de la relacion entre los dos òmas aparéis dins la primièra epistòlas del segond libre, que discuta de la plaça del poèta dins la societat: oraci i lausa un emperaire aparaire de las arts, fondator de la bibliotèca palatina e sosten de virgili[ ]. pasmens, declina l'invitacion a escriure la gèst d'august[a ] e proclama tanben son independéncia[ ]. lo trabalh del poèta[modificar | modificar la font] modèls e gosts[modificar | modificar la font] sembla que se poiriá ligar a oraci al grop dels poètas novèls coma catul, qu'admira mecènas, es lo mai grand representant; la question es disputada, e oraci sempre marquèt son independéncia al vejaire de las escòlas e dels cercles. de punts comuns amb aquel alexandrinisme roman son pasmens de notar: lo gost de las òbras cortas e ciseladas, longament trabalhadas, destinadas a un public trait. aquela caracteristica liga oraci a l'aticisme e l'opausa a l'asianisme del vièlh varron o de ciceron[ ]. representacion del poèta[modificar | modificar la font] la primièra persona es primordial dins l'òbra d'oraci; totes los genres que causiguèt daissa la plaça de causida al « ièu » poetic: l'iambe es le genre de l'invectiva personala; la satira se noirís d'elements autobiografics; la letra met en scèna son autor[ ]. lo poèta nos dona d'indicacions sus son fisic: pichon[a ], gròs[a ], sa cabeladura blanquida abans ora[a ]. tanben se dich iretge[a ] e galant, avent agut de relacions amb « mila joventas e mila jovents »[a ]. oraci es un personatge religiós. enfant, es apararat dels dieus: alara que dormissiá pel bòsc, d'aucèls venguèron lo cobrir de fuèlhas per lo traire a las « vipèras e als ors sinistres » [a ]. i a d'anecdòtas contan los miracles a que se deu la vida: un lop encontrat pel bòsc, un arbre ques casèt just a costat d'el, la batalha de filipes e la tempèsta del cap palinura capa a la batalha de naulòc[a ]. d"empuèi las primièras òbra, oraci se pench amb autoderision: pigre e malaut en viatge dins las satiras, pigre e impotant dins las epòdas, l'autocelebracion del poèta s"acompanha tanben de detalhs trivials find a dins los tres primièrs libres de las Òdas[ ]. aquò impacha pas lo poèta de proclamar son immortalitat: « acabèri un monument mai duradís que lo bronze, mai naut que la decrepitud de las reialas piramidas »[a ]. mai d'un còp, oraci fa sos adieus a la poesia. los tres primièrs libres de las Òdas se concluson sul « laurièr delfic »[a ] que corona una carrièra acabada, mas lo primièr poèma del libre iv mòstra vènus forçant lo poèta a cantar l'amor tornarmai. las epistòlas son encara l'occasion de proclamar son renonciament a la poèsia en favor de la filosofia; es pas totjorn aisit de trencar se oraci renoncia sonque a la poèsias lirica per se consacrar al genre sermo, o se se pretend amb umor renonciar als verses vers tot en escrivent[ ]. caquela afirmacion torna dins l’art poetic: « ensenharai, sens escriure pas res, ièu »[a ]. un bon poèta qu'es aquò?[modificar | modificar la font] dempuèi las satiras, oraci castiga los poètas marrits capables d'alinhar dos cents verses dins un matin, prèsts a tot per trapar un librari e plaire a la plèba[ ]. el a « lima » los sieus verses, los trabalha longament, e produch pauc. escriu pas que pels sieus amics e conselha al poètas: « te metas pas en pena d'èsser admirat per la fola, te satisfai  d'un pichon nombre de legidors »[ ]. posteritat[modificar | modificar la font] dins l'antiquitat[modificar | modificar la font] l'òbra d'oraci, e subretot los sos recuèlhs de las Òdas e lo primièr libre de las epistòlas, exercís una influéncia immediata suls poètas contemporanèus[ ]. après d'èl, fòrça poètas se proclaman « prèire de la musas »[a ]; lo tresen libre de las elegias de properci, que paréis un o dos ans après los tres primièrs libres de las Òdas, testimòniz, tot coma las metamorfòsis d'ovidi[a ], de la revendicacion a l'immortalitat del poèta ja avançada per oraci[a ]. quintilian analisi l'influéncia d'oraci segon los genres[a ]. se los epòdas pareisson èsser lo darrièr obratge del genre[ ], es evident qu'oraci participèt al novelum de la satira e de la celebritat de son creator lucili: son influéncia sus persi es determinanta[n ] e juvenal lo menciona sovent[ ]. las Òdes, elas, son un ensemble liric coma pas cap autre autor latin antic latin posterior ne compausèt; pasmens, demoran l'òbra mai celèbra e comentada del poèta. lor recepcion es de segur tibesa, mas lor qualitat suggerís a august de commandar a lor autor lo cant secular, fasent tanben d'oraci lo primièr poèta liric de roma[ ]. la virtuositat e la varietat metrica del recuèlh son celebradas[a ] e imitadas per estaci[a ] e senèca[a ]. al sègle iv, oraci inspira prudenci, que torna interpretar los tèmas oracians dins un sens crestian, e es lo modèl màger principal de las partidas versificadas de la consolacion de la filosofia de boeci (vèrs )[ ]. oraci ven lèu l'objècte d'estudis[ ]. sa virtuositat metrica ocupas una partida important del tractat de versificacion de metris de cesi bas (mitan del sègle i). los comentaris de l'òbra, coma aquel de porfirion (sègle ii o iii) es un recuèlh d'estudis variats atribuits per un manuscrit a elèni acron, o pseudo-acron, regularament copiats, e sovent quitament amb los poèmas, mòstran una activitat academica importanta e de contunh consacrada al poèta[ ] a l'edat mejana: l’aetas horatiana[modificar | modificar la font] lo cristianisme se mesfisa dels poètas pagans que la moralitat es plan luènh d'aquò qu'ensenha la teologia; sant jeròni avertís lo crestian: « quin rapòrt pòt existir entre la lutz e las tenèbras, entre jèsus-crist e belial? cossí acordar oraci amb los psalmas [...]? ».[a ]. pasmens, oraci demora un dels poètas romans mai legit de l'edat mejana[ ]. es encara present e a vegada citat al començament de l'edat mejana, per draconci e avit de viena per exemple. coma totes los autors calssics, es obliat a partir de la mitat del sègle vi[ ]. al sègle viii, es encara conegut, mas inderèctament, per alcuin, que pren lo sieus cognomen, flaccus e paul diacre. sembla que la nòva descobèrta d'oraci se faguèt a la mitat del sègle ix: se conéis sièis manuscrits d'aquel sègle, e dos cementairis de porfirion[ ]. lo poèta es de nèu citat, per exemple, per  eiric d'aussèrra, çò que mòstra una coneissença dirècta de l'òbra[ ]. citacions celèbras[modificar | modificar la font] fòrça citacions d'oraci venguèron celèbras e sembla que lor poder d'evocation participa a la cebritat du poèta, e quitament dempuèi l'antiquitat. 	« carpe diem » (« culhís lo jorn », Òdas i, , ) 	« dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. » (« es doç e gloriós de morir per sa patria. », Ódas, iii, , ) 	« in medias res » (« al mitan de las causas », art poetic, ): procediment literari que plaça lo legidor al començament de l'obratge en plena accion 	« nunc est bibendum » (« ara cal beure », Òdas i, , ) 	« sapere aude ! » (« ausa de saber ! », epistòla i, , ) nòtas e referéncias[modificar | modificar la font] nòtas[modificar | modificar la font] 	↑ l'an e lo mes son donats pel quita oraci (Òdas, iii, , ), e tanben l'ora (Òdas, ii, , ) e lo jorn per sueton (dels òmes illustres xxviii, « vida d'oraci ») 	↑ l'anecdòta de la satira i, , en preséncia de brut, foguèt de segur escricha abans la batalha de filipes en abc 	↑ foguèt comptat fins a allusions a oraci dins los verses de la primièra satira. referéncias ancianas[modificar | modificar la font] 	↑ satiras, ii, , - 	↑ dins las Òdas, respectivament i,  ; iii,  ; iii, 	↑ epistòlas, i, , 	↑ sueton, « vida d'oraci », - 	↑ respectivament Òdas, iv, e 	↑ sueton, « vida d'oraci », 	↑ satiras, i, , 	↑ epistòlas, i, , 	↑ Épodes, vii, 	↑ satiras, ii, , 	↑ Òdas, i, 	↑ Òdas, iii, 	↑ Òdas, iii, , 	↑ Òdas, iii, 	↑ chant séculaire, - 	↑ Òdas, iv, , - 	↑ epistòlas, ii, , 	↑ epistòlas, i, , 	↑ epistòlas, i, , 	↑ epistòlas, i, , 	↑ epistòlas, i, , 	↑ satiras, ii, , 	↑ Òdas, iii, , - 	↑ Òdas, i, , - et iii, , - 	↑ Òdas, iii, , - 	↑ Òdas, iii, , - 	↑ art poetic, 	↑ Òdas, iii, , 	↑ ovidi, metamorfòsis, xv, - 	↑ Òdas, iii, 	↑ quintilian, x, , 	↑ per exemple per plini lo jove, iii, letras , 	↑ estaci, silves, iv, et 	↑ seneca, agamemnon e edip 	↑ sant jeròni, lettres, xxii, }} referéncias modèrnas[modificar | modificar la font] 	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ levi , p.  	↑ perret , p.  	↑ levi , p.  	↑ davis , p.  	↑ davis , p.  	↑ levi , p.  	↑ modèl:cil, conservada al musèa dels tèrmes de dioclecian 	↑ levi , p.  	↑ perret , p.  	↑ levi , p.  	↑ levi , p.  	↑ perret , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ levi , p.  	↑ davis , p.  	↑ perret , p.  	↑ epistòlas ii, , vers - 	↑ epistòlas, ii, , 	↑ levi , p.  	↑ perret , p.  	↑ satiras, i, , 	↑ perret , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ davis , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ satiras, i, 	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ levi , p.  	↑ a. v. nazzaro, « girolamo » dans enciclopedia oraziana iii, col. - . 	↑ g. mazzoli, « sidonio, orazio e la lex saturae », dans l. cristante (ed. 	↑ m. lühken, christianorum maro et flaccus : zur vergil- und horazrezeption des prudentius, . 	↑ perret , p.  	↑ perret , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ jacques perret, article « horace », in op. cit. 	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ perret , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ perret , p.  	↑ satiras, i, , - 	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  	↑ harrison , p.  bibliografia[modificar | modificar la font] Òbras[modificar | modificar la font] 	 obratges generals[modificar | modificar la font] 	jean bayet, littérature latine, armand colin, paris, 	m. c. howatson, dictionnaire de l'antiquité. mythologie, littérature, civilisation, coll. 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venusia obitus: novembris bce; roma patria: roma antiqua officium munus: poëta, scriptor, philosophus familia genitores: unknown value; unknown value memoria sepultura: roma quintus horatius flaccus, breviter horatius, fuit illustris poeta romanus aetatis aureae litterarum latinarum. index 	 curriculum vitae 	 . ante augustum 	 . scriptor 	 . finis vitae 	 . fontes 	 opera 	 de arte et latinitate horatii 	 . exemplum artis 	 . iudicia de horatio facta 	 . de re metrica 	 . . sermones, epistulae, ars poetica (hexametri) 	 . . epodi (disticha) 	 . . carmina (versus varii) 	 aemulationes 	 . poetae quos horatius aemulatus est 	 . poetae qui horatium aemulati sunt 	 notae 	 bibliographia 	 . opera antiquiora 	 . alii libri 	 nexus interni 	 nexus externi curriculum vitae[recensere | fontem recensere] ante augustum[recensere | fontem recensere] q. horatius flaccus natus est venusiae in lucania die decembris anno sexagesimo quinto a.c.n., lucio manlio torquato, lucio aurelio cotta consulibus. pater, libertus satis dives, horatium romam ad orbilium grammaticum illustrem et postea athenas misit, ubi artibus optimis studeret. is vero, caesare occiso, brutum cassiumque auctores facinoris secutus est; postquam in proelio ad philippos facto tribunus militum meruit, romam revertit. empto autem ibidem scribae munere satis otiosus fuisse ad carmina videtur facienda. anno enim duodequadragesimo, vergilio varioque tantopere placuisse constat, ut maecenati eum commendarent, qui amicitia caesaris et familiaritate plurimum potuit. scriptor[recensere | fontem recensere] anno fere a.c.n., sermones vel satiras scripsit, lucilium sequens. primum librum, decem carmina continentem, anno , alterum, octo carmina continentem, anno fere protulit. haec carmina hexametris utuntur; forma et metro numeri autem non tam politi nec elegantes atque hexametri epici. eodem tempore atque alterum librum sermonum, librum epodon edidit, quae sunt septendecim carmina iambica carminum archilochi similia. carmina lyrica nondum scripserat, sed anno a.c.n. tres libros edidit quos nunc carmina appellamus. metri sunt aeolici, praecipue strophae alcaica et sapphica; horatius se recte dicit "principem aeolium carmen ad italos modos deduxisse" (carm. . . – ; vide infra), quod primus fuit qui totum librum numeris aeolicis faceret. tunc ad versum hexametrum revenit: primum librum epistularum anno protulit. epistulae huius libri sunt breviores quam satirae. alterum librum epistularum ultimis vitae annis protulit; duae sunt, longiores, quarum altera ad augustum, altera ad florum, scripta est. aliud carmen hexametrum, quod ars poetica et epistula ad pisones nominatur, secundo libro nonnumquam adiungitur. anno a.c.n., augustus ludos saeculares celebravit. horatius carmen saeculare scripsit, ut nobis dicit inscriptio de ludis. postea, verisimiliter anno , quartum librum carminum protulit. finis vitae[recensere | fontem recensere] "fons bandusiae, splendidior vitro" (carm. . . ): fons in sabino horatii. traditur maecenas denique horatio sabinum illud donavisse, quo pro beneficio poeta sua carmina illi dicavit; anno autem a.c.n. octavo post maecenatem, nunc amicum et patronum suum, die novembris, horatius quoque mortuus, prope maecenatem in monte esquilino sepultus. fontes[recensere | fontem recensere] de vita et factis horatii nos docent cum scripta ipsius[ ] tum suetonius, cuius descriptio exstat in commentariis ad opera horatii conscriptis. is autem, "habitu," scripsit, "corporis fuit brevis atque obesus, qualis et a semet ipso in saturis describitur et ab augusto hac epistula: 'pertulit ad me onysius libellum tuum, quem ego ut excusantem, quantuluscumque est, boni consulo. vereri autem mihi videris ne maiories libelli tui sint, quam ipse es; sed tibi statura deest, corpusculum non deest. itaque licebit in sextariolo scribas, quo circuitus voluminis tui sit ogkodestatos, sicut est ventriculi tui.'" opera[recensere | fontem recensere] libri ordine alphabetico digesti: 	ars poetica (vicifons), fere anno , vel epistula ad pisones. carmen versuum hexametrorum. 	"carmen saeculare" (vicifons), anno . carmen versuum (h.e. stanzarum sapphicarum) quod cecinerunt pueri puellaeque in ludis saecularibus augusti. 	carmina (vicifons): quattuor libri, tres anno , quartus anno editi. carmina lyrica, de amore, moribus, amicitia, aliis rebus variis. inter his notissima sunt "nunc est bibendum" ( . ), de cleopatra ab augustu vincta; "carmina romana" ( . - ), de virtutibus romanis; "exegi monumentum aere perennius" ( . ), de fama poetae; "pindarum quisquis studet aemulari" ( . ), de generibus carminorum. 	epistulae (vicifons), primus liber anno , alter postea, fortasse anno .[ ] in primo libro sunt epistulae breviores, versu hexametro, ad amicos horatii. secundus liber epistulam ad augustum et epistulam ad florum continet, quae longiores sunt quam eae primi libri; ars poetica, quamquam formam epistulae habet, non recte hoc in libro mittitur. 	epodi (vicifons), anno . sunt carmina brevia, modo iambico (etiamsi aliqua metro dactylico utuntur). 	satirae seu sermones (vicifons), primus liber anno , alter anno . carmina, versu hexametro, in quibus sunt dialogi, narrationes, fabulae. quintus e primo libro, vel iter brundisium, fabulam narrat de horatio, maecena, aliis ad brundisium iter facientibus. ultimus sermo ( . ) cena nasidieni nominatur, quod de convivia apud nasidienus rufus narrat. editio princeps operum horatii anno p.c.n. mediolani ab antonio zaroto edita est; aliae editiones in germania (anno ) et francia (anno ) sequuntur.[ ] libri ordine chronologico digesti: 	 a.c.n., sermonum primus liber 	 , epodi et sermonum liber alter 	 , carminum libri - 	 , epistularum primus liber 	 , carmen saeculare 	 , carminum liber 	 , epistularum alter liber 	 , ars poetica de arte et latinitate horatii[recensere | fontem recensere] exemplum artis[recensere | fontem recensere] quod horatius ipse de dignitate et auctoritate artis suae sentiret, carmine tricesimo libri tertii carminum exposuit. quae oda hoc loco exemplo etiam sit, quomodo horatius a poetis lyricis graecis profectus, ut poesis latinae summam excoleret perfectionem, studuerit. horatii vero carmen anno alexander sergii f. puscinius linguae quae dicitur litterariae russicae auctor maximus felicissime aemulatus est. hoc poema e versibus asclepiadeis primis vel minoribus constat, qui versus est glyconeus cum duplici nucleo (xx -uu- -uu- u-): exegi monumentum aere perennius regalique situ pyramidum altius, quod non imber edax, non aquilo impotens possit diruere aut innumerabilis annorum series et fuga temporum, non omnis moriar multaque pars mei vitabit libitinam: usque ego postera crescam laude recens, dum capitolium scandet cum tacita virgine pontifex. dicar, qua violens obstrepit aufidus et qua pauper aquae daunus agrestium regnavit populorum, ex humili potens princeps aeolium carmen ad italos deduxisse modos. sume superbiam quaesitam meritis et mihi delphica lauro cinge volens, melpomene, comam. iudicia de horatio facta[recensere | fontem recensere] marcus fabius quintilianus horatium praecipuum inter scriptores satirarum nominat (x. . ), et "lyricorum," inquit, "idem horatius fere solus legi dignus. nam et insurgit aliquando et plenus est iucunditatis et gratiae et varius figuris et verbis felicissime audax" (x. . ). personae in dialogo erasmi cuius titulus est ciceronianus, sive de optimo dicendi genere dicunt horatium "summum" poetam latinum in genere lyrico ( ), etiam "adulescens adamabam poetas omnes. verum simul atque sum horatio factus familiarior, prae hoc omnes ceteri putere coeperunt alioqui per se mirabiles." ( ) fridericus nietzsche cum "quemadmodum auctoribus antiquis obligatus sit" exposuit, "usque ad hunc diem," scripsit, "poeta nullus tam vehementer me quam horatius delectavit inde a primo quod legeram carmine. sunt autem, qui propter patrii sermonis egestatem, quod ille adeptus est, id ne velle quidem possint. carmina enim verbis quasi tesselavit, quorum cuiusque sonus locus sensus et huc et illuc abundante virtute omnia illustrat, quorum copia atque multitudo quam maxime cohibita, vis significandi quam maxime aucta est. haec omnia, inquam, vere romana sunt et nobilissima quidem. itaque ceteri prae horatio poetae nimium esse populares videntur et ex affectu tantum loquaces." de re metrica[recensere | fontem recensere] horatius (lugdunum batavorum) sermones, epistulae, ars poetica (hexametri)[recensere | fontem recensere] in satiris et epistulis horatius hexametro dactylico utitur, non, autem, eodem modo atque poetae epicae latinae hoc versu utuntur. verbum finale potest unam tantum syllabam habere, ut "hoc facit insanum: multae tibi tum officient res" (sat. . . ) vel "parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus" (ars ). multae et variae caesurae inter cola praebentur, non modo caesura mascula vel penthemimera (post hemiepes primum) sed etiam feminea (inter brevia tertii bicipis), modo homerico. caesura metrica et punctuatio rhetorica saepe non cohaerent -- saepius quam apud vergilium vel in carminibus epicis. syllaba brevis rarius potest ante caesuram stare et longa fieri, ut "qui non defendit alio culpante, solutos..." (sat. . . : syllaba finalis verbi defendit longa fit).[ ] epodi (disticha)[recensere | fontem recensere] primi epodi distichis utuntur, vel iambicis vel dactylis; metrum septimi decimi est trimeter iambicus (senarius) κατὰ στίχον. distichon primorum carminum est trimeter iambicus et dimeter iambicus. in carmine undecimo utitur horatius trimetro iambico, tunc "elegiambo," hoc est versus ex hemiepe et dimetro iambico factus. disticha carmina ad hexametrum dactylicum habent, cum tetrametro dactylico, "iambelego" (hoc est, dimeter iambicus et hemiepes), dimetro iambico, trimetro iambico. carmina (versus varii)[recensere | fontem recensere] femina et vir de musica disputantes, dicti sappho et alcaeus odi et carmen saeculare varia metra praebent, quorum paene omnia sunt aeolica.[ ] stropha alcaica saepius quam aliae formae apparuit, in carminibus, et stropha sapphica in , et in carmine saeculari. apud poetas graecos, basis aeolica unam aut duas syllabas ancipites continet; horatius autem hanc variationem supprimit. pausam fere semper in eodem loco in versu habet. poetae qui post horatium scribunt easdem regulas sequuntur (quamquam catullus versus aeolicos modo graeco scripserat). stropha alcaica apud horatium, ergo, hoc est: 	x — ∪ — — | — ∪ ∪ — ∪ — 	x — ∪ — — | — ∪ ∪ — ∪ — 		x — ∪ — — — ∪ — — 			— ∪ ∪ — ∪ ∪ — ∪ — — schema est: duo hendecasyllabi alcaici, ubi quinta syllaba, anceps apud alcaeum ipsum, est longa, et pausa sequitur; tunc dimeter iambicus et longum, et quinta syllabua, anceps in metro iambico, est longa; tunc hemiepes et bacchius, vel versus aristophanicus dactylo auctus. stropha sapphica quoque simplicius est apud horatium quam apud poetas graecos. hoc est schema: 	— ∪ — — — | ∪ ∪ — ∪ — — 	— ∪ — — — | ∪ ∪ — ∪ — — 	— ∪ — — — | ∪ ∪ — ∪ — — 		— ∪ ∪ — — vel tres hendecasyllabi sapphici, ubi quarta syllaba non est anceps sed longa, et pausa quintam syllabam sequitur, tunc versus adonius. aliae strophae versibus "asclepiadeis" dictis utuntur, qui sunt glyconei cum extensione interna. metrum primi carminis est asclepiadeus minor, hoc est glc: 	— — — ∪ ∪ — | — ∪ ∪ — ∪ — 	maecenas atavis edite regibus 	o et praesidium et dulce decus meum ... ( . . - ) pausa vel caesura semper inter choriambos stat (ubi poetae graeci quoque saepius pausam faciunt). idem metrum habemus in . (vide supra) et . . etiamsi metrum non est stropha sed stichum, dicitur "prima stropha asclepiadea." horatius stropham "sapphicam maiorem" dictam in . habet: hoc est, versus aristophanicus et versus sapphicus maior qui est hendecasyllabus sapphicus, choriambo auctus: 	— ∪ ∪ — ∪ — — 	— ∪ — — — | ∪ ∪ — | — ∪ ∪ — ∪ — — asclepiadeus maior, vel gl c, invenitur in tribus carminibus ( . , . , . ): 	— — — ∪ ∪ — | — ∪ ∪ — | — ∪ ∪ — ∪ — 	tu ne quaesieris --- scire nefas! --- quem mihi, quem tibi 	finem di dederint, leuconoe, nec babylonios 	temptaris numeros. ut melius, quidquid erit, pati,...' ( . . - ) pausa choriambos dividit. haec forma dicitur "quinta stropha asclepiadea." aliae strophae e versibus asclepiadeis factae sunt: 	glc glc glc gl ("secunda stropha asclepiadea") -- . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . 	glc glc gl^ gl ("tertia stropha asclepiadea") -- . , . , . , . , . , . , . 	gl glc ("quarta stropha asclepiadea") -- . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . pluria carmina distichis utuntur similibus eis quae in epodis inveniuntur. in carminibus . et . metrum est hexameter dactylicus et tetrameter dactylicus, ut in ep. . carmen . habet hexametrum et hemiepes. carmen . habet dimetrum trochaicum catalecticum et trimetrum iambicum catalecticum; est solum carmen horatii quod colo trochaico utitur. et in carmen . , metrum est versus archilochius et trimeter iambicus catalectus: 	— ∪ ∪ — ∪ ∪ — | ∪ ∪ — ∪ ∪ | — ∪ — ∪ — — 	— — ∪ — ∪ — ∪ — ∪ — — versus archilochius est tetrameter dactylicus et versus ithyphallicus. carmen . metro ionico utitur. vir doctus augustus meineke observavit omnia carmina horatii numerum versuum habere quod dividit quattuor. horatius numquam distichon elegiacum habet. aemulationes[recensere | fontem recensere] poetae quos horatius aemulatus est[recensere | fontem recensere] horatius dicit se lucilium in sermonibus, archilochum in epodis, sappho et alcaeum in carminibus sequi. non modo hi poetae verum etiam catullus, lucretius, pindarus in horatii operis videntur. poetae qui horatium aemulati sunt[recensere | fontem recensere] parnassus a raphael pictus: pars picturae ubi videntur poetae lyrici. vir sedens est fortasse horatius. aulus persius flaccus et decimus iunius iuvenalis satiras post horatium scripserunt. medio aevo archipoeta horatium legit et secutus est. liber decem capitulorum a marbodo redonense scriptus decem carmina continet, similia satirarum horatii. franciscus petrarca epistulam ad horatium, in metro asclepiadeo, scripsit (fam. . ). iacobus balde, conradus celtis, matthias casimirus sarbievius, necnon multi alii poetae renascentiae carmina horatiana scripserunt. ioannes pascoli saepissime de horatio scripsit, in carminibus ut fanum vacunae, cena in caudiano nervae, sosii fratres bibliopoli; verbis versubusque horatii per totum opus utitur. notae[recensere | fontem recensere] 	↑ de origine: sermonum liber primus, opus vi (s. . ) "non quia, maecenas, lydorum quidquid etruscos"; de bello civile et proelio iuxta philippos commisso: carminum liber alter, opus septimum (c. . ), "o saepe mecum". 	↑ vide nisbet in companion (ed. harrison), p. - 	↑ michael mcgann, "the reception of horace in the renaissance," in harrison, ed., companion, p. - , et lowell edmunds, "the reception of horace's odes," in davis, ed., companion, p. - . 	↑ nougaret, p. - , differentias inter hexametros horatii vergiliique explicat. 	↑ shackleton bailey conspectum metrorum dat, p. - bibliographia[recensere | fontem recensere] opera, 	editiones operum 	  : iodocus badius ascensius, ed., opera q. horatii flacci poete amoenissimi cum quatuor commentariis. parrisiis: apud ioannem parvum textus apud internet archive 	  : henricus glareanus, ed. q. horatii flacci poemata omnia. basileae: per nic. bryl. textus apud e-rara. 	  : stephan borzsák, ed. q. horati flacci opera. bibliotheca teubneriana. lipsiae: teubner. 	  : d. r. q. shackleton bailey, ed. horati flacci opera. bibliotheca teubneriana. stutgardiae: teubner. isbn . 	commentarii 	brown, p. m. . horace: satires . warminster: aris and phillips 	mankin, d. . horace: epodes. cantabridgiae: cambridge university press. 	mayer, r. . horace: epistles book . cantabridgiae: cambridge university press. 	muecke, f. . horace: satires ii. warminster: aris and phillips. 	nisbet, r. g. m., et m. hubbard. . a commentary on horace, odes i. oxonii: oxford university press. 	nisbet, r. g. m., et m. hubbard. . a commentary on horace, odes ii. oxonii: oxford university press. 	nisbet, r. g. m., et n. rudd. . a commentary on horace, odes iii. oxonii: oxford university press. 	putnam, michael c. j. . artifices of eternity: horace’s fourth book of odes. ithacae et londinii: cornell university press. 	quinn, kenneth. . horace: odes. londinii. 	rudd, n. . horace: epistles book ii and epistle to the pisones. cantabridgiae: cambridge university press. 	watson, lindsay c. . a commentary on horace’s epodes. oxoniae. 	aliae encyclopaediae 	"horace" in encyclopaedia britannica. a ed. 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(மே ) 	ஓராசு 	ஹோராஸ், ஆன்டன் வொன் வேர்னர் கற்பனையில் வரைந்த படம் 	பிறப்பு	 திசம்பர் bc வேநோசா 	இறப்பு	 நவம்பர் bc (அகவை expression error: unexpected < operator.) உரோம் 	கல்லறை	உரோம் 	பணி	கவிஞர், எழுத்தாளர், மெய்யியலாளர் 	குறிப்பிடத்தக்க பணிகள்	ars poetica 	[விக்கித்தரவில் திருத்து] ஓராசு அல்லது ஓரேசு (horace) என அறியப்படும் குயின்டசு ஓராசியசு ஃபிளேக்கசு (quintus horatius flaccus - டிசம்பர் , கிமு - நவம்பர் , கிமு ) அகசுட்டசின் காலத்தில் வாழ்ந்த ஒரு முன்னணி இத்தாலியக் கவிஞர் ஆவார். இவர் அக்காலத்தில் வெனூசியா என அழைக்கப்பட்ட இன்றைய வெனோசாவில் பிறந்தார். இது ஆபுலியாவுக்கும், லூசானியாவுக்கும் இடையில் எல்லைப் பகுதியில் இருந்த ஒரு இடம் ஆகும். ஓராசின் தந்தை ஒரு விடுதலை பெற்ற அடிமை. எனினும் ஓராசு ஒரு விடுதலை பெற்ற மனிதனாகவே பிறந்தார். ஓராசின் தந்தை வெனூசியாவில் ஒரு சிறிய தோட்டம் வைத்திருந்தார். பின்னர் உரோமுக்குக் குடி பெயர்ந்த அவர் அங்கே ஏலவிற்பனை இடங்களில் ஒரு இடைத் தரகராக இருந்தார். இதனால் ஓராசின் தந்தையாரால் ஓராசின் படிப்புக்காகப் போதிய அளவு பணம் செலவு செய்ய முடிந்தது. தொடக்கக் கல்வியை உரோமில் பெற்ற ஓராசு, கிரேக்கமும், மெய்யியலும் கற்பதற்காக ஏதென்சுக்குச் சென்றார். 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கூடுதலான கட்டுப்பாடுகளுக்கு உட்படலாம். 		தகவல் பாதுகாப்பு 	விக்கிப்பீடியா பற்றி 	பொறுப்புத் துறப்புகள் 	கைபேசிப் பார்வை 	உருவாக்குனர்கள் 	புள்ளிவிவரங்கள் 	நினைவி அறிக்கை 		 	 	 horace | the online books page the online books page online books by horace online books about this author are available, as is a wikipedia article. 	 horace: the art of poetry: an epistle to the pisos (in latin and english), ed. by george colman (gutenberg text) 	 horace: the art of poetry: the poetical treatises of horace, vida, and boileau, with the translations by howes, pitt, and soame (boston et al.: ginn and co., c ), also by marco girolamo vida and nicolas boileau despréaux, ed. by albert s. cook, trans. by francis howes, christopher pitt, and william soame (multiple formats at google; us access only) 	 horace: echoes from the sabine farm, trans. by eugene field and roswell martin field	 gutenberg text and illustrated html 	 page images at moa 	 horace, contrib.: memorial day, and other verse (original and translated) (boston: de wolfe and fiske co., c ), by helen leah reed (gutenberg text) 	 horace: the odes and carmen saeculare of horace, translated into english verse (third edition), trans. by john conington (gutenberg text) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus; mit vorzugsweiser rücksicht auf die unechten stellen und gedichte (latin text with german commentary; leipzig: f. c. w. vogel, ), ed. by karl lehrs	 page images at hathitrust 	 page images in germany 	 horace: the satires, epistles, and art of poetry of horace, translated into english verse, trans. by john conington (gutenberg text) 	 horace: the works of horace, ed. by c. smart and theodore alois buckley (html with commentary at perseus) help with reading books -- report a bad link -- suggest a new listing additional books from the extended shelves: 	 horace: ... the odes and epodes of horace, (boston, ginn & company, ), ed. by clement lawrence smith (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: (werke) / (berling, - ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: oden des horas, (pless, ), trans. by wiesner (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: oden des horaz [microform] / (pless [poland] : druck von a. krummer, ), also by oberlehrer wiesner (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: [dai libri carminum iii, .] ([n.p.] s. calderini e figlio, ), trans. by francesco cassoli (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: [oden en epoden; (leiden, e.j. brill, ]), also by w. g. van der weerd (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: [opera] (gotha, perthes, - ), also by conrad wilhelm gustav wegehaupt and emil rosenberg, ed. by k. o. breithaupt (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: [opera]; (dresdae, ), ed. by c. d. jani (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: [opera] / (berlin : weidmann, - ), also by adolf kiessling (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: [opera] / (lipsiae, ), also by franz pauly (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: [q. horatii flacci] eclogal, (londini, g. et w.b. whittaker, etc., ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: [q. horatii flacci] opera omnia. (oxonii; londini, j. parker et soc., ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: [quinti horatii flacci] opera. (londini, w. innys, etc., ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: [the first two satires or] poesyes of horace [translated into english] meeter by levvis euans schoolemayster. ([london] : imprynted at london in fletestreate beneath the conduite, at the sygne of s. iohn euangelyst, by thomas colwell, [ ?]), also by lewis evans (html at eebo tcp) 	 horace: [the] works [of horace], (cambridge [mass.], sever and francis, ), ed. by reginald h. chase and a. j. macleane (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: [the] works [of horace.] (cambridge, [mass.], j. bartlett, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: [werke] / (berlin, - ), also by richard heinze and adolf gotlieb kiessling (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: ad codices saeculi noni decimique exactum commentario critico et exegetico illustratum; (leipzig, w. englemann, - ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: algunas odas, (me xico : impr. de escalante, [cover ]), also by fr. du bner and joaqui n demetric casasus (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: algunas odas, tr. en verso castellano por joaquín d. casasus. (méxico : impr. de escalante, [cover ]), also by fr. dübner, trans. by joaquín d. casasús (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: ars poetica ... ( ), trans. by theodor kayser (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: ars poetica des horaz übersetzt und erlautert [microform], (stuttgart, liebich, ), also by theodor kayser (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: ars poetica. english (london : printed for henry herringman ..., ), also by wentworth dillon roscommon and edmund waller (html at eebo tcp) 	 horace: ars poetica. english (london : printed by i. okes, for iohn benson, ), also by ben jonson and william marshall (html at eebo tcp) 	 horace: the art of poetry of horace / (edinburgh ; london : william blackwood and sons, ), also by daniel bagot (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: the art of poetry; the poetical treaties of horace, vida, and boileau, with the translations by howes, pitt, and soame. (new york, g. e. stechert & co., ), also by albert s. cook, nicolas boileau despréaux, and marco girolamo vida, trans. by william soames, christopher pitt, and francis howes (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: the art of poetry; the poetical treatises of horace vida, and boileau (boston, ginn & company, ), also by albert s. cook, nicolas boileau despréaux, and marco girolamo vida, trans. by william soames, christopher pitt, and francis howes (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the art of poetry : the poetical treatises of horace, vida and boileau with the translations by howes, pitt, and soame / (boston : ginn, ), also by albert s. cook, nicolas boileau despréaux, and marco girolamo vida (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: art poétique. (paris, l. hachette et cie., ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: art poétique. (paris, hachette et cie, ), also by e. taillefert (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: art poétique (paris, hachette et cie, ), also by e. taillefert (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: art poétique. (paris, hachett et cie, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: art poétique ... (paris, hachette, ), trans. by bon le camus (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: art poétique. texte latin publié d'apres les travaux les plus récents de la philologie avec un commentaire critique et explicatif et une introduction (paris, hachette, ), ed. by maurice albert (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: arte poe tica de horacio / (madrid : imprenta moderna, ), trans. by dolores gorta zar serantes (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: arte poetica de horacio flacco,/ (lisboa: rollandiana, ), trans. by francisco josé freire (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: arte poetica de q. horacio flacco / (lisboa : na officina patriarcal de f. l. ameno, ), also by francisco josé friere (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: arte poética de quinto horacio flacco. epístola a los pisones. (madrid, j. pueyo, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: arte poetica; ou, epistola de q. horacio flacco aos pisoes. (lisboa, na officina de s.t. ferreira, ), ed. by joaquim josé da costa e sa (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: aulus persius flaccus, his satyres. (london : printed for w.r. and j.w., ), also by persius, t. h., and barten holyday (html at eebo tcp) 	 horace: ausgewèalte lieder des horatius in deutscher nachbildung (kempten, k. bayr. studienanstalt, ), also by albert kellerbauer (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: ausgewählte lieder des horatius [microform] / (stadtamhof : druck von j. & k. mayr, [ ]), also by alphous steinberger (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: ausgewälte lieder des horatius [microform] / (kempten : druckerei j. hartmann, ), also by albert kellerbauer (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: auswahl römischer satyren und epigramme, (stuttgart, a. krabbe, ), also by ludwig bauer, persius, martial, and juvenal (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: a book of satires / (woodstock [vermont] : elm tree press, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: bréf hórazar / (reykjavík : Ísafoldarprentsmiðja, ), trans. by jón Þorkelsson and gísli magnússon (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: brief an die pisonen; oder, beweis, dass dichten eine kunst sei; (stargard, ), trans. by gotthilf samuel falbe (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: brief an die pisonen, oder, beweis dass dichten eine kunst sei [microform]... (stargard, hendess, ), trans. by gotthilf samuel falbe (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: briefe, (leipzig, weidmann, ), also by christoph martin wieland (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: briefe (leipzig, weidmann, ), trans. by christoph martin wieland (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: briefe / (berlin : weidmann, ), also by richard heinze (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: briefe / (berlin : weidmann, ), also by adolf kiessling (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: briefe, aus dem lateinischen übersezt und mit historischen einleitungen und andern nöthigen erläuterungen versehen (leipzig, in der weidmannischen buchhandlung, ), trans. by christoph martin wieland (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: carmina; (lipsiae, in aedibvs b. g. tevbneri, .), ed. by lucian müller (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: carmina, (parisiis, apud j. barbou, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: carmina; (leipzig, teubner, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: carmina. (lipsiae, in aedibus b. g. tevbneri, ), ed. by lucian müller (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: carmina; (lipsiae, b. g. teubneri, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: carmina. (lipsiae, b.g. tevbner, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: carmina; (lipsiae, in aedibvs b. g. tevbneri, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: carmina; (lipsiae, in aedibvs b. g. tevbneri, ), ed. by friedrich vollmer (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: carmina. (chicago, t. maccoun, etc., etc., ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: carmina (berolini, apud weidmannos, ), also by martin hertz (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: carmina / (lipsiae : b. g. teubneri, ), also by lucian müller (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: carmina ... / (london : whittaker, ), also by a. j. macleane (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: carmina / (lipsiae : b.g. teubneri, ), also by lucian müller (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: carmina [microform], (amstelodami, apud fredericum muller, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: carmina, carefully revised. (montreal, armour, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: carmina. english. selections (london : printed by h[umphrey] l[ownes] for richard moore; and are to be solde at his shop in saint dunstans church-yard, in fleet-street, ), also by john ashmore (html at eebo tcp) 	 horace: carmina et epodon liber; (stockholm, p.a. norstedt, [ ]), ed. by anders frigell (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: carmina expurgata, (parisiis, barbou, ), also by joseph de jouvency (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: carmina expurgata. ab mendis denuo mundata & notis illustrata, auctore josepho juvencio. (venetiis, apus j. orlandelli, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: carmina expurgata notis jos. juventii et aliorum ... (catabrigiae, c. hilliard, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: carmina lyrica [odes and epodes]. (carolstadii, ), also by n. g. ljungberg (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: carmina; oden und epoden. (paderborn., etc., ), also by k. k. küster (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: carmina recensvit varietate lectionis et perpetva adnotatione illvstravit m. christianvs david iani ... (lipsiae, svmptibvs f.c.g. vogelii, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: carminum liber i-[iv] (london, etc., macmillan and co., - , ' ), also by t. e. page (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: carminum, liber i-iv / (cambridge, [eng.] : university press, - ), also by james gow (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: carminum liber iii. (london, macmillan, ), also by t. e. page (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: carminum, liber iv; (london, macmillan, ), also by t. e. page (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: caroli de la rue e societate jesu, idyllia. (parisiis, apud simonem benard..., ), also by charles de la rue, simon benard, louis coquin, and pierre corneille (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the causes of scotland's miseries a poem in imitation of the vi. ode of the third book of horace. (edinburgh : printed by james watson ..., ) (html at eebo tcp) 	 horace: the classical student's translation of horace; (london, longman, brown, green and longmans, ), also by henry philip haughton (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: coleccion de obras en verso y prosa / (madrid : benito cano, ), also by tomás de iriarte and virgil (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: commento metrico a xix odi di orazio flacco di metro rispettivamente diverso [microform], col testo relativo conforme alle migliori edizioni, (torino, loescher, ), also by ettore stampini (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: the complete works of horace, (london, j. m. dent & sons, ltd.; new york, e.p. dutton & co., [ , reprinted ]), also by christopher smart, wentworth dillon roscommon, and john marshall (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: the complete works of horace : the original text reduced to the natural english order, with a literal interlinear translation. (new york : a. hinds, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: da orazio e da marziale. luoghi scelti ad illustrazione del costume romano, (torino [etc.] g. b. paravia & c., [ ]), also by martial, ed. by paolo fabbri (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: daily thoughts from horace / (london : g. bell, ), also by frederick henry watkins (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: darstellung des philosophischen standpunktes des horaz. (kremsier, h. gusek, ), also by karl maier (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: de arte poëtica; ([vienna], ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: de arte poetica liber. (london, .) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: de epodo horatii cataleptis vergilii inserto / (budapestini : sumptibus academiæ litterarum hungaricæ, ), also by géza némethy (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: de horatii itinere brundisino [microform] / (freiberg : wolf, ), also by werner proessel (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: de verborum compositorum apud horatium structura: dissertatio inauguralis quam ... (halis saxonum, colbatzky, ), also by ludwig alex ferdinand teetz (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: debita flacco. echoes of ode and epode, (london, printed at the chiswick press for private distribution, ), also by edward henry pember, horace. works. selections. latin (pember) , horace. works. selections. latin (pember), horace. works. selections. , and chiswick press. prt (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: dell' arte poetica : epistola di q. orazio flacco a' pisoni / (firenze : il diaspro, [ ]), also by pietro metastasio (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: delle opere di q. orazio flacco, (napoli, dalla stamperia francese, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: delle opere di q. orazio flacco, recate in versi italiani ... ([napoli, dalla stamperia reale, ]), also by tommaso gargallo and italy) stamperia reale (naples (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: ...der einfluss der ars poetica des horaz auf die deutsche litteratur des xviii. jahrhunderts, von j. bintz. (hamburg :, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: des horatius flaccus sämmtliche lyrische dichtungen. (halberstadt, h. vogler, ), also by klamer eberhard carl schmidt (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des horaz brief an die pisonen, oder, über die dichtkunst, als einleitung in die aesthetik, für schulen und für gebildete überhaupt. (berlin, posen, bromberg, ernst siegfried mittler, ), also by august arnold (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des horaz dichtkunst / (berlin, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des q. horatius flaccus brief an die pisonen ... (lüneburg, ), trans. by constantin schmalfuss (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des q. horatius flaccus episteln / (leipzig : in der hahn'schen verlags-buchhandlung, ), also by franz ludwig carl friederich passow (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des q. horatius flaccus episteln und buch von den dichtkunst, (berlin. verlag von i. guttenrag., ), also by otto ribbeck (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des q. horatius flaccus oden und epoden. (leipzig, druck und verlag von b. g. teubner., ), also by horace. epodae and c. w. nauck (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des q. horatius flaccus oden und epoden. (leipzig, b.g. teubner, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: des q. horatius flaccus oden und epoden. (leipzig, b.g. teubner, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des q. horatius flaccus oden und epoden; für den schulgebrauch erklärt, (leipzig, teubner, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: des q. horatius flaccus oden und epoden : für den schulgebrauch erklärt / (jena : f. mauke, ), also by lobegott samuel obbarius and friedrich august theodor obbarius (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des q. horatius flaccus sämmtliche werke für den schulgebrauch / (leipzig : druck und verlag von b.g. teubner, -), also by c. w. nauck (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: des q. horatius flaccus sämmtliche werke für den schulgebrauch erklar̈t. (leipzig : b. g. teubner, ), also by c. w. nauck and g. t. a. krüger (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des q. horatius flaccus sämmtliche werke für den schulgebrauch erklar̈t. (leipzig : b. g. teubner, ), also by c. w. nauck and g. t. a. krüger (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des q. horatius flaccus sämmtliche werke für den schulgebrauch erklar̈t. (leipzig : b.g. teubner, - ), also by gustav krüger, g. t. a. krüger, and c. w. nauck (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: des q. horatius flaccus sämmtliche werke für den schulgebrauch erklärt. (leipzig, b. g. teubner, - ), also by gustav krüger and carl wilhelm nauck, ed. by georg theodor august krüger (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: des q. horatius flaccus sämmtliche werke für den schulgebrauch erklar̈t. (leipzig : b. g. teubner, ), also by c. w. nauck and g. t. a. krüger (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des q. horatius flaccus sämmtliche werke für den schulgebrauch erklärt ... (leipzig, b. g. teubner, ), also by c. w. nauck, ed. by georg theodor august krüger (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des q. horatius flaccus sämmtliche werke für den schulgebrauch erklärt ... (leipzig, b.g. teubner, ), also by c. w. nauck, ed. by georg theodor august krüger (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des q. horatius flaccus sämmtliche werke für den schulgebrauch erklar̈t ... [hrsg.] von dr. c.w. nauck ... (leipzig : b.g. teubner, -), also by c. w. nauck (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: des q. horatius flaccus sammtliche werke ...v. , : fur den schulgebrauch erklart. (leipzig, - ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: des q. horatius flaccus sämtliche werke für den schulgerauch erklärt. (leipzig : b. g. teubner, -), also by c. w. nauck (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: des q. horatius flaccus sämtliche werke. oden und epoden / (leipzig : b.g. teubner, ), also by paul hoppe and c. w. nauck (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: des q. horatius flaccus satiren, (leipzig, friedrich ludwig herbig., ), also by ludwig von doederlein and ludwig friedrich heindorf (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des q. horatius flaccus satiren, (leipzig, herbig, ), also by karl gottlob zumpt and ludwig friedrich heindorf, ed. by ernst friedrich wuestemann (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des q. horatius flaccus satiren, (stuttgart : verlag der j.b. metzler'schen buchhandlung, ), also by w. s. teuffel and wilhelm ernst weber (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des q. horatius flaccus satiren / (stralsund : in der loefflerschen buchhandlung, -), also by karl kirchner (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: des q. horatius flaccus satiren und episteln / (leipzig : b. g. teubner, ), also by g. t. a. krüger (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des q. horatius flaccus satiren und episteln / (leipzig : b.g. teubner, ), also by gustav krüger and georg theodor august krüger (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: des q. horatius flaccus satiren und episteln : für den schulgebrauch / (leipzig : b.g. teubner, ), also by gustav krüger, g. t. a. krüger, and horace. epistulae (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des q. horatius flaccus satiren und episteln : für den schulgebrauch / (leipzig : b.g. teubner, ), also by g.t.a. krüger, gustav krüger, and horace. epistulae (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des q. horatius flaccus satiren und episteln; für den schulgebrauch erklärt (leipzig, teubner, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: des q. horatius flaccus satiren und episteln für schulgebrauch erklärt von dr. g.t.a. krüger. (leipzig, b.g. teubner, ), also by g. t. a. krüger, ed. by gustav krüger (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: des q. horatius flaccus sermonen. (leipzig, b.g. teubner, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des q. horatius flaccus werke : erklärende schulausgabe / (paderborn : f. schöningh, - ), also by heinrich düntzer (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des q. horatius werke. (paderborn, verlag von ferdinand schöningh., ), also by heinrich düntzer (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des q. horazius flakkus werke (stettin, j.s. kaffke, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des qu. horatius flaccus erster brief des ersten buches. (rudolstadt, ), also by lobegott samuel obbarius (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des quintus horatius flaccus buch u ber die dichtkunst oder brief an die pisonen. (passau : pustet, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des quintus horatius flaccus buch uber die dichtkunst; oder brief an die pisonen. (passau, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des quintus horatius flaccus episteln / (halberstadt, - ), also by friedrich ernst theodor schmid (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des quintus horatius flaccus satiren; (breslau, korn, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des quintus horatius flaccus satiren / (reutlingen : j.j. mäcken, ), also by ludwig friedrich heindorf (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des quintus horatius flaccus werke, (braunschweig, f. vieweg, ), also by johann heinrich voss (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des quintus horatius flaccus werke / (braunschweig : f. vieweg, ), also by johann heinrich voss (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des quintus horatius flaccus werke / (leipzig : philipp reclam, [ --?]) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: des quintus horatius flakkus vier bücher der oden in gereimter (prenzlau, l. ragoezysche buchhandlung, ), also by karl ludwig kannegiesser (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des quintus horativs flaccus werke / (heidelberg : bei mohr und zimmer, ), also by johann heinrich voss (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: des qvintvs horativs flaccvs episteln / (halberstadt : bei c. brveggemann, - ), also by friedrich ernst theodor schmid (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: diatrivē peri tēn tinōn Ōidōn horatiou phlakkou tou lyrikou metaphrasin eis tēn hellēnikēn phōnēn. (en petropolei : alexandrou plychartou, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: dichtkunst, op onze tyden, én éden gepast, (amsterdam, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: dichtungen (leipzig, f. a. brockhaus, ), also by johann fischart, ed. by karl goedeke (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: die aufgabe der ästhetischen würdigung der horazischen gedichte [microform] / (ostern : gerloff, ), also by f. teichmüller (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: die briefe des horaz an augustus und julius florus [microform] / (erlangen : deichert, ), also by friedrich list (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: die briefe des quintus horatius flaccus / (leipzig : druck und verlag von b. g. teubner, ), also by otto keller and adolf bacmeister (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: die dichtkunst des horaz; oder, der brief an die pisonen. (halle, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: die epistel an die pisonen (über die dichtkunst) [microform] (rostock, druck von adlers erben, ), trans. by julius kipper (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: die episteln. (rostock i/m., volckmann & jerosch, ), also by julius kipper (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: die episteln des horatius flaccus. lateinisch und deutsch mit erlauterungen von f. s. felbausch. (leipzig :, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: die epistlen. (leipzig, etc., ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: die gedichte des q. horatius flaccus. (leipzig : b.g. teubner, - ), also by gustav schimmelpfeng (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: die gedichte des q. horatius flaccus, (stuttgart, j.b. metzler, -) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: die gedichte des q. horatius flaccus / (leipzig : b.g. teubner, ), also by georg schimmelpfeng and gustav schimmelpfeng (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: die horazische lyrik und deren kritik. (tübingen : fues, ), also by w. s. teuffel (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: die horazischen metren : in deutschen kompositionen des xvi. jahrhunderts : mit notenbeilagen / (leipzig : breitkopf & härtel, ), also by rochus liliencron, paul hofhaimer, ludwig senfl, and petrus tritonius (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: die horazischen metren'in deutschen kompositionen des xvi. jahrhunderts. 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(livorno : tip. di g.p. pozzolini, - ), also by pietro metastasio and juvenal (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: drei episteln des q. horatius flaccus i. . . lateinsich und deutsch (prag, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: drei episteln des q. horatius flaccus i. . . lateinsich und deutsch (parg, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: drei satiren des horaz, die erste, dritte und neunte des ersten buches, hexametrisch üebers. ... (breslau, ), trans. by karl wilhelm geisheim (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: dritte satire des zweiten buches [microform] : probe einer schulausgabe der satiren und episteln des horaz / (braunschweig : friedrich otto, ), also by g. t. a. krüger and braunschweig. obergymnasium. programm (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: dritte satire des zweiten buches; probe einer schulausgabe der satiren und episteln des horaz ... (braunschweig, friedrich otto, ), also by g. t. a. krüger and braunschweig. obergymnasium. programm (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: dritte satire lateinisch u. deutsch mit rechtfertigungen ([n.p.], ), also by c. passow (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: dritte satire, lateinisch und deutsch, (berlin, t.h. riemann, ), also by carl passow (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: echoes from horace in english verse. (toronto university press, ), also by edward douglas armour (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: echoes from the sabine farm, (new york, c. scribner's sons, ), trans. by roswell martin field and eugene field (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: echoes from the sabine farm. (new york : scribner, , c ), also by eugene field (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: echoes from the sabine farm, (chicago, a. c. mcclurg and company, ), trans. by roswell martin field and eugene field (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: echoes from the sabine farm / (new york : c. scribner's sons, , c ), also by roswell martin field and eugene field (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: echoes from the sabine farm / (new york : scribner's, , c ), also by roswell martin field and eugene field (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: echoklänge aus venusia ... ( - ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: echoklänge aus venusia; horazische dichtungen in deutscher liederform; (celle, schulze, ), also by adelbert herrmann (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: eclogae, (lipsiae, svmptibus librariae hahnianae, ), also by johann carl zeune, johann matthias gesner, and william baxter (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: eclogae : cum scholiis veteribus / (lpz. : [s.n.], ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: eclogæ, cum scholiis veteribus castigavit et notis illustravit guilielmus baxterus, varias lectiones et observationes (londini, impensis j. johnson, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: eclogae ex [q. horatii flacci] poematibus. [edited by k.g. and a.w. zumpt.] (philadelphia, blanchard and lea, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: eclogae ex q. horatii flacci poematibus. (philadelphia, blanchard & lea, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: eclogae ex q. horatii flacci poematibus. (philadelphia, blanchard and lea, ), also by a. w. zumpt and karl gottlob zumpt (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: eclogae ex q. horatii flacci poematibus. (philadelphia : blanchard and lea, ), also by a. w. zumpt and karl gottlob zumpt (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: eclogae ex q. horatii flacci poematibus. (philadelphia, blanchard and lea, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: eclogae ex q. horatii flacci poematibus [microform]. (philadelphia : blanchard and lea, ), also by a. w. zumpt and karl gottlob zumpt (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: eclogae horatianae ... ( , ' ), also by thomas kerchever arnold (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: eine auswahl horazischer oden in jambisch-rhythmischer uebersetzung [microform] / (waldenburg i. schl. [walbrzych, poland] : p. schmidt's druckerei, ), also by dr storch (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: einleitung und proben einer neuen uebersetzung der horazischen lieder [microform] / (trier : fr. lintz'sche buchdr., ), also by nicolaus fritsch (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: emblemi di q. orazio flacco / (firenze : [s.n.], mdcclxxvii [ ]), also by otto van veen and stefano mulinari (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: encore un a peu près des epîtres d'horace. (bruxelles, [ ]) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: an english paraphrase of horace's art of poetry, (new york, w.r. jenkins, ), also by abby osborne russell (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: english verse translations of selections from the odes of horace, the epigrams of martial and other writers; to which are appended a few original pieces in english and latin, ([edinburgh] priv. print. [r. & r. clark, limited], ), also by martial, trans. by hubert dynes ellis (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: epigrammata horace. english. selections. (london : printed by t.r. & e.m. :, and are to be sold by joseph barker ..., ), also by henry harflete and john owen (html at eebo tcp) 	 horace: epistel an die pisonen [microform]... (lahr, geiger, ), trans. by l. durban (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: episteln, (leipzig, ), trans. by karl friedrich rudolf passow (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: episteln in poln. metrischer übersetzung ([n.p.], ), trans. by m. motty (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: epistles and ars poetica. (oxford, etc., ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the epistles and art of poetry of horace / (edinburgh : w.p. nimmo, ), trans. by andrew wood (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: epistles book ii, and epistola ad pisones, or art of poetry. (london, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: the epistles of horace, (cambridge: at the university press, ), also by evelyn s. shuckburgh (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: the epistles of horace, (london, new york, macmillan and co., ), also by augustus s. wilkins (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: the epistles of horace / (london : macmillan and co., c ), also by augustus s. wilkins (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: the epistles of horace, book i / (cambridge [eng.] : university press, ), also by evelyn s. shuckburgh (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: epístola á los pisones, tr. en prosa, anotada y dispuesta para uso de los alumnos de segunda enseñanza (orense, a. otero, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: epistola ad augustum, (groningae, w. van boekeren, ), also by hendrik riedel (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: epistola ad augustum with an english commentary and notes; to which is added a discourse concerning poetical imitation by the author of the commentary &c on the epistle to the pisos. (london, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: epistola ad pisones / (leidae : hazenberg & socios, ), also by petrus hofman peerlkamp (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: epistolae ad pisones et augustum, with an english commentary and notes, (london, thurlbourne, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: epistulae / (london : macmillan, ), also by augustus s. wilkins (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: Épitres. (par. : [s.n.], ), also by Émile teillefert (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: Épîtres. (paris, hachette et cie, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: Épîtres. (paris, hachette et cie, ), also by e. taillefert (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: epode ii. 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(london : w. pickering, ), also by c. howes and francis howes (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: epodon liber / (london ; new york : macmillan, ), ed. by t. e. page (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: epodos : con la version literal y diferentes traducciones en las lenguas ibericas / (madrid : victoriano suarez, [ ]), also by cosme parpal y marqués (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: erste satire, (frankfurt am main, andreäischen buchhandlung, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: federici ceruti veronensis in q. horatii flacci carmina, epodos, satyras, atque epistolas paraphrasis. (veronae, : apud hieronymum discipulum, & fratres,, ), also by hieronymus discipulus and federico ceruti (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: fifty odes of horace, (san bernardino, calif., barnum & flagg company, ), also by william hathorn mills (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the first book of the odes of horace; with a vocabulary and some account of the horatian metres &c. (london, longmans, green, ), ed. by john t. white (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the first book of the satires ... (london, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the first book of the satires of horace, in english verses. with illustrations from rich's "antiquities"; a life of horace; and articles on the roman house ... and circus, (london, longmans, green, reader & dyer, ), also by anthony rich and robert millington (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: fünf oden des horaz in moderner deutscher übertragung [microform] : mit studien zu denselben und einem vorwort / (stadtamhof : druck von j. & k. mayr, [ ]), also by johann proschberger (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: gedancken von der dicht-kunst, (lubeck, in verlegung seel. j.c. schmidten wittwe, gedruckt von j.n. green, ), trans. by karl heinrich lange (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: gedichte; in den versmassen der urschrift übersetz und erläutert (stuttgart, metzler, - ), also by w. s. teuffel, w. c. weber, and gustav ludwig (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: gli epodi d'orazio (firenze, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: ...gli epodi e il carme secolare per opera de c. chierichetti e r. gatti; testo latino, traduzione poetica- traduzione letterale metrica-note. (milano, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: the hawarden horace (london : smith, elder & co., ), also by charles l. graves (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: the hawarden horace / (london : smith, elder, ), also by charles l. graves (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the hawarden horace / (london : smith, elder, ), also by charles l. graves (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: hieroglyphics, and other antiquities. in treating of which many favourite pieces of butler, shakespeare, and other great writers ... are put in a light now entirely of two hundred engravings in wood and cooper. (london, t. and j. allman, ), also by robert deverell, sophocles, terence, samuel butler, and william shakespeare (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: hints from the works and days, or, moral, economical and agricultural maxims and reflections of hesiod. to which is added praises of rural life, from horace. (new york, brentano, ), also by hesiod (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horace. (new york, harper & brothers, ), trans. by philip francis (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horace. (new york : harper & bros., ), trans. by philip francis (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horace. (new york, harper & brothers, ), trans. by philip francis (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horace, (london, w. suttaby [etc.], ), also by henry james pye, trans. by philip francis (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horace. (london, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: horace. (l, bell, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: horace, (london, longman, -), also by john eyre yonge (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: horace ... 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(st. louis, blackwell wielandy company, ), also by horace. ars poetica. english, trans. by john b. quinn (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horace, odes and epodes (boston, sanborn, ), also by gordon jennings laing, ed. by paul shorey (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horace; odes and epodes, (boston, b. h. sanborn & co., ), ed. by gordon jennings laing and paul shorey (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horace. odes and epodes; (boston, b. h. sanborn & co., [ ]), also by paul shorey (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: horace: odes and epodes, (boston, b. h. sanborn & co., ), also by paul shorey (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horace: odes and epodes, (boston : b.h. sanborn & co., ), also by gordon jennings laing and paul shorey (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horace; odes and epodes, (boston, b.h. sanborn & co., ), also by gordon jennings laing, ed. by paul shorey (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horace; odes and epodes, (boston, b. h. sanborn & co., ), also by gordon jennings laing and paul shorey (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horace; odes and epodes; (boston : b. h. sanborn & co., , c ), also by paul shorey (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horace, odes and epodes / (boston : allyn and bacon, c ), also by charles e. bennett (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horace: odes and epodes; a study in poetic word-order, (cambridge [eng.] the university press, ), also by henry darnley naylor (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horace: of the art of poetry: a poem (london, printed and sold by h. hills, ), also by wentworth dillon roscommon (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horace: quintus horatius flaccus. the letters of horace presented to modern readers, (woodstock, vt., elm tree press, ), also by john cotton dana and charles loomis dana (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: horace: quintus horatius flaccus ... the roman poet presented to modern readers; (woodstock, vt., elm tree press, ), ed. by john cotton dana and charles loomis dana (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horace. satires. 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(london, w.b. clive, [ ]), also by frank percy shipham and f. g. plaistowe (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: horace. the epistles. (new york, cincinnati [etc.] american book company, [ ]), also by edward parmelee morris (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horace, the greatest of lyric poets; (des moines, iowa [w. greenwodd], ), also by william greenwood (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horace, the odes and epodes, (london, w. heinemann; new york, the macmillan co., ), also by charles e. bennett (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: horace, the odes and epodes, (london, w. heinemann; new york, g. p. putnam's sons, [ ]), also by charles e. bennett (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: horace, the odes and epodes / (london : w. heinemann; new york : g.p. putnam's sons, ), trans. by charles e. bennett (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: horace : the odes and epodes / (new york : american book company, c ), also by edward parmelee morris and clifford herschel moore (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horace: the odes, carmen seculare, and epodes. (oxford, clarendon press, ), also by e. c. wickham (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horace; the odes, epodes and carmen saeculare, (new york, cincinnati [etc.] american book company, [c ]), also by clifford herschel moore (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: horace; the odes, epodes and carmen saeculare, (new york, cincinnati [etc.] : american book company, [c ]), also by clifford herschel moore (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horace : the odes, epodes and carmen saeculare / (new york : american book co., ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horace: the odes, epodes, satires, and epistles. 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(london, macmillan, ), trans. by robert meyrick hovenden (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: horace's life and character. an epitome of his satires and epistles. (london, macmillan, ), trans. by robert hovenden (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horace's life and character : an epitome of his satires and epistles / (london : [publisher not identified], ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horace's odes. (london, g. bell, ), also by charles w. f. cooper (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: horace's propempticon to virgil [microform] / ([chicago?] : printed at the university of chicago ppress, ), also by g. l. hendrickson and virgil (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horace's satires, epistles and art of poetry : done into english, with notes / (london : printed by m. jenour, for d. browne, and j. walthoe, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horacianas. 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(london : g. bell & sons, , - ), ed. by c. g. botting and hugh latter (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: horati carminum / (london : g. bell, -), also by h. latter and cecil g. botting (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: horati carminum : liber iv et carmen seculare / (london : g. bell, ), also by h. latter (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: horati libri ii satiram vi / (magdeburg, baench, - ), also by h. dittmar (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: horatian echoes, (boston, new york, houghton, mifflin and company; cambridge, the riverside press, ), also by oliver wendell holmes and john osborne sargent (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: horatian echoes, ([n. p.], ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: horatian echoes; translations of the odes of horace, (boston and new york, houghton, mifflin & co., ), also by james k. moffitt, oliver wendell holmes, john osborne sargent, and mass.) book producer riverside press (cambridge (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horatii bref om skaldekonsten [microform], (helsingfors, ), trans. by f. gustafsson (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: horatii carmina et epodi. ad codices saecvli noni decimqve exacta, commentario critico et exegetico, illvstrata, (lipsiae: w. engelmann, ), also by horace. epodae and franz ritter (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horatii flacci opera. (london, bell, ), ed. by h. a. j. munro, illust. by charles william king (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horation echoes; translations of the odes of horace, (boston and new york, houghton, mifflin & co., ), also by oliver wendell holmes, trans. by john osborne sargent (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: horatius' dritte satire lateinisch und deutsch mit rechtfertigungen [microform] / (berlin : t. h. riemann, ), also by c. passow (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horatius' erste satire [microform] : lateinisch und deutsch mit einigen scholien. (berlin : e. hitzig, ), also by f. a. wolf (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horatius' erste satire, lateinisch und deutsch mit einigen scholien. (berlin, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horatius flaccus. erklärt von adolf kiessling. (berlin : weidmann, - ), also by adolf gottlieb kiessling (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: horatius restitutus; (london, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horatius restitutus; or, the books of horace arranged in chronological order according to the scheme of dr. bentley, from the text of gesner, corrected and improved. with a preliminary dissertation, very much enlarged, on the chronology of the works, on the localities, and on the life and character of that poet, (london, longmans, brown, green, and longmans, ), also by richard bentley and james tate (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horatius restitutus: or, the books of horace, arranged in chronological order according to the scheme of dr. bentley, from the text of gesner, corrected and improved. / (london : printed for baldwin and cradock, ), also by james tate and richard bentley (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horatius restitutus; or the books of horace arranged in chronological order according to the scheme of dr. bentley, from the text of his second edition in , and the common readings subjoined; with a preliminary dissertation on the chronology and the localities of that poet. (cambridge, printed by j. smith ... for j. & j.j. deighton, ), also by james tate and richard bentley (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horatius' vierte satire [microform] : lateinisch und deutsch / (berlin : t.h. riemann, ), also by franz passow (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horativs. (lvgdvgni, apud haeredes gvillelmi roville, svbscvto verieto., ), also by aldo manuzio and marc-antoine muret (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horats lyriske digte; (kjøbenhavn, gyldendalske boghandels forlag (f. hegel & søn), ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: horaz; (gotha, ettinger, ), ed. by jacob friedrich schmidt (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horaz : auswahl für den schulgebrauch / (berlin : weidmann, ), also by karl paul schulze (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: horaz : auswahl für den schulgebrauch / (berlin : weidmannsche, ), also by karl paul schulze (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: horaz. für den schulgebrauch, (bielefeld, velhagen & klasing, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: horaz' iamben- und sermonendichtung vollständig in heimischen versformen verdeutscht von karl staedler. (berlin, weidmann, ), also by karl staedler (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: horaz in der lederhos'n, (münchen, j. lindauersche buchhandlung, [ ]), ed. by eduard stemplinger (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: horaz' lyrische gedichte. (strassburg, strassburger druckerei und verlagsanstalt, vorm. r. schultz u. comp., ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: horaz' lyrische gedichte [microform]. 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(mainz, in der kurfürstlichen privilegirten universitaetsbuchhandlung, ), also by michael engel (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horazens episteln : lateinisch und deutsch mit erläuterungen / (leipzig : b.g. teubner, - ), also by ludwig von doederlein (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horazens oden, (berlin, sandersche buchhandlung, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horazens oden, (stuttgard, in der cottaischen buchhandlung, ), also by joseph nürnberger (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horazens oden, (berlin, j.d. sander, ), also by karl wilhelm ramler (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horazens ofellus. [microform] : lateinisch und deutsch mit kritischen und ërlauternden bemerkungen : einladungsschrift ... / (stralsund : in der königl. regierungs-buchh., ), also by carl kirchner (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horazens satiren ... (leipzig, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horazens satiren / (leipzig : in der weidmannischen buchhandlung, ), also by christoph martin wieland (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horazens satiren : aus dem lateinischen übersetzt und mit einleitungen und erläuternden anmerkungen versehen / (leipzig : in der weidmannischen buchhandlung, ), also by christoph martin wieland (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horazens satiren, aus dem lateinischen übersetzt und mit einleitungen und erläuternden anmerkungen versehen von c.m. wieland ... (leipzig, in der weidmannischen buchhandlung, ), also by christoph martin wieland (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horazens satiren : lateinisch und deutsch / (leipzig : b. g. teubner, ), also by ludwig von doederlein (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horazens satyren / (leipzig : bey weidmanns erben und reich, ), also by christoph martin wieland (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horazens satyren : aus dem lateinischen übersetzt und mit einleitungen und erläuternden anmerkungen verschen / (wien : f. haas, ), also by christoph martin wieland (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: horazische lieder und briefe, (gotha, f. a. perthes, ), trans. by friedrich schultess (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: horazische oden des . u. . buches in freier nachdichtung [microform] / (pless [poland] : druck von a. krummer, ), also by oberlehrer wiesner (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: horazische oden in deutscher nachbildung [microform] / (stade : druck von a. pockwitz, [ ]), also by julius bartsch (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: the i and ii books of the odes of horace, tr. ... ([n.p.], ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: icarian flights; translations of some of the odes of horace, (london, john lane; new york, john lane company, ), trans. by walter herries pollock and francis burdett money-coutts (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: imitations and translations from the ancient and modern classics, together with original poems never before published. (london, longman, hurst, rees. and orme, ), also by john cam hobhouse broughton, juvenal, and george gordon byron byron (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: in lust un leed : plattdeutsche gedichte nebst nachdichtungen zu horaz und scenen aus homer / (wismar : hinstorff'sche hofbuchhandlung verlagsconto, ), also by felix stillfried and homer (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: interpretations of horace by the late william medley, m. a.; (london, new york [etc.] h. frowde, [ ]), also by william medley, ed. by george watson macalpine and john green skemp (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: iz druge knjige horatijevih satira , , i sat.; (zadar, ), trans. by tomo brajković (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: izbrannyi︠a︡ ody gorat︠s︡īi︠a︡ / (moskva : tip. t-va i.d. sytina, ), trans. by a. n. popov (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: karl wilhelm ramlers oden aus dem horaz. (berlin, c.f. voss, ), also by karl wilhelm ramler (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: kniga gorat͡sīi͡a flakka desi͡atʹ pisem pervoī knigi : perevedeny s latinskikh stikhov na ruskīe i primi͡echanīi͡ami izʺi͡asneny / (v sanktpeterburgi͡e : pri imperatorskoĭ akademīi nauk, ), also by antiokh dmitrievich kantemir (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: kuintosi orateay pʻlakkosi aruest kʻertʻoghakan / (venetik : i vans srboyn ghazaru, ), also by arsēn komitas bagratuni (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: kwinta horacyusza flakka ... list do pizonów (o sztuce poetyckiej; (złoczów, ), trans. by b. dobrzański (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: la doctrine des moeurs : tiree de la philosophie des stoiques: representee en cent tableaux. et expliquee en cent discours pour l'instruction de la ieunesse. au roy. (a paris : de l'imprimerie de louys seuestre, ruë de meurier, prés sainct nicolas du chardonnet, mdcxlvi [ ]), also by otto van veen, former owner. iu-r la trémoille family, emma hamilton, louis sevestre, king of france louis xiv, queen anne, jules mazarin, françois tristan l'hermite, pierre daret, and m. le roy gomberville (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: la poetica di q. orazio flacco / (torino : carlo clausen, ), also by giacomo giri (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: lambini q. horativs flaccvs, ex fide, atqve avctoritate complvrivm librorvm manvscriptorvm, opera dionysii lambini monstraliensis. (lvtetia, apud bartholomaeum maceam, in nonte d. haliarii, sub scuto britanniae, , ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: l'arte poetica; (milano, etc., ), also by augusto mancini (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: l'arte poetica di q. orazio flacco, (torino, ermanno loescher, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: l'arte poetica di q. orazio flacco / (torino : e. loescher, ), also by g. b. bonino (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: las poesías de horacio; (madrid, j. cuesta, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: las poesías de horacio, (paris, v. salvá, ), also by javier de burgos (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: las poesías de horacio / (madrid : imprenta de collado, - ), also by javier de burgos (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: le liriche di orazio. (torino, g. chiantore, successore e. loescher, ), also by vincenzo ussani (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: le liriche di orazio / (torino : e. loescher, - ), also by vincenzo ussani (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: le odi di orazio / (genova : tipografia ferrando, ), also by v. serra (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: le odi di q. orazio flacco, (torino, g.b. paravia, ), trans. by enrico ottino (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: le odi di q. orazio flacco / (torino : g.b. paravia, ), also by enrico ottino (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: le odi di quinto orazio flacco (catanzaro, ), trans. by giovanni cristiani (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: le odi e gli epodi; commento ad uso delle scuole [di] pietro rasi. (milano, remo sandron, ), also by pietro rasi (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: le opere di q. orazio flacco. (venezia, nella stamperia tosi, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: le satire ... (siena, nella stamperìa di a. bindi, ), also by francesco corsetti (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: le satire di orazio, (napoli, f. perrella, [ ]), ed. by vincenzo ussani (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: le satire di orazio (torino, chiantore, ), ed. by remigio sabbadini (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: le satire di orazio / (torino : g. chiantore, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: le satire di orazio / (torino : e. loescher, ), also by remigio sabbadini (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: le satire d'orazio / (padova, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: le satire e le epistole (torino [etc.] g.b. paravia e comp., [ ]), also by enrico ottino (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: le satire e le epistole / (milano : r. sandron, ), also by pietro rasi (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: le satire e le epistole di q. orazio flacco; (torino, g.b. paravia, ), ed. by enrico ottino (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: les idées morales d'horace. (paris, librairie bloud, ), also by victor giraud (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: les œeuvres d'horace, poëte latin du siècle d'auguste. odes--satires--épitres, (paris, librairie des bibliophiles, ), trans. by jules gabriel janin (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: les oeuvres d'horace / (paris : hachette, ), also by jules gabriel janin (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: les oeuvres d'horace odes-satires-èpitres. (paris, librairie des bibliophiles, ), trans. by jules janin (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: les poësias, (paris, chez davidtz, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: les poësies d'horace, (a paris, par la compagnie des libraires, ), trans. by noël etienne sanadon (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: les poésies d'horace, (avignon, chaillot, ), trans. by charles batteux (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: les poësies d'horace ; traduites en françois. (paris : desaint, ), trans. by charles batteux (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: les poësies d'horace ; traduites en francois, avec des remarques et des dissertations critiques, par le r. p. sanadon, de la compagnie de jesus. (a amsterdam : arkstee et merkus, ), also by jean bonhier and noël étienne sanadon (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: les quatre poétiques: d'aristote, d'horace, de vida, de despréaux, (à paris, chez saillant & nyon, ), also by nicolas boileau despréaux, marco girolamo vida, and aristotle, ed. by charles batteux (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: les trois satiriques latins (bruxelles, wouters, ), also by juvenal, persius, and louis vincent. ed. and tr raoul (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: les trois satiriques latins traduits en vers français. (bruxelles, wouters, raspoet et cie, ), also by persius and juvenal, trans. by louis vincent raoul (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the letters of horace presented to modern readers, (woodstock, vt. : the elm tree press, ), also by john cotton dana and charles loomis dana (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: levelei. (pesten, a' magyar tudós társaság költségével, ), ed. by janos kis (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: lieder. (halle, buchhandlung des waisenhauses, ), also by wilhelm osterwald and moriz haupt (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: lieder und briefe, (gotha, ), also by friedrich hermann albert schultess (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: loisirs d'une militaire; ou, traduction en vers français d'une partie des odes d'horace, avec le texte en regard, et la traduction en prose de mm. campenon et deprès, (paris, didot, ), trans. by auguste nicolas le noir (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: a long journey and a short one / (woodstock, vt. : the elm tree press, ), also by charles l. dana, john cotton dana, and charles loomis dana (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: l'opere d'oratio [in latin] ... commentate da giovanni fabrini da fighine in lingua volgare toscana. (venetia, appresso g.b. brigna, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: l'opere d'oratio, poeta lirico, / (in venetia : appresso gli heredi de marchiò sessa, ), also by melchiorre sessa and giovanni fabrini (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the lyric pieces of horace dispos'd according to chronologic order / (dublin : a. reilly, -), also by noël etienne sanadon (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the lyric works of horace, / (philadelphia: : printed by eleazer oswald, at the coffee-house., m,dcc,lxxxvi. [ ]), also by john parke, horace. carmen saeculare, and david french (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the lyric works of horace : translated into english verse : to which are added, a number of original poems / (philadelphia : printed by eleazer oswald, ), also by eleazer. book producer oswald and john parke (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: a lyrica de q. horacio flacco, poeta romano; (lisboa, na impressam regia, ), trans. by antonio ribeiro dos sanctos (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: a lyrica de q. horacio flacco, poeta romano, (lisboa, na impressam regia, ), also by antónio ribeiro dos santos (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the lyrics of horace : being the first four books of his odes / (london : longman, hurst, rees, orme, and brown, ), also by francis wrangham (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: massime raccolte e confrontate con quelle della maggior parte dei classici greci, latini ed. italiani da guglielmo capozzo. (palermo, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: maximes de morale, tirées des poësies d'horace et réduites en forme de jeu. 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(chicago, b. h. sanborn, pittsburgh, university of pittsburgh press, , ), ed. by paul shorey (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the odes and epodes, (london, w. heinemannn, ), also by horace. epodae, horace. epodi. english & latin, and charles e. bennett (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: the odes and epodes, (cambridge, harvard university press, ), also by horace. epodae. english & latin, trans. by charles e. bennett (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: odes and epodes. ([pittsburgh] university of pittsburgh press, c ), also by gordon jennings laing and paul shorey (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: odes and epodes, (boston, allyn and bacon, [c ]), also by john carew rolfe and charles e. bennett (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: odes and epodes. 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(london, printed for j. and r. tonson, ), trans. by thomas creech (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the odes, satyrs, and epistles of horace / (london, printed for j. tonson in the strand, ), trans. by thomas creech (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: odes. specimen of an attempt to give a closer english verse translation. (london, ), also by j. j. lonsdale (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: odes. with a vocabulary and some account of the horatian metres etc., (london, etc., , - ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: odi ed epodi; (zena, a. donath, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: odi, epistole, satire, (castello, s. lapi, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: ody kvinta goratsiia flakka : v chetyrekh knigakh / (sanktpeterburg : v tip. koroleva, ), also by a. a. fet (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: oeuvres, (amsterdam, j. wetstein & g. smith, ), also by p. sanadon and m. dacier (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: Œuvres complètes. (paris, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: Œuvres complètes d' horace / (paris : c. l. f. panckoucke, ), also by c. l. f. panckoucke (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: oeuvres completes d'horace, (paris, garnier frères, [ ]), also by hippolyte rigault and felix lemaistre (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: Œuvres completes d'horace, (paris, dubochet, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: oeuvres complètes d'horace; (paris, firmin, ), also by ulysse françois ange de seguier (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: oeuvres complètes d'horace. (paris, dalibon, ), also by n. l. achaintre, trans. by charles batteux (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: oeuvres complètes d'horace / (paris ; lyon : cormon et blanc, ), also by jean baptiste monfalcon (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: oeuvres completes d'horace / (paris : janet et cotelle, ), also by p. daru (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: oeuvres completes d'horace / (paris : c.l.f. panckouke, editeur, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: oeuvres completes d'horace, v. en vers (paris, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: oeuvres completes d'horace, de juvénal, de perse, de sulpicia, de turnus, de catulle, de properce, de gallus et maximien, de tibulle, de phèdre et de syrus. (paris, j.j. dubochet et compagnie, ), also by phaedrus. fabulae. french & latin. , sextus. elegiae. french & latin. propertius, tibullus. elegiae. french and latin, f. arnaud, f. génin, henri joseph guillaume patin, syrus publilius, th cent maximianus, gaius cornelius gallus, gaius valerius catullus, turnus, sulpicia, persius, and juvenal, ed. by d. nisard, trans. by claude jules fleutelot, théophile charles Étienne baudement, louis puget, pierre jacques rené denne-baron, ancien é;ève de l'ecole normale joguet, ferdinand collet, jean jacques courtaud-divernéresse, auguste nisard, théodore guiard, and ancien élève de l'École normale chevriau (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: oeuvres complètes d'horace par ordre de production. (paris, guiraudet et jouaust, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: oeuvres complètes d'horace parordre de production. (paris, f. didot frères, ), trans. by louis goupy (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: Œuvres de horace / (paris : .a. lemerre, ), also by leconte de lisle (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: oeuvres de horace : traduction nouvelle / (paris : a. lemerre, ), also by leconte de lisle and horace. works. (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: oeuvres d'horace. (paris, charpentier, ), ed. by henri joseph guillaume patin (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: oeuvres d'horace. (paris, librairie des bibliophiles, ), also by victor de laprade, trans. by charles chautard (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: oeuvres d'horace, (paris, levrault, schoell et ce., - ), trans. by pierre-antoine-noël-bruno daru (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: oeuvres d'horace; (paris, g. charpentier et cie., ), ed. by henri joseph guillaume patin (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: oeuvres d'horace / (paris : garnier, ), also by a. waltz (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: oeuvres d'horace / (paris : bibliothèque-charpentier, [ --]), also by m. patin (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: oeuvres d'horace; ed. classique ... (paris, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: oeuvres d'horace : en latin / (a amsterdam : chez j. wetstein & g. smith, ), also by noël étienne sanadon and andré dacier (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: oeuvres d'horace : en latin et en françois, avec des remarques critiques et historiques / (a amsterdam : chez les freres wetstein, ), also by andré dacier (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: oeuvres d'horace en latin et francois, avec des remarques critiques et historiques par monsieur dacier, ... (paris, j.b. christophe ballard, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: Œuvres d'horace: odes, épodes, chant séculaire; (paris, delalain, ), also by m. cournand (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: Œuvres d'horace : text latin : publiées avec une étude biographique et lettérataire ... / (paris : hachette, ), also by paul lejay and frédéric plessis (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: Œuvres d'horace : texte latin / (paris, librairie hachette, ), also by frédéric edouard plessis and paul lejay (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: Œuvres d'horace : texte latin : publiées avec une étude biographique et littéraire, une notice sur la métrique et la prosodie dans les odes et Épodes ... / (paris : librairie hachette, [ ]), also by paul lejay and frédéric plessis (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: oeuvres d'horace. texte latin publiées avec une étude biographique et littéraire, une notice sur la métrique et la prosodie dans les odes et epodes, des notes critiques, un index des noms propres et des notes explicatives (paris, hachette, ), also by frederic edouard plessis and paul antoine augustin lejay (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: oeuvres d'horace. texte latine avec un commentaire critique et explicatif des introductions et des tables (paris, librairie hachette, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: oeuvres lyriques d'horace, (paris, f. didot, ), trans. by gabriel de nattes (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: of the art of poetry, in english numbers, with an attempt to explain the more difficult and material passages in a few notes; (london, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: ofellus ii. b. . satire. lat. u. deutsch mit anmerk. ([n.p.], ), also by c. kirchner (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: on the tibur road; a freshman's horace, (princeton : princeton university press, ), also by george frisbie whicher and george meason whicher (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: on the tibur road : a freshman's horace / (princeton : princeton university press, ), also by george frisbie whicher and george meason whicher (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: oodit, karmen-seekulaare ja epoodit (in finnish), trans. by adam leino (gutenberg ebook) 	 horace: opera, (oxonii, impensis bliss et baxter; londini, f.c. et j. rivington [etc.], ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera. (lipsiae, svmtibvs s.l. crvsii, - ), ed. by christian david jani (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera. (parisiis, excudebat f. leonard, ), also by louis desprez (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera. (bostoniæ, b.b. mussey, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera. (londini, f. & c. rivington, etc., ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera. (londini, impensis f.c. & j. rivington [etc.], ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera. (hagae comitum, apud petrum van thol, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera; (manhemii, sumtu t. loeffleri, ), also by frid. henr bothe (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera. (lipsiae, sumtibus et typis c. tauchnitii, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera: (lipsiae, apud s. hirselium, ), also by mauricius hauptius (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera. (londini, kegan paul, trench & soc., ), also by francis warre cornish (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: opera, (lipsiae, b. g. tevbner, - ), also by alfred holder, ed. by otto keller (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: opera; (neapoli, apud fratres raymundos, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera. (lipsiae, sumtibus et typis c. tauchnitii, ), also by karl hermann weise (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera, (philadelphiæ, impensis m. carey, et t. et g. bradford. fry et kammerer, typographi, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera, (london, macmillan & co.; new york, the macmillan co., ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera. (lipsiae, ), also by georg aenotheus koch (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera, (mvtinae, sarasino, ), ed. by ettore stampini (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: opera. (londini, apud joannem murray, ), ed. by henry hart milman (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera, (philadelphiae, impensis w. poyntell, ), also by andré dacier and louis desprez (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera, (oxonii, e typographeo clarendoniano, [pref. ]), also by h. w. garrod and e. c. wickham (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: opera, (glasguae, j. mundell, [etc., etc.], ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera, (edinburgi, apud mundell, doig, et stevenson; londini, apud t. payne & g.h. lunn, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera. (lipsiae, sumtibus & typis car. tauchnitii, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera, (london, longman, rees, orme, and co., ), ed. by henry pemble and friedrich wilhelm doering (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera, (lipsiae : grusii, ), also by christoph wilhelm mitscherlich (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera. (leipzig, b.g. teubner, ), also by alfred theophil holder and otto keller (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: opera. (new york, appleton, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera. (paris, belin, ), ed. by charles aubertin (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: opera / (londini : impensis, c.bathurst [etc.], ), also by louis desprez and andré dacier (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera / (bostoniæ : hillard, gray, , c ), ed. by benjamin a. gould (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera / (londini : harding, mavor, et lepard, ), also by johann matthias gesner (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera / (lipsia : teubner, - ), also by otto keller and alfred holder (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera / (oxonii : e typographeo clarendoniano, ), also by heathcote william garrod and e. c. wickham, ed. by h. w. garrod and e. c. wickham (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: opera / (oxonii : e typographeo clarendoniano, ), also by h. w. garrod and e. c. wickham (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: opera / (londini : kegan paul, trench & soc, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: opera / (oxonii : e typographeo clarendoniano, [praef. ]), also by e. c. wickham (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: opera / (leipzig : insel verlag, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: opera [microform]; the works of horace, with english notes original and selected.../ (london: griffin, [ ?]), ed. by joseph currie (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera a mauricio hauptio recognita. (lipsiae : apud s. hirzelium, ), also by johannes vahlen and moriz haupt (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: opera, accedunt clavis metrica et notae anglicae ... (boston, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: opera, accedunt clavis metrica et nota︠e︡ anglica︠e︡ juventuti accomdata︠e︡, (bostonia︠e︡, hilliard, gray et soc., ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera : accedunt clavis metrica et notæ anglicæ juventuti accommodatæ / (bostoniæ : hilliard, gray, ), also by benjamin apthorp gould (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera, accedunt clavis metrica et notæ anglicæ juventuti accomodatæ, (bostoniæ, hilliard, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera. accedunt clavis metrica et notae anglica︠e︡. juventuti accomodata︠e︡. (bostonia︠e︡, b.b. mussey, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera ad examplar recensionis bentleianæ plerumque emendata et brevibus notis instructa. (cantabrigiæ, apud j. deighton et filios; [etc., etc.], ), ed. by thomas kidd and richard bentley (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera ad fidem editionum optimarum castigata. (etonae, pote & williams, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera ad lectiones probatiores diligenter emendata, et interpunctione nova saepius illustrata / (edinburgi : veneunt apud j. anderson, ), also by john hunter (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera : ad lectiones probatiores diligenter emendata, et varietate lectionis et notulis instructa / (andreapoli : in aedibus academicis excudebat jacobus morison, academiae typographus, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera : ad mss. codices ... plvrimis in locis emendavit notisque illvstravit ... / (romae : franciscvs bovrlie, ), ed. by carlo fèa (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera : ad mss. codices vaticanos, chisianos, angelicos, barberinos, gregorianos, vallicellanos, aliosque, plurimis in locis emendavit ... / (heidelbergae : a. osswald, ), also by friedrich heinrich bothe and carlo fèa (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera : ad mss. codices vaticanos, chisianos, angelicos, barberinos, gregorianos, vallicellanos, aliosque, plurimis in locis emendavit, notisque illustravit praesertim in iis, quae romanas antiquitates spectant / (heidelbergae, etc. : [s.n.], ), also by carlo fea and friedrich heinrich bothe (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera : ad mss. codices vaticanos, chrisianos, angelicos, barberinos, gregorianos, vallicellanos, aliosque, plurimis in locis emendavit ... / (heidelbergae : a. oswald, ), also by friedrich heinrich bothe and carlo fèa (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera. ad optima exemplaria recognovit et in usum scholarum edidit georg Ænotheus koch. (lipsiæ, sumptibus philippi reclam jun., [ ]), also by georg Ænotheus koch (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera, ad optimas editiones collata : (biponti, ex typographia societatis, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera : ad praestantium librorum lectiones / (lipsiae : sumptibus o. holtze, ), also by c. h. weise (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: opera cum notis gallicis... (parisiis, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera, cum scholiis veteribus castigavit, (edinburgi : mundell, doig, et stevenson, ), also by johann carl zeune, gesner johann matthias, and william baxter (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera, cum selectis scholiis et observationibus baxteri, gesneri, et zeunii. (londini, impensis geo. b. whittaker, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera cum selectis scholiis et observationibus baxteri, gesneri et zeunii ... (londini, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera expurgata, notis anglicis illustrata quibus praefixum syntagma prosodiale, (philadelphia, impensis s.w. conrad, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera; illustravit christ. guil. mitscherlich ... (lipsiae, s. lebrecht, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera ... illustravit ludovicus desprez ... ([n.p.], ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera. interpretatione et notis illustravit ludovicus desprez. (philadelphia︠e︡, j. allen, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera, interpretatione et notis illustravit ludovicus desprez ...huic editioni accessere vita horatii cum dacerii notis. (londini, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera omnia. (oxonii, etc., j.h. et j. parker, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera omnia. (oxonii, j.h. parker, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera omnia. (oxonii; londini, j. parker et soc., ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera omnia. (bonnae, sumptibus a. marci, ), ed. by wilhelm dillenburger (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera omnia. (london, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera omnia, (london, longman and co., etc., etc., ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera omnia; (lipsiae, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera omnia. (bonnae, sumptibus adolphi marci, ), also by wilhelm dillenburger (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera omnia. (new york, harper & brothers, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera omnia; (lipsiae, sumptibus librariae hahnianae, - . [v. , ' ]), also by ferdinand gustav regel and friedrich wilhelm doering (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera omnia; (london, whittaker, ), also by george long and a. j. macleane (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: opera omnia. (novi eboraci, apud harperos, fratres, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: opera omnia (cantabrigiae, deighton, bell et soc., etc., etc., ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: opera omnia, (novi eboraci, apud harperos fratres, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: opera omnia. (novi eboraci, apud harperos fratres, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera omnia. (lipsiae, teubneri, ), ed. by johann christian jahn (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera omnia. (bonnae, sumptibus a. marci, ), ed. by wilhelm dillenburger (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: opera omnia ... ( ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera omnia / (lipsiae : hahn, -), also by f. w. döring (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: opera omnia / (london : george bell & sons, ), also by george long and arthur john maclean (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: opera omnia [microform] / (lipsiae, sumtibus librariae hahnianae, - ,[v. , ]), also by f. w. döring, ed. by ferdinand gustav regel (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera omnia [microform], ex recensione gvilielmi bravnhardi ... (lipsiae, svmptibvs librariae navokianae, - ), ed. by wilhelm braunhard (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera omnia, ad optimorum exemplarium fidem recensitus. (edinburgi, j. dickson et c. elliot, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera omnia cum indicibus locupletissimis, (glasguae, a. et j.m. duncan, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera omnia curis secundis emendavit (parisiis, apud lefèvre, ), also by jean augustin amar du rivier (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera omnia, ex recensione a. j. macleane. (new york, harper & brothers, [ ?]), also by arthur john macleane (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera omnia ex recensione a.j. macleane. (new york, harper & brothers, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera omnia ex recensione a.j. macleane. (novi eboraci, apud harperos fratres, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: ...opera omnia ex recensione joannis casparis orellii. (parisiis : edidit lefrevre veneunt apud garnier fratres, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera omnia illustravit frid. guil. doering. (londini, sumtibus priestleii, ), ed. by f. w. döring (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera omnia poetica. (halae, impensis orphanotrophei, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera omnia, recensuit et illustravit fridericus guil. doering. (lipsiae, librarie hahnianae, - [v. , ]), also by friedrich wilhelm doering (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera omnia. recognovit et commentariis in usum scholarum instruxit guil. (bonnae, sumptibus adolphi marci, ), also by wilhelm dillenburger (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera omnia: the works of horace (oxford, clarendon press, -), also by e. c. wickham (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera omnia: the works of horace; (oxford, clarendon press, -), also by e. c. wickham (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: opera omnia, works ; (oxford, clarendon press, - ), also by e. c. wickham (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: opera; recensuerunt o. keller et a. holder. (lipsiae, b. g. teubner, ), also by otto keller, ed. by alfred theophil holder (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera recensvervnt o. keller et a. holder. (lipsiae : b. g. tevbner, - ), ed. by alfred holder and otto keller (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: opera recensvervnt o. keller et a. holder ... (lipsiae, b.g. tevbner, - ), also by otto keller, ed. by alfred theophil holder (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: opera scholarum in usem ediderunt o. keller et j. haeussner. (vindobonae, f. tempsky, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: opera; the works of horace. (london, rivingtons, ), also by james mccall marshall (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera; the works of horace: the odes on the basis of anthon: the satires and epistles by mccaul: (dublin : cumming and ferguson, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opera with annotations in english ... (london, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opere (venezia, tip. di g. antonelli, ), also by tommaso gargallo (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opere (genova, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opere del signor abate pietro metastasio ... (parigi, vedova herissant, - ), also by pietro metastasio (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opere di pietro metastasio. (firenze : gabinetto di pallade, ), also by pietro metastasio, ranieri de calzabigi, sebastiano d'ayala, juvenal, and mauro boni (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opere di pietro metastasio. (padova, g. foglierini, - ), also by pietro metastasio, ranieri de calzabigi, sebastiano ayala, juvenal, and mauro boni (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: opere purgate per uso delle scuole, (prato, tipografia aldina, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: paraphrase da epistola aos pisões, commummente denominada arte poetica de quinto horacio flacco, (lisboa, na typographia de j.b. morando, ), also by gastão fausto da camara coutinho (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: paraphrase da epistola aos pisões, commummente denominada arte poetica, de quinto horacio flacco, com annotações sobre muitos lugares, (lisboa, typ. de j. b. morando, ), also by gastão fausto da camara coutinho (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: pensamientos de horacio sobre moral, literatura y urbanidad / (san juan de los lagos : tipografia de jose martin, ), also by agustín rivera (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: petri rodellii e societate jesu, horatius ad serenissimum galliarum delphinum (parisiis : apud viduam claudii thiboust et petrum esclassan ..., ), also by pierre de rodelle (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: poemata: (roterodami, [ ]) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: poëmata ... ([n.p.], ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: poemata omnia, (antverpiae, apud p. & d. belleros, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: poëmata : textum ad praestantissimas editiones recognitum, et praecipua lectionis varietate nec non vv. dd. conjecturis instructum, prolegomenis et excursibus, varii argumenti, donavit, notisque perpetuis, patria lingua exaratis, et ad aestheticen, historiam ... / (novi eboraci : carvill, ), also by charles anthon (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: poemata, textum ad praestantissimas editiones recognitum ... prolegomenis et excursibus varii argumenti donavit ... (novi eboraci, impensis g. & c. & h. carvill, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: poemata. the works of horace ... (n.y., ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: poems from horace, catullus and sappho : and other pieces / (london : j.m. dent, ), also by edward george harman, sappho, and gaius valerius catullus (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: the poems of horace; (london, g. bell & sons, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: the poems of horace; (london, bell & sons, ), also by archibald hamilton bryce (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: the poems of horace / (london : [publisher not identified], ), also by archibald hamilton bryce (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: the poems of horace : a literal translation / (london : g. bell & sons, ), also by archibald hamilton bryce (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: poems on several occasions. (edinburgh, w. gordon, ), also by william hamilton and john. pro foster (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: poesies (paris, saillant, ), also by charles batteux (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: poésies lyriques; odes, épodes, chant séculaire. (paris : j. hetzel, ), also by emmanuel worms de romilly (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: poetica de horatio, e o ensaio sobre a critica de alexandre pope. (londres, na officina de t. harper, jun [etc., etc.], ), also by huma portugueza. trl and alexander pope (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: a poetical translation of the works of horace / (london : printed for a. millar, ), also by philip francis (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: a poetical translation of the works of horace, with notes collected from his best latin and french commentators, (edinburgh : printed for a. donaldson, ), also by philip francis (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: a poetical translation of the works of horace; with the original text, and critical notes. (london, printed for a. miller, ), also by philip francis (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: a poetical translation of the works of horace : with the original text, and critical notes collected from his best latin and french commentators / (london : w. strahan, j. rivington and sons, t. caslon, b. law, t. cadell, g. robinson, w. stewart, t. becket, j. murray, w. domville, j. bell, and t. evans, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: a poetical translation of the works of horace : with the original text, and critical notes collected from his best latin and french commentators / (london : printed for a. millar, in the strand, ), trans. by philip francis (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: a poetical translation of the works of horace : with the original text, and critical notes collected from his best latin and french commentators. (london : printed for a. millar in the strand, ), also by philip francis (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the poetical works of dr. william king : with the life of the author. (edinburg : at the apollo press, by the martins, anno ), also by william king, b.c.- or a.d. ars amatoria ovid, horace. ars poetica, and b.c.- or a.d. ovid, illust. by thomas stothard (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the preludes. a collection of poems. (new york, c. l. macarthur, ), also by eugene liés (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: publius virgilius maro; (stuttgart, nübling, -[ ?]), also by virgil and w. binder (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci carmina (lipsiae, in aedibvs b. g. tevbneri, ), also by friedrich vollmer (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci carmina; (lipsiae, in aedibvs b.g. tevbneri, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci carmina (pragae, sumptus fecit f. tempsky; [etc., etc.], ), also by michael petschenig (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci carmina (lipsiae, in aedibvs b. g. tevbneri, ), also by friedrich vollmer (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci carmina. (lipsia, teubner, ), ed. by eduard friedrich hermann lucian mueller (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci carmina / (lipsiae : b. g. tevbner, ), also by lucian müller (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci carmina / (lipsiae : b. g. tevbner, ), also by lucian müller (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci carmina / (lipsiae : in aedibvs b.g. tevbneri, ), also by friedrich vollmer (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci carmina / (lipsiae : b. g. teubneri, ), also by lucian müller (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci carmina / (lipsiae : in aedibus b.g. teubneri, ), also by lucian müller (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horati flacci carmina / (lipsiae : b. g. teubneri, ), also by friedrich vollmer (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci carmina : liber epodon / (cambridge [cambridgeshire] : university press, ), also by james gow (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci carmina : liber epodon / (cambridge [cambridgeshire] : university press, ), also by james gow (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci carmina. oden und epoden des horaz. (giessen, j. ricker, ), ed. by lucian müller (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci carmina recensvit fridericvs vollmer. (lipsiae, in aedibvs b.g. tevbneri, ), ed. by friedrich vollmer (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci de arte poëtica liber : praemissa disputatione de consilio, quod horatius in condendo poëmate suo secutus sit / (lipsiae : g. martini, ), also by karl gottlob schelle (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horati flacci emblemata : imaginibus in aes incisis, notisq[ue] illustrata / (antuerpiae : ex officina hieronymi verdussen, auctoris aere & cura, mdcvii [ ]), also by otto van veen and hieronymus verdussen (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horati flacci epistulae, (torino: ermanno loerscher, ), also by remigio sabbadini (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci epistulae. = the epistles of horace, (london, macmillan and co., ), also by augustus s. wilkins (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci epistulae; the epistles of horace / (london, new york : macmillan, [c ]) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci epistvlae [microform]. the epistles of horace; (london, macmillan, ), ed. by augustus s. wilkins (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci opera. (oxonii, e typographeo clarendoniano, [ ]), ed. by edward charles wickham (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci opera; (oxonii, e typographeo clarendoniano, [ ]), also by e. c. wickham (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci opera, (lipsiae, b.g. tevbner, ), also by alfred holder and otto keller (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horati flacci opera; (vindobonae, pragae, sumptus fecit f. tempsky; [etc.], ), also by joseph haeussner, ed. by otto keller (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci opera (lipsiae, b. g. teubner, - ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horati flacci opera. (london, new york, macmillan and co., ), also by t. e. page (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci opera; (lipsiae, b. g. teubner, ), also by otto keller and alfred theophil holder, ed. by alfred theophil holder (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horati flacci opera (londini : k. paul, trench & soc., ), also by francis warre cornish (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci opera / (lipsiae : b. g. teubner, - ), also by alfred theophil holder and otto keller (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horati flacci opera / (london ; new york : macmillan, ), also by arthur palmer, augustus s. - wilkins, and t. e. page (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci opera / (leipzig : insel-verlag, ), also by richard heinze (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci opera / (lipsiae : apud s. hirzelium, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci opera / (london ; new york : macmillan, ), also by augustus s. wilkins, arthur palmer, and t. e. page (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci opera [microform]. (londini : k. paul, trench & soc., ), also by francis warre cornish (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci opera. oeuvres d'horace. (paris, hachette, -), also by Édouard galletier, paul antoine augustin lejay, and frédéric Édouard plessis (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci opera. oeuvres d'horace. (paris, hachette, -), ed. by Édouard galletier, paul antoine augustin lejay, and frédéric plessis (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci opera omnia. (oxonii, e prelo clarendoniano, ), also by e. c. wickham (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci saturarum liber i. / (cambridge : university press, ), also by james gow (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci satvrarvm liber ii, (cambridge [eng.] : the university press, ), also by james gow (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci sermones et epistulae / (boston : allyn and bacon, ), also by horace. epistulae and john carew rolfe (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horati flacci sermones : the satires of horace / (london : macmillan, ), also by arthur palmer (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q horati flacci sermones : the satires of horace / (london ; new york : macmillan, ), also by arthur palmer (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci sermonum et epistularum libri. satiren und episteln des horaz. (wien, prag, tempsky; leipzig, g. freytag, ), also by lucian müller and ludwig friedrich heindorf (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci sermonum et epistularum libri : satiren und episteln des horaz / (prag : f. tempsky, ), also by lucian müller (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horati flacci sermonum et spistularum libra : satiren und episteln des horaz / (wien : f. tempsky, - ), also by horace. epistolae. and lucian müller (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatii fl. opera ad lectiones probatiores diligenter emendata et interpunctione nova sæpius illustrata (cupri fifanorum, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci, (londini, impensis kearsley, ), ed. by gilbert wakefield (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci carmina, (berolini, apud weidmannos, ), ed. by martin julius hertz (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci carmina. (lipsiae, in aedibus b. g. teubneri, ), ed. by lucian müller (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci carmina. (lipsiae, in aedibus b. g. teubneri, ), ed. by lucian müller (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci carmina, (amstelodami, apud f. muller, ), ed. by petrus hofman peerlkamp (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci carmina. (lipsiae, in aedibus b.g. teubneri, ), also by lucian müller, ed. by lucian müller (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci carmina. (lipsiae, in aedibvs b. g. tevbneri, ), also by lucian müller (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci carmina. (lipsiae : in aedibvs b. g. tevbneri, ), also by lucian müller (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci carmina / (groningae : c.m. van bolhuis hoitsema, ), also by johannes lenting (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci carmina / (jena : f. mauke, ), also by friedrich august theodor obbarius (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci carmina / (lipsiae : in aedibus b.g. teubneri, ), also by lucian müller (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci carmina / (lipsiae : f.c.g. vogelii, ), also by christian david jani (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci carmina [microform] (lipsiae, tevbner, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci carmina ... castigata et brevi annotatione instructa. (amst., van kampen, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci carmina expurgata : accuratis notis ac appendice de diis et heroibus poëticis illustravit josephus juvencius. (lugduni : apud a. leroy, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci carmina expurgata, et accuratis notis illustrata, (romæ, apud p. junchium, ), also by joseph de jouvency (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci carmina selecta / (vindobonae : sumptus fecit f. tempsky ; lipsiae : sumptus fecit g. freytag, ), also by michael petschenig (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci carmina selecta / (vindobonae : c. gerold filii, ), ed. by michael gitlbauer (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci carmina : textausgabe für den schulgebrauch / (leipzig : teubner, ), also by gustav krüger (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci carminia selecta cum adnotationibus et græca interpretatione. kointou horatiou phlakkou ōdai hypo panou kōnstantinidou. (en athēnais, ek tou typographeiou parnassou, ), also by panos konstantinides (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci carminum. (london : macmillan, ), also by t. e. page (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci carminum liber i [-iv] ... / (london : macmillan, - ), also by t.e. page (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci carminum liber i[-iv]. (london, macmillan, - ), also by t. e. page (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci carminum liber i[-iv] ( - ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci carminum libri iv [microform], (london, macmillan, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci carminum libri iv; epodon liber; (london : macmillan, ), also by t. e. page (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci carminum libri iv ; epodon liber / (london : macmillan, ), also by t. e. page and horace. epodae. (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci carminum libri v. ad fidem xviii mss. parisiensium recensuit, notis illustravit, (lutetiae parisiorum, f. schoell, - ), also by martin marie charles de boudens vanderbourg (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci de arte poëtica liber ad pisiones [microform] / (coburgi : ahliana, ), also by johann christoph matthias reinecke (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci de arte poetica liber, vulgo epistola ad pisones. (wien : bey friedrich volke, ), also by e. th. hohler (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci eclogae / (lipsiae : svmtibvs caspari fritsch, ), also by ca. -ca. suetonius, johann matthias gesner, william baxter, and johann carl zeune (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci eclogae cum scholiis veteribus. (londini, geo. b. whittaker, [etc], ), also by isaäc verburg, richard bentley, daniel aveman, tomasz treter, johann carl zeune, johann matthias gesner, and william baxter (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci eclogae : cum scholiis veteribus / (londini : impensis j. johnson, ), also by johann carl zeune, johann matthias gesner, and william baxter (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci eclogae, cum scholiis veteribvs (lipsiae : c. fritsch, ), also by johann carl zeune, johann matthias gesner, and william baxter (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci eclogae cum selectis scholiastarum veterum et guilielmi baxteri, io. matthiae gesneri et io. car. zeunii annotationibus. recognovit frider. henr. bothe ... (lipsiae, sumtibus librariae hahnianae, ), also by johann carl zeune, johann matthias gesner, and william baxter, ed. by friedrich heinrich bothe (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci eclogae : cvm scholiis veteribvs / (lipsiae : c. fritsch, ), also by johann carl zeune, johann matthias gesner, and william baxter (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci eclogae cvm scholiis veteribvs castigavit et notis illvstravit gvilielmvs baxtervs. (lipsiae, svmtibvs librariae, hahnianae, ), also by johann carl zeune, johann matthias gesner, and william baxter (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci eclogae cvm scholiis veteribvs castigavit et notis illvstravit gvilielmvs baxtervs. (lipsiae, svmtibvs c. fritsch, ), also by johann carl zeune, johann matthias gesner, and william baxter (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci eclogae : una cum scholiis perpetuis, tam veteribus quàm novis / (londini : typis guilielmi bowyer : impensis autem j. batley ..., ), also by william bowyer, john baxter, and william baxter, contrib. by jeremiah batley (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci eclogae : una cum scholiis perpetuis, tam veteribus quam novis, praecipuè verò antiquorum grammaticorum, helenij acronis, pomponiique porphyrionis : quorum quae exstant reliquiae foedis interpolationibus purgatae nunc primum ferè integrae reponuntur / (londini : typis j.l. impensis autem a.&j. churchill, ), also by william baxter (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci epistola ad augustum / (groningae : w. van boeker, ), also by h. reidel (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci epistola ad pisones / (leidae : apud h. w. hazenberg, ), also by petrus hofman peerlkamp (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci epistola ad pisones [microform]/ (leidae : apud h. w. hazenberg, ), also by petrus hofman peerlkamp (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci epistola ad pisones, de arte poetica. the art of poetry: an epistle to the pisos. (london, printed for t. cadell, ), trans. by george colman (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci epistolae ad pisones, et augustum. (london, printed by w. bowyer and j. nichols for t. cadell and j. woodyer, ), also by william mason and richard hurd (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci epistolae ad pisones, et augustum, with an english commentary and notes, to which are added critical dissertations (london, printed for a. millar et al., ), also by richard hurd (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci epistula ad pisones de arte poetica : horace, art poétique, texte latin / (paris ; londres : librairie hachette, ), also by maurice albert and horace. ars poetica (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci epistulae. (gotha, friedr. andr. perthes, ), also by h. s. anton (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci epistvlae = the epistles of horace / (london : macmillan, ), ed. by augustus s. wilkins (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci epodon liber, (london, macmillan and co., limited, ), also by t. e. page (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci ex ed. bipontina ii, (parisiis, etc., treuttel et würtz, ), ed. by jean-baptiste modeste gence (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci, ex ed. bipontina ii, ad optimas lectiones mss. et edd. nova editio recensita, brevibus notis critic. et interp. subjunctis, necnon horatiano indice; cum adnotata horatii vita, et notitia litteraria. de hujus edd. comment. et vers amplissima. (parisiis [etc], apud treuttel et würtz, ), also by jean baptiste modeste gence (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera. (lipsiae, svmtibvs et typis c. tavchnitii, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera, (lipsiae, svmtibvs librariae hahnianae, - ), also by f. w. döring (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera. (lipsiæ, sumptibus philippi reclam jun., ), ed. by georg koch (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera. (londini, kegan, paul, trench, ), also by francis warre cornish (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera, (london, bell and daldy, ), also by h. a. j. munro (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera, (lipsiae, svmtibvs s. l. crvsii, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera, (lipsiae, svmtibvs s. l. crvsii, ), also by book traces project, ed. by christoph wilhelm mitscherlich (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera. (florentiae : g. barbe ra, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera. (lipsiae : c. tauchnitii, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera, (lipsiae, apud s. hirzelium, ), ed. by johannes vahlen and moriz haupt (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera. (lipsiae, sumtibus et typis c. tauchnitii, ), also by karl hermann weise (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera. (paris : e. belin, [ ?]), also by charles aubertin (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera. (lipsiae : sumtibus siegfried lebrecht crusii, ), also by horace. carmina and christoph wilhelm mitscherlich (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera / (lipsiae : o. holtze, ), also by c. h. weise (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera / (reutlingae : in officina libraria maeckeniana, - ), ed. by christoph wilhelm mitscherlich (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera / (oxonii : d. a. talboys, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera / (berolini : a. havde et i. c. speneri, ), also by johann peter miller (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera / (glasguae : in aedibus academicis, excudebat j. mundell, ), also by johann carl zeune, johann matthias gesner, and william baxter (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera / (bassani ; sed prostant venetiis : apud remondini, ), also by louis desprez (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera / (lipsiae : s. hirzel, ), also by moriz haupt (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera /, also by christoph wilhelm mitscherlich (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera / (oxonii : d. a. talboys, ), also by f. w. döring (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera / (mutinae : e. sarasino, ), also by ettore stampini (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera / accedunt indices locupletissimi. (oxonii : d. a. talboys; [etc., etc.], ), also by friedrich wilhelm doering (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera [microform] ad fidem sex codicum mspt. nondum adhibitorum bibliothecae regiae bambergensis, nec non schoenborniano-gaibacensis aeque ac hellerianae, (vinariae, in novo bibliopolo, vulgo landes-industrie-comptoir., ), also by carlo fèa and joachim h. jäck (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera : ad fidem lxxvi codicum: accedunt i. synopsis chronoligica rerum romanarum, vivente horatio. ii. tractatulus de metris horatianis. iii. variae lxxvi codicum lectiones. iv. phrasium subdifficilium enucleatio. v. lexicon mythologicum, historicum & geographicum. vi. dictionarium latino-gallicum vocum horatianarum quae lectorem morari possunt / (parisiis : typis michaelis lambert, ), also by joseph valart (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera ad fidem sex codicum mspt. nondum adhibitorum bibliothecae regiae bambergensis, nec non schoenborniano-gaibacensis aeque ac hellerianae, (vinariae, in novo bibliopolo, vulgo landes-industrie-comptoir., ), also by carlo fea and jaeck (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera ad mss. codices vaticanos, chisianos, angelicos, barberinos, gregorianos, vallicellanos, aliosque, plurimis in locis emendavit, notisque illustravit... carolus fea... denuo recensuit, adhibitsque novissimis subsidiis curavit, fridericus henricus bothe ... (heidelbergae et spirae, sumtibus a. oswald, ), also by friedrich heinrich bothe and carlo fèa (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera : ad mss. codices vaticanos, chisianos, angelicos, barberinos, gregorianos, vallicellanos, aliosque, plurimis in locis emendavit, notisque illustravit praesertim in iis, quae romanas antiquitates spectant / (heidelbergae et spirae : sumtibus aug. osswald, ), also by friedrich heinrich bothe, ed. by carlo fea (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera. ad optimorvm librorvm fidem acevrate edita. (lipsiae, ex officina c. tavchnitii, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera : ad praestantium librorum lectiones accurate recensuit car. herm. weise. (lipsiae : sumtibus et typis c. tauchnitii, ), also by karl hermann weise (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera. ad praestantium librorum lectiones accurate recensuit car. herm. weise. (lipsiae, o. holtze, [ ]) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera, cum variis lectionibus, notis variorum, et indice locupletissimo. ... (londini, excudebant g. browne, et j. warren, et prostant venales apud t. payne et j. edwards, - ), also by henry homer and charles combe (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera illustrated from antique gems (london :, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera interpretatione et notis illustravit ludovicus desprez ... jussu christianissimi regis in usum serenissimi delphini ae serenissimorum princium burgundiae, andium, biturigum ... (bassani, suis typis remondini edidit, ), also by louis desprez (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera : nova editio stereotypa, iteratis curis castigata et expolita. (lipsiae : tauchniti, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera omnia, (lipsiae, sumptibus et typis b. g. teubneri, ), also by friedrich ernst theodor schmid and johann christian jahn (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera omnia. (bonnae, sumptibus adolphi marci, ), also by dillenburger (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera omnia, (lipsiae, sumtibus c. fritsch, -), also by f. w. döring (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera omnia, (lipsiae, sumptibus et typis b. g. teubneri, ), also by friedrich ernst theodor schmid and johann christian jahn (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera omnia. (bonnae, sumptibus adolphi marci, ), also by wilhelm dillenburger (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera omnia (lipsiae sumtibus librariae hahnianae, - ), also by f. w. döring (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera omnia, (lipsiae, teubneri, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera omnia ( -) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera omnia, (lipsiae : sumtibus librariae hahnianae, - ), also by friedrich wilhelm doering (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera omnia. (oxonii, j. henricus et j. parker, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera omnia / (lipsiae : sumptibus et typis b. g. teubneri, ), also by theodor schmid and johann christian jahn (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera omnia / (bonnae : sumptibus a. marci, ), also by wilhelm dillenburger (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera omnia / (lipsiae : ex officina b. tauchnitz, ), also by gottfried stallbaum (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera omnia / (lipsiae : ex officina bernhardi tauchnitz, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera omnia / (lipsiae : sumptibus et typis b. g. teubneri, ), also by theodor schmid and johann christian jahn (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera omnia / (bonnae : aumptibus a. marci, ), also by wilhelm dillenburger (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera omnia / (lipsiae : librarie hahnianae, ), also by f. w. döring (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera omnia / (london : hamilton and co., [ --]), also by charles anthon and f. w. döring (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera omnia : cum indicibus locupletissimis / (glasguae : excudebant andreas et joannes m. duncan, fimpensis ricardi priestley), ), also by f. w. döring (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera omnia : cum indicibus locupletissimis / (glasguae : a. et j. m. duncan ; londini : r. priestley, ), also by friedrich wilhelm doering (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera omnia : ex recensione frid. guil. doering ; explanatory notes by charles anthon. (london : j.r. priestley, ), also by charles anthon and f. w. döring (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera omnia poetica. (halae, impensis orphanotrophei, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera omnia ; recensuit et illustravit / fridericus guil. doering. (lipsiae : libraria hahn, ), also by f. w. döring (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera omnia : textum denuo recensuit, varietate lectionis integra instruxit, optimorum interpretum commentarios subjecit, suas adnotationes cum criticas tum exegeticas adspersit, scholiastarum veterum acronis et porphyrionis scholia typis excudenda curavit, etc. / (lipsiae : prostat in libraria gvilielmi navckii, - ), also by wilhelm braunhard (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci opera. the works of horace, from the text of orellius. (london : c. griffin and company, [ ?]), also by joseph currie and johann kaspar von orelli (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci operum ... (harlemi, ex typographia nicolai braau, [ ]), also by eduard van zurck (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci poemata, (hamburgi, a. vandenhoeck, ), also by noël étienne sanadon, alexander cunningham, and richard bentley (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci poemata. (parisiis : ex officina michaëlis vascosani ..., ), also by antonio mancinelli and pietro crinito (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci poemata in quibus multa correcta sunt, & institutiones suis locis positae, commentariorum quodammodo uice funguntur. vndeuiginti metrorum genera, et quaenam sint, & e quibus constent pedibus, et ante uolumen simul habentur, et intus in uolumine suis locis. adnotationes nonnullae in toto opere, in quibus uel aliquid mutandum ostenditur, uel cur mutatum sit, ratio redditur. (venetiis : apvd aldvm romanvm, mense martio ), also by aldo manuzio (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci poemata. ratio mensuum quibus odae eiusdem poetae tene[n]tur. centimetrum marij seruij. variae lectiones ex vetustiss. codicibus. (parisiis. : ex officina roberti stephani typographi regij., ), also by robert estienne, horace. variae lectiones ex vetustiss. codicibus, th cent. centimetrum servius, and niccolò perotti (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci poëmata : textum, ad praestantissimas editiones recognitum, et praecipua lectionis varietate nec non vv.dd. conjecturis instructum, prolegomenis et excursibus, varii argumenti, donavit, notisque perpetuis, patria lingua exaratis, et ad aestheticen, historiam, geographiam, mythologiam, archaeologiam, remque botanicam, spectantibus, (novi eboraci : impensis g. & c. h. carvill, ), also by charles anthon (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci poëmata ... with ... notes ... (n.y., g. & c. carvill & co., ), ed. by charles anthon (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci poetae venusini, omnia poemata cum ratione carminum, & argumentis vbique insertis (venetiis : apvd ioannem mariam bonellvm, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci poetae venvsini omnia poemata cvm ratione carminvm, & argumentis vbique insertis, interpretatibus acrone, porphyrione, iano parrhasio, antonio mancinello, necnon iodoco badio ascension viris eruditissimi. scholiisqve angeli politiani, m. antonii sabellici ... & iacobi bononiensis nuper adiunctis. his nos praeterea annotationes doctissimorum antonij thylesij, consentini, francisci robortelli vtinensis, atque henrici glareani apprime uvtiles addidimus. nicolai peroti sipontini libellvs de metris odarvm. auctoris vita ex petro crinito florentino. quae omnia longè politius, ac diligentius, quàm hactenus excusa in lucem prodeunt ... (venetiis : apvd ioannem mariam bonellvm, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci satirae. (gotha. friedr. andr. perthes., ), also by karl otto breithaupt (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci satirae, (amstelodami, apud f. muller, ), also by petrus hofman peerlkamp (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci sermonum et epistularum libri. satiren und episteln des horaz mit anmerkungen von lucian mueller. (prag, tempsky, - ), also by horace. epistulae. and eduard friedrich hermann lucian mueller (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci sermonum libri duo. (leipzig, teubner, - ), also by carl christian jacob kirchner, ed. by wilhelm sigismund teuffel (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci sermonum libri duo. edidit germanice reddidit et triginta codicum recens colatorum grammaticorum veterum omniumque msstorum adhuc a variis adhibitorum ope librorumque potiorum a primordiis artis typographicae usque ad hunc diem editorum lectionibus excussis recensuit apparatu critico instruxit et commentario illustravit c. kirchner. (lipsiae, sumptibus et typis b.g. teubneri, - ), also by c. kirchner (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacci sermonum libri quattuor, seu, satyrarum libri duo. epistolarum libri duo. / (lugduni : apud ioan. tornaesium, ), also by jean de tournes, denys lambin, and horace. epistulae (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacii de arte poetica liber, quem interpretatione atque notis criticis et aestheticis illustravit et vernaculo tum germanorum tum bohemorum versu reddidit simeon carolus machaček. (pragae, kronberger, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii flacii opera omnia. (lipsiae, bernhard tauchnitz, ), also by gottfried stallbaum (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatii satirae et epistolae, ad optimorum librorum fidem castigatae et brevi annotatione instructae. (amstelodami, sumptibus p. n. van kampen, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flacci carmina / (lipsiae : in aedibvs b. g. tevbneri, ), ed. by lucian müller (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus; (turici, sumptibus orelli fuesslini et sociorum, etc., ), also by johann kaspar von orelli (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus. (berloini, g. reimer, ), also by august meineke (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus, (berolini, reimer, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus. (turici, sumptibus orellii, fuesslini et sociurum., [ ]- ), also by johann georg baiter and johann kaspar von orelli (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus. (paris, l. hachette et cie., ), also by e. sommer (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus. ( - ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus. (berlin, weidmann, - ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus. (lipsiae, apud weidmannos, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus. (berlin, weidmann, - [v. , ' ]), ed. by hermann schütz (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q horatius flaccus, (berlin, - ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus. (paris, l. hachette et cie., ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q horatius flaccus, (berlin, - ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus. (paris, hachette et cie., ), ed. by e sommer (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus. (paris, hachette et cie., ), also by e sommer (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus. (turici, orellii, fuesslini, - ), also by johann georg baiter and johann kaspar von orelli (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus. (berol., ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus. (turici, sumptibus orellii, fuesslini et sociorum; [etc., etc.], - ), ed. by johann kaspar von orelli (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus, (berolini, apud weidmannos, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus; (berlin, s. calvary eiusque socius, - ), also by j. g. baiter, ed. by w. mewes, wilhelm hirschfelder, and johann kaspar von orelli (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus. (berlin, weidmann, - ), also by richard heinze and adolf kiessling (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus, (cantabrigiae, ), also by richard bentley (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus. (turici, sumptibus orellii, fuesslini et sociorum, - ), ed. by johann kaspar von orelli (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus. (turici, sumptibus orellii, fuesslini et sociorum. londini, apud black et armstrong., - ), also by johann kaspar von orelli (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus. (berolini, typis et impensis g. reimeri, ), ed. by august meineke (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus; (berlin, weidmann, - [v. , ]), also by richard heinze, ed. by adolf kiessling (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus; (berolini, sumptus fecit s. calvary eiusque socius, ), also by wilhelm mewes (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus. (leipzig, g. freytag, ), ed. by josef häussner and otto keller (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus. (berlin, weidmannsche buchhandlung, - ), also by adolf kiessling (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus. (paris, l. hachette et cie, ), also by édouard sommer (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus. (berlin, weidmann, - [v. , ' ]), ed. by hermann schütz (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus. (berlin, weidmann, - ), also by richard heinze, ed. by adolf kiessling (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus. (leipzig, g. freytag, ), also by joseph haeussner, ed. by otto keller (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus, (paris, hachette, ), ed. by édouard sommers (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus; (leipzig, freytag, ), also by andreas christoph weidner (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus. (berlin, weidmann, - (v. , )) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus. (berlin, weidmann, - ), ed. by richard heinze and adolf gottlieb kiessling (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus / (berolini : sumptus fecit s. calvary eiusque socius, - ), also by johann georg baiter, wilhelm hirschfelder, and johann kaspar von orelli (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus / (berolini : typis et impensis georgii reimeri, ), ed. by august meineke (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus / (lipsiae : hahn, ), also by franz pauly (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus / (berlin : weidmannsche buchhandlung, - (v. , )) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus / (berlin, weidmann, -), also by richard heinze and adolf kiessling (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus / (antverpiae : ex officina plantiniana, apud ioannem moretum., ), also by petrus nannius and laevinus torrentius (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus / (amstelaedami : apud r. & j. wetstenios & g. smith, ), also by isaac verburg, daniel aveman, tomasz treter, and richard bentley (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus / (lipsiae : weidmannia, ), also by richard bentley (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus / (berlin : weidmannsche, - ), also by adolf gottlieb kiessling (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus / (cantabrigiae : [cambridge university press], ), also by richard bentley (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus / (berlin : weidmann, - ), ed. by h. schütz (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus / (turici : sumptibus orelii, fuesslini et sociorum, - ), also by johann georg baiter and johann kaspar von orelli (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus / (berlin : [s.n.], - ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus / (berol : s. calvary, ), also by wilhelm hirschfelder, johann georg baiter, and johann kaspar von orelli (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus / (berlin : weidmann, - ), also by adolf kiessling (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus / (berlin : weidmann, - ; v. , ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus / (berlin : weidmann, -), also by hermann schütz (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus / (berlin : s. calvary eiusque socius, - ), also by w. mewes, wilhelm hirschfelder, johann georg baiter, and johann kaspar orelli (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q horatius flaccus / (berolini : s. calvery eiusque socius, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus [microform], (turici, sumptibus orellii, fuesslini et sociorum; londinii, asher & soc., [etc.], - ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus : [werke] / (berlin : weidmann, - ), also by adolf gottlieb kiessling (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus, denuo recognovit et praefatus est augustus meineke. (berolini, typis et impensis georgii reimeri, ), also by august meineke (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus dichtkunst : op onze tyden, én zéden gepast / (te amsterdam : by albert magnus ..., ), also by a. pels and romeyn de hooghe (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus, erklärt (berlin, wiedmannsche buchhandlung, - ), also by adolf kiessling, ed. by hermann schütz (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus, ex recensione et cum notis / (berolini : [s.n.], ), also by richard bentley (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus im licht des evangeliums. die vier bücher der oden deutsch in den versweisen des dichters wiedergegeben und mit erläuterungen ihres religiös-sittlichen inhalts versehen (leipzig, f. richter, ), also by g. kob (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus lierzangen en dichtkunst / (t'amsterdam : by jan lamsvelt ..., anno ), also by joost van den vondel and jan lamsvelt (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus. mit vorzugsweiser rucksicht auf die unechten stellen und gedichte. (lpz. :, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus oden und epoden / (berlin : weidmann, ), also by hermann schütz (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus. recensuit atque interpretatus est io. gaspar orellius. (turici : sumptibus orellii ..., - ), also by johann georg baiter and johann kaspar von orelli (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus recensuit atque interpretatus est io. gaspar orellius. (berolini, s. calvary eiusque socius, - ), also by j. g. baiter, ed. by wilhelm hirschfelder and johann kaspar von orelli (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus recensuit atque interpretatus est io. gaspar orellius / (berolini : s. cavalry, - ), also by wilhelm hirschfelder, j. g. baiter, and johann kaspar von orelli (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus : recensuit atque interpretatus est io. gaspar orellius, addita varietate lectionis codicum bentleianorum, bernensium iv., sangallensis et turicensis / (turici : sumptibus orellii, fuesslini et sociorum, - ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus sämmtliche werke : deutsch / (halberstadt : h. voglers, ), trans. by karl friedrich arend scheller (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus satiren für den schulgebrauch erklärt von gustav krüger. (leipzig und berlin, b. g. teubner, ), also by paul hoppe, ed. by gustav krüger (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus : scholarum in usum / (vindobonae : c. gerold filii, ), ed. by gustav wilhelm reinhard linker (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus scholiis, commentarii instar illustratus a ioanne bond. (amstelodami : apud joannem janssonium a waesberge, ), also by john bond (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus werke; (bremen, m. heinsius nachfolger, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horatius flaccus' werke. lateinisch mit metrischer uebersetzung von j.s. strodtmann. (leipzig, w. engelmann, - ), also by j. s. strodtmann (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horativs flaccus (lugd. batavorum, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horativs flaccus (lugd. batavorum, ex officina hackiana, ), also by john bond, ed. by cornelis schrevel (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horativs flaccus cum commentariis selectissimis variorum: & scholiis integris johannis bond. accedunt indices locupletissimi, tum auctorum, tum rerum. (lugd. batavorum, apud franciscum hackium, ), also by cornelis schrevel and john bond (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horativs flaccus cum commentariis selectissimis variorum: & scholiis integris johannis bond. accedunt indices locupletissimi tum auctorum, tum rerum. (lugd. batavorum, ex officina hackiana, ), also by cornelis schrevel and john bond (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horativs flaccvs, (lipsiae, impensis g.t. georgi, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horativs flaccvs. (lipsiae: w. engelmann, - ), also by franz ritter (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q horativs flaccvs (patavii, ex typ. semin, [ ]) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horativs flaccvs. ad codices secvli noni decimqve exactvm, (lipsiae: w. engelmann, - ), also by franz ritter (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horativs flaccvs, cum erudito laevini torrentii commentario ... item petri nannii alcmariano in artem poëticam (antverpiae, ex officina plantiniana, apud ioannem moretum, ), also by petrus nannius and laevinus torrentius (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horativs flaccvs. oden und epoden (st. petersburg, ricker, ), ed. by eduard friedrich hermann lucian mueller (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horativs flaccvs. oden und epoden, erklaert von lucien mueller ... (st. petersburg und leipzig, k.l. ricker, ), also by lucian müller (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q. horativs flaccvs recensvit codicvm selectorvm varias scripturas (lipsia, hahn, ), also by franz pauly (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horativs flaccvs, scholarvm in vsvm (vindobonae, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horativs flacevs: cvm commentariis & enarrationibus commentatoris veteris, et iacobi crvqvii messenii ... accesserunt, iani dovsæ nordovicis in eundem commentariolus, vnà cum succidaneâ appendice ad superiorem commentariolum. item avetarivm commentatoris veteris à cruquio editi. [printer's mark] (lvgdvni batavorvm, ex officina plantiniana, apud franciscum raphelengium, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. horazius flakkus sämmtliche werke. (wien : bey joseph oehler, ), also by ca. -ca. suetonius, christoph martin wieland, jakob friedrich schmidt, and karl wilhelm ramler (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q. orazio flacco : le satire / (firenze : g.c. sansoni, ), also by augusto balsamo (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: q.horati flacci opera. (new york, new amsterdam book co., ), ed. by francis warre cornish (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q.horatii flacci opera omnia; (london, longman, ), also by f. w. döring, ed. by charles anthon (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q.horatii flacci opera omnia ... (lipsiae, huebner, [ ]), ed. by wilhelm braunhard (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q.horatii flacci poëmata. the works of horace, with explanatory notes selected from the larger edition (new york, carvill, ), ed. by charles anthon (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: q.horatii flaci carmina. (lipsiae, in aedibvs b. g. tevbneri, ), ed. by lucian müller (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: queen elizabeth's englishings of boethius, de consolatione philosophiae, a.d. ; plutarch, de curiositate [ ]; horace, de arte poetica (part) a.d. . (london, pub. for the early english text society by kegan paul, trench, trübner & co., ), also by queen elizabeth i of england, caroline pemberton, plutarch, and boethius (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: queen elizabeth's englishings of boethius, de consolatione philosophiae, a.d. ; plutarch, de curiositate [ ]; horace, de arte poetica (part) a.d. . (london, pub. for the early english text society by k. paul, trench, trübner & co., ), also by plutarch and boethius, ed. by caroline pemberton, trans. by queen elizabeth i of england (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: quinti horati flacci carminum librum quintum a rudyardo kipling et carolo graves. anglice redditum et variorum notis adornatum ad fidem codicum mss. edidit aluredus d. godley. (oxford : b. blackwell, ), also by a. d. godley, charles l. graves, and rudyard kipling (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: quinti horati flacci opera. (paris, delegrave, ), ed. by august cartelier and louis passerat (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: quinti horati flacci opera / (paris : c. delegrave, ), also by august cartelier and louis passerat (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: quinti horati flacci : opera omnia / (londini : apud p.h. lee warner mediceae societatis librarium, ), also by e. c. wickham (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: quinti horati flacci opera omnia recensuit filon. (parisiis, ), also by charles auguste de sire filon (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horati flacci opera omnia: the works of horace (oxford, clarendon press, - ), ed. by e. c. wickham (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: quinti horati flacci opera. the complete works of horace, (london, longmans, green, and co., ), ed. by john eyre yonge (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatic flacci opera omnia / (new york : harper, ), also by a. j. macleane (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci carmina : detersis recentibus plerumque maculis, nitori suo restituta. (parisiis : typis j. barbou, ), also by jean nicolas lallemand and joseph valart (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci carmina expurgata accuratissimis notis illustravit (paris, impr. et librairie classiques de j. delalan, ), also by joseph de jouvency (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci carmina selecta : in usum scholarum belgicae. (bruxelles : typis regiae academiae, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci epistolas, (lipsiae, sumptus fecit georgius wigandus, - ), also by friedrich ernst theodor schmid and lobegott samuel obbarius (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci epistolas commentariis uberrimis instructas ediderunt s. obbarius et th. schmidius ... (lipsiae, sumptus fecit g. wiganus: parisiis, brockhaus & avenarius; [etc., etc.], - ), ed. by friedrich ernst theodor schmid and lobegott samuel obbarius (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera. (dublinii, impensis j. exshaw, ), also by andré dacier and louis desprez (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera. (londini, t. longman, ), also by andré dacier, ed. by louis desprez (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera. (londini : prostant apud gul. sandby ... , ), illust. by john miller (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera, (londini, apud j. murray, ), also by henry hart milman (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera. (londini, impensis longman, rees, orme [etc.], ), also by andré dacier, ed. by louis desprez (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera. (philadelphia, h.c. carey & lea, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera. (philadelphiæ, impensis h.c. carey & i. lea, ), also by louis desprez (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera (londini : i. pine, - ), contrib. by john pine (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera. (londini: prostant apud gul. sandby in vico dicto fleetstreet., ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera ... (parisiis, excudunt plon fratres, ), ed. by jean pierre charpentier and théodose burette (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera / (philadelphiæ : m. carey, ), also by andré dacier and louis desprez (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera / (londini : impensis c. bathurst, j. beecroft, w. strahan [etc.], ), also by andré dacier and louis desprez (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera, / (nova-eboraci : t. et j. swords, ), ed. by hohann karl zeune (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera. / (philadelphiæ: : impensis h.c. carey & i. lea., ), also by andré dacier and louis desprez (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera / (londini : j. johnson, ), also by andré dacier and louis desprez (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera / (londini : sumtibus rodwell et martin [and others] excudit t. davison, ), also by johann carl zeune (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera / (londini : apud joannem murray, ), also by henry hart milman (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera / (londoni : harding, mavor, et lepard, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera / (londini : impensis w. innys & j. richardson, j. & p. knapton, s. birt, j. clark, c. hitch & l. hawes, t. longman, j. shuckbrugh, j. hodges, e. wicksteed, c. bathurst, b. dod, j. & j. rivington, j. ward & m. cooper, ), also by andré dacier and louis desprez (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera / (philadelphia : carey & lea, ), also by louis desprez and andré dacier (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera / (philadelphiæ : joseph allen, ), also by andré dacier and louis desprez (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera / (philadelphia : j. allen, ), also by louis desprez and andré dacier (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera / (paris : f. didot, ), also by noël desvergers and john bond (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera ... / (salmurii : apud r. pean, ), also by tannegui lefebvre (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera / (philadelphia : published by j. allen and sold by j. b. lippincott & co., ), also by louis desprez and andré dacier (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera / ex editione j. c. zeunii, cum notis et interpretatione in usum delphini variis lectionibus notis variorum recensu editionum et codicum et indice locupletissimo accurate recensita. (londini : a.j. valpy, ), ed. by johann carl zeune (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera = the works of horace / (london ; oxford : rivingtons, -), also by j. m. marshall (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera : accedunt clavis metrica et notae anglicae juventuti accommodatae / (bostoniae : sumptibus hilliard, gray et soc., ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera : accedunt clavis metrica et notæ anglicæ juventuti accommodatæ / (bostoniæ : hilliard, gray, little, et wilkins, ), also by benjamin a. gould (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera : accedunt clavis metrica et notæ anglicæ juventuti accommodatæ / (bostoniæ : hilliard, gray, little, et wilkins, ), also by benjamin a. gould (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera : accedunt clavis metrica et notæ anglicæ juventuti accommodatæ / (bostoniæ : hilliard, gray et soc., , c ), also by benjamin a. gould (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera. accedunt clavis metrica et notae anglicae, juventuti accomodatae. (bostoniae: benjamin b. mussey, ), also by benjamin apthorp gould (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera : ad optimas editiones collata : praemittitur notitia literaria / (biponti : ex typographia societatis, ), also by johann august ernesti, johann albert fabricius, and societas bipontina (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera, ad optimas editiones collata. præmittitur notitia literaria. studiis societatis bipontinæ. (biponti, ex typographia societatis, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera ad optimas editiones collata. praemittitur notitia literaria studiis societatis bipontinae. (biponti, ex typographia societatis, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera expurgata, (philadelphiae, e. kimber, ), ed. by thomas dugdale (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera expurgata : notis anglicis illustrata: quibus praefixum syntagma prosodiale / (philadelphia : impensis solomon w. conrad, ), also by thomas dugdale (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera : interpretatione & notis illustravit ludovicus desprez ... (londini : impensis j. clarke, ), ed. by louis desprez (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera : interpretatione & notis illustravit ludovicus desprez, cardinalitius socius ac rhetor emeritus, jussu christianissime regis, in usum serenissimi delphini ac serenissimorum principum burgundiae, andium et biturigum / (dublinii : printed for f. smith, w. wilson, l. l. flin, j. exshaw, and w. hallhead, ), also by louis desprez (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera : interpretatione et notis / (londini : j.f. & c. rivington [etc., etc.], ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera. interpretatione et notis illustravit ludovicus desprez, cardinalitius socius ac rhetor emeritus, jussu christianissime regis, in usum serenissimi delphini ac serenissimorum principum burgundiae, andium et biturigum. (philadelphia, h.c. carey & i. lea, ), also by andré dacier and louis desprez (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera. interpretatione et notis illustravit ludovicus desprez ... in usum serenissimi delphini ... (novi eboraci, impensis d. et g. bruce, ), also by louis desprez and andré dacier (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera. interpretatione et notis illustravit ludovicus desprez ... jussu christianissimi regis, in usum serenissimi delphini ac serenissimorum principum burgundiæ, andium et biturigum. (parisiis, excudebat f. leonard, ), also by louis desprez (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera. interpretatione et notis illustravit ludoviens desprez, cardinalitius socius ae rhetor emeritus, jussu christianissimi regis, in usum serenissimi delphini ae serenissimorum principum burgundiæ. andium et biturigum. (philadelphiæ, j. allen, ), also by andré dacier and louis desprez (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera omnia. (london: whittaker & co., george bell & sons, ), also by george long and a. j. macleane (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera omnia; (novi eboraci, harperi fratres, ), also by a. j. macleane (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: quinti horatii flacci opera omnia. (london, whittaker & co. 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(lipsiae, teubner, - ), ed. by w. s. teuffel and karl kirchner (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: siebzehn der schönsten oden des horaz, (stargard, ), trans. by heinrich runge (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: siebzehn der schönsten oden des horaz [microform] / aufs neue deutsch in der ursprünglichen versmassen wortgetreu nachgedichtet / (stargard [szczecinski, poland] : gedr. bei c.f. hendess, ), also by gymnasiallehrer runge (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: six satires of horace, in a style between free imitation and literal version. (ipswich, printed and sold by george jermyn, ), also by william clubbe (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the sixth epistle of the first book of horace: by mr. pope. (dublin : printed by and for j. jones, ), also by alexander pope (html at ecco tcp) 	 horace: sober advice from horace: to the young gentlemen about town. as deliver'd in his second sermon. imitated in the manner of mr. pope. together with the original text, as restored by the rev'd. r. bentley ... and some remarks on the version. (london : printed for t. boreman; sold by the booksellers of london and westminster, [ ]), also by alexander pope (html at ecco tcp) 	 horace: specimen literarium inaugurale : in quo q. horatii flacci epistola ad augustum commentario illustratur / (groningae : w. van boekeren, ), also by hendrik riedel (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: szatirák horátiusból. (budán, a' királyi magyar universitás betüivel, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: theatro moral de la vida humana, en cien emblemas : con el enchiridion de epicteto : y la tabla de cebes, philosofo platonico. (en amberes : por la viuda de henrico verdussen, año ), also by otto van veen, epictetus. enchiridion. spanish, and m. le roy gomberville (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: theatro moral de la vida humana, en cien emblemas; con el enchiridion de epicteto, y la tabla de cebes, philosofo platonico. (amberes : h. y c. verdussen, ), also by otto van veen, epictetus. manual. spanish, and m. le roy gomberville (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: a thousand horatian quotations : with appreciations (testimonia) of horace in ancient writers / (boston : issued only to members of the bibliophile society, ), also by henry aiken metcalf and mass.) bibliophile society (boston (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: Þýðíng brjefa hórazar / (reykjavík : gefin út af hinu íslenzka bókmentafjelagi, ), trans. by jón Þorkelsson and gísli magnússon (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: traduccion de la epistola de horacio a los pisones sobre el arte poética. (paris : j. didot, ), also by francisco martínez e la rosa (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: traducciones poeticas, (bogota, imprenta nacional, ), also by lorenzo marroquín and antonio gómez restrepo, trans. by rafael pombo (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: traduction des odes d'horace ... ( ), ed. by gérand valet de reganhac (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: traduction en vers de quelques odes d'horace, (troyes, chez bouquot, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: translations from catullus, horace, &c. [electronic resource] / (halifax, n.s. : [s.n.], ), also by gaius valerius catullus and w. b. bliss (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: translations from horace. [odes.] (chicago, tribune company, printers, ), trans. by george howland (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: translations from horace, and a few original poems / (london : g. bell, ), also by chiswick press, trans. by stephen e. de vere (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: translations from horace. with notes. / (london : walter scott ; new york : thomas whittaker, ), also by stephen edward de vere (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: translations from the odes of horace, ([london, etc., sherratt & hughes], ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: translations of the odes of horace, (london, j. m. dent, ), also by margaret jourdain (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: translations of the odes of horace, (london : j. m. dent, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: übersetzungen aus horaz, (schleusingen, ), trans. by adam johann hartung (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: uebersetzung des ersten buches der horazi'schen oden [microform]. (pless [poland] : druck von a. krummer, ), also by oberlehrer wiesner (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: versión parafrástica de sus odas por don joaquín arcadio pagaza, obispo de veracruz. (jalapa, imp. "el progreso" de concepción v. de mendizábal, ) (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: vierte satire, lateinisch und deutsch mit rechtfertigungen ([n.p.], ), also by c. passow (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: vierzehn politische gedichte des horaz [microform] / in trimetern übersetzt und mit einleitungen und anmerkungen erläutert von heinrich kern. (stuttgart : gedr. bei den königl. hof- und kanileibuchdruckern, gebr. mäntler, [ ]), also by heinrich kern (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: werke. (leipzig, w. engelmann, - ), also by i. s. strodtmann (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: werke (braunschweig : f. vieweg, ), also by johann heinrich voss (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: werke. (stuttgart : metzler, ), also by g. schwab, c.r. v osiander, and gustav ludwig (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: werke; (bremen., ), also by c. wagener and o. henke (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: werke ... ( ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: werke / (stuttgart : krais & hoffmann, -), also by w. binder (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: word for word from horace, the odes literally versified, (london, macmillan and co., ), also by william thomas thornton (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: works. (philadelphia, hunt, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: works (london, printed by ellerton and byworth for j. walker etc., ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: works, (new york, harper & brothers, ), trans. by christopher smart (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: works. (philadelphia, eldredge & brother, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: works, (london, john murray, ), ed. by henry hart milman, illust. by owen jones and george scharf (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: works / (oxford : clarendon press, - ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: works. english. (london : printed by e. cotes for henry brome ..., m. dc. lxvi [ ]), also by alexander brome, richard fanshawe, sir t. h. (thomas hawkins), john dunstall, and david loggan (html at eebo tcp) 	 horace: works. illustrated chiefly from the remains of ancient art. with a life of horace (london : j. murray, ), also by henry hart milman (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: works. in english verse. ( ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace, ( ), also by christopher smart (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace; (london, s. sonnenschein & co., ), also by john charles. trl elgood (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: the works of horace. (new york, harper & brothers, ), trans. by christopher smart (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace, (london: macmillan and co., ), also by samuel lee and james gylby lonsdale (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: the works of horace; (philadelphia, mckay, [c ]), also by christopher smart (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace, (cambridge, j. bartlett, ), also by charles beck and a. j. macleane, ed. by reginald h. chase (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace (edinburgh, printed for a. guthrie, and j. & j. fairbairn, ), trans. by christopher smart (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace, (london, printed for carnan and newbery, ), trans. by christopher smart (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace, (london, c. griffin and co., [ ]) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace. (philadelphia, eldredge, ), ed. by thomas chase (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: works of horace. (new york, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace. (london, h. g. bohn, ), ed. by theodore alois buckley, trans. by christopher smart (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace, (new york, harper & brothers, ), also by henry hart milman, ed. by charles anthon (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace, (new york, harper & brothers, ), also by henry hart milman, ed. by charles anthon (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace, (new-york, harper & brothers, ), ed. by charles anthon (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace, (new york, harper & brothers, ), also by henry hart milman, ed. by charles anthon (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace, (new york, harper & brothers, ), also by henry hart milman, ed. by charles anthon (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace. (new york : harper & brothers, ), ed. by charles anthon (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace. (london, macmillan and co., [c ]), also by samuel lee and james lonsdale (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace, (new york : e. duyckinck [etc.], ), also by christopher smart (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace, (london, printed by plummer and brewis for doig and sterling; edinburgh, p. griffin, ), also by philip francis, p. papinius statius, and b.c.- or a.d. works. english. ovid (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace, (new-york, harper & brothers, ), also by charles anthon (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace. (new york : harper and brothers, ), also by christopher smart (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace; (philadelphia, eldredge & brother, ), ed. by thomas chase (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace, (cambridge, j. bartlett, ), also by charles beck and a. j. macleane, ed. by reginald h. chase (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace. (london, g. bell & sons, ), ed. by theodore alois buckley, trans. by christopher smart (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: the works of horace, (boston, allyn, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace. (new york [etc.] : american book company, [ ?]), also by theodore william alois buckley and christopher smart (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace; (edinburgh, w. blackwood and sons, ), also by theodore martin (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: the works of horace, (new york, harper, ), ed. by theodore william alois buckley, trans. by christopher smart (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace. (cambridge, j. bartlett, ), ed. by edward moore (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace: (new york, american book company, [c ]), also by john l. lincoln (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace (gutenberg ebook) 	 horace: the works of horace / (london : printed for f. power, ), also by christopher smart (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace / (philadelphia : printed for d. hogan, a. towar, b. warner, and m.carey, ), trans. by christopher smart (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace / (new-york : d. appleton & company, [ ]), also by john l. lincoln (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace / (new york : harper, [ ]), also by henry hart milman and charles anthon (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace / (new-york : d. appleton & co., ), also by john l. lincoln (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace / (philadelphia : uriah hunt, [ --]), trans. by christopher smart (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace / (boston : john allyn, ), also by charles beck, reginald h. chase, and a. j. macleane (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace / (edinburgh : w. blackwood and sons, ), also by theodore martin (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: the works of horace / (new york : harper, ), also by theodore alois buckley and christopher smart (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace / (new york : harper, ), also by henry hart milman and charles anthon (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace / (new york city : hinds & noble, [ -?]), also by theodore alois buckley and christopher smart (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace / (new york : harper, ), also by theodore alois buckley and christopher smart (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace / (new york : harper, ), ed. by theodore alois buckley, trans. by christopher smart (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace / (new york: hinds & noble, [ -]), also by theodore alois buckley and christopher smart (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace / (philadelphia : eldredge & brother, ), also by thomas chase (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace / (philadelphia : eldredge & bros., ), also by thomas chase (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace / (london ; new york : macmillan, ), also by samuel lee and james gylby lonsdale (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: the works of horace / (philadelphia : eldredge, , c ), also by thomas chase (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace / (london : printed for r. baldwin, [etc.], ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace / (new york : s. king, ), also by philip francis (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace / (new york : harper, ), also by theodore alois buckley and christopher smart (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace / (new york : harper & brothers, ), also by theodore alois buckley and christopher smart (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace / (philadelphia : eldredge, [ ]), also by thomas chase (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace / (london : h.g. bohn, ), also by theodore alois buckley (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace / (london, h. g. bohn, ), ed. by theodore alois buckley, trans. by christopher smart (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace / ed., with explanatory notes, by thomas chase ... (philadelphia : eldredge & brother; boston : j.l. hammett; [etc., etc.], ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace : consisting of his odes, satires, epistles, and art of poetry / (london : printed for doig and sterling, ), also by b.c.- a.d. or a.d. works. english ovid and p. papinius statius (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace, from the text of doering [electronic resource] : with notes critical, philological and explanatory : together with an historical, geographical and mythological index / (charlottetown [p.e.i.] : j.d. haszard, ), also by e. r. humphreys and friedrich wilhelm doering (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace in english verse. (london, r. and j. dodsley, - ), also by william congreve, andré dacier, john duncombe, and william duncombe (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace rendered into english prose, with introductions, running analysis, notes and an index. (london, macmillan and co., ), also by samuel lee and james gylby lonsdale (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: the works of horace rendered into english prose, with introductions, running analysis, notes and an index. (london, macmillan and co., ), trans. by samuel lee and james gylby lonsdale (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: the works of horace : rendered into english prose with introductions, running analysis, notes and an index / (london : macmillan, ), also by sam-yŏl yi and james lonsdale (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: the works of horace, rendered into english prose; with life, introduction and notes, (london, new york and bombay, longmans, green, ), also by william coutts (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: the works of horace, translated into english prose ... together with the original latin, from the best editions, wherein the words of the latin text are ranged in their grammatical order ... the observations of the most valuable commentators ... represented; and the author's design ... set forth in a key annexed to each poem; with notes geographical and historical; also the various readings of dr. bentley ... 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(new york, d. appleton, ), also by john larkin lincoln (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace, with english notes, (boston, allyn and bacon, [c ]), also by charles beck and a. j. macleane, ed. by reginald heber chase (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace, with english notes, (cambridge, sever and francis, ), also by charles beck and a. j. macleane, ed. by reginald heber chase (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace; with english notes. (new-york, d. appleton & co., ), ed. by john l. lincoln (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace with english notes... 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(new york : d. appleton, , c ), also by j. l. lincoln (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace : with english notes, a life of horace, and an explanation of the metres / (cambridge : j. bartlett, ), also by edward moore (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace, with english notes, critical and explanatory, (new york, harpers & brothers, ), ed. by charles anthon (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace, with english notes, critical and explanatory. (new york, harper & brothers, ), also by henry hart milman and charles anthon (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace, with english notes, critical and explanatory, (new york, harper & brothers, ), also by charles anthon (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace, with english notes, critical and explanatory, (new-york, harper & brothers, ) (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the works of horace, with english notes, critical and explanatory. 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(new york, c. scribner's sons, - , c - ), also by eugene field and roswell martin field (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the writings in prose and verse of eugene field ... (new york : c. scribner's sons, ), also by eugene field and roswell martin field (page images at hathitrust; us access only) 	 horace: the writings in prose and verse of eugene field ... (new york, c. scribner's sons, ), also by eugene field and roswell martin field (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: the writings in prose and verse of eugene field .. (new york, c. scribner's sons, - ), also by eugene field and roswell martin field (page images at hathitrust) 	 horace: xxv select allusions to several places of horace, martial, anacreon and petron. arbitr. part i written by mr. dilke. 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Četrta knjiga pesmi 	 . . snov in slog v horacijevih pesmih (carmina) 	 . pisma (epistulae) 	 glej tudi 	 viri 	 . Življenjepis 	 . dela, slog, jezik 	 . za satire 	 . za ode in epode 	 sklici 	 zunanje povezave Življenjepis[uredi | uredi kodo] quintus horatius flaccus, bolje znan kot horacij, je bil latinski pesnik v avgustovi dobi. rodil se je v venosi (v današnji bazilikati) leta . pr. n. št. Šolal se je v rimu, kjer je imel kot prvega učitelja orbilija. pri . letih se je preselil v atene, kjer se je učil retoriko. v atenah se je pridružil mladim rimskim študentom, skupaj z njimi je zagovarjal republikanske ideje in se izrazil proti cezarju. po cezarjevem umoru je zaradi svojega blagostanja postal vojaški tribun. vodil je del brutove vojske skupaj s senatorjem gajem kasijem longinom proti oktavijanu in marku antoniju. po porazu pri filipih, leta . pr. n. št., je bila njegova vojaška kariera končana. lotil se je ponižnega dela – postal je scriba quaestorius, kvestorjev pisec in pomočnik, nižji uradnik. takrat je napisal epode. po srečanju z vergilijem, ga je ta vpeljal v mecenov krožek leta . pr. n. št.. z mecenom je nato postal velik prijatelj in od njega je prejel posest (villa) v sabinskih gorah, na katero se je vračal do konca svojih dni. horac je postal neke vrste dvorni pesnik in je svojo hvaležnost mecenu in cesarju avgustu izkazoval s tem, da ju je omenjal in slavil v svojih pesmih. v starejših letih se je izogibal razgibanega življenja v rimu. v skladu s svojo filozofijo o zmernem uživanju življenja (epikurejstvo) se je rajši zadrževal na podeželskem posestvu. umrl je v rimu leta pr. n. št., pokopali so ga na eskvilinu. snov in slog[uredi | uredi kodo] bil je pesimističen avtor, ki je postavljal v središče pozornosti pesnika. pisal je o družbi s svojega vidika in jo kritiziral z namenom, da bi pokazal pravilno pot politikom, literatom in bralcem nasploh. veliko pozornost je namenil tradicionalni moralnosti, omiki in vzgoji odraslih. prav avgust želi uvesti to moralnost, ki daje pomoč državi, ko je v krizi: morala je v tem primeru družbeno vezivo. horacijeva morala temelji na vzgoji in tradicionalni zdravi pameti, poleg tega jo je pesnik dogradil s predelanimi vsebinami helenističnih filozofij, ki so do njega prišle tudi preko izročila poljudne filozofske književnosti. v njegovih delih večkrat nastopa melanholija. imel je poseben pogled na onstranstvo in iskal je načinov, kako se izogibati misli na smrt. o tem je tudi pisal v svojih odah. horacij se je v glavnem spraševal o eksistencialnih tematikah, na katere ni nikoli našel odgovora. v iskanju osebne sreče je skušal najti srednjo pot med filozofijama, ki se medsebojno izključujeta: epikurejstvo in stoicizem. epikurejstvo zagovarja zmerno uživanje vsakega trenutka: posameznik se tu znebi trpljenja s tem, da uživa. sreče ne dobi v politiki, a v otiumu. po mnenju stoikov pa srečo doživiš, če se držiš stroge morale, če si dober državljan, upoštevaš mos maiorum in skrbiš za posmrtno življenje. odnos z grško književnostjo[uredi | uredi kodo] horacijeve lirike ne moremo doumeti, če ne upoštevamo odnosa z grško tradicijo. osrednjo vlogo v horacijevi liriki imata razmišljanje in filozofska kultura. pri njem ne gre več za pravo moralno iskanje, ki temelji na kritičnem opazovanju drugih, temveč za iskanje notranje sreče, ki je bilo med glavnimi vprašanji helenističnih filozofij. horacijevo iskanje domišljavosti, zlasti v pesmih domoljubne vsebine dokazuje, da navdih za njegovo liriko izhaja iz pindarja: od njega horacij črpa pomembne ideje, kot so zavest o visoki vlogi poezije, prepričanje, da lahko pesnik podeli nesmrtnost, pozitivno vrednotenje etične modrosti. poleg tega horacij piše svoje lirične pesmi za branje in zato večkrat opisuje izmišljene ali vsaj močno stilizirane situacije ter teži k veliki prefinjenosti in literarni rafiniranosti. poleg pindarja so za horacija vir navdiha grški pesniki alkaj, sapfo in arhiloh. prisvoji si tudi njihov simbol – eolsko kitaro. odnos z avgustom in mecenom[uredi | uredi kodo] drugi pol horacijeve lirike, domoljubno in nacionalno angažirana poezija, slavi osebnosti, dogodke in mite augustovega režima. v marsičem se oddaljuje od osebnih tem, čeprav ves horacijev osebni svet vedno dobi splošno veljavnost in izraža splošni človeški položaj. v tem se pomenljivo razlikuje od neoterične lirike. nastanek domoljubnih lirik je zagotovo povezan s pripadnostjo mecenovemu „krožku“. domoljubna horacijeva lirika pozna slavljenje rima in avgusta, hvaležnost za končno pridobljeni mir, uradni ton, vendar ni samo propaganda v verzih. horacij, pesnik skupnosti, večkrat namreč spregovori o negotovosti, bojazni, malodušnosti in tudi nepričakovanem osvobajujočem navdušenju: o čustvih in gobokih željah sočasne družbe. dela[uredi | uredi kodo] epode (jambi)[uredi | uredi kodo] epode je horacijevo delo, sestavljeno iz sedemnajstih pesmi. nastalo je okoli leta - pr.n.š., obljavljeno pa leta pr.n.š. to je mladostniško delo, saj je v primerjavi z ostalimi deli manj uglajeno ter je horacij v pisanju bolj strasten in agresiven. epode so izraz njegovega notranjega nemira. na začetku horacij imenuje to delo jambi, ker so pesmi sestavljene iz jambskih verzov in jambskih elementov. le kasneje je bilo delo poimenovano epode, ker sledi daljšemu ali krajšemu verzu pripeva. jamb je sestavljen iz dveh verzov, od katerih je prvi daljši, drugi pa krajši. to daje živahnejši ritem pesmi. v grčiji so epode spremljali s posebnim glasbenim inštrumentom na strune ali s piščaljo. horacij se v tem delu zgleduje po grškem pesniku arhilohu. v primerjavi z grki, ki so v epodah dovolili osebne napade, rimljani tega niso. horacij v epodah obravnava in kritizira obnašanja, ki so tipična za ljudi, za družbene kategorije in za literarne zvrsti. to delo horaciju prisluži vstop v mecenov krožek. samo v deseti pesmi direktno napada osebo, to je mevija, kateremu želi smrt v brodolomu. kljub temu se domneva, da je horac uporabljal mevija zato, da bi kritiziral različne družbene kategorije, posebno pa pesnike nizkega nivoja. ob priložnosti objave horacij posveti epode prijatelju in pokrovitelju mecenu. satire (sermones)[uredi | uredi kodo] horacij je napisal satiričnih pesmi, ki so razdeljene v dve knjigi. prva knjiga jih vsebuje , druga pa le . prvo je izdal leta . pr.n.š., drugo pa . pr.n.š. pesmi so napisane v heksametru. horacij obravnava številne teme: od človeškega nezadovoljstva do prešuštva. horacij je za to delo našel navdiha v lucilijevih satirah. Čeprav so nekatere pesmi ( , in ) izrazitega napadalnega značaja, je večina teh zapisana na nov način in v tem se približuje načinu pisanja pisem. satire so v primerjavi z epodami bolj individualne in postanejo prikaz pesnikovega življenja in okolja. za satire je značilna pogovorna in vsakodnevna uporaba jezika. zaradi tega je horacij dal delu naslov sermones (pomenki, pogovori). zbirka vsebuje številne pripombe, zagovore, pregovore in moralne misli iz ljudskega izročila. zelo pomembno vlogo v satirah ima ton. ta je razvezan od vsebine (ko je vsebina skromna ali iz vsakodnevnega življenja, je ton lahko visok in obratno). ton je v delu izredno raznolik: od visokega do nizkega ali od resnega do ironičnega. horacijevo geslo je ridendo dicere verum (v smehu povedati resnico). njegova naloga je preko smeha izobraziti in vzgojiti bralca. teme lahko v glavnem zberemo v tri kategorije: filozofska, književnostna in osebna. pesnik si je preko novih spoznanj prizadeval priti do etične zavesti in meni, da idealno življenjsko pot najdemo v modrosti in razumevanju. iz tega izhajajo znana horacijeva splošna načela, kot so na primer srednja pot ali zadovoljstvo z malim. prva knjiga satir[uredi | uredi kodo] 	prva pesem - horacij je prvo pesem napisal leta . pr.n.š. in jo posvetil mecenatu. v njej razpravlja o človeškem nezadovoljstvu. nihče ni zadovoljen z lastno usodo in zaradi tega zavida bližnjemu. pesnik meni, da je človek srečen le, ko ne razsiplje bogastva in obenem ni skopuh. 	druga pesem - v tej pesmi horac je napadalen, podobno kot v epodah. satira deluje kot kritika nesposobnosti in nenaravnosti, a v največji meri prešuštva. 	tretja pesem - horacij se navdihuje po epikurejskih nazorih; je satira prizanesljivosti. pesnik meni, da če posameznik hoče, da bodo drugi do njega dobrohotni, more tudi on biti dobrohoten do drugih. poleg tega izpostavlja misel, da ne vsi ljudje imajo isto stopnjo odgovornosti, kar nasprotuje stoičnemu mišljenju. 	Četrta pesem - Četrta pesem vsebuje literarne teme. horacij se sprva brani pred napadi nasprotnikov. poleg tega trdi, da ne posnema lucilija, saj je ta rimski pesnik pisal preveč, tudi ko to je bilo nepotrebno. horacij tega noče storiti in izrazi, da bo pisal samo, da bo zadovoljil ožjemu krogu prijateljev. 	peta pesem - horacij napiše potopis iz rima v brundizij in pri tem se navdihuje po luciliju. pesem je lahkotnega značaja, saj horacij vključi prijetne dogodke. 	Šesta pesem - horacij posveti šesti spev prijatelju mecenu in mu je hvaležen, saj si on izbira prijatelje ne glede na naziv in stan, temveč po duhu in zaslužnosti. 	sedma pesem- sedma pesem je tista, ki je bila zapisana kot prva in deluje kot smešen popis prepira med rutilijem regom in persijem. 	osma pesem - v osmi pesmi horacij obnavlja zgodbo boga priapa, ki naj bi čuval mecenove vrtove. 	deveta pesem - horacij pripoveduje zgodbo, ko ga je nekdo sitno spraševal za priporočilno pismo za mecena. 	deseta pesem - deseta satira je po vsebini zelo podobna četrti: v obeh horacij razpravlja o rimskem pesniku luciliju. druga knjiga satir[uredi | uredi kodo] 	prva pesem - prva pesem iz druge knjige se navezuje na literarne tematike iz četrte in desete satire iz prve knjige. 	druga pesem - horacij se v tej pesmi povezuje na temo, ki jo je že razvil v prvi in drugi pesmi prve knjige: srednja pot in o tem, da bi človek moral živeti po tem načelu. 	tretja pesem – horacij v zelo dolgi pesmi prikaže razgovor med samim pesnikom in filozofom damazipom. 	Četrta pesem – pesnik navaja kuhinjske recepte, katere mu jih je izročil kuhinjski mojster. 	peta pesem – peta pesem obravnava zelo razširjen pesniški argument iz tistega obdobja: lov na oporoke. 	Šesta pesem – navezuje se na šesto pesem iz prve knjige, saj spet se zahvaljuje prijatelju mecenu. 	sedma pesem – v tej satiri nastopa stoični nauk. 	osma pesem – opisuje dogodek, ko je horacij srečal komediografa fundanija in opisuje obilno kosilo. snov in slog v satirah in epodah[uredi | uredi kodo] satira je književna zvrst, ki se bliža prozi in se od nje razlikuje samo po metriki. slog satir je lahko sad lahkotne improvizacije. v primerjavi z lucilijem, horacij izraža potrebo, ki dokazuje jasno programsko usmerjenost. pesnik hoče doseči discipliniran in preprost jezik. z razliko od lucijevega sloga, horacij skuša doseči močne učinke z maloštevilnimi izraznimi sredstvi. od satire zahteva težko dosegljiv standard izražanja, zahteva koncentracijo in prilagodljivost. k temu lahko dodamo ponavljanja, svobodno stavčno gradnjo in sklope vrinjenih stavkov. horacij poudarja dialog. ta namreč pritegne sogovornike, prehiti ugovore, uvede dramske prizore, zglede iz mitologije ali zgodovine, parodije, anekdote in besedne igre. satire in epode je pisal istočasno in zdi se, da je slednjim namenil tisto raznolikost tem, tonov in slogovnih ravni, ki jih je rimska tradicija prej dodeljevala satiri. jasno zaokroženo skupino sestavljajo na primer »erotične« epode, ljubezenske pesmi, ki obravnavajo motive in situacije helenistične ljubezenske lirike ter prevzemajo tudi njen jezik in patetično intonacijo. tudi na izrazni ravni je lahko horacijeva jambska poezija sprejela bolj zadržano izrazje, čeprav je za epode še vedno značilen napet in pomensko nabit jezik, ki se včasih zadržuje pri najbolj surovih in občasno ostudnih vidikih realnosti. ob pesnikovem pretiravanju zaslutimo tudi emotivno zadržanost. giacomo di chirico ( - ), quinto orazio flacco ode (carmina - pesmi)[uredi | uredi kodo] horac je poleg epod in pisem pisal tudi ode ali carmina, te so se delile v štiri knjige. prve tri knjige so bile napisane leta pr.n.š.. prva kniga obsega pesmi, druga in tretja . Četrta knjiga, ki vsebuje pesmi, je bila objavljena leta pr.n.š. ode so nastale po kleopatrini smrti in koncu državljanske vojne med oktavijanom in markom antonijem. po tem dogodku so rimljani imeli občutek, da so vse vojne končale in oktavjan, ki se je vrnil v rim, je želel dati vtis kontinuitete s staro republiko. zbirko pesmi imenujemo ode, ker so nekatere pesmi naslovljene na rimljane, avgusta ali druge pomembne figure. horac je pisal za družbo, ki je bila na strani avgusta in svetovnega poslanstva rimskega imperija. horacijeve teme so zelo raznovrstne. prvi dve knjigi vsebujeta v glavnem ode s posvetilnimi temami, v zadnjih dveh knjigah pa horac ugotavlja, kaj je uspel doseči. poleg pesmi, ki govorijo o politiki, lahko najdemo tudi pivske pesmi. zasledimo tudi krajše aleksandrijske motive, kot so na primer epigramatično kratka posvetila, vabila, pesmi ob odhodu prijatelja. dobimo tudi ljubezenske zgodbe, pri katerih je značilno obvladovanje čustva. v njegovih pesmih najdemo tudi refleksije in razmišljanja. pogosto dobimo misli o kratkosti življenja in o človeški nespametnosti. slavil je poezijo kot stil življenja, ki te zaznamuje od množice. pisal je o večnosti in nesmrtnosti poezije ter o želji o preprostejšem in bolj vedrem življenju. metri, v katerih je pesnil, so zelo pestri in raznoliki. pesmi ni spesnil za glasno branje v javnosti ali petje, ampak za tiho branje in občasno zbrano recitacijo. prva knjiga pesmi[uredi | uredi kodo] v prvi knjigi najdemo epikurejske misli; pesnik razmišlja o minljivosti življenja in večnosti smrti. druga tema, ki je prisotna v prvi knjigi, je vabilo k izkoriščanju lepih trenutkov življenja, preden izginejo, ne da bi se spraševali o prihodnosti. prisotna je tudi oda o kleopatrini smrti ( , ). zadnja pesem knjige je posvečena skromnosti pesnika. druga knjiga pesmi[uredi | uredi kodo] druga knjiga poudarja stoične tematike in neizogibnost smrti. stoične tematike so razvidne v deseti odi, v kateri je prisoten pojem aurea mediocritas (zlata sredina, srednja pot-prava pot). v , dobimo soprisotnost stoičnih in epikurejskih idej, v odah , in , pa tematiko smrti. tretja knjiga pesmi[uredi | uredi kodo] tretjo knjigo zaznamuje močan poudarek na stoicizmu, katerega dobimo utrjenega v nekaterih verzih od , , , , , in še predvsem v trideseti pesmi. Četrta knjiga pesmi[uredi | uredi kodo] Četrta knjiga je bila napisana ab urbe condita. v zadnji knjigi se horacij loteva njemu najbolj pomembnih tem: hvala oktavijana avgusta, misel o trdnosti duha, o poeziji, ki podeli umetniku nesmrtnost, življenjsko zadovoljstvo. snov in slog v horacijevih pesmih (carmina)[uredi | uredi kodo] s formalnega vidika lahko povemo, da strukturalna zapletenost horacijevih od verjetno izhaja iz zborovske lirike, čeprav so ode najbolj uporabljene metrične oblike podedovale po monodični liriki. horacijevo navezovanje na grško arhaično liriko ima nedvomno značilnosti jasne programske izbire: pesnik se zavestno želi oddaljiti od aleksandrinstva neoterikov. njegova lirika upošteva helenistične izkušnje: iz teh izhaja široka paleta motivov, podob, situacij, ki se nanašajo predvsem na ljubezen in ljubezenska razmerja, pa tudi na praznike in javne obrede, pojedine, pokrajine. iz helenističnega sveta horacij črpa osrednje elemente svoje kulture, ideologije in pesniške občutljivosti. pomemben vpliv, čeprav ga večkrat zapostavljamo, je imela na horacijevo liriko tudi proza: helenistične razprave o dobrem vladarju, slavilni spisi, priročniki o govorništvu. stilna dovršenost je značilen znak zrele horacijeve lirike: gre za prefinjenost. horacij uporablja zelo preprosto besedišče. preprostost in klenost narekujeta tudi izbiro pridevnikov, skromno uporabo glasovnih figur, previdnost pri metaforah in primerjavah. skladnja je manj predvidljiva, a še vedno precej preprosta. pesnik ljubi elipse, skladnjo, ki spominja na grščino, hiperbaton, enjambement. primerno vzvišenost sloga doseže z nadzorovanim zmanjšanjem izraznih sredstev, s suho in uglajeno dikcijo, ki ne pozna preobilja. ekspresivnost zagotavljata tudi metrična virtuoznost in umetnost besednega razporeda. v nekem smislu se ode začenjajo, kjer se končujejo satire. osrednja misel je zavest o končnosti in kratkosti življenja, zato se moramo predati trenutni sreči. spopadal se je z bojaznijo pred smrtjo, saj ta lahko doleti vsakogar v vsakem trenutku. pomemben je nauk carpe diem, ki ga je izrazil v zadnjem verzu ode , . bil je prepričan, da je treba izkoristiti vsak trenutek, ki ga imamo na razpolago, saj je življenje kratkotrajno: od neprestanega toka časa je treba izluščiti in iztrgati/odtrgati (carpere) nekatere lepe trenutke. ne smemo torej misliti, da je carpe diem banalno vabilo k uživanju. pri horaciju, kakor tudi pri epikuru, je vabilo k zmernemu užitku tesno povezano z jasno zavestjo, da je sam užitek kratkotrajen, kot je kratkotrajno človeško življenje. pisma (epistulae)[uredi | uredi kodo] pisma so zadnje horacijevo delo ter eno izmed njegovih najizvirnejših del. epistulae obsegajo dve knjigi. prva knjiga vsebuje dvajset pisem, medtem ko druga knjiga tri, če ji prištevamo tudi pismo o pesništvu (ars poetica ali epistŭla ad pisōnes). druga knjiga obravnava razvoj rimske literature in umetnosti. prva knjiga je bila objavljena leta pr. n. št. in je posvečena mecenatu. pisma so zrcalo horaceve osebnosti in njegove volje, da bi izpolnil samega sebe. pesniška epistula kot literarna zvrst pred horacijem ni obstajala. horacij jo ustvari ob koncu svojega življenja, bogatega s človeškimi in umetniškimi izkušnjami. v pismih je izvirno to, da jih je odel v pesniško obliko, oz. heksametre. zgledoval se je po epikuru, saj se je v proznih pismih obračal na prijatelje in učence ter jim svetoval. razvidno je, kako vzgaja samega sebe in poskuša voditi druge. iz pisem je razvidno to, kako se horacij suče v rimski najvišji družbi, kako se obrača na svojega sužnja, upravnika posestva, katero življenje je najboljše. pisma so naslovljena na resnične osebe, oziroma na horacijeve prijatelje. zaradi tega je pomen v njih zaupnejši in bolj odkrit. v pismih mecenu in floru pesnik izjavlja, kaj mu pomenijo pisma in njihova pesniška obdelava: v njih preiskuje etični smoter pesništva in umetnosti nasploh. iz takšnega duhovnega razpoloženja horacij napiše ars poetĭca, ki je najbolj gosposki in učen izraz horacijeve misli. v tem delu se pesnik odtujuje nazorom epikurejske šole, a se navdihuje ob aristotelskih estetskih načelih. horacij je prepričan, da se mora umetniško delo oblikovati po nazoru pulchrum in decorum. pisma ne kažejo samo horacijeve zrele misli, a tudi visoko moralno smotrnost. pesnik hoče oblikovati novo umetniško pojmovanje augustejske dobe, ki bo ostalo do modernih časov kot zakonik antičnih estetskih nazorov. horacijeva ars poetica še danes velja za najtrdnejši spomenik antične kritične misli. glej tudi[uredi | uredi kodo] 	seznam rimskih pesnikov viri[uredi | uredi kodo] Življenjepis[uredi | uredi kodo] http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/quinto-orazio-flacco dela, slog, jezik[uredi | uredi kodo] 	e. castorina, la poesia di orazio, roma ; 	a. la penna, orazio e la morale mondana, firenze ; 	a. sovre, pismo o pesništvu(prevod), ljubljana ; 	k. gantar, Študij o horaciju, maribor ; 	g. b. conte, zgodovina latinske književnosti – od začetkov do padca rimskega cesarstva, ljubljana 	butkovič d.: storia della letteratura latina, 	gantar k.: Študije o horaciju, maribor za satire[uredi | uredi kodo] 	n. terzaghi, per la storia della satira, torino ; za ode in epode[uredi | uredi kodo] 	g. pasquali, orazio lirico, firenze ; 	a. la penna, orazio e l'ideologia del principato, torino sklici[uredi | uredi kodo] 	↑ , , http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/quinto-orazio-flacco_(enciclopedia-italiana)/ 	↑ , , , Любкер Ф. horatii // Реальный словарь классических древностей по Любкеру — sankt peterburg.: Общество классической филологии и педагогики, . — С.  — .d:track:q d:track:q d:track:q d:track:q 	↑ , , w. y. s., j. g. horace // encyclopædia britannica — — nyc: . — vol.  . — p.  — .d:track:q d:track:q d:track:q d:track:q d:track:q zunanje povezave[uredi | uredi kodo] 		poglejte si besedo horacij v wikislovarju, prostem slovarju. 		wikinavedek vsebuje navedke o temi: horacij 	normativna kontrola	 	 worldcat identities 	viaf: 	lccn: n 	isni: 	gnd: 	selibr: 	sudoc: 	bnf: cb b (data) 	bibsys: 	ulan: 	musicbrainz: af f f- - -a bf- d f c 	nla: 	ndl: 	nkc: jn 	iccu: it\iccu\cfiv\ 	rls: 	bne: xx 	cinii: da 	conor.si: vzpostavljeno iz »https://sl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=horacij&oldid= « 		kategorije: 	rojeni leta pr. n. št. 	umrli leta pr. n. št. 	rimski pesniki 	rimski filozofi 	rimljani v . stoletju pr. n. št. 	ljudje, po katerih so poimenovali asteroid skrite kategorije: 	brez lokalne slike, slika je v wikipodatkih 	Članki z viri iz wikipodatkov 	Članki s hcards 	 elementov normativne kontrole 	wikipedijini članki z identifikatorji viaf 	wikipedijini članki z identifikatorji lccn 	wikipedijini članki z identifikatorji isni 	wikipedijini članki z identifikatorji gnd 	wikipedijini članki z identifikatorji selibr 	wikipedijini članki z identifikatorji sudoc 	wikipedijini članki z identifikatorji bnf 	wikipedijini članki z identifikatorji bibsys 	wikipedijini članki z identifikatorji ulan 	wikipedijini članki z identifikatorji musicbrainz 	wikipedijini članki z identifikatorji nla 	wikipedijini članki z identifikatorji ndl 	wikipedijini članki z identifikatorji nkc 	wikipedijini članki z identifikatorji sbn 	wikipedijini članki z identifikatorji bne 	wikipedijini članki z identifikatorji cinii 	wikipedijini članki z identifikatorji conor.si 	 	 	navigacijski meni 	 		 	 		osebna orodja 	 	 			niste prijavljeni 	pogovorna stran 	prispevki 	ustvari račun 	prijava 		 	 		 			 	 		imenski prostori 	 	 			stran 	pogovor 		 	 			 	 	 		različice 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		pogled 	 	 			preberi 	uredi 	uredi kodo 	zgodovina 		 	 			 	 	 		več 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		iskanje 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigacija 	 	 			glavna stran 	dobrodošli 	izbrani članki 	naključni članek 	zadnje spremembe 		 	 	 	 		občestvo 	 	 			portal občestva 	pod lipo 	kontaktna stran 	pomoč 	denarni prispevki 		 	 	 		orodja 	 	 			kaj se povezuje sem 	sorodne spremembe 	posebne strani 	trajna povezava 	podatki o strani 	navedba članka 	predmet v wikipodatki 		 	 	 		tiskanje/izvoz 	 	 			ustvari e-knjigo 	prenesi kot pdf 	različica za tisk 		 	 	 		v drugih projektih 	 	 			wikimedijina zbirka 	wikinavedek 		 	 	 	 		v drugih jezikih 	 	 			afrikaans 	አማርኛ 	aragonés 	العربية 	مصرى 	asturianu 	تۆرکجه 	Башҡортса 	Žemaitėška 	Беларуская 	Беларуская (тарашкевіца)‎ 	Български 	brezhoneg 	bosanski 	català 	Čeština 	cymraeg 	dansk 	deutsch 	zazaki 	Ελληνικά 	english 	esperanto 	español 	eesti 	euskara 	فارسی 	suomi 	võro 	français 	furlan 	gaeilge 	galego 	עברית 	हिन्दी 	fiji hindi 	hrvatski 	magyar 	Հայերեն 	interlingua 	bahasa indonesia 	ido 	Íslenska 	italiano 	日本語 	ქართული 	Қазақша 	한국어 	kurdî 	kernowek 	latina 	lingua franca nova 	lietuvių 	latviešu 	malagasy 	Македонски 	മലയാളം 	Монгол 	मराठी 	bahasa melayu 	nāhuatl 	nederlands 	norsk nynorsk 	norsk bokmål 	occitan 	ਪੰਜਾਬੀ 	polski 	piemontèis 	português 	română 	tarandíne 	Русский 	sardu 	sicilianu 	srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски 	simple english 	slovenčina 	Српски / srpski 	seeltersk 	svenska 	kiswahili 	தமிழ் 	tagalog 	türkçe 	Татарча/tatarça 	Українська 	oʻzbekcha/ўзбекча 	tiếng việt 	volapük 	walon 	winaray 	吴语 	中文 	粵語 		uredi povezave 	 		 Čas zadnje spremembe strani: : , . december . 	besedilo se sme prosto uporabljati v skladu z dovoljenjem creative commons priznanje avtorstva-deljenje pod enakimi pogoji . ; 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Гораций 	лат. horatius 	 Портрет Горация работы Антона фон Вернера 	Имя при рождении	 Квинт Гора́ций Флакк 	Дата рождения	 декабря г. до н. э. 	Место рождения	 Веноза 	Дата смерти	 ноября г. до н. э. 	Место смерти	 Рим 	Гражданство (подданство)	 	Древний Рим 	Род деятельности	 древнеримский поэт 	Язык произведений	 Латынь 	 Произведения в Викитеке 	 Медиафайлы на Викискладе 	 Цитаты в Викицитатнике Предполагаемый портрет Горация с римского барельефа г. н. э. Музей изящных искусств (Бостон) Квинт Гора́ций Флакк (лат. quintus horatius flaccus), часто просто Гора́ций (  декабря до н. э. ( - - - ), Венузия — ноября до н. э., Рим) — древнеримский поэт «золотого века» римской литературы. Его творчество приходится на эпоху гражданских войн конца республики и первые десятилетия нового режима Октавиана Августа. Содержание 	 Биография 	 Творчество 	 . Сатиры 	 . Эподы 	 . Оды 	 . Послания 	 . Юбилейный гимн 	 Влияние 	 Изречения 	 Произведения 	 Переводы 	 . Переводы на русский язык 	 См. также 	 Примечания 	 Библиография 	 Ссылки Биография[править | править код] Квинт Гораций Флакк родился декабря года до н. э. в семье вольноотпущенника, владельца скромного имения в Венузии — римской военной колонии на юго-востоке Италии, на границе Лукании и Апулии[ ]. Его полное имя засвидетельствовано в его работах и в подписи к «Юбилейному Гимну», который он написал по поручению императора Августа к столетним играм года до н. э.; «quintus horatius flaccus carmen composuit» («Квинт Гораций Флакк сочинил песнь»). Отец Горация был вольноотпущенником. Юридически дети вольноотпущенников приравнивались к свободнорождённым, но такое происхождение, тем не менее, рассматривалось как социальная неполноценность, которая окончательно сглаживалась только в следующем поколении. Этот фактор оказал определённое влияние на мировоззрение и творчество Горация. О матери поэт не рассказывает, хотя упоминает няню Пуллию. Когда будущий поэт был ребёнком, его отец оставил имение, спокойную экономную жизнь в провинции и переехал в Рим, чтобы дать сыну должное столичное образование, которое могло бы ввести его в более высокие общественные круги. В столице отец исполнял должность комиссионера на аукционах, получая по одному проценту со сделки от покупателя и продавца. Согласно Светонию, он также торговал солёной рыбой[ ]. «Бедный, честный крестьянин», каким рисует отца сам Гораций, тем не менее, посредством такого занятия сумел покрывать расходы, связанные с образованием сына. Гораций прошёл через все ступени образования, обычного у римской знати своего времени: от первоначального обучения в школе Орбилия в Риме, где он изучал «Латинскую Одиссею» Ливия Андроника и Гомера до платоновской Академии в Афинах, где он занимался греческой литературой и философией (Академия того времени служила своего рода университетом или высшей школой для молодой аристократии Рима; одним из «одноклассников» Горация был, например, сын Цицерона). В Афинах Гораций так хорошо овладел греческим, что даже писал на нём стихи. Литературные и философские занятия Горация в Афинах были прерваны гражданской войной, наступившей после убийства Цезаря в году до н. э. Осенью этого года, приблизительно через полгода после убийства Цезаря, в Афины прибыл Брут. Посещая философские лекции, он вербовал приверженцев республиканского строя для борьбы с преемниками Цезаря — Антонием и Октавианом. Как и Цицерон, Гораций стал сторонником дела республики и присоединился к Бруту. Гораций поступил в армию Брута и получил даже несколько неожиданную для сына вольноотпущенника должность военного трибуна (то есть офицера легиона) — должности военных трибунов занимали в основном дети всадников и сенаторов, и она являлась первым шагом в карьере военного или магистрата. Этот факт позволяет предположить, что к этому времени Гораций (скорее всего, не без денег отца) обладал суммой в сестерциев, то есть цензом, необходимым для зачисления в сословие всадников, какая сумма позже позволила ему вкупиться в коллегию писцов. В битве при Филиппах в ноябре года до н. э. войско Брута и Кассия было рассеяно и обращено в бегство, после чего и Брут и Кассий покончили самоубийством. После этого поражения Гораций пересмотрел свою позицию и отказался от какой-либо деятельности в этом направлении. Впоследствии Гораций неоднократно упоминал о своих ранних республиканских «иллюзиях» и авантюре, которая могла оказаться для него роковой. В одной из Од он обратился к своему другу Помпею, который также принимал участие в сражении при Филиппах, где сообщил, что выжил только «бросив щит и бежав с поля боя» (что, между прочим, считалось первым признаком трусости). В Италию он вернулся, вероятно, в начале года до н. э. Отца уже не было в живых; его родина, Венузия, попала в число городов, отданных ветеранам Цезаря, и наследственное имущество Горация оказалось конфискованным. После амнистии, объявленной в году до н. э. сторонникам Брута, он приехал в Рим и остался там. Несмотря на собственные жалобы о бедности, которая заставляет его заняться поэзией, Гораций имел достаточно средств, чтобы вступить в коллегию квесторских писцов (по ведомству государственных финансов). Римское общество относилось с предубеждением к оплачиваемому труду, но на некоторые квалифицированные профессии такое отношение не распространялось; пожизненные должности этой коллегии считались почётными. Гораций работал секретарём (scriba quaestorius), что обеспечило ему возможность жить в Риме и заниматься литературой. Видимо, к - годам до н. э. относятся первые поэтические опыты Горация на латинском языке: гекзаметрические стихотворения, впоследствии ставшие первой книгой «Сатир», и ямбические, впоследствии ставшие «Эподами». Литературные поиски Горация перекликаются с классицистическим движением, которое возглавлял Публий Вергилий Марон и Луций Варий Руф. Оба старших поэта стали его друзьями. В — годах до н. э. они представил Горация Гаю Цильнию Меценату, близкому другу и соратнику Октавиана. Меценат, после девятимесячных раздумий, приблизил к себе поэта. Попав в окружение Мецената и соответственно принцепса, Гораций сохранил присущую ему осмотрительность, не пытался выделиться, во всем проявлял уравновешенность. К программе социальных и политических реформ, проводимых Августом, Гораций относился с должным вниманием, не опускаясь, однако, до уровня «придворного льстеца». Горацием двигало не столько согласие с идеологией принципата, сколько чувство благодарности за долгожданный мир, восстановленный Августом в Италии, в которой почти сто лет происходили гражданские войны. Бронников Ф. А. «Гораций, читающий свои „Сатиры“ Меценату» ( ) Светоний свидетельствует, что Октавиан Август предложил Горацию должность своего личного секретаря[ ]. Это предложение, в общем сулившее большие выгоды, Горация привлечь не могло, и было им тактично отвергнуто. Гораций опасался в том числе того, что, приняв предложение, он лишится своей независимости, которой значительно дорожил. В году до н. э. Гораций предположительно присутствовал, вместе с Меценатом, при морском поражении Октавиана у мыса Палинур. В этом же году Гораций в обществе Мецената, юриста Кокцея Нервы (прадеда императора Марка Кокцея Нервы), Фонтена Капитона (уполномоченного и легата Антония в Азии), поэтов Вергилия, Вария, издателя «Энеиды» Плотия Тукки совершил путешествие в Брундизий; об этом путешествии идёт речь в известной Сатире (i ). Между и годами до н. э. (наиболее вероятно зимой — ) вышел первый сборник стихотворений Горация, книга «Сатир», посвященная Меценату. В своей поэзии Гораций всегда подчеркивал, что его отношения с Меценатом основаны на взаимном уважении и дружбе, независимо от социального статуса; он стремился развеять представление о том, что их отношения имели характер отношений патрона и клиента. Гораций никогда не злоупотреблял дружбой Мецената и не пользовался его расположением в ущерб кому-либо. Гораций был далёк от того, чтобы требовать от своего покровителя большего; он даже не пользовался этой дружбой, чтобы вернуть отцовское имение, конфискованное Октавианом в пользу ветеранов после сражения при Филиппах. Однако такое в известной мере зависимое состояние Горация не раз становилось источником щекотливых положений, из которых он всегда выходил с совершенным тактом и достоинством. Далекий от честолюбивых стремлений, заботам и хлопотам городской жизни Гораций предпочитал тихую и спокойную жизнь в деревне. Сблизившись с Меценатом и его окружением, Гораций обзавёлся сильными покровителями и безусловно получил от Мецената существенные подарки. Предположительно в году до н. э. Гораций приобрёл своё прославленное имение в Сабинских горах, на реке Тибур, около теперешнего Тиволи. По некоторым текстам Горация был сделан вывод, что имение ему было подарено Меценатом (напр. carmina ii : — ), но ни сам Гораций, ни его биограф Светоний об этом не упоминают. Подобные фрагменты вообще проблематично рассматривать как непосредственное свидетельство того, что вилла Горация была подарком; вдобавок, существуют свидетельства о значительном собственном достатке Горация к этому времени. Интересно, что Гораций уважал основателя школы киренаиков Аристиппа и не раз восхвалял его в своих произведениях. Например, про себя он писал: «незаметно опять к наставленьям скачусь Аристиппа — / Вещи себе подчинить, а не им подчиняться стараюсь» (horat. epist. i i)[ ]. Также см. horat. epist. i xcvii. Вероятно, это связано с общей чертой: и философ, и поэт имели знатных и богатых покровителей, принимали их подарки как заслуженные, но при этом очень ценили независимость и занимались делом своей жизни, а не прислуживали за блага. сентября года до н. э. Гораций вместе с Меценатом присутствовали при битве у мыса Акций. В году до н. э. вышла вторая книга «Сатир» и «Эподы», сборник из стихотворений, которые он писал одновременно с сатирами. Название «Эподы» было дано сборнику грамматиками и указывает на форму двустиший, где короткий стих следует за длинным. Сам Гораций назвал эти стихотворения «ямбами»; образцом для них послужили ямбы греческого поэта первой половины vii века до н. э. Архилоха. Примечательно, что Гораций с самого начала творческого пути брал за образец древнегреческую классику, а не поэзию александрийцев, в соответствии с тенденцией своего времени и окружения. Начиная с года до н. э. Гораций с перерывами писал лирические стихотворения, первый сборник которых, книги Ι—iii, вышел во второй половине года до н. э. Лирические стихотворения вышли под названием «Песни» («carmina»), но ещё в античности их стали называть одами. Это название сохранилось за ними до нашего времени. В античности греческий термин «ода» не был связан с собственно торжественным пафосом и употреблялся в значении «песня», как эквивалент латинского carmen. Между и годами до н. э. Гораций старался держаться вдали от Рима, забросив «чистую поэзию» и вернувшись к полуфилософской «прозаической Музе» своих «Сатир». На этот раз уже не в полемической форме сатиры, а с преобладанием «мирного положительного» содержания; он написал -ю книгу «Посланий», в которую вошло двадцать стихотворений. Послания вышли в (или в начале ) года до н. э. В промежутке с конца до осени года до н. э. выходит Послание Юлию Флору, впоследствии второе во втором сборнике «Посланий». В году до н. э. с беспрецедентной торжественностью справлялись «вековые игры», празднество «обновления века», которое должно было знаменовать конец периода гражданских войн и начало новой эры процветания Рима. Август поручил Горацию написать гимн для церемонии праздников. Для поэта это явилось государственным признанием ведущего положения, которое он занял в римской литературе. Торжественный «Юбилейный гимн» был исполнен в храме Аполлона Палатинского хором из юношей и девушек июня года до н. э. Можно сказать, что теперь, когда Гораций давно «охладел» к лирике, он стал популярным, признанным её мастером. Август обращается к Горацию с новым поручением написать стихотворения, прославляющие воинскую доблесть своих пасынков Тиберия и Друза. По словам Светония, сочинения Горация император «так нравились, что и он настолько был уверен в том, что они останутся в веках, что поручил ему не только сочинение столетнего гимна, но и прославление победы его пасынков Тиберия и Друза над винделиками»[ ]. Так, в году до н. э. появилась -я книга од, в которую вошло пятнадцать стихотворений, написанных в дифирамбической манере древнегреческого поэта Пиндара. Империя окончательно стабилизировалась, и в одах уже не остается следа республиканской идеологии. Помимо прославления императора и его пасынков, внешней и внутренней политики Августа как носителя мира и благоденствия, сборник содержит вариации прежних лирических тем. К последнему десятилетию жизни Горация относится также вторая книга «Посланий», посвященная вопросам литературы. Книга, состоящая из трех писем, создавалась между и годами до н. э. Первое послание, обращенное к Августу (который выражал своё неудовольствие по поводу того, что до сих пор ещё не попал в число адресатов) вышло предположительно в году до н. э. Второе послание, обращенное к Юлию Флору, вышло раньше, между и годами до н. э.; третье, обращенное к Пизонам, вышло предположительно в (и выходило отдельно, возможно, ещё в ) году до н. э. Смерть Горация наступила от внезапной болезни, незадолго до его -летия, ноября года. Как указывает Светоний, умер Гораций «в пятый день до декабрьских календ, в консульство Гая Марция Цензорина и Гая Азиния Галла, в Риме, через пятьдесят девять дней после смерти Мецената, на пятьдесят седьмом году жизни. Наследником своим вслух объявил Августа, так как, мучимый приступом болезни, был не в силах подписать таблички завещания. Погребен и зарыт на окраине Эсквилина, подле гробницы Мецената»[ ]. Творчество[править | править код] Горация много читали не только в древности, но и в новое время, поэтому до нас дошли все его произведения: сборник стихов «Ямбы», или «Эподы», две книги сатир («Беседы»), четыре книги лирических стихотворений, известных под названием «Оды», юбилейный гимн «Песнь столетия» и две книги посланий. Сатиры[править | править код] saturae, Вернувшись после амнистии в Рим и столкнувшись там с нуждой, для стартового сборника Гораций, тем не менее, избирает именно сатиру (несмотря на такую комбинацию факторов, как своё низкое происхождение и «подмоченную республиканскую» репутацию). Однако концепция Горация позволяет ему взяться за жанр, наименее подходящий для человека в его положении. В «Сатирах» Гораций не нападает на изъяны своих современников, но только демонстрирует их и высмеивает; изменять поведение людей или «наказывать» их Гораций не мыслит. Гораций не «брызжет яростью», но обо всем говорит с веселой серьёзностью, как человек доброжелательный. Он воздерживается от прямых порицаний, приглашает к размышлению о природе людей, оставляя за каждым право делать собственные выводы. Он не затрагивает актуальную политику и далек от личностей, его насмешки и поучения имеют общий характер. Такая концепция совпадает со стремлениями Октавиана укрепить нравственные устои государства (следовательно, свой авторитет и свои позиции в Риме) посредством возврата к «добрым нравам» предков. (Пропаганда в этом направлении активно ведется под контролем самого Октавиана на протяжении всего первого десятилетия империи, когда Гораций писал «Сатиры».) Гораций считает, что примеры чужих пороков удерживают людей от ошибок. Эта позиция отвечает программе Октавиана, который считает, что сильная императорская власть необходима также и для контроля над «порочными представителями» общества. Вместе с современной романтически настроенной интеллигенцией Гораций приходит к стоико-эпикурейской философии, проповедующей презрение к богатству и роскоши, стремление к «aurea mediocritas» («золотой середине»), умеренность во всем, довольство малым на лоне природы, наслаждение за бокалом вина. Это учение послужило той призмой, через которую Гораций стал рассматривать явления жизни. В тех случаях, когда эти явления вступали в противоречие с моралью философии, они естественно настраивали поэзию Горация на сатирический лад. Такая философия вызывала у него (как и у многих его современников), романтическое возвеличение доблести и строгости нравов прежних времен. Она же отчасти определила и форму его нелирических произведений — форму разговора по образцу так называемой «философской диатрибы» — диалога с мнимым собеседником, возражения которого автором опровергаются. У Горация диатриба чаще видоизменяется в разговор автора с определёнными лицами или, реже, в беседу разных лиц. Такова форма его «Сатир» (лат. satura — смесь, всякая всячина). Сам Гораций называет их «sermones», «Беседы». Это написанные гекзаметром беседы на разные темы, часто в форме собственно «чистой» диатрибы. Они представляют собой сатиру в нашем смысле слова: или моралистического характера (против роскоши, зависти и пр.; напр. о преимуществах деревенской жизни, с басней о городской и сельской мыши, впоследствии переработанной Лафонтеном); или инвективного, нефилософского; или просто описания. «Разговоры» Горация — настоящие «causeries» («беседы»); в обстановке зарождающейся монархии в них нет чувства политической независимости, характерного для сатир Луцилия, последователем которого Гораций себя считал. Эподы[править | править код] Почтовая марка Румынии, посвящённая Горацию Основная статья: Эподы (Гораций) Первые эподы создавались ещё в то время, когда двадцатитрехлетний Гораций только вернулся в Рим, после битвы при Филиппах г. до н. э.; они «дышат ещё не остывшим жаром гражданской войны». Другие были созданы незадолго до публикации, в конце войны между Октавианом и Антонием, накануне битвы при Акции г. до н. э. и сразу после неё. Сборник также содержит «юношески пылкие строки», обращенные к недругам поэта и «пожилым прелестницам», домогающимся «молодой любви». Уже в «Эподах» виден широкий метрический горизонт Горация; но пока, в отличие от лирических од, метры эподов не логаэдические, и восходят не к изысканным эолийцам Сапфо и Алкею, а «прямолинейному» горячему Архилоху. Первые десять эподов написаны чистым ямбом; в Эподах с xi по xvi соединяются разнодольные метры — трехдольные дактилические (гекзаметр) и двудольные ямбические (ямбический метр); Эпод xvii состоит из чистых ямбических триметров. Среди тем ранних эподов особенно интересной и важной представляется тема гражданская; она проходит красной нитью через все творчество Горация, но с наибольшей силой и пафосом звучит, возможно, именно здесь, в этих ранних стихотворениях (Эпод vii, Эпод xvi). О том, как развивались взгляды Горация (как заканчивалась его «антиреспубликанская» трансформация), позволяют судить два «актийских» Эпода (i и ix), написанных в г до н. э., в год битвы при Акции. Между — гг. Гораций приобретает своё прославленное имение в Сабинских горах; новая деревенская обстановка, возможно, вдохновила Горация написать прославленный Эпод ii. Эподы xi, xiii, xiv, xv образуют особую группу: здесь нет ни политики, ни язвительности, насмешек, злого сарказма, свойственных ямбографии. Они отличаются особым настроением — Гораций явно пробует силы в области «чистой лирики», а эподы написаны уже не чистым ямбом, но квази-логаэдическими стихами. В «любовных» Эподах xiv и xv Гораций уже далеко отходит от лирики Архилоха. В смысле пыла и страсти Архилоху ближе лирика Катулла, спектр переживаний и сомнений которой сложнее и намного «взъерошеннее», чем у Горация. Лирика же Горация открывает иное чувство (можно сказать, более римское) — сдержанное, неповерхностное, прочувствованное одинаково «умом и сердцем» — согласованное с отточенным, бесстрастно-изящным образом его поэзии в целом. Ближе всего к своим древним прототипам, эподам Архилоха, стоят Эподы iv, v, vi, viii, x и xii. Язвительный сатирический тон в них «доходит до бичующего сарказма»; в то же время «пыл ненависти» в этих эподах явно более технологичен — для Горация, характерно сдержанного даже в пору «горячей ветреной юности», такой пыл здесь скорее художественный прием, инструмент. Тем не менее, обычно сдержанный и изящно-бесстрастный даже в ранние годы, Гораций мог быть и яростен и циничен; откровенные до непристойности Эподы viii и xii ставят немалые преграды перед переводчиками. Однако сам Гораций не испытывал в связи с ними никакого стеснения — подобные стихи были обычны в среде, для которой они предназначались. (Вообще, сохранившиеся фрагменты переписки Августа доносят до нас дух грубоватого цинизма, имевшего место среди ближайшего окружения принцепса.) В коротких «Эподах», сильных и звучных, полных огня и юного пыла, заключено ясное видение мира, доступное настоящему гению. Мы находим здесь незаурядную палитру образов, мыслей и чувств, отлитых в чеканную форму, которая в целом для латинской поэзии была свежей и необычной. Эподам ещё недостает того кристально чистого звучания, неповторимой лаконичности и вдумчивой глубины, которой будут отличаться лучшие оды Горация. Но уже этой небольшой книгой стихов Гораций представил себя как «звезда первой величины» на литературном небосводе Рима. Оды[править | править код] Сборник carmina (название традиционно переводится как Оды) состоит из четырёх частей («книг») и в общей сложности охватывает стихотворения: lib. i ( ), lib. ii ( ), lib. iii ( ) и lib. iv ( ). От архилохова стиля эподов Гораций переходит к формам монодической лирики. Теперь его образцы — Анакреонт, Пиндар, Сапфо, в первую очередь Алкей, и Гораций видит своё право на литературное бессмертие в том, что он «первый свел эолийскую песнь на италийский лад». Первый сборник содержит стихотворения, написанные исконно греческими размерами: алкеевой строфой, сапфической, асклепиадовой и другими в различных вариациях. В сумме тринадцать строфических форм, и почти все они для латинской поэзии новые (только сапфическая строфа встречалась ранее у Катулла). В латинской трактовке греческих прототипов, обладающих «неродными» для латинского языка свойствами, Гораций обнаруживает метрическое мастерство, не превзойденное никем из последующих римских поэтов. Оды отличаются высоким стилем, который отсутствует в эподах и от которого он отказывается в сатирах. Воспроизводя метрическое построение и общий стилистический тон эолийской лирики, Гораций во всем остальном идет по собственному пути. Как и в эподах, он использует художественный опыт разных периодов и часто перекликается с эллинистической поэзией. Древнегреческая форма служит облачением для эллинистически-римского содержания. Отдельное место занимают т. н. «Римские оды» (iii, — ), в которых наиболее законченно выражено отношение Горация к идеологической программе Августа. Оды связаны общей темой и единым стихотворным размером (излюбленной Горацием Алкеевой строфой). Программа «Римских од» такова: грехи отцов, совершенные ими во время гражданских войн и как проклятие тяготеющие над детьми, будут искуплены только возвращением римлян к старинной простоте нравов и древнему почитанию богов. «Римские оды» отражают состояние римского общества, вступившее в решающую стадию эллинизации, которая придала культуре Империи ясный греко-римский характер. Любопытно, что ювелирно обработанная и «насыщенная мыслью», но сдержанная и бесстрастная лирика не встретила у современников того приема, которого ожидал автор. Её находили излишне аристократичной и недостаточно оригинальной (следует сделать вывод, что таково было мнение общей «образованной массы»). В целом оды проводят все ту же мораль умеренности и квиетизма. В знаменитой Оде третьей книги Гораций сулит себе бессмертие как поэту; ода вызвала многочисленные подражания, из которых наиболее известны подражания Державина и Пушкина). Послания[править | править код] По форме, содержанию, художественным приемам и разнообразию тем «Послания» сближаются с «Сатирами», с которых поэтическая карьера Горация начинается. Гораций сам указывает на связь посланий с сатирами, назвав их, как раньше «Сатиры», «беседами» («sermones»); в них, как до этого в сатирах, Гораций использует дактилический гекзаметр. Комментаторы всех периодов считают «Послания» значительным шагом в искусстве изображения внутренней жизни человека; сам же Гораций даже не причислял их к собственно поэзии. Отдельное место занимает знаменитое «Послание к Пизонам» («epistola ad pisones»), названное позднее «ars poëtica». Послание относится к типу «нормативных» поэтик, содержащих «догматические предписания» с позиций определённого литературного направления. В этом послании мы находим наиболее полное изложение теоретических взглядов Горация на литературу и тех принципов, которым в своей поэтической практике он следовал сам. Этим посланием Гораций включается в литературную полемику между поклонниками архаической литературы и почитателями современной поэзии (последние эпической напыщенности и примитивной форме старых поэтов противопоставляли поэзию субъективных чувств и отточенность поэтической техники). В послании звучит предостережение Августу, который намеревался возродить древний театр как искусство народных масс и использовать его в целях политической пропаганды. Гораций полагает, что принцепсу не следует угождать грубым вкусам и прихотям необразованной публики. По сообщению античного комментатора, теоретическим источником Горация был трактат Неоптолема из Париона, которому он следует в расположении материала и в основных эстетических представлениях. (Поэзия вообще, поэтическое произведение, поэт — этот ход изложения Неоптолема сохранен у Горация.) Но Гораций не ставит целью создать какой-либо полный трактат. Свободная форма «послания» позволяет ему остановиться только на некоторых вопросах, более-менее актуальных с точки зрения литературных направлений в Риме. «Наука поэзии» представляет собой своего рода «теоретический манифест» римского классицизма времени Августа. Юбилейный гимн[править | править код] В году до н. э. с беспрецедентной торжественностью справлялись «вековые игры», празднество «обновления века», которое должно было знаменовать конец периода гражданских войн и начало новой эры процветания Рима. Предполагалась сложная, тщательно разработанная церемония, которую, согласно официальному объявлению, «ещё никто не видел и никогда более не увидит» и в которой должны были принять участие знатнейшие люди Рима. Она завершалась гимном, подводившим итог всему празднеству. Гимн был поручен Горацию. Для поэта это явилось государственным признанием ведущего положения, которое он занял в римской литературе. Гораций принял поручение и решил этот вопрос превратив формулы культовой поэзии во славу живой природе и манифест римского патриотизма. Торжественный «Юбилейный гимн» был исполнен в храме Аполлона Палатинского хором из юношей и девушек июня г. до н. э. Влияние[править | править код] Сам поэт измерял в «Памятнике» своё литературное бессмертие вечностью римского государства, но наибольший расцвет его славы был ещё впереди. Начиная с каролингских времён интерес к Горацию возрастает; свидетельством этого интереса служат дошедших до нас средневековых рукописей его произведений. В период раннего Средневековья морально-философские произведения Горация, сатиры и в особенности послания привлекали большее внимание, чем лирика; Горация почитали как моралиста и знали главным образом в качестве автора сатир и посланий. Ему, «сатирику Горацию», Данте (Ад iv) отводит место в Аиде вслед за Вергилием и Гомером. Новую оценку принёс с собой Ренессанс, когда нарождавшаяся «буржуазная личность» противопоставила себя «церковному созерцанию». (Известно, что в  г. рукопись с произведениями Горация приобрел Петрарка; в некоторых его стихотворениях обнаруживается явное влияние Горация.) Как лирический выразитель такого нового мироощущения, Гораций стал любимым поэтом Возрождения (вместе с Вергилием, и часто превосходя его). Гуманисты считали Горация «своим» всецело; но высоко ценили его также иезуиты — выхолощенный или христианизированный Гораций оказывал положительное нравственное воздействие на учеников. Картины простой деревенской («горацианской») жизни приходились по душе людям сходной с ним судьбы, близких вкусов (какими были, например, Петрарка, Ронсар, Монтень, Роберт Геррик, Бен Джонсон, Мильтон). Лирические размеры Горация использовались в новолатинском стихосложении, что, как считается, особенно удачно получалось у немецкого гуманиста Конрада Цельтиса, который кроме того установил обычай петь оды Горация в школе (что в в. стало повсеместной практикой). Впоследствии Горация стали переводить на новые языки (удачнее всего, как считается, на немецкий). В России Горацию подражал Кантемир; увлекались им Пушкин, Дельвиг, Майков и другие. «Искусство поэзии» оказало колоссальное влияние на литературную критику; из него заимствовались классические принципы, ссылками на него обосновывались старания обуздать излишества барокко. Из «ars poëtica» для своей «Поэтики» много заимствует Буало; им восторгается Байрон, его изучают Лессинг и др. Однако «Буре и натиску», другим движениям романтиков было не по пути с «певцом благоразумия, уравновешенности и умеренности», и с той поры популярность Горация больше не поднималась на прежнюю высоту. После изобретения книгопечатания ни один античный автор не издавался столько раз, сколько Гораций. Его наследие вызвало огромное количество как новолатинских, так и национальных подражаний и сыграло большую роль в формировании новоевропейской лирики. В честь Горация назван кратер на Меркурии. Изречения[править | править код] carpe diem — «хватай день» (carmina i , ). В полном виде: «carpe diem quam minimum credula postero», «пользуйся (каждым) днем, как можно менее полагаясь на следующий» dulce et decorum est pro patria mori — «Красиво и сладко умереть за отечество» (carmina iii , ). Часто использовавшийся в газетах Первой мировой войны лозунг; также заглавие горько ироничного стихотворения английского поэта Уилфреда Оуэна «dulce et decorum est» об этой войне. sapere aude — «решись быть мудрым» (epistulae i , ). Изречение было воспринято Иммануилом Кантом и стало своеобразным лозунгом Эпохи Просвещения. Данное изречение является девизом Московского физико-технического института (вариант «дерзай знать»). Произведения[править | править код] В хронологическом порядке: 	sermonum liber primus, Сатиры i ( до н. э.) 	epodes, Эподы ( до н. э.) 	sermonum liber secundus, Сатиры ii ( до н. э.) 	carminum liber primus, Оды i ( до н. э.) 	carminum liber secundus, Оды ii ( до н. э.) 	carminum liber tertius, Оды iii ( до н. э.) 	epistularum liber primus, Послания i ( до н. э.) 	ars poetica, Послание Пизонам ( / до н. э.) 	carmen saeculare, Вековой Гимн ( до н. э.) 	epistularum liber secundus, Послания ii ( до н. э.) 	carminum liber quartus, Оды iv ( до н. э.) Переводы[править | править код] 	В серии «loeb classical library» сочинения изданы в томах (№  , ). 	В серии «collection budé» сочинения изданы в томах. Переводы на русский язык[править | править код] Среди переводивших произведения на русский язык: 	 	Артюшков, Алексей Владимирович 	Барков, Иван Семёнович 	Водовозов, Василий Иванович 	Давыдов, Денис Васильевич 	Дельвиг, Антон Антонович 	Державин, Гавриил Романович 	Дмитриев, Михаил Александрович 	Загорский, Михаил Павлович 	Казанский, Борис Васильевич 	Красинский, Адам Станислав 	Крестовский, Всеволод Владимирович 	Крешев, Иван Петрович 	Лермонтов, Михаил Юрьевич 	Ломоносов, Михаил Васильевич 	 	Майков, Аполлон Николаевич 	Мерзляков, Алексей Фёдорович 	Модестов, Василий Иванович 	Норов, Авраам Сергеевич 	Ошеров, Сергей Александрович 	Позняков, Николай Сергеевич 	Пастернак, Борис Леонидович 	Пушкин, Александр Сергеевич 	Срезневский, Иван Евсеевич 	Тютчев, Фёдор Иванович 	Фет, Афанасий Афанасьевич 	Филимонов, Владимир Сергеевич 	Шаховской, Александр Александрович 	Шебор, Осип Антонович Неоднократно выходили «школьные издания» избранных стихов Горация. Основные русские переводы: 	Квинта Горация Флакка Десять писем первой книги. / Пер. Харитона Макентина. -е изд. — СПб., . — , с. 	Письмо Горация Флакка о стихотворстве к Пизонам / Пер. Н. Поповского. — СПб., . — с. 	Квинта Горация Флакка Сатиры, или Беседы с примечаниями / Пер. И. С. Баркова. — СПб., . — с. 	Наука поэзии, или Послание к Пизонам Кв. Горация Флакка / Пер. и прим. М. Дмитриева. — М., . — с. 	Оды Квинта Горация Флакка / Пер. А. Фета. — СПб., . — с. 	Сатиры Квинта Горация Флакка / Пер. М. Дмитриева. — М., . — с. 	К. Гораций Флакк / В пер. А. Фета. — М., . — с. (почти полный перевод с незначит. пропусками) 	Избранные стихотворения / Пер. и комм. О. А. Шебора. — СПб., . — Вып. - . (Первое издание. Всего было изданий.) 	Квинт Гораций Флакк. Полное собрание сочинений / Пер. под ред. Ф. А. Петровского, вступ. ст. В. Я. Каплинского. — М.-Л.: academia. . — с. — экз. 	переизд. под назв. «Собрание сочинений» / Вступ. ст. В. С. Дурова. — СПб.: Студиа биографика, . — с. 	Гораций. Оды. Эподы. Сатиры. Послания / Вступ. ст. М. Л. Гаспарова. — М., Худож. лит. . — с. — экз. (в частности, издание включает новый перевод Гаспаровым «Науки поэзии») 	Квинт Гораций Флакк. Наука поэзии / Пер. М. М. Позднева // Книга сочинителя. — СПб.: Амфора, . — С. — . 	Квинт Гораций Флакк. Книга Эподов / Пред., пер. и прим. Г. М. Севера. — toronto: aeterna, . — (Новые переводы классиков). — isbn - - - - . 	Квинта Горацiя Флакка двадцать четыре избранныя оды въ переводѣ Алексѣя Кокотова. - toronto: aeterna publishing, 	Квинт Гораций Флакк. Оды. - М., Летний Сад, . Двуязычное издание, включающее два полных перевода (А. Фета и А. Кокотова) всех четырех книг од и избранные переводы отдельных од, принадлежащие русским поэтам и переводчикам от Державина и Востокова до наших современников. 	Квинтъ Горацιй Флаккъ. Оды въ переводѣ Алексѣя Кокотова. - М., Водолей, См. также[править | править код] 	ab ovo 	ab ovo usque ad mala 	exegi monumentum Примечания[править | править код] 	↑ Гораций, поэт // Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона : в т. ( т. и доп.). — СПб., — . 	↑ Светоний. О поэтах / Пер. М. Л. Гаспарова // В кн.: Гай Светоний Транквилл. Жизнь двенадцати цезарей. — М.: Наука, . — С. . 	↑ Светоний. О поэтах. — С. . 	↑ Гораций. Собрание сочинений — СПб.: Студиа биографика, . — С. 	↑ Светоний. О поэтах. — С. . Библиография[править | править код] 	Новое издание heinze r., lpz., . 	Критич. изд. volmer f., lpz., . 	Гай Светоний Транквилл. Жизнеописание Горация. 	schanz m., gesch. d. röm. liter., i, münchen, . 	ribbeck, gesch. d. röm. dichtung, stuttg. . 	stemplinger, ed., horaz im urteil der jahrhunderte, lpz. . 	campbell a. v., horace. a new interpretation. . 	Нагуевский Д. И. История римской литературы. т. ii. Казань. . 	Благовещенский Н. М. Гораций и его время. СПб, . -е изд. Варшава, . 	Коссович И. А. Горацианские лирические размеры, их применение к русской метрике, с приложениями и пояснениями. Варшава, . стр. 	Цветков П. Мысли Горация о поэзии и условиях совершенства поэтических произведений в «Посланиях к Пизонам» (речь). М., . 	Зенгер Г. Э. Критический комментарий к некоторым спорным текстам Горация. Варшава, . xl, стр. 	Детто В. А. Гораций и его время. Вильна, . стр. 	Каплинский В. Я. «Поэтика» Горация. Спорные вопросы интерпретации, формы и содержания. Саратов, . 	Борухович В. Г. Квинт Гораций Флакк. Поэзия и время. Саратов, Изд-во Сарат.ун-та. . 	Алексеев В. М. Римлянин Гораций и китаец Лу Цзи о поэтическом мастерстве.// Известия АН СССР. Отделение литературы и языка. , Том . Выпуск . С. — . То же.- Алексеев В. М. Труды по китайской литературе. В кн. Кн. i. М., . 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Текст доступен по лицензии creative commons attribution-sharealike; в отдельных случаях могут действовать дополнительные условия. Подробнее см. Условия использования. wikipedia® — зарегистрированный товарный знак некоммерческой организации wikimedia foundation, inc. 		Политика конфиденциальности 	Описание Википедии 	Отказ от ответственности 	Свяжитесь с нами 	Мобильная версия 	Разработчики 	Статистика 	Заявление о куки 		 	 	 horatius - wîkîpediya 	 	 	 	 	horatius 	 		ji wîkîpediya, ensîklopediya azad. 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 quintus horatius flaccus quintus horatius flaccus ( ê kanûna pêşîn b.z. [ ] - ê çiriya paşîn b.z. [ ]), helbestvanê romayî yê herî girîng ê serdema augustus e. jiyan[biguherîne] horatius, li bajarokekî ku wê demê bi navê venosa yan jî venusia dihat zanîn û di navbera apulia û lucania de bû, ji dayik bû.[ ] wekî layê zilamekî xulam ku dawiyê azadiya xwe bi dest xistibû, hatibû dinyê, lê ew wekî kesekî azad hatibû hesibandin. bavê wî bi mezadê mijûl dibû. horatius bavê xwe wekî cotkarekî hejar û birûmet bi bîr aniye. lê tu carî qala dayîka xwe nekiriye ku ibe ku ew xulam bûye.[ ] bavê wî ji bo perwerdekirina horatius ked û kespa xwe xerakiribû û wî ji bo dibistanê şandibû romayê. piştî jî ji bo perwerdeya yewnanî û felsefeyê şandibû atînayê. helbestvan hurmeta xwe ya ji bo bavê xwe dihisî, di helbestên xwe de xuya kiriye.[ ] piştî kuştina julius caesar, horatius ket artêşê û ji bo brutus di Şerê philippi de şer kir. brutus hat xwarê û dawiya vê şerê horatius qala berdana mertal û revîna xwe kiriye. dema augustus efuya giştî weşand, horatius vegeriya Îtalyayê. her tiştê wî ji destê wî çûbû û xizan bûbû. lê ji ber ku li qada helbestê serkeftî bû, cardin ji aliyê dewletê destek li berê hat xistin.[ ] horatius bi virgil û lucius varius rufus re xebitî û bi riya wan bi maecenas re ku hevalê augustus bû, hev û din nas kirin. piştî nasînê, maecenas him bû hevalê wî him jî bû patronê wî û jê re axeke li ser girên sabine dabû. ji ber ku berî mirina wî merivekî wî tunebû, mîrata xwe ji maecenas û împarator augustus re hişt.[ ] Çavkanî[biguherîne] 	↑ the year is given in odes . . 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[ ] [ ] ( წლის) 	გარდაცვალების ადგილი	 რომი 	დასაფლავებულია	 რომი 	საქმიანობა	 პოეტი[ ] [ ] , მწერალი[ ] და ფილოსოფოსი 	ენა	 ლათინური ენა[ ] 	ეროვნება	 ძველი რომაელები 	მოქალაქეობა	 ძველი რომი 	magnum opus	 ars poetica 	 ჰორაციუსი ვიკისაწყობში კვინტუს ჰორაციუს ფლაკუსი (ლათ. quintus horatius flaccus; დ. დეკემბერი, ძვ. წ. , აპულიის ვენუზია — გ. ნოემბერი, ძვ. წ. , ტივოლი) — რომაელი პოეტი, განსაკუთრებით ცნობილი გახდა თავისი ოდებით. სექციების სია 	 ბიოგრაფია 	 შემოქმედება 	 . სატირები 	 . ეპოდები 	 . ოდები 	 . ეპიტრები 	 ლიტერატურა 	 რესურსები ინტერნეტში 	 სქოლიო ბიოგრაფია[რედაქტირება | წყაროს რედაქტირება] ჰორაციუსი ჯერ კიდევ ბავშვი იყო, როცა მამამ ოჯახი რომში საცხოვრებლად გადაიყვანა, რათა მის შვილს საუკეთესო განათლება მიეღო. წლის ჰორაციუსს იგი ათენში გზავნის ბერძნული ენისა და ფილოსოფიის შესასწავლად. იულიუს კეისრის მკვლელობის შემდეგ, ძვ. წ. წელს ჰორაციუსი ლიბერატორთა არმიაში შედის და ბრძოლაში თავს გამოიჩენს. წლისას ბრუტუსი ლეგიონის სარდლობას ჩააბარებს. ფილიპების ბრძოლაში ბრუტუსის ჯარი ოქტავიუსის (მომავალი იმპერატორის) ბანაკს აიღებს, თუმცა თავად მომავალი იმპერატორი გაქცევას მოახერხებს. მეორე ბრძოლაში კი იქტავიუსი იმარჯვებს. დამარცხებულთა შორისაა ჰორაციუსიც. მალე მათ გაატავისუფლებენ და პოეტი იტალიაში ბრუნდება, სადაც მამის გარდაცვალებისა და ქონების კონფისკაციის ამბავს შეიტყობს. გაღარიბებული ჰორაციუსი გადამწერის ადგილს შოულობს, თუმცა უარს არ ამბობს ავტორიტარიზმის წინააღმდეგ ბრძოლაზე, რასაც უკვე არა ხმლით, არამედ კალმით წარმართავს. წერს ეპოდებსა და სატირებს, რომლებიც ოქტავიუსის წინააღმდეგაა მიმართული. მალე ჰორაციუსი დაუმეგობრდება ვერგილიუსს, რომელიც მას წარუდგენს ოქტავიუსთან დაახლოებულ პირს, მეცენატს. ეს უკანასკნელი ჰორაციუსს თავის პროტექტორობას შესთავაზებს და აძლევს მამულს ტიბურთან (დღევანდელი ტივოლი) ახლოს. სულ მალე ჰორაციუსის პოპულარობა ლიტერატურულ წრეებში გაიზრდება. ჰორაციუსი გარდაიცვლება თავისი პროტექტორის სიკვდილიდან თვის შემდეგ, ძვ. წ. , ნოემბერს. შემოქმედება[რედაქტირება | წყაროს რედაქტირება] saturae, სატირები[რედაქტირება | წყაროს რედაქტირება] ჰორაციუსის სატირები ორ კრებულადაა გაერთიანებული, ერთში ათი პიესა შედის, მეორეში - რვა. სატირათა უმრავლესობა ავტოპორტრეტს წარმოადგენს და თვისუფალი ტონითაა დაწერილი. მათში მოცემულია პოლიტიკური, სოციალური, ეთიკური და ლიტერატურული საკითხების შესახებ პოლემიკები. ეპოდები[რედაქტირება | წყაროს რედაქტირება] ჰორაციუსს ეკუთვნის ჩვიდმეტი ეპოდი, რომელნიც მთლიანობაში სტროფს ითვლის. თავად ავტორი მათ იამბებად მოიხსენიებდა. ეპოდების სტილი დაძაბულია, ტონი - საყვედურის. მათსი ადგილი აქვს როგორც ეროტიზმს ასევე პატრიოტულ თემატიკას. ოდები[რედაქტირება | წყაროს რედაქტირება] ჰორაციუსის ოდები წიგნადაა დაწერილი, მათგან თითოეული შეიცავს , , და ოდას. ავტორი მათ ეგვიპტურ პირამიდებს ადარებდა. ოდები ჰორაციუსის ყველაზე მნიშვნელოვან და საერთოდ რომაული ლირიკის შედევრად ითვლება. შინაარსის მხრივ აქ ერთმანეთს ენაცვლება პირადული და საჯარო საკითხები, სიყვარული და პოლიტიკა, ბერძნული და ლათინური სამყარო, დახვეწილი მითოლოგია და უხეში რეალობა, ეპიკურიზმი და სტოიციზმი, ეპიტრები[რედაქტირება | წყაროს რედაქტირება] პირველი კრებული ეპიტრს შეიცავს, მეორე კი მხოლოდ ორს. ამას ემატება ჰორაციუსის ცნობილი ეპიტრი პოეტური ხელოვნება. ისინი დაწერილია ჰექსამეტრით, ისევე, როგორც სატირები. ეპიტრები მიემართება კონკრეტულ ადამიანებს და ფიქტიურ წერილებს წარმოადგენს. მათი ტონი ნაკლებად სხარტი და შედარებით თავისუფალია. ლიტერატურა[რედაქტირება | წყაროს რედაქტირება] 	 ქართული საბჭოთა ენციკლოპედია, ტ. , თბ., . — გვ.  . რესურსები ინტერნეტში[რედაქტირება | წყაროს რედაქტირება] 	 შეგიძლიათ იხილოთ მედიაფაილები თემაზე „ჰორაციუსი“ ვიკისაწყობში. 	ჰორაციუსისადმი მიძღვნილი გვერდი 	ჰორაციუსის ნაწარმოებები ინგლისურ და ლათინურ ენებზე 	ჰორაციუსი — ნამუშევრები პროექტ „გუტენბერგზე“ 	ჰორაციუსი — ნამუშევრები საიტზე internet archive 	ჰორაციუსი — ნამუშევრები საიტზე librivox (უფასო აუდიო წიგნები) სქოლიო[რედაქტირება | წყაროს რედაქტირება] 	↑ . . http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/quinto-orazio-flacco_(enciclopedia-italiana)/ 	↑ . . . Любкер Ф. horatii // Реальный словарь классических древностей по Любкеру / под ред. Ф. Ф. Зелинский, А. И. Георгиевский, М. С. Куторга и др. — СПб: Общество классической филологии и педагогики, . — С.  – .<a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/track:q "></a><a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/track:q "></a><a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/track:q "></a><a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/track:q "></a><a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/track:q "></a><a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/track:q "></a><a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/track:q "></a><a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/track:q "></a><a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/track:q "></a> 	↑ . . . w. y. s., j. g. horace // encyclopædia britannica — — nyc: . — vol.  . — p.  – .<a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/track:q "></a><a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/track:q "></a><a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/track:q "></a><a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/track:q "></a><a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/track:q "></a> 	↑ beweb<a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/track:q "></a> 	↑ . . mirabile: digital archives for medieval culture — sismel – edizioni del galluzzo.<a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/track:q "></a><a href="https://wikidata.org/wiki/track:q "></a> მოძიებულია „https://ka.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ჰორაციუსი&oldid= “-დან 		კატეგორია: 	დაბადებული დეკემბერი 	დაბადებული ძვ. წ. 	გარდაცვლილი ნოემბერი 	გარდაცვლილი ძვ. წ. 	რომაელი პოეტები 	 	 	სანავიგაციო მენიუ 	 		 	 		პირადი ხელსაწყოები 	 	 			შესული არ ხართ 	განხილვა 	წვლილი 	ანგარიშის შექმნა 	შესვლა 		 	 		 			 	 		სახელთა სივრცე 	 	 			სტატია 	განხილვა 		 	 			 	 	 		ვარიანტები 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		გადახედვა 	 	 			კითხვა 	რედაქტირება 	წყაროს რედაქტირება 	ისტორია 		 	 			 	 	 		მეტი 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		ძიება 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		ნავიგაცია 	 	 			მთავარი გვერდი 	თემატური ძიება 	რჩეული სტატიები 	შემთხვევითი გვერდი 	ახალი გვერდები 		 	 	 	 		მონაწილეობა 	 	 			ინფორმაცია 	დახმარება 	ფორუმი 	ბოლო ცვლილებები 	შემოწირულობები 		 	 	 		ხელსაწყოები 	 	 			ბმული გვერდზე 	დაკავშირებული ცვლილებები 	სპეციალური გვერდები 	მუდმივი ბმული 	გვერდის ინფორმაცია 	ამ გვერდის ციტირება 	ვიკიმონაცემები ელემენტი 		 	 	 		ბეჭდვა/ექსპორტი 	 	 			წიგნის შექმნა 	გადაწერა pdf ფორმატში 	დასაბეჭდი ვერსია 		 	 	 		სხვა პროექტებში 	 	 			ვიკისაწყობი 	ვიკიციტატა 		 	 	 	 		სხვა ენებზე 	 	 			afrikaans 	አማርኛ 	aragonés 	العربية 	مصرى 	asturianu 	تۆرکجه 	Башҡортса 	Žemaitėška 	Беларуская 	Беларуская (тарашкевіца)‎ 	Български 	brezhoneg 	bosanski 	català 	Čeština 	cymraeg 	dansk 	deutsch 	zazaki 	Ελληνικά 	english 	esperanto 	español 	eesti 	euskara 	فارسی 	suomi 	võro 	français 	furlan 	gaeilge 	galego 	עברית 	हिन्दी 	fiji hindi 	hrvatski 	magyar 	Հայերեն 	interlingua 	bahasa indonesia 	ido 	Íslenska 	italiano 	日本語 	Қазақша 	한국어 	kurdî 	kernowek 	latina 	lingua franca nova 	lietuvių 	latviešu 	malagasy 	Македонски 	മലയാളം 	Монгол 	मराठी 	bahasa melayu 	nāhuatl 	nederlands 	norsk nynorsk 	norsk bokmål 	occitan 	ਪੰਜਾਬੀ 	polski 	piemontèis 	português 	română 	tarandíne 	Русский 	sardu 	sicilianu 	srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски 	simple english 	slovenčina 	slovenščina 	Српски / srpski 	seeltersk 	svenska 	kiswahili 	தமிழ் 	tagalog 	türkçe 	Татарча/tatarça 	Українська 	oʻzbekcha/ўзбекча 	tiếng việt 	volapük 	walon 	winaray 	吴语 	中文 	粵語 		ბმულების რედაქტირება 	 		 ეს გვერდი ბოლოს დარედაქტირდა: : , მაისი . 	ტექსტი ვრცელდება creative commons attribution-sharealike ლიცენზიით; და შესაძლოა არსებობდეს დამატებითი პირობები. იხილეთ გამოყენების პირობები დამატებითი ინფორმაციისთვის. ვიკიპედია® არის არამომგებიანი ორგანიზაცია wikimedia foundation, inc.-ის რეგისტრირებული სავაჭრო ნიშანი. 	დაგვიკავშირდით 		კონფიდენციალურობის პოლიტიკა 	ვიკიპედიის შესახებ 	პასუხისმგებლობის უარყოფა 	მობილური ვერსია 	შემქმნელები 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 ഹൊറസ് - വിക്കിപീഡിയ 	 	 	 	 	ഹൊറസ് 	 		വിക്കിപീഡിയ, ഒരു സ്വതന്ത്ര വിജ്ഞാനകോശം. 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് വിലാസം https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/horace ഹൊറസ്, ആന്റൻ വോൺ വെർണറുടെ ഭാവനയിൽ അഗസ്റ്റസ് ചക്രവർത്തിയുടെ കാലത്തെ പ്രസിദ്ധനായ റോമൻ കവിയായിരുന്നു ഹൊറസ് എന്ന് ആംഗലേയലോകത്ത് അറിയപ്പെടുന്ന ക്വിന്തൂസ് ഹൊറഷ്യൂസ് ഫ്ലാച്ചൂസ്(വെനോസ, ഡിസംബർ , ബി.സി. - റോം, നവംബർ , ബി.സി.).വാഗ്മിയായ ക്വിന്റിലിയൻ തന്റെ ഓഡസിന്റെ വായനയിലുളള ഒരേയൊരു ലത്തീൻ ഭാഷയിലെ വരികളെ മാത്രമായിരുന്നു പരാമർശിച്ചത്: അദ്ദേഹം ചിലപ്പോൾ ഉന്നതമായതാവാം. എങ്കിലും അദ്ദേഹത്തിന്റെ ആകർഷകത്വവും, മഹത്ത്വവും തികച്ചും നിഗൂഢത നിറഞ്ഞതാണ്. അദ്ദേഹത്തിന്റെ കണക്കുകൾക്കുമൊപ്പം വ്യക്തിരിക്തനും, വാക്കുകളുടെ തെരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പിൽ ധൈര്യപൂർവ്വം സംസാരിച്ചും കാണപ്പെടുന്നു. [ ] ഉള്ളടക്കം 	 ഇവയും കാണുക 	 notes 	 citations 	 അവലംബം 	 കൂടുതൽ വായനയ്ക്ക് 	 പുറം കണ്ണികൾ ഇവയും കാണുക[തിരുത്തുക] 	horatia (gens) 	otium 	prosody (latin) 	translation notes[തിരുത്തുക] citations[തിരുത്തുക] 	↑ quintilian . . . the only other lyrical poet quintilian thought comparable with horace was the now obscure poet/metrical theorist, caesius bassus (r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, ) 	library resources 	 about horace 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries 	 by horace 	 	online books 	resources in your library 	resources in other libraries അവലംബം[തിരുത്തുക] 	arnold, matthew ( ). selected prose. penguin books. isbn  - - - - . 	barrow, r ( ). the romans. penguin/pelican books. 	barchiesi, a ( ). speaking volumes: narrative and intertext in ovid and other latin poets. duckworth. 	bischoff, b ( ). "living with the satirists". classical influences on european culture ad – . cambridge university press. 	bush, douglas ( ). milton: poetical works. oxford university press. 	campbell, a ( ). horace: a new interpretation. london. 	conway, r ( ). new studies of a great inheritance. london. 	davis, gregson ( ). polyhymnia. the rhetoric to horatian lyric discourse. university of california. 	ferri, rolando ( ). "the epistles". the cambridge companion to horace. cambridge university press. isbn  - - - - . 	flesch, william ( ). the facts on file companion to british poetry, th century. infobase publishing. isbn  - - - - . 	frank, tenney ( ). catullus and horace. new york. 	fraenkel, eduard ( ). horace. oxford university press. 	friis-jensen, karsten ( ). "horace in the middle ages". the cambridge companion to horace. cambridge university press. 	griffin, jasper ( ). "horace in the thirties". horace . ann arbor. 	griffin, jasper ( ). "gods and religion". the cambridge companion to horace. cambridge university press. 	harrison, stephen ( ). "lyric and iambic". a companion to latin literature. blackwell publishing. 	harrison, stephen ( ). "introduction". the cambridge companion to horace. cambridge university press. 	harrison, stephen ( ). "style and poetic texture". the cambridge companion to horace. cambridge university press. 	harrison, stephen ( ). "the nineteenth and twentieth centuries". the cambridge companion to horace. cambridge university press. 	hooley, d ( ). the knotted thong: structures of mimesis in persius. ann arbor. 	hutchinson, g ( ). "the publication and individuality of horace's odes – ". classical quarterly . 	kiernan, victor ( ). horace: poetics and politics. st martin's press. 	kupersmith, w ( ). roman satirists in seventeenth century england. lincoln, nabraska and london. 	loveling, benjamin ( ). latin and english poems, by a gentleman of trinity college, oxford. london. 	lowrie, michèle ( ). horace's narrative odes. oxford university press. 	lyne, r ( ). "augustan poetry and society". the oxford history of the classical world. oxford university press. 	mankin, david ( ). horace: epodes. cambridge university press. 	mcneill, randall ( ). horace. oxford university press. isbn  - - - - . 	michie, james ( ). "horace the man". the odes of horace. penguin classics. 	moles, john ( ). "philosophy and ethics". the cambridge companion to horace. cambridge university press. 	money, david ( ). "the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries". the cambridge companion to horace. cambridge university press. 	morgan, llewelyn ( ). "satire". a companion to latin literature. blackwell publishing. 	muecke, frances ( ). "the satires". the cambridge companion to horace. cambridge university press. 	nisbet, robin ( ). "horace: life and chronology". the cambridge companion to horace. cambridge university press. 	reckford, k. j. ( ). horatius: the man and the hour. . american journal of philology. pp.  – . 	rivers, elias ( ). fray luis de león: the original poems. grant and cutler. 	rossetti, christina ( ). the complete poems. penguin books. 	rudd, niall ( ). the satires of horace and persius. penguin classics. 	santirocco, matthew ( ). unity and design in horace's odes. university of north carolina. 	syme, r ( ). the augustan aristocracy. oxford university press. 	talbot, j ( ). "a horatian pun in paradise lost". notes and queries ( ). oxford university press. 	tarrant, richard ( ). "ancient receptions of horace". the cambridge companion to horace. cambridge university press. 	tollet, elizabeth ( ). poems on several occasions. london. കൂടുതൽ വായനയ്ക്ക്[തിരുത്തുക] 	davis, gregson ( ). polyhymnia the rhetoric of horatian lyric discourse. berkeley: university of california press. isbn  - - - . 	fraenkel, eduard ( ). horace. oxford: clarendon press. 	horace ( ). the complete works of horace. charles e. passage, trans. new york: ungar. isbn  - - - . 	johnson, w.r. ( ). horace and the dialectic of freedom : readings in epistles . ithaca: cornell university press. isbn  - - - . 	lyne, r.o.a.m. ( ). horace : behind the public poetry. new haven: yale univ. press. isbn  - - - . 	lyons, stuart ( ). horace's odes and the mystery of do-re-mi. aris & phillips. 	lyons, stuart ( ). music in the odes of horace. aris & phillips. 	michie, james ( ). the odes of horace. rupert hart-davis. 	newman, j.k. ( ). augustus and the new poetry. brussels: latomus, revue d’études latines. 	noyes, alfred ( ). horace: a portrait. new york: sheed and ward. 	perret, jacques ( ). horace. bertha humez, trans. new york: new york university press. 	putnam, michael c.j. ( ). artifices of eternity : horace's fourth book of odes. ithaca, ny: cornell university press. isbn  - - - . 	reckford, kenneth j. ( ). horace. new york: twayne. 	rudd, niall, ed. ( ). horace : a celebration : essays for the bimillennium. ann arbor: univ. of michigan press. isbn  - - -x. 	sydenham, colin ( ). horace the odes. duckworth. 	west, david ( ). horace the complete odes and epodes. oxford university press. 	wilkinson, l.p. ( ). horace and his lyric poetry. cambridge: cambridge university press. പുറം കണ്ണികൾ[തിരുത്തുക] വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകളിലെ horace എന്ന താളിൽ ഈ ലേഖനവുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ചൊല്ലുകൾ ലഭ്യമാണ്‌: ലാറ്റിൻ വിക്കിഗ്രന്ഥശാലയിൽ ഈ ലേഖനവുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ഉള്ളടക്കം ഉണ്ട്: latin texts of quintus horatius flaccus ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് വിക്കിഗ്രന്ഥശാലയിൽ ഈ ലേഖനവുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ഉള്ളടക്കം ഉണ്ട്: english translations of texts of quintus horatius flaccus wikisource has the text of the encyclopædia britannica article horace. 		വിക്കിമീഡിയ കോമൺസിലെ quintus horatius flaccus എന്ന വർഗ്ഗത്തിൽ ഇതുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട കൂടുതൽ പ്രമാണങ്ങൾ ലഭ്യമാണ്. 	horace എന്ന വ്യക്തിയുടെ രചനകൾ പ്രോജക്ട് ഗുട്ടൻബർഗിൽനിന്ന് 	works by or about ഹൊറസ് at internet archive 	 ഹൊറസ് public domain audiobooks from librivox 	q. horati flacci opera, recensuerunt o. keller et a. holder, voll., lipsiae in aedibus b. g. teubneri, - . 	common sayings from horace 	the works of horace at the latin library 	selected poems of horace 	works by horace at perseus digital library 	biography and chronology 	horace's works: text, concordances and frequency list 	sorgll: horace, odes i. , read by robert sonkowsky 	translations of several odes in the original meters (with accompaniment). 	a discussion and comparison of three different contemporary translations of horace's odes 	some spurious lines in the ars poetica? 	horati opera, acronis et porphyrionis commentarii, varia lectio etc. (latine) 	horace ms a ars poetica and epistulae at openn 		കാ 	സം 	തി works by horace 	poetry	 	satires 	epodes 	odes 	epistles 	carmen saeculare 	ars poetica 	collections	 	satires . 	quote	 	ut pictura poesis 	related	 	spring of bandusia 		കാ 	സം 	തി പുരാതന റോമുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട വിഷയങ്ങൾ 	 	outline 	timeline 	epochs	 	foundation 	monarchy 	republic 	empire 	timeline 	principate 	dominate 	decline 	fall 	western empire / eastern empire 	constitution	 	history 	kingdom 	republic 	empire 	late empire 	senate 	legislative assemblies 	curiate 	century 	tribal 	plebeian 	executive magistrates 	government	 	curia 	forum 	cursus honorum 	collegiality 	emperor 	legatus 	dux 	officium 	praefectus 	vicarius 	vigintisexviri 	lictor 	magister militum 	imperator 	princeps senatus 	pontifex maximus 	augustus 	caesar 	tetrarch 	optimates 	populares 	province 	magistrates	 	ordinary	 	tribune 	quaestor 	aedile 	praetor 	consul 	censor 	promagistrate 	governor 	extraordinary	 	dictator 	magister equitum 	decemviri 	consular tribune 	triumvir 	rex 	interrex 	law	 	twelve tables 	mos maiorum 	roman citizenship 	auctoritas 	imperium 	status 	litigation 	military	 	borders 	establishment 	structure 	campaigns 	political control 	strategy 	engineering 	frontiers and fortifications 	castra 	technology 	army 	legion 	infantry tactics 	personal equipment 	siege engines 	navy 	fleets 	auxiliaries 	decorations and punishments 	hippika gymnasia 	economy	 	agriculture 	deforestation 	commerce 	finance 	currency 	republican currency 	imperial currency 	spqr 	technology	 	abacus 	numerals 	civil engineering 	military engineering 	military technology 	aqueducts 	bridges 	circus 	concrete 	forum 	metallurgy 	roads 	sanitation 	thermae 	culture	 	architecture 	art 	bathing 	calendar 	clothing 	cosmetics 	cuisine 	hairstyles 	education 	literature 	music 	mythology 	religion 	romanization 	sexuality 	theatre 	wine 	society	 	patricians 	plebs 	conflict of the orders 	secessio plebis 	equestrian order 	gens 	tribes 	naming conventions 	women 	marriage 	slavery 	bagaudae 	language (latin) 	 	 	history 	alphabet 	romance languages 	versions	 	old 	classical 	vulgar 	late 	medieval 	renaissance 	new 	contemporary 	ecclesiastical 	writers	 	apuleius 	caesar 	catullus 	cicero 	ennius 	horace 	juvenal 	livy 	lucan 	lucretius 	martial 	ovid 	petronius 	plautus 	pliny the elder 	pliny the younger 	propertius 	quintilian 	sallust 	seneca 	statius 	suetonius 	tacitus 	terence 	tibullus 	varro 	virgil 	vitruvius 	lists	 	wars 	battles 	generals 	legions 	emperors 	geographers 	institutions 	laws 	consuls 	distinguished women 	major cities	 	alexandria 	antioch 	aquileia 	bononia 	carthage 	constantinople 	londinium 	mediolanum 	pompeii 	ravenna 	rome 	smyrna 	other topics	 	fiction set in ancient rome 	films 	video games 	 	portal 	authority control	 	 worldcat identities 	viaf: 	lccn: n 	isni: 	gnd: 	selibr: 	sudoc: 	bnf: cb b (data) 	bibsys: 	ulan: 	musicbrainz: af f f- - -a bf- d f c 	nla: 	ndl: 	nkc: jn 	iccu: it\iccu\cfiv\ 	rls: 	bne: xx 	cinii: da 	 	 ഒരു കവിയെ /കവയത്രിയെ കുറിച്ചുള്ള ഈ ലേഖനം അപൂർണ്ണമാണ്‌. ഇതു വികസിപ്പിക്കുവാൻ സഹായിക്കുക. സഹായത്തിനു ഈ ലേഖനത്തിന്റെ ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് പതിപ്പും കാണുക. 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	ਵੱਡੀਆਂ ਰਚਨਾਵਾਂ	ਓਡਜ, satires, ars poetica 	ਕੌਮੀਅਤ	ਰੋਮਨ 	ਕਿੱਤਾ	ਸੈਨਿਕ, scriba quaestorius, ਕਵੀ 	ਪ੍ਰਭਾਵਿਤ ਹੋਣ ਵਾਲੇ	garcilaso de la vega, juan boscán almogáver, torquato tasso, pierre de ronsard, luis de león 	ਵਿਧਾ	ਪ੍ਰਗੀਤਕ ਕਵਿਤਾ ਕੁਇੰਟਸ ਹੋਰਸੀਆ ਫਲਾਕਸ ( ਦਸੰਬਰ ਈਪੂ – ਨਵੰਬਰ ਈਪੂ), ਅੰਗਰੇਜ਼ੀ ਬੋਲਣ ਵਾਲੇ ਜਗਤ ਵਿੱਚ ਹੋਰਸ (/ˈhɔrɪsˌ ˈhɒr-/) ਵਜੋਂ ਮਸ਼ਹੂਰ, ਅਗਸਟਸ ਦੇ ਵੇਲੇ ਮੋਹਰੀ ਰੋਮਨ ਪ੍ਰਗੀਤਕ ਕਵੀ ਸੀ। ਭਾਸ਼ਾ-ਮਾਹਿਰ ਕੁਇੰਤਲੀਅਨ ਕੇਵਲ ਉਸਦੇ ਓਡਜ ਨੂੰ ਹੀ ਪੜ੍ਹਨਯੋਗ ਲਾਤੀਨੀ ਪ੍ਰਗੀਤ ਮੰਨਦਾ ਸੀ: "ਉਹ ਕਈ ਵਾਰ ਉੱਚਾ ਹੋ ਸਕਦਾ ਹੈ, ਪਰ ਫਿਰ ਵੀ ਉਹ, ਸੁਹਜ ਅਤੇ ਸੁਨੱਖ ਪੱਖੋਂ ਪੂਰੀ ਤਰ੍ਹਾਂ ਲਬਰੇਜ਼ ਹੈ, ਉਸ ਦੇ ਬਿੰਬ ਪਰਭਾਵਸ਼ੀਲ ਹਨ, ਅਤੇ ਸ਼ਬਦਾਂ ਦੀ ਆਪਣੀ ਚੋਣ ਵਿੱਚ ਵਾਹਵਾ ਪ੍ਰਬੀਨ ਹੈ।"[ ] ਹਵਾਲੇ[ਸੋਧੋ] 	↑ quintilian . . . the only other lyrical poet quintillian thought comparable with horace was the now obscure poet/metrical theorist, caesius bassus (r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, ) "https://pa.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ਹੋਰਸ&oldid= " ਤੋਂ ਲਿਆ 		ਕੈਟੇਗਰੀ: 	ਰੋਮਨ ਕਵੀ ਲੁਕਵੀਂਆਂ ਸ਼੍ਰੇਣੀਆਂ: 	pages using duplicate arguments in template calls 	articles with hcards 	 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alması için onu roma'ya gönderdi. ardından atina'ya yunanca ve felsefe çalışması için yolladı. Şair, babasına olan saygısını şiirlerinde de gösterdi. sezar'ın öldürülmesinden sonra horatius orduya katıldı ve brutus için philippi savaşı'nda savaştı. brutus savaşı kaybetmişti, ve bu savaş sonrasında horatius kalkanını bırakıp kaçtığını anlatmıştır. augustus, kendisine karşı savaşanlara karşı genel af ilan ettikten sonra İtalya'ya geri döndü. bu dönüşünde, babası tahminen ölmüştü ve sahip oldukları da başkalarının eline geçmişti. horatius'un tanımına göre fakirliğe düşmüştü. ancak eserleriyle göze girince, ülkenin hazinesi tarafından desteklenmiş ve şiir sanatını uygulamasına oldukça rahat koşullarda devam etmiştir. horatius; virgil ve lucius varius rufus ile beraber çalışıyordu, ve augustus'un arkadaşı maecenas ile tanışmasına aracı oldular. maecenas bundan sonra arkadaşı ve patronu oldu. horatius'a tibur'un sabine tepelerinde bir arazi verdi. Ölmeden önce, bir akrabası olmayan horatius; malvarlığını maecenas ve İmparator augustus'a imparatorluk içinde kullanılması için verdi. 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use and the privacy policy. 		privacy policy 	about wikimedia commons 	disclaimers 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 librivox 	 		 		 			 			 				librivox 				acoustical liberation of books in the public domain 			 			 			 			 			menu 			skip to content 					about 	forum 	contact 	help 	twitter 	rss 																 			 			 				 			 				 					search librivox 					 					 					 				 				 advanced search	 			 		 		 		 		 	 		 			browse the catalog 			 					author 	title 	genre/subject 	language 			 			 													 		 		 	 	 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 		project type 			all 	solo 	group 	 	 	 		 	donate to librivox 	thank a reader 	 	 		librivox recordings are public domain in the usa. if you are not in the usa, please verify the copyright status of these works in your own country before downloading, otherwise you may be violating copyright laws. 	 	 	 	 		 			 				quintus horatius flaccus (horace) ( bce - bce) 				 				quintus horatius flaccus ( december bc – november bc), known in the english-speaking world as horace, was the leading roman lyric poet during the time of augustus. the rhetorician quintillian regarded his odes as just about the only latin lyrics worth reading: "he can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words." horace also crafted elegant hexameter verses (sermones and epistles) and caustic iambic poetry (epodes). the hexameters are amusing yet serious works, friendly in tone, leading the ancient satirist persius to comment: "as his friend laughs, horace slyly puts his finger on his every fault; once let in, he plays about the heartstrings". some of his iambic poetry has seemed repulsive to modern audiences. his career coincided with rome's momentous change from republic to empire. an officer in the republican army defeated at the battle of philippi in bc, he was befriended by octavian's right-hand man in civil affairs, maecenas, and became a spokesman for the new regime. for some commentators, his association with the regime was a delicate balance in which he maintained a strong measure of independence (he was "a master of the graceful sidestep"), but for others he was, in john dryden's phrase, "a well-mannered court slave". 				 				 					external links 					wiki - quintus horatius flaccus (horace) 				 				 				 					 					total matches: 				 	 			 	 		 			 			 				order by 				alphabetically release date 			 		 			 		 		 	 	 	 	 	 		 		 		 			 			 		 	 	 הורטיוס – ויקיפדיה 	לדלג לתוכן 	 	 		שינוי מצב סרגל צד 	 	 		 		 			 			 		 	 	 	 		חיפוש 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 	 	 		כלים אישיים 	 	 			לא בחשבון 	שיחה 	תרומות 	יצירת חשבון 	כניסה לחשבון 		 	 	 	 	 		ניווט 	 	 			עמוד ראשי 	ברוכים הבאים 	שינויים אחרונים 	ערכים מומלצים 	פורטלים 	ערך אקראי 	תרומה לוויקיפדיה 		 	 	 	 		קהילה 	 	 			שער הקהילה 	עזרה 	ייעוץ 	מזנון 	כיכר העיר 	חדשות 	לוח מודעות 	יצירת קשר 	ספר אורחים 		 	 	 		כלים 	 	 			דפים המקושרים לכאן 	שינויים 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האוֹדות (carmina / odae) 	 . האיגרות (epistulae) 	 . שיר היובל (carmen saeculare) 	 היהודים אצל הורטיוס 	 תרגומי יצירותיו לעברית 	 ראו גם 	 לקריאה נוספת 	 קישורים חיצוניים 	 הערות שוליים תולדות חייו[עריכת קוד מקור | עריכה] הורטיוס נולד בשנת לפנה"ס בוונוסיה (כיום ונוסה שבאיטליה) והיה בנו של עבד משוחרר אמיד. אביו דאג לחינוכו וליווה אותו לרומא, שם למד את תורת הנאום, ואחר כך לאתונה, שבה למד יוונית ופילוסופיה ככל הנראה שליחתו מעיר מולדתו נועדה להציל אותו מהשמצות' שכן להיות בן עבד לשעבר נחשב בזוי בחברה הרומאית ולכן הורטיוס ואביו היו מטרה ללגלוגים חוזרים ונשנים. הורטיוס היה אסיר תודה לאביו על כך והתייחס אליו בהערצה רבה. אחרי רצח יוליוס קיסר בשנת לפנה"ס, הורטיוס, שהתרשם מהגעתם של מרקוס יוניוס ברוטוס וגאיוס קסיוס לונגינוס לאתונה, הצטרף לצבאם ולחם כטריבון צבאי בקרב פיליפי בשנת לפנה"ס כנגד אוקטביאנוס ומרקוס אנטוניוס. כוחותיהם של ברוטוס וקסיוס הובסו בקרב אך הורטיוס הצליח להימלט על נפשו ולימים סיפר שזרק את מגינו ונמלט משדה הקרב. לאחר שהוכרזה חנינה לאלה שלחמו נגד אוקטביאנוס, חזר הורטיוס לרומא ומצא שרכושו הולאם וחולק לחיילי הצבא המשוחררים וכך הוא הוכרח לקנות לעצמו משרה של מזכיר במשרדי הקוואיסטורים, דבר שאפשר לו להתמסר לשירה. הורטיוס השתייך לחוגים הספרותיים ברומא שעליהם נמנה המשורר ורגיליוס. ורגיליוס הפגיש את הורטיוס עם גאיוס קילניוס מאיקנס, שהיה ידידו ואיש סודו של אוקטביאנוס. מאיקנס הפך לידידו ולפטרונו של הורטיוס והעמיד לרשותו חווילה בסאביניום, לא הרחק מרומא. הורטיוס, ורגיליוס ומאיקנס נעשו ידידים, וידידותם נמשכה עד מותם. אוקטביאנוס ביקש למנות את הורטיוס למזכירו, אך הורטיוס העדיף להמשיך ולעסוק בשירתו. יצירותיו[עריכת קוד מקור | עריכה] בשנת לפנה"ס, הקיסר אוקטוויאנוס העניק חנינה להורטיוס. הורטיוס חזר מן הגלות לרומי, וגילה שאביו נפטר ורכושו הוחרם. הורטיוס נאלץ להתחיל לעבוד כמזכירו של גובה-מיסים. בתקופה זו הוא החל בכתיבת שירה. שירתו הסיבה את תשומת לבם של לוקיוס ואריוס רופוס, ושל פובליוס ורגיליוס מארו, שני משוררים בעלי שם בעולם הספרות הרומי. דרכם, הורטיוס התוודע למאיקאנס[ ] שהיה עוזרו ויועצו של אוגוסטוס, ופטרון ספרות ידוע.[ ] בשנת לפנה"ס צירף אותו מאיקאנס לחוגו הספרותי, דבר ששיחרר את הורטיוס מדאגות כלכליות. בהמשך, מאיקאנס אף הציג אותו בפני אוגוסטוס.[ ] האפודות (epodi)[עריכת קוד מקור | עריכה] בשנת לפנה"ס פרסם הורטיוס שירים שכונו "אפודות" בשל המבנה המיוחד שלהן: שורה ארוכה, ולאחריה – שורה קצרה. הורטיוס כינה את האפודות בשם "יאמבים" (iambi).[ ] בכתיבת האפודות הושפע הורטיוס מסגנונו הלעגני של המשורר היווני הקדום ארכילוכוס מפארוס, שחי במאה השביעית לפנה"ס.[ ] האפודות עסקו בנושאים מגוונים, מסיפורי אהבה ועד למלחמות-האזרחים בתקופתו.[ ] הסאטירות (או בשמן האחר-שיחות, בלטינית sermonum) בפרסום משנת הסאטירות (saturae)[עריכת קוד מקור | עריכה] עשר הסאטירות הראשונות התפרסמו בספר בשנת לפנה"ס, ושמונה נוספות יצאו בשנת לפנה"ס.[ ] הורטיוס כינה את הסאטירות שלו בשם "שיחות" (sermones).[ ] את הסאטירות חיבר הורטיוס בהשראתו של לוקיליוס, מחבר סאטירות רומי שחי במאה ה- לפנה"ס.[ ] בניגוד לסאטירה של לוקיליוס הורטיוס לא עסק בסאטירה שלו בפוליטיקה, אלא שם ללעג בעיות שרווחו בחברה בזמנו, כגון: רדיפת-בצע, קמצנות, שחיתות ועוד.[ ] בשנת לפנה"ס הורטיוס הקדיש את ספר הסאטירות הראשון שלו למאיקנאס, ובתור הכרת תודה העניק לו מאיקנאס אחוזה קטנה, שמיקומה מיל צפונית לרומא (אחוזה זו מוזכרת רבות ביצירותיו). מנקודה זו והלאה הורטיוס חילק את זמנו בין האחוזה לבין רומא. בנוסף, ייתכן שנכח בקרב אקטיום בשנת לפנה"ס. השירים \ האוֹדות (carmina / odae)[עריכת קוד מקור | עריכה] 	 ערך מורחב – שירים (הורטיוס) שלושת ספרי השירה הראשונים שפורסמו סביב שנת לפנה"ס הם שהביאו להורטיוס את תהילתו כמשורר. בספר הראשון הורטיוס מקדיש את שלושת השירים הראשונים למאיקנאס, לאוגוסטוס ולורגיליוס.[ ] השירים הם בעלי איזון – הורטיוס משתמש בחוש מידה ומאזן בין עצב ושמחה. השיר האחרון בספר השלישי הוא צוואתו, שבה חוזה הורטיוס לעצמו תהילת נצח.[ ] ספר השירים הרביעי: נכתב בין השנים - לפנה"ס. בתוכו מופיעים שירי אהבה, שירי-תהילה לאוגוסטוס, ושירי-תהילה לרגל ניצחונם של בניו המאומצים של אוגוסטוס: טיבריוס ודרוסוס, על הווינדליקים. ניצחון זה הרחיב את גבולות האימפריה הרומית עד לגדות נהר הדנובה. האיגרות (epistulae)[עריכת קוד מקור | עריכה] לאחר פרסום ספרי השירה שב הורטיוס לכתוב "שיחות" (sermones), שבהמשך קיבלו את השם "איגרות" (epistulae).[ ] ספר האיגרות הראשון פורסם בשנת לפנה"ס לערך, והספר השני פורסם בין השנים - לפנה"ס. כתיבה זו של שירה במגוון נושאים, בצורה של איגרות לאישים ידועים, הייתה חדשנית. הספר הראשון הוקדש למאיקונאס. הוא עוסק בהנהגה נכונה ובספרות. הספר השני כולל שלוש איגרות. הראשונה, לאגוסטוס, דנה במצב השירה הרומית. הורטיוס טוען באיגרת כי לדרמה אין סיכוי לשגשג, ושעל כן, על אגוסטוס לתמוך בשירה. האיגרת השנייה מופנית ליוליוס פלורוס (iulius floras), ובה הורטיוס מנסה להרחיקו מהשירה כיוון שהיא רוויה בכזב ובצביעות. האיגרת השלישית ידוע בשם האיגרת אל הפיסונים (epistula ad pisones), וכן בשם "(על) אמנות הפיוט" (ארס פואטיקה). איגרת זו מופנית אל פיסו (piso) ואל שני בניו. היא נחשבת למסמך החשוב ביותר של ביקורת הספרות בעת העתיקה, והשפיעה רבות על התפתחות ביקורת הספרות האירופית. ביטויים, פתגמים ומונחים ששאולים ממנה משמשים עד היום בביקורת הספרות האירופית.[ ] דוגמה לדבר: "אף הומרוס הטוב לפעמים מתנמנם".[ ] שיר היובל (carmen saeculare)[עריכת קוד מקור | עריכה] בשנת לפנה"ס, לאחר רצח יוליוס קיסר, הופיע בשמים כוכב שביט. החוזים במזלות פרשו זאת כאות המבשר על תחילתה של המאה החדשה. עקב המצב ששרר אז במדינה נדחו החגיגות. בשנת לפנה"ס, לאחר שהבטיח אוגוסטוס את הגבולות, הוא ערך את "חגיגות-המאה". חגיגות אלו נערכו בעבר בשנים , ו- לפנה"ס. הן סימלו את סופה של המאה, ואת תחילתה של מאה חדשה, שכולם קיוו שתהיה טובה מהמאה שלפניה. אוגוסטוס הטיל על הורטיוס לכתוב המנון לאומי לרגל החגיגה. ההמנון שכתב הורטיוס פונה אל האלים בבקשה שיעתירו חסד על רומא, ומהלל את אוגוסטוס. כתיבת המנון זה גרמה לכך שהורטיוס הוכר כמשוררה הלאומי של רומא (romanae fidicen lyrae).[ ] הורטיוס וורגיליוס נחשבים לגדולי המשוררים הרומים. בין יצירותיו של הורטיוס נכללים שני ספרי סאטירה שהוא כינה בשם "דברי מוסר", אך למעשה הם דברים הנאמרים בלשון שיחתם של אנשי רומא של תקופתו: נואמים, פילוסופים, מדינאים, אנשי עסקים, וגם עבדים, פרוצות והולכי בטל פטפטנים. הורטיוס עצמו מעיד על כך: "אין לכנות בשם משורר מי שכותב כמוני, שירה בנוסח פרוזה". אוגוסטוס קיסר הכריז על שירתו של הורטיוס כ"שירה נצחית". רבות מאמרותיו של הורטיוס נשארו בשימוש עד ימינו: "טוב ומכובד לאדם למות בעד ארצו", "קרפה דיים" ("חיה את הרגע" [מילולית: את היום]) ו"העז לדעת". היהודים אצל הורטיוס[עריכת קוד מקור | עריכה] בשירתו של הורטיוס ישנן התייחסויות ברורות ליהודים. לדעת ההיסטוריון מנחם שטרן, הדבר מעיד על השפעתם של היהודים על החברה הרומאית בתקופת אוגוסטוס.[ ] היהודים היו ככל הנראה קבוצה אתנית מפורסמת מספיק ברומא של אותה התקופה, כך שאפשר היה להתבדח עליה מתוך ביטחון שהקהל מכיר אותה כקבוצה מובחנת בפני עצמה. ייתכן ותהלוכת הניצחון של גאיוס סוסיוס בשנת לפנה"ס, בה חגג את כיבוש ירושלים בשנת לפנה"ס, היא זו שהעלתה את היהודים לתודעת הקהל הרומאי, בדיוק בתקופה שבה כתב ופרסם הורטיוס את ספר הסאטירות הראשון שלו. בספר זה, שיצא לאור כנראה בשנת לפנה"ס או זמן קצר לאחר מכן, נמצאת ההתייחסות הראשונה אל יהודים ויהדות בספרות הקומית-הסאטירית. שלוש מתוך ארבע ההתייחסויות נמצאות בספר הסאטירות הראשון הזה, וכל אחת מהן חותמת את היצירה שבה היא מופיעה, בבחינת בדיחה אחרונה שאמור להיות לה רושם רב. מיקומן של הבדיחות הללו מלמד על כך שהורטיוס ייחס להן אפקטיביות רבה, והוא אף בחר לסיים מתוך הסאטירות שבספר הראשון בהתייחסות אל יהודים.[ ] בספר הסאטירות הראשון, בסוף הסאטירה הרביעית, מציין הורטיוס את חולשתו לכתיבת סאטירות ומזהיר את יריבו שאם לא יסכים לקבלה, "יגיע להק גדול של כותבי שירה" להיות לו לעזר: "ואותך אז נכריח, כמו שעושים היהודים, לצעוד ולחבור לקהלנו".[ ] לדעת חוקרים רבים, השורה האחרונה מתייחסת לפעילות מיסיונרית יהודית נמרצת ברומא.[ ] בסאטירה החמישית הוא מלגלג על תמימות האמונה היהודית, שכבר הפכה ידועה,[ ] כשהוא מצהיר: "לזאת יאמין נא אַפֶּלָא היהודי, לא אני".[ ] בסאטירה התשיעית מראה הורטיוס ידיעה על ברית המילה והשבת. בעודו עסוק בשיחה עם אדם טרחן ופטפטן, הוא פוגש בחברו המשורר אריסטיוס פוסקוס ומנסה לרמוז לו שיציל אותו, אך ללא הועיל, החבר משים עצמו כלא מבין: "בשחוק בן בליעל הוא מתעלם". הורטיוס רותח מזעם אך מנסה שוב: "הן רצונך לשוחח עמי ביחידות, כך אמרת". החבר הבדחן משיב לו כי כך אמנם בכוונתו לעשות, אך במועד אחר: "כי היום השבת השלושים. הרצית שנזלזל ברגשות יהודים נימולים?'".[ ] החבר המשורר בסיפור של הורטיוס הצהיר שמאחר שזה יום שבת, הוא לא יכול להעליב את היהודים בשיחה על עסקים.[ ] אולם אין בסיפור הזה נימה שלילית. היהודים מתאפיינים בשמירת שבת ובמילה והחבר פשוט מנצל את העובדה הזו.[ ] לרוב מפרשים את הביטוי "השבת השלושים" לא כשבת רגילה אלא כראש חודש, שנחשב ביהדות למעין חג. על פי הסבר אחר מדובר על השבת ה- מתחילת השנה.[ ] אולם ייתכן גם שלא היה חג יהודי כזה והחבר הבדחן המציא אותו באותו הרגע כדי להראות את "אדיקותו" ו"בקיאותו" ברזי הדת שאינו רוצה להעליבה.[ ] בחיבורו "האיגרות", דן הורטיוס בצורותיו השונות של העושר - בכך שישנם כאלה שאין בעיניהם שום חשיבות למה שאחרים מעריכים מאד, ומזכיר את "עושר תמרי חורש הורדוס הרוחיים".[ ] תרגומי יצירותיו לעברית[עריכת קוד מקור | עריכה] 	הוראטיוס, האיגרות, אמנות הפיוט, תרגמה מרומית והוסיפה מבוא, הערות ומפתחות: רחל בירנבאום, ירושלים: מוסד ביאליק תשע"ה ( ). 	הוראטיוס הסטירות, תרגמה מרומית והוסיפה מבוא, הערות ומפתחות רחל בירנבאום, מוסד ביאליק, תשע"ב. 	 על אמנות הפיוט. תרגום, הערות ומבוא: יורם ברונובסקי. הוצאת ספרית פועלים והוצאת הקיבוץ המאוחד, . עמ'. 	האיגרת אל הפיסונים (על אמנות הפיוט). תרגם: נתן שפיגל. בתוך: נתן שפיגל. הוראטיוס - האיש ויצירתו. ירושלים, מאגנס, תשמ"ד. עמ' – . 	מבחר מאמרות מיצירותיו של הוראטיוס. שם, עמ' – . 	אמנות הפיוט, תרגום הערות ומבוא: דבורה גילולה. הוצאת מאגנס. . 	השירים (האודות). תרגמה מרומית והוסיפה מבואות, הערות ומפתחות רחל בירנבאום. ירושלים, מוסד ביאליק, תשנ"ח- . עמ'. 	הורטיוס, מבחר שירים (ארכיון), תרגם מלטינית שמעון בוזגלו. 	מבחר שירה / הוראטיוס תרגם יהושע פרידמן פרויקט בן-יהודה ראו גם[עריכת קוד מקור | עריכה] 	שירים (הורטיוס) לקריאה נוספת[עריכת קוד מקור | עריכה] 	נתן שפיגל. הוראטיוס - האיש ויצירתו. ירושלים, הוצאת הספרים ע"ש י"ל מאגנס האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים ( ) בע"מ, תשמ"ד. 	מנחם שטרן – menahem stern, greek and latin authors on jews and judaism, jerusalem, , vol. i: xlv. horace, pp. - קישורים חיצוניים[עריכת קוד מקור | עריכה] 	מיזמי קרן ויקימדיה 	 ציטוטים בוויקיציטוט: הורטיוס 	 טקסט בוויקיטקסט: קטגוריה:הורטיוס 	 תמונות ומדיה בוויקישיתוף: הורטיוס 	כתבי הורטיוס בפרויקט בן-יהודה 	יואב רינון, האיש שחיבר את השיר המושלם ביותר בשפה הלטינית, באתר הארץ, באוגוסט . 	אריק גלסנר, על "האיגרות", של הוראטיוס, באתר "מבקר חופשי", בפברואר , פורסם במקור במדור לספרות ב" לילות" של "ידיעות אחרונות". 	מבחר שירה / הוראטיוס בתרגום יהושע פרידמן. 	הורטיוס, האודות, ספר , באתר הארץ, שיר , בתרגום יהושע פרידמן, שלמה דיקמן ורחל בירנבוים. 	הורטיוס, האודות, ספר , דבר, באפריל , שיר , בתרגום שלמה דיקמן. 	הורטיוס, האודות, ספר , שיר בתרגום מאיר הלוי לטריס. 	אהוביה כהנא, הוראטיוס, לגמרי בן זמננו, באתר הארץ, בינואר (ביקורת על התרגום לעברית של "האיגרות"). 	מבחר שירים של הורטיוס, מתוך האתר של שמעון בוזגלו. 	הורטיוס, באתר אנציקלופדיה בריטניקה (באנגלית) הערות שוליים[עריכת קוד מקור | עריכה] 	^ נתן שפיגל, הוראטיוס: האיש ויצירתו (ירושלים: מאגנס, תשמ"ד) עמ' 	^ רחל בירנבאום, הוראטיוס: שירים (האודות) (ירושלים: מוסד ביאליק, ) עמ'   	^ נתן שפיגל, הוראטיוס: האיש ויצירתו עמ' 	^ רחל בירנבאום, הוראטיוס: שירים (האודות) עמ' 	^ נתן שפיגל, הוראטיוס: האיש ויצירתו עמ' 	^ נתן שפיגל, הוראטיוס: האיש ויצירתו עמ' 	^ רחל בירנבאום, הוראטיוס: שירים (האודות) עמ'   	^ נתן שפיגל, הוראטיוס: האיש ויצירתו, עמ' 	^ רחל בירנבאום, הוראטיוס: שירים (האודות) עמ'   	^ נתן שפיגל, הוראטיוס: האיש ויצירתו, עמ' 	^ נתן שפיגל, הוראטיוס: האיש ויצירתו, עמ' 	^ רחל בירנבאום, הוראטיוס: שירים (האודות) עמ' - 	^ טור bonus dormitat homerus 	^ נתן שפיגל, הוראטיוס: האיש ויצירתו עמ' - 	^ menahem stern, greek and latin authors on jews and judaism, vol. i: xlv. horace, p. 	^ דבורה גילולה, הלצות על יהודים בספרות הרומית (מחקרי ירושלים בפולקלור יהודי, כרך תשמ"ו), א. הורטיוס, עמ' . 	^ horace, sermons, i, : - ; הוראטיוס הסטירות, סטירה א , שורות – , עמ' . תרגמה מרומית: רחל בירנבאום. 	^ פטר שפר, יודופוביה, פרק גיור, הורטיוס, עמ' - . 	^ horace, sermons, i, : - ; הוראטיוס הסטירות, סטירה א , שורות – , עמ' . תרגמה מרומית: רחל בירנבאום. 	^ horace, sermons, i, : - ; הוראטיוס הסטירות, סטירה א , שורות – , עמ' – . תרגמה מרומית: רחל בירנבאום. 	^ menahem stern, greek and latin authors on jews and judaism, vol. i: xlv. horace, p. - 	^ פטר שפר, יודופוביה, פרק שבת, עמ' . 	^ דבורה גילולה, הלצות על יהודים בספרות הרומית (מחקרי ירושלים בפולקלור יהודי, כרך תשמ"ו), א. הורטיוס, עמ' . 	^ horace, epistulae, ii, : - ; הוראטיוס, האיגרות, איגרת ב , טור , עמ' . תרגמה מרומית: רחל בירנבאום. 	בקרת זהויות 	 	bibsys: 	bnc: 	bne: xx 	bnf: cb b (data) 	cantic: a 	cinii: da 	gnd: 	iccu: it\iccu\cfiv\ 	isni: 	lccn: n 	lnb: 	musicbrainz: af f f- - -a bf- d f c 	ndl: 	nkc: jn 	nla: 	nlg: 	nli: 	nlk: kac 	nlp: a 	nsk: 	nta: 	rero: -a 	rsl: 	selibr: 	snac: w pk m c 	sudoc: 	trove: 	ulan: 	vcba: / 	viaf: 	 worldcat: lccn-n אוחזר מתוך "https://he.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=הורטיוס&oldid= " 		קטגוריות: 	משוררים רומאים 	רומאים בתקופת הקיסרות 	אישים שהונצחו על בולי רומניה 	ונוסה 	אישים שחיו במאה ה- לפנה"ס קטגוריות מוסתרות: 	ויקינתונים - השוואת ערכים: מתאים 	ויקינתונים - השוואת ערכים: מתאים: מקום לידה 	ויקינתונים - השוואת ערכים: מתאים: מקום פטירה 	ויקיפדיה: ערכים עם מזהה bibsys 	ויקיפדיה: ערכים עם מזהה bnc 	ויקיפדיה: ערכים עם מזהה bne 	ויקיפדיה: ערכים עם מזהה bnf 	ויקיפדיה: ערכים עם מזהה cantic 	ויקיפדיה: ערכים עם מזהה cinii 	ויקיפדיה: ערכים עם מזהה gnd 	ויקיפדיה: ערכים עם מזהה iccu 	ויקיפדיה: ערכים עם מזהה isni 	ויקיפדיה: ערכים עם מזהה lccn 	ויקיפדיה: ערכים עם מזהה lnb 	ויקיפדיה: ערכים עם מזהה musicbrainz 	ויקיפדיה: ערכים עם מזהה ndl 	ויקיפדיה: ערכים עם מזהה nkc 	ויקיפדיה: ערכים עם מזהה nla 	ויקיפדיה: ערכים עם מזהה nlg 	ויקיפדיה: ערכים עם מזהה nli 	ויקיפדיה: ערכים עם מזהה nlk 	ויקיפדיה: ערכים עם מזהה nlp 	ויקיפדיה: ערכים עם מזהה nsk 	ויקיפדיה: ערכים עם מזהה nta 	ויקיפדיה: ערכים עם מזהה rero 	ויקיפדיה: ערכים עם מזהה rsl 	ויקיפדיה: ערכים עם מזהה selibr 	ויקיפדיה: ערכים עם מזהה snac-id 	ויקיפדיה: ערכים עם מזהה sudoc 	ויקיפדיה: ערכים עם מזהה trove 	ויקיפדיה: ערכים עם מזהה ulan 	ויקיפדיה: ערכים עם מזהה vcba 	ויקיפדיה: ערכים עם מזהה viaf 	ויקיפדיה: ערכים עם מזהה worldcatid 	בקרת זהויות עם פריטים 	 	 	 	 		 		 דף זה נערך לאחרונה ב־ : , באוקטובר . 	הטקסט מוגש בכפוף לרישיון creative commons ייחוס-שיתוף זהה . ; ייתכן שישנם תנאים נוספים. ר' את תנאי השימוש לפרטים. 		מדיניות הפרטיות 	אודות ויקיפדיה 	הבהרות משפטיות 	תצוגת מכשירים ניידים 	מפתחים 	סטטיסטיקות 	הצהרה על עוגיות 		 	 	 	 	 orassi - wikipedia an piemontèis, l'enciclopedìa lìbera e a 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Ël test a l'é disponìbil sota la licensa creative commons atribussion-partagi ugual; a podrìo aplichesse d'àutre condission. ch'a vëdda le condission d'usagi për ij detaj. 		polìtica ëd confidensialità 	difide 	visualisassion an sël sacociàbil 	dësvlupator 	statistiche 	dichiarazione sui cookie 		 	 	 horatius – wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	horatius 	 		wikipediasta 		 		 		 		 		siirry navigaatioon 		siirry hakuun 		tämä artikkeli kertoo runoilijasta. horatius cocles oli roomalainen sotasankari. 	quintus horatius flaccus 	 horatius anton von wernerin maalauksessa. 	henkilötiedot 	syntynyt	 . joulukuuta eaa. venusia, rooman valtakunta 	kuollut	 . marraskuuta eaa. rooma, rooman valtakunta 	kansalaisuus	 rooman valtakunta 	ammatti	 runoilija 	kirjailija 	tuotannon kieli	latina 	aiheesta muualla 	 löydä lisää kirjailijoitakirjallisuuden teemasivulta 	 [ muokkaa wikidatassa ] 	infobox ok quintus horatius flaccus ( . joulukuuta eaa. – . marraskuuta eaa.) oli roomalainen runoilija. häntä pidetään yhtenä merkittävimmistä latinaksi kirjoittaneista runoilijoista. horatius oli vapautetun orjan poika. hän kuului vergiliuksen tavoin maecenaksen ylläpitämään kirjailijapiiriin. parhaiten horatiukselta tunnetaan nykypäivän yleinen lausahdus carpe diem eli tartu hetkeen tai kirjaimellisesti poimi päivä. [ ] sisällysluettelo 	 elämä 	 teokset 	 kirjallisuutta 	 . suomennokset 	 lähteet 	 . viitteet 	 aiheesta muualla elämä[muokkaa | muokkaa wikitekstiä] horatius syntyi etelä-italiassa, venusiassa, vapautetun orjan perheeseen. perheellä oli varallisuutta hankkia pieni maatila ja he halusivat antaa pojalleen parhaat mahdollisuudet omaa elämäänsä varten. vanhemmat lähettivätkin poikansa opiskelemaan roomaan, mutta eivät halunneet tätä kouluvuosien ajaksi vieraiden vieraiden kasvatettavaksi, joten he antoivat maatilansa vuokralle voidakseen asua poikansa luona. horatius muisteli myöhemmin nuoruuttaan ja vanhempiaan suurella lämmöllä. [ ] horatiuksen nuoruudessa rooman valtakuntaa piinasivat poliitikkojen valtakamppailut, salamurhat ja sisällissodat. horatiuskin osallistui sisällissotaan, mutta häviäjän eli brutuksen puolella. hänen oli onnistunut nousta päällikön asemaan ja hänen oli tarkoitus osallistua filippoin taisteluun. taistelun alkaessa hän kuitenkin heitti kilpensä ja aseensa maahan ja juoksi pakoon. [ ] horatius lukee runojaan maecenakselle. fjodor bronnikov, . sisällissodan voittaja, keisari augustus antoi horatiukselle armahduksen ja tarjosi hänelle yksityissihteerinsä hyväpalkkaista virkaa. runoilija kuitenkin kieltäytyi ottamasta työtä vastaan, sillä halusi elää vapaana runoilijana. augustus piti runoilijaa ystävänään, sillä hän arvosti horatiuksen hyväntahtoisuutta ja nopeaa älyä. [ ] taiteiden suosija ja augustuksen ystävä maecenas lahjoitti horatiukselle maatilan läheltä tivolia. horatius oli tyytyväinen, sillä nyt hän saattoi elää tuntemattomuudessa maaseudulla tavallisten ihmisten parissa ilman toimeentulohuolia. maecenaan kautta hän ystävystyi vergiliuksen ja variuksen kanssa. heidän kanssaan roomasta brundisiumiin tehtyä matkaa hän myöhemmin kuvaili purevan satiirisesti kirjeissään. [ ] kun elämä oli rauhoittunut, horatiuksesta kehittyi onnellinen ja tyytyväinen. ruumiinrakenteeltaan hän oli lyhyt ja pyöreä ja kuvaili itseään "hyvinruokituksi porsaaksi epikuroksen laumassa." runoissaan hän käsitteli elämän pieniä iloja kuten viiniä, ystävyyttä ja rakkautta. ihmisten heikkouksista hän teki satiireissaan raakaakin pilaa. osassa runoistaan hän ylistää augustusta. monien mielestä augustus vei roomalaisilta vapauden, mutta horatiuksen mielestä hän on suuri hyväntekijä lopettaessaan maata repineet sisällissodat. [ ] testamentissaan maecenas pyysi että augustus pitäisi huolta horatiuksen asioista. kovinkaan kauan ei keisarin tarvinnut sitä tehdä, sillä runoilija kuoli vain muutaman viikon mesenaattinsa jälkeen. horatius haudattiin roomaan esquilinus kukkulalle. [ ] teokset[muokkaa | muokkaa wikitekstiä] useat horatiuksen käyttämät runomitat ovat kreikkalaisten kehittämiä, ja niiden täydellinen ymmärtäminen vaatii antiikin kreikan kirjallisuuden tuntemusta. horatiuksen oodit taas olivat ainutlaatuisia ja ilmestyessään uusi muoto rooman kirjallisuudessa. ne poikkesivat suuresti esimerkiksi catulluksen lyyrisestä tuotannosta. lähimpinä esikuvina horatiukselle olivat kreikkalaiset runoilijat alkaios[ ] ja arkhilokhos. oodeissa horatius käsitteli sekä henkilökohtaisia kokemuksiaan että esikuvilta lainattuja aiheita, esimerkiksi maalaiselämän ylistystä. monet hänen oodeistaan ovat hyökkäyksiä hänen aikalaisiaan vastaan tai pilkkarunoja heistä. [ ] oodeissa tulevat esille liiallisuuksien välttäminen eli kultainen keskitie, ajan nopea kuluminen, oikeaan hetkeen tarttuminen, rakkaus, viini, isänmaallisuus ja terve itsetietoisuus. [ ] horatiuksen jambimittaisista oodeista kootulle teokselle on myöhemmin annettu nimi epodes. epodeissaan horatius kehitteli oodien runomittaa arkhilokhoksen mallin mukaisiksi säepareiksi. hän ilmaisi niissä oman aikansa roomalaisten huolia ja toiveita, poliittisia aiheita sekä rakkauden tunteita. [ ] kahdeksassatoista satiirissaan (sermones, 'pakinoita') horatius nojautui luciliuksen kehittelemään tyyliin. myös pindaros on niiden innoittaja, ja toisin päin ajateltuna horatius on ehkä huomattavin pindaroksen runouden ymmärtäjä. [ ] myös horatiuksen kirjeenvaihtoa on julkaistu. epistulat on tavallisesti lähetetty hänen huomattaville tuttavilleen, kuten maecenaalle. ne eivät kuitenkaan ole arkisia kirjeitä vaan runomuotoisia esseitä, joiden aiheina ovat elämänfilosofia ja kirjallisuuskritiikki. epistulat ovat tyyliltään viehättäviä, sillä niissä on yllättäviä kielikuvia ja rinnastuksia, joita on maustettu anekdooteilla ja tarinoilla.[ ] horatiuksen satiirien vuoden painoksen kansilehti. teosten kirjoitusvuodet ovat arvioita. 	satiirit i (sermonum liber primus tai satirae i) ( eaa.) teos latin libraryssä. 	epodit (epodes) ( eaa.) teos latin libraryssä. 	satiirit ii (sermonum liber secundus tai satirae ii) ( eaa.) teos latin libraryssä. 	oodit (carminum liber) 	carminum liber primus ( eaa.) teos latin libraryssä. 	carminum liber secundus ( eaa.) teos latin libraryssä. 	carminum liber tertius ( eaa.) teos latin libraryssä. 	carminum liber quartus ( eaa.) teos latin libraryssä. 	kirjeet i (epistularum liber primus) teos latin libraryssä. ( eaa.) 	ars poetica (runotaide) teos latin libraryssä. ( eaa.) 	carmen saeculare teos latin libraryssä. ( eaa.) 	kirjeet ii (epistularum liber secundus) ( eaa.) teos latin libraryssä. kirjallisuutta[muokkaa | muokkaa wikitekstiä] suomennokset[muokkaa | muokkaa wikitekstiä] 	kvintus horatius flakkuksen teokset : oodit, karmenseekulaare ja epoodit. (carminum liber, eaa.; carmen saeculare, eaa.; epodes, eaa.) suomentanut ja selityksillä varustanut a. leino. helsinki: holm, . 	horatius: runoudesta. suorasanaisesti suomentanut k. j. hidén. roomalaisten ja kreikkalaisten kirjailijain teoksia . näköispainos. alkuteos: helsingissä: yrjö weilin, . helsinki: kirja kerrallaan, . isbn - - - . 	horatius: ars poetica. runotaide. (ars poetica, noin eaa.) alkuteksti ja proosasuomennos, johdanto ja selityksiä. toimittaneet teivas oksala ja erkki palmén. ., tarkistettu painos ( . painos: gaudeamus, ). helsinki: finn lectura, . isbn - - - . 	horatius: oodeja ja epoodeja. suomennos eero kivikari. hämeenlinna: karisto, . 	horatius: horatiuksen oodeja. teivas oksala, erkki palmén. helsinki: finn lectura, . isbn - - - . 	horatius, quintus flaccius: horatiuksen avoimet runot. eripainos: kirjallisuudentutkijain seuran vuosikirja . suomentaja teivas oksala. kirjallisuudentutkijain seura, . 	castrén, paavo: pakinoita antiikin roomasta. horatiuksen satiirit. sisältää tekijän suomennoksen horatiuksen satiireista. helsingissä: otava, . isbn - - - - . lähteet[muokkaa | muokkaa wikitekstiä] 	grimberg, carl: kansojen historia, osa , rooma. suomentaneet weikko pakarinen, jussi teljo ja aaro lassi. wsoy:n graafiset laitokset, porvoo . isbn - - - viitteet[muokkaa | muokkaa wikitekstiä] 	↑ a b c d otavan suuri ensyklopedia, . osa (hašek-juuri), s. – , art. horatius. otava, . isbn - - - . 	↑ grimberg, c.: kansojen historia, osa , s. . 	↑ grimberg, c.: kansojen historia, osa , s. . 	↑ grimberg, c.: kansojen historia, osa , s. . 	↑ grimberg, c.: kansojen historia, osa , s. , . 	↑ grimberg, c.: kansojen historia, osa , s. , . 	↑ grimberg, c.: kansojen historia, osa , s. . 	↑ a b c castrén, paavo: uusi antiikin historia, s. – . helsinki: otava, . isbn - - - - . aiheesta muualla[muokkaa | muokkaa wikitekstiä] wikimedia commonsissa on kuvia tai muita tiedostoja aiheesta horatius. wikiaineistoon on tallennettu tekstiä aiheesta: horatius wikisitaateissa on kokoelma sitaatteja aiheesta horatius. 	vapaasti ladattavia horatiuksen e-kirjoja projekti lönnrotilta sekä project gutenbergiltä. 	horatius ja runoilijakoulu. jyväskylän yliopisto. 	shorey, paul: commentary on horace, odes, epodes, and carmen saeculare. perseus digital library. 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lisäehtoja voi sisältyä. katso käyttöehdot. wikipedia® on wikimedia foundationin rekisteröimä tavaramerkki. ongelma artikkelissa? 		tietosuojakäytäntö 	tietoja wikipediasta 	vastuuvapaus 	mobiilinäkymä 	kehittäjät 	tilastot 	evästekäytäntö 		 	 	 none none none none none quintu orazziu flaccu - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	quintu orazziu flaccu 	 		dâ wikipedia, la nciclupidìa lìbbira. 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 orazziu orazziu flaccu quintu (venosa, di dicèmmiru a.c. - roma, di nuvèmmiru a.c.), cchiu canusciutu comu "orazziu", fu un pueta latinu di l'antica roma. mastru di eleganza stilìstica e dutatu di inusuali irunìa, sappi affruntari li vicissitùdini pulìtichi e civili dû sò tempu comu placidu epicureu amanti dî piaciri dâ vita. lu cèlibbri muttu carpe diem, pi diri apprufitta di chiddu chi la vita ti dunna òi, è attribbuitu a iddu. assiemi a ovidiu ( p.e.v., - e.v.) e virgiliu ( p.e.v., p.e.v.) eni cunzidiratu un di li tri cchiu grandi pueta di l'antica roma. estrattu di "https://scn.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=quintu_orazziu_flaccu&oldid= " 		catigurìi: 	roma antica 	biografìi 	littiratura 	littiratura latina 	 	 	menù di navigazzioni 	 		 	 		strumenta pirsunali 	 	 			nun v'aviti riggistratu 	discussioni 	cuntribbuti 	crea un cuntu novu 	trasi 		 	 		 			 	 		namespace 	 	 			artìculu 	discussioni 		 	 			 	 	 		varianti 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		vìsiti 	 	 			leggi 	cancia 	cancia surgenti 	talìa la crunuluggìa 		 	 			 	 	 		altro 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		arriscedi 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigazzioni 	 	 			pàggina principali 	porta dâ cumunitati 	nutizzî 	canciati antura 	na pàggina a muzzu 	ajutu 		 	 	 	 		cumunitati 	 	 			lu cìrculu 	artìculu ntâ vitrina 	irc (#wikipedia-scn) 	grammàtica 	cumpenniu stilìsticu 	dunazzioni 	pirmessi bot (request bot status) 		 	 	 		strumenta 	 	 			chi punta ccà 	canciamenti culligati 	càrrica nu file 	pàggini spiciali 	liami pirmanenti 	nfurmazzioni ncapu la pàggina 	cita st'artìculu 	suggettu nta wikidata 		 	 	 		stampa/esporta 	 	 			crea nu libbru 	scàrrica comu pdf 	virsioni stampàbbili 		 	 	 		Àutri pruggetti 	 	 			wikimedia commons 		 	 	 	 		Àutri lingui 	 	 			afrikaans 	አማርኛ 	aragonés 	العربية 	مصرى 	asturianu 	تۆرکجه 	Башҡортса 	Žemaitėška 	Беларуская 	Беларуская (тарашкевіца)‎ 	Български 	brezhoneg 	bosanski 	català 	Čeština 	cymraeg 	dansk 	deutsch 	zazaki 	Ελληνικά 	english 	esperanto 	español 	eesti 	euskara 	فارسی 	suomi 	võro 	français 	furlan 	gaeilge 	galego 	עברית 	हिन्दी 	fiji hindi 	hrvatski 	magyar 	Հայերեն 	interlingua 	bahasa indonesia 	ido 	Íslenska 	italiano 	日本語 	ქართული 	Қазақша 	한국어 	kurdî 	kernowek 	latina 	lingua franca nova 	lietuvių 	latviešu 	malagasy 	Македонски 	മലയാളം 	Монгол 	मराठी 	bahasa melayu 	nāhuatl 	nederlands 	norsk nynorsk 	norsk bokmål 	occitan 	ਪੰਜਾਬੀ 	polski 	piemontèis 	português 	română 	tarandíne 	Русский 	sardu 	srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски 	simple english 	slovenčina 	slovenščina 	Српски / srpski 	seeltersk 	svenska 	kiswahili 	தமிழ் 	tagalog 	türkçe 	Татарча/tatarça 	Українська 	oʻzbekcha/ўзбекча 	tiếng việt 	volapük 	walon 	winaray 	吴语 	中文 	粵語 		cancia li culligamenti 	 		 sta pàggina fu canciata a : di lu mar . 	stu testu è dispunìbbili sutta â licenza creative commons attribuzzioni/spartuta dâ stissa manera; si ponnu applicari àutri cunnizzioni. talìa li cunnizzioni d'usu pi li dittagghî. 		pulìtica supra la privacy 	nfurmazzioni supra a wikipedia 	avvirtenzi 	virsioni mòbbili 	sviluppatura 	statistiche 	dichiarazione sui cookie 		 	 	 horacy (poeta) – wikipedia, wolna encyklopedia 	 	 	 	 	horacy (poeta) 	 		z wikipedii, wolnej encyklopedii 		 		 		 		 		przejdź do nawigacji 		przejdź do wyszukiwania 			 	zobacz też: inne znaczenia tej nazwy. 	 	horacy kwintus horacjusz flakkus 	 domniemany portret horacego. relief rzymski z około roku. boston, museum of fine arts 	data i miejsce urodzenia 	 grudnia p.n.e. wenuzja 	data śmierci 	 listopada p.n.e. 	zawód, zajęcie 	poeta 	 	 	multimedia w wikimedia commons 	 	 	teksty w wikiźródłach 	 	 	cytaty w wikicytatach 	 	zobacz w łacińskich wikiźródłach tekst oryginalny dzieł horacego horacy (łac. horatius), właściwie kwintus horacjusz flakkus (łac. quintus horatius flaccus) (ur. grudnia p.n.e. w wenuzji, zm. listopada p.n.e.) – poeta rzymski, często określany mianem największego łacińskiego liryka i mistrza satyry[ ]. w czasach cesarza augusta, w których żył i tworzył, sławą przewyższał go jedynie wergiliusz[ ]. napisał utwory poetyckie, liczące łącznie wersów, zebrane w czterech zbiorach – epodach, satyrach(ang.), odach(ang.) i listach(ang.). wszystko, co wyszło spod jego pióra, uważane było przez wieki za doskonałe zarówno w swym kształcie poetyckim, jak i w przebogatej treści – od błahych motywów poezji biesiadnej lub erotycznej, aż do poważnych problemów filozoficznych, moralnych, politycznych, retorycznych. te ostatnie znalazły wyraz zwłaszcza w sztuce poetyckiej – pierwszym łacińskim podręczniku teorii literatury[ ]. był wielbicielem piękna świata i uroków życia. głosił chwałę rzymskich cnót, chociaż przeszedł skomplikowaną drogę życiową. pochodził z nizin społecznych południowej italii, był synem wyzwoleńca. w młodości walczył w obronie republiki, przeciwko oktawianowi, jako oficer w armii zabójcy cezara, marka brutusa. w wieku dojrzałym zaczął wspierać pryncypat augusta i cesarski program reform oraz odnowienia imperium[ ]. jego utwory charakteryzowały się refleksją moralną rozbudowaną w stopniu wcześniej niespotykanym. dzieła horacego zawierały rozważania o nieuchronności śmierci, o wartości pełnego umiaru, rozumnego życia. swoim uczuciom i chwilowym nastrojom nadawał formę uniwersalną, która przemawiała przez wieki i stała się jednym z fundamentów europejskiej tradycji literackiej. uważany jest za jedną z najważniejszych postaci w dziejach światowej poezji[ ]. w drugiej połowie i wieku marek waleriusz probus(ang.) dokonał pierwszego w dziejach krytycznego wydania pełnej twórczości jednego autora – horacego. wydanie to było używane w okresie cesarstwa rzymskiego, średniowieczu, renesansie i jest wciąż wznawiane współcześnie. zachowało się w ponad dwustu pięćdziesięciu rękopisach, z których najstarsze spisane zostały w viii i ix wieku[ ]. spis treści 	 Życie 	 . dzieciństwo 	 . młodość 	 . początki kariery literackiej 	 . pierwszy okres twórczości 	 . okres liryczny twórczości 	 . późny okres twórczości 	 . Śmierć 	 dzieła 	 . epody 	 . satyry 	 . ody 	 . listy 	 recepcja 	 . starożytność 	 . Średniowiecze i nowożytność 	 . w polsce 	 przypisy 	 bibliografia 	 . przekłady polskie 	 . literatura 	 linki zewnętrzne Życie[edytuj | edytuj kod] o życiu horacego zachowało się stosunkowo dużo informacji. przede wszystkim dlatego, że w swoich utworach poeta często nawiązywał do własnych przeżyć i podawał wiele, skądinąd nieznanych, szczegółów biografii. zachował się także, oceniany przez badaczy jako wiarygodny, żywot autorstwa swetoniusza (vita horati). swetoniusz, poza dziełami horacego, oparł się na wielu źródłach współcześnie nieznanych – między innymi na pismach z kancelarii augusta. Żywot sporządzony przez porfyriona w pierwszej połowie iii wieku nie wniósł już żadnych nowych informacji[ ]. dzieciństwo[edytuj | edytuj kod] domniemany dom rodzinny horacego w wenuzji. horacy przyszedł na świat w dniu, w którym konsulami zostali lucjusz manliusz torkwatus i lucjusz kotta – grudnia roku przed chrystusem. pochodził z wenuzji, miasta w południowo-wschodniej italii, podbitego w czasie ii wojny samnickiej i przekształconego w rzymską kolonię wojskową. mieszkańcy wenuzji wchodzili w skład drugiego tribus, czyli rzymskiego okręgu wyborczego, zwanego tribus horatia. wenuzja była ważnym punktem strategicznym przy via appia wiodącej do tarentu. leżała na spornym pograniczu apulii i lukanii. sam poeta uważał się za samnitę, żywił jednak wątpliwości, czy wywodził się z plemienia lukanów, czy też z apulijczyków[ ]. ojciec horacego był wyzwoleńcem. urodził się jako człowiek wolny, ale wzięto go do niewoli podczas wojny rzymu ze sprzymierzeńcami. pracował w wenuzji jako niewolnik publiczny (servus publicus). po wyzwoleniu przybrał nazwisko od tribus horatia. kwintus urodził się już jako obywatel rzymski, chociaż o jeszcze niepełnych prawach. niektórzy uczeni próbowali wykazać, że horacy był pochodzenia greckiego lub żydowskiego. twierdzenia takie są współcześnie odrzucane przez niemal wszystkich badaczy. powszechnie uważa się, że ojciec poety był ambitnym i przedsiębiorczym apulijczykiem, który zdołał nie tylko wykupić się z niewoli, ale także nabyć niewielkie gospodarstwo rolne wraz z zabudowaniami, położone nieco na zachód od wenuzji, u stóp wulkanicznej góry wultur[ ]. góra wultur, u stóp której ojciec horacego kupił gospodarstwo rolne. pierwsze lata życia spędził horacy pod opieką piastunki pulii. matka, zapewne również wyzwolenica, zmarła bardzo wcześnie, tak że horacy nie zachował o niej żadnego wspomnienia. naukę rozpoczął w prowincjonalnej szkole prowadzonej przez niejakiego flawiusza w wenuzji. tam wykazał się znacznymi zdolnościami, więc ojciec postanowił zapewnić mu wykształcenie, które otworzyłoby synowi drogę do kariery. wydzierżawił gospodarstwo i gdy kwintus miał około dziesięciu lat przeniósł się do rzymu. za zaoszczędzone pieniądze nabył posadę maklera na licytacjach (exactionum coactor). zarabiał na pośrednictwie % od sum uzyskanych ze sprzedaży. przy większych transakcjach, na przykład spadkowych, dochody sięgały bardzo wysokich kwot[ ]. w jednej z najlepszych szkół rzymskim nauczycielem kwintusa był surowy i wymagający lucjusz orbiliusz pupillus – weteran, ekwita rodem z benewentu. horacy wspominał go jako „chętnego do bicia”. orbiliusz nauczał łaciny, stosując jako podręcznik przekład odysei pióra liwiusza andronika, oraz greki poprzez lekturę iliady homera. kwintus miał również innych nauczycieli (doctores), lecz po latach za najlepszego nauczyciela i wychowawcę uznawał ojca, nie szczędząc mu wzruszających, pełnych wdzięczności słów (pater optimus)[ ]. młodość[edytuj | edytuj kod] ojciec horacego zadecydował, że jego syn otrzyma najlepsze wykształcenie w greckich szkołach filozoficznych i retorycznych. u schyłku lub na początku roku , kwintus wyjechał do aten. słuchał wykładów kratipposa (kierownika szkoły perypatetycznej) oraz teomnestosa (scholarchy nowej akademii). jego kolegami podczas studiów w grecji byli między innymi gnejusz domicjusz ahenobarbus i syn cycerona marek[ ]. jesienią roku brutus, morderca cezara, zebrał w grecji resztki wojsk pompejusza, rozproszone po bitwie pod farsalos. do swojego sztabu przyjął wielu młodych rzymian studiujących w atenach. horacy postanowił bronić, u boku kolegów, republikańskich ideałów przed oktawianem i markiem antoniuszem – zaciągnął się do armii brutusa. braki kadrowe były w niej tak duże, że niedoświadczonego kwintusa przydzielono do sztabu i nadano stopień oficerski (tribunus militum). w roku uczestniczył w operacjach zajmowania przez legiony brutusa macedonii, ilirii i azji. w październiku bitwa pod filippi zakończyła się klęską wojsk republikańskich. horacy szukał ratunku w ucieczce, podczas której porzucił spowalniające go uzbrojenie. uratowawszy życie postanowił powrócić do rzymu[ ]. wracał przez grecję i adriatyk. na morzu tyrreńskim przeżył burzę morską w pobliżu przylądka palinura, u zachodnich wybrzeży lukanii. niewiele brakowało, by jego statek rozbił się o skały. wydarzenie to zaliczył później do jednego z trzech najgroźniejszych momentów w swoim życiu[ ]. po powrocie do rzymu horacy uzyskał ułaskawienie i zdołał ocalić życie. skorzystał z amnestii ogłoszonej przez oktawiana. ukarany jednak został całkowitą konfiskatą majątku rodzinnego. utracił nieruchomości, inwentarz i niewolników na rzecz weteranów oktawiana. mniej więcej też w tym czasie zmarł jego ojciec. bez rodziny i majątku, bezrobotny i osamotniony – znalazł się horacy w stolicy bez środków do życia. z resztek oszczędności, w roku , nabył stanowisko sekretarza w urzędzie finansowym jednego z kwestorów. stał się tym samym członkiem korporacji sekretarzy (scribae quaestorii), do których obowiązków należało prowadzenie ksiąg buchalteryjnych i akt archiwum państwowego. to zapewniło mu skromne utrzymanie i pozwoliło zająć się twórczością literacką[ ]. początki kariery literackiej[edytuj | edytuj kod] portret horacego – muzeum w wenuzji. jak sam wyznał, skrajna bieda zmusiła go do pisania wierszy. Ówcześni początkujący poeci odczytywali swoje utwory w kręgu najbliższych przyjaciół, omawiali je, doskonalili, zanim zostały one zaprezentowane publicznie. horacy zaprzyjaźnił się z pięć lat od niego starszym wergiliuszem, sławnym już autorem bukolik i z lucjuszem wariuszem, autorem wierszy epicznych. należeli oni do kręgu mecenasa, który skupił wokół siebie najwybitniejsze talenty literackie i potrafił wyzyskać je dla polityki oktawiana. oni też pierwsi poznali się na talencie młodego kolegi[ ]. co prawda horacy próbował już swoich sił w poezji, pisząc w atenach zaginione wiersze po grecku, ale jako poeta łaciński debiutował przed gronem przyjaciół w rzymie, około roku . za jego najstarsze utwory uchodzą dwie epody – jedna wyrażającą niepokój o losy ojczyzny (uszeregowaną później jako epoda xvi) oraz druga, ostrzegającą przed grozą kolejnej wojny domowej (epoda vii)[ ]. do domu mecenasa wprowadzili horacego wergiliusz i wariusz wiosną roku. w pałacu na eskwilinie horacy przedstawił się mecenasowi, mówiąc krótko o sobie. jak wspominał po latach, miał powiedzieć więcej, lecz z nieśmiałości głos uwiązł mu w krtani. dopiero po dziewięciu miesiącach mecenas wezwał go ponownie, co dało początek ich długoletniej przyjaźni. podobne usposobienie, niezbyt dobry stan zdrowia, ten sam stosunek do życia, takie same poglądy potężnego mecenasa i chudego literata sprawiły, że ich przyjaźń była trwała. po kilku latach nie mogli już żyć bez siebie. mecenas wyznał w jednym z utworów, że kocha horacego całym jestestwem, a w testamencie polecił go szczególnej pamięci augusta. horacy dał wyraz przyjaźni nie tylko w licznych dedykacjach, ale również układając inwokacje do mecenasa aż trzydzieści jeden razy[ ]. pierwszy okres twórczości[edytuj | edytuj kod] widok na tybur i okolice. ponte dell acquoria a tivoli – obraz thomasa dessoulavy, namalowany w latach – . w dolinie, mniej więcej pośrodku płótna, poniżej wodospadów, widoczny jest kościół św. antoniego. według tradycji kościół ten został zbudowany na miejscu willi horacego. na lata przed rokiem przypada pierwszy okres twórczości horacego. powstały wówczas epody i satyry. znany jest z dużym prawdopodobieństwem rok wydania ksiąg satyr, natomiast o epodach wiemy jedynie, że powstawały równocześnie z nimi. tradycyjnie jednak uważa się epody za pierwsze opublikowane dzieło horacego. większość uczonych skłania się do tezy, że oba zbiory wierszy zostały wydane w roku [ ]. epody przewyższały siłą temperamentu późniejsze wiersze horacego. jak wyznał poeta, słodka młodość i zapał serca wpędziły mnie w szybkie jamby. odcinał się w nich od dotychczasowej konwencji, tak na płaszczyźnie ideowej, jak i artystycznej. pragnął wierszami wpływać na społeczeństwo, jako jego przywódca i sumienie – dlatego szukał wzorów nie wśród poetów aleksandryjskich, jak na przykład wergiliusz, ale zwrócił się ku lirykom greckim. wybór padł na archilocha, żyjącego w podobnie jak horacy burzliwej epoce, którego formę wiersza przeniósł horacy do poezji łacińskiej[ ]. w epodach horacy komentował aktualne wydarzenia. epoda vii była protestem przeciw wojnie domowej między oktawianem a sekstusem pompejuszem. epoda iv zawierała aluzje do pokonanych w roku przez marka agryppę piratów. wiosną roku, podczas przygotowań do wojny domowej zakończonej bitwą pod akcjum, powstała epoda i, zaś epoda ix wyraża radość ze zwycięstwa oktawiana nad antoniuszem[ ]. natomiast w satyrach stronił horacy od tematyki politycznej. odzwierciedliło się jednak w nich rosnące zainteresowanie działalnością oktawiana. o nabraniu przekonania do jego polityki świadczy satyra ii, datowana na rok , w której obiecuje w przyszłości sławić sprawiedliwość i dzielność princepsa. satyry wyrażały już po części ideologię, której hołdował oktawian – zachętę do skromnego życia oraz pochwałę starorzymskiej cnoty, dzięki której miał się odrodzić naród rzymski[ ]. zyskawszy przyjaźń i zaufanie mecenasa oraz poparcie oktawiana, już na wiosnę roku horacy, wraz z wergiliuszem i wariuszem, brał udział w misji dyplomatycznej do brundisium w celu uzyskania pomocy od antoniusza przeciwko sekstusowi pompejuszowi[ ]. w lub roku poeta otrzymał od mecenasa niewielką posiadłość ziemską w górach sabińskich, zwaną sabinum bądź sabini. willę obsługiwało ośmiu niewolników pod nadzorem wilikusa. ziemię rolną horacy wydzierżawił. sabinum pod tyburem, oddalone od stolicy niespełna czterdzieści pięć kilometrów, leżące w dolinie wartkiego potoku digentia, z panującym tam przez większą część roku łagodnym klimatem i malowniczą okolicą, stało się od razu ulubionym miejscem pobytu poety, inspirującym jego wyobraźnię[ ]. okres liryczny twórczości[edytuj | edytuj kod] krąg mecenasa. od lewej: wergiliusz, horacy, wariusz i mecenas. charles françois jalabert, ilustracja z około roku . na lata – przypada właściwy okres dojrzałej, lirycznej twórczości horacego. między a rokiem życia pisał ody, czego owocem był wydany w roku . zbiór pierwszych trzech ksiąg pieśni. w tym okresie horacy zyskał sławę największego, po wergiliuszu, poety rzymu. przechodnie pokazywali go sobie na ulicach, nazywając pieśniarzem rzymskiej liry. horacy przeszedł całkowicie na pozycje augustowskie, dawał wyraz wiary w posłannictwo augusta oraz popierał jego dążenia polityczne i ideowe[ ]. nie ożenił się, żył na umiarkowanym poziomie i nie zabiegał o powiększenie majątku. stronił od bieżącej polityki. poznał osobiście oktawiana, ale odrzucał konsekwentnie propozycje objęcia jakichkolwiek urzędów. kiedy w roku august zaoferował mu wpływowe i intratne stanowisko swego osobistego sekretarza, poeta stanowczo odmówił tłumacząc się marnym zdrowiem. unikał zbyt częstego spotykania się z princepsem, nie chcąc być oskarżanym o wpływanie na politykę państwa. august wyrzucał niekiedy horacemu, że „z nim nie rozmawia”[ ]. poeta dzielił czas między swoją wieś, pobliski tybur i rzym. pozbawiony trosk materialnych, coraz chętniej i dłużej przebywał w sabinum. tam spędzał święta, tworzył i spacerował po okolicy, a w zimie zasiadał przy kominku. dużo czasu poświęcał lekturze, zwłaszcza poezji greckiej. odwiedzał sąsiada cerwiusza, przyjmował u siebie gości na ucztach i skromnych posiłkach. przeżył też groźną chwilę, gdy w czasie przechadzki nagle upadło stare drzewo i omal nie roztrzaskało mu głowy. uznał, że ocalał dzięki interwencji fauna i do śmierci uroczyście obchodził rocznicę tego wydarzenia[ ]. z przekazów pochodzących z tego okresu wiadomo, że miał ciemne włosy, ale już przyprószone siwizną. często chorował. dokuczały mu bóle reumatyczne, leczone w uzdrowiskach bądź naświetlaniem promieniami słonecznymi. niejednokrotnie nawiedzało go zapalenie spojówek, na które stosował specjalne maści. miewał kłopoty gastryczne. popadał też w depresje, w czasie których stronił od przyjaciół i czekał aż krytyczny stan minie. był cholerykiem, nagle wpadał w gniew i szybko się uspokajał, po czym żałował wybuchu i przepraszał. Łatwo zjednywał sobie ludzi, chociaż do zawierania przyjaźni nie był skory. august nazywał go „przemiłym człowieczkiem”[ ]. późny okres twórczości[edytuj | edytuj kod] quintus horatius flaccus. ilustracja z roku, anton von werner. pod koniec lat dwudziestych utrwaliła się pozycja poety jako niemal oficjalnego wieszcza pryncypatu. po śmierci wergiliusza, w roku , august uznał horacego za najwybitniejszego żyjącego poetę rzymu i – jak twierdził swetoniusz – tak cenił jego pisma, że uważał, że będą one wiecznie żyły[ ]. w roku horacy porzucił lirykę. w programowym liście, skierowanym do mecenasa, poeta uzasadniał ten zwrot w twórczości wiekiem. jak wysłużony gladiator, który wycofuje się z areny na czas, nie czekając, aż skompromituje się wobec publiczności – tak horacy odłożył na bok wiersze i inne igraszki (versus et cetera ludicra) i wrócił do rozważań moralnych, którym przed laty poświęcił się w satyrach. uczynił to w nowej formie, liście poetyckim, ponieważ – jak sam zaznaczył – starszy wiekiem poszukiwał mądrości i prawdy[ ]. horacy w chwili śmierci wergiliusza miał już za sobą pokaźny dorobek poetycki. w liście do juliusza florusa (listy ii, ) z roku nie omieszkał tego dorobku przypomnieć. list ten otwierał serię tzw. listów literackich, do których należał też list do pizonów o sztuce poetyckiej. horacy potwierdził w nich rozbrat z dawniejszą twórczością epodyczną, satyryczną i liryczną oraz ponowił decyzję o skupieniu się na twórczości dydaktyczno-wychowawczej, jako odpowiedniej dla starszego pisarza. jak twierdził, nadszedł czas, by zaniechać poezji innej poza podejmującą walkę z chciwością, żądzą chwały, zabobonnością, strachem przed śmiercią i innymi ludzkimi wadami[ ]. w roku august urządził „obrzędy wiekowe” (ludi saeculares). horacy otrzymał zamówienie państwowe na napisanie hymnu uświetniającego tę uroczystość, co spowodowało jego nawrót do pisania liryki. hymn horacego, przeznaczony do odśpiewania przez chóry chłopców i dziewcząt na zakończenie trzydniowych uroczystości, odpowiadał w swym układzie ich przebiegowi. jakkolwiek nie należy on, zdaniem krytyków, do najlepszych utworów poety, głosił potęgę rzymu augusta, miasta ukochanego przez bogów, nad który nie ujrzy nic większego na ziemi słonce wędrując po firmamencie niebieskim[ ]. tematy związane z potęgą rzymu i augustem charakteryzowały również czwartą księgę pieśni, na którą złożyło się ód napisanych w latach – , a więc już w nowym „saeculum”[ ]. rozpoczyna księgę oda do wenus, w której poeta, bliski już pięćdziesiątki, wyrzeka się miłości, stwierdzając, że już nie jest tym, kim był za młodu[ ]. horacy spędzał już mniej czasu w sabinum. gdy w górach albańskich spadały pierwsze śniegi, chronił się przed dolegliwościami reumatycznymi nad morzem. zazwyczaj spędzał zimę u boku augusta i mecenasa w bajach, słynnych ze źródeł leczących choroby gośćcowe. tam był pod opieką osobistego lekarza augusta, antoniusza musy, który stosował skuteczne, ale nieprzyjemne zabiegi hydroterapeutyczne[ ]. od wiosny do jesieni często przyjeżdżał do rzymu. sypiał tam do dziesiątej, w chłodniejszych godzinach porannych chodził na pole marsowe, by podziwiać walki zapaśników lub pograć w piłkę. otaczał go zawsze tłum gapiów, słyszał skierowane do siebie słowa: „dziecko szczęścia”. zatrzymywano go prosząc o drobne przysługi i protekcję. około południa spożywał lekki posiłek, potem najgorętszą porę dnia spędzał na odpoczynku w domu. wieczorem spotykał się z petentami – proszono go o wstawiennictwo, a młodzi poeci chcieli, by wysłuchał ich wierszy. odwiedzał też chorych przyjaciół. niekiedy spacerował po rynku warzywnym (forum holitorium) lub wielkim cyrku, gdzie przyglądał się życiu zwykłych ludzi i rozmawiał z przechodniami. zmęczony powracał do domu i brał kąpiel. ostatni posiłek dnia składał się z jarzyn i naleśników. ten tryb życia przerywany był częstymi zaproszeniami na uczty do mecenasa, z którym niekiedy wyjeżdżał poza miasto. po pewnym czasie miał dosyć wielkomiejskiego życia i tęsknił za willą sabińską, skąd po krótszym lub dłuższym pobycie, upływającym na pisaniu i lekturze, tęsknił z kolei za rzymem. sam mówił o sobie, że był niezdecydowany – gdy przebywał w rzymie, kochał tybur, będąc w tyburze, kochał rzym[ ]. Śmierć[edytuj | edytuj kod] horacy umarł listopada roku przed chrystusem, kilka tygodni lub miesięcy po mecenasie. Śmierć była nagła, a poeta nie zostawił testamentu. wzbudziło to podejrzenia, że popełnił samobójstwo zażywając trucizny, by dotrzymać przysięgi danej przed laty mecenasowi: dzień twojej śmierci pociągnie za sobą zgon nas obu. podejrzeń tych nigdy nie potwierdzono. zwłok poety nie spalono, lecz pochowano je obok grobowca mecenasa, w ogrodach przyjaciela na eskwilinie (horti maecenatiani)[ ]. dzieła[edytuj | edytuj kod] cytat z horacego na zegarze słonecznym. szczecin, zamek książąt pomorskich epody[edytuj | edytuj kod] najwcześniejsze utwory horacego, powstałe w latach – , zostały zebrane w zbiorze epody (epodi) i wydane w roku w jednej księdze. sam poeta nazywał te utwory iambi. nazwę epody nadali im późniejsi gramatycy ze względu na budowę, ponieważ najczęściej po wersach dłuższych następował w nich wers krótszy, czyli epodos („dośpiew”)[ ]. w jambach nawiązywał horacy do archilocha z paros i hipponaksa (druga połowa vi wieku przed chrystusem). poeta uważał, że to on pierwszy wprowadził do literatury łacińskiej wzorowane na greckich jambach wiersze, chociaż próbował już tego wcześniej lucyliusz[ ]. horacy używał w epodach formę jambiczną – trymetr z dymetrem – ale próbował jeszcze kilku kombinacji jambiczno-daktylicznych. zrezygnował natomiast całkowicie z form strof i wersów używanych wcześniej przez neoteryków[ ]. epody zawierały tony złośliwe i napastliwe, a także patriotyczne oraz hymniczne. utwory złośliwe są anonimowe lub pseudoanonimowe. krytykuje w nich horacy innych poetów, dorobkiewiczów, oszczerców, rozpustne kobiety czy swoich osobistych nieprzyjaciół, chociaż poeta jest ostrożny w bezpośrednim wymienianiu imion poszczególnych osób[ ]. wśród utworów patriotycznych szczególnie popularna była epoda vii – pełne dramatyczności wezwanie do zaprzestania wojen domowych, wynikających z klątwy, ciążącej na rzymianach za zabójstwo brata przez romulusa. wstrząsający obraz upadku rzymu, miotanego wojnami domowymi, przedstawił horacy w epodzie xvi. nie widział w niej dla rodaków innej drogi, jak porzucenie rzymu i przeniesienie się daleko za morza, na szczęśliwe wyspy[ ]. satyry[edytuj | edytuj kod] pomnik horacego w wenuzji. satyry składały się z dwóch ksiąg. w rękopisach tytułowane były jako sermones, czyli „gawędy”, gdyż prawdopodobnie tak te utwory nazywał sam poeta. pierwsza księga zawierała satyr (łącznie wersów), księga druga satyr w wersach. ponieważ w pierwszej księdze nie było żadnych wzmianek o sabinum, przypuszczalnie zbiór powstał przed rokiem . Żaden z utworów drugiej księgi nie został napisany później niż w pierwszej połowie roku. według większości badaczy satyry powstały równolegle z epodami[ ]. w miarę powstawania poszczególne utwory horacy czytał przyjaciołom, a około roku po raz pierwszy zaprezentował część z nich publicznie. obserwował, jak zostały przyjęte i odnotował to w kolejnych satyrach. zdaniem niektórych krytyków poeta przejawiał zbytni egocentryzm, zbyt ostrą agresywność, nadużywał praw satyryka i niepotrzebnie wywoływał nienawiść. inni zarzucali horacemu brak odpowiedniej satyrze sprężystości i doradzali, żeby poświęcił się na przykład epopei. poeta jednak pisał w następnych latach kolejne satyry, w których odnosił się do krytyki ze strony publiczności[ ]. chociaż horacy kontynuował tradycję wcześniejszej, rzymskiej satyry i greckiej diatryby, to w opozycji do nich jako właściwy wers satyry ustalił heksametr daktyliczny. w budowie strof przestrzegał harmonii formy z treścią, niekiedy nadając im epicki koloryt rytmu, a gdy wynikało to z treści stosował zwykły tok mowy. kunsztu tego satyrycznego heksametru nikt potem naśladować nie umiał, choć wydawało się, że nic łatwiejszego[ ]. horacy często posługiwał się formą fikcyjnego dialogu, przytaczał przykłady ze zwykłych, codziennych wydarzeń; korzystał z anegdoty i dowcipu, dotykał swobodnie różnych tematów z życia społecznego i osobistego. nie zabrakło przykładów ilustrujących temat, a także pełnych dygresji i aluzji uwag, porównań – powiązanych jednak zawsze jakąś główną myślą przewodnią[ ]. poeta unikał w satyrach tematów politycznych, a także krytyki wysoko postawionych osobistości, czy ludu rzymskiego. poruszał tematykę uniwersalną, tylko pośrednio odnosząc się do aktualnych wydarzeń. krytykował szerzące się naruszanie wierności małżeńskiej a gonitwa za przygodami z cudzymi żonami wyszydzona została jako typowy przykład głupoty. atakował, na przykład, chciwości i zawiści, uważając je za źródła ludzkiego niezadowolenia z życia[ ]. ody[edytuj | edytuj kod] tekst ody xiv z księgi i – na budynku przy cleveringaplaats w holenderskiej lejdzie: czyż trzeba, by cię nowa fala niosła... pieśni liryczne (carmina), znane także jako „ody” (odes), wydane zostały w czterech księgach. trzy pierwsze ukazały się w roku jako oddzielny zbiór, zawierający utworów. około roku horacy opublikował ostatnią, czwartą księgę liczącą pieśni. ody napisane zostały w różnych metrach poetyckich i zawierały różnorodną tematykę[ ]. chociaż w tematyce ód znalazły się zapożyczenia z poezji greckiej, to jednak większość z nich zrodziły okoliczności związane z życiem poety, czy też jego wspomnienia. wiele utworów była to poezja okazyjna, skierowana do przyjaciół i znajomych. wielokrotnie też zajmował horacy głos w sprawach publicznych. charakterystyczną cechą pieśni było rozpoczynanie wiersza od jakiegoś konkretnego wydarzenia, niekiedy opowiedzianego szczegółowo, częściej ledwie wspomnianego. wychodząc od tego wydarzenia poeta przechodzi do refleksji natury ogólnej – praktycznej lub filozoficznej. wiele utworów składało się z dwóch części – pierwsza, sytuacyjna, była podstawą do ogólnych rozważań w drugiej, refleksyjnej[ ]. w budowie strof horacy adaptował do języka łacińskiego niekiedy poezję alkajosa i safony, ale przeważnie używał własnych schematów stroficznych, układanych w zespoły czterowierszowe. za swoim wyczuciem rytmicznym znormalizował schematy wersów i strof. zrezygnował na przykład, najczęściej na korzyść sylaby długiej, z dowolności iloczasu niektórych sylab; ustabilizował w wierszach miejsca cezur, a odchylenia od tych zasad stosował rzadko. ograniczył również przenoszenie końcówki zdania do wersu następnego, czyli tzw. enjambement. natomiast kończenie strof w środku zdania, czyli dośpiew (epod), nadal stosował często[ ]. podobnie jak tematyka i forma, tak również zmienia się w odach nastrój. o nastroju decyduje treść utworu i jej ujęcie przez poetę, a nie określona forma stroficzna czy rytm. nie ma więc w pieśniach harmonii treści i formy, w sensie określonego doboru formy do treści lub odwrotnie. wynikało to z ambitnych zamierzeń poety, zarówno co do tematyki i charakteru utworów, jak co do formy. ambicje te potwierdza już dobór pierwszych dziewięciu utworów pierwszej księgi – każdy z nich był w innym rodzaju strofki i różnił się od poprzedniego poruszaną treścią[ ]. ody były w poezji całkowitą nowością. jako szczególną innowację odebrano liryczne pieśni patriotyczne. słuchano w rzymie patriotycznych przemówień z ust wodzów i polityków, czytano je w epopejach. ale żaden liryk nie przemawiał dotąd z piedestału wieszcza narodowego czy kapłana muz – z wyjątkiem eklogi iv wergiliusza. w takiej roli próbował horacy występować już w niektórych epodach, jednak w odach ze szczególnym jednak poczuciem wieszczej powinności przemówił do społeczeństwa rzymskiego, a zwłaszcza do młodzieży, jako przez bogów wybrany poeta i wychowawca[ ]. po przerwie, w której horacy poświęcił się twórczości heksametrycznej, najprawdopodobniej w roku poeta ogłosił czwartą księgę pieśni, zawierającą utworów. poprzedziło ją napisanie carmen saeculare, na święcone w roku ludi saeculares. dotąd strzegący swej niezależności horacy, pod koniec życia stworzył utwory o tematyce „augustowskiej”, przeszczepiając na grunt liryki chóralne epinikia pindara, zwłaszcza w odach sławiących zwycięstwa tyberiusza i druzusa (pieśni iv, i )[ ]. listy[edytuj | edytuj kod] rękopis dzieł horacego spisany w xiii wieku. noty marginalne i interlinearne pochodzą od czytelników z xiv i xv wieku. biblioteka narodowa francji (fr. bibliothèque nationale de france), paryż. po ogłoszeniu w roku pierwszego zbioru pieśni powrócił horacy do poezji heksametrycznej. w latach – napisał listy (epistulae), których pierwsza księga, zawierająca dwadzieścia utworów o różnej treści, została opublikowana w roku . kilka lat później ogłosił poeta drugą księgę listów, obejmującą trzy długie utwory omawiające zagadnienia literackie, wśród nich sztukę poetycką, zwaną także listem do pizonów[ ]. w księdze pierwszej znajduje się kilka utworów, które można zinterpretować jako pozostałości po rzeczywistej korespondencji. w piśmie do studiującego retorykę młodego lolliusza (listy i, ) zachęcał horacy do naśladowania odyseusza, rozumianego jako symbol stoickiej dzielności i rozsądku. przykładem pisma skierowanego do przyjaciela był list do juliusza florusa (listy i, ), uczestnika wyprawy przeciw partom pod wodzą tyberiusza. również listem skierowanym do przebywającego „w wirze walki”, było pismo do biorącego udział w wyprawie tyberiusza do azji, celsusa albinowana (listy i, ). dla septymiusza, pragnącego wyruszyć z tyberiuszem, napisał horacy z taktem i wytwornym dowcipem list polecający (listy i, ). przykładem eleganckiego zaproszenia na lampkę wina był list do prawnika, manliusza torkwata (listy i, )[ ]. do traktatów filozoficznych w formie listu zalicza się, poza listem dedykacyjnym dla mecenasa (listy i, ), list szósty zawierający przykłady prawdziwego i pozornego dobra, czy list szesnasty podający definicję człowieka rzeczywiście cnotliwego (vir bonus). sprawę właściwej postawy na dworze możnego patrona, pozwalającej na zachowanie swej godności i niezależności, poruszają listy siedemnasty i osiemnasty. przykładem autoironii jest ostatni utwór z pierwszej księgi – skierowany do książeczki, która marzy o czytelnikach. podobny charakter ma utwór trzynasty, zawierający na pozór poważne rady, jak powinien zachować się winniusz asina, który miał wręczyć augustowi trzy pierwsze księgi pieśni. odpowiedzią krytykom twórczości horacego jest list osiemnasty, zawierający credo literackie poety i zapowiadający księgę drugą listów, poświęconą zagadnieniom literackim[ ]. w drugiej księdze, zwanej listami literackimi, horacy rozwinął myśli z zakresu sztuki poetyckiej, oparte na dydaktycznym dziele greckiego filologa i poety neoptolemosa z parionu, ale wzbogacone o własne doświadczenia. horacy pisał o zasadzie jednolitości utworu, właściwym jego rozplanowaniu, doborze języka i stylu oraz tematu. poświęcił też nieco uwagi dziełu epickiemu, najwięcej jednak poezji scenicznej. wszystkie rodzaje poezji dawały, jego zdaniem, okazję do popisu przez wyzyskanie nabytych umiejętności. poruszył horacy również problemy dotyczące twórcy, jego wykształcenia, charakteru, zadań poety oraz głosił postulat nierozłączności talentu i znajomości sztuki jako warunku właściwej realizacji utworu poetyckiego[ ]. w sporze o to, czy poezja powinna być rozrywką czy też pełnić funkcje dydaktyczne, zajął horacy stanowisko pośrednie: wszystkie zaś głosy pozyska, łącząc przyjemność z pożytkiem, kto czytelnika nie tylko bawi, lecz oraz poucza. sformułował również zasadę, że dzieło literackie przed opublikowaniem powinno przeleżeć w biurku co najmniej dziewięć lat i być w tym czasie udoskonalane. duże znaczenie odegrała w wiekach następnych uwaga horacego, że jeśli poeta chce wzruszyć czytelnika, to musi wpierw sam przeżyć uczucia, które chce w nim wzbudzić (si vis me flere, dolendum est primum ipsi tibi)[ ]. recepcja[edytuj | edytuj kod] starożytność[edytuj | edytuj kod] wydaje się, że wkrótce po śmierci horacego, jeszcze w czasach augusta, na warsztat filologiczny i pulpit szkolny wziął jego poezję cecyliusz epirota. w każdym razie poeta figurował jako autor lektur szkolnych już w czasach kwintyliana[ ], który w kształceniu mówcy stwierdził, że z liryków rzymskich horacy bodajże jedyny zasługuje na to, żeby go czytać. największy późniejszy liryk rzymu, chrześcijanin prudencjusz z wieku iv, wzorował się w dużym stopniu na horacym. jako satyryk znalazł w starożytności horacy kilku kontynuatorów. persjusz w drugiej połowie i wieku akcentował moralny charakter satyry i zamiast przykładami z życia posługiwał się postaciami z poezji horacego. natomiast juwenalis na początku ii wieku zastąpił uśmiechniętą i wyrozumiałą mądrość horacego świętym oburzeniem moralisty[ ]. w drugiej połowie i wieku marek waleriusz probus sporządził krytyczne wydanie pism horacego. było ono tak dokładne, że spośród poprawek, jakie przez wieki poczynili do niego uczeni, niewiele zostało powszechnie przyjętych. w ii wieku żywot poety sporządził historyk i filolog swetoniusz. nie zachował się komentarz do poezji horacego, napisany na przełomie ii i iii wieku przez akrona. natomiast znany jest współcześnie komentarz porfiriona z iii wieku oraz późniejsze tzw. scholia pseudoacroniana[ ]. Średniowiecze i nowożytność[edytuj | edytuj kod] w średniowieczu poezję horacego czytano w szkołach i przepisywano w klasztorach. zachowało się około rękopisów jego dzieł, najstarsze pochodzą z viii i ix wieku. ceniono przede wszystkim satyry i listy, ale wielką powagą cieszyła się sztuka poetycka, zwana wówczas poetrią. wielu liryków kościelnych wzorowało się na horacym, czego przykładem są hymny ku czci św. kwiryna, pióra metellusa, xii-wiecznego zakonnika z tegernsee w bawarii, wzorowane na języku i pisane w metrach horacego[ ]. w boskiej komedii dante przyznaje horacemu trzecie miejsce w panteonie poetów – po wergiliuszu i homerze. horacy był dla dantego przede wszystkim mistrzem satyry, którego naśladował poddając ostrej krytyce własną epokę[ ]. jeszcze boccaccio czytał jedynie satyry i listy. horacego jako liryka odkrył w xiv wieku petrarka. w xv i xvi wieku coraz bardziej popularne stawały się ody, a szeregi naśladowców w różnych krajach europy tworzyły łacińską poezję opartą na liryce horacego. apogeum tego zjawiska przypada na wiek xvii, gdy w niemczech tworzy jakub balde, a w polsce jezuita maciej sarbiewski. jeszcze na początku xx wieku pod wpływem horacego łacińskie liryki pisał giovanni pascoli. od drugiej połowy xvi aż do xix wieku tworzono również tzw. parodiae horatianae, w których najpierw protestanci, a potem także jezuici, zachowując strofikę oraz bieg myśli poszczególnych ód, uzupełniali ich treści o wartości chrześcijańskie[ ]. od xvi wieku lirycy tworzący w językach wernakularnych naśladowali powszechnie horacego. we francji czynili tak poeci zebrani w plejadzie, przede wszystkim pierre de ronsard, natomiast w polsce szkoła jana kochanowskiego. do xviii wieku niemal cała liryka europejska opiera się na poezji horacego, stąd stworzono we wszystkich krajach olbrzymią liczbę przekładów, parafraz, naśladowań, trawestacji czy parodii do każdej ody horacego. renesansowa, barokowa i klasycystyczna teoria poezji opierała się na sztuce poetyckiej. szczyt popularności horacego przypadł na wiek xviii, dopiero romantycy odeszli od naśladowania Ód i satyr[ ]. w polsce[edytuj | edytuj kod] od początku xvi wieku piszący po łacinie poeci polscy naśladowali ody horacego w metrach, słownictwie i tematyce. największymi osiągnięciami polskiego horacjanizmu były lyricorum libellus jana kochanowskiego z roku oraz lyricorum libri iv, epodon liber unus alterque epigrammatum macieja sarbiewskiego z roku. sarbiewski w całej europie zasłynął jako horatius sarmaticus i jeszcze na początku xix wieku był czytany w angielskich szkołach zamiast horacego. inne znaczące utwory oparte na horacym to między innymi carminum liber i joachima bielskiego z roku, opera lyrica stanisława konarskiego z roku czy ode in bomarsundum captum adama mickiewicza, prawdopodobnie z roku[ ]. pieśni jana kochanowskiego są świadectwem tego, jaką rolę odegrał horacy w rozwoju liryki pisanej w języku polskim. część zbioru to, mniej lub bardziej wierne, przekłady z łaciny. większość pozostałych utworów to parafrazy, opierające się bezpośrednio lub pośrednio na motywach ód. liryczna twórczość kochanowskiego stanowi przykład twórczego przekształcenia dzieł horacego, opartego także na zbieżnościach biografii obu poetów – ich niezależności, ucieczki od dworu, chronieniu się w wiejskim zaciszu[ ]. wpływ horacego na poezję polską trwał, poprzez poetów ze szkoły kochanowskiego, aż do końca xviii wieku. jeszcze adam naruszewicz naśladował horacego w liryków ksiąg czworo. tenże naruszewicz napisał w roku horacjusza życie, z pism jego po części zebrane. satyry i listy stały się wzorem dla satyr ( ) oraz listów ( - ) ignacego krasickiego, a także satyr naruszewicza z roku. sztuka poetycka została natomiast podstawą dla wydanej w roku sztuki rymotwórczej franciszka ksawerego dmochowskiego[ ]. dzieła horacego używane były w nauczaniu początkowym w rzeczypospolitej obojga narodów. włączono je w program edukacyjny według zaleceń komisji edukacji narodowej. znalazły się one w wypisach z autorów klasycznych do nauk w szkołach narodowych wydrukowanych przez towarzystwo do ksiąg elementarnych. w klasie v korzystał z nich „profesor wymowy’, a w klasie vi w całości omawiał on list horacego „de arte poetica”[ ]. chociaż horacy był spośród poetów najczęściej przekładany na język polski, to wielowiekowe próby spotykały się przeważnie z negatywnymi ocenami krytyków. większość filologów i historyków uważała, że kolejne pokolenia translatorów nie sprostały poezji wenuzyjczyka, czego przyczyn upatrywali w niedostatecznych kompetencjach większości z nich. tłumaczom-naukowcom, ich zdaniem, brakowało poetyckiego polotu a tłumaczom-poetom należytej wiedzy oraz wyczucia horacjańskiej łaciny[ ]. niemal każdy znaczący polski poeta miał w swoim dorobku przekłady z horacego. za najlepsze w powszechnej opinii, obok dzieł jana kochanowskiego, uchodzą tłumaczenia juliana tuwima, ogłaszane w latach – . cechuje je powściągliwość i autodyscyplina, jaka była właściwością poezji horacego. podobną adekwatność środków wyrazu i unikanie wtrętów obcych konwencji poetyckiej wieszcza wenuzyjskiego, obok kochanowskiego i tuwima, stosowali jeszcze niekiedy adam asnyk, lucjan rydel czy henryk sienkiewicz[ ]. przypisy[edytuj | edytuj kod] 	↑ a b cytowska ↓, s.  – . 	↑ krókowski ↓, s. iii. 	↑ a b jurewicz ↓, s.  . 	↑ krókowski ↓, s. iii-iv. 	↑ cytowska ↓, s.  . 	↑ jurewicz ↓, s.  . 	↑ jurewicz ↓, s.  . 	↑ jurewicz ↓, s.  . 	↑ jurewicz ↓, s.  . 	↑ jurewicz ↓, s.  . 	↑ jurewicz ↓, s.  – . 	↑ jurewicz ↓, s.  . 	↑ jurewicz ↓, s.  – . 	↑ jurewicz ↓, s.  – . 	↑ jurewicz ↓, s.  . 	↑ jurewicz ↓, s.  – . 	↑ krókowski ↓, s. viii-x. 	↑ cytowska ↓, s.  . 	↑ cytowska ↓, s.  . 	↑ cytowska ↓, s.  – . 	↑ cytowska ↓, s.  . 	↑ jurewicz ↓, s.  – . 	↑ krókowski ↓, s. xviii-xix. 	↑ jurewicz ↓, s.  . 	↑ jurewicz ↓, s.  – . 	↑ jurewicz ↓, s.  . 	↑ a b krókowski ↓, s. xxxvii. 	↑ krókowski ↓, s. xxxiv. 	↑ brożek ↓, s.  . 	↑ krókowski ↓, s. xxxix. 	↑ krókowski ↓, s. xxxviii. 	↑ jurewicz ↓, s.  . 	↑ jurewicz ↓, s.  – . 	↑ jurewicz ↓, s.  . 	↑ a b cytowska ↓, s.  . 	↑ brożek ↓, s.  . 	↑ brożek ↓, s.  . 	↑ krókowski ↓, s. xii. 	↑ cytowska ↓, s.  – . 	↑ brożek ↓, s.  . 	↑ brożek ↓, s.  – . 	↑ a b brożek ↓, s.  . 	↑ cytowska ↓, s.  . 	↑ brożek ↓, s.  . 	↑ brożek ↓, s.  . 	↑ brożek ↓, s.  . 	↑ brożek ↓, s.  . 	↑ cytowska ↓, s.  . 	↑ cytowska ↓, s.  . 	↑ a b cytowska ↓, s.  . 	↑ brożek ↓, s.  . 	↑ krókowski ↓, s. xlii. 	↑ brożek ↓, s.  . 	↑ a b krókowski ↓, s. xliii. 	↑ a b krókowski ↓, s. xliv. 	↑ curtius ↓, s.  . 	↑ krókowski ↓, s. xlv. 	↑ krókowski ↓, s. xlv-xlvi. 	↑ a b krókowski ↓, s. xlvi. 	↑ antoni karbowiak ↓. 	↑ stroh ↓, s.  – . 	↑ krókowski ↓, s. xlix. bibliografia[edytuj | edytuj kod] przekłady polskie[edytuj | edytuj kod] 	wybór poezji, opr. j. zawirowski, biblioteka narodowa, wyd. (kolejne opr. j.krókowski, - wyd. wrocław , , ) 	dzieła wszystkie, t. - , [zestawienie dwujęzyczne], opr. o. jurewicz, wrocław , wyd. warszawa . 	q.horatii flacci opera. horacy. dzieła, [zestawienie dwujęzyczne], przeł. i wstępem opatrzył s. gołębiowski, t.i-ii, wyd. biblioteka klasyki polskiej i obcej ludowa spółdzielnia wydawnicza, warszawa 	dzieła wszystkie, przeł. i opr. andrzej lam, wyd. verum, warszawa ; toż: wydanie nowe z dodatkiem emblematów horacjańskich ottona vaeniusa ( miedzioryty), akademia humanistyczna im. a. gieysztora i aspra-jr, pułtusk-warszawa ; toż: wydanie dwujęzyczne polsko-łacińskie, aspra-jr, warszawa literatura[edytuj | edytuj kod] 	mieczysław brożek: historia literatury łacińskiej w starożytności. zarys. wrocław, warszawa, kraków: zakład narodowy imienia ossolińskich, . (pol.) 	ernst robert curtius: literatura europejska i łacińskie średniowiecze. kraków: wydawnictwo universitas, . isbn  - - - . (pol.) 	oktawiusz jurewicz: Życie poety. w: kwintus horacjusz flakkus. dzieła wszystkie. tom i. ody i epody. wrocław: ossolineum, , s. – . isbn  - - - . 	jerzy krókowski: wstęp. w: horacy. wybór poezji. wrocław: zakład narodowy im. ossolińskich, , s. iii-liv. 	wilfried stroh: Łacina umarła, niech żyje łacina! mała historia wielkiego języka. aleksandra arnd (tł.), elżbieta wesołowska (wst.). poznań: wydawnictwo poznańskiego towarzystwa przyjaciół nauk, . isbn  - - - - . (pol.) 	maria cytowska, hanna szelest: literatura rzymska. okres augustowski. warszawa: państwowe wydawnictwo naukowe, . isbn  - - - . (pol.) 	antoni karbowiak: o książkach elementarnych na szkoły wojewódzkie z czasów komisyi edukacyi narodowej. lwów: muzeum, . linki zewnętrzne[edytuj | edytuj kod] 	nowsze przekłady dzieł horacego w pbi 	starsze przekłady dzieł horacego w pbi 	dzieła horacego w sieci 	horacy utwory 	carmina horatiana: wszystkie carmina horacego po łacinie recytuje thomas bervoets. kontrola autorytatywna (osoba):	isni:        	viaf:  ,  	ulan:  	lccn: n , no 	gnd:  	ndl:  	libris: fcrtvznz j nd 	bnf:  b 	sudoc:  	sbn: it\iccu\cfiv\ 	nla:  	nkc: jn 	rsl:  ,  	bne: xx 	nta:  	bibsys:  	cinii: da 	open library: ol a 	plwabn:  	nukat: n 	nli:  	ptbnp:  	cantic: a 	lnb:  	nsk:  	conor:  	bnc:  	ΕΒΕ:  	blbnb:  	krnlk: kac 	lih: lnb:v* ;=bl 	rism: pe 	worldcat: lccn-n Źródło: „https://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=horacy_(poeta)&oldid= ” 		kategorie: 	pisarze i poeci starożytnego rzymu 	pisarze i wieku p.n.e. 	urodzeni w p.n.e. 	zmarli w p.n.e. ukryta kategoria: 	artykuł z propozycją przetłumaczenia z 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litzèntzia atributzione creative commons-cumpartzi a sa pròpria manera; si podent aplicare prus cunditziones galu. abbàida is cunditziones de impreu pro is particulares. 		polìtica pro is datos privados 	a propòsitu de wikipedia 	avertèntzias 	mobile view 	isvilupadores 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 none 호라티우스 - 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전 	 	 	 	 	호라티우스 	 		위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 		 		 		 		 		둘러보기로 가기 		검색하러 가기 		 이탈리아 남부 베노사(venosa)에 있는 호라티우스의 동상. 퀸투스 호라티우스 플라쿠스(quintus horatius flaccus, 기원전 년 월 일 - 기원전 년 월 일)는 고대 로마 공화정 말기의 시인이다. 생애[편집] 호라티우스의 출신 가문은 정확히 알려져 있지 않다. 아마 그의 아버지는 노예에서 해방된 자유신분(libertinus)으로서 로마 자유시민권을 가진 여인과 결혼한 것으로 보인다. 호라티우스는 어린시절부터 아버지로부터 세심한 교육을 받았으며, 기원전 년에 당시 문화와 예술의 중심지인 고대 그리스의 아테네에 유학하여 고대 그리스 철학과 문학을 공부한다. 이 시기에 그는 역시 고대 그리스 문화를 사랑하는 마르쿠스 브루투스와 친교를 맺게되어 그를 따라 소아시아 지방에서 여러 전투에 참가한다. 기원전 약 년을 전후로 호라티우스는 로마로 돌아와 젊은 문학자와 사귀면서, 특히 베르길리우스의 주선으로 당시의 로마의 문학 애호가이자 부호인 가이우스 마에케나스(gaius maecenas)에게 소개된다. 이 만남은 호라티우스가 사망할 때까지 깊은 우정관계로 발전한다. 특히 마이케나스는 호라티우스에게 기원전 년 사비나 농장을 선물함으로써, 여기서 호라티우스는 경제적 어려움에서 완전히 해방되어 시 창작에 열중하게 된다. 같이 보기[편집] 		위키미디어 공용에 관련된 미디어 분류가 있습니다.호라티우스 	가이우스 루킬리우스 읽어 보기[편집] 원전 	q. horatii flacci opera, 편집 d. r. shackleton bailey, stuttgart. 해설서 	eduard fraenkel, horace, oxford. 번역본 	호라티우스 지음, 김남우 옮김, 카르페 디엠(제 권)/소박함의 지혜(제 권), 민음사, -라틴어 원전 번역 	전거 통제 	 	bibsys: 	bnc: 	bne: xx 	bnf: cb b (data) 	cantic: a 	cinii: da 	gnd: 	isni: 	lccn: n 	lnb: 	뮤직브레인즈: af f f- - -a bf- d f c 	ndl: 	nkc: jn 	nla: 	nlg: 	nli: 	nlk: kac 	nlp: a 	nsk: 	nta: 	rero: -a 	rsl: 	iccu: it\iccu\cfiv\ 	selibr: 	snac: w pk m c 	sudoc: 	trove: 	ulan: 	viaf: 	 worldcat identities: lccn-n 	 	이 글은 고대 로마에 관한 토막글입니다. 여러분의 지식으로 알차게 문서를 완성해 갑시다. 원본 주소 "https://ko.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=호라티우스&oldid= " 		분류: 	호라티우스 	기원전 년 태어남 	기원전 년 죽음 	고대 로마의 시인 	고대 로마의 철학자 	고대 로마의 병사 	문학 평론가 	풍자가 	해방 노예 	에피쿠로스 철학자 	바실리카타주 출신 	 세기 시인 	 세기 철학자 숨은 분류: 	bibsys 식별자를 포함한 위키백과 문서 	bnc 식별자를 포함한 위키백과 문서 	bne 식별자를 포함한 위키백과 문서 	bnf 식별자를 포함한 위키백과 문서 	cantic 식별자를 포함한 위키백과 문서 	cinii 식별자를 포함한 위키백과 문서 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nama bahasa inggeris: horace) ialah seorang askar dan penyajak romawi; beliau merupakan pengarang tersohor di empayar rom semasa zaman maharaja augustus. isi kandungan 	 biografi 	 . awal hidup 	 . sebagai pegawai= 	 gaya pengkaryaan 	 senarai karya 	 nota 	 rujukan 	 pautan luar biografi[sunting | sunting sumber] awal hidup[sunting | sunting sumber] horatius lahir di venosa, sebuah kota kecil di itali. ayahnya merupakan seorang hamba dimerdekakan. dua anak-beranak pindah ke roma beberapa waktu kemudian, di mana ayahnya bekerja sebagai makelar lalu meningkatkan taraf hidup mereka menjadi kaya dan bisa mengirim horatius ke sekolah terbaik di roma. ayahnya juga bisa mengirimnya ke kota athina di yunani untuk belajar bahasa dan falsafah yunani. keadaan mereka yang banyak berubah ini menjadikan horatius amat bangga dengan ayahnya, malah beliau berbangga dengan latar belakang mereka yang mampu mengangkat diri daripada serba kekurangan. sebagai pegawai=[sunting | sunting sumber] di awal masa mudanya, julius caesar, diktator romawi, terbunuh - perang segera diisytiharkankan terhadap orang-orang yang membunuhnya, horatius sendiri memihak kepada militer. saat perang selesai, horatius kembali ke romawi dan mengetahui orang lain tinggal di apartemennya. ayahnya sudah pergi. horatius menjadi amat miskin. akhirnya, ia menemukan pekerjaan di perbendaharaan menyusun wang mahsul empayar. kawannya lucius varius rufus dan virgil, yang juga menulis, memperkenalkannya dengan maecenas. maecenas adalah kawan dekat augustus, maharaja romawi. horatius tinggal di tibur, sebuah daerah di roma. saat meninggal, horatius memberikan tanah yang dimilikinya kepada augustus, untuk menambah tanah yang dimiliki negara. kini, banyak penulis yang mengunjungi tanah itu untuk mengingatnya. gaya pengkaryaan[sunting | sunting sumber] beberapa puisi horatius sulit diterjemahkan karena sintaksis, tatabahasa, dan strukturnya yang amat berbeda dengan bahasa-bahasa modern. horatius banyak dipandang sejumlah orang, termasuk para ahli, sebagai salah satu penyair terbaik bahasa latin senarai karya[sunting | sunting sumber] berikut merupakan turutan pengkaryaan horatius sepanjang hidupnya sepertimana yang dipersetujui banyak pengkaji:[ ] 	satirae (s. – sm) 	satirae (s. sm) 	epode ( sm) 	carmina i, ii, iii (s. sm)[nb ] 	epistularum liber primus (s. sm) 	carmen saeculare ( sm) 	epistularum liber secundus (s. sm)[nb ] 	carmina iv (c. bc) 	ars poetica (c. – bc)[nb ] nota[sunting | sunting sumber] 	^ according to a recent theory, the three books of odes were issued separately, possibly in , and bc (see g. hutchinson ( ), classical quarterly : – ) 	^ bc is the usual estimate but c. bc has good support too (see r. nisbet, horace: life and chronology, – 	^ the date however is subject to much controversy with – bc another option (see for example r. syme, the augustan aristocracy, – rujukan[sunting | sunting sumber] 	^ r nisbet, horace: life and chronology, – pautan luar[sunting | sunting sumber] 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flaccus 	 rímsky básnik 	narodenie	 . december pred kr. venusia 	Úmrtie	 . november pred kr. pochovaný je v ríme 	odkazy 	projekt guttenberg	 horatius (plné texty diel autora) 	commons	 horatius 	 	 	 biografický portál quintus horatius flaccus známy pod menom horatius (* . december pred kr., venusia – † . november pred kr., pochovaný v ríme) bol rímsky básnik žijúci za vlády cisára augusta. jeho životnou filozofiou bol umiernený epikureizmus (kontaminovaný so zásadami stoicizmu), proklamujúci právo na nerušený súkromný život, drobné radosti a nezávislosť[ ]. obsah 	 Život 	 dielo 	 . epodi (epódy) 	 . saturae (satiry) 	 . carmina (Ódy) 	 . epistulae (listy) 	 referencie 	 literatúra 	 iné projekty 	 externé odkazy Život[upraviť | upraviť kód] horatius sa narodil v malom meste venusia na hranici apúlie a lukánie. jeho otcom bol prepustenec (horatius sám ale už bol slobodný), ktorý vlastnil vo venusii malú usadlosť. neskôr sa presťahoval do ríma, kde pracoval ako coactor, prostredník pri aukciách. napriek nízkemu postaveniu horatius starší na synovom vzdelaní nešetril. najprv ho poslal do ríma, kde horatius študoval u gramatika orbilia, neskôr do atén, kde sa mohol horatius zdokonaľovať v gréčtine a filozofii. po zavraždení caesara ( pred kr.) zavládli v grécku, ktoré sa stalo útočiskom caesarových vrahov, rušné pomery. mladý horatius sa nechal zlákať sľubnou vojenskou kariérou a ideálom boja za republiku a vstúpil do vojska proticaesarovských optimátov v hodnosti vojenského tribúna. v tejto hodnosti bojoval aj v bitke pri filipách ( pred kr.), kde boli republikánske sily porazené. do itálie sa mohol vrátiť až po vyhlásení všeobecnej amnestie nasledujúceho roku, to ale nezabránilo tomu, aby jeho majetok nebol skonfiškovaný. sám horatius neskôr poznamená, že v tomto období trel nesmiernu biedu. aby sa uživil, zamestnal sa ako kvestororský pisár (scriba quaestorius). v tomto období tiež začal písať prvé verše. približne v roku pred kr. sa dostal horatius do okruhu umelcov združených okolo vplyvného patróna a blízkeho augustovho priateľa maecenata. maecenatovi ho predstavili básnici vergílius a lucius varius rufus. až do svojej smrti tvoril diela v tomto krúžku. roku pred kr. obdaroval horatia maecenas statkom v tibure (dnes tivoli). sem sa básnik utiahol a ďalej tvoril. hoci jeho literárna tvorba bola spojená s augustovou osobou a horatius bol cisárovým blízkym priateľom, ich vzťah nebol založený na básnikovej poplatnosti mocnému augustovi. keď napríklad augustus horatia požiadal, aby zložil verše na jeho počesť, básnik to rázne odmietol. horatius zomrel roku pred kr., len dva mesiace po svojom patrónovi maecenatovi. pretože umrel bez dedičov, odkázal svoj statok cisárovi. dielo[upraviť | upraviť kód] saturae, epodi (epódy)[upraviť | upraviť kód] sedemnásť básnických skladieb napísaných v rokoch  –  pred kr. nieslo pôvodne podľa horatia názov iambi (jamby). označenie epódy dostalo jeho dielo podľa metrickej formy básní (termín epodos označuje kratší, záverečný verš v dvojverší, distichu). väčšina básní v zbierku je písaná skutočne jambickými metrami – jambickým dimetrom, jambickým trimetrom a štyri z nich v striedavých jamboch a hexametroch. tematicky sa epódy rôznia od útočných skladieb v tradičnom jambickom duchu, cez erotickú, občiansku a oslavnú poéziu. saturae (satiry)[upraviť | upraviť kód] dve knihy satír vyšli s odstupom v roku pred kr. a pred kr., súčasne s epódami. prvá obsahuje skladieb, druhá , v oboch prípadoch zložených v hexametroch. carmina (Ódy)[upraviť | upraviť kód] tri knihy Ód boli vydané v roku pred kr. horatius na nich pracoval približne sedem rokov. okolo roku pred kr. k ním pripojil knihu štvrtú. celkovo ide o viac ako básní, rôznych námetov, dĺžky a metier. horatius sa v tomto prípade prejavuje ako experimentátor, ktorý sa odvažuje zavádzať do rímskej poézie neobvyklé metrá určené pre grécky jazyk. Ódy sú vystavané podľa vzoru alexandrijskej neóterickej poézie a vyznačujú sa teda vysokou učenosťou a prepracovanosťou. k Ódam býva niekedy počítaná ešte básnická skladba carmen saeculare (storočná pieseň) zložená roku pred kr. pri príležitosti storočných hier (ludi saeculares) na podnet augustov. báseň bola určená pre prednes zborom pri verejnej príležitosti. jej metrom je sapfická strofa. epistulae (listy)[upraviť | upraviť kód] dve knihy listov vznikli v rokoch  –  pred kr. (druhá kniha bola publikovaná až posmrtne). celkom obsahujú listov písaných v hexametroch ( prvá kniha a dlhé listy druhá kniha). témy i adresáti listov sa rôznia, opäť sa prejavuje horatiova snaha dosiahnuť rôznorodosť (variatio), jedno z kritérií neóterickej poézie. k listom býva niekedy pripájaný ešte jeden list, ad pisones (pisonom), ktorý je známejší ako „ars poetica“ (o básnickom umení). pravdepodobne bol napísaný roku pred kr. ide o literárno-teoretické dielo pojednávajúce o básnictve, jeden zo základných prameňov teórie rímskej poézie. referencie[upraviť | upraviť kód] 	↑ kuŤÁkovÁ, eva; vidmanovÁ, anežka. slovník latinských spisovatelů. . vyd. praha : odeon, . (po česky) literatúra[upraviť | upraviť kód] 	conte, gian biagio. dějiny římské literatury. preklad dagmar bartoňková et al. vyd. . praha : klp, . s. isbn - - - . 	horatius: Ódy a epódy. prel. i. 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california (los angeles) 	 university of california berkeley (berkeley) 	 university of california davis (davis) 	 university of california irvine (irvine) 	 university of california libraries (all uc campuses) 	 university of california riverside (riverside) 	 university of california santa barbara (santa barbara) 	 whittier college (whittier) 	 yolo county library (yolo county) 	 colorado	 arapahoe libraries (arapahoe county) 	 bemis public library (littleton) 	 boulder public library (boulder) 	 colorado alliance of research libraries: prospector (various libraries in or near colorado) 	 colorado state university (fort collins) 	 denver public library (denver) 	 douglas county libraries (douglas county) 	 jefferson county public library (jefferson county) 	 longmont public library (longmont) 	 pikes peak library district (colorado springs, and el paso county) 	 poudre river public library district (fort collins) 	 summit county library (frisco, silverthorne, and breckenridge) 	 united states air force academy (colorado springs) 	 university of colorado boulder (boulder) 	 connecticut	 bridgeport library (bridgeport) 	 central connecticut state university (new britain) 	 connecticut college (new london) 	 connecticut state library (hartford and other locations) 	 cyrenius h. booth library (newtown) 	 danbury library (danbury) 	 darien library (darien) 	 eastern connecticut state university (willimantic) 	 edsel ford memorial library, hotchkiss school (lakeville) 	 greenwich library (greenwich) 	 hartford public library (hartford) 	 library connection inc. (greater hartford suburban libraries) 	 new haven free public library (new haven) 	 norwalk public library system (norwalk) 	 quinnipiac university (hamden) 	 silas bronson library (waterbury) 	 southern connecticut state university (new haven) 	 the ferguson library (stamford) 	 trinity college (hartford) 	 united states coast guard academy (new london) 	 university of connecticut (storrs and other campuses) 	 wesleyan university (middletown) 	 western connecticut state university (danbury) 	 westport library (westport) 	 yale university (new haven) 	 delaware	 delaware library catalog (public libraries statewide) 	 delaware state university (dover) 	 university of delaware library (newark) 	 wilmington university library (new castle) 	 district of columbia	 american university (washington) 	 catholic university of america (washington) 	 dc public library (washington) 	 gallaudet university (washington) 	 george washington university (washington) 	 georgetown university (washington) 	 howard university (washington) 	 library of congress (washington) 	 smithsonian libraries (washington and other locations) 	 florida	 alachua county library district (gainesville and vicinity) 	 bethune-cookman university (daytona beach) 	 brevard county libraries (space coast area) 	 broward county library (fort lauderdale and vicinity) 	 collier county public library (naples and vicinity) 	 columbia county public library (lake city) 	 edward waters college (jacksonville) 	 flagler county public library system (palm coast and bunnell) 	 florida a&m university (tallahassee) 	 florida gulf coast university (fort myers) 	 florida memorial university (miami gardens) 	 florida state university (tallahassee and other campuses) 	 heartland library cooperative (highlands, desoto, glades, hardee, and okechobee counties) 	 hillsborough county public library cooperative (tampa and vicinity) 	 indian river county library system (vero beach and vicinity) 	 jacksonville public library (jacksonville) 	 lake county library system (lake county) 	 leroy collins leon county public library (tallahassee) 	 lee county library system (fort myers and vicinity) 	 marion county public library system (ocala and vicinity) 	 miami dade college (miami and other campuses) 	 miami-dade public library system (miami) 	 nassau county public library system (nassau county) 	 orange county library system (orlando and vicinity) 	 palm beach county library system (west palm beach and vicinity) 	 pasco county libraries (pasco county) 	 pinellas public library cooperative (clearwater, st. petersburg and pinellas county) 	 saint leo university (saint leo) 	 sarasota county libraries (sarasota and vicinity) 	 seminole county public library (seminole county) 	 seminole state college of florida (sanford and other campuses) 	 southeastern university (lakeland) 	 st. lucie county library system (st. lucie county) 	 suwanee river regional library system (suwanee, hamilton, and madison counties) 	 university of central florida: ucf libraries (orlando and other campuses) 	 university of florida, george a. smathers libraries (gainesville) 	 university of miami libraries (coral gables) 	 university of north florida (jacksonville) 	 university of south florida (tampa) 	 university of west florida (pensacola) 	 volusia county public library (daytona beach, deltona, and vicinity) 	 west florida public libraries (pensacola and escambia county) 	 georgia	 albany state university (albany) 	 athens-clarke county library (athens) 	 atlanta university center (clark atlanta, interdenominational theological center, morehouse, spelman) 	 atlanta-fulton public library system (atlanta and vicinity) 	 brenau university (gainesville) 	 chattahoochee valley libraries (columbus and vicinity) 	 dekalb county public library (dekalb county) 	 emory university libraries (atlanta) 	 fort benning libraries (fort benning) 	 fort valley state university (fort valley) 	 georgia public library service, pines catalog (public libraries throughout the state) 	 georgia southern university (statesboro and savannah) 	 georgia state university (atlanta) 	 georgia tech library (atlanta) 	 gwinnett county public library (gwinnett county) 	 live oak public libraries (savannah; chatham, effingham and liberty counties) 	 oglethorpe university (atlanta) 	 savannah state university (savannah) 	 university of georgia (athens) 	 university of west georgia (carrollton) 	 hawaii	 hawaii state public library system (public libraries throughout the state) 	 university of hawaii at manoa (honolulu) 	 idaho	 blackfoot public library (blackfoot) 	 boise public library (boise) 	 boise state university, albertsons library (boise) 	 coeur d'alene public library (coeur d'alene) 	 cooperative information network ( public and school libraries in northern idaho and vicinity) 	 idaho falls public library (idaho falls) 	 idaho state university (pocatello) 	 marshall public library (pocatello) 	 meridian library district (meridian) 	 nampa public library (nampa) 	 twin falls public library (twin falls) 	 university of idaho library (moscow, and other campuses) 	 illinois	 arlington heights memorial library (arlington heights) 	 aurora public library (aurora) 	 bloomingdale public library (bloomingdale) 	 bloomington public library (bloomington) 	 champaign public library and urbana free library (champaign-urbana) 	 chicago public library (chicago) 	 chicago school of professional psychology (chicago and other campuses) 	 chicago state university (chicago) 	 college of dupage (glen ellyn) 	 cooperative computer services ( libraries in northwestern chicago suburbs) 	 depaul university (chicago) 	 dixon public library (dixon) 	 dominican university, rebecca crown library (river forest) 	 evanston public library (evanston) 	 illinois heartland library system (share) (libraries in southern illinois) 	 indian trails library district (buffalo grove, wheeling, prospect heights, and vicinity) 	 itasca community library (itasca) 	 joliet junior college (joliet) 	 joliet public library, main library (joliet) 	 lincoln library (springfield) 	 naperville public library (naperville) 	 northeastern illinois university (neiu) (chicago) 	 northwestern university libraries (evanston) 	 oswego public library district (oswego and montgomery) 	 parlin-ingersoll public library (canton) 	 plainfield public library district (plainfield) 	 prairiecat (libraries in the rails cooperative of northern illinois) 	 pritzker military museum and library (chicago) 	 resource sharing alliance (rsa) (libraries in west central illinois) 	 rockford public library (rockford) 	 swan: system wide automated network (suburban libraries in the chicago area) 	 schaumburg township district library (schaumburg and vicinity) 	 skokie public library (skokie) 	 university of chicago library (chicago) 	 university of illinois urbana-champaign library (urbana-champaign) 	 university of illinois-chicago library (chicago) 	 waukegan public library (waukegan) 	 western illinois university (macomb and quad cities) 	 indiana	 allen county public library (fort wayne and vicinity) 	 butler university (indianapolis) 	 depauw university (greencastle) 	 evansville vanderburgh public library (evansville and vanderburgh county) 	 hanover college, duggan library (hanover) 	 hesburgh libraries, university of notre dame (notre dame) 	 indiana university libraries (bloomington, and other campuses) 	 indianapolis public library (indianapolis) 	 purdue university libraries (west lafayette) 	 st. joseph county public library (south bend and vicinity) 	 tippecanoe county public library (lafayette and vicinity) 	 valparaiso university (valparaiso) 	 iowa	 bondurant community library (bondurant) 	 carnegie-stout public library (dubuque) 	 cedar falls public library (cedar falls) 	 cedar rapids public library (cedar rapids) 	 council bluffs public library (council bluffs) 	 davenport public library (davenport) 	 des moines public library (des moines) 	 drake public library (centerville) 	 grinnell college (grinnell) 	 harlan community library (harlan) 	 iowa city public library (iowa city) 	 iowa state university (ames) 	 marion public library (marion) 	 orange city public library (orange city) 	 sioux city public library (sioux city) 	 university of iowa libraries (iowa city) 	 university of northern iowa (cedar falls) 	 waterloo public library (waterloo) 	 kansas	 johnson county library (overland park and vicinity) 	 kansas city, kansas public library (kansas city) 	 kansas state university (manhattan) 	 manhattan public library (manhattan) 	 psu library consortium (academic and public libraries in the pittsburg area) 	 topeka and shawnee county public library (topeka) 	 university of kansas libraries (lawrence) 	 wichita public library (wichita) 	 wichita state university (wichita) 	 kentucky	 ashland community and technical college (ashland) 	 berea college (berea) 	 big sandy community and technical college (prestonburg) 	 bluegrass community and technical college (lexington) 	 elizabethtown community and technical college (elizabethtown) 	 fort campbell, sink library (fort campbell) 	 gateway community and technical college (florence) 	 hazard community and technical college (hazard and jackson) 	 henderson community college (henderson) 	 hopkinsville community college (hopkinsville) 	 jefferson community and technical college (louisville) 	 kenton county public library (kenton county) 	 kentucky state university (frankfort) 	 lexington public library (lexington) 	 louisville free public library (louisville) 	 madisonville community college (madisonville) 	 maysville community and technical college (maysville) 	 murray state university (murray) 	 northern kentucky university (highland heights) 	 owensboro community and technical college (owensboro) 	 paul sawyier public library (frankfort) 	 rowan county public library (morehead) 	 somerset community college (somerset) 	 southcentral kentucky community and technical college (bowling green, glasgow, and franklin) 	 southeast kentucky community and technical college (cumberland and other campuses) 	 southern baptist theological seminary (louisville) 	 university of kentucky (lexington) 	 university of louisville (louisville) 	 west kentucky community and technical college (paducah) 	 western kentucky university (bowling green and other campuses) 	 louisiana	 jefferson parish library (jefferson parish) 	 lsu alexandria, bolton library (alexandria) 	 lafourche parish public library (lafourche parish) 	 louisiana state university (baton rouge) 	 loyola university new orleans, monroe library (new orleans) 	 new orleans public library (new orleans) 	 northwestern state university (natchitoches and other campuses) 	 shreve memorial library (shreveport and caddo parish) 	 tulane university (new orleans) 	 university of new orleans, long library (new orleans) 	 west feliciana parish library (st. francisville) 	 xavier university of louisiana (new orleans) 	 maine	 bangor public library (bangor) 	 bates college (lewiston) 	 bowdoin college (brunswick) 	 colby college (waterville) 	 mainecat (statewide library catalog) 	 portland public library (portland) 	 university of maine, fogler library (orono) 	 york county community college (wells) 	 maryland	 baltimore county public library (baltimore suburbs) 	 cecil county public library (cecil county) 	 chesapeake college (wye mills and cambridge) 	 eastern shore regional library system (public libraries on maryland's eastern shore) 	 enoch pratt free library (baltimore) 	 frederick county public libraries (frederick and vicinity) 	 harford county public library (harford county) 	 howard county library system (howard county) 	 johns hopkins libraries (baltimore) 	 montgomery county public libraries (montgomery county) 	 national agricultural library (beltsville) 	 prince george's county memorial library system (prince george's county) 	 united states naval academy, nimitz library (annapolis) 	 university of maryland baltimore county (baltimore) 	 university of maryland libraries (college park) 	 massachusetts	 beverly public library (beverly) 	 boston college (boston) 	 boston public library (boston) 	 boston university libraries (boston) 	 brandeis university library (waltham) 	 bridgewater state university, maxwell library (bridgewater) 	 c/w mars (public and small academic libraries in central and western ma) 	 clams: cape libraries automated materials sharing (public libraries on cape cod) 	 college of the holy cross (worcester) 	 fenway libraries online (museums and small colleges in boston and vicinity) 	 five college libraries (amherst, hampshire, mt. holyoke, smith, umass-amherst) 	 harvard library (cambridge) 	 j. v. fletcher library (westford) 	 mit libraries, massachusetts institute of technology (cambridge) 	 merrimack valley library consortium (public libraries in northeastern ma) 	 minuteman library network (metrowest-region public and small college libraries) 	 noble: north of boston library exchange (north shore public and small academic libraries) 	 northeastern university (boston) 	 old colony library network (south shore public libraries) 	 sails library network (new bedford, fall river, taunton, and vicinity) 	 simmons college (boston) 	 smith college libraries (northampton) 	 springfield college (springfield) 	 tufts university (medford) 	 university of massachusetts amherst (amherst) 	 university of massachusetts lowell (lowell) 	 wellesley college (wellesley) 	 western new england university (springfield) 	 williams college (williamstown) 	 worcester polytechnic institute (worcester) 	 worcester public library (worcester) 	 michigan	 ann arbor district library (ann arbor) 	 canton public library (canton) 	 capital area district libraries (lansing and ingham county) 	 central michigan university (mount pleasant) 	 detroit public library (detroit) 	 eastern michigan university (ypsilanti) 	 flint public library (flint) 	 grand rapids public library (grand rapids) 	 grand valley state university (allendale) 	 kalamazoo public library (kalamazoo) 	 lakenet: lakeland library cooperative ( + public libraries in west michigan) 	 lansing community college (lansing) 	 michigan state university libraries (east lansing) 	 michigan elibrary (order from libraries across the state) 	 oakland community college (various oakland county campuses) 	 petoskey district library (petoskey) 	 plymouth district library (plymouth) 	 royal oak public library (royal oak) 	 traverse area district library (traverse city and vicinity) 	 university of michigan library (ann arbor) 	 warren public library (warren) 	 western michigan university (kalamazoo) 	 willard library (battle creek) 	 minnesota	 duluth public library (duluth) 	 hamline university (st. paul) 	 hennepin county library (minneapolis and vicinity) 	 minnesota state university (mankato) 	 saint paul public library (st. paul) 	 st. olaf college (northfield) 	 university of minnesota libraries (twin cities) 	 university of st. thomas (st. paul) 	 washington county library (washington county) 	 mississippi	 alcorn state university (lorman) 	 harrison county library system (gulfport, biloxi, and vicinity) 	 jackson state university (jackson) 	 jackson-hinds library system (jackson and hinds county) 	 mississippi library commission (jackson) 	 mississippi state university (starkville, meridian, and jackson) 	 tougaloo college (tougaloo) 	 university of mississippi libraries (oxford) 	 missouri	 concordia seminary library (st. louis) 	 daniel boone regional library (columbia and vicinity) 	 ferguson municipal public library (ferguson) 	 harris-stowe state university (st. louis) 	 joplin public library (joplin) 	 kansas city public library (kansas city) 	 lincoln university (jefferson city) 	 linda hall library (kansas city) 	 mid-continent public library (kansas city vicinity) 	 missouri river regional library (jefferson city and linn) 	 missouri state university (springfield) 	 missouri university of science and technology (rolla) 	 ozarks technical community college (springfield and other campuses) 	 poplar bluff municipal library (poplar bluff) 	 saint louis university (st. louis) 	 southeast missouri state university (cape girardeau) 	 springfield-greene county library district (springfield and vicinity) 	 st. charles city-county library district (st. charles county) 	 st. louis county library (st. louis suburbs) 	 st. louis public library (st. louis) 	 taneyhills community library (branson) 	 university of missouri kansas city: umkc libraries (kansas city) 	 university of missouri libraries (columbia) 	 washington university libraries (st. louis) 	 montana	 butte-silver bow public library (butte) 	 montana shared catalog ( + libraries across montana) 	 montana state university library (bozeman) 	 montana tech of the university of montana (butte) 	 university of montana, mansfield library (missoula) 	 nebraska	 bellevue public library (bellevue) 	 creighton university (omaha) 	 lincoln city libraries (lincoln) 	 omaha public library (omaha) 	 university of nebraska-lincoln (lincoln) 	 nevada	 carson city library (carson city) 	 college of southern nevada (las vegas and vicinity) 	 las vegas-clark county library district (las vegas and vicinity) 	 nevada library cooperative (public libraries outside nevada's largest urban areas) 	 washoe county library system (reno and vicinity) 	 new hampshire	 concord public library (concord) 	 dartmouth college (hanover) 	 lebanon public libraries (lebanon and west lebanon) 	 manchester city library (manchester) 	 nashua public library (nashua) 	 university of new hampshire (durham and manchester) 	 new jersey	 atlantic city free public library (atlantic city) 	 bccls (bergen, essex, hudson, and passaic county public libraries) 	 burlington county library system (public libraries in burlington county) 	 camcat (camden county library system, and camden county college) 	 hunterdon county library (flemington, clinton, and lambertville) 	 mercer county community college (west windsor and trenton) 	 middlesex county college (edison) 	 middletown township public library (middletown) 	 monmouth county library (monmouth county) 	 morris automated information network (morris county public libraries) 	 newark public library (newark) 	 pals plus library consortium ( libraries in passaic, essex, and hudson counties) 	 princeton public library (princeton) 	 princeton theological seminary (princeton) 	 princeton university library (princeton) 	 rowan college at burlington county (mount laurel and other campuses) 	 rowan university (glassboro) 	 rutgers university libraries (new brunswick, newark, and camden) 	 seton hall university (south orange) 	 somerset county library system (somerset county) 	 stockton university (galloway and other locations) 	 the college of new jersey (ewing) 	 william paterson university, cheng library (wayne) 	 new mexico	 los alamos public library system (los alamos and white rock) 	 new mexico state university (las cruces and other campuses) 	 rio rancho public libraries (rio rancho) 	 santa fe public library (santa fe) 	 the public library (albuquerque and bernalillo county) 	 thomas branigan memorial library (las cruces) 	 university of new mexico libraries (albuquerque) 	 new york	 binghamton university (binghamton) 	 brooklyn public library (brooklyn) 	 buffalo and erie county public library (buffalo) 	 chautauqua-cattaraugus library system (jamestown and vicinity) 	 city university of new york (cuny) (new york) 	 clinton essex franklin library system ( public libraries in northern new york counties) 	 columbia university libraries (new york) 	 connectny ( academic libraries in new york state) 	 cornell university library (ithaca) 	 finger lakes library system (public libraries in cayuga, cortland, seneca, tioga, and tompkins counties) 	 finkelstein memorial library (spring valley) 	 fordham university (new york) 	 hudson valley community college (troy) 	 iona college (new rochelle) 	 long island university (brooklyn, post, and other campuses) 	 manhattan college (new york) 	 metropolitan museum of art libraries (new york) 	 mid york library system (herkimer, madison, and oneida counties) 	 mid-hudson library system (columbia, dutchess, greene, putnam and ulster counties) 	 mohawk valley and southern adirondack library systems (public libraries in counties northwest of albany) 	 monroe county library system (rochester and vicinity) 	 nassau library system (aliscat: public libraries in nassau county, long island) 	 new york law school (new york) 	 new york public library (new york) 	 new york state library, archives, and museum (albany) 	 new york university libraries (new york) 	 nioga library system (niagara, orleans, and geneseee counties) 	 north country library system (jefferson, lewis, oswego, and st. lawrence counties) 	 onondaga county public library (syracuse and vicinity) 	 pioneer library system: owwl catalog (ontario, wayne, wyoming, and livingston counties) 	 pratt institute (new york) 	 queens library (queens) 	 rochester institute of technology (rochester) 	 suny oswego, penfield library (oswego) 	 southern tier library system (allegany, chemung, schuyler, steuben and yates counties) 	 st. francis college (brooklyn) 	 st. john's university (new york) 	 stony brook university libraries (stony brook) 	 suffolk county libraries (public libraries in suffolk county, long island) 	 syracuse university libraries (syracuse) 	 touro college libraries (new york) 	 united states military academy (west point) 	 university at albany, suny (albany) 	 university at buffalo, suny (buffalo) 	 university of rochester, river campus libraries (rochester) 	 westchester library system (public libraries in westchester county) 	 yeshiva university libraries (new york) 	 north carolina	 appalachian state university, belk library (boone) 	 bennett college (greensboro) 	 charlotte mecklenburg library (charlotte and vicinity) 	 davidson college (davidson) 	 duke university libraries (durham) 	 durham county library (durham and vicinity) 	 elizabeth city state university (elizabeth city) 	 fayetteville state university (fayetteville) 	 forsyth county public library (winston-salem and vicinity) 	 fort bragg, throckmorton library (fort bragg) 	 johnson c. smith university (charlotte) 	 north carolina state university (ncsu) (raleigh) 	 polk county public libraries (columbus and saluda) 	 rutherford county library (rutherford county) 	 university of north carolina (unc) asheville (asheville) 	 university of north carolina (unc) chapel hill (chapel hill) 	 university of north carolina (unc) greensboro (greensboro) 	 university of north carolina (unc) wilmington (wilmington) 	 wake county public libraries (raleigh) 	 wake forest university (winston-salem) 	 north dakota	 bismarck veterans memorial public library (bismarck) 	 fargo public library (fargo) 	 minot public library (minot) 	 north dakota state university (fargo) 	 university of north dakota (grand forks) 	 ohio	 akron-summit county public library (akron and vicinity) 	 clevnet ( library systems in northeast ohio) 	 case western reserve university (cleveland) 	 central state university (wilberforce) 	 cleveland public library (cleveland) 	 college of wooster (wooster) 	 columbus metropolitan library (columbus and vicinity) 	 cuyahoga county public library (cleveland suburbs) 	 dayton metro library (dayton and vicinity) 	 delaware county district library (delaware, ostrander, and powell) 	 kent state university (kent and other campuses) 	 kenyon college (gambier) 	 licking county library (newark and other locations) 	 lloyd library and museum (cincinnati) 	 lorain public library system (lorain and vicinity) 	 miami university (oxford) 	 opal consortium ( academic libraries in ohio) 	 oberlin college (oberlin) 	 ohio northern university (ada) 	 ohio state university (columbus) 	 ohio university (athens and other campuses) 	 ohio wesleyan university (delaware) 	 public library of cincinnati and hamilton county (cincinnati and vicinity) 	 public library of youngstown and mahoning county (youngstown and vicinity) 	 stark libraries information consortium (canton and vicinity) 	 toledo-lucas county public library (toledo and vicinity) 	 university of cincinnati (cincinnati) 	 university of dayton (dayton) 	 upper arlington public library (upper arlington) 	 xavier university (cincinnati) 	 oklahoma	 eastern oklahoma district library system ( counties in eastern oklahoma) 	 enid public library (enid) 	 lawton public library (lawton) 	 metropolitan library system (oklahoma city and vicinity) 	 northeastern state university (tahlequah, broken arrow, and muskogee) 	 oklahoma state university (stillwater) 	 pioneer library system (cleveland, mcclain, and pottawatomie counties) 	 quapaw tribal library (quapaw) 	 southeastern public library system of oklahoma ( counties in southeast oklahoma) 	 southern oklahoma library system ( counties in southern oklahoma) 	 southern prairie library system (jackson and harmon counties) 	 stillwater public library (stillwater) 	 tulsa city-county library (tulsa) 	 university of oklahoma (norman) 	 western plains library system (custer, dewey, roger mills and washita counties) 	 oregon	 albany public library (albany) 	 central oregon community college (bend) 	 chemeketa community college (salem and yamhill valley) 	 chemeketa cooperative regional library service (public libraries in marion, polk, and yamhill counties) 	 corvallis-benton county public library (corvallis and vicinity) 	 deschutes public library (bend and deschutes county) 	 eugene public library (eugene) 	 george fox university (newberg) 	 jackson county library services (medford, ashland and vicinity) 	 lincc: libraries in clackamas county (clackamas county) 	 lewis and clark college (portland) 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Гораций — Римдік эстетика мен Римдік классиканың көшбасшысы Гораций б.з.д. ж. Италияның оңтүстігінде, Венузияда дүниеге келген. Әкесі жай адам болып, кішкентай ғана қонысқа ие болған. Өз ұлына жақсы білім берген. Алдымен, Гораций Римде, мектепте оқыған, ал кейін Афиныға кетті. Онда Гораций грек поэзиясыман шұғылданған. Горацийдің ақындығы[өңдеу] saturae, Гораций драма теориясына да ерекше көңіл бөлді. Оны әсіресе классикалық трагедия жанры қызықтырды. Ал поэзия, ақын ойынша, жеңіл-желпі өнер емес, поэзия – зерттеуді талап ететін, өзіндік заңдылықтары бар ұлы өнер. Ал б.з.б. жылы сегіз сатирадан тұратын екінші кітабымен қатар «Эпод» атты кітабы дүниеге келді. «Эпод» кітабы эподтан тұратын немесе ямбтық өлең жолдарынан тұрды. Кітапқа «эпод» деген атау оған енген өлеңдердің екі тармақтан түзілуіне байланысты берілді, екінші тармақ бірінші тармақтан қысқа болды. Горацийдің өзі мұны «ямбтар» деп атаған. Негізінен грек поэзиясы метрикалық өлең жүйесіне жатады. Гораций өз поэзиясына үлгі еткен ямб өлшемін оның алдында б.з.б. vІІ ғасырда өмір сүрген грек ақыны Архилох кеңінен пайдаланған болатын. Гораций сол Архилох лирикасына еліктеп, римдік тақырыптарға эподтар жазды, жаңа теориялар мен кейбір әдеби жанрларды сынап, сықаққа айналдырды. Жалпы, Гораций эподтарының мазмұнынан оның жоғары мәдениеті мен асқан білімділігі байқалады. Б.з.б. - жылдары Гораций кішігірім шаруа қожалығына ие болды. Жаңа ауыл өмірі оның екінші эподты жазуына шабыт береді. Екінші эподында ақын өзінің аңғалдығымен, жанға жайлы тыныштығымен, еркін аңшылық өмірімен қала адамдарының қызығушылығын тудыратын ауыл тіршілігінің артықшылықтарын бейнелейді. Ақын ауыл өміріне деген жалаң қызығушылықты күлкіге айналдырып, оны көре, сезіне білу қажеттігін ескертеді. Ақын сонымен бірге, ел тыныштығын лайлатқан азаматтық соғыстарға қарсы болды. Ол Вергилий секілді «алтын ғасырдың» болатындығына сенбейді. Керісінше, барлық римдіктерді алыс, тыныш аралдарға қашып кетуге шақырады. Ақын ойынша, тек сонда ғана азат, бейбіт өмір бар. Кейбір эподтарында ақын рим өмірінің шынайы сипатын береді. Мысалы, төртінші эподында әскери трибунаны, оныншы эподында дарынсыз бірақ танымал ақын Мевийді күлкі етеді. Горацийдің эподындағы персонаждар қатары «кішкентай адамдармен» шектеледі. Сондықтан оның эподтары таза, шынайы дүниелер болды. Ол эподтар жазу барысында әр кезеңдердегі әдеби мұраларды еркін, шеберлікпен қолдана білді. Кейінгі жазған эподтарында Гораций Архилох лирикасынан да ары тереңдеп, күрделі мәселелерді қозғай білді. Гораций негізінде б.з.б. -жылдардан бастап лирикалық өлеңдер жаза бастаған. Оның алғашқы үш кітабы б.з.б. жылдың екінші жартысында «Өлеңдер» деген атаумен жеке кітап болып жарыққа шықты. Бірақ, сол дәуірдің өзінде оны «ода» деп атай бастаған. [ ] Гораций одалары эподтар мен сатираларынан жоғары стилімен ерекшеленеді. «Римдік одалар» атты еңбегінде Гораций Октавиан Августтың идеологиялық бағдарламасына өз көзқарасын білдіреді. «Римдік одалар» шығармасы жалпы мазмұны жағынан әкелер күнәлары, олардың азамат соғысы кезінде жіберген қателіктері жөнінде болды. Ал әйгілі одасында Гораций өзіне ақын ретінде мәңгі өшпес ғұмыр тілейді. Ақынның бұл одасына кейінгі дәуірлерде еліктеген ақындар аз болған жоқ. Олардың қатарында еуропалық ақындармен қатар, атақты Пушкин мен Державинді де атауға болады. [ ] Шынайы классик ретінде ақын өзінің лирикалық образын ежелгі грек лирикасынан іздейді. Образ жасауда Анакреонт, Сапфа, Алкий секілді ақындарды өзіне үлгі тұтады. Бірақ ешқайсысының туындысын аударып пайдаланбай немесе бұрмаламай, өзі жазуға тырысқан. Гораций одаларының тақырыптары алуан түрлі. Атап айтқанда, махаббат, достық жайлы өлеңдер, құдайларға арналған гимндер және саяси мәселелерге ақын ерекше көңіл бөлген. Гораций кейде құдайларды мадақтап, оларға арнап гимндер жазумен де айналысқан. Көбіне тірі, жанды заттарға және адамзатқа арнап өлеңдер жазған талантты ақын жансыз заттарға аса үлкен мән бермеген. Көптеген өлеңдерінде Гораций сезімге жол береді. Өзгелердің көңілін аудару мақсатында ақын қаратпа сөздерді жиі қолданады. Гораций өлеңдерінің тағы бір ерекшелігі – ақын өз шығармалары арқылы бұқара халыққа ақыл-кеңес беріп отырған. [ ] Ол өз туындыларына махаббат пен шарап жайындағы тақырыптарды арқау етті. Оның махаббат жайлы өлеңдерінде махаббаттың қайғы-қасіреті жеңіл ирониямен сыналады. Б.з.б. - жылдары Гораций алғашқы шығармаларын жазады. Бұл шығармалар әуелгіде латын тілінде жарық көріп, уақыт өте «Сатира» деген атпен жеке кітап болып шығады. Гораций сатираларында басқа ақын-жазушылармен салыстырғанда ешқандай кемсіту, сынап-мінеу болмады. Саясатты да Гораций өз сатираларына арқау етпейді. Оның бұл әдіс-тәсілдері Октавиан Августтың көңілінен шықты, сондықтан ол ақынды үнемі қолдап отырды. Гораций сатира саласында көп еңбектенді. Б.з.б. -жылдары оның сатиралық жинағы жарыққа шығады. Біріншісі, шамамен б.з.б. - жылдары, ал екіншісі шамамен б.з.б. жылы. Ақын өз сатираларын әңгімелесу (sermons) деп атаған. Гораций сатиралары диатриба (философиялық әңгімелесу) жанрына ұқсайды. Гораций диатрибалары автор мен белгілі бір адам арасындағы қарым-қатынас кезінде көрінеді. [ ] Ақын өз сатираларында жеке адамның бақыты мәселесіне де тоқталады. Ол арқылы оқырмандарына өмір даналығын түсіндірмекші болды. Бірінші кітаптың алғашқы сатирасында ақын байлық жинау үшін өзінің барлық қалауын шектеген сараң адамдарды сынға алады. Алтыншы сатирасында өзі үшін ең аяулы әрі жағымды идеал – әкесін, оның қарапайымдылығын әңгімелейді. Бесінші сатирасында Луцилий сияқты Меценат, Вергилий, Вариймен бірге Римнен Брундизиумға дейін жасаған саяхатын сипаттайды. Азаматтық соғыстардың аяқталуы мен жаңа, бақытты кезеңнің басталуының белгісі – «ғасырдың жаңаруы» мерекесі Римде б.з.б. жылы салтанатты түрде тойланды. Атаулы мерекеге күшті дайындық жұмыстары жүргізілді. Жоспар бойынша бұл мерекеге Римнің барлық атақты адамдары қатысуға міндетті болды. Октавиан Август «мұндай мерекені әлем әлі көрген жоқ және көрмейді де» деп жар салды. Бекітілген жоспар бойынша мереке соңы гимнмен бітуі тиіс болатын. Бұл міндет Горацийға жүктеліп, ол өз міндетін абыроймен атқарып шықты. Гимннің басталуында ақын табиғат сұлулығын әсем тілмен суреттеп, одан рим халқының патриоттық сезімін оятуға тырысты. Гимн алғаш Аполлон Палатинскийдің храмында б.з.б. жылдың маусымында айтылды. Гимнді хор түрінде жігіт пен қыз орындап шықты. Сонымен бірге бұл ресми гимнде Гораций император Октавиан Август пен оның реформаларын дәріптеп, мақтап, Августтың атағын асқақтатады. Бұдан басқа да император Августты мадақтайтын өлеңдер жинағын – төрт ода кітабын шығарады. Осы кезден бастап Гораций елге атақты ақын ретінде таныла бастайды. Ол үнемі басқа ақындарды грек ақындарынан үйренуге шақырады. Ақын ойынша, дарындылық еңбекқорлықпен ұштасып отыру керек. [ ] Гораций шығармашылығы рим әдебиетінің тарихында ерекше орын алады. Бірақ, оның атақ-даңқы Вергилий секілді шарықтап кеткен жоқ. Дегенмен оның поэзиясы жаңа заманның лирикасын орнатуда ерекше роль атқарды. Гораций – ой ақыны, белгілі бір образдың, қысқа және өткір сөздің шебері. Осындай қасиеттері ақын бойында жас кезінен-ақ дамып, жетіліп отырды, алайда, кей кезде бар ойын жинақтап, бүтін, тұтас сурет жасау қолынан келе бермейтін. Гораций бүтін сурет жасауға өзінің кейінгі шығармаларында қол жеткізді. Ерте ортағасыр кезеңінде Горацийдің рухани-философиялық тұрғыда жазылған шығармалары мен жолдауының ерекшеліктеріне, лирикасымен салыстырғанда сатира жанрындағы туындыларына көп көңіл бөлінді. Бірақ оған қарамастан, қайта өрлеу дәуірінде өмір сүрген итальяндық ақын Петрарка Горацийді эпикалық қана емес, лирикалық ақын ретінде де үлгі тұтып, бағалаған. Француз классицизмінің теоретигі Н.Буало Горацийді ұлы ұстаз деп танып, Аристотельмен қатар қояды. Антикалық әдебиет тарихын зерттеуші А.Ф.Лосев ақынға «Гораций – Римдік эстетика мен Римдік классиканың көшбасшысы. Филологиялық талғампаз адамдардың идеалы» деп жоғары баға береді. [ ] Гораций негізінен классик ақын болды. Оның шығармалары Рим мектептерінде оқытылып, оқушыларға көп тәлім-тәрбие берді. Заман өте келе Гораций шығармаларымен қоса, автордың өзіне, оның жеке тұлғасына деген қызығушылық та арта түсті. Ақынның орта есеппен алғанда -ге тарта туындысы біздің заманымызға дейін сақталып, бүгінгі күннің ұлы ескерткішіне айналып отыр. Горацийдің өлең өнерін мадақтаған “Ескерткіш” одасы соған дәлел. Горацийдің ақындық сырын ашқан “Поэзия ғылымы” еңбегін кейін классицизм теоретиктері пайдаланған. Гораций мұрасы Еуропа поэзиясының, әсіресе xvi – xviii ғасырлардағы лирика жанрының қалыптасуында үлкен рөл атқарды. [ ] Дереккөздер[өңдеу] 	↑ Античная литература. Анпеткова-Шарова Г.Г., Чекалова Е.И. Ленинград, 	↑ Радциг С.И. История древнегреческой литературы. Москва, 	↑ Людинина О.Е. Античная литература. Пропедевтика. 	↑ Людинина О.Е. Античная литература. Пропедевтика. 	↑ Радциг С.И. История древнегреческой литературы. Москва, 	↑ Античная литература. Анпеткова-Шарова Г.Г., Дуров В.С. Москва, 	↑ Тоқшылықова Г.Б. Антика әдебиетінің тарихы. 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Азат ителгән кол гаиләсендә туган. Республикачыларга хәерхаһ булган. Ватандашлар сугышында (БЭК ел) республикачылар җиңелүгә очрагачтын, империя белән килешүчәнлек юлына күчкән.  «Одалар», «Сатиралар», «Юлламалар» тупламлары белән теге дәвердәге шигъриятне яңа җанр һәм яңа шигъри үлчәүләр белән баеткан. Шулай ук карагыз[үзгәртү | вики-текстны үзгәртү] 	 	Шәхесләр порталы 	 Викиөзек эчендә Гораций темасы буенча бит бар 	 	Бу мәкаләнең сыйфатын арттырыр өчен түбәндәгеләрне эшләргә кирәк?:	Мәкаләне тулыландырырга (мәкалә бик кыска) 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	Башка телле бүлектә тулырак мәкалә бар: Гораций (рус.)Сез тәрҗемә ярдәме белән бу мәкаләне язып бетереп проектка ярдәм итә аласыз. 	 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Текст creative commons attribution-sharealike лицензиясе буенча бирелә, аерым очракларда өстәмә шартлар булырга мөмкин. Өстәмә мәгълүматны Куллану шартларында карагыз. 		Яшеренлек сәясәте 	wikipedia турында 	Җаваплылыктан баш тарту 	Мобиль юрама 	Ясаучылар 	Статистика 	cookie турында белдерү 		 	 	 quinto orazio flacco - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	quinto orazio flacco 	 		da wikipedia, l'enciclopedia libera. 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 disambiguazione – "orazio" rimanda qui. se stai cercando altri significati, vedi orazio (disambigua). quinto orazio flacco in un ritratto immaginario di anton von werner quinto orazio flacco, noto più semplicemente come orazio (in latino: quintus horatius flaccus; venosa, dicembre a.c. – roma, novembre a.c.), è stato un poeta romano. indice 	 biografia 	 il mondo poetico e concettuale di orazio 	 opere 	 note 	 bibliografia 	 . opere in latino 	 . opere tradotte in italiano 	 voci correlate 	 altri progetti 	 collegamenti esterni biografia[modifica | modifica wikitesto] orazio nacque l' dicembre del a.c. a venosa, colonia romana fondata in posizione strategica tra apulia e lucania, allora in territorio dauno e attualmente in basilicata. fu figlio di un fattore liberto che si trasferì poi a roma per fare l'esattore delle aste pubbliche (coactor auctionarius), compito poco stimato, ma redditizio; il poeta era dunque di umili origini, ma di buona condizione economica. recepì le prime nozioni di favolistica dalla nutrice pullia, che amava raccontare le fiabe. orazio seguì perciò un regolare corso di studi a roma, sotto l'insegnamento del grammatico orbilio e poi ad atene, all'età di circa vent'anni, dove studiò greco e filosofia presso cratippo di pergamo. qui entrò in contatto con la lezione epicurea, ma, sebbene se ne sentisse particolarmente attratto, decise di non aderire alla scuola. sarà all'interno dell'ambiente romano che orazio aderirà alla corrente, la quale gli permise di trovare un rifugio nell'otium contemplativo. il poeta espresse la sua gratitudine verso il padre in un tributo nelle satire (i, ). placca a taranto che reca inciso il verso di un'ode che orazio dedicò alla città dopo la morte di cesare, quando scoppiò la guerra civile, orazio si arruolò nell'esercito di bruto, nel quale il poeta incarnò il proprio ideale di libertà in antitesi alla tirannide imperante. combatté come tribuno militare[ ] nell'esercito repubblicano comandato da bruto nella battaglia di filippi ( a.c.), persa dai sostenitori di bruto e vinta da ottaviano. in questa battaglia bruto e cassio perirono, mentre orazio si diede alla fuga dopo il secondo combattimento, come confessa egli stesso in una delle sue odi, nella quale dice che si era di già trovato in alcune altre azioni molto pericolose. una lettura innovativa sulla battaglia è stata proposta da giuliano pisani.[ ] nel a.c. tornò in italia grazie a un'amnistia e, appresa la notizia della confisca del podere paterno, si mantenne divenendo segretario di un questore (scriba quæstorius). in questo periodo cominciò a scrivere versi, che cominciarono a dargli una certa notorietà. nel a.c. venne presentato a mecenate da virgilio e vario, probabilmente incontrati nel contesto delle scuole epicuree di sirone, presso napoli ed ercolano. dopo nove mesi mecenate lo ammise nel suo circolo e da allora il poeta poté dedicarsi interamente alla letteratura, non si sposò mai e non ebbe figli. già in questo periodo orazio risulta debole di occhi, avendo contratto una congiuntivite.[ ] mecenate gli donò nel a.c. un piccolo possedimento in sabina, le cui rovine sono ancor oggi visitabili nei pressi di licenza (rm). il dono fu cosa molto gradita al poeta che, in perfetta osservanza del modus vivendi predicato da epicuro, non amava la vita cittadina. con la sua poesia orazio sostenne la figura e la politica dell'imperatore augusto, che peraltro in questo periodo lasciava una grande libertà compositiva ai suoi poeti (tendenza che sarebbe però stata invertita dopo la scomparsa di mecenate: lo testimonia la vicenda biografica di ovidio). esempi di propaganda augustea sono, a ogni modo, alcune odi e il carmen sæculare, composto nel a.c. in occasione della ricorrenza dei ludi sæculares. orazio morì nel novembre dell' a.c. all'età di anni e fu sepolto sul colle esquilino, accanto al suo amico mecenate, morto solo due mesi prima. il mondo poetico e concettuale di orazio[modifica | modifica wikitesto] considerato uno dei maggiori poeti dell'età antica, nonché maestro di eleganza stilistica e dotato di inusuale ironia, seppe affrontare le vicissitudini politiche e civili del suo tempo da placido epicureo amante dei piaceri della vita, dettando quelli che per molti sono ancora i canoni dell'ars vivendi. 	(la) «dum loquimur, fugerit invida aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.» 	(it) «mentre parliamo, il tempo invidioso sarà già fuggito: assapora ogni istante, confidando il meno possibile nel domani.» 	(orazio, odi, i, , - ) 	(la) «alme sol [...] possis nihil urbe roma visere maius.» 	(it) «almo sole [...] che tu possa contemplare nulla di più grande della città di roma.» 	(orazio, carmen saeculare.) si può riconoscere in molte delle occasioni, da cui orazio trae spunto per i suoi componimenti, una funzione comunicativa: ma difficilmente essa si traduce in un mero fine encomiastico, nei confronti del circolo dei suoi potenti protettori, perché assai più spesso essa svolge la funzione di trasmettere al lettore (e ai posteri) un'esperienza concreta di socievolezza e di rapporti umani, da cui trarre un insegnamento o semplicemente una riflessione[ ]. achille d’orsi, monumento a quinto orazio flacco, , venosa convertitosi all'epicureismo[ ], anch'egli alla ricerca di risposte sui grandi temi esistenziali, risposte che di fatto non troverà mai: il poeta sembra infatti non essere mai sfuggito all'angoscia della morte, percepita sempre come imminente. È interessante analizzare la visione che il poeta latino aveva dell'aldilà, in quanto è indubbiamente molto sincera: sebbene velata da una certa sicurezza, propria di quella "aurea mediocritas" di cui orazio voleva essere esempio, in molteplici occasioni traspare una vena di malinconia, accompagnata da cupe note di lirismo e di elegia, che tradisce il suo reale stato interiore. orazio appare, a sprazzi, come quello che forse veramente era: un uomo che ha trovato nella vita il rifugio dalla morte, ma che in verità non è mai riuscito a curare del tutto la paura di essa, che preferisce fuggire piuttosto che combattere stoicamente. la sua personalità può quindi risultare, a una prima lettura, ambigua: tale ambiguità nasce dalla discordanza che talvolta si viene a creare tra l'immagine che orazio voleva dare di sé, e la vera personalità del poeta che inevitabilmente trapela dalle righe: non a caso, come sostiene ugo enrico paoli, "nulla [...] appare così difficile come penetrare nell'animo di orazio". la rappresentazione dell'aldilà oraziano è comunque di forte stampo epicureo, e viene suggellata nel modo migliore nell'affermazione, non priva di una nota malinconica, espressa nell'ode del libro iv (v. ): 	 «pulvis et umbra sumus» quinto orazio flacco in un ritratto immaginario di giacomo di chirico in questa affermazione orazio riesce a esprimere non solo il suo punto di vista sulla morte, ma anche l'angoscia che lo investe in vita, proprio in funzione del prossimo e certo annullamento dell'esperienza terrena. dai versi di orazio, quando il poeta parla della morte, risulta davvero difficile cogliere una nota di serenità, di gioia: il sentimento che invece predomina e che si identifica nella reazione psicologica del poeta di fronte alla morte, è una triste accettazione di un fatto naturale. in particolare questo sentimento viene espresso nell'ode del ii libro, nella quale afferma (vv. - ): 	 «...tristi [...] unda, scilicet omnibus, quicumquae terrae munere vescimur, enaviganda, sive reges sive inopes erimus coloni.» questi versi ci esprimono quanto orazio percepisse la morte cupa e fonte di grande turbamento: viene qui rappresentata come una palude (unda, parola che già nel suono anticipa il concetto che sta per essere espresso, e rafforza il simbolismo di cui è oggetto: palude=morte), a cui accosta l'aggettivo "triste" (tristi), che reca con sé anche un profondo senso di inevitabilità. la palude a cui allude orazio è lo stige: in questo caso, il riferimento mitologico ha valore simbolico, ed è funzionale non solo a esprimere il concetto della morte, ma anche a rendere più vivida ed espressiva la poesia. invece scilicet (come è naturale) afferma un dato di fatto: l'inevitabilità della morte, alla quale non vi è modo di sfuggire. questo concetto in realtà viene qui ripetuto, ma era già stato espresso all'inizio dell'ode: 	 «...nec pietas moram rugis et instanti senectae adfert indomitaeque morti.» inutile e vana è la religione, incapace di porre un rimedio (moram) all'incalzante vecchiaia e alla morte: questo è il punto di vista del poeta riguardo alla religione, e traduce un sentimento diffuso ed esteso a tutta la romanità del secolo. la religione è ormai incapace di dare spiegazioni sufficienti riguardo alla vita dopo la morte, il fervore religioso (pietas) non potrà salvare l'uomo dalla sua naturale condizione di mortale. venosa, interno della casa di orazio È davvero grande la differenza che corre tra l'attacco e la critica che lucrezio aveva fatto nei confronti della religio, accusata di offuscare la ragione e di far nascere inutili tribolazioni e angosce, e questa, che suona più come una triste constatazione dell'incapacità di essere rasserenati da una religione nella quale non si riesce più a credere. centrale nei versi - è il gerundivo enaviganda, che esprime pienamente l'inevitabilità e la certezza della morte, non senza una nota di cupa e profonda malinconia, già anticipata da tristi unda. risulta già chiara da questi pochi versi la percezione che orazio aveva della morte, percezione che spiega e motiva la sua scelta di vita: una vita caratterizzata dal godere del presente e delle poche gioie che la vita ci offre (identificabili principalmente nell'amicizia, nel convivio, nella pace interiore) e che ci consentono di vivere con serenità e stabilità. orazio appare a tratti molto pessimista: la morte è sempre in agguato e la vita potrebbe finire in ogni momento; è meglio, quindi, non riporre le proprie speranze nel domani. questa idea di brevità della vita (che ritroviamo anche in catullo: brevis lux) è un ulteriore invito a godersi la vita il più possibile, concetto che ritroviamo in numerosi versi, come nell'ode del libro i: 	 «...dum loquimur fugerit invida aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.[ ]» il tempo è in una fuga perpetua, che non lascia adito a speranze future: occorre sfruttare al massimo il tempo che ci è concesso, e considerare ogni momento che ci è dato come un dono, così come afferma nell'ode , del libro i (vv. - : "...quem fors dierum cumque dabit, lucro/adpone..."); la sua concezione della fuga temporis sarà un perfetto modello per un grande poeta italiano come francesco petrarca, che, dopo aver letto classici come orazio, seneca e agostino, lamenterà, nel canzoniere, la caducità del tempo e la sua essenza fuggitiva in liriche come la vita fugge, et non s'arresta un'ora, molto vicina alla poetica oraziana. È chiaro dai suoi versi quanto la visione della morte condizioni in modo netto l'esperienza di vita del poeta, che ci viene vivacemente descritta dalla sua poesia: la morte non è, al contrario di quanto si crede, un evento che ci attende alla fine del nostro percorso vitale, ma è qualcosa che ci lasciamo dietro ogni giorno e dietro ogni momento, che estingue e brucia, attraverso il tempo, tutto ciò che è. opere[modifica | modifica wikitesto] le odi di orazio tradotte da mario rapisardi horatii flacci sermonum, 		lo stesso argomento in dettaglio: storia della letteratura latina ( a.c. - d.c.). orazio è considerato dal classicismo uno dei più importanti poeti latini, citato addirittura nell'inferno di dante nel limbo, al verso del canto iv. molte delle sue frasi sono diventate modi di dire ancora in uso: esempi sono carpe diem, nunc est bibendum e aurea mediocritas, oltre che odi profanum vulgus, et arceo, e, recentemente, gli è stato intitolato anche un cratere sulla superficie di mercurio. 	epodi (epodon libri o iambi, come li definisce l'autore), componimenti, pubblicati nel a.c. 	satire (saturæ o sermones, come le definisce l'autore), in due libri che comprendono satire, scritte tra il e il a.c.: il i libro ( satire) fu dedicato a mecenate e pubblicato tra il e il a.c., mentre il ii libro ( satire) fu pubblicato nel a.c. insieme agli epodi. 	odi (carmina, come li definisce l'autore), in tre libri con componimenti, pubblicati nel a.c. un quarto libro con altri componimenti venne pubblicato intorno al a.c. 	epistole, in due libri. il i libro comprende lettere composte a partire dal e pubblicate nel a.c., con dedica a mecenate, mentre il ii libro, con tre lettere, scritto tra il e il a.c., comprende l'epistola ai pisoni, o ars poetica in esametri, che fu presa a canone per la composizione poetica nelle epoche successive. 	carme secolare (carmen sæculare), del a.c., scritto per incarico di augusto e destinato alla cerimonia conclusiva dei ludi sæculares. note[modifica | modifica wikitesto] bibliografia[modifica | modifica wikitesto] opere in latino[modifica | modifica wikitesto] 	(la) quinto orazio flacco, [opere], francofurti ad moenum, ex officina typographica andreae wecheli, . 	(la) quinto orazio flacco, [opere. poesia], francofurti ad moenum, ex officina typographica andreae wecheli, . opere tradotte in italiano[modifica | modifica wikitesto] 	 enzo mandruzzato (a cura di), odi ed epodi. testo latino a fronte, in classici greci e latini, milano, bur, , isbn  - - - - . 	 gavino manca (a cura di), cinque satire sulla saggezza del vivere, in collezione di poesie, torino, einaudi, , isbn  - - - - . 	 tito colamarino e domenico bo (a cura di), opere. testo latino a fronte, in classici latini, torino, utet, , isbn  - - - - . 	 ugo dotti (a cura di), epistole-ars poetica. testo latino a fronte, in universale economica. i classici, milano, feltrinelli, , isbn  - - - - . 	donatella puliga (a cura di), con introduzione di maurizio bettini, poesia classica latina. testo latino a fronte, la biblioteca di repubblica, einaudi, torino, , rist. , pp.  – . voci correlate[modifica | modifica wikitesto] 	certamen horatianum 	enciclopedia oraziana 	gaio fundanio 	gens horatia 	genus irritabile vatum 	atilio fortunaziano altri progetti[modifica | modifica wikitesto] altri progetti 	wikisource 	wikisource 	wikiquote 	wikimedia commons 	 wikisource contiene una pagina dedicata a quinto orazio flacco 	 wikisource contiene una pagina in lingua latina dedicata a quinto orazio flacco 	 wikiquote contiene citazioni di o su quinto orazio flacco 	 wikimedia commons contiene immagini o altri file su quinto orazio flacco collegamenti esterni[modifica | modifica wikitesto] 	 	 quinto orazio flacco, su treccani.it – enciclopedie on line, istituto dell'enciclopedia italiana. 	 quinto orazio flacco, in enciclopedia italiana, istituto dell'enciclopedia italiana. 	(en) quinto orazio flacco, su enciclopedia britannica, encyclopædia britannica, inc. 	 quinto orazio flacco, su beweb, conferenza episcopale italiana. 	(la) opere di quinto orazio flacco, su musisque deoque. 	(la) opere di quinto orazio flacco, su phi latin texts, packard humanities institute. 	 opere di quinto orazio flacco, su openmlol, horizons unlimited srl. 	(en) opere di quinto orazio flacco, su open library, internet archive. 	(en) opere di quinto orazio flacco / quinto orazio flacco (altra versione), su progetto gutenberg. 	(en) audiolibri di quinto orazio flacco, su librivox. 	(en) horatius, su goodreads. 	 quinto orazio flacco, su discografia nazionale della canzone italiana, istituto centrale per i beni sonori ed audiovisivi. 	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l'epicuri de grege porcum, in atti e memorie dell'accademia galileiana di scienze, lettere ed arti in padova, cxxxi - parte iii, padova , pp. - .. 	^ orazio, satire, i, , vv. e . il periodo in questione è il - a.c., vd. orazio, satire, corriere della sera, i classici del pensiero libero greci e latini, nº , , n. a pag. . 	^ mario citroni, occasione e piani di destinazione nella lirica di orazio, materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici, no. / ( ), pp. - . 	^ book.google.it 	^ tante le traduzioni di questa celebre poesia, da tommaso gargallo, a giosuè carducci (in opere, ed. naz., bologna, zanichelli, , vol. xxix, p. ), a giovanni pascoli (in poesie. poesie varie. traduzioni. riduzioni, a cura di augusto vicinelli, milano, mondadori, , p. ), a alberto caramella (in i viaggi del nautilus, firenze, le lettere, , p. ). estratto da "https://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=quinto_orazio_flacco&oldid= " 		categorie: 	poeti romani 	nati nel a.c. 	morti nell' a.c. 	nati l' 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none none horats – wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	horats 	 		fra wikipedia, den frie encyklopedi 		 		 		 		 		hopp til navigering 		hopp til søk 			horats 	 	født	 . desember f.kr.[ ][ ][ ] venosa[ ][ ] 	død	 . november f.kr.[ ][ ] ( år) roma 	gravlagt	roma 	far	ukjent 	mor	ukjent 	beskjeftigelse	lyriker[ ][ ], skribent[ ], filosof 	nasjonalitet	romerriket 	 horats på commons horatius, portrettert av giacomo di chirico quintus horatius flaccus (født f.kr., død f.kr.), som regel bare kalt horats, var blant de aller fremste romerske diktere og en betydelig litteraturteoretiker. innhold 	 liv 	 diktning 	 referanser 	 litteratur 	 eksterne lenker liv[rediger | rediger kilde] horats ble født i venosa syd i dagens italia i f.kr., som sønn av en frigitt slave. foreldrene bekostet en utdannelse først i roma, siden i athen der han studerte gresk og filosofi. etter mordet på julius cæsar gikk horats inn i hæren under brutus og deltok i slaget ved filippi – på den tapende siden. han hevdet selv at han kun hadde berget livet fordi han kastet skjoldet sitt og løp sin vei. da octavian, som seiret, lovet amnesti til alle som hadde kjempet, vendte horats tilbake til italia og var blitt en fattig mann, for jordeiendommene hans var blitt beslaglagt. han fikk en stilling som scriba quastorius, ansatt i statskassen. horats tilhørte den samme krets som vergil og lucius varius rufus, og her ble han introdusert for maecenas, som og var en venn av augustus. maecenas ble horats venn og beskytter,[ ] og skaffet ham en eiendom. horats døde i roma i f.kr., kun få måneder etter maecenas' død. diktning[rediger | rediger kilde] saturae, horats regnes, i likhet med vergil, som en av de store dikterne i romersk litteratur. som de fleste tidlige romerske poeter, brukte også horats heksameteret, den greske seksstavete verselinjen, som versemål. dette versemålet passet godt til latinens syntaks og struktur, men horats tok også i bruk verselinjer som det det sapfiske og det det alcaiske. horats skrev også satirer. her videreutviklier han de klassiske greske komediene, og ble senere inspirasjonskilde for franske klassisister som blant annet molière. horats skrev oder, satirer, epoder og brev. horats har øvet stor innvirkning på den vestlige litteraturen gjennom sitt brev til pisonerne, kjent som ars poetica, der han gjør rede for sine teorier om litteratur og diktning. folkevisen astri, mi astri er en oversettelse av en ode av horats.[ ] horats skiller seg fra mange av antikkens diktere ved at han har hatt plass i europeisk litterær tradisjon nærmest uavbrutt[ ] omreisende skalder i middelalderen lot seg inspirere av livsbejaende holdninger i horats oder, mens man i renessansen gikk til horats regler for diktekunsten.[ ] senere la de franske klassisistene stor vekt på verket ars poetica. horats er også opphavet til ordtaket «carpe diem!» (grip dagen!), og sangen integer vitae (uberørt av livet) som synges ved offisielle høytideligheter. referanser[rediger | rediger kilde] 	^ a b www.treccani.it 	^ eb- / horace, «... was born on the th of december b.c. at venusia ...» 	^ q , «... родился в г. от основания города, т. е. в г. до Р. Х. декабря в Венузии ...» 	^ a b eb- / horace 	^ q 	^ q , «Поэт, согласно предсказанию, которое он дал Меценату, умер вскоре после смерти последнего, когда ему было почти лет, ноября в г. до Р. Х.» 	^ beweb, beweb person id , besøkt . august 	^ mirabile: digital archives for medieval culture 	^ weideman, side 	^ horats: brevet om dikterkunsten. tanum. kommentert av svein Østerud. forordet, s . 	^ ibid. s. 	^ ibid. s. litteratur[rediger | rediger kilde] 	horats: brevet om dikterkunsten, tanum, oversatt og kommentert av svein Østerud. 	weidemann, einar: antikken i perspektiv. kulturhistoriske emner fra det gamle hellas og roma. aschehoug, . isbn - - - eksterne lenker[rediger | rediger kilde] 	 	 	wikikilden: horats – originaltekster av og om forfatteren portal: litteratur 		autoritetsdata	 store norske leksikon · encyclopædia britannica · brockhaus enzyklopädie · deutsche biographie · encyclopædia universalis · encyclopædia universalis · bibsys · viaf · viaf · gnd · lccn · lccn · isni · bnf · bnf (data) · libris · sudoc · ulan · nla · ndl · nkc · iccu · rls · rls · bne hentet fra «https://no.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=horats&oldid= » 		kategorier: 	fødsler i f.kr. 	dødsfall i f.kr. 	personer fra venosa 	romerske forfattere 	latinspråklige forfattere skjulte kategorier: 	sider med referanser fra utsagn 	sider med tre referanser fra utsagn 	artikler hvor referanser mangler oversettelse 	fødsler . desember 	sider med to referanser fra utsagn 	artikler hvor fsted hentes fra wikidata 	artikler hvor dsted hentes fra wikidata 	artikler hvor gravlagt hentes fra wikidata 	artikler hvor far hentes fra wikidata 	artikler hvor mor hentes fra wikidata 	sider med én referanse fra utsagn 	artikler hvor beskjeftigelse hentes fra wikidata 	artikler hvor nasjonalitet hentes fra wikidata 	menn 	artikler hvor bilde er hentet fra wikidata - biografi 	artikler med autoritetsdatalenker fra wikidata 	sider som bruker magiske isbn-lenker 	 	 	navigasjonsmeny 	 		 	 		personlig 	 	 			ikke logget inn 	brukerdiskusjon 	bidrag 	opprett konto 	logg inn 		 	 		 			 	 		navnerom 	 	 			artikkel 	diskusjon 		 	 			 	 	 		varianter 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		visninger 	 	 			les 	rediger 	rediger kilde 	vis historikk 		 	 			 	 	 		mer 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		søk 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigasjon 	 	 			forside 	svaksynte 	utmerkede artikler 	hjelp 	siste endringer 		 	 	 	 		prosjekt 	 	 			stilmanual 	prosjektportal 	tinget 	torget 	konkurranser 	notiser 	nybegynnerforum 	tilfeldig side 		 	 	 		wikipedia 	 	 			kontakt wikipedia 	doner 	wikimedia norge 		 	 	 		eksterne søk 	 	 		 		 	 	 		lager 	 	 		 		 	 	 		på andre prosjekter 	 	 			wikimedia commons 	wikiquote 	wikikilden 		 	 	 		skriv ut / eksporter 	 	 			opprett en bok 	last ned som pdf 	utskriftsvennlig versjon 		 	 	 		verktøy 	 	 			lenker hit 	relaterte endringer 	spesialsider 	permanent lenke 	sideinformasjon 	siter denne siden 	wikidata-element 		 	 	 	 		på andre språk 	 	 			norsk nynorsk 	dansk 	svenska 	Íslenska 	afrikaans 	አማርኛ 	العربية 	aragonés 	asturianu 	تۆرکجه 	Башҡортса 	Беларуская 	Беларуская (тарашкевіца)‎ 	Български 	bosanski 	brezhoneg 	català 	Čeština 	cymraeg 	deutsch 	eesti 	Ελληνικά 	english 	español 	esperanto 	euskara 	فارسی 	fiji hindi 	français 	furlan 	gaeilge 	galego 	한국어 	Հայերեն 	हिन्दी 	hrvatski 	ido 	bahasa indonesia 	interlingua 	italiano 	עברית 	ქართული 	Қазақша 	kernowek 	kiswahili 	kurdî 	latina 	latviešu 	lietuvių 	lingua franca nova 	magyar 	Македонски 	malagasy 	മലയാളം 	मराठी 	مصرى 	bahasa melayu 	Монгол 	nāhuatl 	nederlands 	日本語 	occitan 	oʻzbekcha/ўзбекча 	ਪੰਜਾਬੀ 	piemontèis 	polski 	português 	română 	Русский 	sardu 	seeltersk 	sicilianu 	simple english 	slovenčina 	slovenščina 	Српски / srpski 	srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски 	suomi 	tagalog 	தமிழ் 	tarandíne 	Татарча/tatarça 	türkçe 	Українська 	tiếng việt 	volapük 	võro 	walon 	winaray 	吴语 	粵語 	zazaki 	Žemaitėška 	中文 		rediger lenker 	 		 denne siden ble sist redigert . feb. kl. : . 	innholdet er tilgjengelig under creative commons-lisensen navngivelse-del på samme vilkår, men ytterligere betingelser kan gjelde. se bruksvilkårene for detaljer. 		personvern 	om wikipedia 	forbehold 	mobilvisning 	utviklere 	statistikk 	erklæring om informasjonskapsler 		 	 	 none goratsiy - vikipediya 	 	 	 	 	goratsiy 	 		vikipediya, ochiq ensiklopediya 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		goratsiy [toʻliq ismi kvint goratsiy flakk (quintus horatius flaccus)] (mil. av. . . , venuziy — mil.av. , rim) — rim shoiri. ozod qilintan qul oilasida tugʻilgan. respublikachilarga xayrixoq boʻlgan. fuqarolar urushi (mil. av. y.)da respublikachilar magʻlubiyatga uchragach, imperiya bilan kelishuvchilik yoʻliga oʻtgan. 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(catalan) reference imported from wikimedia project italian wikipedia sex or gender male references imported from wikimedia project swedish wikipedia stated in virtual international authority file viaf id retrieved november imported from wikimedia project italian wikipedia stated in integrated authority file retrieved april stated in beweb retrieved august beweb person id country of citizenship ancient rome reference imported from wikimedia project italian wikipedia name in native language q. horatius flaccus (latin) references roman praenomen quintus references roman nomen gentilicium horatius references roman cognomen flaccus references date of birth december bce references reference url http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/quinto-orazio-flacco_(enciclopedia-italiana)/ stated in q quotation ... родился в г. от основания города, т. е. в г. до Р. Х. декабря в Венузии ... (russian) stated in eb- / horace quotation ... was born on the th of december b.c. at venusia ... (english) place of birth venosa references stated in q stated in eb- / horace date of death november bce references reference url http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/quinto-orazio-flacco_(enciclopedia-italiana)/ stated in q quotation Поэт, согласно предсказанию, которое он дал Меценату, умер вскоре после смерти последнего, когда ему было почти лет, ноября в г. до Р. Х. 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references swedish literature bank authorid horatius references the latin library author id hor references treccani id quinto-orazio-flacco reference stated in beweb retrieved august beweb person id treccani's enciclopedia italiana id quinto-orazio-flacco references university of barcelona authority id a reference stated in autoritats ub retrieved april unz review author id horace references flaccusquintushoratius references uppsala university alvin id alvin-person: references alvin-person: references vatican library id adv reference stated in beweb retrieved august beweb person id adv references adv references french vikidia id horace_(poète_latin) references wolfram language entity code entity["concept", "horace:: n"] references womenwriters id b - d - f - ade-b c b c f references philadelphia museum of art entity id references monumenta.ch id references carl-maria-von-weber-gesamtausgabe id a references archive site trinity college cambridge id horatius-flaccus-quintus-c- - -bc-poet-known-as-horace references jewish virtual library person id horace-quintus-horatius-flaccus-x b references unione romana biblioteche scientifiche id references references references alkindi id references edition humboldt digital id h references union catalog of armenian libraries authority id references   sitelinks wikipedia( entries) edit 	 afwiki horatius 	 amwiki ሆራቲዩስ 	 anwiki horacio 	 arwiki هوراس 	 arzwiki هوراتيوس 	 astwiki horaciu 	 azbwiki هوراس 	 bat_smgwiki huoracėjos 	 bawiki Гораций 	 be_x_oldwiki Гарацыюс 	 bewiki Гарацый 	 bgwiki Хораций 	 brwiki quintus horatius flaccus 	 bswiki horacije 	 cawiki horaci 	 cswiki quintus horatius flaccus 	 cywiki horas 	 dawiki horats 	 dewiki horaz 	 diqwiki horatius 	 elwiki Οράτιος 	 enwiki horace 	 eowiki horacio 	 eswiki horacio 	 etwiki horatius 	 euwiki horazio 	 fawiki هوراس 	 fiu_vrowiki horatius 	 fiwiki horatius 	 frwiki horace 	 furwiki orazi 	 gawiki quintus horatius flaccus 	 glwiki horacio 	 hewiki הורטיוס 	 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	wikinews 	wikipedia 	wikiquote 	wikisource 	wikiversity 	wikivoyage 	wiktionary 		 	 	 		 this page was last edited on may , at : . 	text is available under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license; additional terms may apply. see terms of use for details. 		privacy policy 	about mediawiki.org 	disclaimers 	code of conduct 	mobile view 	developers 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 Хорације — Википедија 	 	 	 	 	Хорације 	 		С Википедије, слободне енциклопедије 		 		 		 		 		Пређи на навигацију 		Пређи на претрагу 			Квинт Хорације Флак 	Хорације - имагинација Антона фон Вернера 	Датум рођења	 . децембар . п. н. е. 	Место рођења	Веноза  Римска република 	Датум смрти	 . новембар . п. н. е. 	Место смрти	Рим  Римско царство Квинт Хорације Флак (лат. quintus horatius flaccus; . децембар . п. н. е. - . новембар . п. н. е.) је био највећи римски лирски песник током владавине Октавијана Августа. Садржај 	 Биографија 	 Дела 	 Референце 	 Спољашње везе Биографија[уреди | уреди извор] Хорације је рођен у децембру . п. н. е. у Венусији, Италија, умро је . новембра . п. н. е. у Риму. Његов отац је био роб који је стекао слободу пре Хорацијевог рођења. Могло би се претпоставити да је у ропство пао за време Помпеја, односно након Спартаковог устанка. Свог сина је одвео у једну од најпознатијих школа познатог Сабелијанца по имену Орбилус (који је по Хорацију био присталица телесног кажњавања). . п. н. е. Хорације посећује предавања на Атинској Академији где прве стихове почиње да пише на грчком.[ ] Кад је Брут у Атини прикупљао војску против Октавијана и Антонија, заједно са синовима Цицерона и Катона, у њу ступа и Хорације. Међутим, у бици код Филипа, република је поражена. Када је проглашена амнестија за све оне који су се борили против Октавијана, Хорације се вратио у Италију, само да би сазнао да му је отац умро, а имање конфисковано, чиме је Хорације запао у сиромаштво. Ипак, успео је да се запосли као писар у уреду квестора, што му је омогућило да вежба своје поетске способности. . п. н. е. је доведен код Мецене, ученог човека из Етрурије из централне Италије, који је био главни политички саветник Августа. Мецена је Хорација увео у песнички књижевни круг, а уз то му поклонио и луксузну вилу. Дела[уреди | уреди извор] 	 	Овај чланак је недовршен. Можете помоћи да се унапреди или покренути расправу о томе на страници за разговор. Референце[уреди | уреди извор] 	^ „Хорације - Изреке и цитати”. Едукација.  Спољашње везе[уреди | уреди извор] 	Портал Биографија Више информација о чланкуХорацијепронађите на Википедијиним сестринским пројектима: 	Медији на Остави 	Цитати на Викицитату 	Подаци на Википодацима 	espace horace 	Хорацијеви радови у Латинској библиотеци 	Одабране Хорацијеве поеме 	Пројекат Персеј, грчки и латински аутори (са преводима), укључујући и Хорација 	Биографија 	litweb 	Хорацијеве оде (преводи и ноте за одабране оде) 	Нормативна контрола 	 	 worldcat 	viaf: 	lccn: n 	isni: 	gnd: 	selibr: 	sudoc: 	bnf: cb b (подаци) 	bibsys: 	ulan: 	musicbrainz: af f f- - -a bf- d f c 	nla: 	ndl: 	nkc: jn 	iccu: it\iccu\cfiv\ 	rls: 	bne: xx 	cinii: da 	iath: w pk m c 	conor: 	nsk: Преузето из „https://sr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Хорације&oldid= ” 		Категорије: 	Рођени . п. н. е. 	Умрли . п. н. е. 	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"libertino patre natus", det vill säga son till en frigiven slav, flyttade han som pojke till rom, och fick studera tillsammans med söner från de rikaste adelsfamiljerna. han hade vidare gaius cilnius maecenas som beskyddare, och blev en av de mest kända diktarna i rom under augustus tid. han skrev epoderna, epistlarna, sermonerna, odena, carmen seculare och ars poetica. innehåll 	 biografi 	 textexempel 	 citat 	 fotnoter 	 externa länkar biografi[redigera | redigera wikitext] liber i ode xiv som väggdikt på cleveringaplaats i den holländska staden leiden.[ ] som son till en relativt rik före detta slav växte horatius upp i venusia, en liten stad i apulien. fadern tycks ha varit verksam som skatteindrivare. andra hävdar att han försörjde familjen som fiskhandlare. fadern, som tidigt såg sonens begåvning, spenderade ansenligt mycket pengar på horatius utbildning, tog honom först till rom för hans primära utbildning och sedan till aten för att låta honom studera grekiska och filosofi. horatius tog aldrig sin fars uppoffringar för givna och hans kärlek till sin far är vida känd. han undervisades av de bästa lärare, mest känd är orbilius pupillus från beneventum, plagosus orbilius, vilket säger lite om tidens pedagogiska metoder (plagosus, en som ger många slag, mycket stryk). horatius ungdom präglas av den sociala oro som rådde i rom i övergången mellan republik och kejsardöme. brutus lärde horatius känna i aten, dåtidens förnämsta universitetsstad. filosofi var huvudämnet, och horatius en flitig sanningssökare, "inter silvas academi quaerere verum". brutus fick fly från rom efter att julius caesar blivit mördad. horatius gjorde en kort och misslyckad karriär som militär och fick efter allmän amnesti återvända till rom. hans fädernegård vid venusia var konfiskerad, men han hankade sig fram i rom som sekreterare. det dröjde inte länge innan han uppmärksammades av vergilius och varius som introducerade honom för maecenas. därmed var hans lycka som skald gjord, ty maecenas var dåtidens störste beskyddare av litteratur och vetenskap. horatius fick plats i den inre litterära cirkel som maecenas samlade kring sig i sitt palats på esquilinen. horatius dog den november år f.kr. strax efter det att maecenas gått ur tiden. skalden hade då nått en position som gjort honom till en av de mest framstående personerna i rom om hans liv i övrigt vet vi ganska lite. dock berättar han en del om sig själv i sin litterära produktion. av maecenas fick han en lantgård, en villa, i sabinerbergen utanför rom vid tibur. dit drog han sig tillbaka både då hettan i rom blev för stark och då han ville koppla av från livet i etablissemanget. horatius prisande av det enkla i kontrast mot den flärdfulla, komplicerade tillvaron i världens huvudstad gör att meningar som "carpe diem, nil admirari, beatus ille qui..." fortfarande appellerar till människors känsla för "livets" innersta väsen. det horatius skrivit kan man dela in i två grupper: 	hans lyriska produktion med oden och epoder samt carmen saeculare. 	satirerna, epistlarna och ars poetica. 		satirerna och epoderna tillhör den tidigare delen av hans diktning. textexempel[redigera | redigera wikitext] dessa förföriska rader skickar horatius till en mycket ung flicka: 	ständigt flyr du för mig min cloe, lik hindens kalv, 	som bland ensliga berg söker sin skygga mor, 	helt betagen av grundlös 	skräck för träden och vindens sus. 	ty om endast en fläkt av ett törnesnårs 	lätta blad, om en grön ödla blott genomfar 	björnbärsbusken, så skälva 	hennes hjärta och hennes knän. 	icke följer jag dig som ett getuliens 	lejon eller en grym tiger i mordbegär. 	lämna äntligt din moder; 	du är mogen för mannen nu. citat[redigera | redigera wikitext] "græcia capta ferum victorem cepit et artes intulit agresti latio" - det övervunna grekland övervann den vilde segraren och införde kulturen i det obildade latium. (ur epistel till augustus). detta ses som ett tydligt tecken på att romarna inte såg ner på grekerna efter att dessa år hade erövrats av rom. fotnoter[redigera | redigera wikitext] 	^ uppgifter kring väggdikten liber i ode xiv i leiden. arkiverad december hämtat från the wayback machine. muurgedichten.nl externa länkar[redigera | redigera wikitext] 	 wikiquote har citat av eller om horatius.citat 	horatius i libris 	horatius hos litteraturbanken 		auktoritetsdata	 • worldcat • viaf: • lccn: n • isni: • gnd: • libris: fcrtvznz j nd • sudoc: • bnf: cb b (data) • bibsys: • ulan: • nla: • ndl: • nkc: jn • iccu: it\iccu\cfiv\ • rls: • bne: xx • cinii: da • cantic: a hämtad från "https://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=horatius&oldid= " 		kategorier: 	personer från venosa 	latinskspråkiga författare 	romerska författare 	födda f.kr. 	avlidna f.kr. 	män dolda kategorier: 	litteraturbanken 	wikipediaartiklar med identifierare från viaf 	wikipediaartiklar med identifierare från lccn 	wikipediaartiklar med identifierare från isni 	wikipediaartiklar med identifierare från gnd 	wikipediaartiklar med identifierare från libris 	wikipediaartiklar med identifierare från bnf 	wikipediaartiklar med identifierare från bibsys 	wikipediaartiklar med identifierare från ulan 	wikipediaartiklar med identifierare från nla 	wikipediaartiklar med identifierare från bne 	wikipediaartiklar med identifierare från cantic 	 	 	navigeringsmeny 	 		 	 		personliga verktyg 	 	 			inte inloggad 	diskussion 	bidrag 	skapa konto 	logga in 		 	 		 			 	 		namnrymder 	 	 			artikel 	diskussion 		 	 			 	 	 		varianter 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		visningar 	 	 			läs 	redigera 	redigera wikitext 	visa historik 		 	 			 	 	 		mer 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		sök 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		navigering 	 	 			huvudsida 	introduktion 	deltagarportalen 	bybrunnen 	senaste ändringarna 	slumpartikel 	ladda upp filer 	stöd wikipedia 	kontakta wikipedia 	hjälp 		 	 	 	 		på andra projekt 	 	 			commons 	wikiquote 	wikisource 		 	 	 		skriv ut/exportera 	 	 			skapa en bok 	ladda ner som pdf 	utskriftsvänlig version 		 	 	 		verktyg 	 	 			sidor som länkar hit 	relaterade ändringar 	specialsidor 	permanent länk 	sidinformation 	använd denna sida som referens 	wikidata-objekt 		 	 	 	 		språk 	 	 			afrikaans 	አማርኛ 	العربية 	aragonés 	asturianu 	تۆرکجه 	Башҡортса 	Беларуская 	Беларуская (тарашкевіца)‎ 	Български 	bosanski 	brezhoneg 	català 	Čeština 	cymraeg 	dansk 	deutsch 	eesti 	Ελληνικά 	english 	español 	esperanto 	euskara 	فارسی 	fiji hindi 	français 	furlan 	gaeilge 	galego 	한국어 	Հայերեն 	हिन्दी 	hrvatski 	ido 	bahasa indonesia 	interlingua 	Íslenska 	italiano 	עברית 	ქართული 	Қазақша 	kernowek 	kiswahili 	kurdî 	latina 	latviešu 	lietuvių 	lingua franca nova 	magyar 	Македонски 	malagasy 	മലയാളം 	मराठी 	مصرى 	bahasa melayu 	Монгол 	nāhuatl 	nederlands 	日本語 	norsk bokmål 	norsk nynorsk 	occitan 	oʻzbekcha/ўзбекча 	ਪੰਜਾਬੀ 	piemontèis 	polski 	português 	română 	Русский 	sardu 	seeltersk 	sicilianu 	simple english 	slovenčina 	slovenščina 	Српски / srpski 	srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски 	suomi 	tagalog 	தமிழ் 	tarandíne 	Татарча/tatarça 	türkçe 	Українська 	tiếng việt 	volapük 	võro 	walon 	winaray 	吴语 	粵語 	zazaki 	Žemaitėška 	中文 		redigera länkar 	 		 sidan redigerades senast den april kl. . . 	wikipedias text är tillgänglig under licensen creative commons erkännande-dela-lika . unported. för bilder, se respektive bildsida (klicka på bilden). se vidare wikipedia:upphovsrätt och användarvillkor. 		wikimedias integritetspolicy 	om wikipedia 	förbehåll 	mobil vy 	utvecklare 	statistik 	information om kakor 		 	 	 none none horace ( - 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wikidata 	 	 	 	 	 horace (q ) 	 		from wikidata 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 roman lyric poet 	quintus horatius flaccus 	q. horatius flaccus 	horatius edit 	language	label	description	also known as 	english	 horace 	 roman lyric poet 	 	quintus horatius flaccus 	q. horatius flaccus 	horatius statements instance of human references imported from wikimedia project belarusian wikipedia stated in beweb retrieved august beweb person id image quintus horatius flaccus.jpg × ; kb media legend هوراس كما تخيله الرسام أنتون ألكساندر فون فرن (arabic) ஹோராஸ், [[ஆன்டன் வொன் வேர்னர்]] கற்பனையில் வரைந்த படம் (tamil) retrat imaginari d'horaci per anton von werner. l'epístola als pisons o art poètica d'horaci és un dels textos cabdals sobre literatura de la tradició occidental. (catalan) reference imported from wikimedia project italian wikipedia sex or gender male references imported from wikimedia project swedish wikipedia stated in virtual international authority file viaf id retrieved november imported from wikimedia project italian wikipedia stated in integrated authority file retrieved april stated in beweb retrieved august beweb person id country of citizenship ancient rome reference imported from wikimedia project italian wikipedia name in native language q. horatius flaccus (latin) references roman praenomen quintus references roman nomen gentilicium horatius references roman cognomen flaccus references date of birth december bce references reference url http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/quinto-orazio-flacco_(enciclopedia-italiana)/ stated in q quotation ... родился в г. от основания города, т. е. в г. до Р. Х. декабря в Венузии ... (russian) stated in eb- / horace quotation ... was born on the th of december b.c. at venusia ... (english) place of birth venosa references stated in q stated in eb- / horace date of death november bce references reference url http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/quinto-orazio-flacco_(enciclopedia-italiana)/ stated in q quotation Поэт, согласно предсказанию, которое он дал Меценату, умер вскоре после смерти последнего, когда ему было почти лет, ноября в г. до Р. Х. 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(linux)	program opracowany przez:	właściciel programu: 	biblioteka narodowa	 biblioteka narodowa 	zakład technologii informatycznych	 	al. niepodległości 	 	 - warszawa	 horace [worldcat identities] horace overview 	works:	 , works in , publications in languages and , library holdings 	genres:	poetry  laudatory poetry  criticism, interpretation, etc  juvenile works  parodies, imitations, etc  satirical literature  odes  readers (publications)  concordances  biographies  	subject headings:	poets, latin  	roles:	author, other, contributor, honoree, creator, bibliographic antecedent, editor, lyricist, composer, wal, librettist, dedicatee, htt, wst, wat, author in quotations or text abstracts 	classifications:	pa , . publication timeline . most widely held works about horace 	 odes and epodes by horace( book ) 	 the satires and epistles of horace : a modern english verse translation by horace( book ) 	 satires of rome : threatening poses from lucilius to juvenal by kirk freudenburg( ) 	 horace and the gift economy of patronage by phebe lowell bowditch( ) 	 horace and the rhetoric of authority by ellen oliensis( ) 	 poetic interplay : catullus and horace by michael c. j putnam( ) 	 philodemus and poetry : poetic theory and practice in lucretius, philodemus, and horace by dirk obbink( ) 	 the complete works of horace by horace( book ) 	 traditions and contexts in the poetry of horace by a. j woodman( ) 	 horace's carmen saeculare : ritual magic and the poet's art by michael c. j putnam( ) 	 roman lyric : collected papers on catullus and horace by francis cairns( ) 	 horace between freedom and slavery : the first book of epistles by stephanie mccarter( ) 	 jonson, horace and the classical tradition by victoria moul( ) 	 the poems of horace, consisting of odes, satyres, and epistles by horace( ) 	 augustan poetry and the roman republic by joseph farrell( ) 	 the odes and epodes of horace : a modern english verse translation by horace( ) 	 horace and seneca : interactions, intertexts, interpretations by martin stöckinger( ) 	 horace by kenneth j reckford( book ) 	 the roman poets of the augustan age: horace and the elegiac poets by w. y sellar( book ) 	 catullus and horace; two poets in their environment by tenney frank( book )   more fewer most widely held works by horace odes and epodes by horace( book ) editions published between and in languages and held by , worldcat member libraries worldwide "the poetry of horace (born bc) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural settings, stoic and epicurean thought. this new loeb classical library edition of the great roman poet's odes and epodes boasts a faithful and fluid translation and reflects current scholarship." "horace took pride in being the first roman to write a body of lyric poetry. for models he turned to greek lyric, especially to the poetry of alcaeus, sappho, and pindar; but his poems are set in a roman context. his four books of odes cover a wide range of moods and topics. some are public poems, upholding the traditional values of courage, loyalty, and piety; and there are hymns to gods. but most of the odes are on private themes: chiding or advising friends; speaking about love and amorous situations, often amusingly. horace's seventeen epodes, which he called iambi, were also an innovation for roman literature. like the odes they were inspired by a greek model: the seventh century iambic poetry of archilochus. love and political concerns are frequent themes; the tone is only occasionally aggressive. 'in his language he is triumphantly adventurous,' quintilian said of horace; niall rudd's new translation reflects his different voices."--jacket opera by horace( ) editions published between and in languages and held by , worldcat member libraries worldwide when in friedrich klingners new edition of horatius, published in thebibliotheca teubneriana deposed the hitherto authoritative text edited by vollmer, this had an epoch-making effect on both teaching and research. klingners text held a leading position internationally over many decades. klingners edition was a keystone in particular for students of latin in the tradition of german grammar schools and universities. even today, scholars continually have recourse to klingners constitution of the text. following numerous enquiries from customers, the publishers have decided to re-issue klingners horatius text as an unrevised reprint of the rd edition from quintus horatius flaccus : ad lectiones probatiores diligenter emendatus, et interpunctione nova saepius illustratus by horace( ) editions published between and in languages and held by worldcat member libraries worldwide the satires and epistles of horace : a modern english verse translation by horace( book ) editions published between and in languages and held by worldcat member libraries worldwide the roman philosopher and dramatic critic quintus horatius flaccus ( - b.c.), known in english as horace, was also the most famous lyric poet of his age. written in the troubled decade ending with the establishment of augustus's regime, his satires provide trenchant social commentary on men's perennial enslavement to money, power, fame, and sex. not as frequently translated as his odes, in recent decades the satires have been rendered into prose or bland verse. horace continues to influence modern lyric poetry, and our greatest poets continue to translate and marvel at his command of formal style, his economy of expression, his variety, and his mature humanism. horace's comic genius has also had a profound influence on the western literary tradition through such authors as swift, pope, and boileau, but interest in the satires has dwindled due to the difficulty of capturing horace's wit and formality with the techniques of contemporary free verse. -- publisher description sober advice from horace : to the young gentlemen about town. as deliver'd in his second sermon. imitated in the manner of mr. pope. together with the original text, as restored by the rev'd. r. bentley ... and some remarks on the version by alexander pope( ) editions published between and in english and held by worldcat member libraries worldwide a poetical translation of the works : of horace: with the original text, and notes collected from the best latin and french commentators on that author. by the revd mr. philip francis ... in four volumes by horace( ) editions published between and in english and held by worldcat member libraries worldwide q. horati flacci opera by horace( book ) editions published between and in languages and held by worldcat member libraries worldwide betrifft die handschrift cod. der burgerbibliothek bern children's literature for dramatization : an anthology by geraldine brain siks( book ) edition published in in english and held by worldcat member libraries worldwide dramatic stories and verse are collected for performance by children horace's art of poetry by horace( ) editions published between and in english and held by worldcat member libraries worldwide satires by horace( book ) editions published between and in languages and held by worldcat member libraries worldwide seine subtile ironie, auch selbstironie, ließ quintus horatius flaccus ( - v. chr.) zum meister der genuin römischen dichtungsform der satiren (satura) werden. die schärfe seines vorgängers lucilius wie die des juvenal, der ihm folgen sollte, sind horaz freilich fremd: ridentem dicere verum (lachend - aber ohne zu verletzen - will er die wahrheit sagen). durch bewusste regelverstöße (einsilbige wörter am schluss, gebrauch umgangssprachlicher wendungen u.ä.) verlieren die hexameter ihre gravitätische art, und die verse plätschern als reizvolles geplauder dahin, denen man die sorgfältige durcharbeitung und stilisierung kaum anmerkt. in den epistulae, seinem alterswerk, gibt sich horaz gereift, ein wahrheitssucher möchte er werden und wendet sich populärphilosophischen fragen und literarischen problemen zu. de arte poetica, die dritte epistel des zweiten briefe-buches, kreist um fragen des stils und der charakterzeichnung quincti horatii flacci poemata : nouis scholijs & argumentis illustrata by horace( ) editions published between and in latin and held by worldcat member libraries worldwide the odes, satyrs, and epistles of horace. by horace( ) editions published between and in english and held by worldcat member libraries worldwide imitations of horace, with an epistle to dr. arbuthnot and the epilogue to the satires by alexander pope( book ) editions published between and in english and held by worldcat member libraries worldwide a poetical translation of the works of horace, with the original text, and critical notes collected from his best latin and french commentators. by philip francis, d.d. in four volumes. by horace( ) editions published between and in english and held by worldcat member libraries worldwide the poems of horace, consisting of odes, satyres, and epistles by horace( ) editions published between and in english and held by worldcat member libraries worldwide the third book of horace's "odes" by horace( book ) editions published between and in languages and held by worldcat member libraries worldwide quinti horatii flacci poemata, scholiis, sive, annotationibus, quæ brevis commentarii vice esse possint by horace( ) editions published between and in latin and held by worldcat member libraries worldwide quinti horatii flacci opera by horace( book ) editions published between and in languages and held by worldcat member libraries worldwide the odes, satyrs, and epistles of horace : done into english by mr. creech by horace( ) editions published between and in english and held by worldcat member libraries worldwide echoes from the sabine farm by horace( ) editions published between and in english and held by worldcat member libraries worldwide   more fewer audience level 	 	 	 	 	kids	general	special	  audience level: . (from . for children's ... to . for the odes, ...) related identities 	virgil other author contributor 	catullus, gaius valerius other honoree author 	putnam, michael c. j. author 	pope, alexander - other author 	persius other author 	ovid b.c.- a.d. or a.d. other bibliographic antecedent contributor 	augustus emperor of rome b.c.- a.d. other 	juvenal other 	freudenburg, kirk - author 	lucretius carus, titus useful links 	 library of congress authority file (english) 	 virtual international authority file. 	 wikipedia horace 	 wikidata. associated subjects aesthetics, ancient art patronage augustus,--emperor of rome, authority in literature authors and patrons authors and patrons in literature authors and readers carmen saeculare (horace) carmina (horace) catullus, gaius valerius children's literature children's theater classical poetry economic history economics elegiac poetry, latin epistolary poetry, latin gifts (roman law) gifts in literature helen,--of troy, queen of sparta horace influence (literary, artistic, etc.) juvenal latin language latin language--social aspects latin literature latin poetry laudatory poetry, latin literary patrons literature literature and society lucretius carus, titus magic in literature manners and customs odes odes, latin patron and client persius persona (literature) poetics political and social views political poetry, latin politics and literature rhetoric, ancient ritual in literature rome (empire) saturae (lucilius, gaius) technique verse satire, latin virgil covers alternative names choracij flacci, q. horati flacco , orazio q. flacco q. horacio flacco quinto horacio flacco, quinto orazio flacco, quinto orazio - av. j.-c. flaccus, horatius v . . .-v . . flaccus, horatius v -v flaccus, qu. horatius v . . .-v . . flaccus, qu. horatius v -v flaccus, quintus h. flaccus, quintus h. v . . .-v . . flaccus, quintus h. v -v flaccus, quintus horatius. flaccus quintus horatius - av. j.-c. flaccus, quintus horatius - a.c. flaccus, quintus horatius - f.kr flaccus, quintus horatius v . . .-v . . flaccus, quintus horatius v -v flaccvs, quintus horatius v . . .-v . . flaccvs, quintus horatius v -v flaco quinto horacio flaco quinto orazio flacus, quintus horatius flak, kvint horacije flakas kvintas horacijus goracìj. goracij flakk, kvint - v. chr gorat͡sĭ̄ v . . .-v . . gorat͡sĭ̄ v -v gorat︠s︡īĭ gorat︠s︡iĭ flakk, kvint goratsiy goraz flakk, kvint v . . .-v . . goraz flakk, kvint v -v ho-la-tz'ŭ v . . .-v . . ho-la-tz'ŭ v -v hor. horace. horace ?- av. j.c. horace - a.c. horace - ac horace - p.m.ē horace - v. chr horace - до н.э. horace, ac- ac horace př. kr.- př. kr horace, pred kr.- pred kr. horace auteur latin horace b.c. -b.c. horace de venouse v -v horace flacce. horace flacce v -v horace poète lyrique latin horace, quintus horatius flaccus - av. j.-c. horace roman lyric poet horace v . . .-v . . horace v . . .-v . . de venouse horace v . . .-v . . flacce horace v -v horace v -v de venouse horace v -v flacce horacego - v. chr horaci horaci, - ac horaci flac, q. horaci flac, q. - ac horaci flac, q., ac- ac horaci poeta líric i satíric llatí horacij horacij v . . .-v . . horacij v -v horacije horacije flak, kvint horācijs horācijs flaks, kvints - p.m.ē horacijus horácio horacio - ac horacio - av. j.-c. horacio - b.c. horacio - v. chr horacio, ac- ac horacio b.c.- b.c. horacio flacco, q. - ac horacio flacco, q., ac- ac horacio flacco, quinto - a.c. horacio flacco, quinto - ac horacio flacco, quinto - v. chr horacio flacco, quinto, ac- ac horacio flaco, q. horacio flaco quinto horacio flaco, quinto - ac horacio flaco, quinto, ac- ac horacio flaco, quinto v -v horacio flako, kvinto - v. chr horácio poeta lírico e satírico em língua latina horacio poeta lírico e satírico en lingua latina horacio poeta lírico y satírico en lengua latina horacio v . . .-v . . horacio v -v horacius př. kr.- př. kr horácius, pred kr.- pred kr. horacius flakus, quintus v . . .-v . . horacius flakus, quintus v -v horacjusz horacjusz flakkus, kwintus horacjusz flakkus, kwintus v . . .-v . . horacjusz flakkus, kwintus v -v horacy. horacy - a.c. horacy - p.m.ē horacy rzymski poeta liryczny horacy v . . .-v . . horacy v -v horacyusz. horacyusz flakk. horacyusz v . . .-v . . horacyusz v -v hóras horati flacci, q. horātijs - p.m.ē horatio horatio - f.kr horatio flacco, quinto v . . .-v . . horatio flacco, quinto v -v horatios horatius. horatius - av. j.-c. horatius - f.kr horatius - v. chr horatius - до н.э. horatius antiikin roomalainen runoilija horatius b.c. -b.c. horatius dichter uit oude rome ( v chr- v chr) horatius f. q. - до н.э. horatius f, q. v . . .-v . . horatius f., q. v -v horatius [flaccus] horatius flaccus q. horatius flaccus, q. - ac horatius flaccus, q. - v. chr horatius flaccus q. - до н.э. horatius flaccus, q., ac- ac horatius flaccus, q. b.c. -b.c. horatius flaccus, q. v . . .-v . . horatius flaccus, q. v -v horatius flaccus, quinctus - ac horatius flaccus, quinctus - v. chr horatius flaccus, quinctus, ac- ac horatius flaccus, quinctus v . . .-v . . horatius flaccus, quinctus v -v horatius flaccus quintus horatius flaccus quintus - av. j.-c. horatius flaccus, quintus - a.c. horatius flaccus, quintus - ac horatius flaccus, quintus, ac- ac horatius flaccus, quintus př. kr.- př. kr horatius, flaccus quintus, pred kr.- pred kr. horatius flaccus, quintus v . . .-v . . horatius flaccus, quintus v -v horatius flaccus, .. v . . .-v . . horatius flaccus v -v horatius flaccys, quintus b.c. -b.c. horatius [poeta] horatius poeta v -v horatius , q. horatius q. f. - до н.э. horatius, quintus flaccus - f.kr horatius, quintus flaccus, pred kr.- pred kr. horatius, quintus h. flaccus. horatius, quintus v . . .-v . . horatius, quintus v -v horatius roman şair. horatius romersk författare och poet horatius v . . .-v . . horatius v . . .-v . . flaccus horatius v . . .-v . . poeta horatius v -v horatius v -v flaccus horatius v -v poeta horaṭiyos horaṭiyus horats horats - p.m.ē horats - v. chr horats romersk skribent og poet horatsi horatz horatz v . . .-v . . horatz v -v horaz. horaz - ac horaz - f.kr horaz - p.m.ē horaz - v. chr horaz - до н.э. horaz, ac- ac horaz römischer dichter horaz v . . .-v . . horaz v -v horazio horazio erromatar poeta horazius flaccus, quintus v . . .-v . . horazius flaccus, quintus v -v horazius flakkus, quintus v . . .-v . . horazius flakkus, quintus v -v horazius flakus, quintus v . . .-v . . horazius flakus, quintus v -v huoracėjos hūrās - v. chr khorat︠s︡iĭ khorat︠s︡iĭ flak, kvint khorat͡siĭ flak, kvint v . . .-v . . khorat͡siĭ flak, kvint v -v khorat͡siĭ v . . .-v . . khorat͡siĭ v -v kvint goracij flakk. kvint goracij flakk - f.kr kvint horacije flak kvintas horacijus flakas kw. horacy flakkus. kwintus horacjusz flakkus. kwintus horacjusz flakkus př. kr.- př. kr kwintus horacy flakkus. oracio oracio v . . .-v . . oracio v -v oracius flaccus v . . .-v . . oracius flaccus v -v orassi oratio - ac oratio, ac- ac oratio v . . .-v . . oratio v -v oratius - v. chr orazi orazio. orazio - av. j.-c. orazio - a.c. orazio - ac orazio - v. chr orazio, ac- ac orazio př. kr.- př. kr orazio flacco. orazio flacco - v. chr orazio flacco , q. orazio flacco, q. - ac orazio flacco, q. - v. chr orazio flacco, q., ac- ac orazio flacco , quinto orazio flacco, quinto - f.kr orazio flacco, quinto - v. chr orazio flacco, quinto, pred kr.- pred kr. orazio flacco, quinto v . . .-v . . orazio flacco, quinto v -v orazio flacco v -v orazio v . . .-v . . orazio v . . .-v . . flacco orazio v -v orazio v -v flacco orazjus flaccus, quintus v . . .-v . . orazjus flaccus, quintus v -v q. horatius flaccus q. orazio flacco. quinde orazio flacco quinto horatio flacco quinto horatio flacco poeta lyric de roma antique quinto orazio flacco quinto orazio flacco poeta romano quintu orazziu flaccu quintus flaccus horatius quintus h. flaccus, pred kr.- pred kr. quintus horacius flakus v . . .-v . . quintus horacius flakus v -v quintus horatius flaccus. quintus horatius flaccus, pred kr.- pred kr. quintus horatius flaccus poet roman din „perioada de aur” a literaturii romane quintus horatius flaccus římský básník quintus horatius flaccus romersk skribent og poet quintus horatius flaccus v . . .-v . . quintus horatius flaccus v -v Οράτιος Ρωμαίος λυρικός ποιητής Гарацый Гарацый старажытнарымскі пісьменнік Гарацыюс Горацiй Флаккъ-Квинтъ Гораций Гораций - p.m.ē Гораций - до н.э. Гораций К. Ф. - до н.э. Гораций Квинт Ф. - до н.э. Гораций римский поэт Гораций Флакк, К - p.m.ē Гораций Флакк К. - до н.э. Гораций Флакк, Квинт - p.m.ē Гораций Флакк, Квинт - v. chr Горацій римський поет Квинт Гораций Флакк Квинт Гораций Флакк - до н.э. Хораций Хорациј Хорације Հորացիուս הוראטיוס פלקוס, קוינטוס הוראציו הוראציוס הורטיוס הורטיוס משורר רומי הורטיוס פלקוס, קוינטוס הורציוס פלקוס, קוינטוס هوراتيوس هوراس هوراس شاعر غنائي و ناقد أدبي لاتيني روماني. هوراس شاعر و نویسنده در روم باستان होरेस ਹੋਰੇਸ ஓராசு ഹൊറസ് ჰორაციუსი 호라티우스 호라티우스 b.c. -b.c. 호라티우스 플라키스, 퀸투스 b.c. -b.c. クイントゥス ホラーティウス 贺拉斯 languages latin ( ) english ( ) german ( ) french ( ) italian ( ) spanish ( ) swedish ( ) multiple languages ( ) polish ( ) greek, modern ( ) catalan ( ) chinese ( ) dutch ( ) 	 © oclc, inc.   worldcat identities is covered by the oclc researchworks terms and conditions oclc kilgour place, dublin oh usa cookie notice	 project page | feedback | known problems none horacio - wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	horacio 	 		tikang ha wikipedia 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 hi quintus horatius flaccus (disyembre , bc - nobyembre , bc), kilala ha mga nagiininglis nga "horace", usa nga sikat nga maniniday ha imperyo romano. 		 usa ka turók ini nga barasahon. dako it imo maibubulig ha wikipedia pinaagi han pagparabong hini. 		 an wikimedia commons mayda media nga nahahanungod han: horacio ginkuha tikang ha "https://war.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=horacio&oldid= " 		mga kaarangay: 	mga turók 	mga natawo han uc 	mga namatay han uc 	 	 	menu hit nabigasyon 	 		 	 		mga pankalugaringon nga garamiton 	 	 			diri naka-log in 	hiruhimangraw 	mga amot 	himo-a an akawnt 	sakob 		 	 		 			 	 		mga ngaran-lat'ang 	 	 			barasahon 	hiruhimangraw 		 	 			 	 	 		mga pagkadirudilain 	 	 		 		 	 		 		 			 	 		mga paglantaw 	 	 			basaha 	igliwat 	igliwat an wikitext 	kitaa an kaagi 		 	 			 	 	 		more 	 	 		 		 	 			 	 		bilnga 	 	 		 			 			 			 			 		 	 		 	 	 	 		 	 	 	 		paglayag 	 	 			syahan nga pakli 	ganghaan han komunidad 	mga panhitabo 	mga kabag-ohan 	bisan ano nga pakli 	bulig 	mga donasyon 		 	 	 	 		garamiton 	 	 			mga nasumpay dinhi 	mga may kalabotan nga binag-o 	pagkarga hin file 	mga pinaurog nga pakli 	sumpay nga unob 	impormasyon han pakli 	ig-cite ini nga pakli 	wikidata item 		 	 	 		pagpatika/pag-ambit 	 	 			paghimo hin libro 	igkarga-paubos komo pdf 	maipapatik nga bersyon 		 	 	 		ha iba nga mga proyekto 	 	 			wikimedia commons 		 	 	 	 		ha iba nga mga yinaknan 	 	 			afrikaans 	አማርኛ 	aragonés 	العربية 	مصرى 	asturianu 	تۆرکجه 	Башҡортса 	Žemaitėška 	Беларуская 	Беларуская (тарашкевіца)‎ 	Български 	brezhoneg 	bosanski 	català 	Čeština 	cymraeg 	dansk 	deutsch 	zazaki 	Ελληνικά 	english 	esperanto 	español 	eesti 	euskara 	فارسی 	suomi 	võro 	français 	furlan 	gaeilge 	galego 	עברית 	हिन्दी 	fiji hindi 	hrvatski 	magyar 	Հայերեն 	interlingua 	bahasa indonesia 	ido 	Íslenska 	italiano 	日本語 	ქართული 	Қазақша 	한국어 	kurdî 	kernowek 	latina 	lingua franca nova 	lietuvių 	latviešu 	malagasy 	Македонски 	മലയാളം 	Монгол 	मराठी 	bahasa melayu 	nāhuatl 	nederlands 	norsk nynorsk 	norsk bokmål 	occitan 	ਪੰਜਾਬੀ 	polski 	piemontèis 	português 	română 	tarandíne 	Русский 	sardu 	sicilianu 	srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски 	simple english 	slovenčina 	slovenščina 	Српски / srpski 	seeltersk 	svenska 	kiswahili 	தமிழ் 	tagalog 	türkçe 	Татарча/tatarça 	Українська 	oʻzbekcha/ўзбекча 	tiếng việt 	volapük 	walon 	吴语 	中文 	粵語 		igliwat an mga sumpay 	 		 ini nga pakli kataposan nga ginliwat dida han : , marso . 	an teksto in available ha ilarom han creative commons attribution-sharealike license; kadugangan nga terms in puyde mag-apply. kitaa anmga terms of use para han mga detalye. 		polisiya hin pribasidad 	bahin han wikipedia 	mga disclaimer 	mobile view 	mga developer 	statistics 	cookie statement 		 	 	 horace - wikidata 	 	 	 	 	 horace (q ) 	 		from wikidata 		 		 		 		 		jump to navigation 		jump to search 		 roman lyric poet 	quintus horatius flaccus 	q. horatius flaccus 	horatius edit 	language	label	description	also known as 	english	 horace 	 roman lyric poet 	 	quintus horatius flaccus 	q. horatius flaccus 	horatius statements instance of human references imported from wikimedia project belarusian wikipedia stated in beweb retrieved august beweb person id image quintus horatius flaccus.jpg × ; kb media legend هوراس كما تخيله الرسام أنتون ألكساندر فون فرن (arabic) ஹோராஸ், [[ஆன்டன் வொன் வேர்னர்]] கற்பனையில் வரைந்த படம் (tamil) retrat imaginari d'horaci per anton von werner. l'epístola als pisons o art poètica d'horaci és un dels textos cabdals sobre literatura de la tradició occidental. (catalan) reference imported from wikimedia project italian wikipedia sex or gender male references imported from wikimedia project swedish wikipedia stated in virtual international authority file viaf id retrieved november imported from wikimedia project italian wikipedia stated in integrated authority file retrieved april stated in beweb retrieved august beweb person id country of citizenship ancient rome reference imported from wikimedia project italian wikipedia name in native language q. horatius flaccus (latin) references roman praenomen quintus references roman nomen gentilicium horatius references roman cognomen flaccus references date of birth december bce references reference url http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/quinto-orazio-flacco_(enciclopedia-italiana)/ stated in q quotation ... родился в г. от основания города, т. е. в г. до Р. Х. декабря в Венузии ... (russian) stated in eb- / horace quotation ... was born on the th of december b.c. at venusia ... (english) place of birth venosa references stated in q stated in eb- / horace date of death november bce references reference url http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/quinto-orazio-flacco_(enciclopedia-italiana)/ stated in q quotation Поэт, согласно предсказанию, которое он дал Меценату, умер вскоре после смерти последнего, когда ему было почти лет, ноября в г. до Р. Х. (russian) place of death rome reference imported from wikimedia project italian wikipedia place of burial rome reference imported from wikimedia project english wikipedia wikimedia import url https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=horace&oldid= father unknown value references mother unknown value references gens horatia gens references languages spoken, written or signed latin reference stated in mirabile: digital archives for medieval culture writing language latin references occupation poet references stated in eb- / horace stated in beweb retrieved august beweb person id writer reference stated in mirabile: digital archives for medieval culture philosopher reference inferred from category:roman-era philosophers retrieved june imported from wikimedia project portuguese wikipedia student of cratippus of pergamon reference stated in dictionnaire des philosophes antiques ii page(s) aristos of ascalon reference imported from wikimedia project french wikipedia work location rome 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poetry. 	 	 names: 		horace (preferred,v,display,lc) 		horacio (v) , 		quintus horatius flaccus (vfn) 		orazio flacco, quinto (v) 		orazio (v) 	 	 nationalities: 		ancient roman (preferred) 	 	 roles: 		poet (preferred) 		satirist 	 	 gender: male 	 list/hierarchical position: 		 		 .... 	non-artists 		 ........ 	horace (i) 		 biographies: 		(roman poet, - bce) ..... [vp preferred] 	 	 additional names: 	 sources and contributors: 		 	horace ........ 	[vp preferred] 	 ............... 	encyclopedia britannica online ( -) 	............... 	library of congress authorities online ( -) n 	horacio ........ 	[vp] 	 ................. 	library of congress authorities online ( -) 	orazio ........ 	[vp] 	 ............... 	library of congress authorities online ( -) 	orazio flacco, quinto ........ 	[vp] 	 ........................................... 	library of congress authorities online ( -) 	quintus horatius flaccus ........ 	[vp] 	 ................................................. 	encyclopedia britannica online ( -) 	  	note: 	english	 .......... 	[vp] 		 .......... 	encyclopedia britannica online ( -) 	 		 		 	 	 				 			 	 							 							 					 	 									 the j. paul getty trust 								 	 								© j. paul getty trust 										terms of use / privacy policy / contact us   										 					 horats – wikipedia 	 	 	 	 	horats 	 		frå wikipedia – det frie oppslagsverket 		 		 		 		 		hopp til navigering 		hopp til søk 		 	horats 	 horats, som anton von werner tenkte seg han 	fødd	 . desember f.kr. venosa 	død	 . november f.kr. roma 	yrke	lyrikar, skribent, filosof 	horats på commons horats, eigentleg quintus horatius flaccus, var ein romarske skald fødd i venusia i sør-italia i år fvt. venusia var ein småby i grenseområdet mellom apulia og lucania. innhaldsliste 	 liv 	 verk 	 kjelder 	 bakgrunnsstoff liv[endre | endre wikiteksten] horats kom frå etter måten små kår, som son av ein frigjeven slave, men fekk likevel god opplæring i gresk språk, filosofi og dikting. etter å ha teke del i borgarkrigen på -talet fvt., fekk horats stilling som skrivar i skattkammeret i roma. det var no han byrja å dikte på rett, etter mønster av greske dikt, men på latin. han vart kjend med vergil, varius og maecenas, og den sistnemnde gav han ein gard aust for roma, der horats budde mykje av livet sitt. maecenas var ein nær ven av horats livet ut, og fleire av horats sine dikt er stila til han. det var etter at julius cæsar var drepen, at horats gjekk inn i hæren, der han tente under marcus junius brutus. han kjempa då som stabsoffiser, tribunus militum, i slaget ved filippi. ifølgje han sjølv, berga han seg frå å bli drepen i dette slaget ved å kaste skjoldet og springe derifrå. då det vart erklært amnesti for dei som hadde stridd mot den sigerrike octavian (sidan augustus), vende horats attende til italia, men fann då at eigedomen åt familien hadde vorte konfiskert. horats fekk då arbeid som scriba quaestorius, funksjonær for skattkammeret, som gjorde at han klarte seg bra økonomisk og gjorde det mogleg for han å halde fram med diktinga si. horats var med i den litterære krinsen som omfatta virgil og varius, og det var desse som introduserte han til maecenas, som var ein ven og fortruleg til augustus. maecenas vart støttespelar og god ven for horats, og det var han som lét horats få denne garden nær tiberen i sabinardalen, dagens tivoli i italia. garden er i dag ein pilegrimsstad for dei litterært interesserte. etter borgarkrigen var slutt i år fvt., var augustus herskar i romarriket. han lika horats godt, og ville gjere horats til sin personlege sekretær. men horats takka høfleg nei, og dette vart godteke. horats døydde i år fvt., få dagar etter maecenas. verk[endre | endre wikiteksten] horats er kanskje mest kjend for odane sine, og brevet om diktekunsten. odar er lyriske dikt. tre av samlingane med odar kom ut i år , og ei fjerde kom i år . men også ein av epistlane hans er svært velkjend, det er ars poetica, der horats kjem med ein dikt-teori. han meiner poesi må vere både godt laga semantisk og formelt, og og samtidig gje glede åt lesaren eller tilhøyraren. dette blir gjerne referert som dulce et utile, både behageleg og nyttig. johannes gjerdåker har attdikta alle odane åt horats, og dei er gjevne ut på det norske samlaget og i norsk Årbok.[ ] horats var den leiande lyriske poeten i romarriket i keisar augustus si tid. han blir av klassisistane generelt sedd som den største av dei latinske poetane. mange av uttrykka hans er i bruk den dag i dag, på latin eller i omsetjing, såleis grip dagen (carpe diem), det er godt og rett å døy for fedrelandet (dulce et decorum est pro patria mori) og den gylne mellomvegen (aurea mediocritas). kjelder[endre | endre wikiteksten] 	denne artikkelen bygger på «horace» frå wikipedia på engelsk, den . desember . 	referansar 	↑ norsk Årbok bakgrunnsstoff[endre | endre wikiteksten] 	om horats' lyrikk på snl.no 	autoritetsdata	 	worldcat 	bibsys 	store norske leksikon 	viaf 	gnd 	lccn 	isni 	bnf 	bnf (data) 	libris henta frå «https://nn.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=horats&oldid= » 		kategoriar: 	einskildmenn 	romerske diktarar 	romarriket gøymde kategoriar: 	sporing av abouttopic 	artiklar med autoritetsdata 	 	 	navigasjonsmeny 	 		 	 		personlege verktøy 	 	 			ikkje innlogga 	diskusjon 	bidrag 	opprett konto 	logg inn 		 	 		 			 	 		namnerom 	 	 			artikkel 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	此條目可参照英語維基百科相應條目来扩充。 ( 年 月 日) 若您熟悉来源语言和主题，请协助参考外语维基百科扩充条目。请勿直接提交机械翻译，也不要翻译不可靠、低品质内容。依版权协议，译文需在编辑摘要注明来源，或于讨论页顶部标记{{translated page}}标签。 贺拉斯 昆图斯·贺拉斯·弗拉库斯（拉丁语：quintus horatius flaccus、希腊语：Οράτιος，前 年 月 日意大利韦诺萨 - 前 年 月 日意大利罗马），奥古斯都时期的著名诗人、批评家、翻译家，代表作有《诗艺》等。 他是古罗马文学“黄金时代”的代表人之一。 作为翻译家，受西塞罗的文学批评和理论的影响，用相当的篇幅谈了创作中语言的使用和翻译问题。综合起来，主要有以下两点： 	翻译必须坚持活译，摒弃直译； 	本族语可通过译借外来词加以丰富。 他在《诗艺》中说过：“忠实原作的译者不会逐词死译”。 外部連結[编辑] 		维基共享资源中相关的多媒体资源：贺拉斯 		规范控制 	 	 worldcat identities 	bibsys: 	bnc: 	bne: xx 	bnf: cb b (data) 	cinii: da 	conor: 	fast: 	gnd: 	isni: 	lac: g 	lccn: n 	lnb: 	musicbrainz: af f f- - -a bf- d f c 	ndl: 	nkc: jn 	nla: 	nlp: a 	nnl: 	nsk: 	nta: 	rsl: 	iccu: it\iccu\cfiv\ 	selibr: 	snac: w pk m c 	sudoc: 	ulan: 	viaf:  贺拉斯是一個與古羅馬人物相關的小作品。你可以通过編輯或修訂擴充其內容。 			查 	论 	编 古罗马 	 	年表 	 	时期	建国 · 君主制 · 共和国 · 帝国（元首制 / 第一公民 / 主宰 / 衰落） · 西帝国 · 东帝国 	 	 	语言	拉丁语历史（英语：history of latin） · 拉丁字母 · 罗曼语族 · 旧拉丁语（英语：old latin） · 古典 · 通俗 · 晚期（英语：late latin） · 中世纪 · 文艺复兴时期的拉丁语 · 新拉丁语 · 近代拉丁语（英语：recent latin） · 教会 	 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panahon ni augustus. itinuring ng mangreretorikong si quintillian ang odes ni horace bilang halos ang tanging liriko o panitik na latin na mahalagang basahin, na pinangatwiranan ang kanyang pagtaya sa pamamagitan ng mga pananalitang: "maaari siyang maging matayog o mapagmataas kung minsan, ngunit siya ay puno rin ng karisma at kagaanang-loob, marami siyang nalalaman at nagagawa sa kanyang mga pigura, at may matinding kasiyahan sa kalakasan ng loob sa pagpili ng mga salita."[ ] si horace ay gumawa rin ng mga eleganteng heksametrong mga berso (sermones o "mga sermon" at mga liham) at mga eskandoloso at mapanira ng reputasyon ng ibang tao na iambikong panulaan (epodes). ang mga heksametro ay mapaglaro ngunit seryosong mga gawa, na nagbunsod sa sinaunang satiristang si persius na magpuna ng ganito: "habang tumatawa ang kanyang kaibigan, patago at pataksil na itinuturo ni horace ang kanyang daliri sa bawat isang kamalian niya; kapag pinapasok na, pinaglalaruan niya ang mga bagting ng puso (chordae tendineae)".[ ] subalit ang ilan sa kanyang panulaang iambiko ay maaaring tila malupit na nakaririmarim sa modernong mga mambabasa o tagapakinig.[ ] ang kanyang karera sa larangan ng panulaan ay kapareho o tumutugon at tumutugma sa napakadakilang pagbabago ng roma mula sa pagiging isang republika hanggang sa pagiging isang imperyo. bilang isang opisyal sa hukbong republikano na nasaktan sa labanan sa philippi noong bce, kinaibigan siya ng kanang kamay na pangkapakanang sibil ni octavian na si maecenas, at naging isang parang tagapagsalita para sa bagong rehimen. para sa ilang mga mamumuna, ang kanyang kaugnayan sa rehimen ay isang maselang paninimbang kung saan nakapagpanatili siya ng isang malakas na sukat ng kalayaan (siya ay "isang maestro ng matikas na paghakbang na pagilid")[ ] ngunit para sa iba siya ay, sa parirala ni john dryden, "isang alipin may mabuting pangingilos at asal".[ ][ ] ang kanyang panulaan ay naging "ang pangkaraniwang pera ng kabihasnan", at nakapagpapanatili pa rin siya ng isang masugid na mga tagasunod, sa kabila ng ilang istigmatisasyon (nadungisan) pagkalipas ng ikalawang digmaang pandaigdig (marahil dahil sa malawakang hindi pagtitiwala ng makalumang pagkamakabayan at luwalhating pang-imperyo, na ikinakilala sa kanya, patas o hindi man makatwiran).[ ] ang mga pag-aaral ukol kay horace ay naging samu't sari at matindi sa loob ng kamakailang mga taon na hindi na marahil maaaring mangyari na mapangasiwaan ng sinumang dalubhasa ang isang buong saklaw ng mga argumento at mga paksa.[ ] mga sanggunian[baguhin | baguhin ang batayan] 	↑ quintilian . . . ang tanging isa pang makatang lirikal na inisip ni quintillian na maihahambing kay horace ay ang ngayong hindi na tanyag na makata at teoristang metrikal na si caesius bassus (r. tarrant, ancient receptions of horace, ) 	↑ isinalinwika mula sa sariling 'mga satiro' . – ni persius: "omne vafer vitium ridenti flaccus amico / tangit et admissus circum praecordia ludit." 	↑ e. 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